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• Hobart's Soldiers Walk completed as Tasmania remembers those...

  

  Hobart's Soldiers Walk completed as Tasmania remembers those lost in Great WarUpdatedNovember 11, 2015 14:47:01 A moving Remembrance Day ceremony in Hobart has marked the completion of a long-standing project to honour soldiers killed in the Great War.The final six of 535 trees were planted to fully restore Soldiers Memorial Avenue, with each tree featuring a plaque dedicated to a fallen soldier from in and around Hobart.The walk, which runs through the Queens Domain, was started in 19..

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• Vision for Gorge renewal outlined

  

  Vision for Gorge renewal outlinedByJAMES BRADYNov. 10, 2015, 10:38 p.m.A $3.7 MILLION allocation over five years to revitalise the Cataract Gorge and Trevallyn Nature Recreation Area has been outlined in a 2030 vision document by the Launceston City Council.A $3.7 MILLION allocation over five years to revitalise the Cataract Gorge and Trevallyn Nature Recreation Area has been outlined in a 2030 vision document by the Launceston City Council.The council sent the project’s white paper out for a fi..

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• Meet The Moustache Riders

  

  Shaun Wallbank, a Moustache Rider, representing earlier this month.The history of the MObart MO Bros dates back to 2006, when Tasmania first caught wind of the Movember cause. Traditionally as a group The MObart MO Bros, the team runs from Launceston to Hobart in a relay, where each member runs two kilometres at a time throughout the 200km journey, over a continuous 13 hour period. More recently this has evolved into a group run up Mount Wellington during thePoint to Pinnacle.But in 2012, the MO..

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• Twitter users have taken the new favorite to heart

  

  Twitter users’ hearts are swelling for the new ‘like’ function despite initial misgivings about the demise of the old favourite option. When Twitter introduced the change last week, many users took to the platform to complain about the loss of their beloved ‘favourite’ button, which worked much like a bookmarking tool. Some users said that just because they want to bookmark a tweet, it didn’t mean they loved it. But after the controversial button’s first week , Twitter..

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• Business is picking up the pace ahead of the Paris climate summit

  

  Last week 12 Australian companies committed to strong measures to tackle climate change at the Australian Climate Leadership Summit in Sydney. Many of these companies are household names, including the National Australia Bank, Westpac, AGL and Origin.The announcement followed the peak bodies’statementin June pledging their support to the global goal of limiting climate change to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and acknowledging that this will require most countries, including Australi..

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• Amputee Gamer Will Receive Metal Gear Solid 5-Style Prosthetic Limb

  

  One of the recurring themes throughout Hideo Kojima's finalMetal Gear Solidgame published by Konami is “phantom pain”. A condition where amputees still feel as if they have their limb even if it isn't there. Well, one project sets out to correct this phantom pain for one gamer by restoring them their limb using a robotic prosthetic equivalent to the one Venom Snake uses inMetal Gear Solid V. Over on the website calledThe Phantom Limb Project, they wax poetics onMetal Gear Solidand its ..

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• Popular family SUV Hyundai Tucson slammed for 'four-star' Australian crash ...

  The Hyundai Tucson has been given a 4 star safety rating in Australia, as opposed to Europe, where its left hand drive version was awarded 5 stars.Joshua DowlingNews Corp Australia NetworkSAFETY authorities have slammed one of Australia’s top-selling family cars after a “disappointing” four-star crash test rating.Most new cars earn five stars, but Australian testing of the new Hyundai Tucson SUV found the right-hand-drive version did not perform as well in a crash test as the left-hand-drive mod..

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• Climate issue heats up –we're halfway to disaster

  

  GLOBAL temperatures have reached a record high and are halfway to reaching a "dangerous" threshold, the World Meteorological Organisation has revealed.A new WMO report has found there has been a "relentless rise" in temperatures that is "fuelling climate change".The report found for the first nine months of 2015 average global temperatures had risen to one degree above pre-industrial temperatures - halfway to the two-degree threshold that is considered to be the critical turning point.The Greens..

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• Sonos releases Trueplay

  

  Sonos releases Trueplay audio tuning softwareWireless home speaker specialist Sonos is today releasing a free software update that allows users to tune the speakers to suit their room in minutes, a process that would usually involve professional help and specialised equipment.With Trueplay, which is currently only available for iPhones and iPads, the Sonos speakers emit a special tone for 60 seconds, while the user walks around their room and waves the iPhone or iPad slowly up and down.The softw..

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• Researchers capture and tag rare adult speartooth sharks for first time

  

  Researchers capture and tag rare adult speartooth sharks for first timeMark Rigby and Kristy Sexton-McGrathUpdatedNovember 11, 2015 14:03:46 Researchers from the CSIRO have caught and satellite tagged two adult specimens of one of the world's rarest sharks in a far north Queensland river.Speartooth sharks were first discovered in Australia in 1982 but until last week adult specimens had eluded Australian scientists, who had only ever managed to record information from juveniles.CSIRO researc..

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