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Plan Bay Area announces regional open house meetings
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, March 28, 2013, 11:43 AM
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a resident of Danville
on Mar 28, 2013 at 4:29 pm
What BS.
a resident of Danville
on Mar 29, 2013 at 6:37 am
When you read things like, several regional governing boards, this means those non-elected non-profit groups that feed off of taxpayers dollars while believing they have this view and plan that is better than anything you could come up with because they are smarter and know what you need. This is ABAG, Bay Area Air Quality Management District (the fireplace police), Bay Conservation and Development Commission and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. The community of Corte Madera had the insight and courage to leave ABAG for example as they desired to have local control over their city and not be mandated to conform to the grand vision of, "One Bay Area". Citizens of Danville can opt our of this insanity or stay and pay big bucks to the toads that will tell you exactly what you need to do and how to do it. Remember they know better and are smarter than you.
a resident of Danville
on Mar 29, 2013 at 7:00 am
These meetings are rigged. If you show up and try to give any criticism of the plan or ask any real questions like "How much is this going to cost us?" they will not answer you and will try to shut you down. Most of the people who attend are paid shills and stakeholders who will benefit from this plan passing. The public has been shut out of this process from the start. These meetings are just window dressing so that the corrupt MTC and ABAG folks can say that they gave the public a chance to give input about the plan. The input is NEVER used and does not matter. The plan has already been decided upon.
If you want to object you need to go to the county recorders office and file a declaration opposing this plan saying "I do NOT consent". Then you need to formally deliver this declaration to the agencies MTC and ABAG. Many people need to do this.
a resident of Danville
on Mar 29, 2013 at 10:34 am
How much money and time has been spent on this plan (Plan Bay Area)?
Where exactly did this money (or time) come from?
This is all very WRONG (regardless of the intent or the ideas generated)! The "means" are wrong!
We need to demand/petition:
That our City councils get out of these agencies (that our cities not contribute to or participate with these agencies),
That our individual politicians do NOT participate on their boards/committees or meetings. (Councilmember Robert Storer needs to immediately RESIGN from ABAG), and
That our cities do not listen or adhere to their resulting mandates (ignore the requirements and PUBLICLY REFUSE THE MONEY and SUE them for discriminatorially granting it to other cities).
We need some politicians with backbone and POLITICAL MORALS.
a resident of Danville
on Mar 29, 2013 at 11:05 am
Take a look at the website for One Bay Area as everyone should in Danville as we are part of this thanks to our City Council. Its at Web Link Watch the video and see the members of other City Councils and folks on these organizations. These are stepping stone organizations for those that have designs on higher political office. They just use the people that are their constituents to climb the ladder at our peril. the people of Danville need out of ABAG just like Corte Madera did. Maybe we should have a town hall meeting and invite some folks from that community to describe to us why they left ABAG and how they accomplished this.
a resident of Danville
on Mar 29, 2013 at 5:58 pm
There are so many regional bay area organizations and government groups that are determined to take away property rights that you'll go crazy trying to follow what they are up to. Check out the organization Citizens Alliance for Property Rights, their website www.bayarealiberty.org or firstname.lastname@example.com. Maybe one of their representatives will come to speak to Danville residents to get the "other side of the story." This is the side that that ABAG, One Bay Area and MTC do not want you to hear. These groups are against self government - they want to control what goes on in each town and city so that their plans are implemented and usually to the detriment of its residents. Its your community not theirs.
a resident of Danville
on Apr 1, 2013 at 9:50 am
The right wing nutbags who reliably post inanity on these fora crack me up. Complaining about "non-elected outsiders", etc.
Are you folks so totally ignorant (and incapable of even minimal research into these things you're so outraged about) that you don't know that ABAG is an organization ***composed of elected officials*** from the various cities and counties in the Bay Area?
And do you believe that there's absolutely no reason why an elected Danville official should meet regularly with elected officials from San Ramon, Dublin... even <gasp> Oakland or San Mateo County to discuss things like traffic, public transit, air pollution, water pollution? Do you think traffic stops at the city limit? Do you think what Alameda County does about traffic doesn't affect our lives? Or that air and water pollution don't cross county lines?
PSM and Dee, the reason they ignore you is because you're ignorant. Sorry, but that's the simple truth. County Recorder? Sue? Seriously?
And Louise, the only people around here I see threatening personal property rights are the "Stop Summerhill" folks, who want to deny that property owner the right to build the number of houses on his/her/its property that are already authorized by existing law.
This is simply elected officials doing what elected officials are supposed to do. If you folks think you know better, etc. - run for office. Run on your platform of withdrawing from ABAG and all other regional efforts to coordinate planning about traffic, pollution, transportation, housing, etc. Put it out there for the voters.
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On the mound, Mark Buehrle is in control at all times and expertly manages the pace of every game he pitches.
But the White Sox ace was caught off guard when his wife, Jamie, surprised him with a custom motorcycle as a remembrance of the perfect game he pitched against Tampa Bay in July. On Thursday, on an episode of the Learning Channel's "American Chopper," viewers saw Paul Teutul Sr., owner of Orange County Chopper, wheel the bike up Buehrle's driveway during a backyard barbeque.
"I didn't really know what was going on at first," Buehrle, as reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, said on the show. "This is probably the most surprised I've ever been in my life. I mean, other than when [I found out] my wife was pregnant with my first kid."
The black-and-chrome chopper features a catcher's mitt seat, chrome baseball-studded rims, a deer-skull gas cap and Buehrle's No. 56. The word "Perfect" flashes in yellow lights with a backlit box score from the perfect game on the motorcycle's belt cover.
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Wood returns to Chicago for charity event: Kerry Wood and his wife, Sarah, spent last Thursday back in Chicago, hosting the Champions for Children's event at the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago.
They were joined at the event by players from both the Cubs and White Sox.
"It's a great cause, and Kerry asked me," White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski told MLB.com, speaking of his reason for coming in from Florida to attend. "[Wood] lives pretty close to us in Chicago and I've known him over the years. They also are honoring [White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf], and you can't say no when they are honoring your owner, the guy who writes your checks every two weeks."
Hunter to undergo surgery for hernia: After playing with a sports hernia for half of the 2009 season, Torii Hunter was scheduled for surgery on Monday.
Hunter first injured his groin when he crashed into an outfield wall. The injury forced him to the disabled list for five weeks starting in July.
"It was getting better after the season, but it was going so slow, I decided to get it checked out," Hunter told the Los Angeles Times.
"They said 95 percent of these surgeries are completely successful, and if all goes well, this should never bother me again," Hunter said.
Halama wants to reunite in Milwaukee with former coaches: The Brewers sent scouts to watch John Halama pitch for Aguilas in the in the Dominican Winter League. In six starts, Halama is 3-2 with a 1.66 ERA with 21 strikeouts and only two walks.
Halama, 37, wants to reunite with new Brewers pitching coach Rick Peterson and manager Ken Macha. The trio was together in Oakland in 2003.
"He really wants to pitch for the Brewers," agent Joe Rosario told brewers.com. "He would love to reunite with both Macha and Peterson."
A Major League veteran who pitched for seven teams from 1998-2006, the left-handed Halama last pitched in the Majors with Baltimore in 2006. In his career, Halama is 56-48 with a 4.65 ERA.
Gonzalez's services get new look: Free agent Mike Gonzalez has switched agents and is now represented by Scott Boras.
"His abilities are extraordinary," Boras told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "The key thing is how to keep his abilities on the field for a long time and for a lot of years."
"He's got a big [free-agent] market," Boras said. "When you look at his true save opportunities in the closer role, it's 85 percent [for his career]. Teams need closers, and this guy is coming off a great year. And a lot of teams also want that quasi-setup guy with closer capabilities."
Heilman traded to Arizona: The Diamondbacks acquired Aaron Heilman from the Cubs for two Minor League players. Heilman was 4-4 with a 4.11 ERA and one save last season in 70 games.
"He's a pedigree guy," Arizona general manager Josh Byrnes told MLB.com. "A former first-round pick with a lot of success in the Major Leagues. He's someone we feel will really strengthen our bullpen."
Jakubauskas picked up by Pirates: The Mariners removed Chris Jakubauskas from their 40-man roster and the Pirates scooped up the 30-year old, who went 6-7 with a 5.32 ERA in his rookie season last year.
"It's kind of bittersweet news," Jakubauskas told the Seattle Times. "The Mariners called me today and told me what they'd done and my first thought was 'Wow, I hope I get claimed.' Then the next thing they told me was that I'd been claimed by the Pirates."
"They gave me my first shot and got me in the business," Jakubauskas said. "I'll always be grateful for that. They took a chance on an older guy, and a lot of teams wouldn't have done that."
Grabow back with Cubs: Calling the decision a "no-brainer," John Grabow agreed on a new contract last week to stay with the Cubs and says he will be ready for anything when the 2010 season gets underway.
"The baseball season will bring you down to your knees more than once every year," Grabow told MLB.com. "You have to be tough mentally. You just have to roll with it and have quick memories. That's something I can help this team with, with the younger guys."
Englebrook, three others added to Astros roster: The Houston Astros purchased the contracts of Evan Englebrook, Matt Nevarez and Henry Villar and signed Minor League free agent Jose Valdez. The Astros added all four to the 40-man roster, which now has 37 players on it, ahead of Friday's deadline. Englebrook, Nevarez, Villar and Valdez will all be in the Major League camp next spring.
"First of all, the kids from within the organization all have earned the opportunity," Houston general manager Ed Wade told MLB.com. "Englebrook has been in the organization for a while. There's been somewhat of an ongoing discussion with regards to protecting him on the roster, and the prevailing sentiment was he's made a lot of progress the way he pitched during the season and also in the Arizona Fall League."
Englebrook was 3-1 with nine saves and a 4.25 ERA in 30 relief appearances last season between Double-A Corpus Christi and Triple-A Round Rock. Villar pitched in 43 games, including three starts, for Class A Lexington, going 3-4 with five saves and a 2.60 ERA. Valdez spent last season in the New York Yankees organization, splitting time between Double-A Trenton and Triple-A Scranton.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Considering a major chunk of the Black money stays with politicians....... I don't think we will be seeing a solution to this problem anywhere in the near future.
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Happy Easter to all!
Fans are making their way through the gates at Hadlock Field on this Sunday afternoon…right now temps are in the 30's and the mid is blowing out…should be an interesting day!
Some notes for you all!
The Sea Dogs and Connecticut Defenders wrap up their 4-game series with a 1:00
PM start on Easter Sunday…Today's game is the only scheduled game in the
Eastern League due to the rest of the league opening their 2009 season on
Wednesday night…Portland remains home on Monday night to host the New Britain
Rock Cats (Twins affiliate)…The Connecticut Defenders continue their 7-game roadtrip
at New Hampshire before returning home on Thursday for their opener.
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Travis Beazley was roughed up in his
Double-A debut, surrendering six runs on seven hits in 4.2 IP…Beazley yielded
back-to-back homers to RF Eddy
Martinez-Esteve and Adam Witter
in the fifth….Connecticut received 4 RBI from DH Andrew D'Alessio and 2 RBI from Martinez-Esteve and Witter…Portland's
offense came right away in the first inning on 3B Jorge Jimenez's 2-run single to left field…C Juan Apodaca added an RBI single and CF Josh Reddick blasted a solo-homer for the second straight game.
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Discussion in 'TW Questions/Comments' started by mad dog1, Sep 10, 2013.
Will the winners of the TW 2013 US Open bracket be contacted? Thanks!
mad dog1,
Yes, the winners will be contacted in the next couple days.
Brittany, TW
Thanks, Brittany!
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Is Jason out of the office? I emailed him with my selections on Sept 16, but haven't heard back yet. Thanks.
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Brittany, TW
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Landon Donovan's hat trick in the LA Galaxy's 3-3 against FC Dallas earned him MLS Player of the Week honors, MLS announced.
The North American Soccer Reporters voted Donovan as Player of the Week, making him the second LA Galaxy player to win the honors this season. The first was Mike Magee when he tallied a hat trick against his current club, the Chicago Fire in the first week of the season.
Let's look at just how impressive Donovan's night was, shall we?
*Donovan had just three shots and scored three goals. He's the first player to score in all of his shots since Dewayne De Rosario on Sept. 2011. Interestingly enough, three of Donovan's came during game's where he scored on all three of his shots.
*Donovan has now scored 20 goals against FC Dallas. His highest against any club.
*Donovan now has 152 career goals in MLS (counting postseason and regular season).
*At 130 regular season goals, he's just FIVE goals away from setting a new MLS regular season record, which is currently held by Jeff Cunningham.
*Donovan now has four career hat tricks in MLS – three of them as a member of the Galaxy—which puts him just one hat trick away from tying the league's all-time mark of five, which is shared by Stern John and Diego Serna.


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will be served. For more information call (410) 617-3629.
Monday, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. — The More Wisdom Alanon group meets at
380 E. Haskell.
Monday, 7 p.m. — Desert Twisters square dancers meet at the Baptist
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Monday, 5:30 p.m. — Humboldt County Chamber of Commerce board
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Tuesday — The club meets every Tuesday and is open to women of all
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Tuesday, 10 a.m. — The Humboldt County Library hosts Story Time for
preschoolers in the Children's Library. The group also does a craft.
For more information call 623-6388.
Tuesday, noon — The Winnemucca Ministerial Association sponsors a
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Coal Exports Help Developing Countries Advance (UPI)
Coal exports save lives here and abroad
By TOM TANTON, UPI Outside View Commentator
LINCOLN, Calif., April 4 (UPI) — The governors of Oregon and Washington have asked for unprecedented "life-cycle impact" analysis of five planned export terminals and the cargo being transported through them before the Army Corps of Engineers issue permits.
In particular, the governors have asked that the emissions effects of burning coal outside the United States be evaluated for global climate change impacts. The expanded terminals would export others goods, such as grain to food-starved regions.
Thousands of high-paying construction jobs are at stake in a region where construction jobs are at their lowest point in a decade.
The permitting process for new projects — a process that takes on average 3 1/2 years and way longer than global averages — would become completely unmanageable if the evaluations were expanded to require the type of review the two governors are calling for.
Even the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, responsible for conducting Environmental Impact Studies, indicated they may not explore a study so unnecessarily broad.
Furthermore, last week the U.S. Senate voted to "expedite exports from the United States through reform of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in such a manner that greenhouse gas emissions produced outside the Unites States by any good exported from the United States are not subject to the requirements of that Act."
That same act requires that "alternatives" to projects be evaluated, including the "no project" alternative.
What the governors fail to acknowledge is the probable impacts of the most likely alternative, if the terminals are delayed or stopped due to the expansive of review they call for.
Coal remains an important part of the affordable energy equation in the United States and globally. In 2011, 42 percent of electricity in the United States came from coal, 41 percent globally, and approximately one-third of the Puget Sound's. Access to affordable energy is essential to energy diversification for U.S. allies.
Modern society's appetite for electrical power is huge and still growing, while the developing world's electricity appetite is growing even faster.
As Japan moves away from nuclear, estimates show the Japanese will increase their coal use 50 percent next year. Developing countries in particular need access to affordable, modern energy to improve their quality of life. Providing electricity improves a countries economy, lowers mortality and ultimately leads to more environmentally capable populations as basic subsistence needs are met.
Continued scavenging of wood harms forests and burning kerosene leads to indoor air pollution and high carbon dioxide.
Powder River Basin coal is superior to coal from other potential sources in Asia and definitely superior to burning biomass, kerosene or rainforest products, by any metric. However, those archaic energy forms, or dirtier coal, will be used more if the export terminals are delayed. Poverty is the worst polluter.
In developing countries, women and children spend the better part of their day gathering fuel to cook meals and they are denied nighttime light. Providing them electricity frees them from such drudgery and allows more time in the day — for education and other improvement opportunity. Denying electricity for these people, by denying them access to affordable electricity generating fuels like coal is, frankly, inhumane.
Approval of the terminals and the export of U.S. products serve valuable and necessary global needs. And in doing so, will provide billions of dollars in private investments to grow U.S. exports of other products, such as grain and timber.
Jobs at home and abroad will be created and improve the quality of life everywhere. Greenhouse gas emissions will likely be lower than without the terminals, as other countries rely on dirtier coal and more "traditional" fuels.
They should be approved, without extraordinary analysis not called for under existing law.
(Tom Tanton is president of T² & Associates. Tanton has 40 years of energy and technology policy experience, having served as principal policy adviser at the California Energy Commission and general manager at Electric Power Research Institute.)
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Courtesy of Shirts & Destroy: Shirts & Destroy's first retail store, located at 293 Manhattan Ave. in Brooklyn, NY will officially be open to the public on September 9th, 2011. This brick and mortar store has been a long time in the making, and what was once an old social club in Brooklyn is now a storefront housing some of the finest shirts, prints and other merchandise from the most forward-thinking artists, metal / punk bands and tattooers from around the globe. Some of S&D's current contributors include world-renowned artists like Thomas Hooper, Chris O'Donnell, Florian Bertmer, Christopher Conn, Arik Roper, Aaron Horkey, Mike Rubendall, Seldon Hunt, Mario Desa, Aye Jay, Justin Bartlett, Timothy Hoyer and bands like Gallows, Cave In, SunnO))), Kvelertak, Isis, Boris, Disfear, Pelican, Integrity, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Nachtmystium, Watain, Doomriders and more. Their merchandise, along with other exclusive items, will be available at the Shirts & Destroy store along with material from countless other artists under the S&D umbrella. Read More »
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Somalia: Security Council agrees on short extension for mandate of African Union peacekeepers
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The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of the international peacekeeping force providing support to the Government of Somalia in its efforts to bring peace and stability to the Horn of African country.
"Noting the exceptional circumstances in New York City arising from Hurricane Sandy," the Council said in a resolution adopted in a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, adding that it recognised in "those exceptional circumstances, the need for a short extension of the mandate of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM)."
While most meetings at UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this week had been cancelled due to the impact of Hurricane Sandy – which caused death and destruction throughout the Caribbean region and the eastern US – Council members briefly met on Wednesday to discuss AMISOM's mandate, which was set to expire on 31 October.
Created and operated by the African Union Peace and Security Council in January 2007, AMISOM received a UN mandate from the world body's Security Council the following month, and has been renewed ever since.
With close to 10,000 peacekeepers, it is mandated to conduct peace support operations in Somalia, which has been affected by conflict for more than two decades.
In its unanimously adopted resolution, the Council, acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, said it had determined that the situation in Somalia continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security in the region, and "decides to authorize the Member States of the African Union to maintain the deployment until 7 November 2012."
Chapter VII of the Charter allows the Council to use force in the face of a threat to peace or aggression, taking "such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security," including blockades and other operations by the forces of Member States.
After decades of factional fighting and lawlessness, the East Africa country has been undergoing a peace and national reconciliation process, with a series of landmark steps in recent months that have helped to bring an end to the country's nine-year political transition period. These steps included the adoption of a Provisional Constitution, the establishment of a new Parliament and the appointments of a new President and a new Prime Minister.
Until last year, most of the country's capital, Mogadishu, was, for several years, riven by a fluid frontline dividing the two sides – fighters belonging to the Al-Shabaab militant group and troops belonging to the Government of Somalia, with the latter supported by AMISOM.
Since the Al-Shabaab withdrawal from the capital in August last year, the frontlines have been pushed back to surrounding areas. In late September, Al-Shabaab insurgents withdrew from the port city of Kismayo, their last remaining stronghold located a sizable urban area, but still control parts of the country's south-central areas.
Although the Al-Shabaab has now dispersed into a "rag-tag militia," it has nonetheless, embarked on more asymmetrical, terrorist and hit-and-run tactics as it occasionally does in Mogadishu, according to the Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS), Augustine P. Mahiga.
Addressing the Council earlier this month, Mr. Mahiga said that the security situation in Somalia has "vastly improved," thanks to the continuing efforts of AMISOM, as well as Ethiopian forces and the Somali Government and its local allied forces.
He said it was essential that AMISOM is supported to control more effectively the coastal waters around Mogadishu, Marka, Baraawe and Kismayo, in order to protect its own forces, supply lines, interrupt Al-Shabaab re-supply lines and effectively secure the ports for commercial use.
The African Union has informed the Council that, working together with the UN, it intends to undertake a thorough assessment of AMISOM and how best it can contribute to the stabilization of Somalia in light of the gains made on the ground and the challenges ahead.
Also, earlier this week, Mr. Mahiga condemned, in the "strongest terms," the latest killing of another media worker in Mogadishu.
The latest victim was a playwright and comedian for the Kulmiye News Network, Warsame Shire Awale, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen, according to an UNPOS news release.
"This has been the deadliest year for journalists and media workers in Somalia" Mr. Mahiga noted. "The latest killing raised the number of Somali media professionals killed in 2012 to 18."
On Sunday, a journalist and producer with Radio Shabelle, Mohamed Mohamud Turyare, died as a result of wounds inflicted on 21 October when he was shot in a similar attack.
"I strongly condemn the targeted and persistent assault on Somalia's media professionals. The world is concerned that none of these murders have resulted in conclusive arrests, investigations and due process or convictions of suspects," Mr. Mahiga said.
He added, "We renew our offer to facilitate assistance to the Government in addressing impunity and urge the Somali public to assist the Government by providing information, which will expose perpetrators of these violent acts to law enforcement agencies.


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The shadows in the rain.
Shadows in the Rain
I can hear them whisper,
The shadows in the rain.
Telling me how it might have been,
Never letting me forget the pain.
Showing me the future,
The future of the past.
Laughing at the fool,
Who dared hope that it might last.
Those days are gone forever,
I should just let them go.
I'm not sure how to do it,
But I think the shadows know.
How do you kill your dreams?
How do you ease the pain?
I think that they could teach me,
The shadows in the rain.


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Friends Hanging Basket Sale [1]
Our Friends group will hold their annual Mother's Day Hanging Basket sale in our parking lot on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11.
Pre-sale orders will be taken from March 18 until April 8. Order forms are available at the library or from Friends President Kary Shonk. Payment is due at the time of the order. Order forms and payment should be returned to the library. The names from all pre-order slips will be put into a drawing for a free hanging basket.
Missed the pre-sale dates? There will be plenty of plants to choose from the day of the sale. Friday times are 9 am - 5:30 pm. Saturday we will be open from 9 am until sold out.
Proceeds from the sale help to fund the library's popular summer reading program.


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There's no doubt that Rihanna is a style chameleon; she takes risks left and right and switches up her look with each new album. Her latest editorial for the December 2010 issue of Interview — shot by Mikael Jansson — pays tribute to the singer's sartorial fearlessness. She is the queen of her Parisian castle, surrounded by beautiful flowers and draped in Chanel, Jil Sander, and Louis Vuitton. The spread also features some serious statement accessories — I am loving the giant agate earrings, gold cuff bracelets, and bedecked leather harness — and Rihanna wears each piece like a total diva. Step inside to view all of the stunning shots.
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The 2012 Hi-Hills Day Camp Teen Travel Program February 24, 2012
Traditionally the Hi-Hills Teen Travel Program creates a great deal of excitement with our oldest campers. Besides the obvious appeal of action packed day trips and water parks, The Teen Travel Program has become a rite of passage. Many campers join our Hi-Hills community from an early age (as young as 3 years old) and wait patiently for this opportunity and privilege.
Our Teen Travel program is unique in a number of ways, but above all for our scheduling. Teen Travel Campers spend 3 days a week (Tues-Thurs) traveling on exciting day trips. Monday and Friday they experience our Traditional Day Camp with a special schedule geared toward them. At Hi-Hills we feel campers at this age can and should be able to make more choices. So we provided them with options and they create their day under the watchful eyes of our trained counselors. Whether it's participating in a dance class or creating a challenging game of gaga. From arts and crafts to swimming and hiking Hi-Hills has a facility to deliver a fun day rain or shine.
We used feedback from our 2011 Teen Travel staff and campers to develop our 2012 program, that we recently announced, click here to view our 2012 Teen Travel Schedule. We are very excited about EVERY trip this summer.
Teen Travel Overnight Trip
Back by popular demand we are heading to Connecticut for another round of ClubGetaway as our annual overnight trip. Each year ClubGetaway develops a range of new programs and activities for our campers. Parents can expect their children to participate in everything from, zip lining and sports tournaments, to water sports and Bouncy Boxing, Club Getaway has it all.
2012 Day trips include Six Flags, Mountain Creek, Dorney Park, CBK a Safari, NY Sightseeing, and a trip to Broadway, Surf Lessons, the Jersey Shore, Karting, Climbing, Camping, Paintballing, and much much more.
Week 8 Teen Travel Camping Trip
One of my favorite trips of the summer has to be the overnight camping trip in week 8. This is an opportunity for children to experience a "residential" rustic camp . We build a camp fire, cook S'mores, bring a guitar and tell stories. We have the best capture the flag game of the summer and "hang out". After spending the summer together it's a great way to end the program and reminisce about all the fun and great memories we made together.
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Original post made by Just me, Menlo Park: Belle Haven, on Feb 1, 2007
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Feb 1, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Can you imagine the situation in reverse? The comments that would be made if a Burgess teacher refused to move to Belle Haven? This whole Vanessa Johnson contretemps reflects the racism/xenophobia with which some of the Belle Haven and EPA residents view the people on the other side of that big concrete divide.
How many of the complainers are aware that Community Services employees and managers regularly switch back and forth between the city's two facilities? What's the big deal? If your company has headquarters in Mountain View and management wants you to work out of the Redwood City office for a while, do you refuse because you have a lot of friends in Mountain View? Burgess needs teachers, and the city shouldn't have to spend more money--our money--hiring them when there's a teacher available in the city's other childcare facility.
Some people need to grow up. You wouldn't let your kids get away with the kind of whining you do yourselves.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Feb 2, 2007 at 7:18 am
I'm not part of the Belle Haven community so I can't speak to the "racism/xenophobia" comment, but I feel very strongly that comparing the needs of Belle Haven families to those of the "other side" of town doesn't work. The city should be more sensitive to those needs, and shouldn't undermine -- intentionally or inadvertently -- a program that appears to be working for Belle Haven families.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Feb 2, 2007 at 12:10 pm
When it comes to childcare, the provider's personality and his/her relationship with the community are a very big deal. It matters to the kids, it matters to the other teachers, it matters to the parents.
Finding a good childcare situation is tough on the parents, and any changes to a daycare are tough on the whole family. If you don't want to rile people up, don't mess around with a good daycare.
You'd think they city would have learned something from the Menlo Children's Center outsourcing fiasco, but apparently the learning curve of certain officials is a flat line.
a resident of another community
on Feb 2, 2007 at 3:57 pm
What should the city learn from the Children's Center "fiasco?" To cater to the whims of a few vocal parents at the expense of every single taxpayer in the city?
Menlo Park got into the child care business--at least the Burgess part of it--by accident. And although I think the two Burgess-based centers should have been outsourced long ago for many, many reasons, I'll accept that the city is going to stay in the business.
Given that, can we at least try to run the business in
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Feb 3, 2007 at 8:25 am
Everyone makes sence but I think good childcare is needed everywhere. Every child is going to suffer if they dont live and get taught in a good place. Im mad about the way they are pushing this. Look on the city counsel page and see the messages there. How can an adult post that? The way she is going about this is wrong. You dont call people names and be so confrentational. What does it show our kids? Thats why I dont want Marcia Perez to say she represents me. She doesnt. If I say this at a meeting I think I will only have her doing it to me.
a resident of Menlo Park: Suburban Park/Lorelei Manor/Flood Park Triangle
on Feb 3, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Regarding: Vanessa Johnson. Lost in the issue is that an employee of 27 years will be considering retiring soon. For BelleHaven folks who think she should be there forever, it's possible that she would leave in a few years anyway, whether she's at Burgess or BelleHaven.
Allocation of staff shouldn't be a council issue; it's the city manager's responsibility to take such issues into consideration.
I understand that Marcia Perez neither lives nor works in Menlo Park, but uses the BelleHaven childcare for her kids. I welcome advocacy for programs in the city, but she doesn't run this city.
a resident of Menlo Park: University Heights
on Feb 3, 2007 at 6:42 pm
The City Manager reports to the City Council. Usually the City Council can leave personnel decisions to the city management, however, if a truly poor decision is being made by the city management, the only body that can step in and fix the problem is the city council. The City Manager has no other boss than the city council.
For example, if the city of Menlo Park is sued because of practices put in place or policies enacted by the a manager, it is the city itself that will pay the costs--the City Manager is not personally liable. The buck does not really stop with the City Manager--it stops with the citizens of Menlo Park who elect a City Council to decisions which are enacted by the City Manager. In effect, the City Council are ( not well paid, but altruistic individuals :-) our employees. In most cases, because of the, high level of professionalism required of people who are hired as city managers, the bulk of city management decisions are made major controversy, and the city manager does ask for guidance from the council for those decisions requiring their guidance. But even the best managers in the world can make a mistake, and I think in those cases it is appropriate for the City Council to step in and add some guidance to the process to make sure the correct decision is made.
A mistake is a mistake, a miscue is a miscue, I think in the case of Vanessa Carlisle, from the reaction of all the citizens who spoke on Tuseday night the decision to reallocate a precious resource to another area was a simple mistake, but one that can easily be fixed if there is a will to do so.
A city is not a business enterprise, a city is the people who live in and around it as well as property owners and business owners.
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Feb 4, 2007 at 8:34 am
I say let her go. How many of those speakers live in Menlo Park? How many have kids in the program? I dont know why there was this uproar but it is taking up too much time. The council will back down like they always do. I think she just won over a vocal crowd.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Feb 4, 2007 at 10:57 am
"A city is not a business enterprise, a city is the people who live in and around it as well as property owners and business owners."
Sorry, Roxie. I admire you as much as I loathe our departing CM, but have to disagree with you on this. A *community* comprises people, property owners, business owners, etc. A *city* is a legal, political, and business entity. We happen to live in a city that has been poorly managed for decades, and this latest absurdity just underscores the endemic and systemic problems. Our city should be making rational decisions for the benefit of the community as a whole, not emotional kneejerk decisions that only serve the interests of a small handful, be they residents or non-residents.
Any parent should be able to accept that finding decent child care is always a huge challenge, and nothing is ever permanent. Your beloved babysitter decides to move back home or your favorite nursery school teacher quits to attend school full time, and you and your kids deal with it. Grow up, folks.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Feb 4, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Alien: Your cold, indifferent comments reflect the libertarian views of the now gladly-departed Mickie Winkler. And as reflected in the election outcome, such views are (happily) not held by the majority of MP citizens.
I am wondering - do you feel similarly about the senior citizens program - after all, it is "highly subsidized" by the city. Should that program be run "as a business" as well (or should the city be out of that "business" and let seniors fend for themselves?)
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Feb 4, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Uh, excuse me Election Watcher, please explain why it is cold and indifferent to ask that our city spend our money prudently? The demands of the consumers of public services need to be balanced with the greater interests of the community at large. Note that our city does not have an infinite supply of resources, and that a fairly limited budget must be stretched to accommodate a wide range of services.
Fortunately, parents have many child care options other than those offered by the city. If they don't like Belle Haven policies, they can take their business elsewhere. Of course, then they wouldn't have any excuse to grandstand during council meetings or post long emails to the city, and you can bet that most private care providers would be far less tolerant of misbehaving parents than the city seems to be.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Feb 5, 2007 at 3:02 pm
We're not talking about the swimming pool here - we're talking about our most precious community resource here - small children. All you seem to see are $$ signs, no matter what. THAT'S cold and indifferent.
As far as a limited budget, that's seems to be just an accounting sleight-of-hand, the way that supposed deficits have turned to surpluses, particularly this past year.
And your comment: "Fortunately, parents have many child care options other than those offered by the city."
Shows just how little you know. Belle Haven is a gov't-subsidized program as the parents who participate CAN'T afford the private options out there.
And lastly, you failed to answer my question:
"Do you feel similarly about the senior citizens program - after all, it is "highly subsidized" by the city. Should that program be run "as a business" as well (or should the city be out of that "business" and let seniors fend for themselves?)"
What say you on that?
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Feb 13, 2007 at 2:32 pm
The city is doing the right thing in moving Vanessa Johnson, she and her click have gotten to comfortable with having things their way!
The majority of the individuals who got up to speak on her behalf do not, I repeat DO NOT live in Menlo Park. Why should they have a voice is Menlo Park's taxpayers business? In addition, as far as the young men who went on to college my hat is off to you, but that was over 10-15 years ago - what have they done lately?
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Feb 13, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Enough already. The City needs to move Vanessa Johnson and not bow to self-rightous indignant rhetoric. Rabble rousers like marcia perez are entitled to their opinions but should not be allowed to pretend to make those opinions the opinions of all. Spreading lies and false accusations is not how our City should be prompted to act. Moving Vanessa is the right thing to do. Move on!


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That kind of hurts my feelings a little bit. I'm actually a pretty sensitive guy.
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Once when I was nine years old, I saved the life of a chipmunk.
A chipmunk.
He fell out of our tree and almost died. He didn't know what to do, he couldn't even move. So I built a tiny little splint for his tiny, broken leg. And I carried him around in a BabyBjörn. And all the kids in my neighborhood, they laughed. They made fun of me, they threw rocks at me, but I didn't care. You know why?
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Palo Alto to celebrate 'Bike to Work Day' Thursday
Original post made on May 8, 2013
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a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on May 8, 2013 at 3:34 pm
If you plan on biking on Bayshore Blvd, please stick to the bike paths off to the side of traffic. With the construction crowding the roadside bike paths, there is no room for you.
a resident of Palo Verde
on May 8, 2013 at 3:56 pm
Worth mentioning that the tunnel under 101 is at last open!
a resident of Midtown
on May 8, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Bay Area bike commuters, this is your day! I know many of you bike regularly anyway, but this is the day we celebrate you. Ride where it is convenient and safe for you, and ignore advice like that above to ride on the sidewalk. There is pleny of room in the road for bikes, although there may not be enough room for cars.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on May 8, 2013 at 4:02 pm
Ernest, it's not the sidewalk. There is a dedicated bike lane on the side of the road. The bike lane on the road itself is blocked by fences, so riding on the already crowded 2-lane Bayshore Blvd. is not only dangerous for yourself, but for other drivers.
Also, drivers: the speed limit is 35 mph. If you wanna drive faster than that, use the freeway.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on May 8, 2013 at 4:59 pm
I wonder if the folks near the California Ave tunnel might encourage their fellow bikers that the big "Walk Bikes" signs in the tunnel apply people riding on bicycles.
I go through there with my bike a few times a week and the bikers who actually walk through the tunnel are a definite minority. I think that's inconsiderate to the pedestrians who try to dodge us as they walk through.
Either that or I am just jealous because I can't ride through the barriers, especially uphill. But seriously, the signs aren't just there to keep bad bikers from hurting themselves, but to keep all bikers from endangering the pedestrians who share the tunnel.
a resident of South of Midtown
on May 8, 2013 at 5:30 pm
My bike shoes have plastic cleats on them and they are too slippery to walk safely up and down the steep ramps. I always go slowly and I am courteous and yield to pedestrians, so I don't see a problem.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on May 8, 2013 at 9:55 pm
Sheesh, tomorrow's gonna be a nightmare.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 8, 2013 at 10:14 pm
Tomorrows going to be a lot of fun.
a resident of South of Midtown
on May 9, 2013 at 9:17 am
Yeah, this morning was a nightmare. I'm all for biking, but if you go in a group, please ride SINGLE FILE, not an entire car length across.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 9, 2013 at 9:53 am
Yawn .. get a life!
What's next? Skate to work?
Any adults in this crowd?
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on May 9, 2013 at 10:34 am
Thanx to MS, I can no longer ride, or walk far. Funny, after all the years of biking, I cannot do it on Bike to Work Day, I have to be driven.
a resident of Downtown North
on May 10, 2013 at 5:52 pm
Good work every one. More bikes means less pollution and less traffic congestion for everyone. Hope you can keep it up year round.
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Wall Street down, Nasdaq marks worst day since Nov. 2011
The Nasdaq suffered its biggest drop in two-and-a-half years today after another sharp selloff in biotech and momentum names, including Gilead Sciences and TripAdvisor, increasing investor anxiety about a broader pullback.
The Nasdaq biotechnology index shed 5.6 percent, its biggest one-day drop since August 2011, adding to recent losses since a big drop in Gilead more than two weeks ago triggered a wider selloff for biotechs and other recent big gainers. The Nasdaq biotech index has fallen 19.3 percent from its all-time high of 2,872.29 on Feb. 25.
The S&P 500 also posted its biggest percentage loss since Feb. 3, while the Nasdaq has dropped 7 percent from its closing high for the year, set on March 5. All stocks in the Nasdaq 100 index posted a loss, with the exception of CH Robinson Worldwide, which ended up 1.6 percent at $53.80.
The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 266.96 points or 1.62 percent, to end at 16,170.22. The S&P 500 lost 39.09 points or 2.09 percent, to close at 1,833.09. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 129.794 points or 3.1 percent, to 4,054.106.
The S&P 500 closed below its 50-day moving average for the first time since Feb. 10, wile the CBOE Volatility index, Wall Street's measure of investor anxiety, spiked 14.98 percent to end at 15.89, still at historically low levels.
Volume was high, with 7.5 billion shares changing hands on U.S. exchanges, well above the 6.8 billion average so far this month, according to data from BATS Global Markets.
The dollar index hit a three-week low of 79.330, well below a seven-week high of 80.599 set only last Friday. It last stood at 79.378, down 0.1 percent on the day.
European equity markets, which started the day stronger, fell in tandem with Wall Street.
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The global MSCI All-Country World index was down nearly 1 percent. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European companies lost 0.5 percent, shedding earlier gains.
A drop in China's exports stoked concerns about demand in the world's second-biggest economy and pushed the price of oil down toward $107 a barrel. OPEC also lowered its 2014 forecast for oil demand.
Brent crude fell 54 cents to $107.44 a barrel, after gaining $2.16 over the previous two days.
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HOUSTON - In a state by state ranking, Texas was among the worst in the nation when it comes to obesity with a projection that nearly 60 percent of residents will be obese by the year 2030.
This is according to a new report "F As In Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future," released by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which looked at the potential impact of the obesity crisis.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 percent of Texas adults are considered obese. That number is expected to climb 57 percent by 2030.
Jeff Levi, executive director of the Trust for America's Health said, "So by 2030, we could be seeing an extra 2.8 million new cases of type 2 diabetes, another 5.6 million new cases of coronary heart disease and stroke."
Lan Bentsen, president of Shape Up Houston added, "It would break the state's budget. It would take too many people out of the workforce. We simply cannot afford that."
Shape Up Houston is a nonprofit organization challenging Houstonians to get healthy by following the program's mantra of "Little Change, Big Results."
Bentsen explained, "When you're taking (the food) in, are you burning it off or is some of it sticking around? So if you can get a little more exercise, eat a little less, drop the chips, drop the soft drinks out of there, get the fried foods out, all of these will make a big difference in a hurry. You owe it to yourself. You owe it to your family and you owe it to your community."
The obesity forecast underscored the need for a community wide transformation.
Assistant Vice President and Deputy Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Group Michelle Larkin explained, "Making sure that kids in school have access and are being served healthier foods and that we're going a step further to make sure that the snacks and beverages are available in school are also healthier, that we're helping communities to be active places for the people to live, learn, work and play there."
Another suggestion from researchers, try to reduce your body mass index by just five percent.
Levi said, "If Texas achieved that goal, it could save $54 billion, that's billion with a B, by 2030 in cumulative health care cost savings, saving hundreds of thousands of people from type 2 diabetes and heart disease and stroke."
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Gene Edward Veith, Jr., is Professor of English at Concordia University-Wisconsin, where he has also served as Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. He has authored numerous books, of which Postmodern Times received a Christianity Today Book Award as one of the top 25 religious books of 1994. He was a Salvatori Fellow with the Heritage Foundation in 1994-1995 and is a Senior Fellow with the Capital Research Center. He is currently the director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia University, a center devoted to the study of Christianity and culture. He is the cultural editor of World magazine.
Science is typically praised as open-ended and free, pursuing the evidence wherever it leads. Scientific conclusions are falsifiable, open to further inquiry, and revised as new data emerge. Science is free of dogma, intolerance, censorship, and persecution.
By these standards, Darwinists have become the dogmatists. Scientists at the Smithsonian Institute, supported by American taxpayers, are punishing one of their own simply for publishing an article about Intelligent Design.
Stephen Meyer, who holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge and is a research fellow at the Discovery Institute, wrote an article titled "The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories." As Mr. Meyer explained it to WORLD, his article deals with the so-called Cambrian explosion, that point in the fossil record in which dozens of distinct animal body forms suddenly spring into existence. Darwinists themselves, he showed through a survey of the literature, admit that they cannot explain this sudden diversity of form in so little time.
Mr. Meyer argued that the need for new proteins, new genetic codes, new cell structures, new organs, and new species requires specific "biological information." And "information invariably arises from conscious rational activity." That flies in the face of the Darwinist assumption that biological origins are random.
Mr. Meyer submitted his paper to the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, a scientific journal affiliated with the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of Natural History. The editor, Rick Sternberg, a researcher at the museum with two Ph.D.s in biology, forwarded the article to a panel of three peer reviewers. In scientific and other academic scholarship, submitting research to the judgment of other experts in the field ensures that published articles have genuine merit. Each of the reviewers recommended that, with revisions, the article should be published. Mr. Meyer made the revisions and the article was published last August.
Whereupon major academic publications—Science, Nature, Chronicles of Higher Education—expressed outrage. The anger was focused not on the substance of the article, but on the mere fact that a peer-reviewed scientific journal would print such an article.
So the wrath of the Darwinists fell on Mr. Sternberg, the editor. Although he had stepped down from the editorship, his supervisors at the Smithsonian took away his office, made him turn in his keys, and cut him off from access to the collections he needs for his research. He is also being subjected to the sectarian religious discipline of "shunning." His colleagues are refusing to talk to him or even greet him in the hallways.
His supervisors also staged an inquisition about Mr. Sternberg's religious and even political beliefs. Mr. Sternberg, who describes himself as a Catholic with lots of questions, has filed a case alleging discrimination not just on the grounds of religion but "perceived" religion.
Critics of Mr. Sternberg say that the article should not have been published because the American Association for the Advancement of Science has proclaimed that Intelligent Design is "unscientific by definition." As Mr. Meyer points out: "Rather than critique the paper on its scientific merits, they appeal to a doctrinal statement."
Historically, said Mr. Meyer, science has sought "the best explanation, period, wherever the evidence leads." But now the scientific establishment is requiring something else: "the best materialistic explanation for phenomenon." That rules out non-materialistic explanations from the onset, demanding adherence to the worldview that presumes the material realm is all that exists.
David Klinghoffer broke the story of Mr. Sternberg's mistreatment in The Wall Street Journal. The attempts to discredit him, Mr. Meyer said, have resulted in hundreds of scientists from around the world requesting and downloading the paper (available from www.discovery.org/csc/).
Mr. Meyer said that many scientists secretly agree with elements of Intelligent Design but are afraid to go public. Critics tried to force Mr. Sternberg to reveal the names of the peer reviewers—which are supposed to remain anonymous—but he refused. Darwinists shifted the discussions to evolution as a worldview, while avoiding its admitted failures to account for what Darwin purported to explain, namely, the origin of species.
The virulence of the attempts to suppress Intelligent Design demonstrates the Darwinists' insecurity. "You don't resort to authoritarianism," observed Mr. Meyer, "if you can answer it."
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Coded Arms Preview
Players control a high-tech suit of armor that can translate data crystals into weapons and ammo. These crystals can be picked up by hunting around the levels or by destroying robotic enemies, which always leave something good behind.
The combat seems pretty standard for an FPS. The analog nub controls movement and the four main buttons control aiming and turning. That leaves the L and R buttons for jumping and firing, respectively. The digital pad is used for swapping weapons. Each room in the demo level we played was populated with a few enemy robots, which we were able to shoot at and kill rather easily. Skills such as circle-strafing work like they do in most FPS games...
The only weapons available in the demo were a pistol, an EMP laser, and a sniper rifle. Each enemy takes a few shots to kill, and you have to make sure to duck behind cover while reloading. Enemy A.I. seems decent -- they moved out of the line of fire when attacked and tried to get behind our character in close quarters. We saw maybe three or four different enemies in the demo--a short grenade-throwing drone, a pair of bi-pedal gun-toting robots, and a large four-armed boss robot with rocket launchers attached.
Graphically, the game looks okay. The graphics are sharp and loads of polys are used for the robots and weapons. In particular, all of the laser, spark, and partical effects are very pretty. Unfortunately, the level they're showing off here at the show is set inside a rather bland office building structure and all of the rooms and elevators look the same.
Supposedly, the final game will have a variety of settings and utilize a color scheme other than brown and metallic. Multiplayer support for as many as 8 players is also going to be included in the release version.
5/19/2005 Frank Provo
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