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U niversity Avenue has been covered with “warnings” in recent weeks. Fliers printed

with the phrase “Artist General’s Warning” and designed to look like the Surgeon General’s Warn-ing commonly seen on cigarette boxes have been taped to cross-walk boxes and stop signs up and down University.

“Artist General’s Warning: Conformity Is Addictive. Don’t Abuse It,” reads a sign near Bry-ant Street.

Pedestrians crossing at Waver-ley Street are duly warned: “Sow The Spin, Reap The Whirlwind.”

Many “warning” texts are based on Biblical passages. At least one is a restyled poem — a riff on Wil-liam Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming.”

The signs are the work of Mi-chael Masley, a self-described “card-carrying Berkeley eccen-tric.” They are part of his larger protest against what he sees as war profiteering in Iraq and govern-ment deception.

Masley, 55, anointed himself the nation’s first Artist General in 2002 and began his campaign of warn-ing signs this spring. He paused his 25-year career as street musician of the cymbalom — a mystical-sounding hammered dulcimer from eastern Europe — to assume a role he describes as “guardian of the collective imagination.”

“I’m powered on just raw po-litical outrage. I’m absolutely appalled,” he said on a recent afternoon, standing on Univer-sity Avenue. A talkative man with lively eyes and a long red pony-tail, Masley removed a sign from

his canvas shoulder bag and stood on tiptoes to tape it to a crosswalk box.

He’s posted about 1,000 in the Bay Area since spring and 100 in Palo Alto since July, he esti-mated.

Masley is part joking, part ear-nest. His new “title” is tongue-in-cheek, based on a San Francisco man who declared himself emper-or of the U.S. in 1859 and was tol-erantly called “Emperor Norton” by affectionate residents.

But Masley is hoping for real impact — namely for the legisla-ture to adopt a resolution renounc-ing profits from military action.

In addition to his warning signs, his campaign also includes a Web site, spoof-like videos of him “ad-dressing the nation,” appeals to the Berkeley City Council and sena-tors, and even an online shop sell-ing tote bags and T-shirts stamped with Masley quotations.

The store hasn’t made real mon-ey yet, but that’s not the point, ac-cording to Masley. The goal is just to get people to think.

While he may be succeeding in Palo Alto, it’s not clear the mes-sage is hitting home as intended.

Palo Alto resident Tariqu Khalil, sitting outside a restaurant on Uni-versity Avenue, could see a Masley missive taped to coffee-splattered trash can near Starbucks.

“Big Time @ my pet goat — that a sitting president was on his game after all,” the sign read.

He didn’t know what the author was trying to say, Khalil said.

A block away, friends Tina Gho-lami and Shabnam Moallem, Cu-pertino residents who frequently

stroll University Avenue, said they hadn’t noticed the warnings ear-lier.

They paused to read the “Sow the Spin” message and professed to being puzzled.

“It gets you thinking, but I don’t know what I’m thinking about,” Gholami said.

A minute later, Leigh Gates, a caterer working downtown, squinted at the sign.

“I have no idea what that means,” she said.

Reactions to his words run the gamut, from stumped to enthused,

P lans for a stately and state-of-the-art new campus to be built by the Foothill-De Anza

Community College District at Palo Alto’s Cubberley Community Cen-ter may have finally sputtered out Monday after months of losing steam.

But the district does not plan to move out of 4000 Middlefield Road. There may even be significant ex-pansion there, Charles Allen said at a district board meeting Monday.

The district’s current campus will grow faster than previously an-nounced, but it won’t need the two-

story, 100,000-square-foot structure envisioned in an earlier feasibility study, according to Allen, the dis-trict’s executive director of facili-ties, operations and construction management.

Facilities as small as half that size could house the thousands more stu-dents expected by 2017, Allen said.

Yet any expansion would require ownership or a long-term lease of at least 50 years, he said. That require-ment, which district officials call fi-

nancially necessary, has for months dogged negotiations between the City of Palo Alto, which owns Cub-berley, and the college district.

Under the voter-approved 2006 bond Measure C, which provides $40 million for a new education center, the district is obliged to seek the best investment value.

Why, they ask, should the district pour money into a new facility it doesn’t own?

The tussle over Cubberley began

last winter, after the district made public conceptual plans for a new campus on the eight acres it leases from the city. The modern complex would have replaced the school’s cur-rent campus, housed in aging struc-tures built as a high school in 1955.

Yet the plan faltered when sev-eral City Council members vowed in January never to approve selling Cubberley land, a blow to the col-

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District still seeking ownership or long-term lease before investing in expansion

by Arden Pennell

Artist brings poetic, sometimes puzzling protest

to downtownPart of larger campaign, messages pop up

on stop signs, crosswalk boxes along University Avenueby Arden Pennell

New building slated for University

Following objection, Rapp-owned structure faces City

Council review Sept. 15by Becky Trout

L ike its neighbor across Bryant Street on University Avenue — the fire-destroyed Wal-

greens building — the two-story building that once housed Noah’s Bagels and Starbucks is slated for demolition.

Owner Roxy Rapp and his part-ners propose to replace 278 Univer-sity Ave., an older structure suscepti-ble to earthquakes, with a four-story retail and office building.

Architect Ken Hayes, who also designed the Jos. A. Bank Clothiers building next door, said project lead-ers would like to secure a two-story retail tenant with two office spaces on top, each story set back with an outdoor terrace.

He said he doesn’t know what businesses might occupy the build-ing, which could be available by early 2010.

The Palo Alto Architectural Re-view Board unanimously approved the project June 5. After securing the approval from city staff, the project wouldn’t have needed any further re-view, according to a city report.

But on June 30, resident Lynn Chiapella filed an appeal, trigger-ing a process that mandates a City Council review of the project.

Chiapella contested where the project would sit relative to Bryant. City code calls for 15 feet between the curb and the building; the pro-posed building would allow for a 12-foot sidewalk.

However, the existing structure sits only eight feet from the curb, and the property owner would be allowed to rebuild in the same spot if the building completely complied

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Artist/activist Michael Masley, seen here posting one of his ‘Artist General’s Warning: Give Peace a Chance’ signs on University Avenue on Friday, wants to spread his war-protest message.

Our Town

by Don Kazak

‘Bam! Bam! Boom!’

O ne guy, armed with weapons, is trying to kill another guy, also armed with weapons.

They chase each other through a huge, castle-like building.

The two guys kill each other many times — all on computer screens.

I was watching over the shoulder of Jati, a 15-year-old who will be a high school senior in Singapore next school year.

Jati was attending a camp for teens held at Stanford last month about advanced computer video gaming. The camp is run by iD Camps of Cupertino and is one of several camps teaching computer skills to kids that the company has run at Stanford each summer in re-cent years.

The video gaming camp is for young kids with wicked-fast com-puter reactions.

I became a little dizzy watching the game in progress because it moved so fast, too fast for an older guy used to the written word.

Jati is a soft-spoken, tall kid, one of many international students drawn to the summer camp at Stan-ford.

The computer emits “Bam! Bam! Boom!” sounds as Jati and his op-ponent virtually dash up stairs, duck behind walls and columns, and madly shoot at and kill each other time after time.

As their characters run up stairs, the computer emits sounds of grunt-ing.

Books don’t do that, so maybe that’s a lure.

The kids at the camp are all pleas-ant, respectful and smart. They love the computer world where they can create images and jostle each other online.

Sean, who will be a Palo Alto High School junior in the fall, was part of the computer camp.

“This will help me out in high school,” he said.

Sean said he started with com-puter games when he was in the second grade and he enjoyed being at the camp.

“We all basically have the same passions,” he said. “I want to find a career in the video gaming indus-try.”

He’s learned how to write com-puter programming, not bad for a

high school junior.The computer camp is run in sev-

eral large student residence houses on the Stanford campus, where smart Stanford students live most of the year and computer kids come for a very expensive camp ($3,499 for two weeks) when the Stanford students are gone for the summer.

But it’s also a cultural exchange.Jati is from Singapore“It’s been fun to learn from kids

from America,” he said.Sherif, 17 years old, is from

Egypt.“I’ve traveled around the world,”

Sherif said.Sherif said he has been thinking

of doing computer science as a col-lege major.

“It’s my first time with other gamers,” he added. “There’s not that many in Egypt.”

Sam, 13, from Washington, D.C., is younger and working at a more basic level. He’ll be an eighth grader in the fall.

“I’ve been interested in computer games since I was really young,” he said.

He modeled a character to be used in software animations, starting from a blueprint of the human body, and then did an animation of how the character moved, which is more difficult than it sounds because it all has to be programmed.

But he’s also a kid, and he got a kick of a simple thing he designed: a cannon that fires a ball that be-comes a rocket and then goes back into the cannon after going around two-dimensional corners. He was tickled by it.

Sam was remarkably poised and relaxed for a small, slight kid who was quick to smile.

“It’s amazing being here,” he said. “The people are nice and the software is amazing.”

Because of the price, the camp draws kids from affluent families, but that doesn’t mean the kids aren’t amazing.

Sam gave a good, sly reason for being at the camp.

“The best part is when people ask me what I did this summer I can say, ‘I went to Stanford.’”

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

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Masley acknowledged. But fellow “political nerds” should be able to decode his meaning, he said. For ex-ample, “Big Time” was a reference to Dick Cheney, who used the words “big time” to agree when President George W. Bush insulted a New York Times reporter.

And “My Pet Goat” is the book Bush was reading to children when planes hit the World Trade Center nearly seven years ago, Masley said.

The sign implies possible gov-ernment knowledge of the terrorist attack before the attack happened, he said. Highly educated Palo Alto residents shouldn’t have a problem grasping his meaning, for the most part, he predicted.

But he didn’t choose Palo Alto for its cultural literacy. Rather, he’s stay-ing nearby at his brother’s house in

Redwood City and decided to put up signs up and down the Peninsula.

He’s plastered Google’s campus in Mountain View twice, he said.

While Masley’s warnings are sometimes too poetic — or obscure —for cogency, his other campaign-ing is straightforward.

In the homemade videos where he appears as Artist General, Masley calls upon “war hawks” to renounce any personal profit made from mili-tary actions they have authorized.

He wants to ask Dick Cheney and others whether they would take such a vow, which he dubs a recusal.

“That question in a democracy would be healthy to ask for all kinds of reasons. ... We don’t need to pro-tect the portfolia of multimillionaire chicken-hawks,” he said.

Although the Berkeley City Coun-cil and two senators’ offices have declined to promote his message, he’ll keep trying, he said.

His message hasn’t been champi-oned yet in either the House or Sen-

ate, but urbanites are meanwhile paying attention to his aesthetic campaign.

A small, wired community has taken a shine to the eccentric signs.

Dozens of photographers have posted images of the Minimalist signs’ black-letters-on-white-back-ground to Flickr, a photo-sharing Web site. One photo has popped up on the group-rating site Digg.

Masley is grateful to his grass-roots fans. The “20-something, savvy cybernauts” are transferring his messages from paper — a simple photocopy is all Masley can afford, he said — to everlasting cyber-life.

Powered by the reaction, he plans to continue plastering Palo Alto, San Francisco and other Bay Area cities with the eye-catching-yet-im-permanent warnings — at least until it rains, he said.

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

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Initial Study has been prepared in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act for the project listed below. In accordance with A.B. 886, this document will be available for review and comment during a minimum 20-day inspection period beginning August 7, 2008 to August 27, 2008 during the hours of 8:00 AM to 12:00 noon Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9:00 AM to 12:00 noon Wednesday, and 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Monday through Friday at the Development Center, 285 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California.

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3000 Alexis Drive (06PLN-00000-00361): Application for Site and Design Review and a Conditional Use Permit to allow construction of a new 16,276 square foot two story spa and fitness center building with a basement parking garage, an addition to the existing clubhouse building for office and dining uses, addition of a new grass tennis court, and other site improvements. Zone District: OS (Open Space). Environmental Assessment: A revised Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration have been prepared and are available for public review.

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with the zoning code.“What’s critical along University

Avenue is frontage. Every lineal foot makes for a more successful retail (store),” Hayes said.

He said a wider sidewalk along Bryant Street would also “under-mine the hierarchy of downtown,” which designates University Av-enue as the primary street, met by secondary streets such as Bryant.

Planner Russ Reich said he re-searched the history of the setback, which dates to the 1950s, and was unable to discover its original pur-pose. City staff members are inter-preting the setback as an attempt to encourage University Avenue passersby to look down Bryant and possibly venture there.

In her appeal, Chiapella suggests the setback is needed to widen Bryant Street, a step she recom-mends.

The city has no plans to widen the roadway, Reich said.

Chiapella is also contesting the size of the building and the height, which is 55 feet, five feet above the 50-foot limit.

The Planning and Transportation Commission offered an advisory vote on the setback issue Wednes-day, voting 4-3 to allow the de-veloper to shave three feet off the required setback. Vice Chair Dan Garber and commissioners Paula Sandas, Lee Lippert and Samir Tuma voted to approve the 12-foot sidewalk as proposed.

Hayes said the 18,200-square-foot building (the current structure

is 18,000 square feet) will include several energy-saving features in-cluding solar panels, high-efficien-cy windows and ventilation and the use of regional and recycled ma-terials.

The City Council is expected to review the project Sept. 15.

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

Building

A new four-story building, designed by architect Kenneth Hayes, is pro-posed for the corner of University Avenue and Bryant Street.

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lege district’s goal of finding long-term space for students.

Officials for the 44,000-student district have toured alternate sites throughout the South Peninsula since the fateful January meeting.

On Monday, the city and college district spoke with two property representatives in addition to the City of Palo Alto — San Francisco-based PSAI Realty Partners regard-ing a vacant business development at 100-200 Evelyn Ave. in Mountain View, and Cornish and Carey Com-mercial regarding the former head-quarters of Trident Microsystems in a business park at 189 N. Bernardo Ave. in Mountain View.

Meanwhile, in lieu of building a whole new campus at Cubberley, the district may decide to move some Middlefield programs elsewhere, district Chancellor Martha Kanter said recently.

Sports and athletics programs such as basketball, dance and yoga should remain at Middlefield facili-

ties, Foothill College President Judy Miner said Monday.

The college district overall is feeling the squeeze of enrollment growth, according to Allen. By 2015, expanding beyond current facilities — including those already slated for construction under the recently passed bond Measure C — will be absolutely necessary, he said.

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

Foothill

Police arrest ‘associate’ in Philip Lacy killingSuspect to be arraigned for murder

by Don Kazak

P olice have arrested a man in connection with the July 13 killing of Philip Lacy out-

side of City Hall, Police Agent Dan Ryan said Monday.

Donald Robert Lee, Jr., 20, of San Jose was arrested July 18 in Albuquerque, N.M. and returned to Santa Clara County July 28. He is scheduled to be arraigned for mur-der in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Wednesday, Aug. 6, due to his presence at the crime scene and was an associate of the primary suspect in the killing, Otto Koloto, 22, of Gilroy.

Police withheld information on Lee’s arrest until Monday because of the ongoing search for Koloto, Ryan said. Koloto is suspected of shooting Lacy during a robbery at 1:45 a.m. July 13.

Lacy was on life-support ma-chines at Stanford Hospital for three days until his family decided to end life support and Lacy was pronounced dead.

Lacy had been out drinking with friends in downtown Palo Alto the night of July 12 when he was robbed and shot while waiting with friends for other friends in the 600 block of

Bryant Street outside of City Hall.Koloto allegedly approached Lacy

and robbed him of a gold chain and other items, turned away and then turned back and shot Lacy once in his forehead.

There is a $10,000 reward for in-formation leading to the arrest and conviction of Lacy’s killer. Anyone with information is asked to call the police department tip line at 650-329-2190.

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

What’s the color?The Color of Palo Alto, a

7-year-long project by artist Samuel Yates, was scheduled to be revealed Tuesday, Aug. 5, after the Weekly’s press deadline. But coverage of the event will be posted online at the Weekly’s Web site. To view the color, and see the unveiling ceremony, go to www.PaloAl-toOnline.com.

CRIME

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Around Town

—Michael Masley, a Berkeley artist who has been plastering downtown Palo Alto with signs protesting the Iraq war. See story on page 3.

I’m powered on just raw political outrage.‘‘‘‘

A HERO FROM PALY ... On May 25, 2007, Paly ’93 grad Tim Moore, now a Navy Seal, did something heroic in Baghdad. Only Moore and those who were with him that day in Iraq know ex-actly what happened, but Moore’s actions were so outstanding and honorable he was given a Bronze Star for valor, the military’s fourth highest combat honor. “He’s a local boy that’s a hero,” said his proud mother, Katy Moore. Moore said she knows the war is unpopular but wanted to tell the community about her son’s success. “We always hear about the bad stuff. They need to hear about this because he’s a good kid.” After graduating from Paly, where he was a leading water polo player, Tim studied sociology at UC Berkeley, graduated, and entered the U.S. Navy, becoming a Seal in 2000. He is now sta-tioned in Virginia.

FAN OF FIREFIGHTERS ... A quick response by nine fire ve-hicles and 24 firefighters Sunday morning has earned praise in Palo Alto’s Community Center neighborhood. The blaze at 814 Melville Ave. was discovered at 7:15 a.m. by homeowner Jackie Yu, after a fire apparently started in or near a dishwasher. Yu told a neighbor that her family heard a “pop” from the kitchen area Saturday evening but couldn’t locate a source for it. The fire caused an estimated $300,000 of damage but no injuries, Palo Alto Fire Department Battalion Chief Don Dudak said. Next-door neighbor Carroll Harrington gave kudos to the fire department on Town Square, the online com-munity forum on Palo Alto Online: “I want to thank them for their rapid response to this fire ... and more importantly for their care and concern for the Yu family.” Harrington also put in a plug for the city’s Neighborhood Watch program, noting that one neigh-bor generously offered her house for the Yu family to stay in.

COMMISSIONERS NEW & OLD ... With the unanimous approval of the City Council, Karen Hol-man and Susan Fineberg were recently reappointed to four year terms on the Planning and Transportation Commission. Holman, the commission’s cur-

rent chair and a Crescent Park resident, is in her seventh year on the commission. “What’s more captivating than land use?” asked Holman, who was trained as a graphic designer. “It involves everything. It affects everyone’s lives. I find it intriguing.” She’s learned two major lessons: Per-fect solutions don’t exist, and it’s impossible to plan for all of the unanticipated effects of a project or policy. “So you do the best you can,” Holman said. She said the commission takes be-tween 20 and 40 hours a month. Fineberg, who has a background in corporate accounting and lives in the Palo Verde neighborhood, has been on the commission about a year. “It’s very satisfy-ing to go through the process of learning from the public, other commissioners, staff members and helping ask what I believe are some of the important ques-tions,” Fineberg said.

A LITTLE MORE PUBLIC... There’s been movement afoot since the Weekly’s Aug. 1 story on the Homer Avenue public plaza, promised as part of the 800 High St. condominium de-velopment. The article noted that the city’s ordinance approving the public plaza actually allows it to be used by a restaurant during business hours. Since last Friday, several cement planters have been moved, making the plaza a bit more accessible to the public. The planters were put in by St. Michael’s Alley, which plans to move into the ground floor and plaza within months.

REALLY LONG MEETINGS... It doesn’t just seem like the Palo Alto City Council is meeting more often, and longer, than in the past — it really is. Mayor Larry Klein recently asked the city clerk’s of-fice to tally the number of hours the council has spent in meetings. This year, from January to the end of July, the City Council met for 140 hours. During the first seven months of 2007, the council spent 120 hours in meetings, up from 104.5 hours during the same pe-riod in 2006. Klein said he doesn’t expect the council’s workload to continue climbing. He attributed the long hours this year to the interviews for a new city manager and city auditor.

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MAMA YOGAJoin other prenatal and postpartum mothers in a Yoga class designed to enhance strength, flexibility and tranquility. Practice Yoga stretches and poses while pregnant and return after your delivery for a gentle shape-up and relaxation time.

- Saturdays, August 9-23

PREPARING FOR MULTIPLESAre you expecting twins, triplets or more? With the potential for early delivery, expectant parents of multiples are encouraged to learn everything there is to know about carrying and delivering multiple infants.

- Sunday, August 17

BECOMING GRANDPARENTSDesigned for new and expectant grandparents, this class examines the change in labor and delivery practices, the latest recommendations for infant care and the unique role of grandparents in today’s society.

- Thursday, August 21

ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR PARENTSDoes your child have difficulty focusing, paying attention or sitting still? If so, your child could have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The Child Psychiatry Clinic at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital is offering ways for parents of children (ages 5-12) with ADHD to help their children improve behavior and function more independently. If interested, please call (650) 723-5511.

- Tuesdays, September 9 – November 11

Call (650) 723-4600 or visit www.lpch.org to register or obtain more information on the times, locations and fees for these and other courses.

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Come early to wander through the galleries, and bring a picnic to enjoy on the lawn.

Wired for Speech:How Voice Activates Interactions with People and Computers

Technologies that talk and listen are populating computers, cars, call centers, toys andeven home appliances, but voice interfaces frequently seem to be more problem thanopportunity. This talk will describe how the human brain and body are “wired” forspeech: The sound of a voice, whether from a person or machine, causes us to respondas we respond to actual people and to behave as we would in any social situation.

Join Clifford Nass, Professor of Computer Science and Sociology, as he examinesand explains why voice can lead people to be polite to computers, to gender-stereotypecars, to buy more when a website's personality matches their own, to be charmed bya toy’s flattery, and to drive more safely when the car has the correct emotion.

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BEAD SHOP NEARS END OF LONG STRING ... The 26-year-long run for The Bead Shop at 158 University Ave. comes to an end in a few weeks — marking the passing of an era for bead-store popularity. “No question I caught the wave,” said The Bead Shop owner and Palo Altan Janice Parsons. “But the paradigm is changing. People have moved on to shopping on the Web, and now it’s hard to believe that the ride is over. I’ll close at the end of August.” The Bead Shop’s original loca-tion was on Hamilton Avenue at Emerson Street. “My mom had an antiques store there for 24 years,” Parsons said, adding that when she turned it into The Bead Shop in 1982, “I never wanted to remove the awning in the front that said, ‘Antiques, Etc.’ It remained there all that time.” The move eight years ago to the University Avenue site came at the height of The Bead Shop’s prosperity. “We were very successful, but then independent stores began hav-ing a hard time. People started shopping online. We saw a gradual decline in business and then there was a big thump. Boom. And I knew I had to get out of the business,” Parsons said. She emphasized how ap-preciative she was to the com-munity. “I am so grateful for their support. But now I’m going to take some time off. I need that before I come back swinging,” she said.

KFC, LONG JOHN SILVER’S, CHIPOTLE ALL MOVE IN ... A new Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Long John Silver’s Res-taurant are going into the former location of a custom motorcycle

shop, California Customs, at 2603 Charleston Road, next to Taco Bell. After KFC was forced to close last year to make room for the Campus for Jewish Life, at Charleston and San Antonio roads, it found the new location just one block away. KFC ex-pects to open both restaurants in early 2009. And Chipotle Restaurant, which opened two years ago in the Charleston Plaza, is about to have another location in Palo Alto. A deal was reportedly just signed for the former site of Golfsmith Golf & Tennis, 2675 El Camino Real. Morton’s Steakhouse was origi-nally scheduled to take over the spot, but that deal fell through, according to industry sources.

WALGREENS DRUGSTORE STILL DOWNTOWN ... Although Walgreens has been gone more than one year from downtown Palo Alto, its pharmacy is still in business, after taking over the tiny Disco Rex Pharmacy at 328 University Ave. When the July 2007 fire gutted Walgreens’ historic building at University Avenue and Bryant Street, its top brass from Chicago scur-ried to find another location for the pharmacy part of its store. It did, just a half block away. Dis-co Rex was an old, family-run drugstore until it was bought by Walgreens. Walgreens has ev-ery intention of returning to the site of its former building (now demolished) as soon as it gets city approval for a proposed three-story, sleek new store, of-ficials said.

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Pat Briggs: She’s angry but not bitterIn exclusive interview, director looks back on turbulent year

by Becky Trout

I n a bittersweet moment marking both her re-turn to the theater as director Friday and her official retirement after 47 years, Pat Briggs

was welcomed by cheering supporters at the Palo Alto Children’s Theatre on Monday.

Shortly after the reception, Briggs sat down with the Weekly for an exclusive interview. It was the first time she’d spoken publicly since the abrupt Jan. 24 theater closure, when she and three colleagues were placed on paid adminis-trative leave and news of an already 5-month-old embezzlement investigation began to leak out.

Now officially retired and working as a paid consultant, as “advising artistic director,” Briggs said she is glad to be through with the bizarre, “hurtful” investigation, which was exacerbated by the death of Assistant Director Michael Lit-fin, her longtime friend.

Briggs said she is not bitter and wants only good things for the theater, and for the city.

By agreeing to a settlement with the city, which involved her paying $15,000, she real-izes some observers will assume she admitted guilt, which is not true, she said.

Overall, Briggs said she doesn’t believe she or her colleagues were treated fairly. She expressed particular anger about being judged publicly “guilty until proven innocent” by the immedi-ate suspensions, as well as about how the case was handled by police overall.

Rather than a secretive, criminal investiga-tion, the city should have requested an audi-tor to review the theater’s books and budgets, she said.

She’d welcome a full audit today.Briggs disagrees with charges that she and the

other theater employees were sloppy bookkeep-ers or that they had melded their personal and their professional lives — and wallets. She also disagrees with police assertions that she did not report theft of travelers’ checks after the June 1007 burglary.

Briggs admitted she made mistakes, including failing to keep track of the numbers and amounts of the travelers’ checks in multiple places.

Briggs said she went into the episode fully trusting the police.

She said she did not realize she was a sus-pect even when she was interviewed for five hours Jan. 24, even though the embezzlement investigation had been underway for six months already.

“It was just all very, very odd,” Briggs said. “I should have figured out something was amiss.”

As for her retirement, Briggs told the Weekly she had expected to retire this year anyway, a change that might have been delayed due to the illness and death of Litfin, who would have been named the next director.

Now, with an office across the courtyard from the Children’s Theatre, Briggs is working with Arts and Sciences Manager Linda Craighead to select a replacement for Litfin out of the 91 ap-plicants for the assistant-director job.

Naming of a new director will follow selection of the assistant director, she said.

An exclusive video interview with Pat Briggs and an expanded version of this article are post-ed online at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

COMMUNITY

Two men rob Palo Alto bankTwo men walked into the Bank of Amer-

ica on Quarry Road at Stanford Shopping Center at 1:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, passed a note to a teller and walked out with an undisclosed amount of money, ac-cording to Police Agent Zach Perron.

Both men were Hispanic and about 25 years old, witnesses said.

One man was about 6-feet tall with a thin build and was wearing an Oakland A’s baseball cap, sunglasses and a gray hood-ed sweatshirt. The second man was about 5-feet, 9-inches tall with a medium build and was wearing a black baseball cap, sun-glasses and a black T-shirt, police said.

The two men left from the lot behind the bank in an American-made, silver, extended-cab pickup truck.

Anyone with information about the rob-bery is asked to call the police tip line at 650-329-2190.

—Don Kazak

Brouchoud new PA city auditorLynda Flores Brouchoud, an auditor

with the City of San Jose, has been named the new Palo Alto city auditor, Mayor Lar-ry Klein announced Monday night at the City Council meeting.

Brouchoud has been with San Jose for a decade, where she was honored with a national auditing award, according to an announcement.

Brouchoud is a Bay Area native, attend-ed University of California, Berkeley, and received a master’s of public policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Gov-ernment at Harvard University.

She will begin work Sept. 18 and earn $156,000 a year, less than the $175,600 former auditor Sharon Erickson earned in 2007.

One of Brouchoud’s first assignments will be to examine the cash-handling and travel practices and procedures through-out the city, with a focus on non-City Hall departments. She also will supervise a re-view of the city’s relationships with non-profit support groups, an audit sparked by the Children’s Theatre imbroglio.

For more City Council news, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

—Becky Trout

Police arrest burglary suspectThanks to an alert witness, Palo Alto

police arrested a man on suspicion of at-tempted auto burglary shortly after mid-night Monday.

It was the second arrest of suspected auto burglars, due to witnesses, in the last week by Palo Alto police.

A man was seen at 12:34 a.m. Monday at the Shell gas station at 101 Lytton Ave. tampering with a vehicle. He fled on foot east of Lytton Avenue, Agent Rich Buller-jahn said.

Less than a minute later, Palo Alto offi-cers saw Kendrick Dorice Roby Jr., 20, of Menlo Park, who matched the description, at Lytton Avenue and Emerson Street and stopped him, Bullerjahn said.

Roby was arrested after police found in his possession an item from a separate auto burglary, Bullerjahn reported. Roby was charged with vehicle tampering and possession of stolen property and was booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose.

—Don Kazak

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POLICE CALLSPalo AltoJuly 26-Aug 1Violence relatedBattery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Credit-card forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedAbandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . .3Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .7Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .7Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Alcohol or drug relatedDrunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Liquor law/possession by minor . . . . . . .1Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Possession of paraphernalia. . . . . . . . . .2Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . .1Miscellaneous

Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Misc. penal-code violation . . . . . . . . . . .4Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Noise ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .5Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .1Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Menlo ParkJuly 27-Aug 3Theft relatedCommercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle relatedAuto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . .2Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Alcohol or drug relatedDrug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1MiscellaneousFound property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .2Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

AthertonJuly 29-Aug 4Violence RelatedAssault w/a deadly weapon . . . . . . . . . .1Simple assault -battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Theft relatedPetty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Vehicle relatedAuto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Bicycle stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2County road block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Miscellaneous traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Suspicious vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Vehicle-code violation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . .2Alcohol or drug relatedNarc. offense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Miscellaneous911 hang up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Animal call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Be on the lookout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Citizen assist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Disturbing the peace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Fire call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Follow up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Mail tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Meet citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Other/miscellaneous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Perimeter check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Probation violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Shots fired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .5Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Tree blocking roadway . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Welfare check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

VIOLENT CRIMESPalo Alto700 block Colorado Avenue, 7/30, 10:30 a.m.; battery/simple.3500 block Laguna Avenue, 7/31, 2:30 p.m.; battery/simple.

Atherton200 block Atherton Avenue, 8/2, 5:39 p.m.; assault with deadly weapon.Monte Vista Avenue, 8/4, 10:05 a.m.; simple assault/battery.

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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETINGof the City of Palo Alto

Architectural Review Board (ARB)

Please be advised that Thursday, August 21, 2008, the ARB shall conduct a public hearing at 8:30 AM in the Council Chambers, 1st Floor, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. Any interested persons may appear and be heard.

2455 El Camino Real [07PLN-00320]: Request by Hans and Sarah Brender for Architectural Review of a motel renovation to include four new units, a remodeled lobby, a remodeled manager unit, and site improvements. Environmental Assessment: Exempt. Zone district: CC(2).

2560 Embarcadero Road [07PLN-00219]: Request by the Environmental Volunteers on behalf of the City of Palo Alto for Architectural Review of the rehabilitation of the former Sea Scout Base building and site improvements to establish a non-profit educational facility. Environmental Assessment: An Initial Study/Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration has been prepared. Zone District: PF(D).

1129 San Antonio Avenue [08PLN-00104]: Request by Chris Dorman on behalf of Google, Inc. for Site and Design Review of a new childcare facility (San Antonio Children’s Center) in three buildings totaling approximately 46,163 square feet. Environmental Assessment: An Initial Study/Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration has been prepared. Zone District: ROLM (D)(AD).

49 Wells Road [07PLN-00079]: Request by Jim Baer on behalf of SHP-Palo Alto LLC for Architectural Review of an approximately 17,000 square feet 3-story medical/dental building with below grade parking. A Conditional Use Permit amendment is requested in conjunction with this project. Environmental Assessment: An Initial Study/Draft Negative Declaration has been prepared. Zone District: CS

Stanford University Medical Center Modernization and Expansion Project: Request by Stanford University Medical Center on behalf of The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University for Preliminary Architectural Review of the proposed Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Zone District: PF (Public Facilities).

The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request accommodations to access City facilities, services or programs, to participate at public meetings, or to learn more about the City’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing ada@cityofpaloalto.org.

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Deaths Kristin Miscavage

Kristin Miscavage, 56, who worked at Stanford University for nearly four decades, died at her Palo Alto home July 16 after a nearly two-year battle with ovarian cancer.

She was born at Stanford Hospital on Nov. 30, 1951, when it was still lo-cated in San Francisco. She attended Palo Alto High School and received a bachelor’s degree in French from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Her father, who died when she was 8 months old, was Carl T. Running, associate professor of business law at Stanford. Her mother, Ruth Run-ning, worked in Stanford libraries for many years and died on June 25 at the age of 95.

She began working at Stanford in the 1970s as a library assistant and worked in several positions over the years, being recognized by her ser-vice to the university in 2007 with an Amy Blue Award.

“She was such a dear person who touched the lives of so many of us in such special ways,” Paula Perron, an administrator in the Applied Physics Department, said.

She liked to garden and knit and

spend time at the ocean, according her husband, Less Miscavage, a Palo Alto attorney.

“When she was a teenager, she liked to surf over in Santa Cruz,” he said. “She just loved the ocean.”

Above all, he said, she was always optimistic and “so upbeat.” They married in 1981.

No formal services are planned. She asked that she be cremated and that her ashes be spread in Carmel Bay, where the Miscavages went for annual vacations.

Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, the Monterey Bay Aquarium or the Big Sur Land Trust.

Wilbur SpringerWilbur “Bud” Raymond Springer,

86, a former Palo Alto resident, died July 22, in Turlock, Calif.

He was born in Palo Alto. He joined the army in 1942. During his service, he received many medals, including the American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, Philippine Liberation Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal and Victory Medal, and was stationed in many countries. After being discharged in 1945, he began working for Pacific Bell, where he worked for 39 years.

He and his wife, Colleen, raised their children in Palo Alto before

moving to Auburn, Calif., and then Pine Mountain Lake in Groveland. In Groveland, they were active members of the Mountain Lutheran Church. While living in Pine Moun-tain Lake, he was deeply involved in the community and volunteered his time and talents at Helping Hands for many years.

He enjoyed fishing, boating and entertaining family and friends. He recently moved to Turlock in order to be closer to family. During his re-tirement, he loved to travel across the country.

He is survived by his children, Donna Anderson, Cheryl “Virgil” Hockersmith, Gregory Springer, Lori Hagopian, Timothy Springer and Thomas Springer; sister, Dorothy; eight grandchildren; and five great grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at Allen Mortuary in Turlock on Sat., Aug. 9, at 1 p.m. He will be buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto.

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Public-plaza benefit?Editor,

Near voter-majority opposition to building 800 High St. was based in part on the clearly inadequate pub-lic benefit of two tiny plazas.

A public benefit is required for a zoning change to the much-abused planned-community zoning.

Many of us were not fooled then by the stingy nano-plazas and are not fooled now by the developer, Doug Ross, trying to collect rent from the partial take-over of one of our plazas by a private business. Dare I say it? Two wrongs do not make a right.

Poor decisions in the past about planned-community zoning and the adequacy of a public benefit is not a justification for the city to approve this current scheme at 800 High St. Approval would take something away from the public to enrich a private developer.

Why set a bad example for other owners of planned-community zoning developments who may be inspired to similarly flout the zon-ing law and frustrate the public in enjoying their benefits?

When a restaurant has outdoor seating, it cannot block the sidewalk for normal pedestrian use. Simi-larly, private use of public space at 800 High St. should not block public use. Surely no one seriously thinks both uses can take place si-multaneously.

It is up to us, not the city and cer-tainly not Doug Ross, to determine day by day how we want to use or not use the plazas.

Winter DellenbachLa Para Avenue

Palo Alto

So long, PASCO SamEditor,The deal Palo Alto is making with

Greenwaste sounds like a good one, but we will miss the nice guys from PASCO, who give us a friendly wave every week when they come to pick up our stuff.

Sue KempSeale Avenue

Palo Alto

Tickets, not trafficEditor,

I am writing to support the Week-ly’s editorial position against the city’s taking any action that would increase the volume and speed of traffic on Oregon Expressway.

I also strongly oppose limiting the number of streets on which turns can be made from Oregon, such as Ross Road and Waverley Street, as doing so would very likely divert more traffic onto Middlefield Road, the street on which I have lived for the past 22 years.

I would like to remind my fellow Palo Alto residents that Middlefield Road is also a residential street

filled with families, pets and chil-dren. In addition, Middlefield Road houses at least two elementary and one middle school with all the at-tendant traffic, both by car, walking and bike riding that entails.

Any increase of traffic would also create a greater risk to students and parents who walk their children (frequently accompanied by dogs and younger children in strollers) every morning.

There is a simple solution to peo-ple avoiding speed bumps, running red lights at busy intersections and speeding: Step up police surveil-lance and give out more tickets!

I believe that the safety of all Palo Alto residents is important, and that “solutions” that favor one segment of the population in detriment to an-other are patently unfair and deeply insulting to us longtime residents and taxpayers.

Madeline EttinMiddlefield Road

Palo Alto

The purpose of librariesEditor,

Am I understanding Alison Mc-Cormick correctly? She seems to be

stating in her letter (July 30) that more than 90 percent of the library bond will support library construc-tion mostly at Mitchell Park library and community center and reno-vation and construction at Main, but not cover the operation of our libraries.

Tell me, what good does it do to spend millions on library construc-tion if the operation of the libraries is not affected? Borrowing books at the library now takes longer than a month, especially if they’re new books. Since the library bond has been in the news and is expected to be on the November ballot, services have grown steadily worse.

The truth of the matter is that the city has not cared enough about our libraries to provide adequate funds to maintain them for a long time and I am not foolish enough to believe this is going to change with the advent of new or renovated libraries.

I love to read. I go to the library to borrow books. That is the purpose of libraries.

Deborah JohnstonTasso Street

Palo Alto

SpectrumEditorials, letters and opinions

Navy’s half-step on Hangar OneProposal to remove toxic outer skin

and leave skeleton falls far short of anyone’s definition of restoration of the huge, historic landmark

I n spite of an exhaustive and apparently well-done study of alterna-tives, the U.S. Navy has proposed an inadequate plan for cleaning up and restoring the uniquely historic Hangar One at Moffett Field. The Navy now wants only to remove the toxics-laden outer

skin of the immense structure, weatherproof the steel skeleton and leave it for someone else to cover up.

The cost estimates are impressive, at $26.16 million to remove and properly dispose of the outer panels and $41 million for a new covering of some type. The reluctance of Navy officials to commit to the full expenditure is understandable.

But the idea of leaving a skeletal remain is both repulsive and non-responsive to the intent of laws and regulations covering base closures, in our view.

It would turn a part of American history — visible from virtually any elevated site around the entire South Bay region, including the Palo Alto foothills and Skyline Ridge — into a hideous eyesore.

What about “restore” does the Navy brass not understand? Moreover, the NASA Ames Research Center, which is inheriting

the former Navy base, has neither the funds nor the mission to apply to finishing a half-done task that is the Navy’s responsibility.

The long-awaited recommendation from the Navy is being viewed as a partial victory by Hangar One supporters, who are nevertheless incensed that this so-called solution is only half what it should be — even though it does save the hangar from immediate demolition.

After peeling off the current siding and cleansing the underlying iron structure of toxic PCBs, then spraying it with a preservative, the Navy simply proposes to walk away.

To cover the resulting gigantic eyesore would be a “reuse,” that is “... the responsibility of federal property owner [currently NASA], which is a separate federal action from the Navy’s environmental restoration efforts.”

Local save-the-hangar advocates, including Bob Moss of Palo Alto and numerous others, are objecting to the Navy’s tweaking of the language. Skeletonizing is not restoring.

Members of a “Save Hangar One” committee and others — including the Weekly — believe the Navy has a huge conflict of interest in this decision, since it must pay for whatever action it decides to take on the hangar.

Instead, the decision should be made by the powerful California Congressional delegation, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and Rep. Anna Eshoo.

Save Hangar One committee co-chair Lenny Siegel believes it is time for cities in the area to consider joining with the Hangar One group to form a broadly based committee to lobby for federal help to complete restoration of the hangar. Certainly there is precedent for the federal government to appropriate funds to restore such a historic landmark.

The hangar was constructed in 1932 and once housed the giant airship U.S.S. Macon, which in 1935 crashed slowly into the Pacific Ocean off Big Sur when a temporary repair failed while it was on required maneuvers. The hangar later housed P3-Orion sub-hunter aircraft during the peak of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s. It was the base for testing of prototype aircraft such as vertical-takeoff-and-landing airplanes.

The historic value of the hangar, one of just two in the nation, is underscored by the realization that it was built closer to the Civil War than to our own time. The hangar even fits a recognized category of design: “Streamline Moderne,” an Art Deco style, and has many innovations in engineering and construction.

Sen. Feinstein has reportedly said she would like to see a defined use for the hangar prior to deciding its fate. Many uses have been suggested, but we do not believe a precise use needs to be a prerequisite for preservation of a virtually unique piece of history.

Preserve it and a use will come. Given the strong support Hangar One has in our area, Palo Alto

and other local cities need to voice their support for the preserving the hangar, either through a direct federal appropriation or requiring the Navy to do the job right. If our California delegation stays focused and makes its views known, a full Hangar One restoration project can be underway within a few years.

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The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage or on issues of local interest.

What do you think? Should the U.S. Navy be responsible for complete restoration of Moffett Field’s Hangar One?

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StreetwiseWhat are your thoughts on the proposed smoking ban in Palo Alto city parks?Asked at Johnson Park on Kipling Street and Hawthorne Avenue in Palo Alto. Interviews by Megan Rawlins. Photographs by Darlene Bouchard.

Jocelyn TsengMotherWilkie Way, Palo Alto

“I rarely see it but it’s usually young kids smoking, so maybe it’s a good idea”

David WehnerRetired SoldierKipling Street, Palo Alto

“I think you should be able to smoke wherever you want to. Just keep it away from kids under the age of 18.”

Sandra PinedoNanny in Palo AltoRedwood City

“I never see smoking in parks; it’s re-ally rare. I think that it would be a good idea actually.”

Nico JanikMotherCowper Street, Palo Alto

“Seems like a good idea to me but we’re kinda spoiled in Northern Cali-fornia.”

Juan ZepedaRetired MarineHawthorne Avenue, Palo Alto

“I think you should be able to smoke in the parks, and the city should sup-ply butt cans or have someone clean up the butts. Tourists might want to smoke in parks and not understand Palo Alto’s philosophy.”

by Victor Ojakian and Michele Lew

T he Palo Alto of today is not the Palo Alto of 30 years ago.

One of the most inter-esting demographic trends we’ve seen is the rise in Palo Alto’s Asian Ameri-can population.

In 1970, Asians made up 3.9 percent of Palo Al-to’s population; in 1980, 6.1 percent; in 1990, 10.5 percent; and in 2000, ap-proximately 17.2 percent. In the schools the percent-age of Asian students is even higher.

The Mandarin-immer-sion debate brought out many educated, well-rea-soned perspectives and opinions on various sides of the issue. The debate also revealed some residents’ uneasiness with the changing demographics of our community.

Race and ethnicity are notoriously difficult topics for discussion, but the reality in Palo Alto is that we need to recognize that our population is changing, and we need com-munity services that reflect these changes.

In Palo Alto, the state and the nation, the Asian American population is one of the fast-est growing ethnic/racial groups. At Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI), a 35-year-old nonprofit based in Santa Clara County, westrive to provide and advocate for an array of high-quality health and social services tailored to clients’ cultural backgrounds — from primary-care health to counseling to services for domestic violence

victims to senior-nutrition programs. Through delivery of services and advocacy

with policymakers, we’ve tried to demon-strate respect for all races and ethnicities in order to make our entire community a better place.

As a new school year approaches, we are especially concerned about mental health is-sues within the rapidly growing Asian Ameri-can youth population in Palo Alto. A recent article, “Culturally-Competent School Coun-seling With Asian American Adolescents,” by Linda Castillo and Marion Phoummarath at Texas A&M, found that (1) there is little at-tention given to Asian American adolescents’ mental health issues, (2) there is little written about what school counselors should be aware of when working with Asian American ado-lescents, and (3) many Asian American ado-lescents avoid counseling services for mental health or emotional problems because this is viewed as a tacit admission of the existence of these problems and may result in public shame to the adolescent’s family.

Though the label Asian American can be elusive (this term refers to about 50 distinct ethnic groups, including Pacific Islanders at times), research literature does indicate cer-tain cultural values that are shared among this heterogeneous community.

Key values such as respect and love of par-ents (filial piety), a community-versus-self orientation, high regard for teachers and edu-cation, and the concepts of shame and “saving face” are common among many who origi-nate from Asia.

These cultural attitudes and beliefs can af-fect many forms of behavior.We’ve seen that they can have a significant impact on Asian Americans needing mental health care. While

some statistics indicate that Asian Americans use mental health care services less than do other racial/ethnic groups, these statistics do not necessarily mean Asian Americans have less need for mental health care.

Instead, the lower use might be a reflection of the cultural shame and stigma associated with mental illness. Asian Americans also might tend to seek informal family assistance rather than approach a more public institution for help.

Furthermore, certain misperceptions might restrict mental-health professionals, teachers and others from recognizing an Asian Ameri-can’s need for mental health services. One misperception is the “model minority myth” that all Asian Americans are successful, wealthy, healthy, and not in need. Another misperception is that if Asians need help, they’ll just ask for it.

At AACI, we’ve found it important to edu-cate Asian American (and other) families that it’s ok to seek help if a loved one is suffering, is abusive or is behaving strangely. We also show families that it’s possible to find a variety of mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, therapists) who speak languages other than English and under-stand cultural values and norms.

We conduct home visits in response to some families’ fear of “loss of face” in going to visit a therapist. We provide ongoing training to our mental health clinicians to help them work with refugees who have survived trauma in their home country or on the journey to the United States. Our staff take into consider-ation a client’s socio-economic status in their native country and how it might differ from their status in the United States.

Our staff understand acculturation and

intergenerational issues between immigrant parents and American-born children. Our staff recognize that some Asians hold the belief that avoiding morbid thoughts and ex-ercising willpower can ensure a sound mental condition.

What can all of us do? First, we should avoid misconceptions such as those men-tioned above.

Second, teachers and school counselors should have opportunities to learn about some of the cultural aspects of a student’s back-ground, and also learn about signs of mental illness in youth. When an Asian American student does come forward to seek counseling, we should recognize that the student might have been struggling with mental health is-sues for years before coming forward. Some research literature suggests only an individual with a severe mental illness seeks help. Since teaching and learning are highly respected among many Asian families, teachers and school counselors should be instructive in conveying advice and treatment suggestions, provided they are educated to do so.

We at AACI have seen the benefits of pro-viding culturally competent mental health services; the services not only benefit the individuals, they benefit families and our community as a whole. We hope you’ll join us in encouraging more culturally competent services for Palo Alto youth in the future.

Michele Lew is the President and CEO of Asian Americans for Community In-volvement (www.aaci.org) and a native Palo Altan. Victor Ojakian is a former Mayor of Palo Alto and an AACI Board Mem-ber. Ojakian can be e-mailed at ojakian@ comcast.net.

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MoviesMovie reviews by Jeanne Aufmuth, Tyler Hanley, and Susan Tavernetti

American Teen (PG-13) Aquarius: 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

Baghead (R) Aquarius: 2:30, 5, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. (Not Reviewed)Brideshead Revisited Century 20: 12:35, 3:45, 7 & 10 p.m. CinéArts at Palo Alto

Square: 1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:50 p.m. The Dark Knight Century 16: 11:20 a.m.; 12:25, 1:25, 2:35, 3:45, 4:40, (PG-13) 5:50, 7, 8, 9:10, 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m.; noon,

1, 1:45, 2:45, 3:35, 4:25, 5:15, 6:15, 7, 7:55, 8:40, 9:40 & 10:25 p.m.

DCI 2008 World Champion- Century 16: Thu. at 3 p.m. ship Quarterfinals (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed)Doogal (G) (Not Reviewed) Century 12: Wed. at 10 p.m. Get Smart (PG-13) 1/2 Century 12: 12:50, 3:45, 7:25 & 10:10 p.m. Hancock (PG-13) 1/2 Century 20: 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:25 & 10:10 p.m. Hellboy 2: The Golden Century 16: 11:10 a.m.; 1:55, 4:50, 7:35 &10:20 p.m. Army (PG-13) Century 20: 11:15 a.m.; 2, 4:50, 7:35 & 10:30 p.m. (Not Reviewed)Indiana Jones and the Century 12: 12:40, 3:50, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (PG-13) 1/2

Iron Man (PG-13) 1/2 Century 12: 1:20, 4:20, 7:40 & 10:35 p.m. Jewish Film Festival CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: Wed. at 2, 4, 6:30 & 8:45 (Not Rated) p.m. (Not Reviewed) Info at sfjff.orgJourney to the Center of Century 16: 11:55 a.m.; 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 & 9:40 p.m. the Earth (PG) Century 12: 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45 & 10:05 p.m. Kit Kittredge: An American Century 12: 1:10, 4, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m. Girl (G) (Not Reviewed)Kung Fu Panda (PG) 1/2 Century 20: 11:10 a.m.; 1:30, 4:10, 6:45 & 9:05 p.m. Mamma Mia! (PG-13) Century 16: 11:25 a.m.; 12:30, 2:15, 3:40, 5:05, 6:30,

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The Mummy: Tomb of the Century 16: 11:05 a.m.; noon, 1,1:50, 2:50, 3:50, 4:30, Dragon Emperor (PG-13) 5:30, 6:35, 7:05, 8:15, 9:20 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 11:40 (Not Reviewed) a.m., 2:20, 5, 7:45 & 10:30 p.m. Pineapple Express (R) Century 20: Wed. & Thu. at 11:20 a.m.; 2, 4:45, 7:30 & (Not Reviewed) 10:15 p.m. Sex and the City (R) 1/2 Century 12: 12:05, 3:20, 7:05 & 10:15 p.m. Space Chimps (G) Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 1:35, 3:40 & 5:45 p.m. (Not Reviewed) Century 12: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 & 9:20 p.m. Step Brothers (R) Century 16: 11:15 a.m.; 12:15, 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, (Not Reviewed) 6:50, 7:50, 9:30 & 10:15 p.m. Century 12: Noon, 1, 1:50,

2:40, 3:40, 4:40, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8, 9, 9:55 & 10:25 p.m. Swing Vote (PG-13) Century 16: 11 a.m.; 1:40, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:05 p.m.

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Living in multiple time zones: Eric Benhamou holds conference calls with the Middle East from his Cowper Street office. Benhamou is one of many Palo Alto businessmen drawn to Israel for its technology know-how.

by Arden Pennell

O n occasion, businessman Eric Benhamou forgets where he is.

Sitting under a row of clocks labeled “Palo Alto,” “Paris” and “Tel Aviv” at his Cowper Street office, the long-time investor in Israeli businesses often conducts video conference calls. While speaking with executives abroad, Benhamou’s sense of place wavers, he said.

The conference rooms look the same, the entrepreneurs are equally passionate on either side of the ocean, and the time slips by.

“Sometimes I forget which continent I am in because it really feels culturally very similar,” he said.

Never more so than right now, according to observers in Silicon Valley and Israel.

As the Middle Eastern nation’s high-tech economy grows — developing a venture-capital engine resembling the United States’ and a crop of business-minded young technologists — the exchange between here and there is growing.

At least 25 Israeli startups moved to the Bay Area from 2006 to late 2007, according to a count by the San Fran-

cisco Business Times. The Israeli consulate estimates about 40,000 natives are

living on Valley soil.Israelis come to Silicon Valley seeking access to inves-

tors and America’s mighty, 300-million-consumer mar-ketplace.

In return, they bring technical expertise often honed dur-ing military service and the “I can do it better” attitude many Israelis say is inherent to their culture.

Palo Alto’s downtown is brimming with the influx. Around the corner from Benhamou is the Hamilton Av-enue office of Metacafe, a video-sharing Web site founded by Eyal Hertzog in Tel Aviv, where he still keeps a research office.

A stone’s throw away on University Avenue is another Israeli tech startup, ConteXtream, funded by Benhamou’s firm, Benhamou Global Ventures.

Farther afield, a trip to the park in Sunnyvale — where Israelis have settled since the 1980s — means being sur-rounded by families speaking Hebrew, according to Amit Porat, who moved with her husband to Palo Alto last year. (See sidebar.)

Investors and entrepreneurs on both sides of the Atlantic

say the startup culture of the Internet era has fueled an al-ready-fruitful exchange. Palo Alto, particularly downtown, is a strategic place to do business within Silicon Valley. And ties between the city and Israel’s high-tech sector are bound to strengthen, they said, as creativity and money continue to flow back and forth across the world.

O n a typically sunny Thursday, venture capitalist Ron Berman checks in with a Web 2.0 startup he’s fund-ing, calling on Liad Agmon, CEO of Delver. The

two have offices near one another, not far from Bench-mark Capital and Sun Microsystems.

Down the block is the shiny cube of Microsoft’s new research and development center. Earlier this year, Berman and Agmon shared coffee at Caffé del Doge with other entrepreneurs in downtown Palo Alto.

But the two don’t work in Silicon Valley. They work in Silicon Wadi.

A nickname spun off from the Arabic word for desert, Silicon Wadis have popped up all over Israel. The term refers to industrial parks where powerhouses such as Intel manufacture chips. Venture-capital firms and startups also

High-tech ties between Palo Alto and Israel are growing, with no end in sight

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Wadi

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A boom not slowed by bombsInvestors undeterred by Israel’s conflicts,

observers say

by Arden Pennell

A longside a main road into Jerusalem sits an old Intel manu-facturing plant, a sprawling building abandoned in favor of newer facilities elsewhere in Israel.

Nearby, cars travel through a poster-covered underpass. On a recent day, one poster exhorted drivers to remember, “The Messiah says a Palestinian state is a danger to the Jews!”

The scene encapsulates modern-day Israel — prospering from high-tech industries on the one hand and rife with religious, politi-cal conflict on the other.

Yet a growing number of American firms opening offices on Israeli soil — including Silicon Valley Bank, Sequoia Capital, Google and Microsoft — are undeterred by the constant conflict.

Gadi Behar, founder of Los Altos-based Silicom Ventures, said investors seek technology opportunities more than they worry about wars.

“No matter what the situation is there, people realize new tech-nology and companies are coming. ... Even during the Lebanon War [of 2006] ... things kept going and moving,” he said.

Just months after the clash between Israeli and Hezbollah forces concluded, legendary U.S. investor Warren Buffett arrived in Israel to tour Iscar, the metal-cutting equipment company in which he’d just bought a $4 billion, 80 percent stake.

And while Silicon Valley is a worldwide leader in venture in-vestment, Israel can now tally more venture capital per capita than the United States overall, according to the Israel Venture Capital Research Center.

About $1.7 billion in venture capital was invested in Israeli com-panies in 2007. The U.S., with 43 times as many people as Israel — 300 million to seven million — had only about 18 times as much invested, or $30.3 billion, the firm reported.

For all Israel’s success, some say peace is still an essential prop to prosperity.

The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Israel, Richard Jones, spoke at an investment conference hosted by Behar’s firm in Tel Aviv recently.

Describing the nation’s historical rise to become a major player in global high-tech markets, he predicted that with lasting peace, “This place would really boom.” The sky is literally not the limit, he said — if political problems can be solved. ■

B eyond business, life is not just amusing e-mails and sipping java downtown for Israelis who move to Silicon Valley. Settling in Palo Alto means leaving behind another place — home.

“I’m probably going to be torn apart the rest of my life,” entrepreneur Eyal Hertzog said.

Hertzog founded Metacafe, an online video-sharing site, in 2003 in Tel Aviv. After successfully netting funding from firms such as Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital, he moved Metacafe’s headquarters to Palo Alto’s Hamilton Avenue in 2007.

The video-sharing Web site now counts more than 1.5 million daily visitors — and he’s a short stroll from the offices of his funders, Hertzog said. Now, his career seems rooted in Silicon Valley.

“From a professional level, there’s no doubt that this is my place,” he said.

And it’s so nice here, he explained, matter-of-factly running down the perks: “The people are great. The weather is amazing.”

But his family and friends are roughly 7,400 miles and 10 times zones away. He prefers to socialize and express himself in Hebrew, his native language, and wants his infant son to be fluent, too.

It’s a conflict he hears again and again. Entrepreneurs realize the ideal business climate lies in Silicon Valley, but their hearts remain in Israel.

One family bought televisions adaptable to both American and Israeli voltage for 30 years, in case they moved back, before realizing they had settled in the U.S. for good, he said.

That’s not the whole picture, however, Hertzog said. He’s only heard from the people who never made it back, the ones still frequenting Palo Alto cafes and basking in California sun. There’s bound to be plenty who returned, he said.

Amit Porat is half of one such couple. She and her husband moved to Palo Alto 18 months ago so he could accept a stateside promotion with Shopping.com. Yet they planned in advance to return to Israel and will leave Palo Alto no later than next summer, she said.

She loves Palo Alto and lists the same factors as Hertzog — friendly people and beautiful terrain chief among them. A family can travel frequently or go hiking in wide-open wilderness in the Bay Area, a contrast to the cramped and sometimes claustrophobic atmosphere of Israel, she said.

It’s not tricky to find other Israelis, either. The booming community in Sunnyvale stands out, but she also quickly made friends through an Israeli mothers’ group at Palo Alto’s Parents Place, she said.

Politically, it also easier to live here. Her brother is a soldier. The real-ity of conflict is part of daily consciousness back home — and she feels her children are safer in Palo Alto.

In fact, her family urges her to stay in the United States, she said. Bemoaning the oppressive heat and disheartening wars, they tell her to explore her opportunities stateside.

Despite those problems, her parents, siblings and language exert a powerful emotional pull, she said. She shouldered the tough aspects of relocating — putting her career on hold, raising two infants with neither family nor, initially, friends — well aware she would eventually return.

She’s also eager to re-start her career in naturopathy, temporarily on hold because there are no California schools where she can complete her clinical study, she said.

Then there are the nomads. Some people settle fully neither here nor there, preferring to psychically shuttle between the two places. Palo Alto investor Eric Benhamou is like that, comfortable in both countries, tak-ing pleasure in promoting their continued good relations through busi-ness and governmental initiatives. He has invested in Israel for decades, most recently through his firm, Benhamou Global Ventures, and he travels there often. He estimates he’s spoken in exactly the same number of video conference calls in Israel and Palo Alto, the latter conducted from his Cowper Street office.

And his children attended a Sunnyvale school, the South Peninsula Hebrew Day School, whose curriculum mirrors that in Israel.

For many, travel isn’t a choice. Israeli firms, including Hertzog’s Meta-cafe, often maintain research offices in Israel, making frequent commu-nication — and the occasional 24-hour trip — a necessity.

The peripatetic lifestyle can take its toll. Gadi Behar, the Israeli found-er of Los Altos-based Silicom Ventures, has lived in Silicon Valley for 30 years. The recent conference on early investing he hosted in Tel Aviv notwithstanding, Behar said he’s eased off of traveling so frequently. The long trip to the Middle East has becoming taxing to his health, he said.

Of course, others enjoy the thrill of cruising on an international jet stream of dealmaking.

“For me it’s very hard, but some people like it. One guy said, ‘I live on a plane.’ Some people like the excitement,” Behar said. ■

Between a Valley and hard placeThe compass points one way for careers, another for home

by Arden Pennell

By the numbersAll figures are approximate

Israelis in Silicon Valley: 40,000

Distance from Palo Alto to Israel: 7,400 miles

U.S. population: 300 million

Silicon Valley population (Santa Claraand San Mateo counties combined): 2.87 million

Israel population: 7 million

Venture investments inU.S. firms 2007: $30.3 billion

Venture investmentsin Silicon Valley firms in 2007: $10.8 billion

Venture investments inIsraeli firms in 2007: $1.7 billion

Sources: Israeli consulate to the Pacific Northwest, Infoplease.com distance calculator, U.S. Census Bureau, Israel Venture Capital Research Center, National Venture Capital Association

Above, Eyal Hertzog (left), an Israeli entrepreneur who moved his startup’s headquarters from Tel Aviv to downtown Palo Alto, discusses a new venture with friend Andrew Green-stein at Caffe del Doge on University Avenue. Center, the Israeli city of Herzliya Pituach, nicknamed “Silicon Wadi,” houses familiar Silicon Valley names in a high-tech cluster. At right, venture-capital firm Benchmark Capital has offices in both the Israeli city and also at 2480 Sand Hill Road.

Above left, signs at the corner of Herzliya Pituach’s Hamenofim Street, which has been compared to Sand Hill Road, display the city’s mix of American and Israeli firms under the sweltering Middle Eastern sun. Above right, the Akerstein Towers are part of a huddle of high-rises in Herzliya Pituach. Some venture capitalists joke they can peer into the of-fices of startups they are funding from across the street.

cluster in such “wadis,” such as where Berman and Agmon work.

Their offices are in Herzliya Pituach, a suburb about 20 minutes north of Tel Aviv by car. At the city’s heart is a business district where high-rises sit baking in the glaring sun. Israeli venture-capital firms stack one atop another; Berman jokes he can peer into Agmon’s office and watch him work.

The cluster of talent and money is more than a little remi-niscent of another pocket of innovation halfway around the world. The resemblance moved one venture capitalist, Dan-iel Cohen of Gemini Israel Funds, to write a popular blog entry comparing Menlo Park’s venture-capital nexus Sand Hill Road to Herzliya Pituach’s main street.

The verdict? The Israeli locale has better nightlife and more startups

that haven’t been driven out (yet) by high rents, Cohen con-cluded.

But just 20 years ago, there was no Israeli Sand Hill Road.

Going back 40 years, there was barely a high-tech indus-try, according to former Defense Minister Moshe Arens. But threatened by hostile neighbors and unable to rely on weapons from abroad, the nation focused on defense, he said, speaking at a recent conference in Tel Aviv.

Military research and intelligence, in turn, led to a popu-lation of engineers and technologists. After armed service, some began to manufacture products commercially and oth-ers turned to academia and further research, Arens said.

In the 1980s, Intel began recruiting Israeli engineers, many of whom immigrated to Sunnyvale and established a still-strong Israeli outpost there.

But it took until the late 1980s and 1990s, which ushered in a series of high-profile international partnerships and mergers, for the world to become aware of Israel’s technol-ogy expertise, according to Benhamou, an American with Israeli family.

A key moment was 3Com’s 1994 acquisition of Israeli NiceCom, a data networking service, according to Ben-hamou, 3Com’s then-CEO.

NiceCom’s assets were purely intellectual property — rather than finished products — so the purchase sent a worldwide message of confidence in Israeli ability, he said.

In 1993, the Israeli government created a venture-capital fund called Yozma for its homegrown talent, pumping in $20 million, according to the Israel Venture Association.

Today, Israel — a country of seven million people — has more per-capita venture funding than the United States, ac-cording to a study from the Israel Venture Capital Research Center.

In 2007, venture investment in Israeli firms was $1.7 bil-lion; in the U.S., a nation roughly 43 times as populous, venture investment totaled $30.3 billion, the firm stated

in a 2008 report. (Silicon Valley still leads the pack, with $10.8 billion in investments for about three million people in 2007, according to the National Venture Capital Asso-ciation.)

And Israeli investment is picking up these days, in the wake of sluggish years after the dot-com bust. About $1.08 billion in venture capital has been raised so far this year — up 27 percent from last year, the research firm announced recently.

Silicon Valley Bank, a flagship funder, opened a Tel Aviv office this January.

Meanwhile, the military continues to turn out talented graduates. Hertzog, the entrepreneur who opened up U.S. offices on Cowper Street in 2007, smiles quietly when asked what he did for the military’s intelligence unit. He can’t tell, of course.

But he can say how it helped him: “It really upgraded me as a professional. You gain hardcore experience and creativity. They give you a task and say, ‘Just complete it.’ You need to figure out good ways to do it.”

Now, Metacafe nets more than 1.5 million daily visitors.Hertzog, 33, reflected that such responsibility isn’t a typi-

cal teenage experience: “It’s rare at age 18 to get a lot of important tasks.”

For all of Israel’s cash and intellectual capital, it still needs the United States.

Israel is a small country — a sliver-sized market for a firm seeking to go big.

And although the nation’s venture industry is growing, it has less money, and — some say — less-seasoned talent than the U.S.

So when players in the Israeli high-tech world seek addi-tional funding, business expansion or marketing know-how, they often turn to Silicon Valley, according to observers on both sides of the world.

When Berman and Agmon shared a cup of joe in down-town Palo Alto this spring, it was part of a visit both men call necessary to surviving and thriving in the high-tech world.

While his countrymen may know their way around semi-conductors and computer chips, the diffuse, unpredictable Internet market is trickier, Berman said.

“With the Web, it’s a totally different story. We have no clue what Americans are going to consume,” he said.

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Internet success is still largely a guessing game — but Americans are better at playing it, he said. Traveling to Palo Alto is also important for networking and meeting industry colleagues, he added.

Many Israeli firms, such as Metacafe and ConteXtream, open a so-called front office for marketing and networking in the Valley, while keeping a back office for research and development in one of the Silicon Wadis.

Gadi Behar runs Silicom Ventures, a Los Altos-based group of angel investors he started for Israeli friends in-terested in funding technology. A 30-year Valley resident, he’s watched the population of Israelis blossom. He said the interdependency has strengthened since the 1990s.

“The market is here and the technology is coming from there. It looks like one needs the other,” he said.

With such strategic importance to a Valley storefront, Agmon is planning to open up a local office for Delver, his network-based recommendation Web site, he said. And as of late July, Berman left his post at Carmel Ventures and arrived in the Bay Area for graduate school.

W hile subtle, the Israeli presence in Palo Alto is not hard to detect.

Start with coffee, Hertzog said: Countrymen

flock to Caffe del Doge on University Avenue for the espres-so in, well, genuine espresso proportions.

“Israelis don’t drink coffee out of buckets,” he said.Palo Alto’s downtown is particularly strategic for busi-

ness, according to dealmakers. The lively cafes and pedestrian-friendly venues help at-

tract employees, Hertzog said.“They love working in downtown Palo Alto. It’s a big

advantage,” he said.One of his main funders, Accel Partners, is nearby on

University, he pointed out. And Benhamou said he often conducts meetings down-

stairs from his office at Il Fornaio restaurant. (A popular spot, the restaurant’s most prestigious seats were dia-grammed in The Wall Street Journal’s “Power Tables” col-umn last year.)

As a testament to the Israeli affection for cafe-based net-working, Hebrew is easily overheard at watering holes such as University Avenue Cafe and Coupa Cafe.

As with any meeting of cultures, however, translation is required. “Shalom” is straightforward — business ex-changes less so.

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‘The market is here and the technology is coming from there. It looks like one needs the other.’

– Gadi Behar,founder and managing director

of Los Altos-based Silicom Ventures

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The cafe culture of downtown Palo Alto, including this stretch of University Avenue, is ideal for doing busi-ness, investors and entrepreneurs say. Funders and startups are often located a few blocks from one another.

Americans are infamous for a culture of politeness, while Israelis are known for speaking plainly, even bluntly, observers say.

Berman’s office devised an informal system for de-coding painstakingly friendly American e-mails, he said.

If the writer calls an idea “interesting,” it’s a nice brush-off indicating the reader will probably never hear from him or her again, Berman said. “Very interest-ing” indicates middling chances of a second discussion. “Exciting” means it looks good and the two may do business. And finally, “when can we meet again” means just what it sounds like, he said.

An apt metaphor is the “hamburger” — Americans couch their real point, the meat of what they want to say, between, pleasant, light greetings and sign-offs, he said.

The cultural decoding is a two-way street, though.While straightforward Israelis can be puzzled by

wordy politeness, the upfront Israeli attitude sometimes strikes others as brusque or impolite, Berman said. Hertzog called it a sign of authenticity — blunt, yes, but also a sign people aren’t trying to sell a constructed image of themselves.

T he cultural differences are more fodder for af-fectionate jokes than a business impediment, however.

Efforts are underway to make sure that ties between Israel and Silicon Valley continue to grow.

The CEOs of 15 promising Israeli Web startups — Agmon among them — were flown to the Bay Area in February as part of the IsraelWebTour, hosted by the Cupertino-based California Israel Chamber of Com-merce (CICC).

This year’s tour, the third, was sponsored by Google and Yahoo, among others, and exposed the young entre-

preneurs to Valley heavyweights. The chamber’s goal is to link Israeli startups with U.S. funding and resources, and connect U.S. firms with Israeli innovation, accord-ing to its Web site.

Eytan Elterman directs community affairs at the Is-raeli Consulate, which partnered with the chamber to host the tour. He said it was no-brainer matchmaking.

“One of the biggest exports that Israel can offer is technology and Web 2.0 in particular, which is a direct overlap with what is happening in Silicon Valley,” he said.

Behar’s firm, Silicom Ventures, hosted a conference in June meant to bring a crop of Israeli startups directly into sight of the Valley’s big funders.

The International Investment Summit, held in Tel Aviv, lined up companies ranging from G.ho.st, an Israeli-Palestinian collaboration aiming to create a free online computer, to Nano Vibronix, a firm using ul-trasound to develop disposable medical devices. And Behar invited so-called angel investors and venture-capital firms to the Hotel Intercontinental to come have a peek.

Of course, Palo Alto denizens were present. Ben-hamou spoke about his top 10 lessons for CEOs. Amos Barzilay of Walden International, a venture-capital firm with an office on Lytton Avenue, gave a talk on how to net funding. The room was so full of Israeli listeners — and a few Americans — that it became standing-room-only, and people crouched on the floor, scribbling notes.

Following in the tradition of the Silicon Valley-Sili-con Wadi connection, some of those entrepreneurs may soon wind up in Palo Alto, perhaps at a downtown cafe, pitching ideas and planning partnerships.

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Palo Alto’s BJ Boyd (top) watches the flight of his RBI triple in the bottom of the third while teammate Travis McHugh (21) scores in the second inning during a 7-3 win over Antioch on Monday in the Babe Ruth 14-year-old all-star Pacific Southwest Regional at Baylands Athletic Center.

by Rick Eymer

S tanford grads Rachel Buehler and Nicole Barnhart enjoyed the best view of the official

beginning to the Beijing Olym-pics on Wednesday morning at the Olympic Sports Center Stadium in Qinhuangdao.

The U.S. Olympic women’s soc-cer team members were on hand to watch the kickoff of New Zealand’s match with Japan. They even had a rooting interest as Stanford junior Ali Riley started in midfield for the Ferns.

The Americans took the field for their first match against Norway fol-lowing New Zealand’s match.

“Everything is going great as we get ready for our first match,” Bue-hler wrote in a team blog. “Practice has been good. It is hard playing in the humidity, but the air quality here in Qinhuangdao is good. We actu-ally saw a few clouds instead of just a haze and the temperatures cooled down. I think it might actually be quite comfortable for the matches.”

Buehler, one of the top collegiate defenders in the nation last year, made her debut with the U.S. Na-tional Team in March, playing a full match against China. She’s been in-volved with various national teams for the past seven years.

She has made 13 appearances,

six starts, for Team USA, which has been in China for nearly two weeks.

“I don’t know what role I will play in the tournament yet, but I do know, I am going to be ready when called,” she wrote. “I can’t wait for the first game.”

Barnhart, who holds numerous goalkeeping records at Stanford, made her debut with the national team four years ago as a forward when the Americans ran out of sub-stitutes against Mexico. She earned shutouts in her first two starts in the net.

Opening ceremonies for the Games are scheduled for Friday.

Women’s soccer gets a jump with six matches at three separate venues on Wednesday.

Thursday’s schedule includes men’s beach volleyball, men’s soc-cer and women’s indoor volleyball.

For expanded daily coverage of college and prep sports, please see our new site at www.PASportsOnline.com

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Next win will be historic

Palo Alto 14s a victory away

from World Series Colin Becht

T he Palo Alto Babe Ruth 14-year-old all-stars are trying to make history. One more vic-

tory and they’ll do it.Palo Alto advanced to the cham-

pionship game of the Pacific South-west Regional tournament after defeating Antioch, 7-3, on Monday night at Baylands Athletic Center.

All Palo Alto has to do now is win Wednesday’s championship game, at 4 p.m., or the challenge game (at

7:30 p.m.) and the all-stars will be headed to the Babe Ruth World Se-ries in Quincy, Mass.

In the 50 years that Palo Alto has put Babe Ruth teams on the field, no squad from this city — at any age level — ever has reached the World Series. This group now has the op-portunity.

“We’re pretty confident,” said Graham Marchant, the winning pitcher Monday. “We don’t want to be too confident though, and get too loose and stuff. We need to keep playing the way we’re playing.”

Palo Alto manager Matt Atwater agreed.

“I feel good with the way we’ve been playing defense, two errors in three games,” Atwater said. “They’ve done a real good job in the field. Our pitching’s been outstand-ing, everyone.

“We still have three guys we haven’t used yet (Kevin Kannappan,

BABE RUTH

CARDINAL CORNER . . . Stan-ford sophomore golfer Sihwan Kim advanced to the quar-terfinals of the 106th Western Amateur at the Point O’ Woods Golf and Country Club in Benton Harbor, Mich. on Saturday be-fore losing to Victor Dubuisson of France, 3-1. Kim defeated USC’s Rory Hie, 5-4, earlier in the day to advance to the quarterfinal match. Last weekend, Kim fin-ished in a seven-way tie for sixth at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational, competing as an amateur in his first PGA event. Kim, the 2008 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year and a first-team All-Pac-10 honoree, ended the season as the highest nationally-ranked Cardinal men’s golfer, checking in at seventh. He played in every tournament and held the lowest stroke av-erage on the team (71.6) while amassing two even-par and 17 under-par rounds in 38 outings . . . Trisha Ford continued her upward movement in the Stan-ford softball program as she was named Associate Head Coach last week by coach John Ritt-man, who is serving as an assis-tant coach for the U.S. Olympic team in Beijing. Ford enters her sixth overall season on the Car-dinal coaching staff. “Through all of her hard work and dedication to our program, we’re excited to announce she has been pro-moted,” Rittman said. “She is very deserving of this role, and we look forward to her contin-ued success with our team.” A former pitcher and hitter at St. Mary’s, Ford began her coach-ing career at Stanford in 2003, and has helped the team and its pitchers to notable success.

MENLO MEMO . . . The Menlo College football team was picked to finish sixth in the Northwest Conference according to a vote by the coaches released on Friday. Two-time defending con-ference champion Linfield was tabbed to finish first, followed by Whitworth, Pacific Lutheran, Wil-lamette, Puget Sound, the Oaks (2-4 in NWC play last year) and Lewis & Clark. Menlo opens the season on Sept. 6 with a home game against the University of Wisconsin-Stout at noon.

COACHING CORNER . . . Gunn girls’ varsity volleyball coach Raudy 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 assistant and JV assistant vol-leyball coach for the fall season, as well as a JV girls’ water polo coach. Those interested should contact Paly AD Earl Hansen at ehansen@pausd.org.

Stanford grads help open the Beijing GamesBuehler, Barnhart watch Stanford’s Riley play for New Zealand before soccer opener

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Stanford soccer products Ryan Nelsen and Simon Elliott play for New Zealand, which takes on Chi-na in its opener on Thursday morn-ing in Shenyang.

Severe weather is forecast for Fri-day’s Opening Ceremonies, with a capacity crowd of 80,000, and 10,000 performers and athletes will be exposed to the elements.

The Beijing Meteorologi-cal Bureau c o n f i r m e d bad weather was certain for August 8, although it maintained a slim chance that the rain may clear be-fore the cer-emony begins.

Friday’s schedule calls for com-petition in 16 sports.

New Zealand men’s soccer coach Stu Jaccobs said the call-ups of El-liott and Nelsen could be a boost as the team progresses toward the quarterfinals.

“We don’t know what we’re up against but we have to back our-selves against China and Belgium. If we start well and get a result in that first match we can create ex-citement and momentum,” Jaccobs

said.N e l s e n ,

who captains New Zea-land’s Black-burn Rovers, cemented his reputation as an uncom-promising de-fender and an inspirational leader. He has

scored six goals in 32 international matches.

Elliott, who has appeared in 50 matches for the New Zealanders, was a member of the 1996 team that lost a spot in the Olympics on goal differential, played profession-ally with the Los Angeles Galaxy and Fulham FC. Elliott scored eight goals in eight games for the

Kiwis that year.The New Zealand women’s team

is also back in the Olympics after a 16-year absence with arguably its strongest team.

“It’s exciting going into an Olym-pic Games knowing that all 18 play-ers bring something different and that they can all make a significant impact to the team performance in their own unique way,” New Zea-land coach John Herdman said. “It’s all special; the whole mantle of be-ing an Olympian. We know what it means to New Zealanders to be at the Olympics, and to be the first team in the first event makes it even more special.”

Riley belongs to a group of young players that have been dubbed New Zealand’s “golden generation of 2006.

She was named the country’s Women’s Player of the Year and Young Women’s Player of the Year in 2006.

Olympic soccer

Simon Elliot

Ali Riley

Drake Swezey and Sam Falkenha-gen), so having those three available for the next game and the two start-ers from the first two games com-ing back, (Tucker) Jorgenson and (Freddy) Avis. We feel real good with them.”

With the championship game berth on the line, Palo Alto’s offense came through again by scoring six runs in the third and fourth innings. Marchant, meanwhile, pitched four scoreless innings in relief.

After both sides went down in order in the first inning, Antioch got on the board first in the top of the second inning when Ronald Brohman scored on a single by Michael Lanter to put Antioch up 1-0. Palo Alto starting pitcher Jake Batchelder, however, recovered and managed to allow only the one run while stranding the bases loaded.

Palo Alto did not allow Antioch to lead for long, as Travis McHugh walked to lead off the bottom of the second and later stole home on a wild pitch from Antioch started Marcos Martinez.

Palo Alto’s run in the second jumpstarted its offense as the all-stars returned in the bottom of the third and scored three runs to take a 4-1 lead.

Swezey walked to begin the in-ning, and was driven in by BJ Boyd, who hit a triple to the center-field

wall. Avis then singled in Boyd and, after stealing second base, scored on a single by McHugh.

But Batchelder again ran into trouble in the top of fourth when Brohman doubled to begin the in-ning. A walk and a single later, Batchelder had loaded the bases. He then walked Lanter to bring in Antioch’s second run, which caused Atwater to go to the bullpen.

Marchant entered the game. Af-ter walking Blake McAuley to plate Antioch’s third run, Marchant set-tled down and blanked the Antioch offense. He got the next batter, Mar-tinez, to line out to Avis at second, who doubled off Lanter breaking for third.

Marchant then got Joshua Manci to pop out to Avis, ending the in-ning and limiting the damage to two runs.

Eager to put the visiting NorCal champs away, Palo Alto quickly put up three more runs in the bottom of the fourth. After singles by Jordan Piha and Batchelder, Matt Eastman hit a double to drive home both.

Boyd and Avis both walked to load the bases and Falkenhagen brought in Eastman on a groundout to third base.

With a four-run lead, Palo Alto cruised through the final three in-nings on Marchant’s pitching. In his four innings of work, Marchant al-lowed only one hit and two walks while shutting down Antioch.

“At first I wasn’t throwing many

strikes. I think I was overthrow-ing,” Marchant explained. “So then I settled down and started throwing strikes after Freddy Avis’ big play in the field (the double play in the fourth inning).”

Atwater said Marchant was “a kid that can come in, in any situation . . . you know, bases loaded, be confi-dent on the mound, get outs, and get us out of an inning . . . huge stuff on the mound in that situation.”

In Wednesday’s championship game, Palo Alto will play the win-ner of Antioch and Torrance, who played on Tuesday night. Torrance eliminated Hamilton (Ariz.) in Monday’s early game.

Palo Alto will have to lose twice to be eliminated in the double-elimination tournament as the only undefeated team left. Palo Alto beat Torrance in their first game of the tournament, 10-3.

Palo Alto advanced to Monday’s game with an 8-3 triumph over San Benito on Saturday as Boyd led the hitting and Jorgenson took care of the pitching.

Boyd had two hits and drove in three runs. He slammed a rare in-side-the-park homer to lead off the game.

Jorgenson threw a complete game, allowing only eight hits and three walks.

Babe Ruth

Travis McHugh (left) congratulates Freddy Avis on his run-saving catch in the fourth inning of Monday’s victory.

Palo Alto’s Freddy Avis celebrates while scoring a run in the third, helping his team take a 4-1 lead over Antioch.

by Keith Peters

S tanford Water Polo Club coach Susan Ortwein is ready for a vacation. So, too, are

members of the program’s various teams following nearly a month of non-stop action.

Nine members of the club par-ticipated at the USA Water Polo Women’s 20-under and Senior Na-tional championships in Moraga, then headed for the National Junior

Olympics in Orange County — all within a 13-day period.

The Stanford 20-under team fin-ished sixth in the nation. The Stan-ford Senior National club took third. To top it off, the Stanford 18-under Red team finished eighth in the 48-team Junior Olympics that ended Sunday in Irvine — the only team outside of Southern California to finish among the top eight.

“I’m ready to sit on the sofa and

pet my cat,” said Ortwein on Mon-day, with almost a sigh of relief. “No more practices the rest of summer.”

It has been a busy summer, in-deed.

“The amount of water polo these ladies have played, against Olym-pians and such a high level — you can’t replace that experience . . . it was amazing.”

All the competition, however, eventually caught up with the Stan-

ford 18-under Red team. After a 5-0 start the first two days, Stanford went 0-5 the final two.

“We did a good job at the begin-ning,” said Ortwein, who assisted Ted Minnis with the 18-under team after coaching the 20-under and Se-nior National squads. “The level of play (the final two days) was really high.”

The final game on Saturday night,

A successful ending to a very busy water polo season

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QB job will come to pass

Loukas hoping to see his first action while

battling Pritchard, Forcierby Rick Eymer

S tanford junior Alex Loukas took an afternoon off from his football responsibilities

recently to watch the U.S. National Diving championships. He may not be a big fan of the sport, but he’s a big fan of Christina Loukas, a first cousin who just happens to be a member of the United States Olym-pic team and recently won the na-tional 1-meter event in Pasadena.

Athletic ability runs in the fam-ily. His father, Angelo, played in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots, while two uncles played collegiate football. Loukas hopes he can parlay those genes into a starting job as Stanford’s quarter-back this fall.

Loukas is in a spirited, jovial competition with returning starter Tavita Prichard and Michigan trans-fer Jason Forcier.

“All of us are keeping up a high tempo,” said Loukas, who was also a state high school tennis champion in Illinois. “I think we’re all getting better.”

Loukas is the only one of the three who has yet to take a snap in a game. Pritchard’s collegiate starting debut resulted in a dramatic victory over USC last year. Forcier was rel-egated to “garbage time” with the Wolverines two years ago.

“If you go out and practice you’re going to do it in a game,” Loukas said. “Sure, the experience factor plays a part. I’ve played two spring games and multiple scrimmages. The biggest thing I need is consis-tency.”

Pritchard, who made seven starts and appeared in nine games last year, echoed Loukas.

“All three of us are going to make plays,” Pritchard said. “We are all great football players. I have to look at the big picture and work on stay-ing consistent. I’ve been in quarter-back competitions before. It’s noth-ing new. We’re having a good time doing this.”

Pritchard threw for 1,114 yards and five touchdowns last season, though he’ll be remembered most for entering Stanford football lore after tossing a 10-yard pass to Mark Bradford in the closing moments at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

“I expect to start,” he said. “I don’t expect to start because of what I did in the past. I expect the start from being consistent the rest of the camp. I have to prove I’m the quar-terback who gives the team the best chance to win.”

Pritchard believes the Cardinal (3-6, 4-8 last year) is a different team as coach Jim Harbaugh en-ters his second season at the helm. Players seemed to develop at a haphazard pace, with guys having

good games at the same time others missed a beat.

“We’re playing better and we’re growing together,” said Pritchard. “We’re going through growing pains together and everything is go-ing good.”

While Pritchard had the experi-ence of playing in Harbaugh’s sys-tem last season, Loukas and Forcier were on the sidelines studying the new schemes.

“It took me a long time to learn the new offense,” Loukas said. “Now I’m just reacting to things instead of thinking more. It’s about being comfortable with the receiv-ers. I’m doing well with the running game, both handing it off and run-ning myself.”

All three quarterbacks are mobile, and with a pair of running backs (Anthony Kimble and Toby Ger-hart) who each recorded 100-yard rushing games, that mobility should prove difficult for defenses.

Speed is such a factor for Loukas

that he has practiced as a wide re-ceiver.

“With my speed and my ability to run I can frustrate a defense,” he said. “I’ll be throwing first and running second though. We have so much depth at running back and the offensive line is doing great.”

Forcier originally went to Michi-gan, which he called his “dream school,” because of its commitment to the run (he rushed for over 1,000 yards as a senior at St. Augustine High in San Diego). The offensive focus shifted when he arrived in Ann Arbor and has returned to the run now that he transferred to Stan-ford.

“A lot of my friends and old teammates tell me I should not have transferred,” Forcier said. “That’s in the past now. At Stanford you get the best of both worlds. You can play at a high level Division I school and get an Ivy League education. The bottom line is I’m getting better ev-ery day.”

by Keith Peters

S kip Kenney likely can’t wait for the 2008-09 college swim season to begin. After all, he

has some very talented newcom-ers to strengthen an already strong group of returnees to his Stanford men’s team.

One of the newcomers is Chad La Tourette from Mission Viejo. He’ll arrive on The Farm this fall as one of the top distance swimmers in the nation following his recent perfor-mance at the U.S. Open in Minne-apolis, Minn.

La Tourette opened the meet last week by winning the 1,500-meter freestyle in 14:59.49. On Saturday, he closed the championships by set-ting a U.S. Open record and meet record while winning the 800 free.

In the final individual event of the meet, La Tourette lowered the U.S. Open record by a second to 7:48.38. The time was more than 15 seconds faster than his closest competitor and earned La Tourette his second gold medal of the five-day meet that featured many of the swimmers who did not qualify for the U.S. Olympic team.

“It feels great (to break the re-cord),” La Tourette said. “It obvi-ously felt much better than my other swims this week. I felt a little off in my other events. I needed to refocus. I felt really good about this race.”

La Tourette finished third in the 1,500 free at the U.S. Trials, missing a trip to Beijing by one spot. He sat out his freshman year at Stanford in order to train for the Olympic Tri-als. His time at the U.S. Open in the metric mile was two seconds slower than at the trials. La Tourette also took third in the 400 free in 3:51.38.

Another incoming Stanford fresh-man who stood out at the U.S. Open was Bobby Bollier, who swam for the Kansas City Blazers.

Bollier won the 200-meter butter-fly in 1:55.67, just missing tying the U.S. Open record by .01 of a sec-ond. His time was a personal best and would have been fast enough to get him fourth at the U.S. Trials, where he swam 1:57.26 and finished seventh.

Bollier was one of the busiest swimmers at the U.S. Open. He also finished second in the 200 free in 1:48.13, finished third in the 100 fly in 52.57, grabbed fourth in the 400 free in 3:51.96 and took fifth in the 200 IM (2:02.65) and 400 IM (4:21.82).

“They’re two of the best we have ever had as incoming freshmen,” Kenney said. “Now it’s my job to help them get even better. They are joining an excellent team and these two will made it even better. (The) 2012 (Olympics) has to be a realistic goal for swimmers of this caliber.”

A third Stanford swimmer came away with a U.S. Open title, sopho-more Kate Dwelley in the women’s 100 free. Dwelley clocked a person-al best of 55.21 for her first national title.

Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics (PASA) was well-represented at the U.S. Open, as well. One of the best efforts was turned in by recent Palo Alto High grad Liv Jensen, who fin-ished tied for fifth in the women’s 50 free with a personal best of 25.54. Jensen also took 13th in the 100 free in 56.44 (she swam 56.34 in the pre-lims).

Jensen also anchored PASA’s 400 medley relay to 10th in 4:17.02. The team included Paly grad Colleen Fo-tsch, Sacred Heart Prep sophomore Sarah Liang and Monta Vista High grad Megan Fischer-Colbrie. Jensen also anchored the 400 free relay to an 11th-place finish, a team that in-cluded Fotsch and Fischer-Colbrie along with Charlotte Naylor.

Jensen will have the opportunity to improve upon her individual times when she competes in the Speedo Junior National Championships this week, also in Minneapolis.

In other events at the U.S. Open.Stanford sophomore John Criste

was second in the men’s 200 breast in 2:11.46 in addition to taking fifth in the 100 breast in 1:01.85. Cardi-nal teammate Eugene Godsoe was fifth in the 100 back in 55.32 while David Mosko was 11th in the 200 fly in 2:00.81.

The PASA men’s 400 medley re-lay team of Nick Trowbridge, Ben Hinshaw, Peter Davis and Matt Murray was 12th in 3:52.21.

SWIMMING

Stanford’s talent of future on display at U.S. Open

Incoming freshmen La Tourette, Bollier both win titles while PASA also produces some top swimming efforts

STANFORD FOOTBALL

Junior quarterback Alex Loukas has yet to take a snap during a regu-lar-season game, but he will this season.

Tavita Pitchard has the most expe-rience of the candidates.

Transfer Jason Forcier isn’t afraid of running the ball.

for example, was an 11-10 loss to CHAWP White that saw Stan-ford lose in the very last second. CHAWP White went on to win the overall division title.

The NorCal Water Polo club went 6-3-1 and finished 19th in the Under-18 division following a 5-1 victory over Pacific Northwest United on Sunday. One loss came in a shootout to San Diego Shore, 9-8, after the teams had tied at 6 in regulation. Some of the quality wins came against Coronado (6-5) and Davis (7-5).

The Stanford 18-under White

team finished first in the Gold Divi-sion (25th overall). The tournament format was changed this season, breaking the 48-team divisions into two 24-team brackets (Platinum and Gold) following the second match.

The NorCal 16s finished as the No. 2 team from Northern Cali-fornia after fashioning a 6-3 record and placing 13th in the 48-team tournament. The only other squad from Northern California to finish higher was Diablo, which won the division.

The Stanford 14-under team went 4-6, but finished 14th (out of 32 teams) for the highest placing of any team from the Pacific Zone (encom-passing the Bay Area).

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Fall Class Guide

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Emerson School2800 W. Bayshore RoadPalo Alto650-424-1267650-856-2778www.headsup.orgtbootz@headsup.orgEmerson School, a private, non-sectarian program for grades 1-8, operates on a year-round full-day schedule providing superior academ-ic preparation, international courses (Chinese, Spanish) and individualized Montessori curriculum. Visit Web site for details.

Learning Strategies650-747-9651www.creative-learning-strategies.comvictoriaskinner@creative-learning-strategies.comA highly qualified Learning Strategies tutor will come to the home, work around vacation schedules and set up individual learning programs cur-tailed to the student’s needs.

Palo Alto Adult School50 Embarcadero RoadPalo Alto650-329-3752650-329-8515www.paadultschool.orgHands-on computer, language, test preparation, writing, investment and

certificate courses available starting at $19. Hundreds of online classes are offered by the Palo Alto Adult School in conjunction with Education to Go.

Randall Millen Registry921 Colorado Ave.Palo Alto856-1419Individual private tutoring in Midtown Palo Alto home for grades 7-12, col-lege and adults. Subjects include English grammar and composition, English as a second language (ESL), French, Latin, mathematics, history and social studies and humanities in general. Also: test preparation for all standardized tests (including S.A.T.) and manuscript writing and editing. Stanford graduate with 40 years of experience as a tutor. Fees from $18 per hour.

QWERTY Education Services1050 Chestnut St., #201Menlo Park650-326-8484650-326-8030www.qwertyed.cominfo@qwertyed.comTutoring, educational evaluation and summer programs. Professional tutoring for K-12 and college. May include homework support or reme-dial/enrichment learning. Organiza-tion of writing, systematic revision, keyboarding, reading skills, math procedures and problem-solving, organization, motivation and study skills. Contact Mark Carey, educa-tional director, for a no-cost phone consultation.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY

Mountain View-Los Altos Adult School333 Moffett Blvd.

Mountain View940-1333www.mvlaae.netThe MV-LA Adult School has a long history and commitment to adult education. Offering: Meet the PC, in-tro to Windows XP, sending-receiving e-mail, slide-show photo organizer, MS Excel, eBay sales and surfing, resume writing, grant writing and master the interview.

DANCE

Brazilian DanceLucie Stern CommunityCenter Ballrom1305 Middlefield RoadPalo Alto650-463-4940www.cityofpaloalto.org/enjoyBrazilian dance for ages 16-99 with Anita Lusebrink. Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thirteen-week session for $130. Drop-in cards available.

Dance Connection4000 Middlefield Road, L-5Palo Alto322-7032www.danceconnectionpaloalto.comcindy@danceconnectionpaloalto.comDance Connection offers graded classes for ages 3 to adult with a variety of programs to meet every dancer’s needs. Ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, boys program, lyrical, Pilates and combination classes are avail-able for beginning to advanced lev-els. Find information and download registration from the Web site.

Friday Morning Classic Line Dance With Hedy McAdams Cubberley Auditorium4000 Middlefield RoadPalo Alto650-463-4900650-321-5612

www.DanceAdventures.comHedy01@MediationPaloAlto.comClassic line dances. Ten-part series features three skill levels (sections): Basics/beginning 10-10:45 a.m., easy/intermediate 10:55-11:40 a.m., intermediate/advanced 11:50-12:35 p.m. Make new friends while you energize mind, body & spirit. $82 residents/$94 nonresidents, per section; $123 residents/$141 non-residents for two sections. Drop-Ins: $12/section. For active adults of all ages, no partners necessary.

Tuesday Evening LineDancePlus With Hedy McAdamsAll Saints’ Episcopal Church555 Waverley St.Palo Alto650-325-3371www.DanceAdventures.comhedy01@MediationPaloAlto.comClassic and contemporary line dance with Hedy McAdams features begin-ning and intermediate sections, with half of class for open-dancing and practice. Beginning line dance includes some basic couples frame and rhythm, by class request. Ba-sics/beginning 7:05-7:50 p.m., inter-mediate line dance, 8:20-9:05 p.m., Open dancing 7:50-8:20 p.m. No partners necessary. Drop-In: $10/one section, /$15/both sections, or register for nine-part series: $99/sec, $170 both sections. Sept. 16-Nov. 18.

International School of the Peninsula151 Laura LanePalo Alto251-8519www.istp.orgbeatricebergemont@istp.orgAfter-school programs for preschool, elementary and middle-school stu-dents. Classes include: French cook-ing, Asian cooking, chess, science,

robotics, Chinese dance, art & craft, watercolor, gymnastics, soccer and multi-sports. For a complete list of classes available visit www.istp.org.

L’Ecole de DanseCubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield RoadPalo Alto365-4596www.lecolededanse.netL’ecole De Danse (School of Ballet) – Vaganova and Cecchetti styles. Cre-ative dance, pre-ballet and full cur-riculum for all levels starting at age 5. Adult classes include beginning, intermediate and advanced. Please call for more information.

CLASS GUIDE

The Class Guide is published quarterly in the Palo Alto Weekly. Descriptions of classes offered in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Stanford, Atherton, Los Altos Hills, Portola Valley, East Palo Alto and beyond are provided. Listings are free and subject to editing. Due to space constraints, classes held in the above cities are given priority.The winter Class Guide will publish on Dec. 5 2008, with deadlines approximately two weeks prior.To inquire about placing a listing in the Class Guide, e-mail Editorial Assistant Karla Kane at hhKKane@paweekly.com, call 650-326-8210 ext. 236 or visit www.PaloAltoOnline.com.To place a paid advertisement in the Class Guide, call our display advertising department at 650-326-8210.

Fall Class GuideFall Class GuideA complete listing of classes for mind, body, spiritA complete listing of classes for mind, body, spirit

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Make the most of autumn by taking a class in something you’ve always wanted to learn. It’s never too late to pick up a paintbrush or learn to say “hello” in a foreign language. Try yoga or put on some tap shoes. All the classes listed below are local, so go for it!

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Mountain View-Los Altos Adult School333 Moffett Blvd.Mountain View940-1333www.mvlaae.netThe MV-LA Adult School has a long history and commitment to adult ed-ucation. Offering: Ballet, belly dance, ballroom, Hula and salsa dance.

Sequoia Adult SchoolLittle House Community CenterMenlo Park306-8866 www.adultschool.seq.orgnashwa@nashwabellydance.comBelly dance classes in Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Community sponsored means only approx. $8 per class. Palo Alto Adult School/Sequoia Adult School. Mondays in Menlo Park in studio at Little House Community Center. Tuesdays in mirrored, well-floored Palo Alto High School dance studio. All welcome. Have fun at any weight or age learning the art of Middle-Eastern belly dance. Develop grace, gain strength, burn calories and laugh.

Zohar Dance Company4000 Middlefield Road, L4Palo Alto494-8221www.zohardance.orgzohardance@aol.comZohar Dance Studio offers ongoing classes for adults in jazz, ballet, and modern dance. Learn from profes-sional faculty: Ehud Krauss, Kristine Elliott, Marny Trounson and Lisa Bur-nett. Current schedule and events can be found on Web site.

HEALTH & FITNESS

AlaVie Fitness777 Embarcadero RoadPalo Alto415-567-7411www.alaviefitness.cominfo@alaviefitness.comJoin PowerVie Boot Camp and give your body a fabulous spring clean-ing. As AlaVie Fitness’s signature program, PowerVie is different from other military-style boot camps. Visit www.alaviefitness.com or call for more information and to register.

Andre’s Boot Camp (ABC)Stanford724-9872www.andrestraining.comandre@andrestraining.comNo two sessions are the same but every session will offer either circuit training or interval training. ABC is designed for those who enjoy multi-sport activities. A variety of athletic “toys” are used to make the classes both fun and challenging. Call, e-mail or visit the Web site for more infor-

mation.

Betty Wright Swim Center @ Abilities United3864 Middlefield RoadPalo Alto494-1480www.abilitiesunited.org/swim@c-a-r.orgImprove your health and wellness through aquatic exercise and therapy in the fully accessible, public, warm-water (92 degree), indoor pool. Classes include aqua aerobics, aqua arthritis, back basics, body conditioning, Aichi yoga and prenatal. Physical therapy, personal training, Watsu and land massage by appoint-ment. Group and private swim les-sons. Hours: Monday-Thursday, 6:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.; Friday, 6:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-noon.

California Yoga Center (Palo Alto)541 Cowper St.Palo Alto947-9642www.californiayoga.cominfo@californiayoga.comThe California Yoga Center offers classes for beginning to advanced students. With studios in Mountain View and Palo Alto, classes empha-size individual attention and cultivate strength, flexibility and relaxation. Ongoing yoga classes are scheduled every day and include special class-es such as prenatal, back care and pranayama. Weekend workshops ex-plore a variety of yoga-related topics.

Darshana Yoga654 High St.Palo Alto325-YOGAwww.darshanayoga.cominfo@darshanayoga.comFresh and inspiring yoga classes in Palo Alto. A blend of alignment and flow. Great teachers, beautiful studio. Director Catherine De Los Santos has taught yoga in Palo Alto more than 25 years.

Elite Musketeer Fencer’s Club160B Constitution DriveMenlo Park353-0717408 317 0480www.emfc.netvalerie@emfc.netFencing programs for kids and adults, recreational and competitive. Summer camps, birthday parties, pri-vate lessons and group classes.

Mountain View-Los Altos Adult School333 Moffett Blvd.Mountain View940-1333www.mvlaae.netThe MV-LA Adult School has a long

history and commitment to adult ed-ucation. Offering: Belly dance, exer-cise for the older adult, Feldenkrais, hiking, hula, mat Pilates, Qigong, stability ball, stretch and flex, Tai Chi and yoga. Older-adult classes (55+, $18).

Private Yoga Instruction by Eyesha650-224-0150Sivananda-certified yoga instructor with extensive experience in both pri-vate and group class settings. First class is free. Subsequent classes are $50/ hour.

Palo Alto Adult School50 Embarcadero RoadPalo Alto 650-329-3752650-329-8515www.paadultschool.orgHike for Fitness or empower yourself with Tai-Chi. Join Jeanette Cos-grove’s Pilates class. Bring balance back to your life with Yoga. Our fit-ness classes start at $48.

Studio Kicks796A San Antonio RoadPalo Alto855-9868www.studiokickspaloalto.cominfo@studiokickspaloalto.comStudio Kicks is a family fitness center offering high-energy cardio kickboxing classes and fun martial-arts training for kids 2 and up. Taught by owner/instructor Richard Branden, six-time world champion and original stunt cast member for the “Power Rangers.” Get the whole family healthy and fit. Stop by for a free class.

Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto3790 El Camino Real #185Palo Alto327-9350www.ttopa.comTaijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto. Es-tablished in 1973. Learn the classi-cal Yang Chengfu style of Taijiquan (T’ai chi ch’uan). Beginning classes start monthly. Classes are held at the Cubberley Community Center.

Workout IQ278 Hope St., Ste. CMountain View814-9615962-9793www.workoutiq.cominfo@workoutiq.comWorkout IQ Boot Camp. Small group fitness training where everyone gets a custom workout. Learn Russian kettlebells, improve posture, lose inches, make friends.Cost: $195 per month.

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German International School of Silicon Valley

• Saturday School for Adults and Children (starting age 3)

• Adult and Corporate Classes also on weekdays

• All teaching levels refer to standards given by the European Framework of Language (A1.1-C1)

• Adequate group size (4-10 students) for language learning

• Learn German for a variety of personal or professional applications 310 Easy Street, Mountain View, CA 94043 email office@gissv.org web www.gissv.org

Open House

Breakfast!

Aug 23, 2007

10 - 11:30am

GISSVSaturday School at

Education for Global Thinking since 1988

275 Elliott Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Tel: (650) 324-8617

www.germanamericanschool.org

Yoga at All Saints’ Episcopal Church555 Waverley St.Palo Alto322-4528www.asaints.orgKundalini-style yoga, combining asana (physical poses), breathing exercises and meditation. Practice is best done on an empty stomach. Please bring a mat and blanket and wear comfortable, easy-to-move-in clothes. If floor work is difficult, ex-ercises can be modified to be done in a chair. All ages. No registration necessary. Every Saturday, 8-9 a.m., in the Parish Hall. $5/person.

LANGUAGE

German Language ClassEmbarcadero Road at El Camino RealPalo Alto High SchoolRoom 406Palo Alto650-329-3752650-329-8515adultschool@pausd.orgWillkommen (welcome)! Learn to speak, read and write German, with an emphasis on conversation. Basic grammar and Germanic culture are also covered. The instructor, a col-lege-credentialed teacher, lived and studied in Germany through Stan-ford, from where she later received a master’s degree. Mondays, 7-9 p.m. Sept. 8-Nov. 10. $108.

International School of the Peninsula (ISTP)151 Laura LanePalo Alto251-8519www.istp.orgbeatricebergemont@istp.orgISTP offers extensive adult language classes and children’s after-school language classes. For preschool students, ISTP offers classes in Ara-bic, French, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. For elementary and middle-school students, ISTP offers classes in Arabic, Farsi French and Mandarin Chinese. For adults, ISTP offers sep-arate classes for varying proficiency levels for each language: Arabic, English ESL, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Mountain View-Los Altos Adult School333 Moffett Blvd.Mountain View940-1333www.mvlaae.netThe MV-LA Adult School has a long history and commitment to adult education. Learn or practice a lan-guage. Offering: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Older-adult classes (55+, $18).

Palo Alto Adult School50 Embarcadero RoadPalo Alto650-329-3752650-329-8515www.paadultschool.orgAffordable, comprehensive language program begins this September. Ger-man, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese classes are scheduled. Multi-week classes for $115 or less. Call us if you are interested in Man-darin Chinese.

MISCELLANEOUS

Little House Senior Activities Center800 Middle Ave.Menlo Park326-2025www.peninsulavolunteers.orgtpuckett@peninsulavolunteers.orgComputer workshops, health lec-tures, investments, travel, self-im-provement, movies, opera previews, ballroom dancing and weekend trips for people over 50. Costs range from free to $40. Register in person or by phone.

Palo Alto Adult School50 Embarcadero RoadPalo Alto650-329-3752650-329-8515www.paadultschool.orgAre you curious about birds you often see but have trouble identifying? Learn about “swimmers”, “shore-birds”, “perching birds” and “birds of prey.” Sign up for one of our birding classes. Monday, Tuesday or Thurs-day classes (7-9 p.m.) with weekend field trips.

MUSIC & ART

Art For Well Beings2800 West Bayshore RoadPalo Alto650-776-8297650-855-9067artforwellbeings.orgme@judyg.comArt for Well Beings (AFWB) offers art classes especially welcoming people with special needs. AFWB is open to the public. Drop-in or 6-8 week ses-sions are available. All materials pro-vided. Please call to register or visit Web site for more information.

Art with Emily402 El Verano Ave.Palo Alto856-9571www.artwithemily.cominfo@ArtWithEmily.comEmily Young teaches mixed-media, multi-cultural art lessons for children at her fully equipped studio in Palo Alto. Individual lessons or small group classes available.

Children’s Music WorkshopsP.O. Box 60756Palo Alto306-0332Kids music classes and private les-sons for guitar, piano and voice. Locations in Palo Alto and Mountain View. Music for special-needs chil-dren too.

Chinese Brush PaintingPalo Alto948-1503Chinese brush painting with master calligrapher and painter Anna Wu Weakland. Class meets eight Tues-days, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Classes held at the Cubberley Studio in Palo Alto. Learn to paint with minimum strokes and achieve maximum results. The techniques of all the popular subject matters will be taught. Beginners and advanced students welcome.

Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center230 San Antonio CircleMountain View917-6800917-6813www.arts4all.orginfo@arts4all.orgThe Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) offers classes year-round in music, visual & digital arts for ages 18 mos. to adult! Vacation & summer camps, one- and two-day arts workshops offered throughout the year. Private music lessons of-fered, taught by international faculty. Financial assistance available. Visit www.arts4all.org for more informa-tion.

International School of the Peninsula (ISTP)151 Laura LanePalo Alto251-8519www.istp.orgbeatricebergemont@istp.orgJoin ISTP for after-school programs for preschool, elementary and middle-school students. Classes in-clude French cooking, Asian cooking, chess, science, robotics, Chinese dance, art and craft, watercolor, gymnastics, soccer and multi-sports. For a complete list of classes, visit the Web site.

Kindermusik with WendyMountain View968-4733www.kindermusik.comwendymusikmom@aol.comGroup music classes for children ages birth to 7 and their caregiv-ers. All classes include singing, instrument play, movement, musical games, and home materials, and

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EDUCATING THE GLOBAL CHILD

Our Mission is to nurture lifelong learners tobecome world citizens with a global perspective.

Open House: 10am Sat, Oct. 18th and Nov. 15th, 2008

Trinity School

Encouraging preschool to Grade 5 children from all backgrounds to love learning. We foster rigorous academics grounded in child-centered content. Trinity upholds the values and traditions of the Episcopal Church

and honors the role of family in educating children.Open House October 23 RSVP 650.854.0288 x100 or admission@trinity-mp.org

The legacy of a Trinity education is a curious mind and a discerning heart.1650 San Hil l Road, Menlo Park www.tr inity-mp.org

aim to develop the whole child through music. Five levels of classes as well as a multi-age class. Cost per class session ranges from $100 to $225 de-pending on class and session length (8-15 weeks per session).

Midpeninsula Community Media Center900 San Antonio RoadPalo Alto494-8686www.communitymediacenter.netThe Media Center offers classes every month in a wide range of media arts, including publishing media on the Web, pod casting, digital editing, field production, TV studio production, Photoshop for photographers, citizen journal-ism, and autobiographical digital stories. One-on-one tutoring is also available. Biweekly free orientation sessions and tours. Web site has specific dates, fees, and scholarship informa-tion.

New Mozart School of Music305 N. California Ave.Palo Alto

650-324-2373www.newmozartschool.cominfo@newmozartschool.com New Mozart provides private lessons on all instruments and excellent early childhood music classes for children 2-7 years of age.

Opus1 Music Studio2800 W Bayshore RoadPalo Alto408-821-5080musicopus1.commusicopus1@gmail.comOpus1 Music Studio is offering pri-vate & group music lessons for all kinds of instruments to aged 1.5 and up. Beginners to advanced level.

Palo Alto Art Center1313 Newell RoadPalo Alto329-2366www.cityofpaloalto.org/artcenterlynn.stewart@cityofpaloalto.orgClasses and workshops for adults in ceramics, painting, drawing, jewelry, book arts, printmaking, collage and more. Register online or stop by the Art Center for a class brochure.

Private Piano Instruction by Eyesha.650-224-0150ainan@stanfordalumni.orgPrivate piano teacher, with an em-phasis in classical music, beginner to intermediate levels. First class is free. Subsequent classes are $50/ hour.

Village Heartbeat883 Ames Ave.Palo Alto493-8046zorina@villageheartbeat.comVillage Heartbeat is an organization dedicated to building and educating a rhythmic community. The organiza-tion facilitates classes in African drumming, dancing, and TaKeTiNa. Classes offer the opportunity to learn adapted traditional music of the African Diaspora, as well as mod-ern trance grooves.

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THE GIRLS’ MIDDLE SCHOOL

180 North Rengstorff Avenue

Mountain View, CA 94043

(650) 968-8338 x115

admissions@girlsms.org

www.girlsms.org

OPEN HOUSES Saturday, November 15, 1 pm

Thursday, December 11, 7 pm

Igniting the spark of knowledge and self-discovery.

For your personal tour, please contact Aileen Mitchner, Director of Admission650.494.8200 ext. 104 admissions@hausner.com

Inspiring Minds... Creating Community

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Phoenix Volleyball Classes Volleyball classes will be taught by World Class Volleyball Player-Coach Feng. She was Chinese National Team Player; 1st place of the 10th World Championships in 1986; 1st place of Asia Women’s championships, and 1st place of 10th Asia Games. She was a Head Coach of youth volleyball team in Turkey for 8 years. Contact: Xiaofeng Foret Phone:408-348-5149 for class schedules & feesEmail: xiaofeng890@hotmail.com

133 Music LessonsA Piano Teacher Children & AdultsEma Currier (650)493-4797Barton-Holding Music Studio Vocal instruction, all levels. 6-week sight singing class starts 7/7. Laura, 650/965-0139

Drum Lessons Drum Lessons in Palo AltoSpecializing in beginners. Day/Evenings available.Call David (650) 400-2029

FUN PIANO VIOLIN GUITAR LESSONSHope Street Studios In Downtown Mountain ViewMost Instruments, VoiceAll Ages, All Levels(650) 961-2192Jazz & Pop Piano Lessons Learn how to build chords & improvise. Bill Susman, M.A., Stanford. (650)906-7529McCool Piano Lessons 566-9391MP 5 min walk from Burgess GymMusic Lessons for All AgesPiano Lessons Taught in your home. Member MTAC & NGPT. Specializing in beginners. Karen, (650)233-9689Piano Lessons in Palo Alto Call Alita (650)838-9772Piano Lessons in Palo AltoPrivate Piano Lessons 22 years Teaching Experience. Master of Arts in Piano. Glenda Timmerman, 650-938-0582

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140 Lost & FoundLost grey bird w/ red cheeksLost KeysLost Yellow Lab Lost Yellow Lab “Lucy” w/ blue collar 650-269-4125Missing CatRunaway Cat!

145 Non-Profits NeedsLeague of Women Voters

150 Volunteers Support Tropical Reforestation!Adult Dialogue DocentsAiding Science Teaching Volunteers being sought to assist with science teaching. Very person-ally rewarding, www.reseed-sv.org. Participants are engineers and sci-entists in many fields, retired or not. Peter, 650 303 6893, Joe (408) 679-1743, or Don, (650) 941-0670. Be a Supportive Mentor!

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For Sale201 Autos/Trucks/PartsDonate Vehicle Receive $1000 Grocery Coupons, Your Choice. Noah’s Arc, No Kill Animal Shelters. Advanced Veterinary Treatments. Free Towing, IRS Tax Deduction. Non-Runners. 1-866-912-GIVE. (Cal-SCAN)

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68 Ford Mustang 1968 Mustang - $4200.00-O

B M W 1991 850i Incredible Supercar. 20mpg Hwy 16mpg City. Runs like it looks. Sacrifice (775) 846-2277

BMW 1976 3.0 si - $4,950 - LOW MILES

BMW 1988 535i Exceptional condition, one owner, 145k miles, manual transmission$13k spent on recent renovation.

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Palo Alto, Palo Alto High School Flea Market, 50 Embarcadero Rd, Aug. 9, 9 AM to 3 PM Music Boosters Flea Market and Craft Faire is held on the second Saturday of each month. All pro-ceeds go to the Palo Alto High School Music Department. For infor-mation, call (650) 324-3532.

Sunnyvale, 235 S. Bernado Ave Shadowbrook Apt, July 12&13 ,10-2

215 Collectibles & AntiquesAntique Proofing Table - 50$ or besANTIQUES! Storewide SaleDiecast Scale ModelsFLEA MARKET Sunday July 27Japanese collectible toysStamp album - $60

220 Computers/Electronics new HP 14 ink cartridge - $ 5.Cable modem - $20.00Dell Dimension 4550 - $200netgear mobile adaptor - 5.00Okidata Printers - $25 eachPlay station 2 - $100.00Sony floppy disk drive 3 1/2 “ - $15.00

230 FreebiesUSED ELECTRONICS PILE - FREE

235 Wanted to BuyAntique dolls

240 Furnishings/Household itemsComputer Desk w/Hutch - $65

Lazy Susan Thread Rack - $40

Chandelier - 45$

Computer Stand - $25

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white cotton couch - $100

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260 Sports & Exercise Equipment â–º HealthRider Fitness Rider - $75

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

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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

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

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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 CleanersHouse cleaningIrene’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

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

330 Child Care OfferedBabysitterBabysitter Available - $15.00 perBABYSITTER FOR AFTERNOONSExperienced&Outgoing Nanny - nego-tiable

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( MenloLive-in Nanny AvailableMary Poppins For Hire! All ages. CPR cert., TrustLine, top refs. 650/529-9808Mature Female Driver Available

Nanny Needed in Menlo Park Family with 2 children (girl 8, boy 3) and 2 dogs in Menlo Park needs coverage from 7-9am &/or 12:30-7 pm. Focused on child care but also includes running errands, transport-ing kids (car provided), laundry & some dog walking, cooking, & light house cleaning. Must have a clean driving record/valid driver's license, be fluent in English, be active and energetic, be a non-smoker, like dogs and have strong references/experience. Starting pay is $18/hour. Please email me (kelly@battles.org) if interested.

Nanny/Preschool ExperiencePeninsula Preschool Has OpeningsRecommending our nannySchool teacher offering tutoringstanford student w/ flexible hrsWeekend babysitter

340 Child Care WantedAfter-school babysitter needed

Babysitter/Nanny Needed PT Tues./Thurs. aftn for 5 & 7 yo boys. Need exper., non-smoker, CA DL, excel. drvg rec & refs. Email jlshubert@gmail.comNanny for 2yr girl 12-5pm M-Th F 9-5.Fluent English, drive,lite houswrk 650 2559311Part Time Childcare NeededPT Babysitter/Mother’s HelperSeek PT P.M. Nanny Mon Weds ThurSeeking FT/PT 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

Seeking an afternoon position? We have 6 Peninsula families! 15-22 hrs. per wk. $17-20/hr + gas

650-462-4580

Wanted: Sat afternoon/eve nanny

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. 650/965-9696French, Spanish 4 Student&Adult

French, 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 tutor

350 Preschools/Schools/CampsWrite Now! Summer Writing Camps

355 Items for SaleBaby/Toddler ClothesBaby/Toddler EquipmentCrazy About Horses?Crib, Dresser, Bed, Night table

Horsemanship Summer Campkids’ adidas soccer shoes, 4 1/2 - $12Unique Children’s PlayhouseWhite Iron Trundle Bed &Mattress

390 Kids for Summer JobsChess Lessons for kids and adult

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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 & GatesA Quality Fence Co.Specializing in Redwood & Chain linkDecks, Retaining Walls, Custom Sheds

FREE EST.

(408) 460-4909Lic #141605No Job too smallSenior discount

Fences - 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

• Yard Maint.• Estate Service• Tree Trimming• Pruning

• Clean Ups• New Lawns• Excel Refs• Free Est.

(650) 576-6242 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 ContractingA B WESTCONSTRUCTION

• Remodels • Repairs• Tile • Carpentry • Decks• Elec/Plumbing • Painting

Call E. Marchettifor Free Estimate

Excellent Local References

(650) 347-8359 Lic.#623885Fax(650)344-6518

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

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* 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.

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Remodeling

• Kitchens• Bathrooms• Interior• Exterior

Repair

• Plumbing• Electrical• Drywall• Dry Rot

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. 650-207-1306California Day Labors Program Painting, moving, gardening, cement and much more. $15.00/hr. negotiable depending on job. If you need workers call or email. Include name, phone, driv-ers lic. and contractors lic. We are non profit. Please send donations to alliance of latino workers, 80 s. Market St. San Jose, Ca. 95116 For info call 415-563-3279 or email jornalerosunidos@hotmail.com

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

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

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

787 Pressure Washing

KIENINGERPressure Washing

• Wood Siding • Stucco • Eaves • Gutters

• Wood Decks • Fences• Outdoor Teak Furniture

• Brick or Concrete• Patios and Walkways

75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park

(650) 720-0846

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/StudiosDowntown Palo Alto Lovenest, 2 BR/1 BA - $2300monthMountain View, 1 BR/1 BA - 1310Mountain View, 2 BR/2 BA - $1,595.00/Mountain View, Studio BR/1 BA - 1210MP: 1BR/1BA in 4-plex. Rustic setting, hardwood flrs., gardener. $1095 mo., lease. N/P. Contact Arn Cenedella, agent, 650/566-5329MV-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

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/2 BA - $2700/mo.

Palo Alto, 2 BR/2 BA - $1895

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

Pristine Los Altos Hills, 3 BR/2.5 BA - $6100

Sunnyvale, 2 BR/1 BA - $1625/mont

Sunnyvale, 2 BR/1 BA - $1575/mont

805 Homes for RentAtherton, 2 BR/2 BA Poolhouse on golf course. $2800+ util. No pets/smoke. 1Yr 854-4344

Atherton, 4 BR/3 BA - $12,500

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

Emerald Hills, 5+ BR/3 BA Beautiful Emerald Hills Family Home on Private Cul-de-sac. Sept 1st. One Year Lease. $6800 mo. e-mail or phone 650-208-2348

Fully Furnished Home, 3 BR/1 BA - $ 3800/mon

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 - $3,600/mth

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

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

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Palo Alto, 3 BR/3.5 BA - $7200/mont

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

Palo Alto, 4 BR/2.5 BA - $7,200/mon

Palo Alto, 4 BR/3 BA - $8900/mont

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

Palo Alto, 4 BR/4+ BA - $8500/mont

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

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

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

Palo Alto, 2 BR/1 BA - $750/month

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

815 Rentals WantedHousing Wanted - Exchange

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820 Home ExchangesARCHITECT on callPalo Alto - San Francisco

825 Homes/Condos for SaleCountry Club Neighborhood, 4 BR/2.5 BA - $2395000Los Altos Hills, 4 BR/3.5 BA - $2,795,000Menlo Park, 3 BR/2 BA - $600,000

Menlo Park, 5+ BR/4+ BA Magnificent home built in 2001. Great detail and design features. NetEquity (650) 594-1041 www.NetEquityHomes.com

Mountain View, 3 BR/1 BA - $709,000Mountain View, 4 BR/3.5 BA Details on: www.1054blackfieldway.com

Palo Alto, 3 BR/2.5 BA Open House Saturday, August 2 from Noon to 4:00 pm. This home is a popular Plan 2 (Lot 63) featur-ing 2kW solar electric system, bamboo 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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Palo Alto, 4 BR/2 BA - $1,099,000

Palo Alto, 5+ BR/3.5 BA 3200 sf; cul de sac; top schools. www.irvencourt.com 408-482-1800; 1,695,000Redwood City (emerald Hills), 5+ BR/4+ BA - $2,499,999Redwood City, 3 BR/1 BA - $799,000Redwood City, 3 BR/2 BA - $749000$2995000Sunnyvale, 2 BR/1 BA - $595,000Woodside, 3 BR/3 BA - $1,599,000

830 Commercial/Income PropertyOffice 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. 650/854-7171Retail 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 Hotel

Five Star Resort $6900, Studio 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

Palo Alto ARCHITECT

Residential Architecture + Desig

845 Out of Area

Orleans Co Farm For you and your horses. See Fogster ad or Nothnagel listing

850 Acreage/Lots/StorageArizona Land Bargain 36 Acres - $29,900. Beautiful mountain property in Arizona’s Wine Country. Price reduced in buyers market. Won’t last! Good access & views. Eureka Springs Ranch offered by AZLR. ADWR report and financing available. 1-877-301-5263. (Cal-SCAN)

Colorado Mountain Ranch Priced to Sell! Newly Released. 35 acres- $39,900. Majestic lake and Mountain views, adjacent to national forest for camping or hiking, close to conveniences. EZ terms. 1-866-353-4807. (Cal-SCAN)

El Paso, Texas 20 acre ranches, near Booming El Paso Texas. Roads Surveyed. $15,900, $200 Down, $159/month. Money Back Guarantee. Free Maps & Pictures. 1-800-343-9444. No Credit Checks!! (Cal-SCAN)

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)

Montana’s Best Land Deal 20 AC- Ponderosa Pines, County Road & Utilities. Was: $99,900. Now: $79,900. 160AC w/New Log Cabin Was: $199,900. Now: $149,900. 208AC w/Huge Storage Barn Was: $299,900. NOW: $249,900. Affordable financing, discounted prices. Absolutely beautiful land. Call 877-229-7840. Visit www.WesternSkiesLand.com While we talk! (Cal-SCAN)

Nevada - Lakefront Opportunity Nevada’s 3rd Largest Lake. Approx. 2 hrs. South of Carson City. 1 ac Dockable $149,900. 1 ac Lake Access $49,900. 38,000 ac Walker Lake, very rare. Home sites on paved road with city water. Magnificent views, very lim-ited supply. New to market. Call 1-877-542-6628. (Cal-SCAN)

New Mexico Land Dispersal New to Market: 140 acres - $89,900. River Access. Northern New Mexico. Cool 6,000’ elevation with stunning views. Great tree cover including Ponderosa, rolling grassland and rock outcroppings. Abundant wildlife, great hunting. EZ terms. Call NML&R, Inc. 1-866-360-5263. (Cal-SCAN)

New Mexico Sacrifice! 140 acres was $149,900, Now Only $69,900. Amazing 6000 ft. elevation. Incredible mountain views. Mature tree cover. Power & year round roads. Excellent financing. Priced for quick sale. Call NML&R, Inc. 1-888-204-9760. (Cal-SCAN)

Southern Colorado Land Sale 35 Acres - Only $36,900 or 35 Acres with Log Cabin Package - only $74,900. Rocky Mountain Views, Bluffs and Canyons. Owner Financing! 1-877-399-9595. (Cal-SCAN)

Tennessee Mountains 1-2 Acre Homesites. Wooded Bluff-Lakeview. Starting at $59,900. Guaranteed Financing! 1-866-550-5263. Ask About Mini Vacation 3 days 2 nights Travel Allowance. (Cal-SCAN)

Utah: 40 Acres - $29,900 Your own gorgeous ranch. Stunning land, inspiring views, great location, 2 hours east of Salt Lake in ideal outdoor recreational area. County maintained roads, ready to build or just hold and enjoy. Priced at bulk acreage prices for quick sale. Must sell. EZ Terms. Call UTLR 1-888-693-5263. (Cal-SCAN)

Washington/Idaho Border Almost Heaven! 6 ac just $49,900. Calendar cover beauty in Palouse Country. Rare acreage in an area where land is rarely available. Rolling hills, river access, near town and golf, close to WSU. Has it all including great price, must see. EZ terms. Call WALR 1-866836-9152. (Cal-SCAN)

855 Real Estate Services

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995 Fictitious Name StatementROCK’ N SOUL ALLEYFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 511643 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as, Rock’ N Soul Alley, 3144 David Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County:DAVID GREENE3144 David AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94303This business is owned by an individual. Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on January 1, 2008.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 9, 2008. (PAW July 18, 25, Aug., 1, 8, 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)EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONSFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 511300 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as, Effective Interactions, 538 Harrington Ave., Los Altos, CA 94024, Santa Clara County:JEAN LOUISE KAHWAJY538 Harrington Ave.Los Altos, CA 94024 This business is owned by an indi-vidual.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 27, 2008. (PAW July 25, Aug., 1, 8, 15, 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)WILD WACKY WONDERFULFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 512137 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as, Wild Wacky Wonderful, 1343 Happy Valley Avenue, San Jose, CA 95129, Santa Clara County:WILD, WACKY, WONDERFUL, INCORPORATED1343 Happy Valley AvenueSan Jose, CA 95129This business is owned by a corpora-tion.Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 12/31/ 2006.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 22, 2008. (PAW Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2008)THREE SEASONS RESTAURANTFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 511542 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as, Three Seasons Restaurant, 518 Bryant St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County:THREE SEASONS RESTAURANT LLC488 University Ave.# 219Palo Alto, CA 94301 This business is owned by a limited liability company.Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on 2-12-2003.This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 7, 2008.(PAW Aug. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2008)EZ BUSINESS CAREEZ OFFICE CAREFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTFile No. 512536 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as, 1.) EZ Business Care, 2.) EZ Office Care, 2368 Santa Ana St., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County:PATRICIA NA2368 Santa Ana St.Palo Alto, CA 94303 This business is owned by an indi-vidual.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 August 1, 2008. (PAW Aug. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2008)

997 All Other LegalsLoan: 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 Assessor's Parcel Number: 127-17-049 will be sold at public auc-tion 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, payable at the time of sale, for cash or cashier'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 authorized to do business in California. The under-signed Trustee disclaims any liability 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-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

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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)NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No: F355267 CA Unit Code: F Loan No: 1190007858/MERCKLING Investor No: 0164840854 AP #1: 127-23-021 T.D. SERVICE COMPANY, as duly appointed

Trustee under the following described Deed of Trust WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (in the forms which are law-ful tender in the United States) and/or the cashier’s, certified or other checks specified in Civil Code Section 2924h (payable in full at the time of sale to T.D. Service Company) all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property hereinafter described: Trustor: ROGER MERCKLING, VERONIQUE MERCKLING CHASSAT Recorded August 4, 2003 as Instr. No. 17239972 in Book —- Page —- of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County; CALIFORNIA , pursuant to the Notice of Default and Election to Sell thereunder recorded March 14, 2008 as Instr. No. 19778984 in Book —- Page —- of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County CALIFORNIA. Said Deed of Trust describes the following

property: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED JUNE 2, 2003. 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. 3143 STOCKTON PL, PALO ALTO, CA 94303 “(If a street address or com-mon designation of property is shown above, no warranty is given as to its completeness or correctness).” Said Sale of property will be made in “as is” condition without covenant or war-ranty, express or implied, regarding title possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest as in said note provided, advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. Said sale will be held on: AUGUST

26, 2008, AT 10:00 A.M. *AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 190 N. MARKET STREET, SAN JOSE, CA At the time of the initial publication of this notice, the total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the above described Deed of Trust and estimated costs, expenses, and advances is $272,100.82. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. Date: July 25, 2008 T.D. SERVICE COMPANY as said Trustee, SUSAN EARNEST, ASSISTANT SECRETARY T.D. SERVICE COMPANY 1820 E. FIRST ST., SUITE 210, P.O. BOX 11988 SANTA ANA, CA 92711-1988 We are assisting the Beneficiary to collect a debt and any information we obtain will be used for that purpose whether received orally or in writing. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies

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