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Join Joslin's Michael See, M.S., R.C.E.P., C.D.E., Exercise Physiologist in improving your balance with these lower leg strengthening exercises!
Balance refers to the ability of a body to stay upright when external forces distract you. Balance is so important for older adults and individuals with diabetes complications such as neuropathy, which can increase your risk of falls. The good thing is that with simple exercises, balance can be improved in your home.
For these exercises, you'll need a chair. These exercises can be done 2 to 3 times per week. Start by performing one set of these exercises, 5 to 10 repetitions each. Gradually increase to 2 to 3 sets per session.
Always remember to keep taking deep breaths throughout the exercise!
Side Leg Raises
1. Place hand on chair for stability
2. Stand with legs shoulder width apart and knees slightly bent
3. Place weight on right foot and life left leg up to the left side, so legs make an upside-down "V" shape
4. Hold for 5 seconds, and release
5. Place left foot slightly in front of right and distribute weight evenly between both feet
6. Repeat 5 to 10 times, then switch legs
Calf Raises
1. Place hand on chair for stability
2. Stand with feet shoulder width apart
3. Raise heels off the ground as high as you can go. Most of your weight should be on your big toes
4. Hold for 5 to 10 seconds
5. Return to flat-feet and rest
6. Repeat 5 to 10 times
Single Leg Stand
1. Place hand on chair for stability
2. Put weight on right foot
3. Raise left knee, so left foot leaves the ground
4. Hold for as long as you can
5. To increase difficulty, raise arms up to your side so you form a "T" shape, cross them over your chest, or let them hang down at your side
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Transposable elements (TEs), generally considered molecular parasites on the genome, are increasingly being linked to the evolution of new biological functions. TEs have been shown to be a source of novel genes and exons, the 'arms race' between them and their hosts has been a driving force in the evolution of epigenetic silencing mechanisms, and they have been shown to serve as cis-acting regulatory elements for host genes. This last role, as regulatory elements has potentially wide ramifications: TE mobilisation could cause changes to the expression of co-regulated suites of genes. Recently, the emergence of novel TEs and their mobilisation has been argued to be a causative factor underlying such 'punctuated equilibria' evolutionary phenomena as the Cambrian explosion and the rapid speciation of cichlid fishes. Two new papers analysing mammalian genomic evolution further link transposable elements with the spread of regulatory elements through the genome, and the evolution of novel characters.
CTCF binding sites.
CTCF (CCCTC-binding factor) is a DNA-binding protein with such a diverse and exciting array of potential roles attributed to it that it has been called a 'master weaver of the genome'. It acts as an insulator, dividing different chromatin domains, and is therefore important for transcriptional activation and repression. This role appears to be linked to the formation of long distance chromosomal loops, and hence to the global organisation of the chromosomes within the nucleus. Schmidt et al. used ChIP-seq to define all the CTCF binding events in liver cells from five eutherian mammals (human, macaque, mouse, rat, and dog) and a marsupial (opossum). Using this data they defined a core DNA sequence motif that CTCF commonly binds, as well as sets of CTCF binding events that are conserved between the various species. In some lineages certain CTCF bound DNA sequence motifs were overrepresented. These overrepresented 'motif-words' were often embedded within lineage specific SINE repeats (short interspersed nuclear elements, non-autonomous non-LTR retrotransposons). For instance, mice and rats share about 2000 CTCF binding events that are associated with B2 SINES, mice have a further 5,300 B2 associated binding events and rats a further 1,200. Enrichments of CTCF binding events associated with lineage specific SINEs also occurred in the canine and opossum genomes (on a lesser scale). Surprisingly however, no similar TE associated enrichment occurred in the primate lineage. Looking at CTCF binding events that were conserved between multiple mammals, Schmidt et al. were also able to find over 100 binding events that were associated with fossilised ancestral transposable sequences.
Overall, this data shows that CTCF binding has expanded via retrotransposition in multiple mammalian lineages and that this is an ancient mechanism of regulatory evolution. CTCF binds a long DNA sequence motif (33/34bp) that is less likely to be generated by random point mutations than the smaller motifs more commonly bound by transcription factors. This is one reason why CTCF binding site expansion should be more associated with TEs than other regulatory sequence motifs. Another suggestion that the authors make to explain this association is that CTCF binding may protect TEs from repressive DNA or chromatin modifications.
Transposons and the evolution of pregnancy
During mammalian pregnancy, endometrial stromal cells (ESCs) differentiate in response to progesterone and signalling via the cAMP second messenger pathway, to produce a vascularised placenta that can accommodate implantation (a process termed decidualisation). The enhancer that drives expression of Prolactin in response to progesterone/cAMP signalling in ESCs is derived from a MER20 transposon (a hAT-Charlie family DNA transposon). Lynch et al. have found a strong association between MER20 elements and genes that are differentially expressed in mammalian ESCs and genes that are responsive to progesterone/cAMP signalling.
Analysing MER20s that are located close to stromally regulated genes, they found that, based on their association with CpG islands and various histone modifications, they often had regulatory potential. They then tested whether 21 randomly chosen MER20s bound various transcription factors and insulator proteins. 14 MER20s bound a suite of 5 different insulator proteins (including CTCF), whilst 5 different transcription factors important for ESC development bound together in 4 cases. This suggested that MER20s could be classified into 'insulator' and 'enhancer-repressor' types. Using a reporter gene assay in various cell types, they then showed that the majority of these MER20s acted as regulatory elements in response to progesterone/cAMP signalling specifically in ESCs.
This data indicates that the rewiring of the gene regulatory network of ESCs during the evolution of pregnancy was partly mediated by MER20 transposition events. In this case, MER20s contain sequences for regulatory assemblies of transcription factors responsive to specific signalling pathways, and hence have acted as cell type specific regulatory elements.
These two papers, as well as an increasing number of other studies, show that TEs are important agents of gene regulatory network evolution. The findings of Lynch et al. especially confirm the perspicacity of the discoverer of transposable elements, Barbara McClintock in terming them 'controlling elements'.
See also: Retrotransposons as regulatory elements
Lynch, V., Leclerc, R., May, G., & Wagner, G. (2011). Transposon-mediated rewiring of gene regulatory networks contributed to the evolution of pregnancy in mammals Nature Genetics, 43 (11), 1154-1159 DOI: 10.1038/ng.917
Schmidt, D., Schwalie, P., Wilson, M., Ballester, B., Gonçalves, A., Kutter, C., Brown, G., Marshall, A., Flicek, P., & Odom, D. (2012). Waves of Retrotransposon Expansion Remodel Genome Organization and CTCF Binding in Multiple Mammalian Lineages Cell, 148 (1-2), 335-348 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.11.058
Zeh, D., Zeh, J., & Ishida, Y. (2009). Transposable elements and an epigenetic basis for punctuated equilibria BioEssays, 31 (7), 715-726 DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900026
Phillips, J., & Corces, V. (2009). CTCF: Master Weaver of the Genome Cell, 137 (7), 1194-1211 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.06.001


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I stand by my comment. Sorry if it hurt some very human sensibilities. It's understandable.There is a conscious reality where it makes perfect sense and serves an ultimate good.
Forgive me WW, I would tend more to say -
There is a conscious reality where it makes perfect sense.
The rest is unnecessary.
It is what it is by the factors contributing to it.
To suggest it serves anything except what it is, is .. a perspective, based on whatever nuance of judgement one seeks to define or explain it by.
It just is, because it is.
That it can be noticed as such within conscious awareness can be done right here, right now, by perspective of awareness as a direct natural consequence of choices made globally and yet attributed relatively in that expression of experience 'locally'.
There need be no hoo haa of some starving while others gorge themselves, of some fossicking through the 'rubbish' that others have thrown away for a different 'valuing' of food and resources.
Such notions of 'greater good' resolves the very real, physical response ability (ability to respond) of other human beings in carving up the resources of this world, that in truth are enough to feed all those who walk upon it.


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94-Day Countdown to 13GE – Test of UMNO confidence that 2008 tsunami has been halted is for Najib to declare that UMNO/BN would accept verdict of voters in 13GE including change of government in Putrajaya
Recently, UMNO leaders are exuding supreme confidence, at least to the public, about the 13th General Elections.
UMNO information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan for instance has declared that the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has halted the "political tsunami" of 2008 with his various transformation pledges and programmes since April 2009.
He said: "In 2008, we were worried of the 'political tsunami' but in 2013, I am confident it has ended."
It was also Ahmad who last month expressed confidence that the Barisan Nasional would wrest back 20 parliamentary seats held by Pakatan Rakyat to secure two-thirds parliamentary majority in the 13GE – retaining the 140 parliamentary seats it won and capture five of the 23 seats held by PAS, five of 29 held by DAP and 10 of the 31 PKR seats.
The question that immediately comes to mind is why Najib keeps vacillating about the 13th general elections date if the UMNO leadership is so supremely confident about halting the political tsunami of 2008 and regain its two-thirds parliamentary majority – not to mention winning back all the five states lost to Pakatan Rakyat in the 2008 general elections?
Is the UMNO leadership really so confident about UMNO/BN prospects in the 13GE?
A supreme test of UMNO confidence that the 2008 tsunami has been halted is for Najib to declare that UMNO/BN would accept the verdict of voters including change of government in Putrajaya.
This is a question which I had repeatedly posed to Najib inside and outside Parliament in the past four years, but which he had studiously avoided – completely out of character with his declaration that he wants Malaysia to be the "world's best democracy" as it highlights his refusal to accept the most basic sine qua non for a normal democracy, viz a two-party or two-coalition system and the peaceful and democratic alternation of power based on the verdict of the people in the ballot box.
Now that UMNO declares supreme confidence in having ended the "tsunami of 2008" as to wrest back 20 parliamentary seats from Pakatan Rakyat and to regain two-thirds parliamentary majority, is Najib prepared to make a clear-cut and unequivocal declaration that UMNO and BN would accept the electoral verdict of the Malaysian voters in the 13GE, including a change of federal power in Putrajaya?


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Craig Ferguson will step down as host of "The Late Late Show" at the end of the year, he announced Monday.
He announced his plans to leave the show come December 2014 to his studio audience during his show's taping, CBS said in a statement.
"CBS and I are not getting divorced, we are 'consciously uncoupling,' but we will still spend holidays together and share custody of the fake horse and robot skeleton, both of whom we love very much," Ferguson joked.
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To help streamline your iPhone app design and development, we have put together a fairly comprehensive collection of iPhone & iPad GUI kits that will allow you to focus on developing rather than having to design everything from scratch.
Within this post you will find complete GUI kits and stencils, iPhone GUI elements and PSDs and finally a collection of the best icon-sets perfectly suited for the iPhone. (Some of the preview images are intentionally to large to show the as much of each GUI as possible).
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This iPhone PSD Vector set, from Smashing Magazine and designed by Renee Rist, comes with several button elements as well as six different iPhone interface options.
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This iPhone Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG).
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Below are some newspaper accounts of the murder of George A. Barclay. They were published several days after the event.
November 3, 1898 – "Cold Blooded Murder, George A. Barclay, A Wealthy Lumberman of Pine River, Killed by the Hand of an Unknown Assassin." Published in the Brainerd Journal. This is five days after the murder. They have R.S. McDonald as R.A. McDonald. I have broken up the very long paragraph to make it easier to read.
"Last Saturday night, while seated in the waiting room of his hotel at Pine River, Geo. A. Barclay was mysteriously murdered by some culprit who remains as yet undiscovered. Whether the deed of a madman or an enemy no one is certain.
About 7:30 o'clock he was seated in his hotel close by a window when suddenly from the outside a shot was fired whether from rifle or revolver is not known and crashing through the window it entered and passed thru his head near the back of the neck and embedded itself in a post not far distant.
A telegram was immediately sent to General Manager Hoar, of the B.& N. M. for a special train with medical assistance, but before this could be procured a second message was received saying that he had passed away.
A coroner's jury yesterday was summoned and returned as their verdict, "that George A. Barclay came to his death by a gun shot from the hands of some person unknown to this jury."
The remains were brought to this city today and were met at the train by friends and Pap Thomas Post No. 30, G.A.R. under who auspices the services were conducted, the murdered man being an old soldier and member of this post.
The funeral services were conducted at the Episcopal church, Rev. C. F Kite officiating. The remains were enterred in Evergreen Cemetery. The deceased leaves a widow and one married daughter to mourn his death.
Mr. Barclay was well know all over this section of the state and had not to any ones knowledge a single enemy. No definite clue has yet been obtained although several suspects are being watched. It is to be sincerely hoped that ere long the murder will be avenged and that the murderer will have that justice meted out to him which he so justly and richly deserves."
November 5, 1898 – Cowardly Crime, Barclay Foully Murdered in Pine River, published in the Brainerd Tribune. This one is seven days after the crime was committed. (page 8, Col. 4,) This account gives more information about where the assailant stood and what type of gun may have been used and is nicely detailed.
Geo. Barclay Foully Murdered at Pine River, while sitting in his own house. The Victim an Old and Well Known Resident. The people of this city were shocked on Saturday evening last by the news that Geo. Barclay , the well known hotel keeper and trader at Pine River, had been foully murdered by some cowardly assassin while sitting in his house conversing with several acquaintances. The first news of the tragedy came over the B. & N. M. wires and the particulars were not known until Monday.
Mr. Barclay was shot and killed about 7:30 Saturday evening. When the fatal shot was fired he was sitting in a chair, smoking a cigar, and talking to four or five men, about five feet away from the window in the barroom of the hotel. The assassin fired through the glass, the ball passing through Mr. Barclay's neck from side to side, probably cutting the carotid artery of the jugular vein, as he bled profusely, and then imbedded itself in a pine post that supported the ceiling in the middle of the room. He lived only a few minutes.
The bullet was dug out, taken to Walker and carefully weighed by a jeweler. Its weight is exactly 210 grains which corresponds with either a 40-60 Winchester (an old model gun) or a Colt's 44 caliber revolver.
The slug, which is mushroomed and much distorted, looks more like a 40 than a 44, and careful measurement of that part of the base that remains intact gives color to this theory. It was imbedded in the pillar to a depth of two inches. A rifle-ball should have gone somewhat deeper, but, on the other hand, a revolver slug would hardly pierce a heavy window pane and a man's neck and go to that depth in seasoned wood.
The shot was fired, probably from a position about 15 feet outside the window as the hole in the post is about 10 inches higher than in the pane.
Although there were several men in the room at the time, the murderer was seen by no one so far as known. The night was very dark and the assassin no doubt sought the cover of the woods a few rods away and made good his escape.
There seems to be no doubt that it was a willful, premeditated murder, though there is absolutely no clue whatever to the perpetrator of the cowardly deed. Mr. Barclay had no trouble with anyone, and so far as known had no enemies who would be capable of committing such a crime.
Justice E. R. Sundberg, of Walker, in the absence of the coroner impaneled a jury and held an inquest which was not concluded until Wednesday morning. A searching investigation was made, but no light was thrown upon the mysterious crime, and a verdict was returned to the effect, that deceased had come to his death by shooting at the hands of some person unknown to the jury.
The remains were brought to Brainerd on Thursday morning for interment and the funeral took place at 11 a.m. from St. Paul's Episcopal church, Rev. C. F. Kite conducting the services. The members of Pap Thomas Post, G.A.R. and the Women's Relief Corps, met the funeral cortege at the station and marched with the procession to the church and thence to the cemetery.
Geo. Barclay was about fifty-four years old, and had been a resident of this section for about twenty-five years. For many years he has kept a hotel and store, and engaged in lumbering operations at Pine River. He was well known in Northern Minnesota, was generally well liked, and had the reputation of being honest and straight forward in his dealings with his fellow men. He was a member of the G.A.R., having entered the service as wagoner, in Co. I, Ninth Minnesota, in August, 1862, and serving until his discharge in August, 1865. He leaves a widow and one child, the latter being the wife of R.A. McDonald."
The Brainerd Dispatch on 04 November 1898 printed an article on George A. Barclay's murder. You can find a transcript at Find A Grave, Evergreen Cemetery, Brainerd.


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The New York Times reports today:
At its peak in 2008 and 2009, the industry employed about 85,000 people, according to the American Wind Energy Association, the industry's principal trade group.
Many of those jobs have disappeared since, as wind companies have been buffeted by weak demand for electricity, stiff competition from cheap natural gas and cheaper options from Asian competitors. Chinese manufacturers, who can often underprice goods because of generous state subsidies, have moved into the American market and have become an issue in the larger trade tensions between the two countries. In July, the United States Commerce Department imposed tariffs on steel turbine towers from China after finding that manufacturers had been selling them for less than the cost of production.
And now, on top of the business challenges, the industry is facing a big political problem in Washington: the Dec. 31 expiration of a federal tax credit that makes wind power more competitive with other sources of electricity.
The tax break, which costs about $1 billion a year, has been periodically renewed by Congress with support from both parties. This year, however, it has become a wedge issue in the presidential contest. President Obama has traveled to wind-heavy swing states like Iowa to tout his support for the subsidy. Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, has said he opposes the wind credit, and that has galvanized Republicans in Congress against it, perhaps dooming any extension or at least delaying it until after the election despite a last-ditch lobbying effort from proponents this week.
Opponents argue that the industry has had long enough to wean itself from the subsidy and, with wind representing a small percentage of total electricity generation, the taxpayers' investment has yielded an insufficient return.
Republicans are right on this one. You want carbon-free energy? Tax carbon. But no government aid to specific firms or targeted industries -- that invites a distorted, inefficient, and corrupted marketplace.


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Texas City's Buc-ee's opens and it's massive
Even for its owner, giant new Texas City Buc-ee's is a 'mega-store'
A crowd of people waited for hours outside the new Buc-ee's in Texas City Wednesday morning, all wanting to be the first inside when the doors opened.
General Manager Shawn Humpert said there were a few hundred people waiting to get in to the 60,000-square-foot convenience store before dawn. A giant inflatable beaver, the chain's mascot, sat outside just under the store's towering sign. A group of businessmen in shirts and ties were in front of it after 9 a.m. taking turns posing for pictures with it.
Buc-ee's co-owner Beaver Aplin was there to see how his newest location was doing. The Texas City stop is located at I-45 south and Holland Road, just steps away from a Tanger Outlet Mall.
"We had people here at 3:30 this morning staged and ready to come inside," said Aplin. "Obviously there has been lots of excitement."
Aplin calls this Buc-ee's a "mega-store" and he's not using that term lightly. It's a sporting goods store, a Texas boutique, toy store, surf shop, deli, and miniature grocery store rolled into one building. Oh, and don't forget the Beaver Nuggets, those addictive sweet snacks.
They can be found just about every five feet.
The store is set up as a one-stop shop for everything you might need for a fishing, beach, or camping trip. They have all types of bait in the sporting goods area, along with most any fishing apparatus one could imagine. They are even selling Go Pro cameras to document your vacation.
Beach and swimwear is also a big part of this location. Sorry, no Buc-ee's bikinis just yet, but you can buy a new pair of sandals. There are also men's and women's fitting rooms. Skateboard and wake boards are also on sale, if you aren't keen on fishing.
Texas-centric goodies like Texas-shaped waffle irons and Willie Nelson shirts, the kind found in every other Buc-ee's location across the state, have their own section here.
This store was under construction for nine months, Humpert said.
As most Texans know, the chain prides itself on the cleanliness of its restrooms. This Buc-ee's has 33 urinals for the guys alone, Humpert said. There are 23 stalls for the ladies. This store employs 205 hourly associates, Humpert said, and the 24- hour road stop will be staffed around the clock.
The 56 fueling stations were already getting plenty of use on opening day. And as morning edged into midday, the lunch crowd was setting in to order up barbecue sandwiches and fountain drinks.
Jimmy Hayley, president of the Texas City Chamber of Commerce was also on hand with his staff to tour the store. He's excited about the economic impact on his city.
He pointed to expansion of the outlet mall next door, a new movie theatre, and plans for an amusement park further south as signs that this part of Texas City has major growth to look forward to in the future.
"This is huge for Texas City," Hayley said. "It's going to do booming business down here."


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With the North Korea crisis continuing to spiral to ever-higher tensions, Secretary of State John Kerry faces the first major test of his short tenure as he meets with Chinese officials in Beijing Saturday.
The North is threatening to carry out a ballistic missile test that Secretary Kerry warned Friday would be "a big mistake." Against that backdrop, the chief US diplomat will seek to persuade Pyongyang's only important ally to do more to rein in the North and help quiet the region's alarm bells.
Kerry and other US officials made it clear Friday that the United States expects China to use its leverage as North Korea's economic lifeline and diplomatic partner.
"China has an enormous ability to help make a difference here, and I hope that in our conversations when I get there tomorrow, we'll be able to lay out a path ahead that can defuse this tension," Kerry said at a press conference Friday in Seoul, South Korea. China would be key in "moving this in the right direction," he added, "which is towards negotiations and towards a reduction in the current level of tension."
Although Kerry hinted that diplomacy with the North remains possible, any diplomatic hopes are likely to be drowned out, at least initially, as North Korea's provocations ratchet up further before presumably receding, many regional experts believe.
North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong-un, could hold off on what appears to be an imminent missile test while Kerry is in Beijing, to avoid embarrassing Pyongyang's closest ally, some say. But he could order a launch of several intermediate-range ballistic missiles Sunday, when Kerry will be in Tokyo, the last stop of his first trip to Asia as secretary of State.
Another possible date is Monday – the birthday of North Korea's founder, the late Kim Il-sung.
The North is likely to test a missile with a range of more than 2,000 miles, which means it could reach all of South Korea, Japan, and even Guam – where the US has decided to station missile-defense batteries in response to North Korea's recent bellicose threats.
Not all North Korea analysts are as optimistic as the Obama administration seems to be about prospects for enlisting Beijing's help in pressuring Pyongyang. But even some skeptics say Kerry must lean in hard on the Chinese – in particular by laying out how the North's escalating threats are forcing the US to respond with security measures that can't be to Beijing's liking.
"The message to China has to be very clear and forceful," says Bruce Klingner, senior Northeast Asia fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Asia Studies Center in Washington. "
The picture he says Kerry must lay out: China has "looked the other way" as North Korea has made steady progress in its nuclear and missile programs – and recently as Pyongyang has issued increasingly specific and violent threats against US allies South Korea and Japan, as well as against the US itself. "That reticence [on the part of the Chinese] has emboldened North Korea," Mr. Klingner says.
But Kerry must go further, he adds, and remind the Chinese that in response to unrestricted belligerence by the North, "the US and its allies in the region will be doing things" – such as missile defense and flights by nuclear-capable B-52s, among other measures – "that the Chinese won't like."
Administration officials took it as a promising sign that Beijing ended up allowing approval (instead of using its veto) in March of a United Nations Security Council resolution, which outlined new and toughened sanctions in response to the North's February nuclear test.
Beijing's cooperation, Klingner says, came at the price of a watered-down set of sanctions. But others say the approved sanctions, if fully enforced, could be effective in eventually modifying Pyongyang's behavior.
That appears to be the thinking behind what some administration officials say will be Kerry's efforts to persuade the Chinese to fully enforce the recent sanctions, in particular the measures targeting Pyongyang's access to financial assets.
Kerry will lay out for the Chinese how North Korea's access to funds, despite Security Council resolutions, is allowing Pyongyang to pursue its illicit and destabilizing nuclear and missile programs, US officials say. The message will be that it is just as much in Beijing's interests to enforce the resolutions as it is in Washington's, Seoul's, or Tokyo's.
In his comments in Seoul, Kerry also indicated that any missile test by Pyongyang would be a violation of existing Security Council resolutions and thus would prompt a return of the North Korea issue to the Council.
That could mean a new round of measures against the North.
Kerry said in Seoul that the US favors a diplomatic solution to the current crisis – but he also insisted that the US will not follow the old pattern of rewarding North Korea with aid and direct talks in exchange for promises that are never carried out.
Talks can only resume, Kerry suggested, when the North demonstrates that it is "serious" about denuclearization.
That condition would seem to fly in the face of recent declarations from Mr. Kim that the North considers itself a nuclear power and will never give up nuclear weapons. But what the North really seeks, many North Korea analysts say, is international recognition of its nuclear status – something the US says it is determined to deny the Kim regime.
Denying Kim the nuclear mantle remains the US long-term goal, but before that can be tackled is the matter of North Korea's growing ability to periodically throw the region and beyond into high-anxiety jitters.
Kerry's test in Beijing will be whether he can coax China to do more to address both the immediate and longer-term North Korea challenges.


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For more screenshots of my UI, click here.
My focus target is down next to my Grid frames. This is quite useful for when I need to focus an enemy to see who they are going after (faction champs), though a tank is most often my focus, so that I can assist them for a DPS target. As a whole, the UI is laid out so that I can use it while tanking, healing, or DPSing without having to change anything.
The links below are for further explanations on how I've made use of these mods, going to mod-specific posts on this blog.
Action Bars
- Bartender4 buttons
- Lunarsphere (bar menu system/sphere gauge/res speeches, auto-repair, auto-reagent refill, etc.)
- Bindpad (keybind frame)
- OmniCC (cooldowns on actions)
Unit Frames
- Grid for raid
- Pitbull3 for player/target/focus
- oRA2 for mt list/raid cooldowns
- LootRollMover (take loot rolls off my Grid frames)
- IceHUD (head's up display)
Basic UI
- caelNamePlates (nameplate mod, lightweight)
- kgpanels (artwork, I custom designed my art aside the sexymap leaves)
- FuBar (with clear background)
- ButtonFacade (skinning for buffs and bartender)
- Mapster (world map)
- GatherMate (resource node mapping system)
- Cowtip tooltips
- Buffalo (buff resizing/positioning)
- Quartz (castbar)
- SmoothDurability
- Chatter (chat window)
- Sexymap (minimap)
- Omen Threat Meter
- SexyCooldown
- TargetCharms (raid icon bar + readycheck button)
- DBM raid warnings (considering trying the new one)
- Skada damage meters (lightweight recount replacement)
- Debuff Filter (movable debuff frame of specific buffs you want to watch)
- Ghost Pulse (cooldown pulse)
- Power Auras (graphical buffs/debuffs/alerts etc.)
- OptiTaunt (taunt resist announces + tank-specific cooldown alerts for the raid)
- HearKitty (combo point audio alert)
- Oomni (turn addons on/off without logging)
- CastDonut (simple GCD timer that circles my mouse pointer)
**As a note, I do not run any combat-text mods anymore, preferring to use the simple blizzard default one.**
Some of the custom art I use in my UI are below. You can use a blp2png converter to drop them in your own UI image library for kgpanels or eepanels.
(red version here)


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Authors: Miller, Josiah
Date: January 25, 1856
Josiah Miller, responding to his family's concerns about traveling West, wrote to his Father and Mother in South Carolina. He told them that they would be better off leaving the South, and that they should begin their travels west as soon as they were ready, in spite of any violent conflict that might be taking place in Kansas Territory. Miller referred to a specific incident occurring a few days earlier on January 17, when free state men, on their way home from an election of State officers under the Topeka Constitution, were attacked by a group of Missourians. Miller also communicated that, although he was a free state man, he did not like the "Yankees' " approach to the conflict with the proslavery supporters.
Keywords: Barber, Thomas W.; Brown, Reese P.; Emigration and immigration; Free state perspective; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866; Miller, Josiah; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894; South Carolina; Southerners
Speech, David R. Atchison to Pro-Slavery "Soldiers"
Authors: Atchison, David R.; Root, Joseph Pomeroy
Date: May 21, 1856
According to a note on the top of page one made later by R. J. Hinton, "this report was made for me [Hinton] by or under the direction of Lt. Gov. (Dr.) Root [Joseph Pomeroy Root, subsequently elected the state's first lieutenant governor under the Wyandotte Constitution], who was a prisoner, heard & reported the speech" made by David Atchison to the assembled proslave "Soldiers" camped two miles west of Lawrence before they marched on and sacked the town on May 21, 1856. The transcript is labeled "Hon. David R. Atchison's Speech . . ." and begins, "This is the most glorious day of my life! This day I am a border-ruffian!" Amidst "Yells" and "Cheers," Atchison rallied the "true sons of the noble South," encouraging them to "tear down their Free State Hotel" and "thow into the Kanzas their printing presses," and to bravely follow their "worthy . . . Leader, Col. [John H.] Stringfellow!"
Keywords: Abolitionists; Atchison, David Rice, 1807-1886; Beecher Bibles; Border disputes and warfare; Border ruffians; Free State Hotel; Free state settlers; Free state supporters; Hinton, Richard Josiah; Jones, Samuel J. (Sheriff); Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Missourians; New England Emigrant Aid Company; Newspapers - Free State; Pierce administration; Root, Joseph P., 1826-1885; Sack of Lawrence, May 1856; Southerners; Stringfellow, John H.
The voice of Kansas; let the South respond.
Authors: Anderson, Joseph C.; Atchison, David R.; Boone, Albert G.; Buford, Jefferson ; Russell, William ; Stringfellow, B. F.
Date: June 24, 1856
The Law and Order Party made this appeal to southerners to provide support for the proslavery cause in Kansas, in the form of emigration, financial donations, and/or moral support. The text of the main portion of this pamphlet was written by David Atchison,William H. Russell, Joseph C. Anderson, A. G. Boone, B. J. Stringfellow, and J. Buford. A printed note at the end of the text was addressed to Col Jefferson Buford and encouraged him to go to the South to solicit support for the proslavery advocates in Western Missouri and Kansas Territory.
Keywords: Anderson, Joseph C.; Atchison, David Rice, 1807-1886; Boone, Albert G.; Buford, Jefferson; Law and Order Party; Proslavery; Proslavery support; Russell, William H (of Russell, Majors and Waddell); Southern emigrants; Southerners; Stringfellow, Benjamin F.
Letter, B. Darrach to Rev. S. L. Adair
Authors: Darrach, Barstow
Date: December 17, 1856
Doctor B. Darrach wrote from the New York Hospital and commented on published reports that imply that prospects for Kansas becoming a free state are improving. Darrach shared his thoughts on Republicans and Democrats at the national level and also on reactions of southerners. Darrach also described his personal plans that will prevent him from returning to Kansas.
Keywords: Adair, Samuel Lyle; Darrach, Barstow; Democratic Party (U.S.); Free state perspective; New York; Republican Party (U.S.: 1854- ); Southerners
Letter, A. Pierse to Dear Sir [Eli Thayer]
Authors: Pierse, A.
Date: March 31, 1857
A. Pierse wrote from Washington, D.C. to Eli Thayer in Worcester, Massachusetts. Pierse was born in North Carolina and lived most of his life in the South but had been living in Minnesota Territory for the past seven years. He told Thayer that he planned to move to Kansas in the spring of 1857. Pierse offered Thayer his opinion on what free state supporters should do in Kansas Territory. He informed Thayer that, although he had "Southern opinions on the subject of slavery" and believed the federal government had no right to prohibit slavery in the territories, he was "without prejudice for or against either side" in the debate over slavery in Kansas Territory. Pierse suggested that the best course for free staters to take would be to accept the Dred Scott decision, actively participate in the political process in Kansas Territory, and work for the admission of Kansas as a state with or without slavery. Once Kansas was admitted, he contended, free state supporters would be on firmer legal ground to advocate for the prohibition of slavery, since it was generally accepted that "the people have the power to prohibit slavery in their state." He concluded by stating that once Kansas was a state, free staters could make the case that property would be worth 3 or 4 times more if slavery was prohibited in the state.
Keywords: Admission, Kansas (see also Statehood); Dred Scott decision; Free state prospects; Pierse, A.; Proslavery perspective; Slavery; Southern emigrants; Southerners; Statehood (see also Admission, Kansas); Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899
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