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Berrylicious Cocoa — Tanooki Homemade Cafe

Happy National Cocoa Day! Did you know, today 12/13 is the day to enjoy a sweet/bittersweet winter drink to stay cozy!    Since I met hot chocolate after I came to the US, the comforting chocolate-lly flavored drink to me is hot cocoa. Looking back in my childhood, I didn’t like milk but I grew […]

Berrylicious Cocoa — Tanooki Homemade Cafe

” Sou filha da Lei, sou filha do Rei” – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Esse é o título do livro da Claudia Fernanda, segunda filha da Maria da Penha. Ela conta como testemunhou a violência (que é algo inclusive bastante comum nos lares) e como esse detalhe impactou a sua vida. O livro acaba expondo relatos de dores e sequelas que Claudia carregou por muito tempo, e como ela,…
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Leyte, eye-witness account from Gen. Robert Eichelberger

Pacific Paratrooper

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, left, Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, right.

“Eighth Army took over Leyte on Christmas Day.  There were 8 divisions fighting there when I assumed command.  When the 32nd Div. and 1st Cavalry broke through on a narrow front, GHQ described the Leyte campaign as officially closed and future operations as “mopping-up.”

“Actually, the Japanese Army was still intact.  I was told there were only 6,000 Japanese left on the island.  This estimate was in serious error.  Soon, Japanese began streaming across the Ormoc Valley, well equipped and apparently well-fed.  It took several months of the roughest kind of combat to defeat this army.  Between Christmas Day and the end of the campaign, we killed more than 27,000 Japanese.

Leyte painting, “FOLLOW ME!” by Col Aubrey Newman

“Many others, evacuated safely by bancas (small boats), and reappeared to fight the 8th Army on other islands.  I called these…

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How Children Can Get Prepared For the Green Future — FunWritings

Now that children have access to eco-friendly eBooks that they can borrow and read online They can look forward to having a life that is just fine The climate solutions were simplified in a great way When they think about pollution, they’ll know what to do and say Learning about recycling, reusing and reducing plastic……

How Children Can Get Prepared For the Green Future — FunWritings

India Cities Ban Eggs, Drawing a Backlash – The New York Times

The place of the humble egg in the street food culture of Gujarat, a state in western India where people take their snacks seriously, has become the latest flash point in the growing role of religion in everyday life. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has a Hindu nationalist base, the national government has taken steps in recent years to promote the religion and to sideline Muslims and other groups.

Emboldened local governments have followed suit, enacting rules in some places that adhere closely to Hindu doctrine. That is especially true in Gujarat, which Mr. Modi led for 13 years before becoming prime minister and which is often seen as a laboratory for pushing policies to reshape India along his Hindu nationalist vision. Those include tightening a ban on alcohol and adding protections against the slaughter of cattle, which many Hindus consider sacred.

But even devout Hindus don’t always agree among themselves what practices the faithful should follow, a conflict that also raises issues of income and class. Hence the bitter disagreement over eggs.

APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Ghanaian doctor wins globally recognised award for his work on river blindness

Professor Daniel Adjei Boakye, a doctor who has devised a project to map out how river blindness is transmitted between villages in the Oti region has won a Falcon Award for Disease Elimination. The five winners were announced yesterday by the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) during a Universal Health Coverage Day event at EXPO 2020 Dubai.

Professor Boakye will carry out a series of targeted field studies in the Oti Region to refine the multi-village model for preventing river blindness and identify the best treatment strategies for the disease.

Results from the study will also help in redefining transmission zones for other neglected tropical diseases programmes, ensuring these zones are targeted with specific interventions to accelerate the elimination of diseases.

Source: APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Ghanaian doctor wins globally recognised award for his work on river blindness

Y una noche

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Y una noche, antes de dormir, observé la pinacoteca celeste, miré las luces de las luciérnagas, escuché los rumores y los silencios de la vida, sentí en mi interior el palpitar de la creación y aprendí que el amor y el bien definen la ruta a la inmortalidad.

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