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Tuesday Dec. 27, 2016 XVII, Edition 113
Local Ghost Ship victims family files lawsuit

Relatives of South City high schooler seek damages in first suit after deadly Oakland fire
By Austin Walsh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
The family of a South San

Francisco student who died in the
Ghost Ship fire is suing those
believed to be responsible for
allowing the deadly conditions
fueling the massive fatal blaze in
Oakland.
Michela Gregorys relatives are

seeking damages from the building owner and manger of the warehouse turned artist collective
where 36 people were killed in a
devastating inferno Dec. 2.
Attorney Mary Alexander, who
filed Friday, Dec. 23, the first lawsuits after the fire on behalf of the
Gregory family and another vic-
tims family, said she believes

those who oversaw the property
put the motive for profit ahead of
their regard for safety.
The place was a death trap,
said Alexander. People couldnt
get out. Michela couldnt get out.
The lawsuit filed in Alameda
County Superior Court names
building owner Chor Ng, as well
as property manager Derick

Almena, the party promoter and
artists who performed a concert
the night of the fire and the proprietor of the business next door
where electricity was being
sapped to power the Ghost Ship.
The suit does not identify a specific amount of money sought by the
Gregory family. Both Ng and
Almena have hired attorneys as

well.
They put profit over people,
said Alexander. They would take
rent and have the place rented out
for music events. That was their
incentive and they disregarded
that they didnt have a permit to
See LAWSUIT, Page 18
Poll: People
hopeful for
better 2017
Politics, foreign conflicts, shootings at
home took toll on Americans in 2016
By Emily Swanson
and Verena Dobnik
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK Emotionally

wrenching politics, foreign conflicts and shootings at home took
a toll on Americans in 2016, but
they are entering 2017 on an optimistic note, according to a new
poll that found that a majority
believes things are going to get
better for the country next year.
A look at the key findings of the
Associated Press-Times Square
Alliance poll:
SO HOW WAS 2016?

Americans werent thrilled with
the year. Only 18 percent said

things for the country got better,
33 percent said things got worse,
and 47 percent said it was
unchanged from 2015.
On a personal level, they were
optimistic about 2017.
Fifty-five percent said they
believe things will be better for
them in the coming year than in
the year that just concluded. Thats
a 12-point improvement from last
years poll.
Americans interviewed about the
polls results expressed some of
that optimism.
Next year will be better than
See POLL, Page 20
Savoring the holiday slump

Peninsula residents tweak gifts and relax following Christmas
By Anna Schuessler
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
For some, the weeks leading up

to the December holidays require
several trips to the mall and stores
in search of the perfect holiday
gifts for loved ones and friends.
But for several shoppers at the
Hillsdale Shopping Center, the
day after Christmas is when relaxation and the real gift-giving

begins, with the added benefit of
choosing the perfect gift for oneself.
Were just relaxing, said
Edward Bustos of San Francisco.
After feeling overly full from
holiday meals, Bustos and his
father, mother, brother and sister
chose to take a walk at the mall. A

relaxing activity soon became
more intense as the family began
investigating
post-Christmas
sales, with his mother and sister
leading the charge. Bustos and his
father and brother were resting on
a bench, surrounded by shopping
ANNA SCHUESSLER/DAILY JOURNAL
See GIFTS, Page 18
Marian Chapin makes the most of White Barns candle sale on Dec. 26.
FOR THE RECORD
Tuesday Dec. 27, 2016
THE DAILY JOURNAL
Thought for the Day

Im not young
enough to know everything.
Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish dramatist-author
This Day in History

James Barries play Peter Pan: The
Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Up opened
at the Duke of Yorks Theater in
London.
In 1 8 3 1 , naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a round-theworld voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
In 1 9 2 7 , the musical play Show Boat, with music by
Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened
at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.
In 1 9 3 2 , New York Citys Radio City Music Hall first
opened.
In 1 9 4 5 , the World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund were formally established.
In 1 9 4 7 , the original version of the puppet character
Howdy Doody made his TV debut on NBCs Puppet
Playhouse.
In 1 9 4 9 , Queen Juliana of the Netherlands signed an act
recognizing Indonesias sovereignty after more than three
centuries of Dutch rule.
In 1 9 6 8 , Apollo 8 and its three astronauts made a safe,
nighttime splashdown in the Pacific.
KAREN CHOW/DAILY JOURNAL
In 1 9 7 0 , the musical play Hello, Dolly! closed on Briseidy Gallegos greets Santa as he handed out gifts at Vault 164 Restaurant and Bar in San Mateo. San Mateo police and
Broadway after a run of 2,844 performances.
firefighters welcomed needy individuals and families for an early holiday dinner Saturday.
In 1 9 7 9 , Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan.
President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, was replaced by Babrak Karmal.
and killed a man they say stabbed famdont clean up.
In 1 9 8 5 , Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the In humorous video, dad
They left everything out. Next ily members with a pair of scissors.
Rome and Vienna airports; 19 victims were killed, plus four
morning I woke up and even the milk
It happened shortly after 5 p.m.
attackers who were slain by police and security personnel. shares downsides of kids visit
American naturalist Dian Fossey, 53, who had studied gorilCAPE ELIZABETH, Maine was out, it was sour, he says. Those Saturday in Pico Rivera.
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune says
las in the wild in Rwanda, was found hacked to death.
Clothes all over the house, milk left rascals, theyre such nice kids. So
deputies responded to reports that a
out of the fridge, loud gatherings with good having them.
By Day Five, when Howard records 50-year-old man with mental health
friends. These are some of a Maine
dads complaints about his college the video, he describes trying to find issues was attacking family members
ways to get his daughter back to colin a backyard.
daughter being home for Christmas.
Deputies shot the man during a conDan Howard, of Cape Elizabeth, lege.
Ive called the airlines, bus termi- frontation and he died at the scene. No
posted a humorous two-minute video
on Facebook in which he describes nals, trains, he says as the video deputies were hurt.
scenes that are likely familiar to any ends. Theres no way to get her back
Theres no immediate word on how
parent with a child home from col- to college. Do you think Uber?
many people were stabbed or their
lege. It has more than 900,000 views
conditions.
after Howards daughter, Shannon, Fourteen-year-old, woman
shared it on the Facebook page of killed in suspected DUI crash
Synagogue found smeared
High Point University, where she
SAN JOSE A suspected drunken with feces on Hanukkah
Singer Hayley
Actor Gerard
Actor John Amos
goes to school.
driver hit a San Jose family cars headWilliams is 28.
Depardieu is 68.
SANTA MONICA A rabbi says his
is 77.
It took off from there. She knows on, killing her and a 14-year-old boy
Los
Angeles-area synagogue was
its
good
natured,
Howard
said.
ABC News correspondent Cokie Roberts is 73. Rock musiearly Christmas morning.
smeared with feces and food on the first
Howard has three children; Shannon
cian Mick Jones (Foreigner) is 72. Singer Tracy Nelson is 72.
The 12:30 a.m. Sunday crash hapJazz singer-musician T.S. Monk is 67. Singer-songwriter is his second in college. He says he pened when a 25-year-old woman day of Hanukkah.
Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz tells The
Karla Bonoff is 65. Actress Tovah Feldshuh is 64. Rock musi- was inspired to create the video after crossed into oncoming traffic on
Los
Angeles Times that he found the
tripping
over
one
of
Shannons
suitCapitol Expressway.
cian David Knopfler (Dire Straits) is 64. Journalist-turnedvandalism when arrived Sunday morncases
that
shed
left
in
the
living
room
San
Jose
police
say
the
woman
hit
a
politician Arthur Kent is 63. Actress Maryam DAbo is 56.
ing at the Living Torah Center/Chabad
for days after arriving home. Howard
Country musician Jeff Bryant is 54. Actor Ian Gomez is 52. retreated upstairs, where his family car carrying a husband and wife and in Santa Monica.
their
14-year-old
son.
Actress Theresa Randle is 52. Actress Eva LaRue is 50. thought he was working. But he was
Though there were no anti-Semitic
All four involved in the crash were
Wrestler and actor Bill Goldberg is 50. Actress Tracey Cherelle actually recording the video.
messages left, Rabinowitz says he
rushed
to
the
hospital,
where
the
Jones is 47. Bluegrass singer-musician Darrin Vincent (Dailey
We call it Hurricane Shannon when teenager and the 25-year-old woman believes the synagogue was targeted
& Vincent) is 47. Rock musician Guthrie Govan is 45. she comes home, he said.
were pronounced dead. The teens par- for religious reasons.
The feces and food was smeared in a
Howards video describes what each ents are expected to survive.
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
window near an electric Menorah and a
day is like with a student home from
by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
sign wishing people a happy
college. On Day One, he explains, he L.A. County deputies kill man
Unscramble these four Jumbles,
Hanukkah.
has to carry a heavy, broken suitcase
one letter to each square,
The synagogue reported the incident
through the airport. Day Two, he says, who stabbed family with scissors
to form four ordinary words.
PICO RIVERA Los Angeles to police and plans to install surveilis when Shannon has her friends over
NTKAH
for late-night baking - which they County sheriffs deputies have shot lance cameras.
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Move it or lose it: 99-year-old San Carlos

volunteer helps others to stay active
By Anna Schuessler
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Police reports
Lactose intolerant
Someone threw milk at an employee
before leaving a store on El Camino
Real in Burlingame before 6:15 a.m.
Monday, Dec. 19.
MILLBRAE
When Helen Long began volunteering

with The Family Tree thrift store in 1985,
she probably didnt know she would be
coming to the store every week for the next
20 years.
Long, who will turn 100 in April, had just
retired from her job of the past 26 years in
the inspection department of Eimac, a
Peninsula company that manufactured
power vacuum tubes for radio and radar
equipment.
I was trying to fill my time, she said. It
doesnt cost you anything to volunteer. I
volunteered at other thrift stores and this
was the closest one.
Longs matter-of-fact approach may be
what has allowed her to give so much back
to her Peninsula community. The 99-yearold sees regulars every Saturday at the San
Carlos store during her three-hour shift and,
in 2014, was invited by U.S. Rep. Jackie
Speier, D-San Mateo, to the Seniors on the
Move conference in San Mateo.
Longs motto is Move it or lose it, and
she embodies those words. She attends a Sit
and Be Fit class three times a week, and single-handedly cares for her Chihuahua
Hammie in her San Carlos home, where she
has lived since 1961. Working as a cashier
at the store, at 1589 Laurel St. in San
Carlos, she keeps a close eye on inventory
to make sure that she and her customers find
exactly what theyre looking for.
[The volunteers] always shop first, she
said. It knocks you out if a customer checks
out and has something you want.
The store counts on dedicated volunteers
like Long to connect items no longer needed with those who can put them to use. The
Family Tree has adopted a similar attitude to
Longs, where small steps make a big difference. According to Linda Westerhouse, former president of The Family Tree, the
stores proceeds have generated more than
$1 million in its 48 years of existence, all
Po s s es s i o n. A 25-year-old San Francisco

resident was cited for possession of heroin
and a hypodermic needle on the 600 block of
El Camino Real before 9:05 a. m.
Wednesday, Dec. 21.
Warrant. A 23-year-old Millbrae resident
was cited for an active misdemeanor warrant
out of San Jose on the 900 block of
Broadway before 2:13 a.m. Tuesday, Dec.
20.
Sus pended l i cens e. A 41-year-old San
Francisco man was cited for driving with a
suspended license near Skyline Boulevard
and Trousdale Drive before 4:51 p. m.
Monday, Dec. 19.
Burg l ary . A person broke into a vehicle
and stole golf clubs and other items valued at
approximately $8,950 on the 100 block of
Vallejo Drive before 3 p.m. Monday, Dec.
19.
ANNA SCHUESSLER/DAILY JOURNAL
Wearing a sweater purchased at The Family Tree, Helen Long greets customers at her post at
the cashier.
of which has been donated to Peninsula
Family Service.
We are fortunate to have her and our other
wonderful women and men that give of their
time, wrote Westerhouse in an email.
For Long, these opportunities to give
back and stay active are the key to her
health.
I dont have any grandchildren so I have
to keep busy, she said.
More than a year ago, Long adopted
Hammie, a senior dog with medical
issues, through Pets in Need. She uses the
nine stairs in her home as a daily workout
for both Hammie and herself.
You have to move, she said. I have
friends who are on around-the-clock care
because they sit in front of a TV. I didnt care
for that nor could I afford that, either.
Standing at the small counter in the center
Obituary
Antonio howard Mac Pherson
May 4, 1936 December 20, 2016

Antonio Howard Mac Pherson passed away peacefully on
December 20, 2016 at the age of 80. Beloved husband of
Helene; loving father of Michael and Carl Eric; caring
grandfather (Papapa) of Chase and Gisselle; brother to
Mildred and the late Ruth; nieces and nephews.
Antonio was the son of Ricardina Cruz and Roman Mac
Pherson.He was born in his beloved PERU in Lima on May
4, 1936. He came to San Francisco at the age of 24 after
finishing his Education at the Salesciano of Lima.
Antonio began to work for UAL in 1962 where he met his lovely Swedish bride and settled
down in Burlingame, CA he worked at UAL for 47 years. A proud IAM member.
He loved his soccer! (Playing twice a week well into his 60s) loved all animals, reading,
traveling and of course his bicycle rides every day. He will be deeply missed.
Rest in peace Papi!
Special thanks to Anita,John,Kaisa and Maria.
Friends and family may visit Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at 6:00pm with a Vigil at 7:00pm
at Crosby-N. Gray & Co., 2 Park Road, Burlingame, CA 94010. Funeral Mass will be held at
10:00am on Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at St Catherine of Siena Church, 1310 Bayswater
Ave., Burlingame, CA 94010. Interment to follow at St. Johns Cemetery, San Mateo, CA.
Donations may be made to the UCSF Foundation Diabetes Research
Make check payable to UCSF Foundation
P.O. BOX 45339, San Francisco, CA 94145-0339
of The Family Tree and surrounded by neatly

organized rows of childrens clothing,
home decorations and other odds and ends,
Long looks peaceful. Though she is a lifelong resident of the Bay Area, she doesnt
think much has changed.
To me, its all the same, she said. Its
harder to park, I guess.
BURLINGAME
Fo und pro perty . Checks and identication documents were found in a driveway on
Plymouth Way before 2:08 p.m. Monday,
Dec. 19.
Burg l ary . A vehicles window was broken
and a purse was stolen on Lorton Avenue
before 9:58 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18.
Theft. An iPad and money were taken from
an apartment on Rollins Road before 4:04
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18.
LOCAL
Nobuko (Hirashima) Amamoto

Nobuko Amamoto, 91, passed away
peacefully Nov. 19, 2016 on Bainbridge
Island,
Washington.
Noby was born and
raised in San Jose,
California. She was preceded in death by her
beloved
husband
George. Noby was the
loving
mother
of
Florence
Amamoto,
Marcia
(Stephen)
Williams, Steven (Judi Donin) Amamoto
and David (Patricia Bittrick) Amamoto.
Also predeceased by her parents Sensuke
and Tsutae Hirashima and siblings Itsuo,
Sadako, Janice, and Robert. Survived by
sisters Asami Endo, Nardine Brandon and
Georgia (Mas) Nakano and many nieces
and nephews and their children.
Noby was active in the San Mateo
Buddhist Temple and the Buddhist
Womens Association for more than 50
years. She worked at the Golden Nursery
and the U.S. Geological Survey and was a
member of a writing group, leaving treasured stories. Noby loved knitting and crocheting blankets for her family, friends
and Project Linus.
Friends and relatives are invited to a
memorial service 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 8, at
the San Mateo Buddhist Temple, 2 S.
Claremont St., San Mateo, CA. In lieu of
flowers, memorial donations may be made
to the Heart Mountain Wyoming
Foundation, 1539 Road 19 Powell, WY
82435; the San Mateo Buddhist Temple; or
charity of your choice.
Obituaries
Ilse Bellamy
Ilse Bellamy, a resident of San Mateo
since 1953, died Dec. 24 at age 94.
She was born Ilse
Annemarie Trost in
Traunstein, Bavaria, on
March 1, 1922. Her family emigrated to Canada
when she was 3, and she
retained her fluency in
German all her life.
In 1941, during World
War II, she met Royal
English Air Force officer David Bellamy,
then stationed in Canada. They wed on
Aug. 3, 1943. He passed away in 1991.
A homemaker, she also worked as a personal secretary to Mayon Ichinose, wife
of Dr. Ben Ichinose in Hillsborough.
Mrs. Bellamy loved her family and cherished her friends, and she loved to read, to
paint and especially to travel. In epic
adventures, she saw much of the world
with her husband and later on her own,
even after macular degeneration ruined her
vision.
She is survived by her sons Ron, of
Eugene, Oregon; Richard, of West
Barnstable, Massachusetts, and Philip, of
Woodside, and five grandchildren.
Her sons express their gratitude to the
compassionate caregivers at Silverado
Belmont Hills and Silverado hospice.
No service will be held at this time. In
lieu of flowers, donations welcome to the
American
Macular
Degeneration
Foundation.
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Marvin Solomon
Judith A. Revetria
Marvin Solomon, of San Carlos, died

peacefully at Stanford University
Hospital, on Nov. 1,
2016. Born in East
Saint Louis, Illinois, in
1924, to Irwin and Sarah
(Rothman) Solomon, he
served as navigator in
the Army Air Corps
1942-46, which started
his lifelong love of aviation, geography and
California, where he
was briefly stationed. Marvin graduated
from the University of Colorado on the GI
bill in 1949. He became an English and
Drama teacher, teaching in Oregon and
Wisconsin before moving to the San
Francisco peninsula in 1967. He taught in
Fremont and the San Mateo County juvenile court schools until his 1986 retirement.
Marvin was also a talented actor, director and singer, a founding member of the
Hawkhill
Playhouse in
Hartland,
Wisconsin,
later
acting
with
TheaterWorks in Palo Alto. He volunteered
at Redwood City and San Carlos libraries,
Project Read and San Carlos Healthy
Cities tutoring programs, Hiller Aviation
Museum, Filoli, Stanford University
Hospital, and as a rescue and recovery volunteer for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Marvin is survived by his sister
Arlene, brother Jack, his daughters Linda
and Marla, and granddaughters Pilar and
Sajo.
We love him dearly and wish him peace.
Judith A. Revetria, of San Bruno, born

April 17, 1939, died Dec. 15, 2016, at her
home.
She was the wife of the
late John Revetria and is
survived by her stepdaughter Joanne Revetria
Norman, her brothers
Gregory Weeks and
Joseph Bloys (his wife
April), her nephews
Brian Chojnacki and
Robert Bloys and nieces Jessica Ayn
McCartney and Katie Bloys.
She was a native of San Francisco, age 77
years.
Family and friends are invited to the
funeral mass 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 29,
at St. Roberts Catholic Church, 1380
Crystal Springs Ave., San Bruno. Interment
will follow at Skylawn Memorial Park in
San Mateo. In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial contribution to the
Peninsula Human Society, 1450 Rollins
Road, Burlingame 94010, in her memory.
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NATION
Anti-refugee talk
from election spills
over to some states
By Matt Volz
HELENA, Mont. The push to restrict refugee resettlements and immigration in the U.S. that figured so prominently in Donald Trumps election is now headed to states
that are preparing to convene their legislative sessions
early next year, immigration advocates said.
In Montana, which took in just nine refugee families
from January to early December, about a dozen bill requests
related to refugees, immigration and terrorism have been
filed ahead of next months session. The measures include
requiring resettlement agencies to carry insurance that
would defray the cost of prosecuting refugees who commit
violent crimes and allowing towns and cities to request a
moratorium on resettlements in their communities.
Refugee rights advocates say those measures are a sign of
what is to come as the anti-refugee rhetoric that featured
prominently in the presidential election spills over to
statehouses and local governments.
Its pretty widely known that this is going to be a hard
year for those of us who are seeking to protect the rights of
refugees and immigrants, said S.K. Rossi, advocacy and
policy director for the ACLU of Montana.
The president-elect campaigned on building a border wall
with Mexico to stop illegal immigration, deporting immigrants who are in the nation illegally and halting the resettlement of refugees to strengthen the federal program that
vets them.
Some down-ticket conservative candidates took Trumps
cue and integrated the anti-refugee platform into their campaigns. Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, for example, spoke
multiple times about the possibility of child terrorists slipping into the U.S.
Empowered by the issues prominence, anti-immigrant
groups have state and local governments in their sights as
targets to push restrictive measures in addition to whatever
changes may happen at the federal level, said Michele
McKenzie, deputy director of the Minneapolis organization
The Advocates for Human Rights.
That would lead to further manipulation of the deeply visceral fear of newcomers to the U.S. that was exposed during
the election campaigns, McKenzie said.
It absolutely does not end with the presidential election, McKenzie said. Its a national strategy by a small
but organized group of anti-immigration advocates and
anti-refugee advocates.
Its unclear if Trump will make good on his pledges. But
his election appears to be enough for an Indiana legislative
panel led by state Sen. Mike Delph, which didnt recommend any legislation after it spent eight months reviewing
illegal immigration.
REUTERS
A worker clears the snow from the crosswalk in Times Square, Manhattan.
Blizzards, ice storms wreak

havoc across northern Plains
CHICAGO Travel conditions

remained hazardous as a winter storm
swept across much of the northern
Plains on Monday, with blowing and
drifting snow forcing the closure of an
airport and creating near-zero visibility on some roads.
The combination of freezing rain,
snow and high winds that forced
vast stretches of highways in the
Dakotas to be shut down Sunday
continued into Monday, and authorities issued no-travel warnings for
much of North Dakota.

Meanwhile, in parts of the South,
unseasonably warm temperatures were
raising the risk of tornadoes and damaging thunderstorms. About 3 million
people in parts of Arkansas,
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee
could see damaging wind gusts and
isolated tornadoes Monday, the Storm
Prediction Center in Norman,
Oklahoma, said, but no major outbreak was expected.
The National Weather Services blizzard warning for western and central
North Dakota expired Monday after-
noon, but the agency warned snow

drifts still blocked some roads.
Severe whiteout conditions led to
the closure of Minot International
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Trump adopting same behavior he criticized Clinton for

By Lisa Lerer
WASHINGTON Donald Trump spent the

past two years attacking rival Hillary
Clinton as crooked, corrupt and weak.
But some of those attacks seem to have
already slipped into the history books.
From installing Wall Street executives in
his Cabinet to avoiding news conferences,
the president-elect is adopting some of the
same behavior for which he criticized
Clinton during their fiery presidential campaign.
Heres a look at what Trump said then
and what hes doing now:
GOLDMAN SACHS
Then: I know the guys at Goldman
Sachs, Trump said at a South Carolina rally
in February, when he was locked in a fierce
primary battle with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
They have total, total control over him.
Just like they have total control over
Hillary Clinton.
Now: A number of former employees of
the Wall Street bank will pay a key role in
crafting Trumps economic policy. Hes
tapped Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn
to lead the White House National Economic
Council. Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary nominee, spent 17 years working at
Goldman Sachs and Steve Bannon, Trumps
chief strategist and senior counselor, started his career as an investment banker at the
firm.
Trump is following in a long political tradition, though one he derided on the campaign trail: If Cohn accepts the nomina-
Police arrest man during

DUI saturation patrol Friday
Police arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of driving while drunk during a DUI
saturation patrol on Friday.
tion, hell be the third

Goldman executive to
run the NEC.
BIG DONORS
Then:
Crooked
Hillary. Look, can you
imagine another four
years of the Clintons?
Hillary Clinton Seriously. Its time to
move on. And shes
totally controlled by Wall Street and all
these people that gave her millions, Trump
said at a May rally in Lynden, Washington.
Now: Trump has stocked his Cabinet with
six top donors far more than any recent
White House. I want people that made a
fortune. Because now theyre negotiating
with you, OK? Trump said, in a December 9
speech in Des Moines.
The biggest giver? Incoming small business administrator Linda McMahon gave
$7.5 million to a super PAC backing Trump,
more than a third of the money collected by
the political action committee.
NEWS CONFERENCES
Then: She doesnt do news conferences,
because she cant, Trump said at an August
rally in Ashburn, Virginia. Shes so dishonest she doesnt want people peppering
her with questions.
Now: Trump opened his last news conference on July 27, saying: You know, I put
myself through your news conferences
often, not that its fun.
He hasnt held one since.
Trump skipped the news conference a
president-elect typically gives after winOfficers had set up the patrol between 6
p.m. and 2 a.m. at an undisclosed location
in the city, according to police.
During the patrol officers stopped 35
vehicles for traffic enforcement and administered two field sobriety tests to drivers.
ning the White House. Instead, he released a

YouTube video of under three minutes. He
also recently abruptly canceled plans to
hold his first post-election news conference, opting instead to describe his plans
for managing his businesses in tweets. I
will hold a press conference in the near
future to discuss the business, Cabinet
picks and all other topics of interest. Busy
times! he tweeted in mid-December.
FAMILY TIES:
Then: It is impossible to figure out
where the Clinton Foundation ends and the
State Department begins. It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold
access and specific actions by and really for
I guess the making of large amounts of
money, Trump said at an August rally in
Austin.
Now: While Trump has promised to separate himself from his businesses, there is
plenty of overlap between his enterprises
and his immediate family. His companies
will be run by his sons, Donald Jr and Eric.
And his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law,
Jared Kushner, have joined Trump at a number of meetings with world leaders of countries where the family has financial interests.
In a financial disclosure he was required to
file during the campaign, Trump listed
stakes in about 500 companies in at least
25 countries.
Ivanka, in particular, has been caught
making early efforts to leverage her fathers
new position into profits. After an interview with the family appeared on 60
Local briefs
After determining that one driver was
indeed intoxicated, officers arrested the
man, identified as Burlingame resident
Samuel Hernandez-Macedo, police said.
Officers recommend residents either designate a sober driver or call a cab in order to
prevent drunk driving.
Firefighters extinguish
house fire near Highway 101
Firefighters extinguished a single alarm
fire at a San Mateo home Monday morning.
The blaze was reported at around 4:40
a. m. on the 1200 block of Newbridge
Avenue, a dispatcher confirmed.
According to the California Highway
Patrol, heavy smoke and fire was blowing
over a highway sound wall and onto
Minutes, her jewelry company, Ivanka

Trump Fine Jewelry, blasted out an email
promoting the $10, 800 gold bangle
bracelet that she had worn during the
appearance. The company later said they
were proactively discussing new policies
and procedures.
Ivanka is also auctioning off a private
coffee meeting with her to benefit her
brothers foundation. The meeting is valued
at $50,000, with the current top bid coming
in at $25,000.
United States Secret Service will be
Present for the Duration of the Experience,
warns the auction site.
Trump on Saturday said he would dissolve
his charitable foundation amid efforts to
eliminate any conflicts of interest before he
takes office next month.
CLINTON INVESTIGATIONS
Then: If I win, I am going to instruct my
attorney general to get a special prosecutor
to look into your situation, because there
has never been so many lies, so much
deception. There has never been anything
like it, and were going to have a special
prosecutor, Trump said in the October presidential debate.
Now: Since winning office, Trump has
said he has no intention of pushing for an
investigation into Clintons use of a private email server as secretary of state or the
workings of her family foundation. Its
just not something that I feel very strongly
about, he told the New York Times.
She went through a lot. And suffered
greatly in many different ways, he said.
Im not looking to hurt them.
Highway 101.
No one was injured during the fire and no
residents were displaced, the dispatcher
said.
A cause for the fire remains under investigation.
Capsized boat leads to

cliff rescue near Pigeon Point
Firefighters staged a cliff rescue near
Pigeon Point in unincorporated San Mateo
County Monday evening, to rescue a person
who ended up there as a result of a capsized
boat.
The rescue was announced by Cal Fires
San Mateo Santa Cruz unit on social
media around 5:45 p.m. Firefighters say the
victim was just south of Pigeon Point.
One person was transported to a hospital
and all units had cleared the scene by 6:45
p.m., according to Cal Fire.
NATION
THE DAILY JOURNAL
Around the nation

Trumps pick for ambassador
to Israel sparks hot debate
REUTERS
Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Fla.
Donald Trump: U.N. just a club

for people to have a good time
By Vivian Salama
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Days

after the United Nations voted to condemn Israeli settlements in the West
Bank and east Jerusalem, Donald Trump
questioned its effectiveness Monday,
saying its just a club for people to
have a good time.
The president-elect wrote on Twitter
that the U.N. has such great potential,
but it has become just a club for people
to get together, talk and have a good
time. So sad!
On Friday, Trump warned, As to the
U.N., things will be different after Jan.
20th, referring to the day he takes
office.
The decision by the Obama administration to abstain from Fridays U.N.
vote brushed aside Trumps demands that
the U.S. exercise its veto and provided a
climax to years of icy relations with
Israels leadership.
Trump told the Associated Press last
December that he wanted to be very
neutral on Israel-Palestinian issues.
But his tone became decidedly more pro-
Israel as the presidential campaign progressed. He has spoken disparagingly

of Palestinians, saying they have been
taken over by or are condoning militant groups.
Trumps tweet Monday about the U.N.
ignores much of the work that goes on
in the 193-member global organization.
This year the U.N. Security Council
has approved over 70 legally binding
resolutions, including new sanctions on
North Korea and measures tackling conflicts and authorizing the U.N.s farflung peacekeeping operations around
the world. The General Assembly has
also approved dozens of resolutions on
issues, like the role of diamonds in fueling conflicts; condemned human rights
abuses in Iran and North Korea; and
authorized an investigation of alleged
war crimes in Syria.
Trumps criticism of the U.N. is by no
means unique. While the organization
does engage in large-scale humanitarian
and peacekeeping efforts, its massive
bureaucracy has long been a source of
controversy. The organization has been
accused by some Western governments
of being inefficient and frivolous, while

developing nations have said it is overly influenced by wealthier nations.
Trump tweeted later Monday, The
world was gloomy before I won there
was no hope. Now the market is up nearly 10 percent and Christmas spending is
over a trillion dollars!
Markets are up since Trump won the
general election, although not quite by
that much. The Standard & Poors 500 is
up about 6 percent since Election Day,
while the Dow has risen more than 8
percent.
As for holiday spending, auditing and
accounting firm Deloitte projected in
September that total 2016 holiday sales
were expected to exceed $1 trillion, representing a 3.6 percent to 4.0 percent
increase in holiday sales from
November through January.
Finally, Trump took to Twitter again
late Monday to complain about media
coverage of his charitable foundation.
He wrote that of the millions of dollars he has contributed to or raised for
the Donald J. Trump Foundation, all of
it is given to charity, and media wont
report.
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NEW YORK If President-elect Donald Trump wanted to

show he planned to obliterate President Barack Obamas
approach to Israel, he might have found
his man to deliver that message in David
Friedman, his pick for U.S. ambassador.
The bankruptcy lawyer and son of an
Orthodox rabbi is everything Obama is
not: a fervent supporter of Israeli settlements, opponent of Palestinian statehood and unrelenting defender of Israels
government. So far to the right is
Friedman that many Israel supporters
David
worry he could push Israels hawkish
Friedman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to
be more extreme, scuttling prospects for peace with
Palestinians in the process.
The heated debate over Friedmans selection is playing
out just as fresh tensions erupt between the U.S. and Israel.
In a stunning decision Friday, the Obama administration
moved to allow the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution condemning Israeli settlements as illegal. The move to
abstain, rather than veto, defied years of U.S. tradition of
shielding Israel from such resolutions, and elicited condemnation from Israel, lawmakers of both parties, and especially Trump.
Things will be different after Jan. 20th, when hes
sworn in, Trump vowed on Twitter.
Presidents of both parties have long called for a two-state
solution that envisions eventual Palestinian statehood, and
Netanyahu says he agrees. Friedman, who still must be confirmed by the Senate, does not. Hes called the two-state
solution a mere narrative that must end.
U.S. elections still

vulnerable to rigging, disruption
ALLENTOWN, Pa. Jill Steins bid to recount votes in
Pennsylvania was in trouble even before a federal judge
shot it down Dec. 12. Thats because the Green Party candidates effort stood little chance of detecting potential fraud
or error in the vote there was basically nothing to
recount.
Pennsylvania is one of 11 states where the majority of
voters use antiquated machines that store votes electronically, without printed ballots or other paper-based backups
that could be used to double-check the balloting. Theres
almost no way to know if theyve accurately recorded individual votes or if anyone tampered with the count.
More than 80 percent of Pennsylvanians who voted Nov.
8 cast their ballots on such machines, according to VotePA,
a nonprofit seeking their replacement. VotePAs Marybeth
Kuznik described the proposed recount this way: You go to
the computer and you say, OK, computer, you counted this
a week-and-a-half ago. Were you right the first time?
These paperless digital voting machines, used by roughly 1 in 5 U.S. voters last month, present one of the most
glaring dangers to the security of the rickety, underfunded
U. S. election system. Like many electronic voting
machines, they are vulnerable to hacking. But other
machines typically leave a paper trail that could be manually checked. The paperless digital machines open the door to
potential election rigging that might not ever be detected.
WORLD
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Around the world

Japanese prime minister
lays wreaths at Hawaii cemeteries
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe laid wreaths at various cemeteries and memorials Monday ahead of a visit to the site of
the 1941 bombing that plunged the
United States into World War II.
Abe landed at Joint Base Pearl HarborHickam and then headed to National
Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, where
he laid a wreath. He stood for a moment
of silence at the cemetery near downtown
Honolulu, which is known as
Punchbowl.
Shinzo Abe
He later visited a nearby memorial for
nine boys and men who died when a U.S. Navy submarine
collided with their Japanese fishing vessel in 2001. At the
Ehime Maru Memorial, he again laid a wreath and bowed his
head.
On Tuesday, hell be the first Japanese prime minister to
visit the memorial that honors sailors and Marines killed in
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Japans former leader Shigeru Yoshida went to Pearl
Harbor six years after the countrys World War II surrender,
but that was before the USS Arizona Memorial was built.
Yoshida arrived at Pearl Harbor in 1951, shortly after
requesting a courtesy visit to the office of Adm. Arthur W.R.
Radford, commander of the U.S. Pacific fleet. The office
overlooked Pearl Harbor, offering a direct view of the attack
site.
Typhoon kills six, spoils

Christmas festivities in Philippines
BATANGAS, Philippines A powerful typhoon blew out
of the northern Philippines on Monday after killing at least
six people and spoiling Christmas in several provinces,
where more than 380,000 people abandoned celebrations at
home to reach emergency shelters and other safer grounds.
Typhoon Nock-Ten cut power to five entire provinces due
to toppled electric posts and trees, dimming Christmas revelries in Asias largest Catholic nation. More than 300
flights were delayed or re-scheduled and ferries were barred
from sailing, stranding more than 12,000 holiday travelers.
Six people died from drowning or by being pinned by fallen trees, poles and a collapsed concrete wall in the
provinces of Quezon and Albay, southeast of Manila, after
the typhoon made landfall in Catanduanes province Sunday
night, officials said.
Many military camps and outposts in Catanduanes and
outlying provinces were damaged and some troops were
injured, the military said.
Nock-Ten, locally known as Nina, then blew westward
across mountainous and island provinces, damaging
homes, uprooting trees and knocking down communications.
REUTERS
Children play near rubble of damaged buildings in al-Rai town, northern Aleppo, Syria.
Assad gains Aleppo, but others

likely to shape Syrias future
By Philip Issa
BEIRUT Under different circumstances, Syrian President Bashar

Assads capture of Aleppo would project an aura of invincibility. He has survived nearly six years of revolt.
Instead, it has underscored his
dependence on outside powers.
Turkey, Iran, and Russia have tilted
recent events in his favor, and it is
those three players and perhaps the
incoming Trump administration
that are now best placed to determine
Syrias endgame.
The three nations met in Moscow
last week for talks on Syria that pointedly included no Syrians, indicating
they prefer to pursue a grand bargain
among great powers rather than a
domestic settlement between the government and the opposition.
The warming of ties between Russia
and Turkey, who back opposing sides
of the civil war, may prove to be a
game
changer,
potentially helping
to end a conflict
that has confounded
the worlds top
diplomats for more
than five years.
Their joint efforts
on Syria there is
Bashar Assad now talk of a
nationwide ceasefire reflect a desire to establish
spheres of influence. Turkey might
drop its support for rebels fighting
Assad in exchange for freedom of
movement in a border region where its
troops are battling the Islamic State
group and trying to curb the advance of
U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces.
Hassan Hassan, a Syrian analyst at
the Washington-based Tahrir Institute,
called the Moscow summit a perfect
example of how the Syria solution is
now about a grand bargain whereby
other countries negotiate on behalf of
Syrians.
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Syrias army was only able to win

the battle of Aleppo with Russian support and the aid of thousands of Iranbacked militiamen from across the
region. Turkey struck a deal with
Russia to manage the rebels surrender
when they were on the verge of total
defeat.
Turkey was an early backer of the
rebels, allowing them to retreat and
rearm across its largely porous border.
But as Syrian Kurdish forces
answerable neither to Assad nor to his
opponents have expanded their canton along the border, Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come to
view them as a greater threat than
Assad.
Turkey sees the main Syrian Kurdish
faction as an extension of the Kurdish
insurgency raging in its southwest. It
has also grown increasingly concerned
about IS following a series of attacks.
The Syrian Kurds are battling IS, but
Turkey describes both as terrorists
who must be eliminated.
OPINION
THE DAILY JOURNAL
Legislative transparency bill

Other voices
Los Angeles Daily News
ne problem with political reforms,

of the sort approved from time to
time by the California electorate,
is that many of them have to be implemented by politicians.
Because elected ofcials often are the targets of those reforms, theyre often less
than forthright in carrying them out.
A fresh case in point is the fallout from
Proposition 54, the state constitutional
amendment passed by voters on Nov. 8 to
bring new transparency to the legislative
process.
Approved by nearly a 2 to 1 margin,
Proposition 54 aimed mainly to stop the
state Assembly and Senate from voting on
a bill without rst making it available to
the public in print and online for at least
72 hours.
The general intent of the 72-hour rule
was pretty clear: Keep legislators from
ramming through new laws without giving
interested members of the public and press,
and the bills potential opponents and supporters, a good chance to examine it and
say its good or bad or could use improvement.
Voters specic expectation was pretty
clear too: The new rule would apply to any

vote on a non-emergency bill by either of
the two houses of the Legislature in
Sacramento, and would apply to either the
rst vote in the house where the bill originated or the second vote in the other house
that sends it to the governor for a signature.
This was certainly the understanding of
the good-government groups that backed
Proposition 54. Unfortunately, to take
effect for the legislative session that began
last week, the new rule had to be written
into the houses new operating rules by
lawmakers themselves. Lawmakers who
dont necessarily like the restrictions
Proposition 54 calls for. Lawmakers who
in many cases are lawyers, skilled at twisting words to suit their interests.
Seizing on the initiatives language saying the 72-hour rule applies to a bill in its
nal form, Assembly members on Dec. 5
adopted rules that apply it only to the vote
of the second house to act on a bill.
This means a bill authored by an
Assembly member could be rushed to a vote
of approval by the full Assembly, and that
would be OK as long as the Senate then
publishes it for 72 hours before voting to

approve it and send it to the governor.
This is a clear bastardization of
Proposition 54. Since the work of crafting
a bill is usually done mostly in the house
of origin, thats where the public should be
allowed to exert its inuence. Some bills
are approved by the second house with little change, so the rst houses version may
for all intents be in its nal form.
Even the way the Assembly is reading it,
Proposition 54 would help to ght legislators end-of-session practice of adopting
last-minute gut-and-amend bills, using
the amendment process to put entirely new
language into existing bills. But it would
not accomplish all of what voters had in
mind.
The lesson here is not that the public and
civic-minded activists, like Proposition 54
sponsor Charles Munger, should give up
on passing reforms. The lesson is that on
top of legal reforms, good government
requires elected ofcials who honor the will
of the people.
Assembly members should revise their
operating rules to give full force to the 72hour rule. If they dont, Californians
should remember it the next time we vote.
Letters to the editor

San Bruno
Community Foundation grants
Editor,
Thank you Daily Journal for your article
Blast grants improve San Bruno organizations in the Dec. 23 edition on the rst
grant recipients of the San Bruno
Community Foundation.
The San Bruno Lions Club is honored to
be a recipient of the SBCF rst community
grant. We have been actively working to
help the city improve various city structures that need minor repair. The repairs and
upgrades we have made at Portola
Elementary School, the eld house at the
soccer elds at Peninsula High School and
our continued upkeep of Beckner Shelter
are examples of some of our projects. With
this grant, we will be focusing on repairing
the Belle Air Community Center located on
Lions Field by Belle Air Elementary
School. We would like to also thank our
other donors the Sammut Family
Foundation, Welch Family Partnership and
others who make it possible for us to
undertake these community improvement
projects.
Kathryn Marinos
San Bruno
The letter writer is the president of the
San Bruno Lions Club.
Housing equals
opportunities at Millbrae BART
posal for Millbrae BART (in the Dec. 12

edition of the Daily Journal). I support this
project as an affordable housing advocate
and Millbrae resident.
In sixth-grade, my teacher told our class
that BART was coming and 30,000 people
would ood into our town every morning. I
imagined crowds in our streets. But then
BART came, and the only thing that
changed was that I was allowed to go to the
city with my friends. My rst internship
out of college was in the citys nancial
district, a job that wouldve been impossible if BART didnt extend to Millbrae.
Now, more changes are being proposed
in my town and I welcome the opportunities that this mixed-use project would provide for other residents and families.
There have been concerns about this projects impact on trafc. The future residents
of these homes might currently live outside
the Peninsula, driving hours every morning to get to their jobs here in the San
Mateo County. We need to open our doors
we need to build a place for people to
live in this prosperous, job-rich area.
Building 376 homes might get 376 cars off
the roads during rush hour.
We have a severe housing shortage in
San Mateo County and it is causing terrible
trafc, impacting our local businesses and
putting our emergency services at risk. We
need to overcome our fears, prejudice and
old-fashioned thinking and say yes to the
housing proposed at the Millbrae BART
station.
Jon Mays, Editor in Chief

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Landlords are not a monopoly

Editor,
Mr. Caggianos rant about rising rents is
full of hyperbole (Letter to the editor,
Tenants issues still with us in the Dec.
21 edition).
There is no monopoly. A monopoly
would exist if all the rental units were
owned by one landlord-hardly the case. Its
like saying Safeway has a monopoly on
tomatoes just because they have the tomatoes in their store forgetting there are
other stores. There is no master-slave relationship. This is, in fact, a perfect example
of a free market. Both parties agree on a
lease arrangement either can walk away
if not satised.
Mr. Caggiano forgets that it is not the
landlord setting the rent it is the marketplace. It is the same reason a house on the
Peninsula is valued at 10 times the value of
the same house in a rural southern state. It
is basic Economics 101 supply and
demand. It is easy to understand why he
would favor the landlord paying for relocation expenses the money is not coming
out of his pocket.
Someday I hope to read a letter offering a
plausible solution to rising rents where the
writer involves his own wallet but I
wont hold my breath.
Leora Tanjuatco
Millbrae
Editor,
The Daily Journal wrote about the pro-
Jerry Lee, Publisher
The letter writer is the organizing director for theHousing Leadership Council of
San Mateo County.
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Life-changing New
Years resolution
bout this time last year, I eagerly

made my way to a local gym in
San Mateo. Like many hard-working residents, I sometimes struggle to find
time for intensive weight training and cardio exercise between long workweeks and
lifes many other demanding tasks.
Determined to begin my workout ambitiously, I made a naive attempt to bench
press far more weight than I could. As you
can imagine, it was not long before I nearly pulled a muscle in my right shoulder
a harsh reminder that it had been far too
long since I
made time for
the gym.
Noticing that
others were blatantly anticipating my next
failed attempt, I
gave myself a
short rest.
Meanwhile, to
my left was an
incredibly fit
man bench
Jonathan Madison
pressing about
300 pounds with little effort. Attempting
to save myself from further embarrassment, I left the bench press and made my
way over to his bench press machine.
Recognizing my face from the Daily
Journal, we exchanged laughs over a conversation.
It turns out this man held quite a busy
work life outside of the gym. Curious, I
asked him how he maintained a consistent daily workout routine given his
demanding schedule. I take it one day at
a time, he said. Quite motivated, I
replied that I would start my new daily
workout routine the following day. The
man reluctantly laughed, suggesting that
I did not get it. There is no tomorrow,
he said. As long as there is a tomorrow
in your mind, you will never accomplish
what you intend to today.
It took me a while to grasp the essence
in the mans statement. The fact is that
many of us never accomplish our shortand long-term endeavors because there is
always the reassurance of a tomorrow,
next month or new year in our foresights. Unfortunately, our false reassurance of more time can blind us to what
matters most: the present moment. This
often makes us unmindful that no day or
moment is promised. This is precisely
why many of us fail in accomplishing our
New Years resolutions.
Whether myth or fact, people genuinely believe in the power of New Years resolutions. The new year always brings
with it an opportunity to change a
lifestyle and bad habit, or make changes
that we failed to make in the previous
year. It is the idea that the new year will
bring with it a new hope for selfimprovement. Among the most common
New Years resolutions are developing
healthier eating habits, more frequent
exercise and dedicating more time for
personal endeavors.
If we are to change, let us change for
today. If we are to incorporate more time
for exercise in our daily routine, let us
begin today. If we intend to spend more
time with family, let us start today. If we
intend to place more genuine effort into
our work, let us start right now. There is
no guarantee that we will fulfill our
dreams or short-term goals tomorrow or
in 2017. There is a guarantee that if we
do not begin to better ourselves today,
we may never have an opportunity in the
uncertain future.
A nativ e of Pacifica, Jonathan Madison
work ed as professional policy staff for the
U. S. House of Representativ es, Committee
on Financial Serv ices, for two y ears.
Jonathan is an attorney at law at the Law
Offices of Mark Watson. He can be reached
v ia email at
jonathanemadison@gmail.com.
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Six ways to keep phone charges

low during international travel
By Anick Jesdanun
And be sure to disable automatic app

updates over cellular. It might already be set
to Wi-Fi only, but double check in the
iTunes & App Stores settings on iPhones
and the Play Store settings on Android.
FLORENCE, Italy Its a sure-fire way to

dampen the holiday cheers: Spend a week on
a dream vacation abroad, then come back to
find an additional several hundred dollars on
your cellphone bill.
Although some U.S. phone plans cover
international travel, especially to Canada
and Mexico, many dont. Leaving your
phone off isnt practical these days. But you
dont have to pay a fortune if you follow
these tips. You might find some of these
steps annoying, but theyre surely less
painful than an unexpected data bill. Start
planning well before you leave.
DOWNLOAD BEFORE YOU GO
GET A PLAN ABROAD
To save on international phone charges while traveling, start planning well before you leave.
This is the most economical choice, but

also the least practical for many people.
With the exception of Verizon , carriers typically block your phone from other carriers
plans until youve paid off the hardware,
typically after two years. They might make
a temporary exception if youre traveling,
but its on you to get that set up. You might
have an old phone to use instead, or you can
rent or buy a cheap one for your trip.
This route gives you a lot of data at competitive prices. Upon arrival in Bangkok,
for instance, I got 2.5 gigabytes of data for
just less than $13. Two more gigabytes
would have cost just $3 more.
Just visit a kiosk at the airport when you
arrive, or stop by a cellphone or convenience store in town. Youll be assigned a
phone number for that country, though, so
friends and family will need that to call or
text. But Facebook, email accounts and
messaging services such as Apples
Facetime should work just as they do in the
U.S.
If youre visiting multiple countries,
youll need a separate local plan for each.
100 megabytes of data for $25. Ten minutes

of streaming video can wipe that out. But
itll get you email and basic messaging, and
its much cheaper than the $205 Verizon
would charge for 100 megabytes without an
international plan. You keep your U.S.
number.
You might find this adequate for emergencies, such as when you need directions back
to the hotel. Use your hotels Wi-Fi as much
as possible; your Instagram pictures can
wait, especially if your friends are asleep
anyway. For a two-week trip to Italy, I had
plenty of data left after taking additional
data-saving measures. Verizon even refunded me nearly $16. But I got socked with
another $25 because I wasnt careful on a
separate trip to Barcelona, Spain.
This option is good for multi-country
trips. You can still get a local plan for the
country where youll spend the most time.
STEP UP YOUR U.S. PLAN

Check with your carrier on an international package. For instance, Verizon offers
LEAVE CELLULAR DATA

OFF MOST OF THE TIME
Turn off Cellular Data under the
Cellular settings on iPhones, or Mobile
data on Android (the location in the settings varies by device). In Italy, I turned
cellular back on for the brief times I needed
it. You can go further by enabling airplane

mode, but that also blocks incoming calls
and texts, as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
LIMIT DATA USE

Even if you have cellular on just briefly,
tons of data-hungry messages could still
flood in while the gate is open. To prevent
that, you can prevent apps from using cellular data at all.
On iPhones, go to Cellular in the settings, then turn off as many items as possible in the list of apps. Also turn off Wi-Fi
Assist. In Italy, I turned off all apps. When
I needed to check or send Gmail, I just turned
that app back on temporarily. Otherwise,
the phone waited until I got back to the
hotels Wi-Fi. Notifications still came
through, but they dont use much data.
On most version of Android, turn on
Restrict background data to blocks apps
from using cellular data while running in the
background. To let certain apps override
that, you need Data saver on the latest
version of Android, Nougat, which isnt yet
available on most phones.
While youre at it, disable automatic
video play on Facebooks app. Tap the three
horizontal bars. On iPhones, choose
Settings, then Account Settings, then
Videos and Photos. For Autoplay,
choose Wi-Fi only or never. On Android,
check under App settings.
Get and set up apps for museums and other

places youre visiting before you leave
home or the hotel. Using the apps will consume data, but not as much as starting from
scratch.
Likewise, download map data for Google
Maps ahead of time. You can get driving
directions and basic information on businesses without a data connection. The
offline mode isnt meant for walking directions, though what I got for driving was
often close enough (The exception was
Venice, where cars are banned). Also,
theres no offline transit support, but I got
transit directions by enabling cellular
briefly and used offline mode to get to my
stops. Otherwise, Google Maps alone
would have eaten up my 100 megabytes
with Verizon.
You can also download any video youve
bought or rented through iTunes, Amazon or
Google Play. Amazons Prime members can
also download up to 25 of the videos available for free streaming. Netflix recently
updated its app to offer similar downloads
for offline viewing. Youll want to do this
before leaving home, even if you plan to
use Wi-Fi, as streaming rights for many
titles dont extend outside the U.S. A service
called PlayOn Cloud also lets you download
video from various services for 99 cents
each (iPhones only).
TRACK YOUR USAGE

Check the settings regularly to see how
much data youre using and adjust accordingly. On iPhones, check Current Period
Roaming in the Cellular settings. Hit
Reset Statistics at the start of your trip.
On Android, check Data usage. Android
also keeps track of which apps use how
much data, so you can identify culprits more
easily. These are estimates, though, and
your phone company might measure differently.
Greed trumping fear: Investors

giving stocks another chance
By Stan Choe
NEW YORK Investors may finally be

giving stocks another chance.
For years, many refused to buy into the
hype even as the stock market climbed to
record after record. Wounds from the 2008
financial crisis were still too raw, and
investors couldnt stomach the risk of watching their nest eggs drop by more than half for
a second time. Instead, they favored bonds,
which have pumped out relatively steady and
healthy returns for decades.
Enter Donald Trump.
Since his surprise victory in last months
presidential election, stock prices have
soared even higher, and bond prices have
sunk on expectations that faster economic
growth and inflation may be on the way. The
change has been so seismic that investors
poured a net $20.7 billion into U.S. stock
funds last month. Thats the biggest month
for stock funds since 2014 and a stark turnaround from the nearly $76 billion that left
those same funds in the 10 earlier months,
according to Morningstar.
Ignore the dollars lost by funds run by
stock-picking managers looking to beat the
market, which have been deeply unpopular in
recent years, and U.S. stock index funds
attracted a record $41.9 billion in November.
Bond funds, meanwhile, saw money head
out the door. Investors pulled more than $13

billion from them, with the majority coming
from those invested in bonds issued by city,
state and other local governments.
The flow into stocks and out of bonds may
grow only stronger, many fund managers say,
once investors get year-end statements that
show losses for their bond funds. These funds
are supposed to be the steadiest part of a portfolio, and many investors may be surprised to
see they too can lose money.
The largest bond fund by assets, Vanguards
Total Bond Market Index fund, is down 3.9
percent in the fourth quarter through
Wednesday, with almost all of the loss coming since the Nov. 8 election. Its still up 1.7
percent for 2016.
Of course, its too early to tell whether this
is a big reset in investors psychology or just
another temporary blip. Analysts and fund
managers have been predicting a great rotation from bonds into stocks for years, and it
hasnt happened yet.
One big reason: Interest rates have
remained extremely low in recent years, and
falling rates push up prices for existing
bonds. Even after bonds lost money in the
spring of 2013, when investor worries about
a pullback in stimulus from the Federal
Reserve led to a taper tantrum, interest rates
began falling again, and investors quickly
returned to plowing dollars back into bond
funds.
LIONS IN LIMBO: MONDAY NIGHT LOSS TO DALLAS PUTS DETROITS PLAYOFF CHANCES IN JEOPARDY >> PAGE 13
<<< Page 12, Olympic darling Biles

named AP Female Athlete of the Year
None better than

Serras Leki Nunn
By Terry Bernal
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
There was a time, midway through

the San Mateo County high school
football season, when Serra senior
Sitaleki Nunn seemed mortal.
That time came in October, following a dramatic 41-40 overtime victory against archrival St. Francis, after
which Nunn missed three weeks due to
a back injury. Once he returned to
action for Serras regular-season
finale a 48-13 victory over
Bellarmine to secure a share of the
West Catholic Athletic League championship Nunn proved Serras
superman.
Not only was Nunn the lifeblood of
Serras Northern California Division
2-A championship season the first
in program history the senior quarterback was the most entertaining
one-man show in the county while
doing so, making him a runaway
choice for the Daily Journal Football
Player of the Year.
Some of the plays that look funky
are actually scripted plays, Nunn
said. For some plays that do break
down, because my coach trusts me to
make things happen they know
that when Im in trouble I know where
to be when that happens.
Nunns signature moments came
when he was making miraculous
gains out of nothing, often scrambling out of the pocket to break off
chunks of yards when the Padres needed them most. But his multi-faceted
talent is reflected by his place in the
Serra record books. Actually, make
that places many of them.
The record numbers defied Nunns
missing three weeks due to injury
with a fractured L5 vertebra and a ruptured disc, an injury he sustained in
Week 2 against De La Salle, but soldiered through another four weeks
before hitting the shelf.
Due to Serras postseason run, he

still played in 12 games, setting
Serras career passing record with
4,266 yards and climbing to fourth
all-time in career rushing yards with
2,713 in the process. In his senior
season alone, Nunn gained 3,027
total yards, powering the most productive offense in Serra history with
an all-time team record 6,034 total
offensive yards and the most points
in a single season with 574.
Thats basically what it comes
down to, Nunn said. Once I touch
the field and Im there with my
offense, I know I can score against
anybody and then I try to do it as
much as possible.
Nunn and Serras high-powered
offense impressed far beyond the
numbers though, even numbers as
impressive as those. The 5-10 senior
who has offers to play in college
from San Jose State, Sacramento State
and West Point, but has yet to commit
attributes the Padres success to the
chemistry of a core group that has
played together since they were 6
years old with the Bay City Bulldogs.
Notoriously a small kid Nunn
said he used to put pennies in his
socks to meet Pop Warner weight
requirements he grew up playing
on teams with his younger brother
Patrick, now a sophomore at Serra,
and Padres running back Isiah
Kendrick, among others.
Overall, just looking up knowing
that theyre there, its just warming
because Ive had days that are the lowest of lowest but theyve always
been there, Nunn said. Even
through Pop Warner, theyve always
been there.
Calling Nunn a one-man show is not
to say Serras offense was a one-man
show, not by a long shot. While Nunn
rushed for 1,055 yards this season, he
See NUNN, Page 15
Dont hate on 49ers for winning Del Rio has no regrets about
m as competitive as the next guy. If

Im playing anything against anybody, Im trying to win. Never once
have I ever purposely tried to lose any
kind of competition.
So I could not quite comprehend 49ers
fans ire over the teams win against the
Los Angeles Rams Saturday afternoon.
I mean, I understand why, I just
dont get it. Before
kickoff Saturday,
the 49ers had
moved to the top of
the 2017 draft list
when the Cleveland
Browns picked up
their rst win of
the season by beating the San Diego
Chargers. A couple
hours later, the
49ers fell back into the No. 2 slot when
they beat the Rams.
Fans reactions on social media were
harsh. I saw one tweet that said the 49ers
cant even tank right. Most could not
understand why the 49ers would try to win
when they had a chance at having the top
draft pick in next springs draft.
First of all, these players are professionals. They are paid to win games and
anyone who thinks they would try to do
anything less simply dont understand
sports.
Second, and more importantly, is the
fact there is simply not much difference
between the rst and second pick of the
draft. Dont worry 49ers fans, the team
will have a top-ve draft pick and given
the dearth of talent on this team, one draft
pick will not make or break this team in
2017.
Third, if the team does not make drastic
changes in the offseason specically
the ring of general manager Trent Baalke
does anyone really expect the team to
make the right choice if they had the top
draft pick? Lets face it, having the No. 1
pick in the draft is no guarantee of future
success. As a matter of fact, having the
top pick can actually be a detriment
because the NFL draft is such a crapshoot.
A team pays the No. 1 overall pick millions of dollars with no guarantee of future
success. Given Baalkes track record over
the last several years, there is a very good
chance he would make the wrong choice.
See LOUNGE, Page 16
call that led to Carrs injury

By Josh Dubow
ALAMEDA Two days after losing star

quarterback Derek Carr to a broken leg that
dealt a serious blow to Oaklands Super
Bowl hopes, Raiders coach Jack Del Rio has
no regrets about the decision to pass the
ball with a 19-point lead in the fourth quarter.
Del Rio said Monday that the decision to
stay aggressive with 11 minutes left
Saturday and Oakland leading Indianapolis
33-14 was validated when the Colts rallied
within eight points

before losing .
You won by one score
basically, Del Rio said.
Andrew Luck, people
here in the Bay Area have
a pretty good understanding of what hes capable
of. I know I do. We felt
Jack Del Rio like you had to keep the
pedal down on that opponent and that quarterback and that game.
See RAIDERS, Page 14
Two calls missed in Warriors loss to Cavs

NEW YORK The NBA says two calls were

missed in the final moments of Clevelands
win over Golden State on Sunday, and both
aided the Cavaliers in what became their onepoint victory.
The league said Cleveland star LeBron James
should have been assessed a technical foul for
deliberately hanging on the rim after his dunk
with 1:43 remaining, and that Cavaliers forward Richard Jefferson should have been called
for fouling the Warriors Kevin Durant on the
games final play.
Jeffersons feet appeared to get tangled with
Durants on that last play . Durant tumbled to
the floor, and could only manage a one-handed
fling toward the basket as time expired.
Cleveland won the NBA Finals rematch 109108.
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Simone Biles soars to AP Female Athlete of the Year

By Will Graves
Simone Biles tried to treat the 2016

Summer Olympics like just your average
ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the
stage and the stakes were different?
The floor was still the floor. The vault
still the vault. The uneven bars still
uneven. The balance beam still a four-inch
wide test of nerves.
And the 19-year-old with the electric smile
and boundless talent was still the best in the
world. Maybe the best of all-time.
Over the course of 10 days in August, the
biggest meet of her life ended like pretty
much all the others in the four years that
came before it: with Biles standing atop the
podium, a gold medal around her neck and
the sport shes redefining one boundarypushing routine at a time staring up at her.
Not that she remembers any of it.
Its kind of a blur, Biles said.
Maybe to Biles, but not to the rest of the
world. Her massive haul in Rio de Janeiro
a record-tying four golds to go along
with a bronze for the dominant U. S.
womens team propelled her to stardom
and rendered her last name superfluous. Now
theres one more honor to add to what on
Twitter
is
known
simply
as
(hash)SimoneThings: Associated Press
Female Athlete of the Year.
In a vote by U.S. editors and news directors announced Monday, Biles received 31
votes out of a possible 59 votes. U.S.
Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, who won
four golds and a silver in Rio, finished second with 20 votes. Serena Williams, who
won Wimbledon for the seventh time to tie
Steffi Grafs record of 22 Grand Slam titles,
and three-time AP womens NCAA basketball Player of the Year Breanna Stewart tied
for third with four votes each.
DAVID BUTLER II/USA TODAY SPORTS
Simone Biles brought home a record-tying four gold medals from the 2016 Summer Games
in Rio de Janeiro, catalupting her to the AP Female Athlete of the Year award.
The AP Male Athlete of the Year will be
announced Tuesday.
Biles became the fifth gymnast to win the
honor, joining Olga Korbut in 1972, Nadia
Comaneci in 1976, Mary Lou Retton in
1984 and Gabby Douglas in 2012. Its company Biles joined while completing a run of
dominance that included three straight allaround World Championships, an unprecedented run at the top in a sport where peaks
are often measured in months, not years.
The teenager from Spring, Texas, hardly
seemed burdened by the outsized expectations. If anything, she embraced them. She
opted out of a verbal commitment to compete collegiately at UCLA to turn professional so she could cash in on the lucrative
opportunities afforded an Olympic champion, a bit of a gamble considering the win-
dow is so narrow and directly tied to success

at the Games.
Yet Biles seemed immune to it. At least
on the outside. Inside, there were more than
a few butterflies when she stepped onto the
floor during team preliminaries on Aug. 7.
They vanished the moment she stepped
onto the green and cream colored floor at
Rio Olympic Arena as she and the rest of
her Final Five teammates Douglas,
Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and
Madison Kocian put on a clinic that
showcased how substantial the gap between
the Americans and the rest of the world has
grown.
Then again, the gulf between Biles and
every other gymnast on the planet even
her good friends in red, white and blue
may be even wider.
Former Rangers pitcher dies in shooting

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. John Barfield, a

left-hander from Arkansas who pitched three
seasons for the Texas Rangers beginning in
1989, died in a shooting in Little Rock,
police and family members said. He was 52.
Police said Barfield was fatally shot Dec.
24 after an altercation with an acquaintance
in downtown Little Rock. William
Goodman, 59, of Pine Bluff is being held in
the Pulaski County jail on preliminary
charges of first-degree murder in connection
with Barfields death,

which has been classified
as a homicide. Court
records do not list an
attorney for Goodman.
Barfield was a native
of Pine Bluff and led his
high school team to a
s t at e ch amp i o n s h i p ,
John Barfield then played at a commun i t y
co l l eg e i n
Mi s s o uri an d at Ok l ah o ma Ci t y
University. He was drafted in the 11th
round by the Rangers in 1986.

Barfields sister, Debra Hudson, tells the
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that she is devastated by her brothers death, saying he
was not an aggressive person and that he
had a loving personality.
He had the kindest heart of any human I
had ever known, Hudson said.
She said Barfield was a fierce competitor
on the field but was always willing to sign
autographs for young fans.
We will always be proud of him, she
said.
In prelims I did very well I kind of

shocked myself, Biles said. I came in
thinking, Ive been to three worlds. I
knew the gist of it. Once I got (prelims) out
of the way, I just kind of relaxed.
What followed was a run of brilliance: a
team gold as a fitting send off to retiring
national team coordinator Martha Karolyi.
Another in the all-around two days later,
where her score of 62.198 bettered Raisman
by more than two full points, the gymnastics equivalent of winning a football game
by three touchdowns. A third gold came on
vault, the first ever by an American woman
at the Olympics and Biles first in major
international competition to fill the only
hole in her increasingly peerless resume.
A bronze on beam followed thanks to a
messy landing on a front flip, her only
major form break in Rio. No matter, she put
the exclamation point on her gold rush
with a gravity-escaping floor routine that
ended with Biles rushing to embrace longtime coach Aimee Boorman as their long
journey to this moment ended in triumph.
The ensuing four months have been a
whirlwind. Biles carried the U.S. flag at
closing ceremonies, published her autobiography, took part in a post-Olympic tour
with her teammates (including performing
in eight shows despite a fractured rib) and
hung out at the White House with the president. She remains open to giving it another shot in Tokyo in 2020. Thats for later.
In January shell sit down and plot out her
goals for the upcoming year. For the first
time since she can remember, gymnastics
wont be on the list.
Itll be weird, sure. Thats not necessarily
a bad thing.
I miss training with the girls and having
a good time, Biles said. Whenever I go to
the gym to visit them and I see them, I do
not miss this part at all right now.
Local sports brief

Mills girls take tourney opener
The Mills girls basketball team cruised to
a 55-36 win over Exeter in Mondays opening game of the Monterey Sweet 16 tournament at Seaside High School.
The Vikings (5-2) jumped out to an 18-4
lead in the first quarter and never looked
back. Senior center Aubrie Businger recorded a double-double. She and senior Zelie
Zshornack scored 16 points apiece while
Businger added 11 rebounds.
The win is Mills third straight. The tourney continues Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
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SPORTS
Lions playoff hopes on hold with loss to Cowboys

By Schuyler Dixon
KEVIN JAIRAJ/USA TODAY SPORTS
Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott dives for a touchdown past Lions free safety Glover
Quin during the first half at AT&T Stadium in Dallas 42-21 victory.
The biggest sign the Cowboys were serious about this one came late in the third quarter, when Bryant took a reverse pitch from
Dak Prescott and tucked the ball as if planning to run before pulling up and tossing a
lefty lob to Jason Witten for an easy 10-yard
score and a 35-21 lead.
Witten, the normally stoic 14th-year tight
end, flashed Bryants celebratory X and
was soon mirrored by the often-exuberant
receiver.
Elliott, the NFL rushing leader, had a 55yard touchdown run in the first half and finished with 80 yards on 12 carries. He has 15
touchdowns rushing, two behind league-leading LeGarrette Blount of New England.

The first-year sensation known as Zeke,
who is 177 yards shy of Eric Dickersons 33year-old rookie rushing record of 1,808
yards, was almost upstaged by Detroits
double-Z Zach Zenner.
Prescott
tied
Pittsburghs
Ben
Roethlisberger (2004) for the most wins by a
rookie quarterback in the Super Bowl era with
13. He was 15 of 20 for 212 yards with three
touchdowns, including Bryants juggling 25yard grab in the end zone when he fought off
pass interference by Johnson Bademosi.
Cal into womens Top 25, UConn holds strong at No. 1

By Doug Feinberg
Its been a wonderful few months for Cal

coach Lindsay Gottlieb.
Shes pregnant with her first child due
next spring, her team is unbeaten through
non-conference play and now the Bears are
back in the Top 25. The Bears entered The
Associated Press womens basketball poll
at No. 21 on Monday. UConn remained the
top choice, as the unanimous No. 1.
Definitely for me I think its nice, but I
understand how these things go. A lot of it
is perception, Gottlieb said. For these
young women who handled losing last year
and finished strong. They did nothing but
bring this program back to where we can be.
Hopefully its a motivating factor to keep
doing what we are doing.
The Bears are 12-0 and off to the best start
in school history. They open up Pac-12
Bowl games
Independence Bowl
NC State 41, Vanderbilt 17
ARLINGTON, Texas Matthew Stafford

lost to his hometown team again, and the
playoff plans are on hold for the Detroit
Lions.
Dez Bryant threw his first career touchdown pass between a pair of scoring catches,
Ezekiel Elliott ran for two TDs and the Dallas
Cowboys kept the Lions from clinching a
postseason spot with a 42-21 win Monday
night.
Despite a second straight loss following
five consecutive victories, Detroit (9-6) still
controls its postseason fate. The Lions will
be at home against Green Bay (9-6) with the
NFC North title at stake in the finale Sunday.
Its a one-game season, Stafford said. If
you told me in Week 17 we would have a game
at our place and got a chance to win the division, Id take it all day.
Stafford, a championship-winning high
school quarterback in the Dallas area, had a 1yard scoring plunge , but was sacked four
times matching a season high almost
two years after losing a wild-card game at the
Cowboys.
He was 26 of 46 for 260 yards, including an
interception that set up Elliotts 1-yard
touchdown early in the third quarter to break
a 21-all halftime tie.
With home-field advantage already
wrapped up, the Cowboys (13-2) didnt let up
in their seventh straight home win while
matching their franchise record in victories,
reached two other times.
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play in Arizona on
Thursday before facing
No. 18 Arizona State on
Sunday.
You look at every
weekend and there isnt
an easy one, Gottlieb
said of the conference
which has seven teams
Kristine Anigwe ranked and three more
just outside the Top 25.
For us going to start at Arizona is a repeat
of what we did last year that didnt go so
well. Our players are motivated and ready for
conference play.
Cal was 15-17 last season, the first losing
one under Gottlieb. With most of the team
back, including star sophomore forward
Kristine Anigwe , the Bears have been stellar so far.
Its a very similar cast of characters to
last year. Every single person was in a new
role last year, Gottlieb said. We have similar talent and much more understanding in
roles. ... Whether you call it gelling, maturing or just owning roles better. Its Cal version 2.0.
While Cal has won its first 12 games to
start the season, UConn continues to roll.
The Huskies received all 33 first place votes
again after beating then-No. 12 Ohio State
and Nebraska to stretch their winning streak
to 86 consecutive games. UConn faces No.
4 Maryland on Thursday. A victory would be
the teams 30th straight on the road tying
the NCAA record. It would also leave them
three victories short of matching the 90game overall winning streak the school set
from 2008-11.
Notre Dame, Baylor, Maryland and
Mississippi State followed UConn in the
poll again. The top 11 teams remain
unchanged as most schools had a light week
of games because of the holidays.
SHREVEPORT, La. Jaylen Samuels

caught three touchdown passes from Ryan
Finley, Nyheim Hines returned a kickoff for
a 100-yard touchdown and North Carolina
State beat Vanderbilt 41-17 on Monday
night in the Independence Bowl.
North Carolina State (7-6) won three of its
final four games to finish with a winning
record. The Wolfpack built a 28-3 lead by midway through the third quarter largely thanks
to Samuels TD catches of 9, 55 and 17 yards
and then held off a brief Vanderbilt rally.
Finley completed 19 of 30 passes for 235
yards. Samuels three touchdown catches
were an Independence Bowl record.
Vanderbilt (6-7) had a lot of momentum
going into the game thanks to surprising
wins over Mississippi and Tennessee to end
the regular season. But the Commodores
offense which scored a combined 83
points against the Rebels and Volunteers
struggled for most of the night.
Vanderbilts Kyle Shurmur completed just
19 of 46 passes for 158 yards and three
interceptions. Even so, the Commodores
briefly made things interesting, closing to
28-17 early in the fourth quarter.
But thats when Hines responded his big
kickoff return to put the game out of reach.
Quick Lane Bowl

Boston College 36, Maryland 30
DETROIT Patrick Towles threw two
touchdown passes and caught a pass for a
score in the first half, helping Boston
College build a big lead in a 36-30 win over
Maryland in the Quick Lane Bowl Monday.
The Eagles (7-6) led by 16 at halftime, 23
points early in the third quarter and had to
force Boston College to turn the ball over on
downs late in the game to seal the victory.
The Terrapins (6-7) had the ball at their 35
with 1:48 left, but didnt gain a yard before
Harold Landry helped to finish them off
with a possession-ending sack.
St. Petersburg Bowl

Mississippi 17, Miami (Ohio) 16
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Nick
Fitzgerald rushed for 142 yards and two
touchdowns and Mississippi State held off
Miami (Ohio) 17-16 with help from a
blocked field goal in the closing seconds of
the St. Petersburg Bowl on Monday.
Nelson Adams got a hand on Nick Dowds
potential game-winning 37-yard field goal
that would have helped Miami finish a stunning turnaround from a 0-6 start to the season to a winning record.
Instead, both the Bulldogs (6-7) and
RedHawks (6-7) finished with losing marks.
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Steelers win AFC North, Broncos out RAIDERS

Pittsburgh won the AFC North in

spectacular fashion Sunday, scoring
the winning touchdown with 9 seconds
remaining to beat archrival Baltimore
31-27.
Antonio Brown reached over the
goal line after taking in a short pass
from
Ben
Roethlisberger for
the 4-yard score.
Brown was standing
up inside the 1, but
somehow extended
the ball barely
Antonio Brown into the end zone.
The Steelers (105) scored 21 points in the fourth quarter. They eliminated the Ravens (8-7)
from contention.
Defending Super Bowl champion
Denver was knocked out, too, with its
loss at Kansas City. The Broncos have
Brazlian soccer team crash

due to plane running out of fuel
BOGOTA, Colombia Colombian
aviation authorities said Monday that
an airliner that crashed with a Brazilian
soccer team aboard had run out of fuel
before it could land. Seventy-one people died in the Nov. 28 accident.
A statement by the Civil Aeronautics
lost three in a row and five of seven.

The entire AFC playoff field is set:
New England, Oakland, Kansas City,
Pittsburgh, Houston and Miami.
The Steelers will be the No. 3 seed in
the AFC and host the No. 6 seed during
wild-card weekend on either Jan. 7 or 8.
Pittsburgh earned the third spot over
Houston based on the strength-of-victory tiebreaker, heady territory considering it was 4-5 after falling to Dallas
on Nov. 13. As New Years nears, the
Steelers havent lost again.
Kansas City secured a playoff spot
when the Ravens lost, and can still win
the AFC West.
Earlier this weekend, Atlanta beat
Carolina 33-16 , then the Falcons
clinched the NFC South title when New
Orleans beat Tampa Bay 31-24. The
Bucs loss also allowed the New York
Giants, losers to Philadelphia on
Thursday night , to clinch a wild-card
spot. Atlanta now has a chance in its
regular-season finale to clinch a first-
round bye after Seattle lost 34-31 to

Arizona.
Houston beat Cincinnati on Saturday
night to clinch its second straight AFC
South title after Tennessees 38-17 loss
to Jacksonville . The Texans also will
host a wild-card game.
Green Bay won its fifth straight to
move closer to the NFC North title,
eliminating Minnesota with a 38-25
victory. The Packers moved into the
lead for a wild-card berth, and now the
Packers must wait to face Detroit for
the division crown on Jan. 1.
Detroit is at Dallas on Monday
night.
Miami beat Buffalo 34-31 in overtime to move closer to its first playoff
berth since 2008. The Dolphins
clinched an AFC wild-card berth Sunday
night when Denver lost to Kansas City
33-10.
The Redskins (8-6-1) routed Chicago
41-21 to keep them alive a bit longer
in the NFC.
Sports brief
bers of the Chapocoense soccer team, as

well as team officials and journalists
accompanying them to a championship
playoff match in Medellin, Colombia.
agency said the conclusion was based

on the planes black boxes and other
evidence. It said the evidence points to
human error rather than technical problems or sabotage.
Experts had earlier suggested that fuel
exhaustion was a likely cause of the
crash that wiped out all but a few mem-
The BAE 146 Avro RJ85 has a maximum range was 2,965 kilometers
(1,600 nautical miles) just under the
distance between Medellin and Santa
Cruz, Bolivia, where the plane had
taken off at almost full capacity.
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Youre talking about a team facing elimination.
The decision to pass on a second-and-18 proved harmful
when usually reliable left tackle Donald Penn lost his footing and allowed his first sack of the season. Trent Cole
twisted Carr to the ground and broke his right leg on the
sack .
Now, instead of looking to roll into their first playoff
berth since 2002 behind Carr and a high-powered offense,
the Raiders (12-3) hand the reins to Matt McGloin. The
2013 undrafted free agent hasnt started a game since that
year.
McGloin will get his first test Sunday in Denver when the
Raiders can clinch the AFC West and a first-round bye with
a victory over the Broncos, or if Kansas City loses in San
Diego. If Oakland loses the game and the division, the
Raiders will open the postseason on wild-card weekend at
AFC South champion Houston.
With so much still at stake, the Raiders have no time to
feel bad for their fate.
Its a tough game, and things happen in this game. Its
all about the team, its all about us moving on with the next
opportunity and pulling together as a group of men and sacrificing and pulling for each other, and all those things,
Del Rio said. That doesnt change. It doesnt change
regardless of who it is. Its about the team. Its about us winning, and its not in any way meant to be insensitive.
McGloin has thrown 55 passes since making six starts
late in the 2013 season. He won his debut start at Houston
before losing the final five and returning to the role of
backup after Carr was drafted the following year
But McGloin did have to deliver a few key throws to seal
the victory over the Colts. He converted a third-down pass
to Andre Holmes on his first drive to help burn about two
minutes off the clock before the Raiders punted.
Then, with Oakland protecting an eight-point lead just
before the two-minute warning, McGloin converted another
third-down pass when he hit Amari Cooper for a 19-yard
gain on third-and-8. The Raiders then took three knees to
run out the clock.
Really competitive guy. Really attacks his preparation.
A little bit fearless. I think hes got a little bit of a chip on
his shoulder, Id say, Del Rio said. We expect our guys
when they step in and play to play well, and we expect to
win with them. I mean, he made a couple of nice throws at
the end there.
No tes : Del Rio had no update on WR Michael Crabtree,
who has been dealing with an injured finger and left in the
third quarter. ... DL Mario Edwards Jr. played 18 snaps in his
first game of the season after a hip injury in the preseason.
He had a big smile on his face. He was just happy to be
back in the action and get a chance to play again, Del Rio
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Missed calls have NFL

searching for answers
By Eddie Pells
TERRY BERNAL/DAILY JOURNAL
Sitaleki Nunn, right, and his Serra teammates (from left) Jovon Johnson,TC Lavulo and Taniela
Latu show off the Central Coast Section championship trophy Nov. 25 against Mitty.
NUNN
actually ranked second on the team after
Kendricks varsity debut with 1,200 ground
yards. Junior slot receiver Shane Villaroman
set the programs single-season receiving
record with 1,055 yards.
And while Nunn passed for 1,972 yards
this season ranking fourth on the alltime program list he and sophomore
quarterback Luke Bottari actually paired to
break the record for single-season team
passing yards with 3,186.
Bottari spelled Nunn while the senior was
injured, and the sophomore led the Padres to
three straight wins. But it was Bottaris
ability to get the job done at the drop of a
hat that impressed Nunn most, like he did in
the Northern California championship
game in Sanger, coming off the bench to
throw one pass and one pass only, a crisp
45-yard touchdown pass to Charlie Quinn.
Hed come in and start throwing daggers, Nunn said.
That Dec. 10 night in Sanger, before the
craziest football environment anyone in
Serra blue had ever experienced, Nunn also
did what he does best. He racked up a careerhigh 450 total yards 289 yards passing
and 161 yards rushing but it was the way
he did it that best personified what Nunns
game is all about.
Twice in the game Nunn was faced with

seemingly impossible blitzes to escape.
Each time the breech came from his blindside. Each time it was multiple defenders in
pursuit. Not only did Nunn break free both
times once throwing for a 55-yard touchdown to Quinn, and another eluding being
sacked for a safety and scrambling for a first
down he did so by turning into the blitz
and jetting right past the rushers to do so.
This was a theme time and again throughout Nunns career. While successful offenses
typically win the day by avoiding the best
defenders on the other side of the ball, Nunn
was tactical and tenacious in identifying the
best players on opposing defenses and running the ball right at them.
Honestly, I respect all opponents but Im
not going to fear anybody, even if theyre
good, Nunn said. If theyre good, Im
going to test them to see how good they
are.
Therein lies the legacy of Sitaleki Leki
Nunn, a human highlight reel who by
virtue of his even-keel demeanor and field
vision, coupled with the heart of a gladiator
by leading the Padres to their first-ever
State Championship Bowl portrayed the
stuff of superheroes week-in and week-out
on the San Mateo County gridiron.
I think leadership and overall ability to
make plays, I think that made him the great
player he is, Villaroman said. He really
stepped up through injuries and through the
misery he had. So I think he was a huge
part in us going to state.
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This has been the year of the penalty in

the NFL.
Not so much because more flags have been
thrown in 2016 through Week 15 teams
were averaging 8.09 flags a game this season compared to 8.10 in 2015 or because
a larger-than-normal number of games have
been decided by questionable calls.
More because the questioning of the competence of the officials began, literally, on
opening day with a flurry of unflagged hits
to the head of the reigning MVP, Cam
Newton, and continued, in some form, virtually every week, without a stop.
Patterns? There werent any, in particular.
Phantom pass interference calls have
been as common as unflagged hits to the
head, the likes of which sent Newton to the
commissioners office to discuss. There
were petty calls for hugging refs (Earl
Thomas) and throwing towels (Travis Kelce
got ejected ), all underscored by a flurry of
flags for celebrations that grew more subversive the harder the NFL tried to curb
them.
Replay worked sometimes. But it didnt
change anything at the end of the CowboysVikings game. Cedric Thornton wasnt
flagged even though he clearly hit
Minnesota quarterback Sam Bradford in the
head as Bradford threw for a potential tying
2-point play.
Also not reviewed: The non-call for
Richard Shermans takedown of Julio Jones
at the end of the Seahawks-Falcons game; or
a particularly poor spotting of the ball in an
especially poorly called game between the
Texans and Raiders.
The scrutiny and the attention are at an
all-time high on anything related to NFL,
and that is a very positive thing, said Dean

Blandino, the NFLs senior vice president of
officiating. And sometimes it can be negative, and we understand that in officiating.
What to do about all this?
Nothing new here there is no single
answer, but merely a list of remedies the
NFL has committed to and could consider in
the offseason.
Full-time referees
The league is considering hiring 17 fulltime officials and increasing the size of officiating crews from seven to eight. The parttime official has long been a staple of the
league, and theres good reason for it. Why
would an official quit his day job for one
with very little job security? Only if the
league and the unions representing the players and officials can figure out a way to guarantee full-time officials some job security
will this work out. Even then, 17 full-time
referees will only represent a bit more than
10 percent of the workforce.
Over 60 percent of (questions from
coaches) are not about calls made but those
not made, Blandino said. So we could
cover more of the field of play, which of
course is a positive.
Pass interference
Its an almost annual cry: The NFL should
consider changing its long-held rule on
penalizing pass interference at the spot of
the foul in favor of the more lenient college
rule, which calls for only a 15-yard penalty.
If Mike Pereira, the former VP of officiating for the NFL, could change one single
thing in the NFL, this would be it.
You can change the course of a game on
one of those calls, and what if a referees not
sure? said Pereira, now an analyst for Fox.
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SPORTS
U.S. dismantles Latvia in opener of

world junior hockey championship
Clayton Keller scored twice and

the United States overcame a slow
start to beat Latvia 6-1 at the world
junior hockey championship on
Monday.
Patrick Harper opened the scoring
for the Americans 6:27 into the
game, but Renars Krastenbergs
responded for Latvia to make it 1-1
after the first period in the tournament opener for both teams at
Torontos Air Canada Centre.
The U.S. regained the lead when
Colin White scored 6:29 into the
second and Keller made it 3-1 late in
the period.
We got better as the game went
LOUNGE
Fourth, all the experts say the
2017 draft will be generally weak,
so there is no guarantee that whoever they choose will be a franchise savior.
Besides, the 49ers chances of
securing the top draft pick is not
over. They face NFC West
Division champion Seattle in the
season-nale this weekend.
Considering the Seahawks are
coming off a disappointing loss
to the Arizona Cardinals, you just
know they will be looking to
make a statement against the
49ers.
And who knows? Maybe
on, U.S. coach Bob Motzko said.

You could tell there were some
nerves in the first period, but after
the guys settled in we found our style
of play and got the job done. Well
learn from this as we get ready for the
next one.
Keller scored his second of the
game with 7:41 to play in the third.
Jeremy Bracco added another at
17:31 while Jordan Greenway got on
the scoreboard in the final minute.
Troy Terry and Tage Thompson
each added two assists for the U.S.
U.S. goalie Tyler Parsons only had
to make 11 saves for the victory.
Marek Mitens stopped 24 of 30
shots for Latvia.
The U.S. next faces Slovakia on
Wednesday.
Later in Toronto, Canada scored
three power-play goals, including a
pair by captain Dylan Strome, to
open the tournament with a 5-3 victory over Russia.
It was a strong start against a
tough opponent for Canada, which
has been shut out of the medals at
three of the past four world juniors.
The Canadians dropped their tournament-opening game to the
Americans last year before finishing
sixth in Finland in their worst showing in almost 20 years.
Tyson Jost, Nicolas Roy and Matt
Barzal also found the back of the net
for the Canadians, and Carter Hart
yielded three goals on 17 shots.
Cleveland pulls another rabbit out

its hat and beats the Pittsburgh
Steelers. Just like that, San
Francisco will have the top pick
again.
But having the second pick is
not bad option either.
***
If you play close enough attention, youll nd former College of
San Mateo football players making an impact at the next level.
Saturday, it was former quarterback Dru Brown in the spotlight
as the Los Gatos graduate led
University of Hawaii to a 30-20
win over Middle Tennessee in the
Hawaii Bowl.
Friday, it was former receiver
Johnnie Niupalau who caught four
passes for 31 yards and a touchdown in Eastern Michigans 2420 loss to Old Dominion in the
Popeyes Bahamas Bowl.
In his rst season with the

Eagles, Niupalau caught 28 balls
for 359 yards and four touchdowns.
For those who dont remember,
Niupalau, a 2010 graduate of San
Mateo, was the hero for the
Bearcats in their win over
Burlingame in the 2009 Little Big
Game. Niupalau outbattled and
outjumped a Burlingame defensive
back to catch a 44-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Mitch
Labbie with under a minute to
play to give San Mateo a 25-20
win over Burlingame the last
time the Bearcats won The Paw.
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NFL
The con to this is that it would
now pay for a badly beaten defensive back to dive and tackle a
receiver who was breaking open
for a sure touchdown.
Of course, the league could consider a major and minor version of
pass interference, though that has
the potential to raise as many
questions as it answers.
Targeting replay
Week 14 was Exhibit A, but
hardly the only example of an
instance in which officials could
have used help from the booth to
determine whether to eject a player for targeting to the head.
Darren Sproles of the Eagles
was moving forward to field a
punt when Deshazor Everett of the
Redskins launched himself into
Sproles and hit him helmet to helmet, knocking Sproles out of the
game.
In college, this play mightve
been sent to the booth to determine if the rule calling for an automatic ejection should be enforced.
The NFL does none of that, and
Pereira explained that the call wasnt as automatic as many outraged
posters on social media made it
sound.
Spotting the ball

The Nov. 21 game between the
Raiders and Texans may have been
the worst-called game of the season.
Among the misses: a pair of
questionable spots with the
Texans trying to gain short
yardage to keep a potentially goahead drive going. Replays indicated the officials may have
missed the spots both times. (That
Texans coach Bill OBrien didnt
challenge the first spot is another
issue).
The league is looking into technology already used in soccer:
inserting a chip into the football
that would help officials locate the
ball and make more accurate spots.
Its not as simple as to simply
have a chip in the football,
Blandino said. Players get in the
way, it doesnt tell us if the knee is
down, and there are other factors
that play into it that you dont
have in, say, tennis or soccer.
No fun league
Its become almost a weekly
exercise to see which NFL striped
shirt will throw a flag for
unsportsmanlike conduct on a
player trying a new celebration.
Thomas hugged an official;
Emmanuel Sanders wound up in the
manner of a baseball pitcher and
threw the football into the wall;
Antonio Brown twerked ; Odell
Beckham Jr. pretended to take a
picture of Victor Cruz while Cruz
was dancing.
Penalties for celebration were up
more than 50 percent from 2015
midway through the season.
Blandino said for all the fuss, only
27 had been called through Week
15. But the league will review the
rule in the offseason.
The (competition) committee
is really focused on not taking the
spontaneous emotion out of the
play, Blandino said, and not
take away that collegial feeling
with the fans in the stadium.
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GOP vexed by factions on replacing health law

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
WASHINGTON Republicans are united

on repealing President Barack Obamas
health care law, but ideologically and practically speaking, theyre in different camps
over replacing it. Getting the factions
together wont be easy.
Some Republicans would revise and
rebrand Obamacare, junking unpopular
provisions like its requirement that most
Americans carry health insurance, while
preserving well-liked parts. Others would
rip up the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, and
not replace it.
President-elect Donald Trump and
Republican congressional leaders will have
to unite the groups on complicated changes
affecting the financial and physical wellbeing of millions of people. For some constituents in fragile health, its literally a
life-and-death debate.
Republicans have a really narrow path,
says Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen
REUTERS
Institute, a free-market health care research Chairman of the House Budget Committee Tom Price announces the House Budget during
organization. Theyve got to deal with the a press conference on Capitol Hill.
politics of this, theyve got to make sure
Theyd strip out some of the ACAs taxes
they come up with good policy, and they done deliberately, in an appropriate
timetable.
and requirements. The unpopular individual
also have process challenges.
Republicans say they will move quickly mandate to carry health insurance or risk
Success is not guaranteed, and
Republicans may come to regret that their to repeal the ACA, while suspending the fines could be replaced with other persuaparty defined itself as totally opposed to effective date to allow them to craft a sion short of a government dictate. Rules
replacement. Heres a look at the GOP on insurers would be loosened.
Obamacare.
But popular provisions such as protectYet House Ways and Means Chairman camps and whos in them:
ing those with pre-existing health condiKevin Brady seems unfazed by the chalREVISE & REBRAND
tions would be retained in some form, as
lenge. Its like tax reform, says Brady, RMany Republicans may quietly be in this well as financial assistance for low- and
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goal of universal access politically
acceptable when measured against the
Democratic ideal of universal coverage
underwritten by government.
Many GOP allies in the business community favor revising the ACA. That includes
major players among hospitals, insurers
and pharmaceuticals.
Trump may have given this group some
cover by saying that he wants to keep parts
of the law, but his bottom line remains
unknown.
BUDGET HAWKS
For budget hawks, unwinding the Obama
health law is a beginning. Next they could
move on to much bigger objectives like
restructuring Medicaid and Medicare, and
placing a cost-conscious limit on tax
breaks for employer coverage.
Budget hawks see health care as the main
driver of government deficits, and they are
loath to address that imbalance by raising
taxes. Instead they want to rewrite the
social compact so individuals accept more
responsibility and risk for their health care.
House Speaker Paul Ryan is the most
prominent member of this camp, and his
Better Way agenda is its roadmap.
Georgia Rep. Tom Price, Trumps nominee
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hawk. Vice President-elect Mike Pence has
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Only one of these bags is ours, he said.
Other shoppers were similarly excited by
the abundance of sweeping holiday sales,
as well as relieved by the lack of pressure
to find gifts by a certain day. Marian
Chapin of San Mateo favors gift cards as
Christmas presents because she cant stand
the crowds that form in malls during the
holidays. On Dec. 26, Chapin was considering purchasing dozens of candles on sale
at White Barn a home fragrance collection at Bath & Body Works both for herself and for others as gifts throughout the
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do this.
The lawsuit also identifies the city of
Oakland and Alameda County as responsible
parties because the facility had not undergone a safety or code inspection in many
years.
Gregory, 20, was found in the rubble hugging her 22-year-old boyfriend Alex Vega,
of San Bruno.
He was trying to protect her, said
Alexander.
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year. But Chapin wasnt taking any

chances with the crowds, even after the
holiday rush.
I even called ahead to see how the mall
was before I came, she said.
San Mateo high school students and best
friends Andrea and Isabella were pleased
with the Christmas gifts they received this
year, but found that a few of them needed
some tweaking.
Were here to buy exactly what we wanted, and to find more exact sizes, said
Isabella.
The two agreed that giving the perfect
gift was just as important as receiving it.
I dont like giving things that people
dont want, said Andrea. Its a waste.
Their laser focus on finding the right gift
for the right person is not lost on those
hoping to increase sales during the holi-
days. Sales representatives at Hillsdale

Shopping Center stores were working with
an influx of returns this year.
It seems as though people didnt like
their gifts as much this year, said
Antoinette Franklin, who works at a
womens clothing store.
Franklin reported fewer exchanges and
more returns following Christmas Day,
with some decisions on whether to keep a
gift hinging on small but important
details.
One woman came in to return a jacket,
she said. She loved the item but couldnt
use the double zipper on it.
Kristi Dobbins, who works at The Lego
Store, worked with several customers who
were caught off guard by this years holiday
schedule.
This year, there were lots of last-minute
shoppers, she said. We had several people who were disappointed that we didnt
have specific products available.
In the wake of Christmas Day, Dobbins
has advised gift card holders and helped
customers exchange Lego sets they already
owned for new ones.
Eboni Session has been working at the
Hillsdale Bath & Body Works location for
five years, where the days after Christmas
are the years busiest. Because the store
begins its semi-annual sale on the same
day, she sees an uptick of customers looking to stock up for the new year and return
gifts that didnt make the cut.
This area is high in returns, she said.
Maybe its because there are so many different options available. They buy something here, leave and find something they
like better somewhere else.
San Francisco State University. Vega graduated from Capuchino High School in San
Bruno, and has been remembered by a
school counselor as quiet, creative and kind.
Foster City resident and San Mateo High
School graduate Jenny Morris died in the
fire too. Alexander is representing the family of victim Griffin Madden as well.
Gregory had been living with parents,
who are still struggling to process the challenge of coping with the death of their
daughter, said Alexander.
This has been so hard for them; the loss
of this beautiful, smart girl in such a senseless and preventable fire that should have
never happened, she said. It has been very
hard for them to come to grips with the fact
that she is never coming home.
Online crowdsourcing fundraisers benefitting the Gregory family have received more
than $18,000.
Gregory was among those partying on the
second floor of the converted warehouse and
makeshift residence in Oaklands Fruitvale
district when the blaze broke out.
She could not escape the fire as the juryrigged staircase designed from wooden pallets collapsed and trapped revelers upstairs
where they were overtaken by smoke and
flames, said Alexander.
Alexander said unfit conditions were rife
with opportunity for tragedy.
There was no fire alarm. No smoke
alarms. No lights. No way to escape this
inferno. They couldnt have built a more
flammable place. There was the kindling,
the wiring and even a gas stove. I couldnt

imagine a more reckless form of negligence
to put people in a situation where they
couldnt escape, she said.
The Alameda County District Attorneys
Office has launched a criminal investigation
into whether charges should be filed against
Almena, Ng or others responsible for the
facility and operations. Electrical issues
have been identified by inspectors as a likely source of the fire.
For her part, Alexander said she hopes the
lawsuits begin to offer some accountability
to those who are left mourning in the wake
of the fire now recognized as Oaklands
most deadly ever.
Its such a terrible loss and they want justice, she said.
HEALTH
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Minnesota beats rest of country in banning germ-killer

By Steve Karnowski
MINNEAPOLIS Minnesotas first-inthe nation ban on soaps containing the

once ubiquitous germ-killer triclosan
takes effect Jan. 1, but the people who
spearheaded the law say its already having its desired effect on a national level.
The federal government caught up to
Minnesotas 2014 decision with its own
ban that takes effect in September 2017.
Major manufacturers have largely phased
out the chemical already, with some products being marketed as triclosan-free. And
its an example of how changes can start at
a local level.
I wanted it to change the national situation with triclosan and it certainly has
contributed to that, said state Sen. John
Marty, an author of Minnesotas ban.
River and its allies in the Legislature,

including Marty, got Gov. Mark Dayton to
sign a ban in 2014 that gave the industry
until Jan. 1, 2017, to comply.
In September, the FDA banned triclosan
along with 18 other anti-bacterial chemicals from soaps nationwide, saying manufacturers had failed to show they were safe
or more effective at killing germs than
plain soap and water. However, the FDA
allowed the use of some triclosan products
such as Colgate Total toothpaste, saying
Studies began to show triclosan could disrupt sex and thyroid hormones and other bodily its effective at preventing gingivitis.
functions, and scientists were concerned routine use could contribute to the development of
Marty and Trevor Russell, the water proresistant bacteria.
gram director for Friends of the
Triclosan once was widely used in anti- tribute to the development of resistant Mississippi River, acknowledged they
bacterial soaps, deodorants and even bacteria. And University of Minnesota cant take direct credit for the FDAs action
toothpaste. But studies began to show it research found that triclosan can break because that rulemaking process began in
could disrupt sex and thyroid hormones down into potentially harmful dioxins in 1978, though it didnt finalize the rule
and other bodily functions, and scientists lakes and rivers.
until after a legal battle with the Natural
The group Friends of the Mississippi Resources Defense Council.
were concerned routine use could con-
HEALTH
on the ACA and Medicare.
The most conservative lawmakers want to

pull Obamacare up by the roots as if it
never existed, says Republican political
consultant Frank Luntz. That sentiment is
embodied by the 40 or so members of the
House Freedom Caucus, and its probably
broadly shared among conservatives.
Some do not believe the federal government should be involved in health care, and
they couldnt care less about replacing the
ACA.
They would say that Obamas plan has
failed, said Luntz.
GOP leaders may need these lawmakers to
THE RIP-IT-UP SOCIETY
career.
The problem for budget hawks is that the
2016 political campaign did not give them
a mandate. Issues like Medicare and
Medicaid were scarcely discussed. Trump
said he wouldnt cut Medicare, and sent conflicting signals on Medicaid.
Many Democrats cant wait for
Republicans to follow the call of the
budget hawks. Betting that will backfire,
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is
rallying her lawmakers against attacks
advance on replacement legislation; coaxing them to a middle ground might not be

possible.
Trump calls the ACA a disaster, and
thats pleasing to those farthest on the
right. Its unclear if hed walk their walk.
PRAGMATISTS
At the core of this small group are legislative veterans who understand the excruciating difficulties of getting major bills to a
presidents desk. GOP Sens. Lamar
Alexander of Tennessee and Susan Collins
of Maine are pragmatists.
They may find support from Republican
governors who expanded Medicaid under the
health law. GOP congressional leaders could
gravitate to this camp.

The biggest challenge for pragmatists
will be to win over some Democrats for
replacement legislation. While repealing
most of Obamacare is possible with a
simple majority in the Senate, 60 votes
would probably be needed for a replacement.
There will only be 52 GOP senators next
year.
Republicans need a fancy Rose Garden
repeal ceremony...and I expect them to have
one, said Dan Mendelson, CEO of the consulting firm Avalere Health. On the other
hand, theres 20 million people with health
insurance under the ACA, and they dont
want to dump them. Theres no clear path for
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Rogue One tops new releases

to dominate holiday box office
By Sandy Cohen
LOS ANGELES It was an intergalactic holiday at movie theaters as

Rogue One blasted past a spate of
new releases to hold onto the top spot
at the weekend box office.
The Star Wars story added another
$96 million to its coffers over the
four-day holiday period, according to
studio estimates Monday.
The power of the Star Wars brand
made it the odds-on favorite to be the
No. 1 film on Christmas weekend
despite a massive amount of competition, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior
media analyst for box-office tracker
comScore.
That left the weekends many new
releases in a race for second place. The
animated animal musical Sing
claimed that spot, debuting to $56 million. The Jennifer Lawrence-Chris Pratt
space tale Passengers opened in third
place with $23.1 million, followed by
the R-rated comedy Why Him? with
$16.7 million. The video-game adapta-
POLL
this year, because people will have
more jobs and theyll have more
money to spend, said Bourema
Tamboura, a Harlem resident behind
the wheel of a New York car service.
Im hoping 2017 will be better,
added Elizabeth Flynn, 62, an elementary
schoolteacher
from
Peabody, Massachusetts. Youve got
to be optimistic, and Im going to
try.
Democrats are more likely than
Republicans to say 2016 was worse
for the country than 2015. And
Republicans are especially likely to
feel that 2017 will be even better for
them personally.
University of Miami professor
Benjamin Alsup said he needed only
three words to explain why 2016 felt
worse for him: Trump, Trump,
Trump!
Robert Greenstone, a New York
commercial real estate broker, said
the political discourse leading up to
Republican Donald Trumps election
as president played havoc with peoples emotions.
The amount of disinformation
made people suspect of everything
and everyone, even their neighbors,
he said.
Top 10 movies
1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,
$47.1 million.
2.See You Tomorrow, $37.9 million.
3.Railroad Tigers, $29 million.
4.Sing, $27 million.
5.Dangal, $26.3 million.
6.The Great Wall, $26 million.
7.Master, $18.1 million.
8.Moana, $14.9 million.
9.Assassins Creed, $13.3 million.
10. Fantastic Beasts and Where to
Find Them, $8 million.
tion Assassins Creed debuted in fifth
place with $15 million.
Star Wars also dominated the holiday box office last year with The
Force Awakens.
Mid-December is kind of a magic
time to release a big franchise film,
Dergarabedian said, noting that the
top-grossing films of all time,
Avatar and Titanic, also opened in
mid-December.
Half a dozen other films either
U.S. ELECTION
LEADS TOP NEWS EVENTS
The U.S. elections top Americans
list of 10 top news events in 2016.
Three-quarters called the presidential
election and Trumps victory very or
extremely important.
Sixty-three percent ranked mass
shootings and bombings in Orlando,
Florida, and in Belgium, Turkey,
Pakistan and France as personally
important news stories of the year.
Fifty-one percent said they found
news stories about the deaths of people at the hands of police officers, or
news about ambush attacks on police
in three states, to be among the years
most important news events.
Fourth on the list are 43 percent who
described the spread of the Zika virus
as important.
The three events described by the
largest percentages of Americans as
not too important included the death of
Muhammad Ali (50 percent), approval
of recreational marijuana use in four
states (43 percent), and the death of
Fidel Castro (40 percent).
TOP MOMENTS IN
POP CULTURE AND SPORTS
A majority of Americans, including
7 in 10 Midwesterners, called
Novembers World Series win for the
Chicago Cubs to end their 108-year
drought memorable.
opened or expanded over the holiday

weekend. Denzel Washingtons adaptation of August Wilsons Fences
expanded on Sunday, earning $11.37
million over the four-day weekend,
good for sixth place.
While still in limited release, the
celebrated musical La La Land
opened in 534 additional theaters and
finished the weekend in eighth place.
Also opening over the long holiday
weekend: Pedro Almodovars Julieta,
Martin Scorseses Silence, J. A.
Bayonas dark fantasy A Monster
Calls, Ben Afflecks Live By Night
and the NASA drama Hidden Figures.
There were so many cinematic presents under the Christmas tree, it was
hard to keep track, Dergarabedian
said.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday
through Monday at U.S. and Canadian
theaters, according to comScore.
Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through
Monday are also included. Final
domestic figures will be released
Tuesday.
Of nine other pop-culture items tested, two were called memorable by
about half of Americans: the death of
Prince, David Bowie and Leonard
Cohen; and the Olympic victories of
the U.S. womens gymnastics team.
The two least-notable events for
Americans, of the 10 possible choices
in the poll, were the Angelina JolieBrad Pitt divorce filing and the
Pokemon Go app game phenomenon, each described by most as forgettable.
RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR

About half of Americans plan to celebrate the New Year at home. About 2
in 10 plan to go out to a friend or family members home, and 1 in 10 to a
bar or restaurant. About a quarter dont
plan to celebrate at all.
About 6 in 10 plan to watch the
Times Square ball drop, nearly all of
whom will watch on TV.
The AP-Times Square Alliance Poll of
1, 007 adults was conducted online
Dec. 9-11, using a sample drawn from
GfKs
probability-based
KnowledgePanel, which is designed to
be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for
all respondents is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The poll is a cooperative effort
between AP and the organizers of the
Times Square New Years Eve
Celebration, the Times Square Alliance
and Countdown Entertainment.
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Calendar
TUESDAY, DEC. 27
Classical Argentinian Guitar
Recital. 7 p.m. Belmont Library, 1110
Alameda de las Pulgas. For more
information
email
belmont@smcl.org.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28
Midday Meditation. Noon to 1 p.m.
150 San Mateo Road, Half Moon Bay.
Yoga
Nidra,
Transcendental
Meditation and Reiki. $5. For more
information contact patti@bondmarcom.com.
Movies at Grand. 6 p.m. Grand
Avenue Library, 306 Walnut St.,
South San Francisco. For more information email valle@plsinfo.org.
The Aliens Are Coming: What if its
True? 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 1095
Cloud Ave., Menlo Park. Come see
filmed interviews with UFO
researcher Stanton Friedman and
Mutual UFO Network director
Clifford Clift. Participants will discuss
their personal beliefs in extraterrestrial life. For more information call
854-5897.
Guitarist Carlos Pavan. 7 p.m.
Menlo Park Main Library, 800 Alma
St., Menlo Park. Carlos Pavan will perform a guitar recital with music from
Argentina as well as his own compositions. Admission is free. For more
information call 330-2501.
Make Christmas Great Again. 8
p.m. Dragon Productions Theatre
Company, 2120 Broadway, Redwood
City. Tickets cost $15 in advance or
you can pay at the door. For more
information email max@dragonproductions.net.
THURSDAY, DEC. 29
Carlos Pavan Classical Guitar
Recital. 7 p.m. 480 Primrose Road,
Burlingame. A new wave of modern
classical guitars mixed with tango
and
folklore
rhythms
from
Argentina. For more information
contact carlitospavan@gmail.com.
FRIDAY, DEC. 30
Reel Great Films: Peters Friends. 7
p.m. Belmont Library, 1110 Alameda
de las Pulgas. For more information
email belmont@smcl.org.
SATURDAY, DEC. 31
New Years Eve Service. 4:30 p.m.
Saint Roberts Church, 1380 Crystal
Springs Road, San Bruno. Free. For
more information call 589-2800
New Years Mass. 5 p.m. Our Lady of
Angels Catholic Church, 1721
Hillside Drive, Burlingame. Vigil Mass.
Free. For more information call 3477768.
New Years Eve Service. 7 p.m.,
Grace Lutheran Church, 2825
Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo.
Service of Corporate Confession and
Holy Absolution. Free. For more
New Years Eve Service. 7 p.m.
Grace Lutheran Church, 2825
Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo.
Service of Corporate Confession and
Holy Absolution. Free. For more
SUNDAY, JAN. 1
New Years Day Mass. 7 a.m., 8:30
a.m., 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Our
Lady of Angels Catholic Church,
1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. Free.
For more information call 347-7768.
New Years Day Service. 7:30 a.m.,
9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m., Saint
Roberts Church, 1380 Crystal
more information call 589-2800.
Divine Service. 9 a.m. Grace
Lutheran Church, 2825 Alameda de
las Pulgas, San Mateo. Free. For more
Worship Service. 10 a.m. Hope
Lutheran Church, 600 W. 42nd Ave.
San Mateo. Free For more information
visit
www.HopeLutheranSanMateo.org
TUESDAY, JAN. 3
Computer Coach. 10 a.m. to noon.
San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St., San
Carlos. Free and open to the public.
For more information call 591-0341
ext. 237.
E-Book Coach. 10 a.m. to noon. San
Carlos Library, 610 Elm St., San
For more information call 591-0341
ext. 237.
Afternoon
Breathing
and
Meditation. 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. 1

Library Ave., Millbrae. An instructor
from the Art of Living foundation
will be guiding basic breathing techniques and a rejuvenating meditation session. Afternoon breathing is
every first Tuesday. For more information contact 697-7607.
Information Meeting Foster Care
Program. 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 400
Harbor Blvd., Building B, Belmont.
Foster Care is a program that matches caring families with children and
youth who need safe, temporary
homes. At this meeting, learn more
about how you can make a positive
impact in a childs life. For more
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4
How to Clean Your Criminal
Record. Noon to 1 p.m. 710
Hamilton St., Redwood City. Attorney
Christopher Morales will discuss
these various ways to clean up a
criminal record, including even how
to obtain a Certificate of
Rehabilitation, and the steps necessary to apply for a pardon from the
governor or president. For more
information contact 363-4913.
THURSDAY, JAN. 5
First Thursdays. 7:30 p.m. to 9:30
p.m. Angelicas, 863 Main St.,
Redwood City. Starring Pamela Rose
and her swinging band and a
Hammong Organ Party Celebration.
Tickets range from $10 to $15. For
more
information
contact
groovesf228@att.net.
FRIDAY, JAN. 6
Free First Fridays. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
2200 Broadway, Redwood City. The
San Mateo County History Museum
continues Free First Fridays, where
admission is free all day. For more
information visit historysmc.org.
Adult Chess. 10 a.m. to noon. San
For more information call 5910341ext. 237.
Tai Chi. 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. San
For more information call 5910341ext. 237.
Service. 7 p.m. Grace Lutheran
Church, 2825 Alameda de las Pulgas,
San Mateo. Free. For more information call 345-9082.
SATURDAY, JAN. 7
Peninsula Girls Chorus Auditions.
10 a.m. to Noon. 1443 Howard Ave.,
Burlingame. No prior experience is
required. Interested singers should
download the audition information
packet and sign up for an audition at
the Peninsula Girls Chorus website
at peninsulagirlschorus.org/auditions.html. All scheduled auditions
will be confirmed by email. For more
Overeaters Anonymous. 10:15 a.m.
to noon. San Carlos Library, 610 Elm
St., San Carlos. Free and open to the
public. For more information call
591-0341ext. 237.
Jym Marks Quintet. 11 a.m. Menlo
Park Main Library, 800 Alma St.,
Menlo Park. Come to listen to progressive jazz of the 1960s, and a
short recital by local wordsmiths
The Poets Three. Admission is free.
For more information call 330-2501.
Asher Child. 7 p.m. 2120 Broadway,
Redwood City. This new musical by
Eli Melmon and Pyper Hayden
addresses common issues of teenhood. $10 for students; $12 general
admission. For more information
visit elimelmon.com/asherchild.
Feast of the Epiphany. 4:30 p.m.
Saint Roberts Church, 1380 Crystal
SUNDAY, JAN. 8
Feast of the Epiphany. 7:30 a.m.,
9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m., Saint
Roberts Church, 1380 Crystal
John Rothmann: Also Rans
Failed Presidential Candidates. 11
a.m. Menlo Park City Council
Chambers, 701 Laurel St., Menlo
Park. Radio host and political analyst
John Rothmann says that losers
often have a great impact on politics
and history. Admission is free. For
Asher Child. 1 p.m. 2120 Broadway,
Redwood City. This new musical by
Eli Melmon and Pyper Hayden
addresses common issues of teenhood. $10 for students; $12 general
admission. For more information
visit elimelmon.com/asherchild.
MONDAY, JAN. 9
Fiction Book Club. 10 a.m. to 11
a.m. San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St.,
San Carlos. Free and open to the
public. For more information call
591-0341ext. 237.
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ACROSS
1 Loud clamor
4 Walk off with
8 Hidden obstacle
12 Function
13 Unbecoming
14 Mixer for rum
15 NASA counterpart
16 Iditarod terminus
17 AAA suggestions
18 Enticing
20 Swing around
22 Latin I verb
23 Fernando band
25 Pack animals
29 Dilapidated
31 Incite
34 Golfers benchmark
35 Fizzy drink
36 Length unit
37 Crony
38 Fine
39 Yea, to a matador
40 Level best
42 NFL broadcaster
GET FUZZY
44 Western state
47 Coin eater
49 Will it play in ?
51 Leafy vegetable
53 Roman poet
55 Diamond org.
56 Cowboys shout
57 Holy cow!
58 Pipe bend
59 Fumbles for words
60 Lip, slangily
61 Do Easter eggs
DOWN
1 Oater showdown
2 Debate topic
3 Approaches
4 Road under a mountain
5 In a dither
6 Eur. airline
7 Gets a load of
8 Wash hard
9 Reporters pad
10 Tavern fare
11 Drivers fill-up
19 Dot in a river
21 Vegas
24 TVs Hawkeye
26 Dr.s visit
27 Polite address
28 Alices chronicler
30 Calendar box
31 Roswell crasher
32 Bit part
33 Is cautious (2 wds.)
35 voce
40 Famous numero
41 Soft leathers
43 Urgent requests
45 Ready to fight
46 Not flat
48 Fiddles with
49 Dice spots
50 Competent
51 Meter reading
52 Caught ya!
54 Travel word
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2016

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Take care of any
pressing money matters. Dont leave anything to
chance that could cause legal, financial or contractual
problems. Snap decisions will not work out well.
Explore your options.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Do something
constructive. Offer to help an organization or someone
who needs your help and wisdom. Make love and
romance a priority.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) Work on personal
improvements instead of trying to change others. Set
the stage for how you are going to head into the new
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Work-related problems
will crop up if you are too forthcoming with your
opinion. Keep your thoughts to yourself and focus on
taking care of business and honing your skills.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Communicate, say
whats on your mind and offer solutions to problems
that arise. Your input will make a difference to
someone or something you care about. Do something
nice for others.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Youll discover
something you enjoy doing and do well. Make an effort
to turn a hobby or pastime into a source of income.
Personal improvements are favored.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Dont spend money
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cash will allow you the freedom to pursue an intriguing
opportunity.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Host an event or gather with
your peers for a little festive cheer. Doing something
with children will bring you joy and improve your
relationship with the ones you love.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Emotional matters will
escalate if someone you live with puts demands on
your time. Be polite, but say no or offer alternatives
that work better for you.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Short trips, shopping
sprees or a new outfit for the end-of-year festivities
will make your day. A romantic evening will change
things in a big way.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Follow through with

an idea. The more you accomplish before the end of
the year, the easier it will be to finish what you start. A
bargain will play into your plans.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Changing the way
you live or how you spend your cash will help you put
your life back on course. Make stipulations that will
encourage others to help you reach your goals.
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127 Elderly Care
FAMILY RESOURCE
GUIDE
The San Mateo Daily Journals

twice-a-week resource guide for
children and families.
Every Tuesday & Weekend

Look for it in todays paper to
find information on family
resources in the local area,
including childcare.
203 Public Notices

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT #271599
The following person is doing business
as: Hana Hawaiian Barbeque, 482 San
Mateo Avenue, SAN BRUNO, CA 94066.
Registered Owner: Kimberly L. Koury, 60
Rowan Tree Lane, Hillsborough, CA
94010. The business is conducted by an
Individual. The registrants commenced
to transact business under the FBN on
N/A.
/s/Kimberly L. Koury/
This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk on 11/30/2016. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal,
12/6/16, 12/13/16, 12/20/16, 12/27/16).
STATEMENT #271670
as: JP Towing, 2080 Trinity St, SAN MATEO, CA 94403. Registered Owner: Jason Philipopoulos, same address. The
business is conducted by an Individual.
The registrants commenced to transact
business under the FBN on 1/1/17.
/s/Jason Philipopoulos/
12/13/16, 12/20/16, 12/27/16, 1/3/16).
STATEMENT #271460
as: Subway #46400, 530S Norfolk
Street, SAN MATEO, CA 94401. Registered Owner: Rohini Kumar, 127 N. Claremont Street, #B, San Mateo, CA 94401.
The business is conducted by an Individual. The registrants commenced to
transact business under the FBN on N/A.
/s/Rohini Kumar/
12/13/16, 12/20/16, 12/27/16, 01/03/17).
STATEMENT #271715
as: Sofi Belmont Hills, 2515 Carlmont
Drive, BELMONT, CA 94002. Registered Owner: PMI Belmont, LLC, DE.
The business is conducted by a Limited
Liability Company. The registrants commenced to transact business under the
FBN on 10/28/2016.
/s/Andrea Cu/
12/20/16, 12/27/16, 1/3/17, 1/10/17).
STATEMENT #271738
as: Mar Construction, 1009 S. Norfolk
Street, SAN MATEO, CA 94401. Registered Owner: Omar Martinez, same address. The business is conducted by an
Individual. The registrants commenced
to transact business under the FBN on
12/15/2016.
/s/Omar Martinez/
12/20/16, 12/27/16, 1/3/17, 1/10/17).

203 Public Notices
203 Public Notices

STATEMENT #271737
as: Cabinet World USA, 1501 Laurel St.,
SAN CARLOS, CA 94070. Registered
Owner: Omar Martinez, 1009 So. Norfolk
St., San Mateo, CA 94401. The business is conducted by an Individual. The
registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on 12/15/2016.
/s/Omar Martinez/
12/20/16, 12/27/16, 1/3/17, 1/10/17).
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF
Harold Martin Knoerle aka Harold Martin
Knoerle III
Case Number: 16PRO00623
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may
otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Harold Martin Knoerle
aka Harold Martin Knoerle III. A Petition
for Probate has been filed by Diana Lane
in
the Superior Court of California,
County of San Mateo. The Petition for
Probate requests that Diana Lane be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent
Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain
very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to
give notice to interested persons unless
they have waived notice or consented to
the proposed action.) The independent
administration authority will be granted
unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good
cause why the court should not grant the
authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in
this court as follows: January 30, 2017
at 9:00 a.m., Department 28, Superior
Court of California, County of San Mateo,
400 County Center, Redwood City, CA
94063.
If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing
and state your objections or file written
objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person
or by your attorney.
If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your
claim with the court and mail a copy to
the personal representative appointed by
the court within the later of either (1) four
months from the date of first issuance of
letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the
Calilfornia Probate Code, or (2) 60 days
from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under sectioin
9052 of the Callifornia Probate
Code.Other California statutes and legal
authority may affect your rights as a
creditor. You may want to consult with an
attorney knowledgable in California law.
You may examine the file kept by the
court. If you are a person interested in
the estate, you may file with the court a
Request for Special Notice (form DE154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition
or account as provided in Probate Code
section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner:
Jerome Galli
Galli Miller Law Corporation
5050 El Camino Real Suite 111
LOS ALTOS, CA 94022
(650) 336-7251
FILED: 12/18/16
(Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal on 12/21/16, 12/27/16, 1/02/17)

STATEMENT #271775
as: Medbux, 612 S. El Camino Real, #6,
SAN MATEO, CA 94402. Registered
Owner: Bilal Seadan, same address. The
business is conducted by an Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact
business under the FBN on January 1,
2017.
/s/Bilal Seadan/
12/27/16, 1/3/17, 1/10/17, 1/17/17.

STATEMENT #271768
as: Alliance Corporate, 1840 El Parque
Ct Apt C, SAN MATEO, CA 94403. Registered Owner: 1) Jose L Robles, same
address 2) Yunuhe B. Ibarra, same address. The business is conducted by a
General Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the
FBN on N/A.
/s/Yunuhe B. Ibarra/
12/27/16, 1/3/17, 1/10/17, 1/17/17.

STATEMENT #271565
as: DPN Consulting Services, 760 28th
Avenue, SAN MATEO, CA 94403. Registered Owner: 1) Doriel Pearson-Nishioka,
same address 2) Fred Y. Nishioka,
same address. The business is conducted by a Married Couple. The registrant
commenced to transact business under
the FBN on January 1, 2016.
/s/Doriel Pearson-Nishioka/
12/27/16, 1/3/17, 1/10/17, 1/17/17.
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF
THE USE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT 260899
Name of the person abandoning the use
of the Fictitious Business Name: Rebecca Hazen. Name of Business: Rebels
Elite. Date of original filing: May 20,
2014. Address of Principal Place of Business: 389 Oyster Point Blvd. Unit 8F,
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94080.
Registrant: Rebecca B. Hazen, 3901 Lick
Mill Blvd. Apt. 334, Santa Clara, CA
95054. The business was conducted by
an Individual.
/s/Rebecca B. Hazen/
This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo
County on 12/14/16. (Published in the
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/20/16,
12/27/16, 1/03/17, 1/10/17).
Tundra
Tundra
Tundra
Over the Hedge
Over the Hedge
Over the Hedge
296 Appliances
300 Toys
303 Electronics
1960'S AVOCADO Osterizer blender

excellent condition $20.00 (650)5960513
3-STORY BARBIE Dollhouse with spiral

staircase and elevator. $60. (650)5588142
Yamaha model CDC 91 - 5 disc CD player. free. tmckay1@sbcglobal.net.
AIR CONDITIONER 10000 BTU w/remote. Slider model fits all windows. LG
brand $199 runs like new. (650)2350898
ALLOYED LINOTYPE (BNH ~18) for

casting miniature/board-game figurines.
10#, $15.00. (650) 591-4553
AIR CONDITIONER, Portable, 14,000

BTU,
Commercial
Cool
model
CPN14XC9, almost like new! All accessories plus remote included.
20 x 16-5/8 x 33-1/2 $345.
(650)345-1835
CHEFMATE TOASTER oven, brand
new, bakes, broils, toasts, adjustable
temperature. $25 OBO. (650)580-4763
STAR WARS one 4 orange card action figure, Momaw Nadon (Hammerhead). $8 Steve 650-518-6614
STAR WARS SDCC Stormtrooper
Commander $29 OBO Dan,
650-303-3568 lv msg
302 Antiques
CIRRUS STEAM mop model SM212B 4

new extra cleaning pads,user manual.
$45. 650-5885487
ANTIQUE BUFFET Cabinet, with 2 large

drawers w/skeleton key, needs refinishing. $700/obo.. ANTIQUE CHINA cabinet, with doors and legs, dark wood..
$500/obo. (650)952-5049
COLEMAN LXE Roadtrip Grill Red Brand New! (still in box) $100
(650)918-9847
ANTIQUE ITALIAN lamp 18 high, $70

(650)387-4002
JACK LALANE'S power juicer. $40.

Call 650 364-1243. Leave message.
NSA AIR PurifierGood Condition Paid
$190Yours for $20. (510)363 4865
TOASTER OVEN, Black & Decker, 4Slice, 1200W, Toast, Bake, Broil;
TRO480BS - $12 (650) 952-3500
210 Lost & Found
UPRIGHT VACUUM Cleaner, $10. Call

Ed, (415)298-0645 South San Francisco
FOUND: KEYS at Westwood Park in

Redwood City, off of Fernside. Call to
claim (650)714-8893
WHIRLPOOL WASHER DRYER, GE

Refrigerator all working and in good condition all for $99.00 650-315-3240.
FOUND: LADIES watch outside Safeway Millbrae 11/10/14 call Matt,

(415)378-3634
297 Bicycles
LOST - MY COLLAPSIBLE music stand,

clip lights, and music in black bags were
taken from my car in Foster City and may
have been thrown out by disappointed
thieves. Please call (650)704-3595
ADULT BIKES 1 regular and 2 with balloon tires $30 Each (650) 347-2356
BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE Victorian

Side Sewing Table, All original. Rosewood. Carved. EXCELLENT CONDITION! $350. (650)815-8999.
MAHOGANY ANTIQUE Secretary desk,
72 x 40 , 3 drawers, Display case, bevelled glass, $500. (650)766-3024
46 MITSUBISHI Projector TV, great

condition. $400. (650)261-1541.
BLAUPUNKT AM/FM/CD Radio and Receiver with Detachable Face asking

$100. (650)593-4490
LOST CAT Our Felicity, weighs 7 lbs,

she has a white nose, mouth, chin, all
four legs, chest stomach, around her
neck. Black mask/ears, back, tail. Nice
REWARD.
Please
email
us
at
joandbill@msn.com or call 650-5768745. She drinks water out of her paws.
1940 VINTAGE telephone bench maple

antiques collectibles $75 (650)755-9833
BULOVA WINDUP Travel clocks.Vintage. Set of eight. $99. gene (650)4215469
QUALITY BOOKS used and rare. World

& US History and classic American novels. $5 each obo (650)345-5502
294 Baby Stuff
MILLER LITE Neon sign , work good

$59 call 650-218-6528
RENO SILVER LEGACY Casino four
rare memorabilia items, casino key, two
coins, small charm. $95. (650)676-0974
SCHILLER HIPPIE poster, linen, Sparta
graphics 1968. Mint condition. $600.00.
(650)701-0276
COMPLETE COLOR photo developer

Besler Enlarger, Color Head, trays, photo
tools $50/ 650-921-1996
DINING ROOM table Good Condition

$90.00 or best offer ( 650)-780-0193
DRUM TABLE - brown, perfect condition, nice design, with storage, $45.,
(650)345-1111
ENTERTAINMENT CENTER 5'x4' glass
door / shell / drawers / roller ex $25/BO
(650)992-4544
ENTERTAINMENT CENTER for $50.
Good shape, blonde, about 5' high.
(650)726-4102
INFINITY FLOOR speakers H 38" x W

11 1/2" x D 10" good $50. (650)756-9516
ONKYO AV Receiver HT-R570 .Digital

Surround, HDMI, Dolby, Sirius Ready,
Cinema Filter.$95/ Offer 650-591-2393
RECORDABLE CD-R 74, Sealed, Unopened, original packaging, Samsung, 12X,

(650) 578 9208
ORIGINAL AM/FM 1967/68 Honda Radio for $50. (650)593-4490
296 Appliances
300 Toys
PIONEER HOUSE Speakers, pair. 15

inch 3-way, black with screens. Work
great. $99.(650)243-8198
CHARCOAL GRILL with cover, 24, almost new $25. (650)368-0748
LARGE STUFFED ANIMALS - $3 each

Great for Kids (650) 952-3500
SAMSUNG FLAT TV 20" ex.co.incl.

VCR ,set up $70. (650)992-4544
Fax your request to: 650-344-5290

Email them to: ads@smdailyjournal.com
DINETTE TABLE, 3 adjustable leaf.$30.

(650) 756-9516.Daly City.
MOTOROLA BRAVO MB 520 (android

4.1 upgrade) smart phone 35$ 8GB SD
card Belmont (650)595-8855
HIGH CHAIR (wooden) excellent condition $35.00 (650)348-2306
Published in the Daily Journal for San Mateo County.
DINETTE TABLE with Chrome Legs: 36"

x58" (with one leaf 11 1/2") - $50.
(650)341-5347
FREE: TWO full-size featherbeds. Excellent

condition.
Redwood City
location. 650-503-4170.
OPTIMUS H36 ST5800 Tower Speaker

36x10x11 $30. (650)580-6324
Fictitious Business Name Statements,

Trustee Sale Notice, Name Change, Probate,
Notice of Adoption, Divorce Summons,
Notice of Public Sales and More.
COMPUTER SWIVEL CHAIR. Padded

Leather. $80. (650) 455-3409
LEFT-HAND ERGONOMIC keyboard

with 'A-shape' key layout Num pad, $20
(650)204-0587
KOGI 15 inch computer monitor. Model

L5QX. $25. PH(650)592-5864.
LEGAL NOTICES
COAT/HAT STAND, solid wood, for your

mountain cabin/house. $50. (650)5207045
ESPRESSO TABLE 30 square, 40 tall,

$95 (650)375-8021
ONKYO AV Receiver HT-R570 .Digital

Surround, HDMI, Dolby, Sirius Ready,
Cinema Filter.$95/ Offer 650-591-2393
FISHER-PRICE HEALTHY Care booster

seat - $5 (650)592-5864.
CHAIRS 2 Blue Good Condition $50

OBO (650)345-5644
IPHONE 5 Morphie Juice Pack with

charger, Originally $100, now $85.
(650)766-2679
299 Computers
BASSINET $25 (Musical, Rocks, vibrates, has 4 wheels, includes sheets &
mattress) (650)348-2306
BEIGE SOFA $99. Excellent Condition

(650) 315-2319
CUSTOM MADE wood sewing storage

cabinet perfect condition $75. (650)4831222
1920'S AQUA Glass Beaded Flapper

Purse (drawstring bag) & Faux Pearl
Flapper Collar. $50. 650-762-6048
Books
BAR STOOLS 2 (matching) Wood Cushioned Fair Condition $20 each. (510)363
4865
303 Electronics
LOST - Womans diamond ring. Lost

12/18. Broadway, Redwood City.
REWARD! (650)339-2410
LOST SMALL gray and green Parrot.

Redwood Shores. (650)207-2303.
ANTIQUE MAHOGANY double bed with

adjustable steelframe $225.00. OBO.
(650)592-4529
COUCH, CREAM IKEA, great condition,

$89, light-weight, compact, sturdy loveseat (415)775-0141
BAZOOKA SPEAKER 20, +10W, never

used $95. (650)992-4544
LENNOX RED Rose, Unused, hand

painted, porcelain, authenticity papers,
$12.00. (650) 578 9208.
ANTIQUE MAHOGANY Bookcase. Four

feet tall. $75. (415) 282-0966.
STORE FRONT display cabinet, From

1930, marble base. 72 long x 40 tallx
21 deep. Asking $500. (650)341-1306
298 Collectibles
DOLLIES, 30 various sizes, hand crochet dollies.$30.(650)596-0513
ANTIQUE DINING table for six people

with chairs $99. (650)580-6324
COMPUTER TABLE, adjustable height,

chrome legs, 29x48 like new $30 (650)
697-8481
CHILDS BICYCLE in good condition.

$30. 650 355-5189
BILLY DEE Williams autographed Star

Wars action figure: Lando Calrissian,
space smuggler. $35 Steve 650-5186614
304 Furniture
5 FOOT resin folding table, still in the
box $20.00 (650)368-0748
OLD VINTAGE Wooden Sea Captains

Tool Chest 35 x 16 x 16, $65
(650)591-3313
60 GIG Ipod, Does not work.

Battery/hard drive not working. $25.
(650)208-5758
LOST CAT. Black and White. Black

patch on right eye. REWARD.
Call (323) 439-7713.
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SAMSUNG FLAT TV 20" ex.co.incl.

VCR ,set up $70. (650)992-4544
SONY DHG-HDD250 DVR and programable remote.
Record OTA. Clock set issues $99 650595-8855
LAWN CHAIRS (4) White, plastic, $8.

each, (415)346-6038
LEATHER SOFA, black, excellent condition. $100 obo. (650)878-5533
LOVE SEAT, Upholstered pale yellow
floral $99. (650)574-4021
MAHOGANY BOOKCASE 40"W x 15"D
x 41"H. Double doors with lock & key.
$35 650-832-1448
$35 650-832-1448
$35 650-832-1448
NEW DELUXE Twin Folding Bed, Linens, cover, Cost $618. Sale $250. Must
Sell! (650) 875-8159.
NEW TWIN Mattress set plus frame
$30.00 (650) 347-2356
NICE WOOD table 36"L x19"W x20"H
$30.(415)231-4825.Daly City
SONY PROJECTION TV 48" with remote good condition $99 (650)345-1111
NICE WOOD table 36"L x19"W x20"H

$30.(415)231-4825.Daly City
TOMTOM GPS U.S. + Canada $25 650595-3933
OAK BOOKCASE, 30"x30" x12". $25.

(650)726-6429
VINTAGE G.E. radio, model c-430-a

$60. (650)421-5469
OAK BOOKCASE, 30"x30" x12". $25.

(650)726-6429
VINTAGE G.E. radio, model c-442c $60.

(650)421-5469
OAK SIX SHELF Book Case 6FT 4FT

$55 (650)458-8280
VINTAGE G.E. radio, model c1470 $60.

(650)421-5469
OAK SIX SHELF Book Case 6FT 4FT

$55 (650)458-8280
VINTAGE ZENITH radio, model L516b

$75. (650)421-5469
OUTDOOR WOOD SCREEN - new $80

obo Retail $130 (650)873-8167
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THE DAILY JOURNAL
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS
1 Pilgrim to Mecca
6 Give and take
10 Bay Area airport
letters
13 Hang trimmings
on
14 Folded Mexican
fare
15 Head, slangily
16 Shellfish dish in a
cream sauce
19 WWII spy gp.
20 Feature of some
sweatshirts
21 Poetic tribute
22 Subtle facial signal
23 Ready for ice
skating
24 Drivers ID
figures
28 Convention
clip-on
29 Genetic material
30 Fringe benefit
31 Swiss currency
33 Clotheshorse
36 My gal of song
37 Visibly nervous
38 Exhort
39 Prefix with cycle
40 Irritant in your
side
41 Chemical used
for quick freezing
47 Stores, as ashes
48 Ark builder
49 Rub off the board
50 Will you let me?
51 Texters Wow!
54 The Times in Los
Angeles, e.g.
57 Acorn tree
58 Moon goddess
59 Eastern guru
60 Part of wpm:
Abbr.
61 Capp of comics
62 Popular
afternoon talk
show, familiarly,
and a
homophonic hint
to this puzzles
four longest
answers
5 Latest fad
6 Scoring unit, in
golf
7 Tool needed at
Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and
Wizardry
8 Expert
9 Apple computer
discontinued in
2006
10 Hay fever
symptom
11 Painter of fakes
12 MDs that bring
out the kid in you?
17 Ages
18 Oozy gunk
22 Watered down
23 __ bone (no
laughing matter,
really)
24 ChapStick
targets
25 Creative process
output
26 PC key
27 Minn. neighbor
31 Slush moneys
32 Word with drop
or fall
33 Kissable fairy tale
figure
34 Less kissable
fairy tale figure
35 State founder
William
37 Exacta relative
38 I was afraid of
this
40 Walk aimlessly
41 Stay under the
radar
42 Bit of progress
43 Duck calls
44 __ Major: Big
Dipper
constellation
304 Furniture
310 Misc. For Sale
OFFICE TABLE, 24"x48" HD. folding

legs each end. 500# capacity. Cost
$130. Sell $60, 650-591-4141
500-600 BIG Band-era 78's--most mint,

no sleeves--$50 for all--650-574-5459
PAPASAN CHAIRS (2) -with cushions

$45. each set, (650)347-8061
45 More or less
46 Mattel
specialty
50 Fix
51 October
birthstone
52 Viral internet
phenomenon
53 Put on a happy
face
55 Religious sister
56 Leatherwork
tool
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
RECLINER CHAIR blue tweed clean

good $75 Call 650 583-3515
CHRISTMAS TREE, 7.5 Oregon pine,

1225 tips, hooked construction with
stand. Used once. $49. (415)650-6407
RECLINING SWIVEL & high-back chair

(Hampton) exc condition $30 (650) 7569516 Daly City.
CIAO SMALL Black Duffel Carry-on,

Overnight or Tote bag with shoulder
strap, $15 650-952-3500
RECLINING SWIVEL chair almost new

$99 650-766-4858
ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER,
condition $50 (650)878-9542
ROCKING CHAIR fine light, oak condition with pads, $85/OBO. 650 369 9762
GAME "BEAT THE EXPERTS" never

used $8., (408)249-3858
ROCKING CHAIRS solid wood, great

shape asking 30 dollars each. Call
(650)574-4582 Lily
INCUBATOR, $99, (650)678-5133
RUMMY ROYAL poker table top $30.00

(650)573-5269
SHELF RUBBER maid
contract joe 650-573-5269
new $20.00
SOFA & Love seat perfect condition $99

Edie 650 345 8981
TEAK-VENEER COMPUTER desk with
single drawer and stacked shelves. $30
obo. 650-465-2344
THOMASVILLE BEVELED mirror 22" x
12" $50. Call 650-834-4833
WALNUT CHEST, small (4 drawer with
upper bookcase $50. (650)726-6429
WOOD - wall Unit - 30" long x 6' tall x
17.5" deep. $90. (650)631-9311
WOOD FURNITURE- one end table and
coffee table. In good condition. $30
OBO. (760)996-0767.
306 Housewares
10 TULIP CHAMPAGNE
FOR $12 (415)990-6134
GLASSES
CHRISTMAS TREE China, Fairfield

Peace on Earth. Complete Set of 12 (48
pieces) $75. 650-493-5026
COMPLETE SET OF CHINA - Windsor
Garden, Noritake. Four place-settings,
20-pieces in original box, never used.
$250 per box
(3 boxes available).
(650)342-5630
NEW
ELECTRIC
$19 650-595-3933
Waxer/Polisher,
PORCELAIN JAPANESE Tea set, Unopened, in wood box, great gift $30.
(650)578-9208.
PRE-LIT 7 ft Christmas tree. Three sections, easy to assemble. $50. 650 349
2963.
SOLID TEAK floor model 16 wine rack
with turntable $60. (650)592-7483
308 Tools
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ALUMINUM LADDERS 40ft, $99 for two,

Call (650)481-5296
BENCH SAW - 8 INCH includes attached table and accessories $35 (650)3680748
BOSTITCH 16 gage Finish nailer Model
SB 664FN $99 (650)359-9269
CRAFTSMAN 9" Radial Arm Saw with 6"
dado set. No stand. $55 (650)341-6402
CRAFTSMAN JIGSAW 3.9 amp. with
variable speeds $65 (650)359-9269
CRAFTSMAN RADIAL Arm Saw Stand.
In box. $30. (650)245-7517
CRAFTSMAN RADIAL SAW, with cabinet stand, $200 Cash Only, (650)8511045
CRAFTSMEN 3 saw blades $20. new.
(650)573-5269
DELTA CABINET SAW with overrun table. $650/obo. ((650)342-6993
DYNAGLOPRO
HEATER.
Phone: 650-591-8062
$40.00
PAINTING TOOLS - hooks, stirrups 110

ropes, poles, 20 plank, 440 Graco Spary
Machine, $500, Asking (650)-483-8048
ROUTER TABLE ryobi $ 99. like new
650-573-5269
SHOPSMITH MARK V 50th Anniversary
most
attachments.
$1,500/OBO.
(650)504-0585
VINTAGE CRAFTSMAN Jig Saw. Circa
1947. $60. (650)245-7517
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VINTAGE SHOPSMITH and BAND

SAW, good shape. $500/obo. Call
(650)342-6993
309 Office Equipment

NEAT RECEIPTS Mobile Scanner new
in box $79, call 650-324-8416
NEW MS Wireless keyboard, $13, 650595-3933
12/27/16
8 TRACKS, billy Joel, Zeppelin, Eagles

,Commodores, more.40 @ $4 each , call
650-393-9908
good
LIONEL CHRISTMAS Boxcars 2005,

2006, 2007 New OB $90 lot 650-3687537
LIONEL CHRISTMAS Holiday expansion Set. New OB $99 650-368-7537
LIONEL WESTERN Union Pass car and
dining car. New OB $99 650-368-7537
RMT CHRISTMAS Diesel train and Caboose. Rare. New OB $99 650-368-7537
SAMSONITE 26" tan hard-sided suit
case, lt. wt., wheels, used once/like new.
$60. 650-328-6709
SILK SAREE 6 yards new nice color.for
$35 only. C all(650)515-2605 for more information.
ULTRASONIC JEWELRY Cleaning Machine Cleans jewelry, eyeglasses, dentures, keys. Concentrate included. $30
OBO. (650)580-4763
UNIDEN HARLEY Davidson Gas Tank
phone. $100 or best offer 650-863-8485
VASE WITH flowers 2 piece good for the
Holidays, $25., (650) 867-2720
VINTAGE WHITE Punch Bowl/Serving
Bowl Set with 10 cups plus one extra
$30. (650)873-8167
WAGON WHEEL Wooden, original from
Colorado farm. 34x34
Very good
aged condition $200 San Bruno
(650)588-1946
WATER STORAGE TANK, brand new,
275 gallons. 48" x 46" x 39" $250. 650771-6324
311 Musical Instruments

BALDWIN GRAND PIANO, 6 foot, excellent condition, $8,500/obo. Call
(510)784-2598
EXCELLENT VIOLIN, previously owned,
first violinist SF Symphony, Mellow
sound. Dated 1894. $5,500/best offer.
(415)751-2416
FENDER BASS amp 25 watt. electrical
issue box and speaker very good
$45. (650)367-8146
GULBRANSEN BABY GRAND PIANO Appraised @ $5450., want $1800 obo,
(650)343-4461
HAMMOND B-3 Organ and 122 Leslie
Speaker. Excellent condition. $8,500. private owner, (650)349-1172
HARMONICA.
HOHNER Pocket Pal.
Key of C. Original box. Never used.
$10. (650)588-0842
LEXICON LAMBDA cubase LE $60.00
call Patter (650)367-8146
MONARCH UPRIGHT player piano $99
(650) 583-4549
PIANO, UPRIGHT, in excellent condition. Asking $345. (650)366-4769
UPRIGHT PIANO. In tune. Fair condition. $300 OBO (650) 533-4886.
YAMAHA PIANO, Upright, Model M-305,
$750. Call (650)572-2337
312 Pets & Animals

AIRLINE CARRIER for cats, pur. from
Southwest Airlines, $25, 2 available. Call
(505-228-1480) local.
CANARY BIRD cage 24 x 16 for sale.
$40.00 firm. Used, good condition. Call
650-766-3024
ONE KENNEL Cab ll one Pet Taxi animal carriers 26x16. Excellent cond. $60..
650-593-2066
PARROT CAGE, Steel, Large - approx
4 ft by 4 ft, Excellent condition $300 best
offer. (650)245-4084
PET CARRIER, brown ,Very good condition, $15.00 medium zize leave txt or call
650 773-7201
316 Clothes
BLACK DOUBLE breasted suit size 38
excellent condition $25 650-322-9598
BOY SCOUT canvas belt with Boy Scout
Buckle. Vintage. Fair condition. $5.
(650)588-0842
310 Misc. For Sale
FAUX FUR Coat Woman's brown multi

color in excellent condition 3/4
length $50 650-692-8012
"MOTHER-IN-LAW TONGUES" plants,

3 in 5-gal cans. $10.00 each. 650/5937408.
LADIES BOOTS size 8 , 3 pairs different

styles , $20/ pair. call 650-592-2648
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316 Clothes
318 Sports Equipment
345 Medical Equipment
LADIES SEQUIN dress, blue, size XL,

pure silk lining, $40.00, (650) 578-9208
CHILDS KICK scooter by razor with helmet $25 obo (650)591-6842
LEATHER JACKET, New Black Italian

style, size M Ladies $45 (650) 875-1708
FITNESS STEPPER compact

(12"x16") Hardly used! $50. Call
650-766-3024
BATH CHAIR LIFT. Peterman battery

operated bath chair lift. Stainless steel
frame. Accepts up to 350lbs. Easily inserted I/O tub.$250 OBO.
(650) 739-6489.
HIP HOUSING
Non-Profit Home Sharing Program
San Mateo County
(650)348-6660
Garage Sales
620 Automobiles
MAN'S BLACK leather jacket, size 40,

like new. $85.00 (650)593-1780
MEN'S STETSON hat, size large, new,
rim, solid black, large, great gift. $40
(650) 578-9208
NEW JOCKEY Men's Classic Crew
white tshirts (L) 3pk $15/each (5 available) 650.952.3466
NEW WITH tags Wool or cotton Men's
pullover
sweaters
(XL)
$15/each
(650)952-3466
PARIS HILTON purse white & silver unused, about 12" long x 9" high $23. 650592-2648
PRADA DAYPACK / Purse, Sturdy black
nylon canvas, like new, made in Italy,
$35 (650)591-6596
SIZE 38 tan gabardine navy officers uniform great condition Perfect for that costume party. Free. 322-9598
SNUG BOOTS, lambskin,
$10, 650-595-3933
size
M,
VELVET DRAPE, 100% cotton, new

beautiful burgundy 82"X52" W/6"hems:
$45 (415)585-3622
VINTAGE 1970S Grecian made dress,
size 6-8, $35 (650)873-8167
WILSON'S LG Green Suede Jacket
$50.00 (650)367-1508
317 Building Materials

CULTURED MARBLE 2 tone BR vanity
counter top. New toe skin/ scribe. 29 x
19 $300 (408)744-1041
SHUTTERS 2 wooden shutters 32x72
like new $50.00 ea.call 650 368-7891
sized
GOLF CLUBS {13}, Bag, & Pull Cart all-$90.00 (650)341-8342

GOLF CLUBS, new, Warrior woods
3/15 degree 5/21 degree 7/24 degree
$15 ea (650)349-0430
Golf Clubs, used set with Cart for $50.
(650)593-4490
IGLOO BLUE 38-Quart Wheelie Cool
Cooler/Ice Chest $14 650-952-3500
KAYAK 12' sit on top 2 storage compartments baby blue must see $99.00 john
650- 483-8152
LADIES MCGREGOR Golf Clubs
Right handed with covers and pull cart
$150 o.b.o. (650)344-3104
MEN'S ROSSIGNOL Skis.
good condition, 650-341-0282.
$95.00,
NEW WEIGH bench With 200lbs, plus

free weights. $50. 510-943-9221.San
Mateo.
POWER PLUS Exercise Machine
(650)368-3037
$99
PRINCE TENNIS 2 section nylon black

Bag with Prince Pro Graphite Racket$55.(650)341-8342
PURSUIT SCOOTER. $99. 650-3482235
TOTAL GYM XLS, excellent condition.

Paid $2,500. Yours for $900. Call
(650)588-0828
TREADMILL BY PRO-FORM. (Hardly
Used). 10% incline, 2.5 HP motor, 300lb
weight capacity. $329 (650)598-9804
VINTAGE ENGLISH ladies ice skates up to size 7-8, $40., (650)873-8167
318 Sports Equipment
VINTAGE NASH Cruisers Mens/ Womens Roller Skates Blue indoor/outdoor sz

6-8. $60 B/O. (650)574-4439
15 SF Giants Posters -- Barry Bonds,

Jeff Kent, JT Snow. 6' x 2.5' Unused. $4
each. $35 all. (650)588-1946 San Bruno
WET SUIT - medium size, $95., call for

info (650)851-0878
BUSHNELL NEO XS Golf Watch with

charger. Mint condition. 30,000+ golf
courses. $50. Jeff 650-208-5758
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SOCCER BALLS - $8.00 each (like new)

4 available. (650)341-5347
WHITE DOUBLE pane window for $29

or Best offer. Call Halim @ (650) 6785133.
BRIDGESTONE WHOPPER Golf Club

#1 Driver Fair Condition Paid $295 Yours
for $20. (510)363 4865
GARAGE SALES
ESTATE SALES
WOMEN'S LADY Cougar gold iron set

set - $25. (650)348-6955
WOMEN'S NORDICA ski boots, size 8
1/2. $50 650-592-2047
YAMAHA ROOF RACK, 58 inches $75.
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Cleaning
379 Open Houses
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02 CHEVY Trailblazer,
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200k
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BMW 07 X-5, One Owner, Excel. Condition Sports package 3rd row seats reduced $19,995 obo Call (650)520-4650
CADILLAC 02 Deville, 8 cylinder, perfect condition, like new, cashmere outside white inside 4787 miles $13,000.
(415)850-2370
CADILLAC 99 DeVille Concours,
98,500 miles, $3,500 or best offer.
(650)270-6637
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Call 1- 800-943-8412
JAGUAR 94 XJ6, very clean, 110K

miles, $4,200. (650)302-5523
TOYOTA 06 Prius, 149K, clean. $6,500
(650)302-5523
625 Classic Cars

1955 CHEVY BEL AIR 2 door, Standard
Transmission V8 Motor, non-op $22,000
obo. (650)952-4036.
86 CHEVY CORVETTE. Automatic.
93,000 miles. Sports Package.$6,800
obo. (650) 952-4036.
CORVETTE 69 STINGRAY 327, Horsespeed SPS, 50.000 miles. $18,500.
(650)481-5296.
FORD 64 Falcon. 4DR Sedan. 6 cyl.
auto/trans $3,500.00. (650) 570-5780.
630 Trucks & SUVs
AA SMOG
Complete Repair & Service

$24.75 plus certificate fee
(most cars)
869 California Drive .

Burlingame
(650) 340-0492
LUXURATI AUTO REPAIR
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Burlingame & San Mateo Locations
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LINCOLN 02 Navigator, excellent condition. Runs great! Must sell! $4,500/obo.

(650)342-4227.
670 Auto Parts
635 Vans
BRIDGESTONE TURANZA RFT (Run

Flat) 205/55/16 EL42 used 70% left $80.
(650)483-1222
CHEVROLET 06 Mini VAN, new radiator, tires and brakes. Needs head gasket.
$1,200. (650)481-5296
640 Motorcycles/Scooters
89 GOLD WING. 1500 CC. 39K miles.
Call Joe 650-578-8357
ALPINE STAR motocross boots Tech 8s
size 14 good cond. $75. (650)345-5642
ATV MOTORCYCLE Lift $50.00
Patter (650)367-8146
call
BRIDGESTONE TURANZA RFT (Run

Flat) 205/55/16 EL 42 All Season Like
New $100. (650)483-1222
FIRESTONE TIRES 215/70/R16 good
condition $50. (650) 504-6057
GOODYEAR TIRE P245/70R-15 Like
New, really $55. (650) 637-9791
NEW CONTINENTAL Temporary tire
mounted on 5 lug rim Size T125/70/R1798M $100. (650)483-1222
CHEVY HHR 08 - Grey, spunky car

loaded, even seat warmers, $9,500.
(408)807-6529.
MOTORCYCLE SADDLEBAGS, with

mounting hardware and other parts $35.
Call (650)670-2888
SHOP MANUALS for GM Suv's

Year 2002 all for $40 (650)948-0912
DODGE
99 Van, Good Condition,
$5,500, childs play three, call
(650)481-5296
Concrete
Construction
645 Boats
680 Autos Wanted
16 FT SEA RAY. I/B. $1,200. Needs Upholstery. Call 650-898-5732.

2003 P-15 West Wight Potter sailboat,
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condition.
$7,200.
Call
(650)347-2559
Wanted 62-75 Chevrolets

Novas, running or not
Parts collection etc.
So clean out that garage
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Kremlin plays down terror

attack possibility in jet crash
By Vladimir Isachankov
and Veronkia Silchenko
SOCHI, Russia The Kremlin

on Monday played down the possibility that a terror attack might
have downed a Syria-bound
Russian plane, killing all 92 people on board, as the nation
observed a day of mourning for the
victims, including most members
of a world famous military choir.
The Tu-154 owned by the
Russian Defense Ministry crashed
into the Black Sea early Sunday
two minutes after taking off in
good weather from the city of
Sochi. The plane was carrying
members of the Alexandrov
Ensemble, often referred to as the
Red Army Choir, to a New Years
concert at a Russian military base
in Syria.
About 3,500 people, 43 ships
and 182 divers have been sweeping a vast crash site for bodies of
the victims and debris, and dozens
of drones and several submersibles
also have been involved in the
search. Rescue teams so far have
recovered 11 bodies and numerous
body fragments, which have been
flown to Moscow for identification.
Divers have located parts of the
planes fuselage and other fragments, but the search for the jets
flight recorders will likely prove
challenging as they lack underwa-
REUTERS
Rescue personnel conduct a search after a Russian military Tu-154 plane crashed into the Black Sea on its way
to Syria on Sunday.
ter locator beacons for easy spotting common in more modern
planes.
Officials sought to squelch speculation that the crash might have
been caused by a bomb planted on
board or a portable air defense missile.
But some aviation experts
pointed that the crews failure to
communicate any technical problem and a large area over which

fragments of the plane were scattered point at a possible explosion
on board.
Evidence of a bombing of a
Syria-bound military flight would
badly embarrass the Kremlin,
highlighting Russias extreme
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boasts its success in Syria after

Aleppo fell into President Bashar
Assads hands.
President Vladimir Putins
spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told
reporters that an attack isnt a likely scenario. Transport Minister
Maxim Sokolov, who oversaw the
rescue efforts, said investigators
were looking into a possible tech-
nical fault or pilot error as the

most likely reasons behind the
crash.
But some experts remained
skeptical, noting that the crew
would have reported any technical
glitch.
Possible malfunctions ... certainly wouldnt have prevented the
crew from reporting them, Vitaly
Andreyev, a former senior Russian
air traffic controller, told RIA
Novosti, adding that an external
impact was the most likely reason.
Russias main domestic security
and counter-terrorism agency, the
FSB, said it has found no indications or facts pointing at the possibility of a terror attack or an act
of sabotage on board the plane.
The plane departed from the
Chkalovsky military airport just
outside Moscow and stopped in
Sochi for refueling early Sunday.
The FSB said border guards and
military servicemen were protecting the plane as it sat on the tarmac in Sochi, and the chief pilot
along with the flight engineer personally monitored the refueling.
The agency said that a border guard
officer and a customs official were
the only ones to briefly come on
board in Sochi.
Some Russian media pointed at
lax security at Chkalovsky outside
Moscow where the plane was
based, saying that its quite porous
compared to civilian airports.
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