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Paths to QUALITY™ – Indiana’s Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement System
Research shows that high quality early childhood programs prepare children for future success in school, work and life. From birth through age 5 is the most important time for growth of the human brain. A child’s brain develops in response to the child’s experiences by building neurological networks in reaction to the environment.
A child’s experiences in a child care program can significantly contribute to that brain development and the future success of the child. High quality child care programs are essential, not only to Hoosier children, but also to their families and to the communities in which they live. Parents need stable, high quality care in order to be productive at work. They count on their child care provider to ensure that their child is safe, healthy and learning during those hours they must be at work. Our school systems need children who are entering school prepared and ready to succeed. Businesses need a high quality work force both now and in the future. In fact, studies have shown that high quality early childhood programs increase the graduation rate, reduce the future crime rate and can save up to sixteen dollars for every one dollar invested. High quality child care programs are essential to everyone.
In order to improve the quality of child care programs, states across the nation are using Quality Rating and Improvement Systems, such as the one here in Indiana, Paths to QUALITY™. Quality Rating and Improvement Systems assess the quality of care within a program, work to improve that quality level, and give families an easy to recognize symbol that makes the difficult decision of choosing child care easier. These systems also provide an accountability measure for funding and create an alignment between licensing, subsidy and quality across child care, Head Start and the Department of Education’s early learning guidelines.
Paths to QUALITY™ gives families an easy to recognize tool for selecting a child care program. Families can look for the Paths to QUALITY™ logo to determine what level their provider has achieved. Each level builds on the foundation of the previous one, resulting in significant quality improvements at each stage and in national accreditation at the highest level. The system validates child care programs for ongoing efforts to achieve higher standards of quality and provides incentives and awards for success. The four levels address:
- Level One: Health and safety needs of children met
- Level Two: Environment supports children’s learning
- Level Three: Planned curriculum guides child development and school readiness
- Level Four: National accreditation (the highest indicator of quality) is achieved
For more information on Paths to QUALITY™, please visit https://brighterfuturesindiana.org/.
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Adventure Academy is a licensed Daycare Center in Castleton, Indiana, just northeast of Indianapolis.
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75 years ago the Japanese sank the USS Indianapolis
On July 30, 1945, the Japanese submarine I-58 torpedoed the USS Indianapolis. She was the last major US Navy ship to be sunk during World War II. The victims of the attack were 883 people. Together with the Indianapolis, about 300 sailors went to the bottom. Many died in the next four days from dehydration and hypothermia. Several dozen people were eaten by sharks.
Submarine I-58 went on missions under the command of Lieutenant Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto from the end of 1944 years old. It was a modern submarine capable of diving to a depth of more than 100 m. Already after commissioning, it was equipped with Kaiten torpedoes controlled by suicide pilots. I-58 carried four of these human torpedoes. Their combat use, however, was ineffective. In January 1945, the submarine failed to damage American ships off Guam, and in March, during an attack off Ulithi Atoll.
In April, I-58 joined a detachment of Japanese submarines trying to prevent the Americans from landing on Okinawa. However, even now the submarine had to deal more with its own salvation, and not with the destruction of the enemy’s combat forces. “Kaiten”, if they were released, did not reach the goal.
US Navy heavy cruiser Indianapolis was built in 1931.
In the naval battles of World War II, he proved himself to be a significant and effective combat unit of the American Navy. At the end of July 1945, the ship carried out a top-secret mission to deliver components of the atomic bomb “Kid” to Tinian Island, which the Americans dropped on Hiroshima on August 6. Indianapolis was not equipped with sonar, which increased its vulnerability to underwater attack. Due to the increased secrecy of the operation, the cruiser had no escort. Moreover, the captain of the ship, Charles McVeigh, did not know what kind of cargo he was delivering to the air base.
I-58 and Indianapolis crossed in the late evening of July 29, 1945, 400 km north of Palau, when the navigator of a surfaced submarine noticed a ship approaching from the east.
Commander Hashimoto mistook the cruiser for the battleship Idaho, which had already participated in operations against the Japanese and was well known to them. Driven by a desire for revenge, the lieutenant commander ordered to dive and attack the enemy object.
When I-58 was almost close to the target, the ship suddenly changed course: the submarine had to maneuver. At 2326 hours she fired six torpedoes at two second intervals. At 23:35 Hashimoto spotted two hits on the starboard side of the cruiser. Indianapolis lost speed and began to roll. The commander of I-58, however, was not sure that significant damage had been done to the enemy. Hashimoto ordered to withdraw to a depth of 30 m to reload the torpedo tubes and attack again. A new series of volleys finished off the ship.
At 00:27 on 30 July 1945 she capsized and sank.
“More than an hour had passed since the ship was torpedoed, and now I was sure that it had sunk,” a Japanese submariner shared in his memoirs.
– Having received such damage, he could not leave at high speed, and if he started to leave, he should have been within our visibility. I still wanted to have proof of the ship’s sinking, but in the darkness on the surface it was very difficult to detect any debris. With a feeling of regret, I directed the boat to the northeast, fearing the pursuit of enemy ships or aircraft.
The use of the I-58 military equipment, which made it possible to send the Indianapolis to the bottom of the Philippine Sea, remains debatable. Hashimoto, who lived until 2000, in his book of memoirs “Sunken” categorically denied the use of “Kaiten” in the attack on the US Navy cruiser, claiming that he attacked with conventional torpedoes. Suicide pilots allegedly begged to use them for a common cause, but Hashimoto did not sacrifice people. According to him, the shooting was carried out from a distance of 1370 m. This version is supported by the fact that conventional torpedoes reach their target in 40 seconds, while it takes several minutes for the Kaiten, as happened in a fleeting night battle in the middle of the ocean.
“Looking through the periscope, I saw several flashes aboard the ship, but it didn’t seem like it was going to sink yet, so I prepared to fire a second salvo at it,” Hashimoto wrote. – From the drivers of the torpedoes, requests were heard: “Since the ship is not sinking, send us!” The enemy, of course, was an easy target for them, even in the darkness. What if the ship sank before they even reached their destination? Once released, they were gone forever, so I didn’t want to take risks, it was a pity to ruin them in vain. After weighing the facts, I decided not to release human torpedoes this time.
As Hashimoto assured, if the mood of the personnel of the boat was excellent, then the “torpedo drivers” were very offended. One of them, with tears in his eyes, persistently asked why they were not used against Indianapolis. The captain reassured the suicide bomber with a promise to meet another ship soon. He well remembered that the Japanese celebrated the victory with rice and beans, boiled eels and corned beef.
A few minutes before the sinking, desperate distress calls were sent from the torpedoed Indianapolis.
They arrived at three stations, but the cruiser’s crew was unlucky. So, the commander of the first station turned out to be drunk and could not adequately assess the situation, the head of the second ordered his subordinates not to disturb him in the middle of the night, and at the third station the signal was mistaken for the intrigues of the Japanese.
About 300 of the 1197 people on board perished along with the ship. About 880 sailors managed to transfer to boats or drifted in the water. Incredible suffering fell on the lot of these people. They had to wait four days for help. During this time, about 80 people were eaten by sharks. Others experienced dehydration, hypothermia and severe hallucinations. They had no food or fresh water. The sun blazed mercilessly. No longer believing in the possibility of salvation, desperate people went crazy.
“On the fourth day, a kid from Oklahoma saw a shark eating his best friend.
He could not stand it, took out a knife, clamped it in his teeth and swam after the shark. He was not seen again, ”one of the survivors, Sherman Booth, later said.
It wasn’t until 2 August that the survivors were discovered by a PV-1 Ventura patrol aircraft. Those who came to help pulled 321 people out of the water. Four of them died soon after.
The tragedy of the cruiser was the largest loss of life of American sailors in history.
Commander of Indianapolis McVay managed to survive. He became the only captain in US Navy history to be court-martialed for the loss of a ship during combat. He was not punished, but the guilt was not removed. In 1968, McVeigh committed suicide, unable to bear the shame. At the beginning of the 21st century, he was posthumously rehabilitated with the participation of US President Bill Clinton.
I-58 continued to chase the American ships, but without much success. On August 1, she was unable to catch up with sea transport, and on 9th US Navy destroyer managed to destroy the released “Kaiten”.
After the surrender of Japan, further operations lost their meaning. In the spring of the following year, 1946, the submarine was sunk by artillery fire, having previously removed the equipment from it. Now the hull of the submarine lies at a depth of 100 m.
“On August 7th, we heard on the radio about the enormous destruction caused by the explosion of only one bomb in Hiroshima. We on the boat were unable to assess the situation. Our duty required the continuation of the fight, according to the orders received, we had to do everything in our power to inflict the greatest losses on the enemy. Apparently, when the B-29 bomberrose from the Tenian airfield, carrying an atomic bomb for the city of Hiroshima, the crew of the aircraft already knew about the sinking of Indianapolis, which delivered part of this bomb from the USA to Tenian. The crew of the aircraft made the following inscription on this atomic bomb: “Gift” for the souls of the dead members of the Indianapolis crew. I read about this in March 1949 in a magazine, ”said Hashimoto.
Based on the tragic story of Indianapolis, two films were made: Shark Mission in 1991 and The Cruiser in 2016.
And in August 2017, a group of civilian researchers led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen discovered the wreckage of a ship at a depth of 5.5 km.
“As Americans, we should all be grateful to the team for their courage, perseverance and sacrifice in those horrendous circumstances,” the entrepreneur said at the time, calling the find historic.
Remains of cruiser Indianapolis found. He transported the atomic bomb “Baby”
A search expedition organized by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, on August 18, 2017, discovered the remains of the Portland-class American heavy cruiser Indianapolis in the Pacific Ocean. The wreckage of the ship is in the Philippine Sea at a depth of 5.5 thousand meters. Their more precise location is not indicated in the message of the expedition.
As confirmation of their discovery, the expedition published photographs of a fragment of the side of the found ship with the number 35, as well as the lid of a box with spare parts with the ship’s name and type of parts written on it.
The cruiser “Indianapolis” in the US Navy had tail number CA-35. The expedition page also published photos of the anchor and the bell of the Indianapolis.
American cruiser was built in November 1931. The total displacement of the ship was 12.8 thousand tons with a length of 185.9meters and a width of 20.1 meters. The cruiser could reach speeds of up to 32.5 knots, and its range was about ten thousand nautical miles. 1197 people served on board the cruiser.
Since its construction, Indianapolis has undergone modernization, during which its weapons have been replaced. In the final version, the cruiser received three triple-barreled 203 mm artillery mounts, eight 130 mm anti-aircraft guns, six 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and 19 20 mm anti-aircraft guns. The ship carried three seaplanes.
Prior to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he was engaged in ocean patrols, and from 1942 he was already responsible for searching for Japanese ships in the Pacific Ocean.
During its participation in World War II, Indianapolis took part in several military operations, including an attack on a Japanese base in New Guinea and strikes against Japanese positions on the Kwajalein Atoll.
In total, the cruiser received ten battle stars for participation in military campaigns in the Asia-Pacific region. This is the name of additional insignia in the US armed forces and is issued as additional insignia of the award for repeated awards of medals or ribbons for service or participation in campaigns.
July 26, 1945, the Indianapolis cruiser delivered to the US military base on the island of Tinian in the Mariinsky Islands archipelago parts for the atomic bomb “Kid”. This munition with a capacity, according to various estimates, from 13 to 18 kilotons, was dropped on the Japanese Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. You can read more about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in our material.
Four days after the bomb was delivered to Tinian, on July 30, 1945, the Indianapolis encountered a Japanese I-58 Type B submarine that torpedoed her.