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Time Warner-FSN dispute leaves viewers in the cold
by Adam Fink
Barb Atherton has been lucky thus far. The mother of Minnesota's men's hockey freshman P.J. Atherton, Barb has not yet missed a chance to see her son compete at the collegiate level by attending home and road game or watching the team on television.
But when the Gophers travel to Colorado College and Minnesota-Duluth in February, the Edina native will join many other Gophers fans in a limited club – those with no ability to see the team on cable television.
"She wants to watch every game," P.J. said. "It's terrible this thing can't be resolved."
The dispute, which began Jan. 1, 2003, involves Time Warner, the cable provider in Minneapolis and western and southwestern Minnesota and Fox Sports Net.
Time Warner pays $1.52 per customer to put the network in its cable package. Fox Sports Net wants an increase to $2.25 for each of the estimated 800,000 customers in the effected region.
The current view from both sides is that discussions have come to a standstill, with neither side willing to budge from their original demands.
"There is no indication either side is making much progress," Fox Sports Net's spokesman Greg Phillips said. "They have not given us many options to work with. It's a shame for the fans."
"We are doing everything we can to reach an agreement," Time Warner's Minnesota division leader Eric Brown said. "In the meantime, Time Warner will refund the fees we would have charged those customers."
That is little consolation to the Gophers men's hockey team and its fans, which is the University's most affected squad.
This season, the Gophers schedule called for 25 regular season games on Fox Sports Net. Of those, nine have yet to be played. The network also produces "Pride On Ice," a weekly half-hour show which features recaps, previews and insight into the team.
Other sports not televised in the blacked-out areas include two more Gophers women's basketball games and the remaining schedules of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Wild. The Twins will also be affected next spring.
Gophers coach Don Lucia is not worried the reduced exposure of his squad will affect recruiting or the team's image in the community.
Lucia said he hasn't picked a side in the dispute; he declined a Fox Sports Net request for him to appear in a commercial addressing the situation.
"We want it settled," the fourth-year coach said. "The reality is that it will eventually be resolved. It would just be nice if it was sooner rather than later."
Minnesota Athletics Director Joel Maturi doesn't understand why it can't be resolved soon. He is updated twice per week by each side.
"They aren't even at the bargaining table," Maturi said. "It's difficult to resolve something if you aren't even talking. We are at the frustration stage right now.
"They each share the latest information with me. Why can't they do it with each other?"
Maturi has heard the complaints from fans, but brainstorming possible alternatives hasn't yielded any solutions.
Maturi said there are no free tickets to give away – such as the Timberwolves did to fans for a game two weeks ago – and no legal issues they can take up with either side.
Just like Gophers fans in the affected areas, Maturi is forced to just wait and see how negotiations progress.
But Maturi has one idea on how to get Gophers hockey back on the Time Warner system.
"The demand has to come from the public," the Chisholm, Minn., native said. "If Gophers fans voice their opinions, they can speed up the process. It's just disappointing how long this has already gone on for."
In the meantime, Barb Atherton might consider planning some more road trips.
ï Minnesota's men's hockey team departed Wednesday night for Alaska. The Gophers decided to fly out a day earlier than normal road games due to the time difference, weather conditions and the length of the flight.
The eighth-ranked Gophers (12-6-7, 7-4-5 WCHA) face Alaska-Anchorage in a weekend series beginning Friday night at 10:05 CST.
Adam Fink covers men's hockey and welcomes comments at [email protected]


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Perched near the rocky shore of James Bay, 500 miles north of Montreal, Eleonore might seem like a problem child given the collapse in world gold prices.
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The gold mining region of Val D'Or is experiencing a bit of a boom due to the quantities of gold and other precious minerals as well as diamonds found in the Northern Quebec ground. Iconic image of survey map, geologist's hammer, loupe or hand glass and rock containing real and fool's gold. Gazette Photo Dave Sidaway For use in mining supplement Photo by Dave Sidaway/Montreal Gazette /Dave Sidaway/Montreal Gazette
by Danielle Bochove
Ian Telfer is the proud father of a spanking new $2-billion gold mine named Eleonore.
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But in this unhappy season for gold bugs, Telfer, chairman of Goldcorp Inc., scoffs at suggestions that gold is somehow falling out of fashion. "Yeah right. Just like Tiffany's," he says. "For thousands of years people have wanted to own gold."
For the moment, the market is far less enthusiastic. Since 2011, gold has generally headed in one direction: down. The price has fallen from a high of more than $1,900 an ounce to around $1,100 and, in the process, lost at least some of its vaunted status as the ultimate safe haven investment.
On an inaugural visit to Eleonore, Telfer is unbowed. While other miners respond to the downturn by selling assets and seeking partners to offset risk, Goldcorp is presiding over a major expansion that includes this mine north of Canada's 52nd parallel, another in Mexico and one in Argentina — three multibillion-dollar projects in five years.
"I've been in the gold business for 35 years. It goes up and it goes down. But it always goes back up," he says.
If Telfer is right, he stands to repeat the success he had 15 years ago when he doubled down while gold was languishing at $300 an ounce. If he's wrong, Goldcorp's capacity to expand beyond Eleonore and its well-earned reputation for acuity will take a hit.
Eleonore, whose name derives from nearby Ell Lake and the French word for gold, already enjoys a special place in the chairman's heart. Telfer, 69, speaks of the "absolute thrill" of opening his first mine in his home country. Its ore body is so large the company says it "hasn't found the bottom of the deposit" yet.
Its northern location comes with intriguing challenges, such as what to do when the propane needed to warm the air underground freezes during cold snaps? ("Keep enough indoors so you can survive until it passes," Telfer states.)
Eleonore is on target to produce 500,000 ounces of gold a year by the second half of 2018, according to Chief Executive Officer Chuck Jeannes. Right now, the mine's all-in-sustaining cost (a key industry metric) is $1,656 an ounce. At capacity, Jeannes thinks it will drop to the "$800s or even below," which would make it profitable even at today's gold price and keep it on course to recoup its investment in four to five years.
The company has worked hard to stack the deck in its favor on the cost side by holding fast to core principles. It's a stickler about keeping debt levels and operating costs below industry averages and leaving the high risks of gold exploration to juniors, even if it means paying top dollar down the road for proven deposits, as was the case in acquiring Eleonore. Goldcorp also avoids politically risky environments, restricting its eight operations to the Americas.
At $846 an ounce, the all-in-sustaining cost of all its properties is significantly better than the $978.63 average of its peer group, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. One third of the 18 gold mining companies that use the measure were selling their output in the first quarter for below the cost of mining it, BI says.
Unlike some other gold miners, busily trying to recover from their exuberance near the top of the market, Goldcorp is readying itself for any and all options. It has recently increased its credit facility by 50 percent to $3 billion, sold its 26 percent stake in Tahoe Resources Inc. for more than $800 million and slashed its dividend by 60 percent. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates its free cash flow in 2015-16 will total more than $900 million.
"Goldcorp is well positioned to withstand weak gold prices and take advantage of acquisition opportunities," Stephen Walker, head of global mining research at RBC Dominion Securities, said in a research note last week. At $1,100 gold, he expects the company to continue to trim capital spending while hunting for lower-cost, longer-life properties.
At $1,000 gold, however, Walker said Goldcorp "would need to make asset allocation decisions, making significant cuts to capital spending."
From Telfer's point of view, the moves the company has made prepare it to withstand "anything going forward" while "preserving our firepower for opportunities" that he expects lower gold prices will generate.
"We don't have to play defense like some of our competitors who are having to sell things now because their balance sheet got ahead of them. We can play offense in this kind of market." Asked if he can buy anything he wants, Telfer grins. "We can buy a lot. We can buy a lot."
Investors are reserving judgment. Goldcorp's share price has performed in the middle of the pack among its peers so far this year.
On stage at Eleonore, Telfer and Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Cree Nation and by whose grace Goldcorp is allowed to operate here, are all smiles.
After four years of "relationship building" (the word is uttered by every person who steps up to the microphone), Goldcorp secured agreement with the Cree Nation government to set up shop on its lands, a key achievement in these days of heightened tensions between resource developers and Canada's First Nations. Coon Come, a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, is no pushover: he came to prominence as a young man by successfully leading the fight to stop Hydro- Quebec's Great Whale hydroelectric project in 1994.
Yet even he likes Eleonore, which will provide jobs paying his people C$70,000 ($53,470) to C$100,000 a year. "I believe that the majority of my First Nations people, they're not anti- development, they just want to have a say on how development takes place," Coon Come says.
Goldcorp serves up a cake with gold frosting while visitors examine a 70-pound (32-kilogram) gold bar worth about $1 million. The metallic substance feels slightly warm to the touch; like copper, gold is an excellent thermal and electrical conductor — just at roughly 7,500 times the price.
The oddity of gold is the elusiveness of its real-world value which makes reliably predicting prices as difficult as keeping propane from freezing at the 52nd parallel in the winter. Telfer and Jeannes are well versed in 1980, the year the bottom began to drop out of the market and sent gold plunging from more than $800 to less than $300. It took 28 years to recover to the high $800s.
Could history repeat itself? Gold bugs point to geopolitical turmoil and a decade of massive money-printing by central banks around the world as reasons — besides Asian demand — to believe in the precious metal. And yet, despite a moderate move on China's currency devaluation last week, the gold price is hardly surging.
Recent trends do nothing to temper their optimism. Jeannes talks about how "a cultural affinity" for gold among Chinese consumers remains intact despite slowing growth and how the recent equities rout in China could persuade investors to put their money into the precious metal instead.
"Right now," Telfer adds, "we think $1,300 gold is something that you could depend on going forward."


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Q: How much does sql queries cost in AWS? I keep on reading/misunderstanding in&out in EBS costs $.10 per million.  does that mean 1M queries cost $.10?  b/c i am creating a web-based tests and they require a lot of queries to save progress, results and exams.  I also use blob object in my sql to store images.  So does that mean i pay $.10 for 1m queries?

A: EBS is raw, block-level storage. Think of it like virtual disk. You ask for an EBS volume, mount it on an AWS machine instance, format it, and then store data on it. It costs money to store data on an EBS volume, and money to move data in and out to an EBS share from outside AWS. Accessing it from within AWS is free, you just pay for the storage in this case.
So if you're running an SQL server on an AWS instance that stores it's data on an EBS volume, it costs you to store the SQL data on the EBS disk, but there's no cost to make a query against that SQL server running on the AWS instance (assuming the transaction can occur with data that's entirely memory mapped). That's just over-the-wire data transfer and it's what AWS instances were, more or less, designed to originally: serve up data.
To estimate your EBS costs you need to figure out how much data on disk your SQL server will to be storing, not how many queries are going to be made against your SQL server. Data on disk: that's the EBS cost of your AWS-based design. There's a section at the end of that EBS link that gives you the following advice about estimating your EBS costs:

With Amazon Elastic Block Store, you only pay for what you use. Volume storage is charged by the amount you allocate until you release it, and is priced at a rate of $0.10 per allocated GB per month Amazon EBS also charges $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests you make to your volume. Programs like IOSTAT can be used to measure the exact I/O usage of your system at any time. However, applications and operating systems often do different levels of caching, so you will likely see a lower number of I/O requests on your bill than is seen by your application unless you sync all of your I/Os to disk.
As an example, a medium sized website database might be 100 GB in size and expect to average 100 I/Os per second over the course of a month. This would translate to $10 per month in storage costs (100 GB x $0.10/month), and approximately $26 per month in request costs (~2.6 million seconds/month x 100 I/O per second * $0.10 per million I/O).
Snapshot storage is based on the amount of space your data consumes in Amazon S3. Because data is compressed before being saved to Amazon S3, and Amazon EBS does not save empty blocks, it is likely that the size of a snapshot will be considerably less than the size of your volume. For the first snapshot of a volume, Amazon EBS will save a full copy of your data to Amazon S3. However for each incremental snapshot, only the part of your Amazon EBS volume that has been changed will be saved to Amazon S3.
Volume data is broken up into chunks before being transferred to Amazon S3. While the size of the chunks could change through future optimizations, the number of PUTs required to save a particular snapshot to Amazon S3 can be estimated by dividing the size of the data that has changed since the last snapshot by 4MB. Conversely, when loading a snapshot from Amazon S3 into and Amazon EBS volume, the number of GET requests needed to fully load the volume can be estimated by dividing the full size of the snapshot by 4MB. You will also be charged for GETs and PUTs at normal Amazon S3 rates.

A: That $0.10 is charged based on number of I/O requests not number of queries.  If you use EBS to store a database, then each database query may require any number of I/O requests.  For instance, an UPDATE query takes several operations to complete: it needs to read through the database to find the rows to change, then write back the changed rows and possibly write changed indexes as well.  However, if the database server has cached the table in memory, it will not need to read from the EBS volume to find the rows to change, so it will take fewer I/O requests.  There isn't an easy way to say "$0.10 buys you this many queries".

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New technologies challenge the established beliefs about privacy. With new technologies, no one can feel secured from the risks of privacy intrusions or unauthorized use. Even law enforcement agencies fail to comply with the fundamental legal requirements. Their actions often become an object of public and judicial scrutiny. Particularly problematic is the way law enforcement professionals use technologies during the pre-trial stages: the information obtained from illegal and unlawful searches often leads to legal disputes. The use of advanced technologies in crime-fighting strategies raises public concerns about citizens' privacy rights and further transforms into a long-standing controversy over the balance of privacy and security in the technological world. The case of Kyllo v. United States reveals the hidden facets of technology use in crime investigation and confirms that law enforcement professionals should be more cautious when they use technologies to combat crime. Even the most sophisticated government and legal protections will not eliminate the existing technology-privacy controversies, as every new technology will challenge earlier principles of privacy, leading to new legal and moral debates.
The debate over the use of technologies and their impacts on privacy continues to persist. The recent case of Kyllo v. United States suggests that the use of new technologies remains one of the major problems in the relations between law enforcement professionals and the public (Colbridge). In his article, Thomas Colbridge discusses the issues and implications of Kyllo v. United States for the development of law enforcement strategies. In Kyllo v. United States, in the middle of the night, law enforcement professionals used thermal imaging technologies to explain the abnormally high use of utility in Kyllo's house (Colbridge). The results revealed abnormally high amounts of heat in Kyllo's house, which led the law enforcement professionals to believe he was growing marijuana there (Colbridge). When the search warrant was obtained, law enforcement professionals found marijuana plants, drug paraphernalia, and weapons in Kyllo's house (Colbridge). However, Kyllo decided to suppress evidence and prove the use of thermal imaging in his house was illegal.
The Supreme Court of the United States decided that the use of thermal imaging in law enforcement procedures had been a search under the Fourth Amendment (Colbridge). Colbridge writes that the decision will have far-reaching implications for the entire system of law enforcement. On the one hand, the use of technologies to combat crime has been limited. On the other hand, the decision provides guidance to all law enforcement professionals who work with advanced technologies. Colbridge lists the factors courts usually evaluate, when judging the appropriateness of advanced technologies: target, type of information gathered, availability of the device to the common public, reason why the device is used, and the way the device is actually used. The case of Kyllo v. United States deals with thermal-imaging technologies but obligates law enforcement professionals to check and evaluate each and every device, before it is used (Colbridge).
Based on what Colbridge writes in his article, technologies create privacy tensions that cannot be resolved; most probably, we will have to reconcile with the loss of privacy for the sake of technologies, as every new technology will necessarily lead to new legal and moral debates. The issue of technologies versus privacy can be considered from three different perspectives: a legal perspective, a moral perspective, and a future development perspective.
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is, probably, the most frequently cited legal document in technologies-versus-privacy debates. Technologies have become an essential ingredient of our daily routines, but how well do they fulfill their functions, and are these functions legal? The case of Kyllo v. United States suggests that many technologies themselves or their use can be illegal from the start, and the main problem is not that these technologies result in serious civil rights violations. The basic problem is that the information provided by and obtained through these technologies is not always reliable. In Kyllo v. United States, the abnormal amount of heat coming from Kyllo's house was enough to justify the need for a search warrant (Colbridge). The law enforcement professionals working with Kyllo concluded that the abnormal amount of heat within Kyllo's house confirmed he was growing marijuana there. The logic of these conclusions is questionable, but the fact that the heat in Kyllo's house could be anything but marijuana cannot be denied. It is the same as using human gaits to predict behavioral intentions, simply because human gaits can be potentially useful in predicting behavioral intentions and suspicious behaviors (Anonymous). Law enforcement professionals cannot and should not arrest a person simply on the basis of his/her gaits. In the same token, law enforcement professionals cannot break into a citizen's house with a thermal imaging device. Even if there was no physical intrusion, the use of thermal imaging devices crossed the boundaries of reasonable precaution. The law enforcement professionals entered the private territory without any permission, even if they had reasonable suspicion that the suspect was growing marijuana in his house.
The moral side of the debate is even more problematic. New technologies erase the boundaries of human relationships and turn humans into objects of surveillance. This "impersonalization" of humans has become a distinguishing feature of today's commercial and legal cultures. Just take a look at the way a flourishing young white woman treats a black or Hispanic checkout clerk: she would not ever stop chatting on her phone throughout the transaction (Franzen). Certainly, she would not expect the checkout clerk to be smiling or interacting with her (Franzen). The job of most checkout clerks is repetitive and low-paid, and it is too liberal to believe they would be willing to interact with customers (Franzen). However, this situation does not absolve the young lady from acknowledging the existence of the checkout clerk; she is a human, too (Franzen).
The situation with the law enforcement professionals using thermal imaging devices is virtually the same. Kyllo has his rights and obligations, and he has a reasonable expectation of privacy, when he is at home. Therefore, he would not expect anybody collecting the intimate details of his private life at home or monitoring his private activities in private areas (Colbridge). Undoubtedly, from both the moral and ethical standpoints, the law enforcement professionals had to obtain Kyllo's consent to use the device. However, obtaining such consent at night was not possible (Colbridge). Moreover, it is naïve to believe that Kyllo would have voluntarily agreed to be monitored, knowing that he had illegal substances at home. Thus, to some extent, professionals' laments regarding the use of advanced technologies to deter crime can be justified. Yet, again, there should be a more 'humane' approach to law enforcement procedures, especially when technologies are used to detect, deter, or investigate crimes. The fact of committing a crime does not deprive the criminal of his/her fundamental rights, including the right to privacy, and assessing the functions and implications of various technologies should become one of the primary responsibilities in law enforcement.
New technologies constantly emerge, and the tension between the use of technologies and privacy will hardly be resolved. New technologies challenge the established beliefs about privacy. Laws do have the potential to prevent the illegitimate use of technology and privacy intrusions. However, their limitations are too numerous to ensure effective implementation and application. More importantly, "technological advances are quickly rendering many of these laws useless" (Price). Most probably, we will have to sacrifice our privacy for the sake of the technological progress, as even with the presence of the most effective laws, every new technology will necessarily raise new legal and moral issues. This, however, does not mean that the fundamental legal and moral principles can be disregarded. The best we can do is to follow the basic legal and moral requirements to the extent where they do not compromise the use of technologies, and simply get used to the situations where the use of technologies is questionable. Meanwhile, laws and regulations should be regularly reviewed, to address the latest developments in the field of technologies and reduce the risks of ethical and legal compromises.
The rapid advancement of information technologies raises numerous questions regarding their use, especially in law enforcement. The case of Kyllo v. United States suggests that law enforcement professionals must be particularly cautious with technologies. Evaluating technologies and understanding their legal and ethical implications must become one of the top priorities in law enforcement. However, even the most sophisticated government and legal protections will not eliminate the existing technology-privacy controversies, as every new technology will challenge earlier principles of privacy, leading to new legal and moral debates. Laws cannot catch up with the pace of technological revolutions. Every new technology raises new privacy and security issues. Most probably, the society will have to give up its hopes to resolve these controversies in the nearest future. Nevertheless, privacy laws should be regularly updated to reflect the latest developments in the field of technology and reduce the risks of legal and moral compromises.
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Roka rejects outright any idea that Bougainville is logically part of Papua New Guinea, which he regards as being an abstract creation of European colonialism, that was itself an expression of the larger "scramble for Empire" which characterised European politics during much of late 19th and early 20th century.
Roka's writing is especially passionate and eloquent when he outlines the destruction of Bougainvillean culture and traditional social structures that was a result of the European takeover of the island.
He believes that colonialism rendered Bougainvilleans virtually powerless in the face of a more technologically advanced culture: second class citizens in their own land. This opinion is consistent with what is now probably the generally accepted view about the impact of colonialism on the colonised.
Bougainville's demise as a long standing self governing entity laid the ground work for the future disaster that was to consume it.
It was arbitrarily included in a country created by imperial decision makers who had never seen it and knew nothing of its history or ethnic origins.
Its people saw the systematic destruction of their culture and traditions at the hands of the colonial power and were reduced, in Roka's mind, to near slavery, functionally if not actually dispossessed of their land.
Bougainville remained a colonial backwater until the discovery of vast copper resources near Panguna. This suddenly elevated it to the most resource rich and economically important province in the proposed new nation of Papua New Guinea.
The Australian colonial administration was determined that a vast copper mine should be developed so as to provide a source of income to PNG once it achieved independence.
The development went ahead without any real regard for the wishes of the legitimate traditional land owners at Panguna, who saw little benefit from the subsequent exploitation and destruction of their land.
For Roka, Bougainville was a parting gift from Australia to the newly created government of Papua New Guinea, a government dominated by "redskins" who had no regard at all for the needs or aspirations of Bougainville's people.
The subsequent collapse of the Panguna venture brought about by the armed uprising led by Francis Ona is now well known, at least to those with an interest in PNG and the South Pacific generally.
Less well known is the complex web of relationships, described by Roka, that under lay the uprising and which helped propel Bougainville into a period of bloody civil war which, by Roka's estimate, directly or indirectly caused the deaths of anywhere between 10,000 and 20,000 people.
Somehow this very brutal and destructive civil war seemed to pass largely unnoticed by the rest of the world. This is probably a commentary on the lack of importance much of the world attaches to the usually very small and poor countries of the South Pacific and Oceania.
In considering where Bougainville might go in the future, Roka rejects any idea that it should stay as a part of PNG. He is adamant that PNG is a colonial construct to which Bougainville has no historic, cultural or ethnic ties.
His strong desire is that it should become an independent entity, perhaps within a loose federation of the Solomon Islands.
It is his great fear that, in the forthcoming plebiscite about the future of the island, Bougainvilleans' sense of their own identity and uniqueness has been so compromised by the events of the last century that they may not have the will to grasp perhaps their last chance to seize back control of their destiny.
He is deeply worried about what he describes as the "redskinisation" of his island and the apparent lack of strong leadership from Bougainvilleans in elected office.
Roka's own vision for the future is of a sort of communalist, grass roots based system of governance that, to some degree at least, reflects the traditional structures of Bougainvillean society.
He advocates a strongly protectionist economic structure, an education system overtly oriented towards teaching about Bougainville's unique culture and traditions and is attracted to the social democratic governance models found in Scandinavia, with their strong emphasis on equity and fairness. Whether such a model can be successfully transplanted into Bougainville is a moot point.
This is a useful book for anyone wishing to understand how Bougainville came to be in the situation that now prevails. Roka expresses what might reasonably be characterised as the views of a Bougainvillean "nationalist", presenting a very different idea about what the future should be when compared to that of the PNG government.
If Roka's views are representative of a significant majority of Bougainvilleans, then the result of the forthcoming referendum on the island's future will see it moving towards independence. This will present huge challenges to both Bougainvilleans and PNG.
Even if his views represent those of a small but significant minority, then it is entirely conceivable that any referendum will achieve little other than to polarise opinion on Bougainville and, perhaps, incite a resurgence of the violence that bedevilled it in the recent past.
Whatever the future may hold for Bougainville, I fervently hope that it is a peaceful and prosperous one. Its people deserve nothing less.


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"Bruny" redirects here. For the Polish village, see Bruny, Poland.
Native name:
Lunawanna Allonah
Location of the Bruny Island in Tasmania
Bruni d'Entrecasteaux
Tasman Sea
43°22′S 147°17′E / 43.367°S 147.283°E / -43.367; 147.283
Total islands
362 km2 (140 sq mi)[1]
Mount Mangana
Kingborough Council
Pop. density
1.6 /km2 (4.1 /sq mi)
www.brunyisland.org.au
Bruny Island (Nuenonne: Lunawanna-alonnah [2]) is a 362-square-kilometre (89,000-acre) island located off the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is separated from the Tasmanian mainland by the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, and its east coast lies within the Tasman Sea. Storm Bay is located to the island's northeast. Both the island and the channel are named after French explorer Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Its traditional Aboriginal name is lunawanna-allonah, which survives as the name of two island settlements, Alonnah and Lunawanna.
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1 Geography
3 Environment
4 Tourism
5 Localities
6 Gallery
Geologically, Bruny Island is actually two land masses—North Bruny and South Bruny—that are joined by a long, narrow sandy isthmus (often referred to as "The Neck") . Bruny Island has a total length of approximately 50 kilometres (31 miles). The holiday village of Dennes Point is located in North Bruny, while South Bruny is the site of the towns of Alonnah, Adventure Bay and Lunawanna.
Aerial perspective of the isthmus of Bruny Island
Outside its settlements the island is covered in grazing fields and large tracts of dry eucalyptus forest. Inland forests continue to be logged, but other large sections—mostly along the southeastern coast—are preserved as the South Bruny National Park. While the seaward side of the island features two long beaches—Adventure Bay and Cloudy Bay—it is for the most part extremely rugged, with cliffs of dolerite that are over 200 metres (660 ft) AHD . Bruny's channel side is far more sheltered and a favourite fishing and recreational boating area for local and interstate visitors. Adventure Bay is located on the eastern side of the isthmus, while Isthmus Bay is located on the western side.[3]
Access to the island is by vehicular ferry, funded by the State Government. Since 1954, four vessels have operated the Bruny Island Ferry service between the island and Kettering on the mainland. The service is currently plied by the Mirambeena, which is unusual for using a Voith-Schneider propulsion system rather than a conventional propeller.
The d'Entrecastaux Channel region, sheltered by Bruny Island, is increasingly subject to foreshore erosion, some areas have begun sandbagging to reduce the effects.[4]
Bruny Island was originally inhabited by the Aborigines until European arrival, although there is still a large community of people who identify as Aboriginal. Abel Tasman tried to land in the vicinity of Adventure Bay in November 1642.
In 1773 Tobias Furneaux was the first recorded European to land on the island at Adventure Bay (named after his ship); four years later on 26 January 1777 James Cook's two ships, the Resolution and Discovery stayed in the bay area for two days. Cook carved his initials in a tree that was destroyed in a 1905 bushfire and is now commemorated by a plaque. In 1788 and again in 1792 (with Matthew Flinders) William Bligh stayed in the Adventure Bay area.
The island itself however is named after the French explorer Bruni d'Entrecasteaux who explored the Channel region and discovered it to be an island in 1792.[5] It was known as Bruni Island until 1918, when the spelling was changed to Bruny.
Whaling was conducted off the coast of Bruny Island in the first half of the 19th century. The British whaler Alexander was reported to be whaling in Adventure Bay in 1804.[6] In 1805, the British whalers Richard and Mary, Ocean and the Sydney whaler King George were reported there in the winter months. The American whaler Topaz was there in 1807. Colonial entrepreneurs also operated shore-based whaling stations there. Bethune and Kelly had a station operating in Adventure Bay by August 1826.[7] Kelly and Lucas had another at Bull Bay. Young and Walford had one at Trumpeter Bay. Alexander Imlay applied for the site as a whaling station at Cloudy Bay in 1837, and Brown and Rogers did the same in 1842.[8] These stations had all ceased operating by 1850, although whaling vessels sometimes anchored offshore in the second half of the century.[9]
Even though "Cooktown" was marked on maps as early as the 1840s, the island was not officially opened up to European settlement until the late 1800s when the timber industry took off. South Bruny was opened up by numerous tramways and haulages, some horse-drawn and some using modified locomotives. The longest and best preserved tramway runs from Adventure Bay to the far southeast corner of the island. Almost all settlements on South Bruny were originally opened as timber ports owned by the different timber companies operating on the island. Lunawanna (former Daniels Bay), Alonnah (former Mills Reef) and Adventure Bay/Cooktown were some of the largest ports operating on the island. At Daniels Bay, the settlement was separated from the timber jetty as the tramway was forced to trace along the south side of the bay to reach deep water as most of the bay was too shallow to bring boats in. Most settlements of South Bruny now serve as shack towns or holiday locations.
Since the 1920s the island has become known as a holiday location with surfing beaches, National Parks and historical sites. In more recent history the Bruny Island was the site of a land transfer by the state government to local Aboriginal people.[10]
Bruny Island is classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because it supports the world's largest population of the endangered forty-spotted pardalote, up to a third of the world population of the swift parrot, all 12 of Tasmania's endemic bird species, and up to 240,000 breeding pairs of the short-tailed shearwater (or Tasmanian muttonbird).[11]
A key contributor to Bruny Island's economy is its growing tourism industry. Being home to the South Bruny National Park, tourism on the island centres on the showcase of its natural assets.[12][13]
The Cape Bruny Lighthouse, first lit in 1838, is an iconic Australian lighthouse. It was the third lighthouse built in Tasmania, and the fourth in all of Australia,[14] and was the longest continuously manned lighthouse in the country until it was automated in 1993.[15] It was removed from service in 1996, and became part of the South Bruny National Park in 2000. Guided tours of the structure are available.[14]
In 2010/11, overall visitors to Bruny Island increased 4% to 74,600.[16] The island is primarily a day-trip destination with only 21,800 visitors staying on the island overnight.[17] There are a growing number of tourism businesses on the island including a cheese factory, oyster farm, vineyard, smokehouse, lighthouse, museum, art gallery, two eco-cruises along with various accommodation properties and cafes.
Bruny Island is divided into eleven bounded localities. The two largest by area are North Bruny and South Bruny which consist of national park, state forest and some grazing areas and do not have postcodes.
On North Bruny there are five populated coastal enclaves: Apollo Bay, Barnes Bay, Dennes Point, Great Bay and Killora. On South Bruny there are four: Adventure Bay, Alonnah, Lunawanna and Simpsons Bay.
"The Neck" connects the two halves of Bruny Island and is an important breeding site for short-tailed shearwater and fairy penguins
Black-faced cormorants (Phalacrocorax fuscescens), Bruny Island, Tasmania
Rock formation off the coast of Bruny Island
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Islands portal
List of islands of Tasmania
^ "Bruny Island". Britannica Online. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
^ Gibbons, Ray (2016), The Political and Economic Uses of Tasmanian Genocide - the targeted destruction of the Palawa, Vol. 1, Introduction
^ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10114401
^ Flora Fox, Flora Fox, News and Information about Southern Tasmania Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine 2011
^ Giblin, R. W. (1928). The early history of Tasmania.
^ Nicholson, Ian Hawkins (1983). Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Tasmania, 1803-1833 (First ed.). Canberra: Roebuck. p. 14. ISBN 0909434220.
^ Evans, Kathryn (1993). Shore-based whaling in Tasmania historical research project, Vo l 2, site histories (First ed.). Hobart: Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service. pp. 11–2.
^ Evans, p.17.
^ Evans, p.12,
^ Elder, Bruce (13 February 1999). "Rock of Ages". The Sydney Morning Herald.
^ "IBA: Bruny Island". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
^ "Statistics - Tasmania,2002". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 10 August 2008.
^ "Tas Country Hour Feature Stories". ABC Rural Online. Retrieved 10 August 2008.
^ a b "Cape Bruny Lighthouse". Parks & Wildlife Tasmania. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
^ "Cape Bruny Lighthouse History". Cape Bruny Lighthouse Tours. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
^ "Places Visited, Tasmanian Tourism Visitor Survey June 2011". Tourism Tasmania. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
^ "Places Stayed Overnight, Tasmanian Tourism Visitor Survey June 2011". Tourism Tasmania. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
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IBM Mobile Foundation provides development tools and server-side components that you can install on-premises or deploy to the cloud for test or production use. Review the installation topics appropriate for your installation scenario.
If you develop the client-side or the server-side of mobile applications, use either the MobileFirst Developer Kit or the Mobile Foundation on IBM Cloud service to get started.
The MobileFirst Developer Kit includes everything required to run and debug mobile applications on a personal workstation. To develop an application using the MobileFirst Developer Kit, follow the Setting up the MobileFirst development environment tutorial.
The Mobile Foundation on IBM Cloud service provides functionality similar to the MobileFirst Developer Kit, however the service runs on IBM Cloud.
Mobile Foundation provides vast flexibility regarding the platforms and tools that can be used to develop Mobile Foundation applications. However, some basic setup is required to enable the chosen tools to interact with Mobile Foundation.
The first part of installing the Mobile Foundation Server uses an IBM product called IBM Installation Manager. IBM Installation Manager v1.8.4 or later must be installed before installing the Mobile Foundation Server components.
Important: Ensure that you use IBM Installation Manager V1.8.4 or later. The older versions of Installation Manager are not able to install Mobile Foundation V8.0 because the post-installation operations of the product require Java 7. The older versions of Installation Manager come with Java 6.
The MobileFirst Server installation wizard uses IBM Installation Manager to place all of the server components onto the server. Tools and libraries are also installed that are required to deploy the Mobile Foundation Server components to the application server. As a best practice do not install all of the components on the same application server instance, except in the case of a development server. The deployment tools allow for selection of the components to install. Please see the Topologies and Network flows for points to consider before installing the server.
Please read below for information on preparing and installing MobileFirst Server and optional services on your specific environment. For a simple set up, please read Setting up a test or production environment tutorial.
Learn about the MobileFirst Server installation process by going through the instructions to create a functional MobileFirst Server cluster with two nodes on WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile. The installation can be completed by using the graphical tools (GUI) or via the command line.
GUI mode installation with IBM Installation Manager and the Server Configuration Tool .
Command line Installation with command line tool.
After completing the installation using either of the two methods above, further configuration may be required to complete the setup depending on the requirements.
For information about upgrading existing installations and applications to a newer version, see Upgrading to IBM Mobile Foundation V8.0.


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Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films presents a short film with Dr. Palash Sen
New Delhi: Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films presents 'JiyaJaye', a heart-touching musical, the new short film marks the directorial debut of the multi-talented singer and musician, Palash Sen. Well known as the lead vocalist of India's biggest band Euphoria, music maestro Palash Sen is now set to win hearts with his one of its kind musical short – a story of lovers, caught in the crossfire of terror.
The release of 'JiyaJaye' with Palash Sen marks the dawn of a new category of musical short films in the country taking the Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films platform a notch higher for achieving a new milestone in the Indian film industry.
Commenting on the release, Raja Banerji, Assistant Vice President, Marketing, PernodRicard India, said "It is an extremely proud moment for us to associate with Palash Sen and launch a musical short film on our platform. With the release of JiyaJaye, we are introducing a new category of narrative in the short film industry and we are absolutely thrilled about this project.It isan industry first that shows the growing popularity of shorts which Royal Stag Barrel Select Large short film is driving. It is wonderful to see how short films are attracting a great audience online as well as great talent from the mainstream film industry and popular artists in the country. In line with the brand's philosophy of make it perfect, we have and will continue to encourage and motivate talented film makers to freely showcase their original creativity through our platform."
Starring Kinshuk Sen and Sahiba Bali in the lead roles, and with a strong supporting cast of Kashish Arora, ShahranQayyoom, Rajat Bhattacharya, Rahul Khajuria, Mayas and Prisha,JiyaJayerevolves around the theme of love. The short film chronicles lost innocence and brings to fore a narrative of friends who become enemies in times of terror and misplaced nationalism. A strong, emotional, musical drama, this short film is sure to lead the audience to delve deep into the plight of its characters. The song used in the film is the first single from Euphoria's upcoming album.
Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films has ushered in a revolution in the field of filmmaking. Through a slew of powerful short films, the platform has successfully redefined movie-watching for cinephiles over the past few years. Not only has it gained immense popularity, Large Short Films has become one of the most credible and celebrated stages for short films in India.
Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films has released some of the most prodigious and award winning short films with some of the renowned artists and directors from the industry which truly reflects originality, imagination and perfection. 'Ahalya', 'Interior Café – Night', 'Ouch', 'Chutney', 'That Gusty Morning', 'Mumbai Varanasi Express', 'KhoolAaliChithi', 'The School Bag', 'Bruno and Juliet' and 'Shunyata' are some of the phenomenal films released in this platform.Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films as the platform for original short filmsandhas been the pioneer in popularizing this genre of filmmaking.
Themed on the philosophy of "Make it Perfect", The Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films is a platform for aspiring directors to feature along with mainstream Bollywood directors while still chasing their creative energy to create a niche for themselves in the industry. The platform gives a credible stage to the storytellers to showcase their artistic creativity and reach out to their target audience through the digital world.
Talking about the film, Dr. Palash Sen said, "I am really excited to present JiyaJaye to our fans who have named themselves 'DHOOMERS'. The movie has a very emotional plot written by my sister Dahlia thatwas best expressed through music. I have always wanted to make a musical film using Euphoria songs. This is an entirely new avenue for me and my band and I am glad that Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films gave me the perfect opportunity and platform. This platform was always my first choice and I am Euphoric about this partnership. It is an incredible platform for filmmakers, artists and actors who want to explore their creativity and take their work to newer mediums."
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Jeff Francisco of TDG Audio might have just invented a new product category with his Skybar LCR in-ceiling soundbar.
Look, up in the sky (or in this case, the ceiling)… it's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's a... soundbar? Jeff Francisco, president and CEO of The DaVinci Group, Inc. (TDG) might not be Superman, but he can lay claim to perhaps being one of the only exhibitors at CEDIA 2017 who invented an entirely new product category: the in-ceiling soundbar. Indeed, the company showed its new Skybar LCR architectural audio system that includes an in-ceiling soundbar, along with satellite speakers.
"Dealers told us they needed a solution where the aesthetics of the installation require a lower impact design."
TDG's full $1,000 Skybar system uses three boxes – one Skybar LCR and two Skybar Satellites – to implement a full seven-channel surround sound system in a 6- x 25¼- x 3¾-inch enclosure. The Skybar LCR is versatile, so it can be also put in-wall or in a soffit if needed.
Inside the Skybar LCR are six 3-inch heavy duty, full-range drivers – two for the left channel, two for the right channel, and two full-range, along with a single 1-inch pivoting dome tweeter for the center channel. The drivers are mounted on an angled baffle board and the tweeter pivots allowing the sound wave to be directed downward towards the audience in an in-ceiling mount configuration, or left/right towards the audience in the case of an in-wall mounting situation.
Integrators have flexible connection options that allow them to configure the Skybar LCR as either a complete left/right/center setup – or in the alternative, the entire unit can operate as one channel depending on the system configuration. In this way, more Skybar LCRs can be added for the other channels in a situation where the listening area is extremely large, for example.
The Skybar Satellite features two front firing 3-inch side or surround speakers, and a third 3-inch reflecting speaker. The reflecting speaker is mounted such that it fires into an angled channel to direct the waveform either towards a wall or ceiling for more diffuse rear or height sounds.
The Skybar Satellite can either be configured to provide only surround channel information, or both surround and rear channel information. Reconfigurations are accomplished by connections on the back panel of either the Skybar LCR or the Skybar Satellite and are easy and intuitive for integrators to properly connect no matter what the system design requires, according to the company.
In most situations, the Skybar LCR and the Skybar Satellites will be set up in a U-shaped configuration, with the LCR at the front of the theater and the Satellites perpendicular to the front speaker in the ceiling towards the back and on either side of the room.
The Satellites can also be mounted in the side walls horizontally to provide surround and rear channel information. Or they can be mounted in the side walls vertically, with the reflecting speaker aimed towards the ceiling for height information for use in one of the newer advanced 3D surround-type systems.


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Trustee donates $15 million to BU for new institute
December 6, 2010 3:20 am by Daily Free Press Admin
Boston University received a $15 million pledge from BU trustee Bahaa Hariri to build an institute for computational science and engineering on Thursday.
"Supporting great research universities is an act of faith and a resilient commitment to contribute positively to the well-being of societies," Hariri said in a Dec. 2 press release. "My contribution today is a testimony to my father's everlasting devotion to the pursuit of knowledge and an enduring hope to many around the world."
Opening in fall 2011, the Bahaa Hariri Institute for Computational Science and Engineering will focus on four research and education topics: biology and medicine, physical science and engineering, social and management sciences and the arts, which include communication and education, according to the release.
"Computational and data-driven methods play a crucial role in all four of the targeted application clusters," said Azer Bestavros, the institute's founding director and computer science professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, in a news release.
"Computational immunology research can dramatically advance how we come up with new vaccines," he said. "By fusing and mining geoscience data collected over time from multiple sources, we can tell what's happening with the environment. Just think about how advances in social networking could influence business administration, sociology research, privacy legislations, and public policies."
The foundation will put emphasis on workshops and research projects, including discussions between faculty, students, research staff and visiting experts, according to the press release.
"Computing-based approaches have become critical for interpreting the ever-increasing amounts of data being collected in virtually all areas of human endeavor," said Andrei Ruckenstein, the BU vice president and associate provost for research, in a news release.
"This establishes a common need and also a common language among practitioners of very different disciplines," he said. "Promoting literacy in this language of computing among our students and faculty outside of scientific disciplines, as well as with the public at large, is also an important goal of the Hariri Institute."
Hariri has been a BU Trustee since 2004 and is a School of Management alumnus. His father, the late Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon, donated $10 million to the university after Hariri graduated from BU in 1990.
"We are extremely grateful for Bahaa Hariri's visionary commitment in creating this institute at the nexus of modern computing and a range of critical applications," said President Robert Brown. "Boston University has tremendous faculty and research activities in these areas, and the creation of the institute will build the foundation for new interdisciplinary collaborations across these boundaries."
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