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To determine the effects of dronabinol on quantitative electroencephalogram (EEG) markers of the sleep process, including power distribution and ultradian cycling in 15 patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
EEG (C4-A1) relative power (% total) in the delta, theta, alpha, and sigma bands was quantified by fast Fourier transformation (FFT) over 28-second intervals. An activation ratio (AR = [alpha + sigma] / [delta + theta]) also was computed for each interval. To assess ultradian rhythms, the best-fitting cosine wave was determined for AR and each frequency band in each polysomnogram (PSG).
Fifteen subjects were included in the analysis. Dronabinol was associated with significantly increased theta power (p = 0.002). During the first half of the night, dronabinol decreased sigma power (p = 0.03) and AR (p = 0.03), and increased theta power (p = 0.0006).
At increasing dronabinol doses, ultradian rhythms accounted for a greater fraction of EEG power variance in the delta band (p = 0.04) and AR (p = 0.03). Females had higher amplitude ultradian rhythms than males (theta: p = 0.01; sigma: p = 0.01). Decreasing AHI was associated with increasing ultradian rhythm amplitudes (sigma: p < 0.001; AR: p = 0.02). At the end of treatment, lower relative power in the theta band (p = 0.02) and lower AHI (p = 0.05) correlated with a greater decrease in sleepiness from baseline.
This exploratory study demonstrates that in individuals with OSA, dronabinol treatment may yield a shift in EEG power toward delta and theta frequencies and a strengthening of ultradian rhythms in the sleep EEG.
Farabi SS; Prasad B; Quinn L; Carley DW. Impact of dronabinol on quantitative electroencephalogram (qEEG) measures of sleep in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. J Clin Sleep Med 2014;10(1):49-56.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with increased sleep fragmentation, decreased sleep efficiency and reduced slow wave sleep.1,2 These changes in the sleep process undermine sleep quality and are hypothesized to be an important source of excessive daytime sleepiness, the dominant symptom of OSA. Still, despite decades of investigation, the mechanisms linking sleep, disordered breathing, daytime sleepiness, and cognitive dysfunction in OSA remain poorly defined. This knowledge gap has hindered efforts to develop effective OSA drug treatments. We previously demonstrated that oral dronabinol decreased apnea hypopnea index (AHI) in subjects with OSA.3 Interestingly, although overall sleep stage percentages did not change with treatment, daytime sleepiness decreased significantly. Here, we hypothesized that simple sleep stage distributions may be insensitive to important aspects of sleep architecture contributing to improved alertness with dronabinol treatment. In comparison to visually assigned sleep stages, quantitative changes in EEG power spectra may provide more sensitive markers of sleep depth, structure, and continuity. Further, cannabinoid drugs such as dronabinol have been shown to alter EEG power spectra both in animals and humans.4,5
Ultradian cycling between light and deep sleep and between NREM and REM sleep is another highly characteristic component of normal sleep that can be disrupted in subjects with OSA and is not directly assessed by sleep stage distributions, sleep bout durations, arousal indexes, sleep stage transition frequencies, and similar statistics. Such disruption may play a role in the excessive daytime sleepiness seen in people with OSA. Effects of cannabinoid drugs on ultradian rhythms during sleep have not been systematically studied.
Current Knowledge/Study Rationale: We previously showed that dronabinol decreased AHI in subjects with obstructive sleep apnea. Although sleep stage distribution was not grossly altered, dronabinol also decreased daytime sleepiness, suggesting that important aspects of the sleep process not well characterized by overnight sleep stage percentages may have been affected by dronabinol.
Study Impact: This exploratory analysis suggests that qEEG measures may be sensitive to restorative aspects of the sleep process improved by oral dronabinol in patients with OSA.
The aims of the present study were to quantify the effects of dronabinol on EEG power distributions and ultradian cycling of EEG power in subjects with OSA.
Details of the underlying proof of concept trial have been published previously,3 and are summarized here.
Seventeen adults (ages 21 to 64 years) with moderate to severe OSA (AHI ≥ 15) were enrolled. Individuals working night or rotating shifts, taking medications with known effects on sleep architecture, with clinically significant and uncontrolled or progressive medical comorbidity or any other primary sleep disorder were excluded. Individuals treated by positive airway pressure discontinued treatment ≥ 7 days prior to enrolling in the study. Two of the 17 subjects initially enrolled discontinued prior to completing the study and were not included in the analysis. Table 1 summarizes baseline characteristics for the 15 subjects included in the present analysis.
Summary of subject characteristics (mean ± SD)
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Following a baseline overnight polysomnogram (PSG), which also served as the final screening to document OSA severity, subjects were started on oral dronabinol, 2.5 mg/day 30 min before bedtime, for 1 week. If this dose was well-tolerated, the dose was increased to 5 mg/day during week 2, and again as tolerated to 10 mg/day during week 3. Repeat PSGs were performed at the end of each treatment week. As outlined in Table 2, a total of 8 subjects were fully escalated and received 10 mg/day dronabinol during the third treatment week. One PSG was technically inadequate at this dose and was not included in the analysis. Five subjects maintained 5 mg/day dronabinol during the final treatment week, and 2 subjects remained at a dose of 2.5 mg/day throughout. There were no statistically significant differences in baseline characteristics, reported in Table 1, between those subjects that escalated fully and those that did not tolerate escalation.
Summary of dose escalation protocol: values indicate the number of subjects (recordings) at each dose by treatment week, available for final analysis
Polysomnographic data were sampled (256/s) and stored to disk using Alice 5 hardware (Philips Respironics). Fast Fourier transformation (FFT) was applied to contiguous 4-s segments, and periodograms from 7 successive segments were averaged to obtain relative power (% total power) once every 28 s for the delta (≥ 0.5 to 3.5 Hz), theta (> 3.5 to 8 Hz), alpha (> 8 to 12 Hz), and sigma (> 12 to 16 Hz) frequency bands of the central (C4-A1) electroencephalogram (EEG). To determine the balance of high versus low frequency activity in the EEG power spectrum, an activation ratio (AR) was computed as the sum of alpha + sigma power divided by the sum of delta + theta power for each 28-s epoch. Determinations of band definitions and widths, electrode derivations and formation of AR were all fixed prior to data analysis based on common practice reported in the literature. The means and standard deviations of each band and the AR were computed over the entire night and separately for the first and second 4-h recording intervals. Within subjects ANOVA was conducted to determine the effects of treatment dose on relative power in each band as well as on the AR.
We also investigated the effect of dronabinol on the ultradian structure of EEG power. For this purpose, the best-fitting cosine wave was determined for each frequency band and the AR in each PSG recording. Because the period of any underlying biological ultradian rhythm could not be known in advance and may have differed between individuals and across dronabinol doses, for each PSG recording we successively fitted cosines with periods ranging from 60 to 150 min in 6-min increments by least-squares regression. In each case the cosine with the highest Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient was selected as the best overall fit. Regression analyses were performed to determine the effects of AHI, dose, weight, age, and gender on each parameter (amplitude, period, phase, and R2) of the best-fitting cosine wave for the AR and each EEG band.
In order to determine the sensitivity of this approach to meaningfully estimate the underlying period of the biological rhythm, we performed a sensitivity analysis. As shown in Figure 1, with respect to the "best fit" cosine wave, shifting the period by 6 min resulted in an average decrease of R2 ≥ 20%, suggesting that the regression procedure realistically identified a meaningful best fit, even when the correlation coefficient was low. In fact, paired t-tests demonstrated statistically significant differences (p < 0.0005) in R2 between the best fit cosine and cosines with periods ± 6 minutes (Figure 1).
Per represents the best fit (highest R2) period for each individual recording. On average, the Pearson correlation coefficient decreased by more than 20% when period was decreased (Per-1) or increased (Per+1) by just 6 minutes from the optimal fit. *p < 0.0005 with respect to best fit period.
Sensitivity of cosine fit to activation ratio (AR) observations for all subjects and all dronabinol doses (N = 60 for best fit period). Per represents the best fit (highest R2) period for each individual recording. On average, the Pearson correlation coefficient decreased by more than 20% when period was decreased (Per-1)...
As depicted in Figure 2, within subjects ANOVA revealed significant differences among doses for AR (p = 0.03) in the first 4 h of the night. Figure 3 demonstrates that this effect was driven primarily by dose dependent changes in theta (p = 0.0006) and sigma (p = 0.03) power. The dose-dependent effect remained significant for the full 8-h period for relative theta power (p = 0.002). Similar trends were seen for the full 8-h period for AR and relative sigma power, but these did not reach statistical significance (Table 3).
Dose dependent changes in AR ([alpha + sigma] / [delta + theta]) during the first 4 hours of PSG recording (p = 0.03 by within subjects ANOVA)
Dose dependent decrease in sigma band relative (% total) power (p = 0.03) and increase in theta band relative power (p = 0.0006)
Means and standard deviations by dose for relative power in each frequency band and for the activation ratio (first four hours of the night)
Figure 4 provides an illustration of ultradian fluctuations in AR for a single subject at dronabinol doses of 0 mg (baseline recording) and 10 mg per day. Characteristics for the parameters of ultradian rhythm for each frequency band and the AR are summarized in Table 4. Consistent with Figure 4, the group-wise data show that as the dronabinol dose increased, ultradian fluctuations accounted for an increasing fraction of the overall variance in the AR (p = 0.03). Table 5 shows correlation coefficients between best-fit ultradian cosine parameters (R2, phase, period, and amplitude) and potential explanatory variables including AHI, dose, weight, age, and gender. At increasing dronabinol doses, ultradian rhythms accounted for a higher fraction of total variance in the delta (p = 0.04), alpha (p = 0.06), and sigma (p = 0.07) bands and, as previously noted, the AR (p = 0.03). Females had higher amplitude ultradian rhythms than males in the theta (p = 0.01) and sigma (p = 0.01) bands. Decreasing AHI was associated with increasing amplitude of ultradian rhythms in the sigma frequency band (p < 0.001) and the AR (p = 0.02). In view of the exploratory nature of this analysis, p-values reported in Table 5 were not corrected for multiple comparisons.
Note that with dronabinol treatment, the ultradian oscillation accounts for a greater fraction of the total variance in AR.
Example recordings of AR from a single subject at baseline (left panel) and at a dronabinol dose of 10 mg/day (right panel). Note that with dronabinol treatment, the ultradian oscillation accounts for a greater fraction of the total variance in AR.
Means and standard deviations by dose for each parameter of the best-fit cosine wave for AR
Pearson product-moment correlation matrix among best-fit cosine parameters and potential explanatory variables
Table 6 reports the effects of dronabinol on sleep architecture, based on sleep stage analysis using 30-s epochs. There were no statistically significant changes in the expression of stages 1, 2, slow wave (SWS; stage 3 + stage 4), or REM as a percentage of total sleep time. Similarly, the mean bout durations for stage 1, SWS, and REM remained unchanged, suggesting that sleep fragmentation was not improved by dronabinol. In fact, the mean bout duration for stage 2 was decreased slightly by dronabinol.
Bout durations and sleep stage percentages by dose
This exploratory study demonstrates effects of dronabinol on quantitative EEG measures of the sleep process in patients with obstructive sleep apnea and suggests possible mechanisms by which dronabinol reduces daytime sleepiness in this population. Specifically, increasing doses of dronabinol were associated with a shift in EEG power toward delta and theta frequencies and strengthening of ultradian rhythms in the sleep EEG. This suggests that oral dronabinol may have improved restorative aspects of the sleep process, contributing to the observed decrease in daytime sleepiness, despite the absence of changes in overall sleep stage percentages or sleep efficiency.3
Previous investigations have reported a wide variety of cannabinoid effects on sleep architecture in humans. The most consistent finding is a decrease of REM sleep following cannabinoid administration.6–8 Some studies report increased stage 2 sleep with decreased stage 4 sleep,9,10 while others report an increase in stage 4 sleep.11 These inconsistent findings may reflect differences in agents, formulations, routes of administration, concentrations, durations of exposure, ages, populations studied, and other factors. As previously reported and shown in Table 6, we observed no significant changes in overall sleep stage distribution associated with dronabinol administration at doses up to 10 mg/day in our subjects with OSA.3 Table 6 also illustrates that the mean bout durations for SWS and REM sleep were not increased by dronabinol, suggesting that sleep fragmentation, as measured by sleep stage analysis, was not improved. The present analysis revealed, however, that oral dronabinol shifted EEG power toward lower frequencies, reducing the AR (Figures 2, 3; Table 3). Although cannabinoids have been shown to affect sleep EEG power distributions in both animals4,12,13 and healthy humans,5,14 the previously reported effects on theta and sigma band power are inconsistent, and the doses employed were typically higher than in the present study. This is the first report to define the possible impact of oral dronabinol on sleep EEG power distribution in individuals with OSA.
The observed effects were more apparent during the first half of the night after oral administration of dronabinol. A statistically significant decrease in relative sigma power with a concomitant increase in relative theta power was evident during the first 4.5 hours after oral dronabinol dosing. These effects remained statistically significant for relative theta power but were less evident and not statistically significant for relative sigma power when considering the full 8-hour PSG recording period. This temporal pattern could be expected based on the pharmacokinetics of the drug, as the first-compartment plasma elimination half-life of oral dronabinol is 2 to 3 hours,15,16 and with daily dosing, plasma concentrations return to or near to baseline levels within 4 to 5 hours of drug administration.15,17 Although the decrease in relative sigma power and increase in relative theta power were small, the change in activation ratio (AR) at the end of treatment was much larger and may have more biological significance, as AR is a more integrative measure of the EEG power distribution.
Figure 2 suggests the possibility of a minimum effective dose of dronabinol somewhere between 5 mg/day and 10 mg/day, for reducing AR. However, Figure 3 illustrates that even 2.5 mg/day of dronabinol exerts a significant effect on EEG power in the theta band. This suggests that the net effects of dronabinol on AR may reflect a more complex set of interactions, and not a simple threshold phenomenon. For example, Figure 3 also depicts that the dose effect of dronabinol on theta and sigma power is not monotonic. This may reflect the fact that dronabinol has multiple and potentially interacting sites of action in the central nervous system. Further, the effects of dose and time-on-treatment remain confounded due to the dose escalation study design. In addition, the fact that doses were escalated only in subjects who experienced no ongoing side effects may have introduced a selection bias, such that higher doses were made available only to those subjects who were "less sensitive" to the drug.
A similar redistribution of sleep EEG power toward lower frequencies has been reported to accompany institution of continuous positive airway pressure treatment for OSA.18 In contrast, hypnotic agents exhibit varying effects on sleep EEG. For example, zolpidem suppresses theta and slow-alpha activity (5-10 Hz) and enhances sigma activity19—effects opposite to those reported here for dronabinol. In contrast, gaboxadol enhances both delta and theta activity,19 similar to the dronabinol effects we observed. To examine whether the observed shift toward lower frequency EEG power may at least partially account for the decreased sleepiness reported by our subjects with OSA,3 we performed a correlation analysis between qEEG measures, AHI, and change in sleepiness from baseline to end of treatment, assessed using the 7-point Stanford Sleepiness Scale. Figure 5 illustrates that after 21 days of dronabinol treatment, relative theta power during sleep was positively associated with change in sleepiness from baseline to end of treatment (r = 0.61; p = 0.02). That is, dronabinol increased relative theta power, and those subjects with the highest theta power at the end of treatment showed the least improvement in sleepiness. Indeed, subjects in whom theta represented > 30% of the total EEG power tended to exhibit increased sleepiness at the end of treatment.
Relationship between relative theta power and change in Stanford Sleepiness Scale (ΔSSS: End of treatment − Baseline) (r = 0.61; p = 0.02)
Sedation is a well-recognized side of effect of cannabinoid use,20,21 and it is possible for this sedation to carry over to the following day. For example, Nicholson et al. reported that healthy subjects experience increased subjective sleepiness the day after evening oral cannabinoid administration.22 Thus, we anticipated that, acting independently, dronabinol might cause sedation/ sleepiness during the daytime with daily dosing. Conversely, we found that subjects reported decreased daytime sleepiness while taking oral dronabinol.3 Although not conclusive, these data are consistent with the possibility that the shift toward lower sleep EEG frequencies, and in particular the observed increase of relative theta power, reflects a direct CNS effect of dronabinol, and therefore a potential biomarker of its sedating properties.
As depicted in Figure 6, AHI at the end of treatment also was significantly related to change in sleepiness (r = 0.54, p < 0.05). In this case, dronabinol treatment consistently decreased AHI,3 and the lower the AHI at the end of treatment, the more sleepiness improved with treatment. As we have previously reported,23,24 the most probable site of dronabinol action for reducing sleep related breathing disorder is cannabinoid receptors in the peripheral nodose ganglia of the vagus nerves. Thus, the balance between potential alerting and sedating effects of dronabinol may reflect a balance between peripheral and central activity of the drug.
Relationship between AHI and ΔSSS (r = 0.54, p
To date, there is virtually no literature regarding the effects of cannabinoids on ultradian rhythms in the sleep EEG. These exploratory results are, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration that oral dronabinol improves ultradian cycling in subjects with OSA. Further, this effect was dose-dependent, with ultradian rhythms accounting for a greater fraction of total EEG power at higher dronabinol doses. From the present data, we cannot determine whether this reflects a direct effect of the drug, an indirect effect of reducing AHI,3 or a combination of both effects. It is possible that dronabinol, by decreasing the frequency of sleep state transitions, led to an improvement in ultradian cycling. However this does not appear to have been the case given that dronabinol did not decrease sleep fragmentation assessed by arousal index3 or sleep bout durations (Table 6). It is also possible that the reduction in apneas and hypopneas due to oral dronabinol allowed ultradian cycling to become more evident by reducing an apnea-related masking of ultradian rhythms.
Decreasing AHI was also associated with increasing amplitude of ultradian rhythms (Table 5). This suggests that apneas are not just adding noise to the ultradian rhythms but that apneas are also decreasing the amplitude of ultradian cycling. The potential mechanisms linking disordered breathing events to ultradian rhythm amplitude cannot be determined from the present results. Dronabinol may impact ultradian rhythms by acting directly on sleep homeostatic pathways or indirectly by reducing disordered breathing events. Oral dronabinol may improve breathing stability during sleep by acting peripherally at the nodose ganglia to disinhibit upper airway dilator muscles.3,23 Conversely, by decreasing the rapidity or number of state transitions, dronabinol could have improved the stability of sleep and decreased the occurrence of apneas. Again, this does not seem to be a primary mechanism given the lack of evidence for reduced sleep fragmentation at the dronabinol doses tested. At present, there no published reports documenting improved ultradian sleep structure following institution of any form of treatment for OSA, but this should be further investigated in future clinical trials.
Women exhibited higher amplitude ultradian rhythms in all EEG frequency bands, and this achieved statistical significance for the theta and sigma bands (Table 5). Gender effects on sleep EEG have been previously reported, but the observations are mixed. Fukuda et al. reported that middle-aged and elderly females had larger amounts of spectral power in the delta band than males.25 In contrast, Latta et al. reported that older women have lower delta amplitude than men.26 In another study, adolescent females had lower delta power than males.27 These inconsistent results may arise from varying methods of data collection, participant age, or other factors. This exploratory analysis is the first to report a possible gender difference in the amplitude of ultradian rhythms of the sleep EEG in individuals with sleep apnea. This gender difference did not appear to be influenced by dronabinol administration, as dronabinol dose did not influence the amplitude of ultradian rhythms (Table 5).
We also observed that slower ultradian oscillations (longer periods) were associated with increased sleepiness at the end of the 3-week treatment period: delta (r = 0.74, p = 0.003); theta (r = 0.53, p = 0.05); alpha (r = 0.57, p = 0.04); sigma (r = 0.19, p = 0.51); average period (r = 0.70, p = 0.006). The impact of cannabinoids on ultradian periods of the sleep EEG has not been previously studied, and we found no effect of dronabinol on the period in any frequency band. It seems likely, therefore, that the correlation between ultradian period and sleepiness may reflect some combination of underlying biological factors, rather than a drug effect. Indeed, van Hilten et al. reported that prolonged periods in the ultradian rhythm of sleep EEG in patients with myotonic dystrophy correlated with increased daytime sleepiness.28
It should be noted that the findings of this study and their generalizability are limited by the small sample size. Additionally, subjects followed a dose escalation paradigm in which only 8 of the subjects reached the full dose of 10 mg/day of dronabinol. Although we cannot rule out the possibility of an important time-on-treatment effect, we were able to identify significant dose effects despite the small sample size. Longer duration, larger clinical studies will be needed to fully delineate both the dose and the time-on-treatment effects of dronabinol in OSA.
In summary, this exploratory study demonstrates that in individuals with OSA, dronabinol treatment yields a shift in EEG power toward delta and theta frequencies and a strengthening of ultradian rhythms in the sleep EEG. In particular, ultradian rhythms became stronger with increasing doses of dronabinol and their amplitudes increased as AHI decreased. These effects suggest that oral dronabinol may have improved restorative aspects of the sleep process, contributing to the observed decrease in daytime sleepiness, despite the absence of changes in overall sleep stage percentages or sleep efficiency previously reported. Larger scale studies will be needed to confirm and elaborate these effects, and to dissect the potentially interacting influences of dose and time-on-treatment.
This study was supported by a grant from Pier Pharmaceuticals and involved investigational use of dronabinol in subjects with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Dr. Carley is an inventor on patents and patent applications disclosing the use of dronabinol as a treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. All rights to these patents and applications have been assigned to the University of Illinois. Dr. Carley previously served as a consultant to and member of the board of directors of Pier Pharmaceuticals, which has been acquired by Cortex Pharmaceuticals. The other authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
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Multiple Cards to Play at Milan-SanremoThu 14 Mar 2013
ORICA-GreenEDGE will stand on the start line in Milan for the first monument of the season with the two most recent Milan-Sanremo winners amongst its ranks. Matt Goss ('11) and Simon Gerrans ('12) offer their team two options for the Italian Classic on Sunday.
"The way I won last year is rare," said Gerrans. "Milan-Sanremo isn't often won by a breakaway that forms in the closing kilometres of the race. Obviously, it can happen – and if it does, we know that I can win in that type of situation. In that regard, we have a couple cards to play. Our main card, our ace, is that we've got Gossy in great shape."
The eight rider squad will be devoted to Goss' service during the longest race on the cycling calendar. In 2011, Goss won an eight-up sprint that came on the heels of an animated finale. He outsprinted the likes of Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Leopard-Trek), Philippe Gilbert (then Omega Pharma – Lotto, now BMC) and Alessandro Ballan (BMC) to give Australia its first win in Samremo in the 102nd running of the race.
"With Gossy's Tirreno win late last week, he's shown that he's in fantastic shape at the moment," said Gerrans. "If the race comes down to a bunch sprint, which is the most likely scenario, he'll be our man. The team will line up with the plan to support Gossy. I'll have a bit of free rein in the final. That was our approach last year, too."
The bulk of the Milan-Sanremo squad played a part in Goss' Tirreno-Adriatico stage win. Baden Cooke, Jens Keukeleire and Gerrans were the only three to race Paris-Nice. Daryl Impey, Jens Mouris, Matt Goss, Sebastian Langeveld, Stuart O'Grady and Svein Tuft chose Italy over France.
"If you're counting, you'll notice we listed nine riders," said Sport Director Neil Stephens. "We can only start eight. We traveled from Tirreno yesterday to team training camp, and we have both Jens and Svein here. Svein fell ill with two stages left to race at Tirreno-Adriatico He's a key rider for us at Milan-Sanremo, and we're hoping he'll make a full recovery. If not, Jens Mouris is ready to step up."
Although the team won't talk specific tactics until Saturday, Gerrans can project select roles for his teammates.
"We'll use certain riders early in the race and save come guys for the likely sprint," he said. "Daryl Impey, for example, has proven to be Gossy's most reliable last lead out man, so I imagine we'll save him for the final. When I speak about the guys that we'll use early, these are riders that probably will not finish the race. Their job is done before we reach the closing kilometres."
Typically, the race follows a predictable format. A frantic start gives way to an early breakaway. The move must contain a mix of big teams but not big names. When the right escape group gets up the road, the peloton settles in until the 185 kilometre mark. The pace typically heats up on the Turchino Pass. At the top of the long yet mild ascent, the peloton passes through a tunnel before descending to the coast, where it will stay nearly all the way to the finish.
The peloton leaves the coast only to tackle the climbs that pepper the route. The first major difficulty is Le Maine, which proved decisive in splitting the peloton during last year's race. Although not every hill will shed riders, each serves to soften the legs ahead of the grand finale.
The Cipressa and the Poggio di Sanremo decide the race. The final two climbs and their ensuing descents make for spectacular racing.
"This race is unique in that it's the longest race of the season, but it does not typically truly unfold until the final ten kilometres," noted Gerrans. "It's exciting for spectators because there's no real sense of who is going to win until basically the end. The suspense lasts for seven hours."
Note (added 15 March 2013): Sport Neil Stephens reports Svein Tuft is still battling illines. Jens Mouris will take his place.
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Sabres injury list grows with 3 more hurt
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Sabres goalie Nathan Lieuwen and defenseman Chad Ruhwedel will miss the final week of the season after being diagnosed with concussions.
Defensman Christian Ehrhoff's playing status is uncertain against Detroit on Tuesday. Ehrhoff was struck by a puck and required stitches to close a gash on his right ear.
Coach Ted Nolan provided the updates following practice Monday, a day after the three were hurt in a 5-2 loss at Philadelphia.
Lieuwen's injury means the Sabres will have to dress their seventh goalie this season.
On the bright side, Nolan says forwards Marcus Foligno, Chris Stewart and Torrey Mitchell have a chance to return to play against the Red Wings.
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MLK Scholar To Speak Tonightby Howard W. Hewitt • January 11, 2005 Share:
A civil rights activist of the 60s and noted Martin Luther King scholar will speak tonight at Wabash College.
Dr. Lewis Baldwin, a religion professor at Vanderbilt University, will deliver remarks at 8 p.m. in Salter Concert Hall.
Baldwin, a native of Camden, Alabama, grew up in Wilcox County where he participated in student demonstrations and other civil rights activities. At the height of the civil rights movement, he attended Talladega College and received a degree in history in 1971.
He has a master's degree in Black Church Studies and theology and received his Ph.D. degree in American Christianity in 1980 from Northwestern University.
Baldwin is an ordained Baptist minister who has preached and appeared throughout the country. He has taught at Wooster College, Colgate, American Baptist College before joining the Vanderbilt faculty.
He is a widely published author of books and articles on Dr. King and civil rights.
Baldwin's message at Wabash will focus on Rev. King's legacy for the 21 st Century.
The program is sponsored by the Wabash Religion and Speech Departments, the Multi-Cultural Concerns Committee, the Hadley Fund, and the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies.
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A wildly old-school looking opening page sets up some of the history that gets excavated in "Defenders" #5. Mystery and adventure waits on the other side of a mysterious vault door bearing a symbol that looks like the Concordance Engine which has been driving the series to this point.
That vault is discovered by Namor's people, led by Nost. Through that relationship, as well as simply by placing Namor in his realm, Matt Fraction is empowered to share Namor's history, attitude and leadership with readers. That's right. Essentially, this issue serves as a Namor spotlight issue.
As one of the oldest Marvel characters, Namor has a great deal of history, which Fraction manipulates into a great deal of story. Twenty pages in length, "The 99 Daughters of Pontus" is thick with character building, mystery and interaction. Fraction not only propels Namor into the spotlight in this issue, he also has Namor narrate the caption boxes, adding further explanation to that which Namor deems not to explain. You get every facet of Namor in this issue: the regal king, the arrogant jerk, the trustworthy teammate and the brash Imperius Rex. All of it makes me want to read more, just like this.
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Breitweiser's art and the undersea mystery combine to make a compelling tale that had me double-check the credits at one point to make sure that Jeff Parker wasn't writing and that I didn't wind up with an "Agents of Atlas" comic. This Defenders story is off the beaten path, but it does loop back around to tie with the series to this point. That said, it feels as though this series has set the foundation it needed to in order to begin truly building. Now, the Defenders are ready to start discovering who and what they really are.


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It looks as if that obesity epidemic that America finds itself in has spread to the feline population. Perhaps our FLOTUS can tackle that next, but until she does, we'll settle for this news anchor's giggling coverage.
Occasionally, journalists are expected to cover stories called "fluff pieces," such as this one about a cat attempting to lose weight through swimming. Luckily, we've got just that example! In this video — which introduces us to Holly, a 13-year-old overweight cat from Northern Virginia who "dislikes the outdoors and other physical activities" — we aren't positive if the anchor is laughing out of the sheer ridiculousness of the story or at the admittedly hilarious site of the poor cat swimming.
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Now that I have a hang of the game and have had an equal mix of good competitive games and bad ones, I've decided to give some insight on Reach's aresnal, as objectively as possible, and ending it with a subjective message to the whiners. :P
First and foremost, the assault rifle. The AR in this game seems very nerfed at first, but taking a step back, it's a decent weapon. The first thing anyone needs to know about combat in reach is how the shielding system works now. Melee damage
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Now that the Cubs have screwed up Matt Murton who's next? --Lee Barton, Idaho Falls, Idaho
I don't know how the Cubs have screwed up Matt Murton, unless you're referring to his lack of playing time. He wasn't producing when he was in there, and he dropped a couple of routine flies that no major leaguer drops once in a year, let alone twice.
Did the Cubs even try to get more for Michael Barrett than they got? I mean, good grief -- one of the top offensive catchers in baseball with a reasonable contract should have gotten a little more, don't you think? --Dallas Jenkins, Los Angeles
I think if they held onto him until the trading deadline they may have been able to get a little more, but one scout I spoke to yesterday said he was surprised they even got a back-up catcher for him. That's how much his defensive skills have eroded this season. Lou had obviously seen enough, and Hendry had to make a move as quickly as possible. We all know Barrett can hit, but since there is no DH in the National League, he has to learn to become better defensively.
Is the Barrett trade the only tinkering right now, or will Scott Eyre and Jacque Jones be on the way out as well? Isn't it time to simply take the financial hit and waive them if there are no trade partners? At this time, they are just taking up roster spots. --Randy, Nashville, Tenn.
Eyre has been pitching better lately, albeit in non-pressure situations, and it's too early to toss him aside and eat his contract. Jones is probably a goner, but I can't imagine they'll get much in return since he has another year on his contract. The Cubs are not going to eat it, nor should they.
If the Cubs fall more than 10 games out of first by the All-Star break, are any big name players in jeopardy of being traded? --Steve Smith, Chicago
Do you consider Zambrano a big name?
Isn't it sad that ex-Cub second baseman Todd Walker cannot find a major-league gig? I think he has a few good years left. His offense is especially strong. -- Paul Racette, Chicago
Walker took his new team, San Diego, to arbitration this winter, one of the single dumbest moves I've seen in a while. He's not exactly Ryne Sandberg. Amazingly, he won, and then they cut him. Oakland had him for a while and let him go as well. I don't think it's sad at all. I think he's probably laughing all the way to the bank.
Paul, with Ron Santo recently inking a deal to sing a certain number of seventh inning stretches during this season, when are we finally going to see you in there? I think you should be the designated 14th-inning man -- really pump the team up during extra inning games. --PDizzle, Chicago
As soon as Sammy comes back in a Cubs uniform.
Paul, after last Sunday's game in which Rich Hill gave up a plethora of home runs, Pinella said that he may be "tipping his pitches." They said this last year in the infamous Barrett-Pierzynski game against the White Sox. I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about baseball, but I have no idea what "tipping pitches" means. And, why have I heard it in reference only to Rich Hill? --James McRay, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
It means he's making a move that lends the hitter to believe he's throwing a certain pitch, or "tipping" the batter to it. Hill insists he doesn't do it, but if the Cubs play San Diego in the postseason, perhaps he should sit out that round.
Paul, you seem genuinely annoyed by answering these questions. I understand your editor makes you do it (I hold a job too, as most adult people do). However, I never let my customers/readers/business associates know if and when one of my tasks bothers me. Maybe you think it's fun and cheeky to complain--and most times it is--but you may want to reconsider how many times you do it per column. On a related note, I heckled the snot out of Soriano on June 2. After that, he got hot. I apologized to him late in the game and, very graciously, he tipped his hat. Maybe my heckling you brings you to your usual big-city-paper reporting and writing. --Jose Hernandez, Chicago
Congrats on heckling the snot out of Soriano. You must be so proud. I enjoy doing this, but I am constantly amazed at the inane questions, like yours.
Paul, WHEN, if EVER, will MLB decide to SUSPEND Edgar Renteria for his CHEAP SHOT?? You CAN'T tell me that they haven't seen the TAPE or the STILLS???? This is NOT justice. --Lenny Clinton, Chicago
When I'm doing the seventh inning stretch.
Paul, as we all know the Cubs are for sale and prospective owners are lining up. I was hoping you could shed some light on who is currently chasing the purchase. I also would love to hear your opinion on who would be the best potential replacement. Thanks and go Cubbies. --Michael Koltun, Highaland Park, Ill.
I believe it will be Andy McKenna, the former Sox shareholder, and Tribune exec, who is liked by both Selig and Reinsdorf. The last time I saw Andy was before Game 7 of the 2003 NLCS. He seemed very nervous, but I told him not to worry, that even if the Marlins got to Prior, they wouldn't get to Wood. I believe he'll probably hire me as the new GM, based on that one moment.
Paul, with the speed we have at the top of the order with Pie and Theriot, why don' the Cubs play more small ball. In a game against the Mariners saw the Cubs with speed on third and first with the pitcher batting. WHY NOT SQUEEZE and get in an extra run? --Ray Nails, Burlington, Vt.
Mike Fontenot is batting second today, so that's the true definition of small ball. Soriano is not a good bunter, so in spite of his speed, he's not a small ball guy.
When Marla Collins was ballgirl, was she shagging foul balls or did she take new balls to the umpire? This will settle an argument between me the Cubs fan and my neighbor a Giants fan. --Gil Topp, San Jose, Calif.
I'm not really sure about the kind of shagging Marla Collins did, but if anyone knows, please e-mail me.
Hi, Paul, when are we going to get rid of Cesar Izturis? This guy's only driven in six runs in 48 games and has the worst fielding percentage of anyone on the team. --Scott Jeanblanc, Waukegan, Ill.
As soon as they suspend Edgar Renteria for trying to decapitate Fontenot.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian security forces have killed 13 members of a gang suspected of abducting a Turkish man in a dawn raid on their hideout in oil-producing Rivers state, police said on Saturday.
A 20 million naira ransom was paid for the release of Bayram Karakus, who worked for the Rivigo Construction company, Rivers police spokesman Ben Ugwuegbulam told Reuters.
He gave no details of what happened to the Turkish man.
"A combined team of operatives ... stormed the militant camp of a notorious gang also responsible for kidnapping, armed robbery, killing of policemen and civilians in the recent past," Ugwuegbulam said.
"In the ensuing gun battle six of the hoodlums were fatally wounded ... seven of the wounded died on the way to hospital."
Ugwuegbulam said the police recovered 98,900 naira, the bags used to deliver the ransom, six AK 47 rifles and ammunition in the raid on Friday.
Kidnapping for ransom is common in the coastal Niger Delta region, which is home to Africa's largest oil industry. The majority of people abducted are Nigerians but foreign oil and construction workers are also targets.
Nigeria is one of the worst countries in the world for kidnapping, a major criminal enterprise worth millions of dollars a year. Abductions are most common in the oil-region and other southern states, including the commercial-hub Lagos.
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POTTSTOWN - The Pottstown Penguin Midget Gold ice hockey team hosted the Philadelphia Revolution White team at The Hill School last week. The Penguins routed the Revolution, 6-1, upping their record to 11-8-3 on the year.
Conner Ferreri recorded the win in goal for the Penguins. Eric Kuklentz led the Pottstown offense with two goals and one assist. Josh Davis, Scott Jacoby, Trevor Chesler and Sam Miller also scored goals for Pottstown, which had 37 shots on goal.
Pottstown is tied for fifth place in the THL.
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Sacred Heart The Sacred Heart varsity A girls CYO basketball team defeated St. Aloysius to win the region 18 championship and close out the season at 18-2.
CO-ED BASKETBALL The Spring-Ford seventh and eighth-grade boys and girls basketball teams held their seventh annual Charity 3-on-3 Classic, Friday, February 8th. Students donated $730 to benefit the Zachary Wallace Fund. This organization works to provide assistance to families with children who have suffered physical injury or disability due to illness or rare diseases. Spring-Ford's donation will go toward physical therapy equipment, like walkers, wheelchairs, ramps, medical equipment and adaptive toys to help these children thrive in their difficult situations.
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Individual Results: Level 4, Jr. B: Caitie Lewis placed fourth on bars; Jillian Richards placed sixth on beam. Jr. C: Taylor Getz placed first on vault; Alexa Vogelman placed fifth on vault and bars. Jr. D: Hailey Little placed third All-Around (AA), second on vault, third on floor, fourth on bars; Anna Barnes placed sixth AA, third on vault, sixth on floor; Bradleigh Barcus placed sixth on vault and beam. Sr. C: Emily Brown placed fourth on floor. Sr. D: Dana Moss placed fifth AA, second on bars, fifth on vault; Rylin Montieth placed fifth on bars, sixth on vault and beam.
Level 5, Jr. A: Carlie Lewis placed fifth on beam, sixth on floor. Jr. B: Madison Coburn placed fifth AA, fourth on vault and bars; Georgia Hand placed sixth AA, second on vault, sixth on bars; Erin Kurian placed sixth on floor. Jr. C: Alynn Rahn placed fourth AA, second on floor, fourth on vault, fifth on bars; Elizabeth Romano placed sixth on vault. Jr. D: Nicole Fisher placed fifth AA, fourth on vault, fifth on bars and floor; Kelly Buckley placed fifth on vault. Sr. B: Jennifer Oleski placed first on bars; Caitlin Gilinger placed second on bars. Sr. C: Kayla Staquet placed second AA, second on floor, fourth on vault, bars and beam; Hannah Kocur placed third AA, first on beam, third on floor, fifth on bars.
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Level 7, Jr. A: Gianna Vallone placed fourth AA, first on vault, second on bars, sixth on floor. Jr. B: Keeley Mitch placed fourth on floor, sixth on bars; Ava Bicer placed third on bars, sixth on beam. Sr. B: Alexandra Rybacki placed third on vault, fourth on floor.
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Level 9, Jr.: Rylee Fluharty placed second on floor, sixth on bars. Sr.: Abigail High placed first AA, first on vault and beam, second on bars and floor; Sabrina Tusavitz placed third AA, first on bars, fifth on beam and floor, sixth on vault; Stephanie Carr placed fifth AA, third on vault, bars, and floor; Shannon Garland placed second on beam, sixth on bars; Cataryna Diaz placed fourth on floor.
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since1970 wrote:I'd say Gretzky would be @ 50/60pts. 15 goals, 35/45 assists. You have to remember he is 52yrs old....
Still better than a good 3/4 of the league.
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since1970 wrote:I'd say Gretzky would be @ 50/60pts. 15 goals, 35/45 assists. You have to remember he is 52yrs old....
mikey287 wrote: Goaltending before the proliferation of the butterfly asked that goaltending rely on reflex and anticipation. Today, goalies rely on percentages. That's what they're told growing up, that's what they practice even down at the mite level..."block the first shot" has replaced "make the save".
The goals that Gretzky and Lemieux scored may look weak (and some of them are...the 80's wasn't a sparkling time for goaltenders: I'd say Fuhr, Smith and Liut were the three best of the 80's as a whole and none of them are top-20 of all time...especially Liut who is in the top-50 somewhere perhaps, though I wonder if he doesn't have a better career if he's not perforated by the Soviets in the 1981 Canada Cup, he never could shake that 8-1 loss off...anyway, back at the ranch...)
The over-expansion of the league and the focus on crafting new offensive defensemen and the like caused a massive push towards offensive tactics (sans a couple teams really, notably the Capitals and Flyers of all teams). Goaltending didn't really develop all that well because there was a transition period where different styles came about and no one could really decide what was working and what wasn't. Esposito and the butterfly, Dryden as octopus man, Parent drew some attention as more of a stand-up goalie and he was completely unbeatable in 74 and 75, etc. etc. Not to mention to the success of some goalies on the international scene: the hybrid Vladislav Tretiak left many in awe and some consider him the best goalie of the era all together and meanwhile the flopping antics of Jiri Holecek in Czechoslovakia helped paved the way for some major upsets (though, I personally don't credit them directly to Holecek, that's another story...) and for Dominik Hasek who took a lot from Holecek's style which focused on vertical angles quite a bit.
Goaltending evolved and the best took to these different styles and made a name for themselves: Patrick Roy and his butterfly, Martin Brodeur's hybrid style and Dominik Hasek's reflex-based style that had a lot more purpose than people realize, he was in control a lot more than people think.
The next wave of expansion and the growth in coaching tactics (use of video, assistants, etc.) had a short-term spike in scoring (any time a league gets worse, scoring goes up generally), but long-term it meant for defensive tactics. The 1995 Devils also helped in this, as their upset of the Red Wings really struck a chord with the NHL community as a whole. As a result, defensive tactics became the norm. At that time, the goal was to prevent shots as that was simply the nature of the beast. "Prevent shots, prevent goals" sounds simple enough, right? Thus a lot of mimicking of the 1-2-2 which will see today, just slightly modified for the fact the red line has been removed.
Prevent shots, in my estimation, was a better mantra because goaltenders - while on the high end were better than those today - on the low-end, they were worse, far worse. Which is a lot of what younger people see (and even myself saw when looking at highlights of 99 and 66 and the like) when looking back. People look at highlights of goals and comment on the bad goaltending. It's no wonder. Could there be a more obvious observation! A goalie gives up a goal on every shot in those highlights, of course they look bad!
Today, the fundamentals are better. The average goaltender today is better than the average goaltender in 1981. The proper fundamentals exist for almost all goalies today and therefore coaches can change the defensive mantra: "prevent shots, prevent goals". You can allow an infinite amount of shots today from 50 feet, and they aren't going to go in. Oddly enough, one of the goalies that had the worst fundamentals in the game (Tim Thomas) was even successful, proving that anyone could do it in Boston (see: Tuukka Rask being the all-time leader in NHL save pct. currently). It was really only Thomas that could give up a 40 footer along the ice from Vincent Lecavalier. It was really only Thomas that could give up that 35 footer from the left wing boards to Alexandre Burrows early in the SCF. That's why I always had such beef, everyone said "look at the numbers" and I'm saying "they could have been better!" His lack of focus on fundamentals put the Bruins in serious jeopardy in those playoffs. Nearly ousting them in the first round.
Counter, the next season. Another very good defensive team in Los Angeles runs roughshod over the competition. Jonathan Quick, of fundamentally sound quality, doesn't allow any games to get close. It's been a long time since we've seen such a steamroll job by a team through a playoffs, fair to say? It's not the Kings defense was better, hell, they don't have a HHOF playing 30 minutes a night, they don't have a Selke winner patrolling the center of the rink. But no games ever got put into jeopardy by Quick, that's why his performance blows Thomas' out of the water. It blows Niemi's out of the water, it blows Osgood's out of the water, it blows Giguere's out of the water. And it was certainly better than Fleury's and Ward's Cup wins. He left no doubt.
The butterfly has flaws and they are covered by equipment now...one of the least sportsmanlke things I've seen in sport is allowed to transpire every night in rinks across the world...
- They drop down so up high is exposed. Solution: chest protector to the ears.
- Their five hole is exposed because the Allaire's do not teach proper stick mechanics. Solution: just add to the pads to cover the five hole
- The space between their arms and their body is susceptible because there's no catching of the puck, just blocking. Solution: Bigger jerseys to help catch pucks, plus additions to the cuff of the glove and to the blocker to prevent these slip throughs.
They literally just want to form a blocking wall. Instead of working on these weaknesses, they just put on more pads. They just band-aid and band-aid and protect and protect...I hope one day they get serious about reducing goalie equipment. I don't wanna anyone to get hurt, they don't have to go out there in a t-shirt and a pair of Craig Ludwig's shin guards, but with all the technological advances we've made in equipment, I find it impossible to believe that goalies need to protect the area above their shoulders in order to not feel pain...these aren't chest protectors, they're net protectors. It's garbage.
And when I'm around youth teams, I can't even say anything because they have goalie coaches that are telling them this stuff. "Just make yourself big...don't worry so much about the rebound" So, because there's a rebound that's just dangling out there, I have to adjust my tactics to collapsing back to the net, and you get defensive hockey because everyone has to come back because the goalie can't do his job correctly.
Sometimes I just want to yell, "stand up! show that you know where the shot is going! stop taking the easy way out...make yourself better long term for the cost of some goals now...please..."
Goaltender used to be the most important position on the ice...remember that? It is by far the least important today...by far. And it's not even remotely close either. On behalf of the coach's union, save pct. should be a coaching stat, not a goalie stat.
Pucks_and_Pols wrote:Most insightful post ever.
We may not see eye to eye on Gretzky's greatness, but that is just awesome stuff.
I, for one, welcome our new hockey knowledge overlord.
Just for kicks and giggles, what would the butterfly effect on the league have been if the team lined up to draft Gretzky in the 1979 draft had been able to select him instead of the NHL updating its rules to allow him to stay with the Oilers (and put the Oilers at the very bottom of the draft in exchange) after the WHA merger?Spoiler::scared: The Colorado Rockies
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