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WASHINGTON Credit rating agency Standard & Poors on Friday downgraded the United States credit rating for the rst time in the history of the ratings. The credit rating agency said that it is cutting the countrys top AAA rating by one notch to AA-plus. The credit agency said that it is making
the move because the deficit reducInvestors tion plan passed by look for answers Congress on after wild week Tuesday did not go See page 18 far enough to stabilize the countrys debt situation. A source familiar with the discussions said that the Obama administration feels the S&Ps analysis contained deep and fundamental aws.
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S&P said that in addition to the downgrade, it is issuing a negative outlook, meaning that there was a chance it will lower the rating further within the next two years. It said such a downgrade to AA would occur if the agency sees less reductions in spending than Congress and the administration have agreed to make, higher interest rates or new scal pressures during this period.
WASHINGTON Better. The job market beat expectations, and the stock market managed a modest gain not great, but good enough after a
turbulent week. The nation added 117,000 jobs in July, the government said Friday far from what happens in a healthy economy, and only good for a reduction of one notch in the
San Mateo County homeowners could receive up to $8,000 in rebates by making their homes more energy efcient as part of an incentive matching program being announced Monday morning. San Mateo County will double the $4,000 in incentives provided by Pacic Gas and Electric through the statewide proDave Pine gram Energy Upgrade California. On Monday morning, Supervisor Dave Pine and representatives from other participants like PG&E and Energy Upgrade California will explain how the incentives work and ofcially kick off the local rebate program. San Mateo Countys match is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and local ofcials hope it pro-
Music group The League including Hype,left,and Allan I,middle lm their music video Addicted To That 808with solo artist Nayelli,right at The Cellar nightclub in San Francisco.
The Cellar nightclub in downtown San Francisco was buzzing with energy. There was loud music, people socializing and ashing lights all before noon on a Sunday. It was the day the Bay Area music group The League took over the nightclub to lm the music video for their lat-
est hit Addicted to that 808 featuring the solo artist Nayelli. The video had a simple but tting theme: a party inside a giant speaker. The R&B/hip-hop/rap group is made up of singer/songwriter Allan Iida, 24 and rapper/songwriter Damon Santo, 20, known as Allan I and Hype to their fans. Santo said they chose the name The League because there were other groups from the Bay Area with names like The
Team and The Pack, and Iida said they wanted to make a bold statement. We were like, We want to be better than them, so what does the league do? The league owns teams, Santo said. We want to be the head honchos. The League released Addicted to that 808 July 12, but the song created buzz among DJs for about two months before,
A Redwood City middle schooler admitted participating in the attempted sexual assault of two 12-year-old classmates during a eld trip, bringing the total to four teenage boys who will be jailed for up to four months. On Friday, the fourth boy admitted committing a lewd and lascivious act on a minor under 14 and received a 120-day sentence at the Youth Services Center, the countys juvenile hall,
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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov became the second man to orbit Earth as he ew aboard Vostok 2, call sign Eagle (hence Titovs repeated exclamation over the radio, I am Eagle!). In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated. In 1825, Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia. In 1890, convicted murderer William Kemmler became the rst person to be executed in the electric chair as he was put to death at Auburn State Prison in New York. In 1911, actress-comedian Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, N.Y. In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the rst woman to swim the English Channel, arriving in Kingsdown, England, from France in 14 1/2 hours. In 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. In 1978, Pope Paul VI died at Castel Gandolfo at age 80. In 1986, William J. Schroeder (SHRAY-dur) died after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 articial heart. In 1991, the World Wide Web made its public debut as a means of accessing webpages over the Internet. TV newsman Harry Reasoner died in Norwalk, Conn., at age 68. Ten years ago: Ending months of speculation, former President Bill Clinton said he would write his much soughtafter memoirs for publisher Alfred A. Knopf. General Duong Van Big Minh, who was the president of South Vietnam for just a few days before the country fell to Communist invaders in 1975, died in Pasadena, Calif., at age 85.
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Jazz musician Charlie Haden is 74. Actor-director Peter Bonerz is 73. Actress Louise Sorel is 71. Actor Michael Anderson Jr. is 68. Actor Ray Buktenica is 68. Actor Dorian Harewood is 61. Actress Catherine Hicks is 60. Rock singer Pat MacDonald (Timbuk 3) is 59. Country musician Mark DuFresne (Confederate Railroad) is 58. Actress Stepfanie Kramer is 55. Actress Faith Prince is 54. Rhythm-and-blues singer Randy DeBarge is 53. Actor Leland Orser is 51. Country singers Peggy and Patsy Lynn are 47. Basketball Hall of Famer David Robinson is 46. Actor Jeremy Ratchford is 46. Country singer Lisa Stewart is 43. Actress Merrin Dungey is 40. Singer Geri Halliwell is 39. Actor Jason OMara is 39. Singer-actor David Campbell is 38. Actress Ever (cq) Carradine is 37. Actress Melissa George is 35. Rock singer Travis McCoy (Gym Class Heroes) is 30. Rock musician Eric Roberts (Gym Class Heroes) is 27. were not usually allowed. *** Dogs have been popular pets of presidents throughout U.S. history. President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) had a King Charles Spaniel named Rex. Can you name the owners and breeds of these White House canine residents? Millie, Checkers, Liberty and Charlie. See answer at end. *** The name Tyrannosaurus Rex derives from the Greek words tyrannos, meaning tyrant, and sauros, meaning lizard. Rex is a Latin for king. *** The worlds smallest reptile is the dwarf gecko, found in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It grows up to three quarters of an inch long. *** Answer: Millie (1985-1997) was a springer spaniel that belonged to George W. Bush (born 1946). Checkers was Richard Nixons (19131994) cocker spaniel. Liberty was Gerald Fords (1913-2006) golden retriever. Charlie was a Welsh terrier that belonged to John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).
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Yesterdays (Answers Monday) Jumbles: BLURT SIXTH GOBBLE MAYHEM Answer: What the Amazon explorer and the Amazon River had in common A BIG MOUTH
Garden Golf was a popular game played in the early 1900s. Played with a putter on real grass, garden golf followed the rules of regulation golf. *** Miniature golf had a boom when a weatherproof carpet was invented in the 1920s. It created a smooth playing surface and made it possible to build a miniature golf course almost anywhere. *** In the 1930s, there were 150 rooftop miniature golf courses in New York City. *** The first miniature golf franchise was Tom Thumb Golf, which began in 1929. The courses had hazards and obstacles to challenge the players. Entrepreneurs could buy a prefabricated mini golf course for $4,500 and be open for business in six days. ***
Tom Thumb is a fairy tale first written in England in the 1600s. Tom is no larger than his fathers thumb, which makes the world a dangerous place. He falls into his mothers pie mix, gets picked up by a bird and dropped into a lake, and rides on the back of a butterfly. *** At the age of 4, Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883) went to work for the circus. P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) dubbed him General Tom Thumb. Thumb, who was 33 inches tall, became famous around the world, singing and dancing in the traveling circus. *** Jeffrey Hudson (1619-1682) was a court jester to Englands Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-1669), wife of King Charles I (1600-1649). Hudson had perfect proportions for his small size - only 19-inches tall. He was famous as the Queens dwarf and Lord Minimus. *** At 5 feet 4 inches tall, King Charles I was Britains shortest king. *** In the 16th century, the King Charles Spaniel was a popular pet of English royalty. King Charles II (1630-1685) had two or three spaniels with him at all times. He wrote a decree that the spaniels would be accepted in the House of Parliament, where animals
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maneuver in advance of next years primary season. A proposed rewrite of the California Republican Party platform retreats from opposition to same-sex adoption, domestic partner benets and child custody, avoids any mention of overturning Roe v. Wade and drops a demand to end virtually all federal and state benets for illegal immigrants. Alarmed conservatives say the partys core principles are under assault. Its castrating conservative ideas, said longtime party activist Mike Spence. The proposed changes suggest the Republican Party doesnt believe in anything. The proposed changes come as Washington conservatives have displayed new clout in the budget and debt debate and appear out of step with some ascendant leaders in the GOP who have been pulling the party to the right on scal and social issues. Yet advocates for the changes say the California party needs a makeover its outnumbered in registration and appears poised to lose control of more legislative and congressional seats after a once-a-decade recasting of district boundaries. To them, the platform should be primarily focused on the economy and jobs the top concern for voters. The draft does not erase opposition to abortion rights or support for traditional marriage and gun rights, but it gives them less visibility. The current platform, adopted in 2008, says state guns laws disarm law-abiding citizens and calls for the end to waiting periods to purchase rearms and inclusion of a right to carry concealed weapons in the state constitution.
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A woman reported that her cellphone, landline and computer were being hacked on Meridian Bay Lane in Foster City before 3:32 p.m. Tuesday, July 26.
LOS ANGELES Conservative Republicans exed their newfound muscle in Capitol Hills chaotic debt showdown, but in left-leaning California, moderates are trying to push the party toward the center on immigration, guns and gay rights as the 2012 elections come into view. The latest friction in a long tussle between conservatives and centrists in California comes as leaders search for ways to make their candidates more competitive in a state where Democrats control the Legislature, hold every statewide ofce and enjoy a growing registration advantage. It also mirrors tensions playing out nationally as presidential contenders
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Burglary. Someone reported that an unknown suspect broke the rear window of their vehicle on the 200 block of Villa Terrace before 9:09 a.m. Monday, Aug. 1. Fraud. A check that was made out for $15 was altered and cashed for $700 on the 2400 block of Delaware Street before 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, July 27. Suspicious circumstances. A man suspected that his neighbor sabotaged his main electrical panel on the 100 block of North El Camino Real before 5:03 a.m. Wednesday, July 27. Petty theft. A bicycle was stolen on the 700 block of Patricia Avenue before 3:54 p.m. Tuesday, July 26.
A 22-year-old Redwood City resident accused of having sex with a 13-year-old Belmont girl he met online earlier this year pleaded not guilty Friday to ve felony counts of child molestation and statutory rape. Armando Lopez-Galvez faces between 10 and 12 years in prison and sex offender registration if convicted. After entering his Superior Court plea Friday, Lopez-Galvez was given a
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Nov. 7 jury trial date. Investigation of LopezGalvez began in January when ofcials at the teens school noticed suspicious computer activity by her and discovered she was accessing Facebook and online dating sites. After meeting Lopez-Galvez online, the two allegedly
had a sexual relationship. Belmont police said the girls parents had no idea of the relationship until police notied them. Lopez-Galvez is charged with several counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor, unlawful sexual intercourse and oral copulation with a person under 16. Lopez-Galvez remains in custody in lieu of $200,000 bail. He returns to court Oct. 7 for a conference prior to trial.
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Petty theft. A petty theft occurred on the 600 block of Elm Street before 4:44 p.m. Sunday, July 24. Vandalism. A case of vandalism occurred on the 1600 block of Laurel Street before 10:24 p.m. Saturday, July 23. DUI. A man was arrested for drunk driving at the intersection of El Camino Real and Morse Boulevard before 2:28 a.m. Saturday, July 23.
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Richard Koral
Richard Koral of Redwood City died peacefully on July 29 at the age of 95. Richard was born Sept. 17, 1915 in Chicago, Ill. to Ben and Kala Koral and spent his younger years in Terre Haute, Ind. He married Sara Sindall on May 18, 1939. In 1945, Richard and Sara chased the sunshine and moved to California with their young children. Richard was a resident of Redwood City for 66 years. In the 1940s, he worked several odd jobs until opening Arrow Auto Supply in San Mateo which later moved to Redwood City. In 1961, he closed his business and joined Castle Realty where he was a well-known real estate agent in Redwood City until retiring in 1995. Richard and Sara loved to spend their winter months in Hawaii and soak up the sunshine. In his retirement years, he cared for his wife of 68 years, enjoyed contact with old friends in Terra Haute through the Internet, but above all loved spending time with his great-grandchildren. Richard was preceded in death by his wife Sara and is survived by their family. Richard was father to Kenneth Koral and Margo Chad, father-in-law to Patricia Koral and Brian Chad; grandfather to Matthew and David Chad, Deena Soto and Benjamin Koral, grandfather-in law to Lisa Chad, Tracy Chad and Matthew Soto, and great-grandfather Papa to Colin, Kelsey and Kendall Chad, Ryan, Evan and Kyle Chad and Madison Soto. Richard will be greatly missed by his family. Friends and family are invited to a Celebration of Life Ceremony 11 a.m. Aug. 20 at 953 Edgewood Road, Redwood City, CA.
Financial difficulty is forcing the U.S. Postal Service to consider the closure of up to 3,700 locations nationwide. While several Peninsula locations are on the list, including South San Francisco and Colma, the potential closure of the San Gregorio location is of particular concern for residents of the small coastal town as it is one of the few businesses left there. If they close, its going to be very upsetting, said Scott H. of San Gregorio, who has had a P.O. Box there for 16 years. All my friends use it. Although the postal service is owned by the federal government, it acts as a revenue generating corporation, said U.S. Postal Service spokesman James Wigdel. This means that a 20 percent decline in mail volume coupled with a complete dropoff of in-store retail sales will almost assuredly force it to readjust in one form or the other. We operate as a business, Wigdel, adding that no taxpayer dollars are used to fund the postal service and that it lost $8.5 billion in revenue last year. For customers of the San Gregorio post ofce, that is exactly where the problem lies. Running on whether or not you have a prot, thats not the way you do it, said George Cattermal who has owned the San Gregorio General Store for the last 31 years. The store leases out the south end of its building to the very small post ofce which houses just over 50 P.O. boxes. Ironically,
The post ofce in San Gregorio is on the list of locations that may be closed.
Cattermal notes that if the ofce were to close, he would be able to easily rent it out to another business at possibly a higher rate. However, the independent-minded store owner said he is more interested in protecting his community and his most loyal patrons. They should be taking care of the rural people, he said. Kevin Miles of La Honda served as a deputy harbormaster in Half Moon Bay until retiring four years ago. He attests that he knows the inner-workings of government bureaucracy and believes the possible closure of the San Gregorio post ofce as well as a similar location in nearby Loma Mar represents a longstanding neglect of coastal residents by gov-
ernment ofcials. They treat this place like a big recreational park and forget that people live here, said Miles who frequents the General Store and uses its post ofce when passing through. A lot of elderly people use it, they dont use email, its the next generation, he said of people who would be affected if their access to what many now jokingly refer to as snail mail is limited. As the USPS continues to expand its online services, lack of Internet access will become increasingly difcult for those who may be already isolated from the world. It may seem like San Gregorio, a town with no main street to speak of, is a place that has been forgotten by time. A general store has existed there since settlers began arriving in the area around what is now State Route 84 in the 1850s, serving as a place locals could receive and send mail. Originally connected to Redwood City by railroad, it was believed that San Gregorio might possibly become a thriving coastal micro-metropolis. Locals say it is now at further risk of completely disappearing. Surveying his store from its bar as a live band begins to play for his weekend patrons, Cattermal feels less condent that local residents will once again organize and petition U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, to keep the store aoat as they have before in the past. Im much more pessimistic this time, he said. Still, postal ofcials said even if the location is closed, delivery service will not be changed. Were doing as best we can, Wigdel said.
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WASHINGTON With tens of thousands of jobs, more than $1 billion and their reputations on the line, Senate Democrats gave way Friday to a power play by House Republicans in order to end a partial two-week shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration. With lawmakers scattered for Congress August recess, the consent of only two senators was required to pass a bill restoring the FAAs operating authority through Sept. 16. President Barack Obama signed it into law hours later. But partisan differences remain, and a repeat performance of the legislative standoff could come next month. The impasse had left hundreds of airport construction projects in limbo and idled tens of thousands of construction industry workers as well as nearly 4,000 FAA employees. One of the biggest costs was to the hard-pressed U.S. treasury, which lost about $400 million in uncollected taxes during the two-week standoff and stood to continue losing $30 million a day more than $1 billion in total if there had been no solution before Congress returns from its recess. For most of the stalemate, the nations attention and that of Congress was riveted on the debt crisis nally tackled this week. But that quickly shifted. Lawmakers were getting calls about unnished airport towers and construction companies
San Carlos School District Trustee Mark Olbert has been certied for the November ballot, making him the third ofcial candidate seeking a City Council seat. Ron Collins and incumbent Randy Royce are already certied. There are two seats available in the race, Royces position and that left vacant by the death of former mayor Omar Ahmad. *** The San Carlos City Council candidates forum, moderated by the Chamber of Commerce, will be 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13 in Council Chambers, 600 Elm St., San Carlos. The public can attend or watch on either the city website or Comcast Cable TV channel 26. *** Paul G. McCarthy has been certied to run for the Redwood City Council in November. He joins incumbent Ian Bain in having his signatures certied.
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in dire straits at home. Some unemployed workers found their way to Capitol Hill to complain. Democrats had been holding firm against the House legislation on FAA operations because it proposed cutting air service subsidies to 13 rural communities. In short, they feared getting steamrolled on similar legislation in the future if they gave Republicans their way. For example, spending authority for federal highway programs expires Sept. 30, another possible point of contention. But once the focus fell away from the deal to avert a federal debt default, Democrats began to waver and nally gave up the ght. Republicans achieved the subsidy cuts in the nal law but with a major caveat. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has the authority to continue subsidized service to the 13 communities if he decides its necessary. Obamas signature means the nearly 4,000 furloughed FAA employees can return to work as soon as Monday. Work can also resume on more than 200 airport construction projects. This impasse was an unnecessary strain on local economies across the country at a time when we cant allow politics to get in the way of our economic recovery, Obama said in a statement.
The San Mateo County Community College District will consider placing a bond measure on the November ballot at its meeting next week. The board meets 6 p.m., Aug. 10 at the District Ofce Board Room, 3401 CSM Drive, San Mateo.
Local brief
Three wanted for home invasion robbery
South San Francisco police are on the lookout for three men wanted for forcing their way into a home on the 400 block of Lux Avenue and pistol-whipping a man inside Thursday morning. The crime appears to be targeted, police said. At approximately 10:15 a.m., the three men forced their way into the homes garage, pistol-whipped the resident and ordered him to the ground and searched the garage and bedroom. The men were seen leaving the area in an older model dark brown or maroon Buick with the last three digits of the license plate 198, according to police. The rst man was described as Hispanic, medium complexion, approximately 5 feet 9 inches, average build, wearing dark jeans, a black hooded sweatshirt and a dark bandanna covering his face. The second man was described as black, dark complexion, approximately 5 feet 9 inches, slender, wearing dark jeans, a white T-shirt under a black hooded sweatshirt and a dark bandanna over his face. The third man was described as light complected, approximately 6 feet, heavyset, wearing dark jeans, a black hooded sweatshirt and a dark bandanna over his face, according to police.
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ucie Pereira, a 14-year-old ninth grader at Crystal Springs Uplands High School in Hillsborough, won the prestigious Peninsula Young Writers Contest grand prize with her short story, Cereal. Judge Sara Morgan commented, This is an outstanding short story that I would compare with any published work. It is all the more impressive because it was written by a 14-year-old. Lucie Pereira is genuinely talented and has tremendous potential. Six additional prize winners were: Fiction first prize: Savanna Won, 15year-old Sequoia High School freshman, for Cracked Armor. Fiction honorable mention: Laura Vantersdel, 15-year-old from Carlmont High School, for The Murderers of Friedrich Klein. Non-Fiction first prize: Sadie Goewey, 15-year-old Everest High School freshman, for Tea Party in a Bubble. Non-Fiction honorable mention: Rachael Rappoport, 14-year-old Summit High School freshman, for Caged Bird. Poetry first prize: Erik Iverson, 17year-old Carlmont High School senior, for Memphis Downbeat Blues. Poetry honorable mention: Araceli Efigenio, 15-year-old Sequoia High School freshman, for A Trapped Womans Thoughts. All seven winners received a certificate, which was presented at the Authors Reception and Awards Ceremony held Monday, March 28. *** At its March 16 meeting, the San Mateo County Board of Education and County Superintendent of Schools Anne E. Campbell recognized students from its Community Schools who participated in award-winning media projects. A group of students from Community
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A sun-powered robotic explorer named Juno is rocketing toward Jupiter on a fresh quest to discover the secret recipe for making planets. Hundreds of scientists and their families and friends among thousands of invited guests cheered and yelled Go Juno! as the unmanned Atlas rocket blasted into a clear midday sky Friday. It will take ve years to reach Jupiter, the solar systems most massive and ancient planet. Next stop is Jupiter, exulted Scott Bolton, Junos principal investigator and an astrophysicist at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Its fantastic! said Fran Bagenal, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who is also part of the NASA project. Huge relief all around. Within an hour of liftoff, Juno hurtled out of Earths orbit at 24,000 mph on a roundabout course for Jupiter. It was expected to whip past the orbit of the moon in half a day, or early Saturday morning. It is the rst step in Junos 1.7 billion-mile voyage to the gas giant Jupiter, just two planets away but altogether different from Earth and next-door neighbor Mars. Juno is solar powered, a rst for a spacecraft meant to roam so far from the sun. The three huge solar panels popped open an hour into the ight, each one stretching as long and wide as a tractor-trailer. Previous spacecraft to the outer planets have relied on nuclear energy.
School Central, located in Redwood City, was participating a journalism project with the Public Broadcasting System News Hour Extra, UNICEF and IEARN. Working with teacher Tania Magana and Gabriel Lomelli, Peter Pheap, Diego Pettersen and Diana Ramirez of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, the students have developed a newsletter and a webcast to report the news on a local, national and international level. Completion of the project provides the students with certification as a Youth MD6 Reporter. In addition, four other students from Community School Central participated in the Adobe Youth Voices project that is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education in support of President Obamas initiative to increase the number of college graduates by the year 2020. In collaboration with staff from the San Francisco AYV site, the Oakland Peapod AYV site and the Redwood City Peapod AYV site, the students created a music video entitled Vision 20/20. The song they wrote describes what families, schools and communities can do to help young people succeed in school. The
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BEIRUT Syrias government proclaimed Friday that it was succeeding in crushing the uprising in the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, showing TV images of burned buildings and rubble-strewn streets. Under a suffocating siege, residents of the city warned that medical supplies were running out and food rotting after six days without electricity. Across the country, tens of thousands of protesters marched through cities, chanting their solidarity with Hama and demanding the ouster of President Bashar Assad. They were met by security forces who opened re, killing at least 13 people, activists said. Their numbers were lower than previous Fridays, when hundreds of thousands nationwide turned out for protests likely because this was the first Friday in the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn until dusk and go outside less, particularly in the summer heat. That could augur disappointment for protest leaders, who had hoped to escalate the uprising during the month and even mark a turning point in the quest to topple the 40-year Assad family dynastys rule. Government forces began their siege on Hama on Sunday, cutting off electricity, phone services and internet and
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Lebanese protesters,mainly afliated with Islamist groups,shout slogans and carry banners during a protest in solidarity with Syrias anti-government protesters.
blocking supplies into the city of 800,000 as they shelled neighborhoods and sent in ground raids. It appeared to be an all-out attempt to take back the city which has a history of dissent after residents all but took over, barricading it against the regime. Rights group say at least 100 people have been killed so far while some estimates have put the number as high as 250. The tolls could not be veried because of the difculty reaching residents and hospital ofcials in the besieged city, where journalists are barred as they are throughout Syria. Tanks shelled residential districts starting around 4 a.m. Friday, just as people were beginning their daily fast mirroring a round of bombardment the evening before at sunset when they were breaking the fast, one resident told the Associated Press. If people get wounded, it is almost impossible to take them to hospital, the resident said by telephone, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
NEW ORLEANS A federal jury on Friday convicted ve current or former police officers in deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina, a high-profile victory for the Justice Department in its push to clean up the citys troubled police department. The case was a high-stakes test of the effort to rid the police department of corruption and brutality. A total of 20 current or former New Orleans police ofcers were charged last year
in a series of federal probes. Most of the cases center on actions during the aftermath of the Aug. 29, 2005, storm, which plunged the flooded city into a state of lawlessness and desperation. Sgts. Robert Gisevius and Kenneth Bowen, Officer Anthony Villavaso and former ofcer Robert Faulcon were convicted of civil rights violations in the shootings that killed two people and wounded four others on the Danziger Bridge less than a week after the storm. They face possible life prison sentences.
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In southern Somalia, where the UN declared a famine on July 20, millions are at risk, with scores dying daily. The famine is expected to spread, with drought also gripping Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti. The UN estimates at least 10 million people in this corner of East Africa need immediate food assistance. Among the most vulnerable are 2 million young children. As the images of emaciated toddlers stream out, their
t is tempting to look at the stories of famine from the Horn of Africa a region experiencing its worst drought in 60 years and think nothing can be done. Cycles of drought and famine repeat in East Africa, perpetuated by conict, rising food prices and dysfunctional governments, leaving an outsider wondering if its even worth trying. It is.
ribs protruding over concave bellies, its time to act, even if the next crisis is just around the corner. The real solutions to avoiding famine developing a functioning government and agricultural sector are elusive. This is particularly true in southern Somalia, where al-Shabab, an Islamist insurgent group, is largely blamed for the famine. Its preventing aid workers from entering and imprisoning starving Somalis who are trying to ee. But that is no reason to turn away.
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olitical, economic and social changes do not happen at random. There are historical patterns and, if one is able decipher them, it is not difcult to predict those events. For example, philosophers such as Friedrich Hegel recognized that for any human initiatives, there are corresponding reactions, even over long spans of time. So what we are witnessing, now, in the struggle among national leadership, is an ongoing reaction to the vast shift in governmental responsibilities that emerged from the human tragedies of the Great Depression, and had continued uninterrupted until the dawn of the Reagan administration. Another philosopher, Gottfried Leibnitz, caused us to recognize that events in the world are like a vast complex of interlocking gears and if one gear is moved there is a whole chain reaction of other gears that shift in human affairs. What appears manifestly logical, such as saving during hard times, may be extraordinarily counterproductive in a consumerdriven economy. For example, there is a current concern about the government being too large and spending too much. But the gears that move by reducing such spending leads to a vast loss of government jobs, which then throws those employees onto the private sector job market and creates a concern whether that sector will even be able to absorb them all. Further, there is such a desperate need to repair our aging national infrastructure, especially in road and bridges, that require programs to correct that no private economy could possibly afford. Such a government program would absorb a huge number of the jobless, as did the Hoover Dam during the Great Depression. But such programs are being thwarted by conservatives as they almost accomplished with their opposition to the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933, the power grid which did more to bring the economy of the Southern states into the 20th century and into national wealth than any private enterprise could ever afford to initiate. Also, the irritation of conservatives about extended unemployment benets, remove unemployed from the consumer market, the lifeblood of our American economy, an ongoing demand that would help to bring the two and a half trillion dollars on the sidelines in the hands of the wealthy back into an extended economy that would create new jobs. Cuts to Social Security and Medicare take more dollars away from the economy. Even welfare subsidies bring more demand. A political economist even suggested a negative income tax feature to help the economically disadvantaged to keep the dollars and demand owing. The historical developments of the past 30 years that have kept dollars bubbling up to the those wealthy few at the top has created the greatest wealth gap since the 1920s, innately counterproductive because there are less dollars for the economically disadvantaged and the middle class to spend. In my view, one of the only valid policies that George W. Bush ever expressed to the nation during a recession was: Spend, spend, spend! I described before, in my mind, historically, there have been two broad economic movements in our national polity, the Darwinists and the Bleeding hearts. The Darwinists, who embrace the survival of the ttest theory, look to the business community rst and the devil take the hindmost, no matter how the built-in bust cycles sorely affect the economically disadvantaged. And the bleeding hearts are those who try to build safety nets to keep those damned aoat during such bleak times. And, despite opinions to the contrary, Im not a spokesman for any political party. I confess only to just being a plain-old, shopworn, selfdeluded bleeding heart and support any candidate from any party who shares that weakness. For the past 80 years, it has been the bleeding hearts who have been prevailing most in that struggle while the Darwinists have been regularly trying to reverse all that legislation of the past. The fact is, as I have expected, they have been nibbling at the defenseless on the edges of the safely net and dont dare push to reduce the elephants in the economy: Social Security, Medicare and the military. They social programs are the third rails that could assure political defeat for them in the 2012 elections, as those are jealously guarded by the elderly, the ones who are most sure to vote. Which explains why U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. took such a whacking from the elderly when he introduced a voucher system proposal for Medicare. We are still the wealthiest nation in the world and only appear nancially bankrupt because new revenue and government-sponsored jobs have been blocked. Who will win out in the end depends upon how hard the middle class is willing to ght to retain what it has gained in the past 80 years. And, I am not taking any bets on which will win in the 2012 elections.
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motor of global growth for three years, are slowing. Brazilian stocks have dropped nearly 30 percent since Nov. 4 as the country tries to stem inflation. Manufacturing in China shrank in July for the first time in a year. In Europe, debt problems are spreading, threatening Italy and Spain, the continents third-and fourth-largest economies. In the U.S, a possible debt default was averted earlier this week, but concerns remain. Chief among them: less spending by consumers, which is leading to anemic growth by both manufacturing and service companies and too few new jobs to lower the unemployment rate significantly. Investors also worry that the federal government is more likely to hurt the economy than help it. Instead of more spending, the government is trying to reduce its budget deficits by spending less. Randy Warren, chief investment officer at the investment company Warren Financial Service, said markets were jittery over how leaders in the U.S. reacted to the debt crisis here and how leaders in Europe have reacted to the growing debt problems there.
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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Fluor Corp.,up $2.52 at $57.11 The engineering and construction company beat analystsexpectations when it reported its second-quarter earnings. CF Industries Holdings Inc.,up $5.07 at $146.66 The fertilizer producers second-quarter earnings beat estimates and it quadrupled its quarterly dividend to 40 cents. WMS Industries Inc.,down $7.06 at $18.22 The slot machine maker said it is pulling back on product management and development, a move that will cut 10 percent of its staff. Fortune Brands Inc.,up $1.63 at $54.72 Shares of the liquour company,which owns the Jim Bean brand, rose a day after saying its second-quarter net income rose 45 percent. Dolby Laboratories Inc.,down $6.78 at $30.89 The entertainment technology company said its scal third-quarter net income and revenue shrank as prices plunged for its products. Nasdaq Priceline.com Inc.,up $44.47 at $527.81 The online travel services second-quarter net income more than doubled as revenue from hotel bookings and car rentals climbed. First Solar Inc.,down $2.51 at $105.43 The solar panel maker said its prot fell in the second quarter due to a worldwide rise in panel prices. Brooks Automation Inc.,up 55 cents at $9.19 A Citi analyst raised the companys investment rating after the company reported a thirdquarter prot.
NEW YORK If you looked away Friday, you missed a market rally. Or a plunge. A soothing government report on employment in July eased concerns that the U.S. might slide back into a recession, and the Dow Jones industrial average rose as much as 171 points soon after trading began. But fears that Europes growing debt crisis might threaten U.S. banks and the fragile economy ruled Friday. After its early rise, the Dow fell more than 400 points and was down 243 just before noon. Then it rose nearly 400 points in less than an hour and was up 135 points. The rest of the day, the blue-chip stock index bounced up and down, sometimes by as much as 100 points in less than half an hour. It ended the day up 61 points, or 0.5 percent. Stocks have been like a tether ball being smacked around the pole by worries about weakening economies around the world, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist for Standard & Poors Equity Research. Even less-developed countries like Brazil and China, which have been the
NEW YORK Tech heavyweights Microsoft and Google are acting like a couple of feuding starlets in a public online spat over wait for it patents. Its not the rst time Microsoft and Google have gone at each others throats, nor is it likely the last. But with Twitter and blog posts, the dispute is playing out in public in a way that wasnt possible in 2005, when lawsuits over an employee Google hired from Microsoft revealed the bitter rivalry between the two. Now, Google is accusing Microsoft, Apple and others of launching a hostile organized campaign against its Android operating system, which runs smartphones that compete with iPhones, BlackBerrys and Windows-based mobile devices. At issue are thousands of patents from
Novell Inc., a maker of computer-networking software, and Nortel Networks, a Canadian telecom gear maker that is bankrupt and is selling itself off in pieces. Last month, a consortium that includes Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. prevailed over Google Inc. with a $4.5 billion cash bid for the Nortel patents. Google lost out after a strange bidding process that included what published reports said was an offer for a billion times the mathematical constant pi. Their response seems to be to whine about the process, technology analyst Rob Enderle said. Enderle was referring to a scathing blog post by Google Chief Legal Ofcer David Drummond, who wrote on Wednesday that Microsoft was banding with others to acquire bogus patents to make sure Google cant get to them. They want to make it harder for manufacturers to sell Android devices,
Drummond wrote. Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are ghting through litigation. Not so fast, says Microsoft, which brought the feud to Twitter. There, Microsofts communications chief, Frank Shaw, posted an image of an email from Googles general counsel, Kent Walker, declining to join Microsoft in the consortium to bid for the patents. The email was sent to Microsofts own general counsel, Brad Smith, who also chimed in. Smith wrote to his 2,000-plus Twitter followers that Google says we bought Novell patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no. Shaw offered a reason in another Twitter post: Why? BECAUSE they wanted to buy something that they could use to assert against someone else. Enderle says its no secret that Microsoft and Google dont like each other.
SAN FRANCISCO A Las Vegas man accused of sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users faces federal fraud and computer tampering charges that could send him to prison for more than 40 years, according to a grand jury indictment. Sanford Wallace, the self-proclaimed Spam King, pleaded not guilty during an initial court appearance Thursday after being indicted July 6 on six counts of electronic mail fraud, three counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of criminal contempt.
The indictment led in San Jose federal court said Wallace compromised about 500,000 Facebook accounts between November 2008 and March 2009 by sending massive amounts of spam through the companys servers on three separate occasions. Wallace would collect Facebook user account information by sending phishing messages that tricked users of the social networking site into providing their passwords, the indictment said. He would then use that information to log into their accounts and post spam messages on their friends Facebook walls, the indictment said. Those who clicked on the link, thinking it came
from their friend, were redirected to websites that paid Wallace for the Internet trafc. In 2009, Palo Alto-based Facebook sued Wallace under federal anti-spam laws known as CAN-SPAM, prompting a judge to issue a temporary restraining order banning him from using the website. The indictment alleges he violated that order within a month, prompting the criminal contempt charges. The judge in the lawsuit ultimately issued a default judgment against Wallace for $711 million, one of the largest-ever anti-spam awards, and referred him for possible criminal prosecution.
NEW YORK Wells Fargo & Co. on Friday said that it has agreed to pay $590 million to settle a class-action lawsuit led by investors in Wachovia securities. The settlement would end a suit led in 2008 in federal court in Manhattan, charging that Wachovia misled investors in its bonds and preferred securities by understating losses associated with risky
mortgages. Wells Fargo bought Wachovia that year at the height of the nancial crisis. The San Francisco-based bank said in a regulatory ling with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the deal needs court approval before it takes effect. Investors said in the suit that Wachovia repeatedly claimed that its mortgage loans were made with high underwriting standards and a conserva-
tive approach to lending. But they claimed that after the bank bought Golden West Financial Corp. in 2006, it started using that banks riskiest practices. That included companywide adoption of Golden Wests Pick-A-Pay mortgages, which gave borrowers options on the size of their payments, including an option for minimum payments that did not cover monthly interest, but instead added to the principal on a loan.
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SAN FRANCISCO Philadelphias Shane Victorino and San Franciscos Ramon Ramirez and Eli Whiteside all were ejected after benches cleared in the top of the sixth inning of the Phillies 9-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night. Tempers ared after Ramirez hit Victorino in the back with a pitch. Victorino began walking toward the
mound and Whiteside, the catcher, stepped in front of him. Placido Polanco raced in from second base and was tackled by Whiteside. These teams have become quite the rivals of late after the Giants beat the favored Phillies in six games of the NL championship series last fall on the way to capturing the franchises rst World Series since moving West in 1958. John Mayberry Jr. hit a two-run homer for his second clout in as
many games and Vance Worley (8-1) won his sixth straight decision as the Phillies ran their winning streak to a season-best eight games. Victorino and Hunter Pence also homered for the majors-best Phillies, who havent lost since the Giants took two of three from them last week. San Francisco has dropped seven of eight during the same span. Giants rst baseman Aubrey Huff was in the middle of the scrum and Phillies leadoff man Jimmy Rollins
shoved San Francisco bench coach Ron Wotus as they exchanged words. Victorino pushed plate umpire Mike Muchlinski trying to get back into the fray, then was held back by Wotus and Phillies hitting coach Greg Gross. The umpiring crew met for several minutes once things settled down, then made the ejections. Philadelphia led 8-2 at the time, then Pence homered for the second straight night in the seventh.
Whiteside hit a solo homer in the fth for the Giants before being tossed the next inning. Worley allowed two runs on seven hits, struck out six and walked one in seven innings, beating the Giants for the second time in three starts after tossing a three-hitter on July 26. Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez (4-6) lasted 4 2-3 inning in his return from biceps tendinitis that landed him on the disabled list for 36 games.
Money players make money shots in highstakes situations. Menlo Schools Andrew Buchanan got the chance to prove he is such a player during the 11th hole in the nal round of the America Junior Golf Association Open Championships Thursday afternoon. Buchanan, an incoming junior for the Knights, came into the nal round with a comfortable 8-shot lead after shooting a 67 and 69 in days one and two of the tournament But come the 11th hole on the nal day, that cushion had dwindled down to a pair of shots following back-to-back bogies on nine and 10. I was a little frustrated after that, Buchanan said. But I was on the 11th tee and there was a lot of water on the right and the wind was really blowing to the right, he said, adding that he then chose to continue to be aggressive with his irons, reached into his bag and pulled out the 3. I hit a good shot and I ended up getting really close to the cup that was nice. Nice is an understatement. The move to go with the 3-iron proved to the difference. Buchanan not only eagled the hole, but he took that momentum and rode it to a threeshot win his rst victory in the AJGA Open Championships. Its this win and his ability to be clutch that
Andrew Buchanan,of Menlo School in Atherton,won the America Junior Gold Association Open Championship Thursday after shooting a nal round 72. Buchanan nished at 8-under-par 208 for the tournament which was held in Stockton, Calif. It was his rst Open title.
STANFORD, Calif. The future of American sprinting may well lie in Texas, where Jimmy Feigen is the latest in a long line of speedsters to come out of the Longhorns program. Olympian Garrett Weber-Gale won the 100meter freestyle in 48.87 seconds Friday night at the U.S. national championships, defeating Texas training partner Feigen, who took second at 48.99. Scot Robison was third at 49.06. Feigen led after the rst lap before WeberGale surged from third to rst down the stretch. I have no endurance so the only way I have a chance is to go out fast, Feigen said. Im all about the y and die, I cant change my strategy now. I was happy with the place, not so happy with the time. In the 50 free a day earlier, Feigen was second behind Nathan Adrian and Weber-Gale was third. I love the fact that Jimmy and I did so well in the freestyles, Weber-Gale said. I want the Texas guys to always come out on top.
Weber-Gale has taken his 21-year-old teammate under his wing, giving him a pre-race pep talk before the 50. Hes smart about everything he does, Feigen said. Its kind of nice to get that oldschool knowledge and experience. Hopefully some of it will rub off on me. Weber-Gales time was slower than his 100 split of 48.33 in the 4x100 freestyle relay at the world championships. In Shanghai, he was slowest of anyone on the Michael Phelps-led U.S. relay, which took bronze. He blamed himself for the Americans upset loss to Australia. That really bothered me for several days. I felt sick about it, I felt embarrassed about it, Weber-Gale said. I guess everyone has an occasional swim like that. (Coach) Ed (Reese) says thats the kind of thing that happens once in a long while and youll never make that mistake again. Jason Lezak, the 35-year-old Olympian, and Adrian withdrew from the 100, both still recovering from the world meet.
After winning the Major League Soccer Golden Boot as the top goal scorer in 2010, Chris Wondolowski will take his shot at a different target one that is off pitch and on the street. The San Jose Earthquakes announced yesterday Wondolowski was named the National Ambassador for Street Soccer USA (SSUSA), an organization that teaches life and job skills to the homeless. The Quakes forward Chris will serve as the lead Wondolowski spokesman for SSUSAs efforts to rehabilitate the homeless. Wondolowski will be most heavily involved with Street Soccer USA-Bay Area, although he is expected to make appearances
nationwide. He has also pledged a $50 donation for each goal he scores during the remainder of the 2011 MLS campaign. The Earthquakes will also match Wondolowskis donation to bring the total to $100 per goal for the remainder of the season. I realize every day how lucky I am in every facet of my life, Wondolowski said via press release. I am blessed to be able to play professional soccer and the fact that I can play here in my hometown is beyond incredible. I could not be more excited about this opportunity to work with the Cann brothers and the entire SSUSA organization. With the help of the Earthquakes and Soccer Silicon Valley we hope to make a signicant contribution to SSUSA. What was amazing was that Chris reached out to us, said Rob Cann, Bay Area director for Street Soccer USA. Its always great when an athlete sees something that he wants to be a part of and takes the initiative. And
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ed to be part of that. Considered one of the top ve cornerbacks available in free agency this year, Rogers steps into a secondary thats getting a makeover under the direction of new defensive coordinator Vic Fangio. Rogers and safety Madieu Williams both signed one-year deals with the 49ers earlier this week. Rogers is in line to replace Nate Clements, who started all 16 games at right cornerback for San Francisco last season. Clements was released last week due to his exorbitant salary. The 49ers will not re-sign veteran free agent Dashon Goldson, who started all 16 games at free safety each of the past two seasons. San Francisco also has lost nose tackle Aubrayo Franklin and linebackers Takeo Spikes and Manny Lawson to free agency. Those three defenders also started each of San Franciscos 16 games last season. The ninth player selected overall in the 2005 draft, Rogers started 63 of the 66 games he played for Washington the past ve seasons. He becomes one of the most experienced veterans in a young San Francisco secondary thats anxious
CANTON, Ohio Deion, Marshall and Shannon. Three players who could get by with only their rst names, and soon to be known as Hall of Famers. Deion Sanders, Marshall Faulk and Shannon Sharpe (of course) will be inducted into the Pro Football shrine Saturday night. Sanders and Faulk were slam dunks in their rst year of eligibility. Joining that trio will be Richard Dent, Chris Hanburger, Les Richter and Ed Sabol. Sanders was one of footballs most versatile and entertaining players, earning the nickname Prime Time. According to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, he also was a phony. Deion was a fraud a fraud, OK? Jones said. He wanted it to look easy, but he was a hard worker. He would give just enough at practice to be a team player in strength and conditioning, but when he went home he worked like a dog on his strength. He wanted everyone to think he was a natural. He was, but it wasnt only because he was born like that. He worked. Deion Sanders The teams Sanders played for generally worked their way into the playoffs. In 1994, he joined the 49ers and helped them win the Super Bowl. The next year, he was headed to Dallas, helping the Cowboys win their third title in four seasons. Deion was Prime Time, Neon Deion, always that ashy player that everybody wanted to be, said Mike Jenkins, the Cowboys cornerback who now wears 21. He always stood out and he let it be known that he was one of the best. He definitely made it exotic to play cornerback. Faulk wasnt quite so exotic. He was just as formidable, though, retiring with 12,279 yards and 100 touchdowns rushing, another 6,875 yards and 36 TDs as a receiver. His dominance in an 12-season career, the rst ve with Indianapolis, the last seven in St. Louis, earned him election to the hall over two other running backs who became eligible for the rst time in 2011. Both Curtis Martin and Jerome Bettis rushed for more yards than Faulk, yet fell Marshall Faulk short of enshrinement. People make a big thing about going in on the rst ballot, but its really more about getting in, Faulk said. They dont give you a target to shoot at. In baseball, you know what you have to do to make the Hall of Fame. In football, you start off, you dont really know what you have to do to make it. Theres no If you break these records as a tight end, youre going to get in or Shannon Sharpe would have got in his rst year. Thats hard to do. Sharpe retired in 2003 and missed out on making the hall in his rst two years of eligibility. He compiled 10,060 yards receiving and 62 touchdowns, monstrous numbers for a tight end, and won three Super Bowls two with Denver, one with Baltimore.
SANTA CLARA Carlos Rogers needed a change. The veteran cornerback is in the right place for that with the San Francisco 49ers, who are making big changes this summer on a defense that has lost ve starters. Rogers is in a Carlos Rogers position to ll one of those voids, but thats not the only thing that convinced him to start fresh on the opposite end of the country after spending his rst six NFL seasons with the Washington Redskins. I wanted something new, an environment that is not (revolving) around superstars and whos the next player coming to the team, Rogers said Friday. I needed a change out of Washington and just wanted a group of guys willing to work and get better. This team is hungry, and the attitude of this team, I want-
to improve on the teams No. 24 nish in the NFL rankings last year in passing defense. Guys are willing to work here, and everybody is on the same page, Rogers said. The whole team is being put in a new system where everybody has to learn. All of us together are helping each other out. Once we get on that same page, well all be equal. Rogers has landed in a duel with fthyear veteran Tarell Brown for the starting cornerback position opposite Shawntae Spencer, who has started 32 consecutive games for the 49ers at left cornerback. Its already shaping into one of San Franciscos closest competitions for an open starting job. Brown started four games in 2009 and punctuated San Franciscos season-ending blowout of Arizona in January with a 62-yard interception return for a touchdown. He has been practicing with the rst unit since training camp began and sees an opportunity to remain there with the new coaching staff. Brown doesnt expect that to change now that Rogers has arrived.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. Tom Brady is ready to stop talking about football and start playing some football. And thats usually bad news for NFL defenses. The reigning NFL MVP, who turned 34 on Wednesday and is in his 12th season, said he and his teamTom Brady mates didnt have a chance to watch the signing of the new
collective bargaining agreement on TV on Friday morning. But the reaction was unanimous. Its a great day for the NFL, he said. It was exciting news when we all got the word that it had been ratied and all the players got a chance to practice yesterday afternoon. We just want to play football. Thats all weve really wanted to do and we have the ability to do that now. Many are pointing to the Patriots continuity this is Bradys 12th season with the same coach, Bill Belichick, and the same system as a reason New England should come out of the blocks could be benecial to them and could help them better serve their clients, Cann said. Then we also had everyday soccer fans and people who love the game who saw the power of sports step forward in their community and say they wanted to be a part of it and so we brought those groups together, trained them in our curriculum which is transferring these job and life skills through sports, he said. Its a situation where it is effective. We work with well-respected social service agencies across the country and they see the power of what this type of outlet can do for folks, Cann said. SSUSA attempts to unite those who have hit a major snag, using participants and volunteers to transform a homeless persons environment. Participants are asked to set three-, six- and 12-month life goals and SSUSA empowers participants by providing access to services plus educational and employment opportunities through things like job academies.
fast this season. But Brady said there was much work to be done in a short time. The learning curve has to be so fast, he said. You cant come out here and have a bad practice. You dont have many of them. There have been several recent events that have buoyed Bradys spirits, including the signings of veteran offensive linemen Matt Light and All-Pro Logan Mankins and rst-round draft pick Nate Solder. The continuity we have over the years (on the offensive line) has been great, he said. What it really boils to is, homelessness is a symptom of a breakdown in community, Cann said. Folks that are homeless are isolated and dont have a support structure thats there for others. So, what we say is that ghting homelessness is a team sport, because what were doing is building that positive community in peoples lives where it doesnt exist. What were about really is creating trusting relationships with people, where youre playing soccer together, getting to know someone and then surrounding them with people who care about them and can help them and create a path back to reach their goals, Cann said. If youre interested in participating with Street Soccer USA, learning more about the program or aiding in Wondolowskis efforts, you can visit www.streetsoccerusa.org or http://www.streetsoccerusa.org/wondochallenge
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thats what happened. Were thrilled that he wants to be a part of what were doing. Street Soccer USA works with the homeless in 20 cities across the country and, according to Cann, 75 percent of participants connect to jobs, housing or further education within a year of play. The program builds community and trust through soccer while empowering participants to set goals and transform their lives. SSUSA has experienced tremendous growth since its inception in 2007. By 2008, the program had expanded to 10 cities then, in 2009, 16 places had adopted the program. We had people from the social service side who saw what we were doing and that it made sense and felt like adding a layer of soccer programing
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16-year NBA career. Mullin will have between 20 and 30 close friends and family members at the enshrinement ceremony, then he will throw a party for a couple of hundred people next Sunday at a restaurant in Manhattan. There have been a lot of people who have guided me along the way, professionally and personally. I dont really feel its an individual accomplishment, Mullin said. Each stop along the way, its the people, really. Thats what it is. Mullin and Jackson, who will be among those supporting Mullin in Springeld, Mass., for next weeks ceremony, go back to their high school days in New York. They still talk regularly. While Mullin is enjoying his current gig with ESPN, he plans to offer Jackson any input the coach might want as he takes over a franchise that has reached the playoffs only once since 1994. Our relationship is way beyond basketball. When you have a connection like that with someone, I dont care if he was coaching in Timbuktu, of course Id like to help him in any way I could to help him succeed, Mullin said. Mullin is in the Hall of Fame at last, after quite a wait for the former Dream Teamer and ve-time All-Star who still sports that signature crewcut. Several times he had been a nalist only to hear he wasnt in yet. These days, Mullin is still as t as ever, keeping in top shape with hourlong swims four to ve days a week, bike rides and occasional basketball scrimmages he insists are just for fun.
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Toronto on June 8, 2010. He was really good, Maddon said. Niemann struck out eight and walked one. Crisp cut the Oakland decit to 4-2 with a two-run homer in the sixth. Tampa Bay responded with three runs in the bottom half of the inning when Ben Zobrist drove in a pair on a single and B.J. Upton added a run-scoring single. Upton also had an eighth-innng RBI triple. Matsui hit a solo shot and Pennington had an RBI triple in the ninth. The Rays took a 1-0 lead on a bases-loaded RBI grounder by Robinson Chirinos that deected off Guillermo Moscoso with one out in the fourth. The Rays rookie catcher has driven in seven runs over his last three games after having none in his rst 11 big league games. Moscoso (4-6) gave up four runs and six hits in 4 2-3 innings. I thought his stuff was pretty good and he looked like he hit a wall, Melvin said. Oakland right fielder David DeJesus, slowed by right thumb soreness, returned after missing the previous three games. He struck out with a runner on second with two outs in the fourth, and wound up 1 for 4. NOTES: The Rays have scored at least seven runs in three straight games for the rst time this season. ... Matsui extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a fourth-inning single. ... Tampa Bay C John Jaso (strained right oblique) has resumed batting practice. ... Oakland RHP Brandon McCarthy (4-5), Saturdays scheduled starter, is 3-0 with a 3.70 ERA in four outings since the All-Star break. ... Rays rookie RHP Alex Cobb (3-1) will face Oakland for the rst time Saturday. ... Texas senior adviser Tom Giordano, who played for the 1953 Philadelphia Athletics, was at the game.
DANVILLE Chris Mullin harbors no hard feelings toward the Golden State Warriors, and the Hall of Famer says he would go back to work for them under the new regime if the t were right. Hes not ruling that out, either. Mullin set to be enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame next Friday night counts new coach Mark Jackson among his close friends. He worked with assistant general manager Bob Myers when Myers Chris Mullin was an agent and Mullin was Golden States executive vice president of basketball operations. He was dismissed after the 2008-09 season. Ive spent so much time there. I have so many good feelings about the organization, about the area, about the fans, Mullin said during a sit down with reporters Friday. If something came about, yeah. All the time I put in there, I feel like I would do anything to help. They did a lot for me over my career, no question. I do feel a connection. I will always feel it, even when I went to Indiana. Im a Warrior. Thats who I am. I played 13 years here. Mullin would like to be a general manager again one day, too. For now, the 48-year-old Mullin is busy paring down his Hall speech to the three-minute limit. And thats a tough task for the former St. Johns star who beat alcoholism during a
NAPA Free agent tight end Kevin Boss signed a $16 million, four-year contract with the Raiders on Friday. The deal includes $8 million in guarantees. Oakland had been looking for a tight end ever since Pro Bowler Zach Miller spurned the team that drafted him and instead signed with the Seattle Seahawks on Tuesday. Boss, who caught 119 passes with 18 touchdowns in four seasons with the New York Giants, gives the Raiders a 6-foot-6, 235-pound downeld target. He also won a Super Bowl ring with New York in his rookie season. Hes smooth, said quarterback Jason Campbell, who played against Boss Giants teams while Campbell was with the Washington Redskins. He has a lot of experience. We understand he knows what it takes to get to the next
level, and what its going to take for us to get to the next level this year. The Raiders brought in Boss for a workout Wednesday and signed him after restructuring contracts to get under the salary cap. He did not join the team at its training camp facilities on Friday but coach Hue Jackson expects Boss to be on the eld soon. I expect to get him here as soon as we can, Jackson said. Weve got work to do. There are quite a few things in our offensive system that a young man needs to do and he showed those characteristics on video tape. Miller led the Raiders in receptions each of the past three seasons and was the teams player rep during the labor dispute. He expected to return to Oakland but was wooed to Seattle by former Raiders coach Tom Cable, who is the Seahawks assistant head coach and offensive line coach.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Jeff Niemann had no problem with being pulled one out away from a complete game. Niemann took a four-hitter into the ninth inning en route to winning his fth consecutive decision and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Oakland Athletics 8-4 on Friday night. Niemann (6-4) allowed four runs and seven hits over 8 2-3 innings, and had the night end when his pitch count reached 119 and manager Joe Maddon went to the bullpen. The righthander was replaced by Kyle Farnsworth after giving up a pair of runs and three hits in the ninth. Its tough, you know, Niemann said. Joe gave me every chance possible, I think, to nish that game. It just wasnt in the cards. Niemann improved to 5-0 in eight starts since returning from a strained lower back on June 20. Evan Longoria and Casey Kotchman both had run-scoring doubles, and Matt Joyce hit an RBI single in the fth that put the Rays up 4-0. After losing nine of 12, Tampa Bay has now won six of eight. I think our players are really starting to believe again, strongly, Maddon said. Its kind of a nice vibe. Coco Crisp and Hideki Matsui homered for the Athletics, who have lost 30 of their last 37 games away from home. Oakland entered hitting an AL-low .232 on the road. We gave ourselves some holes on the road that we have to comeback from and its not a great recipe for success, Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. Athletics shortstop Cliff Pennington was back in the starting lineup after missing two games because of Bells palsy and tripled in four at-bats. He left Mondays game against Seattle because of the condition that can cause partial facial paralysis. Niemann has won all three of his career starts against Oakland. He was looking for his rst complete game since a two-hitter against
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I denitely have a different mentality than in Shanghai, she said. I let myself get really nervous and it really affected my performance. I let it get away from me that I actually had a shot at a medal. This race was conquering a lot of demons. Ive learned a lot and Im really ready for next year. Lyndsay De Paul was second at 2:09.47.Teresa Crippen, younger sister of the late open-water swimmer Fran Crippen, was third at 2:10.08. Conor Dwyer took advantage of Ryan Lochtes absence to win the 200 individual medley at 1:59.19, the only man under 2 minutes in the nal. Dwyer led after the rst lap, then regained the lead on the third leg of breaststroke and pulled away by a body length. Lochte withdrew from the meet on Wednesday, saying he was exhausted after winning ve gold medals at worlds last week. Tyler Harris was second at 2:00.91, and Clark Burckle third at 2:01.10. Austin Surhoff, the son of former major league baseball player B.J. Surhoff, was eighth.
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Elizabeth Beisel won her second title of the meet, taking the 200 backstroke at 2 minutes, 8.81 seconds. She was fth in the event at worlds. Unlike many of her teammates from Shanghai, Beisel is swimming seven events at nationals despite the fatigue of jet lag and the 15-hour time difference with China. I wasnt happy at all with my performance in Shanghai, I feel like theres closure, she said. Its a true testament to all the work Ive put in to be able to handle this type of schedule. No matter how tired I am, I still have that re and I want to win. Elizabeth Pelton was second at 2:09.08, followed by Bonnie Brandon at 2:09.91. Katie Hoff was sixth. Olympian Kathleen Hersey pulled away to win the 200 buttery at 2:07.61. She didnt advance out of the seminals in the event at worlds in China.
Kathleen Hersey of Longhorn Aquatics won the womens 200-buttery by two seconds.
ish by playing a great second round at 3-under 69, thus building an eight shot lead going into the tournaments nal day. It denitely gave me a cushion, Buchanan said. Its always nice to follow up a low round like a 67 with another round in the 60s otherwise the 67 doesnt mean that much. It was nice to be able to have that lead to sleep on. I felt good about how I swung. As mentioned, Buchanan wasnt as sharp to start off the nal round. As he approached the 11th tee, Buchanan was 2-over-par and his once-big lead had shrunk considerably after his nearest competitor had birdied nine and 10. Buchanan didnt panic. Instead he went back to the well and relied on the work he had put in with his irons to carry him. Ive been working on that a lot because that was a weakness at the beginning of the summer, Buchanan said, so it was something I wanted to focus on. It ended up really helping me in the tournament. Buchanan settled down after his masterful approach on 11 and shot even par for the round to come away with his rst AJGA Open title.
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makes Buchanan one of the Daily Journals Summer Standouts. It definitely means a lot, Buchanan said of his win. There were denitely a lot of good players there so it felt good to be able to compete and, coming out on top, that will denitely give me condence in the future. Buchanan led wire to wire at the AJGA Open, besting a eld of 96 junior golfers from around the coun-
try, including 73 from California. The tournament also welcomed players from China, Hong Kong, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. Buchanan red a 5-under-par 67 to take a three-stroke lead in Tuesdays rst round. It was a round that included a 6-under-par 30 on the back nine, with an eagle on 16 as the highlight. I started putting my approach shots close and made a lot of five-footers for birdie on the back, Buchanan said. Really, my iron play was solid on the back nine. I played a lot of shots close. It denitely gave me condence because theres a lot of water on that golf
course, to know that my swing was going good on the rst day was a condence booster for the rest of the week. It made me think that I could play well. Actually, Buchanans condence began to rise before he started the tournament. A couple days before, with my coach, I gained condence, so going into the tournament I felt good. I had a good practice round the day before. I had pretty high expectations but to be able to win wasnt my main concern. I just wanted a good solid nish to end the summer on the junior circuit. He got one step closer to that n-
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CASCAIS, Portugal The latest generation of Americas Cup yachts is ready to set sail in a competition promising speed, stealth and uncertainty. The rst of three World Series events in 2011 begins Saturday off the Portuguese coast in Cascais. A new class of catamarans will streak though the Atlantic at speeds of up to 30 mph. The World Series is essentially a training exercise for the Louis Vuitton Cup, where boats will try to become the designated challenger to defending champion Oracle Racing in the Americas Cup, the oldest competition in international sports.
Both cups will be raced in 2013 from July to September in San Francisco. At Cascais, seven challengers from six nations are looking to give Oracle cause for concern. The nine-day event marks the rst stage on the way to San Francisco, where the American syndicate will defend the Auld Mug trophy. The AC45 wing-sailed class boats are 44 feet long, 71 feet high and sailed by a team of ve. They are a prelude to the massive 72-foot long multihulls that will be used come San Francisco. From a racing standpoint its going to be brutal at times. But thats part of the growing pains it doesnt come without hiccups, Emirates Team New Zealand skipper Dean
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Barker said Friday. These are so high-tech that when they are pushed to the limits thats where you can see mistakes. The fast cats, as Americas Cup organizers label them, certainly present a big jump for the competition, with Energy Team skipper Loick Peyron coining turbo engine feel to describe the new series. While Americas Cup sailing has been called Formula One on water before, the changes involve more than speed. Its quite physical, the boats are unbelievably high performing its just a new lease on life, Artemis skipper Terry Hutchinson said. What were getting ready to embark on here is something weve never
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seen before. Oracle Racing is the overwhelming favorite. It enters the series having made the most of technology to beat Alinghi in a one-off series against the Swiss in February 2010. The courts forced the pair to race after a long-running feud stemming from the Americas Cup in Valencia, where Alinghi beat Team New Zealand. Alinghi abandoned the Americas Cup after losing the title. At Cascais, Oracle Racing has brought two crews, for boats 4 and 5, just as it will in 2013 when it must train on its own while the challengers duel for a spot in the nal. Despite the technological advantage, Oracle Racing No. 5 skipper Russell Coutts knows the boats are
difcult to handle. His boat capsized in June, and the Kiwi skipper fell nearly 23 feet into the water. You have to get everyone up to speed as quick as you possibly can because you know that someone will get hurt. Its not a matter of if someone is going to get hurt but when, Hutchinson said. So everyone on the team has to be on pace with the boat to step in. Changes are apparent in Cascais marina, where temporary structures house the teams during this traveling roadshow: Green Comm Racing of Spain; Team Korea; China Team; French pair Aleph and Energy Team; Emirates Team New Zealand; and ofcial challenger of record, Artemis Racing.
Sports briefs
Host Colombia tops group at U-20 World Cup
BOGOTA, Colombia Host Colombia asserted its claim to being among the favorites to win the Under-20 World Cup, defeating South Korea 1-0 on Friday to nish atop its group with a perfect record. Colombia finished with nine points in Group A, ahead of France, which defeated Mali to clinch second place with six points, with South Korea advancing as one of the best third-place teams with three points. Mali was eliminated. Two other teams advanced on Friday to the round-of-16 knock-out stage. Portugal defeated New Zealand 10 to win Group B, ahead of Cameroon, which had four points after a 1-0 victory over Uruguay. The loss eliminated Uruguay, a nation that had become accustomed to tournament success in recent times. Group play will wrap up on Saturday with Australia facing Spain and Ecuador playing Costa Rica in Group C. In Group D, Saudi Arabia will play Nigeria to decide rst and second, while Croatia is against Guatemala. Thirteen teams are already through to the round of 16: Colombia, France, South Korea, Portugal, Cameroon, Spain, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Egypt, Argentina, Mexico and England. Luis Muriel scored for Colombia in the 37th minute. Muriels goal came after a mistake by South Korea keeper No Dong-geon, who raced off his line for a loose ball in the area, but was beaten to it by Muriel who recovered and scored into the empty net with No stranded.
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FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENSReleased FB Jason McKie. CAROLINA PANTHERSAgreed to terms with WR Legedu Naanee. CINCINNATI BENGALSSigned TE Bo Scaife. Waived OL Ryan McKnight. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARSSigned TE Marcedes Lewis to a ve-year contract. MIAMI DOLPHINSSigned QB Kevin OConnell. NEW ORLEANS SAINTSAgreed to terms with C Olin Kreutz on a one-year contract. NEW YORK GIANTSSigned CB Prince Amukamara to a four-year contract and CB Darnell Burks. Waived-injured CB Bruce Johnson. NEW YORK JETSOL Damien Woody announced his retirement.Re-signed S Brodney Pool.Signed G Trevor Caneld and T Pete Clifford.Waived CB Jeremy McGee,G Tom Ottaiano and T Jeff Wills. OAKLAND RAIDERSSigned TE Kevin Boss to a four-year contract. PITTSBURGH STEELERSSigned LB LaMarr Woodley to a six-year contract. SAN DIEGO CHARGERSAgreed to terms with WR Malcom Floyd. TENNESSEE TITANSLB David Thornton announced his retirement. WASHINGTON REDSKINSSigned OL Sean Locklear. BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLESActivated INF Cesar Izturis from the 60-day DL.Placed LHP Zach Britton on the 15-day DL. CHICAGO WHITE SOXDesignated RHP Brian Bruney for assignment. CLEVELAND INDIANSPlaced INF Jack Hannahan on the paternity list. Recalled OF Shelley Duncan from Columbus (IL). KANSAS CITY ROYALSOptioned INF Yamaico Navarro to Omaha (PCL).Purchased the contract of 2B Johnny Giavotella from Omaha. National League FLORIDA MARLINSPlaced 2B Omar Infante on the 15-day DL.Called up INF Joe Thurston from New Orleans (PCL).Transferred OF Scott Cousins to the 60-day DL.
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NOTE:Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday, July 30 Sporting Kansas City 1, New England 1, tie Columbus 2, Real Salt Lake 0 D.C. United 2, San Jose 0 Portland 2,Toronto FC 2, tie Sundays Games Chivas USA at FC Dallas, 4 p.m.
Thursdays Games Chicago Cubs 7,Pittsburgh 6 St.Louis 7,Florida 4 Colorado 6,Washington 3 Philadelphia 3,San Francisco 0 Fridays Games Chicago Cubs 4,Cincinnati 3 San Diego 15,Pittsburgh 5 Atlanta 4,N.Y.Mets 1 St.Louis 3,Florida 2 Milwaukee 8,Houston 1 Washington 5,Colorado 3 L.A.Dodgers 7,Arizona 4 Philadelphia 9,San Francisco 2 Saturdays Games Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs,10:05 a.m. Philadelphia at San Francisco,1:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Houston,7:05 p.m. San Diego at Pittsburgh,7:05 p.m. Atlanta at N.Y.Mets,7:10 p.m. St.Louis at Florida,7:10 p.m. L.A.Dodgers at Arizona,8:10 p.m. Washington at Colorado,8:10 p.m. Sundays Games Atlanta at N.Y.Mets,10:10 a.m. St.Louis at Florida,10:10 a.m. San Diego at Pittsburgh,10:35 a.m. Milwaukee at Houston,11:05 a.m. Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs,11:20 a.m. Washington at Colorado,12:10 p.m. Philadelphia at San Francisco,1:05 p.m. L.A.Dodgers at Arizona,1:10 p.m.
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Whelan said at a news conference. A concept like EFLI presents a huge opportunity and the perfect platform for brands to get visibility and reach out to their potential customers. The league plans to add eight more teams during the second year and four in each subsequent season until 2022. By then, the league would have 52 teams representing all Indian cities with a population in excess of 1 million. American football is the latest sport to set up a pro league in India following the success of crickets multimillion dollar Indian Premier League. Football, volleyball and the indigenous game of kabaddi have already started leagues while field hockey, wrestling, tennis and badminton are among those in the works. The EFLI is confident of finding a niche despite being new to the country. We felt that India didnt have enough games or sport to watch on television and thus see a huge potential here, Whelan said We are training coaches from athletics, volleyball and wrestling and hope to be ready for the first season in time. He said the new league hopes to capitalize on the success of Indias victory in this years cricket World Cup on home soil. Its very fortunate that India has this cricket history because with the World Cup as the catalyst, all eyes are on the world of sport, he said. The EFLI will invite 600 companies to attend an orientation program to discuss strategy for long-term business affiliation. The league hopes to attract not just corporate backing but also support from the army, city municipalities and political parties. We will definitely have a pay structure in place soon. We will put up our complete business module in a month or so, Whelan said. Organizers plan to work with the Indian government to develop the first governing body for the game, similar to the Board of Control for Cricket in India. They will also use playing fields owned by the government. All of the games in the first season will be played in the western city of Pune at the government-owned Sports Authority of India center. Organizers said they would share 15 percent of their revenues with Indias sports ministry.
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Haas, Huston take early lead at 3M Championship
BLAINE, Minn. Jay Haas often looks at the scoreboard during his round. What he saw with four holes to play Friday wasnt the most pleasing number. Coming off back-to-back bogeys after missing short putts, Haas birdied the nal four holes en route to an 8-under 64 to share the lead with John Huston after the rst round of the 3M Championship. Haas also recorded an ace during his round. He made a 30-foot putt at No. 15 to start his strong nish. That was huge because Id gone back to 4-under and I was a little disappointed to be only 4-under at that stage because I played pretty well, Haas said. Id been playing beautifully. I was frustrated that Id given two shots back, but at the same time I felt if I kept playing this way Im going to get some more chances. He hit a wedge to about 5 feet on No. 16, and a 6-iron to about 15 feet on No. 17 to set up more birdies. Haas settled for birdie on the par-5 No. 18 after two-putting from about 10 feet. It was a very, very eventful day, Haas said.
MUMBAI, India India, a country with a passion for the genteel game of cricket, is about to get a taste of the rough and tumble sport of American football. Organizers announced plans Friday for the Elite Football League of India, an eight-team pro league made up of Indian players and coaches that will open next year in this country of more than 1 billion people. The league said investors include former Green Bay Packers linebacker Brandon Chillar, an American of Indian descent, former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski, Hall of Fame wide receiver Michael Irvin of the Dallas Cowboys and Hall of Fame tight end and former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka. The inaugural season is to run from November 2012 to February 2013. The teams will be the Bhubaneswar Warhawks, Mumbai Gladiators, Hyderabad Skykings, Goa Swarm, Pune Blacktigers, Kolkata Vipers, Delhi Defenders and Punjab Warriors. India is beyond doubt a great market for the sports and entertainment sectors, EFLIs chief executive Richard
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MOGADISHU, Somalia A World Food Program handout of corn rations to Somalis trying to survive a famine turned deadly Friday after government troops opened re, killing at least seven, witnesses said. Residents of Mogadishus largest famine refugee camp accused government soldiers of starting the chaos by trying to steal some of the 290 tons of dry rations that aid workers were trying to distribute there. Then refugees joined in the scramble, prompting soldiers to open re, the witnesses said. They red on us as if we were their enemy, said refugee Abidyo Geddi. When people started to take
the food then the gunre started and everyone was being shot. We cannot stay here much longer. We dont get much food and the rare food they bring causes death and torture. The chaos underscores the dangers and challenges of getting help to a nation that has been essentially ungoverned for two decades and now has a severe famine sweeping through it. There are 9,000 African Union soldiers in the capital, but their main mission is to ght alQaida linked Islamists, not safeguard humanitarian aid. Aid workers are puzzling over how to help the starving without helping gunmen who either prey on the refugees, compete for security contracts to guard the food, or steal it and take a share of the prots when its sold at market.
The situation echoes the 1992 famine that prompted deployment of a U.S.-led multinational force to safeguard the delivery of food to Somalias starving. That international intervention collapsed in 1993 after two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and 18 servicemen were killed in one single battle in Mogadishu. U.S. and U.N. ofcials acknowledge that some aid in Somalia is bound to be stolen during delivery. Will there be losses? Sure. Will there be some looting? Of course there will be. What we have to do is try to minimize it, said WFP spokesman David Orr. This is the highest risk environment in the world ... the safety of our staff and getting food into the right hands are our highest priorities.
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that time. The Standard & Poors 500, a broader measure of the market, nished just under 1,200, down a fraction of a point. It was the Dows worst week since March 2009, down 5.8 percent. The S&P, down 7.2 percent, and the Nasdaq composite index, down 8.1 percent, had their worst weeks since November of that year. The gain of 117,000 jobs for the U.S. economy looked even better considering that 37,000 public jobs disappeared during the month. Most of those were from a temporary government shutdown in Minnesota. Subtracting those government layoffs, the private sector added 154,000 jobs for the month. And the economy added 56,000 more jobs than rst thought in May and June. Workers were paid more, too. Average hourly wages showed the biggest monthly gain since 2008. More jobs and better pay means people have more cash to spend, helping the economy grow. And manufacturing companies added 24,000 jobs, which suggests that the supply disruptions caused by the Japan earthquake may be almost over. Makers of cars and other products found themselves short of parts after the disaster. All told, the gures suggested a slower-growing economy but not one on the verge of a new recession, as some had feared. Some economists were impressed that the economy managed to add more than 100,000 jobs in a month when companies feared the government might default on its debt. Congress and the White House struck a deal with hours to spare. Other economists noted that corporations remain highly protable, stocked with cash, and can hire when needed. Theyre waiting for customer demand to come back in force. The economy is still too weak to produce the 250,000 new jobs a month that it takes to bring down the unemployment rate quickly. The rate has been above 9 percent in every month except two since the Great Recession ended in June 2009. Other recent data show the economy struggling. In June, consumers cut back term decit reduction plan and avoided a default on the countrys debt. After months of wrangling and negotiations with the administration, Congress passed this week a debt reduction package at the 11th-hour that averted a possible default. In its statement, S&P said that it had changed its view of the difculties of bridging the gulf between the political
A nerve-wracking week punctuated by the biggest stock market plunge in three years has left investors with more questions than answers and considerably less money in their portfolios. Is the plummet in the Dow Jones industrial average of 10 percent since late July a short-term blip or a precursor of whats to come? Will investors who didnt inch, even during Thursdays 513-point drop, be rewarded for their perseverance or punished for not selling before the market gets worse? Most importantly, what should they do now? Concerns over the debt deadlock in Washington that brought the government to the brink of default were then overtaken by increasing evidence of anemic U.S. and global economic growth. Now economists are talking about the increased chances of another recession, though not imminently. Thats left many individual investors unnerved. It all adds to the overall uncertainty, the nervousness. You just really cant count on anything, said Jeff Hawkins, 52, of Gainesville, Va. Hawkins, a security director, and his wife, Jo, have most of their portfolio in stocks. He still believes stocks are the best way to invest in the long run, and he has decided to hang on rather than sell. But that faith is being sorely tested. The wild swing in the markets following a report that the unemployment rate declined in July, underscored just how jittery investors are. After shooting up 171 points, the Dow tumbled into triple-digit-loss territory for the third time this week before yoyoing back to close the session with a 61-point gain. The most important thing for people to do right now is to take a deep breath, whether youre reacting to the latest, pretty good job numbers or youre still in shell shock from everything else weve learned in the last week, said Jerry Webman, chief economist at Oppenheimer Funds in New York. Consider how far stocks have climbed from their lows following the 2008 nancial meltdown. The broader Standard & Poors 500 index is still up 77 percent from its bottom in March 2009, although its still 23 percent off the all-time high set in 2007. Investors, though, have been focusing more on the economic turmoil. And many are selling stocks or piling into cash and presumed safe havens like U.S. Treasury bonds and gold. Trading volume in the 401(k) accounts that Chicago-based human resources rm Aon Hewitt monitors reached $857 million Thursday, more than twice the normal volume on a typical day. Aon Hewitt, which tracks the accounts of 4.7 million workers, said the assets moved almost exclusively out of stocks and into xed income investments stable value funds, bonds and money market funds. Dan Nainan, 30, sees plenty of reasons for long-term optimism. Hes not touching his $120,000 in stock holdings and is shrugging off the daily drumbeat of bad nancial and economic news. Theres a lot of the sky is falling mentality out there, said Nainan, a standup comedian from New York City. People see in the media that everyones dumping stocks, and then they do it. Theyre acting as if the worlds going to collapse. It doesnt make sense.
unemployment rate, to 9.1 percent. But the jobs number beat the forecast of economists, who were expecting no more than 90,000. And it was an overwhelming relief for investors, who just lived through two of the most brutal weeks in Wall Street history. Nothing to pop Champagne corks over, said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial, but a muchneeded shot in the arm for condence at a time when we have so little. But when they come back on Monday, investors will have to absorb another body blow: Late Friday, ratings agency Standard & Poors downgraded the United States debt for the rst time, saying the governments debt-reduction plans fall short. The downgrade could lead to higher interest rates and further hamper the economic recovery. The Dow Jones industrial average nished Friday with a gain of 60.93 points and closed at 11,444.61. It made up only a small fraction of the losses from Thursday, when the Dow dropped 512, its worst since the nancial crisis of 2008. Friday was not exactly quiet for the market, either. At the start of trading, investors were thrilled with the unemployment report, and the Dow rose 171. Ten minutes later, the gains were gone. Investors focused on Europe, which is struggling to keep Italy and Spain from being consumed by a growing nancial crisis, and the Dow fell 243. The fear was that they had no plan to deal with the situation, said Randy Warren, chief investment officer at Warren Financial Service. Later in the day, Italy promised to work toward a constitutional amendment to balance its budget. It was trying to calm investors around the world, who are worried that nancial problems are spreading in Europe. The Dows gain was only its second in the past 11 trading sessions. The average has lost about 10 percent of its value in
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The Change-Up begins with a poop joke. And not just any poop joke this is projectile poop from a baby girl into her daddys mouth during a bleary-eyed, middle-of-thenight diaper change. Oh yes, it goes there. Early. Youd think that would be a frightening harbinger of whats to come over the next two hours, but its not which makes it even more frustrating when you realize that it didnt need to startle us off the top in such crass and obvious fashion. There was potential here. When youve got Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman two masters of deadpan improvisational comedy bouncing off each other, you should theoretically just be able to let the cameras roll and follow them wherever they take you. With a screenplay from Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who wrote The Hangover the clever, original Hangover, that is, and not the lazy sequel you should already be in pretty good shape. But the overlong lm from David Dobkin (who also directed Wedding Crashers and, unfortunately, Fred Claus) is all over the place in tone, veering awkwardly from some daring comic moments to feel-good sappiness and back again in hopes of redeeming some semblance of edginess. Its as if The ChangeUp is trying to say, Just kidding! We didnt mean to be so sappy and square. Well, maybe we did, just a little. Whatever you guys like best. Learning lessons is what body-swapping movies are all about. The grass is always
LOS ANGELES In Horrible Bosses and The Change-Up, which opens Friday, Jason Bateman plays a hardworking guy who loves his job but yearns for something new. In real life, Bateman is an actor with three decades of experience who loved starring in two fun summer comedies but really longs to direct. The 42-year-old stands to be the seasons comedy king with his two R-rated icks coming out just a few weeks apart. In Horrible Bosses, he plays Nick Hendricks, a management candidate so frustrated by his twisted supervisor that killing him seems like a good idea. In The Change-Up, Bateman is Dave Lockwood, an attorney about to make partner who loves his wife and two kids but envies the no-responsibility lifestyle of his best friend, played by Ryan Reynolds. One drunken night, the two buddies talk about switching lives with each other, and the next day discover that they have changed bodies. Bateman talked with the Associated Press about his big comedy summer and deep
desire to direct. AP: What drew you to The ChangeUp? Bateman: Its the R-rated version of the body-switching movie. No ones ever done that. And who better to write that than the guys who wrote The Hangover and who better to direct it than the guy who did Wedding Crashers, so its really an all-star execution of this kind of funny. From an acting standpoint, its every actors dream to be able to play two sides of the coin, Jekyll and Hyde, or what have you. In this case its sort of the conservative guy to the philanderer. So I sent e-mails to the studio, to (director) David Dobkin. I really, really, really wanted this. AP: Was the experience everything you hoped it would be? Bateman: It was more than what I wanted it to be... Fortunately, my instinct on how to play the character really matched everybodys expectations about how the character would be played so it was just very simple all the way through, and the end result is something Im incredibly proud of. Im pretty condent that people are going to really,
Edie Kiglatuk is an unlikely sleuth. In the rst place, what kind of mystery could need solving on her chunk of ice and rock in the Canadian Arctic? Besides, it would take a lot to stir up this quiet little woman. Edie would rather be hunting than poking her nose into the business of her fellow Inuit and the qalunaat, or white people, who hire her as a guide. Other times shes at home with a cup of hot tea watching a Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin movie on DVD and chewing a slice of fermented walrus gut. White Heat, M.J. McGraths solid rst novel, begins when an Edie-led trek goes wrong and a qalunaat ends up dead. She knows the ofcial nding of a self-inicted gunshot is bogus but is willing to let it go to maintain a sense of peace and privacy in her tightknit community. Later, another death raises questions that her conscience, and the spirit world around her, wont allow her to ignore. Edie struggles with more than the puzzling events at hand. In spite of her hunting skills, she is viewed warily in what is traditionally a mans profession. Her personal demons, including alcohol and depression, are common to Inuit. A mercurial ex-husband is at the center of the complicated relationships in her thirtysomething life. And all this in a world in which 10 degrees below zero is almost balmy and death is as close as a blizzard or a stretch of thin ice. McGrath is a London-based journalist who has written nonction about the Inuit, a native Arctic people once commonly called Eskimos. She weaves a strong strand of whodunit into a broader story about life in a 21stcentury community on Canadas Ellesmere Island. The plot is wholly satisfying, and McGraths portrait of a culture that uneasily blends yesterday and today is engrossing on its own merits. The Arctic is a big place big enough, one hopes, for Edie Kiglatuk to nd another mystery that needs solving between warm bowls of seal blood soup fresh from the microwave.
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vines now in full bloom,container gardening and antique ironwork.The event takes place 1 p.m.to 7 p.m.792 Willborough Road,Burlingame.Close-up instructional tours given at 3 p.m.and 5 p.m.Tax-deductible donations in any amount are accepted as admission.For further information,call John Ward at 3420683.
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FLEMING SINGS BORGIA. Soprano Rene Fleming, one of the most acclaimed artists and celebrated musical ambassadors of our time, returns to San Francisco Opera after an absence of ten years for the Company premiere of Donizettis melodically rich bel canto masterpiece Lucrezia Borgia. Borgia, a femme fatale renowned for her ruthless pursuit of power, reveals poignant vulnerability when she comes face to face with her long-lost son. Fleming will be joined by mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong (Mafo Orsini), tenor Michael Fabiano (Gennaro) and bass Vitalij Kowaljow (Alfonso dEste), led by conductor Riccardo Frizza. This Washington National Opera production, created for Fleming, marks the Company directorial debut of John Pascoe. HEART OF A SOLDIER. On Saturday, Sept. 10, the eve of the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, the San Francisco Opera presents the World Premiere of Heart of a Soldier. What makes a hero? The question was never an academic one for Rick Rescorla, a British-born adventurer who fought in Vietnam before settling in New York as head of security for a brokerage rm based in the World Trade Center. On Sept. 11, 2001, his extraordinary courage and calmness in a crisis paid off: Rescorla led all of the 2,700 people under his care to safety literally singing them down the stairs before heading back into the burning building for one last check. He never emerged. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the devastating terrorist attacks, San Francisco Opera honors Rescorlas extraordinary life. CARMEN. Thrilling but dangerous, the captivating, capricious Carmen is one of the most vivid characters in all of opera. Mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich stars in the title role in this classic San Francisco Opera production of Bizets Carmen by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. Tenor Thiago Arancam is Don Jos, the man who unwisely falls under Carmens spell. Baritone Paulo
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Why worry about missing curtain up? Have dinner at the Opera House Caf, in the lower lobby of the Opera House. The Caf opens two hours before each evening and Sunday matinee performance and serves both a buffet dinner and a la carte dishes. Dining just steps from your seat eliminates last minute worries about missing the beginning of the performance (which begins EXACTLY on time with no seating for latecomers.) Plus, you can arrange to have coffee and dessert waiting for you at intermission.
The Fillmore in San Francisco continues to roll out an impressive lineup of Rock en Espaol acts during the summer of 2011. Their latest show will be tonight when Moenia, the Mexican electronica/alternative rock group, graces the San Francisco stage for the rst time in the bands history. Since their debut in 1997, Moenia has frequently provided Spanish Rock fans with a breath of fresh air their sound is very distinctive and they frequently push the boundaries of their genre. The current lineup of Alfonso Pichardo, Jorge Soto and Alejandro Midi Ortega have been together since 1999, producing 10 studio albums along the way. Stereo Hits is Moenias most popular album its a collection of Spanish Rock covers with their electronica twist. Doors for Mooenias show open at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale via ticketmaster or at the Fillmore box ofce.
TICKETS:
Single (non-subscription) tickets are available at the Opera House Box Ofce, 301 Van Ness Ave., by phone at (415) 864-3330, or online at sfopera.com. *** FREE OPERA. On Sunday, Sept. 11 at 2 p.m., San Francisco Opera in the Park at Sharon Meadow in Golden Gate Park presents a special free program commemorating the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. San Francisco Opera also presents a free live simulcast of Turandot at AT&T Park on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 2 p.m. Advance online registration assures early entrance into the ballpark for preferred seating and entry into a special prize drawing. Visit sfopera.com/simulcast to register.
Susan Cohn can be reached at susan@smdailyjournal.com or www.twitter.com/susancityscene.
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The home of the San Francisco Opera is the 1932 War Memorial Opera House at 301 Van Ness Ave. at Grove Street, across from the rear facade of San Francisco City Hall. The Opera House is one of the last Beaux-Arts structures erected in the United States and has 3,146 seats plus 200 standing room places. The Performing Arts Garage is on Grove between Franklin and Gough streets. BART lines serve the Civic Center station three blocks away at Market and Eighth streets. OPERA TALKS. One of the ways to ensure a wonderful opera-going experience is to learn about the operas story, characters and music and to understand its composer, context, and history. An Opera
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really like this movie. Theyre going to get all the R-rated laughs they can handle and probably a few more than theyre comfortable with but its couched in actually a very real and touching domestic story thats a little unexpected but certainly adds to the lm. AP: Was it just coincidence that you played these two overachiever-types this summer? Bateman: Lets face it, those are the parts that people think of me for ever since Arrested Development, because that is basically the type of character I played there and
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greener on the other side until you have to mow it, or something. Here, Bateman plays Dave Lockwood, a wealthy, successful Atlanta lawyer. Hes happily married to Jamie
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Ask me if Id like to see a precious movie that includes a narrating cat, a talking moon and a heroine that greets her boyfriend in the morning with Hello, person, and I will likely leave in my wake a wisp of smoke and a Roadrunner-shaped hole in the cinema wall. But whatever the precocious leanings of Miranda Julys The Future, the lm resonates primarily for its journey away from simple, irritating quirk, and toward originality of a more substantial kind. The Future, the second lm of director-writer-actor and performance artist July following 2005s Me and You and Everyone We Know, ultimately wins you over with its persistent curiosity. It matches glances at commonplace details with the tug of metaphysical confusion. The movie begins with the voice of a cat named Paw-Paw (voiced by July). In a scratchy, fragile voice, it wonders, Have you ever been outside? Rooted to their sofa and tethered to their laptops, the earnest, thirtysomething couple Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) treat outside as merely an option worth avoiding, like non-Apple products. Lounging next to each other, the two, both lanky and topped by shaggy dark hair, look like mops carelessly stored. In Los Angeles, Sophie teaches dance and Jason gives IT support by phone. Theyre planning to adopt Paw-Paw, but have to wait a month. This acceptance of responsibility (something of a furry stand-in for a child) sets off an early midlife crisis. By their anxious calculations, their lives will soon begin deteriorating. After 50, Jason says, its just loose change. Regret is massing; he says, I always
Theres a childlike sense of wonder, but its the adultness of The Future that makes it rise above.
thought Id be smarter. Faced with the onset of cat ownership (which is to say, death), they resolve to live the month like their last. They quit their jobs and, terror of all terrors, cut the Internet. Another movie, from here, might go on to celebrate maintaining a childlike naivety through adulthood, of rising above the mundane with whimsy. But in The Future, whimsy stands little chance against times relentless march. Jason begins volunteering for a tree-growing charity, Tree-by-Tree, and goes door-to-door for donations. He meets an old man, Joe (Joe Putterlik, also the voice of the moon), whose thoughts on life both peculiar and wise attract him. Joe advises that Jasons alarmist sense of time is off: Youre just in the middle of the beginning right now. Sophies chosen path is to create a daily YouTube video with a new dance. But her body is unable to contort to the hip-hop moves that go viral, and her boredom turns to an unlikely love interest (David Warshofsky). The father of a young girl and a factory-owner, hes emphatically more normal than Sophie and perhaps thats his appeal. These mixed results of Sophie and Jasons self-enforced trial is shown in variously mystical expressions: The moon talks, an emotionally signicant T-shirt travels on its own and Jason attempts to stop time. The dreamy music by Jon Brion adds to the sad, enchanted tone. These magical flourishes come alongside more prosaic observations, like the feel of a couchs felt. Theres a childlike sense of wonder, but its the adultness of The Future that makes it rise above. July, with her Chaplin eyes, perhaps knows too well how to play earnest and smart. But The Future feels progressively less adorned, even as it grows more magical. Hardship, fear, anxiety and death set it, and narcissism burns away. New worlds are explored, even if theyre just down the street. Pain proves far more preferable than utter stasis. Its a fancy feast. Cut the talking cat, next time, though. The Future, a Roadside Attractions release, is rated R for some sexual content. Running time: 91 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
The post-war Bosnia drama The Whistleblower earns high marks for its humanitarian intentions and for Rachel Weiszs steely performance as an American cop-turned-peacekeeper who exposes a sex-trafcking ring. Its a movie that sancties rather than satises, though. The featurefilm debut from director Larysa Kondracki is an oppressive sermon whose players are almost all wicked beyond contempt and whose hero is so saintly that an endorsement for canonization would not be out of place among the preachy text codas that conclude the movie. Grim as the subject matter is, Kondracki crafts a taut, technically skillful thriller, making the blackand-white storytelling from her and her co-writer Eilis Kirwan all the more disappointing. Yes, men who participate in smuggling and imprisonment of young women as sex slaves are scum who deserve far more than castigation by proxy in a movie dramatization. But The Whistleblower lacks the sort of subtlety needed to make the drama credible and, frankly, watchable. Viewers dont need to sympathize in the slightest with the bad guys, but the villains do have to be something more than the snarling, sneering animals presented here. Likewise, theres little nuance written into the character of Kathy Bolkovac, though Academy Award winner Weisz manages to infuse her with depth and temperament even as the script supercially casts her as some sort of superhuman do-gooder. The Whistleblower is based on the actual experiences of Bolkovac, a former Nebraska cop who served as story consultant on the movie. The story opens in 1999 as Weiszs Bolkovac takes a job with DynCorp,
a private contractor recruiting police monitors for the United Nations mission to restore order in Bosnia after the war. Bolkovac quickly discovers that the local police and their international advisers turn a blind eye to illegal trafcking of women to work in sleazy brothels. Worse, she begins to suspect that the authorities are active participants and her own colleagues are among the best customers. The movie plays out as almost a single-handed crusade by one woman against ruthless, innumerable swine. The movie does toss in Vanessa Redgrave as the compassionate head of the U.N. humanrights ofce in Sarajevo and David Strathairn as a sympathetic internalaffairs investigator, but pretty much everyone else Bolkovac encounters is a caricature of maliciousness. (A note of neutrality blandness, really is provided by Monica Bellucci in a tiny, robotic role as a stonefaced, by-the-book bureaucrat). Director Kondracki puts together some suspenseful sequences and delicately handles nasty moments of sexual abuse and other violence against the captive prostitutes, many of them still girls. Yet for nearly two hours, the tone lurches from gloomy to unsavory to despairing and back to gloomy. Like Erin Brockovich or Norma Rae, The Whistleblower aims to showcase how one dogged individual can expose institutional evil. But those lms were great dramas with complex, full-blooded characters at their core. The Whistleblower is a one-note affair that offers glimpses of the rich, broad life Bolkovac clearly lives but deies her into someone inaccessible and unbelievable. Even Hollywoods comic-book superheroes have their little aws and peccadilloes, but this woman drawn from real life doesnt.
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SATURDAY, AUG. 6 Show N Shine Rod N Custom. San Mateo County Event Center, 1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo. Car Show and Swap Meet, along with live entertainment, awards and a 50/50 raffle. For more information call (408) 202-0572. Boy Scout Rummage Sale. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 2801 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo. Huge family rummage sale to benefit Boy Scout Troop 44 including coffee and bake sale. For more information call 357-1876. Rummage Sale Rags to Riches. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Calvary Lutheran Church, 401 Santa Lucia Ave., Millbrae. For more information call 588-2840. Two-story rummage sale. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Congregational Church of Belmont, 751 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont. The main sale will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a bag sale from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sale merchandise will include antiques, collectibles, kitchenware and appliances, books, clothing, childrens clothing and equipment, toys, electronics, furniture, linen, jewelry and art. Refreshments will be sold in the dining room. For more information call 591-2732. The Great Big Garden Bonanza at Filoli. 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. 86 Caada Road, Woodside. Filolis instructors, staff and volunteers will share how to get the most from the summer garden, along with guided greenhouse visits, talks on gardening basics, crafts for children and more. $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $5 for students, free for children 4 and under. Event continues Aug. 7. For more information call 364-8300 ext. 507. Portola Art Gallery presents Frances Freybergs Small Works for a Big Cause: Photographs from Around the World to Benefit Nonprofit Nuru International. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Portola Art Gallery, Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park. For more information visit portolaartgallery.com. Filolis Orchard Tours. 10:30 a.m. to Noon. Filoli Gardens, 86 Caada Road, Woodside. Advance registration and docent required. Sturdy shoes recommended. $15. $12 for seniors. $5 for children ages 5-17 with student ID. For more information and reservations call 364-8300. Coastal Arts League presents Local Coastal Potters. Noon to 5 p.m. Coastal Arts League, 300 Main St., Half Moon Bay. For more information call 726-6335 or visit coastalartsleague.com. Victorian Days Walking Tours. 1:30 p.m. Cypress Lawns Noble Chapel, 1370 El Camino Real, Colma. Wear comfortable shoes for Cypress Lawns hilly terrain and dress for the unpredictable Colma weather. Free. For more information call 229-0104. Juggler Dana Smith. 2 p.m. Belmont Library, 1110 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont. For more information email conrad@smcl.org. Youre a Good Man Charlie Brown. 2 p.m. Bayside Performing Arts Theatre, 2025 Kehoe Ave., San Mateo. Performed by Youth Theatre Conservatory of Broadway By the Bay. All tickets are $15. For more information call 579-5565. Yoga Meets Dance Play Shop. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Yoga at Change, 400 Ben Franklin Court, San Mateo. Enjoy a mixture of Hatha yoga, movement therapy, free-spirited dance, guided imagery, music therapy, gentle humor, community building and meditation. No experience is needed. For more information visit yogaatchange.com. Thoroughly Modern Millie. 7 p.m. Bayside Performing Arts Theatre, 2025 Kehoe Ave., San Mateo. Performed by Youth Theatre Conservatory of Broadway By the Bay. All tickets are $15. For more information call 579-5565. Stanford Summer Theater presents: Oedipus. 8 p.m. Pigott Theater, 551 Serra Mall, Stanford. For more information and tickets visit stanford.edu/group/tickets/summertheater.html or call 725-2787. Bolero dance lesson. 8 p.m. Boogie Woogie Ballroom, 551 Foster City Blvd., Suite G, Foster City. Learn the basic Bolero dance steps and even a bit of fancy footwork. Bringing a partner is not necessary. Instruction for the first hour and three hours on the dance floor afterwards. $12 fee. For more information, call 627-4854 after 1 p.m. The Wine Bar. 8 p.m to 10 p.m. 270 Capistrano Road, No. 22, Half Moon Bay. Come enjoy original Progressive Rock by Atkinson Kincheloe & Beynon. $5. For more information visit thewinebarhmb.com. The Unauthorized Rolling Stones with Heavy Petty. 9 p.m. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. The Bay Areas premier tribute bands for Rolling Stones and Tom Petty. For ages 21 and over. $13 in advance, $15 at the door. For more information email jennifer@dancingcat.com. SUNDAY, AUG. 7 2011 Tour de Peninsula Family Recreational Bicycle Ride. 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. Eucalyptus Picnic Area, Coyote Point Park, 1701 Coyote Point Drive, San Mateo. Enjoy a day of cycling and outdoor fun with family and friends. Proceeds benefit San Mateo Country Parks Foundation and Bicycle Sunday car free biking on Caada Road. Fees vary based on age and date of registration. Visit www.supportparks.org/tdp/ to register. For more information call 3211638 or email dohyun.ahn@o2sm.com. Victorian Days Walking Tours. 10:30 a.m. Lathrop House, 627 Hamilton St., Redwood City. The tour will last approximately 90 minutes. Free. For more information call 229-0104. The Great Big Garden Bonanza at Filoli. 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. 86 Caada Road, Woodside. Filolis instructors, staff and volunteers will share how to get the most from the summer garden, along with guided greenhouse visits, talks on gardening basics, crafts for children and more. $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $5 for students, free for children 4 and under. For more information call 364-8300 ext. 507. The Wine Bar. 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Mike Kostowskyj, a Canadian player of the 55-string Bandura. 270 Capistrano Road, No. 22, Half Moon Bay. For more information visit thewinebarhmb.com. Coastal Arts League presents Local Coastal Potters. Noon to 5 p.m. Coastal Arts League, 300 Main St., Half Moon Bay. For more information call 726-6335 or visit coastalartsleague.com. Fall Garden Workshop at the Kohl Pumphouse. 1 p.m to 3 p.m. Kohl Pumphouse in San Mateo Central Park. Enter at Ninth and Palm avenues. Fall is the best time of year to plant since soil is warm from summer months and plants get in the ground at the right time for the rains to come help settle in their roots. Demi Bowles Lathrop is a certified master gardener and garden designer. She has been a contributing garden writer to the San Francisco Chronicle and Pacific Horticulture. For more information visit www.sanmateoarboretum.org or call 579-0536. Sunday Line Dance with Tina Beare and Jeanette Feinberg. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. San Bruno Senior Center, 1555 Crystal Springs Road, San Bruno. Lesson at 1:30 p.m. $5. For more information call 616-7150. Flower Garden Show. 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. 792 Willborough Road, Burlingame. This one-of-a-kind garden located in a 1930s English-village setting features a wide plant palette with unusual perennials and vines. Open garden with self-guided tours. Close-up and instructional tours are at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Taxdeductible donations in any amount are accepted as admission. Benefits the Homeless Cat Network. For more information call John Ward at 3420683. Ronald McDonald. 1 p.m. McDonalds, 100 N. Cabrillo Highway, Half Moon Bay. See Ronald McDonald in person and win some prizes. Jazz Divas: Shirley Horn. 1:45 p.m. Sterling Court Active Senior Living, 850 N. El Camino Real, San Mateo. Adam Donovan will give a lecture on the roots of jazz. Free. For more information call 344-8200. Thoroughly Modern Millie. 2 p.m. Bayside Performing Arts Theatre, 2025 Kehoe Ave., San Mateo. Performed by Youth Theatre Conservatory of Broadway By the Bay. All tickets are $15. For more information call 579-5565. Stanford Summer Theater presents: Oedipus. 2 p.m. Pigott Theater, 551 Serra Mall, Stanford. For more information and tickets visit stanford.edu/group/tickets/summertheater.html or call 725-2787. Kainani Kahaunale and Kawika Alfiche perform. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Intramuros Music Hall, 101 Brentwood Drive, South San Francisco. Both Kahaunale and Alfiche perform traditional Hawaaiian music. CDs will be available. $20 cover charge. For more information or to RSVP call 5881091. Salsa Instruction. 8 p.m. Boogie Woogie Ballroom, 551 Foster City Blvd., Suite G, Foster City. Learn the basic salsa steps and even a bit of fancy footwork. Bringing a partner is not necessary. Instruction for the first hour and two and a half hours on the dance floor afterwards. $12 fee. For more information call 627-4854 after 1 p.m. MONDAY, AUG. 8 Viva La France French Lunch. Noon. 20 Twin Pines Lane, Belmont. The Twin Pines Senior and Community Center French Language Group will present French cuisine and sing French songs. Advance reservations required. $8. For more information call 595-7444. Coastal Arts League presents Local Coastal Potters. Noon to 5 p.m. Coastal Arts League, 300 Main St., Half Moon Bay. For more information call 726-6335 or visit coastalartsleague.com. Jazz on Main: The Joe Cohen Show. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Main Street, Redwood City. Joe Cohen is a local saxophonist who will be performing straight-ahead and funk. Free. For more information visit redwoodcity.org. TUESDAY, AUG. 9 41st Annual Menlo Charity Horse Show. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Menlo Circus Club, 190 Park Lane, Atherton. Watch over 500 world class equestrians compete in open-field jumping events to benefit Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. $10 per day. Six day passes for $35. Children under 12 and seniors over 65 are free. For more information visit www.menlohorseshow.com. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous. 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sequioa Wellness Center, 749 Brewster Ave., Redwood City. For more information call 533-4992. Brushstrokes Social Painting Group. 10 a.m. Twin Pines Senior & Community Center, 20 Twin Pines Lane, Belmont. Painters of all levels bring their art supplies, gather together and paint in a social setting. Free. For more information call 595-7444. Craft Group. 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Twin Pines Senior & Community Center, 20 Twin Pines Lane, Belmont. Bring whatever project you are working on and join the fun. For more information call 5957444. Dancing on the Square: Samba. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. Instructed by Imperial Ballroom. Free. For more information visit redwoodcity.org/events. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10 Deadline to sign up for San Mateo County Newcomers Club Luncheon to be held Tuesday, Aug. 16. There will be a bazaar at 11 a.m. with a bake sale, a book sale and white elephant sale. Announcements are at noon and luncheon is at 12:30 p.m. Wedgewood Center, Crystal Springs Golf Course, 6650 Golf Course Drive, Burlingame. Cost is $25 and checks must be received by Wednesday, Aug. 10. Call Paddy Brownlie at 349-1761. Cholesterol Screening. 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Senior Focus, 1720 El Camino Real, Suite 10, Burlingame. Prepare with a 12-hour fast. Registration required. $30. $25 for seniors over 62. For more information and to register call 696-3660. For more events visit smdailyjournal.com, click Calendar.
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said Jake Azevedo, the groups manager and Chubby Greens record label president. The number of stations playing the song have gone from 12 or 13 to about 80 in the past few weeks alone, Azevedo said, and even some places outside the United States are picking it up. Chubby Greens managing partner Danielle Germain, co-director of the Addicted to that 808 video, was the creative mind behind the idea. An 808 is a type of bass and she thought it would be cool to do a music video about a party inside a big speaker. Its not The Leagues first video, but Iida said its their biggest so far. They hope it will help break them out of the stereotype that all music from the Bay Area is part of the hyphy movement.
In the spotlight
Their first hit L.O.V.E was released in November 2009, putting the group in the spotlight for the first time. Santo and Iida agreed the best experience so far was last years Knowledge is Power School Tour where they spoke to kids about who they were and what they do better than performing for a thousand people, Santo said. It hasnt always been smooth sailing. Producer Clayton William was introduced to the band two and a half years ago by their official deejay Tommy Wheeler, or DJ Maniakal. The League joined Chubby Greens in January 2010 after Wheeler introduced them, William said. Thats when Azevedo and Germain got directly involved, William said. Their music wasnt a genre that Azevedo had a background in and Iida said it took some convincing to get Azevedo to originally take them on. It was a blessing on both sides, Azevedo said. We kind of rebuilt the whole concept in the creation behind The League we had to go backwards a little bit and start over as far as the imaging and website. At first, The League was making high school pop music but developed to appeal to the club scene. Iida and Santo have had the opportunity to meet or get the support of artists theyve listened to and admired Iida said theyve collaborated with one of his idols Silkk the Shocker. Now The League is performing and doing meet-and-greets around the Bay Area, and next month will go on a radio tour with Nayelli to visit regions where Addicted to that 808 is being played.
Getting together
Iida and Santo came together to form The League in summer 2009. They are both originally from the Bay Area, and were recording their own music at the same Sunnyvale studio. They decided to collaborate and Santo said theyve become best friends. Santo said hed always liked writing and eventually got into writing lyrics in high school. Iida started singing at the end of high school. Santo said he and Iida pull elements from many different musical genres to make their own. Iida said he and Santo mold each other Santo listens to more hip-hop and he is a big fan of country and R&B. Iida graduated from Notre Dame de Namur University in 2009 with a degree in communications, and Santo, originally from South San Francisco, graduated high school in 2008. Santo said their families response to their music ambition was get a real job. But that didnt stop them and they both said their families will support them soon enough. The people who arent in this industry will never understand, Iida said. They will never understand the struggle, they will never understand the value of what we do. Its more than just making music, theres a business involved with it too.
EP on the way
Theres no release date for the groups next album yet, Azevedo said. However, Iida said The League recently released three new songs and a new EP is on the way. The League has been compared to other groups like the Far East Movement or the Black-Eyed Peas, Santo said, but he doesnt think they sound like other groups at all. Iida said people will see soon that theyre not trying to follow in anyones footsteps. You want to keep growing you never want to feel like youre comfortable, said Iida. Our goal as artists that we want to showcase is that you can pop in a CD by The League and listen to every single song. School ofcials say the group were chaperoned by a teacher and an aide in accordance with the districts 10 to one ratio policy. The juveniles all belonged to an optional newcomers class for students whove been in the country less than one year. Redwood City Elementary School District didnt disclose if the students involved in the crime were separated from the others as part of the program or left the larger group on their own. Parents of the involved students were notied by phone and met with law enforcement. Parents of other Kennedy students were notied through a letter. The district launched an internal investigation of the specic incident and overall safety policies for eld trips. Citing condentiality of staff and students, district spokeswoman Naomi Hunter said she cannot disclose details of the investigation. The eld trip policy is still being reviewed and the school board will be discussing it at an upcoming board meeting, Hunter said. Thats a pretty big deal, Jensen said. Energy upgrades are improvements that work together for a whole house solution, incorporating heating, cooling, plumbing and all other components. The programs basic upgrade includes seven required measures, estimated to save approximately 10 percent of energy and carrying rebates up to $1,000. The advanced upgrade requires a combination of customized improvements achieving 15 percent to 40 percent in energy savings and bringing anywhere from $1,500 to more than $4,000 in rebates. Interested homeowners can learn more at EnergyUpgradeCA.org or the San Mateo County website www.co.sanmateo.ca.us. Questions can also be sent to EnergyUpgrade@co.sanmateo.ca.us or 7625440.
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said prosecutor James Wade. The sentence echoed that of two boys who admitted the same crime in late July while a third who admitted sexual battery received 60 days. The boys will also be ordered into counseling, Wade said. A fth boy has not settled his case and is scheduled in October for a pre-trial hearing on an undisclosed matter. The boys are 13 and 14, according to prosecutors, but their names are being withheld because they are minors. The attack occurred March 4 when 20 Kennedy Middle School students went to Stulsaft Park in Redwood City. Three months later, during the last week of school, the girls told a school counselor they were almost raped by the boys.
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vides an added incentive to cut both energy bills and carbon footprints. With up to $8,000 in rebates and incentives now available under the program, a residential energy upgrade will now be affordable for many more homeowners in our county, Pine said in a prepared statement. The rebates will be available until March 2012. In some cases, the rebates are 50 percent to 70 percent of improvements, With the average home investment $10,000 to $12,000, savings average $3,000 which is then matched by the county up to $7,000, said Deputy County Peggy Jensen.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #245729 The following person is doing business as: Patrick Company, 23 Dockside Dr., DALY CITY, CA, 94014 is hereby registered by the following owner: Baiji Lu, same address. The business is conducted by an Individual. The registrants commenced to transact business under the FBN on 07/05/2011. /s/ Baiji Lu / This statement was filed with the Assessor-County Clerk on 07/13/2011. (Published in the San Mateo Daily Journal, 07/16/11, 07/23/11, 07/30/11, 08/06/11).
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BASSET LOVE Seat Hide-a-Bed, Beige, Good Cond. Only $30! 650-766-9553 BREAKFAST NOOK DINETTE TABLEsolid oak, 55 X 54, $49., (650)583-8069 CHANDELIER WITH 5 lights/ candelabre base with glass shades $20. (650)504-3621 COFFEE TABLE - brown, perfect condition, nice design, with storage, $50., (650)345-1111 COFFEE TABLE, Oak, like new, scroll work $90 OBO, (650)290-1960 DINING ROOM SET - table, four chairs, lighted hutch, $500. all, (650)296-3189 DINING SET glass table with rod iron & 4 blue chairs $100/all 650-520-7921/650-245-3661 DISPLAY CASE wood & glass 31 x 19 inches $30. (650)873-4030 DRAFTING TABLE 30 x 42' with side tray. excellent cond $75. (650)949-2134 DRESSER WITH matching bunk/twin bed frames, includes comforters, no mattresses, $50/all, 650-728-5831 END TABLE marble top with drawer with matching table $70/all. (650)520-0619 END TABLE solid marble white top with drawer $55. (650)308-6381 ENTERTAINMENT CENTER - Oak wood, great condition, glass doors, fits large TV, 2 drawers, shelves , $100/obo. (650)261-9681 FOAM INCLINER for twin bed $40 650-692-1942 FOLDING PICNIC TABLE - 8 x 30 and 7 folding, padded chairs, $100., (650)364-0902 FUTON - full size excellent condition $95. Eddie SOLD! HAND MADE portable jewelry display case wood and see through lid $45. 25 x 20 x 4 inches. 650-592-2648
303 Electronics
21 INCH TV Monitor with DVD $45. Call 650-308-6381 46 MITSUBISHI Projector TV, great condition. $400. (650)261-1541. COLOR TV - Apex digital, 13, perfect condition, manual, remote, $55., (650)867-2720 DEWALT HEAVY duty work site radio charger in box $100. (650)756-7878 FLIP CAMCORDER $50. (650)583-2767 PANASONIC TV 21 inch $25., (650)6378244 TV - 32 color Sony Trinitron TV, $75., (650)341-1861 TV 25 inch color with remote $25. Sony 12 inch color TV, $10 Excellent condition. (650)520-0619 TV SET Philips 21 inch with remote $40., (650)692-3260 VINTAGE SEARS 8465 aluminum photo tripod + bag. Sturdy! $25 See: http://tinyurl.com/3v9oxrk 650-204-0587
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ROCKING CHAIR - Traditional, full size Rocking chair. Excellent condition $100., (650)504-3621 SOFA (LIVING room) Large, beige. You pick up $45 obo 650-692-1942 SOFA- BROWN, Beautiful, New $250 650-207-0897 STEREO CABINET walnut with 3 black shelves 16 x 22 x 42. $35 SM 650-341-5347 STORAGE TABLE light brown lots of storage good condition $45. (650)867-2720 TV STAND with shelves $20. SOLD! TWO BAR STOOLS, with back rests foot rests and swivels. $25 each. (650)3478061.
304 Furniture
2 END Tables solid maple '60's era $40/both. (650)670-7545 4 DRAWER COLE FILE CABINET -27 Deep, Letter Size dark beige, $99., (650)364-0902 42" ROUND Oak Table (with 12") leaf. Clean/Great Cond. $40. 650-766-9553. 62" X 32" Oak (Dark Stain) Coffee Table w/ 24" Sq. side Table, Leaded Beveled Glass top/Like New - $90. 650-766-9553
306 Housewares
"PRINCESS HOUSE decorator urn "Vase" cream with blue flower 13 inch H $25., (650)868-0436 6 PANELS of burgundy and beige striped drapes. Like new. $50 obo, SOLD!
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316 Clothes
NANCY'S TAILORING & BOUTIQUE Custom Made & Alterations 889 Laurel Street San Carlos, CA 94070 650-622-9439
NEW BROWN LEATHER JACKET- XL $25., 650-364-0902
CANDLEHOLDER - Gold, angel on it, tall, purchased from Brueners, originally $100., selling for $25.,(650)867-2720 DRIVE MEDICAL design locking elevated toilet seat. New. $45. (650)343-4461 LAMPS - 2 southwestern style lamps with engraved deer. $85 both, obo, (650)343-4461 NORITAKE CHINA -Segovia Pattern. 4 each of dinner , salad and bread plates. like new. $35., (650)364-5319 OLD SEWING MACHINE IN CABINET Manufacturer White, 80 yrs. old, operable, SOLD! PERSIAN TEA set for 8. Including spoon, candy dish, and tray. Gold Plated. $90. (650) 867-2720 SOLID TEAK floor model 16 wine rack with turntable $60. (650)592-7483 SOUP TUREEN -white ceramic with flowers. Italian. 3 quart capacity. Has accompanying plate. Asking $30., (650)364-5319 STANDUP B.B.Q grill lamp 5ft tall. Never used. $75 obo, (650)343-4461
BOOK NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NATIONAL AIR MUSEUMS $15 (480)249-3858 BOXES MOVING storage or office assorted sizes 50 cents /each (50 total) 650-347-8061 BROTHER'S ELECTRIC TYPEWRITEr in excellent condition. SOLD! BRUGMANSIA TREE large growth and in pot, $50., (650)871-7200 CAESAR STONE - Polished gray, smooth cut edges, 26x36x3/4, great piece, $65., (650)347-5104 CANDLE HOLDER with angel design, tall, gold, includes candle. Purchased for $100, now $30. (650)345-1111 CEILING FAN multi speed, brown and bronze $45 650-592-2648 DANIELLE STEELE newer books - 1 hardback $3., one paperback $1., (650)341-1861 DOOM (3) computer games $15/each 2 total, (650)367-8949 DUFFEL BAGS - 1 Large Duffel Bag ,1 Xtra Lg. Duffel w Wheels, 1 Leather week-ender Satchel, All 3 at $75., (650)871-7211 ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER Smith Corona $60 650-878-9542 ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER good condition $50., (650)878-9542 ELVIS PRESLEY $20(650)692-3260 poster book
315 Wanted to Buy GO GREEN! We Buy GOLD You Get The $ Green $
Millbrae Jewelers Est. 1957 400 Broadway - Millbrae
LADIES BRACELET, Murano glass. Various shades of red and blue $100 Daly City, no return calls. (650)991-2353 LADIES GOLD Lame' elbow lengthgloves sz 7.5 $15 New. (650)868-0436
308 Tools
BATTERY CHARGER 40 amp needs work $15. (650)274-7381 CHAIN HOIST 2 ton $50. (650)274-7381 CHAIN HOIST- 1/2 ton $20. 3-ton $50 both new/unused, SOLD!
650-697-2685
GAME "BEAT THE EXPERTS" never used $8., (408)249-3858 GEORGE FOREMAN Grill good condition $15. 650-592-3327 GM CODE reader '82-'95 $20 650-583-5208 HAIR BLOWERS (2) - One Conair, one Andis Hang Up Turbo, SOLD! HONDA CIVIC FRONT SEAT Gray Color. Excellent Cond. $90. San Bruno. 415999-4947 KITCHEN HOOD - Black, under mount, 3 diff. fan speeds, $95., (650)315-4465 MACINTOSH COMPUTER complete with monitor, works perfectly, only $99, 650-595-3933 MEN'S ASHTON and Hayes leather briefcase new. Burgundy color. $95 obo, (650)343-4461 METAL CABINET - 4 drawers, beige 16.5 inches W x 27 3/4 H x 27 inches D SOLD NEW LIVING Yoga Tape for Beginners $8. 650-578-8306 NICHOLAS SPARKS Hardback Books 2 @ $3.00 each. (650)341-1861 PACHIRA PLANT 3ft. H. (Money plant) with decorative Pot $30. (650)592-2648 PERSIAN KLIN CARPET - 66x39, pink and burgandy, good condition, $90., (650)867-2720 SLUMBER REST blue heated throw, electric, remote, SOLD! SPORTS BOOKS, Full of Facts, All Sports, Beautiful Collection 5 Volumes, $25. 650 871-7211 STUART WOODS Hardback Books 2 @ $3.00 each. (650)341-1861 SUITCASE - Atlantic. 27 " expandable. rolling wheels. Navy. Like new. $ 45., (650)364-5319 TEA CHEST from Bombay store $35 perfect condition 650-867-2720 TRIPOD SEARS 8465 aluminum photo tripod plus bag $25. 650-204-0587 VERIZON CAR charger, still in sealed factory package, $10, 650-595-3933
FINO FINO
A Place For Fine Hats Sharon Heights
325 Sharon Heights Drive Menlo Park
650-854-8030
GENUINE OAKELY Sunglasses, M frame and Plutonite lenses with drawstring bag, $65 650-595-3933 JACKET (LARGE) Pants (small) black Velvet good cond. $25/all (650)589-2893 LADIES DOWN jacket light yellow with dark brown lining $35. (650)868-0436 LADIES JACKET size 3x 70% wool 30% nylon never worn $50 650-592-2648 LADIES ROYAL blue rain coat with zippered flannel plaid liner size 12 RWC $15. (650)868-0436 LADIES SHOES- size 5, $10., (650)756-6778 LANE BRYANT assorted clothing. Sizes 2x-3x. 22-23, $10-$20. ea., brand new with tags. (650)290-1960 MANS SUEDE-LIKE jacket, New, XXLg. $25. 650 871-7211 MEN'S SHOES (650)756-6778 Brown.
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VIDEO CENTER 38 inches H 21 inches W still in box $45., (408)249-3858 WHITE MARBLE piece - all natural stone, polished face, smooth edges, 21 x 41 x 3/4 thick, $75., (650)347-5104
MEN'S SUIT almost new $25. 650-573-6981 MENS SLACKS - 8 pairs, $50., Size 36/32, (408)420-5646
(650)344-0921
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QUALITY COACHWORKS
Autobody
635 Vans
NISSAN 01 Quest - GLE, leather seats, sun roof, TV/DVR equipment. Looks new, $15,500. (650)219-6008
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INTERIOR & UPHOLSTRY 2011 Burlingame Cars in the Park
680 Autos Wanted Dont lose money on a trade-in or consignment! Sell your vehicle in the Daily Journals Auto Classifieds. Just $3 per day. Reach 82,500 drivers from South SF to Palo Alto
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470 Rooms
HIP HOUSING Non-Profit Home Sharing Program San Mateo County (650)348-6660
640 Motorcycles/Scooters
CHRYSLER 06 300 Sedan, 28k mi., sun roof, excellent condition. $18k. SOLD! FORD 93 250 flat bed, diesel, 100-gallon gas tanks, completely rebuilt, $2800. 650-481-5296 HONDA 10 ACCORD LX - 4 door sedan, low miles, $19K, (650)573-6981 MERCEDES 03 C230K Coupe - 52K miles, $12,000 for more info call (650)344-9117 MERCEDES 05 C-230 66k mi. Sliver, 1 owner, excellent condition, $14,000 obo (650)799-1033 MERCEDES 06 C230 - 6 cylinder, navy blue, 60K miles, 2 year warranty, $18,000, (650)455-7461 MERCEDES 06 C230 - 6 cylinder, navy blue, 60K miles, 2 year warranty, $18,000, (650)455-7461 MERCEDES BENZ 04 E320 - Excellent condition, leather interior, navigation, 77K mi., $14,900 obo, (650)574-1198 PLYMOUTH 87 Reliant, Immaculate in/out, Runs Great, Garaged. MUST SEE. Jim $3,250 (510) 489-8687 BMW 03 F650 GS, $3899 OBO. Call 650-995-0003 HARLEY DAVIDSON 83 Shovelhead special construction, 1340 ccs, Awesome!, $5,950/obo. Rob (415)602-4535.
Upholstery
1803 El Camino Real San Carlos
California Auto
645 Boats
MOTOR - Evinrude for boat, 25 HP, $1000., SOLD! PROSPORT 97 - 17 ft. CC 80 Yamaha Pacific, loaded, like new, $9,500 or trade, (650)583-7946.
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655 Trailers
PROWLER 01 Toy carrier, 25 ft., fully self contained, $5k OBO, Trade (650)589-8765 will deliver
DONATE YOUR CAR Tax Deduction, We do the Paperwork, Free Pickup, Running or Not - in most cases. Help yourself and the Polly Klaas Foundation. Call (800)380-5257. Wanted 62-75 Chevrolets Novas, running or not Parts collection etc. So clean out that garage Give me a call Joe 650 342-2483
Belmont/San Carlos
440 sq. ft. to 5,000 sq. ft. Starting from $664/mo. Units include rollup doors, 3 phase power, water, space heater, restrooms Great access to Hwy 101
WILLIAMS BUSINESS PARK 299 OLD COUNTY ROAD, UNIT 13 SAN CARLOS, CA 94070
MB GARAGE, INC.
Repair Restore Sales
Mercedes-Benz Specialists
CHEVY TRANSMISSION 4L60E Semi used $800. (650)921-1033 EXPLORER 02 Ford 20 inch wheel & Tire $99/all 650-669-0049
(650)349-2744
Cabinetry
Cabinetry
Contractors
Cleaning
Cleaning
Concrete
De Martini Construction
General Contractor Doors Windows Bathrooms Remodels Custom Carpentry Fences Decks Licensed & Insured CSLB #962715
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Construction
Construction
Hardwood Floors
Hardwood Floors
Hauling
BELMONT CONSTRUCTION
Residential & Commercial Carpentry & Plumbing Remodeling & New Construction Kitchen, Bath, Structural Repairs Additions, Decks, Stairs, Railings Lic#836489, Ins. & Bonded All work guaranteed Call now for a free estimate
HONEST PROFESSIONAL PAINTING Very Affordable Prices Excellent References Free Written Estimates Lic. 957975 Top Quality Painting (650) 200-0655
Gardening
J.B. GARDENING SERVICE
Maintenance, New Lawns, Sprinkler Systems, Clean Ups, Fences, Tree Trimming, Concrete work, Brick Work, Pavers, and Retaining Walls. Free Estimates
Hauling
JON LA MOTTE
650-766-1244
Kevin@belmontconstructionca.com
PAINTING
Interior & Exterior Pressure Washing Free Estimates
(650)368-8861
Lic #514269
MTP
Painting/Waterproofing Drywall Repair/Tape/Texture Power Washing-Decks, Fences No Job Too Big or Small
HVAC
Lic.# 896174
Handy Help
Specializing in:
650-756 0694
WWW N O R T H F E N C E C O .COM
AM/PM HAULING
Haul Any Kind of Junk Residential & Commercial Free Estimates! We recycle almost everything! Go Green!
Kitchens
(650)296-0568
Free Estimates Lic.#834170
CHEAP HAULING!
Light moving! Haul Debris! 650-583-6700
KEANE KITCHENS
1091 Industrial Road Suite 185 - San Carlos
info@keanekitchens.com 10% Off and guaranteed completion for the holidays.
Tile
CUBIAS TILE
Marble, Stone & porcelain Kitchens, bathrooms, floors, fireplaces, entryways, decks, tile repair, grout repair Free Estimates Lic.# 955492
MORALES
HANDYMAN
Fences Decks Arbors Retaining Walls Concrete Work French Drains Concrete Walls Any damaged wood repair Powerwash Driveways Patios Sidewalk Stairs Hauling $25. Hr./Min. 2 hrs.
(650)573-9734
www.rdshomerepairs.com
Window Washing
SENIOR HANDYMAN
Specializing in Any Size Projects
Landscaping
CAL-STAR CONSTRUCTION
License Number: 799142
(650)921-3341
NORTH FENCE CO. - Specializing in: Redwood Fences, Decks & Retaining Walls. www.northfenceco.com (650)756-0694. Lic.#733213
(650)201-6854
SMALL JOBS PREFERRED
(650) 580-2566
What we do: New Construction Additions Kitchen/Bath remodeling Electric & plumbing Painting: exterior/exterior Earthquake retrotting Siding Decks & Stairs Carpentry Windows Concrete work We have payment plans
(650)533-3737
Lic.#888484 Insured & Bonded
Electricians
Hardwood Floors
KO-AM
HARDWOOD FLOORING
Hardwood & Laminate Installation & Repair Refinish High Quality @ Low Prices Call 24/7 for Free Estimate
650-322-9288
for all your electrical needs
ELECTRIC SERVICE GROUP
800-300-3218 408-979-9665
Lic. #794899
CF ELECTRIC
Commercial Industrial Remodeling Additions Charles Frederick Lic #857652 Email: cfelectric@sbcglobal.net Free Estimates
E A J ELECTRIC
Residential/Commercial
BOB HAULING
SAME DAY SERVICE Free estimates Reasonable rates No job too large or small
650-302-0728
Lic # 840752
(650)995-3064
(650)518-1187
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Attorneys
Divorce
Health & Medical STOP SMOKING IN ONE HOUR Hypnosis Makes it Easy Guaranteed Call now for an appointment or consultation 888-659-7766
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DIVORCE CENTERS OF CALIFORNIA
Low-cost non-attorney service for Uncontested Divorce. Caring and experienced staff will prepare and le your forms at the court.
Registered and Bonded Se habla Espaol. 1221 Chess Dr., Hwy. 92 at Foster City Blvd. Exit Foster City
(650)574-2087
legaldocumentsplus.com
I am not an attorney. I can only provide self help services at your specific direction
(650)570-5700
AUTO ACCIDENT?
Know your rights.
Free consultation Serving the entire Bay Area Law Offices of Timothy J. Kodani Since 1985
TOENAIL FUNGUS?
FREE Consultation for Laser Treatment
Marketing
650-348-7191
Wachter Investments, Inc. Real Estate Broker #746683 Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System ID #348268 CA Dept. of Real Estate
(650)347-0761
Dr. Richard Woo, DPM 400 S. El Camino Real San Mateo
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The Bay Areas very best Since 1972 www.divorcecenters.com We are not a law rm. We can only provide self help services at your specic direction.
Hairstylist
www.theamericanbull.com
1819 El Camino, in Burlingame Plaza
SUPERCUTS
Every Time
1250 El Camino Real -- Belmont 945 El Camino Real -South San Francisco 15 24th Avenue -- San Mateo 1222 Broadway -- Burlingame
ZIP REALTY
Massage Therapy
Representing buyers and sellers! Call or Email Larry, RE Professional
(650)652-4908
THE SWINGIN DOOR PUB
Happy Hour Mon.-Fri. 4-6 pm 1/2 Price Food Specials Premium Imported Beers only $3.00 106 East 25th Ave. San Mateo (650)522-9800 www.TheSwinginDoor.com
ASIAN MASSAGE
$48 per Hour
New Customers Only Open 7 days, 10 am -10 pm 633 Veterans Blvd., #C Redwood City
(650)773-3050 Lapanozzo@gmail.com
Lic #01407651 www.ziprealty.com/agent/lpanozzo
Insurance
(650)556-9888
(650) 637-9257
1500 El Camino Real Belmont, CA 94002
BARRETT INSURANCE
www.barrettinsuranceservices.net Eric L. Barrett, CLU, RHU, REBC, CLTC, LUTCF President Barrett Insurance Services (650)513-5690 CA. Insurance License #0737226
MASSAGE
119 Park Blvd. Millbrae -- El Camino Open 10 am-9:30 pm Daily
Seniors
Fitness
DOJO USA
World Training Center
Martial Arts & Tae Bo Training
(650)871-8083
SUNFLOWER MASSAGE
Grand Opening! $10. Off 1-Hour Session!
www.dojousa.net
731 Kains Ave, San Bruno
(650)589-9148
BURLINGAME perfectmebylaser.com
GULLIVERS RESTAURANT
Early Bird Special Prime Rib Complete Dinner Mon-Thu
1699 Old Bayshore Blvd. Burlingame
(650)342-7744
Furniture
CA insurance lic. 0561021
(650)508-8758 Needlework
(650)692-0600
Lic.#4105088251/ 415600633
Bedroom Express
Where Dreams Begin
2833 El Camino Real San Mateo - (650)458-8881 184 El Camino Real So. S. Francisco -(650)583-2221 www.bedroomexpress.com
LUV2 STITCH.COM
Needlepoint! Fiesta Shopping Center
747 Bermuda Dr., San Mateo
Travel
(650)571-9999
Pet Services
A BETTER DENTIST
A Better Smile New Clients Welcome
JACKS RESTAURANT
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner 1050 Admiral Ct., #A San Bruno
(650)212-1000 (415)730-5795
Blurry Vision? Eye Infections? Cataracts? For all your eyecare needs.
(650)589-2222
JacksRestaurants.com
(650)989-8983
(650) 697-3200
(650) 347-7007
(650)692-4281
of Diseases and Disorders of the Eye Dr. Andrew C Soss O.D., F.A.A.O. 1159 Broadway Burlingame (650)579-7774
MAYERS JEWELERS
We Buy Gold! Bring your old gold in and redesign to something new or cash it in!
Watch Battery Replacement $9.00 Most Watches. Must present ad.
Video
Video
(650)342-9888
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(650)343-5555
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$30.00/Hr Foot Massage $50.00/Hr Full Body Massage
$65.Exam/Cleaning
(Reg. $189.)
(650)364-4030
Video Video Video
$65. Exam/FMX
(Reg. $228.)
New Patients without Insurance
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MEDICAL SPA
www.revivmedspa.com 31 S. El Camino Real Millbrae
(650)697-3339
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