Show Notes Sunday, September 17, 2006

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• Show Line Up
  


• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - Hello to listener Ron Kelly who listens from Way The Hell Up There, Canada. Ron is the Northern most pin in the Fappr map.
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Another Fallen Hero - Rich
• Gunman And Young Woman Die In Shooting Spree - Mack
• Indiana Hot Dog Thief Strikes - Rich
• New York City Responders Get $500M Wireless Network - Mack
• WV Gets New Drug Detection Device - Rich
• Pissed Off Nurse - 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 The Piedmont Regional Criminal Justice Training Academy wants to announce three courses that they will be sponsoring throught the Virginia Community Policing Institute. These courses will be held at the Danville, VA rescue squad building.
  
  The first is entitled Community Policing in the Youth Community and it will be conducted on October 17. Next is a course entitled Patrol Drug Interdiction and it will be conducted on November 29. The final course is entitled Community Policing to Reduce Domestic Violence and it will be conducted December 5-7. You can registration on-line through the VCPI website at www.vcpionline.org.
  
  Piedmont is also conducting a course entitled Basic Gang Awareness on November 8 at the Henry County Administration Building, Supervisors Chambers. This course will be instructed by the Department of Corrections Gang Unit and there is no charge. The course is also open to school and probation parole personnel. There is no charge for this course but you will need to register throught the academy and I will put the contact information in the shownotes. Be sure to tell them that you heard about the course on CopCAST.
  
  Contact Info:  276.632.1149 or e-mail Debbie Kaczor at dkaczor@prcjta.org.
  
  

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  The Roanoke City Police Academy is conducting a course entitled Alzheimer's Training for First Responders on October 2-3, 2006 at the Roanoke Police Academy, in Roanoke, VA. There is no fee for this course but the registration deadline is September 27. The contact person is Julie Ann Skone from DCJS and I will put her contact information in the shownotes.
  
  Contact Info:  www.dcjs.virginia.gov/standardsTraining/alzheimers - Julie Ann Skone 757.363.3913.
  
  

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  Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy will be conducting a course entitled Advanced Tactics for Patrol Officers during the week of November 27 - December 1, 2006. This is an advanced officer survival course designed to teach the patrol officer how to use SWAT tactics and techniques while working with only one back up officer. The course will show the officer how to safely handle high risk situations commonly encountered by patrol officers. The training will cover close quarters battle, combat shotgun, building searches, high risk vehicle stops and wood line searches. The training will be conducted by SWAT instructors and is very practical exercise intensive including live fire weapons training and the use of Simunitions. The fee is $150 per officer for non-member agency personnel. Contact Cindy Sarver to register for additional information. I will purt her contact information in the Shownotes.
  
  Contact Info:   Cindy Sarver, csarver@cardinalacademy.org, 540.375.3095
  
  

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  The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is offering a Driver Training Instructors Course at their Cheltenham, Maryland facility October 23 to November 3, 2006. This class is capped at 12 students due to the curriculum content. The course cost has been calculated at $532.01 for the 10 day course. The course costing has been calculated for the October federal budget and may fluctuate +/- 10%.
  
  FLETC Cheltenham does not have lodging or food service on-site for your per-diem/fiscal planning. I will put the contact information in the shownotes.
  
  Contact Info:   Carlan Hinnant, Program Analyst, Office 301.877.8516, FAX 301.877.8521
  
  
• 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


• Convenient Disposable Email Address - Mack
• Prisoner Control Device - Rich
• Skype Announces Video Calls For the Mac - Mack
• Sending Large Files - Rich
• MP3 Players Security Problem - Mack



• PC User's Tip
  

This week for the PC User's Tip I want to tell you how to customize your user account icon.


• Single-click the START menu and choose CONTROL PANEL.
• Single-click the USER ACCOUNTS icon.
• Find the user account you'd like to change the icon for and click on it.
• Click the text that says "CHANGE MY PICTURE." You'll have the option to either pick one of the predefined icons or choose your own.
• If you like one of the predefined icons, just highlight the one you like and click the button labeled "CHANGE PICTURE."
• If you'd like to use your own picture, just click the magnifying glass or the text labeled "BROWSE FOR MORE PICTURES." This will launch a dialog box directing you to navigate to where your new picture is stored. After you find it, just click Open to save your new changes.



• Mac User's Tip
  
  I was excited to see that multiple libraries are supported in iTunes 7 over on Apple's iTunes 7 Overview web page. The only problem is that they don't mention how to do it, nor is it listed in the help docs that I could find.
  
  After poking around in the prefs, menus, contextual menus, etc., it dawned on me that they are probably referring to multiple libraries iPhoto style - i.e. you only get to use one library at a time, not have multiple libraries show up in the side bar. So I then restarted iTunes with the Option key down and voila - it asked me to 'Choose iTunes Library' or create a new one.
  
  It's my opionion that this is fairly useless. I still dream of a day when I can have multiple libraries that are spread across separate drives, and access them all from the sidebar. At the very least, it would be nice if we could select different locations for our music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and audiobooks in the prefs, so we can better manage how we want our hard drive space
  
  
• Closing
  


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