Libertarian gubernatorial candidate to make campaign stop in Marshall

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Kathie Glass, Libertarian candidate for governor, will visit with constituents Thursday during a campaign trip to Marshall.

The reception, hosted by the Libertarian Party of Harrison County, will begin at 9 a.m. at Central Perks Coffee House in the Weisman Center, 211 N. Washington Ave.

The Libertarian Party of Harrison County is excited that Kathie Glass is starting her campaign tour in East Texas, and actually including a stop in Marshall to meet residents of Harrison County, said Michele Swint, chair of the local political party. We couldn't be happier to host this event for our gubernatorial candidate.

We encourage all interested constituents that love liberty, Texas and the Constitution to join us, Swint said. Kathie will share her plans to resist federal tyranny and the over-reaching government.

She said the public is invited to meet the candidate, ask questions and hear her solutions for issues challenging Texas.

This is Harrison County's opportunity to be heard and ask questions about issues important to us, said Swint.

According to her biography, Glass, a Georgia native, is a patriot, wife, mother, lawyer and business owner. She was the first person in her family to go to college and worked her way through college and law school.

The candidate moved to Texas in July 1977, and has been a proud Texan ever since.

Kathie practiced as a highly successful civil trial lawyer in Houston for over 30 years, trying many cases and never losing a jury trial, her bio reads.

During her career, she worked in various firms, including her own in which she employed as many as 20.

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Libertarian Umbehr files for Kansas governor

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TOPEKA Libertarian Keen Umbehr put his name on the November ballot for Kansas governor on Tuesday, declaring that residents want a government that is fair for all people all the time.

The 55-year-old Alma attorney filed the paperwork and paid a $500 fee at the secretary of state's office. Umbehr said taxes and protecting the civil liberties of all residents, not just special interests, would be themes during the race.

"Kansas is fair. People are looking at Kansas to see what we do," Umbehr said.

Umbehr says taxes and civil liberties are first on his agenda. His running mate is his son, Dr. Josh Umbehr, a Wichita physician. He said if elected he would seek to eliminate the state income and sales taxes and replace them with a 5.7 percent tax on consumption of goods and services. Umbehr said the cuts that eliminated income taxes for certain classes of businesses, including his own, in 2012 were unfair.

"They did it for 191,000, they can do it for the other 1.3 million wage earners," he said.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his running mate, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, filed last week for their bid for a second term. Democrat Paul Davis, the current House minority leader, is running for governor with Jill Docking as his running mate, but they have yet to officially file. The filing deadline is June 2. No other Democrats have entered the race.

Umbehr said the goal wasn't just to get 5 percent of the vote, which would elevate Libertarians to major party status in Kansas. He thinks a Libertarian could get 35 percent in a three-way race with Brownback and Davis.

"It does change the calculus, and that's a good thing," he said.

Bob Beatty, a Washburn University political scientist who has studied Kansas governors, said Umbehr could be a factor in November, especially in a tight race between Brownback and Davis.

"This year the Libertarian candidate is the wild card," Beatty said. "Is it a close race? It's sort of a phantom election right now because there isn't any real contentious campaigning going on."

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NZAid funds Cook Islands PM's pearl farm

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The Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna is set to get an estimated $116,000 worth of equipment and loan funding from NZAid for his pearl farm in Manihiki, despite an apparent conflict of interest.

The payment is part of a Grant Funding Arrangement (GFA) signed between the Cook Islands and New Zealand in 2013, which gave $1.7 million to the Cook Islands as part of the Pearl Revitalisation Project.

A requirement of the GFA was that all conflicts of interest were to be declared to the New Zealand Government. However, Mr Puna's involvement in his pearl farm was not.

According to a document supplied by the Cook Islands' Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) in Rarotonga, Mr Puna put in a request for a $38,000 boat, an $18,000 outboard motor and $30,000 worth of building material to upgrade his seeding house.

The document shows the equipment Mr Puna requested was worth more than twice as much as that asked for by most other pearl farmers. He also requested $18,393.75 as part of an emergency float loan.

Financial secretary of the Cook Islands Ministry of Finance and Economic Development Richard Neve says the final list of equipment was approved by the Manihiki Pearl Farmers Association (MPFA), which 23 of 24 pearl farmers are members of including Mr Puna.

"This equipment has been put out in a series of public tenders ... endorsed by MPFA, and procured by MFED."

Mr Neve disputed that Mr Puna will be receiving over $100,000 worth of financial support, but the document provided by MMR says otherwise.

The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) said in response to an Official Information Act request that Mr Puna was not on the list of those declared to have a conflict of interest.

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully says it is well known that Mr Puna's family is involved in pearl farming.

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Nine young scientists awarded by the Genetics Society of America for fruit fly research

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20-May-2014

Contact: Raeka Aiyar, Ph.D. press@genetics-gsa.org 301-634-7302 Genetics Society of America

BETHESDA, MD (May 20, 2014) -- The Genetics Society of America (GSA) and the Drosophila research community are pleased to announce the winners of GSA Poster Awards at the 55th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, which took place in San Diego, March 26-30, 2014. These awards were made to undergraduate, graduate student, and postdoctoral researchers in recognition of the work they presented at the conference. Their projects, using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism, spanned a diverse range of topics on the genetic and molecular basis of fundamental biological processes.

"We were very impressed with both the quality of the research and the clarity of presentation by the winning candidates," noted Adam P. Fagen, PhD, GSA's Executive Director. "It is gratifying to see such inspiring work by members of our community so early in their careers. We look forward to hearing much more about their contributions in the years to come. "

The recipients were chosen from 789 posters presented at the meeting, 561 of which were authored by GSA members and therefore eligible for an award.

2014 Drosophila Research Conference Poster Award Winners (for full release and photos, please visit the release URL http://www.genetics-gsa.org/media/releases/GSA_PR_20140520_Dros_poster_awards.pdf)

Postdoctoral Winners

FIRST PRIZE: Melanie I. Worley, University of California, Berkeley, USA Poster Title: "Chameleon: a mutant with an increased frequency of notum-to-wing transdetermination" Principal Investigator: Iswar K. Hariharan

SECOND PRIZE: Malini Natarajan, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA Poster Title: "Genome-wide analysis of tissue-specific effector genes in the Drosophila embryo" Principal Investigator: Julia Zeitlinger

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