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We found a fantastic article from Andrew Cavaliere who gives a sound perspective on long-term disability coverage.
Take note and read below: The average age of an individual filing a disability claim with the nation's largest group long-term disability (LTD) carrier is reported to be 45 years old. The most common causes of disability include: back injury, cancer treatment and maternity leave.
Are all of your family's plans going to be realized if you can no longer earn a living?
Long-term disability benefits can replace part of your income so you can focus on recovery instead of worrying about your ability to pay the bills. Only 5% of baby boomers realize they have a one-in-three chance of becoming disabled during their working years.
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- Does it adequately protect 60% of your total income or is the monthly benefit capped?
- Does it protect variable compensation, such as bonus income & commissions?
- Does it provide tax-free income at the time of claim or is your benefit going to be further reduced by federal & state income taxes?
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- Does it terminate if your employer goes out of business or simply cannot pay the group premiums?
- Does it protect your retirement plan benefits?
- Does it provide a cost of living adjustment (COLA) when you are receiving benefits?
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- The ability to enhance your existing LTD coverage with an additional layer of tax-free income.
- Individual policies offer a true own-occupation definition of disability, meaning if you cannot perform the regular and substantial duties of your normal occupation, you can work in another occupation and still be eligible to receive your long-term disability income benefits.
- Individual policies provide guaranteed renewable benefits that are non-cancellable.
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- Individual policies are fully portable in case of a separation of service.
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The Queen Elizabeth rose is a beautiful pink grandiflora. The rose was hybridized by Dr. Walter E. Lammerts back in 1954, shortly after the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The work of Dr. Lammets is widely held to be the main reason for the creation of the Grandiflora class of roses.
This enchanting flower has achieved much recognition with the Portland gold medal in 1954, AARS award in 1955, NRS PIT in 1955, ARS gold medal in 1957 and Golden Rose of The Hague in 1968. It has maintained its place in the top 10 roses for the last 40 years and is one of the favorite roses among breeders across the world.
parentage is the Floradora and Charlotte Armstrong. Charlotte Armstrong is a dark pink color tea rose and Floradora is an orange blend floribunda rose.
The bloom of the flower is large size with 26 to 40 petals. They form high center and elegant cup shaped blooms. To add to the beauty of this flower the blooms range from single petals to fully double petals. Average diameter of the bloom is 4 inches and bears moderate fragrance. The blooms of the rose are profuse and repetitive throughout the season which is from mid spring to mid fall.
Normally a bush can attain the height of 5 to 7 feet and a width of about 3 to 4 feet. The bud formation is normally pointed. The rose has an upright and bushy growth. Foliage is dark green, glossy and leathery to touch.
Also known as the Queen of England rose, this charming beauty is an exhibition rose that looks excellent in any flower arrangement like bouquet or table centerpieces. The medium pink colored heavy blooms blend easily with any surrounding plants and flowers enhancing the beauty of the garden.
Caring For Q.E Rose
The rose only requires a little pruning to train it to grow out. Removal of dead canes is the only regular pruning required. There are a large number of blooms on new canes. This pruning could be done in the winter. The plant is susceptible to diseases and not very resistant to blackspots and mildews. But with proper cultivation techniques and little care this drawback can be avoided.
The rose requires partial sun to full sun for good growth. The soil should be loamy and moist. The rose is hardy for USDA zones 6b to 10a. An additional popular variety is the climbing Queen Elizabeth Rose.
- Class: Grandiflora
- Origin: Walter Lammerts, 1954
- Habit: Large shrub
- Blooms: Large, double, mild fragrace, and will repeat
- Parentage: Floradora x Charlotte Armstrong

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The spontaneous uprising of the Syrian masses, inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, has degenerated into a sectarian bloodbath. Deprived of a revolutionary leadership, the hopeful beginnings have been transformed into a tragedy. On the other hand, US imperialism's hypocritical and bellicose zig-zags are a complete and utter farce, and graphically illustrate the limits of US power.
The Arab revolutions have opened up conflicts within the ruling classes of the Middle East. Along with crushing any opposition movements and the working classes in their own countries, they are also fighting amongst themselves to be the dominant power in the region.
The war drums in Washington are beating their macabre tune out loud, announcing an imminent US attack on Syria. In the UK, the faithful squire, Cameron, is willingly echoing the call. Parliament is expected to back the military option in an emergency meeting convened for Thursday, August 29th. Direct imperialist intervention marks a fundamental change in the situation in Syria after the spiralling sectarian civil war had wiped away the revolutionary potential of the anti-regime protests sparked in January 2011 by the events of the Arab spring.
When the current crisis began, there were some who painted it as simply a Western crisis; a crisis that was unique to Europe – due to problems caused by its common currency – and America – due to its sub-prime mortgage scandal and ensuing credit crunch.
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We are heading in a new direction, folks. Perhaps not the direction promised by the Greens or Ralph Nader, but a new direction nevertheless. If McCain is the Republican candidate, will the Conservatives run a third (or fourth) party candidate? McCain as Liberal Warrior, perhaps soft on social issues but promising a new 100 Years War ? (Did Ann Coulter really say that Hillary is more conservative than McCain? ) But of course Super Tuesday, even if not totally decisive, promises to better spill the beans on where the Democratic Party will be in November.
Barack Obama: Despite the fabulous oratory, is he really "Republican lite" ? (see the fascinating Salon link on the Economics of Obama).
Hillary, likewise a centrist Democrat, although now willing to embrace the more Progressive, traditionally Democratic mantle ? If Barack wins the nomination will this keep Bloomberg out of the race? If Hillary, the bete noir of mainstream and conservative Republicans, gets the nod, is Mayor Mike in it to win it?
So, THIS IS WHAT AN INTER-GENERATIONAL, MULTI-CULTURAL, INTER-GENDER Political Environment is all about. (To paraphrase Captain Beefheart on Bongo Fury: "So this is a drive-in-restaurant in Hollywood, so this is a drive-in-restraurant in Hollywood...")
As Hendrick Hertzberg in The New Yorker wonders, Does Hillary Rodham Clinton offer a competent, proven, battle-tested political organization and administration, albeit from Day 1 in a defensive posture, while Barack Obama may offer a transformative one ? Please, please, just promise me one thing -- that "We Won't Be Fooled Again"..
Whatever the outcome of Super Tuesday, and the continuing battles, both intra-party and inter-party, at least we can (hoprefully) wave goodbye to the horrific 8 years of the George W. Bush administration. Is there ANY Republican now who, Deep in His or Her Heart, can say that the Bush Administration has been a good thing for America ?
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one work to another; but I do not hesitate to say that
it is completely false, and that it has vitiated the
5 reasoning of geologists on some points of great
interest in the ancient history of the world. The
prejudice has probably been derived from India, and
the Indian islands, where troops of elephants, noble
forests, and impenetrable jungles, are associated
10 together in every one's mind. If, however, we refer to
any work of travels through the southern parts of
Africa, we shall find allusions in almost every page
either to the desert character of the country, or to the
numbers of large animals inhabiting it. The same
15 thing is rendered evident by the many engravings
which have been published of various parts of the
Dr. Andrew Smith, who has lately succeeded in
passing the Tropic of Capricorn, informs me that,
20 taking into consideration the whole of the southern
part of Africa, there can be no doubt of its being a
sterile country. On the southern coasts there are some
fine forests, but with these exceptions, the traveller
may pass for days together through open plains,
25 covered by a poor and scanty vegetation. Now, if we
look to the animals inhabiting these wide plains, we
shall find their numbers extraordinarily great, and
their bulk immense. We must enumerate the elephant,
three species of rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, the
30 giraffe, the bos caffer, two zebras, two gnus, and
several antelopes even larger than these latter
animals. It may be supposed that although the species
are numerous, the individuals of each kind are few.
By the kindness of Dr. Smith, I am enabled to show
35 that the case is very different. He informs me, that in
lat. 24', in one day's march with the bullock-wagons,
he saw, without wandering to any great distance on
either side, between one hundred and one hundred
and fifty rhinoceroses - the same day he saw several
40 herds of giraffes, amounting together to nearly a
hundred. At the distance of a little more than one
hour's march from their place of encampment on the
previous night, his party actually killed at one spot
eight hippopotamuses, and saw many more. In this
45 same river there were likewise crocodiles. Of course
it was a case quite extraordinary, to see so many great
animals crowded together, but it evidently proves that
they must exist in great numbers. Dr. Smith describes
the country passed through that day, as 'being thinly
50 covered with grass, and bushes about four feet high,
and still more thinly with mimosa-trees.'
Besides these large animals, every one the least
acquainted with the natural history of the Cape, has
read of the herds of antelopes, which can be
55 compared only with the flocks of migratory birds.
The numbers indeed of the lion, panther, and hyena,
and the multitude of birds of prey, plainly speak of
the abundance of the smaller quadrupeds: one
evening seven lions were counted at the same time
60 prowling round Dr. Smith's encampment. As this able
naturalist remarked to me, the carnage each day in
Southern Africa must indeed he terrific! I confess it is
truly surprising how such a number of animals can
find support in a country producing so little food. The
65 larger quadrupeds no doubt roam over wide tracts in
search of it; and their food chiefly consists of
underwood, which probably contains much nutriment
in a small bulk. Dr. Smith also informs me that the
vegetation has a rapid growth; no sooner is a part
70 consumed, than its place is supplied by a fresh stock.
There can be no doubt, however, that our ideas
respecting the apparent amount of food necessary for
the support of large quadrupeds are much
75 The belief that where large quadrupeds exist, the
vegetation must necessarily be luxuriant, is the more
remarkable, because the converse is far from true. Mr.
Burchell observed to me that when entering Brazil,
nothing struck him more forcibly than the splendour of
80 the South American vegetation contrasted with that of
South Africa, together with the absence of all large
quadrupeds. In his Travels, he has suggested that the
comparison of the respective weights (if there were
sufficient data) of an equal number of the largest
85 herbivorous quadrupeds of each country would be
extremely curious. If we take on the one side, the
elephants hippopotamus, giraffe, bos caffer, elan,five
species of rhinoceros; and on the American side, two
tapirs, the guanaco, three deer, the vicuna, peccari,
90 capybara (after which we must choose from the
monkeys to complete the number), and then place
these two groups alongside each other it is not easy to
conceive ranks more disproportionate in size. After the
above facts, we are compelled to conclude, against
95 anterior probability, that among the mammalia there
exists no close relation between the bulk of the
species, and the quantity of the vegetation, in the
countries which they inhabit.
1. The author is primarily concerned with
A. discussing the relationship between the size of mammals and the nature of vegetation in their habitats
B. contrasting ecological conditions in India and Africa
C. proving the large animals do not require much food
D. describing the size of animals in various parts of the world
E. explaining that the reasoning of some geologists is completely false
2. The word 'vitiated' (line 4) most nearly means
A. infiltrated
B. occupied
C. impaired
D. invigorated
E. strengthened
3. According to the author, the 'prejudice' (line 7) has lead to
A. errors in the reasoning of biologists
B. false ideas about animals in Africa
C. incorrect assumptions on the part of geologists
D. doubt in the mind of the author
E. confusion in natural history
4. The author uses information provided by Dr. Smith to
I supply information on quality and quantity of plant life in South Africa
II indicate the presence of large numbers of animals
III give evidence of numbers of carnivorous animals
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. I and II only
E. I, II and III
5. The flocks of migratory birds (line 55)are mentioned to
A. describe an aspect of the fauna of South Africa
B. illustrate a possible source of food for large carnivores
C. contrast with the habits of the antelope
D. suggest the size of antelope herds
E. indicate the abundance of wildlife
6. The 'carnage' (line 61) refers to the
A. number of animals killed by hunters
B. number of prey animals killed by predators
C. number of people killed by lions
D. amount of food eaten by all species
E. damage caused by large animals
7. To account for the 'surprising' (line 63) number of animals in a 'country producing so little food' (line 64), Darwin suggests all of the following as partial explanations except
A. food which is a concentrated source of nutrients
B. rapid regrowth of plant material
C. large area for animals to forage in
D. mainly carnivorous animals
E. food requirements have been overestimated
8. The author makes his point by reference to all of the following except
A. travel books
B. published illustrations
C. private communications
D. recorded observations
E. historical documents
9. Darwin quotes Burchell's observations in order to
A. counter a popular misconception
B. describe a region of great splendor
C. prove a hypothesis
D. illustrate a well-known phenomenon
E. account for a curious situation
10. Darwin apparently regards Dr. Smith as
A. reliable and imaginative
B. intrepid and competent
C. observant and excitable
D. foolhardy and tiresome
E. incontrovertible and peerless
11. Darwin's parenthetical remark (line 83-84) indicates that
A. Burchell's data are not reliable
B. Burchell's ideas are not to be given much weight
C. comparison of the weights of herbivores is largely speculative
D. Darwin's views differ from Burchell's
E. more figures are needed before any comparison can be attempted
12. Anterior probability (line 95) refers to
A. what might have been expected
B. ideas of earlier explorers
C. likelihood based on data from India
D. hypotheses of other scientists
E. former information
1.Correct Answer: A
Both the first and the last sentence of the excerpt indicate that the author is concerned with the size of mammals and the amount of vegetation. Hence answer A. (Note that strong words like 'prove' and 'completely' are not usually answers to primary purpose questions. This fact can help you eliminate answer choices.)
2.Correct Answer: C
'Vitiated' usually means 'weakened'. Here the author argues that false ideas have 'vitiated the reasoning of geologists'. False ideas would harm or 'impair' reasoning. Hence, answer C.
3.Correct Answer: C
The 'prejudice' talked about here is the same as the false reasoning in sentence 1. This prejudice/false reasoning has led to false ideas on the part of geologists. Answer C.
4.Correct Answer: E
Dr. Smith is mentioned extensively. His experience is quoted on all of the points mentioned in the question. Plant life in lines 49-51, large numbers of animals in lines 38 onwards, and number of carnivores in lines 56-60. Hence, answer E
5.Correct Answer: D
Remember that this is an 'except' question. Four choices will give things that the author does suggest as an explanation for the numbers, and one (the right answer) will not. That the food contains a concentrated source of nutrients is given by the phrase 'much nutriment in small bulk' (line 67). Rapid regrowth is covered by 'has a rapid growth' (line 69). Large area by 'roam over wide tracts' (line 65). Overestimate of requirements is covered by 'much exaggerated' (line 74). This leaves D as the right answer.
6.Correct Answer: B
To be sure of the answer we need to read the sentence before the reference to carnage. The mention of predators such as the lion, panther and hyena, as well as the birds of prey, indicates that the author is thinking of all the animals that must be killed by these predators each day. Hence, answer B.
7.Correct Answer: D
Remember that this is an 'except' question. Four choices will give things that the author does suggest as an explanation for the numbers, and one (the right answer) will not. That the food contains a concentrated source of nutrients is given by the phrase 'much nutriment in small bulk' (line 67). Rapid regrowth is covered by 'has a rapid growth' (line 69). Large area by 'roam over wide tracts' (line 65). Overestimate of requirements is covered by 'much exaggerated' (line 74). This leaves D as the right answer.
8.Correct Answer: E
The author mentions travel books (line 11), illustrations (engravings, line 15), private communication (Dr. Smith informed the author personally, line 19), and he refers to recorded observations in various places (e.g. line 82). But there are no mentions of historical documents (only contemporary ones are mentioned). This makes E the correct answer.
9.Correct Answer: A
Darwin quotes Burchell to show how the latter was struck by the luxuriant vegetation and absence of large mammals in South America. He does this to contradict the belief that large animals are found where there is abundant vegetation (line 75). Since a misconception is a wrong belief, answer A is correct.
10.Correct Answer: B
Darwin places heavy reliance on Dr. Smith's observations. So we can eliminate D because of the negative words. Reliable in A is a good word, but imaginative is inappropriate for one who records facts. There is no evidence that he is excitable, which leaves us to consider B and E. The discussion of the expedition (lines 18 onwards ) supports the idea that Darwin thinks him intrepid (brave and adventurous), and B is the best choice. (The words in E are really too strong. Incontrovertible means cannot be contradicted, and peerless means without equal).
11.Correct Answer: C
The remarks indicate that there are not enough data, and so an actual comparison cannot be made. The comparison attempted here is, therefore, highly speculative. (Speculative means based on guesswork or supposition.) Answer C.
12.Correct Answer: A
Anterior probability here suggests that the observations contradict what might have been expected, answer A.


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SEOUL, South Korea — When North Korea held a state funeral for its leader, Kim Jong-il, in 2011, one son was conspicuously absent.
The absence of Kim Jong-nam — the eldest son of the family, who was bound by Korean tradition to preside over the funeral — was all the evidence outside analysts needed to see how isolated he had become from the center of power in North Korea, the world's most secretive regime.
Never fully accepted by his family, sidelined by his powerful stepmother and haunted by fears of assassins, Mr. Kim lived much of his life wandering abroad, in Moscow, Geneva, Beijing, Paris and Macau, the Chinese gambling enclave.
On Monday, Mr. Kim, 45, met his end at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. According to the National Intelligence Service of South Korea, he was poisoned by two women who appeared to be carrying out an assassination order from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Mr. Kim died on his way to the hospital. Two women have been detained in connection with the killing.
It remains uncertain if Mr. Kim was traveling alone or if bodyguards were present. It was also unclear how many people were involved in the attack.
Grainy footage released on Wednesday showed a woman suspected of being one of the assassins, who appeared to be of Asian descent and wore a shirt emblazoned with "LOL" in large letters, before she fled the airport.
The Royal Malaysia Police announced late Wednesday afternoon that they had arrested a woman that morning and that she had been carrying a Vietnamese passport in Terminal 2, where the attack occurred. They said she was "positively identified" from closed-circuit video, and was alone at the time of her arrest.
She was identified as Doan Thin Hoang, 28, according to the inspector general of the police, Khalid Abu Bakar.
On Thursday, the Malaysian police said they had detained a second suspect, a woman with an Indonesian passport. A police official told the Bernama news agency that more arrests were expected.
The authorities also said that an autopsy on Mr. Kim had been completed.
There were no markers or police tape at Terminal 2 on Wednesday to indicate that a crime had been committed. Airport workers said that they had been ordered not to discuss the case.
South Korea's acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, said on Wednesday that his government was working with the Malaysian authorities to find the assailants. But officials in Seoul quickly pointed fingers at Mr. Kim's half brother, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who has ordered the executions of a number of senior officials, including his own uncle, who have been deemed potential challenges to his authority.
Ever since Kim Jong-un succeeded his father in 2011, "there has been a standing order" to assassinate his half brother, Lee Byung-ho, the director of the South's National Intelligence Service, said during a closed-door briefing at the National Assembly, according to lawmakers who attended it.
"This is not a calculated action to remove Kim Jong-nam because he was a challenge to power per se, but rather reflected Kim Jong-un's paranoia," Mr. Lee was quoted as saying.
Kim Jong-un wanted his half brother killed, Mr. Lee said, and there was an assassination attempt against him in 2012. Mr. Kim was so afraid of assassins that he begged for his life in a letter to his half brother in 2012.
"Please withdraw the order to punish me and my family," Mr. Kim was quoted as saying in the letter. "We have nowhere to hide. The only way to escape is to choose suicide."
Mr. Lee said that Kim Jong-nam had no power base inside North Korea, where Kim Jong-un had swiftly established his monolithic rule with what the South called a reign of terror.
Kim Jong-nam arrived in Malaysia last week, Mr. Lee said. He was in line at the airport to check in for a flight to Macau on Monday morning when he was attacked by the two women, Mr. Lee said, citing security camera footage from the airport. The women fled the airport in a taxi, Mr. Lee said.
If North Korea's involvement is proved, Washington could face intense pressure to put the country back on its list of nations that sponsor terrorism, said Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at the Sejong Institute, a think tank in South Korea.
North Korea was first put on the terrorism list after the South caught a woman from the North who confessed to planting a bomb on a South Korean airliner that exploded over the Indian Ocean, near Myanmar, in 1987. The North was taken off the list in 2008, after a deal aimed at ending its nuclear program.
South Korea's military plans to use loudspeakers along the shared Korean border to inform North Koreans of Mr. Kim's killing and of their government's brutality, a South Korean news agency, Yonhap, reported on Wednesday. The Defense Ministry declined to confirm the report.
"By assassinating Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-un may have removed a thorn in the side, but it will further isolate his country," Mr. Cheong said. "It is also expected to worsen his country's relations with China, which has been protecting his brother."
Kim Jong-nam's life illuminates the hidden intrigue in the Kim family, which has ruled North Korea for almost seven decades.
While the lives of the rest of the family remained shrouded in mystery, Mr. Kim, the oldest of three known sons of Kim Jong-il, has been the closest thing the isolated Stalinist state has had to an international playboy.
He was often seen with fashionably dressed women in international airports and spent much of his time in casinos in Macau, where he also kept an expensive house.
Outside analysts often saw him as a possible candidate to replace Kim Jong-un if the North Korean leadership imploded and China, traditionally an ally, sought a replacement in its client state.
Chinese experts on North Korea said they doubted that Kim Jong-nam had special security protection from Beijing.
"Chinese elites had no expectation this guy could play an important political role," said Cheng Xiaohe, an associate professor of international relations at Renmin University. "If China wanted to use him as an alternative leader, China would have offered good protection, but this assassination shows he had no security protection."
In Macau, where Mr. Kim was headed, he was safe just by being there, said Zhang Baohui, director of the Center for Asian Pacific Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. "Macau is part of China and is a safe haven in itself," he said.
Mr. Kim was a prince in exile with little chance of returning home, analysts and officials in South Korea said. His wife and a daughter and son are in Macau under Chinese protection, Mr. Lee said.
The South Korean intelligence agency did not disclose how it had obtained the letter from Mr. Kim begging his half brother to spare his life. But government sources said that emails Mr. Kim sent home through North Korean embassies had been obtained in a hacking operation. In one of the emails, they said, Mr. Kim bitterly complained that the North Korean government stopped sending him cash after his father died and Kim Jong-un took over. In 2012, a news report said Mr. Kim was thrown out of a luxury Macau hotel, unable to pay a $15,000 bill.
The Kim family has never been known for its togetherness.
Kim Jong-nam's mother, Sung Hae-rim, a decorated "people's actress," was already married and the mother of a child when Kim Jong-il forced her to divorce her novelist husband to marry him. Kim Jong-il adored his first son, Kim Jong-nam. He once seated his young son at his desk and told him, "This is the place where you will one day give orders," according to Lee Han-young, a relative who defected to the South in 1982.
But Kim Jong-nam's grandfather, the North's founding president, Kim Il-sung, never approved of the marriage.
"My father was keeping highly secret the fact that he was living with my mother, who was married, a famous movie actress, so I couldn't get out of the house or make friends," Mr. Kim was quoted as saying in a 2012 book by a Japanese journalist. "That solitude from childhood may have made me what I am now, preferring freedom."
Mr. Kim was born in secret, and when his mother fell out of favor with Kim Jong-il and was forced to live in Moscow, he was left in the care of her sister. He was later sent to Geneva, where he learned English and French. (His mother was alone in Moscow when she died in 2002.)
Kim Jong-il would later begin a relationship with Ko Young-hee, a star of Pyongyang's premier opera, who gave birth to Kim Jong-chol and then Kim Jong-un. According to a Japanese sushi chef who published a 2003 memoir about his experience working for the Kim family, Kim Jong-un was by that time the father's favorite.
Kim Jong-nam squandered what little chance he may have had to succeed his father when he embarrassed Pyongyang in 2001; he was caught trying to enter Japan on a fake passport from the Dominican Republic. He told Japanese investigators that he wanted to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
But rumors of intrigue never left Mr. Kim, as analysts speculated that if the young, inexperienced Kim Jong-un failed to meet the expectations of hard-line generals, they might summon home the eldest brother. In a way, Mr. Kim helped fuel such rumors.
In the 2012 book by the Japanese journalist, Mr. Kim called his younger brother "a figurehead."


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Mythbusting for Foster Parents
As a community committed to caring for those in need, Christian families looking for ways to reach out and serve often think about foster parenting. Barna Group reports that 31 percent of Christians have seriously considered foster parenting (compared to 11 percent of non-Christians). Strikingly, only 3 percent have actually become foster parents.
Why the discrepancy between those who are interested in the opportunity and those who have actually gone on to serve in this way?
While there are many practical reasons that could prevent people from taking on foster children, negative perceptions of the foster care system—such as front-page stories of social worker neglect and the belief that most foster parents are only in it for the money—loom large in America, including among Christians.
Whether from movies, media, or word-of-mouth, people worry that they will be unable to take on the responsibility of welcoming a child into their home for foster care or will become frustrated ...1


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The filmmaker Peter Greenaway has often commented that cinema is a slave to literature. That the development of film, a medium with so much visual promise, became circumscribed by the logic and structure of words rather than images. For the most part, to Greenaway, the cinematic audience is visually illiterate one. TV also encourages visual illiteracy; most television programs, even epic and visually stunning shows like Game of Thrones, can be "watched" and understood with the visuals turned off.
We are not born literate; we must be taught to read. This is just as true of images and sounds as it is of words. A certain level of education and exposure to a broad range of works, formal or self-directed, is necessary if one is to attain a high level of fluency in a new medium. I still remember when I first began watching "art house" movies as a teen. I couldn't follow the plot at times. I was lazy in piecing visual information together and missed important points. But eventually, with enough exposure, I learned how to read movies that did not spoon feed me information, or jerk my emotions and reactions about like a puppeteer would strings on a puppet.
In comics, we like to present the idea that a comic should flow logically and never confuse the reader. This is important and designing layouts that subtly guide the eye through the speech bubbles and panels on a page is good cartooning. However, I feel as though we have conflated this with not being challenging at all. How far can the medium be pushed if our audience never learns to read comics closely? If they can only watch comics the way we watch television, in which we treat all imagery as eye-candy?
Of course, all mediums have their easy reads – but they also celebrate their difficult, experimental reads. They have works that do not reveal their meaning so obviously, works that demand their audience to do some heavy lifting. In comics, I feel as though there's an expectation that comics are to be consumed rapidly, even in indie comics.
We say comics take forever to draw but are fast to read. This may be true, but it is also true that not all comics are fast to read. No, some short comics may take you more time to read than a feature length film because of the potential complexity of the medium. Comics can be ruthlessly efficient in ways that cinema, literature and other media cannot be. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a comic is basically a thousand pictures – sometimes with more words for good measure. We expect people to reread difficult literature or to require time to process a challenging film; why do we not expect this of comics? Is it because we not producing comics of this nature or when we come across them, we have not yet learned how to take time with them? When I read comics criticism of some of the works I've enjoyed, I think to myself – did they really spend time with that work?
I sometimes struggle with the expectation of easy consumption when making comics. Here's an example of a panel transition.
What do you think is happening in this transition? I was hoping that the contrast between the broken windows and weeds versus a new building with a lineup out the door would suggest a flashback. An editor requested adding in a caption with expository text (e.g., 5 years earlier) to make the meaning obvious. The above panel transition is not particularly challenging. I believe a similar jump to the past without warning in literature or cinema would not require an expository explanation. But maybe for the comics reader, it still does.
I know that the vast majority of people are not going to read this comic carefully and that this panel transition is potentially confusing. But I resisted making the edit because I didn't want to lull readers into thinking I was going to hold their hand through the comic. Understanding my comic would also require that you read every single detail of it. Comics take a long fucking time to draw. I'm not wasting my time drawing anything that does not serve a purpose. So if I am to be honest, if a reader doesn't want to pay attention, I don't care if they're confused. My hope is that someone confused might learn to double back and read more carefully. My greater hope is that they will apply this level of care to the next comics they read. My greatest hope is that comics fans, critics, publishers and booksellers understand that it is to comic's artistic (and commercial) benefit to be regarded more seriously as an artistic medium and this requires developing a visually literate audience supporting comics that demand more from readers.


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Once again, I am both amazed and humbled by the number of subscribers to this construction blog given Solo Practice University is just embryonic in its growth.
I am also flattered by the number of lawyers and other professionals I have invited to teach who simply have said, 'tell me what you need.' In a world where time is exceedingly precious, everyone I've personally talked with on the telephone, without exception, has the time to get involved with Solo Practice University. To date, more than thirty practitioners from Big Law to Solo, Consultants to Networking Professionals have joined the faculty.
In my opinion, the response is both a tribute to the mission of Solo Practice University and the spirit of those who truly wish to educate and help other attorneys and entrepreneurs in what is proving to be a singularly unique experience. So, to the many who have enthusiastically and graciously committed their time, I thank you.
The story behind the concept of Solo Practice University.
When I started teaching at Quinnipiac University School of Law on How to Hang A Shingle Right Out of Law School it was exhilarating yet frustrating to be limited to 16-30 students per academic year. I tried to find a way to reach more. I discovered blogging. Blogging certainly allowed me to reach a greater audience nationally and internationally. But through the numerous e-mails I received on a near daily basis, I found many questions were practice area specific. The questions ranged on issues unique to starting an immigration practice, family law practice, bankruptcy practice, blogging, best technology, the list was endless. Questions came in such as, 'Where can I learn ..:
- how to conduct a deposition;
- how to build a mediation practice;
- how to negotiate;
- how to become a contract lawyer;
- how to find a mentor while building an IP practice;
- the anatomy of a criminal trial;
- the steps in a Chapter 7;
I was fielding or referring questions covering all the innumerable variables unique to building a solo practice in a given practice area.
Some would say, 'that's why you have to work for another first.' Well, those who want to go solo do not accept this premise. Attending Solo Practice University, however, does address the issues – one internet destination where lawyers can learn what they need to learn while being self-employed and staying in charge of their professional future.
There are excellent blogs, listservs and conferences out there.
Blogs: There are numerous excellent blogs and I applaud all those who have generously and diligently dispensed information to their readership. However, readers must find these blogs and these blog authors must find these readers. The reader also hopes the author will address their specific question or the answer to the query is already buried in archives that may or may not surface through a Google search. Blogging is also not live nor meant to provide an in depth, interactive teaching experience.
Listservs: A law student or new lawyer can join well-established highly populated listservs where peers can field questions. However, these same listservs are rightly resistant to answers or questions posed by those who make a living providing their expertise, sometimes the very expertise a new lawyer needs for a definitive answer. And it is totally understandable. These are generally peer discussion groups and collectively there is a strong and justifiable opinion those who service lawyers should not be permitted to participate except on a limited basis, fielding the odd question now and again. These listservs, after all, are designed as a water-cooler gathering for peers, not a trade show for vendors. Those who desire to be 'taught' by experts may not get the education they are seeking on listservs.
Conferences, Summits, Retreats: Conferences, summits and retreats are incredible experiences enabling lawyers to meet leaders in the field if one has the time and financial resources to participate. While you will walk away with a wealth of information and potential person-to-person networking opportunities from those you believe can contribute to your education, the experience is generally limited to a moment in time. For a new solo, participation is a less likely option because during start-up financial resources are limited and need to be allocated for initial costs and continued operating expenses until there is steady incoming cash flow.
Therefore, imagine combining all the benefits derived from learning from the authors of your favorites blogs, being part of an educational and networking community not just of peers but recognized experts and experiencing the intense learning of a conference, summit or retreat…. but it's not limited to a moment in time? It is ongoing. And it doesn't break the bank.
This is the mission of Solo Practice University – one internet destination where those who are experts in their chosen practice area, business, marketing, blogging, technology and more actually teach you how to create and grow your solo legal practice; where these known and highly regarded experts congregate and willingly give of their time and guide you on how to become the practitioner you always wanted to be.
Scholarships Will Be Awarded At Solo Practice University.
Lack of money is a great inhibitor to many who wish to go solo. This is why one of my greatest desires will be fulfilled through operating Solo Practice University. Although all the logistics have not been worked out, it is our intention to pattern ourselves after a real university, not just in providing the finest teachers but in also providing 'scholarships' to several students who wish to open their own practices but feel intimidated because of pressing student loans or other financial considerations. An as yet undetermined number of scholarships will be awarded annually to those who wish to go solo, recipients selected by the faculty. The goal is to either contribute to student loan payments or start up costs or both.
Just another way of giving back.
Yours truly,
Susan Cartier Liebel
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Letter to the Editor
Landowners must fight thistles now
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Dear Editor:
|Have you looked at the hayfields and pastures of Barry County lately? Many are being taken over by an insidious enemy: the Musk thistle. When my family moved to this country 24 years ago, Musk thistles were nowhere to be seen. Farmers were battling the Bull thistle, but its armies were small compared to those of its rapacious cousin. Neither of these noxious weeds are native Missouri plants. Musk thistles have only recently become prevalent in this area.
|The invasion of a field begins in the springtime with the growth of a flat rosette of prickly leaves that grows close to the ground. The second year the plant bolts (gets tall), flowers, makes seed and dies. The prickly plant bears beautiful dark pink flowers about two inches in diameter. When these flowers make downy seeds during June and July, the wind carries them far and near. The next year where there was one plant there will be 50. Soon there will be thousands and the field has been taken. Cows and horses will not graze near these unpleasant plants and even goats will not eat them. They are not a welcome component of hay bales.
|Please look at your land and kill any Musk thistles that your fields or right-of-ways are harboring. The important thing is not to allow this biennial plant to make seed. Look for a thorny green plant with twisting leaves and the characteristic dark pink flowers. It may be small, with only one stem, or tall and much branched. You will need clippers and gloves for your hands. You may want to cut down the whole plant and burn it. An alternative is to clip off only the flowers and bring them home in a bucket or a sack to burn. Some fields are already so beset that the plants ought to be mowed, raked into piles and burned before the flowers mature.
|If you would like more information about identifying thistles, look at this MU extension web page: http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/agguides/pests/ipm1015.htm.
Judy L. Meadows
Cassville, Missouri


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Over the weekend, Irwin celebrated Memorial Day by going to the Memorial Day Parade in Gettysburg. However, he slept right through almost the entire thing! Donna and Jim took their daughter and grandson with them to the parade, as well as Irwin and SSD Judge. First, they stopped at the park to let their grandson Timmy play, and they had a picnic before walking to Gettysburg Square for the parade.
As they walked to the Square, Irwin had to be especially focused on loose leash walking because of the crowds and store displays. He did fine with the noise from motorcycles and all the people, including the people dining outside. He did get a little excited when other dogs passed by. The other dogs barked, but Irwin didn't, although he did pull their way. However, with the help of apple slices as power treats, he kept returning to focus on Donna again.
With all the people, Donna took the opportunity to practice Irwin's greetings. He did some very nice ones. He even ignored the ice cream cone the one child was holding as she greeted him.
When they arrived at their blanket for the parade, Irwin settled in next to Donna and fell fast asleep. If you've ever been to a parade, you know they're noisy. This one had fire trucks, marching bands, cars driving in circles, horses, flags snapping in the wind, bag pipers from Canada, and more. Irwin slept right through it all. He only opened his eyes when reenactors marched by playing the fife and drum. He must have been one sleepy dog!
Back on Mother's Day, Irwin went with Donna and Jim to the hospital to visit Jim's father. Because Jim's father was accidentally lying on the call button, Irwin experienced the red and blue lights and the alarm sounds that alert the nurses. Later, Jim's father had to go for some tests, so Donna and Jim got a wheelchair for him. Once he was seated, he wanted to see Irwin up close. Donna had Irwin do "lap" (put his front legs in Jim's father's lap) so he would be able to pet his head. Irwin gave him puppy kisses!
Irwin accompanied Donna and Jim back to the hospital the next day for Donna's mammogram appointment. Irwin practiced several of his skills: waiting at doors to "go on through" and using the elevator. Several people were already on the elevator when Donna and Jim got on. Donna had Irwin sit and wait while she blocked the elevator door from closing. Then she asked him to "go on through" and had him walk backwards to the back of the elevator. Then she asked him to sit again. They reversed the process to exit the elevator. It's very important to enter and exit elevators this way with your dog because it will prevent the door from closing with the dog on one side and the handler on the other.
In the waiting room, Irwin settled into a down-stay and later accompanied Donna into the dressing room. However, he stayed with Jim in the hallway during the actual mammogram. Being in a hospital is great experience for Irwin. One day, he may need to accompany his partner there, and these experiences now will help make sure he can continue to do his job despite all the new distractions.
All of our dogs have their hips tested to make sure they're healthy enough to become service dogs. Irwin recently had his done, which meant that he wasn't allowed to eat breakfast that morning. It also meant that he couldn't get any training treats. Donna wasn't sure how she was going to keep his attention on her without treats, so she took his small tennis ball with her to the vet. It worked like a charm!
In their waiting room, the Palmyra Animal Clinic often has a crate with a cat looking for a good home. The cat is near the scale, and when Irwin got on the scale to be weighed, he sat on the scale and zeroed in on the cat. When the vet tech said his name, however, he turned and looked at her. She then brought a leash out and he did "get dressed"—he stuck his head right through the loop and pranced back with her.
When Donna and Jim picked him up later, the vet staff said that Irwin and his brother Outback kept licking each other through the kennel wires! He walked out calmly for the vet tech until he saw Donna and Jim, and then he got so excited to see them. But he kept all four paws on the floor. As soon as they got outside, Donna was happy to see that Irwin got busy (pottied) right away, which means he probably didn't have any accidents in his crate at the vet!
Because Irwin did so well, Donna and Jim stopped and bought him a new Chuck It Ball. It's now one of his favorite toys!


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We got hooked on Facebook so well that if you think it's the only social network out there, well think again. A list of the top 29 players in the social network game was measured using Google trends were named and though this tool is not 100% accurate. Well, mere estimates are not bad to have something great to start with than not having anything, right?
A unique visitor per day to a site is still considered even if they end their session not being registered users and even if they won't log in for a period of time. A lot of users also lurk in some social network that already started making name for themselves like MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter having their own sets of target market. In LinkedIn's case which has a large user base of professional networking rather than personal like Facebook, still Facebook has the place in having the largest estimated visitors.
Commodity, a good or service whose wide availability typically leads to smaller profit margins and diminishes the importance of factors (as brand name) other than price.
Nowadays, social networks play a very vital role in the lives of the people especially to this generation's in propagating hash tags. They've become the latest trade of commodity, which is linking with other people who wants to find acquaintances, share their common interest, to make connections where none previously existed, and alike. Each of them has their way of getting our attention and influencing us in many ways that we consciously or unconsciously notice.
A very widely used yet still subtle proverb, "everything comes to an end", mirrors the rapid evolution of social networking, their triumph along with their downfall. Let's take Friendster as an example. Yes, you've read it right; Friendster that once ignited the social network frenzy and made a great imprint on the pages of the social networking revolution, the same friendster that a decade from now wouldn't be recognized by anyone anymore and will be completely erased in anyone's list.
It really hit me that before, humans took a hundred and even a thousand years to evolve by means of their way of life and the trend in today's social network transition just quickly change with the wink of an eye.
You don't have to stay at Facebook for all of your time, with this list may you find another niche for your interest like Flickr whose target users are photographers.
Let's see for ourselves who would stay long in the business and make it big in the social networking spotlight.


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Accueil CEDRIC > Publications > Article > BLS07 >
[BLS07] Dialogs Taking into Account Experience, Emotions and PersonalityConférence Internationale avec comité de lecture : ICEC'07 6th Int. Conf. on Entertainment Computing - China, January 2007, Vol. 4740, pp.356-362,
Mots clés: Game Design; Narrative; Autonomous Agents
Résumé: This paper describes the DEEP project (Dialogs taking into account Experience, Emotions and Personality, adapted to computer games), which started in June 2006. The aim of the project is to provide generic solutions for the integration of autonomous Non Player Characters (NPCs) in next-generation adventure games. DEEP NPCs, equipped with a personality and a believable emotional engine, will use context-based information from the game environment and the player behavior to provide entertaining, rich and relevant dialogs.
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Books vs eBooks – Choose your side
Books vs eBooks is the great debate of this era. But, as usual, is as useless as many of them. In the end, everything as pro and cons. Continue reading
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Last month we got a call from Affinitas who look after the maintenance work for Pultney Grammar. They just built a new courtyard outside the school library and needed some skateboard deterrents installed along the walls, as well as replacing some older ones that were starting to come loose. We used our bull nosed type with stem installation along the new section. Where the replacements were needed we used our large cylindrical studs with stem for easy installation. Check out the pictures below.
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