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HEAR residents in NCD and surrounding areas; there is a planned shut down for Kanudi Hanjung power station which is a privately owned diesel power station. Hanjung supplies 24 Megawatts of power into Port Moresby Grid and the planned shutdown is necessary to allow engineers to do a major upgrade on the two diesel generators’ system control. Customers with standby generators should use them during this period. The planned shutdown is from April 27 to May 11.
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LOAD shedding will be carried out during the two weeks period. Check the PNG Power Facebook page for load shedding schedules and other information https://www.facebook.com/PNGPowerLtd
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SAMBO is a modern martial art and combat sport that was developed to enhance the military’s hand-to-hand combat system in the former Soviet Union. In 1938, it was named the official sport of the USSR. Sambo combines a variety of wrestling styles with East Asian martial arts, boxing, and even fencing, from which it derives its parrying and lunging techniques.
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THE Hubble Space Telescope is the most sophisticated optical observatory ever placed into orbit around Earth, able to view star material some 10 to 12 billion light years away. Because it is above Earth’s obscuring atmosphere, it can obtain images that are much brighter, clearer, and more detailed than ground-based telescope images. Although a defect in the primary mirror initially caused it to produce fuzzy images, a 1993 shuttle mission fixed this.
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BORN in the US and taken to the UK as a child, William Joyce became involved with the fascist movement as a teen and fled to Germany before the outbreak of WWII. He remained there throughout the war, broadcasting Nazi propaganda in English from Berlin. He was captured by British soldiers in 1945 and, despite his American birth, was deemed subject to British jurisdiction because he held a British passport. He was convicted of treason and hanged.
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A SPRING festival in Paris, Tennessee, the World’s Biggest Fish Fry makes use of the catfish in nearby Kentucky Lake. The fish fry began in 1954, and by the next year more than 1,600 pounds of catfish were served. Now, some 13,000 pounds of catfish are cooked, and about 100,000 people show up to eat, fish, and look around. Events include a car show, arts and crafts exhibits, a two-hour parade, and the coronation of a Queen of the Tennessee Valley and a Junior King and Queen. Besides fried fish to eat, there are hush puppies – small deep-fat fried corn meal balls.
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QUOTE of the day: Love is invisible, and comes in and goes out as he likes, without anyone calling him to account for what he does. – Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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