Manila (cont’d) February 1945

Pacific Paratrooper

The importance of Manila cannot be stressed enough. The natural harbor has served as a strategically situated port for commerce and trade for centuries. Manila Bay and Laguna de Bay are connected by the Pasig River.

As the 11th Airborne was switched back to the 6th Army, General Swing received orders to destroy all forces in Southern Luzon, specifically at Macolod and Lipa, along with clearing Route 19. The division had not received many replacements so they were even smaller in size than before; the 158th Regimental Combat Team was attached to partially compensate. The Manila-Batangas highway ran north to south and was essential to secure the port of Batangas for future landings.

Japanese in Manila

On top of all this, Swing was ordered to destroy enemy forces in Ternate. (Southern shore of Manila Bay) None of his men had the privilege of being in reserve, but the general had…

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Gilberto Gil

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” Andá com fé eu vou

Que a fé não costuma faiá

Andá com fé eu vou

Que a fé não costuma faiá

Andá com fé eu vou

Que a fé não costuma faiá

Que a fé tá na mulher

A fé tá na cobra coral

Oh! Oh!

Num pedaço de pão

A fé tá na maré

Tá na lâmina de um punhal

Oh! Oh!

Na luz, na escuridão

Andá com fé eu vou

Que a fé não costuma faiá

Olêlê!

Andá com fé eu vou

Que a fé não costuma faiá

Olêlê!

Andá com fé eu vou

Que a fé não costuma faiá

Olêlê!..”

Gilberto Gil. Andar com Fé

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Marii Freire Pereira

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Santarém, Pá 16 de maio de 2022

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Cebollino

Revoluciona Tu Salud

Cebollino. Beneficios y propiedades

El cebollino, hierba aromática que se usa para condimentar platos y salsas, aportando grandes beneficios en nuestra salud. Pertenece a la familia del puerro y la cebolla, pero a diferencia de los dos anteriores, su sabor y aroma es más suave.

Descubre todas las propiedades y beneficios del cebollino en este artículo.

Mi planta de CEBOLLINO

Cabe destacar que el cebollino es rico en Vitaminas C, B, K y D, además de contener minerales, fibra y ácido fólico.

Posee flavinoides que le aportan propiedades antioxidantes, antivirales, antialérgicas, antiinflamatorias y anticancerígenas, además de ser antiséptico, estimulante y digestivo. Inclúyelo en tus preparaciones!

MEJORA TUS HABITOS Y POR CONSIGUIENTE TU SALUD Y TU PESO AQUI

  1. Ayuda a reducir los niveles de colesterol
  2. Mejora el funcionamiento del sistema circulatorio
  3. Frena el sobrecrecimiento bacteriano
  4. Mejora la piel y fortalece el cabello

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Dead, Sick & Dirty

The Twisting Tail

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

Fannie Lou Hamer

Monostich: mania, not always a bad thing

daydreams of agromania take me home


Quatrain: fall on dead ears

I swear on your mother’s grave
may my pants catch fire
(I would swear to god
but he knows I’m a liar)


Hay(na)ku: with-drawn

Pencil
My heart
In cold lead


Fun Fact: Author Mary Shelley kept her dead husband’s heart in her writing desk


Naani: tested on children

The difference between
a Merry go round
And a Vomitron
Are three revolutions


Landay: latitude attitude

The northern snow lands with such quickness
Recollections of southern sun stir my homesickness


Zappai: shower thoughts

if one drops the soap
does it make the soap dirty
or make the floor clean?


Two by Four: universal serial bullsh#t

Right way
Wrong way
Both ways
USB port


Weekly Theme:
Random Thoughts in Micropoetry Form


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Minbari Mondays, and Two Lessons from “Walkabout” (B5:s3e18) on Too Much for Yourself, vs. Making a Difference — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

This week’s lessons:           1.   Even Vorlons, as intelligent and advanced as they are, can lack empathy, despite the gruff empathy of Kosh the Good.  Even the ‘good guys’ can have diversity.  In not good ways.           2.   Those who lack empathy will probably never expect different types of people to be able to […]

Minbari Mondays, and Two Lessons from “Walkabout” (B5:s3e18) on Too Much for Yourself, vs. Making a Difference — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Monday Notes: Compromise: A Definition

K E Garland

Dwight enjoys watching Marvel movies. Me? Not so much. I’ve written before about how as I learned what I liked and disliked, sitting through the same superhero trope was one of the first things to go. However, Dwight values these movies and sees them as a way to introduce me to something he used to enjoy as a child—reading comic books and seeing them come to life in film. Because I recognized this, I told him I would watch one a year with him.

This, according to Collins dictionary, is a compromise, a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.

For the past eight years or so, I’ve been declaring that I no longer compromise in relationships, but this isn’t true*. A compromise implies that both parties get something out…

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Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives | Scientific Reports

Humans communicate with each other through language, which enables us talk about things beyond time and space. Do non-human animals learn to associate human speech with specific objects in everyday life? We examined whether cats matched familiar cats’ names and faces (Exp.1) and human family members’ names and faces (Exp.2). Cats were presented with a photo of the familiar cat’s face on a laptop monitor after hearing the same cat’s name or another cat’s name called by the subject cat’s owner (Exp.1) or an experimenter (Exp.2). Half of the trials were in a congruent condition where the name and face matched, and half were in an incongruent (mismatch) condition. Results of Exp.1 showed that household cats paid attention to the monitor for longer in the incongruent condition, suggesting an expectancy violation effect; however, café cats did not. In Exp.2, cats living in larger human families were found to look at the monitor for increasingly longer durations in the incongruent condition. Furthermore, this tendency was stronger among cats that had lived with their human family for a longer time, although we could not rule out an effect of age. This study provides evidence that cats link a companion’s name and corresponding face without explicit training.
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10261-5

Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a ‘plan B’ for their families, citing the pandemic, climate change, and political turmoil

US billionaires, crypto investors, and celebrities are spending millions on European passports to set up “legacy plans” for their families, firms say.
— Read on news.yahoo.com/record-number-wealthy-americans-buying-113000751.html

Shame it has come to this…