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  Training Ship Ensigns, United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The ship was renamed Arethusa and a new warrant issued on 18 July 1933 for the same ensign to be flown on the replacement ship.
In 1859 The School Ship Society established a reformatory in the redundant ship-of-the-line HMS Cornwall moored at Purfleet on the lower Thames.
Training Ship Mercury (not to be confused with HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy Signal School) was established as a nautical school by the banker Charles Hoare in 1885.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb~bts.html   (2485 words)

  
 From ship to school
Ships today are built to the highest standards of safety and comfort using the most modern technology available.
Ships of today can be described as waterborne hotels with all the amenities, required to lead a luxurious, life being available.
Ships crew is organized into the Navigators (who take care of the navigation of the ship, cargo loading/unloading etc.) and Engineers who are responsible for all machinery on board, with the Captain being in command over all.
web.utk.edu /~manthan/magazine/nl2_ship.html   (801 words)

  
 Host Your Own School
These schools are intended for public and private law enforcement officers and military personnel who are currently assigned, or about to be assigned, duties as law enforcement firearm instructors.
The Tactical Shooting Instructor school requires that a student already possess a firearm instructor certification in either the handgun or the long-gun that the student will be bringing to the school and provide some documentation as to having attended a minimum of an operator level school in the other firearm.
Schools are limited to 30 students, which includes the two complimentary tuition slots that are offered to you for hosting the school, (dependant on range/classroom accomodations).
www.nrahq.org /law/training/hostschools.asp   (1968 words)

  
 HMS Conway (school ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Conway was a naval training school or "school ship", founded in 1859 and housed for most of its life aboard a 19th-century wooden battleship.
The ship, already nearly a century old, was refitted in the dry dock at Birkenhead between 1936 and 1938.
The contents of the ship were salvaged but she was written off as a total loss and disowned by the Admiralty, who decided it was up to the local authorities to dispose of the wreck.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Conway_(school_ship)   (1574 words)

  
 Grant School
The North Tonawanda City School District Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program affirms the belief that all children can learn and need to enter kindergarten with an integrated foundation of knowledge and experiences based on developmentally appropriate practices which enhance their ability to continue to grow as young learners.
Project SHIP is a sequential school health educational program, paralleling the health syllabus of the New York State Education Department and its new health education standards.
The program involves students, teachers, administrators, and other school staff working in conjunction with community organizations and parents to identify and use preventive strategies to improve the health and well-being of all concerned, especially the district's students.
www.ntcityschools.wnyric.org /grant.htm   (371 words)

  
 Substance Use HIV Intervention Program (SHIP): A School-Based Indicated Prevention Model for Juvenile Offenders in the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
SHIP is a school-based indicated prevention model for adolescents confined in juvenile correctional settings where they attend alternative high schools.
For example, alternative school students were significantly more likely to have smoked cigarettes, consumed alcohol, used marijuana and cocaine, had more sex partners, or had more sexual intercourse during the three months preceding the survey than did their peers attending traditional high schools (Crunbaum et al., 1999).
Extremely at-risk adolescents, who exhibit delinquent behaviors manifested by problems remaining in school, school suspensions, juvenile justice involvement and reentry difficulty to regular school, are particularly vulnerable to HIV risk behaviors and substance use.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4111/is_200409/ai_n9454361   (821 words)

  
 SHIP at a Glance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The purpose of the SHIP program is to educate every hard of hearing or deaf student to become a productive member of an ever-changing multicultural society, utilizing the unique talents of the staff, parents, students, and community in a safe, caring, and sharing environment.
SHIP has a team of Educationally Certified Interpreters who bridge the gap between the deaf students and the mainstream environment.
All SHIP students who are mainstreamed in an academic class are required to have a Support period that meets daily.
www.bergen.org /spserv/shippages/shipglance2.html   (1200 words)

  
 Amy Ship Rabkin Biosketch: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Boston, Hospital,
Amy Ship is a general internist in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Ship completed her undergraduate education in English literature at Swarthmore College, and received a master’s degree in art history at Columbia University.
In 2000 Dr. Ship was given a Robert Kraft Scholarship to complete the Intensive Bioethics Course at Georgetown University, and in 2005 she completed the Harvard Medical Leadership Program for Physicians and Scientists.
www.bidmc.harvard.edu /display.asp?leaf_id=9263   (389 words)

  
 School ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A school ship is a ship used for the training of students as sailors.
The term is especially used of ships employed by navies to train future officers.
The hands on aspect provided by sail training has also been used as a platform for everything from semesters at sea for undergraduate oceanography and biology students, marine science and physical science for high school students and character building and discipling for at risk youths.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/School_ship   (150 words)

  
 Longhorn Council Aquatic School
A-School is a demanding course is designed to develop your Scouts’ teaching and presentation skills, time management, leadership, and teamwork.
Each Ship’s A-School Paddle will be displayed permanently in the dining hall with the names of the particpants.
Aquatic school participants must be registered Scouts at least 13 years of age on or before date of arrival.
www.longhorncouncil.org /camp/aschool   (535 words)

  
 Ship Modelers Association - Feature
Although the main claim to fame for the ILLAWARRA was the fact that she was one of Davitt and Moore’s cadet ships, she did not start out her life this way.
During her years as a cadet ship the ILLAWARRA was diverted from the Sydney run to that of Melbourne.
Since she was a cadet ship she was very well manned and always made good passages although they did not push it - her best days run in 1900 was only 301 miles.
www.ship-modelers-assn.org /fam9702.htm   (926 words)

  
 Welcome to Chennai School of Ship Management | Marine Engineering: Alternate Training Scheme
Shipping, the industry that spans the globe, by that very phenomenon is a borderless and worldwide entity.
The 40,000 ships that comprise the international trading fleet are technically sophisticated, high value assets and the operation of merchant ships generates an estimated annual income of over US $200 billion in freight rates within the global economy
Economy of nations and their healthy development depend largely on shipping activities, such as cargo, goods, services and trade across their borders and territories.
www.cssmmarine.com   (191 words)

  
 TS Empire State (T-AP 1001)
The first training ship of the SUNY Maritime College, founded in 1874 as the New York Nautical School, was the sloop USS ST. MARY'S. In 1907, with the advent of modern technology, the ship was replaced by the gunboat USS Newport, which was in turn replaced in 1931 by EMPIRE STATE (I).
In 1959, she was transferred to the Maritime Administration, renamed Empire State IV and assigned as the newest training ship for the New York Maritime College.
On January 3, 1994, the SS Empire State VI, then serving as the school ship for the State University of New York Maritime College, was activated from the Ready Reserve Force to support the withdrawal of American forces from Mogadishu, Somalia.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/tap-1001.htm   (1391 words)

  
 Flint School Museum
The second Flint School ship is named teQuest and is partially restored back to the original sailing yacht.
In 1981, the Flint School closes and TeVega is sold to a Dutch owner and leased by the Landmark School.
Both ships enter dry-dock with the Flint School for the last time in 1981 at Vlaardingen, Holland.
www.enterpriseintegrators.com /flint/HistoryOfShips/index.htm   (609 words)

  
 Surface Warfare Officers School Command
The ship's Operations Officer is primarily responsible for the ship's schedule.
NRF ships are tasked with the same readiness and training requirements as their active duty counterparts.
The TAR is the ratio between the number of months a ship spends between deployments compared to the length of the last deployment.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/navy/docs/swos/ops/72-2.html   (3318 words)

  
 PAUWELS TRAVEL AGENCY, Ship’s School Educational Tours and Group Travel
Ship's School Educational Tours, also founded in the sixties by Norbert and a colleague, was merged later with Pauwels Travel Bureau and is now a division of that company.
Ship's School was founded with this kind of educational travel in mind, hence its name.
While we still offer tours for high school students, Ship's now provides a wide range of educational travel services for groups of all ages, interests and composition, including university alumni, community music ensembles, church groups, seniors, etc. Our tours are individually constructed to suit the specific needs of any group.
www.pauwelstravel.com /about.htm   (324 words)

  
 ASTA - Why the Sail Training and School Ship?
t is certainly unfortunate that the Sail Training and School Ship holds such an insignificant place in our traditional education, as well as in the minds of people at large.
Regarding the need for good science and math education in schools, studying navigation and the controlling forces on a sailing ship has the potential to bring hands on meaning to the thoughts of Kepler, Newton, Ptolemy, Bernoulli and Archimedes.
As time goes by, we quickly see that life often takes on the characteristics of a sailing ship on a broad reach, gently rolling with the prevailing winds.
tallships.sailtraining.org /articles/artcl006.htm   (521 words)

  
 Freedom Ship Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The school system aboard Freedom Ship will provide the world standard for quality in education to students (US grades K through 12) who live aboard the ship.
Our system of schools will provide a rigorous educational curriculum developed by blending the best attributes from other school systems around the world to create a truly unique and challenging classroom environment.
FSI is dedicated to providing this educational environment to students at a lower cost to parents when compared to the average yearly cost in taxes to send a child to a public school in the United States.
www.freedomship.com /freedomship/lifestyle/education/education.shtml   (450 words)

  
 Competitions Based on NYS Social Studies Standards - State History Interest Project (SHIP), formerly Yorkers or Yorker ...
The S.H.I.P. Art Project offers students opportunities to express their artistic talents in a variety of media and the challenge of connecting with an aspect of local, state, or national history.
The S.H.I.P. Map Activity is designed for students that have an interest in geography and wish to create an original map or a map enlargement of an area within New York State.
A complete application must include a confidential recommendation from the applicant's high school principal or guidance counselor (2), a transcript of the applicant's grades, two additional letters of recommendation from other teachers or members of the community (3-4), and a portfolio with a record of service activities to New York state history, school, and community.
www.nyhistory.com /SHIP/complete_contests.htm   (3976 words)

  
 Freedom Ship - the City at Sea
The Freedom Ship has little in common with a conventional ship; it is actually nothing more than a big barge.
The bolt-up construction and the unusually large amount of steel incorporated into the ship meets the design engineer's requirements for stability and structural integrity and the cost engineers requirements of "economic feasibility" but the downside is a severe reduction in top speed, making the ship useless for any existing requirements.
A School System that gives the students a chance to take a field trip into a different Country each week for academic purposes or to compete with local schools in numerous sporting events.
www.freedomship.com   (448 words)

  
 USNS Sirius Becomes Training Ship for Texas Maritime Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
USNS Sirius, which has been supplying U.S. Navy ships at sea since 1981, was stricken from the Navy register and transferred to the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD).
MARAD provides state maritime academies with training ships to foster the development of a robust U.S. Merchant Marine capable of carrying U.S. waterborne commerce and serving as a naval auxiliary in times of war or during national emergencies.
MSC ships replenish U.S. Navy ships at sea, chart ocean bottoms, conduct undersea surveillance, preposition combat cargo at sea and move equipment and supplies for the U.S. military.
www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,usn2_070605.00.html   (363 words)

  
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Either way, going to school or attending class in a dream is your unconscious reminder that there is a need for new learning and that you may have not learned an important lesson.
School may not always be a positive experience, but it is always necessary.
The ship in your dream could represent you and the ways in which you navigate thought these parts of yourself.
www.dreamloverinc.com /s.htm   (4222 words)

  
 World Ocean School | About the Schooner Roseway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After a two-year restoration of the ship, the School embarked on the maiden voyage to the Great Lakes during the summer of 2005.
This voyage was a trial for the ship as well as an opportunity to build support and exposure for the developing School.
May 2006 will see the relocation of Roseway and the World Ocean School to Boston, Massachusetts where program development will continue as Roseway is open to the public for the summer season.
www.worldoceanschool.org /roseway.htm   (106 words)

  
 Pirates Homepage
After two and a half years on the school ship he was apprenticed aboard a sailing ship that was bound for Chile by way of Cape Horn.
Technically, a ``ship'' is a vessel with three masts and square rigging, or sails, said David Blanchard, editor of the Nautical Research Journal in Camden, Maine.
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by...
www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au /seafever.htm   (1304 words)

  
 Ordering School Mate ® Folders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We are not responsible for delays in shipping or receipt of order due to strikes, shortages, or any other reasonable causes beyond School Mate's
Defects in folders not due to shipping damage must be reported to School Mate
School Mate® provides the lowest priced full-color, dated Student Planners and School Folders.
www.schoolmate.com /fold/forder/forder.asp   (279 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Yoko's World of Kindness: Golden Rules for a Happy Classroom: Books: Rosemary Wells   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Here are stories that make school a little easier: stories about learning skills and building confidence; about teasing and differences; and about making and keeping friends.
In the adults at my school teaching this might be a very good story to read at a faculty meeting for I've been watching years of collected angers and slights and repercussions in the dynamic regularly...often drawing in new folks who lack complete pictures.
If shopping for a classroom, preschool teacher, for a child that loves to read about school and about how it all works, but also a child that likes to consider complication, unique manifestations of truth, a child that reads to understand their world....this is a terrific book.
www.amazon.com /gp/product/0786851090   (1910 words)

  
 TALL SHIP SAILING SCHOOL
The flagship of the school, STS Wutuku (aboriginal for driftwood), is a 65ft Topsail Gaff rigged Ketch built in 1986 in Lemon Tree Passage, NSW.
She is constructed of Oregon on spotted Gum and is powered with a 90hp Gardiner diesel.
She can be seen on Sydney Harbour during major events such as New Years Eve or Australia Day.
www.tallships.yachting.org.au   (124 words)

  
 Helping Iraqi Schools
We are attacking the problem on many fronts and hope to come to some resolution in the near future.
One way we have been told optimizes the shipping of packages is to shop on line and have supplies shipped directly to the APO address.
Educational Products Inc (see http://www.educationalproducts.com) which is specifically setup to facilitate obtaining school supplies for kids, is willing to take orders by phone (call Stefanie Levert 1-800-449-0666 or Ashley Callagan 1-800-756-3516), via e-mail (slevert@educationalproducts.com).
www.iraqischools.com /ship.asp   (402 words)

  
 NavyCompass.com
It involves a ship, a school and a city.
DSUSD is requesting to name the new school “Ronald Reagan Elementary,” in keeping with its tradition of naming elementary schools after U.S. presidents, according to DSUSD’s information brochure.
The Ronald Reagan adoption ceremony was the beginning of a chain of events scheduled to take place between the ship, DSUSD and the city of Desert Sands.
www.navycompass.com /news/newsview.asp?c=132537   (496 words)

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