Show Notes Sunday, March 4, 2007

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• Show Line Up
  
  
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - The week we want to say hello to Mike Worden, Okanogan, Washington. Thanks for downloading and listening to the show, Mike. Mike's Frappr map entry says that he is "200 miles from everywhere" but he still a member of our legion of listeners.
  
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
  
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Three More Fallen Heroes - Rich
• Kid Traded For Car - Mack
• Another Protected Bird - Rich
• Robbery No Laughing Matter - Mack
• Sorry - Wrong Number - Rich
• LE Museum Gives Hands-on Police Experience - Mack
• Break Your Neck to Get an iPod - Rich

• Training Opportunities


• Each week we try to include training announcments from academies and training organizations. This week Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy, located in Salem, VA will be conducting a Grade Crossing Collision Investigation course August 28 – 29, 2007.
  
  This course is being presented by the Norfolk Southern Railway Police Department and it will include a thorough examination of all aspects of grade crossing collision investigation including hazardous material concerns, rail yard safety, investigation techniques, DMV forms and Virginia Railroad laws. This course even includes includes a train ride and lunch. For registration information, send me an e-mail at talkback@copcast.net.
  
  
• We also want to announce that Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy, located in Lynchburg, Virginia is conducting a course entitled Investigating Use of Force Cases For Field Supervisors, on April 13, 2007.
  
  This course will cover a variety of topics including what constitutes deadly force, the phases of a use of force event, organizational factors that influence a department’s use of force experience, supervision and use of force, court decisions regarding use of force and much more.
  
  The cost is $150.00 per person and for additional information, telephone Ron Staton at (434) 455-6188.
  
  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


• This week the City of Lexington Police Department is accepting applications for the position of Police Officer I. Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and possess a high school diploma or equivalent. College credits are desirable. Starting salary is $27,969 plus a great benefits package.
  
  Application forms are available at the Human Resource Office, SecondFloor, City Hall, 300 East Washington Street, Lexington, VA 24450. Applications may also be downloaded at http://www.ci.lexington.va.us (under forms).
  
  Applications should be returned no later than 5:00 p.m., Friday, March 16, 2007. I will put the web links and contact information in the Shownotes.
  
  Any questions, may be directed to Roger Clark, Administrative Assistant to the Chief of Police at 540-462-3749.
  
  
• 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


• Hey Buddy, Got A Match - Rich
• Learn From A Tutor - Mack


• PC User's Tip
  

You may already use the grayscale option in PowerPoint to view your slides in shades of gray, rather than full color. It allows you to see how your slide show will look when printed on a non-color printer. Of course doing so is as simple as clicking on the Color/Grayscale button on the main toolbar and selecting Grayscale.

However you actually have more viewing options than you may think. When in Grayscale View, right-click on the slide and check out your options under the Grayscale Setting selection. Here you'll find choices to lighten or darken the grayscale tone, invert it, or change it to different forms of black and white.

Additionally, you can use different grayscale options for different objects on the same slide. Simply right-click on an object and change the settings individually.


• Mac User's Tip
  

We got this tip for Entourage users over at Macworld Weekly. If you're having problems with regular pauses in Entourage or hangs that tie up the application with periods of heavy disk activity, try turning off the background database check.

Just launch Entourage while holding down the '''Option''' key; Database Manager is launched instead.

Then click '''Set Database Preferences''' and uncheck '''background integrity checks'''.

This should correct both problems.


• Closing
  

Thanks to our partner RLS Enterprises, Inc. - Your Affordable On-Line Training Solution for making this episode of CopCAST possible. Visit their website for more information about providing internet-based training for your organization.
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