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SOMETIME back, there was talk about a PNG Power pilot project in Lae on distribution automation. Wonder what is the current status of this project? If it works well for Lae, then surely it should also for other centres.
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EXACTLY a year ago, Port Moresby hosted a spectacular opening ceremony of the diverse culture and the fireworks for the 3000-plus athletes participating in 28 teams and individual sports. Many said that night united everyone and what a feeling. PNG with our diverse rich culture and all!!
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GEORGE Jean Raymond Pompidou was premier of France from 1962 to 1968 and president from 1969 to 1974. As Charles de Gaulle’s chief aide from 1958 to 1959, he helped draft the constitution of the Fifth Republic. He secretly negotiated a cease-fire in the Algerian War in 1961 and was appointed premier the following year. In 1968, he skilfully negotiated an end to the French student-worker strikes. Elected president in 1969, he continued de Gaulle’s policies.
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THE tooth fairy is a character in modern Western culture that attends a child’s loss of a deciduous tooth. In Spanish and Italian culture, the tooth fairy takes the form of a little mouse. Typically, a child who has just lost a tooth places it under his or her pillow before going to sleep; in the morning, the child finds that the tooth has been replaced by a coin, a kina bill, or a present. We know of some little pupil still waiting for tooth fairy to deliver.
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PERHAPS the most famous sheep in history, Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell through the somatic cell nuclear transfer technique, in which the nucleus of an egg cell is replaced by the nucleus of a cell from the organism to be cloned. In successful cases, the egg cell develops into a healthy fetus, but the success rate of cloning has been low. Of 277 eggs, only 29 created viable embryos, and Dolly was the only one to survive to adulthood.
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ON July 5, 1995, four years after Armenia gained independence from the Soviet Union, the national government adopted a new constitution. Constitution Day, a public holiday, commemorates the creation of a new governmental framework and the beginning of another era for this small country, which for over seven decades had been a Soviet satellite. The government rewards the public sector with a day off on Constitution Day. Victory Park, located in the capital city of Yerevan, usually stages performances that feature traditional music and dance.
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QUOTE of the day: Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been! – John Greenleaf Whittier
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