Inside The Inland Empire

Falling back has its downsides

Article Launched:10/28/2006 12:00:00 AM PDT

Since its unofficial debut in 1884, springing forward and falling back for daylight-saving has powerful potential.

According to the California Energy Commission, the simple act of changing a clock twice a year has resulted in saving lives and energy as well as preventing traffic accidents and crime.

It even has the power to make tonight's sleep feel one hour longer.

But sleep experts are slow to praise the idea of changing time, with some saying the gift of an extra hour during the last week in October can have detrimental effects on snoozing habits.

"There is an internal clock in our bodies," said Dr. Dennis Nicholson, physician and medical director of Pomona Valley Hospital's Sleep Center. "The suprachiasmatic nucleus in our brain is a clock that regularly causes certain hormones to be released at a certain time."

Nicholson said there have been numerous studies conducted on the process of shifting our clocks and changing the level of hormones.

"Our brain releases the hormone melatonin, which tells us to go to sleep earlier and get up earlier," he said.

In the daylight-saving time process, which has been compared to jet lag, Nicholson believes that participants are forced to go to sleep at a different time than when their clock is ready.

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4563190
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Apparently a new member signed up just so he could rant about how unhappy he is about how Carpet Wagon has mistreated him (or her?)

I guess next time i need carpet or wood flooring i know where NOT to go.. I'm sure that other place in Terra Vista is better.

Read the entire rant here: Carpet Wagon Mistreats Customers
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Orange county coastal areas-san Diego county coastal areas-
san Bernardino and riverside county valleys-the inland empire-
san Diego county valleys-san Bernardino county mountains-
riverside county mountains-Santa Ana mountains and foothills-
san Diego county mountains-apple and Lucerne valleys-
Coachella valley-san Diego county deserts-
540 am pdt thu OCT. 12 2006

...showers and thunderstorms possible Friday and Saturday...

A low pressure system moving slowly southward today off the central
and southern coast of California...is expected to move slowly
eastward Friday...moving inland across southwest California Friday
night. On its current track...this system would bring the first
widespread measurable precipitation to southwest California this
fall season.

While there is still some uncertainty on the timing and track of
this system...the center of this system is currently expected to
track across southwest California Friday night bringing a period of
showers and thunderstorms. Precipitation is possible as early as
during the day Friday...but the most likely period for precipitation
will be from late Friday afternoon through early Saturday. The
showers are expected to decrease Saturday afternoon and end Saturday
night or early Sunday as the system moves east into Arizona.

Preliminary rainfall amounts are for one quarter to one half inch.
However...given the convective nature of the precipitation...amounts
are expected to be highly variable with locally greater amounts
possible. Snow levels will be high in advance of the system...above
10000 feet...but may lower briefly to 7000 or 7500 feet late Friday
night and early Saturday with snowfall of a few inches possible on
the highest peaks. In advance of the system through Friday...winds
may gust to around 25 mph at times in the mountains.

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MARTIN

EDIS-10-12-06 0543 PDT
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