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This master bedroom and bath design all started with one simple piece of inspiration, a treasured piece of fabric.
My client had some yards of Schumacher's Chiang Mai Dragon fabric in her favorite colorway, saved for several years. It turned out to be the perfect springboard for our design, as I mentioned in my previous post about their bathroom.
This is a former client of mine, several years ago we remodeled their kitchen, family room, dining, room, well, we just about gutted the main part of their house. We took down the walls in this 50's ranch style home and opened things up for a more spacious look and up to date lifestyle.
I didn't get pics of that project at the time, there was just too much going on, but I hope to get those someday soon as we may be touching a few more items in those spaces in the future. :-) We've currently just added in some new furniture pieces and I can't wait to get the last ones installed.
Here are a few of my instagram shots of the new sectional sofa, pillows and rug we installed recently, in their living room. We did the wood blinds and reupholstered that fab chair in our previous go round. It's all coming together!
This client loves color, most especially, reds and blues. They have lived all over the world and have objects and treasures from far and wide, like the bench from Indonesia at the foot of their bed.
I wanted to hint at their diverse and colorful background but bring a sense of sophistication to this space, making it a calm retreat that would bring them a more organized life in this ranch style home that they love.
Remodel of the master bedroom and bath
One of the biggest priorities was to gut the bathroom. I shared that design in this post, and as I mentioned there, when we opened up that space, we knew we needed to add closets to the bedroom.
As with many small ranch style homes, they had high, wide windows and the one over the bed basically stayed closed with wood blinds, most of the time. We discussed just closing in that window with a solid wall and opening up the one that faced the back of the house with a French door slider to gain more light and access the back yard.
This turned out to be a great idea for construction, if nothing else! The space was sealed off from the rest of the house and the contractors entered the job site from the new door openings in the back yard, so that was really a bonus benefit.
We reused their existing bed, one of the nightstands, and the bench at the foot of the bed. The rest was new.
Master Bedroom Design Features
- Wall of cabinetry - This wall of storage replaced two small closets they had in the space. I created an onlay pattern on the doors because I wanted to hint at a chinoiserie style and didn't want them to appear too boring.
- New French doors - This brought in some more light in this room and that verticality of the opening looks more current and up to date.
- New bedding - The simple matelasse cream bedding provided a nice base for the colorful, patterned pillows and fabrics.
- New cushion and pillows - These all coordinated using the homeowner's one iconic fabric. We selected all the others to work with it. Love the little Ralph Lauren stripe on the bench cushion.
- Navy grasscloth - We found just the right shade of navy to tie into our inspiration fabric and love that you can see the woven texture pronounced on the walls. It provides a soft richness that paint just cannot.
- Navy drapery panels - I just wanted to continue the wall color onto the drapery, so that when closed, the color was continuous across the wall. With black out lining, it makes for a cozy room with the navy enveloping you all around.
- SW Repose Gray - This soft gray color was used on the cabinetry, mouldings and ceiling. I didn't want a white, it would have been too glaring and contrasting. I didn't want to repeat the navy either, because I wanted to cabinetry to be noticed and contribute to the design aesthetic of the space. The soft gray is just a light neutral that works really well.
- Wall mount, adjustable lamps at the bedside. This is such a luxurious boutique hotel-like feature. These lamps keep the nightstands free for other items.
- New ceiling fan - We chose a close to the ceiling mounting, as the ceiling heights are around 8'. I like the bronze finish in this instance. It works with the four poster bed and gives it a bit of a tropical feel. You know we have to have our ceiling fans in Texas. :-)
Master Bedroom Reveal
Here's the before and after of the bathroom remodel for this bedroom.


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Today, Kayla and I baked cookies all. day. long. I think I wound up making like 10 dozen cookies of two different kinds. Of course, you have to taste test each batch, so by the time the 9th dozen rolled around, I was quite sick of sweets.
That afternoon, I decided to fix a yummy meal for us that was both lighter in taste and lower in carbs– which is good considering all the cookie dough I had just ingested. That is how I came up with this Greek Quinoa Salad – the perfect pairing to go with a Healthy Choice® Simply Cafe Steamers®.
I went grocery shopping at Krogers the other day because I had a coupon for $1 off a Healthy Choice® Simply Cafe Steamers® (click that link and you can get one too!), and I needed a few other things, so I headed to the store.
They had several choices to choose from, but the Grilled Chicken Pesto and Vegetables sounded SO good, so I grabbed two of them. I knew with us making cookies the next day that we were going to want something better tasting.
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- Healthy Choice Simply Chicken Fried Rice 10 OZ
- Healthy Choice Simply Chicken & Vegetable Stir Fry 10 OZ
- Healthy Choice Simply Grilled Chicken Pesto & Vegetables 10 OZ
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- Healthy Choice Simply Lemon Herb Chicken 10 OZ
Now — I have gotten to where I LOVE quinoa. It is one of my favorite grains and there are so many ways you can dress it up. You can buy plain, but if you are pressed for time, they sell all kinds of premixed flavor boxes at the store. That is what I used for this dish. It already had a zesty lemon flavor pack so all I did was a add a few of my favorites to the mix for the ultimate salad.
If you have never cooked with quinoa, all you have to do is get the kind that is pre-rinsed. It cooks up the fastest with the least amount of work involved.
So — you cook your quinoa according to package directions. Then, I place it on a plate to cool in the freezer for about 5-7 minutes.
This way, it does not melt the feta cheese you are going to be adding.
Then, I add in my Greek favorites — olives (I left these out this time because my daughter hates them, but normally I have them in my salad), tomatoes, red onion or green onion, feta cheese, and then a Greek dressing which you can also pick up at the store.
Mix it all together and then serve it alongside your Healthy Choice® Simply Cafe Steamers®.
Greek Quinoa Salad
- 1 cup of cooked quinoa
- zest of 1 lemon
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1/2 of red onion, diced
- 1 tub of cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 can of sliced black olives
- 1 tub of Feta Cheese
- 1/2 -1 cup of greek vinagrette dressing
- Take your cooked quinoa and place in a bowl. Set it in the refrigerator until it cools off so you don't melt your cheese.
- Zest your lemon first and set the zest aside. Cut open your lemon and squeeze the juice all over your quinoa.
- Add in your zest, red onion, tomatoes, black olives and feta cheese. Season with salt and then pour on your dressing.
- I would start with 1/2 a cup and taste it before adding the rest.
- Enjoy! This salad will almost a full week in the fridge and gets better the longer it sits.
Full of fresh natural ingredients, these meals will be gracing my freezer this holiday season and all next year!
Doesn't that steam coming off my delicious dinner make your mouth water? It does mine! It's freshness you can see and taste. And the best part? It's perfect for the low carb lifestyle.
If you are heading out, don't forget to grab your $1 off coupon. You have until the 13th to print them and then they expire on the 20th, so don't wait!
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text: This Thing Called Life – Pitch.Feathers.Fire [REVIEW] September 26, 2013Micah 1 Comment Facebook Listen / Download (via Bandcamp) Genre(s): Metalcore This Thing Called Life's album Pitch.Feathers.Fire is an album that is metalcore with some groove metal influence, but nothing must else. It has 10 songs and about 35 minutes worth of materials, which is a pretty good amount of music for free. "Coward" is the second song off of this album. This song has a lot of groove influence and it is very noticeable by the guitar work, but there are some parts in the song that sounds like normal metalcore. Also, there are some parts in the song that remind of how the guitar is played in blues music. The vocals are basically the same throughout the song, usually mid-screams to high screams and that's about it. The guitar work stands out the most in this song, and it is well deserved spotlight. The seventh song off of Pitch.Feathers.Fire is "Mad Cow." The instrumentals in this song aren't as groovy as "Coward" and do not stand out as much either. It has the typical metalcore sound as far as instrumentals go. The vocals have more variety however. There are high screams, mids, and low screams placed throughout the song; which I like. Nothing really stands out in this song, but all work together mutually. Pitch.Feathers.Fire is a decent album. The sound This Thing Called Life brings to the table is pretty solid, the instrumentals and vocals are good. I do think there is something missing with their sound, but I cannot put my finger on it entirely. Anyway! If you're into metalcore with some groove influences, check out this album! It is free to download on their Bandcamp page (listed above)! Score: 3/5 NewsShare : Tweet ‹ The Heavy Music Holiday Show! Of Creations – Reinventing Yourself [REVIEW] ›


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Well the cunning plan to do a BBQ at Brixworth Country Park has had to be postponed - the Met Office has us down for rain on Thursday afternoon & evening.
We are therefore going for Plan B... The Pub, followed by the option of food of people's choice. It has been suggested that we go to the Olde England on the Kettering Road.
For those of you who haven't been before, it's well worth the visit for the selection of beer alone! This is located at 199 Kettering Road, Northampton, NN1 4BP. You can find out more on their Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/theoldeengland/
As usual, we will aim to be there for about 7:30pm.
Hopefully we'll see lots of you there.
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Destination Golgotha
In city planning the path to success is to figure out how to make your city a destination. Millions fly to Orlando—why? Destination: Disney World. Thousands traveling to Santa Clara. Why? Destination: Super Bowl. These prime destinations promise life, dreams, escape, pleasure, power, and success. The Gospel of Matthew, on the other hand, presents Jerusalem as its destination, more specifically, Golgotha
In March millions of Christians will remember Jesus' crucifixion on Good Friday, but the first time Matthew, the tax collector, uses the term "cross" he quotes Jesus' words and the focus is on our own cross and the need to follow Jesus.
"Whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it. The one who loses his life for my sake will find it." Matthew 10:38
Because of the Roman terror tactics, Jews in the first century knew exactly what Jesus meant when He talked about taking up their cross. They had seen thousands of rebels against Roman rule pick up the beams of their crosses and carry them to their execution. Matthew's account will climax at Calvary, but here, the first time the phrase is used, Jesus uses the idea of picking up my cross daily to challenge me to give up my claims to my life and give Him absolute allegiance. I must follow Him to where He is going, and He is headed not for Disney World or the Super Bowl. He's going to the cross. The great paradox is that I find my life not by clinging to it, but by giving it up to Him. In the end His final destination is not Golgotha, but the empty tomb and life at the right hand of His Father.
Lord, as I work out in the gym today I see young and old sweating and striving to cling to life. Our culture worships youthful, toned bodies with six-pack abs, and carved lines. In the funerals that I do, however, I see that all that exercise, plastic surgery, and then a little make up from the morticians produces some of the most beautiful corpses the world has ever seen. Deliver me from the lie that this present physical life is all there is. Help me stop clinging to this life, take up my cross, and follow You knowing that You alone can lead me through death and give me breath that lasts forever.
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(Newton, Mass.) The Rivier University Women's Basketball team opened their second semester portion of the schedule this afternoon with a 75-70 setback at Mount Ida College in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference contest. The Raiders, who welcomed the return of junior Kaylee Kacavas (Dracut, Mass.), is now 0-7 on the season, 0-3 in the GNAC while the Mustangs improved to 8-3 overall, 1-1 GNAC.
Kaylee Kacavas notched one of three double-double performances on the day for Rivier with 22 points, 13 rebounds and three assists, as junior Megan Hamel (Colebrook, N.H.) added 16 points and 13 boards in the loss for the visitors. Senior Emilee Kacavas (Dracut, Mass.) collected 11 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists for the Raiders, who received 10 points and eight rebounds from sophomore Alexis Ivory (Nashua, N.H.). Junior Lizzy Meehan (Nashua, N.H.) chipped in with nine points, five boards and three assists off the bench for Rivier, which shot 34 percent (26-76) from the floor and held a 60-45 rebounding advantage on the day, as the visitors converted 23 offensive boards into 20 second chance points.
Senior Jaime Moscato (Taunton, Mass.) scored a career-high 30 points to lead Mount Ida with classmate Breanna Muir (Wareham, Mass.) nearly notching a triple-double with 16 points, nine rebounds and nine assists in the victory. Senior Patricia Liotta (Hampton Bays, N.Y.) rounded out a trio of Mustangs in double figures with 11 points and four boards, while senior Imani Bumpus (Dedham, Mass.) added six points and six caroms for the hosts. Sophomore Jessica Cyr (Ashford, Conn.) and freshman Melody Millett (Naples, Maine) combined for 10 points for the Mustangs, who received six rebounds each from sophomores Alisa Benson (Middletown, R.I.) and Taylor Churchill (Fort Fairfield, Maine). Mount Ida shot 35 percent (24-68) from the field overall and held a 23-14 scoring advantage at the foul line for the contest, as the Mustangs converted 19 Raider turnovers into 12 points.
Both teams will take on Albertus Magnus in their next respective Great Northeast Athletic Conference outings, as Mount Ida travels to New Haven, Conn. to square off with the Falcons on Tuesday afternoon beginning at 5:00 p.m. Rivier hosts Albertus Magnus on Thursday afternoon in Nashua, in a match that also tips off at 5:00 p.m.


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Pastor Bevan challenges us to go deeper with worship, to understand what worship is, how we worship and that collective worship on Sundays is a time to recalibrate our hearts back to God.
While we're going into our spheres of influence, how do we help people become total followers of Jesus Christ?
How you think about God is critical. Come along Sunday to find out why
Churches need good leadership, but maybe not of the kind you think. Pastor Greg shows us how God's Word defines good church leadership.


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Larry Pressler
|United States Senator
from South Dakota
January 3, 1979 - January 3, 1997
|James Abourezk
|Tim Johnson
|Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee
January 3, 1995 - January 3, 1997
|Fritz Hollings
|John McCain
|Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from South Dakota's 1st district
January 3, 1975 - January 3, 1979
|Frank Denholm
|Tom Daschle
|Personal details
Larry Lee Pressler
March 29, 1942
Humboldt, South Dakota, U.S.
|Political party
|Independent (2013-present)
|Other political
|Republican (Before 2013)
|Harriet Pressler
|Alma mater
|University of South Dakota (B.A.)
St Edmund Hall, Oxford (B.A.)
Harvard Law School (J.D.)
|Military service
|United States
|United States Army
|Years of service
Larry Lee Pressler (born March 29, 1942) is an American politician from South Dakota. He served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1975-79) and three terms in the U.S. Senate (1979-97), losing re-election to Tim Johnson (1996). He was the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to the Senate.
Since leaving the Senate, Pressler has served as a lawyer, business advisor, and lecturer and has remained active in politics and government. Pressler also functions as a journalist and columnist. He has written for the Deseret News for which he has written a bi-weekly column called "What's Really Happening In Washington, DC" He has either considered running, or briefly run, for office several times. In December 2013, Pressler announced that he would run as an independent in the 2014 mid-term elections for the U.S. Senate seat he lost to Johnson, who was retiring.[1] Pressler lost the election to Mike Rounds.
Pressler is founder and president of The Pressler Group, a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), a small business to work on projects in service of veterans.
Pressler was born in Humboldt, South Dakota, the son of Loretta Genevieve (Claussen) and Antone Lewis Pressler.[2] He was raised on his family's farm. He graduated from the University of South Dakota and was later awarded the Rhodes Scholarship.[3] Pressler attended St. Edmund Hall at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and obtaining a B.A. He later attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Harvard Law School.[3][]
He briefly worked lawyer before serving in the Vietnam War in the United States Army from 1966 until 1968. After returning from Vietnam, he served for several years in the United States Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer.[]
Pressler served in the House of Representatives from 1975 to 1979.[4]
In 1978, he was elected to the United States Senate, succeeding retiring Democratic incumbent James Abourezk.[5]
He served in the Senate from 1979 to 1997 and was chairman of the Commerce Committee (1995-97).[6] While in the Senate, he also served on the Science and Transportation Committee, Foreign Relations Committee and European and Asian Subcommittees. Pressler ran for a fourth term in 1996 but lost by three points to Democratic Congressman Tim Johnson.[7]
He briefly sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, campaigning on Vietnam veterans' issues.[8]
Pressler authored and won Congressional and Presidential approval of a sweeping reform of telecommunications legislations through the Telecommunications Act of 1996.[9] Among Pressler's staffers included future U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Schieffer[10] and future state senator Neal Tapio.[11]
Pressler is noted for being possibly the only one of the nine known members of Congress approached to flatly refuse to take a bribe from undercover FBI agents and then to report the bribe attempt to the FBI during the Abscam investigations (1980). The Washington Post reported in a front-page story on Sunday, February 4, the following:
Thanks to the FBI's undercover "sting" operation, there now exists incontrovertible evidence that one senator would not be bought. Preserved among the videotape footage that may be used as bribery evidence against a number of members of Congress, there is a special moment in which Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD) tells the undercover agents, in effect, to take their sting and stick it. Pressler, according to law enforcement sources was the one approached member of Congress who flatly refused to consider financial favors in exchange for legislative favors, as suggested by undercover agents posing as Arabs. At the time he said he was not aware that he was doing anything quite so heroic.[12]
In an overall review of the Abscam cases, Judge J. Pratt had the highest praise for Senator Pressler. "Pressler, particularly, acted as citizens have a right to expect their elected representatives to act. He showed a clear awareness of the line between proper and improper conduct, and despite his confessed need for campaign money, and despite the additional attractiveness to him of the payment offered, he nevertheless refused to cross into impropriety."[13]
Pressler was also the sponsor of the "Pressler Amendment", which banned most economic and military assistance to Pakistan unless the president certified on an annual basis that[14] "Pakistan does not possess a nuclear explosive device and that the proposed United States assistance program will reduce significantly the risk that Pakistan will possess a nuclear explosive device."[15]
After his defeat, Pressler passed the New York bar and worked again as a lawyer. Pressler subsequently became senior partner of the law firm O'Connor and Hannan, where he served for six years, and then formed his own law firm, The Pressler Group. Pressler is a member of the New York Bar, the Washington DC Bar, and the Supreme Court Bar.
He has also lectured at more than twenty universities in China, India and the U.S., and has been granted two lifetime Fulbright teaching awards.[16]
In 2000, he was a member of Republican presidential Candidate George W. Bush's Information Technology Steering Committee, and also served on the Bush Presidential Transition Team in 2001.[17]
Pressler attempted a political comeback in 2002 by running for South Dakota's open at-large House seat but he essentially discontinued his campaign when Republican governor Bill Janklow unexpectedly entered the race.
Pressler was appointed an official observer of Ukraine's national election in December 2004.[18]
On November 10, 2009, President Obama named Pressler to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.[19] He also serves on the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission.[20]
In October 2012, based on veterans' issues, Pressler endorsed Obama for a second term with an article in The Huffington Post and on national television networks.[21] Pressler campaigned in a bipartisan team for Obama in the fall of 2012, speaking on behalf of the Obama ticket to certain veteran's groups in Virginia.[22]
He taught as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Sciences Po University, Paris, France, and Reims, France, in the fall of 2012.[23] He chiefly teaches international relations to graduate students.[]
In 2013, Pressler was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.[24]
Pressler endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president in 2008 and 2012.[25] He endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race.[26]
Pressler continued his public lectures including a speech at Cardinal Stefan Wyszy?ski University in Warsaw, Poland on Monday, June 4, 2018 for the 2018 International Security Forum.[27]
The Native American Times reported in November 2013 that Pressler, at the age of 71, was weighing an independent comeback bid for the seat vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Tim Johnson in the 2014 election.[28] After being approached by a group of citizens asking him to run, Pressler assessed his chances of victory by saying, "I think it's possible but unlikely."[29] At the conclusion of an exploratory tour of South Dakota's 66 counties in late 2013, however, Pressler announced his candidacy and stated confidently, "I intend to win."[30] Pressler faced Republican former Governor Mike Rounds, Democratic congressional aide Rick Weiland, and independent conservative state legislator Gordon Howie in a four-way race.[31][32]
Shortly before announcing his intention to run for office, Pressler explained his becoming an independent: "I don't think I've moved, I think the party has moved. I feel like a man without a party. ... My intent is not to hurt anyone." [33] During his unsuccessful campaign, Pressler did not commit to caucusing with either party in the Senate if elected.[34] He stated that he would only serve for one term, and pledged that he would "never raise a dollar" in campaign funds while in office.[34] Pressler has said that he views both parties as being "too entrenched in their respective ideologies at the expense of commonsense solutions."[29]
Pressler supported raising taxes on the rich, possibly gradually increasing the retirement age for Social Security.[29] He said that his top priority was cutting the national deficit.[7] He also supported "much, much stronger" background checks for gun sales for mentally challenged persons.[29] According to the Argus Leader, Pressler was "adamantly opposed to military adventurism, supports expanding background checks on gun sales, favors restricting corporate donations to political campaigns and has called for a museum honoring Native Americans wiped out by white expansion." He had also voted for Barack Obama for president, citing "fiscally conservative reasons".[35] Pressler stated his support for same-sex marriage and filed an Amicus Curiae brief to the Supreme Court in regard to Hollingsworth v. Perry.[36]
During the 2014 campaign, Pressler was endorsed by South Dakota's two largest newspapers, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and the Rapid City Journal, as well as The Daily Republic in Mitchell.[37][38] The race also drew some national attention. The Wall Street Journal reported, "Republicans had been expected to easily win the open Senate seat in South Dakota this year, but the race has tightened recently. Earlier this month, Democrats began sending cash to the race after concluding the unusual, four-way race was winnable."[39] The New York Times said, "A race that most had thought was safely Republican is suddenly the focus of national attention, thanks to the surprisingly successful candidacy of former Senator Larry Pressler, a Republican who is running as an independent."[40]
Pressler ultimately lost the 2014 Senate election to Governor Rounds.[41]
Pressler was an adjunct professor of Telecommunication/Internet Policy at Baruch College (City University of New York). He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Lectureship at the University of Bologna, Italy, for spring semester 2009 and lectured on international relations from January to June 2009.
Pressler was awarded the following medals and citations for his two tours of duty as a U.S. Army lieutenant (1967-68) in Vietnam: (which are included on his DD Form 214) Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation with one Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with four Bronze Service Stars, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal with Device, Overseas Service Bars, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm Unit Citation Badge.
Pressler is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society, the Century Association and the Harvard Club of New York, the Cosmos Club and the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C., and the American Rhodes Scholars Association.[]
Pressler is also a lifetime member of several Veteran organizations including the Vietnam Veterans of America, the American Legion, the Disabled Veterans National Foundation, and the Disabled American Veterans.[]
He has been a longtime trustee of the South Dakota Farmers Union Foundation in Huron, South Dakota, an educational and charitable foundation.[42]
In 2010 Pressler was appointed to the board of the Jericho Project's Veterans Advisory Council which assists homeless veterans in the Bronx.[43]
He is also a member of the board of directors for the Rising Star Outreach Foundation, helping leprosy colonies of India become thriving, self- sufficient communities via Medical Care, Colony Development, and Education.
Pressler has also been appointed to the board of directors for the Baruch School of Public Affairs in New York City.[44]
He is a visiting professor and Senior Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.[45] He is the Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Scholar at the United States Military Academy, where he lectures on international relations and has advised cadets seeking Rhodes scholarships and other graduate fellowships.
Since leaving Congress, Pressler has served as a senior adviser to Salomon Smith Barney, Monticello Capital, Blackhorse Asset Management[46] and Leopard Capital's Leopard Sri Lanka Fund.
In April 2015 Pressler was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His confirmation into the Church was performed by his fellow Rhodes Scholar Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School and Harry Reid.[47]
|Mike Rounds
|Rick Weiland
|Larry Pressler
|Gordon Howie
|Republican gain from Democratic
|Tim Johnson
|Larry Pressler (inc.)
|Democratic gain from Republican
|Larry Pressler (inc.)
|Ted Muenster
|Dean L. Sinclair
|Republican hold
|Larry Pressler (inc.)
|George V. Cunningham
|Republican hold
|Larry Pressler
|Don Barnett
|Republican gain from Democratic
|U.S. House of Representatives
|Preceded by
Frank Denholm
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from South Dakota's 1st congressional district
|Succeeded by
Tom Daschle
|Party political offices
|Preceded by
Robert Hirsch
| Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from South Dakota
(Class 2)
1978, 1984, 1990, 1996
|Succeeded by
John Thune
|U.S. Senate
|Preceded by
James Abourezk
| U.S. Senator (Class 2) from South Dakota
Served alongside: George McGovern, James Abdnor, Tom Daschle
|Succeeded by
Tim Johnson
|Preceded by
Ernest Hollings
| Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee
|Succeeded by
John McCain


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Welcome to our Spotlight Series where we will be sharing something FAB about cities in our great D.FW…starting from A-Z.
17th Stop: Highland Park
Fun Facts:
- The Town of Highland Park is located approximately 3 miles north of the center of Dallas.
- The Town was incorporated in 1913.
- The Town is 2.26 square miles in size.
- Highland Park has approximately 8,900 residents.
- The Town was named "Highland Park" because of its higher elevation compared to the surrounding area and because 20% of developed land was reserved for park space.
- One of the oldest Christmas Traditions in Dallas County is the annual lighting of The Big Pecan Tree.
- The Town is approximately 2 miles from Love Field Airport.
- Highland Park is located approximately 30 minutes from DFW International Airport.
Highland Park Today:
Through the years, Highland Park has maintained strict construction standards. Known for its quality housing, the town still has its beautiful parks running along Turtle Creek and Hackberry Creek, while also being home to the prestigious Dallas Country Club. A complete history of Highland Park may be read in the nationally acclaimed and award winning book Great American Suburbs – The Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas, by Virginia Savage McAlester, Willis Cecil Winters, and Prudence Mackintosh (Abbeville Press Publishers, 2008).
For more information about Highland Park and other communities within our exciting Dallas Metro, contact us at 214.769.2142.


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The Buzz
Boehner points to Obama's legacy of lawlessness
It's Friday. Rejoice!
"Every time the president rewrites a law unilaterally and declines to enforce the laws of our nation as they're written, it conveys not strength, but weakness." — House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, on Thursday blasting President Barack Obama for threatening to take unilateral action on immigration through an executive order instead of working through Congress to pass new policy.
Boehner was blunt. More unilateral action by the president will cement a legacy of lawlessness. In Kansas City Wednesday, the president said Congress gives him no choice but to act on his own.
"I could have killed him." — former President Bill Clinton speaking in Austrailia on Sept. 10, 2001, about Osama bin Laden.
In the tape of the remarks, which came to light Thursday, Clinton said he opted to not take out bin Laden at one point because so many others would have been killed in the process. The president spoke just hours before the planes hit the Twin Towers in New York.
"Milton, Milton, Milton, this is not the time." — Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts who appears in a new radio ad for his main GOP primary rival, Milton Wolf. Roberts was saying Wolf, who had confronted Roberts at an event, had picked the wrong time for a debate.
Wolf's point in the ad: That was Roberts' way of backing out of a one-one-one meeting. The two still haven't debated, and at this point, it's fair to conclude that one's not going to happen before Tuesday's primary.
"I'll be active." — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday promising he'll be campaigning — and donating money — to elect more Democrats this fall to the General Assembly.
The pressure's on the Democratic governor to step up his level of engagement. Two other leading Missouri Democrats, Sen. Claire McCaskill and Attorney General Chris Koster, each have donated more than $200,000 to the party as a way to end the veto-proof majority Republicans hold in the House. In a meeting with The Star's editorial board, Nixon declined to say how much he'd donate.
"The kind of posing and histrionics and, you know, faux indignation that you get sometimes … I think that when you're on TV you tend to play to the cameras." — former White House press secretary Jay Carney on David Letterman's show Wednesday night commenting on how some reporters play to the cameras during televised media briefings.
Imagine that! Carney, however, didn't name names.


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Flames of war
Gameplay takes place over a series of turns, with players alternating movement, shooting and close assault. This simple sequence of play, often called "I-Go, You-go", helps people who are unfamiliar with wargames or who are familiar with other games with a similar structure to quickly learn the rules. The game is optimised for two players, although it can be played by a larger number of players playing against each other or grouped in teams.
Play revolves around company-level tactics, with each stand or element representing an infantry fireteam , an artillery piece and its crew, or a single vehicle . Air support is also available, in the form of fighters and ground attack aircraft , with aircraft generally being represented by 1:144 scale models.
The main rulebook has numerous scenarios players can use for their games, with all of these scenarios centered around capturing objectives. Additional army sourcebooks contain further scenarios, usually centered around historical events relevant to that particular book. Game play utilizes six-sided dice to pass various skill tests used to shoot at enemies or pass motivation based tests. Movement distances and weapon ranges are provided in both inches and centimeters and are usually measured with tape measures or other measuring aides.
Current army sourcebooks are based on particular campaigns and include lists for the German Wehrmacht , the U.S. Army , the armies of United Kingdom and Commonwealth , the Red Army of the Soviet Union, , the Italian army , as well as nations that played as smaller role such as the Poles, Hungarians, Finns, and Romanians. Sourcebooks have so far been restricted to the European theater and Mediterranean theater; Battlefront has indicated that future releases may include coverage of thePacific theater, but only after army lists and campaign supplements covering the early and late periods of fighting in Europe have been released.
Flames of War provides players who are interested in World War II wargaming but lack an in-depth knowledge of the period with a "one-stop shop". The rulebook and sourcebooks provide not only the rules of the game and scenarios to play but also background material on historical forces and battles and simple guides to organising, assembling, and painting miniature armies.
We don't have a local supplier of official flames of war products. However HobbyHub does sell alternative miniatures that do not look out of place, you can purchase from the mini shop at the club meetings.


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Mr James Michel Tchotet Tchoumi
|PhD student
Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology
My Supervisor/s
|Primary Supervisor
|Jolanda Roux
Co Supervisor
|Martin Coetzee
I'm a first year Ph.D student working with Prof. Jolanda Roux, Dr Martin Coetzee, Prof Mario Rajchenberg and Dr Didier Begoude. My PhD project focuses on wood-rotting fungi as pathogens of trees in Native forest ecosystems. Our aim is to study their impact, identity and epidemiology in forests of Cameroon and the Garden Route National Park (GRNP) of South Africa.
Native forests in the GRNP are selectively harvested, based on the occurrence of signs of wood rot and crown death of trees (Anonymous, 2012). In most cases very little is known regarding the cause of this decay and death. Based on some preliminary studies (Roux et al. 2011; Roux et al. 2013), it is hypothesized that it may be due to attacks by wood-rotting fungi, as fruiting bodies resembling species of the pathogenic wood rot genera Phellinus sensu lato (s.l.) and Ganoderma s.l. were commonly observed on the dying trees and stumps. However, due to the narrow size of the sample in the previous studies, further and thorough surveys will conducted in order to better elucidate the causal agents as well as their impact and the epidemiological factors that drive the spread of the root and butt rots disease encountered in the GRNP .
In comparison to South Africa, similar observations were also made in cacao (Theobroma cacao) plantations in Cameroon, one of the most important economic crops of the country. It was originally thought that Phytophthora megakarya was the only major threat to cacao production in Cameroon. However, a preliminary field investigation by Roux et al. (2012) in the humid forest zone revealed the presence of signs and symptoms of root and butt rot disease caused by an Armillaria species, a group of well-known root pathogens in the Southern part of the continent (Coetzee et al. 2000a, 2003a, 2005; Wingfield et al. 2010). Using this preliminary report as baseline, our research project will attempt to determine if Armillaria species represent an important threat to cacao production in Cameroon and also clarify the exact identity of the Armillaria species causing root rot of cacao trees.
My Journal Articles
|Tchotet Tchoumi JM, Coetzee MPA, Rajchenberg M, Roux J. (2019) Taxonomy and species diversity of Ganoderma species in the Garden Route National Park of South Africa inferred from morphology and multilocus phylogenies. Mycologia
|Tchotet Tchoumi JM, Coetzee MPA, Rajchenberg M, Wingfield MJ, Roux J. (2018) Three Ganoderma species, including Ganoderma dunense sp. nov., associated with dying Acacia cyclops trees in South Africa. Australasian Plant Pathology 47(4):431-447.
|Tchotet Tchoumi JM, Coetzee MPA, Vivas M, Rajchenberg M, Roux J. (2017) Wood-rotting basidiomycetes associated with declining native trees in timber-harvesting compartments of the Garden Route National Park of South Africa. Austral Ecology 42:947-963.
|Tchotet Tchoumi JM, Vivas M, Coetzee MPA, Rajchenberg M, Roux J. (2017) Wood-rotting Basidiomycetes associated with declining native trees in the Garden Route National Park (GRNP) of South Africa. South African Journal of Botany


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Feather in Bas-Relief
by Allen Edwin Butt, from Poetry Magazine (January 2009)
Words without much use
now. Unable to remake
the thing. And I thought
what should I think—
followed by: spring light looks
like feathers. (Birds
seemed conveniently
decorous.) What then
does this leave I asked
& was surprised to know
so quickly—that my understanding
of what the light & birds
could not be made to mean
would not detract
from them as they
were. Bound by feathers
(a thought, I will admit,
born of artifice alone)
they bore themselves aloft.
What could I counter with?
I, who held my heart
in offering as much for
show as for a fear so deep
I found I couldn't name it.
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"Allen Edwin Butt lives in Beaufort, South Carolina, and is a student at Presbyterian College. This is his first appearance in print."


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A Wintry Day in the Life
I awake in the morning before the sun at 6am when the sky is still dark blue and the bright moon shines into my bedroom window. When I make breakfast and bring my two year old downstairs, the sun is rising through the kitchen windows, touching the monochrome grey world with golden yellow light and then a flood of bright colour erupts over the snow covered landscape.
After the wee man is changed and fed and happy I clean the ashes out of the wood cook stove and dump them outside in the ash bin and then light a fire --streaking my forearms with black soot every time. I make tea, I wash dishes, and I play with my son in the early morning hours. I've been a single parent since December and am still trying to get the hang of juggling all the things. Sometimes for a change of scene me and the kid walk over to my friend's cafe for tea and breakfast and to chat up the locals before the work day starts.
Mostly though, I usually wake up to being snowed in and having to dig myself out again so I can get out of the house and into town, so my employees can park in my driveway, and so I can get to the garage and wood shed. Alex and Errol can only come into work after they dig themselves out too. My snow blower was awesome until it stopped working and I was left with drifts of 2-5 feet of snow to clear out. It amuses me greatly that when New York and New Jersey got hit with a big snow storm, it was all over the news and social media.We get a nasty snow storm here almost every week and the world cares not --neither do the townsfolk. They know the snow is coming and they bring in extra firewood, buy their groceries, and hide inside until the snow stops. You shovel your driveway only after the plows have gone by, or your driveway will simply be blocked again by a mountain of snow from the road.
Some older houses in town have bad insulation and poor heating. I feel really lucky that I have a furnace and a wood stove. Visitors always comment on how warm and cozy my little house is. I'm glad I have the furnace as back up. If you only have fire and your fire goes out, your pipes freeze and burst. Errol says he feels like Cinderella because he's bound to his fire, but he can pack it with wood and forget about it until sunset and it will still be burning. My wood cook stove is vintage from the 1950s and full of holes, letting in air and burning up all the wood every hour, making it inefficient and needing to be replaced before next winter. I feel like Seymour constantly feeding Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. "Feed me Seymour, feed me!"
When late morning comes, my forager and shop assistant Alex walks over from his place just up the street and my shipper Errol drives in from his tiny house on Morning Glory Farm. Alex starts processing herbs and making herbal products for the shop and Errol starts to print invoices and work on shipping out orders. I cook brunch for us while chasing the toddler around and out of the kitchen. He is constantly trying to get into everything right now --climbing and grabbing at everything and giggling and running away... A troublesome blend of extreme cuteness and endless mischief.
He goes down for a nap after we eat. The silence is beautiful, but we fill it with conversation and music; blues, folk, hip hop, rap, electronic... I lend a hand and try to get as much work done as possible while the little man sleeps, helping with shipping, labelling, inventory, photos, or answering emails.
We three are kindred spirits, of a similar age and mindset, and new to town. If you've been hanging around this blog for a while you know I give everyone nicknames. Alex is The Greenman (aka The Forest Spirit) and Errol is The Psychonaut. We've all been classified as hippies by the locals. And we are. Anti-capitalist communist hippies of a discordian anarchist persuasion who look forward to the inevitable fall of civilization... but you know with goals of brotherly love, environmental awareness, and self-sufficiency.
We each moved to Killaloe to get away from the city and the currently unrealistic life that is expected of our generation: go to school, get a degree, get a job, get married, buy a house and cars, have kids, and retire happily ever after. What do you do when you can't afford school or hated it, can never afford a house in a city, your marriage only leads to unhappiness, and you can't get a job or can only get one that sucks away your soul?
Errol left engineering school for the military and has now just left his position as an army medic after seven years to become a nomad with his tiny house on wheels. Alex left the city and his job as a prison guard to become a forager travelling between Ontario and Quebec. I left library school a few years ago to run my own business and more recently left Vancouver to be a herbalist in rural Ontario.
And here we are. We sit at my kitchen table and dream of spring and of foraging and homesteading. I need lumber, guns, and honey bees for the spring. We want to grow edible and medicinal mushrooms in a shed in the yard, learn to hunt deer, keep honey bees, go on foraging trips... to be wild and rewild. How cool is it that our team building exercises for work are plant journeys, drum circles, product testing, and will soon be foraging trips, camping, hiking, canoeing, and hopefully paintball. There are farmers' markets, workshops, the Killaloe Herb Gathering, and Raven's Knoll events to get involved with... I have a good feeling about this year.
Serendipity has been a recurring theme for me since moving to this small town. What I've needed, I've been provided with in short order. I needed help with the shop and found Alex and Errol simply by running into the right people at the right time. It's just icing on the cake that we all have skills the others lack and want to learn from each other. I will share my knowledge of plant and tree identification, foraging, herbalism, gardening, permaculture, and butchery. Alex has experience with honey bees, is our resident forager and mushroom expert, and is apprenticing to learn how to do everything I can do as a herbalist.
Errol is a retired army medic and Alex is a former army cadet so they will teach me to shoot, though they are both partial to crossbows. Errol just built his tiny house on wheels last year and will likely help us build the mushroom shed and maybe a smokehouse or two... Once upon a time I used to be a professional cook, particularly skilled in butchery. My parents are planning on getting more pigs on their farm this year so I can teach us all how to ethically slaughter and butcher them in an area that is full of livestock farmers and hunters, but surprisingly few abatoires and small scale butchers.
Yes, we're dreaming big. Because why not? And then why not actually do all these things when spring and summer come? We aren't the only ones with wild stars in our eyes. There are many young people in the area doing their best to rewild, live off-grid, homestead, or just enjoy sleepy small town life. It is quite the contrast to see many local youths eager to leave this small town for the city, while at the same time, young people disenchanted by the city are moving here on purpose to live a more rural, practical life with a focus on tight-nit community. Part of me believes it has always been this way since we started to congregate in cities at the dawn of civilization.
We talk about these things and and so much more from science to the realm of the absurd. And then the kid wakes up and I finish my work and go get him. I play with him in the living room or take him outside if the weather and the snow cooperate while the guys finish their work for the day. Sometimes I cook dinner and we hang out, sometimes they head home. Tuesday nights are for potluck and Friday nights are pizza night at Garth's Cafe. I've started hosting a trance drum circle at my house twice a month. There's a winter farmers' market and then a dj and dancing at the Lion's Hall once a month for kicks. Winter seems endless sometimes, but keeping socially active makes it not only bearable, but wonderful.
The sun sets in a glorious wash of pink outside my large living room windows and then the world darkens to monochrome blue grey again and the town becomes eerily silent. The little man goes to bed for the night, I finish up any work that needs to be done, clean up, put away laundry, take out the compost, bring in firewood in the snow, shovel snow, and then usually fall asleep myself.


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On May 21, 1924, 19-year-old Nathan Leopold was out on a mission with his lover and equally brilliant partner, Richard Loeb. When they spotted Loeb's 14-year-old cousin, Bobby Franks, walking home from an after-school basketball game, they offered him a ...Read More »
The congressman who got away with murder
With wealth, power and political connections, Daniel Edgar Sickles knew how to get what he wanted. When the popular, albeit emotional and volatile, congressman from New York learned that the district attorney of Washington, D.C., was having an affair with ...Read More »
A graveyard for our friends
Jim loved Josie, who loved Edward, who killed Jim. If only it were that easy.Read More »
Law 'n History: Thalia lied, Joe died
A decade before Pearl Harbor, the "Massie Affair" shook the Hawaiian Island like no other catastrophe. The reverberations were felt all the way to Washington. And at the center of the hailstorm was Thalia Massie, the lovely 20-year-old spoiled housewife ...Read More »
The brash lawlessness of Edward 'The Skull' Murphy
Upon returning from a business trip to Chicago, the man meekly explained to his wife that he had foolishly lost his wallet while away. He didn't bother telling her that he hadn't reported it to the police. They were, after ...Read More »
The battle over 'Titicut Follies'
A tube is shoved down the nose of a mental patient who's several days into a hunger strike. Liquid is then poured through a funnel attached to the top of the tube to feed the squirming subject.Read More »
Who whacked the doctor's wife?
The headline of the Cleveland Press wailed: "WHY ISN'T SAM SHEPPARD IN JAIL?" After all, everyone knew he was guilty.Read More »
Chicago's Sausage King sizzles his wife
Adolph was the king: King Luetgert, the King of Sausages. He even looked the role. A large man, broad and stocky, he commanded the respect of all those with whom he came in contact, not only for his foreboding physical ...Read More »
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Dr. Slice, Dice and Sauté
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More than anything else, I have created this site in order to address two questions:
Why do we, collectively, and to a lesser extent, individually, murder and maim each other in so many ways?
What if anything, can be done about that?
Read the "What This Site Is All About" for more information.
Poetry is political.
It must transform the manner in which fish and the ocean are together. Or it is nothing.
There is a sequence to social and
political transformation – whether
for the good or the bad. It begins in an individual's soul, with the vision of
new ways of being in the world. The articulation of that vision is poetry.
Through that articulation the vision can be communicated to others. If that
new way of seeing things is absorbed be enough people, it becomes a part of
the collective mind. Then, and only then, the machinery of society will begin
to be transformed. (The painting of the fish is by Paul Klee.)


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Bharti AXA Life Child Plans
Bharti AXA Life Insurance is a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises which is the Indian counterpart and AXA Group, the foreign counterpart. Bharti Enterprises is one of the leading companies engaged in telecom, agricultural businesses, financial services and retail. The insurance company was launched in December 2006 and since then the company has come a long way and has a dedicated work force providing efficient solutions and advice and also meets the life insurance needs of the population through products designed with exclusive features and benefits. Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company offers its customers a wide range of plans in different categories to meet their requirements. Whether the requirement is for protection or for savings or for retirement, the company has a solution for every need
What are Child Plans?
Child plans are plans offered by the company for the welfare of the policyholder's child even when the individual is not there. The plans designed for the child generally do not cover the child's life. The life covered is of the parent with a minor child. Underwriting is done on the parent's life while the child's details are given in the policy
Some common aspects of the plan include:
- There is a 'deferment period' in some child plans. Deferment means delay of coverage and is applied if the child's life is insured. Under the clause, risk coverage will commence after the completion of some years. If the child dies during this period, the aggregate premiums paid till death is returned since life cover is not available during that period.
- If the child is insured, he will become the policyholder when he attains 18 years. The process of reverting the ownership to the child is called Vesting
- If the parent is insured and he dies, there will be no requirement of paying future premiums because they will be provided by the insurance company as per the provisions of the inbuilt waiver of premium benefit
Bharti AXA Life Child Plans
Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company offers child plan which is packed with great benefits to provide complete protection for the future of the child. Let us understand the plan in details:
Bharti AXA Life Child Advantage Plan
It's a traditional child plan which participates in the profits of the company by way of earning bonuses and promises guaranteed returns. The important aspects of this plan are mentioned hereunder:
- The premiums under the plan can be paid for the entire plan duration under the Regular Pay option of for a limited tenure under the Limited Pay option of premium payment.
- There are two types of Maturity Benefit options to choose from. One is the Endowment Benefit and the other is the Money Back Benefit
- Under the Endowment Option, 125% of Sum Assured and accrued simple reversionary bonuses with any Terminal Bonus is paid on maturity
- Under the Money Back Option, Guaranteed Payouts are paid every year starting from the last 5 policy years. 10% of Sum Assured in the last 5th and 4th years, 15% of Sum Assured in the last 3rd and 2nd years and 20% of the Sum Assured in the last year before maturity. On maturity, 40% of Sum Assured and accrued simple reversionary bonuses and any Terminal Bonus are paid
- In the event of death the death benefit will be higher of Sum Assured payable on maturity or 11 times the premium or the basic Sum Assured or 105% of total premiums paid till the policyholder died
- The Sum Assured on maturity is defined as 125% of the Sum Assured id the Endowment Option is chosen or 110% of the Sum Assured if the Money Back Option is chosen.
- There is an inbuilt Premium Waiver Rider under which all future premiums are waived off on death of the insured and the plan continues unaffected. The promised benefits also accrue as and when they fall due.
- Bharti AXA Hospi Cash Rider and Bharti AXA Accidental Benefit Rider can be addedto the plan for a more comprehensive coverage.
- The premiums which are paid for the plan will be eligible for tax exemption under Section 80C and any claim received will be eligible for exemption under Section 10(10D)
Eligibility Details
Entry Age
18 years
Regular pay - 50 years
Limited pay – 55 years
Maturity Age
Regular pay – 71 years
Limited pay – 76 years
Policy Term
11 years
21 years
Sum Assured
Rs.25, 000
No limit
Annual Premium Amount
Depends on the cover, age, term and PPT
Premium Payment Term
Equal to plan term or (Term – 5 years)
Premium Payment Frequency
Yearly, half-yearly, quarterly or monthly
Applying for a Child Plan from the company:
The company offers specific plans which are available online only. The customer only needs to log into the company's website, choose the required plan, choose the coverage and provide the details. The premium will be determined using the filled details. The customer then needs to pay the premium online through credit card, debit card or net banking facilities and the policy will be issued
Plans which are not available online can be purchased from agents, brokers, banks, etc. where the intermediaries help with the application process.
Applying For ChildPlansthrough PolicyBazaar
- On the PolicyBazaar homepage, click on ChildPlans under the Personal tab.
- Click New Quotes to compare and choose from top insurance providers.
- Fill your date of birth (DOB), whether you are a smoker/non-smoker, and the payout amount. On the basis of your payout amount, you will get an estimate of your premium. Next click Continue.
- Fill in your name, email address, city, country code, and mobile number. Click Continue.
- You will be taken to the Life Insurance quotes page where you will see life insurance quotes of more than 10 insurers. Next, choose the plan as per payment schedule–One Time Payout and Monthly Payout Plans.
- After reviewing and comparing each life insurance quote, click the premium amount to buy the desired plan.
- You will see a pop-up on the screen which will give you an overview of the chosen plan like premium, plan features, exclusions, additional riders, etc. Click Proceed.
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N.M. Classroom Bard Waits For Word on Job
A teacher in New Mexico remained suspended last week after one of his students read a poem at school that included sweeping criticism of the war in Iraq, the Bush administration, and treatment of immigrants.
The senior at Rio Rancho High School in Rio Rancho, N.M., faced no disciplinary action after reading her poem, "Revolution X," over the school's closed-circuit TV station in February.
But less than a month after that reading, Bill Nevins, a humanities teacher at Rio Rancho High and the faculty sponsor of its poetry team, was told he would be placed on paid leave. School officials maintain that Mr. Nevins failed to follow district policy when he allegedly allowed students to perform at public poetry readings outside of school without field-trip permission forms.
He was also suspended as the sponsor of the poetry team, which had been preparing for New Mexico's first statewide poetry competition for students earlier this month. The poetry team broke up after his suspension, and team members did not take part in that event.
Mr. Nevins disputes the claim that he did not follow school policies, and he suggests that the school's principal, Gary Tripp, is targeting him for his work with the poetry team and the type of work—like the "Revolution X" poem—that came out of the poetry group.
A poet, political activist, and freelance journalist, Mr. Nevins is well known in New Mexico poetry circles, where criticism of American foreign policy and the war in Iraq are common and often grist for artistic expression.
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The 55-year-old, whose son is a U.S. Army paratrooper currently serving in Afghanistan, acknowledged inviting guest speakers with anti-war views to address the poetry team students, but said he also invited those with opposing views, including a military veteran.
"I was not protesting the war in my classroom," said Mr. Nevins. "I presented a very balanced position. I don't believe in putting forward my own political prejudices in front of students. I do that in my private time. ...
"I can only suspect the school authorities were in some way discomforted by students freely and with decorum speaking their minds."
Mr. Tripp, the principal, did not respond to a request for an interview. A district spokeswoman said she could not comment about Mr. Nevins' case because it was a personnel issue. But the spokeswoman for the 11,275-student Rio Rancho schools did say the reasons for his suspension were not related to freedom-of-speech issues.
Mr. Nevins, who has been on paid leave since March 19, said he hopes to avoid legal action, but said he would consider that as an option. He is most concerned, he said, about the long-term effect his suspension and the breakup of the poetry club will have on his students' commitment to speaking out on controversial topics.
"What bothers me the most is the discouraging message this sends to youth," he said. "I hope they reject that message. As a father of a brave son in his early 20s fighting for freedom in Afghanistan, I'm appalled that freedom is being truncated and disrespected right here in New Mexico."
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Mr. Nevins' case has become something of a cause célèbre among some teachers and poets.
Billy Collins, the poet laureate of the United States, sent Mr. Nevins an e-mail to express dismay over his treatment. Mr. Collins declined to be interviewed for this article because he said he was traveling and wanted to learn more details of the case before commenting publicly.
Sal Treppiedi, a teacher at Harrison Middle School in Albuquerque, N.M., who started the Albuquerque Youth Poetry Council with Mr. Nevins to promote youth poetry events, worries about the impact the teacher's suspension will have on his students.
"The real tragedy is not what happened to Bill. He will teach again," Mr. Treppiedi said. "The real tragedy is what happened to the kids, because when a form of expression is being scrutinized by the administration, that is just abominable as far as I'm concerned."
In recent months, several New Mexico teachers have faced suspensions over anti- war sentiments that they or their students have posted in classrooms.
On April 18, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico filed a lawsuit against the Albuquerque school district on behalf of four educators suspended in March for posting anti-war messages in their classrooms or offices.
Curriculum experts, administrators, and others have generally advised that teachers be careful to keep their views on divisive issues as such the war separate from their roles in the classroom. ("War Lessons Call for Delicate Balance," March 26, 2003.)
Back at Rio Rancho High, at least one other teacher hopes students will keep speaking out through poetry. Sam Butler, a humanities teacher whose daughter Courtney wrote the "Revolution X" poem, says poetry has given her a forum for expression.
"Her poems are very deep and thoughtful," Mr. Butler said. "She is eloquent, and we are very proud of her. The poetry club really provided her with an outlet."
Vol. 22, Issue 33, Page 3Published in Print: April 30, 2003, as N.M. Classroom Bard Waits For Word on Job
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