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According to rumors, those pesky Microsoft Points will be gone by the end of 2012. For the uninitiated, Microsoft Points are the system of virtual currency used to buy content on Xbox LIVE, Zune Marketplace, and Windows Mobile Marketplace.
The points, which do not correspond to actual money in a way that makes sense to human beings, seemingly have no purpose except to make you spend more money. If you don't know how much an actual item costs, you're more likely to fork over points for it. It's like trading tickets in at the arcade. Can you believe this bouncy ball that would only cost me fifty-cents at the store was only 12,450 tickets? SCORE! Plus, you can only purchase microsoft points in bundles, and because of Microsoft's pricing structure, you always end up buying more points than you actually need, which means more money for Microsoft and a pair of sunglasses for your avatar.
While most other app stores use dollar-to-dollar cost models (except for the Nintendo Wii, which also uses points), Microsoft has stood by their confusing and convoluted system that makes you feel like a clueless American tourist trying to figure out what 34,000 Yen equates to in US dollars so you can get a new girlfriend pillow. Now, it seems the system is so out of line with the way the rest of the industry does business, that Microsoft might actually have to price things at what they cost, and not in their archaic system of space bucks.
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Jul 16, 04 at 6:49pm ^Official Listings
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Vehicle List:
(All seen in screenshots, but the names of all of them are unknown, and they could be removed at any time)
- Greenwood
- Bicycle
- Linerunner
- Revamped Voodoo
- Lowrider truck
- Blue hatchback
- Police helicopter
- Black sports car
- Esperanto
- Blue Sedan
- Pickup w/ barrels on back
- Police motorbike
- Tractor
- Hotdog van
- Monster truck
- Rancher
- Sanchez
- Sabre
- Combine Harvester
- Virgo
- Manana
- Mesa Grande
- Patriot
- Gas Tanker
- Walton
- LSPD Police Car
- Sedan
- Camper
- Dodo
- Taxi
- Regina
- Mountain Bike
- Tow truck
- Perennial
- Sports Car
- Boxville
- Oceanic
- Train
- White Station Wagon
- Red Sedan
- Moving Truck
- GT40?(New!)
- Sparrow(New!)
- Trolley(New!)
- Dinghy(New!)
- Old Volks Wagon Bus(New!)
- White hatchback(New!)
- Unknown Redcar(New!)
- Hunkajunk(New!)
- Unknown Redcar #2(New!)
- white coupe(New!)
Gun List:
- Uzi 9mm
- ingram mac 10
- Colt .45 Pistol
- Chrome Shotgun
- Dark colored shotgun
- Silenced Colt.45 Pistol
- Tec-9
- Baseball Bat
Characters List:
- Carl Johnson(aka CJ):The main character.
- Brian Johnson: Carl Johnson's 10 year-old brother who died in an accident.
- Sweet Johnson:Another brother of Carl Johnson, who blamed Carl for the death of Brian.
- Kendl Johnson: Carl Johnson's sister.
- Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Polaski: Corrupt policemen who frame Carl Johnson.
- Smoke and Ryder: A part of the 'Orange Grove Families' street gang. Smoke here on left, Ryder here.
- The Ballas and The Flats: Rival gangs of the Orange Grove Families. Ballas pic here, Flatshere.
- Cesar: A Latino character who wears an undershirt, baggy pants and has tattoos and a buzzcut.
- Old Reece (based on San Francisco)
-Los Santos (based on Los Angeles)
-Las Venturas (based on Las Vegas)
Further Listings:
The Laydown:
This is the world that San Andreas' main character, Carl Johnson, finds himself coming back to after spending five years in Liberty City. Johnson left his neighborhood in the ghetto of Los Santos after the death of his brother Brian, who died in a tragic accident. Carl's older brother Sweet Johnson blamed him for Brian's death, leading to a period of estrangement that is broken by the sudden passing of his mother.
On returning home for the funeral, Carl finds his biological family and his former gang, the Orange Grove Families, in disarray. Sweet and his sister Kendall are at each other's throats. His former crew - Sweet, long-time family friend Smoke, and Ryder - have fallen from power on the streets, and are now besieged by both rival gang factions and internal quarrels.
Although Carl is reluctant to get dragged back into the street life, fate intervenes when his crew comes under the thumbs of Frank Tenpenr and Eddie Polaski, who are characterized as a "heavy-duty pair of lunatic corrupt policemen on your case." As always, events soon spiral out of control, and Johnson finds himself on a frantic adventure that will take him across the state of San Andreas as he fights to preserve his family, his gang, and his life.
Missions List:
Mission Name: Menace.
Objective: Get back at the store that keeps painting over Ryder's graffiti.
(click here for in-depth info about Menace)
Mission Name: Drive-By.
Objective: Take back some of the Orange Grove Families' street cred from the Ballas with a four-person drive-by.
(click here for in-depth info about Drive-By)
Mission Name: Reuniting The Families.
Objective: Take back your turf from the Flats.
(click here for in-depth info about Reuniting The Families)
- GTA: San Andreas will consist of 3 cities; Los Santos (L.A. based), San Fierro (San Francisco based), and Las Venturra (Las Vegas based.)
- Each City will be the same size as Vice City.
- The map will be 4-6 times larger than Vice City's map.
- Parts of the city will be unlocked as you progress through the game.
- Hills will make a return, along with the addition of mountains.
- Large countrysides will be available to travel through.
- The environment will be more intricate and more interactive.
- There will be a desert.
- There will be many unique interiors, restaurants, and even a casino.
- Interiors will be more interactive, and not just detailed save points.
- Quadbikes can be used to race through the vast countrysides.
- Inbreds and degenerates will give you missions in the country.
- The legendary mountain is half a mile tall.
- The countryside will have rolling fields, farms, rivers, forests, deserts, hills and even tumbleweeds.
- The draw distance is now twice as much as Vice City in the urban environments and four times as much in the countryside.
- Los Santos is situated in the lower right part of the San Andreas map.
- Vinewood is San Andreas' version of Hollywood. This ends speculation as to what the sign in the top right of the background here said.
- Textures in the game will consist of both photographed and self-drawn.
- SA will have 16,000 unique textures and buildings.
- The legendary mountain is called Mt. Chiliad, and is the single largest object in the game. It has tunnels, trails, cliff-top roads, and more. (Pic here)
- Clouds will star to appear when you reach a great altitude on Mt. Chiliad.
- Dillamore and Angel Pine are two cities from the countryside. Dillamore contains a gas station, and Angel Pine contains a Liqour store and a Trailer Park.
- Roads will no longer feel empty, and an endless stream of vehicles will be on the road at all times.
- There'll be twelve small towns, including Dillamore and Angel Pine.
- Three of the franchise restaurants in the game are Cluckin' Bell (pic here), Well Stacked Pizza (pic here), and Burger Shot (pic here). There will also be vending carts around the city as well.
- The map is "America Shaped", and Los Santos is less than a quarter of it.
- Streets in Los Santos will have an orange glow due to the harsh sunlight in the city.
- Other San Andreas towns include: Flint County, Fern Ridge, Red County, Whetstone, and Shady Creeks.
- Each city will have an airport. With planes to steal, of course.
- Mt. Chiliad casts a very long shadow over the map.
- Angel Pine is situated at the base of Mt. Chiliad and has a bait shack, a liquor store, a one-screen movie theater and a trailer park.
- The transition from country to city is gradual. You will see the city's skyline appear in the distance and houses will become more frequent.
- Los Santos' weather has a bright, gritty feel to it, with the occassional bursts of rain, San Fierro is quite foggy, Las Venturra has harsh lights and clean air, while the countryside is a lot warmer and natural feeling.
- St. Brutus Motel will be used as a general meeting place and a place to "cut deals".
- Orange Grove is referred to by its residents as 'The Grove'
- In Vinewood there are such landmarks as the walk of fame (pic here), the Cathay Theater and the massive Vinewood sign (pic here)
- The mansions and estates of Los Santos are situated at the tops of the Vinewood hills.
- The most affluent area of Los Santos is Rodeo. This is where the rich people prefer to shop and live. (Pic here)
- In Downtown Los Santos there are landmarks such as the Los Santos Convention Center (pic here) and the Doc G Records Building (pic here on the left)
- The beach of Los Santos are full of tourists and sunbathers. At the beach there is also the Santa Maria boardwalk and an amusement park among other things. (Pic here)
- There are massive freeways in Los Santos that go through and around the city. As well as to Los Santos and Las Venturras. They will make a long trip much quicker. (Pic http://fivestarstuff.com/images/screenshots/screen98.jpg)
- Los Santos' streets have names. There are street signs that point out what is what for you. (Pic here)
- The underwater world of SA is as detailed as the surface world.
- Depending on how deep the water you're swimming in is, the underwater lighting effects will be different.
- SA's wave effects have been re-worked and now react to weather conditions more realistically. Such as rocking boats and slowly pushing them to shore with swells.
- Reece's barbershop will be accessible from the beginning of the game.
- There are multiple barbershops throughout San Andreas.
- The Binco discount store is situated near the Orange Grove Families' territory. It is a cheap clothing store that offers things such as khakis, plaid shirts and inexpensive sneakers. Locals will respect your more if you wear clothing of this kind. (Pic here)
- SubUrban is another clothing store in Los Santos. It offers more expensive brand name clothing and is located in the middle of Ballas territory.
- Another clothing store is ProLaps. It sells athletic style clothing. Things like hats, expensive sneakers, shorts, boxing headgear, motorbike helmets and hockey masks can be purchased here. (Pic here and here
Police/Peds AI:
- NPCs will think more intelligently and will react if you cause some ruckus around the city.
- With your hired gang members, you can do 4-person drive-bys on your enemies.
- Each pedestrian has his own actions and animations based on where they live, and where they are at in the city or the country.
- You might see two pedestrians walking down the street, holding hands. They will react it you walk between them, then hold hands again.
- Pedestrians have around an hour of dialogue each. As opposed to Vice City's 10 minutes.
- Peds have an independent existence in the game. You can follow them as they go through their daily routine (eg: leaving their house, going to work, going to the store, meeting someone)
- Gang member A.I. is very advanced now. Gang members no longer stand around doing nothing during their downtime; they'll be chilling out with each other, smoking, drinking, greeting each other, and throwing gang signs. They'll even have conversations, too. (Pic here and here)
Other information:
- The game will take place in the early 90s.
- New streaming and rendering techniques have been used.
- Graphics engine has been overhauled.
- Radial lighting is being used to create more realistic shadowing.
- Real time reflections will be used on windows, mirrors, and cars.
- Soft-shadow lighting will be used in interior levels.
- Independent models for night and day will be used on everything in the game.
- "Impact Animation" or ragdoll physics will be used. (Think of Hitman 2)
- You can rob houses.
- You can build and run a casino.
- Characters from the past GTA games will make a return.
- You can recruit gang members.
- You can take up side missions and learn new skills.
- In each mission you will learn something new, like skills.
- Basic tutorials are used during your first missions in the game.
- You can eat, but eating too much will make your character fat. And you will have to go to a gym to get fit. Some missions are not possible when you are overweight (due to your stamina and strength becoming less than normal)
- New animations have been designed.
- Camera angles and the targeting system are being overhauled.
- Swimming is now possible. If you drive into water you can get out the window of your vehicle or you can sink to the bottom with it. If you choose to do this you will have a certain amount of stamina you can build up to lengthen your time underwater.
- It's possible to get a haircut. They do cost money and if you get a bad one people will tell you so. You get your first haircut during the mission "Menace." It's given to you by Old Reece at Reece's Hair Facial Studio. (Pic here)
- The right analog stick will be used to bounce your lowrider around.
- Stealth techniques are being incorporated, and you can hide in shadows to avoid enemies.
- The only loading times in SA will occur when you enter a building.
- Carl Johnson and his gang will be able take over parts of map. Some parts of the map will require the gang, but other parts you can take over yourself. You must mantain your parts of the map or you will lose control of them.
- On bicycles, you can hold X to go at a constant speed or tap it to go faster. Wheelies are possible, but have not yet been explained.
- You can now strafe for cover.
- 35%-50% more polygons than VC.
- As CJ can get fat if you eat too much, he can also get skinny if you don't eat for a few days. He will become weak and his strength will suffer.
- As well as the already mentioned hair, physique and weight customizations, it's also possible customize CJ's driving skills, clothes, possessions, weapons skills, character, relationships and gang.
- The game will contain more mini games. (More info soon)
- If you become stuck in the game it will adjust its difficulty. The adjustments are minimal and barely noticible.
- The countryside outside of the 3 main cities will be incorporated into some missions.
- SA's heads-up display will be similar to VC's/GTA3's.
- The game's programmers have the aim of getting the game run at a constant 30 frames per second. For the most part this happens, but if there are lots of pedestrians and cars on the screen at once there is a mild frame rate dip.
- Distant objects will have less pop-up. Groups of trees will be rendered as one object from far away. When you get closer they will render separately.
- San Andreas' story will be 3 times longer than Vice City's.
- The right analog stick can be used to control CJ's point-of-view while running/walking.
- Carl can have 'stats'. If you drive around on a bike a lot, he will be a good bike driver, and so on.
- Four confirmed hairstyles include shaven/bald, dripping Jheri curls, an Afro and a flattop.
- You can also change your facial hair.
- Carl has the ability to attack enemies from behind.
- CJ can roll sideways during battle when you press a (currently unknown) button.
- You can now climb and pick up boxes.
- When CJ is hungry, a message will appear onscreen letting you know CJ needs to eat.
- When overweight, CJ will waddle like a penguin, struggle to breathe when standing still, and throw up his food. His reaction times when fighting will also be slower.
- Meals at Cluckin' Bell include: Cluckin' Big Filet Burger, Cluckin' Huge Double Filet, wings-pieces bucket and The Fowl Wrap Burrito.
- Meals at Well Stacked Pizza include: The Buster, The D-luxe, and The Double D-luxe.
- Meals at Burger Shot include: The Double Barreled Burger.
- On sitting down in Reece's barber shop, players can scroll through a list of haircuts, previewing each one until they find one they like. However, haircuts aren't cheap and cost $500.
- During a four-person drive-by, each gang member can have an independent target, and a car health meter is displayed on screen to show the damage which has been inflicted on the car.
- Achievements made during a mission will affect what leisure options are available to CJ.
- After the logo screen loads up, a large map pops up, with options for Select, Options, Audio and Display.
- Hitchhikers can be picked up.
- Some stats in the game include: Distance run, swam, driven in a car, riden on a motorbike, riden on a bike and weapon accuracy, etc.
- Further info on carjacking is that CJ will reach into the car, hit the driver and pull them out onto the road.
- You can now get tattoos at the tattoo parlor. Tattoos you can find in Los Santos include: guns, gang names, and women. Tattoos you can find in San Fierro include: Aztec symbols, drug iconography, and more. Finally, the tattoos in Las Venturra include: cards, dice, and much more. (Pic http://fivestarstuff.com/images/screenshots/screen83.jpg)
- You can workout in gyms and learn how to fight, or lose some pounds using the many workout options such as sparring with the locales in a boxing ring, or lifting some weights. (Pic here and here)
- Fighting an opponent in a boxing ring at Los Santos will teach CJ new punching combos, the ability to punch while running, and the ability to punch someone on the ground. In San Fierro, you can learn new fighting styles in the dojo, and learn to street fight in the broken down gym in Las Venturra.
- CJ can now block attacks from an opponent.
- Carl will automatically tread water regardless of the water conditions.
- Pressing forward on the left analog stick makes CJ slowly breaststroke without having any effect on your stamina.
- If you hold down X while breaststroking, CJ will start to freestyle. This is faster than breaststroke and does effect your stamina. Like sprinting on land. (Pic here)
- Pressing circle while swimming will make CJ dive underwater. (Pic here)
- If you dive under while someone is chasing you they will lose track of you.
- Swimming underwater can be done much like swimming on the surface. Once under, press X to make CJ swim.
- When you go underwater a "Breath-O-Meter" will come up, showing you how much oxygen CJ still has left in his lungs. If the meter gets to zero while you're still underwater, CJ will drown.
- If your vehicle falls into the water its appearance will warp slightly. Land objects viewed from underwater appear differently, too.
- CJ can get out of the water by simply swimming to the shore or grabbing onto a ledge if it is low enough to reach.
- CJ's clothing and haircut will affect the amount of respect the general population gives you.
- If you have CJ dressed sharply, the more respect he will receive from the city's citizens. For example, ladies will comment positively on CJ's appearance and rival gangs will be more weary of him.
- CJ starts the game in a regular pair of pants and a white t-shirt.
- Once you complete enough missions for a gang and earn their respect they will let you wear gang colors. (Pic here)
- If you are dressed in a gang's colors, police officers and other gangs will recognize you much easier.
- Clothing you buy will be kept at your safe house, so you can change back to an outfit without having to buy it again. You just have to go to your safe house, go to your closet and pick out what you want.
- Money is not always earned when completing a story mission.
- If you steal a moving truck, you can press R3 to start the robbery side missions.
- When robbing houses it is best to change your outfit and put on a ski mask or balaclava. (Pic here)
- Robbery missions can only take place during the night.
- You can steal things like stereos, VCR's and TV's. (Pic here)
- CJ has the ability to jump fences. (Pic here)
- When you put on a ski mask or balaclava you will enter a sneaking mode which makes you move more quietly than you usually would. (Pic here)
- A horizontal noise meter will come up as part of the game's hud. Moving slowly will keep the meter down.
- New audio technology is being used to make in-game audio sound more realistic. For example, hearing a conversation in another room could be hard to make out due to the building having solid walls. Also, when you are in a tunnel the game's sound will be louder.
- After you steal goods out of a house they can be loaded into your truck.
- The local 'fence' will be willing to buy all the stolen goods off you for cash.
- Basketball can be played to increase CJ's fitness. (Pic here)
Vehicle Information:
- Specialty vehicles can be unlocked.
- You can ride bicycles.
- The vehicle physics engine has changed to improve the handling system and open up other transportation possibilities.
- Cars can now become corroded.
- There's now more than one way to hijack a vehicle. (More details soon)
- Monster trucks don't have a handbreak, but switch to 4x4 steering mode when R1 is pressed. Also, thanks to its raised body, the Monster truck can drive through shallow rivers.
- You can detach and attach the trailer on the back of large trucks.
- The Police Helicopter contains a spotlight, which can be shot out.
- If you are too careless, you can jackknife the Linerunner if it has a trailer attached to it.
- When you are flying, the radar changes to show the game's horizon; making orientation easier.
- The camera can be pivoted around the vehicle for a better view.
- The ATV will handle much like a regular motorbike - you can shift CJ's weight around and do wheelies/stoppies.
- Cars can now get dirty, and will require visits to the Car Wash if you want to keep your vehicle in mint condition. Dirt will appear on and around the wheel wells and impact areas brought on by car accidents, and driving through parks and other sections with overhead filth sources will result in dust forming along your windshield and more.
- Pedestrian vehicles aren't always in perfect condition. You'll see them with broken windows, loose bumpers, and even bullet-riddled doors.
- The BMX can do stunts such as bunnyhops, wheelies, and endos, as well as 360's and 180's.
- Carjacking will no longer be as easy as grabbing someone out of their vehicle and throwing them out. But, never fear. CJ can "persuade" a pedestrian to leave their car by using attacks varying from punches and kicks, to smashing their face against the dashboard. (Pic here)
- You have to watch out when trying to run someone over, because they may grab hold of your fender and try and jack you.
- Police bikes will shoot out of their vehicles during a pursuit. If you manage to get past them, a Police Helicopter will shine it's spotlight on CJ, causing a blinding effect.
- You can crash your vehicle through destructible billboards.
- Los Santos' train system is called the Brown Steak railroad and it travels to all parts of the city. (Pic here)
- It's possible to jack boats while in the water. Stationary boats are easy to steal, but moving boats take good timing to steal.
- You can equip your car with nitro boost (and actually see the gas tanks in it.) When it is activated, your car will speed up and have a momentary blur effect to it. Similar to what is seen with the first car in this video of Need For Speed: Underground.
- As well as nitro, some garages let you pick the color and buy front and rear spoilers for your car. (New!)
Weapon Information:
- Many new weapons will be added and redesigned.
- You can dual wield pistols, and other weapons. (Pic here)
- The aiming system is completely revamped. When you target someone, green will be displayed if they have full health, yellow at half, and red if they can be killed in another shot.
- You can now lock onto enemies during a fist fight.
- It's possible to target headshots with standard weapons.
- You can now strafe left and right while locked onto someone (as well as strafing for cover - as mentioned earlier in the list).
- Holding down R1 results in a better chance of getting a headshot on your enemy. (Pic here)
Music Information:
- GTA: San Andreas will feature 3 times as much licensed music than Vice City.
- Country music will be included in the game.
These lists have been recently updated as of August 22th!
This message was edited by Michael13 on Aug 22 2004.
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Jul 17, 04 at 1:12am ^re: Official Listings
Please, if you have anything to add or fix, please reply in a post or pm me. Thank You and you may reply*.
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ultra seeker
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Jul 17, 04 at 1:16am ^re: Official Listings
f this is info, shouldn't it be in that thread. If it's rumours, shouldn't it be in the Rumors thread.
I bet you I'm wrong somehow.
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Jul 17, 04 at 1:20am ^re: Official Listings
Credit to ME and Fivestar.
You could've just posted the site link...
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Jul 17, 04 at 1:27am ^re: Official Listings
Sorry GTA.... But I meant reply to the pics I have shown and if you do want to add, please give me more pics and I'm sorry I didn't make the website what you wanted me to, I just jotted it down before posting-at least I gave credit, eh?
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Jul 17, 04 at 1:29am ^re: Official Listings
It's cool, man.
We've been ripped quite a few times, so I'm just cautious.
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Jul 17, 04 at 1:43am ^re: Official Listings
Do you like my thread though? If you add more pictures I'll add you to my official thank you list.
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Jul 17, 04 at 1:47am ^re: Official Listings
You forgot 3 guns in the list.
But yeah, of course I like the topic.
Heheh. But the question is.. do you like the site? =D
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Jul 17, 04 at 2:53am ^re: Official Listings
I updated the listings. Anyother comments are welcome.
Your website is absolutely stunning.
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Jul 17, 04 at 3:11am ^re: Official Listings
The Mac 10 and the Uzi are the same gun in those pics. There has been no pic of a mac 10 yet.
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Jul 17, 04 at 3:20am ^re: Official Listings
I see you don't have a picture for the AK-47. Isn't this it, from the official boxart?
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Jul 17, 04 at 3:28am ^re: Official Listings
Once we get a screenshot of this weapon, we will post it. Thank you.
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Jul 17, 04 at 3:45am ^re: Official Listings
Oh, Okay. I thought you might of wanted to use that picture from the boxart instead of one from a scan or something.
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Jul 17, 04 at 3:48am ^re: Official Listings
Mac 10? Where do they say that?
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Jul 19, 04 at 2:03am ^re: Official Listings
What are you talking about? They started out with the Moc 10, why would the not use it in San Andreas?
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A study says the number of abortions in Iowa hasn't risen since Planned Parenthood began a remote-control abortion pill distribution method in 2008.
The Des Moines Register reports that a study released Thursday by the American Journal of Public Health examined the number of abortions in the two years before and after the telemedicine abortions began in Iowa. The system lets women visit clinics and take pills administered by doctors after video conferences.
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Thanks, Sports Illustrated
…she says sarcastically.
Popped over to the Zo Zone earlier today, and saw that Sports Illustrated has seen fit to
curse honor Roy Halladay on the cover of the Baseball Preview issue.
Need I remind you all of Cole Hamels' season last year, after his cover appearance in February 2009?
I know, I know, there's no such thing as curses. Despite Hamels' subpar 2009, the Phils did still make it to the WS. Nonetheless, couldn't they have put, oh, Hanley Ramirez on the cover, or Johan Santana, or the Atlanta Braves team? I'd rather play it safe with this curse thing, you know?
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That SI curse is pretty bad, but if you follow the John Madden football game, that takes the cake. The even tried to use two players last year, Troy Polamulu and Larry Fitzgerald. Polamulu got hurt. Fitzgerald had a down year. The year before that they put a retired player on the cover, Brett Favre, so this couldn't happen. Favre ending up coming back to football but the Packers didn't want him.
Halladay is a curse to hitters himself, so I don't think that applies here.
This is part of my master plan to beat the Phillies! :::hahahaha:::: 😉
Oh no. Not the curse!! Stupid SI, they never learn. Hope Roy Halladay can break the curse… but not beat the Red Sox when we play you this season!! Good luck Roy!!
I hear you on the curse, but Mariano Rivera was on the cover last year and he had a great 2009. Put it out of your mind. Now!
Hey Sue!
I just noticed that my copy of SI has Matt Kemp in the upper top corner where you have CC.
Jeremy – I'm sure the whole "curse" thing is one of those self-fulfilling prophecies – if the player gets it in his head that now he's cursed, well then, he'll start playing like he's cursed. Hopefully Halladay won't let that kind of thing get to him.
Emma – Oh no, you have a master plan?? I better get working on mine!😉 As for the covers being different, I saw that Halladay is on nationally, but the smaller photo differs regionally – in the Southeast, Brian McCann is up in the corner.
Holly – I wonder if anyone's ever studied the actual effect of being on the cover of SI? How many athletes actually sucked after being there, and how many didn't – would be interesting to know.
Jane – You're right! As long as I put it out of my mind, and Halladay puts it out of his, there is no curse! It's all in the mind.
I agree…my stomach turned when I saw this yesterday. Then I got wind of Blanton going down, Lidge getting an injection….ugh. Just think happy thoughts :O)
Jenn – You and me both. And THEY weren't even on the cover!
Orangebird! You had to go and remind me about that – I was trying my best to follow Jane's advice and put it out of my mind.
You're forgetting when Ryan Howard was on the cover for the WS in '09 and it said "A-Rod+Howard=WORLD SERIES HOME RUN DERBY" So the Phillies aren't jinx proof.
SI jinx only works in odd years, so you see it's 2010 which is an even year and well the other reason nothing bad will happen is just because…..:-)
Outside the Phillies Looking In
I feel like Sports Illustrated once wrote an article about their curse, and the statistics of players and teams who falter when they're on the cover. But I don't remember what it said. Either way, if the curse is real, I have no problem seeing Doc on the cover. I'm glad Cliff Lee is out after the damage he did to us this last season, but I wasn't too happy to see Doc take his place..
There are all kinds of "supposed" curses that are to plague people in 2010, but hopefully they are just superstitious chatter and nothing else.
But Roy Halladay has been pretty dependable for a long time while he was in Toronto blue, but I do not see the red stripes or red stirrups messing with his mojo at all.
I actually think he is a small upside to Cliff Lee, but it would have been an awesome rotation if you could have had a Hamels. Lee Halladay 1-3 rotation.
Can you say massive series sweeps record in Philly.
But as long as you get Mr "Joe Lunchpail" Blanton back without further ado, Philly should again roll towards another N L East title.
Rays Renegade
Haha, Sue I understand what you're saying about curses. Roy Halladay is the man though. He is going to DOMINATE in the National League. Who knows, he's so awesome he might just lead the team in home runs too.
Well, Sue, the SI jinx hasn't hit Halladay yet. Looks like he might stay that way, also. Another CG for Mr. Roy–the 50th of his career, 150th win. Not too shabby. Congrats to Halladay!
Sue, no need to worry. SI puts out 30 of those covers. Some come out fine; others cursed. Ignore the curse thing…everything will be fine with Doc.
Oh, and countering the master plan that Emma has – as long as it stays in the NL…
You're worried about SI cursing Doc??
They have the Yankees Core Four on the cover this week!!
If this SI Curse thing is for real (I'm pretty superstitious with baseball, but not enough to believe in curses) then we (the Yankees) are pretty much screwed.
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Ginger wants to start a support group with Vi. Unfortunately, she is currently indisposed.ReplyDelete
Violet has certainly come a long way since the days behind the dryer. She's looking mighty relaxed and um, floppy.ReplyDelete
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adorable!!! i love it :)ReplyDelete
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So how's it going in Sandyland?
You may remember, prior to the election but after Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast, that the New York Times pronounced that "A Big Storm Requires A Big Government".
Of course, in the time since that pronouncement, we've seen "Big Government" show us that big bureaucracies are still just as unwieldy and unresponsive as they 've always been, regardless of attempts to build a myth to claim otherwise.
Or said another way, FEMA's response to Sandy has not been particularly impressive nor has it at all validated the New York Times editorial claim.
Of course, NE unions haven't covered themselves in glory either:
Barry Moline, executive director of the Florida Municipal Electric Association, said Long Island could have received 125 additional workers from utilities across Florida as soon as two days after the storm if a dispute about the letters had been resolved sooner. He said most of the crews from Florida who were available were nonunion and refused to join Local 1049 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, even if only temporarily.
Crews that could have come to Long Island went instead to Pennsylvania, Moline said. "We could have been there on Wednesday, and instead we arrived on Sunday," he said, after the union rescinded the requirement. [Emphasis added.]
But again, the story here is "Big Government" in general and FEMA – Big Government's representative – in particular. How has FEMA done? Not as well as you'd expect, given the supposed failures of Katrina and the claimed lessons learned from that storm. It appears those lessons are still being learned.
It took days for FEMA to hit the ground in hard-hit parts of NYC. More than a week after the storm, FEMA representatives were just getting on the ground and opening temporary offices in New Jersey. When a nor'easter blew in, several of their offices shut down because of— wait for it— severe weather.
Huh. A week after the storm? Where's the outcry?
Where are the news crews with weeping reporters telling us how horrible it is for the poor residents of Staten Island and spreading rumors about rape and murder? Nowhere to be seen.
But back to FEMA. FEMA is a bureaucracy, folks. A big bureaucracy. And big bureaucracies are neither responsive nor quick. It's just a fact of bureaucratic reality. Expecting that to change is, well, simply a denial of reality.
So, you read stories like this:
"FEMA hasn't done anything else. The inspector came out and he inspected the damage and that was it. He said he was going to forward it to his headquarters and I will hear from them, that's it." When asked if he has heard from anyone? Daily quickly responded, "No."
And remember the promise to cut red tape?
"You have to get a copy from your landlord saying that it was your living space," Jones said. "If you get denied (from flood insurance), get a letter in writing saying what (your insurance provider) won't cover. Then submit that letter to FEMA and FEMA can send an inspector to inspect your home."
In reality, it's even worse than that:
Over the weekend, a source (who wishes to remain anonymous) reported that contractors contracted—as well as, generators, water, and other supplies paid for—by FEMA are being idled at New York's Floyd Bennett Field by "red tape" requirements, while unions deploy their members and many storm victims sit in the dark.
While there are about 4,000 National Guardsmen at Bennett Field, there are hundreds of out-of-state contractors for FEMA, many of them linemen and electricians, that are not being deployed to help turn power pack on for residents because of the red tape.
On Sunday, out of the 400-500 workers available, according to the source, only three crews went out. Crews, he said, are usually two-man teams.
The union crews, the source stated, are free to come and go as they please, yet the non-union FEMA contractors are being held back because of red tape requirements.
The red-tape bottleneck, he said, comes from the Corps of Engineers. They get work orders in (places that need help), but the work orders don't come out as they should.
"I've never seen anything like it," the source said over the weekend.
On Sunday night, FEMA contractors put in one generator for a 14-floor building. Just one.
Immediately after the storm, beer maker Budweiser converted its beer lines in Georgia to produce water—44,000 cases of water. That water was trucked into the storm ravaged area, but much of it is still sitting as residents in across Brooklyn and in Far Rockaway, Queens continue to boil their water as of Saturday.
Even the NY Times hasn't been able to completely ignore the debacle:
Two weeks. Monday was the 14th day since Hurricane Sandy upended lives on the Eastern Seaboard, the longest two weeks of many people's lives. Plastic bottles. Warming buses. Charging stations. These are just a few of the signposts in a changed world. Help is coming, the people are told, but some have lost the desire to trust.
"I don't believe," said Lioudmila Korableva, 71, a resident of a darkened Coney Island building project filled with older people.
Meanwhile, smaller and more flexible and mostly private organizations have stepped in to try to make a difference.
Yup, a big storm needs a big government doesn't it?
Sandy again proves the point that such thinking is simply wishful and has no basis in real fact.
Meanwhile the press is on to sex and tittilation. The Obama/Sandy photo op has passed and so has their interest in following up on the disaster, even though the parallels are amazing:
So: late warnings, confused and inadequate responses, FEMA foul-ups and suffering refugees. In this regard, Sandy is looking a lot like Katrina on the Hudson. Well, things go wrong in disasters. That's why they're called disasters. But there is one difference.
Under Katrina, the national press credulously reported all sorts of horror stories: rapes, children with slit throats, even cannibalism. These stories were pretty much all false. Worse, as Lou Dolinar cataloged later, the press also ignored many very real stories of heroism and competence. We haven't seen such one-sided coverage of Sandy, where the press coverage of problems, though somewhat muted before the election, hasn't been marked by absurd rumors or ham-handed efforts to push a particular narrative.
But hey, pointing that out now would destroy the "big storms require big government" myth, would it? And besides, we all know the election's over. Screw the victims. The photo op is done. It's the preservation of the myth that's important.


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The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010: A long overdue correction to the DSHEA of 1994?
One of the themes of this blog has been how, over the last couple of decades, the law has been coopted by forces supporting "complementary and alternative" medicine (CAM) in order to lend legitimacy to unscientific and even pseudoscientific medical nonsense. Whether it be $120 million a year being spent for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) or attempts to insert provisions mandating that insurers in the government health care co-ops that would have been created by President Obama's recent health care reform initiative (which at the moment seems to be pining for the fjords, so to speak), the forces who do not want pesky things like regulation to interfere with their selling of pseudoscience have been very successful. Arguably the crown jewel of their legislative victories came in 1994, when the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) was passed. Demonstrating that pseudoscience is a bipartisan affair, the DSHEA was passed, thanks to a big push from the man who is arguably the most powerful supporter of quackery in government and the man most responsible for the creation of the abomination that is NCCAM, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), along with his partner in woo, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT). It should be noted that Harkin happens to be the recipient of large contributions from supplement manufacturer Herbalife, demonstrating that big pharma isn't the only industry that can buy legislation related to health.
Dr. Lipson has discussed the DSHEA before (calling it, in his own inimitable fashion, a "travesty of a mockery of a sham") as has a certain friend of mine. Suffice it to say that the DSHEA of 1994 is a very bad law. One thing it does is to make a distinction between food and medicine. While on its surface this is a reasonable distinction (after all, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to hold food to the same sorts of standards to which drugs are held), as implemented by the DSHEA this distinction has a pernicious effect in that it allows manufacturers to label all sorts of botanicals, many of which with pharmacological activity, as "supplements," and supplements, being defined as food and not medicine, do not require prior approval by the FDA before marketing:


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There is a quote attributed to Enrico Fermi on what characteristics were common to Nobel Prize winners: "I can't think of a single one. Not even intelligence." While there's no solid evidence he really said that (people have attributed it to two different pages of an old physics journal), I like to believe he did because it's humorously bitchy. Oh no you din'nt, father of the nuclear reactor!
"Oh I went there."
The point is, geniuses tend to only be geniuses on one subject. Just as you don't ask Peyton Manning for soccer tips, you don't ask a veterinarian to do your prostate exam. And you really don't want to ask William Shockley about genetics.
4William Shockley
Prize: Physics
Talked Out Of His Ass About: Genetics
William Shockley was probably named by the same people that write Batman comics, because he invented the transistor.
Rejected names: John Electron, Brian Semiconductor.
The transistor became the basis of a new invention called the "computer" which I suspect those of you reading this may be familiar with.
After a failed attempt at running a business, he became a professor at Stanford, which was more than happy to take on a Nobel Prize winner. While he enjoyed the job, he apparently had way too much spare time to think about non-physics related things. Like eugenics.
He decided that intelligence is determined by our genes, which most people agree is partially true. Then he decided that black people had less of these good genes, and it all went to hell. Highlights of his self-destructing career path include a Senate campaign on the platform of sterilizing people with sub-100 IQs, and becoming the only Nobel Prize winner to answer a call for donations to a superbaby sperm bank.
According to IMDB, he also played a rapist in Showgirls. Movie makeup is amazing these days!
Robert Graham, the founder of the sperm bank, sent out invitations to 25 or so Nobel Prize winners as part of a mission to encourage reproduction of the best and brightest before the world was flooded with morons. Three actually participated but none admitted it except for Shockley, who also added that the Nobel winners that refused to donate should be ashamed. Graham advertised his... product... as a selection of "the choicest genes... above average is not enough." For some reason, the public responded negatively to this, forcing Shockley to, uh, pull out, so to speak. Someone out there was buying though, because the bank stayed in business for 19 years.
And who could blame him for wanting to spread his sexy superhero genes?
As he saw it, all the hubbub was because everyone was misunderstanding his views, blowing it out of proportion when he said innocent things like, "If you found a breed of dog that was unreliable and temperamental, why shouldn't you regard it in a less favorable light?" Communication issues aside, he literally did want to reduce the black population and sterilize low-IQ people, and all his care in selecting interviewers and tape-recording every conversation did nothing to clear up the "misunderstandings" he thought were causing his problems.
How did this affect his career? Well, Stanford really didn't do anything about it except let him keep on keeping on, even making him a professor emeritus when he retired (about 10 years after he started airing his views on eugenics). That's Latin for a retired professor who is so awesome that he will be given an honorary title for the rest of his life and will always have a home at Stanford.
Yes, it's really called Leland Stanford Junior University. One of the more useful facts I learned at Berkeley.
The protection of Stanford aside, very few others wanted anything to do with Shockley as the years went by. He died an outcast, which is a little sad considering those who knew him paint a picture of a guy who was not a horrible man, but just... really clueless about anything that was not a transistor.
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Prize: Chemistry
Talks Out Of His Ass About: Everything Else
On the other hand, Kary Mullis, 1993 chemistry Nobel Prize winner, is by all accounts a dick.
First his accomplishments: He invented a process called PCR, which is every bit as important to biology as the transistor is to computers. You're not here for a biology lesson, but without PCR, we basically wouldn't be able to study DNA. That also means we wouldn't have the CSI shows, so, was it worth it? You decide.
Kary Mullis is directly responsible for this. Directly responsible.
All right, now for his dickishness: Mullis feels that figuring out how to copy a molecule that has been copying itself since life began apparently qualifies him to say that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. What does cause AIDS? Maybe promiscuous gay sex, says Mullis. That causes gay men to become breeding grounds for a mass of viruses which somehow trigger an "immune chain reaction."
Instead of ignoring the crazy old man, mainstream media outlets like Spin and ABC's Nightline eagerly gave him a platform to yak on about his ideas.
Far from the only questionable decision Spin has made.
In the Spin interview, which introduces him to readers as a "rebel genius," he explains why we shouldn't pay attention to things we can't see, like molecules, but instead pay attention to things we can see, like gay orgies:
"People who sit there and talk about it don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so. You don't need to look that far. You don't discover the cause of something like AIDS by dealing with incredibly obscure things. You just look at what the hell is going on. Well, here's a bunch of people that are practicing a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion."
Left: science. Right: hogwash.
And still some people can only see the Nobel Prize. When places like Saddleback College (not related to the church) keep inviting him to ramble about whatever the hell he wants for an hour or two, it makes a guy like Mullis think that whatever he says must be important.
When a student at the Saddleback lecture pointed out that he was a not a biologist or a doctor but a chemist, the Nobel laureate rebutted him with the irrefutable argument, "And you're a little boy!"
Left: How Mullis thinks he comes across (from his book). Right: How Mullis actually comes across.
Even now, he's still got videos on TED, a non-profit foundation dedicated to spreading "ideas worth spreading" that features speakers like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Bill Gates, Bono and Nobel Prize winners like Mullis. TED mentions that Mullis invented PCR and surfs and seems to skim over a few other things.
Reviewers and biographers often latch on to his contrarian nature and his enjoyment of drugs, womanizing, and surfing to paint him as some kind of cool rock star rebel instead of a half-lucid old guy addicted to feeling more special than everyone else. When a regular old guy surfs, parties, drives fast cars, and goes to strip clubs, we shake our heads and say, "Mid-life crisis." Add a Nobel Prize and suddenly other people start acting like he's so cool for doing things stuffy old scientists aren't supposed to do.
It's like how people don't pay any attention if you pull into a parking space properly, but when they see you were a woman, they start clapping.
Some people suggest his heavy LSD use when he was younger might be contributing to his... eccentricity. Whatever the cause, Kary Mullis is the poster child for not assuming a Nobel Prize is a qualification for anything.


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I recently remembered that I had started one of these a while back and then kind of lost track of it. I'd like to try again.
So, for me, as I've mentioned a few times, I've stopped buying prepared foods and I'm making it all from scratch. As in, rice, pasta and potato sides. (DH found some rice a roni etc in the box for the food pantry and made me take them out because he doesn't want to waste the money, but there are only a couple left, so I'll just use them up.)
DH (dear husband) had been complaining that we were in a rut, eating the same ol' things over and over this winter, so I started mixing it up and using a lot of Pinterest recipes etc. A lot of them have come out really well. But they all seem to be kind of asian tasting. Teriyaki and soy sauce based for a lot of them. So this week I decided to try some other things... I've made some really disgusting dinners this week! So, maybe he won't be as upset next time I make boring old shepherd's pie! LOL.
I'd like to learn more about the Paleo diet.
And last but not least, I want to run a 5K this summer. If I could, I'd have already started training, but I don't have a gym membership, and the roads are icy and cold. So once spring has sprung and it's warm enough and safe enough to run on the roads, I'll be taking a daily walk/run. If nothing else there's a 5K nearby in August. There are a few in May and June, but I know I won't be ready by then. I'm going to be doing the "Couch to 5K" program, that takes about 2 months. I'm not a runner, have never been a runner, but I NEED to get fit. And I like the idea of running a 5K. An accomplishment, you know?


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Consumer Reports looked at 14 cribs costing between $160 and $800.
Each crib is inspected and measured to make sure it adheres to federal guidelines.
Testers make sure the crib slats are close enough together so that little arms and
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pulled—you know, all that pushing and pulling from a growing baby. All of the cribs met
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Another test simulates a baby's repeated bouncing and jumping to see how well the
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You don't need to spend a fortune to get a good, sturdy crib. Consumer Reports found
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The Delta Venetian Convertible Sleigh 3-in-1, $160
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Ohio Northern University's Department of Education and the Center for Teacher Education will present "The Heart of a Teacher" in the forum of James F. Dicke Hall on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow in the atrium of Dicke Hall.
Guest speakers Stephanie Carr, a 2005 ONU graduate, and Joe Virant, a 2003 ONU graduate, will speak on their personal experiences and focus on "taking a hand, opening a mind and touching a heart." The purpose of the event is to engage and inspire prospective students, teacher candidates, local educators and ONU faculty.
Carr, who earned her Bachelor of Arts in English/language arts and German education, was voted the 2013 teacher of the year at Wright Middle School in Nashville, Tenn. The school is located in an urban, high-poverty environment where 70 percent of the student population does not speak English in their homes. Earning her master's degree from Vanderbilt, Carr was a presenter at the national conference of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of Mountain T.O.P. (Tennessee Outreach Project).
Virant, who was voted the 2006 teacher of the year at Katy Independent School District in Houston, Texas, taught fifth-grade language arts and social studies and eighth-grade U.S. history from 2003-07. In 2007, he supported 200 teachers as an instructional technology facilitator and, in 2009, became an IT coordinator and led mobile learning projects with more than 2,000 students on Android platform devices. He also was a conference presenter for Texas Computer Education Association, International Society for Technology in Education, and Texas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.


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He looked at this hand and watched what others were discarding. He knew the odds of whether a discard and a pickup would improve his hand and only made a move when the odds were in his favor. He didn't bluff and never bet against the odds.
Invest the same way. Know the odds. Let's see what the odds are today.
My proxy for the market is the Value Line Index . The index is 1,700 stocks -- about 95% of the entire U.S. stock market capitalization and the Index is an arithmetic not a logarithmic index. All stocks are equally weighted. Most of you invest with the given numbers of stocks equally weighted so that's why I like the Index over say the weighted S&P 500 .
I graph the index like a stock and as you can see, this Barchart graph of the hourly computed index over the last month does not have a defined momentum:
If I look at the Index like a stock here is what I find.
Technical indicators provided by Barchart :16% Barchart long-term sell signal 80% Barchart short-term sell signal Trend Spotter sell signal Trading below its 20- and 50-day moving average 2.66% off for the last 30 days Relative Strength Index is 44.66% -- I like above 50% Barchart computes a technical support level at 2949.17 Closed last night at 3012.47, which is below its 50-day moving average of 3055.90
Other market indicators :
Wednesday 67.06% of the stocks closed below their 20-day moving averages and while 202 stocks hit new highs for the month 1183 hit new monthly lows. If that's not enough 390 shares advanced while 3,485 declined.
Conclusion: I'm not a market timer but I do pay attention to the market's trend. I'll never time the top and the bottom of the market but I should be able to tell when the market is 10% off it's top or 10% off its bottom.
If I can sense the 80% in between and stay on the right side of the market, I'll be happy.
My advice right now is to trim off the positions that are not performing properly and accumulate cash until you decided its time to get back into the pool. I want to see the Value Line Index trading above its 20-, 50- and 100-day moving average, have a Trend Spotter buy signal and support from the 14-day turtle channel. He is where we stand at the moment: