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Don't blame Thanksgiving turkey for feeling sleepy
TRENTON, N.J. — Feel sleepy after a big Thanksgiving meal? Contrary to popular thinking, it's not the turkey's fault.
While there is an amino acid in turkey that induces sleepiness, experts say it's much more likely the reason you're tired after having Thanksgiving dinner is a combination of simple factors: you ate and drank too much and didn't sleep enough.
So don't blame the turkey.
"The poor turkeys have enough problems on Thanksgiving," said Dr. Carol Ash of Somerset Medical Center's Sleep for Life Center in Hillsborough, N.J.
The reason turkey gets blamed for making people sleepy is because it contains tryptophan, an amino acid that produces the brain chemical serotonin, which promotes calm and sleepiness. But as part of a big dinner, the tryptophan has a hard time reaching the brain.
Even if it did, "you'd have to ingest quite a number of turkeys" for it to have an effect, she said.
If the tiredness has anything to do with dinner, Ash said, it would be because of carbohydrates, which studies show are more likely to make people sleepy. And even that would only be a small factor, she said.
There's the travel, working longer days to get things done and lack of sleep, along with the carbs and alcohol, she said.
Overeating also contributes to feeling tired at Thanksgiving, said Joan Salge Blake, a registered dietitian and nutrition professor at Boston University.
"You're just eating a whole heck of a lot of foods and are stuffed," said Salge Blake.
On top of that, she added, you're "often just sitting around afterward, watching football."
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Got evil in-laws? 6 tips for a stress-free holiday
Dr. Gail Saltz gives ways to keep your Thanksgiving conflict-free
The holidays are regarded as a time for family togetherness and closeness. But what if your mother-in-law plants herself at your home for two weeks and takes control of everything holiday-related? Maybe she criticizes your every move — including your parenting — and constantly feeds the kids candy. Perhaps she brings them inappropriate and overdone gifts, leading them to expect or demand constant entertainment.
Then there are the in-laws who always insist you come to them, and while you really want the family to be together, packing up, traveling and living in someone else’s house with your kids is really murder. Don’t stress! The good news is that there are ways to cope with these unpalatable situations. Here are six things you can do to help ease the family tension this holiday season:
1. Pick off-peak times to travel and celebrate.
Traveling at peak times — whether it’s your journey or your in-laws’ — will cause lots of tension and subsequent crankiness in everyone. You are really just setting yourself up for disaster. So, pick off-days to travel and be together, even if it means not celebrating Thanksgiving Day with them, but instead the day after. The added relaxation you feel will be more important in the long run.
2. Less is more.
Come to a consensus on the number of days you think you can all tolerate being under the same roof — and stick to it. It’s better to end up wanting more time than to feel like you want to throw your guests out, or vice versa.
3. Be assertive.
Even if you are not the oldest member of your extended family, you are still an adult, and should be treated as such. If something is going on that you really are uncomfortable with (like your mother-in-law wants to spank your child and that’s unacceptable to you), then remain firm in your rules. Kids may need the structure of their usual schedules — especially when traveling. So despite what the in-laws say … stick to your rules.
4. Pick your battles.
When it comes to health, safety and basic family values, you really need to hold your ground. However, other family relationships really are important, so try to compromise on some matters. Let your relatives do some things their way to show them you respect them, too.
5. Work out disagreements ahead of time.
If trouble is brewing before the holiday, try to resolve the problem over the phone before the get-together to avoid a blowup for all to see.
6. Recognize the value in all your family relationships.
Try to be attentive to all your family relationships in between holidays, so that hurt and resentment don’t build up in between visits. That way, holiday gatherings will not be burdened with excessive expectations, and everyone can truly relax.
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In the futur my articles will be less long, when it is to long peoples dont read it, and i can anderstand that Vesuvia, have a good week everyone.
A United Nations report issued today by the world's top climate scientists said global warning was "very likely" man-made and would bring higher temperatures and a steady rise in sea levels for centuries to come regardless of how much the world slows or reduces its greenhouse gas emissions.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is made up of scientists from 113 countries, was created by the U.N. in 1988 and releases its assessments every five or six years.
"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widspread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level," said the IPCC report.
The panel's bleak 21-page report (PDF), released officially in Paris, was aimed at laying out the how, what and why of global warming, but not to offer remedies.
The report said man-made emissions of greenhouse gases can already be blamed for fewer cold days, hotter nights, killer heat waves, floods and heavy rains, devastating droughts, and an increase in hurricane and tropical storm strength — particularly in the Atlantic Ocean.
QUICK QUESTION: What's your biggest fear about global warming?
"It is critical that we look at this report ... as a moment where the focus of attention will shift from whether climate change is linked to human activity, whether the science is sufficient, to what on earth are we going to do about it," U.N. Environment Program executive director Achim Steiner said.
"The public should not sit back and say 'There's nothing we can do'," Steiner said. "Anyone who would continue to risk inaction on the basis of the evidence presented here will one day in the history books be considered irresponsible."
Another report by the panel later this year will address the most effective measures for slowing global warming.
In Washington, D.C., Ben Dunham, staff attorney for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group said the report, as a consensus document, was necessarily conservative in its projections. But even as a best case scenario, he said, "it still paints a pretty scary picture —some sections read like the Book of Revelations."
Dunham said he found some parts hopeful in that the scientists indicated that emission controls can have a significant impact on global warming. "Now that we've heard from the world's top scientists, now it's time for Congress to act," he said.
The report was blunt in its findings. If it looks bad now, the harmful effects during the 21st century "would very likely be larger than those observed during the 20th century," the report said.
The panel predicted temperature rises of 2 to 11.5°F by the year 2100. That was a wider range than in the 2001 report. However, the panel also said its best estimate was for temperature rises of 3.2 to 7.1°F.
On sea levels, the report projects rises of 7-23 inches by the end of the century. An additional 3.9-7.8 inches are possible if recent, surprising melting of polar ice sheets continues.
"The situation is more dire than (at the time of the 2001 report) because we have real possibilities that the situation can be much greater than we have seen before," said co-author Kevin Trenberth, director of climate analysis at the U.S National Center for Atmospheric Research.
A colleague from the center, Gerry Miehl, warned that continued global warming could eventually lead to an "ice-free Arctic."
And the report said no matter how much civilization slows or reduces its greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and sea level rise will continue on for centuries.
"This is just not something you can stop. We're just going to have to live with it," co-author Kevin Trenberth, director of climate analysis for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said in an interview. "We're creating a different planet. If you were to come up back in 100 years time, we'll have a different climate."
Scientists worry that world leaders will take that message in the wrong way and throw up their hands, Trenberth said. That would be wrong, he said. Instead, the scientists urged leaders to reduce emissions and also adapt to a warmer world with wilder weather.
"The point here is to highlight what will happen if we don't do something and what will happen if we do something," co-author Jonathan Overpeck at University of Arizona said. "I can tell if you will decide not to do something the impacts will be much larger than if we do something."
"You make a difference on hundred of years time frame, but this is the future of the planet," Trenberth told the Associated Press. "We have to adapt to it."
Trenberth said the world is paying more attention to scientists now than in previous warnings in 1990, 1995 and 2001. "The tension is more now," he said.
The head of the U.S. delegation, White House associate science adviser Sharon Hays, called the panel's summary "a significant report. It will be valuable to policymakers."
In Washington, Stephen Johnson, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, said the report "marks a great day for the scientific body of knowledge on climate change."
Joseph Romm, author of Hell and High Water: Global Warming, The Solution and the Politics, called the report "solid and scary."
Romm, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Washington think-tank, said a standout concern for the USA is the finding that climate change is likely to raise the intensity and rainfall from hurricanes and other tropical cyclones, a point of great debate since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and the onslaught of storms in Florida in 2004.
That makes the report?s discussion of sea-level rise ?disappointing,? Romm said, because it narrows and lowers the expected range of the oceans? rise even as recent research shows Greenland and Antarctica losing masses of ice that could raise the world?s waters.
Romm said recent sea-level science not included in the report because it came out after the deadline of more than a year ago suggests a 5-inches-a-year rise after the year 2100, ?which is devastating. How do you adapt to that? We?re going to have to triage a lot of major cities here, particularly when you throw in the increased intensity and increasing rain events? of hurricanes.
As the IPCC report was being released, environmental activists repelled off a Paris bridge and draped a banner over a statue used often as a popular gauge of whether the Seine River is running high.
"Alarm bells are ringing. The world must wake up to the threat posed by climate change," said Catherine Pearce of Friends of the Earth.
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Maybe China government likes it's peoples more then i tought?? Sorry for saying this, but i dont have confidence of chinese government. Personal opinion. Vesuvia.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A powerful storm drenched China's southeast coast Sunday after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the mainland to evacuate more than 1 million people, the government announced.rnKrosa, which earlier was a typhoon, hit land at 3:30 p.m. in densely populated Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, the Zhejiang weather bureau reported on its website. There was no immediate word of injuries or damage.rnrnAt 6 p.m., Krosa — the Cambodian word for crane — was a tropical storm. It had sustained winds of 66 mph, with gusts up to 89 mph at that time, according to the Zhejiang weather bureau's deputy director, who would give only his surname, Wang.rnrnMore than 1 million people were evacuated from low-lying coastal areas, including more than 500,000 tourists who were at beach resorts for the National Day holiday week, the official Xinhua News Agency said.rnrnKrosa killed five people in Taiwan on Saturday as it knocked out power to 2 million homes and drenched the island, according to Taiwan's Disaster Relief Center.rnrnFIND MORE STORIES IN: China | Xinhua News Agency | Taiwan | AFP | Taipei | Typhoon | Fujian | Zhejiang | Weather Bureau | Hsinchu | Tainan rnTwo men were killed in suburban Taipei when a landslide buried their house, the center said. A man died after falling from his balcony in Hsinchu and a woman was electrocuted after falling from her motorcycle in Tainan. The center said a man's body was recovered from a hostel that was hit by a landslide in Ilan and another man was missing.rnrnEarly Sunday, China's coast guard rescued 27 sailors from a Hong Kong freighter that suffered mechanical failure after it was hit by Krosa off the port of Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Xinhua said.rnrnSchools were closed and airline flights canceled in Wenzhou, which lay in the storm's path, Xinhua said. The city ordered fishing boats, ferries and sightseeing boats to return to port.rnrnAuthorities warned of possible mudslides in Fujian, which was hit by torrential rains ahead of Krosa's arrival, Xinhua said.rnrnIn Shanghai, where the Special Olympics is taking place, the city government canceled vacations for flood-control workers and was drafting plans to drain competition sites, the agency said.rnrnIn Vietnam, the death toll from an earlier storm, Typhoon Lekima — which hit the country's central coast late Wednesday — rose to 46, with another 29 people missing, officials said Sunday.rnrnLekima, named after a local fruit, also damaged about 77,000 homes, the government said.
'Strong like Saddam' personal opinion: was he really strong!! i dought it. ok the real news now
'Strong like Saddam'
Oct. 15, 2007 issue - Kanan al-Sadid was not yet 10 years old on the afternoon that his father opened the trunk of the family car and Saddam Hussein popped out. It was the early 1960s, and the future dictator was hiding out from the Iraqi authorities, who accused him of plotting to assassinate the country's then strongman, Gen. Abdul Karim Qassim. Kanan's uncle was a member of Saddam's revolutionary Baath Party clique; when the conspirators needed to lie low, they would disappear to the Sadid family estate near the Syrian border. Once, when Syrian soldiers came looking for the men, Saddam and the boy's father ducked into a linen closet. Another time, as the family Volkswagen approached an Iraqi Army checkpoint, Saddam ordered all the children in the car to blow on the windows, steaming them up to conceal the fugitives. While visiting a family home in Baghdad one afternoon, Kanan's father told his sons to get into the car; they were going to a park to play. But after driving around for a while, the car stopped, the boy's father opened the trunk and Saddam Hussein—curled up and dressed in a dishdasha—stepped out and walked off. Kanan's father drove away in silence. "When are we going to the park?" the deflated boy asked. "Keep your mouth shut," his father replied.
Almost 50 years later—and with Saddam in his grave—Kanan's hometown of Tikrit is still a nest of intrigue. As head of one of the most powerful branches of Iraq's massive Shammer tribe, Kanan, 49, can urge thousands of men to take up arms—or, with a few words, keep them at home. After the U.S. invasion, he rounded up some 1,200 loyalists and helped them enlist in the new Iraqi Army. In recent years Kanan—who wears a silver pinkie ring and snaps the lapels of his pin-striped suit coat when he's punctuating a point—has founded a satellite television station, launched a construction company and renovated a nearby sports stadium. ("Olympic pool," he says, his eyes widening.) Yet the necessary tactics for survival as a strongman in modern Iraq sometimes seem to change from hour to hour. Iraqis, he says, are once again looking for the kind of martinet he knew as a boy. "They want somebody strong like Saddam," Kanan told NEWSWEEK last week in an interview near Tikrit. "Power and money—that's how you [rule] Iraq. If I became like the Prince of Dubai, I would control Iraqis like a remote control."
The U.S. military discovered too late that Iraq's tangled network of tribal leaders is a major key to security. Yet over the past year, "government from the bottom up" has become one of Ambassador Ryan Crocker's favorite catchphrases. As violence has declined in Sunni enclaves like Ramadi and Fallujah in recent months, commanders have tried to replicate the apparent success of the region's Anbar Salvation Council elsewhere. Last summer American military commanders spent millions of dollars on "concerned local citizens" programs—essentially paying off tribal sheiks to keep their followers from planting roadside bombs. In Tikrit's Salah Ad Din province, the Army has spent more than $5 million to buy the loyalty of 26 different sheiks. (Kanan is not among them, although another sheik from the same family is.) With Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's central government weaker than ever—unable to provide basic services even to Baghdad—power brokers in the provinces are enjoying something of a renaissance. That's fine with Kanan al-Sadid. "We have to get rid of central control," he says, exhaling a cloud of French-cigarette smoke.
More on msnbc.msn.com from News Week:By Kevin Peraino
Newsweek, on msnbc.com
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Police: Florida teen ran away to meet man she believed was in 20, not 46.
ORLANDO, Fla. - A sex offender accused of running off with a 15-year-old Florida girl has been arrested, police said Saturday. The girl was released at a Wal-Mart store this week.
William Joe Mitchell, 46, was arrested by Virginia State Police at a gas station in Winchester, Va., according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in central Florida.
Mitchell is being held without bond at the Frederick County regional jail, said Corinne Geller, spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police.
State police were notified in midmorning that the U.S. Marshals Service had tracked Mitchell to a truck stop on Interstate 81, near the West Virginia border. Four state troopers surrounded Mitchell and took him into custody without incident around noon.
Mitchell was being served federal and state warrants, none from Virginia, said Geller, who had no further details. She did not know whether he had a lawyer.
Teen said she was in love
The 15-year-old girl spurred a statewide manhunt when she sneaked out of her house before dawn on Monday. She told friends she was running away for love, to be with a boy she met online. She believed Mitchell was in his early 20s.
The Associated Press is not naming the girl because she is a suspected sexual abuse victim.
Police believe heavy publicity in the hours after the girl disappeared pressured him into dropping her off at a Wal-Mart in the Florida Panhandle.
The girl told authorities Mitchell had a handgun and said he would kill her if she drew attention to herself in the store. He told her he was going to another part of the store and would meet her in five minutes, then disappeared, authorities said.
Mitchell had 14 prior arrests ranging from burglary and bomb threats to lewd and lascivious conduct, police said.
The girl ran away the day a new Florida law took effect making the state’s sex predator penalties some of the toughest in the nation.
The law requires offenders to register e-mail and instant message handles with authorities, information that will be shared with social networking sites like Myspace.com. The state also tripled the maximum sentences to 15 years for soliciting minors for sex and possessing child pornography.
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Burma junta ramps up crackdown
Burma's military leaders stepped up pressure on monks who spearheaded pro-democracy rallies.
Olmert updates Cabinet on talks
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Cabinet on Sunday that an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference will not replace direct...
Out-of-wedlock births can prove fatal for Kurd women
By Christopher Torchia, Associated Press
Honor killings, driven by the view that a family's honor is paramount, are an ancient tradition associated with Kurdish regions of Iraq,...
Tamil rebel ship sunk; 12 killed
Sri Lanka's navy sank a ship suspected of carrying arms for separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, killing at least 12 people aboard Sunday....
28 killed in bus, train crash in Cuba
A bus collided with a train in eastern Cuba, killing at least 28 people and injuring another 73, including 15 reported to be in critical...
Government triumph in Sri Lanka's civil war leaves chaos
Thirteen years of ruthless Tamil Tiger rule may be over, Sri Lankans say, yet killings, kidnappings and extortion continue to plague daily...
U.S. Navy medical ship sails home after 4-month mission
Defense Secretary Robert Gates paid tribute Saturday to the doctors, nurses and crew of the USNS Comfort on the final day of a four-month...
Darfur rebel chief may skip peace talks
A key Darfur rebel leader warned Saturday his movement will not attend peace talks this month in Libya unless the U.N. and the African...
Japan denies report of Afghanistan withdrawal
The Japanese Defense Ministry said the government hopes parliament will approve an extension.
U.S. detains Shiite leader accused of attacks
A militia commander blamed for sectarian cleansing was captured north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
Musharraf sweeps election, awaits court approval
Voting results showed Pakistan's military leader sweeping the presidential election, but the Supreme Court could still disqualify him.
Hamas PM urges Saudi Arabia, Egypt to skip peace talks
The head of the Hamas government in Gaza urged Arab nations not to attend a U.S.-hosted Mideast conference in the fall, saying in an...
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BAGHDAD — Since he started selling newspapers on the streets of Baghdad 17 years ago, Juma'a al-Quraishi has witnessed something truly miraculous — the emergence of a vibrant and largely free press.
Under Saddam Hussein, there were no more than seven newspapers, all of which served to glorify the regime, al-Quraishi says. Now there are about 50 papers in Iraq, from the popular al-Mashriq — a mix of news and entertainment — to broadsheets put out by religious groups and political leaders.
"My love for newspapers and the world of journalism pushed me to start this career," says al-Quraishi, 33, as he sets out his newspapers for sale on the sidewalk of Sa'adoun Street in central Baghdad.
One of al-Quraishi's most lucrative days came in December 2003, when Saddam was captured. That day, he sold about 800 newspapers — a hundred more copies than he sold three years later on the day Saddam was executed. The free press flourished immediately after Saddam fell, with as many as 250 newspapers in circulation at one point, al-Quraishi says, until the industry began to become more competitive.
"Many of (the newspapers) either lost credibility or their funding sources, and also people started to figure out which papers were honest and which papers were closest to the sufferings of the people," al-Quraishi says.
Overall, newspaper sales have slumped during the past year, he says. Many of his most loyal readers — "people who are addicted to read the news every day … journalists, poets and businessmen" — have fled Iraq because of deteriorating security.
Iraqi journalists also are at risk. At least 93 have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, according to the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
The vendors have their own problems. Along with the intense desert heat, they must contend with the assassinations, roadside bombs and car crashes that have become part of Baghdad's street life.
"This business is one of the riskiest jobs in Baghdad," says Ali Lazim Lafta, 29, who sells newspapers in the Karrada district. "Every time I leave my home in the morning I am 95% sure that I will not make it back home."
Sectarian violence has led many ethnic or religious groups to start producing their own newspapers — and it is difficult for the vendors not to take sides. Al-Quraishi refuses to sell Shiite newspapers in Sunni neighborhoods, and vice versa.
The day starts for vendors at about 5 a.m., when they head to a distribution center near Baghdad's al-Mustansiriya University. They start selling papers at about 6 a.m.
Al-Quraishi buys about 250 papers every day for resale. His most popular product is the state-run al-Sabah, of which he purchases 50 copies per day.
Lafta would prefer different work, but "there are no available good and safe jobs that I can do," he says.
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