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Study urgeschanges toprison law
Recommendations would relieveburden from California counties
By Don Thompson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO — Astudy of Gov.Jerry Brown’s 2-year-old prison realign-ment law released Friday recommendsmajor changes that would relieve some of the burden from California’s counties.Under the law, lower-level offenders aresent to county jails instead of state pris-ons, sometimes for lengthy sentences.When they’re released, they’re supervised by local proba-tion officers instead of state parole agents.The study by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center recom-mends capping county jail sentences at three years and hav-
Foster Farms and Costcosued over tainted chicken
By Michelle Durand
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Foster Farms brand chicken sold at two Costco stores inSan Mateo County led to salmonella poisoning and hospi-talization, according to two separate lawsuits filed againstthe two companies in recent weeks. The latest suit, filed Thursday by Sally A. Claverie in SanMateo County Superior Court, argues Foster Farms placedthe “defense of its reputation ahead of concern for consumer
By Angela Swartz
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Every year, YouTube honorsthose who are in line to be thenext superstars in education andthis year one of the winners wasStanford University’s AlexDainis.Dainis, who hails fromMansfield, Mass. and received herundergraduate degree fromBrandeis University in 2011,recently began a Ph.D. program ingenetics at Stanford. San Bruno-based YouTube also recentlynamed her one of its superstarteachers because of her weeklyBite Sci-zed videos.“It’s really exciting,” she said.“It was kind of a surprise to me. Ihad no idea they were going to dothat.”Before deciding to go back andget another degree, she worked asan associate producer for RichardLewis Media Group.“I missed talking to peopleabout science on day-to-day basis,so I started Bite Sci-zed,” saidDainis, 24. Her YouTube channel used toinclude weekly videos, but shehasn’t had as much time to postthem since beginning her Ph.D.program this fall.“My videos revolve around ques-tions like why do we get motionsickness?” she said. “There aredaily questions about the worldthat pop up in my life.”Some other ideas for herYouTube videos often come fromconversations she’s having with
 YouTube teaching star begins Ph.D.at Stanford
Alex Dainis runs a show called Bite Sci-zed
Stanford’s Alex Dainis has been named a YouTube Superstar Teacherbecause of her series Bite Sci-zed.Second violinist Debbie Passanisi,center,has been in the Peninsula Symphony for 41 years.
By Angela Swartz
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
With the news earlier this monththat $500,000 had gone missing fromthe Peninsula Symphony of NorthernCalifornia, a Burlingame woman ishelping lead the effort to rebuild thegroup.Burlingame’s Debbie Passanisi hasbeen with the symphony since 1972.She began playing violin when shewas in the fourth grade at RooseveltElementary School in Burlingame andcontinued playing at BurlingameIntermediate School, Burlingame HighSchool and at University of California, Davis where she studiedEnglish literature. Now she is princi-pal second violin and an orchestra rep-resentative to the Board of Directors.The first shows of the season, thatopened the weekend of Oct. 25, werebittersweet for the symphony, whichlost almost its entire budget, Passanisisaid. “We love playing together, but wedon’t know the future,” she said. “Alotof people have rallied behind us.”For now, the group is fundraisingand calling past patrons to ask fordonations. Passanisi even wrote a let-ter asking for community support. Todate, the symphony has raised around$220,000, said Mitchell Klein, musicdirector and symphony conductor. “I am honored and privileged to playwith my fellow musicians in thePeninsula Symphony under MaestroKlein, who is a figure of toweringachievement and gentle sensitivity,”she wrote. “At this moment, it feelslike the end of world. Please help uscontinue to be the messengers of the
Woman helps rebuild symphony
Group’s funds went missing at the beginning of October
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Rapper Nelly is 39.
This Day in HistoryThought for the Day
1948
President Truman surprised theexperts by winning a narrow upsetover Republican challenger ThomasE. Dewey.
“If I have any beliefs about immortality,it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven,and very,very few persons.” 
— James Thurber (1894-1961)
PoliticalcommentatorPatrick Buchananis 75.Country singerErika Jo is 27.
Birthdays
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Big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara of the United States drops in on a large wave at Praia do Norte,in Nazar,Portugal.
Saturday
:Sunny in the morning thenbecoming partly cloudy. Highs in theupper 50s. Light winds...Becoming west5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday night:
Partly cloudy in theevening then becoming clear. Lows in theupper 40s. Northwest winds 10 to 20mph.
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:Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 10to 20 mph.
Sunday night:
Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.Northwest winds around 20 mph...Becoming 10 to 15 mphafter midnight.
Monday
: Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
Monday night and Tuesday:
Mostly clear. Lows in theupper 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
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In 1783,
Gen. George Washington issued his Farewell Ordersto the Armies of the United States near Princeton, New Jersey.
In 1795, 
the 11th president of the United States, James KnoxPolk, was born in Mecklenburg County, N.C.
In 1865, 
the 29th president of the United States, WarrenGamaliel Harding, was born near Corsica, Ohio.
In 1889
, North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39thand 40th states.
In 1917, 
British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued adeclaration expressing support for a “national home” for theJews in Palestine.
In 1947, 
Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden flyingboat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules (dubbed the “Spruce Goose” bydetractors), on its only flight, which lasted about a minuteover Long Beach Harbor in California.
In 1959
, game show contestant Charles Van Doren admittedto a House subcommittee that he’d been given questions andanswers in advance when he appeared on the NBC-TVprogram“Twenty-One.”
In 1962, 
President John F. Kennedy delivered a brief state-ment to the nation in which he said that aerial photographshad confirmed that Soviet missile bases in Cuba were beingdismantled, and that “progress is now being made toward therestoration of peace in the Caribbean.”
In 1963, 
South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem wasassassinated in a military coup.
In 1976
, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter became the firstcandidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elect-ed president as he defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford.
In 1979, 
black militant JoAnne Chesimard escaped from aNew Jersey prison, where she’d been serving a life sentencefor the 1973 slaying of New Jersey state trooper WernerFoerster. Phobophobia is a fear of developing aphobia.***The first ice cube tray was patented in1932. The stainless steel tray flexedsideways to eject the ice cubes. It cost50 cents.***The oldest shoe in existence is thesandal. Sandals made of wovenpapyrus were discovered in anEgyptian tomb from 2000 B.C.***The only woman to be pictured on aU.S. currency note was MarthaWashington (1731-1802). Her por-trait was on the $1 silver certificatesprinted from 1886 to 1891.***Chopsticks, the piano music, wasoriginally called the Celebrated ChopWaltz when it was written by 16-year-old Euphemia Allen (1861-1949) in1877. The British girl composed thetune using the pseudonym Arthur deLulli.***There are no ants in Antarctica. Antslive on every other continent.***Do you know what Melvil Dewey(1851-1931) is famous for? Seeanswer at end.***The Vietnam Veterans Memorial inWashington, D.C., lists 58,209names of those who died during thewar. The names are engraved on pol-ished black granite walls that are 493feet long.***Baby carrots, sold pre-packaged assnacks, are actually regular carrots cutinto two inch pieces and shaved downThe world’s first crossword puzzle wasprinted as a “mental exercise” in theSunday edition of the New York Worldin 1913. It was so popular that by theearly 1920s every major newspaper inAmerica featured its own crosswordpuzzle.***The largest manufacturer of playingmarbles is Vacor de Mexico. The com-pany makes 90 percent of the world’smarbles. More than 12 million littleglass balls are produced each day.***Charles Dickens (1812-1870) claimedthat his first love was fictional LittleRed Riding Hood. He thought that hewould have known perfect bliss if hecould have married her.***Some oxymorons: quiet storm, steelwool, deliberate mistake, mud bath.***The first Gap store was opened in SanFrancisco in 1969. Today the interna-tional company has their world head-quarters in San Francisco.***The term horsepower was first coinedby Scottish engineer James Watt(1736-1819) who invented a steamengine. One unit of horsepower equals33,000 foot-pounds per minute.***The most common first letter of sur-names in the United States is S.However, there has never been a presi-dent of the United States that has had alast name starting with the letter S.***The largest and most complete skele-ton of a Tyrannosaurus rex is on dis-play at the Field Museum in Chicago.The skeleton is 13 feet high and 42feet long. The bones were discoveredin South Dakota in 1990. The skele-ton is referred to as Sue, named afterthe fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson(born 1949) who discovered thebones.***
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: He was an American librari-an that developed the Dewey DecimalSystem. While working as a librarianat Amherst College in 1876, Deweydeveloped the classification system for books; books are put in generalcategories and designated with num-bers from 000-999. The number afterthe decimal point designates morespecific subjects.
Know It All is by Kerry McArdle. It runs inthe weekend and Wednesday editions of theDaily Journal. Questions? Comments?Email knowitall(at)smdailyjournal.comor
(Answers Monday)VOUCH DOUSE HECKLE SLEIGHYesterday’sJumbles:Answer:When he got the bill for their extravagant lob-ster meal, he was— SHELLSHOCKEDNow arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, assuggested by the above cartoon.
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
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Singer Jay Black (Jay and the Americans) is 75. ActressStefanie Powers is 71. Author Shere (shehr) Hite is 71. Rockmusician Keith Emerson (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 69.Country-rock singer-songwriter J.D. Souther is 68. ActressKate Linder is 66. Rock musician Carter Beauford (The DaveMatthews Band) is 56. Actor Peter Mullan is 54. Singer-song-writer k.d. lang is 52. Rock musician Bobby Dall (Poison) is50. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is 49.Actress Lauren Velez is 49. Actor David Schwimmer is 47.Christian/jazz singer Alvin Chea (Take 6) is 46.
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 The Daily Derby race winners are Lucky Charms,No.12,in first place;California Classic,No.5,insecond place;and Gold Rush,No.1,in third place. The race time was clocked at 1:46.80.
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Miscellaneous
. Awoman reported thather roommate misplaced her money on the800 block of North Humboldt Streetbefore 10:31 p.m. Wednesday, Oct 31.
Theft
. Approximately $500 in cash wasstolen from several lockers and purses atthe 900 block of Alameda de las Pulgasbefore 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30.
Indecent exposure .
Aman was reportedto have been exposing himself outside of an office on the 800 block of AirportStreet before 7:55 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28.
Theft
. Areport of stolen credit cardsbeing used at several stores on thePeninsula was made on the 2200 block of Bridgepointe Parkway before 4:28 p.m.on Monday, Oct. 28.
MILLBRAE
Petty theft.
Astolen license plate wasfound on the 500 block of MagnoliaAvenue before 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31.
Burglary
. An arrest was made for a bur-glary on the first block of El Camino Realbefore 11:39 a.m. Monday, Oct. 26.
Petty theft
. Aman that was found tohave an active warrant was arrested forpetty theft on the 500 block of El CaminoReal before 5:41 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct.29.
Police reports
He needed a lot of help
Aman went into Costco and asked forhelp to detox at Metro Center Boulevardin Foster City before 7:50 p.m. onTuesday, Oct. 29.
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT
The former president of a Daly City chari-ty pleaded no contest to felony embezzle-ment for reportedly taking approximately$68,000 and gambling it away betting onhorse races.Ruperto Reyes, 74, faces up to 10 months jail on the charge when sentenced Dec. 12. Reyes spent 12 years from August 2000to June 2012 heading the nonprofit LuzonVisayas Mindanao Association, a Filipino-American organization intended to provideaid to local community members, accord-ing to the San MateoCounty DistrictAttorney’s Office.The group raised around$73,000 over the yearsbut only distributedaround $5,000. Whenother board members atthe nonprofit began ask-ing to see the books ear-lier this year, Reyesallegedly delayed them and made excuses. Inearly 2012, board members discovered thata bank account that should have held around$68,000 contained only $19.When confronted, Reyes apologized andpromised to pay the money back, but onlypaid $2,500, prosecutors said.After board members went to police,detectives determined that Reyes had usedthe account’s ATM card 188 times to makewithdrawals at the Jockey Club in SanMateo.Reyes remains free from custody on hisown recognizance pending sentencing.
Ex-charity head takes embezzlement deal
Ruperto Reyes
By Terry Collins
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OAKLAND — Bay Area Rapid Transit’stwo largest unions voted Friday on a tenta-tive contract agreement after a bitter labordispute prompted two strikes.More than 2,300 members of ServiceEmployees International Union Local 1021and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555voted on whether to approve a new four-year contract that includes a 15 percentraise and improved safety conditions.The agreement also requires BARTwork-ers to pay into their pensions for the firsttime and increases their monthly healthcare contributions from about $92 to $129.The unions represent train operators, sta-tion agents, custodians and maintenanceand clerical workers.The vote also comes nearly two weeksafter the unions reached a deal with BARTmanagement that ended months of torturedtalks over salary, benefits and safety condi-tions. The unions went on strike for nearlyfive days in July and after a state-mandatedcooling off-period, went back to the picketlines for another four days last monthangering thousands of commuters.During the second strike, two BARTworkers killed by a train operated by anemployee under training in Walnut Creekon Oct. 19 which many believe drew theparties back to the bargaining table tofinally iron out a deal a couple of days later.SEIU said they will announce its votingresults late Friday.“We’ve already gotten an amazingturnout. We’ve had members waiting in linegetting ready to vote early this morning,”SEIU spokeswoman Cecille Isidro said.“We’re optimistic they will approve it.”ATU President Antonette Bryant shared asimilar view Friday.“I think the members will come down andmake their choice,” Bryant said. “Our exec-utive board is recommending a yes vote,but it remains to see what the members’choices are.”If the two unions ratify the contract,BART’s board of directors would likely thenvote on the new contract during a specialmeeting, BARTofficials have said.
Bay Area Rapid Transit’s unionsvote on contract that ended strike
 
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