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GOALS Raises $15 million to Build NFT-based Soccer Game
Swedish startup gaming company GOALS, has raised $15 million to build a multiplayer soccer game where users can own players as NFTs.
While many details about the game are still being kept under wraps, the company have made clear that they do NOT plan on licensing real-life players and is positioning it as an alternative to EA's highly acclaimed FIFA game franchise.
Co founder and CEO of GOALS, Andreas Thorstensson said of FIFA, "You have a huge incumbent in a monopoly position. They are not innovating in terms of gameplay. They're focusing on revenues. That's where a startup has the chance to actually beat them. But we want to do things a little bit differently."
Thorstensson went on to mention that the company is working on a rough internal version of the game and will have it ready this summer, while the completed game should be ready in two to three years.
Northzone and Cherry Ventures led the round alongside Moonfire Ventures and Banana Capital. A handful of other high-profile investors also participated including Co-founder and COO of Axie Infinity Aleksander Larsen, FC Barcelona's central back Gerard Pique and Sorare Co-founder Nicolas Julia.
EA's FIFA has dominated the sports genre on console and PC gaming for decades, with the franchise's obsession with realism being a major part of that success. A network of data reviewers makes sure every player stats are up to date, for example.
Rewriting the beautiful game
GOALS will be taking a different approach. Not only will they not be licensing players (with all the costs this involves) but they'll also be ditching the realism on the field too. According to Thorstensson, "GOALS has a more sort of arcade kind of approach" and will sacrifice the "simulation" side of FIFA, he says.
It's a bold move, perhaps driven by financial necessity rather than desire, but it will, at least, produce a football game that's very different in look and feel to the market leader. And while both FIFA and GOALS will allow players to earn and purchase in-game assets, the GOALS is planning on giving players the option to cash out their spoils for real money – something you can't do on FIFA.
GOALS players can purchase assets from other players from the open GOALS marketplace or any supported third-party marketplaces. The company also hopes to have its community of players involved in the game's development early on. It currently has a group of 8,000 fans on Discord and aims to grant them early access to beta versions of the game and garner feedbacks.
New-look FIFA on the cards
It's worth noting that FIFA itself is overdue an overhaul, something made even more likely to happen as – after FIFA 23 – the naming agreement between FIFA and EA Sports expires (in December 2022) and Andrew Wilson, EA CEO, has confirmed that there will be no new contract.
So far, all we've seen of GOALS is a slick trailer which spells out the GOALS difference but which reveals little about what the gameplay will actually look like. Meanwhile the action on the pitch heats up elsewhere with Konami's eFootball set to relaunch on April 14th as well as Strikerz Inc's promising UFL.
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Salix dibapha ist ein Strauch aus der Gattung der Weiden (Salix) mit meist 4 bis 6 Zentimeter langen Blattspreiten. Das natürliche Verbreitungsgebiet der Art liegt in China.

Beschreibung
Salix dibapha wächst als bis zu 4 Meter hoher Strauch. Die Zweige sind schwarzbraun, kahl oder anfangs daunig behaart und später verkahlend. Die Laubblätter haben einen 4 bis 7 Millimeter langen Blattstiel. Die Blattspreite ist eiförmig oder elliptisch oder länglich-elliptisch, 4 bis 6 selten bis 8 Zentimeter lang und 1,4 bis 2 selten bis 2,4 Zentimeter breit. Der Blattrand ist ganzrandig, die Blattbasis keilförmig oder beinahe gerundet, das Blattende spitz oder kurz zugespitzt. Die Blattoberseite ist grünlich oder grün, die Unterseite weißlich, beide Seiten sind kahl.

Die männlichen Blütenstände sind nicht bekannt. Die weiblichen Kätzchen haben einen etwa 5 Millimeter langen, bei Fruchtreife 1 Zentimeter langen Blütenstandsstiel mit manchmal nur einem meist zwei oder drei kleinen Blättern, die früh abfallen können. Die Tragblätter sind dunkelbraun oder gelblich grün, elliptisch-länglich, verkehrt-eiförmig oder verkehrt-eiförmig-länglich mit stumpfem oder beinahe spitzem Ende. Die Unterseite ist zottig behaart und bewimpert oder spärlich zottig behaart, manchmal zur Spitze hin verkahlend. Die Blattoberseite ist kahl. Weibliche Blüten haben eine adaxiale oder eine adaxiale und eine abaxiale Nektardrüse. Die Drüsen sind ganzrandig oder gespalten. Der Fruchtknoten ist schmal eiförmig, etwa 2 Millimeter lang, sitzend und weiß daunig behaart. Der Griffel ist etwa ein Drittel bis halb so lang wie der Fruchtknoten und zweilappig bis gespalten. Die Narbe ist gespalten. Die Früchte sind etwa 4 Millimeter lange Kapseln ohne oder nur mit einem kurzen Stiel. Salix dibapha blüht vor oder mit dem Blattaustrieb im April, die Früchte reifen von Mai bis Juni.

Verbreitung und Ökologie
Das natürliche Verbreitungsgebiet liegt in der chinesischen Provinz Gansu, im Nordwesten von Yunnan und im Osten des Autonomen Gebiet Tibet. Dort wächst die Art auf Berghängen, an sandigen Ufern und nahe dem Wasser in Höhen von 2600 bis 3100 Metern.

Systematik
Salix dibapha ist eine Art aus der Gattung der Weiden (Salix) in der Familie der Weidengewächse (Salicaceae). Dort wird sie der Sektion Eriocladae zugeordnet. Sie wurde 1917 von Camillo Karl Schneider in Botanical Gazette; Paper of Botanical Notes wissenschaftlich beschrieben.

Es werden zwei Varietäten unterschieden:
 Salix dibapha var. biglandulosa  mit  kahlen Zweigen, einem etwa 5 Millimeter langen Blütenstandsstiel, gelblich grünen, verkehrt-eiförmigen oder verkehrt-eiförmig-länglichen, unterseits spärlich zottig behaarten Tragblättern und zweidrüsigen weiblichen Blüten. Die Varietät blüht im Juni und Juli.
 Salix dibapha var. dibapha mit anfangs daunig behaarten und später verkahlenden Zweigen, einem etwa 1 Zentimeter langen Blütenstandsstiel, dunkelbraunen, elliptisch-länglichen, unterseits zottig behaarten und bewimperten und manchmal zur Spitze hin verkahlenden Tragblättern und nur eindrüsigen weiblichen Blüten.

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Num 15:32 While the people of Israel were in the desert, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
Num 15:33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.
Num 15:34 They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him.
Num 15:36 And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahveh commanded Moses.
Our sensibilities are disturbed by such a story. It seems to reflect an overkill — a violent reaction to a rather harmless, victimless crime. Yet, we must remember that the entire community had been rescued from slavery by Yahveh God. He had required of his rescued people that they honor his rescue from slave labor by refraining from labor on the Sabbath. They all had agreed — including this man.
This minor act of rebellion was just that. It was rebellion. And it was right for the community to seek the judgment of the God who had commanded Sabbath observance.
LORD, show us how to honor you by doing what you ask us to do.
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Block Arcade, Melbourne
The Block Arcade is a shopping arcade in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.[1] Constructed between 1891 and 1893, it is considered one of the late Victorian era's finest shopping arcades and ranks among Melbourne's most popular tourist attractions.
The Block Arcade
View of Block Arcade looking south toward Collins Street
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Designed by architect David C. Askew, the arcade takes inspiration from the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan, and remains one of Melbourne's most richly decorated interior spaces, replete with mosaic tiled flooring, glass canopy, wrought iron and carved stone finishings. The arcade proper is L-shaped, connecting Collins Street at the south end to Elizabeth Street on the west. The 'L' shape is converted into a 'T' through the junction on the north side with Block Place, a partly covered pedestrian lane that leads to Little Collins Street, opening opposite the Royal Arcade. The six story office buildings on both Collins and Elizabeth Streets have nearly identical facades and are some of Australia's best surviving examples of Victorian architecture in the Mannerist style.
The arcade was formerly known as Carpenter's Lane; however, once the works were complete, local shopkeepers successfully petitioned to have it changed to its present name. The name came from men walking around 'the block' one direction and women in the opposing direction, as a tradition before attending Australian rules football matches.
The arcade is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.[1]
1.1 Owners
1.2 Fire
1.3 Name
1.4 Hopetoun Tea Rooms
1.5 Block Court
1.6 The Block Minstrels
OwnersEdit
On 1 June 1837, the first auction took place in Melbourne. The location of the land was on Collins and Elizabeth Street, purchased by William Briscoe & Son. The Briscoes Bulk Grain Store occupied this location from 1856 to 1883.
The building was then sold to the George Brothers, which would eventually become the first Georges Store in Melbourne. In the 1980s, the owners sold the Block to Time Corporation for AU$15 million. By 1991, Westpac took over the mortgage and sold the building to the Kearney in 1993, during a public auction.[2]
In 2014, the Cohen family purchased the Block Arcade. The Cohen family have had long ties with Melbourne which date back to the 1840s. The great grandmother of Trevor Cohen was born on the first floor of the corner of Collins and Elizabeth Street in the original building, while his great great grandfather struck one of the first leases in Melbourne in the ground floor of the same building. The Cohens are passionate about the precinct, and continue to refurbish the Block Arcade to its former glory with an eye for detail.[3]
FireEdit
At 6:15 pm on Friday 13 September 1889, a fire damaged most of the building, owned by Georges Store, causing over AU$400,00 worth of damage. The fire continued over a long period of time due to the fire brigades being owned by various insurance companies. This fire caused a change in the operations of the fire department. As a result of the Georges fire, the Metropolitan Fire Brigades (MFB) was created.[4]
With the population growth within and around Melbourne, shopping centres became very popular, with lanes and arcades created all over the city. After the fire, City Property & Co Pty Ltd. commissioned the creation of a new arcade located in the heart of the city. Melbourne architects Twentyman & Askew were hired to build a version of the Galleria Vittorio in Milan. In 2003, the City of Melbourne signed a sister city agreement with the City of Milan, with the connection between the Block Arcade and the Galleria Vittorio.
NameEdit
Fergus Hume evocatively described 'doing the block' in his The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, first published in Melbourne in 1886:
It was Saturday morning and fashionable Melbourne was 'doing the block'. Collins Street is to the Southern city what Bond Street and the Row are to London, and the Boulevards to Paris... Carriages were bowling smoothly along, their occupants smiling and bowing as they recognized their friends on the side walk... Portly merchants, forgetting Flinders Lane and incoming ships, walked beside pretty daughters; and the representatives of swelldom were stalking along in their customary apparel of curly brimmed hats, high collars and immaculate suits. Altogether it was a pleasant and animated scene...
The walk around 'the Block' was how the name "The Block Arcade" formed.
Hopetoun Tea RoomsEdit
Storefront window of The Hopetoun tea house displaying cakes and pastries.
The Hopetoun Tea Rooms was opened concurrently with the opening of the Block Arcade in 1892. The Victorian Ladies' Work Association named the store in honour of Lady Hopetoun, wife of Lord Hopetoun, Victorian Governor (1889–1895). Bought for £18, the Hopetoun Tea Rooms is known for its high teas and magnificent mirror, which was hung outside the shop.[5] It used to be a luxury for ladies as they shopped, as mirrors were rare at the end of the 19th century.
George & Georges Drapers was the original store located where the Block Arcade now resides. It was a prominent department store, but moved further down Collins Street in the late 1800s.
The Singer Sewing Machine Company moved into the Block Arcade in 1902. Selling sewing machines on the bottom floor and running classes for how to sew in the basement, the Singer Sewing Company was a common place for women of the early 1900s. Philip Goatcher, an artist, was commissioned to design and paint a mural on the ceiling. This mural can still be seen in Crabtree & Evelyn shop on Collins Street.[4]
The Block Arcade also housed the first Kodak store, the camera company from Rochester, New York. Kodak allowed the average person to take photographs and promoted the arts of photography to the general public. The store sold parts, cameras, and equipment to both amateurs and professionals.[6]
Block CourtEdit
The Block Arcade has four entrances to the main arcade: one from Elizabeth Street, one from Little Collins Street, and two from Collins Street. The Block Court, one of the entrances from Collins Street, is a newly renovated and restored section of the Block Arcade, housing Bendigo Bank. The last time Block Court was renovated was in 1990 and the new restorations brought back the former architecture characteristics of renowned Melbourne architects, Buchans, with Heritage Victoria and the National Trust having set the specifications in the 1990s.[7]
The Block MinstrelsEdit
Languishing in the bowels of the Block Arcade for nearly half a century, the four trumpeters who now perform on the hour originally paraded as Christmas minstrels who serenaded the wrapping of Christmas presents purchased at the Block during the festive season. Following months of planning, these minstrels have been brought back to life as eighteenth-century Italian musicians costumed by the Block's Master Tailor, Adriano Carbone. In their new setting above the Block's dome, they play their tune on the hour. Concurrently, clock hands have been installed in the original circular decorations, which face both sides of the western section of the dome. This provides visitors and tourists advance notice to view these musicians at work.
This story is but one tiny piece of the history of the buildings comprising the Block and the land they stand on, which is a microcosm of the history of Melbourne itself. The Block houses a museum dedicated to the history of the Block Arcade.
GalleryEdit
Elizabeth Street facade
Collins Street entry
Interior walkway
Central atrium
Architecture of Melbourne
Lanes and arcades of Melbourne
^ a b "Block Arcade, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H0032, Heritage Overlay HO596". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria.
^ "Melbourne's historic shopping precinct, Block Arcade, up for sale listl". ABC. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ "Block Arcade owner unveils surprises under the dome listl". The Age. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ a b "Block Arcade listl". Melbourne Heritage. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ "The Hopetoun Tea Rooms listl". Hopetoun Tea Rooms. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ "Photograph - Kodak, Building Exterior, Block Arcade, Melbourne, circa 1908 listl". Museum Victoria Collections. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ "CBRE Press Release of Bendigo Bank" (PDF). CRBE Melbourne. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Block Arcade.
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Newspaper Editor Nominated for Three Awards at Local Film Festival
Geoffrey Daniels, Reporter|October 1, 2019
When senior Joe Mook took the stage at the Austin Revolution film festival on Sept. 7 to accept the director's choice award, he kept his response simple:
"Thank you guys so much, and are you sure?"
While his acceptance speech to 400 people bombed, his movie certainly did not. In Joe's short film, "Six Shooter" three boys face a life-changing dilemma. It stars three RRHS students: Mook, Andrew Hubbard and Liam Malloy. 2017 graduate Abby Hubbard served as camera woman.
The movie follows the main character Sami (Andrew) and his two friends, Nathan (Liam) and Lewis (Joe). The boys find a gun in an old shack while taking a walk. While inspecting the gun Sami accidentally shoots Lewis and the remaining two boys find themselves in a serious predicament. Tensions rise as the boys try to figure out what to do, but eventually the tension breaks with Sami killing Nathan out of desperation.
Joe used a Canon EOS Rebel T5 with a slightly scratched EF-S 18-55mm IS II lens
to capture footage for the movie. Liam Malloy edited the film in editing software Final Cut. Joe wrote the script and had a very loose style of directing.
Joe wrote the script, but didn't originally plan on filming it. That caused some problems during production. The original script used and old house, which was not feasible for the low budget film.
"There's limitations with what we could do with a budget of $30," Joe said.
Instead, the team used a shed in the park and hoped no one happened upon them while filming.
"We really just wanted to produce something as our first film and first product," Joe said.
In order to be accepted in a film festival Joe had to submit his movie by April 11 and only got notified that he was accepted into the film festival July 12. Joe made the movie in March. There was quite a bit of down time between making the film and receiving his invitation to the festival.
"The wait was extremely nerve racking," Joe said
At the film festival, Joe won the directors' choice for best high school film, which is an award he didn't even know existed.
"It was a fantastic experience," Joe said, "I got to meet a lot of high school filmmakers and we all got along really well."
Joe, Liam, and Andrew got to the festival at 9:30 a.m and stayed until 11 p.m
"We spent most of our time talking to other high school filmmakers and watching their films." Mook said
Joe received a belt buckle with the revolution logo for his win.
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Pitching Matchups
Dodgers keeping their focus internal as Giants series looms
LA plays SF 7 times in next 11 days. How convenient
By Eric Stephen@ericstephen Jul 19, 2021, 10:39am PDT
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The Dodgers trail the Giants by only a game in the National League West, and the teams with the two best records in baseball will play seven times over the next 11 days, beginning Monday with the start of a four-game series at Dodger Stadium.
Though the Dodgers seem determined to downplay the importance of the showdown series.
"We're playing the team that's in first place in our division," baby-faced stoic Will Smith said of the series. "[The games] will be big, but they aren't any bigger than the [68] we've got left."
If a meeting of rivals wasn't enough to whet your whistle, this series in Los Angeles might see the return of Corey Seager to the Dodgers lineup after the shortstop missed over two months with a broken hand. Buster Posey is expected back for the Giants on Monday after missing some time with a thumb contusion, per Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Dodgers-Giants schedule
Mon Gonsolin v. Gausman SNLA
Tue TBD v. Wood (L) SNLA/MLBN*
Wed Urías (L) v. Webb SNLA
Thu Buehler v. DeSclafani SNLA
every game of the series starts at 7:10 p.m. *MLB Network broadcast for out of market only
Tuesday could mark the major league debut of 23-year-old right-hander Josiah Gray, the Dodgers' top pitching prospect. It's either that or a bullpen game, and only one of those options is desirable.
"It's TBD. We still haven't decided," manager Dave Roberts said Sunday of the possibility of Gray getting called up Tuesday. "Kind of seeing how today goes, how tomorrow goes. But he's certainly in the mix."
Chaos could also be looming, and not just because of a potential bullpen game. Gavin Lux injured his hamstring on Sunday and will probably miss at least the first few games of this series and could be placed on the injured list. Max Muncy's wife Kellie is due to deliver their first child at any moment, so he could miss some time on the paternity list, with Zach Reks hanging around to fill in if needed.
But no matter the combatants, Dodgers-Giants is usually a competitive treat.
Before the season, the division was expected to be a race between the Dodgers and Padres, after the two teams had the two best records in the NL last season and met in the division series. But the Giants have proven resilient all year long, currently owners of the best record in MLB and the fourth-best run differential in the sport.
San Francisco has been in first place for 49 straight days.
The Dodgers are currently a game back, and haven't been separated from the Giants by more than two games in all of July.
"You don't want to start thinking about a certain team, and then maybe that team is not the team anymore. Maybe another team sneaks up and they become the team," outfielder AJ Pollock said Friday. "It's just not a really good mindset to be thinking about someone besides ourselves."
That approach has worked for the Dodgers of late, winners of 14 of their last 19 games since getting no-hit by the Cubs on June 24. After getting blanked, the Dodgers have averaged 6.32 runs per game, including scoring six or more runs 10 times during that stretch.
NL West standings
Giants 58-34 0.630 ---
Dodgers 58-36 0.617 1
Padres 55-41 0.573 5
through July 18
Los Angeles leads the National League in runs scored (5.32 per game), on-base percentage (.339) and wRC+ (112). The Giants are tops in home runs (136) and slugging percentage (.432), and second in wRC+ (108).
San Diego still looms at five games back.
For the most part, Roberts and his players have preached not worrying about other teams, keeping the focus internal. But even Roberts admitted it's impossible to completely avoid such information, especially over the weekend at Coors Field, with the visitors dugout on the third base line and the out-of-town scoreboard on the right field wall.
"I was watching. It's right in my face," Roberts said Friday, a night on which the Dodgers, Giants, and Padres all won. "I'm still focused on our guys."
With San Francisco on the docket, the Dodgers can make time to focus on both, at least for seven of the next 11 days.
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Palmyra's ancient Triumphal Arch resurrected in London's Trafalgar Square
Updated 19th April 2016
Written by By Sophie Eastaugh, for CNNLondon
A replica of a 2,000-year-old Syrian monument demolished by ISIS militants has been built and unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square.
The scale model of Palmyra's Triumphal Arch, which was destroyed in an act captured on an ISIS video, has been reconstructed using 3-D printing technology and photographs of the original. The new structure was built in Italy using Egyptian marble before being shipped to London.
It was constructed by experts from Oxford's Institute of Digital Archeology (IDA) as an act of solidarity with Syria to raise awareness of the fight to safeguard its ancient treasures.
READ: The race to save Syria's history from obliteration
Syria's top antiquities official, Dr. Maamoun Abdulkarim, was in London to watch the arch being installed. He told CNN that "Palmyra is not for the Syrian people, it's for all the people in the world."
Palmyra's ancient Triumphal Arch, destroyed last year during the conflict in Syria, has been resurrected in London's Trafalgar square. Credit: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/AFP/Getty Images
"Do not leave us alone through this war, it's enough. We are very tired after five years. As archaeologists working in Syria, we've saved 99 museum collections, but we were alone all the time. What we need now is the international community to move to help us, through solidarity, feeling and technical help," Abdulkarim said.
He's been working for the last four years to empty Syria's museums of priceless cultural artifacts and hide them in secret locations safe from ISIS.
READ: Will only echoes of Palmyra be left?
Abdulkarim told CNN it was a "double happiness" to see the arch unveiled after the liberation of Palmyra three weeks ago, something he "never thought would happen" when the model's construction began.
Weighing nearly 11 tons and standing roughly 20 feet tall, the replica arch is two-thirds of the original's size.
It was financed and created by the IDA, a joint project between Oxford and Harvard universities and Dubai's Museum of the Future.
Before: The ruins of the 2,000-year-old Temple of Baalshamin are seen in Palmyra, Syria, in 2007. The ISIS militant group took over the ancient city last year and razed parts of its World Heritage Site. Syrian government forces recaptured the ancient city from the terror group in March 2016. Click through to see the landmarks before and after ISIS' occupation. Credit: DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images
IDA Director Roger Michel said the reconstruction of violently destroyed treasures serves a crucially important social value.
"Monuments, as embodiments of history, religion, art and science, are significant and complex repositories of cultural narratives," he explained. "No one should consider for one second giving terrorists the power to delete such objects from our collective cultural record."
READ: Incredible architecture that never was
The homage was unveiled by London Mayor Boris Johnson Tuesday and will remain in Trafalgar Square for three days before traveling to Dubai and New York for public display.
"Daesh (ISIS) and other terrorist organizations seek to destroy democracy and obliterate history through the appalling acts of terrorism and murder they commit around the world," Johnson said. "Antiquities like this belong to all mankind and it is imperative that we all strive to safeguard our common heritage."
Abdulkarim said that after its tour, the arch will be placed in the square of Palmyra's modern city where his colleague, Kalid al-Asa'ad, was beheaded by ISIS last August after he refused to reveal the location of hidden artifacts.
"It's a message and gift to the Syrian people," said Abdulkarim. "We can never have the same image we had before IS, but we need to do the best work we can to show the maximum through restoration."
1/20 – Great Mosque of Samarra
Once the largest mosques in the world, built in the 9th century on the Tigris River north of Baghdad. The mosque is famous for the Malwiya Tower, a 52-meter minaret with spiraling ramps for worshipers to climb. The site was bombed in 2005, in an insurgent attack on a NATO position, destroying the top of the minaret and surrounding walls.
Video: ISIS targets historical artifacts Credit: Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images
Next month, London's Victoria & Albert museum will open an exhibition exploring the threats facing global heritage sites and how the production of replicas can aid in their preservation. Entitled 'A World of Fragile Parts', it is the museum's first collaboration with the Venice Biennale.
The V&A's director Martin Roth told CNN there is a delicate balance between harnessing digital technologies and remaining faithful to original techniques.
"Replicas are a phenomenon of our age and are rapidly transforming attitudes towards authenticity; the possibilities that 3D technologies are opening up are truly fascinating," he said.
"However, the abilities we have also pose challenging questions. Which has a greater authenticity; an arch recreated in precise and perfect detail by a robotic arm, or an arch reconstructed using the same artisanal techniques as the original? I am certain that this debate will shape the museums of our future."


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New Jersey lawmakers lay out funding details ahead of casino amendment vote
Latest Casino and Gambling News, Gaming Law & Legislation, New Jersey
As New Jersey voters prepare to go to the polls next month to decide whether to approve a constitutional amendment permitting two new casinos for the north of the state, legislation detailing exactly how any future tax revenues derived from the proposed venues would be utilized has passed through an influential government body.
According to a report from The New York Observer newspaper, Thursday saw the New Jersey General Assembly's Judiciary Committee approve measure ACR-206, which explicitly lays out how funds derived from casinos in the northern part of the state would be used and includes aid to specific seniors programs and funding for public space and transportation improvements alongside Atlantic City recovery initiatives.
"Transparency and clarity is critical for residents and all parties involved in the north Jersey casino debate, especially, as we move closer to November's election," said New Jersey General Assembly member Ralph Caputo, a co-sponsor of ACR-206. "We have seen and heard many different opinions on this issue, both negative and positive. However, it is important that the legislature's intent for any funding coming out of a casino built in the north is spelled out clearly and as definitively as possible so that voters fully understand what they will be casting their vote for in November. With this resolution, our intent for the state portion of the funding from casinos in the northern part of the state will now be in writing and have an opportunity to be agreed upon by both houses."
Lawmakers are now set to wait until voters in the eastern state cast their ballot on the New Jersey Allowance For Casinos In Two Additional Counties Amendment, which is also known as Public Question One, on November 8 before moving forward with ACR-206. Should voters approve the constitutional amendment, lawmakers would be tasked with making provisions for two northern counties to have a casino each with the proposed $4 billion Liberty Rising Resort Spa And Casino project for Jersey City set to be among the considered runners.
ACR-206 additionally explains that New Jersey legislators intend to establish a tax rate on revenues for any new casinos that would be considerably higher than that applied to their Atlantic City counterparts while being tiered dependent on the amount of investment. The measure moreover includes various guidelines for choosing a location, selecting licensed operators and administering programs funded from state revenues.
"This ambitious casino expansion plan is about far more than promoting gaming in New Jersey," said New Jersey General Assembly member Sheila Oliver, the other co-sponsor of ACR-206. "Seniors, displaced Atlantic City workers, our thoroughbred horsing industry and our transportation infrastructure are just some of the constituents and programs that will benefit from the influx in new revenues that this proposal will generate. Voters should be aware of what is at stake when they cast their vote for this new course for our state."
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Late 2010 officially marked the beginning of the work of the Communal Police in the National Assembly, in the presence of government representatives. While the authorities announced that municipal police contribute to solving municipal problems and changing Serbia for the better, due to several incidents that occurred shortly after the start of this service, the Municipal police officers have quickly gained the image of arrogant policemen who often exceed their authority.
One of the first incidents that fueled the public debate on the powers of municipal police was that a citizen, Dragan Cimbaljevic, who was a bus passenger without a ticket, was beaten by a municipal police officer because he refused to leave the public bus.
Even though the head of municipal police gave resignation to the officer involved in the incident, Gorjan Obrenovic, municipal police conflicts with citizens continued according to media reports, but this time, recordings of incidents were uploaded on the internet.
The most common incidents are in the public transport, street stalls, and also with journalists.
From October 2012, until the last incident in June 2016, when, during a discussion with municipal police officers, Vladan Marinkovic (a watermelon salesman) died of a heart attack, there were at least nine incidents involving some kind of force from the police.
The incidents mainly occurred in markets, street stalls, in public transportation, but there was also a recorded incident in Leskovac, when a municipal police officer and traffic inspector slapped a twelve year-old child after the incident, claiming that "the boy actually attacked" them.
In March 2015, the incident was recorded when members of the Municipal Police detained activists from the initiative "Ne da(vi)mo Beograd " (don't drown Belgrade), while they were in front of the town administration buildings sharing a newsletter of the initiative, even though the activists had obtained an official permit.
Two incidents have attracted a lot of attention related to the prevention of journalists doing their work, and both incidents occurred in the area of "Belgrade on Water".
At the end of September in 2015, the news crew of "Istinomer" (the truth meter), were detained by the municipal police without stating a legal basis for it, and they were removed with the use of force, together with their interviewee, from the location where they planned to conduct the interview near the "Savana" restaurant.
After less than a month, municipal police confiscated the camera of the portal "The Scream " reporter, and deleted recordings; on that occasion, the journalists were trying to question the mayor of Belgrade, Sinisa Mali.
It turns out that the incident was attended by the Chief of Municipal Police, Nikola Ristić.
After the incidents with reporters of the "The Scream" and"Truth Meter", the Ombudsman, Saša Janković, found that it was improper and illegal conduct of the Serbian Municipal Police, and responded and outlined 32 recommendations. In his report, Janković alleges that Ristic presented false data about the incident with "Scream", which was in apparent contradiction with the content of the recording of the event available to the public. The Ombudsman, among other things, recommended the dismissal of the Chief of the Communal Police, Nikola Ristic.
After that, the municipal police informed the Ombudsman that it has accepted its recommendations, and noted that the communal police, in their future work, will react only in cases prescribed by law, or in cases which are under the jurisdiction of the municipal police.
After the response of the municipal police, the Mayor of Belgrade, Sinisa Mali, said the Municipal Police Chief, Nikola Ristić, will not be removed because the municipal police reacted to the recommendations of the Ombudsman, and apologized after the incident.


Harvard General Store Now Sells Distilled Spirits and Fortified Wines!
And a Pouring License is in the Works.
Have you noticed anything new at HGS? We are displaying our new alcoholic beverages in the back of the store near the staircase. Come check out what we carry and feel free to make suggestions to our staff. The addition of distilled spirits was a year in the making. First, waiting for approval for our All-Alcohol Liquor License and then, selecting the best brands and values to appeal to our local market.
You may not see your favorite brands. Consolidation and big box stores are the wave of the future for retail alcohol. Most producers today are large corporate entities that have bought up your favorite brands over the last few years and in turn only sell in large quantities to retailers.
For a store like ours that offers alcoholic beverages as a service to the community, we need to carefully select products that insure high quality without breaking your budget. We need labels that exhibit the highest quality in handcrafted and local products that people can afford. We understand you may be loyal to a brand that you have bought for years but we believe if you give our products a chance and work with us to get our offerings right, we can get your business on a regular basis.
We can be innovative in our marketing by focusing on education and tastings. Cocktail making classes and tastings will be scheduled throughout the year. For instance, to celebrate the issuance of our All-Alcohol License on March 14th, we had our first Cocktails 101 Class with Charles Oliver and expert mixologist, Jake Parrott. The class focused on vermouths, gin, rum, and liqueurs. Those attending the class tried 10 of our 15 different liquors. They each had the chance to play with different proportions, adding different fruits, ice, seltzers, and Prosecco, and experimented with how these simple ingredients changed the flavor of the drink and learned to feel confident with their own particular taste preferences. As an example, they made Martinis with our amazing Hayman's Gin with different proportions of gin and vermouth as well as using different vermouths to find just the right combination. Charles shared his go-to beverage for parties with our class—everyone loved it so much, we want to share the recipe!
Pour 3/4 ounce Crème de Violette into a Champagne flute, then fill to the top with sparkling wine (about 5 ounces). Garnish with a lemon twist.
As with all our wine classes, at the end of the night we gave 10% off any bottles purchased that evening The number one seller was the Hayman's Gin, followed by the Rothman and Winter Creme de Violette..
While you are around town this week, stop in to see for yourself the newest additions to the General! Don't forget to keep an eye on our other social media pages for other new and fun plans for the store.


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New chemical suits to protect firefighters against hazardous materials
New coverall gas tight suits have been launched by the London Fire Brigade to help improve how crews respond at incidents involving hazardous materials and terrorism.
The chemical protective clothing enables firefighters to go into areas that their normal firefighting protective equipment would not protect them from due to the risk of being exposed to potentially poisonous substances and could be used in the event of a terrorist chemical attack.
They can also be used at any incident where it is believed there has been a leak of a dangerous substances such as ammonia leaks from fridges and acid spills.
The new suits are lighter, giving better mobility and dexterity, and make it easier to move and operate equipment.
They have integrated inner gloves and separate boots, which maintain high levels of protection and are worn in addition to normal protective equipment and breathing apparatus worn by firefighters.
In addition to the gas tight suits, liquid tight suits are also being rolled out. These will be worn by specially trained firefighters to help decontaminate gas tight suit wearers who have just left a contaminated area - also known as the 'hot zone'.
Assistant Commissioner of Operational Policy, Richard Mills, said: "Modern firefighting is about much more than just responding to fires, our crews now regularly deal with a variety of complex incidents and rescues and that includes chemical spills and regular training to respond to terrorism.
"We frequently refresh and review our equipment and training to ensure that our crews' skills and abilities flexes in tandem with London's needs"
Unlike its predecessors, the suits are also more environmentally friendly and can be disposed of sustainably, which significantly reduces their carbon footprint.
Some of the old suits have been donated to May Day Rescue, a voluntary group that helps distribute emergency equipment to countries and communities that are entering, enduring, or emerging from conflict or natural disasters, such as Syria. Work is on-going for the disposal of the remaining suits.
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Gunn column: Tigers have no hope, because management's goal is to NOT WIN at all costs
By Jason Goorman on March 27, 2019
So how is it possible to remain a fan of a team whose goal is to NOT WIN?
For Detroit Tigers fans, the only answer is loyalty, and faith that the team's rebuilding process will eventually bring the promised results.
In case you weren't aware, the Tigers open the 2019 season on Thursday in Toronto, where they will play a four-game series against the Blue Jays over the weekend.
If you didn't know that, it's probably because you do know that the Tigers are expected to stink again this year – perhaps even worse than last year's squad, which finished 64-98.
Of course there are those diehard fans who are probably saying to themselves "Wait a minute, it's only the beginning of the season. There is some talent on the roster. If Cabrera stays healthy, and some of the young pitchers start developing, who knows? After all, their division is clearly the worst in baseball."
Sadly, they are wrong, because even if lightning struck, the Tigers played far better than expected, and made it to midseason in contention, the team's management would quickly put an end to it.
Remember, Tigers General Manager Al Avila has made it very clear that any player who performs well will be offered up as trade bait, so the club can continue to stockpile minor league talent for the future.
So don't get too attached to any guy who gets off to a hot start. He will have a one-way ticket out of town.
Some fans are excited about new second baseman Josh Harrison, a former All-Star with Pittsburgh who has lots of skills left, and is a fiery team leader type of guy. Control your enthusiasm, cause if he hits, he's gone.
A lot of experts are expecting a very big year at the plate for Nick Castellanos, whose massive power potential is just starting to fully bloom. He could hit 30-40 home runs this year. But don't get too pumped up, because a lot of those dingers will probably be hit in another uniform.
A lot of fans have been impressed with the flashes of potential shown by starting pitcher Matt Boyd, who could emerge as a very effective hurler this year. But if he does, he won't be a Tiger for long.
Again, the Tigers main goal this year is to NOT WIN. Their plan is to showcase players for any and all possible trades, to get youngsters who may be with the team by 2022 or 2023.
I understand why all of this is necessary. The Tigers' farm system was left barren by former General Manager Dave Dombrowski, who traded all the young talent for aging veterans during the division championship years.
And from everything I've read, Avila's plan to rebuild the farm system is going very well. There will reportedly be a lot more talent in Toledo, Erie, Lakeland and West Michigan this year than there has been in a long time. That bodes well for the distant future.
But right now the situation is more painful than usual for us fans. Knowing we're going to have a bad team is one thing. Knowing that any player who performs well will be automatic trade bait is even worse.
It's springtime, when fans of all teams traditionally dream of great seasons and playoff runs. That's supposed to be our right, at least until reality sets in by May or June.
But Tiger fans don't even have that right anymore, because if any unexpected winning starts to happen, management will shoot it down as quickly as possible.
So grit your teeth, fellow fans. It's going to be a long, painful summer in Detroit, any way you slice it.
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Shortly after Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help, came out, my wife Genie read it. She passed it on to me, but I was not excited to read it. A story about maids in Jackson, MS in the year that Medgar Evers and President Kennedy were assassinated did not sound compelling. After hearing several other enthusiastic reviews, I picked up the book and started reading. I was totally absorbed, and finished the book in a couple of days.
Since then we have been waiting expectantly for the movie to be released (see the trailer here). We went to see it this week. It is an incredible movie. It brought tears to my eyes.
I am a son of the South. I grew up in Atlanta in the 1950s and '60s, when discrimination was the cultural norm. I remember the "colored" water fountain at the Sears in Buckhead. I pestered my Mama, because I wanted to see the colored water come out of the fountain. She did not much want to explain that one.
My parents had both grown up in California but settled in Atlanta after the war. My father's family was from Dodge County, in middle Georgia, so he had Southern roots, and he quickly adapted to the culture. We had a couple of maids during my childhood, but they only worked part-time. We were strictly middle class and lived in an apartment until I was nine. So, I never had a sense of being reared by our maids.
I did, however, get a sense of the hypocrisy in the white church of the times that is so prevalent in the movie. I grew up seeing people dress up all nice and head off to church on Sunday mornings. The trouble was, I never saw that church changed these people during the week.
I spent my whole life in Atlanta, living in a very diverse city, with plenty of transplants from up North, which caused some of the overt racism to recede from public view. I worked in a family business selling construction equipment. My first territory was northeast Georgia. I was selling tractors to good old boys, and frankly, for most of my 25-year career, very public expressions of racism were more the norm than the exception.
A fairly popular governor was voted out of office after he took the Confederate stars and bars off the state flag, and the old conservative Democrats who ran the state for over 100 years were replaced by Republicans in one election. No matter how much people try to dress up the flag issue as a "cultural" thing, it really is a strong symbol of the times when anyone who wasn't white knew their place. And the white pastors did not easily confront these issues in church.
I think of my own attitudes until I went to college and began to think for myself. I have nothing to be proud of in my own behavior and attitudes. I did not get all excited about the Civil Rights movement. I never marched in the '60s. I did not question the Southern cultural assumptions until my adult years. And anyone who has read Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" will know that deeply embedded racial feelings often operate at a subconscious level.
Then a book like "The Help" comes along, and we see that grave injustices were institutionalized in our culture and, in many ways, co-opted the Gospel in the Southern church. "The Help" is a help in terms of cracking the rose-colored glasses that many look through when they look back at these times of a Christian America.
We in the South are not alone in creating a redneck culture. I spend half my time in the mountains of Colorado, and we have our version of redneck out here. They shoot guns, ride four-wheelers destroying pristine meadows, mine and prospect, and show very little respect for the environment or our government.
My eldest granddaughter was adopted from Guatemala. She's Mayan Indian with jet black hair and eyes, and beautiful brown skin. She started kindergarten in Fort Collins last fall. Fort Collins is a college town, with a good bit of high tech industry. It is considered a pretty liberal and progressive place. Yet, through her whole school year, she had kids tell her that her skin was ugly and wouldn't play with her. To see my granddaughter experience discrimination breaks my heart. Are we really going to live with racism for another generation? I could hardly believe that people are still rearing their kids to be mean to those who don't look like us.
I see a whole swath of our political class pandering to a movement that disdains education, immigrants, climate science, care for the environment or the poor. They do this in the name of making America great again. This movement has brought our economy back to the brink of recession by manufacturing a debt crisis and insisting on cutting spending in a faltering economy.
I see people wanting to go back to a time that I consider to be a stain on our American culture. I think there are plenty of white folks in our country who are not interested in living in a multi-cultural, pluralistic society. They would like to go back. Unfortunately, to me this is a reactionary stance, tainted by racial undercurrents, that needs to be named for what it is.
What completely turns me off is to see politicians weeping and exclaiming their faith in Jesus, while completely disdaining Jesus' politics. It's no wonder we have become a post-Christian culture, when people like this make up much of the public face of religion in this country. I, for one, have no interest in going back to this ugly past.
Recovering our past is not a vision for the future. My mentor Robert Fritz would say, making a problem go away is not the same as a vision. Much of our political class, and especially those in the Tea Party movement, would point us towards the past, not the future. Problem-solving is like demolition, removing an unpleasant current reality. Vision is like architecture, building something new.
So, please quit trying to convince us that the past was something beautiful, while you ignore the scars that many carry from growing up in those very imperfect times. I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the anxiety of growing up under the threat of nuclear war. We practiced walking home from grammar school by the quickest route in case of nuclear attack. I lived through the assassinations of two Kennedys, Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King, Jr. Jewish children were killed in the bombing of a synagogue in Atlanta. Black men were still being lynched in the South. I knew a man who actually witnessed a lynching during those times.
I graduated from High School in 1969. Over the next few years, I became convinced that our system and society could not endure the chaos that was breaking out everywhere. Do we really think things were better in the mid-'60s, as we were ramping up our involvement in Vietnam and laying the groundwork for Watergate?
Only 50.2% of babies under age 1 are white and not Hispanic, according to the 2010 Census — a sharp decline from 57.6% just 10 years earlier. We are almost at a minority-majority infant population," says Brookings Institution demographer William Frey, who analyzed the latest Census data. "We probably have passed it since the Census was taken" in April 2010.
Toto, we aren't in Kansas anymore. The changes we are experiencing are unavoidable. The pace of change has quickened over our lifetimes, and it is not likely to slow up. I get that people are overwhelmed. But, it seems to me that those who trust God would get comfortable with the fact that change is an integral part of following Christ.
I thank God for a book and movie like "The Help," because they can help shape our cultural narrative in ways that don't let us forget and ignore the sins of our shared past. I am hopeful that churches will use this book and movie to help them look at ways in which our culture co-opts the Gospel. And I would ask this question in such a discussion: In what ways is the gospel being distorted today in our church because of the cultural assumptions that are so deeply embedded as to not be questioned, even in church?
For further development of these thoughts see Mike Breen's blog post: Don't drink the water: How culture has corrupted the American Church. For another powerful exploration of these cultural issues and the Tea Party movement, take a look at Brian McLaren's response to some good questions from a Tea Party supporter.


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Calvin is one of New Zealand's most experienced actors. He made his mark playing the tough gang leader Taka in the award winning film Once Were Warriors, and has worked in well known film and TV series such as Hercules, Xena: Warrior Princess, Legend of the Seeker, Cleopatra, and countless others. Over 4 years Calvin became a household name to Kiwi audiences playing Dr. Victor Kahu in Shortland Street, the longest running most popular series for Television New Zealand.
Calvin has appeared as many memorable characters such as Te Toko in the successful film The Dead Lands directed by Toa Fraser; He played Malcolm Rewa in the award winning tele-movie In Dark Places, Turangi in Jane Campion's Top of the Lake, and has had star roles in The Brokenwood Mysteries, The Shannara Chronicles, and Underbelly. The Dead Lands is now set to launch as a TV series globally on Shudder & TVNZ with Calvin playing key roles.
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The current teachers are 2017 and 2018 Tango World Championship finalists Barbara Ferreyra and Exequiel Relmuan. from Argentina. The teachers changes usually every 3 to 6 months.
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This paper describes an optofluidic approach for fiber coupling and flexible beam shaping in the central plane of all-glass microfluidic devices. Special microchannels with half circular sidewalls have been integrated into the device in order to create micro lens systems. Focal length of each of these micro-lenses can be controlled by the refractive index of the fluid inside the channel. That way adaptive, microfluidically controllable lens systems can be realized for use in beam shaping and light-section creation. A prototyped chip with five parallel fluidic channels with different distances between them and with free adjustable and combinational fluidic refraction indices inside has been prepared and investigated. A total of six fiber channels on each side are used for light input and output. The developed chip concept has a great potential for application in small biochemical analysis units like lab-on-a-chip or μ-total analysis systems. Simulations of light distribution inside the chip in dependence on fluid refraction indices as well as geometrical parameters are in accordance with realized transmission measurements.


Growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina, Sydney Williams always had an interest in art and a strong connection to her southern roots.
It is no wonder that, after a few years in New England studying and pursuing a career in sustainable agriculture, Sydney made her way back to Asheville, North Carolina to cultivate her own creative talents and passion for making useful and beautiful ceramic pieces.
Sydney's journey through her education, moving up and down the east coast and learning different ways of creative expression culminates in her current pursuits. Using the meditative wheel-throwing process, Sydney carefully creates simple, yet elegant vessels to enhance any quiet or mundane moment in the everyday. Her background in environmental studies adds to the story of her pieces: Sydney's passion for sustaining our earth's resources directly connects to both the way she makes her pieces and the impact that her pieces have on the user. Knowing that these pieces have come from clay, foraged from our earth to make reusable, sustainably produced objects continue to support her advocacy for our environment and protecting all that it has to offer us.
By mixing her own glazes, using unique techniques to achieve beautiful texture and sustainably sourcing three different types of clay to create her pieces, Sydney's work truly celebrates the beauty of handmade. Holding one of her pieces in your hands, you can just feel the care and attention to detail that she has poured into just that one vessel. The colors, textures and form of the clay are a true delight to welcome into your everyday environment.


It has been one of the defects of theologians at all times to over-esti-mate the importance of our planet. No doubt this was natural enough in the days before Copernicus when it was thought that the heavens revolve about the earth. But since Copernicus and still more since the modern exploration of distant regions, this pre-occupation with the earth has become rather parochial. If the universe had a Creator, it is hardly reasonable to suppose that He was specially interested in our little corner. And, if He was not, His values must have been different from ours, since in the immense majority of regions life is impossible.
From Bertrand Russell, "Is There a God?" (1952), in The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 11: Last Philosophical Testament, 1943-68, ed. John G. Slater and Peter Köllner (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 543-48.


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The Kenmore Bypass is a proposal for a major road linking Moggill Road, Pinjarra Hills, with the Centenary Motorway, Kenmore, in Brisbane, Australia. The Proposed Bypass will be  in length.  Since the 1960s a corridor of land has been set aside for a bypass. This is where the Kenmore bypass will be located if the plans go ahead. The Bypass is stage 1 of the planned Moggill Pocket Arterial Road corridor.

Moggill pocket arterial road corridor
The Kenmore Bypass is stage 1 of the planned Moggill Pocket Arterial Road corridor, also known as the Moggill—Warrego Highway Connection, that connects the Centenary Highway, Fig Tree Pocket with the Warrego Highway, North Tivoli, via the suburbs of Kenmore, Pullenvale, Anstead and Karalee.

Benefits
The proposed Bypass is designed to alleviate congestion along Moggil Road during peak commuting hours.

The Kenmore Bypass Pre-feasibility Study concluded that a Kenmore Bypass would:
 Provide a  alternative road for the congested Moggill Road;
 Cater for an estimated of approximately 25,000 vehicles per day in 2026;
 Reduce rat running;
 Avoidance of two schools and two retail zones in Kenmore and 13 sets of traffic lights;
 Improve public transport on Moggill Road and
 Enhance bicycle commuting connectivity between the Kenmore and the Centenary Motorway cycleway.

Planning process
The planning process, based on community feedback, looked at a range of options and more in-depth technical investigations.

Consultation
The Bypass has divided local residents and has been subject of extensive community planning to ensure the needs and opinions all residents are considered. The Kenmore Bypass Consultation report, that involved three stages and two additional interim consultation periods, received a total of 7,859 submissions between April 2008 and November 2009. The report highlighted the public issues regarding the Bypass, namely:
 Supportive of project (Stage 1) – 12.65%*
 Opposed to project (Stage 1) – 12.17%*
 Existing traffic issues: congestion – 7.22%
 Alternatives: Bellbowrie Bridge – 3.02%
 Public transport – 3%
 Moggill Road – 2.8%
 Future traffic issues: congestion – 2.49%
 Moggill Road intersection: travel in direction of Brisbane City – 2.07%
 Existing traffic issues: Public transport – 1.92%
 Environment: Loss of greenspace – 1.87%
 'Other' issues accounted for 50.8% of the feedback received, including issues such as noise, land value and fauna.

Design
Design options have been published relating to:
 Moggill Road Intersection (options A & B),
 Gem Road to Kenmore Road and
 Centenary Motorway Interchange (options A & B and Fig Tree Pocket A & B).

Current status

The decision to proceed with the Kenmore Bypass rests with the Government of Queensland whose responsibility it is to assess the affordability and priority of the project. Currently there is no decision or funding to build a Kenmore Bypass.

The Moggill Pocket Arterial Road corridor, as determined by the Western Brisbane Transport Network Investigation, will not be required under the land use projections in the South East Queensland Regional Plan, but remains as an important future corridor.

See also

Road transport in Brisbane

References

External links
 YouTube Video of the Kenmore Bypass Community Meeting - 12 June 2008
 Kenmore Bypass Planning Study
 Debating Regional Transport Proposals - considers the Kenmore bypass option in a regional context
 Outline on Google Maps of the Brisbane section

Proposed roads in Australia
Roads in Brisbane
Kenmore, Queensland
Bypasses in Australia


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Dentzman, Katherine and Samuel C. H. Mindes. Forthcoming. "Labor and the problem of herbicide resistance: How immigration policies in the U.S. and Canada impact technological development in grain crops." In Immigration, Immigrants, Agriculture and Food in North America (working title), edited by Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. (Refereed)
Summary: Mexican agricultural workers comprise a significant percentage of the workforce in both the U.S. and Canada. Yet, they differ in their temporary farm worker programs. Canada's is cited as a model program, reducing the number of unauthorized farm workers. In the U.S., unauthorized foreign workers make up almost half of all farm laborers. This is now causing problems related to herbicide resistant (HR) weeds. These weeds increasingly require manual labor, creating an unprecedented demand for foreign farm workers in corn and soybean systems. Similar HR problems and comparable reliance on Mexican temporary farm workers in the U.S. and Canada provide a controlled context in which to test the impact of these countries' political and cultural differences on future HR weed management. Using focus group data with farmers from four U.S. states, we address the issue of U.S. foreign farm laborer dynamics in relation to HR and commodity crops. Drawing on theory from Friedland, Barton and Thomas (1981), we investigate how this decrease in immigrant labor, specifically from Mexico, is impacting reliance on technological innovation in the herbicide industry.
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Liu, Hui, Corrine Reczek, Samuel C. H. Mindes, and Shannon Shen. 2017. "The health disparities of same-sex cohabitors at the intersection of race-ethnicity and gender". Sociological Perspectives, 60(3), 620-639. doi:10.1177/073112146663685
note: awarded Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award at the 2018 meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association
Abstract: We work from a minority stress perspective to theorize health disparities across union status at the intersection of sexual minority status, race-ethnicity, and gender. We use pooled data from the Integrated National Health Interview Surveys (1997–2014) to assess a wide range of health outcomes, including self-rated physical health, psychological distress, and health behaviors. Results suggest that same-sex cohabitors face substantial health disadvantages relative to different-sex married individuals, with little variation by race-ethnicity and gender. Fewer health differences are found for same-sex cohabitors in comparison with both different-sex cohabitors and unpartnered singles, although greater variation by gender and race-ethnicity is found across these comparisons. This study highlights the importance of integrating intersectionality and minority stress theories to guide future research examining sexual minority health disparities. Results suggest that the sexual minority health disadvantage, as well as the potential health boost of same-sex marriage, may depend on the intersection of race-ethnicity and gender.
Lewin, Paul, Samuel Mindes, and Monica Fisher. 2019. "Dynamics of Hispanic Entrepreneurship in the U.S." Hispanic Economic Outlook, Spring, 14-24. (invited work)
link: https://asheweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/HEOReport-Fall-2019_final.pdf


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My Week: Peter Cardy spies unwarranted toadying
13 December 2006 by Peter Cardy
When I announced that I'd be stepping down as Macmillan's chief executive, I overestimated the Blair effect, assuming I would become yesterday's man immediately.
Not a bit of it: a period that's always busy now has to include the handover, nailing down several major projects, doing farewells and job-hunting.
MONDAY: A presentation to a group of new Macmillan professionals – nurses, but also social workers, therapists, benefits advisers and information specialists. I try to explain to them what Macmillan is, how it works and where they fit in – a tall order in 15 minutes.
On to a really enjoyable interview for a fascinating job, with a group of charity trustees to whom I take an immediate liking. Writing my CV and submissions has been a voyage of discovery as I remember relevant experiences from a long career. It helps your self-esteem to be wanted, but it feels risky to turn jobs down.
A late finish after a grand dinner at Clarence House with the Prince of Wales, Macmillan's patron, and the Duchess of Cornwall. It's attended by a small group of our past and prospective major supporters, who seem to enjoy having their arms twisted gently but royally.
TUESDAY: In Edinburgh to meet the Macmillan Scotland and Northern Ireland fundraising team - inventive, great fun and welcoming. Their latest scheme is Conquer a Corbett (not Ronnie, but mountains between 2,500 and 2,999 feet high), and they plan sponsored climbs of all 219 next May.
WEDNESDAY: Alex Markham announces his departure from CRUK: what a great leader he has been for this great charity and for the cancer sector. At the Britain Against Cancer conference, Patricia Hewitt announces a review of cancer strategy with no money attached to it. It's a small concession that starts an outbreak of unwarranted toadying. Given the contradictory messages from ministers in the past few months, it's an important handhold for reshaping policy.
THURSDAY: Knowledge harvesting is a formal process suggested by our planners so that what I know doesn't walk out of the door with me. It's demanding, and ends with a tough Q&A session with the executive team.
THE WEEKEND: The invitations to Christmas concerts flood in – a mix of cathedrals, barracks and parish churches. Our fundraisers are keen to have me for my last visit and couldn't treat me more kindly. Back to back with a health policy conference in Blenheim Palace, this makes it a memorable end to an unusual week.
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At a last minute, hastily organized meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), dozens of protestors from the No PG&E Bailout Coalition demanded that the CPUC stop the illegal proceedings, and not move forward with preemptively offering billions of dollars in public funds to PG&E, the corporate utility, which it regulates.
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A Catholic psychologist is now banned from practising until further notice because of his public statements opposed to homosexual relationships. The long-running case has demonstrated how practitioners can have their careers cut short if they make controversial statements in public. Philip Pocock's case is one of the rare occasions when the nation's medical watchdog has suspended a practitioner without any complaints received by patients. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency restricts health professionals to protect the public. The 58-year-old Canberra man had been working under severe restrictions put in place last year by the Psychology Board - which sits under AHPRA - but records show he has now been shut down at least temporarily while the board assesses professional reports about him. Part of his earlier restrictions imposed by the board included further education and an assessment by a psychiatrist. On Wednesday Mr Pocock said this was like being sent to a gulag for reindoctrination. He said he was considering leaving the profession because he did not want his free speech curtailed. "I said I'll resign my registration because I feel I've got the right to make public statements," Mr Pocock said. "I've never actually proselytized to patients but I do proselytize generally. "I explain my position if [patients] want to hear it. [The Psychology Board] is saying you can't make public statements as a psychologist. "They're saying you're bringing the reputation of psychology into disrepute because 95 per cent of us support homosexuality or don't believe in god." Complaints about Mr Pocock came from within the profession following the 2013 ACT election when he unsuccessfully attempted to become an MLA. He said he was aware many people thought his views were extreme. He has called for laws against gay sex and for the legal right to discriminate against gays, lesbians and bisexuals. In the media he said sodomy and masturbation were destructive distortions of sexuality, that adultery by a wife destroyed the sexual relationship between husband and wife in a way that could not be remedied by counselling. In August the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruled Mr Pocock could not have his public utterances regarded as "personal views" if they were accompanied by declarations he was a psychologist. The tribunal ruled Mr Pocock was entitled to reasonable expression of his religious faith in the course of his clinical practise "though where such faith led to constraints on standard practise it was appropriate to advise patients in advance of such limitations, or if they arose in the midst of a clinical encounter, to ensure continuity of care by appropriate referral". ACAT's decision said there were considerable perils facing a tribunal too ready to make adverse inferences about clinical practise from a registered professional's public utterances. It also said it was reasonably foreseeable that the public statements made by Mr Pocock would cause offence and or harm to vulnerable persons and that this would be exacerbated by his position and status as a registered psychologist. An additional statement made by one of the presiding members at ACAT said: "[Mr Pocock] appeared to struggle to separate his religious and biological-scientific views from accepted psychology practise. He also demonstrated little appreciation of his obligations as a psychologist under the (practitioner's) code, or of the terms of the code itself".
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Catholic psychologist banned from practising due to views on homosexual relationships
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A Catholic psychologist is now banned from practising until further notice because of his public statements opposed to homosexual relationships.
The long-running case has demonstrated how practitioners can have their careers cut short if they make controversial statements in public.
Philip Pocock.
Philip Pocock's case is one of the rare occasions when the nation's medical watchdog has suspended a practitioner without any complaints received by patients.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency restricts health professionals to protect the public.
The 58-year-old Canberra man had been working under severe restrictions put in place last year by the Psychology Board - which sits under AHPRA - but records show he has now been shut down at least temporarily while the board assesses professional reports about him.
Part of his earlier restrictions imposed by the board included further education and an assessment by a psychiatrist. On Wednesday Mr Pocock said this was like being sent to a gulag for reindoctrination.
He said he was considering leaving the profession because he did not want his free speech curtailed.
"I said I'll resign my registration because I feel I've got the right to make public statements," Mr Pocock said.
"I've never actually proselytized to patients but I do proselytize generally.
"I explain my position if [patients] want to hear it. [The Psychology Board] is saying you can't make public statements as a psychologist.
"They're saying you're bringing the reputation of psychology into disrepute because 95 per cent of us support homosexuality or don't believe in god."
Complaints about Mr Pocock came from within the profession following the 2013 ACT election when he unsuccessfully attempted to become an MLA.
He said he was aware many people thought his views were extreme. He has called for laws against gay sex and for the legal right to discriminate against gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
In the media he said sodomy and masturbation were destructive distortions of sexuality, that adultery by a wife destroyed the sexual relationship between husband and wife in a way that could not be remedied by counselling.
In August the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruled Mr Pocock could not have his public utterances regarded as "personal views" if they were accompanied by declarations he was a psychologist.
The tribunal ruled Mr Pocock was entitled to reasonable expression of his religious faith in the course of his clinical practise "though where such faith led to constraints on standard practise it was appropriate to advise patients in advance of such limitations, or if they arose in the midst of a clinical encounter, to ensure continuity of care by appropriate referral".
ACAT's decision said there were considerable perils facing a tribunal too ready to make adverse inferences about clinical practise from a registered professional's public utterances.
It also said it was reasonably foreseeable that the public statements made by Mr Pocock would cause offence and or harm to vulnerable persons and that this would be exacerbated by his position and status as a registered psychologist.
An additional statement made by one of the presiding members at ACAT said: "[Mr Pocock] appeared to struggle to separate his religious and biological-scientific views from accepted psychology practise. He also demonstrated little appreciation of his obligations as a psychologist under the (practitioner's) code, or of the terms of the code itself".


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