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1878 - The American Bar Association is founded. |
| 1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. | |
| 1968 - James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine. | |
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The next time (or the first) you get a traffic citation in the mail for blowing through a red light, you can thank (or curse) the Internet.
So-called “photo-red light” systems photograph vehicles as they move through intersections, shipping the photos to servers over IP connections.
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Yahoo and Intel fooling around with Interactive TV. Har. American Airlines hook up three routes with WiFi. No Internet phone calls allowed. Nintendo sued. Comcast to slow traffic to hogs. More Toshiba news. Cox going wireless. Sims coming next year. Lots of news about Sun Microsystems.
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1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The “Corps of Discovery”, exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis. |
| 1938 - Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam - a record that still stands. | |
| 1986 - In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide. | |
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The military, fire departments and police departments have something in common. They are all trying to find “a few good men or women” and they are meeting with limited success. It is not an issue of education or intelligence since there a host for well educated applicants. Unfortunately, the applicant pool gets much more shallow when we start examining physical capabilities. This lack of physical fitness is not limited to new applicants. Many veteran officers are not physically equipped to handle the demands of the job. The good news is getting in shape is not that tough and you do not have to hundreds of dollars on a health club membership
You can start by building your strength by simply doing pushups. It really doesn’t matter how many consecutive pushups you can do right now. In fact, if you are ready to get serious about increasing your strength, there is a great website that help you get started. If you follow their six week training program, before long you will be able to “drop and give me 100″ consecutive push ups! All it takes is a little dedication and 30 minutes a week to achive this goal!
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iPod batteries overheating in Japan. Meanwhile, Jobs says he’ll fix crashing iPhone. More on the bigfoot scam. Google Android phone is real. Yahoo opening up Buzz to the public. Sounds like Digg to me. Researchers say Vista gets dumped from 1/3 of enterprise PC’s. Microsoft dropping fees left and right. They also like tailored search now. IDF in play in San Francisco. MSNBC behind the times. 29-percent Internet users buy from spam solicitations.
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1934 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. |
| 1990 - Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. | |
| 1997 - The Teamsters end their 15-day walkout against United Parcel Service. | |
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The Virginia Department of Emergency Management advises that FEMA has published a guide to help local and state governments create emergency operations plan. The interim Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101, “Producing Emergency Plans: A Guide for All-Hazard Operations Planning for State, Territorial, Local, and Tribal Governments,” integrates concepts from the National Incident Management System and the National Response Framework, lessons learned from recent disasters, and recommendations from the Nationwide Plan Review.
The CPG-101 does not direct a specific plan format, but it provides content guidance so that jurisdictions can develop plans that best fit their geographical, political and social environment. It establishes no immediate requirements but suggests that the next iteration of all EOPs follow its guidance.
CPG-101 is an interim version; the final version is scheduled for December 2008. CPG-101 replaces State and Local Guide 101, “Guide for All-Hazards Emergency Planning,” and is the cornerstone for a series of CPGs that will address a variety of hazards and emergency functions.
The guide is available for download at http://www.fema.gov/about/divisions/cpg.shtm.
In addition, VDEM’s Preparedness Division is drafting new, user-friendly Emergency Operations Plan templates for local governments and for colleges and universities to help these organizations develop and maintain an EOP. The new templates will be available on the VDEM Web site by the end of the year.
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management announced an emergency management training conference. The Southwest Virginia Disaster Preparedness Summit will introduce emergency management concepts, continuity of operations planning and school crisis management planning to local and state government agencies, non-governmental organizations and private-sector partners. Modules will cover three main topics.
The summit, sponsored by the Virginia Department of Health and VDEM, will be August 27-28 at the Wytheville Meeting Center from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Registration is required at https://va.train.org. For more information, contact Mount Rogers Health District Emergency Planner Judy Cooling at (276) 781-7450.
Toshiba slips in a Blu-ray killer: a regular DVD player that outputs 1920×1080. Nice. I want one. NetRadio doomed no thanks to RIAA. Good idea, take music off the air. Dell loses Cloud Computing Trademark. Google getting sued over patents. Bigfoot declared a hoax. Highlight of the day: 25th anniversary of PCjr. My comments.
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1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas. |
| 1969 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock. | |
| 2005 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings. | |
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When writing an offense report, the need to compare items or people may arise. It is important to understand how to properly modify adjectives and adverbs.
The superlative of an adjective or adverb indicates that something has some feature to a greater degree than anything it is being compared to in a given context.
The comparative denotes the degree or grade by which a person or thing has a property greater or less than that of another it is being compared to in a given context.
Remember, you should use comparatives to compare two people, items or entities.
Example: Scott is thinner than Rich.
Use superlatives to compare one thing with the rest of the group it belongs to.
Example: Rich is the best looking officer on the department.
Some obsessive compulsive people object to the use of the superlative or comparative with modifiers such as “full,” “complete,” or “really,” which by definition already denote either a totality, an absence, or an absolute. Unfortunately, these words are routinely and frequently qualified in contemporary speech and writing. The good news is there are drugs available that can help them deal with this obsession.
Finally, permit me to conclude with a “rule of thumb” to help you remember whether to use the comparative (-er) or superlative (-est) form. Use the comparative form to compare two items because -er has two letters. Use the superlative form to compare three or more items because -est has three letters.
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1807 - Robert Fulton’s first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. |
| 1907 - Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle. (Also later the home of the first Starbucks) | |
| 1945 - Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published by Fredric Warburg. | |
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Our legion of listeners really came through for us this week. We kick things off with some great feedback from both new and veteran CopCAST listeners. If that was not good enough, our CopCAST correspondent corps continues to grow and they are providing us with some great fodder for the show
This week a Chicago cop gets the distinction of serving as our keynote story because of her passion for Starbucks coffee and pastries. A Maryland agency has a major “Oh, crap” moment when they raid the mayor’s house and shoot his dogs. Will New York soon be more wired than London? You be the judge. Then there is the Longmont Pornography Age Verification Unit that is not - or something like that. Sound interesting? Well that is just a brief peek into this week’s episode.
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