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Does your church have a nursing room for Moms with young babies? The dedicated nursing room at our church just got a big makeover, and I’m so excited to reveal all the details and the final look today!
Our church has a large demographic of young families which means lots of mamas and young babies (yay!) and I’ve always had a belief that the nursing mother’s room should be an extension of the sanctuary. Getting to see that dream turned into reality this past weekend was such a blessing!
For a lot of moms, this room IS their church experience for approximately the first year or so of each baby’s life, and being able to make it a place that they can exhale, have privacy and calm, and still be involved in worship and hearing the message each week was a really special task.
I wanted it to feel upscale and high end, so I pulled out all the stops!
I’ll share with you some of my overall design project tips, and then I’ll share the full reveal!
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When you’re designing a space, at the beginning of your planning stages you need to take a few moments to assess the architecture of your space. Erase everything you can from the space (either by physically moving the items or by imagining the room with them gone) and then hone in on all the good and bad about the space.
I mentioned some of these details in my Mixing Design Styles : Mid Century Modern & Bohemian blog post, but the room I was working with used to be two separate offices, and the wall between them was partially taken down (leaving just a beam and a partial side wall.) It’s a really long, thin space. 26′ x 10′ – about the size of an RV interior.
The partial side wall was actually one of my favorite elements of the room shape because it gave me two extra corners to work with in my design!
I wanted to make the room feel more square and not quite as long, so I treated both the end walls as accent walls and painted them matte black (Tricorn Black by Sherwin Williams #6258).
We painted the rest of the walls in Snowbound, also by Sherwin Williams (SW 7004). We also removed the old rubber base board and swapped it out for a nice 5″ mdf board trim.
I wanted to add some horizontal lines going up on the long back wall with the TV to create an optical illusion that it’s pushed back a bit further. I didn’t want to do stripes or a board and batten type treatment, so I settled on Milton & King white Clubhouse Brick wallpaper.
We actually thought it wasn’t going to arrive in time to be included in the installation and reveal for Mother’s Day, and I had resigned myself to that fact, but then at the last minute on the Friday before, as we were setting up I got this voicemail that they were delivering a package to my house- my wall paper! My daughter was able to drive it over to us so we could get it installed that afternoon!
Once you know which elements in the room you want to enhance or tone down, you can get started on figuring out your furniture placement.
I love using the free Ballard Designs Room Planner to confirm my layout first, and then I create mood boards (or “wall elevations” using Canva. I have an entire blog tutorial on making your own design or mood boards that you can reference if that’s something you’d like to try. There’s a video tutorial that you can access by entering your email address below.
Here are my original plans and dreams for the space:
Personally, I find these design boards invaluable!
Take this church nursing room, for instance. I’m about a 30 minute drive away from the church, and we were setting up as a surprise for a Mother’s day reveal, so I couldn’t realistically be carrying my items back and forth to see them in the physical space.
Instead, I relied heavily on my moodboards to narrow down from the over 100,000 items I looked through down to the final 75 that we used for the room!
Being able to pop the different pieces together into a design board gives me a chance to visualize them in the space and make better informed decisions before I make my choices.
That isn’t to say that I didn’t sometimes still have to make changes after ordering and receiving pieces… To do this process well, you often have to be comfortable with making returns when something doesn’t work out.
Sometimes, though, you have things that fail the design tests (see my mixing design styles post for more information about the tests your pieces should pass once they arrive) and instead of returning them you’re able to DIY a little magic to make them work. I had a few such instances within this project.
The leather pouf was one of those things. After trying out 9 poufs and not being satisfied with the colors, I decided that we would simply paint one with a custom color matched paint. We used Angelus leather paint, and after about 8 hours had a pouf in the perfect shade.
It was just the accent this corner with the fun white fur mid century modern rocking chair needed.
Another item that needed some tweaking once we got it in was the IKEA FLISAT toy storage wagon. I loved the idea of having it for storing our Uncle Goose wooden blocks, but the standard shade of green that it comes in was not a good match for the color of green used throughout our church.
I was able to spray paint the wheels and the base board inside, buy custom cording to replace the pulls, and clearcoat the raw wood to give it some extra protection.
Another big piece of the project that turned out wonderfully, but not at all how I had planned was the settee! I originally found one I loved and included on my mood board that was about $800. (This is a similar, smaller version!) But knowing that I wanted to keep this project within budget, I decided to search craigslist instead, and then simply have it re-upholstered.
After quite a bit of searching and following up on notifications from craigslist, Facebook marketplace and offer up, I found a great settee for only $175! Hooray! Smooth sailing from then on out, right?…Wrong!
Once we picked up the settee I started calling around town to find an upholsterer who could change the drab settee into the peachy salmon color of my dreams, and NO ONE had availability within the 6 week timeframe I was working in. And those who could do it in about that time would be charging $2,000. (Makes you want to just order the $800 settee, doesn’t it?!)
Well since I had already spent the $175 and had the settee just waiting at home, I decided to re-upholster it myself. About $50 and a few yards of beautiful salmon rose material later, I was ready to begin!
Sometimes I joke that I know just enough about upholstery to get myself in trouble. Luckily, even though this project did take 21 hours, it turned out quite nicely, and I’m glad for the experience.
I had never done double welting before (the thin accent pieces along the edges), and I had been wishing that the channel tufts (vertical sewn lines down the back of the original settee) were spaced a bit further apart.
Luckily, when you DIY things, you can DIY them in exactly the way you’d prefer them done.
The last of my challenging pieces was my gold end table. It’s the Manila Cylinder Drum accent Table from the project 62 line at Target, but what I realized when I got it in was that the black glazing was really strong and not at all the soft champagne gold I was after.
I shared about it on Instagram, and one of my followers mentioned using Wright’s Copper Cleaner, which worked well! It did still take over 9 hours, but it was well worth it!
Ok, who’s ready to see the entire space?!
I wanted the mamas to feel really at home when they first walked in the door, so they’re greeted by this welcome table with some drinks and snacks and a welcome sign that shares all the details about how to use the Bluetooth headphones which are stored away in this caned Hearth & Hand console table that we painted black.
Along that same wall in front of the beautiful white brick wallpaper is the new settee with lots of comfortable velvet and tweed-look pillows.
The round mirror is also from Project 62 at target.
The gorgeous green gourd shaped lamp is also from Amazon.
Here’s a peak at how the gold side table I mentioned earlier turned out! Isn’t this champagne gold lovely in this space?
My daughter helped me paint the bottom of this IKEA belly basket and we hot glued on a tiny pom pom trim. This will hold soiled linens that need to be washed (from the changing table & boppy pillows).
This back corner is for the changing table.
The dresser itself is the KULLEN dresser from IKEA – and this might be my biggest regret about the room. I had been searching for just the right option and felt like I had to settle a little with this. It was $100 from IKEA, but as we were assembling it I was realizing it was truly the cheapest dresser I’ve ever seen.
We added legs to raise it up and give it a more mid-century modern feel, added beautiful wooden pulls, and baby proofed the potential tipping hazard and the drawers. I felt better about it once it was painted and updated with our changes, but I still wish the dresser itself could have been a little better quality.
Inside the drawers of the changing dresser I included extra changing pad and boppy pillow covers so that we could swap them out to launder them when they’re soiled.
Above the table is this friendly lion with glasses from Etsy. I like the visualization of the “Lion of Judah”, and appreciated that the glasses makes him look a bit more friendly and less intimidating.
This corner includes a small designated play space for older sibilngs who might come along with mom while she’s feeding the baby and who need a little quiet place with some fun items to help capture their attention.
This short chalk board is just the right height for toddlers and includes extra chalk in an attached soap dish.
This glass abacus was a thrifting find that I had originally thought about keeping for a someday playroom for grand-children, but I figured it would be better for it to be used now instead of being packed away for the next years. (Here’s a similar one.)
The green velvet tufted chair that’s in this corner was set here purposefully for a mom who needed a bit more quiet or privacy while nursing or holding a sleeping baby.
The next area is back around to the immediate left of the entrance door and is part of the more social side of the room. This lovely cream mid-century modern couch by Christopher Knight faces the settee and the rocking chair for mamas who want to be able to visit while they’re here.
These two rugs were some of my favorite finds. The variety of colors in the pattern gave me so many good accent colors to work with.
The tall floor lamp was another lamp that had been previously donated and ended up working perfectly in the design!
I got to add a lovely pinch-pleat detail at the top of these green velour curtain panels (that cover a window that looks out into the main foyer) and I think it gave them such a structured and tailored look.
Above that I added some beautiful green leaf art (there are some stories about this on the Instagram highlight as well), and a fun “Stay Awhile” sign.
On the outside of the door leading in from the foyer I included a magnetic sliding sign that can show when the room is vacant or when it’s occupied and intended only for moms.
And that is our church nursing room! This has been such an exciting project to work on, and I’ve been glad to have been able to bring you along for the whole process!
The feedback we got on Mother’s Day when we had an open house for the church was all very positive, and I’ve even had some really exciting conversations with other women online who have been inspired to see about upgrading their nursing mother’s rooms to include that space as an extension of their sanctuary as well, and even others who have been wanting to find a way to maybe do some mentoring for younger moms, who realized that being available to visit and fellowship together, and offer an extra set of arms when needed could be just the way to get started.
I would love to answer any questions in the comments, or to hear more about how your church handles the nursing rooms for your moms & babies!
Until next time,


The New Normal while Traveling
Due to worldwide lockdown, all the flights came to an abrupt halt. Borders were closed, booked travel tickets were cancelled, travelling protocols were altered - all of this, just to prevent the spread of corona. Amidst this, when the travel and tourism industry was hit the hardest, the airlines and hotels started to think of new solutions to adapt to this situation. After a lot of pondering upon the issues in hand, the top most issue was how to make travel in the airlines and hotels contactless. Many upgrades were made with the sensor-based technology like soap dispensers, automatic sensor-based cisterns, but in airlines or hotels, the first thing we encounter is the door. Now, the issue with the doors is being addressed and people are trying to resolve it. One such example is the All Nippon Airways of Japan where they are testing a prototype of a door in which the handle can be used using the elbow and can be easily opened or closed. This solution was introduced after a survey report where 70 percent of the travellers were worried about the potential spread of the virus due to contact with the doorknob and were sceptical about using it during such a time. Although more solutions like using the foot to lower or raise the toilet lid, and hands-free waste flaps are being explored by the experts and designers to ensure the utmost safety for the passengers. Similarly, the incorporation of sensor-based technology in aircraft washrooms is being explored. Nowadays, along with all these advanced changes, flights and their washrooms are being disinfected after each use so as to reduce the risk as much as possible. Even in the airport premises, every now and then the disinfection of common surfaces like elevators, trays at security checks, escalators, and the handrails are taking place along with attempts of making provisions ‘of eventuality’ to identify a symptomatic passenger beforehand.
The next big concern is the stay at hotels. With all the risks of contact and infection mentioned till now, we’ve got an idea of how many risks are present around us especially when we are in a public place. All the protocols are issued for hotels as well. At hotel entrances and receptions, we see automatic soap dispensers installed and the guards checking the temperature before letting anybody enter the premises. The rooms and common areas in the hotel are regularly disinfected by automatic vacuum cleaners, air purifiers, disinfection sprays, digital payment and ordering systems, etc. But amidst all these preparations, the biggest concern is the use of washrooms. Along with designers, experts are also thinking of new design concepts for the washrooms to take down the risk of contact to a bare minimum. With all the research and ideas that have come up, the changes are already being made. The first and foremost change in the design was seen in the installed pieces of equipment. Now, instead of standard faucets and cisterns, sensor-based automatic faucets and cisterns are being installed in the washrooms.
To install contactless doors, changes in the designs of washroom doors are being explored too. All these new introductions in the field of hygiene technology have made a great difference for the people as all these arrangements are boosting people’s confidence in travel and stay in hotels.
The post covid situation will increase the pace of some changes which were long due but were not yet introduced like safe and secure travel with the use of artificial intelligence-based technology. The situation might end the long and tiring wait in queues. It might also increase domestic travel and travel with family and people of different generations. There are also chances that universal health passports might be issued so that the passengers won’t feel uneasy due to constantly changing rules and regulations of travel in different countries and regions. Even though the times keep on seeing several ups and downs, and the travel may seem safe, we still would feel the need to travel in alignment to the new normal in our own way.


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Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday evening, Harmala town, east of Bethlehem city in the occupied West Bank, and occupied a Palestinian home after kicking the family out.
Resident Mohammad Sbeih told the Maan News Agency said that soldiers invaded his two-story home, and confiscated its keys before kicking him and his nine family members, including several children, out.
He added that the soldiers told the family to “find another place to live, as long as Palestinian youths continue to hurl stones at the army vehicles.”
The invaded property is located at the edges of Harmala town, close to the Teqoua’ illegal Israeli colony, east of Bethlehem. The soldiers are still illegally occupying the building.

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Some people might remember the “Just Say Julie” show when MTV used to be good. Well, maybe not, but there was an episode where Julie Brown suits up as an environmental “superhero,” and dispenses with polluters and litterbugs with all the subtly of a blowtorch: “Of course I’m crazy—that’s why they call me ‘Eco-Gal’.” The reputation of environmentalists have run the gamut from amateur nature buffs, concerned scientists, politicians looking for an angle, advocacy organizations, “direct action” crusaders, and so-called “eco-terrorists.” Other groups have more subtle—and more sinister—agendas behind their environmentalist façade. A few days ago, the Seattle Times—which never passes-up an opportunity to publish a story prominently that extols the virtues of a woman of power and means—printed a story above the front page cutline featuring one Cordelia Scaife May, who died years ago but is apparently still newsworthy. Unfortunately for the Times, it didn’t read the fine print in the LA Times story, although admittedly the author only skimmed the surface of the truth about Scaife May.
Scaife May has been variously praised as a “philanthropist,” which is about the best that can be said about someone born into extreme wealth and hadn’t worked a useful hour in her life. She was the daughter of Alan Scaife and Mellon banking heiress Sarah Mellon, and inherited $800 million of the vast family fortune. Scaife May’s equally indolent brother Richard Mellon Scaife is a chip off the politically far-right family block as well; Scaife is given to crude language (in 1981 he told a Wall Street Journal reporter inquiring about his funding of “New Right” causes "You fucking Communist cunt, get out of here"), far-right conspiracy theories (he owns a large share of the far-right paranoid-fantasy Internet site Newsmax, which habitually tells us that the next impeachment-worthy scandal about to befall Barack Obama is only days away), and has given extensively to far-right causes—particularly to groups that the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as anti-immigrant hate groups (FAIR, NumbersUSA, Center For Immigration Studies).
Scaife May’s own influences include Margaret Sanger, whose “population control” ideas were influenced by “scientific” racism and eugenics, which were also espoused by Scaife May’s good friend John Tanton, an “environmentalist”-turned-white supremacist, whose anti-immigrant beliefs are based solely on ugly racial stereotypes. She gave generously to the Pioneer Fund and even distributed its Nazified literature; according to its website, eugenics and "race purity" are legitimate fields of research, and “However harshly today we may judge support for policies such as sterilization of those deemed to be ‘unfit,’ prohibition of racial intermarriage, and severe restrictions on immigration — it is wrong to equate these ideas with ‘Nazism,' gas chambers, and some of the worst mass murders, war crimes, and crimes against humanity ever committed."
In other words, Nazi racial philosophy was “correct”—but the Fund just doesn’t want to be associated with all of its “methods” for carrying it out.
While some of Scaife May's “philanthropy”—most notably through her COLCOM Foundation—is “legitimate,” that has been mostly for “pet” projects with only local application. Her long-term “vision” was almost exclusively in the area of “population control,” which she meant to be immigration control, and specifically immigration by “inferior” races—who allegedly are not as environmentally “sound” as wealthy white people who are most responsible for environmental and resource destruction.
Scaife May's fascist friend Tanton at one point expressed doubt about whether racial minorities, if they became the "majority" and whites the "minority," would share white people's environmental "values." Of course, white folks have no one to blame but themselves for their procreation difficulties, but then again I never thought the world was worse off with fewer Hitler Youth. One may note with no small amount of irony that it is the white Right that is most opposed to environmental “values” and protection; but then again, racism and environmentalism has had a long history of entanglement—even within such established organizations as the Sierra Club.
In fact white supremacists have always seen environmentalists as “natural” allies. The SPLCenter has compiled an interesting timeline detailing the historical record; here are some of the “highlights”—in which Scaife May’s best buddy Tanton is a recurring character:
The environmentalist Sierra Club (SC) publishes The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich, who was encouraged to undertake the project by David Brower, a longtime SC executive director. The book, defining population as an environmental issue and suggesting coercion be used in underdeveloped countries to depress fertility, surpasses Rachel Carson's landmark 1962 work Silent Spring to become the best-selling ecology book of the 1960s. Also published in 1968 is ecologist Garrett Hardin's famous Malthusian essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons." Hardin is a believer in eugenics (the "science" of selective breeding aimed at producing better humans) whose research is backed by the racist grant-maker Pioneer Fund (PF). The essay concludes, "Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all."
Michigan environmentalist John Tanton attends the First National Congress on Optimum Population and the Environment in Chicago, where he meets population-control activists including Ehrlich and Hardin.
Tanton becomes chairman of the SC's National Population Committee, where he will serve until 1975. Also in the early 1970s, Tanton is active in his hometown Petoskey, Mich., chapter of the SC and other environmental groups.
Tanton quits ZPG (“Zero Population Growth”) after the group moves away from treating immigration as a major cause of population growth.
May 5-6, 1978
The SC urges the federal government to examine the impact of immigration policies on population trends and environmental resources. It argues that each region of the world must achieve a balance between population and resources.
Tanton founds the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) with the help of other former ZPG members angered by ZPG's lack of interest in immigration restriction.
SC officials testify to the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Reform that it is "obvious that the numbers of immigrants the United States accepts affects our population size" and adds that it is an "important question how many immigrants the United States wants to accept."
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) is founded by former members of the California chapter of ZPG. Unlike ZPG, CAPS blames high immigration levels for ravaging California's environment. On its board are Otis Graham, a close Tanton friend, and UCLA astronomy professor Ben Zuckerman. An emeritus board member is David Brower, the SC's first executive director. In later years, CAPS will accept funding from the PF, which supports studies linking race and intelligence.
March 30, 1988
Tanton writes Gregory Curtis of the far-right Cordelia Scaife May Foundation regarding immigrants' purported lack of environmental values. "What will happen when [the white population] goes into minority status, and the groups that comprise the new coalition majorities don't share the same [environmental] values?" Tanton wonders. "Will all the gains be lost in the twenty-first century, when there is no longer a majority to defend them in the legislature?"
Tanton's 1986 WITAN memos are leaked to The Arizona Republic in the midst of a battle in Arizona over a law that would mandate that all government documents be written in English. At the time, Tanton is head of U.S. English (USE), which is backing the proposal. The memos warn of a coming "Latin onslaught" and fret that high Latino birth rates will lead "the present majority to hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile." Tanton also asks if Latinos will "bring with them the tradition of the mordida [bribe], the lack of involvement in public affairs." Arnold Schwarzenegger and Walter Cronkite both quit the USE board over the memos' racially inflammatory language, as does executive director Linda Chavez, a conservative commentator. Tanton resigns from USE.
The SC issues its strongest immigration-restriction policy statement to date, saying, "Immigration to the United States should be no greater than that which will permit achievement of population stabilization in the United States." It adds: "Sierra Club statements on immigration will always make the connection between immigration, population increase in the U.S., and the environmental consequences thereof." But the SC says it is interested only in the numbers of immigrants, not who they are.
CA prop 187 The People of California find and declare as follows: That they have suffered and are suffering economic hardship caused by the presence of illegal immigrants in this state. That they have suffered and are suffering personal injury and damage caused by the criminal conduct of illegal immigrants in this state. That they have a right to the protection of their government from any person or persons entering this country unlawfully.
Feb. 24, 1996
The SC board abandons its restrictionist 1989 policy, opting to "take no position on immigration levels or on policies governing immigration into the United States," and forbidding anyone speaking in the club's name to call for immigration reduction as a way to reach U.S. population stabilization. The board refuses a straight up-or-down vote on the resolution, instead adding to that year's internal SC ballot a proposal affirming the statement and calling for action against the "root causes of global population problems." That decision spawns a countermovement by SC members who propose a resolution that calls for a "reduction in net immigration."
Carrying Capacity Network (CCN) and the especially hard-line anti-immigration group Americans for Immigration Control (AIC) sponsor two conferences that bring together environmentalists and anti-immigration activists. After one, Eric Draper, a senior vice president at NAS, says he "was uncomfortable" with the tone of a FAIR speaker and tells a reporter that "I think the attempt to marry the environment with immigration is a very hard sell and I don't think most people will buy it."
Representatives of 40 smaller environmental organizations — groups like LA Earth First! and Friends of the Sea Otter — reportedly gather in Estes Park, Colo., along with openly bigoted groups like the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR) and Voice of Citizens Together (both of which are later listed as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC). Together, the groups form the Alliance for Stabilizing America's Population, or ASAP! The event, organized by PEB, features speeches by former Sen. Gaylord Nelson, University of Colorado emeritus physics professor Albert Bartlett, and syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, all close Tanton friends. ASAP! calls for a five-year ceiling on immigration at 100,000 a year and alleges, contrary to well-settled law, that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee citizenship to children born to undocumented workers.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Tanton and SC board member Dave Foreman, co-founder of EarthFirst!, are introducing a proposed SC anti-immigration policy for a direct vote by the entire membership. Anne Ehrlich, whose husband Paul wrote The Population Bomb, officially sponsors the measure. In the next year, advocates will gather enough signatures to get it on the SC's internal ballot.
Dec. 3, 1997
The SC's Pope tells the Lewiston [Idaho] Morning Tribune that the Ehrlich proposal "is not America at its best. It's America at its worst. And for the Sierra Club to be dragged into this kind of cesspool is very unfortunate."
NUSA releases a video, "Immigration by the Numbers: An Environmental Choice," that is narrated by Monique Miller of Wild Earth (a group that later disappears). In the film, Miller blames sprawl on immigrants.
The SC's 550,000 members receive ballots asking them if they support "Alternative A," requiring the SC to advocate ending population growth, in part by restricting immigration, or "Alternative B," which reaffirms the SC's 1996 policy of neutrality on immigration. Alternative A, which also calls for no more than 200,000 immigrants to be admitted annually, is supported by Kuper, Foreman, Nelson, Paul Erhlich, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society leader Paul Watson, Rainforest Action leader Randy Hayes and Worldwatch Institute leader Lester Brown.
April 25, 1998
After a heated campaign featuring charges of "the greening of hate," the SC announces its members have voted 60%-40% against changing the club's neutral stance on immigration (although just 13% of SC members voted), a position also supported by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the NAS and Friends of the Earth. Still, nearly 30,000 people vote for the anti-immigration position. SC Executive Director Pope says "overpopulation is, without question, a fundamental cause of the world's ills," but that a vote in favor of Alternative A would mean that the SC "would be perceived as assisting people whose motivations are racist."
Changing tactics again, SUSPS gets a statement on the annual SC ballot that blames sprawl on population growth, which for SUSPS is mostly driven by immigration. At the same time, Zuckerman, backed by SUSPS, runs for the board. Both Zuckerman and the ballot proposal are defeated.
SUSPS Chairman Bill Elder testifies to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, blaming an "immigration boom" for damaging the environment. Also testifying in the same vein are Frank Morris, a FAIR board member and former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and David Pimentel, a Cornell professor of entomology who is also on the board of CCN.
SUSPS announces a major push to win an SC board majority opposed to immigration. The group endorses Robert van de Hoek, three-time Colorado governor Richard Lamm (who joined the SC earlier in the year), Kim McCoy, Morris and Pimentel. Lamm and Morris both serve on the board of FAIR, while Pimentel is on the CCN board. Pimentel is interviewed by Tanton's The Social Contract.
Nativist groups start alerting backers about the upcoming SC elections. The Social Contract urges supporters to join the SC in time vote for those concerned with "endless U.S. population growth." The National Immigration Alert List urges followers to vote for directors "who are concerned about the environmental consequences of our immigration-driven U.S. population growth."
Oct. 21, 2003
Citing notices in the nativist press, the SPLC's Mark Potok writes to SC President Larry Fahn to warn of a "hostile takeover attempt" by anti-immigration forces.
Zuckerman sends fellow SC board members an article from the virulently anti-immigrant VDARE.com website that claims Latinos are spreading disease and crime in the U.S., and that "Hispandering politicians" are allowing this to happen. During the same month, Barbara Coe encourages members of her CCIR, listed by the SPLC as a hate group, to join the SC. (In 1998, Coe made a similar effort, later claiming that 6,500 of her members joined the SC and voted for "Alternative A," the proposed nativist policy, even though she then told a reporter she was no "tree-hugger.")
Jan. 8, 2004
SC member and virulent nativist Brenda Walker, a contributor to Tanton's The Social Contract, asks VDARE.com readers to "join the Sierra Club NOW and have your vote influence this debate." She adds, "The prize is enormous."
The Sprawl City website goes up, focusing on "how uncontrolled immigration levels threaten America's environmental stability." In particular, immigrants are blamed for creating sprawl. Registered to NUSA, the site says it relies on research by NUSA leader Beck and Kolankiewicz.
The ATB website is inaugurated. Don Weeden, brother of Alan Weeden and another principal of the family foundation that bankrolls both major nativist groups and environmental organizations, tells a CIS panel that the ATB will take on the population consequences of immigration to the U.S. environment. The ATB website is run by Elder. Another ATB member is Colorado State University philosophy professor Philip Cafaro.
Full-page ads appear in The New York Times, The Nation, Harper's Magazine and other publications seen as liberal, signed by a new group calling itself America's Leadership Team for Long Range Population-Immigration-Resource Planning (ALT). The group is a coalition of five existing organizations — CAPS, NUSA, FAIR, TSC and AICF (the last three are listed as hate groups by the SPLC, and all five have received funding from Tanton). "We're the nation's leading experts on population and immigration trends and growth," boasts one of the ads. Pitched to environmentalists, the ads claim that an immigration-fueled population boom will dramatically worsen traffic congestion and destroy pristine land. One shows a highway clogged with vehicles above the caption, "One of America's Most Popular Pastimes." The other depicts a bulldozer clearing forest above the words, "One of America's Best Selling Vehicles." They are designed by Davis & Co., which FAIR pays $983,802 in 2008 and $348,442 in 2007, according to its tax returns.
Jan. 21, 2010
NUSA's Beck, who describes himself as an environmentalist, speaks on a panel, "Perverse Incentives, Subsidies, and Tax Code Impediments to a Sustainable Economy," at The New Green Economy conference sponsored by the National Council for Science and the Environment.
Feb. 26, 2010
Mixing environmental with "cultural" concerns, FAIR issues a revealing statement: "Immigration policy must be limited to conserve our environment, open space, and natural resources. It should enhance our national culture, not radically alter or Balkanize it."
PFIR releases "From Big to Bigger: How Mass Immigration and Population Growth Have Exacerbated America's Ecological Footprint," by Kolankiewicz, who now serves on PFIR's board of advisors. Kolankiewicz argues that "immigration is increasing America's Ecological Footprint, pushing our country deeper into ecological deficit," and laments environmentalists' scant interest in the issue. He writes that "the Environmental Establishment dropped its advocacy and retreated into uncomfortable silence and abject denial on U.S. population."
As you can see, environmentalism and racism—cloaked in the guise of immigration—is sometimes hard to distinguish, despite the efforts of some legitimate environmental organizations to distance themselves from the more radical ideas. It is interesting to note that China—which has four times the population of the U.S.—has a land mass of similar size. Thus the only explanation for the rhetoric is white fear of being a “minority,” although if they have anything to fear, it is a consequence of their own attitudes. That of Cordelia Scaife May, unfortunately, continues beyond the grave, as those white supremacists and xenophobes she placed in charge of her foundations are merely carrying out her wishes.

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Several people have called emergency dispatchers about a loud boom and buildings shaking Tuesday morning near Blountville.
News 5 WCYB checked with the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office, and they told us they also received several calls.
Most of the callers were along Highway 126 between Blountville and Bristol.
Officers and firefighters have been checking the area, but so far they have not determined what caused it.
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ACCESS Pasadena is seeking an Internal Medicine Technician to join our specialty service team!
**SIGN ON BONUS FROM $3,000 UP TO $10,000 FOR EXPERIENCED TECHNICIANS**
The Technician Experience is important to us at ACCESS Pasadena. In addition to all the benefits you'd expect (PTO, health, medical, dental insurance, 401k, pet discounts and more) we also offer continuing education benefits, and support for obtaining VTS licensure. Your professional development matters to us!
Pay Range: $22.00 - $36.00 ( Dependent on skills assessment ).
Experience: Minimum 2 years Veterinary Technician experience.
Job Duties include (but are not limited to):
Assisting the veterinarian during various procedures and diagnostics, including endoscopic procedures
Monitoring the health of all patients throughout the day
Provide medical information to clients and answer questions as needed
Provide training and direction to additional support staff as need
Ensuring safe, effective and efficient medical processes from check in to discharge
Assisting with pre-surgical medical screenings, patient induction, surgical preparation and anesthesia monitoring
At ACCESS Pasadena we aim to have the highest performing technician teams that support our collaborative work environment. We make decisions with our core values in mind: service, empathy, quality, integrity. If that aligns with your values and you bring a willingness to learn, grow, and collaborate, we're looking for you!

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Psalm 23 is a psalm of King David expressing confidence and trust in the Lord. At every turn, it reveals the close relationship David shares with his God. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
What is the overall message of Psalm 23?
Psalm 23 reminds us that in life or in death — in times of plenty or want — God is good and worthy of our trust. The psalm uses the metaphor of a shepherd’s care for his sheep to describe the wisdom, strength and kindness of our God.
What is the meaning of the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want?
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. The speaker says that the Lord (God) is like a shepherd to him. … Instead, he means that with God as his protector, he won’t lack anything he needs.
How do you explain Psalm 23 to a child?
God knows our future, He made us and the whole world. The first part of the psalm David talks about God being his shepherd and he is the sheep. The shepherd makes sure his sheep has everything he needs like nice green grass and clean water. God gives him peace and rest because he can trust Him.
What do green pastures represent in the Bible?
As for lying down in green pastures, the shepherd creates enclosures where the sheep can rest at night in safety as well as eat. In this sense, the green pastures are a place for us to rest under the shepherd’s (God’s) watchful eye.
Why is Psalm 23 used at funerals?
Is Psalm 23 a funeral Prayer? The meaning of “The Lord Is My Sheperd Prayer” is the perfect message for funerals. Psalm 23 is an iconic prayer that is recited at many funerals and is known as a Funeral Prayer. Believers find the reference to death, fearing no evil, and God being with them very comforting.
When did David write Psalms 23?
Psalm 23 is the 23rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: “The Lord is my shepherd”.
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Is the Lord’s Prayer?
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
What does still water symbolize?
Water popularly represents life. It can be associated with birth, fertility, and refreshment.
What does it mean to come out of lodebar?
Lo-debar was a town in the Old Testament in Gilead not far from Mahanaim, north of the Jabbok river (2 Samuel 9:4–5) in ancient Israel. … (Joshua 13:26) The word means “no pasture,”(2 Samuel 17:27) “no word” or “no communication”.

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Home Tags Johor
40 food delivery riders were equipped with new sets of basic lifesaving skills
Appreciating the local frontliners’ efforts in curbing and fighting the COVID-19 pandemic with the cooperation of Malaysian Association of Hotels Johor Chapter and Tourism Johor
The new set menu is like a barbecue night food in a box – ready to be enjoyed anytime
Grassroots level: Care United Johor Bahru shared celebratory spirit with the underprivileged
While our nation celebrated the 63rd National Day on 31st August 2020, it was a bundle of joy for three mothers who gave birth...
The NGO organised an exchange of information market for tourism product owners and agencies to promote Johor


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We have always been confused when we buy stocks because we always think about losing because there are many stocks seem to be with good rates but after buying it you find it fall down.
Today we are going to enlighten you with the best way to buy stocks, we always recommend you to figure out the company that you are going to buy stocks from, and try as much as you can to get more information about it as this information is the clue and also will tell you to avoid or buy.
Try to focus on the company that has a good history in the stock market and avoid the small and new companies, but it is not a basic rule because there are many small companies that you can buy its stocks and make good profits, but it’s all about the information.
Let me tell what you have to do, there are many investors focusing on value and others focus on growth of the stocks, from my point of view you can use long-term strategy as you can buy profitable stocks and freeze it, and I don’t mean freeze for weeks or months I mean for years, after its value raised up high you can sell it and get paid so high.
Things you should see during your researches:
To buy the best stocks need to do the best research about the company and many other factors such as:
1- P/E Ratio (Price Earnings Ratio):
This factor is one on the most important factors that will help you to make the right decisions and the first thing you have to calculate before buying stocks.
For instance, if the stock price is 500$ and the company’s profits for the last year is 50$, so
P/E =stock price / company’s profits
500$ / 50$ = 10 is the price earnings ratio.
This is the easiest basic equation to calculate the P/E Ratio of any company, you can take a time to investigate the companies and compare it with others to find the best stocks.
2- EPS (Earnings Per Share):
EPS is the second important factor that we can’t neglect, as it the money that company pays for its stocks.
You can follow its net profits and find how much it pays for stocks owners, search for the EPS every year and figure it out, always compare its profits for the current year and the previous years, and ask yourself is its net profits raised, still the same or not?
After answering this question and calculating the P/E you can make the right decision.
3- ROE (Return On Equity):
If you think about technology industry companies and you believe in its stocks, put into consideration that there are many companies has the same industry and you have to compare them first.
Always check the reports that the companies give, and also the income statement and analysis its net profit.
Although these steps above is very useful and tested but we can’t say that it is a basic as there are many factors may effect on the stock market.

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The Great Cholesterol Myth – How Big Pharma Conned You…Again.
As David Icke says, ''If everyone knows something then it has been put there to manipulate and deceive.'' Cholesterol is one of these great examples. Ask the average (wo)man in the street about cholesterol and their answers will almost certainly be:
1. There is good & bad cholesterol, 2. Too high cholesterol is bad for you & 3. Cholesterol causes heart disease.
Absolute LIES!!! ...But as Gandhi said, “A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it to be the truth; just as the truth is the truth even if everyone believes it to be a lie."
In this show we are going to blow the lies out of the water and show that
1. Cholesterol is not a deadly poison, but a substance vital to the cells of all mammals.
2. There are no such things as good or bad cholesterol
3. A high cholesterol is not dangerous by itself, but may reflect an unhealthy condition, or it may be totally innocent.
4. A high blood cholesterol is NOT the culprit in arthrosclerosis
5. Your body produces three to four times more cholesterol than you eat. The production of cholesterol increases when you eat little cholesterol and decreases when you eat much.
6. There is no evidence that too much animal fat and cholesterol in the diet promotes atherosclerosis or heart disease.
7. The only effective way to lower cholesterol is with drugs.
8. That cholesterol-lowering drugs, the statins, stimulate cancer in rodents, disturb the functions of the muscles, the heart and the brain and pregnant women taking statins may give birth to children with malformations more severe than those seen after thalidomide.
9. The Benefits Of High Cholesterol
10. And much, much more……


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This 3-hour training explains how New Yorkers with criminal records can improve their chances of finding employment and housing despite the barriers having a criminal record might pose.
The federal parity law was expanded in 2010 by the Affordable Care Act, and 2013 regulations clarified many of the law’s requirements.
The opioid epidemic kills 78 Americans every day. To address this crisis, President Obama and public health authorities have called for increased use of medication-assisted treatment (MAT). Yet half the nation’s drug courts prohibit MAT, according to a 2014 survey.
Today marks the start of the first annual Reentry Week, a time to think constructively about how best to evolve our criminal justice system to meet the needs of communities and those returning to them with criminal records. We need to ensure that all people with conviction histories are eligible for and receive effective reentry services, not just those with offenses categorized as nonserious, nonsexual, and nonviolent.
News and Highlights
LAC Vice President for Health Initiatives Ellen Weber responds to an article in the Washington Post entitled “The Drug Industry’s Answer to Opioid Addiction: More Pills” with a letter to the editor.
Sign on to the Coalition for Whole Health’s Comments to the President’s Mental Health and Addiction Parity Task Force
The Coalition for Whole Health, a national coalition of organizations working to improve coverage for and access to MH and SUD care, drafted comments to the Parity Task Force that recommend additional guidance on and enforcement of the federal MH/SUD parity law by States and the federal government.
Governor Cuomo Issues Zero Tolerance Policy for Insurers that Fail to Provide Equal Substance Use Coverage
LAC praises the recent announcement by New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo that his administration has issued guidance to insurers regarding their legal obligations to provide mental health and substance use disorders coverage at parity with medical or surgical care.
United Hospital Fund Awards LAC $60,000 to Create Report on Model Health Policies in the Criminal Justice System
The United Hospital Fund has awarded a $60,000 grant to the Legal Action Center to publish a guide to policies and practices that best engage and retain individuals involved in the criminal justice system in effective health care.


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Following the Senate passage of a medical cannabis bill in North Carolina, House Speaker Tim Moore (R) has indicated the measure is unlikely to reach the chamber floor for a vote, North Carolina Public Radio reports. Without the support of House Republicans, the bill is likely dead for the year.
Moore, who opposes the reforms, told WRAL News that he won’t consider the measure as the state’s legislative session winds down and did not say whether the chamber would hold a vote on the bill in the future.
“I want to see where our folks are on it. I really do. That one has just kind of been thrown down, and I don’t see an appetite to take that up in the shorter session. As far as the long session, I won’t say one way or the other.” — Moore to WRAL
An April poll conducted by SurveyUSA on behalf of WRAL found that 72% of North Carolina voters support medical cannabis legalization, with 18% opposed. The poll also found a majority (57%) of voters back adult-use legalization.
The poll found that 64% of Republicans approve of medical cannabis legalization along with 75% of Democrats.
In a statement to WRAL, Jordan Monaghan, a spokesman for Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, said the governor “supports efforts to make medical marijuana available.” Lawmakers this session passed a bill to legalize medical cannabis were the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to do so first and Cooper is still assessing that measure.
The FDA-oriented bill requires the agency first approve cannabis as a prescription drug, then the Drug Enforcement Administration must make the proper change to federally controlled substance schedules, and finally, a North Carolina commission would have to not object to the change.
The broad medical cannabis legalization bill had been approved by the Senate 35-10.
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As night follows day and pats follow dogs, so convertible follows coupe. Two years after Aston Martin launched the Vantage Coupe comes this, the Aston Martin Vantage Roadster.
As you can see, the major difference to the two-seat, twin-turbo V8 sports car is that there is no longer a roof. Well, technically, there is one—it’s just made of fabric and is retractable.
In fact, the powered Z-fold mechanism is claimed to be the fastest fabric roof in the game, capable of lowering itself in 6.7sec and raising in 6.8sec at up to 50kph. Aston claims this is the fastest full operating cycle of any automatic automotive convertible system. To be honest, we didn’t know anyone was keeping tabs, but you’ll be thankful they are when it starts raining in the middle of your drive.
Because of a shallow design, this new retractable roof still leaves plenty of room in the back for whatever you want to throw back there. Two hundred liters of the stuff. Which, we’re told, is enough to stow a full-size golf bag and accessories. We’re guessing those accessories include: golf balls, excuses, and freshly signed divorce papers.
Mechanically, it’s business as usual. The Roadster features the same AMG-sourced 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8, recalibrated by Aston to produce 503hp and 684Nm of torque. Still bolted to an eight-speed ZF automatic ’box, the Vantage Roadster can get from 0-60mph (97kph) in 3.7sec and charge on to 306kph with the roof up. Aston hasn’t given a figure for the top speed with the roof down, so we’re going to have to test that for ourselves.
Due to that new roof mechanism and increased chassis strengthening to make sure it doesn’t wilt at the first sign of a corner, the Roadster has put on 60kg. It now weighs in at 1,628kg dry. Underneath, it’s still the bonded and riveted aluminum structure descended from the DB11, and it still shares the same adaptive damping, dynamic stability control, torque vectoring, and electronic rear diff as its hard-top Vantage brother. But there is a bespoke rear damper and ESP map.
Visually, there are minor changes. You might have noticed the grille. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Vantage nameplate, Aston has brought back the ‘vane’ grille as an option on both Coupe and Roadster as an alternative to the track-inspired ‘hunter’ grille featured on the Coupe from its launch. As you can see, the ‘vane’ grille is softer, more sculpted—like those on the recent limited-edition Zagato projects. It’s more shark than catfish, and a lot more like Bond’s DB10, which of course inspired the latest generation of Vantage in the first place.
Other than that, same as, same as: the same cracking proportions, stubby aggression, and anger at the back. You’ve still got four pipes, a dramatic diffuser, and a full-width light strip. Though now you can hear that exhaust clear its throat and the turbos whistle a bit easier. Inside, you can still see the bits borrowed from Merc (screen, pointless mouse-style touchpad) as it’s exactly the same as the coupe.
Lifting the lid on the twin-turbo V8 sports car is the latest step of Aston Martin’s ambitious plan that it set back in 2018: You know, that of delivering seven new standalone models (one every nine months) by 2021. Since then, the company has been caught in a financial storm, held up by a £500-million rescue package and sprouting an F1 team. In the grand scheme of recent Aston Martin news, stripping the roof off a car is somewhat small fry.
Prices for the Roadster start at £126,950 (P8.31 million), making it quite a lot more expensive than a 911 cabriolet that starts at £92,438 (P6.05 million). But the Roadster also brings a few updates to the Vantage range as a whole. Aside from the optional grille outlined earlier, you can now also get a normal Vantage coupe with a seven-speed manual ’box. Don’t be surprised if that gearbox makes its way into the Roadster later down the line.
NOTE: This article first appeared on TopGear.com. Minor edits have been made.


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An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral ... See full summary »
In the celebration of the day of the political prisonner the victims of the Franco repression meet in the jail of Valencia. Among them are parvenues, mafiosi, bankers, and a communist ... See full summary »
Luis García Berlanga
Alain Leroy is having a course of treatment in a private hospital because of his problem with alcohol. Although he is constantly distressed, he leaves the hospital and tries to meet good ... See full summary »
There are two parts to this film: sequences of life in the fishing village of La Pointe Courte (a government inspector's visit, the death of a child) alternate with others following a ... See full summary »
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie ... See full summary »
The star of a magazine company suffers an appendicitis attack during a shift and has to stay in a small Spanish town (Medina del Campo), to be operated. But the doctor who takes care of her illness falls in love for her and tries to prolong her convalescence.
At the time was a failure and rebuked the thematic resemblance to "Calle Mayor" 1956, But with the benefit of hindsight, we face one of the biggest films of Bardem, equivalent also considered a pinnacle of Spanish cinema.
If in "Calle Mayor" the prominence it monopolizes the character brilliantly played by "Isabel" (Betsy Blair), here is bifurcated by more characters. Back in a provincial town, we have this time to a middle-aged couple, a young professor and a French vedette rather acts as a trigger for action.
Bardem manages brilliantly expressive resources. The most characteristic is the sequence shot, which focuses on the dialogue, usually a duet. In this connection it would highlight an impressive and long marriage discussion scene and performed excellently executed. At other times, the scene highlights neighboring choir always gathered to gossip, where Barden uses a much shorter assembly. And, as always in his films, the transitions are original and eloquent. As for the performances, most noteworthy is a splendid and unforgettable Julia Guitierrez Caba, well accompanied by Jean-Pierre Cassel and Antonio Casas, and also highlight the beautiful Delerue score, with delicious lyrical moments, This film transcends politics and conjunctural reading. Hence, although the types of characters, their conflicts and how to solve them we referred to the universal human themes, like love, loneliness, longing, dissatisfaction, contradictions ... is the work of art.
With an atmosphere is a slow film, lyrical, bittersweet, it is a Small masterpiece that shows the daily life of a provincial town. The analysis of this microcosm may extend to Spain at the time frustrated with individuals sharing their loneliness and unmet needs.
The story is told in sequence shots long and accurate, and makes the characters reflect on the meaning of their lives and show indulgence in accepting the cold rainy days and boring.
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When Naoko wrote the story of Sailor Moon, she made Mamoru so loving, so gentle and kind, so noble, and she never had him break up with Usagi. However, the animators/writers had a different scenario in mind. They wanted heart ache, turmoil, they wanted Usagi to cry and they wanted to make Mamoru/Darien look like a jerk, so they went and ahead and had him break up with her. And what was their reasoning? "I know! We'll send him nightmares from his future self, who will test his love for Usagi. And the test will be seeing Usagi die if he stays with her."
Now poor Mamoru/Darien. All he wanted was to live peacefully and happily with Usagi. And yet, when he gets these dreams, all he can think about is the pain on Usagi's face. He can't BEAR the thought of any harm coming to her, and he especially can't stand the thought that IF he stays with her, she will lose her life. So what does he do? He sacrifices HIS happiness and breaks up with her.
Mamoru throughout the break up shows how he is suffering and how hard it is for him to break up with the love of his life. Yet he does it because his love is UNCONDITIONAL. He wants Usagi to be happy, to be alive, to live and breathe, and if by staying away from her, Mamoru can ensure that, then he will close his eyes, ignore the pain in his heart, and do it. That is unconditional love - loving someone so much that you give up your own happiness with them, so that they may be happy and live.
What would YOU do if you were in a similar situation? You've been given a death prophecy, telling you that the one you love will DIE if you stay with them. Would you be SELFISH and stay with the person, thereby causing the one you love to die? Or would you love the person so much that you would stay away from them? Life or Death? Your own happiness with the one you love or Death? Choose. You will find that you would most likely do the right thing, which is what Mamoru did.

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Object Place: Europe, England
112 x 57.1 x 61.6 cm (44 1/8 x 22 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.)
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Walnut veneered on walnut, partially gilded, modern upholstery
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Walnut, carved and parcel-gilt. The chair stands on cabriole legs with pad feet. The bowed drop-in seat is covered in gold velvet. The shaped front seat rail has pendent apron. The chair has shaped supports and a double-arched cresting rail carved with a central shell above a shaped back-splat carved with a trellis pattern within a cartouche. Similar cartouche appear on the knees of the legs. The carved decorationis enhanced by gilding.
The sinuous lines and elaborate carved dcoration of this chair make it an unusually rich example of English seating furniture of the early eighteenth century. The richness is accentualted by the use of gilding to hightlight the areas of detailed carving. Note that the design of the back splat, stiles (uprights), and top rail is found with minor variations on a pair of slightly later mahogany chairs exhibited nearby.
Part of a suite of chairs from Worsborough Hall, Yorkshire. By 1983, Mr. and Mrs. I.W. Colburn, Marblehead, MA; 1991, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Colburn to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 1991)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. I.W. Colburn


Airtel Rwanda Revamps All Net Pack “ImirongoYose” to offer even More Minutes
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Airtel Rwanda has launched an enhanced ImirongoYoseAll Net Pack that offers up to 100% more minutes to customers to call across all networks.
Launching the product, Amit Chawla, Airtel Rwanda Managing Director, say“ImirongoYosepacks have been overhauled, offering even more minutes to call across all networks making it by far the best product in its category on the Rwandan Market”.
“We have increased the number of options to three for daily packs are 3 for weekly packs and ensured that the number of minutes to call either network are evenly matched” adds Amit Chawla.
By dialling *255*3#, customers have the option to choose between the smallest Imirongo Yose daily pack has been priced at 100 RWF and gives our clients 10 Minutes to call Airtel and 10 Minutes to call the other network in addition to 10 SMS. Alternatively, customers also have the option to load a pack priced at 200 RWF which offers 35 minutes tocall Airtel and 35 minutes calling the other network in addition to 10 SMS, also with a duration of 24 hours.
This launch also includes a revamp of the weekly ImirongoYosepacks which have a starting price of 500 RWF, offering 70 Minute to call Airtel and 70 Minutes to call the other network plus 10 SMS.
We have also increased the minutes on the pack 1,000vRWF offering 160 minutes to call Airtel and 160 minutes to call the other network plus 10 SMS and finally we have the largest weekly pack with a price point of 1,500RWF offering 280 minutes to call Airtel and 280 minutes to call the other network plus 10 SMS.
To load ImirongoYose voice packs, customers can dial *255*3# or use My Airtel App to select the pack that matches their needs.
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A coalition of UK livestock farming organisations is calling on the government to reconsider its plans to transfer much of the cost of dealing with animal disease outbreaks to livestock farmers still reeling from the impact of this autumn’s foot-and-mouth and bluetongue crises.
In a public statement the farming organisations say that:
- The government’s timing is wrong
- Costs must be minimised before there is any question of sharing them
- Joint responsibility for animal disease policy must be established before costs are shared.
The statement points out that the cost to the livestock sectors of this autumn’s animal disease outbreaks – caused in part by a leak from a government-regulated research facility – is at least £100m.
In addition, the entire sector is suffering from rocketing feed and energy costs, to which prices have yet to adjust.
“To suggest, against that background, that the industry should be picking up additional costs from government is divorced from reality,” the statement says.
“If and when we become involved in detailed discussions on cost-sharing, the first step must be to ensure that this work is managed as efficiently as possible so as to minimise the cost, both to industry and government.
“An essential pre-condition for any constructive engagement is a firm assurance that the industry will be given genuine responsibility for the development and delivery of animal health policy and the way animal disease outbreaks are handled as a quid pro quo for the sharing of costs.”
DEFRA has indicated that it intends to start consulting on its proposals for cost sharing before Christmas. It is looking to raise around £40m from farmers, probably in the form of a levy.
The farming organisations say this is too hasty, and are asking for a meeting with DEFRA secretary Hilary Benn.
“There can be no deal on animal health cost sharing proposals unless farmers are given a proper input into animal health policy making,” said Ulster Farmers Union president Kenneth Sharkey.