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Mike Comer, former treasurer of the Glenmore Community Association and son-in-law of the late Glenmore developer Frank Kessler, will spend the next 14 months in jail for embezzling $465,000 from the association, according to both the Charlottesville Newsplex and NBC29. On Tuesday, August 4, Albemarle County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Higgins sentenced Comer, who pleaded guilty in April, to 15 years in prison with all but 18 months suspended. He has already served four months.
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As for Hugeley - Higgins on the bench...my point exactly....
The judge said yesterday a major factor in Comer's sentence was that he was able to pay back all the money. I don't think Gallimore was able to pay back the money.
Plus, for the record, Comer did disappear into the Nelson County woods for several days when people, and police, were looking for him. He came back on his own.
I'm not saying the sentence is too much or too little, but those are the facts behind it, according to the judge.
Comer did not personally pay the money back to the association so he should still be held responsible. If this was someone from a poor neighborhood doing this crime and running away to avoid arrest when it was discovered he would not have gotten bail and he would have been sentence to fifteen to life. Equal justice is just another sorry solgan that has outlived its meaning.
15 to life? For embezzlement? Impossible.
Besides, Corner did get 15 years himself.
If it was up to me, I would end the war on drugs and free up prison so people like this guy would have to do more time.
Just wait, George Hugeley's trial is next...let's see what happens then....
Comer stole 600,000 from rich people and only gets 18 months - probably shaved down to 14 with the 85 percent rule. But a priest stole roughly 200,000 dollars less than that and gets a whopping 13 years. The difference between the two - Rich white guy = 18 months, Asian Phillipino minority = 13 years.
You are right he got 15 and he should be serving all of them as he should know better. He was already living a privelge life and he still chose to steal. He should be given more time than the average uneducated person who does the same crime.
I wish I could figure out a way to get away with a crime like that, I'm sick of my lame ass job.
Why does someone inquire into what the Sentencing Guidelines recommended before freaking out? A departure, downwards or upwards, requires an explanation by the judge in writing. Maybe the anger should be directed towards the Virginia Sentencing Commission?
rich man, mock away. the facts are as plain as black and white. He went on the lam, she didn't. They both copped pleas.
12 months vs. 14 months.
24K vs. 465K
That is central virginia jurisprudence at its best right there. that is the best our local legal community can do.
sisk gets out in a year for killing a guy. now this.
the people that are responsible for our local criminal justice system should be completely ashamed of themselves. by choosing to be lenient when the perpetrator is from the country club, our local judiciary makes a mockery of the very thing they are supposed to represent.
they can wrap themselves in the flag of America, UVA and Thomas Jefferson all they want, but they do NOT serve the public by having two standards of justice.
Don't forget, Cheryl Higgins is on the bench for the Hugeley case.
Her former law partner is Hugeley's defense attorney.
Mike, what happen to the 2.5 million dollar line of credit that Glenmore had before Frank dead?
-injustice: I think what reason is getting at is he's saying that if the other woman had a long criminal record, then her sentence would have otherwise been much lower than Comers.
Also, suspending the majority of a sentence is is the norm in every case.
Just to clarify, you're upset with me because I asked if anyone knew what his guidelines were and because I don't just call the court and ask myself? Newsflash: I don't care that much. You're the one that is getting more and more riled up and hostile over this. I do apologize though if my simple question was so offensive to you.
Forget about Comer! What about the unindicted co-conspirators? Do you think no one else was involved?
reason, for some "reason" you cite the sentencing guidelines TWICE but refuse to post them. Interesting... I think the only "reason" why you would do so is that your argument is ridiculous.
The fact is that a woman in a very similar situation embezzled about %5 the money Comer did but will serve %67 of the time that he will serve.
This is an injustice and the ONLY people that wouldn't want to see Comer punished to the full extent of the law are other country club criminals.
"Yes, she DOES have to explain herself if she departed from the guidelines."
Her discretion came into play when she suspended the sentence, which is a fact that I pointed out and that you ignore. I NEVER said she departed from the guidelines. Why do you imply that I ever said that? Oh yeah because you have absolutely NO good reason why he should not serve a far more severe penalty.
You tell me to go look up the guidelines. No thanks. If you have a point to make, you do the research yourself, post it and make your point.
That's what I did and the only FACTS that are actually cited on this page are the ones showing that the poor woman got a harsh sentence for a pittance compared to what the rich man embezzled.
You can speculate all you want, but unless you can actually post facts that are relevant, I would suggest you stop posting your opinions which appear to be based on mere speculation.
"I have no interest in looking up what they are"
Ignorance is bliss though I guess.
I will never understand how Comer was allowed bond when he was on the lam for a month.
Likewise, I will never understand why it was taken at face value that he stole that money to prop up the family business. Was this ever proven? Surely they had at least one real estate attorney. If the business was in trouble, then why not go to the family for a loan? Surely Frank Kessler left his heirs a considerable amount of liquid assets.
The whole thing just sounds fishy. I still want to know where he was when he went missing. Was he living in the woods? Was he staying with someone in the Wintergreen area?
These are pretty basic questions that no one in the media appears to be asking.
I think Comer should sign on to ReadtheHook.com from prison and tell us his side of the story.
His side of the story is irrelevant as a thief he would have zero creditability. I am more concern about a broken justice system where the rich and privilege can do the crime and expect nothing but a slap on the wrist.
points taken. bottom line: steal almost $500K and a judge locks comer up for 14 (more) months.
if he squirreled one fifth of that money away, he's essentially make $100K for a year in prison.
That's NOT the way it's supposed to work.
Also, Gallimore had NOT been sentenced for her other crimes. The 12 months for her $24K (the other $8K she had not been sentenced) was only for the embezzlement. So it is an apples to apples comparison: sentencing for an embezzlement conviction for which both pled guilty.
Do you completely lack reading comprehension skills? I asked what the guidelines said. It wasn't rhetorical, it was a question. Guidelines are individually tailored, you can't "research" it.
The fact is you have no idea what the guidelines for either of the two individuals were, what either of their criminal histories were, or what either of the aggravating or mitigating factors were. Yet, you claim this is an injustice yet have the audacity to state that my posts are based on "mere speculation"?
Again, you demonstrate no understanding for how judicial sentencing works. Suspending all but 18 months of a 15 year sentence creates an active incarceration time of 18 months. A judge MUST explain in writing if the active incarceration period is outside of the guidelines. If 18 months was below the guidelines, she needed to explain it in writing. I will not explain this to you anymore.
Please point to a single instance where I stated an "opinion" one way or another on the sentence. I want to know what the guidelines say before I jump to a conclusion, and asked if anyone who may have been present in court knew the range.
Hope this helps.
MY commentary is:
sad set affairs in the so called justice system here in Mr.Jefferson state and county
same situation for the poor in this country who get second hand health care the rich can pay for it like Mr. Comer money talks the poor walk and get inferior health care too
sad sad
am I am professional nurse with 46 years of nursing practice and former US Navy Nurse Corps LCDR served in Desert Shield/Storm as a DIV OFFICER for a Surgical Traum ward NAVHOSPORTS a
nd was on the USNS Comfort(T-AH-20)
so it is...
Did they audit all the Kessler-owned companies that Comer may have access to the accounts?
Regarding the other woman:
"Brown also sentenced Gallimore to five years in prison on each charge, suspending all but six months on each charge." http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/cdp-news-local/2009/oct/03/woman_gets...
See a pattern? Defendants are sentenced well above their actual incarceration and the remainder is suspended. It's hanging over your head if you violate probation. Educate yourself about the criminal justice system, it's not difficult to understand.
You can't even get your fact straights, and you are simply mistaken.
Corner is serving 18 months not 14 (he's already served 4), plus 162 more months if he screws up on parole. Much of the money taken has been paid back, according to the other article.
Gallimore stole at least $32K, not $24K. She was also stealing from a kid's organization. On top of that, she had multiple other felonies charged against her.
You say he was on the lam...was he actually out on bail or wanted by the police when he went missing? If not, he wasn't on the lam. And he came back on his own accord.
There are enough instances of injustices out there without turning everything into one.
wasn't there a local, poorer woman that embezzled 24K that went away for 2 full years? this sentence clearly shows judicial bias in favor of the well to do. by suspending %90 of Comer's sentence, Cheryl Higgins shows that being a rich white guy is the way to get a slap on the wrist in her courtroom. This was purely a matter of her discretion and her choice was to have this man out of jail in less than two years.
Albemarle needs to clean house.
my mistake.
She embezzled 24K and was sent away for 12 months. He embezzled 465K and was sent away for 14 months.
He belongs to a country club, she doesn't.
That's justice, Central Virginia style! What a joke.
Why should ANY citizen believe that our local judiciary is fair, just or impartial when the FACTS are so contrary to this notion?
Nah man, I heard there was a local, poorer woman who took a dime out of the tip jar at Starbucks and they sent her away for life. yeah man...it's messed up out there
The Daily Progress has the Comer story on its front page, though not as the lead. But it's not on the website.
reason, seeing as he was sentenced to 15 YEARS and had all but 18 MONTHS suspended, I'd say the judge had plenty of discretion regarding how much time he'd be locked up. The facts are described in the article succinctly. Perhaps you should do a better job at comprehending and analyzing what you read before commenting at all.
In FACT the only reason he's getting out so early is because of this judge's whim. Her discretion cannot be overturned on appeal. She doesn't have to explain herself and there's NOTHING that anyone can do about it. Justice for people that this judge identifies with is far more lenient than justice for those that she doesn't.
@Injustice: Thank you for demonstrating that you don't understand how the sentencing guidelines work; I will help you. Sentencing Guidelines recommend only the ACTIVE sentence--the 15 years is irrelevant. They are not mandatory, but a judge must explain a departure in writing. The facts don't indicate his prior criminal history, nor the history of the other offender mentioned. Yes, she DOES have to explain herself if she departed from the guidelines. It's a statutory requirement.
Again, you didn't answer my question: What did the guidelines recommend? For all you know, 18 months was at the high end of the range.
Perhaps you should learn what you're talking about before attacking me.
As an example, the maximum the penalty for grand larceny is 20 years. Guidelines for a first time offender typically recommend no more than 30 days.
Again, when did I defend the system? I never said the sentence was lenient, nor did I say it was harsh? I asked if anyone had knowledge as to what Mr. Comer's guidelines recommended. They're not something you can "post", as I've said, because they are individually tailored.
"I'm also sorry that there are those like you that choose to defend this unjust system."
Nowhere have I said once whether or not I agreed or disagreed with the sentence. I challenge you to find an instance where I did.
You keep hounding me about some mysterious "point" I've been trying to make. From the very beginning, I've asked if anyone knew what the guidelines were. My "point" is to get the answer to that question. Perhaps you should just take a deep breath.
I'm sorry you're having such difficulty with this.
clearly the sentence was in the guidelines. You asked what the guidelines are and I straight up said I have no interest in looking up what they are. Why can't you post them?
I never said the sentence was outside the guideline but pointed out that suspending the sentence is up to the judge's discretion.
You have a point to make, go ahead and make it. I won't help you make it. You're a big boy, or you probably are.
My point stands and your peurile attempts at insults do not negate them.
This judge chose to suspend %90 of this rich man's sentence. I understand exactly how it works and have said nothing that is inconsistent with the way the criminal justice system works.
re:"The fact is you have no idea what the guidelines for either of the two individuals were, what either of their criminal histories were, or what either of the aggravating or mitigating factors were. Yet, you claim this is an injustice yet have the audacity to state that my posts are based on ââ?¬Å?mere speculation"?"
Why is it so hard for YOU to simply state your point instead of pointing out that I haven't negated the point you refuse to make?
if you "want to know what the guidlines say", find out. Don't ask me to educate you as I'm not interested in leading a horse to water.
"MUST explain in writing if the active incarceration period is outside of the guidelines"
You keep harping on this point. NOWHERE do I claim that his sentence nor his incarceration time are outside the sentencing guidelines. I defy you to show where I say this.
In fact, YOU are the one that brings up the sentencing guidelines again and again and again.
My point remains and is salient. I'm sorry you aren't able to refute it and I'm sorry for all of us that the rich have a different standard of justice in central virginia. I'm also sorry that there are those like you that choose to defend this unjust system.
If this was a minority or some poor white person, without the same resources like comer this judge would have thrown the guidelines out the window as she send him/her away for ten to fifteen. Regardless of what the guidelines recommend he should have gotten more time here and she should not be on the bench if she cannot justify the reason in writing for a higher senctence here. We cannot expect any better from her because she does not relate to people outside the country club lifesytle.


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Here are the best albums of 2011 as chosen by our panel of "experts" (Woody, Shirk and I). I'm not a huge fan of ranking albums because my personal rankings are fluid and change depending on the time of year, my mood of the moment, and the album's propensity to get played again and again over time.
Because we collaborated on the list, we each had to leave off some of our personal top 50's. In the end, man-to-man mud wrestling prevailed and we compromised. The unanimous top album among all of us was Tamer Animals by Other Lives and our second choice was the most snubbed band on best of lists in 2011, The Deep Dark Woods. Get in there and let us know what we missed. You can also hit play on the mp3's and they'll play as a playlist. Sit back and enjoy!
If some of the comments don't make sense, it's because we've used posted our favorite albums to this list throughout the year so they could be outdated.
1. Other Lives – Tamer Animals
Other Lives – Tamer Animals (from the HearYa Live Session)
Other Lives – Dust Bowl III (from the HearYa Live Session)
2. The Deep Dark Woods – The Place I Left Behind
The Deep Dark Woods – West Side Street
The Deep Dark Woods – Ballad of Frank Dupree (from the HearYa Live Session)
The Deep Dark Woods – The Banks of The Leopold Canal (from the HearYa Live Session)
3. Centro-Matic – Candidate Waltz
4. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – Here We Rest
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – Codeine
5. Elliott BROOD – Days Into Years
6. Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest
7. The Low Anthem – Smart Flesh
The Low Anthem – Boeing 737 (from our live session with The Low Anthem)
The Low Anthem – Love and Altar (from our live session with The Low Anthem)
8. The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
9. Wilco – The Whole Love
10. Bon Iver – S/T
11. My Morning Jacket – Circuital
12. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
13. Okkervil River – I Am Very Far
Okkervil River – Wake and Be Fine
14. Wye Oak – Civilian
15. Ryan Adams – Ashes and Fire
16. White Denim – D
White Denim – Anvil Everything
White Denim – Street Joy (from the HearYa Live Session)
White Denim – Keys (from the HearYa Live Session)
17. Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming
Charles Bradley – The World (Is Going Up In Flames)
18. WATERS – Out In The Light
19. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
20. The David Wax Museum – Everything Is Saved
The David Wax Museum – Born With A Broken Heart
21. Mount Moriah – S/T
Mount Moriah – Reckoning (from the HearYa Live Session)
22. Megafaun – S/T
23. AA Bondy – Believers
AA Bondy – The Heart Is Willing
24. The Black Keys – El Camino
25. Drive-By Truckers – Go-Go Boots
Drive-By Truckers – Everybody Needs Love
26. Southeast Engine – Canary
27. Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing
Blitzen Trapper – Love The Way You Walk Away
28. Middle Brother – S/T
29. Roadside Graves – We Can Take Care Of Ourselves
Roadside Graves – Double Feature
Roadside Graves – Love Me More
30. Ha Ha Tonka – Death of a Decade
31. Deer Tick – Divine Providence
Deer Tick "Main Street" by Partisan Records
32. The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
33. Caveman – CoCo Beware
34. The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy
The Middle East – Jesus Came To My Birthday Party
35. Dead Man Winter – Bright Lights
36. Caitlin Rose – Own Side Now
37. Brown Bird – Salt For Salt
38. Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears – Scandalous
39. Vetiver – The Errant Charm
40. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
41. Fruit Bats – Tripper
42. Little Hurricane – Homewrecker
Little Hurricane – Crocodile Tears
43. Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside – Dirty Radio
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside – I Swear
44. The Milk Carton Kids – Prologue
The Milk Carton Kids – Michigan
The Milk Carton Kids – Milk Carton Kid
45. Alela Diane and Wild Divine
46. The Devil Whale – Teeth
47. Ponderosa – Moonlight Revival
48. She Keeps Bees – Dig On
2. She Keeps Bees – Saturn Return by wepromised
49. Country Mice – Twister
50. Seryn – This Is Where We Are

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took his surprising bromance with Barack Obama one step further Wednesday night, posting a trove of pictures of himself and the president touring damage from Hurricane Sandy.
The pictures — almost all of which feature both Christie and Obama – are sure to raise the ire of conservatives, who are already bemoaning the New Jersey Republican's sudden embrace of the president.
So far, we have bought that Christie has been legitimately putting politics aside while his state attempts to recover from the most devastating storm in its history. But these pictures seem a little gratuitous.
It's worth remembering that Christie is coming up for re-election in a state that will almost certainly go to Obama next week, so this bipartisanship is likely to benefit his image. Or something else might be afoot behind the scenes….
We may never know. In the meantime, here are the photos ».


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By Greg Wallace
The moment passed so quickly, so anonymously, that most of the college football world outside of the Bay Area probably barely took notice.Late in the first half of the annual Big Game between Cal and Stanford on Oct. 20, 2012, Stanford starting center Sam Schwartzstein's helmet flew off. By rule, he was forced to sit out a play before re-entering the game.
No big deal, right? For most of us, yes.
For Conor McFadden, it was a huge deal.
See, McFadden was Schwartzstein's backup. And he was about to make his college football debut.
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It was a moment of "wow," of excitement, of validation.
See, McFadden was a walk-on. And this was his college football debut. Overlooked by major college football programs while growing up in the Twin Cities area, he walked on at Stanford and carved out a role for himself, eventually earning a scholarship and putting himself on track for a degree in public policy.
That play was a realization, he said, "that I can play at this level."
"You can't discount the drive and hunger that being a walk-on gives you," he said. "You want to prove you belong."
McFadden's college football journey is not that of a heralded 5-star recruit, but it is no less important. His story, and those of others like him, like friend Robbie Lemons, a Stanford guard who clinched the Cardinal's recent NCAA tournament upset of New Mexico with a pair of late free throws, are proof that college sports are about more than the superstars. The road less-traveled works too.
McFadden's road began in Sunfish Lake, Minn., a small Twin Cities suburb. He played high school football at St. Thomas Academy and was a first-team Minneapolis Star Tribune All-Metro selection and a second-team All-State selection, per the Associated Press. But he was also 6'2", 250 pounds and didn't exactly receive much attention from major college football programs.
"Notre Dame came to school and they pulled me out of class," he said. "The recruiter took two looks up and down, and I was 6'2", 250. He never called back."
McFadden's father, Mike, put a high premium on academics, and Conor was set to go to Princeton and play football there. But the Tigers had a coaching change in late 2009, which led him to re-examine his choice.
His father received an email from Stanford, which had watched his highlight tape and was interested in exploring his status as a preferred walk-on.
"I said it'd be a cold day in Hell before I went to college in California," he said. "I ate my words very happily."
On that mid-January day, it was 65 degrees warmer in the Bay Area than the Twin Cities, which brightened McFadden's mood immediately.
"The combination of playing for a coach like Jim Harbaugh, who believed in me the moment I stepped on campus, and it being 60 degrees when I landed vs. negative-five when I took off sealed me," he said.
Stanford's application deadline had already passed, and the help McFadden received in expediting the admission process was one of the only true favors he got as a preferred walk-on.
He received no scholarship money, and NCAA rules did not allow him to receive any extra preference in applying for scholarships or grants.
"It was very similar to what I would have received in the Ivy League," he said. "There was no scholarship offer. It was a way to get into school and be a part of the team."
Once he was on campus, there was the matter of, well, proving himself. McFadden admits he was "one of the worst athletes you can possibly imagine on the Stanford football team. Too small, too slow, every single excuse in the book."
To earn the attention of Harbaugh and offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Mike Bloomgren, McFadden used his best weapon: his mind.
He traveled with the Cardinal and helped the offense discover defensive tendencies on the fly, leading to offensive success.
"It helped me in terms of understanding the playbook," he said. "Learning the playbook can be pretty complicated. If you don't know the plays, you can't be on the field. As a young player, I got a lot of reps even though I was nowhere near as talented as some of the other guys on the offensive line. I knew what to do and the play would get off. I might get beat on the play, but I'd try and do my job.
"Also, as a walk-on, I knew I couldn't compete physically at a young age. It was frustrating for me. I wanted to pull my own weight, be part of something, wanted to feel like I was contributing. I had to be creative and think outside the box."
Off the field, McFadden wasn't treated any differently than a scholarship player. He was part of the team. Stanford has a strong walk-on culture. Eight players who walked on with McFadden were on the two-deep last fall.
"You talk to a lot of guys, and a lot didn't even know I was a preferred walk-on," he said. "I never felt treated any differently. No different locker room, I didn't have to eat in a different place. It isn't another barrier. I think that's a real benefit and important for a walk-on program to have...It speaks volumes to the type of program Stanford is. It's a meritocracy when you come in. People aren't looked down upon. They're treated as equals."
College football's pay-for-play debate has received plenty of attention over the last year, and it went to a new level last week when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern football players would be allowed to unionize, a decision that Northwestern is appealing.
McFadden says he understands the anger leveled at the NCAA, but paying players isn't the solution. Getting them better prepared for life after college is.
"I don't need more money in my pocket," he said. "With celebrities and pro athletes, money gets them in trouble. That's why college sports are so valuable. It gives kids an opportunity at an education, which is truly more valuable in the long term. Infinitely more valuable. Football, money, that stuff goes away at the end of the day."
Unionization, he said, "is going from the devil you know to the devil you don't know completely," noting that union members pay dues and students could be taxed for their earnings.
Far more important, in his eyes, is holding schools accountable for their players' academics. He is "very disappointed in the NCAA as a whole" and says "there are institutions that are willingly letting kids fail."
He favors strong sanctions for programs that don't graduate their players, calling current penalties for poor Academic Performance Rate (APR) a "slap on the wrist."
In the most recent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) ratings released last fall, Stanford had a 93 percent rate, No. 5 nationally. Rival Cal had a 44 percent rate, the worst in any BCS league.
"The NCAA has sold college athletics as a replacement, coaches as mentor figures in kids' lives. At some point you need to say enough is enough and we need to start doing right by these athletes."
McFadden truly appreciates the treatment he has received from Stanford and its coaches. The moment he experienced on Mother's Day 2012 was truly gratifying.
New coach David Shaw called him with some special news. He was being placed on scholarship.
"I earned the respect of my teammates and coaches," he said. "The scholarship was evidence of a job well done. Coach Shaw always talks about tangible evidence, and that's something we're always proud of doing...Accomplishing something like that was the best day of my life. I called my mom and gave her quite a present for Mother's Day. A giant tuition reduction."
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"There needs to be more people in college football like Mike Bloomgren," he said. "He's always been on my side since day 1, fighting for me at every step. I'd do anything for him, and he did anything and everything for me."
McFadden's first play was fortuitous, too. His family (Conor is one of six children) had flown out for the big game and was in the stands at Berkeley.
Getting in the game was McFadden's own personal salvo at the Notre Dame and Minnesota recruiters who looked right past him, even if some of his family didn't see the actual play.
"My little brothers were off getting Mike and Ikes," he said. "It couldn't have ended any other way. That's how crazy and funny my family is. It was a very special experience."
In his career, McFadden played in six games over two seasons.
"I laughed about it that I went to the worst possible school for an offensive lineman to walk on at," he said. "We have an unbelievable offensive line that are talented and great guys at every level. We have so much talent and they're such quality human beings. If you're part of the Stanford offensive line tradition, you realize, 'Wow, I can play at this level.' The hardest people I ever blocked were at practice, no question in my mind."
Before last season, McFadden came to what he called "the toughest decision I've ever made."
His father Mike is one of six candidates running for the Republican nomination to face incumbent Democrat Al Franken in the 2014 general election for one of Minnesota's two U.S. Senate seats.
Conor decided that he would take a one-year leave of absence from Stanford to work on his father's campaign. He had a year of football eligibility left and could have challenged for a starting job this fall.
However, leaving meant that his eligibility clock (players are given five years to play four, and Conor had already redshirted) would expire, ending his collegiate career.
"Stanford football has been a family to me," he said. "I came extremely close in fall camp to earning the starting job, and it's something I really wanted. I knew if I stayed for another year, I'd have a chance to win the starting job. But I'm the oldest of six kids and that's what families do. Dad really needed my help."
McFadden admitted he was worried about his team's response, but he says the support has been extremely gratifying.
"The outpouring of support and tears has been unbelievable," he said. "It'll be a little tough next year watching them run onto the field, but I have utter confidence in every guy on the team that they can do something special. I just won't be a part of it."
He'll be fighting a different kind of battle, helping shape his father's policies and traveling across Minnesota speaking on his behalf.
"There's not a lot of difference between politics and football," he said. "The only difference is, football has rules. I could go on and on about the lessons Stanford has helped me be able to bring to the real world and apply. I have a strong belief that we can do better."


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Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim (2013) Towards a Theory of Trade Finance. In: Special Lecture, 25/01/2013, Bonn Graduate School of Economics, Bonn University.Full text not available from this repository.
Shipping goods internationally is risky and takes time. Therefore, trading partners not only have to agree on the specification and the price of a good, but also on the timing of payments. To allocate risk and to finance the time gap between production and sale, a range of different payment contracts is utilized, broadly classified into exporter finance (Open Account), importer finance (Cash in Advance) and bank finance (Letter of Credit). I study the optimal choice between these three types of payment contracts considering one shot transactions, repeated transactions and implications for trade. The equilibrium contract is determined by financial market characteristics and contracting environments in both the source and the destination country. Trade increases in enforcement probabilities and decreases in financing costs. The latter effect is the larger, the longer the time needed for trade. I use a panel of bilateral trade flows to test these predictions, running gravity regressions that include interaction terms between distance and financing costs. Results are in line with the model, highly significant and economically relevant.
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About Kevin
Kevin Craft
Growing up in an environment where everybody wanted to get into the music industry, Kevin Craft wasn't passionate about singing or rapping, on the other hand, he did realize that he was a natural at making people laugh. "All my friends were trying to get into the music industry and that wasn't me. I can't rap, I can't sing. But when we would start capping on each other, I always found a way to turn it into a story and make them laugh. After a while I noticed that it really wasn't hard for me to make people laugh…it was like a gift."
Craft decided to turn his God given talent into a career, he worked on his jokes everyday, started to frequently visit any open mics he could find, and host music showcases for his friends. Being a comedian in Minnesota seemed to be a bit difficult at times and he wasn't sure if he was on the right track, till he came across a posting for an audition and this fortuitous encounter would lead him to the semi-finals in Chicago for The 2006 Last Comic Standing. That opportunity removed all doubt from his mind about his career as a comedian, he knew that he had something that could take him to the top.
Since then, Kevin has been featured on CNN regarding his YouTube Videos and also featured on TMZ for the big spoof of the Burger King commercial "Whopper freakout ghetto version". Kevin has appeared on the Tyra Banks show, Travel Channels Top Spot and has also starred on VH1's "Tool Academy 3″.
Kevin is a traveling comic and can be seen touring all over the country. He takes pride in every show he performs in and makes it a priority to keep the audience laughing and wanting more.


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Central Java, Kailasa Dieng Museum
If you like religious objects, you should visit the Kailasa Dieng Museum. In this museum, you could trace the ancient Javanese Hindu civilization of the 7th and 8th centuries. The Kailasa Museum is situated in Gedung Arca Compound and belongs to the Central Java Conservation Agency in Dieng, Batur sub-district, Banjarnegara district, Central Java. Since it is situated within the Dieng area, you could also see a beautiful and cold environment because the Dieng highlands is not only famous for its ancient civilization but also its beautiful and natural scenery. Dieng was a volcano, which erupted and destroyed its peak. This highland was made of dead cauldrons which filled with water to become a lake. The lake dried and was used for Hindu religious activities. Historically, Dieng was a ritual site for Hindu followers. Up to the present, 22 ancient Javanese epigraphs tell about Dieng as a center for religious activities. Here, you will be astonished by temples near the Museum. Some say, the names of these temples were taken from the names of players in Mahabrata stories such as Arjuna, Bima, Setyaki, Gatot Kaca, Dwarawati, Sembadra, Kunti, and Srikandi. In addition to these temples, you could also find loose sculptures near the Dieng temple compound such as Arca Nandi ( a bull), a symbol of Siva and Mahaguru. When entering the museum, you will see Dieng's antique sculptures. After that, you could climb steps to an information room where you could get as much information as possible, such as the history of Dieng highland and its temples. Several panels provide information about the life of local inhabitants in the highlands. Some panels also tell about their lifestyle and agriculture, and information about local Mosques and Mushallas, arts, and the Myth of Anak Bajang. Other panels provide more information about the Dieng highlands as a center for Hindu ritual activities and about its temples. Dieng is taken from the word "Di" which means mountain, and "Hyang" which means God. Thus, Dieng means a mountain where Gods live. The Kailasa Museum is taken from a epigraph. It means a holy mountain. This Museum was officially inaugurated by the Minister of Tourism, Jero Wacik, in 2008. It was built to provide information about the Dieng highlands.
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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Intercultural Studies
As an Asian-American Christian higher education institution, GCU has been serving Korean pastors, missionaries, and Christian leaders in North America and from other parts of the globe and other non-Korean students, through various academic and professional degree programs, since 1993. The PhD supports GCU's vision and mission by promoting rigorous scholarship committed to proclaiming and embodying the gospel of God's Kingdom in various intercultural contexts, advancing theological and missiological research from non-Western Christian perspectives, and bringing Western and non-Western Christian heritages together to meet the various challenges and needs in the missional or ministerial endeavors in a largely post-Christendom era.
The PhD is intended to equip students for vocations of teaching and research in theological schools, colleges, and universities, or for the academic study of missional and ministerial practice.
The PhD offers courses primarily in the following three concentration areas of Intercultural Studies: (1) historical-theological studies; (2) global/contextual studies; (3) ministerial development & leadership studies. Students may choose a dissertation topic in one of these areas.
One of the primary goals of the PhD is to promote an advanced interdisciplinary knowledge of diversities that impinge upon both human life in general and Christian mission experience. Globalization, migration, pluralisms, and other aspects of contemporary societies make our life and experience in the world extremely diverse and complex; they not only intensify the challenges in our cross-cultural missions and Christian mission in our everyday life settings but also open doors for new opportunities to communicate and embody the gospel. Hence, the PhD is also purported to encourage critical assessments of existing intercultural approaches to Christian mission and developments of new ones to face the various challenges.
Having completed the PhD, students will have demonstrated:
- an advanced knowledge of the discipline and research methodologies appropriate to their chosen field of study;
- an ability to articulate mission theologies with both Western and non-Western Christian perspectives;
- an ability to discern and meet various contemporary challenges and needs in a cross-cultural mission field and/or in their everyday life settings.
- an ability to engage in learning, doing research, collaborating, and teaching in academic and ministerial settings;
- an ability to integrate a comprehensive interdisciplinary knowledge of scholarly literature and skills applicable to their chosen field of study;
- an ability to write a scholarly research work in their chosen field of study.
- Applicants must hold a Bachelor's degree.
- Applicants must have a MDiv degree or an appropriate master's degree such as MA in Mission Studies or Intercultural Studies (totaling at least 48 semester credits and with 3.3 or higher GPA on a 4.0 scale) from an institution accredited by one of USDE recognized accrediting agencies or its equivalent. Applicants with a MA in Mission/Intercultural Studies or its equivalent from an institution accredited by one of USDE recognized accrediting agencies or its equivalent may also be accepted. Applicants must have, at the graduate level, a minimum of 15 semester hours of Mission/Intercultural Studies and 30 semester hours of Biblical/Theological studies, including a minimum of 6 semester hours of Old Testament, 6 semester hours of New Testament, 6 semester hours of Systematic Theology, and 3 semester hours of Church History. Those who do not fully meet these requirements may take additional/approved elective courses provided at GCU.
- Official transcript(s) from all previous degree-awarding institutions must be submitted in English or in a notarized translation.
- Students with a related PhD, ThD, DMiss, or DIS from an accredited institution may transfer a maximum of 9 semester credits from their degree program, upon approval by the PhD Program Committee.
Applicants must present evidence of potential for an original academic research at the doctoral level by submitting a sample of unpublished writing or a recent academic research paper if nothing has been published. This writing sample should be written in one of the applicant's contemporary research languages (preferably, Korean or English) and in an academic writing format, and should be 20-25 pages in length.
Applicants must present evidence of competence in two languages: (1) one contemporary research language for bibliographic control; and (2) one biblical language. The writing sample may be taken as the evidence of competence of a contemporary research language. In exceptional circumstances, the biblical language requirement may be waived if the applicant's transcript indicates course works that satisfy biblical languages requirements at the MDiv level. Those who have not taken courses in a biblical language must take required additional courses in a biblical language, provided by GCU. Competence in a second contemporary research or field language is not required for admission but will be required to qualify doctoral candidacy—whether prior to or during the period of comprehensive examinations.
Applicants must have at least three years of cross-cultural or intercultural work experience (e.g., mission agencies, mission fields, or Christian ministries in an intercultural context). Applicants who have teaching experience in a multicultural or intercultural setting will also be considered. Applicants must submit a certification of their field experience.
Applicants must submit two letters of recommendation: one from a colleague or mentor in the field of cross-cultural or intercultural work, and one from an academic advisor, such as a former professor. The recommendation forms may be obtained from the GCU Office of Admissions.
Applicants must submit a two-page statement including (1) their specific goals in pursuing a PhD degree; (2) their prospective research topics and areas of interest; and (3) their expectations for achieving their academic goals at GCU.
Applications for admission to the PhD program must be approved by the PhD Program Committee, as well as by the Office of Admissions. As noted above, applicants must submit the following:
- PhD application form (available at the GCU website)
- Official transcripts
- Sample research paper
- Certification of field experience
- Two recommendation letters
- Academic purpose statement
Each applicant must submit all necessary documents to the Office of Admissions, accompanied by a non-refundable application fee of 100 USD. All the original application documents must be received no later than 30 days prior to the beginning of the semester in which student seeks enrollment. Applicants who have submitted all the required documents will be contacted for an interview with the PhD Program Committee.
It takes approximately 30 days to process the application. After their portfolios are reviewed, applicants will be notified as to approval or disapproval of their applications.
Each applicant's portfolio will be evaluated by the PhD Program Committee, and applicants who do not have sufficient field experience in cross-cultural, biblical, theological, and/or historical foundation, or who do not meet the language competency requirement, can satisfy these prerequisites by taking additional/approved courses prior to matriculation in the program. Some students may be admitted on condition of completion of leveling work prior to matriculation in the program. As noted above, if applicants have taken courses in biblical languages for their MDiv, these requirements can be waived; however, those who have not taken courses of biblical languages must take additional courses to fulfill the biblical language requirement. These courses are offered at GCU. Also, those who lack coursework in mission studies can take additional courses provided by GCU.
International applicants who come with F-1 VISA and I-20 should follow the general admission requirements of GCU's admission policies as outlined in the Catalog.
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Tagged: Myth vs. Reality
Mythbusters: The Angels Baseball Edition
Baseball reality is so often legendary that it shouldn't be surprising when the opposite occurs and baseball myths, oft repeated, begin to take on an aura of reality. As an Angels fan, there were two such recent myths that caught my attention more than any others, as they were repeated throughout the regular season, the post season and on into November. Both myths "explain" Mike Napoli's rising star post trade from the Angels.
Myth 1: Of course Mike Napoli blossomed under the Rangers, the guy just needed to get some real playing time.
I actually fell victim to this myth myself for a little while. It certainly sounds plausible. And it's been repeated so often that it really started to seem like Naps got a lot more playing time with the Rangers…until I started thinking about all of the games I attended where Napoli played. Hmmm…so I looked up some real numbers.
In 2011, for the Texas Rangers, Mike Napoli had: 369 at bats in 113 games and played a position in 96 games, 61 at catcher and 35 at first base.
In 2010, for the Angels, Mike Napoli had: 453 at bats in 140 games and played a position in 126 games, 59 at catcher and 67 at first base, significantly more playing time than he enjoyed with Texas in 2011.
In 2009, for the Angels, Mike Napoli had: 382 at bats in 114 games and played a position in 96 games, all of them at catcher, roughly the same amount of playing time as he enjoyed with Texas in 2011.
Prior to 2009, Mike Napoli did experience less playing time, making an appearance in 78 games in 2008, 75 in 2007 and 99 in 2006. But for the two season prior to his trade, Naps saw as much or playing time in Anaheim as he saw in Arlington.
As the Mythbuster boys would say, I call this myth busted.
Myth 2: Mike Scioscia is too hard on catchers.
I only have anecdotal evidence against this myth, but I feel it's significant. While I have no doubt that Mike Scioscia is hard on catchers, I question the implication that this is universally detrimental. Yes, Mike Napoli played better for the Rangers and the current crop of catchers all need improvements in different ways but, come on, two out of three Molina brothers can't be wrong, right? Especially when the third isn't so much a dissenting vote as not included in the sample size. So, apparently, some catchers do just fine under Sosh. Myth busted.
And the reality?
Okay, if it wasn't more playing time and Mike Scioscia isn't a crippling influence on catchers, then why did Mike Napoli have so much stronger a season in 2011 than in 2010 or 2009? Well, in part, I would never underestimate the power of batting in the middle of that crazy good Texas lineup. Do they have a weak spot in their lineup? Because we sure never saw one. Talk about protection!
But, more than that, I suppose the greatest myth of all is that past performance is a guarantee of future performance, especially once you change any of the variables: new team, new manager, new coaches, new lineup, new clubhouse culture and so on. Some players in this situation adapt immediately and pick up right where they left off, give or take a little benefit/detriment from combining their talents with those of their new teammates. Adrian Gonzalez and Adrian Beltre, for example. Some players experience a (hopefully temporary?) set back in their new digs and perform well below expectations. Carl Crawford and Vernon Wells, for example. And others absolutely shine, like our current example Mike Napoli.
In Naps particular case, I think there is a slight, skewed truth to Myth #2. It's not that Mike Scioscia is too hard on catchers, but that way in which Mike Scioscia handles catchers, be it hard or not, simply didn't work for Mike Napoli, much like a particular teacher might be just the ticket for one student but ineffective at best for their siblings. So, significant lineup protection? New manager with whom he clicked better? Perhaps even added drive to prove himself after being traded twice in less than a week? Take your pick, but I think it's a combination of all of these reasons and perhaps a few more. Interesting food for thought as Hot Stove heats up and GMs begin to throw large sums of money about banking, quite literally, on past performances.


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Entertainer Flavor Flav is facing a trial on felony charges that he threatened his longtime girlfriend's 17-year-old son with a butcher knife during a family argument.
The 54-year-old former rap and reality TV star, whose legal name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr., didn't testify during a Wednesday evidence hearing in Las Vegas Justice Court.
But the teen did. He pointed from the witness stand toward Drayton at the defendant's table, identified him as the man wearing a clock around his neck, and told Justice of the Peace Melanie Andress-Tobiasson that Drayton chased him to a bedroom and stabbed the knife through the door during the argument early Oct. 17.
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The teen quoted the obscenity he says Drayton used as the rapper threatened to kill him. Drayton was standing 2 feet away with the knife still in his hand, the boy said.
The Associated Press is not reporting the boy's name because he is a juvenile.
The argument began when Drayton woke the boy during a 3 a.m. argument with the boy's mother, Elizabeth Trujillo, with whom he has lived for about eight years. It escalated when the teen, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound high school football and basketball player, wrestled the 5-foot-6 Drayton into a head lock in the kitchen.
"I told him, 'You're not going to talk to my mom like that,'" he testified. "He pushed me. ... I pushed him."
Defense attorney Tony Abbatangelo later told the judge he believed Drayton may have been acting in self-defense when he allegedly grabbed the butcher knife, a steak knife and a pizza cutter during the scuffle.
Abbatangelo noted that a police report didn't include the quote the teen recalled Wednesday.
Andress-Tobiasson said the evidence was enough to bind Drayton over to state court for trial.
She set arraignment for April 18 on felony charges of assault with a weapon and child endangerment that could get Drayton up to 12 years in prison if he's convicted. Drayton also faces a misdemeanor domestic violence battery charge.
Abbatangelo said he'll seek to postpone arraignment because Drayton will be out of town April 18 while he and other members of the rap group Public Enemy are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Abbatangelo said Drayton plans to plead not guilty.


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My bank teller must be a dad.
Every time I go to the bank, he gives my children the exact same colored lollipops. I've never asked him to do this, but, without fail, he digs through the lollipop basket until he finds a matching set of Dum Dum lollipops.
He must be a dad because he knows about the fight he is saving me. The one where each of my boys are eyeing the lollipops they don't have rather than enjoying the one they do. The one where they whine for their favorite color. The one in which they are not satisfied until they have what their sibling has.
As I drive away from the bank's drive-through window, I inwardly thank this man, and I think about this picture of human jealousy: envious, controlling, domineering, possessive, and self-focused.
God is a Dad, but he is not like my bank teller.
He gives lollipops out to everyone, but he does not give them equally or similarly. He gives them perfectly, however, and until we trust that, we'll be dissatisfied with what we've been given.
As a Father, God knows his kids' tendency to want what their siblings have. It's hard not wanting the bright pink lollipop when we're given the brown one. But unlike our spiteful jealousy, God's jealousy for us says, "I absolutely know what is best for you and I want you to have it. Because I love you, I will not give you anything less than my best. However, what I give you is going to be different than what I give that person you are comparing yourself to." He lifts our eyes up to him and away from watching others and reminds us that he has perfectly and strategically given us our gifts, talents, and ministries.
Romans 8:28 reminds us that God is always working things for good on our behalf:
"And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose."
"What a power would be unleashed in your life and mind if we really believed that the almighty God, whose counsel cannot be frustrated, is this very minute, busily at work making sure that what happens to us this afternoon and tomorrow at home and at work is only what is best for us!"


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Greeting's AntiOnliner's. This will probably be my last attempt at a tutorial since I'm not much of a good tutorial writer. For those interested in part two of my other tutorial, PM me and if I get enough of a "demand" so to speak for it then I'll finish it and post it. Anyways, this tutorial will introduce people to viruses and what they are, how they damage data, systems, networks, etc, and what are different kinds of viruses. Let's get started with what a virus is and how they damage data.
What Is A Virus?
A virus can be described in many forms and can be said many ways. The way I look at it, a virus can be any bit of code or any program meant to cause harm of malicious nature, or destroy/damage data on any given system. This whether being a PC (personal computer) or even a network server. Viruses are written as programs or applications with lines of coding in them designed to perform a certain task. These "tasks" usually involve data corruption/deletion, data retrieval, replication and spreading of the virus itself. Some (most of today's viruses) viruses like to copy itself to the user's e-mail client (usually Microsoft's Outlook Express) and send itself to the address book of the user, thus the reason why viruses spread so quickly. During the "coding" or programming stages, the virus creator codes into the application what he want's it to do. In most cases, the virus creator has no specific target and just wants to cause alot of harm and damage to computer system's. However, he can simply rely on user stupidity when it comes to downloading and running the viruses as well. User ignorance has proven to be an effective and rather scary method for virus creator's/blackhat hackers in general. Using method's like the "Outlook Express Trick" and Instant Messaging applications only further's the speed and amount of systems affected. Sometimes downloaded programs from website's or friends can also contain viruses, as well as the ever popular p2p applications. These applications which allow users to share their files with others on certain networks (ex. KaZaa, E-Donkey, WinMX) have proven to be running rampant with viruses.
So in a short sense, a virus can be anything (any program, any application, any line of code) meant to do harm of malicious purpose or intent on a computer machine. Now let's get into how a few lines of code can damage so much data and can cause companies to lose million's in dollars.
How Does A Virus Damage Data and Files?
Rival Company A posted their monthly chart's and are doing great. Stocks are rising, revenues are up, and things look great all around for everyone. Rival Company B couldn't be any worse. Stocks are dropping like hailstorms, people are getting cutback/laid off, and they are in debt. Something needs to be done to their rival (Rival Company A) and their product. If something isn't done soon, Rival Company B can be out of business.
At their next meeting, they (a group of "higher-up's") decide they are going to try to infect their rival companies network systems with a virus. They want the virus to delete all software, all documents, and every last inch of data on their systems. Sure, they can hire a hacker or something to hack it themselves, but why not rely on the stupidness of one of their one users? Pretend it's from a friend or something and send it as an e-mail download. Or even better.. Pretend to be an employee and see if you can get physical access. Ahh, so many way's to infect their system.
Sound's somewhat evil, right? Well unfourtunately this has been done in the past and happens even today. Companies who are desperate try to either hack or send a virus to a rival company. Anything to screw up their systems data, documents, software, hardware, WHATEVER. Whatever it takes to help them get an advantage or achieve a goal. So back to the point: How does a virus damage files/data?
Well, whoever creates a virus first need's to know a programming language. One of the popular languages for creating viruses in is VisualBasic. It's fairly simple to learn and use, easy to issue a command in, and creates simple applications. I personally would like to learn a little more than I know so I can create some basic applications. But anyways, virus creators usually use this programming language because it's quick and easy. If not this one, then they use the C/C++ programming language. This language however is (IMO) harder to learn and require's a little more skill.
So when it come's to coding time, they start off with the basic's. Usually they add in lines of code to ensure the virus runs when opened and sometimes write some code so that the virus can not be shut off. Sadly, in today's world, 90% of the viruses coded place a file in the system's registry so that even if deleted, it remains whats called "resident" in the systems registry. This make's life a hell of a lot harder for your everyday home user who probably couldn't work his/her way around the registry (nor am I suggesting you should). In any sense, virus creator's have different techniques to ensure the virus (unless carefully and properly removed) stay's in the system.
A virus/malicious application that I messed around with alot awhile back is Hackology Network's "Hard Drive Killer Pro" application. The name genuinely speaks for itself, however here's a brief overview of the program from the Hackology site:I've played with this application numerous times (as well as other viruses like it) and it's coding structure and event process is simplistic. It run's a "Format C:" as well as on any other drives the system has on it and then reboot's the system. When booted back up, the system has everything erased and the hard drive is destroyed. This is how easy it is to cause damage to data through a virus just by injecting a few simple lines of coding into a program/application.The Hard Drive Killer Pro series of programs offer one the ability to fully and permanently destroy all data on any given Dos or Win3.x/9x/NT/2000 based system. In other words, 90% of the computers world wide.
The program, once executed, will start eating up the hard drive, and/or infect and reboot the hard drive within a few seconds. After rebooting, all hard drives attached to the system would be formatted (in an unrecoverable manner) within only 1 to 2 seconds, irregardless of the size of the hard drive. The program has reported to have caused physical damage to some hard drives (on many occasions). However, the program was not in any way designed to cause physical damage, only data.
What Are Different Types Of Viruses?
Ever since the creation of the very first virus, there have always been many different types and forms of viruses that each infect different parts of a system or are triggered by different circumstances. Here are some of the different types of viruses and a brief description of them, as well as an example:
-- Boot Viruses: Speaks mostly for itself, these types of viruses infects the boot sectors and boot records of the system and run's on bootup. One specific boot virus, the "Zappa" virus, infects the floppy and master boot records of the computer. It is a mere 520 bytes and remains resident in the memory of the system.
-- Stealth Viruses: Also kind of speaks for itself, except these viruses infect programs instead of boot sectors/records and these types of viruses enter the system through "stealth" type methods. By that, I mean they use methods such as being embedded into other programs and applications to gain entry to a system without being detected (although this sometimes doesn't work, most A/V applications can pick this up). For example, a person running a website can offer programs and/or downloads on his website and if someone chooses to download them they are running a risk. The user should download always from the vendors direct site because this site's owner could have embedded a virus or malicious code into the download. An example of a stealth virus is the "Zero Bug" virus. This virus infects .com files, is 1,536 bytes big, work's off a triggered event, and also remains resident in the systems memory.
-- Polymorphic Viruses: Somewhat a cross between the above, except these viruses are polymorphic and their damage varies on many factors. A fine example is the "Morphic.218" virus. It is a small 218 bytes big and infects .com files whereas another polymorphic virus, "ACG" infects .com AND .exe files, is 0 bytes, and remains resident in the memory. It also encrypt's itself. This is how polymorphic viruses differentiates itself from other viruses.
-- Macro Viruses: These types of viruses still exist today, but barely. They were more popular (atleast in my belief and opinion) more so in the mid 90's, during the Windows 95 era. Anyways, these type of viruses infect documents on the system, such as Microsoft's Word and Excel programs. An example would be the "Bloodhound.ExcelMacro" virus. In it's name you can determine it infects the Microsoft Excel program. This virus is pretty simplistic and it's 1,024 bytes in size. Another macro virus, "W97M.Barras" infects Microsoft's Word 97 application and is 1,234 bytes in size.
-- Window's Viruses: These are your everyday, annoying worms and viruses. Nothing particularly special about these although some have made a big name for themselves in the Computer Security scene. A particular virus, "W32.Teddybear.Worm" is a virus/worm I dealt with on one of my friends system when it infected him. This worm/virus infects .exe files and is 11,776 bytes in size.
-- Malicious Viruses: Ahh, the juicy part. In this category, you'll find your ever famous, your ever popular, and your ever malicious trojan applications. These application's (also called Trojan Horse applications) are very malicious and are used in some notorious programs. The ever popular "Backdoor.Subseven" aka SubSeven (created by Mobman) is probably the most famous and notorious of these kinds and has infected almost everyone at one point or another (not including myself ). Anyways, Backdoor.SubSeven (the original) is 1,234 bytes in size and is worth ten times more the trouble. People have gone out of their way to make Sub Seven Detection programs just to detect whether they have the server on their system.
Those are the main types of viruses out there in the wild. Of course there are probably more, but as of the time I'm writing this little paper I could only get those off the top of my head.
How Can I Protect Myself From This Crap?
Ahh, glad I asked . It's fairly simple, download a popular and efficient AntiVirus (A/V for short) program/software and be sure to keep it's virus definition's up to date. If you do this and run periodical scans (I run one once a day at 12:00 on the dot) and scan after you download something, you should be fine. Below I have compiled a small list of A/V software programs and scans. Enjoy!
-- AVG AntiVirus Protection
-- TrendMicro's HouseCall Online Scan
-- PandaSoftware's ActiveScan Online Scan
-- TrendMicro's PC-Cillin
Anyways, those are my personal favorites along with McAfee and Norton AntiVirus. In whichever you choose, you should always have a AntiVirus software program installed on your system and always running, and you should always consult a second opinion: an online virus scanner.
I really hope someone benefited from this tutorial, and if not don't worry because this is my last one on AntiOnline.


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Prosecutors file felony charges against alleged abductor, husband
LOS ANGELES — A woman who told police she was kidnapped at 15 and held hostage by a man for 10 years now says she feels "happy and blessed" to be back with her family.
Orange County prosecutors filed five felony charges Thursday against the alleged abductor, Isidro Garcia, including rape and kidnapping to commit a sexual offense. He did not enter a plea, and his arraignment was continued until June. He is being held on $1 million bail.
Police in Santa Ana said the victim, whose name was not released, told officers her mother was in a relationship with Garcia in 2004 when he drugged the teen and drove her to a house in Compton, in Los Angeles County, where he held her in a locked garage.
Garcia, 42, denies the allegations, his lawyer, Charles Frisco, said outside the brief court hearing.
He said Garcia maintains he never hit his wife and did not prevent her from leaving, and that her claims of abuse were made up because the couple is going through a difficult breakup.
"From a perspective of common sense, 10 years have gone by, and she never ever told one person that something was afoul?" Frisco said. "Why is it she never said anything to indicate he did anything wrong?"
Los Angeles County prosecutors cited a lack of evidence in declining to file a domestic violence charge against Garcia for an incident Saturday in Bell Gardens, Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, said Thursday.
Garcia's wife's report of that incident led to Bell Gardens police connecting her to a missing-persons case from 2004 in Santa Ana. They referred the case to Santa Ana, where the alleged kidnapping took place.
Santa Ana police say Garcia moved with the victim frequently and forced her to marry him in 2007. They had a child together in 2012, police said. The victim, now 25, came forward after contacting her sister via Facebook. The girl's mother reported her missing to police in August 2004.
"I was 15. I couldn't do anything, I don't have a life," the woman told KABC-TV, her back to the camera. "He worked hard for me and my daughter and he bought everything I want, but I need love of my family — not things."
Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said investigators believe the victim arrived with her mother and sister from Mexico illegally in February 2004 and spoke no English.
"You are talking about a 15-year-old girl that is in a new country, that gets here in February, and this happens to her six months later," said Bertagna said. "She's told her family doesn't care, her family isn't looking for her."
Bertagna said the victim told officers there was "continued and repeated assaults. On two occasions she tried to escape, he caught her, he beat her for her efforts."
She told police that Garcia said her mother was not looking for her and that if she contacted authorities, her family would be deported.
In the suburb of Bell Gardens, neighbor Javier Campos said he was stunned at the news. "It's hard to believe because he ... seemed like such a nice guy from what we see," Campos said.
Neighbor Meribel Garcia, who is not related to the suspect, was not so surprised. "He was always watching, when she was outside he was looking through the window, looking down at her," Garcia said. "And she would look at him, and she would go right back in as if she knew she had to do what he said."
Police described Isidro Garcia as the mother's "cohabitant boyfriend" at the time of the kidnapping and said he allegedly began sexually assaulting the victim in the family home in June 2004.
Bertagna said Garcia fought with the girl's mother in August 2004 and left, taking the girl with him. She told investigators he gave her pills that knocked her out, and that she awoke in a garage in Compton.
The mother "filed a police report and for 10 years (police) did due diligence. But they were changing their names and dates of birth and physical locations so that made it exceedingly difficult," Bertagna said. The victim tried to escape twice but was severely beaten, he said.
Garcia obtained documents from Mexico giving the victim a new name and date of birth, and he used them to marry her at a courthouse in 2007, he said.
"I was very afraid about everything because I was alone," the woman told KABC. "I think i was alone, but I was never alone. My family was with me."
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Hello from sunny California! Quick report on the race:
The women's race started with a strong field of 55 riders with Ann Trombley taking the early lead. The course was dry and dusty and very short, only two laps, with a winning time of 1' 38" . Ann Trombley, Airborne, took first; Rene Marshman, Moots, second place; Rachel Loydd, Gary Fisher placed third. Amber Chorney had a good start but took a wrong turn, luckily she realized her mistake and got quickly on track. We rode together for the remainder of the race and placed 15th, Amber, and 16th, Trish. The race was tight as we could see as many as five girls at a time within reach.
The men's race was three laps with Dave Weins,Polo Sport, setting a blistering pace and Roland Green,GT, hot on his heels. It was Dave's race today as he kept increasing his lead each lap. The real battle turned out to be for second place between Roland and Steve Larsen. They battled it out pushing each other but eventually Steve got the better of Roland near the bottom of the last descent. Peter Swenson was fourth with Travis Brown rounding up the top five. Chris Sheppard, Catera, placed a solid eleventh and Geoff Kabush, Kona, just missed the the money placing 21st.
Tomorrow is the short track event, basically an off road criterium, with the women starting at 4pm with a thirty minute race and the men at 4:45pm with 45 minutes.We'll keep you posted and good luck to any fellow racers reading the news in Plymouth!!
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December 16, 2006
"I only had two beers" -- it's the "two-beer" defense to drunk driving.
14 comments:
- Troy said...
More junk science from the defense bar, unfortunately too many jurors buy into it.
- Hamsun56 said...
Here in Norway the limit is .02%. Anyone caught speeding or involved in an accident is tested. In addition, there are random checkpoints where all drivers are tested - no need for probable cause.
The minimum penalty, for first time offenders not much over the limit, is a loss of license for two years plus a fine of one month's salary.
If you blow positive on the first test, you are taken to the police station for a more reliable test. Even a legal dream team can't help you if you register positive on the second test.
Draconian but very effective in reducing accidents due to DUI.
- Joel Fleming said...
The problem is that past case law has established a precedent that breathalyzer results can't be used to question the credibility of witnesses' testimony regarding the number of drinks consumed by the accused.
(See R. v. Boucher, 2005: http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2005/2005scc72/2005scc72.html).
In theory, then, someone could blow an 0.20 on the breathalyzer, but find a few believable friends to testify that he only had two beers. If the friends seemed credible, absent the breathalyzer result, the accused might well get off.
There's also precedent up here in Canada for something called the "last drink" defence, where the accused claims that he rapidly chugged one or two beers just before getting in the car to drive home, and that, therefore, the alcohol had not yet entered his bloodstream while driving, but it had by the time of administration of the breathalyzer.
- Bissage said...
I typed out what follows before I read your comment. Could you set me straight?
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Did the trial court preclude the defendants' expert evidence as equivocal or did the factfinder reject it as incredible? If the former, then the trial court treated the "two-beer defence" as a true affirmative defense and tossed the presumption of innocence out the window. If the latter, then the appellants are arguing their evidence outweighed the prosecution's evidence, as a matter of law.
Neither seems very likely to me. I must be missing something.
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P.S. Regarding the "last drink" defense, I once went to a seminar where one of the presenters advised us to always keep a bottle of vodka in the car and, if pulled over, to chug some in full view of the police and spill a bunch on our clothes. He was only half joking. I think.
- Richard Fagin said...
It's about time someone caught a break from "breath radar." The MADD crowd has been on a 25 year long rampage to criminalize marginally risky behavior, with asonishing success. When states lowered the presumptive limit to 0.1% blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in the late 70s and early 80s it really did make a difference in alcohol related accident rates. The likelihood of an accident with respect to BAC follows a hyperbolic curve, and the knee of the hyperbola is about 0.12% BAC. Lowering the limit to 0.08% really didn't change anything, because most of the benefit had already been obtained by lowering the limit to 0.1%. If you really peruse teh data carefully, you'll find that in most cases, spectacular drunk driving accidents are caused by people who are staggeringly drunk (0.2% BAC and up), not the tipsy ones with 0.09%.
Now that many other readers are going to accuse me of advocating drunk driving, let me assure you I'm not. But if you really want to solve the U.S. problem (deferring to the Norwegians' right to deal with their own issues as they properly see fit), lowering the BAC limit further is not the answer. Getting the hard core drunks off the road permanently is.
- nathan said...
From a legal point of view I don't think the success of this argument is all that surprising. The certificate a technician produces after a positive breathalyzer is admissible as proof that the accused's bloood-alcohol level was above the legal cut off.
So, when it is admitted the certificate causes the court to presume a fact the Crown would otherwise have to prove. There are two main types of presumptions, legal presumptions and evidentiary presumptions. The difference is a legal presumption is assumed to be true unless the accused disproves it on a balance of probabilities, while an evidentiary presumption is discarded if there is evidence capable of raising a reasonable doubt that it is not true.
The presumption created by the introduction of the certificate is an evidentiary presumption (the statute clearly says it is, and a legal presumption would likely be unconstitutional anyway). So the issue isn't does the court believe the accused's testimony or the breathalyzer. It's whether the accused's testimony is capable of raising a reasonable doubt about the reliability of the breathalyzer.
So if the judge (impaired driving trials are almost never conducted in front of a jury in Canada) believes the accused's testimony, or even if she disbelieves it she finds it raises a reasonable doubt, the presumption is rebutted. As another commentator mentioned, the judge cannot consider the breathalyzer at this stage (for obvious reasons).
So, applying the internal logic of criminal law, I would think the accused's testimony, unless it is incapable of belief, ought to rebut the presumption, which would typically lead to a result of not guilty. Of course, no one will be surprised if the SCC fudges the issue so as not to let accused drunk drivers off.
- Gray said...
"I only had two beers" -- it's the "two-beer" defense to drunk driving.
Are you going to believe that or the breathalyzer? It's a serious question in Canada.
Well, it's a serious question in Queens, NYC, too. To sad that no tests were performed on the five detectives. A double standard for the cops?
You can bet your life on that. Really.
- nathan said...
In response to bissage:
"Did the trial court preclude the defendants' expert evidence as equivocal or did the factfinder reject it as incredible? If the former, then the trial court treated the "two-beer defence" as a true affirmative defense and tossed the presumption of innocence out the window. If the latter, then the appellants are arguing their evidence outweighed the prosecution's evidence, as a matter of law.
Neither seems very likely to me. I must be missing something."
The evidence of the expert was based on what the accused told him. Since the trial judge already rejected the accused's testimony, this part of the expert's evidence was given no weigh. The expert's testimony can be no more plausible that the assumptions of fact he has based it on. Since the court has decided those assumptions were wrong, it properly gave no weight to this aspect of his testimony. The other aspects of his testimony did not raise a reasonable doubt.
You are correct that the presumption of innocence has been "thrown out the window" (although I wouldn't put it so dramatically). As I explained in my previous post there is a presumption that the certificate proves the accused was above the legal limit.
I could be mistaken, but my understanding is in the US an accused must prove an affirmative defence on a balance of probabilities. There is no such requirement in Canadian law (aside from mental disorder), here once there is evidence giving an "air of reality" to what I believe you would refer to as an affirmative defence the court must consider the defence even if it has not been raised by the accused, and the Crown must disprove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
So to a certain extend the presumption of innocence is missing on a certain part of proving an impaired driving conviction, but much less seriously than what you may believe.
As for keeping a bottle of vodka with you to douse yourself, it might make it more difficult to prove impaired driving, but if you were found guilty anyway I'm sure the court would take it into consideration during sentencing. I would never advise someone to do that.
- Bissage said...
Thank you very much for your response.
Two points. First, You couldn't see it, but when I typed the words "tossed the presumption of innocence out the window", I was waiving my arms in the air and pantomiming the classic, open mouthed, with-all-due-respect-your-honor-you-can't-be-serious face.
Second, pursuant to your good advice, it looks like I'll have to find another use for that bottle of vodka. Heh.
- JorgXMcKie said...
I agree that the MADD crowd has gone NUTS.
Having said that, we really do need to keep repeat offender drunken drivers off the doggone roads.
My brother was a long-time state trooper in a rural area. He got to know the local drunks who drove really, really well because he ticketed them so regularly and they got off easily (or totally before the DUI laws got toughened) just as regularly. Most, if not all of them continued to drive drunk until: a) they had a wreck and killed themselves; b) they died; c) they finally did something bad enough to get locked up; or (rarely) d) quit drinking. Being arrested just didn't stop anyone.
Also, he got the "I only had two drinks (beers), officer" all the time. His reply was, "What were they served in, buckets?"
He rarely ever, before the Breathalyzer Law was imposed bothered to try to ticket anyone who wasn't all but falling down drunk because it wasn't worth his time.
TW: ismgszrt. The sound a drunk makes when trying to insist he "only had two beers."
- Ann Althouse said...
I once heard a guy -- in a hospital emergency room -- asked by doctors if he'd been drinking, answer: "No. Couple of six-packs."
It was beer- Beer's not drinkin'!
That said, is there another instance where the punishment is set up for incase SOMETHING happens, like DUI laws?
I can stand outside a bank all day long with a gun in my pocket and a mask in my hand, and not be charged with bank robbery.
Yet if I am found with a car key in my pocket and liquor on my breath, thats a DUI.
Maybe we need MABR- mothers Against Bank Robbery! ;?)
- Kev said...
"I agree that the MADD crowd has gone NUTS."
No argument here. I discussed this a few years ago, in a post about a pair of Texas House bills that would have required "keg registration" and prohibited the sale of alcohol to anyone between midnight and 6 a.m. on their 21st birthday:
"I have no doubt that Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is behind a lot of this, and it's really hard in a way to bash on MADD; it's kind of like kicking a puppy. I too am against drunk drivers (to the point where I've wrestled keys away from people in the past), but it seems like MADD won't be satisfied until everyone stops drinking altogether. Am I wrong here? Isn't there a middle ground somewhere, or does the government have to get this involved to properly solve this problem? It just seems like the responsible people are being punished for the transgressions of a few..."
Both of those bills failed, by the way.
- muthu said...
Alcohol is a important factor in traffic road accidents.Driving with drunk is dangerous and drivers with high blood alcohol content are at greatly increased risk of car vehicular accident deaths.
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We live in a highly secularized culture. Generally this draws one of three reactions from Christians struggling to live out faith in this context:
First, a growing number of Christians of all denominations see secularity more as an enemy of faith and the churches than as an ally. In their view, secularity is a threat to religion and morality and is, in the name of freedom and open-mindedness, slowly suffocating Christian freedom. For them, secularity contains a certain tyranny of relativism which can aptly be labeled "post-Christian" and "a culture of death."
A second group simply accommodates itself to the culture without a lot of critical reflection. They adjust the faith to the culture and the culture to the faith as suits their situation. For them, faith becomes largely a cultural heritage, an ethos more than a religion, though this is not as much of a blind sellout as it first appears. These individuals selectively take values from both the Judeo-Christian tradition and the secular culture and blend them into a new marriage, seemingly without a lot of religious anxiety.
A third group has a more nuanced approach: Persons such as Charles Taylor, Louis Dupre, Kathleen Norris and, a generation earlier, Karl Rahner, see secularity as a mixed bag, a culture of both life and death, a culture that in some ways is a progression in and a purification of moral and religious values, even as it is losing ground morally and religiously in other ways.
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In this view, the opposite of secularity is not the Church, but the Taliban or any view that holds that public life should be governed by divine authority irrespective of rational consensus. Secularity then is more our child than our enemy.
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Viewing secularity from this perspective, it is equally important to highlight both the moral and religious ground that has been lost in secularity as well as the moral and religious ground that has been gained.
Both can be seen, for example, by looking at a highly secularized culture like the Netherlands: On the one hand, it is very weak in church attendance and in explicit Christian practice. Along with this, there is the tolerance and legalization of abortion, drugs, prostitution and pornography.
On the other hand, it is a society that takes care of its poor better than any other society in the world and one recognized for its emphasis on generosity, peace and the equality of women. These are not minor religious and moral achievements.
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