Show Notes Sunday, August 27, 2006

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• Show Line Up
  


• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - Hello to listener D.L. Ediger who listens form Strathmore, Alberta, Canada.
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Three More Fallen Heros - Rich
• Inmate Wants A Womans Body - Mack
• Two Indiana Officers Struck, Killed on Fundraising Bike Ride - Rich
• Man Who Made Millions From Selling Pirated Software Gets 6 Years - Mack
• NC Chief Busted for Child Porn - Rich

• Training Opportunities


• Each week we try to include training announcement from an academy or training organization. ach week we try to include training announcment from an academy or training organization. This week we want to announce that Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy, located in Lynchburg, VA is sponsoring a two-day seminar entitled Recruitment: Perspectives on the Process on November 16-17, 2006.
  
  The course is recommended for persons who are new or with little experience in overseeing their agency's recruitment process.
  
  Topics include: (1) the changing workforce in the United States, (2) federal hiring laws and EEC guidelines; (3) management strategies for staffing and supervising a recruitment unit; (5) using the Internet; (6) sample advertisements and scripts; (7) minority hiring and affirmative action programs; and (8) experiences of successful and unsuccessful recruitment campaigns.
  
  Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy is will also host a Field Training Officer course October 25 - 27, 2006. This seminar will emphasize the FTO’s role in assisting probationers to certify for solo patrol operations by applying the knowledge and skills acquired during Basic Police Training and by using these in accordance with departmental policies, procedures, and community service delivery standards.
  
  For contact information send me an e-mail at talkback@copcast.net or contact Ron Staton at (434) 455-6188. Tell him you heard about the course on CopCAST.
  
  
• 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.

• Tech Issues


• Boy Spammer Sent To His Room - Mack
• French Union to Sue eBay - Rich
• Apple Fires Employees For Downloading Leopard- Mack
• Ads Warn Kids About Internet Dangers - Rich
• Watch TV Online - Mack



• PC User's Tip
  

For our PC User Tip this week I want to tell you about a neat keyboard combination you can use in Microsoft Word. You can use the keyboard shortcut of Shift + F3 to toggle the case for the selected text.

If the text that is selected includes a period (for instance, a sentence), then using Shift + F3 will cycle between lower case, UPPER CASE, and Sentence case.

If the text that is selected does NOT include a period, then using Shift + F3 will cycle between ALL UPPER CASE, all lower case, and All Title Case


• Mac User's Tip
  
  If you want to quickly change your desktop picture to a random image you have somewhere on your Mac, you can simply drag that image into the desktop image preview panel in the Desktop tab of the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences panel. I find this much easier than adding a folder to the list and scrolling through to find the photo you wish to use.
  
  

• 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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• From the crew at CopCAST.....Have a great week!