The News Review:
- Scientists: Fencing may save wild Tasmanian devils
- Fonterra defers upgrade for Tasmanian operations
- LinuxConf Tasmania 2009: Devils Schoolgirls Never Reboot Again …
- Tasmanian water ski club chasing world record
Scientists: Fencing may save wild Tasmanian devils
Foster’s Daily Democrat NH
The Tasmanian devil a ferocious snarling fox-sized marsupial is in danger of going extinct because of a contagious facial cancer. In the meantime its biggest rival the European fox is thriving and may become so dominant that the devil never comes back. Scientists now want to build a double fence standing more than three feet (90 centimeters) tall to stop the cancer’s relentless spread toward the rugged northwest of the island home to disease-free devils and World Heritage-listed rain forest. Devils spread the cancer when they bite each other during mating or squabble over food. But for any chance of success the fences would have to be completed within two years said Hamish McCallum the senior scientist in the devil rescue program.
Fonterra defers upgrade for Tasmanian operations
National Business Review New Zealand
9 million) upgrading its factories in northern Tasmania. But Australian managing director Bruce Donnison told the ABC that Fonterra is still trying to boost milk production in Tasmania by about 20 percent to 500 million litres. Farmers there had have already increased production by 8 percent this season but the factory upgrade had been delayed by the global recession. “There’s not a lot of cash in the world at the moment because of the economic crisis so the old adage `cash is king’ is paramount at the moment to be able to operate a business” he said.
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LinuxConf Tasmania 2009: Devils Schoolgirls Never Reboot Again …
LinuxPlanet CT
The week started with two days of “miniconfs” on topics ranging fromkernel development to system administration to gaming to women inLinux. Miniconfs are less formal than the main conference and theyusually include good discussion sessions. n Monday I divided my time betweenthe kernel miniconf and the LinuxChix miniconf. The kernel talksincluded good discussions of details like the difficulties ofparallel programming and the problems involved with ACPI handling.
Tasmanian water ski club chasing world record
Power Boat – World Australia
95-metre ferry on Saturday (January 31) in an attempt to claim the world record for the greatest number of skiers. The Horsehead Water Ski Club (named for its original location Horsehead Creek near Devonport) is the organiser of the record attempt but the skiers taking part are from nearly all states. ‘ur club did not have enough members to make up the required number so we?ve called in skiers from all over Tasmania and interstate’ club member Nic Wilson explained. Wilson said the 122 was ‘roughly 50-50 male to female. ‘ ‘The youngest is 10-years-old the oldest 64′ he added. Cairns and District Powerboat and Water Ski Club currently holds the record towing 100 skiers in ctober 1986. Several unsuccessful attempts have been made to claim it.