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With the VHSL splitting volleyball championships into division beginning this year, Galax has had its eye on the school's first state tournament berth for quite a while.
The Mountain Empire District tournament only served as a means for the Maroon Tide to pick up steam.
Galax entered the Region C Division 1 tournament as the No. 1 seed after breezing to the MED tournament championship with a pair of wins Saturday at GHS.
The Maroon Tide (21-2) opens region tournament play today at Eastern Montgomery High School with a 6 p.m. semifinal meeting with either Narrows or Craig County.
Narrows was Galax's latest conquest as the Tide took a 25-21, 25-18, 25-13 win in Saturday's title match.
"We played well all day," said Tide coach Rose Houk, who was named the MED's coach of the year following the championship match. "Many different players made significant contributions. We started clicking and got into a rhythm, and we played with a lot of heart and hustle. We really worked together as a team today."
Galax found itself deadlocked at 20 with the Green Wave in the first set before Kem Simmons put away a kill and Allison White added a block to give the Tide some separation. The final two points came on Narrows errors as Galax took a one-game lead.
The Green Wave (14-5) jumped out to an 11-4 lead in the second behind the net play of district player of the year Savannah Burton, but two Bailey Shumate aces ignited a Maroon Tide rally that saw Galax score 10 of the game's next 13 points. Five straight hitting errors by Narrows put the Tide up 15-14 and Galax gradually pulled away.
Momentum carried over to the third set for the Tide, which went from a 10-10 tie to a 20-11 lead on the serve of Kaitlin Porter. White had two kills and Simmons smashed a winner off a Shumate dig before Narrows broke Porter's serve.
Simmons led Galax with 10 kills while White provided eight kills, a dozen digs, four aces and three blocks. Shumate was good for six kills and 12 assists. Porter and Kelsey Reedy combined for 30 digs.
"We're so excited about being the No. 1 seed, we've just got to stay focused and avoid mistakes," Houk said.
Galax def. Grayson 3-0:The Maroon Tide reached the championship match with a 25-11, 25-13, 25-10 semifinal win over the Blue Devils earlier Saturday.
White put away 13 kills, Shumate had 10 assists and seven kills, Simmons had eight kills and Harley Brewer added four more.
Kristen Osborne had seven serving points and Grace Wilson put up eight assists.
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Best Oscar Recycling: Eddie Redmayne's girlfriend
Duana and I just awwwweed over this. You might think we're stupid. Or overtired.
Check out Eddie Redmayne and his girlfriend Hannah Bagshaw last night at the Oscars. She's wearing a green dress. Now click here. That's from December, in New York, at an event honouring Hugh Jackman.
It's the same.
There is some courage to that, non? Duana and I were just talking -- we're nobodies, and if we going to the Oscars even to hold on to Julia Robert's lipstick, we'd buy a new f-cking dress. Totally. Hannah Bagshawe? That's humble. Because you know she's assuming no one gives a sh-t who she is and whether or not she's recycling a dress. So, why go to the trouble of getting a new one she will probably never wear again?
I might love her. I might like him even more because he loves her.
Also he was the Best Dressed Man during award season, do we agree?
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MILOT, Haiti - It took a ride on a minibus, a transfer to a flatbed truck and then a horseback trek up a rocky mountainside to get here.
We arrive jostled and sweaty and unprepared for the very thing we came for: La Citadelle Laferrière, a spectacular 200-year-old stone and brick fortress built by the freed slaves who forced out their powerful French colonizers. It sits atop a 3,500-foot-high peak in northern Haiti, surrounded in all directions by velvet-green mountains. If this were Tuscany or Andalusia, or even the Dominican Republic next door, this UNESCO heritage site would be filled with tourists.
But it's quiet and almost deserted. On a clear, sunny day, there are only a dozen of us here, not including horses and guides, in what may be one of the most captivating places on Earth.
That's because Haiti is not anywhere near the top of most people's bucket list. When they think Haiti, they don't imagine glorious scenery or proud historic monuments — they picture poverty and despair. They remember the television footage of the 2010 earthquake that toppled thousands of buildings in Port-au-Prince and surrounding cities and killed an estimated 300,000 people.
But while the rest of us have been feeling sorry for Haiti, Haiti's been busy getting back on its feet. Though much remains to be done, most of the earthquake debris and tent camps have been cleared away and the government has embarked on an ambitious campaign to bolster tourism.
In Port-au-Prince on the Champ de Mars, the sprawling plaza outside the ruined National Palace, a 5,000-seat amphitheatre, surrounded by artisan booths and cafés, is expected to be ready this summer. A 175-room Marriott Hotel will open downtown in 2015, one of several new international luxury hotels. In January 2013, Air Transat began offering weekly direct flights and travel packages from Montreal to Haiti.
At the airport in Port-au-Prince, the whole 100-car taxi fleet is being replaced, and the government has flown in Haitian-born taxi drivers from Montreal to give the locals dispatch and customer-service lessons. Teachers from Montreal's hotel and restaurant school have come to train a new generation of chefs, waiters and hotel workers.
"We have history, culture and natural beauty, and we have done colossal work to get ready to welcome tourists back to Haiti," Tourism Minister Stéphanie Villedrouin explained after lunch at Parc Historique de la canne à sucre, an old sugar cane plantation converted into a museum and restaurant. "We don't want charity. We want people to come to Haiti and eat and drink with us, listen to our music and be our guests."
Villedrouin knows she can't compete with the large, well-developed resorts in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. What she wants is for Haiti to become a different kind of destination, one for "cultural explorers" interested in food, history, art and music, or adventurers looking for something more than an all-inclusive week on the beach.
It's not an impossible dream. Haiti was once known as the pearl of the Antilles. Movie stars and millionaires used to come to buy art, drink rum and soak up the sun. Air France flew twice a week from Paris to Port-au-Prince. Canadians and Americans filled the hotels.
One of Club Med's most beautiful resorts was built along the Côte des Arcadins, a stretch of sandy white beaches and hidden coves nestled under steep mountains, a 45-minute drive south of the capital. But the brutal dictatorship of Papa Doc Duvalier and successive decades of political unrest put an end to the golden era. The Club Med closed, and the tourists stayed away.
Slowly, visitors are returning, many of them expatriates, business people, the sons and daughters of those who left in droves in the 1960s and '70s. The old Club Med, with its fabulous modernist architecture, has reopened as a less luxurious Haitian-owned resort called Club Indigo, with the same exquisite beaches and grounds. Not far away, the Wahoo Bay Beach Club and Resort offers boutique-hotel-style rooms set amid lush gardens overlooking the turquoise sea.
Still, a vacation in Haiti isn't for the faint-hearted. The roads are potholed and garbage-strewn. Protests erupt sporadically and sometimes turn violent, and there's no overlooking the extreme poverty in which large segments of the population live. The best way to visit Haiti is on an organized tour or with a local guide, such as Tour Haiti.
Jean Cyril Pressoir, who has lived all his life in Port-au-Prince, except for three years in Montreal studying anthropology, runs Tour Haiti with his father, offering tailor-made private and group tours all over the country. A swashbuckler of a guide who wears beaded bracelets and a madras shirt, Pressoir has a way of making a place come alive.
He takes visitors into his favourite restaurants and bars and sneaks them into hidden home distilleries for a shot. He organizes bike tours, museum visits and hikes to distant waterfalls. He knows where there's voodoo rock playing on Thursday night and which street seller makes the best griot pork.
"We may have tons of problems, but we have soul. We have magic. Haiti is authentic," Pressoir says.
The writer flew courtesy of Air Transat and was a guest of Occidental Hotels, Club Indigo and Habitation Jouissant. Neither the organization nor the hotels reviewed or approved this story.
1: The colour
Haiti is one continuous swirl of pattern and colour. Children in green-, blue- or red-checked gingham uniforms gather for an after-school snack. Pink and turquoise plastic kitchen utensils are piled for sale next to mountains of orange, yellow and green citrus fruits at the market. Lottery kiosks, store signs and wall murals are painted with stencilled letters and crazy patterns straight out of a pop art show. In Cap-Haïtien, Haiti's second-largest city, the houses are all turquoise and apricot, with white gingerbread trim.
2: Street life
Everything in Haiti happens in the street. Every square inch of sidewalk and roadside is taken up by food carts and street sellers. Women carry coolers of soft drinks, baskets of fruit, even potted plants, on their heads as they weave their way between tap tap buses. Carpenters, shoemakers and hairdressers set their tools on makeshift tables in front of their houses and go about their day's work. At the corner, there's a lineup for barbecue chicken sizzling on a drum-can grill. It winds past an ad hoc antique store selling armchairs in the style of Louis XV.
3: The beach
Haiti's north and south coasts boast some of the most pristine white-sand beaches in the Caribbean, some accessible only by boat. Walk for miles and miles and never see another soul. In the north, outside Cap-Haïtien, take a water taxi to one of Labadee's secluded coves or head for Cormier Plage, a beautiful private resort with two hectares of beachfront and an extraordinary beachside bar. In the south, the historic coffee-export town of Jacmel features Haiti's most scenic swimming spots. And along the Côte des Arcadins, not far from Port-au-Prince, miles and miles of untouched beaches are dotted with small family owned resorts that offer boat rides, snorkelling, deepsea fishing and other water sports.
4: The rum
Rum is Haiti's national drink, and Barbancourt is the rum of rums. The Haitian cocktail of choice is the lime-intense rum sour. Taste the five-star Barbancourt reserve special on ice with a zest of lemon, or sip 15-year-old Réserve du Domaine from a snifter, as you would cognac. (Just remember to spill out a few drops before taking your first sip, as Haitians do. A gift to the spirits.) Visit the Barbancourt Distillery, built in the middle of a sugar cane plantation in Damiens, 16 kilometres outside of Port-au-Prince. A mecca for serious rum drinkers, it has been run by the same family since it opened in 1862. Watch the truckloads of sugar cane come in for mashing, fermenting, distilling and bottling, then relax on the terrasse out back and sample the end result. Group tours are available by prior arrangement. Individual visitors are welcome Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
5: The art
Haitian art is bold, colourful, shocking. Some of Haiti's best-known modern artists were members of the Saint-Soleil school, which revived and reinterpreted primitive art. It's a style Pétion-Ville art dealer Georges Nader describes as "a little voodoo, a little mystical, a little political commentary." Their work commands thousands of dollars and is sold in galleries around the world and at Galerie Nader, which is the largest art gallery in the Caribbean. But at the Iron Market in Port-au-Prince and on just about every bend in the road, naïf landscapes, abstract portraits and voodoo-inspired wood and stone masks and sculptures sell for much, much less. In Village de Noailles, northeast of Port-au-Prince, hammers hitting metal provide the ambient sound. The 60 or so blacksmiths and metal workers who live and work here create carved iron sculptures from oil drums, car parts and recycled sheet metal, taking their inspiration from voodoo and Christian religious symbols and from nature.
6: The food
Haiti's culinary heritage is a source of great pride. The food is bold and zesty, a mix of Creole and French cooking that makes liberal use of garlic, hot chili peppers and citrus.
Getting there: Air Transat (airtransat.ca) offers packages that include airfare to and from Montreal and two nights in Port-au-Prince or its suburb of Pétion-Ville, with visits to museums, restaurants and art galleries, followed by three nights at the beach on the Côte des Arcadins, or five nights on the coast.
Getting around: Haiti is complicated. It's best to hire a local guide who can also act as Creole interpreter and driver. Tour Haiti (tourhaiti.net) offers tailor-made group and individual tours.
Where to stay: The pace in Port-au-Prince can be furious; the suburb of Pétion-Ville offers respite, with a number of hotels. For sleek, modern décor, there's the five-star Royal Oasis hotel (oasishaiti.com), which opened last year and is part of the Occidental chain. Villa Thérèse (villatherese.com) is a charming, low-key 23-room colonial-style hotel that was rebuilt after it was destroyed in the earthquake.
On the beach along the Côte des Arcadins, the former Club Med is now a less luxurious Haitian-owned resort called Club Indigo (clubindigo.net). Not far away is the Wahoo Bay Beach Club and Resort (www.wahoobaybeach.com), a family owned business with rooms decorated in chic boutique-hotel style set around a pool, with exquisitely tended gardens and grounds.
In Cap-Haïtien, Haiti's second-largest city, Habitation Jouissant (habitationjouissant.com) is a small boutique hotel that has just been renovated and enlarged. It sits perched on a hillside above the city, with a pool and glorious views over the cathedral to one side and the Atlantic Ocean to the other. Sip a rum sour at the bar during cocktail hour while the pianist plays a little jazz or swing. The highlight is the sprawling veranda, with its green-painted wrought-iron tables and chairs.


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Dealer Kim Stone of Stone's RV & Home Centre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, has been elected as the new chairman of the Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) of Canada.
Stone, owner with his wife, Anne, of Stone's RV & Home Centre, has been in the RV industry since 1975. As such, he is "an excellent fit for this position" and "his expertise will serve him well as the leadership for the national association," according to a release from the Canadian association. "
"It is a sincere honor and pleasure to be elected as the new chair of the RVDA of Canada," Stone said. "I am very excited about the direction and growth the association has had over the past few years and I will strive to ensure its continued success. I look forward to working with all of our industry partners."
Stone was born and raised in Oxford, Nova Scotia, After a career in banking, he eventually managed a mobile home and RV business. In February 1975, he and his wife purchased the business and have worked side-by-side since while Stone's RV has grown to two locations as well as two manufactured housing stores.
Among the other officers for 2009-2010 are Vice Chairman Alden Kowarsky, Alco VR, Laval, Quebec; Treasurer Garth Bromley, Transcona Trailer Sales, Winnipeg, Manitoba; past Chairman Michel Côté, MAC Caravane, Laval, Quebec.


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A University of New Haven student accused of bringing loaded guns to campus this week told police he had the guns to protect himself from mass shootings that had been happening, New Haven Police Officer Kealyn Nivakoff, of the New Haven Firearms Unit, said.
William Dong, 22, was arrested on Tuesday after prompting a campus lockdown and a building-by-building search, police said.
He appeared in court yesterday and police said they found newspaper clippings of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater mass shooting and 2,700 rounds of ammunition in the padlocked bedroom of his Fairfield, Conn. home.
He's a commuter student and has been suspended following the incident, according to school officials, who said the code of conduct prohibits students from having guns on campus.
Prosecutors said one of the guns in Dong's possession was a Bushmaster assault rifle, which is illegal in the state of Connecticut. The rifle was found in Dong's car parked in a lot on Campbell Avenue, police said.
He told police that he had it because he was going to the shooting range the next day, said Nivakoff, who was involved in the West Haven investigation.
Dong has been charged with illegal possession of an assault weapon, breach of peace and other counts and is being held on a $500,000 bond.
Police were first alerted after a 911 caller reported seeing a man with a long gun walking toward campus, authorities said.
"A little after one 1 p.m, West Haven police received a 911 call from a concerned citizen saying they saw a male get out of a vehicle with a long gun in the area by Campbell Avenue and Ruben Street," said West Haven Police Sgt. David Tammaro.
The caller said she saw the man fumble with something near the back of his car, then run toward Ruden Street, police said. Something was "slung" over his shoulder, but the caller couldn't tell if it was a rifle or a backpack, police said.
Dong was taken into custody about 20 minutes after the 911 call, police said, He had two loaded handguns, a 9mm Glock 26 that had 10 rounds of ammunition and one in the chamber, and a .40-caliber Glock 22 with 15 rounds and one in the chamber, police said.
One handgun was found on his person and the other was in a laptop case, according to police.
Inside Dong's blue 2010 Toyota RAV4, authorities discovered a soft rifle case folded on the passenger side floor, leaning against the seat, police said. A Bushmaster 223 assault rifle was found on the floor below the back seat.
Police removed rounds from the Bushmaster chamber and a fully loaded magazine. They also found a magazine attached to the collapsible stock, four additional 30-round magazines and three Glock magazines that carried a combined 52 rounds.
Dong admitted to driving the car and told police the Bushmaster was his and that he had left it behind when he walked toward campus, according to police.
Dong's family appeared in court Wednesday but had nothing to say to the media.
No shots were fired during the incident and no one was hurt, police said.
A student who said she was in biology class with Dong prior to the incident told NBC Connecticut he got up and left during a test and was later arrested near that same classroom building. The class began at 12:15 p.m. and the campus-wide alert went out about 30 minutes later, the student said.
It's not clear what Dong's intentions might have been, but friends have called the incident a "huge misunderstanding" and said Dong was often confused about where he was allowed to carry guns.
"It was a shock," said Thomas Wething, who went to high school with Dong and watched police search his home from across the street. "I was questioning it at first."
Dong's best friend, Manuel Pallares, said Dong carries weapons every day to protect himself while working at an armored truck company that delivers money.
"I'm pretty sure he's not going to go out and shoot people," Pallares said. "He frowns on those people. He hates hearing about gun violence."
On Tuesday evening, West Haven police launched a search of Dong's home on Stratfield Road that continued into Wednesday. There they recovered several pistol magazines and ammunition, police said.
Fairfield police said Dong has legal gun permits for two handguns, but they haven't specified whether those are the same guns recovered yesterday.
Authorities in West Haven and Fairfield are working to answer the question of why.
"We want to know what his intent was up there because we want to know whether there was an intent here," Fairfield Police Chief Gary MacNamara said.
Dong lives with other family members, according to neighbors, who said they don't know the family personally and that there have never been any issues there.
But MacNamara said police have responded to the home before. He didn't elaborate, but said the previous incidents were not as serious. Police also said they're not looking for any additional suspects.
All afternoon and evening classes at UNH on Tuesday were canceled, according to the university. The lockdown was lifted just before 5:30 p.m.
The ShopRite on Campbell Avenue was also locked down and the manager of the nearby McDonald's reported seeing FBI searching a car and gathering fingerprints.
Forest Elementary School and Carrigan Intermediate School were given a "shelter in place" order because of the situation, but the modified lockdown was lifted after school officials consulted with police.
Notre Dame High School, which is located near the school, was locked down, then dismissed students with the help of West Haven Police.
Students are being dismissed in an orderly fashion now with the help and security of WH Police. Thanks again to all for thoughts/prayers.
— Notre Dame HSWH (@notredamewh) December 3, 2013
UPDATE: Suspect is in custody, CONTINUE TO SHELTER IN PLACE until further instructions.
— U. of New Haven (@UNH) December 3, 2013
This situation came about a week after a lockdown and massive police presence at Yale University, located just miles away.
In that case, police received a call from someone who reported that his roommate was on his way to the Ivy League school to shoot people. Part of the campus remained on lockdown for about seven hours and no threat was found.
Last month, Central Connecticut State University in New Britain was locked down after a man in a Halloween costume sparked a massive police presence.


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Pa. Farm Show Foundation awards scholarships to Penn State students
Fourteen Penn State students, including 11 enrolled in the College of Agricultural Sciences, were among 25 who were awarded scholarships by the Pennsylvania Farm Show Scholarship Foundation during the 97th Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg.
The students were recognized before the show's Junior Livestock Auction and Sale of Champions on Jan. 8. Since 2005, the College of Agricultural Sciences has contributed additional scholarship money to students enrolled in good standing in the college who receive Farm Show scholarships. The amount of this year's scholarship is $3,500, and the college will add $2,000, bringing the total to $5,500.


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There were quite a few big years that took place in 2012. Here are the final results, so far as I was able to figure them out. Did I miss anyone? Please let me know in the comments. There were a couple of big years that I reported on back in June that I can't find final results from and there were a couple of others that were happening that I never managed to find any details about at all.
Perhaps the biggest big year of 2012 was in Australia. A new Australian Big Year Record was set by John Weigel, who did his big year to raise money for Tasmanian Devil conservation. As of 15 December he had seen 744 species and it is unclear if that was his final total or if he added more since. The previous Australian Big Year Record was 720, set by Sean Dooley nearly a decade ago and immortalized in his book, The Big Twitch.
Josh Vandermeulen set the Ontario Big Year record with 344 species, breaking the record of 338, set by Glen Coady in 1996.
Anthony Collerton also broke a big year record, with 361 species checked off his New York State checklist, breaking the state record of 352 set in 2011 by Richard Fried. Anthony has the rundown on his big year here.
The birders who birded on a budget and did a Lower-48 Big Year, Renee Rubin and Michael Delesantro, managed to track down 654 species, amazing considering how little money they have spent.
Blake and Holly Wright hoped to photograph 400 species in the lower 48 this year and easily made it, photographing 432! Not only that, but they raised money for the Houston Audubon Society and the Katy Prairie Conservancy.
Mary Beth Stowe hoped to tick 350 species along the lower Texas Coast this year and came up a bit short with 332. She also did her big year to raise money, but in her case it was to help a youngster, Peyton Behrens, in his fight against leukemia.
A gang of four in Calgary did a combined mammal and bird big year across Canada, hoping to hit 400 bird species and 50 mammals, though it seems that they really want to hit a combined 500 species (with the catchy moniker "Fur and Feathers 500?). At 76 mammals and 431 birds they reached every single one of their goals!
Pat O'Donnell was hoping for 600 species in Costa Rica in 2012 and he was at 539 in June and easily cleared 600 but I am not sure what his final total was. Pat, let us know in the comments, alright?
Lynn Barber was chasing the South Dakota big year record of 332 and managed to smash it with 350 species. Interestingly, two other birders, including Scott Stolz, managed to top her! It looks like 352 species is the new South Dakota Big Year record but it is unclear to me if more than one person reached that number or even exceeded it.
I am undertaking an Indiana Big Year in 2013 and documenting the progress on my blog: http://gregandbirds.wordpress.com. My goal is 250 species.
I have no idea what the state record is, and I don't expect to come close to it, whatever it is. This will be a "become a better birder" big year for me, which I know is laughable to some. But we all have to start somewhere, right?
I'd heard both Maryland and Washington had their Big Year records broken this year as well.
I am brandy-new to birding but will be trying to see the most I can in CT in between work (sadly of course) and given my fledgling birding status and small pockets . Connecticut has a vast amount of birdies for such a lil state.
It is a very enjoyable hobby and I look forward to the running around. Bought meself nice binocs for holiday and cant wait to break em in, per se 🙂
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I really enjoyed reading Josh Vandermulen's blog and Birding on a Budget this year. I will miss them! Let me know if you hear of any other birding blogs happening in 2013. I will be reading Greg's faithfully!
How fun that would be to do Big Year in Australia! In Costa Rica, I ended 2012 with 617 species. I talk about a few of my big misses in this post: http://birdingcraft.com/wordpress/2012/12/27/big-misses-from-birding-costa-rica-in-2012/
I wonder what the record is for species north of 71 degrees North?
I'm doing one in the Albany, NY area. I've sort of toyed with the idea in the past, but have decided to go for broke this year. 200 is the base goal, but I'd really like to hit 230.
On a small scale, Mark Stevenson posted an impressive 322 species in Pima County, AZ which must be a county record but I'm not 100% positive.
Btw, the Indiana Big Year record is 313 according to Fat Birder.
@Corey: Sherrie Duris did a Lucas County(OH)Big Year and ended up with 263 species. She's a friend of Jen Brumfield so that is what brought it to mind.
North Carolina's Big Year is being chased by Ali Iyoob, who keeps a blog http://ncbigyear13.blogspot.com/.
Rick Olsen was one of the South Dakotan birders that broke the SD big year record I believe. I heard several were doing a big year as to not let a "non-native" ie Lynn Barber take the record. John Hargrove from California ended up with 689 for his big year. Also Frank Gibson from Fresno doing a lower 48 big year ending up somewhere around 630 I think.
Warren from The Birdcouple did a big year in Maryland last year. http://birdingcouple.blogspot.com/2012/12/2012-one-of-best-for-bc.html
Happy with my 2012 Taiwan Big Year http://birdingtaiwan.blogspot.tw/ . This year will have a different focus, but looking forward ti doing it all again in 2014…
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Musculoskeletal complaints are the chiropractor's specialty. However, we are not pharmacologists; therefore, drug-induced myopathy does not always enter into our differential diagnosis – especially if we graduated chiropractic college before statins were created (yours truly included).
I have had minimal clinical experience with statin-induced myopathy, but several colleagues and close friends have personally experienced its debilitating effects. Two actually experienced such severe symptoms that they were unable to get out of bed due to pain and muscle weakness.
This is considered a rare occurrence. In fact, clinical trials have reported myalgia only in 1 percent to 5 percent of patients. More recently, however, observational studies suggest the frequency of statin myopathy to be 9-20 percent. Because the patients we see in practice have mainly musculoskeletal disorders, I wonder how common statin myopathy is in our patient population.
A Case Scenario
Recently, Robert Warsak, DC, shared the clinical histories of some of his patients who suffered from this problem. One of his most disconcerting histories was regarding a patient who came to him with complaints of back and leg pain, and a positive MRI for a disc herniation. He examined her and could not find one neurological or orthopedic test that indicated a disc lesion, despite the fact that the patient's orthopedist had her scheduled for back surgery.
Fortunately, she went to see Dr. Warsak before having the surgery. It turned out that her pain was caused by the Lipitor she was taking. Once she stopped the Lipitor and he treated her a few times, she was pain free. Of course, she is very grateful, but it begs the question as to how often this misdiagnosis occurs with possible catastrophic results.
I am not suggesting that you recommend patients stop their statins, but we should add statin myopathy to our list of possible causes of musculoskeletal complaints. Admittedly, statin myopathy is not my first consideration when a patient comes in with complaints of lower back and leg pain – especially when the patient has been examined by other medical doctors and has had an MRI with a finding of a disc herniation. I might be tempted to "go along" with the diagnosis.
This is what impresses me about Dr. Warsak. He did not make any assumptions. He examined the patient without being influenced by the previous diagnosis and MRI report. Following his orthopedic and neurologic examination, he discovered that the clinical findings just did not add up with the suggested diagnosis. I believe this is a very good lesson for all of us. We should not make any assumptions, even if the patient has been to see a specialist.
Statin Use and Muscle Pain
Twenty-five percent of U.S. adults over the age of 45 are taking statins and that number continues to grow. There are multiple risk factors for statin-induced myopathy that are both patient related and drug related. Statin-induced myopathy has a complex, poorly understood, multifactorial pathophysiology. It is postulated that statin-induced myopathy is caused by apoptosis of the skeletal muscle cells due to disrupted intracellular calcium signaling and mitochondrial dysfunction secondary to the depletion of mevalonate metabolism products, particularly coenzyme Q10.
By definition, myopathy is any pathology of the muscle. The spectrum of statin-induced myopathy can be classified into myalgia, myositis and rhabdomyolysis. Myalgia is defined as one or a combination of symptoms of muscle weakness, tenderness, or pain with normal or minimally elevated creatinine kinase. Myositis is defined as the presence of symptoms of muscle weakness, tenderness or pain with elevated creatine kinase up to 10-fold the normal level.
Rhabdomyolysis is a syndrome characterized by muscle necrosis and the release of intracellular muscle constituents into the circulation; creatine kinase is markedly elevated, and muscle pain and myoglobinuria may be present. Rhabdomyolysis can be life-threatening, associated with extreme enzyme elevations, electrolyte imbalance, and acute kidney injury. It can cause potentially lethal acute degeneration of the skeletal muscle.
Factors that may increase the risk of statin-induced myopathy include: advanced age (>80 years old); females with low BMI; multisystem diseases (for example, diabetes mellitus); diseases affecting kidney or liver function; hypothyroidism (untreated); drug interactions, especially with drugs that are inhibitors or substrates of the cytochrome P450 pathway (for example, nicotinic acid, calcium channel blockers, macrolide antibiotics, azole antifungals, warfarin); and genetic factors (for example, polymorphisms of the cytochrome P450 isoenzymes, inherited defects of muscle metabolism and traits that affect oxidative metabolism of fatty acids).
If you are interested in a particular drug or disease that affects the P450 pathway, a good place to start is with the article I referenced: "Drug Interactions Due to Cytochrome P450," by Chris C. Ogu and Jan L. Maxa. This topic is far beyond my knowledge of pharmacology and biochemistry.
Other factors that can cause a risk of statin myopathy are vigorous exercise, excess alcohol, concurrent infections, major surgery or trauma, and diet (excessive grapefruit or cranberry juice, or watercress).
Symptoms / Diagnosis
Diagnosing statin-induced myopathy is more a process of elimination. There is no test to date that confirms or rejects the diagnosis of statin toxicity. Findings from the history are very helpful. Many patients experience muscular symptoms with initial treatment with statins; however, within two weeks symptoms generally resolve.
Symptoms that persist beyond the initial two weeks of treatment are likely due to the statin. Symptoms include symmetric burning or pain in the large muscles during exercise that the patient did not experience before starting the statin. Most patients cannot identify a trigger, but the ones that can usually have engaged in some unusually strenuous activity.
Heaviness, stiffness or cramps are also predominate symptoms. Pain is diffuse and more common in the lower extremities. Physically active patients are more likely to suffer from muscle symptoms than sedentary patients. Also, if the patient has experienced muscular symptoms with other drugs or has a family history of muscle complaints, they seem to be more predisposed to statin toxicity.
An interesting observational note is that patients with a history of chronic lower back pain due to lumbar radiculopathy tend to experience exacerbations when statin therapy is initiated. Knowing this is helpful when patients return to their chiropractor for care, but find the treatment that worked so well to alleviate their symptoms in the past doesn't work.
Orthopedic and neurologic examinations often are unremarkable; focus on documenting any muscle atrophy, loss of tone, and strength while attempting to exclude tendinopathies, arthropathies, and myofascial pain syndromes. It should be noted that statins can also aggravate or reveal underlying musculoskeletal disorders. (See table 2 in the Fernandez, et al., article.) Asymmetric pain or pain involving joints and ligaments is less likely to be statin related.
Laboratory evaluation should include serum CK levels, even though most patients with mild statin myopathy don't have elevated CK levels. If elevated, this is indicative of possible muscle damage. Vitamin D levels, C-reactive protein and TSH should also be evaluated. Obviously as chiropractors we do not want to take patients off their medication; therefore, once statin myopathy is suspected the patient should be referred back to their cardiologist and/or primary care doctor to manage.
Our Role as DCs
Even though we chiropractors don't treat patients with drugs or surgery, statins are such a common class of drugs that many of our patients are likely taking them and may be experiencing musculoskeletal symptoms as a result. This can confound the diagnosis. Dr. Barbara Roberts, in The Truth About Statins, states, "Patients should proceed with caution when considering statins; studies haven't shown that statins help women who don't already have heart disease, even if they have risk factors like obesity and family history."
Dr. Roberts also states that long-term statin use may cause nerve damage. That damage often reverses, she says, but the process can take months. Even the Food and Drug Administration warns that taking statins slightly increases the risk of diabetes, even in people at a healthy weight and with no other risk factors. We all know that most cardiovascular disease can be managed with diet, but people are still being put on medications first, rather than being treated with a change in diet.
There is a propensity in this country to prescribe too many drugs that may not even treat the cause of the disease. I am happy to say that generally this is not the case in our profession. That said, we still need to be careful not to assume that all musculoskeletal complaints are due to musculoskeletal disorders. Our patients are taking a multitude of medications. We need to be aware of which ones can cause or exacerbate musculoskeletal symptoms.
- Fernandez, et al. Statin myopathy: a common dilemma not reflected in clinical trials. Cleve Clinic J Med, June 2011;78(6).
- The Mevalonate Pathway. Wikipedia.org.
- Dirks AJ, Jones KM. Statin-induced apoptosis and skeletal myopathy. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, 2006;291(6):C1208-12.
- Thompson PD, Clarkson P, Karas RH. Statin-associated myopathy. JAMA, 2003;289(13):1681-90.
- Ogu CC, Maxa JL. Drug interactions due to cytochrome P450. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent), 2000 October;13(4):421-423.
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01183533
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Experimental: off label rt-PA used
off label rt-PA used on all subject enrolled within 3 hours of waking with stroke symptoms at the standard of care dose.
Drug: Alteplase (iv t-PA)
0.9 mg/kg (maximum of 90 mg) IV t-PA will be administered with 10% bolus given over 1 minute, the rest given as an infusion over the remaining hour.
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- Frequency of Symptomatic Hemorrhagic Transformation Safety of iv Rt-PA in Wake up Stroke Patients [ Time Frame: 24 hours ]The primary outcome of this study is the frequency of symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation evident within 24 hours of treatment with IV t-PA. Symptomatic was defined as significant clinical deterioration with at least a 4 point or more increase in the NIH Stroke scale.
- 90-day Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) Score 0 or 1 [ Time Frame: 90 days ]Number of patients with mRS of 0 or 1 at 90 days. The mRS is a clinician-reported measure of global disability that has been widely applied for evaluating recovery from stroke. It has a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 6. Zero represents a patient that has no disability or residual stroke symptoms. A score of 1 is defined as: no significant disability: despite symptoms, able to carry out all usual duties and activities. The maximum score, 6, indicates death. A score of 2 is defined as slight disability: unable to perform all previous activities but able to look after own affairs without assistance; a score of 3 is defined as moderate disability: requiring some help but able to walk without assistance; a score of 4 is moderately severe disability: unable to walk without assistance and unable to attend to own bodily needs without assistance; a score of 5 is severe disability: bedridden, incontinent and requiring constant nursing care and attention.
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"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" is a Will Ferrell sports comedy without Will Ferrell and without the sports. In plot and tone, in a screenplay recipe that's two parts lunatic comedy and one part shameless sentimentality with a dash of romance thrown in, this magic-themed buddy movie isn't so different from "Blades of Glory" or "Kicking and Screaming" or "Semi-Pro" or "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby." (And gosh, Will Ferrell's made a lot of sports comedies, hasn't he?)
Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) is a pompous, clueless, sexist blowhard who somehow comes across as at least somewhat sympathetic, perhaps because we've seen the abuse and the hard knocks he endured as a child. It's as if Michael Scott from "The Office" had actually pursued his lifelong love of magic and had managed to become a successful albeit old-fashioned and cheesy act headlining his own theater at Bally's in Las Vegas.
Anton (Steve Buscemi), Burt's childhood friend, gamely joins his pal onstage each night to the sounds of Steve Miller's "Abracadabra," kicking off yet another night of magic that hasn't changed once in the last 10 years. Their routines are so dated they look as if they've been lifted from a 1950s TV extravaganza.
Therein lies the problem for their so-called magical friendship. James Gandolfini's blustery casino owner, the not-so-subtly named Doug Munny, tells the boys their time has passed and it's time to make way for the new breed of magicians, as personified by the viral-video, cable-TV sensation Steve Gray, a man not afraid to mutilate himself, pound a nail into a table with his forehead or go a week without urinating — all captured from multiple camera angles.
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A movie satirizing magicians — even rock 'n' roll hipster magicians — is only slightly more cutting edge than a movie mocking mimes or carnies. At times "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" seems as creaky as old Rance Holloway.
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Dr. Eric Scharf grew up in Southern California where he graduated from the University of California San Diego, with a Bachelor's degree in Biology. He received his DDS degree after attending The University of Southern California Dental School, where he met his future wife, Dr. Aynechi. While in dental school, he was a recipient of the Health Professions Scholarship from the United States Air Force. Dr. Scharf and his wife moved to Minneapolis after dental school to begin his residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Minnesota. After completion of his residency, Dr. Scharf and his wife moved to San Antonio where he was on staff at Wilford Hall Medical center training oral surgery residents in the United States Air Force. Dr. Scharf and his family returned to California after his time in the Air Force and joined Dr. Duncan in his oral surgery practice.
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"Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent." — Isaiah 14:29
"The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them." — Isaiah 30:6
The Greek historian Herodotus noted these observations during the 5th century BC.
|There is a place in Arabia, situated very near the city of Buto, to which I went, on hearing of some winged serpents; and when I arrived there, I saw bones and spines of serpents, in such quantities as it would be impossible to describe. The form of the serpent is like that of the water-snake; but he has wings without feathers, and as like as possible to the wings of a bat.[3]
As recent as the early 1900s elderly folk in Glamorgan (a historical county of Wales) used to tell of a colony of winged serpents that lived in the woods around Penllin Castle.
|The woods around Penllin Castle, Glamorgan, had the reputation of being frequented by winged serpents, and these were the terror of old and young alike. An aged inhabitant of Penllyne, who died a few years ago, said that in his boyhood the winged serpents were described as very beautiful. They were coiled when in repose, and "looked as if they were covered with jewels of all sorts. Some of them had crests sparkling with all the colours of the rainbow". When disturbed they glided swiftly, "sparkling all over," to their hiding places. When angry, they "flew over people's heads, with outspread wings, bright, and sometimes with eyes too, like the feathers in a peacock's tail". He said it was "no old story invented to frighten children", but a real fact. His father and uncle had killed some of them, for they were as bad as foxes for poultry. The old man attributed the extinction of the winged serpents to the fact that they were "terrors in the farmyards and coverts".[4]
Modern Sightings
According to a 2006 press release, "Intermittent expeditions on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea, from 1994 through 2004, resulted in the compilation of eyewitness testimonies that substantiated a hypothesis that pterosaurs may not be extinct." [5] Such claims might be bolstered by the discovery of a pterosaur fossil in Queensland, Australia. Palaeontologist Alex Cook made the discovery in 2004, and called it one of the "most exquisitely preserved" specimens in the world. Queensland is just south of the New Guinea area.[Reference needed]
In 2005, a nearly-inaccessible region of the island of New Guinea, the Foja Mountains was the object of a scientific expedition in which scientists documented dozens of new species that were unafraid of humans, and were previously unknown to scientists.[6] Late in 2006, in a remote mountainous area of Papua New Guinea, a creationist explorer, Paul Nation, recorded 17 seconds of digital video of what investigators believe is evidence for the bioluminescence of creatures called "indava" and "ropen." They also believe that these are Rhamphorhynchoid (long-tailed) pterosaurs. Early in March, 2007, a physicist completed his report on his findings on this video footage: The lights were not produced through a hoax and they were not of any campfire, airplane lights, or meteors. They were also shown to not be from camera artifacts.[7]
- by World War II Veteran 1944
- by Gideon of Umboi Island about 1994
- by Pastor Jacob Kepas late 20th Century
- by Perth, Australia, couple 1997
- by South Carolina resident late 1980's
Modern Names
- Main Article: Ropen
Ropen is the local name of a nocturnal creature on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea that glows while flying. At least five light expeditions, 1994-2004, were conducted by American creationists, including Carl Baugh, Paul Nation, Jonathan Whitcomb, Garth Guessman, and David Woetzel (usually one or two Americans at a time). Only about three sightings resulted from these investigations: only distant, brief views of the ropen-light; essentially no shape was seen by explorers on these expeditions.[8]
Eyewitness testimonies suggest that the ropen is a Rhamphorhynchoid (long-tailed) pterosaur. According to the investigators this criteria is based on several consistent patterns such as the featherless appearance, long tail that ends in a flange or diamond shape and fishing habits. Descriptions of a giant size, leathery skin, and a long tail--these cross cultural boundaries: Australians, [9] an American, [10] and natives [11] of Papua New Guinea mention a pterosaur-like appearance; knowledge or ignorance of fossils or Western beliefs about extinction [12] seem to be irrelevant to these eyewitness descriptions: Both Westerners and natives report a giant long-tailed flying creature, either featherless or at least without any obvious feathers.
According to the recent investigators David Woetzel, Garth Guessman, and Jonathan Whitcomb, over 90% of the sightings of the ropen on Umboi Island are of the "ropen light." Whitcomb's book (Searching for Ropens) suggests that most of these sightings are of one giant creature that sleeps in the island interior during the day; at night it feeds on reefs (at least on the northern and southern coasts where the three investigators explored). The two expeditions of 2004 independently interviewed eyewitnesses who reported that the bright glow of the ropen lasts for about five to six seconds.
The few seconds when it glows brightly--This reveals flight patterns, according to the two expeditions of 2004. During the first two hours after sundown, the ropen-light usually moves towards the coast; The one exception was when it seemed to be flying from one mountain to another. (No interview revealed any flight from the coast toward the interior of the island during the first two hours after sundown.) This correlates with some native accounts that the ropen flies to a reef early in the evening to feed at night.
Many of the ropen-light eyewitnesses estimate that the flight altitude is about one hundred meters above the tree tops. Jonah Jim (living near Owongai Village, west of Gomlongon, Umboi Island) was interviewed in both 2004 expeditions. He described the altitude as 500-550 feet. Whitcomb believes that this low-altitude flash of light (100-160 meters above the tree canopy) supports the idea that the creature is using its bioluminescence to orient itself to the terrain as it prepares to land.
The indava is local name of a giant nocturnal flying creature in a remote mountainous area of Papua New Guinea (northwest of the capital, Port Moresby) around Tawa Village. In November, 2006, the American living-pterosaur investigator Paul Nation (of Granbury, Texas) found what at first appeared to be a colony of the creatures (in March, 2007, another expedition revealed that the creatures change daylight sleeping locations, probably depending on the weather).[13] He videotaped what appeared to be two of the bioluminescent indavas as they were on a ridge and about to take off into the air. On returning to the United States, Nation was interviewed by Jonathan Whitcomb (author of Searching for Ropens) who made digital copies of the seventeen seconds of video. One copy was given to Cliff Paiva, a missile defense physicist, who analyzed the video over several weeks. He concluded that the two lights were not from any hoax or camera artifacts; they were also not made by any airplane lights, automobile headlights, lanterns, meteors, or camp fires.[7]
The 2006 expedition was the first living-pterosaur expedition to result in a daylight sighting of a giant creature with wings. While Paul Nation was in Tawa Village, his interpreter and fellow-explorer, Jacob Kepas, hiked up to a higher elevation where a local man, Joseph, was observing an indava. (Joseph and Kepas had been in radio contact, and Joseph requested assistance with the camcorder.) Kepas failed to get any clear video image of the creature they saw. The adjacent mountain ridge was distant and the viewing angle was too great. He believed that he could make out the wings and thought he saw the head covered by a wing but he was unsure. Joseph, however, had been to a higher location and was sure of what he saw: He described the "indava" as being the size of a small airplane.
Living-pterosaur investigators believe that the indava is similar to the ropen of Umboi Island. In daylight, they look like giant pterosaurs and at night they glow brightly as they fly just above the tree canopy.
Sightings, by Westerners, of these glowing flying objects in this area of the mainland of Papua New Guinea are not restricted to creationists. The British entomologist Evelyn Cheesman observed the strange lights just north of Tarawa Village, and concluded that they could not have been of human origin.
According to Gibson Kuvurio, from Pilio Island (off the southwestern coast of New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea) the wawanar is said to be a dragon that "owns the land and the sea." The islander was interviewed, in 2004, by American living-pterosaur investigator Jonathan Whitcomb (author of Searching for Ropens) who believes that the legend originated from sightings of the creatures called "ropens" on nearby Umboi Island.
Critics may regard the wawanar legend as just another dragon tale. But Umboi Island, where the ropen investigators have explored, is only a few miles northwest of the islands that include Pilio Island, and the relationship between common ideas about "dragon" appearances and ropen descriptions may be significant.
Among hundreds of languages and dialects in Papua New Guinea, in one area "duwas" refers to the same creature called "ropen" on Umboi Island. Contrary to earlier assumptions, the general consensus, among the most recent investigators who have explored in Papua New Guinea, searching for evidence of living pterosaurs (Paul Nation, Jonathan Whitcomb, Garth Guessman, and David Woetzel), is that these two words refer to the same general kind of creature: a featherless giant, flying at night. The difference is in language, not biology.
"Duah" is most likely another misunderstanding, probably from an assumption that "duwas" is plural (it is not). Recent investigators know of no creature locally called "duah."
Hoax Claims
After the two ropen expeditions of 2004, a few critics suggested hoaxes were the cause of reports of apparent living pterosaurs. But in early 2009, Jonathan Whitcomb found evidence against hoaxes through analyzing data from many eyewitness reports. The hoax hypothesis cannot explain why, with a group of eyewitness reports, those who are somewhat uncertain about non-feathers (for the creature observed) are at least equal to those who are certain about non-feathers.[14]
In addition, Whitcomb's analysis of data from many eyewitness reports (of sightings in the United States) shows that many estimates for wingspans are concentrated around nine feet, far from where hoaxers would be expected to state a wingspan. This is because the sensational reports of ropen sightings are dominated by reports of wingspans greater than twenty feet and the standard-model ideas about Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs (most modern-eyewitness reports suggest this type) include many wingspans of less than seven feet.
Critics of living-pterosaur investigations, however, generally fail to provide any details to support the idea that a hoax or number of hoaxes are involved with eyewitness sightings.
- ↑ Pterosaur by Wikipedia
- ↑ The Bible and Pterosaurs: Archaeological and Linguistic Studies of Jurassic Animals that Lived Recently, John Goertzen, Revolution Against Evolution, 09/30/1998
- ↑ Herodotus, Historiae, tr. Henry Clay, 1850, pp. 75-76.
- ↑ Trevelyan, M. 1909, Folk-Lore and Folk Stories of Wales, (cit. Dinosaurs from Anglo-Saxon and other Records Chapter 10, After the Flood by Bill Cooper.)
- ↑ Pterosaur-like Creatures Reported in Papua New Guinea PRWeb. July 20, 2006
- ↑ Science team finds 'lost world' BBCNews, February 7, 2006.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Results of Investigations Concerning Pterosaur Sightings In Papua New Guinea
- ↑ Ropen Light Sighting by David Woetzel By Jonathan D. Whitcomb, Science & Origin.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ [4]
- ↑ Indava and Ropen of Papua New Guinea
- ↑ Hoax of Pterosaurs, Jonathan Whitcomb, 2008
Further reading
- Are Dragons Pterosaurs?
- Whitcomb, Jonathan. Searching for Ropens, Second Edition. California: Wingspan Press, 2007.
- "Pterosaurs Still Living" news
- Release: "Glowing Creatures Videotaped"
- Analysis of videotaped lights by a physicist
- Why radar cannot be used against the living-pterosaur concept
- Indava - danger to children and animals in Tawa Village


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As North Korea readies rocket test, U.S. policy faulted
WASHINGTON — As North Korea said Tuesday that it was ready to launch a long-range rocket later this week, prompting stern criticism from U.S. officials, experts said the planned launch revealed weaknesses in American policy toward the rogue nation.
Saying the launch would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions that bar North Korea from testing ballistic missiles, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the United States would "work with our partners on next steps if North Korea goes through with this provocation."
Speaking after a meeting with her Japanese counterpart, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the United States would pursue "appropriate action" against Pyongyang at the Security Council for an act that she argued would threaten regional security. Already, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines have gone on alert, with some airlines canceling or rerouting regional flights to steer clear of the rocket's trajectory.
The launch had been planned at least since last fall to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the "Great Leader" and North Korea's first president, who died in 1994. Then, in February, the government of the new president, Kim's grandson, Kim Jong Un, struck a deal with the United States for 250,000 tons of food aid for the impoverished nation in exchange for shutting down its nuclear program and suspending long-range missile testing.
Last month, however, North Korea made it clear that it intended to go ahead with the "space launch" of a rocket carrying the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite, which is intended to transmit data about weather conditions. North Korean officials have dismissed claims that the launch is a pretext for developing missile technology, but the United States, Britain, South Korea, Japan and other countries protested, and the Obama administration canceled the offer of food aid.
Last weekend, a South Korean intelligence report was leaked that indicated North Korea now was planning a separate underground nuclear-weapon test. On Sunday, North Korean officials gave a small group of Western journalists a rare peek at the site from which they'll launch their rocket later this week, perhaps as early as Thursday.
Experts said the apparent failure of the U.S. food deal illustrated how bilateral deals between Washington and Pyongyang — which didn't fully involve China — were problematic. While an offer of 250,000 tons of food is substantial, a report last year by the International University of Japan found that food aid from China — including handouts as well as food sold at discounted "friends' prices" — in most years far exceeds what the U.S. would have provided.
That means that in the minds of North Korean officials, the American food aid offer "has symbolic importance, but doesn't really matter much. They don't think they have much to lose," said one U.S. expert spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he works closely on negotiations between the countries.
On Tuesday, a Washington-based advocacy group, the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, called on the United States to "provide food aid that reaches the hungry." But if the aid that's being withheld isn't seen as essential, it leaves the United States with little bargaining power, experts said.
"Look, I like playing on the winning team, but North Korea consistently kicks our butts diplomatically," the U.S. expert said.
Some experts say there was a lot to be learned from a North Korean launch. Previous launches, after all, have shown Pyongyang's rocket technology to be lacking.
The program made its debut in 1984 with six short-range launches, three of which failed. A decade later, Pyongyang tested cruise missiles that missed their targets.
By 1998, the North Koreans were trying three-stage rockets, allegedly to put satellites into orbit — the same reason given for the looming launch — but their rockets again failed. A third stage on a Taepodong-1 rocket failed in 1998. In 2006, a Taepodong-2 failed 40 seconds after launch. In 2009, a first-stage rocket splashed into the Sea of Japan and the final two stages prematurely fell into the Pacific.
No one doubts that North Korea has been working to improve its rockets since then, but the only sure way to gauge its progress is to observe a launch, analysts said.
Joel Wit, the editor of 38 North, a website on North Korea, said that while the rocket launch had long been inevitable, the nuclear test wasn't. Still, he added, it's North Korea's response to international condemnation of its 2009 launch.
"I wouldn't be surprised if there were more announcements to come," he said. "If the launch and test are successful, we could hear that they've figured out how to make a nuclear warhead for their rockets. We don't know as much as we should about what is going on inside North Korea, but this is how they play the game."
At the Pentagon, officials declined to describe what measures they'd put in place to respond to a North Korean test, saying only that they're "comfortable" with their defensive capabilities. Spokesman George Little said, "We hope it doesn't happen, but if it does we'll be ready to track it."
Zachary Hosford, a research associate at the Center for a New American Security, a nonpartisan research center in Washington, said the meaning of the test could be as much about internal North Korean politics as international relations. For one thing, he said, it's not clear whose idea the launch was; it was planned during the long reign of the current president's father, Kim Jong Il, before Kim Jong Un announced it last month.
Former South Korean Foreign Minister Han Sung-joo, writing in the English-language version of the newspaper Chosun Ilbo, said that "the missile launch was meticulously planned for some time and is not the result of conflict and confusion within the North's leadership after Kim Jong Il's death. But the launch will end up doing North Korea more harm than good, further isolating it from the international community and exacerbating its economic woes."
Hosford noted, however, that despite the international condemnations, the internal fallout from backing off the test could be more damaging to the country's new leader.
"Kim Jong Un can't back away without appearing to show disrespect to his father, and to appear weak," Hosford said. "This launch is part of a celebration, and new leaders don't rob their people of celebrations."
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Officers with the Orange County Correctional Facility found a package containing synthetic marijuana hidden inside a prison transport van on Tuesday, April 9. According to a report from the Orange County Sheriff's Office, the vehicle was parked at 205 South Border St. in Orange when correctional officers found the "green leafy substance."
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Tonight we get the official and HSBC January PMI numbers for China that will offer insight into how the economy is doing.The official number is out at 8 p.m. ET, and analysts polled by Bloomberg are looking for manufacturing PMI to rise to 51 in January, from 50.6 the previous month.
The HSBC reading follows at 8:45 p.m. ET, with analysts polled by Bloomberg looking for a rise to 52, from 51.5 the previous month.
Bank of America's Ting Lu is looking for the official manufacturing PMI number to rise to 51. He says that industrial earnings have been pointing to an "impressive recovery" and this should help boost business confidence. This should reflect in January's PMI print.
Of course some like Diana Choyleva at Lombard Street Research argue that the optimism over December corporate profits isn't justified.
"The prevailing analysis in the market has focused on the annual change in the monthly data on industrial profits, stating that profits climbed for a fourth straight month in December. But the profits data is highly cyclical, making monthly moves useless in assessing the underlying trend. Seasonally adjusted quarterly data is a much better guide to the state of corporate profits. Net profits not only fell in Q4, but at a faster rate than in the previous two quarters."
If that reflects in tonight's PMI, the data could disappoint.
This chart shows the trajectory of PMI and industrial production since 2005:
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LOS ANGELES: Wichita State is headed to the Final Four, and these Shockers should be no surprise to anybody.
Not after the way they held off mighty Ohio State in the West Regional final.
Malcolm Armstead scored 14 points, Fred Van Vleet bounced in a big basket with 1 minute left, and ninth-seeded Wichita State earned its first trip to the Final Four since 1965 with a 70-66 victory over Ohio State on Saturday.
Van Vleet scored 12 points as the Shockers (30-8) followed up last week's win over top-ranked Gonzaga with a nail-biting victory over the second-seeded Buckeyes (29-8), whose 11-game winning streak ended one game short of their second straight Final Four.
Wichita State roared to a 20-point lead with 11 minutes to play after Ohio State played an awful first half, but LaQuinton Ross scored 15 of his 19 points after halftime, leading a ferocious rally to within three points in the final minutes.
But after Tekele Cotton hit a 3-pointer with 2:20 left, VanVleet scored on a shot that bounced all over the rim before dropping. Ron Baker and Cotton hit last-minute free throws to secure the second Final Four trip in Wichita State's history.
Wichita State is just the fifth team seeded ninth or higher to reach the Final Four since seeding began in 1979, but the second in three years following 11th-seeded VCU's improbable run in 2011.
The Shockers are also the kings of Kansas, reaching the national semifinals after the powerful Jayhawks and Kansas State both went down.
Deshaun Thomas scored 21 points after missing nine of his first 12 shots for the Buckeyes, who made just 24 percent of their first-half shots. Aaron Craft scored nine points on 2-for-12 shooting for the Buckeyes, who dug a hole too deep to escape with their second-half rally.
But after two weeks of upsets in the wild West bracket, underdog Wichita State was an appropriate choice to cut down Staples Center's nets. The Shockers' well-balanced roster managed built that enormous lead with the same consummate team play that they've shown throughout the tournament.
Two sections packed with cheering Shockers fans provided all the encouragement necessary for a team that didn't win the Missouri Valley Conference tournament and was thought to be a bubble team for an NCAA berth. Now, Wichita State is the MVC's first Final Four team since Larry Bird led Indiana State to the title game in 1979.
Another giant awaits the Shockers in Atlanta next weekend: They'll face the winner of Sunday's Midwest Regional final between Duke and Louisville.
Seven seasons after underdog George Mason crashed the Final Four and underlined college basketball's growing parity, the Shockers are the latest smallish school to get on a big roll in the tournament. Butler made the national championship game in 2010 and 2011, and the Bulldogs were joined by that VCU team in the Final Four two years ago.
This year's tournament included stunning wins by Florida Gulf Coast, La Salle and Harvard, but nobody kept it going longer than Wichita State.
Although the Shockers have a beautiful home arena and robust support from fans and donors in Kansas' largest city, coach Gregg Marshall acknowledged that Wichita State's athletic budget is a fraction of what a BCS school can spend. He hasn't let it slow down the Shockers.
The 50-year-old Marshall is in his sixth season at Wichita State, but he fits in well with the up-and-coming coaches who made their reputations through unlikely tournament success such as Butler's Brad Stevens or VCU's Shaka Smart.
Marshall, who says he's "not a jumper" when it comes to job opportunities, spent nine seasons at Winthrop, making seven NCAA tournaments before moving to Wichita in 2007, where he rebuilt the Shockers into a Top 25 team last year � only to lose to 12th-seeded VCU in the first round of the 2012 tournament.
Wichita State made it this year as a bubble team after losing in the Missouri Valley Conference tourney, but the Shockers followed up an opening-round win over Pitt with an impressive victory over Gonzaga, the top seed in the West and the No. 1 team in the nation at the end of the regular season.
The Shockers did spend 10 games ranked in the AP Top 25 this season before a three-game skid from Jan. 29-Feb. 5. Wichita State then lost consecutive games to Evansville and Creighton before the MVC tournament.
Marshall's pregame speech to the Shockers finished with talk of cutting down the nets at Staples Center before getting on that plane back to Kansas, saying Wichita State didn't have to play "a perfect game" to beat mighty Ohio State.
"The Mecca awaits in Atlanta," he said.
Marshall was right, but he couldn't have anticipated just how imperfect Ohio State would be.
The postseason-tested Buckeyes appeared calm and confident during warmups in front of their healthy fan contingent, yet they proceeded to play the first half just like NCAA newbies.
They missed their first seven shots after the opening tip in a string capped by an airballed 3-pointer from Thomas, who missed his first five overall. The junior star was labeled "a bad-shot taker and a bad-shot maker" by Marshall on Friday, but he only lived up to the first part of that billing while going 4 for 13 in the first half.
Early hit two 3-pointers in the opening minutes, and the Shockers opened up a 25-15 lead with 6 1/2 minutes left on an 8-0 run featuring 3's from role players Tekele Cotton and Demetric Williams. Ohio State got plenty of its own open shots, but the Buckeyes struggled to knock down anything � a sharp contrast from earlier in the tournament.
With the packed, yellow-clad cheering section behind their bench roaring and rolling, the Shockers stretched their lead to 13 points 1:48 before halftime even though Ohio State finally got some defensive stops, bodying up to Carl Hall and Wichita State's low-post offense.
Hall went to the locker room after drawing a charge from Thomas early in the second half, holding the back of his head after Thomas' elbow clipped him on the jaw and sending his protective goggles flying. Hall found his glasses and got back in the game 66 seconds later.
Wichita State gradually stretched its lead early in the second half, eventually going up 44-27 on Armstead's cool 3-pointers with 14:51 to play. Early's layup put the Shockers up by 20 with 12:09 to play, but he went to the locker room moments later after landing awkwardly in the paint.
Ross desperately tried to rally the Buckeyes, scoring eight consecutive points and leading a 23-6 run midway through the second half. Ohio State went into a full-court inbounds defense as its sizable cheering section attempted to rally its team, and Thomas' free throws trimmed the lead to 11 points with 7:41 to play.
Thomas' putback basket with 4:07 left cut the lead to 60-52, the smallest margin since 7 minutes remained in the first half. That's when Wichita State forgot even how to inbound the ball, turning it over Cotton didn't step onto the court quick enough to receive a return pass.
Ross hit a 3-pointer, made a steal and added two free throws in a 30-second span to cut the Shockers' lead to 62-57 with 3:13 left.


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