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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Manitoba Tories move in front
Both of these shifts were outside of the telephone survey's margin of error. For the NDP, this is the first time they have registered below 40% support since March 2011.
The Liberals were unchanged at 11% and support for other parties (primarily the Greens) was up one point to 7%.
The Tories had the advantage among men (47% to 36%) but the NDP was up among women (43% to 39%). The PCs also had the edge among Manitobans between the ages of 18 and 34 and over 55, those with some post-secondary education or less, and those who make between $30,000 and $60,000. The New Democrats were up among people aged 35-54, those with a post-secondary degree, and those who make $30,000 or less. The two parties were generally even among Manitobans with an income of $60,000 or more.
Electorally, however, this means very little. Because of the geography of Manitoba's ridings and the stark difference in voting intentions between Winnipeg and the rest of the province, the Progressive Conservatives would still lose an election by a wide margin on these numbers.
This is primarily due to the New Democrats' resilient lead in Winnipeg, where they were up by 19 points. They had 50% support to 31% for the Tories. The Liberals were third with 13%. That gives the NDP the command of most of the city's 31 ridings.
The Tories have the advantage in the province's remaining 26 ridings, but 31>26. The Progressive Conservatives were up 15 points since Sept.-Oct. in the rest of Manitoba and led with 61%, with the NDP dropping 12 points to 23%. The Liberals were at only 9% support.
The NDP would win 23 of their seats in Winnipeg, while the PCs would win 15 of theirs outside of it. But this projection is based on province-wide numbers only (though that didn't hurt the Oct. 2011 final projection, which had an accuracy of 98.2%). With the yawning gap between the NDP and the PCs in Winnipeg and between the PCs and NDP outside of the capital, it is likely that the results would be even more lop-sided between the two regions. In the end, though, the New Democrats would still easily walk away with another majority government.
What might it take for the Progressive Conservatives to defeat the New Democrats without any disproportionate increase in support in Winnipeg? Assuming the Liberals and Greens remain unchanged and the swing between the Tories and NDP is uniform throughout the province, the PCs would need to have about 47% support to 35% for the NDP (a 12-point margin) to win an outright majority.
Clearly, if Brian Pallister wants to become the next premier of Manitoba he will have to woo Winnipeggers in particular. If his party is not able to make a breakthrough in the capital, and instead piles up larger majorities in rural Manitoba, the New Democrats could continue to govern the province even with a big deficit in the popular vote.
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I wonder how much of this is the customary "new leader bounce" -- notwithstanding the fact that Pallister was elected as a leader and MLA several months ago.ReplyDelete
Manitoba always seems to want to go to the PCs, but the MB NDP keep maintaining a geographical advantage.
- Anonymous02 January, 2013 13:22
Is it possible for the NDP to do a redistribution based on the 2011census to create more urban ridings?ReplyDelete
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It wouldn't change much of anything. Winnipeg is 55% of the population of Manitoba. It has 31 out of 57 seats, which is 54.3%. The representation balance is grossly right. I'm sure there is tweaking to be done in terms of evening out the various areas of Winnipeg, but if even a single seat was added, Winnipeg would wind up over-represented, with 55.35% of the seats. While this would be ever so slightly more representative than the current situation, it would be bitterly resented in the rest of the province, and probably cost the NDP a lot more in rural and small-city blow-back than would be gained by the potential to pick up one seat.Delete
I guess that's a microcosm of what's happening to our country on a national scale -- bitter rural vs. urban "us against them" resentment.Delete
Excuse my American ignorance, but is there a difference in the dynamics in Manitoba that stops the PC's and Liberals from merging like they did in Saskatchewan? Without seeing individual riding numbers from the model, it seems to me the regional breakdown would suggest that further gains could be possible for such a party.ReplyDeleteReplies
The PCs and Liberals did not really merge in Saskatchewan - both parties still exist and prior to the disastrous 2011 campaign (in which they ran only nine candidates) the Liberals had about as much support in Saskatchewan as they do in Manitoba.Delete
What drove PC and Liberal MLAs to create the Saskatchewan Party was the decimation of the PCs by scandal. There is nothing like that to encourage either the PCs or Liberals in Manitoba to want to tear their own parties down. And, I'm not sure that the Manitoba Liberals have more in common with the PCs than they do with the NDP anyway.
The liberals also underwent their own civil war in the late 90's including forcing out their own leader helped with the decision of the right side of the liberals to join the Saskparty.Delete
- Anonymous02 January, 2013 16:25
Winnipeg is doing pretty well under the provincial NDP government and other than a major scandal, they should be able to hold on to government in 2015.ReplyDelete
Just the City of Winnipeg consists of about 55% of Manitoba's population. This is not including the metropolitan areas. No other city in this country dominates their provinces population as much as Winnipeg.
I'm a New Democratic partisan, but it isn't a healthy state for a democracy when one party is in a position to routinely win the election with a majority of seats despite not winning the popular vote, and potentially falling rather far behind. This is one of the great absurdities of first-past-the-post.ReplyDeleteReplies
That is one way to look at the situation. On the flip side the need to achieve more than a minimal plurality can be viewed as a moderating force moving partisan politics toward the centre. Some may view this as a benefit.Delete
I agree. As other posters have related above, the seats are actually apportioned fairly close to the actual rural/urban population split of the province.Delete
The difference is that the PCs must be racking up huge majorities in rural ridings while the NDP are winning Winnipeg-area ridings with about (or even less than) 50% of the vote.
This is nothing new; for one example, vote efficiency delivered the NL Liberals to Official Opposition even though the NL NDP beat them by 5% of the popular vote.
It has the opposite effect here Tycho. You can be more extreme when you only need the support of 39% to your opponents 43% (or really, 61% who wouldn't vote NDP). If a government actually needed the support of a majority of its citizens, it would be forced to be more moderate. Look at any of the modern PR systems (anything with an open list or MMP), and they've pretty well all achieved that. Whatever your partisan stripes are, this sort of thing is just wrong and bad for everyone. It makes the NDP complacent and less vibrant than they could and should be, and it disenfranchises the other parties supporters entirely.Delete
It's a bit peculiar that the PCs would win the 18-35 crowd; that typically seems to be the crowd that supports the NDP (and Greens) the most.ReplyDelete
Also, I wonder how that big margin between the NDP and PCs in the RoM would effect overall seat count. Generally speaking, in the RoM the NDP support is pretty concentrated to the north, and in many of those ridings the NDP won by a considerable margin. It definitely does look like the NDP would still win a majority with these numbers.
- Anonymous04 January, 2013 00:53
Much like the Bloc Quebecois and the remnants of the Reform Party, the NDP has little interest in implementing the electoral reforms that it claims to favour upon realizing that it would no longer benefit the party and its patronage machine. I'm a member of the NDP, and this is something that has to change. From the perspective of sound public policy, ethics, and credibility, the NDP's behaviour here is utterly inexcusable. I am better than that, and it is dejecting to me that my party does not want to be. Every time I think about this issue, I feel as Joe Clark did in 2003.ReplyDeleteReplies
The biggest opportunity would be a minority government. Then a party with a lot of leverage will have a strong interest in seeing electoral reform achieved. Let's hope it happens soon.Delete
- F.R. Scott08 January, 2013 15:42
How are unstable governments or governing institutions "sound public policy" or for that matter political parties always on an election footing due to the (in)stability of Parliament? Surely in such scenarios the long and medium term are discounted heavily by the politicians?Delete
As for ethics some PR systems such as that used in Eire allow votes to be counted multiple times. If one votes for a candidate who quickly falls off the ballot your vote will be "redistributed" or counted a second time for your second choice; whereas if one votes originally for one of the two finalists your vote is counted only once.
Even if one accepts that your vote is "only counted once" (I personally do not) it still leaves one to question why someone's third preference vote should have as great a worth as my first preference vote?
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Well said, Loren.
Love the Carl/Ken quotes too!
The only things I would add to your assertion of rationality (which is NOT a belief, BTW!) would be these two simple but powerful statements:
I don't want to believe; I want to know.
-- Carl Sagan
Faith is no reason.
-- Ken Peters, winner of the CFI Blasphemy Contest
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Gunmakers going pink
WASHINGTON -- Much like Virginia Slim cigarettes, gun marketing to women has come a long way since the 1980s and 1990s, when Colt advertised handguns in the Ladies Home Journal and a poster featured reclining "Lady Derringer" wielding the Old West favorite in a low-cut dress and black stockings.
Now the Glock website identifies "Women" as a category under "Which Glock are You?" A woman's manicured hands open a fashionable clutch above photos of the site's "top choice" handguns, the G19 and the G26 "baby Glock."
"We believe in empowering women," the Austrian company says. "That's why we've packed full-size performance into even our smallest pistols."
Gun manufacturers and customizers market pink-colored semiautomatic rifles and handguns. One, an AR-15, depicts a rifle-holding "Hello Kitty" cartoon character emblazoned on its pink stock.
While men have long been the gun world's primary customers, women have been a secondary market at least since the 1880s, when Annie Oakley won fame as a sharpshooter in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
But the marketing techniques of the firearms industry are undergoing renewed scrutiny in the wake of the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in which shooter Adam Lanza used his mother's weaponry to kill her plus 20 children and six adults at the school.
Gun-rights groups and proponents say that increasing numbers of women are buying guns for target shooting, hunting and self-protection, and that gun-control proposals such as California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's updated assault weapons ban would infringe on their Second Amendment rights.
"I don't put a smoke alarm in my house because I'm paranoid; I put it in as an added feature to help protect my family," said Suzanna Hupp of Lampasas, Texas, who was an outspoken pro-gun voice in the Texas legislature after losing her parents in the 1991 mass shooting at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. "I see no difference between marketing smoke detectors and marketing firearms to me as the female head of household."
Michael Bazinet, spokesman for the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation, which represents the firearms industry, said: "Women who have made the serious decision to responsibly own a firearm would be highly insulted by the notion that they were somehow `marketed' into doing so."
They point to a 1995 survey by criminologists Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz that estimated between 2.2 million and 2.5 million "defensive gun uses" annually in the U.S., 46 percent of them involving women.
Recent polls show women overwhelmingly supporting proposed controls on guns, such as background checks expanded to include private transactions.
Anecdotes abound of women using guns to ward off male attackers. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Jan. 30, Gayle Trotter, senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum, told the story of Sarah McKinley, an 18-year-old Oklahoma mother who used a shotgun to kill an intruder and chase off another.
Gun-control advocates, however, paint an entirely different picture. In their view, the firearms industry has shamelessly exploited women's feelings of vulnerability. The overall sales pitch, they say, is a cynical attempt to spike gun purchases, even as crime rates have plummeted and assaults on women are increasingly rare.
The marketing effort may have fizzled, according to data compiled as part of the University of Chicago's General Social Survey. In 1982, nearly 16 percent of women owned guns, the survey showed. By 2010, it had gone down to just under 10 percent.
Gun sales, particularly of semiautomatics like the AR-15, have spiked since the presidential election and Newtown. It's not clear how much women buyers have contributed to that.
While rates for simple and aggravated assault ticked upward between 2010 and 2011, overall violent crime has fallen 72 percent since 1993, according to the Justice Department's most recent criminal victimization report.
In 2010, according to another Justice Department report, males were nearly twice as likely as females to be victims of violence by strangers -- 9.5 victimizations per 1,000 for males and 4.7 victimizations per 1,000 for females. Violence against women by strangers has fallen 76 percent between 1993 and 2010, the report found.
"Women purchase handguns on the belief they're going to increase safety," said Josh Sugarmann, a veteran gun-control advocate and executive director of the Washington-based Violence Policy Center. "But looking at the data, it doesn't increase safety and actually places the purchaser at greater risk."
Melanie Hain became a gun-rights heroine in 2008 when she successfully fought local authorities in Lebanon, Pa., who revoked her handgun permit after she bought a Glock to her daughter's soccer game. But she died the following year when her husband shot and killed her in a murder-suicide.
A study by Dr. Garen Wintemute of the University of California-Davis of 238,292 handgun purchases in California in 1991 -- about 12 percent of them by women -- found the purchasers suffered higher rates of suicide than the general population, adjusted for age and sex.
Of the women who bought guns in California in 1991 and died within 12 months, 31.2 percent committed suicide with a firearm, Wintemute concluded. For all women in California, .2 percent of deaths were gun suicides.
Additionally, Wintemute found a majority of all California female homicide victims between 1991 and 1996 were killed with guns.
Wintemute, an emergency room physician at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif., and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program, said gun marketing to women paralleled that of Phillip Morris selling Virginia Slims cigarettes with the jingle: "You've come a long way, baby."
"For the gun industry, it has nothing to do with the Second Amendment," Wintemute said. "It has everything to do with moving merchandise and maximizing profits. It's like any other product."


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New Law Recognizes Home Instruction
HSLDA Senior Counsel Dee Black assists members with questions and issues regarding Alabama homeschool law. He and his wife homeschooled their children. Read more >>
With the enactment of Senate Bill 38 on April 2, 2014, Alabama law now expressly recognizes home instruction by someone other than a state-certified private tutor as an option for complying with the compulsory attendance requirements.
The vast majority of parents teaching their children at home in Alabama do so through enrollment in a church school. But, until now, this method has not been included in the statutory language describing the options available to parents. The new law redefines a church school to include either on-site or home programs.
Until now, private schools have never been a viable option for home educators, because the law required that these schools be approved by the state superintendent of education. Approval was granted only if all of the teachers were state-certified and public school courses were taught. The new law defines a private school simply as "only such schools that are established, conducted, and supported by a nongovernmental entity or agency offering educational instruction in grades K-12, or any combination thereof, including preschool, through on-site or home programs." Since a person is a legal entity, this means that anyone may start and operate a private school meeting the requirements in the definition. Private schools are now an option for parents conducting home instruction, whether it's through the home program of an established private school or by creating a private school having the home as its main location.
The new law also contains nondiscrimination language for graduates of any nonpublic school, including those who were "home schooled." It states that no public two-year or four-year institution of higher learning may deny admission to an otherwise qualified student based on the fact that the student attended, graduated from, or is enrolled in a nonpublic school. No longer will graduates of church schools (and now private schools) be required to take the GED exam in order to be admitted to a state college.
Another major provision of the new law makes it clear that nonpublic schools are not subject to licensure or regulation by the state or any of its political subdivisions, including the state department of education.
The new law transforms Alabama from a state where the legal status of home educators was uncertain to one that offers one of the most favorable legal climates in the nation. It goes into effect on July 1 of this year. Senators Dick Brewbaker (Dist. 25) and Del Marsh (Dist. 12) sponsored this legislation.
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If you or someone you know is not a member of HSLDA, will you consider taking a moment today to join or recommend us? Your support enables us to defend individual families threatened by government officials and protect homeschooling freedom for all. Join now >>


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Chiefs running back Larry Johnson is awful sorry he called you all fags. He should have used a more acceptable term like "monkeybutts" or "dorkweasels" or even "boogermouths." Then maybe his bosses wouldn't have had to put him on suspension.
Johnson has been "barred from team activities" while they "investigate" his alleged use of anti-gay slurs against Twitter and other real media types. However, when you play in Kansas City ... is that really a punishment? Johnson, meanwhile, apologized to anyone who cared to listen "for the words I used." The yelling and the insults? That's all good, but he really should have chosen a different term of non-endearment.
"I regret my actions. The words were used by me in frustration, and they were not appropriate," he said. "I did not intend to offend anyone, but that is no excuse for what I said."
Well, that was to be expected. Now we just sit back and wait for the inevitable trade/deactivation/release. There's no point in him ever playing for the Chiefs again, but maybe his dad could use a new assistant. Like that guy in Rememeber The Titans!
Chiefs RB Johnson apologizes for gay slurs [Yahoo/AP]
P.S. But he was (maybe) nice to a little kid once, so forget all that other stuff you're heard. [Jocklife]


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SEAL Team Six
Considering the fact that in one 24-hour period I received over a hundred emails regarding the events of last Sunday, I realize that it would be completely irresponsible of me as the operator of this website to not spend today writing about the most balls-out commando special black ops raid of our generation - a daring assault that took down the world's most universally-despised madman since Adolph Hitler. And, since the details behind this utterly hardcore attack on the planet's most notorious terrorist might never fully be made available to the public, I figure it's about as good a week as any to talk more generaly about the elite group of American badasses that pretty much everyone is convinced carried this op out – SEAL Team Six, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the United States military, and a group of shit-kicking counter-terrorist hardasses who spend their nine-to-five day jobs training to be an ultra-efficient cross-breed between Jack Bauer, Colonel James Braddock, and Jason effing Bourne.
The now-legendary Team Six was formed in October 1980, in direct reaction to the clusterfuck of epic proportions that resulted when the Americans tried to rescue a group of civilians who had been taken hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Iran and failed so miserably that the Joint Chiefs decided, fuck it, we need to put together a team of guys whose only job is to kick terrorists in the scrotum until they cough up their marbles and then force-feed their own marbles back to them. Team Six was actually just the third SEAL team formed by the U.S. Navy, but the Admirals gave them number six because it's a much cooler number than three, and also because it might confuse the Soviets into thinking that we had way more of these guys than we actually did. Interestingly, the unit doesn't go by Team Six anymore, instead calling itself DevGroup or DEVGRU, which is short for "Development Group" or something equally boring and innocuous. The rationale behind changing the name to something that sounds like a financial consulting firm or a team of overworked video game designers was basically just so that nowadays high-ranking Admirals can honestly stand in front of TV cameras and say shit like, "There's no such thing as SEAL Team Six," without lying. While I can understand and appreciate the whole "plausible deniability" thing, I should also mention that I have absolutely no intention of referring to a company of terrorist-eviscerating asskickers as The Development Group for the purposes of this article.
Fast-roping from a helicopter onto a speedboat, to most people, is "extreme sports".To the SEALs, it's "a training exercise".
The general consensus is that we basically know about only a miniscule percentage of the badass operations Team Six has carried out in its career saving the world from terrorists, communists, vampire Nazis, and god-knows whatever the hell else out there is trying to kill us, but the shit we know about is pretty much totally fucking awesome. Commanded in the early days by Richard Marcinko (a man I intend to cover in much more detail in a later Badass of the Week article), Six's first operation was to parachute into a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico in the middle of the night, attack a terrorist camp, and recover a portable nuclear device from the clutches of a group of madmen. Now, if that's the sort of shit these guys were doing on their first mission, you can only imagine where it goes from there. Like, for instance, in 1985 thirteen SEALs from Team Six rescued Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon when he and nine members of his staff were taken hostage in his mansion in Grenada. Six briefly made tennis a badass sport, fast-roping down onto Scoon's tennis court from a helicopter while the Grenadan army shot machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons at them. The operatives, completely unfazed by staring death in the face while suspended in mid air from a rope, charged ahead and freed the Queen's Representative on Grenada by storming the mansion and clearing it of enemy troops with a dickload of bullets and concussion grenades. After securing the hostages, the SEALs, realizing they were cut off from extraction, then proceeded to hold the position against a full-on counter attack by basically the entire fucking Grenadan army. These 13 dudes held the position, staring down tanks, APCs and grenade launchers with little more than sniper rifles and small arms. Not only did Scoon get out safely, but all 13 SEAL team members survived, and none of the hostages were killed.
Their operational record only gets more impressive. In 1989, Team Six worked with Delta Force to capture notorious criminal drug lord Manuel Noriega from the jungles of Panama. In the days before Desert Storm they swam around in SCUBA gear disarming anti-ship mines in the Persian Gulf, and then when the war started they were fast-roping onto Kuwaiti oil platforms, wiping out the Iraqi defenders and re-taking the positions before the enemy could set fire to them. In the late 90s ST6 searched for war criminals in Bosnia. In 2009 they freed an American crew taken prisoner by Somali pirates in a manner so fucking badass that it belongs in an action movie: A team of SEAL Team Six snipers simultaneously coordinated three long-range shots from the rocking deck of one ship to another – the first two popped the heads off a pair of pirates patrolling the upper decks, and the third shot went through a porthole window and drilled a pirate who was holding the American ship's captain at gunpoint with an AK-47, killing the scurvy scalawag before he could pull the trigger.
(As a weird side note, SEAL Team Six has also worked as a security force for every Olympic Games since 1984. This seems like overkill, but hey, if you're going to station Colonel John Matrix as a mall security guard outside the fucking food court, you can be damn sure that's the safest Panda Express in the known universe.)
"Excuse me, sir, if you don't have your ticket for the 100-meter freestyleI'm going to have to ask you to leave."
Another thing we know for certain about the SEALs in general – and particularly Team Six – is that their training process is fucking brutal. To put this in perspective, 80% of the people privileged enough to be admitted to SEAL Training wash out before making it through. If four out of every five of the toughest badasses in the U.S. military can't hack it, you can only assume that the demands this training put on you basically border on the inhuman. A typical day might involve running a few dozen miles through wet sand, swimming an ungodly distance through the ocean during high tide, and then coming back to camp, sparring your classmates in underwater hand-to-hand combat training, and then, when you're beat to shit and so damned exhausted you can barely breathe, your instructors tie your legs together, tie your hands behind your back, and throw you in the deep end of the swimming pool as part of "underwater survival training".
If you're one of the 20% lucky enough to make it through SEAL School, you can look forward to an even more insane series of physical tortures designed to make you a Beast Mode killing machine capable of annihilating anything on two legs in the time it takes most people to chomp down a piece of the Colonel's Spicy Chicken. Summers are spent parachuting into the Arizona desert and living off the land for a week. Winters are in Kodiak Alaska, where you are deployed via submarine, swim a couple miles through freezing water, and then march a few hundred miles through sub-zero temperatures with nothing more than a compass and a combat knife to keep you warm. It's the sort of shit that would kill most normal people, but by the time it's all done you've got a hardcore team of motherfucking asskickers ready to deploy anywhere in the world within 4 hours for whatever ship-boarding, hostage-rescuing, amphibious-assaulting counter-terrorism operations even the most demented enemy of humanity could imagine.
The big difference between "SEAL training" and "Attempted Homicide"is that with an attempted homicide you don't expect the guy to survive and escape.
"We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train.Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you.More often -- much, much more often -- it will save your life."- Richard Marcinko
Considering the fact that I went completely overboard with a couple-thousand-word background describing why these guys are easily one of the history's most over-the-top badass military organizations, you can understand why when it came time to go in after the FBI's most wanted terrorist these were the guys who got called in to do the job.
Now, I'm not going to completely go off on a tirade about Osama Bin Laden. I think that there's something to be said for having a little respect for the recently deceased, even when the warm corpse in question is a man who made it his goal in life to utterly destroy you, your family, your dog, and everything you love. Honestly, his career started off respectably enough, serving as a Mujahedeen freedom fighter battling against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, but after the Communists were beaten back, Osama quickly gear-shifted from "hey let's throw the invading Soviets out of our homeland Red Dawn style" to "hey fuck it let's have a complete jihad against everyone all the time," and everything went downhill from there. Bin Laden joined up with radical terrorist groups (and I mean radical here as a synonym for "psycho extremist" and not "totally awesome"), where he went on to orchestrate a lot of totally not-badass things like truck bombings, suicide attacks, and assassinations of Egyptian parliamentarians, all with the aim of furthering his political agenda not through democratic means, but instead by killing innocent civilians until people decided to submit to his will. This rarely works. So, when his part in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center got him disowned by his family and stripped of his Saudi citizenship, Bin Laden went to Afghanistan, founded al-Qaeda, befriended the Taliban, and basically declared war on the U.S., Israel, and everything else in the world. In 1998 he was behind bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, in 2000 a suicide bomber under his command killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole (something the SEALs probably didn't take lightly), and in 2001 he was the mastermind behind the greatest single loss of life on American soil since the Civil War.
This aggression would not stand, man.
So, over the course of the last couple years, the CIA, Special Forces, Delta, and a guy named Admiral McRaven (perhaps the more badass, more accomplished cousin of Mayor McCheese?) tracked Bin Laden to Abbottabad, Pakistan – a quiet, middle-class neighborhood 75 miles from Islamabad and less than a mile from Pakistan's top military academy. He was holed up in an acre-wide compound surrounded by walls 12 feet high and over a foot thick. The compound's main structure was a two-story, fortified building with plenty of possible sniper perches and defensive positions. Obama thought about ordering a bombing raid, but that was deemed too messy, too imprecise, and too potentially dangerous to the nearby civilian population. This was going to have to be surgical. This was going to need the delicate, loving touch that only SEAL Team Six could provide.
So, around 1am on May 1st, 2011, a couple black helicopters (possibly of some crazy Stealth variety nobody's ever heard of before, only further illustrating the fact that these guys get the coolest Batman-style shit out there) swooped in from a base in Afghanistan, and SEAL operators fast-roped down, possibly alongside an insane commando dog. Nearby Twitter fiends heard a series of large explosions (possibly flashbang grenades), as the SEALs went over the twelve-foot wall and assaulted the lair of the world's foremost terrorist.
"I am a person who loves death. The Americans love life.I will engage them and fight. I will not surrender.If I am to die, I would like to be killed by the bullet."- Osama Bin Laden
It took forty minutes. SEAL Team Six, in and out, all Tangos dead, no SEAL casualties, and the only civilian killed was a woman who was being used as a human shield by one of the terrorists. Even technical problems didn't stop these guys from getting the hell out of there before the Pakistani security forces arrived – one of the SEAL helicopters went down in the attack, either from mechanical failure or some kind of aerodynamic weirdness, but these guy blew that shit up, loaded into the other chopper, and peeled ass out of there before anybody knew what the fuck was going on.
We probably won't ever know the truth about the men who performed this raid, the details of the mission, or any of the other insane black ops shit we're all dying to read about. Aside from the whole "national security" thing, SEAL team operators are completely self-effacing, largely because revealing their identities might make them high-priority targets for terrorist attacks, but also because, like true badasses, they like to say they're just carrying out their orders. It's a team effort, we all put work into it, we're just doing our jobs out there, blah blah blah. In the long run, however, this humility and mystery just serves to make these guys even more over-the-top hardcore. It's like how Snake Eyes was always the coolest of the G.I. Joes because you didn't know dick about him except that he could disembowel tanks with a ninja sword and dual-wield Uzis, or like how everyone thought Boba Fett was a hell of a lot more awesome before we saw him running around as a pre-teen in the prequel trilogy.
"The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message:No matter how long it takes, justice will be done."- Barack Obama
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TIME Magazine: Bin Laden Dead
Defense Briefing Transcript
NY Times: Finding Osama
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Marcinko, Richard. Rogue Warrior. Pocket, 1993.
Pushies, Fred J., et al. U.S. Counter-Terrorist Forces. Crestline, 2002.
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Change for Hunger: And the winners are...In 3rd place with a total collection of $113.20, is the upper high school, in 2nd place with $113.71, is the lower high school and in 1st place with $138.36, is the 4th/5th grade class! Congratulations to the winning class and a job well done by the entire school for participating in a beneficial service project benefiting the Elgin community.
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Let me make it simple.
I do not like mixing financial relationships with friendships.
I do not want to be friends with the person that is selling me a product. I do not want to be friends with my banker. At the same time, I don't want my friends to be selling me products or asking me for loans. Please, do not put me in a position where I feel obligated to lend money from you or buy something from you because of our friendship, because that question alone adds some poison to that relationship.
Let's look at it from another angle.
When I go to the bank, I'm not looking for a friend. I'm looking for a business relationship. I'm probably depositing some money or making a withdrawal. I might be taking out a loan. In any case, I'm only in the bank as a necessary step in getting to where I want to be. I don't want to have to pay them interest and I would love to be able to earn more interest on my savings. If I have an opportunity to jump ship to a better situation, I'll probably do that. It's not friendship, it's business.
When I go to buy something and a salesman approaches me, I know that the person is going to try to sell me a product. That person might be a source of some useful information, but I also know that they're earning money for the sole purpose of extracting cash from my pocket. Again, it's not friendship, it's business.
On the other hand, when I hang out with friends, I'm not looking for a business transaction. I'm looking to spend time with people I trust and value who I can talk to freely about my situation without worrying whether they're going to sell me something or they're going to want something from me. Here, it's not business, it's friendship.
Every time that line is crossed and I have a friend who wants to sell me a product or wants to borrow some money from me, the dynamic of our relationship changes.
There is an expectation that money will change hands in the future. A salesman expects that you'll buy a product from them and pay for it. A borrower knows that he or she will have to repay you in the future. A lender knows that you'll have to repay him in the future.
You can no longer easily talk about things you've purchased or other money moves around this person because they'll wonder, "Why didn't you buy from me?" or "Why didn't you pay me back?" or "Why didn't you lend me as much as I asked for?"
You (and/or the other person) will suddenly feel obligated to make a financial commitment to that other person, one that might not be easy for you to do in the state of your own life. That's not a situation that results in positive feelings.
Even worse: what if you can't come through on your end of the arrangement? Are you going to tell your friend, "Well, I'm not going to buy from you like I said I would" or "Guess what? I'm defaulting on that $100 you owed me"?
Because of all of these factors, I make it clear to my friends that I won't borrow money from them, won't lend money to them, won't sell to them, and won't buy stuff from them. Mixing a financial relationship and a friendship is simply something I do not want to do.
If you feel the same way I do, don't be afraid. Go out there right now to Facebook or Twitter (or whatever you use to talk to your immediate social circle) and simply add the title of this article as a status update.
I don't want to be your client. I don't want to be your lender. I want to be your friend.
If they want to know more, refer them to this article. Or, better yet, spell out the ideas above in your own words.
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Patients with unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis (UDP) have been reported to have varied respiratory symptoms and often reduced lung function. We sought to describe the polysomnographic respiratory characteristics in patients with UDP without obstructive sleep apnea.
We prospectively collected 5 cases with clinical investigation regarding symptoms, lung function, and nocturnal polysomnography. The respiratory sleep characteristics were analyzed with standardized scoring of respiratory events in 30-sec epochs and comparison according to sleep-wake stages and body position with respect to oximetry. The cases were compared to 5 controls matched for age, gender, and body mass index.
Three of 5 patients had significant awake lung restriction with a mean (range) forced vital capacity of 1.89 (1.48-2.24) liters, 72% (45% to 102%) predicted. All had REM sleep with few apneas and episodes of prolonged hypopneas characterized by important desaturation noted on oximetry. These desaturations were greatest during REM sleep when the patients slept supine with a mean (SD) saturation of 90.8% (4.5%) and minimum of 64% or on the side unaffected by UDP with a mean saturation of 87.8% (5.3%) and minimum of 67% (p < 0.0001 compared to same positions awake). Other sleep stages had few, if any significant desaturations and these events rarely occurred when the patient slept in the supine position. Saturation was lower in all sleep-wake stages and sleep positions compared to controls (p < 0.0001).
Patients with UDP demonstrate position-dependent hypopneas in REM sleep with frequent desaturations.
Baltzan MA; Scott AS; Wolkove N. Unilateral hemidiaphragm weakness is associated with positional hypoxemia in REM sleep. J Clin Sleep Med 2012;8(1):51-58.
The diaphragm is the chief muscle of inspiration and receives innervation from cervical nerves 3, 4, and 5. Diaphragmatic paralysis can be unilateral or more rarely bilateral. In the latter case, patients are usually symptomatic and often experience respiratory failure requiring some level of ventilatory support. Unilateral diaphragm paralysis (UDP) however, is thought to be tolerated much more readily, especially in the absence of underlying lung pathology.1–4 It has usually been thought that UDP is of little physiologic consequence.1 However patients may have shortness of breath especially when recumbent and a restrictive pattern is often seen on pulmonary function testing.2,5
Sleep related hypoxemia has been described in patients with generalized muscle weakness, and in those with bilateral diaphragm dysfunction.6–13 However, little is known about the sleep characteristics of individuals with UDP and no other concomitant respiratory or muscle pathology. In this paper, we report the polysomnographic findings in five patients with UDP who were free of significant intrinsic lung disease, generalized muscle weakness, and underlying obstructive sleep apnea. Our findings suggest that UDP may be a significant and unsuspected cause of sleep disordered breathing in these patients.
Current Knowledge/Study Rationale: Isolated unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis has been thought to be of little physiologic consequence and infrequently symptomatic for orthopnea. The polysomnographic characteristics have been reported for patients who also have other lung or muscle pathology.
Study Impact: Compared to matched controls, oximetry was lower in all sleep-wake stages and body positions. This was most pronounced in REM sleep, especially supine or sleeping on the side unaffected by diaphragmatic paralysis.
A sentinel case was originally seen 6 years prior to the writing of this manuscript and is described in detail below. As a result of the findings in the sentinel case we began a study to prospectively evaluate the sleep characteristics of patients with UDP who did not have concomitant intrinsic lung disease or obstructive sleep apnea. All patients were collected from the specialty practices of the authors at Mount Sinai Hospital. Data collection was prospective. All our patients were evaluated with a history and physical examination as well as with standard questionnaires for the assessment of shortness of breath14,15 and daytime sleepiness.16 Standard chest radiography demonstrated unilateral hemidiaphragmatic elevation, which was then studied with fluoroscopy.17 For the purposes of this study, we declared UDP present when in the seated upright position the involved diaphragm demonstrated reduced movement on tidal breathing, vital capacity, and unobstructed sniff maneuvers. Computed tomography of the chest was performed to exclude intrinsic lung disease and malignant causes of UDP. Lung function testing was performed including whole body plethysmography and maximal mouth pressures by standardized methods18–22 with comparison to predicted values. Five patients qualified of 11 who were evaluated in detail. The 6 who did not qualify had either significant chronic obstructive lung disease as defined by an FEV1 < 80% of predicted as well as a ratio with FVC < 0.70,23 or significant sleep apnea/hypopnea with ≥ 5 apneas and hypopneas per hour of EEG sleep.24 Five control patients matched by age, gender, and BMI were chosen by review of patents also undergoing polysomnography. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Mount Sinai Hospital Center.
Participants were monitored in a supervised sleep laboratory from 22:00 to 07:00. Monitoring included 3 leads EEG, EOG, bilateral anterior tibialis and chin EMG, ECG, pulse oximetry, nasal and oral airflow with nasal pressure cannulae (a thermistor for back-up if technical difficulties were detected during recording), and inductance plethysmography for measurement of respiratory effort.25 Body position was monitored with continuous video. All signals were acquired on a digital data management system (Sandman, Tyco and Covidien, Ottawa, Canada). A certified polysomnographic technologist (RPGST) with over 10 years of experience manually scored the studies blind to the results of symptom assessments. Sleep stages were first scored in 30-sec epochs according to standard criteria. Next, EEG arousals were scored according to standard current consensus criteria.26 An apnea event was scored when there was a cessation of breathing for ≥ 10 sec. A hypopnea was defined a priori as an event lasting ≥ 10 sec with a decrease > 50% from baseline in the amplitude compared to the mean of the largest 3 breaths over the previous 4 epochs, or a lesser reduction in airflow signal amplitude accompanied by ≥ 3% desaturation or an EEG arousal.27 Each 30-sec epoch from lights out to lights on was reviewed for mean oxygen saturation and the stages of wake and sleep.
All sleep/wake epochs were taken as the unit of analysis when contrasting the oximetry values between sleep stages and the sleep positions. Comparisons were performed with t-tests for continuous variables and χ2 tests for proportions. Analysis with log-transformed oximetry values revealed no significant differences from the values presented. Multiple linear regression was performed on untransformed data to estimate the significance of measured variables in predicting oximetry per monitored epoch. Significance was declared when a p-value of 0.05 was reached after correction for multiple comparisons. Post hoc power calculation for the minimum power (81 epochs of REM sleep on the unaffected side) estimates a β error of 0.89 to detect a 1% difference in mean oximetry. The effect size estimates to determine the mean saturation in REM sleep between patients with UDP and controls revealed a Cohen's d value of 1.7 (95% confidence intervals of 1.1 to 2.4). For determining the difference in mean saturation in supine sleep the value was 0.63 (0.0 to 1.26).
Demographic and historical characteristics of the case patients
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A 74-year-old female ex-smoker of 20 pack-years was referred because she felt she could not sleep on her left side. She had suffered 2 episodes of wheezing after respiratory infections in the past year without persistent cough. She received a provisional diagnosis of asthma but felt no symptomatic improvement with either salbutamol or formoterol and budesonide and stopped these medications because of side effects. She was also diagnosed with hypertension and was treated with hydrochlorothiazide. She had never undergone any surgery. On inquiry she reported stable grade 3 dyspnea while walking her routine 6 km for the past 5 years. She felt no excessive daytime sleepiness with a score of 8/24 on the Epworth sleepiness scale. She told 3 different pulmonary specialists on 3 separate occasions that she preferred to sleep on her right side. Her score on the St. George respiratory questionnaire21 were: symptoms 45%; activity 73%; impact 44%; total 53%. All prior chest x-rays demonstrated a right-sided elevated hemidiaphragm (Figure 1) without other abnormality on computed tomography of the chest. Fluoroscopy revealed markedly reduced but concordant movement of the right hemidiaphragm on tidal breathing and slow vital capacity maneuvers, and paradoxical movement on rapid sniff inspiration. Pulmonary function testing revealed a restrictive profile with normal mouth pressures (Patient 1 in Table 2). Nocturnal oximetry over 8.06 hours revealed desaturations in clusters to as low as 81%, with only 1.2% of the total time at a saturation < 90% and a mean saturation of 94%. Polysomnography demonstrated prolonged hypopneas in REM sleep without apneas or snoring (Figure 2). There was no evidence of polycythemia, with a hemoglobin of 157 g/L and a hematocrit of 0.46. The possibility of nocturnal oxygen was discussed but the patient declined the treatment. A second polysomnogram 12 months later showed similar hypopneas and desaturations. A third polysomnogram performed 18 months later again and then a fourth 6 years after the first continued to show a similar pattern.
Chest radiogram of case 1
Pulmonary function results of case patients
[i] FEV1, forced expiratory volume in the first second; FVC, forced vital capacity; TLC, total lung capacity; Pi max, maximal inspiratory mouth pressure; Pe max, maximal exspiratory mouth pressure; Dlco, diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide in the lung.
Polysomnography hypnogram of case 1
Note the prominent desaturations in REM sleep.
Four other patients also met the study criteria (Table 1). Three of the 5 had undergone prior surgery to the same side of chest or abdomen. All had MRC grade 3 dyspnea and rated their shortness of breath on maximal exertion on a 10-point Borg scale with a mean of 7.2 (range 4 to 10). Three also had at least mild orthopnea. The mean Epworth scale score was 7.0 (range 5 to 8). Only one demonstrated on fluoroscopy no visible movement with tidal breathing of the affected hemidiaphragm. The remaining patients all demonstrated markedly reduced movement of the affected hemidiaphragm with tidal breathing and slow vital capacity maneuvers. Seated sniff testing demonstrated paradoxical motion with upward movement of the affected hemidiaphragm in all participants. Lung function testing revealed a restrictive pattern in the majority with normal or near-normal mouth pressures (Table 2).
On nocturnal polysomnography, the mean total sleep time was 4.7 h (3.5-6.4) with a sleep efficiency of 69% (range 57% to 84%). The sleep stages were distributed with a mean stage 1 percent time of 11.9% (10% to 15.8%); stage 2, 42.7% (30.7% to 52.8%); slow wave sleep of 26.9% (12.8% to 43.7%); and REM sleep with a mean of 18.5% (11.7% to 22.6%). The mean apnea-hypopnea index was 2.9/h (range 0.44 to 4.6). Only 2 of the 5 case patients had any apneas during polysomnography with a mean of 1.6 (range 0-5) apneas per night (Table 3); 8 of the 141 desaturations were associated with apneas. Overall, a cumulative 18% of REM sleep time was spent with a saturation below 90%, with a mean time below 90% saturation of 7.8 (5.6) minutes. Desaturations were mostly seen due to prolonged hypopneas in REM sleep, which were coincident with phasic REM episodes without snoring or abdominal paradox (Figure 3). These occurred more often and more deeply when compared to awake or other sleep stages (Table 4). Depending upon the patient, the hypopneas lasted a mean 30.4 to 36.4 sec. Some of the desaturations classified as wake or stage 1 epochs followed REM sleep associated hypopneas. Sleeping on the unaffected side was also associated with more desaturations and lower mean oximetry (Table 5). When comparing cases to control patients, mean oximetry was lower in all sleep stages as well as all positions (p < 0.001 of all comparisons of Tables 4 and 5). Sleeping supine resulted in fewer desaturations than when on the unaffected side but more than when sleeping on the affected side. When the analysis was stratified by sleep-wake states and position, this positional pattern of hypopneas with desaturations was seen in both REM and NREM sleep, but more pronounced in REM sleep (Table 6). The positional effect was such that when sleeping on the unaffected side, two-thirds of REM sleep time was spent at a saturation < 90%. Multivariate analysis by epoch reveled that the most important factors contributing to low oxygen saturation were REM sleep followed by sleeping on the unaffected side and body mass index (Table 7). Tidal volume and oxygen saturation were maintained when sleeping with the affected side down in all sleep-wake states. No flattening of the inspiratory limb of the flow signal was detected during the hypopneas detected in REM sleep. Four of the 5 patients (including the sentinel case) had repeat polysomnography > 1 year later, with no change in the pattern of sleep disordered breathing.
Respiratory events by type and position for individual participants
Example of the polysomnographic record depicting prolonged REM sleep hypopnea.
The frame duration is 5 minutes, with the patient sleeping supine. The flow signal is a thermistor.
Oximetry compared by sleep stages
* p-value < 0.001 compared to all other sleep/wake stages. % time < 90%, percent of time less than 90% saturation.
Oximetry compared by sleep position
* p-value < 0.001 compared to sleeping on the affected side or supine.
** p-value < 0.001 compared to sleeping on the affected side. % time < 90%, percent of time < 90% saturation.
Oximetry profiles stratified by sleep stage and side
* The mean SpO2 or % time < 90% is compared in NREM vs. Wake or NREM vs. REM.
** p-value < 0.001 compared to sleeping on the affected side or supine.
*** p-value < 0.001 compared to sleeping on the affected side. % time < 90%, percent of time less than 90% saturation.
Multiple regression of factors to predict pulse oximetry per epoch
[i] Regression multiple r = 0.44, F-value 133.4. BMI, body mass index; NREM, non-REM sleep; REM, REM sleep.
In our study participants were selected by having unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis (UDP) without significant COPD or OSA on polysomnography. Most had restrictive physiology on spirometry and plethysmography. We demonstrated that frequent events characterized by sustained oxygen desaturation occurred in REM sleep. These events were rarely associated with apneas but rather were related to prolonged hypopneas clustered during REM sleep. This effect was more pronounced when the patients were sleeping supine, especially when sleeping on the side unaffected by the UDP. The polysomnographic profile of the disordered breathing is of prolonged hypopneas without the characteristic signs of upper airway obstruction.
UDP has been described for decades in case series dating back to 1921.28 Many of the cases of UDP have been described in reports in which patients with generalized muscle weakness or bilateral diaphragmatic paralysis have been included.6–13
UDP may present as an incidental finding on radiography in an asymptomatic patient. However some individuals may have shortness of breath on exertion or orthopnea.2 Various etiologies have been described, including surgical trauma, post-infectious paresis, and tumor infiltration. In some cases (labeled idiopathic), no cause is determined.1,2,5 Either side may be affected, but case series have suggested that right-sided UDP is more common.1 When the cause is benign, patients tend to remain with stable radiographic and symptomatic manifestations. Occasionally spontaneous regression may occur.1–4
Imaging for confirming the diagnosis of the UDP has traditionally been dynamic fluoroscopy with upright tidal breathing, vital capacity maneuvers, and rapid inspiration with a closed mouth in a "sniff" maneuver.5 Ultrasound to evaluate diaphragmatic excursion has also been found to be useful.29
Normal individuals when supine have a similar contribution of the chest wall to the tidal volume of quiet breathing when awake or in NREM sleep.30 The chest wall contribution in REM sleep is reduced to approximately half that seen in NREM sleep,30 with a marked reduction of the intercostal EMG and a compensatory increase in diaphragmatic activation to maintain tidal volume.30,31 Phasic episodes of rapid eye movements correlate with immediate breath-by-breath reductions in ribcage excursion and total ventilation in supine REM sleep.32
In patients with UDP, the explanation for the REM-associated hypopneas observed by us and others requires taking into account the sleep stage dependent and positional nature of these events. Reduction in vital capacity and oxygen saturation can be seen even in the awake supine position.1,10,13 When studied awake with detailed transdiaphragmatic pressure profiles, reduced maximal transdiaphragmatic pressures were found.13 Two reports have specifically described the sleep related breathing characteristics of patients with isolated UDP.10,13 When asleep, inspiration was assisted by contraction of the intercostals muscles with increased activation of accessory muscles. The latter persisted in both REM and NREM sleep.13 This persistent activation of the accessory muscles is likely to compensate for the physiologic reduction of intercostal activation and the poor compensation by the diaphragm in maintaining tidal volume. With the typically increased upper airway resistance and low intercostal muscle tone during REM sleep, this may produce increased coupling of the 2 hemidiaphragms where the healthy side contracts and the weak side moves paradoxically with dissipation of respiratory effort and ineffective ventilation. This may explain the hypopneas with little evidence of typical obstruction and desaturations observed in patients with UDP during supine REM sleep. This may also explain why lying on the paralysed side stabilizes ventilation. We did not observe flattening of the inspiratory limb of the flow signal during the hypopneas in REM sleep, which suggests to us that the hypopneas were the result of dissipation of respiratory effort rather than obstructive upper airway resistance.
We found that our patients with UDP the lateral decubitus position with the unaffected side down was most vulnerable to hypopnea and desaturations. This may potentially be explained by the fact that the unaffected hemidiaphragm must generate the majority of the inspiratory diaphragmatic force for tidal breathing. When the healthy hemidiaphragm is dependent, it is most compressed by the abdominal contents and has a higher pressure to counter while generating the force required for inspiration. The chest wall is also immobilized and compressed by the pressure of the body against the bed. Any lack of coordination of the muscle fibers as a result of REM sleep state may compound this state of mechanical disadvantage. We believe that this combination of distorted forces leads to the sleep state and positional influences on the breathing of patients with UDP.
We here describe REM sleep disordered breathing in this series of patients who all are strictly characterized as having neither obstructive sleep apnea nor obstructive lung disease. We extend these previous findings with detailed analysis of the positional nature of these hypopneas. Our findings are different from those reported by Steir et al.13 in that the sleep position most likely to incur desaturations was with the unaffected hemidiaphragm down, followed by to a lesser extent the supine position. The previous polysomnographic series described that the patients preferred to sleep with the unaffected hemidiaphragm down, a preference not shared by our sentinel case. The discrepancy between these studies regarding the influence of sleep position is unclear and may warrant further study.
The repeated polysomnographic monitoring demonstrating similar findings up to 6 years suggests that the sleep disordered breathing seen in UDP may persist as a stable abnormality over a prolonged period. This is consistent with clinical observations published elsewhere when the patients were found to have idiopathic cause without intrinsic parenchymal lung disease.1–,10
This study had several limitations. We excluded patients with concomitant sleep apnea and significant obstructive lung disease, so the findings here cannot be generalized to patients with combined pathologies which were often present in previous studies. However, one may speculate that any intrinsic lung disease might actually accentuate the effect of UDP in sleep. Our 5 patients may not necessarily be representative of all patients with UDP. Invasive transdiaphragmatic monitoring was not performed to ascertain maximal inspiratory pressures or electromyography. This has been studied elsewhere.13 Yet all patients had significant amounts of all sleep stage categories and slept spontaneously in several positions, providing detailed data to study the various combinations of sleep states and positions.
In conclusion, this study describes the type of sleep disordered breathing found in patients with UDP without obstructive sleep apnea or obstructive lung disease. The hypopneas are often in concert with phasic bursts of rapid eye movements, and cause important desaturations especially in REM sleep. These desaturations were most frequent and more severe when sleeping with the unaffected hemidiaphragm down.
This was not an industry supported study. The authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
body mass index
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
forced expiratory volume in 1 second
forced vital capacity
Medical Research Council dyspnea score
standard deviation
St. George respiratory questionnaire
oxygen saturation
unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis
visual analogue scale
This study was funded by the Mount Sinai Hospital Research Fund.
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