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Sydney's beaches and harbourside rock pools inspired the design of the proposed Green Square swimming pool. Vision: City of Sydney.

An emerging Sydney architect has won a large international competition with his design for the city's newest and largest pool in the Green Square development.

Judges selected a design by local Andrew Burges from a global field of nearly 150 designs for the City of Sydney project which has a budget expected to reach $50 million.

The Gunyama Park and Aquatic Centre will cover 16,500 square metres with 2630 square metres of swimming space - 40 per cent more than the Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre, currently the city's largest pool.

Green Square: The city's newest and largest pool complex. Photo: Supplied

Chairman of the jury, Melbourne architect Carey Lyon, praised the artful combination of a landscaped park with an aquatic centre so close to the city centre.

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"It cleverly integrated the idea of a park with a building that was the strong view of the judges," Mr Lyon said.

Mr Burges' entry teamed up leading Australian landscape architects TCL.

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Sydney's beaches and harbourside rock pools inspired the design of the proposed Green Square swimming pool. Vision: City of Sydney.

An emerging Sydney architect has won a large international competition with his design for the city's newest and largest pool in the Green Square development.

Judges selected a design by local Andrew Burges from a global field of nearly 150 designs for the City of Sydney project which has a budget expected to reach $50 million.

The Gunyama Park and Aquatic Centre will cover 16,500 square metres with 2630 square metres of swimming space - 40 per cent more than the Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre, currently the city's largest pool.

Green Square: The city's newest and largest pool complex. Photo: Supplied

Chairman of the jury, Melbourne architect Carey Lyon, praised the artful combination of a landscaped park with an aquatic centre so close to the city centre.

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"It cleverly integrated the idea of a park with a building that was the strong view of the judges," Mr Lyon said.

Mr Burges' entry teamed up leading Australian landscape architects TCL.

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Benefits are already flowing from Ravensdown's Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) programme focused on transforming hill country farms through the precision application of fertiliser.

Two students at Massey University are completing their PhD's with part of the research associated with the programme and a further two PhD students are to be appointed. A third student completing a Masters of Philosophy (Science) is associated with a research project funded by Ravensdown.

The Pioneering to Precision PGP programme is a partnership between Ravensdown and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) with research carried out by Massey University and AgResearch. It is a seven-year programme that aims to improve hill country sheep and beef farming productivity, while protecting the environment through more efficient application of fertiliser.

The globally-recognised Precision Agriculture Group at Massey University is helping define the science which will allow the aerial scanning of farms to flow through to improved accuracy in applying fertiliser.

Among the students working on the project is born-and-raised Kiwi, Pip McVeagh, who is completing her PhD research topic on site specific pasture production in New Zealand hill country.

Her aim is to develop a detailed understanding of pasture production and pasture ecology, and how a range of spatial factors can determine nutrient needs and impact on pasture production in a hill country farming system.

"Fertiliser is a big financial investment for hill country farmers, and many sheep and beef farmers are struggling to sustain a reasonable profit - hill country farming is typically low profit," she said.

"The research we are doing will help to improve grazing and stock management strategies of hill country farmers because this research will provide them with a more in-depth understanding of the spatial variation in pasture production over the landscape."

McVeagh has been working on the PGP programme for the past five months and is part of the fieldwork team who collect site-specific data and develop ways to use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to store, analyse and display that data.

The information collected includes sensed data, pasture and soil samples which will be used to evaluate how remote sensing technology can be used to direct fertiliser applications.

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Even though they knew it was likely coming, Ed and Debbie Sands were devastated by the eight-year prison sentence minus time already served for the man who pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter in the shooting death of their daughter Amy Sands more than two years ago.

We were hoping it would be higher, but its not enough to have to serve just four years and nine months for taking a life. Thats not justice, Okotoks councillor Ed Sands said outside court.

Its inadequate. Our daughter dies and he could be out in less than five years, added Debbie Sands.

Jesse George Hill, 28, faced a lengthy second-degree murder trial in the shooting death of Amy Sands at a southeast garage party on Aug. 31, 2012, but as part of a plea bargain pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter with a firearm.

Hill had always maintained he was not the shooter, but rather a party to the incident in which Sands, 27, was struck by a stray bullet intended for another person inside the garage of an admitted drug dealer.

It is believed that Sands boyfriend, Robert Rollins, was the intended target. He had got into a heated argument with Hill, in which derogatory comments were made to Hill, who left and returned with someone else just after 6 a.m., when two shots were fired.

The accomplice with Hill is believed to have fired the two bullets, including the one that struck the victim in the spinal cord and exited out her throat.

Court of Queens Bench Justice Earl Wilson, who accepted a joint sentencing submission presented by Crown prosecutor Deven Singhal and defence lawyer Adriano Iovinelli, gave Hill a stern lecture before sending him to prison.

That this started as a war of words and insults is mind-boggling, said Wilson. I only hope to God it has sunk in.

Mr. Hill, you have heard the victims familys statements and you heard their pain. You caused what you did to their daughter and I hope you remember it every waking moment for every day for the rest of your life.

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Published: Monday, November 3, 2014 at 5:08 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 3, 2014 at 5:08 p.m.

Fracking, the drilling technique thats driven a boom in land-based shale gas production, has sparked environmental concerns and public outcry, from Pennsylvania to the Louisiana coast.

But fracking is also expanding offshore, in the Gulf of Mexico, with hardly anyone noticing.

A year after California imposed new regulations requiring oil and gas companies to notify state regulators and the public whenever they perform hydraulic fracturing, environmental groups and policy experts are suddenly and belatedly learning about offshore fracking in the Gulf and expressing frustration with a lack of information from regulators.

People dont know this is happening, said Jonathan Henderson of the environmental advocacy group Gulf Restoration Network. Nobody I talk to has any idea, much less the process thats used to get at those reserves.

Theres very little public information on the practice, and to date, we just simply dont know a great deal about where and when its taking place, said Jayni Hein, policy director at New York Universitys Institute for Policy Integrity.

Fracking refers to the shooting of chemicals, water and sand into the bottom of a well to stimulate the flow of oil and gas from the surrounding formation, so it can be sucked up more quickly and easily. The process has been around for about 70 years on land and in commercial use offshore for about 20 years.

The most common type of fracking offshore is less about breaking up bedrock as is the practice on land and more about clearing out sand and mud that can gum up the path of precious hydrocarbons. Tools are used deep in the well to shoot gravel or pellets, along with seawater, acid and other chemicals to break up and filter out impediments.

Industry representatives and others who have studied fracking closely say environmentalists are blowing the dangers both on land and offshore out of proportion. They say the process is very well understood by those who have been doing it for decades.

There are questions, however, about how well the procedures are being tracked by regulators.

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