| Bids taken for D70 preschool
The funding for these students comes from the Colorado Department of Education to help promote early intervention classrooms for preschool-age children considered to be academically at-risk. Requests for proposals will be accepted from today through April 30. Providers interested in applying for the student slots must provide educational programs that are equal to or meet the same developmental benchmarks as the district's preschool curriculum. The curriculums must be developmentally appropriate and must build a strong literacy baseline of skills. Students in the program need to have 110 contact hours. For application packets and more information, contact Jenny Robinson at 369-6528. .
The Top 20 Searches for Antiques and Collectibles at Kovels.com ...
With over 600,000 antiques and collectibles in its online price guide, Kovels.com today released its top 20 list of the most popular searches for March 2007. Cleveland, Ohio/April 13, 2007/FPSnewswire/ - Kovels.com (http://www.kovels.com), the Web's largest free price guide for antiques and collectibles, today released its list of the top 20 searches for March. The Kovels' top 20 list is based on the results of hundreds of thousands of searches that took place on its website during the month of March 2007. People use price guides for a number of reasons, the most common being that they are just trying to determine the value of a specific item that they own. If an Item is not listed on the top 20 list, it does not necessarily mean that it is unpopular or that there is not a demand for it.
China to open bidding for 3G handsets
Participants at the industry forum in Beijing last week said that Chinese firms are expected to win 50 percent of an upcoming handset bid for the 3G technology valued at about $518 million. This is according to a ShanghaiDaily report. The China government still has not given a definite stamp on the 3G standard but industry insiders believe the country will start operating the homegrown time division-synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) network standard by the end of this year. Chen Haofei, secretary-general of the TD-SCDMA Forum said that Chinese firms cannot take the lion's share in the TD-SCDMA equipment bids but should be half and half against foreign suppliers. In order to carry out the bidding, Chen said China Mobile will invite manufacturers to showcase their models in Beijing to decide on the specific shares to be given to the phone makers.
Iran to seek bids for two new atomic power plants
TEHRAN - Iran said today it would seek bids in the next few days for two new nuclear power plants and will partly run them on fuel produced at home, a process the West fears could lead to material for building atomic bombs. Ahmad Fayazbakhsh, an official at Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, said the power plants would each have capacity for 1,000 to 1,600 MW and would be built at Bushehr, the southwest port city where Russians are building Iran's first atomic plant. The West fears Iran's civilian nuclear programme is a smokescreen for atomic weapon ambitions, a charge Tehran denies. A Western diplomat said the tender announcement appeared aimed at justifying Iran's statement it had expanded work to make atomic fuel in defiance of a UN demand to halt uranium enrichment, a process which can be used to make bombs.
Arsenal to resist any takeover bids
Arsenal are bracing for a possible takeover battle after a boardroom split prompted the exit of vice-chairman David Dein, the man credited with much of the club's success over the past decade. The split surfaced after the purchase of an 11 per cent stake in the club by US billionaire Stan Kroenke and a widely-held belief he is planning to buy the north London club - with Dein potentially having a role in the takeover. Club chairman Peter Hill-Wood made clear the board's opposition to any such move by Kroenke, saying: "Call me old fashioned, but we don't need his money and we don't want his sort. "Our objective is to keep Arsenal English - albeit with a lot of foreign players. I don't know for certain if Kroenke will mount a hostile takeover, but we shall resist it with all our might." Hill-Wood also dismissed the idea of a new buyer spending heavily in the transfer market.
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