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Friday March 30, 2012 Vol XII, Edition 194
VOTE IS COMING
NATION PAGE 6
TRAVIS ROBERTS
WRESTLER OF YEAR
SPORTS PAGE 11
WRATH OF THE
TITANS RESUMES
WEEKEND JOURNAL PAGE 20
JUSTICES MEET FRIDAY TO DECIDE HEALTH CARE
CASE
By Bill Silverfarb
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
The Mid-Peninsula Water District
has sent the San Mateo County
District Attorneys Ofce evidence
that one of its former employees
may have embezzled the special tax
district out of an undisclosed
amount of money, board President
Matthew Zucca wrote the Daily
Journal in an email yesterday.
Zucca did not say how much may
have been embezzled, but a Daily
Journal source who did not want to
be identied for fear of retribution
said it is in the range of $250,000 or
possibly more.
In late 2011, the district identied
nancial irregularities that caused it
to engage in a forensic audit of the
districts nancial records, Zucca
wrote in the email.
The results of the forensic audit
have been provided to the San
Mateo County district attorney so
that office could undertake any
investigation deemed appropriate,
Zucca wrote in the email. The
water district has and will continue
to fully support any actions taken
and decisions made by the District
Attorney.
The District Attorneys Office
conrmed it has the case now but
did not elaborate on the details of it
Thursday.
Zucca did not name the
employee specifically nor said
how the districts financial irreg-
ularities were discovered.
However, the anonymous source
told the Daily Journal the former
employee allegedly wrote checks to
herself and discrepancies in the
books were discovered before
Christmas after the agencys former
Administrative Service Manager
Water district theft alleged
Embezzlement case forwarded to DA; two special districts now under scrutiny
By Michelle Durand
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
San Mateo Countys breather
from drastic budget cuts this year
gives departments a chance to focus
on sustainable balancing plans but
Supervisor Dave Pine cautioned his
peers yesterday that allocating extra
money should come with correspon-
ding cuts.
Pine pointed to a desire by
Supervisor Carole Groom to spend
approximately $2.5 million for
more nursing home beds at the San
Mateo Medical Center following
next years closure of Burlingame
Long Term Care. Pine suggested
finding an equal amount in sav-
ings, particularly as the countys
preliminary budget is extremely
fragile and based on revenue and
savings assumptions that may not
come to pass.
Again, were
in a pause right
now and things
are going to be
very, very differ-
ent in the
future, said
Pine.
With a new
jail poised to
add approximately $40 million a
year in operating costs, Pine said the
budgetary break gives everybody
time to come together and prepare
for the storm clouds ahead.
Pines comments and those of the
entire Board of Supervisors capped
two full days of presentations by
department heads on the recom-
mended budgets they expect to
Supervisors offer
budget direction
No drastic cuts for county this
year; supervisors offer caution
Dave Pine
By Heather Murtagh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Six San Mateo County schools
were among the 387 statewide pub-
lic elementary schools selected as
2012 California Distinguished
Schools.
Yesterday, State Superintendent
of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson
announced the winners of the
Californias prestigious awards pro-
gram which included Roosevelt
Elementary School in Burlingame,
South Hillsborough School in
Hillsborough, San Mateos Laurel
Elementary School and North
Shoreview Montessori School,
Junipero Serra Elementary School
in Daly City and Woodside
Elementary School in Woodside.
The schools we are recognizing
today demonstrate the incredible
commitment of Californias teach-
ers, administrators and school
employees to provide a world-class
education to every student, in spite
of the nancial hardships facing our
Six schools get top honors
By John Seewer
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This Day in History
Thought for the Day
1981
President Ronald Reagan was shot and
seriously injured in an assassination
attempt outside a Washington, D.C.,
hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. Wounded
along with Reagan were his press secre-
tary, James Brady, Secret Service agent
Timothy McCarthy, and District of
Columbia police officer Thomas
Delahanty.
It is not enough to have a good
mind.The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes, French philosopher (1596-1650)
Rock musician Eric
Clapton is 67.
Singer Celine Dion
is 44.
In other news ...
Birthdays
REUTERS
Tunisian wrestler Haithem Belaiech (in blue) trains for the 2012 London Olympic Games in Tunis.
Friday: Cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
Friday night: Mostly cloudy. A slight
chance of rain in the evening...Then a
chance of rain after midnight. Lows around
50. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
Saturday: Rain. A slight chance of thun-
derstorms in the afternoon. Some thunder-
storms may produce small hail in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid 50s. South winds around 20 mph with gusts to around 35
mph.
Saturday night: Rain likely in the evening...Then a chance of
rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 10
to 15 mph...Becoming northwest around 20 mph after mid-
night. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Sunday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
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Lotto
TheDaily Derby race winners are WInning Spirit,
No. 9, in rst place Hot Shot, No. 3, in second
place; and California Classic, No. 5, in third place.
The race time was clocked at 1:46.20.
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In 1135, the Jewish philosopher Maimonides was born in
Cordoba in present-day Spain.
In 1822, Florida became a United States territory.
In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reached
agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for
$7.2 million.
In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which
prohibited denying citizens the right to vote and hold ofce on
the basis of race, was declared in effect by Secretary of State
Hamilton Fish. Texas was readmitted to the Union.
In 1909, the Queensboro Bridge, linking the New York City
boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, opened.
In 1923, the Cunard liner RMS Laconia became the rst pas-
senger ship to circle the globe as it arrived in New York.
In 1945, the Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War II.
In 1959, a narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Bartkus v.
Illinois, ruled that a conviction in state court following an
acquittal in federal court for the same crime did not constitute
double jeopardy.
In 1964, John Glenn withdrew from the Ohio race for the U.S.
Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall. The original version
of the TV game show Jeopardy!, hosted by Art Fleming, pre-
miered on NBC.
In 1972, North Vietnamese forces launched their three-pronged
Easter Offensive against South Vietnam; the ghting lasted until
the following October.
In 1986, actor James Cagney died at his farm in Stanfordville,
N.Y., at age 86.
Game show host Peter Marshall is 86. Actor Richard Dysart is
83. Actor John Astin is 82. Entertainer Rolf Harris (song: Tie
Me Kangaroo Down, Sport) is 82. Actor-director Warren Beatty
is 75. Rock musician Graeme Edge (The Moody Blues) is 71.
Actor Justin Deas (TV: Guiding Light) is 64. Actor Robbie
Coltrane is 62. Actor Paul Reiser is 55. Singer Tracy Chapman is
48. Actor Ian Ziering is 48. Actor Mark Consuelos is 41. Actress
Bahar Soomekh is 37. Actress Jessica Caufel is 36. Singer
Norah Jones is 33. Actress Fiona Gubelmann is 32. Actress Katy
Mixon is 31. Country singer Justin Moore is 28.
Italian pharmacists
threaten to halt Viagra sales
MILAN Hospital pharmacists are
threatening to cut Italians off from
their Viagra unless the government
amends its plans to reform professions
that have high entry barriers.
Union official Loredana Vasselli said
pharmacists decided to focus the
protest on Viagra because it is a
sought-after drug whose absence does
not put patients health at risk.
Pharmacists will stage a series of
labor actions during April, culminating
with the so-called Viagra strike if
their complaints are not redressed.
One group protested Thursday out-
side Parliament under the banner No
Viagra, No Party.
Hospital pharmacists, part of Italys
public health care system, say Premier
Mario Montis economic liberalization
plan is unfair because it gives private
pharmacists preference for new licens-
es. The reform calls for opening 5,000
new pharmacies.
Utah teens naked run
inspired by American Pie
OGDEN, Utah Four Utah teens
armed with a BB gun told deputies
they were inspired by a scene from an
American Pie movie when they went
running naked through an Ogden-area
neighborhood.
Authorities said Wednesday the teens
were spotted streaking in the residen-
tial community about 45 minutes north
of Salt Lake City at about 2 a.m.
Sunday.
When a deputy responded, a 17-year-
old girl ducked behind a tree, while the
three teenage boys kept running and
were found shortly after.
The teens said they brought the BB
gun because they feared they would be
attacked by deer during the jog.
Deputies notified the teens parents
and let them off with a warning.
The 2006 film American Pie: The
Naked Mile features a high school
student who wants to join a college
campus tradition of running a mile
naked.
Sharp-shooting
grandmas issue challenge
FAIRBANKS, Alaska The Alaska
Grandma Safe Shootin Challenge has
residents taking on three Fairbanks
grandmothers in a local shooting range
competition.
Grandmothers Dody Maki, Phyllis
Trickey and Wynola Possenti are the
women behind the challenge, which
tests prowess in hunting, pistol marks-
manship and rifle shooting, and pro-
motes gun safety.
With just a couple of days left in the
challenge, a commercial on local tele-
vision, YouTube is drawing people to
the range.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
says Maki is the deadeye of the three
grandmas. She has been shooting since
her 20s but started going to the range
only within the past 10 years. She can
hit the bulls eye 10 times firing rapid-
ly with a pistol.
Elephant flees
bath in Irish circus
DUBLIN An elephant called
Baby did not want a bath.
Instead, the 40-year-old pachyderm
bolted from a circus in southern
Ireland on Tuesday, causing some
alarm to customers in a coffee shop
where keepers caught up with the run-
away.
No one was injured, but a video shot
from a nearby office showed that the
keepers had trouble keeping up with
Baby as he headed away from the cof-
fee shop in Blackpool in County Cork.
Egle Vilmaite, manager of the Costa
Coffee shop, told Irelands RTE News:
He was running around on his own
and then you could see the guys from
the circus running around, and the ele-
phant wasnt happy, .
Vilmaite said that Everything took
probably three to five minutes, you
know, but it was really intense.
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Stolen vehicle. A vehicle was stolen on 17th
Avenue before 7:38 a.m. Monday, March 26.
Stolen vehicle. A vehicle was stolen on Willow
Street before 6:28 p.m. Monday, March 26.
Theft. A wallet, credit cards, cash and an iPod
were stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Turks
Head Lane before 6:41 p.m. Monday, March
26.
Theft. A cellphone was taken from a locker on
Brewster Avenue before 9:17 p.m. Monday,
March 26.
Grand theft. Jewelry was stolen on Woodside
Road before 10:34 a.m. Friday, March 23.
Grand theft. An arrest was made for a theft of
an iPad on Shoreline Drive before 9:09 a.m.
Friday, March 23.
Battery. A woman reported another woman
hitting her after court at County Center before
4:49 p.m. Thursday, March 22.
Vandalism. A vehicle was vandalized on
Canyon Road before 9:22 p.m. Tuesday, March
20.
SAN BRUNO
Petty theft. Two people were spotted taking a
large can of beer and one case of Budweiser on
the 1200 block of El Camino Real before 11:52
p.m. Monday, March 26.
Burglary. A lock was broken in a residents
backyard on the 2700 block of Oakmont Drive
before 11:11 a.m. Monday, March 26.
Burglary. A white Volvo was stolen on the
2900 block of Crystal Springs Road before
8:35 a.m. Monday, March 26.
Burglary. A rental vehicle was stolen on the
1000 block of National Avenue before 1:54
p.m. Sunday, March 25.
Fraud. ID theft occurred on the 2800 block of
Ridgeway Avenue before 5:05 p.m.
Police reports
Its a crime to look so good
A heavy-set man wearing a yellow jacket
and a pinky ring was seen exchanging
money and an unknown object on El
Camino Real in Redwood City before
6:07 p.m. Friday, March 23.
By Michelle Durand
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT
The driver convicted of murdering his pas-
senger two years ago by wrapping his car
around a Burlingame tree while intoxicated
and out on bail for a previous drunk driving
arrest was sentenced yesterday to 15 years to
life in prison.
Bruce Alan Walker Jr., 38, also received 10
years for an earlier vehicular manslaughter
conviction reached in a previous trial but the
judge stayed the sentence, said Chief Deputy
District Attorney Karen Guidotti.
The family of victim Daniel James White,
36, and Walkers mother addressed the court
in what defense attorney Geoff Carr said was
a very sad and tearful proceeding. Carr said
he still disagrees with the second-degree mur-
der verdict because his clients negligent con-
duct shouldnt be considered the same as the
implied malice required for the more serious
charge.
The rst jury seemed to agree, hanging on
the murder charge, but a
second returned a different
verdict. At the time, both
the defense and prosecu-
tion called a retrial, rather
than a negotiated settle-
ment, a gamble. Murder
convictions are difcult in
vehicle-related deaths for
prosecutors but Walker
also risked receiving much
more time in jail for murder than manslaugh-
ter.
The rst trial ended two years after the April
11, 2009 crash that wrapped Walkers car
around a tree in Burlingame and left White
dead. The night of the crash, Walkers silver
Infiniti M45 allegedly sped south on El
Camino Real crossing Howard Avenue and
slid sideways into a eucalyptus tree on the
passenger side. Walker was seriously injured
and passenger White was pronounced dead at
the scene.
During trial, Walkers blood alcohol content
was said to be .20.
Prosecutors opted to pursue the murder
charge, citing a history which includes two
prior convictions of driving while intoxicated
in San Mateo County. Walker was also await-
ing prosecution for wrecking a rental car while
intoxicated during a Wisconsin business trip.
In April 2010, jurors returned a guilty ver-
dict of felony vehicular manslaughter with
gross negligence and intoxication, a convic-
tion that carried a decade in prison. The panel
rst split 7 to 5 in favor of acquittal before
ultimately hanging 9 to 3 in favor of guilt.
Prosecutors announced plans to retry
Walker after he declined to take a plea deal for
roughly 12 years in prison and waiving his
right to appeal.
Walker has been in custody in lieu of $2
million bail.
Michelle Durand can be reached by email:
michelle@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650)
344-5200 ext. 102.
Driver in fatal crash imprisoned for murder
Man receives 15 years to life in tearful proceeding
Bruce Walker
Man airlifted to hospital
after accident at coastside grill
A man was airlifted to a hospital after a
small explosion at a restaurant on the San
Mateo County coast Thursday afternoon.
Emergency crews were dispatched to the
Gazos Grill, located at 5720 Cabrillo Highway
in Pescadero, at 3:06 p.m., a San Mateo
County re dispatcher said.
Grill employee Harleigh Stolz, whose aunt
and uncle own the restaurant, said her father
was lighting a pilot light when a small blast
occurred.
She said her father suffered injuries to his
arms and was transported by helicopter to
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center as a pre-
caution in case his lungs had been burned.
Stolz said he was conscious and talking
before he was taken to the hospital.
She said there was no damage to the restau-
rant, which was closed at the time of the acci-
dent.
Man pleads not guilty
in Colma gambler attack
Prosecutors say a man attacked a fellow
gambler with a sharpened screwdriver after
losing as much as $10,000 at a Colma card
room.
San Mateo County District Attorney Steve
Wagstaffe said Thursday that 30-year-old
William Don Ross of Brentwood accused the
victim of stealing some of his poker chips dur-
ing Mondays game at Lucky Chances Casino.
The 27-year-old victim denied stealing any-
thing.
Wagstaffe says Ross later followed the man
to a nearby parking lot and stabbed him with
a screwdriver that witnesses saw him sharpen-
ing on the asphalt. Ross also is accused of bit-
ing a person who tried to intervene in the
attack.
Ross pleaded not guilty Wednesday to
attempted robbery and assault charges. Hes
being held on $100,000 bail.
Man suspected of five
murders gets new lawyer
A judge cited a conict of interest Thursday
while denying a public defenders request to
represent a man charged in the grisly slayings
of ve people inside a San Francisco home.
Judge Lucy Kelly McCabe instead assigned
a private attorney for Binh Thai Luc, who is
charged with ve counts of murder, with spe-
cial circumstance allegations of committing
multiple murders, robbery and burglary.
Local briefs
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LOCAL/NATION
Sheriff s Office starts
gang-task force on coast
In response to an increase in gang activity in
recent years, the San Mateo County Sheriffs
Ofce announced yesterday it is launching a
major initiative in the coastside communities to
further enhance the countys comprehensive
gang suppression program.
The Coastside Neighborhood Response Team
will identify, verify and monitor local gang-
members and their activities, assist the Sheriffs
Patrol and Investigations Divisions in criminal
investigations involving gangmembers, and
reduce the overall incidents of gang-related
criminal activity, according to the Sheriffs
Ofce.
The information obtained by the Coastside
Neighborhood Response Team also will support
the Sheriffs Ofce in determining the appropri-
ate resources necessary for long-term gang edu-
cation, prevention and intervention, according
to the Sheriffs Ofce.
Sheriff swears in new
lieutenant and six new sergeants
San Mateo County Sheriff Greg Munks held
a swearing-in ceremony for one new lieutenant
and six new sergeants in Redwood City yester-
day.
It was the third promotional swearing-in cer-
emony in three months. The need for so many
promotional ceremonies is due to retirements
and growth within the organization, according
to the Sheriffs Ofce.
This growth includes new police services
contracts with various cities within the county
including Millbrae, San Carlos and Half Moon
Bay.
Those who received promotions yesterday
included: Lt. Roger Copeland; Sgt. John
Corkery; Sgt. Christina Corpus; Sgt. Jerry
Justice; Sgts Dennis Loubal; Sgt. Leroy
OLaughlin; and Sgt. Jason Peardon.
CASE Act campaign submits 865,000
signatures to qualify for ballot
The Californians Against Sexual Exploitation
(CASE) Act campaign announced the submis-
sion of more than 865,000 signatures to qualify
for the November 2012 ballot yesterday.
The CASE Act is a ballot initiative that will
ght back against human trafcking and the
sexual exploitation of women and children in
the state and is supported by U.S. Rep. Jackie
Speier, D-San Mateo.
The number of signatures submitted by the
campaign exceeds the approximately 500,000
needed to qualify the measure for the ballot.
Human trafcking is said to be one of the
fastest growing criminal enterprises in the
world and three cities in California San
Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego are
recognized by the FBI as high intensity child
sex trafcking areas.
Local briefs
By Hannah Dreier
SACRAMENTO More than a dozen
California lawmakers wore hooded sweat
shirts Thursday on the oor of the Legislature
in a symbolic gesture to protest the killing of
Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
A young man had his life taken in what
amounts to vigilante justice, said Sen. Rod
Wright, D-Inglewood, who helped organize a
demonstration that involved lawmakers in
both houses.
He later added, God help us if in the
United States, wearing a hoodie warrants cap-
ital punishment.
Lawmakers later adjourned the days ses-
sion in memory of the 17-year-old. Martin
was shot to death while unarmed Feb. 26 by a
neighborhood watch volunteer in a gated com-
munity in Sanford, Fla.
It was raining, and the teen had the hood of
his sweat shirt pulled over his head. The
shooter, 28-year-old George Zimmerman, told
police dispatchers he thought Martin looked
suspicious.
Zimmerman said he acted in self-defense
and has not been arrested, which has led many
black leaders to describe it as a case of racial
injustice. Martin is black, while Zimmermans
parents are white and Hispanic.
In the Assembly, Speaker John Perez and
Assemblyman Steven Bradford, D-Gardenia,
spoke against racial proling and called for an
investigation into Zimmermans actions.
Nearly all Democratic lawmakers stood in a
semi-circle behind them, with some wearing
the black, gray and blue sweat shirts that have
become a symbol of the debate over the shoot-
ing.
Perez, D-Los Angeles, did not wear a sweat
shirt on the oor but later donned one for a
news conference.
Many lawmakers wore gray sweat shirts
distributed by the Legislative Black Caucus
emblazoned on the back with the words In
memory of Trayvon Martin.
Among them was Senate President Pro Tem
Darrell Steinberg, who said lawmakers have a
responsibility to demonstrate their rejection of
discrimination in all its forms.
No Republican lawmakers were seen wear-
ing hooded sweat shirts on either legislative
oor, but Sen. Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-
Diamond Bar, addressed his colleagues in the
Senate and said GOP lawmakers shared the
grief over Martins slaying.
In communities across the country, we
read about too many needless deaths of our
children. This should be a great concern to all
of us, Huff said. I hope we can see this as an
opportunity to come together, to nd the truth,
to allow justice to be served and to maybe get
to the point of healing.
Lawmakers don hoodies for slain teen
ADAM KEIGWIN
Some members of the Senate and Assembly wore hooded sweatshirts on the oor of each
chamber Thursday and adjourned the days session in memory of Trayvon Martin.
By Kristi Eaton
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. Governors
of three states got up close with pink slime
Thursday, touching and examining treated
beef at a plant and eating hamburgers made
with it in a bid to persuade grossed-out con-
sumers and grocery stores the product is safe
to consume.
The three governors and two lieutenant gov-
ernors spent about a half hour learning about
the process of creating nely-textured lean
beef in a tour of the main plant that makes the
product, then blasted the media for scaring
consumers with a moniker coined by critics.
If you called it nely textured lean beef,
would we be here? asked Kansas Gov. Sam
Brownback. Several other leaders echoed his
comments as they tried to smooth over con-
sumer concerns about the product.
Beef Products, the main producer of the
cheap lean beef made from fatty bits of meat
left over from other cuts, has drawn scrutiny
over concerns about the ammonium hydrox-
ide it treats meat with to change the beefs
acidity and kill bacteria. The company sus-
pended operations at plants in Texas, Kansas
and Iowa this week, affecting 650 jobs, but
defends its product as safe.
The politicians who toured the plant
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Brownback, Iowa Gov.
Terry Branstad, Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick
Sheehy and South Dakota Lt. Gov. Matt
Michels all agree with the industry view
that the beef has been unfairly maligned and
mislabeled and issued a joint statement earlier
saying the product is safe.
Why are we here today defending a com-
pany that has a rather sterling record dealing
with making a food product that is very much
needed in this country in a very safe manner?
Why are we here today? Perry said.
The ofcials spent about 20 minutes going
over the production process in a separate room
at the plant with Craig Letch, the companys
director of quality assurance, viewing and
handling more than a dozen slabs of raw meat
and the processed, nished product laid out on
cutting boards on a round wooden table.
The ofcials asked about the added ammo-
nia, which Letch said is used as an extra safe-
ty precaution against E. Coli.
What were doing with ammonium
hydroxide is directly targeting those specic
microorganisms that could affect human
health. It is nothing more than something to
ensure consumer safety, Letch said as the
politicians bent over the raw cuts of beef.
Governors tour beef plant to see pink slime
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NATION
By Mark Sherman
WASHINGTON While the rest
of us have to wait until June, the jus-
tices of the Supreme Court will
know the likely outcome of the his-
toric health care case by the time
they go home this weekend.
After months of anticipation,
thousands of pages of briefs and
more than six hours of arguments,
the justices will vote on the fate of
President Barack Obamas health
care overhaul in under an hour
Friday morning. They will meet in a
wood-paneled conference room on
the courts main oor. No one else
will be present.
In the weeks after this meeting,
individual votes can change. Even
who wins can change, as the justices
read each others draft opinions and
dissents.
But Fridays vote, which each jus-
tice probably will record and many
will keep for posterity, will be fol-
lowed soon after by the assignment
of a single justice to write a majori-
ty opinion, or in a case this complex,
perhaps two or more justices to tack-
le different issues. Thats where the
hard work begins, with the clock
ticking toward the end of the courts
work in early summer.
The late William Rehnquist, who
was chief justice for nearly 19 years,
has written that the courts confer-
ence is not a bull session in which
off-the-cuff reactions are traded.
Instead, he said, votes are cast, one
by one in order of seniority.
The Friday conference also is not
a debate, says Brian Fitzpatrick, a
Vanderbilt University law professor
who worked for Justice Antonin
Scalia 10 years ago. There will be
plenty of time for the back-and-forth
in dueling opinions that could fol-
low.
Theres not a whole lot of give
and take at the conference. They say,
This is how Im going to vote and
give a few sentences, Fitzpatrick
said.
It will be the rst time the justices
gather as a group to discuss the case.
Even they do not always know in
advance what the others are thinking
when they enter the conference
room adjacent to Chief Justice John
Roberts ofce.
Justices to vote on health care today
REUTERWS
Attorney Paul Clement argues on behalf of respondents challenging the constitutionality of Barack Obamas
healt hcare law, while standing before members of the U.S. Supreme Court in this courtroom illustration.
By Curt Anderson
MIAMI Newly released police
video of a handcuffed George
Zimmerman may be important for
what it doesnt show: No obvious
cuts, scrapes, blood or bandages. No
clearly broken nose. No plainly visi-
ble evidence of a life-and-death
struggle with Trayvon Martin.
As the furor over race and self-
defense raged on in Florida and
around the U.S. on Thursday,
Martins family and supporters
seized on the footage to dispute
Zimmermans claim that he shot and
killed the unarmed black teenager
after the young man attacked him.
While cautioning that the video is
grainy and far from conclusive, some
legal experts agreed it does raise
questions about Zimmermans story.
The video was made about a half-
hour after the shooting Feb. 26.
It could be very signicant, said
Daniel Lurvey, a former Miami-
Dade County homicide prosecutor.
If I were the prosecutor, it would
certainly be Exhibit A that he did not
suffer any major injury as a result of
a confrontation with Trayvon
Martin.
Zimmerman attorney Craig
Sonner said on NBCs Today show
that the footage appears to support
his clients story in some respects.
Its a very grainy video. ...
However, if you watch, youll see
one of the ofcers, as hes walking
in, looking at something on the back
of his head, Sonner said. Clearly
the report shows he was cleaned up
before he was taken in the squad
car.
Zimmerman, a neighborhood
watch volunteer in the town of
Sanford, told police he shot the 17-
year-old Martin after the young man
punched him in the nose, knocked
him down and repeatedly slammed
his head against a sidewalk.
The Sanford Police Department
video begins at 7:52 p.m., about 35
minutes after the shooting, as
Zimmerman arrives at the station. It
shows Zimmermans head and face
as he gets out of a police car. There is
no sound on the video.
There is no obvious wound on his
head or blood on his clothing, and
there are no indications of a broken
nose which Zimmermans lawyer
has insisted he suffered. He walks
briskly, smoothly and unassisted.
The explanation he is relying on
is that there was a physical alterca-
tion, said Kendall Coffey, former
U.S. attorney in Miami. The inten-
sity of the physical conict is critical
to his self-defense claim.
Benjamin Crump, an attorney for
the Martin family, said the footage
directly contradicts Zimmermans
story: There are no marks on his
face. There is no blood on his face.
Its not like hes dazed or he has been
injured.
Yet Ron Martinelli, founder of a
California forensic consulting rm,
said that Zimmerman was probably
cleaned up when he was treated by
paramedics at the scene and that in
many cases there is no signicant
visual evidence of an injury.
New video raises doubts about Florida gunmans story
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Bipartisan transportation security
legislation authored by U.S. Rep.
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mously passed out of the House
Committee on Homeland Security
Wednesday.
The Mass Transit Intelligence
Prioritization Act, H.R. 3140, would
enhance the security of mass transit systems by promoting
mass transit-related information sharing between the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and state and local
law enforcement agencies, according to Speiers ofce.
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terrorism and other threats by directing DHS to deploy intel-
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CITY GOVERNMENT
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recommending that the City Council adopt the nal envi-
ronmental impact report for the Wheeler Plaza redevelop-
ment project. The mixed-use project is actually in limbo fol-
lowing the states dismantling of redevelopment agencies but
city ofcials want to keep the process in place in case the
plan is still able to materialize in coming years.
The proposed project concerns the parking lot behind
Laurel Street and San Carlos Avenue, fronting Walnut Street,
and several city-owned buildings along San Carlos Avenue
and Laurel Street. One is a six-unit rental housing building
and another the former Foodville Market. The entire space
is approximately 2.65 acres, sitting roughly 300 feet south-
west of the Caltrain Station, two blocks from City Hall and
straddling areas of both retail and multi-family housing.
The Planning Commission meets 7 p.m. Monday, April 2
at City Hall, 600 Elm St., San Carlos.
WASHINGTON The government
has lost roughly $50 million on its sale
of stock in six small banks bailed out in
the 2008 financial crisis. But the
Treasury Department says the three-year
investment was protable after counting
dividends and investments.
The department said Thursday it
received $362 million from the rst pub-
lic auction of its preferred stock in small
banks. Treasury invested $410.8 million
in the six banks.
But Treasury notes that when includ-
ing $65.4 million in dividends and inter-
est, the return from investment was
$427.4 million.
The prots from the investment will
help offset losses in the broader nancial
bailout, known as the Troubled Asset
Relief Program. The government has
recovered about $334 billion of the $415
billion that was lent to nancial institu-
tions and automakers under TARP.
The bulk of the money still owed tax-
payers is from big insurer American
International Group Inc., around $50 bil-
lion; General Motors Co., about $25 bil-
lion; and Ally Financial Inc., about $12
billion.
Separately, the government spent
more than $150 billion to rescue mort-
gage nance giants Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, the most expensive bailout
of the 2008 nancial crisis. It could cost
nearly $200 billion more to support the
companies through 2014 after subtract-
ing dividend payments, according to the
government agency that oversees them.
Govt loses about $49M on sale of small bank stocks
By Seth Borenstein
WASHINGTON A common class
of pesticide is causing problems for hon-
eybees and bumblebees, important
species already in trouble, two studies
suggest.
But the ndings dont explain all the
reasons behind a long-running bee
decline, and other experts found one of
the studies less than convincing.
The new research suggests the chemi-
cals used in the pesticide designed to
attack the central nervous system of
insects reduces the weight and num-
ber of queens in bumblebee hives. These
pesticides also cause honeybees to
become disoriented and fail to return to
their hives, the researchers concluded.
The two studies were published online
Thursday in the journal Science.
Just last week activists led a petition
with more than a million signatures ask-
ing the government to ban the class of
pesticides called neonicotinoids. The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
said it is re-evaluating the chemicals and
is seeking scientic help.
For more than a decade, pollinators of
all types have been in decline, mostly
because of habitat loss and perhaps some
pesticide use. In the past ve years, a
new mysterious honeybee problem,
colony collapse disorder, has further
attacked hives. But over the last couple
of years, that problem has been observed
a bit less, said Jeff Pettis, lead bee
researcher at the U.S. Department of
Agricultures lab in Beltsville, Md.
Other studies have also found prob-
lems with the pesticide class singled
out in the new research. These
strengthen the case for more thorough
re-assessing, said University of Illinois
entomology professor May Berenbaum,
who wasnt involved in the new studies.
But this is not a slam-dunk indictment
that could compel a ban. Its complicat-
ed.
Bee decline: Maybe its pesticides
NATION 8
By Alan Fram
WASHINGTON A divided
House approved a $3.6 trillion
Republican budget on Thursday
recasting Medicare and imposing
sweeping cuts in domestic pro-
grams, capping a battle that gave
both political parties a campaign-
season stage to spotlight their war-
ring decit-cutting priorities.
But the partisan divisions over the
measure, which is dead on arrival in
the Democratic-led Senate, also
underscores how tough it will be for
lawmakers to achieve the coopera-
tion needed to contend with a tsuna-
mi of tax and spending decisions
that will engulf Congress right after
this falls elections.
This is very easy, Robert Bixby,
executive director of the Concord
Coalition, a bipartisan group that
advocates debt reduction, said of
House passage of a budget that will
go no further in Congress. When
you get to the budget bomb at the
end of the year, its for real. Youre
going to actually have to pass some-
thing.
The scal plan the House passed
Thursday by a near party-line 228-
191 vote would reshape and squeeze
savings out of Medicare and
Medicaid, the federal health insur-
ance programs for the elderly and
poor. It would force deep cuts in a
wide range of spending, including
rail projects, research and Pell
Grants for low-income college stu-
dents.
It would block President Barack
Obamas plans to raise taxes on cou-
ples earning above $250,000 a year.
Instead, it would collapse the current
six income tax rates into just two,
with a top rate of 25 percent well
below the current 35 percent ceiling
while erasing tax deductions and
other breaks that the GOP plan
failed to specify.
Overall, the GOP budget would
cut spending $5.3 trillion more
deeply over the next decade than
Obama would out of more than
$40 trillion that would be spent. It
would cut taxes by $2 trillion more
than the presidents plan. That
leaves Republicans seeking a hefty
$3.3 trillion in deeper decit reduc-
tion than Obama.
The measure immediately became
grist for the presidential campaign.
House Republicans today banded
together to shower millionaires and
billionaires with a massive tax cut
paid for by ending Medicare as we
know it and making extremely deep
cuts to critical programs needed to
create jobs and strengthen the mid-
dle class, White House press secre-
tary Jay Carney said in a written
statement.
At nearly the same time, GOP
presidential front-runner Mitt
Romney issued a statement of his
own.
The House budget and my own
plan share the same path forward:
pro-growth tax cuts, getting federal
spending under control and strength-
ening entitlement programs for
future generations, Romney said.
With such stark differences over
what to do about huge federal budg-
et shortfalls, it was easy to predict
that the two parties would disagree
vehemently over the House plan.
It was also easy for the two sides
to remain divided because there is
little practical consequence if
Congress budget is ignored or, like
this year, if a nal version is never
approved. Thats because the budget
is a non-binding blueprint that legis-
lators are supposed to follow as they
work on spending and revenue bills
later in the year, but dont really
have to.
Come January, though, a series of
potentially cataclysmic scal events
will occur almost simultaneously
that lawmakers and the new presi-
dent will have to confront and agree
to do something about, one way or
another.
Tax cuts first approved under
President George W. Bush will
expire, imposing tax increases on
virtually every working American.
Billions of dollars in spending cuts
to defense and domestic programs,
triggered by the failure of Congress
debt-cutting super committee, will
start taking effect unless legislators
block them.
Right around that time, the gov-
ernment should hit its debt limit and
need renewed borrowing authority
to avoid a federal default. A new
limit will be required from lawmak-
ers who fought right to the brink in a
similar battle last summer.
House approves Republicandeficit-cutting plan
By Donna Cassta
WASHINGTON The chair-
man of the House Budget
Committee said Thursday he does-
nt believe the nations command-
ers gave Congress a budget based
on military strategy, prompting a
push back from the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
In one statement, Rep. Paul Ryan
challenged both President Barack
Obamas defense budget request of
$614 billion for next year and the
weeks of testimony from the lead-
ers of the armed services, who have
said the defense blueprint was
crafted based on a revised military
strategy.
We dont think the generals are
giving us their true advice, the
Wisconsin Republican told a
National Journal forum on the
budget. I think theres a lot of
budget smoke and mirrors in the
Pentagons budget.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
said he didnt interpret Ryans
comments as suggesting the gener-
als were lying. Instead, Dempsey
said the remarks indicate that the
generals have failed to persuade
lawmakers that the budget was
based on strategy, not numbers.
So my response is, I stand by
my testimony, Dempsey said dur-
ing a trip from Latin America to
Washington. We started with a
strategy. We mapped it to a budget.
Its just the rst step.
Obama and congressional
Republicans agreed on a budget
last August that calls for defense
cuts of $487 billion over a decade,
a reection of the drawdown of two
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and
the pressure to reduce the nations
decit.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
has said the budget shifts the
Pentagons focus from the long
wars to future challenges in Asia,
the Mideast and in cyberspace. In
congressional testimony, Dempsey
and other military leaders have said
the strategy shaped the budget. But
Republicans contend that the
spending plan was built on budget
numbers the ones they agreed to
last summer.
Asked for clarification, Conor
Sweeney, a spokesman for Ryan,
said the congressman believes the
integrity of our generals and admi-
rals is unimpeachable. They serve
our country with distinction and
unparalleled honor. Unfortunately,
there is an inconsistency between
the strategic goals and the budget-
ary targets that our generals and
admirals have been given by the
White House.
Budget chairman challenges
generals on defense spending
REUTERS
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan with members of the House Budget Committee at Capitol Hill.
T
rayvon. By now, who doesnt know that name and
who hasnt made up their mind about what led
Neighborhood Watch member George
Zimmerman to fatally shoot
17-year-old Trayvon Martin
last month?
He was a boy. He was
unarmed. He wanted Skittles.
His only crime was wearing a
hoodie and being black, came
the first wave of cries.
But now comes counter
arguments. He didnt have an
unblemished record. He tweet-
ed about hitting a bus driver.
Zimmerman claimed Trayvon
hit him first. Witness suppos-
edly corroborate the story.
Now, a video purportedly showing an uninjured
Zimmerman has surfaced.
This was a hate crime.
This was a horrible accident.
Zimmerman is a murderer.
Zimmerman was defending himself.
No, a dispatcher told him specifically not to follow the
teen.
Zimmerman is white.
No, hes Hispanic.
This is racial profiling on both ends.
Who or what to believe?
The only commonality is acknowledging this was and
continues to be a tragedy.
It is probably too late to call for civility, to ask the pub-
lic to temper its boiling outrage and emotion with some
rationality and calm. Zimmerman may very well be the
racist, premeditating, evil monster portrayed by those
calling for his outright lynching. He may deserve to rot in
a cell, serving as a terrible reminder of the racial divides
and fears that still color the world despite best intentions
and integration.
But first we need to reach that conclusion based on
facts, not knee-jerk reactions and hearsay. To do other-
wise does a disservice to the idea of justice for Trayvon.
If somebody is to be held accountable, it should not leave
any room for debate or martyrdom. At best, this becomes
the next Bernie Goetz case. At worst, reacting without a
solid foundation calls to mind the Duke lacrosse player
rape allegations long on emotion, short on reality and
woefully litigated in the court of public opinion.
Already, the Trayvon situation is teetering on the brink
of potential disaster. U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois
was pulled from the congressional floor after wearing a
hoodie and sunglasses which he hid under a jacket until
speaking up to denounce racial profiling. U.S. Rep.
Maxine Waters of California is already classifying it a
hate crime. Those are the mild reactions although they are
based on conclusions not yet formally reached.
At the other extreme, a group calling themselves the
New Black Panthers placed a $10,000 bounty on
Zimmermans head. That can lead to no good. Neither can
the Twitter account KillZimmerman which displays an
image of Zimmermans face covered with a guns cross
hair.
Director Spike Lee retweeted what he believed was
Zimmermans address based on the original message by
Los Angeles man Marcus Davonne Higgins. Higgins
asked Facebook friends to reach out and touch him
referring to Zimmerman and wrote like the fat punk he
is, he still lives with mommie and daddy. Come to find
out the owners of that address are actually a married cou-
ple in their 70s with no connection to Zimmerman and
who are now hiding out in a hotel. Obviously, the first
fault lie with Higgins. The second lies with those like Lee
who perpetuated the error. Unlike Higgins, at least Lee
knew an apology was in order and his following message
called for justice rather than blind vengeance.
The question is if anybody is listening.
Trayvons family and supporters are right in their anger
that Zimmerman was cleared so quickly. The conflicting
versions of that encounter only now coming to light are
proof that further investigation was, to use an understate-
ment, warranted. Florida authorities rushed to judgment in
closing the case no different perhaps than
Zimmermans alleged rush to judgment about Trayvon.
But now those rushing to play judge and jury for
Zimmerman risk being no better themselves.
Michelle Durands column Off the Beat runs every
Tuesday and Thursday. She can be reached by email:
michelle@smdailyjournal.com or by phone (650) 344-
5200 ext. 102. What do you think of this column? Send a
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OPINION 9
Dog torture
Editor,
Regarding the story, Neglected dogs
case sickening in the March 28 edi-
tion of the Daily Journal, it is incon-
ceivable that those pups endured that
torture and abuse in silence. The
neighbors must have heard their whin-
ing and pleas for help. If they ignored
what they knew was happening, they
are as guilty as the monsters that did
it. Thankfully the ordeal ended for the
pups with euthanasia. If the guilty are
caught, its unfortunate we cant use
the same procedure on them!
L.T. Bingham
South San Francisco
BART extension needed
Editor,
Maybe now is the time to think about
a long awaited West Bay-Peninsula
BART extension. BART might also be
able to use some of the existing
Caltrain roadbeds.
Jerry Emanuel
San Carlos
Letters to the editor
By Steve Okamoto
L
ocation, location, location.
These three words are magic to
the professionals in the real
estate industry. They feel that the value
of a piece of property rises and falls
based on where the property is located.
However, I used another set of three
words to describe value ... location,
location, education. These three words
describe what families use when con-
sidering a move into a new town. They
want to be sure that this community has
the best school and that their children
will receive the best education so they
will be prepared for entry into the 21st
century.
Foster City has always been known
for its excellent schools. A recent report
from the California Department of
Education describing the Academic
Performance Index (API) showed of all
schools in the San Mateo-Foster City
Elementary School District that the
three elementary schools in Foster City;
Audubon, Brewer Island and Foster
City Elementary; had the highest API
scores of all 15 elementary schools in
the district and that Bowditch Middle
School led the other middle schools
with the highest API scores as well.
The performance of these schools
clearly demonstrates why families are
moving into town. Were getting a lot
of new students, and
at the same time,
our property values
have maintained
their prices in spite
of what else is going
on with the rest of
the state.
With an inux of
new students and an
already overburdened school popula-
tion, there seems to be compelling evi-
dence that we do need another elemen-
tary school and that Bowditch will soon
need to be expanded as well. The
school district has been trying for many
years to nd a suitable site to build that
fourth school but has not been success-
ful to date. At a recent school board
meeting, the trustees, along with the
superintendent felt it would be useful
and desirable to reach out to the com-
munity to receive input so that the
fourth school location could be identi-
ed. They plan to set up an advisory
group consisting of interested commu-
nity members to work together, discuss
alternatives and hopefully come up with
an option or two that can be agreed
upon. Opportunities to serve on the
group or attend meetings will be well
advertised.
Just as important as school perform-
ances, location in terms of schools
means that children can get to and from
school safely. The school district and
the city have been having fruitful dis-
cussions so we can get the children to
school safely. An important component
of that safety is to have school crossing
guards at critical intersections at our
three elementary schools. Rather than
engaging in any nger pointing as to
who should be paying the cost of the
crossing guards, the committee has
focused on child safety as the primary
issue and that, together, we will nd a
solution to the funding of the crossing
guards.
Several options were discussed on
how we could pay for these guards. We
discussed trying to secure a grant or
reaching out to PTAs, individuals and
to the business community for their
assistance.
If you have any thoughts as to how
we could fund this most important child
safety issue, I would welcome your
input.
Steve Okamoto is a member of the Foster
City Council. He can be reached at 286-
3501 or by email at sokamoto@fosterci-
ty.org.
A renewed partnership
Rushing to
judgment
The Seattle Times
H
elping victims of human traf-
cking, some who have suf-
fered rape and forced prostitu-
tion, put their lives back together
requires providing them with a full
range of reproductive services, includ-
ing contraception and abortion.
That guidance ought to help move a
U.S. Senate bill reauthorizing the
Trafcking Victims Protection Act
passed by the Judiciary Committee last
fall but stalled since by political wran-
gling over reproductive rights in the
House. The $130 million appropriation
is smaller than previous spending lev-
els, but it toughens enforcement and
increases funding for victim assistance.
The Senate bill is a good one. It is far
better than the effort in the House
where misguided Republican modica-
tions make it untenable. The House bill,
for example, shifts nancing for vic-
tims services to the Justice Department
from the Department of Health and
Human Services. The latter agency is
being punished by conservative
Republicans for rejecting a $2.5 million
grant request from the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops; the
conference wants the money but refuses
to refer trafcking victims to abortion
providers and family planning services
or make other reasonable accommoda-
tions.
Partnerships with a broad coalition of
faith-based organizations, law enforce-
ment and nonprots are an integral part
of ghting human trafcking and slav-
ery. But victims need a level of service
... Congress must move swiftly on the
Senate bill.
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BUSINESS 10
Dow 13,145.82 +0.15% 10-Yr Bond 2.159 -1.68%
Nasdaq3,095.36 -0.31% Oil (per barrel) 103.32
S&P 500 1,403.28 -0.16% Gold 1,660.60
By Christina Rexrode
NEW YORK Stocks rallied to n-
ish mixed Thursday after spending most
of the day in the red. Investors were
reminded that Europe has not solved its
debt crisis and the U.S. economy is far
from healed.
The Dow Jones industrial average was
down 94 points at its low but nished up
19.61 points at 13,145.82. The Standard
& Poors 500 index lost 2.26 points to
close at 1,403.28, and the Nasdaq lost
9.60 points to 3,095.36.
The government released some incre-
mental good news: The number of peo-
ple seeking unemployment benets fell
to the lowest since April 2008, and eco-
nomic growth for the last three months
of last year was in line with expecta-
tions.
But the government also said many
more people than originally estimated
filed unemployment claims in recent
months. And economists believe growth
has slowed to an annual rate of about 1.5
percent from 3 percent last quarter.
A belief that the economy is
improving has driven a strong rally in
stocks this year. Now, investors are
pausing to examine whether the
growth is real, said Lawrence
Creatura, a Rochester, N.Y., portfolio
manager at Federated Investors.
Investors are also waiting to see com-
panies earnings for the first three
months of the year. The earnings season
traditionally kicks off with Alcoa, which
reports results April 10.
Were in that odd period of silence,
Creatura said. Its like a bad Western
movie where one guy turns to the other
and says, Its quiet out here, and the
other says, Yeah, too quiet. Thats what
today feels like it.
David Rolfe, chief investment ofcer
at Wedgewood Partners in St. Louis, said
he expects stocks to be volatile during
earnings season. The S&P has gained as
much in three months as some analysts
thought it would all year.
The stock prices got ahead of expec-
tations, Rolfe said, and theres a price
to pay.
Some of the days rally may have been
buying ahead of the end of the rst quar-
ter on Friday, said Kenny Polcari, man-
aging director at ICAP Equities.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note
fell to 2.16 percent from 2.21 percent.
That means more investors put their
money into the perceived safety of the
bonds, which can be a sign they are pes-
simistic about the economy.
Stocks end day mixed
Wall Street
Stocks that moved substantially or traded
heavily Thursday on the New York Stock
Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:
NYSE
Best Buy Co. Inc., down $1.85 at $24.77
The electronics retailer posted a scal fourth
quarter loss and said that it plans to close 50 of
its big box stores in 2013.
Movado Group Inc., up $2.16 at $24.43
The watch maker returned to protability in its
scal fourth quarter, declared a special cash
dividend and raised its regular dividend.
Red Hat Inc., up $10.04 at $61.43
The software company reported that its scal
fourth-quarter prot rose 7 percent thanks in
part to higher subscription revenue.
The Mosaic Co., down $2.95 at $55.27
The fertilizer and feed ingredient maker said
that its scal third-quarter net income fell nearly
50 percent due to higher costs.
Nasdaq
Deer Consumer Products Inc.,up $1.41 at $4.59
The Chinese company, which make blenders
and juicers, said that its full-year net income
rose 31 percent on higher sales in China.
Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd., down
$1.05 at $2.62
The Food and Drug Administration did not
approve the pharmaceutical companys drug
Northera and asked for an additional study.
Sears Holdings Corp., down $1.44 at $67.55
The New York Post reported that the retailer,
which owns Kmart and Sears stores,may sell its
mail-order business Lands End.
MAP Pharmaceuticals Inc., down 94 cents at
$15.25
The migraine headache drug maker posted a
larger fourth-quarter loss than expected and
said it will restate the rest of its 2011 results.
Big movers
By Peter Svensson
NEW YORK Chinese workers who
often spend more than 60 hours per
week assembling iPhones and iPads will
have their overtime hours curbed and
their pay increased after a labor auditor
hired by Apple Inc. inspected their facto-
ries.
The Fair Labor Association says Hon
Hai Precision Industry Co., the
Taiwanese company that runs the facto-
ries in China, is committing to a reduc-
tion of weekly work time to 49 hours,
the legal Chinese maximum.
That limit is routinely ignored in fac-
tories throughout China. Auret van
Heerden, the CEO of the FLA, said Hon
Hai, also known as Foxconn, is the rst
company to commit to following the
legal standard.
Apples and FLAs own guidelines call
for work weeks of 60 hours or less.
Foxconns moves are likely to have an
impact across the global technology
industry. The company employs 1.2 mil-
lion workers in China to assemble prod-
ucts not just for Apple, but for Microsoft
Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and other
pillars of U.S. technology.
Foxconns factories are the last step in
the process of manufacturing iPhones
and other Apple devices, most of which
have hundreds of components. Research
rm IHS iSuppli estimates that Apple
pays $8 for the assembly of a 16-giga-
byte iPhone 4S and $188 for its compo-
nents. It sells the phone wholesale for
about $600 to phone companies, which
then subsidize it to be able to sell it for
$200 with a two-year service contract.
Apple assembly line gets pay raise
U.S. jobless claims fall to lowest level in four years
WASHINGTON The number of people seeking U.S. unem-
ployment benets dropped last week to the lowest level in four
years, adding to evidence that the job market is strengthening.
Applications for weekly unemployment benets fell by 5,000
to a seasonally adjusted 359,000, the Labor Department said
Thursday. Thats the fewest applicants since April 2008. The
four-week average, a less volatile measure, declined to 365,000
the fewest for that measure since May 2008.
When unemployment benet applications drop consistently
below 375,000, it usually signals that hiring is strong enough to
lower the unemployment rate. The decline has coincided with
the best three months of hiring in two years.
The department made annual revisions to the past ve years of
data, which increased the number of applications in recent
months and showed a slower decline. Still, even after the revi-
sions, applications have fallen roughly 12 percent over the past
six months.
Most economists still expect another strong month of hiring in
March.
Chinese firm surpasses Exxon in oil production
NEW YORK A big shift is happening in Big Oil: An
American giant now ranks behind a Chinese upstart.
Exxon Mobil is no longer the worlds biggest publicly traded
producer of oil. For the rst time, that distinction belongs to a 13-
year-old Chinese company called PetroChina. The Beijing com-
pany was created by the Chinese government to secure more oil
for that nations booming economy.
PetroChina announced Thursday that it pumped 2.4 million
barrels a day last year, surpassing Exxon by 100,000. The com-
pany has grown rapidly over the last decade by squeezing more
from Chinas aging oil elds and outspending Western compa-
nies to acquire more petroleum reserves in places like Canada,
Iraq and Qatar. Its motivated by a need to lock up as much oil as
possible.
The companys output increased 3.3 percent in 2011 while
Exxons fell 5 percent. Exxons oil production also fell behind
Rosneft, the Russian energy company.
Business briefs
By Nathan Mollat
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Setting goals is something all athletes do for them-
selves. Whether lofty or modest, goals are benchmarks
athletes try to attain.
Travis Roberts, Serras 125-pound wrestler, wanted to
accomplish a lot this season: nishing on the podium at
the state championship was chief among them, which
meant a top-8 nish.
While Roberts came up short of achieving that level,
he had quite a remarkable season on his way to the state
meet.
The overall goal was to place in state, that was the
main thing, Roberts said. I still wanted to win league,
but if I had to pick (a goal), it would have been to place
at state.
Despite falling short at state, Roberts still put together
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SPORTS 12
By Rachel Cohen
NEW YORK Stanfords young guards
Chasson Randle and Aaron Bright each scored
15 points, and the Cardinal routed Minnesota
75-51 to win the NIT title Thursday night.
Stanford forced two turnovers to open the
second half to take a 10-point lead and stayed
up by double gures the rest of the way. The
Golden Gophers turned it over 22 times on the
night.
The third-seeded Cardinal (26-11) won
their second NIT title, the rst coming in
1991.
The nal minutes turned into a celebration
of 3-pointers and fast-break layups for
Stanford, players on the bench jumping up to
cheer on nearly every possession.
Both teams got off to a hot start, but then the
Cardinal turned up the defensive pressure, and
when the Golden Gophers (23-15) got good
looks, they couldnt make them. Sixth-seeded
Minnesota missed 16 of its last 19 shots in the
rst half.
The Cardinal scored 12 straight points to go
ahead 29-21 with 4 1/2 minutes left before the
break. Bright had six points, including a four-
point play, and an assist during the run, and
Stanford drew three charges.
Bright, a sophomore, had six assists and
earned most outstanding player honors.
Randle, a freshman, was 3 for 5 on 3-pointers.
In front of a sparse crowd at Madison
Square Garden, the atmosphere on the court
had some sizzle. Minnesotas Elliott Eliason
and Stanfords Dwight Powell had to be sepa-
rated after getting tangled up on a held ball
late in the rst half, and the two exchanged
words again in the second. Powell was later
called for a contact technical foul when the
Gophers Rodney Williams hit the oor face
first after being whistled for fouling the
Cardinal forward.
Williams stayed on the court for several
minutes before walking off under his own
power and returned to the game soon there-
Stanford
wins NIT
By Julio Lara
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
You can le the Burlingame softball teams
latest win under Wait, what the heck just hap-
pened here?
Down 4-2 heading into the bottom of the
fth inning, the Panthers took the age old
clich of hitting being contagious to a whole
different level as they pounded out 10 hits and
scored 12 runs in the frame before Capuchino
could get three outs.
Thus, the game ended in almost unbeliev-
able, mercy-rule fashion, 14-4 in favor of the
Panthers.
You can credit Kristin Chaney with the
understatement of the year. Well, that was a
good inning, she said, as the Panthers prepped
for the happiest post game pow wow this sea-
son.
Indeed it was.
They just got hungry that inning, said
Burlingame head coach Brian Firenze. It just
worked out that inning. It was good. Weve
been cold for a while, our bats have been
struggling. Weve been getting on base, getting
runners over but we havent been able to get
key hits. And today we got key hit after key hit
after key hit. And I told them once we started
getting some hits, it would be contagious.
The hit-bug reached outbreak status in the
fifth, with Natalie Saucedo catching the
biggest case of it. The senior rst baseman had
six RBI in the fth inning alone on a pair of
extra base hits the latter was a monster shot
to centereld that ended the game.
I kind of was [aiming for the fence],
Saucedo said jokingly after the game. We just
tried to keep it going and after someone hits,
were just hyped, ready to go. When were all
hitting, it just blends with everyone else.
While impressive in its own right, the 12-run
frame raised extra eyebrows because it came
during a time when Capuchino seemed to be in
complete control of the game.
The Mustangs led 4-2 after 4 1/2 innings.
They scored rst on an RBI single by Gabby
Tudury to begin the game. Burlingame tied it
without a hit in their half thanks in large part
to the speed of Nicki Lunghi, who got on base
on a hit-by-pitch, stole two bases, then scored
Panthers bats break out in fifth
NATHAN MOLLAT/DAILY JOURNAL
Burlingame center elder Gretchen Diekman res a ball back to ineld after making a catch
during the Panthers 14-4 win over Cap.
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Stanford 75, Minnesota 51
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DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT
The College of San Mateo baseball team is
on a roll.
The Bulldogs used a ve-run fth inning to
pull away from City College of San Francisco
and come away with a 8-3 win.
CSM pounded out 13 hits in the victory.
The win in the eighth in a row for the
Bulldogs, who improved to 10-1. They now
lead the Coast Conference Golden Gate
Division by four games over West Valley.
CSM scored in the rst inning on a elders
choice off the bat of Joe Armstrong, who con-
tinues to have a Player of the Year type cam-
paign for the Bulldogs. Brandon Defazio had
doubled to start the rst.
The Rams actually took the lead with runs
in fourth and fth, one charged to starter Luke
McCreesh and other to DJ Sharabi. McCreesh
was tagged for eight hits, but only that one
earned run, while Sharabi picked up the win
in relief. Parker Swindell came in for the last
three innings and surrendered a lone hit.
In the fth, Mark Hurley got a two-out, ve-
run rally started with a single to right.
Armstrong followed with a double to left eld
scoring Hurley to tie the game. Cody
Zimmerman doubled to left field scoring
Armstrong for the 3-2 lead. Jarrett Costa was
hit by a pitch and so was Chris Killeen to load
the bases.
Camero Gniadek then took it upon himself
to clean up those bases, doubling to left eld
to plate three more CSM runs.
The Bulldogs added two more in the sev-
enth to make it 8-3.
Sequoia 2, San Mateo 1
In Peninsula Athletic League Ocean
Division action, Sequoia stayed unbeaten,
scoring a run in their half of the seventh
inning to beat San Mateo 2-1.
Roman Rosado scored the winning run for
the Cherokees on a bloop single by Jarrett
Crowell.
Sequoia got on the board rst on a elders
choice RBI off the bat of Eli Dugan with Matt
Elliot crossing the plate.
San Mateo responded when Daryl Semien
scored for the Bearcats in their half of the
frame.
But Sequoia starter Carl Wassermann shut
down San Mateo the rest of the way. The
right-hander went six innings. Jake Mauldin
came in and picked up the save in the seventh.
Manny Jois pitched very well for San
Mateo, going the distance in a losing effort.
San Mateo 2-1 is league following two wins
last week against Westmoor of Daly City.
Mills 18, Jefferson 0
Vikings No. 1 starter Bryan Hidalgo con-
tinues to be nails for Mills in the seasons
early part. No. 12 is now 2-0 following a dom-
inating, two-hit performance against
Jefferson.
He throws in the low 80s consistently,
said Mills manager Tony Adornetto of
Hidalgo. Hes been mixing his pitches well
and getting ahead of hitters.
At the dish, the Vikings pounded out 14 hits
and were the beneciaries of ve Jefferson
errors.
Hidalgo had four hits and drove in three.
Joey Carney had a pair of hits and so did
Brandon Brown. Aram Moshkounian plated
two.
Mills is now 3-0 in Ocean Division play fol-
lowing two wins last week against Aragon.
South City 13, Aragon 6
Five runs in the fourth and six more in the
fth was the difference for South City in a 13-
6 victory over Aragon.
The Dons are now 0-3 on the year.
Its about making untimely mistakes, said
Aragon manager Lenny Souza. It isnt a mat-
ter of capability, its all about decision making
right now. We just really want to play up to
our capabilities and just havent done that.
The Dons led 3-2 heading into the fourth
when South City took advatange of those mis-
takes and plated ve runs.
Right now, its just frustrating because [the
team] is capable of so much more than this,
Souza said. We have to stop making untime-
ly mistakes.
Ryan Mohr and Ramzy Azar had three hits
for South City. They both drove in a pair.
Joe Marcucci picked up the win.
It was South Citys rst win in league this
year.
CSM baseball runs win streak to eight straight
By Jim Armstrong
TOKYO With his rst major league home
run, Yoenis Cespedes helped the Oakland
Athletics gain a split of their season-opening
series against the Seattle Mariners.
The Cuban defectors go-ahead, two-run drive
in the seventh inning off reliever Shawn Kelly
sent the As on to a 4-1 victory Thursday night at
the Tokyo Dome.
I wake up early every day and get to the eld
early and work hard because the baseball is dif-
ferent than in Cuba, Cespedes said through a
translator.
Bartolo Colon (1-0) won
his Oakland debut after
spending last season with the
Yankees, pitching three-hit
ball over eight innings and
allowing his only run on
Justin Smoaks seventh-
inning homer.
We couldnt get guys on
base, Smoak said. He
threw the ball well tonight,
Josh Reddick followed
Cespedes and homered off George Sherrill to
give Oakland back-to-back homers. Jonny
Gomes hit his rst Oakland home run in the
eighth off Steve Delabar, and Grant Balfour
pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for the save, his rst since
becoming the As closer.
A day after getting four hits in Seattles 3-1
win, Japanese star Ichiro Suzuki went 0 for 4 for
the Mariners. He excited the crowd of 43,279 in
the fth with a leaping catch up against the wall
in right to take away a base hit from Kurt Suzuki.
Kelley (0-1) lost in relief of Jason Vargas, who
given a lead walked Coco Crisp leading off the
seventh.
With the matchups we had we felt that was
the right time to get him out of there, Seattle
manager Eric Wedge said. He had been through
the lineup a couple of times, so we felt it was the
right move. Kelley just hung a slider to
Cespedes.
Both teams now head back to U.S., with the
Mariners resuming spring training games in
Arizona on Saturday and Oakland playing exhi-
bition games in California. They go back to
games that count on April 6, when the Mariners
start a two-game series at the As that is followed
by a rare Sunday day off.
Other big league teams start play April 4, when
the renamed Miami Marlins open their new ball-
park against the World Series champion St. Louis
Cardinals.
As hit three home runs to beat Mariners
Yoenis
Cespedes
As 4, Mariners 1
SPORTS 14
By Eddie Pells
NEW ORLEANS Looking for those
charming underdog stories? Go nd the DVD
from last year.
This years Final Four brings together an
ensemble of big-name schools, all saddled
with their typically big-time issues a
reminder that everything in college sports is
not as pure as the NCAA and its student-ath-
letes would like us to believe.
In the national semifinals Saturday,
Kentucky plays Louisville and Ohio State
meets Kansas. All the schools have made
headlines for a variety of off-the-court reasons
over the last several months, including the
proliferation of one-and-done players, stories
about coaches in courtrooms and a handful of
nancial misdeeds involving recruits, players,
coaches and even ticket managers.
And so, while there are no little vs. big sto-
ries this year the way tiny Butler or over-
looked VCU beat the odds last season to make
it to basketballs pinnacle were regaled
with tall tales of redemption and resurrection:
Teams and coaches that overcame their prob-
lems and got everyone thinking about basket-
ball instead of the underside of a business
driven by a $10.8 billion TV contract.
There are a lot of good players out there
who are performing right now, Kentucky
coach John Calipari said.
For his part, Calipari is perfecting the art of
luring a player for one, maybe two seasons, to
contend for a championship, then saying a
guilt-free goodbye. During his more candid
moments, hell tell you hes no fan of the rule
that allows players to leave college after a sin-
gle year. But its out of his hands. Its the NBA
that put in the rule stating players must be 19
before they can enter the draft.
Whats a coach to do?
I think they trust that when the year is out,
theyre going to get the right information and
be treated fairly, Calipari said. They dont
worry about it. Historically, we dont con-
vince kids to stay who should leave. They are
going to get the information, and they know
that. They are just going to play basketball.
It means freshman Anthony Davis and
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, both projected as
high lottery picks, probably will be gone after
this season, and its not impossible to think
the rest of the starting lineup all freshmen
and sophomores could leave, as well.
Calipari, who has had NCAA trouble at
every step along his college head-coaching
career, said this is a price worth paying for
running a players-rst program with
players who worry about winning rst, then
reap the benets when the NBA comes call-
ing.
While he applauds his teams unselshness,
the NCAA insists it is toughening its academ-
ic standards and isnt so concerned with the
15 players who do leave after one year, but
rather the 5,500 who dont.
Ive made no secret of the fact Id prefer to
have a different model, NCAA president
Mark Emmert said. Most people want a dif-
ferent model. It would be nice if that were the
case, but I dont think we should blow one-
and-done out of proportion and suggest this is
undermining the educational mission of the
NCAA.
While the NCAA spins that issue, its rules
police have spent plenty of time visiting Ohio
States athletic department over the last sever-
al years. First, there was the ring of coach
Jim OBrien, who was found to have given
money to a recruit, then later sued the school
for wrongful termination because he got the
ax before the NCAA had ofcially determined
hed done anything wrong.
Thad Matta cleaned up that mess and has
led the Buckeyes to the Final Four twice in the
last seven years.
This week, Louisville coach Rick Pitino
keeps looking forward, refusing to take the
bait from all those Kentucky Wildcats fans,
who may never forgive the 59-year-old coach
for leaving them, heading to the NBA, then
coming back a few years later to coach their
archrival.
The Kentucky-Louisville story line is the
best thing going this week in New Orleans, for
what Calipari predicts will be an epic Final
Four. Without any little teams cluttering up
the court, this weekend will feature the most
talent, Calipari says, since 2008, when he
brought Memphis and Derrick Rose to the
Final against Kansas and Mario Chalmers.
Jared Sullinger (Ohio State), Thomas
Robinson (Kansas) and Davis (Kentucky) are
first-team AP All-Americans. Those three
teams all have other players who look very
much like NBA material in the near future.
2008 was ridiculous, said Calipari, whose
trip to the nal later was vacated by the
NCAA because of violations. Guess what?
This Final Four will be very similar to that.
Final Four brings big programs to Big Easy
By Janie McCauley
SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco
Giants are committed to keeping All-Star
right-hander Matt Cain in their talented rota-
tion beyond 2012, and CEO and president
Larry Baer said Thursday that serious conver-
sations are ongoing with the pitchers repre-
sentatives.
Were earnestly working with his agents,
Baer said, speaking after a media open house
at AT&T Park to unveil the ballparks
changes, promotions and
new food items for this
year. It wouldnt be good
to forecast it. All I know is
there are discussions, and
the discussions have been
continuing.
Cain said at the start of
spring training last month
he hoped to have the situa-
tion resolved one way or
the other by opening day April 6 at Arizona.
Baer said San Francisco is negotiating a deal
that works for both sides and that some-
thing still could be accomplished in Cains
ideal timeframe.
Look, Matts with us for the 2012 season,
so anythings possible. I think that were kind
of in lockstep in that lets see if we can get
something done before the season, Baer said.
Thats kind of been the lockstep approach.
The two sides are in agreement, Lets see if
we can. I dont think anybodys thinking
about if we dont. Were all thinking, Lets
see what we can get done before opening day.
Were not at opening day yet.
The 27-year-old Cain went 12-11 last sea-
son with a 2.88 ERA, reaching 200 innings
for the fth straight season. He also didnt
allow an earned run during the entire 2010
postseason, when the Giants pulled off an
improbable World Series championship.
Cain, represented by CAA Sports, is
expected to seek a ve-year contract worth
more than $100 million, and Baer said he isnt
against making a long-term offer.
Cain hasnt named his price tag or the num-
ber of years he would like, other than to say he
wants fair value, and several other top pitch-
ers around the majors have signed similar
ve-year contracts Phillies ace Cliff Lee
($120 million), the Angels C.J. Wilson ($77.5
million) and Jered Weaver of the Angels ($85
million). And Weavers deal was considered a
hometown discount.
While reports have indicated the parties
were far off, thats not necessarily the case.
For those who believe the Giants might be
wary of a mega deal for a pitcher considering
the $126 million, seven-year deal they gave
Barry Zito ahead of the 2007 season, Baer
doesnt compare the two cases.
Giants general manager Brian Sabean has
said for years his priority is to keep his pitch-
ing staff intact for the long haul and that
hasnt changed. Two-time NL Cy Young
Award winner Tim Lincecum reached a $40.5
million, two-year deal in late January.
What Im willing to say is that were work-
ing very hard with them, were listening and
theyre listening, Baer said. Thats where
we are. Were just continuing the process.
Giants still working to re-sign RHP Matt Cain
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EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L OT Pts GF GA
x-N.Y. Rangers 49 21 7 105 213 172
x-Pittsburgh 47 24 6 100 259 205
x-Philadelphia 45 24 8 98 248 214
New Jersey 44 28 6 94 214 205
N.Y. Islanders 33 33 11 77 190 230
Northeast Division
W L OT Pts GF GA
Boston 45 28 4 94 251 189
Ottawa 39 28 10 88 236 227
Buffalo 38 29 10 86 202 210
Toronto 33 36 9 75 218 249
Montreal 29 34 14 72 199 214
Southeast Division
W L OT Pts GF GA
Florida 37 24 15 89 189 208
Washington 39 31 8 86 209 221
Winnipeg 35 34 8 78 207 227
Tampa Bay 35 35 7 77 220 266
Carolina 31 31 15 77 205 228
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
W L OT Pts GF GA
x-St. Louis 48 20 9 105 199 147
x-Detroit 46 26 5 97 239 191
x-Nashville 44 25 8 96 219 202
Chicago 42 26 9 93 231 222
Columbus 25 45 7 57 181 252
Northwest Division
W L OT Pts GF GA
y-Vancouver 47 21 9 103 231 187
Colorado 40 33 6 86 201 208
Calgary 35 28 15 85 191 215
Minnesota 31 35 10 72 161 210
Edmonton 31 37 9 71 207 226
PacicDivision
W L OT Pts GF GA
Dallas 42 30 5 89 205 204
Los Angeles 38 27 12 88 178 165
San Jose 39 28 10 88 211 199
Phoenix 37 27 13 87 200 202
Anaheim 33 33 11 77 194 213
Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss
or shootout loss.
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
ThursdaysGames
Washington 3, Boston 2, SO
Philadelphia 7,Toronto 1
New Jersey 6,Tampa Bay 4
N.Y. Islanders 5, Pittsburgh 3
Florida at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
St. Louis at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
San Jose at Phoenix, late
FridaysGames
Winnipeg at Carolina, 4 p.m.
Florida at Columbus, 4 p.m.
Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, 4:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m.
Nashville at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.
Colorado at Calgary, 6 p.m.
Los Angeles at Edmonton, 6:30 p.m.
Dallas at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Philadelphia 28 22 .560
Boston 28 22 .560
New York 26 25 .510 2 1/2
Toronto 17 34 .333 11 1/2
New Jersey 17 35 .327 12
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Miami 36 13 .735
Orlando 32 19 .627 5
Atlanta 30 22 .577 7 1/2
Washington 11 39 .220 25 1/2
Charlotte 7 41 .146 28 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct GB
x-Chicago 41 11 .788
Indiana 30 20 .600 10
Milwaukee 23 27 .460 17
Detroit 18 32 .360 22
Cleveland 17 31 .354 22
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
San Antonio 35 14 .714
Memphis 27 21 .563 7 1/2
Dallas 29 23 .558 7 1/2
Houston 27 24 .529 9
New Orleans 13 37 .260 22 1/2
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Oklahoma City 38 12 .760
Utah 27 24 .529 11 1/2
Denver 27 24 .529 11 1/2
Minnesota 25 27 .481 14
Portland 23 27 .460 15
PacicDivision
W L Pct GB
L.A. Lakers 31 19 .620
L.A. Clippers 29 21 .580 2
Phoenix 25 26 .490 6 1/2
Golden State 20 29 .408 10 1/2
Sacramento 17 33 .340 14
WednesdaysGames
Indiana 93,Washington 89
Miami 106, Dallas 85
New Orleans at Portland, late
Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, late
FridaysGames
Denver at Charlotte, 4 p.m.
Miami at Toronto, 4 p.m.
Philadelphia at Washington, 4 p.m.
New York at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m.
Milwaukee at Cleveland, 4:30 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago, 5 p.m.
Memphis at Houston, 5 p.m.
Boston at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
Dallas at Orlando, 5 p.m.
Sacramento at Utah, 6 p.m.
New Jersey at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.
Portland at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W L Pct
Toronto 22 4 .846
Oakland 14 5 .737
Detroit 15 7 .682
Los Angeles 16 10 .615
Seattle 12 8 .600
Minnesota 16 12 .571
New York 13 11 .542
Boston 12 11 .522
Kansas City 14 13 .519
Baltimore 11 11 .500
Chicago 12 15 .444
Texas 9 16 .360
Tampa Bay 8 16 .333
Cleveland 6 19 .240
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W L Pct
St. Louis 14 8 .636
San Diego 18 12 .600
Colorado 15 11 .577
San Francisco 15 11 .577
Los Angeles 12 11 .522
Houston 13 13 .500
Chicago 14 15 .483
Miami 10 11 .476
Philadelphia 12 14 .462
Milwaukee 11 14 .440
Cincinnati 12 16 .429
Arizona 11 15 .423
Washington 10 14 .417
Atlanta 9 15 .375
Pittsburgh 8 17 .320
New York 7 16 .304
NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings;
games against non-major league teams do not.
ThursdaysGames
Philadelphia 2,Tampa Bay 1
Miami 3, St. Louis 1
Washington (ss) 6, Atlanta 3
Minnesota 11, Pittsburgh 6
Toronto 3, Boston 2
Colorado 6, Cleveland (ss) 3
Cincinnati 9, Milwaukee 3
L.A. Angels 11, Kansas City 8
San Diego 12, Chicago Cubs 11
Chicago White Sox 3, L.A. Dodgers 1
Arizona 5, Cleveland (ss) 4
Washington (ss) 5, Detroit 3
N.Y. Mets 9, Houston 1
Baltimore 4, N.Y.Yankees 3
NBA STANDINGS NHL STANDINGS MLB SPRING TRAINING
BASEBALL
SouthCity13, Aragon3
SouthCity0115600 13121
Aragon2100003 683
WP Marcucci. LP Bragg. Multiple hits
Azar 3, Mohr 3, Jimenez 2, Marcucci 2, Low 2 (SC);
Lyons 2, Englemann 2 (A). Multiple RBI Azar 2,
Jimenez 2,Low 2,Mohr 2 (SC);Larsen 2 (A).Records
South City 1-2 PAL Ocean; Aragon 0-3.
SOFTBALL
Menlo-Atherton21, Jefferson0
Jefferson000 005
M-A(19)2x21150
WP Katz. LP Tuforio. HR Vallarino 2, La-
Porte,Gonzalez(MA).2BDiller,Aguiar,Katz(MA).
Multiple hits Diller 3,LaPorte 2,Vallarino 2,Katz
2, Gonzalez 2, Goode 2 (MA). Multiple RBI Val-
larino 6, LaPorte 4, Katz 3, Gonzalez 2. Records
Menlo-Atherton 2-2 PAL Ocean, 7-6 overall.
BOYSTENNIS
Aragon5, El Camino2
SINGLES Kyaw (EC) d. Joshi 6-3, 6-2; Faustino
(EC) d. Hughes 6-1, 6-0; Wang (A) d.Tsang 6-1, 6-1;
Nguyen(A) d.Tran6-2,6-3.DOUBLES Zha-Pauly
(A) d. Uytengsu-Gala-Pina 7-6(4), 6-2; Lee-Fowler
(A) d.Sison-Lalucis 6-0,6-2;Bellon-Ilyin (A) d.Wong-
Yu 6-3, 6-2. Records Aragon 6-2 PAL Bay, 8-5
overall; El Camino 0-7.
Burlingame5, Mills 2
SINGLES Taggart (B) d. Tanjuatco 6-0, 6-2; Liu
(M) d.Miller 6-0, 3-6, 6-3;Tsu (B) d.Johnson 6-3, 6-1;
Guttas (B) d.Chau 6-0,4-6,6-3.DOUBLES Louie-
Liang(M) d.Stevenson-Hauselt 6-1,6-3;Yee-Pratt (B)
d. NouNou-Young 6-2, 7-5; Martinucci-Anderson
(B) d. Hattori-Chan 6-0, 6-1.
BOYS SWIMMING
SanMateo86, Westmoor 78
200medleyrelay Westmoor (Moy,C.Lee,Kyauk,
J. Lee) 1:50.39; 200 free Kyauk (W) 2:09.91; 200
IM Chen (SM) 1:58.68; 50 free McCall (SM)
25.03;100 y C.Lee (W) 58.45;100 free Halet
(SM) 50.84; 500 free Porshrukoff (W) 6:00.27;
200 free relay San Mateo (Halet, Liu, McCall,
Chen) 1:36.87; 100 back Moy (W) 1:00.40; 100
breast Chen (SM) 59.58; 400 free relay San
Mateo (Halet, Barhoumi, McCall, Chen) 3:39.24.
GIRLS SWIMMING
SanMateo87, Westmoor 80
200 medley relay Westmoor (Williams,Soriano,
A.Lee,C.Xu) 2:07.44;200 free D.Liu (SM) 2:22.62;
200 IM Hansen (SM) 2:18.65; 50 free S. Lew
(W) 29.87; 100 y Low (SM) 1:10.72; 100 free
D. Liu (SM) 1:03.71; 500 free Hansen (SM)
5:57.10; 200 free relay Westmoor (Williams,So-
riano, A. Lee, C. Xu) 1:57.47; 100 back Williams
(W) 1:10.87; 100 breast A. Lee (W) 1:19.12; 400
free relay San Mateo (Law,Oey,Cerda,Hansen)
4:26.93.
BOYS GOLF
Burlingame222, TerraNova253
At BurlingameC.C., par 36
B Carney 41; M.Teahan 43; Battat 44; Azzaria 47;
N.Teahan 47
TN Frater 41;Tating 51;Turner 52; Pollaupolous
53; Lotti 56
Records Burlingame 6-2 PAL Bay.
LOCAL SCOREBOARD
FRIDAY
BASEBALL
Serra vs. Sacred Heart Cathedral at Moscone Field,
3:30 p.m.; El Camino at Terra Nova, Half Moon Bay
at Burlingame,Capuchino at Menlo-Atherton,Hills-
dale at Carlmont, Harker at Menlo School, 4 p.m.
SOFTBALL
SouthCityat SanMateo,Woodsideat Mills,Sequoia
vs. El Camino at Terrabay Field, Mercy-Burlingame
at Alma Heights, Crystal Springs at Liberty Baptist,
4 p.m.
BOYS LACROSSE
Serra at Bellarmine, 3:30 p.m.
GIRLS LACROSSE
Menlo-Atherton at Burlingame, Menlo School at
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Mercy-Burlingame at
Harker, Notre Dame-SJ at Woodside, 4 p.m.
BASEBALL
AmericanLeague
BALTIMORE ORIOLESClaimed INF Zelous
Wheeler off waivers from Milwaukee and optioned
him to Norfolk (IL).
KANSASCITYROYALSOptionedRHPLouisCole-
man and RHP Jeremy Jeffress to Omaha (PCL).
Assigned LHP Francisley Bueno, LHP Tommy Hot-
tovy, C Max Ramirez and INF Kevin Kouzmanoff to
their minor legue camp.
NEW YORK YANKEESAgreed to terms with
INF/OF Steve Pearce on a minor league contract.
National League
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKSAssigned RHP
Jensen Lewis to Reno (PCL) and OF Adam Eaton to
Mobile (SL).
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a season most wrestlers would envy. He n-
ished the season with a record of 32-6, with all
six losses coming to wrestlers ranked in the
top-15 in the state. He captured his fourth
straight West Catholic Athletic League title in
four different weight classes, he nished sec-
ond at the Central Coast Section champi-
onships and was 4-2 at the state champi-
onships. Roberts ended his senior year as one
of the most decorated wrestlers in Serra histo-
ry, setting a school mark for career wins (115).
For his efforts, Roberts is the Daily Journals
Wrestler of the Year.
I knew I had all these tournaments (during
the season) that I would walk through,
Roberts said. I knew I would win a few
matches at state. Last year, I went 0-2 (at
state). I think that helped me for this year.
Roberts started preparing for the high school
season during the summer, going 7-2 at the
River Rumble, an invitational-only event in
Michigan. He followed that with the Peninsula
Invitational championship and went 2-2 at the
Doc Buchanan Invitational.
Just as he was gearing up for the postseason,
Roberts contracted mononucleosis, forcing
him to miss the nal two WCAL regular sea-
son matches.
I was out for a good two weeks. I was
drained. I lost a lot of weight, Roberts said. I
didnt know if I could nish the season. I got
better the week of [the WCAL champi-
onships]. Staying off the mat for two weeks
made me hungry.
Roberts was the top seed in the 126-pound
class at the WCAL championships and he
waltzed to his fourth league title. He got
healthier during the week leading up to the
CCS championships, where to advanced to the
nals, losing to Gilroy sophomore Paul Fox,
who went on to a second-place nish at state.
After the mono, I was getting better and
better, Roberts said. [Fox is] good. I dont
think anyone expected me to [beat him].
By the time the state championships rolled
around, Roberts believed he was back to full
health. He celebrated by promptly losing his
rst match, losing to a guy he had pinned dur-
ing a summer tournament.
I just didnt wrestle well. I overlooked
him, Roberts said.
That loss simply fueled Roberts for the rest
of the tournament. He won his next four
matches in dominating fashion going through
the consolation bracket.
Im actually glad I lost that (rst) one,
Roberts said. It woke me up a little bit. I [won
by technical fall over] two guys, pinned one
guy. I was pretty mad.
Roberts needed one more win to earn sev-
enth place and a coveted spot on the medal
podium. Standing in his way was Evan
McKirdy of Del Norte High of the San Diego
Section. McKirdy put Roberts on his back
immediately and quickly fell behind 4-0.
Roberts eventually got to within two points
with about 10 seconds left. In a last-ditch
effort, Roberts made a move that cost him as
McKirdy recorded the pin.
I had a last chance to do something,
Roberts said. I went into that last match
telling myself this is the biggest match of my
life. Win, and its something youll remember
forever. Lose, and its something youll
remember forever.
Itll be hard for Roberts to forget what he
accomplished this season.
Continued from page 11
PLAYER
on a hit-by-pitch, stole two bases, then
scored on a fielders choice. The
Panthers would actually take the lead on
a long double off the bat of Dana
Lenardon in the second inning that plat-
ed Courtney Oliver.
But back came Capuchino with a
home run in the third courtesy of Alexis
Coulter to tie things at 2.
I think we missed a couple pitches,
Firenze said. My No. 2 pitcher is in and
she left a couple pitches over the plate
and Cap can hit. You leave pitches up
against those two hitters, Ariana
[Wassmer] and Coulter, and they
drive it 300 feet.
Wassmer smashed a pitch in the top of
the fth with a runner on that was good
for a triple. A misplay on the relay by
Burlingame allowed Wassmer to come
all the way around for the 4-2 lead.
Lunghi hurt her jaw on the play, which
forced out of the game.
Burlingame got out of that inning,
with Firenze moving some players
around to ll the hole left by Lunghi at
shortstop.
And whatever mixing and matching
he did on defense actually worked won-
ders at the plate because the Panthers
never went out on defense again.
Try to keep up: Lenardon singled,
Sydney Oliver followed with a single
and they were moved over by a sacrice
bunt. Gretchen Diekman walked to load
the bases. Lenardon scored on a wild
pitch and Saucedo cleared the bags with
a textbook, opposite-eld double. Katy
Hoeksema got aboard on a elders
choice and Chaney drove in Saucedo
with a single to right. Madison
McKeever got to rst on a elders
choice. Then Burlingame strung togeth-
er ve singles in a row. The cherry on
top came two pitches into Saucedos at-
bat when she crushed a Capuchino
offering to centereld and came around
to score the winning run.
Shes a strong kid, Firenze said of
Saucedo. She can hit it a mile. We tell
her, her goal is not to hit it to the other
eld because shell stay level and those
kinds of swings (the home run kind)
come out of it. I think she swung for that
other eld on that one, but thats OK.
Its good to go into spring break 2-2 in
league.
Burlingame finished with 13 hits.
Megan Alland picked up the win in the
circle.
Capuchino scored their four runs on
four hits.
PANTHERS
It was the fourth foul on Williams, who at that juncture had
scored 12 of Minnesotas 30 points. Williams, who made the
all-tournament team, nished with 12 to lead the Gophers.
Powell hit both of his free throws, and in a sign of how the
game was going for the Golden Gophers, Andre Hollins, a
92.2-percent foul shooter, made only one of two, and Stanford
led 47-31 with less than 12 minutes left. Hollins, a freshman,
also made the all-tournament team.
The injury-riddled Golden Gophers had made a spirited run
to the NIT title game. But they hit just three of their 13 3-point
attempts Thursday and allowed the Cardinal to shoot 57.1 per-
cent in the second half.
Stanford is just the second team to play in the nal of the
preseason and postseason NIT in the same season. In the NIT
Season Tip-Off in November, the Cardinal let a late lead slip
away against Syracuse. Minnesota isnt exactly the Orange,
but this time Stanford never looked back after going ahead.
Minnesota had won the rst four meetings in the series,
though the teams hadnt played since 1975
STANFORD
By Greg Beacham
RANCHO MIRAGE An opening-round 67 at the Kraft
Nabisco Championship is just a bonus to Lindsey Wright. After
ghting her way back from depression and anxiety to rejoin the
LPGA Tour, shes grateful for every good day on the links and
every peaceful night away from golf.
Wright began the rst major of the year one stroke behind
leader Amy Yang, who shot a 6-under 66 on Thursday. Wright
even outplayed top-ranked Yani Tseng, whose 68 ended her
streak of eight consecutive rounds with a lead.
With ve birdies on the back nine of the Dinah Shore
Tournament Course, Wright took another positive step in her
revitalization. After quitting golf for the nal four months of last
year, the 32-year-old Australian returned with a victory in the
New Zealand Womens Open last month, followed by this strong
start at Mission Hills.
Im really enjoying my golf, Wright said. Its not a grind
anymore. Im actually enjoying it, the good and the bad.
Wright, a Pepperdine graduate who lives in Florida, has earned
more than $2.2 million despite never winning an LPGA Tour
event. She was outstanding in 2009, earning top-four nishes in
two majors, but success didnt provide the happiness she expect-
ed.
Wright said she felt smothered by the nonstop travel and
pressure of a pro golfers life. She sometimes needed two bottles
of red wine to cure her chronic insomnia, and her homesickness
for Australia was accentuated by her depression, which she did-
nt identify until she recognized her symptoms on a television
program about the disease.
It wasnt a great time, and I just couldnt really get through
it, Wright said. Its hard to explain other than from a physical
standpoint. People think, Depression, oh, just get over it. It real-
ly impacts you physically, and playing on this tour, grinding it
out each week when youre not sleeping and you cant concen-
trate or focus, it just gets you down, and its a bit of a nightmare.
Wright went home to Albury, in New South Wales also the
hometown of basketball star Lauren Jackson and worked in
media and administration at various tournaments. She already
had spent a couple of years thinking about walking away from
golf entirely.
I started going home, and my best mates were having fami-
lies, Wright said. Everybody seemed to be growing up, and I
was out here doing this which is nothing wrong. Its a great
lifestyle if you have a healthy balance. I havent really had a
healthy balance. Ive always pushed myself, and in retrospect, I
should have taken four or ve months off (in 2009), but I didnt.
Amy Yang takes early
lead at Kraft Nabisco
SPORTS 17
By Janie McCauley
SAN FRANCISCO Carlos
Rogers has no plans to be a one-
and-done Pro Bowler.
Or playoff participant for that
matter.
The cornerback said Thursday he
re-signed with the San Francisco
49ers this month on a $31.3 million,
four-year contract because he
enjoyed a career year and he also
appreciates the teams effort to keep
the NFC West champions talented
defense intact for another run at a
Super Bowl in 2012.
I didnt even put too much
thought into other teams until we
gured out what we were going to
do here, Rogers
said.
He thrived in
the deep San
Francisco sec-
ondary, finally
proving himself
as a reliable
playmaker after
he developed a
reputation dur-
ing six years in Washington as
someone who couldnt hold onto
the ball. With the 49ers, he emerged
and earned his rst career Pro Bowl
nod.
If Im in the position to make a
play, Im going to do my best to
make it, the 30-year-old Rogers
said of his approach going forward.
Im not going to put pressure on
myself. Im just going to play my
role. I dont want to be one of those
guys who makes the Pro Bowl just
one time.
Rogers, who shared the team lead
with six interceptions, insists he
knew in Week 4 or 5 last season that
he wanted to return on a long-term
deal and now he hopes to use the
momentum gained from his big sea-
son to carry him this year.
With Rogers back, defensive
coordinator Vic Fangio has all 11
starters returning on a unit that
ranked No. 1 in the NFL in stopping
the run.
Its really rare, Rogers said of
having the entire starting defense
back. Ive never seen a team that
has all 11 starters back. This is a
rst for me, and Im sure it is for a
lot of guys, to have all 11 starters
back.
Rogers said it was an easy deci-
sion returning to a team that has
another chance to compete for a
ring after the 49ers lost 20-17 in
overtime to the eventual Super Bowl
champion New York Giants in the
NFC title game Jan. 22.
Do I really want to go into free
agency? Rogers said Thursday of
his thinking after the season.
Maybe I get more money. I could
be with a team thats sorry. And they
could continue to be sorry for like
two years. And then once they want
to change some stuff around, OK,
theyre going to go after the people
that are making the highest salary.
And then I get cut.
Its already been quite a busy off-
season for San Francisco general
manager Trent Baalke with the draft
fast approaching next month.
The 49ers have much of their ros-
ter returning and have already made
some key additions. They signed
cornerback Perrish Cox, wideouts
Randy Moss and Mario
Manningham, and agreed to terms
with veteran running back Brandon
Jacobs.
Rogers is eager to be a part of
another special season.
Thats unbelievable. Its a credit
to our front ofce and coaches,
Rogers said. I dont want to go
down (in production). Coach Vic
put me in the position to make a lot
of plays. Once the ball was out
there, I just caught them.
Carlos Rogers ready to build on strong 2011
Carlos Rogers
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AUTO
Infiniti has fast first hybrid
By Ann M. Job
Heres an intriguing fact: The Infiniti M
luxury sedan thats listed in the Guinness
Book of World Records for its acceleration
prowess is the same M that has the best fuel
economy rating of the lineup.
Its because the Guinness record holder is
the new-for-2012 M35 Hybrid, which pairs a
gasoline V-6 to an electric motor and lithium
ion battery pack and manages the power
through a seven-speed automatic transmis-
sion. Theres no continuously variable trans-
mission (CVT) here.
The M35hs combination powerplant can
move the more than 4,100-pound, four-door
car from standstill to 60 miles per hour in
6.1 seconds while pushing passengers bod-
ies firmly into the seatbacks.
This figure, provided by Infiniti, is akin to
the performance of a new Chevrolet Camaro
with V-6.
Yet, the M35hs federal government fuel
economy rating of 27 miles per gallon in
city driving and 32 mpg on the highway is
the highest of all the M models. For exam-
ple, the base 2012 M37 with V-6 and no
electric assist is rated at 18/26 mpg.
But even with todays gasoline prices that
top $3.90 a gallon, it would take M35
Hybrid drivers a while to recoup via gaso-
line savings the $6,000 premium that the
hybrid model costs over a non-hybrid M37.
And there are other hybrids, even luxury
hybrids, that have lower starting prices than
the M35hs $54,595. They also have higher
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fuel economy, though not the record-break-
ing acceleration.
For instance, the 2012 Lincoln MKZ
Hybrid mid-size sedan, which has a starting
retail price of $35,630 is rated by the feder-
al government at 41/36 mpg. The MKZ is a
gasoline-electric hybrid with a four-cylinder
engine mated to an electric motor and so
doesnt have the power of the M.
The 2012 Lexus HS is a compact, luxury,
hybrid sedan with a retail starting price of
$37,905 and fuel efficiency rating of 35/34
mpg. The HS is powered by a four-cylinder
engine and an electric motor.
The M35h is the first hybrid for Infiniti,
and the brand didnt stray from what its
known for performance and luxury.
But the test M35h seemed as much a
showcase for technology as it did for show-
ing that a hybrid can be fast and exhilarat-
ing.
Much of the M35hs technology, including
the navigation system with voice recognition
and on-board Zagat restaurant ratings, was
optional and helped push the final sticker
price to more than $67,000.
But it made an indelible impression of a
car filled with so many electronic bits that it
just might drive itself one day.
Note: To keep from being overwhelmed,
its best for a driver new to an option-packed
M35h to take a deep breath and learn the dif-
ferent driver aides one by one. Example: The
optional lane departure warning gives one
kind of audible warning if the car starts to
drift from its lane.
Another audible warning, standard on the
car, arises when the M35h is in all-electric
mode, because otherwise its a silent vehicle
that pedestrians might not notice. Infiniti
was the first to put this pedestrian-alerting
system on a car. Federal government offi-
cials have been debating whether to require
audible alerts on all cars that have an electric
mode.
The M hybrid system eschews a torque
converter and instead uses a wet clutch and
a dry clutch to manage the power from the
302-horsepower, 3.5-liter, double overhead
cam V-6 and the 67-horsepower electric
motor.
Drivers dont see or operate the clutches.
The clutches work automatically to decou-
ple the engine from the transmission at
stops, so fuel is saved at stoplights, and
allow the M35h to travel up to 62 mph on
electric power alone.
It also can stay in electric mode for 1.2
miles, which is longer than many other
hybrids.
The M35h judiciously monitors battery
reserves and goes right to gasoline-power-
only when necessary.
The test M35h required careful throttle
control at startup, because the car was eager
to zoom forcefully forward in electric mode
from a stop.
This affected the test drive and brought an
average of just 27.6 mpg in travel that was
70 percent in city traffic.
An M35h hallmark is the lack of a CVT.
Other hybrids have had CVTs because these
transmissions can maximize fuel economy.
But they are not the top choice for accelera-
tion.
Unfortunately, when the V-6 power would
join in, there often was noticeable roughness
in the test car. It was not the seamless tran-
sition that some hybrids deliver.
As is typical in hybrids, the brakes on the
M35h had an artificial feel and didnt oper-
ate with a pure linear response as the brake
pedal was pressed. This is due to the cars
regenerative braking that captures energy
and recharges the battery pack as the car is
braking.
The M35h is a handsome sedan with styl-
ish wheels and regular, not low-rolling
resistance, tires. The tester had optional,
large, 18-inch tires, which conveyed a good
amount of road noise.
The M35h had a substantial, solid feel,
and while the battery pack adds weight to
the car vs. the M37, the hybrid feels well-
balanced on twisty mountain roads. The
only exterior clue that the car is a hybrid is
the word hybrid on two fenders and the lit-
tle h next to M35 on the trunk lid.
The interior has the luxurious atmosphere
of all M cars, and control buttons on the
dashboard are large, with good tactile feed-
back. Fit and finish on the tester was excel-
lent.
Trunk space measures 11.3 cubic feet,
down from the 14.9 cubic feet of a non-
hybrid M37 because the battery pack takes
up some trunk space.
INFINITI
By Jake Coyle
There arent many pleasures
in Wrath of the Titans, the
3-D sequel to the 2010 Clash
of the Titans remake. But
surely one is seeing Ralph
Fiennes and Liam Neeson
bounding around together as
brothers, the gods Hades and
Zeus.
In long beards, the two veter-
an actors are suited to one
another, like a divine ZZ Top.
Camp is a part of the experi-
ence here, as both Titans
lms pull from an unlikely
combination of traditions:
ancient Greece and the 1980s.
The clunky Clash of the
Titans remade the 1981 orig-
inal, bringing in boatloads of
box office by updating the
schmaltzy Laurence Olivier
version with contemporary
digital effects and a widely
decried, slapped on conver-
sion to 3-D.
Wrath of the Titans, direct-
ed by Jonathan Liebesman
taking over for Louis
Leterrier, has modestly
improved upon the 3-D this
time around and better man-
ages a narrative ow of con-
tinuous fantasy action.
But thats also all there is: A
charmless stream of battle and
ght sequences that contorts
mythic characters into block-
buster conventions. Its comi-
cally late literally the last
few minutes that the lm
even tries to slide emotion into
the characters relations, as if
attempting to hypnotize us
before leaving the theater: Oh,
that was a love story? And that
guy gasp! was supposed
to be the funny one?
Rather than yet more Kraken
releasing (Release, um,
another Kraken!), Wrath of
the Titans, written by Dan
Mazeau and David Leslie
Johnson, charts new ground
for the demigod Perseus (Sam
Worthington). Going beyond
the original Clash, written
by Beverley Cross, our dis-
tance from the original myths
grows still more.
Mythic mayhem
Wrath of the Titans a charmless stream of battle and fight sequences
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spicy ingredients can do for the foods
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Thats because foods such as chili
peppers and hot sauces can do way
more than simply add mouth-searing
heat. Adding just a touch will heighten
the other flavors of a dish without
adding noticeable spiciness.
For example, whip up your favorite
mac and cheese. Now stir in just a few
drops of hot sauce. Taste. It wont be
spicy, but it will be better.
Why am I telling you this? Because
I want you to try a seriously spicy
ingredient and there is no need to be
scared off by the heat.
Throughout Asia there are numerous
condiments referred to as sambals.
Most are made by grinding together
chili peppers and vinegar. Depending
on where you are, other ingredients
such as dried shrimp, fermented soy
beans, brown sugar, spices, coconut
milk, etc. may be added.
The result is a family of sauces with
bright, punchy flavor and a fair
amount of heat. They usually accom-
pany meat and rice dishes and are
added to taste.
The international aisle of most
mainstream grocers in the United
States will offer at least one or two
varieties and they are worth checking
out.
One of the most common is sambal
oelek (also called
chili paste or fresh
chili paste), which
is a simple blend
of crushed chilies,
salt and vinegar.
Alongside sambal
oelek, you may
also find some-
thing labeled chili
garlic sauce,
which is sambal
oelek with garlic
added.
Either is a fine choice for any of
these recipe ideas. The flavors are
intense, slightly acidic and almost
pungently sweet.
Like most vinegar-based condi-
ments, sambals can be refrigerated for
months after opening (most are
marked with best by dates).
One caution the word sambal
also sometimes refers to a spicy dish.
Youre looking for the condiments,
which are sold in plastic and glass
jars.
For more ideas for using sambal,
check out the Off the Beaten Aisle
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CHILI GARLIC ROASTED
SHRIMP WITH FETTUCCINE
Start to finish: 25 minutes
Servings: 4
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 tablespoon sambal oelek or chili
garlic sauce
1 pound large raw shrimp, shells
and veins removed
12-ounce package fresh fettuccine
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
3 scallions, chopped
Heat the oven to 450 F. Bring a
large saucepan of salted water to a
boil.
In a large bowl, mix together the oil,
salt, pepper and the sambal or chili
garlic sauce. Add the shrimp and toss
well.
Transfer the shrimp, as well as any
sauce in the bowl, to a rimmed baking
sheet. Roast for 5 to 7 minutes, or
until pink and firm.
While the shrimp roast, add the
pasta to the water and cook according
to package directions. Reserve 1/4 cup
of the cooking water, then drain.
In a large bowl, combine the pasta
and shrimp. Use a silicone spatula to
scrape any liquid from the baking
sheet into the bowl. Toss well.
Sprinkle the cheese and scallions
over the pasta and shrimp, as well as a
bit of the reserved pasta cooking
water. Toss until the cheese is melted.
Nutrition information per serving
(values are rounded to the nearest
whole number): 500 calories; 140
calories from fat (28 percent of total
calories); 15 g fat (4 g saturated; 0 g
trans fats); 245 mg cholesterol; 51 g
carbohydrate; 39 g protein; 4 g fiber;
1,050 mg sodium.
Sambal: What it is and how to use it
J.M. HIRSCH
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(SFMOMA) has announced the acquisition of
Edward Hoppers Intermission (1963), among
the artists largest and most ambitious paint-
ings, and one of the last signicant Hopper
works remaining in private hands. Intermission
was acquired from Fraenkel Gallery, San
Francisco, in part through gifts from the Fisher
and Schwab families, and is now on view at the
museum. Known as one of the most singular
20th-century American painters, Hopper has
inuenced generations of artists, writers, lm-
makers and photographers with his moody,
quiet tableaux. His best-known paintings inves-
tigate everyday scenes in which isolated gures
are contained within interiors of common loca-
tions such as theaters, hotels, bedrooms,
ofces, train stations or restaurants or out-
doors on city or country streets.
Gary Garrels, SFMOMA Elise S. Haas,
Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, said,
Intermission is an iconic work, exemplary of
Hoppers late period and style, and establishes
him as a contemporary master beyond his his-
torical achievements of the early 20th century.
The painting is also signicant in relation to
SFMOMAs deep holdings of work by artists
of the Bay Area Figurative tradition, such as
Robert Bechtle, Richard Diebenkorn and
Wayne Thiebaud, as well as photographers
strongly represented in the collection, like
William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert
Frank and Stephen Shore, who share afnities
with Hopper.
Hopper came up with the idea for
Intermission while he was watching a movie,
and his wife, Josephine Hopper, arranged for
him to work on the painting in an empty the-
ater. However, Hopper decided to complete
Intermission at his home and studio in New
York City. A surviving preparatory sketch for
the painting reveals that he considered includ-
ing another gure in the third row. In an inter-
view Hopper revealed, Theres half another
person in the picture. The nal composition
depicts a solitary woman in a theater, sitting
alone in the rst row of a side aisle. Seemingly
waiting for others to return from intermission,
she appears lost in thought, staring off into the
distance as she sits contently in a comfortable-
looking dark green theater seat with her ankles
crossed.
While it is known that Hoppers wife insist-
ed on modeling for all of her husbands female
gures, she suggests in notes left in her record
book that Intermission is more of a psycholog-
ical portrait rather than a straightforward repre-
sentation of herself. Hopper explained during
an interview that he thought of the sensibly
dressed woman in the painting as Nora, and
that she was an egghead. In her notes,
Josephine Hopper writes: Nothing of the com-
fortably bleak [is] lost on the highly conscious
Nora, with strong, long hands. She further
describes her as not the kind to slip [her] feet
out of the long, reasonably high heeled pumps
and an efcient secretary or priced chatelaine
of [a] big house.
SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra said,
This acquisition brings to the Bay Area a truly
exceptional work by Hopper, arguably the most
profound visual poet of individual human
experience that this country has ever produced.
We are enormously grateful to the Schwab and
Fisher families for their continued generosity,
and for supporting our vision for the growth of
SFMOMAs collection by ensuring that it
includes work of only the nest quality.
Hopper sold his rst painting at age 31,
Sailboat (1913), and did not sell another work
for 10 years. At this point in his career, Hopper
had developed what would become his signa-
ture style of placing solitary gures in sparse
interiors or public spaces with a strong focus on
light and shadow. Two on the Aisle (1927) is
the artists rst complete canvas on this subject,
in which he depicts two people taking their
seats in a nearly empty theater; the only other
person in the audience sits alone reading.
The theater and movies would continue to be
one of the main subjects addressed in his com-
positions including the well-known canvas
New York Movie (1939), in which Hopper
depicts a female usher standing beneath a hall-
way light. She appears lost in thought as the
audience focuses on the lm screening.
Importantly, two of the last four paintings that
Hopper made before his death were of the the-
ater, Intermission (1963) and Two Comedians
(1965), underscoring the sustained signicance
of this subject matter in his oeuvre.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is
located at 151 Third St., near the Moscone
Center. It can be reached on public transporta-
tion from the Peninsula by taking Caltrain to
the main San Francisco station and transferring
to a bus for the short ride to the museum. For
more information call (415) 357-4000 or visit
www.sfmoma.org.
Susan Cohn can be reached at susan@smdai-
lyjournal.com or www.twitter.com/susanci-
tyscene.
MUSEUM GOTTA SEE UM
COURTESY FRAENKEL GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO
Edward Hopper,Intermission,1963; oil on canvas,40 x 60 in.; collection SFMOMA,purchased
in part through gifts of the Fisher and Schwab families.
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Divino
Downtown Italy
in Belmont, CA
Many great things have been said about the food,
service, and atmosphere at Ristorante Divino that I
would just like to add my applause to the menu.
By combining current Italian fare with California
styles, Chef Vincenzo Cucco creates tasty and
satisfying dishes for all palates. A beautifully presented
Corvina Sea Bass is sauted with potato velute
underneath and then topped with a tomato, avocado
and onion relish.
The poultry is often prepared in traditional styles
as well as some interesting creations such as Pollo in
Porchetta which is a roasted breast of chicken stuffed
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
popular techniques of introducing the Cal-organic
recipes into modern Italian dishes have afforded
him a spotlight among the few Italian chefs in the
Bay Area.
By keeping the community coming back for
more, Divino has earned its place as
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Cool days call for cooking that is
low, slow and wet. Which is to say,
braised.
And its simpler than you might
think. Braising is just a matter of
cooking food, usually meat, for a
long period at a low temperature
and submerged in some kind of liq-
uid. Pot roasts are a good example.
Many foods cooked in a slow cook-
er also qualify.
Beef stews are another great
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cuts of meat that otherwise would
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This is why many braising recipes
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meat. The added benet is that these
also tend to be the cheapest cuts.
For example, chicken thighs would
be a good choice for braising, while
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shoulder would be another option,
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Of course, braising doesnt have
to be limited to meat. Vegetables
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etables (such as fennel or winter
greens) and root vegetables (such
as parsnips and carrots) take partic-
ularly well to braising. The tech-
nique is done the same as for meat,
though vegetables dont take as
long to braise.
Often in braising youll nd that
the meat or veggies are seared prior
to adding the liquid. This deepens
the flavor. The browning and
caramelizing of the surfaces serves
to avor the liquid and the nished
dish. Liquid and seasonings then are
added to come half to two-thirds up
the side of the food. Then the dish is
brought to a low simmer and kept
that way.
Braising can be done over a low
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Either way, this is a relatively
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Sometimes the cover is removed
toward the end of cooking so the
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can brown on the top. And some-
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almost always served with the food.
For our braising recipe, we opted
for short ribs. Short ribs are the per-
fect cut of meat to be braised. They
have quite a bit of marbling and can
be tough if not properly cooked.
You can get short ribs off the bone,
but for the best avor, opt for on-
the-bone.
For easy cool weather cooking,try braising
Braising is just a matter of cooking food, usually meat, for a long period at a low temperature and submerged in
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Chicken breasts au naturel dont
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have myself a real meal. One of
my favorite ways to enjoy chicken
is to dispense with the breasts alto-
gether. And since Im a thigh man,
I opt to use chicken thighs instead.
Yes, its true that the thigh is fat-
tier than the breast about 8
grams per 4-ounce cooked portion
but the fat brings with it the
extra zing and moisture breasts can
so often lack.
Plus, the dark meat of the thigh
contains the nutritional jackpot of
more iron and twice the zinc of
white meat. Better yet, youll be
saving more than 400 calories a
serving here, compared to a classi-
cally prepared chicken dish like
coq au vin. Traditional versions of
this dish pack 781 calories and 68
grams of fat per serving. Mine?
Just 338 calories and 9 grams of
fat.
And if youre a novice cook, that
extra fat also means that its harder
to screw up a chicken thigh recipe,
no matter how you cook them.
Unlike with chicken breasts, thighs
rarely end up overcooked or dry.
To reduce the fat, though, I suggest
trimming off any extra bits of fat.
My recipe for braised chicken
thighs, which is perfect for a hearty
winter meal, combines two tech-
niques: browning over high heat
and cooking
with quick,
low-heat
braise, either
in the oven or
a slow cooker.
Braising
foods is a
great way to
create tender
meaty dishes.
Cook this dish
at a lower
temperature in
your slow
cooker if you
need to be
away from the kitchen for the day.
Or you can do it in the oven at 275
F for 3 to 5 hours. Just be sure you
have a tight tting cover for your
pot to make sure the liquid doesnt
evaporate.
The braising liquid uses some-
thing thats probably been residing,
forgotten, in the back of your
liquor cabinet since the days of the
Nixon administration: sweet red
vermouth (used mostly for
Manhattans). Vermouth is a wine
infused with a concoction of herbs.
Combined with thyme and two
varieties of mustard, the vermouth
creates a lusty sauce for the chick-
en that packs unbelievable avor.
So when youre craving a diet
meal thats low in fat and calories,
but rich with delicious avor, try
this one. Just about any side dish
goes with it, be it baked potatoes or
yams, brown rice or steamed veg-
gies.
TIPS:
Need to be away from the
kitchen? This dish also can be pre-
pared in a slow cooker. Prepare
through the step of adding the ver-
mouth, then transfer the mixture to
a 4- to 5-quart slow cooker. Top
with the browned chicken pieces
and add the stock and mushrooms.
Cover and cook on high for 3 to 4
hours, or low for 7 to 8 hours. Add
the mustards, remaining vermouth
and thyme, then cover and cook on
high for another 30 minutes.
BRAISED CHICKEN WITH
MUSHROOMS AND MUSTARD
Start to nish: 1 hour (20 min-
utes active), plus cooling
Servings: 4
1 cup fat-free, reduced-sodium
chicken stock or broth
20 dried shiitake mushrooms
8 small bone-in chicken thighs
(about 2 1/2 pounds total), skinned
Salt and ground black pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 1/2 cups chopped yellow onion
1/2 cup sweet red vermouth
(such as Martini Rossi), divided
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon whole-grain mus-
tard
2 teaspoons lightly chopped fresh
thyme
In a medium saucepan over
A lighter take on a classic braised chicken
Braising foods is a great way to create tender meaty dishes.
ROCCO
DISPIRITO
See CHICKEN, Page 26
WEEKEND JOURNAL 25
By David Germain
LOS ANGELES There was a
time when James Camerons career
looked as though it might join
Titanic, down in the lower depths.
Before he became king of the
modern blockbuster with Titanic
and Avatar, Cameron teetered on
an abyss as his romance set aboard
the doomed ocean liner ran into pro-
duction delays, cost overruns and
smug talk in Hollywood that the
director was out of control and
going down with his extravagantly
expensive $200 million shipwreck.
Fifteen years, 11 Academy
Awards and $1.84 billion at the
worldwide box office later,
Cameron is relaunching Titanic in
a 3-D version whose new earnings
will close the gap on the lm that
eventually surpassed it as contem-
porary Hollywoods top-grossing
ick. That would be Camerons sci-
epic Avatar, with $2.8 billion.
Fresh from his record-setting
seven-mile solo ocean dive in the
Mariana Trench, done while on a
break from writing his two Avatar
sequels, Cameron continues to ride
a wave of success no one foresaw
amid the gloomy predictions of
1997, when Titanic was bumped
from summer to Christmas release
because of production problems.
We were the biggest idiots in
Hollywood, and they already had us
tried and sentenced and hung from
the lamppost in the town square
before theyd ever seen a foot of the
lm, Cameron said. Ultimately, it
proved to be a good lm, and they
all had to eat their words or just
kind of shut up and pretend they
hadnt said them. That kind of thing
puts a lot of pressure on you as a
lmmaker, and I interpreted it as
just the pressure to be good and to
make the best movie that we could.
Thats when we moved out of
summer and decided, screw it, if
were going to lose a lot of money,
lets at least make a good lm and
not compromise, not try to rush it
into theaters.
Once the lm opened, with solid
though unremarkable revenue and
reviews praising its spectacular re-
creation of the ships sinking,
Cameron hoped it would stay aoat
through January and maybe
February so that it would have a
chance to break even.
It wound up making back its
money many times over, remained
the No. 1 domestic box-ofce draw
for a record 15-straight weekends
through the end of March, and
picked up the best picture and direc-
tor prizes among its Oscar trophies.
Girls went to see it again and again,
pining over heartthrob Leonardo
DiCaprio, who became an overnight
superstar along with Kate Winslet
for their shipboard romance.
Many critics found the love story
sappy, but no one could deny that
Cameron had made a spectacle for
the ages, one that might have failed
if not for the directors notoriously
demanding standards. Water shoots
are among the toughest on actors
and crew, yet Cameron was unde-
terred, even after a difcult time
with his previous ocean adventure,
1989s The Abyss.
Yes, it was hard, but no one ever
said it was going to be easy,
Winslet said. When all the stories
started emerging about how tough it
had been and Jim Cameron being
mean to everybody and costs over-
running, I went, wait a minute, what
makes these people think they can
speculate about all of this? They
werent there.
Yes, he lost his temper, but he
only ever lost his temper for really,
really good reasons. Like we would
spend days literally setting up a
shot, and if someone isnt doing his
job and dumps water ten seconds
too late, then weve got to start over.
... Yeah, I could understand that man
getting a little (ticked) off.
Camerons photo-realistic com-
puter effects on Titanic helped
propel Hollywood into the digital
age, and he continued his innova-
tions with the underwater 3-D docu-
mentaries Ghosts of the Abyss
and Aliens of the Deep.
It took 12 years for his next dra-
matic feature to hit theaters, the sci-
sensation Avatar, whose success
turned the new novelty of digital 3-
D into a frenzy for Hollywood.
Studios hurtled into 3-D action
shoots or, to the dismay of fans and
critics, did hasty, ugly 3-D conver-
sions of 2-D movies that gave the
format a bad rap.
As Avatar set the standard for
movies shot in 3-D, Titanic may
raise the bar for movies converted
from 2-D. Distributors 20th Century
Fox and Paramount spent $18 mil-
lion on the conversion and digital
remastering, with Cameron over-
seeing a team of 300 people who
spent 60 weeks on a frame-by-
frame reconstruction to add the illu-
sion of depth.
The results are dazzling, the
images of the shipwreck now pre-
sented as though the audience is
right there watching alongside.
Cameron had thought about a 3-D
Titanic for the past decade and
eventually settled on the centennial
of the 1912 shipwreck as the ideal
release date. In 2005, Cameron
already was showing 3-D footage of
the lm to theater owners at a con-
vention, where he and Star Wars
creator George Lucas were among
lmmakers pitching the notion of
converting older movies.
Unsinkable James Cameron refloats Titanic
As Avatar set the standard for movies shot in 3-D,Titanic may raise the bar for movies converted from 2-D.
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Perseus is living humbly as a sherman
despite his Kraken-squelching fame. He has
sworn off the aging, selsh gods, such as his
father Zeus and uncle Poseidon (Danny
Huston). But Hades has made a deal in the
underworld dungeon of Tartarus to betray Zeus
and siphon his powers to Kronos, their dor-
mant father with whom all of hell will follow.
Curiously, when Kronos, like the Kraken
before him, is nally released, he turns out to
not be human in appearance like the other
gods, but a giant swirl of ery black smoke.
Lets call him Smog Man.
Father-son issues run everywhere.
Conspiring with Hades is Zeus son Ares
(Edgar Ramirez, playing a more outward vil-
lain than his great Carlos the Jackal).
Perseus takes up the mantle of world-saver
again for the sake of his young boy. Hes
joined by Queen Andromeda (the beautiful
Rosamund Pike, adding grace and levity
whenever shes on screen) and a fellow
demigod, Agenor (Toby Kebbell, the pre-
sumptive comic relief), son of Poseidon.
Their journey into hell involves navigating a
few marvels, like an enormous, Jenga-like
underground labyrinth and Bill Nighys gang-
ly magnetism. Nighy plays the aging god
Hephaestus, from whom the travelers seek a
weapon. The brilliant, bemused Nighy some-
how manages to slur a trademark, drawn out
faaan-tastic a glimpse of comedy in a
lm (like any lm with ying horses) that des-
perately needs humor.
Perhaps Liebesman, whose previous movie
was the grim Battle: Los Angeles, is too
drawn to the spectacle of battle to nd the bal-
ance of camp and seriousness a patently ludi-
crous lm such as Wrath of Titans seeks.
Because if you cant laugh at Smog Man,
what can you?
Wrath of the Titans, a Warner Bros.
Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for intense
sequences of fantasy violence and action.
Running time: 99 minutes. Two stars out of
four.
TITANS
Were braising in a tangy blend of balsamic
vinegar and seasoned stock. A lot of the avor
comes from the caramelizing of the meat and
the vegetables, so dont skimp on the brown-
ing. After the meat is tender, we boil the liq-
uid down to a glaze. Serve the short ribs and
their glaze over mashed potatoes, creamy
polenta or egg noodles.
BALSAMIC
BRAISED SHORT RIBS
Start to nish: 2 1/2 hours (30 minutes
active)
Servings: 6
1 tablespoon vegetable or canola oil
6 bone-in short ribs (about 3 pounds)
2 leeks, white parts only, sliced
2 medium yellow onions, sliced
2 carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces
2 stalks celery, cut into 1-inch pieces
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 teaspoon red pepper akes
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
3 sprigs fresh rosemary
1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 quart unsalted beef stock
In a large, heavy-bottomed pot such as a
Dutch oven, heat the oil over medium.
Working in batches so as not to crowd the pan,
sear the short ribs for 3 to 4 minutes on each
side, or until well browned. Transfer the short
ribs to a plate.
Add the leeks, onions, carrots, celery and
garlic to the pot and cook until well browned,
stirring occasionally, about 12 to 15 minutes.
Add the red pepper akes, salt, pepper and
tomato paste, then cook until the tomato paste
turns a brick reddish-brown color, about 6 to 7
minutes.
Add the Dijon mustard, rosemary sprigs,
balsamic vinegar and brown sugar. Scrape up
any browned bits from the bottom of the pot.
Return the short ribs to the pot, then add the
beef stock. Bring the mixture up to a low sim-
mer and cover.
The pot can be left on the stovetop on low
heat or placed in a 325 F oven for 1 1/2 to 2
hours, or until the short ribs are very tender
when pierced with a fork.
Carefully transfer the meat to a platter.
Cover with foil and a couple kitchen towels to
keep warm. Using a slotted spoon, remove
and discard the solids from the liquid. Bring
the liquid to a boil on the stovetop and cook
until reduced to 1 cup. Drizzle the glaze over
the short ribs and serve.
Nutrition information per serving (values
are rounded to the nearest whole number):
550 calories; 240 calories from fat (44 percent
of total calories); 26 g fat (10 g saturated; 0 g
trans fats); 135 mg cholesterol; 29 g carbohy-
drate; 48 g protein; 3 g ber; 650 mg sodium.
RIBS
medium-high, combine the chicken stock ad
mushrooms. Bring to a simmer and cook for
5 minutes. Remove from the heat, cover and
set aside.
In a medium bowl, combine the chicken
stock and mushrooms. Cover and refrigerate
overnight. The next day, remove and discard
the mushroom stems. Cut mushroom caps in
half and return to the stock.
Heat the oven to 325 F. Season all the
chicken pieces with salt and pepper.
In a large Dutch oven or other oven-safe
pot, heat the oil over medium-high. Add the
chicken, half at a time if necessary, and
brown on both sides, 3 to 4 minutes per side.
Transfer the chicken to a plate, then add the
onions to the pan. Cook over medium heat
until the onions are softened, about 3 min-
utes. Add half of the vermouth and stir to
deglaze the pan.
Return the chicken to the pan, then add the
stock and mushroom mixture. Cover and
bring to a simmer.
Transfer the pot to the oven and bake, cov-
ered, for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the chick-
en is cooked through.
Once the chicken is cooked, uncover from
the pot. Place the pot on a burner over medi-
um heat and add both mustards, the remain-
ing vermouth and the thyme. Bring to a sim-
mer and cook, uncovered, for about 10 min-
utes, or until the sauce thickens slightly and
glazes the chicken.
Divide the chicken between 4 serving
plates. Spoon the sauce over and around the
chicken.
Nutrition information per serving (values
are rounded to the nearest whole number):
338 calories; 9 g fat (24 percent of calories
from fat) (2 g saturated); 115 mg cholesterol;
25 g carbohydrate; 31 g protein; 3 g ber;
676 mg sodium.
CHICKEN
LOCAL/WORLD 27
FRIDAY, MARCH 30
Samaritan House Free Tax
Preparation for San Mateo County
Residents. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 4031
Pacic Blvd., San Mateo, second oor.
Samaritan House is providing
confidential tax preparation with
certied tax preparers for individuals
and families with income in 2011
under $54,000. Free. To make an
appointment call 523-0804.
43rd Annual Mel Mello Farm Day
Luncheon. 11:30 a.m. I.D.E.S. Hall, 735
Main St., Half Moon Bay. Social hour
will begin at 11:30 a.m. and luncheon
will begin at 12:30 p.m. Special guest
speaker Assemblywoman Fiona Ma
will be present. Awards and
presentations including Farmer of the
Year. $25 in advance. For more
information and to make reservations
visit hmbchamber.com.
Damn Yankees by Tri-School
Productions students from Mercy,
Notre Dame and Serra high
schools. 7:30 p.m., Gellert Auditorium
at Serra High School, 451 W. 20th Ave.,
in San Mateo. Tickets can be
purchased online at
http://trischoolproductions.com/wp/
or at the door, $13 for students and
seniors and $18 for adults.
Redwood City Fun After Fifty Club
offers Ballroom Dancing. 7:30 p.m.
to 10 p.m. Veterans Memorial Senior
Center, 1455 Madison Ave., Redwood
City. Live music will be provided by
the Fun After Fifty 10-piece band led
by Dennis Berglund. Prizes, food, soft
drinks, punch, water and coffee will
be available. $5 for members. $7 for
non-members. For more information
call 747-0264.
Diablo Ballet performs. 8 p.m.
Hillbarn Theatre, 1285 E. Hillsdale
Blvd., Foster City. Works by some of
the top choreographers in the Bay
Area and the world. $45 adults. $20
youth. For more information visit
www.HillbarnTheatre.org or
www.diabloballet.org.
Coastal Rep Theatre presents
Artichoke. 8 p.m. Coastal Repertory
Theatre, 1167 Main St., Half Moon Bay.
Artichoke is a warm-hearted portrait
of a family finding its way through
betrayal to understanding. $25 to 30.
For more information visit
coastalrep.com.
Gabriel Faures Requiem concert. 8
p.m. Episcopal Church of St. Matthew,
1 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo. The
Friends of Music at the Episcopal
Church of St. Matthew, San Mateo
present a concert for Lent featuring
Gabriel Faures Requiem and other
selections. Free. For more information
email
gregg.rathborne@stanfordalumni.org
.
One Man Band: Ron Matthews. 9
p.m. Flight Lounge, 971 Laurel St., San
Carlos. Free. For more information visit
ightloungewine.com.
Salsa, Bachata, Merengue and Cha
Cha Cha. 9 p.m. Club Fox, 2209
Broadway, Redwood City. $10. For
more information call 369-7770 or
visit tickets.foxrwc.com.
SATURDAY, MARCH 31
Community breakfast. 8:30 a.m. to
11 a.m. 757 San Mateo Ave., San
Bruno. San Bruno American Legion
Post No. 409 serves scrambled eggs,
pancakes, bacon, ham or sausage and
french toast, along with juice plus
coffee or tea. $7 or $5 for children
under 10.
Foreclosure Resource Fair. 9 a.m. to
noon. Silicon Valley Community
Foundation, 1300 S. El Camino Real,
San Mateo. Expert housing
counselors, attorneys and tax
professionals will be on hand to
provide information and resources
about preventing foreclosures and
the rights of tenants in foreclosed-
upon homes. Free. For more
information call (510) 271-8443.
Craft Supply Sale. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
480 N. San Anselmo Ave., San Bruno.
A wide variety of new craft supplies,
including fabric, trimmings, yarn,
patterns, scroll saw, silk owers, beads,
plastic canvas, ribbon, corks, etc. will
be sold. A hot dog lunch will be
available. For more information call
349-1903.
Spring Fling at Filoli. 10 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. Filoli, 86 Caada Road, Woodside.
Watch dog agility demonstrations
and adorable puppies in training to
be guide dogs. There is face painting,
craft tables and activities for children
as well as a magic show and
puppeteers. For more information call
364-8300.
Mavericks Competition. 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. Oceano Hotel and Spa and
Harbor Village. 280 Capistrano Road,
Half Moon Bay. The Mavericks surf
competition is headlined by the music
group The Expendables.To get tickets
or for more information visit
www.mavericksinternational.com.
81st Easter EggHunt. 10 a.m. Orange
Memorial Park Picnic Shelter, South
San Francisco. Children eight years old
and under are invited to participate
in a search for eggs along with hidden
prizes and a visit from the Easter
Bunny. Free. For more information call
829-3800.
Jump IntoBooks with Juniors! 10:30
a.m. Belmont Library, 1110 Alameda
de las Pulgas, Belmont. Join Junior Girl
Scout Troop number 30385 for
interactive storytelling followed by a
craft. They will be reading Where the
While Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
Best for children ages 3 and older.
Free. For more information email
conrad@smcl.org.
Bahais Host Interfaith Prayers in
Memory of Treyvon Martin. 2 p.m.
Pacica Sharp Park Library, 104 Hilton
Way, Pacifica. An interfaith prayer
gathering is being held for race unity
in memory of Treyvon Martin. This
event is hosted by the Bahai
Community of Pacifica, whose core
belief is unity and peace among all
races, nationalities and religions. Free.
For more information call 557-4695.
Kung fu-kids Open House. Noon to
3 p.m. Shao Lin Culture Center, 217
Claremont St., San Mateo. Come in for
a sneak preview of Shaloin Culture
Centers Kung fu-kids after school
program. The open house will have
food, presentations, kung fu and lion
dance performances. There will also
be a change to sign up early to save
time and cost. The rst 20 RSVPs will
be entered into a door prize to win
free camp weeks. For more
information call (888) 669-8219 ext.
105 or email
info@shaolinkungfu.com.
Golden Chordsmen Present After
Youve Gone. 2 p.m. Burlingame
Intermediate School, 1715 Quesada
Drive, Burlingame. The Golden
Chordsmen, the northern Peninsulas
contingent of the national
Barbershop Harmony Society, will be
presenting this brand of melodic
merriment at their upcoming Spring
Show entitled After Youve Gone.
Tickets are $25 for reserved seating,
$20 for general admission, and $15
for children and seniors. Call 344-7464
or visit www.goldenchordsmen.org
for more information.
Diablo Ballet performs. 2 p.m.
Hillbarn Theatre, 1285 E. Hillsdale
Blvd., Foster City. Works by some of
the top choreographers in the Bay
Area and the world. $45 adults. $20
youth. For more information visit
www.HillbarnTheatre.org or
www.diabloballet.org.
Drum Clinic with Stanton Moore. 2
p.m. Drum World, 1220 S. El Camino
Real, San Mateo. Space is limited.
Admission $15, cash only.To reserve a
space or for more information call
572-9900.
Zumbathon for Autism Awareness.
5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Peninsula Jewish
Community Center (PJCC), 800 Foster
City Blvd., Foster City. Third annual
event which benefits Autism Speak.
For more information call 378-2723.
San Carlos Lions Club Crab
Cioppino and Bingo Party. Doors
and no-host bar opens at 5:30 p.m.
Cioppino served at 6 p.m. Bingo
begins at 7 p.m. Mahaney Hall, 1336
Arroyo Ave. $30 adults. $15 kids 12 and
under. For more information call 597-
1777. Proceeds benet the San Carlos
Museum of History and San Carlos
youth and community activities.
Family Concert. 7 p.m. San Mateo
Public Library, 55 W. Third Ave., San
Mateo. Quartet San Francisco
redefines the sound of chamber
music. For more information call 762-
1130.
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if youre really, really, really lucky.
Q: What do I do with the ticket?
A: Before anything else, sign the back
of the ticket. That will stop anyone else
from claiming your riches if you happen
to drop it while youre jumping up and
down. Then make a photocopy and lock
it in a safe. At the very least, keep it
where you know its protected. A Rhode
Island woman who won a $336 million
Powerball jackpot in February hid the
ticket in her Bible before going out to
breakfast.
Q: What next?
A: Relax; breathe; take time to think
about your next move. Dont do any-
thing youll regret for the next 30 years,
like calling your best friend or every one
of your aunts, uncles and cousins. It
doesnt take long to be overwhelmed by
long-lost friends, charities and churches
wanting to share your good fortune.
Youve waited a lifetime to hit the jack-
pot; you can wait a few days before
going on a spending spree.
Q: So whom should I tell rst?
A: Contacting a lawyer and a nancial
planner would be a lot wiser than updat-
ing your Facebook status. Make sure its
someone you can trust and, its hoped,
dealt with before. If you dont have any-
one in mind, ask a close family member
or friend. Oklahoma City attorney
Richard Craig, whose rm has repre-
sented a handful of lottery winners, says
its essential to assemble a team of nan-
cial managers, tax experts, accountants
and bankers.
Q: Remind me, how much did I
win?
A: As it stands now, the MEGA
Millions will pay out a lump sum of
$359 million before taxes. The annual
payments over 26 years will amount to
just over $19 million before taxes.
Q: How much will I pay in taxes?
A: This partly depends on where you
live. Federal tax is 25 percent; then
theres your state income tax. In Ohio,
for example, thats another 6 percent.
And you might need to pay a city tax
depending on the local tax rules. So
count on about a third of your winnings
going to the government.
Q: Should I take the cash payout or
annual payments?
A: This is the big question, and most
people think taking the lump sum is the
smart move. Thats not always the case.
First, spreading the payments out pro-
tects you from becoming the latest lot-
tery winner whos lost all their money.
Don McNay, author of the book Son of
a Son of a Gambler: Winners, Losers and
What to Do When You Win the Lottery,
says nine out of 10 winners go through
their money in ve years or less. Its too
much, too fast, he says. Nobody is
around them putting the brakes on the
situation.
Q: But what if Im good at manag-
ing the money?
A: Invested properly, the lump sum
option can be a good choice. Theres
more planning that you can use to reduce
estate taxes and other nancial incen-
tives. Others, though, say that with annu-
al payments, you are taxed on the money
only as it comes in, so that will put you
in a lower tax bracket rather than taking
a big hit on getting a lump sum. And you
still can shelter the money in tax-free
investments and take advantage of tax
law changes over the years.
Q: Should I try to shield my identi-
ty?
A: Absolutely. This will protect you
from people who want you to invest in
their business scheme or those who need
cash in an emergency. Lottery winners
are besieged by dozens of people and
charities looking for help. There are
people who do that for a living. Unless
you understand that, you can become a
victim very quickly, says Steve
Thornton, an attorney in Bowling Green,
Ky., who has represented two jackpot
winners.
Q: So how can I protect myself?
A: Again, it somewhat depends on
where you live. In Ohio, you can form a
trust to manage the money and keep
your winnings a secret. In other states,
you can form a trust but still be discov-
ered through public records. And a few
states require you to show up and receive
your oversized check in front of a bunch
of cameras, making it impossible to stay
anonymous. Thornton set up a corpora-
tion in the late 1990s to protect the iden-
tity of a client in Kentucky who won $11
million. No one had done this before,
and there were legal questions about
whether a corporation can win, he says.
We were able to hide their names.
Q: Is it OK to splurge a little?
A: Sure, its why you bought a ticket,
right? Get it out of your system, but
dont go overboard, McNay says. But
remember that if theres a new
Mercedes-Benz in the driveway, your
neighbors will probably be able to gure
out who won the jackpot.
Q: How much should I help my
family and others?
A: Its certainly a natural desire to
help relatives in need and take care of
future generations. But use extreme cau-
tion when giving out your money. Jack
Whittaker, a West Virginia contractor
who won a nearly $315 million
Powerball jackpot in 2002, quickly fell
victim to scandals, lawsuits and person-
al setbacks. His foundation spent $23
million building two churches, and hes
been involved in hundreds of legal
actions. If you win, just dont give any
money away, because the more money
you give away, the more they want you
to give. And once you start giving it
away, everybody will label you an easy
touch and be right there after you. And
that includes everybody, Whittaker said
ve years ago.
LOTTO
deliver for consideration in June. The
extra set of hearings this week gave the
supervisors an early chance to provide
feedback and request more information
before interim County Manager John
Maltbies ofce submits his recommend-
ed budget by June 1. Rather than focus-
ing on a specic budget percentage to
cut, the department heads were told to
maintain public services at current levels
for the next scal year as much as possi-
ble while working on sustainable nan-
cial plans.
Maltbies ve-year plan is a mix of
new revenue, cuts and reorganizations
that he estimates if taken together
can move from a current $28 million
decit to a surplus ranging between $6
million and $35 million depending upon
the year. While Maltbie acknowledged
Monday the likelihood all will come to
pass is slim, he said any of them will
make a dent in the countys structural
decit. Voters will be asked in June to
pass taxes on hotel occupancy, parking
and rental cars. On Monday, Maltbie
also sent an email to management, attor-
neys and administrative employees who
work with management announcing they
will now split retirement costs with the
county beginning in September.
Yesterday, Maltbie told the board the
county is looking at about $3 million in
salary and benet increases but that will
be offset by $2.1 million health benet
cost reductions due primarily to
increased employee contributions.
While some subjects seemed to have
anonymous support aiding the cash-
strapped parks system and moving
toward cities paying more for public
safety dispatching, for instance the
supervisors were not always in agree-
ment on the approach. While using
parolees and youth for parks mainte-
nance was well-received, the future of
the Devils Slide trail was mixed. At
some point, the department must spend
$1.29 million to convert Highway 1 into
part of a coastal pedestrian trail as part
of the Devils Slide project slated to
open in 2013.
Groom suggested working with elect-
ed ofcials to negotiate over that while
Horsley said the county will have a lia-
bility if it does nothing.
Pine called the plan to use 66 percent
of the countys educational revenue aug-
mentation funds an extraordinary
amount while Tissier suggested that
money was meant for a rainy day
namely now and the county is pro-
jecting a future surplus. Likewise,
Tissier did not agree with Pines idea to
use public safety tax funds to aid re
service. Instead, she prefers looking at
consolidation.
Tissier called for creativity, such as
working with the Silicon Valley
Foundation on matching funds for child
care, aggressively looking for new uses
or partnerships at juvenile camps Kemp
and Glenwood and analyzing the coun-
tys costs for food and medication at its
detention facilities and hospital.
In June, Maltbie anticipates some sug-
gestions for the parks but said a long-
term strategic plan is going to take much
more time. The same goes for the $16
million private defender program con-
tract expiring this year, he said.
Maltbie said he wants a performance
evaluation completed in conjunction
with the negotiations and said that might
be better timed for September.
The supervisors will hold a week of
hearings on the recommended budget in
June followed by nal approval in late
September.
Michelle Durand can be reached by email:
michelle@smdailyjournal.com or by phone:
(650) 344-5200 ext. 102.
BUDGET
Sunni rulers largely
shun Iraq at Arab summit
BAGHDAD Sunni Muslim rulers
largely shunned an Arab League summit
hosted by Shiite-led Iraq on Thursday,
illustrating how powerfully the sectarian
split and the rivalry with Iran dene
Middle Eastern politics in the era of the
Arab Spring.
The crisis in Syria is the epicenter of
those divisions. The one-day summit
closed with a joint call on Syrian
President Bashar Assad to stop his
bloody crackdown on an uprising seek-
ing his ouster. But the nal statement
barely papered over the differences
among the Arab nations over how to deal
with the longest-running regional revolt.
What disturbs the breeze of our Arab
Spring and lls our hearts with sadness
is the scenes of slaughter and torture
committed by the Syrian regime against
our brothers and sisters in Syria, said
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, leader of Libyas
National Transitional Council.
Israel braces for
Arab protests on Friday
JERUSALEM Israel on Thursday
stepped up preparations a day before a
series of planned Arab protests, deploy-
ing thousands of troops and police
across the country and along its borders
in anticipation of possible violence.
On Friday, Israeli Arabs and
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza
are marking Land Day, an annual protest
against what they say are discriminatory
Israeli land policies. Supporters in
neighboring Arab countries planned
marches near the Israeli borders in a sol-
idarity event they call a Global March
to Jerusalem.
While organizers said the events
would be nonviolent, Israels army and
police were girding for trouble after sim-
ilar protests last year turned deadly.
At least 15 people were killed in
clashes with Israeli soldiers when they
tried to cross the Syrian and Lebanese
borders with Israel in a May protest
marking Palestinian sorrow over Israels
creation in 1948.
Around the world
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3:00 a.m. or San Francisco earlier.
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106 Tutoring
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French,
Italian
Certificated Local
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110 Employment
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great references.
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Call for Greg at
(650) 556-9906
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pay & benefits, Sign-on bonus, 1yr exp
required.
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(408)280-7039 or (888)340-2273
JEWELRY STORE
HIRING!!!
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Bonus, No Nights
(714)542-9000, Ext. 147
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mailto: jobs@jewelryexchange.com
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INTERNSHIPS
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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
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110 Employment
NEWSPAPER INTERNS
JOURNALISM
The Daily Journal is looking for in-
terns to do entry level reporting, re-
search, updates of our ongoing fea-
tures and interviews. Photo interns al-
so welcome.
We expect a commitment of four to
eight hours a week for at least four
months. The internship is unpaid, but
intelligent, aggressive and talented in-
terns have progressed in time into
paid correspondents and full-time re-
porters.
College students or recent graduates
are encouraged to apply. Newspaper
experience is preferred but not neces-
sarily required.
Please send a cover letter describing
your interest in newspapers, a resume
and three recent clips. Before you ap-
ply, you should familiarize yourself
with our publication. Our Web site:
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Send your information via e-mail to
news@smdailyjournal.com or by reg-
ular mail to 800 S. Claremont St #210,
San Mateo CA 94402.
SALES
Experienced, bilingual
sales person wanted.
Must have excellent
customer service
skills. Work on the
Peninsula.
Call (650)533-4424
Ask for Oleg
203 Public Notices
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #249235
The following person is doing business
as: JPs Shaved Ice, 1536 Kalmia St.,
SAN MATEO, CA 94402 is hereby regis-
tered by the following owner: Josephine
Parker, same address. The business is
conducted by an Individual. The regis-
trants commenced to transact business
under the FBN on
/s/ Josephine Parker /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk on 03/06/2012. (Pub-
lished in the San Mateo Daily Journal,
03/09/12, 03/16/12, 03/23/12, 03/30/12)
STATEMENT #249155
as: 1) Elevate Performance, 2) EPPT,
2575 East Bayshore Rd., REDWOOD
CITY, CA 94063 is hereby registered by
the following owner: Elevate Perform-
ance and Physical Therapy, INC, CA.
The business is conducted by a Corpora-
tion. The registrants commenced to
transact business under the FBN on
10/31/2011.
/s/ Nadine Waeghe /
03/09/12, 03/16/12, 03/23/12, 03/30/12)
STATEMENT #249229
as: Intermountain Electric Company, 947
Washington St., SAN CARLOS, CA
94070 is hereby registered by the follow-
ing owner: Intermountain Electric Com-
pany, CA. The business is conducted by
a Corporation. The registrants com-
menced to transact business under the
FBN on 04/01/2003
/s/ Stacey Signorello /
03/09/12, 03/16/12, 03/23/12, 03/30/12)
STATEMENT #249293
as: Evsens Advertisement, 1198 Laurel
St. #A, SAN CARLOS, CA 94070 is
hereby registered by the following owner:
Baris Evsen, same address. The busi-
ness is conducted by an Individual. The
registrants commenced to transact busi-
ness under the FBN on 03/07/2012
/s/ Baris Evsen /
03/09/12, 03/16/12, 03/23/12, 03/30/12)
Tundra Tundra Tundra
Over the Hedge Over the Hedge Over the Hedge
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.
Fax your request to: 650-344-5290
Email them to: ads@smdailyjournal.com
203 Public Notices
STATEMENT #249398
as: Stanaland & Company, 400 South El
Camino, Suite 620, SAN MATEO, CA
94402 is hereby registered by the follow-
ing owner: Russell Stanaland, same ad-
dress. The business is conducted by an
individual. The registrants commenced to
transact business under the FBN on
/s/ Russell Stanaland /
03/16/12, 03/23/12, 03/30/12, 04/06/12)
STATEMENT #249402
The following persons are doing busi-
ness as: Asobo Crafts, 2841 Tramanto
Dr., SAN CARLOS, CA 94070 is hereby
registered by the following owners: Leslie
Okamura, same address and Carol
Wang, 2616 Meta Dr., San Jose, CA
95130. The business is conducted by a
General Partnership. The registrants
commenced to transact business under
the FBN on
/s/ Leslie Okamura /
03/16/12, 03/23/12, 03/30/12, 04/06/12)
STATEMENT #249387
as: Urbano Limo Service, 197 87th St.,
DALY CITY, CA 94015 is hereby regis-
tered by the following owner: Joab Nasci-
mento, 161 Country Club Apt. 25, South
San Francisco, CA 94080. The business
is conducted by an individual. The regis-
under the FBN on
/s/ Joab Nascimento /
03/16/12, 03/23/12, 03/30/12, 04/06/12)
STATEMENT #249481
as: Maya 8, 7455 El Camino Real, Ste A,
DALY CITY, CA 94014 is hereby regis-
tered by the following owner: Maya 8,
INC., CA. The business is conducted by
a Corporation. The registrants com-
FBN on
/s/ Benito Pua /
03/23/12, 03/30/12, 04/06/12, 04/13/12)
STATEMENT #249466
as: Advantage Limo, 210 Industrial
Road, #210, SAN CARLOS, CA 94070 is
Bechir Romdhane, 1414 San Carlos Ave,
#204, CA 94070. The business is con-
ducted by an Individual. The registrants
the FBN on
/s/ Bechir Romdhane /
03/23/12, 03/30/12, 04/06/12, 04/13/12)
STATEMENT #249498
as: Pages With Love, 108 Glasgow
Lane, SAN CARLOS, CA 94070 is here-
by registered by the following owner: Ju-
lianne Kostainsek, same address. The
business is conducted by an Individual.
The registrants commenced to transact
business under the FBN on
/s/ Julianne Kostainsek /
03/23/12, 03/30/12, 04/06/12, 04/13/12)
STATEMENT #249382
as: Archerbennett Insurance Services,
111 Anza Blvd., Suite 106, BURLIN-
GAME, CA 94010 is hereby registered
by the following owner: Theresa Bennett
Corporation, CA. The business is con-
ducted by a Corporation. The registrants
the FBN on 07/30/2004
/s/ Theresa Bennett /
03/23/12, 03/30/12, 04/06/12, 04/13/12)
STATEMENT #249082
as: Cali Mobile Detail. 329 Greenfield
Ave., SAN MATEO, CA 94403 is hereby
registered by the following owner: Amir
Ali Neshat, same address. The business
is conducted by an Individual. The regis-
under the FBN on
/s/ Amir Ali Neshat /
03/23/12, 03/30/12, 04/06/12, 04/13/12)
STATEMENT #249634
The following persons are doing busi-
ness as: 1) Larry P. Chao Insurance
Services, INC. 2) Larry P. Chao Insur-
ance Agency, 199 California Dr. #206,
MILLBRAE, CA 94030 is hereby regis-
tered by the following owners: Larry P.
Chao Insurance Services, INC., CA and
Larry P. Chao Ins. Agency, CA. The
business is conducted by a Corporation.
business under the FBN on 08/02/1983
/s/ Julie C. Chao /
03/30/12, 04/06/12, 04/13/12, 04/20/12).
203 Public Notices
STATEMENT #249651
as: Joe Lowenstein Supply, 401 Bayswa-
ter Ave., BURLINGAME, CA 94010 is
Joe Lowenstein, same address. The
business is conducted by an Individual.
business under the FBN on
/s/ Joe Lowenstein /
03/30/12, 04/06/12, 04/13/12, 04/20/12).
STATEMENT #249657
as: XD Espresso Service, 525 3rd Ave.,
SAN BRUNO, CA 94066 is hereby reg-
istered by the following owner: Sompong
Deewarat, same address. The business
is conducted by an Individual. The regis-
under the FBN on
/s/ Sompong Deewarat /
03/30/12, 04/06/12, 04/13/12, 04/20/12).
STATEMENT #249684
as: Cyclepath, 1212 S. El Camino Real,
SAN MATEO, CA 94402 is hereby regis-
tered by the following owner: Arkadiy
Drannikos, 1031 Reed Ave., Sunnyvale,
CA 94086. The business is conducted
by an Individual. The registrants com-
FBN on
/s/ Arkadiy Drannikos /
03/30/12, 04/06/12, 04/13/12, 04/20/12).
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF
MERLE B. NATION
Case Number 122135
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, con-
tingent creditors, and persons who may
otherwise be interested in the will or es-
tate, or both, of: MERLE B. NATION. A
Petition for Probate has been filed by Ab-
dul Gassama in the Superior Court of
California, County of San Mateo. The
Petition of Probate requests that Abdul
Gassama be appointed as personal rep-
resentative to administer the estate of
the decedent.
The petition requests authority to admin-
ister the estate under the Independent
Administration of Estates Act. (This au-
thority will allow the personal representa-
tive to take many actions without obtain-
ing court approval. Before taking certain
very important actions, however, the per-
sonal representative will be required to
give notice to interested persons unless
they have waived notice or consented to
the proposed action.) The independent
administration authority will be granted
unless an interested person files an ob-
jection of the petition and shows good
cause why the court should not grant the
authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in
this court as follows: April 24, 2012 at
9:00 a.m., Dept: 28, Superior Court of
California, County of San Mateo, 400
County Center, Redwood City, CA
94063. If you object to the granting of
the petition, you should appear at the
hearing and state your objections or file
written objections with the court before
the hearing. Your appearance may be in
person or by your attorney. If you are a
creditor or a contingent creditor of the
decedent, you must file your claim with
the court and mail a copy to the personal
representative appointed by the court
within four months from the date of first
issuance of letters as provided in Pro-
bate Code section 9100. The time for fil-
ing claims will not expire before four
months from the hearing date noticed
above. You may examine the file kept by
the court. If you are a person interested
in the estate, you may file with the court
a Request for Special Notice (form DE-
154) of the filing of an inventory and ap-
praisal of estate assets or of any petition
or account as provided in Probate Code
section 1250. A Request for Special No-
tice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner:
Endy Ukoha-Ajike, SBN#215337
The Ukoha-Ajike Law Group P.C.
1330 Broadway, Suite 515
Oakland, CA 94612
(510)834-9945
Dated: 03/09/12
Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal
on March 16, 23, 30, 2012.
210 Lost & Found
FOUND AT Chase Bank parking lot in
Burlingame 3 volume books "temple" and
others 650 344-6565
LOST - 2 silver rings and silver watch,
May 7th in Burlingame between Park Rd.
& Walgreens, Sentimental value. Call
Gen @ (650)344-8790
LOST - Small Love Bird, birght green
with orange breast. Adeline Dr. & Bernal
Ave., Burlingame. Escaped Labor Day
weekend. REWARD! (650)343-6922
210 Lost & Found
LOST: SMALL diamond cross, silver
necklace with VERY sentimental
meaning. Lost in San Mateo 2/6/12
(650)578-0323.
LOST: Center cap from wheel of Cadil-
lac. Around Christmas time. Chrome with
multi-colored Cadillac emblem in center.
Small hole near edge for locking device.
Belmont or San Carlos area.
Joel 650-592-1111.
294 Baby Stuff
REDMON WICKER baby bassinet $25
OBO Crib Mattress $10 650 678-4398
295 Art
6 FRAMED colored modern art pictures
36" by 26" $90 for all or $15 each
(650)345-5502
296 Appliances
CHOPPERS (4) with instructions $7/all.
(650)368-3037
ELECTRIC HEATER - Oil filled electric
heater, 1500 watts, $30., (650)504-3621
JACK LA LANNE JUICER NEVER
USED $20 (650)458-8280
LARGE REFRIGERATOR works good
$70 or B/O (650) 589-1871
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, ex-
cellent condition, $30., (415)346-6038
VACUUM CLEANER excellent condition
$45. (650)878-9542
WASHER & DRYER - Kenmore, electric,
heavy duty, runs great, SSF, $100. each,
(650)583-8069
298 Collectibles
1936 BERLIN OLYMPIC PIN, $99.,
(650)365-1797
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
2 MADAME ALEXANDER Dolls. $50
each or best offer.(650)589-8348
65 EUROPEAN Used Postage Stamps.
Some issued before 1920. All different.
Includes stamps from England, France,
and Germany. $5.00 SOLD!
ARMY SHIRT, long sleeves, with pock-
ets. XL $15 each (408)249-3858
BAY MEADOWS bag - $30.each,
(650)345-1111
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 / al-
so have extra lights, $50., (650)593-8880
COLLECTIBLES: RUSSELL Baze Bob-
bleheads Bay Meadows, $10 EA. brand
new in original box. (415)612-0156
COLORIZED TERRITORIAL Quarters
uncirculated with Holder $15/all,
(408)249-3858
DECORATIVE COLLECTOR BOTTLES
- Empty, Jim Beam, $8. each, (650)364-
7777
GAYLORD PERRY 8x10 signed photo
$10 (650)692-3260
JACK TASHNER signed ball $25. Ri-
chard (650)834-4926
JOE MONTANA signed authentic retire-
ment book, $39., (650)692-3260
MARK MCGUIRE hats, cards, beanie
babies, all for $98., (650)520-8558
ORIGINAL SMURF FIGURES - 1979-
1981, 18+ mushroom hut, 1 1/2 x 3 1/2,
all $40., (650)518-0813
PEDAL CAR 1950's vintage "No Rust"
rare $100 obo. SOLD!
PRECIOUS MOMENTS vinyl dolls - 16,
3 sets of 2, $35. each set, (650)518-0813
299 Computers
HP PRINTER Deskjet 970c color printer.
Excellent condition. Software & accesso-
ries included. $30. 650-574-3865
PRINTER - Epson Stylus NX1000, copy,
print, scans, includes some ink cartridg-
es, $25. obo, (650)349-6969
300 Toys
BILINGUAL POWER lap top
6 actividaes $18 650 349-6059
302 Antiques
1912 COFFEE Percolator Urn. perfect
condition includes electric cord $85.
(415)565-6719
302 Antiques
CHINA CABINET - Vintage, 6 foot,
solid mahogany. $300/obo.
(650)867-0379
VINTAGE FISHING LURES - (10) at be-
tween $45. & $100. each, CreekChub,
Helin Tackle, Arbogast, some in original
boxes, (650)257-7481
303 Electronics
19" TOSHIBA LCD color TV $99
(650)343-4461
3 SHELF SPEAKERS - 8 OM, $15.
each, (650)364-0902
32 TOSHIBA Flat screen TV like new,
bought 9/9/11 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
PS2 GAME console $75.00
(650)591-4710
TOSHIBA 42 LCD flat screen TV HD in
very good condition, $300., Call at
(650)533-9561
TV SET Philips 21 inch with remote $40.,
(650)692-3260
ZENITH TV 12" $50 650 755-9833 (Daly
City). (650)755-9833
304 Furniture
2 DINETTE Chairs both for $29
(650)692-3260
2 END Tables solid maple '60's era
$40/both. (650)670-7545
ADJUSTABLE BED. Full size, pillow top
w/ remote + massage. $2800 new. Must
sell $500 OBO (in Daly City)
call (650)646-8169
ARMOIRE CABINET - $90., Call
(415)375-1617
BEAUTIFUL ORIENTAL Table. 32" by
32" 12" legs, Rosewood, Lightweight,
$75 650 871-7200
BED - King size, Somma Infinity Flota-
tion bed, includes 10 large tubes, foam
enclosure with plastic covers & indented
foam mattress cover, SOLD!
BOOKSHELF $10.00 (650)591-4710
BREAKFAST NOOK DINETTE TABLE-
solid oak, 53X66, $19., (650)583-8069
CAST AND metal headboard and foot-
board. white with brass bars, Queen size
$95 650-588-7005
CHANDELIER WITH 5 lights/ candela-
bre base with glass shades $20.
(650)504-3621
COFFEE TABLE - 30 x 58, light oak,
heavy, 1980s, $40., (650)348-5169
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, 650-
245-3661
DISPLAY CASE wood & glass 31 x 19
inches $30. (650)873-4030
DOUBLE BED mattress and box spring
$25., SOLD!
DRAFTING TABLE 30 x 42' with side
tray. excellent cond $75. (650)949-2134
DRESSER - darkwood six drawer dress-
er with mirror and matching nightstand,
$30., (650)574-4439
DRUM TABLE - brown, perfect condi-
tion, nice design, with storage, $45.,
(650)345-1111
DUNCAN PHYFE Mahogany china
cabinet with bow glass. $250, O/B.
Mahogany Duncan Phyfe dining room
table $150, O/B. Round mahogany side
table $150, O/B. (650)271-3618
END TABLES (2) - One for $5. hand
carved, other table is antique white mar-
ble top with drawer $40., (650)308-6381
FOLDING PICNIC table - 8 x 30, 7 fold-
ing, padded chairs, $80. (650)364-0902
304 Furniture
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
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, $15.
SSF (650)583-8069
MODULAR DESK/BOOKCASE/STOR-
AGE unit - Cherry veneer, white lami-
nate, $75., (650)888-0039
OFFICE LAMP, small. Black & white with
pen holder and paper holder. Brand new,
in the box. $10 (650)867-2720
PAPASAN CHAIRS (2) -with cushions
$45. each set, (650)347-8061
PEDESTAL DINETTE 36 Square Table
- $65., (650)347-8061
ROCKING CHAIR - Traditional, full size
Rocking chair. Excellent condition $100.,
(650)504-3621
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
TRUNDLE BED - Single with wheels,
$40., (650)347-8061
TWIN BED SET - including box springs
and mattresses, night stand and chest of
drawers. Made of solid wood with inter-
esting detailing. White. $500., (650)376-
3146
VANITY ETHAN Allen maple w/drawer
and liftup mirror like new $95
(650)349-2195
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 elevat-
ed toilet seat. New. $45. (650)343-4461
LAMPS - 2 southwestern style lamps
with engraved deer. $85 both, obo,
(650)343-4461
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 hold-
ers, still in box, $9., (650)755-8238
307 Jewelry & Clothing
BRACELET - Ladies authentic Murano
glass from Italy, vibrant colors, like new,
$100., (650)991-2353 Daly City
GALLON SIZE bag of costume jewelry -
various sizes, colors, $80. for bag,
(650)589-2893
LADIES GOLD Lame' elbow length-
gloves sz 7.5 $15 New. (650)868-0436
308 Tools
18 VOLT ROYBI circular saw & Sawall
with charger both $40 SOLD!
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
308 Tools
CRAFTSMAN 3/4 horse power 3,450
RPM $60 (650)347-5373
CRAFTSMAN ARC-WELDER - 30-250
amp, and accessories, $275., (650)341-
0282
DAYTON ELECTRIC 1 1/2 horse power
1,725 RPM $60 (650)347-5373
DAYTON ELECTRIC 1 1/2 horse power
3,450 RPM $50 (650)347-5373
HAND DRILL $6.00 (415) 333-8540
LAWN MOWER reel type push with
height adjustments. Just sharpened $45
650-591-2144 San Carlos
MEDIUM DUTY Hand Truck $50
650 593-7553
TABLE SAW 10", very good condition
$85. (650) 787-8219
309 Office Equipment
ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER Smith Corona
$60. (650)878-9542
OFFICE LAMP new $7. (650)345-1111
310 Misc. For Sale
10 PLANTS (assorted) for $3.00 each,
(650)349-6059
10 WALL shelfs with brackets 24" to 50"
by 5" wide $30 for all, SOLD!
100 SPORT Books 70's thru 90's A's,
Giants, & 49ers $100 for all
650 207-2712
100 SPORT Photo's A's, Giants, & 49ers
$100 for all 650 207-2712
12 DAYS of Christmas vintage drinking
Glasses 1970 Color prints Prefect
condition original box $25 (650)873-8167
1970 TIFFANY style swag lamp with
opaque glass, $59., (650)692-3260
2 TODDLER car seats, hardly used.
Both for $75.00. (650)375-1246
21 PIECE Punch bowl glass set $55.,
(650)341-8342
21-PIECE HAIR cut kit, home pro, Wahl,
never used, $25. (650)871-7200
29 BOOKS - Variety of authors, $25.,
(650)589-2893
3 CRAFT BOOKS - hardcover, over 500
projects, $40., (650)589-2893
30 ADULT Magazines, 18 Adult VHS
movies & $ Dvds $40., also 50 Computer
Game Magazines $40., (650)574-3141
30 DISNEY Books $1.00 each
650 368-3037
4 IN 1 stero unit. CD player broken. $20
650-834-4926
5 CUP electric coffee marker $8.00
650 368-3037
5 PHOTOGRAPHIC CIVIL WAR
BOOKS plus 4 volumes of Abraham Lin-
coln war years books, $90., B/O must
see, (650)345-5502
6 BASKETS with handles, all various
colors and good sizes, great for many
uses, all in good condition. $15 all
(650)347-5104
7 UNDERBED STORAGE BINS - Vinyl
with metal frame, 42 X 18 X 6, zipper
closure, $5. ea., (650)364-0902
9 CARRY-ON bags (assorted) - extra
large, good condition, $10. each obo,
(650)349-6059
AMERICAN HERITAGE books 107 Vol-
umes Dec.'54-March '81 $99/all
(650)345-5502
ANGEL WITH lights 12 inches High $12.
(650)368-3037
AREA RUG - 8x8 round, 100% wool pile,
color ivory, black, SOLD!
ART BOOKS hard Cover, full color (10)
Norman Rockwell and others $10 each
650-364-7777
ARTIFICIAL FICUS Tree 6 ft. life like, full
branches. in basket $55. (650)269-3712
BABY CAR SEAT AND CARRIER $20
(650)458-8280
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD hard-
back books. 4 at $3.00 each or all for
$10., Call (650)341-1861
BBQ SMOKER, w/propane tank, wheels,
shelf, sears model $86 650-344-8549
ACROSS
1 Legendary kicker
5 Go slowly
9 Start to strip?
13 Neural
transmitter
14 Old carrier
16 Count (on)
17 Actor roomies
mailbox label that
sounds like
racing groups?
19 Fifty-fifty
20 In the wrong way
21 On a cargo ship,
say
23 Mink cousin
24 Actor/flutist
roomies mailbox
label that sounds
like a crook?
28 Jodie Foster title
role
31 First apartment,
perhaps
32 TV host/singer
roomies mailbox
label that sounds
like a vital sign?
37 Begins a concert
tour
38 Flamenco shout
39 Cyberspace giant
41 Waikiki wreath
42 Digestion-related
commercial prefix
45 Actress/comic
roomies mailbox
label that sounds
like an auto
safety feature?
48 Youth who flew
too near the sun
50 Appointment
51 Actress/cartoonist
roomies mailbox
label that sounds
like an airport
employee?
54 Frankfurts state
58 Winningest NFL
coach
59 Resentful
60 Former eft
63 Screenwriter/actor
roomies mailbox
label that sounds
like an old
announcer?
65 Track
66 Net business
67 Sesame Street
giggler
68 Heredity unit
69 Now! relative
70 Road sign
silhouette
DOWN
1 Half a 60s
quartet
2 Get a life?
3 Game you
usually lose
4 3-Down player, e.g.
5 Nimble
6 Seine filler
7 30-ton computer
8 Ristorante offering
9 Invent
10 Gun
11 Stein filler
12 MD for women
15 Desert rises
18 Work the party, in
a way
22 Opposite of exo-
25 A Passage to
India heroine
26 Montana, once
27 Respectful
response
29 Not clerical
30 Alibi provider,
sometimes
32 Pueblo people
33 Smart guy?
34 Make good on
35 However, briefly
36 Blabbed
40 Plug end?
43 Railroad crossing
44 That hurt my
feelings!
46 Code of conduct
47 Visibly furious
49 Cook on the
range
52 Conspires
53 Poke, kitten-style
55 Elegance
56 Note next to a
red F, maybe
57 Miscue
59 Circular road
60 Frothy traditional
beverage
61 __ of
Destruction:
1965 protest
song
62 Pallid
64 Peeples of Fame
By Pancho Harrison
(c)2012 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
03/30/12
03/30/12
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
xwordeditor@aol.com
310 Misc. For Sale
BARBIE BEACH vacation & Barbie prin-
cess bride computer games $15 each,
(650)367-8949
BBQ GILL with Cover 31/2' wide by 3'
tall hardly used $49. 650 347-9920
BBQ KETTEL Grill, Uniflame 21 SOLD!
BBQ SMOKER BBQ Grill, LP Coleman,
Alaskan Cookin Machine, cost $140 sell
$75. 650-344-8549
BEADS - Glass beads for jewelry mak-
ing, $75. all, (650)676-0732
BEAUTIFUL LAMPSHADE - cone shap-
ed, neutral color beige, 11.5 long X 17
wide, matches any decor, never used,
excellent condition, Burl, $18.,
(650)347-5104
BIRD FEEDER 3" high, free standing,
sturdy, and never used $15
(415) 333-8540
BOOK "LIFETIME" WW1 $12.,
(408)249-3858
BOOK - Fighting Aircraft of WWII,
Janes, 1000 illustrations, $65.,
(650)593-8880
BOOK NATIONAL Geographic Nation-
al Air Museums, $15 (408)249-3858
CAMPING CUPS and plates (NEW)-B/O
(650)591-4710
CAMPING EQT - Eureka Domain 3
dome tent, med sleeping bag, pad; $25;
(650)343-1746
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)592-2648
COLEMAN PROPANE camp stove
$25.00 (650)591-4710
COLEMAN PROPANE lantern $15.00
(650)591-4710
DOOM (3) computer games $15/each 2
total, (650)367-8949
310 Misc. For Sale
DUFFEL BAGS - 1 Large Duffel Bag ,1
Xtra Lg. Duffel w Wheels, 1 Leather
weekender Satchel, SOLD!
ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER good con-
dition $50., (650)878-9542
ELVIS PRESLEY poster book $20.
(650)692-3260
FOAM SLEEP roll (2)-$10.00/each
(650)591-4710
FOOD SLICER. Oxo Mandolin. Little
used. $15. (650)630-2329
GAME "BEAT THE EXPERTS" never
used $8., (408)249-3858
GEORGE Magazines, 30, all intact
$50/all OBO. (650)574-3229, Foster City
HANGING PLANTER. 2-black plastic-
coated steel, 20" wide, 10" deep. With
chains, hooks. Both for $35
(650)630-2329
HARDBACK BOOKS - Complete set, 6
volumes, by Winston S. Churchill, 2nd
WW, published 1948-1953, great condi-
tion, dustjackets, $90.all, SOLD
HARLEY DAVIDSON black phone, per-
fect condition, $65., (650) 867-2720
JAMES PATTERSON BOOKS - 3 hard-
back @$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 - Hand-
made, portable, wood & see through lid
to open, 45L, 20W, 3H, $65.,
(650)592-2648
LARGE PRINT. Hard Cover. Mystery
Books. Current Author. (20) $1 each
650-364-7777
LIMITED QUANTITY VHS porno tapes,
$8. each, (650)871-7200
MAGNIFYING MIRROR. Swivel, wall
mount, 5Xx1X. Satin nickel finish. New,
in box. $20. (650)630-2329
MANUAL WHEECHAIRS (2) $75 each.
650-343-1826
310 Misc. For Sale
MEN'S ASHTON and Hayes leather
briefcase new. Burgundy color. $65 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
NATURAL GRAVITY WATER SYSTEM
- Alkaline, PH Balance water, with anti-
oxident properties, good for home or of-
fice, brand new, $100., (650)619-9203.
NEW LIVING Yoga Tape for Beginners
$8. 650-578-8306
OLD 5 gal. glass water cooler bottle $50
(650)593-7553
PICTORIAL WORLD History Books
$80/all (650)345-5502
PR. MATCHED PEWTER GOBLETS by
Wilton. Numbered. 7-1/2-in ht.
Excellent bridal gifts or mantel vases.
No polishing. $10/ea.or $18/pr.
(650)341-3288
REMOTE CONTROL car "Traxxas", paid
$200 will accept $40., (650)574-3141
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
TENT $30.00 (650)591-4710
TIRE CHAINS - brand new, in box, never
used, multiple tire sizes, $25., (650)594-
1494
TIRE CHAINS - used once includes rub-
ber tighteners plus carrying case. call for
corresponding tire size, $20.,
(650)345-5446
VASE WITH flowers 2 piece good for the
Holidays, $25., (650) 867-2720
310 Misc. For Sale
VIDEO CENTER 38 inches H 21 inches
W still in box $45., (408)249-3858
VINTAGE TV /RADIO TUBES - 100 of
them for $100. total, (415)672-9206
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 re-
lease walker. Fixed 3" wheels & glider
tips. Brand new. $50. (650)594-1494
WALL LIGHT fixture - 2 lamp with frost-
ed fluted shades, gold metal, great for
bathroom vanity, never used, excellent
condition, $15., Burl, (650)347-5104
WINE CARBOYS, 5 gal. $5 ea., have 2
Daly City (415)333-8540
311 Musical Instruments
2 ORGANS, antique tramp, $100 each.
(650)376-3762
3 ACCORDIONS $110/ea. 1 Small Ac-
cordion $82. (650)376-3762.
ELECTRIC STARCASTER Guitar
black&white with small amplifier $75.
650-358-0421
GUITAR - Classical nylon strings, Suzu-
ki, $85., SOLD!
HAMMOND B-3 Organ and 122 Leslie
Speaker. Excellent condition. $8,500. pri-
vate owner, (650)349-1172
HOHNER CUE stick guitar HW 300 G
Handcrafted $75 650 771-8513
MAGNUS TABLE top Organ:: 2-1/2 oc-
taves. Play by number, chords by letters
Excellent condition, 5 starter books. All
$30. (650)341-3288
PIANO ORGAN, good condition. $110.
(650)376-3762
312 Pets & Animals
SMALL DOG wire cage; pink, two doors
with divider $50.00 (650) 743-9534.
315 Wanted to Buy
GO GREEN!
We Buy GOLD
You Get The
$ Green $
Millbrae Jewelers
Est. 1957
400 Broadway - Millbrae
650-697-2685
316 Clothes
2. WOMEN'S Pink & White Motocycle
Helmet KBC $50 (415)375-1617
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
316 Clothes
BOOTS - purple leather, size 8, ankle
length, $50.obo, (650)592-9141
BRIDAL PETTICOAT: Taffeta. Fitted
waist-to-hip above bouffant crinolines;
ruffled taffeta liners over + under
crinolines. Sz. 10. $20.00 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 la-
dies winter coat - tan colored with green
lapel & hoodie, $100., (650)888-0129
HAT: LADIES wide brim, Leghorn
straw, pouf/bow, pink/red velvet vintage
roses. From Hats On Post, SF-- orig.
$75. Yours for $25. OBO.
650-341-3288.
HAT: MENS black Stetson wool felt fe-
dora; white satin Stetson lining. Look
like Sinatra! Size 7-3/8-- long oval. $25.
650-341-3288.
HAT: LADIES black wool felt Breton
with 1 grosgrain ribbon above broad
brim. Sophisticated--fin the Easter Pa-
rade! $18., (650)341-3288
LADIES 3 PC. SEERSUCKER, (shorts,
slacks, jacket (short sleeves), blue/white
stripe. Sz 12, Excellent condition. $12.
all, (650)341-3288
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 zip-
pered flannel plaid liner size 12 RWC
$15. (650)868-0436
LEATHER JACKETS (5) - used but not
abused. Like New, $100 each.
(650)670-2888
LEVIS MENS jeans - Size 42/30, well
faded, excellent condition, $10.,
(650)595-3933
MANS SUEDE-LIKE jacket, Brown.
New, XXLg. SOLD!
MEN'S SUIT almost new $25.
650-573-6981
MENS DESIGNER ties in spring colors,
bag of 20 ties $50 (650)245-3661
MENS DRESS SHOES - bostonian cas-
ual 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)347-5104
MENS SHIRTS - Brand names, Polos,
casual long sleeve dress, golf polo,
tshirts, sizes M/L, great condition, Burl,
$83., (650)347-5104
NANCY'S
TAILORING &
BOUTIQUE
Custom Made & Alterations
889 Laurel Street
San Carlos, CA 94070
650-622-9439
316 Clothes
NEW BROWN LEATHER JACKET- XL
$25., 650-364-0902
NINE WEST. 3 black handbags. Very
good condition. All for $10. (650)630-
2329
PICTURE HAT: Leghorn straw, pouf
bow, vintage red/pink velvet roses. Fem-
inine Easter Bonnet! From: Hats On
Post, SF @ $75. Steal at $20.,
(650)341-3288
REVERSIBLE, SOUVENIR JACKET
San Francisco: All-weather, zip-front,
hood. Weatherproof 2-tone tan.; Inner:
navy fleece, logos SF & GG bridge.
$15.00 (650)341-3288
SNOW BOOTS, MEN'S size 12. Brand
New, Thermolite brand,(with zippers),
black, $18. (510) 527-6602
VINTAGE CLOTHING 1930 Ermine fur
coat Black full length $35 650 755-9833
VINTAGE WOMEN'S hats various styles
B/O, Daly City, (650)755-9833
WOMEN'S BLACK Motorcycle Jacket
Size M Stella/Alpine Star $80. obo
(415)375-1617
WOMEN'S VINTAGE clothing $5.00 &
up, Daly City, (650)755-9833
317 Building Materials
WHITE STORM/SCREEN door. Size is
35 1/4" x 79 1/4". Asking $75.00. Call
(650)341-1861
318 Sports Equipment
"EVERLAST FOR HER" Machine to
help lose weight $40., (650)368-3037
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 di-
meter, Halex brand w/mounting hard-
ware, 6 brass darts, $16., (650)681-7358
GOLF BALLS (325) $65 (650)341-5347
GOLF BALLS (325) $65 (650)341-5347
GOLF BALLS - 300+, $3. per dozen,
(650)766-4858
GOLF BALLS in new carton Dunlop,
Wilson, & Top Flight $9.00 650 341-8342
GOLF CLUB sets - 2 junior sizes, $15.
each, SOLD!
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
322 Garage Sales
THE THRIFT SHOP
CLEARANCE SALE
50% OFF
ALL CLOTHING
Open Thurs. & Fri 10-2:00
Sat 10-3:00
Episcopal Church
1 South El Camino Real
San Mateo 94401
(650)344-0921
GARAGE SALES
ESTATE SALES
Make money, make room!
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
325 Estate Sales
ESTATE SALE
3415 Beresford Av.
Belmont 94002
Entire house hold. Great
Retro Furniture, tables,
sofas, bedroom & kitchen
sets, recliners, patio set,
lamps & pictures, kitchen
items, linens, and
women's clothing. Also
old audio equipment,
speakers, audiotapes,
reel to reel music tapes,
over 45 years of
collectibles.
Friday March 30th
&
Saturday March 31
8:00 am to 2:00 pm
ESTATE SALE
SAN BRUNO
440 Redwood Ave.
Sat., March 31st
8 am - 3 pm
Furniture, jewelry,
refrigerator, washer, dryer,
dishes, glassware,
silverware, lamps, clocks, pocket
watches, vintage quilts, artwork
and lots more.
Cash Only!
INDOOR
ESTATE SALE
SAN MATEO
1124 W. Hillsdale
Blvd.
Sat., March 31st
9 am - 1 pm
Couches, Tables,
Dressers, etc.
335 Rugs
IVORY WOOL blend rect. 3x5 Blue Wil-
low pattern $50 firm, (650)342-6345
335 Garden Equipment
FLOWER POTS many size (50 pieces)
$15/all, (415)346-6038
335 Garden Equipment
BAMBOO poles 6 to 8 Ft, 30. $15/all,
(415)346-6038
GALVANIZED planter with boxed liners
94 x 10 x 9. Two available, $20/all,
(415)346-6038
POTTED PLANTS (7) $5/each
650-207-0897
TABLE - for plant, $25., perfect condi-
tion, (650)345-1111
340 Camera & Photo Equip.
SONY CYBERSHOT DSC-T-50 - 7.2 MP
digital camera (black) with case, $175.,
(650)208-5598
379 Open Houses
OPEN HOUSE
LISTINGS
List your Open House
in the Daily Journal.
Reach over 82,500
potential home buyers &
renters a day,
from South San Francisco
to Palo Alto.
in your local newspaper.
Call (650)344-5200
381 Homes for Sale
BANK OWNED
HOMES
FREE LIST W/ PICTURES!
$500K - $1.2M
www.650foreclosure.com
Lacewell Realty
440 Apartments
BELMONT - prime, quiet location, view,
Studio $1125, 1 bedroom $1450. New
carpets, new granite counters, dishwash-
er, balcony, covered carports, storage,
pool, no pets. (650) 592-1271
SAN MATEO - Large 2 Bedroom, 2 bath.
Next to Central Park. Rarely Available.
Prestigious Location & Building. Gated
garage. Deck, No pets, $2,200/mo.
Call (650) 948-2935
470 Rooms
HIP HOUSING
Non-Profit Home Sharing Program
San Mateo County
(650)348-6660
ROOM FOR RENT - near 101, 92, 280,
private bath, parking, utilities/cable
included, $650.00. (650) 504-7122
females only
ROOM FOR RENT in Foster City. $700
Per Month. Call Moe, (650)595-3877
470 Rooms
Rooms For Rent
Travel Inn, San Carlos
$49-59 daily + tax
$294-$322 weekly + tax
Clean Quiet Convenient
Cable TV, WiFi & Private Bathroom
Microwave and Refrigerator
950 El Camino Real San Carlos
(650) 593-3136
Mention Daily Journal
SHARE 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT -
Good access to 101 and 280, $650. per
month, $650. deposit, (530)575-7266
620 Automobiles
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.
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
AUTO AUCTION
The following repossessed vehi-
cles are being sold by Meriwest Credit
Union - 2009 Ford Escape #B00268.
The following repossessed vehicles
are being sold by SafeAmerica Credit
Union-2010 GMC Terrain #291882,
2004 Chevrolet Avalanche #223901,
2005 Ford F350 #B47375. The follow-
ing repossessed vehicle is being sold
by First United Services Credit Union
-2007 Dodge Charger #699445. Plus
over 100 late model Sport Utilities,
Pick Ups, Mini Vans, and luxury cars -
--INDOORS---Charity donations sold.
Sealed bids will be taken from 8am-
8pm on 04/02/2012 and 8am-5pm on
04/03/2012. Sale held at Forrest
Faulknor & Sons Auction Company,
175 Sylvester Road, South San Fran-
cisco. For more information please
visit our web site at www.ffsons.com.
BMW 02 325CI -fully loaded, black
leather interior, auto, heated seats, new
tires, much more! 112K miles. $9,400.
(650)692-7916
BMW 530 95 WAGON - Moon Roof,
automatic, Gray/Black, 165K miles,
$3,850 (650)349-0713
620 Automobiles
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 se-
dan, low miles, $19K, (650)573-6981
MERCEDES 06 C230 - 6 cylinder, navy
blue, 60K miles, 2 year warranty,
$18,000, (650)455-7461
SUTTON AUTO SALES
Cash for Cars
Call 650-595-DEAL (3325)
Or Stop By Our Lot
1659 El Camino Real
San Carlos
VOLKSWAGEN GT 07 No engine, no
Trans. $100 or B/O SOLD!
625 Classic Cars
DATSUN 72 - 240Z with Chevy 350, au-
tomatic, custom, $4900 or trade.
(415) 412-7030
NISSAN 87 Centura - Two door, man-
ual, stick shift, 150K miles. Clean title,
good body, $1,250., (415)505-3908
PLYMOUTH 72 CUDA - Runs and
drives good, needs body, interior and
paint, $8,000 /obo, serious inquiries only.
(650)873-8623
630 Trucks & SUVs
TOYOTA HIGHLANDER - 08, 2WD
Sport, 38K miles, original owner, many
extras, excellent condition, $23,750 obo,
SOLD!
635 Vans
NISSAN 01 Quest - GLE, leather seats,
sun roof, TV/DVR equipment. Looks
new, $15,500. (650)219-6008
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.
VARIOUS MOTORCYCLE parts USED
call for what you want or need $99
(650)670-2888
645 Boats
BANSHEE SAILBOAT - 13 ft. with ex-
tras, $750., (650)343-6563
PLEASURE BOAT, 15ft., 50 horsepow-
er 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.
650 RVs
RV. 73 Chevy Model 30 Van, Runs
good, Rebuilt Transmission, Fiberglass
Bubble Top $2,450. Will finance, small
downpayment. Call for appointments.
(650)364-1374
670 Auto Service
HILLSDALE CAR CARE
WE FIX CARS
Quailty Work-Value Price
Ready to help
call (650) 345-0101
254 E. Hillsdale Blvd.
San Mateo
Corner of Saratoga Ave.
MB GARAGE, INC.
Repair Restore Sales
Mercedes-Benz Specialists
2165 Palm Ave.
San Mateo
(650)349-2744
MERCEDES BENZ REPAIR
Diagnosis, Repair, Maintenance.
All MBZ Models
Elliott Dan Mercedes Master Certi-
fied technician
555 O'Neil Avenue, Belmont
650-593-1300
QUALITY COACHWORKS
Autobody & Paint
Expert Body
and
Paint Personalized Service
411 Woodside Road,
Redwood City
650-280-3119
SAN CARLOS AUTO
SERVICE & TUNE UP
A Full Service Auto Repair
Facility
760 El Camino Real
San Carlos
(650)593-8085
670 Auto Parts
2 SNOW/CABLE chains good condition
fits 13-15 inch rims $10/both San Bruno
650-588-1946
94-96 CAPRICE Impala Parts, headlight
lenses, electric fan, radiator, tyres and
wheels. $50., (650)574-3141
ACCELL OR Mallory Dual Point Distribu-
tor for Pontiac $30 each, (650)574-3141
CAMPER/TRAILER/TRUCK OUTSIDE
backup mirror 8 diameter fixture. $30.
650-588-1946
CARGO COVER, (black) for Acura MDX
$75. 415-516-7060
CHEVY SMALL Block Chrome Dressup
Kit. 1 timing chain cover, 1 large air
cleaner and a set of valve covers. $30.,
(650)574-3141
DENALI WHEELS - 17 inches, near
new, 265-70-R17, complete fit GMC 6
lug wheels, $400. all, SOLD!
670 Auto Parts
HEAVY DUTY jack stand for camper or
SUV $15. (650)949-2134
HONDA CIVIC FRONT SEAT Gray Col-
or. Excellent Condition $90. San Bruno.
415-999-4947
SHOP MANUALS 2 1955 Pontiac
manual, 4 1984 Ford/Lincoln manuals, &
1 gray marine diesel manual $40 or B/O
(650)583-5208
TRUCK RADIATOR - fits older Ford,
never used, $100., (650)504-3621
672 Auto Stereos
MONNEY
CAR AUDIO
We Sell, Install and
Repair All Brands of
Car Stereos
iPod & iPhone Wired
to Any Car for Music
Quieter Car Ride
Sound Proof Your Car
31 Years Experience
2001 Middlefield Road
Redwood City
(650)299-9991
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
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.
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
K .A. Mattson
Design and Construction
Where Kitchen and Bath Remodeling
combine with the
latest in technology.
Natural stone and tile.
Over 45 years experience.
Lic# 839815
650-652-9664
Building/Remodeling
DRAFTING SERVICES
for
Remodels, Additions,
and
New Construction
(650)343-4340
Contractors
RISECON
NORTH AMERICA
General Contractors / Building
& Design
New construction, Kitchen-Bath Re-
models, Metal Fabrication, Painting
Call for free design consultation
(650) 274-4484 www.risecon.com
L#926933
Cleaning
* BLANCAS CLEANING
SERVICES
$25 OFF First Cleaning
Commercial - Residential
(we also clean windows)
Good References 10 Years Exp.
FREE Estimates
(650) 867-9969
MENAS
Cleaning Services
(650)704-2496
Great Service at a Reasonable Price
16+ Years in Business
Move in/out
Steam Carpet
Windows & Screens
Pressure Washing
www.menascleaning.com
LICENSED & INSURED
Professional | Reliable | Trustworthy
Cleaning Concrete
Construction
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
650-766-1244
Kevin@belmontconstructionca.com
Construction
J & K
CONSTRUCTION
GENERAL
CONTRACTOR
Additions & Carpentry,
Kitchen & Bath remodeling,
Structural repair,
Termite & Dry Rot Repair,
Electrical,
Plumbing & Painting.
(650) 548-5482
neno.vukic@hotmail.com
Lic# 728805
Construction
Decks & Fences
MARSH FENCE
& DECK CO.
State License #377047
Licensed Insured Bonded
Fences - Gates - Decks
Stairs - Retaining Walls
10-year guarantee
Quality work w/reasonable prices
Call for free estimate
(650)571-1500
Decks & Fences
NORTH FENCE
& DECK CO.
Lic #733213
Specializing in:
Redwood Fences
Decks
Retaining Walls
650-756 0694
W W W .
N O R T H F E N C E C O
. C O M
Doors
30 INCH white screen door, new $20
leave message 650-341-5364
Electricians
ALL ELECTRICAL
SERVICE
650-322-9288
for all your electrical needs
ELECTRIC SERVICE GROUP
ELECTRICIAN
For all your
electrical needs
Residential, Commercial,
Troubleshooting,
Wiring & Repairing
Call Ben at (650)685-6617
Lic # 427952
Gardening
ANGEL TRUMPET VINE - wine colored
blooms, $40., SSF, Bill (650)871-7200
J.B. GARDENING SERVICE
Maintenance, New Lawns, Sprinkler
Systems, Clean Ups, Fences, Tree
Trimming, Concrete work, Brick Work,
Pavers, and Retaining Walls.
Free Estimates
Phone: (650) 345-6583
Cell: (650) 400- 5604
JOSES COMPLETE
GARDENING
and Landscaping
Full Service Includes:
Tree Trimming
Free Estimates
(650)315-4011
Gutters
O.K.S RAINGUTTER
Gutter Cleaning - Leaf Guard
Gutter & Roof Repairs
Custom Down Spouts
Drainage Solutions
10% Senior Discount
CA Lic# 794353/Insured
(650)556-9780
Handy Help
DISCOUNT HANDYMAN
& PLUMBING
Carpentry Plumbing
Kitchens Bathrooms
Dry Rot Decks
Priced for You! Call John
(650)296-0568
Free Estimates
Lic.#834170
HONEST HANDYMAN
Remodeling, Plumbing.
Electrical, Carpentry,
General Home Repair,
Water Damage,
New Construction
No Job Too Small
Lic.# 891766
(650)740-8602
RDS HOME REPAIRS
Quality, Dependable
Handyman Service
General Home Repairs
Improvements
Routine Maintenance
(650)573-9734
www.rdshomerepairs.com
SENIOR HANDYMAN
Specializing in Any Size Projects
Painting Electrical
Carpentry Dry Rot
40 Yrs. Experience
Retired Licensed Contractor
(650)201-6854
Hardwood Floors
KO-AM
HARDWOOD FLOORING
Hardwood & Laminate
Installation & Repair
Refinish
High Quality @ Low Prices
Call 24/7 for Free Estimate
800-300-3218
408-979-9665
Lic. #794899
Hauling
AM/PM HAULING
Haul Any Kind of Junk
Residential & Commercial
Free Estimates!
We recycle almost everything!
Go Green!
Call Joe
(650)722-3925
Hauling
CHEAP
HAULING!
Light moving!
Haul Debris!
650-583-6700
Interior Design
REBARTS INTERIORS
Hunter Douglas Gallery
Free Measuring & Install.
247 California Dr., Burl.
(650)348-1268
990 Industrial Blvd., #106
SC (800)570-7885
www.rebarts.com
Landscaping
FERNANDO ARRELLIN
Landscaping & Demolition
Sprinkler systems New fences
Flagstone Interlocking pavers
New driveways Clean-ups
Hauling Gardening
Retaining walls Drainage
(650)385-1402
Lic#36267
Moving
Bay Area
Relocation
Services
Specializing in:
Homes, Apts., Storages
Professional, friendly, careful.
Peninsulas Personal Mover
Commercial/Residential
Fully Lic. & Bonded CAL -T190632
Call Armando
(650) 630-0424
Painting
CRAIGS PAINTING
Interior & Exterior
Quality Work
Reasonable Rates
Free Estimates
(650)553-9653
Lic# 857741
Painting
JON LA MOTTE
PAINTING
Interior & Exterior
Pressure Washing
Free Estimates
(650)368-8861
Lic #514269
MTP
Painting/Waterproofing
Drywall Repair/Tape/Texture
Power Washing-Decks, Fences
No Job Too Big or Small
Lic.# 896174
Call Mike the Painter
(650)271-1320
Plaster/Stucco
JK PLASTERING
Interior Exterior
Free Estimates
Lic.# 966463
(650)799-6062
Plumbing
$69 TO CLEAN
ANY CLOGGED DRAIN!
Sewer trenchless
Pipe replacement
Replace sewer line without
ruining your yard
(650) 898-4444
Lic#933572
Plumbing
STANLEY S.
Plumbing & Drain
Only $89.00 to Unclog
Drain From Cleanout
And For All
Your Plumbing Needs
(650)679-0911
Lic. # 887568
Tree Service
NORDIC TREE
SERVICE
Large Removal Trim, Thin, Prune
We do demolition and do waste hauls
Stump grading
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
FREE ESTIMATES
Jorge Sr. (650) 465-6019
Jorge Jr. (650)518-2512
jorges_handyman@yahoo.com
Tile
CUBIAS TILE
Marble, Stone & porcelain
Kitchens, bathrooms, floors,
fireplaces, entryways, decks, tile
repair, grout repair
Free Estimates
Lic.# 955492
Mario Cubias
(650)784-3079
Window Washing
Notices
NOTICE TO READERS:
California law requires that contractors
taking jobs that total $500 or more (labor
or materials) be licensed by the Contrac-
tors State License Board. State law also
requires that contractors include their li-
cense number in their advertising. You
can check the status of your licensed
contractor at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-
321-CSLB. Unlicensed contractors taking
jobs that total less than $500 must state
in their advertisements that they are not
licensed by the Contractors State Li-
cense Board.
Attorneys
* BANKRUPTCY *
Huge credit card debt?
Job loss? Foreclosure?
Medical bills?
YOU HAVE OPTIONS
Call for a free consultation
(650)363-2600
This law firm is a debt relief agency
Beauty
KAYS
HEALTH & BEAUTY
Facials, Waxing, Fitness
Body Fat Reduction
Pure Organic Facial $48.
1 Hillcrest Blvd, Millbrae
(650)697-6868
Beauty
Let the beautiful
you be reborn at
PerfectMe by Laser
A fantastic body contouring
spa featuring treatments
with Zerona
,
VelaShape IIand
VASER
Shape.
Sessions range from $100-
$150 with our exclusive
membership!
To find out more and
make an appointment call
(650)375-8884
BURLINGAME
perfectmebylaser.com
Dental Services
DR. SAMIR NANJAPA DDS
Family Dentistry &
Smile Restoration
UCSF Dentistry Faculty
Cantonese, Mandarin &
Hindi Spoken
650-477-6920
320 N. San Mateo Dr. Ste 2
San Mateo
Divorce
DIVORCE CENTERS
OF CALIFORNIA
Low Cost
non-attorney service
UNCONTESTED
DIVORCE
650.347.2500
520 So. El Camino Real #650
San Mateo, CA 94402
www.divorcecenters.com
Se habla Espaol
I am not an attorney.
I can only provide self help services
at your specic directions
Food
AYA SUSHI
The Best Sushi
& Ramen in Town
1070 Holly Street
San Carlos
(650)654-1212
FIND OUT!
What everybody is
talking about!
South Harbor
Restaurant & Bar
425 Marina Blvd., SSF
(650)589-1641
GOT BEER?
We Do!
Holiday Banquet
Headquarters
Steelhead Brewing Co.
333 California Dr.
Burlingame
(650)344-6050
www.steelheadbrewery.com
Grand Opening
RED CRAWFISH
CRAVING CAJUN?
401 E. 3rd Ave. @ S. Railroad
San Mateo 94401
redcrawfishsf.com
(650) 347-7888
Food
GULLIVERS
RESTAURANT
Early Bird Special
Prime Rib Complete Dinner
Mon-Thu
1699 Old Bayshore Blvd. Burlingame
(650)692-6060
HOUSE OF BAGELS
SAN MATEO
OPEN EVERYDAY 6:30AM-3PM
Bagels,Santa Cruz Coffee,
Sandwiches, Wifi, Kids Corner
Easy Parking
680 E. 3rd Ave & Delaware
(650)548-1100
JACKS
RESTAURANT
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
1050 Admiral Ct., #A
San Bruno
(650)589-2222
JacksRestaurants.com
NEALS COFFEE
SHOP
Breakfast Lunch Dinner
Senior Meals, Kids Menu
www.nealscoffeeshop.com
1845 El Camino Real
Burlingame
(650)692-4281
SUNDAY CHAMPAGNE
BRUNCH
Crowne Plaza
1221 Chess Dr., Hwy. 92 at
Foster City Blvd. Exit
Foster City
(650)570-5700
SUNSHINE CAFE
Breakfast Lunch Dinner
1750 El Camino Real
San Mateo
(Borel Square)
(650)357-8383
THE AMERICAN BULL
BAR & GRILL
14 large screen HD TVs
Full Bar & Restaurant
www.theamericanbull.com
1819 El Camino, in
Burlingame Plaza
(650)652-4908
Fitness
DOJO USA
World Training Center
Martial Arts & Tae Bo Training
www.dojousa.net
731 Kains Ave, San Bruno
(650)589-9148
Furniture
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
Health & Medical
BACK, LEG PAIN OR
NUMBNESS?
Non-Surgical
Spinal Decompression
Dr. Thomas Ferrigno D.C.
650-231-4754
177 Bovet Rd. #150 San Mateo
BayAreaBackPain.com
REVIV
MEDICAL SPA
www.revivmedspa.com
31 S. El Camino Real
Millbrae
(650)697-3339
SLEEP APNEA
We can treat it
without CPAP!
Call for a free
sleep apnea screening
650-583-5880
Millbrae Dental
STRESSED OUT?
IN PAIN?
I CAN HELP YOU
Sessions start from $20
Call 650-235-6761
Will Chen ACUPUNCTURE
12220 6th Ave, Belmont
www. willchenacupuncture.com
TOENAIL FUNGUS?
FREE Consultation for
Laser Treatment
(650)347-0761
Dr. Richard Woo, DPM
San Mateo
Insurance
AARP AUTO
INSURANCE
Great insurance
Great price
Special rates for
drivers over 50
650-593-7601
ISU LOVERING
INSURANCE SERVICES
1121 Laurel St.,
San Carlos
BARRETT
INSURANCE
www.barrettinsuranceservices.net
Eric L. Barrett,
CLU, RHU, REBC, CLTC, LUTCF
President
Barrett Insurance Services
(650)513-5690
CA. Insurance License #0737226
Insurance
GOUGH INSURANCE &
FINANCIAL SERVICES
www.goughinsurance.com
(650)342-7744
CA insurance lic. 0561021
HEALTH INSURANCE
Paying too much for COBRA?
No coverage?
.... Not good!
I can help.
John Bowman
(650)525-9180
CA Lic #0E08395
Jewelers
KUPFER JEWELRY
We Buy
Coins, Jewelry,
Watches, Platinum,
& Diamonds.
Expert fine watch
& jewelry repair.
Deal with experts.
1211 Burlingame Ave.
Burlingame
www.kupferjewelry.com
(650) 347-7007
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.
Jewelry & Watch Repair
2323 Broadway
Redwood City
(650)364-4030
Legal Services
LEGAL
DOCUMENTS PLUS
Non-Attorney document
preparation: Divorce,
Pre-Nup, Adoption, Living Trust,
Conservatorship, Probate,
Notary Public. Response to
Lawsuits: Credit Card
Issues,Breech of Contract
Jeri Blatt, LDA #11
Registered & Bonded
(650)574-2087
legaldocumentsplus.com
"I am not an attorney. I can only
provide self help services at your
specific direction."
Low Cost
Divorce
We handle Uncontested
and Contested Divorces
Complex Property Division
Child & Spousal Support Payments
Restraining Orders
Domestic Violence
Peninsula Law Group
One of The Bay Areas Very Best!
Same Day, Weekend
Appointments Available
Se Habla Espaol
(650) 903-2200
Marketing
GROW
YOUR SMALL BUSINESS
Get free help from
The Growth Coach
Go to
www.buildandbalance.com
Sign up for the free newsletter
Massage Therapy
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
(650)556-9888
GRAND OPENING
ASIAN MASSAGE
$50 for 1 hour
Angel Spa
667 El Camino Real, Redwood City
(650)363-8806
7 days a week, 9:30am-9:30pm
GRAND OPENING!
CRYSTAL WAVE SPA
Body & Foot Massage
Facial Treatment
1205 Capuchino Ave.
Burlingame
(650)558-1199
HAPPY FEET
Massage
& 25th Ave., San Mateo
(650)638-9399
$30.00/Hr Foot Massage
$50.00/Hr Full Body Massage
HEALING MASSAGE
GRAND OPENING
Open daily 9am - 9pm
2305-A Carlos St., Moss Beach
(On Hwy 1 next to Post office)
(650)563-9771
SUNFLOWER MASSAGE
Grand Opening!
$10. Off 1-Hour Session!
1482 Laurel St.
San Carlos
(Behind Trader Joes)
Open 7 Days/Week, 10am-10pm
(650)508-8758
TRANQUIL
MASSAGE
951 Old County Road
Suite 1
Belmont
650-654-2829
YOU HAVE IT-
WELL BUY IT
We buy and pawn:
Gold Jewelry
Art Watches
Musical Instrument
Paintings Diamonds
Silverware Electronics
Antique Furniture
Computers TVs Cars
Open 7 days
Buy *Sell*Loan
590 Veterans Blvd.
Redwood City
(650)368-6855
Needlework
LUV2
STITCH.COM
Needlepoint!
Fiesta Shopping Center
747 Bermuda Dr., San Mateo
(650)571-9999
Pet Services
Real Estate Loans
REAL ESTATE LOANS
We Fund Bank Turndowns!
Direct Private Lender
Homes Multi-family
Mixed-Use Commercial
WE BUY TRUST DEED NOTES
FICO Credit Score Not a Factor
PURCHASE, REFINANCE,
CASH OUT
Investors welcome
Loan servicing since 1979
650-348-7191
Wachter Investments, Inc.
Real Estate Broker #746683
Nationwide Mortgage
Licensing System ID #348268
CA Dept. of Real Estate
Seniors
A NO COST
Senior Housing
Referral Service
Assisted Living. Memory.
Residential Homes.
Dedicated to helping seniors
and families find the right
supportive home.
(650)787-8292
AFFORDABLE
24-hour Assisted Living
Care located in
Burlingame
Mills Estate Villa
&
Burlingame Villa
- Short Term Stays
- Dementia & Alzheimers
Care
- Hospice Care
(650)692-0600
Lic.#4105088251/
415600633
LASTING IMPRESSIONS
ARE OUR FIRST PRIORITY
Cypress Lawn
1370 El Camino Real
Colma
(650)755-0580
www.cypresslawn.com
STERLING COURT
ACTIVE INDEPENDENT &
ASSISTED LIVING
Tours 10AM-4PM
2 BR,1BR & Studio
Luxury Rental
650-344-8200
850 N. El Camino Real San Mateo
sterlingcourt.com
35 Friday March 30, 2012 THEDAILYJOURNAL
LOCAL
Cathy Remeleh took a leave of absence from
the municipal water district that serves
mostly Belmont.
Her interim replacement allegedly found a
stack of checks hidden away in a filing cab-
inet that were all made out to Remeleh,
according to the anonymous source who
shared the story with the Daily Journal
Wednesday.
Remelehs daughter, Sara Abou-Remeleh,
also previously worked at the agency part
time but was allegedly let go after the dis-
crepancies were discovered, according to the
anonymous source.
Mid-Peninsula Water District is a local
government agency that provides water to
28,000 homes in Belmont, parts of San
Carlos, parts of Redwood City and parts of
unincorporated San Mateo County. It has an
annual budget of about $8.5 million and is
served by a five-person elected board of
directors. It collects about $180,000 annual-
ly in local property taxes.
Remeleh, a 52-year-old Castro Valley res-
ident, worked at the agency for more than a
decade, according to the anonymous source.
She allegedly took a leave from the agency a
few months ago for health reasons, although
the Daily Journal could not confirm that.
The water district is the second local tax-
payer-supported district in the county cur-
rently contending with employees who
allegedly bilked money.
The District Attorneys Office is currently
charging two former employees at the coun-
tys Mosquito and Vector Control District
for embezzling about $450,000, though the
amount may be more. The mosquito district
is also a special tax district that collects
local property tax and has a 21-member
board of trustees from each city in the coun-
ty with an annual budget of about $3.4 mil-
lion.
The San Mateo Local Agency Formation
Commission is currently reviewing the mos-
quito districts financial operations. It was
set to review the district at a later date but
decided to review it now due to the embez-
zlement allegations.
LAFCo is an independent commission
with jurisdiction over the boundaries of the
20 cities, 22 independent special districts
and many of the 35 county-governed special
districts serving San Mateo County.
It completed a municipal service review
and sphere of influence review of the Mid-
Peninsula Water District in March 2011.
That report suggested the agency be trans-
ferred either to privately-owned California
Water Service Company or become a sub-
sidiary of the city of Belmont to achieve sav-
ings in providing water to its customers by
eliminating redundant administration and
governance in overlapping areas. Cal Water
provides service to San Mateo, South San
Francisco and most of San Carlos.
Mid-Peninsula Water District General
Manager Paul Regan questioned the rele-
vance of privatization in the LAFCo review
and said Belmont should also undergo a
municipal service review before considering
whether it would want to fold the water dis-
trict into its Public Works Department.
LAFCo does not look at any districts
financials on a line-by-line basis, said
Martha Poyatos, executive officer at
LAFCo.
She was disappointed to hear yesterday
that a second special tax district agency in
the county was possibly the victim of
embezzlement by a former employee.
She said these allegations could cause
LAFCo to rethink how it conducts its
reviews in the future.
As Mid-Peninsula Water Districts admin-
istrative services manager, Remelehs job
duties included accounting, human
resources, district secretary functions as
well as miscellaneous management activi-
ties, according to the agencys website.
Other duties included strategic planning,
organization and evaluation of the office
staff.
Remeleh nor her daughter could be
reached for comment yesterday.
If the allegations are true, Belmont Mayor
Dave Warden said the person responsible
should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of
the law.
The Mid-Peninsula Water Districts Board
of Directors met in special closed session
last night after posting a meeting notice on
its office door earlier in the day.
Bill Silverfarb can be reached by email: silver-
farb@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650)
344-5200 ext. 106
THEFT
state and our schools, Torlakson wrote in a
prepared statement. Their dedication is
inspiring, and I applaud and admire their
passion and persistence.
Schools must be invited to apply to the vol-
untary program. In the application, schools
must highlight two signature practices that
have led to an increase in student achieve-
ment and a narrowing of the achievement
gap. Those practices will then be shared to
allow other schools to benefit from the work.
Principal John Schmella who made an
announcement to the Junipero Serra
Elementary School community over the pub-
lic address system as soon as he learned the
news attributed the success to recent years
of collaborative work. The school has adopt-
ed new math and reading curricula but teach-
ers saw students were still struggling, he
said.
Now the school has made an effort to use a
direct interaction way of teaching. Rather
than asking a question and calling on those
who raise their hands, a teacher might
choose students names out of a hat to ensure
all students are engaged.
Schmella added that technology in the
classroom has also helped make lessons
more dynamic. And, students can access
reading assignments from home, helping fur-
ther their efforts.
Collaboration was the theme for programs
South Hillsborough School Principal Jane
Fletcher included in her schools application.
South uses collaborative leadership with stu-
dents, staff and parents. In addition, it col-
laborates with the media technology center.
Laurel Elementary School Principal Susan
Glines shared the news at a staff meeting
Thursday.
We were ecstatic because we have
been working very hard to improve
instruction practices for all students espe-
cially our (English language) students by
adopting latest research based instruc-
tional strategies, she said.
Glines added that Laurel stands out
because staff, administration and parents
work together closely to keep programs
going. Teachers also work tirelessly to pro-
vide effective instructional practices, she
said.
North Shoreview School Principal Phyllis
Harrison similarly gathered staff to share the
news.
North Shoreview Montessori Music and
Art School provides a unique academic expe-
rience in which students learn through explo-
ration and movement within a prepared envi-
ronment. Lessons are presented through
hands-on, sequential and self-correcting
materials. Students learn at their own pace
and level in multi-age settings. Children are
being raised to be global citizens who under-
stand their respective obligations to the
earth, Harrison said.
In addition, she added the school is unique
as it allows students to continue in a
Montessori education setting through middle
school. Harrison feels the schools success
can be attributed to the differentiated, small
group instruction provided to students as
well as supportive teachers and community.
The California School Recognition
Program honors the states most exemplary
and inspiring public schools with the
California Distinguished School Award. The
387 schools identified Thursday join more
than 5,300 public schools that have been des-
ignated or redesignated a Distinguished
School since the program began in 1986.
Although participation is voluntary, the
award is highly sought after by schools in all
areas of the state. Elementary and secondary
schools are recognized during alternate
years.
Schools were identified for eligibility on
the basis of their state and federal test scores.
Applicants were also identified by their suc-
cess in narrowing the achievement gap
between higher-performing and lower-per-
forming students.
Heather Murtagh can be reached by email:
heather@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650)
344-5200 ext. 105.
SCHOOLS
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