The Force is strong for Jedi police! UK, England

Eight police officers serving with Scotland's largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged.

Strathclyde Police said the officers and two of its civilian staff claimed to follow the faith, which features in the Star Wars movies.

The details were obtained in a Freedom of Information request by Jane's Police Review.
Strathclyde was the only force in the UK to admit it had Jedi officers.

In the Star Wars films, Jedi Knights such as Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda use the Force to battle the evil Darth Vader, who has strayed to the dark side.

Jane's Police Review editor Chris Herbert, who requested the information, said: "The Force appears to be strong in Strathclyde Police with their Jedi police officers and staff.

"Far from living a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, some members of the noble Jedi order have now chosen Glasgow and its surrounding streets as their home."

Provided voluntarily

A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police confirmed: "At the time of the request, 10 (eight police officers and two police staff) had recorded their religion as Jedi."
She added that the force monitored "six strands of diversity" - age, disability, gender, race religion and belief, and sexual orientation.

The force said the information was provided voluntarily and securely stored.
About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000.

The Office for National Statistics did not recognise it as a separate category, and incorporated followers of Jedi with the atheists.

Last year, brothers Barney and Daniel Jones founded the UK Church of the Jedi - which offered sermons on the Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques.
Strathclyde Police employs 8,200 police officers and 2,800 civilian staff.

Charges in NZ airliner baby case (Auckland, New Zealand, GDI)

A Samoan woman has been charged with child abandonment after giving birth on a flight from Samoa to New Zealand and leaving the baby in an aircraft toilet.

The 29-year-old unnamed woman gave birth after the plane took off from Apia and left the baby in a rubbish bin before leaving the plane in Auckland.

Child abandonment comes with a possible prison sentence of up to seven years.

The mother was reunited with the baby, Grace, in hospital, but is in the care of social welfare services. `A Samoan woman has been charged with child abandonment after giving birth on a flight from Samoa to New Zealand and leaving the baby in an aircraft toilet.

The 29-year-old unnamed woman gave birth after the plane took off from Apia and left the baby in a rubbish bin before leaving the plane in Auckland.

Child abandonment comes with a possible prison sentence of up to seven years.

The mother was reunited with the baby, Grace, in hospital, but is in the care of social welfare services.

Nokia E71: Must Know Power User Tips (Auckland, New Zealand)

The E71 was one of the very best handsets to come out of Nokia factories in 2008 and the best ever in my book. So it is only right that we utilise its functionality to the absolute hilt and try and make the E71 even more efficient.

Here is a long list of must know tips and tricks for the E71. You might already know a few but if you are new to S60 and the E71 in particular, I’m sure this will make for a happy start to the E71 new year!

• STICKY FUNCTION KEY – A quick double press on the bottom left ‘function’ key locks it. This is helpful in situations when you need to press a combination of keys or in applications like Gmail which can be controlled via the keypad.

• 1-800-WHATEVER - To dial 1-800-WHATEVER: type 1800, hit Fn, then Shift twice, type WHATEVER, and press the Call/Green key to dial. (The idea is to type in the alphabet mode in CAPITAL letters ONLY). The alphabets will automatically be converted to numbers.

• ONE TOUCH MUTE – You can simply mute a call by press the button between the volume keys present on the right hand side of the phone. Press it again to cancel the mute.

• REMAP THE KEYS - There are times when you feel certain keys on the E71 are being wasted when they could have come in very handy. For example, the volume keys would work wonderfully with the web browser to scroll pages or in your music player and the mute key could work as select.

• TIME & DATE – When the phone is in the locked state and the screen is blank, hit the Navi Button to display the time and date in a large font.

• TEXT MESSAGES – When in the standby mode, hold down left soft key to read out new text messages.

• ASSIGN SHORTCUTS - If you have a lot of applications installed on your E71, you might want to assign additional shortcuts to different applications by definying a set of keypresses with an application called Cute Keys.

As a follow up to the above tips, here are a few shortcuts that you should enjoy. I have highlighted some of the lesser known ones.

GENERAL

• To get to a symbol or number hold down its key.
• Shift + Backspace deletes letters after the cursor, thus immitating the behavior of the ‘Delete’ key on the computer.
• In the Main Menu:

  A B C D
  E F G H
  I J K L

  To open A press 1, 2 for B, 3 for C, * for D, 4 for E, 5 for F and so on.

• Fn + Ctrl + C to copy.
• Fn + Ctrl + V to paste.
• Shift + Left ( or Right ) to select text.
• Ctrl + Up for page up.
• Ctrl + Down for page down.
• Ctrl + Vowels ( or n ) for accented characters like á or ñ.

CAMERA

• T to focus.

GALLERY

• Green Call to send the image.
• Fn + * for full screen.
• Fn + 7 to zoom in. Press twice for the full screen size.
• Fn + 4 to scroll left while in the zoomed image.
• Fn + 5 to zoom in.
• Fn + 3 to rotate right.
• Fn + 2 to scroll up while in the zoomed image.
• Fn + 1 to rotate left.
• Fn + 0 to zoom out.

STANDBY

• Hold * to activate/deactivate Bluetooth.
• Hold 0 to go to the web browser.
• Left Soft Key then Fn ( or * ) locks the keypad.
• Hold End/Red to disconnect all data connections.
• Hold Left Soft Key to read out new text messages.

MAIL

• Shift + Return to mark/unmark a single message.
• Shift + Down to mark multiple items.
• Fn + Spacebar in new message body to access input (predictive text, etc.) options.

MAPS

• Shift to zoom in.
• Backspace to zoom out.
• Space to go to the current position.

REAL PLAYER

• Fn + 2 for full screen.
• Hold Up for fast forward.
• Hold Down for rewind.

WEB

• 1 for bookmarks.
• 2 to find something on a page.

• 3 to return to the previous page.
• 5 to tab open windows.
• * to zoom in.
• # to zoom out.
• 8 for page overview.
• 9 to go to a different web page.
• 0 to got to the homepage.
• Hit the Backspace key to close the current window.

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