Viking dreams of grandeur: Knut the Great

Knut was born in 995, the son of King Svein Forkbeard of Denmark. Knut (also known as Cnut or Canute) was brought up as a royal Dane, with martial training. His brother, Harold was the expected heir to the throne. Whether Svein favored Knut over Harold is not known. A contemporary of Knut wrote that he was tall, fall, and had a hooked nose.

Public Safety and numbers

Numbers are important in Public Safety. First of all, every agency, whether the department is based in law enforcement, firefighting, or  emergency medical services, relies on statistics.

Why?

Statistics guides the Administrators when it comes to budgets. Let's face facts folks: everything comes down to money. Next, statistics guide Admin in determining staffing. Today, there are software programs and systems status management programs that assist supervisory personnel in placing field units in the areas with the highest 'likely' calls volumes. When it comes to Communications Centers, stats determine which days and shifts have the biggest amount of Dispatchers on duty at any given day - hence, 'dogwatch' (or, nightshift) traditionally having the smallest number of Dispatchers while second shift (swingshift) has the most.