Suh satisfied with playing style after meeting

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2011 file photo, Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh prepares to play the Denver Broncos in an NFL football game, in Denver. Suh is expected to meet with reporters Wednesday after visiting with the commissioner to discuss how to channel his aggressiveness within the rules. (AP Photo/Joe Mahoney, FIle)

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2011 file photo, Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh prepares to play the Denver Broncos in an NFL football game, in Denver. Suh is expected to meet with reporters Wednesday after visiting with the commissioner to discuss how to channel his aggressiveness within the rules. (AP Photo/Joe Mahoney, FIle)

(AP) ? Ndamukong Suh says he has no plans to change his playing style after meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday.

Suh spoke with reporters Wednesday. Detroit's star defensive tackle says he wanted a better understanding of how his play was perceived after receiving a handful of flags and fines in his first season-and-a-half with the Lions.

Suh says he feels he's "continuing to play within the rules" and has learned from his mistakes.

He also says he's a "different breed" and his hits might "look a little bit different" because of his strength and athleticism.

The Lions are off to a 6-2 start and have an open date this weekend.

Associated Press

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Cain accusers now enjoy successful careers

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks after meeting with doctors attending the Docs4PatientCare conference in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks after meeting with doctors attending the Docs4PatientCare conference in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

(AP) ? They are two successful, professional women, now the focus of an intensifying presidential campaign after their sexual harassment complaints against GOP businessman Herman Cain became public.

One woman thrived in her pursuit of her communications career, more recently working in federal government jobs in Washington. The other moved up in positions focusing on political outreach and later public policy research, working since 2005 at a large lobbying and consulting firm in New Jersey with Republican and Democratic clients.

Cain calls their complaints of sexual harassment, settled a dozen years ago while he was leading the National Restaurant Association, "totally false" and baseless, raising questions about the women who, until days ago, had privately dealt with their allegations of his sexually inappropriate behavior.

The two women have declined dogged media requests to speak out, including requests from The Associated Press. A lawyer for one of the women has said he will ask the restaurant association to lift a confidentiality agreement prohibiting comment after Cain insisted he did nothing wrong, suggesting that at least one of the women may have been terminated. But his client is having second thoughts, concerned about how the frenzied attention she'd likely receive will affect her career, her family, and her life today, a person close to the situation said Wednesday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the accusations and the fact that the incident has become public is very unsettling to the woman.

The AP confirmed the identity of the women but is not revealing their names. But what can be disclosed about their backgrounds without identifying them reveals that Cain's two accusers moved on professionally and personally after their ordeals at the restaurant association.

One of the women continued her education after earning her college degree. She has handled political outreach and fundraising in the private sector and for trade organizations. She owns her own home, volunteers on community boards and serves on public boards in her county and town.

The other woman earned her master's degree before moving into her current communications career. She started a media career in Washington soon after graduate school, working in the private sector and in the federal government. Her husband has worked as a lobbyist on environmental, municipal and health issues. And he's donated money to both Democrats and Republicans. They live in suburban Maryland.

A third woman interviewed by the AP said Cain also made sexually suggestive remarks or gestures to her while she worked with him at the restaurant association. She said she considered filing a complaint against him because of what she considered aggressive and unwanted behavior. But she never did.

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Associated Press writer Stephen Ohlemacher contributed to this report. DeFalco reported from Trenton, N.J.

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Pollution may be strengthening Asian cyclones

Sooty brown cloud cools water and lowers wind speeds, study finds

Web edition : Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

A large and growing brown cloud of persistent air pollution hovering over northern India and surrounding regions has doubled ? and occasionally tripled ? the intensity of late spring cyclones in the Arabian Sea during the past three decades.

Within the past decade, several notable early-season tropical cyclones have ripped through the region. Gonu, the strongest, smashed through the Middle East in 2007, killing dozens and causing more than $4 billion worth of damage. ?This supercyclonic storm was Katrina-like in size and intensity,? says climate scientist Amato Evan of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

These big storms, which invariably make landfall, represent a new environmental impact that can wreak havoc on people from northern India through the Middle East, Evan and his colleagues propose in the Nov. 3 Nature.

Warming sea-surface temperatures can boost the intensity of hurricanes, known in the Indian Ocean as cyclones. And for many decades, Evan says, water in the Arabian Sea has been ?really toasty.? But winds in the upper and lower atmosphere there tend to blow briskly in opposing directions, in a phenomenon known as vertical wind shear. ?This is the most hostile environment one could imagine for a hurricane,? Evan explains. ?It literally tears a storm apart.? That appears to explain why major cyclones here were rare ? until recently.

Curious about the recent emergence of big storms, Evan and his team analyzed every regional tropical cyclone going back 30 years. None had occurred during the monsoon season, and before 1998, cyclones in the months before and after that rainy season seldom reached wind speeds exceeding about 80 kilometers per hour. But since then, five monster storms reached wind speeds double the norm ? sometimes exceeding 185 kilometers per hour. ??We wanted to know why,? Evan says

After poring over weather data for the period, the researchers found that in premonsoon months there had been a slow relaxation in the average vertical wind shear, from 11 meters per second to 8 meters per second. That lower speed appears to represent some type of threshold, Evan says: Once vertical wind shears reach it, ?Boom! You get this explosion in storm intensities,? he says. ?It?s almost like some switch has been flipped.?

The researchers ultimately linked the steady fall in vertical wind shear in cyclone seasons with a 3-kilometer-thick brown cloud of soot and other pollutant particles, known as aerosols, in the region?s lower atmosphere. This pollution has increased sixfold in 80 years, the scientists report, and now filters roughly 10 percent of sunlight, preventing it from reaching the sea surface.

Computer analyses indicate that the pollution cloud?s cooling effect on the ocean below has slowed wind speeds in the atmosphere ? and allowed storm intensities to mushroom. ?This link to the brown cloud is quite robust,? Evan says.

Evan and his team don?t have many storms on which to base this claim of a regional shift in climate signals, says Ryan Sriver of Pennsylvania State University in University Park. ?But then, I?m skeptical of everything,? he says. ?They do appear to have pretty strong evidence.??


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Are children of military parents more violent? (The Week)

New York ? Teens with a parent deployed overseas may be more likely than their peers to get into fights, join a gang, or carry a weapon

When servicemen and women ship off to a war zone, their children often have trouble coping. According to new research, adolescents with a parent deployed overseas can be far more prone to violence than their peers. Here, a brief guide to the study:

What did the study find?
Eighth-grade boys with a parent deployed overseas were 1.77 times more likely to get in a fight and 2.14 times more likely to join a gang, according to a study of 10,000 Washington public schools students. Eighth-grade girls were twice as likely to carry a weapon. In the 10th and 12th grades, boys and girls were more than twice as likely to get into fights, be gang members, or carry weapons. "This study raises serious concerns about an under-recognized consequence of war," says Sarah Reed, the study's lead researcher. "How children cope with their parent's deployment is a real issue that countless families are confronted with every day."

Why is this is happening?
The researchers say that when a parent is away, kids have fewer opportunities to learn and witness "positive health behaviors." Gregory Leskin, the director of military family program at the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and a UCLA psychologist, isn't surprised by the findings. Without a parent around, adolescents are likely to turn to their peers to help them cope and perhaps find a negative influence as a result, he says.

What is being done about this problem?
Researchers say we need more school and community-based programs that offer support to military families. Experts say these findings, while preliminary, are "something of a wake-up call" for mental health professionals, although it will take more research to figure out the extent of the problem, and how to deal with it. It's a huge task, as two million children had at least one parent serving in the military in 2010.

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UN urges Libyan authorities to control weapons (AP)

UNITED NATIONS ? The U.N. Security Council urged Libyan authorities on Monday to prevent thousands of shoulder-fired missiles and other weapons purchased by Moammar Gadhafi from getting into the hands of armed groups and terrorists following the country's eight-month conflict.

The Russian-drafted resolution adopted unanimously by the council also called on the Libyan government to destroy chemical weapons stockpiles in coordination with international authorities.

Ian Martin, the top U.N. envoy to Libya, told the council last Wednesday that Libya under Gadhafi accumulated the largest known stockpile of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles in any non-producing country. While thousands were destroyed during NATO operations, he said the U.N. is increasingly concerned "over the looting and likely proliferation" of these weapons and other munitions, as well as a spate of newly laid mines within the country.

Martin expressed concern over command and control of chemical and nuclear material sites in Libya though he said the interim government's forces appear to be controlling them. He said additional undeclared chemical weapons sites have been located as well.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro said earlier this month that Libya was believed to have about 20,000 shoulder-fired missiles in its arsenals before civil war began in March. He said terrorist groups have expressed interest in obtaining some of the missiles, which "could pose a threat to civil aviation."

Gadhafi was overthrown as Libyan leader in August after anti-government rebels took control of the capital, Tripoli. He was captured and died in the hands of rebels on Oct. 20.

The resolution adopted Monday calls on Libyan authorities "to take all necessary steps to prevent the proliferation of all arms and related materiel of all types, in particular man-portable surface-to-air missiles, to ensure their proper custody." It calls on countries in the region "to consider appropriate measures to prevent the proliferation" of these weapons.

The council expressed concern at the proliferation of weapons in the region "and its potential

The Security Council imposed an arms embargo against the Gadhafi government soon after the uprising began and it remains in place. It reminded all countries Monday that they are barred from purchasing or procuring weapons from Libya and from using their aircraft or ships to transport Libyan weapons.

Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador Alexander Pankin said the main aim of the resolution is to prevent "a breach of the arms embargo."

The risk of shoulder-fired missiles and other weapons "falling into the hands of terrorist groups ... is very high," he said, and there is also a risk to civil aviation flights.

"The Libyan authorities bear the brunt of the burden for this, but the problems require constructive cooperation with Libya's neighboring states and the whole of the international community," Pankin said.

The Security Council resolution expressed concern at the proliferation of weapons in the region "and its potential impact on regional and international peace and security."

The United States has contributed about $40 million toward finding and destroying the surface-to-air missiles and sent weapons experts to the country. It co-sponsored the resolution along with France, Britain, Nigeria and Portugal.

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Nick is angry video I: Diaz complains of not having the money for a good training camp

An hour removed from the biggest win of his career over B.J. Penn, Nick Diaz should've been jubilant, but he's not wired that way. Diaz entered the UFC 137 postfight press conference looking annoyed and got more agitated.

Over the next 35 minutes, he complained about anything and everything. First and foremost was the money he's making. Watch Diaz make the claim here that he doesn't get paid enough to take care of his training partners (2:12 mark). Diaz brought up boxing's pay scale several times.

Eventually, Dana White couldn't take anymore and snapped back. That's when Diaz's manager Cesar Gracie hopped in (8:28 mark).

Diaz reportedly made $200,000 to show last night and earned another $75,000 for Fight of the Night. He made $175,000 for his win over Paul Daley in April. For his victory over Evangelista Santos, Diaz was paid $150,000. He got $50,000 for that fight before that against KJ Noons.

Where has all this money gone? Or do you agree with Diaz that he's getting screwed?

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5 killed as truck plunges into Philippine ravine (AP)

MANILA, Philippines ? A truck carrying 43 people from a wedding has plunged into a ravine in the mountainous northern Philippines, killing at least five people.

The Office of Civil Defense says 38 other passengers were taken to three hospitals late Saturday after rescuers retrieved them from the bus wreckage at the bottom of a 262-foot-deep (80-meter-deep) ravine in Bauko township in Mountain Province.

Police say they will resume a search for other possible victims and belongings Sunday. They stopped retrieval work due to heavy fog and darkness a few hours after the accident.

It was not immediately clear what caused the truck to veer off the Halsema highway, a winding upland road popular for its mountain scenes but notorious for frequent deadly accidents.

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