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BY OLIVIA LEACH, GOSHEN
PUBLISHED 6:20 PM ET SEP. 29, 2022
Every year on Sept. 29, military veterans join local officials to mark “Orange County Veterans Memorial Day.”
It’s a day to remember 40 American servicemen who lost their lives during a single day in World War I.
All the soldiers were from Orange County, part of the 107th Regiment of the 27th Division.
Since Vietnam veteran David McTamaney was 10 years old, their stories have had an impact on his life. "As I learned just what they went through that terrible day, I felt this was not something that we need to forget," said McTamaney.
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"These men knew each other, loved each other, fought side by side, and died side by side," said McTamaney.
They lost their lives fighting on the front-lines of the Battle of the Hindenburg Line in Northern France. The battle was influential in helping the U.S. and the allies win World War I.
McTamaney was part of a group of Orange County residents who traveled to France and had the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of the 40 men exactly 100 years after their death.
"I was able to go to the exact spot that John T. Kenney, which was one of those 40 names, that he was killed," said McTamaney.
The day is also a chance to reflect on all of the men and women from Orange County who’ve sacrificed for the country’s freedom over the years. Like the men of the all-Black 369th Regiment who served 191 days on the front-lines, commonly known as the "Harlem Hellfighters," many of whom were recruited in Newburgh and Middletown.
"Such an opportunity to serve would afford them a sort of reason to prove themselves and their people as worthy of full and equal citizenship," said Dr. Jeffrey Sammons, a history professor at New York University.
McTamaney thinks about all the young men and women who’ve left their lives in Orange County to venture into the unknown, all out of love for country.
"The sacrifice that they put in without asking a question, they did it for America. We need to understand that’s what made us who we are," he said.
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Urban Archaeology Corps of the Northeast Archaeological Resources Program of the National Parks Service Tour
Clip about the topic of the fate of the William Seward statue in Alaska State Capitol with call-in from descendant David Fitzgerald.
Orange Country Historian, Johanna Yaun discusses the history of Newburgh architecture through the lens of the collaboration and friendship of Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. The lecture took place within the shell of the William A. M. Culbert House (a Downing and Vaux designed home) at the site of Martin Roth's art installation “From 2017-2021 Martin Roth transformed a ruin into a garden for a plant concert.”
I present at about 30 minutes into the meeting.
Clip of a discussion regarding the history of the County House (Orange Farms) presented by the Orange County Historian Johanna Yaun at the Valley View Advisory Committee July 20, 2021, 2 30 PM - 3 30 PM @ Government Center in Goshen.
On April 9, 2021 friends and family of Dr. David Schuyler gathered at Downing Park in Newburgh to honor his life and work with a memorial tree planting.
New York City, the American Revolution, and the Significance of the Number 45
After the end of the French and Indian War, there was tension over King George and Parliament’s plan to tax the Colonies to pay off the war debt. John Wilkes, editor of “The North Briton” newspaper and a member of Parliament, opposed the King in his publications. Wilkes’ most critical editorial was printed in 1763 in Issue # 45, a number highlighted to evoke memories of the Jacobite Uprising of 1745, commonly referred to as “The 45 Rebellion” or simply “45” in political culture. The King was personally offended and issued a warrant for Wilkes’ arrest. As a result, “Wilkes, Liberty, Number 45” lived on as a rallying call against unlawful imprisonment.
In New York City, the Sons of Liberty had a tradition of erecting “Liberty Poles” to voice opposition to British oppression. In 1766 they erected a pole in City Hall Park to celebrate the repeal of the Stamp Act. British soldiers chopped it down, the Sons of Liberty put a second one up, and it was chopped down again. The third pole went up and remained unchallenged until a year later in May 1767 when British soldiers noticed the townspeople gathering at the Liberty Pole to celebrate the anniversary of the repeal of the Stamp Act. They destroyed it once again. Undaunted, the Sons of Liberty erected the fourth pole, defiantly larger and wrapped in iron bands.
Soon after, the Quartering Act passed, requiring colonists to provide housing to British soldiers. The New York Provincial Assembly refused to support it, so they were prorogued, and the new Assembly approved public funds to be allocated for quartering troops.
In response to the Assembly’s reversal, an anonymous broadside began circulating in December of 1769 titled, “To the Betrayed Inhabitants of the City and Colony of New York.” The British soldiers reacted by setting off explosives at the Liberty Pole and leaving the splintered wood on the steps of Abraham Montayne’s Tavern and Coffee House which was located on Broadway, just across from the City Hall Park.
On January 19, 1770, the tension erupted into violence when a leader of the Sons of Liberty, Isaac Sears, interfered while British soldiers were posting broadsides of their own at an outdoor market by the East River wharves. Sears captured the offending soldiers and began to march them to City Hall. Other soldiers in a nearby barracks sounded alarm and then pursued the men, but crowds gathered to protect Sears. The crowd overwhelmed the soldiers and the soldiers fired shots into the crowd. Several people were injured. The incident took place in a small patch of grass known as “Golden Hill,” which is today visible only as a slight incline towards the intersection of William and John Street in the Financial district.
The Governor of New York offered 100 pounds in cash to anyone willing to reveal the name of the person who wrote the anonymous broadside. After three weeks passed without a response, the Governor ordered all printers in the city to be arrested and jailed. This led to printer James Parker being identified as a person of interest in the case. Parker then revealed that the author of the broadside was a man named Alexander McDougall.
A Fifth Liberty Pole was raised on February 6, 1770 on a plot of land owned by Isaac Sears. The next day, McDougall was accused of seditious libel against the Crown and coincidentally, his arrest warrant was number 45. In playing on this numerical association, McDougall became known as “the Wilkes of the Colonies” and demonstrators kept up a constant watch.
Every day, supporters appeared at his jail cell to cheer 45 times. Food and drink was shared, including 45 shots of rum, 45 pounds of beef, etc. On the 45th day, the Sons of Liberty brought 45 virgins dressed in white to sing Psalm 45. Newspapers humorously debated if there were really 45 virgins in the whole city to make up such a gathering, and one commenter joked that it was not possible since they were all 45 years old.
Because no one wanted the unpopular task of prosecuting McDougall, his confinement and the theatrics of his supporters lasted for three months. McDougall was ultimately released because the sudden death of James Parker, the printer, left the prosecution without any witnesses in the case.
The clash between the Sons of Liberty and the British soldiers that led to McDougall’s imprisonment is referred to as The Battle of Golden Hill. It is often considered by scholars to mark the “first bloodshed” of the Revolution. The second violent clash, known as the Boston Massacre, occurred six weeks later March 5, 1770 and resulted in five deaths.
For a brief time, during the years leading up to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the number 45 was understood as a symbol the American spirit in favor free speech and in condemnation of unlawful use of arrest to silence an opposing voice.
For this and many other contributions that Alexander McDougall made to the Revolutionary War, MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village/Soho was named in his honor.
All over the former colonies the symbol of the liberty pole persisted for a generation or more. In Newburgh, the population remained in close association and loyalty to George Washington and John Adams during their Presidential administrations. There was even an strong effort to rename the whole Precinct as the “Village of Washington” but it never fully stuck. The revolutionary spirit lived on in other ways too. In the 1793, editor Lucius Carey took over the old printing press that had been set up at the Fishkill Supply Depot to print General Orders for distribution, he established Newburgh’s earliest newspaper called the Newburgh Packet, then in 1798 a second local publication was introduced. The Mirror was edited by Philip Van Horne. Van Horne, a transplant from New Jersey, wrote avidly against the Federalist party and when the Sedition Act of 1798 was passed by Congress, Van Horne was among those arrested for his politics. In response, recalling the traditions of revolutionaries in the pre-war period, his local supporters erected a liberty pole in Newburgh. Not too much is known about the circumstances, but locals viewed it as a sedition pole and called it such, appearing as a mob to tear it down.
"I wasn't made for the great light that devours; a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end to shine it on the empty shadows."


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Rachel Parga was featured on BBC Radio this morning as part of a panel of experts providing advice for listeners in Lancashire on how to cope with Anxiety during the Pandemic.
If you would like to listen to the interview please click the picture above and navigate to 2hrs 26″. (Only available until end of January 2021)
If you would like to download the Bodyscan meditation mentioned in the Interview it can be found HERE
If you use this meditation when you are heading off to bed it will help you to get a peaceful nights sleep and help combat anxiety. If you need further support please contact us.

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Dominique Cojuangco Tatler Magazine cover|June 2013
Dominique Cojuangco, the only child of actress Gretchen Barretto, graces the cover of Tatler magazine June 2013 issue, where she appears on its cover with her father-Tonyboy Cojuangco.
Unveiled early this week on the Philippine Tatler's official website, the feature on Dominique is titled "All Grown Up."
"Tony Boy Cojuangco and Gretchen Barretto could only thank their lucky stars for the most precious person in their life, Dominique," the accompanying description of Dominique's spread in the magazine said. Dominique, whose birthday celebration made headlines in February, has said she wants to pursue a career in fashion.
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Technological interventions aiming to promote social participation among older adults (with and without dementia) should incorporate a social interaction element.
Explanation and Examples
The number of people with dementia who live in the community and are socially isolated is growing. Social isolation can negatively affect health and well-being. Therefore, psychosocial interventions are needed to promote the social participation of people with dementia living in the community. A systematic literature review was conducted to explore the effects of technological interventions on the social participation of older adults with and without dementia. Findings from 36 studies suggest that technological interventions that include a social interaction element (e.g. face-to-face contact, phone calls, text messages) are successful in promoting social participation among older adults. Examples are group interventions that provide regular interactions within a group, or interventions that enable to connect and communicate with other people (e.g. family, friends, or other older adults).
ThemesDementia Designing technological interventions Older adults Social interaction Social participation
Target groupsResearchers evaluating effect of technology on social participation Technology developers
Type of evidence
Systematic literature review
Heins, P., Boots, L.M.M., Koh, W.Q., Neven, A., Verhey, F.J., and de Vugt, M.E. (2021). The Effects of Technological Interventions on Social Participation of Community-Dwelling Older Adults with and without Dementia: A Systematic Review. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10, 2308. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10112308

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Once again, the Los Angeles Clippers are failing to live up to the expectations.
Having their two best players often miss games sure isn’t ideal for any team, especially from a chemistry perspective.
That’s definitely unfortunate, as Leonard continues to be one of the best, most impactful two-way players in the Association, even as a part-time player at most.
“He looks amazing. You can count on him to turn into Michael Jordan in the playoffs. He looks great now, but I think he’s gonna be even better once you get to the playoffs,” Embiid said.
Joel Embiid on Kawhi Leonard:
"He looks amazing. You can count on him to turn into Michael Jordan in the playoffs. He looks great now, but I think he's gonna be even better once you get to the playoffs." pic.twitter.com/hUenFUMMdD
— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) January 18, 2023
While comparing Leonard to Jordan could be a bit of a reach, he does a vast history of being at his best in the postseason.
Nonetheless, it seems like it’s been ages since we last saw him at full strength when it really counted, so who knows how he’s gonna perform at this point in his career?
Leonard has been the main advocate for load management and getting rest to get better for the playoffs.
But the Clippers need to have all their guys on the floor to develop rapport and fix their issues before the postseason, and having him in street clothes more often than not won’t help them with that.
So, all things considered, maybe he should just sit out until he’s actually ready and available to play night in and night out.


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Worship in the Sanctuary
We gather for worship each Sunday at 9:00 am. We are passionate about music at Trinity UMC, and we enjoy the offerings of both our praise band and our Chancel Choir.
Communion is served every Sunday. All are welcome to participate.
We are in the process of establishing a livestream of our in-person services.
On Sunday, July 24, 2022, we celebrated our last morning in worship at our historic property at 306 W Wisconsin Ave. To view the livestream from this special service, click here.
You can also view past podcasts of our online services on Trinity’s YouTube channel.
Trinity Music Ministry
Trinity has had a rich, long history of quality music. On Sundays, music is led by the Joyful Noise Praise Team, featuring a contemporary style, and our Chancel Choir, which is liturgical in style. Our music ministries are led by our Director of Music, Conya Hartman.
Have questions about participating in the Music Ministry? Please contact the church for more information.
Psalm 100: 1,2
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the lands!
Serve the Lord with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!


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It’s spring in the northwest and my garden is bursting forth with color, color, and color. Many of the shrubs and plants I grow are chosen specifically for arrangements. I focus heavily on texture and foliage color so even in January colorful arrangements, sans flowers, can be put together. I post photos here of some recent arrangements made for friends’ birthdays and “pick-me-up” bouquets. Today I assembled two in under 10 minutes. Gathering and cutting the stems took longer than putting them together.
I usually use plastic drinking glasses or glass jars that I recycle. To give them a pretty face, I use squares of cellophane, purchased at the dollar store. That way I have lots of colors to choose from. Using a square fits the jar better and looks tidier than a rectangular sheet. Be sure to use very sharp scissors to cut the cello. Don’t even try to use dull ones-trust me! The cello is then held together with stretchy cords. The extra amount at the top forms a pretty gathered collar and helps support any weak stems.
The bouquet is quickly put-together placing taller stems in the center with rounder ones on the outside. Large foliage forms a collar around the bouquet. Something I’ve learned is that if there is only a small amount of flowers to work with, augment it with foliage and group the floral stems together. One skinny stem scattered hither and yon gets lost in the mix so put the stems all together to make one stronger look. These bouquets were put together with just a stem or two . Don’t ever think there isn’t much to work with; try it and you will be delightfully surprised on how much there really is. There is no need to have volumes of stems and many different blooming plants. Use what you have and it will work.
Some of the foliage used in the arrangements are: huckleberry, lonicera, hosta, senecio, euphorbia, cypress, pieris japonica, hardy geranium. Much of my garden palette is burgundy, gray, chartruese and I find those colors work well in arrangements.
Flowers shown in the bouquets are: choisya,lamium, scilla, linaria, crabapple, tulip, geum, columbine, poppy, wild bleeding hearts, and hardy geranium.
Some other arrangements I have made are seen on my website,http://tigerlilysattic.com/gilded-lily/.
Just like having confidence pulling together a tablescape using what you have on-the-fly, it is possible to put together a happy, spontaneous floral arrangement with whatever your garden is showing at the moment.


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Strange Bedfellows Supporting Carbon Capture Tax Credit
A push for Congress to extend tax credits for carbon capture and sequestration has a diverse group of advocates, including some who make unlikely bedfellows.
Organizations ranging from think tanks to coal companies to environmental groups sent a letter this week to U.S. Senate Committee on Finance chairman Orrin Hatch and Ranking Member Ron Wyden, asking the senators to extend a tax credit for companies that capture and sequester the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel plants.
The groups are asking Hatch and Wyden to extend the tax credit in a bill that funds the Federal Aviation Administration. There’s already a tax credit for carbon capture, but it includes a cap of 75 million tons of carbon. The extension would eliminate the cap.
It’s not surprising that coal and energy companies support tax breaks for advanced coal technology — coal’s share of the nation’s energy mix is falling, and many think perfecting the technology to sequester greenhouse gases is the best hope for the industry.
“Commercializing carbon capture, use and storage technology is essential for meeting the world’s energy and economic goals,” said Peabody Energy CEO Glenn Kellow in a news release earlier this year.
But environmental groups have signed on, too.
“Our perspective is, we think carbon capture and storage is one of the key tools that we need in order to really decarbonize the planet,” said Kurt Waltzer of Clean Air Task Force.
Waltzer said to slow the greenhouse gases that are contributing to climate change, widespread deployment of carbon capture is necessary. And he and others see the tax credit as one way to make that happen.
Carbon capture technology itself is proven but isn’t widely used in the U.S. because it’s expensive. Marc Boom of the Natural Resources Defense Council — another group supporting the tax credit — said he can easily see the economics behind carbon capture changing.
“I think that in a future where we’re looking at a Clean Power Plan being in place or some type of carbon emissions reduction scheme in place, that the economics of this look a lot better,” Boom said. “So the tax credit is important to build in some certainty for those who are developing power plants to know that this technology could be there to help reduce those climate emissions.”
There’s currently a small-scale carbon capture project happening in Kentucky; a system is capturing gas from about 2 megawatts at Kentucky Utilities’ E.W. Brown plant.

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Farmer's Fertilizer Bulk Plant kit features:
Laser cut fertilizer supply company (or fertilizer plant as we call them in the Midwest) with trackside unloading capable of receiving dry fertilizer in bulk from railroad hopper cars. Fertilizer is moved from trackside with a series of augers and conveyers to storage bins inside the building. Fertilizer is then mixed to customer specifications and loaded in spreaders with a smaller conveyer which may be installed on the endwall or sidewall of our kit. The fertilizer company or farmers using spreader wagons or spreader trucks would then apply the fertilizer to the fields. Some plants also packaged fertilizer mixes in smaller sacks for retail sales to homeowners and gardeners.

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Death in Paradise returned on Sunday, and fans of the crime drama were excited to see Hayley Mills in her guest appearance.
The legendary actress starred alongside staple characters Neville Parker (played by Ralf Little) and the rest of the BBC drama’s cast as nursing home resident Nancy Martin.
However, her debut on the show ended up sparking fury among fans after she was killed off just minutes into the programme.
After a row broke out between Martin and her enemy Barbara (Ellie Haddington) during a heated game of bingo, she walked away from the others, alone.
The iconic actress appeared in the BBC crime drama show
However, she was soon discovered dead after being stabbed with a knitting needle, leaving the Saint Marie residents stunned and the detectives having to get to work to find out who the killer was.
Fans were baffled by the early departure of the iconic actress though and it didn’t take long for them to take to Twitter to question the plot decision.
One penned: “Hayley Mills getting killed off after 10 mins. #DeathInParadise,” while another echoed this, writing: “OMG they just had Hayley Mills murdered in #DeathInParadise.”
Another viewer added: “Hayley Mills got a slightly easy role in this!! Cushy filming number !!#deathinparadise.”
“You KILLED Hayley Mills! Nooooo! #DeathInParadise,” a stunned fourth fan exclaimed.
Another joked: “#DeathInParadise Lesson learned. Don’t say they won’t kill Hayley Mills’ character because it’s Hayley Mills…..”
Death in Paradise fans weren't pleased with the way the plot unfolded
“I know they have not just killed Hayley Mills off in the first 5mins? #DeathInParadise,” (sic) a sixth complained.
Elsewhere, Death in Paradise fans are still wondering if leading man Little will remain in the series for much longer.
As the fourth detective of the long-running series, Little has become the longest-serving protagonist and, while his character is much-loved among fans, many continue to speculate he could soon be replaced.
In a recent episode, Parker glanced at a picture of his former colleague, Florence Cassell (Josephine Jobert), who left the series in 2022.
Death in Paradise fans have also been wondering how long Little will stay in the drama
This was the latest detail leading viewers to suggest Little’s time could soon be up if his character reunited with his friend.
Previous detectives on the show have starred for around two seasons, so it’s not a surprise that fans are gearing up for Little, who has been in the role for five series now, to potentially announce his departure soon.
While he and BBC bosses haven’t said anything about him leaving just yet, viewers continue to speculate whether or not another famous face will take over the role of the tropical island drama series.


- Cape student sues, accuses school officials of slamming her to ground multiple times (04/28/16)46
- Bob Evans restaurant in Cape Girardeau among chain's 21 closings (04/26/16)9
- Missouri House votes to allow concealed weapons without permits (04/28/16)8
- Police report filed, but no charges in incident at Cape Central (04/29/16)40
- Two hurt in motorcycle wreck on Interstate 55 (04/25/16)1
- Senator introduces bill for I-57 that would connect Sikeston with Little Rock (04/28/16)4
- Law firm requests information about Cape's traffic cameras (04/25/16)2
- Local lawmakers split over failed medical marijuana bill; voters may have a say (04/26/16)19
- Local company makes eco-friendly kitty litter that cuts cat-box smell (04/25/16)
- Man accused of pointing BB gun at Chaffee resident (04/26/16)2
First lady pledges funding for Buddhas
PARIS -- First lady Laura Bush said Wednesday she would hit up wealthy friends in Texas for money to help restore Afghanistan's two towering Buddhas blasted to rubble by the Taliban last year.
On a tour of an Afghan exhibit at the Musee Guimet, she also called on her husband's administration to help salvage Afghanistan's art.
With the exhibit traveling next to Tokyo and to her own native Texas, Mrs. Bush said her friends back home would be hearing from her.
"I know a number of philanthropists in Houston who probably would be very generous in donating to a restoration of the Buddhas and I think that's very important."
Aides said they did not know just whom she had in mind.
There is some precedent for her arm-twisting: When it came to getting money for school uniforms for Afghan girls, Mrs. Bush said she called Labor Secretary Elaine Chao and lobbied for the project.
As for her message to President Bush, the first lady told reporters: "I think there is a role for our government as well, as we work to rebuild Afghanistan, to pay attention to the art and the culture and the history of Afghanistan."
Mrs. Bush also called on Afghan warlords to make sure the pieces that have been found and stashed are preserved.
"We're certainly playing an active role in trying to encourage the warlords to keep these relics if they're found, and make a museum in their own community to show people when they come there what the history of their country is and what their very, very long and diverse heritage is," Mrs. Bush said.
Leaving the Guimet, she went to the apartment of a former colleague of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
There, Mrs. Bush met for nearly an hour with Pearl's widow, Mariane.
They talked about terrorism in Pakistan, where Pearl was kidnapped and killed earlier this year.


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I have to confess I do not understand what the fuss is about religious symbols on municipal property. First we had the Cranston school prayer, and now the cross on town land in front of a fire station. Over a thousand people rallied to demand that it stay. I just don’t get it.
Is it such a big deal? The law about such things is pretty settled. No matter how many people want the cross to stay, when it goes to court, it will almost definitely be ordered removed. There has been case after case. There is little doubt. And it is really not a big deal to me.
But having said that, I was watching Lively Experiment today on PBS, and listening to the moderator say she couldn’t see why anyone would have a problem with a cross displayed on town land. I have to take exception.
I fully understand why someone would be offended when it appears that a town, any town, is taking a position of one religion over any other. In a public middle school I had a teacher who thought that it was his mission to convert me to Christianity. He told me every afternoon I left school that he was praying for me to find Jesus (Now that offended me.)
But while I am only mildly offended by the cross, (and I am much more offended by the menorah on the town lawn at Hanukah) there are many things in the world that offend me much more!
There is much more for me to worry about. IE: Budgets, taxes, poverty, DCYF, welfare abusers, etc. Why should I care about a cross on a monument?
It offends me more that politicians in Woonsocket will stir up all kinds of anger to support keeping it. They are willing to fight a court case (which the city will lose) to divert attention from such gross mismanagement that the city of Woonsocket either had to file bankruptcy or charge a 13+% supplement tax on everyone in the city! And then they want to fight and have the city pay a no-win lawsuit? That is nuts!
Now that offends me! You know what else? The comments on TV that the group in Wisconsin made a mistake going after the cross because it meant taking on the
veterans! Well I have a lot of respect for our veterans of all denominations, but whether it is the veterans, or the teachers, or widows, or pretzel salesmen, the cross needs to be right or wrong on its own merits, not because one special group supports it.
The veterans do not get their own constitution. The veterans fought for our constitution. What is good for us, is good for them, and that includes following a judges’ ruling.
But the most offensive thing I saw or read was Bob Kerr’s column in the Providence Journal last week. He was indignant the person (or persons) did release their names to complain. He all but demanded they come forward. I am a big fan of people coming forward. I have called people out for refusing to do so. And if it were me I would probably come forward.
But really Mr. Kerr, can you blame these people for not coming forward? Look at what happened to Jessica Alquist in Cranston. She was bullied and tormented by “so-called” Christian zealots! There were death threats, police protection, there no flower shop in the state willing to deliver her flowers. These angry religious God-loving people made her life a living hell.
Is this the message of Christianity that the prayer on the wall intended? Not from what I have read. Mr. Kerr, what do you think would happen to these people if they came forward about the cross? Would their lives be safe? Over 1,000 people came out to defend the cross, and the next day only 400 showed at a rally to stop bullying. What do you think would happen if someone got hold of their names and put it on the internet?
Like I said it is not a big deal to me. I have plenty of windmills to tilt at without this one. But maybe when the founders put in the separation of church state, after seeing centuries of religious wars in Europe, they understood how religion, anyone’s religion, can make good people do things they would not do otherwise.
And maybe it would be better to keep it out of the public square.

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IBM and the Leicester Tigers rugby football club in the United Kingdom are teaming up to use analytics software to cut down on injuries.
The Leicester Tigers, a frequent champion in the English rugby union, is using IBM's predictive analytics software to assess injury risks and then deliver training programs for players at risk. The Tigers are hoping analytics can keep players on the field longer.
IBM's software is designed to measure fatigue levels and game intensity. The Tigers will also crunch physical and biological data from its 45 players.
In addition, the Tigers plan to measure psychological factors such as stress levels, social issues and environmental stress.
Add it up and IBM and the Tigers are trying to put more science in the game. IBM's software will also be used to gauge the performance for its under-19 academy feeder teams and choose players accordingly.
Disclosure: I'm a mostly retired prop and hooker who probably wouldn't have benefited much from this software. The output from this system would have merely said: You're slow, old and often injured. I pretty much knew that already. Go Bayonne Bombers.

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"Write About Love," an entry to this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival, is a movie that pays homage and pokes fun at the tropes of the very popular romantic movie genre.
The result is both unsurprising and awe-inspiring, which means it should delight fans of Pinoy romantic movies and anyone who is looking for love on the big screen this Christmas season.
In "Write About Love," actress Miles Ocampo plays a female writer who just sold her first script, a romantic movie titled “Just Us,” to a film studio.
But even before she can celebrate, her producers deliver a devastating news: another film studio just released a trailer of an upcoming movie with a story similar to hers.
“We need to redevelop it,” one of the producers tells her, with another of them piping in, "Yung kwento mo kasi, may pagka… mainstream-ish."
So their solution: get an experience screenwriter, played by Rocco Nacino, to help the neophyte female writer revise her script and turn it from a boys-meets-girl story into a relationship story.
As expected, the female writer, a no-boyfriend-since-birth with idealistic notions about love, clashes with the male writer’s no nonsense approach about writing. But soon enough they settle their differences to develop the perfect movie love story — and, perhaps, also their own?
If you’re wondering why mentioning Miles and Rocco’s character names aren’t mentioned here, it is because the movie does not reveal it until the very end. It is a smart but needless gimmick, the mileage of which will depend on whether you get its point or not.
The movie then shows us the writers’ vision for their onscreen love story. In “Just Us,” Joyce (Yeng Constantino) and Marco (Joem Bascon)'s seemingly perfect relationship is dented, thanks to Joyce’s dream of working in South Korea as a singer.
Writers making a love story isn’t a new topic in Philippine cinema. It isn’t even new in the context of the Metro Manila Film Festival. The 2015 MMFF entry "#Walang Forever" is about a screenwriter, played by Jennylyn Mercado, whose relationship becomes material for her movies.
There’s also the recently released "Last Fool Show," about a female indie filmmaker who uses her failed relationship as material for her first mainstream romantic movie. The movie switches aspect ratios (from widescreen to full screen) to distinguish between the two sides of her narrative — a gimmick that "Write About Love" also uses.
But "Write About Love" is different. It uses the film-within-a-film conceit to deliver what feels like a love letter to the Pinoy romantic movie genre.
If you’re a fan of local romantic movies, "Write About Love" will make you realize how the genre has evolved the past couple of years. It works for the most part.
For instance: the two writers end up writing a movie that probably won’t be out of place in the slate of a mainstream movie company… in 2014. (Spoiler alert: besides the work versus love conflict, Joyce and Marco’s love story involves big romantic gestures, best friends falling in love with one another, among other cliches.)
Wasn’t the female writer criticized for writing a “mainstream-ish” story?
But that’s also the point; the film-within-the-film has to be “mainstream” in order to point out its absurdities and pay homage to it.
In one of the movie’s funniest scenes, Miles and Rocco debate whether or not Joem’s Marco should get a female best friend. The point is moot but it is still funny nonetheless.
He needs a male best friend; he’ll just fall in love with a female best friend, Miles tells Rocco.
Isn’t that a bit mainstream, Rocco replies.
In another scene, Miles makes Yeng’s Joyce utter to Marco: “Mahal mo ba talaga ako, o minahal mo lang ako?” The line is ridiculous — it doesn’t make sense, when you really think about — but it’s the kind of dialogue that is the bread and butter of the genre.
"Write About Love" recognizes the ridiculousness of the tropes and cliches of our big screen romances while fully indulging in it. It is, after all, a love letter, so "Write About Love" wouldn’t criticize what makes the Pinoy romantic movie tick.
Rocco suits his leading man role. He has the swagger of a young up and coming director and the quiet confidence of an established auteur. And as a bonus, he looks good on screen, too.
While he entered showbiz as a contestant in the Kapuso reality talent show Starstruck, he actually broke through as an actor in the 2011 Cinemalaya movie "Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa."
He hasn’t done a lot of movies recently (his last was the 2017 Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino entry Bar Boys) and one would hope, after watching "Write About Love," that he appears in more of them. He has the looks and the charm to be the next big romantic movie leading man.
Miles is also an aspiring screenwriter like her onscreen character, having attended Ricky Lee’s screenwriting workshop a few years ago. This is also Miles’ first lead role in a movie. That bit of authenticity seems to have lent her portrayal some sort of gravitas.
"Write About Love" is about so much more, of course. It’s about the different kinds of love we encounter and how it affects our lives. It’s also about the struggles of screenwriters in the country and how they are not always recognized. At its core, it’s about why we love romantic movies so much.
"Write About Love" is a smart, intimate film that also delivers the requisite romantic “hugot.” It’s a worthy movie to watch this Christmas. — LA, GMA News


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I looked at my own family and their relationship with our Jewish Heritage. The project is an uncompromising excavation of my family's history, in familiar and unfamiliar spaces, made through dialogues, performances (sittings) and 'encounters' with documents and objects, uncovering the complexities of remembering and forgetting.
I understood when I started the process of unpicking a family history that has the trauma of displacement and loss of life, that I was entering un-discussed and unknown territory. There was a real dilemma about what to reveal and what to keep from public view especially as my great grandmother rarely expressed any desire to discuss the war. I discovered hidden stories, kept for a lifetime, and answers to questions only raised a multitude more. It is one thing to know a history and another to feel it.
So far I have made a series of documents that are testament to a life; the attempt to remake a life after the destruction of everything once known and believed in. I emerge from this. I am the first generation of my family to have been able to engage with following a trail of documentation and discoveries.
I hope that what I have been able to create is lasting. I started on a visual journey creating a narrative from stories passed down the family; found that I wanted to document my family’s physical environment and who lived there. I then looked back into archival material and then followed a trail of documentation back to Vienna where my family originated from before the war. What I have ended up with includes written experience, observation, and reflection.

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Few days back, popular Nigerian singer and entertainer, Timaya shared new pictures of himself on Instagram, with his face losing previous glow of freshness.
Fans have reacted to his new look, and some have reacted to his physical appearance, worried that the Dem Mama Records artist could probably be ill.
A concerned fan wrote, “why him face come thin, this can’t be Timaya”
But it might not be, as Timaya seems to compliment his new look, as he captioned the photo as, “You’re such a fine man😅 CHULO.”
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10.29.15 APEC Art Party Fundraiser!!!! (Little Neck, New York)
October 29, 2015 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Alley Pond Environmental Center is having an ART PARTY FUNDRAISER!!!!
Join us for a night of creative fun. Your artistic entertainer will take you step by step through the process. It’s a Party, not an art school. Spend some quality time with your friends for a good cause. Make some memories and take home your creations. All supplies; two hours of artistic entertainment and light snacks included in fee
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Here's a story that hasn't gotten covered in the U.S. press: As the USA prepares for a war against Iraq, it is being sued by Iran for its previous close relationship to Saddam Hussein. At the UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ), Teheran is accusing the United States of delivering dangerous chemicals and deadly viruses to Baghdad during the 1980s. Reports on the case have appeared in countries including Germany, England, Pakistan and Malaysia. In the United States, Associated Press writer Anthony Deutsch filed a report on the case, but it does not seem to have been picked up by any U.S. newspapers. However, the National Security Archive, a nonprofit research institute on international affairs, has published a series of declassified U.S. documents detailing the U.S. embrace of Saddam Hussein in the early 1980s, including a photo of Donald Rumsfeld personally shaking Hussein's hand.
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26th September 2022
Surrey Stands With Ukraine’
The Vice Lord-Lieutenant, Sir Stephen Lamport, was guest of honour at an evening of Ukrainian music organised in Epsom Methodist Church on 24 September by the Epsom-based charity, ’Surrey Stands With Ukraine’.
A group of highly talented young Ukrainian musicians, most of them refugees from the war, performed at an international standard a programme of classical and modern Ukrainian works. The evening was attended by many Ukrainian refugee families living in the Epsom area.
’Surrey Stands With Ukraine’ is one of a number of charities established following the invasion in February. It supports the people of Ukraine by collecting first aid and search and rescue supplies needed by those on the ground, and organising transport to deliver these supplies from Epsom to the Polish/Ukrainian border.
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THE Government plans to auction two telecommunications licences by July.
Approval for operators in the 700 megahertz (MHz) band will pave the way for the roll-out of 4G technology, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), while the requirements demand that networks or services be deployed across 90 per cent of the country within five years.
The auction opens in May, according to Telecommuni-cations Minister Phillip Paulwell, who yesterday told Parliament that potential investors from Asia, Europe and North America have already expressed interest.
Importantly, the cost of deployment of the networks, primarily aimed at improving broadband in Jamaica, is lower than systems operating at higher frequencies.
"The 700 MHz band spectrum tends to be more penetrative and propagates farther, meaning that the signal goes through walls more easily, giving better coverage inside buildings, and requires fewer towers to cover a specific geographic area," said Paulwell.
What's more, a provision in the Telecoms Amendment Act, which empowers the OUR to impose an infrastructure sharing obligation on all licensees, should allow new players in the sector to roll out without taking on heavy costs of infrastructure and facilities such as cell sites and towers, landing stations and cables.
The winner of one of the licences, called the first prime band, may also be required to build and operate international sub-sea fibre-optic cables, but approval for that would come with the award of the licence.
"The licences will be awarded to the highest bidders, once their bids meet or exceed the reserve price, and upon being determined as "fit and proper" by the regulators," said the telecommunications minister. "Both licences have a 15-year term. I'd like to underscore here how serious the Government is about the requirement to deliver mobile broadband services within the timeframe established, and if the timeframe is not adhered to, I will promptly withdraw that licence."
LTE is a highly effective next-generation mobile technology that allows delivery of data, Internet applications, video streaming, mobile TV and music downloads and streaming to mobile devices in higher definition than is possible with existing 3G technologies and at speeds that rival current domestic fixed broadband connections, according to Paulwell.
Some networks in the US boast that LTE can download up to 10 times faster than 3G.
Internationally the band was used for analogue television broadcasting, but has been allocated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for broadband wireless services.
Brazil, North America and most of the rest of South America have already rolled out commercial LTE service, made commitments to do so or are in the process of deploying the network.
Jamaica has the capacity to accommodate three licensees with the frequency band.


Toyota have officially revealed the latest face lifted Yaris model. The Yaris model has been amongst the most successful models under the Toyota badge and is ready to continue to support last years best selling car manufacturer.
The new look Yaris model has taken on the look of the next generation Aygo model which has already achieved a high rating of design quality upon its release earlier this year. The Toyota brand insist that both the Aygo and the Yaris models are models based on the younger car market and expect to continue to dominate the small car market alongside the Citroen C1 and the Peugeot 108.
Toyota insist that the update to the Yaris model has been quite a detailed and large job. The Japanese mass market manufacturer has announced that over one thousand new parts have been placed on the updated model.
The new look Yaris will have more of a rigid body structure along with a complete re-design of the rear suspension. The Yaris model was part of mass recall in the UK just 12 months ago after a number of issues regarding the brakes came to light.
Toyota returned to the top of the worlds car market last year after outselling US manufacturers General Motors and the Volkswagen Group. However, the firm had been away from the top spot since 2009.
Since that year the Toyota brand has faced a number of issues including the mass market recall of over 10 million models. However, it is expected that the brand may just miss out on the top spot this year with Volkswagen favourites to reach the top.
The newly updated Yaris will have the existing engine range at its disposal and motorists will have the choice of the 1.33 litre petrol and the 1.4 litre diesel engine. It is believed that Toyota may also offer the smaller 1.0 litre engine that is currently on offer in the Aygo model.
We have seen over the past 12 months, Ford dominate in the UK car market thanks to the low emissions and high fuel economy rating, 1.0 litre engine. Vauxhall have since followed in the US brands footsteps with Toyota expected to do the same.


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The Mets will shut down Daniel Murphy for at least a week, reports Marc Carig at Newsday, after he injured his hamstring running the bases in a spring training game on Thursday afternoon. Entering the final year of his contract, Murphy might not figure into the team's long-term plans, but he is an important player for the 2015 season. Last year, he hit .289/.332/.403 with a 110 wRC+ and played decently enough in the field to be worth 2.8 fWAR.
With Opening Day not all that far away, Murphy could start the year on the disabled list if he misses more than a week. In the short-term, the Mets have a few options for replacing him in Dilson Herrera, Matt Reynolds, Daniel Muno, and Ruben Tejada. In the abstract, Eric Campbell and Michael Cuddyer could stand at second base, too. In Carig's report, general manager Sandy Alderson rules out Herrera for the gig, as he has already been sent to minor league camp.


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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released preliminary data for November indicating total industry-wide cargo traffic, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), decreased by 1.1% year over year. Despite the decline in demand, IATA said November’s performance was the best since March 2019, and reflects the growing importance of large e-commerce events such as Singles Day in Asia and Black Friday.
Although remaining almost 2% lower than 2018, November’s growth outcome from the new export order component of the global manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) is one of the best results recorded since early 2018, according to IATA. Therefore, if the historical relationship holds, IATA anticipates air freight may expect further improvement in growth in the the coming months.
“Demand for air cargo in November was down 1.1% compared with the previous year. That’s better than the 3.5% decline posted in October. But it is a big disappointment considering that the fourth quarter is usually air cargo’s peak season,” said IATA’s Director General and CEO Alexandre de Juniac. “Looking forward, signs of a thawing in US-China trade tensions are good news. But trading conditions at present remain very challenging.”
Meanwhile, industry-wide airfreight capacity measured in available freight tonne kilometers (AFTKs), rose 2.9% y-o-y for the month and 2.1% for the first eleven months of 2019. Capacity growth has now “outstripped” growth in demand for the 19th consecutive month, according to IATA.
As air freight capacity growth remained above demand growth, the industry-wide load factor has fallen by a sizeable 2.0 percentage points for November 2019 and 2.6 percentage points for the first eleven months of 2019, compared to the same period the year prior.
Freight volumes fell across most key regions except for Europe and Africa. However, key industry drivers overall remained stable in November 2019 given the slower speed of y-o-y decline in industry-wide FTKs along with the stabilization in seasonally adjusted freight volumes, according to IATA. These indicators came on the back of positive developments in the U.S.-China trade war negotiations, which suggest airfreight at the end of 2019 into 2020 may see a return in growth.
Continuing the trend that emerged in mid-2018, Africa topped growth out of all regions with airfreight demand jumping 19.8% y-o-y in November. Capacity grew 13.7% y-o-y, despite the small size of the region’s market, which makes up only 1.6% of the world’s share of airfreight. Year-to-date, demand and capacity are up by 7.0% y-o-y and 13.7%, respectively. According to IATA, this trend continues to be underpinned, in part, by large-scale foreign investment, in particular from Asia, which creates new business and trade opportunities.
In November, Europe also showed signs of recovery. European carriers airfreight demand and capacity increased 2.6% and 4.0 y-o-y, respectively, in November. For the first eleven months of 2019 FTKs declined 1.7% while capacity has increased 3.8% y-o-y. IATA said growth in Europe, which makes up 23.3% of the global airfreight market, contributed the most to the improvement in the industry-wide growth rate.
Meanwhile, carriers based in North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia saw continued declines in total airfreight demand in the low- to mid-single-digits in November. Year-to-date North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia saw similar declines. Only Latin America saw flat growth in total demand over the first eleven months of 2019, compared to 2018.
Even with these mixed results, IATA’s report ultimately finds that the airfreight industry can expect to record positive y-o-y growth rates again in the near future due to improved U.S.-China relations and stabilizing FTKs.


The Jubilee Party has made additional changes to its Parliamentary leadership following a meeting held at State House on Tuesday, chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
A statement from State House said that Jubilee resolved to replace Majority Whip Benjamin Washiali and his deputy Cecily Mabarire with Navakholo MP Emmanuel Wangwe and Richard Maoka Maore respectively.
“The Parliamentary Group meeting replaced Hon Benjamin Washiali as the Majority Whip with Hon Emmanuel Wangwe. Hon Cecily Mbarire was replaced by Hon Richard Maoka Maore as the Deputy Whip,” said the Statement.
During the meeting, President Uhuru appointed Kipipiri MP Amos Kimunya as the Secretary of the Jubilee Coalition Joint Parliamentary Group.
National Assembly Speaker Justin B. Muturi will continue serving in the same capacity as well as Moses Cheboi as Deputy Speaker.
Garissa Township MP Adan Duale will continue serving as the Majority Leader in the National Assembly, with Hon Jimmy Nuru Angwenyi as his deputy.
The meeting was attended by among others; Deputy President William Ruto who is also the Jubilee Coalition's Deputy Party Leader, Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju and 212 Jubilee Members of Parliament.


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Grant Wallace Band
Part band/part composers collective, Grant Wallace Band is a collaboration between myself and fellow composer/performers Ben Hjertmann and Luke Gullickson. Through a uniquely collaborative process, we create and perform music that defies easy categorization, combining threads of new music, jazz, and American vernacular styles. We have played throughout the country, including appearances at Fast Forward Austin, the Resonant Bodies Festival, and the Chicago Cultural Center. We have collaborated with Ensemble Dal Niente, the Chicago Composers Orchestra, and the Houston Grand Opera. Our first LP, Axle of the World (with Rabbit), was released in 2015 on the Two Labyrinths label. A second full-length album, By This Time Tomorrow, is forthcoming. For more information, visit grantwallaceband.com.
A nightmare comedy routine (with laugh track) composed for me and Doyle Armbrust by Alex Temple. The piece is demanding in its highly detailed notation, its use of voice while playing, and its reliance on a relaxed, comedic, delivery. This video is from the premiere performance in May 2016 at Northwestern University.
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My score for dropshift dance's 2014 piece, Imposter/Malleable, utilized multi-layered viola overdubs. These recordings drew on techniques from minimalism (i.e., Steve Reich's "Phase" pieces), loop-pedal improvisation, and established studio techniques (Jaco Pastorius' "Crisis" is one example). While in this case, the multiple parts were recorded and played back as fixed media, I have also experimented with layering in real time using live processing.
Living in Chicago for six years, I had the opportunity to hear and play with some of the leading figures in the contemporary improvisation scene. Playing in small and large groups with experienced improvisers inspired me to explore the untapped possibilities of my instrument and to develop a multi-dimensional approach to ensemble playing and material development.
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Danny Fisher-Lochhead, alto saxophone; Katherine Young, bassoon; Chris Fisher-Lochhead, viola; Kathryn Schulmeister, bass
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I have been fortunate enough to have close personal relationships with many musicians with whom I have worked through the years. One such person is Ben Hjertmann, a composer and singer who I met in grad school and with whom I continue to find joy and inspiration in collaborations to this day. In different configurations and under different names, we have performed and recorded together regularly since 2011. I appear on the 2012 album Angelswort and the 2015 album Psychopomp.
Between 2007 and 2009, I was a member of Carla Kihlstedt's music-theater project Necessary Monsters. The ensemble, a diverse group of musicians including members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Rube Waddell, and Zen Cabaret performed the work in Oakland and Chicago. The experience was formative; over the course of several weeks, the band became a temporary family and I learned how to negotiate the constantly shifting balance between camaraderie and professionalism. I also spent my first long days recording in the studio, acquiring experience and skills that I rely on to this day.


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There are many well-reputed brands and companies that support Israel. After the outbreak of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, a large number of famous brands and companies have shown clear support for each side. Some of the most famous brands have openly started supporting Israel, whereas others circuitously express their support.
Customers are also concerned about supporting their preferred side by increasing sale or boycotting the products. In this article, we have mentioned a list of brands that stand with Israel and support it by donating or expressing media support.
To boycott brands and companies that support Israel has become a topic of global discussion. Israeli forces are killing thousands of Palestinians each day, and it’s a time to show support to our Muslim brothers and sisters by boycotting brands and companies that support Israel.
These brands are very famous and are part of our routine. Each Muslim must boycott these brands and companies as well as Israeli products.
Some companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Intel, Google, Nestlé, and Estée Lauder Companies, support Israel in various ways, such as engaging in business activities and investments in the region.
There are many other major international brands that have also expressed their support for Israel including Apple, CAT, American Eagle, Hewlett Packard (HP), Hyundai, and PUMA.
Below are many brands and companies that are either strong supporters of Israel or funding Israel; this listicle gives information about such brands.
Pfizer Inc. is a big name in the pharmaceutical industry. It’s a multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company. The company is led by CEO Albert Bourla, who recently expressed his contact with friends and relatives in Israel. He has also declared the launch of a humanitarian relief campaign for Israelis.
PepsiCo is a global company that produces food and beverages on a large scale. It has a major presence in Israel, with a variety of business interests.
In 2018, PepsiCo spent $3.2 billion to make a venture with SodaStream. It has also made a joint venture with Israel’s famous food and beverage company Strauss Group Ltd. PepsiCo’s business activities emphasize its strong engagement in the region.
Some of the famous brands that come under the PepsiCo label are:
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Coca-Cola has been a persistent supporter of Israel since 1966. This company has permitted the customization of a bottle for Israel but turned down a similar demand for Palestine in 2021. This tweet from Coca-Cola raised questions about the company’s stance.
Here are some of the famous beverage brands that come under the label of Coca-Cola;
- Diet Coke
Oracle Corporation is a leading American technology firm that has recently expressed its strong concerns over the attacks directed at Israel and its citizens. The company has also announced that it will support its employees and the Israeli government.
Many streaming service providers are using Oracle services. Some renewed companies are Netflix and Intel.
Netflix creates content that often depicts Israel positively and also underlines it as a victim in various settings.
On the other hand, Intel Corporation is another company using Oracle. It has had a significant presence in Israel since 1974, and it has more than 11,700 Israeli employees.
Tesla is an American multinational automotive brand famous for its innovative electric vehicles (EVs). Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, has shown its support for Israel in a recent event. Moreover, the social media platform X has removed many Hamas-related accounts because they don’t want anti-Israel groups on the platform, said Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X.
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Procter & Gamble is also supporting Israel indirectly through their business ties with Avgol Nonwoven Industries. It supplies diapers to its major client, P&G. Some of the famous brands such as Olay, CoverGirl, Pampers, Pantene, Head and Shoulders, and Always are part of P&G.
L’Oreal is a reputed beauty and skincare brand in the world. This brand has made Israel its Middle East trade core by investing in manufacturing and innovation. This move of L’Oreal has created a significant consumer division. People who defend Palestine started boycotting their products, whereas the supporters started purchasing rapidly.
Moreover, L’Oréal Paris owns almost 36 renowned brands that are listed below that are supporting or donating to Israel.
Ralph Lauren, the beauty brand under L’oreal Paris, keeps on donating to Israel because the owner himself is a Jew.
Check out the list of brands that come under L’Oréal Paris:
- Essie, Kérastase
- Giorgio Armani Beauty
- IT Cosmetics
- La Roche-Posay,
- Maybelline New York
- Prada Beauty
- Ralph Lauren
- Shu Uemura
- Urban Decay
- Yves Saint Laurent Beauté
Another most famous makeup and hair care brand, Revlon, has a partnership with Ronald Perelman, a trustee of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Simon Wiesenthal Center manages the Museum of Tolerance, which has faced criticism for its association with the Zionist movement.
On the other hand, Gal Gadot, the brand ambassador for Revlon, is also a strong supporter of Israel. You can also see her public profile, in which she prominently supports Israel. Her support of Israel makes her a prominent figure connected with the brand.
Estée Lauder Companies
Estée Lauder Companies is an international manufacturer and marketer of many renowned fragrance, skincare, makeup, and hair care products. Some of the famous brands that come under the Estée Lauder Companies include Estée Lauder, La Mer, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Clinique, MAC Cosmetics, Smashbox, Tom Ford, Too Faced, Origins, Dr. Jart+, Bumble and Bumble, Darphin, La Mer, Aramis, Bobbi Brown and etc.
Some of these beauty brands support Israel. Ronald Lauder is the Chairman of Estée Lauder Companies. The company committed to the Jewish State support with Mr. Lauder’s active support for the region.
Furthermore, the Estée Lauder Companies is also endorsing breast cancer awareness in association with the Israel Cancer Association.
Leslie Wexner, the owner of Victoria’s Secret, is a strong supporter of Israel. His support is evident in recent actions when The Wexner Foundation decided to stop its financial support for Harvard University.
The Wexner Foundation is owned by Leslie Wexner and his wife, and this decision is the result of Harvard’s supporting the student groups that held Israel accountable for the recent violence in the conflict.
Chanel is a strong supporter of Israel because we can see the recent note circulating on social media by the owner of the brand speaking in favor of Israel. The brand has also donated nearly $4 million to support the region.
This contribution highlights the brand’s commitment to assisting the region. Chanel released the following note in the support!
Louis Vuitton is a luxury fashion brand renowned for its high-quality products, including apparel, handbags, shoes, etc. The fashion brand has recently launched its keffiyeh stole worth $700 with Israel flag colors and patterns to show its support.
The CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, has expressed support for Israel. He also has received for his role in promoting a strong U.S.-Israel alliance.
However, the company has stated on its official website that they are not supporting the region.
McDonald’s Israel franchise said on its social media accounts that they offered free meals for Israeli soldiers. This act of McDonald’s raised the question of their pro-Israeli stance.
On the other hand, many franchises in Muslim countries declared that they are not associated with the pro-Israeli stance.
How do you know if a product is from Israel?
To know the product’s origin, you need to check for the “made in” information. You can also manufacture the product online. Moreover, here are some of the apps available on Play Sores that scan barcodes for product details.
So, readers, this is our guide on brands and companies that support Israel. These companies are engaging in business activities, investments, and collaboration in the country.


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Kewmunity at the Heart of Our Conference
Over 100 of our leaders participated in local community outreach activities as part of our leadership conference in Birmingham.
Our leadership team recently gathered for our Back to Business, Fit for Future Conference and Awards at Holiday Inn Birmingham M6J7. With sustainability and community at the top of the agenda, we collaborated with our new charity partner, the Trussell Trust as well as Sea Change Wine, Birmingham City Mission and Heritage Seed Library, to participate in a series of community outreach activities in the Birmingham area.
The day kicked off with a presentation from our new charity partner, the Trussell Trust, highlighting why our support is needed now more than ever. It was inspiring to see how we, as both individuals and as a company, can make a difference and help so many people.
Our leaders were then delighted to lend their support and people power, heading out into the community surrounding Birmingham, with activities including Trussell Trust Mobile Group Treasure Hunt, Warehouse Sorting, Weeding & Crops with a Horticulturist, Sea Change waterway clean up and gardening activities with voco.
Our CEO, Chris Dexter commented “We’re so grateful to have had the opportunity to participate in this series of community outreach activities, kindly organised by our charity and local partners. We look forward to continuing our community outreach initiatives, as part of our ongoing commitment to giving back, as we get Back to Business, Fit for Future.”
As part of the conference, various fundraising efforts took place for Trussell Trust, raising a total of £2,110 from a raffle, the Race the UK cycle challenge and donations on JustGiving.
We look forward to continuing our community outreach initiatives, as part of our ongoing commitment to giving back, as we get Back to Business, Fit for Future.
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Amateur soccer is about clubs and in 1862 the first one was founded in the States. Oneida Football Club was founded in Boston by Gerritt Miller Smith. Their early matches were played in Boston Commons. Today stands a monument at that location commemorating the club.
Most of what they played was before the writing of the laws of the game for association football and any coded rules for American football or rugby. They played until 1865 and were in defeated.
The monument inscription reads “On this field the Oneida Football Club of Boston, the first organized football club in the United States, played against all comers from 1862 to 1865. The Oneida goal was never crossed.”

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The 25th death anniversary of former prime minister and a veteran national leader Ataur Rahman Khan will be observed today.
In observance of the day, Ataur Rahman Khan Smriti Sangsad will hold a memorial programme at Jatiya Press Club in the capital at 3:00pm, said a press release yesterday.
BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan will be present as the chief guest while BNP Vice Chairman advocate Khandaker Mahbub Hossain will preside over the programme. Born in 1905 in Balia village of Dhamrai in Dhaka, Ataur Rahman Khan was involved in political movements during British, Pakistani and Bangladesh periods.
He joined Muslim League in 1944 and was elected its Dhaka district vice president. He was also a vice-president of Awami Muslim League when it was formed as the largest opposition political party in Pakistan in 1949.
He took part in the 1952 Language Movement and worked for the United Front popularly known as Jukta Front in 1954.
He was a member of the provincial cabinet of Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq. He was elected a member of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly in 1955.
Ataur Rahman Khan became the chief minister of East Pakistan in 1956 and continued to hold this position till the promulgation of martial law in the country in 1958. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a minister in his cabinet.
As one of the leaders of National Democratic Front (NDF) formed under the leadership of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1962 he played a vital role in the movement for the restoration of democracy in then Pakistan. He actively campaigned for Fatima Jinnah, the candidate of the combined opposition to defeat the military dictator Ayub Khan in 1965.
Ataur Rahman Khan was elected a member of parliament in the first general election of independent Bangladesh in 1973 and also served as the prime minister of the country from March 30, 1984 to January 1, 1985.
He was a lawyer, politician and writer of a good number of books, namely -- Ozaratir Dui Bachhar (1963), Swairacharer Dash Bachhar (1969), Pradanmantritver Nai Mash (1987), Abaruddha Nai Mash (1990).
Ataur Rahman Khan died in Dhaka on December 7, 1991.
Discussion on Ataur Rahman
Time: 3:00pm today
Venue: Jatiya Press Club


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by Phil Hay Colin Todd will look for another step towards the protective 50-point mark when his Bradford City side line up at Swansea tonight.
Bradford are in the thick of a fierce battle to avoid relegation from League One, but Todd believes a half century of points will secure their status beyond the end of this season.
City's tally stands at 40 after a 1-1 draw with Swindon on Saturday and their prospects are encouraging with 12 teams stranded below Todd's in a heavily-congested division.
But the margin separating Bradford from the bottom four has fallen to five points after a run of just two wins from 12 league games and the Bantams will attempt to strengthen their safety net in Wales this evening.
Todd said: "There's a little bit of tension around, but relegation is something we don't talk about.
"If you look at the league there's no mid-table and I think a lot of clubs will want to get to the 50-point mark. Every manager starts the season with that in mind and it's our number one target.
"Swansea are a good side and it won't be easy for us down there, but points are crucial now and we'll give a good account of ourselves."
Kenny Jackett's team have enjoyed a more productive season than Todd's and nine home victories have helped the Welsh club to within five points of the top of the table.
City will make their first trip to the Liberty Stadium tonight with a doubt over Lewis Emanuel, who damaged his eye against Swindon, while Owen Morrison, Ben Muirhead and Richard Edghill remain on the long-term absentee list.
Steven Schumacher looks likely to retain his place in the centre of midfield, but he will serve a one-match ban against Bristol City this weekend after collecting his fifth booking of the season on Saturday.
Huddersfield captain Jon Worthington insists Town must start devouring League One's struggling sides if they are to secure automatic promotion to the Championship this season.
The Terriers raised their game to end Colchester's ten-match winning run on Saturday and Peter Jackson's side now face back-to-back clashes with relegation-haunted Blackpool and MK Dons.
Huddersfield go to Bloomfield Road tonight and Worthington said: "Not getting results against the struggling sides has been our Achilles heel this season and we need to put it right.
"We need to start taking maximum points from these games if we are to get automatic promotion."
Town moved up to fifth on Saturday to strengthen their hold on a play-off spot, but Worthington said: "Our aim is automatic promotion.
"To do that we probably need another ten wins and we need victories against the likes of Blackpool and MK Dons."
Huddersfield were without the suspended Andy Holdsworth on Saturday while Mark Hudson (ankle) and Danny Adams (illness) also sat on the sidelines.
Holdsworth is available again tonight and will replace David Mirfin, while Adams should also recover in time to return at left-back.
Hudson will be missing again but may be ready to face MK Dons on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Jackson has denied any rift with winger Danny Schofield who is out of contract in the summer and who has yet to agree a new deal.
"There is no problem," said Jackson. "We hope to reach an agreement soon."
Huddersfield Town (from): Senior, Holdsworth, McIntosh, N Clarke, Adams, Brandon, Worthington, Collins, Taylor-Fletcher, Graham, Booth, Abbott, Smith, Mirfin, Schofield, Ahmed, McAliskey, T Clarke, Rachubka.


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The Baptist Congregation of Szentendre was established in 1955 and was officially recognised by town authorities in 1963 as a branch congregation of the Baptist Congregation of Tahitótfalu. At the beginning, services were held in members’ homes. In 1986, based on the plans of Baptist architect Győző Csereklye, the congregation started the construction of a church and became independent in 1987. The church was inaugurated in 1988.
The building has 140-150 seats in the congregation room and the gallery. The immersion font was placed under the pulpit.
The church is open only during services.


Back around 1980, a popular TV show called "WKRP in Cincinnati" had an iconic episode. The show was about a radio station with a bumbling boss named Mr. Carlson, "Big Guy." He wanted to feel useful, so he created a Thanksgiving promotion that turned into a disaster. Along the way, he comically tried to figure out what his own role was at the station. He called his program director to his office to ask.
"You're the station manager," he was told.
"Aha," he said. "That's what I am. But what do I DO?"
"Well," he was told. "You're the boss. And you do … boss stuff."
Mr. Carlson was popular in American culture because everyone could identify with having an amicable do-nothing boss. Today's real-life Big Guy is Mark Emmert. He's the president of the NCAA. Aha, but what does he do?
It doesn't seem so comical when you're the head of a large governing body in our education system. The NCAA's enforcement ruled Wednesday in the Baylor sexual assault scandal, something you might not remember because it happened so many years ago. The ruling was that the NCAA said it had no power to make a ruling.
Boss stuff. That's what Emmert does. That's really all the NCAA is about. Emmert should be fired. When? How about before lunch? This Baylor decision, added to the Supreme Court's recent ruling that all-but shot down amateurism – the defining tenet of the NCAA – shows that the NCAA has no purpose any more, nothing to do other than to host a nice basketball tournament in March.
That, and boss stuff.
The truth is the system has outgrown the old NCAA system of punishment. The world has moved past Emmert and the NCAA.
Baylor already admitted to pretty much everything and fired everyone. Its own self-investigation ruled that former coach Art Briles looked the other way any time an allegation was brought to him.
The athletic director was ousted, the school president forced out in shame. Briles was fired.
Briles' defenders think he was railroaded as a PR move by the university and that Baylor acted too quickly, as social media requires a swifter form of justice – lynchings. With everyone fired, what more was there for the NCAA to do?
I'm not trying to re-litigate here, but only to say that a governing body cannot just throw up its hands and say that it has no power or course of action.
On Wednesday, the NCAA Committee on Infractions described Baylor's action as a crime, saying "young people were hurt" and that there should be actions to penalize.
If you're still looking for justice for the women who allegedly were harmed, well, this is all you got:
"Baylor admitted to moral and ethical failings in its handling of sexual and interpersonal violence on campus but argued those failings, however egregious, did not constitute violations of NCAA rules," the committee said in its release. "Ultimately, and with tremendous reluctance, this panel agrees."
Goodbye, Mark Emmert. Goodbye, NCAA. You have no purpose any more.
The Baylor scandal was so widespread and so shocking back in 2016 that the school's own university regents said, according to the New York Times, that at least 19 players had been accused of sexual misconduct and that it had been covered up.
Briles built Baylor from an afterthought to a national power, with Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III. With the success, Baylor was able to open an expensive new stadium. And with all the success and attention Baylor was getting, the NCAA committee said, Briles had "failed to meet even the most basic expectations of how a person should react …"
Contrast that to 2012 and the Jerry Sandusky rape scandal at Penn State. Sandusky, longtime assistant football coach to Joe Paterno, eventually was convicted of his pattern of sexual assaults. He's in prison now.
At the time, Emmert got tough and announced major fines and penalties – including $60 million and a four-year ban on the football team going to the postseason – saying football would "never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing and protecting young people."
I'm not arguing innocence or guilt in these Baylor assault allegations. But if the NCAA thinks crimes were committed and Baylor does, too, and everyone was fired, then why can't the NCAA do anything? And if the rules aren't written to give it any power, then surely Emmert should have been able to correct that since his strong power play nine years ago.
If the NCAA, which is leaving Baylor's case entirely to the legal system, is that powerless, then why are people wearing suits and sitting in offices? What do they do?
In the end, after legal fights, many of Emmert's penalties against Penn State were reduced. The NCAA said it was because of good behavior. The other major case recently was the North Carolina academic scandal. The NCAA did nothing on that one, either, saying that the sham classes athletes were taking were also offered to non-athletes, so there was no extra benefit for athletes.
The NCAA can't even legislate to protect amateurism any more. Yet somehow, Big Guy Emmert was given a contract extension this spring to keep him sitting in an office through 2025, doing boss stuff.
You can check out the full WKRP turkey episode on YouTube. Spoiler alert: The promotion Mr. Carlson came up with was to give away free turkeys at a mall. He did it by flying overhead in a helicopter and dropping the birds.
"As God is my witness," Big Guy said at the end of the show, "I thought turkeys could fly."It's not so funny in real life, when women were allegedly hurt.


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Chesed Shel Emes has several memorial benches dedicated to the Jewish residents of communities that were decimated by the Nazis.
The myriad of tombstones of Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery in Clinton Township are uniform in height and shape, lined up in even rows that mark the graves of hundreds of Jewish Detroiters.
But Section 18 has one tombstone unlike any other with several components — a tall centerpiece with two carved dark stones positioned one above the other, framed by two light-colored stones similar to the cemetery’s gravestones. This is the Kay/Kreps monument created by Louis Kay to remember and honor his 200 family members and 800 other Jewish families of Wloszczowa, Poland, who were killed during the Holocaust.
Leybus Szyja Kreps was almost 14 when the Germans invaded Poland and took over his hometown in September 1939. Wloszczowa is located in Kielce province, about 70 miles north of Krakow. According to The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust before World War II, the town had 2,700 Jewish residents — about one-half of its population. Kreps’ parents had a grocery store in Wloszczowa, where the family had lived for 150 years, according to his adult children.
During the fall of 1942, Kreps’ parents, six of his siblings and many other family and community members were transported to Treblinka and killed on Yom Kippur. Kreps and two of his brothers were saved from that fate as they had been sent to Skarzysko — a brutal labor camp in Poland.
The camp’s German operators would ask new prisoners if anyone wanted to go home. Those who raised their hands to indicate yes, including Louis’ brother Yisrael, were sent into the forest and shot. His brother, Shmuel, died from illness while at the camp during Pesach in 1943.
Kreps managed to survive more than three years of suffering in seven labor and concentration camps in Poland and Germany. His son Dr. Marc Kay, 66, who lives in Phoenix, said, “He survived in case there was a brother, and so there would be some Jews. No one could survive.”
On April 11, 1945, Kreps was liberated by the Americans, and he then returned to Wloszczowa. Similar to other survivors’ experiences, some former neighbors and townspeople were not happy to see them — preferring to keep the houses and businesses that they had taken over from Jewish residents who were transported to concentration camps. Kreps had one bit of luck; he was able to retrieve family photos saved by a childhood friend. Many Holocaust survivors have no such family photos.
In 1949, the Joint Distribution Committee helped Kreps emigrate to the U.S. and he settled in Detroit. He changed his name to Louis Kay and began building a new life with Gladys Silverman, his American-born wife. Kay started off working in a factory and then as a scrap metal dealer, eventually opening a bottle recycling company which expanded over the years. The Kays had four children and lived in Oak Park.
‘A Place to Go’
“The Holocaust was very present in our house. One side of the family doesn’t exist. There were pictures of his family on the wall. He would go to cemeteries, and there was nothing to go to,” said son Marc.
“He needed a place to go,” added Victor “Avi” Kay, 62, who lives in Jerusalem.
So in 1969, Kay had a stone created at Chesed Shel Emes listing the members of the Kreps and Klainman (his mother’s maiden name) families who perished during World War II at the hand of the Nazis. Individual photos are encased next to the names of eight family members along with their ages at the time of death. (Photos weren’t available for several family members.)
Part of the stone is shaped like the tablets of the Ten Commandments. Marc, who was 14 at the time, remembers other survivors coming from out of town for the monument’s dedication in 1969. Stuart Kay, 58, who lives in Franklin, believes that this was the first personal Holocaust memorial in the U.S.
Visiting the cemetery monument was a frequent Kay family trip. Chesed Shel Emes has several memorial benches dedicated to the Jewish residents of communities that were decimated by the Nazis. Kay wanted to install a bench, but cemetery rules permitted memorial benches only for entire Jewish communities, not individual families.
Undaunted, Kay designed an addition to the existing monument — one that highlighted the 800 Jewish families from Wloszczowa who were killed by the Nazis. A stone bench was then installed at the plot and there was a dedication for the expanded monument in 1990.
Next to the Kay monument is a burial plot for a fellow Holocaust survivor, a man whom Kay knew in Detroit. Despite some rancorous business dealings between them, when the man died, destitute and with no friends or relatives to bury him, Kay paid for his burial and held shivah for him at the Kay family home in Oak Park.
This was one of many of Louis Kay’s good deeds remembered by family, former employees and friends. He helped individuals in need, regardless of their religion, race or personal circumstances. In 1989, he was recognized as a Jewish News Mitzvah Hero. Kay sold 10,000 trees for the Jewish National Fund through Detroit B’nai B’rith and was active in many charitable organizations, especially those supporting Israel. He received the State of Israel’s New Life Award that honors Holocaust survivors for major achievements.
The death of almost an entire family leaves an unimaginable burden of loss and sadness. But Louis Kay’s survival meant that his four children (Rhonda, Marc, Avi and Stuart), their 10 children and four grandchildren will sustain the family name and help ensure the continuity of the Jewish community.
Marc Kay’s son, Joshua, helped to bring about a state law mandating Holocaust education in Arizona. It was a difficult three-year effort led by local Holocaust survivors to ensure that the horrors of the Holocaust are known now and in the future.
Louis Kay died in 1999 at age 73. He and his wife, Gladys, are buried in graves that are adjacent to the Kay memorial monument.


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