US, Afghanistan OK detention center transfer

FILE ? This March 23, 2011, file photo shows Afghan detainees through a wire mesh fence inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Saturday, March 23, 2013, the Pentagon said the U.S. has reached an agreement with the Afghanistan government to transfer the facility to Afghan control. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday as officials finalized the agreement after days of intense negotiations. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

FILE ? This March 23, 2011, file photo shows Afghan detainees through a wire mesh fence inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Saturday, March 23, 2013, the Pentagon said the U.S. has reached an agreement with the Afghanistan government to transfer the facility to Afghan control. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday as officials finalized the agreement after days of intense negotiations. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

FILE ? This Sept. 27, 2010, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, shows a U.S. military guard walking a corridor between detainee cells at the Parwan detention facility near Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Saturday, March 23, 2013, the Pentagon said the U.S. has reached an agreement with the Afghanistan government to transfer the facility to Afghan control. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday as officials finalized the agreement after days of intense negotiations. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

FILE ? In this March 23, 2011, file photo a U.S. military guard watches over detainee cells inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Saturday, March 23, 2013, the Pentagon said the U.S. has reached an agreement with the Afghanistan government to transfer the facility to Afghan control. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday as officials finalized the agreement after days of intense negotiations. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. has reached an agreement with the Afghanistan government to transfer the Parwan Detention Facility to Afghan control, the Pentagon said Saturday, two weeks after negotiations broke down over whether the U.S. would have the power to block the release of some detainees.

According to a senior U.S. official, a key element to the agreement is that the Afghans can invoke a procedure that insures prisoners considered dangerous would not be released from the detention center. The agreement also includes a provision that allows the two sides to work together to resolve any differences. The official lacked authorization to discuss the details of the agreement publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Transfer of the Parwan detention center on Monday is critical to the ongoing effort to gradually shift control of the country's security to the Afghans as the U.S. and allies move toward the full withdrawal of combat troops by the end of 2014.

Afghans demanded control of the center, but U.S. officials have worried that the most threatening detainees would be freed once the U.S. transferred control. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday as officials finalized the agreement after days of intense negotiations.

The senior official said U.S. and Afghan officials who are familiar with the detainees would meet to assess the potential danger of their release to coalition forces. The official said that more senior level officials could be brought in if there are disagreements but that to date the two sides have been able to agree without bringing in those higher authorities.

Disagreements over the detention facility, which also included whether Afghans can be held without trial, had thrown a pall over the ongoing negotiations for a bilateral security agreement that would govern the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after 2014.

Currently, there is an Afghan administrator of the Parwan prison, but the Americans have power to veto the release of detainees. The prisoners held under American authority do not have the right to a trial because the U.S. considers them part of an ongoing conflict.

Pentagon press secretary George Little said Hagel "welcomed President Karzai's commitment that the transfer will be carried out in a way that ensures the safety of the Afghan people and coalition forces by keeping dangerous individuals detained in a secure and humane manner in accordance with Afghan law."

Last weekend Hagel spoke with Karzai, and officials said the two men agreed to resolve the thorny issue within a week.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, has also been working to resolve the matter ? one of several divisive issues that soured relations between the U.S., its allies and the Afghans in recent weeks.

The U.S. had been scheduled to hold a ceremony marking the transfer of control two weeks ago, during Hagel's first visit to Afghanistan as defense secretary. That ceremony was called off after negotiations broke down.

In addition to disputes over the Parwan facility, the U.S.-led coalition and Afghans have wrangled over several other difficult issues. Last month, Karzai insisted that the coalition forces cease all airstrikes, after a NATO assault caused civilian casualties.

More recently, Karzai demanded that U.S. special operations forces leave Wardak province after allegations that U.S. commandos and their Afghan partners abused local citizens. Dunford has denied the charges.

Earlier this week, the two sides reached an agreement on the Wardak issue. Dunford agreed to remove a team of commandos from Wardak's Nirkh district and transition security of that area to the Afghans as soon as possible.

U.S. special operations forces would remain in other parts of the restive province, while the coalition continues to work to transition those areas also to the Afghans.

U.S. officials have made no final decision on how many troops might remain in Afghanistan after 2014, although they have said as many as many as 12,000 U.S. and coalition forces could remain.

There currently are 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, down from a 2010 peak of 100,000.

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Global nitrogen availability consistent for past 500 years, linked to carbon levels

Global nitrogen availability consistent for past 500 years, linked to carbon levels

Friday, March 22, 2013

A Kansas State University research team has found that despite humans increasing nitrogen production through industrialization, nitrogen availability in many ecosystems has remained steady for the past 500 years. Their work appears in the journal Nature.

"People have been really interested in nitrogen in current times because it's a major pollutant," said Kendra McLauchlan, assistant professor of geography and director of the university's Paleoenvironmental Laboratory. "Humans are producing a lot more nitrogen than in the past for use as crop fertilizer, and there is concern because excess levels can cause damage. The mystery, though, is whether the biosphere is able to soak up this extra nitrogen and what that means for the future."

Nitrogen is a key component of the ecosystem and the largest regulator of plant growth. It determines how much food, fuel and fiber the land can produce. It also determines how much carbon dioxide plants remove from the atmosphere, and it interacts with several components of the climate system. Excessive amounts of nitrogen in ecosystems contribute to global warming and impairment of downstream ecosystems.

McLauchlan worked with Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in biology; Joseph Williams, postdoctoral research associate; and Elizabeth Jeffers, postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oxford. The team published their findings, "Changes in global nitrogen cycling during the Holocene epoch," in the current issue of Nature.

In the study the team also looked at how nitrogen availability changed thousands of years ago.

Roughly 15,000 years ago, the Earth began to warm, melting many glaciers and ice sheets that covered the landscape. Researchers found that Earth experienced an 8,000-year long decline in nitrogen availability as temperatures rose and carbon and nitrogen became locked up in soils. According to researchers, how the nitrogen cycle responded to these ancient global changes in carbon dioxide could be a glimpse into the future.

"What happened in the past might be a dry run for Earth's future," Craine said. "By looking at what happened millennia ago, we can see what controlled and prevented changes in nitrogen availability. This helps us understand and predict how things will change in the future."

The team collected and analyzed data from the sediment records of 86 lakes scattered across six continents. The lakes were distributed between tropical and temperate zones. With the data, the team was able to compare past and present cycling in various regions.

Researchers found that once most of the glaciers and ice sheets had melted around 11,000 years ago, the Earth continued to experience a global decline in nitrogen that lasted another 4,000 years.

"That was one of the really surprising findings," Craine said. "As the world was getting warmer and experiencing higher carbon dioxide levels than it had in the past, just like we are currently experiencing, the ecosystems were starting to lock carbon in the soils and in plants, also like we are seeing today. That created a long decline in nitrogen availability, and it scrubbed nitrogen out of the atmosphere."

McLauchlan said the most surprising finding, however, was that although humans have nearly doubled the amount of nitrogen to the ecosystems, globally nitrogen levels have remained stable at most sites for the past 500 years.

One reason may be that plants are using more nitrogen than they previously have, keeping nitrogen levels consistent with those thousands of years ago even though humans continue to add carbon dioxide and nitrogen to the atmosphere, McLauchlan said.

"Our best idea is that the nitrogen and carbon cycles were linked tightly back then and they are linked tightly today," McLauchlan said. "Humans are now manipulating both nitrogen and carbon at the same time, which means that there is no net effect on the biosphere."

The balance may be only temporary, McLauchlan said.

"Based on what we learned from the past, if the response of plants to elevated carbon dioxide slows, nitrogen availability is likely to increase and ecosystems will begin to change profoundly," McLauchlan said. "Now more than ever, it's important to begin monitoring our grasslands and forests for early warning signs."

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MEDFORD, Ore. ? A Southern Oregon man will change his not guilty pleas on charges that he killed his wife and four young children in 2011 and set fire to their house.

District Attorney Beth Heckert said Monday a hearing is scheduled Tuesday afternoon.

Jordan Adam Criado of Medford faces the death penalty if he goes to trial and is convicted of any of the 24 counts of aggravated murder filed against him. He is also charged with murder, manslaughter and arson.

His wife, Tabasha Paige-Criado, had made it clear on her Facebook page that she was not happy in her marriage. She spent the night before she died out of the house, and police gave her a ride home from a convenience store after Criado reported her missing.

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Syria opposition to set up interim government

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, anti-Syrian regime protesters raise up their hands as they wave Syrian revolutionary flags during a protest to mark the second anniversary of the their uprising, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday March 15, 2013. The chief of Syria's main, western-backed rebel group marked the second anniversary of the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad on Friday by pledging to fight until the "criminal" regime is gone. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, anti-Syrian regime protesters raise up their hands as they wave Syrian revolutionary flags during a protest to mark the second anniversary of the their uprising, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday March 15, 2013. The chief of Syria's main, western-backed rebel group marked the second anniversary of the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad on Friday by pledging to fight until the "criminal" regime is gone. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syria's main opposition group is launching its most serious attempt yet to form a rival government to President Bashar Assad's regime, convening in Turkey on Monday to choose an interim prime minister for areas the rebels control.

Twelve candidates are running, including economists, businessmen and a former Syrian Cabinet minister.

Some warn setting up such a government could close the door to negotiating an end to Syria's civil war and instead harden the battle lines even more.

Another obstacle is asserting the authority of a government picked by the largely exile-based opposition, especially in areas where Islamic extremist militias dominate.

The opposition Syrian National Coalition needs to take the reins in increasingly chaotic rebel-held areas where many services have broken down, but doing so means taking a political risk, said University of Oklahoma professor Joshua Landis.

"Obviously (the opposition) has been very frightened of trying, because it does not have a real social base on the ground, and it is worried that if it fails, it will get egg on its face," said Landis, who runs a blog called Syria Comment.

The deadlocked Syria conflict, which has claimed 70,000 lives and displaced about 4 million people, entered its third year this weekend.

Leading members of the coalition are meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday and Tuesday to pick a prime minister who would put together the interim government, said coalition spokesman Khalid Saleh. A vote is expected by Tuesday, he said.

Twelve candidates have been nominated, though the list could shrink if not all accept their nominations, Saleh said. The coalition released 10 names on Sunday but is not publishing the names of two contenders who live in areas under government control, he said.

Among the candidates are Osama Kadi, the coalition's economic adviser from London, Ontario in Canada; Ghassan Hitto, a longtime IT manager who recently moved from Dallas, Texas to Turkey; Assad Asheq Mustafa, a former Syrian agriculture minister and former governor of Syria's central Hama province, and Walid al-Zoabi, a real estate entrepreneur from Dubai.

Saleh described the candidates as technocrats. "Each has a minimum of 15 to 20 years of experience in his field," he said.

The 72 members of the coalition's general assembly are eligible to vote. If no candidate gets at least 37 votes in the first round, the top two would compete in a second round, Saleh said.

The Syrian government has portrayed those trying to topple it as foreign-led terrorists. The conflict erupted in 2011, initially as a largely peaceful uprising that, in the face of a harsh regime crackdown, turned into an armed insurgency and then into civil war.

Issam Khalil, a legislator from Assad's ruling Baath Party, echoed the regime's position that the opposition is pursuing foreign interests and is trying to "implode Syria from the inside." Those meeting in Istanbul want to intensify the conflict in Syria, not end it, he said Sunday.

The U.S. has been cool to the idea of a rival government in the rebel-held areas, saying the focus should be on a political transition.

Under a plan endorsed by the international community last year, Assad supporters and opponents would propose representatives for a transition government, with each side able to veto candidates. However, the plan did not address the key question of Assad's role.

Most in the Syrian opposition rule out negotiations with Assad, even on the terms of his departure from office.

Last week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry affirmed his support for the plan, saying that only a transitional government accepted by both the opposition and the Assad government can allow Syrians to determine their future.

The leader of the Syrian opposition coalition, Mouaz al-Khatib, has also suggested he opposes the formation of a rival Syrian government, saying he feared it would deepen divisions in Syria.

Breaking with opposition consensus, the 52-year-old former preacher provoked a backlash last month when he offered to hold talks with members of the regime if it would help end the bloodshed.

The formation of the interim government was put off twice over such disagreements, but Saleh said coalition members voted last month to go ahead with the election. Al-Khatib, while still opposed, is deferring to the majority, Saleh said.

Analyst Fawaz A. Gerges said that the move is likely to block a political solution.

"By electing an interim Cabinet, the Syrian opposition will put an end to any possibility for a negotiated settlement with the Syrian regime," said Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. "They've decided to fight all the way."

With an interim government in place, the "war option would win over diplomacy," Gerges said.

It's not clear where an interim government would be able to operate.

The regime routinely attacks rebel strongholds with airstrikes and artillery, and any gathering of senior opposition politicians would be a prime target. More likely, government members would shuttle between Turkey and Syria, as some rebel military chiefs do.

Acceptance is another challenge.

In recent months, Islamic extremist militias, particularly the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, have asserted dominance in key battle areas.

Al-Nusra and other Islamic extremist fighting groups don't recognize the authority of the Free Syrian Army and might not be inclined to take orders from an interim government.

Saleh played that down, saying that 85 percent of the fighting forces recognize the Syrian National Coalition. Once the government moves into Syria and starts providing services, "doubts will just vanish," he said.

Landis predicted that the interim government would face a rough start. Trying to assert authority "is a recipe for conflict, no doubt about it," he said, "but they've got to get down to the towns and offer a real alternative."

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Associated Press writers Barbara Surk in Beirut and Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed.

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Can Just One Concussion Change the Brain?

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This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. We know that concussions can have very serious consequences, particularly if you've suffered more than one head injury. But new research is saying that even a single concussion may cause lasting brain damage. The new study compared brain scans from a group of healthy individuals and a group of concussion patients and found that after a year, those who suffered a concussion showed signs of structural brain damage in regions of the brain linked to mood disorders and depression.

So what are some of the long-term effects of concussions? Why are these types of injuries still so difficult to diagnose? Joining me now is Steven Flanagan. He is Howard A. Rusk professor of rehabilitation medicine and co-director of the Concussion Center at NYU Langone Medical Center here in New York. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.

STEVEN FLANAGAN: Thanks for having me.

FLATOW: Does that mean that everybody who has a concussion is going to have lasting brain damage?

FLANAGAN: Absolutely not. So, most people who have a concussion - which is a mild traumatic brain injury - do fairly well and actually become asymptomatic within a fairly short period of time. But there is a, what I would call a significant minority - that can range anywhere between 10 and 20 percent, depending on what literature you read - that may go on to develop chronic problems.

And that may include problems with mood, being depressed or anxious, or maybe problems with headaches or balance, or maybe just difficulty with their thinking, having problems paying attention or concentrating. So it's a small percentage, but a significant minority.

FLATOW: So what types of changes in the brain were observed with concussion patients? You were not part of this study, but you study concussions all the time.

FLANAGAN: Absolutely. So, this was an interesting study, because they took folks who actually came into the emergency department. So we're very confident that these folks had a concussion. And they imaged them. They did these fancy MRI technologies, and a year later, they did the very same ones. And what they found in this particular study was that there was some brain atrophy or brain shrinkage, if you will - not in everybody, but as a whole.

There was - if you looked at all of the patients that they studied, there was shrinkage of the brain. And they compared them to other people who did not have concussions, and the shrinkage in the brain was much more significant in the folks who had concussion.

FLATOW: So was this thing about just one concussion, lasting brain damage, very surprising to you and to people who study concussions?

FLANAGAN: So it's not surprising to me in that people can develop these long-lasting problems. I think what is striking about the study is that there's evidence of structural changes. There's actually a physical change in the brain that potentially may account for some of these problems that people have over the long term.

FLATOW: Problems such as?

FLANAGAN: Such as being anxious or depressed, perhaps having problems with their ability to pay attention, concentrate, plan and organize, solve problems. And these are some of the common symptoms that people who have what we know as post-concussion syndrome often complain about.

FLATOW: 1-800-989-8255 is our number. So they were actually able to see the parts of the brain that were affected. And what parts were they, and what kinds of effects did they have?

FLANAGAN: Well, what they noticed was that there was a shrinkage total - not a dramatic, but certainly significant enough to meet the study criteria. But there were certain areas in the front part of the brain in particular, known as the cingulate, and a little bit in the back, as well, that seemed to most susceptible.

Not terribly surprising in some ways, because we know that these areas of the brain are susceptible to more severe forms of traumatic brain injury. So it would make sense that we may also see that in mild TBI, as well.

FLATOW: Is there a way, when a patient comes in, for you to diagnose a concussion?

FLANAGAN: Well, it all depends on when they come in. So I will start off by saying that concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury, is a condition that's made based on what the patient is telling you in their symptoms, and to some degree, their physical examination. But there's no diagnostic test. So standard, old-fashioned CT scans and MRI scans are typically perfectly normal after a concussion.

FLATOW: Yet they still do them, don't they?

FLANAGAN: There's some indication to do them in some cases, but in most cases, probably not necessary. But there's no blood test for this. There's no other diagnostic test. There's a lot of research going on right now trying to find that biomarker or diagnostic test, if you will. Right now, we don't have it.

FLATOW: Is there something that you would like? You say you don't have it. What marker, what something could you look for? I mean, what would there be? You know, what would there be?

FLANAGAN: That's a great question. So we're not sure yet. You know, science is looking at a number of potential markers or diagnostic tests that we could do on the blood. We're not there yet, because some of the tests that have been talked about show evidence of damage only within the first day or two. And if you're seeing someone after a concussion more than that, not particularly helpful.

There may be, as in this study, some evidence on, or an imaging test that may help us make the diagnosis more definitively - that is, not just relying on clinical signs and symptoms.

FLATOW: We have on - we put out a tweet earlier in this week asking - it's our question of the week, which is: Would you allow - if you're a parent, would you allow your kids to play sports if you think they're going to get a concussion? Would you - what is your answer to parents whose kids are football, hockey, whatever sport, soccer? What should they be aware of?

FLANAGAN: That is a great question. So let me just first start off by saying is there is tremendous benefit to children participating in team sports. You know, there's a whole social development, learning how to work as a team and the collegiality, and that there's so much to be gained from that that I would be loath to say let's do away with contact sports.

That said, I think we have to make these sports as safe as we can, and parents and educators and coaches and athletic trainers should be fully aware of concussion, know when - or know when to suspect when a child has had a concussion, make sure you remove them play, don't let them return to play, and they are completely asymptomatic, and make sure that their return to play is graduated based on their symptoms and increasing levels of activity.

And those are the guidelines that we're using, but I think it's foolish - from my perspective - to say we should be doing away with contact sports.

FLATOW: There was a separate study that came out this week that said there's no good evidence that helmets really protect athletes from concussions. It said that helmets protect the skull, but not necessarily the brain. Explain how that works.

FLANAGAN: So if you consider the brain as, in its natural state, has the consistency of formed Jell-O - it's actually quite soft - and it's floating in fluid called the cerebral spinal fluid, and it's all encased in a very hard skull, and the inner surface of the skull sometimes is not very smooth.

So if you are in a situation where you fall, or you hit your head, and the brain gets jerked back and forth...

FLATOW: Rings like a bell.

FLANAGAN: That's right. The soft brain will strike itself on the inner portion of the skull and potentially be damaged. And also because the brain is so soft, as your head gets jerked forward and backwards, as in a fall or in a sporting event, the brain can almost squish on itself and then stretch as your head goes back and forth, and that stretching can actually stretch all of the nerve cells and can render them nonfunctional, either temporarily or potentially permanently, and that can cause lasting problems.

FLATOW: So are we getting a false sense of security, then, when we put a helmet on?

FLANAGAN: To some degree, yes. And I would certainly not advocate not wearing a helmet, certainly at this point, but I don't believe that there will ever be a helmet that absolutely prevents a brain injury or a concussion. I'm hard pressed to believe that they'll ever develop that.

FLATOW: Well, because there's going to be that impact. As long as you have the violent impact, you're going to have the brain ringing around inside the skull.

FLANAGAN: That's right.

FLATOW: And there's no way to prevent that with any kind of helmet.

FLANAGAN: I don't see that. Perhaps somebody will come up with something that'll be spectacular. I have trouble envisioning it.

FLATOW: So what kind of - what kind of treatment does - let me - but we only have a few minutes left. Let me get as much information out as I can. When should you see a doctor if you have a head banged?

FLANAGAN: Well, for children, you should probably see one, because you're going to need one to get back into play, so if you have a sporting concussion. But if you're - you know, if - certainly, if your symptoms don't go away within a period of time, within a few days, or certainly a week, but if your symptoms are getting worse...

FLATOW: Symptoms such as?

FLANAGAN: Headache, blurry vision, fatigue, difficulty staying awake, slurring speech. If those symptoms are getting worse, boy, you really better go see a physician or health care provider right away.

FLATOW: They always say you're going to get sleepy after a concussion. Is that true?

FLANAGAN: You sure - you can.

FLATOW: You can.

FLANAGAN: But I think if your sleepiness is getting worse and worse, don't put it off. Always be safe.

FLATOW: Now if your kid is playing in that game, one of the ball games or whatever game, and the coach wants - the kid gets hit in the head, what should the coach do?

FLANAGAN: Take them out.

FLATOW: Immediately. You should insist yourself if you're at the game and the coach wants to put the kid back in?

FLANAGAN: If you have any suspicion at all that someone has had a concussion, adult or a child, remove them from play. It's the safe thing to do, particularly for children. There's a thing called potential second-impact syndrome, and children who are still symptomatic who go back to play can get into serious trouble if they get another concussion.

FLATOW: Is there any standard treatment for a concussion?

FLANAGAN: I won't say there's standard treatment, but I think it's probably best to have a team of professionals, like a concussion center, if you will, where you have rehabilitation specialists and neurologists, pediatricians, full services of a radiology department - like we have at NYU, for instance - that you can really make sure that everybody is being treated the way they need to.

FLATOW: It's amazing, because there are some athletes - I'm thinking of Jason Bay of the Mets, people who have had really bad concussions, and they're going on for years. Is that not unusual?

FLANAGAN: Well, I think that a lot of people have not really recognized what concussion is, what the symptoms are, and they simply go back. And I think there's probably also, you know, some sense in professional sports, you know, that this is their bread and butter. They need to get back. But we have to be cautious and realize that, you know, repetitive concussions - particularly if you have not fully recovered from the first one - are just going to cause more problems down the road.

FLATOW: So there's no advice, just go home, take an aspirin or Ibuprofen, and it'll go away on its own if something bad has happened.

FLANAGAN: Rest is the mainstay of treatment, but if the symptoms are getting worse or they don't get better, it's time to see a concussion specialist.

FLATOW: And where would you find one of those?

FLANAGAN: So not everybody specializes in concussion. A lot of facilities have concussion centers. We have one at NYU that brings in all sorts of professionals together. It's not just rehab medicine. It's just not neurology, but we have neurosurgery, orthopedics. We have our ED that's involved, pediatrics. I think if you have a lot of folks coming together that can address this in a multidisciplinary way, your outcomes are just going to be better.

FLATOW: Find one near you.

FLANAGAN: Absolutely.

FLATOW: Thank you, Dr. Flanagan. Steven Flanagan is Howard A. Rusk professor of rehabilitation medicine and co-director of the Concussion Center at NYU Langone Medical Center here in New York. Thanks for coming in today.

FLANAGAN: Thank you.

FLATOW: We're going to take a time out, and when we come back, we're going to talk about an interesting thing about brain tumors. Maybe you're a cyberchondriac. Yeah. We're going to talk about what that's like - you know, sitting at the table at night, and you think you've got a brain tumor because you've Googled it, but, you know, it's just a little headache. Maybe you're a cyberchondriac. We'll talk about that after this break. Stay with us.

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The power of conversation is apparent?when sales professionals are performing inside sales deals. Face-to-face communication is the preferred medium, but it isn't always possible. Sales training emphasizes and teaches proper conversation techniques that are a necessary part of garnering, growing and maintaining business with clients. Because a majority of sales are remote, representatives are finding themselves performing more inside sales.

What are?Inside Sales?
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Man who took Romney "47 percent" video reveals himself

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scott Prouty was at a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last year as the bartender, and ended up secretly taping a video that changed the trajectory of the 2012 presidential campaign.

Prouty went public with his story on Wednesday after months of speculation as to who might have been the source of the video that dealt a body blow to Romney's campaign.

Last May at a Florida fundraiser, Romney said 47 percent of voters were dependent on government and "will vote for the president no matter what."

When Prouty handed the tape over to Mother Jones and the magazine published it in September, Romney was put on the defensive for weeks and never really recovered, losing to President Barack Obama on November 6.

"I didn't go in there with a grudge against Romney. I was more interested as a voter," Prouty told MSNBC.

Mother Jones also confirmed that Prouty was the person who taped the video.

He described himself as a "regular guy, middle class, hard-working guy" and was tending bar at the event which donors had paid thousands of dollars to attend.

Prouty said he was initially motivated to release the tape by a different comment that Romney had made in which he expressed interest in having his private equity firm buy a Chinese factory that employed 20,000 people who earned little money.

The news media seized on the 47 percent section of the speech. Prouty said he felt it changed the course of the election.

"I think it defined him at a critical point, defined him for exactly who he was," said Prouty.

He said he had no contact with the Obama presidential campaign over the tape.

"I voted for President Obama, but I'm actually (a) registered independent," he said.

(Reporting by Aruna Viswanatha and Steve Holland; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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Food: Perk up St. Pat's Day with perfect Irish coffee | BasehorInfo.com

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For traditional Irish coffee, gently pour softly whipped cream over the back of a spoon so it floats on top of the coffee ? the hot coffee is meant to be sipped through the cream.

Coffee, Irish whiskey and cream.

Taken separately they?re a tasty trio. But combine them just the right way and in just the right proportions and they get even better, transforming into a drink that can perk up the grayest day.

We?re talking Irish coffee, of course, a drink that?s especially popular around St. Patrick?s Day, but good any time you want to add some zing to your caffeine.

The secret, says Larry Silva, general manager of the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco ? which serves up 2,000 Irish coffees a day ? is how you put the drink together.

At the Buena Vista ? the original source of the drink in the U.S. ? Irish coffee starts with a stemmed, 6-ounce glass that?s been preheated with hot water. And both of those elements are critical. A bigger or smaller glass would throw off the coffee-booze balance. A cold glass results in a tepid cocktail. There was a bit of a hitch a few years back when Libbey Glass stopped making the type the Buena Vista uses. Silva had to scramble to find another source but, happily, Libbey has since reinstated the product.

For a touch of sweetness, the Buena Vista recipe adds two cubes of sugar, though other recipes call for brown sugar. The cream, meanwhile, should be fresh and just slightly whipped ? nothing from an aerosol can.

As for the whiskey, the Buena Vista is currently using Tullamore Dew. In general, what you are seeking is a smooth whiskey that won?t fight with the other flavors, says Silva. This isn?t the time to pull out that peaty Scotch. But don?t be afraid to use something good.

?Using a premium spirit elevates any cocktail,? says John Concannon, a California vintner who has teamed with Ireland?s Cooley Distillery to develop Concannon Irish Whiskey, which also makes a good Irish coffee.

The whiskey, made and aged in Ireland, is matured in bourbon barrels, then finished off with some time in wine barrels that have been used to age Concannon Vineyard?s flagship petite sirah wine. ?Because of the unique barrel finishing in the distilling process, Concannon has a complexity and character all its own, making for a one-of-a-kind Irish coffee experience,? Concannon said via email.

Though it seems likely that people have been introducing a drop or two of whiskey into coffee for a while, the drink as a cocktail was popularized in Ireland at the Foynes port, precursor to Shannon Airport, in the 1940s when chef Joe Sheridan decided to pep up some coffee with Irish whiskey to cheer chilly travelers. The drink was much appreciated and one of the passengers is said to have asked, ?Was that Brazilian coffee?? Sheridan jokingly answered, ?No, that was Irish Coffee,? and a tradition was born.

San Francisco newspaperman Stanton Delaplane tried the coffee while flying from Shannon Airport in 1952 and on his return got together with Jack Koeppler, then-owner of the Buena Vista, to recreate the drink. The trickiest part was getting the cream to float on top, something that was solved by whipping the cream just a bit, then pouring it carefully over the back of a spoon into the cup.

St. Patrick?s Day has a special resonance for Concannon since his great-grandfather and winery founder, James Concannon, was born on March 17 in the Aran islands off the coast of Ireland. The winery, based in the Livermore Valley region east of San Francisco, will be celebrating this year with traditional, live Irish music and a toast (with wine) to their founder.

And they?ll be busy at the Buena Vista, too. Last year, thirsty revelers sucked down 3,640 Irish coffees.

Take that, green beer.

Looking to brew a little Irish cheer yourself this St. Patrick?s Day? Try this classic recipe, or the chocolate-laced variation.

Irish Coffee

Depending on which version of the ?original? Irish coffee you subscribe to, it is sweetened with either 2 sugar cubes or 1 teaspoon brown sugar. For a rich and chocolaty take on Irish coffee, stir 2 tablespoons of milk chocolate bits into the coffee at the same time as the sugar. Once the chocolate bits have melted, proceed with the recipe.

Start to finish: 5 minutes

Servings: 1

Boiling water

Hot coffee

2 sugar cubes or 1 teaspoon brown sugar

1 1/2 ounces Irish whiskey

1/4 cup heavy or whipping cream, lightly beaten (but still pourable)

Fill a large coffee cup with boiling water to preheat it. Let it stand for about 1 minute, then empty the glass.

Fill the glass three-quarters full with hot coffee. Add the sugar, then stir until dissolved. Stir in the whiskey.

Top the coffee-whiskey blend with the lightly whipped cream. To do this, hold an overturned spoon over the coffee, then slowly pour the cream over it. The goal is for the cream to float on top of the coffee; do not mix it in. Part of the Irish coffee experience is drinking the hot coffee through a layer of cool cream.

(Recipe adapted from The Buena Vista Cafe, San Francisco)

Source: http://www.basehorinfo.com/news/2013/mar/13/food-perk-st-pats-day-perfect-irish-coffee/

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New Edward Albee play a Signature highlight

FILE - In this April 7, 2008 file photo, writer Edward Albee arrives at the 2008 Point Foundation Benefit at Capitale, in New York. The 2013-2014 Signature season at the Signature Theatre will be a fertile one, with new works by David Henry Hwang, Will Eno, Martha Clarke and the much-anticipated world premiere of Edward Albee's new play ?Laying an Egg.? (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)

FILE - In this April 7, 2008 file photo, writer Edward Albee arrives at the 2008 Point Foundation Benefit at Capitale, in New York. The 2013-2014 Signature season at the Signature Theatre will be a fertile one, with new works by David Henry Hwang, Will Eno, Martha Clarke and the much-anticipated world premiere of Edward Albee's new play ?Laying an Egg.? (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The upcoming season at the Signature Theatre will be a fertile one ? with new works by David Henry Hwang, Will Eno, Martha Clarke and the much-anticipated world premiere of Edward Albee's new play "Laying an Egg."

The 2013-2014 Signature season announced Wednesday also includes Ruben Santiago-Hudson starring in August Wilson's one-man show "How I Learned What I Learned" and a new work by Regina Taylor.

"I think it's a really dynamic, eclectic group and mix, and I think it really is representative of what we have to offer as a theater-making community," said James Houghton, the Signature's founding artistic director.

Albee's play, about a middle-aged married woman determined to become pregnant despite a controlling mother and restrictions imposed by her late father's will, is part of the Signature's Legacy Program, which gives its former resident writers the opportunity to return with new work.

Albee, whose other works include "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" ''Seascape" and "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?" was a resident playwright from 1993-94. His new play will debut this summer.

"Edward is really family," Houghton said, pointing to the 20-year support the Signature has given the prize-winning playwright. "It feels very organic and natural to be working together."

"Laying an Egg" was initially scheduled to be produced last year by the Signature but was postponed when Albee requested more time. It was replaced by a revival of his "The Lady from Dubuque," starring Jane Alexander.

This fall, Clarke's "Cheri" will offer a fusion of theater, live music and dance that Clarke has conceived, directed and choreographed. It features American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Herman Cornejo and prima ballerina Alessandra Ferri, as well as British actor Suzanne Bertish.

Other works include the previously announced Taylor's "--- and Potatoes," about a crossword-loving book publisher struggling to find his purpose in the digital age, and the world premiere of Hwang's "Kung Fu," a new play directed by Leigh Silverman that incorporates dance and music.

Hwang's play, according to a Signature description, is about a young martial artist who comes to America from Hong Kong in the 1960s "with a dream as audacious as his talent: to become the biggest movie star in the world."

Eno returns next year with a new as-yet-untitled play. His last play "Title and Deed," a meditation on loneliness and home, was produced by the Signature. And Branden Jacobs-Jenkins also will have a new work making its world premiere next year.

"To me, the season is representative of what we do ? it's very dynamic," said Houghton. "I think it's diverse on every level from our most mature artists to fresh new artists coming up, pushing boundaries of what makes theater and what defines theater."

The off-Broadway theater company recently moved into its 75,000-square-foot, Frank Gehry-designed home at the Pershing Square Signature Center on 42nd Street.

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Online: http://www.signaturetheatre.org

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Associated Press

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