| Connect With Kids -- Childhood Depression, Anxiety, Suicide
A Connect With Kids special aired Saturday, Jan. 26 at 7 p.m. on WGAL Channel 8. The topic -- childhood depression, anxiety, and suicide. More children today suffer from these issues and ailments than ever before and many of these kids are undiagnosed. One study reports that nearly a third of teens say they have felt sad or hopeless for at least two weeks in a row; 80 percent more teenage girls are hospitalized for depression than they were 10 years ago. .
Migrants and the murder rate
Fetching marriages stopped .We must not admit those who are a risk and we must kick out those who behave criminally with far far less regard for their human rights and more for ours .We do know quite a lot about which groups are likely to be trouble.People who come from very primitive societies are likely to be trouble as they are not likely to have the skills or even the IQ to succeed here. Planned immigration is quite different from floods of asylum seekers ,the majority of whom seem to be unskilled young men of dubious provenance. .
Theatre: Of Mice and Men
A first-rate cast takes to the stage in Perth's first show of the new year, the powerful John Steinbeck drama about two migrant farm workers struggling to get by in the Depression. Fresh from his knockabout turn in the Perth panto, Jimmy Chisholm plays the hard-working George, whose loyalty to the child-like Lennie is repeatedly tested as they try to scratch a living. Playing his well-meaning but clumsy companion is Liam Brennan, winner of the best actor gong in the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland two years ago. Ian Grieve's production aims to show the dark side of the American dream in a way that only the lyrical honesty of Steinbeck can. .
Weatherford ISD recaps a successful season at meeting
Board members presented the district's Financial Integrity System of Texas (FIRST) rating for 2005-06 where the district received a "Superior Rating."Schultz said the district scored positive marks on 20 out of 21 of the state's indicators.Cron updated board members on an increase of test takers for the SAT and ACT exams, student-teacher ratios at each campus throughout the district, and reported on the state-mandated Anabolic Steroid Testing program as approved by the 80th Texas Legislature.Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources and Administration Holly Teague also reviewed data provided by WISD's Leading Indicator Process (LIP), which was designed to meet the goals of the district through its strategic plan.Other agenda items approved by the board at Monday's meeting included:n Control Innovations was selected to install digital controls for air conditioning and heating at Tison Middle School and Wright Elementary School for $163,291.n Out-of-district transfers (tuition required, excluding non-resident children of district employees).n Campus attendance committees.n WHS male wrestling team tournament trip to Shreveport, La.n Membership of the District Central Textbook Selection Committee.n IESI as the district's contractor for waste management services (beginning Oct.
Edwards' voters up for grabs
Commenting on his trip to New Orleans, Edwards said Tuesday the city symbolized why he chose to run for president. "It's a living, breathing example of the heart of my message, what I'm talking about," Edwards said. "I mean it's the failure of government to be there when people need it. It's a perfect indication of the conditions of poverty that exist in America." Klein said Edwards played a positive role in spurring his competitors during the early part of the campaign. "On a lot of substantive issues like health insurance, he was the first one out of the box with a very ambitious universal plan, and I think he forced the others to become bolder in a lot of their policy prescriptions, energy dependence and so on," Klein said. The remaining Democratic contenders face off in a debate at 8 p.m.
High schools looking to cut electives
Faced with a $5.7 million budget shortfall, growing class sizes and low standardized test scores, Liberty and Freedom high schools have begun eliminating and consolidating some elective courses.
Students argued Monday against some of the proposed cuts and in some cases pleaded for more challenging classes at the Bethlehem Area School District's two high schools.
Dejour Scott, 17, Liberty's senior class president, asked the administration and board's Curriculum Committee not to cut down the six classes of the Social Studies elective, Skepticism & Logic. The 18-week courses, Scott said, are some of the most popular at Liberty with 30 students to a class.
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Bodies of 7 Family Members Found in Iraq Orchard
Iraqi security forces found the bodies of seven family members on Tuesday, all bearing signs of torture and shot execution-style, as they hunted al Qaeda fighters outside Iraq's volatile city of Baquba, police said. Police said the bodies were those of a father and his five sons as well as a nephew. The bodies, found in an orchard, had been identified by other family members, they said. Diyala province, of which Baquba is the capital, has replaced western Anbar as one of the most violent areas of Iraq after Sunni Islamist al Qaeda was driven out of Anbar and the Baghdad area during security crackdowns last year. While attacks, including suicide bombings which are most often blamed on al Qaeda, are common throughout Diyala, Tuesday's discovery was particularly gruesome and unusual because of the large number of family members involved.
Wolves blog: Silence is golden
We showed that against arguably the most talented midfield on Sunday that this Wolves team has a terrific resilience about them. Defensively we have one of the best records in the country, but attacking wise we are only averaging about a goal a game and for me this is where the real problem lies. .
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