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GTA San Andreas Mod...nice improvements and fixes
I might not go for the $35 and play this mod instead. It doesn't change the game, but adds a bit and fixes a lot.
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Looks like it's still a WIP. Very nice changes so far. Rockstar should hire this guy.
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- Added several new loading screens from original R* artwork.
- Rusty Browns Ring Donuts are now available as deserts at the fast food outlets. The available donut deals are much higher in fat so it's now a lot easier to get fatter more quickly through eating doughnuts. Because of this, there are a few more references to CJ's weight to be found throughout the game.
- There are now several Adrenaline pickups scattered around San Andreas. As in other GTA games, these allow you to perform feats of super strength in a slowed-down world for a short time.
- Added the 'Pizza Boy' missions as seen in Vice City and Liberty City Stories. Find a Pizza Boy bike parked at a Well Stacked Pizza store in Los Santos to trigger the missions. You do NOT have to complete these in order to get 100% game completion however they do provide a useful way to earn money whilst improving your motorbike skills. The missions work exactly as they did in Vice City, and the number of Pizzas you deliver also gets recorded in your stats.
- You now only get the Bloodring Banger cars in the Bloodring instead of random traffic vehicles. The crowd sounds are now more varied in all of the arena games too.
- Added several Rampages around San Andreas - these are single player versions of the PS2 ones and can be found in the same places. They work exactly as they did in previous GTA games, and your performance in them will be included in your stats.
- Many significant tweaks to peds. There is now a much greater number of different peds throughout San Andreas with a greater variety of appearance and behaviours - some even have several unique behavioural characteristics. It is now possible to see every single ped from the game at some point, including more than a dozen peds you have never seen before - gang members, cops, drunken bums, taxi drivers, pimps and many others. Every ped now also has a complete voice set too (some did not have any).
- Added the '$50 Good Citizen Bonus' feature if you can find and kill an elusive 'psycho' ped - each psycho killed will also increase your 'criminals wasted' stat.
- The food vendors at the various carts in San Andreas are now unique to their carts rather than being the same generic one at each type of cart. Each one has unique voices too.
- The game is now uncensored, including the mini-games you can play when your girlfriend invites you in for coffee. In addition, your girlfriend will gradually become less clothed as you progress through the sequence and the bug where Michelle's appearance was corrupted in the sequence has been fixed.
- Added single player versions of the 2-player 'free roam' missions from the PS2 version. These can be found in the same locations as on the PS2 and work in the same way, however instead of being able to have a second player join in, you can now choose your partner from characters that are normally non-playable in the game - progressing through the storyline missions will unlock more characters for you to choose from, and the available characters are different depending on where you are in San Andreas. Your girlfriends can also be taken on 'free roams' by picking up the two player icon from outside their houses. Free roams only end when you get busted or when either you or your partner get wasted.
- The San Fierro Police Department building can now be entered like the others in the game and like the others it also contains hidden weapons (the interior was in the game but unused).
- The Ammu-Nation store in Los Santos is now on two floors as its external appearance suggests (the interior was in the game but unused). This store also has the 'Shooting Range' mini-game (however like the others, this cannot be played if you are on a mission).
- The motorcycle cops are now unique to their city (as originally designed) rather than being the same generic one for the whole of San Andreas.
- There is now a full variety of strippers performing more varied dance routines when you pay for a private lap dance in any of the strip clubs - by continually paying for private dances, it is now possible to view all of the strippers in the game performing all of the dance routines in this manner.
- Enhancements have been made to the traffic around San Andreas - there is now a slightly increased chance of each vehicle appearing in the game and an attempt has been made to ensure that each vehicle is more likely to appear in an area it is more appropriate to, and some vehicles now have a wider variety of colours. In addition, some of the cars in the game that hardly ever appeared (if at all) may now be found amongst traffic. It is now possible to find and use every vehicle in the game through the normal course of gameplay across the entire state of San Andreas, including some that you may otherwise never get to see in the game.
- There is now less of a chance that parked vehicles will be locked however the chances of cars setting off their alarms if you steal them have been increased slightly.
- The safe house interior in Vinewood is now the large one that its exterior and appearance suggests and works correctly (the interior was in the game but unused).
- There are now two new tattoos available (these were in the game but unused).
- There are several more items of clothing available at the clothes stores, including t-shirts, trousers, caps and more - these were all in the game but not used.
- A 'neutral' biker gang may now be found hanging out in certain countryside or desert locations at weekends (although you can't fight them for turf as they dont 'own' any).
- Added the 'Trash Dash' mission as seen in Liberty City Stories. When you are in a Trashmaster, you can toggle the mission on or off in the usual way. You do NOT have to complete this in order to get 100% game completion however it does provide a useful way to earn money whilst improving your driving skills. The mission works exactly as in Liberty City Stories, and the amount of money you make also gets recorded in your stats.
- The Safe House you can purchase in Blueberry is now a Motel Room as its external appearance suggests (the interior was in the game but unused).
- The three Bomb Shops in the game now all work correctly and are indicated on the radar. There is one in each city, and each one provides you with a different type of car bomb (engine start, timed, remote). Each bomb placed onto a car from a Bomb Shop will increase your 'kg of explosives used' stat too.
- Triads now act as security in The Four Dragons Casino rather than the normal bouncers.
- The 24/7 stores around San Andreas now have a larger variety of interiors (twice as many as you would normally see in the game) and now have supermarket style muzak playing in the background as well as specific 24/7 shopkeepers. You can now also 'rob' the 24/7 stores by entering them and arming any gun or by entering them already armed with a gun). Money will appear next to the cash register, and the number of 24/7's you rob in this manner will also be recorded in your stats. As in other GTA games, the longer you stay in the store and armed the more money that will be handed over but the higher your wanted level will be.
- You can now do 'face plants' as seen in Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories if you hit any kind of obstacle at speed whilst on any bike and get knocked off it.
- The Leviathan helicopter now always has a magnet like it does in the 'Up, Up and Away!' mission.
- You no longer get a wanted level if you are armed when in a Police Station or if you enter a car impound lot as long as you are wearing the Police uniform. However, if you kill or assault an officer or steal a vehicle from an impound, the Police may still pursue you. The officers at Police impounds are now traffic cops, and a glitch has been fixed that prevented them giving you the verbal warnings and acknowledgments when you entered.
- The machine in the junk yard near Angel Pine can now be used like a car crusher/chop shop. By parking a suitable vehicle in the marked area near the conveyor belt, the machine will crush and recycle it then provide you with a cash value depending on the relative value of the vehicle, although damaged vehicles will yield less money. The number of vehicles you 'recycle' in this manner also gets recorded in your stats.
- The comments you hear on your performance when dancing are now much more varied and there are more of them to be heard.
- Added the '$30 Taxi ride' feature as seen in other GTA games - if you are wasted or busted when on a mission, a taxi may appear outside the police station/hospital (provided you are in a major city) which you can enter and ride back to your mission start point for a $30 fare. If you have completed the 'Taxi Driver' missions, this taxi ride will be free instead.
- Added the 'Cherry Poppers' distribution mission as seen in Vice City. When you are in a Mr Whoopee, you can toggle the mission on or off in the usual way. You do NOT have to complete this in order to get 100% game completion however it does provide a useful way to earn money whilst improving your driving skills. The mission works exactly as in Vice City, and the number of ice creams you sell also gets recorded in your stats.
- Added the 'Car Salesman' missions as seen in Liberty City Stories. Early in the storyline, you will get the opportunity to earn extra money as a car salesman at Coutt & Schutz autos by taking customers for test drives and using your driving skills to make the sales. After completion of the last level, Coutt & Schutz will generate sales commission as an asset for you. You do NOT have to complete this in order to get 100% game completion however it does provide a useful way to earn money whilst improving your driving skills. The mission works exactly as in Liberty City Stories, and the amount of money you make from car sales also gets recorded in your stats.
- Added the 'SlashTV' mission as seen in Liberty City Stories. Enter the marker at a warehouse in the Easter Basin docks in San Fierro on a Friday night whilst wearing a Hockey Mask to trigger the mission. You do NOT have to complete this in order to get 100% game completion however it does provide a good way to earn big money prizes - providing you can stay alive! The mission works exactly as in Liberty City Stories, and the number of contestants you kill gets recorded in your stats.
- A Mohawk & Goatee hairstyle is now available from one of barber shops.
- Added a specially adapted version of the '9mm Mayhem' mission as seen in Liberty City Stories. This mission also incorporates the 'Scooter Shooter' and 'AWOL Angel' style missions and allows you to perform driveby shootings against drug dealers while Emmet drives you around on his old motorbike. Completing this mission will earn you more respect and there are cash bonuses for each target you eliminate. This special side-mission is triggered by phonecalls from Sweet during the storyline.
- Added the 'Caddy Daddy' mission from Vice City Stories. This is triggered by entering a Golf Caddy at the Yellow Bell Golf Club in Las Venturas and is a time trial course against the clock with cash rewards for beating the best course and lap times. You do NOT have to complete this in order to get 100% game completion however it does provide a useful way to earn money whilst improving your driving skills and 'Distance travelled by golf cart' stat.
- The 'Beefy Baron' RC mission has been improved so that you now play against a high score - beating the high score will set a new one and you will be awarded with money based on your new high score. Your 'Mission attempts' stat is no longer continually increased each time you play this mission.
- You now get an introduction from the instructors at the Bike and Boat schools like you do at the Driving School.
- Added the 'Hotring Race' stadium mission from Vice City. This is now triggered on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the San Fierro Stadium and allows you to race Bloodring Bangers earning cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. You can also use the pitstop to repair your car at any time during the race. Note that the usual Bloodring mission is still available at the same stadium on the other days of the week, and you must now complete BOTH the Bloodring arena missions to obtain the Bloodring Banger car and to get 100% game completion.
- You can now enter and use the crane in Los Santos like the other cranes in the game (works the same as the one in Las Venturas).
- In true R* style, I've added several Easter Eggs
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- You are now able to complete a Quadruple Insane Stunt properly (a bug in the game normally prevents this from happening). In addition, it is now possible to complete 'perfect' insane stunts of any type (earning double the money bonus) as in other GTA games, and you can also perform Flaming Insane Stunts as seen in Vice City Stories (this is achieved by performing any type of Insane Stunt whilst your vehicle is on fire).
- The game now correctly uses and refers to Los Sepulcros as a specific area in Los Santos (it is normally treated as part of Vinewood).
- Fixed a glitch where several peds did not have any voices (notably the Security Guard, the Pimp and the Firemen amongst others).
- Slight tweaks to the animations when attacking with the Golf Club and when driving the Vortex (they looked a little funky to me).
- The skill levels with the Combat Shotgun are now more progressive like other weapons.
- Fixed bug where the Jester car had the same Nitro mod listed for sale twice.
- Fixed Cesar's car license plate - it should read 'VLA4L' (Varrios Los Aztecas For Life) although it normally says 'LVA4L'.
- News Vans now only come in one colour (this is to match the News Helicopters).
- Limousines in traffic may now be found in black as well as the normal white varieties.
- The pool mini game that can be found in bars has been fixed so that you now have the option of playing against a computer controlled opponent for a wager as normal, or playing against another human player. In the 2 player version, you must alternate the use of the same controls with the second player - the game does not natively support input from two seperate control sets. To support this enhancement, the game now records and displays your total number of wins and losses at pool in your stats.
- You now hear comments about your performance during a lowrider contest like you do when dancing.
- The glitched/missing Pay N Spray in Las venturas (as seen on the PS2 version) has been re-enabled and fixed. This now functions properly and is indicated on the radar like all the others.
- The Well Stacked Pizza Co branches in Palamino Creek and Montgomery and the barber shop in El Quebrados are now indicated on the radar like the others.
- Like the clothes shops, tattoo parlours and gyms, each type of barber shop can now only be accessed as you progress through the game and 'unlock' each city.
- Fixed bug in the 'Burglary' mission which corrupted the 'Mission attempts' vs 'Missions passed' stats.
- The cane weapon can now be given to your girlfriends as a gift (useful if you like to be spanked by Millie!)
- Fixed bug where the 'Strip club budget' stat was not changed when you paid $100 for a private dance.
- Corrected the Washington car that appears at Toreno's ranch - this is now the same one that Toreno uses throughout the game and will not appear until you arrive at the ranch during the storyline.
- Corrected Catalina's car in Fern Ridge - this is now always the same one and will not appear until you go to her hideout during the storyline.
- CJ will now 'warm down' when he has finished on the treadmill or bike in the gyms like he does after using the weights or the benchpress.
- Several cars now have more modification options available to them in the various mod garages - Rockstar rendered these cars to be modded in this way although you cannot normally do this in the game.
- Fixed and completed the 'drunken bum' code that was disabled by Rockstar - this effectively creates a new ped type on the streets who may randomly behave in one of several unique ways.
- The 'Vigilante', 'Fire Fighter' and 'Paramedic' side missions now work like the updated Vice City Stories versions. There are now 15 levels to complete instead of the normal 12, however a 'checkpoint' will be marked at levels 5 and 10 so you can continue playing at those stages should you fail or cancel the mission and restart it at another time. In the 'Fire Fighter' side mission you will no longer fail the mission for allowing a car to explode or a pedestrian to be killed but you will incur a time penalty instead.
- As in Vice City and Vice City Stories, military areas are now patrolled and guarded by the Army. In addition to obtaining a 5-star wanted level in these areas, you will now also come under heavy attack from the guards.
- Fixed game bug which meant your 'Mission attempts' stat was continually increased when you played pool or some of the video games.
- The icons now correctly appear in the HUD when CJ is using the Jetpack or Cellphone. Note that any weapons which you can use on the Jetpack will appear in the HUD instead when they are armed.
- The Thermal Goggles that spawn as pickups after completing the 'Black Project' mission now respawn like other weapon pickups in the game instead of permanently vanishing when they have been collected once.
- Fixed the 'New Game' bug where you would keep some of the benefits from certain girlfriends when starting a new game.
- CJ will now react when he misses a shot or scores when playing basketball (the animations are in the game but are never used).
- Fixed game bug where the 'Furthest hoop in basketball' stat was incorrectly recorded when converted from metres to feet.
- Fixed bug in the Driving School mission which could increase your 'Mission attempts' stat twice when you first tried it.
- The motorbike Dirt Track mission at the Las Venturas stadium is now available 3 days of the week instead of the usual 2 (this was actually a bug in the code that prevented the third day being available for the mission) - it can now be played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
- Changed button cheat - VPJTQWV now spawns the Stinger car instead of the Hotring Racer (VROCKPOKEY or PDNEJOH can still be used to spawn the Hotring Racer).
- Fixed game bug where girlfriends could appear in the wrong cars and without their personal license plates when they spotted you two-timing when on a date.
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- Many miscellaneous tweaks and enhancements have been made to all the missions in the game including extended and additional action sequences and dialogue. The dialogue sequences in most missions have been randomised so that they may be different each time the missions are played.
- There are now several more cellphone calls in the game that you would otherwise never get to hear or receive. Several others have had some missing dialogue inserted too.
- Sweet now gets into the drivers seat before his car drives away in the 'Tagging Up Turf' mission.
- In the 'Nines And AK's' mission, you can no longer scroll through your weapons when shooting at the bottles or the car - you must use the gun given to you by Emmet, who will now also make comments based on how good or bad your shooting accuracy is.
- In the 'Running Dog' mission you must now take Smoke back home after killing the Vagos gang member.
- As originally conceived, the 'Wrong Side Of The Tracks' mission now requires you to retrieve a package that falls from the train when the Vagos Gang Members have been killed.
- In the 'Beach Party' mission, you won't know where to take the van with the sound system until OG Loc tells you after you call him (this happens automatically during the mission once you've got away with the van).
- In the 'High Stakes, Low Rider' mission, the cars in the race are now all lowriders - it seemed strange to be told by Cesar that you had to have a lowrider to enter the race only to get there and find that two of the racers were not lowriders!
- Added the missing 'Impounded' mission. After completing 'High Stakes, Low-Rider' you will get a cellphone call from Cesar inviting you to his house and offering to tune-up your car. When you get there your car gets towed and impounded at the Los Santos Police Station - you must retrieve your car. Since this is a storyline mission, it must be completed in order to progress through the game and thus gain 100% completion, and it provides an insight into how the impounds work which you would otherwise not learn through 'normal' gameplay. Upon completion of this mission, all of the impounds in San Andreas will be indicated on the radar and map with their own special icon.
- For consistency with the CRASH/Smoke elements of the storyline, the 'Gray Imports' mission now features a Russian Mafia Boss rather than an arms dealer (this is as originally designed).
- The Sweet mission 'Doberman' has been renamed to 'All-Terrain Take Down'. This title seemed more appropriate to the mission and is the name of a mission that was removed from the game (the original 'Doberman' mission was actually a CRASH mission that was also removed from the game).
- In the 'Los Sepulcros' mission, Kane is now a unique actor instead of a standard Ballas gang member.
- You can now only enter the Jefferson Motel after completing the 'Reuniting The Families' mission.
- In the 'Badlands' mission, the snitch you must kill is now the police officer (Carver) from the 'Doberman' mission who is threatening to expose Tenpenny.
- The 'Trucker' side missions are no longer unlocked by completing the 'Tanker Commander' mission - you must now complete the 'Highjack' mission to unlock the 'Trucker' side missions instead.
- Claude 'Fido' Speed now correctly appears in the car instead of Wuzi in the 'Farewell My Love' mission.
- You must now have $25,000 in cash to pay The Truth for the weed before you can start the 'Are You Going To San Fierro?' mission.
- Added the missing 'Tanked Up' mission. This is now the third 'RC' mission for Zero and since this is a storyline mission it must be completed in order to progress through the game and thus gain 100% completion. In this mission you must prevent Berkley's RC Tigers (tanks) from reaching Zero's shop and destroying it. You must destroy the RC Tigers by detonating your RC Bandits near to them and have to destroy them all before your remote control's battery runs out.
- In the 'Ran Fa Li' mission, you must now actually put the car into a garage instead of parking it outside. The garage is the one that was supposed to be used so its location is now different meaning that your pursuers have a better chance of getting you.
- In the 'Lure' mission, damage to the car will now correctly result in the doors falling off thus enabling the pursuers to see inside as they are supposed to.
- In the 'T-Bone Mendez' mission, you must now take the packages to a warehouse near Pier 69 instead of the Pleasure Domes.
- Added the missing 'Roadside Assistance' mission. This is now the third 'steal' mission for the Wang Cars showroom asset and since this is a storyline mission it must be completed in order to progress through the game and thus gain 100% completion. You must use a pickup truck to 'recover' (steal) a Sultan car. After completing this mission, the Sultan will appear in the Wang Cars showroom like the other cars you steal. Note that the Sultan no longer appears after completing the 'Test Drive' mission - only the Elegy is unlocked for completing that one.
- The Jester car now correctly appears in the Wang Cars showroom after you complete the 'Customs Fast Track' mission (normally, a Savanna appears there instead).
- The license plates on the cars from the 'Import/Export' missions are much more random and now include all of the plates from the PS2 and PC versions.
- You no longer get the custom Monster Truck for completing the 8-Track mission (you only get the Hotring Racer for completing this now). Instead, you use the custom Monster Truck in the 'Monster' mission for Mike Toreno and can keep it after the mission.
- In the 'Highjack' mission, you must now take the tanker and truck to RS Haul in Whetstone instead of the garage in Doherty to complete the mission, and doing so now unlocks the 'Trucker' side missions.
- Because the game is now uncensored, the 'Key To Her Heart' mission now requires you to excite Millie by spanking her with a dildo - this special mini-game is only available during this mission in order to complete it and because you have the dildo it is easier to complete than the normal sex mini-games.
- In the 'Beat Down On B Dup' mission, you get to take Big Bear to rehab if you have taken over enough gang turf to keep Sweet happy. Otherwise, Sweet will take Big Bear as normal leaving you to take over enough turf to progress further into the storyline.
- In the 'Riot' mission, Sweets car no longer mysteriously appears in two places at the same time.
- All of these enhancements to the storyline, along with the additional dialog, action sequences and cellphone calls, will together reveal a LOT more to the game than you have previously seen and heard! In addition, they also serve to make the mod as a whole more appealing and playable since previous or existing game-saves are not compatable with the mod installed.
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- The 'Solarin Industries' building in San Fierro has been restored to 'Shady Industries' as in the PS2 version (this has also been done to match the vans that have 'Shady Industries' on them).
- The 'Bog Standard' signs on the building in Temple (Los Santos) are now the right way up and the right way round.
- The Bloodring and Sandking cars now have the correct logos on them instead of white squares where the logos and decals should be. - Emmet and Kendl now look the same in the game as they do in the cutscenes.
- In the 'Reuniting The Families' mission, the cop no longer changes uniform when he gets chopped up by the helicopter rotor blades.
- Like other cars that can be customised, the Broadway now has three custom paint jobs (it normally only has two).
- The Elegy, Flash, Uranus and Jester no longer gain strange white squares with their custom paint jobs - the squares now correctly display their various decals instead.
- Added additional custom paintjobs for the Elegy and Jester, giving them four each instead of the normal three - these were present in the game files but never used.
- The Sandking, Super GT, Uranus and Sadler now have correct specular lighting effects, as well as two of the vehicle trailers in the game.
- The DFT300 truck no longer has the sixth wheel missing from the rear and is now able to hold cars on the back.
- You can now jump into trams in San Fierro to hitch a ride (but you cannot drive them like the trains) and the trams may now carry passengers (for visual effect only).
- Foglights that are purchased when customising cars now light up at night.
- The Walton now has more variants (extra items in the rear).
- The Dodo now has correct specular lighting and is more varied in its colours.
- Enabled the missing hood ornament for the Slamvan - it may now appear with or without the hood ornament which was in the game but unused.
- The Remington may now be found in standard or convertible varieties.
- Winning a 'Beat The ****' challenge now earns you the '**** Head' hat.
- The Shamal can now have different coloured stripes instead of being plain white all the time.
- The Beagle now has a better interior and the model bugs on the rear wheel and ailerons have been fixed.
- Fixed bug with the parachute where its animations did not all display when it was used.
- In the 'Quarry' missions, the dead cop you must move is now correctly a Las venturas cop instead of a Los Santos cop.
- The Tropic boat now has different variants so it may appear as it did in Vice City/Vice City Stories.
- The Cargobob helicopter is now able to carry objects in its cargo hold (a motorbike will fit inside nicely).
- Added 4 new vehicles as seen in previous GTA games - the Stinger, Idaho and Deluxo from Vice City and the (Columbian Cartel) Cruiser from GTAIII now feature in San Andreas in addition to the vehicles that can already been found in the game - these vehicles are rare as they are 'older' than the vehicles normally found in the game although their looks and features have been updated so they fit into San Andreas.
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Re: GTA San Andreas Mod...nice improvements and fixes
I like this game but it runs terrrribly. This thing chokes my 8800 GTS at 1680x1050. Did they fix the awful performance?
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Re: GTA San Andreas Mod...nice improvements and fixes
I searched the fix list but did they fix the races up, I hated having to use the cars they told me to use, I hated not getting money after you won the races.
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Re: GTA San Andreas Mod...nice improvements and fixes
Nice set of improvements. Unfortunately I can't set the controller right so I am stuck with the crappy ps2 version.
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Speaking of controllers. Has anyone been able setup the 360 controller to work properly under Vista 64?
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Windows 8 the next big failure, right after Windows ME
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Is there a programme I can use where I can imitate the exact ps2 controls for the pc version? Thats the only thing stopping me from playing the pc version atm.
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360 controller works awesome for a lot of the newer games. ie Bioshock on PC (of course, why the hell would you want to use it, but it's still awesome lol).
Re: GTA San Andreas Mod...nice improvements and fixes
GTA games were always a bitch to configure for any gamepad.
It's not a huge issue, but it makes flying so much easier.
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By the way, haven't we been here before? Didn't we agree a while back that we would never eat lunch in this dump again?
Tomato disease resistance got bred out …
|October 15, 2014
|Posted by News under Genetics, News
… by human tampering?
PBS: Flood of new drugs from human genome map "unmitigated failure"
|October 11, 2014
|Posted by News under Darwinism, Genetics, News
Because the genome is only a parts list. But there's hope.
Non-gene inheritance in flies?
|October 3, 2014
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Scientists show for the first time that offspring can resemble a mother's previous sexual partner (in flies at least).
Should the symbol of life be a hoop, not a helix?
|September 30, 2014
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Well, this neighbourhood isn't GATTACA then.
Another Day; Another Bad Day for Darwinism
|September 24, 2014
|Posted by PaV under Biology, Evolution, Genetics
I've been saying the OP's title for years now. And, every day, I read review articles in the like of Phys.Org (they usually get out the articles first!) and, sure enough, there's an article undermining Darwinian orthodoxy and the neo-Darwinian mechanisms that underpin it. Here's today's latest. It involves the insect genome and proteins once […]
Stuff Doesn't Evolve–It Just Shows Up in the Beginning
|September 14, 2014
|Posted by PaV under Cambrian explosion, Darwinism, Embryology, Genetics
Here's a news article from Phys.Org on a lamprey study. Actually it's a study concerning phylogenetics and using gene regulatory mechanisms to figure out the relationships that exist. It turns out that in the lamprey, which is part of the Cambrian explosion, the same kind of hind brain gene regulatory mechanisms are in place as […]
Pond scum smashes genome into over 225k parts, then rebuilds it
|September 9, 2014
|Posted by News under Cell biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design
Note: Probability calculations are not permitted in Darwinclass! Elsewhere, they are fine. Be elsewhere.
Peer review: Brain genetics paper on schizophrenia retracted
|September 5, 2014
|Posted by News under Genetics, News
On the bright side, this seems to have been a responsible, back-to-the-drawing-board, retraction. One we can learn from.
"Meaningfulness" genes study torn apart by critic in journal article
|August 31, 2014
|Posted by News under Culture, Genetics, News
About time someone started outing the nonsense instead of peddling it.
At last, a proposed answer re 98% human-chimpanzee similarity claim
|August 5, 2014
|Posted by News under Genetics, Human evolution
Don't believe anything that contradicts carefully considered experience, simply because the claim appeared in a science journal.
Problems with using RNA to build tree of life
|August 1, 2014
|Posted by News under Genetics, News
Turtles probably aren't really closer to birds than to lizards and snakes, like RNA studies reported.
Would greater DNA harm enhance evolution or degradation?
|July 31, 2014
|Posted by DLH under Biophysics, Cell biology, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, Entropy, extinction, Genetics, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Natural selection
Mutations are used to explain evolution but also cause cancer. Biologists have discovered conditions for multiple mutations. Can we therefore infer that evolution via mutations is more likely? or that enhanced mutations will cause faster species degradation and extinction? Biologists describe mechanism promoting multiple DNA mutations DNA mutations—long known to fuel cancer as well as […]
Human genome shrinks again, lower than projected nematode worm
|July 19, 2014
|Posted by News under Genetics, Human evolution, News
Calculations must be redone, say some experts.
Large numbers of exceptions to the canonical genetic code
|May 23, 2014
|Posted by News under Genetics, Intelligent Design, language, News
Why does this remind some of us of human languages?
Is there a crisis in biology? Or are we just facing facts?
|May 15, 2014
|Posted by News under Biology, Genetics, News
You only think that guy is the sum total of his cells. Wrong.
More on Wade's Troublesome Inheritance book
|May 15, 2014
|Posted by News under Genetics, News
If people are really concerned about one thing or another, it might be useful to ask what answers they would accept as valid.


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State budget: Create jobs and revenue will surge
The way we can understand what is driving these jobs out of our state and, in turn, increasing our budget problems through lower tax revenue, is very simple: We need to ask them.
We need to suspend the bill factory, and engage the governor and the Legislature in a simple but crucially important task directly related to the budget. We need to ask all businesses, from every sector and every size, what we as a state can do to help them succeed and expand in California.
Business input can provide nonpartisan solutions to the economic barriers created by bureaucracy and government regulations. The challenge to the governor and the Legislature is how we will respond to these realities.
There you have it. To properly address our perennial budget/spending/revenue crisis, we need to do those two things.
First, stop the bill factory to focus on analyzing spending, eliminating what is wasteful and prioritizing what works. Second, learn from businesses what it is they need to expand, and pass (or eliminate) laws and regulations to support them – remembering that many will choose other states if they believe they do not have enough good reasons to stay in California.
We owe it to Californians and the future of our state to act now.
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CBS has said no to this idea already. No T5 Miranda, Connie, NX, Oberth etc.
And they also said no letting the entire playerbase have at a "non faction ship", yet we had the second breen invasion at ESD this winter... Therefore a CBS "No" does not equal "will never happen"... Hence our pushes...
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Isn't the upgrade to the Miranda meant to be the Nebula? If the original looked like a reconfigured Connie and the Nebula looks like a Reconfigured Galaxy it makes sense right?
If you mean Connie -> Galaxy, Miranda -> Nebula, then yes, it is.
On that note, while I support anyone asking for older ships, I am pushing for the ToS Connie and the NX, so that all 6 "hero" ships of the various "eras" would be represented. TMP era already has the Excelsior in game, so trying to add the Miranda, also introduced in TMP, would be a bit redundant... What would the trick behind a T5 Miranda be, besides being a TMP-era "escort" to the Oberth in Sci and Excelsior Cruiser?
Well, with the upgrade announcement leaving NX and Connie fans in the dust
, can we restart / revisit the T5 Connie and NX threads - since they will no longer be "truly" endgame ships... (after we get the T5 versions, it'll be time to see them added to the T5U upgrade charts too...


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Design for lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Oct 25, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 06 • By LIAM JULIAN
The Kaufmann Desert House is one of Neutra's most acclaimed buildings. Unlike Fallingwater, the Desert House does not really integrate with its environment, nor does it try to. It sits apart from the craggy, dusty hillsides that surround it, its hard linear rooms contrasting with the desert forms. The structure is encompassed by a manmade landscape of cactuses and green lawns, a "machine in the garden," as Leo Marx liked to say. And yet the Desert House does exhibit a sensitivity to its setting. Its interior is softly demarcated by walls of glass, held in place by the thinnest of metal poles, which has the effect of bringing the desert inside, of making it part of the home. The unraised floor is at ground level, which further dissolves the distinction between inside and out.
Then there's the glamour. In 1949, Life presented the Desert House to America in a double-page spread beneath the title, "Glamourized Houses: Photographer Julius Shulman Is a Master at Making Them Look Dramatic." Neutra hired Shulman to take the pictures, but he allowed the session to begin only after precisely mapping out the angles of all the shots, reminding Shulman to take no photos "where the workmanship deficiencies are played up." As Neutra later wrote, the resultant prints were not documentations of fact—they were never intended to be—but "approximate essential memory images" that evoked dreamy, fantastical ideas of glamorous living.
Friedman finds glamour in the work of other American modernists as well. A chapter on the Finnish-American Eero Saarinen presents a man who "imagined his buildings as inhabited and animated spaces" and who "cared deeply about the spiritual and psychological effects of his architecture." Visitors to Saarinen's original TWA Terminal—which opened in 1962 at what is today John F. Kennedy International Airport and was then known as Idlewild—would have known something of those effects. Swooping staircases, plunging concrete ceilings, swirling seating, bulging display boards, curving walls, and amoebic windows through which one could watch jets zipping by and blasting off—it all provided a real experience of the futuristic nature of flight, of air travel's own sort of jet-set glamour. The terminal, so sensual and alive, looked and felt as if it might itself bound up into the blue skies.
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Saarinen and Lapidus, it's important to note, were critically savaged in their time. Both were castigated for their work's blatancy, its expressiveness, its readiness to accommodate consumerism's gauche whims. Saarinen was frequently disparaged for his coziness with big business (he was the go-to architect for corporate America) and Lapidus was dismissed for pandering to the most vulgar aspirations of the unsophisticated. Even Neutra was attacked—by Wright, among others—for obliging his clients to the extent that his buildings were compromises, lacking any weight or real value.
All three reputations have since been rehabilitated. Nonetheless, some of the criticism was correct: These new modernists, in walking away from the rules of the International Style, occasionally wandered too far, ending up in disorder.
What, then, is the American glamour that Friedman identifies in their buildings? Is it something of worth, or is it a pretty way to describe the smattery that results from the sort of consumerism that relishes baubles glittering from glossy pages? It is both, as Friedman herself acknowledges when she writes "that one group's idea of glamour is another's idea of hackneyed vulgarity." But what American glamour certainly is not is any of the worst aspects of modern architecture: It is not sanctimonious or aggressive; it is not Manichean; and it does not wish to destroy and forget all that came before. The glamorous buildings of mid-20th-century America are variously refined and offensive, but they do not presuppose their own greatness. They allow us to choose, and that is worth celebrating.
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Most visitors go to Gibraltar, Malta or Santorini for sun, seafood and relaxation. I was searching for something more elusive: the lost sunken city.
Most visitors go to Gibraltar, Malta or Santorini for sun, seafood and relaxation. I was searching for something more elusive: the lost sunken city.
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By SUSANNE CRAIG
Law enforcement officials in Greece, N.Y., say they are close to seeking an indictment in connection with a 1978 blaze at a Holiday Inn that killed 10.
By JOANNA KAKISSIS
The city's self-confidence and creativity are stirring again after years of tough press that defined Athens as a beleaguered capital.
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Hop from the coast of England to an island in Germany to an olive orchard in Italy, exploring a suite of moderately priced properties.
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A moving song by a Greek violinist led the writer to a hillside village across the ocean.
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As episodes from her life story are written there, an outsider develops a tremendous closeness to the island.
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A country still grappling with economic woes sees a flicker of optimism as travelers return.
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Greece has a reputation for having no surf, but there are in fact swells and a growing surfing scene to be found.
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Salonika, widely considered the country's cultural capital, is being revived by young entrepreneurs with an eye to both the future and the past.
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The Indiana Rural Health Information Technology Education Network (IRHITEN) is a formative, vertical network, modeled after the successful Indiana Statewide Rural Health Network (InSRHN), also developed and led by the Indiana Rural Health Association (IRHA). Through the IRHITEN the required elements are in place to build a successful, statewide infrastructure to develop a skilled health IT workforce in rural areas across Indiana. IRHITEN includes three experienced and accomplished Network members with statewide presence and connections: Indiana Rural Health Association (IRHA), Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana (Ivy Tech) and HealthLINC.
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The Specialized Centers of Research (SCOR) on Sex Differences program is an innovative interdisciplinary research program focusing on sex differences and major medical conditions affecting women. The SCOR program supports established scientists conducting research at centers across the country that integrates basic, clinical, and translational research approaches to incorporating a sex and gender focus.
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SCORs are selected on the basis of having at least three highly integrated, synergistic research projects that explore an important issue related to sex/gender health differences through interdisciplinary approaches. ORWH monitors progress in advancing sex differences research across the centers and coordinates the inter-SCOR interactions. The co-funding NIH institutes manage SCOR program-related needs.
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Celebrating the hope for a cure, members of team Rax Restaurant, had a romantic Paris theme to their booth offering kisses for a donation during Harlan County's 2014 Relay For Life event held at Huff Park on Friday and Saturday. Pictured are, from left, front row: Emily Blackburn, 16, and Kenzie Lankford, 16, both of Harlan; back row: Lauren Taylor, 19, and Taylor Lankford, 20, both of Loyall.
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Cancer survivor Margaret Yost, of Catrons Creek, was the guest speaker at this year's Relay For Life event. Saying a special prayer for his mother is Tim Yost, of Harlan, and his daughter, Clarissa, 4.
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Pence returns to form in Frisco
Albers finishes off his first half with eighth win
He was back to being his old self on Saturday night.
Pence continued to break out of a mini-slump, blasting a homer and driving in three runs as the Hooks rolled to a 9-3 victory over the Frisco RoughRiders at Dr Pepper Ballpark.
The victory was the third straight for the Hooks (41-27), who have the Texas League's best record entering the final day of the first half. Corpus Christi clinched the South Division championship and its first-half playoff berth last week.
Entering Saturday, Pence hadn't hit a homer in 13 games dating back to June 1 at Wichita and had seen his average drop almost 10 points coming into Friday's series opener at Frisco.
But after a three-hit night on Friday and Saturday's homer, double, three runs scored and three RBI, Pence is displaying the form that terrorized the league during the first two months of the season. His two-run homer in the ninth inning was his 17th, setting a new single-season record for the Hooks. He also owns the franchise's all-time mark, even if all time equals a season and a half.
"Really? I'll take it," Pence said when informed of his new milestones. "I was in a little bit of a struggle the last two weeks or so. It was just some minor adjustments I had to make, and it took me way too long to figure out what I was doing wrong. I just pulled my head off the ball real bad. I'm just focusing on keeping my head on the ball and hitting it."
Manager Dave Clark credited the work Pence had put in with hitting coach John Tamargo Jr.
"We don't expect him to hit home runs, but we expect him to have a little more plate discipline, get better pitches to hit and be ready to attack the zone, especially on the outer half of the plate," Clark said. "That's what J.T. and Hunter have been working on for the last couple days, and it's paying off again."
Pence and the Hooks' hitters were ruthlessly efficient on Saturday. Corpus Christi had six extra-base hits - two doubles, two triples and two homers - and plated four runs with two outs. After taking a 3-0 lead after six innings, the Hooks poured it on with six more runs in the final three frames.
The early lead proved more than enough for starter Matt Albers. He finished his stellar first half with a flourish, tossing 5.2 shutout innings and striking out seven to improve to 8-2. Albers tied Tulsa's Ubaldo Jimenez for the league lead in victories and owns the circuit's best earned run average at 2.08.
During his strong first half, Albers had only one major slip-up, when he yielded six runs in one inning on May 31 at Wichita.
"I think he learned from that," Clark said. "You've seen him lately, he gets a lead and he doesn't lose focus. That's what happened (in Wichita). He's maintained his focus and he's going after these guys.
"He's got the stuff to pitch at the highest level. Now it's up to him to show that every time he toes the rubber. He's been doing that of late."
How they scored
Anderson popped up to first. Zobrist singled to shortstop. Pence reached on fielder's choice to third, Zobrist out at second. Pence to second on pitcher Diamond's throwing error. House walked. Cortes singled to left; Pence scored, House to second. Bonifay struck out. 1-0 HOOKS
Saccomanno flied out to left. Ash walked. Anderson singled to left, Ash to third. Zobrist grounded out to second; Ash scored, Anderson to second. Pence doubled to center, Anderson scored. House hit by pitch. Cortes grounded out to second. 3-0 HOOKS
Ash grounded out to pitcher. Anderson grounded out to second. Zobrist doubled to right. Pence walked. House tripled to center, Zobrist and Pence scored. Ward relieved Rupe. House scored on Ward's wild pitch. Cortes grounded out to first. 6-0 HOOKS
Bonifay grounded out to first. Young homered to right. Saccomanno struck out. Ash grounded out to first. 7-0 HOOKS
Gold struck out. Fasano hit by pitch. Webster reached on fielder's choice to second, Fasano out at second. Cruz homered to left-center, Webster and Cruz scored. Metcalf walked. Benjamin struck out. 7-2 HOOKS
Anderson tripled to right. Zobrist grounded out to first. Pence homered to left, Anderson and Pence scored. House grounded out to shortstop. Cortes grounded out to first. 9-2 HOOKS
Richardson singled to center. Tingler grounded out to second, Richardson to second. Richardson to third on pitcher Mansfield's balk. Mahar walked. Gold flied out to center, Richardson scored. Fasano flied out to right. 9-3 HOOKS
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Prep boys soccer: Gulf Coast, Immokalee looking to make big steps in regional finals Tuesday
Two Collier County boys soccer programs can take another step in their building processes Tuesday night in the regional finals.
Under alumni coaches, Gulf Coast and Immokalee have been on the rise recently, making incremental improvements each year to get to this point. Now both teams can make history by winning their first regional championship.
The Sharks host Seminole in the Class 4A-Region 3 championship, while Immokalee travels to Tampa-Jesuit for the 3A-Region 3 championship. Both matches start at 7 p.m.
Both local teams will have to knock off soccer powerhouses to get to the state semifinals. Seminole, Gulf Coast's opponent, has made 12 straight regional appearances and has five regional titles since 1982. Immokalee's opponent, Jesuit, has won 15 regional and six state championships since 1987.
For Gulf Coast (13-3-7), it will be the first time the boys soccer program has played in a regional final. It might have been hard to imagine the Sharks getting this far four years ago when they won just three games under a 19-year-old coach, but Alan Scott had a vision for his team.
"It's a plan we set in motion when I first got here," said Scott, 23, a 2006 Gulf Coast graduate. "I knew we had some talent coming in. I knew we were going to have bumps and bruises, but the whole goal was to build this team to where we had these playoff runs."
Gulf Coast combined for seven wins in Scott's first two seasons, but turned the corner last year. The Sharks qualified for the state tournament for the second time in school history and won their first regional game.
The Sharks are having their best season since the school opened in 1998, including the program's first district title and first trip to the regional finals.
Scott has been involved in a lot of firsts at Gulf Coast. He was a junior on the team in 2005 when the Sharks finished district runner-up and advanced to regionals for the first time. In his time at Gulf Coast he played for four different coaches, something Scott didn't want his players to go through.
"I wanted to bring a little stability," he said. "I wanted to be here a while to turn the program around. I wanted to create a program like Mark (Wilkinson) did at Barron Collier and what Dwight (Morgan) is doing now at Golden Gate."
Saintano Damas' story is similar to Scott's. Damas was a senior on the 1997 Immokalee team that won the school's first district title and made it to regionals for the first time. Following three seasons as an assistant, Damas took over the Indians at their lowest point only to slowly build them back up.
Immokalee is in the regional finals for the first time since 2006, also their last trip to the state playoffs. Following that season it was discovered that the Indians had five over-aged players, and the FHSAA banned the Indians from the postseason for two years. Coach Frantz Matheus left the program and Damas was promoted in the fall of 2006.
The Indians made it to the district championship this season for the first time under Damas, losing to Golden Gate. After shocking undefeated and defending state champ Cape Coral in the regional quarterfinals, Immokalee got revenge by beating Golden Gate in the semifinals.
"There have been some ups and downs, some bumps in the road, but we always come back," Damas said. "The past is the past and we can only take care of what's now and the future, and that's what we did. Every game we look at what we did wrong, then gather ourselves as a team and get ready for the next game."
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The best possibility (although still not comfortable) if you don't have a car and don't want to spend money for a taxi.
Departures from Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: click here. Choose fast bus (marked in red), normal buses are very sloooow.
Departures from Krakow: click here, click on top left (Odjazdy z dworca PKS w Krakowie = departures from PKS bus terminal, on Pawia Street, oposite to main railway station), click on letter "K", choose KALWARIA KLASZT. (Kalwaria monastery): departures on left (wyjazd godz.), arrivals = przyjazd godz.
It takes over 1 hour but in contrast to train you get to the monastery instead to a railway station down in the city = it's faster and cheaper.
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Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is located in southern Poland, 36 km (22.4 mi) southwest of Krakow, 14 km (8.7 mi) east of Wadowice - birthplace of pope John Paul II and 37 km (23 mi) southeast of Auchwitz (Oswiecim) - former Nazi concentration camp, memorial and museum now.
From Krakow:
drive 16 km (10 mi) southwards Highway E77 (direction Chyzne, Zakopane), take exit (turn right) to Highway 96 (direction Wadowice, Bielsko-Biala) to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. Turn left (follow the direction sign/table on left, easy to miss) towards the sanctuary.
From Wadowice:
drive eastwards Highway 96 (direction Krakow)
From Auschwitz (Oswiecim):
drive 10 km (6 mi) eastwards Highway 950 to Zator, continue 13 km (8 mi) Highway 950 southwards to Wadowice, take Highway 96 (direction Krakow).
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By train
Hmm... not my recommendation although it's cheap.
From Krakow Glowny (Main Railway Station) you must get to Krakow Plaszow station first (by train prefferably). Then take a train (only a few daily) towards Bielsko-Biala. Finally get a taxi or a bus from the railway station to the sanctuary. It takes... at least 2 hours! - 36 km (22.4 mi) by a car.
Check your train timetable: European timetable.
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November 24, 2012St. Thomas Aquinas High School
St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders running back Frederick Coppet rushes the ball during a football game against Plantation Colonels Friday, November 23, 2012 at St. Thomas High in Fort Lauderdale
John O'Korn threw for 201 yards and a touchdown and rushed for another touchdown, and the St. Thomas defense limited Plantation to 86 yards of offense, created a pair of safeties and a short field for much of the game as the Raiders blasted Plantation 38-7 in the Region 4-7A semifinals at St. Thomas on Friday night.
The Raiders will host Boyd Anderson, a 6-3 winner of Palm Beach Gardens Dwyer, Friday in the regional final.
"I think the defense the last five weeks has played really, really good football," St. Thomas coach Rocco Casullo said. "They are taking pride in their defense right now. All 11 guys are doing what they are supposed to do, and when you do that, good things happen."
The Raiders, who beat Plantation 24-20 in the regular season, left no doubt in this one. The Raiders forced a Chris Lammons' fumble at the Plantation 14-yard line on the first possession of the game that James Crawford scooped up and returned to the Plantation 1-yard line. Fred Coppet scored on the next play for a 7-0 lead.
After forcing a three-and-out on the next possession, O'Korn found Mark Barr two plays later for a 48-yard touchdown pass and a 14-0 lead. Then Aquinas picked up a safety when Plantation was attempting a punt and the snap sailed over the punter's head. A 7-yard touchdown run by Coppet on the ensuing possession made it 23-0 five seconds in to the second quarter, and a sack by Joey Bosa of Lammons upped it to 25-0 just over a minute later. The rout was on.
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Brooke Mueller is resisting efforts to have her twin sons with ex-husband Charlie Sheen tested for fetal alcohol syndrome because she is terrified that if Bob and Max are diagnosed with it, she will never regain custody, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
Radar broke the story last year: Mueller finally agreed to have the boys tested for fetal alcohol syndrome because she went to rehab TWICE while pregnant and drank large amounts of booze before giving birth to the boys.
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However, Mueller has now changed her mind and doesn't want the boys tested.
"Brooke is afraid that if the boys are diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome, she will never regain custody of the boys. She knows she is about to get the boys back, but fears she will never get them back if they do have it," a source told Radar.
"Child protective services is actually very impressed with how far Brooke has come, and a FAS diagnosis absolutely wouldn't preclude her from getting them back. It was four years ago, and that can't be held against her."
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Sources also tell Radar, "Charlie wants the boys tested… However, he is still on good terms with Brooke….they just disagree on this."
Sheen is not expected to be in court on Thursday, while Mueller is.
"Fetal Alcohol Syndrome can cause problems that may include physical deformities, mental retardation, learning disorders, vision difficulties and behavioral problems, and heart health issues," the Mayo Clinic, the world noted not-for-profit medical practice and medical research group, states.
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Babies suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome often have small eye openings, small head circumference and brain size.
The twins were born seven weeks prematurely and Max had to stay in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit because of a heart condition.
The boys' rambunctious behavior fell under the microscope during the time they stayed with their father's ex-wife Denise Richards, who told authorities her daughters had "been strangled, kicked in the head and stomach, scratched, bit, slapped, punched in the face and head, and spit on" by the boys, who treated the family dogs in the same manner.
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In another instance, Richards said the boys relieved themselves in their younger sister's bathtub, then scattered the remnants all over the room.
Sheen in the past has said he fears for his sons "every second that" they're with Mueller.
"There's stuff going on here that's so criminal, and so unacceptable it's beyond the pale," he said a few months back. "And we're talking about two four-and-a-half year olds."
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Sheen added that Brooke's home was "filled with felonious descriptions of child endangerment."
"No one knows how the judge will rule," the insider told Radar.
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The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) has asked the BJP to act tough on leaders who criticise Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
In his parleys with leaders of the Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), RSS points-person for BJP, Suresh Soni said on Friday that the environment in the country was by far the best for the BJP to make a comeback.
"One has to realise that there is a strong anti-Congress wave in the country. The BJP should work hard to ensure that this anger against the Congress turns into goodwill for the BJP," Mr. Soni told party workers that included state president Laxmikant Bajpayi.
On a two-day visit to Lucknow to assess the preparedness of the saffron party for the Lok Sabha polls, Mr. Soni told RSS office bearers that the people of the country have taken Mr. Modi to be their prime minister and they were now duty bound to support him and bring good governance back.
Mr. Soni was instrumental in getting Mr. Modi appointed campaign chief of the BJP at the Goa national executive.
He told party workers that they should keep away from factionalism and should instead focus on the return of the party to power.
"Any factionalism or public criticism of each other will only harm party interests," he said.
Leaders attending the meeting told IANS that Mr. Soni was categorical in his support for Mr. Modi and said the BJP should not go soft on leaders and workers who openly criticise the Gujarat chief minister.
In case, someone does not fall in line, he should be suspended from the party for six years, Mr. Soni told party leaders.
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Seniority and collegiality
I understand why the senior justices of the Supreme Court are disappointed, even dismayed, by the choice of a junior justice as the new chief. For years, they have patiently lined up in faithful observance of the century-old tradition that only the most senior and second most senior are chosen to lead the judiciary. Tradition, seniority and rank are sacred in the judiciary, as they are in the military and in the Church.
Antonio T. Carpio, the incumbent most senior justice who joined the high court on Oct. 26, 2001 (which incidentally was his 52nd birthday), was probably the most aggrieved. After all, this was his second bypass, the first being in May 2010 when Renato C. Corona was named chief by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Justice Carpio refused to be included in the short list of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) because he thought the selection of a new chief at that time violated the constitutional ban on "midnight" appointments.
This time, he actively participated in the selection process. Most of us who have retired, especially Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide Jr., were rooting for him even if we also conceded that the ultimate choice belonged to President Aquino. Early on, Carpio himself acknowledged that the Constitution had given the President the absolute prerogative to appoint anyone included in the list vetted by the JBC.
Relevantly, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno also recognized the seniority tradition and was willing to concede to Carpio. During her JBC interview, she humbly admitted that she was merely "an option." And when asked by President Aquino what she thought of Carpio, she frankly replied: "He stands a cut above everyone else in the Court."
But it was not to be. P-Noy broke tradition even if seniority has its advantages. For instance, having been in the Court the longest, Carpio has become familiar with the problems of the judiciary and has proposed solutions.
Clogged dockets. In a speech while still acting chief, Carpio said: "The number one problem of the judiciary is clogged dockets, arising from delays in trial, and delays in deciding cases." To solve this difficulty, he proposed the full implementation of the "computerized case management (CCM) system" envisioned in the "Action Program for Judicial Reforms" of CJ Davide.
The CCM system will "monitor online, and in real time, the caseload, [their] aging, and the rate of disposition of any judge or justice. The public can find out the status of cases by simply going to the website of the court." The Court of Appeals (CA) implemented this system. "Right now, a litigant… can go to the CA website, type his case number, and instantly, he will know if a decision or resolution has been issued, and if one has been issued, he can download a copy." Indeed, if the CA has done it, then the other courts can do it, too.
Carpio added: "The present trial procedure, which is obsolete, cumbersome and time-consuming, is the principal factor for the clogged dockets… The way forward is to adopt a simplified trial procedure… " through the use of affidavits in lieu of direct examination (I discussed this in an earlier column), to limit "objections to questions" and to prohibit "demurrer to evidence, motions to dismiss, motions for bills of particulars," and other tactics that are often used to delay.
According to him, Congress should pass a law that "makes appointment to trial courts by level of court, not by specific branch. Right now, a [metropolitan trial court] judge who wants to transfer as an MTC judge to a neighboring city or municipality must go through another appointment, as if he were applying for the first time." This is too cumbersome. "The Supreme Court should be able to assign and reassign judges within the same court level based on the caseload of courts, and the need for lateral advancement of judges."
Collegial reforms. Carpio also suggested that "the number of courts in a locality must follow a judge-to-population ratio. Manila, with a population of 1,652,171, has 30 first-level courts, or a ratio of one first-level judge for every 55,072 residents… Taguig, with a population of 644,473, has only one first-level court, or a ratio of one first-level judge for 644,473 residents. This disparity is reflected in the caseloads of first-level courts: in Manila, the average caseload is 242 cases per first-level judge… and in Taguig 1,161 cases per first-level judge. Clearly there is a need to re-engineer the distribution of courts in relation to population to insure an equitable distribution and faster disposition of cases."
I do not have the space to write on Carpio's many proposals. The other justices, I am sure, have their own ideas and suggestions. All these, I think, should be consolidated in one unified reform program. After all, the Supreme Court is really a collegial body that deliberates on and picks up the best from the myriad of ideas of its members.
Of course, as the "new kid on the block," Chief Justice Sereno herself has a lot of novel and creative plans on how to make the judiciary more transparent, accountable, trustworthy and excellent. She has, in addition, been earnest in seeking and embracing the ideas of her colleagues.
Indeed, it is through collegiality, not just seniority or juniority, that the Supreme Court is mandated to move forward. The job ahead is to put together the old and the new, the conservative and the liberal, and the orthodox and the unorthodox so our people's quest for speedy justice can be attained soon.
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