Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Maintenance of Mural Paintings and Icons - Some Problems

Maintenance of Mural Paintings and Icons
- Some Problems
Due to their enormous size and vulnerability to the public and exposure, mural paintings are not easy to maintain and preserve their originality.  Firstly, because they are exposed to the elements and various human activities, including vandalism.  Secondly, the background and medium used may not be suitable to the local conditions. And thirdly, the mural may not serve its purpose at all, and therefore left neglected. Why many paintings are left in the attic if not in the open!  

Mural Paintings of Dr Abe V Rotor
Huge wall mural at St Paul University QC graces a dead end of a covered walk is now in a state of disrepair due to leaking concrete wall background. Painted in 2000 by the author.

A 10ft x 14 ft mural on canvas graces the elevated lobby of a home in QC.  Due to limited space the mural was folded at both ends, reducing the mural to 10ft x 10ft, square, instead of a panoramic horizontal view. Painted by the author, circa 2000

Details of  a mural on canvas, Quaintness of Countryside Life , showing only the left half portion.  Whatever happened to the other part.   Painted by he author, circa 2001

Claude Monet's mural has greatly deteriorated before it was restored.

The mural on the north wall of the University Co-Op was painted in 2003, but the co-op and artists say they don't have enough money to renovate the mural marred by graffiti. William Cumming’s Mural for Burlington High School, 1941, tempera on linen sailcloth (Eric Chauvin)The 1941 mural by famed Northwest artist Cumming sat undiscovered in a barn for decades and was identified after it was displayed at the Skagit County Fair in 2014. It’s now visible to the public — for a short time — at a Seattle gallery.

The original Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece, The Last Supper, was painstakingly restored on a wall on which it was painted. ~

Another work of Leonardo da Vinci, Mother and Child, before restoration. A second restoration was later required to patch up shotgun holes on the restored painting.  Two masterpieces were damaged by irrational visitors, Nightwatch mural by Rembrandt and the Pieta by Michelangelo. (lower photos)

Twice this famous mural by Rembrandt was slashed with knife, 
restored with the scars inflicted by the mad admirers.  

 
Pieta attacked with a hammer by a madman shouting, "I am the risen Christ!" The restored icon is now enclosed in a thick glass inside the St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.  ~

Monday, October 17, 2022

Who are considered great? People whose ideas were born ahead of their time

Who are considered great?
People whose ideas were born ahead of their time

                                                      Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor

Our world goes around and around, fortunate that there are people whose ideas were born ahead of their time? From these ideas bloomed into many ideas that found expression in a multitude of ways that feed of rationality as being and society. It is to these people to whom we dedicate this lesson on Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid. In so doing we may lay down an alternative path and present models of living particularly to the youth of today.

We have chosen for this purpose the following great men and women from various nations. 

1. Louis Pasteur – Father of immunology, science in the service of man 

Louis Pasteur, PHOTO (born December 27, 1822, Dole, France—died September 28, 1895, Saint-Cloud), French chemist and microbiologist who was one of the most important founders of medical microbiology. Pasteur’s contributions to science, technology, and medicine are nearly without precedent. He pioneered the study of molecular asymmetry; discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease; originated the process of pasteurization; saved the beer, wine, and silk industries in France; and developed vaccines against anthrax and rabies.

2. Charles Darwin – Interpreter of the pattern of life, founder of theory of evolution
3. Florence Nightingale – Founder of the nursing profession
4. Mother Teresa of Calcutta – The living saint
5. Joan of Arc – The saint who freed France 

6. Albert Schweitzer – Road of “the life of service” PHOTO
7. Abraham Lincoln – Champion in the emancipation of slavery
8. Jose Rizal – The pride of the Malay race
9. Francis of Assisi – Father of Ecology, the “upside down” Saint
10. Robert Baden-Powell – Chief scout of the world

11. Leonardo da Vinci – The man of many minds
12. Pablo Picasso – Painter of an epoch
13. Anna Pavlova – Prima Ballerina
14. Ludwig van Beethoven Stormy genius of music
15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Prodigy whose genius is therapy

 
 Great musicians and composers   
Top: Filipino composers Nicanor Abelardo and Francisco Santiago; 
middle row:  Mozart, Debussy; bottom: Tchaikovsky,Vivaldi

16. Galileo – Greatest of early scientist
17. Carolus Linnaeus – Introduced systematic classification of living things
18. Juan Luna – His Spolarium inspired a people to gain freedom

19. Fernando Amorsolo – Master of romantic-classical painting
20. Thomas Alva Edison – Man of practical knowledge

21. Wilbur and Orville Wright – Conquerors of the Air
22. Charles Dickens – Life of the imagination
23. Gregor Mendel – Founder of the laws of heredity
24. Ramon Magsaysay – Champion of the masses PHOTO
25. Christopher Columbus – Discoverer of a new world

26. Alexander the Great – Conqueror of Kings 
27. Socrates – Man of Character
28. John F Kennedy – Charismatic American leader.
29. William, Shakespeare – Greatest dramatist
30. Mao Tze Tung – Steered The Sleeping Giant China to become a modern nation (PHOTO)

“ I will be telling you this with a sigh,
  Ages and ages hence
  where two roads meet in a wood.
  And I, I took the road less traveled by.
  And that is what made the difference.” 
                                             - Robert Frost

Saturday, October 15, 2022


Saving a Trapped Bird

 Saving a Trapped Bird

Dr Abe V Rotor

Papa, a bird is caught in a trap!” 

“That’s how birds are caught.”

“No Papa, this one is different. Come and see.”

Trapped! A common fate of predator and prey. At home, QC

There on a sticky board a tarat bird was struggling to free itself among three mice also stuck in the glue, all facing certain death.

“Can I save the bird?”

With scissor my son Leo freed the bird. He looked back pathetically at the doomed mice and said nothing.

He kept the bird in a cage. It began preening its feathers to remove the glue. Leo gave it food and water. Soon the wounded wing is back in position. 
  
“Keep the cage door open. Anytime it will be able to fly again.”

“How did the bird get trapped, Papa?”

“It was looking for food, and got too close to the trap. It seems it was very hungry.   

A week later, the bird was no longer in its cage. It had flown away. Leo took a deep breath and looked up.  

There atop a samat tree in the front yard a family of tarat danced and sang cheerfully with the peculiar tune from which the bird got its name.~ 

Friday, October 14, 2022

Elias and Salome: deleted chapter of Rizal's novel, Noli Me Tangere

 Elias and Salome: 

Deleted Chapter of Rizal's Novel, Noli Me Tangere

Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor


This chapter appeared in Rizal's manuscript, but was deleted before publication. It had been placed after Chapter 24. (See Table of Contents below).

     Noli Me Tangere painting by Salvador Dali

The reason Rizal deleted this chapter, according to historians, is to save on the cost of printing, without disturbing the flow of events in the story.  In fact the plot is enhanced by deleting the chapter as the climax of the story is built - indeed a reflection of Rizal's genius.

"Elias was on the run from the guardia civil who were sent to arrest him. He had little time to bid goodbye to Salome, his love.  It was a very sad parting. Elias escaped to join Ibarra..."

The whole chapter is hereby reproduced from Rizal's original draft of the novel in his own handwriting.


 
Acknowledgment: National Historical Commission, Noli Me Tangere, 
translated by Harold Augenbraun, published by Penguin Books.

Lesson on former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class Monday to Friday

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Radiation Plague is caused by an invisible deadly pollution of our postmodern era.

Radiation Plague 
A global invisible deadly pollution of our postmodern era.

It is the man-made or man-induced kind of radiation spawned by the splitting of the atom on one hand and the invention of the microchip on the other, that jointly and collectively with the proliferation of their uses, have become high risk to humans and all living things.

Dr Abe V Rotor
                       Living with Nature School on Blog [avrotor.blogspot.com]

General Effects of Radiation to Human Health
and Well-Being



Depression and Sense of Abandonment and Rejection
Autism and Mental Disorder
Birth defects
Miscarriage

What should I do if I’ve been exposed to cellular phone towers?

“There is no test to measure whether you have been exposed to RF (radiofrequency) radiation from cellular phone towers. But as noted above (Cellular Phone Towers), most researchers and regulatory authorities do not believe that cell phone towers pose health risks under ordinary conditions. If you have additional health concerns, you might want to talk with your doctor.” Quoted from article Cellular Phone Towers. 
Source: Internet, American Cancer Society

I consider myself an unwary member in a worldwide club of hundreds of millions of cellphone users. The cellphone has become man's best friend in exchange of a biological one. We seem not to be in in today's society without the gadget day and night, often complementary with other electronic devices. Cellphones are virtually implanted in our body, in the mind and heart, in our nervous system - and in the spirit, too. Sea change, and where are we?

 Cellphone Traffic

Non-ionizing radiation emitted by electronic gadgets, from radio and TV, computers to cellphones, have proved in the long run to be harmful contrary to guarantees of its safe use. Individual units per se have very low emissions, but each one is a miniature volcano to compare with, and with millions and millions now in use - and increasing at an unprecedented rate, the collective effect is alarmingly dangerous to an epidemic level.

We are at center stage of interconnecting cellphone towers compounded by TV and radio antennae, radar discs, interceptor devices, and many more features that service an ever expanding communications market.

A Flashback on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Dead man walking is imagined as an aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan that ended WWII in 1945. Zombies aimlessly walk down abandoned streets and vanish into the horizon. Movies even made such fearful scenes dramatic. I could barely understand then in my early age, not until I was able to understand the workings of a maverick neutron targeting huge number of atoms in a blinding blast which scientists call chain reaction.

To this day, seven decades after, people are still dying from radiation residues whose half life remains fatal even after many generations particularly at the epicenter.

Armageddon needed redefinition by this human feat - or shall I say defeat, for it spawned for nearly half a century of Cold War which polarized the world into two warring ideologies, but thanks to the kinder side of humanity, the Cold War was put to an end in 1989.

But it did not actually end there. Nuclear accidents - the melting down of nuclear generators in Chernobyl in Russia, Three-Mile Island in the US and Fukushima in Japan all attests to the vulnerability of technology, however modern and safe it may be. 

Today, Russia invasion on Ukraine has brought back the nuclear war threat on a greater scale.  And it might lead to a global war!  What with the G-7 members - the richest nations on earth - other countries notwithstanding, sympathetic on the side of Ukraine! 

Cyberspace communication

We are engaged in a second great discovery, the power of cyberspace communication tapped by the invention of the microchip. The Age of Computerization. The birth of a second breed of radiation, first alleged to be harmless because of its non-ionizing nature unlike the ionizing radiation that directly break cell-tissues and organic compounds.
Here in these photos, illustrations and graphs sourced from the Internet, we picture ourselves as unsuspecting victims of a super technology the tools we have always believed and in realized in one way or the other, to be the tools of progress. Progress it may be, but the cost is also great. It is actually an antithesis to the point we ask ourselves, "Are we better of with super technology?" What then is The Good Life, when we are victims of our own making? Slaves of science and technology, social media, fast transportation, modern medicine treating ailments, all brought forth by no less than our pursuit of affluence?


Today  I regularly take maintenance medicine for my heart, kidney, hypertension, and yes, remedies for allergy and headache, sleeplessness. fatigue, etc. And yet at retirement age, past the world of struggle, I deserve that peace and quiet, of leisure and enjoyment in the golden years of life. I pause to decipher the signs and symptoms that negate such potential gains. It is not what I am that I realize to be more important. It is the future of the young ones who are more vulnerable to risks made complex and mysterious by the invisible plague of radiation.


Cellphone Towers EMR Damaging Biological Systems of Birds, Insects, Humans
by Anthony Gucciar
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/cellphone-tower-emr-damaging-birds-insects-humans/#ixzz4Crm7R5qX Follow us: @naturalsociety on Twitter | NaturalSociety on Facebook

Of the 919 studies, a staggering 593 showed the negative impact of mobile towers on birds, bees, humans, wildlife and plants. xxx (On the other hand) the experts even cited an international study that pinpointed cellphone towers as a potential cause in the decline of animal populations. They went on to say that there was an urgent need to focus more scientific attention on the subject before it was too late.

In addition to calling for a law protecting urban flora and fauna from emerging threats of electromagnetic radiation, the experts are also suggesting bold signs and messages on the dangers of cell phone tower and radiation to be posted near the position of cellphone towers.

Disorientation - and eventual death - of migratory birds

“To prevent overlapping high radiations fields, new towers should not be permitted within a radius of one kilometre of existing towers. If new towers must be built, construct them to be above 80 feet and below 199 feet … to avoid the requirement for aviation safety lighting,” it said.

Butterfly exhibiting effects of radiation, or by any mutagenic substance. 
Disoriented seedlings exposed to RF radiation.

The negative effects of EMR on life is something that has been ignored by health officials and legislators for years. As cellphone subscriptions outnumber the total number of US citizens, more and more mobile phone towers are popping up around the globe. As the experts cautioned, it is extremely pertinent that further independent research is conducted to highlight the dangers of EMR.


Disorientation of plants
Radiation disturbs tropism governed by auxin, plant hormone that dictates direction of growth (geotropism, towards gravity; phototropism, towards sunlight; thigmotropism, away towards of from touch) These abnormal behavior is specific and is not transmitted to the offspring, unless the genes have been impaired resulting in mutation.(AVR)

Milk Yield Dropped in Cellphone Tower Area.

 A study into the effects of a cell tower on a herd of dairy cattle was conducted by the Bavarian state government in Germany and published in 1998. The erection of the tower caused adverse health effects resulting in a measurable drop in milk production.

Relocating the cattle restored the milk yield. Moving them back to the original pasture recreated the problem. (Dairy Cow Study)

Mobile phone towers threaten honeybees
The Philippine Star, September 5, 2009

Honeybee worker gathering nectar and pollen from Kamias flowers. PHOTO

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.~

Student Science Experiment Shows Plants Won’t Grow 
Near Wi-Fi Router
by Morgana Matus, 06/02/13
Garden cress (Lepidium sativum): left, exposed to Wi-Fi routers failed to grow, while the control grown in another room without Wi-Fi routers developed normally. © Kim Horsevad from Hjallerup School

Five ninth grade students from Hjallerup School in Denmark conducted a science experiment that elicited profound and shocking results about the effects of cell phone radiation. Their project was inspired by the observation that they had difficulty sleeping if their cell phones were next to their heads at night. They originally hoped to test the effects of a cell phone’s radiation on humans, but since their school did not have the necessary equipment to do so, they decided to experiment with radiation exposure on plants instead. Using two wireless routers that emitted about the same type of radiation as an average cell phone, they filled six trays full of the garden cress Lepidium sativum and placed them in a room with two routers, and then placed six trays of the plant in a room without Wi-Fi routers. The result of their experiment is shown in the above photo.

Keep smartphones away from your bras and trousers
January 12, 2016
Melbourne: People these days are practically glued to their smartphones, but you should place some distance between yourself and your phone and avoid keeping them in bras and trousers.

Photo supplied by author from Internet
Dr Devra Davis, an American scientist who has been studying the effects of mobile phone radiation for many years, has warned mobile phones could be doing more harm than good. The scientist said mobile phone-like radiation was being used positively in the medical field to treat liver cancer, detect cancer and enhance the absorption of drugs in the brain.

But the reason it is able to do this was because the radiation broke down the blood brain barrier, which protects the brain from foreign substances that may injure it.

Hence it can also damage DNA, affect male fertility and change the brain`s metabolism. And that`s not all- researchers have also found mobile phone use could contribute to the development of drpression, diabetes and heary irregularities.

Acknowledgement: Internet, Living with Nature avrotor.blogspot.com

Response to DICT Usec Eliseo Rio Jr's claim that cell tower radiation is safe, citing WHO and DOH as references. (TV Interview with Tony Velasquez, 8:30 AM on Channel 27, Jan 30 2017)