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• Launceston runner Dylan Evans wins back-to-back Point to Pinnacle titles - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  

  Launceston runner Dylan Evans wins back-to-back Point to Pinnacle titlesUpdatedNovember 15, 2015 13:44:05 Launceston's Dylan Evans has won back-to-back Point to Pinnacle events, coming close to the race record.The 22-year-old finished the 21.4-kilometre run in 1:25:49, improving on his winning time of 1:26:51 last year but falling short of Harry Summers' record of 1:24.09, set in 2013.Event director Kim Gillard said Evans lived up to his pre-race favouritism."There's not too many people who ..

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• Supervised contact centres in Tasmania overwhelmed, some...

  

  Supervised contact centres in Tasmania overwhelmed, some waiting times exceed a monthUpdatedNovember 15, 2015 11:28:45 Tasmania's supervised contact services are being overwhelmed by demand, with some parents in Hobart waiting up to six weeks for appointments.The services provide supervised contact for parents who are deemed to be a risk to their children, or function as a neutral space for separated parents to hand over children in shared custody arrangements.Families are usually directed t..

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• Tassie best set to milk Asia market

  

  New company chairman Rob Woolley.THE  finest work of about 19,000 Tasmanian cows will be harnessed as part of a long-term push into Asia by Australia’s largest milk producer.For the first time in its 190-year history, the Van Diemen’s Land Company is back in Australian ownership.VDL includes 25 dairy farms — 13 at the historic Woolnorth property and another 12 farms around the Circular Head area.New owner Melbourne-based company OnCard International, which is soon to be renamed Tasfoods Ltd, pla..

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• Rodney Fong's Strong Passion For Bikes

  

  Rodney Fong is someone we can say who truly loves his bike. This man has been riding for decades and knows a lot about this machine.One can call him a crazy fan for bikes but for a man who has been riding all these years, this just might be his passion.Sun Wheels caught up with Mr Fong at the Land Transport Authority’s ‘Ride for Safety’ event at their headquarters in Nasinu the past weekend.Mr Fong owns a Kawasaki zx 9r ninja and was among those bikers who rode with the Minister for I..

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• AirBnB is covering extended stays for travellers stranded in Paris

  

  Thousands of tourists are stranded in and around Paris,as the French borders are closed, and many countriesadvise their citizens to remain indoors.In response, AirBnB and many of its hosts havewaived fees for those affected by the attacks.If you're in Paris in need of emergency accommodation, our hosts have opened their doorshttps://t.co/E3TUbqD8m2— Airbnb (@Airbnb)November 14, 2015The companyactivated its “disaster response system”on Saturday. The system was formalised after 1,400 hosts in New ..

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• Initial Impressions Of The LG Watch Urbane 2 LTE: So This Is What Marshmallow ...

  

  So the LG Watch Urbane 2 LTE is available now from Verizon and AT&T, and we've had one in the house for a little over a day now. Since I've had some time to kind of run through it and see what it's all about, I figured this was as good a time as any to share some initial thoughts. So here we go.First off, it's pretty thick. Like, a lot thicker than my current smartwatch — the Sony Smartwatch 3 — so I was a little worried about putting it on for the first time. You know what, though? That wor..

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• Leading Harvard physicist has a radical new theory for why humans exist

  

  Where do we come from? Well, it depends on who you ask.For example, an astrophysicist might say that the chemical components of our bodies were first forged in thenuclear fires of stars.On the other hand, an evolutionary biologist might look at the similarities between our DNA and that of other primates’ and conclude we evolvedfrom apes.Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University, has a different, and novel answer, which she describes in her latest book “Dark Matter and the Dinos..

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• Two reasons the Paris attacks will be a game-changer

  

  Investigators and the public have yet to get a complete picture of Friday night’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which havekilled at least 129 people.It’s unclear where and how they were planned, whether they were executed with the orders or coordination of terrorist leadership based outside of France, and why certain targets were selected.AlthoughISIS has claimed responsibilityfor the carnage,both ISISand Al Qaedaattempted to connect themselves to the January attacks in Paris that killed 17 people..

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• Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for Assassin's Creed: Syndicate fans

  

  This article may contain spoilers for Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate.You spent years waiting for developers to hurry up and release a big game. You buy it, take it home, and play through it in a couple of days. It’s awesome.But now what?Read+Watch+Listenis about other material you might want to check out if you’re just not ready to move on. We’ll suggest media that share something in common with a particular game and tell you why it might be of interest. This time, we’re steaming right along with A..

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