Researchers uncover biochemical chain of events needed to maintain an erection

ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? For two decades, scientists have known the biochemical factors that trigger penile erection, but not what's needed to maintain one. Now an article by Johns Hopkins researchers, scheduled to be published this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), uncovers the biochemical chain of events involved in that process. The information, they say, may lead to new therapies to help men who have erectile dysfunction.

"We've closed a gap in our knowledge," says Arthur Burnett, M.D., professor of urology at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the senior author of the study article. "We knew that the release of the chemical nitric oxide, a neurotransmitter that is produced in nerve tissue, triggers an erection by relaxing muscles that allow blood to fill the penis. We thought that was just the initial stimulus. In our research, we wanted to understand what happens next to enable that erection to be maintained."

In a study of mice, Burnett and his colleagues found a complex positive feedback loop in the penile nerves that triggers waves of nitric oxide to keep the penis erect. He says they now understand that the nerve impulses that originate from the brain and from physical stimulation are sustained by a cascade of chemicals that are generated during the erection following the initial release of nitric oxide. "The basic biology of erections at the rodent level is the same as in humans," he says.

The key finding is that after the initial release of nitric oxide, a biochemical process called phosphorylation takes place to continue its release and sustain the erection.

In a landmark study published in the journal Science in 1992, Burnett and his Johns Hopkins co-author, Solomon S. Snyder, M.D., professor of neuroscience (who is also an author on the current study), showed for the first time that nitric oxide is produced in penile tissue. Their study demonstrated the key role of nitric oxide as a neurotransmitter responsible for triggering erections.

"Now, 20 years later, we know that nitric oxide is not just a blip here or there, but instead it initiates a cyclic system that continues to produce waves of the neurotransmitter from the penile nerves," says Burnett.

With this basic biological information, it may be possible, according to Burnett, to develop new medical approaches to help men with erection problems caused by such factors as diabetes, vascular disease or nerve damage from surgical procedures. Such new approaches could be used to intervene earlier in the arousal process than current medicines approved to treat erectile dysfunction.

In particular, Burnett says, "The target for new therapies would be the protein kinase A (PKA) phosphorylation of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS). Now that we know the mechanism for causing the 'activated' form of nNOS in penile nerves, we can develop agents that exploit this mechanism to help with erection difficulties."

One of the agents studied by the researchers was forskolin, an herbal compound that has been used to relax muscle and widen heart vessels. They found that forskolin also ramps up nerves and can help keep nitric oxide flowing to maintain an erection.

"It has been a 20-year journey to complete our understanding of this process," says Snyder. "Now it may be possible to develop therapies to enhance or facilitate the process."

The new study, "Cyclic AMP Dependent Phosphorylation of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Mediates Penile Erection," was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under grant number RO1DK067223.

In addition to Burnett and Snyder, the study article's authors are K. Joseph Hurt from the University of Colorado, Sena F. Sezen, Gwen F. Lagoda and Biljana Musicki from Johns Hopkins, and Gerald A. Rameau from Morgan State University.

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Croatian War Victims Ask for Serbian President's Help :: Balkan Insight

The Croatian ambassador to Belgrade passed on a letter from the NGO ?Association of Jurists Vukovar 1991? to President Nikolic on Tuesday.

"We are asking you to use your authority to help us establish the truth about the events that took place in 1991 and 1992, and to allow us to visit Stajicevo on October 6, to light a candle for all those killed, " wrote the NGO.

This is the third attempt by the association to organise a visit by former prisoners to Stajicevo, a village near the town of Zrenjanin.? The prisoners from Vukovar were imprisoned in a barn in the village after Serbian forces crushed the Croatian resistance and captured the city in November 1991.

In 2009, the local authorities in Zrenjanin gave the NGO go ahead to organise a visit. The Serbian state authorities also said that an organised visit by the ex-prisoners would be allowed.

The trip was cancelled, however, just a few days before the visit, because Serbian war veteran's associations had announced that they would demonstrate against the event.

According to the Croatian government, more than three thousand prisoners captured in Croatia were taken to prison camps in Serbia and Montenegro during the war, and more than five hundred to prisons in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Colonel Ivan Grujic, an assistant to the Croatian war veterans ministry, appeared as an expert witness about those events at the trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Milan Martic at the Hague Tribunal, ICTY.

Grujic also testified at the ICTY trial of the JNA officers Mile Mrksic, Miroslav Radic and Veselin Sljivancanin, who were tried for war crimes in Vukovar.

In an interview with Novi list, a Croatian daily newspaper, in February last year, Grujic stated that "Croatian prisoners of war and civilians were imprisoned in 64 camps and prisons, located in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Hercegovina and the formerly occupied territories of Croatia.

?These camps were established between July and October 1991, and there's no doubt that that their use was pre-planned, part of a highly organised and unified prison system controlled by the then Yugoslav national army, the JNA", Grujic said.

The current mayor of Vukovar, Zeljko Sabo, was one of the prisoners who were taken to Serbia, as was the current Croatian war veteran's minister, Predrag Matic.

Both men were captured in Vukovar after the fall of the city on November 18, 1991, and were imprisoned in Stajicevo, Sremska Mitrovica and Nis. They were released on August 14, 1992, after an exchange of prisoners of war was arranged between between Croatia and then Yugoslavia.

The Serbian authorities have never admitted to the existence of prisoner of war camps on their soil.

Croatian prosecutors filed an indictment in 2010 against the JNA general Aleksandar Vasiljevic, who commanded the JNA counterintelligence service, KOS, during the war, and Colonel Miroslav Zivanovic for war crimes committed in the camps.

Nineteen prisoners were killed, many women raped and many prisoners tortured, the indictment claims. It was sent to the Serbian Special prosecutor for war crimes in Belgrade, whose office has stated that it has begun preliminary investigations, ?based on the indictment.

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How Twitter Gets Me 100's of Qualified Real

Next, Follow as many people as you can.? To do this, look under the Follow/Unfollow Users menu and click where it says Follow.? In the part of the screen where it says ?Send Follows Now? in blue text, set the number to a very high number (eg. 5000) and set the Time Delay Between Follows to 1-23 seconds.? Then click the Start button in this area to commence the automated Follow procedure.

From Day 3 onward, do everything that you did in Day 2 every day.

This may all sound complicated, but once you get the hang of it (and you should pretty quickly) it will all be very simple and easy for you to do.? Once you have this system in place and have your list of people to follow, the maximum amount of time you?ll need to spend with Tweet Adder each day is about 5 minutes.

So that brings us to the next part of our Twitter network building efforts.? We need to ask ourselves: who do we want to be in our network?? These will be the people we want to follow on a daily basis.

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We all know that real estate sales reps rely heavily on each other: when we have a listing we rely on a buyer rep, and when we?re representing a buyer we?re looking to other rep?s listings for their dream home.? So the #1 spot to get buyer or seller prospects for your business is your local competitors.

Start with finding your most direct local competitors (IE the reps who regularly work your farm area).? You will already know many of them by name.? Look up the websites of brokerages in your farm area, find the twitter link of each sales rep at those brokerages, and follow all of them.? If the Twitter links are not on the brokerage sites then visit each sales rep?s website and find the Twitter account info there.? Also find the Twitter account for each of these brokerages (assuming it exists).? This will likely have many if not all the sales reps from that office following that account.? This is a great way to speed up your search for local sales reps, especially when they?re large brokerages.

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Workshop Helps Local Companies Plan for Disaster?And Recovery ...

How would your company fare in a disaster? And how would you recover from it?

If you?re looking answers to these questions, it may do you good to stop by the Four Points Sheraton on Route 19 today.

DQE Communications, which provides fiber optic network servicesis joining three other local technology firms to host a disaster recovery workshop from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the hotel.

Another installment of the workshop will be held Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Southpointe Golf Club.

The host firms are Data Recovery Services LLC, a provider of cloud computing, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, VMware, a virtualization software vendor, and EMC, a data storage solutions provider.

The events will focus on the importance of a disaster recovery plan and how changes in technology have made these plans more affordable.

??Natural disasters, such as a power outage caused by strong storms, or ?IT disasters?, such as a massive network failure, can wipe out irreplaceable data and literally destroy a successful business,? said Lisa Williams, manager of marketing and wholesale services for DQE Communications. ?Understandably, companies of all sizes often are concerned about how their crucial information can be stored and recovered following a disaster."

Williams said the workshop is designed to provide affordable business continuity information and solutions to mid-market companies.

The event is open to everyone, she said. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required. For more information, or to register, visit www.drsllc.net/events.

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How can humans touch Mars? Bring back a soil sample.

A new report from NASA suggests that the agency prioritize bringing samples back from Mars to Earth for study. NASA will not make a specific plan for how they'll achieve this goal until after the president releases his 2014 budget in February. ?

By Mike Wall,?SPACE.com / September 25, 2012

This artist's concept shows a rendezvous in Mars orbit between a small container holding Red Planet samples and a vehicle that will fly them back to Earth.

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The next steps in NASA's Mars exploration strategy should build toward returning Martian rocks and dirt to Earth to search for signs of past life, a new report by the space agency's Red Planet planning group finds.

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The report, released today (Sept. 25) by the?Mars Program Planning Group?(MPPG), lays out a series of options that NASA could employ to get pieces of the Red Planet in scientists' hands here on Earth. The space agency is now mulling those options and could announce its chosen path by early next year, when the White House releases its proposed budget for fiscal year 2014.

"The first public release of what plans, you know, we definitively have would not be until the president presents that budget to Congress in February of 2013," John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA?s Science Mission Directorate, told reporters today.

NASA put together the MPPG this past March to help?restructure its Mars strategy?in the wake of cuts to the space agency's robotic exploration program.

The MPPG was instructed to consider NASA's newly constrained fiscal situation and the priorities laid out by the U.S. National Research Council's Planetary Decadal Survey, which was released last year. President Barack Obama's directive that the agency get astronauts to the vicinity of?Mars?by the mid-2030s was another factor, NASA officials said.

The MPPG's focus on sample-return should thus come as no surprise. It was a top priority of the Decadal Survey, and sample-return could help spur and work in concert with NASA's plans for human exploration of Mars, Grunsfeld said. [7 Biggest Mysteries of Mars]

"Sample-return?represents the best opportunity to find symmetry technologically between the programs," he said. "Sending a mission to go to Mars and return a sample looks a lot like sending a crew to Mars and returning them safely."

Humans could even be involved in the sample-return process, according to the MPPG report. Astronauts aboard NASA's?Orion capsule, which is currently under development, could intercept the Martian sample in deep space, secure it in a contained environment, and bring it safely down to Earth.

"It is taking advantage of the human architecture, because we anticipate it will be there," Grunsfeld said. "And it potentially solves an issue of, when we return samples, somewhere we have to make sure that the samples are completely contained so there's no chance ? remote as it may be ? that there is something on Mars that could contaminate Earth."

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Collectables - The Gerber Babies Blog Product Reviews and ...

I live in a small corner of the world filled with drivers suffering from road rage and shoppers that flock to sales as part of a massive, and sometimes angry mob. I keep my sanity (and stay happy) by doing the majority of my shopping online. Maybe that's how I keep my husband happy too. He doesn't get pushed and pulled by the crowds and he doesn't have to fight for a spot on a bench?outside the department stores?while I window shop or go on a shopping spree. Online shopping is much more pleasant and with a few clicks, I can be at my favorite store within seconds. My UK friends usually have access to sites I envy. It's not fair when I fall in love with something new and then find out I can't have it delivered here. I was thrilled when I found Collectables online and stumbled upon the words international delivery. While they have many of my favorite items that I can find here in the states, they have a few that I can't. Right now, their Kipling Bags are on sale. I have one and I love to use it when I travel. It's lightweight and perfect for all seasons. I like using it for theme parks and other adventures where I may stay dry...or not. The material seems to dry out quickly and they are very durable! Plus, there is a place for everything!!! They also have Yankee Candle products which I burn everyday. I love Fresh Cut Roses!!!?Collectables has a few kitchen products that I haven't seen before. Their Taylor Eye Witness Slanted Knife Block is just what I need to add a little life into my kitchen. It makes quite the statement! It's on sale right now and you can save 50%!
They have Ribbonwick Candles (have you seen these?!?) in several different shapes and sizes. I want one for myself and maybe another?give to a friend. If I like it as much as I think I will, I'll have to rethink the gift for my friend! I also loved their kitchen linens. I have a drawer full of tea towels, but I could always use a few more. Visit Collectables online or at one of their store?locations. They offer secure online shopping and easy returns!

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Nina Dobrev Reveals Whose Closet She'd Love to Raid

As one of Hollywood's rising starlets, Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev is no slouch in the style department. But even though the actress always brings her A-game to the red carpet, she still finds herself envying the wardrobes of some of her peers.

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Kinect-based wearable gadget makes maps in real time

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In a twist, researchers are leveraging technology developed for robots to turn humans into real-time digital map makers. The development could help firefighters rescue people trapped in buildings or the military hunt down terrorists.

The contraption hangs over a person?s chest and uses a suite of sensors that includes a laser range finder and Microsoft Kinect to create a digital map as a person explores their environment, according to the developers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.?

The maps can be sent wirelessly to a remote base station and, as seen in the video clip below, are continually expanded and refined as more data is gathered. A click of a button designates points of interest ? such as a damaged wall or door to a room with servers full of sensitive information.

Absent from the video is footage showing the system?s ability to measure altitude, allowing maps of multiple-story buildings.

The technology stems from a branch of robotics known as simultaneous localization and mapping that has been adapted for human use to account for things such as the jostling movements of footsteps versus the smooth roll of a robot, for example.

The current prototype is about the size of a tablet computer, but could be shrunk to coffee cup size, according to the research team.

The human-portable map-making system was developed with a hazmat situation in mind ?where people are suited up with the full suit and the go in and explore an environment,? Maurice Fallon, a research scientist at MIT, said in a news release. ?

While certainly true, the project was supported by the U.S. Air Force and Office of Naval Research, suggesting this technology could find its way to urban battlefields.?

A paper on the system will be presented at the Intelligent Robots and Systems conference in Portugal this October.

John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. To learn more about him, check out his website. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/kinect-based-wearable-gadget-makes-maps-real-time-1B6095202

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Tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea have intensified due to earlier monsoon onset

ScienceDaily (Sep. 21, 2012) ? The tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea during the pre-monsoon season (May -- June) have intensified since 1997 compared to 1979 -- 1997. This has been attributed to decreased vertical wind shear due to the dimming effects of increased anthropogenic black carbon and sulfate emissions in the region. The decrease in vertical wind shear, however, is not the result of these emissions, but due to a 15-day on average earlier occurrence of tropical cyclones, according to a study spearheaded by Bin Wang at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa and published in "Brief Communications Arising" in the September 20, 2012, issue of Nature.

"About 90% of the pre-monsoon tropical cyclones occur during a small widow in late spring. The mean date during which the cyclones with maximum intensity occur has advanced from June 8 in the earlier period to May 24 in the second period," explains Bin Wang. "This advance has been accompanied by a significant decrease in vertical wind shear, which leads to tropical cyclone intensification, because large vertical wind shear is most destructive to intensification."

"The ultimate reason for this earlier occurrence of storms and their intensification is the tendency we have noticed for the southwesterly monsoon to begin earlier in recent years," says Wang. "This earlier monsoon onset is related to the greater warming of the Asian landmass than the ocean and thus an increased temperature ocean-land contrast over the last years. This greater temperature difference may strengthen the monsoon and create more favorable conditions for the formation of tropical cyclones."

"All the changes that we see in the pre-monsoon storms and the earlier monsoon onset since the late 90s, can be the result either of natural variability, namely the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, or of warming effects due to greater greenhouse gas emissions, but not the effect of increased aerosols. Only time and more research will tell."

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Importance Of Positive Attitude And Thinking | Motivation - Self Help ...

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Positive attitude can do great things, it can make possible what's seemingly impossible for the others. There's an intimate link between success & positive disposition. Your intellect is a machine of thoughts and concepts, if you do not fill it up with positive, galvanizing and motivating thoughts, it will turn into a jungle of destructive thoughts.

Folks with a negative perspective have a difficult time keeping friendships, roles and relations. They make a negative environment at home and work and become a liability to society.There is something positive in every person and every scenario. Sometimes we have to dig deep to look for the positive because it may not be obvious.

Self-image is the way that we feel about ourselves. When we feel really good inside, our performance goes up, relations improve both at home and at work. Then the world looks a pleasanter place. There's a direct correlation between feeling and behavior. Whenever folk achieve success in life, petty folks will take cracks at them and try to pull them down. To fight petty folks, you have got to come down to their level. Don't let negative people drag you down. When you refuse to battle petty people, you win. Remember, a person?s personality is not just judged by the company he or she keeps but also by the company he or she avoids.

So if you'd like to achieve success in your life, you ought to have a positive attitude and to build your confidence and to increase your self worth you should really know about your own ?X factor?. If you haven't discovered your X factor until now, then ?Mr Presenter? ? is the solution to your problem. He is a widely recognized and very experienced tutor. He knows very well how to bring out the best out of folk.

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Congress exits Washington to hit campaign trail

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The most partisan, least productive Congress in memory has skipped out of Washington for the campaign trail.

The Senate shuttered the Capitol soon after sending President Barak Obama stopgap spending legislation that will make sure the government won't shut down on Oct. 1. It passed early Saturday morning by a 62-30 vote.

Left behind for a postelection session is a pile of unfinished business on the budget and taxes, farm policy and legislation to save the Postal Service from insolvency.

The GOP-controlled House had beat its retreat Friday morning after taking one last, futile slap at Obama ? passing a bill entitled the "Stop the War on Coal Act." The measure, dead on arrival in the Senate, was aimed at boosting the coal industry in its battle against new environmental regulations while hurting Obama's political prospects in coal states like Ohio and Virginia.

The Democratic-controlled Senate's middle-of-the-night session came after a spitting match between Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and the chamber's Republicans over Reid's insistence on advancing legislation by Sen. Jon Tester of Montana to boost access to public lands for hunting and fishing. Tester is perhaps the Senate's most endangered Democrat and Republicans protested that he was being given special treatment in a nakedly political move to boost his reelection chances. The measure eventually cleared a procedural hurdle on a sweeping 84-7 vote.

The votes came at midnight to give senators who had scattered from Washington time to return. Democrat Claire McCaskill was in Missouri Friday for a debate, while Michael Bennet, D-Colo., had been in the southwest portion of his state to attend a ceremony celebrating the new Chimney Rock National Monument. Tea party star Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was venting his frustrations with American Airlines on Twitter.

The only must-do item on the get-out-of-Dodge agenda was a six-month spending measure to fulfill the bare minimum of Congress' responsibilities by keeping the government running after the current budget year ends on Sept. 30.

The spending measure permits spending on agency operating budgets at levels agreed to under last summer's hard-fought budget and debt deal between Obama and Capitol Hill Republicans. That's 0.6 percent increase from current spending rates, which represents a defeat for House Republicans, who had sought to cut about 2 percent below the budget deal and shift $8 billion from domestic programs to the Pentagon.

Reid also relented to a monthslong demand by tea party Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for a vote on suspending foreign aid to the governments of Libya, Egypt and Pakistan. Paul only got 10 votes. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., however, won sweeping approval of a nonbinding resolution supporting steps to make sure Iran doesn't develop a nuclear weapon.

It's the earliest pre-election exit by Congress from Washington since 1960, though lawmakers will return in November after the election to deal with its stack of unfinished work.

The approval rating for the current Congress in a Gallup poll earlier this month sank to just 13 percent, the lowest ever for an election year. The GOP-controlled House and Democratic Senate managed to come together with Obama to enact just 173 new laws. More are coming after the election, but the current tally is roughly half the output of a typical Congress.

Even so, political pundits say Republicans are strong favorites to keep the House while Democratic chances of keeping the Senate are on the upswing with Obama's rise in the polls.

The exit from Washington leaves the bulk of Congress' agenda for a postelection session in which it's hoped lawmakers will be liberated from the election-year paralysis that has ground Capitol Hill to a near halt.

Topping the lame-duck agenda was dealing with the so-called fiscal cliff, which combines the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts on Dec. 31 and more than $100 billion in indiscriminate, across-the-board spending cuts set to strike at the same time as punishment for the failure of last year's deficit "supercommittee" to strike a deal.

Also left in limbo is the farm bill, stalled in the House due to opposition from conservative Republicans who think it doesn't cut farm subsidies and food stamps enough and Democrats who think its food stamp cuts are too harsh.

The current farm act expires on Sept. 30 but the lapse won't have much practical effect in the near term. Still, it's a political black eye for Republicans, especially those from farm states like North Dakota and Iowa.

The lack of productivity of the 112th Congress was the result of divided government and bitter partisanship. Die-hard GOP conservatives eager to roll back Obama's agenda barreled headlong into an official Washington still largely controlled by Democrats ? and oftentimes seemed to limit the options of their own leadership with their intransigence. The looming presidential and congressional elections caused top leaders in both parties to play it safe and stick to party positions.

The result: Congress' major accomplishments tended to be legislation that mostly extended current policies, like a highway bill passed earlier this year and bills demanded by Obama to renew a 2 percentage point payroll tax cuts and extend student loan subsidies.

Even this Congress' signature accomplishment ? a budget and debt deal enacted last summer to cut $2.1 trillion from the budget over 10 years ? punted most of its difficult decisions to the future by tasking the supercommittee with finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit savings.

And, after the supercommittee cratered, House Republicans walked away from the budget deal by pressing for further cuts to domestic appropriations and reversing some on the pact's Pentagon cuts.

Meanwhile, in the Senate, Reid worked closely with the White House to use the Senate schedule for Obama's political advantage, repeatedly forcing votes on closing tax breaks for oil companies and raising taxes on upper bracket earners.

But Reid failed to schedule floor debates on any of the 12 annual appropriations bills and the Democratic-led chamber, for the third year in a row, failed to pass a budget.

Republicans also point to almost 40 items of House-passed jobs-related legislation sitting stalled in the Senate.

"They haven't passed a budget in more than three years. They have no plan to save Medicare, no plan to stop all the tax hikes, and no plan to replace the sequester," Boehner said. "This isn't leadership. It is negligence."

Democrats defending the Senate point out that the balky chamber managed several bills that the House would not, including a renewal of farm programs and legislation to overhaul the Postal Service and give it an infusion of cash to stave off insolvency.

"The reality is for as closely as divided as this Senate is, we passed a large number of bipartisan bills this year, very important bills, but as you all know, it takes two chambers to pass a law," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "On the other side, too many of the Congress members, particularly the tea party folks, think compromise is a dirty word."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/congress-exits-washington-hit-campaign-trail-211414443--politics.html

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Recommended: "Dangerous Work": Diary of an Arctic Adventure

Diary of an Arctic Adventure
Arthur Conan Doyle
University of Chicago Press, 2012 ($35)

Long before he wrote the Sherlock Holmes detective novels, Conan Doyle interrupted his medical school studies to serve in 1880 as a ship's surgeon onboard a whaler bound for the Arctic. In his diary (above), reproduced from the original and accompanied by commentary from two Conan Doyle scholars, the author describes scrambling across ice sheets in search of seals to club and whales to spear, and he sketches pictures of other journey highlights. Memories of this voyage, he later wrote, stayed with him for the rest of his life.

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Syrian TV: Helicopter has crashed near Damascus

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? State-run Syrian TV says a military helicopter has crashed near the capital, Damascus.

The report said the helicopter went down Thursday southeast of Douma, a Damascus suburb. There were no further details.

The government increasingly has been using helicopters and other aircraft in its fight against an 18-month-old rebellion. Rebels claim to have shot down helicopters in the past, although the regime has blamed the problems on mechanical difficulties.

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PFT: NFL tells teams not to bully replacement refs

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After Rams running back Steven Jackson left Sunday?s win over the Redskins in the second quarter, it widely was believed that he?d been benched for spiking the football in frustration and drawing a 15-yard penalty.

After the game, coach Jeff Fisher said that Jackson has an injured groin, but that he could have re-entered the game.

Regardless of whether Jackson could have returned to the game, he has now missed two days of practice.

?He did not practice today and we?ll have him on the injury report for you on Friday,? Fisher told the media on Thursday.

Fisher added that he doesn?t have a policy that requires a player to practice in order to play.? Jackson said he has played with worse injuries.

?I?m not 100 percent, but day-to-day,? Jackson said. ?The injury is not as significant as we once thought it was and we?re just going to go from there. I still have the three days before the game, I believe. Each and every day buys me time.?

It?d be interesting to know when the Rams specifically thought the injury was significant.? The fact that the Rams gave no in-game injury update on Jackson could pique the league?s interest in that regard, too.

Nine years ago, former Broncos coach Mike Shanahan was fined for reporting during a game that quarterback Jake Plummer had left with a concussion when, in reality, Plummer had a separated shoulder.? Shanahan said at the time that he lied in order to conceal the true nature of the injury from the Chargers, in the event the team?s other quarterback (Steve Beuerlein) had gotten injured, forcing Plummer back into the game.? (And, yes, in 2003 a guy could re-enter a game with a concussion.)

?To share with somebody that Jake has a separated shoulder and could not throw and our quarterback goes down, we have a good chance to lose the football game,? Shanahan said at the time.

In this case, with Shanahan on the other sideline, Fisher likely didn?t want the Redskins to think that Jackson was injured in any way, in the event that he had to re-enter the game.? And despite the friendship between Shanahan and Fisher, Shanahan should be asking 345 Park Avenue whether Fisher will be making the same involuntary contribution to the NFL?s charities that Shanahan once did.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/20/nfl-warns-coaches-again-about-behavior-toward-replacement-officials/related/

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Why Do People Go through Self Help Books? | http://digifranch.nl

It is an interesting conundrum why technological and social studies are constantly telling all of us that our standard of living is currently better than ever. And yet at the same time we are also swamped with health scares and information to claim that the population is, more often than not, becoming increasingly unhealthy.

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It merely requires a simple browse through any local book store and you will probably undoubtedly come across a stuffed section of self help books, stuffed with no end of games across a multitude of parts. However, even though the concerns covered may be vast and varied, the actual motivation behind this kind of purchases inevitably is placed with a fundamental requirement of self improvement, often which has a desire to deepen someone?s philosophical understanding of one?s self.

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Tigers Rout A's 12-2: Detroit Remains 3 Games Back In AL Central

DETROIT -- Miguel Cabrera homered twice, including an eighth-inning grand slam, and the Detroit Tigers had no trouble overcoming an early injury to right-hander Max Scherzer in a 12-2 rout of the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.

Cabrera matched a career high with six RBIs and now has 40 homers on the season ? also a career best. Prince Fielder and Jhonny Peralta added home runs for the Tigers, who were three games behind the first-place Chicago White Sox in the AL Central coming into the night.

Scherzer left after two innings because of a fatigued throwing shoulder. An MRI showed no structural damage.

Darin Downs (2-1) pitched 2 2-3 scoreless innings for the win.

Oakland rookie A.J. Griffin (6-1) lost for the first time in his career.

Scherzer entered the game with a major league-leading 220 strikeouts and added four more to that total before being relieved by Downs after only two innings. He's expected to go a couple days without throwing, then be evaluated again.

After a gut-wrenching 5-4 loss to the White Sox in Chicago on Monday, the Tigers were back home, where they've now won 27 of 35. They'll play their next nine games at home before going on the road for the final six.

Griffin was the only pitcher since at least 1918 to allow three runs or fewer and walk two batters or fewer in each of his first 11 career starts. That streak came to an end Tuesday. He allowed five runs and eight hits in 4 2-3 innings, walking one and striking out three.

Oakland took the lead in the first on an RBI single by Brandon Moss, but Detroit answered immediately with Cabrera's sacrifice fly.

Peralta gave the Tigers a 2-1 lead in the second with his 12th homer of the year, and Cabrera hit a solo shot of his own the following inning.

Fielder's 27th homer of the year ? a two-run shot in the fifth ? made it 5-1, and the A's never made much progress against the Detroit relievers. Oakland came in three games behind first-place Texas in the AL West, but leading the wild-card race. This 10-game swing to Detroit, New York and Texas is their last trip of the regular season.

Austin Jackson hit an RBI double in the sixth for Detroit, and Quintin Berry added a two-run double to make it 8-1. Berry left in the top of the seventh with a right shoulder contusion after a diving attempt to catch Josh Reddick's double. X-rays were negative.

Reddick scored on a single by Yoenis Cespedes.

Oakland outfielder Coco Crisp started after having been out since Saturday. He'd missed time because of an allergic reaction in his left eye, and he left this game in the fourth because of complications to an existing eye infection.

Detroit added four more runs in the eighth on Cabrera's grand slam. Oakland reliever Jesse Chavez was then ejected for hitting Fielder with a pitch.

NOTES: Detroit RHP Justin Verlander (14-8) takes the mound Wednesday night against Oakland LHP Brett Anderson (4-1).

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