Libertarian Sarvis plans U.S. Senate bid against Warner

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Robert Sarvis, Libertarian candidante for governor, thanked supporters who turned out at the The Tobacco Company Restaurant & Club, Tuesday, 11/5/2013. Most didn't think he would win, but were hoping for 10 percent of the vote.

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Sarvis plans to challenge Warner for Senate seat BY MARKUS SCHMIDT Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond Times-Dispatch

Robert Sarvis got 6.5 percent of the 2013 vote for Virginia governor.

Robert Sarvis, the 2013 Libertarian candidate for governor, said Wednesday that he wants to run for U.S. Senate, challenging Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va.

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Robert Sarvis, the libertarian candidate who won 6.5 percent of the vote in Virginias gubernatorial election last year, is back for Round 2.

Sarvis told the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Wednesday that he plans to challenge Democratic Sen. Mark Warner in the midterm election.

I finally got the go-ahead from my wife and told the Libertarian Party folks that I am going to run, he said.

Sarvis would need to win the nomination at the Libertarian Party convention on Feb. 8 at this point, hes the only candidate in the running and gather 10,000 signatures to get on the November ballot.

He will face a similar dynamic as he did in the governors race, when he ran against well-funded Democrat Terry McAuliffe and GOP Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Warner, an incumbent, will raise a significant amount of money to defend his seat and with the entrance of former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie into the race on the GOP side, Virginias Senate race now promises to be high-profile and expensive.

Still, despite being vastly outspent in 2013, Sarvis had a stronger-than-usual showing for a libertarian candidate and he says theres an opening for him again this year.

Voters dont have anyone who they can trust with to defend their principles, and thats where I see my chance, Sarvis said.

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13 Quotes That Show Why Libertarian Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Is A Scary Genius

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Peter Thiel, renaissance man.

He's a libertarian. But he has also funded the secretive data-mining company Palantir, which works for the FBI and the CIA.

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He co-founded PayPal and acted as its CEO before the company sold to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002.

Since then he launched the global hedge-fund Clarium Capital and the Founders Fund, a venture capital firm. He was Facebook's first outside investor, making him a billionaire when the company went public.

He supports the Methuselah Foundation, whose goal is to reverse human aging, and the SeaSteading Institute, a libertarian group founded to create independent floating cities in international waters.

He's also launched the controversial "20 Under 20" initiative which gives 20 teens $100,000 to drop out of college for two years to pursue their own tech projects.

He is one of the most original, controversial thinkers in tech today.

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Life in Asia is like Paradise 29.01.2014 HD – Islands Beach Jungle Skyline – Cambodia Thailand – Video

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British Virgin Islands sees high investment

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Steven Englander, global head of G10 foreign exchange strategy at Citi, says that liquidity in emerging markets is "terrible" and that investors are scared that the Fed will back away from its forward guidance.

"In the medium or longer term we see that the role in this respect may reduce," he told a news conference.

"Governments are looking into the situation and trying to tighten up their regulatory framework both at the national and international level."

The main casualty of such regulation was likely to be big companies' treasury flows, he said, adding that UNCTAD was working on a study to show how big the impact would be.

The continued flows to the British Virgin Islands, which UNCTAD has previously referred to as a tax haven, is likely to keep it under the microscope of the Group of 20 leading economies, which has said it wants to put pressure on "non-cooperative jurisdictions".

The G20 has asked the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to lead efforts on curbing international tax evasion and avoidance, and the OECD's tax transparency forum has named the British Virgin Islands as one of five countries that failed to meet international standards on tax transparency.

(Read more: Income tax at 50%: Coming soon to the UK?)

Each of the five either failed to share taxpayer information with other countries or to gather information on beneficial ownership of corporate entities registered on their territory, or both.

The OECD has said big international companies, banks and agencies may think twice about investing through these jurisdictions.

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Japan teaching manuals say disputed islands are country’s territories

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TOKYO, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Japan's revised school teaching manuals will claim the Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets, which are also claimed by China and South Korea, as part of Japan.

The announcement by Japan's Education Ministry that its new teaching manuals for junior and senior high schools will describe the islands as "integral parts of Japanese territory" drew protests from China and South Korea, Kyodo News reported.

"It is natural for the state to teach properly about [Japanese] territory," Japanese Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura told a news conference Tuesday. "With the cooperation of our Foreign Ministry, we will explain the country's position to our neighbors."

The Senkaku Islands in the East China, which Japan controls, have become a subject of bitter territorial dispute with China, which calls them Diaoyu.

South Korea similarly claims the Takeshima islets in the Sea of Japan, which it controls. Seoul calls them the Dokdo islets.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying expressed "grave concern" over the Japanese Education Ministry action.

South Koran Foreign Affairs Ministry, in a protest, urged Japan to immediately retract its revision, saying Japan's claims over Dokdo are groundless as they have always belonged to South Korea.

Kyodo said the revised manuals are not legally binding, although as teaching guidelines, they have much impact in classrooms.

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Genetics Society of America Selects Five Geneticists to Receive Society’s 2014 Awards

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Newswise BETHESDA, MD January 29, 2014 The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce its 2014 Award Recipients. The five individuals honored are recognized by their peers for outstanding achievements and contributions to the genetics community.

The 2014 GSA award winners are impressive scientists who collectively have positively influenced the field of genetics in research, in education, and in fostering the genetics community, said GSA President Vicki Chandler, PhD. These awards provide an annual opportunity for the genetics community to recognize those individuals whose superb achievements have advanced the science of genetics. On behalf of GSA, I thank each of the award winners for a lasting contribution to the field.

The award recipients, who will receive their awards at GSA conferences during 2014, are:

Frederick M. Ausubel, PhD (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital) has been awarded the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for lifetime contributions to the field of genetics.

Angelika B. Amon, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) has been awarded the Genetics Society of America Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of genetics during the past 15 years.

Hugo J. Bellen, DVM, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) has been awarded the George W. Beadle Award for outstanding contributions to the community of genetics researchers.

Charles Boone, PhD (University of Toronto) has been awarded the Edward Novitski Prize, which recognizes an extraordinary level of creativity and intellectual ingenuity in solving significant problems in genetics research.

Robin Wright, PhD (University of Minnesota) has been awarded the Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education, which recognizes significant and sustained impact in genetics education.

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BETHESDA, MD January 29, 2014 The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce its 2014 Award Recipients. The five individuals honored are recognized by their peers for outstanding achievements and contributions to the genetics community.

"The 2014 GSA award winners are impressive scientists who collectively have positively influenced the field of genetics in research, in education, and in fostering the genetics community," said GSA President Vicki Chandler, PhD. "These awards provide an annual opportunity for the genetics community to recognize those individuals whose superb achievements have advanced the science of genetics. On behalf of GSA, I thank each of the award winners for a lasting contribution to the field."

The award recipients, who will receive their awards at GSA conferences during 2014, are:

Frederick M. Ausubel, PhD (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital) has been awarded the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for lifetime contributions to the field of genetics.

Angelika B. Amon, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) has been awarded the Genetics Society of America Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of genetics during the past 15 years.

Hugo J. Bellen, DVM, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) has been awarded the George W. Beadle Award for outstanding contributions to the community of genetics researchers.

Charles Boone, PhD (University of Toronto) has been awarded the Edward Novitski Prize, which recognizes an extraordinary level of creativity and intellectual ingenuity in solving significant problems in genetics research.

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Neanderthal, human mixing had gene benefits, drawbacks

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The amorous unions between modern humans and Neanderthals may have led to sons who weren't much good at fathering children themselves, a new study suggests. The findings hint that hybrid boys were partially infertile or perhaps entirely sterile due to the incompatibility of human and Neanderthal DNA. Bolstering those results, a second new study finds that some of the Neanderthal DNA that entered the human genome as a result of interbreeding seems to have made for more feeble offspring.

But both studies also find evidence that Neanderthals bequeathed useful DNA to humans ?? DNA that seems to have helped Homo sapiens adapt to new locales after they left their homeland in Africa. Whether the interbreeding was a net gain or a net loss for humans may never be determined, say the scientists involved.

"It's impossible to come to a simple conclusion like 'It was beneficial' or 'It was deleterious,' or 'It was not helpful,' " says University of Washington evolutionary geneticist Joshua Akey, an author of one of the new papers. "It was all of those things simultaneously. In different parts of our genome, (mixing) was advantageous. In other parts of our genome, it was not a good thing."

When modern humans moved out of Africa into Eurasia some 100,000 years ago, they found Neanderthals there to greet them. The two groups may have made war, but they certainly also made love. Today's Europeans and East Asians owe 1% to 2% of their DNA to Neanderthals, but the impact of those additions has been unclear.

To find out more, rival teams used different methods to conduct the first systematic surveys for Neanderthal genetic material in the DNA of modern humans. Despite their different techniques, both teams found evidence of Neanderthal DNA in genome regions involved with the production of keratin, a protein in skin and hair - a sign that the Neanderthal DNA was likely to have been beneficial. Perhaps the Neanderthal DNA helped make skin and hair more suitable for the Eurasian climate, or more resistant to the local germs. One set of findings was reported in this week's Nature, the other by Akey and a colleague in this week's Science.

Before modern humans arrived in Eurasia, "Neanderthals were living (there) for hundreds of thousands of years, and so they had genetics that were adapted to the environment," says statistical geneticist Sriram Sankararaman of Harvard Medical School, an author of the Nature paper. "Modern humans were moving into these same areas, and the genes they acquired from Neanderthals could have been beneficial." His group also found Neanderthal DNA in areas of the human genome that affect diseases such as type-2 diabetes, but the researchers can't say exactly how the Neanderthal genetic material affects human health today.

Both teams also found evidence that human-Neanderthal mating wasn't always good for the resulting children. Long stretches of DNA in living humans are devoid of Neanderthal DNA, suggesting it was purged from the human genome because of its negative effects. Perhaps offspring with the Neanderthal DNA were less likely to survive adulthood, or perhaps they were less likely to have children of their own. The Nature study indicates that some Neanderthal DNA, when introduced to the modern-human genome, led to male children with lower fertility.

That's a surprising result, says population geneticist Montgomery Slatkin of the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved with the new research.

"I honestly thought (Neanderthals and modern humans) could interbreed freely, in the same way that different groups of modern humans can interbreed freely," Slatkin says. "And that is evidently not the case."

Instead the results "seem to confirm that Neanderthals and moderns were basically on separate evolutionary trajectories despite a little hanky-panky along the way," Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, says via e-mail.

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