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Explaining the international intensity and global diversity of early-stage technology-based firms
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Volume (Year): 14 (1999)
Issue (Month): 3 (May)
Pages: 259-281
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THE OKLAHOMAN You're viewing an article from The Oklahoman's newsroom. Print subscribers have Full Access to a premium experience at Oklahoman.com.
Oklahoma State football: Cowboys' DT Calvin Barnett doesn't have to make the big play, and that's OK with him
ARLINGTON, Texas — Calvin Barnett's instinct has always been that if he sees any open space, fill it and make the play.
But one moment during a practice before the season showed maybe he really didn't ever need to deviate from his assignment.
"I came off the ball, and I was like in a double team or something," the Cowboy defensive tackle recalled. "And this gap just opened wide up. The regular me just goes. But I stopped. I'm telling myself, 'Just stay. Stay. Stay. Stay.'
"The next thing you know, Ryan Simmons flew threw the gap and made the tackle. And I looked at him, and I was like, 'Yeah, maybe this can work.'
"Now in a game, if a gap opens up, don't expect me to get in it if it's not mine."
That's the biggest difference in Barnett in his second and final season since transferring from Navarro Junior College. He's no longer concerned with always making the play.
Not because he doesn't care. Because he knows that if he remains a steady, physical force on the interior — one that was worthy of earning All-Big 12 honors this season — that other Cowboys from a transformed defense can finish the job.
That again will be key against a Missouri team in Friday's Cotton Bowl that will pound the football plenty with 1,000-yard back Henry Josey, then run it some more with dual-threat quarterback James Franklin.
"People don't realize, if I didn't have Calvin up there, I would get no tackles," said Cowboy middle linebacker Caleb Lavey, who emerged as a Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year contender after a monster 2013. "I would have a bad season."
Barnett admits it took some time to adjust his approach, since in high school and junior college he was the best player on the field.
These days, he's content to occupy an offensive lineman — and sometimes the double team — while trusting a linebacker behind him ultimately will make the tackle.
The results for Barnett himself don't exactly pop off the page — 26 tackles (four for loss), two sacks, five quarterback hurries, one forced fumble and one pass breakup.
The results for those linebackers have been gigantic.
Lavey finished the season with a team-best 87 tackles (12.5 for loss), 2.5 sacks and three forced fumbles in the middle. Shaun Lewis (68 tackles, nine for loss, one sack, two forced fumbles, one quarterback hurry) and Simmons (62 tackles, 9.5 for loss, one sack, three quarterback hurries) also made a huge impact on the outside.
And Barnett's sometimes-unsung contribution certainly doesn't go unnoticed by the Cowboys.
"He makes it look so easy, so effortless," Lewis said. "And I tell him all the time, if I just see an offensive lineman just getting thrown across the field during a play, I know where it came from, because he's just that dominant or that strong."
Added defensive coordinator Glenn Spencer: "If (Barnett) was selfish, he would take chances. He would do something that was not in the scheme, and that would make us unsound. But just that attitude right there allows you to have a good defense."
Overall, Spencer said Barnett has worked out about as well as anybody in the program could have hoped as a two-year transfer.
He upgraded a position that severely needed it. He made an immediate and significant difference, taking the Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year Award before earning those all-conference honors this season. And he did it on a fast track, one without the benefit or a redshirt season or extended time with strength and conditioning guru Rob Glass in offseason programs.
"You take a chance (when signing junior college players)," Spencer said. "When we signed Calvin, there's just that little bit of doubt in your mind.
"With junior college talent, you gotta be a little lucky, and there's a little bit of unknown. So yes, we got lucky. We're lucky to have him, and he's turned out to be a tremendous asset from Day 1."
Barnett believes his best football is still ahead. He'll likely have that chance to play in the NFL, as CBS Sports currently projects him as a middle-round draft prospect.
But Barnett is thankful OSU let him finish his college career in Stillwater, especially after he flipped his commitment from the Cowboys to Arkansas on Signing Day in 2010.
He's also glad he's learned he doesn't always need to make the big play.
"As long as we're doing well as a defense and we're performing, I don't care if I make a play or not," Barnett said. "That's been a difference for me this year."

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Dear Bur-Mil Families,
I hope this email finds you all well and excited to gear up for summer swimming! It is with mixed emotions that I share with you that I will not be returning to Bur-Mil as the coach of the Marlins this summer. As you know, I have been working on my PhD full time since the fall of 2012. However, after Ethan was born and funding for grad assistants was cut as a result of the state budget, it became increasingly necessary for me to return to full time employment. I was blessed by an incredible opportunity to return to Guilford County Schools as a Lateral Entry Specialist. The job allows me to combine all of my strengths and passions as I coach new lateral entry teachers, teach in our in house licensure program, and write curriculum for our courses. The only downside of this dream job is that it is a 12 month position. It is heart breaking to me to not return to Bur-Mil this summer, especially after finally reaching the top division in CSA. However, I trust that you all understand the reality of meeting my family's needs and not passing on a wonderful job opportunity. I am grateful for my time with the Marlins and for the role all of you have played in making it such a joyful 7 summers! Bur-Mil and the Marlin family have stolen a piece of my heart and I am honored to have been on this journey to excellence with ALL of you!
Thankfully, my boss at Bur-Mil (Todd Moore) understands my passion, dedication, and love for Bur-Mil. He has allowed me to take the lead in hiring staff for this season and to see that the transition happens smoothly. It is with great pleasure that I announce that the new head coach of the Bur-Mil Marlins is Ali Fourqurean! Ali joined our coaching staff last summer as an assistant coach after having swam with Bur-Mil for several seasons. Ali is finishing up her freshman year at Clemson and brings incredible knowledge and skill to the team. Ali previously coached at Starmount Forest, was a lifeguard for the YMCA, and is a graduate of the Early College at Guilford. I will continue working with Ali to ensure her successful transition into the head coaching position. Please join me in welcoming Ali into this new role!
Registration for the 2015 season will open online tomorrow morning at 8am. Ali and I will be working together to get all of the information/schedules/etc updated on the team website. We are looking to hire up to 3 assistant coaches, so if you know of any prospects, please have them contact me as I will continue leading hiring until all positions are filled.
Thank you for many, many years of fun and joy! I can't imagine my summer this year without all of you! I may not be there day in and day out, but I will certainly still be around as much as I can! Best of luck to you all and GOOOOO Marlins!!!
Mary Beth
The 2015 Summer season is almost here! We hope to have registration open in the next week or so. Thanks in advance for your patience. We anticipate kicking off the season at the end of May, but will have a calendar and new info packet posted soon. Looking forward to another great summer!!!
We will meet at the BurMil clubhouse at 6pm. The meeting will end no later than 7pm so I can get home in time to put Ethan to bed :) We will be doing registration as well as distributing team packets.
We will also have a TYR fitting kit so your swimmer can determine what size swim suit they need for this season. While team suits are optional, and we do have an awesome NEW team suit, competitive suits (preferably in our team colors of green and black) are required. Pictures of the NEW Team suit are attached. This will be our team suit for the next 2 seasons, 2014 and 2015.
I wanted to touch base about the schedule this week. I apologize to anyone who may not have gotten the message that yesterday's skills testing was postponed. Unfortunately we will have to postpone it again. A drain at the pool has a broken cover and therefore we cannot safely be in pool. Obviously swimmer safety is our top priority and so we will not be able to use the pool until this issue is resolved. The part has been ordered and overnighted to us but will take some time to install.
So, to prevent mass confusion :) we are going to move skills testing to Saturday morning. There will be NO swim team tonight, there will be NO swim team Thursday night. Skills testing will take place on Saturday morning at the pool from 8:30-9:30am. This will be for ALL new swimmers and returning swimmers that were in green or white last season.
I Understand that this is a holiday weekend and some of you may have plans already that prevent you from attending. NO problem! We will have a lane set up before practice on Tuesday to do skills testing for anyone that cannot make it on Saturday. Now, everyone can't just decide to wait until Tuesday because then we will miss practice time doing skills testing. But if you have other plans on Saturday already and can't make skills testing, please come to the pool at 5:30pm on Tuesday for skills testing.
If you have any questions, please email me. I look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday morning :)
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Procedure versus process: ethical paradigms and the conduct of qualitative research
Research is fundamental to improving the quality of health care. The need for regulation of research is clear. However, the bureaucratic complexity of research governance has raised concerns that the regulatory mechanisms intended to protect participants now threaten to undermine or stifle the research enterprise, especially as this relates to sensitive topics and hard to reach groups.
Much criticism of research governance has focused on long delays in obtaining ethical approvals, restrictions imposed on study conduct, and the inappropriateness of evaluating qualitative studies within the methodological and risk assessment frameworks applied to biomedical and clinical research. Less attention has been given to the different epistemologies underlying biomedical and qualitative investigation. The bioethical framework underpinning current regulatory structures is fundamentally at odds with the practice of emergent, negotiated micro-ethics required in qualitative research. The complex and shifting nature of real world settings delivers unanticipated ethical issues and (occasionally) genuine dilemmas which go beyond easy or formulaic 'procedural' resolution. This is not to say that qualitative studies are 'unethical' but that their ethical nature can only be safeguarded through the practice of 'micro-ethics' based on the judgement and integrity of researchers in the field.
This paper considers the implications of contrasting ethical paradigms for the conduct of qualitative research and the value of 'empirical ethics' as a means of liberating qualitative (and other) research from an outmoded and unduly restrictive research governance framework based on abstract prinicipalism, divorced from real world contexts and values.
At a time when research is promoted as a core activity within national health care systems, it is ironic that the bureaucratic complexity of research governance in the United Kingdom and other developed nations has increased to a point where the regulatory mechanisms intended to protect participants now threaten to undermine and even stifle the research enterprise, especially as this relates to sensitive issues and hard to reach groups. Concerns are mounting that such mechanisms increase the cost, reduce the quality and restrict the scope of research, especially among vulnerable sections of the population who stand to benefit most from the outcome, e.g. older patients and those with dementia, or who are dying. Far from promoting ethical research and protecting research subjects from harm, it is argued that current governance regulations and procedures can actually work against, and undermine, these goals
Much critical attention focused on the bureaucratic obstacle of research governance concerns the long delays involved in obtaining research approvals and the bureaucratic restrictions imposed on the conduct of studies
Concerns about the ethical conduct of research are not a modern preoccupation. Debates within academic disciplines such as anthropology and psychology are longstanding
Common (and conflicting) principles underlie the procedurally based bioethical framework characteristic of the systems of ethical appraisal in the UK and elsewhere: 1. autonomy, 2. beneficence (and non-maleficence) and 3. justice
The contingent nature of ethical regulation
Discourses involving ethics invoke transcendent values and absolute principles. However, as evidenced by the proliferation, revision and debates regarding codes and standards the 'ethical' frameworks currently regulating research are contingent cultural constructs: the product of particular time, place and competing interests
The case for proportionality
The principle that research should be subject to ethical review and regulation is not at issue. However, it is reasonable that the mechanisms involved should be constructive and proportionate
Micro ethics and qualitative research
The bioethical framework of procedural ethics is based on a principle led form of reductive and deductive reasoning which lacks social salience and does not relate to the exigencies of research in real world settings
Micro ethics is based on judgement rather than rules, and relies on the cultivation of 'ethical mindfulness' on the part of individual researchers. It involves participation of research participants on the basis of trust and motivation during which consent is confirmed as an ongoing process and validated by continuing involvement
Issues arise because good and innovative qualitative research cannot be squeezed within the constricting frame of bioethics c. By its nature, qualitative research is flexible, emergent and negotiated: the direction of enquiry and even the research question cannot be precisely anticipated in advance, and may alter in response to emerging findings
Recruitment and access to Personal Identifiable Information (PID)
Current international legislation to protect personal privacy (autonomy) restricts unconsented access to personally identifiable data (PID)
The restriction on access even to names and contact details of prospective participants means that researchers have to rely on health professionals to act as intermediaries in making contact, even when these individuals are not involved directly as investigators. Researchers then have to wait for participants to respond, usually by mail, to an indirect invitation from professional gatekeepers
Most of the current or planned reforms to streamline research governance refer specifically to biomedical and epidemiological research and make no reference to qualitative studies. Clarification and revision of the current restrictions on accessing PID for purposes of respondent identification and recruitment should prove helpful to all types of research. Beyond this, however, it is not clear that the proposed reforms will progress a wider awareness and acceptance of the contrasting ethical paradigms which underpin biomedical and qualitative studies.
Autonomy and informed consent
The primacy accorded to the abstract legal principle of personal 'autonomy' within the bioethical framework reflects particular cultural values (individualism and consumerism) of Western industrial societies
Within the bioethical paradigm, research participation should be voluntary and based on fully informed consent. However, in qualitative research transparency of purpose and of method is not always easy to achieve. This partly derives from the flexibility of qualitative research and its goal of adapting and responding to situations and developments arising in real world settings
The research enterprise depends on trust based on the promise of confidentiality. This has traditionally been a core commitment of qualitative research. It is a primary means of protecting respondents from any adverse consequences of research participation, and also a precondition of the meaningful exploration of many difficult and sensitive areas of human activity and experience, especially involving marginal and stigmatized social groups
The case is clear for relaxing the protectionist and paternalistic stance of current regulatory processes in relation to people taking part in qualitative studies where capacity is not at issue. People can make their own decisions about whether a researcher is trustworthy, if they wish to participate, how they wish to engage in the study and they can withdraw at will. Studies where this is not the case are more problematic, e.g. those involving children, persons with learning disabilities or cognitive impairment. However, further knowledge is badly needed to increase understanding and improve services and care for such vulnerable and frequently under-researched groups. Indeed, it has been argued that current restrictions applying to the inclusion of vulnerable subjects in research constitute actual harm, rather than a benefit or protection, on two counts. Firstly, such groups are denied the benefits which research can confer. Second, in being excluded from the opportunity to take part in research, they are denied the chance to contribute as social agents and to have a voice in the development of policies and services relevant to their condition
The bioethical principle of autonomy requires that research participation should be voluntary, informed and undertaken by persons with capacity to make independent decisions. This formally excludes all persons lacking such capacity from involvement in research. To get around this restriction, a utilitarian fudge can be brought into play. Subject to favourable ethical review, persons lacking capacity may be included in research on the basis of consultation and advice either with a nominated or designated proxy (often a relative) or, where these are not available, an independent advocate
In some studies the complex processes involved in obtaining consultee opinions may not pose a problem. In any case, where research involves interventions which are intrusive or entail risk of actual harm, the interests of vulnerable subjects must be safeguarded and participation subject to careful consideration and review. This is the intent and appropriate purpose of current legislation and formal ethical review. In contrast, qualitative studies rarely if ever involve tangible or material threat or harm to participants. However, research occurring in naturalistic settings, particularly where observation is involved, often simply cannot fit within the slow and cumbersome pace of governance bureaucracy: the real world moves too fast. The issue here is the extent to which we are prepared to engage with the ethical dilemmas which may arise in carrying out qualitative research and accept that these may not always be resolvable within the current bioethical framework of research governance. There is often not self- evidently a 'right' thing to do, and the most that can be asked is that researchers make the best judgement they can and also that such judgements should be supported by discussion, reflection and knowledge, rather than subject to censure. Within the bioethical framework, individual interests trump those of science and society
Ethical mindfulness and the deskilling of researchers
Current governance places the qualitative researcher in an invidious position, caught between formal requirements of ethical approval which do not incorporate any understanding of the pragmatics of field work or the concerns and interests of participants on the ground, and the - equally 'ethical' - requirement to maximize the scarce opportunity to deliver best quality research with findings that may offer real impact and benefit to patient care. The standard formulas and oversimplified rules prescribed for research conduct appear to offer solutions whilst eliding the real issues, from the quotidian to the exceptional, to be encountered in real world research. Far from promoting ethical research it has been argued that the rigidity of procedural ethics is deskilling. Rather than encouraging ethical discussion and deliberation - the development of 'ethical mindfulness' - procedural codes and regulations merely serve to undercut the researcher's integrity and judgement
On the ground immediate judgements must often be made about unanticipated events and opportunities which fall outside the formal specification of how a study should be conducted
In contrast to the formal procedures of bioethical regulation, Pels
Censoring research
The current difficulty in obtaining ethical approval for qualitative studies of sensitive issues or involving vulnerable populations discourages researchers from attempting to carry out such work. This constitutes a form of censorship, limiting and directing the kinds of research questions that may be asked and how they may be investigated
The conditions which apply to gaining access to personal identifiable data and the requirements for informed consent impose complex constraints on accessing and recruiting participants. Current legislation contains enabling provisions for these restrictions to be overcome in order that research may be undertaken. In practice, however, the conservative and risk aversive culture of ethical review means that the procedures required to obtain such permissions are complex and protracted to the extent of deterring all but the most determined researcher, and perhaps the few who have unlimited time required to pursue the endeavour
Rebalancing beneficence autonomy and justice
Given the promotion of research as a core activity and political priority within the health services of developed nations
Summary and conclusion
Ethical regulation has become increasingly complex and restrictive without any evidence that the current machinery has improved the quality of qualitative research or protected research participants from substantive harm. However, it is clear that qualitative research does not fit within the current bioethical framework of ethical regulation which was designed to protect research participants from the very real harms which could be involved in taking part in experimental studies including commercial drugs trials. The need for ethical review and regulation is not at issue. However, this must be appropriate and proportionate to the risks involved. Existing regulatory frameworks disenfranchise qualitative researchers by preventing them from carrying out flexible, responsive research according to accepted best practice within their academic disciplines. They force adherence to a bureaucratic system of procedural ethics which is ill suited to the nature of the research and which, in the worst case, works 'unethically' to compromise the quality and reach – and consequently also the value - of the findings. The greatest protection for participants in qualitative studies is for adequately skilled and experienced researchers to conduct and supervise research. Researchers should, of course, be accountable for their actions and work within institutional systems of supervision and support. However, moving responsibility from an over-reliance on external audit towards a greater degree of internal accreditation and review would exert powerful leverage in increasing the quality and integrity of qualitative research.
The rule-based procedural ethics which dominates current regulatory structures is fundamentally at odds with the practice of emergent and continually negotiated processes of 'micro ethics' required to undertake qualitative research which is both feasible and maintains integrity. The complex and shifting nature of real world settings (occasionally) deliver substantial ethical issues which may not lend themselves to easy resolution, but this is the exception, rather than the norm. Procedural ethics cannot address the specific ethical dilemmas that arise in the real world settings of qualitative investigation. This is not to say that qualitative studies are 'unethical', but that their ethical conduct cannot be safeguarded by adherence to a rigidly pre-determined protocol. Rather, such safeguarding depends on the exercise of ongoing judgement and personal integrity of researchers in the field. Bioethics prioritises procedures and formulas (giving out information, obtaining a signed consent form) over process (the quality of the discussion about the research, establishing the degree of participants' understanding and willingness to take part). Qualitative studies need to be evaluated within a different set of criteria than that which is applied within the bioethical framework which dominates current systems of ethical review and by reviewers who have a proper understanding of the methodologies to be employed and the realities of conducting sensitive research in naturalistic settings. Empirical ethics is proposed as an approach to counteract the abstract formalism of procedural bioethics, and improve the relevance and quality of research governance through an understanding of the context of participants' decision making in real world settings, and the values and reasoning underpinning these. It is to be hoped that current national and international proposals to streamline processes of ethical review will expedite these changes and stimulate a review and clarification of current legislation. There is also a need to actively engage the public in dialogue about the role and value of research and how they may be willing to support this as a collective social endeavour. If the public is to benefit from research then it is incumbent that the effort and resources invested – especially in difficult and sensitive areas of investigation – are used to best effect. Indeed, clear ethical issues are involved in failing to do so.
aIn the UK, this includes the Mental Capacity Act, 2005; Data Protection Act, 1998, Freedom of Information Act, 2000 and Health and Social Care Act, 2001. Internationally, such protective legislation has become widespread, e.g. European Data Protection Directive (1995), Clinical Trials Directive, 2001, NIST
bThe Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) under consideration in the US is unusual in proposing changes based on assessment of risk and proportionality which, if implemented, should prove highly enabling for qualitative research 12. Emanuel EJ, Menikoff J: Reforming the Regulations Governing Research with Human Subjects.
cThe bioethical framework underpinning research governance also causes problems for researchers engaged in biomedical and other kinds of research, but consideration of these is outside the scope of the present paper.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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What Drives Acquisitions in the EU Banking Industry? The Role of Bank Regulation and Supervision Framework, Bank Specific and Market Specific Factors
Article first published online: 6 APR 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0416.2011.00165.x
© 2011 New York University Salomon Center and Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments
Volume 20, Issue 2, pages 29–77, May 2011
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Pasiouras, F., Tanna, S. and Gaganis, C. (2011), What Drives Acquisitions in the EU Banking Industry? The Role of Bank Regulation and Supervision Framework, Bank Specific and Market Specific Factors. Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, 20: 29–77. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0416.2011.00165.x
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We investigate the determinants of commercial bank acquisitions in the former fifteen countries of the European Union by evaluating the impact of bank-specific measures, such as size, growth and efficiency of banks, and external influences reflecting industry level differences in the regulatory and supervision framework, market environment and economic conditions. Our empirical analysis involves multinomial logit estimation at various levels in order to identify those characteristics that most consistently predict targets and acquirers from a sample of over 1400 commercial banks. The overall results indicate that, relative to banks that were not involved in the acquisitions, (i) targets and acquirers were significantly larger, less well capitalized and less cost efficient, (ii) targets were less profitable with lower growth prospects, and acquirers more profitable with higher growth prospects, (iii) external factors have affected targets and acquirers differently, and their effects have not been consistent or robust to sample size changes.


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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
After 13 years of living at the corner of South Sprigg and Locust streets, Heidi Weaver has grown accustomed to hearing sirens as emergency vehicles race up and down the street in front of her well-manicured yard.
"You listen to see how far away they are, then if they turn near your place, you check to make sure it's none of your neighbors," Weaver said.
Sprigg Street is the home of several public safety facilities and community resource centers.
The Cape Girardeau Family Resource Center at 1202 S. Sprigg St. provides the community on the southern part of Sprigg Street with a free after-school program that generally draws around 15 students. In coming weeks, the center will hold a summer camp, with mandatory parental involvement, to help children keep their minds active while away from school. The camp, from June 30 to Aug. 7, will have up to 40 children enrolled.
Sprigg Street is the home of two fire stations, the Emergency Operations Center, the headquarters of Cape Girardeau police and the Cape Girardeau Family Resource Center. It also serves as home for community services and as the main travel route for police cars, ambulances and firetrucks responding to scenes on any of the arterial roads.
"I think Sprigg Street is the ideal location for a fire station," fire chief Rick Ennis said.
Sprigg Street allows easy access for emergency vehicles to get to their destination quickly, the reason it was chosen as the site of two fire stations, Fire Station No. 1, at 1 S. Sprigg St., which replaced the old firehouse on Independence Street in the 1970s, and the newly built Fire Station No. 3, at 1975 N. Sprigg St., which also serves as the Emergency Operations Center and 911 communication center for Cape Girardeau, said Sam Welker, assistant fire marshal. Years ago, Sprigg Street served as the dividing line between east and west, splitting the city into patrol zones for police at Sprigg and Independence street.
Now, it's West End Boulevard that acts as the meridian between east and west. The zone south of Independence Street is Zone 4, and the north half of Sprigg Street is in Zone 2.
"Because the city was expanding westerly, we try to keep the size and calls within a manageable number so one patrol zone doesn't have all the work," said Sgt. Barry Hovis, spokesman for the police.
For several years now, platoon sergeants have relied on a system known as community policing, meaning every patrol officer is assigned to a particular zone indefinitely, Hovis said.
"They wanted someone assigned to one neighborhood one a permanent basis, so they'd get to know it well," said Jason Young, a patrol officer assigned to the zone that encompasses South Sprigg Street.
The idea behind community policing is that an officer becomes familiar with one particular area, developing a working relationship with the people in that neighborhood, and isn't surprised by calls.
"He doesn't have to learn the whole story over when he gets a call from a particular individual," Hovis said.
After four years in the department, Young knows the south side of Cape Girardeau.
During a recent ride-along, Young was dispatched to a disturbance in which a woman reported her partner heavily intoxicated and trying to saw down a chain-link fence in the backyard. She was afraid he'd get hurt, she said.
Before responding to the address to defuse the situation, Young ventured a guess as to the identity of the caller. This sort of incident had occurred before.
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The flip side of community policing is that there is a always a "rover," usually a segreant, available during a 12-hour shift to ensure backup is available, and that officer is always familiar with all four zones, Hovis said.
Twenty years ago, that wasn't the case, said Dale Ratliff, a former officer and a longtime North Sprigg Street resident.
"There were a lot fewer officers. We were spread out fairly thin," Ratliff said. "You were pretty much on your own if something happened."
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Ratliff said he has seen the climate of Sprigg Street change dramatically over his 31 years as an officer.
As his time with the police department increased, he saw certain types of calls escalate in severity and frequency, such as domestic disputes.
"Early on, most families would take care of situations themselves. Anymore, those types of situations have progressed to a more dangerous situation," Ratliff said.
Last year, Cape Girardeau police received 231 assault calls on South Sprigg Street and 42 assault calls on North Sprigg Street.
Ratliff said his mother, who owned a grocery store on South Sprigg Street, had been robbed several times over the years.
Fights also broke out on more than one occasion near the store, at 2106 S. Sprigg St. and previously at 1007 S. Sprigg St., but now, people tend to congregate in the parking lots of one of the two Rhodes 101 locations, one at Sprigg Street and Highway 74, and one at 1126 N. Sprigg St., Ratliff said.
Before the Rhodes 101 Stops were built, Don's Store 24 on South Sprigg Street used to be the site of many a large fight, and it wasn't unusual for police to have three or four patrol cars in the parking lot just before the bars let out as a precaution, Hovis said.
Now, "there's two other convenience stores, where people can avoid conflict if they see someone they don't get along with at one. They can just go to another," Hovis said.
Saturday night, a patrol officer cruising Zone 4 noticed a car without headlights in the parking lot of Don's Store 24 and attempted to pull him over. The man took off, swerving and hitting a tree after running his car up on the sidewalk. He then jumped out of the car and fled on foot. Police are still looking for him.
That brand of excitement has become rarer on South Sprigg Street these days, though, said Weaver. the 13-year resident.
On several occasions, Weaver said, she would come home to find a drug deal taking place in her backyard.
"We ended up getting a pit bull. You learn that it's usually easier to take care of things yourself," she said.
The only time she can remember ever being afraid in her own home was about 10 years ago when a group of teenagers badly injured a boy in a fight. Weaver tried to get them to break it up, and they retaliated by spending several hours outside her house, blaring music and drinking.
"I woke up because the headlights outside my windows seemed like they were inside my house. There must have been 50 or 75 people out there," she said.
Amanda Dorris, 17, who just moved to 1101 S. Sprigg St. two weeks ago from Thebes, Ill., said she tries not to walk around at night, but when she does, there are a lot more people out and about than she's accustomed to.
"You see police patrolling a lot," she said.
Most of the drugs and violence have moved out of the south side now, and Weaver's biggest complaint of late has been the fireworks set off by neighborhood children during the summertime. They've caused fire damage to several homes on the street, she said.
Ten fireworks violations were reported on the south section of Sprigg Street in July last year. No violations reported on North Sprigg Street.
Weaver still doesn't hesitate to call the police if there's a problem and has lost track of how many times she's called in 13 years. But she believes she lives in a relatively safe neighborhood, all in all.
"If they could do something about the speed limit, get the landlords to take care of their rental properties and do something about the fireworks, we'd be OK," she said.
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The League joined coalition partners in sending the following letter to the U.S. Senate. The letter calls on the Senate to oppose efforts to restore the party soft money system. It also asks the Senate to oppose increasing the limits on the aggregate amounts that an individual can give to parties or candidates.
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January 17, 2013
Dear Senator,
2012 was a busy year.
The League and other coalition partners sent a letter to the White House encouraging President Obama to fix the FEC.
Only a few short weeks have passed since Election Day, but it already feels like a lifetime ago. No longer are voters in swing states subjected to nonstop political ads, and the evening news is once again covering a host of national and international issues instead of just wall-to-wall coverage of the presidential campaign. But, Election Day was as much a starting line as it was an end point. Now is the time to reflect back on the 2012 election and look toward what's to come in 2013.
Editorial Note: This piece was first published as part of the Huffington Post's Shadow Convention discussion on money in politics and on my Huffington Post blog.
The growing influence of money in politics threatens to corrupt our representative form of government, where the people – through their votes – are supposed to make the decisions.
The League joined an amicus brief on an appeal to the DC Court of Appeals in the case of Van Hollen vs. FEC. The friend-of-the-court brief supports a lower court ruling that upheld strict disclosure requirements for the funding for electioneering communications.
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