ShowNotes Sunday, January 14, 2007

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• Show Line Up
  
  
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - The week we want to say hello to Steve Flori, who listens from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Thanks for downloading and listening to the show, Steve
• Blonde's Year in Review
  
  
  January - Took new scarf back to store because it was too tight .
  
  February - Fired from pharmacy job for failing to print labels.....Helllloooo!!!....bottles won't fit in printer !!!
  
  March - Got really excited.....finished jigsaw puzzle in 6 months.....box said "2-4 years!"
  
  April - Trapped on escalator for hours ..... power went out!!!
  
  May - Tried to make Kool-Aid.....wrong instructions....8 cups of water won't fit into those little packets!!!
  
  June - Tried to go water skiing.....couldn't find a lake with a slope.
  
  July - Lost breast stroke swimming competition.....learned later, the other swimmers cheated, they used their arms!!!
  
  August - Got locked out of my car in rain storm.....car swamped because soft-top was open.
  
  September - The capital of California is "C".....isn't it???
  
  October - Hate M & M's.....they are so hard to peel.
  
  November - Baked turkey for 4 1/2 days ... instructions said 1 hour per pound and I weigh 108!!
  
  December - Couldn't call 911 ..... "duh".....there's no "eleven" button on the stupid phone!!!
  
  
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
  
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Five Fallen Heroes - Rich
• Poor Handling of Police Files - Mack
• Wife Saves Husband From Croc - Rich
• Kentucky Officers Cleared in Taser Death - Mack
• Now, Everyone Can Have a Taser - Rich
• Detroit Officer Says Stop was Racially Motivated - Mack
• Two Vegas Students Shot - Rich

• Training Opportunities


• Each week we try to include training announcments from academies and training organizations. This week we want to announce that the Southwest Law Enforcement Academy, located in Bristol, VA, will be conducting a Glock Armorers Course on March 13, 2007. The fee for the course is $150 per student and you can enroll at  http://www.glocktraining.com.
  
  We also have a couple of good classes coming up at Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy. The first one is Street Crimes and it will be conducted August 13 - 15, 2007.
  
  This seminar is very unique and contemporary and is presented through a combination of lectures and a state of the art multimedia creation, to give you the best law enforcement training available today. All of the Street Crimes instructors have at least 25 years of actually street experience. They are able to blend their many unique experiences in Patrol, Gang Crimes, Undercover work, S.W.A.T. Team and Federal Task Forces to create the fastest growing law enforcement training program in the country.
  
  The fee for this course is $395 per officer with discounts for multiple officers from the same agency.
  
  Next, is an Urban Patrol Rifle course that will be conducted September 25 - 27, 2007. This training will give the officer or deputy a thorough understanding of nomenclature, operations, disassembly and assembly skills, marksmanship fundamentals and skills, and care and maintenance of the urban patrol rifle. This course will not cover deployment and engagement issue that should be addressed at the agency level.
  
  This course is fee to member agency personnel and $150 per officer for non-member agency personnel.
  
  For more information visit http://www.cardinalacademy.org/Announcements/07-01.pdf.
  
  We welcome training announcements from any criminal justice training academy or training organization. Just send the information to talkback@copcast.net and we will do our best to announce your training course.

• Job Opportunities


• We are pleased to be able to assist criminal justices agencies in their effort to identify and hire the best qualified people.
  
  This week the University of Maryland College Park is hiring patrol officers. If you are interested in apply, you must have your application in by February 2. For additional information contact:
  
  Captain John Brandt
  Assistant Commander, Police Services Bureau
  University of Maryland Department of Public Safety
  jbrandt@umpd.umd.edu
  301-405-7032
  
  Next up, the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy is looking for a Basic Training Manager to supervise the overall operation of the Basic Training section, including planning, budgeting, purchasing, and scheduling staff. The position is responsible for monitoring programs and classes; attending and conducting meetings; preparing and reviewing reports; preparing budget and purchase requests; and supervising subordinate supervisors. The starting salary range for the position is $54,520 - $76,000 depending on qualifications.
  
  Send resumes and cover letters to:
  
  Mr. Albert C. Oglesby
  Accreditation Manager
  Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy
  45299 Research Place
  Ashburn, VA 20147-2600
  Phone: (703) 729-4299, Extension 118
  Fax: (703) 729-4634
  E-mail: aoglesby@nvcja.org.
  
  If your agency is looking for qualified people, just send us a little information about the job and we will announce it on the show.

• Tech Issues


• Adobe Patch Available for Acrobat - Download Adobe Patch - Rich
• More Apps For iPhone? - Mack


• PC User's Tip
  

If you have installed the Internet Explorer 7 browser, probably the first thing you noticed is the default setup doesn't have the menu bar activated.

Fortunately, it is easy to activate the menu bar. Just, right-click the gray area at the top of the window. On the pop-up menu, select Menu Bar and you get your old favorite IE 6 menu.

You can still use the same keyboard shortcuts that you used in Internet Explorer 6 but there are additional shortcuts now that work with the new tabs function. That's right, IE finally has the tab feature that Firefox has had for ages and, if you haven't used them yet, you really need to check them out. The tabbed browsing let's you have several different Web pages open in the same window. It's easy to switch between tabs and cuts down on the number of window that you have open on your desktop.

Ctrl + click – Opens a link in a new tab behind current page
Ctrl + Shift + click – Opens a link in a new tab in front of current page
Ctrl + T – Opens a new tab
Ctrl + W – Closes current tab (or window if tabbed browsing is disabled)
Ctrl + Tab – Switches between tabs
Ctrl + Alt + F4 – Closes other tabs
Ctrl + Q – Displays thumbnails of open tabs
Ctrl + number – Switches to a specific tab (number must be between one and eight)
Ctrl + 9 – Switches to the last tab

IE 7 has a new search feature located in the upper-right corner of the window, just below the window controls. There are a few shortcut keys associated with it.

Ctrl + E – Takes you to the search box
Alt + Enter – Opens search query in a new tab
Ctrl + Down Arrow – Opens the search box menu



• Mac User's Tip
  

Have you ever created two or more calendars in iCal and later wished that you had just used one. Of course, you could cut your events from calendar A, paste them into calendar B and then delete calendar A. However, there is much easier solution, just use the '''File -> Export''' menu item.

Start by selecting the calendar whose activities you wish to move to another calendar from the Calendars column. Next, pick '''File -> Export'''.

When the dialog box appears, choose a name and save location, then click '''Export'''.

From here, there are two ways to combine the calendars. You can either drag and drop the exported file into iCal’s window, or you can use '''File -> Import'''. Just leave the radio button in the Import dialog set to “'''Import an iCal file'''”.

In both cases, a dialog box will open. The pop-up menu in the middle will let you specify the destination calendar for the imported events.

Click '''OK''' and the events will be imported onto the existing calendar. When it’s done, and you’ve checked that the calendar contains both sets of events, you can delete the unwanted calendar in iCal.

• Closing
  


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