NY man who claims $5M lottery swindle struggled with debt; brothers charged, store suspended

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A maintenance worker says he and his wife were forced to file for bankruptcy after he was conned out of a $5 million lottery ticket that two brothers have been charged with trying to falsely claim.

Robert Miles was identified in court papers as the rightful owner of the scratch-off ticket. Two Syracuse brothers face charges of attempted grand larceny and possession of stolen property after they claimed they bought the winning ticket at their parents' store.

The Lottery Division, which planted a fake story with the media to lure the real winner to come forward, has suspended the parents' license to sell tickets at least until after the criminal case is completed.

Miles told The Syracuse Post-Standard ( http://bit.ly/S0wjdw) that he bought the winning ticket in 2006 at the corner store near the apartment complex where he works as a maintenance man. Prosecutors say the store owners' son Andy Ashkar told Miles the ticket was worth only $5,000. Ashkar and his brother, Nayel, were arrested Tuesday for trying to claim the jackpot.

Miles told the newspaper that he had a lunchtime ritual of buying as much as $200 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets and knew he'd won big with the $20 ticket in 2006. When he brought the ticket to the market, he knew it was worth $5 million, but Andy Ashkar scanned it and said it was worth only $5,000, Miles said.

Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick has said Miles didn't realize the true value of the ticket at the time he cashed it in and that Ashkar took advantage of his confusion.

Miles said Ashkar ran out the door of the store and drove off in a car with the ticket after giving him $4,000 and saying there was a $1,000 cashing fee. He said he ran after the car, yelling for it to stop, but then dropped the fight because he'd gotten high on crack cocaine the night before and wasn't feeling well.

Friends told him to pursue the matter but he never did because, he told the paper, it would have been his word against the Ashkars'. After the bogus story was floated in October, Miles' friends again urged him to come forward. He didn't. A police officer who had heard about it finally tracked him down and persuaded him to go to authorities.

A woman who answered the phone at a number listed in Miles' name said it was not his number and a second phone number listed in Miles' name was disconnected Thursday. Fitzpatrick and lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman did not immediately return calls seeking comment Thursday.

Miles told the newspaper that he no longer uses drugs, has held a steady job for years and is a good father to his two children and three stepdaughters.

"On the day that they did that to me, God spoke to me and said, `You know, I'm going to double that,'" Miles told the newspaper. "So I knew one day it was going to come out and people were going to believe what I was saying."

The Ashkar brothers, both employed as managers at area auto dealerships, were being held on $25,000 cash or $50,000 bond after their arraignment Wednesday. Their lawyer, Bob Durr, said the brothers are adamant that they legitimately own the ticket.

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Information from: The Post-Standard, http://www.syracuse.com

Source: http://www.startribune.com/nation/179541601.html

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Researchers tap into CO2 storage potential of mine waste

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Mine waste has greenhouse gas-trapping potential that should be economically valued says researcher

VANCOUVER, CANADA, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 -- It's time to economically value the greenhouse gas-trapping potential of mine waste and start making money from it, says mining engineer and geologist Michael Hitch of the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Hitch studies the value of mine waste rock for its CO2-sequestration potential, or "SP." He says mining companies across Canada will, in future, be able to offset CO2 emissions with so-named "SP rock," and within 25 years could even be selling emissions credits.

Digging, trucking and processing make mining an energy-intensive industry that emits greenhouse gases. However, mine waste rock that is rich in the mineral magnesium silicate has an inherent ability to react with CO2 and chemically "fix" it in place as magnesium carbonatean ability that can be greatly enhanced with some processing. Hitch and his colleagues note that this capacity for CO2 fixation can be five to ten times greater than total greenhouse gas production from some mine operations. Nickel, diamond, copper, chromite, platinum, palladium, talc, and asbestos mines could all be contenders. Some large mines, the researchers add, could fix 5 million tonnes or more of CO2 per year.

"I don't like waste," asserts Hitch. "I like to see efficient use of the resources."

Instead of using just 1 per cent of the materials from a big mining pit, he explains, a company could receive value from the non-commodity rock. "All of a sudden this material starts having value, and this material starts taking on a position in the company's cash flow as a byproduct," says Hitch, adding, "It really kind of changes the dynamics of the mining operation."

With the global price of carbon emissions credits expected to rise, SP rock could become even more valuable. However, in order to achieve substantial CO2 sequestration in SP rock, the somewhat sluggish chemical reactions that naturally fix CO2 require a jump start.

Hitch is working on this problem alongside researchers Greg Dipple, team lead, and Ulrich Mayer, both of UBC's Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, and Gordon Southam, with the University of Western Ontario's Department of Earth Science. The collaboration is being funded by Carbon Management Canada, a Network of Centres of Excellence that funds research to produce the technology, knowledge, and human capacity that will reduce carbon emissions in the fossil energy industry and in other large-scale emitters.

Two of the team's primary goals are to measure the rate of CO2 fixation in mine waste rock and tailings in a lab setting and to speed up the process. Team members have already observed that CO2 fixation is greatly accelerated in mine tailings, presumably due mainly to the large surface area exposed and available to react after rocks are crushed into small particles.

Dipple's lab reports that their previous research has demonstrated that CO2 is trapped in mineral precipitates at rates of up to 50,000 tonnes per year within tailings during mine operations, and continues to be sequestered after mine operations cease. Rates of fixation are limited by the dissolution of CO2 in water and one area of investigation involves increasing the concentration of CO2 supplied to a slurry similar in chemical composition to tailings process water. Results show a 200-fold rate of increase over atmospheric weathering of some minerals by increasing the concentration of CO2 in the air passed through the slurry to 10%.

Hitch's lab is currently grinding rock and pre-treating the material in order to change its physical and chemical properties. Dipple's group will then examine the material's ability to fix CO2. The collaborating researchers hope to move to field trials in five years.

Meanwhile, Southam's UWO research group is studying the role of microbes in fixing CO2 and precipitating carbonate minerals, in particular as sedimentary rock. They are also working on methods to accelerate this process.

Another important goal is to use computer modeling to predict the sequestration potential of rocks at specific mining sites. To that end, Hitch is designing a way to use mining planning software to put a dollar value on the amount of SP rock that could be obtained at particular locations. These data, coupled with Mayer's modeling of CO2 uptake in mine wastes at the environmental and climate conditions of specific mine sites, could allow for comprehensive evaluation of CO2 fixation capacity and rate for individual mine sites around the world.

"None of this (work) is done in isolation," notes Hitch, adding that carbon management is not an easy solution. "It requires lots of different perspectives and lots of different skill sets," he says.

The safe storage of CO2 in mine waste and tailings for thousands of years is an exciting idea that could refresh the public image of the mining industry. One day, Hitch and his colleagues add, research findings from mining could even be applied to CO2 sequestration projects underground and in marine basins.

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About Carbon Management Canada

Carbon Management Canada is a national network that funds research and promotes the transfer to practice of knowledge and technologies to reduce CO2 emissions in the fossil energy industry and other large stationary emitters. The Network has over 150 investigators, agreements with 27 Canadian universities, and has invested $18 million in 36 research projects.


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Mine waste has greenhouse gas-trapping potential that should be economically valued says researcher

VANCOUVER, CANADA, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 -- It's time to economically value the greenhouse gas-trapping potential of mine waste and start making money from it, says mining engineer and geologist Michael Hitch of the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Hitch studies the value of mine waste rock for its CO2-sequestration potential, or "SP." He says mining companies across Canada will, in future, be able to offset CO2 emissions with so-named "SP rock," and within 25 years could even be selling emissions credits.

Digging, trucking and processing make mining an energy-intensive industry that emits greenhouse gases. However, mine waste rock that is rich in the mineral magnesium silicate has an inherent ability to react with CO2 and chemically "fix" it in place as magnesium carbonatean ability that can be greatly enhanced with some processing. Hitch and his colleagues note that this capacity for CO2 fixation can be five to ten times greater than total greenhouse gas production from some mine operations. Nickel, diamond, copper, chromite, platinum, palladium, talc, and asbestos mines could all be contenders. Some large mines, the researchers add, could fix 5 million tonnes or more of CO2 per year.

"I don't like waste," asserts Hitch. "I like to see efficient use of the resources."

Instead of using just 1 per cent of the materials from a big mining pit, he explains, a company could receive value from the non-commodity rock. "All of a sudden this material starts having value, and this material starts taking on a position in the company's cash flow as a byproduct," says Hitch, adding, "It really kind of changes the dynamics of the mining operation."

With the global price of carbon emissions credits expected to rise, SP rock could become even more valuable. However, in order to achieve substantial CO2 sequestration in SP rock, the somewhat sluggish chemical reactions that naturally fix CO2 require a jump start.

Hitch is working on this problem alongside researchers Greg Dipple, team lead, and Ulrich Mayer, both of UBC's Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, and Gordon Southam, with the University of Western Ontario's Department of Earth Science. The collaboration is being funded by Carbon Management Canada, a Network of Centres of Excellence that funds research to produce the technology, knowledge, and human capacity that will reduce carbon emissions in the fossil energy industry and in other large-scale emitters.

Two of the team's primary goals are to measure the rate of CO2 fixation in mine waste rock and tailings in a lab setting and to speed up the process. Team members have already observed that CO2 fixation is greatly accelerated in mine tailings, presumably due mainly to the large surface area exposed and available to react after rocks are crushed into small particles.

Dipple's lab reports that their previous research has demonstrated that CO2 is trapped in mineral precipitates at rates of up to 50,000 tonnes per year within tailings during mine operations, and continues to be sequestered after mine operations cease. Rates of fixation are limited by the dissolution of CO2 in water and one area of investigation involves increasing the concentration of CO2 supplied to a slurry similar in chemical composition to tailings process water. Results show a 200-fold rate of increase over atmospheric weathering of some minerals by increasing the concentration of CO2 in the air passed through the slurry to 10%.

Hitch's lab is currently grinding rock and pre-treating the material in order to change its physical and chemical properties. Dipple's group will then examine the material's ability to fix CO2. The collaborating researchers hope to move to field trials in five years.

Meanwhile, Southam's UWO research group is studying the role of microbes in fixing CO2 and precipitating carbonate minerals, in particular as sedimentary rock. They are also working on methods to accelerate this process.

Another important goal is to use computer modeling to predict the sequestration potential of rocks at specific mining sites. To that end, Hitch is designing a way to use mining planning software to put a dollar value on the amount of SP rock that could be obtained at particular locations. These data, coupled with Mayer's modeling of CO2 uptake in mine wastes at the environmental and climate conditions of specific mine sites, could allow for comprehensive evaluation of CO2 fixation capacity and rate for individual mine sites around the world.

"None of this (work) is done in isolation," notes Hitch, adding that carbon management is not an easy solution. "It requires lots of different perspectives and lots of different skill sets," he says.

The safe storage of CO2 in mine waste and tailings for thousands of years is an exciting idea that could refresh the public image of the mining industry. One day, Hitch and his colleagues add, research findings from mining could even be applied to CO2 sequestration projects underground and in marine basins.

###

About Carbon Management Canada

Carbon Management Canada is a national network that funds research and promotes the transfer to practice of knowledge and technologies to reduce CO2 emissions in the fossil energy industry and other large stationary emitters. The Network has over 150 investigators, agreements with 27 Canadian universities, and has invested $18 million in 36 research projects.


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Auditor recommends changes in Penn State governance

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Pennsylvania's elected fiscal watchdog is calling for sweeping changes in the way Penn State University governs itself following the child sexual abuse conviction of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

The university should strip the president of some powers, shrink the school's board of trustees, and make the school more transparent to the public, Auditor General Jack Wagner said on Wednesday in a report offering nonbinding recommendations.

The university's image was tarnished by the Sandusky scandal and criminal charges of cover-up by Penn State leaders, including former President Graham Spanier.

"By its very design, the structure of Penn State's governance vests too much control and power in the position of university president, no matter who held that position in the past or who holds it now," Wagner, a Democrat, said in his report.

Sandusky, 68, is serving 30 to 60 years in a maximum-security prison for molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period, some in the campus football showers.

Spanier, former Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley and former Vice President Gary Schultz will face a preliminary hearing next month in Harrisburg on child endangerment, perjury, criminal conspiracy, failure to report suspected child abuse and obstruction charges in connection with the Sandusky case.

"We call for reforming the conflicted and contradictory structure by which the president holds plural roles that compromise reporting relationships and undercut the board's ability to govern as leaders," Wagner said.

Wagner said the Penn State president wields too much authority because he is a voting member of the board of trustees and is a member of "almost every board committee."

The board of trustees, Wagner said, should also be reduced from 32 to 22 members, with one of those members, the Pennsylvania governor, serving as a non-voting member.

The university welcomed Wagner's recommendations but had no other comment, Penn State spokesman David La Torre said.

"The university only just received the report but will conduct a thorough review," La Torre said.

(Editing by Daniel Trotta and Will Dunham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/auditor-recommends-changes-penn-state-governance-164913173.html

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Death row inmate lawsuit alleges authorities withheld evidence ...

Sheriff's deputies lead Rogers Lacaze, 18, out of the Kim Anh restaurant in July 1995 after Lacaze and the judge, jury and attorneys in Lacaze's trial returned to the scene of a triple slaying. (Photo by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archive)

In a federal lawsuit aimed at forcing the FBI and Department of Justice to release documents that he says could help prove his innocence in a notorious triple-murder at an eastern New Orleans restaurant in 1995, death row inmate Rogers Lacaze accuses local and state officials of withholding evidence favorable to him throughout the years. Specifically, Lacaze claims, state prosecutors and New Orleans police have suppressed information supporting his claims that it was not him but rather the brother of his co-defendant who helped carry out the killings.

Jurors found Lacaze, now 36, guilty of committing the first-degree murders of New Orleans Police Officer Ronald "Ronnie" Williams II and siblings Cuong Vu and Ha Vu, who were all killed with a 9mm handgun at Kim Anh restaurant during a robbery March 4, 1995. A separate jury also convicted Antoinette Frank, 41, who was a rookie New Orleans officer at the time.

Frank was Williams' partner, and they both often provided security at the restaurant. Lacaze and Frank were sentenced to death in the killings, and are in the post-conviction phases of their state appeals. Lacaze -- portrayed as the shooter of all the victims -- confessed to being at the restaurant while Frank gunned down Williams, Cuong Vu and Ha Vu, but later said police beat that admission out of him.

Despite being identified by witnesses at trial as being at the restaurant, Lacaze,?who was?described as a close friend of Frank's, says that he was not at the business. He says Frank's accomplice was her brother, Adam Frank Jr. The state Supreme Court has previously upheld Lacaze's conviction on the strength of other evidence.

The Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office could not comment on the allegations in Lacaze's lawsuit Wednesday morning. A spokesman said the office would review the suit and perhaps issue a statement in the afternoon.

Lacaze's federal lawsuit offers up the role NOPD officer Stanley Morlier played as a witness at his and Antoinette Frank's trials as an example of the alleged withholding of evidence. At Lacaze's trial, Morlier was questioned by the defense about confrontations Williams may have had with Adam and Antoinette Frank at the restaurant. Morlier denied there were any such confrontations.

But at Antoinette Frank's subsequent trial, the lawsuit says, Morlier testified that he and Williams once had to eject Adam Frank from Kim Anh restaurant. Morlier also noted that Antoinette Frank confronted him afterward and said, "You tell Ronnie Williams that when he messes with my brother he's messing with me, and I'll take him out," according to the lawsuit.

Lacaze says he "was not aware of these facts until after Officer Morlier testified in Ms. Frank's trial."

Also called by the defense at Lacaze's trial, NOPD Capt. John Landry testified that the department had discovered Adam Frank Jr. was wanted on attempted manslaughter counts only two months before the Anh Kim killings. Landry didn't explain further.

In post-conviction proceedings, Lacaze obtained a report by Landry revealing that, before the killings, two NOPD officers were sent to Antoinette Frank's home to "conduct a 'wanted check for her brother.'" That had not been disclosed to Lacaze, his federal lawsuit claims.

Lacaze says authorities also never disclosed to him that they had investigated the possibility Adam Frank had been given the weapon they think was used in the murders. According to the federal lawsuit and other appellate documents, NOPD officer David Talley, custodian of the police gun vault, gave statements to investigators that he had obtained a 9mm Beretta Model 92G for Antoinette Frank through a court-order bearing the signature of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Frank Marullo. It is unclear whether Marullo, who presided over the trials of Lacaze and Frank, actually provided the signature on the document himself.

Weeks before the Kim Anh murders, Antoinette Frank reported the Beretta as stolen. Though it was never recovered, authorities think that was the gun used to kill Williams and the Ha siblings.

Talley testified about how he got the gun for Antoinette Frank at her trial. But Lacaze says none of that information was given to him, prohibiting him from demonstrating at his trial that the murder weapon was given to Frank, not him, which would have discredited the state's theory at his trial that he was the shooter. Lacaze had never been convicted of a crime prior to the Kim Anh rampage, and his lawyers say in filings that no physical evidence tied him to the scene of the killings.

Items that were stolen from the restaurant, including $10,000 in cash and Williams' service revolver, were never located in Lacaze's or Frank's possession.

NOPD, prior to the defendants' trials, questioned Talley about his knowledge of Adam Frank's connections to the Kim Anh restaurant; Adam Frank's access to guns from the Central Evidence and Property Division; and Adam Frank's whereabouts at the time Williams and the Ha siblings were killed. NOPD also asked Talley if he knew whether Antoinette Frank had given the Beretta from the evidence and property room to her brother. Police warned Talley that if his statements were false, he was exposing himself to being liable in the Kim Anh killings.

Talley admitted knowing Adam Frank but denied knowing whether he had ever gotten the gun from his sister. Lacaze says he was not made aware of that questioning prior to or at his trial, information that would have cast suspicion on the man Lacaze says aided Antoinette Frank in the murders.

In 1998, Adam Frank was arrested in Rayville in northeastern Louisiana, where he was living under the name of Keith Jackson. Reports generated by Adam Frank's arrest reveal that authorities originally stopped him because at least one person heard him "bragging about killing a New Orleans police officer," Lacaze's lawsuit says.

Furthermore, a separate but associated appellate filing in state court alleges that, after being sent to prison for an unrelated armed robbery in 2003, Adam Frank bragged to a fellow inmate that he had shot an officer in the head and killed him at a New Orleans restaurant "because the cop shook him down." The filing does not elaborate on what may have been meant by "shook him down." Adam Frank, the filing maintains, plotted unsuccessfully on that occasion to break out of prison -- he said during the planning that he wanted to escape to aid his sister, who had been given the death penalty for the cop's murder.

The day following his arrest in Rayville in 1998, which was prompted by a tip to police from a confidential informant, Adam Frank escaped custody, filings say. Authorities released a notice that Frank was at-large and wanted by, among other agencies, the FBI in New Orleans, Lacaze's federal lawsuit says.

Adam Frank was recaptured within about a month, and he had a 9mm Beretta Model 92G on him, Lacaze's lawsuit adds. The filing says, "This was the same caliber, make and model as the weapon that ... the state alleged was used to commit the 1995 murders."

The serial number on the pistol Adam Frank had was rubbed off, but crime lab personnel managed to recover part of it. What was recovered matched the serial number on the weapon police allege was used at Kim Anh, Lacaze's lawsut says. That gun was destroyed before anyone tested it against bullets and casings at the restaurant, according to statements at a court hearing.

As part of Lacaze's post-conviction proceedings, the Orleans Parish district attorney's office had to produce documents pertinent to his case. There was also a list of documents classified as "privileged" and withheld from the case file Lacaze was given. Those documents included six pages labeled as Adam Frank's FBI rap sheet.

On Feb. 24, Lacaze's lawyer, Blythe Taplin of the Capital Appeals Project in New Orleans, lodged a Freedom of Information Act request seeking federal documents about Adam Frank, who remains in the state penitentiary serving a 65-year sentence for the robbery he was convicted of in 2003.

On March 14, the FBI denied Lacaze's request. The agency declined to say whether the records exist and refused to release any documents without "express authorization and consent of the third party, proof that the subject of your request is deceased, or a clear demonstration that the public interest in disclosure outweighs the personal privacy interest and that significant public benefit would result from the disclosure of the requested records."

Taplin filed an administrative appeal March 21, arguing that the possibility of exonerating a death row inmate was a public benefit that is greater than Adam Frank's privacy. Taplin's appeal was denied.

Attorneys with the Miller & Chevalier firm in Washington, D.C., filed a FOIA lawsuit in Washington Federal District Court on behalf of Lacaze and Taplin. In part, the petition is aiming to have the refusal of the FBI and the Justice Department to produce the relevant papers ruled improper, and it pleads for an order directing the defendants to immediately process the requested records in their entirety.

Source: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/11/in_lawsuit_death_row_inmate_al.html

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Has America Become a Huge Duck Pond? | American Conservative ...

Dr Wayne Dyer describes people as eagles and ducks.

With a majority of Americans voting to give the undeserving Obama a second term, I felt like the odd-man-out voting against him. It occurred to me that I have a history of being odd-man-out, not in sync? with the thinking of my family and friends.

When I was in junior high school, my dad acknowledged my artistic talent and encouraged me to pursue a career in that field. Dad said, ?You could be a great black artist someday.? While I appreciated Dad?s support, I thought, ? Why can?t I simply be a great artist? Why must my success be limited to the black world??

Admittedly, I probably misinterpreted the meaning of Dad?s statement. The reason is because my family and friends appeared to view the world through a narrow black lens, limiting blacks to certain tastes and behaviors. I was criticized and looked at suspect for enjoying music beyond R&B, black Gospel and Jazz. I have always dealt with people as individuals. Thus, I was criticized for having ?too many white friends?. Early on, I viewed the world as my oyster, eager to explore life beyond the American ?black experience?.

Though they love me, family and friends have been furious with me on numerous occasions over the years for not participating in their group think or indulging in unauthorized black behavior.

Rejecting Barack Obama is my latest offense.? Not only did I reject the first black president, family and friends found it incomprehensible that I chaired a PAC against him.

So, why have I never quite fit in with my family and friends? Why have I suffered their rebuke all? these years?? Finally, I understand. They are ducks. I am an eagle.

Obama?s reelection has concerned eagles concluding that America has become a huge duck pond. In Obama?s duck pond, high flying independent self-reliant eagles are mandated to have their wings clipped, limiting their ability to fly to hovering slightly above the pond. This will not enhance the life of one duck other than appeasing their envy of the eagle?s ?unfair? ability to fly high.

When Obama touts hard work, he is really only talking to eagles. Ducks are encouraged to chill-out and rely on government. Eagles are ordered to deliver most of what they gather to government Lilly pads to be redistributed. Ducks simply waddle or float to the nearest Lilly pad to receive freebies delivered via the hard work, sweat and risks of eagles. Free duck-phones are a huge hit.

In Obama?s new duck pond America, high minded eagle ideas such as personal responsibility and ambition to build a better life for ones self and their family are criminalized. Obama?s vision is no duck having more than another sharing equally for the good of the pond.

To the horror of us eagles, a majority of Americans are ignorant na?ve ducks who believe Obama?s vision will ensure prosperity for all floating around the pond. Dear Lord help us, please!

There is a reason why the Bald Eagle was chosen to symbolize America. It is a bird of great vision and resilience which refuses to be controlled or contained. Its rights and desire to be free are gifted by God.

Eagles simply can not and will not allow Obama?s duck pond to become the permanent new standard of what it means to be an American. Despite the decree of the Imperial Ruler of the pond, eagles will stealthily conceive new ways to regrow their wings to fly high, soaring higher than ever before. Such is the spirit and nature of the American eagle.

Unquestionably, Obama?s reelection is a monumental devastating defeat of us eagles. Currently in America, ducks rule!

Eagles across America have already begun to regroup, plan new strategies and ways to educate a nation now dominated by clueless ducks.

For ever long as it takes, American eagles will not give up or surrender until a majority of Obama ducks are defeated or miraculously transformed into eagles. Eagles will not rest until Obama?s duck pond America is restored back to its divinely ordained role as the largest greatest eagle?s nest on the planet.

About The Author Lloyd Marcus:
Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American Lloyd is singer/songwriter of the American Tea Party Anthem and author of Confessions of a Black Conservative, foreword by Michele Malkin. Spokesperson for Tea Party Express Please help me spread my message by joining my Liberty Network.

Source: http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2012/11/14/has-america-become-a-huge-duck-pond/

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Band Uses Nuclear Isotopes To Make Music

showing the energy patterns

A good musician can create something resembling music with just about anything. I remember Steve Allen doing it with a picture of birds sitting on power lines. But claiming there are "energy patterns" in the mist random process in nature is just, purring it kindly, B.S.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/Czg_kICnjdY/story01.htm

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BP in 'advanced' oil spill talks

BP says it is in "advanced discussions" with US agencies about settling criminal and other claims from the Gulf of Mexico well disaster two years ago.

However, in a statement, BP said "no final agreement has yet been reached".

Any settlement is likely to involve the UK oil major paying a record corporate fine in the US.

BP said any deal would not include civil claims under the Clean Water Act, pending private civil claims, and state claims for economic loss.

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 workers and released millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days.

On Wednesday, the Reuters news agency cited unnamed BP sources as saying that the company would plead guilty to criminal misconduct in exchange for a waiver of future prosecution on the charges.

The oil giant said on Thursday: "BP confirms that it is in advanced discussions with the United States Department of Justice and the Securities & Exchange Commission regarding proposed resolutions of all US federal government criminal and SEC claims against BP in connection with the Deepwater Horizon incident."

It also said any such agreement would still be subject to court approvals.

A settlement is expected to dwarf the largest previous corporate criminal penalty assessed by the Department of Justice, the $1.2bn fine imposed on drug maker Pfizer in 2009.

The oil giant has been selling assets worth billions of pounds to raise money to settle all claims. The company is expected to make a final payment of $860m into the $20bn Gulf of Mexico compensation fund by the end of the year.

BP has booked provisions of $38.1bn to cover its liabilities from the incident, but the company has said the final cost remained highly uncertain.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20336898#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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PA Vs NP Education.

UGH.

I sent a comment:

In reference to this article: http://www.getarealdegree.com/career...ian-assistant/
I am a physician assistant, and I have some suggestions to improve the accuracy of this article.
1. The vast majority of PA programs require a bachelor's degree.
2. Most require a certain number of previous health care experience hours, some up to 5000.
3. There is exactly one online PA program. It is not well respected. It is not worth mentioning.
4. All PA students participate in a year of various hands-on clinical rotations, just like 3rd-year medical students do.
5. PAs do *everything* NPs do, though there are more PAs assisting in surgery than NPs. Patients may choose to see a PA as their primary care provider.
6. PAs are "supervised" by physicians. This does not mean doctors are looking over our shoulders. It means they simply have to co-sign our charts and be "available" to answer questions. This can be on-site or even just by telephone hundreds of miles away. Many PAs function with an enormous amount of autonomy.
7. And finally, NPs are trained under the nursing model; PAs are trained under the medical model (i.e., just as physicians are).

Source: http://www.physicianassistantforum.com/forums/showthread.php/37337-PA-Vs-NP-Education

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Men and women battle for ideal height: Evidence of an intralocus sexual conflict currently raging in human DNA

ScienceDaily (Nov. 13, 2012) ? A battle about the ideal height would appear to be raging in men's and women's genes. Gert Stulp, PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, has shown that this conflict is leading to a difference in reproductive success between men and women of varying height.

His research has been published in the journal Biology Letters.

"Natural selection is still occurring in human beings, despite birth control and good medical facilities," says Gert Stulp. Together with colleagues from Groningen, Amsterdam and Cambridge (UK), he managed to find evidence of an intralocus sexual conflict currently raging in the DNA of the human race.

"A conflict like this arises because men and women are different and therefore subject to different selection pressures," explains Stulp. A stag, for example, benefits from big antlers, but they would be impractical for a doe. 'Nature has "switched off" antler development in does, so there is no conflict between the male and female animals. However, some of the traits that are helpful to one sex but a hindrance to the other cannot be quite so easily switched off."

This is the case with height in human beings. Short parents tend to produce short daughters and short sons. This benefits the reproductive success of the daughters, but not that of the sons. 'We know that shorter women have more children than women of an average height. With men, this is the other way round.' As short women and men of average height have the most children, their genes are passed on the most.

This difference in selection pressures for human height between the sexes could mean that shorter families are more successful at reproducing via the women, while families of an average height produce more children via the men in the family. This is known as an intralocus sexual conflict: a particular trait (in this case: being short or of average height) is an advantage when it presents in one sex, but a disadvantage when it presents in the other.

The question being addressed is whether this conflict can be demonstrated in humans. Stulp studied the number of children born to brothers and sisters in a large-scale American database containing data on thousands of residents of Wisconsin born in 1937 or 1938.

"It turned out that by taking the height of just one individual/person, we could predict whether his or her sibling would produce many or few children. Shorter individuals have a higher chance of becoming an uncle or aunt through their sister, while individuals of average height are more likely to have nephews and nieces via their brother." The sexual conflict relating to body height was clearly visible. "We are the first researchers to actually demonstrate this type of genetic conflict in humans."

It is still unclear why shorter women have more children. "A conflict between growth and reproduction is common in some species of animals," continues Stulp. Short women probably put more energy into reproducing. "In general, the earlier a woman has her first child, the more children she will have. Women with a genetic tendency to have children at a young age also appear to have a genetic tendency to be short. But whatever the reason, evolutionary processes still seem to be alive and kicking in modern society."

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  1. G. Stulp, B. Kuijper, A. P. Buunk, T. V. Pollet, S. Verhulst. Intralocus sexual conflict over human height. Biology Letters, 2012; 8 (6): 976 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0590

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