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City OKs plan for golf course, fields Page 3

Spirit of

a winner Paly teen makes her Olympics debut PAGE 24

Transitions 12

Pulse 13

Spectrum 14

Movies 22

Puzzles 66

N Arts Film festival explores humor in tough topics

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N Sports Palo Alto Oaks make pitch for World Series Page 29 N Home How to get mosquitoes to buzz off

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City of Palo Alto Presents the 28th annual

5K walk, 5K & 10K run — Great for kids and families A benefit event for local non-profits supporting kids and families

Register online: PaloAltoOnline.com/moonlight_run TIME & PLACE

Corporate Sponsors

5K walk 7:00pm, 10K run 8:15pm, 5K run 8:45pm. Race-night registration 6 to 8pm at City of Palo Alto Baylands Athletic Center, Embarcadero & Geng Roads (just east of the Embarcadero Exit off Highway 101). Parking — go to PaloAltoOnline.com to check for specific parking locations.

COURSE 5K and 10K loop courses over Palo Alto Baylands levee, through the marshlands by the light of the Harvest Moon! Course is flat, USAT&F certified (10k run only) on levee and paved roads. Water at all stops. Course map available at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

REGISTRATIONS & ENTRY FEE

Event Sponsors

Adult Registration (13 +) registration fee is $30 per entrant by 9/14/12. Includes a long-sleeved t-shirt. Youth Registration (6 - 12) registration is $20 per entrant by 9/14/12. Includes a long-sleeved t-shirt. Youth (5 and under) run free with an adult, but must be registered through Evenbrite with signed parental guardian waiver, or may bring/fill out a signed waiver to race-night registration. Late Registration fee is $35 for adults, $25 for youth from 9/15 - 9/26. Race night registration fee is $40 for adult; $30 for youth from 6 to 8pm. T-shirts available only while supplies last. Refunds will not be issued for no-show registrations and t-shirts will not be held. MINORS: If not pre-registered, minors under 18 MUST bring signed parental/waiver form on race night.

SPORTS TEAM/CLUBS: Online pre-registration opportunity for organizations of 10 or more runners; e-mail MoonlightRun@paweekly.com.

DIVISIONS Age divisions: 9 & under; 10 - 12; 13 - 15; 16 - 19; 20 - 24; 25 - 29; 30 - 34; 35 - 39; 40 - 44; 45 - 49; 50 - 54; 55 - 59; 60 - 64; 65 - 69; 70 & over with separate divisions for male and female runners in each age group. Race timing provided for 5K and 10K runs only.

COMPUTERIZED RESULTS BY A Change of Pace Chip timing results will be posted on PaloAltoOnline.com by 11pm race night. Race organizers are not responsible for incorrect results caused by incomplete/incorrect registration forms.

AWARDS/PRIZES/ENTERTAINMENT Top three finishers in each division. Prize giveaways and refreshments. Pre-race warmups by Noxcuses Fitness, Palo Alto

PALO ALTO GRAND PRIX Road Race Series — Moonlight Run, 9/28; Marsh Madness, 10/27; Home Run, 9/11, for more information go to www.paloaltogp.org.

BENEFICIARY Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund. A holiday-giving fund to benefit Palo Alto area non-profits and charitable organizations. In April 2012, 55 organizations received a total of $353,000 (from the 2011-2012 Holiday Fund.)

MORE INFORMATION Call (650) 463-4920, (650) 326-8210, email MoonlightRun@paweekly.com or go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com. For safety reasons, no dogs allowed on course for the 5K and 10K runs. They are welcome on the 5K walk only. No retractable leashes. Bring your own clean-up bag. Jogging strollers welcome in the 5K walk or at the back of either run.

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,OCAL NEWS INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS

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Upfront

COMMUNITY MEETING

Thursday, August 2, 2012, 6:30-8 PM Lucie Stern Center Ball Room 1305 MiddleďŹ eld Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301 The City of Palo Alto seeks the community’s input on the proposed concept plans. Email pwecips@cityofpaloalto.org for more information.

Meeting hosted by City of Palo Alto Public Works, (650) 617-3183

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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Review the proposed concept designs for the Rinconada Park Long Range Plan.

You’re asking the golfer to pay for athletic fields.

—Craig Allen, president of the Palo Alto Golf Club, registering objections to how the plan to renovate the city’s golf course would be financed. See story on page 3.

Around Town BEATING THE DEADLINE... Three new playing fields. A redesigned Baylands golf course with a “Wow� factor. New plazas and wider sidewalks on a soon-to-be two-lane California Avenue. A revised massage ordinance. A refreshed Cogswell Plaza. New contracts for workers represented by the city’s largest labor union and by its police-managers union. These are just some of the bigticket items the Palo Alto City Council green-lighted Monday in its final meeting before a month-long break. There was one item, however, that the council didn’t get to during the sevenand-a-half-hour meeting: high-speed rail. Lawmakers were scheduled to consider endorsing a citizens’ initiative to cut off future funding for the locally unpopular $68 billion project. Shortly before midnight, the council agreed to address the issue at its first meeting after the break. Even this proved to be a blessing in disguise. The two Republicans leading the initiative announced Wednesday that they are suspending their campaign for the revote. Former U.S. Rep. George Radanovich and current state Sen. Doug LaMalfa issued a statement on the campaign website that the initiative is suspended “while litigation brought against high-speed rail in Central Valley moves through the court system.� They vowed, however, that the effort is not dead, just delayed for a while. Radanovich called the decision to suspend the campaign “a postponement of what I see as a future initiative allowing voters the opportunity to tell politicians in Sacramento that they don’t want a California high-speed rail system plagued with budget overruns and repeated failure to meet every deadline.� MIT OF THE WEST? ... Is Stanford getting a reputation as the “MIT of the West?� Stanford philosopher Debra Satz, a popular teacher and senior associate dean for the humanities and arts, worries that this reputation could deter talented students in the humanities. One strategy to broaden the image is to invite talented, humanities-oriented high school students to attend a summer program at Stanford — possibly leading them later to apply for undergraduate study in something besides engineering. This year Satz launched the Summer Humanities Institute, in which 50 high school students from across the country immersed themselves in the American and French revolutions. The cost of the three-week institute, which ended July 13, was $5,150, but fund-

ing from the School of Humanities and Sciences and the provost’s office enabled the program to offer “need-blind admission,� Stanford said. WHAT MAKES ME TICK ... Hey, high school seniors out there, it’s collegeessay time! Twenty-seven Gunn and Palo Alto high school students assembled this past week to get a jump on the task of trying to explain themselves, in writing, to admissions officers. The goal by week’s end was to have working drafts of the Common Application essay as well as “clear direction for how to work on UC and supplemental essays,� said Paly English teacher Shirley Tokheim, who led the group. The class was part of a stated effort by the school district to boost support for seniors writing their college essays. In the past, that work has been done in some English classes, at the discretion of the teacher. This fall, at least at Paly, an after-school essay-writing workshop will be offered and essay-writing help also will be available on College Awareness Day, scheduled for Oct 17, Tokheim said. PLANNING AHEAD ... Palo Alto’s Planning and Transportation Commission will exchange institutional knowledge for fresh eyes next month, when Vice Chair Susan Fineberg concludes her tenure on the famously thorough and painstakingly detail-oriented board. Fineberg is best known for her encyclopedic knowledge of the Comprehensive Plan and a general skepticism toward major new developments that could impact existing neighborhoods. On Monday, the City Council voted 6-3 to appoint Michael Alcheck, a real-estate attorney who works as general counsel for the Loyola Management Company, as its newest commissioner. According to his application, Alcheck is involved in the San Francisco chapter of Urban Land Institute and sits on the San Francisco board of directors of the Jewish Community Relations Council. At a prior meeting, both Fineberg and Alcheck received four council votes. This week, with all nine council members present, Alcheck received six votes (Karen Holman, Greg Schmid and Yiaway Yeh voted for Fineberg). His isn’t the only new face that will soon be making its commission debut. Earlier in the month, the council named Alex Panelli to replace architect Dan Garber, who recently stepped down to work on the proposed office-and-theater development near the downtown Caltrain station. N

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Commission: Proposal to move MacArthur Park is premature 0ARKS BOARD BACKS OFF FROM VOTE ON PLAN TO MOVE HISTORIC BUILDING TO GOLF COURSE PROPOSAL TO MOVE THE BUILDING HOUSING -AC!RTHUR 0ARK 2ES TAURANT TO THE 0ALO !LTO -U NICIPAL 'OLF #OURSE WAS TABLED BY THE 0ALO !LTO 0ARKS AND 2ECREATION #OMMISSION 4UESDAY *ULY AFTER MEMBERS SAID THEY NEED MORE TIME TO CONSIDER THE OPTIONS ! THREE MEMBER AD HOC SUBCOM MITTEE OF THE COMMISSION HAD PRO POSED MOVING THE YEAR OLD *ULIA -ORGAN DESIGNED BUILDING LOCATED NEAR THE 5NIVERSITY !VENUE #ALTRAIN STATION TO MAKE WAY FOR A MULTI STO RY OFFICE BUILDING AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 4HE NEW CENTER ALONG WITH UNDERGROUND PARKING HAS

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hPROFOUND SADNESSv AND THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE WHO SOME YEARS AGO CAME TO THE 0ALO !LTO -EDICAL &OUNDATION WITH HER MOTHER 4HE GIRL S PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR RECOMMENDED HOSPITAL IZATION !FTER WAITING FOR HOURS IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM OF A CHILDREN S HOSPITAL THE GIRL WAS GIVEN AN ASSESS MENT WITH NO PRIVACY AND SENT TO A DIFFERENT HOSPITAL THAT WAS LICENSED TO ADMIT TEENS WITH PSYCHIATRIC ISSUES 4HE TEEN S EXPERIENCE WAS hHU MILIATING AND UTTERLY DISTRESSING AS HER PARENTS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO TRAVEL WITH HER BETWEEN HOSPITALS v THE TEEN S PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR SAID h(ER MOTHER CALLED ME THE NEXT DAY PLEADING THAT ) HELP GET HER DAUGHTER RELEASED !S SHE WAS DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL ) WAS TOLD SHE HAD BEEN CONNECTED WITH A THERAPIST ,ATER ) FOUND THAT THIS CONNECTION WAS TENUOUS v 4HE PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR RECEIVED NO COMMUNICATION FROM THE THERA PIST AND NEVER HEARD WHEN THE THERA PIST STOPPED TREATMENT

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A MEDIAN SPEED REMINDER SIGNS AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS RESTRICTIONS ON LEFT TURNS DURING CERTAIN HOURS AND MOD IFICATION AND COORDINATION OF SIGNAL TIMING AT CERTAIN INTERSECTIONS %XCESSIVE SPEEDING AND ACCIDENTS ALONG THE ROUTE HAVE DECREASED BY HALF AS A RESULT OF THE TRIAL CITY STAFF REPORTED "UT TRAFFIC VOLUME ROSE IN THREE AREAS WITHIN THE "ARRON 0ARK NEIGHBORHOOD -AYBELL !VENUE AND -AYBELL #OURT -AYBELL !VENUE AND 0ENA #OURT AND -ATADERO !VENUE AT *OSINA #OURT 4HE TRAFFIC COUNT AT -AYBELL AND 0ENA ROSE SIGNIFICANTLY FROM VEHICLES TO DAILY SINCE THE TRIAL CHANGES ACCORDING TO THE STUDY 2ESIDENTS TOLD THE COMMISSION

7EDNESDAY THAT DRIVERS ARE CREATING UNSAFE CONDITIONS ALONG NEIGHBOR HOOD STREETS THAT DO NOT HAVE SIDE WALKS ENDANGERING PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS WHO MUST BE IN THE ROAD #HIEF 4RANSPORTATION /FFICIAL *AIME 2ODRIGUEZ ADMITTED A SPEED SURVEY HAD NOT BEEN DONE ALONG THE CUT THROUGH ROUTES "UT HE ATTRIBUTED INCREASES TO A PERCENT OVERALL JUMP IN TRAFFIC THROUGHOUT THE CITY -ICHAEL DID NOT SEEM CONVINCED BY THE STAFF EXPLANATION h4HERE S SOMETHING GOING ON HERE WITH THIS CUT THROUGH ON -AYBELL !VENUE THAT S NOT REALLY REFLECTED IN WHAT WE SEE HERE v HE SAID OF THE STUDY (continued on page 11)

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In today’s active real estate market, whether you are a home buyer or seller, you will probably encounter the term “asisâ€? sale. An “as isâ€? home sale has been deďŹ ned overtime in lawsuits to mean that the buyer is taking the property in “as isâ€? disclosed condition. This includes all disclosures and inspections identiďŹ ed in the package received by the buyer under the contract. In California sellers have the obligation to disclose all known “materialâ€? defects to the property that would have some inuence on the decision-making process of a reasonable buyer. It is possible that a seller will have no knowledge about certain defects, or even that the professional inspector hired by the seller will fail to discover a serious defect. If you purchase the home and these defects show up later, you may not be able to take any legal action against the seller unless you can prove that the seller knew about the defects during the transaction.

The best way for a buyer to protect against a seller who does not disclose a serious defect or an inspector missing a serious defect is to have a home inspection contingency included in the purchase offer. Hire your own trusted professional inspectors and if serious defects are discovered during the inspections, follow up with specialty inspections and repair bids. If serious defects are discovered, a buyer with a home inspection contingency may ask the seller to repair the newly discovered defects, or alternatively may attempt to negotiate a price reduction with the seller. The seller of course is not obligated to make the repairs or reduce the sale price, but if the seller refuses, the buyer can back out of the transaction and request their deposit back before the contingency expires. While buying a home in ‘as-is’ condition may help you win the home you like, you may not want to buy a home with serious defects at a high price.

If you have a real estate question or would like a free market analysis for your home, please call me at 650-384-5392, Alain Pinel Realtors, or email me at scullen@apr.com. For the latest news, follow my blog at www.samiacullen.com.

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THEIR CONCERNS 3TAFF HE SAID HAS TRIED HARD TO RESPOND TO CONCERNS FROM THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY h) REALLY TAKE ISSUE WITH THIS CON STANT CHIME OF PEOPLE SAYING THEY HAVEN T BEEN HEARD v %SPINOSA SAID "URT WHO HAD SERVED ON THE PLAN NING COMMISSION BEFORE JOINING THE COUNCIL ATTRIBUTED THE HIGH LEVEL OF OPPOSITION TO hMISINFORMATIONv PUT OUT BY MERCHANTS h) REALLY DON T THINK ) VE EVER EN COUNTERED A PROJECT WHERE THERE S BEEN SO MUCH MISREPRESENTATION DISSEMINATED WHERE PEOPLE HEAR THINGS THAT ARE CLAIMS AND THEY TEND TO THINK THERE IS SOME TRUTH TO IT v "URT SAID 4HE ELEMENTS OF THE PROJECT THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED -ONDAY ADD ED ABOUT TO THE PROJECT S COST RAISING THE PRICE TAG TO MORE THAN MILLION 4HE CITY EXPECTS TO GET A MILLION GRANT FOR THE PROJECT FROM THE -ETROPOLITAN 4RANSPORTATION #OMMISSION AND SPEND OF ITS OWN MONEY FOR THE PROJECT 4HE BALANCE OF THE FUNDS WOULD COME FROM A VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEES PROGRAM ADMIN ISTRATED BY THE 3ANTA #LARA 6ALLEY 4RANSPORTATION !UTHORITY 7ITHOUT THE COUNCIL S COMMITMENT TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF LANES FROM FOUR TO TWO THE CITY WOULD HAVE LOST THE OP PORTUNITY TO APPLY FOR GRANT FUNDING FOR THE STREETSCAPE PROJECT ACCORD ING TO STAFF N 3TAFF 7RITER 'ENNADY 3HEYNER CAN BE EMAILED AT GSHEYNER PAWEEKLY COM TIONS TO UNFOLD ON A CONSTRUCTIVE TIMEFRAME v h)T SHOWS THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF REALLY GOOD FAITH DISCUSSIONS THAT OCCURRED v 9EH SAID 4HE 3%)5 S ACCEPTANCE OF THE CITY S PROPOSED PENSION AND HEALTH CARE REFORMS FOLLOWS SIMILAR CON CESSIONS MADE BY 0ALO !LTO S FIRE AND POLICE UNIONS 4HE CITY HAD LESS LUCK WITH THE CITY S 0OLICE -ANAGERS !SSOCIA TION WHICH IS MADE UP OF TWO PO LICE CAPTAINS AND FIVE LIEUTENANTS 4HE GROUP AGREED TO MOST OF THE CITY S PROPOSALS INCLUDING ITS IM PLEMENTATION OF A SECOND PENSION TIER FOR NEW EMPLOYEES %MPLOY EES IN THIS TIER WOULD FALL UNDER THE h PERCENT AT v FORMULA PERCENT OF SALARY FOR EVERY YEAR SERVED WITH RETIREMENT AT AGE AND THE PENSION AMOUNT WOULD BE (continued on page 9)

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BUT WOULD CREATE ONLY MINIMAL ENHANCEMENTS TO THE COURSE "UT MEMBERS AGREED EVEN THE MIL LION PRICE TAG IS A BARGAIN CONSIDER ING WHAT THE CITY WOULD BE GETTING FOR ITS MONEY NAMELY IMPROVED FLOOD PROTECTION A GOLF COURSE WITH A hWOWv FACTOR AND THREE NEW FULL SIZED ATHLETIC FIELDS #OUNCILMAN 0AT "URT CHANNELING THE CONSENSUS OPINION CALLED IT A hWIN WIN WIN WIN WINv SITUATION A CHANCE FOR THE CITY TO IMPROVE THE GOLF COURSE BOOST FLOOD PROTECTION PURSUE THE MOST FINANCIALLY LUCRA TIVE DESIGN OPEN THREE NEW PLAYING FIELDS AND BETTER INTEGRATE THE COURSE WITH ITS SURROUNDINGS h)T S GOING TO BE TURNED INTO AN EXCITING COURSE THAT HAS A NATURAL HABITAT AND WILL BECOME INTEGRATED WITH THE "AYLANDS AND BE PART OF THE "AYLANDS RATHER THAN APART FROM THE "AYLANDS AS IT IS TODAY v "URT SAID 4HE OPTION ENTAILS REMOVING ACRES FROM THE ACRE COURSE AND PUTTING ON THIS LAND THREE ATHLETIC FIELDS A SMALL PLAYGROUND A WET

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LANDS PARK AND PICNIC SPACE 4HE COUNCIL S DECISION TO PUR SUE /PTION ' WAS SUPPORTED BY AN ANALYSIS FROM THE CONSULTING FIRM .'& #ONSULTING WHICH PROJECTED THIS OPTION WOULD HAVE THE HIGH EST RETURN ON INVESTMENT OVER TIME 5NDER THE FIRM S ESTIMATE THE GOLF COURSE WOULD RUN AT A DEFICIT OF IN AND IN THE YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION !FTER THAT THE COURSE S BOTTOM LINE WOULD GRADUALLY RISE REACH ING IN 5NDER THE MOST PESSIMISTIC SCENARIO ONE IN WHICH THE GOLFER FEES AND THE NUM BER OF ROUNDS PLAYED BOTH DROP THE COURSE WOULDN T START MAKING MONEY UNTIL .OT EVERYONE HOWEVER BOUGHT THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT 4HE CITY S 'OLF !DVISORY #OMMITTEE QUESTIONED .'& S ANALYSIS AND URGED THE COUN CIL TO APPROVE THE MORE CONSERVATIVE /PTION $ 'OLFERS WERE PARTICULARLY PUT OFF BY THE COSTS THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO SHOULDER THROUGH THEIR PLAY ING FEES #RAIG !LLEN PRESIDENT OF THE 0ALO !LTO 'OLF #LUB SAID HE WOULD HAPPILY PLAY ON THE REDESIGNED GOLF COURSE BUT URGED THE COUNCIL NOT TO FORCE THE GOLFERS TO FOOT THE BILL FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT h9OU RE ASKING THE GOLFER TO PAY FOR ATHLETIC FIELDS v !LLEN SAID h) THINK IT S INAPPROPRIATE v "UT OTHERS PRAISED THE MOST AM BITIOUS OPTION AS BY FAR THE MOST BENEFICIAL 4HE CITY S 0ARKS AND 2ECREATION #OMMISSION HAD VOTED TO SUPPORT /PTION ' 3O DID THE COUNCIL S &INANCE #OMMITTEE

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4HE 0ALO !LTO #ITY #OUNCIL APPROVED PLAN TO REDESIGN THE 0ALO !LTO -UNICIPAL 'OLF #OURSE KNOWN AS h/PTION ' v CALLS FOR MOVING AT LEAST OF THE COURSE S HOLES ADDING THREE SPORTS FIELDS AND CREATING A NEW LEVEE TO BOLSTER FLOOD PROTECTION AROUND THE 3AN &RANCISQUITO #REEK 3OME MEMBERS SHARED THE GOLF ERS CONCERNS ABOUT THE PROJECT S COST PARTICULARLY IF THE CONSULTANTS PROJECTIONS ABOUT THE GOLF COURSE S FUTURE REVENUES DON T PAN OUT #OUN CILWOMAN +AREN (OLMAN SAID SHE D BE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH AN OPTION THAT DOESN T REQUIRE THE CITY TO TAKE ON LONG TERM DEBT -AYOR 9IAWAY 9EH SAID HE S EX CITED TO ADD RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNI TIES TO THE "AYLANDS BUT ENCOURAGED HIS COLLEAGUES TO START CONSIDERING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WAYS TO PAY FOR THE ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS %VEN

WITH THE FINANCIAL UNCERTAINTY 9EH PRAISED CITY S DECISION TO INVEST IN THE GOLF COURSE #OUNCILMAN ,ARRY +LEIN SAID THE BIGGER RISK WOULD BE NOT TO PURSUE /PTION ' h7E HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO IN EFFECT CREATE ACRES OF LAND FOR MILLION OR SO v +LEIN SAID +LEIN ESTIMATED THAT IT WOULD COST SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MILLION AND MILLION TO BUY AN ACRE OF LAND FOR ATHLETIC FIELDS ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY (E CALLED THE MILLION EXPEN DITURES A hGOOD DEAL v N

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Careening car narrowly misses infant in bassinet !N OUT OF CONTROL CAR CRASHED INTO TWO HOMES IN %AST 0ALO !LTO EARLY 4HURSDAY MORNING *ULY INCLUDING ONE WHERE AN INFANT WAS SLEEP ING IN A BASSINET %AST 0ALO !LTO POLICE SAID (Posted July 26 at 9:24 a.m.)

Palo Alto 11-year-old competes on ‘Jeopardy!’ !N YEAR OLD FROM 0ALO !LTO IS AMONG hWHIZ KIDSv TO BE FEA TURED NEXT WEEK *ULY THROUGH !UG ON THE TELEVISION SHOW h*EOP ARDY +IDS 7EEK v (Posted July 26 at 9:02 a.m.)

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BASED ON THE AVERAGE OF THREE HIGH EST YEARS #URRENT EMPLOYEES WOULD KEEP THE EXISTING h PERCENT AT v FORMULA AND THEIR PENSIONS WOULD CONTINUE TO BE BASED ON THE SINGLE HIGHEST YEAR 0OLICE MANAGERS ALSO AGREED TO HAVE ACTIVE EMPLOYEES CONTRIBUTE PERCENT TOWARD HEALTH CARE COSTS "UT THE SIDES HIT AN IMPASSE WHEN IT CAME TO HEALTH CARE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR RETIREES -UCH LIKE THE 0ALO !LTO 0OLICE /FFICERS !SSOCIATION WHICH REPRESENTS MOST OF THE OFFICERS IN THE DEPARTMENT THE MANAGERS RE

JECTED THE CITY S ATTEMPT TO HAVE RE TIREES PAY PERCENT OF THEIR MEDI CAL COSTS 5NLIKE THE LARGER POLICE UNION THE MANAGERS GROUP DID NOT REQUEST THAT THE CITY PROCEED WITH A FACT FINDING PROCEDURE TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE IN DISPUTE 7ITH THE MANAGERS UNION NOT MOVING ON THE ISSUE OF RETIREES HEALTH CARE CONTRIBUTIONS THE #ITY #OUNCIL ON -ONDAY VOTED WITH 3CHARFF ABSENT TO IMPOSE THESE CONDITIONS UNILATERALLY /FFICIALS NOTED IN THE REPORT THAT THE POLICE MANAGERS GROUP ISSUED SEVERAL PRO POSALS BUT THAT NONE OF THESE PRO POSALS REQUIRED RETIREES TO PAY FOR HEALTH CARE h4HE CITY REJECTED THOSE PROPOS

ALS ON THE BASIS THAT THE CITY SEEKS A CONSISTENT AND EQUITABLE APPROACH TO STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE RETIREE MEDICAL BENEFIT AND EXEMPTING ONE UNIT OF HIGHLY PAID MANAGERS FROM MODEST COST SHARE DOES NOT MEET THE #ITY S PHILOSOPHICAL OR ECO NOMIC GOALS v (UMAN 2ESOURCES $IRECTOR +ATHRYN 3HEN STATED IN A REPORT 4HOUGH #OUNCILMAN 'REG 3CHMID CALLED IT hUNFORTUNATEv THAT THE CITY WASN T ABLE TO AGREE ON EVERY ISSUE WITH THE POLICE MANAGERS GROUP HE AGREED THAT THE CITY SHOULD GO FOR WARD WITH IMPOSING THE CONDITIONS 4HE CITY AND THE UNION HAVE ALREADY MET TIMES BUT COULD NOT REACH AN AGREEMENT N

! -ENLO 0ARK MAN IS FACING MULTIPLE FELONY CHARGES AFTER HE ALLEG EDLY ASSAULTED A WOMAN AND ANOTHER MAN OUTSIDE A 0ALO !LTO HOME AND ATTEMPTED TO RUN THE MAN DOWN WITH HIS TRUCK 0ALO !LTO POLICE SAID

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Rent notices stir fears in East Palo Alto %AST 0ALO !LTO S LARGEST LANDLORD HAS ISSUED HUNDREDS OF THREE DAY NOTICES TO PAY RENT TO ITS TENANTS IN THE 7OODLAND 0ARK NEIGHBORHOOD IN RECENT MONTHS SPARKING CONCERN AMONG CITY OFFICIALS ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF RESIDENTS GETTING EVICTED (Posted July 25 at 9:51 a.m.)

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Staff cuts, fee hikes for animal shelter 0ALO !LTO S ANIMAL SHELTER MAY HAVE BEEN SAVED FROM THE CHOPPING BLOCK LAST MONTH BUT THE CITY S CASH STRAPPED ANIMAL SERVICES OPERA TION WILL SOON SEE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES INCLUDING HIGHER FEES AND FEWER STAFF MEMBERS UNDER A PROPOSAL THE #ITY #OUNCIL APPROVED -ONDAY NIGHT *ULY (Posted July 24 at 11:53 a.m.)

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3TANFORD 5NIVERSITY ,AW 3CHOOL ANNOUNCED THE HIRING OF -ARY %LIZ ABETH -AGILL AS ITS NEW DEAN 4UESDAY *ULY -AGILL SWITCHES COASTS WITH HER NEW POSITION LEAVING THE 5NIVERSITY OF 6IRGINIA 3CHOOL OF ,AW WHERE SHE SERVED AS THE VICE DEAN (Posted July 24 at 11:46 a.m.) ,ONGTIME "AY !REA FIXTURE 0EET S #OFFEE 4EA )NC WILL BE SOLD TO A 'ERMAN COMPANY FOR BILLION THE %MERYVILLE BASED COMPANY ANNOUNCED IN A STATEMENT -ONDAY 0EETS HAS SEVERAL LOCATIONS IN 0ALO !LTO (Posted July 24 at 11:18 a.m.)

VIDEO: EcoCenter opens at Palo Alto Baylands /N 3UNDAY *ULY THE YEAR OLD NONPROFIT %NVIRONMENTAL 6OLUN TEERS OPENED ITS NEW HEADQUARTERS THE %CO#ENTER IN THE FORMER 3EA 3COUT BUILDING FOLLOWING AN EIGHT YEAR MILLION EFFORT TO RESTORE IT 6IDEO BY 3IERRA $UREN 0ALO !LTO /NLINE (Posted July 24 at 9:23 a.m.)

Menlo Park squirrel infected with West Nile virus ! GRAY SQUIRREL TRAPPED BY THE COUNTY IN -ENLO 0ARK HAS TESTED POSI TIVE FOR THE 7EST .ILE VIRUS 3AN -ATEO #OUNTY OFFICIALS SAID -ONDAY *ULY (Posted July 23 at 3:16 p.m.)

PG&E pipeline replacement disrupts traffic $ISRUPTIONS TO 0ALO !LTO TRAFFIC CONTINUE AS 0' % WORKERS INSPECT GAS LINES RUNNING BENEATH THE CITY #HARLESTON 2OAD -IRANDA !VENUE AND THE INTERSECTION OF %MBARCADERO 2OAD AND %AST "AYSHORE 2OAD ARE AMONG THE AFFECTED AREAS (Posted July 23 at 9:48 a.m.)

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THE COMMON LAW 'ARDNER WROTE THIS EXEMPTION hAPPLIED ONLY TO THE UNAVAILABLE WITNESS WHO HAD MADE STATEMENTS OR GIVEN A TESTIMONY AT A PRIOR PROCEEDING v 'ARDNER WROTE THAT 3CHIPSI HAD NOT TESTIFIED OR MADE STATEMENTS AGAINST :UMOT AT ANY PRIOR PROCEEDING h!DMISSION OF THE UNCONFRONTED HEARSAY WAS THEREFORE NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE FORFEITURE BY WRONGDOING EXCEPTION v 'ARDNER WROTE IN THE APPEAL h"ECAUSE -R :UMOT HAD NO OPPORTUNITY TO CONFRONT THIS EVI DENCE ADMISSION OF THE EVIDENCE VIOLATED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION v 4HE STATEMENTS INCLUDE COMMENTS 3CHIPSI MADE TO 0ALO !LTO POLICE OF FICERS IN !UGUST SHORTLY AFTER SHE AND :UMOT HAD A FIGHT 3HE TOLD THE OFFICERS ABOUT :UMOT S hSHADY THOUGHT PROCESSv AND hINFATUATION WITH MURDERv AND ASKED FOR AN EMER GENCY RESTRAINING ORDER WHICH WAS GRANTED 3HE ALSO TOLD POLICE THAT :UMOT HAD PLANNED TO BURN DOWN HIS 5NIVERSITY !VENUE HOOKAH SHOP $A (OOKAH 3POT AND COLLECT THE IN SURANCE MONEY 'ARDNER ALSO ARGUED THAT TESTIMO NY ABOUT :UMOT S HISTORY OF DOMES TIC VIOLENCE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN USED TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE HAD KILLED 3CHIPSI 4HE PROSECUTION S EX TENSIVE DISCUSSION OF :UMOT S PRIOR INCIDENTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COU PLED WITH WHAT 'ARDNER CALLED THE JUDGE S hCONFLICTING INSTRUCTIONSv TO THE JURY ABOUT HOW THIS EVIDENCE CAN BE USED VIOLATED DUE PROCESS THE APPEAL STATES 'ARDNER WROTE THAT IT IS hUNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZED THAT ER RONEOUS ADMISSION OF UNCHARGED OF FENSES IS HIGHLY PREJUDICIAL v h4HIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE HERE v THE APPEAL STATES h4HE STATE S CASE RESTED ALMOST ENTIRELY ON THE PRIOR INCIDENTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH EVIDENCE THAT -R :UMOT AND -S 3CHIPSI ARGUED ON THE DAY SHE WAS KILLED 4HE DEFENSE CASE RESTED ALMOST ENTIRELY ON -R :UMOT S TESTIMONY THAT HE WAS COM PLETELY INNOCENT AND HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH -S 3CHIPSI S MURDER %VI DENCE THAT -R :UMOT HAD PRIOR IN CIDENTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INVOLV ING HIS GIRLFRIEND -S 3CHIPSI FROM WHICH THE JURY COULD INFER HE WAS GUILTY OF MURDER WAS DEVASTATING TO HIS CASE v 'ARDNER IS ALSO ARGUING THAT #E NA S INSTRUCTIONS TO THE JURY HAD hUN DERCUT THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND THE RIGHT TO PROOF BEYOND A REA SONABLE DOUBT v 4HE COURT 'ARDNER WROTE TOLD THE JURY THAT THE PROSE CUTION HAD TO PROVE THAT :UMOT WAS INVOLVED IN THE PRIOR INCIDENTS BY A hPREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCEv STAN DARD ˆ A LOWER BAR THAN THE hBE YOND THE REASONABLE DOUBTv STANDARD REQUIRED FOR A MURDER CONVICTION 4HE COURT ALSO INSTRUCTED THE JURY THAT ONCE THE PROSECUTION HAS PROVEN THE PRIOR INCIDENTS THE JURY COULD INFER FROM THESE INCIDENTS WHETHER THE DEFENDANT IS LIKELY TO COMMIT AND hDID COMMITv MURDER 4HE JURY 'ARDNER WROTE hWAS EFFECTIVELY TOLD THAT THE FINDING OF CRIMINAL DISPO SITION ˆ FROM WHICH GUILT COLD BE INFERRED ˆ NEED ONLY TO BE PROVED BY A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE v

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No settlement in high-speed-rail lawsuit

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Palo Alto government action this week

Public Art Commission (July 19)

Website design: The commission voted to approve up to $2,000 for its website design. Yes: Collins, Ross, Tobak, Usich, Walsh Absent: Ambrose, Richter Budget: The commission voted to approve up to $1,000 for its enews service, and $500 for permitting, materials and artist costs for two temporary art installations. The funds will be matched by arts network Zero 1. The commission also voted to approve $4,250 for framing and repairs of the Skyhook Boca Raton art piece and $1,000 for permitting fees for its Talenthouse art project. Yes: Collins, Ross, Tobak, Usich, Walsh Absent: Ambrose, Richter

City Council (July 23)

Labor: The council approved a new contract with the 580 employees represented by the Service Employees International Union, Labor 521. The council also imposed a new contract on the seven-member Police Managers Association. Yes: Burt, Espinosa, Holman, Klein, Price, Schmid, Shepherd, Yeh Absent: Scharff California Avenue: The council approved the latest design elements for the California Avenue streetscape plan, including wider sidewalks and a new plaza. The council also rejected a trial period for lane reduction on California Avenue. Yes: Unanimous Animals: The council approved a plan to raise fees and cut 2.6 full-time-equivalent positions in the city’s animal-services division. Yes: Unanimous

Parks and Recreation Commission (July 24)

27 University Ave.: The commission deferred a vote on relocation of the historic Julia Morgan building to the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course and directed staff to get more information about the development proposed for the site at 27 University Ave. Action: None

Planning and Transportation Commission (July 25)

Arastradero: The commission voted to make permanent the recently modified lane configuration on Arastradero Road. Yes: Fineberg, Keller, Martinez, Michael, Tanaka Absent: Tuma

Council Rail Committee (July 26)

Funding: The committee directed staff to draft proposed modifications to Senate Bill 1029, the appropriation bill for high-speed rail. Yes: Burt, Klein, Scharff Absent: Shepherd

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week The City Council has no meetings scheduled this week. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD... The board is tentatively scheduled to discuss the Regional Bike Sharing Program proposed by the city and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. The program includes bike kiosks and docking stations downtown and on California Avenue. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 2, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

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Woman allegedly steals jewelry while man sleeps ! MAN WHO BEFRIENDED A WOMAN AT 0ALO !LTO S NONPROFIT /PPORTUNITY #ENTER WAS ROBBED OF TO WORTH OF JEWELRY AS HE SLEPT 0ALO !LTO POLICE SAID h)T WAS BASICALLY A BOY MEETS GIRL BOY INVITES GIRL INTO HIS ROOM BOY FALLS ASLEEP AND GIRL TAKES JEWELRYv STORY 3GT #ON -ALONEY SAID 4HE RESIDENT TOLD POLICE HE MET THE WOMAN ON &RIDAY *ULY AT ABOUT A M AS HE WAS RETURNING TO THE CENTER AT %NCINA !VE 4HE /P PORTUNITY #ENTER PROVIDES COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES TO HOMELESS AND AT RISK PERSONS INCLUDING SOME RESIDENTIAL HOUSING 4HE WOMAN TOLD THE RESIDENT SHE WAS THERE TO VISIT FRIENDS BUT COULD NOT GET INTO THE BUILDING 4HE MAN LET HER INTO THE BUILDING BUT WHEN HER FRIENDS DID NOT ANSWER THEIR DOOR THE MAN BEFRIENDED HER 4HE VICTIM ALLOWED THE WOMAN TO STAY IN HIS ROOM AND COOKED DINNER FOR HER (E FELL ASLEEP AT ABOUT A M HE TOLD POLICE 4HE MAN AWOKE AROUND NOON TO FIND THE WOMAN WAS GONE AND SO WAS THE JEWELRY WHICH INCLUDED GOLD CHAINS PENDANTS EARRINGS AND A COLLECTOR S EDITION 2OLEX WATCH 4HE WOMAN IS DESCRIBED AS A TO YEAR OLD !FRICAN !MERICAN WITH STRAIGHT BLACK HAIR BROWN EYES AND A SLENDER BUILD 3HE IS FEET INCHES TO FEET INCHES TALL AND BETWEEN TO POUNDS 3HE WORE A LONG SLEEVED SHIRT BLUE JEANS AND CARRIED A SMALL WHITE HANDBAG N ˆ 3UE $REMANN

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(E SAID HE WAS TEMPTED TO ADD AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMMISSION VOTE TO REQUIRE A NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC SURVEY WHICH WOULD EXTEND THE ROAD TEST FOR SEVERAL MONTHS (E ASKED 2ODRIGUEZ TO COMMIT TO A STUDY WITHOUT THE FORMAL AMENDMENT 2ODRIGUEZ AGREED SAYING IT WOULD BE PART OF AN ANALYSIS COMPLETED FOR THE CITY S 0EDESTRIAN AND "ICYCLE -ASTER 0LAN (E HAS ALREADY RECOM MENDED THAT THE BIKE BOULEVARD DE SIGN ALONG -AYBELL !VENUE BE ACCEL ERATED BECAUSE IT ALREADY FUNCTIONS AS A BICYCLE BOULEVARD HE SAID #OMMISSIONER 'REG 4ANAKA SAID -AYBELL !VENUE HAS THREE SPEED TABLES AND TWO STOP SIGNS TO SLOW TRAFFIC AND HE ASKED ABOUT WHAT OTHER MEASURES COULD BE ADDED TO SLOW TRAFFIC DOWN 2ODRIGUEZ SAID A COMBINATION OF SPEED BUMPS AND STRIPING MIGHT BE PART OF A DESIGN "UT IT WASN T JUST DIVERTED TRAFFIC THAT SOME RESIDENTS SAID THEY DIS LIKED ABOUT THE !RASTRADERO PLAN 2ESIDENT *OSEPH (IRSCH S MORN ING COMMUTE ALONG !RASTRADERO HAS GONE FROM ABOUT MINUTES TO AT LEAST HE SAID (E ASKED THAT THE CHANGES NOT BE APPROVED UNTIL THERE ARE IMPROVEMENTS ALONG %L #AMINO 2EAL WHICH CITY STAFF HAVE POINTED TO AS CAUSING BACKUPS ALONG #HARLESTON !RASTRADERO 4HE #ALI FORNIA $EPARTMENT OF 4RANSPORTA TION #ALTRANS IS IN CHARGE OF %L #AMINO AND ANY DESIGN IMPROVE MENTS TO THE STATE HIGHWAY ARE UNDER #ALTRANS AUTHORITY HOWEVER "ARBARA &REEMAN A $ONALD $RIVE RESIDENT SINCE SAID SHE DOES NOT FEEL SAFE CROSSING !RASTRADERO

NOW -OVING TRAFFIC THROUGH MORE CONSISTENTLY HAS NOT IMPROVED PE DESTRIAN SAFETY SHE SAID h4RAFFIC USED TO GO LIKE SCHOOLS OF FISH .OW IT S LIKE ONE UNRELENTING FREIGHT TRAIN v SHE SAID 3OME RESIDENTS SAID THE TRIAL HAS ACCOMPLISHED ITS GOALS CHIEF OF WHICH IS TO IMPROVE SAFETY 4HEY POINTED TO THE REDUCED NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS THE STUDY SHOWED FOR VE HICLES BICYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS h7E MUST REMEMBER THE PURPOSE OF THIS TRIAL PERIOD v SAID "ETTY ,UM A 3UZANNE $RIVE RESIDENT SINCE .INA "ELL TOLD THE COMMISSION SHE SUPPORTS THE CHANGES PARTICU LARLY THE ADDITION OF SHARED LEFT TURN LANES h7ITH THE CENTER TURN LANE ) NO LONGER HAVE TO WAIT IN FEAR OF SOME ONE REAR ENDING ME WHEN THEY COME UP FROM BEHIND v SHE SAID %LIZABETH !LEXIS SAID THE STUDY SHOWED A PERCENT REDUCTION IN FAST VEHICLE SPEEDS WHICH WERE ABOVE MPH h3LOWING CARS SAVES LIVES )F YOU ARE HIT AT MPH YOU ARE PROBABLY

DEAD v SHE SAID CITING STUDIES #OMMISSIONER %DUARDO -ARTINEZ SAID HE WAS STRUCK BY THE POLARIZA TION AMONG RESIDENTS h) M HOPING THAT WE SEE THE VALUE OF WHAT THE CITY HAS ATTEMPTED TO DO AND THAT THE CITY WILL CONTINUE TO DOv TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF SCHOOL CHILDREN HE SAID #OMMISSIONER !RTHUR +ELLER AGREED h!RASTRADERO 2OAD PRIOR TO THE TRI AL WAS A RACEWAY ! FOUR LANE STREET WITHOUT LEFT TURN LANES IS SIMPLY NOT ACCEPTABLE ) THINK THERE S ENOUGH IMPROVEMENT IN THE TRIAL TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS v HE SAID 4HE COMMISSIONERS ASKED STAFF TO WORK WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO INCREASE ENFORCEMENT ALONG !RASTRA DERO AND IN "ARRON 0ARK ON -AYBELL !VENUE AND -ATADERO WHERE RESI DENTS COMPLAINED OF SPEEDING h)T MAKES SENSE TO INCREASE LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTICULARLY FOCUSING IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR v +ELLER SAID N 3TAFF 7RITER 3UE $REMANN CAN BE EMAILED AT SDREMANN PAWEEK LY COM

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Dorothy R. McGrew Resident of Palo Alto

Passed away peacefully at home from congestive heart failure at the age of 98 with her family surrounding her. Predeceased by her beloved husband of 50 years, William B. McGrew. She is survived by her children Judy Eda, Jane McGrew, and Jerry McGrew, by her grandchildren Maria Winkler (Paton Lewis) and Paul Winkler (Abby Fleischer), and by her great-granddaughter, Riley Winkler. She was a loving wife, mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend who opened her heart to all. Dorothy was a faithful member of First Methodist Church and a member of P.E.O. for 50 years. She will be truly missed and will be re-

membered for her many acts of loving kindness and service. Our memories of her will remain in our hearts forever. A memorial service is scheduled for July 27, 2012, at 1:00pm in the chapel at First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto. In lieu of owers, a donation to P.E.O. or a charity of your choice would be appreciated. PA I D

OBITUARY

Miriam Eller Bjornson Miriam Eller Bjornson, 93, died in Palo Alto on July 18, 2012. Born on an Iowa farm, Miriam will be remembered as an enthusiastic, vibrant “mover and shaker.� She and her husband Harold lived in Oakland, CA, Waterloo, IA, McMinnville, OR, and Palo Alto, CA where Harold served in American Baptist churches as Senior Pastor. Miriam was a teacher’s aide for hearing-impaired junior high students in Palo Alto public schools. Miriam held many leadership roles: national president of American Baptist Ministers’ Wives; featured speaker (with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) at the 1954 national convention of American Baptist Churches; board member of ABC’s National Ministries; chair of the American Baptist Service Corporation; board member, then president, of American Baptist Churches of the West. At Pilgrim Haven Retirement Community in Los Altos, CA, where Harold served as Chaplain until his death, Miriam served as VP of the Resident Association, as President, as Chair of the Arts Committee, and

on Pilgrim Haven’s Foundation Board. A member of Los Altos Art Association, Miriam enjoyed painting landscapes in oil and watercolor. In 2001, Miriam married Charles Walker, enjoying nine years together in Pilgrim Haven until his death in 2010. Miriam is survived by daughters Mary, Joyce, and Anita; stepdaughter Kathy; 6 grandchildren; and 7 great grandchildren. Donations in Miriam’s memory may be made to the Harold and Miriam Bjornson Scholarship Fund, American Baptist Seminary of the West, 2606 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA 94704. A memorial service will be held Sunday, August 19, at 2:30 PM at the Terraces at Los Altos (formerly Pilgrim Haven). PA I D

OBITUARY

David Negrin died July 21 at the Palo Alto VA Hospice Center, surrounded by his family and loved ones. He was 87. He was born and raised in New York City, N.Y., and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, where he was involved in the invasion of Normandy. He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from NYU. He held managerial positions in several companies, the longest being IBM, where he worked for 24 years. He loved giving back to his community and was an active member in the Palo Alto Rotary, Palo Alto Arts Commission, Leadership Palo Alto, SCORE, The Experience Corps, Literacy Program for Immigrants and the ACLU, where he served on the board. He enjoyed working in the darkroom, playing tennis and bridge, and traveling with his wife to exotic places ranging from Antarctica to Bhutan. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Shirley Negrin; children, Lenore Arnberg, Alison Negrin and Robert Negrin; sons-in-law, Thomas Prytz and Kevin Barnett; daughter-in-law, Bonnie Goodman; brother, Norman Negrin; and three grandchildren. A memorial service will be held Friday, July 27, at 11 a.m. at Congregation Beth Am, 26790 Arastradero Road, Los Altos Hills. In lieu of flowers he has requested that donations be made to Congregation Beth Am (www.betham.org) or The Palo Alto Rotary (www.rotarypaloalto. org).

Elaine Windrich Political scientist and scholar Elaine Windrich died in Redwood City, Calif., on July 18 from complications of emphysema. She was 90. She was born Elaine Windreich in

San Francisco on Nov. 29, 1921, the daughter of Sam and Ruth (Miller) Windreich. Her father, who worked as a salesman, was a native of Austria; her mother was from California. She earned three degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, culminating with a Ph.D. in 1947. Her dissertation topic was British foreign policy during the Spanish Civil War. She was an assistant professor of political science at Stanford from 1948 to 1953. She moved to London to be a lecturer at the University of London and served as a research officer for the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1959 to 1964. She returned to Stanford as a visiting scholar from 1973 to 1980 and lived in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1984, serving as a consultant to Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust and the Ministry of Information. She was also a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, for several years before retiring at Stanford. She authored “The British Labour Party’s Foreign Policy� (Stanford University Press, 1953), “The Rhodesian Problem: A Documentary Record� (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975), “Britain and the Politics of Rhodesian Independence� (Holmes & Meier, 1978), “The Mass Media and the Struggle for Zimbabwe� (Mambo Press, 1981) and “The Cold War Guerrilla: Jona Savimbi, the U.S. Media, and the Angolan War� (Greenwood Press, 1992). She is survived by her brother, Leland Windreich of Vancouver, Canada; and many friends and colleagues. Memorial donations may be made to the Memorial Fund, Stanford University Libraries; the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University; or Amnesty International, USA.

February 9, 1933-July 21, 2012

Aug. 1, 1912-Aug. 24, 1973 ful she was our mother. She would be so proud of her children, and the Grands and great Grands. We all love our mom.� Abike’ shares this thought, To Clara Dell, a truly wonderfully insightful human being and mother. We remember you now and honor your memory.� George, remarks, Moms would feed all the kids when the came home for lunch with us from school. She was a great motivatior for any one she spoke with. She was very active in her church and taught Sunday school. George, Velva, Abike’, James and Cathy. “God hath not promised skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through; God hath not promised sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, peace without pain. But God hath promised strength for the day....� PA I D

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Clara Dell Marshall Our mother was born 100 years ago, in a place called Bagley, Louisiana (near Shrevesport), on Aug. 1, 1912, to the Reverend James A. and Gertrude Wilkes. She was a sister to ďŹ ve siblings, a loving wife to husband Mike Marshall, a great mother to nine offspring (a total of 16 were born to this union of our parents). We all have lifelong memories of our loving mother. Here are some of our most cherished memories, beginning with Cathy’s: “My favorite memory of my beautiful mother is that she was always willing to see each of us as an individual. Once you told her what you wanted to do, she took steps to help you attain your goal.â€? Velva remembers the all around teaching of caregiving, cooking, sewing and gardening. “I remember the way she organized a community garden project that was talked about for years and was so popular with all the neighborhood.â€? Let’s not forget, Mom sure knew how to wear a “fancy hat.â€? James says, “What I remember most is that Mom was Kind and Loving and always tried to help others! She taught me so much! I’m thank-

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MEMORIAL

Arnold L. Cooley, who was a prominent executive in Silicon Valley, died July 21 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He was 79. Mr. Cooley was born in Palo Alto, California in 1933 and was a member of the Cooley family that founded San Carlos Airport and the original Ravenswood Ranch that is now part of Cooley Landing Park. He attended Palo Alto High School and later served in the U.S. Army in Japan during the Korean War. Upon his return he embarked on a 35-year career in Silicon Valley, including 25 years as a leading executive in the hard disc storage industry before retiring to northern Idaho. Mr. Cooley is survived by his wife of 35 years, Barbara Cooley, and his son Brian Cooley, 50. PA I D

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Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

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Menlo Park July 19-25 Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Vehicle related Abandoned auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .7 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Alcohol or drug related Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Atherton July 19-25 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Vehicle related Abandoned auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

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Violence related Armed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Vehicle related Abandoned auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . .6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 11 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 10 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Liquor law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Miscellaneous Animal call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . .2 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .2 Terrorist threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Suspicious vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .1 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .1 Vehicle code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Miscellaneous Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Hazard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Pedestrian check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Shots fired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .1 Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Tree blocking roadway . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Watermain break. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Welfare check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto 0 block Encina Avenue, 7/20, 12:48 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. Unlisted block Emerson Street, 7/22, 11:58 a.m.; domestic violence. Unlisted block Curtner Avenue, 7/23, 12:50 a.m.; domestic violence/battery. Unlisted block Mackay Drive, 7/23, 11:24 a.m.; domestic violence/battery. 100 block Monroe Drive, 7/23, 2:24 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. Unlisted block University Avenue, 7/23, 7:58 p.m.; elder abuse. 0 block Encina Avenue, 7/24, 10:31 a.m.; armed robbery.

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Editorial

A pair of strong City Council decisions With purpose and decisiveness, Palo Alto council moves forward with major improvements for California Avenue and the golf course t is infrequent when one can celebrate decisiveness in process-obsessed Palo Alto, but Monday night’s City Council meeting demonstrated that the current council is ready and willing to leave some constituents unhappy in order to move forward with important projects after doing their homework. It probably didn’t hurt that the meeting was the last before the monthlong summer break and was packed with decision items, requiring that discussions be focused and efficient. And in the case of both improvements to California Avenue and the golf course, deadlines outside of the city’s control created pressure to act. Bold change is not easy for many Palo Altans, and both of these issues will bring major changes to two important areas of the community. On California Avenue, the council stuck by its many earlier decisions and approved an exciting renovation plan that includes reducing the street to two lanes, widening sidewalks, improving public spaces and creating an environment that will benefit both businesses and shoppers. Sadly, a combination of poor early city staff outreach, the disastrous tree-cutting and a great deal of fear among local merchants, fueled by misinformation, made this an unnecessarily controversial and contentious project. Lawsuits challenging the process achieved nothing but delay and fomented additional tensions between some business owners and the city. In reality, the plan is consistent with and significantly better than what the leaders of the merchant opposition themselves had previously supported. The lane reduction from four to two lanes, contrary to what many merchants have been led to believe, has been part of the plan for years and was developed and endorsed by the area’s association of merchants and property owners. It is grossly unfair and wrong for opponents to pretend this was prompted by grant funding being available, as has been repeatedly argued. In the end, the merchants opposing the plan decided they liked everything but the lane reduction, which they feared would create congestion and drive away customers. They asked for a trial period of temporary markings to test the impact of only two lanes, but the council rejected that plan as unnecessary and of little value, believing a temporary re-striping would create confusion, not reflect any of the benefits of a permanent reconfiguration, and result in little or no useful data. They were right to do so. All traffic data and the experiences of other retail-oriented streets similar to California Avenue that have gone from four to two lanes point to this being an easy decision. In fact, no one has been able to find an example of where a lane reduction has hurt local merchants, and there are many cases where it has contributed to great retail revitalization. The lesson learned from this issue is that a natural fear of change and a lack of trust and confidence in the government are strong motivators to action, even when the facts and data don’t support it. We are huge supporters of California Avenue businesses, especially since moving our offices to the district almost three years ago and experiencing on a daily basis the area’s special qualities. The plan approved this week by the council will support the district’s continued evolution into a treasured community shopping and dining area and is long overdue. The golf course project has generated less controversy, primarily because it surfaced indirectly as a result of a flood-control project undertaken by the multi-city agency charged with reducing the risk of San Francisquito Creek going over its banks. With that agency offering Palo Alto $3.2 million to redesign and rebuild parts of the golf course that would be affected by the construction of new levees adjacent to the course, the city developed a range of options, from doing the minimum required to supplementing the funding and undertaking a major and long overdue overhaul of the course. The council unanimously opted for the most ambitious plan, which will add $4.3 million in cost and result in a major course redesign and the construction of three new playing fields to the Baylands Athletic Center. In spite of some complaining from golfers about future higher green fees to pay for the project, this was clearly the best option and one that will rescue the tired and uninspired golf course and create needed new athletic fields in addition to reducing flood risks in north Palo Alto. Both of these projects are great examples of long-term community investments that will pay for themselves many times over yet that so often are beaten back by the Palo Alto process and indecision. Especially in today’s environment of operating budget constraints, the council is to be commended for moving forward with these important improvements. N

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Support trial reduction Editor, Our business has been on California Avenue for 15 years. For us, the “process� and discussions surrounding the plans for California Avenue have been frustrating. We feel as though we talk, the city hears, but no one really listens. We are dismayed by the negativity and frankly, unacceptable lack of civility that we have personally witnessed and read on both sides of the issue. It is confusing that, as a community, we can’t disagree without being disagreeable. We have always and will continue to support the upgrades to safety and aesthetics that this business district has long needed, and we believe that almost all of the upgrades can be accomplished without a lane reduction. There are many opponents to the reduction. Fifty-five merchants and businesses went on the record supporting the plan — except for the lane reduction. Others opposed the reduction but for many reasons felt they could not go on the record. There has been no clear explanation on how the lane reduction will support development in the area as it relates to this district being designated a pedestrian- and transit-oriented development. This designation will increase business and residential density, while at the same time, constrict access? It would be safer to divert the majority of bicycle traffic off California Avenue and onto a quieter street. We make this statement as bicycle riders. This is a business district with autos, delivery trucks and buses. The city agrees. That explains why Bryant Street, not Middlefield, is the major crosstown bike artery in Palo Alto. Yet, they push California Avenue as a major bike thoroughfare. Many in the City are angry because a group of citizens have taken legal action as a final recourse (we are not a part of any legal action, but certainly understand the right to do so). The irony is that after unanimously supporting highspeed rail, our city decided to take legal action and protect its rights when the ongoing debates about the credibility of the HSR “plan� came to light. We feel as though a trial reduction is realistic and necessary. It should not be the $60,000 or so it might cost — take a look at the contract the city offered the designer of the project; put a 3 in front of the $60,000 — that should give us all pause. We sincerely appeal to the city and residents to support a trial. The reality is that if the lane reduction is a success, great, let’s fine-tune the plan and move forward. If the trial fails, then we can trim the sails and change course before we spend too much on a

plan that didn’t deliver on what it promised. Lara & Michael Ekwall La Bodeguita del Medio California Avenue

Applause for council Editor, I applaud you, the current council, for attempting to fix the fiscal mess left by prior decades of gross mismanagement. Our past decision makers never took their rose-colored glasses off when making revenue forecasts and cost projections. With sleight of hand, they used their ever-growing pot of utility charges (paid for by the ratepayers of the city) to fill the holes in the city’s operating budget. Past leadership failed to structure pay and pension benefits that were economically realistic. Now retirees, employees and citizens are all at risk. What to do now? First, I hope you already have a committee looking at how Cupertino achieves a debt-per-resident figure ($629) that is one-sixth of ours ($4,021). As a matter of fact, I hope you are looking at every other city around us; they are all in better financial

condition. How are they holding down their debt per resident? Second, outsource whatever services you can. If we can get an adequate level of service for less money, outsource it. Other cities in both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties have outsourced fire and police with success. Boasting that we have our own higher cost “Palo Alto this� or “Palo Alto that� only drives us further down the road toward insolvency. Third, start to prepare for a possible bankruptcy now before you are in fiscal extremis. I hope it never comes to this, but if doors to solutions begin to close, you are better off declaring bankruptcy early, while you still have room to maneuver and time to draw up plans. Bankruptcy is not a death knell; in fact, it can be a rebirth. There are many businesses that will attest to this. You will be able to start with a clean slate, negotiate reasonable contracts with all city employees, and put the city back on the road to fiscal sanity. Micheline Horstmeyer Ramona Street Palo Alto

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This week on Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at www.PaloAltoOnline.com Blog: London 94301 Posted July 25 at 9:47 a.m. by David Vinokur, a former resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood: Allow me, dear reader, to continue with close focus on London and the 2012 Games. In the week leading to the Opening Ceremony, and for the first time this year, high-pressure weather is driving 80-degree sunshine. Cautiously folks across the British Isles hope for a warm and dry Olympics, fickle British weather notwithstanding. Well-soaked, green London is springing to life in the baking hot sun with a collective “ahhh....� To be fair, this city is arguably the most verdant large city in the world. Greater London has over 150 square miles of public parks, gardens, cemeteries and squares. As with the amazing parks and open spaces in and around my hometown of Palo Alto, parks here are well loved and utilized. Hyde Park and many others play host this summer to the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, a free citywide cultural celebration running day and night in parallel to the Olympics and Para-Olympics. And this week the Olympic Torch Relay nightly party was held on good old Tooting Common. We walked the few yards from our home to greet the passing torch, and even had our photo taken with it (gold chrome, dotted with holes and surprisingly light without the requisite gas canister). This is all certainly a very long way from my youth of attending concerts at Lucie Stern Community Center and May Day parades down University Avenue. Brits were recently awarded the “gold

medal for grumbling� by the nation’s Culture Secretary, with the unsurprising consistent hum of discord over cost, traffic/ transport and security. Probably the most notable hiccup in the run up to the Games is the recent contingency call-up of several thousand additional British military personnel to participate in event security. Security staffing headcount requirements changed last winter, and the private security firm hired to source and train these staff was unable to meet its obligation or communicate their shortfall sooner. Troops stationed across London were always a key component of what is, by most measures, a solid security operation. That one doesn’t need reminding of war in London partially explains some of the concerns people have around the 2012 Games. Many consider these Olympics to be the largest peacetime security operation since WWII. There’s ground-toair missiles posted around the East End, street and shopping center parking removed for miles around and strict airportstyle security at all ticketed events. Add to that a 100-mile network of Olympicsonly VIP lanes (even non-Olympic government officials are barred) and you’ve got a populace on full alert — or at least with both eyes open. From my countless conversations with colleagues, familiars and strangers, the overwhelming sense here is excitement and anticipation for a fantastic London 2012 Games. See you after the lighting of the Olympic Torch. Read more online by going to www. paloaltoonline.com/square and clicking “London 94301.�

Guest Opinion Stanford recreation funding should benefit entire region by Steve Schmidt he Guest Opinion submitted by James Sweeney of the Stanford Campus Residential Leaseholders (June 29) is laden with misleading and selectively chosen arguments. A review of the 2000 General Use Permit (GUP) history would reveal that in 2000 Stanford agreed to construct a multi-use trail, designated C-1, on Stanford University land in Santa Clara County in exchange for 5 million square feet of new campus development. Rather than honor its obligations, and while building its newly granted entitlements, Stanford spent five years lobbying the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors that the C-1 Trail should be in San Mateo County, mostly in the right-of-way of Alpine Road. I was a Menlo Park City Council member in 2000 actively involved in the discussion of the mitigations for the University’s expansion, and I know that a trail along Alpine Road was not a consideration included in the GUP. However, it soon became clear that Stanford apparently had no intention of ever allowing public easements for a trail on Stanford land, even for groups like Sweeney’s Leaseholders. By 2006, Stanford’s relentless efforts had paid off; the C-1 Trail had become the responsibility of San Mateo County. Three times the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors rejected Stanford’s proposal to build a multi-use trail next to Alpine Road, in part because it violated

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well-established design standards for locating combined pedestrian and bicycle facilities within a few feet of a heavily traveled arterial road, ironically populated largely by car and truck traffic generated by Stanford construction and growth. The $10.3 million that Sweeney thinks should be used to supplement his already generous oncampus recreational opportunities has now returned to Santa Clara County. Residents of both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties experience the loss of recreational opportunities caused by limiting public access to the Stanford Dish and the negative effects of unending Stanford expansion in both counties. It behooves the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to fund recreational improvements with this money that provide the widest benefits to local residents, including but not limited to the Stanford Leaseholders. I urge the Supervisors in their Aug. 7 meeting to direct these funds for the completion of the Bay Trail in Palo Alto and to partially fund the bicyclepedestrian over-crossing of U.S. Highway 101 at Adobe Creek. For years the region has endured the impacts of Stanford’s twice-a-day employee commute traffic, two world-renowned hospitals, a regional shopping mall, disruptive sports events and the heavy use of local public roads for dangerous construction vehicles. The entire region deserves genuine mitigations. Thinking regionally is appropriate when one realizes the extent of Stanford’s footprint on the Peninsula. N Steve Schmidt is a former mayor of Menlo Park and served on the council from 1994 to 2002.

Streetwise

Which Olympic event are you most excited to watch? Asked on California Avenue, Palo Alto. Interviews by Helen Carefoot and photographs by Soo Song.

George Auberger

Software engineer Waverley Street, Palo Alto “I’m not planning to watch, but possibly cycling.�

John Gregorski

Software engineer Wright Place, Palo Alto “I’m excited to watch gymnastics and sprinting.�

Alice Chao

Emergency medicine resident College Avenue, Palo Alto “Gymnastics.�

Earl Christensen

Transportation specialist Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto “I don’t really watch the Olympics, but I might this year because I like the idea of them.�

Doris Petrosky

Student Lincoln Avenue, Palo Alto “Preferably none.�

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Arts & Entertainment Comedy in conflict A weekly guide to music, theater, art, movies and more, edited by Rebecca Wallace

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“Hava Nagila (The Movie)� explores the traditional melody that is commonly played at Jewish weddings.

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The film “Life in Stills� follows a family who owns a Tel Aviv photo studio. t might seem impossible to find humor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but at least one comedy being shown in this year’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival challenges that notion. Along with a slew of powerful dramas, several comedies screening this summer in Palo Alto, San Francisco and other cities will tackle a range of issues with a tongue-in-cheek approach, including the conflict, Jewish identity and family dynamics. All have “strains of something we recognize as a Jewish sensibility, of a people who love to laugh and make others laugh with them,� according to a festival press release. The Israeli sitcom “Arab Labor� faces Israeli and Palestinian stereotypes headon. A festival screening in Palo Alto on July 30 will feature episodes from the third season, written by Sayeed Kashua and directed by Shai Capon. Billed as the first Israeli show to center on a PalestinianIsraeli family, “Arab Labor� follows protagonist Amjad (Norman Issa), an ArabIsraeli journalist, and is shown in Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. In one of the episodes, Amjad joins the cast of the (fictional) Israeli version of the reality TV show “Big Brother� in an at-

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tempt to prove that Arabs and Jews can live peacefully together. Tension rises when the “Big Brother� producers ask Amjad to pass as a Jew and challenge the competitors to guess who in the house is secretly Arab, in order to be safe from elimination. Stereotypes erupt both in the “Big Brother� house and in Amjad’s own home when the reality-TV residents buy the cover story that Amjad (now “Danny Epstein�) has created, and decide that another competitor, Itzik, is the secret Arab. Itzik’s fellow Jewish competitors single him out for acting in such an obviously “Arab� manner: He wants cardamom in his coffee, and he’s bored by old army stories. The girls in the house become squeamish when they are in their bathing suits, claiming, “He’s not used to seeing girls like this; he might get ideas.� They become incredibly offended when he attempts to perform the Sabbath prayer. The judgmental glances exchanged after every word Itzik says create an aura of absurdism, as the residents feel themselves proven correct at every turn. “Arab Labor� is not alone in the mission to reflect Jewish conflicts and issues in a humorous light. Other comedies to be featured this year include “Dorfman,� a template romantic comedy about an awkward and quiet young woman (Sara Rue of TV’s “Less Than Perfect�) living in Los Angeles. She undergoes a surface-level makeover as she begins to speak her mind for the first time, realizing that her role as a doormat for those around her has left her unsatisfied. Her family also undergoes a transformation when her widowed father and irresponsible brother must confront their own personal issues. Playing the father is veteran actor Elliott Gould, who is also being honored by the festival with its annual Freedom of Expression Award at a ceremony at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre. Other comedies that will be shown this year in Palo Alto include “My Dad is Baryshnikov,� the story of a young boy in the last days of the Soviet Union who is training to be a ballet dancer, despite his lack of talent. “In Case I Never Win the Golden Palm� is a film-withina-film directed by and starring Renaud Cohen, based on the ups and downs of his own career as a filmmaker. This year’s festival will also include several documentaries, many centering on music. “Under African Skies� follows the musician Paul Simon as he returns to South Africa for a reunion concert for his “Graceland� albums. “Hava Nagila (The Movie)� follows the traditional “Hava Nagila� melody around the world, where it’s been performed at countless bar mitzvahs and Jewish weddings. The Palo Alto lineup also features the Sam Ball film “Joann Sfar Draws From Memory,� which paints a portrait of the French graphic novelist Sfar. Palo Alto resident Valerie Joseph is the film’s executive producer. This year is the 32nd for the festival. Running from July 28 through Aug. 6, it will make the rounds at theaters in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, San Rafael and Oakland. Most of the films are set to have at least one screening in Palo Alto. N What: The 32nd annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, with screenings of shorts and feature-length films in Palo Alto and other cities Where: Local screenings are at the CineArts movie theater at Palo Alto Square, 3000 El Camino Real. When: Palo Alto screenings are July 28 through Aug. 2, with screenings from the late morning through the evening. Cost: Individual screening programs are $12 general, $11 for seniors and students, and $10 for Jewish Film Forum members. Matinees (weekdays through 4 p.m.) are $10 general and $9 for members. Ticket packages are available, including a $25 pass for ages 30 and under; it can be used at all regularly priced screenings (not special events). Info: Go to sfjff.org or call 415-621-0523.

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Arts & Entertainment rate song and dance and whining. Katie O’Bryon plays office maven Smitty to a tee, smirking and mugging to great effect; she brightens “Cinderella, Darling� and “Been a Long Day� with her strong vocals and comic skills. Other standouts include Mayes as Biggley, whose ability to play against his imposing physical presence makes certain moments even funnier; and Griner, wonderfully shameless as the hot tomato LaRue, whose lovely singing voice is an unexpected treat. The whole ensemble of junior clerks, executives and secretaries keeps it lively and engaging. Joe Ragey’s colorful fantasia on office decor and Janis Bergmann’s neon jewel-tone costume palette superbly deliver the early 1960s through a comedic time warp. Music director Catherine Snider ably guides her small, capable orchestra through a demanding score. One caveat: The show is uncut, running close to three hours including intermission. Plan accordingly, and then sit back and enjoy this superb summer romp. N

Delightfully dated ‘How to Succeed’ has a charming period look — but making fun of corporations never gets old by Jeanie K. Smith

THEATER REVIEW rie Lenn Borris) — and fends off the boss’s scheming nephew, Bud Frump (David Mister). The boss, J. B. Biggley (Walter M. Mayes), has entanglements of his own — namely his mistress, Miss Hedy LaRue (Sarah Griner) — and hopes Finch will solve his problems. When Finch launches his “big idea� and it gets bungled on national television, all hell breaks loose. But hey, it’s a musical comedy, so you know it will work out. The fun is seeing how Finch manages to escape a disaster — and how yet another corporation cover-up can be a happy ending. The standard numbers include “Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm,� sung by Rosemary after falling in love at first sight; “Rosemary,� when the penny finally drops for Finch; and “I Believe in You,� when Finch gives himself a pep talk in the executive washroom. “The Brotherhood of Man,� a knockout number by the whole company, is a Broadway showstopper complete with dancing on tables. The controversial number “A Secretary is not a Toy� is given a ‘60s sitcom gloss of tongue-in-cheek innocence, with

Michael Rhone riding high as J. Pierrepont Finch, with Walter M. Mayes as boss J.B. Biggley. lots of fanny-ogling. Rhone is spot-on perfect for Finch, with his boyish good looks, dynamite voice and impish grin. You would swear he’s channeling Morse, although he’s even cuter and

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What: “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,� presented by Foothill Music Theatre Where: Smithwick Theatre, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills When: Through Aug. 12, with 8 p.m. shows Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. matinees on Sundays Cost: Tickets are $10-$28. Info: Go to foothillmusicals.com or call 650-949-7360.

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oothill Music Theatre’s summer musical is an anticipated event by musical lovers, as director Jay Manley always manages to assemble a talented team. This year’s “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying� is no exception, sporting a terrific cast and technical elements to match. After taking Broadway by storm in 1961 with Robert Morse in the lead, this musical languished in the archives for decades, deemed too politically incorrect to salvage for a modern audience, because of its presumably dated material regarding corporate ethics and office shenanigans. But a couple of revivals (1995 with Matthew Broderick and 2011 with Daniel Radcliffe) have rediscovered the fun and the heart of the show. And having a good laugh at a corporate spoof remains therapeutic. Based on a satirical book of 1955 about how to climb the corporate ladder, the musical takes our hero, J. Pierrepont Finch (Michael Rhone), on a journey through the World Wide Wicket company as he follows the book’s advice. Starting in the mailroom, he miraculously maneuvers promotions without training or tenure, acquires a girlfriend along the way — Rosemary (Cor-

livelier. He’s well-matched by Borris as Rosemary, who has a beautiful voice and just the right mix of girlish eagerness and womanly bravado. Mister gleefully inhabits the villainous Frump, charming us with first-

CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF FINAL DATES ON OR BEFORE WHICH DIRECT AND REBUTTAL ARGUMENTS MAY BE SUBMITTED TO THE CITY CLERK IN SUPPORT OF OR AGAINST THE MEASURE TO PERMIT THREE MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES TO OPERATE IN PALO ALTO TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE ELECTORS OF PALO ALTO AT A SPECIAL ELECTION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Tuesday, August 14, 2012, at 5:30 p.m., has been ďŹ xed as the ďŹ nal date and time when direct arguments for or against the following measure may be submitted to the City Clerk for printing and distribution to the voters of the City. Copies of the direct arguments will be available from the City Clerk on Wednesday, August 15, 2012. The deadline for ďŹ ling rebuttal arguments with the City Clerk has been set for Tuesday, August 21, 2012, at 5:30 p.m. Copies of the rebuttal arguments will be available from the City Clerk on Wednesday, August 22, 2012. CITY OF PALO ALTO (MEASURE “___â€?) Shall the Palo Alto Municipal Code be amended to permit three medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in Palo Alto in any commercial or industrial zone subject to prescribing zoning criteria? FOR THE ORDINANCE AGAINST THE ORDINANCE

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The polls will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Copies of the resolution placing this proposition on the ballot and containing the full text of the measure are available in the City Clerk’s OfďŹ ce, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94301. All materials to be printed in the Sample Ballot regarding the measure will be available for public examination from Wednesday, August 22, 2012 through Friday, August 31, 2012, at the City Clerk’s ofďŹ ce on the seventh oor. DONNA J. GRIDER, MMC City Clerk

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Jessica Waldman in “Curse of the Starving Class.�

Full house Unsettling Shepard play is replete with woes financial and familial by Karla Kane

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n American family on the verge of economic and emotional collapse takes center stage in the grimly comic “Curse of the Starving Class,� now running at Stanford’s Pigott Theater. The production is part of Stanford Summer Theater’s festival celebrating the work of writer/director/actor Sam Shepard. “Curse of the Starving Class,� though written in 1976, is full of relevance to today’s era of mortgage and foreclosure crises. The focus of the play is the dysfunctional Tate family. There’s abusive, alcoholic patriarch Weston (Marty Pistone), who’s deep in debt thanks to realestate schemes, over-borrowing and a bevy of bad decisions. Also: fedup, clueless mom Ella (Courtney Walsh); increasingly unhinged son Wesley (Max Sosna-Spear); and clever but manic adolescent daughter Emma (Stanford student Jessica Waldman). The Tates run a dilapidated farm in rural Southern California, and dad and mom each secretly plot to sell the property (dad because he’s in desperate need of cash to pay back his creditors, mom with dreams of escaping her crummy situation and starting over). The kids, though unhappy there, are firmly against losing the only home they’ve ever known. As the hapless clan destroys itself from within, sharks in the form of developers, eager to get their paws on the lucrative land, are circling, taking advantage of the splintered family’s one flawed

THEATER REVIEW certainty: that real estate can never depreciate and that their ramshackle home harbors untapped value. The action takes place over the course of three days, each corresponding to an act, with two brief intermissions. It’s all set within the Tates’ rundown kitchen, which is nicely designed by Chad Bonaker, although perhaps a bit too cutely for the story’s bleakness. The oldfashioned refrigerator plays a key part, as characters constantly look to the fridge as a beacon of hope, only to slam it shut when dissatisfied by what they find (or more often don’t find) there. Though the play is set in the 1970s, the choice of older songs, particularly the Dust Bowl-era songs of Woody Guthrie, serve as poignant reminders that California is the land of plenty only for those who can afford it. “Curse of the Starving Class� is essentially full of unpleasant people doing and saying unpleasant things, which can make for squirm-inducingly compelling entertainment, but leaves one with a sour taste in the mouth. Though the themes of the play are relatable, ultimately the abrasive characters fail to fully emotionally resonate, leaving the audience frustrated. The four leading actors turn in strong performances — sometimes too strong in the volume/scenerychewing department. The Tate char-

acters are so often shouting, stomping or slamming doors that the production lacks the dynamic range that might make it more effective. As I heard some fellow viewers behind me wonder, “Does it have to be so loud?� The interplay between the main players is so consistently amped up that the rare quiet moments, including the poetic monologues scattered throughout, are welcome, if sometimes awkward. Presumably one is meant to root for the Tates as “the little guy� against an all-powerful corporate menace. But Bennett Fisher and Keith Marshall’s winning performances as shady lawyer/speculator Taylor and roughneck bar owner Ellis, both of whom stand to gain from the family’s misfortune, are so affable that they’re impossible to dislike. Though their roles are small, both are standouts. Scene-stealing, too, is the live sheep in the role of a doomed lamb. He or she (not credited) delivers a surprisingly engaged performance, seeming to follow Pistone’s every word in their scenes together and even chiming in with well-timed bleats. The Tate family members are for the most part unlikeable: selfish, hostile and foolish. You want them to just pipe down much of the time. However, you can’t help but feel sympathy for their apparently hopeless struggle to move up in the world, as their nebulous American Dream slips away from them. As noted in the program, the play is both tragedy and comedy, sometimes making it difficult to discern the intended tone, but it is decidedly darkly unsettling and depressing in the end. N What: “Curse of the Starving Class,� a Sam Shepard play presented by Stanford Summer Theater Where: Pigott Theater, Stanford University When: Through Aug. 12, Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Post-show discussions with the cast and director planned for July 29, Aug. 5 and Aug. 12. Cost: Tickets are $25 general and $15 for students and seniors, with group discounts available. Info: Go to summertheater.stanford. edu or call 650-798-4072. Note: This production contains strong language, adult content and brief nudity.

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(Century 16, Century 20) According to an old showbiz saw, the key to comedy is timing. Well, the new big-budget sci-fi comedy “The Watch� has a problem there. The laugher about a self-appointed “neighborhood watch� doing what the cops can’t comes just five months after a neighborhood-watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., defied police and pursued, shot and killed an unarmed teenager. If and when the Trayvon Martin shooting ever becomes a distant memory, “The Watch� will be able to stand on its own. But for now, the net of reality has entangled this bit of would-be escapism. For a while, even in spite of egregious corporate-brand placement, the film appears to be an almost accidentally daring satire. Scripted by Jared Stern and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, the picture opens with fussbudget hero Evan (Ben Stiller) introducing us to “the greatest town in the greatest country on the greatest planet in the universe�: Glenview, Ohio. He doesn’t have any black friends, he tells us, but he’s in the market for one. Evan likes to be involved: as a city councilman, doing highway cleanup, you name it. So when the big-box-store manager discovers that his Hispanic security guard (Joe Nunez) — freshly anointed an American citizen — has been brutally killed (unbeknownst to anyone, by a space alien), Evan organizes a neighborhood watch with the intention of finding the murderer. Enter hyperactive alpha-bro Bob (Vince Vaughn), police-reject Franklin (Jonah Hill) and the apparently biracial Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade of Britcom “The IT Crowd�), and the motley watch begins its nightly patrols. This wouldbe “Ghostbusters� puts stock in green goo and plentiful explosions to complement the comedy-team fireworks, but “The Watch� also

NOW PLAYING The following is a sampling of movies recently reviewed in the Weekly: The Dark Knight Rises ---(Century 16, Century 20) All the world’s Gotham City in Christopher Nolan’s ambitious Batman trilogy, which here comes to an emphatic conclusion. The screenplay by Nolan and his brother Jonathan takes inspiration from “A Tale of Two Cities� and Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis� in depicting the levels of society: the 99 percent versus the 1 percent, the skyscrapers down to the sewers. The leitmotif of Nolan’s well-orchestrated Batman saga is how a society, and an individual, responds to a fall. Batman has receded into billionaire Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), a limping recluse. He faces two characters plucked from the pages of Batman comics: fearsome terrorist Bane (Tom Hardy) and cat burglar Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), who wants a “clean slate� in an internet age when information is immortal. The film delivers a whole lotta movie, with cast-of-thousands spectacle and giant-sized action. The Nolans consider the issues of the day (there’s a big Occupy Gotham theme); explore the role of legendary heroes in galvanizing the public; and labor mightily to ensure that how their Batman ends dovetails with 2005’s “Batman

chooses to make its in-over-theirheads heroes dumb instead of smart, then celebrates them anyway. Part of the joke is that this inept bunch gets together and blithely commits crimes in the process of trying to foil them, and they become drunk on power whenever they perceive the tiniest of victories. Hill’s character particularly (and, again, accidentally) evokes trigger-happy wannabe George Zimmerman. Ever-angry and constantly flicking his butterfly knife, Franklin lives with his mother and explains his failed bid to join the police force: “Apparently I didn’t pass the written exam or the physical exam or the mentalhealth exam.� As director Akiva Schaffer sticks “Straight Outta Compton� and “The Boyz in the Hood� on the soundtrack, “The Watch� parodies the middle-class middle-American male’s need to test and prove his manhood, to himself and others (also, Stiller’s character frets over not being able to give his wife a child). But the movie also buys into traditional masculinity. When Evan cries over the death of the security guard (accompanied by a Spanish cover of “The Sound of Silence�), we’re prompted to laugh. Despite the amusing verbal riffs (most of them from still-got-it motor-mouth Vaughn) and expert delivery from all four leads, having its main characters both ways — horrifying yet heroic — ultimately sinks this scattershot exercise. A bodysnatchers subplot brings to mind Rod Serling’s suburban-paranoia parable “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,� but “The Watch� falls back on the convention of the inept heroes — spoiler alert — saving the day. Any other year, we probably wouldn’t bat an eye at that, but what’s the key to comedy? Rated R for strong sexual content including references, pervasive language and violent images. One hour, 38 minutes. — Peter Canavese Begins.� Rated PG-13 for violence, sensuality and language. Two hours, 45 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed July 20, 2012)

Beasts of the Southern Wild ---(Guild) Independent filmmaking doesn’t come any better than this. Newcomer Quvenzhane Wallis delivers a riveting performance as the child trying to make sense of her world on the wrong side of a southern Louisiana levee. She and her ailing father (Dwight Henry) struggle to stay afloat in The Bathtub, a floodplain populated with odd characters and littered with ramshackle housing — a hurricane away from disaster. The community refuses to be displaced. Director Zeitlin’s gift is the ability to pack social commentary within a unique voice and look. He and co-writer Lucy Alibar address the difficulties of preserving a people and their culture in post-Katrina Louisiana. The imagery has a haunting quality, especially once the characters become unmoored. “Beasts of the Southern Wild� is a must-see movie of rare vision. And the defiant brown eyes of Quvenzhane Wallis burn with a warrior spirit you won’t soon forget. Rated PG-13 for language, child imperilment, brief sensuality, disturbing images and thematic material. 1 hour, 33 minutes. — S.T. (Reviewed July 13, 2012)

Movies MOVIE TIMES Showtimes for the Century 16 theater are for Friday through Tuesday only unless otherwise noted. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Stanford Theatre: Fri. at 5:10 & 9:35 p.m. The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13) ((( Century 16: 2:50 & 10:20 p.m.; In 3D at 11 a.m. & 7 p.m. Century 20: 1:10 & 7:15 p.m.; In 3D at 10:30 a.m.; 4 & 9:30 p.m. Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) (((( Century 20: Noon, 2:35, 5, 7:25 & 9:55 p.m. Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) ((1/2 Century 16: Sat.-Tue. at 12:10, 3:30, 6:50 & 9:55 p.m. Palo Alto Square: Fri. at 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 & 10 p.m. Brave (PG) (((1/2 Century 16: 11 a.m.; 1:55, 4:45, 7:25 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m.; 1:45, 4:25, 6:50 & 9:20 p.m. The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) (((( Century 16: 11 a.m.; noon, 12:50, 2:30, 3, 4, 4:40, 5:30, 6:20, 7, 8, 8:40, 9:30 & 10:40 p.m.; Fri. also at 11:30 a.m. & 10 p.m.; Sat.Tue. also at 1:30 p.m. Century 20: 10:30, 11:05 & 11:40 a.m.; 12:15, 12:50, 2:10, 2:45, 3:20, 3:55, 4:30, 5:50, 7, 7:35, 8:10, 9:30 & 10:35 p.m.; Fri., Sat. & Mon.-Thu. also at 1:30 p.m.; Fri.-Mon., Wed. & Thu. also at 5:05 p.m.; Fri.-Tue. & Thu. also at 6:25, 8:45 & 10:05 p.m.; Wed. also at 10:10 p.m. East of Eden (1955) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Stanford Theatre: Fri. at 7:30 p.m. Farewell, My Queen (R) (Not Reviewed) Aquarius Theatre: 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m.; 2, 4:30, 7:05 & 9:35 p.m. The Grateful Dead Birthday Celebration Event (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: Wed. at 7 p.m. Century 20: Wed. at 7 p.m. Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 2:20, 5:10, 8 & 10:30 p.m.; In 3D at 11 a.m.; 1:40, 4:30, 7:10 & 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 10:25 a.m.; 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8 & 10:20 p.m.; In 3D at 11:45 a.m.; 2:10, 4:40, 7:05 & 9:25 p.m. The Intouchables (R) (( Aquarius Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Katy Perry: Part of Me (PG) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 10:45 a.m.; In 3D at 1:35 & 7:05 p.m. Magic Mike (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11:40 a.m.; Fri. also at 2:15, 4:50, 7:50 & 10:35 p.m.; Sat.-Tue. also at 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:50 a.m.; 2:25, 5, 7:45 & 10:30 p.m. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Stanford Theatre: Sat.-Tue. at 7:30 p.m.; Sat. & Sun. also at 3:40 p.m. Moonrise Kingdom (PG-13) (((1/2 Century 16: 11:20 a.m.; 1:50, 4:20, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:10 p.m. The Queen of Versailles (PG) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11:35 a.m.; 2:10, 4:50, 7:35 & 10:10 p.m.

The Intouchables -(Aquarius) In “The Intouchables,� a rich, stuffy, white man exposes a poor black man to the “finer things� in life; in turn, the black man teaches the white man how to loosen up and love. No need to check your watch. It’s still 2012. With its brash humor and emotional generosity, “The Intouchables� has crowd-pleaser written all over it, but there’s no mistaking the queasy racial implications. Francois Cluzet (“Tell No One�) plays Phillippe, a quadriplegic millionaire who unexpectedly plucks Senegalese immigrant Driss (Omar Sy) out of the Parisian ghetto to be a live-in home-care provider. Phillippe — also a closet adventurer — appreciates Driss’ irreverent insistence on prodding his boss out of his discomfort zone and into his need for speed and romance. Wildly popular in its native France, “The Intouchables� applies strict formula to a reassuring story about improving one’s life by embracing new people and experiences. It’s a cinematic warm fuzzy if ever there was one, and the performances by Cluzet and Sy prove highly appealing. But in America, where we invented this formula, audiences are likely to find it discomfitingly retrograde. Rated R for language and some drug use. One hour, 52 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed July 13, 2012)

Savages ---1/2 (Century 20) Oliver Stone still believes in red-meat cinema. The proof is in “Savages,� a hard-R crime drama that never treats the audience as juvenile. A war veteran named Chon (Taylor Kitsch) and his business partner and best friend Ben (Aaron Johnson) have a partnership that brings to mind the entrepreneurship of Ben and Jerry. The boutique product they export isn’t gourmet ice cream but gourmet pot. Ben and Chon face a takeover by a Mexican cartel, but when the duo makes other plans, the cartel takes their surfer girl “O� (Blake Lively) hostage, setting off a war of wills. Salma Hayek’s Elena, the cruel cartel mistress, doesn’t suffer fools,

but she’s also a devoted, frustrated mother. Benicio Del Toro plays her top goon, Lado, both psychotic and sensitive. John Travolta is the slick, corrupt DEA agent. All three could be Oscar front-runners. The menage a trois at the heart of the film symbolizes American life: Naive consumer O is in bed with both damaged-goods muscle Chon and Buddhist businessman Ben, but they’ll never want her as much as they want, need and envy each other. Rated R for violence, sexuality, nudity, drug use and language. Two hours, 10 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed July 6, 2012) The Amazing Spider-Man --(Century 16, Century 20) Viewers will compare “The Amazing Spider-Man,� to Sam Raimi’s 2002 effort, and it could be argued that the two are on equal footing. In this comic book movie reboot, Andrew Garfield (“The Social Network�) is high-school outcast Peter Parker, and Peter’s love interest is Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). Peter’s parents left him with his uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and aunt May (Sally Field) when he was a boy, and he still puzzles over their sudden departure. Peter discovers his father had been working with one-armed scientist Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), and visits Connors at R&D company OsCorp. A genetically altered spider bites Peter, who starts showing enhanced strength and reflexes. He dubs himself Spider-Man, and takes to swinging over the city. The visual effects in “Amazing� are superior (including breathtaking scenes from Spider-Man’s P.O.V.) and its villain, the Lizard, is one of the genre’s most frightening. The battle scenes between Spider-Man and the Lizard are exceptional. Garfield is a terrific actor — better than Maguire — and Stone is a welcome upgrade over the dour Kirsten Dunst. Both familiar and fresh, it’s a spectacle with enough thrills and humor to satisfy most fans. Rated PG-13 for action and violence. Two hours, 16 minutes. — T.H. (Reviewed July 6, 2012)

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Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: Sun. at noon; Tue. at 7 p.m. Palo Alto Square: Sun. at noon; Tue. at 7 p.m. Savages (R) (((1/2 Century 20: 4:15 & 10:15 p.m. The Secret Garden (1949) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Stanford Theatre: Sat.-Tue. at 5:45 & 9:35 p.m. Step Up: Revolution (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 1:45 & 7:20 p.m.; In 3D at 11:20 a.m.; 4:20 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 12:30, 3, 5:35, 8:10 & 10:40 p.m.; In 3D at 11:05 a.m.; 1:50, 4:20, 7 & 9:30 p.m. Ted (R) ( Century 16: 11:15 a.m.; 2, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m. To Rome With Love (R) (( Palo Alto Square: 4:30 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. also at 1:30, 7:25 & 10:05 p.m.; Sun. also at 7:25 p.m.; Mon., Wed. & Thu. also at 1:30 & 7:25 p.m.; Tue. also at 1:30 p.m.

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( Skip it (( Some redeeming qualities ((( A good bet (((( Outstanding Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260)

Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)

Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264)

Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)

Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264)

Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more information about films playing, go to Palo AltoOnline.com/movies

CinĂŠArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-3456) ON THE WEB: The most up-to-date movie listings at PaloAltoOnline.com

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ost newly turned 16-year olds can’t wait to get their driver’s license and start cruising around town. Palo Alto High junior Lily Zhang, however, has bigger things on her mind, like the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. Zhang qualified in January to represent the United States in table tennis. She defeated Canada’s Anqui Luo in the Olympic Trials final to clinch a team win for the USA and fulfill her dream of reaching the London Games. “I can’t even describe it,� Zhang said in a recent interview. “The feeling is just so exciting, because it has been my dream ever since I was a little girl.� Joining Zhang on the U.S. Olympic table tennis team is a pair of fellow California teens, Ariel Hsing of San Jose and Erica Wu of Arcadia. The three-teen team will be a heavy underdog in London, but Zhang embraces the role. “I think that takes a lot of pressure of us,� Zhang said. “We go out there thinking we are the underdogs, and we can just play our game.� Although only a few months into her 16th year, Zhang has been serving and volleying for over a decade. She began playing table tennis at seven-years-old, and quickly developed into one of the young phenoms of the game. When Zhang made the U.S. Under-15 cadet team at the precocious age of 10, she realized that table tennis could contain a serious future for her. She began training at the India Community Center in Milpitas under the tutelage of a myriad of coaches, including former Italian National Team coach Massimo Constantini. Honing her skills over the years, Zhang has blossomed into one of the United States’ best players in any age category. The International Table Tennis Association currently ranks her No. 148 in the world. Since qualifying for the Olympics, Zhang has pumped up her practice and competition schedule. She recently defeated teammate and training partner Hsing at the U.S. Table Tennis Open to claim the Women’s Under-21 national title. In London, however, the competition won’t be limited to under-21, and Zhang

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Palo Alto High table tennis player Lily Zhang makes her Olympic debut, joining the many local athletes living for the moment in London at the 30th Summer Games in merry olde England

Despite being only 16 and ranked No. 148 in the world, Palo Alto High junior Lily Zhang will be tested like no other time in her career at the Summer Games in London, England.

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will be up against the best the world of table tennis has to offer, and that means Team China. The daughter of a Chinese immigrant, Zhang knows that in table tennis China has no equal. “China has definitely been dominating table tennis for a while now,� Zhang said. “In China it (table tennis) is like the football of the U.S., it is huge and they have so many schools and training systems.� In her own school, Zhang has experienced a wealth of support from classmates and friends. After qualifying, the story ran in the school’s Campanile newspaper, prompting an outpouring of congratulations. Zhang has not allowed the praise to slow her work ethic though, and trains every daty after school for two to three hours. While she is quick to express her love for the sport that has taken her around the world, managing high school and world-class athletics can be a tricky balancing act. “It’s getting harder and harder with school,� Zhang said. “School is getting harder as I go along with homework and more tests, and having to study for SATs now.� Since the end of the school year, Zhang has expanded her practice schedule and now trains more than five hours a day. As the Summer Games approached, she began to work not only on her physical skills, but also on the mental side of table tennis, as well.

“We are working a lot on our mental game. A lot of people don’t know, but there is so much mental game involved in table tennis,� Zhang said. “You have to know your strategy and you have to think a few balls ahead of your opponent so you know where to go and where the ball is coming and how to place it.� While Opening Ceremonies take place Friday, Zhang reported to Manchester, England on July 19 to continue her training with the national team coaches. There her training is focused on strategy and game planning for her upcoming opponents. Her rapid rise to the upper echelon of her sport has forced Zhang into competition against opponents much older than her, some of whom are more than twice her age and have been competing longer than she has been alive. Her older competitors may have an advantage dealing with the nerves that come with the world stage. “I’m sure when we get there and are about to play all of us will feel some butterflies in our stomach,� Zhang said, explaining that her strategy is just to stay calm and limit her emotions. Despite the hard training and the nerves, Lily Zhang still relishing the experience, and maintains a good deal of perspective. “It still feels cool to wake up every day and know that you are going to be in the Olympics,� Zhang said. “I don’t really care if I win or lose, I just want to play my best.�N Editorial intern Dean McArdle can be emailed at dmcardle@ paweekly.com.

Palo Alto High junior Lily Zhang (top right) practices with her Olympic teammate Ariel Hsing during a training session at the India Community Center in Milpitas, prior to departing for the Summer Olympic in London, England. Zhang (above) will begin competition on Saturday after walking in Friday’s Opening Ceremonies. At age 16, Zhang will be among the youngest competitors in the table tennis competition and will be a big underdog despite being ranked No. 148 in the world.

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will be up against the best the world of table tennis has to offer, and that means Team China. The daughter of a Chinese immigrant, Zhang knows that in table tennis China has no equal. “China has definitely been dominating table tennis for a while now,� Zhang said. “In China it (table tennis) is like the football of the U.S., it is huge and they have so many schools and training systems.� In her own school, Zhang has experienced a wealth of support from classmates and friends. After qualifying, the story ran in the school’s Campanile newspaper, prompting an outpouring of congratulations. Zhang has not allowed the praise to slow her work ethic though, and trains every daty after school for two to three hours. While she is quick to express her love for the sport that has taken her around the world, managing high school and world-class athletics can be a trickly balancing act. “It’s getting harder and harder with school,� Zhang said. “School is getting harder as I go along with homework and more tests, and having to study for SATs now.� Since the end of the school year, Zhang has expanded her practice schedule and now trains more than five hours a day. As the Summer Games approached, she began to work not only on her physical skills, but also on the mental side of table tennis, as well.

“We are working a lot on our mental game. A lot of people don’t know, but there is so much mental game involved in table tennis,� Zhang said. “You have to know your strategy and you have to think a few balls ahead of your opponent so you know where to go and where the ball is coming and how to place it.� While Opening Ceremonies take place Friday, Zhang reported to Manchester, England on July 19 to continue her training with the national team coaches. There her training is focused on strategy and game planning for her upcoming opponents. Her rapid rise to the upper echelon of her sport has forced Zhang into competition against opponents much older than her, some of whom are more than twice her age and have been competing longer than she has been alive. Her older competitors may have an advantage dealing with the nerves that come with the world stage. “I’m sure when we get there and are about to play all of us will feel some butterflies in our stomach,� Zhang said, explaining that her strategy is just to stay calm and limit her emotions. Despite the hard training and the nerves, Lily Zhang still relishing the experience, and maintains a good deal of perspective. “It still feels cool to wake up every day and know that you are going to be in the Olympics,� Zhang said. “I don’t really care if I win or lose, I just want to play my best.�N Editorial intern Dean McArdle can be emailed at dmcardle@ paweekly.com.

Palo Alto High junior Lily Zhang (top right) practices with her Olympic teammate Ariel Hsing during a training session at the India Community Center in Milpitas, prior to departing for the Summer Olympic in London, England. Zhang (above) will begin competition on Saturday after walking in Friday’s Opening Ceremonies. At age 16, Zhang will be among the youngest competitors in the table tennis competition and will be a big underdog despite being ranked No. 148 in the world.

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Stanford divers could be on board for medals Ipsen, Krug hope to make the most of their first Olympic Games by Rick Eymer

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Former Stanford All-American and current Castilleja water polo coach Brenda Villa heads into her fourth Olympics in London still searching for an elusive gold medal. Villa is expected to retire following the Summer Games.

Four-time Olympians Villa, Azevedo still searching for that gold medal Former Stanford water polo standouts hope to achieve their elusive goal in London by Rick Eymer

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tanford grads Brenda Villa and Tony Azevedo have become the faces of the United States Olympic water polo teams. Villa was in from the beginning, helping shape the women’s team into an international powerhouse. Azevedo, often called the world’s greatest water polo player and certainly the best in the U.S., created a renewed interest in the sport among Americans. Villa plans to retire from the U.S. national team following the 2012 London Olympic Games, although she still has a job coaching at Castilleja. A commitment to the national team requires an all-encompassing, time-consuming way of life and Villa has spent most of the past 10 years doing exactly that. She’s helped guide the sport from afterthought to international recognition.

It’s time to take a step back and breathe a little bit. “I have Stanford teammates with whom I have stayed in touch,� Villa said. “I miss things. I’ve missed birthdays and weddings. Margie Dingeldein just got married and I missed her wedding. Jackie Frank is in medical school. I see those teammates doing amazing things.� Azevedo is a different story. He was born into a water polo family and has devoted his career to raising the United States out of obscurity. The journey began when he was the youngest member of the team at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, not yet enrolled at Stanford. Azevedo spends his spare time playing overseas in some of the toughest leagues in the world. It made him even more committed to helping the U.S. compete for gold.

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For both Azevedo and Villa, the gold medal symbolizes the final elusive step needed to make the journey succeed. Both have shared the podium on each side of the top rung. This year, they wish to stand on top. Azevedo’s final words following his final game at Stanford, a loss to USC in the NCAA championship game in 2004, were “I’m going to play professionally in Italy and then help the United States win a gold medal.� At the time, the Americans had not even medaled since the 1988 Seoul Games. He’s holding himself to that promise. Azevedo is already formulating plans for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. He was born in Brazil and still has family there. He if continues into 2020, he would tie the record for most Olympics in water polo. Stanford won the NCAA title twice during the Azevedo era, when he dominated the college arena like never before. He was named the national Player of the Year all four years and left Stanford with a school record of 332 goals. “In my mind, I’m gonna win the gold one way or another,� Azevedo told USA Today. “That’s definitely something that kept me motivated.� Azevedo led the team in scoring, with 17 goals, to help the U.S. win its first medal in 20 years at the 2008 Beijing Games. He scored a team-high 15 goals in the 2004 Athens Games and had 13 as a high school player in 2000. A three-time United States Olympic Committee Player of the Year, Azevedo’s value to the sport to (continued on page 28)

tanford grad Cassidy Krug “I had improved so much in one grew up with parents who year,� Krug said. “I never really plawere both diving coaches but teaued, I just steadily improved.� she preferred gymnastics. Diving In 2008, she underwent surgery was something fun to do, until she that set her back. She gave herself arrived at Stanford. the year after graduating to see Cardinal sophomore Kristian Ip- where she could go in diving. After sen was already a world-class diver the trials she retired, sort of. when he arrived at Stanford. He also “In the back of my mind, it wasn’t enjoys gymnasa real retiretics, though as a ment,� she said. spectator. Less than a Krug was a year later she l a t e - blo o m e r ; was back in the Ipsen developed pool. What startfast, and both ed as an Olymhave several pic gymnastics things in comdream became mon. In addition Olympic diving to each winning reality. an NCAA title, “It’s amazing,� Krug and Ipsen Krug said. “It’s will be competstill a little suring in the 2012 real. I’ve been London Olympic dreaming of this Games for the since I was three United States and now I’m livafter winning ing it. I get the events at the opportunity to Olympic Trigo to London als earlier this and compete at month. the biggest meet “My parents in the world.� instilled my love Stanford diving Olympians Most observers of the sport but Kristian Ipsen (left) and Cassidy felt Ipsen would I never felt any Krug flank their Olympic coach reach the Olympressure,� said Dr. Rick Schavone. pics at some point. Krug, who comHe made it in the petes in the 3-meter event. “They 3-meter synchro event with veteran were supportive of my involvement Olympian Troy Dumais. He nearly in gymnastics. My dad did not even made it in an individual event, as try to recruit me (for diving at the well. University of Pittsburgh). Diving ‘I missed one dive and it cost me was a gradual process.� a spot in the Olympic team,� IpIt wasn’t until she arrived at Stan- sen said of the individual 3-meter ford and began working with coach competition, one of the closest in Dr. Rick Schavone that she U.S. history as less than started dreaming large. two points separated the “(Schavone) made my top three divers. “It was the Olympic dreams a possibest preliminary I’ve had in bility,� she said. “He gave along time. Overall it was me the goal.� a good list and I’m happy I Krug competed in both came back with a good dive gymnastics and diving to end it.� until she was 15. That’s when she Ipsen has been diving since he made the decision to concentrate on was six years old. He grew up in diving. Walnut Creek and attended De La “I was improving more as a div- Salle High. He teamed with Dumais er,� she said. three years ago to win the 3-meter Krug seemingly came out of synchro event at the FINA World nowhere to win her NCAA title. Championships in Rome and they Schavone said the talent was always have been successful ever since. there. “I’ve learned a lot from him,� Ip“You would always see glimpses sen said of his diving partner. “He of her greatness. The question was was a lot older and had been to the could she put it all together?� he Olympics and that was my first insaid. “She came to the sport rela- ternational competition. He helped tively late and hadn’t put a whole me deal with nerves.� list together.� Like Krug, he competed in a test Krug dived at both the 2004 and event in London. The facilities won’t 2008 Olympic Trials, qualifying “at be so overwhelming this trip. the last possible moment� in 2004 “He’s a great diver, period,� and somehow reaching the finals af- Schavone said. “He’s one of the top ter entering the semifinals in ninth five divers of all time and a genius of place. She had just completed her freshman year at Stanford. (continued on page 28)

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Ben Lee of the Palo Alto Police Department is using his experience as a 1992 Olympian in badminton to guide the fortunes of the U.S. Olympic badminton team in the 2012 Summer Games in London.

A 1992 Olympian heads up USA badminton team as coach Palo Alto police officer, Ben Lee, helped grow sport in U.S. by Eric Van Susteren s a young athlete, Ben Lee was active in many sports. The future Olympian, however, found only one that could satisfy his high activity level. It wasn’t boxing, soccer, or even tennis. It was badminton. “It got me hooked as soon as I started playing,� he said. “It was the combination of so many different things: endurance, speed, power, agility finesse — it’s never just one.� Twenty years ago, Lee represented the United States at the Barcelona Olympics in badminton. It was the first year it was included as an Olympic sport. This month he’s returning to the Summer Games in London, England, but not as player. Lee, now a Palo Alto police officer, was selected as the U.S. Olympic Badminton Team’s head coach. For the past few months he has been flying to Los Angeles most weeks to coach the team for 10 to 20 hours, pushing them hard in practice and nudging them gently when he tries to motivate them. “I try not to tell them too much,� he said. “It clouds the mind, and I want them to compete with a clear head.� Lee, who was the captain of the ‘92 Olympic badminton team, said he understands the pressure. His doubles team made it as far as the final 16 in Barcelona, and the rest U.S. badminton team didn’t take any medals home that summer. But he said one of the team’s major accomplishments that year was inspiring the next generation of athletes — and Olympians. “It was definitely one of the pinnacles of my career,� he said. “It really

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motivated a lot of coming-up players that we competed with the resources we had at the level we did.� He said badminton as a serious sport has grown tremendously in the in the U.S. since his time. Professional badminton facilities didn’t exist in the Bay Area 10 years ago, Lee said. Today there are 16. “In the late ‘80s and in the ‘90s there were no clubs like there are now,� he said. “We were under the mercy of the days and times the high schools and gyms were open, and there weren’t many coaches around either. Nowadays players can play in really nice clubs with an abundance of coaches.� The growth doesn’t come from only professional badminton facilities. High school teams and college clubs are popping up, both of which do a lot to dispel the image of badminton as a “backyard� sport or “lawn game,� he said. Palo Alto and Gunn high schools have had badminton teams for years and college scholarships are even offered in the sport. “When you tell people you compete professionally, they still have that backyard image in their mind,� he said. “What a lot of people don’t realize is that shuttle is coming off the racquet at 200 miles per hour. The flanged design slows it down a lot, but it’s still going over the net at 100 miles per hour.� These days, 47-year-old Lee said he can’t hit the shuttle that fast and can’t compete with the athleticism of the players he coaches, saying it would be like John McEnroe going up against Roger Federer. Still, coaching is his opportunity to stay engaged with the sport and its com-

munity. “Some players retire and they take it easy, move on and start a family,� said Lee, who has two children. “For the most part I’ve done the same, but I’ve got a great passion for the sport and really wanted to stay involved.� Lee said the discipline and determination he learned from badminton helped him achieve another of his childhood dreams — becoming a police officer. “It’s something that I had wanted to do for a long time — since I was a kid,� said Lee, who joined the police department when he was 37. “As I got older I knew if I waited too long it would be too late. I felt like it was either now or never.� Lee, who teaches defensive tactics and is trained in hostage negotiation with the Palo Alto Police Department, is coaching his players much as he would for other international competitions because on the surface they’re very similar. Just as in the Pan Am Games or World Championships, players compete with elite competitors in front of thousands, but to Lee there is something different about playing at the Olympics. “It’s the environment that makes it so special,� he said. “This is pretty much the event, and the players know it. It’s the pinnacle of every dream.�N Editorial assistant Eric Van Susteren can be emailed at evansusteren@paweekly.com.

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which he has dedicated a lifetime reaches far beyond the pool. He has graced the covers of hundreds of magazines and inspired a whole generation of players that will keep America vibrant in the sport. Earlier this year, the U.S. beat powerhouses Hungary and Serbia during an exhibition series on American soil. The U.S. understands how close it is to the top of the Jessica Steffens podium. “If everyone is on the same page, you’re moving more like a machine,� Azevedo said in the USA Today article. “You get to learn more about your teammates, how someone reacts, how to talk to them, how to inspire them. I think that’s a really important part. Ideally, especially in a team sport, it’s which team is better not which 13 individuals are better.� Team USA has three other Stanford grads on its roster: Peter Varellas, Peter Hudnut and Layne Beaubein. They have all played on national collegiate championship teams and were members of the 2008 silver medal ride.

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a twister. He does that was well now as he did when he was eight years old. He hasn’t been over-trained.� Ipsen and Dumais took a big lead into the finals of the Olympic Trials and still dived well enough to increase that lead. Ipsen said it felt

Villa has another Stanford grad around her in Jessica Steffens. Several others will be returning to Stanford in the fall and a run at a third straight NCAA title. Melissa Seidemann and Annika Dries played on Stanford’s 2011 national title team. Maggie Steffens has yet to play for the Cardinal. “I genuinely enjoy playing water polo and have fun doing it as this level,� Villa said. “The travel, the team, competing, it’s still fun. It’s fun to train with a group of winners every day.� Villa, at age 32, is not the oldest on the team. That honor belongs to Cal grad Heather Petri, 34. Villa is, however, the most decorated women’s water polo player the United States has ever known. FINA Magazine, which covers the world, named her the Female Water Polo Player of the Decade for 2000-10. Like Azevedo, she left Stanford as the school’s all-time leading scorer and with a national title. And also like Azevedo, only a gold medal would add to her legacy. Still, a new future awaits her following these Olympics. “When you get older it’s harder,� Villa said. “Realistically you don’t know if you can do it financially any more. It’s time to join the real world and I’m excited to see what’s next.� N Assistant Sports Editor Rick Eymer can be emailed at reymer@ paweekly.com. like the best they had ever done. “The ‘if’s’ were gone after that final dive,� Ipsen said. “It was a great feeling.� And having a teammate? “I enjoy the team aspect,� Ipsen said. “We can definitely help each other.� Sharing gold in London also would be nice. N

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Foluke Akinradewo Tony Azevedo David Banks Cynthia Barboza Nicole Barnhart Layne Beaubien Bob Bryan Mike Bryan Rachel Buehler Jillian Camarena-Williams Jake Cornelius Annika Dries Gabe Gardner Ryan Hall Kevin Hansen Peter Hudnut Kristian Ipsen Maria Koroleva Cassidy Krug Elle Logan Kelley O’Hara Alex Osborne Christen Press Kristin Richards Logan Tom Melissa Seidemann Silas Stafford Jessica Steffens Maggie Steffens Brenda Villa Peter Varellas Kerri Walsh

Women’s indoor volleyball Men’s water polo Men’s Eight (8+) rowing Women’s indoor volleyball (alternate) Women’s soccer Men’s water polo Men’s tennis doubles Men’s tennis doubles Women’s soccer Women’s shot put Men’s Eight (8+) rowing Women’s water polo Men’s volleyball (alternate) Men’s marathon Men’s volleyball (alternate) Men’s water polo Men’s 3-meter synchro diving Women’s synchronized swimming Women’s 3-meter springboard diving Women’s Eight (8+) Women’s soccer Men’s Quadruple Sculls (4x) Women’s soccer (alternate) Women’s indoor volleyball (alternate) Women’s indoor volleyball Women’s water polo Men’s Pair (2-) rowing Women’s water polo Women’s water polo Women’s water polo Men’s water polo Women’s beach volleyball

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Kenya/men’s swimming Kenya/men’s swimming Canada/men’s wrestling Bermuda/women’s track and field Nigeria/men’s track & field Canada/men’s swimming New Zealand/women’s soccer Austria/men’s swimming Greece/women’s track & field Canada/women’s gymnastics

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STANFORD NOTES . . . Tight end Coby Fleener and quarterback Andrew Luck are officially teammates again, this time with the Indianapolis Colts. The former Stanford pass-catch duo hooked up again Wednesday when Fleener signed on. Fleener used his Twitter account to announce resolution of his contract. “I am happy to announce the @NFLColts and I have agreed to a contract! #gocolts,� he tweeted. Specific financial details were not immediately available, but the NFL’s rookie wage scale had set the parameters for Fleener, the Colts’ second-round draft pick who went No. 34 overall. Fleener was slotted to receive a four-year, $5.3 million contract with a signing bonus of approximately $2.3 million.On coming to the Colts and working once again with Luck, Fleener said: “I think anytime you can go into a camp with someone you are familiar with, it’s exciting.� At Stanford last season, Fleener had 34 catches for 667 yards (a 19.6 average) plus 10 touchdowns. In 51 career games, he had 96 catches for 1,543 yards and 18 touchdowns.

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ROWING MEDALS . . . Sacred Heart Prep senior Danni Struck of Portola Valley will have some interesting stories to tell when she returns to school in the next month. She just won a gold medal in the quadruple sculling (four-person boat) and a bronze in the single at the Canammex International Regatta held at Lake Xochimilco, site of 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Struck was representing US Rowing in the annual event that brings together athletes from Canada, Mexico and the United States.

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PA KNIGHTS . . . The Palo Alto Knights still have some roster spot open heading into the 2012 youth football season. Teams with openings include: Tiny Mites (ages 6-7), Cadets (ages 8-9), Jr. Pee Wee (ages 10-11), Pee Wee (ages 11-12), Jr. Midget (atges 12-13) and Midget (ages 14-15). Signups and equipment handouts will be Sunday at the Palo Alto High tennis courts from 9 a.m. To 2 p.m. For more information, go to www.paknights.

Palo Alto Oaks’ veteran Matt Campbell will be in action this weekend as he and his teammates defend their title at the AABC Stan Musial Division Western Regional at Baylands Athletic Center. The Oaks open on Friday at 5 p.m.

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larke Weatherspoon and his Stanford Water Polo Club Boys’ 16U Red team have enjoyed some success this season with three top-five finishes in major tournaments. Those performances, however, are mere quizzes compared to the test the Stanford team will face beginning Saturday at the annual SwimOutlet.com Junior Olympics. The Stanford Water Polo Club not only is hosting the largest youth water polo tournament in the world, but the 16U Red squad is seeded No. 1 in its 48-team division. No pressure there. “JOs have not always been the kindest tournament for me,� said

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by Keith Peters tanford grad Kelley O’Hara made her Olympic debut with the U.S. Women’s National Team one to remember as the Americans rallied from two goals down to post a 4-2 soccer victory over France in an opening-round match on Wednesday at the famed Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland. O’Hara and fellow Stanford grad Rachel Buehler both started and played the entire match, witnessing the stirring comeback that earned Team USA three points in its quest for a third straight Olympic gold medal. Cardinal grad and backup goalie Nicole Barnhart did not see action behind starter Hope Solo.

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ince the first day of the season, the Palo Alto Oaks had a goal of returning to the American Amateur Baseball Congress Stan Musial World Series. The Oaks finished third two years ago and fourth last season. The 2012 campaign was to provide the opportunity to move up even higher. While Palo Alto may have two opportunities to reach the World Series at this weekend’s Western Regional on its home field at Baylands Athletic Center, the Oaks may have to decline the trip even if they earn it. “Here’s the problem,� said Steve Espinoza, the Oaks’ general manager who coached the team to the past two World Series appearances. “The AABC cut out paying for the hotel, except for $1,000. They also cut out giving players a daily allowance for food. If that doesn’t sound bad enough, they moved it (the World Series) from Houston to (Port Lucie) Florida and are trying to expand the tournament to 12-16 teams. So, they are requiring teams to be there earlier in the week to start playing games. “Taking away those funds and expanding the tournament is a major hardship on the Oaks. We don’t have any more sponsors as in years past and the cost to take the team is $20,000. To add to this hardship is some of my guys work and taking up to six days off to play in the World Series is a hardship on them.

Stanford grads Kelley O’Hara (left) and Rachel Buehler (right) both started in Team USA’s 4-2 soccer victory over France in an Olympic opener.

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I’m unsure that we will go to the World Series, even if we win the West Region.� Espinoza hasn’t closed the door on a possible trip to Florida. He said he’ll wait to see how things play out this weekend and what kind of commitments his players can make. The Oaks are the two-time defending regional champion and will their quest to make it three when they take on Bandidos Baseball, the No. 1 seed from Southern California, on Friday at 5 p.m. In the first game, the NorCal champion Sacramento Legends will face the NorCal runner-up Solano Mudcats at 1 p.m. The winners will meet Saturday at Baylands at 2 p.m., with the firstround losers tangling at 11 a.m. The championship game is set for Sunday at 11 a.m., with a challenge game (if necessary) scheduled for 3 p.m. If the Oaks don’t win the regional title, they still could advance to the World Series as an at-large team based on the expanded field. Or, Palo Alto may not go at all. “Things have changed a lot,� Espinoza said, “and not for the better.� Palo Alto comes into the regional with a 15-3 record and perhaps better suited than in the previous two seasons. “I think we’re confident,� said player-manager Greg Matson, who took over the on-field duties this season with coach Joey Ordonez to allow Espinoza to concentrate on the business side of the team. “It’s good we’ve lost a few games.� The Oaks were 20-1 last season heading into the World Series and 20-1-2 the year before. “I like what we have now,� said Matson, who has nine guys who can throw. “We’ve always gotten to these (postseason) places with pitching. I’m feeling good about it. Our pitching and defense has been the best I’ve seen.� Matson, a 2002 Gunn High grad,

Veteran Allen Stiles brings some hitting punch and speed to the Palo Alto Oaks’ lineup for the Western Regional this weekend. is in his ninth season with the Oaks — arriving with Espinoza, another former Oaks’ player (1974-84). The 28-year-old Matson still lives in Palo Alto and remains loyal to his team and former coach. Matson is one of nine players who are 25 or older. “A lot of the guys have been here for five years or more,� Matson said. “Guys don’t want to give up their positions. I’ve turned down the most players we’ve ever turned away.� While playing for the Oaks used to be a way to fill the summer, things have changed for the players in recent years. “We’re playing for a reason every week,� Matson said. “The standards we’ve set — we expect to win.� That’s the goal once again this weekend as the Oaks host the Western Regional for the first time in their 62 years of existence. Lefty A.J. Gallardo is expected to start for the Oaks in Friday’s opener. Matson also has lefties Matt Campbell and newcomer C.J. Hillyer. There’s also Dominic Hernandez, Brant Norlander, Brian Maihack, Gunn grad Ricky Navarro, Paly grad Jason Kleinhoffer and even Matson, fittingly a closer. “This is the deepest pitching we have had since I’ve been here,� Espinoza said. Added Matson: “If we can get some hits, we’ll be OK.� The Oaks tuned up for this weekend’s regional playoffs by winning two of three games last weekend at Baylands Athletic Center. Palo Alto topped Bercovich Gold, 7-1, in a nonleague game Saturday before splitting a nonleague doubleheader with the visiting Fontanetti’s Collegiate on Sunday, losing the opener (3-2) before winning the nightcap, 2-0. On Saturday, the Oaks cruised past Bercovich Gold of Oakland behind the powerful left-handed tandem of Gallardo and Campbell.

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Gallardo, a first-year Oak coming off a fine senior season at Cal State East Bay, dominated the Gold by allowing no runs and only one hit over the first five frames. Campbell, serving in rare relief duty, allowed one run on one hit in the sixth before shutting down the Gold in order for the remainder of the game. Leadoff hitter Evan Warner from Palo Alto High hit the ball well, reaching base in four of five chances. Cleanup hitter Bryan Beres had two doubles, driving in two, while Danny Ordonez added three hits of his own, driving in one and scoring twice. The Oaks had 13 hits in all. On Sunday, Hernandez started the first game and allowed Fontanetti’s three runs and five hits through the first six innings. Fontanetti’s used four pitchers who combined to allow only two runs on five Palo Alto hits. Navarro held Fonatanetti’s scoreless for the remainder of the game, but three runs proved to be enough for the visitors from San Jose. The Oaks rallied in the bottom of the ninth, loading the bases with no outs but failed to score. In Game 2, the Oaks scored all the runs they needed in the first inning. Warner led off the game by reaching first on a fielding error and then stole second. He advanced to third on a single by Allen Stiles, then scored on a sacrifice fly by Beres. Stiles advanced to second on Beres’ sacrifice, moved to third on a groundout and then scored on a single by designated hitter Anthony Bona. Jeff Ramirez had three hits in three at bats combined with two stolen bases in the game. Hillyer got the win by pitching a shutout for the first four innings of the seven-inning contest. Norlander pitched two more scoreless innings before turning the ball over to Matson, who earned the save with a scoreless final inning. N

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Player-manager Greg Matson adds pitching depth.

Lloyd gave the USA the lead in the 56th minute with a rocket shot from 25 yards out that screamed into the left side of the net almost Carli Lloyd came off the bench before Bouhaddi could make a move just 17 minutes into the game and toward it. Lloyd had received a ball scored the game-winning goal, Cal in midfield and took a few dribbles grad Alex Morgan contributed two to free herself for the winning shot, goals and veteran Abby Wambach which she then celebrated by runhad the USA’s first tally as the U.S. ning to the U.S. bench and executing rebounded from an early deficit in a perfect knee slide into a gaggle of the first 13 minutes with four unan- teammates. swered to open the Olympics atop Lloyd’s goal was her second its group. straight Olympic game-winner as “You can’t look at only the first she had the lone goal in the 2008 minutes or the last minutes, it’s the Olympic gold-medal game to defeat whole game,â€? said U.S. head coach Brazil, 1-0, in overtime. Pia Sundhage. “If you Morgan sealed the look at the whole game, match in the 66th minute I’m really proud of the with her team-leading 19 team. Scoring four goals, goal of the season. and goals that were fanThe two second half tastic, that’s one way to goals took the fight out of prove that you are ready France, and although the (for the Olympics). It was talented French tried to a little shaky beginning, pull a goal back, the U.S. but I think it was amazdefense led by Christie ing the way we came back Rampone and Buehler, and responded to those Kelley O’Hara closed off the back and two goals.â€? shut down almost every The USA had started the game French attack in the final 45 minoff well but, after allowing the two utes. Solo ruled her penalty area goals, it seemed things were going after the two early goals, making from bad to worse for the Ameri- several brave catches in traffic and cans who were forced to make an controlling the tempo of the match early substitution after midfielder with her distribution and kicking Shannon Boxx suffered a ham- game. She also made a nice grab string injury in the 17th minute and off a header from ‌lodie Thomis was replaced by Lloyd. It actually in the first half. turned out to be a turning point in Along with O’Hara, four other the match. U.S. players made their Olympic Shortly after the change, the USA debuts on Wednesday: right back got one foot back into the match as Amy LePeilbet, midfielder Megan Wambach, who missed the 2008 Rapinoe and forwards Morgan and Olympics with a broken leg, tal- Sydney Leroux. O’Hara was one of lied her first Olympic goal since six players making their first start in the 2004 Athens gold-medal game, the Summer Games. heading home a Megan Rapinoe The USA now has a 13-0-1 record corner kick in the 19th minute. in the series with France that dates The Americans now had the mo- to the first meeting on July 29, 1988 mentum and the prodigious right — a 1-0 USA victory in Rimini, Itleg of keepr Hope Solo set up the aly. France entered these Olympics equalizer in the 32nd minute. Solo on a 17-game winning streak. sent a kick deep into the French The Americans will continue defensive third where it flew over Group G play against Colombia at the leaping Wambach and her mark, Hampden Park on Saturday at noon and skipped through to the streak- (PDT) and wrap up group play on ing Morgan. Morgan then held off Tuesday against Korea DPR at 9:15 defender Ophelie Meilleroux and a.m. lifted her left-footed shot over onBoth games are televised live on rushing France goalkeeper Sarah the NBC Sports Network (Comcast Bouhaddi and into the net. The cable 723). N strike was Morgan’s first Olympic goal after scoring twice in the (US Soccer contributed to this story) Women’s World Cup last summer.

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Stanford grads Rachel Buehler (16) and Kelley O’Hara (5) were in the starting lineup for the U.S. Women’s National Team in its Olympic opener.

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Weatherspoon, who coached the 14U Red team to a ninth-place finish last year in Southern California. “But, I think it’s a real exciting weekend. For some of the guys, it’ll be some of the biggest games they’ll play in high school, partially because they’re at home and will be playing in front of family and friends. “If you’re home and you’re the No. 1 seed and you’re playing in the pool where you train . . . there’s a responsibility.� We at her sp o on’s team earned the No. 1 seed thanks to Lamorinda, which won the 16U title at the Junior Olympics last summer. When Stanford beat Lamorinda at the Zone Qualifying tournament last month, Stanford immediately had a target on its back. To that, Weatherspoon isn’t that concerned. “As long as they do their job, they don’t have to worry about the Southern California teams,� Weatherspoon said. “We haven’t played a team this summer that, player for player, was better than us.� The Stanford 16U Red team has finished no lower than fifth, which was the team’s last outing — at the U.S. Club Championships in Orange County a few weeks ago. Seeded behind Stanford is No. 2 Rose Bowl, No. 3 Regency and No. 4 Lamorinda. Regency features the younger members of the Mater Dei program, which hasn’t lost a high school match in over two years. The Stanford 16U squad last won a gold medal at JOs in 2008. The quest to duplicate that begins Saturday at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center when the local team opens against Chicago Park District at 8:40 a.m. A victory will move Stanford into a second-round game at 1:40 p.m. If Stanford continues to win, action shifts to San Jose State on Sunday with matches at 10:20 a.m. And 1:40 p.m. A 4-0 record will move Stanford

back to Baker Pool on the Cardinal campus on Monday morning. Semifinals are Tuesday morning at Sacred Heart Prep with the championship match back at Avery Aquatic Center later in the day. The Stanford 16U Red team has a number of local high school players, including Harrison Enright, Nelson Perla-Ward and Michael Swart of Sacred Heart Prep, Evan McClelland and Morgan Olson-Fabbro of Menlo-Atherton, Coby Wayne from Gunn and goalie John Wilson from Menlo School. “They’ve done a good job this year,� Weatherspoon said. “They’ve had a few good years of training and playing together. The younger guys on the team, I’ve coached them for three years (as they’ve come up through the ranks).� Weatherspoon’s 14U team finished ninth last year after losing one match in a shootout and another by just a goal. Defense will be crucial once again over the fourday tournament. “I tell the boys if they want to win, they have to make their goalie look good.� The Stanford Water Polo Club will have nine teams entered, equaling the program’s most ever in the Junior Olympics. There are two teams each in 18s, 16s, 14s and 12s plus one co-ed 10U squad. The 18U Red team, which won the JO title last year under Brian

Harrison Enright of the Stanford 16U Red team

Kreutzkamp, is being coach by Terry O’Donnell this summer. He coached the 16U Red team to fourth place at the 2011 JOs and inherits three players off the 18U championship squad — goalie Alex Gow from Menlo-Atherton and field players Patrick Goodenough (St. Francis) and Adam Warmoth (Los Altos). O’Donnell also has his 16s goalie, Will Runkel of Sacred Heart Prep, which gives the 18s a solid one-two punch in the cage. “I have two great goalies,� O’Donnell said. “They’re very supportive of each other.� O’Donnell’s team is on the young side with six current members heading off to college and nine coming back to their respective high school teams. “It’s a nice group of kids, definitely different than last year,� O’Donnell said. The Stanford 18U Red squad finished third in the Cal Cup and seventh at the U.S. Club Championships, both good tuneups for the Junior Olympics. A lot of the same teams from those tournaments will be in the area this weekend. The Stanford 18U Red team is seeded sixth and will open Saturday at Palo Alto High at 10 a.m. A victory means another game at Paly at 3 p.m. If Stanford continues to win, it will play Sunday at Paly at 7 a.m. And 1 p.m. The championship match will be Tuesday at Avery Aquatic Center. “There are about eight good teams with a chance,� said O’Donnell. Regency, which was favored to win last year before being upset by Stanford, is not entered. Most of its top players are traveling with various USA Water Polo all-star teams this summer. The Stanford 18U White team, coached by new Paly head coach Brandon Johnson, will open Saturday at West Valley College at 9 a.m. The 16U White squad, coached by Matt Johnson, will open Saurday in the Challenge Division at San Jose State at 9:30 a.m. The Stanford 14U Red and White teams will be at Wilcox High on Saturday at 7:50 a.m. and 11:10 a.m., respectively, while the 12U Red will open at Cabrillo College in Aptos at 11 a.m., with the 12U White at San Lorenzo Valley High at 8:45 a.m. N

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