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There are 27 comments on the Honolulu Star-Bulletin story from Feb 7, 2008, titled News | /2008/02/07/. In it, Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports that:Kauai officers plead no contest to theft The three allegedly lied about attending a training seminar By Tom Finnegan [email protected] LIHUE Three Kauai police officers pleaded no contest yesterday to ...
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#1 Feb 7, 2008
I have been expressing this for many years. There are crooked cops in our system!
#2 Feb 7, 2008
Isn't it their first amendment right to lie. So really they have grounds that their civil rights have been violated and could sue for millions. I can't wait until the Democrats start appointing looney tunes for federal judges. And the scary thing is the will probably pass scrutiny because of political correctness. Well at least people can still make money in this country by selling short the US Dollar.
#3 Feb 7, 2008
They should be fired a long time ago not on paid administrative leave with tax payers money and pay restitution. Sent to a federal prison.
Typical Hawaii style they take forever in deciding things. So backwards.
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#4 Feb 7, 2008
Brilliant! You are a genious! Hey, and maybe there are macadamia nuts on the Big Island. Garans there's at least one nut reading the Star Bulletin.
Name me one occupation that you can guarantee does not include the possibility of having at least one employee who breaks or has broken laws.
By the way, did you pay that ticket?
#5 Feb 7, 2008
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#6 Feb 7, 2008
I agree with you in principal and it would be great if the taxpayers did not have to pay.
But what would have happened if they had been found not guilty? In light of what you say about the slow turning wheels of justice (not just in Hawaii), what about supporting their families and paying bills during the proceedings?
Being one myself I am ashamed and disappointed but innocent until proven guilty is not for everyone except police officers.
#7 Feb 7, 2008
What's been done has been done.Aside from the misrepresentings, the cashing of the spoils is the moment the two went dirty. Perriera obviously had difference of heart and never cashed the check but couldn't undo the rest. Place Perriera on a desk job and let Stem and Tada take care of the flowers around the jail for a couple of years. If Edwardo Malapit would have prosecuted them, they All could have kissed their families .....goodbye.
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#8 Feb 7, 2008
Stupid is as stupid does, according to Forrest Gump. These three cops are the essence of abject stupidity.
#9 Feb 7, 2008
everyone makes mistakes, let them go
#10 Feb 7, 2008
Your right on the money bra. The system we have here was introduced by the white man so don't talk about Hawaii style. Are you still looking in the mirror? What do you see? This not about Hawaii it's about individuals choice regardless what color,sex,race. The system is what it is, go cry to the Governor don't blame Hawaii. Your from Texas! no wonder!
#11 Feb 7, 2008
Attending conferences and skipping out on sessions is, for the most part, harmless. So these guys took more liberty than most - slap their hands, make them pay back the money, charge them vacation days for the time on Maui, put them on the desk for a few months so they have to suffer the public humiliation to serve as an example to all their fellow officers, and then put them back on the job. By all accounts, they are otherwise good cops and effective in helping get drugs and dealers off the streets. I can't believe these guys are likely to lose their jobs and maybe go to jail. I wonder if their bosses and the prosecuting attorneys have always attended every session of every conference they've ever been to? Not a chance! There are often good reasons for skipping conference sessions - I've spent many hours in my hotel room working and being productive instead of attending conference sessions that were meaningless to me. Admitted, I haven't ever skipped the entire conference - no sense in going if that's the plan. So, assuming this is the first time any of these guys have done this sort of thing, take them out behind the woodshed, make them pay back the money and charge them vacation days, put them on public display and make them eat some humble pie, then put them back to work. Guarantee you'll have a much more productive work force.
#12 Feb 7, 2008
Maybe they were sick, maybe not. I have attended seminars (out of state) where I was sick for a day but to see this happening where its dragging on it ridiculous. They should ask these guys to repay all the money put out for the seminar and have them on desk duties for a while and make them an example of what not to do.
#13 Feb 7, 2008
Good points - having been to many LE seminars and training, I've seen/heard Instructors skip many portions of the events to play golf, take wives shopping, take tours, or just go to the beach. ADA Young and Chief Perry are just doing their job, but they probably may have seen the same thing happen too. There's been worst done by officers, some have even risen to administrative positions, including Deputy Chiefs, these seem to be the exception, as they were "protected" individuals, that their indiscretions were taken care of "in-house" and not made public. I am not saying what they (Kauai Officers) did was okay, what they did was wrong, stupid, and selfish.
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#14 Feb 7, 2008
Good point, kind of like being a little bit pregnant. Yikes!
C'mon. They skipped the ENTIRE seminar! Not to say they should break rocks and make license plates but I'm a little perplexed that you appear to be minimizing the fact they broke the law.
Nowadays many LE agencies won't even hire you if you have filed for bankruptcy and you can start looking for another job if you catch a DUI. They are unwilling to risk the liability tied to the possibility of future acts involving a lack of honesty or poor judgment.
I believe in forgiveness and I don't believe incarceration is mandatory to deliver the message in this case. They have already lost their careers and have been shamed - more worse in a small place like Kauai. But, and I hope you are not saying this, a slap on the hand and a return to work is an insult to the taxpayers and other officers.
By the way, The only time I skipped any part of any LE classes or seminars was either for an emergency at home or because the instructor said we were done for the day. Sometimes that was before the official end time of the class but it wasn't over until he/she gave us permission to hele. Otherwise, like someone else said, why even go?
#15 Feb 7, 2008
3 more for DOCARE, eh
#16 Feb 7, 2008
This doesn't suprise me. What suprises me is why more people are not prosecuted for taking public money for not doing what is expected. Think of all the public officials who attend forign trips and attend one meeting to justify a two week tour. The mistake these cops made was not having someone sign them into the classes.
Many times officers are assigned to seminars as a reward for good work. The subject matter may not have been relivent to their present work assignment. They are expected to attend some of the classes but I guess in this case, they didn't even make the attempt. Okay they screwed up. I have attended 7 day or 14 day seminars in Hawaii where the seminar instructors (sometimes 3 or more)would all show up for the orentation then you would only see one instructor each day. The rest were on sightseeing tours. Now I'm sure they were being paid for every day of the seminar.
I have also worked in the convention field for a couple of years. Companies send their employees to conventions for two or three days. Most attendees only attend one day but they are being paid for all three days. Should they be prosecuted for theft for taking the money for the two days they were enjoying themselves. I don't think so. Make the officers pay back the money and punish them on a level that fits the crime. Fix the problem, make the attendees more accountable. We had to write a report on all the classes we attended and give some kind of feedback to the Department.
Come on people, this is not a career ending situation.
#17 Feb 7, 2008
i hope they had one hell of a time on the golf course to be worth losing their careers over! Man, it's obvious they were not thinking they would get caught, and thier knee jerk reaction of lying only made it worst.
No one is perfect-no one, so before you judge,check yourself.
#18 Feb 7, 2008
wait, why could'nt they get probation, this 1 guy was high on drugs and driving when he caused a head on collision and killed an innocent person,yet he gets off not once not twice but more, and he gets probation!!!probation!!!! killing and innocent person gets you a slap on the wrist, while these public servants get slammed. Where's the justice here.
#19 Feb 7, 2008
EVERYBODY has done something they regretted, moral and criminal. Imua is exactly right...before you judge, check yourself.
#20 Feb 7, 2008
I'm glad to see that Perry isn't part of the old boy network like in the force he was previously from. Good job Chief! Get rid of the rotten apples! To imua and lea: If that's your reasoning, then why have a police force, courts, or laws for that matter? Just let everyone go because we all make mistakes! Sounds good to me...I can take care of myself...can you care for yourself?
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Did you also replace the valve cover gasket and spark plug seals? These are "must replace" items because valve-cover removal will ruin them if they aren't already toast.
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1. There's a flat gasket that fits between the vanos unit and cylinder head. It's pretty obvious and I think documented. Should be replaced when you do this job. Did you re-install the unit without a new gasket?
2. If you dropped a piston on a concrete floor, very possibly it has dented or warped and is out-of-round. Reading your description, it sounds like you didn't know about the piston with the loaded spring. It's not so hard that you can't hold the backplate down while removing or tightening the bolts.
3. When you say piston "caps" do you mean the small plastic caps with small O-rings that cover the piston bolts? If yes, I'm not clear on how one of those would be damaged.
There are various gotchas in this job but most have to do with trying to keep things well-aligned or torqued properly.
If your car isn't throwing any codes, you might still have vacuum leaks if you didn't replace the valve-cover gasket or plug seals.
I used Bosch O2 sensors, I also replaced the valve cover gasket and spark plug seals as well as the Vanos gasket.
Yea by piston caps i meant the two orange caps with the small O-rings. As far as I can remember the break was in the wall of the piston cap above where the O-ring sat so it didnt affect the o-ring at all.
I completely forgot to mention this earlier but another horrible mistake I made was overtorqueing one of the 6 mounting nuts when putting the Vanos back, as a result the 3rd engine head stud from the right snapped off with the nut while I was overtightening it. I assumed the new vanos gasket and the other 5 mounting nuts would be plenty to seal off the unit. Could the break in that one have compromised the seal? And if so is there any easy way to replace the broken engine head stud?
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This might be an Australian thing, but when we are travelling to new countries we are always enamoured with those that have snow-capped mountains. Can't really explain it, as neither of us are avid skiers or boarders (although we would like to be) but some of our favourite destinations feature snow covered vistas that have us insisting we will return again one day. It all started with Canada and the Icefields Parkway seven years ago, then there was the beautiful south island of New Zealand and of course this year we add Norway and Iceland to the list.
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Weber's research also provided an answer to the instability of goal-oriented engagement: holistic social change that is hinged upon a value-oriented system of action. He understood "value" as an idea and means of engagement that creates communal affinity across worldviews standing in opposition to the current polarizing system that is void of the other as a legitimate part of the process (ibid). In contemporary terms, such a value-oriented system works to undo the "acceptable" dualistic filter forcing culture into a state of good or bad, right or wrong, better or worse, conversion or potential to be converted (Levi-Strauss, 1978).
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cheaper vs less problematic
Forget about trying to get your money back when you resell. Just get the boat that feels best to you now. You might end up owning it longer than you think.
And don''t be too concerned with the "extras" one boat might have. Most of these things can be added on by you when time permits.
Sailboats are not an inexpensive habit. Over the next year or two you could easily drop an extra $1000 or 2 on sails and other incidentals on either of these boats you are considering.
Dive in and have fun.
cheaper vs less problematic
If you are seriously considering the Tanzer there is a Tanzer 28 site at this address http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html You should contact the creator of this site to find potential problems and benefits. Their 28 is also a 1973.
cheaper vs less problematic
Sorry guys...here''s a little more info....
I am in NC and I''ll be sailing in the sounds and rivers mostly, but I''m beginning so I need a little fogiveness in the boat. Also, both have inboard diesels (one of my requirements).
The Tanzer needs new sails sooner than later but for what I''m doing both boats have sails that will "work." Also, the Cal has a marine head, the Tanzer a porti-potty. The Cal has a nice Autopilot and shore power. The Tanzer has neither.
I''m starting to become convinced that I will need to trade boats in a couple of years and that there isn''t an inexpensive one that will last me for a long while. With that in mind, I think the Tanzer (after repairs) will be the easiest to get my investment out of because the orginal price is so good.
I don''t know if there are definitive answers to my questions, but I appreciate the insights you''re offering. I just want a little assurance from people a little more "in the know" before I dive in.
cheaper vs less problematic
Parrott Head, I cant remember are you in NC? Thier is a 25ft catilina in excellent shape here in Wrightsville Beach, the guy is selling because he needs cash for school. The boat was appraised at $7000 but he called me this morning and told me he would take $4000. Let me know-
cheaper vs less problematic
I don''t think that there is a clear and obvious answer with the info that you have given us. Both are inherently decent coastal cruisers. Neither offer obvious advantages beyond the Tanzer offering more room. A 1981 Cal is a different model than the one that I have a lot of experience with. The Cal line went thru so many changes at that point in time that I am not even sure I can visualize which of the 25''s that is.
You seem to be in part addressing your question to me. I had seen your question earlier and have really wrestled with how to address your concerns. Unfortuneately my only conclusion is that without really seeing the boats I don''t feel that I can give you very meaningful advise. I wish that I could be more helpful. (Where are these boats?)
cheaper vs less problematic
I wonder how good any of the sails on either of these boats are. If the Tanzer was not all that well cared for, how long before the sails need to be replaced. thesailwarehouse.com lists a 150 headsail for the Cal 25 MK 1 at $595. If you looked used, you could probably get something that would work for less.
Cals are well made boats that have a proven track record. Cruising World did an article on a guy who, after modifications, took his 25 and his family of 4 across oceans. The point being, it is a seaworthy little boat.
Maybe you are not getting a lot of response because the Tanzer is not as well known. If it is beat up that has to tell you something about what might be luking unseen. $2000 of work on a 28'' is a lot.
The handrail is something to have a surveyor or repair person look at. Maybe all it needs is a little epoxy injecteion and some cosmetic work.
With the info given - I vote for the Cal.
cheaper vs less problematic
My guess is that it would depend upon what type of sailing you plan. The Tanzer is probably better if you plan on staying aboard more, since it''ll have more room down below. The Cal is probably a good choice if you plan on daysailing or, at most, an overniter or two, where accomodations aren''t as critical. The Tanzer probably has an older inboard that might require more maintenance down the road. Inboards, I believe, are generally more expensive to maintain than outboards; but I wouldn''t want an outboard for extensive coastal work. The Cal has an outboard so the expenses might be less.
I don''t think it''s rare for boats of this vintage to have some deck problems.
Your choice. (I''d get the Cal, but I''m mostly a daysailer.)
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I have asked a similiar question a couple of times and never gotten much response, so here''s one last try....
I have the option of getting a 1981 Cal 25 or a 1973 Tanzer 28. The Tanzer turned up about $2,000 of repairs which the owner willingly conceded in renegotiations. The Cal is asking a few thousand more but seems a little less worn and better cared for. However, it does show signs of deck moisture around the starboard handrail and the jib is falling apart. Based on your guys'' knowledge and experience (Jeff, I know you know something about the Cal 25''s), what seems like a logical step for me to take?
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STEPHEN Lawrence's weeping father yesterday urged police to nail his son's
other killers.
Neville Lawrence demanded the completion of justice after racist thugs Gary
Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, were finally convicted of murdering
Stephen nearly 19 years ago.
The black A-level student, 18, was stabbed to death by a hate-filled five or
six-strong mob called "The Firm".
Prime suspects of involvement in the killing have long been the gang's leaders
Neil Acourt, 36, and his brother Jamie, 35, plus their lieutenant Luke
Knight, also 35.
All have been accused at some stage but none has been successfully prosecuted.
Four other known white thugs are also in the frame.
Stephen's 1993 murder in Eltham, South East London, was one of a string of
stabbings carried out by the gang on mainly ethnic victims.
Swaggering Norris and Dobson were found guilty after a two-month Old Bailey
Jurors rejected their claims that DNA evidence found on their clothes had been
contaminated by cops during storage.
Stephen's father, 70, broke down after the verdict was announced. In a
statement read by a lawyer, he said: "I'm conscious of the fact there were
five or six attackers that night. I do not think I'll be able to rest until
they are all brought to justice."
On TV later he called on Dobson and Norris to shop the other killers.
He said: "I'm praying these people now say to themselves, 'Yes I did that
awful deed — but I wasn't alone and there are others who are also guilty of
what I have done' and name them."
Neville blamed the killers' backgrounds for "instilling hatred" in them.
His estranged wife Doreen, 58, also wept after the verdict.
The campaigning mum took the opportunity to blast the original probe into
Stephen's death. She said: "Had the police done their job properly, I would
have spent the last 18 years grieving for my son rather than fighting to get
his killers to court."
Dobson and Norris continued to protest their innocence after the verdict.
Dobson told the jury: "Condemned an innocent man here today — hope you can
live with it."
Cries of "Love you" were heard from the public gallery as the pair were led
The Met's Acting Deputy Commissioner Cressida Dick promised the drive to
collar the remaining killers would go on. She said: "We don't see this as
the end of the road."
United in hate and blood
… with one weak link
Will Dobson spill beans on pals?
By MIKE SULLIVAN, Crime Editor, RYAN SABEY and ANTHONY FRANCE
THE racist gang members also suspected of killing Stephen Lawrence were
fearing jail too last night — knowing Gary Dobson could be the "blood
brother" pal who finally nails them.
The brutal thugs, who modelled themselves on Sixties gangsters The Krays,
prided themselves on their loyalty to each other and their mutual hatred of
the black community.
But cops always regarded Dobson, 36, as the "weak link" in their midst — and
were yesterday planning to quiz him in jail to see if he "grasses" on the
mates also responsible for 18-year-old Stephen's death.
Detectives can make it worth his while — by later recommending a reduction in
the sentence he will receive in court today.
One source said: "In due course Dobson will be visited in prison to see if he
is now prepared to dob the others in it, so to speak. If any one of the five
was ever going to come clean then Dobson would be the most likely contender."
Dobson and David Norris, 35 — also convicted of murder at the Old Bailey
yesterday — were among five or six white racists who took part in the knife
attack on black A-level student Stephen in April 1993.
They were in a gang — dubbed "The Firm" — said to have been led by Neil
Acourt, now 36, and his brother Jamie, 35.
Stephen's murder near a bus stop in Eltham, South East London, was just one of
a string of stabbings believed to have been carried out by the gang on
mainly ethnic victims in the area during the early 1990s.
Gang members were said to have encouraged each other to stab innocent people
as part of a twisted initiation ceremony.
A skinhead informant, who gave the names of members of the mob to police after
Stephen's killing, told cops: "You can only join their gang if you stab
"They carry knives and weapons most days."
Five months before taking part in the murder of Stephen, Dobson tried to
impress other gang members by threatening a 16-year-old black boy, Kevin
London, with a knife.
But the informant said other members of the gang went further.
He claimed Norris also stabbed a white youth, Stacey Benefield, a month before
Stephen's murder in order to prove himself.
Another gang member, Peter Thompson, had stabbed a young Pakistani boy to
death the previous year — close to the scene of Stephen's killing.
And the informer told how another victim had a plastic bag placed over his
head and was then stabbed in the legs.
The mob were said to have confided in Norris's father Clifford. He was
believed to have warned his son — and the others — to be wary of what they
said in case there were hidden listening devices.
Norris Senior, 52, was also accused of trying to bribe stab victim Stacey with
£2,000 after his son was charged with attempted murder.
David Norris was later acquitted.
Sixteen months after Stephen's murder, Norris Senior was arrested and jailed
for nine and a half years for drug offences and possessing a sub-machine
He was visited in prison by his son, Dobson and Neil Acourt.
Within days of the murder of Stephen, the Acourt brothers were repeatedly
named by anonymous sources and they were arrested 15 days later.
Neil Acourt was then picked out at an identity parade by Duwayne Brooks who
was with Stephen when he was killed. Acourt was charged with Stephen's
murder along with fellow gang member Luke Knight. But the Crown Prosecution
Service dropped the case because of insufficient evidence.
The Acourts were later said to have been linked to the killing by a single red
fibre which matched a red polo shirt Stephen was wearing.
It was found on a top seized from the Acourt home. But it could not be proved
which brother the garment belonged to.
In January 1995, the Lawrence family launched their own private prosecution
which led to the arrest of the Acourt brothers, Norris, Dobson and Knight.
The charges against Jamie Acourt and Norris were dropped before it reached
But in April of the following year the Old Bailey trial began of Neil Acourt,
Knight and Dobson.
That trial collapsed too when the judge ruled out the use of Duwayne's ID
evidence. All three were acquitted.
In all, police have identified 11 members of the gang. Among them is Charlie
Martin, who was living with Dobson when a covert police video was filmed. It
showed members threatening to chop up "n***ers". Martin was later jailed
with another gang member, Danny Caetano, who had also appeared on the
surveillance video.
They were convicted of trying to "skin a rival alive" at a caravan site near
Rochester, Kent. Martin was sent down for eight years for attempted murder,
and Caetano received four years at a young offenders' institute for GBH.
Caetano has a spate of other convictions and was serving a prison sentence for
another stabbing when Stephen died. He was also convicted with Jamie Acourt
and Norris of stealing 32 cases of empty soda siphons in 1999 and fined.
His brother John Caetano was arrested with Neil Acourt and Dobson for
smuggling illegal immigrants into the country in 2002.
Caetano got four and half years for people trafficking but Dobson and Acourt
were never charged.
It is now hoped the imminent introduction of a new type of DNA testing will
lead to Stephen's other killers facing justice.
Det Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll, who led the day-to-day running of the
latest cold case investigation, said: "Duwayne Brooks said there were six
people who attacked him and Stephen. We identified 11 youths as being part
of the Acourt gang. It means that other than Dobson and Norris there are
nine more potential suspects out there."
Det Supt Jill Bailey, who oversaw the latest Lawrence investigation, said: "We
all know from the evidence given in court that there were more than two
"I am always hopeful we will convict others because there have been quite a
number of cases over the years which from forensic advancements, changing
allegiances of people and new information have been solved many years after
they occurred."
GARY Dobson, 36, was two months into a five-year jail sentence for supplying
£350,000 worth of cannabis when he was arrested in September 2010 over
Stephen Lawrence's murder.
Star Wars fan Dobson had worked as a bricklayer for his dad's building firm.
LUKE Knight and four other named suspects over Stephen's murder were pictured
being jeered and pelted with eggs by a crowd as they left a public inquiry
in 1998.
Knight, 35, unsuccessfully asked to be rehoused by Greenwich Council several
years ago — claiming he was being intimidated by anti-racist groups.
He has split from long-term partner Belinda Harmer, with whom he has two
Knight, who has worked in the building trade, is thought to have moved back
home with his parents in New Eltham, South East London.
When approached, his mum Pam said pointedly: "Why are you here? He's not at
the Bailey, is he?"
WHEN David Norris was arrested for Stephen Lawrence's murder at his brother's
bedsit in Eltham his worldly possessions were found stored in a car parked
Dad-of-five Norris, 35, had recently split from his second wife.
By contrast, at the time of Stephen's murder the Norris family lived in style
at a mock-Tudor mansion in leafy Chislehurst, Kent.
But the home was seized by Customs after Norris's dad Clifford was caught
supplying drugs and forced to hand over £386,000 in criminal profits. David
Norris was occasionally seen driving a white Transit afterwards to earn a
living with "a bit of this and a bit of that".
BALDING gang leader Neil Acourt has changed his surname to Stuart to escape
the spotlight.
He was seen in a 1994 covert police video brandishing a large knife to
demonstrate how to stab a black man. And in 2001 he was convicted of
possessing an offensive weapon, which he claimed he needed for his own
In 2002 he was jailed for 18 months with David Norris for racially abusing a
black detective.
Neil, 36, lives in a bungalow in New Eltham, South East London.
Neighbours say he used to work as a painter and decorator but now spends most
days at home surviving on benefits.
NEIL'S brother Jamie Acourt lives with his partner Terri-Dean and their young
daughter Molly.
They share a smart three-bedroom terraced home in Sidcup — a few miles from
where Stephen Lawrence was killed.
Terri-Dean runs a clothing business and neighbours say Jamie spends most of
his time at home.
In the past he has been known to spend several months at a time in Spain but
now lives full-time at the £250,000 Victorian property.
Jamie, 34, is often seen driving a black Mercedes away from the property to
run errands. When approached by The Sun, he said: "Sorry, I've got nothing
to say."
Just 12yrs jail
THE vicious killers will be jailed when they are sentenced today but could be
freed after just 12 years.
Both were juveniles at the time of the stabbing — Dobson was 17 and Norris 16.
And they must be treated as such by the Old Bailey judge, Mr Justice Treacy.
The recommended starting point for a juvenile convicted of murder is 12 years.
However, the judge may increase the term due to the racially-motivated
nature of the attack and the gang's knowledge that a knife could be used.
Prosecuting QC Mark Ellison revealed Dobson, who has previous convictions for
theft, is currently serving a five-year stretch for drug possession with
intent to supply. He had been due for release in August.
Norris served a 12-month prison term in 2001 for racially abusing a black
police officer.


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- Place the cursor before "sixth item" ^SixthListItem and press backspace
Result: You wont be able to delete "3".
NOTE: Webkit and Opera concatenates fith item with sixth item - FifthListItemSixthListItem. IE puts sixth item in new paragraph. Not sure which behavior is correct.
Scenario 2
- The same as above
- Put the cursor behind fifth item FifthListItem^ and start pressing delete.
Result: When all text in sixth item gets deleted, number is deleted at the end.
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Normalize this specific backspace to MS-Word alike behavior which outdent the list item.
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The idea is good and it works well.
But just to avoid people complaining later, let's have it working well for this case:
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After patch, the li will outdent, instead of having the paragraphs merged.
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Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
- First attested in the 1570's.
- From Old French accoster, from Vulgar Latin accosto ("to come alongside someone"), from ad ("near") + costa ("rib, side")
- (General American) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkɔst/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkɑst/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkɒst/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒst
- Hyphenation: ac‧cost
accost (third-person singular simple present accosts, present participle accosting, simple past and past participle accosted)
- (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, "Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?", in The Guardian[1]:
- The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
- (transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
- So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea. - Fuller
- (transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
- Milton
- Him, Satan thus accosts.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
- She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."
- Milton
- (intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
- Spenser
- the shores which to the sea accost
- Fuller
- so much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea
- Spenser
- To solicit sexually.
- (transitive) To assault (the most common modern usage).
Derived terms[edit]
to approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request
to join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of
to speak to first, to address, to greet
to solicit sexually
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
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accost (plural accosts)
- (rare) Address; greeting.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Morley to this entry?)
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Vulgar Latin
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Benjamin Netanyahu: "i'll say anything to get this black dude off my back. Sure, I'll talk with the Syrians or Palestinians, talk is cheap, action is expensive."
George Bush: "Cheney? Yeah, I once knew a man by that name. Is he still alive?"
Dolly Parton: "At age 63, I'm sexier and have more life than Britney or Paris or any of those two bit broads."
Bill Bennett: "The only thing heavier than my attempts at being profound is the weight of my body."
TV Weatherman: "I pray every night for a rainstorm that hits just as I go on. At least, I'll be partly right on the weather."
Congresswoman Bachman: " I may be a bimbo, but I only prostitute my soul, not my body."
GEICO President: "Animated animals cost a lot less than humans."
Irish Priest: "Maybe, we ought to let our people get married and have some safe sex."
Michael Vick: "I never want to see a dog again in my life, just a football."
Osama bin Laden: "My life will be complete if I could just get an invitation to a barbecue at his ranch in Texas."
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Astaxanthin Helps Protect Eyesight
Byron J. Richards, Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist
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Your eyes are exposed to ionizing radiation of the sun and they are also subjected to whatever issues are going on in your circulatory system, two common ways in which free radical damage can mount within the eyes. These issues are pronounced in individuals with type 2 diabetes, although they are important for everyone. Several studies show that astaxanthin helps protect your eyesight.
Cataracts form in the lens of the eye from progressive free radical damage over time. An interesting study evaluated patients getting cataract surgery, first in one eye and then two weeks later in the other. They were given 6 mgs of astaxanthin per day for the two weeks between surgeries. At each surgery their aqueous humor, the gelatinous fluid in front of the lens, was sampled and tested for free radical activity. After only two weeks of astaxanthin, the free radical levels were significantly lowered. This study proves that oral dosing of astaxanthin delivers quick antioxidant benefit to the eyes. These ophthalmology researchers concluded that this reduction in free radical damage within the eyes indicates "the possibility that astaxanthin has suppressive effects on various oxidative stress-related diseases."
The second study used an animal model of diabetic retinopathy and showed that astaxanthin offered significant protection to the retina, protecting against early cell death and free radical damage that typically leads to leaky blood vessels. This problem is common in humans with type 2 diabetes after having the metabolic problem for 10 years. The researchers concluded that "astaxanthin may be developed as an antioxidant drug to treat diabetic retinopathy."
It is also worth pointing out that astaxanthin has been found to improve insulin signaling and glucose metabolism within the liver. In the liver, it regulates the key inflammatory gene signal, NF-kappaB, so as to lower free radical damage. Other studies show that astaxanthin helps protect the kidneys from disease and even helps maintain circulation to muscles so that they work better. These are all vital issues to improve, along with the eyes, for any person with type 2 diabetes and quite frankly any person that is overweight.
Astaxanthin offers broad protection for all cells of the body, as I pointed out in an earlier review article, Astaxanthin – A Premium Cell Defense Nutrient. Like other carotenes such as lutein and zeaxanthin, it is now demonstrating significant protection for eyesight.
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My family and I have decided we will be getting GSD and will be bringing him home in March. We have previously owned one but rescued him later in life, he came trained and house broken, and has since passed away. My husband and I have never potty trained a puppy but understand it will require a lot of work. My husband works a typical 8am-6pm job, Monday-Friday and does not have the option of coming home for lunch. I work 3 days a week, Tuesday-Thursday from 9am-5pm without the option of coming home for lunch. I take our son to daycare before work so we both leave around 7:30am and return home around 6:30pm. I know that this is will be too long for a puppy to be able to hold going to the bathroom so I have been thinking about crating him in a large cageish crate with a separate area for a potty box with puppy pads and another area for him to move around and eat/drink in. I was thinking then at night and for the remained of our waking hours that I am not at work (the remaining 4 days) I could move the potty box out near the kitchen door close to our backyard to have him go there and eventually bring the box outside. I'm hoping that once he can hold it long enough, he will know to go outside and have the box as a just in case so we do not have to crate him. I live in Southern California and 1/4 mile from a lake with lots of hills to hike and am a runner so I do not expect regular exercise to be an issue. I would just prefer to not have to crate him every week while I am at work. Am I on the right track in how to do this? Can anyone give me any pointers?
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Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA), National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare, March 1949
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URISA has extended the deadline for its student comptition until June 20. I think the original deadline was June 1. I'm thinking not so many students submitted papers. Perhaps the "prizes" are not appealing? Perhaps the requirements too onorous? Any students or educators want to offer feedback?
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URISA has announced a student paper/poster competition. Undergrad and grad students must submit a paper and can win a URISA membership (value $20) or a registration to the annual conference. There is an "encouraged" topics list. Community College students and certificate program students (who may already have bachelor's degrees I guess) must develop a poster and can win membership and a recommendation (?) for free registration at a regional event. There are no guidelines on topics. This second category is co-sponsored by the GeoTech Center.
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The Earth Knowledge Portal (which I wrote about last year in Directions Magazine) has an update just in time for Earth Day last week. Now the portal map uses Google Earth (no go on my Mac) and has the University of Phoenix as a partner (or a sponsor per the website - not really sure which).
Ball State University [Muncie, Indiana] is making maps to help the community identify its neediest areas, including severely eroded river banks, neighborhoods heavy with low-income residents who are without health care and historic homes lacking attention.
The workshops which support these efforts are classes, mostly for grad students. Unfortunately, the faculty member behind them Matthew Wilson, associate professor, is leaving the University of Kentucky. The University hopes to continue this work as it hires new faculty.


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Today may as well be Christmas instead of Thanksgiving with the snow still coming down. I've never hoped for a white Turkey Day but bam, that's what we've got. Snow is early even for Stockholm but it's messing with gathering my Thanksgiving Day fixings (we're feasting tomorrow, today's a work day.)
On the other hand, I have to say I'm grateful for the improved availability of some of the "must haves" of Thanksgiving, cranberry sauce for instance.
Word on the cyber street of Stockholm is that cranberry sauce in a can and fresh cranberries are available in a number of local supermarkets. I managed to get a few boxes of frozen cranberries yesterday (though no fresh and no cans.) What a departure from the original Stockholm I moved to 17 years ago when even the Swedish word for cranberry, tranbär, only produced blank stares when I asked for it as a juice in bars (cranberry juice was THE mixer of the early 90s back in Boston.) Yesterday, the very helpful staff of a few supermarkets were conferring back and forth using "cranberry sauce" as the name food item interspersed in their Swedish in a surreal Swenglish dialog. Cranberry has come a long way.
And pumpkin pie no longer needs black magic. Pumpkin-in-a-can (the easy route) is still a prized commodity, but the elusive evaporated milk (to mix with the filling –even if made from pumpkin scratch) no longer requires a reconnaissance mission. The local Willy's is my supplier.
Last year the lovely folks at Taylor & Jones delivered our bird to the doorstep. This year I decided to take The Local's offer on a 10% discount buying from Ingelsta Kalkon, our original supplier. Looking out at the snow falling I'm thinking the smarter choice would have been T&J's. Next year. (No snow please)
Happy Thanksgiving (how many shopping days 'till Christmas?)