Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
ALMOST CERTAIN
www.smdailyjournal.com
Residents in San Mateo County will no longer have two state senators representing the area in Sacramento next year as redistricting has changed the local boundaries signicantly. Currently, both Leland Yee from San Francisco and Joe Simitian from Palo Alto
Kevin Mullin
represent the county in the state Senate but after the lines have been redrawn, the new Senate District 13 boundaries now stretch from Brisbane to the north down to Sunnyvale to the south. The maps have also changed for Assembly
seats, with San Mateo County retaining parts of three districts including 19, 22 and 24. District 19 is mostly in San Francisco County, all of Daly City and parts of South San Francisco. District 24 covers the coastside of San Mateo County down to Palo Alto, Mountain View and Santa Clara to the south. District 22 will be an entirely San Mateo County district, however, stretching from the county line to the north down to Redwood
City. On Thursday, South San Francisco Councilman Kevin Mullin officially announced he would run for the District 22 seat. His father, Gene Mullin, also served previously in the Assembly. As the June 5 open primary approaches, incumbents seeking re-election or a higher ofce have had to campaign in regions they
Presidential whirlwind
Balancing the 99 percent and the 1 percent
By Ken Thomas
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO President Barack Obama is preaching an economic message aimed at the 99 percent and raising campaign cash among the 1 percent, walking an election year tight rope complicated by the need for hundreds of millions of dollars at a time of high unemployment. At a beachside community in southern California on Thursday, fresh off a dinner that included actor George Clooney, Obama was in the middle of a three-day fundraising tour through opulent homes along Californias coast a trip to be bookended by images of the president inside factories talking up job creation. The president hauled in $750 million in 2008, shattering records, and his campaign has outpaced his Republican opponents, collecting
President Obama arrived in the Bay Area Thursday for a series of fundraising events in San Francisco for his 2012 re-election campaign. Air Force One touched down at San Francisco International Airport at 12:39 p.m. The president, wearing a dark suit and a striped tie, exited the plane at 12:49 p.m., waved, then trotted down the stairs to the tarmac. At the bottom of the stairs he gave a salute, then stopped to greet San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Kamala Harris, chatting with Newsom briey and patting Harris on the back. He also greeted a crowd that had assembled for his arrival, giving one person a hug, and waved to members of the media before getting into a black Cadillac and being driven off at 12:57 p.m. One of the people he spoke with was 44year-old Jodi Fisher, of Cayucos, Calif., a cancer patient who made headlines recently by
President Barack Obama,center,was met at SFO by,from left,Lt.Gov.Gavin Newsom,Attorney General Kamala Harris and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.
Two former employees of the countys Mosquito and Vector Control District got a slight delay in a hearing on embezzlement charges while the city whose representative raised questions about the missing funds is calling for an investigation into the situation. Former nance director Joanne Seeney, who
used the name Jo Ann Dearman, and former accounting assistant Vika Sinipata, appeared at a Superior Court review conference yesterday but did little more than vacate a March 8 preliminary hearing date. They return to court March 15 to pick a new date. By then, every mayor of San Mateo Countys cities and the Board of Supervisors
Trafc often backs up on San Carlos Avenue before or after school causing a number of problems that might be addressed by a bus. With Arundel Elementary and Tierra Linda Middle schools along the street in San Carlos, cars often pile up as parents try to get their
children to class safely. Getting to class can be extra difcult at Arundel which backs up to San Carlos Avenue where there arent sidewalks and crossing the street can be dangerous. In hopes of nding a solution, the San Carlos Elementary School District recently received a grant to try a bus service along the
(800) 308-0870
1972
President Richard M. Nixon departed the White House with his wife, Pat, on a historic trip to China, which he called a journey for peace.
In 1801, the U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson president; Burr became vice president. In 1864, during the Civil War, the Union ship USS Housatonic was rammed and sunk in Charleston Harbor, S.C., by the Confederate hand-cranked submarine HL Hunley, which also sank. In 1865, Columbia, S.C., burned as the Confederates evacuated and Union forces moved in. (Its not clear which side set the blaze.) In 1897, the forerunner of the National PTA, the National Congress of Mothers, convened its rst meeting, in Washington. In 1904, the original two-act version of Giacomo Puccinis opera Madama Buttery was poorly received at its premiere at La Scala in Milan, Italy. In 1933, Newsweek was rst published by Thomas J.C. Martyn under the title News-Week. In 1947, the Voice of America began broadcasting to the Soviet Union. In 1959, the United States launched Vanguard 2, a satellite which carried meteorological equipment on board. In 1964, the Supreme Court, in Wesberry v. Sanders, ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be roughly equal in population. In 1986, Johnson & Johnson announced it would no longer sell over-the-counter medications in capsule form, following the death of a woman who had taken a cyanide-laced Tylenol capsule.
REUTERS
The so-called Brookesia micrachameleon,believed to be the world smallest,has been discovered on the island of Madagascar. The lizard,with a 16-millimetre body,measures 29 millimetres with its tail full extended.
Birthdays
Actor Joseph Basketball Hall of TV personality Gordon-Levitt is Famer Michael Paris Hilton is 31. 31. Jordan is 49. Actor Hal Holbrook is 87. Mystery writer Ruth Rendell is 82. Singer Bobby Lewis is 79. Actor-comedian Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna) is 78. Country singer-songwriter Johnny Bush is 77. Actress Christina Pickles is 77. Football Hall-ofFamer Jim Brown is 76. Actress Mary Ann Mobley is 73. Actress Brenda Fricker is 67. Actress Rene Russo is 58. Actor Richard Karn is 56. Actor Lou Diamond Phillips is 50. Actor-comedian Larry, the Cable Guy is 49. TV personality Rene Syler is 49. Movie director Michael Bay is 48. Singer Chante Moore is 45. Rock musician Timothy J. Mahoney (311) is 42. Actor Dominic Purcell is 42. Olympic gold medal skier Tommy Moe is 42.
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
Lotto
Feb. 14 Mega Millions
3 5 10 26 27 27
Mega number
Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.
FWULA
2012 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
SKNUT
Fantasy Five
1 16 18 19 30
CADEEF
The Daily Derby race winners are No.04 Big Ben in rst place;No.08 Gorgeous George in second place;and No.03 Hot Shot in third place.The race time was clocked at 1:49.67.
Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.
Friday: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. West winds around 5 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Friday night: Cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Saturday: Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of showers 20 percent. Saturday night: Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Northwest winds around 20 mph. Sunday: Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Sunday night: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Washingtons birthday: Mostly cloudy.
Phone:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (650) 344-5200 Fax: (650) 344-5290 To Advertise:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ads@smdailyjournal.com Events: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . calendar@smdailyjournal.com News: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . news@smdailyjournal.com Delivery: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . circulation@smdailyjournal.com Career: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . info@smdailyjournal.com
SEMRUE
The San Mateo Daily Journal 800 S. Claremont St., Suite 210, San Mateo, CA 94402 Publisher: Jerry Lee Editor in Chief: Jon Mays jerry@smdailyjournal.com jon@smdailyjournal.com smdailyjournal.com twitter.com/smdailyjournal scribd.com/smdailyjournal facebook.com/smdailyjournal
Answer here: A
Yesterdays
(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: FAITH SCARF SCARCE WAFFLE Answer: Careless drivers can end up CAR-LESS
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.To submit obituaries,email information along with a jpeg photo to news@smdailyjournal.com.Free obituaries are edited for style,clarity,length and grammar.If you would like to have an obituary printed more than once,longer than 250 words or without editing,please submit an inquiry to our advertising department at ads@smdailyjournal.com.
LOCAL/STATE
Police reports
One leg at a time
A man was caught trying to steal a pair of pants from a commercial business on El Camino Real in South San Francisco before 4:25 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6.
LOS ANGELES Chinas soon-to-beleader arrived in California on Thursday to wrap up his four-day U.S. trip by talking business with Gov. Jerry Brown, touring a shipping terminal at the giant Port of Los Angeles and maybe even catching a Lakers game. As with his previous travels, Vice President Xi Jinping was focusing on forging relationships. Xi spent the morning in Iowa, where ofcials from the U.S. and China signed a ve-year deal to guide discussions on food security, food safety and sustainable agriculture. China became the top market for U.S. agricultural goods last year, purchasing $20 billion in U.S. agricultural exports, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Xi, who is expected to become president next year of the worlds most populous nation, climbed into the cab of a John Deere tractor at a 4,000-acre farm near Des Moines and chatted with fth-generation farmer Rick Kimberley. He asked detailed questions about farming techniques in Iowa, the nations largest producer of corn and soybeans. He said the tractor really felt comfortable. He really enjoyed that, Kimberley said after the visit. It was a reunion of sorts for Xi, who nearly
three decades ago visited Iowa to study agricultural techniques and learn about corn production. Hed insisted on the stop in Iowa, and the farm visit capped the Midwest leg of his visit to the United States. Xis visit to Los Angeles is a reminder of his counXi Jinping trys huge footprint at the busiest port in the United States. Nearly 60 percent of the imports moving through the Port of Los Angeles come from China, including $120 billion worth of computers, TVs, sneakers and other goods last year. The visit comes at a politically challenging time in U.S.-China relations, with the White House sending stern messages on currency and trade policies and Republican presidential candidates claiming President Barack Obama isnt doing enough to keep America competitive with the Chinese economy. The Asian power sells four times as many goods to the U.S. as the United States sends in return to China. The U.S. shipped $13.5 billion in exports to China through the Los Angeles port last year. In a carefully scripted event, Xi took a short walking tour through the China Shipping terminal with Brown and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The facility sprawls
over nearly 100 acres. Were not just growing our ports, but were greening our ports, Villaraigosa told Xi. When I heard that this is an environmentally friendly green port, I felt that this was a major achievement, Xi later told a crowd in a brief statement after his stroll with Villaraigosa. This is a solid foundation for future U.S.China trade and economic cooperation, he said. China has been the United States fastestgrowing export market, according to Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. I assume hell stress this is a two-way street. This is of enormous benet for both sides, Lieberthal said. Brown, a Democrat, said he wants to foster the states relationship with Chinas next leader and encourage foreign investment in the state. China has trillions of dollars in reserves and theyre going to be investing that increasingly throughout the world. I would like to see some of that money come into California for productive investment, the governor told the Associated Press on Wednesday. Not everyone celebrated the vice presidents arrival. The California Fair Trade Coalition, a San Francisco-based nonprot that supports expanding trade while promoting economic justice, issued a statement calling on Brown to address Chinas predatory trade practices.
MENLO PARK
Burglary. A chair was taken from an ofce on the 2100 block of Sand Hill Road before 11:05 a.m. Monday, Feb. 13. Theft. A window was pried open and an iPod was taken on the 1100 block of Sevier Avenue before 10:43 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. Theft. Money was stolen on the 300 block of Constitution Drive before 7:27 a.m. Monday, Feb. 6.
FOSTER CITY
Theft. A jacket and blanket were stolen from an unlocked vehicle on East Hillsdale Boulevard before 12:25 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12. Burglary. A sub-woofer, company laptop and documents were stolen from a vehicle on East Third Avenue before 3:32 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12. Grand theft. Several antique items were taken from a storage stall on Beach Park Boulevard before 11:17 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 11.
The Daly City woman who poured boiling water over her sleeping ex-husband because she allegedly thought he was unfaithful pleaded not guilty yesterday to murder and torture charges stemming from the mans death two weeks later. Jesusa Ursonal Tatad, 39, is also charged with assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated mayhem and domestic violence. She previously pleaded not guilty to those charges but prosecutors led the new case after her former husband, Ronie Tatad, died from his secondand third-degree burns. Jesusa Tatad and the 36-year-old victim were divorced but living together. Authorities have not said denitively whether they maintained a romantic relationship or if it was a living arrangement out of convenience. Either way, prosecutors say Jesusa Tatad thought he was unfaithful and, at approximately 10:50 a.m. Nov. 26, boiled a pot of water which she poured on his face and upper body. The sleep-
ing man reportedly awoke in intense pain and tried running to the bathroom for safety. Jesusa Tatad, who prosecutors say was waiting for him, reportedly struck him in the head with a baseball bat. The man managed to ee the secJesusa Tatad ond-story apartment on Coronado Avenue and found a security guard who called police. Police arrested Jesusa Tatad at the home while the man was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with second- and thirddegree burns over 60 percent of his face and upper body. He initially told the guard and police Jesusa Tatad attacked him with the water and bat but was sedated by physicians due to the pain and gave no further statements before he died Dec. 9. Jesusa Tatad has reportedly denied hitting him with the bat. Jesusa Tatad, who was being held on $600,000 bail after her initial arrest, is now in
custody without bail. She returns to court March 26 to set a date for a preliminary hearing on the evidence. Defense attorney John May did not return a call for comment.
Michelle Durand can be reached by email: michelle@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 102.
SAN MATEO
Theft. $500 was stolen on the 2000 block of Chess Drive before 8:13 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9. Vandalism. The back window of a vehicle was shot out by someone with a BB gun on the 200 block of 29th Avenue before 11:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9.
LOCAL
City to discuss sharing sidewalk repair costs
Sharing costs of upgrading Burlingame sidewalks comes with a $142,462 cost for residents in 580 properties a bill the council will discuss sending out Monday. Burlingame stopped paying for sidewalk repairs in 2004 when facing budget cuts. In October 2010, the City Council approved a program in which residents cover half the cost of upgrading sidewalks. Last year, the council awarded a construction contract for service. On Monday, the council will review during a public hearing before voting on the property owners share of the total $540,143 project. Costs of the repairs, if approved, will be forwarded to the County Assessors Ofce for collection as part of the property taxes due in December, according to a staff report by Public Works Director Syed Murtuza. The 50/50 sidewalk program was designed to repair defective sidewalks to reduce tripping hazards throughout the city. Work included replacing sidewalk, driveways, curb ramps and curb and gutter in the areas around McKinley Elementary and Burlingame High schools. Under the ordinance, costs of sidewalk repairs fronting private property are shared, 50/50, by the city and property owner. In total, about 44,000 square feet of new sidewalk, 3,100 square feet of driveway approaches, 11 ramps and 1,800 linear feet of curb and gutter were completed, said Murtuza. Additional work was also done outside the area. Construction work totaled $454,143, $284,924 of which was fronting private properties. Half of the cost for upgrades in front of private properties, $142,462, is the estimated property owners share. The
Local briefs
total cost for the project was $540,143 with $86,000 for construction inspection and contract administration. Property owners who wish to bypass the property tax option and pay the city directly by contacting city staff within 30 days of the councils approval. The council meets 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21 at City Hall, 501 Primrose Road.
SAN FRANCISCO Buying ads on Twitter is about to get easier for small businesses as the online messaging service adds a key piece to its moneymaking model. Twitter is unveiling a long-awaited automated system that will enable advertisers to manage their marketing campaigns and budgets without having to deal with sales representatives. Before Twitter opens the system to all comers later this year, the self-service approach announced Thursday will only be available to advertisers who accept or use American Express cards To get the ball rolling, American Express Co. will buy $100 in Twitter ads for each of the first 10,000 qualified businesses in the U.S. that sign up at http://ads.twitter.com/amex . The ads, which Twitter calls promoted products, will begin appearing within the flow of users messages in late March. Flipping the switch on self-service advertising is the latest sign of Twitters ambition to build a powerful online marketing vehicle in the mold of Internet search leader Google Inc., by far the Webs most profitable company, and online social network Facebook Inc., technologys fastest-rising star. It marks another stepping stone toward an eventual initial public offering of stock from Twitter, which has attracted more than 100 million users since its creation
nearly six years ago. The timetable for Twitters IPO remains a mystery, although CEO Dick Costolo said in an interview Thursday that the companys decision wont be influenced by how well Facebook fares in its stock market debut this spring. I dont look at what other companies are doing, he said. We dont think in terms of building this company for a particular IPO date. We are trying to build this company for the long term. The company, which is based in San Francisco, isnt in desperate need of capital, having raised at least $700 million last year. Twitter also probably needs a little more time to prove its financial chops. Last year, Twitter generated ad revenue of about $140 million, according to the research firm eMarketer Inc. That compared to $36.5 billion at Google and $3.2 billion at Facebook. This year, eMarketer expects Twitter to sell $260 million in advertising, helped in part by the new self-service platform. The automated system will be similar to Googles. Advertisers will be able to specify how much they are willing to spend, pick the cities or regions where they want their ads to appear and write their own commercial messages, which will be confined to Twitters 140character limit per tweet. Twitter will only charge for ads that get a user response, such as when a viewer decides to follow the business, retweets the message or clicks on a link.
said Wednesday. On Feb. 7, South San Francisco police were notied about an employee who had allegedly stolen 41 laptop computers. Through an investigation in which police worked with the companys security team, investigators recovered three laptops and one projector, according to police. They determined that the remaining computers had either been sold or shipped to family members living out of the country, police said. The employee, Dionisio Dauz, 33, of San Francisco, was arrested and booked into the main jail in Redwood City on several theft-related charges, police said. Police did not release the name of the company.
STATE/NATION
WASHINGTON Capitol Hill negotiators Thursday ofcially unveiled hard-fought compromise legislation to prevent 160 million workers from getting slapped with a payroll tax hike, but it ran into turbulence in the Senate, where Republicans withheld support and several Democrats attacked it. The measure would also extend jobless benets and is a top election-year priority for President Barack Obama. It generally won backing from his Democratic allies in Congress. But its getting only grudging support from House Republicans and even less from Obamas GOP rivals in the Senate, where party negotiators shunned the measure and its $89 billion impact on the budget decit over the coming decade. The typical American family will still see an extra $40 in every paycheck, keeping nearly $1,000 of their hard-earned money this year, Obama said in a statement. And millions of Americans who are out pounding the pavement looking for new work to support their families will still be able to depend on the vital lifeline of unemployment insurance. But support in the Senate, where Democrats control 53 votes, seemed soft. It will take 60 votes to advance the measure, and Democratic vote counters braced for defections during voting, expected Friday. They also worried that Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of
Lets be honest,this is an economic relief package, not a bill thats going to grow the economy and create jobs.
House Speaker John Boehner,R-Ohio
DETROIT Deantly declaring a day of victory, a Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence Thursday for trying to blow up a packed jetliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear. People aboard the ight testied that the failed attack had disturbed their sleep and travels for more than two years. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was the same remorseless man who four months ago pleaded guilty to all charges related to Northwest Airlines Flight 253. He seemed to relish the mandatory sentence and defended his actions
Kentucky wasnt rounding up Republican votes. Meanwhile, in the House, the top Republican said the $143 billion measure wont do anything to help the economy. Lets be honest, this is an economic relief package, not a bill thats going to grow the economy and create jobs, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said. But after losing a REUTERS FILE PHOTO ght over the legislation at the end of last year, A foreclosure sale sign sits in front of a house. Republicans were determined to clear it off of the political agenda and focus voters on Obamas record rather than their battles with him. It was impossible to break through on the politics, Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said. But several Democrats also came out publicly against the bill and others have privately signaled theyre likely nay votes. Most notebeing foreclosed by worthy was Sen. Tom Harkin, who came out THE ASSOCIATED PRESS lenders that didnt own the in vehement opposition to the measure over SAN FRANCISCO California Attorney loans. cuts to Obamas health care law and the reducHarris says she would tion in a payroll tax thats dedicated to paying General Kamala Harris says her ofce is introduce legislation this Social Security benefits. Deficit spending reviewing a new report that found most resimonth to enact reforms would make up for the lost revenue, but that dential mortgages in foreclosure in San Francisco are missing documents or signathat would bring stiffer was little solace to the Iowa liberal. tures or otherwise violate the law. penalties for violations Harris said Thursday the ndings of the such as those alleged in report requested by San Francisco AssessorKamala Harris San Francisco. Recorder Phil Ting came as no surprise. San Francisco District The report says it was possible homeowners Attorney George Gascon says he is awaiting as rooted in the Muslim were accused of defaulting on loans that they documents from Tings ofce to determine if holy book, the Quran. Mujahideen are proud had never agreed to in the rst place and were crimes occurred. to kill in the name of God, advertisement he said. Today is a day of victory. Had the bomb not zzled, nearly 300 people aboard the flight would Umar probably have been killed. The case stirred renewed Abdulmutallab fears that terrorists could still bring down an American jetliner more than eight years after 9/11, and it accelerated installation of body scanners at the nations airports.
NATION
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Local brief
Fatal motorcycle crash on 101
Two southbound lanes of Highway 101 were closed near East Poplar Avenue for more than two hours last night as emergency crews respond to a fatal crash. A motorcyclist was killed in the crash, which was reported at around 5 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. The lanes reopened at approximately 7:30 p.m.
WASHINGTON Religious leaders told a House panel Thursday the Obama administration was violating basic rights to religious freedom with its policies for requiring that employees of religion-afliated institutions have access to birth control coverage. The unity of the religious leaders contrasted with the partisan divide among lawmakers on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, with Democrats saying they had been denied the ability to present witnesses who might support the government stance or speak for the rights of women to reproductive health coverage. They asked why women werent better represented among the 10 witnesses at the hearing. The issue has sparked a political restorm for the administration, with Catholics and other religious groups strongly protesting an original Health and Human Services ruling that religionafliated institutions such as hospitals and universities must include free birth control coverage in their employee health plans. The churches themselves were exempted from the requirement. Obama last Friday modied that policy so that insurance companies, and not the organization afliated with a church, pay for birth con-
The chairman is promoting a conspiracy theory that the federal government is conducting a waragainst religion.
Rep.Elijah Cummings of Maryland
trol costs, but that didnt satisfy those testifying at the hearing. Bishop William E. Lori, representing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, compared the ruling to a law that would force all food providers, including kosher delicatessens, to serve pork. Does the fact that large majorities in society, even large majorities within the protesting religious community, reject a particular religious belief make it permissible for the government to weigh in on one side of that dispute? he asked. Churches played a role in the development of health care and it is ironic that the religious organizations should have their rights crushed in the name of health care, said Dr. Craig Mitchell, a Baptist minister and head of the ethics department at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The policy has split Catholics, a key con-
stituency for Obama to win a second term in ofce, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, told the Associated Press this week that his group would launch both legislative and court challenges to the health care mandate. Yet there are also some Catholic groups and individuals who have come out in support of the presidents approach. They were not there at Thursdays hearing. The chairman is promoting a conspiracy theory that the federal government is conducting a war against religion, the top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, said of committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif. He has also refused to allow a minority witness to testify about the interests of women who want safe and affordable coverage for basic preventive health care, including contraception, Cummings said of Issa.
LOCAL/NATION/WORLD
Uncompromising messages
Defiant Iran claims major steps in nuclear fuel
By Ali Akbar Dareini and Brian Murphy
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STATE GOVERNMENT
A state Senate informational hearing on high-speed rail will be held 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 13 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St. in Mountain View. It is being held by state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, chair of the Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 2, which oversees transportation spending; state Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, chair of the Select Committee on High-Speed Rail, former chair of the Senate Transportation Committee; state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, chair of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee. This event is free and open to the public. It will include ample opportunity for public comment. Parking is available in the garage under the center. For more information visit www.senatorsimitian.com.
TEHRAN, Iran In defiant swipes at its foes, Iran said Wednesday it is dramatically closer to mastering the production of nuclear fuel even as the U.S. weighs tougher pressures and Tehrans suspected shadow war with Israel brings probes far beyond the Middle East. Iran further struck back at the West by indicating it was on the verge of imposing a midwinter fuel squeeze to Europe in retaliation for a looming boycott of Iranian oil, but denied reports earlier in the day that six nations had already been cut off. The uncompromising messages from Iran, however, came with a counterpoint. The official IRNA news agency said Irans top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, told European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton that Iran is ready to return to talks with the U.S. and other world powers. The dual strategy taking nuclear steps while proposing more talks has become a hallmark of Irans dealings for years and some critics have dismissed it as a time-buying tactic. The advances claimed Wednesday could likely feed these views. In a live TV broadcast, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was shown overseeing what was described as the first Iranian-made fuel rod inserted into a research reactor in northern Tehran.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT
The San Mateo Local Agency Formation Commission is accepting applications for an alternative public member for the term ending May 2014. LAFCo is an independent commission that makes decisions on the boundaries and organization of the cities and special districts in San Mateo County. LAFCo meets on the third Wednesday of odd-numbered months at 2:30 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Chambers at 400 County Center, Redwood City. Additional meetings may also be held on occasion. Applicants must be a county resident and not an ofcer or employee of the county, a city, special district or school district with territory in the county. The application deadline is April 9. They are available from Executive Ofcer Martha Poyatos at 455 County Center, Redwood City, at 363-4224 or www.sanmateolafco.org.
REUTERS
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he walks towards his car after his arrival at a military base in Rawalpindi,Pakistan.
Separately, the semiofficial Fars agency reported that a new generation of Iranian centrifuges used to enrich uranium toward nuclear fuel had gone into operation at the countrys main enrichment facility at Natanz in central Iran. In Washington, the assistant secretary of state for International Security and Nonproliferation, Tom Countryman, dismissed the Iranian claims of reaching a pivotal moment. The announcement today by Iran has much more to do with political developments in Iran than it has to do with factual developments, he said. White House press secretary Jay Carney said Irans defiant acts seek to distract attention from the damage brought by international sanctions.
CITY GOVERNMENT
On Monday, the Burlingame Planning Commission approved a conditional use permit to allow Blue Line Pizza to open at 1108 Burlingame Ave. The space has been vacant for about three years. Delivery wont be offered from this location. At the same meeting, the commission reviewed a conditional use permit application to add a canopy and convenience store to an existing gas station at 1480 Broadway. The item will come back before the commission as a regular action item.
SAN FRANCISCO President Barack Obamas proposed budget would eliminate the nations only program that regularly tests fruits and
vegetables for deadly pathogens, leaving public health officials without a crucial tool used to investigate deadly foodborne illness outbreaks. The budget plan the president sent to Congress Monday would ax the Agriculture Departments tiny Microbiological Data Program, which
extensively screens high-risk fresh produce throughout the year for bacteria including salmonella, E. coli and listeria. If samples are positive, they can trigger nationwide recalls, and keep tainted produce from reaching consumers or grocery store shelves.
WORLD
REUTERS
Syrias ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari,right,gestures as he raises the country name plate while addressing the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York
WASHINGTON Top U.S. intelligence officials pointed to al-Qaida in Iraq on Thursday as the likely culprit behind recent bombings in Syria, the deadliest attacks against the Syrian government in the 11month uprising. Though the U.S. has called for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, his fall could lead to a power vacuum that al-Qaidas largest regional afliate or other extremist groups could fill, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress. And that could allow such groups to help themselves to Syrias vast stockpiles of chemical weapons, he said. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the crisis in Syria has become that much more serious and worrisome to the United States as a result of indications
that al-Qaida has inltrated the governments opposition. It does raise concerns for us that al-Qaida is trying to assert a presence there, he said. As to just what their role is and how extensive their role is, I think that still remains to be seen. In New York, meanwhile, the U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution backing an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down and strongly condemning human rights violations it said his government had committed. The vote, though not legally binding, reects widespread world opinion. Likewise, in Vienna, U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon accused the Syrian government of committing almost certain crimes against humanity as activists reported fresh violence and the arrest of several prominent dissidents, including a U.S.-born blogger.
BEIRUT U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accused the Syrian regime of committing almost certain crimes against humanity Thursday as activists reported fresh violence and the arrest of several prominent dissidents, including a U.S.-born blogger. Speaking to reporters in Vienna, Ban demanded the Syrian regime stop using indiscriminate force against civilians caught up in fighting between government troops and President Bashar Assads opponents. We see neighborhoods shelled indiscriminately, Ban told reporters in Vienna. Hospitals used as torture centers. Children as young as ten years old jailed and abused. We see almost certain crimes against humanity. Syrian activists said government forces attacked Daraa on Thursday, carrying out arrests and shooting randomly in the city where the uprising against Assad erupted 11 months ago. They also reported intense clashes between army defectors and government troops in the central province of Hama. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian troops committed a new massacre near the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour, killing 19 people 11 of them from the same family. The report was impossible to conrm.
The push into Daraa, located near the Jordanian border some 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Damascus, followed sieges on the rebellious cities of Homs and Hama and appears to be part of an effort by the regime to extinguish major pockets of dissent. Also Thursday, the Local Coordination Committees, an umbrella group of activists, reported the arrest of a several activists, including Razan Ghazzawi, a U.S.-born blogger and press freedom campaigner. Ghazzawi, who was born in Miami, Florida, was arrested early in the uprising and charged with spreading false information, but she was released after about two weeks. The LCC said security forces also arrested leading human rights activist Mazen Darwish and others during a raid on their Damascus ofce. The reports could not be immediately conrmed. The LCC said dozens of people were killed throughout the country Thursday. The Observatory said security forces killed at least one civilian in Daraa, and that clashes between defectors and government troops there left at least three regime soldiers dead. The deadliest ghting between troops and defectors took place in the village of Kfar Naboudeh in Hama province where government forces killed 10 defectors and four civilians, according to the Observatory. The group said the defectors attacked an army checkpoint near the Hama town of Soran, killing four soldiers.
COMAYAGUA, Honduras Six guards, 800-plus prisoners in 10 cellblocks, one set of keys. The numbers added up to disaster when re tore through a prison and 355 people died, many yet to even be charged with a crime, much less convicted. The deadliest prison blaze in a century has exposed just how deep government dysfunction and confusion go in Honduras, a small Central American country with the worlds highest murder rate. Prisoners scorched bodies were being brought to the capital of Tegucigalpa on
Thursday for identication, a process authorities said could take weeks. Dozens of family members gathered outside the morgue wearing surgical masks against the strong smell of death as police called out the names of the few less-charred victims who had been identied. Most relatives said they didnt believe the authorities account that a prisoner set a mattress on re late Tuesday after threatening to burn down Comayagua prison, located 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Tegucigalpa. They also faulted prison ofcials for failing to get help inside quickly as ames engulfed the facility. Hundreds of screaming men burned and suffocated inside their locked cells as rescuers desperately searched for keys.
house of bagels
san
OPINION
Editorial
tract through the county was seen as a workaround. At the time, county ofcials said they did not want to squander the opportunity to work on a true regional approach with the cost savings and better services that come with that. During the discussion, there was a thumbnail sketch provided by two local re chiefs on opportunities for a largerscale consolidated plan based in the southern area of the county. It was a solid rst step, but unfortunately, there has been absolutely no follow through from the county ofcials who called for such an initiative. And that is an issue. A San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury report released this week suggests that the decision not to proceed with a contract between the county and San Carlos was politically motivated and a lost opportunity to save money. The county was estimated to have been able to save $650,000 and the city of San Carlos was estimated to have been able to save $1.4 million, according to the report. The county is entertaining the idea of placing three taxes on the ballot to help bridge its structural decit and
ofcials even oated the idea of a re fee for the unincorporated area. It seems unfortunate that such an immediate savings was not at the very least entertained by the entire board, and not just a nance subcommittee particularly when the county is looking for additional revenue. That indeed was a lost opportunity. That almost would have been acceptable if county ofcials had followed up with the promise of proceeding with a further consolidation plan. It is not exactly in the purview for the county to tell cities whats what, but the elected county Board of Supervisors has the position to bring people together for a common purpose especially if it benets the countys bottom line and can provide opportunities for better service and much-needed cost savings for others. The county has taken the lead with a plastic bag ban and has the resources to provide a template for cities to follow. How could that effort possibly be more important than determining ways to save money and provide better re services? The grand jury report should serve as an admonishment and an embarrassment for county ofcials. But it is not nearly as embarrassing as their own inaction and lack of creative leadership.
Justifiable indignation
eople deserve an environment that promotes good health; it is fundamental to the countrys vitality, productivity and security. But we get the opposite. Kelly D. Brownell, In Defense of Food. I take serious umbrage in regard to the Other Voices from the Chicago SunTimes that appeared in the Feb. 13 Daily Journal. Dripping with condescension, the author implies snidely that a bunch of scientists out West (in California, no less) have taken concerns about Natures sweetener to the extreme. They then proceed to list the number of deaths 112,000 per year believed to result from the obesity epidemic they admit is often a result of consuming a lot of sugar. You can sense the food industry breathing down the neck of the author when, at the end, it is stated, Lets not listen to scientists who want a new Prohibition and then parrot the mantra of the industry, eat more healthfully and get more exercise. The problem with sugar is not one that can simply be solved by individuals changing their diets. The main problem is that so much of our food that is produced by our huge food manufacturing conglomerates is laced with sweeteners to the extent that it is difcult to buy products that are wholesome. Those who are educated in nutrition and serious about eating well can adjust their diets to include less sugar but the majority of consumers who, because of lack of education, time-crunch, a habit of self-indulgence and even their metabolism being altered by their sugar habit, are not going to skip the sodas and other sugar-laden products that lead to so many health problems. The ailments that are aficting more and more Americans that have resulted from eating the usual American diet that is replete with sweeteners include diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Yet the Sun-Times doesnt seem to get it even though it is pointed out that Americans eat and drink roughly 22 teaspoons of sugar every day, three times as much as they did 30 years ago ... Much of it is hidden inside processed food and even bread and cereal. In spite of their efforts to convince us otherwise, corporate interests are producing and advertising more and more products that are not conducive to good health and are adding to the diseases from which so many Americans suffer. They have no interest in anything but prots and the ordinary person is not able or willing to sort out all of the information and data so that their diets are healthier. And the industry is counting on it. Soft drinks have had more to do with the problem than anything else. As reported in Time Magazine July 12, 2010 The average American drinks a gallon of soda a week which delivers roughly 1,000 calories and no nutrition. They need to be taxed heavily and the proceeds used to educate people (especially the young) about the harm they can cause. Also, the high fructose corn syrup used in most soft drinks has been implicated in, among other problems, metabolic disorders. Independent studies need to be done to nd out its effect on our bodies. The scientists at UCSF who propose reducing sugar in our food include Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist who is sincerely concerned about the problem and doesnt deserve belittling sarcasm. He and his colleagues have taken the bull by the horns and obviously care greatly about the health of Americans. He tells it like it is. The only method for dealing with this is a public health intervention. Everyone talks about personal responsibility, and that wont work here, as it wont for any addictive substance. These are things that have to be done at a government level, and government has to get off its ass. Excessive sugar, he argues, alters peoples biochemistry, making them more vulnerable to metabolic conditions that lead to illness, while at the same time making people crave sweets even more. The author of the Sun-Times piece would rather allow the industry to have its way with us than accept regulation or taxation of products that are undermining the health of millions of Americans. But until our government takes the health of our citizens more seriously than the prots of corporate interests, things will not improve. It reminds us of those Republicans who believe that no matter what the problem, we must not let government intrude in our lives. As Michael Pollan wrote in In Defense of Food about the diabetes epidemic in the United States: Apparently it is easier, or at least more profitable to change a disease of civilization into a lifestyle than it is to change the way that civilization eats.
Since 1984, Dorothy Dimitre has written more than 500 columns for various local newspapers. Her email address is gramsd@aceweb.com.
Keeping vigilant
Editor, Decent citizens like to believe that they are doing enough if they tend to their chores, pay their bills and treat neighbors courteously. Politics is not their cup of tea. This is why the cynical politicians ignore their constituents and spend, spend, spend. Who will stop them? I dont hear a noise from any candidate saying how we can get out from under the enormous debts our legislators have amassed. They do not represent their taxpayers. Unless the voters can replace the big spenders, we will continue on toward financial disaster. The corrupters from Cook County, Ill. have been busy in every state putting in place the fraudulent machinery to take the November election. How can we prevent this? We must! We need poll watchers, alert citizens and vigilant police. Each of us must ask what we can do to ensure an honest election in November.
Jerry Lee, Publisher Jon Mays, Editor in Chief Nathan Mollat, Sports Editor Erik Oeverndiek, Copy Editor/Page Designer Nicola Zeuzem, Production Manager Kerry McArdle, Marketing & Events Michelle Durand, Senior Reporter
BUSINESS STAFF: Charlotte Andersen Gale Green Donica Shisler Kevin Smith
INTERNS, CORRESPONDENTS, CONTRACTORS: Carly Bertolozzi Jenna Chambers Kore Chan Elizabeth Cortes JD Crayne Darold Fredricks Brian Grabianowski Andrew Lyu Nick Rose Andrew Scheiner Sally Schilling Carole Shattil Chloee Weiner Sangwon Yun
SMDAILYJOURNAL.COM
Follow us on Twitter and Facebook:
facebook.com/smdailyjournal twitter.com/smdailyjournal Online edition at scribd.com/smdailyjournal
Emailed documents are preferred. No attachments please. Letter writers are limited to two submissions a month. Opinions expressed in letters, columns and perspectives are those of the individual writer and do not necessarily represent the views of the Daily Journal staff.
Correction Policy
The Daily Journal corrects its errors. If you question the accuracy of any article in the Daily Journal, please contact the editor at news@smdailyjournal.com or by phone at: 344-5200, ext. 107 Editorials represent the viewpoint of the Daily Journal editorial board and not any one individual.
10
BUSINESS
Dow 12,904.08 +123.13 10-Yr Bond 1.993 +0.062 Nasdaq 2,959.85 +44.02 Oil (per barrel) 1,730.10 S&P 500 1,358.04 +14.81 Gold 102.34
Wall Street
General Motors was among the bestperforming stocks of the day. Two years after it was almost wiped out, the company turned a record $7.6 billion prot last year, bigger even than when Americans couldnt stop buying trucks and SUVs. Microsoft rose 4 percent, as did Bank of America, which tends to swing wildly with the market. The Labor Department said weekly applications for unemployment benets dropped for the fourth time in ve weeks to the lowest point since March 2008. That was when the jobless rate was just 5.1 percent, far below the current rate of 8.3 percent. Construction of single-family homes cooled slightly in January, but a rise in permits suggested builders were growing more condent that more buyers are ready to come off the sidelines. There are doubts about how long the momentum can be sustained, and even questions about whats sustaining it. The market has seemed determined to move higher this year, despite mostly incremental and vague news about the Greek debt crisis and sometimes-conicting reports on the U.S. economy.
Big movers
Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE General Motors Co.,up $2.24 at $27.17 The automaker said that strong China and U.S. sales helped the it turn a prot of $7.6 billion in 2011,its largest ever. Advance America,Cash Advance Centers Inc.,up $2.53 at $10.44 The payday lending company was bought by Mexican nancial services company Grupo Elektra in a deal worth about $780 million. Orbitz Worldwide Inc.,down 33 cents at $2.93 The online travel company said fourth-quarter revenue fell and it expects rst-quarter revenue to be short of analystsforecasts. Nasdaq Healthways Inc.,down 73 cents at $7.21 The wellness program administrator posted a larger fourth-quarter loss after taking more than $183 million in impairment charges. Avis Budget Group Inc.,down $2.01 at $12.58 The rental car company said in a regulatory ling that its rst-quarter adjusted earnings will likely fall from last year. Tandy Leather Factory Inc.,up 20 cents at $5.20 The leather retailer and wholesaler said that it will pay a special one-time dividend of 25 cents per share to its stockholders. Itron Inc.,up $8.12 at $48.23 The maker of energy and water meters posted fourth-quarter earnings that beat expectations and announced a $100 million acquisition. Jingwei International Ltd.,up 66 cents at $2.11 The Chinese company,which provides software and data mining services, said it accepted a proposal to become a private company.
NEW YORK Investors sent U.S. stocks barreling to their highest levels of the year Thursday, buoyed by slivers of encouraging news about jobs and housing. At least for a day, they overlooked the lack of clarity about Greeces marathon negotiation for a bailout. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 123.13 points to close at 12,904.08, its third triple-digit gain this year. It was the highest close for the Dow since May 19, 2008, four months before the worst of the nancial crisis. As the Dow moved to within sight of 13,000, applause broke out at the closing bell on the oor of the New York Stock Exchange. The Standard & Poors 500 rose 14.81 points to 1,358.04, its highest close in nine and a half months. The Nasdaq composite, which has had an even stronger year than the Dow and S&P and is trading at its highest since 2000, rose 44.02 points to 2,959.85. The rally was broad, with all but one of the 30 stocks in the Dow, Kraft Foods, closing higher. All 10 industry groups in the S&P were comfortably higher, led by materials stocks, including strong showings from DuPont and Dow Chemical.
Can you open your home to provide temporary or permanent care for children who have been removed from their families due to abuse or neglect?
Come see us at the Family Resource Fair on
February 18, 2012 at Hillsdale Shopping Center Sixty 31st ave, San Mateo, CA 94403 For more information please call (650)802-7648.
DETROIT General Motors earned its largest prot ever in 2011, two years after it nearly collapsed. Strong sales in the U.S. and China helped the carmaker turn a prot of $7.6 billion, beating its old record of $6.7 billion in 1997 during the pickup and SUV boom. GM is a vastly different company than it was back then. Its smaller, has less debt and its contract with the United Auto Workers is less costly. But it took a $49.5 billion government bailout and bankruptcy protection in 2009 to cut its bloated costs. The company earned huge a prot even though U.S. sales of cars and trucks were near an historic low of 12.8 million. In 2012, GM expects to increase its revenue as global sales grow and it charges more for models.
Its ongoing effort to cut costs and take advantage of its global presence are also paying off. In the fourth quarter, costs fell by $500 million. It saved $100 million by cutting some of the dozens of advertising agencies and media managers it uses. It also saved $100 million by centralizing engineering. We will build on these results as we bring more new cars, crossovers and trucks to market, CEO Daniel Akerson said. GMs stock price rose $1.70, or 4 percent, to $26.01 in early afternoon trading. Thats good news for the U.S. government, which still owns 26.5 percent of the company and needs the stock price to rise signicantly before it can recoup all the bailout money. The bailout and GMs performance already are contentious issues in this years presidential campaign. Still, problems emerged for GM late
last year. Its fourth-quarter prot fell 8 percent and missed Wall Street expectations. Europe and South America reported losses. And sales growth in the U.S. slowed even as more Americans bought cars and trucks. This year, GM expects to make less money per vehicle as the mix of sales shifts to cars from trucks, which have bigger sticker prices Still, last year was a big success for the company. Revenue rose 11 percent to $150 billion. Its per-share prot was $4.58. GM made the bulk of its income in North America, where its pretax prot totaled $7.2 billion. International Operations, which includes Asia, made $1.9 billion before taxes, but that was down. GM sold 9.03 million cars and trucks around the world in 2011, up 7.6 percent from the year before. That helped it reclaim the title of worlds largest automaker from Toyota Motor Corp.
Enterprise software maker SAP AG said Thursday that it completed its tender offer for all the shares of SuccessFactors Inc., paving the way for its acquisition of the software company to close. The German company said in December that it would buy
SuccessFactors, which makes cloudbased human resources applications, for $40 per share, or about $3.4 billion. As of Wednesday, about 81.7 million shares of San Mateo-based companys stock, representing about 95.5 percent of its outstanding shares, had been tendered, SAP said. Once the deal closes, the remaining shareholders will receive the same $40
per share price that was paid in the tender offer. SuccessFactors will become a subsidiary of SAP America Inc. and it will ask for its shares to be delisted from the stock exchanges that are currently traded on, the companies said. In late afternoon trading, SAPs U.S. shares rose $1.36, or 2.2 percent, to $64.57, while shares of SuccessFactors rose 6 cents to $40.01. homes sold statewide in January, according to San Diego-based DataQuick. Sales were down 25.5 percent from December a normal seasonal decline but up 1.5 percent from January 2011. Sales have increased for the past six months on a year-over-year basis, DataQuick reported. DataQuick said foreclosures and short sales made up more than half the sales of existing homes. The median sales price paid in January was $236,000, down 4.1 percent from December and about half the peak price of $484,000 set in early 2007 before the housing crash. The median sales price has dropped on a year-over-year basis for the last 16 months, DataQuick said.
Business briefs
the new Internet storage service designed for the mobile devices. The new Messages app, also copied from the mobile operating system, will replace iChat. Lion users can download a preview version of the app for free.
BOXINGS CHANGING FACE: FEMALE FIGHTERS BECOMING MORE ACCEPTABLE BY TRAINERS >>> PAGE 13
Friday, Feb. 17, 2012
<< Mills boys, San Mateo girls advance in PALs, page 12 Sharks fall to Tampa Bay in OT, page 15
Maybe this weeks drug bust at TCU shouldnt surprise anyone. National Center for Drug Free Sport vice president Andrea Wickerham said the arrests of four football players among 15 students overall on suspicion of selling marijuana is symbolic of an increasing pot problem in college athletics. She hopes administrators across the nation
I hope they dont see this event at TCU as an isolated incident.Its not.The question is,What does TCU do about it? and what do other college administrators do?
Andrew Wickerham,VP National Center for Drug Free Sport
are paying attention. I hope they dont see this event at TCU as an isolated incident. Its not, she said. The question is, What does TCU do about it? and what
do other college administrators do? The arrests at TCU came Wednesday, just a month after the NCAA said that 22.6 percent of 20,474 student-athletes participating in an
anonymous survey in 2009 admitted to using marijuana the previous 12 months. That number was up from 21.2 percent in 2005. Among the most high-prole sports, across all divisions, 26.7 percent of football players and 22 percent of mens basketball players admitted in 2009 to using marijuana the previous year. Both were up signicantly from the 2005 numbers (21.7 percent and 18.6 percent, respectively).
Its ofcial. Carlmont girls soccer is back. For the rst time since 2007, the Scots are champions of the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division, defeating Burlingame 2-0 Thursday afternoon in the league nale. The win ends an impressive run for Carlmont in which they were forced to winout during the leagues nal week to unseat reigning champion Aragon. And led by a defense that has been solid the entire season, the Scots did just that. It feels really good, said Carlmont defender Carly Richardson. Its been a long time since weve won (a division title) and its been awesome because weve played so much together with everyone contributing. There is no one player that took it all. And coming all the way back after a rough patch in the middle I cant really express it, Im so excited. It was hard, when they blew the whistle, to not cry, not lose it, but Im just really proud of them, said Carlmont coach Tina Doss. Theyve really worked really hard for it. Ive taken them out of their comfort levels, Ive pushed them as far as they can go. There are denitely times in the season when they hated me because I was pushing and I was pushing because I knew that we were talented enough and we can do it. And the attitude the whole season was, One game at a time. And it worked. Did it ever. Doss preached defense throughout the season to her players, mixing and matching lineups, moving players from the back to the front and pushing all the right buttons when it mattered most. But despite all the senior leadership on her team, it was a freshman that stepped up the biggest for the Scots in their championship hunt.
The College of San Mateo track and eld team kicks off the 2012 season by hosting the Coast Conference Preview meet today. The eld events begin at noon, while the track events kick off at 1:30 p.m. It is one of six meets the Bulldogs will host this season. As usual, the Bulldogs will be led by their throwing athletes, who throws coach Mike Lewis has annually made one of the best units in Northern California. With an improved sprint team, head coach Joe Mangan believes this years mens team could be one of the best in recent memory. Well have some holes in the middle and long distances (races), but I expect to have a pretty successful season out of the guys side, Mangan said. This could be one of those years like 2002, where we were fourth in our conference, but fourth in [Northern California]. Josh Uikili (Mills) returns for his sophomore season as the reigning Coast Conference shot put champion and is expected to be one of the top athletes in the discipline in Northern California again this year. If he gets healthy, he should be one of the elite (throwers) in the North, Mangan said. Mangan is also expecting big things from sophomore Zeke Edwards (Sequoia), who will focus exclusively on the javelin this season after splitting his time between the spear and the decathlon last year. Despite spending much of his time participating in the 10-event deca, Edwards still managed a third-place nish in NorCals in the individual javelin and was ninth in the state, missing a podium nish
Carlmonts Jacqueline Reliford, left, and Burlingames Giulia Flygare battle for the ball in the Pantherspenalty box during the Scots2-0 win,clinching the PAL Bay Division crown.
NEW YORK Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, whose single for the New York Mets in the 1986 World Series touched off one of the most improbable rallies in baseball, died Thursday. He was 57. Carter was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor last May, two weeks after nishing his second season as coach at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida. I am deeply saddened to tell you all that my precious dad went to be with Jesus today
at 4:10 p.m., Carters daughter Kimmy Bloemers wrote on the family website. This is the most difcult thing I have ever had to write in my entire life but I wanted you all to know. Carter was an 11-time Gary Carter All-Star and three-time Gold Glove winner. His bottom-of-the-10th single in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series helped the New York Mets mount a charge against the Boston Red Sox
and eventually beat them. His nickname The Kid captured how Gary approached life, the Mets said in a statement. He did everything with enthusiasm and with gusto on and off the eld. His smile was infectious. ... He was a Hall of Famer in everything he did. Carter played nearly two decades with the Mets, Montreal, San Francisco and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He led the Expos to their only playoff berth and was the rst player enshrined in Cooperstown wearing an Expos cap. Carter was known as much for his efferves-
cent personality as his talents at the plate and behind it. He earned his nickname as an eager teen in his rst major league camp and the label stuck for the rest of his career, and beyond. An exuberant on-eld general with a signature smile who was known for clutch hitting and rock-solid defense over 19 seasons, reads his Hall plaque. The bronze plaque shows him with a toothy grin, too, forever the Kid. Gary was one of the happiest guys in the world every day, Mets teammate Mookie Wilson once said.
12
SPORTS
Using a methodical and efcient offense, the Half Moon Bay boys basketball the Peninsula Athletic League Ocean Division winners had Mills on the ropes in the rst half. But the Vikings showed the Cougars the difference between an Ocean Division opponent and one that plays in the PAL Bay. Mills, which nished second in the PALs top division, used a 13-0 run at the end of the rst half to propel the Vikings to a 51-39 win in the PAL tournament quarternals Thursday night in Millbrae. (We had a) little slow start, said Mills coach Rick Hanson. It was important we got that run late in the second quarter. Mills will face Bay Division foe Burlingame in a seminal contest at 4:30 p.m. today at Sequoia. Half Moon Bay connected on 5 of 8 shots in the rst quarter and were 3 of 6 from the oor in the second. The Cougars were so efcient, they used a 8-0 run through the middle part of the second quarter to take a 19-12 lead with 2:32 left in the half, negating a strong start from Mills
guard Matty Wong. Unfortunately for the Cougars, they could not contain the lightning-quick Wong, who scored 13 rst-half points including ve points during the Vikings 13-0 run to end the half. They turned a seven-point decit into a 25-19 lead at halftime. And Wong was just warming up. He went for 14 more points in the second half to nish with a game-high 27 points, knocking down 10 eld goals including a pair of 3-pointers to go along with a perfect night from the free-throw line, 5 for 5. [Wong has] been playing real well, Hanson said. Hes just doing great. Half Moon Bay coach Rich Forslund knew the key to beating the Vikings was to contain W o n g . The Cougars didnt do a very good job of that. We said at the beginning of the game, if he goes off, were done, Forslund said. He causes all kind of havoc when he gets in the lane. Wong was the only Viking to score in double gures. Center Brandon Berkovatz added eight points, along with nine rebounds and six blocks. Half Moon Bay was led by Dominique
Williams 12 points. Bill Floyd chipped in with nine. Halftime allowed Half Moon Bay to regroup and the Cougars stayed within shouting distance of Mills in the third quarter. A Williams threepoint play got the Cougars to 27-24, and when Carter White drained a 3, Half Moon Bay trailed by just a point, 28-27, with 4:53 left in the third quarter. The Cougars managed only one bucket the rest of the quarter, but they were down only six, 35-29, going into the nal eight minutes. Mills opened the nal eight minutes with a 63 run and when Wong hit a fastbreak layup, the Vikings had their biggest lead of the game, 4232, with 4:56 to play. The Cougars, however, had a chance to push Mills late. A basket and a free throw from Floyd cut Half Moon Bays decit to 42-35, but the Cougars proceeded to miss three straight free throws after that. Wong then nished with a ourish for Mills, scoring seven of his teams nal nine points to seal the win. Mills 26-point second half was jump-started by its explosion at the end of the rst half, which Hanson believed was the key to victory. We hadnt played that poorly (in the rst half) in quite some time, Hanson said.
Mills Matty Wong goes up for 2 of his 27 points during the Vikings51-39 win over Half Moon Bay in the PAL tournament quarternals.
The basketball rims at San Mateo High School may reside in the same city, but Thursday night in the quarternals of the PAL tournament, they treated neighbors Aragon quite rudely. The Dons made the short drive to visit the Bearcats as champions of the Peninsula Athletic League Ocean Division, but they learned just how good the upper third of the league is, falling to No. 2 seed San Mateo 47-36. The loss was due in large part to a second half that saw Aragon shoot 17 percent from the oor. The ball was just not going in for us, said Dons coach Annette Gennaro-Trimble. If a couple of those shots fall in the second half, it could have been a totally different game. San Mateo is a really good team. Their defense is really good. It was that defense that stepped up and led the Bearcats to the win. With 6:46 left in the game and San Mateo up nine, head coach Nancy Dinges called a time-out, sensing her team needed a little extra push. Her message in the huddle? Desire and defense.
We were making mental mistakes, Dinges said. And I thought we needed a spark and to focus on bringing back that San Mateo style of basketball. The Bearcats answered the call in the form of back-to-back steals that led to back-to-back buckets. At the forefront of that defense was Candace Stephens, who Dinges referred to as the best defensive player Ive ever coached. With the way Stephens attacked the basketball throughout the game, its hard to argue against that statement. She was the spark the Bearcats needed. Up until that point, the game had the feel of a team in San Mateo who was in control, but was one or two big Aragon shots from making things very interesting. That was due to the Dons commitment to the boards. Aragon out-rebounded the Bearcats 16-12 in the rst half and despite its 5-of-25 shooting, the Dons found themselves only down seven come the break. I was pretty happy at halftime, Gennaro-Trimble said. They were doing a good job at that point, playing defense and hustling. Aragon continued that trend in the third quarter, limiting San Mateo to only seven points in the frame. What doomed the Dons, however, was their icy touch from the oor. Aragon missed its rst 11 shots in the quarter and while the Dons were still ahead in the rebounding category,
they only scored ve points in the period and knocked down only a lone shot, which came with 36 seconds left in the third. Aragon did get a bucket right out of the gate in the fourth quarter, a jumper by Justine Kubo. But it then that Dinges called the timeout and rallied her troops. We are good at getting steals, Dinges said. And I think our ve started trusting each other in the defense. Dinges wake-up call worked and the Bearcats went on a 102 to put some serious distance between them and the Dons. San Mateo rode the hot hand of Stephens in that stretch and Alana Simon caught re near the games end. The offense was a little stagnant, Dinges said. But we made the shots when we needed to make them. Simon scored 19 points, nine in the second half. Stephens nished with 13. Jane Hafoka scored only four points, but pulled down 13 rebounds. Kubo led all Aragon scorers with 12. Corie Stocker added eight. Next up for San Mateo is the No. 3 seed Mills in the rst seminal of the PAL tournament. Mills is a very good team, Dinges said. Were going to go in with our game plan and itll be up to us to execute. If we play our game, there isnt another team that can stop us. Mills is a good team, they run a good defensive set, but were going to go in there and try to play San Mateo basketball.
SPORTS
13
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. When the first female boxers showed up at Al Mitchells gym in northern Michigan several years ago, the U.S. Olympic Education Centers head coach had no interest in teaching women how to ght. They didnt impress me, Mitchell said. They were sloppy, and they were wild. I wouldnt train any of them. Basheer Abdullah had much the same reaction to the rst women who stepped through the glass ropes at his Army gyms a decade ago, while Tom Mustin didnt even see women in his Tacoma Boxing Club for nearly a decade after a Washington teenagers landmark lawsuit against USA Boxing allowed female fighters into its events in 1993. Mustin gured his coaching style was tougher than a woman could handle. Yet earlier this week, these three former coaches of the U.S. Olympic mens boxing team were ringside at the rst womens boxing team trials,
The reason they impress me is that they want to prove to men that theyre just as good or better than them,and theyve got good listening skills.They want knowledge.They want to learn.
Al Mitchell,U.S.Olympic boxing coach
leading some of their favorite students. When Queen Underwood beat fellow lightweight contender Mikaela Mayer on Tuesday, all three veteran masterminds of the mens amateur game were in their corners, strapping on headgear and imparting strategy. Talent and tenacity changed their minds about womens boxing, and all three coaches are happy they came around. I just thought this wasnt a place for a female athlete, and I didnt want to see them go through that, said Abdullah, a 15-year veteran of the Armys World Class Athlete Program. But I found out differently. I realized they have something special. Years removed from that initial skepticism, the coaches have all taken to womens boxing as a pure
version of their sport, lled with eager athletes who can use their coaches international experience heading to the London Olympics. Between the men boxers and the women boxers, the women seem like they want it more, said Mitchell, who learned his sport in the same North Philadelphia gyms that produced Joe Frazier. The reason they impress me is that they want to prove to men that theyre just as good or better than them, and theyve got good listening skills. They want knowledge. They want to learn. Although the medal success of the U.S. mens Olympic teams has dropped over the past two decades, these coaches know every corner of the amateur game. Mitchell started coaching at 17 and eventually led the U.S. team at
the Atlanta Games in 1996, coaching Floyd Mayweather Jr., Antonio Tarver and David Reid. Mustin had a strong three-year run culminating in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney with Jermain Taylor, Jeff Lacy and Rocky Juarez, while Abdullah coached the 2004 U.S. mens team in Athens led by medalists Andre Ward and Andre Dirrell. The women following in those ghters footwork realize what they can learn from these wizened veterans. Mayer moved from sunny Southern California to frigid Marquette, Mich., a year ago just to work with Mitchell. Ever since I started training with him, I jump to a whole new level every month, Mayer said. Every training camp, Im just amazed ... what hes been able to do with me. Hes an amazing coach.
Although women boxed in exhibitions at the Olympics more than a century ago, womens boxing is in its adolescence as an organized sport. The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) sanctioned Olympic-style boxing for women in 1994, holding its rst world championships in 2001. The International Olympic Committee didnt add womens boxing to the summer games until August 2009. While some ghters hailed the decision as long overdue for the only summer sport without a female Olympic analogue, the three coaches feel the IOC knew what it was doing. This is about the right time, said Mustin, who works closely with Underwood. I remember when Christy Martin was ghting in the pros. They kept throwing people at her, and these people didnt have the experience to be boxing against her. The sport wasnt there yet. Now, the experience female boxers have gained, its just like being with the men. I think their level has come up to the mens level now for competition and (parity).
LOS ANGELES Four days after his big win at Pebble Beach, Phil Mickelson keeps right on rolling. Mickelson hit driver off the deck from just under 300 yards on the par-5 11th that led to a two-putt birdie, and he ended a gorgeous afternoon Thursday at Riviera by chipping in from 35 feet for birdie. That gave him a 5-under 66 and a one-shot lead in the Northern Trust Open. Dating to the back nine of his second round at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Mickelson has made birdie or eagle on one-third of the holes he has played. And his streak of consecutive holes without a bogey finally ended at 49 on the par-3 16th. No matter. He looked good with the putter and with his low, penetrating tee shots that he kept below the tree line on a windy day that
prevented low scoring. J.B. Holmes, in his fourth tournament since returning from brain surgery in September, played his final Phil Mickelson six holes without a par. His round ended with a 315-yard tee shot a big drive in the cool air of Los Angeles in February and an approach to 8 feet for birdie at No. 9, the second-toughest hole at Riviera. That gave him a 4-under 67. He was tied with Hunter Mahan, whose 35-foot birdie at No. 5 sent him on a string of four straight birdies. They all played in the afternoon, when the wind began to die late in the day. Jonathan Byrd, who faced the
chilly, blustery conditions of the morning, had a 68. He was joined by Carl Pettersson. The first round was suspended by darkness with 30 players yet to finish the round, a typical occurrence at this tournament with 144man field and limited daylight. Mickelson is coming off an 8under 64 in the final round at Pebble Beach, where he rallied from a six-shot deficit and beat playing partner Tiger Woods by 11 shots to change the outlook on his West Coast Swing. Riviera is his final tournament before the tour moves to Florida, and even on a different golf course, not much has changed. He holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the long par-3 fourth hole, and then really got going on the back nine. After a tough pitch to 12 feet that led to birdie on the 10th, Mickelson had 297 yards to the hole on the 11th and decided to hit driver, a shot he had not tried in months.
It came off perfectly and climbed onto the front edge of the green, making Mickelson the only player to have an eagle putt on the 587yard hole, which played right into the wind. The pin was all the way back, away from a large hump in the putting surface, which gave Mickelson the green light. His eagle putt from 60 feet died next to the hole. I didnt think it was going to necessarily be reachable into that wind, but I was able to hit a low drive off the tee that scooted along the ground, and I felt like if I could hit one more of those with a driver I could get right up by the green, Mickelson said. I felt like it was worth the risk to try to scoop one up. The chip-in from behind the 18th was a bonus. Mickelson made his lone bogey when his chip behind the 16th green ran 7 feet past the cup, and
he missed the putt. On the 17th, his wedge rolled back to 7 feet for birdie, but the putt slid by on the left. He faced another quick chip on the 18th, but it dropped in with perfect speed. It wasnt one I was really trying to make, he said. It was quick, it was downhill, and I had to play about four or five feet of break, so its not one that youre trying to get aggressive with. I was trying to get good speed and try to let it feed with the break, and I got fortunate, obviously, that it went in. Holmes was the first player to reach 5 under, and thats where his fun began consecutive bogeys when he failed to get up-and-down from just short of the green; a tapin birdie at the par-3 sixth, with the pin below the bunker in the middle of the green; an 18-foot birdie on the seventh, a three-putt double bogey on the eighth and the birdie at the end.
14
SPORTS
CSM
Continued from page 11
by one spot. With his focus now exclusively on throwing, Mangan expects Edwards to take a big step forward. He should be shooting for that 200-foot mark (which is the mark of elite college javelin throwers), Magan said. He threw 185 last year. Its something he can build toward. Last year, toward the end of the season, he had a lot of health issues which affected his ability to throw well in the javelin. Also returning is Nathan Wright (Mitty), who missed the 2011 season with illness. In 2010, his freshman season, he was the Coast Conference champion in the javelin and the discus, qualifying for the state meet in both disciplines. He got really sick during the holiday season (in 2010) and dropped a lot of weight, Mangan said. Technically, hes very strong and sound. Joining the throws squad this season in Evan McDaniel (Spanish Springs-Sparks, Nev.). He was an 185-foot discus thrower in high school before attending University of Nevada which did not have a track and eld team. After getting a bachelors degree, he is working toward his masters degree. Mangan said he saw McDaniel working out at the CSM facilities one day and started talking to him. Because he didnt participate in athletics at Nevada, he still has college eligibility. We expect big things from him, Mangan said. On the track, Mangan is expecting a couple of newcomers to anchor the running events. Delvonte Johnson (Mission TrailElk Grove) was the Sac-Joaquin Section 400 meter champion last year. It was his rst year ever running the 400, Mangan said, adding he expects Johnson to also be a member of the 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams. [The 400] is probably his best distance. Roman Skovronski (Newark Memorial) should be the Bulldogs top hurdler. He nishing third in 300 hurdles at the North Coast Section championships last spring. Hes had a very good fall training, Mangan said. The womens side does not have a lot of depth, but sophomore thrower Nikki Uikili (Mills), Joshs younger sister, should earn a lot of points all by herself. She is the defending NorCal javelin champion, but is also one of the top throwers in the discus, shot put and hammer, as well. She is one of those rare athletes who is good in all four (throws), Mangan said. Nikki Uikili, despite her success in Northern California last year, could not translate it to a strong performance in the state meet in 2011. She threw very poorly at state. She didnt make the top 10, Mangan said. (But) she should be among the state leaders (this year). Shes had a solid fall of training.
SCOTS
Continued from page 11
Soha Said stayed hot, following her two-goal performance against Aragon on Tuesday, with another tally in the 45th minute to put the Scots up 1-0. Fittingly though, it was a superbly ltered through ball off the right foot of defender Amelia Jacobs that found a streaking Said. No. 22 corralled the ball with the poise of a senior inside the penalty area and beat the Burlingame keeper to the far side for the prettiest goal Carlmont fans have seen in ve years. I think she started the season off a little bit tentative, Doss said of Said. I think she was worried about being a freshman, worried about the team getting mad at her for dribbling. I dont know if I heard her say that once and I think it was a matter of getting her comfortable with the team and with the players and realizing that they want her to turn and go to goal, they want her to dribble and as soon as she started guring that out, she really came on. Everybody saw her come on. Said was the Carlmont offense in the last half of the regular season. And her contribution couldnt have come at a bigger time considering Melissa Wood, who was the Carlmont offense in the seasons initial stages, went down with a season-ending injury halfway through the year. With a defense like Carlmonts, having a player of Saids ability was a god-send. We are a defensive team, Doss said. I turned defenders into forwards because I needed more people up front and we continued to hit peoples feet. You can see most of our attacks start with our defenders and we build our way up, do a lot of switching and crossing, and thats coming from overlapping runs from my defense. I dont know if theres really a secret, Richardson added about her teams defense. But after playing together for a long time, we communicate pretty well and just know what each other is going
POT
Continued from page 11
The report has been done every four years since 1985 and alcohol always has been the overwhelming substance of choice. Marijuana is No. 2. The NCAA tests for marijuana at its championship events and football bowl games but not in its year-round testing program that has been in place since 1990. In 2009-10, the most recent academic year for which data is available, 72 of 1,645 tested athletes (4.3 percent) turned up positive for marijuana. That was up from 28 of 1,799 tested athletes (1.6 percent) in 2008-09. Chris Herren, a former player at Fresno State who struggled with cocaine and marijuana in college and during his brief stay in the NBA, said his marijuana use in high school led to his welldocumented problems. Herren, who said he has been clean since 2008, travels the country lecturing high school and college athletes about the dangers of street drugs. Herren acknowledges the power of addiction. But with a clear mind now, he said, he cant help but nd the survey ndings and NCAA testing results disheartening. We can sit here and say marijuana is no big deal, he said. But in (athletes) situations, it is a big deal. If theyre willing to throw away $200,000 of their education because of a blunt or a
Led by former prosecutor Todd Emanuel, Emanuel Law Group fights for victims and their families. RECENT RESULTS $6.35 million: Settlement after Motor Vehicle Accident $1.00 million: Judgment for rape victim $1.00 million: Settlement for Uninsured Motorist Claim $405,000: Judgment for Domestic Violence Survivor
FREE CONSULTATION
(800) 308-0870
650.369.8900 702 Marshall St., Ste. 400, Redwood City
SPORTS
Lightning 6, Sharks 5
Sharks 6-5. The teams announced a trade before the game, with the Sharks obtaining center Dominic Moore and a seventh-round draft pick this year for a 2012 second-round pick. Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman said the team also plans to keep Pavel Kubina out of the lineup while it attempts to trade the defenseman. Were not looking just to get rid of guys, Yzerman said. If we got offers that were really good, we would act on it. Getting the second-round pick is very valuable to us. St. Louis got the winner from close range off a pass from Victor Hedman, who tied a career high with three assists. Stamkos has 158 goals and 298 points overall. Teddy Purcell and Steve Downie had the other Tampa Bay goals. The Pacic Division-leading Sharks got
15
TAMPA, Fla. The Tampa Bay Lightning are a long shot to make the playoffs and are sellers as the trade deadline nears. None of that mattered Thursday night. Martin St. Louis scored his second goal of the game 4:27 into overtime, Steven Stamkos had two goals his NHL-leading 38th and 39th and two assists in his 300th career game, and the Lightning beat the San Jose
goals from Logan Couture, Michal Handzus, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Colin White and Tommy Wingels, who got San Jose even at 5 during a 2-on-1 with 5:10 remaining in the third. Stamkos made it 4-4, scoring from the slot 2:44 into the third. St. Louis gave the Lightning a 5-4 lead at 8:01 when his shot from along the goal line went off San Joses Justin Braun and past goalie Antti Niemi.
2/16
@ Tampa 4:30 p.m. CSN-CAL
2/17
@ Carolina 4 p.m. CSN-CAL
2/19
@ Detroit 9:30 a.m. NBC
2/21
@ Jackets 4 p.m. CSN-CAL
2/23
@ Toronto 4 p.m. CSN-CAL
2/25
@ Nashville 5 p.m. CSN-CAL
2/26
@ Wild 3 p.m. CSN-CAL
LOCAL SCOREBOARD
Jefferson 38,Carlmont 33 Carlmont 13 2 12 6 33 Jefferson 9 6 7 16 38 CARLMONT (fg ftm-fta tp) Cox 2 2-2 7,Abinader 1 0-0 2, Geronimo 1 0-0 3, Prado 2 3-6 7, Costello 2 2-2 7,Kaptanoglu 2 0-0 4,Ervin 0 3-4 3.Totals 10 1014 33. JEFFERSON Montes 7 1-2 17, Holmes 0 1-5 1,Veu 3 1-2 7, Gilson 1 3-4, Botts 1 1-3 4, Bailey 1 2-2 4.Totals 13 9- 18 38.3-pointers Geronimo, Costello,Cox (C); Montes 2,Botts (J). BOYSSOCCER Menlo-Atherton 2,Carlmont 0 Goal scorers (assist) MA, Abarca (Oro); MA, Kaheli (Molina). Sacred Heart Prep 2,Kings Academy 0 Halftime score 2-0 SHP. Goal scorer (assist) SHP, Spillane (penalty kick); SHP, Segre (Mishra). Records Sacred Heart Prep 12-0-2 WBAL, 16-04 overall. BOYSTENNIS Burlingame 7,Hillsdale 0 SINGLES Taggart (B) d. Jin 6-2, 6-1; Miller (B) d. Bhamdipati 6-4,6-4;Tsu (B) d.Zarkoub 7-5,7-5;Steveson (B) d. Chang 6-0, 6-0. DOUBLES Guttas-Hauselt (B) d. Stone-Namini 6-3, 6-0; YeePratt (B) d. Noh-Bando 6-1, 6-0; Schubiner-Martinucci (BH) d.Wong-Miao 6-0, 6-3. Records Burlingame 2-0 overall; Hillsdale 0-1.
NHL STANDINGS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division W N.Y.Rangers 37 Philadelphia 32 Pittsburgh 32 New Jersey 32 N.Y.Islanders 24 Northeast Division W Boston 35 Ottawa 30 Toronto 29 Montreal 23 Buffalo 24 Southeast Division W Florida 27 Washington 28 Winnipeg 27 Tampa Bay 25 Carolina 21 L 14 18 20 20 25 L 18 22 23 25 27 L 18 23 26 26 25 OT 5 7 5 4 8 OT 2 8 6 10 6 OT 11 5 6 6 11 Pts 79 71 69 68 56 Pts 72 68 64 56 54 Pts 65 61 60 56 53 GF 158 189 176 158 135 GF 188 179 176 155 139 GF 143 156 144 161 147 GA 114 171 150 156 165 GA 126 183 174 158 169 GA 158 160 167 194 175
NBA STANDINGS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division W Philadelphia 20 Boston 15 New York 15 Toronto 9 New Jersey 8 Southeast Division W Miami 23 Atlanta 19 Orlando 19 Washington 7 Charlotte 3 Central Division W Chicago 25 Indiana 18 Milwaukee 12 Cleveland 11 Detroit 9 L 10 14 15 22 23 L 7 11 11 23 26 L 7 12 17 16 22 Pct .667 .517 .500 .290 .258 Pct .767 .633 .633 .233 .103 Pct .781 .600 .414 .407 .290 GB 4 1/2 5 11 1/2 12 1/2 GB 4 4 16 19 1/2 GB 6 11 1/2 11 1/2 15 1/2
2/15
vs.Blazers 7 p.m. CSN-BAY
2/17
@ OKC 5 p.m. CSN-BAY
2/18
2/20
2/22
2/28
@ Pacers 4 p.m. CSN-BAY
2/29
@ Hawks 4:30 p.m. CSN-BAY
@ Memphis vs.Clippers @ Phoenix 6 p.m. 5 p.m. 7:30 p.m. CSN-BAY CSN-BAY CSN-BAY
LOCAL SCOREBOARD
BOYSBASKETBALL PAL tournament Quarternals Mills 51,Half Moon Bay 39 HMB 11 8 10 10 39 Mills 10 15 10 16 51 HMB (fg ftm-fta tp) WIlliams 5 1-1 12,S.White 1 0-0 2, Marshall 1 0-0 3, Simanek 3 0-1 6, Cilia 1 0-0 2, Floyd 4 1-2 9, Madriaga 0 2-2 2, C.White 1 0-0 3, OConnor 0 0-1 0.Totals 16 4-7 39.MILLS Berkovatz 4 0-0 8,Wong 10 5-5 27,Peterson 1 0-0 2,Martz 2 0-0 5,Worku 2 0-0 5,Chan 1 1-2 3.Totals 20 6-7 51. 3-pointers Williams, Marshall, C. White (HMB); Wong 2,Martz,Worku (M). Burlingame 78,Jefferson 53 Jefferson 10 16 8 19 53 Burlingame 17 15 26 20 78 JEFF (fg ftm-fta tp) Montes 5 0-0 12,Jones 2 00 5,Holmes 1 0-0 2,Veu 1 1-1 3,Gilson 2 5-5 9,Potts 4 7-9 18,Sanchez 0 1-2 1,Faguatan 1 0-0 3,Totals 16 14-19 53.BUR F.Ferrari 13 2-2 31, DeQuant 1 23 4, Feinberg 2 3-4 8,Winnett 1 2-2 4, Haupt 3 0-0 7, Titchener 2 1-3 5, Paratte 2 0-0 4, Loew 1 2-6 5, Graham 2 0-0 4, Dobson 3 0-0 6, Total s 30 13-22 78. Records Jefferson 5-21 overall; Burlingame 17-8. GIRLSSOCCER Menlo-Atherton 3,Woodside 2 Halftime score 2-1 M-A. Goal scorer (assist) MA,Thompson (Kirst);MA,N.Pacalin (Brandyberry); MA,Hughes (Thompson).Records Menlo-Atherton 7-3-4 PAL Bay,11-5-4 overall. Carlmont 2,Burlingame 0 Halftime score 0-0.Goal scorer (assist) CARL, Said (Jacobs); Cochran (unassisted). Records Carlmont 10-1-3 PAL Bay; Burlingame 4-9-1 PAL Bay. GIRLSBASKETBALL WBAL tournament Quarternals Menlo School 32,Notre Dame-SJ 29 Menlo 9 8 8 7 32 Notre Dame 2 10 7 10 29 MENLO (fg ftm-fta tp) Lete 1 4-6 6, Edelman 5 0-2 10, Dehnad 2 0-0 4, Price 5 0-2 10, Merten 1 01 2.Totals 14 4-11 32.NOTRE DAME Inamine 1 4-6 7,Schneider 2 0-4 4,Andrion 0 2-2 2,N.Ajawara 4 0-3 10, Meregilliano 0 2-2 2, U. Ajawara 2 0-0 4. Total 9 8-17 29.3-pointers N.Ajawara 2,Inamine. PAL tournament Quaternals San Mateo 47,Aragon 36 Aragon 7 11 5 13 36 San Mateo 13 12 7 15 47 SAN MATEO (fg ftm-fta tp) Simon 8 3-4 19, Chenoweth 1 1-4 3, Petelo 1 0-0 2, Stephens 6 1-2 13, Hafoka 3 0-0 6,Whipple 1 0-0 2, Mauricio 0 2-2 2,Totals 20 7-12 47.ARAGON Ahoia 2 5-6 9,Kubo 4 4-4 12, Stocker 4 0-0 8, Joyce 2 0-0 4, Pham 1 1-2 4, Vaea 0 1-2 1, Totals 13 11-14 36. 3-pointers Kubo. WEDNESDAY BOYSBASKETBALL PAL tournament Half Moon Bay 61,Menlo-Atherton 50 HMB 16 21 13 11 61 M-A 19 5 14 12 50 HMB (fg ftm-fta tp) Cilia 2 0-0 5,White 0 1-2 1, Marshall 2 2-2 6, OConnor 2 2-4 7, Hammerstrom 2 0-0 4,C.White 5 0-0 11,Simanek 3 0-1 7,Floyud 3 1-1 7,Nuno 3 1-2 7,Williams 3 0-0 6.Totals 25 7-12 61.M-A Weiss 7 3-3 21, Culhane 1 0-0 2,Tully 4 1-2 9,Branning 1 4-4 6,Gaddis 0 1-2 1,W.Henninger 1 0-0 2,Roberts 2 0-0 4,G.Henninger 2 1-1 5.Totals 18 10-12 50.3-pointers Cilia,OConnerC.White, Simanek (HMB);Weiss 4 (MA). Hillsdale 35,San Mateo 32 San Mateo 11 13 4 4 32 Hillsdale 9 10 10 6 35 SAN MATEO (fg-ftm-tp) Skelton 4-1-10,Schrup 3-0-9,Strathearn 2-0-4,Ho 3-0-7,Murphy 1-0-2.Totals 13-1-32. HILLSDALE Hasegawa 1-1-4, Otonari 1-0-2,Raghuram 3-0-7,Fodor 1-5-7,Houle 2-0-5,Bautista 1-2-5,McKown 1-2-5.Totals 10-10-35. 3-pointers Schrup 3,Skelton,Ho (SM);Hasegawa, Raghuram,Houle,Bautista,McKown (H).
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division W Detroit 39 St.Louis 35 Nashville 33 Chicago 30 Columbus 17 Northwest Division W Vancouver 36 Calgary 27 Colorado 28 Minnesota 25 Edmonton 22 Pacic Division W San Jose 31 Phoenix 28 Los Angeles 27 Dallas 29 Anaheim 24 L 17 15 18 21 34 L 15 22 26 23 28 L 17 21 20 25 24 OT 2 7 6 7 6 OT 6 9 4 9 6 OT 7 9 11 3 9 Pts 80 77 72 67 40 Pts 78 63 60 59 50 Pts 69 65 65 61 57 GF 185 145 161 180 133 GF 183 141 147 129 150 GF 163 150 124 149 148 GA 136 114 150 176 186 GA 140 155 162 150 169 GA 136 146 125 162 165
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division W San Antonio 21 Dallas 19 Houston 17 Memphis 16 New Orleans 6 Northwest Division W Oklahoma City 22 Denver 17 Portland 16 Utah 14 Minnesota 14 Pacic Division W L.A.Clippers 18 L.A.Lakers 17 Golden State 11 Phoenix 12 Sacramento 10 L 9 11 13 14 23 L 7 13 14 14 16 L 9 12 15 18 19 Pct .700 .633 .567 .533 .207 Pct .759 .567 .533 .500 .467 Pct .667 .586 .423 .400 .345 GB 2 4 5 14 1/2 GB 5 1/2 6 1/2 7 1/2 8 1/2 GB 2 6 1/2 7 1/2 9
WHATS ON TAP
FRIDAY GIRLS BASKETBALL PAL tournament Seminals at Sequoia, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. WBAL tournament Seminals TBD vs. Sacred Heart Prep at Castilleja, 5 p.m.; TBD vs. Mercy-SF at Castilleja, 7 p.m. BOYS BASKETBALL PAL tournament Seminals at Sequoia, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. WBAL regular season Priory at Menlo School, Sacred Heart Prep at Harker, 6:30 p.m. SATURDAY GIRLS BASKETBALL PAL tournament Championship game at Sequoia, 6 p.m. WBAL tournament Championship game at Castilleja, 2 p.m. BOYS BASKETBALL PAL tournament Championship game at Sequoia, 7:45 p.m. WRESTLING PAL championships At Half Moon Bay, all day
Two points for a win,one point for overtime loss or shootout loss. Thursday's Games Winnipeg 4,Minnesota 3,SO Chicago 4,N.Y.Rangers 2 Philadelphia 7,Buffalo 2 Tampa Bay 6,San Jose 5,OT St.Louis 5,N.Y.Islanders 1 Dallas 3,Calgary 2,OT Phoenix 1,Los Angeles 0 Fridays Games Anaheim at New Jersey,4 p.m. San Jose at Carolina,4 p.m.
Thursdays Games ndiana 93,New Jersey 88 Chicago 89,Boston 80 L.A.Clippers at Portland,10:30 p.m.. Fridays Games Charlotte at Toronto,4 p.m. Milwaukee at Orlando,4 p.m. Miami at Cleveland,4:30 p.m. Sacramento at Detroit,4:30 p.m. Minnesota at Houston,5 p.m. Golden State at Oklahoma City,5 p.m. Denver at Memphis,5 p.m. New Orleans at New York,5 p.m. Dallas at Philadelphia,5 p.m. Washington at Utah,6 p.m. Phoenix at L.A.Lakers,7:30 p.m.
16
AUTO
The Corvette wasnt around 100 years ago when Chevrolet was born. But for 2012, the iconic two-seater gets a Chevrolet Centennial Special Edition package that founder and racing pioneer Louis Chevrolet could have loved. The Centennial package of suspension control, special graphics, badging and interior comes on Corvettes in only one color black inside and out. The rst Chevrolet built in 1911 in Detroit was black, too. But the 2012 Corvette Centennial Special Editions sinister look, created by modern Carbon Flash metallic exterior paint accented by satin black exterior graphics, is anything but old. Applied to the low-slung, pavementhugging Corvette, the look can appeal to drivers wanting a distinctive, edgy appearance on a car with ample power. And the package comes as the Corvette is a recommended buy of Consumer Reports magazine with a predicted reliability of average. Priced as a $4,950 option, the centennial package is available on various 2012 Corvette coupes and convertibles, starting with the Grand Sport 3LT coupe with six-speed manual that has a starting manufacturers suggested retail price, including destination charge, of $61,995. The lowest starting retail price for an automatic-transmission, 2012 Corvette that can add the Centennial package is the Grand Sport 3LT coupe automatic at $64,220, according to the Chevrolet consumer website. High-performance competitors tend to be higher priced. For example, the 2013 Nissan GT-R has a starting MSRP, including destination charge, of $97,820, and the 2013 GT-Rs Black Edition with black wheels and paint and carbon ber spoiler starts at $107,320. Meantime, the 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S starts at $91,450. Corvettes have long had their fans and collectors, and U.S. sales in calendar 2011 rose 4.3 percent, to 13,164 from a year earlier. But annual sales totaled 30,000-plus in the mid 2000s. Blame it on the depressed economy, gasoline prices and parent company General Motors nancial problems.
2012 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Coupe Centennial Edition BASE PRICE: $61,995 for base Grand Sport 3LT coupe;$62,595 for base 3LT convertible; $75,600 for base Z06 coupe. PRICE AS TESTED: $101,835. TYPE: Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, twopassenger coupe. ENGINE:7-liter,overhead valve V-8. MILEAGE:15 mpg (city),24 mpg (highway). TOP SPEED:198 mph. LENGTH:175.6 inches.
performance package (includes Brembo ceramic brakes,Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 19and 20-inch tires) $7,500; Chevrolet centennial special edition (includes Carbon Flash metallic paint, satin black graphics, special interior trim, special badging, Magnetic Selective Ride Control suspension) $4,950;Z06 carbon ber package (includes carbon ber roof panel, rockers, spoiler) $3,995. DESTINATION CHARGE:$975.
Quality Coachworks
Low overhead save you money on Diagnosis, repair & maintenance all MBZ Models
Elliott Dan
Mercedes Master Certied Technician
650-280-3119
Mention this ad for 10% off Bodywork Labor
AUTO
the two-mode mufer system with four tailpipes. The Z06 is a lightweight, 3,200pound car, so it reacted fast. The tester, with optional carbon ber body pieces, often pushed the drivers head and back into the seatbacks as it thrust forward forcefully in even mild maneuvers. But there was some shake in the body as rolled over road bumps. The ride was stiff in touring suspension mode and harsh in sport mode. Either way, the Corvette was intimately in touch with the pavement. Fuel mileage isnt usually something to boast about in high-performance cars. But in 65 percent city and 35 percent highway driving, the test Z06 averaged a surprising, real-world 18 miles per gallon. This is spot on with the federal governments posted combined mileage rating of 15 mpg in the city and 24 mpg on highways. In comparable driving, a 2012 Volvo S60 averaged only 19.4 mpg from a 3-liter, turbocharged, sixcylinder engine. The Corvette has seats only for two, but the Z06 seats were the best Corvette resting spots to nd in years. They were well-padded in the right spots and nicely sculpted, though not to an extreme. Inside, the red stitching on the seats, steering wheel and dashboard was aligned and attractive, and t and nish was excellent overall. But the navigation system display is small and seems outdated by todays nav system standards. It was disconcerting to see the screen surface push inward, rather than hold solid, when the radios touch screen was used. Passengers must drop down onto the low seats and then climb back up when they exit. Some had to put hands on the door sills to lift themselves out of the Corvette. Views out back are severely obscured by the large metal pillar around the rear window glass. Driver and passenger cant see much in front of them, either, because the Corvette sits so low to the pavement. With a Range Rover in front of the Corvette, the driver was at eye level with the lower part of the sport utility vehicles rear bumper.
17
Z06
Continued from page 16
While competitors have a relatively skimpy selection of powerplants, Chevrolet offers many versions of Corvettes. They range from the base 1LT with 430-horsepower, 6.2-liter V-8 to the Z06 with 505-horsepower, 7liter, naturally aspirated V-8 to the ZR1 with 638-horsepower, supercharged, 6.2-liter V-8. The breadth of performance, and car personality, is impressive. Base Corvettes are suited more for regular roads, while the test Corvette a Z06 coupe with centennial package and ultimate performance package was a machine looking for a racetrack. The testers overhead valve V-8 had monstrous power that made merging into highway trafc seem like launch mode. Torque rises to 470 foot-pounds at 4,800 rpm in awesome fashion, accompanied by throaty engine sounds coming out of
WASHINGTON Auto dashboards are becoming an arcade of text messages, GPS images, phone calls and web surng, the government says, and its asking carmakers to curb those distractions when vehicles are moving. Manufacturers have been loading up higher-end vehicles with an array of built-in gadgets in an effort to tempt car buyers who want to multitask behind the wheel in todays increasingly connected society. But the technological advances have raised concerns that drivers attention is being diverted too much from the road. The National Highway Trafc Safety Administration on Thursday proposed voluntary guidelines for
manufacturers, including a recommendation that they design dashboards so that distracting devices are automatically disabled unless the vehicle is stopped and the transmission is in park. We recognize that vehicle manufacturers want to build vehicles that include the tools and conveniences expected by todays American drivers, said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland. The guidelines were proposing would offer realworld guidance to automakers to help them develop electronic devices that provide features consumers want without disrupting a drivers attention or sacricing safety. Gloria Bergquist, vice president of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, said carmakers will review the guidelines, which have a 60-day comment period.
Considering the eccentric, almost psychedelic fantasy worlds created in Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazakis tales, a story of tiny people living beneath the
oorboards of a house seems almost normal. The Secret World of Arrietty, from Miyazakis Studio Ghibli, also is a pleasant antidote to the siege mentality of so many Hollywood cartoons, whose makers aim to occupy every instant of the
audiences attention with an assault of noise and images. Slow, stately, gentle and meditative, Arrietty nevertheless is a marvel of image and color, its old-fashioned pen-and-ink frames vividly bringing to life the world of childrens author Mary
Nortons The Borrowers. Already a hit in Japan, Arrietty has undergone the typically classy English-language transformation that Disney renders to Studio Ghiblis lms, among them Miyazakis Academy AwardSee ARRIETTY, Page 22
WEEKEND JOURNAL
19
I work in Washington, D.C., which has some of the worst trafc in the United States. So I spend a lot of time in gridlock, wondering how much faster I could get to work if my car was equipped with rocket launchers. Sonys Twisted Metal games have been answering that question since 1995, allowing us to vent our road rage in the safe, legal connes of our own living rooms. After a few years in the garage, series creators David Jaffe and Scott Campbell have nally rolled out the first Twisted Metal ($59.99) for the PlayStation 3 and while it still delivers plenty of multiplayer mayhem, its solo campaign is about as much fun as changing a at. The game takes place in a sort of alternate America where a ruthless billionaire named Calypso stages massive demolition derbies for his own amusement. The star attraction is Sweet Tooth, a abby serial killer who wears a aming clown mask. He drives a souped-up ice-cream truck, but instead of Bomb Pops, its stocked with actual explosives and it can transform into a killer robot. The other vehicles in Twisted Metal range from zippy but vulnerable hot rods to sluggish but heavily armored behemoths. Theres a motorcycle equipped with a grenade launcher, a hearse that shoots cofns and a station wagon strapped to tank treads. For the rst time in the series, you can take ight, picking
off the competition from the turret of a helicopter. Online, you can battle against up to 15 other drivers. The multiplayer modes include the usual death match and last man standing events, as well as Hunted, a sort of reverse game of tag in which everyone else is trying to kill it. The newest addition is Nuke, a more sadistic take on Capture the Flag. Nothing terribly original here, but a good way to blow off steam. The single-player campaign is less satisfying. It tells the stories of three characters Sweet Tooth, death-masked motorcyclist Mr. Grimm and mutilated ex-model Dollface as they ght through a series of challenges. Each has been promised her or her hearts desire by Calypso; each learns, in a morbidly comic twist, that one should be careful what one wishes for. The stories wont surprise anyone whos ever seen Tales From the Crypt, and theyre not worth the aggravation of forcing yourself through Calypsos events. In most of the challenges, youre dropped in an area with a halfdozen computer-controlled opponents; you have to destroy them all to move on. Even on the easiest difculty level, the games articial intelligence seems unfair, with all the enemy vehicles ganging up on you. And the racing stages are next to impossible to win if you fall behind because the A.I.controlled cars still attack you rather than the leader.
When the demonic rst-person game The Darkness was released in 2007, it was a twisted breath of fresh air among all the war simulators and space-marine romps. AP video game reviewer Lou Kesten called it an intriguing mix of stealth and rst-person shooting. Unfortunately, a sequel thats arrived ve years later isnt as much of a revelation. The Darkness II (2K Games, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99), developed by Digital Extremes instead of Starbreeze Studios, feels like an unworthy follow-up thats just a little too late. Jackie Estacado is back as a mob boss possessed by an ancient baddie known as the Darkness, which appears as snakelike tentacles jutting from his back. After two years of keeping the Darkness at bay, an assassination attempt reanimates those light-averse supernatural forces residing within Jackie, who is still reeling from the shocking death of his girlfriend in the rst game. The story by veteran comic-book writer Paul Jenkins is frustratingly uneven, and the single-player campaign is far too short.
The sequel switches up the Darkness abilities, opting for a gory shoot-em-up focus instead of open-ended sneakiness. With the two extra limbs, Jackie can use car doors as makeshift shields while wielding Uzis in both hands. They can also be used for bashing bad guys, creating ammo and slicing electrical wires. The levels a subway, warehouse, mansion, carnival, etc. are not only cliched, theyre also more linear than the rst games playgrounds. The never-ending barrage of religious fanatics attacking Jackie is pretty boring. Theyre too easy to put down and come in just a few varieties. The Darkness II wisely trades the realistic style of the original for a more colorful cell-shaded aesthetic, recalling the games origins as a popular Top Cow comic book, and old-school tunes like Ram Jams Black Betty and Tone Locs Wild Thing organically plopped into Jackies urban environment make The Darkness II a more dynamic experience. Besides those few ourishing touches, the only saving grace of The Darkness II is a fun multiplayer mode that extends the single-player campaign in ways that are more exciting than the single-player campaign itself. Players can embark on cooperative missions as one of Jackies four assassin pals, each with their own Darkness-inspired powers and weapons.
20
WEEKEND JOURNAL
By Matthew Barakat
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Allison Bing
Lonely Planet author Allison Bing speaks about travel to Italy. 7 p.m. Thursday, March 1. Lane Room, Burlingame Public Library, 480 Primrose Road, Burlingame. For information call 558-7444 ext. 2.
All events are free unless otherwise noted. Please check before the event in case of schedule changes.
Peggy Gordon
Museum docent Peggy Gordon speaks about The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860-
Peninsula
Long lasting postural change Increase athletic performance Treat repetitive stress injuries Increase mobility & exibility
www.peninsularolng.com
2/29
WEEKEND JOURNAL
21
By Susan Cohn
DAILY JOURNAL SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
INTERESTED IN SERVING ON THE SAN MATEO COUNTY CIVIL GRAND JURY? The Honorable Richard C. Livermore of the San Mateo County Superior Court has announced that applications for service on the 2012-13 Grand Jury will be accepted for consideration until April 3. Judge Livermore made the announcement as the appointed Grand Jury Advisor for the next grand jury term, which commences July 1, 2012 and ends June 30, 2013. Any resident of San Mateo County for more than one year who is a citizen of the United States, 18 years of age or older, of ordinary intelligence, sound judgment and good character, with sufficient knowledge of the English language is eligible for selection by Judge Livermore. Elected public ofcials are not eligible. The Court encourages all interested individuals to apply. The Court strives to obtain a cross section of the county population. After completion of an interview process by Judge Livermore, jurors will be selected through a random draw. Application forms can be obtained by writing Grand Jury Clerk, Court Executive Ofce, 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063 or telephoning (650) 599-1200. *** COURT FINE AMNESTY PROGRAM. The Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo,
TOM JUNG
The San Mateo County Bar Association held its 2012 Installation Reception and Annual Meeting Feb.9 at the Old Courthouse in Redwood City.Sworn in as the organizations 2012 Board of Directors were (front row) Michle M.Bissada;Jeffery B.Hayden,Secretary;Sadhana (Sandy) Narayan;Kathleen A. Durrans; Edward C. Pomeroy,Treasurer; Peter F. Goldscheider; (back row) Joshua M. Bentley, President; Melissa M. Holmes; Mara W. Feiger; David A. Silberman;Joseph P.Crawford;Jacquelyn M.Brown;and Brock R.Lyle.Absent from photo were Colleen E.McAvoy,Vice President;and Linda J.Noeske. Honored at the event were Constance OBrien Dennis L.Woodman Memorial Award;Shelia Purcell James M.Dennis Memorial Award;and Kristi Cotton-Spence William Nagle Jr.,Memorial Award.
is participating in the one-time court ne amnesty program. This statemandated program, authorized by the California Legislature (AB 1358), allows individuals the opportunity to settle their court nes for a fty percent discount. The program will run through June 30. Individuals eligible to participate in this program have failed to pay their court ne and, as a result, either have had a DMV hold or suspension placed on their drivers license, a warrant issued for their arrest and/or their case referred to collections. Qualifying nes include those involving certain Vehicle Code and non-Vehicle Code infraction violations (mainly trafc violations). Parking citations, driving under the inuence or reckless driving cases are not eligible for the program. To qualify for the 50 percent discount on a court ne, an individual must have an overdue court ne where the amount owed was due to be paid in full before Jan. 1, 2009, and no payments were made after that date. This program is not open to those who owe restitution to victims in any other court case within San Mateo County or those with outstanding misdemeanor or felony warrants for their arrest in the county. The amnesty program aims to provide an opportunity for state and local governments to generate much needed revenue while granting individuals the opportunity to clear their long standing delinquent debt at a reduced rate. More information about the Amnesty Program and how to apply is located on the courts website at www.sanmateocourt.org. *** THE TRAFFIC CLERK IS MOVING. Effective April 2, the Trafc Clerks Ofces located at 800 N. Humboldt St. in San Mateo and 1050 Mission Road in South San Francisco will be consolidated and relocated to the Trafc Division at 500 County Center in Redwood City. All trafc arraignment calendars will be heard at the Redwood City location; however, trafc court trials will continue to be heard at the three court branch locations based on the appropriate geographic jurisdiction. Effective April 2, all trafc related lings and correspondence must be submitted to the consolidated Trafc Clerkss Ofce at 500 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063 either in person during regular business houses (8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday Friday) or by mail. This change, made pursuant to Government Code section 68106) is a result of unprecedented and ongoing state budget cuts. The public is invited to comment on this change prior to its implementation. All comments must be received no later than March 30. To ensure prompt review and consideration, comments should be submitted electronically through the courts website at www.sanmateocourt.org (click on Invitation to Comment). For those without Internet access, comments may be mailed to: Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo Attn: Rodina Catalano, Deputy Court Executive Ofcer 400 County Center, Room A Redwood City, CA 94063
Susan Cohn is a member of the State Bar of California. She may be reached at susan@smdailyjournal.com.
advertisement
with prosciutto, fennel seeds and arugola in a white wine sauce. Tasty pasta dishes such as Ravioli di Magro (homemade ravioli stuffed with Swiss chard and ricotta covered in a creamy white walnut sauce) meet the short list along with spaghetti putanesca con pescespada: thin spaghetti with Sicilian olives, capers, fresh sauted swordsh and spicy tomato sauce. Not to be neglected on the menu, Cucco prepares his signature pasta dish for lunch and dinner, an artisan tube pasta with Italian sausage meat, green peas, roasted red bell peppers and a creamy tomato sauce perfectly seasoned. Gluten free pasta is always on hand. There are salads and panini for the vegetarians and of course ordering off the menu is not discouraged. Divino was established in 2006 by Chef Owner Vincenzo Cucco and Paolo Dominici, founders of popular BACCO in San Franciscos Noe Valley. Cucco hails from Sicily where he completed his training and
went on to work at the Prestigious Do Forni in Venice, Italy. Cucco, who has been lauded by Michael Bauer of The San Francisco Chronicle several times, has , created a destination restaurant out of Divino. His ut of Divino. His v no. popular techniques of introducing the Cal-organic g the Cal-organic al orga c gani recipes into modern Italian dishes have afforded have afforded s hav afforded ave ford d him a spotlight among the few Italian chefs in the lian c f in the ian chefs Bay Area. By keeping the community coming back for ing ing back for r more, Divino has earned its place as a a great Italian restaurant on the Peninsula. Divino is located at 968 Ralston Avenue, Belmont. Reservations 650-620-9102 or www.opentable.com. For menus and information go to www.divinobelmont.com. Closed Mondays
22
WEEKEND JOURNAL
Now, about a third of the district is in an area where Hill is well known and a third of the district is in an area where Lieber is well known, she told the Daily Journal. It is the third of voters in the middle of the district that Hill and Lieber will likely cross paths the most, she said. Im delighted with the changes with the map, she said. San Mateo County has some of the best communities on the Peninsula. She has been endorsed by Coastside Democrats, the California Teachers Association and the League of Conservation Voters. Her primary issues of concern are education and the environment, she said. It is going to be a good race. Competition is what the voters deserve, Lieber said. Hill has been hitting the campaign trail hard and has spent much time courting votes in Santa Clara County since the lines have been redrawn. His list of endorsements is long, including seven out of nine current members of the Palo Alto City Council, Mountain View Mayor Mike Kasperzak Jr., all of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, among literally hundreds of other endorsements. San Mateo and Santa Clara counties have a tremendous amount of commonality, Hill told the Daily Journal, including regional transportation issues, the value for open space and the innovation economy. A strong point for me is sustaining innovation, Hill said. Supporting companies in new technologies lead to good-paying jobs in the area, he said. He touted his help in bringing solar giant SunEdison to Belmont last year as it relocated its headquarters from the East Coast. It is fairly late in the game for other Democrats to jump in the race, Mullin said. He has amassed nearly $100,000 for his campaign so far. Gilham is still getting his paperwork together and has yet to qualify for the ballot, he told the Daily Journal. He is a Republican from Redwood City who works as a television producer. He was drawn to the race by the high-speed rail project, which he opposes, and the states escalating pension obligations. Mullin, like Jerry Hill, has also amassed a deep number of endorsements including Eshoo, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, the entire San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco. Hill and Assemblyman Rich Gordon, D-Menlo Park, also endorse Mullin. Mullin is excited about the prospect of joining the Assembly at a time when great turnover will take place due to redistricting. He suspects redistricting will bring a host of new members to the Assembly, both Republican and Democrat, who are on the more moderate side of issues. There will potentially be more moderate members from both parties. Im looking forward to reaching out to freshman Republicans, if Im elected, who are willing to turn the page and start a new day in Sacramento, he said. Currently, Mullin said, the state is stuck in partisan paralysis. Maintaining education funding is one of his top priorities.
ELECTION
Continued from page 1
may not have been familiar with before the California Citizens Redistricting Commission redrew the lines.
Assembly District 24
Two are in the race for this seat including state Assemblyman Rich Gordon and Menlo Park resident Chengzhi George Yang. Gordon currently holds the District 21 seat but is running for re-election for the District 24 seat since redistricting. His Republican opponent has never run for ofce before. Yang, 36, resides in Menlo Park and is a software engineer. From China, he moved to the Peninsula in 1992. sweet, chaste, sort-of rst love story. Arrietty sheds her inbred borrowers fear of humans, and Shawn proves a tender soul who understands the fragile existence of his small friend and her kind, doing what he can to help. The lmmakers inject a bit of tension and some laughs through busybody housekeeper Haru (voiced with joyful, gradually increasing lunacy by Burnett), who sets out to capture the borrowers for her own mad purposes. The women of Arrietty denitely get the good parts. Mendler plays the title role with vivacity and a spirit of wonder, while Poehler manages nice laughs with her squawky, frantic vocals. Henrie and Arnett, on the other hand, are vocal rocks, solid but impassive, inexpressive. Arnett applies the same deadpan voice he uses to great comic result in live-action roles, but the
Assembly District 22
So far, South Citys Mullin has only one challenger in the race for the District 22 seat in Mark Gilham. Mullin, a Democrat, knows little about his lone challenger and suspects his early announcement for the seat may dissuade other interested Democrats from running for the seat. stories follow the adventures of a family of teeny people who live off things scavenged from nature or from the oversized human world thats unaware of the existence of this miniature race. Spirited 14-year-old Arrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler, star of Disney Channels Good Luck Charlie) lives with her mom and dad (real-life couple Poehler and Arnett) and is about to join in on her rst borrowing expedition to fetch back supplies from the human beans living upstairs. Yet Arrietty violates the rules shes seen by Shawn (David Henrie of Disney Channels Wizards of Waverly Place), a sickly youth who has come to stay in the country with his aunt. What could turn into boy-meets-girl, boysquashes-girl-like-a-bug instead becomes a
ARRIETTY
Continued from page 18
winning Spirited Away. What U.S. audiences get is a hybrid the grandly uid picture-book imagery of rst-time feature director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, a veteran Studio Ghibli animator, merged with an English-language rendering of Miyazakis screenplay, Oscar-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom directing a Hollywood voice cast that includes Carol Burnett, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett. Previously adapted in the 1997 live-action slapstick comedy The Borrowers, Nortons
effect falls at without his own almost-smirking poker face to go along. The movie also overdoses on sweetener with its saccharine theme songs one co-written and performed by Cecile Corbel, one written and performed by Mendler. The warm simplicity of the story and the cleverness and artistry of the animation make up for any vocal shortcomings, though. Its delightful, the ways the borrowers make essential tools out of found objects we take for granted a leaf as an umbrella, nails to create stairs or staples to build ladders, strips of duct tape to help scale walls. The wonder the lm reveals in the mundane is what makes The Secret World of Arrietty such a fantastic place to visit. The Secret World of Arrietty, a Disney release, is rated G. Running time: 94 minutes. Three stars out of four.
OBAMA
Continued from page 1
giving out free ice cream in her town something she said was on her bucket list. Also on her list was appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and shaking President Obamas hand. Shortly after a local newspaper quoted her saying that, Fisher got a call inviting her to meet the president Thursday. I didnt think it was real, she said. After meeting Obama, Fisher was beaming from ear to ear. I couldnt believe he knew my name, she said. That was exciting. The presidents rst stop was to be at a private reception at the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel on Nob Hill at 2 p.m. but, on his way, he stopped in Chinatown to order takeout dim sum in a surprise visit. Obama stopped by the Great Eastern Restaurant at 649 Jackson St. shortly after 1 p.m., a restaurant manager said. He ordered several dim sum dishes to go, and stayed in the restaurant for about 20 minutes greeting guests, manager Wing Lyn said. The presidents security force crowded into the dining room as Obama shook hands with the restaurants patrons and posed for pictures, Lyn said. Lyn said he was thrilled to serve the president. Its amazing, he said. After the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel fundraiser, Obama headed to a private fundraising dinner at a Pacic Heights home, and gave a speech at an 8 p.m. fundraiser at the Nob Hill Masonic Center featuring a performance by Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. Several activist groups planned to protest Obamas visit. Obama spent the night in the city before departing for Washington state Friday morning. His visit to San Francisco follows fundraising stops in Los Angeles.
WEEKEND JOURNAL
Obamas campaign pitch is aimed at the middle class. He sharpened his focus in a December speech in Osawatomie, Kan., where he decried a growing inequality between chief executives and their workers. He reprised the theme in his State of the Union address last month and unveiled a budget proposal this month that put a policy sheen on that populist message. As he pushes his economic agenda and as he raises money, Obama more and more is being forced to juxtapose working-class audiences and posh surroundings. In Los Angeles, 1,000 Obama supporters watched a performance of the Grammy-winning rock band Foo Fighters on the well-manicured grounds of the home of Brad Bell, a prominent television producer. Love the Foo Fighters, Obama told the crowd. They were tired of winning so many awards, so they said, Lets do something else tonight. Later, 80 people paying $35,800 apiece attended a dinner at Bells home, where guests drank wine from Kistler Vineyards and champagne by Frances Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin. Hollywood celebrities such as Clooney and actor Jim Belushi joined Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and others in a large dining room beneath a soaring chandelier. In Orange County, Obamas motorcade traveled along the Pacic Ocean to a beachside community in Corona del Mar, where the neighborhood was lined with Mercedes-Benz sedans, Toyota Prius hybrids and even a light-blue Nissan Leaf electric car. Speaking to guests beneath a white tent at the home of real estate districts functions and accountability. What exactly is the relationship we have with the mosquito district because it is its own animal. As a council, we appoint a representative but we dont really have any authority and it acts independently. It is an interesting way of operating government, Grocott said. Klein said San Carlos has a particular link to the situation because Betsey Schneider, the citys representative on the board, is the one who rst questioned missing money in the pesticide account. Klein is preparing a commendation for Schneider to acknowledge her courage in bringing the issue to light. Schneiders questions led to an outside audit that led to Seeney, 60, and Sinipata, 35, being charged with eight counts of embezzling public money. Prosecutors say Seeney, the district nance director, and Sinipata, her bookkeeper assistant and accounting supervisor, embezzled the funds between 2009 and 2011 by giving themselves extra pay at a higher pay rate and fraudulent time off, excessively contributed to their deferred compensation funds, used credit cards for personal purchases and electronically transferred money into their own accounts. The audit reported more than $635,000 was missing, much of it ber of cars from a busy road. Mayor Andy Klein agreed, noting trafc is one of the major issues the district and city have worked on together. The test program will start by reaching out to Tierra Linda parents, surveying them about who would be interested in such a service and when it would be used. Once under way, the district will be able to study the impact on trafc due to the bus. Then, the district can consider starting such a service using feedback gathered from parents. If successful, a bus program could start in the fall. Baker said the test run is the rst step of a larger hope to complete a trafc study of all the schools in the city. In addition to the bus service, the grants will also allow for upgrades like signs promoting safe driving, striping on the roads and architectural drawings to design the new pickup and dropoff areas, said Baker. Bus services have a long history in San Carlos. Klein recalled using SamTrans as a child to go to school and travel around the developer Jeff Stack, Obama thanked the family for opening its spectacular home. The fundraisers contrasted with a more modest ofcial stop in Milwaukee on Wednesday. Obama visited the Master Lock plant where unionized workers manufacture padlocks famous for being tough under re. In San Francisco, Obama made an unscheduled stop in the heart of the citys Chinatown neighborhood, shaking hands with diners and holding a crying baby. After posing for photos, the president pulled out some cash and paid for two bags of dim sum dumplings. Obama was scheduled to end his threeday trip Friday in Seattle, where he planned to address workers at Boeings Everett Production Facility. Republicans have repeatedly cited his high-wattage fundraisers to try to undercut Obamas image with working-class voters. President Obama campaigned on hope and change, but three years later hes just another typical politician, said Kirsten Kukowski, a Republican National Committee spokeswoman. Democratic strategist Chris Lehane said the public generally understands that presidential candidates need to raise money among the wealthy but that the key is to have a consistent message whether theyre talking to Hollywood moguls and tech titans or blue-collar workers. You certainly do not want to come off where you appear that youre elitist, Lehane said. He said Obamas message has remained consistent that Americans deserve a fair shake regardless of their economic background. in the last scal year. The district contacted the County Counsels Office which in turn handed the matter to the District Attorneys Ofce which charged them with stealing more than $450,000. The districts numbers might be closer to the actual loss but prosecutors are only alleging the amount they can prove, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said previously. After the alleged embezzlement came to light, Gay said the district implemented new policies, including background checks that might have turned up Seeneys previous criminal history. At the time of Seeneys employment, she had been prosecuted in two different embezzlement cases, including one in which she ran up more than a half-million dollars on her boss credit card. In March, she was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison on the two cases and ordered to pay restitution. Sinipata remains in custody on $150,000 bail while Seeney, who was returned from state prison for arraignment in the new case, is being held on $250,000 bail.
Michelle Durand can be reached by email: michelle@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 102.
FRIDAY, FEB. 17 Bingo. 11:30 a.m. Burlingame Recreation Center, 850 Burlingame Ave., Burlingame. Card sales start at 11:45 a.m. Cash prizes, coffee, tea, cookies and more. For more information call 347-0860. Pampered Chef Demonstration: Healthy Cooking Techniques. 1 p.m. Weight Watchers, 4060 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo. A demonstration of healthy cooking techniques by Pampered Chef will celebrate the opening of the brand new store. Free. For more information call 996-3332. St. Pius Young Peoples Theater presents Annie the Musical. 7:30 p.m. St. Pius Fitzsimon Center, 1100 Valota Road, Redwood City. General admission is $6 for adults, and $4 for seniors, students and children at the door. Reserved seating is $10 for adults, and $8 for seniors, students and children. For more information call 207-7682. Fred Eaglesmith. 9 p.m. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. $18. For more information call 369-7770 or visit tickets.foxrwc.com. SATURDAY, FEB. 18 Local author Robert Dye will discuss his recently published book, A Pioneer in Aviation. 11 a.m. Hiller Aviation Museum, 601 Skyway Road, San Carlos. The book focuses on the life and work of Brice Goldsborough, the engineer and innovator who, among other things, developed and provided the flight instrument panel used on the Spirit of St. Louis when Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic Ocean. The presentation is free with museum admission. For more informationvisit hiller.org or call 654-0200. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous. 8 a.m. Central Peninsula Church, 1005 Shell Blvd., Foster City. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous is a 12-step program for people who want help in recovering from food addiction, overeating, under-eating and bulimia. For more information call 5040034. Family Resources Fair. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Hillsdale Shopping Center, 60 31st Ave., San Mateo. Enjoy the second annual Family Resources Fair. Free admission, free child fingerprinting by the San Mateo Police Department and free face painting. Meet and greet more than 35 familyrelated businesses. Attend the fair, have lunch, go shopping bring the kids and make a day of it. Sponsored by Health Plan of San Mateo and the Daily Journal. Free. For more information call 344-5200. Coldwater Creek Trunk Show. 11:30 a.m. Weight Watchers, 4060 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo. The latest fashions from Coldwater Creek will be displayed and participants will learn to dress to accentuate their features. Free. For more information call 996-3332. 51st Annual Camellia Show and Plant Sale. Noon to 4 p.m. Community Activities Building, 1400 Roosevelt Ave., Redwood City. Come see more than 1,000 camellia blooms of various sizes and colors from one-inch miniatures to eightinch reticulatas and all sizes and shapes in between. The public is encouraged to enter blooms from their own gardens in the novice division. Free. For more information email sfpcscamellias@gmail.com. New Vintage Wine Release Party. Noon to 4 p.m. La Honda Winery, 2645 Fair Oaks Ave., Redwood City. Entry includes wine tastings and Hawaiian tuna poke appetizer. Other appetizers will be available for purchase. $10. Free for Wine Club Members. For more information visit lahondawinery.com. Swing and Kicks. 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. San Mateo Public Library, 55 W. Third Ave., San Mateo. Exercise your body and mind. For elementary school students. For more information call 522-7838. Isnt It Romantic Valentine Concert. 3 p.m. Crystal Springs United Methodist Church, 2145 Bunker Hill Drive, San Mateo. The Golden Gate Radio Orchestra plays tunes like Its De Lovely and It Had to be You with vocals and instrumentals. Refreshments at intermission. Tickets $15. For more information call 871-7464. St. Pius Young Peoples Theater presents Annie the Musical. 7:30 p.m. St. Pius Fitzsimon Center, 1100 Valota Road, Redwood City. General admission is $6 for adults, and $4 for seniors, students and children at the door. Reserved seating is $10 for adults, and $8 for seniors, students and children. For more information call 207-7682. Tony Orlando. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City. $32 to $52.50. For more infor-
23
BALANCE
Continued from page 1
more than $220 million in 2011 even as it faces the prospect of hundreds of millions from GOP-backed outside groups targeting his re-election. To be sure, Obamas campaign has mastered the art of raising money among the masses. In 2011, the campaign said it received money from 1.3 million donors, including 583,000 people who gave during the nal three months of the year. More than 98 percent of supporters gave donations of $250 or less and the average donation was $55. Yet a list of prominent donors released by the campaign shows nearly 450 wellheeled backers who have collectively steered at least $74.7 million to the presidents campaign so far. Fully 62 of them collected at least $500,000 each to give to the campaign, including movie producers Jeffrey Katzenberg and Harvey Weinstein, and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. California, where Obama scheduled six fundraisers during this three-day trip, gured most prominently on his roster of big-money bundlers. Sixteen are from California; 13 are from New York. Fundraising is an inescapable aspect of politics, and candidates from both parties tap deep-pocketed supporters for cash and for help raising more from their network of wealthy friends. Many of those donors are the same ones that Obama is referring to when he tells audiences whether well-off or working class that the rich must pay a greater share in taxes.
Calendar
mation call 369-7770 or visit tickets.foxrwc.com. Palo Alto Philharmonic Orchestra Concert. 8 p.m. Preconcert talk by Music Director Shoebotham at 7:30 p.m. Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. $20 General Admission; $17 Seniors; and $10 Students. Purchase tickets at www.paphil.org or at the door. Purple Haze (Jimmy Hendrix Cover) and Kevin Russells Cream of Clapton. 8 p.m. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. $12. For more information call 369-7770 or visit tickets.foxrwc.com. SUNDAY, FEB. 19 51st Annual Camellia Show and Plant Sale. Noon to 4 p.m. Community Activities Building, 1400 Roosevelt Ave., Redwood City. Come see more than 1,000 camellia blooms of various sizes and colors from one-inch miniatures to eightinch reticulatas and all sizes and shapes in between. The public is encouraged to enter blooms from their own gardens in the novice division. Free. For more information email sfpcscamellias@gmail.com. St. Pius Young Peoples Theater presents Annie the Musical. 1 p.m. St. Pius Fitzsimon Center, 1100 Valota Road, Redwood City. General admission is $6 for adults, and $4 for seniors, students and children at the door. Reserved seating is $10 for adults, and $8 for seniors, students and children. For more information call 207-7682. Third Sunday Ballroom: Tea Dance with the Bob Gutierrez Band. 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. San Bruno Senior Center, 1555 Crystal Springs Road, San Bruno. $5. For more information call 616-7150. Sunday Music Jam with Terry Hiatt and Brett Brown. 4 p.m. Pioneer Saloon, 2925 Woodside Road, Woodside. Come join us for our one-year celebration. Rolling With Dough Pizza will be serving made-to-order pies out of their mobile wood-fire pizza oven. Many of our favorite musical artists will be joining us for the event. Bar opens at 2 p.m. Music starts at 4 p.m. Free. For more information call 208-9997. The Bach Dancing & Dynamic Society presents: Marcus Shelby Orchestra. 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Douglas Beach House, 307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay. Bassist Shelby leads his 15-piece orchestra in a special Black History Month Program featuring music from their latest album release Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. $35. For more information visit bachddsoc.org. MONDAY, FEB. 20 Diabetes screening. 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Twin Pines Senior and Community Center, 20 Twin Pines Lane, Belmont. Sequoia Hospital will be holding a free blood-glucose screening. For best results, a fourhour fast is recommended. No reservation needed. Free. For more information visit belmont.gov. Job Seekers at Your Library. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. San Mateo Main Library, 55 W. Third Ave., San Mateo. Volunteers with experience in human resources, coaching and teaching will assist job searches. Will be located on the second floor. Free. For more information email egroth@cityofsanmateo.org. For more events visit smdailyjournal.com, click Calendar.
MOSQUITO
Continued from page 1
should have in hand a letter from San Carlos Mayor Andy Klein asking them to join his city in calling for a civil grand jury investigation into the alleged embezzlement, how much District Manager Robert Gay may have known about the situation and the districts finances overall. Klein is seeking strength in numbers, hoping that if other cities and the county line up with San Carlos they can all get some answers. The San Carlos City Council on Monday night unanimously approved Klein sending such a letter and Assistant City Manager Brian Moura estimates getting it ready to go by next week. The mayors and county supervisors will also receive copies of the letter Klein is sending to the civil grand jury and the district board. Councilman Matt Grocott had wanted stronger action, possibly as far as calling for Gays resignation, but said the council was advised to be cautious because it is a personnel matter. Grocott said he hopes the civil grand jury not only looks into the alleged embezzlement but the
SCHLEP
Continued from page 1
route a program they have named SCHLEP, San Carlos Healthy Learning Education Program. If the pilot goes well, the district could introduce the limited bus service in the fall. Superintendent Craig Baker said the about $30,000 in grant funds provided from the San Mateo County Ofce of Education Safe Routes to Schools fund and support from City/County Association of Governments will allow the district to test the new transportation option without investing in a bus and driver. Board President Seth Rosenblatt said transportation has long been an issue. The district is also dealing with growing enrollment, but adding facilities, he said, will not solve the transportation issue. Using a bus will allow the district to possibly remove a num-
Peninsula as a youngster. San Carlos as a city previously tried to offer a free shuttle service called SCOOT San Carlos Optimal Operational Transit. SCOOT provided door-to-door service. A user called a city number, requested a ride and got one without a set schedule or bus stop. In 2002, the $1 million dollar pilot program was funded from a transportation sales tax, gas tax and money typically used for street repair. At its peak, ridership on the 20person shuttles included 19,387 trips. Primary users include school children and the elderly although more than 500 commuters also benet by taking routes to the Caltrain station. In 2005, the council sought a $59 parcel tax in hopes of funding the service. Without the funding, SCOOT ceased service June 17, 2005.
Heather Murtagh can be reached by email: heather@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 105.
24
COMICS/GAMES
CROSSwORD PUZZLE
DILBERT
SUNShINE STATE
GET FUZZY
ACROSS 1 Spooky noise 6 Tropical trees 11 Reduces the noise level 13 Salad vegetable 14 Divulge 15 Straightens 16 Jeer 17 -and-breakfast 18 Deli units 21 Cold-shoulders 23 Ocean fish 26 cit. (footnote abbr.) 27 Counting-rhyme start 28 Wind indicator 29 Opposed 31 Column order 32 Vicars residence 33 Home finder 35 The A in B.A. 36 Ride a wave 37 Map dir. 38 Pigs digs 39 Armload of papers 40 Do Easter eggs
41 42 44 47 51 52 53 54
Highlanders pair Mamas boy Used a shop machine Sovereign decrees -down cake More risky Migratory flocks Job possibilities
DOwN 1 Tai chuan 2 Sugarcane product 3 Mind reading 4 Whaler of fiction 5 Lantern fuel 6 Tent supports 7 In the course of 8 Fail to keep up with 9 Geol. formation 10 Plea at sea 12 Fruit pits 13 Brindled cat 18 Pack animals 19 Casablanca actor 20 Barely enough
22 23 24 25 28 30 31 34 36 39 41 43 44 45 46 48 49 50
False Hauled away Like some bagels Court order Old TV knob NASA destination Yellow trumpet Wiped out data Cast a shadow Ekberg or Garbo little piggy ... Opposite of naughty Drag along Gorilla or chimp Mao -tung Undercover org. Turner or Koppel AARP members
KenKen is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. 2012 KenKen Puzzle LLC. All rights reserved. Dist. by Universal Uclick for UFS, Inc. www.kenken.com
2-17-12
Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating. The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.
youre at or what youre doing, be content with your situation. If you display a desire to be elsewhere, it will have an effect on how others feel about you. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)When involved with friends who are generous and considerate, be sure to unlock your wallet as best you can. If you dont, the contrast will make you look like a skinflint. ARIES (March 21-April 19)Relax and just be yourself because, unfortunately, any form of pretense could make you look phony and would produce the opposite effect of the one you are trying to make.
emotions to gain the upper hand, they are likely to affect your ability to evaluate certain situations in a meaningful manner. GEMINI (May 21-June 20)Usually youre not the type of person who tends to nurse grudges, yet you might have a difficult time being around someone whom you feel treated you badly. CANCER (June 21-July 22)Be cognizant of what you say and how you behave. You could unintentionally do something or use words that will make you look rudely disinterested in what others say or do. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)All you may want is to be helpful, but a friend might consider any unsolicited
suggestions on your behalf to be uncouth criticism. Be sure your pal wants an honest assessment of his or her work. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Lending money or something of value to someone who, time after time, fails to return what he or she borrows could be a pretty dopey thing to do. If you get taken, itll be your own fault. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)Even if its inconvenient for you, stand by your word. If you break a promise you made, someone who holds you in high esteem will be severely disappointed. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)Strive to be discerning of the job youre doing, especially if you consider it to
be a work of art. Your normally excellent taste might not be up to the jobs demands. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)Be sure your purse can withstand any extravagant splurges you subject it to. Once you empty it, it might take quite a while to replenish. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Whether you be flitting through the social sphere or merely taking care of business at work, be on your best behavior when placed in a highly visible position. Antisocial actions always mar ones image. COPYRIGHT 2012 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
25
104 Training
TERMS & CONDITIONS The San Mateo Daily Journal Classifieds will not be responsible for more than one incorrect insertion, and its liability shall be limited to the price of one insertion. No allowance will be made for errors not materially affecting the value of the ad. All error claims must be submitted within 30 days. For full advertising conditions, please ask for a Rate Card.
106 Tutoring
110 Employment
CAREGIVERS Were a top, full-service provider of home care, in need of your experienced, committed care for seniors. Prefer CNAs/HHAs with car, clean driving record, and great references. Good pay and benefits Call for Greg at (650) 556-9906
www.homesweethomecare.com
110 Employment
TUTORING
Spanish, French, Italian
Certificated Local Teacher All Ages!
(650)573-9718
HOME CARE AIDES Multiple shifts to meet your needs. Great pay & benefits, Sign-on bonus, 1yr exp required. Matched Caregivers (650)839-2273, (408)280-7039 or (888)340-2273
RESTAURANT Experienced Line Cook, Available Weekends, 1201 San Carlos Ave. SAN CARLOS, 94070.
SALES/MARKETING INTERNSHIPS The San Mateo Daily Journal is looking for ambitious interns who are eager to jump into the business arena with both feet and hands. Learn the ins and outs of the newspaper and media industries. This position will provide valuable experience for your bright future. Fax resume (650)344-5290 email info@smdailyjournal.com
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. 11-0099162 Title Order No. 11-0080113 APN No. 032-166-110 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 01/17/2006. 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 ERMAN DANILIO BRAVO AND MARGARITA BRAVO, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS, dated 01/17/2006 and recorded 1/24/2006, as Instrument No. 2006-010798, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of San Mateo County, State of California, will sell on 03/09/2012 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: 511 NORTH CLAREMONT STREET, SAN MATEO, CA, 94401. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other com-mon 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 $502,898.36. 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 association, 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 provisions 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: 02/11/2012 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 purpose. FEI # 1006.153503 2/17, 2/24, 3/02/2012
26
298 Collectibles
ORIGINAL SMURF FIGURES - 19791981, 18+ mushroom hut, 1 1/2 x 3 1/2, all $40., (650)518-0813 PRECIOUS MOMENTS vinyl dolls - 16, 3 sets of 2, $35. each set, (650)518-0813 SPORTS CARDS, huge collection, over 20,000 cards, stars, rookies, hall of famers. $100 for all. SOLD
304 Furniture
DRAFTING TABLE 30 x 42' with side tray. excellent cond $75. (650)949-2134 DRUM TABLE - brown, perfect condition, nice design, with storage, $45., (650)345-1111 END TABLE marble top with drawer with matching table $70/all. (650)520-0619 END TABLES (2) - One for $5. hand carved, other table is antique white marble top with drawer $40., (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 FOAM INCLINER for twin bed $40 650-692-1942 FOLDING PICNIC table - 8 x 30, 7 folding, padded chairs, $80. (650)364-0902 HAND MADE portable jewelry display case wood and see through lid $45. 25 x 20 x 4 inches. (650)592-2648. LOUNGE CHAIRS - 2 new, with cover & plastic carring case & headrest, $35. each, (650)592-7483 MATTRESS TOPPER chrome full size $15., (650)368-3037 MIRROR, NICE, large, 30x54, $25. SSF (650)583-8069 MODULAR DESK/BOOKCASE/STORAGE unit - Cherry veneer, white laminate, $75., (650)888-0039 OFFICE LAMP, small. Black & white with pen holder and paper holder. Brand new, in the box. $10 (650)867-2720 OVAL DINING Room table " birch" finish with 2 leaves 4 chairs $100 (650) 593-7026 PAPASAN CHAIRS (2) -with cushions $45. each set, (650)347-8061 ROCKING CHAIR - Traditional, full size Rocking chair. Excellent condition $100., (650)504-3621 SOFA (LIVING room) Large, beige. You pick up $45 obo. 650-692-1942 STORAGE TABLE light brown lots of storage good cond. $45. (650)867-2720 TEA CHEST , Bombay, burgundy, glass top, perfect cond. $35 (650)345-1111 VANITY ETHAN Allen maple w/drawer and liftup mirror like new $95 (650)349-2195
299 Computers
HP PRINTER Deskjet 970c color printer. Excellent condition. Software & accessories included. $30. 650-574-3865
300 Toys
BILINGUAL POWER lap top 6 actividaes $18 650 349-6059 RADIO-CONTROL SAILBOAT: Robbie model. Power: Futabas ATTAK, 75.750 mghz.Excellent condition, ready to use. Needs batteries. $60.00 650-341- 3288
302 Antiques
1912 COFFEE Percolator Urn. perfect condition includes electric cord $85. (415)565-6719 CHINA CABINET - Vintage, 6 foot, solid mahogany. $300/obo. (650)867-0379 VINTAGE FISHING LURES - (10) at between $45. & $100. each, CreekChub, Helin Tackle, Arbogast, some in original boxes, (650)257-7481
296 Appliances
BISSELL UPRIGHT vacuum cleaner clear view model $45 650-364-7777 CHOPPERS (4) with instructions $7/all. (650)368-3037 ELECTRIC HEATER - Oil filled electric heater, 1500 watts, $30., (650)504-3621 HOVER WIND tunnel vacuum. Like new $60 SOLD 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 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
303 Electronics
18 INCH TV Monitor with built-in DVD with remote, $21. Call (650)308-6381 3 SHELF SPEAKERS - 8 OM, $15. each, (650)364-0902 3 TVS 4 DVD players VCRs, ect. almost free. Nothing over $9 (650)308-6381 32 TOSHIBA Flat screen TV like new. with box. $300 Firm. (415)264-6605 46 MITSUBISHI Projector TV, great condition. $400. (650)261-1541. BIG SONY TV 37" - Excellent Condition Worth $2300 will Sacrifice for only $95., (650)878-9542 FLIP CAMCORDER $50. (650)583-2767 LAPTOP. ACER Inspire One, 160 Gb HD. $75. (650) 630-2329 PANASONIC TV 21 inch $25., (650)637-8244 PRINTER. HP Office Jet All-in-One. New. $50. (650) 630-2329 PS2 GAME console $75.00 (650)591-4710 SONY TRINITRON 37" TV with Remote Good Condition $65 call 650 596-9601 TOSHIBA 42 LCD flat screen TV HD in very good condition, $300., Call at (650)533-9561 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 ZENITH TV 12" $50 650 755-9833 (Daly City). (650)755-9833
297 Bicycles
INSTEP HALF bike for child, mounts onto adult bike. $15. Like new. (650)5743141
306 Housewares
"PRINCESS HOUSE decorator urn "Vase" cream with blue flower 13 inch H $25., (650)868-0436 25 LOVELY Vases all sizes $1 to $3 each ( Florist Delight ) 650 755-9833 3 LARGE Blue Ceramic Pots $10 each 650 755-9833 CANDLEHOLDER - Gold, angel on it, tall, purchased from Brueners, originally $100., selling for $30.,(650)867-2720 CEILING FAN multi speed, brown and bronze $45. (650)592-2648 DRIVE MEDICAL design locking elevated toilet seat. New. $45. (650)343-4461 LAMPS - 2 southwestern style lamps with engraved deer. $85 both, obo, (650)343-4461 MIXER & CITRUS JUICE combo by Ham. Beach - sturdy model, used, c.70's $22., (650)342-6345 PERSIAN TEA set for 8. Including spoon, candy dish, and tray. Gold Plated. $100. (650) 867-2720 SOLID TEAK floor model 16 wine rack with turntable $60. (650)592-7483 SUSHI SET - Blue & white includes 4 of each: chopsticks, plates, chopstick holders, still in box, $9., (650)755-8238
298 Collectibles
1982 PRINT "A Tune Off The Top Of My Head" See: http://tinyurl.com/4y38xld 650-204-0587 $75 2 FIGURINES - 1 dancing couple, 1 clown face. both $15. (650)364-0902 200 1940 Baseball Cards $100 or B/O (650)481-5296 65 EUROPEAN Used Postage Stamps. Some issued before 1920. All different. Includes stamps from England, France, and Germany. $5.00 650-787-8600 85 USED Postage Stamps All different from 1920's - 1990's. Includes air mail stamps and famous Americans stamps. $4 SOLD ARMY SHIRT, long sleeves, with pockets. XL $15 each (408)249-3858 BAY MEADOWS (650)345-1111 bag $30.each,
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #248925 The following persons are doing business as: Lewis & Co., 1216 El Camino Real, SAN CARLOS, CA 94070 is hereby registered by the following ownesr: Gerald Lewis & Jamie Lewis, 1300 Magnolia Ave., SAN CARLOS, CA 94070. The business is conducted by a Husband and Wife. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on N/A. /s/ Gerald Lewis / This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk on 02/16/2012. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 02/17/12, 02/24/12, 03/02/12, 03/09/12). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #248800 The following person is doing business as: Be Fresh, Baby, 1109 Haddon Dr. #3, SAN MATEO, CA 94402 is hereby registered by the following owner: April Lavina Monio, same address. The business is conducted by an Individual. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on /s/ April Monio / This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk on 02/08/2012. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 02/17/12, 02/24/12, 03/02/12, 03/09/12). STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT of USE of FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #237990 The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: Philantheropedia, 24 Shearer Dr., Atherton, CA 94027. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in County on 03/12/10. The business was conducted by: Noprofit Knowldge Network, same address. /s/ Deyan Vitanov / This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on 02/08/2012. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 02/10/12, 02/17/12, 02/24/12, 03/02/12).
304 Furniture
2 DINETTE Chairs (650)692-3260 both for $29
2 END Tables solid maple '60's era $40/both. (650)670-7545 42" ROUND Oak Table (with 12") leaf. Clean/Great Cond. $40. 650-766-9553. ARMOIRE CABINET (415)375-1617 $90., Call
BEANIE BABIES in cases with TY tags attached, good condition. $10 each or 12 for $100. (650) 588-1189 COLLECTIBLE CHRISTMAS TREE STAND with 8 colored lights at base / also have extra lights, $50., (650)593-8880 COLLECTIBLES: RUSSELL Baze Bobbleheads Bay Meadows, $10 EA. brand new in original box. (415)612-0156 COLORIZED TERRITORIAL Quarters uncirculated with Holder $15/all, (408)249-3858
BASSET LOVE Seat Hide-a-Bed, Beige, Good Cond. Only $30! 650-766-9553 BEAUTIFUL ORIENTAL Table. 32" by 32" 12" legs, Rosewood, Lightweight, $75 650 871-7200 BOOKSHELF $10.00 (650)591-4710 BREAKFAST NOOK DINETTE TABLEsolid oak, 53X66, $29., (650)583-8069 CAST AND metal headboard and footboard. white with brass bars, Queen size $95 650-588-7005 CHANDELIER WITH 5 lights/ candelabre base with glass shades $20. (650)504-3621 COFFEE TABLE 62"x32" Oak (Dark Stain) w/ 24" side Table, Leaded Beveled Glass top. - $90. 650-766-9553 COUCH-FREE. OLD world pattern, soft fabric. Some cat scratch damage-not too noticeable. 650-303-6002 DINING ROOM SET - table, four chairs, lighted hutch, $500. all, (650)296-3189 DINING SET glass table with rod iron & 4 blue chairs $100/all. 650-520-7921, 650245-3661 DISPLAY CASE wood & glass 31 x 19 inches $30. (650)873-4030
LEGAL NOTICES
Fictitious Business Name Statements, Trustee Sale Notice, Alcohol Beverage License, Name Change, Probate, Notice of Adoption, Divorce Summons, Notice of Public Sales, and More.
Published in the Daily Journal for San Mateo County.
308 Tools
CIRCULAR SAW, Craftsman-brand, 10, 4 long x 20 wide. Comes w/ stand - $70. (650)678-1018 CLICKER TORQUE Wrench, 20 - 150 pounds, new with lifetime warranty and case, $39, 650-595-3933 CRAFTSMAN 3/4 horse power 3,450 RPM $60 (650)347-5373 CRAFTSMAN ARC-WELDER - 30-250 amp, and accessories, $350., (650)3410282 HAND DRILL $6.00 (415) 333-8540
Call (650)570-6900
to view call for appointment Kudu, Sable, Spring Bok, Black Wildebeest, Jem Bok "ork", Sissiby
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
27
316 Clothes
NANCY'S TAILORING & BOUTIQUE Custom Made & Alterations
FORE GOLFERS! Great tee Golf mystery novel. The Case Missing Links. Pebble Beach Author has 60 copies, $5. (650)342-6192
FRAMED PAINTING - Girl picking daisies, green & white, SOLD! GAME "BEAT THE EXPERTS" never used $8., (408)249-3858 GEORGE Magazines, 30, all intact $50/all OBO. (650)574-3229, Foster City HARDBACK BOOKS - Complete set, 6 volumes, by Winston S. Churchill, 2nd WW, published 1948-1953, great condition, dustjackets, $90.all, (650)347-5104 HARLEY DAVIDSON black phone, perfect condition $65 650 867-2720 JAMES PATTERSON BOOKS - 3 hardback @$3. each, 5 paperbacks @$1. each, (650)341-1861 JANET EVANOVICH (4) hardback books $3/each (8) paperback books $1/each 650-341-1861 JEWELRY DISPLAY CASE - Handmade, portable, wood & see through lid to open, 45L, 20W, 3H, $65., (650)592-2648 LARGE PRINT. Hard Cover. Mystery Books. Current Author. (20) $2 each 650-364-7777 LIMITED QUANTITY VHS porno tapes, $8. each, (650)871-7200 MANUAL WHEECHAIRS (2) $75 each. 650-343-1826 MEN'S ASHTON and Hayes leather briefcase new. Burgundy color. $95 obo, (650)343-4461 MIRROR, ETHAN ALLEN - 57-in. high x 21-in. wide, maple frame and floor base, like new, $95., (650)349-2195 NEW LIVING Yoga Tape for Beginners $8. 650-578-8306 OLD 5 gal. glass water cooler bottle $50 (650)593-7553 PICTORIAL WORLD History $80/all (650)345-5502 Books
BOOK - Fighting Aircraft of WWII, Janes, 1000 illustrations, $65., (650)593-8880 BOOK NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NATIONAL AIR MUSEUMS $15 (408)249-3858 BOXES MOVING storage or office assorted sizes 50 cents /each (50 total) 650-347-8061 CAMPING CUPS and plates (NEW)-B/O (650)591-4710
315 Wanted to Buy GO GREEN! We Buy GOLD You Get The $ Green $
Millbrae Jewelers Est. 1957 400 Broadway - Millbrae
ARTIFICIAL FICUS Tree 6 ft. life like, full branches. in basket $55. (650)269-3712 BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD hardback books. 4 at $3.00 each or all for $10., Call (650)341-1861 BARBIE BEACH vacation & Barbie princess bride computer games $15 each, (650)367-8949 BBQ GILL with Cover 31/2' wide by 3' tall hardly used $49. 650 347-9920
CANDLE HOLDER with angel design, tall, gold, includes candle. Purchased for $100, now $30. (650)345-1111 CEILING FAN - Multi speed, bronze & brown, excellent shape, $45., (650)5922648 COLEMAN PROPANE camp stove $25.00 (650)591-4710 COLEMAN PROPANE lantern $15.00 (650)591-4710 CRAFTMENS 15 GALLON WET DRYVAC with variable speeds and all the attachments, $40., (650)593-7553
650-697-2685
316 Clothes
49ER SWEATSHIRT with hood size 8 extra large $100 obo. (650)346-9992 BLACK Leather pants Mrs. size made in France size 40 $99. (650)558-1975 BLACK LEATHER tap shoes 9M great condition $99. (650)558-1975 BOOTS - purple leather, size 8, ankle length, $50.obo, (650)592-9141 BOOTS. WOMEN'S Timberland, 6-1/2. Good. cond. $15. SOLD! BRIDAL PETTICOAT: Taffeta. Fitted waist-to-hip above bouffant crinolines; ruffled taffetas over and under crinoline Sz: 10 $20. (650)341-3288 EUROPEAN STYLE nubek leather ladies winter coat - tan colored with green lapel & hoodie, $100., (650)888-0129
13 ASSORTED GOLF CLUBS- Good Quality $3.50 each. Call (650) 349-6059. BASKETBALL RIM, net & backboard $35/all 650-345-7132 Leave message. BOYS BOXING gloves $8. 341-8342 DARTBOARD - New, regulation 18 dimeter, Halex brand w/mounting hardware, 6 brass darts, $16., (650)681-7358 GOLF BALLS (325) $65 (650)341-5347 GOLF BALLS (325) $65 (650)341-5347 GOLF BALLS in new carton Dunlop, Wilson, & Top Flight $9.00 650 341-8342 GOLF SET. 6 clubs with Sports bag and cart. $100. (650) 630-2329. Sun Mtn.
RACCOON TRAP 32" long by 10" wide 12" high, SOLD! SESAME STREET toilet seat excellent condition $12 650 349-6059 SF GREETING Cards (300 w/envelopes) factory sealed $20. (650)207-2712 SHOWER POOR custom made 48 x 69 $70 (650)692-3260 SONY PROJECTION TV Good condtion, w/ Remote, Black $100 (650)345-1111 SPEAKER STANDS - Approx. 30" tall. Black. $50 for the pair, (650)594-1494 STUART WOODS Hardback Books 2 @ $3.00 each. (650)341-1861 STYLISH WOOD tapesty basket with handle on wheels for magazines, newspapers, etc., $5., SOLD TENT $30.00 (650)591-4710 TIRE CHAINS - brand new, in box, never used, multiple tire sizes, $25., (650)5941494 TIRE CHAINS - used once includes rubber tighteners plus carrying case. call for corresponding tire size, $20., (650)3455446 VASE WITH flowers 2 piece good for the Holidays $25 650 867-2720 VIDEO CENTER 38 inches H 21 inches W still in box $45., (408)249-3858
FINO FINO
A Place For Fine Hats Sharon Heights
325 Sharon Heights Drive Menlo Park
MORRELL TODD Richards 75 Snowboard (Good Condition) with Burton Boots (size 6 1/2) - $50. 650-766-9553 NORDICA 955 rear entry ski boots.Mens size 10 -1/2. Excellent condition. $25., (650)594-1494 TENNIS RACKET oversize with cover and 3 Wilson Balls $25 (650)692-3260 TREADMILL - PROFORM Crosswalk Sport. 300 pounds capacity with incline, hardly used. $450., (650)637-8244 TWO YOGA Videos. Never used, one with Patrisha Walden, one by Rebok with booklet. Both $6 (650)755-8238 WATER SKI'S - Gold cup by AMFA Voit $40., (650)574-4586 YOUTH GOLF Bag great condition with six clubs putter, drivers and accessories $65. 650-358-0421
650-854-8030
LADIES DOWN jacket light yellow with dark brown lining $35. (650)868-0436 LADIES FAUX FUR COAT - Satin lining, size M/L, $100. obo, (650)525-1990 LADIES JACKET size 3x 70% wool 30% nylon never worn $50. (650)592-2648 LADIES ROYAL blue rain coat with zippered flannel plaid liner size 12 RWC $15. (650)868-0436 LEVIS MENS jeans - Size 42/30, well faded, excellent condition, $10., (650)595-3933 MANS SUEDE-LIKE jacket, New, XXLg. $25. 650 871-7211 MEN'S SUIT almost new $25. 650-573-6981 MENS DRESS SHOES - bostonian casual dress tie up, black upper leather, size 8.5, classic design, great condition, $60.,Burl., (650)347-5104 MENS PANTS & SHORTS - Large box, jeans, cargos, casual dress slacks, 34/32, 36/32, Burl, $85.all, (650)3475104 MENS SHIRTS - Brand names, Polos, casual long sleeve dress, golf polo, tshirts, sizes M/L, great condition, Burl, $83., (650)347-5104 PUMPS. AMALFI, 6C, 2-1/2" heels. Peach-champagne tone. Worn once. $30. (650) 630-2329. Brown.
xwordeditor@aol.com
02/17/12
WALGREENS BRAND Water Pitcher Royal Blue Top 2 Quart New in Box $10 Ea use all brand Filters 650-873-8167 WALKER - never used, $85., (415)239-9063 WALKER. INVACARE 6291-3f, dual release walker. Fixed 3" wheels & glider tips. Brand new. $50. (650)594-1494 WINE CARBOYS, 5 gal. $5 ea., have 2 Daly City (415)333-8540
ESTATE SALE
10 Poinsettia Ave #3, San Mateo New & Used: Furniture, Household goods, Electronics & Misc.
02/17/12
28
THE THRIFT SHOP SALE 50% off ALL SEPARATES for WOMEN
Open Thurs. & Fri 10-2:00 Sat 10-3:00 Episcopal Church 1 South El Camino Real San Mateo 94401
www.650foreclosure.com
Lacewell Realty 670 Auto Service
MERCEDES BENZ REPAIR Diagnosis, Repair, Maintenance. All MBZ Models Elliott Dan Mercedes Master Certified technician 555 O'Neil Avenue, Belmont 650-593-1300
AUTO REVIEW
The San Mateo Daily Journals weekly Automotive Section.
Every Friday
Look for it in todays paper to find information on new cars, used cars, services, and anything else having to do with vehicles.
(650)344-0921
SIEMEN GERMAN made Hearing aid, Never used $99., Bobby (415) 239-5651
Dont lose money on a trade-in or consignment! Sell your vehicle in the Daily Journals Auto Classifieds. Just $3 per day. Reach 82,500 drivers from South SF to Palo Alto
Call (650)344-5200 ads@smdailyjournal.com
List your upcoming garage sale, moving sale, estate sale, yard sale, rummage sale, clearance sale, or whatever sale you have... in the Daily Journal. Reach over 82,500 readers from South San Francisco to Palo Alto. in your local newspaper. Call (650)344-5200
QUALITY COACHWORKS
635 Vans
NISSAN 01 Quest - GLE, leather seats, sun roof, TV/DVR equipment. Looks new, $15,500. (650)219-6008
Autobody
640 Motorcycles/Scooters
BMW 03 F650 GS, $3899 OBO. Call 650-995-0003 HARLEY DAVIDSON 83 Shovelhead special construction, 1340 ccs, Awesome!, $5,950/obo. Rob (415)602-4535.
440 Apartments
BELMONT - prime, quiet location, view, 1 bedroom $1495, 2 bedrooms $1850. New carpets, new granite counters, dishwasher, balcony, covered carports, storage, pool, no pets. (650) 592-1271 REDWOOD CITY- 1 Bedroom, all electric kitchen, close to downtown, $1095./month, plus $700 deposit. Call Jean (650)361-1200. SAN MATEO - Large 2 Bedroom, 2 bath. Next to Central Park. Rarely Available. Prestigious Location & Building. Gated garage. Deck, No pets, $2,400/mo. Call (650) 948-2935
AUTO AUCTION The following repossessed vehicles are being sold by Meriwest Credit Union -2009 Dodge Ram #767818, 2006 Mini Cooper #N25509. Plus over 100 late model Sport Utilities, Pick Ups, Mini Vans, and luxury cars ---INDOORS---Charity donations sold. Sealed bids will be taken from 8am8pm on 02/20/2012 and 8am-5pm on 02/21/2012. Sale held at Forrest Faulknor & Sons Auction Company, 175 Sylvester Road, South San Francisco. For more information please visit our web site at www.ffsons.com.
645 Boats
BANSHEE SAILBOAT - 13 ft. with extras, $750., (650)343-6563 PLEASURE BOAT, 15ft., 50 horsepower Mercury, $1,300.obo (650)368-2170 PROSPORT 97 - 17 ft. CC 80 Yamaha Pacific, loaded, like new, $9,500 or trade, (650)583-7946.
680 Autos Wanted Dont lose money on a trade-in or consignment! Sell your vehicle in the Daily Journals Auto Classifieds. Just $3 per day. Reach 82,500 drivers from South SF to Palo Alto
Call (650)344-5200 ads@smdailyjournal.com
650 RVs
BMW 02 325CI -fully loaded, black leather interior, auto, heated seats, new tires, much more! 112K miles. $9,400. (650)692-7916 CADILLAC 93 Sedan $ 4,000 or Trade Good Condition (650)481-5296 CHEVY HHR 08 - Grey, spunky car loaded, even seat warmers, $9,500. (408)807-6529. HONDA 10 ACCORD LX - 4 door sedan, low miles, $19K, (650)573-6981 MERCEDES 03 C230K Coupe - 52K miles, $9,500 for more info call (650)344-9117 MERCEDES 05 C-230 66k mi. Sliver, 1 owner, excellent condition, $14,000 obo SOLD! MERCEDES 06 C230 - 6 cylinder, navy blue, 60K miles, 2 year warranty, $18,000, (650)455-7461 VW PASSAT WAGON '02 GLX V6, 145K miles, gold, loaded, nice, $4000 SOLD! RV. 73 GMC Van, Runs good, $2,850. Will finance, small downpayment. Call for appointments. (650)364-1374
470 Rooms
FURNISHED BEDROOM - all utilities included. 6 months lease, Daly City, (650) 245-4988 HIP HOUSING Non-Profit Home Sharing Program San Mateo County (650)348-6660
335 Rugs
IVORY WOOL blend rect. 3x5 Blue Willow pattern $50 firm, (650)342-6345
MB GARAGE, INC.
Repair Restore Sales
Mercedes-Benz Specialists
DONATE YOUR CAR Tax Deduction, We do the Paperwork, Free Pickup, Running or Not - in most cases. Help yourself and the Polly Klaas Foundation. Call (800)380-5257.
(650) 593-3136
Mention Daily Journal
(650)349-2744
Wanted 62-75 Chevrolets Novas, running or not Parts collection etc. So clean out that garage Give me a call Joe 650 342-2483
Bath
Cleaning
Concrete
4 STARS CONCRETE INTERLOCK PAVERS Retaining Wall, Fencing, Landscaping, Stamped Concrete, Driveway, Pool Deck, Asphalt, Blocks & Foundation Residential & Commercial Call Lusa or Ben
Construction
Construction
E. L. SHORT
Bath Remodeler
Lic.#406081 Free Design Assistance Serving Locally 30+ Years BBB Honor Roll
BELMONT CONSTRUCTION
Residential & Commercial Carpentry & Plumbing Remodeling & New Construction Kitchen, Bath, Structural Repairs Additions, Decks, Stairs, Railings Lic#836489, Ins. & Bonded All work guaranteed Call now for a free estimate
(650)591-8378
Building/Remodeling DRAFTING SERVICES for Remodels, Additions, and New Construction (650)343-4340 Contractors
650-766-1244
Kevin@belmontconstructionca.com
FREE Estimates
(650) 867-9969
MENAS (650)704-2496
Great Service at a Reasonable Price
Cleaning Services
De Martini Construction
General Contractor Doors Windows Bathrooms Remodels Custom Carpentry Fences Decks Licensed & Insured CSLB #962715
POLY-AM CONSTRUCTION
General Contractor Free Estimate Specializing in Concrete Brickwork Stonewall Interlocking Pavers Landscaping Tile Retaining Wall Bonded & Insured Lic. #685214
(650)847-1990
www.roseshousecleaning.com
29
Construction
Electricians
Handy Help
Hauling
J&K CONSTRUCTION
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Additions & Carpentry, Kitchen & Bath remodeling, Structural repair, Termite & Dry Rot Repair, Electrical, Plumbing & Painting.
PAYLESS HANDYMAN
Kitchen & Bathroom Remodels Electrical, All types of Roofs. Fences, Tile, Concrete, Painting, Plumbing, Decks All Work Guaranteed
650-322-9288
for all your electrical needs
ELECTRIC SERVICE GROUP
CHEAP HAULING!
Light moving! Haul Debris! 650-583-6700
$93.60-$143/month!
Offer your services to over 82,000 readers a day, from Palo Alto to South San Francisco and all points between!
(650) 548-5482
neno.vukic@hotmail.com
Lic# 728805
(650)573-9734
www.rdshomerepairs.com
Gardening
ANGEL TRUMPET VINE - wine colored blooms, $40., SSF, Bill (650)871-7200
SENIOR HANDYMAN
Specializing in Any Size Projects
(650)201-6854
Hardwood Floors
Bathrooms & Kitchens Concrete & Drainage Insured & Bonded Affordable Rates
Decks & Fences
(650)315-4011 Gutters
KO-AM
HARDWOOD FLOORING
Hardwood & Laminate Installation & Repair Refinish High Quality @ Low Prices Call 24/7 for Free Estimate
Plumbing
800-300-3218 408-979-9665
Lic. #794899
$69 TO CLEAN
ANY CLOGGED DRAIN! Sewer trenchless Pipe replacement Replace sewer line without ruining your yard
Specializing in:
(650) 898-4444
Lic#933572
Hauling
Painting Landscaping
Tree Service
NORDIC TREE SERVICE
Large Removal Trim, Thin, Prune We do demolition and do waste hauls Stump grading
650-756 0694
WWW N O R T H F E N C E C O .COM
CRAIGS PAINTING
Interior & Exterior Reasonable Rates Quality Workmanship Guaranteed Free Estimates
O.K.S RAINGUTTER
Gutter Cleaning - Leaf Guard Gutter & Roof Repairs Custom Down Spouts Drainage Solutions 10% Senior Discount
CA Lic# 794353/Insured
(650)553-9653
Lic# 857741
JON LA MOTTE
Tile
(650)556-9780
Handy Help
PAINTING
Interior & Exterior Pressure Washing Free Estimates
CUBIAS TILE
Marble, Stone & porcelain Kitchens, bathrooms, floors, fireplaces, entryways, decks, tile repair, grout repair Free Estimates Lic.# 955492
MORALES
HANDYMAN
Fences Decks Arbors Retaining Walls Concrete Work French Drains Concrete Walls Any damaged wood repair Powerwash Driveways Patios Sidewalk Stairs Hauling $25. Hr./Min. 2 hrs.
(650)368-8861
Lic #514269
AM/PM HAULING
Haul Any Kind of Junk Residential & Commercial Free Estimates! We recycle almost everything! Go Green!
Notices
(650)296-0568
Free Estimates Lic.#834170
HOUSE REPAIR & REMODELING HANDYMAN Plumbing, Electrical, Carpentry, Kitchen & Bath Rem, Floor Tile, Wood Fences,Painting Work Free Estimates
CHAINEY HAULING
Junk & Debris Clean Up Furniture/Appliance Disposal Tree/Brush Dirt Concrete Demo (650)207-6592
www.chaineyhauling.com Free Estimates
MTP
Painting/Waterproofing Drywall Repair/Tape/Texture Power Washing-Decks, Fences No Job Too Big or Small
Lic.# 896174
(650)271-1320
NOTICE TO READERS: California law requires that contractors taking jobs that total $500 or more (labor or materials) be licensed by the Contractors State License Board. State law also requires that contractors include their license number in their advertising. You can check the status of your licensed contractor at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800321-CSLB. Unlicensed contractors taking jobs that total less than $500 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.
30
Attorneys
Divorce
Food
Jewelers
Needlework
* BANKRUPTCY *
Huge credit card debt? Job loss? Foreclosure? Medical bills?
JACKS RESTAURANT
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner 1050 Admiral Ct., #A San Bruno
LUV2 STITCH.COM
Needlepoint! Fiesta Shopping Center
747 Bermuda Dr., San Mateo
Beauty
(650)589-2222
JacksRestaurants.com
(650) 697-3200
UNCONTESTED
(650)571-9999
Pet Services
DIVORCE
(650)638-9399
$30.00/Hr Foot Massage $50.00/Hr Full Body Massage
650.347.2500
520 So. El Camino Real #650 San Mateo, CA 94402
(650) 347-7007
www.divorcecenters.com
Se habla Espaol
I am not an attorney. I can only provide self help services at your specic directions
REVIV
MEDICAL SPA
www.revivmedspa.com 31 S. El Camino Real Millbrae
MAYERS JEWELERS
We Buy Gold! Bring your old gold in and redesign to something new or cash it in!
Watch Battery Replacement $9.00 Most Watches. Must present ad.
BRUNCH
Crowne Plaza
1221 Chess Dr., Hwy. 92 at Foster City Blvd. Exit Foster City
(650)989-8983
Real Estate Loans
Food AYA SUSHI The Best Sushi & Ramen in Town 1070 Holly Street San Carlos (650)654-1212
(650)570-5700
(650)697-3339
SLEEP APNEA We can treat it without CPAP! Call for a free sleep apnea screening 650-583-5880
SUNSHINE CAFE
Breakfast Lunch Dinner 1750 El Camino Real San Mateo (Borel Square)
(650)364-4030
(650)357-8383
THE AMERICAN BULL
FIND OUT!
What everybody is talking about! South Harbor Restaurant & Bar
425 Marina Blvd., SSF
Legal Services
Millbrae Dental
FICO Credit Score Not a Factor PURCHASE, REFINANCE, INVESTOR, & REO FINANCING Investors welcome Loan servicing since 1979
BURLINGAME perfectmebylaser.com
650-348-7191
Wachter Investments, Inc. Real Estate Broker #746683 Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System ID #348268 CA Dept. of Real Estate
Dental Services
(650)589-1641
(650)574-2087
legaldocumentsplus.com
I am not an attorney. I can only provide self help services at your specific direction
(650)652-4908
Fitness
TOENAIL FUNGUS?
FREE Consultation for Laser Treatment
Marketing Seniors
DOJO USA
World Training Center
Martial Arts & Tae Bo Training
(650)347-0761
Dr. Richard Woo, DPM 400 S. El Camino Real San Mateo
GROW
YOUR SMALL BUSINESS Get free help from The Growth Coach Go to www.buildandbalance.com
Sign up for the free newsletter
www.dojousa.net
731 Kains Ave, San Bruno
Grand Opening
(650)589-9148
RED CRAWFISH
Insurance Furniture
CRAVING CAJUN?
401 E. 3rd Ave. @ S. Railroad
San Mateo 94401
redcrawfishsf.com
Bedroom Express
Where Dreams Begin
2833 El Camino Real San Mateo - (650)458-8881 184 El Camino Real So. S. Francisco -(650)583-2221 www.bedroomexpress.com
Massage Therapy
(650)787-8292
ASIAN MASSAGE
$48 per Hour
New Customers Only For First 20 Visits Open 7 days, 10 am -10 pm 633 Veterans Blvd., #C Redwood City
AFFORDABLE
24-hour Assisted Living Care located in Burlingame
(650)343-5555
--------------------------------------------------(Combine Coupons & Save!).
(650)556-9888
$69 Exam/Cleaning
(Reg. $189.)
$69 Exam/FMX
(Reg. $228.)
New Patients without Insurance Price + Terms of offer are subject to change without notice.
BARRETT INSURANCE
www.barrettinsuranceservices.net Eric L. Barrett, CLU, RHU, REBC, CLTC, LUTCF President Barrett Insurance Services (650)513-5690 CA. Insurance License #0737226
Angel Spa
667 El Camino Real, Redwood City
(650)363-8806
7 days a week, 9:30am-9:30pm
(650)548-1100
GRAND OPENING!
CRYSTAL WAVE SPA
Body & Foot Massage Facial Treatment
(650)692-0600
Lic.#4105088251/ 415600633
(650)558-1199
SUNFLOWER MASSAGE
Grand Opening! $10. Off 1-Hour Session!
(650)342-7744
CA insurance lic. 0561021 HEALTH INSURANCE
Paying too much for COBRA? No coverage? .... Not good! I can help.
(650)508-8758
TRANQUIL MASSAGE
951 Old County Road Suite 1 Belmont 650-654-2829
sterlingcourt.com
31
32