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Happy November, and welcome to the 44th "Best Of: Nail Art" link party of 2014! It is my hope that this will be the place you will come to share the posts you are most proud of, and see the creations that other nail artists have shared as well.
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This Week in PPS: teachers rally for a contract
November 10, 2009
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"More than anything, people just want to feel like they're respected… If people felt more respected, they might have more sympathy for the district's ongoing financial difficulties." –Cheyne Cumming, teacher and PAT organizer
Approximately 1,500 teachers and their supporters took to the streets and marched on the school board Monday night to demand a contract. This Week in PPS, we hear from Portland Association of Teachers president Rebecca Levison, as well as organizer Cheyne Cumming.
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Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith (1897-1935), aviator, was born on 9 February 1897 in Brisbane, fifth son and seventh child of William Charles Smith, banker, and his wife Catherine Mary, née Kingsford. The name Kingsford was added to the family surname in Canada; William went into real estate business there in 1903 and later became a clerk with the Canadian Pacific Railways. The family returned to Sydney in 1907. Charles was educated at Vancouver, Canada, at St Andrew's Cathedral Choir School, Sydney, and at Sydney Technical High School. At 16 he was apprenticed to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd.
In February 1915 after three years with the Senior Cadets Kingsford Smith enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. He embarked with the 4th Signal Troop, 2nd Division Signal Company, on 31 May as a sapper and served on Gallipoli and, as a dispatch rider, in Egypt and France. In October 1916, as sergeant, he transferred to the Australian Flying Corps. After training in England he was discharged from the A.I.F. and commissioned as second lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps, in March next year; he was appointed flying officer in May and in July joined No.23 Squadron in France. Wounded and shot down in August, he was awarded the Military Cross 'for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty'; he had brought down four machines during his first month at the front and done valuable work in attacking ground targets and hostile balloons. After promotion to lieutenant in April 1918 he served as an R.F.C. flying instructor.
Barred from participating in the 1919 England to Australia air race because of supposedly inadequate navigational experience, Kingsford Smith and his friend Cyril Maddocks piloted joy-flights in England as Kingsford Smith, Maddocks Aeros Ltd. 'Smithy' then went to the United States of America where he failed to attract sponsors for a trans-Pacific flight and was briefly a stunt flier in a flying circus. Back in Australia in January 1921 he worked first in Sydney with another joy-riding organization, the Diggers' Aviation Co., and then as a salaried pilot for Norman Brearley's Western Australian Airways Ltd. On 6 June 1923 at Marble Bar, Western Australia, he married Thelma Eileen Hope Corboy.
Realizing the great potential for air transport in Australia, Kingsford Smith formed a partnership in 1924 with fellow pilot Keith Anderson. They raised the capital to buy two Bristol Tourers by operating a trucking business from Carnarvon, the Gascoyne Transport Co., and in 1927 they returned to Sydney to operate with Charles Ulm as Interstate Flying Services. After tendering unsuccessfully for an Adelaide-Perth mail service, the partners launched a series of important demonstration flights.
On the first of these in June 1927 Kingsford Smith and Ulm completed a round-Australia circuit in 10 days, 5 hours, a notable achievement with minimal navigational aids. Kingsford Smith at once sought support for a trans-Pacific flight and obtained a grant of £9000 from the New South Wales government as well as backing from Sidney Myer and the Californian oil magnate G. Allan Hancock. In a three-engined Fokker plane, the Southern Cross, with Ulm and two American crewmen, Harry Lyon and Jim Warner, he took off from Oakland, California, on 31 May 1928 and flew via Hawaii and Suva to Brisbane, completing the historic crossing in 83 hours, 38 minutes, of flying time. The fliers received subscriptions of over £20,000; Kingsford Smith was awarded the Air Force Cross and appointed honorary squadron leader, Royal Australian Air Force. Anderson, no longer a partner, sued unsuccessfully for part of the prize-money.
In August Kingsford Smith flew the Southern Cross non-stop from Point Cook, Victoria, to Perth. In September-October with Ulm and an Australian crew he piloted the plane from Sydney to Christchurch, New Zealand, demonstrating the feasibility of regular passenger and mail services across the Tasman Sea. He then set out to fly the Southern Cross to England to place orders for a fleet of four aircraft with which he intended to begin an inter-capital air service in Australia. However, on 1 April 1929, losing radio contact with the ground and meeting bad weather over north-west Australia, he was forced to land on the flats of the Glenelg River estuary. Before help reached the stranded party on 13 April, Keith Anderson and Robert Hitchcock had perished in the search. After an official inquiry exonerated Kingsford Smith and Ulm from a charge of having staged the incident for publicity, the flight to England was resumed in June and completed in the record time of 12 days, 18 hours.
Kingsford Smith's airline, Australian National Airways, began operations in January 1930 with Kingsford Smith piloting one of the new Avro Ten planes, the Southern Cloud, on the Sydney-Melbourne route. But 'Smithy' was far from ready to settle down. Collecting his 'old bus', Southern Cross, from the Fokker Aircraft Co. in Holland where it had been overhauled, in June 1930 he achieved an east-west crossing of the Atlantic, from Ireland to Newfoundland, in 31½ hours. New York gave him a tumultuous welcome. He then returned to England to take delivery of an Avro Avian biplane, Southern Cross Junior, and attempt a record-breaking solo flight to Darwin in October. This he accomplished, within ten days, beating four competitors who had left England ahead of him and breaking Hinkler's time by 5½ days.
He was now 34 and world famous. Divorced in May 1929, he married Mary Powell on 10 December 1930 at Scots Church, Melbourne. A little later he joined Eric Campbell's New Guard. He had been made honorary air commodore in November, and the future of his airline appeared bright.
However, on 21 March 1931 the Southern Cloud, flying from Sydney to Melbourne with pilot, co-pilot and six passengers, was lost in severe storms over the Snowy Mountains. There were no survivors and the wreckage was not discovered until 1958. This loss and the deepening Depression crippled the airline. Yet to a man with Kingsford Smith's ambitions the pressure to continue flying was constant. In April 1931 he flew the Southern Cross on an emergency mission to pick up mail for Australia from a damaged Imperial Airways plane in Timor. In September he made a solo flight to England in a new Avro Avian biplane, Southern Cross Minor, intending to gain publicity with an immediate return flight. But his health was showing the strains of an arduous career and the return trip was abandoned on medical advice. In November, however, when one of his company planes under contract to fly Christmas mail to England was damaged in Malaya, he took off in another plane to collect the stranded mail, flew it to England in time for Christmas delivery, and returned with mail for Australia.
In 1932, when he was knighted for services to aviation, Kingsford Smith was almost back to where he had started, selling joy-flights at ten shillings a trip. A flight to New Zealand in 1933 added to this precarious income but failed to persuade the New Zealand government to give him a charter for passenger and mail services between Auckland and Singapore. That year he established a flying training school in Sydney, Kingsford Smith Air Service, but sold out at a loss in 1935.
Towards the end of 1933 prospects brightened. After travelling to England by sea in September, he achieved a brilliant success in October, flying solo from London to Wyndham, Western Australia, in a Percival Gull, Miss Southern Cross, in just over seven days. After the feat the Commonwealth government granted him £3000 and he was appointed aviation consultant to the Vacuum Oil Co.
Inevitably, he was attracted by the announcement that a London to Melbourne air race, sponsored by Sir Macpherson Robertson with a prize of £10,000, would be a feature of Victoria's centenary celebrations. With financial help from friends and sponsors, he bought a fast two-seater Lockheed Altair, which he named Lady Southern Cross, and invited (Sir) P. G. Taylor to accompany him in the race. The plan had to be dropped when modifications to the aircraft could not be completed in time. Kingsford Smith and Taylor then flew Lady Southern Cross from Brisbane to San Francisco in October-November 1934 in order to sell it and reimburse sponsors. This west-east trans-Pacific flight was another first in aviation history.
Leaving the Lady Southern Cross to find an American purchaser, Kingsford Smith and Taylor returned to Australia to the long-awaited authorization for a trans-Tasman airmail service. They began the inaugural flight on 15 May 1935. The result was failure in a setting of spectacular courage. Before dawn and some 500 miles (800 km) out over the Tasman, a damaged propeller blade had put one of the three motors out of action, and a second motor threatened to seize as it rapidly burned oil. Taylor, climbing out of the cockpit, succeeded at great hazard in collecting enough oil from the sump of the dead motor to replenish the other. By jettisoning cargo, and finally most of the mail-bags, Kingsford Smith nursed the Southern Cross back to Sydney.
He was a tired man of 38; but he was impelled to go on demonstrating that the future of world transport was in aviation. He arranged for the still unsold Lady Southern Cross to be shipped to England. From there, with J. T. Pethybridge, he took off on 6 November 1935, aiming to make one more record-breaking flight to Australia. It was the end of the long endeavour. The plane and both fliers were lost. It is assumed they crashed into the sea somewhere off the coast of Burma while flying at night towards Singapore. Kingsford Smith was survived by his wife and son and left an estate valued for probate at £12,875.
His contribution to civil aviation was an effort of faith and stamina and places him among the world's notable pioneers. Lean, with 'cool blue eyes', generous mouth and terse manner, he is featured on the Australian $20 note. Sydney's airport is named after him and there is a memorial to him, Taylor and Ulm at Anderson Park, Sydney. The Southern Cross is on view at Brisbane airport. Kingsford Smith was the author of The Old Bus (1932) and, with Ulm, Story of 'Southern Cross' Trans-Pacific Flight (1928). His autobiography My Flying Life was published posthumously in 1937 and the story of his life was filmed in Australia in 1946.
Frederick Howard, 'Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Edward (1897–1935)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kingsford-smith-sir-charles-edward-6964/text12095, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 15 July 2024.
This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (Melbourne University Press), 1983
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Can two people perpetually moving in opposite directions ever end up in the same place? Or will love just keep giving them the runaround?
Webb Bryant is intimately acquainted with every type of trouble there is. Trouble is all he's ever known and the only constant in his life.
Webb's a man constantly on the move. He's a drifter. A wanderer. He bolts from one bad choice to the next, never able to put enough distance between himself and the ghosts from his past. He lives hard and fast, until everything comes to a screeching halt the moment he lays eyes on Tennyson McKenna. The stunning woman appeared out of nowhere to save the day, and Webb's been unable to forget her. The leggy, blonde forest ranger might very well be the one person in the world important enough to finally keep him in one place. Only, Ten isn't impressed by Webb's knack for finding trouble. And no matter how hard he tries to shake it, he can't escape his bad habit of falling into the deep end of questionable decisions. When his newest brush with trouble gets Webb in way over his head, Ten jumps after him into the dangerous waters. It's possible they're going to sink so fast they both might drown.
Tennyson McKenna makes it a point to be diligently cautious in all aspects of her life. She learned the hard way that leading with your heart instead of your head gets you nowhere.
Ten's a woman stuck in a frustrating rut. After a string of failed relationships lands her back home, a pit stop to mend her broken heart becomes a hole she's lost the will to dig herself out of. Coasting through her days was easy until Webb Bryant crash-landed in her path, complete with bullets, blood, and a grin far too charming for his own good. Webb is anything but safe and predictable. He's everything Ten swore she would never gamble on again, but it's impossible to ignore the way trouble follows him around like a shadow. And every single time Ten pushes Webb away, she finds herself chasing after him before he's gone for good. When Webb's past finally catches up to him, Ten has to decide if she's brave enough to put her heart on the line for a man who might be gone tomorrow.
The first time I laid eyes on Webb Bryant he was frighteningly pale from blood loss and nearly delirious from a raging fever. He'd been sporting a hole in his shoulder from a bullet wound and was terrified his brother was dead somewhere in the vast Wyoming wilderness. It was my job to protect and patrol, one I focused on diligently, but Webb was admittedly distracting. I thought he was going to pass out at my feet, a city boy in way over his head. He didn't. He never wavered or stumbled in the unfamiliar terrain and unknown situation…not once. He'd impressed me with his resilience and his determination to find out what had happened to his older brother. He'd also caught my attention with those burning blue eyes and shock of blond hair, which gave the misleading impression that the man had a single angelic quality about him. Every long, lean line of Webb Bryant oozed playful mischief and bled the promise of wicked things done in the dark…or during the bright light of day. He didn't seem like the shy type. Even injured and out of his mind with frantic worry for his older sibling, he was the most charming, most flirtatious man I'd ever met. He sent every defense mechanism I had into overdrive, and there wasn't a second that slid by where I didn't remind myself he was not my type in the slightest. Besides, once the Warners and I had both the Bryant brothers straightened out, I figured I wouldn't have to dodge Webb's advances ever again. He would ramble on to his next adventure and be out of sight and mind.
I breathed a sigh of relief when he went away. He was too tempting. It was too enticing to give in to every single promise made by his easy smile and glinting eyes. Webb was several years younger than me, a man who was obviously lost and still trying to figure out who he wanted to be when he finally grew up. I was a woman who knew exactly who she was and who she could never be. I was never the type to chase after the bad boys, the wanderers, the reckless. No, I fell for the steadfast, the sturdy, and the solid. I gave my heart to the kind of men who held the world up and buffered everyone around them from the raging storm.
I handed my heart to the oldest Warner brother, Cyrus, when we were just kids. Coming to terms with the fact the stoic and serious cowboy would never feel about me the way I felt about him had been one of the hardest things I'd ever had to do. We shared similar dreams, knowing our lives were so much bigger than the ranches that had our family's bloodlines entrenched in the soil. We both wanted more than Wyoming, and for a long time, I honestly believed we were on the road out of our tiny town together. It didn't happen that way. Sure, we both got out in our own time and in our own way, but we both ended up back where we started. Cy was taking his return home in stride. He was far less resentful about his homecoming than I was. In fact, the wedding Webb was dragged out of two short days ago was Cy's.
I thought it was going to be hard, damn near impossible, to watch the man I'd openly loved from afar for most of my life promise his forever to someone else. It wasn't nearly as bad as I envisioned. Mostly because Cy was stupid happy with his fiery city girl. He'd never been that happy with me, before we left or when we both admitted defeat and came back home. He'd never loved anyone like he loved his Leo, so the sting of watching him put a ring on someone else's finger was minimal.
I would gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon before admitting to anyone, especially myself, that since the start of the wedding most of my attention had been on Webb instead of the happy couple. To my surprise, my heart didn't feel nearly as trampled as I thought it would. It was too busy stupidly racing over the man I believed I wouldn't see again and knew I should keep my distance from.
The blond man with a penchant for trouble hadn't stayed gone like I predicted. Nope. He'd shown up right when Cy needed help on the ranch and offered to stick around. Webb claimed he wanted to learn a new skill, seemed he'd taken a shine to the rough way of life in the Wyoming backcountry and wanted to play cowboy for a while. Cy couldn't say no, and as badly as I wanted to, I couldn't stay away. I was caught in an endless game of cat and mouse, and some days I wasn't sure if I was the predator or the prey. I tracked Webb out of the corner of my eye for months. I expected him to up his game and try to lure me to bed, knowing the wedding was going to lower my defenses. Never in a million years would I have predicted he was going to be led away from the festivities in handcuffs.
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Material Evidence
Material Evidence expands on the formal concerns and critical debates developed through Melissa Gordon's exhibition of the same name, following a joint residency with Spike Island and Spike Island Print Studio in Bristol, in the summer of 2013. Gordon's work as a painter and printmaker follows the relationship between representation and abstraction; she often enlarges details to reveal hidden structures, zooming in until textual or pictorial information is reduced to dots and lines.
The publication navigates through four concurrently exhibited and ongoing series (Structures for Viewing, Blow Up Modernists, The Daily News RIP, and Material Evidence) installed at Spike Island. This monograph contains a reprint of the early modernist play Collision by Mina Loy, a source that contextualizes Gordon's concern with spatial arrangements and pictorial staging. An essay by Marina Vishmidt reflects on the legacies of modernism and the particular politics of abstraction found within Gordon's practice, and the conversation between Spike Island's curator Marie-Anne McQuay and Gordon investigates how each new body of work stages a reconfiguration of histories, surfaces, and iconographies.


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After putting Kate Moss on the cover of its 60th anniversary issue, Playboy is now suing Harper's Bazaar for allegedly using photographs of the supermodel without permission.
In legal papers filed on Friday against Harper's publisher Hearst Communications, Playboy alleges that the luxury magazine violated its exclusive right to publish photos taken by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcos Piggott, the Independent reports. The lawsuit, which seeks $150,000 per photo, alleges Harper's posted a photo of Moss from the Playboy shoot on its website and allegedly included a link to another website with more copyrighted nude and partially nude photos.
Moss's Playboy cover also marked her 40th birthday and was clearly intended to make a big splash for the men's magazine. Playboy's editorial director Jimmy Jellinek previously commented on the cover shot, saying, "Having Kate Moss, a global icon and the most important supermodel of the past 25 years, appear on our cover makes this issue the perfect way to launch Playboy's next 60 years."


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While working at home as a freelancer sounds like the ultimate dream for anyone who tires of the rat race, freelancers still have more than their fair share of financial matters to worry about. In fact, perhaps the most important trait that any freelancer should have is the ability to be fully responsible and accountable to themselves, and saving money is something that you will be wholly responsible for.
1. Maintain an Emergency Fund
Since you have little or no financial protection as a freelancer, maintaining an emergency fund is an absolute must. You never know when the work will dry up, even though it will likely only be temporary. However, in order to have something to fall back on during these dry times, make sure that you always keep enough savings to cover essential things such as rental or mortgage payments and utility bills.
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If you're only just starting out as a freelancer, but you still have a regular job, consider it as your lifeline for the time being. Many freelancers make the mistake of diving straight into their self-employed venture, and unless you have considerable savings at your disposal, leaving your day job prematurely can spell disaster. Wait until you have enough clients and consistent work before you even consider quitting.
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Freelancers often find that work is inconsistent, particularly during the first year or two. A consistent and reliable income comes with time, since you'll need to build up a regular and reliable client base. As a freelancer, you can never have too many strings to your bow, and it is usually preferable to have lots of small clients rather than rely solely on one or two streams of income.
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Even worse than not maintaining a generous emergency fund is running into debt. You should avoid borrowing money to get your freelancing career off the ground, and before you even think of relying on it as a way to earn a living, make sure that things like credit card balances and bank account overdrafts have been fully paid off. Do not fall into the trap of long-term loans: it all has to be paid back eventually.
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If you maintain a website or blog as the hub of your online freelancing career, you'll need to spend a considerable effort on promoting it, but this doesn't necessarily mean spending money. Use free methods to promote your website and your business, such as social media marketing, search engine optimisation and content marketing. Leave the paid advertising to the businesses.
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Praise be to Allah.
Shaykh Muhammad al-'Uthaymeen was asked this question and said:
The correct view is that this does not invalidate your prayer, because doubts often come to a man without him wanting them to. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) explained the ruling concerning doubts in prayer, and that doubts fall into two categories:
1 – When the person doubts the number of rak'ahs he has prayed, but he thinks one of the two is more likely. In this case he should act upon what he is more certain of, and complete the prayer on that basis, then say the salam and do the prostration of forgetfulness (sajdat al-sahw) after the salam.
2 – When he doubts the number of rak'ahs, and neither number seems more likely to him. In this case he should act upon the lower number, because that is more certain and the higher number is doubtful, and he should complete the prayer based on the lower number, then do two prostrations for forgetfulness before the salam. His prayer will not be invalidated in that case.


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Sleep Deprived in Seattle
Why local experts are prescribing fewer sleeping pills despite a growing insomnia epidemic.
By Sheila Cain July 8, 2012
This article originally appeared in the July 2012 issue of Seattle magazine.
When Courtney Crocker found herself wide awake and cleaning her house at 4 a.m., she knew she needed a different way to manage her insomnia.
A recent nursing school graduate, Crocker, 30, of Eastlake, had been assigned the night shift at the University of Washington Medical Center's intensive care unit. Within a couple of months, she was having a hard time sleeping on her nights off. Medication prescribed by her primary care doctor wasn't working, and her lack of sleep was making her increasingly anxious.
"It would take me five hours to fall asleep," says Crocker, "and then I'd only sleep a couple hours."
When Crocker sought special treatment for her insomnia, she had more choices than she would have had only a few years ago. Researchers are learning more and more about the importance of sleep—and the pitfalls of getting too little—and that growing wealth of knowledge is leading to more diverse treatments.
It's a good thing, too; Americans are more sleep deprived than ever. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults get between seven and nine hours of sleep each night, but data from the National Health Interview Survey show that nearly one-third of us are getting six hours—or fewer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls insufficient sleep a "public health epidemic" linked to motor vehicle crashes, industrial disasters and medical errors. Driver fatigue is responsible for an estimated 56,000 motor vehicle accidents and 1,550 deaths each year, according to a 1996 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report.
The effects of sleep deprivation are getting a lot more personal. Studies are increasingly linking inefficient sleep to health problems such as weight gain, depression, heart disease and diabetes.
The problem is getting worse, and the CDC knows why: The causes lie in broad-scale societal factors such as round-the-clock access to technology and work schedules, as well as an increase in sleep disorders such as insomnia and sleep apnea. There are now more than 70 known routes to exhaustion—at least 72 types of recognized sleep disorders, which fall into seven categories: insomnia, circadian rhythm disorders (mainly affecting shift workers), sleep movement (such as restless legs syndrome), parasomnia (sleep walking), hypersomnia (sleeping too much), and sleep breathing disorders, such as sleep apnea.
And the physical effects of sleep deprivation are getting a lot more personal: Increasingly, studies are linking inefficient sleep to health problems such as weight gain, depression, heart disease and diabetes.
HOW TO SLEEP BETTER The goal of Catherine Darley, N.D., founder of The Institute of Naturopathic Sleep Medicine, is to help her patients shape actions to support sleep physiology. In other words, she helps change habits that keep people from falling—or staying—asleep. Her most common suggestion to people struggling with sleep is to take time—typically 30 to 40 minutes—to wind down before getting into bed. This doesn't mean checking Facebook or emails. The light emitted by computer screens suppresses sleep-inducing melatonin; the computer itself stimulates thoughts and emotions. Rather, engage in an activity that's not task oriented, such as knitting or taking a bath, and do it in low light so your melatonin soars. >> And for those who wake up—and stay awake—in the middle of the night? Whatever you do, don't look at the clock. In fact, Darley suggests turning the clock toward the wall before you go to sleep to avoid the temptation. "A clock increases the performance pressure," says Darley. "People will wake up, do the math and panic that they're not going to have enough time for a good night's sleep." |
New treatments
Just 10 years ago, Crocker's treatment would have likely ended with a sleep aid prescribed by her general practitioner, or a night at a sleep lab to rule out sleep apnea. Instead, she eventually found herself at a naturopathic sleep medicine clinic, where she learned behavioral techniques to help her get a restorative night's sleep and ease the anxiety that often comes with insomnia—without the aid of prescription pills.
"There's been this growing body of research showing that cognitive behavioral approaches for insomnia work better in the long run," says Catherine Darley, N.D., founder of The Institute of Naturopathic Sleep Medicine in downtown Seattle and the doctor who eventually nailed Crocker's sleep issue. Since 2007, Darley has been helping patients kick insomnia, adjust to shift-work schedules and basically get a restorative night's sleep by examining their lifestyles, stressors and habits. A typical course of treatment includes three or four visits during which she helps her patients understand the emotional issues surrounding their sleep problems and offers a number of behavior-modifying exercises to help them snap out of their sleep-depriving habits. When behavioral approaches don't work, she tries nutritional supplements and herbal medicine to improve sleep. She doesn't prescribe drugs, and rarely has to refer patients elsewhere for medical management of their insomnia. "There's a place for medicine, but not as a good frontline treatment," she says.
If Darley's patients show signs of sleep apnea or sleep movement disorders, she'll refer them to a sleep lab or clinic for overnight sleep testing. But Darley has found that more and more patients are coming in with complaints of sleepless nights caused by overwork, worry and stress—lifestyle issues that can be addressed through behavior modification, often called cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Crocker came to Darley and CBT after other attempts to solve her insomnia failed. Her general-practice doctor suggested four different types of sleep medications, all of which worked for Crocker for a while—and then didn't. She was referred to a psychotherapist for anxiety, which she says only made the situation worse. She visited a sleep clinic, and the specialists there gave her Darley's name.
"My primary care doctor gave me a printout of things to try, then told me to go home and do them," Crocker said. "With Dr. Darley, we worked on a very individualized plan that was specific to me."
Darley put Crocker on a regimented sleep schedule to help even out the inconsistencies of her erratic work schedule. She also encouraged Crocker to keep a journal of her habits and emotions to help her better understand the mind-body connection. Crocker said she started sleeping better after her first session.
A shift in approach
While Crocker's path to a better night's sleep was circuitous, the fact that she eventually found a fix is proof that providers are recognizing the prevalence and seriousness of sleep problems—and that the best solution might not always be found in a prescription pill bottle.
"Sleep medicine as a field is changing," says Lina Fine, M.D., a neurologist and psychiatrist who works as a sleep specialist in Swedish Medical Center's Sleep Medicine Program. "There's been a big transformation among medical doctors. They are more mindful of what practitioners of cognitive behavioral therapy have been doing for years."
Case in point: Swedish has begun offering a formal CBT program for insomnia, in which patients meet in six to eight weekly sessions without the introduction of any sleep medications. This is appropriate for patients who are motivated to get off their sleeping pills and pursue a behavior program, says Fine. Swedish's program is expected to expand over the next several years.
Priya Oolut, M.D., medical director of the Diagnostic Center for Sleep Health at Pacific Medical Center, says specialists there choose to address behavioral or environmental factors over prescribing drugs in the vast majority of cases. More and more of her patients are coming to her already aware of the various treatment options available to them, she says, and are often referred by their primary care doctors.
"The change is at the primary care level," says Oolut. "We're definitely seeing that our primary care doctors are not automatically reaching for a sleep aid, but instead, referring their patients to a specialist."
But for some, medication may be the answer. Those suffering from the effects of a traumatic event or the death of a loved one, for example, may be good candidates for the immediate relief sleeping pills often provide. "Therapy may not always help overcome the grief or suffering," says Oolut. "Our goal is that patients are getting a good, restorative sleep. If that means we have to help them with medication, that's what we do."
Here's a list of this year's Top Docs who specialize in helping people get their z's.
Cynthia Anonsen, M.D. Bellevue Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic
Preteem Bandla, M.D. Swedish Sleep Medicine Associates
Edward Carter, M.D. Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
David C. Chang, M.D. The Polyclinic Sleep Medicine Center
Morris Chang, M.D. Auburn Region Medical Center Sleep Clinic
Maida L. Chen, M.D. Seattle Children's Hospital Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine
William De Paso, M.D. Virginia Mason, Seattle Main Campus
Ronald Gibson, M.D., Ph.D. Seattle Children's Hospital Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine
Ronald J. Green, M.D. The Everett Clinic
Steven H. Kirtland, M.D. Virginia Mason, Seattle Main Campus
Gandis G. Mazeika, M.D. Sound Sleep Health
George Makari, M.D., Mary Bridge Children's Hospital & Health Center
Kimberly A. Mebust, M.D. MultiCare Neuroscience Center of Washington
Frederick E. Pascual, M.D. The Everett Clinic
Christine Puig, M.D. Ear, Nose, Throat and Plastic Surgery Associates of the South Sound P.S.
Bonnie W. Ramsey, M.D. Seattle Children's Hospital Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine
Gregory J. Redding, M.D. Seattle Children's Hospital Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine
David Russian, M.D. Western Washington Medical Group
Daniel Seely, M.D. Bellevue Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic
Sarah E. Stolz, M.D. Swedish Sleep Medicine Associates
Mark E. Whipple,M.D. Harborview Medical Center, Otolaryngology Clinic
Originally published in Seattle magazine.


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In the 1930s, the Nazis knew that the next war would be far more mechanized than the last one. They encouraged the FIM to create an ISDT Trophy for the top military team. |
The rear shocks on these bikes identify them as post-war Goldies, but this gives you a sense of what the bikes (and guys) in this story looked like. |
The Grossglockner Pass is still one of the motorcycle roads in Europe. In the 1939 ISDT, competitors raced over this route. Note that the road was not closed for the racers' use. |
The civilian competitors at the '39 event were taken aback by the predominance of Nazi uniforms. The event was actually organized by the Nazi party, and there was as much interest in the Huhnlein Trophy as there was in the 'main event.' For a few beautiful pictures that set the scene, go to the speedtracktales website. It's great. |


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By Scott Malone
BOSTON (Reuters) – Driving snow enveloped the U.S. Northeast on Tuesday in its third winter storm in two weeks, closing schools, canceling flights and knocking out power to about 140,000 homes and businesses.
The nor'easter was forecast to drop up to 20 inches (51 cm) of snow. It followed two storms that rumbled up the East Coast this month, killing at least nine people and knocking out power to about 2.4 million homes and businesses at their peak.
The storm stretched from New York state to Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine. Forecasters warned of blizzard conditions, where high winds make travel dangerous, from coastal Massachusetts through Maine.
"We're anticipating that we'll be seeing through the mid- to late morning and probably into midafternoon snowfall rates of 1 to 3 inches per hour (up to 7.6 cm)," said Bob Thompson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts.
About 140,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey lost power as the storm downed trees and power lines.
"As soon as the snow stops and the wind stops blowing, we will be pushing the utilities to give people a sense of when the power will come back on," Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker told reporters on Tuesday. "They will move quickly and aggressively to deal with this once the snow stops."
Schools in Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, were shut on Tuesday, Maine's state legislature canceled its session, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy closed all government offices and the Amtrak passenger rail line halted service between Boston and New York.
More than 1,500 U.S. flights were canceled, according to tracking service FlightAware. The hardest-hit airport was Boston Logan, where about four out of five flights were called off.
Nor'easters are storms that typically bring strong winds from the northeast, and they tend to occur most often and most violently between September and April along the East Coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.
Some nor'easters carry hurricane-force winds. Winds were expected to reach 65 miles (105 km) per hour, forecasters said.
This storm's heavy snow could down trees weakened by the last two storms and bring a fresh wave of power outages, officials warned.
Lower tides meant the storm would probably not bring a repeat of the flooding that sent icy water pouring into the streets of Boston during a storm early this month, forecasters and officials said.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; additional reporting by Scott DiSavino in New York; editing by Bill Rigby and Jonathan Oatis)


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Author: Kristen Carson
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'Welcome to the world of the Runyons and the Feldsteds, two Mormon families in 1970s Maryland. Far from their Western American roots, they cling to each other like exiles clutching a precious box of topsoil from the old country.
"In The Boxford Stories you will meet Ada Runyon who always turns to Ruthalin Feldsted when she needs an ear—sharing her deepest confidences, her everyday musings, and her bits of horrified gossip. Yet Ada dies inside whenever Ruthalin's country-cousin manners poke out in public.
"Latham Runyon, a history professor, and Erval Feldsted, a hospital engineer, bond every Sunday night over gooey desserts and vigorous religious discussion, a game their children call Stump the Rabbi. Underneath their balding heads and graying temples, each man desperately seeks a sign that God would choose him as a buddy.
"The Feldsted and Runyon children, running breathlessly through each other's houses and backyards, have long considered each other substitute cousins. However, Ginni Runyon plots to change herself from the girl next door to the girl Marc Feldsted can't live without.
"And when Boxford's Mormons mix with the rest of the town, everybody could use a field guide to the other species.
"Laugh, cry, and shake your head with the Runyons and Feldsteds as they make their way through the decade that brought us leisure suits and urban decay."
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allowed. We should be looking to the eternities, of course, but in the
meantime, we have so many other things to worry us onward into the
night, or at least until the next priesthood interview."
--Association for Mormon Letters on "'Atta Boy" in The Boxford Stories
Now Latham stood before the steam-clouded mirror. He squirted shaving cream into his hand and swabbed it over his face.
It was not the best face, to be sure. He imagined how it would look to those sitting beside him in conference tomorrow. There he'd be, his arms folded as he sat on a hard metal chair way at the back of the gym, looking for all the world like Joe Mormon, with the standard white shirt, the standard wing tips, the standard bald spot, and the standard case of scriptures with a sagging, broken spine.
The young fathers nearby would look at him and think, I hope I don't become that in twenty years. Their young wives would study his pocked cheeks and try to imagine just how bad the teenage acne had been. And teenage girls would decide that he was, no doubt, ten times cornier than their own dads. . . .
Then, when his name echoed forth from the pulpit, and he stood up, his seat-neighbors would look up from their chairs, surprised. They would kick themselves mentally for not taking note of him sooner, for not recognizing his eminence.
His children would look up. Our dad? God wants our dad?
His wife would bow her head humbly and compose a few eloquent remarks, in case they summoned wives to speak.
And as he walked up to take his new place, people would look up from their seats, squinting at him. And when he reached the stand, Elder Sperry would smile, remembering: Oh, yes, him. The one that likes Great Biographies, just like me. Elder Sperry would shake his hand, motion him towards his very own theatre-style seat, a far cry from the metal chairs at the back. Elder Sperry would make him say a few words at the pulpit, where Latham could look down on all those surprised people, who were still taking it in that Latham Runyon was their new stake president.
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"Hearing tales of how green the grass was elsewhere, she pledged to move east of the 100th Meridian. Even though she's never lived in the #1 place on her list (Lexington, Kentucky--have you seen those beautiful bluegrass hills?!), she enjoyed her years in Texas, Illinois and Pennsylvania. She currently lives in Indiana.
"Kristen's stories and articles have appeared in The Indianapolis Star, Chicago Parent, Indianapolis Monthly, Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought and Irreantum.
"She and her husband are the parents of four adult children.
"She loves her two cats for their affection, their paranoia and their sense of entitlement. She takes long walks wherever she goes, because she thinks the best way to see the world is at 3 miles an hour. She loves cooking. All the chopping, stirring and inhaling lend the perfect capstone to her day.
"Kristen is also an avid reader. No doubt she won't live long enough to finish all the books on her list. Her favorite authors are Herman Wouk, Diana Gabaldon and Tom Wolfe.
"Check out her blog, where she writes about whatever she's reading and cooking.
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During surgery, your child will be given some form of anesthesia. This is medicine for the relief of pain and any feeling during surgery. The type and dosage of anesthesia are managed by a healthcare provider who gives the medicine. You and your child will meet with an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist before the procedure. They will review your child's medical condition and health history to plan the right anesthetic for surgery.
There are different types of anesthesia. The type your child will get will depend on the type of surgery and your child's medical condition. Usually, a child will also get a sedative. This is to help them feel relaxed and a little sleepy. This is in addition to the anesthetic. The different types of anesthesia include:
This is given to temporarily stop the feeling of pain in one part of the body. Your child stays awake with a local anesthetic. For minor surgery, a local anesthetic can be given by injection to the site. If a large area needs to be numbed, or an injection will not go deep enough, regional anesthesia may be used.
This is used to numb only the part of the body where the procedure will be done. First, an injection of local anesthetic is given in the area of nerves that provide feeling to that part of the body. There are several forms of regional anesthetics. These are two common types:
Spinal anesthetic. This is used for lower belly, pelvic, rectal, or leg surgery. This type is used by injecting a single dose of the anesthetic into the subarachnoid space. This space surrounds the spinal cord. The injection is made into the lower back, below the end of the spinal cord. It causes numbness in the lower body. Rarely, continuous spinal anesthesia may be used. This may be done for a long procedure. A thin tube (catheter) is left in place in the subarachnoid space. This is used for more injections of the anesthetic. This ensures numbness during the whole procedure.
Epidural anesthetic. This is similar to a spinal anesthetic. It's often used for surgery of the lower limbs and during labor and childbirth. This type of anesthesia is done by continually sending an anesthetic medicine through a thin catheter. The catheter is placed into the space that surrounds the spinal cord in the lower back, just outside the subarachnoid space. This causes numbness in the lower body. Epidural anesthesia may also be used for chest surgery. In this case, the anesthetic medicine is injected at a higher location in the back to numb the chest and belly.
General anesthesia puts your child in a state like deep sleep through surgery. The medicine may be inhaled through a breathing mask or tube. Or it may be given through an IV line. This is a thin plastic tube put into a vein. A breathing tube may be put down into the windpipe to keep proper breathing during surgery. Once the surgery is done, the anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist stops the anesthetic and the child wakes up in the recovery room.
Once the surgery is done, full recovery from anesthesia continues in the recovery room. This usually takes 1 to 2 hours. Expect your child to be sleepy and to doze off often. Some children become very excited and confused when they wake up from anesthesia. This reaction can be disturbing but usually lasts only a short time.


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Popular Mechanics Ignores Its Own Historical Records of Thermite Demolition: Destruction of Skyride Towers, Reichstag Dome Set Incendiary Precedent |
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The editors at Popular Mechanics have made a name for themselves as ardent defenders of the official 9/11 story. Editor-in-Chief James Meigs and contributing writers have presented articles in the magazine that dismiss the scientific evidence of controlled demolition of the WTC skyscrapers and characterize the discovery of thermitic residue in the WTC dust as insignificant. However, a recent review of the Popular Mechanics archives has revealed that this "world-renowned" publication reported on the use of thermite to bring down steel structures over 75 years ago.
Huge "overshoes" in the form of cupolas made of steel and lined with firebrick were constructed around two legs of the tower and filled with 1,500 pounds of thermite, a mixture of aluminum and iron oxide. When fired by electricity, the thermite generated a temperature of more than 5,000 degrees about the two legs, melting the ten-foot sections almost instantly, causing the tower to tip and then to crash. Unfortunately, today's Popular Mechanics heads have failed to acknowledge this demolition in their defense of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory. In an NPR interview that aired last August, Meigs admitted that "in certain applications, [thermite] can actually burn through metal," but he then dismissed the discovery of thermitic residue in the WTC dust, stating that "the notion that you could rig a building with thermite to bring it down… every demolition expert we talked to just laughs at the whole idea."
A search through national news archives has brought up another famous example of thermite-assisted demolition that contradicts Meigs' claims. The steel-framed roof of the German Reichstag, which survived arson in 1933 and Allied bombardment during World War II, was felled by thermite charges in 1954.
In addition, analysis of the WTC dust shows that more sophisticated forms of thermite have been developed over the decades. The research conducted by Dr. Neils Harrit, along with an international team of scientists, has revealed that the composite materials are microscopic in scale, with particle sizes in the nanometer range. This level of precision results in a compound more accurately referred to as nano-thermite, which has a lower ignition temperature and a more energetic reaction.
Another key distinction is that the destruction scenario that best addresses the explosive sounds and flashes reported at the WTC, the violent ejection of building materials, and the discovery of molten iron microspheres in the dust, is a demolition that uses some combination of thermitic incendiaries and explosive material. The thermitic residue may be the most apparent forensic evidence that the WTC skyscrapers were intentionally demolished.


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Juliet Eilperin's "Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks" hit bookshelves earlier this week. Juliet has written many great articles about shark science and conservation for the Washington Post, where she works as a science and environment reporter, and I was excited to read Demon Fish. It did not disappoint.
Each chapter of Demon Fish covers a different topic from the world of sharks. These include how certain native cultures worship them, global shark fisheries, ecotourism, exciting new scientific discoveries, and conservation policies. To cover such an enormous variety of subjects, Juliet spent years traveling the world and interviewing dozens of experts. Demon Fish not only includes a ton of information, but explains that information in the way that makes all of Juliet's articles such great reads.
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As if the pandemic hasn't been difficult enough on the average person, imagine having dementia combined with moderate-to-severe hearing loss. This was the case with Jean Peterson. Jean was 95 years old, lived in a care facility and commonly wore hearing aids to help her communicate with caretakers, friends and family. The hearing aids helped, but only to a certain point and that was prior to COVID.
"When she actually wore her hearing aids communication was okay, but even then, it was a challenge because dementia brings its own cognitive difficulties," explains Peterson's daughter, Bonnie Whitebread. "Even in the best of circumstances, we would have to be physically near her and give her visual cues."
Fast-forward to spring of 2020 and long-term care facilities are hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak. While scrambling for protective equipment, many nursing homes across the country banned family visitors, cutting off in-person communication entirely. Peterson's facility was no different. As time passed, Peterson's family was eventually allowed "window visits" to see and talk to her through the care facility window.
"The first few visits were a disaster," says Whitebread. "My sister (Anne Snyder) and I had to wear masks while seated on the other side of a window from our mother. She couldn't begin to hear us and since we were wearing masks she had no visual cues either. Not only could she not hear what we were saying, without being able to see our lips she didn't even know if we were speaking. It was so frustrating. We resorted to bringing cardboard signs to tell her we loved and missed her. "
"We thought we could conquer the problem by using the Bluetooth microphone we had for mom's hearing aids. It was when I was instructing staff how to pair mom's hearing aids to the transmitter that staff discovered her hearing aids were missing!"
It appeared that there was no hope of Jean hearing her family speak to her on these distanced visits.
Fortunately, Whitebread, a former audiologist, had a Williams AV Pocketalker lying around. "I thought to myself, we're going to try this," says Whitebread. "The staff let us slide the sanitized amplifier and headset through the window. I preset the volume for mom and we had an extension cord for the mic so we were able to speak into the mic from outside the window. It was like a miracle happened." Whitebread and her sister were finally able to say "We love you! We miss you!" – without screaming multiple times through a window or holding up signs.
"It was an entirely different experience," says Whitebread. "We were able to converse, to connect. It was just amazing to finally be able to reach her"
Whitebread and her sister took it a step further. Because it's difficult to have an extended conversation with someone with dementia, they decided to try music. "We started singing with her – singing hymns. She knew all of the words and readily joined in! My sister and I had to read the lyrics, but she knew them all. We could use the Pocketalker with her and she would just sing along with us. It was so moving – for everyone."
Unfortunately, after about a month or so, Whitebread received a call that things weren't going very well – her mother didn't have a lot of time left. The family brought her home and used the Pocketalker to try to communicate as Jean was slipping away. "We read mom's favorite bible passages and sang her favorite songs. Maybe we were able to reach her; maybe not. But it made us feel better to know we had done our best to try to reach her. When the minister came, he used the Pocketalker for his readings and words of consolation."
Whitebread adds, "Our visits changed so much from when we first went to see her during COVID. We were allotted 30 minutes for a window visit and after ten minutes of screaming, we didn't know what else to do. Once we started using the Pocketalker, the 30 minutes would end and mom would be saying, "don't go, we're not done!" She was engaged. She was connected – when before she hadn't been. Pocketalker was an absolute Godsend."
Bonnie Whitebread received a Bachelor of Science in Education of the Hearing Impaired at Pennsylvania State University, and a Master of Science in Audiology from Bloomsburg University. After teaching the deaf and then practicing in a hearing-aid clinic for several years, she worked in educational audiology for school systems and intermediate units fitting remote technology and FMs on school-aged children and preschoolers.
"I'm a firm believer that hearing aids are the best remediation for most people experiencing hearing loss. But a device such as the pocket talker has its place . In the hearing aid practice we always had a Pocketalker handy for those situations where you just couldn't communicate with a person in a civil way unless you had a quick and easy way to amplify the conversation. ". Whitebread adds " There are other situations where the pockettalker was helpful. We'd get phone calls from people saying, 'my mom's dying, and we need a way to talk to her.' You're not going to put hearing aids on someone with a week to live." This is a relatively cheap solution – for a little over $100 we had a system that was worth thousands to us at the end. Thank God the Pocketalker was there."


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