Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january Goren on Bridge by Charles Goren with Omar Sharif and Tannah Hirsch elegant Ace discard wins slam both South North k q 10 9 7 5 j 10 0 a743 West j864 s3 q 10 j 6 0 965 East 432 kq98 2 kj82 10 5 o South a a76 4 0 void 4ak987432 the bidding South West North East 1 pass 1 pass 2 pass 2 pass 4 pass 4 0 pass 6 pass pass pass opening Lead six of we Are indebted to 5th published by District 5 of the Amer ican contract Bridge for today the bidding was not but it might have gone As since a jump to three clubs would not be South creates a one round Force by rebinding at the two level in a suit ranking higher than his original norths four diamonds is a Cue bid implying club and six clubs nicely expresses the playing strength of souths any Plain suit Lead would have made declares life South would win in Clear the Ace of enter Dummy with the Queen of Trumps and take three heart Dis cards on the Ace of diamonds and Kin Queen of that would guarantee the slam As Long As clubs were no worse than 31 and Spades or if the hand with four Trumps ruffed the third round of and if Spades broke Declarer would reel in an the Trump re moved declares Only entry to the table before it could serve a useful since the Ace of Spades blocked the run of that to take a heart discard on the Ace of Dia monds would serve Little since Declarer would still be stranded with two losers in that there was a very elegant counter and Declarer found after winning the first trick in Declarer cashed the Ace of diamonds and discarded the Ace of Spades from hand the King and Queen of Spades were then cashed for two heart pitches when both Declarer fulfilled his losing Only a heart Tribune Media How to Cope with bumps in the night by Bob Bate Scripps Howard news service Ron Dahl knows children can be afflicted by All sorts of things that go bump in the these can be the bad dreams that frighten not Only the Young dreamer but also his or her though occasional nightmares Are a common part of growing Dahl and other experts nightmares May not even be nightmares particularly in says a a lot of what people think Are nightmares actually Are night there incredibly and they can be very frightening for he even to those like Dahl who study sleep is a mysterious and extremely Complex but by gaining some understanding i parents can put to rest some worries about nightmares and help their children probably 20 per cent of children will have some unusual nighttime something that going to concern the says who researches and treats sleep related disorders As director of the University of Pittsburgh child and adolescent sleep and Neur endocrine hears from parents an assistant professor of psychiatry and hears from anxious parents All the often Hes Able to assure them and offer simple but first he tries to find is the child having nightmares or night terrors to understand the difference Between nightmares and night it helps to know about the stages of sleep and what happens on a typical sleep can be divided into two states which is rapidly movement and no Rem no Rem sleep typically is separated into four stage 1 is the drowsy Onset of which quickly gives Way to stage then stages three and four the deepest no Rem we sleep in several times a night we emerge from stages three and two into a More Active state similar to stage this is Rem characterized by rapid Eye irregular breathing and heart and other physiological Rem sleep alternates with no Rem sleep every 60 to 90 depending on a persons age and other its during Rem sleep that we do most of our its also when we have our nightmares Are often confused with night terrors and Are a terrible worry to explains Richard nightmares Are and there basically dreams that have enough anxiety in them to Wake you up with a memory of the with a persistence of the feeling of says director of the Centre for paediatric sleep disorders at the childrens Hospital in the author of the 1985 Book solve your Childs sleep is widely recognized As the nations leading authority on childrens sleep he agrees occasional nightmares Are extremely especially during Early but says frequent nightmares Are so most of the time when people say their children Are having them four or five times a week though that can happen there really not there More like night Start like dream nightmares tend to occur in the second half of the when Rem sleep is most they Start out like any other Ferber usually toward the end of the it very quickly becomes and that leads to the anxiety and then the arousal a child who has had a Nightmare wakes up Alert and very frightened and can describe a detailed dream Story being chased through the school playground by a red nobody is aware the Nightmare is happening until the child wakes during a night on the other the child usually looks extremely terrified breathing heart even screaming and May appear to in the child int awake even if wont be Able to recall a dream just the feeling of night terrors Are partial awakenings from and occur Early in the night at the end of stage four which children generally get into deeper and longer than that Why night terrors Are much More common in but people of All As they emerge from stage almost always experience some Type of partial these can Range from sleepwalking to Subtle movements of arms and says Ferber you May open your eyes you May mumble you May turn Over and go Back to unless someones nobody aware it the classic night terror where a person starts with a piercing scream can be thought of As an intense exaggeration of nobody fully knows what causes nightmares and night says what we dont know exceeds what we the experts know a night terrors Are seen in several one being Normal they seem simply to relate to the fact that childrens sleep is so Ferber adding that the transition out of stage tour can be its like a Battle is one system is saying get the other is stay a partial wakening Ferber says that idea is supported by the fact that night terrors tend to diminish with usually by the Start of school or soon sleep is changing at this there is no set Dahl but after age nine they drop off Ferber says parents note that night terrors Are More common when the child is anxieties Are believed to play a we often see this in youngsters who tend to have really Strong feelings but who tend to keep them in sleep terrors Are More Likely to suggest psychological or physical same with though people of All Ages do occasionally have in some he nightmares like night terrors May be rooted in More serious anxieties or such As sexual what can you do when children Wake up in the night because of Ferber suggests parents be Calm and the main thing they need at night is that youre there and youre going to take care of dont quiz children the specifics of the dream can wait for dont poke fun or get stay with them for a while if sleep with or bring them into your bed for the with night terrors the key is to be As uninvolved As the Only intervention you should take is if its necessary to do something to keep them from hurting just let them go Back to some like psychiatric social worker Alice believe that letting frightened children sleep with the parents can become a i think that a dangerous step to because its harder to get them out of the says a Mother of four and an education specialist at the Parent child guidance feel Safe she ask them what they need in their room to make them feel something like a picture or the parents in Dahl i think parents reassuring their children about their sources of anxiety is very just spending time with children and allowing them to express their feelings May reduce nightmares and night its often even simpler to banish night terrors Dahl suggests parents keep the child on a regular sleep schedule and increase the total hours of maybe even by re instituting a All the pressure in the system tends to squeeze the sleep he Busy parents 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