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IT is amazing how the days blend together. It used to be January and suddenly we are heading to May then June and it we would have clocked half the year.
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THE St Johns Blood Service is desperately in need of blood and is appealing to the public to donate. They have enough blood in the bank for a day but if there is a major disaster where a 100 people need blood, the bank will not be able to supply that. The public is advised to drop into the blood service centre at 3-Mile to donate blood.
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PAPUA New Guinea’s problems are not to do with the lack of money. We hear and read of the health systems crashing; education systems not working and the list goes on. It is the not problem of lack of money, the problem of what we do with the money that is available.
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IF the organisations can organise themselves to do well what they do, they will be able to contribute better to the outcome to improve the health services, improve the education services, and improve the economic growth and other projects that we see are in dire need in this country.
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SOME people get the satisfaction by stalking especially innocent women. It starts with a call or a text message and it even goes to the extent where the stalker sends a text to give the description of the clothes one is wearing. That is very disturbing. Hopefully when it becomes law that mobile phone companies should ensure all its subscribers register their name against their numbers, it will be easier to pin down the perpetrator.
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THE Palermo stone is the largest known fragment of an ancient Egyptian stele containing the earliest extant historic annals. It was engraved around the 25th century BCE and includes a hieroglyphic listing of the kings of ancient Egypt, the years of their reigns, notations of historic events, and information pertaining to the flooding of the Nile.
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THE original Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay was completed in 1954. A new southbound span was opened in 1971, but only nine years later, it
was destroyed when the freighter Summit Venture collided with a support column during a storm, sending more than 1,200 ft (366 m) of the bridge plummeting into the bay. The collision caused several automobiles and a bus to fall 150 ft (46 m), killing 35 people.
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QUOTE of the day: Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. – Thomas Sowell
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