Palo Alto
Background
In the 1960s, rapid growth began to fill in the blank spaces on the Palo Alto map. Unincorporated areas and orchards still dotted the map. Prune and apricot orchards became suburban streets. The size and expertise of public safety services has evolved along with this constant growth in population. The city was among the first in Santa Clara County to offer advanced life support (ALS) paramedic-level (EMT-P) ambulance service. In an arrangement predating countywide paramedic service, Palo Alto Fire operates two paramedic ambulances which are theoretically shared with county EMS assets. The Palo Alto Fire Department is currently the only fire department in Santa Clara County that routinely transports patients. American Medical Response holds the Santa Clara County 911 contract and provides transportation in other cities. Enhanced 9-1-1 arrived in about 1980 and included the then-new ability to report emergencies from coin telephones without using a coin.
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...He earned a doctorate from London's School of Oriental and African Studies before becoming a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Note: If this is your first time using our NEW commenting system, you will have to LOG OUT and then...
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Miami Herald
...a leading international law firm with offices in Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Dubai, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Moscow, New York, Palo Alto (California), Riyadh and Washington. With approximately 820 lawyers, Baker Botts provides a full range of legal services...
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PR Newswire
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Medical News Today
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Street Insider
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San Francisco Chronicle
...successful seasons as the coach of this team." Cal's Jeff Tedford has battled Trojans and tree-sitters during his seven seasons in Berkeley. A two-year extension, signed on New Year's Day, will keep Tedford in Berkeley through 2015. "We are here for the...
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AZ starnet.com
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Detroit Free Press
...2006, KKR had acquired a 85% stake in Aricent for $900 million inone of the largest leveraged buyout in India. Though based in Palo Alto, California, 6,500 of Aricent's 8,000 employees are based in India. The interested parties are said to be willing to give...
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VC Circle
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12 hours ago from
Canoe
...trained a lot on your own in the past, haven't you? PG: Yeah, it's been a little while. When I was on the Farm Team (in Palo Alto), there were a lot of guys for me to train with. Sometime that didn't work out too well for me. I'd overtrain or not do the right...
13 hours ago from
Runner's World
Last Week - About Palo Alto
...their payouts on a principal amount smoothed by a three-year rolling average. Harvard has put a partial hiring freeze in place. Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, will trim its budget next year by 5% by postponing new construction, controlling salaries...
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Nature.com
...in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Then, the Mexican consulate in San Jose, which covers a huge territory from Palo Alto to Monterey, had heard Even as a bad economy is hurting donations of bikes, Quezada said, the demand for them is greater because officials...
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The San Jose Mercury News
...was shaken not only in the stock market, but also in bonds, said Leslie Beck of Beck Investment Management in Palo Alto. "That's why we have the money market earning a quarter percent." And that's why the year also saw a flight to U.S. Treasuries as shelter...
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The San Jose Mercury News
...burned by a bomb in Iraq. More than a year later and thousands of miles away at the Western Blind Rehabilitation Center in Palo Alto, the 27-year-old Romanian corporal can only share what his fellow soldiers told him. "I cannot remember nothing in accident,...
7 days ago from
Inside Bay Area
...— but in general the trees must be put out with no stands, no lights, no ornaments and no plastic wrappers. San Jose, Palo Alto and Santa Cruz accept flocked trees, but Pacifica and San Bruno do not. The sight of a once-magnificent 12-foot tree — stripped...
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The San Jose Mercury News
...Alto office, also was instrumental in creating the Palo Alto project, built for the Housing Authority of Santa Clara County and the Opportunity Center HDC. Good architecture isn't reserved for luxury condos anymore. In fact, excellent architecture can now...
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The San Jose Mercury News
...ALTO, Calif. -- Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. Both sites have removed images of women breast-feeding. Facebook says it bars people from uploading anything...
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KTVU
...by swapping their regular profile pictures on Facebook with ones depicting breastfeeding. At Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, 23-year-old mum Heather Farley, visiting from her home in Provo, Utah, led a real-world nurse-in to complement the...
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New Zealand Herald
...have fully exposed breasts. Some of the women on the site continue to protest as they wish to have freedom of expression. Jeff Jarvis and the author of “Mama Knows Breast” were called into the early morning show to comment on the issue. You can watch the video...
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AllFacebook.com - the unofficial Facebook blog
...week after protesters organised a virtual "nurse-in" on Facebook and held a small demonstration outside Facebook's office in Palo Alto, California. The petition has now attracted more than 80,000 names and over 10,000 comments, reigniting the old debate about...
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IBN Live
Last Month - About Palo Alto
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30 days ago from
San Francisco Chronicle
...that it sells for on the world market. And in some places these profits finance terror." Better Place, which is based in Palo Alto, California, has signed deals for similar electric car networks in San Francisco, Hawaii, Denmark and Australia, but the project...
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Guardian Unlimited
...Los Gatos High School Wildcats defeated the Palo Alto Vikings Dec. 6 to claim the Central Coast Section Championship. Los Gatos (10-3) lost to Palo Alto (9-4) 14-7 at the end of the regular season, and Palo Alto had enjoyed four consecutive wins going in to...
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Los Gatos Observer
...chase that ended in San Antonio has died. The chase happened back in November. It started in Natalia and ended on I-35 and Palo Alto when the driver lost control and crashed. Two people died after the crash. The third, who had been in the hospital since the...
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WOAI
...Jewish idealist Charlie and the Asian-American pragmatist Hope break up and reunite more often than Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. Yet the slender thread linking them seems very much like the one keeping any up-and-down union intact. Aside from the run-of-the-mill...
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The San Jose Mercury News
...and former CEO of Portal Software Inc., a developer of billing and revenue-management software that was bought by Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle Corp. in 2006. Venrock has offices in Palo Alto, Calif., New York, Cambridge, Mass., and Israel....
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Philadelphia Business Journal
...the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse and the California clapper rail. Bair Island, the largest nature reserve in the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, once consisted of 3,000 acres of rich tidal marsh. Throughout the years the island...
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Inside Bay Area
...seek other forms of energy, which should boost alternative energy providers like solar companies, Peta says. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (along with brother Carl Page) are investors in Nanosolar, which specializes in thin-film solar cells. Other...
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Blogcritics.org
Presidio Bank Names Steve Heitel President; Eyes Opportunities to Continue Bay Area Focus and Growth
...and industry benchmarks portends well for our growth and success in the future," he said. Heitel is a resident of Redwood City and a graduate of the University of San Francisco, with a degree in Finance. Previously he has served on the boards of the San...
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PR-Inside.com
...Long Story Short, by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda of GrooveLily fame, continues to Dec. 28 at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto, home of TheatreWorks. Tracy Brigden directs the production, as she did this fall at City Theatre, where she is the artistic...
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Playbill