Thursday, February 27, 2014
Arius - Batanes' signature tree
Arius - Batanes' signature tree
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Pastry made from the "berries " of Arius, product developed by Batanes State University. Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baked products made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder, and eggs. Small tarts and other sweet baked products are called "pastries"
Here is a classical example of a "wild plant" rediscovered for its many potential uses.
1. Pastries and other bakery products
2. Jam, jelly, "raisin"
3. Fruit wine, natural vinegar
4. Fruit juice, tea
5. Health food - rich in tannin, flavonoid, anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, calories and vitamins
6. Enhancement of active long life.
7. Reforestation, watershed, windbreak, ornamental
8. Pesticide - volatile oil is a safe insect repellent.
9. Natural Christmas tree - saves cutting of trees during the Season.
10. Living fossil - helps trace evolution and phylogeny of living things.
Stages in the development of the cone to berry. NOTE: The term berry is used here for practical reason, not as botanical description; true berries are the fruits of certain flowering plants. (Acknowledgement: Internet, Wikipedia, Missouri Botanical Garden).
Arius (Podocarpus costalis) a relative of the pine and cypress is a gymnosperm, which is distinct from angiosperms or flowering plants. Many gymnosperms like the redwood, bristle pine and our own Baguio pine are among the longest living organisms on earth. Although it may not live for one thousand to three thousand years like the Sequoia and Bristle Pine, Arius for one has a lifespan of 100 to 300 years for which it earned its name "century plant" in its native habitat - Formosa, now Taiwan and Batanes. To the Ivatans, it is Batanes Pine.
Arius is listed among the endangered species of the world. It is because of its limited natural habitat - mainly shrub forests and natural vegetation on limestone formation such as those found in Batanes, such habitat is now facing increasing loss to agriculture, settlements and other forms of land use conversion. Domesticated Arius and those propagated for ornamental and bonsai lose their natural ability to adapt to new environments. Thus they fail to maintain a natural population even with the help of man. But not in Batanes. This is why Batanes should undertake a conservation program for Arius through reforestation, habitat conservation and large scale planting. A natural gene bank must be established to study its genetic diversity and possible variations with those growing in other countries natural or introduced. Nursery management would be a good base for its propagation through multisectoral approach, Arius being the very signature of the islands - singular and distinct - worldwide.
Arius is listed among the endangered species of the world. It is because of its limited natural habitat - mainly shrub forests and natural vegetation on limestone formation such as those found in Batanes, such habitat is now facing increasing loss to agriculture, settlements and other forms of land use conversion. Domesticated Arius and those propagated for ornamental and bonsai lose their natural ability to adapt to new environments. Thus they fail to maintain a natural population even with the help of man. But not in Batanes. This is why Batanes should undertake a conservation program for Arius through reforestation, habitat conservation and large scale planting. A natural gene bank must be established to study its genetic diversity and possible variations with those growing in other countries natural or introduced. Nursery management would be a good base for its propagation through multisectoral approach, Arius being the very signature of the islands - singular and distinct - worldwide.
Closeup of the foliage; medium size trees dominate a local landscape; Arius bonsai
estimated to be two centuries old or so. (Eastwood bonsai fair. Photo by the author, 2013 )
One of the treasured plants at the former EcoSanctuary of St Paul University QC was a pair of Arius trees until tall buildings took over the garden. Dr Sel Cabigan and I used to visit the plants when we were professors in that university. Indeed the Arius is a very curious plant.
First, it is unsuspecting as a gymnosperm. It does not have needle leaves like the pine. It produces cones becoming berries which ripen into dark purple, its seeds exposed at the bottom like the cashew (kasoy), as shown in the photo.
Second, as a conifer, it is an evergreen. The tree remains green throughout the year, its crown full and deep green. It loses its leaves one by one without being noticed, unlike the deciduous narra, talisay, and other flowering plants. Being a non-deciduous, it protects the area from brush fire. It is efficient as watershed cover to catch and store water, while protecting the soil from erosion and siltation, and unexpected change in pH and fertility. Its litter serves as mulch that slowly become organic fertilizer while conserving soil moisture in the process.
Third, it is photoperiodic. It responds to specific day length that dictates cone bearing and formation of berries. It is climate specific. Though it may grow vegetatively on the lowland, and at lower latitude, it does not produce cones - and these may not form into "berries" at all. In Batanes and Taiwan the Arius undergoes the normal cycle, being indigenous in these places.
Fourth, its essential oil is an insect repellant, as ointment, smudge (katol), or simply by applying fresh leaves where insects abound like in poultry houses, kitchen cabinet, and tents. Try crushed leaves mixed with water for watering garden plants.
Botany of Podocarpus costalis: Morphology
Shrubs or small trees to 3 m tall; bark greenish, very smooth; branches spreading horizontally. Foliage buds 2-4 × 2-4 mm, of long, triangular scales with spreading apices. Leaves spirally arranged, crowded at apex of branchlets; blade of adult leaves narrowly oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, (2.5-)5-7 × (0.5-)0.8-1.2 cm but juvenile leaves larger, leathery, midvein prominent and raised adaxially, less distinct but more broadly raised abaxially, base tapered into short petiole, margin slightly revolute, apex rounded or obtuse, subacute in juvenile leaves, sometimes mucronate. Pollen cones axillary, always solitary, sessile, cylindric or ovoid-cylindric, 3-3.5 cm × ca. 7 mm, surrounded at base by a cluster of membranous scales ca. 2 mm wide. Seed-bearing structures borne on peduncles ca. 1 cm. Receptacle red when ripe, cylindric, 1-1.3 cm, base with 2 deciduous, lanceolate sterile bracts ca. 1.5 mm. Epimatium dark blue when ripe. Seed ellipsoid, (8-)9-10 × 6-7 mm, apex rounded, shortly mucronate, mucro ca. 1 mm. - Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
First, it is unsuspecting as a gymnosperm. It does not have needle leaves like the pine. It produces cones becoming berries which ripen into dark purple, its seeds exposed at the bottom like the cashew (kasoy), as shown in the photo.
Second, as a conifer, it is an evergreen. The tree remains green throughout the year, its crown full and deep green. It loses its leaves one by one without being noticed, unlike the deciduous narra, talisay, and other flowering plants. Being a non-deciduous, it protects the area from brush fire. It is efficient as watershed cover to catch and store water, while protecting the soil from erosion and siltation, and unexpected change in pH and fertility. Its litter serves as mulch that slowly become organic fertilizer while conserving soil moisture in the process.
Third, it is photoperiodic. It responds to specific day length that dictates cone bearing and formation of berries. It is climate specific. Though it may grow vegetatively on the lowland, and at lower latitude, it does not produce cones - and these may not form into "berries" at all. In Batanes and Taiwan the Arius undergoes the normal cycle, being indigenous in these places.
Fourth, its essential oil is an insect repellant, as ointment, smudge (katol), or simply by applying fresh leaves where insects abound like in poultry houses, kitchen cabinet, and tents. Try crushed leaves mixed with water for watering garden plants.
Shrubs or small trees to 3 m tall; bark greenish, very smooth; branches spreading horizontally. Foliage buds 2-4 × 2-4 mm, of long, triangular scales with spreading apices. Leaves spirally arranged, crowded at apex of branchlets; blade of adult leaves narrowly oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, (2.5-)5-7 × (0.5-)0.8-1.2 cm but juvenile leaves larger, leathery, midvein prominent and raised adaxially, less distinct but more broadly raised abaxially, base tapered into short petiole, margin slightly revolute, apex rounded or obtuse, subacute in juvenile leaves, sometimes mucronate. Pollen cones axillary, always solitary, sessile, cylindric or ovoid-cylindric, 3-3.5 cm × ca. 7 mm, surrounded at base by a cluster of membranous scales ca. 2 mm wide. Seed-bearing structures borne on peduncles ca. 1 cm. Receptacle red when ripe, cylindric, 1-1.3 cm, base with 2 deciduous, lanceolate sterile bracts ca. 1.5 mm. Epimatium dark blue when ripe. Seed ellipsoid, (8-)9-10 × 6-7 mm, apex rounded, shortly mucronate, mucro ca. 1 mm. - Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Batanes State University in cooperation with the Bureau of Agricultural Research of the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Science and Technology, is developing the Arius as a signature plant of Batanes in like manner Kiwi fruit is the signature of New Zealand, and Smyrna Fig of ancient Persia (now Iran). The joint undertaking is headed by BSU research and extension director Dr. Robert Baltazar who found the potential value of the carbohydrate-rich berries.
Special thanks to our relatives who brought to our home in QC pastries made from Arius: Mr and Mrs Werner Arthur and Erlinda Mohr, Jimmy Calucag, and daughters Ma Jennalyn and Ma Jamila Alconis-Calucag. Congratulations to Batanes State University and Dr Robert Baltazar et al.
I also wish to acknowledge my former professor and co-professor at the UST Graduate School, Dr Florentino H Hornedo, a native of Batanes, for his invaluable achievements as university professor, author, social scientist , and UNICEF commissioner, and most specially as a friend. ~
Batanes State University in cooperation with the Bureau of Agricultural Research of the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Science and Technology, is developing the Arius as a signature plant of Batanes in like manner Kiwi fruit is the signature of New Zealand, and Smyrna Fig of ancient Persia (now Iran). The joint undertaking is headed by BSU research and extension director Dr. Robert Baltazar who found the potential value of the carbohydrate-rich berries.
Special thanks to our relatives who brought to our home in QC pastries made from Arius: Mr and Mrs Werner Arthur and Erlinda Mohr, Jimmy Calucag, and daughters Ma Jennalyn and Ma Jamila Alconis-Calucag. Congratulations to Batanes State University and Dr Robert Baltazar et al.
I also wish to acknowledge my former professor and co-professor at the UST Graduate School, Dr Florentino H Hornedo, a native of Batanes, for his invaluable achievements as university professor, author, social scientist , and UNICEF commissioner, and most specially as a friend. ~
Lesson on former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid Dr Abe V Rotor and Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Greeting from a bird one morning
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday
Perperroka (Ilk) perches on the rear mirror of a car
She came singing sweetly one morning
after the cock had done his part;
she came all the way from the far North
to share her language and her art.
Greetings, I said, what is your message?
she said something very strange
half Russian, half Chinese, I supposed
from Siberia over the range.
Ah, you came with the High, the cold wind
of the amihan blowing hard;
she said something again, and this time
half bird, half human, to be heard.
I'm a traveler too, on rolling wheels
on narrow road and wide street;
while yours is the sky and all below it,
yet choose to drop by and to greet. ~
Monday, February 24, 2014
Brewing into wine, child into man
Brewing into wine, child into man
Dr Abe V Rotor
Jared, 4, listens to the sparkles of newly brewed wine. .
He can hear deeper and keener,
things we take for granted;
innocence hones what has dulled
us, and had long wanted.
Wonder what he hears in a jar
of wine in deep slumber,
ageing into its fullest prime,
the pride of the brewer.
What matters to a young hand
more than his presence,
but the brewing in him into man
of the finest essence. ~
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Wonder what he hears in a jar
of wine in deep slumber,
ageing into its fullest prime,
the pride of the brewer.
What matters to a young hand
more than his presence,
but the brewing in him into man
of the finest essence. ~
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Tanglad and Soro-soro - best stuff for lechon
Tanglad and Soro-soro - best stuff for lechon
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday
Lemon Grass or tanglad (Baraniw Ilk) and Sorosoro or karimbuaya (Ilk) are the most popular spices to stuff lechon - baboy, baka, manok, and big fish like bangus.These are wild plants that do not need cultivation; they simply grow where they are likely useful, indeed an evidence of co-evolution of a man-plant relationship. Tradition and culture evolve this way. Scientists elevated this knowledge to what is called ethnobotany, a subject in the graduate school. Retrieving and conserving traditional knowledge is as important as beating a new path.
For tanglad, all you have to do is gather the mature leaves, sometimes roots, make them into a fishful bundle and pound it to release the aromatic volatile oil. Stuff the whole thing into the dressed chicken or pig or calf to be roasted (lechon). Chop the leaves when broiling fish. Crushed leaves are used to give a final scrub. Tanglad removes the characteristic odor (malansa) and imparts a pleasant aroma and taste.
Tanglad is also used to spice up lemonade and other mixed drinks. It is an excellent deodorizer for bathrooms and kitchen. It is also used in the preparation of aromatic bath.
Not so many perople know that sorosoro makes an excellent stuff for lechon. The mature leaves are chopped tangential and stuffed into the dressed chicken or bangus for broiling.It has high oil content in its milky sap. It leaves a pleasant taste and it serves as a salad itself. It has a slight sour taste. Like tanglad, sorosoro removes the characteristic flesh and fishy odor. Add chopped ginger, onion and garlic as may be desired.
One word of caution: The fresh sap of sorosoro may cause irritation of the eye and skin. Wash hands immediately. Better still, use kitchen gloves.
Happy cooking.
Tanglad - Andropogon citratus DC
Soro-soro - Euphorbia neriifolia
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Minerals that increase sexual vitality
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday
1. Iodine is
associated with the thyroid gland which is called the "emotional
gland. An under-active thyroid may be the cause of sterility,
depression and unsatisfactory sex life. Iodine helps in the control
and balance of other elements in the
body, which include calcium, magnesium and certain trace elements.
Seafoods constitute the main source of iodine in our diet. Iodized
salt is the most practical solution to iodine deficiency
problem.
Arusip (Caulerpa racemosa) is rich in iodine
2. Okra
and celery provide sodium, known as the "youth
element." People well provided with this element are usually
medium built and very much on the go. They are endowed with great endurance,
.strength and passion. They have strong sex appeal. Sodium, together
with calcium, magnesium and potassium, neutralize acid in the body. It is
found in the blood and all body fluids. It maintains nerve conduction
and electromagnetic potential bf tissues.
3. Potassium, which we get from
avocado and banana, maintains our heart and muscles healthy and strong, thus
keeping us alert and well coordinated. People who have sufficient
intake of potassium have positive and diplomatic
attitude, and have a
good sense of humor.
Okra (Abelmoscus esculentus)
4. Iron aids in
the oxygenation of the body through the lungs and blood. Since oxygen
is essential to life, people who lack
iron are anemic, docile and sickly. On the other
hand, those who have adequate iron in their systems enjoy life.
The most practical source of iron is green leafy vegetables. In fact, chlorophyll
and Vitamin C enhance the absorption
of iron from many food sources from dried fruits to fish
and poultry.
5. Lecithin, vitellin
and acetylcholine are organic compounds
high in phosphorus content. Phosphorus is
important in the proper functioning of the brain and nerves, thus it
is referred to as "brain element." Adequate phosphorus
is derived from vegetables, meat
and fish, grains, seeds and nuts. People who enjoy good
health is a result of phosphorus-rich food intake.
6. The
main source of magnesium is yellow food. Among the popular food
sources of this mineral are banana and avocado. Not many people know that lack
of magnesium is manifested by tension and restlessness, which affect
our sleep and our personal and social life. Relaxation is closely identified
with magnesium. Relaxation is the key to a pleasing personality and an
enjoyable love life.
7.
Manganese is a catalyst, which enhances enzyme reactions in our brain,
particularly the hypothalamus which is the sex center, and our
nerves, these being important to the enjoyment of sex life. Foods rich in iron
are also rich in manganese. People who are not taking enough of this mineral
are cruel and insensitive, forgetful and impatient. Prolonged deficiency may contribute
to mental problems and nerve disorders.
8.
Sulfur makes us glow, so to speak.
It makes our eyes sparkle, our steps quick, and our body movement sexy. Our
skin, hair, lips, cheeks may not need any makeup if we eat sulfur-rich foods
like onions and garlic, leeks (leaf-onion), radish (photo), cabbage and cauliflower.
People who love to eat these foods look healthy and attractive,
and really, they are endowed with the gift of emotion and
passion, which is a key to the enjoyment of love life.
9.
Calcium is important to long life, because
it does not only build but also rebuild tissues in the bones and muscles, in
fact all cells of the body. Women deplete calcium faster than men, and this is
apparent as they approach menopause. General health and long life depend to
a large extent on regular intake of calcium-rich foods, such as milk,
vegetables, cereals, onions, poultry and fish. It maintains balanced pH and
production of hormones. People who are well provided with calcium have large
and heavy bones. They are workers and appear serious in life, but in fact, are
patient and sexually active. Green Mussel (tahong) is rich in calcium
10. Perhaps the most
basic of all elements is oxygen. It is the only element that we take in
its free state. A slight deprivation of it will send one panting and gasping
for air. Imagine if this happens during lovemaking. Oxygen makes 75 per cent of
our body; and 20 per cent of our oxygen supply is used by the brain. People who
exercise regularly and take balanced diet maintain a good level of oxygen
supply.
UST GS Mobile phone towers threaten honeybees
Dr Abe V Rotor
If the supply of honey in the market is dwindling and its price is going up, blame it to the electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers and cellphones that adversely affect the navigational skills of the worker bees that go out to collect nectar from flowers and make it into honey. As a result the whole colony starves and dies. This is happening all over the world where cell phones and related devices are being used.
NOTE: In other articles, electromagnetic waves have similarly affected the efficiency of many insects and organisms that are responsible in pollination. The effect has been noted in the decreasing supply of fruits and vegetables - quality like sweetness, size, texture, nutritional content, and the like, notwithstanding.
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The Philippine Star
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------If the supply of honey in the market is dwindling and its price is going up, blame it to the electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers and cellphones that adversely affect the navigational skills of the worker bees that go out to collect nectar from flowers and make it into honey. As a result the whole colony starves and dies. This is happening all over the world where cell phones and related devices are being used.
NOTE: In other articles, electromagnetic waves have similarly affected the efficiency of many insects and organisms that are responsible in pollination. The effect has been noted in the decreasing supply of fruits and vegetables - quality like sweetness, size, texture, nutritional content, and the like, notwithstanding.
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Honeybee worker gathering nectar and pollen from Kamias flowers.
Mobile phone towers threaten honeybees
NEW DELHI (AFP) - The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers and cellphones can pose a threat to honeybees, a study published in India has concluded.
An experiment conducted in the southern state of Kerala found that a sudden fall in the bee population was caused by towers installed across the state by cellphone companies to increase their network.
The electromagnetic waves emitted by the towers crippled the "navigational skills" of the worker bees that go out to collect nectar from flowers to sustain bee colonies, said Dr. Sainuddin Oattazhy, who conducted the study, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
He found out that when a cellphone was kept near a beehive, the worker bees were unable to return, leaving the hives with only the queen and eggs and resulting in the collapse of the colony within 10 days.
Over 100,000 people in Kerala are engaged in apiculture and the dwindling worker bees population poses a threat to their livelihood. The bees also play a vital role in pollinating flowers to sustain vegetation.
If towers and mobile phones further increase, the honeybees may be wiped out, Pattzhy said.~
The Philippine Star
September 5, 2009 Saemaul Undung
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Avoid Recycling Toxic Wastes
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday
1. Recyling is not recommended where pollution is heavy and unabated such as this mudflat. Silt in clean environment is excellent garden soil.
2. Watch out for toxic materials
• Toxic metals: Cadmium, Mercury, Lead
• Hospital and medical wastes, including radioactive materials
• Pesticide residues, especially dioxin
• Industrial wastes, like acids, Freon, alkalis
3. Oil Spill Recycling? Not with hydrocarbon compounds; not in the case of oil spill. The
Petron oil spill in Guimaras in 2005 and 2013 destroyed thousands of hectares of marine and terrestrial areas irreversibly upsetting ecosystems and depriving the residents of their livelihood.
Ad Infinitum to Doom
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday
Ad Infinitum to Doom in acrylic by AVR
When a tree dies, a rivulet dies;
When a rivulet dies, a stream dies;
When a stream dies, a river dies;
When a river dies, a lake dies;
When a lake dies, a valley dies;
When a valley dies, a town dies;
Ad infinitum to doom.
AVR 2002
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
UST-AB Self-Administered Test on Simple Living (25 items, True or False)
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 KHz DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday
UST-AB DevCom: Bring answers tomorrow's meeting February 21, 2014, AB Dean's Office, together with other assignments.
Visit a museum rather than spending money in the mall.
Pahiyas in Lucban - a simple attraction every May 15
1. The term "voluntary simplicity" is one
path to simple living, it emanates from oneself – self discipline.
2. Simple living as a concept is distinguished from
those living in forced poverty, as it is a voluntary lifestyle choice.
3. Buddha, Francis
of Assisi, John the Baptist, did not only live simply, they were early ascetics, and asceticism to
them is a way of life.
4.
The best way to save money is to set aside
immediately a part of your salary, say 20 percent, and budget strictly the 80
percent. This is more effective than setting 20 percent after having budgeted
and spent 80 percent of your salary.
5.
You participate in the informal economy just
like the farmer’s wife who goes to market to sell farm products and comes back
with various household supplies. This is
contemporary barter system. This is
entrepreneurship on the grassroots.
6.
Food supplementation reduces our dependence on
conventional food; discovery of new food sources like seaweeds, wild food plants, as
well as the discovery of
new ways to prepare food comes at the heels of
austere living. Hamburger from banana flower (puso), Ipil-ipil for coffee DON’T
– use roasted rice instead or roasted corn, papait vegetable, sea cucumber,
kuhol, the many uses of gabi, substitution of wheat flour with rice flour.
Substitution of staple food with root crops (camote, cassava) to save on
precious rice.
7.
Postharvest losses reduces our supply, in fact
to one-half, that by saving even only 10 percent of what is wasted, would be
sufficient to fill up our annual deficit in rice and corn. Austerity is
reducing our waste on all levels – production, postproduction, food preparation.
8.
You would rather buy things in volume, preferably at wholesale price (paint,
cooking oil, rice), or by the dozens (e.g. eggs) for ready supply at
home, particularly these days when prices are increasing and supply is
unpredictable.
9.
You keep these tools and materials which you personally
use now and then in various handiwork such as house repairs and gardening: a
pair of pliers, hammer, set of screw driver, nails and screws, GI wires,
electrical tester, and the like.
10.
As a
general policy of any state, the government should pursue a self sufficiency
program in food, particularly staple (rice and corn) as the best way to insure
food security, even if there is adequate supply in the world market.
11.
You would rather have your laundry and ironing
once a week rather than daily or every other day, scheduling it usually on a
weekend, thus saving precious water and electricity, and getting more helping
hands from the family.
12.
Family
planning refers to limiting the number as well as proper spacing of your
children. If there is a sin of
commission or omission, there is also a sin of neglect – and if that neglect is
within the knowledge of the sinner, and the consequence is the ruin of the lives
of those under his care as parent, atonement is almost unthinkable.
13.
It is easier to meet our needs than our wants
to most people although to many, affluence is pursue even before needs are met.
14.
Youth today are torn between choices of white
collar jobs and blue collar jobs. They
are lured to easy education – diploma mill, and on the modern method of leaning
on the computer which actually does not offer an “end course” that makes one a
professional like a doctor, lawyer, agriculturist, and the like. Austerity
calls for a re-definition of courses that are functional in nature and
p[practical in application, and relevant to the changing times.
15. Corn as a whole, tops all rice substitutes,
other than the fact that 20 percent (14 million) of our population depends on
corn as staple.
16. In urban areas the most popular rice
substitutes are noodle products, followed by pandesal and
other wheat products. In rural areas, sweet potato (Ipomea batatas) and
cassava (Manihot esculenta) top the list of rootcrops.
18.
Food
management at home was a subject required in the elementary a generation ago
which was then called Home Economics.
19.
Save on
food if you have less pets. This is a
policy of China even to the present to save on food.
20.
There are more and more good schools in the
provinces and chartered cities. We would
rather send our children in these schools for practical reasons.
For practical reasons prepare food at home. Avoid eating outside.
If you cannot, prepare packed meal and snacks (baon).
21.
Grains would rather be used directly as food
and lessen the amount of using them in producing animal protein by feeding the
grains to poultry and animals. By doing this we maximize the value of food and
make them available to ordinary people.
22.
Tragedy of the Commons means that common
people who do not wake up to the realities of modern living will be left behind
by progress.
23.
Revolutions start with hungry stomach as
history can attest. French Revolution,
Russian, Chinese to mention some. These support Marxist philosophy of
justifying socialism over aristocracy and capitalism.
24. Simplification, ruralism, naturalism,
philosophy of living in solitude – all point to simple living .
25. That "bigger the better" is true, as based on E F Schumacher argument in his book Small is Beautiful.
For viewers and radio listeners, answers will be discussed in a week's time.
Firewood and Charcoal - World's most popular fuels
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Firewood and charcoal are still the most popular fuels for cooking in the world. In fact they constitute at least 80 percent of rural households, and even in urban centers, they are preferred for specific uses such as pugon in making pandesal, and barbecue and broiling and roasting. Alternative sources of fuel have lately gained attention in the light of dwindling supply of fossil fuel and increasing cost of electricity, among them is charcoal.
For my students in Earth Science with Ecology: This is your assignment. I also invite followers and viewers of this blog. Write down the advantages of using charcoal. On the opposite side of your paper, write down its disadvantages. Which one weighs more? Write an essay of around 200 words, "To use or not to use charcoal, that's the question."
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 KHz DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday
Firewood and charcoal are still the most popular fuels for cooking in the world. In fact they constitute at least 80 percent of rural households, and even in urban centers, they are preferred for specific uses such as pugon in making pandesal, and barbecue and broiling and roasting. Alternative sources of fuel have lately gained attention in the light of dwindling supply of fossil fuel and increasing cost of electricity, among them is charcoal.
For my students in Earth Science with Ecology: This is your assignment. I also invite followers and viewers of this blog. Write down the advantages of using charcoal. On the opposite side of your paper, write down its disadvantages. Which one weighs more? Write an essay of around 200 words, "To use or not to use charcoal, that's the question."
Truckloads of charcoal at Commonwealth Market, Manggahan QC.
Charcoal is the black residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis, the heating of wood, sugar, bone char, or other substances in the absence of oxygen. The resulting soft, brittle, lightweight, black, porous material resembles coal and is 50% to 95% carbon with the remainder consisting of volatile chemicals and ash.
Charcoal is the black residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis, the heating of wood, sugar, bone char, or other substances in the absence of oxygen. The resulting soft, brittle, lightweight, black, porous material resembles coal and is 50% to 95% carbon with the remainder consisting of volatile chemicals and ash.
Monday, February 17, 2014
"Buena Mano" is a happy disposition
Buena Mano is a happy disposition
Dr Abe V Rotor
Happy disposition - it's the best buena mano or first deal.
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 KHz DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday
Happy disposition - it's the best buena mano or first deal.
Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Not last but first for the day;
Frown and you are likely all alone
Even with the saints to pray.
The world makes it easier to laugh
Than weep on misfortune;
And much easier too, to pass you by,
For not counting your fortune.
Equation is the game in life;
Others have what other's don't,
Yet all that matters in happiness,
Take the chance, woe if you won't. ~
Not last but first for the day;
Frown and you are likely all alone
Even with the saints to pray.
The world makes it easier to laugh
Than weep on misfortune;
And much easier too, to pass you by,
For not counting your fortune.
Equation is the game in life;
Others have what other's don't,
Yet all that matters in happiness,
Take the chance, woe if you won't. ~
UST-AB Reading: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone"
Dr Abe V Rotor
In response to audience's request for more inspirational poems, I have chosen The Way of the World, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919).This is a sequel to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Psalm of Life which was aired earlier on Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's-School-on-Air) and posted on this Blog.
Here is Wilcox's masterpiece which projected her to world fame as author and poetess.
The Way of the World
Laugh, and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing and the hills will answer,
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes rebound to a joyful sound
And shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you,
Grieve, and they turn to go;
They want full measure of your pleasure,
But they do not want your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many,
Be sad, and you lose them all;
There is none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life’s gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded,
Fast, and the world goes by.
Forget and forgive – it helps you to live,
But no man can help you to die;
There’s room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one, we must all march on
Through the narrow isle of pain.
Wilcox believed in reincarnation. She said.
"As we think, act, and live here today, we built the structures of our homes in spirit realms after we leave earth, and we build karma for future lives, thousands of years to come, on this earth or other planets. Life will assume new dignity, and labor new interest for us, when we come to the knowledge that death is but a continuation of life and labor, in higher planes".
In her deep grief over the death of her husband whom she loved so dearly, and for not receiving any message from his spirit, she consulted a popular astrologer Max Heindel. Heindel advised Wilcox.
“Did you ever stand beside a clear pool of water, and see the trees and skies repeated therein? And did you ever cast a stone into that pool and see it clouded and turmoiled, so it gave no reflection? Yet the skies and trees were waiting above to be reflected when the waters grew calm. So God and your husband's spirit wait to show themselves to you when the turbulence of sorrow is quieted."
Several months later, she composed an affirmative prayer, "I am the living witness: The dead live: And they speak through us and to us: And I am the voice that gives this glorious truth to the suffering world: I am ready, God…”.
Here are selections from her works which show the characteristic Wilcox Positivism.
The Man Worth While
It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
The Winds of Fate
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails,
And not the gales,
That tell us the way to go.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate;
As we voyage along through life,
'Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
Wilcox’s works can be summarized by the first stanza of The Way of the World, her most popular poem - similarly compared to the masterpieces, the Psalm of Life of Longfellow, Only God can Make a Tree of Joyce Kilmer, Auguries of Innocence of William Blake, among others.
Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
The good old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Toward the end of her life, she said, "Love lights more fires, than hate extinguishes.”
(Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem plaque at San Francisco's Jack Kerouac Alley)
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 KHz DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday
In response to audience's request for more inspirational poems, I have chosen The Way of the World, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919).This is a sequel to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Psalm of Life which was aired earlier on Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's-School-on-Air) and posted on this Blog.
Here is Wilcox's masterpiece which projected her to world fame as author and poetess.
The Way of the World
Laugh, and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing and the hills will answer,
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes rebound to a joyful sound
And shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you,
Grieve, and they turn to go;
They want full measure of your pleasure,
But they do not want your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many,
Be sad, and you lose them all;
There is none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life’s gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded,
Fast, and the world goes by.
Forget and forgive – it helps you to live,
But no man can help you to die;
There’s room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one, we must all march on
Through the narrow isle of pain.
Wilcox believed in reincarnation. She said.
"As we think, act, and live here today, we built the structures of our homes in spirit realms after we leave earth, and we build karma for future lives, thousands of years to come, on this earth or other planets. Life will assume new dignity, and labor new interest for us, when we come to the knowledge that death is but a continuation of life and labor, in higher planes".
In her deep grief over the death of her husband whom she loved so dearly, and for not receiving any message from his spirit, she consulted a popular astrologer Max Heindel. Heindel advised Wilcox.
“Did you ever stand beside a clear pool of water, and see the trees and skies repeated therein? And did you ever cast a stone into that pool and see it clouded and turmoiled, so it gave no reflection? Yet the skies and trees were waiting above to be reflected when the waters grew calm. So God and your husband's spirit wait to show themselves to you when the turbulence of sorrow is quieted."
Several months later, she composed an affirmative prayer, "I am the living witness: The dead live: And they speak through us and to us: And I am the voice that gives this glorious truth to the suffering world: I am ready, God…”.
Here are selections from her works which show the characteristic Wilcox Positivism.
The Man Worth While
It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
The Winds of Fate
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails,
And not the gales,
That tell us the way to go.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate;
As we voyage along through life,
'Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
Wilcox’s works can be summarized by the first stanza of The Way of the World, her most popular poem - similarly compared to the masterpieces, the Psalm of Life of Longfellow, Only God can Make a Tree of Joyce Kilmer, Auguries of Innocence of William Blake, among others.
Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
The good old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Toward the end of her life, she said, "Love lights more fires, than hate extinguishes.”
(Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem plaque at San Francisco's Jack Kerouac Alley)
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