* Jerez Cortado is a Palo Cortado made from Manzanilla.

Palo Cortado is a rare variety of sherry that is initially aged under flor to become a fino or amontillado, but inexplicably loses its veil of flor and begins aging oxidatively as an oloroso.

Bus service across the bridge is provided by the Dumbarton Express, run by a consortium of local transit agencies ( SamTrans, AC Transit, VTA and others ) which connects to BART at Union City and Caltrain at Palo Alto and California Avenue.

* Art and Technology: The Palo Alto International Film Festival, a program of the Palo Alto Institute, is the only film festival in the United States to celebrate the convergence of art and technology, by focusing on the influence of emerging technologies on cinema.

Juego del Palo is a Canarian martial art which literally translates as game of the stick.

The Foresight Institute is a Palo Alto, California-based nonprofit organization for promoting transformative technologies.

The term GUI is restricted to the scope of two-dimensional display screens with display resolutions able to describe generic information, in the tradition of the computer science research at the PARC ( Palo Alto Research Center ).

Here is an example of an IFR clearance, for a Cessna aircraft traveling from Palo Alto airport ( KPAO ) to Stockton airport ( KSCK ).

NeXT's former campus at 3475 Deer Creek Road in Palo Alto is now used by SAP AG.

* 1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.

Robert A. Freitas Jr. is a Senior Research Fellow, one of four researchers at the nonprofit foundation Institute for Molecular Manufacturing in Palo Alto, California.

Its southern base is in Santa Clara County, including the cities of Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Mountain View.

Most of the Peninsula is occupied by San Mateo County, between San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, and including the cities and towns of Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, El Granada, Foster City, Hillsborough, La Honda, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Montara, Pacifica, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Gregorio, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside.

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an campus near Palo Alto.

The Stanfords chose their country estate, Palo Alto Stock Farm, in Santa Clara County as the site of the university, so that the University is sometimes called " the Farm " to this day.

The main campus is adjacent to Palo Alto, bounded by El Camino Real, Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard, and Sand Hill Road.

Stanford's main campus is a census-designated place within unincorporated Santa Clara County, although some of the university land ( including the Stanford Shopping Center and the Stanford Research Park ) is within the city limits of Palo Alto.

However, it remains an expensive area in which to own property, and the average price of single-family homes on campus is actually higher than in Palo Alto.

PARC ( Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated ), formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems.

* October 9 – 1995 Palo Verde derailment: An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.

Loren Wilber Acton ( born March 7, 1936 ) is an American physicist who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-F as a Payload Specialist for the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory.

Palo Duro Canyon, the second largest canyon in the United States, is located in Randall County.

Palo Pinto County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U. S. state of Texas.

CPSR was originally a chapter-based organization and had chapters in Palo Alto, Boston, Seattle, Austin, Washington, DC, Portland ( Oregon ) and other US locations as well as a variety of international chapters including Peru and Spain.

A variety of trail events are hosted on the trail each year including fully supported trail events ( Ridge to Bridge in Marin County in spring, RidgeToBridge. org, East Bay Hills Through-Hike & Equestrian Ride over Labor Day week, and the Ridge Trail Cruz in the Santa Cruz Mountains southwest of Palo Alto in fall ), volunteer work parties to build / maintain / restore Ridge Trail ( including the REI-Ridge Trail Service Day each November ), and a variety of others.

Palo Alto High offers a variety of music programs encompassing both vocal and instrumental groups:

Palo Verde was of such strategic importance, due to a variety of its features, that it and Phoenix were documented by the former Soviet Union as target locations in the event of nuclear conflict during the Cold War.

Carlmont has a student body with a variety of students from many different cities including Belmont, San Carlos, East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and San Mateo.

TimesTen was originally designed and implemented at Hewlett-Packard labs in Palo Alto, California by Marie-Anne Neimat, Sherry Listgarten, and Kurt Shoens.

Ground control for Corona satellites was initially conduct from Stanford Industrial Park, an industrial park on Page Mill Road in Palo Alto, California.

An interim satellite control center was initially established in Palo Alto, California, and by June, 1960, a permanent control center had been established Sunnyvale AFS, later renamed Onizuka AFS, Sunnyvale, California.

The two started Intuit, which initially operated out of a modest room on University Avenue in Palo Alto.

CBI was founded in 1978 by Erwin Tomash and associates as the International Charles Babbage Society, and initially operated in Palo Alto, California.

In 1998, aged 97, and having served as president of the Rose Club in Palo Alto's Lytton Gardens Senior Communities, she decided to try something new and signed up for the retirement community's 12-week computer class which aimed to teach seniors how to use WebTV.

Emerson Spencer died in Palo Alto, California, aged 78.

After his retirement ( after 49 years service ) from the South Australian Museum, Tindale took up a teaching position at the University of Colorado and remained in the United States until his death, aged 93, in Palo Alto, California.

Among them were settlers like William F. Notley, who homesteaded at the mouth of Palo Colorado Canyon in 1891.

All Ethernet port speeds are to be found at modern IXPs, ranging from 10 Mbit / s ports in use in small developing-country IXes, to ganged 10 Gbit / s ports in major centers like Seoul, New York, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Palo Alto.

By the 1960s, the water table was so low that salt water was intruding into nearby wells and Peninsula cities like Palo Alto switched to getting their water from the Hetch Hetchy system.

Closely related to Palo in practice, but like Obeah, lacking Palo's theological and liturgical aspects, is a form of African American folk magic known as hoodoo, conjure, or rootwork, which developed from African slave beliefs in the United States.

Latin America also has its share of martial arts devoted to stick fighting, like Venezuela's Juego del Garrote or Brazil's Palo do Brazil.