#Milne Bay

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Spine cheek clownfish par Ludovic Via Flickr : Coral garden Tawali PNG - March 2017

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Jinjo Health Centre on Rossel Island: A Journey to the Edge of Milne Bay (Part One)"

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My watch showed 4:30 a.m. It was that time of the day where if you met someone on the road you’d take a moment to decide whether to say good night or good morning. Dawn was approaching. Sunrise on Nimoa Island. We had spent the night on Nimoa Island after travelling from Misima. Nimoa is part of the Sudest group of islands in the Samarai Murua district of Milne Bay Province. Nimoa is about one…

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Large pigeon lost to science for 140 years rediscovered in Papua New Guinea

PRESS RELEASE: A team of scientists and conservationists has rediscovered the elusive Black-naped Pheasant-pigeon, a large, ground-dwelling pigeon that only lives on Fergusson Island, a rugged island in the D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago off eastern Papua New Guinea. Like other pheasant-pigeons, the Black-naped Pheasant-pigeon has a broad and laterally compressed tail, which along with its size,…

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A Kittyhawk I of No 75 Squadron RAAF at Milne Bay, September 1942

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"Surgical ward treatment at the 268th Station Hospital, Base A, Milne Bay, New Guinea. Left to right: Sgt. Lawrence McKreever, patient; 2nd Lt. Prudence Burns, ward nurse; 2nd Lt. Elcena Townscent, chief surgical nurse; and an unidentified nurse."

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

This black and white photograph shows three African American nurses surrounding a patient’s bed in a rudimentary field hospital.  They are wearing white surgical gowns and caps.  They appear to be in a ward with many other patients and staff.

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My Favourite Reasons For Why the Great War Started

1. Revolutionary Justice in an Unequal Caste-System Society.

I adore the IDW comics, it's the second Transformers media I consumed after the franchised Michael Bay films, and let me tell you – I was not expecting all these heavy explorations into bot psyche, romance, societal injustice, and redemption. Really, it seriously surprised me, I never expected to see actual canonical romance in the Transformers universe, it always struck me as the type of medium to focus on action first.

So – thank you, James Roberts and Alex Milne.

There's so many characters and arcs I could talk about – Cyclonus and Tailgate and Whirl; Chromedome and Rewind; poor poor Shockwave; whatever's going on with Prowl; Starscream, Bumblebee, and Windblade attempting to scrape Cybertron back together; that one time Rodimus and Megatron's charisma was so awe-inspiring, it made personality parasites explode – but I want to focus on how the Great War began in IDW.

It's the first media to suggest Megatron not as a power-hungry tyrant, but formerly as a member of Cybertron's suppressed working class forced to labour due to the alt-mode he was born with. Sick of and unwilling to accept the subjugation imposed upon him and fellow mechs like him, Megatron rises from miner to gladiator who eventually becomes powerful enough to seize power as a revolutionary and then ascends to the image of the all-mighty Lord Megatron that is synonymous with his name.

Optimus, on the other hand, had somewhat humble beginnings as a strict but fair and righteous police captain named Orion Pax struggling to provide justice in a society deeply embedded with corruption.

Although both Megatron and Optimus sought to revolutionise Cybertron into a world where all bots are equal and uninhibited from potential and free will by their alt-modes, they had very different ideologies and motivations on how and why to reach this goal. Megatron, especially, loses his way and path eventually, and continued his slaughter not for the means to an end, but because he began to crave the "pleasure" from the act.

Optimus didn't escape unscathed from tragic ramifications either: the mantle of leadership as the war dragged on for thousands of millennia weighed heavily upon him, so much that his later psyche in the comics could be described as suicidal.

But whatever that infects these two old bots in the future, young Megatron and Optimus were, in some strange way, allies, out of mutual respect and acknowledgement of the other if nothing else.

The war was initiated and continued by them, because they both believed in a better Cybertron, and millions of years later, thousands of atrocities after, unspeakable acts of war crimes, the Great War ended with both of them remembering what they were fighting for in the first place.

IDW's concept that Megatron was a gladiator turned revolutionary and Orion Pax became Optimus Prime who was inspired by Megatron's words made its way to the Transformers: Prime animated series, allowing this universe's rendition of the two titans to be voiced by Peter Cullen and Frank Welker, the legends themselves.

2. Lord Prime and Lord High Protector

Whatever contentions (of the many) that may be had with Michael Bay's re-imagining of this iconic franchise; you've gotta admit: the designs were cool.

Bay gave us Megatron's ram-head helmet, the astonishing CGI transformations, and the adorable Bumblebee design that has since become a classic of the character.

And according to Chris McFeely's video on the Great War, apparently, Bay's Transformers is the first Transformers media to introduce the idea that Megatron and Optimus had personal pre-war relations, some intimate form of brotherhood and camaraderie, while other adaptations at this point only alluded to their connection as rival leaders who rose to power at roughly the same time.

Bay took it a step further; Megatron isn't simply an opportunistic warlord making a grab for power, he was once a legitimate ruler holding an equal throne besides Optimus.

That's right, Bay crafted the title of Lord High Protector, a Cybertronian ruler of high status with authority over military affairs, ruling in tandem with the Lord Prime, Optimus, who was in charge of more civilian and spiritual duties.

It's interesting, this idea, because it implies far more depth to Optimus and Megatron's history, they must have been ruling together for quite some time before Megatron fastened his greedy claws on the All Spark.

I, for one, am curious in a series that explores how they ruled Cybertron together and how exactly this fracture came to be.

3. Megatron Dunks on a Dock Worker for the Fun of It

The classics of the classics, the first Transformers show to place the universe on the map: the archetypal G1 cartoon series that featured wacky shenanigans such as battling dinosaurs on a remote island or Soundwave and his Cassettes dancing with teenagers at a local gymnasium party.

G1 followed a very traditional hero-vs-villain formula, inspired by the Cold War tension at the time of airing and writing; there was no personal connections or noble aspirations for an equal society – Megatron was simply a campy, formidable scoundrel who yearned for power and Optimus Prime was the honourable, paternal everyday hero who rose to be the leader of the force resisting him and his army (at this point, Prime wasn't even a title, it was just Optimus' last name!).

Optimus Prime still had a previous form of Orion Pax, a dock worker rather than a police officer or an archivist, and Megatron was once an admired figure of Orion's, whose parasocial adoration was disintegrated when Megatron blew up Orion's workplace, critically injuring him and girlfriend, Ariel (soon to be Elita-1), and de-activating best friend, Dion. From the ashes of destruction, reconstructed by Alpha Trion, Orion became the battle-masked, audial-finned, red and blue paragon of justice that shouldered the burden of command in the war against Megatron and his evil Deceptions.

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Flag Wars Bonus Round

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Round 1, Poll 44

Cabot's Tragopan vs Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise

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Cabot's Tragopan Propaganda

eBird Sightings - 264

IUCN Status - Vulnerable

Location: China - the very Southeast portions of the country.

"Look up his mating dance. Resplendent"

Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise Propaganda

eBird Sightings - 29

IUCN Status - Vulnerable

Location: Oceania - D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago, off Southeast New Guinea

"Like many birds-of-paradise they have some fantastically weird plumage, and also one of their vocalizations sounds like a laser gun."

Image Sources: Tragopan (Su Li); BoP (Charles Davies)

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Maurice Haycock; Looking toward Ketuktoo Bay - Milne Inlet, N.W.T.

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brad Y. barr (not brady barr) hasn't been returning my texts. im worried, i haven't even seen him since friday. he said he was just spending some time at tierney thys house but... he hates tierney, she always fuses him to the underwater wreckage of Black Jack B-17 and guilts him into paying for the pizza that she ordered

oh man, that's concerning. since friday? do your texts show as read? i hope he's not in trouble

oh sorry i was unclear when i said texts, we actually communicate exclusively through discord, the regular texting feature on our phones is wiretapped. anyways his discord is set to invisible so i don't know. i don't think he's with tierney though

dude do you think he lied? thats messed up. Jammer76b568 never lies to me and I never lie to her, thats the foundation of a good relationship. when you have mutual trust in a relationship it makes the both you feel more powerful than god

god fucking damn it no one wants to hear about your relationship with Jammer76b568 i swear to fuck it is all you ever talk about, you know i saw her in the pillow room last week looking for a dad for her family role play

the truth is.. i think.. i think brad broke the ice in mt shiveer. he walks past it every day and he always jumps on it.. i think he does it just to scare me, he thinks its funny but.. this time it broke. and the water was cold. and it was too dark to find his way out. the seals weren't there either.

sorry the fuck did you say about Jammer76b568? she never went into the fucking pillow room she hates the pillow room she would never go there keep her fucking name out of your fucking mouth you bitch

you know i don't think its that big of a deal if it's just a role play, we all go on animal jam to have fun and sometimes people aren't online, its normal to have multiple role plays going at once this is animal jam not a cult

oh come on, no one ever breaks the ice in mt shiveer. but if you really think brad is in danger maybe you should call the police.

i've picked up the phone a dozen times to call the police for brad, even though it means they'll kill me. they've been looking for me for years. but.. i guess it's worth it for brad. he didn't chose this life, he chose me and then i made this his life.

hey guys you should come with me to the underwater wreckage of Black Jack B-17 off the coast of Boga Boga village in the Milne Bay province of Papua New Guinea.

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This bird hadn’t been documented by scientists since 1882. Then they captured video of it in Papua New Guinea

This bird hadn’t been documented by scientists since 1882. Then they captured video of it in Papua New Guinea

CNN — A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, according to a news release from nonprofit Re:wild, which helped fund the search effort. Rediscovering the bird required an expedition team to spend a grueling month on Fergusson, a rugged…

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An RAAF P-40 taxis at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, New Guinea, September 1942

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Fakta Menarik Tentang Negara Papua Nugini

Papua Nugini (PNG) adalah negara yang terletak di kawasan Oseania, bagian utara Australia. Negara ini terkenal dengan keanekaragaman budaya, keragaman bahasa, dan keindahan alam yang luar biasa. Meskipun masih terbilang kurang dikenal di kalangan wisatawan internasional, Papua Nugini memiliki banyak hal menarik yang menjadikannya unik. Dari hutan tropis yang lebat hingga tradisi suku yang kaya, berikut adalah beberapa fakta menarik tentang Papua Nugini.

1. Keanekaragaman Bahasa yang Sangat Tinggi

Papua Nugini memiliki lebih dari 800 bahasa yang berbeda, menjadikannya negara dengan jumlah bahasa terbanyak di dunia. Negara ini merupakan rumah bagi berbagai suku bangsa yang berbicara dalam bahasa-bahasa lokal, dan masing-masing memiliki tradisi budaya yang unik. Bahkan, beberapa desa kecil memiliki bahasa yang hanya digunakan oleh satu atau dua keluarga.

Selain bahasa-bahasa pribumi, bahasa Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, dan bahasa Inggris juga digunakan sebagai bahasa resmi di Papua Nugini. Tok Pisin, yang merupakan bahasa pidgin yang berkembang dari bahasa Inggris, digunakan oleh mayoritas penduduk untuk komunikasi sehari-hari, menjadikannya bahasa yang paling banyak dipakai.

2. Keragaman Budaya dan Tradisi Suku

Papua Nugini adalah negara yang sangat kaya akan keanekaragaman budaya. Terdapat lebih dari 800 suku bangsa di negara ini, masing-masing dengan bahasa, adat, dan tradisi yang berbeda. Setiap suku memiliki ritual, perayaan, dan upacara yang unik, yang menjadi bagian dari identitas mereka.

Salah satu tradisi yang paling terkenal adalah perayaan Asmat yang dilakukan oleh suku Asmat di bagian selatan Papua Nugini. Mereka merayakan perburuan kepala dan membuat patung-patung kayu yang berfungsi sebagai simbol spiritual. Selain itu, ada juga festival bulu merak yang diadakan oleh suku-suku di daerah pegunungan, di mana para pria mengenakan pakaian tradisional dan aksesoris dari bulu burung serta melakukan tarian adat.

3. Keindahan Alam dan Kekayaan Biodiversitas

Papua Nugini dikenal dengan keindahan alamnya yang luar biasa, mulai dari pegunungan yang tinggi, hutan hujan tropis, hingga pantai-pantai yang masih alami. Negara ini memiliki sistem ekosistem yang sangat beragam, yang membuatnya menjadi salah satu tempat dengan biodiversitas terkaya di dunia.

Taman Nasional Mount Wilhelm adalah rumah bagi gunung tertinggi di Papua Nugini, yaitu Gunung Wilhelm (4.509 meter). Di sini, pengunjung dapat menikmati keindahan alam pegunungan dan berjalan melalui jalur pendakian yang menantang.

Selain itu, Papua Nugini juga memiliki terumbu karang yang spektakuler, terutama di daerah Milne Bay dan Tufi, yang terkenal dengan snorkeling dan menyelam yang luar biasa. Keanekaragaman hayati laut dan terumbu karang di kawasan ini menjadikannya salah satu tujuan utama untuk penyelaman di dunia.

4. Warisan Sejarah dan Perang Dunia II

Papua Nugini memainkan peran penting dalam Perang Dunia II. Negara ini menjadi lokasi beberapa pertempuran besar, terutama antara pasukan Australia dan Jepang. Salah satu pertempuran paling terkenal adalah Pertempuran Kokoda di sepanjang Jalur Kokoda, yang melibatkan pasukan Australia dan tentara Jepang.

Saat ini, lokasi pertempuran tersebut menjadi situs purbakala dan kenangan perang, di mana para pengunjung dapat mengunjungi monumen perang dan pemakaman tentara. Selain itu, banyak pangkalan militer dan museum yang berfokus pada sejarah Perang Dunia II di Papua Nugini, mengingat pentingnya negara ini dalam konflik tersebut.

5. Negara dengan Banyak Pulau

Papua Nugini terdiri dari pulau utama yang disebut New Guinea, serta lebih dari 600 pulau kecil di sekitarannya. Pulau-pulau ini mencakup kawasan tropis yang sangat kaya akan flora dan fauna yang tidak ditemukan di tempat lain di dunia. Sebagian besar pulau-pulau ini juga dihuni oleh komunitas-komunitas adat yang hidup sesuai dengan tradisi mereka, meskipun perkembangan infrastruktur modern masih terbatas.

Pulau-pulau besar dan kecil di Papua Nugini memiliki pantai yang indah, air jernih, dan terumbu karang, menjadikannya tempat yang sempurna untuk berlibur dan berpetualang.

6. Papua Nugini adalah Negara yang Muda

Papua Nugini baru merdeka pada 16 September 1975, setelah sebelumnya menjadi bagian dari Wilayah Papua dan Nugini yang dikelola oleh Australia. Negara ini mendapatkan kemerdekaannya setelah berbagai protes dan perjuangan oleh rakyat Papua Nugini yang menginginkan kedaulatan dan kemerdekaan. Sejak saat itu, Papua Nugini telah menjadi negara yang mandiri, meskipun masih menghadapi tantangan besar dalam hal pembangunan ekonomi, pendidikan, dan kesehatan.

7. Olahraga Populer: Sepak Bola dan Rugby

Rugby adalah salah satu olahraga paling populer di Papua Nugini, di mana negara ini memiliki tim nasional yang sangat dihormati di kancah internasional, terutama dalam kompetisi Rugby League. Negara ini memiliki budaya olahraga tim yang kuat, dan setiap tahun ada turnamen nasional yang melibatkan tim-tim dari berbagai provinsi.

Selain rugby, sepak bola juga semakin populer di kalangan generasi muda. Papua Nugini bahkan pernah menjadi tuan rumah untuk Piala Pasifik 2016 dan terus meningkatkan fasilitas olahraga untuk mendukung pengembangan pemain berbakat.

8. Papua Nugini adalah Negara dengan Tantangan Pembangunan

Papua Nugini adalah salah satu negara dengan tingkat kemiskinan yang tinggi di dunia, dengan banyak daerah yang masih bergantung pada pertanian subsisten dan memiliki akses terbatas ke layanan kesehatan dan pendidikan. Infrastruktur yang terbatas, terutama di daerah pedalaman dan pulau-pulau kecil, menjadi tantangan besar dalam upaya pembangunan ekonomi.

Namun, meskipun menghadapi tantangan ini, Papua Nugini memiliki potensi sumber daya alam yang besar, seperti minyak, gas alam, logam mulia, dan pertanian. Negara ini juga terus berusaha memperbaiki kualitas hidup warganya dengan bantuan dari lembaga internasional dan negara-negara mitra.

9. Festival Sing-Sing

Salah satu tradisi budaya yang paling terkenal di Papua Nugini adalah Sing-Sing, sebuah festival budaya yang melibatkan tarian, nyanyian, dan pakaian adat yang berwarna-warni. Festival Sing-Sing diadakan di berbagai wilayah, dan setiap suku menunjukkan identitas budaya mereka melalui penampilan yang meriah. Setiap suku memiliki gaya tarian dan pakaian tradisional yang unik, serta musik yang khas, yang menggambarkan nilai-nilai dan sejarah mereka.

Sing-Sing juga merupakan ajang untuk mempererat hubungan antar suku, serta menarik wisatawan dari berbagai negara untuk melihat kekayaan budaya Papua Nugini.

10. Sumber Daya Alam yang Kaya

Papua Nugini adalah salah satu negara dengan sumber daya alam yang melimpah, termasuk pertambangan, minyak, gas alam, dan pangan. Negara ini memiliki tambang tembaga, emas, dan perak terbesar di dunia, serta kebun kelapa sawit dan kopi yang mendunia. Industri ini berperan penting dalam perekonomian negara, meskipun ada kekhawatiran mengenai dampaknya terhadap lingkungan dan masyarakat setempat.

Papua Nugini juga merupakan penghasil kopi yang sangat dihargai, terutama kopi Arabica yang tumbuh di pegunungan tinggi. Kopi dari Papua Nugini dikenal memiliki cita rasa yang kaya dan kompleks.

Kesimpulan

Papua Nugini adalah negara yang penuh dengan keanekaragaman budaya, keindahan alam, dan potensi sumber daya alam yang luar biasa. Meskipun menghadapi tantangan dalam hal pembangunan dan infrastruktur, negara ini tetap memiliki banyak hal menarik yang perlu diketahui. Dari keragaman bahasa yang menakjubkan hingga festival budaya yang meriah, Papua Nugini adalah tempat yang kaya akan warisan budaya dan keindahan alam yang masih perlu dijelajahi lebih lanjut oleh dunia.

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Bird: Sepik Cocoa Farmers make over K200m

By Hon. Allan Bird East Sepik Provincial MP It was a great privilege to give the keynote address at my first Cocoa Show in Alotau last week. I congratulate the people of Goodenough Island for winning the competition. That one how? 💪💪My congratulations to all the finalists, the leaders of Milne Bay, Cocoa Board, EU STREIT, FAO and all other stakeholders.I was overjoyed to learn that my people…