Monthly Archives: May 2012

Twin Cities Refuse To Be A Victim Seminar

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Evan

On Saturday, June 30th, 2012, I’ll be conducting a Refuse To Be A Victim® seminar at the Base Camp classroom near Fort Snelling. It’s located near the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. So it shouldn’t be too hard to get to for anyone in the Twin Cities metro area.

I’ve done some teaching over the past couple years, but mostly of it has been informal. I’ve finally gotten my act together, set up a training organization called Personally Safe LLC, and will be running… Continue reading

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MN Violent Crime News Feed

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Evan

For several years, I’ve been using Yahoo!’s Pipes to aggregate news from all over Minnesota and then filter it down to stories that have words and phrases commonly associated with violent crime.

Last month my Pipe stopped working. I managed to figure out why and fix it this weekend. In the process, I added many, many new news providers to the Pipe. I figured it’d be worth sharing with others.

To subscribe point your News Reader to this URL:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=3LNk6RH13BG7doXO6UjTQA&_render=rss.

To see the Pipe’s definition itself go here:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=3LNk6RH13BG7doXO6UjTQA

Hopefully someone… Continue reading

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