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On an almost but not quite unanimous vote, the Arlington School Board on June 29 agreed to split up 1,300 new high-school seats over two sites, tasking staff to come back with recommendations on how to best spend the $104 million projected cost.

The 4-1 vote aligns with a proposal by Superintendent Patrick Murphy to split the seats between new construction at the Arlington Career Center near Columbia Pike and by renovation of the Arlington Education Center, which currently holds staff offices, near Washington-Lee High School.

If all goes as planned, the facilities would be ready for students by the fall of 2022, perhaps earlier on the Education Center site.

Im excited about both of them, School Board Vice Chairman Barbara Kanninen said of the possibilities on each of the sites.

The proposal to use two sites rather than one came late in the planning process, which initially had been focused on putting the entire 1,300 new seats at either the Career Center, Education Center or on field space at Kenmore Middle School.

Splitting the seats up may allow the school system to buy some time before constructing no one yet knows where a new, comprehensive high school along the lines of Wakefield, Washington-Lee and Yorktown.

We do not have the capital funds to start that now, said School Board member Reid Goldstein, one of four School Board members to support the staff recommendation.

The lone dissenting vote on the superintendents proposal came from James Lander, who supported an option to raze the five-story Arlington Education Center and build a new school on its site. Lander said the benefit of that option was the school ultimately could be converted into a middle school when funds and space are available to build a new, full-size high school.

But Lander, like other board members, acknowledged none of the options was a panacea for addressing ongoing growth in the student body. There are no perfect answers, he said.

School Board members directed Murphy and staff to come back by December with fleshed-out details on the Education Center site, and by next May on the Career Center package, including costs, how to accommodate parking and fields, and what boundary revisions would be necessary.

Under initial planning figures, the cost for renovations to the Education Center (about $25 million) would work out to $40,000 to $50,000 per seat. The estimated $79 million to build something new on the Career Center site totaling 700 to 800 seats equates to a jaw-dropping $98,000 to $110,000 per seat.

The figures compare to $52,400 per seat for building a new Washington-Lee High School, completed in 2009, and $62,000 per seat for a new Wakefield High School, finished in 2013.

Tim Wise, president of the Arlington County Taxpayers Association, said the per-seat costs being contemplated in an era school officials say is focused on austerity should cause the public to do a double-take.

To say the Arlington School Board should have some questions for the superintendent and his staff would be an understatement, he said.

But School Board members say the budgets fit into the 10-year capital-improvement programs spending limits.

They need to be flexible, School Board Chairman Nancy Van Doren said of all new facilities. We have lots of exciting options going forward. We will do that together.

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The country that has all the resources to send an unmanned spacecraft Mangalyaan to Mars is unable to save its children from starvation and sudden deaths. The International Food Policy Research Institute, in its Global Hunger Index, 2016, ranks India 97 among 197 countries, showing that despite its enviableeconomic growth, the health and starvation crisis in the country is worse than 25 sub-Saharian countries and practically the worst in Asia, with only Afghanistan and Pakistan trailingit.

According to Global Hunger Index, around 180 million Indians are unsure about accessing the daily square of meals.

Article 39 of the Constitution upholds that children are to be provided opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy lifestyle and manners. Their heath needs are covered under the larger governmental policies, programmes and schemes, but everything turns into a sham exercise at the grassroots levels.

There are innumerable central and state government schemes to develop the impoverished, tribal-dominated and naxalism-hit Koraput-Balangir-Kalahandi (KBK) region of Odisha. Yet, the infant and maternal mortality rates of KBKs 11 districts are alarming.

Every year, 1,400 children lose their lives in Nabarangpur district alone. Accordingto the data available for last three years, 4,338 children died in this particular district.

Recently, areport on the ordeal of apregnant tribal, who was carried to the hospital by her family members for some 3.5km for the lack of anambulance in Umerkote area of Nabarangpur, showed the healthcare situation in the region isn't really, though India is shining at large. I was a witness to the tragedy.

A Damuni Gond from Odisha being carried by her family members to the hospital for the lack of an ambulance. Photo: The New Indian Express

In Malakangiri district, the maternal mortality rate stands at 245 against the state average 200. People experience a virtually sub-Saharan life with scarce development activities and livelihood sources. Almost all the tribal girls get married by the time they attain puberty and 43.1 percent of the pregnant women in the district receive no antenatal care.

Prominent Odia daily Samaja reports that more than 50 per cent of the pregnant women give birth at home, unaided and unattended. Strident efforts to provide antenatal care and skilled birth attendants for every pregnant woman in the country are the need of the hour.

India's growth story looks good until one begins to pay attention to the stories of tribal women and children from the hinterlands of rural deprivation. Stories you may never read in the newspapers, unreported accountsof invisible lives, citizens displaced from their land and robbed off their livelihoods those who prefer suicide to selling their dignity, whose children go to bed hungry every single day.

There is a deliberate attempt to hideand deny the numerous problems by a government anxious to build Indias image as powerful, emerging economy with promising trade opportunities. There is a rush to participate in global events, be it trade meets, film festivals or diaspora gatherings.

Tim Wise, an American essayist aptlysummed up Indias policy in his blog: Indian elites practice Poverty Denialism which is a culture of cruelty. Bashing the poor Indians for no reason becomes Right-wing amusement.

Recently, Union minister Venkaiah Naidu said that seeking loans and asking for waiver has become a fashion. With 20.6 percent share of worlds poorest, is India shining? Is economic growth good for billionaires or India's billion citizens?

Nobel Prize winner and eminent welfare economist, professor Amartya Sen recently said, It is now a clearly established reality that even after gaining high growth rate and increasing per capita income, we have failed to protect our children from hunger and diseases. I feel the questions of resources is not big one, a lot of money is spent but situation is not improving with accordance with our expenditure because our delivery system are the worst, unaccountable and non-responsive towards the most marginalised like children.

Evidently, only strong political will and greater financing can ensure child and maternity healthcare become a priority for India.

Quality healthcare needs to reach every child and every woman in the country, irrespective of class, caste, gender and location.

Only then can India shine.

Also read: When will breastfeeding in public become acceptable?

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Former Yale head coach Tim Wise has been hired on as the new assistant coach for men and women at the University of Connecticut.Stock Photo via Mike Lewis/Ola Vista Photography

Estonian Swimming Federation head coach Janno Jrgenson is stepping down due to family reasons. His contract agreement will end mutually on July 31st. The search for a new head coach will start on June 14th. Janno Jrgenson will be in the office full time until the end of July.

Former Yale head coachTim Wisehas been hired on as the new assistant coach for men and women at the University of Connecticut.

Wise resigned from his Yale job in April after 7 seasons at the head of the mens program. He was an assistant at Yale for 12 years prior. Wise will now take on the role of assistant mens and womens coach at UConn.

He joins a new Connecticut staff headed byChris Maiello, hired back in April the new head coachafter his old school, North Dakota, abruptly its mens and womens swim & dive programs this spring.

Wise has now coached three different major Connecticut schools. He was a head coach at Division II Southern Connecticut State in the late 1990s and an assistant at Central Connecticut State prior to that.

Heres the full UConn press release announcing Wises hire:

STORRS, Conn. Tim Wise, who served as head swimming and diving coach at Yale the past seven seasons, has been named an assistant coach for the UConn mens and womens program.

Wise has a strong background in swimming in the state of Connecticut, as he was also the head mens swimming and diving coach at Southern Connecticut (1996-98) and an assistant coach at Central Connecticut (1995-96).

Wise is a 1993 graduate of Southern Connecticut with a degree in business, economics and political science. He was a four-year swimmer for the Owls and is a former record holder at the school.

We are thrilled to welcome Tim to the UConn swimming and diving family, said first-year UConn head coach Chris Maiello. Its not every day a program can add a coach with such successful coaching experience such as Tim has had. Having been at the top of our sport for many years, Tim will bring a supporting sense of purpose, historical perspective and practical expertise, not only on deck coaching our student-athletes, but leading our recruiting efforts as well. For our program, this is a home run hire and we are fortunate to have him. I look forward to Tim contributions in helping our program evolve into our shared vision.

Wise had a 50-22 dual meet record at Yale and developed eight NCAA qualifiers, including three in 2015, and three All-Americans. He also coached Olympic Trial qualifiers in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Wise was an assistant coach at Yale from 1998-2010 and coached Alex Righi to an American record-tying mark of 18.82 seconds in the 50-meter freestyle at the 2009 NCAA Championship. Wise also worked with Susan Kim, who still holds the Ivy League Championship record of 2:09.37 in the 200-meter breaststroke.

I am delighted to have been invited to join the Division of Athletics at the University of Connecticut, said Wise. Having spent the vast majority of my life in Connecticut I have witnessed the rise of UConn from a regional university to a nationally-recognized research institution. The opportunity to assist the universitys mission is a privilege for which I am very grateful.

I want to thank Chris Maiello for providing my family and I with this opportunity. Chris has a vision and a passion for where he wants to take UConn swimming and diving and I am excited to support him and build upon the success this program has enjoyed. I also look forward to working with (head diving coach)John Bransfield. I have known John for quite a few years and have tremendous respect for the program he has built. I am also looking forward to working with new assistant coach Christa (Saunders). It is always great to work with new coaches with new and different perspectives. It is an exciting time at UConn and I am thrilled to be a Husky!

Wise was the head coach and program operator of the Omni Swim Club in New Haven and was named the Connecticut Swimming Senior Coach of the Year in 2008.

While the head coach at Southern, Wise had a 21-9 dual meet record and produced an NCAA qualifier who went on to earn All-America honors.

Wise was also an assistant coach at Arizona State (1993-94) and Texas A&M (1994-95).

Wise and his wife Lisa have two children Matt and Katie.

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Tim Wise has been named an assistant coach for the University of Connecticut mens and womens swimming and diving program. Wise has been a staple in Connecticut swimming for years, most recently serving as the head coach for the mens swimming and diving program at Yale for the past seven seasons before resigning in April.

Wise has also spent time in the state as the head mens coach at Southern Connecticut, his alma mater, from 1996-1998 and as the assistant coach at Central Connecticut from 1995-1996. He was the assistant coach at Yale from 1998 to 2010 before becoming the head coach. In a press release that you can view on the UConn athletics website, head coachChris Maielloexpressed excitement at adding Wise to the staff.

Its not every day a program can add a coach with such successful coaching experience such as Tim has had, said Maiello. Having been at the top of our sport for many years, Tim will bring a supporting sense of purpose, historical perspective and practical expertise, not only on deck coaching our student-athletes, but leading our recruiting efforts as well. For our program, this is a home run hire and we are fortunate to have him. I look forward to Tim contributions in helping our program evolve into our shared vision.

Wise will be joining acompletely new swim coaching staff at UConn, with Maiello and assistantChrista Saundersall starting their first yearwith the Huskies in the 2017-2018 season. They will be joined by head diving coachJohn Bransfield, who is in his 20th season with the Huskies.

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