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Whiteface CISD is a school district in Whiteface, TX. As of the 2017-2018 school year, it had 324 students. The school received an accountability rating of Met standard. 38.3% of students were considered at risk of dropping out of school. 6.2% of students were enrolled in bilingual and English language learning program...
An average teacher's salary was $47,483, which is $5,851 less than the state average. On average, teachers had 15.6 years of experience. The average SAT score at Whiteface CISD was 1082. The average ACT score was 20.4. In the Class of 2017, 100% of students received their high school diplomas on time or earlier.
Students in Whiteface CISD are part of the Texas Education Agency’s Region 17. Students who started eighth grade in 2006 in this region had a college graduation rate of 20.4 percent. View a more comprehensive breakdown of the higher ed outcomes in Region 17.
Too many golfers are hurting themselves. The evidence of an increasing number of injuries is anecdotal so far, but it's compelling. A sport that involves no bodily contact is generating a lot of bodily harm.
One of the brighter lights I know once said, "Golf isn't a sport. It's a skill -- sort of like woodworking." But no matter how you define it -- sport, game or skill -- you can start getting ready for next year's golf season right now by putting down your clubs and heading to the gym.
Being human, you may already have renounced your New Year's resolution to get fit for golf in 2000. For motivation, we turn to David Duval, last year's second-leading money winner on the PGA Tour, behind Tiger Woods, and a man who has set his sights on winning his first major.
People who love golf often pay for it. Jack Nicklaus has a tender spine. Fuzzy Zoeller's on a first-name basis with back surgeons. And when Tiger Woods's sore heel hobbled him a fortnight before last year's U.S. Open, many shared his pain.
MANY people have long felt that there is no need to exercise for golf. But attitudes are changing; golfers suffering from bad backs, rotator cuff injuries, wrist and neck problems have focused attention on the demands that the swing places on the body. The result is that golf-specific exercise programs are appearing wi...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4 (APP): Federal Minister Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said that increasing regional ties and trade relations can only boost country’s exports.
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asian States can become a new economic zone and linked with China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Pakistan economy can take huge benefits, he said this while addressing the launching ceremony of Pakistan Afghanistan Central Asian Regions Trade Summit (PACTS) to organizes by Rawalpind...
President Rawalpindi Chamber, Mian Humayun Parvez, Senior vice President Saqib Rafiq, Vice President Muhammad Aqil Obaid, group leaders Sheikh Shabbir, Sohail Altaf, S. M. Naseem, former presidents, members of the executive committee and a large number of traders were present at the ceremony.
Federal minister said that no country can progress in uncertain situation and stable economy needs a political stability as well continuation of the policies.
He said that Public private partnership can play a vital role in economic progress.
“We need to focus our economic policies and export oriented policies,which can help Pakistan to achieve its vision of 2025,Ahsan said .
He urged the traders, chambers and private sector to come forward and support the government in achieving these economic goals.
He referred to South Korea and other countries, who doubled their exports with in short span of time.
He assured traders for government assistance and cooperation in this regard.
He appreciated RCCI role in boosting trade activities and taking initiatives.
Earlier,President Rawalpindi Chamber, Mian Humayun Parvez,in his address said that RCCI will be organizing Pakistan Afghanistan Central Asian Regions Trade Summit (PACTS) on August 10,2016.
The major aim of the Summit is to explore the new trade avenues, business opportunities and to discuss trade aspects, finding the means of ease of doing business between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
He said that the conference will help us to identify existing trade issues, bottle necks and barriers through the discussion over the topics of mutual interest and to facilitate bilateral trade among the region.
Parvez said that Pakistan Afghanistan and central Asian states can work together to improve the bilateral trade relations in the areas of energy cooperation, infrastructure and development of the region.
They can collaborate in numerous areas, such as scientific and technical fields, banking, information technology, pharmaceutical, gem and jewelry, and tourism he added.
With low-carb and keto diets becoming so popular for weight loss, many people are worried about eating whole grains for fear of gaining weight. But whole grains can actually help you lose weight.
Registered dietitian nutritionist and NASM-certified trainer Whitney English (@whitneyerd on Instagram), MS, recommends her clients eat whole grains because "studies have shown that diets rich in whole grains help support weight loss and reduce inflammation," she told POPSUGAR. "They provide a hefty dose of plant prote...
The fiber in whole grains helps us feel more satisfied in between meals, which helps us snack less and consume fewer calories. Registered dietitian nutritionist Georgia Rounder, CDN, added that eating enough fiber promotes a healthy digestive system. The protein in whole grains is also "a key nutrient for building musc...
Aside from offering fiber and protein, whole grains, as opposed to refined grains such as enriched flour, are also higher in minerals, B vitamins, and iron when consumed in their whole, unprocessed form. So aim to include a variety of whole grains in your diet, especially the following eight.
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Almost half of all children in Blackpool have not seen a dentist in the last 12 months.
More than 10,000 children in Blackpool have not seen an NHS dentist in the last year, according to newly released figures.
Data from the NHS shows that just 53 per cent of children in Blackpool saw an NHS dentist in the 12 months to June 2018, less than the 59 per cent average across England.
It means 13,449 children in the area have not been for their check-up over the period, despite NHS guidelines saying they should be seen every 12 months. NHS dental care for children is free.
Figures show that one in four five-year-olds in Blackpool inspected in the 2016-17 academic year had experienced tooth decay. Among them, 3 per cent of the pupils had required a tooth extraction, a procedure which generally requires hospital treatment for children.
Adults are advised to see their dentist at least every two years. The figures show that 57 per cent had visited an NHS dentist in the 24 months to June this year.
Florence, Ala. (WHNT) The University of North Alabama football team will make a record-tying 20th appearance in the NCAA Division II playoffs on Saturday. The Lions finished their regular season ranked 2nd in the Super Region II poll and will host Newberry Saturday at noon.
"Very experienced team that's played together a lot and very similar to us," head coach Bobby Wallace said on Tuesday. "We played really well the last three weeks in a row and I'm hoping we play our best football at the right time."
Playing at home certainly helps, and the Lions are 23-7 all-time at Braly Municipal Stadium in the post-season. This year's team is 5-0 so far in Florence and that helps put the team at ease coming into this game.
"We've had a ton of good memories in that stadium," senior quarterback Luke Wingo said. "We've always played good in Braly Stadium. I feel like our level of play is a little higher there. Our fans our awesome."
UNA is 2-0 all-time against Newberry but these two teams have not faced each other since 2006. Kikcoff between the Lions and Wolves is Saturday at 12:00 p.m.
Born Aaron Chwatt on Feb. 5, 1919 in Bronx, N.Y.
Died July 13, 2006 of vascular disease in Century City, Calif.
Red Buttons, an impish former burlesque comic, became an early TV sensation and an Academy Award-winning character actor during a career that spanned more than seven decades.
"Red was one of the few comedians who was a great actor, and he opened the doors to a lot of us," said his longtime friend, comedian Jack Carter.
The diminutive comic — 5 feet 6 and 140 pounds — inspired children around the country to mimic him singing his signature "Ho Ho Song," in which he hopped around singing, "Ho Ho! Hee Hee! Ha Ha! Strange things are happening."
A product of New York's Lower East Side, Buttons had already performed in Minsky's Burlesque and in Broadway plays and musicals by the time he became an overnight hit on television in 1952 with the launch of "The Red Buttons Show" on CBS.
The Academy of Radio and Television Arts and Sciences named Buttons Comedian of the Year in 1954.
But his time at the top on TV was short-lived.
His show's popularity slipped in the second season and it was canceled. It was then picked up by NBC, which turned the variety show into a situation comedy in midseason before canceling it in the spring of 1955.
After the show was canceled, Buttons said years later, "I couldn't get arrested." Indeed, as he said at the time, "I found out how tough show business can be."
But in late 1957 he was unexpectedly back on top with his dramatic supporting role in the screen adaptation of the James Michener novel "Sayonara," starring Marlon Brando as a major who falls in love with a Japanese woman after he is assigned to an air base in Japan during the Korean War.
Buttons' role as the tragic Airman Joe Kelly, who marries his Japanese sweetheart despite a military policy forbidding interracial marriage, earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best supporting actor.
"I'm a little guy," Buttons said at the time, "and that's what I play all the time — a little guy and his troubles."
Did you ever meet Red Buttons? Share your memory.
Which other stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame have connections to Red Buttons?
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A dead body was found Monday morning in an outdoor area at the Akron Public Schools' Bridges Learning Center, 888 Jonathan Ave.
It appears the person, a 38-year-old man from Akron, had died by suicide two days earlier, authorities said.
"After collecting evidence, we do not believe it was foul play," sheriff's spokesman Bill Holland said Tuesday. "We believe it to be a suicide."
The man died of a gunshot wound and a gun was found at the scene, the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office reported. An autopsy was planned Tuesday.
Principal Stephanie Davis sent a letter home to parents, saying a fifth-grade class noticed the body. The teacher alerted a deputy who serves as a school resource officer at the school.
"Students saw very little of the actual scene," Davis wrote. "Classes in the area were immediately moved and students were never in danger."
Counseling was offered to the students.
The school was placed on lockdown for a brief time while investigators gathered evidence.
Authorities said Tuesday morning that a deputy had discovered the body, but later clarified that the deputy was alerted to the scene by a teacher.
California's proposed high-speed-rail system is facing potentially crippling threats from looming federal deadlines and weak oversight by the agency charged with building the project, the state Legislative Analyst's Office concluded in a new report.
The scathing report, which the nonpartisan office released Tuesday morning, recommends stripping the California High-Speed Rail Authority of its decision-making powers and giving the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) oversight over the increasingly controversial project. The Legislative Analyst's Offic...
The report, titled "High-Speed Rail Is at a Critical Juncture," comes as another major blow to a project that voters approved in November 2008 but that has since been plagued by financial uncertainty and scathing criticism from communities along the proposed route. While previous audits had also highlighted flaws in th...
"We have concluded that the current governance structure for the project is no longer appropriate and is too weak to ensure that this mega-project is coordinated and managed effectively," the report states. "These changes in governance need to be made soon, in our view, because HSRA has already begun the process to mov...
Eric Thronson, the analyst who wrote the report, presents several alternatives to the existing governance structure, which consists of nine appointed board members, a handful of paid staff members and hundreds of consultants. The project, Thronson wrote, could be shifted to Caltrans, an agency with far more oversight a...
"The considerable autonomy," Thronson wrote, "does not ensure that the board keeps the overall best interests of the state in mind as it makes critical decisions about the project."
Under the current system, he noted, board members aren't required to have "specific expertise" relating to management of a major construction project. He also pointed out that the agency's board members are not subject to direction by the executive branch or the legislative confirmation process.
"This relative lack of accountability to either the executive or legislative branches creates a risk that the board will pursue its primary mission -- construction of the statewide high-speed rail system – without sufficient regard to other state considerations, such as state fiscal concerns," he wrote.
Of the two proposed alternatives, the report leans in favor of shifting the project to Caltrans. The report recommends that the Legislature pass a bill in the current session making the switch.
The new report also backs up recent claims by rail watchdogs that the rail authority's estimated $43 billion price tag for the rail system is far too low. The segment between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Thronson wrote, is "likely to cost much more." He estimated the cost of the project to be about $67 billion, echoi...
Palo Alto officials have also grown increasingly skeptical about the rail authority's official projection of the rail line's costs. The city had sent the rail authority a letter in March asking for an updated estimate but did not receive a response.
The rail authority currently has about $5.5 billion on hand in state and federal funds for construction of the rail line and is banking on future contributions from the federal government, private investors and local agencies to help pay for the system. These assumptions are overly optimistic, the new report argues.
The rail authority's 2009 business plan estimates that the project will obtain between $17 billion and $19 billion in federal funds. So far, it has received $3.6 billion, and the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives has opposed making additional appropriations for high-speed rail.
"The HSRA indicates that without additional significant federal support beyond that provided to date, the project cannot be completed," the report states. "Given the federal government's current financial situation and the current focus in Washington on reducing federal spending, it is uncertain if any further funding ...
Voters approved $9 billion in bonds for the new system in 2008 when they passed Proposition 1A. The new report estimates that if the state were to sell all the rail bonds, the total principal and interest costs for repaying the debt would be $18 billion to $20 billion.
Thronson also criticized the rail authority's decision in December to begin construction of the San Francisco-to-Los Angeles line in Central Valley -- a decision that was driven largely by input from the Federal Railroad Administration. Given the possibility that the entire rail line will never be fully completed, the ...
A high-speed rail system at any of these three segments could provide "greater benefit to the state's overall transportation system even if the rest of the high-speed rail system were not completed," Thronson wrote.
"Largely as a result of these federal deadlines and requirements, HSRA decided in December 2010 to begin the construction of the statewide system within the Central Valley," the report states. "This decision by HSRA, however, represents a big gamble that additional monies will eventually become available from federal g...
The Legislative Analyst's Office report recommends that the Legislature rejects the rail authority's 2011-12 budget request for $185 million for project development and appropriate only $7 million for the agency. The money would be used to identify the top two options for beginning construction based on criteria such a...
Roelof van Ark, the CEO of the rail authority, issued a statement in response to the report saying the LAO's recommendations will be "thoroughly reviewed in the context of our mandate to operate under the provisions of Proposition 1A." He also said he believes the project has been "successful thus far because it has st...
"I hope to work with the Legislature to come up with solutions that benefit all Californians and allow us to move forward with the successful completion of the state's high-speed rail system -- and we hope that this report at least encourages healthy discussion towards that goal," van Ark said in the statement.
Maybe we should be happy that it is mismanaged-maybe it won't get done.
Good coverage, Gennady. Thanks for such thoroughness.
The rail authority list of shortcomings is enormous. They are arrogant. They are untruthful. They are incompetent. They are procrastinators. They are dishonest. They are politically corrupt. The are financially corrupt. There are other failings that will crop up, but this list is a good start.
This is not my personal opinion only. There is a documented track record substantiated by a number of government agencies, the most recent being the Legislative Analyst's Office, which had issued a prior, equally damning report some time ago. The State Legislature itself has been putting out critical reports since befo...
As it happens, the Inspector General of the US Department of Transportation is also fully aware of this situation and is maintaining a case book and number for this problem, which continues to be under their observation.
There will be considerable further examination of the meaning of the LAO report. Which criticisms are actionable? What possible actions can the Legislature take that are also politically acceptable? At what point will even the most ardent Democratic politicians realize that this project is much more an anchor and much ...
Let me say here that I'm not a fan of the current batch of legislation going through the pipeline, or some of the recommendations made by the LAO Report. I'm talking about taking the responsibility for the HSR project out of the hands of the CHSRA Board and turning it over to the CALTRANS/ Department of Transportation....
For me the reason for rejecting this bureaucratic change is the larger question of whether to build inter-city high-speed rail; should California be doing this at all?
No, is my answer, for a number of reasons.
A. The required development funds will be so staggeringly high that there can be no justification for this project on any cost/benefit basis. The costs to taxpayers will be vast and endless.
B. The state does not need supplementary inter-city passenger transit modalities, especially if they are of the premium, luxury, first-class kind that characterizes high-speed rail. The state should be fixing what's broken, and there's no shortage of infrastructure, including transit, that requires repair or replacemen...
C. There are other, far more pressing and worth-while investments that should be made with any available funds, particularly in a state in the present fiscal crisis. Slashing education while funding this project is outrageous. It's also economically stupid.
D. Even with a competent administrative bureaucracy, this is a government project that will serve far too few people for far too much cost, both development costs and operating costs.

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