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Associated and
Interesting Links
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These
are some links that are either associated with the Blue Knights or law
enforcement in some way, or that I've come across while surfing the
Internet and found interesting enough to pass along to you. If
you find a problem with one of these links, please let me know.
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Blue
Knights International Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club
The
official web site of the Blue Knights, with links to Conferences and
Chapters.
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Blue
Knights Northeast Conference
Covers
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Brunswick,
Newfoundland
& Labrador,
Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario (Eastern), Prince Edward Island, Quebec,
Rhode Island,
and Vermont.
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Concerns
of Police Survivors
An organization
dedicated to assisting reaching out to the families of America's law
enforcement officers who are killed in the line of duty.
Hopefully, one day this will be one of the Blue Knights' primary
charitable causes....
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COPSRUN
COPSRUN
began in the Northeast part of the country back in 1998.
The purpose of COPSRUN is bringing support to and awareness of the
Survivors of Law Enforcement Officers Killed in The Line of Duty.
Strongly supported by the Blue Knights.
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International
Police Association
Billed
as the largest such fraternal police organization in the world. The
Blue Knights
and the IPA are working together to better both clubs. I'm a
member
(Region 12) and recommend that you
take a look....
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National POLICE Suicide Foundation
In memory of a Brother Officer and dear friend, Lenny Watterson.
If you know of any other such organizations, please let me know....
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Harley
Owners Group, Cape Cod Chapter #1900
Better known
as Cape Cod HOG. President Mike Gratis is also a Founding Member
(July 1988)
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DEALERSHIPS & SHOPS
These
places have bailed me out, helped me out and just plain given me
outstanding service during my many motorcycle trips & adventures
over the years, encompassing literally hundreds of thousands of
miles. They are a cut above the rest and, should you find
yourself in their area, they deserve your patronage. Who knows,
some day they may even help you.... Mike Gratis
OTHER CLUBS
EVENT LISTINGS & MORE
MEDIA SUPPORTERS
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SUPPORT OPEN
SOURCE SOFTWARE
Most
people think of Linux when you say Open Source Software (Free and
non-propriety); but there are many OSS programs available for Windoze
machines, too, and some of them are even available on both Linux AND
Windoze!
That's a big plus for people who want to give Linux a try while still
using Windoze, since you can deal with the same programs between both
Operating Systems.
I highly recommend using Open Source Software whenever possible. Help
break the prison that Micro$oft tries to hold us in!
Among programs I regularly use are Open Office for my word processing
& office application needs, Mozilla or
it's upcoming replacement Firefox for web browsing, GAIM (still in
development stages) for Instant Messaging that supports a wide variety
of protocols, FileZilla for FTP file transfers, and Zinf as an
excellent audio media player and WinAmp replacement.
Click my Linux icon
to the right to be taken to a web site with LOTS of Open Source
Software links.
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Keep
Track of Friends
A lot of people use an Instant Messaging
program to keep track of friends who
are online. One of the problems we run into is that there are a
wide
variety of incompatible Instant Messaging programs out there; so we end
up
running more than one program at a time to keep track of
everyone. Well,
we've come across two really neat Instant Messaging programs that
pretty much do it all, including AIM/AOL, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo!.
They are Pidgin (Which is also available for Linux - Formerly called
GAIM) and Trillian. As an added plus,
they also support IRC, for those of you who like to lurk in chat rooms
from time to
time. Give them a try and you may find yourself getting rid of
all of those
other programs that are taking up space on your hard drive and eating
up your
memory.....
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 LINUX
Tired
of Micro$oft's prices? Tired of every Micro$soft program being
"bloatware" that takes up hundreds of megabytes of space on your hard
drive, not to mention requiring faster processors and more
memory? Tired of Windoze crashing or freezing every time you turn
around, not to mention those infamous "Blue Screens Of Death" (Fatal
Error in DLL, VXD, etc., etc.)? Just tired of it ALL.....?
Then break yourself free and give Linux a try! After trying
Corel, Caldera and Mandrake, I've been using openSUSE for quite a few
years, presently Version 11.1, and highly
recommend it.
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