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Mandarin programs growing

Redwood City Elementary School District latest to add immersion course offerings
By Angela Swartz
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Community demand, along with

the fact that more than a billion
people in the world speak
Chinese, has been the impetus for
more language programs in its
predominant dialect Mandarin in
Peninsula schools.
The Redwood City Elementary
School District Board of Trustees
approved Oct. 22 the beginning of
a Mandarin immersion program at

John Gill Elementary School next
school year. The program would
begin with at least one kindergarten and one first-grade class,
each with about 28 students;
adding a grade level each year up
to fifth-grade. Language immersion is a method of instruction in
which the learners target language is used in classroom instruction. Advocates for immersion
programs say its the most effec-
tive and natural way to learn a second language. In a Mandarin

immersion classroom, the teacher
instructs all content in Mandarin
and students are encouraged to
speak with each other in
Mandarin.
It improves problem solving
and better listening skills for
learning other languages, said
John Baker, the districts deputy
superintendent of curriculum and
instruction. In the future, it cre-
ates job opportunities for children.

Registration for the program
began Nov. 3 and runs until Jan. 9,
2015, and students will be selected
on a lottery basis, Baker said. The
idea was brought to the district in
September 2013 by parents in the
community. Because the majority
of the parents who came forth with
the idea live in the John Gill
attendance area, thats where the
district decided to place the pro-
gram, he said. Diana Fu, parent

organizer for the Mandarin
Immersion in Redwood City parent group, lives in the John Gill
neighborhood and has organized
Mandarin story time at the library,
along with short workshops on
Mandarin at John Gill. Jean
Watanabe, co-leader of the group,
has a child who will attend transitional kindergarten next year and
See COURSE, Page 23
Propositions limit
on school reserves
creates new worry
BULLDOG BOWL SHOWDOWN
Peninsula district officials concerned about

losing money from rainy-day fund initiative
By Angela Swartz
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
PATRICK NGUYEN
College of San Mateo wrapped up its season with a 30-20 win over Laney College in Saturday's Bulldog
Bowl. Sophomore running back Michael Latu, center, carried 11 times for 94 yards in a seesaw battle between
the two Bay Area contenders. SEE STORY PAGE 12.
The passage of Proposition 2 in

November was heralded by supporters for its creation of a state
rainy day fund, but language within capping reserves for individual
school districts in certain years is
generating concern among administrators who contend the money
held there helps get through periods of uncertainty.
Each school district is developing their own Local Control
Accountability Plan and within
that plan that school district based
on their student population develops appropriate goals to realize
the best academic outcomes for
those kids and that is going to be
different from school district to
school district, said Nancy
Magee, administrator for board

support and community relations
at the San Mateo County Office of
Education. In San Mateo County,
we still have basic aid school districts funded mostly by property
taxes and others are funded
through the state and those
amounts differ greatly. Economic
uncertainty exists for everyone
and based on types of academic
programs and type of budget
theyre working within, its
important for each school district
to decide what their level of
reserve should be when they hit
not even economic uncertainty,
but any type of uncertainty in their
programs.
County Superintendent Anne
Campbell and the San Mateo
See PROP. 2, Page 22
San Carlos Airport first in state to sell unleaded fuel

By Michelle Durand
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
The San Carlos Airport, once

found
to
exceed
U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency
air quality standards for lead emissions, will be the first in the state
to sell an unleaded option which
proponents say is cheaper, better
for aircraft maintenance and environmentally superior.
This is the rare opportunity

when everybody is getting something they want, said Dan
DeMeo, manager and owner of fuel
seller Rabbit Aviation. The
pilots want it. The county wants
it. And those who are into the
environment are overwhelmingly
satisfied.
County supervisors have been
talking about unleaded fuel since
last year and in the last week gave
its blessing to tweak the contract

with Rabbit to sell unleaded fuel.
The county will also halt a 10cent-per-gallon fuel flowage fee to
encourage more sales through the
life of the current contract which
runs through January 2016.
DeMeo said a fuel truck is
already dedicated to unleaded fuel
and the company is in the process
of converting an existing storage
tank and finding a location at the
airport. Construction on the fuel

system is hoped for May 2015
with sales ready to go in early
summer, he said.
In the meantime, Rabbit is buying small amounts of 700 gallons
at a time and selling it to a select
group of customers so they can try
it out.
Pilots are excited about the
prospect of unleaded fuel in no
small part because of it is a less
expensive alternative that can be

used in probably about one-third
of the aircraft housed at the airport, he said.
Other aircraft can be modified
for a small fee.
Imagine buying a Toyota
Corolla and finding you have to
buy Lexus gas, he said.
The unleaded fuel is at least $1
See FUEL, Page 21
FOR THE RECORD
Monday Nov. 24, 2014
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Thought for the Day

I dont comment. I record.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901).
This Day in History
1944
During World War II, U.S. bombers

based on Saipan attacked Tokyo in the
first raid against the Japanese capital
by land-based planes.
In 1 7 8 4 , Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the

United States, was born in Orange County, Virginia.
In 1 8 5 9 , British naturalist Charles Darwin published
On the Origin of Species, which explained his theory
of evolution by means of natural selection.
In 1 8 6 4 , French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was
born in Albi.
In 1 9 2 2 , Irish nationalist and author Robert Erskine
Childers was executed in Dublin by Free State forces.
In 1 9 3 9 , British Overseas Airways Corp. (BOAC) was
formally established.
In 1 9 5 0 , the musical Guys and Dolls, based on the
writings of Damon Runyon and featuring songs by Frank
Loesser, opened on Broadway.
In 1 9 6 3 , Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee
Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F.
Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television.
In 1 9 6 9 , Apollo 12 splashed down safely in the Pacific.
In 1 9 7 1 , a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (but
who became popularly known as D. B. Cooper) parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over the
Pacific Northwest after receiving $200, 000 dollars in
ransom his fate remains unknown.
In 1 9 7 4 , the bone fragments of a 3. 2 million-year-old
hominid were discovered by scientists in Ethiopia; the
skeletal remains were nicknamed Lucy.
In 1 9 8 9 , Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu was unanimously re-elected Communist Party chief. (Within a
month, he was overthrown in a popular uprising and executed along with his wife, Elena, on Christmas Day. )
In 1 9 9 2 , a China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashed
in southern China, killing all 141 people on board.
Birthdays
Actress Danielle
Nicolet is 41.
Actor Colin Hanks

is 37.
Actress Katherine
Heigl is 36.
Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson is 76.

Country singer Johnny Carver is 74. Former NFL
Commissioner Paul Tagliabue is 74. Rock drummer Pete Best
is 73. Actor-comedian Billy Connolly is 72. Former White
House news secretary Marlin Fitzwater is 72. Former Motion
Picture Association of America Chairman Dan Glickman is 70.
Singer Lee Michaels is 69. Actor Dwight Schultz is 67. Actor
Stanley Livingston is 64. Rock musician Clem Burke
(Blondie; The Romantics) is 60. Record producer Terry Lewis
is 58. Actor/director Ruben Santiago-Hudson is 58. Actress
Denise Crosby is 57. Actress Shae DLyn is 52.
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Joey Chestnut devours
turkey to win eating contest
MASHANTUCKET,
Conn.
Competitive eater Joey Chestnut has

won a turkey-eating contest in
Connecticut, setting a record by
devouring an entire bird.
Ten contestants vied to see who
could eat the most of a 20-pound
turkey in a competition Saturday at
Foxwoods Resort Casino.
Chestnut ate 9.35 pounds of meat off
the bone in 10 minutes. According to
Major League Eating, the food equivalent of the NFL, he bested the previous
record, which was held by Sonya
Thomas, who ate 5. 25 pounds of
turkey in November 2011.
Chestnut, a San Jose, California,
resident who turns 31 on Tuesday, is
ranked the top competitive eater in the
world.
He took home a $5,000 check after
stuffing his face with turkey. The
remainder of the $10,000 purse was
divided among other contestants.
Citys ugly Christmas

tree prompts public outcry
READING, Pa. A Christmas tree
that might make Charlie Brown think
twice is getting kicked to the curb a
little early after residents of a
Pennsylvania town complained it was
too ugly.
Readings spindly 50-foot spruce
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ROSEBURG, Ore. Sponsors of

the annual holiday festival near
Roseburg have commissioned a whopper of a centerpiece - a wooden nutcracker intended to stand 41 feet tall,
weigh more than 16,000 pounds and
work its jaw with enough force to
crush coconuts.
The statue was created by a
Willamette Valley woodworker using
chain saws, The News-Reviewreported.
The crushing power comes from a
quarter-horsepower engine that opens
and closes a statue jaw about six times
a minute.
Cranes were deployed this week to
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assemble the statue at River Forks

Park for the Umpqua Valley Festival of
Lights, which begins Sunday.
The sponsors say they have sent
documentation to the Guinness Book
of World Records in hopes of having it
declared the worlds largest nutcracker,
eclipsing a German one 8 feet shorter.
Pieces of the Roseburg statue were
trucked on Interstate 5 Monday from
the workshop of Toby Johnson in
Aurora, between Salem and Portland.
The nutcracker is made of a variety
of woods from downed trees: sequoia,
coastal redwood, western red cedar and
Port Orford cedar.
Johnson said he used a 6-foot chain
saw to make the initial cuts and shorter saws for the detail work. Friends at
Intermountain Innovations Corp.
designed the jaw and did the metal
work.
Its surprisingly beautiful, longtime festival organizer Kerwin
Doughton said. This guy has done an
amazing job with his three chain
saws.
The holiday festival features
500,000 lights and more than 90 animated displays.
Doughton wants the region to be
known for nutcrackers: 4-inchers are
on sale this year at the festival.
Hes urging the community adopt
the nutcracker as a mascot, with businesses sponsoring 6-foot-tall nutcrackers and maps for visitors maps to
see nutcrackers in the area.
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Unscramble these four Jumbles,

one letter to each square,
to form four ordinary words.
drew the ire of residents who said it

was ruining their holiday spirit.
Now a group led by the city council
president is raising money to buy and
decorate a more impressive replacement. The current tree is topped with a
lighted pretzel, a nod to the areas
many bakeries.
The puny pine was a last-minute
stand-in taken from a city park. The
city had planned to get its tree from a
farm, but the owner wouldnt let the
crews drive on the wet ground when
they went to pick it up.
Officials are hoping to have a doover tree lighting ceremony next
weekend.
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3, in first place; Whirl Win, No. 6, in second place;
and Lucky Charms, No. 12, in third place.The race
time was clocked at 1:45.49.
Mo nday : Sunny. Highs in the mid

60s. North winds around 5 mph.
Mo nday ni g ht: Mostly clear. Lows
in the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10
mph.
Tues day : Sunny. Highs in the upper
60s.
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Th urs day n i g h t : Mostly clear.
Lows in the lower 50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
Fri day : Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the
lower 60s.
Fri day ni g ht: Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows
around 50.
Saturday : Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in
the lower 60s.
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Now arrange the circled letters
to form the surprise answer, as
suggested by the above cartoon.
Saturdays
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Jumbles: OFTEN
KIOSK
IMMUNE
COUSIN
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Hyde Street Pier
Police reports
Lights out
Someone cut through a wall and stole
wires that shut down the power to a
business on Woodside Road in
Redwood City before 9:44 a. m.
Monday, Nov. 17.
MILLBRAE
hile much of the early activity

around Yerba Buena (San
Francisco) was at the area of
Montgomery Street, the Yerba Buena Cove
did have its shortcomings. It was shallow
for many blocks into the Bay and everything from and to the boats had to be handled a number of times before getting it to
shore and the goods had to go through an
almost impossible barrier of other carriers
and barriers to the beach.
This problem was met slowly and eventually piers were built into the water as far as
depth of water allowed. Even so, there was
too much trafc to handle the number of
ships that came into the cove to dock and
unload their cargo. Eventually, the land
around the cove was used for businesses and
the people moved toward the hills that surrounded the cove and developed housing
while waiting to go to the gold elds.
For a long time, Clarks Point was the furthest north that piers had been built. Clark
was a very aggressive individual who did
what needed to be done to keep his business
going. He needed more room to transfer
cargo from the ships onto the land, land that
was in short supply. He immediately saw the
potential of the Coit Tower hill behind him
and he began quarrying the rock for ll into
the Bay. Now there was a way for trafc to
reach the North Beach area that had been
inaccessible up to now. North Beach became
a recreation area for the hundreds of people
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORY MUSEUM
Hyde Street Pier looking west.

that felt the Yerba Buena Cove area was too
congested. An omnibus was started to transfer people to the North Beach and the area
thrived.
Later, the San Francisco Belt Railway was
constructed to haul freight and people to the
Presidio. In 1949, Henry Meiggs landed in
San Francisco and immediately saw the big
problem with the boats that landed in Yerba
Buena Cove. There were not enough piers
for the boats. Having a bankroll from his
other business interests in New York, he
immediately began building a wharf jutting
out of the North Beach shore. The shore at
that time was on Bay Street and it would be
where Pier 39 is now. The pier extended
2,000 feet into the water and it became an
immediate success. Along the pier, Abe
Warner built a drinking establishment that
gave away free chowder and he kept the people who visited the wharf amused. Abe liked
to collect almost anything animals, talking parrots, totem poles and spiders. There
were spider webs everywhere hanging from
the ceiling, on the chairs, everywhere. His
place became called the Cobweb Palace.
Meiggs had a big ego and a goal of being
the best. When he ran out of money, he used
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Luckily for Meiggs, he left the city on a
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losses and Meiggs went to South America.
By now, North Beach had became established as a pleasure center. Fishing boats
made it their meeting place to sell their lobsters and sh and a sh market was developed. The boats and the shermen unloading after a days shing became a spectacle
that attracted a crowd. A trolley from the
Rincon Hill area was running now to North
Beach and, with it, came many of the rich of
the city. Rincon Hill was for a long time the
settlement for the rich and famous. After the
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an industrial area and the rich moved to
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See HISTORY, Page 21
DUI. A man was cited for driving under the

influence before 10:33 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 19.
Unl awful paraphernal i a. A man was cited
for being in possession of unlawful paraphernalia at the Millbrae Caltrain Station
before 4:00 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19.
Unl awful paraphernal i a. A teenager was
found to be in possession of a forged I.D.
card, marijuana and unlawful paraphernalia
on Green Hills Drive and Laurel before 11:02
a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18.
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Di s turbance. A person standing on the
street asked a passerby if she wanted to buy
some marijuana on Whipple Avenue and El
Camino Real before 9:25 p.m. Monday,
Nov. 17.
Di s turbance. A man was walking around in
a store drinking beer that he did not pay for
on El Camino Real before 12:56 a. m.
Monday, Nov. 17.
Burg l ary . A homeowner called police to
report their home being burglarized and seeing two possible subjects leaving in a black
Jetta on Turino Drive before 6:35 a.m.
Monday, Nov. 17.
Grand theft. Chrome rims were stolen
from a car on Beech Street before 2:44 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 17.
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Former Sequoia triathlete embraces art

Lindsay James has turned to painting to fill athletic hangover
By Angela Swartz
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
A former Olympian and Sequoia High

School athlete, Lindsay James says art has
now helped her fill the void that was left
when she ended her softball career.
James, who grew up in San Carlos, played
softball, basketball and volleyball while in
high school and went on to play softball on
a scholarship at University of California,
Berkeley before playing for the 2004 Greek
Olympic softball team. When she stopped
playing, she said she turned to painting to
treat what she calls an athletic hangover.
A lot of women go through it, said
James, 30. To say life changed would be an
understatement. Your whole lives youve
been training and you have regimented
schedule. Once youre done, you have this
empty feeling. For the past 10 years or so
Ive being really trying to figure out that
passion void.
Greece asked for athletes with Greek heritage to come play for the womens softball
team in the Olympics. She got expedited
dual citizenship and pioneered the sport of
2-alarm fire near Belmont Library

caused by resident frying chicken
A two-alarm apartment fire near the
Belmont Library Saturday was caused by a
resident who left a pot on the stove unattended while attempting to cook fried chicken, according to Belmont police.
The resident was able to escape with his
dog however, his cat perished in the fire,
according to police.
Belmont firefighters and police responded to the 1100 block of Village Drive around
11:50 a.m. to find smoke and flames coming from the windows of a third-floor apartment, according to police.
Belmont, San Mateo, Foster City,
Redwood City and San Mateo County firefighters were able to isolate the fire where it
started, but the apartment below sustained
water damage, according to police.
The tenant told investigators he had a pot
of oil on the stove in preparation to fry
some chicken when he briefly stepped out
of the room, according to police. He
returned to find the stove on fire. No one
was injured and occupants in the building
were evacuated before most were allowed to
return. The tenants of the apartment below
the fire were assisted by the Red Cross as
Lindsay James, a former Olympian and

Sequoia High School athlete, is now an avid
artist.
softball in Greece.
I closed the book when I graduated from
Berkeley, she said. Theres not a lot of
their residence was rendered uninhabitable
due to water damage, according to police.
With the holidays approaching, police
remind the public to always stay in the
kitchen while cooking and keep and eye on
the stove.
One killed after

leading police on car chase
One person was killed after leading police
on a pursuit from Daly City to Brisbane late
Sunday morning, according to Daly City
police.
An officer attempted to stop a car traveling on Geneva Avenue near Bayshore
Boulevard in Daly City shortly before 11
a.m., police said.
The driver of the car did not stop for the
officer and continued traveling on Bayshore
Boulevard at speeds of around 40 mph,
according to police.
The officer continued to follow the car to
Bayshore Boulevard near Industrial Way in
Brisbane, where the driver veered off the
road and went down an embankment, police
said.
The vehicle then crashed into trees and a
building, according to police.
The driver, the sole occupant of the car,
was pronounced dead at the scene, police
things for female athletes to do once you

reach the pinnacle.
She dabbled in coaching girls softball,
but found it didnt really fulfill her like she
thought it would.
I was drafted into the pro league, but it
didnt sound very appealing, James said.
Currently, she is working in special education at The Bridge School in
Hillsborough, while painting part time.
She even cut her schedule back at school
this year, so she could paint every single
day. She is completing her credential and
masters in special education at Notre Dame
De Namur University in spring 2015 and is
moved back to hometown of San Carlos.
At Berkeley, she majored in social welfare, while minoring in art history. Famous
artists such as Vincent Van Goghs and
Henri Matisses use of shapes, colors, and
fluidity have heavily influenced Lindsays
style.
My work is bright, colorful, impressionistic and can be inspired by anything,
she said.
Her future plans include creating a nonprofit art program for adults with disabil-
ities.
Working at The Bridge School has been a
great experience; Ive been doing art in the
classroom with the kids, she said.
Especially working with adults, theres hardly any programs for adults with disabilities.
Softball is still a part of her life in some
ways though. She plays slow pitch co-ed
softball these days and even met her husband while playing.
James work will be on display, and for
sale, Dec. 3 at Granaras Flowers, 1682 El
Camino Real in San Carlos. She will also
host a pop-up shop Dec. 11 and 12 at Empire
Vintage, 831 Villa St. in Mountain View.
She uses social media to help her adv ertise and sell her paintings. Go to facebook .com/lindsay dotart or search lindsay dotart on Instagram to check out her work .
Also v isit lindsay dotart. com for more
information.
Local briefs
Francisco, a spokeswoman said.

Emergency personnel responded to a
report of a car on the train tracks at Linden
Avenue at 8 p.m., said Caltrain spokeswoman Christine Dunn.
Dunn said she did not know if the driver of
the vehicle suffered any injuries or what
kind of vehicle was involved.
A tow truck worked to remove the car from
the tracks and crews remained on scene as of
8:45 p.m., Dunn said.
There were delays in both directions and
Caltrain operated on a single track around
the accident, Dunn said.
said. The identity of the deceased was being

held pending notification of the family,
according to the San Mateo County
Coroners Office.
Daly City police and the California
Highway Patrol are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.
Caltrain hits car on

South San Francisco tracks
A train operated by Caltrain struck a vehicle Saturday evening in South San
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Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry dies at 78

By Ben Nuckols
and Brett Zongker
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON A controversial and tireless advocate for the

nations capital who created jobs
for generations of black families,
Marion Barry was the ultimate
District of Columbia politician,
though his arrest for drug use in
the midst of a crack cocaine epidemic often overshadows his
accomplishments.
The former four-term mayor will
long be remembered for one night
in 1990 when he was caught on
video lighting a crack pipe in an
FBI sting operation. In an instant,
the then-mayor of the capital city
was exposed as a drug user himself.
Barry, 78, died Sunday at the
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Marion Barry is sworn in as a Washington D.C. city council member in this

January 2, 2005 file photo.
United Medical Center, after having been released from a hospital a

day earlier. His spokeswoman,
LaToya Foster, said he collapsed
outside his home.
Barry died naturally of heart problems caused by high blood pressure,
and his kidney disease was a contributing factor, the D.C. medical
examiner said. Barry had a kidney
transplant several years ago.
Barry first made a name for himself in the South as a leader in the
civil rights movement and
brought his fierce advocacy to
D.C. to support the fight to free
the city to manage its own city
affairs, not Congress. That legacy
was remembered Sunday at the
White House upon news of Barrys
death.
Marion was born a sharecroppers son, came of age during the
Civil Right s movement, and

became a fixture in D. C. politics
for decades, President Barack
Obama said. During his decades
in elected office in D. C. , he put
in place historic programs to
lift working people out of
poverty, expand opportunity
and begin to make real the promise of home rule.
Barry was born March 6, 1936,
to Marion and Mattie Barry, in the
Mississippi delta and was raised in
Memphis, Tennessee, after the
death of his father, a sharecropper.
Barrys work in the civil rights
movement brought him to
Washington. He was elected to
city council in 1974. Four years
later, Barry defeated incumbent
Mayor Walter Washington in the
Democratic primary and went on
to easily win the general election.
Letter that inspired Kerouac found, up for auction

By John Rogers
LOS ANGELES Its been

called the letter that launched a literary genre 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal
Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac
in 1950.
Upon reading them, Kerouac
scrapped an early draft of On The
Road and, during a three-week
writing binge, revised his novel
into a style similar to Cassadys,
one that would become known as
Beat literature.
The letter, Kerouac said shortly
before his death, would have transformed his counterculture muse
Cassady into a towering literary
figure, if only it hadnt been lost.
Turns out it wasnt, says Joe
Maddalena, whose Southern
California auction house Profiles
in History is putting the letter up
for sale Dec. 17. It was just mis-
placed, for 60-some years.

Its being offered as part of a
collection that includes papers by
E. E.
Cummings,
Kenneth
Rexroth, Robert Penn Warren and
other prominent literary figures.
But Maddalena believes the item
bidders will want most is
Cassadys 18-page, single-spaced
screed describing a drunken, sexually charged, sometimes comical
visit to his hometown of Denver.
Its the seminal piece of literature of the Beat Generation, and
there are so many rumors and speculation of what happened to it,
Maddalena said.
Kerouac told The Paris Review
in 1968 that poet Allen Ginsberg
loaned the letter to a friend who
lived on a houseboat in Northern
California. Kerouac believed the
friend then dropped it overboard.
It was my property, a letter to
me, so Allen shouldnt have been
so careless with it, nor the guy on
the houseboat, he said.
As for the quality of the letter,
Kerouac described it this way: It

was the greatest piece of writing I
ever saw, bettern anybody in
America, or at least enough to make
Melville, Twain, Dreiser, Wolfe, I
dunno who, spin in their graves.
It turns out Ginsberg apparently
was trying to get it published
when he mailed the letter to
Golden Goose Press in San
Francisco. There it remained,
unopened, until the small publishing house folded.
When it did, its owner planned to
throw the letter in the trash, along
with every other unopened submission he still had in his files.
That was when the operator of a
small, independent music label
who shared an office with publisher Richard Emerson came to the
rescue. He took every manuscript,
letter and receipt in the Golden
Goose Archives home with him.
My father didnt know who
Allen Ginsberg was, he didnt
know Cassady, he wasnt part of
the Beat scene, but he loved poet-
ry, said Los Angeles performance

artist Jean Spinosa, who found the
letter as she was cleaning out her
late fathers house two years ago.
He didnt understand how anyone
would want to throw someones
words out.
Although she knew who Kerouac
and Cassady were, Spinosa had
never heard of The Joan Anderson
Letter, the name Kerouac gave it for
Cassadys description of a woman
hed had a brief romance with.
Its invaluable, historian and
Kerouac
biographer
Dennis
McNally said. It inspired Kerouac
greatly in the direction he wanted
to travel, which was this spontaneous style of writing contained
in a letter that had just boiled out
of Neal Cassadys brain.
It was a style hed put to use in
the novels On The Road and
Visions of Cody, which featured
Cassady, thinly disguised under
the names Dean Moriarty and
Cody Pomeroy, as their protagonists. Hed continue to use it in
such
books
as
The
Subterraneans, The Dharma
Bums and Lonesome Traveler,
cementing his reputation as the
father of the Beat Generation.
Cassady would gain some small
measure of fame as Kerouacs muse
and, later, as the sidekick who
drove novelist Ken Keseys Merry
Pranksters bus across the country.
Meanwhile, about a third of
The Joan Anderson Letter,
copied by someone before it disappeared, became well-known to
students of Kerouac.
When Spinosa discovered she
had the whole thing, she took it to
Maddalena, a prominent dealer in
historical documents and pop-culture artifacts, to authenticate it.
Hes reluctant to estimate what
it might sell for. Although the
original manuscript of On The
Road fetched $2. 4 million in
2001, everyone knew that existed. Its much harder to estimate the
value, he said, of something no
one knew was still around.
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Evacuation plans readied as Buffalo flooding looms

By Michael Hill
BUFFALO, N.Y. First came the big storm,

then the big dig. Now comes the big melt.
Residents of flood-prone areas around
Buffalo should move valuables up from the
basement, pack a bag and prepare for the
possibility of evacuation as up to 7 feet of
melting snow posed the threat of flooding,
Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned Sunday.
Err on the side of caution, Cuomo said
at a news conference in Cheektowaga. You
prepare for the worst and hope for the best,
and thats what were doing.
Across the Buffalo region where rising
temperatures were expected to approach 60
degrees on Monday people took that
advice to heart.
In Hamburg, Pete Yeskoot bought a
portable generator to make sure his sump
pump will keep working once the roughly
80 inches of snow that fell on his property
melts. Possessions are up on blocks in the
basement and he has food for several days.
Behind us is an 18-mile creek so everything in the village will come through us at
REUTERS
New York City firefighters load rescue boats to prepare for possible flooding following a
massive snow storm in Williamsville, New York.
some point, so we have to get ready for the
possibility of flooding, he said. And
given all this snow, we have to expect that
this is real.
U.S. tells Iran to consider

nuclear talks extension
By George Jahn and Matthew Lee
VIENNA The U.S. told Iran Sunday that

its time to consider extending nuclear
talks, in the first formal recognition by
Washington that frenzied last-minute diplomacy may not be enough to seal a deal by a
rapidly approaching deadline.
A senior U.S. official said that with the
Monday evening cutoff date a little more
than a day away, U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry proposed to Iranian Foreign
Minister Mohamad Java Zarf that the two
sides start discussing post-deadline talks in
their latest meeting since Kerry arrived
three days ago to add his diplomatic weight
to the talks.
At the same time, two Western diplomats
said, negotiations were continuing with
Iran on trying to bridge differences on
reducing Tehrans ability to make nuclear
weapons to levels acceptable to
Washington while giving the Islamic
republic the relief it seeks from international sanctions over its atomic activities.
All three officials demanded anonymity
because they werent authorized to discuss
the diplomatic twists and turns of talks that
have been under a blanket of confidentiality
since the sides started negotiating a com-
prehensive nuclear deal eight months ago.

The U.S. official said a number of options
were under discussion.
An extension is one of those options,
the official said. It should come as no surprise that we will also engage in a discussion of the options with the Iranians at
some point as well.
Foreshadowing
the developments,
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier told German television: If there
isnt quite a conclusion, we will have to
search for possibilities to ensure that nothing breaks off here and the process can be
continued.
But reaching an agreement that allows for
more negotiations could be difficult.
Beyond assurances that the Iranians arent
just talking for the sake of winning time,
the U.S. administration wants to show to
congressional skeptics that there is sense
to continuing the talks. That means
Washington might push the Iranians to
accept at least one of their demands on the
table.
Should such a plan be agreed upon, talks
could resume in early December when Kerry
plans to return to Europe for a previously
scheduled NATO foreign ministers meeting
in Brussels, and an international conference
in London.
A way for republicans to

defuse immigration issue?
By Nicholas Riccardi
DENVER Republicans in search of a

way to oppose President Barack Obamas
moves on immigration without alienating
the nations fast-growing population of
Hispanic voters can find a playbook in
Colorado.
GOP Rep. Cory Gardner won election to
the Senate in the midterms in a state where
14 percent of voters are Hispanic. His GOP
colleague, Rep. Mike Coffman, won re-election in a district where 14 percent of residents were born in foreign countries.
Both opposed last years failed bipartisan
effort in the Senate to overhaul the nations
immigration system, a top priority of
immigrant-rights groups, especially its
centerpiece: a pathway to citizenship for
most of the 11 million people living in the
U.S. illegally. Both also spoke warmly of
the contributions made by immigrants and
shifted to the center on other immigration
issues. Coffman even learned Spanish.
Coffman went on to win his race by 9
points. Gardner tied Democratic Sen. Mark
Udall in two heavily Hispanic counties that

normally vote overwhelmingly Democratic
on his way to a narrow victory. Democrats
acknowledge the two Republicans benefited
from a change in how they talk about immigration, departing from a bombastic
approach that emphasizes border security
and deportations.
Villainization is a huge issue, said
James Mejia, former president of Denvers
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. If you
can stop being nasty about it, people will
listen to the things you have to say.
For years, Republicans have struggled to
balance a desire to improve the partys
standing among Hispanic and AsianAmerican voters and the rock-solid opposition among conservative to anything they
consider amnesty for people living here
illegally.
Hispanic and Asian-Americans overwhelmingly voted Democratic in 2012,
after GOP presidential nominee Mitt
Romney called for some immigrants to
practice self-deportation and Obama
responded by allowing many immigrants
brought to the country illegally as children
to stay and work.
Rain fell Sunday, with temperatures rising

to 50. It was expected to be even warmer
Monday, accompanied by more rain and rising winds, leading to the threat of toppled
trees and power outages.

National Guard members spent Sunday
clearing storm drains and culverts to facilitate runoff, and shoveling snow off roofs.
The National Weather Service said core
samples of the deep snowpack showed it
contained as much as 6 inches of water.
Forecasters said some stretches of road in
urban areas might become submerged under
several feet of water if storm drains
remained clogged.
The melt could first cause basements to
fill up and roads to flood, but another concern was creeks overflowing. In West
Seneca, there was already a sewer pump stationed near Michelle Pikulas house along
the Buffalo Creek.
Hopefully the rain wont be here until
later and this will be a slow thaw, but flooding is our major, major concern here, she
said.
Cuomo said evacuation plans and emergency shelters were being readied in case of
flooding Sunday night and Monday. As a
backup to Red Cross shelters, Cuomo said
the state would have shelters at community
colleges and state university campuses.
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I.S. recruits, exploits children

By Zeina Karam
and Vivian Salama
By Josef Federman
and Aron Heller
BEIRUT Teenagers carrying

weapons stand at checkpoints and
busy intersections in Iraqs second-largest city, Mosul. Patched
onto the left arms of their black
uniforms are the logos of the
Islamic Police.
In Raqqa, the Islamic State
groups de facto capital in Syria,
boys attend training camp and
religious courses before heading
off to fight. Others serve as cooks
or guards at the extremists headquarters or as spies, informing on
people in their neighborhoods.
Across the vast region under IS
control, the group is actively conscripting children for battle and
committing abuses against the
most vulnerable at a young age,
according to a growing body of
evidence assembled from residents, activists, independent
experts and human rights groups.
In the northern Syrian town of
Kobani, where ethnic Kurds have
been resisting an IS onslaught for
weeks, several activists told The
Associated Press they observed
children fighting alongside the
militants. Mustafa Bali, a Kobanibased activist, said he saw the
bodies of four boys, two of them
younger than 14. And at least one
18 year old is said to have carried
out a suicide attack.
In Syrias Aleppo province, an
activist affiliated with the rebel
Free Syrian Army said its fighters
encountered children in their late
teens fairly often in battles
against the rival Islamic State
group.
Israeli Cabinet moves to

define Israel as Jewish
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A child shows a picture of his brother, Nidhal Selmi, a youth who was killed
during fighting in Syria. Nidhal, a middle-class footballer with a bright
future whose family said had everything from a BMW car to the latest
boots, fell into fighting an overseas war, which illustrates the complex draw
of jihad on North Africas youth. By government estimates, more than 3,000
Tunisian nationals have joined the Islamic State and other al Qaeda-linked
groups in the civil war that has pulled in young men from Europe, Asia
and Africa.
It is difficult to determine just
how widespread the exploitation
of children is in the closed world
of IS-controlled territory. There
are no reliable figures on the number of minors the group employs.
But a United Nations panel
investigating war crimes in the
Syrian conflict concluded that in
its enlistment of children for
active combat roles, the Islamic
State group is perpetrating abuses
and war crimes on a massive scale
in a systematic and organized
manner.
The group prioritizes children
as a vehicle for ensuring longterm loyalty, adherence to their
ideology and a cadre of devoted
fighters that will see violence as a
way of life, it said in a recent

report. The panel of experts,
known as the Independent
International Commission of
Inquiry on Syria, conducted more
than 300 interviews with people
who fled or are living in IS-controlled areas, and examined video
and photographic evidence.
The use of children by armed
groups in conflict is, of course,
nothing new. In the Syrian civil
war, the Free Syrian Army and
Nusra Front rebel groups also
recruit children for combat, said
Leila Zerrougui, the U.N. secretary-generals special representative for children and armed conflict.
JERUSALEM In a move likely to further inflame tensions with

Israels Arab citizens, the Israeli
Cabinet on Sunday approved a bill
to legally define the country as the
nation-state of the Jewish people.
The decision, which set off a
stormy debate that could bring
down Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahus brittle coalition government, followed weeks of deadly
Arab-Jewish violence and was
denounced by critics as damaging
to the countrys democratic character and poorly timed at such a
combustible moment.
It now heads toward a full parliamentary vote on Wednesday.
Israel has always defined itself
as the Jewish state a term that
was contained in the countrys declaration of independence in 1948.
The new law seeks to codify that
status as a Basic Law, Israels de
facto constitution.
While many critics derided the
measure
as
unnecessary,
Netanyahu told his Cabinet the
bill is a response to Israels Arab
critics both inside and outside
Israel who question the countrys
right to exist.
Netanyahu has long demanded
that the Palestinians recognize
Israel as the Jewish homeland as a
condition of any peace deal. Both
the Palestinians and their Arab
Israeli brethren say such acceptance would harm the rights of
Israels more than 1. 5 million
Arab citizens.
The bill calls not only for recognizing Israels Jewish character
but for institutionalizing Jewish
law as an inspiration for legislation and dropping Arabic as an
official language.
Netanyahu insisted that Israel
would be both Jewish and democratic.
There are those who would like
the democratic to prevail over the
Jewish and there are those who
would like the Jewish to prevail
over the democratic, he said.
And in the principles of the law
that I will submit today both of
these values are equal and both
must be considered to the same
degree.
Israel is in the midst of its worst
sustained bout of violence in nearly a decade. Eleven Israelis have
been killed in Palestinian attacks
over the past month, including
five people who were killed with
guns and meat cleavers in a bloody
assault on a Jerusalem synagogue
last week.
Jewish
nationalists
in
Netanyahus coalition had pushed
hard for the bill. The two centrist
parties in the Cabinet, Yesh Atid
and Hatnua, provided the only
opposition in the 14-6 vote.
Finance Minister Yair Lapid,
head of Yesh Atid, called it a terrible piece of legislation meant to
appease hard-liners ahead of primaries in Netanyahus hawkish
Likud Party.
Health Minister Yael German,
another Yesh Atid member, said
the party would support a law only
if it emphasized Israels Jewish
and democratic nature equally.
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Working together for Burlingames pool

By Suze Gardner
have been working at the

Burlingame Aquatic Center since
August 2003, both as an
employee of the San Mateo Union
High School District and as an
employee of the Burlingame Aquatic
Club, the nonprot organization that
has partnered with
the city of
Burlingame to provide aquatic programs to the community. Working
for the district, I
spent eight seasons
as the head coach
of the Burlingame
Suze Gardner
High School girls
water polo program. Working for
BAC, my role has evolved from assistant coach, to the head coach of the
water polo program, to my current
role as the executive director.
During the 11 years I have been
active at this pool, two key points
have become very apparent.
First and foremost, our community
is extremely lucky to have this wonderful aquatic facility as both its community and high school pool. With
one of the few Olympic-sized public
pools on the Peninsula, we are all
extremely fortunate to have the opportunities this pool provides to community members of all ages and walks of
life. Among these opportunities are: a
year-round learn-to-swim program
(youth and adults), open lap swimming, youth swim team, youth water
polo, adult aerobics and tness classes, arthritis classes, youth aquatic
camps (summer), recreation swim
(summer), masters swimming, and
masters water polo. During the summer, we estimate a daily attendance
Guest
perspective
across all city/BAC programs of 650
people. During the non-summer
months, that number is estimated at
400.
Second, the fact that this facility is
shared between the city and the district
is of benet to both groups. The
crossover between high school participation and participation in BAC programs is substantial for both athletes
and coaches alike. BAC provides a
stable, professional training environment for many district athletes to train
year-round without having to travel
out of the area, and with BAC coaches
often working as coaches of district
programs, those programs benet
from having career-minded coaches as
their leaders. The most recent example
of this success is the Burlingame High
School swim team, led by 10-year
head coach Chris Culp who joined this
community as the head coach of the
BAC swim team in 2004. Both the
BHS girls and boys teams won the
PAL regular season crown in 2014, as
well as the PAL championship meet,
both going undefeated for the year.
Not only is BAC able to bolster the
districts athletic programs by establishing a stronger, more stable coaching presence, we are able to help
develop life skills for many young
district students. This past summer, 38
(64 percent) of our 59 lifeguards and
swim instructors either currently
attend or recently graduated from a district high school. Many of these
young people are working their rst
job at BAC, and we are happy to help
them develop the important skills that
go along with being a productive
member of the work force.

BACs role is above all else to offer
quality aquatic programming to the
community. This is our passion, this
is what we are good at, and we are
grateful to be able to do this on behalf
of the thousands of people that participate in our programs. As a nonprot,
we budget each year to break even and
aim to keep our programs nancially
accessible to everyone, an effort that
includes offering nancial aid whenever possible.
As part of offering the community
programs, we maintain an active role
in keeping the pool areas and program
equipment in good order. We are not
involved with the operation or maintenance of the equipment that keeps
the pool running, such as the heating
system, the pool pumps or the equipment responsible for balancing the
proper water chemistry. In these areas,
we rely on the attention and commitment of district personnel; by extension, all of the participants in our
programs rely on them as well.
As the city and the district continue
to discuss their management relationship for the aquatic center, I urge both
parties to keep the best interests of all
pool users at heart, including the BHS
programs and the community programs alike. The camaraderie and partnership that brought about the construction of this facility should be
commended, and it is what is needed to
make sure that this facility continues
to be available to the public for years
to come. The dedication plaque that
hangs at the aquatic center commemorates the cooperative spirit between
school, city and community leaders.
The pool will be in good hands if that
is what is now brought to the negotiating table.
Suze Gardner is the ex ecutiv e director of the Burlingame Aquatic Club.
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Editor,
Thanks to Obamacare architect and
Obama insider Jonathan Gruber, we
now know that the heralded
Affordable Care Act is a gigantic hoax
to redistribute income from the middle class and to grab control over our
health care system. Thank you, Mr.
Gruber.
Now, Emperor Obama is unilaterally granting amnesty to millions of
undocumented people using powers
that even he said would be unconstitutional and contrary to the tenents of
our democracy. That was then. Now,
citing the imaginary constitutional
authority called impatience, he will
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do exactly what he previously said he

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to gure what moral compass sits on
Mr. Obamas desk can be difcult.
Perhaps he just enjoys treating the
American people like his subjects
rather than the empowered citizens
which we are and always will be.
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Political post mortems
lection day is long past. And for many it never

even occurred. It seems the mid-term elections go
on record as the worst voter turnout in 72 years.
According to the New York Times, in the three largest
states California, Texas, and New York less than a
third of the eligible population voted.
Many reasons have been
offered for this lack of
democracy in action. First,
midterm elections usually
have a low turnout. There
was no presidential election to stir up interest.
Then people were mad.
Mad at the incumbents
from the president on down
(Still most incumbents
were re-elected). People
were pessimistic. The
economy was great on Wall
Street but still not that hot
on Main Street or for middle- and low-income workers or for rural areas and
former manufacturing
cities. People didnt think the country was going in the
right direction. And many were frightened (with much help
from the news media and several politicians) that the
Islamic State and Ebola were about to destroy us. Many
were turned off, so they say, by negative campaigning.
But the negative campaigning often worked. Consultants
wouldnt use it if it didnt.
***
The one bright spot which hasnt received enough attention, was the re-election of Democratic Gov. John
Hickenlooper of Colorado who was in a very tight race
with a Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez.
Hickenlooper vowed not to go negative and he didnt. And
he still won, while other top Democrats in the state lost.
The NRA was out to get him because he pushed expanded
background checks for gun purchases after the horric
bloodbath at a Colorado movie theater several years ago.
The state also has the history of the Columbine school
shooting on its record. Some say the race was tight
because Hickenlooper ran a wishy washy campaign and
didnt attack his opponent harshly enough. Whatever. A
positive campaign won out over a negative one. Probably
the exception to the rule. But three cheers!
***
The other culprit in the low turnout was voter disgust
with big money. Somehow elections are no longer up to
the voter but who has the most money to convince
enough voters to turn out and vote for their candidate or
cause. I must admit that for the rst time I had that feeling. My vote really didnt count for much especially in
statewide and national elections. As a devoted voter every
since I was legally eligible at 21 (before the voting age
was lowered), I have never missed an election, national,
state, regional, local, special. I couldnt believe I was harboring those awful thoughts. But way too many potential
voters, nationally, felt the president and Congress had let
them down. Individuals were not important any more, just
big corporations, big unions and billionaires. I was
beginning to catch the disease. For me, the Supreme Court
decision, Citizens United, to take the lid off campaign
contributions, has led to this disillusionment and feeling
of disenfranchisement.
***
But every individual vote does count, especially in local
elections. We have witnessed a few here, where a councilmember has been elected by just one or two votes.
Where an election result has been overturned when all the
ballots are counted (Harbor District). When two-thirds of
the American people dont vote, it makes a difference. Two
years from now, we all have another chance. And since its
a presidential election, turnout will be much higher. My
prediction for the 2016 contest: Jeb Bush and Rand Paul
on the Republican ticket versus Hillary Clinton and Julian
Castro (former mayor of San Antonio) for the Democrats.
A moderate Republican and a tea party favorite versus a
woman at the top of the ticket and a popular Texas mayor
bound to attract the Latino vote as her running mate. Two
famous names at the top of the ticket and two rising
politicians as vice presidential candidates. Florida and
Kentucky versus New York and Texas. Boy, what a race
that could be. Stay tuned!
***
Sad news about former Downtown San Mateo
Association executive director Jessica Evans who was
charged with credit card theft. Evans, most agree, was one
of the best directors the association ever had. She helped
make downtown more fun and her dynamism was contagious. Somehow the associations credit card use was
allegedly too tempting. Maybe she allegedly thought
$5,000 in expenses would go unnoticed. Credit card
embezzlement is a major problem unless employers stay
on top of every charge.
Sue Lempert is the former may or of San Mateo. Her column runs ev ery Monday. She can be reached at sue@smdaily journal.com.
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BUSINESS
THE DAILY JOURNAL
Does bad behavior really hurt business?

By Barbara Ortutay
NEW YORK Silicon Valley seems to

have more than its share of companies
behaving badly. Among up-and-comers in
the tech world, privacy abuses and executive gaffes have become viral sensations.
But is all that bad behavior actually bad for
business?
Last week, Uber sparked controversy after
a top executive suggested spending $1 million to dig up dirt on a journalist critical of
the driver-on-demand company. Its only the
latest time Uber has been called out, either
for actions by its drivers or its corporate culture. The company also is investigating one
of its New York employees for tracking
another journalists ride, which has raised
fears that Uber is misusing customers private location information. So far Ubers
investors, which include Google Ventures
and prominent venture capital firms that
poured $1.2 billion into the company at its
latest funding round, have remained quiet.
So is Ubers much-criticized bro culture
just part of the package, a reason even, for
its meteoric rise and ability to go after
smaller rivals and the taxi establishment?
Or is it a liability for the company, its Ayn
Rand-loving CEO and its backers?
I think its going to alienate some
potential customers but I doubt, given
whats happened to date, that its going to
make a big difference, said Robert Hurley,
director of the Consortium of Trustworthy
Organizations at Fordham University in
New York.
So far, the controversies havent put the
brakes on Ubers skyrocketing valuation
REUTERS
An Uber driver protests against working conditions outside the companys office in Santa
Monica earlier this year.
($17 billion at last count, and reportedly
heading to nearly double that), or its popularity among people who can use the app to
hitch rides. There are calls to boycott the
company on Twitter, and many have vowed
to go to its smaller rival Lyft. But on Friday
Uber was ranked 35th among the most popular free apps on iTunes up from 37th on
Monday.
If its a brand (people) like and Uber is
a brand (people) like they have a few get
out of jail cards, said Allen Adamson, managing director of the branding firm Landor
Associates.
Not that Uber is an anomaly in the indus-
Three months after Napa

quake, recovery rolling
SAN FRANCISCO Three months after

the largest quake to hit Northern
California in a quarter century, state and
federal authorities have paid out the first
$12.1 million in recovery aid for damage
centered in and around the wine city of
Napa.
The magnitude-6.0 quake struck Aug. 24,
fatally injuring one woman, wounding
hundreds of other people, and rocking the
historic downtowns of Napa and Vallejo.
Damage assessments are ongoing, and
theres no way to know the final aid
package for quake repair until all the
money has been disbursed, Kelly Huston,
s p o k es man fo r Cal i fo rn i as Offi ce o f
Emerg en cy Serv i ces , t o l d t h e San
Francisco Chronicle for Sundays edition.
Most of $400 million in property damage occurred in Napa. Napa Valley officials
say hotel occupancy rates dipped 8 percent
in the month after the quake but quickly
returned to normal.
In downtown Napa, workers long ago
cleaned up most of the fallen building
facades and yellow police barricades.

You have to look pretty hard to find all
those signs of damage now, Napa Mayor
Jill Techel said. Were doing pretty
well.
Napa Valleys wine industry reported
$80 million in damage, much of it because
of shattered bottles and toppled barrels.
South of Napa, scaffolding on one
quake-damaged building, and a giant tarp
on another, stand among the few visible
signs of damage remaining in the muchless affluent city of Vallejo.
Weve made a lot of progress, said
Vallejo Fire Chief Jack McArthur, who is
overseeing repair on the citys $19 million in damage.
And on Vallejos Mare Island, the Navy
history museum at the old shipyard still is
waiting for disaster aid to cover all or part
of $230, 000 in quake damage, which
includes a big hole in the museums roof.
The 159-year-old building has withstood all kinds of quakes since 1855, but
this was the one that finally did damage to
our main building, museum manager
Joyce Giles said. We could sure use some
help.
try. Some tech companies have had executives with domestic violence charges or
who have gone on ham-fisted Facebook and
Twitter rants. Earlier this year, the hot dating app Tinder settled a sexual harassment
and discrimination lawsuit filed by a cofounder. It claimed that Tinders founders
engaged in atrocious sexual harassment
and sex discrimination against a former
vice president at the company, calling her
names and threatening to strip away her cofounder title. The suit hasnt crimped
Tinders style: the product reportedly makes
over 14 million matches a day.
PR problems arent limited to startups.
Last month, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

told women they shouldnt ask for a raise
and just trust good karma instead. The
punchline? He made the statement, for
which he later apologized, at a conference
celebrating women in computing.
You have these CEOs that dont have
much filter and get in trouble, said John
Challenger, CEO of the outplacement firm
Challenger, Gray & Christmas. But unlike
in the old days, its hard for things to get
buried in the age of blogs, Twitter and
Reddit. There is much less ability to wipe
the slate clean, he notes.
Some established tech companies have
rolled out new features without disclosing
privacy implications, all while professing
respect for customers personal data and privacy. Take Google, for example. The company, which was founded with the motto
dont be evil, has faced scrutiny from
European regulators for secretly scooping
up users personal data transmitted over
unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in cities
around the world for at least two years. In
the U.S., Google paid $500 million to settle a U.S. Justice Department investigation
that alleged the companys top executives
allowed ads for illegal pharmaceutical drugs
to be distributed through its marketing network. Yet it is far and away the leader in
online search and owns other widely used
services such as Android and Chrome.
Until a company does something that
personally impacts the consumer, this kind
of bad behavior will only influence the decisions of customers for whom these are highly sensitive issues, said Maclyn Clouse,
University of Denvers Daniels College of
Business.
Health care mergers

lead global deal surge
By Linda A. Johnson
and Steve Rothwell
In a big year for deal making, the health

care industry is a standout.
Large drugmakers are buying and selling
businesses to control costs and deploy surplus cash. A rising stock market, tax strategies and low interest rates are also fueling
the mergers and acquisitions.
Its all combining to make 2014 the most
active year for health care deals in at least
two decades. The industry has announced
about $438 billion worth of mergers and
acquisitions worldwide so far, about 14 percent of the $3.2 trillion total for all industries, according to data provider Dealogic.
Overall, M&A is on track for its best year
since 2007, the year before the financial crisis intensified.
Health care has been a sleepy niche of
M&A until recently, but the giant has been
awakened, says Ken Menges, a senior partner handling M&A at law firm Akin Gump in
New York.
To a large extent, the deals are being driven by cost pressure on the entire health
care system, as insurers and government
health plans increasingly hold down or
even reduce reimbursements to drug, device
and service providers, says Ashtyn Evans,
pharmaceutical and biotech analyst with
investment firm Edward Jones in St. Louis,
Missouri.
Companies also are looking to expand
market share, and boost their portfolios in
hot areas such as drugs for cancer and hepatitis C, she says.
Drugmaker Merck & Co., for example,
agreed in June to pay nearly $4 billion for
Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. to combine that
companys hepatitis C medicines with its
own.
Taxes are another reason behind the rush
to the negotiating table.
Some big, U.S. pharmaceutical, biotech
and medical device companies have been

trying to acquire overseas rivals, allowing
them to move their headquarters to a country
with a lower tax rate. The deals also give the
buyer access to billions in overseas profits
to invest in research and development,
without having to bring those profits back
to the U.S. and pay taxes on them.
Medical device maker Medtronics $43
billion acquisition in June of Covidien, a
Dublin, Ireland-based rival, is an example.
For customers, this years deal making
has both benefits and drawbacks.
Patients could see a slight increase in new
medicines and devices over time. Thats
because bigger companies typically have
more money to spend on developing treatments, and have more experience navigating the difficult process of getting products
approved by regulators. But patients could
also have fewer doctor and hospital options
as companies combine to lower costs.
For employees, the mergers could mean
some job losses in areas such as administration and sales, but not in research at drugmakers. Losses at health care providers
would be minimal, if any.
The frenzy of health care M&A has been
good for stocks.
Mergers tend to boost share prices in general. Thats because the acquiring company
typically pays a premium over the market
value of the target stock to ensure that the
deal wins approval from shareholders.
The health care sector has surged 23 percent this year, making it the best-performing industry group in the Standard & Poors
500 index and putting it on track to outperform the broader market for the fourth
straight year.
Private equity firms are investing in small
biotech and pharmaceutical companies
needing billions for research and development. In return, private equity hopes to
profit through initial public offerings of the
companies they invest in, or by selling
them to bigger rivals.
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in season-finale Bulldog Bowl win
M-A wins second CCS title in three years

By Terry Bernal
ting power this season than anyone in the

PAL by far, the senior outside hitter was far
from a one-woman show Saturday night.
Amid a 25-22, 21-25, 25-19, 25-17 victory, the Bears had three players with doubledigit kills; Joos had a match-high 18 while
junior Leanna Collins had 13 and Ally
Ostrow had 12.
It was M-As high level of all-around volleyball which led to the programs second
CCS title in three years though. Sophomore
setter Kirby Knapp ran the surefire offense
with 47 assists. Yet it was the Bears defense
while the defense set the tone early. While
Knapp paced M-A with 11 match digs, senior libero Kaitlin Tavarez matched Joos with
10.
We were all so excited, Tavarez said of
playing in the championship match. We
came out a little sloppy, but we knew thats
not how we play. We had to just focus on our
side of the court, keep it clean and make our
adjustments, and we knew we could win.
Tavarez was the main catalyst in corralling the sloppy play with clutch defense
to set in motion the refined fundamental
Late 49ers magic
Serras repeat
hopes dashed
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Devin Joos was a sophomore at St.

Francis for Menlo-Atherton volleyballs
first ever Central Coast Section title win in
2012.
Now, to cap her 2014 Peninsula Athletic
League Bay Division Most Valuable Player
season, Joos has a crown of her own as topseed M-A (28-3) captured the CCS Division
I championship with a four-set win over No.
3 Homestead (24-14) Saturday at
Independence High School.
One of four seniors on the current squad

along with Kaitlin Tavarez, Ally Ostrow and
Katie Wilcox, Joos is the only one who
wasnt a part of the 2012 championship
team. The Bears reached the semifinals in
2013 during Joos transfer year before
Homestead eventually won the Division I
crown.
This year, however, it was M-As turn.
I felt what they wanted and felt the drive
that they had, Joos said. Last year we didnt do it but it made it all the much better for
us to win [this year].
While Joos featured more explosive hit-
See BEARS, Page 16
By Terry Bernal
By Janie McCauley
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
SANTA CLARA Anquan Boldin knew it

would take one big play by San Franciscos
offense, and he delivered it along with a
helmet-cracking hit that left his defender
down.
Boldin has been speaking for weeks about
this one-game season, and boy did the 49ers
need this win against lowly Washington to
keep their playoff hopes alive. No matter how
they got it done.
Carlos Hyde ran for a go-ahead 4-yard touchdown with 2:59 remaining after Boldins big
gain, and San Francisco barely squeaked by
the Redskins with a 17-13 win Sunday that
kept them in the thick of the playoff chase.
We feel like we are in the playoffs, safety
Antoine Bethea said. Win at all costs.
San Franciscos first-team offense that had
failed to convert a fourth-quarter touchdown all
season finally did so when the 49ers playoff
hopes depended on it.
A fourth-down conversion in their own territory away from losing, the Niners finally capitalized with a rare TD in the final period on the
way to their third straight victory.
San Francisco (7-4) overcame three
turnovers.
Washington coach Jay Gruden won a challenge with 5:36 left that Vernon Davis hadnt
made a first down. San Francisco went for it
and Frank Gore converted the fourth-and-1. On
the next play, Colin Kaepernick hit Boldin for
a 29-yard gain and safety Ryan Clark was
flagged for a 15-yard unnecessary roughness
penalty for his hit on Boldin.
As the play developed, Boldin just reminded
himself catch the ball and protect yourself.
Boldin made a 10-yard reception two plays
later, leading to Hydes score the first TD by
San Franciscos first-team offense in the
fourth quarter this season.
For the past couple weeks youve seen guys
laying it all out on the line, Boldin said.
Kaepernick threw a 30-yard touchdown pass
to Boldin on San Franciscos initial series but
CARY EDMONDSON/USA TODAY SPORTS
See NINERS, Page 15
Despite the 49ers rushing for just 66 yards on the day, Carlos Hyde high-stepped for this 4-yard
touchdown run in the closing minutes to lift the Niners to a 17-13 win over Washington.
It just was not Serras day.

Los Gatos rolled to a 28-0 win in the
Central Coast Section Open Division opener Saturday at Freitas Field at Brady Family
Stadium.
The No. 5-seed Wildcats (9-2) commanded
the second matchup ever with No. 4 Serra (74) from the opening kickoff. What little
went the Padres way quickly turned sour,
resulting in the first time Serra has been
shut out since 2012 and just the second time
it has been shut out in CCS play, the first
time coming in 1978 against Hillsdale.
As the Padres managed only seven first
downs in the game, including just two in the
second half, the devastation of all in the
Serra ranks was obvious well before the
final gun. Still, an emotionally drained
Serra head coach Patrick Walsh was entirely
accommodating to the media following the
game in articulating his players sadness at
the swift end to their quest to repeat as CCS
Open Division champs.
You look at that pain and you ask why
that pain is there, and its because they love
each other, Walsh said.
The Padres got one first down on its opening drive on a 2-yard scramble by quarterback Hunter Bishop. By the time they got
their second one, after a flurry of Wildcats
offense, Los Gatos was leading 14-0.
Los Gatos quarterback Dru Brown threw
for 189 yards in the game, all in the first
half, while going 13 for 22 on the day. The
senior dismantled the Serra blitz with a keen
play-action attack which saw the Padres
consistently over-commit to what seemed
like promising backfield pressure, only to
be trumped by Browns flawless completions to open receivers running short routes
in the flat.
[Los Gatos head coach Mark Krail] just
executed an amazing game and theyre quarterback was fantastic, Walsh said. They
earned their yards and they earned their victory, and Im a Los Gatos fan. Im going to
See SERRA, Page 17
Pressure builds after Pacquiao win for Mayweather

By Tim Dahlberg
MACAU Manny Pacquiao is done taking the high road, tired of pretending he
doesnt care.
At long last he has Floyd Mayweather Jr.
right where he wants him. And this time
hes not about to let him slip away without
a fight.
I think its time to say something,
Pacquiao said Sunday after dispatching
Chris Algieri in convincing fashion in this

Chinese casino town. The fans deserve that
fight. Its time to make that fight happen.
Whether it actually happens, of course,
depends on Mayweather agreeing to sign on
the bottom line. And for the better part of
five years now, Mayweather has given one
excuse after another when it comes to making the one fight boxing fans really want.
He thought Pacquiao might be on
steroids, and refused to deal with his promoter. When Pacquiao got knocked out by
Juan Manuel Marquez, Mayweather said it

wasnt worth his time to even mention his
name.
But now Mayweather may be boxed into a
corner for a number of reasons and from a
number of angles. The pressure will be on to
make the fight sometime in the first half of
next year or forever draw the wrath of the
fans who contribute to his massive paychecks.
And suddenly the prospect of boxings
richest fight ever doesnt seem like such a
far-fetched fantasy after all.

Answer the telephone, its as simple as
that, promoter Bob Arum said when asked
what it would take to make the fight. If
boxing is to be considered a major sport
then the fight has to happen. The nonsense
needs to cease. There are no excuses anymore.
Mayweather opened the door ever so
slightly to the fight after his win over
See BOXING, Page 15
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SPORTS
THE DAILY JOURNAL
CSM holds off Laney

in 10th Bulldog Bowl
By Terry Bernal
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
College of San Mateo continued its dominance in the Bothman Bulldog Bowl with a
30-20 win over Laney College Saturday at
College Heights Stadium.
One of 13 bowl games held by the
California Community College Athletic
Association, it marks the end of a bittersweet season of CSM. The Bulldogs finished the year with a 9-2 record, though
their second loss on the final day of the regular season a 23-7 defeat at the hands of
City College of San Francisco for the Bay 6
League championship cost CSM a berth
in The Four, Bulldogs head coach Bret
Pollacks colloquial phrase for the playoff
bracket of four Northern California postseason qualifiers.
For the second straight year, CSM didnt
qualify for the playoff bracket despite owning one of the top four overall records in
Northern California. Last year the Bulldogs
had the second-best overall record while
this year they had the third.
As a consolation, CSM improved its alltime record in Bulldog Bowl play to 8-1
with a comeback victory over Laney (6-5)
an opponent chosen by the five-person
CCCAA bowl committee, according to
Pollack.
Laney held a 7-0 lead at halftime, but CSM
got its offense rolling with three consecutive touchdowns in the second half to take
the lead for good. The Bulldogs outgained
Laney 412-121 in total yards on the day.
CSM freshman Michael Allen had a careerday out of the backfield. Entering into the
game with 158 yards rushing on the season,
the Jefferson alum ran for a career-high 113
yards on 25 carries. Sophomore Michael

Latu added 94 yards on 11 yards. Laney ran
for a net total of minus-45 yards on the day,
a new CSM record.
Allen entered into the backfield rotation
in the second quarter amid a scoreless tie. He
and quarterback Jeremy Cannon on in
place of starting backup Justin Burgess
moved the ball to the CSM 40-yard line
with just over one minute remaining in the
half. But on third-and-6 with Cannon dropping back to pass, Laneys Demareyeh Lane
blitzed effectively and stripped the ball,
picked it up and ran for a touchdown to stake
Laney to a 7-0 lead.
In the second half, the CSM pass rush
returned the favor by setting up the
Bulldogs first score. Sophomore linebacker
Mosa Likio dropped Laney quarterback Kurt
Palandech on third down, forcing the Eagles
to punt.
With Burgess back at quarterback, CSM
crossed midfield on the first play of the drive
with a 21-yard catch by Kevin Kutchera.
After the run game moved the ball to the
Laney 10-yard line, Burgess connected with
Kutchera for a 10-yard touchdown to tie it.
On the ensuing kickoff, CSM freshman
Keith Marcus came up with a fumble recovery on a strip by Mister Marshall-Cotton.
On the first play of the drive, Burgess found
Kutchera again for a 35-yard touchdown.
Kutchera finished the year with 841
receiving yards and seven touchdown catches. He also had one rushing touchdown Nov.
8 against Diablo Valley.
Sophomore running back Sammy Fanua
added CSMs third score on the opening
drive of the fourth quarter. Latu opened the
drive with a 35-yard run. Allen rushed for
gains of 8 and 5 yards. Latu then advanced
PATRICK NGUYEN
Kevin Kutchera finishes off his second touchdown score Saturday afternoon as the sophomore
helps CSM to its eighth Bulldog Bowl win in nine appearances.
the ball to the Laney 4-yard line with a 15yard run. Fanua punched it in on the next
play to give the Bulldogs a 21-7 lead.
The score loomed large as Laney mounted
a comeback which resulted in a chance to tie
the game. After a 17-yard touchdown reception by Leroy Taylor made it 21-14, the
Eagles Michael Adams blocked a CSM punt
and saw Ryan Gordon recover it to find the
end zone, closing the score to 21-20.
Laneys point-after attempt floated wide left
though to keep CSM in the lead.
The Bulldogs would add to their lead with a
safety on a quarterback sack by Adam
Sagapolu. The sophomore defensive end had
8 1/2 sacks on the season. The Bulldogs had
10 sacks on the day with three from sophomore linebacker Willie Mays. Randy Allen
led the team this season with 9 1/2 sacks,
ranking 14th in the state.

With just over a minute remaining in the
game and Cannon back under center, CSM
marched downfield again. The Bulldogs
advanced by virtue of six straight rushes,
capped by a 15-yard run by Durrell Crooks.
The game and the season ended on
Mays fourth sack of the year.
Likio had a team-high 10 tackles and added
two sacks as the sophomore was named
Bulldog Bowl MVP.
The 10-point margin of victory made for
the closest in a Bulldog Bowl since 2010,
when CSM defeated College of the Sequoias
27-20. Last year, the Bulldogs downed
American River in the season-finale bowl
game 75-9.
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SPORTS
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Warriors ride Speights 28 to outlast Thunder

By Cliff Brunt
left the game with a right knee sprain and

did not return.
The teams shot equally poorly through
three quarters. Both teams made 18 of 46
shots in the first half and 25 of 69 shots
through three quarters, meaning both made
just 7 of 23 in the third quarter.
It was the best win of the year, Kerr
said. It was the ugliest game, but the best
win.
OKLAHOMA CITY Golden State sharpshooters Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson
couldnt find the hoop, and the injurydepleted Thunder were giving the Warriors
all they could handle.
Journeyman forward Marreese Speights
came to the rescue, scoring 28 points to
help the Warriors beat Oklahoma City 9186 on Sunday night. It matched the secondhighest scoring game of Speights career
and was his best total since 2009.
Speights, again, was ridiculous, Warriors
coach Steve Kerr said. He carried the load for
us offensively when we needed it.
Speights had averaged 17 points the previous three games on 64 percent shooting.
Its gotten to the point where his teammates
are no longer surprised when he goes off.
Hes getting an opportunity and playing
confident and showcasing what he can do,
Curry said. It says a lot about him that he
stayed ready, being in and out of the rotation early in the season.
Thompson scored 20 points and Curry
added 15 for the Warriors (10-2), who won
despite shooting a season-low 35.5 percent
from the field. Thompson and Curry, two of
the top 10 scorers in the league, combined
to make just 11 of 35 shots.
Reggie Jackson had 22 points, 11
rebounds and eight assists, and Anthony
Morrow added 16 points and matched a
career high with 12 rebounds for Oklahoma
City. Serge Ibaka scored 16 points, but shot
just 5 of 17 for the Thunder (3-13), who lost
their sixth in a row.
Curry was fouled with 16 seconds left and
the Warriors up by two. Curry, who had made
47 of his first 49 free throws this season,
missed the first and made the second to give
Golden State an 89-86 lead.
Jackson drove and found Andre Roberson,
who missed everything on an open 3-pointer.
Grizzlies 107, Clipper 91
MARK D. SMITH/USA TODAY SPORTS
Leandro Barbosa, left, shuffles past Thunder guard Reggie Jackson in the Warriors 91-86 win
Sunday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena.
I was looking to attack the basket,
Jackson said. I think they got a little
mixed up. Steph came to take a charge and
Andre was wide open, so we made the right
play, trusted him to make the shot and
unfortunately, it didnt go in.
Thompson was fouled and made two free
throws with 5.7 seconds remaining to put
away the game.
Late in the second quarter, Jackson was
fouled on a drive and right-handed dunk, and
he made the free throw to cut what had been
a 10-point Warriors lead to two. Thompson
responded with a 3-pointer, and Golden
State led 52-47 at halftime.
Neither team scored in the second half until
9:12 remained in the third quarter, and the first
field goal came with 7:31 left in the period.

A reverse layup and a floater by Jackson
tied the game at 65. The Thunder took their
first lead on a free throw by Morrow after a
technical foul against Kerr. A three-point
play by Speights with 2.5 seconds left in
the third quarter gave the Warriors a 70-66
lead heading into the fourth quarter.
Kerr said the team might get David Lee
(strained left hamstring) back by the end of
their current road trip, which concludes Nov.
30 at Detroit. Lee last played on Nov. 5.
The Warriors made 7 of 15 3s in the first
half, but missed all 10 in the second half.
Center Andrew Bogut left the game in the
first quarter with a right orbital contusion
and did not return. Guard Leandro Barbosa
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Marc Gasol had 30

points and 12 rebounds to lead the Memphis
Grizzlies to a 107-91 victory over the Los
Angeles Clippers on Sunday night.
Gasol was 13 of 18 from the field as six
Grizzlies reached double figures. Courtney
Lee added 13 points for Memphis, which
maintained the leagues best record (12-2).
Tony Allen had 12 points, while Beno
Udrih and Quincy Pondexter had 11 points
apiece off the Memphis bench. Zach
Randolph had 10 points.
Chris Paul had 22 points, five assists and
four steals for the Clippers, who had their
two-game winning streak snapped.
Nuggets 101, Lakers 94 (OT)

LOS ANGELES Wilson Chandler scored
19 points and Ty Lawson had 16 points and
16 assists, helping the Denver Nuggets beat
the Los Angeles Lakers 101-94 in overtime
on Sunday night.
Arron Afflalo added 15 points for the
Nuggets, who have won five of six following a 1-6 start that was capped by consecutive double-digit losses to Portland.
The Lakers, coming off a 140-106 drubbing at Dallas, began a four-game homestand with their seventh straight loss to the
Nuggets, despite 27 points from Kobe
Bryant. The NBAs No. 4 career scorer made
only four of 14 shots after the third quarter
and finished 10 for 24.
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THE DAILY JOURNAL
BOXING
Strong finish
pays off for Ko
Continued from page 11

Marcos Maidana in September, saying that
he might be open to the possibility of a
fight.
If the Pacquiao fight happens, it happens, Mayweather said. You can ask the
same questions and get the same answers. I
call my own shots.
There remain a number of obstacles to actually making a fight, though, not least is
Mayweathers willingness to risk his
unblemished mark near the end of his career.
There are issues with promoters, TV contracts, purse splits and even legacies.
But Arum has been in exploratory talks
with Les Moonves, the head of CBS Corp.,
which owns the Showtime network that
Mayweather is contractually obligated to for
two more fights.
And the fact is that both fighters have pretty much run out of opponents that boxing
fans will pay good money for pay-per-view
to see. That wouldnt be the case in a
megafight that would break all records and
make both fighters paydays far more than the
$20 million to 30 million theyve routinely
been getting for fights.
I get asked about it wherever I go, Arum
said of a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight. If Im
on a plane the person next to me will ask me.
I go to the restroom, and the attendant asks
me.
Neither fighter is the same as he was five
years ago, when the clamor first began for
the fight. Age has taken a toll, if ever so
slightly, on their reflexes and speed.
But they both have plenty left, as Pacquiao
NINERS
did little else offensively to break open what
was expected to be a lopsided game. San
Francisco was a nine-point favorite in the
opening betting line.
Boldin, who caught a pair of touchdown
passes in a win at Washington last November,
finished with nine catches for a season-high
137 yards.
Now, the Niners have a quick turnaround
before facing the rival and defending Super
Bowl champion Seahawks (7-4) at home
Thursday night. Seattle won at home against
Arizona on Sunday.
49ers coach Jim Harbaugh planned to get
back to work right away preparing.
By Doug Ferguson
TYRONE SIU/REUTERS
Manny Pacquiao, left, said fans deserve a showdown between he and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
showed when he knocked Algieri down six
times on his way to a decision so lopsided
that they were measuring it in terms of touchdowns and field goals.
The man is exactly what he was billed as,
Algieri said after Pacquiao cut short his
Rocky story in front of Sylvester Stallone
himself. Hes a great champion and one of
the great fighters of his era.
Algieris game plan was to weather the
storm early against Pacquiao and try to win
the fight late, but he did not implement it
well. Algieri ran most of the fight and was
unwilling to exchange with Pacquiao, and
was out of the bout before it reached the
fourth round.
It was a signature win for Pacquiao, one he

needed badly. His own plan was to show he
still has power after going five years without
a knockout and he kept putting Algieri down
even if he could not finally put him away.
Afterward, Pacquiao stood in the ring and
mimicked a Foot Locker commercial he stars
in, where he jumps up and down and excitedly cries out Hes going to fight me? Yes!
Yes!
Not so fast, maybe. A lot of things would
still have to happen to make the fight actually happen. The chances of it falling apart are
still greater than it coming together.
But it may be time for boxing fans to start
getting at least a little bit excited, too.
Kai Forbath kicked a 46-yard field goal with

7:42 to go that put Washington ahead. Alfred
Morris ran for a season-best 125 yards and a 1yard touchdown for the Redskins (3-8), who
lost their third in a row and fourth straight to
the 49ers.
Gruden didnt appreciate quarterback Robert
Griffin IIIs comments he considered critical
of teammates in the wake of a 27-7 loss to
Tampa Bay, but everybody seemed to move
forward from the franchise turmoil.
Were not getting any moral victories, nor
are we looking for any, Gruden said. Were
all very upset with the outcome of the game,
because we had a great opportunity.
These up-and-down 49ers struggled to put
away a losing team at home. Again. They
already lost to St. Louis at new $1.3 billion
Levis Stadium in their last home game, 13-10
on Nov. 2.
Gore fumbled with just more than 10 minutes left and Phillip Thomas recovered to give
the Redskins first and 10 at the 49ers 37.
The Niners seemed to have gained some nice

momentum from road wins at New Orleans and
at the Giants the past two weeks only to nearly squander it with sloppy play.
Hyde redeemed himself with the late TD after
fumbling the first play of the second quarter.
Kaepernick also threw an interception as
Washingtons Greg Ducre made his first pick
midway through the third quarter.
Forbath kicked a tying 27-yard field goal in
the final minute of the third quarter. The
Redskins got a big break on that scoring
drive.
Griffin got sacked and rookie Aaron Lynch
was flagged for roughing the passer for a helmet-to-helmet hit. That gave
Washington first down on the
49ers 16 and set up Forbaths
field goal.
Aldon Smith exploited
Washington rookie left tackle
Morgan Moses and sacked
Griffin III twice. San
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NAPLES, Fla. New Zealand teenager

Lydia Ko ended her rookie year on the
LPGA Tour with the biggest payoff in
womens golf.
Ko won the $1 million bonus from the
inaugural Race to CME Globe on Sunday
by getting into a three-way playoff. Then,
the 17-year-old added an extra $500,000
when she defeated Carlota Ciganda of Spain
on the fourth extra hole at Tiburon Golf
Club to win the CME Group Tour
Championship.
Ko made par all five times she played the
18th hole on Sunday, and the last one paid
handsomely.
Its been an awesome week, and a week
that Ill never forget, Ko said. When I saw
that $1 million in the box, I was like,
Wow, I wonder who the winner of that will
be? Its amazing. Ive never seen that much
cash in one place before.
Only the tournament earnings counted
toward the money list. The $500,000 from
her third victory of the year made Ko the
first LPGA Tour rookie to surpass $2 million
in one season.
Ciganda and Julieta Granada of Paraguay
certainly helped Kos cause.
Granada, who closed with a 1-under 71,
was the first to exit the playoff when she
three-putted from just off the 18th green. Her
5-foot par putt spun in and out of the cup.
Francisco had five total sacks after getting six
against him in a win last November.
This team is going to fight. Were going to
fight until the end, Kaepernick said.
Notes: Kaepernick threw a TD pass in his
18th straight game, tying the the longest
streak by a QB in franchise history with Hall
of Famer Steve Young from Oct. 9, 1994-Nov.
26, 95. ... Redskins CB E.J. Biggers left in
the first quarter with concussion symptoms,
while LB Adam Hayward left with a right knee
injury and CB Tracy Porter with a hurt right
shoulder. ... Moses started in place of the
injured Trent Williams.
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SPORTS
BEARS
machine that is M-A volleyball.
The third-year senior had two digs
and eight serve receives in Game 1.
We really pride ourselves on
our passing and our defense, M-A
head coach Ron Whitmill said.
We think we can be better than
anybody we play against in those
areas. So, for her to come and kind
of set the tone, dig balls, make
some plays on defense really
helped us.
Game 1 went down to the wire
and Homestead took an early 6-5
lead. But Joos produced back-toback kills to swing the advantage.
The Mustangs kept pace but, with
M-A leading 8-7, Tavarez kept a
rally alive by digging a serve
return with a high-handed backrow bump; the rally was later punctuated by sophomore middle
blocker Eliza Grovers first of four
match blocks.
The point inspired a Bears
blocking spree. M-A extended its
lead to a comfortable margin with
junior opposite hitter Rachel
Gerber and Joos notching back-toback roofs to give the Bears an 117 lead. Tavarez followed with a difficult serve receive which Knapp
set for a textbook Joos kill to go
up 12-8.
Then Collins and Ostrow got
cooking from the outside to balance M-As offense. When
Homestead came roaring back
behind the front-row play of senior Connor Bunka to overcome a
5-point deficit and tie it at 19-19,
Ostrow answered with her fourth
kill of the set to give M-A a 20-19
edge. A Joos kill followed to maintain the lead at 21-20.
Tied at 22-22 after a service ace
by Homesteads Sofia Olsson, a
steady serve receive by Tavarez
got M-As offense in system for
another Knapp set for Joos, who
produced her sixth kill of the game
to give the Bears the lead for good
at 23-22. Knapp followed with
two straight service points to end
it, giving the Bears a 1-0 lead in
the match.
Once we got into the flow, we
knew we could win this game,
Tavarez said. If we play our hearts
out then we can do anything.
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Kaitlin Tavarez was essential to Menlo-Athertons CCS Division I

championship win Saturday. The senior liberos spectacular defensive
performance in Game 1 set the tone for the four-set victory over 2013
champion Homestead. The title is M-As second in three years.
Tavarez knows as well as anybody the heart of the Homestead
team though. When the club volleyball season starts up following
the high school postseason,
Tavarez
will
team
with
Homesteads killer Bs
Bunka, Katie Barker and Maria
Balus on the City Beach 18Black team.
Homestead got back into the
match with a Game 2 victory
behind the offense of Barker and
Balus, trading leads early until the
Mustangs broke a 12-12 tie. M-A
later clawed back from an 18-15
deficit with a Joos kill, followed
by a Homestead error to tie it 1818. But the Mustangs outscored
the Bears 7-3 late in the set to

even the match at 1-1.
But M-A answered with a depth
of sophomores, showing how an
influx of new talent can help to
sustain a dynasty with a trio of
sophomore serving sensations
Kiana Sales, Alexa Roumeliotis
and Jacqueline DiSanto producing from the service line. Coming
off a semifinal performance in
which DiSanto scored 12 straight
service points during a sweep
against San Benito, she had one of
four M-A aces in Game 3 against
Homestead.
We have a couple kids like that
who fly under the radar, Whitmill
said. They might not be great hit-
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ters, or setters or whatever. But
just pure volleyball players,
[DiSanto] might be the best volleyball player on our team.
Ostrow scored a kill to give the
Bears an early 5-4 lead in the set
and Collins followed with a kill
which Homestead looked to dig
effectively until it volleyed high
into the rafters and ultimately fell
for a critical M-A point. The Bears
would remain in charge from there.
Sales scored back-to-back aces to
up the lead to 10-5. DiSantos ace
later extended the lead to 20-11.
Joos was the Game 3 closer with
back-to-back kills to force set
point before tabbing her second
match block to end it, giving M-A
a pivotal 2-1 match lead.
In Game 4, Homstead jumped out
to an early lead behind an explosive showing by Barker. The 6-1
senior tabbed six of her team-high
17 match kills in the set. With the
Mustangs holding a 5-2 advantage, however, M-A came roaring
back. Collins scorched a kill to
get DiSanto to the service line
trailing by 2. The sophomore
promptly delivered her fourth
match ace to close Homesteads
lead to 5-4. Grover followed with a
block to tie it.
M-A soon took a decisive 7-6
lead on a Homestead unforced
error. On the following point,
Grover won a 50-50 ball which
Roumeliotis finished with a backrow kill. And with M-As slight
lead, the offense fed off the
momentum.
One of the things we always
preach is lets not be in a hurry
to end the game, Whitmill said.
Stay focused, play every point;
and whether were ahead or behind,
we try to approach the game the
same way and play the same way.
Its not always that easy to do. It
takes a certain level of maturity to
be able to do that. But I think
these girls are mature beyond their
years.
The intensity of sensing the
title only made the Bears sharpshooters sharper. Collins later
fired one of her five set kills to
increase the lead to 15-10. An
Ostrow kill made it 20-13. Joos
again emerged as the closer with
two late kills to force match point
before an unforced error by
Homestead sealed the Bears championship.
The post-match scene saw a
manic dog pile, though it quickly
turned serious when Gerber was

injured in the celebration. The junior has emerged as a key component of M-As starting lineup at
middle blocker, taking over since
the midway point of the season
after Wilcox went on the disabled
list.
I think in the celebration,
[Gerber] was on the ground.
Someone came down on her and
kind of tweaked her knee,
Whitmill said. I think shes OK.
After winning his second title in
three years at the M-A helm,
Whitmill praised the fundamentals
of his teams play.
Wh en we di g s b al l s , we
p as s , t h at s wh at g et s us
g o i n g as a t eam, Wh i t mi l l
s ai d. It s n o t real l y h i t t i n g
o r an y o f t h e t h i n g s l i k e
t h at .
Th e h i t t i n g h as cert ai n l y
s us t ai n ed t h e Bears t h o ug h .
Co l l i n s h as b een a remark ab l e co mp l i men t t o J o o s al l
s eas o n . Th e j un i o r was a
h i g h -fl y i n g
s p ect acl e
Sat urday. Co l l i n s s ai d s h e
recen t l y t o uch ed 9 feet , 8
i n ch es wi t h h er v ert i cal l eap ,
wh i ch i s a s o l i d meas ure fo r a
6 -fo o t j un i o r. Wh at mak es h er
l eap s o un i quel y effect i v e,
t h o ug h , i s s h e i s ab l e t o g en erat e max i mum h i t t i n g p o wer
an d p reci s i o n at t h e ap ex o f
h er j ump .
[Co l l i n s ] mak es my l i fe s o
much eas i er, J o o s s ai d. Me
an d h er j us t s p l i t ev ery t h i n g
p erfect l y. Sh e adds s o much
b ecaus e s h es j us t awes o me t o
wo rk wi t h .
Co l l i n s s ai d wh at s et s ap art
J o o s i s h er ab i l i t y as a s i x ro t at i o n p l ay er.
[J o o s ] i s j us t amazi n g ,
Co l l i n s s ai d. Sh e wo rk s s o
h ard t o o . Sh e p l ay s al l t h e
way aro un d, wh i ch I t h i n k i s a
real l y i mp o rt an t p art o f v o l l ey b al l . Yo u do n t s ee t o o
man y g i rl s l i k e h er t h at can do
ev ery t h i n g real l y wel l .
Wi t h t h e wi n , M-A wi l l h o s t
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tough competition, Collins said.
But were excited to face those
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Left: Sitaleki Nunn scrambles past a Los Gatos

defense that allowed just 84 rushing yards
Saturday. Above: Wildcats QB Dru Brown
throws on the run on a day the senior helped
his team advance to the CCS Open Division
semifinals by completing 13 of 22 passes for
189 yards.
SERRA
start routing for those guys. They did an awesome job.
After Serra punted on the games opening
possession, Brown immediately set a tempo
with a 9-yard completion to Evan Warkov.
Brown went on to complete passes of 13 and
20 yards, the latter coming on a key thirdand-9 play from the Serra 23-yard line.
Senior tight end Dylan Plane ran a post pattern for the crucial catch, which he made in
tight double coverage with a picturesque

high-handed catch on a perfect delivery from
Brown.
Two plays later, Brown powered into the
end zone on a quarterback sneak to give the
Wildcats a 7-0 lead.
I think we did a really good job of setting
up the play-action pass with our run game,
Brown said. Our O-line did a great job on
first and second down. But when we dug ourselves in a hole, we still could go play
action off of it.
Following a three-and-out by Serra, Brown
executed the play-action pass to a tee on one
of the most important plays of the game. On
second-and-8 from the Los Gatos 42-yard
Galaxy downs Seattle in West opener
MLS playoffs
CARSON Marcelo Sarvas scored in the

52nd minute, and the LA Galaxy opened the
Western Conference championship with a 1-0
victory over the Seattle Sounders on Sunday.
Jaime Penedo posted his third straight
shutout for the Galaxy, who still havent conceded a playoff goal this season.
The clubs play their second leg Nov. 30 on
Seattles artificial turf. The Galaxy could
advance with a variety of results, since the
tiebreaker is away goals.
The winner hosts the MLS Cup on Dec. 7.
Revs down Red Bulls in East final

HARRISON, N.J. Jermaine Jones finished a counter attack the 85th minute with
a tap-in and gave the New England
Revolution a 2-1 victory Sunday in the first
leg of the MLS Eastern Conference finals.
The result gives the Revolution a signifi
cant advantage heading home for the second
leg of the aggregate-goals series on
Saturday at Gillette Stadium.
Jones knocked in a cross inside the six
from Teal Bunbury, who sent the ball across

from the right after Lee Nguyen started the
break in midfield. Bunbury gave the
Revolution the lead early and Bradley
Wright-Phillips equalized midway through
the first half.
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP
Eastern Conference
New England vs. New York
Leg 1 New England 2 New York 1
Leg 2 Saturday, Nov. 29: New York at
New England, 12 p.m.
Western Conference
Seattle vs. LA Galaxy
Leg 1 LA Galaxy 1, Seattle 0
Leg 2 Sunday, Nov. 30: LA Galaxy at
Seattle, 6 p.m.
MLS CUP
Sunday, Dec. 7: New England-New York
winner at LA Galaxy-Seattle winner, 12 p.m.
line, Brown dropped back to pass. Two Serra

blitzes stormed the backfield, with senior
middle linebacker James Outman closing
fast. Brown bided his time until just before
Outman hit him then threw a short screen
pass to running back Joey Wood, who took
the ball behind a wall of Los Gatos blockers
and broke free for a 58-yard touchdown.
They drew the defense and drew the
defense, Walsh said. It was like [Brown]
wanted that to happen. It was like he wanted
to get caught, if you will.
Los Gatos got the ball back again with
2:26 remaining in the first quarter, but Serra
got one of its few boosts of the game when
outside linebacker Justin Tatola stripped the
17
ball on a sweep play which Marco Mosqueda

recovered at the Los Gatos 41-yard line.
Our defense focuses a lot on takeaways,
Outman said. Thats a big part of our game,
to get momentum for the offense.
Serra couldnt move the ball, but pinned
Los Gatos in its own territory on the following possession. The Wildcats soon had to
punt from their own 21-yard line, giving
Serra another chance in Los Gatos territory.
The Padres advanced for their best field
position of the day to the Wildcats 34-yard
line. But on first down, Bishop was flushed
from the pocket and looked to throw as he
neared the sideline. With his arm moving
forward in a passing motion, he hesitated
and lost control of the ball. The play was
ruled a fumble, which Los Gatos recovered.
Emotionally we were just trying to flip
the momentum switch and (were) starting to
get that belief, Walsh said. Then they
drove on a very good defense. So, hats off to
them as well.
The six-play, 65-yard Los Gatos drive was
punctuated by Brown, who fired a pass to
Matt Wilcox for a backbreaker of a touchdown and a 21-0 lead. The Wildcats scored
their last touchdown midway through the
third quarter on a 1-yard run by Wood, who
paced all rushers with 90 yards on 17 carries.
With the win, Los Gatos advances to the
Open Division semifinals to face top-seed
Sacred Heart Prep, after the undefeated Gators
won handily over No. 8 Oak Grove 37-13.
[The Gators] are a great team, but were
not bad, Brown said. I think we can compete with anyone.
For Serra, the season continues through
the consolation bracket to face Palma Friday
at Rabobank Stadium in Salinas. Kickoff is
scheduled for 2 p.m.
Walsh took solace in Serras co-West
Catholic Athletic League championship
with Valley Christian this season.
Its really hard to win the WCAL, Walsh
said. We really fought through a lot of
chaos, a lot of adversity this year. We have
years like that where you have nothing to
show for it. Winning the West Catholic
Athletic League is something to be really,
really proud of.
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SPORTS
FOOTBALL
Sacred Heart Prep
advances in Open Division
The top-seed in the CCS Open
Division, Sacred Heart Prep (11-0)
rallied for 28 first-half points and
went on to down Oak Grove (7-4)
by a score of 37-13 in Saturdays
playoff opener at SHP.
Gators senior Ben Burr-Kirven
rushed for a game-high 200 yards
and added two touchdowns. SHP
rushed for 320 yards on the day.
Out of the middle linebacker
position, Burr-Kirven also totaled
14 tackles.
With the win, the Gators
advance to Saturdays semifinal
round against Los Gatos at
Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.
M-A, HMB eliminated

Menlo-Atherton fell in the CCS
Division I bracket last Friday with
a 41-8 loss to top-seed Salinas.
The No. 8 Bears closed their season with a 3-8 record.
In the CCS Division IV bracket,
Carmel defeated Half Moon Bay
42-14 Saturday evening at Pacific
Grove. The Cougars close the year
with a 7-4 record.
In the CCS Division III bracket,
No. 3 Burlingame defeated No. 6
Aragon 21-7. Burlingame (10-1)
advanced to Fridays semifinals to
take on host No. 2 Aptos (10-1) at
7 p.m.
CCS playoffs
WATER POLO
Gators are the champions
Sacred Heart Prep swept the
boys and girls Central Coast
Section Division II finals. The
top-seed Gators boys (25-4) triumphed 10-6 over No. 2 Menlo
(23-7) Saturday morning at
Earlier in the day, the top-seed
Gators girls (23-6) rolled to a 154 win over No. 2 Soquel (24-4).
The Gators boys were led by
Michael Swarts four goals. Nelson
Perla Ward and Jackson Enright each
had two goals. Finn Banks and Alex
Tsotadze scored one apiece.
Goalkeeper J.C. Marco had 10 saves.
Menlo goalie Spencer Witte totaled
15 saves. The Knights were paced by
Andreas Katsis and Weston Avery with
two goals apiece. Nick Bisconti and
James Thygesen each had one goal.
The Gators girls got multi-goal performances from five players. Layla
Waters had a team-high four goals.
Megan Anderson and Maddy Johnston
had three each, Malaika Koshy and
Maddie Pendolino had two apiece, and
Meg Avery scored one. Goalie Emily
Riley had 10 saves.
GIRLS TENNIS
VOLLEYBALL
Menlo keeps rolling
NDB wins Division IV crown
In state tourney action, Menlo

advanced to the semifinals of the
Northern California Regional
Girls Tennis Championships with
a 7-0 win over Chino last Friday
at the Natomas Racquet Club in
Sacramento.
The Knights will resume team
play in the Nor Cal tourney
Wednesday against Mirramonte.
Start time at the Fremont Tennis
Center is slated for 3 p.m. The
championship is scheduled for
later that evening at 6 p.m.
In the other semifinal bracket,
St. Francis will take on Monte
Vista. That sets up a potential
rematch of the Central Coast
Section team championship
match between Menlo and St.
Francis, which Menlo won last
Tuesday.
Notre Dame Belmont head coach

Jen Agresti took her first varsity
coaching post three years ago
with the Tigers in an attempt to
return the program to prominence.
At the latest, if not sooner,
Agresti accomplished the goal
this season, which culminated in
top-seed Notre Dame capturing the
CCS Division IV crown with a
sweep of No. 2 Harker 28-26, 2416, 25-16 Saturday morning at
Independence High School
The kids played good volleyball, Agresti said. It was great.
Harker is scrappy and they were
just getting everything, but we
were ultimately able to terminate
the ball.
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Stanford sweeps Colorado to set program record

STAFF AND WIRE REPORT
Since NCAA volleyballs opening week, when Stanford defeated

2013 national champion Penn
State, the Cardinal have reigned at
the No. 1-ranked team in the
nation.
Saturday at Maples Pavilion, the
Cardinal scored their fourth consecutive sweep in Pac-12 play and,
more importantly, their 28th
straight victory. With it, Stanford
set a new program record for the
most wins to start a season.
Stanford won
the match 2517, 25-18, 2513 behind outside
hitter
Jordan Burgess
16th
doubledouble of the
year. The junior
Jordan Burgess totaled 13 kills
and 14 digs.
Junior middle blocker Inky
Ajanaku had four blocks. Junior
setter Madi Bugg had 33 assists.
NHL GLANCE
NFL GLANCE
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT
Montreal 23 16 6 1
Tampa Bay 22 14 6 2
Boston
22 13 9 0
Detroit
20 10 5 5
Toronto
21 11 8 2
Ottawa
19 9 6 4
Florida
18 7 5 6
Buffalo
21 6 13 2
Pts
33
30
26
25
24
22
20
14
GF
61
77
57
55
67
52
40
36
GA
57
60
54
49
63
50
47
70
Metropolitan Division
GP W L OT
Pittsburgh 19 13 4 2
N.Y. Islanders20 14 6 0
N.Y. Rangers 20 9 7 4
Washington 20 9 8 3
New Jersey 21 9 9 3
Philadelphia 19 8 9 2
Carolina
20 6 11 3
Columbus 20 6 12 2
Pts
28
28
22
21
21
18
15
14
GF
69
68
57
56
53
57
48
49
GA
44
57
58
54
61
60
62
72
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L
St. Louis
21 14 6
Nashville
20 13 5
Chicago
21 12 8
Winnipeg 22 10 9
Minnesota 19 11 8
Dallas
21 8 9
Colorado 21 7 9
OT
1
2
1
3
0
4
5
Pts
29
28
25
23
22
20
19
GF
57
57
63
45
54
61
53
GA
43
42
44
51
43
72
67
Pacific Division
GP W L OT
Anaheim 22 13 4 5
Vancouver 21 14 6 1
Calgary
22 13 7 2
Los Angeles 21 11 6 4
Sharks
23 10 9 4
Arizona
22 9 11 2
Edmonton 21 6 13 2
Pts
31
29
28
26
24
20
14
GF
60
65
71
57
62
54
49
GA
54
61
61
49
64
67
74
Sundays Games
St. Louis 4, Winnipeg 2
N.Y. Rangers 5, Montreal 0
Anaheim 2, Arizona 1
Vancouver 4, Chicago 1
Mondays Games
Pittsburgh at Boston, 4 p.m.
Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m.
Ottawa at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.
Minnesota at Florida, 4:30 p.m.
NBA GLANCE
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T
New England
9 2 0
Miami
6 5 0
Buffalo
5 5 0
N.Y. Jets
2 8 0
Pct
.818
.545
.500
.200
PF
357
285
200
174
PA
227
219
204
265
South
Indianapolis
Houston
Tennessee
Jacksonville
W
7
5
2
1
L T
4 0
6 0
9 0
10 0
Pct
.636
.455
.182
.091
PF
333
242
192
161
PA
256
226
293
305
North
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Baltimore
W
7
7
7
6
L
3
4
4
4
T
1
0
0
0
Pct
.682
.636
.636
.600
PF
246
288
242
261
PA
234
263
219
181
West
Denver
Kansas City
San Diego
Raiders
W
8
7
7
1
L T
3 0
4 0
4 0
10 0
Pct
.727
.636
.636
.091
PF
332
261
245
176
PA
260
195
216
285
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T
Philadelphia
8 3 0
Dallas
8 3 0
N.Y. Giants
3 8 0
Washington
3 8 0
Pct
.727
.727
.273
.273
PF PA
342 275
292 240
233 294
217 273
South
New Orleans
Atlanta
Carolina
Tampa Bay
W
4
4
3
2
L
6
7
7
9
T
0
0
1
0
Pct
.400
.364
.318
.182
PF
261
262
215
207
PA
252
281
300
300
North
Green Bay
Detroit
Chicago
Minnesota
W
8
7
5
4
L
3
4
6
7
T
0
0
0
0
Pct
.727
.636
.455
.364
PF
354
197
236
202
PA
246
190
303
244
Arizona
Seattle
49ers
St. Louis
9
7
7
4
2
4
4
7
0
0
0
0
.818 240 195

.636 279 218
.636 228 225
.364 209 285
Thursday, Nov. 20
Oakland 24, Kansas City 20
Sunday, Nov. 23
Green Bay 24, Minnesota 21
Cincinnati 22, Houston 13
Chicago 21, Tampa Bay 13
Cleveland 26, Atlanta 24
Philadelphia 43, Tennessee 24
New England 34, Detroit 9
Indianapolis 23, Jacksonville 3
N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, ppd., snow
Seattle 19, Arizona 3
San Diego 27, St. Louis 24
San Francisco 17, Washington 13
Denver 39, Miami 36
Dallas 31, N.Y. Giants 28
Open: Carolina, Pittsburgh
Monday, Nov. 24
N.Y. Jets vs. Buffalo @ Detroit, 4 p.m.
Baltimore at New Orleans, 5:30 p.m.
No. 19 Colorado was led by senior Taylor Simpson, who had a

double-double as well, tabbing 12
kills and 10 digs.
With two regular-season matches remaining until NCAA Field of
64 play begins Dec. 5, the
Cardinal have clinched at least a
share of the Pac-12 title. Their
magic number is now 1, with road
games remaining against No. 5
Washington on Wednesday and the
regular-season finale Friday afternoon at Cal.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
Toronto
11
Brooklyn
5
Boston
4
New York
4
Philadelphia
0
Southeast Division
W
Washington
9
Miami
8
Atlanta
6
Orlando
6
Charlotte
4
Central Division
W
Chicago
8
Milwaukee
7
Cleveland
5
Indiana
5
Detroit
3
L
2
8
8
10
13
Pct
.846
.385
.333
.286
.000
GB
6
6 1/2
7 1/2
11
L
3
6
5
9
10
Pct
.750
.571
.545
.400
.286
GB
2
2 1/2
4 1/2
6
L
5
7
7
8
10
Pct
.615
.500
.417
.385
.231
GB
1 1/2
2 1/2
3
5
Pct
.857
.769
.714
.692
.583
GB
1 1/2
2
2 1/2
4
Pct
.769
.462
.357
.250
.200
GB
4
5 1/2
6 1/2
8
.833
.643
.615
.583
.214
2
2 1/2
3
8
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Memphis
12
2
Houston
10
3
Dallas
10
4
San Antonio
9
4
New Orleans
7
5
Northwest Division
W
L
Portland
10
3
Denver
6
7
Utah
5
9
Minnesota
3
9
Oklahoma City
3
12
Pacific Division
Warriors
10
2
Phoenix
9
5
Sacramento
8
5
L.A. Clippers
7
5
L.A. Lakers
3
11
Sundays Games
Memphis 107, L.A. Clippers 91
Miami 94, Charlotte 93
Portland 94, Boston 88
Golden State 91, Oklahoma City 86
Denver 101, L.A. Lakers 94, OT
Mondays Games
Portland at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Charlotte, 4 p.m.
Orlando at Cleveland, 4 p.m.
Phoenix at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.
New York at Houston, 5 p.m.
Indiana at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.
Chicago at Utah, 6 p.m.
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Mockingjay, Part 1 opens with $123 million

By Jake Coyle
of Mockingjay rolled in Friday suggested a

weekend take below expectations, Lions
Gate Entertainments stock dipped 5 percent.
But the decision to split the final book in
Suzanne Collins dystopian trilogy into two
films was clearly lucrative for Lionsgate.

Mockingjay did even better overseas,
where it made $152 million over the weekend, accounting altogether for a $275 million global opening.
Its the biggest opening of the year, so it
really illustrates the strength of the franchise, said David Spitz, head of distribution
for Lionsgate, noting the North American
opening was the 15th best ever.
Spitz declined to answer questions about
Wall Streets reaction to the opening, or
what the effect may have been of splitting
the third book in two.
It speaks for itself, Spitz said of the
result.
Dividing the book pushed much of the big
drama of Mockingjay to the second film,
scheduled for release in November 2015. On
the same November weekend in 2010, Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
which similarly split the series last book
Please also consider trimming trees outside your home this holiday season or
winter. Far too often, local residents who
have their outside trees trimmed in the
spring harm local wildlife which have
nesting babies in those trees. We know
this because they bring the orphaned or
injured animals to us: its part of our mission to care for sick, injured and orphaned
wildlife. Another approach is to not prune
trees at all. A growing number of arborists
believe pruning actually harms trees and
suggest pruning only to remove dead or
diseased branches. We have an exception
to this: we recommend that homeowners
trim trees when the tree branches give
wildlife access to your roof where they can
enter attics, chimneys, open windows

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ground. Moving back inside your house
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might tear into the Sees candies wrapped
under your tree or left out on the coffee
table or counter. Chocolate, as most
know, spells trouble for your pets if
ingested can lead to an expensive trip to
the emergency clinic. Walnuts, poinsettias, holly and mistletoe are also toxic or
harmful to pets if ingested. The sappy
NEW YORK Mockingjay, Part 1 didnt catch fire like the previous installments
of The Hunger Games, but it still had the
biggest opening of the year with $123 million at the weekend box office, according to
studio estimates Sunday.
Lionsgates Mockingjay opened well
below the $158 million debut of last years
Hunger Games: Catching Fire and the $153
million opening of the 2012 original. But
even with a $30-million-plus slide in the
franchise, Mockingjay far surpassed the
previous top weekend of the year: the $100
million debut of Transformers: Age of
Extinction.
The result made for some unusual ironies.
The biggest opening of the year (and by a
wide margin) was seen by some as a disappointment. After initial box office receipts
n a few weeks, many of you will be

trimming a tree inside your home
when you get other holiday decorations out of storage to deck your halls.
REUTERS
Jennifer Lawrence poses at the premiere of

Mockingjay, Part 1 in Los Angeles.
WHERE THE READY GET READY
Top 10 movies
1.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1,
$123 million ($152 million international).
2. Big Hero 6,$20.1 million ($7 million international).
3. Interstellar,$15.1 million ($70 million international).
4. Dumb and Dumber To, $13.8 million
($6.5 million international).
5. Gone Girl, $2.8 million ($2.4 million international).
6. Beyond the Lights, $2.6 million.
7. St. Vincent, $2.4 million.
8. Fury, $1.9 million ($11 million).
9. Birdman, $1.9 million.
10. The Theory of Everything,$1.5 million.
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Elks Lodge member John Swan, left, Marvi Santos, a volunteer at St.Vincent de Pauls Homeless
Help Center, and Elks Lodge member Roger Cutler after the San Mateo Elks Lodge donated
mens and womens clothing Nov. 20.The group collected undershirts, underwear, socks and
large cans of tuna and mayonnaise for the San Mateo nonprofit.
National Rifle Association Instructor Mike Norton directs student Monica Belli during the NRA
Basic Pistol Class held Nov. 15 and 16 at Coyote Point Rifle and Pistol Club in San Mateo.
Information about upcoming classes can be found on the Club website,
http://www.coyotepointrpc.org/training.
Ari and Rachael Nepon, of Woodside, gave

birth to a baby boy at Sequoia Hospital in
Redwood City on Nov. 5, 2014.
David and Marit Snowball, of Redwood City,

gave birth to a baby girl at Sequoia Hospital
in Redwood City on Nov. 6, 2014.
Gaganpreet Shah and Divya Kaur, of Union

City, gave birth to a baby boy at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Nov. 11, 2014.
Ruperto and Jessica Mercado, of San Mateo,

gave birth to a baby boy at Sequoia Hospital
Benjamin and Lisette Kimes, of San Carlos,

Victor Munoz and Jeannine Madere, of

Hayward, gave birth to a baby boy at Sequoia
Hospital in Redwood City on Nov. 12, 2014.
Gregory Mayer and Brandie Berlin, of San

Mateo, gave birth to a baby boy at Sequoia
Jack
and Denise Shaw, of San Carlos, gave birth to a baby girl at Sequoia
Albert and Ivy Boado, of Daly City, gave birth

to a baby boy at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Nov. 9, 2014.
Jeffrey Patheal and Lisa Rying, of Mountain View, gave birth to a baby boy at Sequoia
Aleksandr and Lauren Sutkin, of Redwood

City, gave birth to a baby boy at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Nov. 15, 2014.
Jin Han and Erin Smith, of Redwood City,

Akhil Aggarwal and Sakshi Goyal, of San

Mateo, gave birth to a baby girl at Sequoia
Jordan and Samantha Stepp, of San Mateo,

Jose Lopez and Karina Valverde, of Menlo

Park, gave birth to a baby boy at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Nov. 6, 2014.
Brian and Jennifer Bishop, of Los Altos, gave

birth to a baby girl at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Nov. 10, 2014.
Aaron and Cindy Aknin, of San Carlos, gave

birth to a baby girl at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City on Nov. 13, 2014.
Brian and Janet Zabel, of Redwood City,

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1D, Katy Perry win big at American Music Awards

By Mesfin Fekadu
American girls love British

boys: One Direction won artist of
the year at the American Music
Awards, taking home three honors
and was the nights big winner
next to Katy Perry, who didnt
attend the show.
One Direction also won favorite
band, duo or group pop/rock
and favorite album pop/rock for
Midnight Memories at the fanvoted show on Sunday night.
This has been a real perfect day
... America feels like a second
home to us, Liam Payne said
onstage with his band mates when
they won the nights first award.
The group released its new album,
Four, last week.
Perry won three honors as well,
including single of the year for
No. 1 hit Dark Horse, favorite
female artist pop/rock and
favorite artist adult contemporary.
Though she was absent shes
REUTERS
One Direction accept the award for artist of the year during the 42nd
American Music Awards in Los Angeles.
on tour in Australia the 2014
AMAs was still jam-packed with
star power at the Nokia Theatre
L.A. Live. Breakthrough newcomer Iggy Azalea, who was the top
nominee with six, won favorite
album rap/hip-hop for The
FUEL
less a gallon when a full 9,000 gallons
is delivered because it must be transported from Canada. Most training aircraft at the airport burn 8 gallons an
hour so at 50 flights hours a month,
pilots are saving $400 in that same
period, said DeMeo, himself a pilot
and user of unleaded fuel.
The airport predicts initial demand
for unleaded fuel will be lower than the
low-lead type because a majority of
piston engine aircraft parked there
arent certified on the former, according to Freda Manuel, the countys real
property services manager, in a report
to the Board of Supervisors.
But DeMeo said converting is cost
effective because the paperwork costs
run less than $200.
HISTORY
In 1936, the Great Depression was in
full swing and jobs were nonexistent.
The federal government authorized the
building of a Streamline Moderne (late
art deco) building that became the centerpiece of the Aquatic Park Historic
District in the vicinity of the Hyde
Street Trolley turntable. The Hyde
Street Trolley has become the most
famous of the remaining trolleys of
San Francisco. Starting at Market
Street, it heads north on Powell, past
Union Square and turns west on
Jackson Street. Five blocks later, it
New Classic and favorite artist

rap/hip-hop, taking down rap
heavyweights Eminem and Drake.
This award is the first award
Ive ever won in my entire life,
and it means so much to me that it
is for best hip-hop because thats
what inspired me to move to

America and pursue my dreams,
and its what helped me when I was
a teenager to escape and to get
through my life and to better
times, the 24-year-old Australian
rapper said, as her mentor T.I.
stood beside her.
And it means so much that I can
stand here against Eminem and
Drake and come out with this, she
continued.
Azalea performed her massive
hit, Fancy, which was nominated for single of the year, as well as
her new song, Beg for It.
Taylor Swift kicked off the
AMAs as a mad woman and man
eater by feeding a boy a poisonous apple, holding burning roses
and giving crazy eyes during a
performance of her song about
her dating life.
She was aggressive, grabbing
her male dancers by their blazers
and singing in character on bended knee when performing her new
No. 1 hit, Blank Space. She
even removed part of her dress to
In two weeks, he said unleaded users

have already paid for the supplemental
certificate they need to use it.
Although the moratorium on the fuel
fee means a loss of about $8,700 in
revenue to the airport enterprise fund
over the remainder of the agreement,
the addition of unleaded fuel also
means sales tax money for the county.
During the 1990s, unleaded fuel was
a common item to stock but consolidation of facilities led to only the more
lucrative option being kept on hand,
DeMeo said.
The Federal Aviation Administration
has a 2018 deadline for certifying an
unleaded fuel option that can be used
by any aircraft without modification.
The county is opting not to wait. Last
year, the board began discussing a
shift on the heels of an EPA report on
aviation lead emissions.
For three months, EPA monitored 17
general aviation airports in the nation
including San Carlos which, along
with McClellan-Palomar Airport in

San Diego County, had lead levels
beyond its standards. Nearby Palo Alto
Airport fell slightly below the threshold.
The EPA chose the county-owned San
Carlos Airport for the one-year study
because its 2008 lead emissions were
estimated at .53 tons per year, according to the agencys fact sheet on the
monitoring program.
County officials at the time said
monitors installed in awkward locations contributed to the high results.
DeMeo didnt have hard and fast
numbers on hand but said a rough ballpark estimate is the airport could
remove about a ton of lead from the
environment by selling more than
100, 000 gallons of unleaded fuel
rather than the low lead option.
turns north again on Hyde Street. My

relatives vividly remember a cold,
foggy December night when I treated
them on a ride on this trolley. While
going past the Trolley Barn, the trolley somehow jumped the tracks. Cold
and wet, my cousins got out of the trolley and helped push it back on the
track. All this excitement and it didnt
cost any extra.
a visitor center, a maritime museum

and a library research facility. Theres
plenty to do and see and youll go away
awed by the Steamship Room that
shows the evolution of maritime
power from wind to steam. On the second oor are displayed three photomurals of early San Francisco and other
exhibits. The park headquarters and
research library are at Fort Mason. A
visitor center is located at the corner of
Hyde and Jefferson streets. Its has a
ranger staffed information desk as well
as other curiosities and a theater and a
branch of the parks maritime library.
The building was used at rst as a

public bathhouse where swimmers
could change clothes and then would
dare swim in the 50 degree waters nearby. Later this building was acquired by
the National Park Service and became
named the San Francisco Maritime
National Historical Park in 1978. The
park includes a eet of historic ships,
reveal a shimmery, leg-revealing

gold number.
She later received the first-ever
Dick Clark Award for Excellence,
presented by Diana Ross.
To the fans who went out and
bought over a million copies of
my last three albums, what you
did by going out and investing in
music and albums is youre saying you believe in the same thing
I believe in that music is valuable and that music should be
consumed in albums and albums
should be consumed as art and
appreciated, said Swift, who
recently removed her music from
streaming service Spotify.
Ariana Grande took the stage to
sing lounge-y, piano-versions of
her upbeat hits Problem and
Break Free. She followed that
with a duet of her latest hit, Love
Me Harder, with The Weeknd, as
Grandes older brother jumped up
in joy, MAGIC! leader Nasir
Atweh sang along and Heidi Klum
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PROP. 2
County Board of Education issued a joint
statement opposing the cap on district
reserves on Nov. 5, the day after the measure
was approved by California voters.
We (the County Office of Education) are
not directly impacted, but our school districts are, Magee said. In light of local
control, the emphasis is on local control
and making decisions on how much reserve
a district could maintain should be up to
local districts.
School district officials and boards of
trustees often fill reserves to ensure stability during uneven funding years, sometimes
exacerbated by state legislative decisions.
The fiscally conservative approach is to
have a higher lever of reserve, Magee said.
For that reserve to be arbitrarily determined and limited is something that has
school districts operating potentially precariously, she added.
However, reserves have been a point of
contention particularly during contract negotiations when teacher groups say more should
be provided to aid classroom instruction.
Representatives from the California

Teachers Association said after studying district budgets across the state, the union
group believes school districts should be
working more to hold on to teachers
through good salaries and create support
systems to help them tackle curriculum.
Even with huge cuts over the past five
years, its curious districts actually
increased their reserves during this time,
said Don Dawson, who is on the CTA board
of directors and teaches high school math in
San Jose.
It seems like during times of crisis, they
would be using as much as they could to not
increase class sizes and meet the needs of
students, he said. Its kind of embarrassing theyve stashed away more money in
the bank as if its a business; its an enterprise of educating students.
Details of Proposition 2
Proposition 2 provides what is called a
rainy-day fund, which requires annual transfer of state general fund revenue to a budget
stabilization account. Half the revenue will
be used to repay state debts and the law limits use of remaining funds to emergencies or
budget deficits. It also creates a stabilization fund from school reserves if the
Changes in school funding
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reserves go over a certain level. Low

reserves for districts could be problematic
for schools since the reserves can help out
during economic downturns, officials say.
Still, the only circumstances under which
the state would make a deposit into the
Proposition 98 budget stabilization fund
would be when revenue from capital gains
exceed 8 percent of the total general fund
revenue and the Proposition 98 minimum is
determined, according to the office of state
Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo.
Gov. Jerry Brown insisted on the clause
about school district reserve caps being in
the proposition, Hill said. And there is a
possibility the reserve clause could be modified legislatively.
There is a strong desire on the part of the
Legislature to amend the school district
reserve requirement, Hill said. There will
be an effort on the way to make those
changes. Theres not much chance of the
reserve requirement being implemented. Its
still appropriate to allow local governments to establish their own reserves.
Hill previously noted the limitation may
be waived by the county superintendent of
schools if the district identifies the extraordinary circumstances necessitating a larger
reserve, including but not limited to multiyear infrastructure or technology projects.
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There are already other changes to school

funding. The new Local Control Funding
Formula became law July 1, 2013, and
changed the state funding formula for K-12
schools to help boost the academic achievement of disadvantaged students. The state
budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year provides
about $55.3 billion in local and state revenue for K-12 education and two-year community colleges. Thats an increase of more
than $8 billion over the 2011-12 level
under Proposition 98, which guaranteed a
minimum amount of state funding for education. During the first year, the formula
gives school districts more control over
state aid by eliminating earmarks for statemandated programs, except for special education funding. In the 2014-15 budget, the
state gives $26 million for county offices
of education to reach full implementation of
LCFF.
Here we are trying to go to local control, Hill said. After it was done
(Proposition 2 school reserve caps), the
Legislature has received a lot of complaints
about it, rightly so. I think the Legislature
wants to change that.
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legislators who are working on correcting
the revenue cap portion of the new law.
We certainly have concerns, said
Trustee Alan Sarver. Weve been assured
that as soon as Prop. 2 was passed theyd
(legislators) work on correcting this error.
For the San Mateo Union High School
District, this reserve cap is also bad news
for the district that has about a 12 percent
reserve. Basic aid school districts, funded
by local property taxes, have higher than
normal reserves because of the volatility of
its revenue, Liz McManus, deputy superintendent of business services, previously
said.
My understanding is theres going to be
modifications to the language in January
(2015), McManus said. Its probably not
the best time to be reducing reserves.
The South San Francisco Unified School
District passed its own resolution opposing
the reserve cap back in October, said board
President Maurice Goodman.
Thats probably going to be a concern
for our district, he said. It could be problematic in the future.
On the elementary school level, San
Mateo-Foster City Elementary School
District officials also have concerns about
the cap and how it would affect its budget. In
particular, Proposition 2 will only allow
the district to maintain twice of its state
required economic uncertainty reserve, said
Steve Mak, director of fiscal services.
Back in June, Linda Luna, superintendent
of the Millbrae Elementary School District,
said the states reserve cap was a surprise
and that one of the biggest things that is
affecting school districts is that state
employees and schools need to increase
their contributions so it would address that
unfunded pension liability. She noted the
caps were of great concern to those in education. Those concerned include the
Burlingame Elementary School District,
whose Board of Trustees passed a resolution
opposing the reserves cap back in October.
Another school district, the San Carlos
Elementary School District, is currently a
revenue limit district, meaning it is funded
mostly through the state, but will switch
over to being basic aid soon.
Basic aid districts have been able to
build up their reserves to a higher level than
the revenue limit districts, said Chief
Operations Officer Robert Porter. For this
year, were running 7.67 percent reserve
level and next year it will be 3.64 percent.
One thing thats intriguing to me is how the
credit rating agencies will deal with this.
Those districts with higher reserves have
higher bond ratings.
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Calendar
MONDAY, NOV. 24
Living Healthy. 10 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. Little House Activity Center, 800
Middle Ave., Menlo Park. Weekly sessions offering practical techniques
and support for making the best
choices for health and well-being. To
register call 326-2025 or email knwachob@peninsulavolunteers.org.
Thanksgiving Luncheon. 11:30 a.m.
to 1:00 p.m. Little House, 800 Middle
Ave., Menlo Park. Menu: Yam and
raspbeery salad with pomegranate
dressing, roast turkey with pan gravy
dressing, mashed potatoes, fall vegetables, rolls and traditional pumpkin pie. $9. For more information or
to RSVP call 326-2025x222.
Thanksgiving Crafternoon. 3:30
p.m. San Mateo Public Library, 1530
Susan Court, San Mateo. Join us for
Thanksgiving stories and a craft.
Free. For more information call 5227893.
Pub Style. 6:30 p.m. Belmont Library,
1110 Alameda De Las Pulgas,
Belmont. Beer Tasting and Trivia at
the Library? WHAT?! Test your useless knowledge of pop culture, geekdom, random school facts and more!
Beer and pub snacks will be served!
Ages 21+. Free. For more information
email belmont@smcl.org.
TUESDAY, NOV. 25
Computer Coach. 10 a.m. to noon.
San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St., San
Carlos. Every Tuesday morning we
offer a relaxed and welcoming computer tutoring session for one-onone help with your technical questions. Free. For more information call
591-0341x237.
Thanksgiving Party: Dancing to
the Ron Borelli Trio and Turkey
Lunch. 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. San
Bruno Senior Center, 1555 Crystal
Srprings Road, San Bruno. Tickets are
available at the front desk. For more
information call 616-7150.
Thanksgiving Crafternoon. 3:30
p.m. San Mateo Public Library, 205 W
Hillsdale Blvd., San Mateo. Join us for
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26
Thanksgiving Crafternoon. 4 p.m.
San Mateo Public Library, 55 West
Third Ave., San Mateo. Join us for
Club Fox Blues Jam with Mighty
Mike Schermer. 7 p.m. Club Fox,
2209 Broadway, Redwood City. $7.
For more information call 877-4359849.
THURSDAY, NOV. 27
Peninsula Hills Womens Clubs
31st annual Thanksgiving Dinner
for Seniors. Noon. Veterans
Memorial, 1455 Madison Ave.,
Redwood City. Reservation deadline
is Nov. 20. For more information and
to make reservations, call 780-7259.
Food Addicts in Recovery
Anonymous Thanksgiving Day
Special Meeting. 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Room 204,
1500 Easton Drive, Burlingame. For
more information call Beth at 415264-3655.
FRIDAY, NOV. 28
Off the Grid. 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Devils
Canyon Brewery, 935 Washington
St., San Carlos. A curated selection of
food trucks. For more information
visit www.OfftheGridSF.com
Petty Theft: San Francisco Tribute
to
Tom
Petty
and
the
Heartbreakers. 8 p.m. Club Fox,
2209 Broadway, Redwood City. $18.
SATURDAY, NOV. 29
Small Business Saturday Pop-up
Art and Craft Market. Noon to 5
p.m. Claremont Art Studies, 1515 S
Claremont St., San Mateo. Support
your local artists. For more information email sarah@sarahsoward.com.
The Nutcracker. 2 p.m. San Mateo
Performing Arts Center, San Mateo. A
ballet performance of The
Nutcracker by Peninsula Youth
Ballet. For more information and to
purchase tickets go to www.pyb.org.
National Novel-Writing Month
2014 at The Library. 2 p.m. South
San Francisco Main Public Library.
Come write in for reference help,
power outlets, refreshments and
writing space to work on your
50,000-word novel. For more information call 829-3860.
World Wide Dance Party, Bay Area
Funk Extravaganza! 7 p.m. Club
Fox, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City.
$20. For more information call 877435-9849.
Miracle on 34th Street. 8 p.m.
Coaster Repertory Theatre, Main
Street, Half Moon bay. Share this
perennial holiday favorite with the
entire family. For more information,
contact
Sarah
Simnett
info@coastalrep.com.
at
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Funk Extravaganza. 8 p.m. Club
Fox, 2233 Broadway, Redwood City.
Features members of Sly and The
Family Stone, Graham Central
Station, and more. Benefit for East
Palo Alto based non-profit Live in
Peace. $15 presale, $20 at door. 21
plus. For more information, contact
Will Magid at will@willmagid.com.
SUNDAY, NOV. 30
Last Sunday Ballroom Tea Dance
with the Bob Gutierrez Band. 1
p.m. to 3:30 p.m. San Bruno Senior
Center, 1555 Crystal Srprings Road,
San Bruno. Tickets are $5. For more
information call 616-7150.
The Nutcracker. 2 p.m. San Mateo
Performing Arts Center, San Mateo. A
ballet performance of The
Nutcracker by Peninsula Youth
Ballet. For more information and to
purchase tickets go to www.pyb.org.
MONDAY, DEC. 1
Daytime Fiction Book Club. 10 a.m.
to 11 a.m. San Carlos Library, 610 Elm
St., San Carlos. They will be discussing Stones from the River by
Ursula Hegi. Free and open to the
public. For more information call
591-0341x237.
Tai Chi. 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. San Carlos
Library, 610 Elm St., San Carlos. For
adults. Free and open to the public.
For more information call 5910341x237.
Living Healthy. 10 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. Little House Activity Center, 800
Middle Ave., Menlo Park. Weekly sessions offering practical techniques
and support for making the best
choices for health and well-being. To
register call 326-2025 or email knwachob@peninsulavolunteers.org.
Portola Art Gallery presents
Barbara von Haunalters How
Does Your Garden Grow. 10:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Portola Art Gallery
at Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Road,
Menlo Park. Runs through Dec. 31.
Gallery open Monday through
Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For more information email
frances.freyberg@gmail.com.
20th Annual Celebrity Legends
Toy Drive and Holiday Festival. 11
a.m. to 7 p.m. Inside Sequoia
Stattion, 1073 El Camino Real,
Redwood City. For more information
go to www.hoskinsblackhistory.org.
Hearling
Loss
Association
Meeting. 1 p.m. Veterans Memorial
Senior Center, 1455 Madison Ave.,
Redwood City. Free and open to the
public. For more information call
345-4551.
TUESDAY, DEC. 2
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3
TheatreWorks Presents: Peter and
the Starcatcher. Various times
through Jan. 3. Lucie Stern Theatre,
1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. For
the full schedule and to purchase
tickets
go
to
http://theatreworks.org.
Lifetree Cafe Conversations: The
Next Generation. 6:30 p.m. Bethany
Lutheran Church, 1095 Cloud Ave.,
Menlo Park. Sn hour-long conversation discussing how the millennial
generation people born between
1980 and 2000 will change the
world. Complimentary snacks and
beverages will be served. Free. For
more information call 854-5897.
Millbrae Library Adult Art
Program: Finger Knitting. 7 p.m. to
8 p.m. Millbrae Library, 1 Library Ave.,
Millbrae. Learn how to knit using just
your hands and a bit of yarn. Free.
Geo for Good with Google Earths
Rebecca Moore. 7 p.m. Oshman
Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo
Alto. Moore will discuss the companys latest projects to help preserve
the planet. Tickets are $12 for members, $20 for nonmembers and $7 for
students with a valid ID. For more
information email Georgette Gehue
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ggehue@commonwealthclub.org.
THURSDAY, DEC. 4
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The California Highway Patrol lifted a Sig-alert following a fatal crash

that killed two people Sunday morning on U.S. Highway 101 in Marin
County. All lanes of U.S. Highway
101 near the Redwood Sanitary
Landfill have been reopened.
Officers said the CHP started receiving calls around 12:02 a.m. about a
driver traveling the wrong way on
U.S. Highway 101 in Novato.
As officers responded to the area,
they learned a vehicle heading north
in the southbound lanes toward the
Marin/Sonoma County line crashed
head-on into another vehicle.
The crash was initially reported to
be in the northbound lanes, but it
occurred in the southbound lanes.
Emergency responders found three
vehicles were involved in the crash.
Offi cers s ai d t h e p rel i mi n ary
COURSE
wants him to be able to enter the
Mandarin program at John Gill in the
future.
Im Chinese; I spoke it growing up
as a kid, Watanabe said. Being able to
speak the language means a lot to me.
My husband is not Chinese and he is
also learning. One of the best ways to
learn is taking a Mandarin immersion
program. I could send my kids to San
Mateo, Mountain View or Fremont, but
it would be great if there was something
in our community.
The John Gill Mandarin program will
carry onto the middle school level during the 2022-23 school year for students at John F. Kennedy Middle
School, which had space to house the
children and could handle second language acquisition program.
This program will be part of the districts Schools of Choice that do not
have neighborhood boundaries and
offer special programming. Priority
goes to district children, but out-of-district children can also apply. The district also offers a Spanish immersion
program at Adelante Elementary School
and Orion Alternative School. The district added a K-5 Spanish immersion
program at Selby Lane School during
the 2013-14, which will pick up at
Kennedy as well.
The district feeds into the Sequoia
Union High School District, which
does offer Mandarin, so students would
be able to continue their studies of
Mandarin into high school. The high
school district also offers Spanish,
French and Mandarin at Carlmont High
School; Latin, Spanish, French and
Mandarin at Menlo-Atherton High
School; French and Spanish at Sequoia
High School; and French, Spanish,
Local brief
investigation into the crash revealed
a man in a 1995 Toyota Camry wagon
was traveling the wrong way on the
highway and was approaching the
Redwood Sanitary Landfill over
crossing when he crashed head-on
into a 2013 Nissan Sentra with a
male driver and female passenger.
Investigators said both vehicles
were traveling at freeway speeds.
After the collision, the Toyota came
to rest in the center divide, and the
Nissan overturned, was hit by a 2006
Dodge Ram pickup truck heading
south and ended up on its roof in a
ditch.
The drivers of the Toyota and Nissan
were both pronounced deceased at the
scene. The woman passenger of the
Nissan was transported to the hospital
with moderate to major injuries. The
driver of the truck was not injured.
The highway was shut down for
several hours as crews worked the
Mandarin and Latin at Woodside High
School, according to the district.
San Mateo-Foster City immersion

In the San Mateo-Foster City
Elementary School District, Mandarin
classes were introduced at College Park
Elementary School in San Mateo in
2005 as an elective. It became so popular students were interested in taking
the class a second and even a third time.
The interest got the district thinking
there was a growing demand. The
school slowly started growing the
immersion program, which is now
offered in all grades, from preschool to
fifth-grade. The first class of sixthgraders from the district just began taking the Mandarin elective at the
Bayside STEM Academy, a middle
school and students can graduate with a
certificate of biliteracy, said Cari Pang
Chen, chair of Friends of Mandarin
Scholars, a group that raises money for
the aides of the Mandarin immersion
program at College Park. These sixthgraders came from the K-5 Mandarin
immersion program at College Park.
Pang Chen has two children at
College Park and her group was established in April 2011, in anticipation
that community funds would be needed
to provide long-term support once federal funds were no longer available.
There is such a demand for Mandarin
immersion in San Mateo County,
Chen said.
Other programs
In the San Mateo Union High School
District, Mandarin is offered at Aragon,
Burlingame, Hillsdale, Mills and San
Mateo high schools. Capuchino is now
the districts only comprehensive high
school without a Mandarin program.
Spanish is offered at every comprehensive high school in the district, according to the district website. The courses
of study for Chinese were approved by
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scene. Officers said investigators

believe alcohol was a factor in the
crash. The identities of the deceased
people have not been released.
Crews locate body

floating near Pacifica beach
Th e Co as t Guard an d t h e San
Mat eo Fi re Dep art men t res p o n ded
t o a rep o rt o f a p o s s i b l e di s t res s ed
s urfer o r b o dy fl o at i n g i n t h e
wat er n ear Ro ck away Beach i n
Paci fi ca Sun day ev en i n g .
Fire crews responded to a report of
a possible surfer in distress at 4:48
p. m. , a dispatcher said. Coast Guard
Lt. Jacob Aulner said the Coast Guard
sent a helicopter and a response boat
from Station Golden Gate.
Aulner said new information
revealed it may not have been a surfer,
but a body that was floating in the
water and said the Fire Department
was working to recover it.
There was no other available information Sunday evening.
the Board of Trustees in 1990, said
Sheri Costa-Batis, communications
manager for the district. This was the
fourth year the district has offered
advanced placement Mandarin, she
said.
In
Burlingame,
students
at
Burlingame Intermediate School have
an opportunity to take Mandarin as an
elective, along with Spanish and
Italian. The fact Mandarin is now
offered at Burlingame High School is
great for students hoping to continue to
study the language at a high school
level, said Maggie MacIsaac, superintendent of the Burlingame Elementary
School District.
Its been a popular program,
MacIsaac said. Its very positive. Our
board was really interested in having an
immersion program and chose Spanish
at McKinley Elementary School. We do
have difficulty getting teachers (for the
immersion program).
MacIsaac said the district may possibility do more with Mandarin.
There are parents who are interested
in it, she said. Its just space is an
issue with our district and getting
Hoover [Elementary School] completed
would help us in that direction.
Moving forward, the Redwood City
Elementary School District will begin
researching funding for the program in
January 2015, while it will begin
recruitment and hiring of teachers from
January 2015-May 2015. Additionally,
the district has to determine assessment
of language proficiency in Mandarin,
additional curriculum needs and order
materials, according to a staff report.
There will be a Mandarin immersion
informational session at a time to be
announced Sunday, Dec. 7 at John Gill,
555 Av enue del Ora in Redwood City.
For more information, go to rwcmandarin.blogspot.com.
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Anxieties mount as Ferguson waits on grand jury

By David A. Lieb and Andale Gross
FERGUSON, Mo. Despite preparations

for a weekend decision in the Ferguson
shooting case, the grand jurors apparently
need more time to deliberate, and the uncertainty just seemed to feed the anxiety and
speculation Sunday in a city already on edge.
More than 3 1/2 months have passed
since police Officer Darren Wilson, who is
white, killed unarmed black 18-year-old
Michael Brown after a confrontation in the
middle of a street in the St. Louis suburb.
The shooting triggered riots and looting,
and police responded with armored vehicles
and tear gas.
Many in the area thought a grand jury
decision on whether to charge Wilson with
a crime would be announced Sunday, based
partly on a stepped-up police presence in
the preceding days, including the setting up
of barricades around the building where the
panel was meeting.
The grand jurors met Friday but apparently didnt reach a decision, and they were
widely expected to reconvene on Monday,
though there was no official confirmation
of that.
During church services Sunday, some pastors encouraged their flocks not to fret.
A choir sang, We need you Lord right
now at the predominantly black Greater
Grace Church in Ferguson. The pastor,
REUTERS
A St. Louis County Security Officer places police tape along a barricade outside Buzz Westfall
Justice Center in Clayton, Missouri.
Bishop L.O. Jones, referred to the pending
grand jury decision briefly.
Everybody stand to your feet and tell
somebody, Dont be afraid. God is still in
control, Jones said as church members
repeated after him.
The Rev. Freddy Clark of Shalom Church
in nearby Florissant told the mostly black
interdenominational congregation that jus-
Church members each get

$500 to do good for world
By Sharon Cohen
CHICAGO On a very memorable

Sunday, Pastor Laura Truax surprised her congregation with a bold announcement: She
was about to hand out money to everyone.
LaSalle Street Church had received a tidy
$1.6 million from a real estate deal, the pastor said, and $160,000 a typical 10 percent tithe would be divided among some
320 regular attendees. Each would get a
$500 check to do something positive.
LaSalle, a non-denominational church,
has long been involved in social causes,
from feeding homeless families to buying
an ambulance for a medical clinic in Niger.
Not surprisingly, many donations will
reach far-flung places, including a school in
the Himalayas and an irrigation project in
Tanzania. Closer to home, some checks are
helping needy friends.
Church members, Truax says, are doing
just what shed envisioned when she distributed the checks in September.
I hoped that they would recognize the
power they had to bless others and change

somebodys life, she says. ... And that has
largely happened.
Jeliner Jordan remembers being young
and in debt.
More than 40 years ago, she was a
divorced mother of three who couldnt
stretch her seamstress earnings far enough
to support her kids. She took out a loan of
about $4,000 to attend a business college,
expecting it would lead to better opportunities and it did.
But she never forgot the pressure of making payments, then falling behind before
eventually settling her debt.
Aware that her granddaughter, Deitra
Galloway, was saddled with college loans,
Jordan knew what shed do with part of her
church money: She gave Galloway $300,
figuring it might cover a months payment.
She was shocked when her granddaughter
revealed her school debt was in the many
thousands.
A grateful Galloway, 26, used the money
instead to help pay a loan on her used car.
N.J. looks at yes means yes policy

By Michael Catalini
TRENTON, N.J. You think the attractive woman at the party who has been chatting you up all night is ready to take things
to the next level. She seems to be throwing
all the right signals.
But if things turn sexual, are you sure that
will hold up under legal scrutiny?
Thats a question at the center of a national
debate surrounding yes means yes more
accurately called affirmative consent the
policy that requires conscious, voluntary
agreement between partners to have sex.
A new proposal in New Jersey makes it the
latest state moving to require college campuses to define when yes means yes in an
effort to stem the tide of sexual assaults.
Whether the policy will reduce assaults
remains unclear, but states and universities
across the U.S. are under pressure to change
how they handle rape allegations.
California adopted a similar measure in
August, and New Yorks governor directed the
State University of New York system to
implement a similar standard. New Hampshire
lawmakers are also considering it.
Supporters and critics agree the measure

could encourage students to talk openly and
clearly about sex and that a culture of yes
means yes an affirmative agreement
compared with the no means no refrain of
previous decades could help address the
issue of campus sex assaults.
Laura Dunn, executive director of the sexual assault survivors organization
SurvJustice, said she was raped as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin in
2004, after a night of drinking at a party by
two men and fellow members of the crew
team. She agreed to be identified by The
Associated Press.
Dunn believes such a standard could have
helped her case during campus judicial proceedings, which failed to find wrongdoing.
Her experience led her to become an advocate for sexual assault survivors, she said.
Had they had an affirmative consent standard they would have realized I would never
have consented, she said.
But skeptics of the policy raise questions
many of which have yet to be settled
because the standard is new and it is unclear
how many cases have been subjected to the
standard about whether it offers enough
protections to the accuser and accused alike.
tice will be served whichever way the decision goes, because God will take care of it.
None of us are pleased about what happened, said parishioner James Tatum.
Whatever the verdict is, we have to understand thats the verdict.
As they wait, some people have continued daily protests, while speculation has
grown that the delays are intentional.
People feel like its been engineered, so

that the results wouldnt come out until after
the election and until the weather got cold,
and it would be more difficult to protest,
said Susan McGraugh, supervisor of the
Criminal Defense Clinic at the Saint Louis
University School of Law. Its really
adding fuel to the fire.
St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob
McCulloch had said he expected a grand jury
decision by mid-to-late November. But
thats not ultimately in his control.
The 12-person grand jury deliberates in
secret, without McCulloch, and sets its own
schedule depending upon when the members
are available.
Its not uncommon for deliberations to
take a while in complex cases when, such as
in the Brown shooting, self-defense is
alleged or there are two widely conflicting
versions of events, said Cole County
Prosecutor Mark Richardson, who is not
involved in the Ferguson case.
Downtown STL Inc., a St. Louis civic
group that promotes downtown businesses,
told members in an email Saturday that the
grand jury will reconvene Monday to continue deliberating. The email did not
explain how the group knew that, and
McCullochs office has not commented on
the grand jurys schedule.
If jurors meet Monday, there is no guarantee they will reach a decision that day, or
even this week.
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