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Hartford - State lawmakers are taking a brief hiatus over Easter weekend but will be putting in long hours starting next week as they have only 2½ weeks left to pass budget adjustments for next year and consider legislation about keno, a statewide port authority, the National Popular Vote and fracking, just to name a few.
"Wouldn't it be great to have two years in a row where we finished on time, got all of our business done. That's certainly my goal," said Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn, on Friday. "I know it's the goal of my colleagues."
The governor has the right to call for a special session, which could extend the legislative session beyond May 7. But the General Assembly can also veto the special session. There were special sessions in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
The state isn't facing major budget deficits as it has in the past, and therefore it should be easier to reach agreement, Williams said. In 2011, lawmakers and the governor had to address a $3.5 billion budget deficit when preparing the 2012-13 biennial budget.
"Now we're talking about stability returning to the revenue picture in the state of Connecticut and modest adjustments, which is the way it used to be in terms of the second year of the biennial budget," Williams said.
On April 1, state Comptroller Kevin Lembo said the state had a $505 million surplus this year and that there could be more surplus funds in the last quarter of the fiscal year. Some lawmakers have questioned whether there is an actual surplus, considering the state borrowed at least $560 million in October to close a deficit that grew larger when Generally Accepted Accounting Principles were applied.
In the end, lawmakers have to determine how the surplus will be spent when there are competing needs, such as $64.6 billion in long-term liabilities due to public employees' pensions and retiree health care along with borrowing for capital projects, and dozens of state agencies requesting funds. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has proposed allocating $250 million of the surplus to the state's rainy day fund, $100 million to fund state employees' pensions and $155 million to residents through a sales and gas tax rebate.
Republicans have said the rebate, which would be a $55 check for individual tax filers, is a political gimmick in an election year. They say the rebate wouldn't create the 1,200 jobs Malloy has predicted and wouldn't even be enough to fill up a gas tank.
The tax rebate remains in the General Assembly's Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee bill that was passed out of committee earlier this month. But the finance committee allocated some of the surplus funds that Malloy wanted to spend on long-term debt for other programs, such as a comprehensive tax study and Municipal Revenue Sharing Account payments for the last quarter of fiscal year 2013 that weren't yet paid to municipalities.
Besides figuring out how to spend the surplus, lawmakers have to tweak the second year of the biennial budget that was passed last year. So far, the Appropriations Committee has passed a $19 billion budget out of committee, which is $50 million more than lawmakers passed last year.
The budget proposal includes an additional $5 million for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) program for state-owned property and keeps the governor's increase of $8 million for the nonprofit colleges and hospitals PILOT program.
The nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis has projected a $44 million budget deficit under the finance committee's budget proposal and a $70 million budget deficit under the Appropriations Committee's budget proposal.
Senate and House Republicans have also released an alternative budget that relies on eliminating the Earned Income Tax Credit to gain $120 million in tax revenue and reduces the pension income tax break for teachers. It directs more spending toward municipalities and toward paying down the state's Economic Recovery Notes, which were notes that were bonded to close the budget deficit during former Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's administration.
Although there are only a couple of weeks left, lawmakers are still in the early stages of negotiations, Williams said.
Dozens of other bills await a vote by both the Senate and the House, including:
Keno repeal
House Bill 5387, which would repeal the state's authorization to operate keno as a lottery game, was passed unanimously out of the Public Safety and Security Committee last month and was sent to the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, which meets Tuesday. The bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Andrea Stillman, D-Waterford, and Art Linares, R-Westbrook.
Keno is included in the enacted 2014-15 biennium budget. If repealed, the state would lose about $27 million to $44 million in revenue next year, according to the Connecticut Lottery Corp.
"If it is not (in the budget), someone will have to come up with an alternative source of revenue to make the budget work," Williams said.
Port Authority authorization
Two House bills, 5575 and 5289, that would each create a statewide port authority, have been favorably voted out of their respective committees and sent to the House floor. The two bills are similar to each other and resemble the bill that the Senate passed last year.
State Sen. Andrew Maynard, D-Stonington, said last month that he expects the Senate to pass House Bill 5289, which came from the Transportation Committee that he is co-chairman of. He also said the bill has the support of House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden.
Fracking ban
or moratorium
Two bills, Senate Bill 237 and House Bill 5308, have been voted out of committee and were sent to the floor of their respective chambers. Senate Bill 237 would ban storing or disposing of waste products from fracking and would require the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to adopt penalties for violations. House Bill 5308 would create a two-year moratorium on storing or disposing of waste products from fracking and would require the DEEP to adopt regulations within two years.
Fracking, or "hydraulic fracturing," is the process of pumping chemicals and water at high pressure into the ground to fracture shale rocks to release gas and petroleum. The federal government doesn't regulate the potentially dangerous waste products from fracking, which means it is up to individual states to do so.
Experts say fracking is not likely in Connecticut because the state doesn't have the type of shale rocks needed for fracking. But there are natural gas shale fields in Pennsylvania and New York, and some fear Connecticut would get into the business of disposing of or recycling other states' potentially toxic fracking wastewater.
"In Pennsylvania, drinking water supplies have been contaminated so severely in some areas that water must be delivered by truck," said Leah Lopez Schmalz, director of legislative and legal affairs for Save the Sound, in written testimony during a public hearing. "This process creates toxic wastewater and there is no proven method for dealing with it."
Shale gas production is putting "downward pressure on natural gas prices nationwide, lowering our greenhouse gas emissions, improving our energy security by making us less reliant on foreign fuel, and reducing our trade deficit," said Steven Guveyan, executive director of the Connecticut Petroleum Council.
Several local lawmakers are co-sponsors on the Senate bill that would ban the storage or disposal of waste products from fracking: Reps. Timothy Bowles, D-Preston, Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, Ed Jutila, D-East Lyme, and Elissa Wright, D-Groton.
Popular Vote compact
House Bill 5126 would require Connecticut to cast its electoral votes for the presidential candidate who wins the majority of the national popular vote across the country. But before Connecticut would change the way it casts its electoral votes, more states would have to join the interstate compact, called the National Popular Vote.
The bill has bipartisan support and the following local lawmakers are co-sponsors: Sen. Maynard, and Reps. Jutila, Bowles, Urban, Betsy Ritter, D-Waterford, and Kevin Ryan, D-Montville.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Gap Inc. reported a 12.5 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit on a 3 percent decline in revenue as the clothing retailer was forced to discount heavily over the holiday shopping season to entice customers.
NEW YORK (AP) � Gap Inc. reported a 12.5 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit on a 3 percent decline in revenue as the clothing retailer was forced to discount heavily over the holiday shopping season to entice customers.
The clothing chain, which operates Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta, also issued a profit outlook for the full year that's below analysts' expectations.
The results issued Thursday come after Gap, like many retailers, finished a brutal holiday season marked by heavy discounting to help attract shoppers who've been cautious in a still sluggish economy. Gap did its part by offering constant sales. Still, it's faring better than other rivals like Abercrombie & Fitch, which reported on Wednesday a 58 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit on a 12 percent decline in revenue.
The results underscore the challenges that Gap faces in keeping the momentum going since enjoying a turnaround starting in early 2012. Gap has been stepping up its marketing and offering trendier merchandise. In 2012, the company also announced a management overhaul to help it respond more quickly to shifting tastes.
The San Francisco-based company is also increasingly responding to a shift among consumers to shop and research on mobile devices. For example, Gap is expanding a service that allows shoppers reserve items online and then pick up the merchandise at the store within 24 hours.
Still, Glenn Murphy, Gap Inc.'s CEO, told investors on a conference call Thursday that Gap, like other retailers, needs to combat the promotional environment by offering shoppers something new.
"We got to continue as a business to be innovative and creative and bring reasons for people to engage in our brands either online or in our stores that are not rooted in promotions and discounts with a frequency in which they're rooted in today," said Glenn Murphy, chairman and CEO of Gap.
The retailer earned $307 million, or 68 cents per share, in the three-month period ended Feb. 1. That compares with $351 million, or 73 cents per share, in the year-ago period, which included an extra week.
Revenue fell $4.58 billion from $4.73 billion.
Analysts were expecting earnings of 65 cents per share on revenue of $4.58 billion for the quarter, according to FactSet.
Revenue at stores opened at least a year � a key gauge of a retailer's health � rose 1 percent.
Gap expects earnings per share in the range of $2.90 to $2.95 for the current year. Analysts had expected $3.02 per share, on average.
Gap also said its board authorized a 10 percent increase in its quarterly dividend. The company will pay out 22 cents per share on April 30 to shareholders of record April 9.
The retailer announced last week that it would raise the hourly wages of 65,000 of its hourly workers nationwide to $9 an hour this year and $10 an hour in 2015. Gap said it wanted to be able to better retain and attract the best talent in the business.
The chain declined last week to give an average wage for its employees, but said that the vast majority earn more than the federal minimum wage, $7.25.
Gap also declined to comment on how much the pay hike will cost the company, but said there are no plans for cuts in jobs or store hours or increases in prices to cover the costs.
President Barack Obama applauded the move by Gap, noting that in his State of the Union address last month, he had asked businesses to do what they can to raise wages. Obama has also signed an executive order raising the minimum wage for workers covered by new federal contracts to $10.10.
In after-hours trading, Gap shares traded at $43.36, down 32 cents, after slipping 23 cents to $43.68 in regular trading.

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... I think the decision in the case is likely to track the will of the people, as perceived by the Court. So, it's important to advocates to create the appearance of public acceptance or public outrage over the law...The Rasmussen poll reinforces my prediction.
... I'm guessing the Supreme Court will strike down the individual mandate. The existing doctrine doesn't require that outcome, but I'm reading the political forces at play and assessing the Court's vulnerability to those forces, and that's my interpretation.


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The Stressless Viva is part of the stunning New Global Collection.
The choice of base changes not only the appearance of the chair, but also changes how the chair moves. Both options allow for 360° swivel, optional height adjustments and are available in a range of colour options.
The Classic Base - has been an iconic design choice for more than 30 years. If you've owned a Stressless chair the chances are it had a Classic base. It's two stem design is instantly recognisable and gives unique stability as you recline.
The Signature Base - A stylish, modern design combining cast aluminium, wood and movement. The Signature base is new to the range and we feel it transforms the feel of the chair. The Signature base includes the Balance Adapt™ a soft rocking motion that increases comfort and helps maintain movement when seating. We would choose it every time.
There are 4 leather grades for the Stressless recliner. Each have been treated differently to suit individual tastes. To help you choose we explain the leathers below.
Batick - a corrected, pigment-improved leather, which has had most blemishes removed. Batick is a heavy-duty leather that has a protective layer of lacquer that simplifies cleaning.
Cori - a corrected, pigment-improved leather, with most blemishes removed. Cori is thicker and has a larger pebbled grain than Batick. Cori is a heavy-duty leather with a protective layer of lacquer to simplify cleaning. Some Cori colours have a slight two-tone effect the livens up the colour.
Paloma (a popular choice) - a slightly corrected leather which means that some of the natural marks, scars and insect bites can show through. This gives it a more authentic, natural look and feel. A thin coat of lacquer simplifies cleaning and gives some protection. Due to its soft, natural, comfortable feel and range of colours. Paloma is a very popular choice.
Noblesse - the most exclusive leather in the range is a full grain semi-aniline which means fully penetrated dye and has only a very thin protective coating. This allows the leather to keep the natural softness and warmth that characterises a first-class leather. Minor colour variations and natural marks can occur. Noblesse will gain the most character of all the leathers over time, will feel the softest to touch but will require a little more maintenance that the alternatives.
Most Stressless recliners are available in 3 sizes - Small, Medium and Large. Selecting the right size for you can be guided by your height but should ultimately be decided by the feel and fit of each model.
The best way to find the perfect match is to visit one of our 4 retail showrooms.
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Last year I bought a new guitar and set a challenge for myself. I wanted to really learn what the guitar, and I, had to offer at that point in time so I set out on a mission to write, record and mix 30 guitar riffs in 30 days. I posted each riff on my facebook page everyday when I was done with each mix so that my friends could comment and encourage me, and also so that I wouldn't miss a day.
While writing the riffs I tried to get in as many styles as possible with lots of nods to my favorite guitarists of the 70's like Jeff Beck, Django Reinhardt (not from the 70's but he was awesome), Jimi 'friggin' Page, Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie Montrose, Ted Nugent, Robin Trower, Paco De Lucia and Al DiMeola.
It was an incredible learning experience for me and lots of fun. The thing I really got sorted were my mixing chops with multiple guitar melodies, solos and chunky rhythm.
In the end I only got up to 25 fully mixed tracks in 26 days then my health gave out. I was sitting in a strange position while recording and playing and I twisted my hip and could hardly walk for the next three weeks.
I am posting some of the best takes here if you are interested in hearing them. I also want to show that I am not just a business owner / web developer, I have always been a musician first and that is why our company cares so much about our composers. We know what it is like to try and eke out a living doing the thing you love to do.
Anyway, enjoy, or complain, or cover your ears but here's what I love to do more than anything in the world, play guitar.
PS- The pic in the player is me from the old Hollywood days and is not an accurate representation of how I look now.


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Aqa Mola Syedna Taher Fakhruddin TUS explains the philosophy of Mourning for Imam Husain AS in English, and mentions the court case, and the attack on Husain Imam's Dawat today by those who wrongfully claim the position.
Syedna Taher Fakhruddin TUS addresses mumineen in Arabic and delivers a heart rendering recitation of the shahadat of Imam Husain AS.
Syedi Mazoon Saheb AAB does a short Daily Zikr each day in Shehrullah from the anecdotes in Histories of Panjatan, Imam & Duat to benefit our souls & bodies, our lives & our Hereafter.
Syedna al-Mu'ayyad also explains in one of his Majalis, that just as Allah Ta'ala appointed the Ka'ba, a physical House made of stone, as the qibla of our physical bodies, Allah Ta'ala appointed an Imam, who the Ka'ba symbolizes, as the qibla of our souls. Click here to read further.
In the Majlis, Syedna al-Mu'ayyad makes the case that the ayat from the Qur'an quoted above was revealed in reference to the Day of Ghadeer in which Rasulullah SA delivered the final message, the final farizat– the walaayat of his wasiyy, Maulana Ali SA. Read the full article here.
On the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, the season of Hajj, we are pleased to present a photo e-book that summarizes the primary arkaan and tenets of Hajj. The text – written by Zumurrudato Dawatil Haqq Shz. Dr. Bazat Saifiyah baisaheba, is presented with unique photos of Makka and the important sites of Hajj. The photo book also presents several unique photos of the Hajj of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA in 1969 and Syedna Khuzaima Qutbuddin TUS in 1968.
Like prayer, fasting, and hajj, zakaat is one of the seven da'a'im, or foundational pillars, of the Shari'at of Islam. Click here to view information on how to araz zakat.
Syedna Khuzaima Qutbuddin RA was a beacon of light. It is befitting that Syedna Qutbuddin's roza, as Syedna Fakhruddin TUS said, "shines for the people of the sky as the stars shine for those on earth." To contribute, please click here. Mumineen participate in the khidmat of niyaaz and also contribute regularly to join in the sawaab of Mazaar-e-Qutbi Niyaaz. If you would like to participate, click here.
Bihamdillah Imamat namaz and majalis are conducted all over the world by the raza mubarak of Syedna Taher Fakhruddin TUS. To find out more about majalis and events near you, and to connect with your local mas'ul and other mumineen click here.
Recognising the unique challenges of the time where Mumineen cannot always travel to be with Syedna Fakhruddin TUS personally, bethak via videoconferencing will be arranged on a weekly basis for Mumineen who wish to have an audience with Syedna TUS. For further details, click here.
Syedna Taher Fakhruddin TUS led Mumineen in namaaz and ibaadat during Shehrullah al-Mo'azzam in Iwan-e-Fatemi Darus Sakina, culminating with the Eid ul Fitar Majlis. We are pleased to present an album of photos that attempts to offer a glimpse into the raunaq and barakaat received by Mumineen throughout Shehrullah al-Mo'azzam. The album also includes photos of Misaq shukur ziafat by Qutub-Khan Bhaisaheb in which Syedna bestowed him with Mafsuhiyat.
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Cambridge is everything the Oxbridge stereotype tells you - it's challenging, it's grand, it's academically focused, it's stunningly beautiful and it's intense. But it's also everything the stereotype doesn't tell you - it's still a normal student experience. The town has everything you could possibly want or need within a few minutes walk of most colleges (yes, even nightlife, provided you don't mind cheesy music); it has student clubs for every sport, art form and interest under the sun (including an Ice Cream Appreciation society); and it's filled with the most diverse, friendly and accepting group of people you'll ever meet.
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Mr. Orange-I had no trouble getting your code up and running in 15 minutes - happily logging, saving, and reading the input to analog1. However, after hitting the arduino reset button, I found that the read function returns junk(from the SD card).Shouldn't the SD card retain data after a power cycle? or, is it a function of the code that you so nicely supplied to get me started - and I just don't understand it, yet?
if (mmc::initialize() != RES_OK) { error(PSTR("mmc init failed.\n")); }
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Updating Grand Theft Auto IV, this is the first patch released from Rockstar. It includes a number of crash fixes, improvements to the video editor, bowling & mice issues and much more listed below in more information.
NOTE: Once you've unzipped this file, run 5454083bContentsetup.exe to start installing this patch!


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Surprising winter storms hit the Middle East recently, and a new video shows none other than King Abdullah II of Jordan helping to push a family's stranded car out of the snow.
Ahram.org reports that the king was driving through Amman when he saw the car and stopped to help. At the end of the video you can hear people chanting, "Long live his majesty the king."
Ahram.org reports that the video is now blowing up on social media with similar good feelings.
Now is the time when I will point out that this could just be a PR stunt, though you would think a PR video would be recorded in something better than 240p.


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When New York announced that the Nissan NV200 would be the new NYC Cab, the big question was where's the damn wheelchair-accessible version? Not only do they now have one, but this random Brazilian dude insisted on trying it out for himself.
As the Taxi of Tomorrow, the new NV200 offers great features like a transparent roof, germ-fighting seats, and USB chargers for anyone running out of juice following a long flight. There's a redesigned light cluster that gives more information.
It's FWD and more fuel efficient than most of the outgoing fleet while, they say, still tough enough for life in the big city. Yet, what about the wheelchair-bound in society? They need cabs, too.
This converted version is the first one built and it has a fold-out ramp (it requires the cab driver to get out and move it) that leads to a space in the floor for the chair. There didn't seem to be a ton of luggage space behind this well-spoken, well-dressed mystery man, nor much room for passengers.
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Yes I remember seeing those. I think they had a synthetic lower, but don't quote me on that. A few years back when FAL kits were more plentiful, you could find caliber conversions done up all the time. I think FN actually made a .223 prototype, then they threw it out and made the FNC which obviously did REAL GOOD.
They looked promising for the money. I haven't seen too many range reports. If I were to get one, I'd invest in a folding stock lower assembly. Another $400 but worth it IMO.
Here's one - looks like they may have been MADE by Bobcat weapons for Red Rock? Not sure.
http://www.atlanticfirearms.com/data...large/atr1.jpgThe ATR-1 is a new semi-automatic .223 cal./5.56 mm sporting rifle. It is based on the FN FAL platform, one of the most reliable and widely used military rifles in the history of the world. The ATR is blowback operated, with a stationary barrel and gas piston operated breech block unlocking system. It fires in semi-automatic mode, only, from a closed and locked bolt position. The barrel is chambered for a .223 cal./5.56mm cartridge which is fed from a AR-15 magazine. The superior quality and unsurpassed reliability of this firearm make it exciting to shoot and a must for any collection.
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•Based on the FN FAL platform
•Aircraft grade, 7075 T6 aluminum receiver is machined from a solid bar to extacting specifications in the U.S..
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•Original FN FAL gas operated piston breech block unlocking sysytem, proven, reliable field history in Military and Law enforcement applications.
•Barrel: smooth chamber .223 cal. / 5.56 mm, carbon steel, 16.25 inch, 1/2-28 TPI threaded barrel, button rifled with a 1:9 twist rate.
•Buttstock, forend and grip molded from glass filled nylon for added impact strength and thermal stability.
•The lower, including the fire control mechanism and all components thereof, are original FN FAL components.
•Semi-Automatic ONLY. The receiver is NOT slotted to accept an auto sear.
•All primary exterior metal surfaces, except the magazine, are painted with Duracoat brand coatings. Minor parts are finished in black oxide.
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Faith Evans' voice propelled her to the top echelon of R&B well before TV competition shows became the new pathway to stardom. With the singing showdowns heating up, she explained were she would fit in today's battle-heavy programming.
"I could totally see myself as a judge on one of the reality shows," she told CBS Local. "Out of the three—American Idol, X-Factor and The Voice—I think [I would choose] The Voice, if I had a choice, of course, if they were all waiting for me."
It is the idea of raw vocal ability that appeals to Evans.
"I like the concept of it all being about the talent," she said. "On the other side, as an artist or up-and-comer, it is my talent that got me this far. That's a great thing that they did about that show that makes it differ. It is about the voice." [See video below]
On Wednesday, the Voice coaches–Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine—solidified their final picks for the singing competition show, now in its third season. While she would be happy to be a judge on the show, Faith also knows who she would pick if she was an upstart auditioning for Voice coaches.
"I would say Cee Lo Green," she said. "What I like about him as an artist, he's able to cross genres. He's a soul child a product of soul music and all of that. But he pays attention."
Faith, who helped define the '90s era R&B, has some heavy experience with coaching and managing big voices. She is fresh off the release of her R&B Divas album, which serves as the soundtrack for her popular reality show of the same name.
"I like to liken it to Waiting To Exhale," she told CBS Local. "It's almost the soundtrack to the triumphs of what you know of the show and beyond seeing the show…When we got in the studio not only did we sound good together but it was actually a lot of fun and it was drama free."
Watch below as Faith reveals the recording process of R&B Divas. —Erik Parker, CBS Local
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|Pool in the shape of a violin 18th century
Designers Landscape Design Bureau of Cipriano cozdali unique pool in the form of increased Stradivarius violin at the request of the violinist and collector tools. Copy is in every detail and detail, including the soundhole, chin, and even the tailpiece strings that mysterious glow decorate pool in the dark.
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Highlighting the strings of this luxury pool can be synchronized with the currently sounding music. Main source of light is LED lighting parts around the perimeter of the pool. A unique light carp ponds, shaped like a violin bow, brings a bit of romance and mystery.
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Though a cable winch (or a modern boat) would be more efficient, the Goan fishermen of Benaulim bring in their catch the old-fashioned way and, if you're strolling by, they'll probably wave you over to help. Two long ropes stretch all the way up the beach, with heavy branches attached at intervals; on the other end is their net, sometimes floating 500m from the shore and visible only as a massive swirl of water and seabirds. You and a dozen fishermen brace your backs against the branches and take straining steps in reverse toward the line of palms.
The old wooden fishing boat that rests on the sand, with the Portuguese name Bom Jesus painted on its prow, is both a reminder of the tiny state's colonial past and evidence of its peculiar culture. Like most of India, Goa had a sophisticated
indigenous society for more than a millennium before Europeans arrived, but its modern character is the result of spice-hunter Vasco da Gama's arrival here at the turn of the fifteenth century. Though the Indian army finally drove the Portuguese out in the 1960s, Goans today are proud of their unique identity: partly Lusophone, largely Catholic and with an intriguing and delicious fusion of Portuguese and Indian cuisine. These traits have attracted travellers to Goa for decades, as much to admire its cathedrals and colonial architecture as to throw massive raves on its famously lovely beaches.
It's not party time in Benaulim, though; the sand slips out beneath your feet and you must be conceding 3m for every one you gain. Either the waves don't want to give up their bounty so easily, or the fish aren't keen on being dinner. Groaning, yelling, laughing and grimacing, your team could keep at this for hours until the net is hauled in, though by this point you may have turned over your position to someone else. Stick around, though, and you'll see what's likely to end up on your plate that evening in a fish curry.
Benaulim is 15min by public bus from Margao, Goa's "second city".
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For a man who sees himself as such a loner, Wolverine has gathered quite a family around him since his creation, in both literal and metaphorical terms (The price of being such a successful franchise, I suppose). Meet his kids - well, the ones we know about, at least.
In what still counts as one of the most "WTF" moments of Marvel's history, Wolverine's teenage female clone was introduced to comic audiences as a prostitute servicing those with particularly masochistic tendencies. Just think about that for a second. Luckily, saner heads prevailed, and pretty soon Laura Kinney (AKA X-23) left behind that world to become one of the X-Men, and currently appears in the regular X-Force series as a troubled goth kid, which befits her status as a faulty clone created by scientists trying to duplicate Wolverine but without that pesky conscience.
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Much more straight-forwardly, Daken (AKA Dark Wolverine, although he doesn't actually call himself that, thankfully) is Wolverine's son. Much less straight-forwardly, he was stolen from his dead mother's womb, had his existence kept secret from his father for years and grew into the kind of man who'll kill for fun and probably listen to My Chemical Romance while cutting himself with his claws and feeling like the world doesn't love him. Call it Marvel's underhanded way of demonstrating its support for traditional family values. He's currently pretending to be his father as part of Norman Osborn's "Dark Avengers" team of n'er-do-wells, alongside Venom and other villainous types.
Kitty Pryde
Many comic fans' first crush, Pryde was the spunky girl geek with superpowers that brought about one of the stranger running themes of Wolverine's career - his surrogate fatherhood. Acting against type, the grim loner Wolverine took the young Pryde under his wing when she first joined the X-Men, leading to comedic adventures and misunderstandings and only a few creepy scenes when you stopped to wonder why Wolverine wanted to hang out with a teenage girl. Thanks to Joss Whedon, Kitty's currently flying inside a giant bullet in space.
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Surrogate daughter #2, Amiko was adopted by Wolverine after her mother died during a battle between the X-Men and a giant dragon. He passed her to various, more responsible, caretakers during the years, but has always remained in danger from Wolverine's enemies. Luckily, as incredible coincidence or lazy plotting would have it, she turned out to be descended from ancient Japanese warriors and is now studying with them to become an unstoppable fighting machine.
Surrogate daughter #3, and a reliable indicator of your age. Simply put, if you find Jubilation Lee (Yes, that's her real name) anything other than an irritating failed attempt to recreate the original relationship between Kitty Pryde and Wolverine but with a rip-off of Frank Miller's Carrie Kelly from The Dark Knight Returns, then you were either a teenager in the 1990s or her creator Chris Claremont. One of the first signs that Claremont was beginning to lose touch with his audience, Jubilee nonetheless was successful enough to make it into the 1990s X-Men cartoon, as well as numerous comic spin-offs from X-Men, including Generation X and the ongoing Wolverine series. These days, she's in limbo following the cancellation of her last series, New Warriors.
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In the alternate future "Old Man Logan" storyline, Wolverine has two kids, both of whom are rarely seen, but appear to be non-superpowered and relatively normal. Scotty is clearly named for Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops from the X-Men, but I admit that Jade is a bit more obscure. If any of you have any suggestions, don't be shy.
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Walmart, the world's largest private employer with over two million retail workers, deserves credit for doing what no other major company has done before. It has promised to hire 100,000 recent veterans over the next five years. In an announcement on Tuesday, Walmart US President Bill Simon urged fellow retailers to follow his lead: "We could be the ones who step up for our heroes just as they stood for us."
Walmart can't be that fabulous, right? It's not. The piling on began immediately, with critics of a company often accused of unfair practices calling its offer a pathetic public relations stunt. But Walmart, like most major corporations, is a complicated entity with good works and aggressive profit grabs happening under the same roof.
So forget parsing Walmart's motivations. It is the veterans we should be worried about. Walmart's plan will help veterans meet their immediate need for a meager paycheck, but it won't give them what they most desire over the long term: sustained support and training, now and in the future, that connect skills learned in the military with economic opportunities. Indeed, veterans' long-term careers would barely be advanced if every retailer took up Walmart's cause.
Walmart's announcement, which was vague in its details but still earned First Lady Michelle Obama's praise, does not promise full-time employment. Veterans are likely to receive the same low wages (on average, $8 an hour) and negligible benefits that have made Walmart the target of so many labor activists. One study suggests that as many as 80 percent of its employees could be on food stamps.
Clearly, the largeness of Walmart's gesture is a reflection of its hiring capacity; due to its massive annual turnover, amounting to 37 percent of its work force, Walmart hires about half a million US employees a year. And it has been coming under increased criticism lately. Walmart is America's number-one gun seller. It can also be grotesquely arrogant — in its bribery of Mexican officials, for instance, and its initial rejection of Vice President Joe Biden's invitation to a gun-control discussion.
Of course, the veterans who take the jobs the company is now promising can't be faulted. After all, the unemployment rate among veterans hovers at 11 percent, compared to 7.5 percent for the rest of the population. But ultimately this initiative may do more to boost Walmart's image than the careers of veterans, especially if it detracts from the urgency to provide more job training and support. Matching veterans' skills with the right jobs will remain an elusive goal. For unemployed workers, Walmart's plan is a useful Band-Aid. It's not a coherent long-term strategy.
Nor is it consistent with how we have aided military veterans in the past. The GI bills, for generations from World War II to today, were meant to link the support owed to fighters to the necessities of America's own economic advancement. Such investments were animated by a profound and still-relevant notion that access to education will provide, for this most worthy pool of students, employment opportunities that will also help to grow the economy. America has already invested millions of dollars in each of these veterans — an investment that could be lost at the register of a Walmart check-out line.
Today, addressing the employment needs of veterans isn't just about making sure they get a paycheck. Seriously, name a major company that doesn't want to hire a veteran. Most public employers also give favorable scoring to veterans. The desire is there. The goal should be to address the obstacles standing in the way of better opportunities. Often, veterans find the job-seeking process overwhelming, discover that the kinds of resume-enhancing tactics that some people use to get jobs is inconsistent with their selfless training, and carry the physical and emotional wounds of war.
Whatever the intent behind Walmart's announcement — was it a goodwill gesture? a public relations stunt? — the best way to judge its offer is in the context of the larger effort to help veterans reintegrate into society. Is this what a grateful nation owes a volunteer force after a decade of war? It will pay the bills, barely, for some. But surely veterans deserve more.
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Baltimore man's hanging child mannequins missing
Neighbor: Worker driving city vehicle removed mannequins
A running dispute between neighbors in north Baltimore culminated with the disappearance of child mannequins hanging from a noose.
Tim Giglitto hauled a mannequin of a child up a ladder Wednesday for the second time in two weeks, saying he's trying to make a point about a running dispute he claimed to have with a couple neighbors.
"I had put together sort of a commentary protest on what we perceived as uncivilized and unfriendly treatment by our neighbors," Giglitto said.
A picture of the original display showed two child mannequins hanging by a rope against the backdrop of an Andre the Giant Obey poster, WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team lead investigative reporter Jayne Miller said. The mannequins he put up Wednesday are secured by chains.
"There was no racial implication or overtone. There was nothing that I could see as pornographic. There were no live people involved at all," Giglitto said.
Apparently, someone did take offense. According to Baltimore City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke's office, police received a call from 311 complaining that Giglitto's protest was obscene. Last Tuesday morning, Giglitto's wife said she returned home from a morning run to find the mannequins missing.
"They just disappeared," Giglitto said.
Giglitto said he called police to report a theft, but a neighbor told him the display was removed by someone in a so-called bucket truck bearing the city seal. Giglitto said he doesn't know which agency removed it, nor by what authority.
"We have had no notification they have taken it. They haven't called. They haven't fined us. They haven't arrested us," Giglitto said. "Literally, they just took property from our house and drove off with it."
Giglitto said he wants his property back.
WBAL-TV 11 News has contacted five city agencies, none of which have taken responsibility.
Clarke's office said it's their understanding that the 311 complaint has no recorded resolution, suggesting the city's possible involvement may have been off the books.


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A Tale of Two Turntables
It was the best of finds, it was the worst of finds. Linda spotted the first one at a school sale (like a neighborhood sale inside an elementary school) and thought we'd finally found the turntable that would end the seemingly yearly trading-up of yard sale turntables. A Bang & Olufsen Beogram, made in Denmark! ($10)We brought it home, hooked it up, but out came awful, scratchy noises- the unfortunate sign that the needle might as well be a shard of beach glass, and finding a new replacement needle online was like looking in a virtual haystack. But then yesterday we were driving through Scarborough and Linda saw a yard sale sign reading "treadmill, waterbed" and explained to me as I kept driving away from it that "waterbed" means 70's and "treadmill" means "in shape", and combined there could be some excellent things- along the lines of vintage Sharper Image, and Playboy's 11th-hour Santa gift pages. And lo and behold there on the driveway was a pile of Harman Kardon rectangles with a Beogram RX on top. ($4 for all) What luck! What are the odds- we're just about to possibly break down and spend $$$ for a new stylus when here's yet another Bang & Olufsen turntable with the elusive MMC5 needle! But when we hooked this one up it sounded like the needle was made out of marshmallow, so alas, we're back where we started. However they do look great, at least. And far, far better than last year's.
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Today we took a trip up to Lewiston Maine, and while we we there we stopped at a yard sale, a Salvation Army, and the Marden's Offprice. The yard sale was a bust, but the usually stale Salvation Army actually had us needing a cart, and the Marden's was like walking into a time capsule. Last stop was an excellent lunch at the Milton Glaser/Love Boat-typefaced Italian Bakery.
The Salvation Army cart filled with old Ski-Doo helmets and a mint condition Stokke Balans Variable, which used to seem to me the height of nerdyness, but I now see as very sophisticated Scandinavian design.
The Marden's Offprice. Where have these posters been for the past 30 years to suddenly appear here, in a half price bin? (Sorry Loni and Cheryl, we opted for Farrah.)
Pappa Bouna! (what little Italian kids say): The Italian Bakery
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Speaking of Los Angeles, these giant numbers came off an LA apartment building where they once served as the address. When we finally buy a house hopefully some sequence of them will work for our own.Pin It
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We drove down to New York and on the way detoured over to my parents' house in Connecticut to preview their yard sale. Among the things we bought (back) was this old copy of Irving Penn's Moments Preserved, for $1. Penn is the master of composition and still life, and his portable studio with the canvas backdrop is eternally inspiring. If you're in Los Angeles this September, The Getty Museum is having a massive retrospective.
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Pucci Stationery Set
From this swank estate in Buffalo, a beautiful old set of Pucci stationery- 25¢! (and unfortunately written on the box). I've stopped using them to send letters as there's only a few left and I think I'd like to save them for a letter to a future hypothetical daughter or granddaughter.Pin It
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R.I.P. Bulk Trash Pick-up
Portland Maine had an amazing bulk trash pick-up. Twice a year it was a blow-out event that seemed like ½ the town was putting stuff on their curb and the other ½ was picking it up. John enjoyed bulk trash pick-up tremendously and never tired of driving around for hours, looking for the perfect find. He always found incredible things and they came in especially handy for "Tossed & Found". Unfortunately as of last year Portland eliminated the bulky item festival due to budget cuts.
An incredible example of how not everything found on the street is trash: we came across this treasure trove of pottery lined up neatly on a wood shelf under a free sign. Signed "Jeffery Lipton", he is obviously very talented. If this is what he's throwing out, imagine what he's keeping.
I'm not quite sure what to say about this huge mooring ball John dragged home except that he absolutely loves it.Pin It
Ludwig Sander
This is one of the first things I ever bought at a yard sale. About 30 years ago, from a tag sale in Ridgefield Ct, it's an oil on canvas titled "Small Blue", by Ludwig Sander. The tag on the back states that in March of 1959, from The Art Rental Gallery in Washington DC you could have bought it for $200, or rented it for $15. I think I paid $10. It wasn't in the best of shape- the paint was all crazed, and years traveling with me have added a few chips and patina, but it does have a nice old vs. new look to it now, and seems more like an object than a painting.
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Found rolled up inside an old prescription bottle at the Melrose/Fairfax flea market ten years ago. I was going to use it as a prop for a hippie-esque room we designed for the opening of Anthropologie Tampa in 1999, but it was just too cool to leave there. However I did use it on the cover of the store opening report.
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sunglasses collection
Since the the beginning of time I've been collecting sunglasses. In honor of spring I'm posting my collection. Despite losing my first pair ever to a high school crush (Shane, if your reading this, I'd LOVE to have my Oakly Frogskins with the fire lenses back!) i've been lucky enough to still have pretty much every pair I've owned. The collection continues to grow, not only do I find new ones all the time but I rarely pay more then a couple of dollars per pair. About a year ago John & I bought a lot of 80's Iski and Jean-Claude Killy Bolle' sunglasses at a defunct 5-and-Dime (last 3 columns on far left). Pin It
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This pair of awesome wicker peacock chairs found at a yard sale up in Brunswick. $50 for the set (including the stool). Pin It
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Spring is here, and finally it's yard sale season again. We spent the fall and winter putting the finishing edits on our book "Wary Meyers Tossed & Found", and then celebrated by driving down to the Florida Keys, where Linda's parents' put us up in their beautiful basement. The days were spent going to the beach, and thrift shops, and the weekends yard saling and checking out interesting architecture, wondering why there aren't any round rotating brutalist houses or Lego-like postmodern chateaux in Maine. Nights were spent painting my father in-laws fishing buddy's wife on a swordfish bill. Yard saling there wasn't as great as in previous years, but Linda found some nice Patrick Nagel prints and enough Kino sandals to last a lifetime.
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Up in Fort Lauderdale, after a disappointing Sunrise Swap Shop (we went on a friday) we headed down to the equally disappointing Salvation Army by the highway, but then were blessed with some real salvation when we parked next to this Virgin Mary stain gracing the side wall of the Habitat Re Store. Inside was a mint condition Kohler low-profile porcelain toilet and matching bidet in sleek jet black, the kind you'd see in ultra modern interior design from the 70's. Score! Although upon closer inspection, the sleek black turned out to be just dark blue, so we passed. But I still have faith that on its own closer inspection, the stain is not just a stain. Pin It
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Something's up in Provo, Utah and it weighs around seven million pounds. It's the 112-year-old exterior of the Provo Tabernacle that was severely damaged in a 2010 fire but has since been saved by the LDS church so it can be converted into a temple. Engineers first gutted the damaged interior and then supported the exterior walls with special scaffolding as they dug down to create space for a two story basement, so in actuality the building hasn't even moved. The entire structure is now on stilts some 40 feet in the air and from some angles appears to be floating above ground, such as in the first photograph above provided by Brian Hansen. Additional photos courtesy the LDS Newsroom.
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Drake blessed the ESPYs with a special song for the runners up. This parody seems especially cruel coming from a frontrunner who sings about losing out all the time. It works though, because Drake is made for musical theater, and scarcely too serious to poke fun at himself as a singer. Video after the jump.
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"I speak Curian Capital, the advisor speaks advisor and the client doesn't speak either," says Keith Johnson, vice president of practice management at the aforementioned Denver-based managed account provider.
Johnson made the observation by way of introduction to the topic of effective client communication. It's a hot topic at the moment, as empathetic communication takes more of a front seat with the recognition that not all clients think and act alike. But for advisors that are tempted to dismiss it with a "yeah yeah" wave of the hand, Johnson has four areas he's zeroed in on to attract, and retain, more business.
1). Financial jargon — "When I came to Curian, I quickly realized they were using different jargon than the firm at which I previously worked," Johnson observes. "It's just the nature of the business and something we all do. Now imagine that each advisor does it in their own practices and it's all completely different from what the client understands."
While noting it's something like "who's buried in Grant's tomb?" he quipped, "Ask a client how many stocks are in the S&P 500. You'd be surprised by the answer. These are the things advisors just assume clients know."
Discussions of risk, in particular, often confuse the client because of a misunderstanding of how the term is defined.
"It might be thought of as fluctuations in the portfolio, or a lack of diversification or any other number of possible uses. To reduce confusion, advisors should use the term 'loss' instead of risk."
Of course, the plethora of information can also cause confusion.
"Say a client can't sleep and gets up in the middle of the night. They'll flip on the TV to a commercial about throwing all their assets into gold. They'll flip the channel and it will be real estate. Flip again and it's a repeat of that night's Jim Cramer or Suze Orman. Each client meeting should be a conversation about what they've heard and where they're getting it."
2). Personality differences — "If an advisor can adjust their use of jargon to the personality trait of the client, it will make all the difference," Johnson (right) says. "Imagine if the client is a very analytical, detailed-oriented engineer, but the advisor is a gregarious people-person who loves to talk. How do you think that conversation will go?"
Anyone in sales, he adds, is intent on getting their point across; it's just their nature.
"Learning how to communicate in different personality languages is a masterful art."
3). Personal beliefs of the client — While it might be hard to imagine since advisors are in the wealth accumulation business, some clients are taught that wealth accumulation for wealth's sake is bad, and anything left over should be given away. "If the advisor is talking about preparing for retirement, making the money last, living their dreams and the client wasn't planning on any of that, the conversation will obviously fail," Johnson notes. "If we can get to a place where the advisor is connecting emotionally through language, that's one of the biggest things they can achieve."
4). Women — Too many advisors still — still! — ignore the wife when speaking with a couple. Even those that don't often view women as a niche — even though there are more women than men, more with college degrees and they live longer than men.
"I once watched an advisor completely ignore the female spouse," Johnson concludes. "When it came time for my critique, I told him he should have spoken directly to the wife, since the husband will be dead and she'll have all the money. It's that direct."
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Aaron Dykes & Alex Jones
January 1, 2012
Indeed it is a new day. Ushering in the New Year, President Obama signed legislation that helps to further destroy the principles the nation was founded upon.
President Obama, who pledged to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), has now signed it. Of course, his promise was only for public consumption. After all, lying to your enemy is what invading corporate takeover armies do. It was the Obama administration all along that demanded the indefinite detention provisions be added while at the same time telling the American people he was fighting to protect their rights. This is treason on parade, in your face all out despotism– that is, for those paying any attention!
In this video is Alex Jones' reaction to the bill and Obama's accompanying signing statement:
As the Associated Press reports, the President signed the bill on Saturday "despite having 'serious reservations' about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists."
However, those reservations have nothing to do with the rights of the people under the Constitution and Bill of Rights that he swore to protect– rather, his reservations dealt with changes that "challenged the president's terrorism-fighting ability." He reportedly accepted the legislation only after such impedance was removed.
Instead, it was a deceptive maneuver to appear wary of such powers when the White House demanded it all along. In fact, Obama's veto threat was always about that issue– the language over Section 1022 and NOT the authorization for the indefinite detention of Americans in Section 1021. Rather, it was a debate over "requiring" military protocol on detention rather than leaving the discretion over whether to detain to the executive branch, under the power of the Presidency.
Yesterday, with a friendly note, Obama issued a signing statement that read:
"Moving forward, my administration will interpret and implement the provisions described below in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded."
Despite positioning himself in the signing statement as cautious towards the rights of the individuals in the nation, the President has just signed into law a provision that threatens the right of every American to due process, and a public trial with a jury. Instead, he has handed over grotesque authority to himself and EVERY President that comes after him, whatever their intentions might be.
Obama's signing statement later states:
Moreover, I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation.
Even if Obama's stated intention here is true, it is no guarantee of the attitudes and interpretations of future presidents, or of the intent of their power advisors, many of whom operate the national security shadow network. Instead, it is yet another Constitution-destroying, power-grabbing so-called law.
The ACLU, too, warns about this deception:
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had "serious reservations" about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use the authorities granted by the NDAA, and would not affect how the law is interpreted by subsequent administrations.
[…] ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero stated: "The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield."
Obviously, this is a dangerous precedent and a dark day for America.
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Evaluation of the Use of Computers in Patrol Cars by the San Francisco Police Department, 1999-2000
- Colvin, Caran (San Francisco State University)
- Archival Version (Subtitle)
- United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice
AbstractIn an effort to reduce the workload of police officers participating in problem-solving and community-oriented activities, the San Francisco Police Department applied for and was awarded a Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE) grant in 1995 to integrate Mobile Computing Terminals (MCTs), or laptop computers, into its daily operations. The National Institute of Justice funded an evaluation of this COPS MORE initiative. The evaluation examined the efficacy of a technological intervention to improve operational efficiency, service quality, and the corresponding changes in officers' attitudes and behaviors associated with integrating the use of MCTs for computerized incident reporting into the work process. The two systematic methods of data collection used for this research project were pencil-and-paper surveys of officers' attitudes toward computers and community policing and direct observation of the behavior of officers on patrol, including measurements of time to complete reports and time engaged in police activities.
AbstractThe San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) has had a long-term community policing plan since 1989. The SFPD defines community policing as a philosophy, management style, and organizational strategy that promotes (1) proactive problem-solving and police-community partnerships, (2) full-service personalized policing in which the same officer patrols and works in the same area on a permanent basis, from a decentralized place, and (3) a high quality of life in San Francisco's neighborhoods through police-community partnerships that identify, prioritize, and solve problems. Because problem-solving involves a more intensive and long-term approach to crime prevention, departments implementing community policing are challenged to find methods of freeing up additional officer time to engage in problem-solving and community-oriented activities. In an effort to facilitate its workload reduction strategies, the SFPD applied for and was awarded a Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE) grant in June of 1995 to integrate innovative technology, namely Mobile Computing Terminals (MCTs) or laptop computers, into its daily police operations. The MCTs represented a potential time-saving device for officers on patrol. With funds from COPS MORE, the SFPD purchased 336 MCTs to replace the KDT-480 dumb terminals that were installed in patrol cars. Funding to purchase software that would enable the electronic submission of reports from the field was also provided. The installation of the MCTs into patrol cars and the electronic submission software were part of an administrative strategy to increase the efficiency of the work process by shifting the entire department to computerized incident reporting. Under the previous system, the Department estimated that two hours of each officer's shift was spent traveling to the district police station to access computer equipment to complete crime reports, or handwrite the standard seven-page report, as no portable computers were available for use in the field. The National Institute of Justice funded an evaluation of this COPS MORE initiative. The evaluation examined the efficacy of a technological intervention to improve operational efficiency, service quality, and the corresponding changes in officers' attitudes and behaviors associated with integrating MCTs into the work process. This project evaluated the effect of MCTs on two measures of organizational effectiveness that were operationalized as (1) the number of hours saved through implementation of MCTs and (2) the allocation of time saved to community policing.
AbstractThe two systematic methods of data collection used for this research project were pencil-and-paper surveys of officers' attitudes toward computers and community policing (Part 1) and direct observation of the behavior of officers on patrol, including measurements of time to complete reports and time engaged in police activities (Part 2). Of the 1,091 sworn members of the San Francisco Police Department, 819 participated in the survey and ride-along observational activities across the three time periods: 163 at Time 1, 205 at Time 2, and 451 at Time 3. The 819 patrol officers were asked to complete surveys on computer attitudes and community policing (Part 1) and a subset of 463 officers participated in the observational activities: 96 at Time 1, 185 at Time 2, and 182 at Time 3 (Part 2). Patrol officers participated in the observational study if they were assigned to one of the shift and sector combinations that was randomly selected for a ride-along. The simplest quasi-experimental design would have been to observe the behavior of patrol officers in five stations that had received MCTs compared to officers in five stations that had not yet received them. However, the extraneous effects of observation potentially contaminate a design that simply compares an experimental group to a control group. Therefore, the researchers used the Solomon four-group design to estimate and control for the effects of observation. The basic unit of measurement and analysis was the ride-along. Random combinations of shift halves and sectors were used to develop the ride-along schedule. The shift half was a five-hour period that occurred either during the first half or the second half of the shift. During their shifts, officers were assigned to a district sector, and they patrolled that sector for the entire time. The shift halves and sectors that were randomly sampled at Time 1 were sampled again at the successive measurement periods. Time 1 was the pre-test period before the MCTs were installed. Time 2 was the post-test period during which some groups had MCTs and some groups did not, allowing the researchers to control for the effects of observation. Time 3 was the second post-test period during which all groups had MCTs. Due to the longitudinal nature of the study, it was not possible to measure individual patrol officers as the unit of analysis. Officers were rotated on a regular basis from one district station to another. The nature of police work differed significantly between district stations, so measuring the same officer at two different stations would introduce a confounding factor into the study. Within a district station, shift and sector provided a level of analysis that was consistent across the different measurement periods, and thus was less likely to introduce extraneous factors into the study. Prior to data collection activities at each district station, members of the research team attended roll call at all of the shifts in order to provide information about the study to patrol officers. At the beginning of a given ride-along, the study was explained to the patrol officer, and his or her informed consent was obtained. The officer was told that participation was voluntary and that he or she could withdraw from the study at any time. During the five-hour ride-along, the observer collected information on the amount of time the officer spent on various secondary activities. At the end of the ride-along, the officer was asked to complete the Computer Attitude and Community Policing Attitude Surveys. Survey responses and observational data were anonymous and could not be linked to the officers. Only the ride number identified the observations and surveys. Officers who did not participate in a ride-along were asked to complete the surveys and place them in a drop box at the district station. These surveys were anonymous.
AbstractSurvey variables for Parts 1 and 2 include officers' attitudes on the importance of access to state and federal databases, detailed analyses of crime patterns, maps of crime hot spots, information about community events, saving time writing reports, more time to spend on patrol, flexible technology, accurate technology, technology that is easy to understand, and dependable technology. Other survey questions captured the officers' attitudes toward community policing, such as the use of innovative solutions to crime problems, communication with the public, teamwork with other officers, knowledge of community resources, pressure because of the demands of community policing, amount of training in community policing, and rewards for practicing community policing. Officers were also asked whether they had ever used a personal computer and for what purposes and whether they had ever received formal training on computers. Demographic variables for Parts 1 and 2 include age, years employed by SFPD, level of education, county of residence, gender, and ethnic identity. Part 2 contains additional variables from the observational data collection, including time spent on report writing, on the computer, at the station, in the field, on calls for service, on patrol, in court, and interacting with citizens.
MethodsICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Standardized missing values.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
MethodsPresence of Common Scales: Several Likert-type scales were used.
MethodsResponse Rates: Not applicable.
Table of Contents
- DS0: Study-Level Files
- DS1: Police Officer Survey Data
- DS2: Police Officer Survey Data and Observational Data
1999 / 2000Time period: 1999--2000
1999 / 2000Collection date: 1999--2000
San Francisco
United States
The user guide, codebook, and data collection instruments are provided by ICPSR as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
- 3489 (Type: ICPSR Study Number)
Is previous version of
DOI: 10.3886/ICPSR03489.v1
Colvin, Caran. Evaluation of Innovative Technology: Implications for the Community Policing Roles of Law Enforcement Officers, [Final Report]. NCJ 205641, Washington, DC: United States Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. 2004.
- ID: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/205641.pdf (URL)
Update Metadata: 2015-08-05 | Issue Number: 6 | Registration Date: 2015-06-15
Colvin, Caran (2004): Evaluation of the Use of Computers in Patrol Cars by the San Francisco Police Department, 1999-2000. Archival Version. Version: v0. ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03489


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