Tuesday, 19. December 2006

POLICE CODES AND ABBREVIATIONS


To find out what frequency your local police departments are using, search the database at PolCodes. Then, see the APCO site for the 36 or so most basic tencodes (easy to memorize).

ncwc.edu

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The Gurus of YouTube


Let's say you're in your 20s and you start your first Internet company. Let's say 21 months later you sell it for $1.65 billion. What happens next?

At first, not much. Some of the money is tied up in escrow, and the traditions of modesty in Silicon Valley require a period of restraint before you spend in the big, life-changing way that your wealth will permit.

time.com

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Cartoon legend Barbera dies at 95


Joseph Barbera, one half of the team behind such cartoon classics as The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo and Huckleberry Hound, has died, aged 95.

Joseph Barbera

bbc.co.uk

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X-Mas Mash-up


The chilling flythrough from the 1982 Christmas classic "Raymond Briggs' The Snowman" through the always sad ending.

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Prodigy Meets the MET Police


Slothy's put some new stuff on his excellent Audioballs site so be sure to check out this brilliant - in fact I'll say CLASSIC - mash-up which deserves ultimate attention and an official release!...

Prodigy Meets the MET Police

Slothy

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Jakarta hotel puts $110 hamburger on menu


A hotel in Indonesia is dishing out a hamburger that costs more than twice the monthly minimum wage in some parts of the country.

The $110 hamburger offered by the Four Seasons is made of Kobe beef with foie gras, Portobello mushrooms and Korean pears -- served with french fries, of course.

reuters.com

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'Is it a crime to want to be well?'


For six years, Mark and Lezley Gibson supplied cannabis to sufferers of multiple sclerosis. The police knew what they were doing - but turned a blind eye. Now, however, the 'Canna-Biz Two' have been convicted of dealing.

guardian.co.uk

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Second man held in murders probe


A 48-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murders of five women found in the Suffolk countryside.

bbc.co.uk

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