PORT MORESBY, 23 JANUARY 2017 (THE NATIONAL) — The new Hilton Hotel in Port Moresby is expected to be completed in time for the 2018 APEC Leaders’ summit, an official says. Hilton Hotels and Resorts vice-president Australasia Paul Hutton said the hotel would be ready to welcome guests during the summit next year. [restrict] “Hilton […]
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Cultural practices could influence sugar intake
By Daniela Maoate-Cox AUCKLAND, 23 JANUARY 2017 (RNZI) — Feasts at weddings, birthdays and funerals could be providing the perfect environment for Pacific people to overindulge on sugary drinks. Pacific Islanders have some of the highest rates of preventable diseases in the world and excessive consumption of sugar can lead to obesity, weight gain, Type […]
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PM Sogavare discusses Pacific Blue Economy conference with PIDF Secretariat
HONIARA, 23 JANUARY 2017 (PM’S PRESS SECRETARIAT) — Solomon Islands will be hosting the Pacific Blue Economy Conference of the Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) this year. Preparations for this conference to be held in Honiara was discussed in the meeting between the PIDF Chair, Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare and the Secretary General of the […]
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Trump on Women’s March protesters: ‘Why didn’t these people vote?’
President Donald Trump questioned the more than 1 million people around the country who marched in protest of his presidency on Saturday and criticized the celebrities who joined the demonstrations. “Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election!” Trump tweeted early Sunday. “Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt […]
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Discernment
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things–the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and counterfeit. —Samuel Johnson Discernment, as Johnson notes above, is our ability to distinguish Good from Evil–and to choose the […]
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Black humor
Patient: Oh doctor, I’m just so nervous. This is my first operation. Doctor: Don’t worry. Mine too. [restrict] **** Doctor: You’re obese. *** Patient: Whoa, for that I definitely want a second opinion. **** A chubbier woman: Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? Mirror: “Kindly move aside. I can’t see […]