5/18/2023 0 Comments Photo police helping for kidsI'm talking about things like Explorer programs, Police Athletic Leagues, Teen Cadet Academies, summer internship programs, Shop with a Cop, and other department-funded initiatives that deliver valuable services to children of all ages. However, there also are numerous other formalized endeavors for departments to consider in addition to SROs in schools. If your department doesn't have an SRO program - but is considering one - get in touch with the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) for their advice and recommended best practices. The way the kids there said thanks was truly EPIC - watch the video above to see what they did. Just ask Officer Mitch, who works at Heritage High School in the San Francisco Bay Area. When an SRO is really active and really successful, kids will go out of their way to not only talk with him or her, but to thank them for their service. Particularly in middle and high school years, having direct daily contact with an officer in the hallways can have an incredibly positive impact on kids. Naturally, this begins with employing SROs in your schools. Where time and resources are better applied are formal programs that put cops and kids in close proximity so that real relationships are naturally developed over time. Where the real recruitment opportunities exist are in the day-to-day contact between young people and the police officers who serve their communities. This is a very passive recruitment tool - and arguably, a substantial waste of time and resources. Many police departments have a pop-up tent, a folding table, and a bunch of knick-knacks with the department badge or logo to give away during street festivals and other events. This same philosophy can also be used by the recruiting unit. It has long been my contention that the long-term solution to the current anti-police sentiment is the long-term strategy of increasing officer involvement and visibility with the nation's young people - in essence, to "Get 'em when they're young."
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5/18/2023 0 Comments Prepo camp stove fuelGasses like propane require much heavier canisters and fittings because propane has a much higher vapor pressure. Butane is a fairly easy gas to work with in that it has a fairly moderate vapor pressure. These canisters all contained 100% butane. The canister I'm showing here is an Optimus 702 canister which was intended for the Optimus 731 "Mousetrap" stove. The canisters of the type used by a Hank Roberts stove were used by a variety of stoves back in the day. The "rosebud" on a canister of the type used by a Hank Roberts stove. There were were some minor variations among the various brands, but most had a rubber fitting typically referred to as a "rosebud" that looked something like this: This particular canister is an Optimus 702 canister.Ĭanisters of this type were marketed under a variety of brands including Optimus, Hank Roberts, Prepo, Thermos, and Coleman. Today, I thought I'd go fully retro and show you how to use one of the original type canisters.Ī canister of the type used by a Hank Roberts stove. When assembled, the stove looks something like this:Ī few months ago, I published a blog post on how to use the Hank Roberts stove with an adapter that will allow you to use a modern threaded gas canister. The burner then screws in place over the top and holds the wind screen/pot stand in place. The bottom half of the clamshell slips over the wider shorter threads (silver colored) to form a windshield/pot stand. The smaller, longer threaded piece (dark colored) seen above screws into the top half of the clamshell, forming a stand. I've added a couple of napkins to prevent rattling, but the napkins are not strictly necessary. Inside the "clamshell" is the burner head and the valve assembly.Ĭleverly tucked inside is a burner and valve assembly. 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(The 2023 plan offers few details about the costs or quantities of unmanned surface or undersea vessels.) Under Alternative 3, the Navy would buy more ships of all types, except for submarines, than under the other alternatives. Under Alternative 2, the Navy would buy more submarines than under the other alternatives, although it would purchase more existing classes of submarines and fewer next-generation submarines. (Battle force ships include aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants, amphibious warfare ships, combat logistics ships, and some support ships.) Overall, Alternative 1 places slightly more emphasis on buying large surface combatants than Alternative 2 does. The Navy would purchase 282 battle force ships under Alternative 1, 294 under Alternative 2, or 340 under Alternative 3. The Navy’s total budget would increase from $220 billion today to roughly $290 billion (in 2022 dollars) in 2052. CBO estimates that total shipbuilding costs would average about $30 billion to $33 billion (in 2022 dollars) over the next 30 years, which is 14 percent to 18 percent more than the Navy estimates. The three alternatives in the Navy’s 2023 plan would require average annual shipbuilding appropriations that were 23 percent to 35 percent more than the average over the past five years. In this report, the Congressional Budget Office analyzes the alternatives in the 2023 plan and estimates the costs of implementing each of them. In a departure from all previous shipbuilding plans, the Navy’s fiscal year 2023 shipbuilding plan provided three alternative long-range projections of its future fleet rather than one. Cost Growth in Lead Ships, 1985 to 2020Įach year, as directed by the Congress, the Department of Defense submits a report with the President’s budget describing the Navy’s planned inventory, purchases, deliveries, and retirements of ships in its fleet for the next 30 years. Submarine Procurement Under Alternative 2 in the Navy’s 2023 Plan Measures of Naval Capability Under the Navy’s 2023 Plan CBO’s Estimate of the Navy’s Total Budget Under Its 2023 Plan Average Annual Total Shipbuilding Costs Under the Navy’s 2023 Plan, as Estimated by CBO and the Navy The Navy’s Estimates of Average Annual Costs of New-Ship Construction Under Its 2023 Plan, by Ship Type Purchases of Selected Categories of Ships Under the Navy’s 2023 Plan Inventories of Selected Categories of Ships Under the Navy’s 2023 Plan Requested and Appropriated Shipbuilding Budgets, 2013 to 2022 Annual Inventories of Battle Force Ships Under the Navy’s 2023 Plan Comparison of the Navy’s and CBO’s Estimates of the Construction Costs of Major New Ships Under the Navy’s 2023 Plan Average Annual Total Shipbuilding Costs Under the Navy’s 2023 Plan The Composition of the Fleet in 2045 Under the 2023 Plan Compared With the Navy’s Most Recent Shipbuilding Goals Comparison of Ship Purchases and Estimated Costs in the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2020, December 2020, and Fiscal Year 2023 Shipbuilding Plans Difference Between the Number of Ships in Today’s Fleet and the Number in 2045 Under the Navy’s 2023 Plan Emphasis and Cost of the Alternatives in the Navy’s 2023 Plan, as Assessed by CBO Appendix: Major Types of Ships in the Navy’s Fleet.Growth in the Navy’s Total Annual Budget.The Navy’s Uncertain Goals for Shipbuilding.Each of the 2023 Plan’s Alternatives Would Require the Navy’s Total Budget to Grow to Operate and Maintain a Larger Fleet.Average Total Shipbuilding Costs Over the Next 30 Years Would Be About 23 Percent to 35 Percent More Than Average Appropriations Over the Past 5 Years.The Costs of New-Ship Construction Under the 2023 Plan Would Average $26.5 Billion to $29.4 Billion per Year.The Three Alternatives in the 2023 Plan Would Expand the Fleet to Between 316 and 367 Battle Force Ships. In response Sherborne read extracts from statements made by a number of claimants, including from Baroness Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence. Which evidence could have provided the basis of a complaint at an earlier date, the judge asked, and which evidence was new and, as he put it, ‘triggered it over into a worthwhile claim’? He none the less engaged in a detailed presentation of the claimants’ cases and the nature of the evidence involved, and in this he faced numerous interventions from the judge, who pressed him on timings. With Prince Harry once again in the courtroom watching, counsel for the claimants, David Sherborne, who several times described Associated’s bid to have the case thrown out untried as ‘ambitious and unattractive’, complained that Associated’s approach to the hearing demanded the discussion of many issues which properly belonged in the trial itself. Where the claimants now said that particular articles published about them in Mail papers give rise to the inference that illegal measures had been used, he said, nothing had prevented them drawing those inferences and taking legal action in a more timely fashion.Īs an argument it may carry weight in law, but it seemed at times to come close to being an assertion from the Mail’s representative in court that ‘You shouldn’t have believed our denials.’ While reminding the court that Associated denied all the allegations against it, he took the judge through a catalogue of evidence, some of it from as long ago as the early 2000s, which he said might reasonably have given the claimants grounds to sue at a far earlier date.Įven as senior Associated executives told the Leveson Inquiry of 2011-12 that they had conducted internal investigations and knew for certain there had been no voicemail hacking, Mr Beltrami pointed out, the claimants – some of whom have already sued other papers for hacking – might have paid attention to numerous published claims and insinuations that Mail and Mail on Sunday journalists had broken the law. Responding to the claimants’ assertion that they were only able to bring the case once there was enough evidence to do so, counsel for Associated, Adrian Beltrami KC, found himself insisting at some length that they had grounds to be suspicious of his client years and years ago. The prince, Sir Elton John, Baroness Doreen Lawrence and four others accuse the newspapers of breaching their rights, mainly by the use of private investigators who employed unlawful methods and mainly in the years between 20, while the owners of the Mail, Associated Newspapers, assert (among other things) that the courts should not entertain their claims because they were made outside the usual six-year time limit. The judge, Mr Justice Nicklin, reserved judgment, meaning it will probably be a few weeks before he delivers his decisions about the Mail group’s applications to have the claims either thrown out or eventually reduced in scope. The four day High Court hearing about the phone hacking and privacy intrusion claims against the Daily Mail group by Prince Harry and others ended yesterday in the world of the hypothetical and even the surreal. 5/17/2023 0 Comments Luminar spacThe company believes that this technology stack gives it a level of integration that allows it to provide a turnkey solution to automakers. The company’s core system involves a compact package combining a 1550-nm fiber laser source, an integrated InGaAs sensor and dual-axis scanning mirrors, married to proprietary perception software. Luminar is one of a number of technology firms seeking to provide lidar systems to empower the long-promised era of fully autonomous vehicles (see “ Lidar for Self-Driving Cars,” OPN, January 2018). On 2 December, the firm announced that the business combination had been officially completed, and that the LAZR stock, under the business name of Luminar Technologies, Inc., would succeed GHMI and begin trading on the following day. Since the announcement, while the proposed business combination was undergoing shareholder approval, the SPAC shares, embodying the value of the combined companies, have traded on the NASDAQ under the Gores Metroupolos ticker symbol GMHI. Such “blank check” companies are publicly traded shell companies formed specifically to invest in private firms and provide a less fraught, smoother road to public ownership than a traditional initial public offering (IPO). Strictly speaking, Luminar entered the path to go public with its 24 August 2020 announcement of the merger with Gores Metropoulos, a SPAC sponsored by The Gores Group, a global investment firm. And the stock’s conspicuously successful maiden voyage made the company’s 25-year-old founder, Austin Russell, one of the youngest persons in history to attain billionaire status. That was some 26% above the price fetched by shares of Gores Metroupolus, the predecessor stock to LAZR, only one day before. The company’s shares-trading publicly for the first time on the NASDAQ exchange, under the ticker symbol LAZR-ended their first trading day at a price of US$22.98 apiece as of 4:00 p.m. On 3 December 2020, a bit more than three months after announcing its merger with the special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Gores Metroupolus Inc., the solid-state lidar developer Luminar Technologies made its debut on Wall Street in spectacular style. The first-day performance of Luminar’s new stock issue made Russell one of the youngest people ever to attain billionaire status. Reason to smile: Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell, in a vehicle equipped with one of the lidar company’s test systems. 5/17/2023 0 Comments Pcgen androidInstead, you can place them as-is into a valid pcgen recognized 'data' folder of your choosing. These Book data sets are not meant to be "Installed" using the Install feature in PCGen. I found this is the method to keep my data sync'd with the repo and allows for testable fixes and pushing those to the repo. It also saves bandwidth since you are only downloading changes, not the whole repository. This allows easy updates when they happen (via a git pull). Then open PCGen, go to Tools>Preferences and in the Location tab under the PCGen drop-down, change the folder path of "PCGen Vendor Data Directory" or "PCGen Homebrew Data Directory" to the directory you cloned the repo into. The better method is to install GIT and a GIT Client, and clone the repository to a location outside of the PCGen installation directory. 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Special attacks include arrows, bombs, electric fists, and even a rocket that rains bombs down on enemies. The putty can squish down to collect items, inflate and float around, and fight with fists or a variety of other weapons. It’s a very simple concept and is complicated (perhaps unnecessarily) by a host of special abilities. Not only are you a blob, but you must also collect the other blobs that are trapped on a wide variety of stages. One thing’s for sure – it definitely hearkens back to an earlier age of platforming.Īs the name implies, you play as a round bit of putty in Putty Squad. The game’s finally here on PS4, PS3, and Vita. That is, until a few years ago when the developer announced a remake would be coming to Sony and mobile platformers. System 3 released Putty Squad on SNES in 1994 and that seemed to be it for the blue putty hero. The level design and character control feels dated (despite the game only coming out in the last fortnight) and things need an overall tightening, but for the right demographic Putty Squad is decent.Putty Squad is a name that, until now, has mostly been forgotten. I can’t imagine there was a huge demographic calling for the return of Putty Squad, but it’s here now and I suppose that’s something. Perhaps not at £15.99, but when you can grab it on offer. If you feel like a throwback, there’s definitely value to be had here. These alone will offers hours more enjoyment, especially if you’re aiming for 100%. Most levels have an alternative objective version that has you getting through to the end of the level without eating food, by killing all the enemies or by beating a certain time. There’s a platinum trophy that’ll keep you going for hours and hours on end, and in-game challenges and collectables that’ll almost certainly have you getting the most out of everything. If you manage to get on with it, good news: there’s a load of stuff to do. There will be people that will be able to look past the fact that this is, for all intents and purposes, an Amiga port two decades too late, but your first reaction should be to pass on this purchase. No amount of rose tinted nostalgia glasses will change that, unless you’re really willing to ignore twenty years of development in our industry. Putty Squad pretty much proves that retro doesn’t necessarily always bring with it a charm worth looking into. If you want one of your first next-gen experiences to be something ignored for almost two decades, look no further There are different places you need to get to – and usually levels are built around finding them, rather than being strong levels in their own right – but getting there is the challenge, not the threats protecting it. Enemies really aren’t too much of a threat and it’ll be your own mistiming that’ll kill you more often than not. While it’s definitely a plus, it also means that your adventure will feel much slower, more pedestrian than perhaps you’re used to.ĭon’t let my use of the word mindful make you think that you’ll need to be on constant vigil. Whichever, you have to be mindful of both vertical and horizontal planes in Putty Squad, something that doesn’t happen very often in modern platformers. Some levels are straight up, others are spread along a spacier area. This exploration gives Putty Squad a very open feel, although levels aren’t big enough that you’re going to get lost as you go. You’ll come across various enemies – rather dumb although difficult enough in number – and obstacles along the way. The gameplay is simple: find all the red putties and get to the door. On a brand new console the experience suffers as a result. Things that we expect from modern platform games (made standard by Mario and Sonic, both characters that pre-date our blue putty buddy) just aren’t present here. They were wrong, because although Putty Squad still works well in terms of what it offers, it suffers by how old it feels, how random. The level design and character control feels dated and things need an overall tightening, but for the right demographic Putty Squad is decent |