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Raw sewage
overflowing
into lagoon
Contaminated water
keeps beaches closed
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT

Waters adjacent to two of the most polluted

beaches in San Mateo County will remain
closed to recreational use until Jan. 10, a
county health official said, because of high
levels of bacteria.
Both Aquatic and Lakeshore parks on the
Marina Lagoon tested positive for high levels
of contamination due to sewage overflow and
were initially closed Dec. 22.
The closures do not apply to the beach areas
of the parks, just their adjacent waters.
Heavy rain caused the sewage overflows
and more rain is expected this weekend, DAILY JOURNAL FILE PHOTOS BILL SILVERFARB (ABOVE) PETER MOOTZ (BELOW)
according to the National Weather Service. Above:The Sept.9 gas pipeline explosion and subsequent blaze was the top story of 2010 regardless of how any other ranked.The devastating
The beaches will remain off-limits to fire leveled a significant portion of the Glenview neighborhood in San Bruno.Below:On Sept.2,three died after a plane plummeted into the
kayakers and swimmers until further testing Redwood Shores lagoon seconds after departing from the San Carlos Airport.Bottom:David Lewis,a 54-year-old former felon who turned his
of the water indicates the bacteria levels have life around to become a community activist and drug counselor,was fatally shot in the parking garage of Hillsdale Shopping Center on June 9.
dropped.

Remember 2010
Two other beaches in the county were also
closed Dec. 22 due to high levels of bacteria
found at Rockaway and Linda Mar beaches in
Pacifica. Those beaches have since reopened,
however.
The two San Mateo beaches led the county
in closures in 2009 for high levels of bacteria,
according to a report by the Natural
Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit
agency that monitors water quality across the Top 10 stories
See SEWAGE, Page 8
of the last year
Economists predict By Michelle Durand
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

job growth in 2011 The past 12 months in San Mateo County

were a time of incredible highs — go Giants!
By Paul Wiseman
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — and incredible lows — the San Bruno
explosion and fire.
WASHINGTON — Far fewer people are Like the county as a whole, San Mateo
applying for unemployment benefits as the County saw its share of economic ups and
year ends, raising hopes for a healthier job downs, airport security battles and weather-
market in 2011. related woes. Some seemingly never-ending
Applications are at their lowest level since battles drew to a close, like construction of a
July 2008, the Labor Department says. They new Safeway in Burlingame and installation
fell to 388,000 in the week ending Dec. 25, of artificial turf on a San Carlos park athletic
bringing the four-week average to 414,000. field. A cop killer was sentenced to death, the
Until mid-October, the four-week average had internationally famous Mavericks surf contest
been stuck above 450,000 most of the year. got a new operator, construction of a stalled
Economists say the number of people medical center in San Carlos was given the
applying for unemployment benefits predicts green light and raves were banned at the Cow
where the job market will go over the next Palace after the latest rash of death and injury.
few months — so much so that they use this There were victories, losses and even a few
data to help forecast economic growth. oddities. How the heck did that dead pregnant
“We’re starting to see a pickup in job blue whale end up on a Half Moon Bay
growth,” says Conference Board economist beach?
Kenneth Goldstein. “We may even get to a When taking the measure of a year, picking
point, conceivably by spring, where the con- just 10 key stories can be challenging. Some
sumer is going to say that it no longer feels
See 2010, Page 23
See JOBS, Page 8
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different look
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conceivably by spring,where the
consumer is going to say that it no
longer feels like we’re still in a recession.”
— Conference Board economist Kenneth Goldstein
“Economists predict job growth in 2011,” see page 1

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road and through a hazard-filled river.
HOUGD Before he was hit, police say the man
had been discussing the game with his
friends.
Chief Jimmy Dixon says the man
GEOVAY
yelled “go” and darted into oncoming
traffic in the four-lane highway.
No charges are expected against the
URBAUN driver. The name of the man who was
Now arrange the circled letters
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Ohio man blames Ozzy
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seashore — “WADE” A MINUTE CLEVELAND — An Ohio drunken-
driving suspect is blaming his arrest on
Ozzy Osbourne.
William Liston was arrested
Christmas Eve in suburban Cleveland.
WJW-TV says he told police officers,
“Ozzy Osbourne and his music made me
do it.”
Osbourne’s hits as lead singer of
He was released on bond.
Telephone calls to the 33-year-old
Liston’s home in Aurora have gone
unanswered.
Yarn that was named
2010’s top lie wasn’t original
MILWAUKEE — The winning entry
in a liars’ club contest may have been the
best but it wasn’t original.
David Milz, 49, of Bristol, was named
the top liar of 2010 with this line: “I
almost had a psychic girlfriend but she
left me before we met.”
Milz, a school superintendent, said he
came up with it while joking around
with colleagues over the summer.
However, an online search turns up
numerous instances where the line is
attributed to comedian Steven Wright.
“I don’t know who he is,” Milz told
the Associated Press. “I came up with it
independently. I’m sure it’s original to
him but this was original to us.”
A message left with Wright’s agency
Wednesday was not immediately
returned.
nothing, personally.”
Impens and two other judges sifted
through the entries this week and each
made a Top10 list. Milz’s entry was the
only one that made all three lists, Impens
said.
“It had all three of the things we think
are important: It’s fairly short, humor is
very important, and it’s timely,” he said.
He reaffirmed that Milz will keep the
2010 title.
The runners-up include this line from
Ellen Everts of New London: “My luck
is so bad that if I bought a cemetery,
people would stop dying.”
And Daryl Lockwood of Waupaca
submitted this: “My neighbor’s scare-
crow was so good that the crows brought
back the corn they stole last year.”
Neither of those lines is original
either. Online searches find dozens of
references to the cemetery quote and
several variations of the scarecrow line.
That’s no big deal, said Milz, a Liars
Club member for three years. The club is
about lighthearted fun and passing on
good humor, not being constrained by
strict regulations, he said.
THE DAILY JOURNAL
Suspected art thief in court
By Michelle Durand
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
The second of two Emeryville residents
accused of stealing several pieces of valuable
art from the home of a deceased Hillsborough
woman appeared in court yesterday to plead
not guilty to charges of grand theft, first-
degree burglary, identity theft and receiving
stolen property.
Robert John Alarid, 42, along with Beverly
Betty Wilkerson-Aldabashi, 42, is accused of
stealing from at least two Hillsborough homes
and allegedly had in their possession stolen
items from 173 separate victims from
California, Arizona and Florida. Wilkerson-
Adabashi and another man, Matthew
Primrose, 49, were arrested in Oakland in
Woman struck,
killed by SamTrans bus
A woman who was struck and killed by a
San Mateo County Transit District bus in Palo
Alto Thursday morning was identified by the
Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office
as Sheena Marie Barker.
Barker, 52, of Cupertino, was struck by the
bus as it was going south on Webster Street
toward University Avenue, police said.
Barker was pronounced dead at the scene.
She was wearing hospital scrubs and was a
traveling nurse who worked at various hospi-
tals in the area, Palo Alto police Lt. Sandra
Brown said.
She was struck near the Lytton Gardens
senior community, but Brown did not know if
that’s where Barker was headed.
The driver of the SamTrans bus was taken
to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in
Redwood City to be treated for hypertension.
There were two passengers on the bus at the
time, police said.
University Avenue was closed in both direc-
tions between Middlefield Road and Cowper
Road for more than five hours while Palo Alto
LOCAL
November but charges were
never filed against the latter
due to insufficient evi-
dence. Alarid was picked
up on a bench warrant and
made his first arraignment
yesterday. Alarid pleaded
not guilty and did not waive
his right to a speedy trial.
He returns to court Jan. 11
Beverly for a preliminary hearing.
Wilkerson- He is a second-striker,
Aldabashi potentially doubling any
sentence he may receive in the current case. In
1999, he was convicted of assault with a hand-
gun.
Authorities believe the two are behind a
string of residential burglaries, including the
Local briefs
police and the San Mateo County Sheriff’s
Office Transit Police Bureau investigated the
death. The road reopened at about 3:50 p.m.,
Brown said.
Storm further undermines
Pacifica cliff apartments
The last storm has further undermined a
Pacifica apartment building that was evacuat-
ed last winter because it’s on a crumbling sea-
side cliff.
Tuesday’s storm dug another chunk out of
the foundation, leaving the building partially
unsupported and hanging over the ocean.
However, Pacifica building official Doug
Rider says it isn’t in immediate danger of
falling.
Two apartment buildings on Esplanade
Avenue were evacuated last winter after a
series of storms and high waves undercut the
bluff and huge chunks fell into the sea.
Rider says the building owners are sup-
posed to be working on plans to save the
buildings but so far they lack funding.
Aug. 18 taking of a 2003 Toyota and several
valuable paintings from one Hillsborough
home and clothing and suitcases from another
weeks later.
After taking the car from the Ascot Road
residence, the defendants sold it in San Jose
using a stolen driver’s license, according to
the District Attorney’s Office.
The car’s sales history led authorities to the
suspects.
Stolen property, including the paintings
taken from an Edgecourt Drive home, were
found in Oakland when Hillsborough police
arrested Wilkerson-Adabashi and Primrose.
At the time, Hillsborough police said stolen
property filled every room in the Oakland
house, including items from victims living in
See ART, Page 8
REGIONAL
GOVERNMENT
• The Mid-
Peninsula Water
District Board of
Directors elected
Betty L. Linvill its
2011 president Dec.
16. She has been on
the board since 2007 and is its first female
president. She lives in Belmont.
Friday • Dec. 31, 2010 3
Police reports
Grinch stole Christmas
Christmas presents were taken from a
vehicle on El Camino Real in Redwood
City before 10:17 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 25.
SAN BRUNO
Suspicious circumstances. There was a light
on in a vacant home on the 900 block of Mills
Avenue before 6:57 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 26.
Shots fired. Shots were fired on the 2600
block of Muirfield Circle before 1:31 a.m.
Saturday, Dec. 25.
Vandalism. A car was keyed on the 1100
block of El Camino Real before 10:14 a.m.
Friday, Dec. 24.
Suspicious Circumstances. A suspicious
metal package was found in the bushes near a
house on the 1100 block of Herman Street
before 2:20 a.m. Friday, Dec. 24.
SAN CARLOS
Vandalism. Graffiti was found to the rear of a
business on the 200 block of El Camino Real
before 9:51 a.m. Monday, Dec. 27.
Petty theft. An unlocked bicycle was stolen in
front of a residence on Blossom Lane before
1:35 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 25.
Burglary. A vehicle window was smashed
and a GPS unit was stolen on the 1100 block
of Industrial Road before 3:10 p.m. Friday,
Dec. 24.

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Brown silent on tax extensions
By Judy Lin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO — Gov.-elect Jerry
Brown is keeping quiet about his plans
to tackle a $28 billion budget deficit,
despite reports that he plans to couple
deep spending cuts with a special elec-
tion next year to extend temporary tax
increases.
Brown adviser Steve Glazer said
Thursday that
t h e
incom-
ing
Murkowski certified winner of Alaska Senate race
By Becky Boher
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUNEAU, Alaska — Sen. Lisa
Murkowski was officially named the win-
ner of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race Thursday,
following a period of legal fights and
limbo that lasted longer than the write-in
campaign she waged to keep her job.
Gov. Sean Parnell and Lt. Gov. Mead
Treadwell, who oversees elections, signed
the paperwork certifying her win in the
hotly contested race.
“It’s done,” Treadwell said after pen-
ning his last signature in front of cameras
in Parnell’s office.
The paperwork was expected to be
LOCAL/STATE/NATION
governor’s scheduled budget release is
the appropriate time for him to lay out
his plan in full. The governor has to pro-
pose a budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year
by Jan. 10.
“That’s the requirement that’s in place
for the governor, and we’re going to fol-
low it,” Glazer said. “We certainly have
been consulting with legislators and
stakeholders for the past six weeks.”
The Los Angeles Times and The
Sacramento Bee, citing unnamed
sources, have reported that Brown will
propose extending a variety of tempo-
rary tax hikes that are set to expire by
July. The Bee also reported that
Brown will propose cutting an
additional $10 billion from state
government in exchange for the
extensions.
The reports said the new
governor will seek to shift
more tax revenue to local
governments in exchange
for their taking on more
responsibility for services.
Glazer would neither con-
firm nor deny Brown’s inter-
est in extending the taxes and
declined to discuss the
details of any cuts.
“The cutbacks are going to
be very significant at all lev-
els of state government,”
he said.
hand-delivered to
Washington, D.C., by
state Division of
Elections Director
Gail Fenumiai to
guard against delays
that could keep
Murkowski from
being sworn in with
her colleagues on
Lisa Murkowski Wednesday.
With certification, Murkowski becomes
the first U.S. Senate candidate since Strom
Thurmond in 1954 to win a write-in cam-
paign.
The official vote tally certified Thursday
showed her margin of victory over her
California temporarily raised the state
income tax rate by 0.25 percent,
increased the fee for licensing vehicles
from 0.65 percent to 1.15 percent and
hiked the sales tax by 1 percent as part
of a February 2009 budget deal cut by
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and law-
makers.
The state also reduced the amount
taxpayers can claim on a dependent care
credit to the federal level of $100
instead of $300.
Voters were asked in May 2009 to
extend those temporary taxes by two
more years but they refused, rejecting
Proposition 1A. Last November, voters
also rejected an $18-a-year increase in
the vehicle license fee to fund state
parks, even though passage would have
allowed free park admission for all vehi-
cles with a state license plate.
Placing a tax measure on a special
election ballot in 2011 will require a
two-thirds vote of the Legislature and
thus will need some support from
Republicans, who are in the minority in
the Assembly and Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dutton,
R-Rancho Cucamonga, said
Republicans prefer to cut low-priority
services and streamline programs before
broaching tax increases. He said asking
for more money from taxpayers could
hurt efforts to create jobs.
Dutton said he hasn’t been briefed on
whatever proposals Brown is consider-
ing, but said voters are in no
mood for even small tax
hikes.
nearest opponent, Republican rival Joe
Miller, was 10,252 votes.
“The voters have spoken. The courts
have confirmed their voice,” Parnell said.
“We have certified and attested to Sen.
Murkowski’s election, and I would look
forward to her being sworn in in the week
ahead here.”
Murkowski waged her longshot write-
in bid after losing the August GOP pri-
mary to Miller, a Sarah Palin-backed tea
party favorite making his first statewide
run for public office.
She announced her write-in campaign
Sept. 17 — an unprecedented effort in this
state that lasted 46 days. Certification
came 58 days after the election.
Friday • Dec. 31, 2010 5
Around the Bay
Three killed in apartment fire in Oakland
An early morning apartment fire in Oakland that appar-
ently started from an electrical circuit overload left three
people dead and two others injured Thursday, fire officials
said.
The two-alarm blaze began around 1:55 a.m. in an
upstairs unit of a fourplex, Oakland Fire Battalion Chief
Eleanor Bolin-Chew said.
She said crews pulled out a man, woman and child
trapped inside. They were later pronounced dead at a local
hospital. Their names have not been released.
Bolin-Chew told KTVU-TV the blaze was apparently
sparked by an extension cord used to power the upstairs unit
after Pacific Gas and Electric shut off power earlier this
month.
Residents living downstairs agreed to run an extension
cord upstairs to provide electricity to three power strips to
power everything in the apartment, including Christmas tree
lights, appliances and lamps.
The newspaper said the male victim was in the unit when
the fire started. He was able to get a 7-year-old girl safely
outside before coming back inside to try to rescue the 3-
year-old and her mother.
Two women are hospitalized from leg injuries after jump-
ing from their adjacent second-story unit during the blaze.
Bolin-Chew said four other people also were able to get
out of the burning building.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Judge rules former
officer can be released on bond
SAN JOSE A federal judge has ordered a former Santa
Clara police officer to be released on bond as he awaits trial
on fraud and conspiracy charges.
Clay Rojas is accused of supplying criminal and motor
vehicle records and other confidential information to a
Hells Angels member to settle a debt.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy Bommer on Wednesday
agreed to release Rojas on $100,000 bond if he forfeits his
passport.
Despite the ruling, Rojas will remain in jail until he is
released on bail on related state charges.
The indictment claims William Bettencourt, a suspected
member of the motorcycle gang, loaned Rojas money, and
the insider information was a form of repayment.
Bettencourt also has been charged in the federal and state
cases.
San Francisco hotel still washes its change
A San Francisco hotel is laundering money — literally.
The Westin St. Francis hotel in Union Square is continu-
ing a 72-year-old tradition of washing all the coins it han-
dles.
Every nickel, penny, dime and quarter is cleaned with
soap and water at the hotel before being dried and rolled.
Money was first washed at the St. Francis in 1938 after
coins dirtied a woman’s white gloves.
While other San Francisco hotels abandoned the practice,
it continued at the St. Francis.
Rob Holsen, the hotel’s current change washer, says the
practice dates back to a time when coins were used more
than bills. He estimates he has cleaned $1.5 million in
change in the past 20 years.
6 Friday • Dec. 31, 2010 NATION THE DAILY JOURNAL

Treasury takes step

to sell stake in auto lender
WASHINGTON — The Treasury
Department says it has taken a step to recover
Around the Nation
Ex-car czar Rattner
settles New York probe for $10M
Rise in signed contracts
the taxpayer funds invested in Ally Financial,
the auto lender formerly known as GMAC.
The government is converting about a third
of its $17.2 billion investment from preferred
NEW YORK — The investment banker
who helped lead the Obama administration’s
auto industry overhaul has agreed to pay $10
million to settle influence-peddling allega-
gives housing market lift
By Janna Herron
securities to common stock. That should make tions in New York. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “Sales appear to
it easier to sell its stake, Treasury officials Former “car czar” Steven Rattner admitted
said. The conversion increases the govern- no wrongdoing as part of the deal, which was NEW YORK — People are starting to buy
be picking up and we expect
ment’s ownership of Ally to 74 percent from announced by state Attorney General Andrew homes again, lifting a battered industry that is better sales in the next several
56 percent. Cuomo on Thursday. bracing for its worst sales year in more than a months....A lot of that is because
The Treasury Department first bailed out Cuomo’s office had filed civil lawsuits decade.
the company in late 2008, as part of the Bush against Rattner in November, accusing him of Signed contracts to purchase homes rose in the job market is improving.”
administration’s assistance to the U.S. auto paying kickbacks to help his company land November, the fourth increase in five months. — Patrick Newport,a housing
industry. The Obama administration invested $150 million in state pension fund invest- That should give the housing market a boost economist at IHS Global Insight
additional sums in May and December 2009. ments in 2004 and 2005. He denied the in the first few months of the new year
The company “has made substantial charges. because there’s usually a one- to two-month expired in April, the index sank again.
progress in restructuring its operations,” The attorney general had initially sought lag between a sales contract and a completed Completed home sales — which the
$26 million in fines and penalties and a life- deal. Realtors group measures in a separate report
Treasury Acting Assistant Secretary for
time ban from the securities industry. Economists cautioned that a major reason — are expected to total about 4.8 million units
Financial Stability Tim Massad said.
for the jump is that people are buying fore- this year. That’s much lower than the 6 million
closed homes, which sell at steep discounts units that analysts consider a healthy pace.
and weigh on the broader market. Another The last time sales were lower was 13 years
obstacle is the sudden spike in the 30-year ago when sales totaled 4.4 million units.
fixed mortgage rate, which only weeks ago A third of the pending sales likely will be
had fallen a 40-year low. foreclosures or short sales, where a home-
Still many economists expect sales to grad- owner sells a house for less than what is owed
ually rise next year as the economy adds more on it, NAR spokesman Walter Molony said.
jobs and home prices stabilize. That tracks with the average for the year.
“Sales appear to be picking up and we These distressed sales go for discounts of up
expect better sales in the next several to 50 percent in some of the hardest-hit areas
months,” said Patrick Newport, a housing and will continue to weigh down home
economist at IHS Global Insight. “A lot of that prices.
is because the job market is improving.” Many economists expect home prices to
The National Association of Realtors said drop another 5 percent to 10 percent in the
Thursday its index of sales agreements for next six months before stabilizing. Prices fell
previously occupied homes increased 3.5 per- in 20 of America’s largest cities in October,
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Storms dumps rain,snow on West
By Felicia Fonseca
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELLEMONT, Ariz. — A winter storm
pummeled the western U.S. on Thursday with
fierce wind gusts, heavy rain and more than 2
feet of snow, closing hundreds of miles of
roads and dumping a snowy mix of precipita-
tion on the edges of Phoenix.
Officials closed a road into Yosemite
National Park in California after a rock the size
of a dump truck tumbled onto the road, and
strong winds created snow dunes on rooftops,
front yards and streets across mountainous
areas of Arizona.
Snow and ice forced an hours-long closure of
the two major thoroughfares in northern
Arizona, stranding motorists south of Flagstaff
and the Grand Canyon. People in Phoenix were
stunned at the sight of snow-type flurries that
the National Weather Service said were a com-
bination of hail and snow that melts before it
hits the ground.
Drivers wanting to know how to get around
the storms overwhelmed an Arizona hotline
that provides automated updates on road con-
ditions. State Department of Transportation
spokesman Timothy Tait said the line took in
1.2 million calls in a 12-hour span Thursday.
Dorothy Brooks, of Dallas, was creeping
along Interstate 40 at 20 mph on her way to Las
Vegas, passing vehicles stuck on the side of the
road, when she pulled into a Bellemont gas sta-
tion to wait out the storm.
“It’s devastating,” she said, above the cry of
a 9-month-old baby she was pushing through
the aisles. “You can’t call Mother Nature any-
way. You never know when she’s going to burst
out.”
The Silverton Mountain resort in Colorado
reported 22 inches of snow, but only about 120
people were on the mountain because officials
closed highways leading to the ski area for ava-
lanche control and because of adverse condi-
tions, resort co-founder Jen Brill said.
R.A. Burrell, of Colorado Springs, left home
around 3 a.m. to avoid getting stuck on the way
to the extreme ski area and made it before the
lift started running.
“I thought we’d really just come on a magi-
cal day, which is what it turned out to be,” he
said during a break from making turns. “We
just got lucky.”
The weather service said snow could fall at a
rate close to an inch an hour starting Thursday
evening in the Denver area, which usually has
around 25 inches of snow by this time of the
season but had just 1.5 inches so far.
United Airlines, the dominant carrier at
Denver International Airport, canceled 32
United and United Express flights from Denver
on Thursday, spokesman Rahsaan Johnson
said.
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Storm’s aftermath wreaks havoc
By John Antczak
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — A strong, cold wind
trailing a powerful storm toppled trees and
downed power lines in Southern California on
Thursday as overflowing rain runoff forced
evacuations in the San Joaquin Valley.
Trees precariously rooted in soil saturated
by repeated storms this month became danger-
ous as wind gusts blew them down on vehicles
and power lines. At one point, more than
35,000 Southern California Edison and Los
Angeles Department of Water and Power cus-
tomers were without electricity.
Branches from one falling tree hit Greg
Mora’s car as he drove through the Los Feliz
area of Los Angeles.
“The next thing I knew, I opened my eyes,
and there was a tree right in my face,” Mora,
who suffered a gashed forehead, told KTLA-
TV.
No reports of injuries were reported from
the toppling trees. A woman was killed
Tuesday when wind and rain snapped a tree at
a wildlife preserve in Northern California’s
Sonoma County.
The wind, which gusted to 94 mph in north-
western Los Angeles County, was produced by
a strong north-to-south pressure difference, the
National Weather Service said. It was expect-
ed to die down by early Friday, allowing the
cold air mass to create frost and freeze prob-
REUTERS
lems in the region, forecasters said.
Despite clear sky over much of the state,
Californians were still dealing with the after-
math of the storm that hit on Tuesday and
Wednesday. An overflowing irrigation canal in
Lamont, about 75 miles north of Los Angeles,
forced Kern County authorities to call for the
evacuation of 120 homes, but lifted the order
by Thursday evening. Fewer than six homes
were damaged.
The fire department brought in thousands of
sandbags and used bulldozers to create water
diversions. Fire spokesman Sean Collins said
the canal could better handle the excess water
flow after crews cleared out debris.
The frigid temperatures and remnants of the
storm also made roads treacherous: the
California Highway Patrol reported three peo-
ple were injured Wednesday when three big-
rigs, a pickup and an SUV wrecked on State
Route 138 in the Gorman area, where black ice
was reported.
In the Sierra Nevada, a boulder the size of a
truck fell onto Highway 140, blocking an all-
weather entrance to Yosemite National Park
but causing no injuries or property damage.
Clearing the road was expected to take at least
24 hours.
Elsewhere in the snow-laden range, Placer
County search teams found the body of a
woman who went missing while snowboard-
ing at a Lake Tahoe-area resort, sheriff’s Capt.
Jeff Ausnow said.
Friday • Dec. 31, 2010 7
REUTERS
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
gestures as he answers questions regarding
the city's response to a winter snow storm.
Mayor: City’s response
to storm ‘unacceptable’
By Jennifer Peltz and Chris Hawley
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg
visited some of the neighborhoods hard-hit by
the Christmas weekend blizzard and confessed
Thursday that the city’s handling of the crisis
was “inadequate and unacceptable.” But it was
clear the anger wasn’t exactly melting away.
The mayor had just declared a victory of sorts
— three days after the snow stopped falling,
every street had been plowed at least once, he
announced — when a politician appearing with
him stepped up to the microphone to complain.
“Even where I live, there’s still about four
inches” of snow in the roadway, Queens
Borough President Helen Marshall told the
reporters gathered at a recreation center.
Partially plowed, packed-down snow from the
20-inch storm could still be seen on at least one
street nearby. Marshall said constituents were still
calling her office to ask: “Where is the plow?”
Some streets were still impassable or unplowed.
Angelo Annunziata stood on his Brooklyn
block on a snowpacked street, drifts still cover-
ing half the cars. A snowplow came through for
the first time on Thursday afternoon.
“I work in Manhattan, and there they’re run-
ning plows on clear pavement. All Bloomberg
cares about are all the people coming in to
Manhattan for New Year’s,” he said. “Well, we
pay taxes like everybody else. This is ridiculous.”
As he did earlier in the week, Bloomberg
promised to investigate what went wrong. But
he denied budget cuts had anything to do with
the city’s sluggish response. And while he said
he would investigate persistent rumors that
snowplow operators staged a slowdown during
the storm, he said there was no evidence of such
a protest.
8 Friday • Dec. 31, 2010
Around the nation
O’Donnell:Spending
accusations are ‘thug’tactics
WASHINGTON — Failed U.S.
Senate candidate Christine
O’Donnell said Thursday that accu-
sations she misspent campaign funds
are politically motivated and stoked
by disgruntled former campaign
workers.
The Delaware Republican
appeared on several network morn-
ing shows to defend herself a day
after the Associated Press reported
federal authorities have launched a
criminal probe to determine whether
she broke the law by using campaign
money to pay personal expenses.
“There’s been no impermissible
use of campaign funds whatsoever,”
O’Donnell told ABC’s “Good
Morning America.”
O’Donnell, the tea party favorite
who scored a surprise primary victo-
ry before losing in the general elec-
tion, suggested the accusations are
driven by political establishments on
the right and left, including Joe
Biden. He represented Delaware in
the Senate for decades before he
became vice president.
“You have to look at this whole
thug-politic tactic for what it is,” she
said Thursday.
ART
Continued from page 3
Los Altos, Berkeley, San Francisco,
San Jose and many other Bay Area
cities.
However, the burglary of Lee
Simpson Kavanaugh’s Ascot Road
home is what first drew attention.
During memorial services for
Kavanaugh, who died Aug. 9 at age
70, the house was ransacked.
Among the items taken were an
Édouard Leon Cortès painting of a
Paris street scene insured for
$100,000, jewelry, antique clocks,
china dinnerware and the Camry.
Wilkerson-Aldabashi and Alarid
are both being held in lieu of
$150,000 bail. She is due back to
court Jan. 18 for a preliminary hear-
ing estimated to last two hours.
Michelle Durand can be reached by e-
mail: michelle@smdailyjournal.com or
by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 102.
What you pay for Medicare won’t cover costs
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — You paid
your Medicare taxes all those years
and want your money’s worth: full
benefits after you retire.
Nearly three out of five people
say in a recent Associated Press-
GfK poll that they paid into the
system so they deserve their full
benefits — no cuts.
But a newly updated financial
analysis shows that what people
paid into the system doesn’t come
close to covering the full value of
the medical care they can expect to
receive as retirees.
Consider an average-wage, two-
earner couple together earning
$89,000 a year. Upon retiring in
2011, they would have paid
$114,000 in Medicare payroll taxes
during their careers.
But they can expect to receive
medical services — from prescrip-
tions to hospital care — worth
$355,000, or about three times
JOBS
Continued from page 1
like we’re still in a recession.” He
expects the economy to generate
100,000 to 150,000 jobs a month by
spring, up from an average 86,500 a
month in 2010.
That’s an improvement, but still
not enough to cause big drop in the
unemployment rate. To Paul
Kasriel, chief economist at
Northern Trust, fewer people apply-
ing for unemployment benefits sug-
gests the unemployment rate will
slip from 9.8 percent in November
to 9.7 percent early next year; that
would mean about 150,000 fewer
unemployed.
SEWAGE
Continued from page 1
United States. Numbers for 2010
are still being compiled.
Aquatic and Lakeshore parks, on
the Marina Lagoon, had advisories
about not swimming in the water or
were closed completely for a total
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“The fact that you put
money into the system doesn’t
mean it’s there waiting for you to collect.”
— Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute think tank
what they put in.
The estimates by economists
Eugene Steuerle and Stephanie
Rennane of the Urban Institute
think tank illustrate the huge dis-
connect between widely-held per-
ceptions and the numbers behind
Medicare’s shaky financing.
Although Americans are worried
about Medicare’s long-term sol-
vency, few realize the size of the
gap.
“The fact that you put money
into the system doesn’t mean it’s
there waiting for you to collect,”
said Steuerle.
By comparison, Social Security
taxes and expected benefits come
closer to balancing out.
The same hypothetical couple
retiring in 2011 will have paid
The Conference Board’s
Goldstein says the unemployment
rate might actually rise for a few
months as an increase in job open-
ings lures even more job seekers
back into the labor market. He does-
n’t expect the unemployment rate to
start dropping until mid-2011 and
says it will finish the year above 9
percent.
The good news is that layoffs
have fallen back to pre-recession
levels. In October, 1.7 million peo-
ple were laid off or fired — the low-
est figure since August 2006, more
than a year before the Great
Recession started. Layoffs and dis-
missals peaked at 2.6 million in
January 2009.
“We’ve stopped the losses, and
things are kind of turning around,”
of 215 days in 2009. Aquatic Park
led the county in advisories or clo-
sures at 117 days. Lakeshore had
advisories or closures 98 times in
2009, just behind Pillar Point beach
on the coast at 100 days.
The city of San Mateo was fined
nearly $1 million in 2009 by the San
Francisco Bay Regional Water
Quality Control Board for letting
sewage leak into the Bay.
Lagoon and ocean beach water is
$614,000 in Social Security taxes,
and can expect to collect $555,000
in benefits. They will have paid
about 10 percent more into the sys-
tem than they’re likely to get back.
Updated periodically, the Urban
Institute estimates are part of an
effort that Steuerle and others
began several years ago to try to
illustrate the complicated finances
of Medicare and Social Security in
a format the average taxpayer
could grasp. The Washington-
based institute is a public policy
center that focuses heavily on
budget and economic issues. Its
analysis is accepted among other
policy experts in Washington,
including economists in govern-
ment.
Many workers may believe their
says Mark Christiansen, deputy
director of the Workforce
Development Center in Riverside,
Calif., which has one of the nation’s
highest unemployment rates.
In past downturns, the economy
didn’t start generating jobs until
applications for unemployment ben-
efits consistently fell below 400,000
a week. But some economists say
the old rule of thumb is outdated.
Payrolls were already growing this
year when applications were still
well above 450,000 a week .
One reason: The labor force has
grown by 25 million people over the
past two decades. “You would
expect the level of initial jobless
claims to be higher the larger the
labor force,” Northern Turst’s
Kasriel says.
routinely monitored by the county
for bacteria, especially after heavy
rain.
Aquatic and Lakeshore will
remain closed until Jan. 10 because
bacteria levels take time to fall, said
Jana Cranmer, spokeswoman for the
San Mateo County Health System.
Samples of water at Aquatic Park
exceeded the state’s daily maximum
bacterial standards 31 percent of the
time in 2009, the highest rate in the
THE DAILY JOURNAL
Medicare payroll taxes are going
for their own insurance after they
retiree, but the money is actually
used to pay the bills of seniors cur-
rently on the program.
That mistaken impression com-
plicates the job for policymakers
trying to build political support in
coming months for dealing with
deficits that could drag the econo-
my back down.
Health care costs are a major and
unpredictable part of the govern-
ment’s budget problems, and
Medicare is in the middle. Recent
debt reduction proposals have
called for big changes to Medicare,
making the belt-tightening in
President Barack Obama’s health
care law seem modest. Some plans
call for phasing out the program,
replacing it with a fixed payment to
help future retirees buy a private
plan of their choice.
Peel back the layers, and there
are several reasons why Medicare
benefits and taxes are so out of
line.
Another: Since the Great
Recession, the unemployed, know-
ing their job search may be long and
difficult, have been more likely to
apply for benefits than they used to
be. Previously, there were 1.25 laid-
off workers for every person apply-
ing for benefits. Now, claims and
layoffs are about equal, notes Zach
Pandl, economist at Nomura
Securities. That means each claim
represents fewer laid-off workers.
Even if they’ve stopped cutting,
employers have been slow to hire.
In October, there were still 4.4
unemployed for every job opening.
“It’s not really been the layoff rate
that’s been the problem in most of
2010,” says Gary Burtless, senior
fellow in economics studies at the
Brookings Institution.
county, according to the Natural
Resources Defense Council report.
The illnesses associated with pol-
luted beach water include condi-
tions such as skin rashes, pinkeye,
respiratory infections, meningitis
and hepatitis, according to the coun-
cil.
Showers are likely Friday night
and possible both Saturday and
Sunday, according to the National
Weather Service.
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Stopping the violence in South San Francisco
O
n the surface, the Old
Town neighborhood of
South San Francisco
appears to be like any other low-
income Peninsula area. It is a mix
of people both young and old shar-
ing a crowded space with the
majority doing their best to get
along and live their lives in the best
way possible.
Yet this area has been infected by
the sickness of gang activity that is
dangerously close to spiraling out
of control. For the past year, there
have been a number of gang-related
shootings in the area with the
youngest victim killed at the age of
15 in May. In March, a 29-year-old
man was shot in the face dead.
Both murders took place mere
blocks away from the scene of last
Wednesday’s triple murder which
also injured three others. While the
previous murders are significant, a
triple murder is unprecedented for
the city of South San Francisco. It
is a major wake-up call that the sta-
tus quo is unacceptable.
However, none of the victims in
last week’s incident are willing to
cooperate with police, leaving the
Schwarzenegger’s failure to deliver
— Stockton Record
H
e recently told a reporter it
was one of his best moves
as governor. But one of his
first acts as governor punched a $6
billion annual hole in the California
budget, and financially things have
gone from there to worse.
Arnold Schwarzenegger came to
office with the swagger of the invin-
cible movie heroes he played and
leaves in a few days still swaggering
but perhaps wiser in the knowledge
that even an “Austrian Oak” can’t
move Sacramento at will.
Flexible spending accounts and over-the-counter drugs
— The Daily Gazette,
Schenectady, N.Y.
F
lexible spending accounts,
which have given American
workers a small dose of
relief from the rising cost of health
care, are about to become a little less
lucrative, thanks to the health care
reform act passed earlier this year.
Where consumers have been able
to use the tax-exempt accounts to
pay for doctor’s visits, medical care
Overregulation
Editor,
I swear, Mr. Broadbent and the
rest of his “Smoke Nazis” must
have had their lunch money stolen
when they were in grade school
(“Chestnuts roasting on an open
fire? Air district says no’ in the
Dec. 25 edition of the Daily
Journal).
Isn’t the population tired of
Editorial
‘When gang activity erupts with such force that an
entire neighborhood is held hostage by gunfire and
fear, there simply is no other choice but to commit
every available resource and to rethink approaches.’
city no option but to offer a
$25,000 reward leading to the
arrest and conviction of the person
or people responsible for the
heinous crimes.
In May, the city stepped up
patrols in the area, fearing retalia-
tion. This time, patrols are also
increased.
City officials are asking people in
the neighborhood to come forward
with any information. That appears
to be easier said than done and the
wall between those directly impact-
ed by the crimes and law enforce-
ment now seems impassable.
South San Francisco Mayor
Kevin Mullin said the city is put-
ting together a coalition of city rep-
resentatives, local nonprofits,
school administrators and commu-
nity leaders to develop a neighbor-
hood-level outreach plan to better
engage the community. That is a
Guest perspective
On his first day in office,
Schwarzenegger followed through
on a campaign promise and wiped
out an increase in the car tax. That
was politically popular, but immedi-
ately put the state billions in the red,
a position California has been in
since he took office.
He fought with nurses and state
employees. He battled unions and
teachers. He waged war with
bureaucrats, special interests and
lawmakers. He did it all with lan-
guage that too often was as silly as it
was bombastic, drawn again and
again from his movie lines.
That got old and, ultimately, it got
him much less than he’d hoped. You
and all manners of medicine, begin-
ning Jan. 1, they’ll no longer be able
to buy most over-the-counter med-
ications unless they have a doctor’s
prescription. That’s right: If you
want to buy aspirin, a stomach reme-
dy or allergy medication, you’ll have
to pay at the pharmacy with cash,
and won’t be able to use your FSA
for reimbursement — unless you get
a prescription. Talk about a
headache!
What this will do is send people to
their doctors for the most minor ail-
Letters to the editor
being regulated, or in this case,
“advised” by one agency or after
another? How about giving us the
gift of liberty and getting the hell
out of our lives? What’s next, toilet
paper regulations? Bite me,
Broadbent.
Gary Gretter
San Bruno
OPINION
solid first step, but it is unfortunate
it took such a crime to spur this
action. However, the idea of com-
munity engagement is a two-way
street. There is only so much city
officials and law enforcement can
do in reaction to crimes in their
city. You can ask for information,
you can ask for involvement and
you can ask for change. The com-
munity itself needs to cooperate
and take charge of their own neigh-
borhood. It is not easy to stand up
to criminal elements, but it is a task
that needs to be done. Without
cooperation, the cycle of violence
will continue uninhibited and the
city and its police force need to do
everything possible to ensure the
safety of those who speak up or
speak out or else fear of retaliation
will stem any potential progress.
Gang activity and the crimes that
accompany it are not easily reme-
simply don’t call legislative oppo-
nents “girly-men” — even if that’s
what you think — if you have any
hope of delivering on your promises.
And Schwarzenegger promised
much, although his delivery never
quite matched up.
He promised, for example, to
bring financial sanity to state gov-
ernment, but in his first year in
office, he asked California voters to
borrow $15 billion to refinance the
deficit. As he leaves office, the state
faces a $28 billion deficit over the
next 18 months.
All of this is not
Schwarzenegger’s fault. When he
came to office with the recall of
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Dow 11,569.71
Nasdaq 2,662.98
-15.67
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10-Yr Bond 3.3690% +0.0280
Oil (per barrel) 89.59
Stocks down slightly
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and David K. Randall Wall Street Manage your
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Apple to skip CES gadget show

By Peter Svensson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
What do you call it when you have
120,000 people and an elephant in the
room?
The International Consumer
Electronics Show, which kicks off this
week in Las Vegas.
The elephant is Apple Inc. It won’t be
at the show this year, but its tablet com-
puter, the iPad, is the most important
new product for an industry that needs to
once again excite consumers. Sales of
the iPad have been strong since its April
debut, and the whole industry is now try-
ing to mimic Apple’s success.
With the iPad, Apple single-handedly
cracked the code for the tablet, a device
that dozens of manufacturers have tried
to take to the masses for two decades,
with little success.
Apple itself doesn’t do trade shows.
When Apple has new products to reveal,
such as iPads or iPhones, it stages its
own events.
But nearly every other company in the
industry will be there for CES, which
runs Thursday to Sunday and is the
largest trade show of any kind in the
Americas. A good many of them will
show off their tablets — computing
slabs with touch-sensitive screens. Big
names expected to do so include
Motorola Inc. and Dell Inc.
DisplaySearch analyst Richard
Semenza estimated that a hundred dif-
ferent tablet models are in development,
though not all of them will reach store
shelves.
Competing tablets will have a hard
time catching up to Apple’s lead, at least
this year. Certainly, no one managed to
do so last year, even though a lot of man-
ufacturers, including Dell, brought out
tablets. Samsung did have some success
with its Galaxy Tab, but sales didn’t
come close to the iPad’s.
“For the next year or two, we expect
there to be a lot of false starts, failed
attempts, and disasters,” Richard Shim,
another DisplaySearch analyst, said in a
blog post.
Apple sold 7.4 million iPads through
September, in the device’s first six
months on sale. That means they’re
already outselling Apple’s Mac comput-
ers, but not iPods or iPhones.
Analyst Shaw Wu at Kaufman Bros.
believes Apple sold another 6.1 million
iPads in the holiday quarter, and there’s
every indication that it was a popular
holiday gift. Even some retailers that
don’t normally sell electronics, includ-
ing TJ Maxx, carried the iPad.
Apple’s would-be competitors include
Motorola, which has been hinting that it
will show off its first tablet at the show.
Dell and Acer Inc. are also expected to
show tablets. Microsoft Corp. CEO
Steve Ballmer will likely touch on
tablets in his keynote speech
Wednesday, an annual fixture the eve of
the show’s opening.

Small businesses are
optimistic about 2011
By Joyce M. Rosenberg
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The signs might be
obvious, like a surge in the number of
phone calls and e-mails from prospective
customers. Or subtle — a staffer gets a
job at a competing company because
business is picking up throughout the
industry.
Many small business owners are opti-
mistic about 2011 not because of the eco-
nomic reports that come out each month.
They’re getting the evidence from what’s
happening in their own businesses.
The holidays are usually a slow time
for many public relations firms, includ-
ing The Boreland Group. But owner
Jennefer Witter had a surprising busy
month.
“Never had I had new business out-
reach in December,” said Witter, whose
company is based in New York. Another
surprise: The inquiries came from a vari-
ety of businesses, including a construc-
tion firm, a non-profit group, a skin care
company and a hedge fund.
PR agencies are often good indicators
of how the economy is doing because
marketing is one of the first budget items
a customer cuts in tough times. It’s also
one of the first things customers think
about when they’re ready to start
prospecting for new business again.
“There’s a lot of business planning for
2011,” Witter said.
So instead of being off the last week of
December, she spent the time writing
marketing plans for prospective clients.
Jeanne Achille is also getting a surge in
inquiries and requests for presentations
from her PR firm, The Devon Group,
based in Middletown, N.J. “We haven’t
seen this in at least two years,” she said.
Not all her prospective clients are
ready to sign contracts. But she says
she’s getting “sincere overtures.” Some
companies are saying, “we know we’re
going to do something. We don’t know
when,” she said.
Business brief
Companies hope sourcing
will stem illegal honey
FRESNO — Honey companies and
importers are launching a program in
January to try to stop the flow of illegal-
ly sourced honey from coming into the
country. The True Source Honey
Initiative is an effort by a handful of pro-
ducers and importers looking to certify
the origin and purity of the honey sold to
U.S. consumers in jars and products
such as cereals, snacks and glazes.
“Where food comes from has become
increasingly important to people,” said
Jill Clark, a spokeswoman for the
Pennsylvania-based Dutch Gold Honey,
one of the partners in the True Source
Honey Initiative.
Skype adds Wi-Fi, 3G
video calling to iPhone app
SAN FRANCISCO — A new version
of the free iPhone app for Skype SA will
let users make and receive video calls.
Users of the Internet calling and mes-
saging service will be able to use both
Wi-Fi and AT&T Inc.’s 3G cellular net-
work.
FINALLY!: STANFORD WOMEN SNAP UCONN’S 90-GAME WINNING STREAK >>> PAGE 13
Friday, Dec. 31, 2010

<< Sharks down Chicago, page 13

• Oregon RB to return next season, page 12

Hillsdale takes tournament title

By Nathan Mollat
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
The Hillsdale boys’ basketball
team found itself in a similar posi-
tion against St. Francis-Watsonville
Thursday night in the Gryphons’
Holiday Shootout as host Crystal
Springs did Wednesday night.
For the second game in a row, St.
Francis trailed for a majority of the
game before tightening things up in
the fourth quarter. Unlike
Wednesday’s last-second win over
Crystal Springs, however, the
Sharks could not complete the
comeback as Hillsdale held on for a
50-46 win in the tournament cham-
pionship game.
“For us, it wasn’t a great shooting
night, but we’re going to play 32
minutes of full-court pressure,” said
Hillsdale coach Brett Stevenson. “I
think if we make some of those
shots, we win by 16.”
Hillsdale (7-3) trailed for the
entire first quarter and were down
six early in the second when St.
Francis’ Robby Gibbs knocked
down a 3-pointer. The Knights,
however, responded with a 12-0 run
to take a 20-14 lead and they never
trailed again.
It appeared Hillsdale was a buck-
et away from blowing the game
open when it had a nine-point lead,
27-18, following two free throws
from Danny Mahoney to open the
third-quarter scoring. This time it
was the Sharks’ turn to make a run.
The Sharks outscored the Knights 6-
0 to close to 29-24, but a 3-pointer
from Mahoney gave Hillsdale a 35-
29 lead going into the final eight
minutes.
In the fourth, St. Francis did
everything it could to pull out the
win. The Sharks drained four 3s in
the quarter, but they could never get
over the hump. St. Francis cut it to
two, 45-43, on a Zack Saucedo 3
with 1:42 left to play, but Hillsdale
closed out the game with a 5-0 run
to hold off the Sharks. Gibbs
knocked down a meaningless 3 at
the buzzer for the final score.
Despite getting dominated on the
boards, 35-17, the Knights came up
with the biggest rebound of the
game when Grant Cecil chased
down an offensive rebound with
1:14 left to play and the Knights
clinging to a 45-43 lead. They ended
up scoring on the possession to pad
their lead before hitting 3 of 4 free
throws in the final seconds.
“They’re well coached,”
Stevenson said of St. Francis. “Very
well disciplined.”
Despite the rebounding differ-
ence, Hillsdale did everything else
relatively well. With a young team
that features only four players from
last year’s squad, Stevenson had to
be pleased with the poise with
which his team played. The Knights
only turned the ball over six times,
which is as good as it gets at the
high school level. And while the
Sharks came up with seven steals,
the Knights offset that with 13 steals
of their own.
More importantly, the young
See KNIGHTS, Page 14

Raiders’offense
No one wins ‘Battle’
By Nathan Mollat
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
gets up to speed
By Josh Dubow
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALAMEDA — The Oakland Raiders have

With the Notre Dame-Belmont
and Carlmont girls’ soccer teams so
evenly matched, finishing scoring
chances were of prime importance
in the annual Battle of Belmont
Thursday at Carlmont.
Notre Dame capitalized on its
chances in the first half, scoring
twice, but Carlmont responded by
scoring twice in the second half as
the teams settled for a 2-2 tie.
“In the first half, we were thinking
too much,” said Carlmont striker
Jillian Quan, who scored the equal-
izer in the 62nd minute. “At half-
time we talked about keeping our
composure and working off the
ball.”
The Battle of Belmont match is
among the most emotional and
intense games these teams will play
all season. Quan, for instance, has
two Notre Dame players on her club
team and she said she’s played with
about half a dozen of the Tigers’
players throughout her career.
“I know at least four girls (on our
team) came over from Notre Dame,
so I know they wanted to win real
bad,” Quan said.
If Quan had just capitalized on her
first great scoring chance, the Scots
might have pulled out the victory.
Minutes after Carlmont got on the
scoreboard in the 48th minute, Quan
had a golden opportunity to tie the
match. Shelby Beloff’s shot from 35
yards out hit the crossbar and came
right to Quan — who headed the
See SOCCER, Page 14
spent years acquiring speedy players they
hoped could deliver touchdowns from almost
any spot on the field.
Those speedsters finally delivered the game-
breaking plays this season that have been lack-
ing so much the past few
years as Oakland finished
up a seven-year run of los-
ing at least 11 games a sea-
son.
Darren McFadden has
developed into the big-
play back Oakland expect-
ed when they selected him
fourth overall in the 2008
Darren draft, putting together one
McFadden of the most productive
seasons ever for a Raiders
running back.
Rookie Jacoby Ford has
flashed his sprinter speed
on three kickoff returns for
touchdowns, long passes
and a 71-yard score on a
reverse on the opening
play two years ago.
Receiver Louis Murphy
has three plays of at least
Jacoby Ford
40 yards, and even full-
back Marcel Reece has gotten into the mix
with a couple of big plays from a position that
usually focuses on blocking.
That has all added up an extremely produc-
tive offensive season for the Raiders (7-8),
who despite the marked improvement will still
miss the playoffs for an eighth straight year.
“We showed how strong we can be, how
many points we can put up and how explosive
BY NATHAN MOLLAT / DAILY JOURNAL we can be,” said tight end Zach Miller, who
Carlmont’s Michelle Galindo, left, and Notre Dame-Belmont’s Kelsy Wallace battle for control of the
ball during a 2-2 tie Thursday in the annual Battle of Belmont game. See RAIDERS, Page 12

Bowl-bound schools spend millions on football

By Eddie Pells
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The numbers grow every year: 35
bowl games, 70 teams — the mor-
phing of what was once a New
Year’s Day tradition into one that
kicks off in mid-December and fin-
ishes closer to Martin Luther King
Day than Jan. 1.
And if those bowl-season stats
seem bloated, try this: Ohio State
and Alabama each spend more than
$31 million a year to run their foot-
ball programs, while nine other
teams closing out the season at one
of those 35 bowl games spend $20
million plus.
The cheapest bowl-bound pro-
gram? That would be Troy, winner
of the New Orleans Bowl on the first
postseason weekend, at just a shade
over $5 million. That’s nearly $23
million less than they spend an hour
away at top-ranked Auburn, where
the Tigers are playing for the
national title this season. Auburn’s
opponent in the BCS game, Oregon,
spends $18 million — 16th among
the bowl-bound schools.
The statistics come from the
Department of Education, which
has required universities to submit
the amount they spend on sports
since 2000 as part of the Equity in
Athletics Disclosure Act. With that
information, the Equity in Athletics
Data Analysis Cutting Tool was cre-
ated. And while the database comes
with disclaimers and caveats stating
that there are no hard-and-fast
guidelines as to what schools count
under the term “expenses” and “rev-
enue,” these are the numbers they
report to the federal government.
After OSU ($31.7 million) and
’Bama ($31.1 million), the rest of
top five biggest spenders include
Notre Dame, Auburn and LSU,
according to the database. Most
schools’ figures were for the fiscal
year that ended June 30.
Broken down on a per-student
basis, the Irish spend the most, the
database says. Their trip to the Sun
Bowl is coming at a price of $3,531
for each of Notre Dame’s 8,351
undergraduates — an overall budget
of $29.4 million — while TCU
spends $2,822 per student to run its
Rose Bowl-bound football program.
For all the money they fork out, at
least the TCUs and LSUs of the
world are going somewhere this
season. Texas, last year’s national
runner-up, spent $25.1 million and
is sitting home for New Year’s after
going 5-7.
Boise State, meanwhile, looks
like a bargain. The underdog
Broncos stayed in contention for the
national title all year with a program
that spends a fraction of what the
See BOWLS, Page 14
12 Friday • Dec. 31, 2010
Oregon’s James staying in school
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EUGENE, Ore. — Heisman
Trophy finalist LaMichael James is
coming back to Oregon next season.
James, a sophomore running back
and the nation’s leading rusher this
season, had repeatedly suggested he
would forgo an early entry to the
NFL draft. Thursday’s announce-
ment made it official.
“I came to the University of
Oregon to get a quality education as
well as to play football, and feel I
have yet to complete that goal,” he
RAIDERS
Continued from page 12
leads the team with 55 catches for
654 yards and five scores. “We did-
n’t do it consistently enough, but I
thought when we did we had the
capability of putting a lot of points
on the board.”
The Raiders are seventh in the
league in scoring with 379 points
and need just 15 in the season finale
at Kansas City on Sunday to double
last year’s scoring output. They are
on pace to finish in the top 10 on the
franchise list in points and yards per
game since the 1970 merger.
Oakland has scored more than 20
points 10 times already this season
compared to just once a year ago
when JaMarcus Russell spent the
majority of the season as the starting
quarterback.
“We’ve made leaps and bounds
with this offense,” Murphy said.
“We put up some big numbers, 500-
plus yard games. We just weren’t
able to come out with enough wins,
which is the most important part. I
think we can get much better with
said in a statement.
James has thrived in Oregon’s
speedy spread-option offense. He
has run for 1,682 yards this season,
averaging 153 a game. He’s also
averaging a national-best 12 points
a game. His 22 touchdowns (21 on
the ground plus one touchdown
reception) are a school record.
His play has helped carry the No.
2 Ducks to the national champi-
onship game, where they will play
No. 1 Auburn in Glendale, Ariz., on
Jan. 10.
Compared at times to former
the guys we have on this team.”
While there is plenty to praise
with Oakland’s offense this season,
there is one involved party who is
not exactly patting people on the
back.
Offensive coordinator Hue
Jackson was brought in during the
offseason to take over play-calling
duties from coach Tom Cable and
immediately instilled the unit with
energy and creativity that had been
lacking. But he still sees so much
more improvement needed.
“We didn’t improve fast enough,”
Jackson said. “We want perfection.
That’s what I expect from our foot-
ball team. We expect to be challeng-
ing for the playoffs, challenging for
our division year in and year out and
we’re not getting that done. So to
me, that’s a disappointment. There’s
either first place or there’s last place
and there’s no in between.”
Jackson points to a lack of con-
sistency and potential big plays
that were not executed as the
biggest flaws on the unit. The
Raiders failed to score a touch-
down in a loss at San Francisco,
sputtered against Pittsburgh and
Miami, and had problems in the
SPORTS
Heisman winner
and NFL great
Barry Sanders,
James ranks sec-
ond at Oregon
with 3,228
career rushing
yards and 36
touchdowns.
The 5-foot-9
LaMichael
back made a
James
splash last sea-
son as a redshirt freshman after sen-
ior running back LeGarrette Blount
was suspended for punching a Boise
State player in the season opener.
red zone for much of the season.
The Raiders have committed a
league-worst 64 penalties on
offense, including 28 false start
penalties that too often led to stalled
drives.
“It’s very frustrating,” Jackson
said. “We’ve got to be a more disci-
plined offensive unit. We’ve had a
lot of penalties in key situations,
whether it be the scoring zone, or to
start a series that all of a sudden puts
you in second-and-15 or second-
and-20 and you can’t play that way
and be a very good offensive foot-
ball team. I know that it is some-
thing we will address.”
The Raiders are hoping for
improvements from a unit filled
with young players. The three most
productive running backs have all
played three or fewer seasons, the
top three wide receivers are all in
their first or second year and Miller
is just finishing up his fourth season
at tight end.
Quarterback Jason Campbell is
the old man of the skilled position
players, celebrating his 29th birth-
day Friday. It’s been quite a year for
Campbell, who was acquired from
Washington during the draft to
He ran for a Pac-10 freshman-
record 1,546 yards and was honored
as the league’s freshman of the year.
His reputation was tainted this
spring when he was accused of
assaulting an ex-girlfriend and
pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor
harassment charge. James apolo-
gized to the woman and was sus-
pended for the season opener
against New Mexico by coach Chip
Kelly.
James was third in Heisman vote
behind two quarterbacks — winner
Cam Newton of Auburn and
Andrew Luck of Stanford.
replace Russell as the Raiders’ quar-
terback of the future. He was offi-
cially given the starting job at train-
ing camp only to be benched six
quarters into the season.
He returned after Bruce
Gradkowski went down with a
shoulder injury. After a rough first
start back in San Francisco,
Campbell led the Raiders to their
first three-game winning streak
since 2002 and briefly into first
place in the AFC West.
Oakland has lost four of six since
then, including one more start by
Gradkowski. Campbell has com-
pleted 58.9 percent of his passes
with 12 touchdowns, eight intercep-
tions and a passer rating of 83.9 this
season.
“It wasn’t the type of year you
expected,” Campbell said. “I did
feel like I’ve grown a lot this season
having faced a lot of adversity and
to still get in there and keep playing.
I take the positives. We turned
things around. I think we’re going in
a positive direction and we’re just
glad to be a part of it.”
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But James has said the only indi-
vidual honor he’d like is Academic
All-American. He didn’t make that
list this season, but he was on the
Pac-10’s All-Academic first team.
James, a sociology major, has a 3.01
grad-point average.
Just before the regular-season
finale against Oregon State, James
said he still had time to win nation-
al academic recognition. He also
said he planned to run on the track
team in the spring.
“My career at Oregon is not
done,” he said.
Sports Brief
Little League
bans composite bats
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa —
Composite bats will no longer be
used in the Little League World
Series.
Little League officials announced a
moratorium on the equipment
Thursday based on research it com-
missioned from the University of
Massachusetts in Lowell.
Composite bats have metal shells
enclosing woven fibers inside the bar-
rels.
Critics say the bats endanger
youngsters because balls fly off them
at high speeds and can injure fielders.
Supporters say they are lighter and
easier to handle.
Little League banned composite
bats in its older junior, senior and big
league divisions in August. The
league broadened the ban on
Thursday to include the younger
majors division featured in the World
Series.
Players can use wood bats, metal
bats or bats with composite materials
in the handle only.
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Stanford ends UConn’s winning streak
By Janie McCauley
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STANFORD — Top-ranked Connecticut’s
record 90-game winning streak is over.
The Huskies never led and were beaten by
No. 9 Stanford 71-59 on Thursday night, end-
ing a remarkable run that drew national atten-
tion and acclaim to women’s basketball.
Stanford was the last school to beat coach
Geno Auriemma’s team, in the 2008 NCAA
semifinals.
Jeanette Pohlen hit five 3-pointers on the
way to a career-high 31 points and the
Cardinal (9-2) had the Huskies’ number at last
— a huge number at that. Stanford won its
52nd straight at Maples Pavilion in a rematch
of last season’s NCAA title game won 53-47
by two-time defending national champion
UConn.
Last week, the Huskies (12-1) topped the
Sharks top Chicago
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CHICAGO — Joe Thornton broke a tie on a
deflection at 7:13 of the third period and the San
Jose Sharks beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-3 on
Thursday night to snap a two-game losing streak.
Thornton, parked in front of the crease, redi-
rected Marc-Edouard Vlasic’s shot from the left
point past Marty Turco 7 seconds after a San
Jose power-play ended.
Scott Nichol, Benn Ferriero, Dany Heatley
and Ryane Clowe also scored for the Sharks,
who bounced back after blowing a 3-1 lead.
Clowe connected into an empty net with 48 sec-
onds left.
Patrick Sharp, Troy Brouwer and Brian
Campbell scored for Chicago. Brouwer and
Campbell scored 22 seconds apart in the final
minute of the second period to tie it at 3.
San Jose goalie Antti Niemi made 26 saves in
his first appearance at the United Center since
backstopping the Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup
last spring. He improved to 3-0 against his for-
mer club.
Turco made his third straight start, stopping 20
shots.
Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews sat out
his first game because of a right shoulder injury,
sustained in a 3-1 loss at St. Louis on Tuesday
night. He’s expected to miss at least two weeks.
Sharp opened the scoring with a power-play
goal with 4:16 left in the first. He connected from
the left edge of the crease after taking a feed
from Tomas Kopecky behind the net to cap near-
SPORTS
88-game winning streak set
by John Wooden’s UCLA
men’s team from 1971-74
by beating No. 22 Florida
State 93-62, then won their
90th in a row this week at
Pacific.
Huskies star Maya
Moore was held to 14
Jeanette points on 5-of-15 shooting.
Pohlen UConn hadn’t lost since an
82-73 defeat to Stanford
on April 6, 2008, in the Final Four at Tampa,
Fla.
Pohlen sealed it with six free throws in the
final 42.5 seconds. She shot 8-for-15 overall
and had nine rebounds and six assists.
Nnemkadi Ogwumike added 12 points and six
rebounds and Kayla Pedersen 11 rebounds for
an inspired Stanford squad that held a 43-36
advantage on the boards.
Sharks 5, Blackhawks 3
ly a minute of crisp Chicago
passing and puck posses-
sion. Nichol tied it with 1:06
left in the period when his
drive from right wing trick-
led past Turco after hitting
his blocker.
Ferriero’s 5-on-3 power-
play goal at 1:46 of the sec-
Joe Thornton ond put the Sharks ahead.
He scored into an empty net
from the left edge of the crease after Logan
Couture faked Turco to the ice.
Heatley extended San Jose’s lead to 3-1 with
another power-play goal with 6:14 left in the sec-
ond. Turco made a pad save on Jason Demers’
drive from the left circle, but Heatley got behind
Chicago defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson and
fired in the rebound.
Brouwer cut it to 3-2 with 23 seconds left in
the period with a fluke power-play goal when his
shot from the right corner deflected in off the
heel of Niemi’s stick. Campbell pinched in from
the point and tied it with a second remaining
after taking Dave Bolland’s feed from behind the
net.
NOTES: Sam Jose was coming off a 5-3 loss
in Minnesota on Wednesday night. ... San Jose C
Joe Pavelski missed his second game because of
an upper-body injury and C Torrey Mitchell his
third with a lower-body injury. Both are day-to-
day.
Moore’s 3-pointer with 10:50 left cut
Stanford’s lead to 48-44, then Pedersen
answered moments later on the other end.
Moore tried to will her team back late, scoring
eight straight during one stretch. But she
missed the front end of a one-and-one off the
rim with 1:42 left that could have made it a
four-point game.
Kelly Faris scored 19 points and Bria
Hartley 14 for the Huskies, who never found
their usual dominant form while playing in
front of a raucous sellout crowd of 7,329-plus
for this highly anticipated, nationally televised
showdown between the top programs from
either coast.
UConn was headed home from the Bay Area
on what certainly would be an extra-long red-
eye flight out of San Francisco. The team just
beat the big East Coast blizzard to get here,
leaving at 6:30 a.m. Sunday. UConn played at
Maples for the first time since Dec. 28, 1993,
Willis upset to miss finale
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SANTA CLARA — Missing the first game
of his NFL career hurts Patrick Willis more
than the broken right hand keeping him out.
“It hurts not to be able to complete this sea-
son,” Willis said Thursday. “Because it’s a fact
that some of us won’t be together next year.”
The 49ers could see some changes following
a disappointing season in which they fell short
of expectations in the weak NFC West and
missed the playoffs for the eighth year in a
row.
Coach Mike Singletary was fired after
Sunday’s loss in St. Louis eliminated the 49ers
from playoff contention.
The most immediate change for the 49ers?
Not having the linebacker they drafted in the
first round in 2007. The NFL’s defensive rook-
ie of the year that season, Willis has started
each of San Francisco last 63 games.
He broke a bone in his hand during a Dec. 12
victory against Seattle, but he was able to play
with a cast on the hand the next two weeks dur-
ing losses at San Diego and St. Louis.
Willis did further damage to the hand during
last week’s loss and has been ruled out by team
doctors for the Arizona game. Selected earlier
this week as a NFC starter in the Pro Bowl,
Willis said his status for that Jan. 30 game also
is uncertain.
With defensive four starters scheduled to
become free agents in 2011, Sunday’s game
likely will be the last time together for coordi-
nator Greg Manusky and several of his players.
“The future’s going to come, and it is what it
Friday • Dec. 31, 2010 13
and Stanford has won all three meetings in the
rivalry on its home floor.
For the Cardinal, this was a long time com-
ing. Coach Tara VanDerveer, who joined the
elite 800-win club last week, thought about
that championship loss for months and felt her
team missed a big opportunity, saying it fueled
her to be a better coach and did the same for
her players. Stanford hasn’t won it all since
1992 despite making the last three Final Fours.
Stanford led at halftime for the third straight
time facing UConn, having blown a 20-12
edge at the break in the title game last April.
Moore missed her initial four shots and did-
n’t score her first points until knocking down a
3 at with 3:14 left in the opening half. The
two-time national player of the year came in
averaging 24.8 points and received a rousing
ovation from the Stanford crowd when starting
lineups were introduced, though Auriemma
was booed.
is,” Manusky said.
“Whatever happens, hap-
pens and I can’t control
that. I’ve got a job, they
told me to coach 16-plus
games. That’s all I do.
That’s the way it is in this
league.”
Manusky is replacing
Patrick Willis Willis in the lineup this
week with rookie NaVorro
Bowman, San Francisco’s third-round draft
pick who will be making his first NFL start.
Willis is a tough guy to replace. Willis led
the NFL in tackles in 2007 and 2009 and
ranked second in the league in 2008. Willis
ranks sixth in the NFL this year and leads the
49ers with 136 tackles to go along with a
career-high five sacks.
With Willis out, the lead role in the middle
of San Francisco’s 3-4 defense will go to
Takeo Spikes, a 13th-year veteran who has
been overshadowed by Willis during his three
seasons in San Francisco.
Spikes, a two-time Pro Bowler, leads the
team with three interceptions and ranks second
to Willis with 114 tackles. Spikes’ 17 tackles
against Green Bay earlier this month are the
third-most by a NFL player in a game this sea-
son.
But Spikes’ contract with the 49ers ends
after this season. Like impending free-agent
defenders Manny Lawson, Dashon Goldson
and Aubrayo Franklin, Spikes doesn’t know
if he’ll be back with the same defense next
year.
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KNIGHTS
Continued from page 11
Knights are starting to find a rhythm.
Stevenson is starting two seniors in Grant and
Scott Cecil, a junior post in Gabe Fodor, soph-
omore small forward Angelo Bautista and
freshman Mahoney. All the starters, the
youngsters especially, stepped up with big
games.
Fodor was a revelation in the post. Nearly
every time he touched the ball, he scored, fin-
ishing with a game-high 16 points. Using a
variety of spin moves in the paint, along with
tremendous footwork, Fodor was nearly
unstoppable. He even showed some range
when he knocked down a jumper from the
elbow to put Hillsdale up 47-43 with 43 sec-
onds to play.
“[Fodor] just started playing (basketball)
his freshman year,” Stevenson said of his 6-
foot-4 center. “I’m so proud of him. The last
four games, we’ve really made a concerted
effort to get him touches.”
If Mahoney continues to work on his game,
the sky’s the limit for him when he becomes a
senior. He’s already a good player, as his 14
points attest, but it was how he went about
scoring, doing it in every conceivable fashion
: From behind the 3-point arc, slashing to the
bucket or running the floor in transition for an
easy layup.
“He played really well this tournament,”
Stevenson said of Mahoney.
St. Francis had two players score 15 points:
Gibbs and Will Burkett.
SPORTS
BOWLS
Continued from page 11
big boys do. The tab: $6.85 million for an
average of $564 a student for a program that
ended up winning the MAACO Bowl this
year.
While football also brings in millions, the
spending on the sport has given plenty of
ammunition to critics of big-time college
sports.
“It’s a sad commentary given the general
conditions out there: 10 percent unemploy-
ment, economic stagnation,” said Tom
Palaima, the University of Texas’ representa-
tive on the Coalition on Intercollegiate
Athletics, a group that believes spending on
sports has gotten out of hand. “You look at
$1,500 per capita (at Auburn), that’s a large
outlay. I just don’t see how it can be justified
given that most of the revenues will still end
up on the sports side of the ledger.”
Schools’ rebuttal
Indeed, the common refrain among many
successful football programs is that they are
self-sustaining. In fact, all but three of the
bowl-bound programs reported operating at
even or in the black.
In most cases, that allows the football pro-
grams — most commonly the biggest money
makers in athletic programs — to support all
NATHAN MOLLAT / DAILY JOURNAL
the other sports, which in many cases operate
Hillsdale’s Angelo Bautista tries to drive around
at a loss. In cases where there’s more money
a St.Francis-Watsonville defender during the
left over, some of that is often given to the uni-
Knights’50-46 win.
versity, which can use it wherever the need is
greatest.
The Texas athletic program boasts that it
sends back an average of around $1.5 million
a year to the school. Its football program net-
ted a whopping $68 million in the 12-month
period ending Aug. 31.
At Florida, football spent $24.4 million and
brought in $68.7 million for a net profit of
$44.2 million. The program will give $6 mil-
lion to the university in the 2010-11 fiscal year
to bring the total to $61.1 million since 1990.
“At this place, your main revenue source is
football, so you’re going to spend money nec-
essary to sustain a successful football pro-
gram,” Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley
said. “If we go from playing in front of 90,000
people to playing in front of 60,000 people,
you’re talking about cutting sports, scholar-
ships, personnel, and nobody wants to see that
happen.”
But Foley said the benefits of a successful
SOCCER
Continued from page 11
ball right to the Notre Dame goalkeeper.
“I thought that was in,” Quan said of
Beloff’s shot.
Instead, she had to wait until the 62nd
minute to pull Carlmont even. Carly
Richardson sent a perfect cross into the Notre
Dame penalty box. Quan rushed to the ball
and patiently waited for the goalkeeper to
make a move before she buried it in the center
of the net.
“Overall, I think the second half was the
soccer we want to be playing,” said Carlmont
assistant coach Roo Patel, who was filling in
for head coach Tina Doss, who is on vacation.
Carlmont dominated play in the second
half, playing most of the game on the Notre
Dame side of the field. The Scots finished the
second half with 10 shots, five of which were
on frame.
“We came out really hard in the first half,”
said Notre Dame co-head coach Samantha
Paetz. “In the second half … we just didn’t
play as hard.”
The Tigers had a couple of scoring chances
in the second half, but Carlmont goalkeeper
Brianna Furner came up with the save —
making up for two goals she allowed in the
first half. Early in the second half, Kelly
Goldsmith’s shot toward the far right post was
tipped wide by Furner. Later off a Notre Dame
free kick, Furner made the save on a header.
In the first half, Notre Dame appeared to be
the more poised and calm team. While it did-
n’t result in too many chances early on, there
never seemed to be any panic in the Tigers’
play.
Carlmont, on the other hand, was out of
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sports program go beyond merely money.
Sports help spread the word about the
University of Florida, which has grown in
stature nationwide over the past two decades
— a timeframe that coincides with the arrival
of Steve Spurrier as coach and the rise of a
once-troubled football program. (Not coinci-
dentally, it’s also when the athletic program
started giving money to the school.)
“Athletics is a big window,” Foley said. “It
provides a look into the institution. If some-
one’s viewing the University of Florida and
looking at a great athletic program, it
enhances the way people view the institution
and that’s all good.”
Critics, meanwhile, respond that big-time
college football programs wouldn’t have any-
where near the drawing power — and would
be little more than money-losing minor-league
teams — without the name recognition and
fan base the universities and their alumni pro-
vide.
Not surprisingly, teams from the automatic-
bid BCS conferences spend the most on foot-
ball, with the Southeastern Conference, which
has the best TV deal, leading the way. Six of
the 10 highest overall spenders on the list were
from the SEC.
No equality
Presumably, football programs around the
country should have roughly the same list of
expenses: 85 scholarships, weight rooms and
training tables, travel budgets and coaches’
salaries. The gap between the most expensive
and least was a big one, however — more than
$25 million — and there’s no doubt you will
see a difference between the weight rooms at
Troy and those at Ohio State.
“If you need a nice weight room to attract a
top athlete, you’re going to do that, but you
need that weight room to help that athlete get
better, too,” Foley said. “If you have to spend
money to pay a coach like Urban Meyer,
you’re going to do that, too. You’ve got to
spend money to make money. It doesn’t just
happen.”
Oregon professor Nathan Tublitz, the for-
mer co-chair at Coalition on Intercollegiate
Athletics, said the calculation he favors
divides the amount spent on any given sport
by the number of players in that sport. At
Oregon, he lumped them all together and
found the athletic program has a $75 million
annual budget and 500 scholarship students,
for an average of about $150,000 per athlete
per year. Meantime, the average cost of edu-
cation for an in-state student runs about
$20,000 per year.
sync. The Scots were either rushing the pass
or holding onto the ball too long.
“Part of that was we were worried about
getting hit,” Patel said.
Midway through the first half, Notre Dame
found the back of the net. In the 26th minute,
Michaela Brady sent a free kick from 45 yards
out into the Carlmont penalty box. The ball
took a huge hop and, as Furner waited for the
ball to come down, Tara Kai LamCenteio
darted in and nodded it past the surprised
goalkeeper.
Just four minutes later, the Tigers struck
again. Notre Dame sent a long ball into space.
Furner came 25 yards off her line to clear the
ball away. LamCenteio hustled all the way to
the ball and while she didn’t get her foot on it,
Furner’s clearing pass deflected off
LamCenteio and right to Goldsmith, who was
35 yards out. With Furner scrambling back
into position, Goldsmith ripped a shot over
Furner’s head and just under the crossbar for a
2-0 Notre Dame lead.
As many coaches will say, however, a two-
goal lead is the most dangerous in soccer, but
Carlmont needed to get a goal back early if it
had any chance of getting back in the game.
Wish granted. Just eight minutes after half-
time, the Scots struck. Katie McGonegal
ripped a shot from 30 yards out, but the ball
hit on the underside of the crossbar and
bounced back into the field of play. Kelsey
Hutcherson never gave up on the play, howev-
er, and she was in position to settle the
rebound and put it away.
“We told them (the team) if we get that goal
back (early), the mentality will change,” Patel
said.
Said Quan: “[Scoring that goal early in the
second half] was really great. It gave us the
confidence to come back with the second
goal.”
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FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THUR

31 1 2 3 4 5 6
NBA GLANCE NHL GLANCE NFL GLANCE
@ L.A. vs. Canucks vs. Sabres
6 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE AMERICAN CONFERENCE
CSN-CAL CSN-CAL CSN-CAL
Atlantic Division Atlantic Division East
W L Pct GB W L OT Pts GF GA W L T Pct PF PA
@ Charlotte @ Orlando @ Hornets Boston 24 6 .800 — Pittsburgh 25 11 3 53 126 91 y-New England 13 2 0 .867 480 306
@ Miami
Noon 4:30 p.m. 4 p.m. 5 p.m. New York 18 14 .563 7 Philadelphia 22 9 5 49 119 93 x-N.Y.Jets 10 5 0 .667 329 297
CSN-BAY CSN-BAY CSN-BAY CSN-BAY Philadelphia 13 19 .406 12 N.Y.Rangers 22 14 2 46 118 98 Miami 7 8 0 .467 266 295
Toronto 11 20 .355 13 1/2 N.Y.Islanders 10 19 6 26 80 115 Buffalo 4 11 0 .267 276 387
Jan. 2 New Jersey 9 23 .281 16 New Jersey 9 25 2 20 62 115 South
vs.Arizona Southeast Division Northeast Division W L T Pct PF PA
1:15 p.m. End regular W L Pct GB W L OT Pts GF GA Indianapolis 9 6 0 .600 412 368
FOX season Miami 25 9 .735 — Jacksonville 8 7 0 .533 336 385
Boston 20 11 5 45 102 77
Orlando 21 12 .636 3 1/2 Montreal 20 16 2 42 94 90 Tennessee 6 9 0 .400 336 316
Jan. 2 Atlanta 21 13 .618 4 Ottawa 16 18 4 36 86 112 Houston 5 10 0 .333 356 410
@ K.C. Charlotte 11 19 .367 12 North
10 a.m. End regular Buffalo 15 18 4 34 98 108
season Washington 8 22 .267 15 Toronto 13 19 4 30 84 110 W L T Pct PF PA
CBS
Central Division Southeast Division x-Pittsburgh 11 4 0 .733 334 223
W L Pct GB W L OT Pts GF GA x-Baltimore 11 4 0 .733 344 263

LOCAL SCOREBOARD STANFORD-UCONN BOX Chicago

Indiana
20
13
10
17
.667
.433
—
7
Tampa Bay
Washington
22
22
11
12
5
5
49
49
119
117
121
105
Cleveland
Cincinnati
West
5
4
10
11
0
0
.333
.267
262
315
291
382
Milwaukee 12 18 .400 8 Atlanta 20 14 6 46 126 119
GIRLS’SOCCER No.9 STANFORD 71,No.1 CONNECTICUT 59 Detroit 11 21 .344 10 W L T Pct PF PA
Carlmont 2,Notre Dame-Belmont 2 Carolina 17 15 4 38 102 108
Cleveland 8 24 .250 13 y-Kansas City 10 5 0 .667 356 295
Halftime score — 2-0 Notre Dame.Goal scorer (as- CONNECTICUT (12-1) Florida 16 17 1 33 93 89 San Diego 8 7 0 .533 408 294
sist) — ND, LamCenteio (Brady); Goldsmith Moore 5-15 0-1 14,Dolson 3-6 0-0 6,Hayes 1-9 0-0 Oakland 7 8 0 .467 379 361
(unassisted); C, Huterchson (McGonegal); C, Quan 3, Hartley 5-12 3-6 14,Faris 5-13 6-7 19,Walker 1-2
1-2 3, Dixon 0-3 0-0 0, Buck 0-1 0-0 0.Totals 20-61
WESTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE Denver 4 11 0 .267 316 438
(Richardson). Records — Carlmont 2-2-2 overall;
Notre Dame-Belmont 3-3-1. 10-16 59. Southwest Division Central Division
STANFORD (9-2) San Antonio
W
27
L
4
Pct
.871
GB
—
W L OT Pts GF GA NATIONAL CONFERENCE
BOYS’BASKETBALL C. Ogwumike 2-7 2-4 6, Pedersen 4-9 0-1 8, N. Og- Detroit 24 9 4 52 128 103 East
Gryphons’Holiday Shootout Dallas 24 6 .800 2 1/2 St.Louis 19 12 5 43 95 97
wumike 5-9 2-2 12, La Rocque 2-6 0-0 6, Pohlen W L T Pct PF PA
Championship game 8-15 10-10 31, Ruef 0-0 0-0 0, Kokenis 0-1 0-0 0, New Orleans 18 14 .563 9 1/2 Chicago 20 16 3 43 123 113
Houston 15 16 .484 12 y-Philadelphia 10 5 0 .667 426 363
Hillsdale 50,St.Francis-Watsonville 46 Boothe 1-1 0-0 2,Tinkle 3-7 0-1 6.Totals 25-55 14- Columbus 19 15 3 41 96 107 N.Y.Giants 9 6 0 .600 377 333
Hillsdale 8 17 10 15 — 50 18 71. Memphis 14 18 .438 13 1/2 Nashville 17 13 6 40 87 91
Halftime—Stanford 34-30. 3-Point Goals—Con- Northwest Division Washington 6 9 0 .400 288 360
St.Francis 11 7 11 17 — 46 Northwest Division Dallas 5 10 0 .333 380 423
HILLSDALE (fg ftm-fta tp) — Mahoney 5 3-3 14, necticut 9-29 (Moore 4-11, Faris 3-9, Hartley 1-2, W L Pct GB
Hayes 1-5, Dolson 0-1, Dixon 0-1), Stanford 7-18 W L OT Pts GF GA South
Fodor 8 0-1 16, Serrata 1 0-0 2, Houston 1 0-0 2, Utah 22 10 .688 —
(Pohlen 5-9,La Rocque 2-5,N.Ogwumike 0-1,Ped- Vancouver 22 8 5 49 121 90 W L T Pct PF PA
Bautista 2 0-0 5, S. Cecil 2 2-2 7, G. Cecil 0 1-2 1,Vu- Oklahoma City 22 11 .667 1/2
atalevu 1 0-0 2, Pagano 0 2-2 2. Totals 20 8-10 50. ersen 0-1,Tinkle 0-2). Fouled Out—C. Ogwumike. Colorado 19 12 5 43 125 117 x-Atlanta 12 3 0 .800 383 278
Rebounds—Connecticut 36 (Moore 8),Stanford 43 Denver 18 13 .581 3 1/2
ST. FRANCIS — Gibbs 5 2-2 15, Saucedo 3 0-0 8, Minnesota 17 14 5 39 91 103 New Orleans 11 4 0 .733 371 284
(Pedersen 11).Assists—Connecticut 12 (Moore 4), Portland 16 16 .500 6
Burkett 6 1-2 15,Mathews 2 1-2 5,Figueroa 0 3-4 3. Calgary 16 18 3 35 100 107 Tampa Bay 9 6 0 .600 318 305
Stanford 16 (La Rocque, Pohlen 6). Total Fouls— Minnesota 8 25 .242 14 1/2
Totals 16 7-10 46.3-pointers — Mahoney,Bautista, Edmonton 12 17 6 30 91 120 Carolina 2 13 0 .133 186 377
S.Cecil (H);Gibbs 3,Saucedo 2,Burkett 2 (SF).Records Connecticut 19,Stanford 18.A—7,329. Pacific Division
Pacific Division North
— Hillsdale 7-3 overall. W L Pct GB
W L OT Pts GF GA W L T Pct PF PA
Non-league
SHARKS-BLACKHAWKS BOX L.A.Lakers
Phoenix
22
13
10
17
.688
.433
—
8 Dallas 22 12 4 48 109 105 y-Chicago
Green Bay
11
9
4
6
0
0
.733
.600
331
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Golden State 12 19 .387 9 1/2 Los Angeles 22 13 1 45 109 84
Carlmont 56,Balboa 44 San Jose 20 13 5 45 114 108 Minnesota 6 9 0 .400 268 328
Sharks 5,Blackhawks 3 L.A.Clippers 10 23 .303 12 1/2
Carlmont 16 16 11 13 — 56 Detroit 5 10 0 .333 342 356
Sacramento 6 23 .207 14 1/2 Anaheim 19 17 4 42 102 116
Balboa 2 9 14 19 — 44 San Jose 1 2 2 — 5 West
Phoenix 17 12 7 41 98 103
CARLMONT (fg ftm-fta tp) — Wyatt 2 0-0 4, Pat- Chicago 1 2 0 — 3 W L T Pct PF PA
terson 1 1-1 3, Johnson 3 1-2 7, Faulkner 1 0-2 3, Thursday’s Games St.Louis 7 8 0 .467 283 312
Stovall 1 0-0 2, Testa 2 0-0 5, Crawford 3 0-0 6, First Period—1, Chicago, Sharp 21 (Kopecky, Orlando 112,New York 103 Thursday’s Games
Atlanta 3,Boston 2,SO Seattle 6 9 0 .400 294 401
Magsino 4 2-3 10,Vickerman 1 0-0 2,Hobbs 3 0-0 6, Seabrook),15:44 (pp).2,San Jose,Nichol 4 (Vlasic), San Antonio at Dallas,late
Fischer 1 0-0 2,Todd 3 0-2 6.Total 25 4-10 56. BAL- 18:54. Columbus 3,Toronto 2 San Francisco 5 10 0 .333 267 339
Utah at Portland,late Arizona 5 10 0 .333 282 396
BOA — Cooper 2 0-0 6,Burrikski 4 2-6 11,Sutton 1 Second Period—3, San Jose, Ferriero 4 (Couture, Tampa Bay 4,Montreal 1
1-2 3,Arellano 0 1-2 1,Fletcher 2 0-0 6,Pulusian 2 2- Friday’s Games x-clinched playoff spot
Boyle), 1:45 (pp). 4, San Jose, Heatley 15 (Demers, San Jose 5,Chicago 3
2 6, Scarpone 2 1-2 5, Hom 1 0-0 2, Brown 1 2-2 4. Boyle), 13:46 (pp). 5, Chicago, Brouwer 10 (Kane, New Jersey at Chicago,noon y-clinched division
Totals 16 9-16 44.3-pointers — Testa,Faulkner (C); Sharp),19:37 (pp).6,Chicago,Campbell 2 (Bolland, New Orleans at Boston,noon Colorado at Edmonton,late
Sunday,Jan.2
Fletcher 2, Burrioski (B). Records — Carlmont 9-3 Bickell),19:59. Golden State at Charlotte,noon Philadelphia at Los Angeles,late
Oakland at Kansas City,10 a.m.
overall; Balboa 2-12. Third Period—7,San Jose,Thornton 10 (Vlasic,Heat- Washington at Indiana,noon Friday’s Games Tampa Bay at New Orleans,10 a.m.
ley),7:13.8,San Jose,Clowe 10,19:12 (en). Toronto at Houston,4 p.m. Atlanta at New Jersey,2 p.m. Miami at New England,10 a.m.
WEDNESDAY Shots on Goal—San Jose 7-8-10—25.Chicago 10- Atlanta at Oklahoma City,5 p.m. Montreal at Florida,2 p.m.
8-11—29. Minnesota at Detroit,10 a.m.
GIRLS’BASKETBALL Detroit at Phoenix,6 p.m. Nashville at Minnesota,3 p.m. Carolina at Atlanta,10 a.m.
Goalies—San Jose,Niemi.Chicago,Turco.A—22,112
Del Mar Tournament (19,717).T—2:20. Philadelphia at L.A.Lakers,7:30 p.m. N.Y.Islanders at Detroit,4 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cleveland,10 a.m.
Westmont 38,San Mateo 35 Saturday’s Games Ottawa at Columbus,4 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y.Jets,10 a.m.
Westmont 13 6 9 10 — 38 Cleveland at Chicago,4 p.m. Philadelphia at Anaheim,5 p.m.
San Mateo 12 6 8 9 — 35 TRANSACTIONS New Orleans at Washington,4 p.m. Vancouver at Dallas,8 p.m.
Cincinnati at Baltimore,10 a.m.
Arizona at San Francisco,1:15 p.m.
WESTMONT (fg ftm-fta tp) — Evans 1 1-2 3,Ortiz 0 NFL — Fined the New York Jets $100,000 for violat- Golden State at Miami,4:30 p.m. Phoenix at St.Louis,8:30 p.m. San Diego at Denver,1:15 p.m.
0-3 0, Santo 2 0-0 6, Scott 1 4-6 6, Koshiyama 2 1-1 New Jersey at Minnesota,5 p.m. Colorado at Calgary,9 p.m. Chicago at Green Bay,1:15 p.m.
6,Aranjo 0 2-2 2,Moore 1 0-0 2,Talley 4 2-4 10,Boldin ing league rules when assistant coach Sal Alosi
tripped Miami’s Nolan Carroll on the sideline during Oklahoma City at San Antonio,5:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Jacksonville at Houston,1:15 p.m.
1 1-2 3.Totals 12 11-20 38. SAN MATEO — Ujihara
8 0-0 16, Simon 2 0-0 4, Hafoka 6 1-3 13, Stevens 0 a punt return.Reduced the fine of Pittsburgh LB Sacramento at Denver,6 p.m. Washington vs.Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh,PA,10 a.m. N.Y.Giants at Washington,1:15 p.m.
0-2 0,Salazar 1 0-0 2.Totals 17 1-5 35.3-pointers — James Harrison for his Oct. 17 hit on Cleveland WR Memphis at Utah,6 p.m. Boston at Buffalo,4 p.m. Dallas at Philadelphia,1:15 p.m.
Santo 2,Koshiyama (W). Mohamed Massaquoi from $75,000 to $50,000. Dallas at Milwaukee,6 p.m. Toronto at Ottawa,4 p.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis,1:15 p.m.
16 Friday • Dec. 31, 2010
Nissan Juke delivers different look
Generation gap: Five ways car culture has changed
By Beth J. Harpaz
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Not long ago, I gave a ride
to a kid in an old car with no air conditioning.
It was a warm day, so I told him to roll down
the window.
He had no idea what that meant. Having
grown up with power windows, he’d never
seen a crank handle and didn’t know how to
use one. (He’d probably never been in a car
without air conditioning, either.)
It got me thinking about all the things
today’s kids take for granted when it comes to
cars that either didn’t exist or were far less
AUTO
common when their parents were growing up.
Here are five ways in which kids experience
cars differently, starting with those windows.
WINDOWS AND DOORS
You can still find crank handles on old cars
and “very, very low-end cars,” according to
Art Jacobsen, automotive industry veteran
and director of business development for
CarMD.com, a company that offers handheld
products and services to diagnose car prob-
lems. The cheapest, most basic models of the
Nissan Versa and Smart Fortwo cars, for
example, lack power windows.
But on most vehicles, power windows are a
standard feature. “Manufacturers found it was
cheaper in the long run to eliminate the hand-
crank window option and make all their cars
with electric windows,” said Jeff Bennett, an
associate professor at Northwood University
in Midland, Mich., who’s written textbooks
for the automotive industry and also worked
for years as a Chevy and Toyota dealer.
Another thing that’s increasingly rare: man-
ual locks. Locking each door separately
seems like a lot of work compared to one click
from the key chain.
MUSIC AND GAMES
Change the station! Turn it down! Turn it
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By Ann M. Job
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JAPAN — The name isn’t the only thing
that’s different about Nissan’s new, small, tall
Juke hatchback.
New for 2011, the five-seat Juke looks big-
ger than it is and has oddball front styling.
Round headlights can be mistaken for fog
lamps and turn signal lights are positioned so
high by the hood they can be seen from the
front seat.
The only engine in the relatively light-
weight Juke is Nissan’s first-in-the-United-
States direct-injection, turbocharged four
cylinder that generates an impressive 188
horsepower and uses premium gasoline.
The decidedly distinctive personality of the
Juke as well as the affordable purchase price
are likely attractions for buyers.
Starting manufacturer’s suggested retail
price, including destination charge, is $19,760
for a base, Juke S with front-wheel drive and
a continuously variable transmission (CVT)
that operates for the driver like an automatic.
Buyers must pay more to pair the turbo four
cylinder with a six-speed manual transmis-
sion. Starting MSRP, including destination
charge for a 2011 Juke with manual and front-
wheel drive is $21,060.
Meantime, the lowest-priced all-wheel
drive Juke starts at $21,260 and has a CVT.
All-wheel drive Jukes come only with CVT.
Juke competitors run the gamut from boxy
small cars to small sport utility vehicles.
The 2011 boxy, five-door Kia Soul, which
has virtually the same outer dimensions as the
Juke, has a starting MSRP, including destina-
tion charge, of $13,995 with manual transmis-
See JUKE, Page 17
up! I hate that song!
These conflicts haven’t completely disap-
peared from car rides, but there are more
entertainment options than ever before.
“Most cars now have an audio jack where
you can plug in an iPod or any other MP3 and
play it over the car stereo,” said Jacobsen. And
if the passengers don’t like the driver’s taste in
music, chances are they have their own iPods
with head phones.
For kids, DVD players and video games
have replaced 20 Questions, GHOST, license-
plate math and Geography. “Kids don’t want
to play ’I’m Thinking Of...’ or ’I Spy’ any-
See CULTURE, Page 17
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CULTURE
Continued from page 16
more,” said Karen Brocoff, a member of the
Car Care Council Women’s Board and mother
of two. “They just watch movies and play
with their electronics.”
Other entertainment options include satel-
lite radio and even satellite TV. Bennett says it
all adds up to a huge shift in the way families
travel.
“It’s not so much that your car has no more
crank-down windows that’s the big differ-
ence,” he said. “It’s that Charlie and Millie are
in the back seat watching something and not
talking to mom and dad — ever.”
JUKE
Continued from page 16
sion and 122-horsepower, naturally aspirated
four cylinder.
Another competitor, the 2011 Hyundai
Tucson sport utility vehicle that’s 9 inches
longer from bumper to bumper and a couple
AUTO
GETTING LOST
How often did your parents get lost, and
then get in an argument with each other about
being lost? That’s probably something your
kids experience far less often than you did
growing up, thanks to GPS technology. Some
folks get turn-by-turn directions and traffic
updates from their cell phones, some have
portable GPS devices, and some spring for a
navigational system built right into the dash-
board of their vehicle, though that’s still a lux-
ury option.
But Jacobsen notes that navigational tech-
nology hasn’t entirely eliminated the experi-
ence of getting lost.
“A lot of times my GPS has taken me
around in circles, so you still get to have the
heated discussions with your spouse,” he said.
inches wider than the Juke, has a starting retail
price of $19,540 with manual transmission and
$20,540 with automatic. Base engine in the
Tuscon is a 165-horsepower naturally aspirated
four cylinder.
Don’t be surprised if people label the Juke
differently. It looks like a small SUV, and riders
sit up a good bit from the pavement, which is
nice.
But the federal government’s fuel rating
agency, the U.S. Environmental Protection
And when your car breaks down, you still
have to wait for the tow truck or AAA to show
up. But thanks to cell phones, at least you
don’t have to find a pay phone.
CAR SEATS
Remember bouncing around the back seat
when you were a kid or sitting on a grownup’s
lap? Maybe you rode shotgun in front while
mom or dad drove, or even got to bop around
the bed of a pickup truck.
All that’s forbidden now, thanks to rules and
recommendations on child safety. All 50
states require the use of car seats for children,
and the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration also recommends that chil-
dren under 13 always sit in back. Not only can
front-seat air bags injure small passengers, but
Agency, labels the Juke a small station wagon,
and many journalists describe the Juke as a
hatchback, albeit a bit taller and beefier-looking
than other hatchbacks.
The test Juke was a mid-range SV trim model
with all-wheel drive and topped out, with
optional navigation system, at just under
$24,000.
I admit I never really warmed to the Juke’s
front styling, and the vehicle’s side profile looks
a bit unbalanced, too.
Friday • Dec. 31, 2010 17
back-seat passengers are less likely to be hurt
in head-on collisions.
Once kids have outgrown car seats at age 4
or 40 pounds, the NHTSA says they should
use booster seats until they are 8 years old or
57 inches tall, whichever comes first. That
means some kids will be big enough to ride
the tallest roller coaster in the world, Six
Flags’ Kingda Ka in Jackson, N.J., which has
a height requirement of 54 inches, before they
can ride in a car without a booster seat.
The rules have had a dramatic impact on
safety. Although car accidents remain the
leading cause of death for kids ages 3 to 14,
the number of auto-related fatalities among
children under 13 has dropped from 3,643 in
1975, to 1,045 in 2008, according to statistics
from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Designers for the Juke were primarily in
Nissan’s European offices and worked with the
Japan studio. Nissan, headquartered in Japan, is
partnered with France’s Renault auto company,
and the Juke styling wouldn’t have surprised me
a bit if it was on a Renault.
Once I got inside the Juke, the outer appear-
ance was no big deal as the Juke’s 3,183 pounds
was nicely balanced and controlled, even in
aggressive driving. There was comfortable
steering, too — not too light and not too heavy.
 New Year’s Eve
Snooki’s ball
drop to ring in
2011 from New Jersey
SEE PAGE 21

Five most famous

ex-Mouseketeers
By Christy Lemire
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Long before he played

a skinhead in “The Believer,” a drug-addicted
junior high school teacher in “Half Nelson” or
a misfit who’s in love with a blow-up doll in
“Lars and the Real Girl,” Ryan Gosling had a
far simpler, more wholesome role. He was a
member of “The Mickey Mouse Club.”
Back in the early ’90s, when he was only
11, Gosling spent a couple years singing and
dancing alongside some other performers
who would go on to achieve a bit of their own
fame. A YouTube search provides video evi-
dence of this: There’s Gosling crooning some
non-threatening love song, dressed in baggy
clothes with way too much product in his hair.
Now 30, he’s considered one of the most
intense, fearless actors of his generation, hav-
ing earned an Oscar nomination for 2006’s
“Half Nelson” and now a Golden Globe nom-
ination for “Blue Valentine.” The raw, heart-
breaking drama, which co-stars Gosling and
Michelle Williams as a couple whose mar-
riage is collapsing, opens this week. But hey,
that’s as good an opportunity as any to revisit
the perky, early careers of the five most
famous ex-Mouseketeers:
Britney Spears: Famous, infamous ... it’s
all the same thing when it comes to Britney
Spears. Teen pop phenom-
enon, tabloid queen,
twice-divorced mother of
two — well, actually, one
of the marriages was
annulled after just 55
hours — there just isn’t
enough time or space here
to discuss the full breadth
Britney Spear of Spears’ tumultuous
career. She’s been an
international superstar, one of the highest-
selling artists in the world, and a total mess.
She could have had whatever she wanted, but
so often it’s seemed as if she couldn’t do any-
thing right. Her first starring movie role post-
Mouseketeers, “Crossroads,” was a joke. But
she’s redeemed herself somewhat with bit

Drama captures marital agony

parts on popular TV shows such as “How I
Met Your Mother” and “Glee.”
Justin Timberlake: He can sing. He can
dance. He can act. He writes and produces
songs and designs cloth-
ing. He’s bringing sexy
back. He dates strong, gor-
geous women. He hosts
celebrity charity golf tour-
naments. He even pokes
fun at his own pretty-boy
image on “Saturday Night
Live.” Is there anything JT
Justin can’t do? Timberlake went
Timberlake from “The Mickey Mouse
Club” to the boy band ’N
Sync to a hugely successful solo career and
See FAMOUS, Page 22
By David Germain
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Michelle Williams and Ryan
Gosling marital drama “Blue
Valentine” is agonizing to watch
yet relentlessly compelling, even
illuminating, playing almost like a
sober documentary rather than a
narrative film.
Though fictional, “Blue
Valentine” is a document of sorts, a
chronicle of a crumbling marriage
that often feels as honest and
painful as if it were a nonfiction
film about real people putting each
other through absolute hell.
That sense of eavesdropping
authenticity results from the com-
mitment of Williams and Gosling,
who remained signed on to star for
years before filming finally started,
and the perseverance of director
and co-writer Derek Cianfrance,
who honed the script for 12 years.
The behind-the-scenes troubles
for the film — including an initial
adults-only NC-17 rating for sexu-
al content — reflect the bumps and
bruises of marriage that Cianfrance
set out to illustrate.
See BLUE, Page 22
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MUSEUM GOTTA SEE ‘UM
By Susan Cohn
DAILY JOURNAL
SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
The Los Angeles County Museum of
Art presents India’s Fabled City: The Art
of Courtly Lucknow – the first major
international exhibition devoted to the
cosmopolitan culture of the northern
Indian court of Lucknow and to the
refined artistic production of the city’s
multi-ethnic residents and artists.
Lucknow was an elegant and sophisti-
cated Indo-Islamic kingdom that flour-
ished in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries and which boasted the wealth-
iest court and most ostentatious
cityscape in northern India. From the
mid-eighteenth century until the estab-
lishment of formal British rule in India
in 1858, Lucknow overshadowed Delhi
– the capital of the Mughal dynasty – as
the cultural center of Northern India.
The artistic production of the city’s
multi ethnic residents and artists is rep-
resented by Indian courtly paintings,
European oil paintings, drawings, prints,
a range of decorative art objects and tex-
tiles, nineteenth-century photography
and twentieth-century Indian films. The
exhibition provides a framework for
understanding the history of the region
and the nature of India’s colonial history
and memory.
On Saturday, Jan. 22 at 3 p.m., in con-
junction with the Lucknow display,
scholar Rosie Llewellyn-Jones gives the
Fifth Annual Distinguished Lecture on
South and Southeast Asian Art:
Europeans and European Influence in
Nawabi, Lucknow 1775-1856.
Llewellyn-Jones has known the city
since the early 1970s and is the editor
and author of a number of books on
Lucknow, including Portraits in Princely
India: 1700–1900 (2008), Lucknow:
Then and Now (2006) and A Fatal
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Mir Kalan Khan,Lovers in a Landscape
(Detail), India, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow,
c. 1760–70, Opaque watercolor on
paper, The David Collection,
Copenhagen.
Friendship—The Nawabs, The British
and The City of Lucknow (1999). The
talk is free with no reservations required.
The Los Angeles County Museum of
Art is located at 5905 Wilshire Blvd.,
Los Angeles. For more information visit
www.lacma.org or call (323) 857-6000.
India’s Fabled City: The Art of Courtly
Lucknow runs through Feb. 27, 2011.
***
In the 19th century photographers
played a decisive role in preservationist
movements, and their descendants con-
tinue to shed light on the precarious con-
dition of the planet. At once powerful
and vulnerable, the natural environment
is alternately portrayed as an object of
adoration and a victim of civilization in
Developed and Undeveloped:
Photographic Landscapes, San
Friday • Dec. 31, 2010 19
People in the news
Teena Marie death cause unclear; no trauma signs
Francisco’s de Young Museum’s exhibi- LOS ANGELES — Investigators say an autopsy on R&B
tion of over 35 photographs of the 19th, singer Teena Marie revealed no signs of trauma, but it likely
20th and 21st centuries. From the pris- will be weeks before a cause of death will be determined.
tine western views of Ansel Adams to Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said
the scarred quarries of Edward Wednesday that toxicology tests that could determine Marie’s
Burtynsky, the exhibition presents a cause of death take about six weeks.
variety of approaches to framing the Winter says her body showed no signs of trauma and no ille-
landscape, with scenes of unspoiled gal drugs were found in the Pasadena home where she died.
wilderness contrasted with sites bearing Marie, the singer of hits like “Lovergirl” who was often
evidence of human intervention. Drawn called the “Ivory Queen of Soul,” was found unresponsive by
from the collections of the Achenbach family members in her home on Sunday. She was 54.
Foundation for Graphic Arts, the Paul
Sack Trust and Charles and Diane
Frankel, the exhibition also includes
works by Mathew Brady, Carleton
Watkins, Robert Adams, Shi Guorui and
Michael Light. Developed and
Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes
runs through March 20, 2011.
***
Also at the de Young: You have until
Jan. 18 to see “Van Gogh, Gauguin,
Cézanne and Beyond: Post-
Impressionist Masterpieces from the
Musée d’Orsay.” This extremely popular
show presents nearly 120 of the Musée
d’Orsay’s most famous late 19th century
paintings, including works by Claude
Monet, Auguste Renoir, Vincent van
Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul
Gauguin and George Seurat. The de
Young is the only museum in North
America to host this exhibition, which
continues the artistic story begun by
“Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces
from the Musée d’Orsay,” seen by
430,000 visitors this past summer.
The de Young Museum is located in
Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea
Garden Drive, San Francisco 94118. For
information about hours and ticket
prices call (415) 750-3600 or visit
www.deyoungmuseum.org.
Susan Cohn can be reached at
susan@smdailyjournal.com or www.twit-
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Moderation,mixers key to keep cocktails low-cal
By Michelle Locke
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERKELEY — Can cocktails and calorie-
counting mix?
Up to a point, say diet experts and mixolo-
gists, but you have to keep a close eye on
exactly what and how much is going into
your glass.
“Just as in food be mindful of what you
drink. Pay attention to the ingredients and the
portion size,” says Theresa DiMasi, editor-in-
chief of WeightWatchers.com.
As with any other beverage other than
water, alcohol comes with calories. One serv-
ing (1 1/2 ounces) of 80 proof distilled spirits
contains about 97 calories, says Monica
Gourovitch, senior vice president for scientif-
ic affairs of the Washington-based Distilled
Spirits Council.
What you do next makes the difference.
Have the spirits over ice or with no-cal
soda and your calorie count is quite low. Add
creamy, dairy-based mixers or sugary juices
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and syrups and the calories start to add up.
Better choices, said DiMasi, are drinks
such as a bloody mary, a screwdriver or a gin
and tonic.
And, of course, there’s no room in a diet
for over-indulging in alcohol, something that
not only will add the calories, but also very
likely impair your judgment about whether
that plate of cheese fries or a second trip to
the dessert buffet is a good idea.
Federal dietary guidelines allow up to one
drink a day for women; two for men, points
out Gourovitch. “You want to make sure that
you’re having your drinks with foods and you
want to be smart about your foods,” she
added.
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, authors
of the upcoming “The Fire Island
Cookbook,” have a favorite diet cocktail
trick: club soda and lime.
“Instead of rum and sugar-laden Coke— or
worse yet, diet soda loaded with chemicals
—we mix our rum with calorie-free club
soda, and hit it with a squeeze of lime. If
you’re used to mixing your
vodka or gin with tonic, you There’s no room in a diet for over-indulging in alcohol, something that not only will add the
can substitute club soda as calories,but also very likely impair your judgment about whether that plate of cheese fries or
well. Over the course of an a second trip to the dessert buffet is a good idea.
evening, you’re talking about Yountville that emphasizes green design and on the lighter side to go up in January, stoked
a significant number of calo- local, seasonal ingredients, James perhaps by resolutions — or regret. Hot but-
ries.” Brownsmith, a food and beverage manager, tered rum tends to be popular in December
Andrea N. Giancoli, a reg- likes to keep a light touch. “Our philosophy and “don’t ask me about the health benefits of
istered dietician and spokes- is very much about sustainability and healthy it because there aren’t any,” he said with a
woman for the American living in terms of the impact on the earth as laugh.
Dietetic Association, recom- well as on ourselves,” he said. “Our philoso- When going out with friends to a bar or
mends keeping things simple. phy with our foods is very much about mak- party, DiMasi recommends deciding at the
“I would say stick to either a ing food that’s not heavy, but very light on outset what your best choices are. Eat before
5-ounce glass of wine, a 12- your palate. We take a very similar approach you go to avoid scarfing down high-fat, high-
ounce serving of beer or one to our cocktail menu.” salt bar munchies.
mixed drink with diet soda or A signature drink is the Moscow mule, If you’re having more than one drink, alter-
seltzer as a mixer. Where you vodka with fresh house ginger syrup, mint, nate with glasses of water or seltzer.
get into calorie trouble is sparkling wine and fresh-squeezed lime And gab, don’t gulp.
with items like spiked juice. “There’s a lot of drinks that you can “Going out is about chatting with friends,
eggnog.” make very complex and very appealing to the exchanging stories,” DiMasi notes. “The
At Bardessono, a luxury palate without having to make them sweet.” more you talk, the longer it will take you to
hotel, restaurant and spa in Brownsmith expected demands for drinks eat or drink.”
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Snooki’s ball drop to ring in 2011
By Frazier Moore
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Turns out there was-
n’t room for Snooki in Times Square
this New Year’s Eve.
MTV’s plan to put “Jersey Shore”
star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi inside a
ball to drop from the network’s Times
Square headquarters has been dropped
after an objection by the group that
oversees the world-famous celebration.
But Snooki will still drop in as part
of “The MTV New Year’s Bash.” Her
stunt has been relocated to Seaside
Heights, N.J., according to Diane
Stabley, borough clerk for the Jersey
shore town made famous as the setting
for MTV’s hit reality show.
“Like the ball that drops in Times
Square, there’s going to be a
Snooki ball,” Stabley said
Thursday. She said an MTV net-
work crew was in town to pre-
tape the spectacle Thursday
night.
“We love our Times Square
home,” MTV said in a state-
ment confirming the change
of venue, “and while we’re
disappointed there won’t be
a Snooki ball drop there,
she cannot be denied!”
Snooki was sent pack-
ing earlier in the week by
the Times Square
Alliance, whose annual
gala includes the century-
old tradition of dropping
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its own illuminated ball at the stroke of
midnight.
“It was never intended or requested
for Snooki to be in the actual New
Year’s Eve Ball in Times Square,”
said Alice McGillion, the group’s
spokeswoman. “The request to
have her in a separate ball on a
set-back roof came too late and
was too impractical to fit in to
our outdoor events.”
Even so, the remainder of
the 90-minute special will
stay put at MTV’s Times
Square studios, with other
“Jersey Shore” stars
expected to lead the mul-
titudes in a collective
fist pump in hopes
of setting a world
record. The pro-
gram airs
Friday at
10:30 p.m.
EST.
Friday • Dec. 31, 2010 21
People in the news
Cancer ends 50-year streak for Elvis performer
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — This New Year’s Eve, for
the first time he can remember, Ted Prior won’t be gyrating on
a stage somewhere, warning someone not to step on his blue
suede shoes.
Cancer that has spread throughout his body and took root in
his brain is forcing the Atlantic City native to miss a scheduled
concert in Ocean City, N.J. It will be the first time in a 50-year
career that spans close to 10,000 performances that south
Jersey’s answer to The King has had to miss a show.
“That’s the one thing that bothers me,” he said, reclining on
a couch in his living room, wearing a multicolored Elvis
bathrobe, rings on almost every finger, bracelets and necklaces
aplenty, and a smashing Elvis-like wig standing in for the once-
flowing hair that chemotherapy and radiation has wiped out.
“One time I went onstage with a 101-degree fever,” he
recalled in an interview with the Associated Press. “There was
only three of us in the band, and I sang and played the guitar, so
I couldn’t not go on. The bartender kept giving me shots of gin-
ger brandy between sets to bring me back to life. But I did it.”
22 Friday • Dec. 31, 2010
FAMOUS
Continued from page 18
beyond. Charismatic as hell, he’s shown off his
own acting skills in films including “Alpha
Dog” and “Black Snake Moan,” and he’s excel-
lent as Napster co-founder Sean Parker in the
year’s best film (according to yours truly), “The
Social Network.”
Christina Aguilera: Her acting career is a bit
more fledgling by comparison. Aguilera made
her dubious film debut in
this year’s cliched campfest
“Burlesque” as a small-
town girl with big dreams
and an even bigger voice.
Hey, at least she has the
looks to pull off those dra-
matic, revealing outfits —
and, of course, the pipes to
blow away an enormous
Christina
auditorium. That massive
Aguilera voice has been on formida-
ble display from her earliest days, from “Star
Search” and “The Mickey Mouse Club” to mul-
tiple Grammy Awards and No. 1 hits. But if
we’re being honest, her performance in the
“Dirrty” video, using her naughty Xtina per-
sona, is her most convincing on-screen work to
date.
Keri Russell: Even back in 1993, she had
that trademark mane of long, gorgeous curls.
Long before she became a pop-culture sensa-
tion on TV’s “Felicity,” Russell was a part of the
same Mouseketeer cast that launched Spears,
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Timberlake, Aguilera and
Gosling, as well as
Timberlake’s ’N Sync
bandmate JC Chasez. She’s
gone on to amass an eclec-
tic body of work on televi-
sion and in film: Beyond
J.J. Abrams’ “Felicity,”
which made her a star and
earned her a Golden Globe,
Keri Russell
she’s brought her natural
beauty and infinite likability to such varied
films as “Waitress,” “The Upside of Anger,”
“Mission: Impossible III” and the musical
“August Rush.”
Annette Funicello: The original superstar
Mouseketeer, she was the picture of wholesome
adorableness during the
show’s primary run in the
1950s, and she’s main-
tained that sunny persona
throughout her life. Just try
picturing her without those
mouse ears and that sweater
with her name emblazoned
across the chest. She went
Annette on to star in several Disney
Funicello pictures, including “The
Shaggy Dog” and “Babes
in Toyland.” But she most famously appeared
alongside Frankie Avalon in all those beach
movies of the early 1960s, along with recording
several top-40 pop singles. Now 68 and battling
multiple sclerosis, Funicello has founded The
Annette Funicello Teddy Bear Company, with
proceeds from sales going to raise money to
fight neurological disorders.
BLUE
Continued from page 18
Like any marriage, the result is a beauti-
fully idiosyncratic portrait of a relationship
that starts with the brightest of hopes and
inevitably falters as the years and mileage
accumulate.
“Blue Valentine” follows a pivotal day in
the life of Cindy and Dean, a married cou-
ple spending a night away from their young
daughter (Faith Wladyka, in her screen
debut) in hopes of renewing the romantic
spark that has steadily faded between them.
Williams’ Cindy is a medical assistant
who once dreamed of being a doctor, and
Gosling’s Dean is a housepainter whose
only aspiration in life was to be a family
man.
They once held deep affection and pas-
sion for each other, but the unasked ques-
tion with which both grapple is whether
they ever were truly compatible for the long
haul.
Cianfrance intersperses the present-day
marital scenes with lovingly nostalgic
flashbacks to the start of Cindy and Dean’s
romance six years earlier.
The authenticity is heightened by
Cianfrance’s filming methods. The flash-
backs were shot first, on Super 16mm film
using a single lens and handheld cameras,
lending those portions a hazier look, like
happy memories of a time of spontaneity
and possibility. The present-day scenes
have a sharper, unforgiving quality, shot
using two digital cameras fixed on tripods,
with long lenses, one each following
Williams and Gosling, allowing the actors
to prowl the sets at will.
The scenes from their marriage were shot
a month after the flashbacks. Williams and
Gosling had a contest to see who could
pack on the most weight in that time to help
show the intervening years (Williams won,
gaining 15 pounds).
But camera styles and gaining weight are
incidental to the film’s main strength — the
raw, ferocious, punishing performances
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‘Blue Valentine’
Director:Derek Cianfrance
Cast: Ryan Gosling,Michelle
Williams,John Doman,Mike
Vogel,Maryann Plunkett
Rated: R for strong graphic sexual
content,language,and a
beating
Grade:
delivered by Williams and Gosling.
There are moments of sublime sweetness
in the early days of Cindy and Dean’s love
story that could melt the heart of the most
unsentimental cynic. To see where it all
leads as they drift apart is heartbreaking —
certainly not as heartbreaking as watching
friends in real life break apart, but about as
close as you can come in a film.
When Williams and Gosling fight, make
love, trade jokes, share an awkward conver-
sation in the car, every second feels real.
It’s probably that sense of tough truth that
led raters at the Motion Picture Association
of America to brand “Blue Valentine” with
an NC-17 rating for sexual content. That
rating would have prohibited those younger
than 17 from seeing the film, but the film-
makers appealed and got it lowered to an R
rating.
The NC-17 rating was absurd, since the
film’s sex scenes, including one in which
Gosling’s character performs oral sex on
Williams’ character, are not that explicit.
But that’s part of the great illusion the film-
makers create: Everything, sex included,
seems so much more real than it is.
Not many parents will be thinking “Blue
Valentine” is a film they must take their
teenagers to see over the holidays. But an
NC-17 rating would have held the film out
of many theaters and made plenty of adults
think twice about seeing it.
And it’s a film that should be seen by as
many people as possible.
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were indelible moments in time, searing
a date like Sept. 9 into the collective
conscious of the county and the nation.
Others were ongoing issues, maybe not
begun in 2010 and maybe not ending,
but certainly generating headlines.
In no particular order, here is the year
that ended the decade.
The scene of horror
Without a doubt, the Sept. 9 gas
pipeline explosion and subsequent blaze
was the top story of 2010 regardless of
how any other ranked. The devastating
fire leveled a significant portion of the
Glenview neighborhood in San Bruno,
leaving seven dead immediately, several
wounded, hundreds still trying to pick
up the pieces and questions about
pipeline safety that remain unanswered.
As the year turns into 2011, the stories
now are Pacific Gas and Electric’s con-
tinuing response to the disaster, inquiries
into if the catastrophe could have been
averted, dozens of pending lawsuits, a
handful of criminal charges against
relief aid scam artists and the struggles
of the city of San Bruno to dole out
donations and rebuild. They are stories
that will fill 2011.
But, it all started on an otherwise ordi-
nary night Sept. 9.
Shortly after 6 p.m., a 30-inch steel
gas line exploded, followed by a fire that
ripped through the neighborhood.
Witnesses first thought it was a plane
slamming into the ground. Instead, it
was much worse. The towering flames
shot 60 feet in the air, destroying 37
homes and damaging 120 more in the
Glenview neighborhood south of Sneath
Lane and east of Skyline Boulevard.
The fire claimed seven and another
died later in the hospital: Jessica
Morales, 20, Jacqueline Greig, 44, and
her 13-year-old daughter, Janessa,
Elizabeth Torres, 81, and Gregory
although up to 28,000 East Palo Alto
residents were left without power for
most of the day.
Doug Bourn, the plane’s 56-year-old
owner and pilot, died as well as fellow
Tesla employees Andrew Ingram, 31,
and Brian Finn, 42.
Audio recordings just prior to the
crash detail air traffic control telling
Bourn that visibility was low and he was
flying at his own risk.
Ingram’s family has filed a wrongful
death suit against Bourn’s estate and the
aircraft company.
At 11:51 a.m. Sept. 2, three died after
a plane plummeted into the Redwood
Shores lagoon seconds after departing
from the San Carlos Airport. Inside were
Robert E. Borrmann, the 92-year-old
founder and president of R.E. Borrmann
Steel Co. in East Palo Alto, his pilot and
the pilot’s girlfriend, 47-year-old
Adelina Urbina Suarez of Daly City.
Borrmann, a decorated former pilot
himself, was headed to San Martin to
meet one of his three sons.
Bystanders saw the plane make a
sharp right turn before dropping, leading
them to believe the pilot veered to avoid
crashing into the surrounding office
buildings along Shoreline Drive.
Borrman owned the plane which once
belonged to the king of Denmark.
Fuel leaking from the crash closed the
lagoon, adding to the cleanup in the
same water that 48,000 gallons of raw
sewage spilled into from a burst pipe the
previous week.
Murder at the mall
When David Lewis, a 54-year-old for-
mer felon who turned his life around to
become a community
activist and drug
counselor, was fatal-
ly shot in the parking
garage of Hillsdale
Shopping Center on
June 9, the entire
county and nation
paid attention.
up at local sports stores to horde memo-
rabilia and hugging perfect strangers in
bars after a tense Game 5. BART in fact
shattered its single-day ridership record
with riders headed to a post-win parade
and the playoff games boosted Caltrain
numbers by the thousands — making the
baseball victory a win for cash-strapped
public transportation systems. But that’s
not what the baseball season stretching
into early November was really about.
At its core, the Giants’ amazing streak
by an unexpected team of misfits was
about making memories, breaking the
curse and erasing the bitterness of 2002.
Oh, and learning to fear the beard.
No jail near downtown
Redwood City leaders opposed to
building a new jail near downtown did
more than cry foul in 2010 — they actu-
ally found San Mateo County another
site. When county supervisors in mid-
December agreed to plunk down more
than $17 million for 4.1 acres on the east
side of Highway 101 in Redwood City,
city officials cheered. For more than a
year, Sheriff Greg Munks and the jail
design team had said the existing motor
pool site near the county government
center was the best location because of
its proximity to the courthouse and exist-
ing kitchen facilities at nearby Maguire
Correctional Facility. Not having to pur-
chase the land was also a big selling
point.
But opponents persisted with several
grassroots groups, protests and
Redwood City officials so committed to
blocking the plan they found four
parcels formerly known as Chemical
Way. The city purchased the land on
behalf of the county, which will be reim-
bursed, and protected its downtown from
a five-story, 768-bed jail needed to alle-
viate overcrowding and provide rehabil-
itative programming.
The jail may now be designed as three
stories and 560 beds which could lower
the building estimate of $150 million.
High-speed rail
FRIDAY, DEC. 31
Calendar
Peninsula Landscapes Revisited.
Noon to 4 p.m. Collections Room,
Peninsula Museum of Art, 10 Twin
Pines Lane, Belmont. Featuring
Sharon Bearce, Werner Glinka,
Alysanne McGaffey and Kevyn
Wernock. Exhibit runs through Jan.
2, noon to 4 p.m. on weekdays, 1
p.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. For
more information call 594-1577.
New Years Eve Party Featuring
Rodeo House. 9 p.m. The Old
Princeton Landing, 460 Capistrano
Road, Princeton by the Sea. Ring in
the New Year with the Bay Area’s
own country band Rodeo House.
Ages 21 and up. $10. For more
information e-mail projectsixfiveze-
ro@hotmail.com.
Woodside High School
Photography Exhibit:
Lomography. Redwood City
Downtown Library, 1044
Middlefield Road. A photography
exhibit by WHS students learning
about and simulating the images of
the retro Lomo LC-A camera.
Exhibit runs through Dec. 31. For
more information e-mail acamp-
bell@seq.org.
SATURDAY, JAN. 1
Dog Adoptions. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. San
Bruno Petco in Tanforan Mall, 1150
El Camino Real, San Bruno. Dogs
were saved from death in high-kill
Southern California shelters and
driven to Northern California for
adoptions. For more information
visit dogsneedhomes.blogspot.com.
Victorian 12th Night Ball. 7 p.m.
San Mateo Masonic Lodge
Ballroom, 100 N. Ellsworth Ave.,
San Mateo. After a vintage dance
lesson, the bangers and mash ensem-
ble will play an evening of Victorian
ballroom dance music. Victorian or
modern evening dress admired, but
not required. $15 in advance (by
Dec. 27), $20 at the door. For more
information visit peers.org.
Peninsula Landscapes Revisited. 1
p.m. to 4 p.m. Collections Room,
Peninsula Museum of Art, 10 Twin
Pines Lane, Belmont. Featuring
Sharon Bearce, Werner Glinka,
Alysanne McGaffey and Kevyn
Wernock. Exhibit runs through Jan.
2, noon to 4 p.m. on weekdays, 1
p.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. For
more information call 594-1577.
SUNDAY, JAN. 2
Farmers’ Market Sundays. 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. South Caltrain Parking Lot
through Sunday until Feb. 5. For
more information e-mail
smc339@gmail.com.
Teen Gaming Afternoons. 3:30
p.m. to 5 p.m. Belmont Library,
1110 Alameda de las Pulgas,
Belmont. Come play Wii, board
games and more in the Taube
Community Room at the Belmont
Library. Free. For more information
contact conrad@smcl.org.
Dance Nights. 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Twin Pines Senior and Community
Center, 20 Twin Pines Lane,
Belmont. Enjoy dancing to great
music and meeting new friends. $6.
For more information call 595-7444.
THURSDAY, JAN. 6
Small Works. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. 320
California Ave., Palo Alto. Gallery
House presents an exhibition of
small-scale works by Bay Area
artists. Exhibit runs Tuesday
through Sunday until Feb. 5. For
more information e-mail
smc339@gmail.com.
Beyond Golden Clouds: Five
Centuries of Japanese Screens. 1
p.m. Millbrae Library, 1 Library
Ave., Millbrae. Lecture and
slideshow by Asian Museum Docent
Kathleen Braunstein. Free. For more
information call 697-7607.
Justin Ancheta Band. 8:30 p.m.
Flight Lounge, 971 Laurel St., San
Carlos. Now hailing from San
Francisco, Justin Ancheta’s eclectic
style of reggae flavored indie-rock,
funk and jazz has created a buzz
throughout northern California. For
more information visit contact tay-
lor@flightloungewine.com.
FRIDAY, JAN. 7
Small Works. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. 320
California Ave., Palo Alto. Gallery
House presents an exhibition of
small-scale works by Bay Area
artists. Exhibit runs Tuesday
through Sunday until Feb. 5. For
more information e-mail
smc339@gmail.com.
Composer Robert Dick in
Concert. 8 p.m. Unitarian
Universalist Church of Palo Alto,
505 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto.
Acclaimed flutist and composer
Robert Dick will perform his own
compositions and more. $20 for
adults, $10 for children. For more
information call 961-1566.
Schumann Festival. 7:30 p.m.
Crestmont Conservatory of Music,

Bullis, 50, his mother Lavonne, 85, and
his son William, 17.
Others, like Morales’ boyfriend, were
critically injured and 271 people were
evacuated.
Weeks later, as the cleanup began,
crews were surprised to find small
mementos surviving in the ash — a rub-
ber ducky, a fire department badge, a
diamond ring. But for so many, every-
thing was gone. The neighborhood was
little more than a sea of fireplaces and
burnt-out vehicles.
Thirty-seven homes were tagged for
demolition and residents were left to
decide if they would rebuild or move on.
In October, the infrastructure damage
was estimated at $55 million. PG&E
pledged $100 million separate from any
damages paid out in lawsuits. The
Federal Emergency Management
Agency declined to declare the area a
disaster and city officials worried about
being stuck with the bill.
A preliminary report by the National
Transportation Safety Board found no
corrosion on or in the pipeline but the
steel was welded together despite being
listed as seamless by PG&E.
Two plane crashes, six dead
Two separate small plane crashes —
one into an East Palo Alto neighborhood
and the other into the Redwood City
Lagoon — left six dead, including three
Tesla employees and the founder of an
East Palo steel company.
On Feb. 17, under the cover of thick
morning fog just before 8 a.m., the small
Cessna carrying the Tesla employees left
the Palo Alto Municipal Airport on its
David Lewis Shoppers worried it
was random; those
who had worked with Lewis and fol-
lowed his nonprofit model mourned the
loss; law enforcement tried to figure out
if the man with a checkered past was
specifically targeted.
Lewis co-founded Free at Last, a 15-
year-old East Palo Alto-based nonprofit
agency that provides services for recov-
ering drug addicts, after struggle with
addiction himself. Lewis went to San
Quentin Prison at age 19 and, after 15
years, returned to East Palo Alto in 1990.
He also co-founded Circle of Recovery,
a support group for recovering addicts
and provided HIV and AIDS outreach at
the county hospital.
The murder was the first this year for
San Mateo and seemed on track to
remain unsolved — even with a $50,000
reward offered — until, six months later,
police arrested Lewis’ childhood friend
Gregory Elarms, 58, of Pittsburgh.
Elarms, who police said was contacted
early in the case, offered up more infor-
mation two weeks ago and was himself
arrested Dec. 19. Elarms is charged with
murder, the use of a gun and the special
allegation he was lying in wait for Lewis
— a circumstance that makes him eligi-
ble for the death penalty or life in prison
without parole if convicted. He returns
to court Jan. 4 to enter a plea.
Police say Elarms followed Lewis
from San Mateo Medical Center to the
parking garage where he shot the man he
knew as a teen in East Palo Alto. What
police and prosecutors still can’t say,
though, is why.
World Series glory
Some called it a boondoggle. Some
called it a headache. Others called in the
future. All called it unresolved.
The controversial subject of high-
speed rail flew through 2010 with com-
munity meetings, lawsuits and debate
whether an electrified line from San
Francisco to San Jose to Los Angeles
was really needed through the Peninsula.
Voters approved a $9.95 billion bond
in November 2008 but as the public
learned of the price tag and design plans
from the California High-Speed Rail
Authority, some support turned to criti-
cism. Cities filed lawsuits and residents
argued raised tracks would divide com-
munities. Some cities like Burlingame
and San Mateo want underground
trenches if anything at all but the cost is
largely prohibitive. Other opponents
argued the rail authority’s business plan
is shoddy, leaving thousands of jobs and
a cleaner environment at stake. Others
questioned why before the bond meas-
ure passed ridership was projected at 58
million a year but later dropped closer to
41 million. Likewise, the previously
estimated ticket price of $55 between
San Francisco and Los Angeles nearly
doubled to $104.75.
New year, new leadership
The elections of 2010 were much a
game of political musical chairs, as
familiar faces from one elected office
jumped into new positions to fill vacan-
cies left by term limits or the retirement
of several longtime county leaders.
Former sheriff Don Horsley beat out
April Vargas in November for the
District Three supervisor seat held by
on El Camino Real, Belmont. Get
2575 Flores St., San Mateo.
Featuring solo and chamber per-
fresh fruit, vegetables, bread and formances. Free. For more informa-
pastries, flowers and more. For more tion call 574-4633.
information visit pcfma.com.
SATURDAY, JAN. 8
Peninsula Landscapes Revisited. 1 Dog Adoptions. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. San
p.m. to 4 p.m. Collections Room, Bruno Petco in Tanforan Mall, 1150
Peninsula Museum of Art, 10 Twin El Camino Real, San Bruno. Dogs
Pines Lane, Belmont. Featuring were saved from death in high-kill
Sharon Bearce, Werner Glinka, Southern California shelters and
Alysanne McGaffey and Kevyn
Wernock. Exhibit runs through Jan.
driven to Northern California for
adoptions. For more information
2, noon to 4 p.m. on weekdays, 1 visit dogsneedhomes.blogspot.com.
p.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. For
more information call 594-1577. South San Francisco Baseball
League Sign Ups. 9 a.m. to noon.
First Dunday Line Dance. 1 p.m.
to 4 p.m. San Bruno Senior Center, Avalon Park, South San Francisco.
1555 Crystal Springs Road, San Registration for baseball leagues for
Bruno. $5. For more information children ages 5 to 10. For more
call 616-7150. information or to print out registra-
tion forms visit ssfbaseball.com.
MONDAY, JAN. 3
Lecture: Booktalks with the San Tribute to John Daly. 10:30 a.m.
Mateo Public Library. 10 a.m. to Woodlawn Memorial Park, 1000 El
11 a.m. City of San Mateo Senior Camino Real, Colma. A brief tribute
Center, 2645 Alameda de las to San Mateo County pioneer dairy
Pulgas, San Mateo. Hear about the rancher John Daly for whom Daly
two latest popular biographies City was named in 1911. Free. For
‘Devil’s Rooming House’ and more information e-mail
‘Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor & gilleskb@yahoo.com.
Richard Burton.’ Free. For more
For more events visit
information call 522-7490.
smdailyjournal.com, click Calendar.
Dance Connection. Free dance,
6:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Open Dance
7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Burlingame
Women’s Club, 241 Park Road,
Burlingame. Enjoy senior ballroom
dancing. $8 for members, $10 for
guests. For more information call
342-2221.
TUESDAY, JAN. 4
Small Works. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 320
California Ave., Palo Alto. Gallery
House presents an exhibition of
small-scale works by Bay Area
artists. Exhibit runs Tuesday
through Sunday until Feb. 5. For
more information e-mail
smc339@gmail.com.
Beauty and the Beast. 3:30 p.m.
San Mateo Public Library, 55 W.
Third Ave., San Mateo. See the
Disney movie ‘Beauty and the
Beast’ on big screen. Free. For more
information call 522-7838.

way to a business meeting in Hawthorne,
Calif. The plane struck power lines
along the Bay Trail in East Palo Alto and
sheared an electrical tower before crash-
ing into a home that also housed a day-
care center at 1225 Beech St. A wing of
the plane landed in the backyard. The
fuel tank exploded, catching two homes
and four cars on fire. Miraculously,
Nitpickers will say the San Francisco
Giants’ triumph over the Texas Rangers
in the 2010 World Series is not a local
story because it didn’t actually happen in
San Mateo County.
Nonsense.
This fall, the boys in orange and black
belonged to the entire Bay Area based on
the sheer numbers of riders cramming
Mark Church but being vacated by his
move to replace Warren Slocum, the
retiring chief elections officer and asses-
sor-county clerk-recorder. Horsley and
Vargas squared off in June with three
other candidates but neither secured
more than 50 percent of the vote, requir-
ing a November run-off. Church’s seat
See REMEMBER, Page 31
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5
Basic Computers. 10:30 a.m.
Belmont Library, 1110 Alameda de
las Pulgas, Belmont. Learn to under-
stand the basics of using a computer
and a mouse. For more information
contact conrad@smcl.org.
Small Works. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. 320
California Ave., Palo Alto. Gallery
House presents an exhibition of
small-scale works by Bay Area
artists. Exhibit runs Tuesday
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Friday, Dec. 31, 2010
Significant long-range plans will be implemented in the next
year, with impressive possibilities for success. However, it is
to your advantage not to discuss them with those who are not
directly involved.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - What a wonderful way to
end the year with two great things going for you! First is your
natural ability to form amicable relationships and second is
having Lady Luck in your corner.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - A number of substantial
opportunities are hovering over you, regarding both tangible
situations and intangible circumstances. Breaks could be hap-
pening for you in each venue.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - You are likely to be lucky
when a well-calculated risk is involved, but not so much with
an out-and-out gamble. When you know the difference, you
can play the hand that is dealt you quite well.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) - A change in conditions that you
were hoping would take place is likely to show some signs of
starting to do so. What occurs will be out of your hands but
still quite lucky for you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - This is a good day to call
it quits on stuff that you want in your rearview mirror.
Conditions are stirring that you’ll want to be part of, but you’ll
need to be unencumbered to do so.
objectives, so do what you can to clean up as many old obli-
gations as you can.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Wherever and whenever you
make an appearance, you’ll be well-received. However, if you
want to have a great time, do things with persons with whom
you share some special interests.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Do not put any limitations on expec-
tations or probabilities for what you want. If you want to paint
rainbows in your life, use a brush that cleans out what is old
and refreshes the colors.
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CASE# CIV 501217
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF SAN MATEO,
400 COUNTY CENTER RD,
REDWOOD CITY CA 94063
PETITION OF
Xinyi Zheng
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner, Xinyi Zheng filed a petition
with this court for a decree changing
name as follows:
Present name: Xinyi Zheng
Proposed name: Katherine Zheng
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter shall appear be-
fore this court at the hearing indicated
below to show cause, if any, why the pe-
tition for change of name should not be
granted. Any person objecting to the
name changes described above must file
a written objection that includes the rea-
sons for the objection at least two court
days before the matter is scheduled to
be heard and must appear at the hearing
to show cause why the petition should
not be granted. If no written objection is
timely filed, the court may grant the peti-
tion without a hearing.
A HEARING on the petition shall be held
on January 26, 2011, at 9 a.m., Dept. 3,
Room 2E, at 400 County Center, Red-
wood City, CA 94063.
A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall
be published at least once each week for
four successive weeks prior to the date
set for hearing on the petition in the fol-
lowing newspaper of general circulation:
The Daily Journal, San Mateo County
Filed: December 07, 2010
/s/ Stephen Hall /
Judge of the Superior Court
Dated: 12/07/2010
(Published 12/10/2010, 12/17/2010,
12/24/2010, 12/31/10)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242223
The following person is doing business
as: (1) JAB Restoration & Waterproofing
(2) JAB Property Services, 890-C Mahler
Road, BURLINGAME, CA 94010 is here-
by registered by the following owner:
JAB Construction Company Ltd. (A Cali-
fornia Corporation), CA. The business is
conducted by A Corporation. The regis-
trants commenced to transact business
under the FBN on 12/01/2010
/s/ Jeff Bressler /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/06/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/10/10,
12/17/10, 12/24/10, 12/31/10).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242271
The following person is doing business
as: Lucente Studio, 900 Veterans Blvd.,
Ste 600, REDWOOD CITY, CA 94063 is
hereby registered by the following own-
ers: Renee Berenson and Laurel Skill-
man, P.O. Box 7775, SAN FRANCISCO,
CA 94120-7775. The business is con-
ducted by Co-Partners. The registrants
commenced to transact business under
the FBN on
/s/ Renee Berenson /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/09/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/10/10,
12/17/10, 12/24/10, 12/31/10).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242375
The following person is doing business
as: Mai Authentic Vietnamese Cuisine,
681 San Mateo Avenue, SAN BRUNO,
CA 94066 is hereby registered by the fol-
lowing owner: Charlene Cun, 1587 9th
Ave., SAN FRANCISCO. The business is
conducted by an Individual. The regis-
trants commenced to transact business
under the FBN on
/s/ Charlene Cun /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/15/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/17/10,
12/24/10, 12/31/10, 01/07/10).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #241980
The following person is doing business
as: Best Auto Works, 681 Old County
Road, SAN CARLOS, CA 94070 is here-
by registered by the following owner:
Jorge Martinez, same address. The busi-
ness is conducted by an Individual. The
registrants commenced to transact busi-
ness under the FBN on 01/10/2011.
/s/ Jorge Martinez /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 11/18/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/17/10,
12/24/10, 12/31/10, 01/07/10).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242320
The following person is doing business
as: Compevolutions, 80 Glenn Way Ste.
2, SAN CARLOS, CA 94070 is hereby
registered by the following owner: Chris
Mayfield, 3600 Fair Oaks Ave., MENLO
PARK. The business is conducted by an
Individual. The registrants commenced to
transact business under the FBN on
/s/ Chris Mayfield /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/13/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/17/10,
12/24/10, 12/31/10, 01/07/10).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242383
The following person is doing business
as: La Flor de Michoacan, 215 S. Dela-
ware St., SAN MATEO, CA 94401 is
hereby registered by the following owner:
Maria Salgado, 238 Spuraway Drive,
SAN MATEO . The business is conduct-
ed by an Individual. The registrants com-
menced to transact business under the
FBN on
/s/ Maria Salgado /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/16/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/17/10,
12/24/10, 12/31/10, 01/07/10).
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242282
The following person is doing business
as: Tasty Treats, 108 De Anza Blvd.,
SAN MATEO, CA 94402 is hereby regis-
tered by the following owner: Scott
Dawe, 1711 38th Ave., SAN FRANCIS-
CO, CA. The business is conducted by
an Individual. The registrants com-
menced to transact business under the
FBN on 12/01/2010
/s/ Scott Dawe /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/09/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/31/10,
01/07/11, 01/14/11, 01/21/11).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242071
The following person is doing business
as: Jack’s Restaurant and Bar, 1050 Ad-
miral Court Suite A, SAN BRUNO, CA
94066 is hereby registered by the follow-
ing owner: Marcovici Restaurant Group
LLC., CA. The business is conducted by
a Limited Liability Company. The regis-
trant commenced to transact business
under the FBN on
/s/ John Marcovici /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 11/23/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/24/10,
12/31/10, 01/07/10, 01/14/10).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242458
The following person is doing business
as: Sky Kitchen Inc., 620 Airport Dr.,
SAN CARLOS, CA 94070 is hereby reg-
istered by the following owner: Sky Kitch-
en Inc., CA. The business is conducted
by a Corporation. The registrant com-
menced to transact business under the
FBN on
/s/ Simerpreet S. Mann /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/22/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/24/10,
12/31/10, 01/07/10, 01/14/10).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242366
The following person is doing business
as: Casa Baywood Apartments, 212 S.
El Camino Real, SAN MATEO, CA
94401 is hereby registered by the follow-
ing owner: Roselyn Crisafi Dumesnil,
6021 Burchell Court, SAN JOSE, CA
95120. The business is conducted by an
Individual. The registrant commenced to
transact business under the FBN on
/s/ Roselyn Crisafi Dumesnil /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/15/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/24/10,
12/31/10, 01/07/10, 01/14/10).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242423
The following person is doing business
as: Dwyer Insurance Services, 1840
Gateway Dr., #200 SAN MATEO, CA
94404 is hereby registered by the follow-
ing owner: Michael Dwyer, 3721 Casano-
va Dr., SAN MATEO. The business is
conducted by an Individual. The regis-
trant commenced to transact business
under the FBN on 12/15/2010
/s/ Michael H. Dwyer /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/20/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/24/10,
12/31/10, 01/07/10, 01/14/10).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242400
The following person is doing business
as: Naked Chorizo, 16 1/2 Clarendon
Rd., BURLINGAME, CA 94010 is hereby
registered by the following owner: Zenia
Llamas, 424 Studio Circle, SAN MATEO,
CA. The business is conducted by am In-
dividual. The registrants commenced to
transact business under the FBN on
/s/ Zenia Llamas /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/17/10. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/03/10,
12/10/10, 12/17/10, 12/24/10).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242418
The following person is doing business
as: JLS Business Center, San Bruno Of-
fice Park Ste. 225, SAN BRUNO, CA
94066 is hereby registered by the follow-
ing owners: Juanito Stridiron and Glofeli
L. Stridiron, 2000 Crystal Springs Rd. 17-
15, SAN BRUNO. The business is con-
ducted by Husband & Wife. The regis-
trants commenced to transact business
under the FBN on
/s/ Juanito Stridiron, Glofeli Stridiron /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/20/2010. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/31/10,
01/07/11, 01/14/11, 01/21/11).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242476
The following person is doing business
as: 10 For 10 Fitness, 85 West 5th Ave.
Apt. 212, SAN MATEO, CA 94402 is
hereby registered by the following owner:
Khaled Elmasri, same address. The busi-
ness is conducted by an Individual. The
registrants commenced to transact busi-
ness under the FBN on
/s/ Khaled Elmasri /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/23/2010. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/31/10,
01/07/11, 01/14/11, 01/21/11).
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Date of Filing Application: Dec. 14, 2010
To Whom It May Concern:
The Name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are:
Target Corporation
The applicant(s) listed above are apply-
ing to Department of Alcoholic Beverage
Control to sell alcoholic beverages at:
133 Serramonte Ctr.
Daly City, CA 94015-2349
Type of license applied for:
21 - Off-Sale General
San Mateo Daily Journal
December 17, 24, 31 2010
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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
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #242165
The following person is doing business
as: MB2 Marketing, 659 George St.,
MONTARA, CA 94037 is hereby regis-
tered by the following owner: Michael
Krieger, same address. The business is
conducted by an Individual. The regis-
trants commenced to transact business
under the FBN on 10/10/2010.
/s/ Michael Krieger /
This statement was filed with the Asses-
sor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/01/2010. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/31/10,
01/07/11, 01/14/11, 01/21/11).
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
TS No. 10-0107756
Title Order No. 10-8-410841
APN No. 012-143-030
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A
DEED OF TRUST, DATED 10/23/2006.
UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PRO-
TECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE
SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU
NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NA-
TURE OF THE PROCEEDING
AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CON-
TACT A LAWYER.” Notice is hereby giv-
en that RECONTRUST COMPANY,
N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant
to the Deed of Trust executed by MARIE
J CLAUDEL, A SINGLE WOMAN, dated
10/23/2006 and recorded 10/30/06, as
Instrument No. 2006-163494, in Book ,
Page ), of Official Records in the office of
the County Recorder of San Mateo
County, State of California, will sell on
01/21/2011 at 12:30PM, At the Marshall
Street entrance to the Hall of Justice,
400 County Center, Redwood City, San
Mateo County, CA at public auction, to
the highest bidder for cash or check as
described below, payable in full at time of
sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed
to and now held by it under said Deed of
Trust, in the property situated in said
County and State and as more fully de-
scribed in the above referenced Deed of
Trust. The street address and other com-
mon designation, if any of the real prop-
erty described above is purported to be:
239 ARMOUR AVE, SOUTH SAN
FRANCISCO, CA, 940802812. The un-
dersigned Trustee disclaims any liability
for any incorrectness of the street ad-
dress and other common designation, if
any, shown herein. The total amount of
the unpaid balance with interest thereon
of the obligation secured by the property
to be sold plus reasonable estimated
costs, expenses and advances at the
time of the initial publication of the Notice
of Sale is $1,140,273.20. It is possible
that at the time of sale the opening bid
may be less than the total indebtedness
due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will
accept cashier’s checks drawn on a state
or national bank, a check drawn by a
state or federal credit union, or a check
drawn by a state or federal savings and
loan association, savings association, or
savings bank specified in Section 5102
of the Financial Code and authorized to
do business in this state. Said sale will
be made, in an “AS IS” condition, but
without covenant or warranty, express or
implied, regarding title, possession or en-
cumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness
secured by said Deed of Trust, advances
thereunder, with interest as provided,
and the unpaid principal of the Note se-
cured by said Deed of Trust with interest
thereon as provided in said Note, plus
fees, charges and expenses of the Trust-
ee and of the trusts created by said Deed
of Trust. If required by the provisions of
section 2923.5 of the California Civil
Code, the declaration from the mortga-
gee, beneficiary or authorized agent is
attached to the Notice of Trustee’s Sale
duly recorded with the appropriate Coun-
ty Recorder’s Office. DATED: 12/02/2010
RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800
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Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914-01-94 SIMI
VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone/Sale Informa-
tion: (800) 281 8219 By: Trustee’s Sale
Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A.
is a debt collector attempting to collect a
debt. Any information obtained will be
used for that purpose. FEI #
1006.123354 12/24, 12/31, 1/07/2011
210 Lost & Found
MISSING GREY MALE CAT named
“Biscotti”. Last seen 12/4 on Aviador
Ave. in Millbrae. 12 years old, 12 lbs.,
strong athletic build. Domestic short
hair, solid grey including nose,
neutered,declawed front paws. Micro-
chip #985121004140013. Please call
Home Again lost pet service at 888-466-
3242 with any info. Thank you!
295 Art
PAINTING "jack vettriano" Portland gal-
lery 26 x 33. $55. (650)345-1111.
PICTURE WITH Frame Jack Vettriano
with light attached $100. (650)867-2720
296 Appliances
4 BURNER cook top commercial lifetime
burner $22., (650)756-6778
AIR CONDITIONER - slider model for
narrow windows, 10k BTU, excellent
condition, $100., (650)212-7020
CHANDELLIER NEW 4 lights $30.
(650)878-9542
CHOPPERS (4) with instructions $7/all.
(650)368-3037
KENMORE DISHWASHER, exc. condi-
tion, 3yrs old, $95. (650)483-3630
KENMORE MICROWAVE, exc. condi-
tion, 3yrs old, $45. (650)483-3630
PORTABLE GE Dishwasher, excellent
condition $75 OBO, (650)583-0245
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
STOVE TOP 4 burners with electric grill
commercial grade $50., (650)756-6778
VACUUM CLEANER $50 (650)367-1350
VACUUM CLEANER heavy duty like
new $45. (650)878-9542
WASHER/DRYER “MAYTAG” - Brand
new with 3 year warranty, $850. both,
(650)726-4168
297 Bicycles
BICYCLE "MAGNA" 24 inch wheels
purple, $40., San Mateo, (650)341-5347
BICYCLE - Sundancer Jr., 26”, $75. obo
(650)676-0732
GIRL'S BIKE HUFFY Purple 6-speed
good cond. $35 - Angela (650)269-3712
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298 Collectibles
2 VINTAGE COFFEE CANS - empty,
Hills Bros. red, 1922-45, HillsBros , early
80’s, $25/both, (650)347-5104
28 RECORDS - 78 RPMS, Bing Crosby,
Frankie Laine, Al Jolson, many others, all
in book albums, $90. all, (650)347-5104
49ER REPORT issues '85-'87 $35/all,
(650)592-2648
6 GALLON "red wing" Crock $100 RWC
(650)868-0436
8 VERY OLD BOTTLES - most used for
medicines, whiskey, milk, root beer, all in
good condition, $55. all, (650)347-5104
BABEBALL CARDS
$15/all. (408)420-5646
assorted (25)
BAY MEADOW coffee mug in box
SOLD!
GEISHA DOLL - 14" - BEAUTIFULLY
PACKAGED IN PLASTIC CASE.-
$25/ofr. (650)588-5991
GLASSES 6 sets redskins, good condi-
tion never used $25/all. (650)345-1111
JACK TASHNER signed ball $25. Ri-
chard (650)834-4926
MERCHANT MARINE, framed forecastle
card, signed by Captain Angrick '70. 13 x
17 inches $35 cash. (650)755-8238
POSTER - framed photo of President
Wilson and Chinese Junk $25 cash,
(650)755-8238
VASE - with tray, grey with red flowers,
perfect condition, $30., (650)345-1111
300 Toys
RADIO CONTROLLED Beetle Buggy
car new in box $10. (408)249-3858
302 Antiques
ANTIQUE SOLID mahogany knick-knack
or bookshelf with 4 small drawers, good
condition, $95. 650-726-5200
CHINA CABINET - Vintage, 6 foot,
solid mahogany. $300/obo.
(650)867-0379
303 Electronics
46” MITSUBISHI Projector TV, great
condition. $400. (650)261-1541.
COMSWITCH 3500 - used for fax, com-
puter modem, telephone answering ma-
chine, never used, $25., (650)347-5104
DEWALT HEAVY duty work site radio
charger in box $100. (650)756-7878
JVC VHS recorder - Like new, $15.,
(650)367-8949
PANASONIC TV 21 inch $25., (650)637-
8244
SANIO CASETTE/RECORDER 2 way
Radio - $95.obo, call for more details,
(650)290-1960
SONY RADIO cassette recorder $25
black good condition. (650)345-1111
TV - Big Screen, $70., ok condition,
(650)367-1350
TV 5 inch Black and white good condition
in box $10. (408)249-3858
TV SET 32 inch with remote and stand
$30. (650)520-0619
304 Furniture
2 END Tables solid maple '60's era
$40/both. (650)670-7545
3 PIECE COFFEE TABLE SET: $100.
(650)787-8219
4 STURDY metal dining chairs $20/each.
(650)756-6778
BED BRASS single trundle $100 nice
and clean. (650)854-3235
BLACK LEATHER office chair with 5
rollers $25. (650)871-5078
BOOKCASE - $25., (650)255-6652
CABINET - wood, $70., (650)367-1350
CABINET DOORS Oak with arch-style
top. Four different sizes, good condition.
$300 all. (650)871-7200
COCKTAIL AND end table brass and
glass top $65. (650)854-3235
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610 Crossword Puzzle 610 Crossword Puzzle 610 Crossword Puzzle 304 Furniture 310 Misc. For Sale 310 Misc. For Sale
ROCKING CHAIR - Traditional, full size
Rocking chair. Excellent condition $100.,

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle (650)504-3621

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis ROCKING CHAIR for nursing mother or
grandmother $75. (650)854-3235
ACROSS 4 Univ., e.g. 41 Hardly a model of 49 Blunted swords SHELVING - 2000 square foot of shelv-
ing, $500. obo, (650)212-6666
1 Blows 5 Burning perfection, and a 50 Prepares
5 Open some 6 Improvised, in a hint to how this potatoes, in a way TV STAND good condition beige lots of
storage $50. (650)867-2720
9 “The Remains of way puzzle’s theme 51 Jerk
TWIN SIZE Electric beds (2) very good
the Day” author 7 Zone puns are derived 52 Resistance units condition, you haul, $100 obo, 650-873-
__ Ishiguro 8 Soak flax 42 Sea anemone, 53 Its atomic number 2743
14 Sweeping story 9 “Devil Without a e.g. is 10 TWO END tables: $35 or $20 each.
15 Like some walls Cause” musician 44 Macbeth’s 54 Name on some (650)787-8219

16 Collectively 10 Baptize with oil thanedom before neutral WWII ships WOODEN KITCHEN China Cabinet: $99
(great condition!), (650)367-1350
17 Conger’s 11 Sci-fi effects he became king 55 Jane Austen opus
WOODEN QUILT rack with kitty designs
protection? 12 Fonda title role 45 Vegas drive- 58 PC port for a flash on end excellent condition, SOLD!
19 Figured (out), 13 Cutlass maker through drive
slangily 18 Mideast bigwigs 46 Fez feature 59 Spanish pronoun 306 Housewares
20 __-Magnon man 22 First Nations "PRINCESS HOUSE" decorator urn
21 ’60s quartet members ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: "Vase" cream with blue flower 13 inch H
$25., (650)868-0436
member 24 Muddy
22 Times for cool 25 News __ CANDLEHOLDER - Gold, angel on it,
tall, purchased from Brueners, originally
heads 27 Beethoven $100., selling for $30.,(650)867-2720
23 6 7/8, e.g. dedicatee HAMILTON BEACH Mixer, vintage, .juic-
25 __ Age 28 Product with er & bowl, beater. $30/obo(650)576-6067
310 Misc. For Sale 312 Pets & Animals
26 Tracker of bauxite earbuds OASIS COUNTERTOP water cooler dis-
thieves? 29 Push, so to penses cold and luke warm water $50., CANDLE HOLDER with angel design, KITTY LITTER box enclosed with swing-
(650)218-4254 tall, gold, includes candle. Purchased for ing door and handle $10., (650)592-2648
31 Latin Quarter site speak $100, now $35. (650)345-1111
REVEREWARE, 1,3.4 qt. pots, 5",7"
34 Soup vegetable 30 Avant-garde pans, stainless steel w/copper bottoms, CANDLE OIL lamp set 3 piece hand 316 Clothes
35 “X-ing” one 31 Org. where fur excellent cond., $60/all. (650)577-0604 blown glass 9 inches tall burns 25 hours.
$40, 650-343-3374
36 Space-saving doesn’t fly? BLACK LEATHER MOTORCYCLE
abbr. 32 Splitting it 307 Jewelry & Clothing COLLAPSIBLE PICNIC cooler comes
JACKET - Large, water proof, new, $35.,
(650)342-7568
with utensils, glass and plates $15.
37 Seriously impairs releases energy 49ER'S JACKET Child size $50.
(650)871-7200 COMIC BOOKS (10) assorted $15/all. BOOTS - 2 pairs purple leather, size 8.
39 Loud, ringing 33 Modeling milieu (408)420-5646 One is knee length, other is ankle length,
sound 37 Cyrus who plays BLACK VELVET evening jacket w/silver $150.obo, (650)592-9141
sparkles, Sz 20W, $10. (650)712-1070 COOKIE JAR adorable ceramic blizzard
40 Barnyard male Hannah Montana & Co. Snowman $20. (650)343-3374 JACKET (LARGE) Pants (small) black
BLACK VELVET pants, Sz L, $7. Velvet good conditon $25/all, (650)589-
41 Lofgren of the E 38 __ breve (650)712-1070 DOG CAGE/GORILLA - folding 2893
Street Band 39 One of TV’s HOLIDAY WEAR, barely worn: Macy's
large dog cage good condition, 2 door
with tray, $75.,(650)355-8949
42 Flooded field Mavericks xwordeditor@aol.com 12/31/10 black sweater set, Size M, wool w/gold LADIES DOWN jacket light yellow with
43 Roadie, after a metalic stripes, $15 set. (650)712-1070 DOOM (3) computer games $15/each 2 dark brown lining RWC $35. (650)868-
total, (650)367-8949 0436
gig? JEWELRY DISPLAY 12 piece SOLD!
47 Sailing, say LADIES NYLON stockings new $1/per
LADIES BRACELET, Murano glass. DOUBLE PANE Windows 48"wide X 34" pair size 11 (2 dozen) call evenings. 650-
48 Alluring tops Various shades of red and blue $100 Tall W/screens perfect condition vinyl 328-0160
Daly City, no return calls. (650)991-2353 $75. OBO 650-619-9932
52 Sign with an LADIES ROYAL blue rain coat with zip-
LADIES GOLD Lame' elbow links gloves
arrow size 7.5 $15 New. RWC. (650)868-0436
ENGINE HOIST, 2 ton almost new $95 pered flannel plaid liner size 12 RWC
Burlingame. SOLD! $15. (650)868-0436
55 Like falling off a LIZ CLAIBORNE black evening jacket ETAGER over the toilet water tank - wal-
log Sz. 12, acetate/polyester, $10. (650)712- nut, $25., San Mateo, (650)341-5347
LADIES SHOES- size 5, $10., (650)756-
6778
56 Snap 1070
FIRE BOWL- new in box, 13 x 32
57 Alp-Öhi’s SHEER PURPLE tunic, Sz XL, w/em- $50.obo, (650)592-9141 MEN'S PAJAMA set by "Dockers" size
broidered design & sequins, $10.
granddaughter in (650)712-1070 Large new in box $15. (408)249-3858
an 1880 novel FIREPLACE SCREEN - 36"wide, MEN'S SHOES - New, size 10, $10.,
SILVER SEQUIN shirt-jacket Sz 12-14 - 29"high, antique brass, folding doors, (650)756-6778
58 Diamond oration? very dressy, $15. (650)712-1070 sliding mesh screen, damper
60 Dum-dum SMALL JEWELRY cabinet - 17” H, 12”
controls. Like new. $100., (650)592-2047 MEN'S SUIT almost new $25.
650-573-6981
61 Hook’s mate W, 2 glass doors, plus 2 drawers, very FRAMED PICTURE beautiful hot air bal-
pretty, $35., (650)592-2648 loons 25 1/2 x 19 inches great conditon MENS SLACKS - 8 pairs, $50., Size
62 Appear $10. (650)343-3374 36/32, (408)420-5646
63 Hägar’s dog TOURQUOISE BLUE party dress, cov-
ered w/sequins, sz 14, $15. (650)712-
64 Event with 1070
FRONT END Dash Board from '98 Sono-
ma Truck $50. (650)871-7200
317 Building Materials
gowns DOUBLE PANED GLASS WINDOWS -
308 Tools FULL BAG of plastic containers. SOLD!
65 __ buco various sizes, half moon, like new, $10.
and up, (650)756-6778
GLASS TOP piece with smooth edges
CLICKER TORQUE wrench 1/2 inch 28 3/4 inches x 17 1/8 inches 3/16 inch
drive 20-150 LBS reversible all chrome
DOWN $40. 650-595-3933
thick $10. (650)343-3374 SCREEN DOOR 36 inch slightly bent
$15. (650)871-7200
1 Tree with edible HARD COVER BOOKS - Mystery & ad-
CRAFTSMAN 16” scroll saw - good con- SLIDING SCREEN door 30 inch good
nuts dition, $85., (650)591-4710
venture, current authors, some large type
print, $3.00 each, (650)364-7777 condition $25. (650)871-7200
2 “What’s __,
DOLLEY - Heavy Duty, Dual Use 54"
Doc?”: Classic hgt. Upright-Push Cart South City
HARD COVER mystery and adventure 318 Sports Equipment
books (12) latest authors $3/each.
“Merrie Melodies” $99.OBO (415) 410 - 9801 (650)364-7777 2 GOLF CLUBS - Ladies, right handed,
short PRESSURE WASHER 2500 PSI, good putter & driver $5/each (650)755-8238
LEAD FILM BAG Protect film from x-
By Gareth Bain condition, $350., (650)926-9841
3 Joystick user 12/31/10 rays, Ex. cond. SOLD! BOGNER SKI SUIT [blue] Ex cond.
(c)2010 Tribune Media Services, Inc. SPEEDAIR AIR COMPRESSOR - 4 gal- LOUNGE CHAIRS - 2 new, with cover & hardly used, size medium. Orig $400+.
lon stack tank air compressor $100., plastic carring case & headrest, $35. Asking $65. 650-204-0587
(650)591-4710 each, (650)592-7483
315 Wanted to Buy 315 Wanted to Buy 304 Furniture TABLE SAW 10", very good condition
322 Garage Sales
MASSAGE DEVICE with batteries $8 in
$85. (650) 787-8219 box, (650)368-3037
CHANDELIER WITH 5 lights/ candela-
bre base with glass shades $20. TORO LEAF BLOWERS, Power Sweep METAL CABINET - 4 drawers, beige THE THRIFT SHOP
(650)504-3621 + 850 Super Blower, Electric like new CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS
16.5 inches W x 27 3/4 H x 27 inches D.
$40. pair South City (415) 410-9801 $40., San Mateo, (650)341-5347 REOPENING JANUARY 6TH
COFFEE TABLE - $60., (650)367-1350 Thursday & Friday 10:00-2:00
COFFEE TABLE light brown lots of stor- 309 Office Equipment MUSIC CASSETTES (200)
songs $99/all 650-873-4030
popular Saturdays 10:00-3:00
age good condition $100. (650)867-2720 Episcopal Church
CALCULATOR - Casio, still in box, new, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC World book 1 South El Camino Real
$25., (650)867-2720 of Religion still in package $35. San Mateo 94401
COMPUTER DESK $70. (650)367-1350 (408)249-3858
DELL PHOTO 924 all in one with 2 ink (650)344-0921
CREDENZA - $25., (650)255-6652 cartridges $60 obo. (650)290-1960 NEW GAIAM Yoga P.M. Tape & CD
DINING CHAIRS (6) $100/all. (650)854- OFFICE LAMP new $8. (650)345-1111 $10. 650-578-8306
3235 NEW LIVING Yoga Tape for Beginners
OFFICE WATER COOLER Hot - Ex Hot
DINING ROOM table $100. (650)854-
3235
,Cold - Ice Cold Like New South City
$99. OBO (415) 410 -9801
$8. 650-578-8306
GARAGE SALES
SLEEPER BLANKET (3) size 4T Soft
DRAFTING TABLE 30 x 42' with side $7.50/each. (650)349-6059 ESTATE SALES
tray. excellent cond $75. (650)949-2134 310 Misc. For Sale SNOW CHAINS - 3 complete sets, sizes
Make money, make room!
END TABLE marble top with drawer with 13 PIECE paint and pad set for home fit rims 13” & 15”, great condition, $40.
matching table $70/all. (650)520-0619 use $25., (650)589-2893 all, Burl, (650)347-5104 List your upcoming garage
SOFT BONNET hair drier "Con Air" $20.,
sale, moving sale, estate
ENTERTAINMENT CENTER - Oak
wood, great condition, glass doors, fits
5 NEEDLEPOINT sets still in package (650)589-2893 sale, yard sale, rummage
$10/each, (650)592-2648
large TV, 2 drawers, shelves , $100/obo.
SUIT/COAT HANGERS (14) sturdy good
sale, clearance sale, or
(650)261-9681 whatever sale you have...
quality hardwood unused $1/each or all
ANGEL WITH lights 12 inches High $12. $10. San Bruno 650-588-1946 in the Daily Journal.
MATTRESSES (2) single, single nice (650)368-3037
and clean $100.(650)854-3235
TRIVIAL PURSUIT GAME - genus edi-
OFFICE DESK - $25., (650)255-6652
AREA RUG - Beautiful, plush, 11’ x 6.10’ tion, used a few times, no missing Reach over 82,500 readers
remnant solid tan color, never used, tags pieces, $22., (650)347-5104 from South San Francisco
PICNIC TABLE round $25. (650)854- still attached, clean, SOLD!
3235 TRIVIAL PURSUIT game genius edition
to Palo Alto.
ARTIFICIAL FICUS Tree 6 ft. life like, full excellent condition $20. (650)343-3374 in your local newspaper.
branches. in basket $55. (650)269-3712
BARBIE BEACH vacation & Barbie prin- WETSUIT - Barefoot, like new, $40., Call (650)344-5200
cess bride computer games $15 each, (650)367-8949
(650)367-8949
WIDE-BODIED VASE -- Colorful, Perfect
condition, nice design, $30 (650)867-
BATH TOWELS 12 pieces decorative all 2720
same color/style never used $50. 335 Garden Equipment
(650)343-3374
311 Musical Instruments BROGMANSIA TREE $40 needs plant-
BAY MEADOWS Cup, perfect condition, ing. (650)871-7200
new, $15. (650)867-2720 2 ORGANS, antique tramp, $500 for
both. (650)342-4537 TABLE - for plant, $30, perfect condi-
BEADS - Glass beads for jewelry mak-
ing, $75. all, (650)676-0732 tion, (650)345-1111
KEYBOARD CASIO 3 ft long $50.
BETTY BOOP perfume 3.5 ounces $8.
(408)249-3858
(650)583-2767 345 Medical Equipment
CABINET OAK, fits over toilet water PIANO VINTAGE - Upright, “Davis & POWER CHAIR - “Rascal 600”, new
tank, like new $25. (650)341-5347 Sons”, just tuned, $600., (650)678-9007 SOLD!
28 Friday • Dec. 31, 2010 THE DAILY JOURNAL

381 Homes for Sale 381 Homes for Sale 620 Automobiles
AUTO REVIEW
The San Mateo Daily Journal’s
weekly Automotive Section.
Every Friday
Look for it in today’s paper to find
information on new cars,
used cars, services, and anything
else having to do
with vehicles.
Don’t lose money
on a trade-in or
consignment!
Sell your vehicle in the
Daily Journal’s
Auto Classifieds.
Just $3 per day.
Reach 82,500 drivers
from South SF to
Palo Alto
Call (650)344-5200
ads@smdailyjournal.com
AUDI ‘03 A4 3.0L Grey 10068T
$12,995. Toyota 101. Please mention
the Daily Journal. (650)365-5000
AUTO AUCTION
The following repossessed vehi-
cles are being sold by Patelco Credit
Union on January 4th starting at 8am
--- 2005 Infiniti QX56 #800695, 2002
Honda Accord #014908, 2001 Acura
3.2 CL #000110, 2003 BMW 745 I
#P62210, 2005 GMC Yukon #218100,
2001 Acura 3.2 CL #033128, 2006
Toyota Corolla #690528. Sealed bids
will be taken starting at 8am on
01/04/2011. Sale held at Forrest Faul-
knor & Sons Auction Company, 175
Sylvester Road, South San Francisco.
For more information please visit our
web site at www.ffsons.com.
379 Open Houses 440 Apartments
FURNISHED ROOM AUTO AUCTION
OPEN HOUSE for Rent The following repossessed vehi-
cles are being sold by Meriwest Credit
Sequoia Inn
LISTINGS Rate starts at $45 + tax
Union-2006 Honda Odyssey
#110062, 2007 Nissan Pathfinder
WEEKLY AVAILABLE.
Quiet room & great location.
#638421, 2001Hyundai Tiburon
List your Open House Private Bath, FREE WiFi,
#237738, 2006 Volkswagon Jetta
in the Daily Journal. #758696, 2006 Ford F250 #D34611,
Microfridge, Premium Cable & more.
526 El Camino Real
2005 Ford Mustang #150931. Plus
over 100 late model Sport Utilities,
Reach over 82,500 (650)369-6736 ext. 0 Pick Ups, Mini Vans, and luxury cars -
potential home buyers & --INDOORS---Charity donations sold.
renters a day, Sealed bids will be taken from 8am-
8pm on 01/03/2011 and 8am-5pm on
from South San Francisco 01/04/2011. Sale held at Forrest
to Palo Alto.
in your local newspaper. REDWOOD Faulknor & Sons Auction Company,
175 Sylvester Road, South San Fran-
cisco. For more information please
620 Automobiles
NISSAN '10 MAXIMA 3.5 S Gray
9955P $25,488. Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
NISSAN '09 ALTIMA 2.5 White 9956P
$14,998.00. Toyota 101. Please men-
tion the Daily Journal. (650)365-5000
NISSAN '09 SENTRA 2.0 FE+ Gray
10051P $11,998.00. Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
SCION '08 TC SPEC White 10054P
$14,488.00. Toyota 101. Please men-
tion the Daily Journal. (650)365-5000
SUBARU '06 LEGACY WAGON Out-
back 2.5 XT Black 10015T $17,588.00 .
Toyota 101. Please mention the Daily
Journal. (650)365-5000
TOYOTA '07 COROLLA CE Gray
10093T $9,588 . Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
TOYOTA '07 CAMRY HYBRID Basic
Silver 9965P $17,988 Toyota 101.
Please mention the Daily Journal.
(650)365-5000
TOYOTA '08 HIGHLANDER LIMITED
Gray 10018T $32,988 Toyota 101.
Please mention the Daily Journal.
(650)365-5000
TOYOTA '08 TUNDRA 2WD Truck
SR5 Silver 10053P $22,998 Toyota 101.
Please mention the Daily Journal.
(650)365-5000
TOYOTA '09 CAMRY BASIC Green
9998P $16,488 Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
TOYOTA '09 COROLLA BASIC Blue
9997P $14,588 Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
TOYOTA '09 RAV4 BASIC White
10010P $18,988 . Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
TOYOTA '09 YARIS BASIC White
10136P $12,889 Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
TOYOTA '10 CAMRY Hybrid Basic
Blue 9784P $23,988$24,988. Toyota
101. Please mention the Daily Journal.
(650)365-5000
TOYOTA '10 MATRIX BASIC Silver
9885P $15,288 Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
TOYOTA '10 PRIUS I Silver 10072P
$21,998 Toyota 101. Please mention
the Daily Journal. (650)365-5000
630 Trucks & SUV’s 670 Auto Parts
HONDA '07 CR-V EX-L, silver, auto,
$20,792. #T7C058407 Melody Toyota, 880 AUTO WORKS
Call 877-587-8635. Please mention the Dealership Quality
Daily Journal. Affordable Prices
Complete Auto Service
KIA '09 SPORTAGE LX Beige 10049P Foreign & Domestic Autos
$17,988.00 . Toyota 101. Please men-
tion the Daily Journal. (650)365-5000 880 El Camino Real
San Carlos
MERCEDES BENZ '09 M-Class ML350, 650-598-9288
www.880autoworks.com
polar white, $36,492. P80169537 Melody
Toyota, Call 877-587-8635. Please men-
tion the Daily Journal
CHEVY S-10 ‘97, 49000 mi. American
NISSAN '07 Sentra, gray, $11,191. Racing rims & radial 15-8, New. $3800
#P7L623495 Melody Toyota, Call 877- OBO (650)481-5296
587-8635. Please mention the Daily
Journal CHEVY TRANSMISSION 4L60E Semi
NISSAN '08 350Z, gray,
used $800. (650)921-1033
$21,992. P8M750023 Melody Toyota, EL CAMINO '67 - parts (Protecto top)
Call 877-587-8635. Please mention the $95., (650)367-8949
Daily Journal
FORD ‘73 Maverick/Mercury GT Comet,
NISSAN '08 Xterra, gray, Drive Train 302 V8, C4 Auto Trans.
$19,691. P8C538011 Melody Toyota, Complete, needs assembly, includes ra-
Call 877-587-8635. Please mention the diator and drive line, call for details,
Daily Journal $1250., (650)726-9733.
TOYOTA '07 HIGHLANDER Hybrid FORD ‘93 250 flat bed, diesel, 100-gal-
lon gas tanks $2500. Jim Deisel
w/3rd Row Blue 10080T $26,988 Toyota
101. Please mention the Daily Journal. (650)678-8063/Joe (650)481-5296. (Or
(650)365-5000 trade Chevy F10 Truck)
HEAVY DUTY jack stand for camper or
TOYOTA '09 4RUNNER SR5 Silver
SUV $15. (650)949-2134
9886P $27,488.. Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365- TRUCK RADIATOR - fits older Ford,
5000
never used, $100., (650)504-3621
TOYOTA '10 HIGHLANDER BASE 672 Auto Stereos
White 10069P $26,998 Toyota 101.
Please mention the Daily Journal.
(650)365-5000
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TOYOTA '10 HIGHLANDER LIMITED
We Repair All Brands of Car
Silver 10048P $34,588 Toyota 101. Stereos! iPod & iPhone Wired
Please mention the Daily Journal. to Any Car for Music! Quieter
(650)365-5000 Car Ride! Sound Proof Your
Car! 31 Years Experience!
TOYOTA '10 VENZA BASIC Gray 2001 Middlefield Road
10040P $25,888 . Toyota 101. Please Redwood City
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
(650)299-9991
5000
635 Vans
680 Autos Wanted
CHEVROLET '07 Express Van, white,
38K miles, Auto, white, $17.892.
#P71161334. Melody Toyota, Call 877-
587-8635. Please mention the Daily Don’t lose money
Journal. on a trade-in or
consignment!
HONDA '07 Odyssey EX-L, blue,
$24,492. #P7B059887 Melody Toyota,
Call 877-587-8635. Please mention the
Daily Journal Sell your vehicle in the
Daily Journal’s
KIA '09 SEDONA LX Silver 10086P
$17,888.00 . Toyota 101. Please men- Auto Classifieds.
tion the Daily Journal. (650)365-5000
NISSAN ‘01 Quest - GLE, leather seats,
Just $3 per day.
sun roof, TV/DVR equipment. Looks
new, $15,500. (650)219-6008 Reach 82,500 drivers
TOYOTA '07 SIENNA CE Maroon from South SF to
9969T $18,988 Toyota 101. Please Palo Alto

TOYOTA '10 RAV4 SPORT Gray

mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000 Call (650)344-5200
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Call (650)344-5200 CITY visit our web site at www.ffsons.com. 10029P $23,488 Toyota 101. Please
mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000
TOYOTA '09 SIENNA CE Silver
10082P $22,558 and , Toyo-
ta '09 Sienna CE Blue 10083P $21,888
1 bedroom, 1 bath Toyota 101. Please mention the Daily DONATE YOUR CAR
BMW '09 5 Series 528i Blue 9980T Journal. (650)365-5000
in senior complex $34,988Toyota 101. Please mention the
TOYOTA '10 YARIS BASIC Blue
10030P $14,288. Toyota 101. Please
Tax Deduction, We do the Paperwork,
Free Pickup, Running or Not - in most
380 Real Estate Services Daily Journal. (650)365-5000
(over 55). mention the Daily Journal. (650)365-
5000 640 Motorcycles/Scooters cases. Help yourself and the Polly Klaas
Foundation. Call (800)380-5257.
Close to BMW ‘06 325i - low miles, very clean,
BMW ‘03 F650 GS, $3899 OBO. Call
DISTRESS downtown.
loaded, leather interior, $20,000 obo.,
(650)368-6674
TOYOTA '10 YARIS BASIC Green
10081P $13,588 Toyota 101. Please
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Ex-Israeli president convicted of rape
By Josef Federman
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — Former Israeli
President Moshe Katsav was con-
victed of rape Thursday, a dramatic
fall from grace for a man who rose
from humble beginnings to become
a symbol of achievement for Jews
of Middle Eastern origin.
The disgraced politician, who
had rejected a plea bargain that
would have kept him out of jail,
will likely be sentenced to four to
16 years in prison. The verdict was
seen as a victory for the Israeli
legal system and for women’s
REUTERS
Israel’s former President, Moshe
Katsav,center,gestures as he enters
the Tel Aviv District Court.
rights in a decades-long struggle to
chip away at the nation’s macho
culture, which once permitted
political and military leaders great
liberties.
LOCAL/WORLD
“The court sent two clear and
sharp messages: that everyone is
equal and every woman has the full
right to her body,” Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu said in a
statement. But he added that it was
“a sad day for Israel and its citi-
zens.”
The Tel Aviv District Court
found Katsav, 65, guilty of two
counts of raping an employee in
1998, when he was Israel’s tourism
minister. It also convicted him of
lesser counts of indecent acts; sex-
ual harassment involving two other
women who worked for him when
he was president, from 2000 to
2007; and obstruction of justice.
Vatican creates financial
watchdog amid bank probe
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican
on Thursday created a financial
watchdog agency and issued new
laws to fight money laundering and
terrorist financing in a major effort to
shed its image as a tax haven that for
years has been mired in secrecy and
scandal.
The decrees, which go into effect
April 1, were passed as the Vatican’s
own bank remains implicated in a
money-laundering investigation that
resulted in 23 million euros ($31 mil-
lion) being seized and its top two offi-
cials placed under investigation.
The bank, formally known as the
Institute for Religious Works, or IOR,
is one of several Vatican offices that
Friday • Dec. 31, 2010 31
Around the world
are covered by the new financial
transparency rules, which were
adopted primarily to comply with
European Union norms.
One suspect in Denmark terror
case released,three held
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — An
Iraqi asylum seeker accused of plot-
ting a shooting attack on the
Copenhagen office of a newspaper
that published cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad was freed Thursday due
to an apparent lack of evidence.
Three other suspects, residents in
Sweden, were ordered to remain in
custody for four weeks by a Danish
court.

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will be filled in an all-mail May 3 election.
Horsley takes over for former county super-
visor Rich Gordon, termed out after 12 years,
who won the Assembly seat formerly held by
Ira Ruskin — also termed out. The race was
the first contested supervisor campaign in a
dozen years and among the most expensive.
Deputy Treasurer-Tax Collector Sandie
Arnott, also required a November run-off with
Dave Mandelkern, a San Mateo County
Community College District trustee. That
race, fueled by the Lehman Brothers bank-
ruptcy which leeched $150 million from the
county investment pool, ended with less than
1,000 votes between them.
District Attorney Jim Fox hung up his hat
after 28 years, paving the way for Chief
Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe to
run unopposed in the June election.
Elections this year also saw the defeat of a
sales tax measure in Half Moon Bay and the
change of the county charter to let officials
submit an irrevocable letter of resignation.
The tweak allows the Board of Supervisors to
call a special election prior to the official’s
exit.
Outsourcing to save money
The past year was one of pooling resources.
The cities of San Mateo and Foster City
agreed to share a fire chief. San Mateo and
Burlingame are looking at merging police
departments. San Carlos split up the joint fire
department it shares with Belmont and is
looking for a new partner in the new year.
But of all the methods, the one that raised
the most eyebrows was by the city of San
Carlos, which didn’t just merge its police
department — instead it outsourced the entire
85-year-old agency to the San Mateo County
Sheriff’s Office for approximately $2 million
in annual savings.
Faced with a $3.5 million budget deficit and
a decade of cuts, the city of San Carlos had
already outsourced its parks maintenance and
human resources payroll. The move to do the
same with police, though, was met with vocal
opposition from those, including Councilman
Matt Grocott, who worried the city was risk-
ing public safety and possible financial foot-
ing if it ever wished to re-establish its own
department. The San Carlos Police Officers
Association head strongly denounced the plan
although officers later said they backed it.
Some residents even tried unsuccessfully to
block the move with a measure that never
made it to the ballot.
In the end, the Sheriff’s Office beat out
Redwood City for the San Carlos police con-
tract in large part because it guaranteed jobs
for every member of the 39-member depart-
ment. The officers were sworn into the
Sheriff’s Office Nov. 1.
The next step for the city is tackling fire
service. The Belmont-San Carlos Fire
Department JPA expires Oct. 12, 2011 and
requests for proposals are due Jan. 7. One
agency not participating is Cal Fire, on which
the city was banking. In November, the state
fire agency said it would not submit a propos-
al in part because of “concern from regional
legislative members and significant opposi-
tion from local labor organizations.” The letter
made San Carlos officials see red and claim-
ing improper, if not illegal, meddling by
unions and local leaders.
Medical Center sexual assaults
A pair of sexual assaults in the San Mateo
Medical Center acute psychiatric unit within a
month of each other shined a light on security
issues at the county’s only public hospital for
both its patients and employees.
Only one case, however, sparked an in-
house investigation and recommendations to
add a security officer and nurse to the ward,
and improve communication and risk evalua-
tions of patients. Whether any employees
were deemed culpable in the incident was
labeled confidential and not disclosed. The
same went for specific improvements.
Psychiatric patient Ronald Sunwo O’Brien,
27, was accused of raping a 23-year-old
female patient in her room several times in the
early hours March 30. Questions about securi-
ty and supervision in the ward were com-
pounded when it came to light that a month
before patient Daniel Mark Brickman, 47,
allegedly sexually battered a 20-year-old
female patient, groped three nurses and
exposed himself in the same ward. On Feb.
25, in particularly, Brickman allegedly
grabbed the patient and attempted to sexually
assault her until staff forcibly pulled him off
the woman.
In August, O’Brien was found incompetent
to stand trial and re-committed to Napa State
Hospital. Brickman pleaded no contest to sev-
eral charges in return for time served and was
expected to return to a facility for mental
treatment.
O’Brien’s case led to the investigation
known as a root cause analysis and recom-
mendations; Brickman’s was not included
because it didn’t raise to the same level of
severity and harm.
At the time, there had been five sexual
assaults reported at the San Mateo Medical
Center’s psychiatric ward since 2007, accord-
ing to the San Mateo Police Department.
Half Moon Bay money troubles
Could Half Moon Bay really cease to be a
city? As the city struggled this year to pay out
a multi-million dollar lawsuit and residents
rejected a sales tax hike, the possibility looked
strong that the coastal city could unincorpo-
rate — or at the least outsource key services.
The city could not pay the court-ordered
$18 million settlement over the Beachwood
wetland property by an Aug. 20, 2009 dead-
line and instead secured $32 million in bonds
in June which will be repaid over the next 30
years. The city is paying $1.2 million annual-
ly because of the settlement, leading to
slashed services and pink slips for employees.
The city’s recreation staff dropped by 50 per-
cent, street repairs were scrapped, the police
department was been cut by 20 percent and
the interim police chief works part time.
At the November election, Half Moon Bay
voters rejected a 1-cent sales tax, Measure K,
which would have raised $1.4 million annual-
ly for the city.
The question now, is what’s next?
Perhaps 2011 will provide the answer.
Michelle Durand can be reached by e-mail:
michelle@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650)
344-5200 ext. 102.

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