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Detroit officer blasts 'insulting' 14-year term for man who shot him
That is just terrible. LEOs aren't paid enough to take this kind of abuse.....FROM THE COURTS. Too bad this officer didn't give that bucket of fish guts three lethal wounds. I hope this criminal doesn't make it out of prison alive. I can only hope.
The penalty for shooting a LEO, Dentist, Taxi driver or anyone else should be the same. After all aren't we all supposed to be equal in the eyes of the law.
Lets set it at death and not have to worry about who is more important or deserving of protection.
But I do agree if one commits a crime (no matter what crime) you get a set penalty and who the crime was committed against carries no more weight.
Hopefully, Mr. Procter will 'resist' a future arrest, more are certainly coming, and suffer the needed justice at that time.:brutal7:
Glad I'm not an LEO anymore (retired), and this kind of crap is exactly why both of my kids are strongly steered away from a career in LE. The purpose and calling is noble, but in today's society, it just isn't worth it, IMO.
Be prepared to take care of yourself. Don't rely on the system to protect you or administer justice. Move from dysfunctional cities taking your money and talent. Get involved in local politics at your new residence to keep elected officials focused on quality of life issues. Vote.
This kind of pansy treatment of criminals infuriates me!!
Oh boy. I better say this first before the stones get thrown at me. The BG should be thrown in jail for life. Period. The judge was an idiot and like the LEO said, the judge was lenient, not the system. OK now. I won't even wade into the whole argument about if you shoot a LEO you should be penalized more than a citizen. Which I disagree with. But, the BG did not shoot him because he was a LEO or because he was acting in an official capacity. Mathews said this:
He was not doing his job at the time. He was getting gas. Sounds like he wanted the guy sentenced more because he was a LEO. He did tell the BG he was a LEO but what does that really mean. Anybody can say that. And if anything that did not help.Quote:
"This is the message you send to police officers when we try to do our jobs?" Matthews asked Boykin,
I think there should be a thread just on the incident itself. It is a good example of a situation where the BG has the drop on you and has a gun to ones head. We have discussed it before but here is a real one. What did he do right or wrong?
suntzu I agree with you on most of that
he shouldn't have said to the guy that had a gun to his head "hey I'm a cop", IMO that just invites the guy to want to kill a cop
IMO...if he was going to do anything he should have acted, not talked, to attempt to get the gun away from his head since this guy was so stupid to get that close and pummel his butt into the ground/shoot him....well
as for him not doing his job at the time...yes...at the time the dirtbag first started the encounter he was not doing his job and any enhanced punishment shouldn't be used, I don't see how that it can be, just like if the dirtbag would have come up and hit him in the head it wouldn't be assault on a cop since he wasn't clearly identified as a LEO (your location may vary with how this is done)
different states have different laws, etc but usually when a cop identifies him/herself as a cop and they take action then they are considered being in the course of their sworn duty, however according to what was described in this situation that does not come into play since he acted after the fact based on him shooting the fleeing suspect to prevent him from shooting/committing more crime
it would be different if the dirtbag had been dealt with previously by this cop and the dirtbag knew he was a cop
one bit of hope in this is that the feds follow through on the serial number issue....that will get him a mandatory 10 year sentence in federal prison AFTER he gets released from state prison....and there is no early release for that
While I agree that the sentence was too lenient, keep in mind that the victim was 'off-duty' [most likely not in uniform] and the fact that he was LEO may not have entered into the decision.
While I think the sentence sucked, I would also point out it shouldn't be any stiffer due to Officer Matthews being shot. He was off duty when he was shot, so we have no idea if Proctor knew he was a LEO. The sentence should be the same regardless.
The sentence was a joke but do I think a LEO getting shot off duty, on duty, uniformed or not should mean a different penalty than any non LEO? NO because no one persons life is worth more than another no matter what job they chose.


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I'm in the process of getting the parts together for a head & cam swap for my 454. I do have one quick question though. I plan on going with a solid flat-tappet cam, running dual valve springs. It is my understanding that the cam manufacturer recommends breaking in the cam with only the outer spring. What I am wondering is what is the best way to remove the springs so I can install the inner spring also. I know of two methods, but I am wondering what you have had the best experience with. I have the necessary tools (air compressor) for both methods, but have never tried either one.
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#2: Use a nylon rope, and tie a knot in the end so if can't fall through the spark plug hole. Rotate piston almost all the way up, shove rope into cylinder, and then rotate piston the rest of the way up to push the rope against the valves to prevent them from falling into the cylinder. Install valve springs, then rotate crankshaft counter-clockwise to relieve pressure on rope, and withdraw rope from cylinder.
Do I understand both procedures correctly? I think I would feel more comfortable using method #2, but I have never personally tried either method. Thanks for any ideas.
I always use method 2. I always buy a new nylon rope and bring the piston up about halfway in the bore, fill the cylinder with rope then bring it up until the rope stops the piston. after I finish, I put the rope back in the bag in came in and place it away until the next time I need it.
I have used both methods. They both work well. The choice is yours.
Air is much quicker, used to change springs between rounds at the drags that way.
Thanks for all of your responses. It is really putting my mind at rest as this is the first time I have had to change the springs with the heads installed.
One more question though. When using the air compressor, how much air do you pump into the cylinder? Is there a certain psi range I'm looking for? And is it recommended to bring the piston to the bottom to keep the air from turning the motor over?
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I think the normal vet around here does it from $90-$130 ish.
There are low-cost spay/neuter programs you can utilize. We did with Gunner because he was a stray and I wanted everything done the most cost effienct way possible. It was $90 for all his shots and the neuter (which was $40 for a dog over 30 lbs).
The only thing I would say is to find a vet you trust. Low spay/neuter clinics are GREAT, but you don't know how good/bad the vet is.
If it was over $150 I would worry about being "ripped off".
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here it doesn't cost by weight it goes by each dog , males are $100.00 to neuter.
Not all vet's fees are the same. There is also clinics that do specials once a year, you get a neuter and all the shots in one time fees.
Your dog should also have all his shots.
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Cycling, rowing, boxing, gymnastics, equestrian and Paralympic sports all received big rises from UK Sport's record £347million pot for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. Athletics, sailing and taekwondo also enjoyed significant rises, but the likes of swimming, basketball, volleyball and handball were all hit hard after failing to hit their targets this summer.
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If you're between the ages of thirteen and eighteen and are interested in developing your acting skills over the summer by participating in a professional production right in the heart of West Seattle, it might have disappointed you to find out that auditions for the Arts West Conservatory program have come and gone as of this past weekend. As it turns out, those who did audition were talented enough to inspire Arts West coordinators to accommodate them—and still others who would like to audition—for a whole different production, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, featuring more opportunities and more solos than the originally programmed Guys and Dolls.
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The 1967 Clark Gesner musical comedy about making the most of life, based off Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, will be directed by Kate Jaeger, musically directed by Jeff Bell, and choreographed by Taryn Darr. Kate Jaeger and Taryn Darr are both accomplished actresses known for their contributions to Seattle Children's, Village, and Arts West theatres. Jeff Bell teaches at Cornish and also contributes to Seattle Children's and Village theatres.
The Conservatory program, as well as both the Acting and Musical Theatre Academy programs aimed at talent between the ages of eight and twelve (no audition required), have been designed to offer All-star teaching talent. These are actors and actresses, directors and musical directors, choreographers and tech who are professional and experienced—what you would expect from the big name programs held downtown at the 5th Ave and Seattle Rep theatres.
In the scheme of the year-long teaching programs available at Arts West, the summer Academies and Conservatory are "the diamond of the diamond ring," explains artistic director Annie Lareau. Those kids who have been honing their skills after school throughout the year can come together with new talent over the summer to bring to fruition a truly professional program over the course of six weeks. The pressure of a full-scale production is taken off the shoulders of the younger age groups in the Academies in favor of two week educational programs that produce smaller scale scenes still performed on Arts West's main stage.
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just last week we saw a picture that was taken of the handset's bootscreen. The phone is obviously hard to see in the darkness of the shot, but it did reveal squared off corners, a departure from the Samsung Galaxy S III's big ol' rounded corners. The picture, if legit, put the kibosh in the rumor that the Galaxy S IV would resemble the prior model.
Now, on Wednesday night, we have the latest alleged leaked photograph of the Samsung Galaxy S IV. Mr. Blurrycam would be proud. Not only isn't the photo clear, it was also taken in a dark room. We do notice the similarities with the previous leaked shot, right down to the square corners. One thing we have to say about Samsung, the company does not sit on its laurels. The Samsung Galaxy S IV will be introduced on March 14th in New York City and unless you've had a few too many, the phone will look a lot clearer than this picture. We do have to say that the square look of the phone matches the design of the cases that we saw earlier, so this could be a legitimate shot of the device.
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Stairway to heaven
Decomposed-granite steps edged with concrete nudge this path upslope in a backyard in Portola Valley, California. Because the steps taper from 8 feet wide at the bottom to 3 feet wide at the top, they appear to cover more ground than they do. (A Cor-Ten steel wall enhances the effect; from a 4 1/2-foot base, it shrinks to 2 feet high at the top.) Dasylirion and dwarf lavender line the path.
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When studying Buddhism, it isn't long before we encounter lists. List of benefits, lists of vows, lists of downfalls – four of this, six of that, the list (of lists!) seems to be endless. Many such lists can be found in the booklet: The Vows and Commitments of Kadampa Buddhism.
These lists are a traditional and extremely useful way of bringing structure to a topic and presenting Buddhadharma in a logical and elegant manner. Each item on each list is there for a reason and is very important.
There are many benefits from memorising Dharma in general:
- It improves our memory/mindfulness
- It improves our concentration
- It develops our effort and patience
- It develops our self-confidence
- It improves our knowledge of Dharma
- It allows us to recall Dharma at appropriate moments, such as when we are in danger of developing a delusion such as anger
- It allows us to contemplate Dharma during the day without having to reference actual texts
- It allows us to recall Dharma during contempation meditation – very useful for making our meditations powerful
- It improves our ability to understand other Dharma instructions, because we can immediately cross reference
- It gives us something meaningful with which to occupy our spare time
- It gives us confidence when we are discussing Dharma with friends
- It helps to make our lives meaningful
Wouldn't it be a wonderful ability to be able to remember all these lists at the drop of a hat? Wouldn't it be intensely meaningful to be able to listen to a teaching and recognise when the teacher skilfully weaves in items from one of these lists? Wouldn't it be fantastic to be able to draw from these lists confidently in your own teachings, or when discussing Dharma with friends? Wouldn't it be so beneficial to be able to go through these lists to ourselves when we have a few minutes of free time?
A principal benefit of being able to remember these lists is that it gives us the ability to bring them into our meditations.
By remembering the meaning of each item in our analytical meditation (contemplation) we can build a very clear and well qualified object which we can then focus on in our placement meditation.
Rather then peeking at our text during our meditation (and upsetting our concentration), it is much better to commit the list to memory. In this way we can go through the list mentally without interruption. We can build the object gradually and transition to placement meditation smoothly.
In this series of posts, I would like to share a method of memorising these lists so that your Dharma knowledge and wisdom can flourish. What I am going to present not my invention, and there are many, many other methods out there, but this one works for me – I hope it works for you!
With all these benefits on the cards, I hope you'll stay tuned for the next post in this series where we will start to look at how to approach the memorisation of lists.
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This is a discussion on Grenades in a MALL.What would you do within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Atleast they got him off the streets before he could follow through with his plan and hurt people....
Atleast they got him off the streets before he could follow through with his plan and hurt people.
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When outnumbered 2 to 1.
Shoot twice!
Strictly from memory (something I picked up in my misspent youth, in addition to short hair cuts )
M26 Grenade
A smooth bodied high explosive grenade, it weighed 425g with a fuse delay of five seconds. The average throwing distance was 40 metres. Its blast radius was ten metres, with a killing distance of 5 metres and a wounding distance of up to 25 metres.
The Current model is the M67 IIRC, but lethality is similar.
Unless your behind a concrete barrier and it's on the other side or it's in a bomb disposal tub, the blast and fragments will not be contained or deflected and the container will become even more shrapnel.
Someone starts tossing those babies about, in the confines of a mall, then you have no real option, but to get out of there, in my opinion. Grenades work in two ways shrapnel and concussive effect, both can be lethal.
Shooting him with a grenade in hand is fraught with danger, since if the pin is pulled and he has other grenades or explosive on him, then you have the potential for a sympathetic detonation, when he reflexively releases the grenade.
If you must shoot or choose to shoot, then do it after he has thrown the grenade, hopefully not at you, this hopefully mitigates the possibility of a large secondary explosion, but keep in mind, unless you practice shooting at 50 yards or better, that for most to effectively engage, puts you well within the operational envelope of a military grenade.
This scenario has the potential and the likely hood to be a no win situation, for both the fruit loop and the CCW or Police Officer who first engages.
Opening the mouth, prevents overpressure in the presence of a concussive effect.
Just one more reason to drive around the Peoples Republic of Illinois.
There really isn't a single redeeming thing about that "state".
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Besides, the plastic in those mall trash cans is mere millimeters thick. It's just made to look thicker through shaping. Makes them cheap to make, easy to move and install. It would be about as much protection against a grenade as a bacon sandwich.
Or maybe all our guys need in Iraq on their Hum Vee's is a couple of trash cans?
I would probably figure it was a gas explosion and get outta there before it all went up in flames.
"If we loose Freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the Last Place on Earth!" Ronald Reagan
If the first one doesn't get me I'm making like a scared cat in a dog pound I'm heading for the door.
Grenade trumps pistol
Holy Grenades Batman!!!! Good thing I brought my anti-grenade homing evaporator.
Semper Fi
"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
That is pretty messed up though. I will never understand why people want to do these sort of things.
If I started hearing explosions in the mall, I would probably take cover and get low. After the explosions stopped I would take a look around to see if things have settled down, and then help the people who were hurt.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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Welcome to Part 4 of Arial Burnz's guest blog post on the Scorcher Blog Tour – Week 1! (If this is your first stop, you'll want to go back to Part 1.
Thanks so much for having me on your blog, Lisa!!
Continuing with our topic Why Vampires Are Sexy: As mentioned before, most vampires in stories these days have heightened senses. This is what benefits the reader most, I think. The more of the five senses you bring into a story, the more the reader is brought into the experience. The feather-light touches of breath and lips against skin. The urgent pulses of panting and heartbeats caressing the ears. The anticipated taste of a kiss. The aroma of rose oil, musky sexuality and even the forbidden scent and taste of blood.
Which brings me to another allure of vampires…the forbidden. There is a dark side to most creatures of the night, which has the immediate label of "Bad Boy" or "Bad Girl" written all over it. There's something sexy about danger! Most vampires engage in the forbidden act of consuming our life's blood, or in some situations our souls. It's a deadly line they walk, associating with mortals and the source of their sustenance.
In this excerpt, Broderick and Davina share their first kiss, and Broderick has a difficult time controlling the Hunger in him, which wants to devour her as much as he does:
You'll have to go to the next blog to read that excerpt. I'm SUCH a tease! Before you do, let's check in and give a purpose to your post. Continuing to excite the six senses as it pertains to vampires…we'll explore the sense of sight in this post.
What do YOU find hot about what you SEE regarding vampires? Do signs of the supernatural excite you? Broderick has a silver core in the pupils of his eyes when the Hunger is aroused. Is a full, kissable mouth more titillating with a pair of fangs? Is it that "Bad Boy/Girl" aura about the vampire that is so exciting? Do tell!
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Office of the Vice-President and Principal
New Year's message from UTM's interim vice-president and principal, Professor Ulrich Krull
As we turn the calendar page, we're now entering a new year. It's 2017 and we look forward to this with a great deal of excitement!
Traditionally at New Year's, one thinks about resolutions, renewal, a sense of energy—and this year, I think we're going to have a particularly exciting time. Not only are we at the end of the visioning exercise, where the community has decided what UTM would like to be, but we're also entering a stage where we're beginning to discuss strategy. We invite you to participate in that, as we think about how to build the future of this campus.
And what better time than the 50th anniversary of U of T Mississauga. 50 years of becoming something very special! The 50th anniversary will be filled with various activities, symposia, meetings and celebrations, and we invite you to participate. If you want to know what's going on, please visit the 50th anniversary website, and if you have ideas as to what you like to contribute, contact the Office of Advancement.
I look forward to sharing the past successes of UTM with you as we celebrate the history of this place, and also to building the future of UTM as we think about strategies to take us forward.
Welcome to 2017!
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Replacing Damaged Cedar Clapboard?
Hey Guys,
I just bought my home a few years ago and theres some clap board that is damaged. I want to cut out the section that is damaged and then replace just that strip. I saw an article on fine home building magazine that had a walkthrough on this. They also appeared to use a tool (maybe black and decker?) that had a flat blade to make verticle cuts so that the butt of one strip is flat against the new strip?
Any help is appriciated.
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So I take it you don't want to replace the whole piece of siding but just a portion of the one piece?
Replacing the entire piece would not only be easier but would also look better and not look like a patch.
If your set on the patch job then you need to locate the center of a stud on either side of the damage and mark vertical lines and make the cuts.
How I would do it is try to wedge out the piece above an ½" or so (without braking it) score the line using a speed square and a utility knife and make the cut with a new 6" metal blade turned backwards in the Sawzall.
You could start the cut with a circler saw and finish it with Sawzall if you wanted to but I would probably just use the Sawzall. it's a tricky cut to have look good and not to damage any other siding.
Sorry, i guess I should have worded that differently. I want to replace one strip. I went to home depot and it looks like these things are sold as very long strips of cedar about 6 or 8 feet. So I see what you are saying. I just hope these strips are the same length. That is why I ask about cutting them and butting them together. The tool I mentioned is something like this tool :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2IVfO7b2iY 43 seconds in, any idea what that tool is and where i can get one?
Hopefully the length is the same and I wont need to cut them. The nails I should be using are 7d ring shanked siding nails in stainless steel from what i've searched?
How does one go about doing a similar repair to cedar shingles? In the back of my home someone replaced cedar shingles around a dryer vent and face nailed them. I plan to tackle this comes spring but am wondering how to replace the shingles without having nails showing?
Thanks for the help.
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The tool is a Multimaster, just about all of the major tool manufactures have a version of it.
As far as the rest post a couple of pictures standing back a bit showing the entire area. http://www.diychatroom.com/f19/how-a...to-post-12559/
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That's all well and dandy, but I still know of one instance of an author with several themes that are exactly the same other then color palette (and maybe some rounded corners). In your reasoning these should have been bundled together as one theme (which I agree with), not released as separate themes. I don't see how this is any different than cdavies situation.
You can't bend the rules for one and say no to another. It's not right for there to be double-standards. But that's all I'm going to say on the matter…
@Keenpixel – I agree with you. Try to remember that we're barely in our third month. We've obviously made a few mistakes while trying to get everything in order.
Yep…kinks were still being worked out in the beginning phase, and please note that things like this will be addressed in the future.
Hey guys, thanks for the response. Didn't mean for my post to sound so accusatory…I have to admit I was tired and a bit cranky when I made it!
I understand that there are several variables at play and of course ThemeForest is just starting out and has room for improvement. It's nice to know you folks are open to ideas and suggestions from your users. And that issues like this will be addressed as TF continues to grow. I'm proud to be a part of it – I just have to get some themes finished up to post!