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Academy News Reaches 500 Members

The Radford Department of Police recently changed its email domain name to radford.va.us so all agency e-mail addresses changed. Lt. Schwarzer decided to have all of the officers subscribed to our e-group and sent me a list of all of the addresses to add. Little did he know that his request would push our group past the 500 member mark. The Academy News has members from criminal justice agencies throughout the state.

Officer Davis Lincoln was the 500th member of the group. Davis will receive an academy baseball cap as a prize for being number 500. Give me a call Davis.

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Website: House Plans

Planning to build a house? How about just dreaming of building a house? Either way this is the site to visit for plans and ideas.

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House Plans

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Website: The Merck Manuals

Merck is commited to bringing out the best in medicine. As part of that effort, Merck provides all of The Merck Manuals on a not-for-profit basis as a service to the community. The manual explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they’re diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated; also provides information about prognosis. Based on the world’s most widely used textbook of medicine?The Merck Manual?but written in everyday language by 300 outstanding contributors. It is provided free of charge on the Internet by Merck & Co., Inc., as a public service on a non-profit basis. This is without a doubt the best on-line medical resource I have found.

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The Merck Manuals

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Website: Free Online Graph Paper

Your kid is working on his homework and he needs graph paper. Unfortunately, like most kids, he failed to plan ahead. You can either make a run out to the store or visit this site. Isn’t the internet incredible?

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Free Graph Paper

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Website: Twenty Questions

20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets. I beat it one time out of three using “picture frame”. This is another of those addictive time burners.

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20Q.nte

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Website: Protecting Our Children From Sexual Predators

Most Childhood Sexual Abuse Occurs With Someone A Child Has An Established & Trusting Relationship With

Convicted Sex Offenders Tell Us…”Parents are so naive-they?re worried about strangers and should be worried about their brother-in-law. They just don?t realize how devious we can be.” “Know that we will use any way we can to get to children”.

“The best offense is a great defense. Understand the dynamics of childhood sexual abuse and you and your children will be safer.”

Laura A. Ahearn, C.S.W., Founder, Parents For Megan?s Law

This is excellent information for crime prevention officers.

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Combating Child Sexual Predators

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Iris Scanning To Begin At Orlando International Airport

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s busiest airport will begin using high-tech iris-scanning technology to filter out possible terrorists and add an additional layer of security, according to Local 6 News.

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Iris Scanning

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Website: Friendly Plumber

Do you like to try do it yourself projects around the house? Well this site will give you the help you need to “take a whack” at plumbing repairs. Even if you don’t want to try the hands on stuff, the site also provides a wealth of information remodeling and plumbing equipment.

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http://www.friendlyplumber.com/plumbing101.html

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Website: City Data

This is a really fantastic resource if you are planning to move or visit any city in the United States. Just click on the city and you get more statistical information than you would have thought possible. This site is really fun for the curious types.

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City Data

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Website: Power Trips

Its good work if you can get it but most of us don’t have folks lining up to pay for our trips. That’s because we aren’t legislators. You can learn how much your representative and senators have accepted in travel expenses and you can see how they compare to their colleagues.

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Power Trips

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Website: Shop Until You Drop

Want a quick way to check all of the store ads for our local merchants. View weekly store ad specials for your area by just entering your ZIP code to see what?s on sale.

Once you pull up your area stores, just browse through the ads by store. In addition, you can search by category for results from all stores.

This site even has something useful for those of us who have problems remembering what we went out to buy. If you see something you want, add it to your shopping list and then print a list containing the information you need to make your purchases.

CLICK HERE:

Shop Local

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Booth/Schwarzer Complete Half Marathon

Congratulations to Jim Booth (training coordinator, Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy) and Scott Schwarzer (lieutenant, Radford Department of Police) for completing the County Music Half Marathon in Nashville, TN. Jim finished the 13.1 mile race in 1:46:30 and Scott finished in 2:01:51. Great effort.

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Beware How You Google

Security researchers warn that a one-letter typo in Google’s domain name could lead to a massive virus- and spyware-infection attack.

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Google Spelling Error

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Inmates use intermediaries to escape to the Internet

PITTSBURGH ? Keith Maydak’s jail cells are roomier than most. Must be all that cyberspace.
State and federal prisons don’t let inmates use Internet computers behind bars ? and the Allegheny County Jail doesn’t either. Yet Maydak has answered a reporter’s e-mails from the Pittsburgh jail, and later an Ohio lockup, while he awaits sentencing for violating probation on a 900-number phone scam that cost AT&T $550,000 dollars.

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Inmate Internet Access

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