TIME FLIES FOR US ALL

I am 74 years old and remember the days when I was 6 years old. I remember my father just returned from WW2 and my mother who used to win the mothers' 100 yard dash at my school sports day. They waltzed gracefully together at the local dance.

If both were alive today, my father would be 105 years old and my mother 94 years old. I remember all the old black sedans that survived the 1940s and driven around by our neighbours in our farming district.

I remember the portrait photos of soldiers from WW1 hung in our local school  - Frank Cash was standing with his feather plumed hat - KILLED IN ACTION. What a waste. 

All has changed. All my uncles and aunts are dead as well as some of my older cousins. There are cousins in old people's care homes, one in the United States with Alzheimers Disease.

My elder daughter is 50 years old and been a dentist for longer than I was a teacher. My elder son was a lieutenant-colonel in the Army Legal Corps, one rank higher than his father before he retired.

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My family moved to the farm in 1952, I find out recently it was to help my father overcome his PTSD from the war.

I still remember every gully, ridge line and tree on the farm. I was too young to think that there were families working the farm 100 years before. Someone planted the huge trees and the silos that are probably still there. I can stand on ridglines and recall the valley below.

It is not our farm any more. It never was our farm. We were just occupants for the duration. Nothing on the planet belongs to anyone. We are just custodians until we die. I still walk around our farm in my dreams.

The land has probably been subdivided into allotments for housing.The creeks are probably polluted from hundreds of septic systems. No more fish and yabbies to catch to take home.

All of the adult farmers in our area in the Samford Valley are probably now dead. Nothing ever  stays the same. My generation is the next cab off the rank. My children are not far behind.

We were once told there are more people alive on the planet today than ever lived through the ages. 

What is the future for the next generations when the temperature rises and the planet burns? 

Whole nations have to make decisions about energy. There has not been a very long duration between the start of the industrial revolution and the present day.

COMMUNITY DOES NOT BELIEVE THEM

Yesterday, I met the lady who arrived within minutes some years ago to save me from a kangaroo court presided over by scumbag PLWHA Peter Momo who was also plaintiff, judge, jury and executioner. Village men waited with bush knives.

I was facing a fake charge of child molesting that was begun by AusAID white trash Elizabeth Cox and Stewart Watson both paedophile child molesters. 

They wanted to crush the Family Positive Living Training Centre we planned for 3 Angels Care Cantre. 

AusAID paedophiles told the AIDS infected thugs at 3 Angels Care that they could live permanently at the care centre if they got rid of Copeland. Thugs Momo, Elaripe and Marabe decided to have him killed on a charge of child molesting. Cox had spread the fake news widely.

The HIV thugs were evicted two weeks later when the street thug lover of Elaripe smashed her door down with an axe. Enough was enough. He was angry that she had infected him with HIV.

When the lady came and stopped the kangaroo court, all thugs had immediate memory loss. The charge against Copeland was a fairy story. The PLWHA screamers had no idea. They just wanted to please the AusAID paedophiles and get rid of Copeland.

It was set up to corruptly take over the care centre with full permanent AusAID funding after his death at the hands of bush-knife wielding village men. 

The HIV thugs were all homeless trouble-makers who treated their families with the same disrespect as they conducted themselves at 3 Angels Care.

The HIV thugs were to get free rent, water, food and power for supporting the ANTI-FAMILY and ANTI-FAITH paedophiles of AusAID.

I asked the lady how she knew to arrive just in time. Did someone tell her? She said that it was the will of God.

She said not to worry as the community did not believe that the Founder of AIDS Holistics molested children including his daughters. Even his daughters reject the hate message begun by Cox, Watson and Barter.

My friend said they tried to destroy Positive Living and Founder but only destroyed themselves. All paedophile advisors are out of the country.

She said that lies come out in the end. I have never told a lie in the Positive Living message. She said that the AIDS campaign made many mistakes in early stages. Positive Living kept the message on track.

DO NOT ENTERTAIN ABORTION

 Post Courier 29 December 2020 Misack Ruri UPNG

Laws on abortion in Papua New Guinea have not been reviewed and it is impacting on the lives of many mothers, especially young girls. Abortion is becoming a norm.

Many abortions are unsuccessful and result in miscarriages with loss of good health and lives. It is an unseen evil that is slowly eating our country.

Despite tougher laws on abortion, many still practise it. Young girls seem to consider abortion as a means of solving their problems.

We should not entertain abortion.

Abortion could be an option for rape and victims of abuse but not for those who conceived with consent.

Can the Government impose tougher laws against abortion so that those practising are held accountable?

MASTERY LEARNING OF WRITING SKILLS

Mastery Learning suited teaching of English as a second language. At every PNG school, I had taken all grades from Grades 8-12 in mastering the basics of written English.

I had developed a work book of integrating sentences with 240 exercises to be mastered and revised over a six month period. Capable students mastered the basics in a month or two. 
This is a massive change from the approach of many PNG teachers. They explain once in English. Teachers copy the summary down on the black board. Then they move on with many students none the wiser.
One foolish teacher criticized Mastery Learning to me. He said that he only ever explains once. If students do not understand, it is because they were not listening. That is an insult to him. They deserve to fail. Stupid man.
I drill the same basics 50 times and even then many students do not remember. But more of my students pass the final exam with high marks.
I have a workbook that contains 240 groups of sentences to be combined, one at a time as below. It can begin with primary school children and end with grade 12 students. 
Repeated words are removed and sentences combined with appropriate connector words. Students are being groomed into polished writing. 
High school students use listing in assignments. All students in all grades start at the start of these mastery patterns. They master every pattern from grade to grade.
LISTING

1. I saw Peter. I saw Paul. I saw MaryI saw Peter, Paul and Mary
(comma, and)

2.  I opened the door. I went inside. I put a letter on the table.I opened the door, went inside and put a letter on the table.Opening the door, I went inside and put a letter on the table.
(comma, and)
3.  She opened her eyes. She smiled. She went back to sleep.She opened her eyes, smiled and went back to sleep.Opening her eyes, she smiled and went to sleep.
(comma, and)

4.  He had walked a long way. He was tired. He sat. He waited for a bus.Having walked a long way, he was tired and sat, waiting for a bus.He had walked a long way, was tired and sat, waiting for a bus.

5.  He was an old man. He sat by the river. He waited for the fish to comeHe was an old man who sat by the river, waiting for the fish to come.
(comma)

6. The soldiers  were recruited. They were trained. They were sent into battle.The soldiers were recruited, trained and sent into battle.
(comma, and)

7. He was arrested. He was taken to Court. He was sent to prison.He was arrested, taken to Court and sent to prison.
(comma, and)

8. PNG suffers from poverty. It suffers from violence. PNG suffers from poverty and violence.
(and)

9. She looked out the window. She called the boys.They were sitting under a tree.They were watching the girls.They were playing volley ball.
She looked out the window and called the boyssitting under a tree and watching the girls playing volley ball.
(and)

10. Families need:
a. love, b. caring, c. shelter, d. rights, e. responsibilities,f. food,
g. values,h. education, andi. employment
(comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, comma and)

PRESS STATEMENT - PNG COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

We church leaders in one accordance declared the end to corruption and human rights abuse and every citizen to have equal rights to: 

An equal standard of living - This right is denied when bribes are paid, influence is traded and offices are misused in ways that reduce access to medical acre, education, water, food and housing.

To participate in one's own Government - This right is compromised when money is exchanged in return for votes or elections are predetermined by patronage.

Right to education - this right is violated when funds for schools, teachers and supplies are embezzled or if access of schools depends on a bribe.

Right to work - This is affected by recruitment or promotion processes at are biased towards nepotism, cronyism, sexual favors and bribes.

Right to health - This right is violated when there is tampering or diversion of medicine, requests for bribes in return for health services, procurement of fraud in drugs or medical equipment or embezzlement of health services.

Right to land - The right is denied when policies relating to property registration, ownership and restitution are applied in a discriminatory way due to patronage ofr bribery.

Right to enjoy life - This is a gift from God. No one has the right to deny this right. No one can be abused physically, sexually, tortured or killed through violence or sorcery. Respect the sanctity of life as God has ordained.

Rev. Roger Joseph General Secretary PNGCC

Bishop Danny Guka Chairman PNGCC

Sir John Cardinal Ribat Vice Chairman PNGCC

2010-2011 - UN AIDS Head declared that the work of churches was irrelevant. FAITH and FAMILY were to be removed from the Positive Living message. 

Watson had my work permit and visa cancelled when I refused. When that failed, the word was spread that I was a child molester. Haha.

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM - CEREBRAL MALARIA

Plasmodium falciparum - CDC

In P. falciparum infections, red blood cells (rbcs) are normal in size. Typically only rings and gametocytes are seen unless the blood sat before the smears .
Infection with Plasmodium falciparum is a hideous infliction. In 25 years in Papua New Guinea, I have suffered twice from falciparum.
The first time found me unconscious in my flat in Port Moresby. I was unconscious for two days and have no idea of who was looking after my small daughters. I had been falling over in the street for no reason.
I was taken to the hospital. My report advised that I had urinated myself and had no idea of where I was or what my name was. I stayed in hospital for almost 2 weeks. Neighbours looked after my daughters while I was in hospital.
There was a man in the next bed who had been found in the highlands with cerebral malaria. His eyes rolled up into his head. He could not speak with fingers clenched like a person suffering cerebral palsy. He soon died.
The common parasite is Plasmodium vivax. People take the anti-malarial medication to protect from vivax.

SPEED WRITING FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

There is a Written Expression exam for grade 10 students in Papua New Guinea. Students are required to write on given topics. 

The problem is that many students can not write essays in the given time. They write two lines and then suck their biros for the rest of the time.

As the teacher, I had to speed them up and have them write quality essays. My first task was to give them topics to be discussed. 

These may have come from the 60 minutes program or from stories told by the teacher. The students were learning about the world and being helped to put their ideas on paper. Their general knowledge was being increased.

In class, we made a summary of the story in 10-15 lines. The following day, they would be required to write the story again in 15 minutes. They were learning to write fast in polished English. 

The essays would be taken up and checked by the teacher with corrections made. The students would rewrite the story with corrections. Each student would build up a repertoire of polished short essays.

Two weeks later they would be told they had 20 minutes to rewrite a given essay from a month back. No student now sucked their biros after two lines.

There were still new topics from the TV current affairs program. The teacher may tell them a story about some interesting event in the media or from history.

When the Written Expression exam came around, more of the students were able to write short stories in polished English that was being promoted daily. More students ended up with Distinctions or Credits.

THIS ESSAY WAS COPIED FROM A BOOK

At Bumayong Secondary School in 1994, I was given the grade 9 classes for writing skills. Assessment for grade 10 started in grade 9.

This was where I started to learn to teach English to PNG students. I mastered the process of teaching English at Busu High School. I found basic problems for teachers and students. 

(1) Many students could not write a sentence in English and (2) Most could not write an essay as they had little knowledge about anything. If given an essay to write in class, many would write only two sentences in half an hour and then suck their biros for the rest of the time.

I used to bring my portable TV into class and show movies from the video shop or reports from TV "Sixty Minutes". That was the old days. Then we would write essays that were assessed, polished and rewritten.

The following year, I was given another batch of grade 9 students who were given the same treatment. The students from the previous year went to grade 10 reinforced by the writing skills they had already mastered.

One day I was sitting in the staff room beside my teacher friend Jocelyn who was correcting essays. I picked up an essay book and the student was given zero mark out of 10. It was a polished essay from the previous year.

I asked the teacher why such a low mark. She said it was copied from a book. I was pleased to tell her that it was an essay that had been polished from my class. 

The essay was sweet and perfect and would help the student gain a distinction in the coming grade 10 exam.

EDUCATION IS FAR BEHIND IN WRITING SKILLS

In many PNG schools today, students do not talk. They just write. Is this the influence of the cults? Or is it that many students can not speak English? They just copy English from the blackboard.

My time for modesty is finished. Education in Papua New Guinea has never got teaching writing skills right. 

I am the only expatriate with the historical and academic background to lift the standard of literacy in PNG schools.

Far too many amateurs came to PNG over the last 40 years all carrying with them the baggage that had been thrust on the teaching and learning scene in the schools of the 1960s. 

Then there was the vernacular approach pushed on the school by the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Professor Tom Dutton of Australian National University. That put English learning behind by 20 years.

Early literacy up to that time in Australia and USA had benefited from the teaching that preceded World War 2. 

But the baby boomers now grown to teachers decided that it was all too academic and had to be redeveloped to remove those aspects that made literacy difficult.

As well in the USA was the pressure that came from the launching of the Russian Sputnik satellite that the US took to mean that Soviet education was far ahead. The US educational system had to catch up. Focus had to be on mathematics and science.

The literacy curriculum in US schools was ravaged and the results came down to spoil Australian education which passed through to PNG education over time.

I was a student in Australian schools and benefited from the old method of learning. We read books, chanted poems and sang songs. 

We studied the rhythm of words and appreciated how words can be fitted into smooth and elegant sentences. There is none of that in PNG schools except in my classes.

The literacy strategy of that time in Australia took students from elementary school to grade 12. As the students advanced in their grades the complexity of words and sentences increased. 

The approach in PNG today takes students all the way to grade 2, particularly the phonics books now on sale. The American approach takes students all the way to grade 2. Then they are on their own.

We in Australian schools learned the words that derived from Latin and Greek. In most Latin words, the strong stress is in the Latin root with the prefixes and suffixes as weak stresses. trans -script -ion, trans-lat-ion and re-vol-ver.

As an English teacher in Papua New Guinea, I use the old style I always knew. I teach students not to needlessly repeat words and to connect simple sentences into elegant complex sentences. 

In schools where I taught English, the standard result in Grade 10 English exams centred on Distinctions and Credits. Examiners were probably amazed at the batch of polished English papers that passed through from our school for assessment.

I used to give essays to write with help on the way. Then I would take up the essays and correct errors. The essays were then returned to students to be rewritten in terms of the corrections. 

Essays became polished. In writing essays, students had to circle words repeated. One repeated word had to be removed or replaced.

In choosing words and phrases I would appeal to the souls of students to sound out the alternatives and choose which sounded smoother and sweeter and framed in terms of weak and strong stresses.

I conducted workshops for elementary teachers in Morobe Province supported and transported by the then senior inspector Mr Keith Tangui. 

Over 800 teachers were massively interested but the Department could not afford to put me on as a permanent visiting advocate for Rhythm Phonics. Bilum books took over to push students through all the way to grade 2.

UNFAIR TREATMENT OF NEW GRADUATE TEACHERS

Post Courier 22 December 2020

There is a report in the media that new education graduates from recognised colleges will undergo a vetting process before being put on the payroll.

They will be required to have completed the Resumption of Duty Summary Sheet, copies of certificates of teacher registration, teacher training certificates Grades 10 and 12, medical and police clearances.

Provinces have been urged not to recruit until all requirements have been met. The provincial recruiting authority must sight all original certificates.

This may well overcome the fraudulent submission of educational certificates and remove the unqualified  applicants for teaching.

But there are a very false assumptions in seeking to raise the standard of teachers. The first is the assumption that highly qualified people make effective teachers. 

Often the clever teachers are those who can not see where the slower students are having problems. 

They leave the slower students behind by skimming over the more complex work on the assumption that all students know. All students may not know.

If a student achieves a low standard, it may be because the clever teacher has not taught the basics. The low level teacher may do the same.

I completed Grade 12 in Brisbane. I was foolish in choosing the subjects that my friends chose. I passed but not brilliantly. At university I chose subjects that lifted me to distinction level. 

My Maths teacher and Science teacher were brilliantly hopeless. They put summaries on the blackboard and expected us to summarize and understand. I did not.

In Papua New Guinea I believe that I shone as a teacher as I was able to see where the range of slower students could find problems.

The problem with education in Papua New Guinea is that it is all too stupidly complex. Many exam papers are in the form of objective "tick and flick" questions.

So many students graduate to be teachers without knowing the basics. I was a student of the 1960s in Australia and mastered the skills that were then wiped out of the curriculum. 

I believe I have a fabulous memory. What did I have for breakfast this morning? I have forgotten. 

But I give students in PNG the range of forgotten skills in writing. I focus on rhythm phonics that helps students appreciate the rhythm of sentences. I show them how to write elegant and complex sentences.

I teach them derivation of words from Latin and Greek that died in the western world in the 1960s. Not in my memory.

Why does the PNG Department of Education not vet the teachers' college lecturers? And those vetting the new applicants to teaching?

I did not have an cell-phone as a student but read hundreds of books. My vocabulary is very extensive.

I feel sorry for averagely brilliantly applicant teachers who have been rejected in a foolish system that does not recornise the brilliance that may grow in many average teachers.

Many of them may have suffered from the hopelessly incompetent vernacular teaching program of the 1980s. Perhaps their teachers were the ones to suffer and passed the incompetence on to the next generation of teachers.

CHINESE EMPIRE OF AFRICAN AND PACIFIC NATIONS

I am becoming concerned that the Chinese dragon is extending forth in African and Pacific nations as never before. The goal is to set up a massive empire based on debts owed. 

The leaders of these nations have naively put their heads into the dragon's mouth. When the jaws close that nation will be part of the Chinese empire at least the harbour seized.

As a student of world history, I have read of the succession of failed empires from the Mongol Empire and Roman Empire to the Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire , German empire and French empire.

All fell because of the inability for leaders to manage such huge masses of humanity. The deaths of leaders brought a weakening of the empires and subordinates who fought for control.

The little ice age did not help the soldiers dying of cold in the battlefields of Europe and Russia

The latest failed empire was the Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere by which the Japanese planned to take the Pacific nations and industrial raw materials as part of their empire. Their failure started with the bombing of Pearl Harbour.

The western nations failed to make China as part of their empire from the 1840s. The Tai'ping rebellion brought the Western influence to a close regardless of the forced import of opium.

The focus changed to Tokugawa Japan that was forced open and then set up an industrial base that enabled the naval defeat of the Russian fleet in Vladivostok in 1905 and a war in 1936 starting in China.

Since World War 2, the Pacific Ocean has been part of the US empire centred on Hawaii with troops and war material at the ready in the Philippines and Japan. 

Australia used to see the Northern Defence as a line extending to the north of Papua New Guinea. 

In the 1970s, the USSR focused on the nations in the littoral zone of the Indian Ocean. 

The problem was that Soviet warships were able to sail only in brown water not the deep blue oceans. So the focus was on naval bases in the littoral zone of the Indian Ocean.  That involved USSR with India, Middle East and Africa.

Is China the same in the Pacific Ocean? But then we did see Chinese warships in Sydney Harbour come for a load of baby milk powder.

Now this forward defence line is poised to fall to pieces if China manages to maintain hegemony over the Pacific nations by taking islands in the South China Sea and extending massive loans to the governments of developing nations. 

The seizure of assets will come year by year in the form of harbours for Chinese naval bases.

The Japanese planned a ring line of airstrips from Japan through South East Asia to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. 

Now China is moving in the same direction to set up the southern border of the Chinese empire with naval bases connected by undersea cables.

Already the Western border has been sealed up through invasion of Tibet and Sinkiang. Uighurs have become Chinese slaves like the African American workers taken from their villages. Before the fall of the USSR, China was moving to seal up the Middle East.

In the future Singapore, Colombo, Daru, Rabaul, Manus Island, Guadalcanal, Port Vila and Fiji may all be part of the Chinese defence network.

China is still the Middle Kingdom with a President taking control for life like the early emperors and Mao Tse tung.

The Australian forward defence is becoming nothing more than a dream. Rejection of Taiwan was a primary requirement for Pacific nations. 

In 10 years, the world will be different with climate change, overpopulation particularly China and a lack of water combined with wild fires.

China will punish Australia with tariffs to the point that we can not fund the Pacific nations as a backstop to China's largess with a sting in the tail and a not-so-hidden agenda of seizing assets for naval bases. 

Australia needs allies. Who would have thought that Japan may be an ally? There are no permanent friends or enemies in diplomacy - only permanent interests.

China will lure nations to allow territory with sea level engineering, medical support with hospital ships and infrastructure development that supports China.

RESPONSE OF FAMILIES ON HIV

Loving, caring and supportive family members with HIV will most likely enjoy love, respect and friendship from other family members.

Violent, boozing, trouble-making and non-supportive members with HIV will most likely suffer rejection, hostility and a lack of support of family.

There may well be hostility at any HIV family person infected through his or her adultery or infecting another family member through child abuse.

In the PNG HIV/AIDS response, there has been too much rejection of families through false accusations of stigma and discrimination. 

We must first know just who is making these remarks and pushing the blame on to innocent and stressed families.

NUTRITION OF KIWI FRUIT

 https://www.healthline.com/health/7-best-things-about-kiwi

Kiwi Benefits: Asthma, Digestion and Vision Loss

Kiwis are small fruits that pack a lot of flavor and plenty of health benefits. Their green flesh is sweet and tangy. It's also full of nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin K, 

IT'S PNG MANGO SEASON !!

 

Mango Nutrition: Amazing Mango Nutrition Facts

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May 2 8, 2018 — Mangoes are high in the antioxidants beta-carotene and vitamin C, and are good for boosting the immune system, protecting eyesight

HIV VIRUS IN COLD WATER

 

HIV: How Long Can It Live Outside the Body?

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May 29, 2020 — The virus can't survive in water, so you don't have to worry about swimming pools or hot tubs. One study found HIV can live in used needles for ...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324052

How long does HIV live outside the body?

29 Nov 2020 ... HIV cannot live long outside the body. Factors, such as temperature, humidity, and sun exposure, can affect how long the virus can 
Over the years, I have raised controversy in posing the question of what a woman should do if raped and days away from a care centre to obtain PEP.
My question depends on how long it would take for HIV to move from sperm in a woman's vagina through the cervix to infect her. If it takes only minutes, it may be too late.
But if the virus takes several minutes to an hour and given that it is fragile in cold water, perhaps the woman could sit in a swimming pool, a creek or the sea and flush cold water through her vagina.
If I were a raped woman, I would find a rubber hose, put the end in my vagina and turn the tap on. It may blast the virus in all directions. Virus particles may end up dead in the dirt at my feet.

This has promoted mirth among the silly people. Editor of PNG Attitude Keith Jackson wrote that it was a loopy idea. But then he claimed to the world on his website that I knew nothing of HIV/AIDS.
The alternative is for the woman to wait for the virus to enter her body and infect her. If the virus takes a long time to move from the sperm, that may be plenty of time to immobilize it.
This suggestion may save the lives of thousands of women throughout the world who are far from a care centre for PEP.
There may be ethical and experimental problems in any test. If a woman is raped, clears her vagina in cold water and comes out negative, it may mean that the rapist was negative too.