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Redwood City Salsa Festival Saturday,Sept.24,noon to 8 p.m. Courthouse Square,2200 Broadway,Redwood City Admission:Free Public Salsa Tasting:Noon-5 p.m. Other Activities:Four Music Stages,Tequila Tasting,Salsa Dance Instruction,Hands-On Art Projects,Carnival Rides
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Redwood City resident Greg Matonis started making his own salsa in 1990 because it was cheaper for him than buying it at the store. Its cheaper for him to make his own salsa because he is not just having a little chips and salsa before dinner. I could eat a whole pint with breakfast, he said. When asked what he eats his salsa with, he said, A spoon will do. Over the years, Matonis has stuck
to the same recipe, perfecting his ratio of ingredients. My recipe is pretty simple, but its still a secret, he said. He doesnt grow his own tomatoes, but he uses fresh ingredients. His recipe is about 50 percent peppers. The people who can get past the heat of the peppers enjoy the avor from them, he said. A lot of people cant get past the heat, he said. People have asked me to branch off into mild and I say no.
Greg Matonis picks peppers in his garden for his homemade salsa that he See SALSA, Page 27 will enter in this weekends Redwood City Salsa Festival.
Nurses in red union shirts carried signs and chanted slogans outside Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame as well as dozens of Northern and Central California hospitals on Thursday as part of a one-day strike over benet cuts and other concessions sought by hospital management.
The superintendent of the San Bruno Park Elementary School District was ned by the California Fair Political Practices Commission yesterday for failing to disclose his wifes source of income. David Hutt was ned $800 for failing to disclose that his wife Suzette worked for a David Hutt company that provided daycare for the district from 2005 through 2008. He was ned $200 for each year he failed to show that his wife worked for Knowledge Learning Corporation, a private company that provides daycare for the district on a contract basis, Hutt told the Daily Journal yesterday. Hutt was required to show his wifes income on California Form 700 Statements of Economic Interests. He did disclose the detail in 2002, 2003 and 2004 but told
The brand-new Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, with its hotel-like atrium and sparkling facade, is indicative of how parent Sutter Health treats its workers, according to two intensive care nurses. Its focus is on image not functionality, said Genel Morgan, an intensive care unit charge nurse. Fellow nurse Sharon Tobin said management didnt listen to the nurses for input on how to make the hospital user-friendly, much like the nurses protesting yesterday said their contract
WASHINGTON The Obama administration is offering states a way around provisions of the once-heralded No Child Left Behind law, contending many elements of the Bush-era education initiative have become barriers to learning and that Barack Obama too many schools, even those showing modest progress, risk being labeled as failing. States will be allowed to ask the Education Department to be
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Sen. Richard M. Nixon, R-Calif., salvaged his vice-presidential nomination by delivering the Checkers speech, in which he defended himself against allegations of improper campaign fundraising.
In 1779, during the Revolutionary War, the American warship Bon Homme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, defeated the HMS Serapis in battle. In 1780, British spy John Andre was captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnolds plot to surrender West Point to the British. In 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis more than two years after setting out for the Pacic Northwest. In 1846, Neptune was identied as a planet by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. In 1908, an apparent baserunning error by Fred Merkle of the New York Giants cost his team a victory against the Chicago Cubs and left the game tied 1-1. (The Cubs won a rematch and with it, the National League pennant.) In 1939, Sigmund Freud (froyd), the founder of psychoanalysis, died in London at age 83. In 1957, nine black students whod entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside. In 1962, New Yorks Philharmonic Hall (later renamed Avery Fisher Hall) formally opened as the rst unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. In 1973, former Argentine president Juan Peron won a landslide election victory that returned him to power; his wife, Isabel, was elected vice president. In 1981, the Reagan administration announced plans for what became known as Radio Marti. Ten years ago: President George W. Bush returned the American ag to full staff at Camp David, symbolically ending a period of national mourning.
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Fernando Cruz Vega, a 3-year-old boy who was born without arms, puts on the cap to a pen in a room at the shanty town of Libertad in Comas.Deysi Vega,Fernandos mother,has travelled from the jungles of Peru in Mollobamba to Lima to seek medical help and rehabilitation therapies for her son.
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mately $125 million general fund with an entire budget roughly double that. The board agreed to use $8 million in reserves to soften the budgetary blow but projections show cuts of $5.8 million in 2012-13. The board is also assuming it will use reserves in the next two fiscal years without any more cuts or additions in the three years. Really, all we did was approve the framework that was already discussed, said board Trustee Dave Mandelkern. Mandelkern said the district is very lucky to have reserves as a fallback. This is the proverbial rainy day, Mandelkern said. Much now hinges on the governors budget to be released in January and whether socalled trigger cuts stand to take even more funds from the community college system. Holober said he doesnt want everybody to live in a perpetual state of depression and pessimism but that theres little chance of improvement unless the economy grow sunnier. Mandelkern, too, said the goal is not to get people worked up unnecessarily until the cuts are a reality instead of a possibility. The situation would be more bleak if voters had not passed Measure G, which generates approximately $5 million to $6 million annually. The district is also still recuperating from a $150 million when the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy leeched money from the San Mateo County Investment Pool.
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The San Mateo County Community College District is getting a slight budgetary reprieve this year from the boards use of millions of dollars in reserves but the situation could grow more dire with future cuts, said board President Richard Holober. The board Wednesday night discussed and adopted its budget and while Holober said there was little drama in the action the same may not hold true if the state imposes trigger cuts and the economy doesnt improve. The budget assumes a 7.5 percent workload reduction and fees staying at $36 until next summer. The districts budget includes an approxi-
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Burglary. A purse and a phone were taken from a vehicle on the rst block of Hillcrest Boulevard before 9:57 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 18. Threats. A man holding a restraining order was called by the suspect, who threatened to kill him and his family, on the rst block of Murchison Drive before 1:32 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18. Burglary. Jewelry and money were taken from a residence on the 500 block of Helen Drive before 11:10 a.m. Friday, Sept.16.
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Stolen vehicle. A vehicle was reported stolen and then found on the 300 block of Clifton Avenue before 8:35 a.m. Friday, Sept. 16. Theft. A theft occurred on the 2200 block of Carmelita Drive before 2:29 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15. Theft. A theft occurred on the 1200 block of El Camino Real before 1:21 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14.
A 77-year-old San Carlos man died yesterday after being hit by a car while he was crossing Alameda de las Pulgas at the intersection of Carmelita Drive in San Carlos last week, according to police. At approximately 10:53 a.m., Sept. 14, Frederick Grote was lawfully crossing the street westbound when he was struck by a 1995 Toyota Camry driven by an 84-year-old
man from Belmont south on Alameda de las Pulgas from San Carlos Avenue, according to the San Mateo County Sheriffs Ofce. The Sheriffs Ofce was told by the coroner Grote died from his injuries yesterday. Sheriffs officials say the driver was believed to be driving below the speed limit and did not brake before hitting Grote. The driver told police he did not see Grote before hitting him, according to the Sheriffs Ofce. The investigation also revealed the driver
had approximately 200 feet of unobstructed view of the intersection prior to impact. There is no evidence of distracted driving such as cell phone usage and no evidence of intoxication, according to the Sheriffs Ofce. The Sheriffs Office has directed the Department of Motor Vehicles to conduct a reexam on the driver to assess his driving capabilities and will be forwarding the investigation to the district attorney for review to determine if criminal charges should be led.
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Stolen vehicle. A motorcycle was stolen on Shell Boulevard before 1:56 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16. Burglary. A large at-screen television, a laptop, a case of DVDs, three Samurai swords, and a PlayStation were stolen from a residence on Pensacola Street before 5:16 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16.
BERKELEY Dozens of student protesters have occupied a building on the University of California, Berkeley campus. Demonstrators upset about tuition hikes and state budget cuts held a noon rally on Sproul Plaza Thursday before entering Tolman Hall,
where ground-floor classrooms are closed because of seismic safety concerns. UC Berkeley spokeswoman Janet Gilmore said that campus police are monitoring the protest but have not decided what to do if the demonstrators remain in the building. In an entry on the online blog
reclaimuc.blogspot.com, protesters say they are opening up a university building to be used as an organizing and educational space. Protesters say the University of California is becoming increasingly unaffordable as the 10campus UC system raises tuition in response to state cuts to higher education.
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Burglary. A homeowners cleaner reported seeing a ladder propped up against the house, on the 1500 block of Cypress Avenue before 1:53 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16.
HALF MOON BAY After years of changing management, the Mavericks big wave surfing contest will now be led by the man who made the treacherous break famous in the first place. On Wednesday San Mateo County officials granted a permit for the event to Mavericks International, Inc. led by Jeff
Clark, the first person known to have surfed the spot, and pro surfer Ken Collins. Each year, when a large swell is forecast, 24 of the worlds most daring big wave surfers get a days notice to fly to the Half Moon Bay area to compete. This year, spectators will be banned from the beach and bluffs in the area, after rogue waves in 2010 injured more than a dozen. There was no contest in 2011.
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U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, reintroduced bipartisan legislation to improve and advance the treatment of childhood cancer survivors. The Childhood Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act: Establishes a pilot program to develop, study and evaluate model systems of care for childhood cancer survivors and improve coordination between providers; Establishes grants at the National Institutes of Health to support research on late effects and follow-up care for pediatric cancer survivors; Convenes a Workforce Development Collaborative on medical and psychosocial care for childhood cancer survivors to develop information for health care educators about evidence based curricula relevant to providing services to pediatric cancer patients; and Establishes grants to create and operate childhood survivorship clinics for comprehensive long-term follow up services for childhood cancer survivors.
A green jobs-fueled recovery is a theory,and is yet unproven....There is a lot more green,in the way of cash,and a lot less energy and jobs than anticipated.
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Christina M. Corey died Sept. 19, 2011 in San Bruno at the age of 42 years. She dearly loved her only son Mason Corey. Loved by her remaining family, her parents Terry and Sharon Douglas and Gary Kaufman, grandmother Alma Douglas, aunt Lynell Davis and cousins Chris and Jim Davis. Donations in Christinas memory may be made to the Peninsula Humane Society, www.PHS-SPCA.org. She is safe and not alone. As a public service, the Daily Journal prints obituaries of approximately 250 words or less with a photo one time on the date of the familys choosing.
the hearing: It is reasonable to predict that we could have the collapse of the entire solar panel manufacturing business in America. More than 100,000 Americans are employed in solar twice as many as in 2009 making it the fastest-growing industry in America, said Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, an industry group. The industry includes more than 5,000 companies in all 50 states, Resch said. The Obama administration said the solar industry and renewable energy in general were crucial to economic growth and job creation. The debate over solar came as Issas committee released a report titled,
How Obamas Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs. The report criticizes what it calls questionable accounting methods used by the Obama administration to count green jobs and says the term is vague and poorly dened. A green jobs-fueled recovery is a theory, and is yet unproven, Issa said. There is a lot more green, in the way of cash, and a lot less energy and jobs than anticipated. Democrats assailed the report, saying Issa had offered no evidence that the Obama administration was killing jobs. Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., called the report intellectually dishonest and said its title showed Issas raw, partisan agenda.
OAKLAND Bob MacKenzie, a San Francisco Bay area journalist whose award-winning feature reporting for KTVU-TV earned him a reputation as a masterful storyteller, has died. He was 75. MacKenzie, who worked more than 30 years at the station, died of cancer on Thursday.
MacKenzie began his career as a newsman after graduating in 1962 from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked at The Oakland Tribune for Bob MacKenzie 14 years before becoming TV
Guides television critic. He joined KTVU in 1978 as a feature reporter and went on to win 13 local Emmys and other awards. KTVU anchor Frank Somerville said MacKenzie was an extraordinary reporter who had a keen eye for detail. MacKenzie is survived by his wife Miyuki, his daughter Dana and two grandchildren. Information from: KTVU-TV
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ORLANDO, Fla. Side by side in confrontational debate, Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Perry sarcastically accused each other Thursday night of flip-flopping on Social Security and health care, flashpoints in their intense struggle for the party nomination. In a debate that focused on character and credibility as much as other issues, Perry insisted he had backed off not one inch, Sir from what he had written in a campaign-season book published a few months ago. Romney vouched for his own steadfastness moments later. There are a lot of reasons not to elect me, he said. There are a lot of reasons not to elect other people on this stage. ... But one reason to elect me is I know what I stand for. Ive written it down. Words have meaning. The two men assailed one another in the third debate in as many weeks in a race for the Republican presidential nomination growing testier by the day. Perry runs ahead in national opinion polls, with Romney a close second, and they compete daily for endorsements from members of Congress and other party luminaries in hopes of gaining a permanent edge before the caucuses and primaries begin early next year. The other contenders on the stage struggled at times to gain the debate spotlight, even as they struggle to gain traction in the polls. The GOP presidential hopefuls all agreed quickly on one point that President Barack Obamas handling of the economy was woeful. They said they would cut taxes, eliminate government regulations and take other steps to help create jobs in a nation with 9.1 percent unemployment. Yet the two-hour event was marked by clashes over Social Security, health care, immigration, gun rights and more. Romney accused Perry of having said the
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federal government shouldnt be in the pension business, that its unconstitutional, a reference to Social Security benefits. Noting his rivals denials, Romney mocked him. You better find that Rick Perry and get him to stop saying that, he said. Perry soon returned the favor, saying that Romney switched his position on health care between editions of a book he had published. In one edition, Perry said, Romney advocated expanding to the rest of the country the health care program he signed in Massachusetts. Then in your paperback you took that line out, so speaking of not getting it straight in your book, Sir. Its like badminton, said Perry. The Massachusetts legislation required residents of the state to purchase health coverage or pay a fine, a cornerstone of the law that Obama won from Congress last year that has inflamed conservative voters across the country. Perry also accused Romney of flip-flopping his views on the rights of gun owners. In fact, both Perry and Romney have sought to blur if not rewrite portions of their own records as they vie for the nomination. In Romneys case, that has meant trying to win support from conservative voters despite the moderate positions he held on social issues while he was governor of Massachusetts.
A San Mateo County Superior Court judge Thursday set a trial date for lawsuits led by victims of the San Bruno pipeline disaster to proceed against PG&E. Judge Steven Dylina said that the group of 95 cases representing more than 300 plaintiffs should be ready to go to trial on July 2, 2012. In his ruling, Dylina said the victims of the Sept. 9, 2010 explosion, which killed eight people and injured dozens more, were forefront in his mind as he sought to maneuver the very complex group of cases through the court system toward a trial next year. I realize the gravity of the importance of this case for the people of San Bruno, Dylina said. In a draft report on the disaster issued last month by the National Transportation Safety Board, investigators found that PG&E installed a awed section of pipe in the Crestmoor Canyon neighborhood in 1956, and that the utilitys lax record keeping and inspections practices failed to detect the problem until the line exploded last year. Dylina presented a roadmap for how the dozens of lawsuits led against PG&E in the wake of the disaster could be heard most efciently as a group while addressing the particular needs of each individual claim. Dylina suggested that lawyers for PG&E and the plaintiffs divide the claims into eight different categories: wrongful death; serious bodily injury requiring treatment or hospitalization; minor bodily injuries and property loss; minor bodily injuries with no property loss; those who were present at the time of the explosion and lost property; those who were present at the time of the explosion and did not lose property; those who were not present at the time of the explosion and lost property; and those who were not present at the time of the explosion and lost little or no property.
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in the back because he thought the acquaintance had slept with his wife and later hiding from South San Francisco police under a pile of towels will stand trial early next year on attempted murder and weapons charges. Jairo Ulises Ramos, 40, pleaded not guilty to the counts and was scheduled for a Feb. 6 jury trial. According to prosecutors, Ramos, of San Francisco, thought his wife was involved with the South San Francisco man and confronted him while the couple was at his apartment. Ramos allegedly threw a milk container on the kitchen oor while announcing his suspicions and grabbed a knife. He reportedly struck the man with the knife once in the back and multiple times on the hand. The victim pushed Ramos away and ed the apartment to call authorities. Police reported nding Ramos at the apartment, hiding in the bathtub under some towels. Ramos remains in custody without bail.
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Barack Obama speaks in front of the dilapidated Brent Spence Bridge during a visit to Cincinnati,Ohio.
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is marketing his massive jobs proposal from an outdated bridge that links the home states of his two chief congressional Republican rivals, a symbolic and cheeky maneuver designed to apply pressure on the GOP and convey resolve in the face of a sputtering economy. Obama was making his pitch Thursday for $447 billion in tax cuts, jobless aid and public works projects at the Brent Spence Bridge south of Cincinnati, an aging span that connects House Speaker John Boehners state of Ohio with Kentucky, home of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The politics are clear.
The point here is that its not an accident that were headed to that area, said White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer. Strategically, the visit serves Obamas legislative and political goals. The president is making his jobs bill the focus of his fall agenda amid broad public disapproval over his handling of the economy. The trip also raises Obamas prole in Ohio, a state that he won in 2008 but that George W. Bush also won twice. McConnell and Boehner, both of whom have supported the bridge project, dismissed the visit as a ploy. I would suggest, Mr. President, that you think about ways to actually help the people of Kentucky and Ohio, instead of how you can use their roads and bridges as a backdrop for making a political point,
McConnell said on the Senate oor Thursday morning. If you really want to help our state then come back to Washington and work with Republicans on legislation that will actually do something to revive our economy and create jobs. And forget the political theater. Added Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck, We want to work with the president to support job creation, but political stunts and empty promises bring us no closer to nding common ground. Public opinion polls show only about 1 in 4 people approves of Obamas economic performance. The president is seeking to put his differences with Republicans into sharper focus and to shift to his political rivals some of the responsibility for the nations high unemployment and feeble growth rate.
SACRAMENTO Californias political watchdog agency ned 16 executives and investment managers of the nations largest public pension fund on Thursday for failing to report gifts that included food, wine and baseball and Rose Bowl tickets. The largest fine was $3,600 against Shaun Greenwood, a portfolio manager for the California Public Employees Retirement System. He failed to report $2,700
worth of clothing, alcohol, meals and event tickets. Gifts came primarily from the funds investment partners, including Goldman Sachs, UBS, Credit Suisse, the Carlyle Group and LP Capital Advisors. The nes are the latest spinoff from a wider influence-peddling investigation that brought a lawsuit by the attorney generals ofce last year alleging fraud and kickbacks. The larger investigation involved middlemen known as placement agents who were paid more than $180 million by their clients to
lobby for investment business from CalPERS. The ethics investigation led to a review of gifts received by pension fund employees and board members dating to 2006. The 16 nes are agreements between the commissions investigators and the employees. The fines include $400 for CalPERS board president Rob Feckner, who failed to report ve meals worth a total of $277 in 2007 and 2008. Board member Louis Moret was ned $400 for accepting two meals worth $217 in 2008.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank The drama over the Palestinians bid for U.N. recognition is still unfolding, but President Mahmoud Abbas appears to have won new respect at home for standing up to the United States and moving their decadeslong quest for statehood back to the center of the world stage. Recognition of Palestine even in a possible watered-down form, since full U.N. membership is blocked by a certain U.S. veto wont bring the Palestinians true independence anytime soon. It might not even be enough to improve their hoped-for leverage in future border talks with Israel. But despite such uncertainties and the risk of a serious rift with Washington, Abbas and his aides say they had to try to break the diplomatic impasse of recent years with a bold move. Abbas was losing domestic credibility as well as political ground against militant rival Hamas by sticking to the old formula of U.S.brokered negotiations with Israel. Israelis and Palestinians tend to blame the other side for the failure to reach a deal. Despite several farreaching efforts, gaps could ultimately not be bridged, and Israels military occupation of the West
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Bank continues. And the Arab Spring a wave of anti-government protests sweeping the region since the start of the year has made it more difcult for the Palestinian leadership to appear to accept the status quo. In the revolutionary atmosphere of the region, when the Palestinian leadership is unable to deliver anything, they have to be worried about their public standing, said Ghassan Khatib, spokesman for Abbas West Bank-based Palestinian Authority. With this approach (of seeking
U.N. recognition), I think it will a little bit defuse public pressure. A poll published this week yielded stunning support for Abbas gambit, suggesting he had tapped into a hunger for taking a stand. The poll of 1,200 Palestinians indicated that more than 80 percent support the bid to win U.N. recognition for a Palestinian state encompassing the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in 1967. That backing comes despite widespread expectations of greater hardships as a result, including a possible cut in U.S. aid. Last weeks survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, with an error margin of 3 percentage points, also cited a five-point increase, to 59 percent, in Abbas popularity in the past three months. Abbas who never enjoyed the crowd appeal of his late predecessor, Yasser Arafat might now also be better able to deect claims by Hamas militants that he has been serving the interests of the West at the expense of Palestinian aspirations. Such charges might have stuck more easily had Abbas not held his stance. Palestinians seem angry and even surprised at the support by President Barack Obamas administration for Israel at the United Nations.
LOS ANGELES While North America appears to be off the hook, scientists are scrambling to pinpoint exactly where and when a dead NASA climate satellite will plummet back to Earth on Friday. The 6-ton, bus-sized satellite is expected to break into more than a hundred pieces as it plunges through the atmosphere, most of it burning up. But if youre hoping for a glimpse, the odds are slim. Most sightings occur by chance because the re-entry path cant be predicted
early enough to alert people, said Canadian Ted Molczan, who tracks satellites for a hobby. In all his years of monitoring, Molczan has only witnessed one tumble back to Earth the 2004 return of a Russian communications satellite. It looked like a brilliant star with a long glowing tail, he said in an email. The best guess so far is that the 20-year-old Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite will hit sometime on Friday afternoon Eastern time. The latest calculations indicate that it will not be over the United States, Canada and
Mexico during that time. Until Thursday, every continent but Antarctic was a potential target. Predicting where and when the freefalling satellite will land is an imprecise science, but officials should be able to narrow it down a few hours ahead. While most of the satellite pieces will disintegrate, 26 large metal chunks the largest about 300 pounds are expected to survive, hit and scatter somewhere on the planet. With nearly three-quarters of the world covered in water, chances are that it will be a splashdown. If the re-entry is visible, itll look like a long-lived meteor, said
Jonathan McDowell of the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. Since the dawn of the Space Age, no one has been injured by falling space debris. The only conrmed case of a person being hit by space junk was in 1997 when Lottie Williams of Tulsa, Okla., was grazed in the shoulder by a small bit of debris from a discarded piece of a Delta rocket. The odds of someone somewhere on Earth getting struck by the NASA satellite are 1 in 3,200. But any one persons odds are astronomically lower 1 in 21 trillion. Youre way more likely to be hit
by lightning than by the satellite, McDowell said. NASA has warned people not to touch any satellite part they might chance upon. There are no hazardous chemicals on board, but people can get hurt by sharp edges, the space agency said. The U.S. tracks the roughly 22,000 pieces of satellites, rockets and other junk orbiting the Earth. Nowadays, the world is more ecoconscious about what it puts up in space. Modern satellites must be designed to disintegrate upon reentry or have enough fuel to be nudged into a higher orbit or steered into the ocean.
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equivalent of what members of the City Council make in their part-time role. He also wants to move toward a more paperless ofce and use his experience in management and technology as a medical software developer to streamline the tasks of the ofce. Cook said she has already begun the task of transforming the ofce to a paperless one and to provide for efciencies. Those efforts accelerated in the past few months as this election approached. Warden has provided some bright ideas and food for thought. Some of them could be introduced and discussed at the council level as a way to improve the efciency of the entire city. In his time on the council, Warden has proven to be bold with his ideas and able to reach consensus in bringing them into action. Perhaps he should think about broadening his goals for the clerks ofce to other areas of the citys administration. His concept of making the position parttime, with a lower salary, is one that should be decided by the voters though any ofcial has the liberty to do what they will with their salary. Many cities have successfully moved toward having the city clerk be an appointed position. Perhaps the voters should decide
that too, or conclude it should remain elected with lower pay or stay exactly as it is now. The council can place such a measure on the ballot. Or a citizen group can be formed with the same intent. Either would be a more appropriate path. Warden is a key member of the City Council and is best suited for enacting change in his current position which would save the city the task of determining how he would be replaced whether through an appointment or a special election that could cost the city money. Cook has proven to be a solid and independent city clerk, who deserves a chance to continue making changes to the ofce in a way that makes sense to the city and its citizens.
hrough the last few years, Americans have developed a hardened attitude about bailouts. Now it is likely taxpayers will be on the hook for at least one more big one: The United States Postal Service is telling Congress it may have to end delivery by August of next year unless something is done about its expenses. Like most bailouts, this one comes with a stark choice: Make the bailout or suffer a major economic loss. Congress will likely help the Postal Service, but it should do so by reforming the way the agency does business. Granted, some of the Postal Service mess has little to do with policies of Congress or the agency itself. The Great Recession and the housing market collapse hit the postal industry hard. With business and credit offerings down, businesses stopped mailing as many solicitations. President Barack Obama has suggested delaying the $5.5 billion payment for 90 days beyond the Sept. 30 deadline, but Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says the gesture wont help. The Postal Service usually only has one weeks worth of cash, and it is approaching its $15 billion borrowing limit. ... Despite much criticism aimed at Postal Service efciency, U.S. Mail delivery remains a popular service. The nation obviously still needs a postal system. But times have changed, and Congress and the Postal Service must adapt to the changes.
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Editor, The Arab Spring revolts are causing a great deal of consternation among the U.S. government and NATO nations. The United States and other NATO nations are seeking to establish a beachhead in Libya that can be used to derail the mass revolts that have taken place throughout the region and to restore the status quo. There have been more than 20,000 by U.S./NATO warplanes against the forces of the Libyan dictator, Col. Moammar Gadha. An estimated 65,000 troops and an unknown number of civilians were pulverized by an intensive air and sea bombing campaign. All of this, it is claimed, is to bring Democracy to the people of Libya. It is a ruse
Agreements of sand
Editor, In an interview with a Turkish television channel this week, Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said, The Camp David agree-
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he makers of high-fructose corn syrup would understandably like to change the image of their product, which has gained a reputation as the trans fat of the sugar world. In fact, as sales sink, theyd prefer a name change altogether to corn sugar and have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for permission to use it on food labels. The liquid sweetener is a natural food, a Corn Reners Assn. advertising campaign claims, and nutritionally the same as any other sugar. The makers of table sugar the granulated or powdered substance made from beets and sugar cane will be in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in an effort to stie that campaign, but theyre making too much of minor differences. True, high-fructose corn syrup requires more processing than the familiar table sugar, using enzymes to derive the sugar from corn starch, but both undergo some processing. More important, when it comes to how the human body metabolizes glucose, fructose, sucrose and the like, dietitians say the corn reners have it mostly right: Sugar is sugar. Its a source of empty calories; one isnt more healthful than another, and Americans consume too much of it, period.
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500 points. Markets rely on condence and certainty. Right now there is neither, said John Canally, an economic strategist at LPL Financial, an investment rm in Boston. It was the second consecutive rout in the stock market since Wednesday afternoon, when the Federal Reserve announced a change in strategy for ghting the economic slowdown a bid to lower long-term interest rates and get people and companies to spend more money. Economic news was bad around the world. A closely watched survey in Europe indicated a recession could be on the way there, and a manufacturing survey suggested a slowdown in China, which has been one of the hottest economies. The probability of going back into recession is higher now than at any point in the recovery, said Tim Quinlan, an economist at Wells Fargo. He put his odds of a recession at 35 percent. Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, said the world economy was entering a dangerous phase.
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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Goodrich Corp.,up $11.11 at $120.60 United Technologies conrmed it will buy the aerospace and defense company for about $16.4 billion in cash. CarMax Inc.,down $3.02 at $24.41 The used car dealership chain said a recent economic slowdown and lower customer trafc hurt its second-quarter earnings. Vail Resorts Inc.,down $3.08 at $36.75 The ski resort, golf course and luxury hotel operator said it lost more money in its scal fourth quarter than it did a year ago. Red Hat Inc.,down $1.20 at $41.49 The open source software solutions company said its second-quarter net income rose 69 percent on higher demand for its services. Nasdaq Diamond Foods Inc.,down 78 cents at $91.13 A Jefferies analyst downgraded the snack makers rating saying it needs to work hard to integrate recently acquired Pringles. Logitech International SA,down $1.02 at $7.72 After reviewing its business, the computer mouse and keyboard maker cut its prot forecasts citing current economic conditions. Bed Bath & Beyond,Inc.,up 36 cents at $57.84 The housewares retailer, which also owns buybuy Baby,said that its scal second-quarter prot jumped 26 percent as sales rose. Scholastic Corp.,up $1.77 at $27.68 The publisher said it narrowed its loss in the latest quarter thanks to strong sales of childrens books like The Hunger Games.
NEW YORK Investors began giving in to fears Thursday that a global recession is already under way, and stock markets shuddered around the world. Selling started in Asia, picked up speed in Europe and sent Wall Street near its worst nish of the year. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 391 points and at one point was down more than 500, a return to the volatility that gripped the market this summer. One nancial indicator after another showed that investors are losing hope that the global economy can keep growing. The price of oil and metals such as copper, which depend on economic demand, fell sharply. Traders bought Treasury bonds and the dollar for safety. FedEx, a company that ships so many goods it is considered a barometer of the U.S. economy, had to lower its earnings forecast for the year because customers are putting off purchases of electronics and other gadgets from China. The Dow fell 391.01 points, or 3.5 percent, and closed at 10,733.83. The selling was not just steep but broad: Nineteen stocks on the New York Stock Exchange fell for every one that rose. At one point, the Dow was down more than
SAN FRANCISCO Hewlett-Packard Co.s decision to re CEO Leo Apotheker after just 11 months and replace him with former eBay chief Meg Whitman is another dizzying turn of the executive merry-goround at a company whose leadership issues are tearing it apart. Swapping Apotheker, who has now been ousted from two high-prole CEO jobs in two years, with Whitman, a billionaire who is best known for the decade she spent building eBay and her run for California governor, is a decision designed
to stem investor fury over a series of questionable strategy moves. Whitmans starpower could be an asset for a company that struggled to gain credibility under Apotheker, who was Meg Whitman previously littleknown outside of the business software world. HP is no stranger to celebrity CEOs. But Carly Fiorinas run as leading lady, from 1999 to 2005, ended in shambles. Despite Whitmans success at eBay, she
is untested when it comes to running a sprawling company such as HP. She built up a one-trick pony, an online auction site, and she oversaw the growth of the company, but we are talking about a situation where someone needs to come in who has a technological background, an engineering and scientic background, said Steve Diamond, an associate professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. And that is way outside of her skill set. Diamond said the decision to change CEOs so soon points to continued disarray on HPs board, long a target of critics for the chaos its caused at one of Silicon Valleys oldest and largest companies.
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Facebook looks to extend online reach, sharing
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is trying to evolve from an Internet hangout where people swing by to share tidbits, links and photos to a homestead decorated with the memories, dreams and diversions of its 800 million users. In what may be the boldest step yet in the companys sevenyear history, Facebook is redesigning its users prole pages to create what CEO Mark Zuckerberg says is a new way to express who you are. It is betting that despite early grumblings, its vast audience will become even more attached to a website that keeps pushing the envelope. To that effect, it is introducing new ways for people to connect with friends, brands and games while also sharing details about their lives from the mundane to the intimate. If you look at Facebooks history, obviously they are not afraid of making change, said Sean Corcoran, an analyst with Forrester Research. They have done a lot of big changes in the past and people have gotten upset. But most of the time Facebook has been right.
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With such a storied athletic history, it would have been interesting to be a y on the wall when the Hall of Fame committee at the College of San Mateo chose its inaugural induction class. As it stands, 15 Bulldogs will be inducted 4 p.m. today at Hall of Fame Plaza on the CSM campus. And the list of inductees is very distinguished. Bill Walsh began his legendary college football career playing quarterback at College of San Mateo for the 1950 and 1951 seasons.
He was a running back at Hayward High School before commuting over the San Mateo Bridge to play for the Bulldogs before transferring to San Jose State University. Walsh is best known for his time as the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, where he spent 10 seasons compiling a 102-63-1 record and winning three Super Bowl titles in the 1980s. John Madden began his collegiate athletic career playing at CSM in 1954 and 1955 after transferring from Oregon. He transferred to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he
started on both the offensive and defensive lines in 1957 and 1958 and was voted to the AllConference team. He was also a catcher on the schools baseball team. Madden is John Madden best known for his time as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders, where he guided the Silver and Black to a 103-32-7 record and a win in Super Bowl XI. After coach-
ing, Madden moved to the broadcasting booth where he has won 17 Emmy awards. Bill Ring was an All-Conference running back for the Bulldogs from 1975 to 1976. Hes also a graduate of Carlmont High School where he was an All-League athlete in football, baseball and wrestling. He transferred to Brigham Young University where, during his senior season, he led the Western Athletic Conference in scoring with 12 touchdowns. After college, Ring played for the
Knights do battle
By Julio Lara
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One group of Knights will come from the north, carrying a 1-2 record after putting together their rst complete performance of the season. The other army will come only a couple of miles from the south. Theyll bring with them an unblemished 2-0 record and will be well rested after a battleless weekend. Both will come with something to prove. And the war zone will be the football field at Woodside High School. Fridays affair between Menlo and Hillsdale high schools should be an old-fashioned barn burner, with both offenses having the capability of lighting up the scoreboard. So if you like your football games full of touchdowns, the Knight-on-Knight tango will be the place for you Menlo versus Hillsdale is the Daily Journal Game of the Week. Its a good GPS game, said Hillsdale head coach Mike Parodi. It kind of lets you know where youre at getting ready to nish our preseason, getting ready to begin league. Its something different than what weve seen all preseason. I kind of scheduled our preseason on purpose to see a variety of different teams. We played some wing teams, some I-backs, we played a team that does a little bit of everything this week we play a
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Six decades of Serra aquatics will reconvene in a celebration of great tradition today at the home of the Padres. Serra High School will honor Gus De Gara, its first ever swim coach, this afternoon as part of the ofcial unveiling of the Padres new Gus DeGara aquatic center, as well as their Center for the Arts and Sciences. The special cocktail party begins at 6 p.m. De Gara will be the guest of honor, but hell be joined by another Serra swim legend in Keith Strange, and yet another in the making in current Serra water polo coach Bob Greene. Together they form more than 40 years of Serra swimming tradition. Its really special, Strange said. I coached at the school for 24 years, and from the rst time I came to Serra, I kept hearing about Gus and the high respect all of the former athletes have for him. And the people that were still teaching and coaching at the school had such great things to say about the guy. Success wasnt foreign to De
Hillsdale tail back Damien Carter leads the Knights against Menlo tonight.
350 yards of offense per game, while the defense is allowing less than 20 points. Will Morgan and Ryan Gaertner are the workhorses in SHPs multi-headed rushing attack. Morgan is averaging just under 100 yard rushing and Gaertner just under 60 yards per game. The home run hitter, however, has been Tyler McCool, who is averaging 11.5 yards per carry. Defensively, the Gators are allowing just 10 points per contest.
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ALAMEDA Even though its been almost two years since the Raiders last played the New York Jets, Oakland defensive tackle Tommy Kelly wont have to do much studying this week to prepare. After being part of a defense that allowed 223 yards rushing and 35 second-half points in a 38-35 loss to the Buffalo Bills last week, Kelly expects Rex Ryan and company to follow suit and keep it on the ground. Why wouldnt they? It was the same formula the Jets used in 2009 when they beat the Raiders by 38 points, the most lopsided home loss in franchise history. It also matched the teams worst loss ever in the Al Davis era. Theyre going to try to run that ball down our throat, Kelly said this week. It will be a big-boy pad game. Theyre going to run the ball regardless. It doesnt matter whats going on. Thats their plan any game. New York has rushed for only 146 yards in two games this season but the 2-0 Jets have a prime opportunity to get that turned around in Oakland. Since 2007, the Raiders have allowed opponents to rush for 200 yards or more in a game 12 times, tied with the Bills for the most in the NFL during that time. That includes a 317yard performance by the Jets on Oct. 25, 2009. A lot has changed in Oakland since then, but the teams problems defending the run have remained a constant. Theyve been the leading rush team since (Rex Ryan) took over as head coach, Raiders defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan said Thursday. I do know Rexs mentality is a physical, no BS type of deal and theyre going
to try to establish the run game. Oakland is still trying to shake the effects from last weeks second-half collapse against Buffalo. After building a 21-3 halftime lead, the Raiders unraveled over the nal 30 minutes while allowing the Bills to score touchdowns on all ve of their possessions in the second half. The breakdowns were numerous and everywhere. Oakland forced Buffalo into only four thirddown situations in the second half, safety Tyvon Branch and cornerback Chris Johnson both dropped would-be interceptions in the fourth quarter and a breakdown in coverage allowed the Bills to score the game-winning touchdown with 14 seconds remaining. Buffalo was initially credited with 217 yards rushing but that number increased by six yards after the NFL amended the stats, awarding Oakland linebacker Rolando McClain a sack instead of a tackle for loss when the Bills were in a wildcat formation. That helped McClains personal numbers its the rst full sack of his career but raised the Raiders average against the run to 130.5 yards a game. More troubling was the Bills 8.7 yards-percarry average, which came on the heels of Oaklands season-opening win against Denver, when they held the Broncos to 38 yards total on the ground. Bresnahan and coach Hue Jackson have been adamant in practice this week about moving on from the loss to Buffalo, but Kelly acknowledged thats been easier said than done. Like the loss to the Jets in 2009, its not something hes been able to let go of easily.
SANTA CLARA Vernon Davis has been matched up against Manny Lawson since both players were in college. Michael Crabtree and Joshua Morgan have been going against Nate Clements since the young receivers joined the San Francisco 49ers. Those competitive matchups will take on a whole new dimension Sunday when the 49ers play the Cincinnati Bengals. Lawson and Clements were key defensive starters for San Francisco the past four seasons but now both have similar roles with the Bengals. Theyll be looking for an edge Sunday against the same receiving threats they had been practicing against for years. And so will the 49ers lined up across from them. Theyve got good insight on some of our personnel, theres no question, 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman said Thursday. And weve got a few insights on theirs. So it kind of works both ways. Roman is in his rst season directing coach Jim Harbaughs version of the West Coast offense, and the 49ers have struggled to produce in the new system during their 1-1 start.
San Francisco ranks 31st in the NFL in total offense after nishing with just 206 yards last week in a 27-24 overtime loss to the Dallas Cowboys. But the 49ers are more familiar with who theyre facing this week. Lawson started all 16 games for San Francisco last season at outside linebacker and Clements started every game at cornerback. The 49ers also could face safety Taylor Mays, San Franciscos second-round draft pick last year who was traded to Cincinnati in August for a seventh-round pick. Itll be a fun game and a very interesting game, especially knowing those guys, Davis said. Ive been going against Manny since I was in college and going against Nate in practice, so it makes my assignment a little easier. I know those guys. I dont have to go in and really watch them like I have to watch the other guys. Davis rst faced Lawson when he was a tight end at Maryland and Lawson was playing for North Carolina State. The pair entered the NFL together as rst-round draft picks in 2006, when the 49ers made Davis the No. 6 overall pick of the draft and Lawson the No. 22 pick.
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and dean. Bill Dickey was a All-American for the Bulldogs during his time at CSM from 1958-1959. He earned rst team All-Big 8 Conference honors and was voted the teams Most Inspirational Player in 1959. Dickey graduated from South San Francisco High School where he was named to the 1957 AllAmerican team Bill Dickey and won the SSF Blanket Award. Dickey was associated with CSM for 56 years, as a student, coach, faculty member and administrator. Ted Tollner was a football coach at CSM from 1968 to 1972 after beginning his career at Woodside High School. He worked under Dickey as an offensive coach before taking Ted Tollner over for him. No person has more time at the community college level than Tom Martinez. Martinezs time at CSM spanned 32 seasons. He has 1,400 career wins in football, basketball the rst time. He was just so engaging, Strange said, and just so charming, and knowledgeable. Strange served as the schools aquatics coach from 1979 to 2004 and his tenure is considered by Padres fans as the golden age of Serra aquatics. With Strange at the helm, 69 Serra athletes earned All-American status, with three becoming national champions and two breaking national records. Strange earned the rare distinction of receiving the Central Coast Section Honor Coach Award in two different sports water polo and swimming/diving. Both De Gara and Strange actually coached Greene, who graduated a (state record 565) and softball (800). His teams won 32 championships. In his 32 years, his teams never experienced a losing season. Martinez has been named to the halls of fame for San Mateo County, Daly City, San Francisco State University, the California Community College Softball Association and the California Community C o l l e g e W o m e n s Basketball Association. A r c h i e Williams spent three semesters Tom Martinez at CSM before transferring to the University of California at Berkeley. Hed later go on to participate in the 1936 Olympic Games where he won the gold medal in the 400-meters. Nicole Carroll-Lewis started a career throwing the javelin at CSM resulting in a California Community College championship, two USA national titles and a berth on the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team. After throwing 121 feet her rst year at CSM, Nicole improved to 139 feet her sophomore year and won the state championship. In addition to the 1996 Olympics, Carroll-Lewis represented the United States at the 1995 and 1997 Padre in 1985. The three of us have rarely had the chance to be at the pool together, Strange said. Theres a whole lot of coaching experience between the three of us and its just great to have all three of us together at one event. Im just so glad that theyre putting this event together. Its quite a full-circle kind of moment considering that De Gara helped designed the pool that Serras new facility has replaced. At the time, it was state of the art. A lot of times, you see something in the design phase, and what ends up happening falls short. In this case, the way it turned out, it was actually almost better. Theres something very special about the World Championships, at the 1994 Pan American Games and at the World University Games. Jenny Freeman is a two-time AllNorCal and All-State softball player for the Bulldogs after graduating from Hillsdale High School. She attended CSM from 1983 to 1985. She was the NorCals Most Valuable Hitter in 1984 and its Most Valuable Jenny Freeman Player in 1985. Jack Avina inaugurated the College Heights gymnasium in 1963; the game resulted in an 85-51 win over Hartnell. He left CSM to coach the University of Portland in 1970. Ray Balsley was the College of San Mateo head basketball coach from 1946 to 1959 where he won conference titles in 1948 and 1952. But Balsleys biggest contribution as a coach came on the golf links where his teams won 17 conference titles and six state titles. Starting in 1959, Bulldog golfers won four consecutive individual titles as well. John Noce is a legendary baseball coach at CSM. He took over in 1961 after spending time at Carlmont and Half Moon Bay high schools. Noce managed the Bulldogs for 31 seasons way its put together. Everybody that sees it is just amazed. All three of have had AllAmericans athletes that have gone through the school, so to have a facility that bets the quality of the program since the 1960s, were talking almost 50 years of aquatics at the school.
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49ers where he won two Super Bowl rings. Neal Dahlen was an AllConference football player for CSM, after attending Capuchino High School in San Bruno where he played football Neal Dahlen and baseball. He began his coaching career at CSM in 1960 after playing quarterback for the Bulldogs and winning the Most Outstanding Player award in 1958. Dahlen left CSM to the NFL where he won a record seven Super Bowls rings as a coach and administrator. Murius McFadden was a CSM coach for 40 years in three different sports. He won two state championships with the Bulldogs. Herb Hudson was a football coach with the Bulldogs and oversaw players like CSM Hall of Fame inductees Walsh, Madden and John Noce. In his 32 seasons with CSM, Hudson also served as the athletic director
where he won 772 games and 13 conference titles. Noce was inducted into the San Mateo County Hall of Fame in 1992. He also joined the American Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Peninsula Basketball Ofcials Hall of Fame in 1996. Bob Rush was at the helm of the CSM track and eld team in 1970 when it won the Golden Gate Conference Championship. It was his rst year of more than two decades with CSM. Rush then had three consecutive undefeated cross country seasons, 1970 through 1972, including a 22-0 dual meet winning streak. In 1978, Rush invented the Chronomix, the first electronic timing Bob Rush device for cross country and road racing. Rush was inducted in the California Community College Cross Country and Track Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1996, San Mateo High School Hall in 2007 and with the nationally ranked 1964 San Mateo High School Cross Country Team in 2011.
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Gara. Serras rst swim coach is credited with taking the Padres to national prominence in his tenure. Under De Gara, Serra won consecutive league titles from 1967 through 1974. He coached nearly a dozen All-Americans as well. Its only tting that in 2006, De Gara was named to the Serra Hall of Fame. De Gara, who stays in Budapest, ew to San Mateo for the induction ceremony. It was then that he and Strange, who was inducted into the Hall the same night, met for
Its outstanding that we have well-rounded athletes at Serra, Greene said via the Padres website. They are successful in the classroom and successful in the pool. Last year, we had one Academic All-American. This year, we have six and that is a huge accomplishment for our school. The Academic All-American program honors students for stellar academics and athletics. Student-athletes must have participated in a USA water polo national championship event to be eligible for the title. In addition, students must obtain at least a 3.6 grade point average for the 2010-2011 school year.
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The Bears fell to St. Ignatius, 247. The Cougars beat Leigh, 1813. M-A turned the ball over ve times last week. The Bears defense, however, turned in a solid effort, holding the Irish to less than 300 yards of offense. M-As offense, however, was held to less than 200 yards. Half Moon Bays game at Leigh last week was suspended at halftime when the lights went out. The Cougars returned to San Jose Monday afternoon to complete the game, rallying from a 13-10 decit. Running back Jesus Huerta was a beast in the second half, rushing for 106 yards on 13 carries. He missed the rst half Friday night with an illness. The Vikings topped Harbor-Santa Cruz 15-12 for their rst win of the season. The Grizzlies dropped a heartbreaker last week, falling to Overfelt 14-13. Mills win was its rst since the end of the 2009 season, a skid of 12-straight games. Running back Parth Patel rushed for 47 yards on just six carries and came up with two interceptions as well. Gunderson is averaging 264 yards of total offense per game. Running back Nick Melchor leads Gunderson in rushing with 188 yards on 26 carries and two touchdowns. was solid, passing for 95 yards and rushing for 91 more. RB Josh Lauese had a huge game for the Cherokees, rushing for 158 yards four touchdowns. Mazama is in Klamath Falls, Ore., just over the border from California.
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yards on the ground. Jefferson is nding the going rough as it takes a step up in competition. The teams the Indians have lost to Milpitas, a forfeit loss to Pittsburg and Sacred Heart Cathedral are a combined 100. After having one of the most prolific offenses in 2010, the Indians have struggled this season, averaging just 8.5 points per game.
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team thats similar to us with four receivers and one back. Both teams have the reputation for putting up points. Although in 2011, Menlo seems to still be trying to gure some things out on offense. For a team that averaged close to 30 points per game last season, Menlo has yet to put up more than 19 this year. In its win against Santa Cruz, Menlo overcame a 12-0 decit at halftime to come away with a 19-18
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one and walked none to snap his ve-game winning streak. It was the left-handers shortest outing since he also pitched four innings in a 7-2 loss at Cincinnati on July 30. The Dodgers took the lead for good in the bottom of the rst on Riveras two-out, two-run homer. His RBI single in the third made it 3-1. Dee Gordons RBI single with two outs in the fourth extended the Dodgers lead to 4-1. Madison Waldis Joaquin gave up Bumgarner a bases-loaded walk to Rod Barajas, the rst batter he faced in the fth, before Jamey Carrolls fielders choice grounder increased the Dodgers lead to 6-1. The Giants other run came on Pablo Sandovals 23rd homer on Kurodas rst pitch of the seventh. NOTES: The announced crowd of 37,560 gave the Dodgers a season home attendance total of 2,935,139, the rst time they failed to draw at least 3 million in a non-strike year since 1992. They averaged 36,236 and had just three sellouts at the 56,000-seat stadium. ... Bumgarner is 2 1-3 innings short of reaching 200 innings for the rst time in his career. ... The teams ended their season series with nine wins apiece. ... The Giants have given up 95 homers this season, fewest in the majors. ... The Dodgers went 42-39 at home, their sixth straight season with a winning home record. ... Lasorda presented Dodgers jerseys to the Little League World Series champions, Ocean View from Huntington Beach. The youngsters received a commemorative Frosted Flakes cereal box featuring the team. ... Lasorda delivered the Dodgers lineup card to the umpires, chatting with them and Giants manager Bruce Bochy at home plate.
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LOS ANGELES Matt Kemp went 4-for5 with a two-run homer and a career-high three doubles in his nal home game of the season, Juan Rivera homered and drove in three runs and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat San Francisco 8-2 Thursday night, pushing the Giants to the brink of elimination in the NL West playoff race. The Giants open a three-game series at rstplace Arizona on Friday and a victory by the Diamondbacks, who were idle Thursday, would eliminate the defending World Series champions. The Dodgers moved a game over .500 with Hall of Famer Tom Lasorda serving as honorary coach of the team he managed to two World Series titles during his 20-year tenure. Kemps two-run homer in the eighth inning off Barry Zito was his 36th, second-best in the NL. The league MVP candidate scored three times to extend his NL lead to 109 runs and and 118 RBIs. Hiroki Kuroda (13-16) allowed two runs and ve hits in seven-plus innings to extend his career high in wins. The right-hander struck out four and walked none. By pitching the rst inning, Kuroda earned a $175,000 bonus. He gave up a run and two hits as the Giants took a 1-0 lead on Carlos Beltrans two-out homer. It might have been Kurodas nal start at Chavez Ravine. He becomes a free agent after the World Series and will turn 37 in the offseason. He was the subject of considerable trade speculation before the non-waiver deadline, when he declined to waive his no-trade clause with the only major league team hes pitched for since coming from Japan four seasons ago. Kuroda has spoken of wanting to pitch the nal seasons of his career with the Hiroshima Carp in his hometown. Madison Bumgarner (12-13) gave up four runs and nine hits in four innings, struck out
OAKLAND The Texas Rangers are testing their own patience with six games to go. They gave up a chance Thursday to inch closer to a second straight AL West crown. Coco Crisp hit a go-ahead single in the eighth inning, and the Oakland Athletics beat the rst-place Rangers 4-3 to avoid a series sweep. The reigning AL champion Rangers had their magic number reduced to two when the Angels lost to Toronto later Thursday night. We just have to keep winning series. If we do that well be fine, manager Ron Washington said. The sooner we win games to wrap it up, you want to do it. At the same time we dont look too far ahead. It is the way it is. ... If we keep playing like this, pretty soon it will happen. Texas, which held a ve-game lead over Los Angeles entering Thursday, headed home for three games with the Mariners before ending the regular season at Anaheim. Wed love to do it as soon as possible, second baseman Ian Kinsler said. Whether its the rst game, second game or third game at
home, it would be a lot of fun if were able to do it in front of our home crowd. Grant Balfour (5-2) pitched a 1-2-3 eighth for the win, then Andrew Bailey nished for his 21st save in 23 chances as the As snapped Texas four-game winning streak and handed the Rangers just their second loss in 10 games. Pinch-hitter Scott Sizemore hit a tying RBI groundout in the seventh against Darren Oliver. Crisps hit came against Mike Adams (1-3) and helped stop a three-game skid. Rangers catcher Yorvit Torrealba left in the eighth after taking a foul tip on the head and experiencing nausea. The team said he was seen by a doctor and doesnt have a concussion. Adrian Beltre hit an RBI double, Nelson Cruz added a sacrice y and David Murphy also drove in a run for the Rangers, who couldnt hold a 3-1 lead. Texas had its ve-game winning streak at the Coliseum snapped and nished 13-6 in the season series matching its most wins against an opponent in one year. A team that beats up on you, you better have a little extra hate for them, As manager Bob Melvin said.
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In the buildup to their light heavyweight title bout at UFC 135 on Saturday, Jackson accused Jones of sending a mole into his Quinton Jackson camp to spy on
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him back on his heels in defense. This was all part of Jacksons plan to climb inside the head of Jones, who at 24 is the youngest champion in UFC history. A cagey mixed martial arts veteran, Jackson isnt bashful about delivering blows to the psyche of an opponent before a big bout. They took the bait and fell for it, Jackson said matter-of-factly.
The usually mild-mannered Jones has vowed he wont let Jackson get to him again, even going so far as to not only set his goal of defending his crown but winning in convincing fashion by laying out Jackson. Jones hardly looks like the same ghter who knocked out Mauricio Shogun Rua for the title six months ago.
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BASEBALL National League FLORIDA MARLINSPlaced RHP Leo Nunez on the restricted list. MILWAUKEE BREWERSNamed Mike Guerrero manager and Al LeBoeuf coach of Nashville (PCL); Darnell Coles manager and Dwayne Hosey coach of Huntsville (SL); Sandy Guerrero minor league hitting coordinator; and Don Money special instructor,player development. ST.LOUIS CARDINALSAgreed to terms with OF1B Lance Berkman on a one-year contract for the 2012 season. Can-Am League BROCKTON ROXReleased INF Tucker Nathans. NEW JERSEY JACKALSReleased RHP Jairo Mendez,RHP Kyle Gunderson and RHP Josh Ellis. FOOTBALL National Football League DENVER BRONCOS Signed TE Dante Rosario. Released LB Mike Mohamed. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERSReleased DB Arrington Hicks. Arena Football League ARIZONA RATTLERSRe-signed DB/KR Virgil Gray. ORLANDO PREDATORSRe-signed K Mark Lewis and DL Mark Robinson. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHLSuspended Calgary F Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond for the remainder of the preseason and one regular-season game for a hit from behind to Vancouver F Matt Clackson during a Sept. 20 preseason game. Suspended Philadelphia F Jody Shelley for the remainder of the preseason and ve regular-season games for a hit from behind to Toronto F Darryl Boyce during a Sept.21 preseason game. CAROLINA HURRICANESSigned president and general manager Jim Rutherford to a four-year contract extension through the 2015-16 season. Assigned D Brett Bellemore,D Kyle Lawson,D Chris Murray, F Matt Pistilli, F Justin Soryal and G John Muse to Charlotte (AHL). COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETSAssigned F Petr Straka to Rimouski (QMJHL). OTTAWA SENATORSRe-assigned F Shane Prince to Ottawa (OHL). PHOENIX COYOTESSent G Marc Cheverie, D Mathieu Brodeur,D Nick Ross,D Garrett Stafford D Michael Stone,F Mathieu Beaudoin,F Spencer Bennett,F Evan Bloodoff,F Alexandre Bolduc,F Darian Dziurzynski,F Brett Hextall,F Ryan Hollweg,F Colin Long, F Donny Maloney, F Brendan Shinnimin, F Jordan Szwarz,F Matt Watkins and F Ethan Werek to Portland (AHL).Returned G Mark Visentin to Niagara (OHL),G Louis Dominque to Quebec (QMJHL) and F Kale Kessy to Medicine Hat (WHL).
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If you spend any time behind the wheel, you know it takes one mistake, one at tire or one erratic driver to ruin your whole day. But if something does go wrong, experts agree: Do not stop your car on the highway unless you must. Even for a at tire. Its hard to imagine and comprehend how fast those cars are going until youre actually standing there hearing them, says Lt. Scott Harrington, spokesman for the Kansas Highway Patrol in Topeka. Other drivers are not paying attention to you . they dont even move over. Highway patrol ofcers, tow-truck company owners, the American Automobile Association - all recommend driving a disabled vehicle off the highway whenever possible. And if it isnt possible, pull as far as you can onto the right shoulder, into the grass if you can. Often, folks dont do that. There have been a lot of towing truck drivers killed over the years because they didnt have the room to work, says Gary Petersen, who owns Petes Towing Service, in Des Moines, Wash. Some highways have 5 to 6 feet of shoulder - plenty of space for pulling over. Harrington recalls stopping recently to help a couple with a blown tire. The husband hadnt pulled far enough off the highway. They were ustered and they stopped, immediately, says Harrington. Their door opened onto the interstate. The gentleman couldnt get out of his car without being on the interstate. Harrington, 11 years with the highway patrol, helped the couple move the car to safety, and he changed the tire, too.
The Volkswagen Beetle is back as a new, larger car with a atter rooine, wider track, shorter windshield, better fuel economy and no bud vase on the dashboard. Its also offered in Turbo trim with the same 200-horsepower, turbocharged four cylinder that powers VWs sporty GTI. Make no mistake: The 2012 Beetle, with new features such as an optional premium music system from the folks who make Fender guitars, has a masculine intent and is aimed at attracting male buyers. Women have been the majority of buyers/drivers of the previous generation car. Starting price hasnt changed from the previous model and reects the uniqueness of this German-engineered hatchback with one of the most iconic images in auto history. Starting manufacturers suggested retail price, including destination charge, for the 2012 Beetle is $19,765. This is for a base model with 170-horsepower,
ENGINE: 2-liter, dual overhead cam, turbocharged and intercooled, inline four cylinder. MILEAGE: 22 mpg (city), 30 mpg (highway). LENGTH:168.4 inches. WHEELBASE:99.9 inches. CURB WEIGHT: 3,089 pounds. BUILT AT: Mexico. OPTIONS:None. DESTINATION CHARGE: $770.
Competitors in the small, two-door car segment include the volume-selling Honda Civic, which has a starting retail price of $16,375 for a 2012 Civic DX Coupe with 140-horsepower four cylinder and manual transmission. Theres also the 2012 Ford Focus with 160-horsepower four cylinder starting at $18,995 for a ve-door hatchback and the retro-styled 2011 Mini Cooper Coupe that has been priced at $22,000 with 121-horsepower four cylinder and
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dont sit with their heads right under the rear window glass. The overly large, rounded dashboard of the previous Beetle has been replaced by a shorter, more upright dashboard. The windshield is closer and not sloped in such an exaggerated fashion as in the previous model, and theres a conventional glovebox along with a covered Beetle bin above it. I still had to watch carefully when making turns, though, to ensure I looked around the sizable steel pillars that frame the windshield. The Beetle rode quite quietly, with little road and outside noise coming in, save for some wind noise by the outside mirrors. Even while in the back seat, I conversed easily with front-seat passengers. In the drivers seat, I noticed that left to its own, the DGS transmission had a tendency to move through the gears to get to the higher and more fuel-efcient gears quickly. This helped me average 26 miles per gallon in combined city/highway/country roads travel, but it didnt make the Beetle feel spunky. So, I used Tiptronic manual shifting which doesnt require a clutch pedal to manage the shifting myself and get a decidedly more sporty experience. It was easy to time the shifts for impressively smooth shifts. Torque came on strongly and peaks at 207 foot-pounds at a low 1,700 rpm with the turbo. I had no problem squealing tires now Denver, echoes and adds to some of the tips: (asterisk) Make note of your surroundings - a highway marker, landmark or nearby town -- so that if you need roadside assistance, you can describe exactly where you are. (asterisk) After pulling onto the far right shoulder, stay in your car and call for help. Stay in the car with your seatbelt on. This isnt the time to let the kids hop through the seats and things like that, says Dreher. (asterisk) Invest in a cell phone car charger and dont leave home without it. People have called us to request roadside assistance and we try to call them back in 20 minutes to tell them someone is on the way, and their phone battery has gone dead, says Dreher. (asterisk) Alert other motorists. Switch on the emergency ashers. If its safe to leave the car, raise the hood; place ares or warning cones to alert other drivers to your position. (asterisk) In snowy weather, briey leave the car to scoop snow or slush from and then at startup from stop signs, even though the Beetle Turbo weighs 3,089 pounds and feels solid and stable, not a lightweight small car. In comparison, the 2012 Civic Coupe weighs some 2,600 to 2,700 pounds, depending on equipment included. Still, to get the peak performance from the Beetle Turbo, VW recommends premium gasoline, and at todays prices, thats $55 to ll up the 14.5-gallon tank. Using the federal governments estimated fuel economy for this model of 22 mpg in city driving and 30 mpg on the highway, the Beetle should go some 360 miles on a tank of gas. The base Beetle engine a 2.5-liter, non-turbo four cylinder developing 177 foot-pounds of torque at 4,250 rpm only needs regular gasoline. Its government mileage rating is similar to that of the turbo, though 22/29 mpg. VW plans to add a fuel-thrifty dieselpowered Beetle in calendar 2012. With underpinnings borrowed from the VW Golf, the Beetle rides and handles well and managed sweeping curves and aggressive maneuvers competently. Theres more trunk space in the 2012 Beetle 15.4 cubic feet instead of 12 cubic feet. And the split rear seatbacks fold down, though not completely at, and help boost the trunk room to nearly 30 cubic feet. Standard safety equipment on the 2012 Beetle includes electronic stability control, curtain air bags and antilock brakes. the tailpipe so that deadly carbon monoxide fumes dont ll the vehicle. Finally, theres the issue of stranger danger. When stranded, do you accept a strangers help? Dreher says, unfortunately, no. Im a trusting individual. Im sure that 99 percent of the people who would stop to help you are Good Samaritans, she says. Unfortunately, for that 1 percent, we have to be cautious. Its always best to stay in your car and stay protected. Thats a tough one, says Harrington, who recommends playing it safe in most situations. Sometimes, however, if stuck in an isolated location, you may have to accept help from a stranger. Rely on intuition if a stranger approaches, he says: that hair on the back of your neck type of thing. His best advice? Dont get stuck on the side of the road in the rst place. Plan ahead, know your route, and check the weather and road conditions. And make sure your car is in good working order.
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manual transmission and $25,300 with 181-horsepower, turbocharged four cylinder and manual transmission. The Beetle debuted in the United States in 1949 as an inexpensive peoples car and became trendy with young Baby Boomers in the 1960s. Its reappearance as the New Beetle in 1998 contributed to a renaissance for retro-styled vehicles. Note that the word new has been dropped, nally, from the Beetles name even though theres plenty thats really new about the 2012 Beetle. The test car, a Beetle 2.0T with gasoline turbo engine, felt larger inside than its predecessor, giving passengers a greater sense of space around them. VW lengthened the car by 6 inches, made it wider by 3.3 inches and expanded the track and wheelbase to give the car a more substantial and sporty look. New taillight treatment gives the car a less cartoonish character, too. Inside, theres a bit more room for the two seats in front and two in back. For example, front shoulder room and legroom have grown by some 2.5 inches and 2 inches, respectively. Back seat headroom is improved by nearly half an inch, and because the old, bubble-shaped rooine is gone, rear-seat passengers
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Thats one of those few times people appreciate seeing us coming, he says. Monica Manseld, of Shrewsbury, Mass., credits a grisly accident several years ago with changing her highway thinking: She vows never to stop along a highway. I would rather drive on a rim and get off at an exit as opposed to sitting in a lane, she says. I drive on a highway all the way to work, and I see some of the unnecessary things people pull over for. AAA recommends taking an exit off the highway to a safer place, such as a parking lot or rest area, before stopping. It offers other advice for disabled vehicles in its brochure What to Do When Your Vehicle Breaks Down, which can be downloaded from www.aaaexchange.com . Wave Dreher, a AAA spokesperson in
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You dont have to know about VORP or WHIP, or OPS to enjoy Moneyball, the story of how a bunch of stat geeks changed the way baseball teams assess and acquire players. Sure, it helps if youre a fan of the sport and if youve read
Michael Lewis breezy and engaging best-seller Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Sabermetrics the process of applying statistical formulas, rather than on-field appearance and general makeup, to determine a players worth wouldnt seem like an inherently cinematic topic. But Lewis made lesser-known
guys like Scott Hatteberg and Chad Bradford leap off the page. And the cajoling patter from Billy Beane, the Oakland As general manager who pioneered this experimental philosophy, would seem tailormade for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who co-wrote the script along with fellow veteran scribe Steven Zaillian. Still, whats most pleasing
about the lm doesnt really have to do with baseball. As Beane, Brad Pitt is at his charismatic best a little weary, a little weathered, but that complexity only makes him more appealing. Hes persistent and persuasive as he tries to change the mindset of the baseball lifers who surround him. We see him rage in
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ball with just about any team, on any lm project he likes. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Yet he wanted to make TORONTO Brad Pitts Moneyball so much that he about as free a free agent as stuck with it for years, even after pal Steven Soderbergh, they come in Hollywood, a See PITT, Page 24 superstar so big he could play By David Germain
OAKLAND Billy Beane considers Moneyball a success for the simple fact Brad Pitt plays Oaklands innovative, volatile general manager. Listen, its Brad doing it, how am I going to complain? Beane quipped Monday.
The new movie focuses on the 2002 edition of the small-market Athletics and a thrilling 20-game winning streak. Billy Beane U l t i m a t e l y, Oakland lost in the rst round
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LOS ANGELES Choosing Brad Pitts ve best performances was tough, but getting a chance to look back on his career was a joy. Ever since his breakout role as the sexy and mysterious drifter J.D. in Thelma & Louise (1991), Pitt has repeatedly proven that hes so much more than just a pretty face. Hes shown a knack for choosing meaty, intelligent lms and working with the most respected directors, which has allowed him to explore every facet of his versatile talent. This week he stars in Moneyball as Oakland As general manager Billy Beane, a role that lets him be both charismatic and vulnerable. Its some of his best work; here are ve other examples: Fight Club (1999): The rst
rule of Brad Pitt is, its impossible not to talk about Brad Pitt. Hes larger than life here, mythological almost, as Tyler Durden, the leader of the secret ght club and the key to Edward Nortons salvation or so he initially thinks. Sinewy and swaggering, Pitt radiates sexy masculinity in an almost primal way. The fact that he also challenges the men who follow him on emotional and psychological levels makes him not just charismatic but downright frightening. This is one of several lms Pitt has made with director David Fincher and you might put Se7en or The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on your list of his top performances but this is the one that stands out most for me. The Tree of Life (2011): Between this and Moneyball, Pitt is having a pretty great year. But the performances come in two lms that
couldnt be more different. Terrence Malicks hypnotic meditation on family, memory and the origin of life itself is full of mesmerizing imagery. But it also allowed Pitt to do some of the best work of his career as a husband and father of three in 1950s Texas. Pitt makes the character an intimidating gure, a capricious mix of toughness and tenderness. His actions may seem questionable, even abusive at times, but you get the sense that hes questioning, struggling, trying to gure out how to be the best man he can be without abandoning his traditional notions of manhood. Inglourious Basterds (2009): Hes pretty much doing a bad impression of George W. Bush here campy but irresistible and it is always such a joy to watch him let go and goof off. Pitt tops a tremendous ensemble cast in Quentin Tarantinos
daring, revisionist World War II saga as the twangy Tennessean Lt. Aldo Raine. Hes the leader of a band of Jewish American soldiers who hunt Nazis with the goal of not just killing them but scalping them and sometimes carving swastikas into their foreheads. He offers a rousing mix of aw-shucks earnestness and slambang bravado. Burn After Reading (2008): Part of the beauty of Pitt is his willingness to toy with his own beautiful image. In the Coen brothers comedy, he steals every scene hes in and nearly walks away with the whole movie as an overgrown child of a gym trainer whose bungled schemes get him in way over his head. Just his name alone, Chad Feldheimer, makes him sound like a rst-class doofus, and one look at his blonde-streaked pouf tells you not to take him, or the lm, too seriously.
But Pitt brings an innocence to the role that makes him irresistible rather than obnoxious; with the shadow of superstardom looming so large, its easy to forget he can be funny. Snatch. (2000): Pitt went even deeper to play a weird, wild comic character here, going so far as to speak in an accent that made him completely unintelligible but thats what made the performance hilarious. Guy Ritchies comedy is full of his typically colorful characters, assorted British low-lifes and eccentrics. But Pitt steals the show as an Irish gypsy boxer who speaks in such a quick, mangled way, even the Brits cant understand him. In a recent Entertainment Weekly interview, he said he came up with the gibberish in a panic at the last minute when he couldnt quite nail the characters accent. But as with everything else, he made it look effortless.
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HILLER AVIATION MUSEUM CAPTURES THE CONSTELLATIONS. Take a trip to San Carlos and enter the amazing dome of Hiller Aviation Museums Starlab planetarium. See the glittering stars of the night sky projected overhead and discover the brightest constellations, used by pilots, sailors and others to navigate across vast and featureless oceans. Learn how to identify star patterns visible from your own backyard on clear fall evenings. On Saturday, Sept. 24, 30minute Starlab presentations are offered at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Children ages 5 and up are welcome with an accompanying adult at any presentation time. Attendance for children age 2 and under is not recommended. Participants must crawl through a short tunnel with reduced lighting to access the inside of the Starlab dome and have to remain seated throughout the 30-minute presentation as the stars, planets and constellations of the season are projected within. Space for each Starlab presentation is limited, and a separate Starlab ticket ($5 per person, $4 Members) is required for each participant in addition to Museum admission. Tickets may be purchased at the Museum Gift Shop on the day of the program. Saturday, Sept. 24 is Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day. This may mean free admission for you and a guest. Check it out at www.Smithsonianmag.com/museumday. The 53,000-square-foot Hiller Aviation Museum complex is at the San Carlos Airport. The Mission of the Hiller Aviation Institute is To stimulate and
The Hiller Aviation Museums Starlab planetarium lets visitors explore the constellations.
engage our communities to discover the past, celebrate the present and imagine the future of aviation with a focus on unique technological innovations and innovators. The Museum collection helps serve this mission by displaying 50 aircraft exhibits of planes such as the 1869 Avitor Hermes Jr. (first aeroplane to fly unmanned), the 1913 Lincoln Beecheys Little Looper (first aerobatics airplane), the 1945 Hiller 360 (first inherently-stable helicopter to be licensed by the FAA), the 1955 Flying Platform (first ducted fan, man-carrying, VTOL aircraft) and the 1956 XROE Rotorcycle (fully collapsible helicopter). And at Hiller, its not just about looking. Visitors can immerse themselves in the excitement of aviation in the high-tech simulation experience: the Flight Sim Zone. Discover how airplanes move in three-dimensions with your hands at the controls. Take a virtual flight across the Bay and see the world from the unique perspective of a pilot. Using state-ofthe-art computers and software, with multiple large displays and flight controls including yokes, throttles and rudder pedals, the Flight Sim Zone recreates the experience of flying. The Sim Zone is open Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. A $3 Pass required in addition to museum admission. Each pass is good for 30 minutes of flight time. Space is limited. Hiller also provides aviationthemed experiences to Scouts of all ages. Tours and short hands-on programs may be scheduled for troops or packs, and more extensive full-day programs meeting Boy Scout Merit Badge and Girl Scout Interest Patch requirements are available. The Hiller Aviation Museum is located at 601 Skyway Road, San Carlos. The Museum Store has a large collections of aviation toys, books, flight wear, models and memorabilia. For information about the Hiller Aviation Museum, call 654-0200 or visit www.hiller.org. *** PARTY LIKE IT MATTERS.
San Franciscos Yerba Buena Center for the Arts kicks off The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India with an opening night party on Friday, Oct. 14 at 9:30 p.m. The Matter Within brings together sculpture, photography and video by artists of India living inside the country as well as in the diaspora and examines material culture, literature, spirituality and social and political aspects of the history of the South Asian region. Works include feature-length video installations, narrative photo series, and a massive coin-operated statue in YBCAs Grand Lobby. The opening night party includes performances and dancing lessons from the Non Stop Bhangra crew, an interactive Rangoli ceremony with Monica Henderson, and Cadre, a Matter Within-themed smartphone game designed by the gaming geniuses at Groundcrew. $5 in advance; $7 at the door; free for YBCA members. 701 Mission St. San Francisco. (415) 978-2787 or www.ybca.org. The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India runs through Jan. 29, 2012. *** SIDDI QUILTS LAST WEEKEND. Sunday, Sept. 25 is the last day to see Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD). The display features 32 patchwork quilts made by Siddi women and provides an opportunity to explore the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World. 685 Mission St. (at Third), San Francisco. Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. (415) 358-7200 or visit www.moadsf.org.
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bargain prices which is crucial when youve got a fraction of the payroll of bigmarket teams. As he ventures into this brave new world at the start of the 2002 season, having lost in agonizing fashion to the New York Yankees in the 2001 post-season, his trusty sidekick is Peter Brand, a 25-year-old Yale economics graduate and follower of sabermetrics guru Bill James. (The character is an amalgamation of several young, up-and-coming baseball executives who subscribed to this belief). Jonah Hill is at his best here, too, as Brand: the perfect foil for a force of nature like Beane. Halting and almost humorless, Hill ultimately nds the quiet condence in this character, and he and Pitt bounce off each other beautifully. The scenes in which they banter represent the best Moneyball has to offer. Yes, theyre talking about baseball, but the intelligence of their interactions and the bond they forge transcend sport. And watching With no game Monday, players and coaches dressed up for their night off from work. A three-game series with reigning AL champion and rst-place Texas starts Tuesday. Scott Hatteberg and the actor who played him, Chris Pratt, stuck together. Hatteberg praised Pratt for capturing him perfectly, down to his every mannerism before stepping into the batters box. We were separated at birth, joked Pratt. Moneyball, adapted from the 2003 best seller by Michael Lewis detailing Beanes unconventional methods and management style in running a ballclub, opens nationwide Friday. Pitt insists he enjoyed portraying Beane, down to the GMs temper, junk food consumption and habitual dipping. That came pretty easily. I grew up with a little dip, Pitt said, smiling. I just felt a kinship with the Billy I read and the Billy I met. Pitt praised Beanes fashion sense and dancing skills while also noting, We have a terrible professional baseball player Im just kidding. The actor stuck with the troubled project through a hiatus and switches in directors Moneyball fell apart two years ago after Sony pulled the plug on it a few days before lming was to start. Soderbergh had submitted dramatic revisions to the script from Academy Awardwinning screenwriter Steven Zaillian (Schindlers List), and Sony was unwilling to go along with the changes, which reportedly included interview segments with real players and team ofcials and re-enactments to tell the story as realistically as possible. Just as Beane had to rebuild his team in 2002 after losing key players to free agency, Sony brought in fresh talent to revive Moneyball. Hollywood heavyweight Scott Rudin joined producers Pitt, Michael De Luca and Rachael Horovitz to help jump-start the lm. Aaron Sorkin, who collaborated with Rudin on last years The S o c i a l Network and won an Oscar for the screenplay, did a new them upend a bastion of American culture can be thrilling. Similarly, though, the things that are wrong with the movie have nothing to do with baseball, either. Insiders and hardcore fans will probably nd reasons to nitpick, as is their wont; if theres a group of people more obsessed with details and arcania than movie nerds, its baseball nerds. But more fundamentally, theres a problem with the pacing in director Bennett Millers lm. Millers feature debut was Capote, which earned Philip Seymour Hoffman a best-actor Oscar (and Hoffman shows up here in a barely developed role as As manager Art Howe, who bucks Beane at every opportunity). As rich a character study as Capote was, it also offered suspense as it traced the authors rise and fall. Moneyball never feels like its building toward anything, even if you know how the As season unfolded that year. It plays out in starts and stops, and then all of a sudden, were in the midst of the teams historic beginning with Steven Soderbergh and ending with Bennett Miller. Pitt indicated that leadership changes were necessary because of the unique story that had its own verve and life to it. I really got taken with Michaels book. I couldnt let it go, Pitt said. I saw an unconventional story ... where guys were in pursuit of something and wouldnt let it go at any other cost. While Pitts baseball career was short-lived, and his father stopped watching games in the house growing up after the sport priced the working man out of attending games, he sure enjoyed being on the behind-the-scenes side of the sport. I feel a bit romantic about the As, Pitt said. My relationship with baseball was cantankerous at best. Ive got a crap arm. It ended with 18 stitches (pointing under his left eye). Moneyball is a drama taking a close-up look at the 02 As and the story how Beane ran the low-budget team based on statistics and some fortunate luck. It was very nostalgic to me to some extent, Beane said of recalling those days. They did a great job with the 20game streak. It brought back a lot of emotion draft of the Moneyball script, sharing the writing credit with Zaillian. The studio took a risk on a director to replace Soderbergh, choosing Bennett Miller, a 2005 Oscar nominee for his ction feature debut Capote. Miller came from the artsier, lowerbudgeted independent world and had made only one lm, a documentary, before Capote. The timing was right for Miller, who had spent a few years trying to get a lm of his own off the ground and had just conceded it wasnt going to happen, he said. Moneyball probably wouldnt have happened either without Pitt going to bat for it, Miller said. It needed a champion for it to happen, because theres not a ton in the book that
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his infamously volatile fashion when things go wrong, but we also see him make himself vulnerable: Hes embracing this approach as a result of his own failure. Tall, good-looking and naturally athletic a ve-tool guy, as they say Beane was a highly-touted high school prospect who turned down a scholarship to Stanford to play for the New York Mets. But his professional career was brief, and he never lived up to the hype. This inspired him to value players for more pragmatic reasons than the traditional methods old-school scouts use. The most important thing, he reasoned, is getting on base. And some of the players who get on base most often happen to be undervalued, perhaps older or a little banged-up, and they come at
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of the playoffs. These days, the As are no longer winning regularly, Beane is far from the genius he once was considered to be and he might even be headed to the Cubs to replace Jim Hendry. Pitt was drawn to the film despite his thoughts that economics and sabermetrics are not exactly nail-biting stuff. Beane and Pitt were together again Monday for an outdoor news conference in the outeld at the Coliseum. They spoke ahead of Monday nights premiere at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Oakland. Fans lined the streets a couple of hours before the premiere to catch a glimpse of Pitt, other actors and former and current players along the red carpet which, in this case, featured a makeshift diamond with green bleachers and the warning track as the route. Chants of Lets go Oakland! greeted them.
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his director on the Oceans Eleven icks, departed the lm in a script squabble with Sony Pictures. Pitt was obsessed with making a movie out of Michael Lewis best-seller Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, which chronicles Oakland As general manager Billy Beanes revolutionary experiment to build a winning team out of unlikely prospects and castoff players chosen because they could be had cheaply and t new mathematical models that ran counter to traditional baseball scouting stats. I couldnt let go of the book, Pitt said in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Moneyball premiered ahead of its theatrical release Friday. It was just something I wanted to put out there. The Soderbergh-directed version of
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tional pizza toppings. Those llings are easily adapted to your tastes; Ive used lean Italian turkey sausage, shredded fresh zucchini, fresh mozzarella cheese, a natural marinara sauce and fresh basil all low-calorie ingredients. Plus, this recipe is something your kids can help with. And when kids help make something, they are much more likely to think it tastes good. Just be sure to resist the temptation to use processed low-fat mozzarella cheese, the sort of shredded cheese so often used on regular pizzas. I used it for years until I experimented with fresh mozzarella. It has a sweet, rich, milky quality, and a low melting point, which allows it to meld with avors like basil. The fresh variety, unlike the shredded processed form, adds pizzazz to the pockets. And best of all, I have found it as low as 60 calories per ounce, compared to 80 to 100 calories for regular mozzarella. I know what youre thinking why not just buy frozen processed pizza pockets and toss them in the microwave? Fine, if you like preservatives along with your fat and sodium. Plus, its important for parents to set a good example by eating and serving healthy, nutri-
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tious foods as often as possible. Part of this is teaching kids that convenience foods should be an occasional treat, not a dinner staple. Children also need to understand that meals are made from ingredients, not pulled from boxes. Those are two critical lessons that are easy to forget in the weekday rush to get dinner on the table. Thats why I love recipes like this one. Its fast. Its easy. And it replicates a convenience food your kids will love, but that you can feel good about.
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Hide any vegetable your child doesnt like in these pockets. I bet the kids will devour it once its covered in sauce and melted cheese. Choose bread slices that are square, such as Ezekiel sprouted grain bread. Square slices are easier to fold in half than rectangular slices.
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Start to nish: 30 minutes Servings: 4 (2 pockets per serving) 1 link raw Italian turkey sausage, casing removed (about 4 ounces) 1 small zucchini, coarsely shredded 2 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese, coarsely shredded 1/2 cup no-salt, no-sugar, fat-free marinara sauce (such as Pomi) 12 leaves fresh basil, torn into bite-size pieces 8 slices whole-wheat bread, attened with a rolling pin Extra-virgin olive oil cooking
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Summer doesnt often inspire us to crank up the oven. But some dishes can make it worth enduring the heat. Berries and peaches light up with just a touch of heat, and tomatoes become even sweeter. And what picnic would be complete without a juicy pie or some big, chunky cookies? To help you along, a few new cookbooks show you how to make the most of summers bounty. The Sono Baking Company Cookbook, for example, folds plump summer blueberries into tender, sour cream muffins. And chunky, chocolate-stuffed kitchen sink cookies practically scream picnic. But its really the books savories that set it apart. Baker John Barricelli nestles sweet kernels of corn against luscious crabmeat in a decadent French tart, and creates a Jarlsberg-topped cobbler of red, yellow and orange cherry tomatoes. If you live in a place where leeks and asparagus are still popping, show them off in his custardy leek, asparagus and corn tart. Vegetarian cooking guru Deborah Madison also has worked as a pastry chef. And she has put her knowledge to good use in Seasonal Fruit Desserts, a book stocked with nofuss desserts that exploit summers just-from-the-farm sweetness. Fruit lends itself to improvisation, she says. If its really delicious to start with it gives you so many possibilities. Some of her simplest desserts require no baking at all: plums are gently sauteed with a touch of cardamom, while the hollows of fat summer melons are filled with berries, wine and herbs. If you do turn on the oven, a berry and peach cobbler gets crunch from corn our,
A right-side-up cake piled with fresh fruit and just a touch of butter offers a lighter take on the traditional buttery-sweet upside down cake.
and easy folded pies are lled with grapes or mulberries, blackberries and other summer treats. A rightside-up cake piled with fresh fruit and just a touch of butter offers a lighter take on the traditional buttery-sweet upside down cake. David Lebovitzs Ready for Dessert promises visceral satisfaction starting with the cover, which invites you to drag a greedy nger through a cakes thick chocolate icing. Inside, almond cookies become cobbler crusts and Guinness-spiked gingerbread gets topped with lime frosting. Even classics get just a little extra kick, like a nectarine-raspberry upside-down cake with a gingerbread base. For those days when peaches practically ooze their juice at the farm stand, Lebovitz proposes peach mascarpone semifreddo, a frozen peaches-and-cream given a subtle crunch by crushed amaretti cookies. The Sono Baking Company Cookbook by John Barricelli (Clarkson Potter, 2010) Seasonal Fruit Desserts by Deborah Madison (Broadway Books, 2010) Ready For Dessert by David Lebovitz (Ten Speed Press, 2010) sider it an upside-down upsidedown cake) from Deborah Madisons Seasonal Fruit Desserts is made entirely in the food processor. She says it is sturdy enough to support a layer of fresh berries, pitted cherries, huckleberries, sliced peaches, quartered apricots or cut-up pineapple. Start to finish: 2 hours (1 hour active) Servings: 8 Butter, for coating the pan All-purpose flour, for dusting the pan For the topping: 1 1/2 cups fruit (chopped if large)
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2 tablespoons granulated sugar For the cake: 3 1/2 ounces almond paste 2/3 cup granulated sugar 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature 3 eggs, room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon almond extract 1/2 cup sour cream or plain yogurt 2/3 cup corn flour 2/3 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt Powdered sugar, for dusting Heat the oven to 375 F. Coat a 5by-8-inch springform pan with butter and flour. Line the bottom of the pan with a round of parchment paper, then butter that, as well. In a medium bowl, toss the fruit with the sugar, then set aside. In a food processor, combine the almond paste and sugar. Pulse until evenly combined. Add the butter and pulse until well combined. With the machine running, add the eggs, one at a time, until well blended. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then add the vanilla and almond extracts, and the sour cream. Blend until smooth. In a medium bowl, mix the corn flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt. Add half of the dry ingredient to the processor and pulse 3 times. Add the second half and pulse 3 times again. Scrape the bowl to make sure everything is well combined, then give it 3 or 4 more pulses. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth out the top. Pile the fruit over the top. Bake in the center of the oven until lightly browned and springy when pressed with a fingertip, about 1 hour or slightly longer. Let stand for 10 minutes, then remove from the pan. Dust with powdered sugar. Let cool to room temperature before slicing.
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 23 Cooks Corner. Noon to 1 p.m. Twin Pines Senior & Community Center, 20 Twin Pines Lane, Belmont. Hands-on cooking. Recipes are shared. Free. Reserve by calling 5957444. For more information email lguluzzy@belmont.gov or call 6372976. Music on the Square: Salsa Band Mazacote. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. Discover unique painting, photography, jewelry, glass, ceramics and more at prices for every budget. For more information call 780-7305. Art on the Square. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Downtown Redwood City, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. Free. Hustle Dance Party. 8 p.m. to Midnight. Boogie Woogie Ballroom, 551 Foster City Blvd. Suite G, Foster City. Join the fun times at the September hustle dance party with Raul Ante at the Boogie Woogie Ballroom. Lessons start at 8 p.m. The dance party starts at 9 p.m. $12 for lesson and party, $10 for dance party only. Comedy at the Bistro: Master Impressionist Dave Burliegh. 8 p.m. Angelicas Bistro, 863 Main St., Redwood City. Comedian Dave Burliegh will give a performance including spot-on celebrity impersonations. $15 in advance. $18 day of show. For more information and tickets call 365-3226 or visit www.angelicasbistro.com. Broadway By the Bay presents Gypsy. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City. $22-48. Tickets on sale now at the Broadway By the Bay Box Office or in person during the run of the show up to 1.5 hours prior to the performance. For more information call 579-5565. Stung and Petty Theft. 9 p.m. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. Police tribute band Stung and Tom Petty tribute band Petty Theft perform everything from revered classics to modern hits. Ages 21 and up. $15. For more information email jennifer@dancingcat.com. SATURDAY, SEPT. 24 NCVA Boys Power League. 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. San Mateo County Event Center, Expo Hall, 1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo. Free admission. For more information call 574-3247. Health Walk with Dr. James L. Hutchinson. 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Beresford Park, 2720 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo. Join Dr. Hutchinson, M.D., longtime proponent of walking and its health benefits for older adults, and walk one half or two mile courses. Walk as little or as far as you like at your own pace. Free. For more information call 522-7490. Water for Haiti Garage Sale. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Peninsula Covenant Church, Fellowship Hall, 3560 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City. The Peninsula Covenant Church will have a garage sale to raise money for funding a project dedicated to bringing drinking water to Haiti. For more information email dawnleiro@comcast.net. American Legion Post No. 409 Breakfast. 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The American Legion, 757 San Mateo Ave., San Bruno. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, ham, sausage and beverages will be served. $6 per person. $5 for children under 10. Flood Park Cleanup Day. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Flood Park, 215 Bay Road, Menlo Park. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has granted a temporary reprieve to Flood Park. Volunteers needed for painting, pruning and other park improvement projects. Registration required. For more information visit savefloodpark.org. 12th Annual Half Moon Bay Citywide Garage Sale. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Half Moon Bay, for more specific locations visit w w w. h m b c i t y. c o m / g a r a g e s a l e . Come to the coast for a day of bargain treasure hunting in Half Moon Bay. San Francisco Airline Memorabilia Show & Sale. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Grosvenor Best Western, 380 S. Airport Blvd., South San Francisco. $5, under 12 free. For more information call (408) 5048345. 26th Annual Pacific Coast Fog Fest Parade. 10 a.m. Along Palmetto Avenue, Pacifica. To kick off domestic violence awareness in October, CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse) will be participating in the Fog Fest Parade. Join CORA in the Fog Fest parade. For more information or to sign up call 652-0800 or email rosemarym@corasupport.org. Eighth Annual Burlingame Pet Parade. 10 a.m. Broadway, Burlingame. Participants must report to the parking lot on Chula Vista Avenue near Broadway by 9:30 a.m. Free. For more information call 3422073. San Mateo Senior Center Health & Wellness Fair. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. San Mateo Senior Center, 2645 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo. A health fair designed for seniors, their families and those who provide for their care. This event features resource information provided by 45+ vendors, guest speakers, numerous health screenings as well as demonstrations. Free. For more information call 522-7490. Caada Colleges Artistry in Fashion 20th anniversary. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Caada College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City. Sixty professional designers selling clothing, jewelry and accessories will be present. Fashion Show featuring pattern designer Lyla Messinger will start at 1 p.m. in the theater. The fashion department will have an open house noon to 3 p.m. displaying student work. $10 donation fee with proceeds benefitting Caada Colleges Fashion Department. For more information call 306-3370. Smithsonian magazines annual Museum Day. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. CuriOdyssey, 1651 Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo. Free admission if a Museum Day card is presented. For more information visit CuriOdyssey.org. Well Kiddos: Health Breakfast for Kids. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., New Leaf Community Markets, 150 San Mateo Road, Half Moon Bay. Well Kiddos presents a fun and educational kids cooking class led by Joanna Goodwin. For ages 4 and up and parents. Preregistration is required. $10. To register and for more information visit www.newleaf.com. Redwood City Salsa Festival. Noon to 8 p.m., Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. Redwood City celebrates its fourth annual Salsa Festival with four stages of Salsa, Latin Rock, Latin Jazz, and DJ Salsa music including free Salsa lessons. Amateur and professional salsa chefs will compete for great prizes at the salsa tasting competition. Free. For more information visit www.redwoodcity.org/events or call 7807340. San Carlos Rebuild the Dream House Party. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The Mid-Peninsula American Dream Council, 330 Emerald Ave., San Carlos. The Mid-Peninsula American Dream Council, a local team of committed MoveOn members, will plan their next steps in taking the Contract for the American Dream. Free. For more information call 3417445. St. Catherine of Siena 2011 Fall Festival & Chili Cook-Off. 1300 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame. 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Bring the family and enjoy food, music, games, prizes and rides. San Mateo Rebuild the Dream House Party. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Mid-Peninsula American Dream Council, 426 27th Ave., San Mateo. The Mid-Peninsula American Dream Council, a local team of committed MoveOn members, will plan their next steps in taking the Contract for the American Dream. Free. For more information call 341-7445. Bethlehem AD. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. 1300 Middlefield Road, Redwood City. Kickoff barbecue dinner and live bands. Free. For more information visit bethlehemad.com. Fifth Annual Rib Fest. 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Foster City Recreation Center, 650 Shell Blvd., Foster City. Enjoy food, drink, fun, entertainment, raffle prizes, silent and live auction and music. $40. Tickets at Foster City Chamber of Commerce or call 341-3822. Gospel on the Coast. 7:30 p.m. Community United Methodist Church, 777 Miramontes Ave., Half Moon Bay. The Oakland Interfaith Gospel adult and youth choirs will perform. $25. For more information and tickets call (510) 839-4361 or visit oigc.org. Broadway By the Bay presents Gypsy. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City. $22-$48. Tickets on sale now at the Broadway By the Bay Box Office or in person during the run of the show up to 1.5 hours prior to the performance. For more information call 579-5565. Redwood Symphony Season Opener. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Caada College Main Theatre, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City. The Redwood Symphony is an all-volunteer orchestra dedicated to the performance of ambitious, contemporary repertoire, as well as the orchestral classics. Directed by Eric Kujawsky. Featuring violin soloist Jassen Todorov. Pieces by Bernstein, Beethoven and Rimsky-Korsakov will be performed. $10 adult students, $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Free for children under 18. For more information call 366-6872. SUNDAY, SEPT. 25 PJCC Open House. All Day. Peninsula Jewish Community Center, 800 Foster City Blvd., Foster City. Bring your workout clothes and swimsuit and be a guest of the PJCC, all day, absolutely free. Visit between 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for special Open House activities. Free. For more details visit pjcc.org/openhouse or call 212-7522. Oyster Point Five-Mile Race. 9 a.m. Oyster Point Marina, 96 Harbormaster Road, South San Francisco. Flat, scenic, five-mile run along the paved Bay Trail. Registration begins at 8 a.m. All runners receive a ribbon and snacks. $5 for adults. $3 for ages 11-17. Free for ages 10 and under. For more information or to pre-register visit active.com or call (415) 978-0837. Ken Fisher speaks on pre-1920 lumbering in San Mateo County. 1 p.m. San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. Local Redwood Forest historian and best-selling author Ken Fisher will present a photographic perspective. $5. Free to association members. For more information go to historysmc.org or call 299-0104. Alexander Nepote: The Kraft Family Collection. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Peninsula Museum of Art, 10 Twin Pines Lane, Belmont. For more information visit peninuslamuseum.org. Casino Chorale Wine and Winnings. 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Domenico Winery, 1697 Industrial Road, San Carlos. Proceeds will support Masterworks Chorale. Play will be for chips and these will earn raffle tickets for enticing prizes donated to Masterworks for the event. A silent auction will also be held. Prizes will include tickets to local events or places, certificates from restaurants, nights in hotels, certificates for services provided by local businesses, bottles of wine and themed baskets of items. Fee is $25 at the door. For more information call 574-6210. MONDAY, SEPT. 26 Sleep Trains Dollar Drive for Foster Kids. Continues through Oct. 30. Monetary donations can be made online by visiting sleeptrain.com or at any Sleep Train store location. For more information call (800) 3782337. Lecture: Musical Theater of the 1960s. 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. San Mateo Senior Center, 2645 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo. Renowned music historian Joe Marchi shares his love and enthusiasm for the music of Broadway and the musical theater. Space is limited, pre-registration is required. Free. For more information or to register call 522-7490. Kaplan PSAT Review. 7 p.m. Belmont Library, 1110 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont. Get the results from your PSAT practice test in this free review session offered by Kaplan. No registration is required and parents are encouraged to attend. Free. For more information email conrad@smcl.org. Broadway By the Bay presents Gypsy. 2 p.m. Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City. $22-$48. Tickets on sale now at the Broadway By the Bay Box Office or in person during the run of the show up to 1.5 hours prior to the performance. For more information call 579-5565. For more events visit smdailyjournal.com, click Calendar.
CINCINNATI Besides her careers as a singer-songwriter and actress, Mandy Moore has quietly carved out another role as spokeswoman for global humanitarian efforts such as clean water and ghting malaria, taking her to remote villages in African countries and, this week, to the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York. Part of a crop of teen female singing stars that rose a decade ago, Moore explained in an interview with the Associated Press that her work for such causes as helped keep her life in the entertainment world in context. It gives me balance and perspective, she said by telephone from New York. Its sort of given me an understanding of the other side of my job that it gives me the platform and reach that I can continue to spread the word on issues that Im passionate about. They sort of go hand-in-hand. Moore, now 27, has since 2008 voluntarily represented Population Services International, a Washington-based organization, in its child survival programs. She has helped launch and raise money for initiatives to help the organization provide insecticide-treated mosquito nets for children with malaria, anti-tuberculosis efforts, and for providing clean water. On Wednesday night, she recounted seeing how Pur, a water-ltering product made by Procter & Gamble, helped make dirty water drinkable on one of her Africa trips. She was very moving, talking about her own experiences, said P&Gs Greg Allgood, who heads the consumer product makers not-forprot safe drinking water program. She expresses herself better than a scientist like me. I can talk about the parasites; she talks about it
from a very human perspective. Moore also draws a whole new audience to humanitarian causes, Allgood said, adding: My daughter thought it was pretty cool. I feel it shouldnt even be an issue; all of as human Mandy Moore beings should have access to clean water, Moore said. Unfortunately, thats the not the case for many people in the world. She recalled a Sudanese man pointing to silt and other contaminants ltered out by the Pur packets and saying: That stuff is in our bellies. Moore has also traveled to Cameroon and the Central African Republic for PSI, and has volunteered time for other causes such as promoting cervical cancer education for the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation and GlaxoSmithKline. I think its our responsibility as individuals to effect change in whatever big or small contribution we can nd time to do, she said. Im proud that, I think, Im part of a generation that is socially conscious. Im inspired by a lot of young people that Ive met. For a singer whose rst Top 40 pop hit, Candy, came at age 15 and who has made music and movies ever since, its a change to visit people who have never heard her albums, seen her in magazines, or, for that matter, even know who she is. Thats usually not the case, she said. Theyre just incredibly hospitable and excited to welcome people from the United States, whatever their job may be ... (who) will come back to the U.S. and be able to speak on their behalf. in the Salsa Festival for the rst time this weekend. He started making salsa about ve years ago and has recently made his salsa into a group project among his friends. Everyones got their garden, and we use as many fresh, homegrown tomatoes and jalapenos as we can, he said. Like Matonis, Rohrbach sticks to rening his one salsa recipe. He describes his salsa as a medium spice. He uses jalapenos and serranos, but no super hot habanero peppers. You can eat it for a long time and not be spitting re, he said. The main avor of his salsa comes from roasting tomatoes, jalapenos, garlic and onions over a charcoal grill with wood chips. Rohrbachs salsa is not for sale anywhere, but he likes to take it to parties. Last weekend, he and his friends enjoyed the salsa on burgers, quesadillas and tacos. He is looking forward to making his salsa with his friends on-site of the Salsa Festival. Our group of friends is pretty crazy, he said. Everyone is dressing up in nautical theme. He and his friends decided to go with a nautical theme for their booth because they already have nautical outts from attending local band Mustache Harbor concerts. Rorhbach is planning to adjust his recipe to have a shot at the $500 Peoples Choice award. Well probably make it a little hotter for Peoples Choice, he said. faces no criminal charges. The information was appropriately corrected and Ive already paid the ne, he said. The district contracts with four companies that provide daycare service including Champions Extended Learning, which the FPPC noted as Hutts wifes source of income. Hutt joined the district in 2002 and his wife was hired as a site director by Knowledge Learning Corporation shortly after, he said. The company hired her independent of the district, Hutt said.
Bill Silverfarb can be reached by email: silverfarb@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 3445200 ext. 106.
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Despite his unwillingness to cater to the masses, Matonis has won the Peoples Choice award twice at the Redwood City Salsa Festival. I enjoy making it for people who really love my salsa, he said. Matonis will be appearing again at the festival, happening this Saturday from noon to 8 p.m. at Courthouse Square downtown. He has also won Best Hot at the Salsa Festival. Im immune to the heat, he said, adding that his wife eats his salsa, but not as much as he does. I keep asking if maybe I should enter it as mild and she says what are you nuts? Matonis makes about two gallons of salsa at a time and enjoys sharing it with friends. He has tried to cheat and get more salsa out of his recipe by adding more tomatoes or onions, but he said his friends notice the difference. At one point, he asked a man at a Watsonville cannery about what it would take for him to sell his salsa. The man told him that it is a huge undertaking for someone who has not produced food before. While his salsa does not have a name, he and his salsa booth go by The Spaniard. Salsa maker Mike Rohrbach will be entering his Captain Mikes Im on a Boat Salsa
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the Daily Journal yesterday he failed to ll in a page 2 appendix of the 700 form in the next four years as an oversight. I didnt ll out both pages in these years and it was my responsibility to do so, he said. Non-disclosure is a violation of Government Code Section 87300. Hutt has since provided the FPPC with complete disclosure, he said. He was ned for a technical violation and
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. 09-0121853 Title Order No. 09-8-356590 APN No. 032-151-020 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 4/6/2004. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by MICHELLE L. WONG, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, dated 4/6/2004 and recorded 4/15/2004, as Instrument No. 2004072022, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of San Mateo County, State of California, will sell on 9/30/2011 at 12:30PM, At the Marshall Street entrance to the Hall of Justice, 400 County Center, Redwood City, San Mateo County, CA at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 210 STATE STREET, SAN MATEO, CA, 94401. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrect-ness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obligation secured by the property to be sold plus reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $615,920.04. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier's checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings associa-tion, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an AS IS condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, with interest as provided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provi-sions of section 2923.5 of the California Civil Code, the declaration from the mortgagee, beneficiary or authorized agent is attached to the Notice of Trustee's Sale duly recorded with the appropriate County Recorder's Office. DATED: 11/21/2009 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914-01-94 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone/Sale Information: (800) 281 8219 By: Trustee's Sale Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that pur-pose. FEI # 1006.90772 9/09, 9/16, 9/23/2011
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #246419 The following person is doing business as: Veritas Learning, 722 Saint Lawrence Court, Pacifica, CA 94044 is hereby registered by the following owner: Rachel Zabaneh, same address. The business is conducted by an Individual. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on /s/ Rachel Zabaneh / This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk on 08/29/11. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/02/11, 09/09/11, 09/16/11, 09/23/11). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #246469 The following person is doing business as: DNA2.0, 1140 OBrien Dr., Ste. A, Menlo Park, CA 94025 is hereby registered by the following owner: DNA Twopointo, Inc., CA. The business is conducted by a Corporation. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on 01/01/2004. /s/ Claes Gustafsson / This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk on 08/30/11. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/02/11, 09/09/11, 09/16/11, 09/23/11). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #246499 The following persons are doing business as: Salon Gossip, 1321 #A Laurel Street, San Carlos, CA 94070 is hereby registered by the following owners: Sheryle Cattaneo, 259 Alexander Ave., Redwood City, CA 94061 and Tiffany Haughton, 1651 Kansas St., Redwood City, CA 94061. The business is conducted by a General Partnership. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on /s/ Tiffany Haughton / /s/ Sheryle Cattaneo / This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk on 09/01/11. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/02/11, 09/09/11, 09/16/11, 09/23/11). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #246358 The following person is doing business as: P Dubs Music, 1350 Hillview Dr., Menlo Park, CA 94025 is hereby registered by the following owner: Patrick Williams, same address. The business is conducted by an Individual. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on 01/15/2009. /s/ Patrick Williams / This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk on 08/23/11. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/02/11, 09/09/11, 09/16/11, 09/23/11). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #246483 The following person is doing business as: White Star Insurance Solutions, 199 California Dr., Ste. 206, Millbrae, CA 94030 is hereby registered by the following owner: Larry P. Chao Insurance Services, Inc., CA. The business is conducted by a Corporation. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on 08/08/2006. /s/ Julie C. Chao / This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk on 08/31/11. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/02/11, 09/09/11, 09/16/11, 09/23/11). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #246459 The following person is doing business as: Elegant Skin, 736 Polhemus Rd., San Mateo, CA 94402 is hereby registered by the following owner: Tiffany Montalbano, 223 29th Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403. The business is conducted by an Individual. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on 09/20/2011. /s/ Tiffany Montalbano / This statement was filed with the Assessor-8ounty Clerk on 08/30/11. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/09/11, 09/16/11, 09/23/11, 09/30/11). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #246585 The following person is doing business as: Wow Smile, 1150 El Camino Real, San Bruno, CA 94066 is hereby registered by the following owner: Odon Roa, 12 Lycett Circle, Daly City, CA 94015. The business is conducted by an Individual. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on /s/ Odon Roa / This statement was filed with the Assessor-8ounty Clerk on 09/07/11. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/09/11, 09/16/11, 09/23/11, 09/30/11). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #246519 The following person is doing business as: Cremelin, 835 Lakeview Way, Emerald Hills, CA 94062 is hereby registered by the following owner: Natalia Timonina, same address. The business is conducted by an Individual. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on /s/ Natalia Timonina / This statement was filed with the Assessor-8ounty Clerk on 09/01/11. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 09/09/11, 09/16/11, 09/23/11, 09/30/11).
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CLASSIC CAR model by Danbury Mint $99 (650)345-5502 WWII PLASTIC aircraft models $50 (35 total) 650-345-5502
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DRUM TABLE - brown, perfect condition, nice design, with storage, $45., (650)345-1111 EA CHEST , Bombay, burgundy, glass top, perfect cond. $35 (650)345-1111 END TABLE marble top with drawer with matching table $70/all. (650)520-0619 END TABLE solid marble white top with drawer $55. (650)308-6381 END TABLES (2)- Cherry finish, still in box, need to assemble, 26L x 21W x 21H, $100. for both, (650)592-2648 ENTERTAINMENT CENTER - Oak wood, great condition, glass doors, fits large TV, 2 drawers, shelves , $100/obo. (650)458-1397 FILE CABINET - Metal - two drawer light greyish. $20.00 - San Carlos 650-637-8262 - 650-796-8696 FOAM INCLINER for twin bed $40 650-692-1942 FOLDING PICNIC TABLE - 8 x 30 and 7 folding, padded chairs, $80., (650)3640902 FRAMED PICTURE - $20.00 - San Carlos - 650-637-8262 - 650-796-8696 HAND MADE portable jewelry display case wood and see through lid $45. 25 x 20 x 4 inches. 650-592-2648 HOSPITAL BED, new $1,100/OBO. Call SOLD! LIVING ROOM chairs Matching pair high end quality $99/both, (650)593-8880 LOUNGE CHAIRS - 2 new, with cover & plastic carring case & headrest, $35. each, (650)592-7483 MATCHED PAIR, brass/carved wood lamps with matching shades, perfect, only $12.50 each, 650-595-3933 MATTRESS TOPPER chrome full size $15., (650)368-3037 MIRROR -LARGE rectangular - gold frame - a little distressed look 33" x 29" $45.00 - San Carlos - 650-637-8262 650-796-8696 MIRROR/MEDICINE CAB. 3 dr. bevel glass 30X30" $35 (650)342-7933 MIRROR/MEDICINE CABINET 26" $10 (650)342-7933 MIRROR/MEDICINE CABINET 16" X 30" $20 (650)342-7933 16" X
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1912 COFFEE Percolator Urn. perfect condition includes electric cord $85. (415)565-6719 ANTIQUE STOOL - Rust color cushion with lions feet, antique, $50.obo, (650)525-1410 CHINA CABINET - Vintage, 6 foot, solid mahogany. $300/obo. (650)867-0379 JACKET LADIES Tan color with fur collar $25. (650)308-6381 LARGE SELECTION of Opera records vinyl 78's 2 to 4 per album $8 to $20 ea. obo, (650)343-4461
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BISSELL UPRIGHT vacuum cleaner clear view model $45 650-364-7777 CHANDELIER (650)878-9542 NEW 4 lights $30.
CHOPPERS (4) with instructions $7/all. (650)368-3037 ELECTRIC HEATER - Oil filled electric heater, 1500 watts, $30., (650)504-3621 RADIATOR HEATER, oil filled, electric, 1500 watts $25. (650)504-3621 SHOP VACUUM rigid brand 3.5 horse power 9 gal wet/dry $40. (650)591-2393 SMART SERIES 13" Magnavox TV, remote, $26, 650-595-3933 SUNBEAM TOASTER -Automatic, excellent condition, $30., (415)346-6038 VACUUM CLEANER excellent condition $45. (650)878-9542 VACUUM CLEANER Oreck-cannister type $40., (650)637-8244 WHIRLPOOL WASHING MACHINE used but works perfectly, many settings, full size top load, $90., (650)888-0039
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21 INCH TV Monitor with DVD $45. Call 650-308-6381 46 MITSUBISHI Projector TV, great condition. $400. (650)261-1541. COLOR TV - Apex digital, 13, perfect condition, manual, remote, $55., (650)867-2720 FLIP CAMCORDER $50. (650)583-2767 PANASONIC TV 21 inch $25., (650)6378244 SONY MUSIC SYSTEM with Am/FM/radio, CD player, dual tape system, built in speakers, works great, $65., (650)3645319 TV 25 inch color with remote $25. Sony 12 inch color TV, $10 Excellent condition. (650)520-0619 TV SET Philips 21 inch with remote $40., (650)692-3260 VINTAGE SEARS 8465 aluminum photo tripod + bag. Sturdy! $25 See: http://tinyurl.com/3v9oxrk 650-204-0587
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BICYCLE - Sundancer Jr., 26, $75. obo (650)676-0732 GIRL'S BIKE HUFFY Purple 6-speed good cond. $35 - Angela (650)269-3712 YAKAMA 3 Bike Car Trailer w/straps 2" hitch $45., (650)843-0773
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2 DINETTE Chairs (650)692-3260 both for $29
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1982 PRINT "A Tune Off The Top Of My Head" See: http://tinyurl.com/4y38xld 650-204-0587 $75 49ER REPORT issues '85-'87 $35/all, (650)592-2648 ARMY SHIRT, long sleeves, with pockets. XL $15 each (408)249-3858 BAY MEADOWS UMBRELLA - Colorful, large-size, can fit two people underneath. $15 (650)867-2720 BAY MEADOWS bag & umbrella $15.each, (650)345-1111 COLLECTIBLES: RUSSELL Baze Bobbleheads Bay Meadows, $10.00EA. brand new in original box. Have six (415) 612-0156 COLORIZED TERRITORIAL Quarters uncirculated with Holder $15/all, (408)249-3858 GAYLORD PERRY 8x10 signed photo $10 (650)692-3260 JACK TASHNER signed ball $25. Richard (650)834-4926 JOE MONTANA signed authentic retirement book, $39., (650)692-3260 LINCOLN DOLLAR COINS (10) - Uncirculated, all for $75., (650)876-0773, Leave Message MERCHANT MARINE, framed forecastle card, signed by Captain Angrick '70. 13 x 17 inches $35 cash. (650)755-8238 POSTER - framed photo of President Wilson and Chinese Junk $25 cash, (650)755-8238 WOOD SHIP MODELS (2)- Spanish Gallen and Cutty Shark clipper ship 1969, 28 x 20 $95.obo, must see, (650)345-5502
2 END Tables solid maple '60's era $40/both. (650)670-7545 4 DRAWER COLE FILE CABINET -27 Deep, Letter Size dark beige, $80., (650)364-0902 42" ROUND Oak Table (with 12") leaf. Clean/Great Cond. $40. 650-766-9553. 62" X 32" Oak (Dark Stain) Coffee Table w/ 24" Sq. side Table, Leaded Beveled Glass top/Like New - $90. 650-766-9553 ARMOIRE CABINET (415)375-1617 $90., Call
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tices and refusal to bargain in good faith toward a fair contract that protects patient care and leaves workers benets intact. Gay Westfall, senior vice president of human resources for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, said the organization is disappointed NUHW is striking while negotiations are ongoing and that CNA is asking its members to disrupt patient care and put communities at risk when they have a contract in place through 2014. But over at Mills-Peninsula, nurses like Tobin and Morgan said management is what doesnt have patient care in mind. The women, nurses for 25 years and 42 years respectively, said Sutter has changed the environment and priorities. This used to be a great community hospital, Tobin said. But since Sutter took over, the noose is getting tighter and tighter. The facility itself is excellent, she said, but management is whittling away patient care by keeping bedside nurses off decision-making committees and taking away sick leave so ill nurses are forced to work around patients Do you want me going to work sick? ... I dont think so, said registered nurse Alan The administration says it is acting because Congress has been slow to address the issues by rewriting the law. But Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., who chairs the House Education Committee, has questioned whether the Education Department has the authority to offer the waivers. Hes said that the president has allowed an arbitrary timeline to dictate when Congress should get the law rewritten and that the committee needs more time to develop its proposals, which it is doing. Kline on Thursday called the administrations plan a political move and said he cannot support a process that sets a dangerous precedent by granting the education secretary sweeping authority to handpick winners and losers. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday that the emphasis will be more on growth than on test scores. Fitzpatrick of St. Marys Medical Center in San Francisco, who attended the Burlingame rally. The nurses and supporters began picketing at 7 a.m. and by 2 p.m. were ready to rally, chant and demand change with signs proclaiming Some cuts dont heal and Community care, not corporate prots. The CNA argues that Sutter Health netted $3.7 billion in prots in the past six years all while asking nurses to make concessions like paying thousands of dollars more annually in out-of-pocket medical expenses and restrictions on doctor choices, reduced benets for employees working less than 30 hours a week, reduced maternity leave and disciplining nurses who dont meet arbitrary patient satisfaction goals based on budget priorities. Aside from cuts to their own benets, local nurses say they were protesting parent Sutter Healths decision to close specialized pediatric care, acute rehabilitation, dialysis and skilled nursing care services. In a statement prior to the strike, MillsPeninsula said the goal is balancing competitive salaries and benefits with affordable health care for patients. The statement said a We cant have a law on the books thats slowing down progress, thats slowing down innovation, he said in Joplin, Mo., where the schools were left in ruins after a tornado last May. The No Child Left Behind law passed in 2001 with widespread bipartisan support and much fanfare. It sought to hold schools more accountable for student performance and get better qualied teachers in classrooms. It also offers school choice and extra tutoring to students attending schools deemed failing. Critics say the law created too much of an emphasis in classrooms on standardized tests, driving the stakes so high that it may have even fostered an environment where school ofcials in some districts opted to cheat. In particular, the requirement that all students be on grade level in math and reading by 2014 has been hugely unpopular. Duncan has warned that 82 percent of
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demands are being ignored. Morgan and Tobin were among the dozens of red-shirt clad nurses outside the Burlingame hospital, hoisting signs and vowing to ght what they say are proposed cuts that would endanger patient care and their own ability to provide adequate care for their families. The local nurses, along with those at MillsPeninsula Health Services in San Mateo and the countys two Kaiser Permanente medical centers, joined approximately 23,000 registered nurses at 34 Northern and Central California hospitals in the one-day walkoff. The California Nurses Association is not protesting on its own behalf at Kaiser but in solidarity with approximately 1,500 mental health professionals and opticians belonging to the National Union of Healthcare Workers As with Sutter, the workers are protesting what they say is Kaisers unfair labor prac-
full-time nurse at Mills-Peninsula earns an average salary more than $140,000 plus benets including an employer-paid pension plan worth $84,000 annually on average for life, according to its issued statement. Morgan said the claim is inaccurate and that while the mean salary is above $100,000, a nurse would have to work full-time plus overtime to make the gures put forth by MillsPeninsula. Tobin said focusing on salary is also wrong. Whats a life worth? she asked. A bargaining meeting scheduled for Monday was canceled by Sutter, Tobin said, adding that the nurses are ready to reach a settlement but not with only them making concessions. The nurses werent the only ones calling for resolution. Representatives from state legislators said they stood in solidarity while workers encouraged each other to hold rm. In a nutshell, Sutter sucks but we can do this, said East Bay nurse Jane Sandoval.
Michelle Durand can be reached by email: michelle@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 102.
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exempted from some of the laws requirements if they meet certain conditions. They include enacting standards to prepare students for college and careers and making teachers and principals more accountable. President Barack Obama planned to discuss the changes Friday at the White House. To help states, districts and schools that are ready to move forward with education reform, our administration will provide flexibility from the law in exchange for a real commitment to undertake change, Obama said in a statement Thursday. The purpose is not to give states and districts a reprieve from accountability, but rather to unleash energy to improve our schools at the local level.
schools next year could fail to reach prociency requirements and thus be labeled failures, although some experts questioned the gure. He has said that its dishonest for schools to be labeled as failing if they are showing real improvements and that the law is creating a slow-motion educational train wreck. Duncan also has said that many states under the law have lowered standards instead of making them more rigorous and that the law fails to differentiate between a high-performing school with one or two underperforming subgroups and a low-performing school where everyone is struggling. The law has been due for a rewrite since 2007. Obama and Duncan had asked Congress to overhaul it by the start of this school year but a growing ideological divide in Congress in recent years has complicated efforts to do so.
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