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Upfront Contract in the works to replace PASCO Sam Page 3In Business What’s slowing down IPOs in Silicon Valley? Page 21Sports Palo Alto Babe Ruth four wins from World Series Page 23

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SALE PENDING

PASCO Sam’s likely replace-ment will be GreenWaste Re-covery, Inc., a San Jose-based

waste station and trash hauler, the Palo Alto Public Works Department has disclosed.

The new deal would mean 22,329

fewer tons of Palo Alto trash would head to a landfill and 73 percent, rather than the current 62 percent, of waste would be re-used or recycled.

The changes are expected to add about 17 percent to refuse rates, boost-ing the monthly bill for an average

household with a 32-gallon bin from $26.58 to about $31.

The council is expected to approve final negotiations with GreenWaste at its Aug. 4 meeting, enabling the city to sign a final agreement in September.

GreenWaste Recovery is a fast-growing joint venture that also col-lects waste from Woodside, Portola Valley and Santa Cruz County, among others.

GreenWaste Recovery and San

Francisco-based Norcal Waste Sys-tems were the only two companies to bid on the eight- to 12-year contract set to begin in July 2009. Palo Alto Sani-tation Co. (PASCO), which has picked up Palo Alto’s trash for 57 years but was purchased by Waste Management in 1998, did not bid “due to business reasons of its parent company,” the city report states.

The city has been satisfied with PASCO’s services, but remains entan-

gled in litigation over the existing con-tract, city staff members have said.

PASCO Sam is the company’s long-standing cartoon-character mascot, painted on PASCO trucks.

GreenWaste’s bid for the eight-year deal came in $16 million below Nor-cal’s initial quote of $131.8 million.

But after a further “best-and-final” refinement, GreenWaste shaved an-

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UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis

W ith California’s major utilities competing to se-cure scarce solar, wind

and other green power, Palo Alto is expected to fall short of its 2008 renewable energy goal, Assistant Utilities Director Jane Ratchye said.

By this year, 20 percent of the city’s total electricity sup-

ply should come from renewable sources, according to a 2007 goal set by the City Council. The state’s definition of “renewable,” adopted by the city, excludes large hydroelectric (water) plants, which provide about half of Palo Alto’s power.

Now, only 14 percent of the city’s energy — excluding the

all-renewable, voluntary PaloAl-toGreen program — comes from renewables, nearly all from two wind-power projects in Solano County.

And by 2012, the city’s goal jumps to 30 percent, yet current re-newable contracts will only bring in 21 percent that year, a differ-ence of about 100 gigawatt hours, according to charts prepared by the Utilities Department. In 2015, the city should have one-third of its electricity from renewables.

Yet the goals — and the phi-losophy driving them — remain appropriate, several city leaders agree.

“I think we had a pretty good understanding they were a stretch,” Mayor Larry Klein said. “We cer-tainly hope to achieve them. If we

miss it, that just means we need to keep on working harder.”

“As goals, I think they are a fine set of goals,” said Dexter Dawes, chair of the city’s Utilities Advi-sory Commission. “If you say, can I guarantee that we’ll meet them? No, I certainly can’t.”

Palo Alto’s general electric sup-ply currently has six sources of renewable power: the two wind projects, three landfill-gas-to-electricity contracts and one geo-thermal effort.

But at their peak, between 2011 and 2020, they generate only a projected 21 percent — or 210 gigawatt hours — of the city’s electric supply.

It’s not that Palo Alto’s Utilities Department isn’t actively pursuing

Palo Alto to fall short of 2008 green-energy goal

Skyrocketing demand for renewable energy pits city against major utilities providers

by Becky Trout

Using tech to teach

From obesity to poverty, students innovate solutions — and question ‘tech myth’

by Arden Pennell

Imagine an electronic bracelet for children programmed to track activities, measure calories and

record whispered notes about meals eaten. Young wearers could later un-snap the bracelet and plug one end into a computer, uploading data to a Web site that awards them “points” for good behavior.

Children could spend points on gifts — or donate to a worthy cause, such as building a gym for a school damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

That’s the solution Michiko Lynn Powers envisions for childhood obe-sity. Powers, a student in the Learn-ing, Design and Technology program at Stanford University’s School of Education, exhibited her idea at an on-campus expo of master’s projects last week.

Other projects ranged from an on-line college counselor to a Web site that helps classrooms make micro-loans to Third World residents.

The technology-and-design pro-gram asks students to use technology to meet tomorrow’s — and today’s — arising needs, according to Shel-ley Goldman, the director.

Graduates have gone on to engi-neer easy-to-use software for IBM, manage Web-site projects for Adobe and design electronic, educational toys for LeapFrog, according to the program Web site.

Fewer than half become classroom teachers, Goldman said.

Stanford’s program, founded in 1997, is different from those that de-fine “technology” as bricks and mor-tar, such as school-wide software — rather than an innovative approach, according to Goldman.

The goal, she said, is figuring out which are the problems, and then — and only then — asking what role technology plays to solve them.

Working on the railroadElectrician Danny Griffy prepares the lighting for two new platforms at the California Avenue Caltrain station Monday. The work — part of a $35 million project that also includes the University Avenue station — is expected to be completed in November, Caltrain has stated.

EDUCATION

UTILITIES

GreenWaste Recovery set to replace PASCOA contract for a $115 million, eight-year waste-hauling

deal in the works by Becky Trout

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Our Town

by Don Kazak

Talking with Sal

I t took me more than a week, but I finally was able to track down Sal A. Mander, the elect-

ed chief of the Stanford hills tribe of the California tiger salaman-ders, an endangered species.

“Got your pen and notebook ready again, I see.”

Well, I had some things I wanted to ask you about.

“Fire away.”Did you hear about the guy who

claimed he was knocked down by a mountain lion in Foothills Park?

“Yeah, I’ve got some cousins up there.”

The cops and us reporters seem to have been hosed by a hoax.

“You think?”Why did you know the story was

wrong?“Come on, get real. This dude

claims he was knocked down a hillside by a mountain lion that jumped up and hit him in his back.”

It could happen.“What was the mountain lion

doing, playing ‘Tag, you’re it?’ And that’s not all.”

What else?“The guy claimed the mountain

lion also fell down the same hill-side.”

So, that could happen.“Boy, you are dense.”Well, that’s not a surprise to

hear. But why, exactly?“Have you ever had housecats

for pets?”No, but some roommates did a

long time ago.“Did any of these housecats ever

trip and fall over?”Well, no. One of them would

even walk across a chessboard when a game was in progress with-out touching any of the pieces.

“Exactly.”Exactly what?“Cats, big or small, are not

clumsy, and they definitely do not ever fall down hillsides.”

So that was what tipped you off that the story was wrong?

“Sure, you people fall for any-thing, no offense or pun intend-ed.”

No offense taken.“Besides, all of those extra game

wardens and their dogs stomping

around in Foothills Park made my cousins up there a little nervous.”

Why is that?“They usually have the park to

themselves since you people rarely go up there anymore.”

All in all, for the sake of the park and your cousins, I would think that is a good thing.

“Absolutely.”So, do you hear anything from

the mountain lions?“A lot.”What are they saying?“They’re pissed off, getting

blamed for something they didn’t do.”

You heard that?“Sure, we hear from them from

time to time. Same habitat. We’re like neighbors.”

But don’t they eat you guys?“Nope, we have a peace treaty.”How did that come about?“Well, the mountain lions need

a lot of meat because they’re big, and we’re pretty small, not much more than a snack to them.”

Food is food, I would think.“Sure, but the lions respect us

because of the endangered species bit.”

They know that?“Of course, it’s on the Internet.

We all try to keep with what’s hap-pening.”

Is your tribe using the tunnels under Junipero Serra Boulevard to get down to Lake Lagunita to breed, as hoped?

“Only the older guys, who have lost a step or two. Got a light?”

Yes, but those things will kill you.

“So will a speeding BMW on Junipero Serra.”

Senior Staff Writer Don Ka-zak can be e-mailed at dkazak@paweekly.com.

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renewable energy supplies, prefer-ably new projects it can help suc-ceed, Ratchye said.

But the state’s investor-owned utilities, like Pacific Gas & Elec-tric, also have mandatory renewable goals they need to meet, she said.

By 2010, major utilities must de-liver 20 percent renewable power, according to California regula-tions.

“There’s so much competition right now for renewable power that it’s very hard. The suppliers know they can sell it to anyone,” Ratchye said. “They’re not quick to sign a long-term contract. They’re not as responsive as they used to be.”

Palo Alto’s renewable energy goals date to 2002 and in 2004, the city signed a long-term contract with High Winds, a wind project in Solano County. The council stipu-lated that renewable energy can’t

add more than a 0.5 cent per kilo-watt hour to electric rates.

In 2004, renewable energy cost the city less than six cents a kilowatt hour. Now, the cost has climbed to as much as 10 cents and may still be rising.

“We were very, very smart and lucky to jump into this early,” Coun-cilwoman Yoriko Kishimoto said. “We did lock up a lot of the lower cost contracts.”

Councilman Pat Burt said he’s convinced the cost of renewable en-ergy will continue to escalate for a few years, but then begin to fall.

Both Burt and Kishimoto say that other strategies, such as increased conservation and new technologies such as “smart” residential meters that can monitor the electricity us-age of various appliances, are cru-cial for the city to achieve its renew-able goals.

Ratchye said the half-cent cost limit isn’t hampering the city: In-stead it is the sheer demand for the

few renewable projects and some related problems, such as a lack of transmission lines and market regu-lation changes.

She said the department has con-sidered purchasing short-term re-newable electricity just to meet its goal, but would prefer to invest in long-term projects.

“We don’t want to ignore the goal,” Ratchye said.

Utilities staff members are inves-tigating all sorts of projects — solar, wind, landfill gas, biogas and oth-ers, she said.

“We’re interested in all of them. Some of them are at the develop-ment stage,” Ratchye said.

Klein said he is confident the city is continuing to lead by aggressively pursuing renewables.

“They’re hard at work at it. I don’t see any evidence that anybody is do-ing any better,” he said.

Staff Writer Becky Trout can be e-mailed at btrout@paweekly.com.

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Greenhouse

A similar philosophy guides Har-vard University’s Technology, Inno-vation and Education program, which sees “technology as the means, not the mission,” according to its Web site.

Yet they seem to be part of only a handful to offer such programs. A number of top 10 schools as ranked by U.S. News and World Report — Stanford and Harvard placed first and sixth, respectively — don’t of-fer technology-as-tool educational programs.

At the Stanford expo, Powers ex-plained that her bracelet-and-Web-site duo, dubbed StepOne, targets the one-third of American children whom she said are on the brink of obesity.

“I wanted to use kids’ fascination with technology and online enter-tainment [to combat it],” she said.

At the expo, the virtual college counselor, an attractive young black woman with a beaded necklace, urged teens to fill out financial-aid forms from the computer screen.

Research shows plenty of students want to attend college, diligently show up to class and take standard-ized tests — but don’t end up in higher education, according to cre-ator Sara Petry.

The “College Advising Intelligent Agent” was designed to stop that tal-ent loss by providing students with needed information. While the ratio of students to counselors in U.S. high schools is 500 to 1, almost all high-

school students have access to com-puters, she said.

In the next room over, a computer game about healthy eating called NutriChef was on display. Students handed out strawberries and granola while an elementary-age visitor con-centrated on a laptop screen, attempt-ing to steer the on-screen knife to properly slice a berry. Like Powers, NutriChef creators Claudia Jimenez and Dana Nelson identified a target — nutrition — and then applied a dose of creative technology.

On the globalization front, student Jim Ratcliffe created Kiva School to School, a Web site to help teach-ers use an online micro-loan service called “Kiva,” created by Stanford graduate Matt Flannery in 2004 with his wife.

Kiva allows the world’s wealthier denizens to help those less fortunate through small loans — for example, lending $25 to help a beautician buy a hair dryer. Helping students choose where and whom to give money is “a teachable moment,” according to Ratcliffe.

There was one decidedly low-tech solution to tomorrow’s woes.

A board game designed to shore up America’s much-mourned math-ematics deficiency was made of ma-terials such as construction paper and hand-drawn symbols, more reminis-cent of childhoods of yore than the iPod era.

“This may have been a bit subver-sive of that [technology focus],” cre-ator Scott Ullman said with a laugh.

The idea behind the game, co-cre-ator Evelyn Kung explained, was to

teach students to develop a concept of numbers rather than just memorizing multiplication tables. A toy train — designed to simulate the subways and busses urban youth know intimately — chugs along a number line on the board.

It teaches students to conceptual-ize, for example, that 59 multiplied by four is less than 59 multiplied by five, but more than by three, Kung explained.

The project, dubbed “Technology and the City: The High and Low of Technology for Mathematics Educa-tion,” also came with a video Ullman created.

It’s just an aid, he said.Too often, technology is mistaken

for a solution rather than a tool. The board game is a reaction against the corporate mythology that high-tech equals progress, he said.

Plus, low-tech devices break less often, he added.

Kung said the acts of building and playing with the game were more helpful for students than watching the computer video, according to a classroom test.

A project like the board game does indeed align with the program’s phi-losophy, according to Goldman.

“It’s ‘technology’ written pretty large,” she said. The focus is on thinking creatively about the future — not on embracing digital solutions de facto, she said.

Staff Writer Arden Pennell can be e-mailed at apennell@paweekly.com.

Edtech

other $1.5 million off its annual offer, agreeing to begin service for $13.5 million per year, below Norcal’s low-ered offer of $14.8 million.

Both companies are qualified and received good recommendations from communities where they haul waste, the city report states.

In addition to cost, however, Green-Waste emerged from the city’s review process with higher technical and en-vironmental credentials, although as a smaller, younger and faster-growing company than Norcal it scored lower on “administrative, financial and con-

tractual” abilities. GreenWaste has added 120,000 new

customers since 2006, while Norcal has focused on offering new servic-es to existing customers, the report states.

Neither firm has faced major litiga-tion recently, it says.

GreenWaste also owns the facilities where Palo Alto’s materials would eventually be taken, giving it a stron-ger incentive to reuse and recycle, ac-cording to the staff analysis.

GreenWaste has identified a man-ager to head Palo Alto’s program, Frank Weigel, but most other manag-ers would need to be hired. Norcal already has a management team in

place, the report states.The City of Palo Alto has been pre-

paring to replace PASCO for more than a year, using the switch as an op-portunity to launch many of its “zero waste” programs, including food-waste collection from businesses, in-creased use of construction materials and, eventually, mandatory recycling.

The staff report, available by go-ing to www.cityofpaloalto.org and by searching for “CMR 329:08,” was given to City Council members but excluded from packets given to the media.

Staff Writer Becky Trout can be e-mailed at btrout@paweekly.com.

GreenWaste

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Around Town

— Yoriko Kishimoto, Palo Alto councilwoman, on the Bay-to-Ridge Trail. See story on page 17.

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GARDENER GONE BAD ... Who needs a knife or gun for a hold-up when a good pair of garden-ing shears will do? Last week, a man used just that. It began mid-afternoon on July 19 at the Shell station on Embarcadero Road, when the man convinced someone with a good heart to pay for a cab by saying he was ill and needed to go to Stanford Hospital. But he wasn’t ill. “He was playing possum,” Police Agent Dan Ryan said. When the cab stopped near the University Avenue Caltrain station, the man pulled out a pair of gardening shears and tried to rob the cab-bie, Ryan said. Not one to go down without a fight, the driver grabbed the shears and wrestled them away, Ryan said. The pas-senger, however, then grabbed the driver’s wallet from the front seat, jumped out and ran away. The shears-wielding gardener was described as African Ameri-can, about 6-feet tall, muscular, 40 to 50 years old and with short brown hair.

SAVE THE SWIM TEAM ... Last year, a priest testified before the Palo Alto City Council in sup-port of removing a parishioner’s redwood tree. This year, some land-locked sharks are petition-ing the council on behalf of the Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club — the club’s Sharks swim team, that is. The council recent-ly received a hand-written letter, complete with photo, from the team asking that the city approve the club’s planned major expan-sion. The swim team’s coaches wrote that the Sharks recently had a three-meet winning streak — quite an accomplishment given the team’s record of only six wins over the past 15 years. “Without a pool next year, all our hard work will be reversed. Please save the Sharks!” The expansion, however, is blocked — at least temporarily — follow-ing a neighbor’s threat to sue. City staff members are working strengthening the environmental-impact studies of the proposed project.

EVERYONE GOING GREEN? ... More than 20 percent of Palo Alto households elect to pay an extra $10 or so per month for PaloAltoGreen, the Utility Depart-

ment’s renewable electricity pro-gram fueled by wind and solar power. But what if Palo Altans automatically received renewable energy unless they opted out, choosing to pay less for more environmentally harmful energy, Vice Mayor Peter Drekmeier asked recently. Utilities Director Valerie Fong said the department probably wouldn’t be able to ac-quire enough renewable energy for the entire city. (See article on page 3.) “The market for green power is a pretty tough market,” she said. And City Attorney Gary Baum said there might be legal issues associated with an opt-out program, which would be considered a rate increase, he said. Baum said he will draft a memo to advise the City Council.

ASK A RANGER ... The much-maligned City of Palo Alto Web site — www.cityofpaloalto.org — certainly has its glitches. But buried under layers of gray and green are gems of local lore in the “Ask a Ranger” series. Want to know how banana slugs mate? (They’re hermaphrodites, and sometimes both become pregnant.) Or the most famous person to visit Foothills Park? (Kurt Russell, who was turned away because he wasn’t a resi-dent.) And, the question all have been dying to ask: How often do rangers dust the stuffed bob-cat and coyotes? Once a year, perhaps more if cobwebs build up. The “Ask a Ranger” series is available on the “Preserves and Open Space” page under “Open Space and Parks.”

STANFORD STUDENTS HAPPY AT CLASS ... In the latest edition of the Princeton Review’s “The Best 368 Colleges” — based on a survey of 120,000 students at those schools — Stanford University ranked tops for the “best classroom experience,” Bloomberg News reported this week. The 2009 edition was released Tuesday. Stanford stu-dents are also satisfied with their financial-aid packages, the sur-vey found. At Stanford, “staff and students are all very supportive of each other,” the book states. But, not surprisingly, Stanford doesn’t have the most or the best parties. That honor goes to the University of Florida.

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O n a warm summer afternoon, one corner of Holly Oak Drive is marked by loops of side-

walk-chalk train tracks and a cluster of chairs. A sign in the street warns drivers of children at play.

Despite the scorching heat, Livia, Henry and Willa Bednarz play in their neighbor’s tanbark yard, while Emma and Craig Samson play in the street under the sprinkle of a garden hose.

“When the kids are out, they pull the magic back in,” said Marcus Samson, father of Emma, 5, and Craig, 3.

The Samson family has been a part of the Holly Oak community for more than seven years. While many other Palo Alto children get mired in organized “play dates,” the horseshoe-shape design of Holly Oak keeps kids relatively safe. The street loops around, with both ends inter-

secting Ames Avenue.Samson and his wife, Sharon,

knew they wanted to live on Holly Oak because “it’s so quiet. The kids can play out in the street.

“No one drives down this street, unless they’re a resident, or they get lost. There’s a type of social network-ing. There are chairs set up in front of the houses where the kids just play. People kind of know not to drive fast around here, so we don’t worry about it,” Samson said.

On school days, the children can walk unsupervised to Palo Verde El-

ementary School, which is less than four blocks away.

“It’s unthinkable, if you don’t live next to schools, to let your kids out. But in this particular neighborhood, you can do it, because they only cross that one busy street, and it’s safe,” he said.

The neighborhood is composed of Eichler homes — part of what welds the community together, according to Samson. Access to the Eichler Swim & Tennis Club makes it easy for local

NeighborhoodsA roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

BE PREPARED ... A class on emergency preparedness, “Introduction to the Palo Alto Neighborhoods Block Prepared-ness Coordinator Program,” will take place Aug. 7 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Palo Alto Medi-cal Foundation. A radio com-munications course, “Commu-nications during an Emergency Disaster,” will follow at 7:40 p.m. The seminars are free and open to the public. RSVP is strongly suggested. Both will be held at Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Clark Clinical Building, on Urban Lane, 1st Floor, Education Room (from lobby, make a right and go down hallway). The building is behind the front main buildings, and parking lots are on either side of Clark. Contact epvolun-teer@paneighborhoods.org.

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER ... Barbecues, fire-truck rides, music and more will be happen-ing throughout the city on Aug. 5 during National Night Out, the annual nationwide event to strengthen neighborhood spirit and raise crime-prevention awareness. To find out if an event is planned for your neigh-borhood, or to plan an event, contact your neighborhood as-sociation or Susie Ord at susie.ord@cityofpaloalto.org.

UPDATE ON OREGON EXPY. ... The latest iteration of plans for modifying Oregon Expressway will be presented at the Mid-town Residents Association general meeting on Aug. 28 at 7:15 p.m. Santa Clara County and Palo Alto city officials will be on hand to answer questions. The meeting will take place at Emerson School, 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, in the “Red Room.”

NOT AS SEEN ON TV ... Unlike the television show of the same name, this COPS program has only good guys. Citizens Op-tions for Public Safety (COPS), a program of the Palo Alto Police department, will send police department representa-tives to meetings, block parties or at any occasion in which resi-dents would like to meet officers and learn more about the Palo Alto Police Department. Con-tact Officer DuJuan E. Green at 650-329-2406 or by e-mailing DuJuan.Green@cityofpaloalto.org.

Send announcements of neighborhood events, meet-ings and news to Sue Dremann, Neighborhoods editor, at sdremann@ paweekly.com. Or talk about your neighbor-hood news on Town Square at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

AROUND THE BLOCK

R ichard Alexander’s Revolu-tionary War collection isn’t a hobby; it’s a passion. He

hands out $2 bills engraved with the Declaration of Independence the way other people hand out busi-ness cards. Even his phone numbers end in 1776.

Alexander constantly surrounds

himself with reminders of the American Revolution, from the time he hangs a giant flag from the upper story of his Tudor-style home in Old Palo Alto in the morning to the end of his workday in the sixth-floor law offices of Alexander Hawes, the firm he heads in San Jose.

At home and in the office, he

looks upon a collection of 50-odd early-American prints, replica flags, busts and other Revolutionary-peri-od memorabilia.

There’s a copy of the famous “One if by land” lantern; a print of Benjamin Franklin during his last trip to France; 19th-century prints of Washington at the Battle of Tren-ton and at Valley Forge; and an old print of the Boston Massacre that was engraved by Paul Revere.

A prominent Bay Area personal-injury attorney, Alexander adheres to a legal philosophy based on the spirit of 1776. In the courtroom, he notes on his law firm’s Web site, he confronts “wrongdoers who have

taken from our clients their prop-erty and have injured their well-being. Not the type of tyrant and oppressor fought two centuries ago on village greens with muskets, but modern day Redcoats who can be equally arrogant in their efforts to avoid responsibility for the damage they have caused.”

Alexander represents people who are injured and who face over-whelming odds, he said.

Earlier this month, he was in court on behalf of a 12-year-old boy who was brain damaged after being struck by a car driven by a woman allegedly speeding in a

Meet Mr. 1776Old Palo Alto neighborhood resident Richard Alexander

lives and breathes the American Revolutionby Sue Dremann

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Safe enough to play on the streetParents, kids join in ‘old-fashioned’ neighborhood pastime

by Christine Karavas

Calby Abilock, 5, pulls neighborhood youngsters in wagons on Holly Oak Drive in Palo Alto.

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City’s plan update kick-off exposes varied visions The Palo Alto City Council and the Planning and Transportation Com-

mission kicked off an update process Monday night of the city’s 1998 Comprehensive Plan, the document that guides land use in the city.

If Monday’s discussion is any indication, ideas for the city’s future are numerous and varied.

Mayor Larry Klein said the new plan should preserve Palo Alto’s character and key qualities. For Councilman John Barton, however, it’s time for Palo Alto to embrace a denser, urban outlook. And Councilman Greg Schmid said the city needs to ensure developments in South Palo Alto get as much attention and amenities as those in the north.

The council initiated the update in 2006 to ensure that city services and schools are adequate for new housing development, that land is available for local stores and that the city’s focus on the environment is integrated into the plan and city processes.

The review, which will cost $850,000 over four years, will also prepare a new housing section of the plan, a state requirement that forces the city to face the so-called ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments) housing assignment. Palo Alto’s allotment calls for 2,860 new residences by 2014.

The city’s plan update will include two focused studies of areas ex-pected to undergo land-use changes — the California Avenue commer-cial area and the East Meadow/Fabian Way/West Bayshore corridor, a corporate-office area hard hit by the dot-com bust of 2001.

A Web site, newsletter and community meetings will allow for public participation during the process, which is expected to culminate in the December 2010 approval of an update, according to Curtis Williams, interim planning and community environment director.

—Becky Trout

Len Materman to head SF Creek agencyLen Materman, an environmental-policy specialist, has been named

the new executive director of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority (JPA).

Materman’s primary initial challenge will be to break a logjam in federal, state or local funding that has held back progress on a long-term flood-control and watershed-management program for the creek and its upstream tributaries.

Materman, a San Carlos resident, will start his job Aug. 11 at a base annual salary of $105,000 plus health benefits and a transportation al-lowance of $5,000 a year. Materman is currently a program adviser for the Stanford branch of the Center of Ecotourism and Sustainable Devel-opment (CESD), a bi-coastal nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.

For more on Len Materman, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com.—Thea Lamkin

Origin of landfill fire may never be knownThe fire that burned for almost a day last week at the Palo Alto landfill

compost area may have been started by something that was unloaded in the area, but city officials may never know for certain what actually started the fire.

In the effort to suppress the fire, the origin of the fire was likely con-sumed, according to Barbara Cimino, emergency manager for the Palo Alto Fire Department.

“What we do know is that staff first spotted the fire in a location where a load of green waste had just been delivered by a PASCO truck,” said Glenn Roberts, Palo Alto public works director.

Partially burned firewood, Presto logs, charcoal briquettes and similar wood products, if they still contain a smoldering ember, can reignite, he said. —Don Kazak

Palo Alto apartment firm sued by tenants The ongoing legal saga over rent increases unfolding in East Palo Alto

has added another chapter: Tenants in four of the 1,750 apartments owned by Woodland Park Management, which used to be Page Mill Properties, recently filed a class-action lawsuit against their landlord.

The tenants — Eric Oberle, Shery Scott, Matthew Fremont and Natan Ben Yonatan — are suing Palo Alto-based Woodland Park for creating 17 limited liability companies (LLCs) to act as owners of 17 apartment complexes with four or fewer units.

The lawsuit states that Woodland Park “directed the creation of a sham corporate and partnership structure” by creating the 17 LLCs to evade East Palo Alto’s rent-control rules.

According to a city ordinance, rent-stabilization regulations do not apply to complexes with four or fewer units.

Lance Ignon, spokesman for Woodland Park, said the creation of the LLCs had nothing to do with the city’s rent-control ordinance.

“This is a widely used corporate practice in general,” Ignon said. “It is something that is required by its lenders and equity investors.”

A full version of this article is posted at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.—Don Kazak

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residents to build a community close to home.

“It’s special,” mother Sheri Bed-narz said. “I think the Eichler neigh-borhoods were kind of set up that way to bring people together, and I think it’s really working like that.”

That feeling of community was part of what brought the Bednarz family from Fremont to Holly Oak Drive six months ago.

“In our last community, it was hard to get to know people on the street and playing outside. This is really what we came to Palo Alto for — its really fun activities and families.

“And the neighborhood’s kind of a mixture of people who’ve been here a long time — like the original own-ers — and then, new families that are kind of turning over. So there’s a lot of mixing in the street and kids get-ting to know each other. A lot of kids will walk to school together around the corner, and that’s really great,” Bednarz said.

Playing on the street often evolves into larger social gatherings. One weekend, a table was set up and some families brought out fruit dishes so neighbors could come out and have dessert. And often “snack time” on the street turns into neighbors bring-ing out more food.

“It’s a smorgasbord of things and people eating dinner on the street,” Bednarz said.

The neighborly interaction has cre-ated a sort of buddy system, where kids spend time together outside of the neighborhood, too, according to Bednarz.

Her daughter, Willa, 3, is taking a dance class with her friend and neighbor, Charlotte. Bednarz said she enjoys watching the friendships develop. The street interaction is fun for mothers, too.

“A lot of these women are really well-educated. It kind of gives the moms an opportunity to chit chat a little bit. It helps to get through the day to have a little conversation on the side,” Bednarz said.

Beyond conversation, the mothers

also support one another by shar-ing the duty of watching children. If someone needs to run into the house, another parent is always out watch-ing the young children.

“It’s sort of joint-parenting, in a way, and we all try to help each other out,” she said.

Since the neighborhood developed in the late 1950s, it has been a desir-able family location.

Glenda Hughes has been a resident of Holly Oak for the past 30 years. Her family, like the Samsons and Bednarzes, moved to the neighbor-hood to raise their children.

“They’re gone now, but we’re still here,” she said.

Since her family moved to the neighborhood, Hughes said it has always been a safe place where kids can play on the street.

“I think people are a little more re-laxed here. ... And that’s a nice thing. It’s always been that way since we got here,” she said.

Editorial Intern Christine Kara-vas can be e-mailed at ckaravas@paweekly.com.

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Special Open House!

Please be advised the Planning and Transportation Commission shall conduct a special meeting at 6:00 PM, Wednesday, August 13, 2008 in the Civic Center, Council Chambers, 1st Floor, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. Any interested persons may appear and be heard on these items.

All correspondence relating to any of the agenda items below or non-agenda items, which were not received by the 2:00 PM deadline for inclusion into Commission packets on the Thursday preceding the meeting date, need to be received before 5:00 PM on the date of the meeting for distribution to staff and Commission members.

Interested persons may appear and be heard. Staff reports for agendized items are available via the City’s main website at www.cityofpaloalto.org under Agendas/Minutes/Reports and also at the Planning Division Front Desk, 5th Floor, City Hall, after 2:00 PM on the Thursday preceding the meeting date. Copies will be made available at the Development Center should City Hall be closed on the 9/80 Friday.

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APROVAL OF MINUTES: Meeting of July 9, 2008.

NEXT MEETING: Regular Meeting of August 27, 2008

Questions. Any questions regarding the above applications, please contact the Planning Division at (650) 329-2441. The files relating to these items are available for inspection weekdays between the hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Audio tapes are available at 329-2440 and video tapes of meetings are available with the City Clerk’s at 329-2571. This public meeting is televised live on Government Access Channel 26.

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school zone.“The [founding fathers] were a

small group of lawyers who had a high degree of [interest in] human rights and were focused on a com-mon goal. Sometimes when I sit in a courtroom ... I look up at the flag and tell myself that if they could do that, so can I,” he said.

Alexander started the collection in 1990, when his son, Marshall, en-rolled at Boston College.

“I was walking down Newberry Street, and I saw a print shop. I bought a print of the Bonhomme Richard fighting the Serapis,” he said, refer-ring to John Paul Jones’ ship.

A couple of weeks later, a dealer offered him a print by Emanuel Leu-tze of George Washington Crossing the Delaware. The large painting hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

“The small original is owned by IBM,” he said.

Since that time, whenever he is in New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Paris, Alexander spends a couple of hours in shops on the lookout for old

prints.Alexander considers his most pre-

cious possession an early-1780s print of the Surrender of the Army of Gen. Cornwallis that he found on the Rue de Siene in Paris.

“I’m always amazed the paper still exists. Some of it is close to 200 years old,” he said.

A lifelong Democrat, he walked his first precinct when he was 7 years old. Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, he went to Paul Revere Elementary School, Nathan Hale Middle School and John Adams High School.

Early American history “has al-ways been a part of me,” Alexander said.

“In the West, we don’t see or hear or feel much of the American Revo-lution, the way we would in Boston or New York. It’s important to re-mind people to appreciate these very valuable roots,” he said.

While on break from the recent trial, Alexander stopped in front of a museum-quality model of the Bon-homme Richard. It is the ship from which Jones said, “I have not yet be-gun to fight.” A gift from his wife, Nancy, for his 40th birthday, it is the first thing he sees when he comes to work each day.

A replica of the flag flown on the ship stands next to the case, along with an egg-tempura painting of Jones painted by a client. The Bon-homme flag is the only one with red, white and blue stripes, put together by Jones’ sail makers in a hurry and with only a rudimentary description of the American flag, he said.

Alexander also has a replica of the American Revolution flag, known as the “Liberty Tree,” with a green tree in the corner on a white square instead of the blue field with stars. It flew during the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Alexander has a print of the battle that also shows the tree flag.

Alexander said he has great respect for the country’s founders and their “courage to do the right thing at the right time.”

The prints “provide information we would never normally learn. ... It’s something all Americans can share in,” he said.

Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be e-mailed at sdremann@paweekly.com.

VIDEO: Watch an interview with Richard Alexander and see some of his Revolutionary War memorabilia at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

Attorney Richard Alexander surrounds himself with reminders of the American Revolution in reverence for the courage of the early patriots and hard-won civil rights.

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POLICE CALLSPalo AltoJuly 19-July 25Violence relatedAssault w/ a deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . .1Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Family violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Credit card forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedAuto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . .4Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .7Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 13Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Alcohol or drug relatedDrunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousAnimal call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Disturbing/annoying phone calls. . . . . . .2Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Misc. penal-code violation . . . . . . . . . . .1Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Noise ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .7Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .7Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Menlo ParkJuly 21-July 26Theft relatedFraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Vehicle relatedAuto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . .1Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . .1

Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . .6Alcohol or drug relatedDrunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2MiscellaneousLocated missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .2Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

AthertonJuly 22-July 28Theft relatedGrand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Vehicle relatedAuto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Miscellaneous traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Suspicious vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .1Alcohol or drug relatedDrunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Miscellaneous911 hang up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Animal call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Area check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Citizen assist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Fire call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Follow up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Meet citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Other/miscellaneous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .5Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Town ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .2Tree blocking roadway . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Welfare check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo AltoUniversity Avenue, 7/19, 3:26 p.m.; rob-bery/armed.400 block Emerson Street, 7/20, 1:47 a.m.; battery/simple.Unlisted location, 7/20, 7:30 p.m.; domes-tic violence.300 block California Avenue, 7/23, 1:47 p.m.; assault with deadly weapon.Kent Place , 7/24, 7:43 p.m.; family vio-lence/battery.

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Barbara Stendell Cass, 69, a longtime Ladera resident, died of pancreatic cancer July 8.

She was born in San Francisco and graduated from Lowell High School at age 16. In 1959 she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where she met Tom Cass, whom she married a month after graduation. They lived in Washington, D.C., while her husband was in the U.S. Navy, returned to Berkeley and then lived in Paris, France, while he complet-ed postdoctoral studies.

She worked as a nursery school teacher in the early years of her marriage. Once her children were older she began volunteering at the Women’s Resource Center/ Career Action Center in Palo Alto and eventually became an executive in several nonprofit associations in the computer industry. She as-sisted in the formation of the Soft-ware Entrepreneur’s Forum (SEF), which was based in Palo Alto, and became executive director of the Forum in 1984.

She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Tom Cass of Ladera; mother, Norma Stendell of San Jose; son, Peter Cass of Menlo Park; daughter, Carin Zimmerman of San Francisco; and three grand-daughters.

According to her wishes, no ser-vices were held.

Donations in lieu of flowers may be sent to the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Medical Oncology Department, attention Philanthro-py, 795 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94301.

Lauretta LatulippeLauretta Gabrielle “Dolly” Lat-

ulippe, 86, who lived in Menlo Park from 1963 to 1975, died in Roseville on June 24 after a long illness.

She was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Her four sisters and two brothers gave her the nick-name of Dolly.

After graduating from high school and completing a secretarial course with the Sisters of the Holy Names, she worked for the Bell Telephone Company of Canada.

In 1944 she married Lucien “Luke” Latulippe. The couple had been married 45 years when he died in 1989.

She was a lifelong member of

Beta Sigma Phi and past president of many organizations, including the Catholic Women’s League and the Junior League, while living in Canada. After moving to Menlo Park in 1963, she served as a vol-unteer at Stanford Hospital for many years.

She is survived by her son, Rich-ard Thorton Latulippe of South San Francisco; daughter, Diane Elizabeth (Latulippe) Guenther of Granite Bay; sister, Germaine Vincent Hamlin of Carson City, Nev., brother, Casey Vincent of Santa Ana; two grandsons; and one great-grandson.

Theodora NelsonTheodora “Teddy” Lynn Nelson,

67, a resident of Los Altos, died at home July 13 of ocular melanoma.

Born in New Jersey in 1940 to a military family, she moved around quite a bit before marrying Paul Franson in 1959.

In 1974 the family moved with their two daughters to Los Altos, where she enrolled in San Jose State University, graduating with a degree in business administra-tion. This led to a career in mar-ket research, writing and public relations. She became a published author with books and articles on traveling.

She remarried in 1986 and she and her husband spent years trav-eling and volunteering at the Mu-seum of American Heritage in Palo Alto.

She is survived by her husband, Dor Hesselgrave; two children, Chris Sodden and Wendy Lin-droos; three step children, Matt Hesselgrave, Mark Hesselgrave and Laurie Mitsanas; brother, Da-vid Nelson; and eight grandchil-dren.

A memorial service was held at the Museum of American Heri-tage.

Memorial donations can be made to the Ocular Melanoma Foundation, P.O. Box 29261, Rich-mond, VA 23242 or the Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301.

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TransitionsBirths, marriages and deaths

On June 25, 2008, Ruth B. Running, age 95, passed away peacefully in her Palo Alto home of 62 years.

Ruth was born and raised in Shanghai, China, where her father was working as a civil engineer and architect. The large family crossed the Pacific by ship several times on visits home to Pennsylvania. They brought their Cadillac touring car from China on the ship and then drove across the United States camping out along the way. The Chinese license plates on the car caused much curiosity.

In 1928, her family left China hurriedly because of political unrest. Ruth finished high school in Pennsylvania and earned a bachelor’s degree, Phi Beta Kappa, from Randolph Macon College in Virginia. She obtained a Master’s degree in political science from the University of Minnesota.

She and her husband Carl moved to Palo Alto in 1946 where he was a Business Law professor at Stanford University. Following his death in 1952, Ruth worked in the Stanford libraries for more

than 20 years. Ruth had a lifelong interest in Chinese culture

and returned to China as a tourist on numerous occasions -- the last time when she was 80. She loved to follow political and current events, was an avid reader, gardener, dedicated environmentalist and enjoyed New York Times crossword puzzles.

Ruth’s loving daughter, Kristin R. Miscavage, also of Palo Alto, passed away shortly after her on July 16, 2008.

Ruth is survived by her sisters, Louise Clary in North Carolina, Margaret Brandt in Pennsylvania and Joanna Boettner in New York, her son-in-law, Lee Miscavage, of Palo Alto and numerous nieces and nephews. Her sister, Martha Manning of Pennsylvania predeceased her.

At her request, no service was held, but a future, informal gathering of family and friends will celebrate the lives of Ruth and her daughter.

Donations may be made in Ruth’s memory to the Sempervirens Fund, the Monterey Bay Aquarium or the Big Sur Land Trust.

P A I D O B I T U A R Y

Kristin Running Miscavage passed away on July 16, 2008 at home in Palo Alto in the arms of her husband after a courageous battle with cancer.

Kristin will always be remembered for her cheerful disposition,

bright smile, positive attitude and dedication to others. She had the enviable ability to make everyone around her feel upbeat.

Born in Palo Alto on Nov. 30, 1951, she was a graduate of Palo Alto High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in French from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She worked several years in the Stanford University libraries before becoming a travel agent. In 1984 she returned to Stanford where she worked in Information Technology Systems and Services and then the Registrar’s

Office as an institutional research analyst. In 2007, she was honored with the prestigious Amy Blue Award given to Stanford staff members who are dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.

Kristin’s passions included a lifelong love of the California coast and ocean. At an early age she became enamored with the surfing culture in Santa Cruz and enjoyed just being a “beach bum.” For several years she was a volunteer docent at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. She also loved travel, swimming, bicycling, gardening and knitting.

Her mother, Ruth Running, also of Palo Alto, recently passed away on June 25, 2008. Kristin’s father, Carl T. Running, died in 1952. She is survived by her loving husband, Lee Miscavage, aunts, uncle, numerous cousins and friends.

Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, Monterey Bay Aquarium or Big Sur Land Trust. Family and friends will gather at a later date to celebrate Kristin’s life and joyful spirit.

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BirthsJennifer Simanek-Cambouris

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Make the street safeEditor,

I am responding to your editorial on the Oregon Expressway from the July 16 Weekly.

As residents of Ross Road, we are writing today to give a different perspective than those published. We are parents of young children who play outside with neighbor children.

We have lived on Ross Road for more than 15 years. We fully sup-ported the placement of the speed bumps on Ross Road to calm traf-fic.

Unfortunately, the number of peo-ple who turn left on Ross Road off of Oregon to avoid the red light and short cut Middlefield has increased steadily over the years. These driv-ers tend to drive at excessive speeds and frequently run through the stop signs at Ross and Moreno. We have seen people swerve around the speed bumps to avoid slowing down. In addition, we have seen an increase of commercial grade trucks driving down our street.

We bike to downtown Palo Alto and we do not use the cross walk at Oregon Expressway due to concerns of getting hit by cars. We also avoid turning left from Ross to Oregon in our cars and perceive the intersec-tion to be unsafe as we are aware of several accidents at this intersec-tion.

We see very little downside to lim-iting or closing the left turn options to/from Ross Road and support any measures to make our street safer for our kids.

Jane Smith and Eric BloomRoss RoadPalo Alto

Bond appropriateEditor,

Both Ms. Wooley’s recent letter and the Weekly’s editorial overlook an important fact about the library bond in November. More than 90 percent of the money generated by the bond will be used for construc-tion at Mitchell Park Library and Community Center and the renova-tion/expansion of Main Library.

The ballot measure is thus not about operations or branches; — it is about bringing our two primary libraries into this century. Keep in mind that Mitchell Park and Main libraries were built in 1958 with the proceeds of a bond. Common sense suggests that after so many decades their renovation is both necessary and appropriately funded by a bond measure.

The most recent survey did indeed query residents about their willing-ness to pay and found a 10 percent drop in support when the Downtown Library was removed from the pro-posed bond and its cost was reduced accordingly.

Further, the city auditor’s report to which the editorial referred has

as its first finding that our library facilities are the worst in the area and need significant improve-ments.

As the chair of the Better Librar-ies for Palo Alto campaign, I invite you to visit www.betterlibrariesfor-paloalto.com for more information about why we need to pass this bond in November to bring our libraries into the 21st century.

Alison CormackRoss RoadPalo Alto

‘Doubt’ reviewEditor,

I would like to take issue with Kevin Kirby’s review of “Doubt” (Weekly, July 25).

I feel that, although the perfor-mance by Kimberley King was excellent, it did not convince me so overwhelmingly as it did you of the priest’s guilt. I felt that her rush to judgment, her rigid views and unyielding sense of righteousness — as written in the play — only served to make me want to see a more even-handed way of looking at the situation.

Her need to have her first in-stincts proved correct put her in

the same kind or moral blindness as that which we have had to suffer through during this Bush admin-istration.

I fear that in your assessment of the play you have shown yourself to be biased and assume that all audi-ence members shared your view.

Gene JacobsonTulip Lane

Palo Alto

Forbidden fruit?Editor,

In recent months I’ve noticed a growing number of apparently il-legal fruit peddlers on street cor-ners of residential neighborhoods in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. As far as I can tell, none are licensed, and apart from the risk to consumers of buying produce of un-known provenance, it appears that no permission is sought from either the city governments or private property owners where these sales occur, and that no sales (or other) taxes are paid.

Can we please have some law en-forcement here?

Scott MarovichE. O’Keefe Street

East Palo Alto

SpectrumEditorials, letters and opinions

School-bond watchdog group needs members Deadline looms to find seven committed Palo Altans

for two-year terms providing citizen oversight to last June’s $378 million school bond measure

J ust one day is left before the application deadline hits for the Citi-zens’ Oversight Committee that will watch over the expenditure of the $378 million in bond funds approved by Palo Alto Unified

School District voters as Measure A last June 3. This is perhaps the most important volunteer job in the

community right now, of hundreds of worthwhile opportunities in this volunteer-rich town. The deadline for applications to be at the district offices, 25 Churchill Ave., is 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

The school board is required by law to name seven persons to two-year terms on the watchdog group. Five must fit specific categories: being active in a business, senior-citizens’ or taxpayers’ organization, being a parent of a guardian of a student in Palo Alto schools, and being a parent active in PTA or a school site council. The remaining two will be “at large” members.

It is imperative that the board pick savvy, tough-minded individuals. The committee needs to be a true working group from the outset, not just because the launch is a critical time but because in the late 1990s a similar group wasn’t effective.

Mistakes that slipped by school officials and committee members caused years of disorganization and problems in the 1995 “Building for Excellence” (B4E) $143-million bond measure for school upgrades before the district was able to get a handle on the problems.

This larger bond measure lacks the flashy nickname but is backed by repeated pledges by district officials and campaign leaders that they would ensure the highest level of oversight possible to avoid B4E-type blunders.

The committee will meet quarterly and attend school board meetings when performance and financial audits are presented. Members are to keep the public informed and verify that bond revenues are only spent on designated areas for construction, rehabilitation or replacement of school facilities.

Voters were convinced to overcome lingering doubts to support the current bond measure to provide funds over several decades for repairs and upgrades. With the district’s reputation and future public support hanging in the balance, the school board needs to select committee members who will be actively independent and not just names on paper.

‘Green energy’ crisis: there’s not enough

P alo Alto’s heralded goals to achieve 20 percent of its electricity from “green” or renewable sources by 2008 and 33 percent by 2015 ran head-on into a hard fact this week: There’s not enough

green energy to go around as the demand soars in the face of public concern about global climate change.

And the news gets worse, according to new city utilities staff projections. This year, the 20 percent goal is falling short at 14 percent, not including hydropower (there’s a drought anyway).

By 2012, the city’s 30 percent goal likely will be stuck at 21 percent — at a much higher cost as the city bids against private utilities for the limited supplies.

The irony is that for many years the supply of renewable power — such as wind, geothermal power and even methane gas from landfills used to generate electricity — lagged because of low demand. But the people of the world seem to be waking up to the truly important priority of keeping our Earth a healthy place on which to live, even if our governments haven’t, yet.

Now, the private utilities are scrambling to meet a state mandate to get 20 percent of their power from renewable sources. The bidding wars are beginning.

What this situation means, beyond pushing hard to expand green-power sources, is that we all need to get smarter about how we spend our days and lives, in terms of energy consumption.

It’s taken a more than a century for us to impact our planet to the extent we have. It will take a long time, even if we hustle right along, to stabilize and perhaps reverse the damage. Palo Alto and other municipal utilities should continue their analysis and drive it deeper, focusing on how we can better cut demand for all energy as well as seek more local, less expensive sources.

Editorial

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What do you think? How should Palo Alto respond to the “green power” shortage?

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For more information contact Editor Jay Thorwaldson or Assistant to the Editor Tyler Hanley at editor@paweekly.com or 650-326-8210.

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StreetwiseAre you concerned about the number of large fires Northern California has had this summer?Asked at Town & Country Village Shopping Center on El Camino Real in Palo Alto. Interviews by Thea Lamkin. Photographs by Darlene Bouchard.

Emily SchickliStudentClara Drive, Palo Alto

“I don’t think you can really avoid it, with the climate the way it is.”

Markham HopkinsWriter Encina Avenue, Palo Alto

“I have asthma and it’s making it hard to breathe. It’s kind of adding to the smog problem. And the people with houses in the way of the fires, their whole lives go up in smoke.”

Ruben PachecoElectrician5th Avenue, Redwood City

“I’m worried about the pollution in the air, basically what we breath. And with the smog in Beijing, I wonder how they’re dealing with their air quality compared to ours.”

Paul CsonkaStudentEscondido Road, Stanford

“It’s concerning that they don’t allow many fires to continue burning, so that this type of thing doesn’t happen. It seems to be a little short-sighted.”

Anjali VishwanathSoftware EngineerDuncan Place, Palo Alto

“Oh absolutely. I’m concerned about the impact on the environment, espe-cially the animals and the critters that live there.”

by Jay Thorwaldson

S omewhere deep inside I’ve always been a lion hunter.

And the recent episode of the lion hunt in and around Palo Alto’s Foothills Park and the Los Trancos Woods residential area evoked deeply buried childhood memories of when my family moved from Fresno to Los Gatos when I was 3 years old.

The three acres my folks purchased at the edge of town fell off in the back into an oak canyon with a small creek in one corner, and it was backed by a 20- or 30-acre wilderness owned by another family.

One day I came trudging into the house for lunch as if I were carrying something heavy over my right shoulder. I walked into the kitchen and in front of my mother (who recounted the story for years) threw the load onto the floor.

“Three lions!” I declared triumphantly — not having a clear idea of how much real lions weighed at the time. I’m not sure I do even today, never having tried to lift one, alive or dead, African or American.

My older sister Marilyn actually made up a book about the great lion hunter, clipping pictures from magazines to illustrate it — a precursor to the high-tech books of today they print with your kid’s name as the hero.

So I’m familiar with imaginary lions, and to some extent with real ones.

For most of my life I’ve ridden horses, biked, hiked, jogged or actually lived in mountain-lion territory, and I’ve always been aware that usually they see (or hear) you long before you

know they’re anywhere in the neighborhood. The Spanish name for Los Gatos was origi-nally “La Rinconada de Los Gatos,” or “The Little Corner of the Cats.” It meant the little corner of the big cats.

A friend lives within five miles of where a woman, Barbara Schoener, 40, was killed by a cougar while jogging on the Western States Trail above the American River, in the Au-burn Lakes Trails area, on April 23, 1994. A memorial bench along the trail is a reminder of the danger the big cats can present.

But such attacks are really rare, and one 78-year stretch had no reports of any such at-tacks. Check out the Web site http://tchester.org/sgm/lists/lion_attacks_ca.html for list of cougar attacks dating back to the late 1800s. The official California Department of Fish & Game tally is at http://www.dfg.ca.gov/news/issues/lion/attacks.html.

Country residents usually take the presence of the cats for granted, yet try not to jog at dusk or dawn, when lions typically hunt.

An example of the casual attitude: Several years back, two young girls, 11 and 8, who used a trail around a grassy hill as a shortcut to the school bus, were warned that some-one had seen a cougar peering over the grass above the trail.

“Well so much for THAT shortcut!” the older girl said, taking the warning in stride.

So when the report came in of a 50-year-old man knocked from a trail in Foothills Park down an embankment above Los Trancos Creek everyone took it seriously. A federal tracker, several state Fish & Game wardens and lion-sniffing dogs joined local police and park rangers in a serious hunt.

They quickly shut down Foothills Park and the adjacent Pearson-Arastradero Open Space Preserve for several days and blanketed the area searching for sign of a lion.

A “lion profiler” of sorts speculated it might have been a young lion that was a bit clumsy in its attack, hitting the hiker at shoulder-blade level and falling down the steep hillside after him before running off up the creek below.

The story came to mind of the great Afri-can hunter who recounted how a large lion at-tacked him after his gun jammed but jumped over him when he ducked. The hunter came back the next day and found the lion leaping about — practicing shorter jumps.

But in the Foothills Park lion hunt puzzle-ment set in. No tracks, no sign, no scent.

A state supervisor F&G warden took the “victim’s” shirt to a forensic lab in Sacramen-to, and nary a hide nor hair was found. And there were no claw or teeth marks, either.

And the lion began to fade like the prover-bial Cheshire cat, with not even a smile left behind. Police, who never identified the hiker, talked about citing him for making a false re-port and billing him for the $10,000 cost of the hunt.

But the hiker — perhaps alerted by news stories about the potential $10,000 bill — stuck to his story. What would YOU do, given the alternatives? Police and the district at-torney’s office decided there wasn’t enough evidence to make a provable false-report case, federal, state or local. Officials deemed the attack “unsubstantiated,” with a heavy dose of skepticism.

So everyone went home.My hunch is that Los Trancos Hills neigh-

bors know who the hiker is, and it would be surprising if he didn’t get a dose of resent-ment about giving everyone a scare. But at least some innocent young lion wasn’t shot or otherwise killed as the attacker.

The hiker, a Portola Valley resident, initially said he didn’t report the incident until the next day because he feared being fined for being

inside Palo Alto’s Foothills Park, where only Palo Alto residents are supposed to be.

What he didn’t know is that park rangers, knowing lions are fiercely territorial, have trained a team of “watch lions” to remind non-residents that they don’t belong in the park with a friendly bump on the shoulder blades — a sure way to put some teeth into the residents-only rule.

But my favorite mountain-lion story was the case of the hungry young lion that apparently wound its way down San Francisquito Creek from the foothills into residential Palo Alto in mid-May 2004 — even though it had a sad ending for the lion. After prowling around the Newell Road and Walnut Drive area for some days, the lion was run up a large camphor tree by a neighborhood dog. Those hunting it never bothered to look up.

Weekly Senior Staff Writer Don Kazak even interviewed the dog’s owner virtually under the tree where the lion was perched about 25 or 30 feet above. Don thought the dog didn’t like him and was growling at him, but the dog didn’t look up either.

When Don returned to his Jeep across the street to phone in the story, a woman police officer pulled up next to him, took out a rifle and shot the lion out of the tree, where it had been spotted by a TV crew.

Earlier, I called to check on a longtime friend and Newell Road resident, the late Ed Ames, then in his mid-90s but with his kindly humor and wit fully intact. I asked how he was doing with his walker with the lion prowling around the neighborhood.

“Oh, Jay, it wouldn’t take a mountain lion to take me out,” Ed replied. “Any good-sized house cat could do that.”

Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be e-mailed at jthorwaldson@paweekly.com.

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Monday, August 25 7:30 p.m.

Author of This Is Your Brain on Music illuminates how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six funda-mental forms.

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Award-winning Bay-to-Ridge Trail offers hiking challenge and links to nature

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M issing only one major link, the long-envisioned Bay-to-Ridge Trail is nearly complete.

On the latest version of the city’s Palo Alto Open Space map, the 16-mile trail appears as a long orange line, curving southwest from the Palo Alto Baylands’ sailing station through Monte Bello Open Space Preserve in the foothills. Just off the map, the trail extends to the Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve.

On the ground, it is largely unmarked, passing invisibly through places Palo Alto pedestrians already tread — North California Avenue, Stanford Avenue, Old Page Mill Road, the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve and Foothills Park.

story by Becky Trout photos by Marjan Sadoughi

Palo Alto youth learn to canoe as part of a summer camp last week at the Baylands.

The Bay-to-Ridge Trail winds through Foothills Park.

In the minds of its supporters, the Bay-to-Ridge Trail represents something even larger. It links the Palo Alto of daily life with the Bay’s waters and the west’s wooded hills, unimpeded by city bound-aries, property ownership or freeways — or by residents-only rules.

It connects the San Francisco Bay Trail and the Ridge Trail, two major efforts to construct Bay-ringing hiking paths.

And someday, that path will continue all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

“It’s just very cool to ... walk out of your door and up to the top of Skyline and down to the ocean,” Councilwoman Yoriko Kishimoto said. “It’s really a beautiful vision.”

As mayor last year, Kishimoto pre-sided over a significant milestone for the trail, the completion of links between Los Trancos Open Space Preserve and Foothills Park and between Foothills Park and the Arastradero Preserve. She and Palo Altan Nonette Hanko, a founder and longtime board member of the Mid-peninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD), jointly hammered in a 3-foot-long wooden “spike” painted gold at the place the trail through the city’s Foothills Park connects with MROSD lands.

Previously, Foothills Park trails didn’t connect with anything, on purpose, to protect its status as accessible only to Palo Alto residents.

But in 2005, the City Council had to agree to open Foothills to through hikers to secure $2 million from the California Coastal Conservancy and Santa Clara County to purchase 13-acre Bressler property, which was subsumed into the Arastradero Preserve.

By co-opting a utility road and con-structing a new trail, those links were

completed in September 2007. “That’s really the lynchpin that created

the Bay-to-Ridge,” Greg Betts, the city’s acting community-services director, said of the connection.

Betts entered the nearly complete trail into a statewide contest this spring. It won, capturing a trail-project merit award at the California State Parks’ California Trails and Greenways Con-ference in May.

“The trail not only links parks and open-space areas with urban neigh-borhoods as the trail passes from tidal marshlands to redwood forests, there are four nature interpretive centers along the trail route to allow travelers to learn

about the ecology of the different plant communities along the way,” Betts wrote in the award application.

T he history of the trail dates back more than a third of a century. It was conceived by Hanko when

she was envisioning creation of the MROSD in 1972, as a spinoff of an earlier trail vision: a trail all around the Bay, envisioned by Mary Gordon, then a member of the Palo Alto Plan-ning Commission.

Frances Brenner, also a commission member, favored the city acquiring the former Arastra Ltd. property. In the mid-1960s, a development firm proposed building 1,776 houses on the land, but the city denied it, rezoned the property and in the mid-1970s was forced to ac-quire the land in a court decision, for a negotiated price of $7.5 million. The land is now a key link in the Bay-to-Ridge Trail.

Hanko, who still serves on the MROSD board, said the Bay-to-Ridge Trail has been a campaign position every time she faces re-election — although she hasn’t had to campaign in recent elections be-cause no one has run against her.

Former MROSD Planner Del Woods actually developed a trail alignment along the periphery of Foothills Park, but it was steep and close to private properties.

Betts, as director of open space and parks, suggested looking at exist-ing trails, and Craig Beckman of the MROSD suggested that the best align-ment would be to link to the district’s Los Trancos Preserve, near the top of Page Mill Road.

Former Palo Alto City Council mem-bers and mayors Judy Kleinberg and Dena Mossar also supported the trail concept.

A county planner, Lisa Killough, was put in charge of trails countywide and was one more catalyst in moving the trail forward, Hanko recalled.

Along the way, the Bay-to-Ridge trail was included in the 1995 Santa Clara County Trails Master Plan.

Trail planning kicked off in earnest following the adoption of Palo Alto’s 1998 Comprehensive Plan, which called for the city to “evaluate the design of a Bay-to-Foothills path.”

Practicality largely drove the selection

of the route, Betts said. “In one sense, the route is the shortest

distance between two spots,” he said.Planners utilized an existing path over

U.S. Highway 101 and the California Avenue underpass below the railroad tracks. They tried to connect parks and green space — the trail touches Jordan Middle School, Alexander Peers Park, Jerry Bowden Park and comes close to Donaldina M Cameron Park.

And planners used the four nature centers — Lucy Evans Baylands Nature

Interpretive Center, the Junior Museum and Zoo, the straw-bale gateway facil-ity at Pearson-Arastradero and the Dan-iels Nature Center in the Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve — as anchors, Betts said.

They also used existing trails.In the built-out areas of Palo Alto,

planners aimed for less-busy roadways and wide sidewalks, Betts added.

“Palo Alto itself is still a really beauti-

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ful route,” he said.One gap remains in the trail. Between Old Page Mill Road and the

Arastradero Preserve, across Interstate 280, the path needs to cross Stanford University land.

Stanford agreed to build the critical link as part of its 2000 General Use permit, in which it agreed to construct two trails.

Known as S-1, or southern trail, the Bay-to-Ridge connector was approved — but is now tied up in the lawsuit challenging the northern Stanford trail proposal along Alpine Road.

“Sometimes it just takes longer to build a trail than it does to build a roadway,” Betts said. “Sometimes it just takes a while for pieces to fall into place as it did with the serendipity of the 13-acre Bressler property.”

Betts said he only knows of one person who has hiked the length of the trail, although others including Kishimoto have hiked large chunks of it.

“We acknowledge that it’s not going to be an ant trail of people,” he said.

Anyone eager to hike the trail should prepare carefully. It is long and, as its name suggests, climbs more than 1,400 feet. Most of the trail is unmarked so a map is essential for first-time trail hikers.

Signs through the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve, for example, still state trails end at Foothills Park, and once at the boundary, a hiker arrives perpendicular to a road, with no clear indication which way to go.

Staff Writer Becky Trout can be e-mailed at btrout@paweekly.com.

Hiking trail

Above, Nonette Hanko, a founder of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Dis-trict, and then-Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto of Palo Alto, pound a symbolic golden spike to link city and district trails last September along Page Mill Road. Below, under the canopy of trees lies the Ridge Trail in Foothills Park.

A great egret takes flight at the Palo Alto Baylands.

On the cover: Lois Grandburg of Palo Alto takes a midday walk on a Baylands trail last Friday. Photograph by Marjan Sadoughi.

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I n a rousing panel discussion lit-tered with four-letter words — “tech” being perhaps the mildest

— investors debated causes of the sorry state of Silicon Valley’s ven-ture economy at Stanford University last week.

While panelists didn’t agree on the roots of troubles, they said things are bound to improve — sometime.

A main point of contention was whether federal regulation, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, is to blame for the economic slow-down.

A crucial artery of the Valley economy, venture capital has had a weak pulse recently. Not a single venture-backed company filed an initial public offering (IPO) in the second quarter of 2008, according to the National Venture Capital As-sociation.

That hasn’t happened since 1978, according to the group’s study.

Venture firms — such as the many in downtown Palo Alto and lining Sand Hill Road — rely on

IPOs, as well as mergers and acqui-sitions, to profit from companies in which they’ve invested.

So the tone was part joking, part dismayed, as industry members at-tempted to self-diagnose what could be causing market doldrums.

Speakers included a going-public “caddie” who helped orchestrate the Google IPO as an employee, an in-vestment banker who sold the kids’ social-networking Web site Club Penguin to Disney for $650 million, and Morgan Stanley’s head of West-Coast technology investments.

The talk was part of the larger

Summit at Stanford to study tech-nology trends, sponsored by me-dia company AlwaysOn and the school’s entrepreneurship program, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

So far, theories on causes of the weak market include hesitant inves-tors, shockwaves from the mortgage crisis, and costs associated with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the regula-tory legislation created after major firms such as Enron were exposed as financial frauds, according to a survey from the venture group.

But those theories didn’t always

square with panelists.Faulting federal law for Silicon

Valley’s current financial woes is misplaced — blame the venture capitalists themselves, according to Paul Deninger, vice chairman of investment bank and securities firm Jefferies & Company.

“I’m so sick of hearing about Sar-banes-Oxley,” he said.

Rather, the problem is the venture-capital community, which refuses to invest early in infrastructure such as accounting systems that will meet the Act’s stringent requirements for companies they’re funding, he said. When it is time to contemplate go-ing public five years down the road, they are saddled — unsurprisingly — with huge costs, he said.

“If you build a house and forget to put in plumbing ... that costs a cra-pload of money,” he said. He added that he’d fought Sarbanes-Oxley in Washington, D.C. and it’s time to move on.

The act, which is named after its sponsors in the Senate, is also called

AT&T ACCELERATOR? ... Well, probably not, but it looks as if the name of the current Stanford Lin-ear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is at least somewhat up for grabs. The Sand Hill Road facility, staffed by Stanford University profes-sors, is a place where physicists have won Nobel Prizes for their research. Now SLAC is about to get a new name because of a dispute between Stanford and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which has funded it since it opened in 1966. The DOE is seeking to provide trademark pro-tection for all of its labs across the country and wanted to trademark “Stanford Linear Accelerator Cen-ter.” But Stanford officials object-ed to the name of the university being part of a federal trademark because the university “owns” the rights to its own name. So “Stan-ford” may not be part of the new name. “Both sides have a very rightful position,” Bill Madia, Stan-ford’s vice president for SLAC, said. Madia is a former director of two other DOE labs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Pa-cific Northwest National Labora-tory. SLAC employees are trying to come up with a new name that would also have the acronym of SLAC, but no ideas have caught on yet, according to the Stanford News Service.

— Don Kazak

BARTON GOES PRIVATE ... The Private Bank of the Peninsula an-nounced last week that Michael S. Barton has joined the Palo Alto-based bank as executive vice president and chief lending officer. Barton brings 30 years of experience in the field, most re-cently coming from a similar post at Greater Bay Area Bank, also in Palo Alto. Barton graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received his MBA from San Francisco State Univer-sity.

VIRTUAL ROLLERCOASTER ... Palo Alto’s hot IPO of 2007, VMware, is still growing, albeit at more reasonable rates these days. The company, which had a meteoric rise shortly after going public, often draws comparison to Mountain View’s Google — the Palo Alto-headquartered company raised more than $1 billion in its initial public offering a year ago, Silicon Valley’s larg-est since Google went public in 2004. However, the similarities end there. Google makes most of its revenue through advertising, while VMware’s livelihood comes from selling license agreements for its software packages. VM-ware stock is now trading in the low-mid 30s, well below its 2007 opening price of $52 and a high

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Something is rotten in the state of Silicon ValleyInvestors debate reasons for IPO slow-down, worst in decades

by Arden Pennell

A panel discusses the two-year future of technology initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions at the Summit at Stanford conference. From left, the speakers are moderator Victor Boyajian of Sonnenschein, Lise Buyer of Class V Group, Paul Deninger of Jefferies & Company, Drew Guevara of Morgan Stanley and Jamie Montgomery of Montgomery & Company.

So far, theories on causes of the weak market include hesitant investors, shockwaves from the mortgage crisis, and costs associated with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

the Public Company Account Re-form and Investor Protection Act. It established a national oversight board for all public companies and introduced greater requirements for financial reporting and auditing — meaning, some say, more work for companies deciding to go public.

Lise Buyer, the Google veteran, said companies unable to handle the hassle and $2 million to $3 mil-lion cost of Sarbanes-Oxley weren’t ready to have an IPO, anyway.

Yet the act has posed a real bar-rier, according to Jamie Montgom-ery, CEO of Los Angeles-based investment bank Montgomery & Co. and a leader of the Club Pen-guin deal.

“Sarbanes-Oxley has put a per-manent damper on IPOs,” he said, forecasting, “this is going to be a tough year.” Things will likely take another 18 months to look up, espe-cially in the currently weak finan-cial markets, he said.

While speakers largely declined to answer the ostensible question at hand — that is, when exactly tech IPOs and mergers and acquisitions will rebound — they offered a bird’s-eye perspective on present-day investing.

Tech is all grown up, said Drew Guevara, a managing director at Morgan Stanley.

“We live in an age of diminished expectations in technology IPOs,” he said. In the mature market, it’s harder to make a big, splashy en-

trance and become the new Google, he said.

A software firm nowadays must decide whether it wants to be ac-quired by a current giant such as Hewlett Packard — or strike out on its own to an IPO, according to Guevara

Of course, that’s problematic when there are only a handful of big companies buying startups and smaller firms, Deninger said. In a recent study of acquisitions, his firm found there are only 10 major purchasers — one of whom, Ya-hoo, may not be around for long, he said.

“We have to repopulate the buyer base,” he said.

Despite gloomy assessments, a slight silver lining could be de-tected.

A tough market is an opportunity for organizational soul-searching, Buyer said.

“Are you a feature, a product or a company?” she asked. The former two should be acquired or merge; the latter may want to IPO, accord-ing to Buyer, a principal at Class V group, which guides companies through public offerings.

Buyer also recommended using a sturdy rudder of common sense to steer through rough times.

“Build something that somebody wants and will pay you more than it cost you to build it,” she said.

Another dose of pragmatism came from audience member Fran-cine Hardaway. Hardaway runs Stealthmode Partners, an entrepre-

neur-coaching company based in Phoenix, Ariz.

Down in the desert, there’s not nearly as much venture funding as in the Valley, she said. Her group helps many nascent companies bootstrap, or find funds themselves, until they attract enough customers to profit.

In contrast, there’s a notable ex-pectation in cities such as Palo Alto and Menlo Park that cash should be always free-flowing, she said.

“There’s this sense of entitlement to money in Silicon Valley,” she said. She wondered aloud: What-ever happened to companies fund-ing themselves — then profiting from hard-earned success?

Staff Writer Arden Pennell can be e-mailed at apennell@paweekly.com.

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Paul Deninger, vice chairman of investment bank and securities firm Jef-feries, said he’s sick of hearing complaints about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which some say has put a damper on companies planning to go public.

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by Rick Eymer

D espite losing a chance for play for the title of their re-spective divisions, both the

Stanford Red women’s senior team and the San Jose Splash 20-Under women’s squad recovered to win bronze medals over the weekend in Moraga at the national champi-onships.

Stanford beat the New York Ath-letic Club, 6-5, on Sunday while the Splash, with five local players, beat

Santa Barbara, 6-5, for one of its best finishes ever in the tournament on Thursday.

Stanford lost in the semifinals, 10-7, to the eventual champion Bruin club team while San Jose lost an opportunity to play for the gold when it dropped a 5-4 decision to eventual champion SET (Saddle-back El Toro) of Orange County. SET won the title with a 6-5 win over Diablo.

“Everybody played a lot,” Stan-

ford club coach Susan Ortwein said. “It was a long week but the best thing about it was that we trained all summer together and you could tell.”

Kelly Eaton scored early in the fourth period against NYAC to give Stanford a two-goal cushion. A sol-id defensive effort stopped NYAC’s final play in the last 13 seconds.

Ortwein said goalies Elise Ponce and Cassie Wyckoff, who split time in the net, solidified the team de-

fense.Other members of the team

included Lauren Silver, Kelsey Holshouser, Alex Koran, Kim Krueger, Lauren Wyckoff, Kara Hillman, Pallavi Menon, Vee Dun-levie, Heather West and Tanya Wil-cox.

Megan Burmeister, who suffered a concussion on Saturday, was un-able to play on Sunday.

“We missed having her in the wa-

It’s do or die, at last

Palo Alto 14s are just four wins from World Series

by Keith Peters

I t has been 50 years since the first Palo Alto Babe Ruth baseball players laced up their cleats and

took to the field. During that time, no team from Palo Alto has reached the World Series at any age level.

While the odds seemingly have been against local teams since the league’s inception in 1958 — a team of San Carlos 15-year olds won the

World Series in 1959 — those years of frustration and near misses could end next week.

For the first time ever, Palo Alto is hosting the Pacific Southwest Regional all-star tournament for 14-year olds. The week-long, double-elimination event begins Thursday at Baylands Athletic Center and in-cludes eight teams from four states plus the island of Guam.

As the host team, Palo Alto had a bye into the tournament and didn’t have to qualify by winning district and NorCal State events. Thus, the home team is just four victories away from becoming the first Palo Alto team to reach the World Series.

Palo Alto will open play Thursday night against Southern California representative Torrance at 7:30 p.m. Torrance already has won two quali-fying tournaments. In the regional opener, West Reno (Nevada) will face Carbon (Utah) at 4 p.m.

On Friday, Chandler (Arizona) takes on Antioch (Northern Cali-fornia) at 4 p.m., followed by Guam against San Benito (Central Califor-nia) at 7:30 p.m.

As 13-year olds, Palo Alto reached the finals of this tournament a year

BABE RUTH BASEBALL

Palo Alto’s Freddy Avis (hitting) is making his fifth-straight postseason appearance on yet another team with high expectations of perhaps qualifying for the World Series for the first time ever.

Tucker Jorgenson will be among a solid group of pitchers who will help carry Palo Alto’s hopes in the Pacific Southwest Regional Babe Ruth all-star tournament for 14-year olds this week at Baylands Athletic Center.

DIAMOND NOTES . . . The season is over for the Palo Alto Oaks semipro baseball team, the Alpine/West Menlo 9-10 Little League all-stars and the Palo Alto American Legion 17-under team. The Oaks lost two of three games and were eliminated from the AABC NorCal Stan Musial Asso-ciation State Tournament on Sat-urday at Baylands Athletic Center. A 7-6 loss to the Sacramento Scorch knocked the Oaks from the tournament, which they were hosting. Palo Alto gave up too many walks and committed too many errors to prevent the set-back. The Oaks trailed by seven runs before staging a comeback that fell short. A key mistake hurt Palo Alto in the seventh when Sean Scott doubled in Gabe Du-ran but tried to stretch the double into a triple and was thrown out. Scott would have been the po-tential tying run had he remained at second base . . . The Alpine/West Menlo 9-10 all-stars were knocked out of the NorCal Divi-sion 2 Tournament in Campbell following a 9-3 loss to Alameda on Monday night. Alpine/West Menlo pretty much ran out of pitching during its three-game stay after two pitchers left for summer vacation. Starter Kodiak Conrad hit the maximum 75-pitch count after only 2 2/3 innings be-fore turning the ball over to Travis Jones, who was making only his first appearance of the postsea-son. Alpine/West Menlo grabbed its only lead of the game when Matt Hennefarth hit a two-run homer in the third for a 2-1 ad-vantage. Alameda bounced back to take a 5-2 lead in the third. Al-pine/West Menlo won the District 52 and Section 3 tournaments to reach the NorCal Division 2 event . . . The Palo Alto American Legion 17-under team dropped a 4-3 decision to Half Moon Bay in the Area 2 Tournament on Sun-day at McKelvey Park in Mountain View, and was eliminated. Half Moon Bay grabbed a 4-0 lead after two innings against Palo Alto starter Eric Stanske, who settled down and finished with a complete game. Palo Alto loaded the bases in the fourth, but got only one run to trim its deficit to 4-2. In the sixth, Stanske cut it to 4-3 with an RBI single. Other Palo Alto contributors included Jon Rea, Noah Johnson, Scott Witte and Matt Hornberger.

COACHING CORNER . . . Gunn girls’ varsity volleyball coach Rau-dy Perez is looking for a JV coach for the upcoming season. Those interested should contact him at raudyperez@yahoo.com . . . Palo Alto High is looking for an as-sistant and JV assistant volleyball coach for the fall season, as well as a JV girls’ water polo coach. Those interested should contact Paly AD Earl Hansen at ehan-sen@pausd.org or at 329-3886.

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N ick Caine went out for a swim last Saturday. Five hours, three minutes and 53 seconds

later he finally came out of the wa-ter — as a recordholder.

Caine, 15, swam 12.2 miles from Anacapa Island to Oxnard and broke the existing record for the solo swim in the Santa Barbara Channel that had stood for seven years.

A sophomore at Sacred Heart Prep and a resident of Atherton, Caine is hoping to swim the English Channel next year when he turns 16.

“I started open water and distance swimming when I was 13 years old,” Caine said Monday. “I wanted to do my first Alcatraz crossing because I thought it would be a good challenge for myself. I fell in love with swim-ming in the San Francisco Bay and open water swimming in general, so I have stuck with it. It’s something most people don’t consider doing as a fulltime sport.”

During the high school swim sea-son, Caine swims the 500-yard free most every meet in addition to a few other races. He started preparing for the Santa Barbara Channel crossing last December.

“Once school ended, I started doing a lot more yardage and en-durance training for the swim,” he

explained. “All the time I have been in the Bay since I started has helped build up my tolerance for colder wa-ter, and that is why I did not have trouble with the temperature in Santa Barbara.

“I wanted to do this swim in prep-aration for the English Channel.”

Track and fieldPalo Alto’s Julia Maggioncalda

finished fourth overall in the Youth Girls’ high jump at the National Ju-nior Olympics last week in Omaha, Neb.

Maggioncalda, who’ll be a fresh-man at Gunn High this fall, cleared 5-4. That was the same height as the winner, but Maggioncalda had more misses during the competition. It was her best mark of the season after clearing 5-3 3/4 at the Region 14 qualifying meet in Livermore.

Two members of the Palo Alto Lightning Track and Field Club, Dariya Smith and Julia Bounds, also placed at the National Junior Olym-pics. Smith ran 2:37.00 for 19th (our of 34 runners) in the Midget Girls’ 800 meters while Bounds was 10th (out of 28 runners) in the Bantam Girls’ 1,500 in 5:34.83.

Athletes finishing among the top eight earned All-American honors.

Nick Caine with his mother Mari-lyn and father Robert.

Julia Maggioncalda earned All-American JO honors.

by Rick Eymer

I f Stanford women basketball fans needed a reason to get excited, than they need look

no further than 6-foot-2 forward Nneka Ogwumike.

She’s going to be a freshman on The Farm this fall and has already received numerous accolades. The National High School Player of the Year, she helped Cy-Fair High in Texas compile an 108-2 mark dur-ing her three seasons on the varsity. She scored 2,204 points, and added 1,287 rebounds, 172 assists, 262 steals and 133 blocked shots.

On Sunday, Ogwumike added her first international gold medal to the family trophy case as she recorded a double-double with 20 points and 15 rebounds to help the USA Wom-en’s Under-18 national team beat host Argentina, 81-37, and win the FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Buenos Aires with a 5-0 record.

“We knew that we had already

secured the gold medal, but we felt it would mean so much more if we stayed undefeated,” Ogwumike said. “I just went out and played hard and tried to keep my teammates focused as well. Anytime there is a crowd, whether they are for you or against you, it gets you fired up. We really

fed off that en-ergy.”

The team’s first-place fin-ish qualified the USA for the 2009 FIBA U19 World Champi-onship in Bang-kok, Thailand, along with run-nerup Canada (4-1), third-place Brazil

(3-2) and fourth-place Argentina (2-3).

“I feel awesome,” said USA and Northern Illinois head coach Car-

ol Owens. “Words cannot express how far this team has come since the first day of training camp. We are a gold-medal team, and that is something that they can cherish for the rest of their lives. I’m probably going to wear my medal around my neck all the way home.”

Ogwumike put the game’s first four points on the board with two offensive rebounds but Argentina tied the game at 19 points.

The U.S. went on a 21-7 run that gave the U.S. a 40-26 halftime ad-vantage.

On winning a gold medal:“From day one this is what we

wanted to do, and this is what USA Basketball is all about; winning the gold,” Ogwumike said. “To be able to win the gold is one thing, and then to do it undefeated is another great accomplishment. It feels great. I think it’s one of my most honored accomplishments, and I’m really excited.”

Incoming Stanford freshman Sar-ah Boothe played 11 minutes off the bench for the Americans.

“It’s just an amazing feeling,” Boothe said. “You see Olympians get gold medals, and to be a part of

something like that is just such a huge honor. I’m blessed to be here, and it’s a very special feeling.”

The Ameri-cans opened with a 112-49 victory over Venezuela and then beat Cana-da, 72-56; Puer-

to Rico 116-36; and Brazil, 96-51.Against the Brazilians, Ogwu-

mike scored 10 of her 13 points in the second quarter as the U.S. lead stretched to 56-22 at halftime.

“We took care of the job, and it felt great out on the floor,” Ogwu-mike said. “Everyone was together, and everyone was playing hard. I would have to say it was our best game because we had less turnovers and more offensive boards, and we didn’t ever let up.”

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ago in Richfield, Utah, losing to Ba-kersfield in the championship game. Palo Alto is a year older, more ex-perienced and has the comforting knowledge that Bakersfield already has been eliminated.

“Because of past experiences, we have high expectations,” said Fred-dy Avis, a versatile infielder/pitcher for Palo Alto. “It’s the only tourna-ment we play in. If we don’t win it all, it will not be very satisfactory.”

Avis, along with teammates Gra-ham Marchant and Jordan Piha, form a special group of players who have accomplished more in the past four years than perhaps any other team in the history of Palo Alto baseball.

It all started back in 2004 when the trio played on the Palo Alto Na-tional 9-10 Little League all-stars. The team got to the championship game of the NorCal Division 2 Tournament before losing to River Park (Fresno), 4-1. Palo Alto hit 17 home runs as a team and finished 16-3, setting the stage for future seasons.

In 2005 as 11-year-old all-stars, the Avis-Marchant-Piha trium-virate helped Palo Alto National again reach the NorCal Division 2 title game. This time, Palo Alto beat River Park, 2-1. Palo Alto took a .401 team batting average and 1.43 team ERA into the finals, becoming the first team from the city to win at that level.

Palo Alto’s season ended after that victory. Had the players been 12, they would have qualified for the Western Regional, the final stop before the Little League World Se-ries in Williamsport, Pa.

In 2006 as 12-year olds, Palo Alto National once again reached the NorCal Division 2 tournament, this time losing to River Park in the semifinals, 5-1. That snapped Palo Alto’s 13-game winning streak. Avis, Marchant and Piha all started and ended their Little League ca-reers in Corte Madera. Marchant pitched in nine of the team’s 15 postseason games.

That brings us to 2007 and Babe Ruth 13s. Under manager Matt At-water, Palo Alto won district and section titles and earned a trip to Utah for the regional. A 10-1 loss to Bakersfield in the finals, however, left Palo Alto with a 12-3 record in the postseason.

Now, they’re back. The boys are now 14. They’re a year more expe-rienced and itching to make some history by qualifying for the World Series the following week in Quin-cy, Mass.

While Palo Alto already has played 17 postseason games this summer, the schedule has been un-like any other before it. With no qualifying tournaments and do-or-die situations, preparation has been

different.“We tried to play most of our

games like they were double-elimi-nation,” said Marchant.

Added Avis: “All the other teams had real competitions and games that meant something. It will be in-teresting to see how we handle it.”

Palo Alto coach Rick Farr said the team’s experience in last year’s regional should help, but “the thing that we’re missing is the pressure of losing.

“The first time they’re going to play a game that really matters will be against one of the best teams in the southwest. Torrance already has won two tournaments.”

But, Farr noted, the positives of

this postseason still outweigh any negatives. The coaches have been able to play everyone a lot and been able to spend more time evaluat-ing players while playing them in different situations — something they couldn’t do with a game on the line.

So, just how good is this Palo Alto team?

“They’re definitely good,” Farr said. “We know that from last year. The question is: are they good enough to get to the next level? We don’t know.”

Nearly everyone is back from last season. Avis, Marchant and Piha return for their fifth straight post-season together. Travis McHugh,

BJ Boyd is back to help lead the Palo Alto Babe Ruth 14-year-old all-stars in the Pacific Southwest Regional this week.

Graham Marchant has been on all-star teams that have advanced fur-ther than any other in Palo Alto baseball history.

THURSDAYGame 1: Nevada vs. Utah, 4 p.m.Game 2: Palo Alto vs. Torrance (SoCal),

7:30 p.m.FRIDAY

Game 3: Arizona vs. Northern Califor-nia, 4 p.m.

Game 4: Guam vs. Central California, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAYGame 5: Game 1 loser vs. Game 3

loser, 9 a.m.Game 6: Game 2 loser vs. Game 4

loser, 12:30 p.m.Game 7: Game 2 winner vs. Game 4

winner, 4 p.m.Game 8: Game 1 winner vs. Game 3

winner, 7:30 p.m.SUNDAY

Game 9: Game 5 winner vs. Game 7 loser, 12:30 p.m.

Game 10: Game 6 winner vs. Game 8 loser, 4 p.m.

MONDAY, AUG. 4Game 11: Game 9 winner vs. Game 10

winner, 4 p.m.Game 12: Game 7 winner vs. Game 8

winner, 7:30 p.m.TUESDAY, AUG. 5

Game 13: Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 loser, 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6Game 14: Game 12 winner vs. Game

13 winner (championship), 4 p.m.Game 15: Challenge game, if neces-

sary, at 7:30 p.m.(Winner advances to the World Series

for 14-year olds)

2008 PACIFIC SOUTHWEST REGIONALBabe Ruth 14-year-old All-Stars at Baylands Athletic Center

Tucker Jorgenson, Sam Falkenha-gen and Jake Batchelder also re-turn in addition to having standout careers in the Alpine/West Menlo Little League. Another key returnee is BJ Boyd, among the top hitters on the squad. Matt Martella also is back.

Kevin Kannappan, who played three years with the Palo Alto Na-tional Little League all-stars, is new a new member of the Babe Ruth squad along with Drake Swezey. They’re joined by fellow newcom-ers John Dickerson, Matt Eastman, Jacob Lauing and Cameron Winn.

One former Babe Ruth and Little League all-star not playing is Aus-tin Braff, who is sidelined by an injury.

Avis and Jorgenson lead a very deep pitching staff that includes Marchant.

“This team is probably more tal-ented (than last year’s), if we play together and up to our potential,” Marchant said. “Hitting is prob-ably our strength. We have a lot of depth.

“Hopefully we’ll win (the opener) and stay out of the losers’ bracket.”

Avis also believes this season’s squad is improved.

“I think we’re stronger,” he said. “We’ve had two years to sort out who the best players are. We know each other better.”

While host teams always get byes into tournaments and often aren’t that strong, Palo Alto is different. This is a team that has been tested

before and proved very successful until getting to that final exam.

That time isn’t far off. The cham-pionship game is set for Aug. 6 at 4 p.m. For the Palo Alto 14-year-old all-stars, the victories have never been so important.

Manager Matt Atwater has nearly everyone back from 2007.

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by Rick Eymer

J essica Mendoza hopes to raise another gold medal on the vic-tory stand in Beijing sometime

in August. Lauren Lappin wants to be standing next to her.

The Stanford grads are major con-tributors to the United States Olym-pic softball program, as is Stanford coach John Rittman, who serves as an assistant to the Olympic team.

Team USA completed its 60-game Bound 4 Beijing tour on Saturday night, beating Team Intensity, 6-2, at Deanna Manning Stadium in Ir-vine before 2,447 chanting fans.

Mendoza, a center fielder, helped the Americans (59-1) capture the gold four years ago in Athens. Lap-pin, an alternate last time, is on her first Olympic team and shares catching duties with UCLA grad Stacey Nuveman. She can also play shortstop, and last year taught her-self to become a switch hitter.

In 2006, Mendoza played a ma-jor role in the U.S. winning its first World Cup of softball, and hit the game-winning home run in the Gold Medal game of the World Champi-onships that year.

Mendoza leads the team with 107 RBI, a .495 average (102-for-206) and has five triples and 21 home runs.

“These past few months have been exhausting but also so amazing to see so much passion for the sport,”

Mendoza said. “Although it’s sad to see it end, we are so ready to go over and bring home our fourth gold medal. The best way I can describe it is we are going to bottle up all the places we’ve been, the fans we’ve seen and take them over to China. We are going to represent them and know they are at home supporting us.”

Team USA drew more than 200,000 fans in 45 cities across the country since the tour began on Feb. 19.

Virginia Tech’s Angela Tincher pitched a no-hitter in handing Team USA its lone loss, 1-0, on March 26. Four tour games were canceled due to weather.

“The dress rehearsal is done and now we’re even more focused on

the Olympics,” Team USA (and Arizona) coach Mike Candrea said. “We had a great tour this year with some of the best stops. The local hosts held some great events and the communities really supported soft-ball and that’s great to see. Now we are on to why we are here, to bring home a gold medal.”

The U.S. opens the Olympics against Venezuela at noon on Tues-day, Aug. 12 (9 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 11 in the Pacific Time Zone).

Team USA will be hard pressed to repeat its dominance of four years ago in which the Americans won all nine games, eight by shutout, and outscored their opponents, 51-1, and did not allow a run until the sixth inning of its final game. The U.S. set 11 Olympic records.

The U.S. is 24-4 overall in Olym-pic history, including the past 14 in a row. Team USA and Venezuela last met in the 1991 Pan Am Games in Havana. The Americans hold a 3-0 advantage in the all-time series.

Should the Americans win the gold, it may be their last for a while. The sport is expected to be dropped from the Olympic schedule unless something happens in the future to change that.

Men’s gymnasticsThe door to Beijing was opened

briefly for Stanford grad David Durante, an alternate on the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team, when Paul Hamm officially resigned on Monday due to injury.

That door was quickly closed, however, when Raj Bhavsar of Houston was named to replace the reigning Olympic all-around cham-pion. Bhavsar, along with Durante, was among the three alternates pre-viously selected to the team.

For Durante, he was left on the sideline for his second straight Olympics.

“It’s been one of the harder days I’ve had to deal with in a long time,” said Durante, who won the U.S. all-around title in 2007. “I thought I would have a good shot at it (Hamm’s spot).”

Durante, nonetheless, will ac-company the team to Beijing on Wednesday. The U.S. team arrived in San Jose on Tuesday for process-ing.

Men’s volleyball Could the United States men’s na-

tional volleyball team become the latest Olympic darling of American sports?

The U.S. showed its capability of competing for a gold medal by win-ning its first FIVB World League title on Sunday, beating Serbia, 26-24, 23-25, 25-23, 25-22, in the championship match in Rio de Ja-neiro, Brazil.

Team USA won $1 million for its big tournament victory.

“We have planned extensively for this season with the intent of hav-ing our team peak at the Olympic Games,” U.S. coach Hugh Mc-Cutcheon said. “The World League competition is a crucial part of our Olympic preparation.”

Team USA opens the Olympics with a match against Venezuela on Sunday, Aug. 10. The Americans will also play Italy, China, Bulgaria and Japan in pool play.

The Americans clinched their best finish ever after sweeping host Brazil, 25-23, 25-22, 27-25, the No. 1 team in the world, before 11,615 fans on Saturday at Maracanazinho Gymnasium.

Brazil has been the dominant force in men’s volleyball since the turn of the century, winning every World Championship, World Cup and World League title since 2002.

The U.S., ranked third in the world, ended Brazil’s string of five World League titles and advanced to the gold medal match for the first time since the competition began in 1990. The U.S. earned World League bronze medals in 1992 and 2007, and will be looking for its first Olympic gold medal since 1988.

Stanford grads Kevin Hansen, who joined the U.S. team in 2005, and Gabe Gardner, a member of the national team since 1999, are substi-tutes for the Americans.

Gardner started the third set against Serbia, making his presence known with three kills that helped the United States build an 8-5 lead.

Women’s beach volleyball Stanford grad Kerri Walsh and

her Olympic teammate Misty May-Treanor appear set to defend their gold medal.

The top-ranked duo swept Jen-nifer Boss and April Ross, 21-14, 21-18, to win the AVP Long Beach Open on Sunday.

Next stop is the Olympics in Bei-jing.

“We have one job to do while over in Beijing and that is to win,” Walsh said. “We are really focused on that.”

Walsh and May-Treanor play in Pool B during the first round, and are joined by Nila Ann Hakedal and Ingrid Torlen (Norwary), Dalizia Grasset and Tamara Larrea Peraza (Cuba) and Mika Teru Saiki and Chiaki Kusuhara (Japan).

“I like our pool and think we have a good mixture,” said May-Treanor. “We’ve got a lefty in there and you don’t see a lot of lefties on the tour, but we played Greece and Norway and they had lefties. Cuba is crafty and experienced and then you have the little Japanese team that is a lot like the Lindquist sisters. It is going to be a good pool for us to get ready for single elimination.”

Women’s volleyball The U.S. Olympic Team left Colo-

rado Springs on Saturday to train at sea level in California, as well as participate in USOC Olympic Team Processing in San Jose.

Team USA, which includes Stan-ford grads Logan Tom and Ogonna Nnamani, competes in an intrasquad scrimmage on Thursday in Haas Pa-vilion on the California campus at 5 p.m. Admission is $5, with tick-ets available at the door starting at 4 p.m.

The team will sign autographs af-ter the scrimmage.

After compiling a 59-1 record,Stanford grads want softball gold

Stanford grad Jessica Mendoza hopes to earn her second Olympic gold medal in softball at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.

Stanford grad Lauren Lappin, a backup catcher on the U.S. Olympic soft-ball team, helped the Americans go 59-1 in their Bound for Beijing tour.

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ter,” Ortwein said. “She was there, though, cheering us on.”

Burmeister, who was on the UCLA team that won the NCAA title in May, could only watch as many of her college teammates helped the Bruin beat Stanford.

Bruin beat Diablo, 8-4, in the final game after holding off Stan-ford’s second-half rally.

“They came out strong and got a good lead on us,” Ortwein said. “We came back in the third period and played well. We had good pos-sessions and quality shots.”

Stanford pulled to within 7-6 af-ter three periods before the Bruin responded with a solid fourth pe-riod.

“It was a great game and great ex-perience,” Ortwein said. “It’s fun to play good teams like that.”

The Stanford White team, coached by Castilleja’s Ted Minnis, finished 12th in the national tourna-ment. The squad is comprised of the Stanford Red 18-Under team, which leaves Wednesday for the Junior Olympics in Orange County.

“It was good experience for them to play against college players,” Or-twein said. “It was great that they qualified and did so well. That’s experience they can build on.”

The Stanford White team includ-ed Wren White, Laura Espinosa, Caitlin Espe, Emily Clopp, Cay-ley Bowles, Monica Coughlan, MJ Mordell, Elizabeth Carey, Kat Boo-her, Beth Kwoka, Jenna Gunderson, Hallie Kennan and Ruth Milne.

They will be joined by Ponce, Brittany Westerman, Carey Wong, Courtney Elward, and Dunlevie for the Junior Olympics.

The Splash and its five local players — Christie Clark, Adriana Vogt, KK Clark, Lindsay Dorst and Rebecca Dorst — finished the 20-team 20-under national tournament with a 6-1 record. Christie Clark, Vogt and KK Clark each scored a goal in the bronze-medal game while Lindsay Dorst was solid in the cage.

Vogt, Lindsay Dorst and the Clark sisters are graduates of Sacred Heart Prep while Rebecca Dorst is a junior at Menlo-Atherton.

The Stanford Red team, which won last year’s title, finished sixth following a 10-8 loss to Commerce in its final game. Stanford advanced with a 10-2 semifinal win over American River.

Stanford Red appeared headed for a repeat after beating CHAWP B, 12-2; edging Commerce, 11-10; swamping Greenwich, 15-2; and sinking NCSD, 16-2. Stanford, how-ever, then suffered a 6-5 loss to SET, dropping the defending champs into the semifinals for teams 5-8.

The Stanford White team finished 14th after dropping a 9-4 match to Newport on Thursday in its final game. Stanford opened with back-to-back losses before beating Pa-cific, 6-3. After a 7-1 loss to SET, Stanford toppled Carlsbad, 9-2.

Before the girls head for JO’s, the local Stanford boys opened JO competition with all seven of its teams over the weekend in Orange County.

The Stanford Red 16-Under team is in the best shape, winning its first

six games by a combined 61-24 margin. The Red team dispatched SoCal Black, 7-4, early Monday af-ter recording a 10-1 win over Rock-ford, an 11-4 victory over Davis and a 15-7 triumph of North Irvine on Sunday.

The Red 16s opened play on Sat-urday, beating the Titans, 8-3, and Navy AC, 10-5.

The White 16-Under beat 680 Red, 4-3, on Monday to improve to 3-2-2 through seven games.

The Stanford Red 18-Under team, which features Alex Avery, James Balassone, Scott Bishop, Ryan Brown, Tom Cole, Evan Dellinger, Toby Espinosa, Michael Fortune, Miguel Martin de Bustamante, Tim Norton, Scott Platshon, Paul Ru-dolph, Geng Wang, Tim Wenzlau and Michael Wishart, are 5-1 after beating Ventura, 11-3, on Monday. The White 18s are 4-2-1 following their 8-5 win over Carlsbad.

Brown, Norton, Avery and Ru-

dolph helped the Stanford 20-under team win a national championship two weekends ago in Moraga.

The Stanford Red 14-Under team is also in good shape after beating North San Diego Shores, 10-5, to improve to 5-1-1. The 14 Whites edged Pittsburgh, 9-8, to improve to 2-4.

Stanford 12-Under lost to Davis, 6-4, and has one win in six games so far.

The JO’s played their champion-

ship games on Tuesday.A week ago, Rudolph helped his

Sacred Heart Prep team win the first-ever California High School State Championship, a 32-team event held in Southern California.

The SHP club team went 6-0, topped by a 5-4 victory over Lam-orinda (Moraga) in the champion-ship match. Alex Whittam, a senior at SHP, scored the game-winner and was the team’s second-leading scorer behind Rudolph.

Water polo

Former Sacred Heart Prep standouts (L-R) Christie Clark, Adriana Vogt, Lindsay Dorst and KK Clark joined with Menlo-Atherton High junior Rebecca Dorst (far right) to help the San Jose Splash win the bronze medal in the USA Water Polo Women’s 20-under National Championships.

Stanford 18-U RedAlex Avery, James Balassone, Scott

Bishop, Ryan Brown, Tom Cole, Evan Del-linger, Toby Espinosa, Michael Fortune, Miguel Martin de Bustamante, Tim Nor-ton, Scott Platshon, Paul Rudolph, Geng Wang, Tim Wenzlau, Michael Wishart

Stanford 18-U WhiteMichael Bausback, John Butler, Kielan

Crow, David Culpan, Alex Farman-Far-maian, Matthew Goodenough, Zachary Hoberg, Mark Hudnall, Evan Mahoney, Gregory Mann, Scott Mielke, Peter Ol-son, John Sample, Grant Villeneuve, Alex Whittam

Stanford 16-U RedBobby Abbott, Thomas Agramonte,

Alex Bailey, Philip Bamberg, Ben Dear-born, Robert Dunlevie, Mark Garner, John Holland-McCowan, Colin Mulcahy, Peter Simon, Connor Still, Zack Straube

Stanford 16-U WhiteAlexander Amm, Matthew Amm, Wade

Avery, Alexander Balog, Alex Berenfeld, Christian Broom, Kevin Cole, Jack Finch,

Jack Foley, Greg Guslani, Mitchell Hamil-ton, Samuel Hyrne, Nicholas Janota, Nick Naruns, Evan Navarro, Cullen Raisch, Ken Wattana

Stanford 14-U RedBrayden Curry, Zachary Deal, Ben Fer-

kol, David Freudenstein, Patrick Good-enough, Nick Hale, Harrison Holland-Mc-Cowan, Matthieu Leyrat, Evan McClelland, Cory McGee, Scott Reynolds, Chase Schaaf, Colton Valentine

Stanford 14-U WhiteGavin Avery, Alexander Carlisle, Con-

nor Fotsch, Derrick Ho, Gary Hohbach, Jamie Olson, David Petrushka, Brandon Plihal, Quinn Rockwell, David Rozenfeld, Will Runkel, Thomas Viollier, Coby Wayne, Johnny Wilson, Michael Znidarsic

Stanford 12-Under Matthew Abbott, Weston Avery, Evan

Bigley, Will Conner, Alex Freeman, Andrew Goodenough, Quinn Hamilton, Johnny Myers, Trevor Raisch, August Ramberg-Gomez, Michael Swart, Matthew Wan, Ari Wayne, Matt Williams, Alon Yoeli

Stanford 18-U RedBeth Kwoka, Brittany Westerman,

Carey Wong, Cayley Bowles, Courtney El-ward, Elise Ponce, Elizabeth Carey, Hallie Kennan, Kat Booher, Laura Espinosa, MJ Mordell, Monica Coughlan, Vee Dunlevie

NorCal 18-UDaisy Anderson, Hannah Breen, KK

Clark, Stephanie Clements, Lindsay Dorst, Rebecca Dorst, Kelly Hendrickson, Alex-andra Kaufman, Vanessa Lane, Morgan Leech, Katina Orginos, Athina Panagi-otides, Courtney Sandlin

Stanford 18-U WhiteAli Norris, Allegra Tringali, Amanda

Wong, Cassie Wyckoff, Consi Hiller, Katie Zakula, Kendall Preston, Kimberly Bene-detti, Lauren Knox, Lizzie Abbott, Megan Calderazzo, Natalie Naruns, Nicole Plihal, Roxanne Mansfield, Ruth Milne

Stanford 16-U RedCaroline Hansen, Evan Cranston, Hath-

away Moore, Jen Talbott, Jennifer Ander-son, Julia Peters, Kat Elward, Katie Eulau, Katy Schaefer, Kristin Benedetti, Malaika

Drebin, Sayeh Bozorghadad

NorCal 16-UHeather Bogott, Haley Bridges, Rebec-

ca Dorst, Emily Dorst, Kailey Flather, Nata-lie Hon, Vanessa Lane, Mary Jane O’Neil, Emily Parsons, Emma Paye, Barbara Pe-terson, Caitlin Sandlin, Darya Sheikhrezai, Claire Sutton, Kirsten Tinyo, Eden Tseng, Natasha von Kaeppler, Sarah Westcott, Sarah Winters

Stanford 16-U WhiteAlex Lincoln, Allie Shorin, Anna Glaves,

Caroline Abbott, Haley Conner, June Af-shar, Katie Lacek, Megan Costello, Mor-gan Cundiff, Paige Oreglia, Rachel Harrus, Rebecca Lawson, Shelby Fero, Shelby Newman

Stanford 14-UAdi Rosenthal, Averi Westerman,

Bridgette Harper, Camille Zubizarreta, Elizabeth Anderson, Emily Fong, Hannak Park, Jane Larkins, Julia Ponce, Lauren Lesyna. Marie Popp, Nicole Larsen, Olivia Santiago, Pippa Temple, Skylar Dorosin.

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Boothe added 12 points and four rebounds. She had 12 points and three rebounds in the win over Puerto Rico.

“I was frustrated because I have been taking myself out of games with foul trouble,” Boothe said. “I was able to stay straight up and help my team get the win, and that was a relief. I got my rhythm back.”

Ogwumike averaged 10.8 points and 9.6 rebounds for the tournament on 68 percent (27-for-40) shooting.

In 10 games with the national team, Ogwumike has 118 points and 96 rebounds.

“My favorite part of the trip would have to be meeting all these girls from different countries,” Og-wumike said. “We kind of live the same lifestyle because we all play basketball, but we are all different too. Sharing our cultures, I think that was the best part of the whole experience.”

Boothe added 31 points, 16 re-bounds and shot 54 percent from the field in her first venture overseas.

Football Stanford (3-6, 4-8 last year) opens

training camp on Friday with a hel-met only workout at 6:30 p.m. as the team prepares for its season, home and Pac-10 opener on Thursday, Aug. 28 against Oregon State.

“I’m ready to get outside and coach,” Cardinal coach Jim Har-baugh said. “We have four experi-enced offensive linemen and three quarterbacks we feel we can win with.”

Tavita Pritchard returns as the starter, although Michigan transfer Jason Forcier and returnee Alex Loukas are serious contenders to assume the starting role.

“I will tell you right now I bet we could win with any of them,” Har-baugh said. “It will be a heated com-petition. Every single snap is impor-tant to them. All three of them want to be the starting quarterback.”

Seniors Alex Fletcher, Chris Marinelli, Allen Smith and Ben Muth solidify the offensive line, along with Bert McBride, who saw plenty of action. Seniors Gustav Rydstedt and Matt Kopa have moved over from the defensive line to add depth.

Women’s crewStanford sophomore Erika Roddy

was a member of the U.S. Junior Women’s Eight boat that won a gold medal at the FISA World Rowing Senior and Junior Championships in Linz, Austria last weekend.

Track and fieldStanford sophomore Arantxa

King has been named to Bermuda’s Olympic track and field team by the Bermuda Olympic Association. King will compete in the long jump at the Beijing Games after Bermuda used its IAAF female at-large selec-tion to name her to the team.

King just completed her freshman season at Stanford where she made an immediate impact for the Cardi-nal. During the indoor season, King qualified for the NCAA Champion-ships in the long jump, where she placed 10th.

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The Dark Knight (Century 16, Century 20) Christian Bale reprises his role as Gotham’s ultimate vig-ilante, a conflicted superhero who moon-lights as suave billionaire Bruce Wayne. Having dispensed with Wayne’s moody origins in “Batman Begins,” Batman is now faced with a more diabolical fiend in the form of The Joker (Heath Ledger). The Joker isn’t in it for the money, nor is he necessarily seeking control of Gotham. He’s just a twisted sicko who wants to watch the world burn. And burn it does while the clown-faced Joker insinuates his evil into the Gotham mob (led by Eric Roberts) and a Hong Kong crime organi-zation while Gotham’s shining star (Aaron Eckhart as District Attorney Harvey Dent) puts baddies behind bars. But Dent alone can’t control the axis of evil the Joker has fashioned, seeking the help of loyal Gothamites Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Old-man), Dawes, and of course Batman him-self. Who in turn depends on trusty butler Alfred (Michael Caine) and genius inventor Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) to maintain his murky masquerade. Ambitious, flawed and erratically visionary, Batman is back. Rated: PG-13 for language, action vio-lence and mature themes. 2 hours, 32 minutes. — J.A. (Reviewed July 18, 2008)

Hancock 1/2(Century 16, Century 20) Will Smith deliv-ers a pitch-perfect performance as John Hancock: a grungy, sodden superhero whose dubious rescue tactics are not looked upon kindly by the increasingly aggravated residents of Los Angeles. Hancock is faster than a speeding bullet and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound but suffers from deep feelings of rejection stemming from an 80-year-long bout of amnesia and the fact that he was abandoned at a Miami hospital in the mid-1920s. As the tetchy Angelenos rebuff Hancock he rebuffs back, his slipshod do-gooding resulting in felony destruc-tion and some 600 subpoenas for civil suits. Not your run-of-the-mill superhero. There’s a core of vulnerability under that hefty psychological armor and image consultant Ray Embrey (Jason Bate-man) is determined to polish Hancock to an amicable shine. Humor is laced with sorrow as Hancock strives to interface with the community and mold himself into an upbeat people person, losing his emotional footing time and time again. Rated: PG-13 for intense action, violence and language. 1 hour, 35 minutes. — J.A. (Reviewed July 2, 2008)

Iron Man 1/2(Century 16, Century 20) Marvel Comics’ golden avenger blasts onto the screen with all of the action and effects one would expect from a superhero film. Un-expected are the A-list cast and acting, tons of well-timed humor and a relatively novice director (Jon Favreau) who demon-strates an appreciation for the character’s roots. Billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Rob-ert Downey Jr.) enjoys a lavish lifestyle, with his only real ties to his best friend (Terrence Howard), personal assistant (Gwyneth Paltrow), and business partner (Jeff Bridges). Tony’s Stark Industries is the premier weapons manufacturer in the world. Then Tony is kidnapped by the sinister Ten Rings group and told to con-struct a missile or face execution. Instead, he builds a massive suit of armor and escapes. After this sobering experience, Tony decides to halt weapons distribution and develop a new armor with the power of flight. He’s soon taking to the skies and making daring rescues. The visual effects are stunning and the casting extraordi-nary, with Downey bringing humor and a

nuanced interpretation of his character. Rated: PG-13 for some intense sequenc-es of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive content. 2 hours, 6 minutes. T.H. (Reviewed May 2, 2008)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Century 16, Century 20) Jules Verne’s classic science-fiction novel gets an up-grade for the digital age with this effects-laden family film. Professor Trevor Ander-son (Brendan Fraser) and his nephew, Sean (Josh Hutcherson), travel to Iceland to find clues to the disappearance of Sean’s father, a scientist who believed the writings of Jules Verne were factual. While in Iceland, Trevor, Sean and their moun-tain guide (Anita Briem as Hannah) literally fall to the center of the earth — to a world flooded with strange creatures and envi-ronmental anomalies. But being trapped miles beneath the earth’s surface is no vacation. The temperature consistently rises and carnivorous beasts seem to be waiting at every turn. It will take team-work, ingenuity and notes from Verne’s novel to free the wayward travelers from the bowels of the planet. Presented in 3-D, “Journey” is the Willy Wonka of cinematic eye candy. Plot, dialogue and acting are buried beneath a visual bar-rage that may stimulate children but dizzy adults. Rated: PG for intense adventure action and some scary moments. 1 hour, 32 minutes. — T.H. (Reviewed July 11, 2008)

Kung Fu Panda 1/2(Century 16, Century 20) Suspension of disbelief is a technique filmgoers use to resolve actions or plot points that do not quite fit into our version of reality. “Kung Fu Panda” does not make this require-ment of the audience. At no point are we asked to even remotely believe any of the scenarios involving a talking, martial-arts-fighting, noodle-selling panda whose father is a duck. And that’s what makes the movie so much fun. The panda, Po (voiced by Jack Black), is reluctantly thrust into the spotlight when he is told he must fulfill an ancient prophecy to be-come one of the greatest kung fu masters of all time. A kung fu fanatic, Po is excited to study among his idols, a collection of animals representing forms used in Shen Lung kung fu: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Crane (David Cross), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu), and Monkey (Jackie Chan). When an evil snow leopard (Ian McShane) threatens their world, Po and his mentor, Master Shifu (Dustin Hoff-man), must find a way to turn the panda’s special talents (which seem to be laziness and gluttony) into strengths. If you’re look-ing for a fun romp and a good story, Kung Fu Panda will not disappoint. Rated: PG for sequences of martial-arts action. 92 minutes. — D.D. (Reviewed June 6, 2008)

Mamma Mia! (Century 16, Century 20) Director Phyllida Lloyd ramps up the kitsch in a delightfully irresistible silver-screen version of the AB-BA-ized stage musical of the same name. Amanda Seyfried” is a youthful, glow-ing Sophie, a Greek island innkeeper’s daughter on the eve of her fantasy wed-ding day. Naturally there’s a hitch: Sophie won’t feel whole until she’s discovered the true identity of her real dad. Her amateur sleuthing uncovers mom’s diary of yore and three potential candidates to walk her down the aisle. To cover her bases Sophie secretly invites the entire trio of ex-suitors to her island nuptials: New York banker Sam (Pierce Brosnan), English stuffed-shirt Harry (Colin Firth) and erst-while adventurer Bill (Stellan Skarsgard). Stress the A in Awkward as beleaguered mom Donna (Meryl Streep) catches wind of the plan and faces her buried past head-on. All the shenanigans are part a of sketchy tableau supporting the real star: the music. There’s a baker’s dozen-plus of toe-tapping ABBA tunes that propel the “narrative” forward with something akin to manic glee. Wanna get away from it all? “Mamma Mia!” is the ultimate summer es-cape. Rated: PG-13 for sexual innuendo and mature themes. 1 hour, 43 minutes. — J.A. (Reviewed July 18, 2008)

Tell No One 1/2(Guild) Guillaume Canet adapts Harlan Coben’s bestselling crime novel of the same name with whip-smart technique and a tetchy undercurrent of anxiety. Pediatric surgeon Alex Beck (Francois Cluzet) is going through the motions since his wife Margot (Marie-Josee Croze) was savagely murdered at their lake home near Paris over eight years before. Out of the blue Alex receives a cryptic e-mail with a provocative link: a grainy real-time

video showing Margot’s face and a mes-sage telling him that she’s still alive. “Tell no one,” it says. Quick as a wink the police re-open the investigation — or is it Pandora’s Box? — as Alex is fingered for the murder at the same time as he’s trying to solve it. Thriller, love story, whodunit: It’s an unwieldy trio made whole by an up-and-coming mastermind. Not rated but should be R for violence and adult situations. 2 hours, 5 minutes. In French with English subtitles. — J.A. (Reviewed July 11, 2008)

WALL-E 1/2(Century 16, Century 20) WALL-E (a.k.a. Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is the last robot left on the depressing dystopia that is Earth, steadily cleaning up superfluous trash while the population has lifted off on Axiom, a state-of-the-art home away from home. WALL-E’s days are spent crushing mountains of gar-bage into controllable cubes, collecting intriguing curiosities and watching and re-watching a battered VHS copy of “Hello Dolly!” That tiresome routine is turned upside down with the arrival of EVE, a fetching, egg-shaped probe sent to Earth to determine its tenuous life-sustaining status. Sparks fly, and how. WALL-E shows off his collection to impress the impenetrable EVE, all beautifully sans dia-logue. High-tech hell breaks loose when EVE is beamed back up to the Axiom and a lovesick WALL-E stows away on her transport. As seen from his eyes, the Mother Ship is the ultimate nightmare in technologically advanced. It’s best not to dig too deep into “WALL-E’s” narrative as much goes unexplained and its dramatic mysteries are shrouded in stunning visu-als and the titular hero’s search for the perfect love match. But “WALL-E” isn’t lacking a social conscience; it passes politically correct judgment on waste, gluttony, instant gratification and global warming. Beautifully executed with a wink and a nudge, “WALL-E” is a film with heart. Rated: G for good for all audiences. 1 hour, 37 minutes. — J.A. (Reviewed June 27, 2008)

Wanted (Century 16, Century 20) The humdrum life is starting to wear on Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy). His boss berates him at every turn, he suffers from overpowering headaches, and his girlfriend is having an affair with his best pal. Wesley desperate-ly needs an injection of adventure. Enter Fox (Angelina Jolie), a tattooed assassin who disrupts Wesley’s monotony to tell him about the murder of his estranged father, one of the world’s most dangerous killers. In a flash, Wesley’s life goes from mundane to deadly as he’s introduced to a secretive assassins’ guild called the Fraternity and its leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman). What’s more, it looks like Wesley has inherited some of the almost-paranormal skills his father was known for. But a rogue member of the Fraternity (Thomas Kretschmann as Cross) seems intent on eliminating the world’s elite as-sassins, and he appears to have Wesley directly in his crosshairs. Simultaneously groundbreaking and breathtaking, “Want-ed” is more than just one of the best films of 2008 — it’s one of the best action mov-ies ever made. Rated: R for strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexuality. 1 hour, 53 minutes. — T.H. (Reviewed June 27, 2008)

The X-Files: I Want to Believe (Century 16, Century 20) Ex-fans will be thrilled to know their beloved agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully haven’t changed much; they get back in the swing of things so fast it’s as if they never stopped. Six years after the FBI charged him with murder and kicked him out of his post as an investigator of paranormal cases, or X-Files, Mulder (David Duchovny) still hasn’t quite moved on. He sits at home, collecting newspaper clippings of strange occurrences and shooting pencils at the ceiling. Scully (Gillian Anderson) works at a Catholic hospital, convinced she has left her agent days far behind. But when an FBI agent approaches Scully and promises to drop charges against Mulder if he returns to investigate a new case involving an FBI agent gone AWOL, both are thrown into the darkness once again. While moviegoers unfamiliar with the series might have trouble understanding certain topics fully without proper context, the movie still offers a good mystery-thriller plot that anyone can enjoy. Rated: PG-13 for violence, disturbing content and mature thematic material. 1 hour, 44 minutes. — J.K. (Reviewed July 25, 2008)

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Show Boat (1936) An adapta-tion of the Broadway musical about a group of riverboat per-formers. 7:30 p.m.

San Francisco (1936) A Barbary Coast romance in the time of the 1906 earthquake. 5:20 and 9:30 p.m.

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The following is a sampling of movies recently reviewed in the Weekly:

ThursdayAicon Gallery in Palo Alto is ex-hibiting works by three contem-porary Pakistani artists: lenticular prints (shimmery photographs that appear to move) by Farida Batool, works in charcoal and dust on paper by Ayaz Jokhio, and metallic sculptures by Adeela Suleman. The show runs through Aug. 30 at 535 Bryant St.; go to www.aicongallery.com or call 650-321-4900.A new members’ show at Gal-lery House includes work by Palo Alto artists Mary Stahl (pastels, oil paints), Karen White (plein-air paintings), Jeff Emmerichs (ce-ramic sculpture) and Eric Step-pling (Raku pieces). The exhibit runs through Saturday at 320 California Ave.; go to www.gal-leryhouse2.com or call 650-326-1668 for more.“Doubt, A Parable,” a play by John Patrick Shanley about a nun suspecting a priest of miscon-duct, is playing at the Lucie Stern Theatre at 1305 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto through Aug. 10. It’s presented by TheatreWorks, and tickets are $26-$64. Go to www.theatreworks.org or call 650-903-6000.Mark Tuschman, a Menlo Park photographer whose work was on the cover of the Weekly in May, exhibits his photos of women and children in Bangladesh, Tanzania and Ghana at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research, 589 Capistrano Way. The free show runs through Oct. 16; go to gender.stanford.edu.“Rough Crossing,” a Tom Stop-pard farce presented by Dragon Productions, is at the Dragon Theatre at 535 Alma St. in Palo Alto through Sunday. Tickets are $13-$25; go to www.dragonpro-ductions.net or call 650-493-2006.Noelle Oxenhandler speaks about her book “The Wishing Year,” a memoir about taking stock of her life and taking risks in one momentous year. The free event starts at 7:30 p.m. at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Oxenhandler

is also a creative-writing teacher at Sonoma State University. Go to www.keplers.com or call 650-324-4321.The tenth annual botanical art exhibition is happening at Filoli, 86 Canada Road, Woodside. The show combines antique prints with contemporary works of botanical art, along with sto-ries and information on botanical art’s history. It’s open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Sundays from 11 to 3:30, through this Sunday. Go to www.filoli.org or call 650-364-8300.

Friday“Door #3,” a live sketch comedy show presented by Peninsula residents Betsy Franco, Louise Fusfeld and Caryn Huberman Yacowitz, is performed at 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday at the Pear Avenue Theatre, 1220 Pear Ave., Unit K, Mountain View. Tickets are $15 general and $10 for students and seniors. E-mail lfusfeld@pac-bell.net for more.The Stanford International Folk-dancers perform dances from many lands, with informal teach-ing available on request. The event is from 8 to 11 p.m. at Flexit Aerobics Studio, 425 W. Evelyn Ave., Mountain View; admission is $6 general and $3 for students. Go to dance.blochg.com or call 408-733-5529.

SaturdayThe Obon Festival happens at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple at 2751 Louis Road today and Sun-day. The event begins at 5 p.m. Saturday and includes Japanese cuisine, dessert-making demon-strations, music and dance per-formances, and carnival booths. Sunday events start at noon with a taiko-drum herald and in-clude origami demonstrations, a stringed-instrument concert, and the large Bon Odori dance event at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Go to www.pabt.org or call 650-856-0123.The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival kicks off its Palo Alto

screenings today at 11:45 a.m. with “A Hebrew Lesson,” a look at a Hebrew immersion class in Tel Aviv. Screenings are at CineArts at Palo Alto Square, 3000 El Camino Real, and run through Thursday, Aug. 7, with shorts and feature films from various coun-tries. For details, go to www.sfjff.org or call 925-275-9490.The Dena DeRose Trio, featuring pianist/vocalist DeRose, brings its high-energy, swinging style to the Stanford Jazz Festival for an 8 p.m. show in the Campbell Recital Hall on campus. Guest trombon-ist Wycliffe Gordon sits in. Tickets are $40 general and $20 for stu-dents. Go to www.stanfordjazz.org.“The Painter’s Bronzes” exhibits bronze sculptures by longtime painter Nathan Oliveira at the Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 New-ell Road. A companion exhibit, “More Missing Magic,” shows drawings and paintings by Timo-thy Berry. The show is up through Sept. 7, Tuesday through Sunday. Go to www.cityofpaloalto.org/art-center or call 650-329-2366.Peninsula Youth Theatre pres-ents “All Shook Up,” a jukebox musical replete with Elvis Presley tunes, at the Mountain View Cen-ter for the Performing Arts at 500 Castro St., from Saturday through Aug. 10. Tickets are $7-$18. For more information, go to www.pyt net.org or call 650-903-6000.

SundayThe Agosto Trio, made up of gui-tarist John Scofield, bass player Larry Grenadier and drummer Bill Stewart, performs at Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Auditorium at 8 p.m. through the Stanford Jazz Festi-val. Tickets are $32 general and

$16 for students; go to www.stan-fordjazz.org.Bertolt Brecht’s “The Good Person of Szechuan” has a free performance today at 1 p.m., pre-sented by Woman’s Will, an all-female Oakland theater company. The show is at Rengstorff House, 3070 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View; it includes new music by

Rona Siddiqui. Go to www.wom-answill.org or call 510-420-0813.Clifford “Kip” Cranna, director of music administration for the San Francisco Opera, will speak at 4 p.m. on the upcoming production of “The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” which was adapted from the Amy Tan novel. The fundraiser also features a performance by soprano Tamara Wapinsky and pianist John Parr, and wine and hors d’oeuvres. Tickets are $50-$150, and the event is at 329 Albion Ave. in Woodside. E-mail headmaven@operabobb.com or call 650-207-8518.The Groove Kings, a cover band playing rock and soul, performs a free concert from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Hidden Villa, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. Advance ticket registration is required; go to www.hiddenvilla.org. Dinner made with food grown at the farm can be purchased at Hidden Villa.

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Family Antique cars and motorcycles take a drive from the past to Palo Alto at the Vintage Vehicles & Family Festival.

Theater A review of Foothill Music The-atre’s production of “The Pajama Game.”

Movies A review of “American Teen.”

ON THE WEB: Comprehensive entertainment listings at www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Weekend Preview

Claire Shimazaki is pictured at last year’s Obon Festival at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple. This year’s event, which includes traditional dancing, music and food, is on Aug. 2 and 3.

The Israeli film “Strangers” will be shown on Aug. 2, the first day of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screenings in Palo Alto. It’s a love story about a Palestinian woman and an Israeli man who meet in Berlin during the World Cup.

Sculptures by Adeela Suleman look organic but are made from bath-room and kitchen fittings. They’re now on exhibit at Aicon Gallery in Palo Alto.

More info about upcoming free outdoor concerts is online at arts editor Rebecca Wallace’s blog. Go to www.PaloAltoOn-line.com and click on Ad Libs.

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Financial Hewlett-Packard Company is accepting resumes for the following position in Palo Alto, CA: Finance Specialist. (Ref. #PALDMA). Act as an EFR liaison for acquisition deal teams by partnering with corporate dev-lpmt, tax, legal, region controllership and business finance teams. Reqs. exp. with GAAP; Audit; Excel; Word; PowerPoint; Acctg. research (acctg. guidance & public company disclo-sures). Reqs. include Bachelor’s or foreign degree equiv. in Business Admin, Acctg. or related & 7 yrs. of exp. in job offered, or related. For every yr. missing towards a 4 yr. Bachelor’s degree, employer will accept an addâ ™l 1 yr of related work exp. Please mail resumes with ref. # to Hewlett-Packard Company, Attn: P. Ramirez, 19483 Pruneridge Avenue, MS 4206, Cupertino, CA 95014. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

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601 Accounting/BookkeepingAccounting & Bookkeeping Service Affordable prices 408-596-1787 www.reliableaccountingsvcs.com

604 Adult Care OfferedCaregiver/Companion Live in/out. Errands, appts., cook, hse-work. Refs. 650/494-1648

615 ComputersDesktop Laptop Repairs Computer issues please give me a call reasonable rates. Ask for Kenny 408-838-1778.

619 ConsultantsSECOND LIFE! Place your business in Web 2.0 and Second Life Hanley Consulting650-630-3502 williamroberthanley@hotmail.com

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645 Office/Home Business ServicesA Hest Kept Secret Classified Advertising! A 25-word ad costs $550, is placed in 240 com-munity newspapers and reaches over 6 million Californians. Call for more information (916) 288-6010; (916) 288-6019 www.Cal-SCAN.com (Cal-SCAN)Advertise Effectively Reach over 3 million Californians in 140 community newspapers. Cost $1,550 for a 3.75”x2” display ad. Super value! Call (916) 288-6010; (916) 288-6019. www.Cal-SDAN.com (Cal-SCAN)News Release Looking for a cost efficient way to get out a News Release? The California Press Release Service is the only service with 500 cur-rent daily, weekly and college newspaper contacts in California. Questions call (916) 288-6010. www.CaliforniaPressReleaseService.com (Cal-SCAN)

650 Pet Care/Grooming/TrainingAll Animals Happy House Pet Sitting Services by Susan Licensed, insured, refs. 650-323-4000

HomeServices

703 Architecture/DesignDesign/Permits One Stop Place for Your Remodeling Design needs. Complete Plans include Structural Engineering and Energy Compliance (T-24). ADW 650/969-4980

704 Audio/VisualAV Pros Custom Home Theater, DirecTV sales/instal. Speakers/voice/data. Flat screen HDTV. Install Antennas. Security Cameras, inwall wiring. Insured. (650)965-8498

710 CarpentryCabinetry-Individual Design Precise, 3-D Computer Modeling Mantels, Bookcases, WorkplacesWall Units, Window SeatsNed Hollis 650-856-9475

715 Cleaning Services2 person team. We do the same service as everyone else - but the difference is: "we love to do it!" Steam spot cleaning avail. Lic. #28276. Call 650/369-7570 www.FlorLauHousecleaning.com

Affordable Housecleaning Service in Your Neighborhood Refs avail. 20 yrs. exp. Reliable. 650-222-0058

Home CleanersHousecleaning by European lady. P/T. Excel. refs. 650/967-9520Irene’s Housecleaning Services Special cleaning requests welcome. No job too big or small. Move in/out. Can work around kids. Great refs. 650/814-6297

Jose’s Janitorial ServiceProfessional House Cleaning, Offices

* Window Washing * Commercial Residential * Husband & Wife References (650)322-0294

Luz All in One Cleaning 10 years experience. Any time, any place. Excellent references. 650/322-1520; 650/222-8181

Marias Housecleaning Services Res/Comml. Personal service. Ironing. Mon-Sat. 18 yrs exp, refs, free est. Call Maria: 650/328-6952; cell,650/465-5806

Navarro Housecleaning Home and Office. Weekly, bi-weekly. Floors, windows, carpets. Free est., good refs., 15 years exp. 650/853-3058; 650/796-0935

Penny’s Environmental ProductsRosalba Full House Cleaning Service12 Years of ExperienceExcellent ReferencesFree EstimatesCell:(650)208-1563

719 Remodeling/Additions

NEW ConstructionROOM Additions

KITCHEN & BATH RemodelingCal. Lic. #627843 • Bonded • Insured

650-366-8335

DOMICILE CONSTRUCTIONGENERAL CONTRACTOR

330 Child Care OfferedbabysitterBabysitterBabysitter (Sunnyvale)Babysitter Available - $15.00 perBabysitter availableBABYSITTER FOR AFTERNOONSEnergetic & Experienced Sitter!

FIO’S HOME DAYCARE Monday through Friday(650) 565-8853 (650) 537-7311 or e-mail at fiohomedaycare@hotmail.com, www.fioshomedaycare.com

FT/PT NannyGreat House cleaning AVAILABLE NGREAT NANNY AVAILABLE NOW( MenloHeadsUp! Open HouseMary Poppins For Hire! All ages. CPR cert., TrustLine, top refs. 650/529-9808

Mature Female Driver AvailableMy wonderful nanny is availableNanny/Preschool ExperienceOur great nanny Trustlined 2p-6Weekend babysitter

340 Child Care WantedLive-in, F/T NannyNanny for 2yr girl 12-5pm M-Th F 9-5.Fluent English, drive,lite houswrk 650 2559311Nanny Wanted FT Nanny needed for 2 kids. Drivers license,CPR training,& references needed. 650-996-8615.P/T evening/weekend nannyPT Babysitter/Mother’s HelperSeek PT P.M. Nanny Mon Weds ThurSeeking FT nanny

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Two Mt. View Drs need Reliable, Loving Nanny, 4 mo & 4 yrs girls7-5:00, +some flex, $3,600+med

650-462-4580

345 Tutoring/LessonsArt:Classes,B-parties, Camps! - 6507990235AUTISM CONSULTANTFrench & Spanish for AdultsFrench and Spanish for AdultsFrench Native Teacher All levels and ages. SAT, AP, conversa-tion for travelers and business profes-sionals.Hessen Camille Ghazal, Ph.D. 650/965-9696

French, Spanish 4 Student&AdultFrench, Spanish for HS studentsLanguage Experts Exp. European French-Spanish Teacher with degree. Kids, high schoolers, spe-cial programs for adults. 650/691-9863 650/804-5055www.languagesexpert.comMath & Spanish Specialists K-16One-to-One Tutoring ServiceSpanish/piano tutorWriting Tutor 650 856-6732

350 Preschools/Schools/CampsWrite Now! Summer Writing Camps

355 Items for SaleCrazy About Horses?Horsemanship Summer Campkids’ adidas soccer shoes, 4 1/2 - $12Unique Children’s Playhouse

390 Kids for Summer JobsChess Lessons for kids and adult

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OCI Construction Specializes in additions, and remodels. For your free consultation please con-tact Jeff Martinez at 925-584-6535.License CA-B909255

730 ElectricalAlex Electric Lic #784136. Free Est. All electrical Alex, (650)366-6924

Stewart Electric Residential Electric & Lighting Services.Lic #745186(408)745-7115 or (408)368-6622

Williams Electric 30 years wiring homes. 650/343-5125. Lic. #545936. Call, relax, it’s done!

737 Fences & GatesFences - Decks - Retaining Walls Stairs. Reasonable prices. Lic. #786158. Al, 650/269-7113 or 650/853-0824

748 Gardening/Landscaping

Beckys LandscapeWeekly, Biweekly & Periodic Maint.

Annual Rose, Fruit Tree Pruning, Yard Clean-ups, Demolition, Excavation,

Irrigation, Sod, Planting, Raised Beds, Ponds, Fountains, Patios, Decks.

650/493-7060Ceja’s Home & Garden Landscape Sprinklers, Sod, tree trimming, Stump Removal. Cleanups. Maint. Free Est. 15 yrs. 814-1577; www.cejalandscaping.com

• YARD MAINTENANCE• ESTATE SERVICE• NEW LAWNS

• LANDSCAPE RENOVATION• SPRINKLER SYSTEMS

FREE ESTIMATE (650)367-1420

F&B Landscaping Maintenance

• New Lawns • Fertilization• Irrigation Systems • Install or Repair • Tree Trim or Removal

fblandscaping@live.com(650)215-8601 Free Est (650)793-1311

Gaeta's LandscapeComplete Garden Maintenance

Pavers, flagstone, brick work, BBQs, sprinkler, retaining walls, wood

fences, lights. Refs & Free Estimate!(650) 368-1458

GENERAL GARDENING M A I N T E N A N C E

Clean up • Pruning • RemovalSprinkler System Repair • Free EstimatesGood References • New Lawn Installation

JOSE MARTINEZlic. # 50337 (650) 271-4448

H AND H GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE Need help with your gardening or landscaping job.monthly maintenance and new landscaping We are here to help. Free estimates. We are licensed and insured.paulino 650-537-0804, paulinovalle@yahoo.com

Japanese GardenerMaintenance * Garden works

Clean ups * Pruning(650)327-6283, evenings

Jesus Garcia Landscaping Maintenance - Sprinklers - New Fences. (650)366-4301 ask for Jesus or Carmen

LANDA’S GARDENING& LANDSCAPING

Service MaintenanceClean-ups, New Lawns,

Tree Cutting & Trimming. Excel. Refs

Cell 650-576-6242 510-494-1691

Lombera’s Garden

650-321-8312 cell: 650-714-7795

30 years experienceGood Refs Family owned

Yard maint • New lawnsWater systems • Clean ups

• Hauling

M. Sanchez General Landscaping and Design Concrete, patios, driveways, flagstone, lacking pavers, new lawns, planting, irri-gation, garden lighting, clean-ups. New installation & repairs. Lic.#860920(650)444-7072, 342-1392

Maintenance Clean up, trim, pruning, stump removal/tree service, rototilling, aeration, landscaping, drip and sprin-kler. Roger, 650/776-8666

Shubha Landscape Design (650) 321-1600 LIC # 852075 www.shubhalandscapedesign.com

751 General Contracting

(650) 482-9090Fax (650) 234-1045

WWW.DJMCCANNCONSTRUCTION.COM

* Additions* Light Commercial* New Construction* Demo & Clean-Up

GENERAL CONTRACTORLicense #907806

NOTICE TO READERS California law requires that contrac-tors taking jobs that total $500 or more (labor and/or materials) be licensed by the Contractors State License Board. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertis-ing. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

757 Handyman/RepairsA European Craftsmanship Kitchen and Bath Remodeling.For All Your Repair Needs. Plumbing, Finish Carpentry and More. Licensed. 650/270-7726

Able Handyman FredComplete home repairs, maintenance, remod., prof. painting, carpentry, plumbing, elect. & custom design cabinets. 7 days. 650.529.1662 • 483.4227

Al Trujillo Handyman Service Int./Ext. painting* Kit./BA Improv., Dry Rot, Flooring Install, Homes/Apt. Repairs, Auto Sprinkler, Landscapes, Fences. 20yrs. 650-207-1306

Kitchens, Bathrooms, Stucco, Dry Rot & Masonry

Lic. #743748

Specializing in Home Repairs

(650) 430-3469

KEANE CONSTRUCTION

Larry’s Handyman Service Various Repairs/Installations, Plumbing, electrical, locks, screens, blinds, gutters, etc., odd jobs. 12 yrs. exp. Quality work. 650-856-0831 Palo Alto

Semi-Retired Contractor for small alterations or repair. Will mentor do-it-yourself jobs. References. $35/hour. Mike Collins, 650/704-7477

759 Hauling

Commercial & Residential Reasonable & Reliable

• Free Estimates • Furniture • Trash • Appliances • Wood • Yard Waste • Construction • Debris• Rental Clean-Up

7 DAYS A WEEK!

(408) 888-0445No Job Too Big Or Small!

ATLAS HAULING

Clint’s Hauling Service Misc. junk, office, appliances, garage, storage, etc, clean-ups. Old furniture, refrigerators, freezers. FREE ESTIMATES 650/368-8810

Frank’s Hauling Commercial, Residential, Garage, Basement & Yard. Clean-up. Fair prices. 650/361-8773

J & G HAULING SERVICE Misc. junk, office, appliances, garage, storage, etc, clean-ups. Old furniture, refrigerators, freezers. FREE ESTIMATES 650/368-8810

Student Raising Money for College Will haul anything. Call for discount prices. 650-568-3297 Grant

767 Movers

768 Moving AssistanceArmandos Moving Labor Service Home, Apts, Storage. House cleaning services avail. Sm/lrg moves. Serving the Bay Area for 20 yrs. Armando, 650/630-0424. Lic #22167

771 Painting/Wallpaper

20 Years ExperienceOwner On-Site Supervision

A.C. PAINTING

(408) 249-3927 Free Est.

Bonded & Insured • Lic#776695wwwww.ac-painting.com

Make your home new againM

Lic. 52643Great Refs & Low Rates (650) 575-2022

D&M PAINTING

Interior & Exterior

Don Pohlman’s Painting * Detailed Craftsmanship * Excel. Restorative Prep * Great Local References 650/799-7403 * Lic. 635027

Gary Rossi PAINTING Residential/Commercial. Wall paper removal. Lic. (#559953) and Bonded. Free est. 650/345-4245

HDA Painting & DrywallExterior & Interior PaintingComplete Drywall Service13 Yrs Exp. • Licensed •

650/207-7703hdapainting@yahoo.com

Italian Painter is Back! 25 Years Experience. Can Work Immediately! No Job To Small. Call Domenico (650)575-9032

STYLE PAINTING Interior/exterior. Quality prep to finish. Owner operated. Reasonable prices. Lic 903303. 650/388-8577

Wallpapering by Trish 24 years of experienceFree Estimates949-1820

775 Asphalt/ConcreteRoe General Engineering Asphalt * Paving * SealingNew Construction and Repairs30 years exp. No job too smallLic #663703 * 650/814-5572

779 Organizing ServicesEnd the Clutter & Get Organized Residential organizing by Debra Robinson (650)941-5073

783 PlumbingBayshore Plumbers Lic. #905661. Service, drains and repairs. 21 years exp., comml./residential. Insured. 650/323-6464 or 408/250-0568He-Man Plumbing Featuring High Efficiency Toilets.Lic. #915454. 650/222-7953Very Reasonable Plumbing Drains, Repairs, Installations. 20 yrs exp. Fast, efficient service. Jimmy, 650/968-7187

795 Tree CareA-1 Tree Service

30 years experience

(650)630-0300 • Free Est.• (408)448-6408

CERT. ARBORISTBONDED

LIC# 698160

TOPPINGPRUNING

TREE & STUMP REMOVAL

OZZIES TREE SERVICE: Certified arborist, 22 yrs exp. Tree trimming, removals and stump grind-ing. Free chips and wood. Free est. Lic. and insured. 650/ 368-8065; cell 650/704-5588

799 WindowsWindow Cleaning and Screens by Orkopina Housecleaning. Quality Work. 650/962-1536

RealEstate

801 Apartments/Condos/StudiosMountain View, 1 BR/1 BA - 1335

Mountain View, Studio BR/1 BA - 1210

MV-PA Vicinity: Studio & 1BR 2 locations. Flex rent. Prof residence. Unique features. Studios $1150-$1350; 1BR $1350-$1550 650/964-1146 or MMHousing@aol.com

PA: 1 BR/1BR Bike to Stanford, no pets, upstairs, by appointment only. Available August 6, 2008 1 year lease $1325/mo 650-493-9576

GREAT LOCATION!GREAT LOCATION!CUTE & COZY 1BR/1BA $1,450 ORMODERN 1BR/1BA $1,895 AND UP

2BR/2BA T/H $2,495 AND UPW/D IN UNIT, HIGH CEILINGS, A/C, D/W

NEAR GUNN HS, STANFORD/PAGE MILL

(650) 320-8500(650) 320-8500Palo Alto, 2 BR/1 BA - $2350

Palo Alto, 2 BR/2 BA - $2700/mo.

Palo Alto, 2 BR/2 BA - $1895

Palo Alto, 2 BR/2.5 BA - $2800

Palo Alto, 2 BR/2.5 BA - $2850/mo

805 Homes for RentAtherton, 4 BR/3 BA

Atherton, 4 BR/3 BA - $12500

Atherton, 4 BR/3 BA - $4,150.

East Palo Alto, 3 BR/1 BA - $2400

LAH: 4BR/3.5BA fmly rm, lvng rms have frpl, furnished or unfurnished, 4485sf, 3 car gar, hdwd, marble, slate, views, see pics at www.timtrailer.com under lease/rentals. $7495/mo 650 333-3833

Los Altos Hills, 4 BR/3 BA - $4,450,

Los Altos Hills, 4 BR/4+ BA - $7200/mo

Los Altos Hills, 5+ BR/4+ BA - $15,000/mo

Menlo Park, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $4500/mo

Mountain View, 3 BR/2 BA 3bd/2a House Downtown Mountain View. $2800mth. Lots of natural light and big windows. Newly landscaped front and back yard. Single car garage.No dishwasher, no disposal.Shared driveway with duplex behind house. Available now. No Smokers. Pets nego-tiable. Contact: Justine 650-988-1884

MP: 4BR/2.5BA Sharon Heights. Beautifully remod., great setting and location, close to parks and shops. Short/long term, $7650mo. 650/815-8850

H U M M E RResidential Property ManagementRENTAL HOMES NEEDED

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Palo Alto, 2 BR/2 BA - $2800/mo

Palo Alto, 3 BR/1 BA - $ 3500/mon

Palo Alto, 3 BR/2 BA Close to Gunn High & Stanford. $3800/mo 408 221-5877. N/S

Palo Alto, 3 BR/2 BA - $2900/mont

Palo Alto, 4 BR/2.5 BA 5200/mo 2-story home near Midtown, approx 2200sq ft new carpets paint min of 1 yr lease +1 mo security. No Pets. call 310-869-8425

Palo Alto, 4 BR/2.5 BA - $4000 / mo

Palo Alto, 4 BR/2.5 BA - $7,900/mon

Palo Alto, 4 BR/2.5 BA Great Location in Old Palo Alto neighborhood, its on a nice tree lined street. Four Bedroom 2.5 Bath & 2 car garage. House is in very good loca-tion (approx. 2,400s/f) Washer,Dryer, refrigerator, Dishwasher & Gardener is included. Easy walking/biking distance to top Palo Alto Schools, shopping & Stanford. Eat-in kitchen with breakfast nook, formal dining room, solarium with wet bar, Oak Floors, 2 wood-burning fireplaces. There is a 7 month lease requirement from 7/08 to 2/09 and month to month thereafter. First & Last month rent is required, plus security deposit is $5,000 small pets are considered. Please call (510) 673-9560. Note the house is unfurnished.

Palo Alto, 4 BR/3 BA - $7500/mont

Palo Alto, 5+ BR/3 BA - $4500.00

Redwood City, 3 BR/2 BA - $2400/mo

809 Shared Housing/RoomsALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: www.Roommates.com. (AAN CAN)

2 Rms + Prv.bath, 2 BR/1 BA - $850/mo sh

Menlo Park, 4 BR/2 BA - $1317

MV: Furn Room in home. No kit. Can have refrig, micro. 1 block Shoreline. $450 mo., incl. util. M pref. 650/967-3724

Palo Alto, 1 BR/3 BA - 680

Palo Alto, 2 BR/1 BA - $1075/mont

810 Cottages for RentPalo Alto, 2 BR/1 BA - $1600

815 Rentals WantedHousing wanted

Housing Wanted - Exchange

Rental Needed

Rental wanted.

RENTAL, SEMI-RETIRED NURSE

Seeking quiet studio/1BR

820 Home ExchangesARCHITECT on call

Palo Alto - San Francisco

san francisco grandmother for MP

825 Homes/Condos for SaleGOV'T HOMES! Low $ Down! Bank Repos & Foreclosures! Call Now! 1-800-817-5249 (AAN CAN)

Brand New Custom Home In Portola Valley, 4 BR/3.5 BA Open July 20-th ( 1;30-4;30)Virtual tour at www.14ohlone.com

Los Altos Hills, 4 BR/3.5 BA - $2,795,000

Menlo Park, 3 BR/2 BA - $600,000

Menlo Park, 5+ BR/4+ BA - $2,895,000

Mountain View, 3 BR/1 BA - $709,000

Mountain View, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $659,950

Mountain View, 4 BR/3.5 BA Details on: www.1054blackfieldway.com

Mt. Carmel Area Of Redwood City, 4 BR/2 BA - $1058000

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Palo Alto, 3 BR/2.5 BA Open House Saturday, July 26 from Noon to 4:00 pm. This home is a popular Plan 2 (Lot 63) featuring 2kW solar electric system, bam-boo flooring in main living areas, upgraded carpet in all bedrooms hall and stairs, upgraded tile floor-ing in all bathrooms, graphite color cabinets, stainless steel appliances, 5.1 surround sound in family room, recessed Can lighting in bedrooms and family room w/light prep in the living room. This is a must see home listed at $1,168,455 with a 3% Broker Co-op! For more information please contact your Vantage Sales Team @ 650-856-0257 or email us at vantage@warmingtonhomesca.com.

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928 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto

Palo Alto, 4 BR/2 BA - $1,125,000

Palo Alto, 5+ BR/3.5 BA 3200 sf; cul de sac; top schools. www.irvencourt.com 408-482-1800; 1,795,000Redwood City (emerald Hills), 5+ BR/4+ BA - $2,499,999Redwood City, 3 BR/1 BA - $799,000Redwood City, 3 BR/2 BA - $749000Redwood City, 5+ BR/4+ BA - $2999500Sunnyvale, 2 BR/1 BA - $595,000Woodside, 3 BR/3 BA - $1,599,000

830 Commercial/Income Property

Income Property: 8 Units Downtown Menlo Park Lg. 2 bd units w/ patios/decks$188,400 gross income$3,295,000 sales price(650)704-6055 Owner/BrokerMV: Four-plex Two totally renovated 4-plex side-by-side apartments. Every unit 2 BD w/2-Car Parking. Side-by-side washer and dryer. Easy to manage, low expenses, and great cash flow. $2,800,000. Call Carol Meyer 408/888-5558.Office Space for Lease 600 square feet. Excellent location. 3 Portola Rd. phone 650-851-1467PA: Offices Two 600 sf, $1250 ea. Full service. 4020 Fabian Way #200 and 201 near Hiway 101. 650/854-7171Prime downtown suiteRetail Space Mountain View, Retail Strip Mall, 205 E. Middlefield Rd. 1000sf 415-652-3811

840 Vacation Rentals/Time Shares2bdrm Mayan Palace - MexicoBed & Breakfast B&B HotelFive Star Resort Studio,$7950 cash, 650-210-9054

Pajaro Dunes Condo 2BR/2BA or 1BR/1BA. On beach, ocean view. Cable TV, VCR, CD, tennis, W/D. Pvt. deck, BBQ. Owner, 650/424-1747. hherzenber@aol.com

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FOR SALE: FARM IN MISSOURI. 180 Acres, 2 Three Bedroom Houses, 2 Barns. 750K. Think About It. FOR INFO CALL 720-470-4192 (AAN CAN)

Foreclosure Special! FORECLOSURE SPECIAL! 100+ Acre Colorado Ranch for $49,900. Year-round roads, utilities. Access to 6,000+ acre recreation land. Call 1-866-OWN-LAND x4392. (Cal-SCAN)

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New to Market! Colorado Mountain Ranch. 35 acres- $39,900. Priced for Quick Sale. Overlooking a majestic lake, beautifully treed, 360 degree mountain views, adjacent to national forest. EZ terms. 1-866-353-4807. (Cal-SCAN)

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995 Fictitious Name StatementDACUS COMPANYFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 510937 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as, Dacus Company, 281 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County:KEN DACUS281 Embarcadero Road Palo Alto, CA 94301BRYNA DACUS281 Embarcadero RoadPalo Alto, CA 94301 This business is owned by husband & wife. Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 02/29/2008.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 18, 2008. (PAW July 9, 16, 23, 30, 2008)BANYR TECHNOLOGYFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 511236 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as, Banyr Technology, 281 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County:KENNETH DACUS281 Embarcadero RoadPalo Alto, CA 94301BRYNA DACUS281 Embarcadero RoadPalo Alto, CA 94301This business is owned by husband and wife.Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 01/01/2007.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 26, 2008.(PAW July 9, 16, 23, 30, 2008)JALAPENO PAPERSFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 511474 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as, Jalapeno Papers, 2330 Sierra Court, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County:CARLA J. B. MARSHALL2330 Sierra CourtPalo Alto, CA 94303 This business is owned by an indi-vidual. Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 7/1/08.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 2, 2008. (PAW July 9, 16, 23, 30, 2008)THE MASTER OF SILICON PAINTING COMPANYREDWOOD PAINTING COMPANYEAST & WEST PAINTING COMPANYDOLPHINES PAINTING COMPANYFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 511214 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as, 1.) The Master of Silicon Painting Company, 2.) Redwood Painting Company, 3.) East & West Painting Company, 4.) Dolphines Painting Company, 990 Minnesota Ave., San Jose, CA 95125, Santa Clara

County:MORA’S PAINTING, INC.990 Minnesota Ave.San Jose, CA 95125 This business is owned by a corpora-tion.Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 25, 2008. (PAW July 23, 30, Aug., 6, 13, 2008)MACHADO DESIGNSFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 512044 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as, Machado Designs, 363 Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County:KAREN MACHADO363 Stanford Ave.Palo Alto, CA 94306 This business is owned by an individual.Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 21, 2008. (PAW July 30, Aug. 6, 13, 20, 2008)CENTER FOR THE WORKFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 512120 The following person(persons) is (are) doing business as, Center For the Work, 433 Kingsley Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County:HEATH L. WOOD, PHD433 Kingsley Ave.Palo Alto, CA 94301This business is owned by an individual.Registrant/Owner has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 22, 2008. (PAW July 30, Aug. 6, 13, 20, 2008)

997 All Other LegalsORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA No. 108CV116228TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DIWAKAR AND MANISHA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: A.) DIWAKAR to DIWAKAR DAS.B.) MANISHA to MANISHA DAS.THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indi-cated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING: August 5, 2008, 8:45 a.m., Room 107. Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four suc-cessive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY. Date: June 30, 2008 /s/ Mary Ann GrilliJUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT(PAW July 9, 16, 23, 30, 2008)NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST File: 08007 RDK Loan: 205-011 Other: 3206-69512 Investor Loan #: - A.P. Number 158-15-029 You are in default under a Deed of Trust, dated February 10, 2005, unless you take action to protect your property, it may be sold at a public sale. If you need an explanation of the nature of the proceeding against you, you should contact a lawyer. Notice is hereby given that Community Properties, Inc, as

trustee, or successor trustee, or sub-stituted trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by Estelle K Balaty, a married woman as her sole and separate property Recorded on 03-08-2005 as Instrument No. 18262348 in Book - Page - of Official records in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, and pursuant to the Notice of Default and Election to Sell thereunder recorded 03-18-2008 in Book -, Page -, as Instrument No. 19780982 of said Official Records, will sell on 08-06-2008 at At the North Market Street Entrance to the County Courthouse 190 North market Street San Jose, CA at 11:00 A.M. at public auction to the highest bidder for cash (payable at the time of sale in lawful money of the United States), all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State hereinafter described: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust . The property address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1114 Villa Street 176 Oak Street Mountain View, CA 94041 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $1,162,683.98 In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. In the event tender other than cash is accepted the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed, advances thereunder, with interest as provided therein, and the unpaid principal balance of the Note secured by said Deed with interest thereon as provided in said Note, fees, charges and expenses of the trustee and the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. Dated: 06-29-2008 Community Properties, Inc, as said Trustee, 257 E Campbell Ave Suite 3, Campbell, Ca 95008 (408)379-1274 By: Roland D Keffer, Agent for Trustee ASAP# 2809705 PAW 07/16/2008, 07/23/2008, 07/30/2008 Loan: 0657050889 Investor No.: Other: 3703332 TS#: 08-75079 A.P.N. 127-17-049 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 08/10/2007, UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that the real property for which the address is purported to be: 750 Maplewood Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 Assessorâ ™s Parcel Number: 127-17-049 will be sold at public auction at At the entrance to the Superior Courthouse, 190 N. Market St., San Jose, CA on 08/13/2008, at 10:00AM to the highest bidder, pay-able at the time of sale, for cash or cashierâ ™s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check

drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and autho-rized to do business in California. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liabil-ity for any incorrectness of the property address and other common designa-tion, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, pos-session, or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness evidenced by said Deed, executed by Sep Hines and Barry Hines, Husband and Wife as trustor, recorded on 08/17/2007 as Instrument No. 19555348, in Book No. , page and of the Official records of Santa Clara County, California. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obliga-tion secured by the property to be sold and reasonably estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $1,063,062.29. In the event tender other than cash is accepted the Trustee may withhold the issuance of Trustee's Deed until funds become available to the payee or endorse as a matter of right. Dated: 07/22/2008 Five Star Service Corporation, as said Trustee C/o its agent Pite Duncan, LLP 525 East Main Street El Cajon, CA 92022-2289 For Sales Information Call: (714) 573-1965 By: Julissa Grossmann P442671. PAW 7/23, 7/30, 08/06/2008NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No. 2008-8580870-R Loan No. 0008580870 Title Order No. 3655130 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 10/08/1992. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal sav-ings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without cove-nant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encum-brances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: THE RAUSA FAMILY TRUST, DATED SEPTEMBER 19, 1991, VINCENT RAUSA AND SEVERA M RAUSA, TRUSTORS AND TRUSTEES Duly Appointed Trustee: GOLDEN WEST SAVINGS ASSOCIATION SERVICE CO., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION Recorded 10/20/1992 as Instrument No. 11590440 in book -, page - of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, Date of Sale: 08/13/2008 at 11:00 AM Place of Sale: At the North Market Street entrance to the County Courthouse, 190 North Market Street, San Jose, California Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $124,641.63 Street Address or other common designation of real property is purported to be.: 361 EASY ST MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043 A.P.N.: 160-21-016 The under-

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signed Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the prop-erty may be obtained by sending a writ-ten request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. Date: 07/17/2008 Fidelity National Agency Sales & Posting Agent for GOLDEN WEST SAVINGS ASSOCIATION SERVICE CO., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION 15661 Red Hill Ave. Ste. 200 Tustin, California 92780 Telephone Number: (800) 840-8547 Sale Status Line: (714) 259-7850 SETH WHITE, OFFICER Of Golden West Savings Association Service Company ASAP# 2827834 PAW 07/23/2008, 07/30/2008, 08/06/2008NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:ALMA LANGER also known as ALMA I. LANGERNO. 1-08-PR-163228 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ALMA LANGER, also known as ALMA I. LANGER.A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MARJORIE THOMAS in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MARJORIE THOMAS be appointed as personal representative to adminis-ter the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the person-al representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to inter-ested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administra-tion authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on AUGUST 20, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. 15 of the Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, located

at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as pro-vided in section 9100 of the California Probate Code. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for Petitioner:/s/ Richard A. Gorini, Esq.1666 The AlamedaSan Jose, CA 95126-2204(408)286-6314(PAW July 30, Aug. 1, 6, 2008)

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SAN JOSE

CUL-DE-SAC NEAR DOWNTOWN $799,000 5 BR 3 BA Fabulous 5 yr hm in Blossom Valley. Plantation shutters, ample storage, walk-in closets. Cesar Cervantes 650.328.5211

SANTA CLARA

EXTREMELY LARGE LOT $849,000 4 BR 2 BA Kitchen & baths updated. Glorious back-yard. Super neighborhood, near schools, 101 & 280. Geraldine Asmus 650.325.6161

SUNNYVALE

CHARM & LARGE BACKYARD $595,000 2 BR 1 BA Hardwood floors, tiled kitchen with breakfast bar, separate dining area, 1 car garage. Owen Halliday 650.325.6161

WOODSIDE

PRIVATE ESTATE $10,900,000 4 BR 3 BA In Central WDS on nearly 9 ac, with amazing vws of the Western Hills. Pool & guest house. Erika Demma 650.851.2666

SPLIT LEVEL HOME $4,150,000 4 BR 3.5 BA 3.8 ac set at the end of a prvte country lane. Beautiful oaks, pool, tennis ct., & gsthse. Scott Dancer 650.851.2666

ATHERTONSTATELY GRAND ESTATE $15,500,000 6 BR 4 BA 10350sf (includes guest hs) on 1.81 A in prime Circus Club area. Almost completely redone! Hanna Shacham 650.324.4456

EAST PALO ALTONEAR SCHOOL & COMMUTE RTE $325,000 3 BR 1 BA Updated Kitchen and Full Bath, Newer double paned grid windows, dining & living room combo Fabiola Prieto 650.325.6161

CONVENIENT LOCATION $325,000 3 BR 2 BA Solid Home. Some updates include double paned grid windows, well maintained yards. Fabiola Prieto 650.325.6161

NEAR SHOPPING AND 101 $299,000 2 BR 1 BA Updated kitchen w. tile floors, dining and living room combo, bonus rm. Fully fenced yards Fabiola Prieto 650.325.6161

EL GRANADAROOM FOR THE"TOYS" $779,900 4BR 3BA. Large corner lot with room for RV-boat-poptop-hot tub. Diana Plank 650.728.4502

LOS ALTOS HILLSNEW OASIS $12,950,000 7 BR 7.5 BA Unparalled luxury & landmark architec-ture await you at this home w/10,666 sf on 1+ acre. Hanna Shacham 650.324.4456

MENLO PARKSING FAM HM W/LEGAL RENT. $1,399,000 4 BR 3 BA Remodeled home w/wood floors, pool & legal rental. Valerie Trenter 650.323.7751

ELEGANT TOWNHOME! $929,000 3 BR 2.5 BA This 2,000 SF Home Is Perfect For California Living! John Alexander 650.323.7751

MOUNTAIN VIEWHOME + INCOME IN MT. VIEW $2,100,000 3 BR 2 BA Remod&like new SFR vacant, six 1bd/1ba units w/tenants, hwd flrs,FP,new custom tile baths Tim Trailer 650.325.6161

GREAT PROPERTY $1,298,000 4 BR 2 BA Expansive owner's home plus large 2br/1.5ba rental with bonus room and 1-car garage. Greg Stange 650.325.6161

PRETTY MONTA LOMA HOME $899,000 3 BR 2 BA Gorgeous remodeled home with upgrad-ed kitchen & baths, copper plumbing, dual pane windows Pat Jordan 650.325.6161

CHARMING MONTA LOMA HOME $849,000 3 BR 2 BA Remodeled home with family room, updated kitchen and baths, hw floors, dual-pane win-dows. Pat Jordan 650.325.6161

CUTE CHERRY HD FLRS PRIV. $619,000 3 BR 2.5 BA Bedroom & bathroom on first level cherry Hardwood Floors. Christina Nguyen 650.323.7751

CONVENIENT LOCATION! $574,800 2 BR 2 BA Move-in ready! Bright, 2-level well-main-tained quiet corner-unit townhome. Teri Lee 650.325.6161

REMODELED WITH A WOW! $399,000 2 BR 1.5 BA “Short Sale” Make your best offer and the bank might accept it! Opportunity of a lifetime! Geraldine Asmus 650.325.6161

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EXQUISITE ELEGANCE $7,750,000 4 BR 4.5 BA Historic Crescent Pk hm. Exceptional wood detail, magnificent staircase, grand recep. hall Linda Fahn 650.325.6161

NEW CONSTRUCTION! $5,850,000 5 BR 4 BA Approx 4,700 SF of living space spread over 3 levels. Approx 8,079 SF lot in Leland Manor. Hanna Shacham 650.324.4456

NEW CONSTRUCT. IN OLD PA $3,899,000 5 BR 4 BA Stunning Craftsman by J5 Homes. Open Floor Plan, Imported Materials, High-End Finishes!! Mandana Nejad 650.325.6161

SPECTACULAR, SPACIOUS HM $3,750,000 6 BR 4.5 BA This amazing 4,489 sqft state-of-the-art, nearly new home is thoughtfully designed. Hanna Shacham 650.324.4456

NEW SPANISH VILLA $3,499,000 5 BR 4.5 BA ~3600sf of living space, open flr pln, 3 levels. Designed: Stephen Pogue; Built: J5 Homes Mandana Nejad 650.325.6161

EXQUISITE EICHLER $1,749,000 4 BR 2 BA. Beautifully remodeled down to the studs. Many modern & sophisticated features. Enjoy indoor/outdoor living. Nil Erdal 650.325.6161

334 HAWTHORNE AVE $1,795,000 3 BR 2.5 BA Unique opportunity to own a stunning contemporary hm in Downtown PA. Top of the line appl R. Brendan Leary 650.325.6161

HIDDEN OASIS IN OLD PA $1,485,000 3 BR 2 BA Quiet location on flag this 2-story home offers great family living, spacious kitchen. Alan & Nicki Loveless 650.325.6161

UNIQUE CONTEMPORARY HOME $1,475,000 4 BR 2 BA Beautiful recently remodeled contempo-rary home with vaulted ceilings and walls of glass. Jon Anderson 650.325.6161

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DOWNTOWN PA TOWNHOUSE $1,295,000 2 BR 2.5 BA Approx. 1692 sq. ft. Stunningly remod-eled. in 2004. All the finest materials & appliances. Zach Trailer 650.325.6161

EXPANDED & REMODELED $1,199,000 3 BR 2.5 BA Remodeled kitchen,granite,hardwood floors,new appliances.Family Room,dining room. Rod Creason 650.325.6161

UPDATED EICHLER $1,195,000 3 BR 2 BA Nestled on a corner lot in a private circle. 1954 sq. feet of living area. Gil Oraha 650.325.6161

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BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED $679,000 2 BR 2 BA Fabulous updated ground flr single level unit in prime complex.In-unit laundry, PA schools Kathleen & Dave Pasin 650.325.6161

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GREAT HOME W. IN-LAW UNIT $648,500 3 BR 2 BA w. 1/1 in-law unit. Great private lot, 75x105 w/ nice lawn, patio and more. Remod. kitchen Joy Yoo 650.328.5211

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REMODELED W/FAMILY ROOM $1,289,000 4 BR 2.5 BA Remodeled 2 story w/family room, & private yard. Valerie Trenter 650.323.7751

BEAUTIFUL NEW CONSTRUCTION $1,200,000 In the Willows. Built by J5Home. Designed by Alex Miller-Cole. Mandana Nejad 650.325.6161

MENLO PARK 4 34 3

ONE-OF-A-KIND HOME $899,000 Charming home with unique wood interior beamed ceilings, lg windows & dramatic skylights. Dorothy Gurwith 650.325.6161

PALO ALTO 3 13 1

1924 CHARMER $829,000 A great location, only 4 blocks from Castro St. Private backyard, sep. 1-ca Garrett Mock 650.328.5211

MOUNTAIN VIEW 3 13 1

LIKE NEW JUST MOVE IN! $399,000 2BR 2BA Granite counters & tile baths, gleaming cherry floors, corner unit, close to Santana Row. Gordon Ferguson 650.328.5211

SANTA CLARA 2 22 2

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