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2008: The Year the Geeks Took Over
#3. Geekophobia Left the Last Generation Confused and Frightened
In 2008, two books were published within five months of each other about how geek culture was going to destroy the world. Susan Jacoby was inspired to write The Age of American Unreason after spending the night in a modern college dorm. Not because somebody drew a dick on her face while she was sleeping, but because she thought the dorm was too quiet.
The students chatted online with headphones stuffed in their ears instead of actually interacting with one another. Could it be that they were being quiet because they were creeped out by the 63 year-old lady sitting on their bunk bed taking notes? Jacoby quickly told the boring (rational) part of her brain to shut the fuck up, and started looking for a more interesting explanation. She ultimately decided that the students had wrapped themselves in an "iPod coccoon" that was responsible for "a new species of semi-conscious anti-rationalism."
The book immediately became a bestseller. At first, this must have looked like a problem to yet another writer (Mark Baurlein) who was about to publish a book that basically said the same thing.
But he soon realized there was room for improvement, as she had failed to explicitly call an entire group of people retarded in the title. So in July he published The Dumbest Generation, which used a barrage of startling claims and an absurdly long subtitle to explain (deep breath) How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or Don't Trust Anyone Under 30).
(Title continued on back.)
Anti-tech manifestoes were no longer being mailed out by bearded recluses with a complimentary pipe bomb. Mark Bauerlein was a respected English professor and the book got a favorable review in the Los Angeles Times (it's called a newspaper. More on these later). Ted Kazinsky had gone mainstream.
But there were a few problems with Jacoby and Baurline's theory. A Newsweek review of The Dumbest Generation pointed out that cognitive scientists believe information technology is making us smarter, not dumber. It also pointed out that IQ scores have been on the rise since the 1930s, meaning the pod creatures Jacoby observed were on average the smartest generation to ever pass through that college dorm. So how did two of the most talked about books of the year both come to the conclusion that information technology had created a force field of stupid around us?
Geek apologists pointed out that academics have a long proud history of freaking the fuck out in the face of progress. Sir Isaac Newton's laws of mechanics was called "a rape manual" by the academics of his day. But Baurlein isn't some kooky old physicist who thinks gravity wants to have nonconsensual sex with his wife. He's something far more dangerous (and far less awesome): a teacher.
That means that right now, twenty of the brightest young men and women in Atlanta are enrolled in a class taught by a man who filled 272 pages complaining about how retarded they are. And what about students whose geek phobic teachers weren't publicly handed their asses in a major magazine? For instance, the high school teacher who provides most of the claims at the heart of The San Francisco Chronicle article "American Kids, Dumber Than Dirt: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history." (Seriously, who's writing these fucking subtitles?)
It's like that story about how Einstein's elementary school teachers thought he was retarded because they didn't understand him. Only it's not an urban legend and it's happening to an entire generation.
#2. Geekophobia Also Seized the Old Media
The mainstream media is flooded with eulogies for the newspaper (a bunch of sheets of low grade wood pulp that used to give people their information--think the Drudge Report, but slower and without flashing graphics that told you which story was actually important).
About 15 years ago, most people realized that the whole wood-pulpy mess would become unnecessary as soon as the newspapers figured out how to use the Internet. That never happened.
As Rupert Murdoch put it, the newspapers spent the ensuing years "remarkably, unaccountably complacent . . . quietly hoping that this thing called the digital revolution would just limp along." In other words, they called the digital revolution's bluff, a ballsy maneuver which went approximately as well as it did for Mr. Takagi in Die Hard.
"Well Hans, I guess you'll just have to kill me then."
As publishers went bankrupt and newspapers across the country died, the mainstream media consulted the five steps of grieving and, seeing that anger comes after denial, they got pissed. The year's greatest old-media hissy fit came to us live on the HBO show Costas Now, when sports writer Buzz Bissinger unleashed a crass, obscenity laced rant about how crass and obscenity laced blogs are. But maybe the most telling moment came later when the blogger they'd brought on to ambush was criticized ... for something that was written in the comment section of the blog ... by someone else.
"Now, you write the Internet, correct? Is that how this works?"
Anyone who understands blogs knows why that's not fair. It's like reading a book report on Old Man and the Sea, and criticizing Hemingway for claiming his book was "better than pizza." People who actually use blogs would have noticed that the commenter's name was Pipelayer and immediately realized he was a 12-year-old.
The mainstream media isn't wrong that the Internet emerged from the primordial soup looking all sorts of fucked up. They're just wrong about whose fault it is. They woke up to an online world that the average teenager understands better than them, and so they got mad at the teenager. Maybe it was time to take a look in the mirror, or at least another look at Rupert Murdoch. He told them they were out of touch three years ago and he's so old that his face appears to be made almost entirely of scrotum skin.
Seriously guy, get your head out of your ass.
At the other end of the getting it totally wrong spectrum, CNN launched i-Report which lets users create headlines. In effect, they created a news site that was one big comment section, where the Pipelayers of the world could make the news. It was like watching the old horse buggy driver finally break down and get a car, then getting confused as to how the horse was supposed to fit behind the wheel. The problem ain't the design of the car, Jebediah.
#1. The Election of the First Black(berry) President
Cracked fans come from all ends of the political spectrum, so there was sharp disagreement between those who thought Sarah Palin was "fucking retarded" and those who thought she was merely retarded, her condition not rising to a level that would require the "fucking" modifier.
But that really missed the point. Yes, a lot of you perceived an infuriating "ignorant and damned proud of it!" attitude from Palin, as she smirked and winked and demonstrated what seemed to be a high schooler's grasp of politics. But what's important is that many, many American elections have been won with that shrugging, "aw shucks, I'm just common folk with no use for that high falutin' fancy book-learnin'" act. Not this time.
"Math is scary!"
In 2000, George W. Bush was the affable, goofy common man we'd all like to have at our barbecue. Al Gore was a robot, smart and unfeeling as HAL 9000 and just as likely to lock us all out of the bay doors because of some unfathomable calculation made in his computer brain. We went for Bush, and in fact we've been voting for the George W. Bush in that matchup for a couple of centuries, due to an odd misfire in the American brain that associates low intelligence with honesty.
In 2008, that same stage was set again. The white, elderly, self-effacing war hero who boasted that he finished at the bottom of his class in the Academy. The small town beauty queen. A ticket as American as a six shooter.
They were matched up against a young, not-white guy with a foreign name who did not run on his humble roots, could not boast that he was a war hero, who insisted on pronouncing "Pakistan" as "Pah-kis-stahn" and who, by all appearances, would go into a violent seizure if his cell phone or Blackberry were taken away.
Also, we think this is what The Matrix would look like if done with a black guy.
Then he threw the switch on an online fundraising machine that drowned the campaign in cash (or more accurately, drowned McCain's campaign with it) and mobilized a high-tech "ground game" that will be studied by every future campaign, volunteers dispatched by advanced databases that tracked every voter.
That's right: he simply out-geeked McCain.
McCain's campaign fought back with the most advanced tactics in its own arsenal: the "our opponent is a closet Commie" tactic that worked so well for Eisenhower.
They seemed shocked to find the world had changed in the last 56 years, and it was in the absolute ass-beating that occurred on election day we saw how stark was the divide between generations. McCain won exactly one age group: Those 65 and older. Everyone else went Obama by increasingly higher percentages as you get younger (he more than doubled McCain's margin among 18-29 year-olds, 66% to 32%).
McCain can't even raise his arms like that. Come on.
The ones who had the highest stake in the future--because they are still going to be alive to see it--overwhelmingly voted one way. And the future is what the Geek is all about. That's why we love technology and gadgets and sci-fi. It's about looking forward and embracing what's coming, unafraid.
This is a huge change; we grew up hearing grown-ups talk about the past in glowing terms, dreaming of returning to old-time values and an era when all was right with the world, when there was no crime or gays, when women knew their place and America dominated the globe.
The geek, on the other hand, looks back and sees a time when couples on TV couldn't be shown sleeping in the same bed, when calculations were done with pencil and paper and having a friend in Japan meant waiting eight weeks for a letter to arrive.
The Geek then says, "Fuck that" and goes online to shop for a 3G neural implant. The future can't get here soon enough.
Since this is our second to last article of the year, and because we're stupid for lists spread out over two pages, check out the 10th through 6th most popular articles of 2008:
#10. The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World
#9. The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies You Were Taught In History Class
#8. The 5 Creepiest Urban Legends (That Happen to be True)
#7. The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You
#6. The 11 Most Badass Last Words Ever Uttered.
Check the end of tomorrow's article for the five most popular articles of the year.


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6 Ancient Sports Too Awesome For the Modern World
It's amazing how crazy people get about sports these days, especially considering how much sports suck compared to what they used to be.
No, we're not talking about the 1940s when football players wore leather helmets. We're talking about the ancient sports where Viking rape was a trophy and "crocodile death" had its own slot on the scoreboard.
#6. Mesoamerican Ballgame
Long before soccer (and smallpox) took pre-Columbian America by storm, the official sport of Ancient Mexico was an odd game that the Mayans called pitz. Since there is no word in the English language that can do justice to its brutality, we simply call it "The Mesoamerican Ballgame".
"I don't know what this game is or why the hell we're playing it."
The "Game"
Mesoamerican Ballgame was a lot like volleyball, except the ball involved was nine pounds of solid rubber. And there were beheadings.
Players had to keep the heavy bastard in play by bouncing it off their forearms, hips, elbows and (if you're a sissy) bats and rackets. Points were scored by striking the ball against the opponents' wall, while points were lost if the ball hit the ground more than twice.
Face blocks, while legal, cannot in good conscience be recommended.
The Mesoamericans included one final draw to wow their crowd. Either team could score an instant win by knocking the ball through an impossibly-high sideways-basketball-hoop (sort of like Quidditch with badass Mexicans).
Team Half-Lizard People are so boned.
How is that "Insane"?
Consider the post-game party: Winners would be whisked off to celebrate with some shapely Mesoamerican ladies with a penchant for body-painting, while the losing team got lead into the back and had their heads chopped off. However, there remains some discrepancy as to who actually got sacrificed: the opposing captain, the opposing players or even the winning team (since they were clearly the greater warriors). Either way, there would be blood.
Oh, and all those decapitated heads? Yeah... They used nine-pound balls for a reason: The entire game was just a warm-up for the post-game party favorite, head-ball.
The back room at Mesoamerican Sports Authority.
#5. Skin-Pulling
Tug-of-war remains one of the most primal sports still played, and here's hoping it makes it into the Olympics someday. You may have tugged a rope over a pond at summer camp, or even over a pile of mud at your sister's wedding, but have you ever considered playing it over a pit of fire? The Vikings did.
The "Game"
Instead of rope, the players used animal-hides. And instead of overweight middle-schoolers in gym class, the players were Vikings.
How is that "Insane"?
Considering the Vikings' unhealthy obsession with rape, murder and fire, it was only a matter of time before somebody mixed all three into one fucked up triathlon. The result: A version of tug-of-war played over a fiery pit for the spoils of the town they had just ransacked, which included exclusive rape-rights to all the women. The winners got the plunder, and the losers got burned to death.
"They also get a copy of our home game!"
#4. Venatio
Imagine that you're in Rome in 54 A.D. You were once a warrior of Noricum, but now you are a slave forced to perform before a crowd of screaming sociopaths who condescendingly refer to you only as bestiarius because you have been chosen (forced) to play venatio, "the Hunt."
Anyone named "Bestiarius" looks like this. It's a scientific fact.
The "Game"
In Venatio, you and your teammates must face a monster known as "the Beast of Carthage," which in modern English translates to 20 goddamn elephants.
Pictured: 20 goddamn elephants.
How is that "Insane"?
Well, in addition to having to fight a bunch of fucking elephants suffering from extreme separation anxiety, every slave knew it was the deadliest gladiatorial game with maybe a two percent chance of survival. The Romans, fueled by their hatred of Hannibal, played this game so frequently that they drove the North African elephant to extinction.
"Bring me more elephants! I have some friends coming over to play Venatio."


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Suppose that $A$ is a set of 16 distinct natural numbers and that $1\leq p\leq100$ for every $p$ in $A $.
Prove that $A$ contains 4 different numbers $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$, such that $a+b=c+d$.
Suppose that $A$ is a set of 16 distinct natural numbers and that $1\leq p\leq100$ for every $p$ in $A $.
Prove that $A$ contains 4 different numbers $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$, such that $a+b=c+d$.
This is number 17 of the introductory problems section in the book 102 Combinatorial Problems from the training of the USA IMO team by Titu Andreescu and Zuming Feng.
Here is a paraphrase of their solution.
There are ${16\choose 2}=120$ pairs of numbers from $A$. Since the absolute differences range from 1 to 99, there must be two different pairs $\{a,c\}$ and $\{d,b\}$ with $a-c=d-b$ and hence $a+b=c+d$.
The problem is that $\{a,b,c,d\}$ may not be distinct. Well, what could go wrong? We may end up with pairs like $\{7,6\}$ and $\{6,5\}$. In this case, we may call the number 6 "bad". Generally, we call $a\in A$ a bad number if there exist $a_1<a<a_2\in A$ with $a_2-a=a-a_1$.
Note that if $a$ is bad for two different pairs of pairs, then we have a solution. That is, if $a_1<a<a_2\in A$ so that $a_2-a=a-a_1$ and $a_3<a<a_4\in A$ so that $a_4-a=a-a_3$, then we have $a_1+a_2=a_3+a_4$. You can check that $a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4$ really are distinct in this case.
So the only real problem are pairs of numbers in $A$ whose midpoint $a$ also belongs to $A$, such that no other pair has the same midpoint. There are at most 16 such troublesome pairs, so there are $120-16=104$ pairs left. Applying the pigeonhole principle to this reduced set gives the solution.
Note: This solution is for the problem as originally posed, without the requirement that $a,b,c$, and $d$ be distinct. That requirement makes it significantly harder, and I'll have to think about it a bit more if I have time.
(I'm assuming that you mean that if $p\in A$, then $1\le p\le 100$.) Here's an extended hint.
Let $D=\{|a-b|:a,b\in A\text{ and }a\ne b\}$, the set of pair differences.


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- BSO Case Number: BS01-12-12252 (UPDATE)
- PIO Number: 01-12-47
- Date: Dec. 28, 2001
- Time: 1326
- Place of Occurrence: New River, 2500 block of NW 6 St., uninc. Ft. Lauderdale
- Marita White, 22, 4/20/79, 1720 NE 2 Terr., Pompano Beach (DECEASED)
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The Broward Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit has positively identified the young woman whose body parts were found Friday in the New River near Fort Lauderdale.
The victim was 22-year-old Marita White of Pompano Beach. White was released from state prison on June 16, 2001 after serving nearly two years on a Delivery of Cocaine conviction stemming from a 1997 arrest.
The cause of White's death remains undetermined. On Saturday, the Broward Medical Examiner examined her head and arms. Further remains have not yet been recovered. It is believed that White was killed and dismembered Thursday night or Friday morning.
BSO Homicide detectives are asking for help in determining White's most recent whereabouts and identifying her associates. Anyone with any information is urged to call the Broward Sheriff's Office at (954) 765-4321. Information can be relayed anonymously through CrimeStoppers at (954) 493-TIPS and a reward is available.
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Among those companies initiating related recalls are Chattanooga Bakery Inc., Fairytale Brownies, Falcon Trading Company/SunRidge Farms, Giant Food, Gretchen Shoebox Express, Harry and David, Jer's Chocolates, Justin's, Late July Snacks, Newman's Own Organics, Oregon Ice Cream Company12, Stop & Shop Supermarket Company, Whole Foods Market, and Xan Confections.
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How can I buffer a line in QGIS using one attribute for the left side of the line and one attribute for the right side of the line? I am trying to buffer a river with its bank width, which is different on the right and left side.
Defining a line's side is rather straight forward on an orientable surface, which a 2D plane in a GIS is. If you define a start point and an end point for a line, you can unambiguously define "left" and "right" sides. This is the case even if the line crosses itself.
From a more practical standpoint, simple workflow for creating a one-sided buffer includes a standard buffer, a difference operation, and then a clipping operation. Here's an example.
Start by creating a polygon that includes, or precisely overlaps, your line. In order for the buffer to be on the right side of your line the inside of the polygon should be on the left. Note that if your line crosses itself then this won't work as desired, and you may need to draw the polygon such that it doesn't cross itself or your line. Apply the buffer operation to this polygon. Using the fTools plugin go to Geoprocessing Tools > Buffer.
Using the difference operation, Geoprocessing Tools > Difference, with the buffer as the input layer and the original polygon as the difference layer, cut out the inside. Now you have a right-side buffer.
All that remains is to clip the "extra" part of the polygon. Geoprocessing Tools > Clip.
This is a very interesting question, which I believe is non trivial to solve. I came across a script for ArcMap which provides a very nicely documented solution spanning 500 lines of VB code. However I am not aware of an equivalent script or module in QGIS.
One of the key considerations in an asymmetric buffer will be the direction of flow of the line, so that you can define a left and right side. In the case of rivers this should be straightforward to calculate if you have an accompanying DEM.
It may be possible to build a qgis script around the logic of this script, but that would require an extensive amount of work.


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I'm an undergrad who is taking a Complex Analysis Course mainly for its applications in number theory.
So I would like to ask some guidelines about which theorems/concepts should I focus on in order to develop a narrower path for self study.
In addition, it would be helpful to know if there is a book that does a good job showing off how the complex analysis machinery can be used effectively in number theory, or at least one with a good amount of well-developed examples in order to provide a wide background of the tools that complex analysis gives in number theory.


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David Santos of Um Segredo Supper Club Planning a Restaurant, Louro
He's joined the Kickstarter brigade to fund his brick-and-mortar plans.
He's joined the Kickstarter brigade to fund his brick-and-mortar plans.
Expect a December opening.
Scope out the upcoming Carroll Gardens spot.
Katy Spark's menu looks ambitious — and delicious.
Dushan Zaric of Employees Only is designing the cocktails.
The working title is still "the Office." No name yet.
A Parisian-style café is planned for a grimy corner.
Seasonal grub and serious cocktails coming at us by October.
It's just around the corner from the al di là spinoff.
G'day, New York!
The Nolita bi-level bivalve joint is moving forward despite a few hurdles.
Some new menu options including seasonal salads.
The currently free-floating chefs are testing dishes at City Grit.
The "Italian-inspired" restaurant should open in late summer or early fall.
It's tentatively titled OTB.
"Think about colliding scopes, hot and cold, feminine and masculine. Yin and yang. All these things."
The German beer-maker is planning a U.S. 4,000-square-foot flagship.
A bit of irony arriving just in time for Passover.
The Stone Street Tavern folks are behind the brownstone-housed restaurant.
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25 Feb 2010 5:22 AM #31
Hello All,
I posted a thread on Adobe forums to confirm that you could select from a view.
So I have no clue what is happening inside the proxy/table prototypes.
Thanks Jack
25 Feb 2010 5:35 AM #32Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better іdiot-proof programs, and the universe striving to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
Enhanced ExtJS adapter for Adobe AIR
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[SOLVED] Sqlite Views
Hello All,
Thank you Makana, still testing the new adapter and lovin it so far.
So here is the problem and solution - Firefox SQLiteManager Add-on 3.16 CANNOT be trusted.
I create a database from scratch using the SQLite3 command line and all my views are accessible without any problems.
The I tested accessing the database created with SQLiteManager Add-on and found that my views never appeared in teh sqlite_master table !!!!
Well, at least I don't need to pay for a hair cut this month, as I've gone bald from Firefox, my first ever disaproval of one of their products.
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why Firefox SQLiteManager Add-on 3.16 isn't trust worth then which one do you recommend ?


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Tombstoning when the hardware Back button is pressed seems to be broken in general. In the XapNotes app, for example, pressing the hardware Back button in the Add Note page will cause a loop. Also, pressing it in the main page does not always exit the app (it seems to needs to cycle through the stacks of previous pages).
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With a dumbell in his hand and a backwards baseball cap on, Ryan looks a bit like Gomer Pyle.
At least it wasn't a Shake Weight.
Ryan's flag is bigger.
Opening question: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
"Amazing biceps, Paul."
He only has one. That's why he's always photographed from the right.
Joe Biden is looking like a question-dodger.
So far they both seem to be tripping over their memorized sound bites in the process of making them fit the point they actually need to make.
I feel in slightly better hands with this moderator than that other one. So far.
Those are some giant water glasses from the future.
"Malarkey" and "my friend" in one answer. That's what good about Joe.
Ann, I have a mac too and the debate video is working for me here ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_IafCIZx1Q&feature=player_embedded
This was a totally predictable line of questioning, and Biden seems underprepared.
Ryan says embassy left unprotected.Biden zings back: Ryan's budget cut $300 from support budget.
Biden zings: Unlike usual bipartisan support in time of crisis, Romney faulted Obama.
I think the way to regain America's confidence in your ticket's brain power (or foreign policy) is not to say "With all due respect, that's a bunch of mullarkey."
I like how Paul Ryan got so confused in his response that he forced the moderator to change the subject.
Also Ryan says "nuclear" correctly, so that's a bad sign.
Yes - Martha Raddatz hasn't said all that much, but I think it must be a testament to her moderating that they're both getting thrown off the script by her questions.
Ryan is flat out lying about Iran.
Biden: "Incredible. Huh-hah."
Faster, centrifuges, faster.
"Martha, let's look at this from the point of view of the ayatollahs."
Why is Ryan disrespecting our ally Netanyahu and his very convincing cartoon bomb?!
Ryan: Ayatollahs watching the debate in Congress over sanctions for two years. Really??? Is that what Ayatollahs spend their time doing.
Ryan: The Iranian's nuclear threat is very great now. They now have enough nucler material for 5 bombs.Biden: But they don't have a weapon to put it in.
She's had enough already
Bibiblabla: also known as mullarky.
"Get ayatollahs to change their minds" is really reminiscent of GW Bush language.
Ryan: "It's Irish,"Biden: We call it Mullarkey.
Biden: Iran is totally isolated..... Russia? China? India? and Southeast Asia, etc.
"Bunch of stuff". I like it.
"They're four years closer to a nuclear weapon..." and... Obama has been president for four years... WAIT IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. If only we didn't measure nuclear readiness in "years."
Ryan is looking pretty incredible. If you know what I mean.
Raddatz repeats Gates: Bombing Iran could haunt us for ages!! So guys, what is this debate over iran about?
Ryan: Iran is the biggest sponsor of terror in the world! Really?
Raddatz: Let's change the subjects, guys! Jobs!!!!
Biden looks like a smirking teenager. With dentures.
Aaaaaand cue the 47% speech! Biden's all het up now.
Great point, Kathy.
Finally, the 47 percent shoe drops.
"Joe and I are from similar towns. This is how I start my speech."
These are retirees, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Hey Paul, Scranton and Janesville are not the same places.... Really have you ever been to Scranton?
Scranton mention! Drink!
Did Ryan *really* just say that unemployment is going UP???? Or did I mis=hear?
"Mitt Romney is a car guy."And a lake guy.And a tree guy. And a coal guy.And a Jim Lehrer guy.
Romney makes a Christmas visit--with gifts. Thanks Paul....
I know Ryan doesn't have much of a choice, but it's true - trying to pass off the 47% thing as an accident of phrasing is really, really weak.
Romney is personally going to go house to house and hand out cash.
More should be made of obstruction of jobs bill.
Is this how Biden handles difficult situations?
I think he heard you Dominic.
Still no details on the plan.
Ryan says unemployment is growing by l.3 percent. The kid is bonkers.
I hate the stimulus except when I love it.
Ryan: top-notch high school debater....
Someone got caught with some pork in his mouth.
Who's going to tell Ryan his guy invests in Chinese companies? http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/romney-china-stock-investments
Ryan: Social Security going bankrupt...not!
Not the Medicare lie again! And the mysterious evil board!
Can Ryan tell the difference between Medicare and Social Security?? Here come death panels!
We're not saying "vouchers" - we're saying "emergency room."
I can't believe they are still using this $716 Medicare cut thing. And then Ryan says, re: Biden, "He'll tell you about vouchers - he'll say all these things to try and scare people" -- that's what we Irish call first-class chutzpah.
OH you just got compared to Sarah Palin (on pretty solid ideological ground at that) and you can't even act offended!
all the guys in Congress and all the women in the Republican party
Biden: Been here before: Didn't Sarah Palin talk about death panels.
You found the weakness in his argument, Kathy.
"Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress after a lost round."
Sister Mary Ryan: Don't Interrupt!!!
Can we get some specifics from R&R on ANYthing?
Ryan is lying about Medicare
Ryan is just going all in with the misrepresentations and discredited figures and all-out lies, huh? ...If I did that and then I said, re: my opponent's claims, "That's a misleading figure..." I'd be afraid I might disappear into some sort of dishonesty black hole.
Biden is killing it right now. Ryan looks dramatically overmatched.
Neither candidate seems to know to look into the camera as he's talking. That's a big pr point.
Seems like Ryan and Romney are convinced that reassuring people over 55 that they're all right, Jack, over and over again, is the path to victory. Seems a bit risky to me, but then I'm under 55.
And Biden is killing himself looking threatened.
Biden: These guys haven't been big on Medicare from the beginning. Ditto Social Security. Your changing it from a guaranteed program....
My family was poorer than yours was...
Biden wins the Soc. Sec. and Medicare segment -- the REpublicans have never really been or either, and the people know it.
I love privatization. It smells like victory.
On to the tax/deficit problem -----
This is the part where the Republican equates "small-business owners" with very rich people.
I would vote for Biden for President.
Wait, did Ryan just admit he's Canadian?
Ryan: the Canadians have a 15 percent tax rate. But they have socialized health insurance.How do they do it?
Good question: Do you have the specifics? (And repeated... and still not being answered.)
Frameworks, with no ID of loopholes to close or deductions to eliminate.
"Can I translate?"
Ryan; (moderator asked for specifics re taxes) will raise 1.5 trillion through taxes [whose taxes??],
Ronald Reagan was specific says Biden! Was he?
The fact that "six studies have guaranteed that the math adds up" is a lie makes this some kind of crazy math super-lie.
Bill Maher wins tweet of the night. "Hello, 911? There's an old man beating a child on my TV."
How how how?
Biden zings: Romney just said that it's "fair" for a guy earning $50K to pay proportionately more taxes than Romeny himself does !!!
Ryan: Romney did a great job in Democratic Mass.Biden zings: Then why isn't Mass. supporting him now?
Mitt's $30 million worth of "charitable" contributions went mostly to the Mormon Church, so that it could buy more real estate. That's not what the Sermon on the Mount was about.
Hmm. Biden is en fuego.
Ryan: Movie Star, Hedge Fund Guy..... For President.
Specific: close loopholes and deductions for highest income people.
Grant GallichoRe: "Biden is killing it right now. Ryan looks dramatically overmatched." During the Obama debate you wrote that Obama was doing allright. Now you must be wearing a blindfold and earmuffs. Except for one well delivered, impassioned statement Biden is blustering and by interrupting hie is making a fool of himself. Biden is overmatched, period.
Navy smaller than it was before WW 1? Really?
When MSNBC cuts to Chris Matthews tonight, this is what I imagine viewers will see: http://www.tubechop.com/watch/590100
U: And they only had row boats.
Ryan playing hard for the WI vote.
Did Ryan just call Afghanistan a failure?
Ryan: 2014: Let's lie to our allies and fool our enemies.
Is it too early to declare Raddatz the winner of this debate?
Biden: Martha, you be straight with me!
Thanks Paul: enlighten us.
Biden takes over military discussion. Ryan seems not to know much abou t he facts.
Agreed: the calendar works the same every year.
Agreement! The calendar works the same every year.
Agreement! Peggy and Grant! Would you believe it?
Yes. Speak up and explain, with specifics, on any topic/proposal.
FACT CHECK: Calendar does NOT work the same every year. Every four years we have a leap year.
It's fun to watch their blink rates.
Is he linking alleged failure of "Russia re-set" to a rise in Al Qaeda?
Biden explains the difference between our action in Libya and inaction in Syria. Sounds knowledgeable.Ryan says we should get rid of ASsad. Gives no specific plan as to how.
Paul, What should we do about Syria?Biden, What would you do?Martha, What would you do?
Ok, now Ryan is smirking.
Obama said that Assad had to go a year ago, yet he is still there. QED
Calendars: Is there a leap year in the Middle East? I'd be surprised.
Strategic security interest, humanitarian, credibility -- what are the criteria?
Self-declared historic: RELIGION!!! ABORTION! EMOTIONAL! BE PErSONAL... really Martha...cute
Will he say "subsidiarity"?
I was told there would be no abortion politics.
Beans are good for you.
The Cuomo maneuver.
Now I agree with Margaret. "We're talking about abortion, so if it's not Oprah it's inappropriate."
Does Martha know that Paul Ryan's abortion policy does not reflect Catholic teaching?
OMG: Another Catholic on the Supreme Court. Like Scalia!!
Yes, once you're drawing a line between "principle" and "policy" the "how does your faith inform your politics" framing is not so useful.
Embarrassed??? Who me?
Oh that is a TERRIBLE last question. It's not the "tone" that should embarrass candidates. It's dishonesty.
It's true de fidei. But not true for everybody.
Kind of a pointless question, but to the extent that it allows a closing statement, OK.
When Ryan said, "Assad has killed tens of thousands of his own people!" I had a flashback to the run-up to the Iraq war, when we kept hearing that Saddam Hussein was evil because he had killed his own people. Of course he was evil, but he was a Sunni Arab, and other Sunni Arabs were his own people. Most of the Iraqis he killed were Kurds and Shiites. I strongly suspect that Assad is going out of his way to AVOID killing his own people. What Americans, especially the neocons, never have understood is that in that part of the world, tribal loyalties outweigh national boundaries. You can't create an artificial country, as the European and American colonial powers did for centuries, and expect that everyone within those borders will start getting along even if their tribes have been warring with each other for centuries.
Both Martha and Biden seem a little sleepy right now.
Final question: What is it going to take to make you cry?
Ryan is lying about insurance again.
Speeches. Leadership. Proven record. No settling.
Speeches vs. leadership. He's got a point there.
Wait? Another last question? And must I answer as a human being?
"Honesty. Wait, *no one else*?" Oh.
And if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
Answer: AS A MAN! she said.
OK, this is really the final last statement, kiss my foot, no erasies.
On the heartbeat-away metric, I think Ryan fails.
Martha, Thank you, thank you, thank you.... And you Joe.
Wow, she was great.
I think Ryan's flag was spinning there for a moment.
Yep. Winner is Martha, nosing out Biden.
Mrs. Ryan doesn't kiss and hug Mister R; the Bidens clutch.....
This vice-presidential debate made women look flaky. Thanks a lot, Martha.
Smirking kid in chair. Who he? A Biden probably.
A couple of really dumb questions in the home stretch, but overall, super job Raddatz. Moderator for life.
One of the many Ryan kiddos I think. Now I'm off to pitch a HuffPo essay about how it's so interesting that Ryan's young family has not been a topic of discussion unlike certain other VP candidates with small children in years past.
I think you should pitch that to Get Religion.
CNN is fact-checking. Then will give results of instant poll about who won.
Like an umpire, if the moderator makes a significant impression on you, she probably did not do a good job. She was too interested in calling attention to herself. Didn't have the confidence the job requires, which would have enabled her to be comfortable to let the candidates have the max time to present their views.
Yeah no. (You forgot to mention her plunging neckline, btw.)
Yeah? No? Plunging neckline?
He's calling you a sexist, Mark. Obviously, if you thought a woman didn't do something well, you're a sexist.
Ohhhhhh, thanks for the translation, Kathy! Grant, next time, if you are going to respond to something I said, why not actually, well, respond to what I said.
As a woman, I'm allowed to ask whether Raddatz might possibly be a Democrat.
The crazy thing is, both Biden and Ryan did reasonably well (though Biden was too reminiscent of Gore) so that the loser is, by comparison to the other 3 debaters, once more,...President Obama.
CNN's poll says Ryan won 48% to Biden 44%.
A wash. Blustery boss and earnest young manager. Was there a moderator?
I would have liked more extensive debate on the growing drumbeat for military action against Iran. We are already in two very unpopular wars; one war was launched when a President wrongly told the American people that Iraq had WMD. We get there- oops, no WMD- but we stay for years fighting anyway. We waged war in Afghanistan ostensibly to catch bin laden, we''re still there even though bin Laden left years ago and when we did catch him it was in another country.I think those who want military action against Iran need to carefully explain to us, among other things, why it wouldn't be another phantom WMD debacle.
I didn't try to read and watch; I'm too old for that (though kudos to my friend Ann Olivier who is older than me and can do with aplomb!).Joe Biden is every dad in the neighborhood where I grew up (even though the guy's only 10 years older than me), so I love the guy, especially when he says "mallarkey," which is code for the more earthy verbiage I heard as a kid. I think Ryan dodged specifics when pressed (especially on Iranian bomb), and expects voters to trust in Romney's track record in Massachusetts (where he is losing) to work with a deeply divided and partisan Congress. His parsing the difference about leaving Afghanistant in 2014 was unintelligible.The question about both men's religion was unforgivable. Ask them about abortion if you want, but making Catholicism an issue made me want to jump through the TV and smack Martha. Why not ask Mitt if any of his policies will be driven by his expectation of inheriting a planet when he dies?In a more academic vein, pundits on PBS noted that Biden's passionate (blustery?) TV style fits an older generation better, while Ryan appeals to a digital audience with his cooler (reptilian?) style?I dunno. I'm not sure I can trust a guy who can't control his kids. It was his brat who was sitting in the VP chair smirking as if to say, "This chair belongs to MY Daddy."
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Raisin Bran Bread
Categories: Low-calorie, Low-fat
Type: Breakfast
Type: Breakfast
This recipe produces a molasses-sweetened raisin bran bread with a soft and moist crust.
Serves: 16 1 slice servings
- 1 2/3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 1/4 cups wheat bran
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/3 cups skim or low-fat milk
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 2 tablespoons walnut or vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/2 cup dark raisins
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- Place the flour, wheat bran, and baking soda in a large bowl, and stir to mix well. Set aside.
- Place the milk, molasses, oil, and lemon juice in a medium-sized bowl, and stir to mix well. Add the milk mixture to the flour mixture, and stir just until the dry ingredients are moistened. Fold in the raisins.
- Coat an 8-x-4-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Spread the batter evenly in the pan, and bake at 325°F for about 50 minutes, or just until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean. Be careful not to overbake.
- Remove the loaf from the oven, and let sit for 15 minutes. Invert the loaf onto a wire rack, turn right side up, and cool to room temperature. Wrap the loaf in plastic wrap or aluminum foil, and allow to sit for several hours before slicing and serving. (This will give the loaf a softer, moister crust.) Refrigerate any leftovers not eaten within 24 hours.
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A few years ago, we showed you 20 Costumes That Will Earn You a Halloween Beating. Looking around these last few years, it's obvious that we need to be clear about something: Just because your costume wasn't on that first list doesn't mean you can still dress like a total douchebag and expect to get away with it. In the interest of thoroughness, we have a few additions.
#16. Ball Pit
Yeah, this guy's totally getting laid tonight, because as everyone knows, chicks love ball pits.
Oh, wait, no, hang on, that's children. Children are attracted to ball pits. You're encouraging fucking children to crawl into your fucking testicle box you fucking lunatic.
#15. Fee Ling Yu
"Look, I'm not gonna tell you again: Just because I've recently been thawed after being frozen in ice since 1906 doesn't mean I can't resume my old job as a costume designer. Now, we still hate Asians, right?"
Oh, wait, is the horror of this costume in the grotesque "mouth within a mouth" effect? Because that fucking mustache behind the teeth makes us never want to sleep again.
#14. Snake Charmer
"You might say there's a snake in my pants! And when I play music, it's ... like, calm, it finds it very soothing. Without the music it gets ... really violent, I guess? This metaphor doesn't really hold up, it turns out. I'd like you to pay attention to my dick, is what I'm getting at."
Wait, is the "Dick in a _______" a whole genre of costume now? Are there seriously enough frat boys in the world to support such an industry?
#13. Petting Zoo
Yes, yes there are.
We're not sure if we need to say this or not, but, ladies, the guy who spends money on this particular costume is actually less interesting and intelligent than the guy who shoves his junk in a free shoebox and writes "Touch my dick, please" on the outside of it.
#12. Missing Milk Carton Hat
Hey, Model-Who-Was-in-Mid-Sneeze-When-This-Photo-Was-Taken: They don't put pictures of children on milk cartons because it's cute; they put them there because they've been kidnapped.
#11. Horny the Clown
"Finally, a clown that will fuck me!" -- No Woman Who Has Ever Existed
If you're wondering why it's called "Horny the Clown" and not "Literally Anything Else the Clown," you should know that it has an air pump that activates the pop-out clown dick with a "boing" sound effect. You should know that, because your nightmares have gotten kind of stale lately, and this is exactly the kind of spark they need.
Wait, this thing is $50.99? There are starving people in the world.
#10. Bar Boobs
It's not right to call this costume sexist because, seriously, guys who fantasize about boobs are not imagining drinking things from them. If you are turned on by the idea of some kind of ideal woman who can ooze beer from her mammary glands, you are an alcoholic. Seriously, that's the first on the list of 10 warning signs of alcoholism and if you answer it yes, you're done reading that list.
Also, did you notice how the valves are colored nipple-pink? Yeah, nobody is drinking anything that came out of that.
#9. Poopie Shorts
Hey, it's another mechanized costume. This one has a little button so you can squirt poop-like liquid all over your host's carpet and furniture. Or, we're sorry, we read the description wrong, it's actually your carpet and furniture. Huh. Reading a little further ... yep! This costume automatically presupposes that you'll never get invited to a party. Loneliness is one of the parts of this costume, it's actually included.


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Anyone know if this will play on my CM9 Touchpad?
@ivanhower: Probably not. None of my non-Kindle android devices show as compatible, including my Cyanogenmod tablets. Can prove a negative, though, so I'd be interested in hearing any success stories.
I just finished it yesterday! It's amazing in kindle fire! But be sure u have enough space in the drive!!
@ivanhower: I got the game during the 25 cent deal too. I have it installed on my TouchPad running Cyanogen Mod 9 Android 4.0.3 and it works just fine for me.
this movie sucked....just sayin it did
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5 Physical Details That Reveal Highly Personal Information
As we mentioned here, with just a pair of eyeballs, a ruler and a negligent sense of propriety or fear, you can learn a whole mess of intimate details about any person at any given time. But why stop there? Here are five more shockingly personal things you can guess about anyone just by looking at them.
None of these are 100 percent, and you should not use any of them to make unfair assumptions about people. It is only in the name of entertainment that we point out that researchers have found ...
#5. You Can Tell How Honest Someone Is by Their Cheekbones (Sometimes)
Let's say you've never seen Star Wars. If you saw a picture of this guy, without knowing any of the context, would you say he's a good guy, or a bad guy?
Clearly he has villain written all over his face. But why?
Likewise, in real life sometimes you meet people that you immediately distrust -- something about their faces just makes them look like shady characters. Maybe it's the way he's standing in a dark alley, bedecked in a trench coat with the collar pulled up while pointing a gun at your skull. Or it could just be something about his face you don't like.
It turns out scientists have figured out what that "something" is.
It's Carrot Top, isn't it? It's Carrot Top.
How? Tell Me!
The cheekbones. While male models with chiseled faces might be effective in selling you underwear, in real life guys with wide cheekbones strike people as untrustworthy. And apparently there's a reason: Research shows that on average they're actually less honest. According to experiments, anyway.
Scientists at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland did a study and found that men with wider cheekbones not only cheated more at the game they were assigned to play, but also that when they screwed their fellow players over, those players were more likely to expect it. All they needed was a look at their faces.
"I'm almost certain a pair of twos and a seven doesn't beat a straight flush."
The researchers think it may be because wider cheekbones don't form until puberty and are an indication of how big a man is going to get. Larger men tend to be more aggressive and are less likely to feel like they have to obey society's rules -- it's easier to screw somebody over when you know you can kick his ass if he complains. Even in jobs where aggressiveness is rewarded, like professional sports, researchers found that, "broad-faced ... players spend more time in the penalty box."
Those researchers did not point out that Darth Vader was designed to have exaggerated cheekbones, but seriously, check it out:
And are we crazy, or did they also add them to the Jigsaw puppet from Saw as well:
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And is it any wonder Christopher Lee made his career playing villains?
His next role? Governor of Texas.
Please keep in mind, the statistical difference is slight, and this is useful only for understanding why we feel weird about people with that face shape. Please don't immediately stab the next dude you see with wide cheekbones, or assume he's always lying. That probably makes you the bad guy.
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Besides, at 7' 1" and 420 lbs., you'll just piss him off.
#4. Want to Know How Much Sex a Guy Is Having? Look at His Baby Pictures
If '80s teen sex romp comedies have taught us anything, it's that losing your virginity is just about as important as whether or not you're alive at all. Statistically speaking, there's actually a pretty solid way to know if a guy is going to be a junior man slut or the 40-year-old virgin.
How? Tell Me!
By finding out how fat he was as a baby.
"In 10 years, I'll be ankle deep in bitches."
Scientists at Northwestern University in Illinois studied 770 men from birth until they were 22 years old. From that, they found that infants who gained weight the fastest had sex earlier, got laid more often and reported higher numbers of sex partners. Also, they were more athletic later in life.
Via Thetoptensite.com
20,000 women ... most dominant basketball player of all time ... huge fatass.
The reason, according to the researchers, might have to do with something called the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, a triumvirate of glands that control a buttload of stuff, including sex hormone production. The same surge in weight gain that makes fatter babies between birth and 6 months of age also predicted a similar surge in sexual hormones years later, one that hits before their skinny baby buddies get theirs.
"Best back up because I'm about to drop a fuck on someone."
By hitting sexual maturity earlier, they get a big fat head start on the sex game, and if the numbers are any indication of anything, they're taking advantage of that early bird special.
#3. If He Has a Bigger Penis, He Is More Likely to Be Gay
We have previously mentioned that finger length ratio and the direction of a person's hair swirl were good indicators of whether someone was more likely to be gay. The problem with those measurements is that they're pretty hard to get without posing as a manicurist-slash-barber. Plus, if you're getting that intimate with another man's fingers and scalp, you're probably already pretty certain of which way the pendulum swings.
"Titties might not be my thing."
The good news is that we've got another measurement that's a little easier to spot from distance, and is, statistically speaking, a decent indication of sexuality. The bad news is that, well, you'll see.
How? Tell Me!
It's dick size. Gay men usually have bigger dicks. So, this is probably one you'll have to try in the locker room.
"You know, it never occurred to me until I was staring at your bare penis, but ..."
This was a massive study, by the way. Between 1938 and 1963, the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction conducted the study on 5,122 men. First, the guys were put into two groups, straight and gay. Then the men measured their junk in five different ways. On all five counts, gay men reported larger penises than heterosexual men.
That's right, guys. Length, circumference, the whole sha-wang. When erect, a gay man's penis is an average of 1/3 of an inch longer than a straight guy's. It's also chubbier. Perhaps even more interestingly, massive gay junk seems to be skewing the overall average penis length up to 6 inches, while the average straight man's is actually just a fraction shorter than that.
And let's not even get on the subject of balls.
The only thing is, no one was actually taking a tape measure to the test subjects' boners (they were measuring themselves), so we don't know if the numbers were 100 percent accurate. But current researchers say that there is no reason to believe gay guys would exaggerate their numbers more than straight guys. So while the numbers might be inflated overall, the discrepancy is almost certainly still legitimate.


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I have to come out and say that I am sorry I missed the deadline I promised everyone for the release of Episode 4. Episode 4 is still being made and will come out sometime over the next few months. My Father was recently diagnosed with congestive heart failure and has been in the hospital for a while. I have had to take on certain responsibilities here at home, and my time has been limited. Also, with college papers and finals coming up, I have almost no spare time now.
Episode 4 will be made and made soon. (it is about half filmed and edited so far. I also have a camera man.) (I also plan to keep making more episodes during the summer.)
Sorry for the delay, but this show is for you the Pure Pwnage fans. With all the drama thats going on, I can only support Geoff and Jarett in whatever they choose to do. This fan made show is dedicated to the fanbase and all the awesome people here. If you dont like the show, thats ok too, just dont flame me too much haha
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WEIRTON - Despite having nearly as many turnovers as field goals, Madonna went out to an early lead and left little doubt which Weirton team is the city champion. The Blue Dons dominated the scoreboard in winning their third straight city title 55-27 last night at the Dube Dome.
For a team that's grasping for some positives, the winless Red Riders (0-7) did have more turnovers than field goals (13 to 10), but their 13 miscues were far less than they've had in the previous six games.
For the Blue Dons (2-3), the win snapped a three-game losing streak.
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THREE?STRAIGHT — The Madonna basketball poses with the Weirton?City Titletrophy following the Blue Dons' 55-27 win over Weir Friday at the Dube Dome.
The game was won on the backboards, according to veteran Madonna coach, George Vargo, who was drenched with sweat following the game.
"I really think the game was won on the boards," Vargo explained. "We out rebounded them 37-8 and that was the big difference. We're a much bigger team with (Nate) Guio, (Tyler) Ewusiak,(James) Carnes, and (Josh) Martin. That's a pretty big team out there."
That group is no one shorter than 6-feet-2, but as Vargo talked about his big guys, it was junior Wil Bowser, who at 6-feet, led all rebounders with eight.
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Madonna 55, Weir High 27
Weir 5 7 12 3 - 27
Madonna 15 14 8 18 - 55
WEIR HIGH: Viakley 1 0-0 2, Davis 2 0-0 5, Cassiadoro 1 2-2 5, Groves 5 1-2 12, Sims 1 0-2 3. Totals: 10 3-6 27. Three-pointers: Davis, Cassiadoro, Groves, Sims; Rebounds: 8 (Groves, Sims, 3 each); Turnovers 13.
MADONNA: Guio 6 1-1 13, Antinone 1 0-3 2, Jeter 2 0-0 4, Ewusiak 3 1-1 7, Bowser 1 2-2 5, Carnes 7 1-2 16, Martin 4 0-0 8, Baier 0 0-2 0. Totals: 24 5-9 55. Three-pointers: Bowser, Carnes; Rebounds: 37 (Bowser, 8, Martin, 7); Turnovers: 20.
For the Red Riders, it was the same old bug-a-boo that has plagued them so far in the early season-putting the ball through the hoop.
"It's frustrating," said Weir High coach, Mike Granato. "It's more frustrating, at times for me, whenever you can see on the kids faces that they're trying to squeeze the air out of the ball, so to speak.
"You're running things and guys are where they're supposed to be and you take the shot and start missing. Well then the thing that happens after that is the guys start forcing it a little bit. But tonight we had to start forcing it, especially in the fourth quarter, to try to hit some threes to get back into the game.
"We had a stretch in the third quarter where we made them turn the ball over seven out of nine times down the floor and we came out of it with only four points. That was our break time, so to speak. It was a time that if you're going to make a run in the game, that was when we had to do it.
"I know it sounds like a broken record, but the guys are going about it in the right way. I like this group as a team. Now it's my job to keep them together and get them to understand we have 15 more games to go."
Weir High's Josh Groves was the only Red Rider in double figures. The 6-3 senior swished 12 points through the net including an early three-pointer. Groves scored all of Weir High's five first quarter points with back-to-back jumpers from the left baseline, one for two and the other three.
"We just need someone to step up," Granato explained. "Josh did a little bit of that tonight. I tried to point out to our younger kids that we were down 55-27 near the end of the game, and here was Josh Groves diving on the floor for a loose ball. That's an example of the type of player we want in the program."
"Groves has been around for three years and it is him and (Dylan) Cassiadoro," Vargo exclaimed. "They're two nice ballplayers, but unfortunately for Mike (Granato) Weir High is young and inexperienced. Mike will get them together. He's a good coach and understands the game. He's been around long enough. He'll get his team on the right track before the season is over."
Carnes, a sophomore, who played for the Red Riders a year ago, but transferred to Madonna during the off season, scored a career high 16 points to lead all scorers.
"This was a great game for Carnes," said Vargo. "Any time you transfer from a school and you are playing against your buddies from that school, it was a tough game for him emotionally.
"Fortunately, for both teams it was a clean game, a fun game. Carnes played outstanding and I think it was his three-pointer at the buzzer before halftime that got him pumped and jump started our whole team."
Vargo explained that he continues to search for a ball handling guard to run his offense because of the injury to Madonna's only returning starter, Ross Comis. Comis had surgery on his left hand to repair an injury sustained during the football season as will not be available to play basketball until near the end of the season.
Last night, Vargo started Anthony Antinone, who is the backup quarterback to Comis on the Madonna football team, at point guard and he was pleased with the junior's play.
"We asked Antinone to come in a stabilize us a couple days ago," Vargo said. "We thought that with him being a junior and a quarterback on the football team we took a gamble that his maturity would stabilize us. And it did."
Granato also is searching for a ball handler to run the offense. Cassiadoro did most of that last night, but Granato started Shane Davis and the senior responded with five points and five steals.
Weir High goes from the frying pan into the fire with games next week playing at Indian Creek, a team that handily beat the Red Riders last week, and then going to the Chuckie Mahoney tournament in Washington, PA where they face unbeaten Wash High next Saturday.
Madonna doesn't get much time to enjoy the victory returning to the Dube Dome floor tonight to host Bridgeport.


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Article Last Updated: Friday, November 02, 2012 8:06pm
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If the past is any indication, expect a crowd today as buyers race for deals on snowboards and more at the Hesperus Mountain Ski Patrol�s 49th annual ski swap. It will go from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. Admission is 50 cents. Bubba Iudice, owner of Bubba�s Boards, carts snowboards to a display rack Friday in preparation for the event.


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"Frozen," the animated princess tale from Disney and produced by Quincy native Peter Del Vecho, won the BAFTA (British Oscars) for best animated feature Sunday.
The film, which has won every major award on the circuit, is the front-runner to win the Academy Award, which will be handed out March 2.
Del Vecho, 55, graduated from Quincy High in 1976. He also produced the Oscar-nominated "The Princess and the Frog" (2009) and "Winnie the Pooh" (2011).
The box office total for "Frozen," still in the top 10 after 13 weeks in theaters, stands at nearly $1 billion worldwide since it went wide in late November. It's the studio's biggest hit since 1994's "The Lion King."
"Frozen" tells the story of a girl (voiced by Kristen Bell) on a quest to find her missing sister (Idina Menzel) in a kingdom trapped in an endless winter.
"Frozen" also earned an Oscar nod in the original song category for "Let It Go."