| Early release to go on amid jail crisis fears
AN OVERHAUL of Scotland's penal system to end the practice of automatic early release has been put on hold amid concern among ministers that key elements may be unworkable. Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, has signalled that an independent review will be carried out into the impact of legislation that will prevent prisoners from being released automatically after serving half their sentence. .
Feeding sailors on a US aircraft carrier is an art of war
Manama (Bahrain), Aug 21: When Roman writer and military strategist Flavius Vegetius Renatus wrote in his Military Institutions of the Romans, in AD 378, that famine causes greater havoc in an army than the enemy, he never envisioned how the US Navy would address that concern in the 21st century. For the USS Enterprise, America's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier that went into service in 1961, feeding its sailors is one the largest daily operation on board. The carrier, with some 5,000 sailors on board, is currently sailing through the Gulf supporting the US military occupation of Iraq and ongoing maritime security operations. "We keep a food stock worth between $1.5 to 2.8 million on board and we get replenishments every seven to 10 days," USS Enterprise Food Service Officer Ken Howard said.
North Whitfield students diagnosed with case of ‘Math Munchies’
Math Munchies' By Victor Alvis Dalton Daily Citizen Math. Consistently voted among students' Least Favorite Subjects. And students across the country have the poor test scores to prove it.A new program at North Whitfield Middle School, however, has made sixth-grade students positively hungry to crunch numbers.Math teacher Penny Turso's "Math Munchies" program uses snack foods to play to students' inner "chocoholic" and help them learn mathematical concepts that once might have been unappetizing."When we're able to use an avenue that the students enjoy, such as chocolate, the students can easily see the connection between math and the real world," Turso said. "They begin to understand the lessons at a much deeper level."This week, students used M&Ms to represent data in colorful bar graphs, circle graphs and pictographs.
SAT scores dip all along the line
Local scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test fell slightly this year, following a state and national pattern. But McMinnville High School Principal Kris Olsen said the college entrance exams also give evidence of a positive trend: more students planning to continue their education. "It's positive that more kids are taking advantage of our college preparatory program and learning what's expected in order to be ready for college," he said. Encouraging students to go on to post-high school education, whether it's college, technical school or another program, has been a major focus for several years, he noted. The school offers several career pathways, designed to prepare students in areas such as culinary skills or health sciences. It is developing small learning communities, and the first self-contained one, the McMinnville Arts and Communications Academy, will open its doors next week.
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