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Award-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch will be at Centenary College of Louisiana February 25 to receive the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence!
Bausch will give a reading at the event, which is free and open to the public.
Acknowledged master of the short story Richard Bausch has been selected to receive the 2013 John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence. This February award ceremony, which will include a reading by the author, is free and open to the public.
What: Corrington Award for Literary Excellence
When: Monday, February 25, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Whited Room, Bynum Commons
"One of the things that has so impressed this department about his stories, besides the quality of the telling, is that they embody the meaningfulness of life by taking seriously, without the imposition of an ideological bias, the predicaments in which people find themselves, even when those predicaments could invite ridicule," said Dr. David Havird, Professor of English. "To put the matter a little differently, there is the stories' infinite inventiveness, itself a manifestation of the author's empathetic curiosity about the lives of others—his profound appreciation of the ambivalences that people wrestle with—and the complementary conviction that those lives signify."
Bausch is the author of eleven novels and eight collections of stories, including the novels Rebel Powers, In The Night Season, Hello To The Cannibals, and Peace and the story collections Spirits, Rare & Endangered Species, The Stories of Richard Bausch, and the recently released Something Is Out There. His novel The Last Good Time was made into a feature-length motion picture, released in April 1995.
Bausch's stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Southern Review, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Pushcart Prize Stories. His stories have also been widely anthologized. The Modern Library published The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch in March 1996.


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DURHAM | Dr. Verne C. Lanier Jr., 73, passed away peacefully Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013.
DURHAM | Dr. Verne C. Lanier Jr., 73, passed away peacefully Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Feb. 9 at Westminster Presbyterian Church followed by a reception in the fellowship hall.
He was born in Welcome to Dr. Verne C. Lanier Sr. and Lela Hedrick Lanier, who preceded him in death.
He is survived by his wife and love of his life for 49 years, Dean McClellan Lanier; three daughters, Cecile (Pride) Scanlan of Nashville Tenn., Melissa (Mark) Turner of Chandler, Ariz., and Renee (Andy) McKown of Atlanta Ga.; six grandchildren, Nicholas P. Scanlan, Abigail L. Scanlan, Erin L. Turner, Wyatt L. Turner, Louise S. McKown and Jay K. McKown; and his sister, Sarah (Don) Warnecke of Dallas Texas.
Dr. Lanier graduated cum laude from Catawba College in 1962. He earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University in 1966, where he also completed his general surgery residency. Lanier served on active duty for two years in the Navy with the General Surgery Staff at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. (1971-73), and as lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He completed his residency in plastic surgery at Duke University Medical Center in 1976 in addition to fellowships in pediatric surgery (Mercy Children's Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.,) and hand surgery (Kleinert Hand Service, University of Louisville).
Lanier practiced plastic surgery for 37 years. He was dedicated to his profession and turned a dream into reality when he built an office near Durham Regional Hospital that included two operating rooms and a recovery area. He treasured the time he spent there caring for patients with both skill and compassion. In addition, he was associate consulting professor of plastic surgery at Duke University Medical Center (1978-2005), clinical assistant professor of plastic surgery at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine (1995-2005) and chief of plastic surgery for Durham Regional Hospital (1978-2005). He wrote extensively for both general and plastic surgery professional journals and had a total of 43 scientific articles published. In 1984, he implemented a new tissue expansion technique that dramatically improved the outcome of skin graft surgeries. Lanier served as foreign exchange plastic surgeon in Kostroma, Russia (1985) and Toyama, Japan (1996). As a member of World Medical Missions, he served as the first plastic surgeon at Mbingo Baptist Hospital in Mbingo Cameroon Africa (2008).
Professional recognitions include the Southeastern Surgical Congress Gold Medal Resident recipient (1976) and the Plastic Surgery Residents' Conference First Place Recipient Award (1976). Lanier was a member of several professional societies: Vanderbilt Surgical Society, American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association (chairman of plastic surgery specialties, 1987-88), Southern Society of Plastic Surgeons, North Carolina Medical Society (chairman, nominating committee 1995-96), North Carolina Society of Plastic, Maxillofacial and Reconstructive Surgeons (president, 1985-86), Durham Orange County Medical Society, American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ethics committee 1982-88), American Association of Plastic Surgeons, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Southeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons (chairman, ethics committee 1994-97), International Society of Cosmetic Laser Surgeons, H. William Scott Surgical Society, Canby Robinson Society, American Association for Hand Surgery, American College of Surgeons and the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities.
Lanier was an active member of Westminster Presbyterian Church serving as deacon, elder and chairman of the stewardship committee. He taught Sunday school and enjoyed membership in the Men's Bible Study. A memorable experience was serving as chaperone and physician for a high school mission trip to Merida, Mexico, where they built a church. He was actively involved in the community as a member of the Downtown Rotary (president 1999-2000, and recipient of the Paul Harris Rotary International), Durham Chamber of Commerce, St. Joseph's Historic Foundation (2009-10), chairman of the Duke Children's Classic Running Festival (1986-87) and the board of trustees for the Durham Symphony and North Carolina Jazz Repertoire Orchestra. He served on the Board of Alumni and Board of Visitors at Catawba College and was awarded the Catawba College Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2009.
Lanier had a passion for music and art. He played trumpet and piano in several bands and was awarded Plastic Surgery Portrait Artist of the Year (2002) by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. His painting, Portrait of Wife, was featured on the cover of its official publication. An article in the Durham Herald (2003) titled "Man of Many Pallets" described his talents in music, art and surgery. He also enjoyed participating in OLLI (Duke Continuing Education) studying Christian Jewish Dialogue and Memoir Writing.
An avid outdoorsman, he enjoyed hunting, fishing and hiking, particularly his trips on the Appalachian Trail. During his lifetime, he completed several marathons, triathlons and bike races and spent many pleasurable hours playing tennis and golf with his friends. Lanier loved to travel with his wife and spend time with his family. His joyful spirit, strength of character and generous and kind heart will be missed.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in his honor to Westminster Presbyterian Church, 3639 Old Chapel Hill Road, Durham, NC 27707 or The Rotary Foundation, 14280 Collections Center Drive, Chicago, IL 60693.
The Lanier family is under the care of Howerton & Bryan Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be submitted at www.howertonbryan.com, select obituaries.

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I'm brand new here, so sorry if my etiquette is wrong. Would not another reaction to "You just want to sin" be something along the lines of "The Christian bible advocates rape, murder, child abuse, slavery, genocide, and theft. I would judge these to be sins whether a religious book described them as such or not. If I wanted to sin, I would join a church." Scorsi914
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A funny thing happened to me this weekend in Huntington, Long Island. Iâ(TM)d taken a commuter train there from Manhattan, to interview someone in a neighborhood thatâ(TM)s walking distance from the local railroad station. (In case youre wondering why I havent posted lately, Im really busy with other work these days. Why else would I go to Huntington?) So I was hoofing it down New York Avenue when a cabbie screeched up and offered me a ride â" for free. âoeThanks,â I said, leaning into his window. âoeBut why?â âoeBecause you have to pass the day-labor site. Thereâ(TM)s lots of men there from Central America. They yell bad words to women going by.â
Iâ(TM)m 57 years old and slowly shrinking, maybe, but people seldom mistake me for a shrinking violet. I can deal with a few catcalls and âoeMamiâ(TM)sâ (assuming my wrinkled old self could evoke them in the first place). I tried to elucidate my philosophy to the driver: Itâ(TM)s always worth a few bad words to learn about stuff â" then communicate the stuff to others.
Well lah-dee-dah, youâ(TM)re probably saying. Nice story, but whatâ(TM)s the point? Especially when the real subject of this post isChild Porn®.
So hereâ(TM)s the point. Lately, when it comes to writing about child pornography issues, I suspect Iâ(TM)ve caught Huntingtonâ(TM)s Taxi Disease from my colleagues in the journalism biz. I notice that whenever I get an urge to report on the subject, I start worrying that if I publish it, Iâ(TM)ll hear âoebad wordsâ from people from âoeCentral-Weirdo Americaâ â" people who actually like child porn. Iâ(TM)ll have to read their emails (some of which make interesting points about free speech, the fourth amendment, government repression, etc.), then decide whether or not to post them. And if I post, the journos of MSM-villeâ"my colleagues! might look askance. After all, some have already told me that they, themselves, will not write about child pornography for precisely this reason: it freaks them out to get follow-up email from the pedos.
Iâ(TM)m also afraid my colleagues will tsk-tsk about why I write about this icky subject in the first place. âoeIs she obsessed or something?â they could be thinking. Perhaps they ask why I donâ(TM)t insert boiler plate into the first paragraphs of my articles. Riffs like, âoeOf course, child porn is the most horrible thing in the world, and the people involved deserve strong punishment.â This is supposed to show everyone the writer is a normal person who does not want to hear from pedos. I try to avoid such verbiage because I think itâ(TM)s knee jerk and stupid. Besides, Iâ(TM)m extremely reluctant to close off communication with anyone. I get some of my best tips about the malfunctioning of our various civic institutions from people close to those institutions â" who are often criminals, both apprehended and as yet uncaught. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/ [slashdot.org]">M is still one of my favorite movies.)
I went to a conference a couple months ago where law enforcement officials gave fascinating presentations
The 10 Zen Monkeys is SFW. The only thing that could be objected to is the headline "Is It Legal Porn or Illegal Porn?" which is to say not very objectionable at all.
The other one contains "G-rated" images according to the link to it from the 10 Zen Monkeys article.
The problem is when it's impossible to tell the real from the fake. At that point you couldn't prosecute any of the real ones because they'll just say it's a really good fake.
I am posting as a AC since I modded the parent. You both are right. The situation is a catch-22. The advance of computer generated graphics allows both people who are turned on to images of children having sex to view these images without any actual abuse of children happening, AND to people that do abuse children in order with an alibi - they can just say the image isn't real.
Possibly many people would just say that looking at child porn is wrong and immoral, whether any actual abuse took place or not. So I'd say that the day CGI is indistinguishable from real imagery, CGI will be as unlawful as the real thing. There are already a lot of proposals in this sense, sadly. Unfortunately I don't think this will actually help real abusers getting caught.
So I'd say that the day CGI is indistinguishable from real imagery, CGI will be as unlawful as the real thing.
Because put a virtual image that looks real in front of a jury, and if they can't tell the difference, they may put an innocent person in prison. Imagine if the virtual child-pr0n showed a guy that had nothing to do with it's creation molesting a child? Talk about your witch hunts!As long as no children are hurt in the production of these images, why does it matter how real they look?
I think that's the point that nobody is watching the footage of these Big Brother cameras all the time. A "wired" criminal could have the resources to doctor the surveillance tapes before anybody notices the crime has been committed. At that point, the defense attorney is left with the hard task of demonstrating that it isn't his client in the videos.
Just like lie detector tests... surveillance videos are not infallible.
IANAL, but I think video from surveillance cameras will be alright because all you have to do is have the person in charge of the surveillance swear the films haven't been altered. This would force the defense to posit that someone is trying to frame the defendant and is lying about the films being genuine. That would usually be considered unreasonable doubt (unless of course you've got some actual evicence and not just the accusation that the video is fake).
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Oh don't worry, we've seen goatse and tubgirl already.
The idea is that each pixel would be assigned its own identifier. Kind of like HTML format like #342332. You then take the sum of the identifiers (or something like that) and use the camera's encryption key and sign the document.
Well done. I wonder though, that maybe in the future we could have special representatives from a given community to ensure that mere technicalities do not stand in the way of common sense. I don't know, maybe we could call them a "jury of our peers", or something. It'be great, because while the current system can convict based on a strict interpretation of the law, even when it doesn't make sense and does not resonate with the deeper reasoning behind the law, a so called jury would see, that for example in this case manufacturing child pornography means the punishment of behaviour that involves kids in sexual scenarios, that you cannot manufacture child pornography without actual children involved.In Virginia, we found him guilty because he "manufactured child porn"
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On this night, nearly two thousand years ago, an angel—God's messenger—proclaimed the good news for the first time. Today all of us are messengers of the good news. Every man, woman, and child who knows the Savior must tell the story about Jesus.
The first hearers of the good news were shepherds who were on the night shift in a field near Bethlehem. They were ordinary people who had a fairly rough job. When David was young, he also shepherded in this area.
The shepherds were dead-scared when their field was lit up by the glory of the Lord. You and I would tremble too if we suddenly stood in the bright, burning presence of God. But the angel said: "Fear not," because this is gospel night. Jesus has come to earth to save trembling sinners and to give them joy.
The distance between heaven and earth is bridged this night. For the Savior has come from heaven to earth. "Peace on earth."
Our fear of the wrath of God will be stilled. The sign of God's goodness is a baby, an utterly dependent human being, through whom God will reconcile the world to himself.
Here is joy to the world. All that God tells us in the Bible is essentially gospel, good news. It's peace. The fear is past, the battle is over.
And God is with us.
Andrew Kuyvenhoven's Daylight, a modern devotional classic, was originally published in 1994. This edition is copyright by Faith Alive Christian Resources, from whom may be ordered Daylight, the predecessor of Twilight.
A man of many accomplishments, Andrew Kuyvenhoven is probably best known for his contributions to Today (formerly The Family Altar), a widely-used monthly devotional booklet associated with the Back to God Hour. Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations for this edition of Twilight are from the New International Version
Be sure to read the "Preface" and the "Acknowledgments" by the author.


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John Lannan settled in, looking more and more comfortable the deeper he got into his first major league start of the season.
The Nationals didn't let the left-hander's effort go to waste, rallying for a 5-2 win Saturday night to split a doubleheader with the red-hot Braves.
Roger Bernadina singled home the go-ahead run with two outs in the seventh inning to help the Nats snap a three-game slide, including losses in the first two games of this series.
Lannan (1-0) surrendered four hits, two walks and two runs in the first eight batters he faced but allowed only one more hit in his seven innings, retiring 13 of the last 14 Braves he faced. He struck out three.
Twice the Nats' opening day starter, Lannan made his 2012 debut after being called up from Triple-A Syracuse, where he has toiled all season since being dropped from the rotation for Ross Detwiler.
"He has tough times like everyone else, but he's one heck of a competitor. He showed that tonight," said Nats manager Davey Johnson, who called sending Lannan to the minors the toughest thing he's had to do this year.
Washington needed the lefty to play stopper.
The Braves won the opener of the four-game series in 11 innings Friday after trailing 9-0 -- their biggest comeback since 1987 -- and they took the first game of the doubleheader, 4-0, behind six scoreless innings from Ben Sheets.
Washington pushed its lead for first place in the NL East back to 2 1/2 games over the Braves, who lost for only the third time in their last 13.
Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper left the opener after fouling a ball off his left ankle on a bunt attempt. He didn't start the nightcap but pinch-hit for a single in the eighth inning, stole second base and scored a run.
Randall Delgado threw six innings for the Braves, giving up two runs on six hits and a walk with four strikeouts.
Sandy Leon led off the seventh with a single off Cristhian Martinez (4-2). Mark DeRosa, pinch-hitting for Lannan, bunted Leon over before Bernadina's two-out single through the right side scored him to make it 3-2.
Harper's two-out single sparked a two-run rally in the eighth. Danny Espinosa knocked him in with a single, went to second on the throw, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored when Paul Janish mishandled DeRosa's ground ball to make it 5-2.
Earlier, Delgado retired the first eight Nationals batters until Lannan singled with two outs in the third.
Lannan was also instrumental in plating Washington's first run in the fifth with a sacrifice bunt that moved Espinosa to third base. Espinosa scored on Delgado's wild pitch and the Nats went on to tie the game at 2-2 after loading the bases with no outs in the sixth.
Bernadina and Ryan Zimmerman stroked back-to-back singles and Delgado hit Michael Morse with a pitch to fill the bags before Ian Desmond knocked in the tying run when he grounded into the second out. Espinosa worked a 2-2 count and fouled off two pitches before Delgado fanned him with a changeup.
Delgado came out for a pinch-hitter to start the seventh, but Lannan remained on the mound, fanning Juan Francisco and Michael Bourn and getting Martin Prado on a ground out in a final 13-pitch inning.
"It was a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned," Johnson said after Lannan threw 98 pitches, including 65 for strikes. "He still had more left in the tank."
Lannan's strong finish came after a shaky start.
Bourn bunted for a single on Lannan's first pitch in the majors since last Sept. 27. Lannan got Prado to ground into a double play, but he walked Jason Heyward and Chipper Jones followed with an RBI double. Jones scored on Freddie Freeman's single to make it 2-0 Braves in the first inning.
Paul Janish doubled to lead off the second inning and Freeman singled with two outs in the third -- the last two hits allowed by Lannan.
Game Notes
The Nationals reinstated outfielder Xavier Nady from the 15-day disabled list and designated him for assignment...The doubleheader was to make up a rainout on June 1...Harper remained in the game to play right in the ninth...Delgado is winless (0-4) in his last six starts.


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WOODBRIDGE, Conn. (AP) _ Police say two high school students in Woodbridge have been arrested on drug charges after a teenager ate a marijuana-laced peanut butter cracker and fell unconscious.
Sgt. Frank Cappiello says officers responded to a report of an unresponsive student in the Amity Regional High School cafeteria on Nov. 7 and found he had eaten marijuana mixed with peanut butter on a cracker.
Authorities say the student who was found unconscious had apparently bought the cracker from another student and was in possession of several others. Police say the student was charged with possession of marijuana and possession with intent to sell after receiving treatment at a hospital.
Another student was arrested and charged with sale of marijuana.
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Second that!
You'd think that Italian MEPs would have better things to worry about right now, like not being able to borrow money if it wasn't for ECB and possibly not being able to pay their debts.
But no, that c.nt wants to have a way to let the government to spy on everyone.
I just mailed this to firstname.lastname@example.com:
Mr. Motti,
we have been informed, that you proposed plans to install a system of total surveillance for purposes of creating a totalitarian police state in the spirit of Stalin. As a additional insult, you excuse this behavior with âoeprotecting the childrenâ, despite it being a proven fact that this system will not only not help children, but in fact harm everyone, including children.
In case you are ignorant of that fact: This is a criminal of
Would someone from Italy like to explain why you voted this authoritarian cunt into the EU. Go on! I'd love to hear it!
Wouldnt know about the italian angle, but as a dutch guy, one of the reasons to vote for someone to get into the EU stuff is to get him out of local politics, perhaps the italians were just fed up with this idiot so much they decided to "promote him away"
Also, fuck that guy.
Studies have shown a negative correlation between the availability of porn and rape cases. IIRC this is also the case specifically with CP and child rape. If anything, this will make it worse for the children.
Not to mention the problems with a software based solution. The software will, of course, only run on certain operating systems, who is the government to mandate I purchase a particular operating system/or agree to a contract (e.g. the GPL)? Anyone who knows what they are doing can get around this anyway. Even if it calls home, it could be faked by using a VM.
Wait, you are putting pedophiles in the same category as pagans, Jews, witches, anarchists, gays and communists. Terrorists, Christians and Muslims though...
Why can't we have politicians who can think rationally?
They rationally play on people's irrational fears. Don't assume all politicians are drooling idiots, being a successful politician and a successful manipulator share many of the same traits.
Never mind that, here's some statistics! a) Most of the computers in the world are not involved in distribution of indecent images of minors. b) Most of the incidents of sexual indecency with a minor are by members of the family, or close family friends.
Shhhhh. This guy will want a black box in every house if you tell him that
I doubt anyone can code an algorithm sophisticated enough to tell whether is person is legally a child or not, let alone whether that person is being abused or not... even if these people decide it would be good to go ahead with such an idea, when they discover that what they want to do is actually impossible, the whole thing will disappear back into the void from whence it came anyway, just like every other time somebody who doesn't understand computers thinks they can be simply made to do things that are
i.e., we should build a shitty wall, and hope no mongowians show up.
Why can't we have politicians who can think rationally?
Because most of us don't enjoy arguing all day long which is pretty much what politicians do. Unlike the court room where they may be jurist or jury who is somewhat interested in facts to convince, these people win or lose principally on whether they can last longer than the other guys.
You must have strong opinions to prevail in that system. The type of person attracted to that job is fundamentally not the type let facts get in the way of their opinions.
BTW I am not a psychologist, sociologi
Stop thinking that the promoters of such laws care at all about pedophilia and fighting it. If they really cared, they would listen to the policemen and non-profits fighting it that censorship would be counter-productive.
You are making a fundamental mistake of logic here. Not all of the promoters of such laws are self serving, corrupt liars, a few of them are just stupid.
Studies have shown a negative correlation between the availability of porn and rape cases. IIRC this is also the case specifically with CP and child rape. If anything, this will make it worse for the children.
You need to provide more specific sources than "studies have shown" for that statement. It is true that the availability of porn has exploded since the 90's when internet became widely available to the public. The number of sex abuse cases has not increased anywhere near as much as it would have if t
Studies have shown a negative correlation between the availability of porn and rape cases.
Citation please. And not because I doubt you. I've heard about this before, even remember reading it somewhere once. But googling "rape" and "porn" mysteriously doesn't seem to get me to any of those studies...
They'll try to get it in "for the children", but would rather use it to preempt people that want to release unsavory information about a politician.
It'd be a black box that precedes a black-out or disappearance.
If it were China, North Korea or Saudi Arabia who had proposed this, what would we say then? It's scary in a democratic Europe to even hear a politician suggest such a thing. It is so absurd that I really hope we never have to discuss it seriously in Parliament.
-MEP Lars Christian Engstrom (Sweden)
The proposal claims to be based on users' rights and claims they are protected, that they should feel safe. He writes at the beginning that he did not want to create a new Big Brother Society. But then the whole document is about just that.
-Former Piratbyran founder and current telecomix hactivist Marcin de Kaminski
Nothing will ever come of this. One crackpot idea from an idiot who knows nothing about technology does not constitute a reasonable proposal.
...Unless the people responsible for voting the proposal in or out are equally ignorant of technology.
The fact that someone at that level can fly a kite like that, and get away with it, is worrisome enough to me.
Yep. Why isn't he instantly being replaced with somebody who's got useful things on their mind?
The fact that someone at that level can fly a kite like that, and get away with it, is worrisome enough to me.
You imply that he should be punished for his opinions? I fundamentally disagree. Parliament, of all places, should be a forum for any and all views, whether or not they're popular. The proper way to deal with people who put forward views you do not agree with is to vote them down, not to use fear to silence them.
> some of them have skeletons in their hard drives
Not if they play the Chinese Version of World of Warcraft...
Like Members of Congress in the USA, EU MEPs come in all shapes, sizes, and states of sanity. This guy's just flying a kite, but any such law would apply the the MEPs too, and you can assume some of them have skeletons in their hard drives. Fuhgeddabouttit.
You can be sure that politicians would be exempt from a law like this. Just because they can.
Like Members of Congress in the USA, EU MEPs come in all shapes, sizes, and states of sanity.
You mean that there are some normal sane ones??!!
Very true - half of the stupid proposals are just because mp's want to get their name out in the press and say 'look I did something this year'..
Sometimes they either hardly know anything about the technology, or they are just so narrow minded that they don't consider it can apply to much more than they think of.
The law was good for dealers in arcade machines/pinball machines who could suddenly get some good deals in Greece.. (you still can btw, just got a mail with someone from Greece offering me pinball machines for sale
Someone really has to tell these guys about live CDs and Tor. It's impossible to monitor absolutely everything on the internet.
Yes, yes, yes. But you neglect to consider whether or not the MP has shares in the software provider company.
Even if this were not grossly misused(which would surely happen), with this in place the child molesters will figure out that actually molesting children is less likely to get them caught than child porn. Making an incentive to do it for real instead of looking at it...
OK, this is Slashdot but 1 MEP suggests something, and it becomes "EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer". No one is debating anything !! (Unless TFA says more: it is currently Slashdotted.)
OK, this is Slashdot but 1 MEP suggests something, and it becomes "EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer". No one is debating anything !! (Unless TFA says more: it is currently Slashdotted.)
Its only takes one stupid idea to get a big enough following, especially with the "Think of the children" crowd and then boom its LAW!
Actually, it isn't "one ignorant guy". It's at least two ignorant MEPs: from Italy and [europa.eu]Anna Záborská [europa.eu] from Slovakia. They co-authored the Written Declaration 29 [smile29.eu], where they state quite bluntly that they want every european citizen being constantly monitored by the police to avoid putting some hypothetical nasty criminal "on the same footing as honest citizens and making it difficult for the authorities to trace them".
Correction: along with the two ignorant MEPs who authored Written Declaration 29, currently 371 MEPs have signed this proposition [europa.eu]. Here is a list of all signatories [europa.eu].
Along with installing cameras in every home and spying on phone calls, we need to let the government log everyone's online activity, too. That'll stop those factually evil terrorists!
So if someone wants to research on the subject of child porn (not search for it, but search for information about it), and therefore enters that term into Google, he will cause an alarm at the police. Yeah, that makes perfectly sense. And of course they have the perfect algorithm to detect whether a photo shows an abused child. So it will never trigger if you e.g. send a holiday photo of your child at the beach to a friend.
And of course, that box will never be used for any other purpose. Well, OK, they'll p
He surely must be taking back-handers from Murdoch. The only half-sane reason to suggest these "black boxes" would be so The Sun can run the headline "Barmy Brussels Big Brother Bill".
that Berlusconi's men are worrying about pedophiles.
Both this Slashdot story and TFA have a very misleading title. ONE MEP is thinking about this insane idea. It is not even in Parliament for discussion. Another MEP already vehemently spoke against it.
Come on, ideas like these pop up and fizz out all the time. I bet there are other MEPs thinking about imprisoning gay people, reinstating a theocracy, establishing re-education centers, idolizing Hitler and Stalin, and so on and so forth. That doesn't mean any of these wacky ideas come through. There are no indications that this one will.
Plus, it is not technically feasible, even with deep packet inspection. To connect the dots, to know who uploaded what where, is far from trivial, especially if the bad scary pedophile uses non-standard ways of transmitting this data. For example, what if he uses zip files? Also, there is encryption, which totally defeats this "logbox".
Plus, it is not technically feasible, even with deep packet inspection. To connect the dots, to know who uploaded what where, is far from trivial, especially if the bad scary pedophile uses non-standard ways of transmitting this data. For example, what if he uses zip files? Also, there is encryption, which totally defeats this "logbox".
The same can be said about data retention, but that didn't deter them from making it a directive.
Plus, it is not technically feasible, even with deep packet inspection...
That's not the point. You do think the whole point is about the abused children issue?
I don't believe that's the case. According to this report [googleusercontent.com], "So far, 324 MPs have signed the proposal, or the written declaration that it called on European languages". It also mentions that "When more than half, ie 369 members signed up, it can be adopted and thus becomes its official position, but are not legislative in themselves."
So, although it isn't quite the same thing as signing a law, it is in fact a bit more than "one MEP thinking about this insane idea", even when including the fact hat Writte
One MP having a crazy idea does not mean the law will get changed over the whole of the EU. There are many examples of MPs who have changed one law but failed to change other laws. Every country has their radical MPs who make grand statements to capture media attention, it doesn't mean that their ideas will become law (we have to be thankful that the craziest ideas of the craziest US representatives haven't become law in the USA over the last 50 years).
I'm more than happy to let them have this, just as long as we also have a black box on our politicians. All addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, financial information and physical location for all the politicians, publically available, all the time.
If they've nothing to hide, they've nothing to worry about.
Where is mafia when one needs it? Wait, this guy must be one of them.
Forgive me for being a bit rude, but I woke up to this article. Mr. Motti, considering the reputation your PM has been gathering I must say screw you.
I am at the point I am no longer phased by the phrase "think of the children". All of this to protect kids? Dear god, at this point you might as well just take all the kids away from their parents in the hospital and raise them completely isolated from adults. Maybe even other kids so they don't even know what kids look like to be turned on by them.
An image of a child being abused? I mean, obviously this guy has no clue about technology. Still, he did not research prior censorship attempts first? The whole Green Dam (or was it River) of China's blocking a website for showing too much skin was horribly broken. Should Europeans expect their equivalent of SWAT Teams to start charging in if they look up pig farming?
And... and... *double face palms and sighs* Why the hell are politicians so apt to look at 1984 and like books as guides rather than warnings?
Unfortunately clueless politicians proposing illegal and amoral things are just as present in the EU everywhere else.
Shove it up their ass.
Suddenly old computers will become valuable, and if that is illegal, I'll gladly be a part of the criminal world.
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UNLV also places 20 on All-Academic All-MW squad, Rebel men have four named MW Scholar-Athletes.
Five Named MPSF All-Academic
Cody Roberts and David Szele make a second straight appearance on the conference academic squad.
Championship Rebels
UNLV wins its eighth conference title in the last nine years after claiming the MPSF title on Saturday night.
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UNLV claims MPSF titles in 100 fly, 100 back, 400 IM and 400 medley relay.
Freshman Wins 50 Free MPSF Title
UNLV stands in third place after two days.
2012-13 (Sophomore): Turned in a pair of sixth place finishes at the league championships, in both the 500 free (4:29.38) and the 1650 free (15:26.90) ... Finished 10th in the 400 IM (3:57.90).
2011-12 (Freshman): Notched three top-eight finishes at the MPSF Championships, highlighted by a third-place showing in the 1650 free (15:31.08) ... Eighth in both the 500 free (4:30.30) and in the 400 IM (4:00.22).
High School: As a senior, was a NSCA All-American in the 500 free ... Washington state champion in the 200 and 500 free ... Named Stanwood High Male Athlete of the Year in 2010-11 ... Four-time team MVP, and named all-league all four years as well ... Set school records in 200 and 500 free, as well as on the 200 free, 400 free and 200 medley relays ... Two-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American.
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Personal: Matthew John Roe ... Born on Aug. 30, 1992, in Seattle, Wash. ... Son of Bob and the Jane Roe ... Has two sisters, Andrew (32) and Chelsey (30) ... Father was a professional golfer ... Graduated in 2013 and is pursuing his masters degree in science in management information systems.


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Sunday, November 4, 2012
We Do Things Differently, Meeting Up With Another Researcher
5 comments:
- imagespast said...
We all do things slightly differently, but I'm with you, I'd have been straight off to the cemetery! :-) Jo
- November 4, 2012 at 10:09 AM
- Michelle Goodrum said...
Cute story. I'm glad you were both able to meet your goals. Ditto what imagespast said!
- November 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM
- Susan said...
This made me smile, I have just started helping out at my local history centre and could spend days just looking through all the books they have. Was on a grave search today and the look of relief on my partners face was tangible when the second stone I looked at was the one I was looking for lol
- November 4, 2012 at 2:27 PM
- Carol said...
OH, dear, well, at least yours DOES some genealogy. Man does, well, none. He does however, put up with my insisting I must go to this library and that and this cemetery and that and this church or that. He did like hugging his ggg grandparents headstones after he had been in the church in England where they were married.
I kinda like that we all do our research with a bit of a fresh approach! LOL
- November 4, 2012 at 6:12 PM
- Barbara Poole said...
Although I know we all do genealogy our own way, I would have thought after many years, he (Bill) would have learned my way, joking of course. Thanks all for your comments.
Susan, I'm glad you found the stone so quickly.
- November 5, 2012 at 7:48 AM


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Assert use cases
Here are some common examples of using the assert keyword:
- pre-conditions (in private methods only) - the requirements which a method requires its caller to fulfill
- post-conditions - verify the promises made by a method to its caller
- class invariants - validate object state
- unreachable-at-runtime code - parts of your program which you expect to be unreachable, but which cannot be verified as such at compile-time (often else clauses and default cases in switch statements)
import java.util.Random; public final class Flower { public static void main(String... arguments) { final Flower tulip = new Flower("Tulip", 1); tulip.grow(); tulip.grow(); System.out.println(tulip); tulip.randomGrowOrWither(); System.out.println(tulip); tulip.wither(); tulip.wither(); System.out.println(tulip); } /** * @param aSpecies must have content. * @param aInitialLength must be greater than 0. */ public Flower(final String aSpecies, final int aInitialLength) { //assert is NOT used to validate params of public methods if (!isValidSpecies(aSpecies)) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Species must have content."); } if (!isValidLength(aInitialLength)) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Initial length must be positive."); } fSpecies = aSpecies; fLength = aInitialLength; //check the class invariant assert hasValidState(): "Construction failed - not valid state."; } public boolean isMature() { return fLength > 5 ; //not necessary to assert valid state here, since //the state has not changed. } /** * Increase the length by at least one unit. */ public void grow(){ //this style of checking post-conditions is NOT recommended, //since the copy of fLength is always made, even when //assertions are disabled. //See <tt>wither</tt> (below) for an example with an improved style. final int oldLength = fLength; fLength += getLengthIncrease(fLength); //post-condition: length has increased assert fLength > oldLength; //check the class invariant assert hasValidState(): this; } /** * Decrease the length by one unit, but only if the resulting length * will still be greater than 0. */ public void wither(){ //this local class exists only to take a snapshot of the current state. //although bulky, this style allows post-conditions of arbitrary complexity. class OriginalState { OriginalState() { fOriginalLength = fLength; } int getLength() { return fOriginalLength; } private final int fOriginalLength; } OriginalState originalState = null; //construct object inside an assertion, in order to ensure that //no construction takes place when assertions are disabled. //this assert is rather unusual in that it will always succeed, and in that //it has side-effects - it creates an object and sets a reference assert (originalState = new OriginalState()) != null; if (fLength > 1) { --fLength; } //post-condition: length has decreased by one or has remained the same assert fLength <= originalState.getLength(); //check the class invariant assert hasValidState(): this; } /** * Randomly select one of three actions *
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do nothing *
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 */ public void randomGrowOrWither() { //(magic numbers are used here instead of symbolic constants //to slightly clarify the example) Random generator = new Random(); int action = generator.nextInt(3); //according to the documentation for the Random class, action //should take one of the values 0,1,2. if (action == 0) { //do nothing } else if (action == 1) { grow(); } else if (action == 2) { wither(); } else { //this is still executed if assertions are disabled throw new AssertionError("Unexpected value for action: " + action); } //check the class invariant assert hasValidState(): this; } /** Use for debugging only. */ public String toString(){ final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); result.append(this.getClass().getName()); result.append(": Species="); result.append(fSpecies); result.append(" Length="); result.append(fLength); return result.toString(); } // PRIVATE private final String fSpecies; private int fLength; /** * Implements the class invariant. * * Perform all checks on the state of the object. * One may assert that this method returns true at the end * of every public method. */ private boolean hasValidState(){ return isValidSpecies(fSpecies) && isValidLength(fLength); } /** Species must have content. */ private boolean isValidSpecies(final String aSpecies) { return aSpecies != null && aSpecies.trim().length()>0; } /** Length must be greater than 0. */ private boolean isValidLength(final int aLength) { return aLength > 0; } /** Length increase depends on current length. */ private int getLengthIncrease(int aOriginalLength) { //since this is a private method, an assertion //may be used to validate the argument assert aOriginalLength > 0: this; int result = 0; if (aOriginalLength > 10) { result = 2; } else { result = 1; } assert result > 0 : result; return result; } }
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Find a Grave is fun for celebrities, and also has a huge number of non-famous graves recorded (and pictured). I found accidental kin through that .
For sheer number of sites and ideas for brick walls, try Cyndi's List. The mother lode of genealogy sites.
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Hobart Dominick Betts, an award-winning architect who lived in Sag Harbor, died on Monday in Stony Brook of complications from a fall. He was 78.
Mr. Betts worked at Ulrich Franzen & Associates in New York City for five years and then opened his own firm, Hobart Betts Architects, in 1966. He ran it for 20 years. He designed a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings. Among the awards he won were the Progressive Architecture Design Award Citation, the American Institute of Architects Award for Excellence in Design, and the Architectural Record Award for Excellence in Design.
Mr. Betts was a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and taught architectural design at Columbia University. He also served on the advisory council of the Princeton University School of Architecture, from which he graduated in 1961.
Mr. Betts was born to Hobart Dominick Betts Jr. and the former Elizabeth Higgins on May 31, 1933, in Orange, N.J. He grew up in Englewood, N.J., and attended the Buckley School in Manhattan and the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. He earned an undergraduate degree at Princeton, magna cum laude, in 1957.
An active member of the Sag Harbor community, he helped establish the Donald E. Reutershan Memorial Scholarship at Pierson High School. Mr. Betts belonged to the Sag Harbor Yacht Club, the Shelter Island Yacht Club, and the University Club in Manhattan. He was also interested in art and historic preservation.
His marriage to the late Glynne Robinson Betts ended in divorce. They had three children, who survive: Elizabeth Betts of Manhattan, William Betts of Houston, and Katherine Betts of Manhattan. He is also survived by a sister, Bertha Betts of New Canaan, Conn., and two grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on Dec. 10 at 11 a.m. at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor, with burial following at Oakland Cemetery.
The family has suggested memorial donations to the Donald E. Reutershan Memorial Scholarship, to the attention of Dr. John Gratto, 200 Jermain Avenue, Sag Harbor 11963.


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Submission + - Titanic: How do you convert a movie to 3D, anyway? (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "From the story: 'Not everyone likes 3D movies, and almost everyone agrees that traditional movies later converted to 3D have been disappointing. Until now, James Cameron, famed director and now also deep sea explorer, agreed with them. He has been a harsh critic of 3D film conversions, except that he has now spent a reported $18 million converting his blockbuster movie, Titantic, to 3D. The re-release is timed to coincide with the movie's 15th anniversary and the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. This herculean effort inspired us to take a closer look at how a movie gets converted to 3D after it has already been shot, and what makes Cameron's effort so daunting.' ExtremeTech looks at the primary way of managing depth in 3D films (parallax), how you add depth to a movie that was originally filmed in 2D, and some of the software (both computer and human-brain) difficulties that Cameron had to overcome in the more-than-two-year process to convert Titanic into 3D."


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Improving same-store sales, an expanding operating margin, big give-backs of capital to shareholders and steady square footage growth dominate the story at Fortune 500 company AutoZone Inc.
(Memphis News File/Brandon Dill)
The pressure to show investors growth and a return is one of the most basic realities of operating as a public company.
And the three Memphis-based companies on this year's Fortune 500 list are pressing forward on their own distinct paths toward satisfying that pressure.
AutoZone Inc., FedEx Corp. and International Paper Co. each have unique challenges facing them. FedEx has to work around rising fuel prices, for example, and International Paper is dealing with a declining paper industry in some markets as digital technology is on the rise.
Then there are the macro challenges of national and global economies that aren't as strong as they were during the boom years of the last decade. Against that backdrop, AutoZone's penny-pinching customers might put off buying items from the car parts retailer to make repairs, and FedEx customers might shy away from the package delivery giant's faster – but more expensive – shipping options.
Nevertheless, 2013 has been a positive one for the companies in many respects, such as the fact that the stock prices of all three are up year to date. Some are hitting even more significant milestones than that.
A few weeks ago, AutoZone chairman, CEO and president Bill Rhodes told analysts during the company's most recent earnings presentation that AutoZone has surpassed $9 billion in sales this year.
Raymond James sponsored two days of investor meetings for AutoZone's senior management in mid-October, and the meetings underscored a few key takeaways. Among them: improving same-store sales, an expanding operating margin, big give-backs of capital to shareholders and steady square footage growth dominate the AutoZone story of late.
AutoZone also hosted its national sales meeting in Memphis for AutoZoners at the end of September, and during his address to employees, Rhodes focused on a theme of "creating customers for life."
"We've always been focused on creating customers for life, but that will be our annual operating theme this year, in order to intensify our focus on it," Rhodes told analysts on a conference call this month.
One way to focus on new customers is to bring in more of them, and this year AutoZone has opened the doors at 153 new stores. AutoZone also has begun rolling out new customer service technology at its stores and is making investments and enhancements to capture more data about customer shopping patterns.
"We have a very exciting year planned in 2014," Rhodes said. "I can confidently say we feel the actions we have taken and the investments we've made in 2013 position us to grow sales in 2014 across all of our lines of business."
International Paper, meanwhile, is a global leader in the paper and packaging industry which has manufacturing operations around the world – and is part of a paper industry that's in decline in some markets, according to Chicago-based investment research firm Morningstar Inc.
The economy notwithstanding, International Paper shares this summer reached their highest level in more than 13 years.
"The U.S. and global economies are still recovering, but the cash flow we're able to generate, I think, gives me encouragement that we're going to have a substantially better second half of the year," said company chairman and CEO John Faraci.
In Memphis, International Paper is in the process of a significant headquarters expansion that includes building a fourth building at its East Memphis office campus. That tower is expected to be finished in the second quarter of 2015.
Underscoring its interest in Memphis, International Paper senior vice president Tom Kadien said – after Highwoods Properties Inc. signed a long-term build-to-suit lease with the company in March – that International Paper continues to want to grow here.
The company, of course, is more than the physical presence of its buildings and people. International Paper says it provides more than $3 million every year in Memphis-area giving, and those contributions included spending nearly $60 million on vendors in Memphis in 2012.
More than AutoZone and International Paper, meanwhile, FedEx attracts a large and sometimes outsized share of attention because of its status as an economic bellwether.
The company's Memphis World Hub includes more than 40 miles of conveyer belts and sorts an average of 1.5 million packages a day. Workers there who load more than 10,000 FedEx flights each month support a global supply chain and help make the company a leading indicator of economic conditions.
Which is why, last month, two U.S. senators showed up at the hub as part of their push to simplify the nation's tax code.
FedEx chairman, president and CEO Frederick W. Smith hosted Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Dave Camp, R-Mich., for a roundtable discussion on the need for tax reform.
"The U.S. corporate tax system today is dysfunctional, discourages investment, and is a competitive disadvantage for American businesses," Smith said after the discussion.
That kind of conversation is more evidence of FedEx's agenda-setting status. But even it is not immune to the need for realignment to meet economic challenges.
As part of a push to boost operating profits by $1.6 billion by the end of fiscal year 2016, 3,600 FedEx employees took a voluntary buyout earlier this year. As of Aug. 31, 45 percent had left the company and the rest will leave through the end of next June.
FedEx Express recently took delivery of its first new Boeing 767-300 freighter, which uses about 30 percent less fuel. Earlier this month, the company announced a new flat-rate shipping option targeting individuals and small businesses that don't ship very often, and for the quarter ended Aug. 31, the company posted a quarterly profit 7 percent higher than a year ago.
FedEx, Smith told analysts in a presentation about the quarter's earnings, is well positioned for continued growth and success.


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The city and its police union will step back to the bargaining table next week to try to break an impasse in labor negotiations.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — The city and its police union will step back to the bargaining table next week to try to break an impasse in labor negotiations.
The main point of contention is the city's proposal for police officers to pay more into their pensions. The city's plan would have officers contributing about 2 percent more of their pay to the pension fund over the next three years. They currently contribute 8.1 percent of their pay; the city wants to hike that to 10 percent.
The two sides are set to head to arbitration in January. However, officials with both the city and Orlando-based Teamsters Local 385, which represents the city's police officers, will meet to try to avoid having a special magistrate make a recommendation on the unresolved contract issue. Negotiations will take place 2:30 p.m. Nov. 29 at City Hall, 210 Sams Ave.
"The Teamsters had actually asked if we could meet with them and negotiate," City Manager Pam Brangaccio said. "And of course, we said yes."
Robert Walker, business agent for Teamsters Local 385, could not immediately be reached Monday.
Under the proposed contract, employees who want to receive a lump sum in pension upon retirement would only be allowed to get 5 percent to 10 percent of their pension rather than an up to a 25 percent payment.
New employees would not be provided those pension options.
The city claimed in a memo that proposed pension changes are a result of an "unprecedented" decline in revenue from 2009 to 2012. Meanwhile, the city said the cost of funding the pension plan increased from $434,072 in fiscal 2007-08 to $814,476 in 2011-12.
The City Commission has approved labor agreements with the city's two other employee unions, the International Association of Firefighters and the Laborers International Union of North America. In the agreement with the IAFF, firefighters' contributions to their pensions will increase from 1 percent to 10 percent over the next three years.
Until the city and the police union reach an agreement on a new contract, officers and other employees will continue to work under the terms of their current deal.
The proposed police contract also includes a 2 percent raise, the same pay hike that was given to all employees in the current fiscal budget.
If and when a new contract is ratified, Brangaccio said among the City Commission's decisions could be whether to make the salary increase for police employees retroactive to Oct. 1.


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Just wonder why 31 other teams had no great interest.
Really fun article to read. Nice video as well.
Imagine if this guy's views on McElroy turn out to be correct?
Since I'm a dreamer, I'm ready to believe starting Sunday.
Just wonder why 31 other teams had no great interest.
He's a disgrace to the Jets uniform. Pay attention.
So his ceiling is one of the best to ever play? Isn't that everyone's fantasy ceiling coming out of college?
I mean, so it's somewhere between second string and one of the greatest...
I'm excited to see what the kid can do.
At the very least, you know he's accurate, takes care of the football, and won't curl up into a ball like a scared puss as soon as a defender comes within arms reach.
Is he our future? Probably not.
But there's a chance. And that's more than we can say about Sanchez or Tebow.
However, I always wondered why he wasn't released after saying terrible things to the media about his teamates and his organization when getting rid of malcontents was priority one at the time. Coming off an injury no less.
Like I said, I see good things in him and since I've got nothing to lose by dreaming, I'm all in on the dream.
There have been plenty of un-drafted or nearly un-drafted QB's that turned out to be great or near great.
While the article is nice and shows off his strengths, it completely disregards Macs ability to throw a 10-15 yard out pattern. That is fundamental information which is purposefully disregarded because unfortunately for us, I don't think McElroy has it.
Any Jets fan during the Pennington era can tell you how important that is.
I was thinking of QB's like Brady (late draft), Warren Moon, Kurt Warner, Jake Delhomme, Tony Romo, and Dave Krieg (besides Brady, all undrafted I think).
Warner went to three SB's and Delhomme played lights out in the SB (before he became terrible shortly after).
I don't know how many 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th round QB's turned out to be great. Probably alot.
I just want THIS ONE to be our very own diamond in the rough moment.
Every NFL defense knows how to limit weak-armed QBs. Some can't because they don't have the personnel...but you better believe that it won't fly in the playoffs.
The last QB to win a superbowl without having at lease a Drew Brees type arm (strong enough to make all the throws, but isn't going to hurt anyones hands) was Trent Dilfer...and he had the ravens D behind him. Before that? I'm thinking Joe Montana...but oh yea, he was playing in a revolutionary offense way ahead of its time.
GMac has a strong enough arm. I'd prefer his arm and extremely strong head to extremely strong armed very weak brain QBs such as Jeff George, Jamarcus Russell, Browning Nagle or Ryan Mallett
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McElroy will be the starting Jet QB next season. It starts Sunday. It continues for the next 12 years. He can't be any worse than Sanchez. Sanchez has been the worst in the league the past 4 years and he's still won 4 playoff games with this team. Give the kid the team and step back and watch.
The good news is that he improved his arm strength when he was on IR last year. If he can keep doing that, he may turn out to be a player.
Its the only explanation I could come up with.
I was thinking that theres no way Mcelroy can be any good because if he was, our coaches would have put him in weeks ago.
Then i remember our coach is rex ryan who is a clueless buffoon.
Gmac has 2 games to show us what he has. I believe he will do very well.