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Frustrated by the difficulty of finding dates while living in London, Dutchman David Vermeulen started InnerCircle, a matchmaking website focused on highly educated singles. Yet rather than set up in Europe’s biggest city, he moved to Amsterdam, home to about 800,000 people and a much smaller pool of potential customers. The city, he says, offered an inexpensive place to try out the idea as well as a launchpad for international expansion if the site took off.
“Amsterdam is the ideal market for testing,” Vermeulen said at InnerCircle’s office, a shared startup workspace on the placid waters of the Herengracht canal. “The concept was initially set-up in such a way that we could easily roll-out internationally.” His site is now available in five cities and has 93,000 approved suitors, with another 95,000 on a waiting list.
Amsterdam has become a preferred destination for companies aiming to start small and grow into the broader European market. The international mindset — about half of Amsterdam’s residents are of a foreign origin — makes it a natural place to test-drive new businesses. Its central location and transport connections make it a good spot to expand from. And it doesn’t hurt that its liberal, bike-to-work atmosphere makes Amsterdam a pretty nice place to live.
The Digital City Index for 2015 ranked Amsterdam the region’s second-best city, behind London, for tech startups. On May 24, tech titans Tim Cook of Apple Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc.’s Travis Kalanick will speak at the opening of “Startup Fest,” a five-day conference intended to showcase Dutch innovation.
“The more we position Amsterdam as a gateway to Europe, the more companies come here,” said Kajsa Ollongren, Amsterdam’s deputy mayor in charge of economic affairs. Last year, a record 140 foreign companies opened shop in the city — which local authorities expect will add an additional 3,000 jobs within three years. Netflix, Uber and Tesla have all established their European headquarters in Amsterdam, citing the international talent pool and quality of life. Generous corporate tax rates paired with individual breaks for knowledge workers also help attract companies.
Homegrown newcomers are also building buzz. Payment processor Adyen in September raised an undisclosed sum that it says values the company at $2.2 billion. Takeaway.com is said to be mulling an initial public offering that could establish a valuation of more than $1.1 billion. And last July, high-frequency trading startup Flow Traders NV raised $671 million in an IPO on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
The city is “a very stimulating environment, whether for trading or any other industry,” said Dennis Dijkstra, co-chief executive officer of Flow Traders.
To help attract more newcomers, the local government in 2014 formed StartupAmsterdam, an agency aimed at helping entrepreneurs navigate bureaucracy and drum up support. Last September, the city hosted Capital Week — a conference designed to link entrepreneurs and investors. And the Dutch government has earmarked 100 million euros through 2019 to give an extra boost to startups it decides have the potential to grow and create jobs.
Amsterdam’s global outlook pulled in John Staunton, an Irishman who in 2013 co-founded Countr, an application that helps store owners manage cash registers. After considering London, Berlin and Copenhagen, he settled on an office in a startup hub funded by ABN Amro Group NV, where he works alongside people from more than a dozen countries.
“It’s easier to build a network here; It’s a bit of a village feel,” Staunton said, perched on a beat-up couch in the hub’s warehouse-like space in central Amsterdam. “It’s a great testing ground.”
This is illustrated by one of Amsterdam’s most successful internet startups: Booking.com. When it started in 1996, the company only worked with hotels in the Netherlands, but it soon noticed customers were searching for reservations in Spanish beach towns and other vacation spots abroad.
After sealing deals with hotels across Europe and then the globe, Booking.com grew rapidly and today offers rooms in more than 200 countries and territories.
In 2005, competitor Priceline.com bought the company for $133 million, and last year, the Netherlands accounted for two-thirds of Priceline’s $9 billion in revenue.
Startups intending to focus on a single market would “do better in France, Germany or the U.K.,” said Pepijn Rijvers, Booking.com’s chief marketing officer. “If your aim is a truly global business, then Amsterdam is a great starting point.”


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Check this out. Über cool IMHO.
While attending a neighborhood bonfire [ unusually cool night for August ], a neighbor suggested I look up a video by a new band called Greta Van Fleet. I'm impressed. Rock is not dead!
Thanks for posting the video to get me interested.
Here's a great thread deticated to that band. I bought the whole Black Smoke Rising EP, and it really kicks major ass. Some of the best new music being made IMO.
Makes me think of led zep, which is very cool for such a young band.
Good stuff, loved it. Lots of newer bands out these days carrying on the traditions.
I really like these guys. The similarities to early Zep is cool, but Greta Van Fleet also has their own thing going for their sound. It almost looks unnatural how the lead singer is calmly hitting that upper range of voice. I love the guitarist sound... it's so full and natural... cranked, without a sh!tload of gain...
Message to self: Need to research the names of the individual band members...
As a former hard rock lead vox, who covered some Zep in my day. That kid singing blows me away.
And what can be said about that guitarist? His chops say it all.
Wow..nice stuff....someone mentioned Zep, funny cause I was thinkin the singer has a bit of a Roger Daltry vibe
I'm hearing shades of Brian Connelly in his voice at times, too. Hope his voice makes it through puberty intact, though. The band can go places
I think it did make it through puberty in tact, he's 21
Yes indeed. I was kidding :)
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It started out as almost five pounds of raw pork belly and then was cured for a week, dried for two days, smoked for three hours, cooled overnight and now it’s getting sliced and packaged up for distribution. 😂
Once you make your own bacon, it’s tough to go to the store and buy it but you do have to be careful whenever you’re “curing” anything. Like REALLY careful.
There are plenty of recipes online and if you’re thinking about giving it a try, do some research and start experimenting.
I’m pretty sure a pack of this is going to turn into candied bacon soon.

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Full casting has been announced for The Father which transfers to the Tricycle Theatre next month following a run at the Ustinov Studio in Bath last year.
The show opens on 12th May (previews from 7th May) and runs until 13th June 2015. Kenneth Cranham, Rebecca Charles, Colin Tierney and Jade Williams reprise their original roles and are joined by new cast members Claire Skinner and Jim Sturgeon.
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Mr. Speaker, if the Liberal members would have shown the same level of enthusiasm trying to get to the bottom of the sponsorship scandal as they have with this motion today, we might have found out where those bank accounts were held.
According to the results and conclusions of the Gomery commission, we know that millions of dollars were stolen by the Liberals and funnelled back into Liberal accounts primarily in Quebec. Even though the Liberal Party admitted culpability and repaid a million dollars of the money that was stolen, there are still tens of millions of dollars that have been unaccounted for. Justice Gomery noted that there was $40 million that he could not account for, the reason being that the terms of reference set by the Liberals when they established the Gomery commission prevented Justice Gomery from going beyond this narrow perspective. Therefore, he was not able to pursue the trail of that missing $40 million, that stolen $40 million.
I would suggest for members opposite that if they truly want to deal with corruption and stolen money, money that was taken from taxpayers, they only have to look at themselves and try to explain to Canadians why that stolen money has still yet to be recovered.
However, I digress. We all know the credibility problem the Liberals have on that issue. I will not spend too much more time on that.
Besides the irony that I note in this motion, I also note with great interest why, outside of for the obvious political partisan reasons, the Liberals brought forward a motion such as this today. The reason is quite obvious to me. It is because they have nothing else to speak of. They have no policies on virtually anything that is of importance to Canadians. This was their opportunity had they wanted to speak to the Canada-Europe trade agreement. They could have offered critiques, suggestions and analysis. They chose not to. Why? Because they have no position. They have no position on the economy, on the environment and on health care.
The only position and policy brought forward by the Liberal Party to date under the leadership of their new leader, the member for Papineau, is that he would like to see a policy that legalizes marijuana. Whether that is an appropriate policy is up for debate and probably will be debated at some future time, perhaps even in this Parliament. However, I find it passing strange that would be the first policy that the new Liberal leader decided was worthy of comment.
If Canadians were to be well-served by the Liberal Party, or any member in the House, we should have a debate that deals with issues that are of importance to Canadians. The economy is the number one issue that all Canadians are still gripped with. There is a lot of worldwide uncertainty about the state of the economy. We are not out of the woods yet. However, rather than deal with an economic issue, the Liberals decided to bring forward a motion to the House on this day that they believe would do nothing more than advance their political partisan purposes. I will let them live with that, but I would have thought the new leader would expect more of his caucus than to leave this motion on the floor.
I know it is the proper practice of the House to deal with a motion before us, even though I think it is frivolous and a political stunt, so let me try and set some of the record straight.
What we have heard in this Parliament by many members of the opposition, not just the third party but also the official opposition, is a lot of unfounded allegations and a lot of spin. There have been many attempts to try and torque an issue beyond any sense of normalcy. Therefore, let us examine what we know. Let us deal with the facts as we know them, facts that have been confirmed.
First, we know there was an inappropriate payment by Nigel Wright of $90,000 to cover the inappropriate expenses claimed by Senator Mike Duffy. That is indisputable. That is agreed upon by everyone, including Mr. Wright.
Second, we know, confirmed by Mr. Wright and the Prime Minister, that Mr. Wright acted alone. It was his decision to provide a $90,000 payment to cover Mike Duffy's expenses. He did not inform the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has stated this in the House on many occasions. Nigel Wright has confirmed this.
Nigel Wright, frankly, has no reason to do anything but tell the truth on this issue. It is not in his best interest to say that the Prime Minister was unaware of this payment. He simply stated the facts and told the truth. The Prime Minister has confirmed that.
We know now that Mr. Duffy tried to get the Prime Minister to agree to repay his expenses. The Prime Minister refused. On February 13, he had a conversation with Senator Duffy and he told him that he must repay his own expenses. To the best of the Prime Minister's knowledge, that is exactly what happened. Senator Duffy went on national television and said that he had repaid it and that he had taken a mortgage on his house to repay the money. We know this is a lie.
The facts are simply this. Mr. Wright acted inappropriately. He made a decision on his own. The Prime Minister was simply unaware of it until May 15, when he heard media reports. As soon as the Prime Minister was aware of what had transpired, he went public to confirm it.
Is this a cover-up? Clearly not. How can he cover something up when he admits that a transgression had been made and that improper payments had been made? It simply does not make sense.
Let me deal with a couple of examples that underscore what I have been saying about how the opposition attempts to spin a story like this out of control and how it likes to torque up its rhetoric to try to make a situation that should never have occurred in the first place sound even more ominous and more sinister.
There is one example that the members of the opposition have been fond of raising in the last couple of weeks and that was, in fact, just raised by the previous speaker on the Liberal benches. Somehow, there is this great flip-flop on behalf of the Prime Minister as to whether Nigel Wright resigned or was fired. To me, that is largely irrelevant. What we know is that Mr. Wright met with the Prime Minister after the story of Mr. Wright's payment came to surface. They both agreed that what he did was wrong. They both agreed that he had to leave the Prime Minister's employ.
Was it a resignation? Was it a dismissal? It does not matter. The issue is what he did was wrong and he had to leave. They both agreed. For that reason, Mr. Wright is no longer employed by the PMO.
The members opposite seem to think, for some reason, that the differentiation they point out between a resignation and a dismissal is something that should concern all Canadians. Why? What is at issue is whether Nigel Wright should have paid the price for his actions, and he did. The Prime Minister was insistent upon that. Nigel Wright agreed with it. Whether he officially resigned, or whether he was asked to resign or whether he was dismissed is of no consequence, as I argue it.
The fact is that he admitted a wrongdoing. He informed the Prime Minister that he had kept the information secret from him, and the Prime Minister agreed with Nigel Wright that it was unacceptable. Both of them agreed that he could no longer work in the Prime Minister's Office.
Where is the controversy? Where is the furor that the opposition is trying to raise, based on dismissal versus resignation? That is why I say it is largely irrelevant. What is relevant is that what Nigel Wright did was wrong and he had to pay a price, as does Senator Duffy.
As the Prime Minister and many others in this place have noted on several occasions over the last few weeks, not only did Senator Duffy inappropriately claim expenses which he did not incur, he has still not repaid that money. The taxpayers have recovered the money, but that was because of Nigel Wright's actions. Senator Duffy still has not repaid the money.
Nigel Wright paid the price for his wrongdoing. Senator Duffy should do the same.
Let me give yet another example of how the opposition is trying to torque this story into something larger than it needs to be, how it is trying to take small examples of words, of actions, and make a point that somehow this proves the Prime Minister's involvement in all of this; because it actually makes no sense whatsoever.
The latest thing coming from members of the opposition, and I find this fairly amusing, is that they are defending Nigel Wright and saying the Prime Minister somehow threw him under the bus. On one hand, the opposition members have continually said the Prime Minister must come clean, be more forthright and candid in Parliament about what occurred, yet when the Prime Minister did exactly that by saying he was deceived by Nigel Wright, the opposition members are now saying the Prime Minister is changing his story and throwing Nigel Wright under the bus. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The facts are these, as corroborated by Mr. Wright himself. Mr. Wright did not tell the Prime Minister of his plans to secretly repay Mr. Duffy's expenses. That is a deception. Frankly, I think the world of Nigel Wright. He is a man of extraordinarily high character. Unfortunately, in this particular case, he exhibited extraordinarily poor judgment. He made a terrible mistake and it has cost him. He has admitted his mistake.
When the Prime Minister answers questions in this place by saying that he and the Canadian public were deceived by Mr. Wright, he is merely stating the facts. He is simply telling the truth. Once he had done that, the opposition members found yet another reason to criticize the Prime Minister, asking how he could, weeks ago, call Mr. Wright honourable and now throw him under the bus by saying he has deceived him. Well, he did. Nigel Wright did not tell the Prime Minister about his plans to give a personal cheque to repay the obligations of Senator Duffy. I am sorry. As much as I am a fan of Nigel Wright, I say that is deception. Nigel Wright admits he deceived the Prime Minister, and he admits he was wrong in doing so.
While I know the opposition members are seized with this issue and spend almost all of their time in question period trying to embarrass the Prime Minister and our government, the facts are very clear. Number one, a $90,000 cheque was given by Nigel Wright to cover the improper expenses claimed and received by Senator Duffy. Number two, the Prime Minister was not aware of this plan to use Nigel Wright's personal resources to repay the money. Number three, both Nigel Wright and the Prime Minister agreed that it was inappropriate that he continue to work in the Prime Minister's Office, that it was appropriate that he be sanctioned, and sanctioned he was.
The final issue that should be of importance, not only to members of the House but to all Canadians, is that the actions of certain senators in the other place should not be tolerated. Those actions have proven to be unacceptable, improper and potentially illegal. We will see what the results of the RCMP investigations into some of the senators' actions say about that.
Without question, not only should they be required to repay the inappropriate expenses they have taken from the Canadian taxpayer, but they should be sanctioned. That type of action, abusing the public taxpayers' funds, should not be tolerated by members of this place and certainly not by members in the other place. Our position, which we have been stating from the outset, is simply that because wrongdoing was uncovered by certain senators, they have to have consequences attached to their actions. There should be sanctions.
Those sanctions, in our view, are to remove those senators from the public payroll. Hopefully later today, we will find that the Senate itself, as an institution, agrees with our position and has taken remedial action to remove these senators from the public payroll.
I would only ask that members of the Liberal caucus in this place tell their members of the Senate caucus in the other place to join with us and our senators in demanding sanctions for wrongdoing, because that is what it comes down to; nothing more, nothing less.
When the public purse is abused, when taxpayers are abused, when wrongdoing has been uncovered, sanctions and repercussions must occur. We are asking for that. Canadian people are asking for that. We simply ask Liberals to join with us in administering those sanctions.


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One of the most consistent statements of outrage I’ve seen from people just coming to the horrors of the drone program is the military aged male criterion: the Administration’s assumption that all military age males killed in a drone strike must be combatants.
Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.
Justin Elliott even got the Administration to reiterate the claim, albeit anonymously.
I gave the White House a chance to respond, and it declined to comment on the record. But speaking on condition of anonymity, an administration official acknowledged that the administration does not always know the names or identities of everyone in a location marked for a drone strike.
“As a general matter, it [the Times report] is not wrong that if a group of fighting age males are in a home where we know they are constructing explosives or plotting an attack, it’s assumed that all of them are in on that effort,” the official said. “We’re talking about some of the most remote places in the world, and some of the most paranoid organizations on the planet. If you’re there with them, they know you, they trust you, there’s a reason [you’re] there.” [brackets original]
What no one seems to get, however, is that between them, the Bush and Obama Administrations have been using that standard to detain people for over a decade. Indeed, there are probably over 30 men (I suspect the number is closer to 50) still at Gitmo being held on that standard, most of them for over a decade.
More importantly, SCOTUS will decide whether to uphold that standard on Thursday (or whenever they get around to accepting or denying cert on the 7 Gitmo cases they’ve been agonizing over for weeks).
The case is question is Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman’s habeas petition. Here’s how his cert petition describes the issues presented by his case.
Whether the Authorization of Use of Military Force, Pub. L. No. 107-40, 115 Stat. 224 (2001) (‘‘AUMF”), authorizes the President to detain, indefinitely and possibly for the rest of his life, an individual who was not shown to have fought for al Qaeda, trained to fight for al Qaeda, or received or executed orders from al Qaeda, and was not claimed to have provided material support to al Qaeda.
The government has always yoked its detention authority closely to its targeted killing authority (see, for example, the reported justification for the Awlaki killing). And here you can replace “detain, indefinitely and possibly for the rest of his life” with “kill with a drone strike” and you’ve got precisely the authority that Obama (and Bush before him) claims to kill all men in the vicinity of suspected al Qaeda figures, even absent any claim they were al Qaeda fighters.
I wrote about the evidence against Uthman here (two of the men who gave evidence against him had been tortured), but here are the passages from Judge Henry Kennedy’s (yup, the same judge who presided over the Latif suit, with another Yemeni prisoner) opinion granting the habeas petition (before the DC Circuit overturned it).
In sum, the Court gives credence to evidence that Uthman (1) studied at a school at which other men were recruited to fight for Al Qaeda; (2) received money for his trip from an individual who supported jihad; (3) traveled to Afghanistan along a route also taken by Al Qaeda recruits; (4) was seen at two Al Qaeda guesthouses in Afghanistan; and (5) was with Al Qaeda members in the vicinity of Tora Bora after the battle had occurred there.
Even taken together, these facts do not convince the Court by a preponderance of the evidence that Uthman received and executed orders from Al Qaeda. Although this information is consistent with the proposition that Uthman was a part of Al Qaeda, it is not proof of the allegation. . . . Associations with Al Qaeda members, or institutions to which Al Qaeda members have connections, are not enough to demonstrate that, more likely than not, Uthman was part of Al Qaeda.
In other words, Uthman’s habeas appeal challenges whether being in any of five wrong place at the wrong time–including a school, a travel route, a guest house, and the vicinity of Tora Bora, as well as funded by jihadists–amount to being an al Qaeda militant. Subsequent to Uthman, detainees’ habeas petitions were rejected based on fewer of those criteria (for example, in addition to the error-ridden intelligence report against Latif, the main evidence against him is an even more tenuous travel route than used to jail Uthman). But the Circuit decision in Uthman basically enshrines the claim that being in the wrong place is all the evidence the government needs to detain someone indefinitely.
Since they’re rushing to roll out drones in US airspace, you better start worrying about whether your travel patterns mark you for killing or detention.


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Calhoun hit a two-run homer, Richards pitched effectively into the sixth inning and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Mariners 7-4 on Wednesday to snap Seattle’s eight-game winning streak.
Batting in the leadoff spot for only the fourth time this season, Calhoun had three hits and drove in three runs to help lift Richards (5-4) in his return.
Calhoun’s towering homer in the sixth gave the Angels a 6-2 lead. He also had a single in the fourth inning for his first RBI. Calhoun is batting .306 with four homers and eight RBIs since coming off the DL on June 18. He was hitting .145 before that break.
”Kole did his job today,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. ”That’s what we need from the guys at the top of the order. It gave us a lot of opportunities today.”
Richards, who went on the DL on June 15 with a left hamstring strain, allowed three runs, including back-to-back homers to Kyle Seager and Ryon Healy, over 5 1/3 innings. He struck out eight.
”I just overthrew a couple of heaters there,” Richards said of the home runs. ”But I felt good. The hamstring felt good. I knew I would be on a leash (80 pitches), so I just tried to execute pitches.”
Richards retired 10 of the next 11 hitters he faced after the home runs.
”Garrett just exhaled (after the homers) and made some really good pitches,” Scioscia said. ”He gave us a chance to win the game.”
Blake Parker pitched out of trouble in the ninth for his 10th save. Mike Zunino singled and Denard Span doubled to put runners at second and third, but Dee Gordon flied out to center and Zunino was thrown out at the plate on Jean Segura’s grounder to Albert Pujols at first. Mitch Haniger ended it with a groundout to third.
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, so Pujols had no choice but to throw home.
”Pujols getting that guy at the plate was a huge out,” Scioscia said. ”The pitcher didn’t cover there, so Albert made a great decision and threw a strike to the plate.”
The Mariners had their chances, including a bases-loaded, no-outs situation in the seventh inning when trailing 6-3. After Gordon and Span struck out, Segura hit a broken-bat flare that looked like it might drop behind second base and score two runs, but Angels second baseman David Fletcher made a leaping catch to end the inning.
”I got a pretty good read off the bat,” Fletcher said. ”I kind of felt I had a bead on it all the way. It was a nice feeling to save those runs from scoring.”
The Mariners struck out 15 times and left eight men on base.
Mike Leake (8-5) allowed four runs and nine hits before leaving with no one out in the fifth. He had allowed two runs or less in seven of his previous eight starts.
”They were battling me, fouling balls off today,” Leake said. ”Trying to get them to go down, but they found some holes and that’s about it.”
Luis Valbuena drove in two runs for the Angels and Shohei Ohtani and two hits and scored two runs.
Angels: OF Chris Young was placed on the 10-day DL a day after straining his hamstring. LHP Tyler Skaggs was also placed on the DL with a thigh strain. Skaggs said hopes to miss only one start. OF Jabari Blash and RHP Deck McGuire were recalled from Triple-A Salt Lake, with INF Kaleb Cowart also optioned to Triple-A. … LHP John Lamb will undergo Tommy John surgery on his left elbow early next week. He’ll become the fourth Angels pitcher to have the procedure this season.
Mariners: Manager Scott Servais said RHP Erasmo Ramirez could begin a rehab assignment soon. Ramirez has been on the DL since May 1 because of a right teres major muscle strain in his pitching shoulder. Ramirez said is willing to pitch in relief if that’s where he’s needed.
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, 3.40) will start Thursday’s series finale in place of Skaggs. Barria is making his 12th start of the season and has given up two earned runs or fewer in four of his last five starts. LHP Marco Gonzales (8-5, 3.77) will make his 18th start for Seattle. Gonzales pitched the first complete game of his career in his last start, a 4-1 victory over Kansas City when he allowed six hits and didn’t walk a batter.
Whether they were making neat grabs or nailing runners at the plate, the Chicago Cubs came through with one sparkling play after another.
It was just what Jon Lester needed.
The four-time All-Star won his fifth straight start, Javier Baez backed him with three hits and two runs, and the Cubs beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0 on Wednesday.
”That’s what we’re capable of doing,” manager Joe Maddon said. ”In the past when we’ve won at a high level, we’ve played outstanding defense. It never gets old. It never gets old to watch that kind of baseball.”
Lester (9-2) gave up five hits over seven innings, though he didn’t have his usual pinpoint command.
Baez had two doubles and a triple for a career-high three extra-base hits. He also stole a base and made some big plays at shortstop and second.
Kyle Schwarber hit his 14th homer. Kris Bryant added two hits and an RBI in his third straight game batting leadoff. And the Cubs handed Ross Stripling his first loss since April 30, taking two of three in a rematch of the past two NL Championship Series.
”We’ll be somewhere (in the playoffs) in October,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. ”I can’t speak to the opponent, but we’ll be somewhere.”
Lester walked three and struck out one batter. Anthony Bass worked the final two innings to finish the six-hitter.
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,” Lester said. ”I was kind of grinding through that one.”
But he didn’t need his best stuff with the defense coming through in a big way.
Baez made a strong throw from deep in the hole at shortstop in the second inning to rob Logan Forsythe of a hit and had fans chanting his name in the eighth after a neat double play as the second baseman. He caught Justin Turner’s line drive and lunged to the bag to double off a diving Enrique Hernandez.
Right fielder Jason Heyward threw out Chris Taylor trying to score on Turner’s fly in the third.
Center fielder Albert Almora raced in for a diving grab on Yasiel Puig’s liner in the seventh. And the Cubs caught several balls on the warning track while winning for the 17th time in 25 games.
”Al comes in, dives for one and I’m just like, `OK, I’m done clapping for you guys,” Lester said. ”It’s expected now that these guys can make these plays.”
Stripling (6-2) had won six straight starts. The right-hander went six innings, allowing three runs and eight hits while striking out seven without a walk. But the Dodgers dropped back-to-back games for the first time since they lost a season-high six in a row May 10-16.
Cubs starters have allowed one run or less in seven straight home games, matching Chicago’s longest streak since May 11-June 7, 1919, according to STATS.
Dodgers: SS Taylor exited with a tight left hamstring in the sixth. He said it started bothering him running the bases in the third, and he expects to be available Friday, when the Dodgers open a three-game series at the New York Mets. … INF Chase Utley (sprained left thumb) was ready to return from the disabled list. But the Dodgers decided to wait until Friday to activate him. ”Kind of where we’re at with the pitching,” Roberts said. ”He’s healthy and ready to go with us www.thecowboysfootballauthentic.com/conn...ern-jersey-authentic
, but having some option-able players on the roster makes a lot of sense for us. Playing a doubleheader, three games in 24 hours, we’ve got to kind of see how things play out and give ourselves some options.”
Cubs: The Cubs placed closer Brandon Morrow (lower back tightness) on the 10-day disabled list. … RHP Yu Darvish (right triceps tendinitis) threw a simulated game. Maddon said he looked ”outstanding,” and the Cubs will see how he feels Thursday before announcing the next step as he works his way back. … Maddon also said the Cubs are ”very close” to mapping out a plan for Carl Edwards Jr. (right shoulder inflammation) to return from the DL.
Dodgers: LHP Alex Wood (2-5, 4.22 ERA) tries to win his second straight start as the Dodgers open a three-game series against the Mets on Friday. RHP Zack Wheeler (2-5, 4.82) pitches for New York.
Cubs: The Cubs open a four-game series at Cincinnati on Thursday, with RHP Kyle Hendricks (5-6, 3.55) going against RHP Matt Harvey (1-5, 5.92)


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‘Hellfire’ Muslim teachers at ‘Trojan Horse’ school warned six-year-olds about ‘white prostitutes’
- Oldknow Academy in Birmingham allegedly used hate terms in assemblies
- Leaked report reveals concerns from teachers over extremism
- At one stage a teacher was said to have lead pupils in anti-Christian chants
- Head teacher Bhupinder Kondal has allegedly been pushed out by takeover
Pupils as young as six were taught to treat Western women as ‘white prostitutes’ by a school at the centre of the ‘Trojan Horse’ Islamist plot.
The shocking disclosure comes ahead of two bombshell reports into claims Muslim radicals conspired to infiltrate governing bodies of Birmingham schools.
A leaked copy of one report says teachers at Oldknow Academy told school inspectors they were alarmed by the use of terms such as ‘white prostitute’ and ‘hellfire’ in school assemblies, and that non-Muslim teachers were banned from being present.
A leaked report speaks of alarm at language and teaching in Oldknow Junior School, Birmingham
A report by the Education Funding Agency says: ‘We were told by teachers that non-Muslim teaching staff are no longer allowed to take Friday assemblies. In separate interviews, staff told us that in Friday assemblies, occasionally words have been used such as “white prostitute” and “hellfire” which they felt were inappropriate for young children.’
Well-placed sources have told The Mail on Sunday that the term ‘white prostitute’ was used to suggest to pupils that Muslim women were moral but non-Muslim women were not.
Oldknow Academy, which has around 600 pupils, is said to have been the subject of a gradual takeover by extremists, who allegedly pushed out head teacher, Bhupinder Kondal, because she opposed the ‘Islamisation’ of the school.
Officially, Mrs Kondal is on sick leave, and she refused to discuss the matter with The Mail on Sunday.
She was among four of the school’s six senior managers who have left in recent months.
It is also claimed that in one assembly, just before Christmas last year, a senior teacher led ‘an anti-Christian’ chant. He allegedly shouted at the pupils ‘Do we believe in Christmas?’, to which the pupils replied collectively ‘No we don’t.’
The senior teacher is said to have made other ‘anti-Christian comments’ at the same assembly.
Officials from education watchdog Ofsted, who have also studied the ‘Trojan Horse’ claims, investigated the ‘anti-Christmas’ chant incident, but found no evidence of it.
However, a source said that teachers and pupils at Oldknow have referred to Christians as ‘kaffirs’, a derogatory Arabic term meaning infidels.
The source said that as part of the Islamic takeover, urinals from the boy’s toilets were removed, in accordance with Muslim custom which frowns on those who stand up to urinate.
More than 95 per cent of Oldknow’s pupils are Muslim. It holds Islamic prayers every Friday, teaches Arabic and organises trips to Mecca.
Last week, Oldknow teacher, Samir Rauf defended the school, accusing Ofsted inspectors of ‘having an agenda’. He said he had seen no evidence of an extremist takeover, and denied Christmas had been banned.
In February, a senior Oldknow teacher is said to have posted a message on social media urging all Muslims to disown those who gave up their faith.
He said: ‘Do not love the one who does not love Allah. If they can leave Allah, they will leave you.’
Only a year ago, an Ofsted inspection of Oldknow found it ‘outstanding’ in all areas, including in promoting multi-racial harmony.

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Fall is here!
That means pumpkins, apples, hot chocolate, chili, cider, and cranberries are all coming into the culinary limelight. What else is deliciously enjoyable on a cool night (or morning)? Baileys!
Drinking baileys is comforting and indulgent. Want to kick it up a notch?
1) Make your own Baileys!
2) Make these Cookies & Irish Cream Cookies!
These babies are made of a chocolate Baileys cookies with white chocolate chips, semi sweet chocolate chips, and oreos mixed in. They are totally divine.
I actually used dark chocolate cocoa powder– even better.
Take these to a potluck, bring them into your office, share with friends & family, package for a cookie swap, or just enjoy whenever you want! Really, they’re that good.
First up, make the Homemade Baileys:
Makes about 1 quart.
1⅔ cups Jameson Irish whiskey
1 cup half & half or heavy cream
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
1-2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon instant coffee
1. Combine all ingredients in a blender and puree on high speed for 30 seconds.
2. Transfer mixture to an airtight container or glass bottle with a tight-fitting lid and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 months. Shake well before using.
Taste this. Drink this. It is SO good!
Now, for the cookies!
Cookies & Irish Cream Cookies
Makes about 4 dozen cookies.
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 2/3 cups flour
1/2 cup unsweetened dark chocolate cocoa powder, sifted
1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon instant coffee powder
1 cup homemade Irish cream (above)
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup crushed cookies ‘n’ cream cookies (I used Trader Joe’s Joe Joes)
1. In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, instant coffee, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, using a hand mixer (or a stand mixer), cream together the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
3. Alternate adding in the Irish cream and the flour mixture, mixing on a low speed. Slowly add in the chocolate chips and cookies and cream cookies. Switch to a wooden spoon to finish mixing it that’s easier. Cover the bowl with cling wrap, press n seal, foil, or anything else airtight. Refrigerate the dough for 4-6 hours or overnight.
4. When you’re ready to make the cookies, pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
5. Using a small to medium-sized cookie scoop, scoop the dough on the cookie sheets, leaving about 1-2 inches between each one (they WILL spread).
6. Bake in the oven for about 10 minutes. Make sure not to over-bake them (personally, I think a little under-baked is way better than a little over-baked).
7. Allow them to cool on the cookie sheet for a few minutes. Then, use a metal spatula to transfer the cookies onto a wire cooling rack.
Welcome to Fall!


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|Year : 2022 | Volume
| Issue : 2 | Page : 70-76
Perioperative adverse respiratory events in children with obstructive sleep apnoea
Swapna Thampi1, Shang Yee Chong2, Dilip Kumar Pawar3
1 Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital; Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital, Singapore
2 Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital; Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
3 Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore; Department of Anaesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
|Date of Submission||05-Apr-2022|
|Date of Acceptance||16-May-2022|
|Date of Web Publication||27-Jun-2022|
Dr. Swapna Thampi
Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Background: Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in children is associated with the development of perioperative adverse respiratory events. The aim of our study was to find out the incidence of perioperative adverse respiratory events, to identify the risk predictors and to determine the appropriate anaesthetic agents in children with OSA. Methods: After obtaining approval from the the Institutional Review Board, 189 children with OSA who had undergone adenotonsillectomy between 2004 and 2009 were selected from a retrospective review of case files. Variables recorded included demographic data, coexistent medical illnesses, anaesthetic techniques (including induction agents and muscle relaxants) and perioperative analgesia. The severity of OSA was determined based on polysomnographic criteria. Adverse events including difficult airway, desaturation due to bronchospasm or laryngospasm, postoperative desaturation and unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) admission occurring up to 24 h postoperatively were recorded. Results: The incidence of perioperative respiratory adverse events was 19.6%. Severe OSA (odds ratio [OR] 5.8; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.8–18.53; P = 0.003) and moderate OSA (OR 3.9; 95% CI 1.1–13.1; P = 0.029) were independent risk factors associated with complications. There was no correlation between the intraoperative anaesthetic techniques or use of perioperative opioid analgesics and the perioperative adverse respiratory events. Conclusions: Preoperative diagnosis of OSA using polysomnography has been shown to identify children who are at increased risk of perioperative adverse respiratory events in children. In our review, 19.6% of children with OSA were at risk. The use of a severity index may better identify children at higher risk.
Keywords: Obstructive sleep apnoea in children, perioperative adverse respiratory events, risk factors
|How to cite this article:|
Thampi S, Chong SY, Pawar DK. Perioperative adverse respiratory events in children with obstructive sleep apnoea. Airway 2022;5:70-6
|How to cite this URL:|
Thampi S, Chong SY, Pawar DK. Perioperative adverse respiratory events in children with obstructive sleep apnoea. Airway [serial online] 2022 [cited 2023 Mar 30];5:70-6. Available from: https://www.arwy.org/text.asp?2022/5/2/70/348366
| Background|| |
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a syndrome characterised by periodic partial or complete obstruction of the upper airways during sleep and can affect up to 3% of the paediatric population., These children are at a higher risk of developing perioperative adverse respiratory events (21% as compared to 1.3% in children without OSA)., Studies determining the risk factors for developing perioperative adverse events in OSA patients have been carried out in adults. There is a paucity of such literature on children. Most studies on OSA have focused mainly on patient characteristics and their comorbidities.
This retrospective review was planned to assess the incidence of perioperative adverse respiratory events, to identify the associated factors and to evaluate the potential association of anaesthetic agents and techniques with the complication rates in children with OSA.
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Institutional Review Board approval with waiver of informed consent (CIRB Ref: 2010/020/D) was obtained to undertake this review at KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore. Children below the age of 18 years with polysomnogram (PSG) confirmed diagnosis of OSA who underwent adenotonsillectomy between 2004 and 2009 were included in the review. Any child who underwent adenoidectomy or tonsillectomy alone or in combination with uvulopalatoplasty was excluded from the study. Our hospital criteria for diagnosing OSA using PSG are described in the supplemental material. OSA was graded as mild, moderate or severe [Appendix 1].
We reviewed the anaesthetic and perioperative records of these children. Their demographics (age, gender, weight, height and race), coexistent medical illnesses, previous airway manipulation, preoperative use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), type and duration of anaesthesia, and intraoperative anaesthetic techniques including induction agents, muscle relaxants, reversal agents and perioperative analgesics and the use of postoperative lateral position for recovery were recorded. Obesity was defined as a body mass index >95th percentile for age and gender.
We recorded all events of the difficult airway (difficult mask ventilation, difficult intubation or both), intraoperative bronchospasm or laryngospasm causing desaturation. All postoperative desaturation requiring supplemental oxygen and unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) admissions for 24 h after adenotonsillectomy were also recorded. Desaturation was defined as oxygen saturation reading <95% requiring oxygen supplementation. All children had their oxygen saturations monitored using pulse oximetry for the first 24 h postoperatively. Airway manoeuvres such as jaw thrust, airway adjuncts or lateral position were used as indicated to overcome the anticipated problems during difficult mask ventilation.
Data were analysed using SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
Continuous variables were analysed using the independent 't'-test and categorical variables using the Chi-square test. Logistic regression was used to determine the association between the risk factors and adverse events. Each of the associated risk factors for perioperative adverse respiratory events was then subjected to univariate analysis to determine a possible association between them and the occurrence of perioperative adverse respiratory events. The odds ratio and 95% confidence interval were computed from logistic regression. Variables that were found to be significantly associated with dependent outcome measures in univariate analysis were then entered into multiple logistic regression models to find out any independent risk factors. P <0.05 was taken to denote statistical significance.
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A total of 189 children identified as having OSA by preoperative polysomnography and who underwent adenotonsillectomy were included in the study. They were further classified as mild (n = 68), moderate (n = 52) and severe (n = 69) OSA based on their sleep study. Children were aged between 4.3 and 12.1 years with a preponderance of male patients (75.1%). Twenty-one of them belonged to the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status (ASA-PS) III or IV. The duration of adenotonsillectomy ranged from 30 min to 90 min. The ethnicity was 53% Chinese, 29% Malay, 10.6% Indians and 7.4% others. Twenty-six of these children had asthma, four children had noncyanotic heart disease and eight were dependent on CPAP. Of these children, 115 were obese. Eleven children had previous airway manipulation and seven had some form of craniofacial anomaly. Demographics and adverse events of the study sample are shown in [Table 1] and [Table 2].
|Table 2: Factors associated with perioperative adverse respiratory events (univariate analysis)|
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Out of the 189 patients with OSA, 37 patients had a perioperative adverse respiratory event (19.6%). Out of the 37 patients who developed adverse events, desaturation occurred in six patients intraoperatively and 28 patients in the postanaesthesia care unit or in the ward at various points of time overnight. None of the patients with adverse events had a preexisting upper respiratory tract infection. There were three cases of intraoperative bronchospasm including one in a patient with preexisting asthma (an obese 11 years old). There was a case of difficult mask ventilation but no case of difficult intubation. There were two children with intraoperative laryngospasm.
Variables included in the univariate risk analysis are presented in [Table 2]. Thirty-five per cent of children with severe OSA and 18% with moderate OSA had an adverse event compared to 9% in the mild OSA group. Univariate analysis of the risk factors showed that severe OSA (odds ratio OR, 7.5; 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.4–23.1), moderate OSA (OR, 4; 95% CI 1.1–13.6) and ASA III or IV (OR, 2.95; 95% CI 1.12–7.76) were significantly associated with adverse events (P < 0.05). Multivariate analysis of the factors found to be significant revealed that severe OSA and moderate OSA were independently associated with adverse events [Table 3].
|Table 3: Independent risk factors for perioperative adverse respiratory events (multivariate logistic regression analysis)|
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Results showed that 31.7% of children who received an inhalational induction experienced an adverse event. The frequency of adverse events was 19.7% in children who received an intravenous induction. Muscle relaxants were used to facilitate intubation and surgery in 151 cases [Table 2]. Administration of muscle relaxants was not associated with an increased risk of adverse events.
| Discussion|| |
This review of children with identified OSA undergoing adenotonsillectomy under our care was aimed at identifying preoperative, intraoperative and anaesthetic interventions which could be associated with the occurrence of adverse events. As clinical signs and reported symptoms have been shown to be ambiguous in the diagnosis of OSA, we chose to study only the outcome of children who had preoperative polysomnography and had been diagnosed as having OSA. Our study revealed that the incidence of perioperative adverse respiratory events in this group of patients to be 19.6%. This is similar to the results of another study in children with OSA. It is higher than the incidence of respiratory complications (1.3%) previously described in children without a preoperative diagnosis of OSA.
In our study, we did not identify any relationship between the occurrence of adverse events and age, gender, race, body mass index and coexistent medical illnesses. Several studies have previously reported that the incidence of adverse events is higher in a younger age group <2 years.,,, As none of the patients whose records we reviewed was <2 years of age, we were unable to validate a correlation between young age and adverse events.
The severity of OSA is an important predictor of increased risk of adverse events. We observed that irrespective of the anaesthetic technique or the drugs used, severe OSA is associated with more perioperative adverse respiratory events. Paediatric OSA promotes upper airway collapse during inspiration due to both anatomic and dynamic factors. The pressure gradient for this airway collapse between sleep and neuromuscular paralysis is reported to be half that measured in normal children, suggesting that children with OSA show altered neuromuscular control of upper airway patency. We hypothesise that with increasing severity of OSA, there is a higher chance of airway obstruction under anaesthesia. This highlights the importance of determining the severity of OSA in children preoperatively. The diagnostic criteria used for OSA and the determination of its severity vary amongst institutions. Our review suggests that PSG values can be used to predict adverse clinical outcomes in OSA children. Studies by Wilson et al. and Jaryszak et al. have looked at PSG variables in paediatric adenotonsillectomy and concluded that worse PSG scores were associated with more adverse events., Both Rosen et al. and Ye et al. observed that a worse preoperative PSG score predicted higher postoperative respiratory complications., We evaluated the severity of OSA in our subjects on the basis of PSG values. Outcomes from previous studies corroborate that the use of PSG scores for evaluating OSA is reasonable.
ASA-PS status of III or IV also emerged as a risk factor after univariate analysis in our study. This could have been because sicker the patient profile, higher the chances of adverse events. However, it ceased to be significant after performing multivariate analysis.
Previous studies of OSA in children have focused on the relationships between patient characteristics and adverse events. We chose to evaluate whether there was an association between anaesthetic interventions/anaesthetic agents and adverse events. Even though there was a higher incidence of adverse events among those who had an inhalational induction (31.7%) versus an intravenous induction (19.7%), we failed to demonstrate a significant association between the induction technique and perioperative respiratory adverse events. Administration of muscle relaxants was not associated with an increased risk of adverse events.
Waters et al. and Brown et al. demonstrated that children with severe OSA display heightened respiratory sensitivity to intraoperative fentanyl manifesting as apnoea and increased sensitivity to postoperative morphine. Studies also point to the higher incidence of desaturation with morphine compared with dexmedetomidine and more desaturations with pethidine and nalbuphine use in OSA children with a higher PSG score. We compared the perioperative use of long-acting opioids, short-acting opioids or use of nonopioids and did not find any significant difference in the incidence of perioperative adverse respiratory events. This is in agreement with the conclusions drawn by Sanders et al.
It is common practice in our institution to allow paediatric patients to recover in the lateral position as it is believed to relieve airway obstruction better than recovery in the supine position. Lateral positioning has been shown to increase the size of the airway by both magnetic resonance imaging and endoscopy. A lateral recovery position was used in the majority of children studied with only 40 children being allowed to recover in the supine position. We observed that either supine or lateral positioning of the child postoperatively had no correlation with the occurrence of adverse events in our study.
In summary, we evaluated the anaesthetic care and perioperative adverse events in 189 children with OSA who were diagnosed by polysomnography before undergoing adenotonsillectomy. Because this was a retrospective review, we found gaps in data collection impairing our ability to perform a more detailed evaluation of subjects in our study. The effect of premedication on adverse events could not be included due to nonavailability of sufficient data in anaesthetic charts. We could not compare the effects of using different inhalation agents as most of the patients received only sevoflurane. We could not capture data on deep versus awake extubation as the documentation was lacking in most of the anaesthetic charts. Further prospective studies with more detailed information of perioperative anaesthetic management (premedication drugs used, method of anaesthetic induction, position for extubation and deep versus awake extubation) would add a lot of information to our current knowledge of paediatric OSA.
We believe that polysomnography should be performed preoperatively in clinically diagnosed OSA as it helps to predict the occurrence of perioperative adverse respiratory events. This will help in counselling the patient and family, giving them realistic hospital expectations, planning anaesthetic management strategies and providing focused postoperative care.
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Preoperative diagnosis of OSA using polysomnography has been shown to identify children who are at increased risk of perioperative adverse respiratory events. Where OSA has been identified, we found the risk of adverse respiratory events to be 19.6%. The use of a severity index may better identify children who are in a higher-risk category than others. Coexisting medical illnesses, anaesthetic technique and perioperative opioids were not independent risk factors in our study for the occurrence of perioperative adverse events in children with OSA. We believe that information obtained from the preoperative conduct of polysomnography may possibly be used for risk stratification, parental counselling, planning of anaesthetic management and postoperative disposition in these children.
We acknowledge with thanks continuous help provided by Siti Nurdiyanah (Research Assistant, Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia) and Valli from Medical Records Section, KK Women's and Children's Hospital throughout the study.
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Conflicts of interest
There are no conflicts of interest.
Appendix 1: Polysomnography (PSG)
Sleep studies were performed and reported in our hospital in the Paediatric Sleep laboratory in accordance with the American Academy of Sleep Medicine guidelines. Children were admitted and observed in the sleep laboratory overnight. A minimum of 8 h was recorded.
The PSG montage included
- Electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring
- Electrooculogram (EOG) monitoring
- Electromyogram (EMG) monitoring
- Airflow parameters – thermocouple, pressure transducer and transcutaneous CO2 analyser
- Respiratory effort parameters – thoracic and abdominal inductance belts
- Oxygen saturation
- Body position
- Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring.
Respiratory variables, sleep architecture and arousal scoring were investigated. Children were graded as mild, moderate or severe OSA based on the OAHI. OAHI (Obstructive apnoea–hypopnea index) is the average number of apnoea and hypopnoeas per hour of sleep. The airflow through the nose was monitored and any apnoea (defined as ≥90% reduction in airflow associated with continued inspiratory effort throughout the entire period of absent airflow) or hypopnea (defined as a ≥30% reduction in airflow associated with either arousal or ≥3% desaturation) were recorded.
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No-Man (opens in new tab) have released an edited version of their track Love You To Bits (Bit 1).
The full song will feature on the duo of Steven Wilson (opens in new tab) and Tim Bowness (opens in new tab)’ upcoming album Love You To Bits, which will launch on November 22 through Caroline International.
No-Man have also released a non-album b-side in the shape of Love You To Shreds (Shreds 1-3), with the epic ambient track weighing in at 13 minutes.
Bowness says: “It was always difficult to know what to choose as a single from Love You To Bits as no one section of the album is representative.
“What we've gone for is an edit of the song that started it all and an extended ambient mix from recorded last month – that expands upon musical themes from Love You To Pieces.
“In some ways, it's the type of single I used to love in the 80s and 90s, where you'd have the most commercial and the most experimental sides of an artist existing side by side in one compact package.”
Both tracks can be streamed, while the album is now available to pre-order. Find further details below.
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What is Canadian about media? January 13 2014
Mass Media in Canada
o CRTC governs mass communication in Canada
Canadian Broadcast Policy History:
o 1920’s : Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting
o 1932 : Canadian Radio Broadcast Act sets up public broadcaster: Canadian Radio Broadcasting
• public broadcaster: funded by the state making their own decisions about content must follow
guidelines set by government
o 1952 : CBC goes into public TV broadcasting
o Broadcasting Act of 1958: crates Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG)
• BBG initiates CanCon regulations
o 1960’s : advent of private TV and cable
o Broadcasting Act of 1968 :
Creates CRTC to replace BBG
o Broadcasting should be owned and controlled by Canadians
o Content should benefit Canadians
o Updated over the years
o 1999: digital exemption
Operationalization o how do we know which productions are classified as officially “Canadian”?
• ex: MAPL: at least two of music, artist, producer, artist
o how much content should be Canadian?
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• Ex: until recently, 2/3 of entertainment newscasts like ET Canada
Cancon Music Regulations
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Broadcast and telecom direct ownership
20% max direct foreign ownership
33% indirect foreign ownership through holding co
80% of directors must be Canadian
No nonCanadian boss
Limit tax deductions to domestic companies
Only 75% Canadian CEO’s can take advantage of this
Defunct: 80% excise tax on foreign magazines
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Break up of domestic concentration?
Infuse foreign Venture Capital
Convergence makes it all a moot point? Audiences January 20, 2014
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• I have and audience on FB, Twitter, Insta
Audiences and Interaction
o Audiences are very different
• Ie. Symphony vs. rock concert
How to Study Audiences?
The mass medias purpose is to assemble audiences
Magazine audience would be assembled because of their common interest for hair and makeup etc.
“if you are not paying for what you are consuming, you yourself are the product”
are people defined by what they consume?
Are people defined by the audience they participate in?
Tracking Audiences :
AC Nielsen US TV
BBM – Canada TV
Nadbank – Canada Newspapers
Print Measurement Bureau – Canada Magazines
(Main bodies that track mass media in Canada) Audiences January 20, 2014
Why people join audiences:
Jenkins “Theory of YouTube”
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Amatures curate professional content
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This is interesting bit of news. Apparently two filmmakers in an award winning film used fake currency notes. But they looked so real that they have been booked:
Cheung Wai-chuen and Law Yun-lam were found guilty on May 31 of possession of counterfeit cash that was used in the film, which took home five awards – including best picture – at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In a twist worthy of a Hollywood plot, the authenticity that had garnered the film so much acclaim was now the pair’s undoing.
The Eastern Court heard that in 2016, the year the film came out, Law borrowed 9,996 fake HK$1,000 banknotes from Cheung for a prank. Police found the money in Law’s car and later discovered some 200,000 more banknotes at Cheung’s props company.
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Composers Devin Sarno and Angela Wilson return with their second collaborative recording entitled "Perth." Recorded in Los Angeles and mixed in Carmel Valley, CA, (July-August 2017) the reflective composition is comprised of processed piano, flute and electronic disturbances.
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"Homeland" is the first collaborative piece with Composer Devin Sarno, created thru a series of emailed file trades.
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Having the nature of music; melodious or harmonious
Of or having to do with euphony
(Rare) Pleasing in sound; melodious; musical
Pleasing to the ear; melodious.
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Jay Leno’s 1996 Dodge Viper GTS Still Knocks His Socks Off
Large amounts of horsepower are easily available in Dodge dealerships these days. But while the brand offers a high-powered sedan, coupe, and even an SUV, it doesn’t have an actual sports car. At least, not anymore—not since the Dodge Viper was canceled. And as Jay Leno recently demonstrated with his 1996 Dodge Viper GTS, the old snake still has a powerful bite.
The 1996 Dodge Viper GTS: more refined than the RT/10, but still very raw
The original Dodge Viper debuted in 1989, and went on sale in 1992 as the Viper RT/10, Motor Trend reports. It drew influence from the original Shelby Cobra, The Drive reports, and was similarly stripped-down. The Dodge Viper RT/10 has no roof, no A/C, not even door handles. It’s basically a cabin with a Lamborghini-designed 400-hp 8.0-liter V10, a 6-speed manual, and tires, MT and Car and Driver report.
The 2nd-gen 1996 Dodge Viper GTS is a bit more “civilized,” Petrolicious reports, though only in comparison. Although a roadster was still available, the GTS is the coupe model, Hagerty explains. And it comes with amenities like A/C, power windows and locks, adjustable pedals, and a driver airbag, The Drive reports. It’s also the first Dodge Viper available with an OBD system.
However, the 2nd-gen Dodge Viper didn’t just get more luxuries—it also got more performance. The GTS model has an upgraded 8.0-liter V10 with 450 hp and 490 lb-ft, Automobile reports, and upgraded suspension. The car is also stiffer and lighter. Because it only weighs about 3400 pounds, the Viper GTS goes 0-60 in 4 seconds, Car and Driver reports. And keep in mind, the Dodge Viper didn’t have standard ABS until 2001, Automobile reports.
But the Dodge Viper isn’t just about straight-line speed, hence its reputation as a ‘widow maker.’ It’s a genuine sports car, with the track victories to back it up. The 2nd-gen model was the basis for the Viper GTS-R, which won its class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1998, 1999, and 2000, Automobile reports.
Jay Leno’s Dodge Viper GTS is fun, fast, and surprisingly practical
Jay Leno owns a 1st-gen Dodge Viper RT/10 and enjoys driving it. But the 2nd-gen model, with its double-bubble roof and blue-and-white color scheme, “knocked [his] socks off” when it came out. And even 25-odd years after he bought his 1996 GTS, he still has fun with it.
The 1996 Dodge Viper GTS isn’t without its quirks, Autotrader reports. For one, there’s no in-cabin hood release; instead, you can just walk up and pull the two external releases. Speaking of the hood, it’s a one-piece clamshell that costs about $15,000 to replace. The windshield wipers don’t wipe simultaneously. And if your battery goes flat, the electronic door locks don’t work—though there are emergency mechanical releases inside.
However, the Dodge Viper GTS is also somewhat practical. Besides the door locks and roof, it has decent rear storage, even with the built-in spare tire. The A/C works well, and it’s comfortable enough for long-distance driving. Plus, the coupe’s level of fit-and-finish is noticeably better than in the original roadster.
But the Dodge Viper GTS’ real draw is its performance—and on that front, it absolutely delivers. The V10 has “endless torque,” Hagerty reports, the steering feel is incredible, and the manual shifts sharply. It handled even better than the contemporary Corvette Z06, Car and Driver reports. It isn’t a Hellcat, but the Viper was a bedroom poster car for more reasons than just its V10.
Now might be one of the best times to get one
The 2nd-gen Dodge Viper GTS is more valuable than the 1st-gen RT/10, Road & Track reports, but it’s not the most expensive variant. And while the coupe isn’t exactly cheap, prices are still fairly reasonable. But they’ve been going up over the last few years, Hagerty reports. So, if you’ve been eyeing one, now may be the time to get behind the wheel.
Ultra-low-mileage examples aside, Hagerty estimates a good- to excellent-condition GTS typically goes for $45,000-$55,000. That’s roughly the average price on Bring a Trailer. And while some Viper-specific parts, such as the tires, are tricky to source, as a whole it’s a fairly robust and reliable car, R&T reports.
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Citation: Zhang, J., Huang, W., Chua, S.S., Wei, P., Moore, D.D. 2002. Modulation of acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity by the xenobiotic receptor CAR. Science. 298(5592):422-424. Interpretive Summary: Overdoses of acetaminophen cause severe damage to the liver. This study showed that high levels of acetaminophen activate the nuclear receptor CAR, which increases the rate of conversion of acetaminophen to a toxic product. Blocking CAR activity protects against the harmful effects of acetaminophen. These results suggest an innovative therapeutic approach for treating the adverse effects of acetaminophen and potentially other hepatotoxic agents.
Technical Abstract: We have identified the xenobiotic receptor CAR (constitutive androstane receptor) as a key regulator of acetaminophen metabolism and hepatotoxicity. Known CAR activators as well as high doses of acetaminophen induced expression of three acetaminophen-metabolizing enzymes in wild-type but not in CAR-null mice, and the CAR-null mice were resistant to acetaminophen toxicity. Inhibition of CAR activity by administration of the inverse agonist ligand androstanol 1 hour after acetaminophen treatment blocked hepatotoxicity in wild type but not in CAR-null mice. These results suggest an innovative therapeutic approach for treating the adverse effects of acetaminophen and potentially other hepatotoxic agents.

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