Reach out! Millions out there thirst for Functional Knowledge.

Reach out!  Millions out there thirst for Functional Knowledge.
Set aside one to ten minutes of your time a day to touch a less fortunate one - not with pity, but with a spark of knowledge and hope. Functional knowledge is like binhi or seed that germinates and grows organically, in the system, in the person. This is the missing heart of the computer, the missing inner person in a Television or Screen. This is the missing mission of technology, the missing conscience of science. The missing link of humanity. Visit avrotor.blogspot.com School on Blog. Listen to Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's-School-on-air) 738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 evening class 8 to 9 p.m. 

Dr Abe V Rotor

Living with Nature School on Blog

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738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday

Living with Nature - School on Blog  

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PBS Stations in the Philippines

PBS AM Stations

Branding	Call-Sign	Frequency	Power (kW)	Location
Radyo ng Bayan	DZRB	738 kHz	50 kW	Metro Manila/Luzon-Wide Region (with nationwide propagation popularization broadcast)
Sports Radio	DZSR	918 kHz	50 kW	Metro Manila
Radyo Magasin	DZRM	1278 kHz	10 kW	Metro Manila
Radyo ng Bayan Baguio	DZEQ	999 kHz	5 kW	Baguio
Radyo ng Bayan Tabuk	DZRK	1323 kHz	1 kW	Tabuk, Kalinga
Radyo ng Bayan Bontoc	DWFR	972 kHz	5 kW	Bontoc, Mountain Province
Radyo ng Bayan Laoag	DWFB	954 kHz	10 kW	Laoag/Ilocos Region
Radyo ng Bayan Agoo	DZAG	1224 kHz	1 kW	Agoo, La Union
Radyo ng Bayan Dagupan	DZMQ	576 kHz	10 kW	Dagupan
Radyo ng Bayan Tayug	DWRS-AM	756 kHz	1 kW	Tayug, Pangasinan
Radyo ng Bayan Batanes	DWBT	1134 kHz	1 kW	Basco, Batanes
Radyo ng Bayan Tuguegarao	DWPE	729 kHz	10 kW	Tuguegarao
Radyo ng Bayan Lucena	DWLC	1017 kHz	10 kW	Lucena/Southern Luzon Region
Radyo ng Bayan Palawan	DWRM	567 kHz	10 kW	Puerto Princesa
Radyo ng Bayan Naga	DWRB-AM	549 kHz	10 kW	Naga
Radyo ng Bayan Legaspi	DWJS	621 kHz	25 kW	Legaspi
Radyo ng Bayan Iloilo	DYLL	585 kHz	1 kW	Iloilo/Panay Region
Radyo ng Bayan Cebu	DYMR	576 kHz	10 kW	Cebu/Central Visayas Region
Radyo ng Bayan Tacloban	DYMP	1566 kHz	1 kW	Tacloban
Radyo ng Bayan Sogod	DYSL	1359 kHz	1 kW	Sogod, Southern Leyte
Radyo ng Bayan Calbayog	DYOG	882 kHz	10 kW	Calbayog
Radyo ng Bayan Borongan	DYES	657 kHz	5 kW	Borongan, Eastern Samar
Radyo ng Bayan Zamboanga	DXMR	1170 kHz	10 kW	Zamboanga
Radyo ng Bayan Cagayan de Oro	DXIM	936 kHz	10 kW	Cagayan De Oro/Northern Mindanao Area
Radyo ng Bayan Gingoog	DXRG-AM	1242 kHz	10 kW	Gingoog/Northern Mindanao Area
Radyo ng Bayan Tangub	DXJT	954 kHz	1 kW	Tangub
Radyo ng Bayan Davao	DXRP	675 kHz	10 kW	Davao and General Santos/Southern Mindanao Region
Radyo ng Bayan Butuan	DXBN	792 kHz	10 kW	Butuan/Caraga Region
Radyo ng Bayan Tandag	DXJS	837 kHz	5 kW	Tandag, Surigao del Sur/Caraga Region
Radyo ng Bayan Marawi	DXSO	774 kHz	10 kW	Marawi
Radyo ng Bayan Jolo	DXSM	1224 kHz	1 kW	Jolo, Sulu

PBS FM Stations[edit]

Branding	Call-Sign	Frequency (Channel)	Power (kW)	Location
104.3 Business Radio	DWBR	104.3 MHz (Channel 282)	25 kW	Metro Manila
89.5 Bay FM	DWSB	89.5 MHz (Channel 208)	10 kW	Subic Bay
Radyo ng Bayan Virac	DZVC-FM	94.3 MHz (Channel 232)	1 kW	Virac, Catanduanes
Radyo ng Bayan Tacloban	DYCT	104.3 MHz (Channel 282)	5 kW	Tacloban
94.9 Kool FM	DXVL	94.9 MHz (Channel 235)	1 kW	Kabacan, Cotabato
105.5 Upi for Peace	DXUP	105.5 MHz (Channel 288)	3 kW	Upi, Maguindanao
Radyo ng Bayan Tawi-Tawi	DXDC-FM	104.7 MHz (Channel 284)	1 kW	Tawi-Tawi

There is good reason to be happy about - all of us followers and viewers of this blog, and all those whose lives we have touched in one way or the other - and to Google for its support to this outreach program.

There has been a significant increase in overall participation based on our daily pageviews, and very encouraging feedback. The top ten countries availing of our more than two thousand (2000) lessons/posts are the following, in decreasing order.

This list however varies daily or weekly with many other countries. From this macro view, it is but important to translate the lessons into functional literacy to millions of people who have very little access to the institutions of learning, those who have not used a telephone, more so a computer. It is estimated that half of the world's population of more than seven billion, have little in life - not so much because they have little food, little money little home, but because they have very little opportunity to learn - learn to earn, learn to live life and therefore miss the many opportunities it can bring.

How we wish we can reach more less developed countries, the remote communities, in particular. Maybe It's time to move out of the campus and go to the community, laboratory to the field. Maybe from Google we do the barefoot work. From this blog we become teachers in our own right and regard reach out as an obligation of humanity. Reach out for the dying child in a desert closely followed by a vulture. Reach out for the flood victims of Thailand and South China, or the drought stricken communities in the Sahel. Reach out for the out-of-school youth, the marginal communities around cities, the orphans of war, the infirmed, the very old.

Even with our own meager resources we can do our share. Have one minute to ten minutes of your time a day to touch a less fortunate one - not with pity, but with a spark of knowledge and hope. Functional knowledge is like binhi or a seed that germinates and grows organically, in the system, in the person. This is the missing heart of the computer, the missing inner person in a Television or Screen. This is the missing mission of technology, the missing conscience of science. The missing link of humanity Let's not call it legacy. Or heritage. It's just a little deed which we do casually, unconditionally, a little goodness here, a little goodness there, that make us feel happy, that unburdens us, that brightens our outlook in life, that make us sleep well and dream sweet dreams.

Here are some things we can all do.

Here are some things we can all do.

• Visit/open the Blog. Refer to the latest posts or lessons for the day. These are also the lessons to be taken up under Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid. It is a simulcast of radio broadcast and Internet-Blog posts. Learning is enhanced by reading and listening, among other senses that may be stimulated in the process. Take down notes. You may electronically record the broadcast, download the posts and print them, too. Use these for your Reach Out Program 
• Prepare a simple lesson like a teacher should. Don't go out and teach if you have not done your assignment. Refer to the lessons in the Blog. Search for the keyword, open the article, read and understand, and practice (dry run). Download and print those you need. Supplement your knowledge with reliable materials and sources. 
• Don't be all-knowing. One at a time, one lesson after another at proper pacing. If you are accepted by the community, go for collective approach. Take advantage of snowball effect, but be careful of its cascading effect. Don't overload, do not rush. And don't build a tower of Babel either. Don't talk about religion. Don't talk about politics. There is no end to debate. There are many good things to talk about life. How to live life. 
• Reach out. This means extension, not education. The teacher goes to his pupil. This is the opposite of the university. Be simple, be warm, be friendly but sincere to people. "Live with the people" (social immersion), not to be taken literally. Consider first their felt needs , not the needs the book says, or the bank says. 
• Use all tools and methods of teaching from chalk and blackboard to multi-media that are appropriate. Adopt Ka Efren's kariton school model. Use recycled paper. For visual aids use re-usable discarded materials, recycle them. Don't spend for something you can avail free. Innovate, renovate before you modernize. 
• Multiplier effect. Anything people perceived to be good to them is treasured by them. More than that, they share to and with others. There is no mathematical law in sharing. The more you divide and share a good thing, the more it will multiply. Take advantage of this echo effect, chain reaction, the gaya gaya culture. 
• Don't disturb your pupils, don't interrupt their work, don't be their guest, special guest. Don't introduce change that changes their culture. Change their attitude to life that is positive to themselves and to others. And to their environment, principally nature. You are an agent of change but change takes time to develop and ripen. 
• Keep low with advertisements and promotions. There's too much consumerism, especially among the young - and they are easy victims, systemic victims. It is because capitalism thrives on over consumption of goods and services, of growing affluence, of luxury. Of extending our children. Teach your pupils to become producers instead, not consumers. Efficient farmers, fisher folk, homemakers, entrepreneur. Don't lead them unwittingly to the tender trap of abusive capitalism. 
• Learn from lessons in Occupy Wall Street (US), Arab Spring (North African and Middle East), European Recession (European Union), three widespread revolutions - people's revolutions. Then there is trouble in Ukraine, the resurgence of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel-Palestine Gaza Strip, local conflicts notwithstanding. All these are shaking the world today. Why can’t we offer functional literary as a way to peace?

NOTE: Reach Out is purely a voluntary project. If you wish to help, please write, or contact though the Comment box of this blog. Or contact:

Dr Abercio V Rotor
Blk 61, Lot 55 Lagro Subdivision
Lam-ang and Kudyapi Streets, Quezon City
Metro Manila, Philippines
avrotor@gmail.com

Natural Toxins in Food Plants

Dr Abe V Rotor

Arusip or lato is the most popular sea vegetable in the market.  Too much intake may cause dizziness and may have sedative effect to some. This is traced to a substance called caulerpin, named after its genus Caulerpa. The species shown is Caulerpa racemosa.  It is served fresh with sliced ripe tomato and onion.  

Food contains natural chemicals that are essential for growth and health which include carbohydrates, sugars, proteins and vitamins. But some foods contain potentially harmful natural toxins. Here are some common plants that carry natural toxins.

• Number one in the list is cassava (Manihot utilissima) yields natural cyanic acid mainly in the bark.
1. Crop should be harvested in about 6 months. Over mature tubers contain more of the toxin.
2. Avoid cassava growing along fences and borders; they are likely there for a long time.
3. Choose tubers that are freshly harvested, especially when buying in the market.
4. Remove the entire bark, and wash the tuber thoroughly. Cut into pieces and boil.
5. When the pot starts to boil, remove the cover. This allows the cyanogas to escape.
6. Well cooked cassava is generally safe, but exercise moderation especially among children.
7. Note that there are varieties of cassava which have higher cyanic acid content. Your local agriculturist and the old folks know best.

• Potato (Solanum tuberosum) contains natural toxins called glycoalkaloids The levels are usually low but higher levels are found in potato sprouts, and the peels of potato. These natural toxins are produced by the plant to counteract pests and pathogens, and stress fro ultraviolet and injury. Because glycoalkaloids are not destroyed by cooking, these are the things to do.

1. Don’t eat sprouted potato.
2. Remove any damaged part of the tuber.
3. Don’t eat cooked potatoes that still taste bitter.
4. If you come across a green potato crisp, it’s best not to eat it.
5. Store potatoes in a dark, cool and dry place.
6. Note that Solanum tuberosum belongs to the same family as tobacco – Solanaceae.

• Seeds of apples and pears, and the stony pit or kernel of apricot and peaches contain a naturally occurring substance called amygdalin. Amygdalin can turn into hydrogen cyanide in the stomach causing discomfort or illnesses. It can sometimes be fatal.

Others:

Bamboo shoots (labong) contains a certain amount of cyanic acid, similar to that in cassava. Cook well with the pot open to allow the gas to escape.

• Nicotine in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is among the most poisonous substances in nature. Extract of the poison from a single stick of cigarette can instantaneously kill a person when injected into the bloodstream. Smokers die slowly of nicotine, one of the top ten causes of death in modern society, early death notwithstanding theobromin in cacao (Theobroma cacao)
• Caffeine in coffee (Coffea spp.)
• Capsicin in red pepper
• Ricinin in castor bean (Ricinus communis)
• Caulerphin in lato or ar-arusip (Caulerpha racemosa)
• Aflatoxin is a substance produced by a fungus, Aspergillus flavus, that grows on harvested crops like corn, rice and copra that are not properly dried and stored. Aflatoxin causes cirrhosis of the liver and other related ailments. ~

Children Art Workshop: Time out from computers and malls

Dr Abe V Rotor

Innocence and Art

What is innocence in the arts? 

You may ask this little girl,

Armed with paint brush and colors,

And a canvas to unfurl.  

The young paint with Innocence, 

And their works are true and sane;

And if they lose the opportunity

They'll surely miss the train.    

True Beauty of Art 

Beauty begets beauty, 

take it from this young artist;

for the true beauty in art 

is more than eyes to feast.  

Nature of Art  

Don't be afraid, there is no such wrong art,

If it's honest and coming from your heart;

Go on, don't be in a hurry.  Bring out 

Your gifts and let the Giver do His part

The blackbird Martines is back

Dr Abe V Rotor

Blackbird (Martines), Drynaria fern and towering acacia tree make an ecological sanctuary, together with a host ofother organisms that depend on them. Tagudin, Ilocos Sur.

This is one for the biologist and ecologist. I say, it's one for the Book of Guinness record.

Up high in a dozen centuries old acacia trees, reaching up to 10 storeys high, their boughs and branches clothed with epiphytic ferns, I found the long lost blackbirds, we call martines in Ilocano.

I was then in the grade school in San Vicente (Ilocos Sur) when I saw the last martines bird. But here on a Black Friday on top of these towering trees, there is the lost bird, in fact several of them in pairs and families. It is like the Coelacanth, a primitive fish thought to have long been extinct, suddenly rising from the depth of the craggy Madagascar sea. Its fossil in rock tells us it is 40 million years old. And here it is - alive and has not changed! The fossil fish is alive! So with the Martines!

The blackbirds have made the towering acacia trees their home and natural habitat, building their nests on the Drynaria fern. The fern grows on the branches, reaching the peak of its growth during the rainy season when the host tree sheds its leaves, in effect allowing sunlight to nurture the fern.

The fern has dimorphic leaves. The primary ones are long and shaped like stag horn and bear sori or spore sacs, while the other kind is shaped and arranged like shingles, enclosing the fern's rhizome. Like all ferns, Drynaria undergoes alternation of generations - the spore-forming phase and gamete-forming phase. It is the sporophytic or asexual generation that the fern plant is familiar to us. It is typically made of roots, stems and leaves - but never flowers and fruits. It is for this that ferns are classified separately from seed-forming and flowering plants. They belong to Division Pterophyta.

In the dry season, the fern becomes dormant, appearing dry and lifeless from the outside, but shielded by the shingles the fleshy rhizome waits for the rain and sunlight - and the shedding of the host tree. Then almost at an instant the fern springs to life, carpeting entire boughs and branches.

Now it's the tree's turn. In summer, while the fern is dormant, it builds a new crown, and together with those of the adjoining trees form a huge canopy that makes a perfect shade. This could be one reason the friars in the 15th century thought of introducing the acacia (Samanea saman) from Mexico to be planted around churches and convents.

Not only that the acacia is the biggest legume in the world; it is self-fertilizing and self supporting, and sharing its resources to countless organisms from earthworm to humans. How is this possible?

The acacia harbors in its roots symbionts - Rhizobium bacteria that convert the element Nitrogen (N) into Nitrate (NO3). Only then can N that comprises 78 percent of the air we breathe can be used by plants to manufacture food by photosynthesis.

And with the deciduous character of the tree, dead leaves form a litter on the ground that makes a good mulch and later becomes compost - a natural fertilizer for the tree, surrounding plants, microorganisms and animals. Then as the pods of the tree ripen and drop to the ground, animals like goats come around to feed on them and in effect enrich the ground. The tree's efficient physiology and symbiotic potential with other organisms make it not only one of the most self-reliant trees in the world, but a miniature ecosystem in itself.

We see today very old acacia trees in these places, just like those around the old St Agustine church in Tagudin built in the 16th century where I found the blackbirds among the Drynaria ferns at their tops. Tagudin is the southernmost town of Ilocos Sur, some 330 kilometers north of Manila - a good five-hour drive. It continues to attract northbound tourists to have a stopover and see this spectacle, among other attractions of this old town, such as its native handicrafts, pristine seashore and progressive upland agriculture.

Going back to the blackbirds, why do we give much importance to them? Well, the blackbirds protect both tree and fern from insects and other pests, and fertilize them with their droppings. They too, are gleaners and help keep the environment clean. Unlike the house sparrow, ground fowls and the crow, they are not nuisance to the place; their presence is barely felt except for their occasional calls which sound quite sonorous but nonetheless pleasant, and their display during flight of a queer pair of white spots on their wings. I developed the liking to watch them for hours - their gentle movement, familial ways, although they do not as gregarious as pigeons, and their glossy black bodies distinct from the surrounding and against the sky. They make a good specimen for bird watching and photography.

Beyond the aesthetics about the bird, I learned from my good friend Dr. Anselmo Set Cabigan, a fellow biologist and science professor, that the martines was introduced from Guam on instruction of a Spanish Governor General to control locust infestation in the Philippines. This is the first case of applying the principle of biological control in the Philippines - and perhaps elsewhere - which was then too advance in its time. Today, biological control is practiced worldwide as part of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), a holistic approach in dealing with all kinds of pests which include pathogens.

Locust (Locusta migratoria manilensis) is a scourge to agriculture in many countries since prehistoric times. I have witnessed how a swarm of locust devour complete fields of rice and corn, and other crops overnight. During swarming the sky darkens as sheer numbers of these flying insects block the sky. And as they ride on the wind they produce a deafening hissing sound that adds terror to farmers and inhabitants.

And why was the matines bird the chosen nemesis of the locust? It clearly shows the efficiency of this predator. Actually predation is most effective when the locust is still in its non-migratory phase, specifically during the congegans - more so when it is in the solitaria phase. The bird immediately checks the pest before it develops into enormous population - and reach its swarming stage.

I believe that the triad formed by the acacia tree, Drynaria fern and the blackbirds is the beginning of an emerging ecosystem where wildlife and human settlement meet in cooperation and harmony. It is a zone where Nature re-builds spent environments and creates intermediate  types, in which the role of man is basically to let nature's laws and rules to prevail. For example, doves and pigeons in public squares and plazas in many parts of the world are learning to trust people, and many people are just too happy to share their homes and other resources with them. They are planting trees and setting up more and wider parks for the wildlife.

For one, Japan now requires the greening of rooftops of buildings through gardening dubbed aeroponics, and by putting up ecological sanctuaries to attract wildlife to settle in them. In Europe on the other hand, miles and miles of hedges have evolved into a unique ecosystem, that one can no longer differentiate a well-established hedge from a natural vegetation. Also in Europe, woodlands which are actually broad strips that serve as boundaries of fields and pastures, are gaining through time higher biodiversity levels, and moving towards dynamic stability, called in ecology as homeostasis.

The Philippines is not behind. We have multi-storey orchards in Cavite, Batangas and Laguna that simulate the structure of a tropical rain forest long before the term ecology was coined. And many basins of ricefields and sumps of irrigation systems have become natural ponds.

The 38th parallel dividing the whole length of warring North Korea and South Korea – a strip of no man’s land, twenty kilometers at its widest – has developed, since the armistice in 1958, into a natural wildlife sanctuary. Today it has a very high level of biodiversity and distinct from any reservation on either side of this highly restricted boundary.

These neo-ecological zones are sprouting from backyards, parks, submerged coastlines, denuded mountains, and the like. Even contiguous idle lots – and abandoned fishponds, farms and settlements - are slowly but steadily becoming bastions of wildlife.

Truly, the case of the centuries old acacia trees where the Drynaria and the martines birds, and man living with them in peace and in harmony - is a manifestation of Nature's triumph. It is triumph to us and the living world. ~

Grotesque looking acacia tree clothed with Drynaria fern
towers over church and convent in Tagudin, Ilocos Sur.

Photographs taken with an SLR Digital Camera with 300 mm telephoto lens

Blue Lagoon

Dr Abe V Rotor

 
Arial photo taken over Capiz by AVR, August 3, 2011

Rhapsody in Blue

Let me hold on your roof dear Mother Earth
and not be detached to outer space
to view your whole being that gave me birth
and beauty of all things and ways.

From a thousand mountains high I find peace
in the rhapsody of a Cherubim 
descending, riding on cumulus to the East 
onto the path of the sunbeam.

Below I see the reflection of heaven
all in blue, soft and pristine -
where the sea ends and the shores leaven,  
where lost Eden could have been.  

I am a Prodigal Son who lived so bold
In the days of lust and waste;
what can I offer you now that I’m old
but this simple song of praise? ~

How do you catch a monkey alive?

Dr Abe V Rotor 

Monkeys are clever, they just don't fall into a trap. Of course the quickest way to catch them alive is to shoot them with tranquilizer. But here is a simpler way, and humane at that.

Cynomolgus, or Crab-eating Macaques, imported from the Philippines to the US were found to be carrying filovirus.
Bore a small hole into a whole young coconut (buko), about an inch in diameter, or just enough for the monkey to insert its hands with outstretched fingers into the nut. Secure the nut with wire or rope among the trees where monkeys abound. Or any place they frequent looking for food.

A monkey comes, looks around, inserts its hand into the hole. Once its hand reaches the inside of the nut, it scoops the soft flesh and holds it into a tight fist. By so doing its hand gets stuck inside the nut. The monkey will not release its hold and will try to carry off the nut. Get the picture of a small fellow getting his fingers stuck into an oversize bowling ball.

The poor monkey tumbles, shrieks, and does everything possible to take the nut off, panicking in the process. But it can't think of releasing his fist. It soon gets exhausted.

"That's how stupid monkeys are," says my friend who has been a trapper since he was a boy. He and his father have been trapping live monkeys which they sell to laboratories in Manila. He admits monkeys are rare these days. Either they are getting few, or they are also becoming smart, too. I believe in both. The natural habitat of animals is being threatened by deforestation and pollution. On the other hand, animals, like the dog Pavlov used in his experiment, respond to conditioned learning. This is true with rodents, birds, fish - and practically all animals - probing that animals are not confined only to instinct.

Inti, the trapper, approached his catch, and with a scoop net, led it into a cage - still stuck with the coconut.

This is indeed one for the Book of Guinness. And it is a proof that the fable about the greediness of monkey is true.

How are other animals trapped alive? There are ways to trap birds, wild fowls, wild pigs, deer, monitor lizard, etc. Share with us your knowledge and experience.~ 

NOTE: DENR discourages, if not prohibits, the hunting of selective wildlife species.  It is highly recommended that conservation laws be strictly followed. DOH similarly warns of the danger of viral infection from monkeys and other animals to humans, and vice versa. Monkeys are carrier of Reston vius (RESTV), a new strain of the dreaded Ebola virus (EBOV) as a result of mutation. While pathogenecity is high among monkeys and low in humans, there is serious cause to contain the virus before it develops higher virulence. 

Here is an account of the resurgent character of RESTV. (Wikipedia) 

"Reston virus reemerged in Italy in 1992, and again in a monkey export facility in the Philippines in 1996. On 11 December 2008, pigs from farms slightly north of Manila, Philippines tested positive for the virus. The CDC and the World Health Organization are investigating. On 23 January 2009, Philippine health officials announced that a hog farm worker had been infected with the virus. Although the man was asymptomatic and the source of the infection is uncertain, this could represent the first case of pig-to-human transmission of Reston virus - a fact that could cause concern, as pigs may be able to transmit more deadly diseases to humans. The situation is undergoing further investigation.~