| Candidates offer final messages before Iowa caucus
And, I think the best first place to start is with the politicians that blocked the bipartisan SCHIP bills for the kids. Passed by congress twice. But what about the President. It was Bush after all that blocked the bipartisan SCHIP bill passed by congress to assure more health coverage for Americas kids. So which of the presidential hopefuls do I think will be most supportive of implementing the demand of the majority of the American people to have HR 676 (Medicare For All) passed into law immediately! We have some very fine presidential candidates who would make good presidents. But none of the top Presidential candidates directly support HR 676, the only true Universal Health Care plan. So I am supporting Hillary Clinton. She is the only top candidate that has ever actually fought for universal health care before.
Skatepark will have to go
Councillor Chris Mote, leader of Harrow Council, told the Byron Skatepark Users Association the current facility at Byron Park, off Christchurch Avenue, will definitely be demolished. He said: "The existing skatepark will have to go - I have got to make that absolutely clear. "We will never please everyone all of the time, this is not utopia, but we want to take an approach that is fair to everyone." The skatepark will be demolished to make way for a new leisure centre and replaced with a new facility on a different location in the park. Members of the users group told Cllr Mote the existing park would cost more to replace than the £300,000 the council has already promised. .
2% entertainment tax on deck
Claudia Location: j. on Oct 5, 2007 at 10:13 PM Just another one of Fayhey's Follies. Heaven hElp us if he gets elected to any other ofice, in either our city or any other office. He's just to busy making a name for himself, rather than doing any good for this city.Making himself a joke is more like it.
Posted by: Justin Location: BIG O! on Oct 5, 2007 at 07:15 PM I do not agree with this tax one bit, not to mention I do not agree with building a new stadium. Taxes of Nebraska pushed me across the river, everything is cheaper there; from gas and cigarettes to eating a nice dinner with your family. I do not understand why the Mayor of Omaha wants to spend millions of dollars the city DOES NOT have for a new stadium, espicially when we have the gun crime problems this city has. 3-5 shootings a night, in North Omaha? But its ok to brush those off and worry about spending 95-125 MILLION dollars because he thinks everybody in this city can afford it.
Engineering the deep: UW students build a human-propelled submarine
While the hunt for Red October is over, a group of UW students continues to make submarines. Since 1990 a group of mechanical engineering students has entered a competition that requires knowledge from the classroom to be put to the test. They built a flooded submarine, which is propelled and navigated by human power. The project collectively is known as the Human Propelled Submarine (HPS). Matthew Kim, a student on the team, said that the project is a way for students to put theories to work. “You see practicality," he added. Kim works on the controls systems, which steer the sub. The HPS team includes 15 people, but the size varies according to the quarter. This year's competition takes place July 23-27 in Escondido, Calif., at the Offshore Modeling Basin.
Archive preserves visual past
Experts and amateurs who manage the University of Vermont's online archive of historical photographs are still looking for a new crop of curators, ages 6 to 96.
They also want your photo albums.
Geology professor Paul Bierman, one of the founders of the Landscape Change Project, said the collection was designed from the ground up in 1999 to sow interest among authorities and novices, teachers and students, historians and curiosity-seekers.
On Tuesday, Bierman and his UVM faculty colleague, Christine Massey, will lead a workshop for home-schooling parents in a hands-on scavenger hunt through their Web site.
"A big part of our mission is to disseminate successful educational models," Bierman said. "Kids see old pictures of their town, of places they know -- and they start asking questions.
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