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.-'- / FOLLOW THE LEADER FOR NEIGHBORLY NEWS- The LEADER I I NASSAU'S LARGEST WEEKLY" F R E E P O R T B A L D W I N R O b S E V E L T FOLLOW THE LEADER FDR RELIABLE ADVERTISING MERRICK 20tliyear/No;20 FREEPORT, H. Y-, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1955 ss FIVE CENTS PER COPr Vef ^ n s On FreepoiH" High Football Squad . CSitircb-Goers Deiayed • r BjtXkean Avenue Rciod Wittii is Soon Reiiaved . i ^A. Wrlnch walpr m^n sm Sunrise hlftiV^ay, at OoeMi^airenue bitcst Suniiar morning atjabout iO Ada. Mo seriousJttimBge to porpetty. r«« "'SOltlSif"flitliough~<aiatai'^c«»2Ifin I ihejir^ way to Oar Holy Hedeenver I BO. Ohuroh a block away and Wie r;:,-JtiSethocJlBt., Cbprcb. are reported tio ^- have gotten wet feet on South I Qceetu avenue. I Water Sitpertetendent William f; E, CJwvolserat praised wortanen of 1 his department im responding r -promptly to aa emergency oall.over r tke Labor Day weekend. Crews bar- —Tfcaded-SuJiris©-W#rway~at i.Vtsgf santSiast corner, Whaft'lflie road was undermined by_water for about ioO feet, and stopped the flow of jraterJErom the mlElon-gaUon tank —all wltbiii.abmit IS minntes. lliey ~! turned oft the water gate between. - Ocean avenue and Grove sti-eet. Worfc continued on the repairs "~ until after dark. A new length of pipe was laid in a trench 12 feet long and 30 Inches deep. The broken main, inibtaUed about_3q; yearajiBO^ — '<• «-'<ri Vr. nt^ tliti' jitEtJbadtiJi-imiBUK. --" jrears to-fall in this "way. The cost-bound inside traffic lane rctnahied •open on the,highway. Service was •'; restored the same day, A great deal of sand bad been pushed out on .the highway by water pressure. When the road was raised, it lifted two sewer manholes' frame and cover, permitting sand to wash Into ti»% sewer line. Edwin O. McKeeman, Sanitation Superintendent, said the sewer line on. Sunrise highway's isonth side from Grove street dead-ends just west .of Ocean avenue, BO it was possible to disconnect it temporar- - IJxlftt tails point, Becau§e_co]iunerGlal fetabliSHiifents in the area were " closed "Sunday and Monday, therfi WBS'a minimum «f-inconvenience. ""'—'Scwc'r "Depai-tment maintenance —incrkers cleared."sand "^vft".of' the j.^^sewer'^line and manhole TcT^s to re Mormal_fiervlce. Coach'Bill'Ashley and e i ^ t lettermen of tlie 19Si''Freeport Higii Sclionl yarhllv ffiotballj,qun(l, who coq-stltttte tlie nuoleus.of. what is expfsctcd to be arttToni c)nienAer':t(iir the Nassau Cteuuty ^rld aliiwiiil6.ii9btp..tbls s«ason<<'Front row, left to rtght,^ «Cita*lcs Elfretch, Donald Hanntnglon, Warren iiagstelle, "OiglB'' tewlsi. .•itaoidlng,- l*e(cr Krwin>-Joscph 3Nathan, "{/Itarles Brcakstons and Ocorgc Bir<I,, Baga.t61Ie^ Fhblo-' £1^ As ^^Pe^Us^'^pmi:&mtice By COACH BItL ASHLEY EiglU of our ten returning letter men, vvho liope to make the eoinin|» Ked Devil season a great oijfc, are; . PETE BRWIN —iniich Irnproved over last year - fast, strong, and. .Bjg.CtkidalaupesjGrown • In Fce^port-Compost Pit - A Preeporfc garden enthusiast has raised two gtant cantaloupes in bis . yard at 589 South Ocean avenue. They weight 5?4 and 4VJ pounds respectively. Another of the melons is a ZVi pounder. Robert A. Leonliardt, wlio haa cultivated part of his property for 14 years, told a Leader reporter tiuit Jic..dldn't- plant -the seed-*) for the -huge cantaloupes. • Curiously enough, the seedb developed in a compost pit maintained by Mr. Leonhardt. He had raised cantaloupe!) the year before, as a hobby, but this summer he derated his efforts to 60 tomato plants. BERKLEY rHAR»IACT OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY ' ^Berkley'. Pharmacy, 298 North Main street, wiU stay open until 10 o'clock Sunday night after the o'ther drug stores in Freeport close during the afternoon for the rest of the day. Its pliibne number is Free-port a^GOSS. . - should be a mainstay at tackle. JOE NATHAN—bli, tough, and a boy we expect to be. the best full-, back the;' Bed Devils have had In, many a yeai'. ' «••. CHABLES BEEAKSTOMJi—- ariolHef-TliucH iinprovcd ball player. Charlie has the speed and size to be an; outstanding end, botli, on offensa and-ott-delensB. ; ^ GEORGE BIHD-^tiie veteran-of the Preeport squad. George is fiig, fast, and determined-to live up- to hia potential. ' - CHARLES EI.mEICH —a-good defcjiiive player~last year," particularly in Bpoti. Bigger and stronger, and with a year's experience. _ ' DON- HANNltTGTOlfifa^'ve-rV liard worker, wlio shows promise of being one. of Nassau's best baclcs. WARREN BAGATELLE—Should make the middle guard, a position requiring speed, savvy, and strength. RICHARD IJEWIS —last years line kicker. A year's experience should help his performance considerably. Adaiifie Soui Vows VUiage Board Waufned Of Seriousi-Oppoiiition To SouthJMiauL-Proposal The Atlantic-South Civic Association has warned the "Vlllagr Board that It will carry into the,.statfi-au-preme Court, If necessary, its fight against a proposal to re-zone Soiilfi Main street's .west-side,"between Atlantic aveiiuc,::;and, _Ray street,- •from Residence. A to Manufacturing; ariff;''or. Business. A ^J Since the ..board -has not" yet readied a" decision, Hie civic group at Iti! mcEtiiig last Thursday night (ConUnued on Page 14) Seaman Avenue School Is Used for Overflow Freeport'.s, public sdiooJa responded yesterday. The lieader will publish enrollment figures iiext week. Overcrowding in the Archer Street School is being relieved by reactivation of the old Seaman Avenue School which was closed upon completion ^f the Atkinspn School •across the street. Buses carry four Tldrd Grade classes to and from the Archer Street School daily, thereby providing more space lor pupils.in the Kindergarten, Firsjl and Second Grades where registration has increased most. Is Proposed By Kelly Judg^ Describes Idea To Atlantic Bouth Unit At Meeting tlTrarsday A safe-driving education program that would start in kindergarten and continue through the grades, with the same emphasis as schools place on reading, writing and arlth-tnetic, was proposed by Police Justice Paul Kelly in a balk last Thursiday night before the AUantlc- Soutli: .Qlvio . Association in . the SdutK" Shore Yacht Club. • Citing the 50,000 lives lost on v., ;:&__ htfhwaya - lagt. ,yeai-,.,Judge. Seltyeald AmeriteShs must do more Jhen punish drivers who violate the SotoFviHJorBrto^rAn-'cntirely new .apprcBch lo'finie proMeRi.jlsjneBrtBd.. he-contended.- irtfeJ?e^en4 I t Same liitersection South Long Beiach and Atlantic Avenues; Scene Of Major Collisions Over the Labor IJay -%veek-ehd Preeport was the scene of twonaecl-dents in which injured pereoiis required medical care—and by a cur« ious coincidence both colllsioiis took place Sunday at tlt^ same place, ,South,.I|png. Beach avenue -a!^ At- • lantic avenue. This is the same intersection where. Just one week previously, six pei-sons were hurt in a crash that sent Aldlno Tandoll, 34, of Ocean-side to Meadowbrook hospital in ;ritioal condition with o fractured skull and other injuries. He had >een on the' danger list, but now Is recovering at the hopsltal. An overhead traffic signal at the 'ntcrsectlon flashes an amber cau- Uon light, police say, until the regu.- (ar stop-and-go slpiala can be repaired or replaced. Drivers are warned to stop on approaching the heavHy traveled coiner. - Shortly before a AJM. Sunday, . Edna Krueger, 25..af;Hempstead:re-;-- 4'celved contusion!, on. tlie.'jeft sldc._^ tiuVred- treatments-rif-'thB Jicche'-by D)-. Rudolph Joseph. She had been ridinK in a suburban driven- on South I/ong -Beach avenue fay Ouy- P. Cooke, 40, of Hempstead, while Albert Dube,. 24, of Wyaiidanoli tya» driving a convertible on Atlantic avenue. ' " Later Sunday at 6: IS PM., Nmaay Srulevltch.iT, of Laurelton was injured while riding in a. car driven on South Long Beach . avenue by Aaron Snilevltoh, 84, also of Laurel-ton. Willlanj J. O'Bourke, IP, of 14B% South Grand avenue, Baldwin, was driving on Atlantic avenue when the collision occurred. Mrs. Srule^ -yltch was treated at Doctors Hospital for hijurles to the right arm, •sHeuiaerand-iiieckr "' ' ',Seven minor accidents took place 'la'Freiport over. the^'hoUday. .weefc-__ inSrliiMe'of thealnvolving dogs. ^_Thcre%.^.much more lu opwailny an auto tiian taking a-test, accord- 3ng':jo-Iffii^'|ud8e.''*ie'sTft'Sqie8!iliB-^t survival," he said. After emphaslz- (Cofttinuea on Page is) __Z Jdl&d and one w^ injuredJjt auto- Fire At K» of C. Clubhouse Damages Booths At Bazaar Some liootli', «IK1 merchandise al the Knl«ht8 of Colum- JHis bazmir -were tlan»a{fe<b6y-fH'e tabor -Daj'-aHerfletm shortlv before (5 o'clocli, in the K. of C, duBhouse, 97 BroaeS-w- ay. The bazaar ypened tor its scheduJed final session Monday night. Freeport firemen, led by Chief George Schwan, extinguished the blaze. Damage was estimated at $1,000. Chief Schwan believes tliat a lighted cigarette may have fallen irom an aihtray and caused-the fire. Cam Destroyed An old "barn in ijack of the former Elar homestead, 165 East I.torrick road, was'.'destroyed Monday night by flames, which may have developed from "an eJecfcrlci'ty short-circuit. The National Biscuit Company recently purchased tht. property as the site of a distribution center lor Its products. t On Friday afternoon Hose Company 3 was called to a house at 518 Nortli..Brookslde avenue, owned by Mrs. Lee Cogan. The firemen removed an older type of gas refrigerator whlcii was leBktag,.,sas. No moWleST-Firemen Win Trophy JFor Most in Rirade With an attendance of 110 men, the Freeport Fire TJepartment won the trophy for hawing the most men in line at the parade held. Monday in connection ^-Ith the 27th annual drill of the HIckVillB Flre'Depart-ment lii HlcksvUle.Clilel Georee.J,. -8eIiwan"1iBaaed~the-nii(rcliers:- The: tocal vanmps did not participate in the drlM./ RICHARD MOBAN GETS GIFT Richard Moran, manager of the Junior baseball team, sponsored by' the Klwanls Club of Freeport, waa presented a sterling silver-tie bar and cuff links at the weekly eiipper, Wednesday night, August 31, in the Elks clubhouse. Joseph Zamoch, Vice-president of tlie club and chairman of the baseball committee. .,.,-... ., - tnade. the .presentation. The dub da^'geflrany ImpoVlancT^d re- won 6 games arid lost 4 durmg the suiUte.dJ . *• -fea&on. ' ,'i. . * , ^ « -',jt "^ ^.x-^ t - ^ " - r-'V.-.WV-'^*-" - ^ —\-: • . • . ^ r ' f * ^ " ' - ' t: I'V
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NEWS- The LEADER I I NASSAU'S LARGEST WEEKLY"
F R E E P O R T B A L D W I N R O b S E V E L T
20tliyear/No;20 FREEPORT, H. Y-, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1955 ss FIVE CENTS PER COPr
Vef ^ n s On FreepoiH" High Football Squad
. CSitircb-Goers Deiayed • r
BjtXkean Avenue Rciod
Wittii is Soon Reiiaved .
i ^A. Wrlnch walpr m^n sm Sunrise
hlftiV^ay, at OoeMi^airenue bitcst
Suniiar morning atjabout iO Ada.
Mo seriousJttimBge to porpetty. r««
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Comment: Re:To all the right wing drivelists (Score 1) 262 262
Comment: Re:Just like "free" housing solved poverty! (Score 1) 262 262
You know that you don't have to just add useless and uninteresting words to something that already had substance, right? At least borrow some quotes from Socrates' Dialogues to spice things up: There is admirable truth in that. That is not to be denied. That appears to be true. All this seems to flow necessarily out of our previous admissions. I think that what you say is entirely true. That, replied Cebes, is quite my notion. To that we are quite agreed. By all means. I entirely agree and go along with you in that. I quite understand you. I shall still say that you are the Daedalus who sets arguments in motion; not I, certainly, but you make them move or go round, for they would never have stirred, as far as I am concerned. If you're going to say _nothing_, at least be interesting about it, post anonymously, or risk looking more clueless / foolish. This is why the moderation system is in place, and mods typically don't listen to inanities like "Well said" when deciding on what to spend their points.
1. I'm too busy to sit around thinking up additional words to throw in so I can score "mod" points
2. The people I like on Slashdot are too busy to read a bunch of additional words I only threw in so I can score "mod" points
3. It's not in my nature to waste words, or to waste time
Comment: Re:Great. (Score 1) 262 262
If other posts here on Slashdot are any indication, "Mr. Councilman" is just as likely to lose political points by supporting the poor.
Actually this particular councilman represents an extremely high-rent district--Manhattan's upper east side. I doubt there are many wealthier neighborhoods in the world. He's not doing this to 'score points', he's doing it to do the right thing.
Comment: Re:Just like "free" housing solved poverty! (Score 3, Insightful) 262 262
It is my opinion that poverty is partially systemic. Our economic system depends on there being a pool of available workers (unemployed and underemployed). So as long as there is capitalism and a functioning free market, there will always be poor people. That being the case, we have a responsibility to make sure the basic needs of everyone are met. Increasingly in order to succeed in school and in life, Internet access isn't really a luxury.
Well said
Comment: Re:There is no free anything (Score 4, Insightful) 262 262
Time and again, history has shown a healthy middle class is the best road to alleviate poverty on a grand scale.
Let me fix that for you:
Time and again history has shown the way to have a healthy middle class is to alleviate poverty on a grand scale.
Comment: Re:Just like "free" housing solved poverty! (Score 1) 262 262
shutup. just shut the fuck up. you neither know you are talking about, nor have any valid point to make. its not about solving the digital divide any more than the housing thing is about solving poverty. its been widely and clearly shown that there is an increase in opportunity and outcomes between homes with and home without internet access. you're essentially complaining about improving someones potential opportunities to enrich themselves and make their life better and maybe even get out of that housing you mock. but again, you have no valid point, so therefore theres little sense in talking sense, like pointing out to you that without subsidized housing many of these people would be on street, homeless, increasing both crime rates and homeless and deaths among the impoverished. Theoretically we are a civilized nation. But a civilized nation doesnt advocate intentionally making it harder if not impossible for those most disadvantaged to improve themselves, nor advocate for them to die quickly and get out of the way.
Well spoken, bro
Comment: Re:Just like "free" housing solved poverty! (Score 1) 262 262
If you don't recognize that in this society those without computer access are at a disadvantage, you are as stupid as you are uncaring.
+ - Power -- And by that I mean Free Broadband -- To the People
Comment: Re:Key Point Missing (Score 2) 34 34
The summary misses a key point. Yes they scan and store the entire book, but they are _NOT_ making the entire book available to everyone. For the most part they are just making it searchable.
Agreed that it's not in the summary, but as you correctly note, it's just a "summary". Anyone who reads the underlying blog post will read this among the facts on which the court based its opinion: "The public was allowed to search by keyword. The search results showed only the page numbers for the search term and the number of times it appeared; none of the text was visible."
So those readers who RTFA will be in the know.
+ - Appeals Court finds scanning to be fair use in Authors Guild v Hathitrust
+ - Councilman/Open Source Developer submits Open Source bill->
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Comment: Re:Apply to Hollywood? Please? (Score 1) 136 136
Can this be used as precedent to dismiss all the pending RIAA and MPAA lawsuits? What about reversing past suits whose victims are already in the body count?
Don't I wish.
Comment: A little late, but welcome (Score 1) 136 136
An ingrate might bemoan the Court's failure to address the key underlying fallacy in the "John Doe" cases, that because someone pays the bill for an internet account that automatically makes them a copyright infringer; but who's complaining over that slight omission?
A malcontent like myself might be a little unhappy that it took the courts ten (10) years to finally come to grips with the personal jurisdiction issue, which would have been obvious to 9 out of 10 second year law students from the get go, and I personally have been pointing it out and writing about it since 2005; but at least they finally did get there.
And a philosopher might wonder how much suffering might have been spared had the courts followed the law back in 2004 when the John Doe madness started; but of course I'm a lawyer, not a philosopher.
Bottom line, though: this is a good thing, a very good thing. Ten (10) years late in coming, but good nonetheless. - R.B. )


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This morning, Gov. Charlie Crist was in Ybor City. He was greeted by about eight employees of the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association. They held signs encouraging him to veto Senate Bill 6.
When the governor arrived, he walked over to the crowd and accepted a box filled with hundreds of postcards and handwritten petitions from teachers and their supporters urging him to veto the bill. Crist said he has still not made a veto decision as he accepted the box from the teachers association president, Jean Clements.
- Clements: We have some postcards and petitions for you.*
Crist: Oh, thank you. Thank you very, very much.
Clements: We saved the postage, and hand them to you directly.*
Crist: Oh, yeah. Going to save some money.*
Clements: Will you take the box, sir?
Crist: Iâll hold it for a minute. Itâs very good of you to be here this morning. I appreciate your concerns. And are youâyouâre the local president?
Clements: Yes.
Crist: Are you? Madame President. Itâs a privilege to meet you.
Clements: Mister Governor.
Crist: I was watching the debate on the bill last night. I donât know if any of you had occasion to catch it. But, I think it went to, like, two-thirty in the morning, or something.
Clements: It did.
Crist: Just unbelievable. But it gets to my desk, I think, later today, maybe already by now. And I have seven days to take action on it. So your input means an awful lot to me. And the fact that youâve taken the time to be here today really reflects the sincerity of your concern. And I appreciate it; I want you to know that. And Iâm going to continue to listen and learn more about it. But I do have concerns about it.
Clements responded that she hopes Crist will take teachersâ issues with the bill into consideration.
We appreciate that you have the concerns; we appreciate that youâre taking the time. I think thereâs teachers all over the state that are rooting for you right now. Our hopes rest on your shoulders, and the hopes of our parents, and teachers across the state of Florida. Weâre not opposed to change, but this is not the right way to do it. Itâs too much, too fast, unfunded, and with no collaboration with the teachers and the parents. So we are trusting you to do whatâs right for the people of Florida, and hope that you veto this bad billâand then work with us to create the right kinds of changes in the right kinds of forms as we move forward.
Crist was asked by reporters what his concerns were with the bill, and which way he was leaning with SB 6.
I donât know; I honestly donât know yet. You know, I think itâs important for me to listen. And thatâs exactly what Iâm doing, and why I wanted to come over and visit with these wonderful people, and hear their concerns first-hand. You know, take these petitions. You know, I think one of the most important things a public servant can do is listen. I mean, God gave me two ears and one mouth. Iâm going to listen this week.
Q. What are the concerns that you have?
Well, there are several. I mean, you know, Iâm concernedâI think Iâve expressed this beforeâabout how this would treat special-needs teachers; about the five percent budget issue in the districts, among others.
The governor says there are some things he likes about the bill.
Well, you know, I think all of us like the accountability aspect of it. Thatâs important. But itâs got to be done right.
Immediately after Crist met with the teachers union employees, Sherry Gunn said she has hope he will veto SB 6.
We totally appreciate us being the first stop; that shows the utmost respect for what weâre doing, special that he is considering not signing it, which is very good. And we just hope and pray that heâs listening, he hears it, and he helps us. âCause we need it.
Lisa Desiano, an administrative assistant with the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association, said the response of passing motorists to their Veto SB 6 signs has been:
Positive, positive. You know, we got this group together at the last minute, and weâre hoping to make some impact. I think we are.
Floridaâs Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink wants to succeed Charlie Crist as governor. Teachers association president Jean Clements is hopeful that Sinkâs recommendation for Crist to veto SB 6 will influence the current governor.
Ah, thatâs wonderful. She came out with that very strong statement a couple of weeks ago, and there were lots of cheers going up.
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Jet Airways: Heralding a bright future for Indian aviation
My dear shareholders,
1.First of all, may I once more extend a very warm welcome to all of you.
2.Today is another milestone in your Company's history. It is the first Annual General Meeting after the Initial Public Offering which was completed in March 2005. The IPO was 16 times oversubscribed and raised approximately Rs. 1,900 crores. Your Company is utilizing the proceeds as mentioned in the IPO prospectus and has, among other uses, repaid high cost debt.
3.I thank all shareholders for this vote of confidence in the future of your Company. I also thank all our loyal customers for the confidence that they have reposed in us. For several years now, Jet Airways has been a standard bearer in India's aviation sector. Your Company is the market leader in what is now one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world. Over the next three to four years, your Company is poised to take advantage of promising opportunities both domestically and internationally. Your Company is determined to once again place India and Jet Airways firmly on the global aviation map.
Benefiting from a growing economy
4.Your Company wishes to express gratitude to the Government for pursuing robust economic policies that have fuelled economic progress. Growth of the aviation sector is directly related to the overall growth of the economy. In terms of purchasing power parity, India is the fourth largest economy in the world. Additionally, our country has a growing middle class which according to various estimates consists of over 300 million people with individual purchasing power of approximately Rs. 2 lakhs per year.
5.Estimates by a large number of research bodies, supported by recent data over the past few quarters, suggest that the domestic Indian aviation market will continue to grow at above 20% each year over the coming 3 to 5 years. For the year ended March 31, 2005, the Indian economy grew by over 6% while the aviation sector overall grew by nearly 25%. According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, there were 18.6 million total domestic passengers in India in the year ended March 31, 2005. Air travel is being propelled by rising disposable incomes, increasing propensity to travel and availability of lower fares. As India's leading domestic airline, your Company is well placed to achieve growth rates that are broadly in line with the market.
6.Your Company welcomes recent initiatives allowing private carriers, including your Company, to fly overseas. This will allow your Company to capture the substantial growth in international traffic to and from India, a market that is also expected to grow in the region of 20% each year over the coming years.
7.Your Company is delighted with the progressive liberalisation of India's aviation sector and is at the same time acutely aware that sustained growth of air transportation is essential for our country's journey towards becoming an economic power. Your Company wishes to offer thanks to the Government - both past and present - in recognizing this and for taking bold steps to address a range of issues that affect all airlines and ultimately the travelling public. Thanks also go out to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Director General of Civil Aviation, the Airports Authority of India and the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security for their constant support.
8.Important initiatives to support the growth of the sector have already been taken by the policy makers and we believe several more are on the anvil. The long term health and success of the aviation sector, in your Company's view, is naturally dependent on the confluence of a number of favourable factors, including:
a.continued upgradation of airport infrastructure both at the major metros and in smaller cities and towns,
b.creation of a broad pool of talented and skilled employees including pilots and engineers and
c.a supportive environment for airlines in India to manage the impact of rising fuel prices, for instance through hedging
Your Company is committed to playing a leadership role in ensuring the sustained health of India's aviation sector.
9.Let me share with you the key performance highlights for the financial year ended March 31, 2005:
10.On every measure, therefore, your Company's performance for the year ended March 31, 2005 was outstanding.
11.Your Company's results bear testimony to the success of the strategy your Company has followed since we began operations in May 1993. The key components of the strategy are:
Executing on this clear strategy has allowed your Company to stay true to the mission statement of being the most preferred domestic airline in India and the automatic first choice carrier for the travelling public.Additionally, by ensuring that your Company constantly adheres to the highest standards of corporate governance, your Company provides shareholders with assurance that your investment is in safe hands.
12.During 2004-05, your Company maintained leadership in the domestic market with an estimated market share of 42.9%.
13.During the year under review, there were two major initiatives as part of your Company's commitment to passenger delight and to service excellence.
14.First, your Company's loyalty program - Jet Privilege - was completely revamped to give members more enhanced and flexible opportunities to earn mileage with the frequency of travel as well as through increased tie-ups with other international airlines, international hotel chains and other reputed service providers. You will be delighted to know that your Company's re-launched program won recognition at the prestigious Freddie Awards, held in April 2005, where your Company competed against loyalty programs of airlines worldwide. Today your Company's membership base is over 500,000 loyal customers.
15.Second, your Company successfully implemented a program throughout the organization called - Seamless Customer Care - to make each employee fully aware of his or her role in achieving excellence in every area of service delivery to the customer.
Enthusiastically implemented by young quality champions who report to senior management, the program has reinforced your Company's commitment to quality. Together with constant analysis of customer feedback, your Company's pursuit of excellence remains relentless.
16.In recognition of high service standards, your Company received three major awards during the year under review:
Your Company won these awards for the second year running.
17.Equally important are the comments your Company receives from passengers. Your Company receives over 60,000 such feedback forms every month. 95% of passengers who fill in service trackers on-board our flights rated your Company's service "excellent" or "good". Some of the many individual compliments received have been carried in your Company's Annual Report as testimony to the efforts every employee makes to provide outstanding service.
18.You will be pleased to learn that your Company has also played a key role in promoting foreign tourism into India and domestic tourism within India. Your Company's special "Visit India" fares which provide time-restricted unlimited travel to inbound tourists have proved to be very popular.In order to cater to growing tourist numbers to the state of Rajasthan, for instance, your Company has also enhanced capacity to the state by operating larger Boeing 737 aircraft instead of the smaller ATR aircraft and also operated additional flights to Jodhpur. For domestic travellers, your Company's "Jet Escapes" holiday packages to a variety of destinations within India have been very well received. Your Company's role in promoting tourism will now be considerably enhanced with the commencement of international operations.
19.Your Company has also undertaken a number of initiatives to deliver on our deep commitment to social causes, through initiatives such as our participation in the tsunami relief operations, where we operated 18 additional flights in 5 days between Port Blair, Chennai and Kolkata to enable swift evacuation of stranded residents and tourists, and through our financial contribution to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. Your Company's unique inflight charity collection program "Magic Box" has raised over Rs. 6 crores which has been used for improvement of education and healthcare facilities in Maharashtra, developmental activities in Kargil and pre-schools for slum children in Mumbai. In addition, your Company recently launched an inflight safety manual in Braillle for blind passengers, becoming the first airline in India to launch such an important initiative.
20.Your Company's technical service reliability was maintained at over 99%. This compares with the best in the world and is a measure of our emphasis on on-time performance and attention to safety. Your Company's safety record remains among the best in the industry worldwide.
21.I am pleased to announce that effective yesterday, your Company is now a component of the NIFTY 50 index, further affirming your Company's position as one of India's leading listed companies.
22.In the current financial year despite
The operating performance of your Company remains robust and management remains committed to delivering b earnings growth.Opportunities and challenges
23.The future opportunities for your Company lie in capturing a share of the growing market for domestic travel in India, and also a meaningful portion of the international traffic into and out of the country.There were over 18 million international passengers in the year ended March 31, 2005, a market which grew by 20% over the previous year and is expected to grow at similar rates over the coming 3-5 years.Today, 3 out of every 4 international passengers into and out of India fly on non-Indian carriers. International passenger growth is being driven by more tourism, improved economic growth and resulting business travel, by increased consumer demand for holidays and visits overseas and finally by greater affordability. By capturing a meaningful portion of this traffic, your Company expects to be able to generate significant benefits for shareholders.
24.The problems faced by airlines around the world, set against a backdrop of rising fuel prices, underscore the challenging nature of our industry. As fuel prices have climbed, the inverse relationship between fuel prices and airline stock prices has once again been demonstrated. Despite this, compared to the IPO price, your Company's shares have been steady whereas the shares of airlines elsewhere in Asia, in Europe and in the US have suffered as much as double-digit percentage declines.
In India, with the expansion of the domestic aviation market, your Company has seen the entry of new carriers, many of whom are intending to pursue a "low cost" model.
Whilst your Company welcomes competition and the stimulus that it provides in enlarging the addressable market for air travel, we must remember that in India, more than two-thirds (2/3rd) of an airline's operating expenditure such as fuel, landing & navigation charges, lease charges and maintenance costs are not dependent on the business model.
Additionally, unlike in the USA or Europe, there are no secondary airports in India. Therefore, the opportunities to offer significantly lower fares on a sustained basis and still operate profitably, is limited. Various estimates suggest that the break-even load factors for some of the new entrants in our domestic aviation sector could be in excess of 85%. This high figure is a result of their unsustainably low fares, which bear little resemblance to actual costs that they are incurring, as well as to their salary levels in order for them to be able to successfully draw trained and experienced staff away from the incumbent airlines. Furthermore, as new entrants have much lower critical mass, they have more limited access to better pricing on purchased goods and services.
Jet Airways is well placed to obtain a meaningful share of the expanding market for air travel in India by continuing to offer a high quality product that offers outstanding value to our passengers. Your Company's efficient operations will ensure that we achieve sustained profitability through improved productivity and effective control of our unit costs.
In our view, in order to achieve economically feasible operations in the Indian market, the focus on a model such as the one followed by your Company, is essential. Your Company is committed to being a high quality full-service airline, while continuing to drive down unit costs.
25.Your Company also believes that the long term health of India's aviation sector depends on a number of factors, including the continuing upgradation of airport infrastructure the availability of trained manpower in sufficient numbers so that airlines can grow together and better serve the fast-growing passenger base and the ability of domestic airlines to ensure a disciplined control on costs.
26.With regard to airport infrastructure, your Company is pleased with the progress on the domestic terminal in Mumbai as well as the progress on the modernization of the international airports in Mumbai and New Delhi. Projects in Bangalore and Hyderabad are making good progress and your Company looks forward to the implementation of similar initiatives at other airports across India. This is clearly a priority, because, without the proper infrastructure in place, the projections for high growth in the domestic aviation sector may never be achieved. Your Company is already seeing the greater incidence of delays in flight schedules, resulting from more congestion in the air at the major metros as well as the underdeveloped infrastructure on the ground. This is a situation that Air Traffic Control has to contend with on a daily basis due to shortage of equipment and personnel and we thank them for their hard work round-the-clock to satisfactorily resolve this issue.
27.There is clearly a shortage of trained and skilled manpower in the aviation sector as a consequence of which we are seeing unhealthy competition for employees within India that is driving wages to unsustainable levels. Instead, by supporting the development of training schools across the country and sourcing available pilots and engineers from outside the Indian market as your Company is already doing, airlines can achieve outcomes that provide a large and steady stream of new employees in a manner that can be both cost efficient and conducive to profitable long term growth. In order to retain employees and better align their interests with those of shareholders, your Company expects to shortly implement an employee stock ownership program.
28.Finally, with fuel today accounting for over a third of an airline's operating costs, your Company would be encouraged to see initiatives that provide an environment for the airlines to control this line item, through for instance hedging their fuel requirements. Your Company's view is that this will go a long way toward ensuring rational pricing and healthy financial profits in the long term for all airlines.
29.During the year under review, your Company fully implemented a state-of-the-art Yield Management System. The system enables us to implement a dynamic pricing policy, depending on the available capacity on each flight, with a view to neutralizing the effects of lower yields by maximizing revenues per flight. Your Company is already seeing the positive results of this yield management system as we measure our passenger numbers and load factors against the new entrants in the domestic sector. Your Company will continue to leverage this system to maintain market leadership.
30.Your Company will additionally enhance market leadership and reduce costs through greater use of on-line bookings which was introduced in April 2004. The results of a recent promotion that your Company has launched to expand on-line sales have been encouraging, with the number of bookings on our online booking website doubling within a few days.
31.The final component of your Company's strategy to maintain leadership in the domestic market is to induct additional capacity on key domestic routes. The Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft will remain the mainstay of your Company's domestic operations. Your Company has ordered ten new such aircraft scheduled for delivery between March 2006 and October 2007. Your Company will additionally lease 3 Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft to support domestic operations.
32.Expanding operations internationally is a natural extension of your Company's strategy, since your Company already has one of the most comprehensive networks of any airline in India. Your Company commenced operations to Kathmandu in fiscal 2005, following the commencement of flights to Colombo in March 2004. More recently, your Company has commenced flights to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and London Heathrow. Your Company's international operations have been well received and passenger load factors have generally exceeded expectations.
33.With regard to proposed operations to the US, your Company has already been designated by the Government of India and your Company's operating permit has been endorsed. In response to the baseless allegations that have been made against your Company in the US and the subsequent queries raised by the US Department of Transportation to the US Embassy in New Delhi, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has already submitted their favourable recommendation, which is being processed by the Ministry of External Affairs as per standard procedure. Your Company has fulfilled all remaining requirements for the US Department of Transportation approval. As per advice received from US legal counsel, your Company expects to receive US Department of Transportation approval shortly.
34.In the meantime, in order to maximise the utilisation and minimise the financial burden of the 3 A-340 widebody aircraft that your Company leased for the UK and proposed US operations, your Company entered into short-term sub-leases initially with Air India and more recently with Gulf Air. Your Company will also be launching a second service to London Heathrow from New Delhi at the end of October, which will allow your Company to further enhance utilisation of the A-340 fleet.
35.International operations form a significant part of your Company's future plans. With the continued robust growth of international air travel out of and into India, your Company is well placed to seize the opportunities pursuant to private sector domestic carriers being permitted to fly beyond domestic borders. Your Company's international operations will be supported by the reputation your Company already enjoys worldwide and the exceptional commitment of highly motivated and skilled management and staff.
36.To meet the needs of your Company's future international growth, orders have been placed for 10 Airbus-330 aircraft – of the 200 and 300 type - to meet the needs for Asian, African and European destinations and for 10 Boeing-777 aircraft for longer haul destinations including the United Kingdom and the United States. Your Company will additionally lease 2 new Airbus-330 aircraft for international operations. Your Company is confident that continuing high GDP growth in India, rising disposable incomes and growth in inbound and outbound tourism bode well for the continued success of your Company's international operations.
37.Your Company is currently evaluating financing opportunities in relation to the expansion of the fleet. Furthermore, as your Company is at a positive inflection point in its growth, your Company will follow a conservative dividend policy that allows your Company to retain and re-invest a substantial portion of our cash flow into growing your Company's core operations.
38.In closing, I would like to express our gratitude to the various banks, financial institutions, US Exim Bank and lessors of our aircraft for their continued support, to the Boeing Corporation, ATR, Airbus Industrie and CFM International, for their help and guidance with regard to our present and future fleet and to insurance providers for their support. Thanks are also due to all our suppliers of material and services, many of whom have become important stakeholders in your Company's future. Please also join me in thanking our employees, each of whom works tirelessly to ensure the success and growth of your Company. To give you an example of their commitment, during the recent floods in Mumbai, many of our employees worked tirelessly for 72 hours and more at a stretch without going home to their families, demonstrating exemplary sacrifice and dedication to passengers.
39.I look forward to your continued support and patronage as your Company enters an exciting and challenging - and I am sure rewarding - period ahead in the Spirit of New India.
© Jet Airways (India) Ltd.


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Communication Sciences, Disorders Department Partners with St. Louis Catholic Academy
The department of communication sciences and disorders at Saint Louis University has partnered with the St. Louis Catholic Academy's Excellence Early program to help students achieve full development of language and early literacy skills
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Strong language skills are essential for children's success in school and life, and one of the best predictors of educational and life-skills competency is the level to which a child progresses in reading and writing.
Given that language and literacy develops during a child's first five years, early childhood educators need to make a conscious effort to intentionally plan activities and experiences that optimize conditions for children to acquire positive attitudes, skills, and knowledge about language and literacy.
Father Jeff Vomund, pastor of St. Elizabeth- Mother of John the Baptist Catholic Church and the administrator for St. Louis Catholic Academy, points to SLU's contributions in launching a program to support parents of at-risk children ages 0-5 so that they can raise them to be the most successful students possible
"Dr. Travis Threats and his colleagues have been instrumental in the planning and implementation of our school's Excellence Early program," Vomund said.
"Without Dr. Threats and his colleagues -- both their expertise and their willingness to roll up their sleeves and help -- we would never have gotten this program off the ground."
Threats, chair of the department, said the University's participation brings together SLU's commitment not only to education but to serving others.
"We have faculty members who are nationally known for their work with 3-5 year old children and their language development as well as those who have researched and worked with those in at-risk situations," Threats said.
"It is also part of SLU's Jesuit, Catholic mission to reach out into our community and make a difference in the lives of those around us and this project provides a perfect opportunity to serve families."
Threats said some key areas where SLU will assist include:
- Classroom observation to evaluate teachers' current use of literacy-enhancing behaviors.
- Curriculum development through the use of experiential based instruction that will optimize exposure to the child's natural environment as well as new learning experiences.
- Present a morning workshop at the school for parents about neurological developments necessary for advanced language skills and literacy and how systematic exposure to literacy activities can influence development and performance in young children.
- A second workshop will be held for parents that will focus on practical suggestions for working with their children at home on language and literacy skills development.
- Provide speech/language screenings for pre-K and kindergarten classes to identify children with possible language delays and, when needed, arrange a comprehensive communication evaluation at the department's Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic.
A portion of St. Louis Catholic Academy's funding for the project is provided through a grant from the Incarnate Word Foundation.
St. Louis Catholic Academy opened in June 2003 in the former St. Engelbert School building at 4720 Carter Avenue in North St. Louis. St. Louis Catholic Academy strives to provide a quality Catholic Christian education for students in the North City area and surrounding communities and serves pre-K through 8th grade students.
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Trawling through Europe's top five leagues, we've put together a top ten list of the most prolific goalscoring defenders in their respective leagues so far this season.
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My New Year's resolution: I'm moving on from everything that's happened. I'm not going to talk about it, think about it, let the memory pounce upon me like a waiting tiger, nothing.
All Sophie wants to do is forget. But it's not easy now that everything's changed. The house feels too big, school drags on for too long, lights are too bright, the room spins, and her hands get sweaty for no reason. And she can't remember why she was ever best friends with Abigail, who is obsessed with parties and boys. Only the new girl, Rosa-Leigh, with her prose poems and utter confidence, might understand. But talking to her seems impossible.
Lost in memories of the life she once had, Sophie retreats into herself. But there's only so long she can keep everything bottled up inside before she explodes. Maybe by confronting the tragedy of her past she'll figure out how to fix her future.
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ALICE KUIPERS is the author of Life on the Refrigerator Door. Sold in twenty-nine countries, it was the winner of the Saskatchewan First Book Award, the Sheffield Libraries Choice Award and the Grand Prix de Viarmes. It was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and was named a New York Times Book for the Teen Age. Her second YA novel, The Worst Thing She Ever Did, published in eight territories to critical acclaim, was shortlisted for the White Pine Award and the Arthur Ellis Award. She lives in Saskatoon. Visit her at alicekuipers.com.
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"This novel is gorgeous, heart-ripping, important."
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"Kuipers artfully manages to make Sophie's tale achingly real and yet still hopeful. Her distinct, first–person voice and quirky details shine through the dark tragedy, giving familiar themes a fresh take."
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"The emotional portraits of Sophie and those around her ring true."
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Cadillac ELR revealed at Detroit show
It's an Ampera, but amped up. A Volt, but more shocking. With a whole battery of changes. Ahem...
Posted: 15 Jan 2013
It's an Ampera, but amped up. A Volt, but more shocking. With a whole battery of changes. Or do you have strong resistance to any more electrical punnery?
This is the Cadillac ELR, just revealed at the Detroit show. You might recognise its shape from the Cadillac Converj show car of a couple of years back. And they've done wonders preserving the concepty looks into this production version.
Underneath, this pyramid-shaped 2+2 coupe runs most of the hardware of the Vauxhall Ampera/Chevy Volt. That means an electric drive, but with a 1.4-litre petrol engine and generator as a get-out-of-jail-free card to provide charge and keep you driving when the battery is flat.
Compared with the Volt, the torque is boosted a bit, to 295lb ft. That means strong, instant pull from the get-go. To contain it, and make it work with those dishy 20-inch wheels, the front suspension takes the HiPer strut design from the Astra VXR. It also gets the uber-Astra's adaptive dampers.
So it's not just pretty darned striking on the eyes, it ought to be fun.
Inside, Cadillac is going all-out to put its shonky days behind. Almost everything is clothed in neatly stitched leather and suede. Acres of the stuff. And there's Cadillac's new tablet-style connected info-nav-web-apps system. It uses a touchscreen with proper iPad-style sensitivity. So you can wave and swipe and pinch your way to the answers you want.
European sales will be no more than a dribble, British probably zero. But it's interesting to see a car that so comprehensively refutes all you thought you knew about Cadillac's Elvis-and-Escalade history.
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TUESDAY - February 22, 2010
WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney Office announced that on February 10, 2010, following a three-day trial, a federal jury convicted JERRY BARNES, 32, of Elm City, North Carolina, of conspiring to commit armed bank robbery, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371; aiding and abetting armed bank robbery with forced accompaniment, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(e); and aiding and abetting the possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924.
On December 12, 2008, three men wearing masks entered the Branch Banking and Trust Bank (BB&T), in Elm City, North Carolina. The investigation revealed that co-defendant, Brian Lucas, went to the office of one of the bank employees and ordered the employee to get down on the floor. Once the employee was on the floor, Lucas dragged her a short distance from her office to the teller counter. Meanwhile, two other co-defendants, Anthony Atkinson and Marcus Wiley, jumped over the teller counter and demanded money from the tellers. Anthony Atkinson was armed with a handgun and kept waving it in the face of one of the tellers. Wiley gave a teller a white plastic bag and demanded that the teller put the money in it. The teller complied with Wiley's demand and put money and dye packs in the bag. After receiving the money, Lucas, Wiley, and Anthony fled the bank with approximately $28,000.00 and hopped into a car driven by Vernon Atkinson. Vernon Atkinson then drove the four to a pre-determined location where they met the fourth co-defendant, Matthew Farr. Anthony, Lucas and Wiley then moved into Farr's car, where those four then traveled to an area known as Sleepy Hollow.
Further investigation revealed that the dye pack included in with the money exploded as the robbers escaped the bank on their way to Vernon Atkinson's car and splattered on some of Wiley's clothing.
Evidence presented at trial revealed that the night prior to the robbery, BARNES, Lucas, Wiley, and Atkinson, were at BARNES' residence where they discussed committing the robbery. At that time, BARNES used a sketch of the area of the bank that displayed where he would be parked (directly in front of Elm City Pharmacy which is directly across from BB&T) as his co-defendants went inside the bank to commit the robbery. The sketch was recovered from BARNES shortly after the robbery. On the morning of the robbery, Lucas, Wiley, Anthony Atkinson, and Vernon Atkinson (BJ) met at BARNES' residence. When they left BARNES' residence, they saw Matthew Farr, where the upcoming events were explained and Farr was recruited to be the second get away driver. Farr was told where to go to wait for them. BJ drove Lucas, Wiley, and Atkinson to a location near the bank and dropped them off in the area. BARNES drove to, and parked his GMC Suburban SUV directly in front of, Elm City Pharmacy, and went inside to distract the employees while his co-defendants went inside to rob the bank. BJ parked behind the drug store and waited for Lucas, Wiley, and Atkinson to return.
Investigation of this case was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Wilson County Sheriff's Department. Assistant United States Attorney Felice McConnell Corpening represented the government.
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When talk turns to tunnel ram intake manifolds, often times it seems they are placed in the same magical category as superchargers and individual-runner injection systems. These trick induction systems are bitchin' to look at and can be found on all manner of race hardware, which obviously means they have no place on a street motor, right?
While the streetability of a trick tunnel ram remains to be seen, we followed along on a comparison test that illustrated that at the very least a tunnel ram is much more than a simple high-rpm race manifold. Often placed in a different category than the more popular single and dual-plane intakes, the tunnel ram actually combines several beneficial design features of the two common intakes to produce what can be (on the right engine combination) the best induction system of the bunch. When you throw in the stunning visual effect of having a polished, dual-carb tunnel ram sticking out in the wind for all to see, the tunnel ram has a great deal to offer any performance big-block.
Intake manifolds for a typical V-8 like our 476 big-block Chevy test motor can be broken down into two basic categories, single plane and dual plane. A complete technical rundown would require more pages than we have available, but know that a dual-plane intake typically features long runners designed to promote low and mid-range torque production while keeping the power peak below 6000 rpm(in most cases).
Dual-plane intakes also effectively divide the V-8 engine into a pair of four cylinders by isolating the fuel and air supplied by the carburetor to each half of the engine. Isolating the two sides improves the signal to the carburetor. Combining the improved signal with the longer runners in the dual-plane, makes for an impressive street system. Dual-plane intakes are also available with the divider directly under the carburetor (used to split the motor) reduced or machined. This obviously does not transform the dual-plane intake into a single plane, but it does effectively shift the power curve (much like the installation of an open carb spacer).
Not surprisingly, single-plane intake manifolds differ from their dual-plane counterparts by way of a common plenum under the carburetor. Single-plane intakes typically offer shorter runners than the dual plane in inmost cases the design necessitates four shorter (inner) runners combined with four longer (outer) runners.
The use of a common plenum and shorter runners enhances high-rpm power. Unfortunately, the extra power production that occurs at the top of the rev range comes at the price of a reduction in power down low. Much like a wilder cam profile, the single plane manifold effectively shifts the torque production higher in the rev range (compared to a dual plane). Producing the same torque value at a higher engine speed will result in an increase in horsepower.
What this all means is that the choice between a single-plane and a dual-plane intake really comes down to the intended application. In most applications, the dual-plane design offers more low-speed power while the single-plane intake maximizes peak power production. For maximum street/strip acceleration (or maximum ultimate speed), the top-end power produced by the single-plane intake is usually the best choice. The dual-plane will provide the best overall torque curve, throttle response and fuel mileage.
Technically speaking, the tunnel ram manifold falls into the single-plane design category, as the tunnel ram shares the common plenum under the carburetor. The difference between the tunnel ram we used from Dart and the single-plane (Edlebrock 454R) was basically the runner length, plenum volume and use of an additional carburetor. The elevated position of the carburetor pad(s) on the tunnel ram allowed for longer and straighter runners, to say nothing of the fact that all eight of the runners were pretty much the same length (a trait not share by the single-plane intake).
The extended runner length helps to promote power production over a given rpm range. Basically speaking, the runner length (combined with cross section and taper) determines where the motor makes power. Naturally the intake runner length (and overall design) should be combined with the proper cam timing and cylinder head flow (and to a smaller extent header design) to optimize power production in a given range. Your choice of intake would certainly be different for a low-rpm towing engine for your dualie than for your 10-second Chevelle. The engine components (including the intake) should all be chosen to help reach a desired power curve to best suit the intended application.


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I said I'd get my first tattoo last week, and here it is!
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By Tessa Raebeck
By 7:25 a.m. when many adults are either still asleep or just getting up, Sag Harbor teenagers are in class, solving math problems, writing chemistry equations, and, some say, struggling to stay awake.
Since the mid-1990s, school districts across the country have taken measures to push back morning start times for high school students, citing research that says early times interfere with the natural circadian rhythms of growing adolescents, who require more sleep than adults and naturally have more energy at night and less in the early morning.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has voiced his support for later start times, posting on his Twitter account in August, "Common sense to improve student achievement that too few have implemented: let teens sleep more, start school later."
Despite the research and growing public support, however, many school administrators are wary about changing start times due to potentially detrimental effects on student athletes, who practice and play games after school. Administrators also cite the logistical concerns of having enough sunlight for outdoor games and the inherent difficulties of competing against schools with different hourly schedules. Later times would also require transportation schedules to change, an obstacle with undetermined costs.
At the Sag Harbor Board of Education meeting Monday night, several parents showed up to advocate for later start times, present the board with supporting research and offer their help in determining how such a change could be implemented in Sag Harbor.
As it stands, the bell rings for first period at Pierson Middle/High School at 7:25 a.m. The sixth grade eats lunch at 10:17 a.m., seventh and eighth grade students eat at 11 a.m. and high school students eat at 11:43 a.m. The last class ends at 1:49 p.m. and students have academic support, an optional period they can use as a study hall or to get extra help from teachers, until 2:26 p.m., when the academic day ends.
The Sag Harbor Elementary School starts at 8:35 a.m. and gets out at 3:10 p.m.
A parent of two children in the district, Susan Lamontagne founded the Long Island Chapter of Start School Later, a nonprofit coalition of health professionals, sleep scientists, educators, parents, students, and others "working to ensure that all public schools can set hours compatible with health, safety, equity, and learning."
Addressing the board Monday, Ms. Lamontagne cited sleep research that has found teenagers' changing hormones make it difficult for them to go to sleep earlier than 11 p.m. and wake up before 8 a.m. Some Pierson students wake as early as 6 a.m. to get ready, catch their bus and get to class in time.
Ms. Lamontagne referenced schools across the country that saw increases in attendance and test scores and decreases in failing grades, depression, sports-related injuries and teen-driving related accidents once later start times were implemented.
At Nauset High School in Massachusetts, after the start time was moved more than an hour later, to 8:35 a.m., the number of days students were suspended for disciplinary reasons decreased from 166 days in the first two months of the 2010-2011 school year to 19 days in the first two months of the 2011-2012 school year.
In 2011, the Glen Falls City School District BOE voted to change the high school start time from 7:45 to 8:26 a.m. effective September 2012. In an interview with PostStar, Principal Mark Stratton stood by the board's decision, although he admitted some students, particularly those who play sports, were unhappy about getting home from school later.
According to Mr. Stratton, after a year of the later start time, by September 2013 the percentage of students who were late to school dropped by almost 30 percent. The number of students failing courses also decreased, from 13.6 percent to 8.6 percent.
Glens Falls City School District does not provide transportation for its students, removing one obstacle cited by administrators considering earlier school start times.
"We want to offer our help," Ms. Lamontagne told the board Monday, adding that she and others are willing to walk the administration through the experiences at other districts, the logistics of changing times and "the full body of research."
"All of the research that I've read indicates that there's only benefit to the students' health and performance," replied Chris Tice, the board's vice president, saying she would like to "at least put it on the table and hear back from the administrators on their thinking that—if that was going to be the will of the board—what would it take to make that happen."
BOE member Susan Kinsella said, while other districts have lights on their athletic fields, Sag Harbor has no such means of finishing games in the dark.
"We have problems as it is finishing games in the fall," agreed Todd Gulluscio, the district's athletic director, adding that Sag Harbor students have longer travel times to and from games than other districts that have implemented later start times.
"For me," added Mr. Gulluscio, "from an academic standpoint, if the kid's going to miss something, I'd rather it be academic support than a class."
Ms. Tice asked Mr. Gulluscio whether the district would be able to play schools that are closer.
He said no, "we can't control where small schools are in Suffolk County."
BOE member Sandi Kruel said that with the overwhelming amount of research in support of later start times, "the pendulum's swinging backwards for us instead of forward."
"I too have read and understand the research and it makes a lot of sense," said elementary principal Matt Malone. "But there's many, many factors that go into it." He pointed to families who have structured their work schedules around the schools' current times.
"We have to think about what's doable," agreed Pierson Middle-High School principal Jeff Nichols. He said the issue has been "brought up for years here" and it may be realistic to move the start time by 10 minutes or so, but in terms of athletics, the school cannot simply choose to only play schools with the same schedule.
Mr. Nichols said such a change might work with a larger school district, but not one as small as Sag Harbor.
"It would be a challenge," agreed vice principal Gary Kalish.
Parent Diana Kolhoff said if she had to choose between having bus service and school starting later, she would choose the later time, but Ms. Tice informed her cancelling transportation is not a legal option for the district.
BOE member David Diskin said later start times "obviously" make sense in terms of the benefits.
"My personal transition—having my kids go from elementary school to [high school] time—it's torture. I mean it's so early, it's crazy," he added.
Board member Mary Anne Miller asked Ms. Lamontagne, "if there's a roadmap or some sort of a guideline that you could provide the board and the district with so we could keep talking about it, rather than closing the door and saying it's too difficult, because most things in municipalities have many hurdles and obstacles."
Ms. Lamontagne proposed the board put together a small group to go through the barriers and provide the board with recommendations.
"I'm comfortable with that," said Mr. Nichols.
No decision was made and a group was not officially formed, but Ms. Lamontagne committed to continually updating the board.
Contract for Teaching Assistants
Also at Monday's meeting, the board approved a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Teaching Assistants Association of Sag Harbor, which has been without a contract for three years.
The contract is from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2016. It provides for 0-percent salary increases in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years, a .5-percent increase in 2012-2013 and again in 2013-2014, and 1-percent increases in 2014-2015 and 2015-2016.
Dr. Carl Bonuso, interim superintendent for the district, thanked the negotiating team, calling them "respectful, caring, very clear with their perspective [and] willing to listen to all perspectives."
The board also granted the Teachers Association of Sag Harbor (TASH) the right to include the title "Occupational Therapist" within their bargaining unit.