Moran seeks service academy nominees from Kansas district
Congressman Jerry Moran invites Kansas First District residents to apply for nominations to the U S service academies including West Point Annapolis Colorado Springs and Kings Point for June 2011 entry. Applicants must meet age residency citizenship and academic criteria and submit by November 1 with materials to Moran's Hutchinson office or via his site for details including guidance to also consider Brownback and Roberts offices.
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Jerry Moran
United States Service Academies
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
N.Y
US. Naval Academy
Annapolis
U.S. Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
Colo
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point
Kansas
United States
Moran
U.S
Sam Brownback
Pat Roberts
Service Academy Selection
Hutchinson
Jerrymoran.house
KU researchers unveil potential drug for diabetic neuropathy
Lawrence KU scientists report a new drug that may reverse diabetic peripheral neuropathy in mice and could one day treat humans. The study, published in the American Society of Neurochemistry, is funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the NIH.
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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
National Institutes of Health
Wind test center to open in Colby Kansas
A High Plains Small-Wind Turbine Test Center will be created at the Northwest Kansas Research and Extension Center near Colby with a U S Department of Energy subcontract to test residential and small commercial turbines under 50 kilowatts and offer certification style ratings for manufacturers. Midwest Energy plans a power line link to Colby transmission lines and will buy the generated electricity.
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Colby
Kansas
U.S. Department of Energy
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
High Plains
Northwest Kansas Research and
Hays Daily News
Hays
Bob Helm
Kansas Board races shift focus to school funding
Kansas education leaders and candidates for the State Board of Education shift from curriculum disputes to district funding and resource decisions. Incumbents face challengers in multiple districts as debates center on how money is spent, with criticism of underused state and local funds and calls for board action to curb districts' non classroom spending.
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Topeka
State Board of Education
Kansas
John Bacon
Olathe
Sally Cauble
Liberal
Ken Willard
Hutchinson
Janet Waugh
Kansas City
Jana Shaver
Independence
Waugh
Bonner Spring
Willie Dove
Kansas House
Medford
Department of Defense
Shaver
Board of Education
Mixed reaction to Art in the Park date shift sparks crowd interest
In Stevens Park during the 41st Art in the Park, Randy Haggard showcased Dot Matrix a six foot metal sculpture of a doctor made from scrap. The show drew attendees from Elk City and beyond including photographer Tom Spross and Yukon artist Sonja Patterson as organizers adjusted the event to Fall Fest aims.
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Randy Haggard
Haggard
Stevens Park
Elk City
Okla
Great Plains Regional Medical Center
Art In the Park
Edward Lomelin
Lomelin
Tom Spross
Corrales
N.M
Spross
Sandhills Art Association
Sonja Patterson
Yukon
Patterson
Robin Valenzuela
Valenzuela
Joe Rainman
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