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Lamb slays MavericksBig-wave surf contest champfrom Santa CruzTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HALF MOON BAY — NorthernCalifornian Nic Lamb won theprestigious big-wave surfing con-test known as the Titans of Mavericks Friday.

Lamb, 27, outlasted 23 competi-tors and a big wipeout to capturethe 10th championship with a$120,000 purse at the legendaryMavericks surf break at Half MoonBay, about 20 miles south of SanFrancisco.

“I’m over the moon,” Lamb saidafter climbing ab oard a chase bo atfollowing the competition on thewater. Lamb is from nearby SantaCruz, which is about 60 milessouth o f Half Moon Bay, and surfedMavericks growing up. He nowlives in Venice Beach in Los

Angeles.The waves weren’t as big as pastcompetitions, but grew steadilyfrom 15 feet to 30 feet throughoutthe afternoon. Several surfers suf-fered spectacular wipeouts, includ-ing one of the pre-contestfavorites Ken “Skindog” Collins.

Collins, also of Santa Cruz, suf-fered a punctured ear drum and wasforced to withdraw from the com-petition after a bad spill in thepounding surf.

The surf then petered out duringthe finals and the six remainingsurfers had few large waves to rideat the end.

Travis Payne of Pacifica,California, finished second and

Greg Long of Santa Cruz finishedthird.Long also won the $10,000

“boldest drop” award for the mostspectacular ride of the day. Longwon the event in 2009 .

James Mitchell won $5,000 forthe day’s best ride in the “barrel.”

By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The first-ever Titans of Mavericks champion was crownedFriday after new management suc-cessfully ran its first surf contestat the renowned and beloved big-wave break near Half Moon Bay.

Santa Cruz’s Nic Lamb tookhome th e premier Titans’ tit le afterbattling it out against some of theworld’s best daredevils invited tosuit up and brave the treacherouswater.

Thousands of people across theglobe tuned in to watch these 24invitees battle it out on MotherNature’s stage for glory, the titleand a piece of the $120 ,00 0 purse.

It was arguably on e of the most -watched surf contest s to take placeat Mavericks since Los Angeles-based Cartel Management tookthe helm and partnered with RedBull TV for exclusive broadcastin grights. Instead of past years’ cen-tralized festivals drawing thou-

Big-wave fans flock to coast

TONY CANADAS/TITANS OF MAVERICKS (RIGHT) SAMANTHA

WEIGEL/DAILY JOURNAL (ABOVE)

Right: Nic Lamb, 27, outlasted 23competitors and a big wipeout tocapture the 10th championshipwith a $120,000 purse at thelegendary Mavericks surf break at

Half Moon Bay. Above: Lamb talksto media before the awardsceremony held at It’s Italia in Half Moon Bay.

SAMANTHA WEIGEL/DAILY JOURNAL

Spectators gather at Old Princeton Landing to watch the Titans of Maverickssurf contest at Pillar Point Harbor Friday afternoon.

By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

After temporarily banning new chain

stores in downtown San Carlos, new cityrules to regulate them in the future are beingproposed in an effort to maintain LaurelStreet’s charm.

The Planning Commission will consider

amendments to the zoning code to definewhat a “formula business ” is and establis h apermit process to allow them to operate inthe downto wn core area.

If approved, a formula business will bedefined as an establishment that has 10 ormore other stores in the United States that

City crafting chain store rulesSan Carlos looks to maintain character of downtown

By Keith BurbankBAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

State officials opened the central coast of

California to recreational Dungeness crabseason on Thursday and commercial seasoncould open as soon as late next week, aspokeswoman for the California

Department o f Fish and Wildlife said.Crab fishing throughout California has

been delayed since November because highlevels of domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin,

was found in the crabs. Domoic acid iscaused by algae bl ooms and can accumulatein shellfish.

Commercial crab season could open soonRecreational season opened after crustaceans deemed safe

Crowds join in the excitement of Titans of Mavericks surf contest

See LAMB, Page 18See SURF, Page 18

See CRAB, Page 24See STORES, Page 24

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Talk show hostJerry Springer is72.

This Day in History

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“An explanation of cause isnot a justification by reason.”

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Actress StockardChanning is 72.

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Saturday: Partly cloudy. Highs in themid 60s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.Saturday night: Partly cloudy in theevening then becoming mostly cloudy.Patchy dense fog. Lows around 50.Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.Sunday: Partly cloudy. High s around 70.North winds 10 to 20 mph.Sunday night: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwinds 10 to 20 mph.

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In 1542, the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII,Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.In 1766 , English economist and demographer ThomasRobert Malthus was born in Surrey.In 1914 , th e American Society o f Composers, Authors andPublishers, also known as ASCAP, was founded in NewYork.In 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetualneutrality o f Switzerland.In 1935 , a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found BrunoRichard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kid-nap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charlesand Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.)In 1945, during World War II, Allied planes began bomb-ing the German city of Dresden. The Soviets capturedBudapest, Hungary, from the Germans.In 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb in the

Sahara Desert.In 1975, a late-night arson fire set by a disgruntled custo-dian broke out on the 11th floor of the north tower of NewYork’s World Trade Center; the blaze spread to six floors, butcaused no direct casualties.In 1980 , th e 13th Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid,New York .In 1988 , the 15th Winter Olympics opened in Calgary,Alberta, Canada.

The most expensive musicalinstrument ever sold was a 250-year-old violin made by Italian

craftsman Giuseppe Guarnieri (1698-1744 ). A Russian lawyer purchased theviolin for $3.9 million in 2007.

***When Oreo cookies were introduced in1912 they came in two flavors —lemon meringue and cream. Lemonmeringue was discontinued in the1920 s. Over the years there have manyvarieties of fillings including coffee,mint and peanut butter.

***Koala bears have fingerprints that aremore similar to human fingerprintsthen those of a chimpanzee.

***Frisbee originated with the pie tins of the Frisbie Pie Company of Connecticut. Frisbie provided pies to

the Yale University campus. Studentshad made a game of throwing th e light -weight pie ti ns. The Wham-O toy co m-pany p roduced the first p lastic Frisb eein 1957.

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Amos J ones and Andy Brown belo ngedto a fraternal lodge called the MysticKnights of the Sea in th e comedy radioserial “Amos ‘n’ Andy” (192 9-195 5).

***The visible tip of an iceberg is usuallyaround 1/5 to 1/16 of its total si ze.

***There are three different types of insomnia. Transient insomnia is shortterm, caused from jet lag, for example.The inability to consistently sleepwell during a period of three weeks tosix months is acute insomnia. Chronicinsomnia occurs almost nightly and isongoing.

***The three leading causes of death 100years ago were pneumonia, tuberculo-sis and diarrhea.

***Welsh singer Tom Jones (born 1940)became Sir Tom when he was kn ight edby the Queen of England (born 1926)at Buckingham Palace in March 2005.

***Following i s a list of names of animat-ed characters from Disney movies. Doyou know what animal each characteris? Evin rude in “The Rescuers” (19 77),Roquefort in “The Aristocats” (1970),Penelope in “Hercules”(1997 ), Nana in“Peter Pan” (1953) and Monstro in“Pinocchio” (1940). See answer at

end. ***The world’s first atomic bomb wasnickn amed “the gadget.” Detonated asa test in 1945 in New Mexico, thebomb ushered in the atomic age.

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Polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd(1888-1957) was accompanied on hisfirst Antarctic expedition in 1928 byhis pet dog named Igloo (died 1931).

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Myrna Loy (1905-1993) and ClarkGable (1901-1960) were dubbed theKing and Queen of Hollywood whenthey won a popularity poll in 193 6.

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The word Zorro means fox in Spanish .

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Frances “Baby” Houseman, played byJennifer Grey (born 1960), falls inlove with rebellious dance instructorJohnny Castle, played by PatrickSwayze (1952-2009), while on familyvacation at Kellerman’s summerresort. It is the plot to the movie“Dirty Dancing” (1987).

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There is an international organizationof female helicopter pilots calledWhirly-Girls.

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Answer : Evinrude is a dragonfly, Roquefort is a mouse, Penelope is adonkey, Nana is a sheepdog and Mon stro is a whale.

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U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager (ret.) is93. Actress Kim Novak i s 83 . Actor George Segal is 82 . ActorBo Svenson is 7 5. Actress Carol Lynley is 7 4. Singer-musi-cian Peter Tork (The Monkees) is 74. Sen. RichardBlumenthal, D-Conn. , is 7 0. Singer Peter Gabriel is 66. ActorDavid Naughton is 6 5. Rock musician Peter Hook is 60. ActorMatt Salinger is 56. Singer Henry Rollins i s 55. Actor NealMcDonough is 50. Singer Freedom Williams is 50. ActressKelly Hu is 48. Rock singer Matt Berninger (The National) is45. Rock musician Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down) is 44 . Sin gerRobbie Williams is 42. Singer-songwriter Feist is 40.Rhythm-and-blues performer Natalie Stewart is 37 .

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BURLINGAMEArres t . A driver was stopped for a trafficviol ation and found to be under the influenceof a controlled substance and arrested nearMarsten Road and Rollins Road before 2:08p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2 .Disturbance . A taco truck driver and acement truck driver were seen arguing onRollins Road before 4:13 p.m. Monday,Feb. 1.Arres t . A driver who was stopped for driv-ing with no headlights was found to beintoxicated and arrested near Cadillac Wayand Rollins Road before 12:19 a.m.Monday, Feb. 1.Found vehicle. A stolen vehicle wasrecovered on Burlingame Avenue before12:50 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26.

BELMONTAnimal call. A pit bull that was tied to a

post ran after another dog, uprooting thepost and dragging it with h im on Twin Pin esLane before 2:21 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25.Vandali sm . A 2014 silver Tahoe had itsfront window smashed on Masonic Waybefore 10:53 p.m. Monday, Jan. 11.Stolen vehic le . A person was seen with astolen vehicle on Davey Glen Road before11:33 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12.Reckle ss driv er. A truck driver was seenrunnin g stop ligh ts near Ralston Avenue andEl Camino Real before 9:02 am. Monday,Jan. 12.

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Fowl callA person was seen throwing an object atgeese on Farragut Boulevard in FosterCity before 12:0 1 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6.By Daniel Montes

BAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

The city of Pacifica will begin repairingits damaged seawall and promenade onBeach Boulevard, near the Pacifica

Municipal Pier, later this month, city offi-cials said Thursday.

At its Monday meeting, the City Councilapproved th e repairs and app ropriated fundsfor the project, estimated at $450,000,according to city officials.

The emergency repairs are needed to stab i-lize parts of the seawall that have been com-promised after a series of El Niño stormslast month caused it to fail, resulting indamage to t he abov e promenade.

Repairs to the s eawall and promenade areset to b egin within two weeks.

“The seawall continues to deteriorate andaction to stabilize the damage needed to betaken quickly,” City Manager Lorie Tinfowsaid. “The City Council recogni zed the needto act fast to protect [not] only the seawalland promenade but also the city street and

the adjacent homes.”The city’s Department of Public Works

hired engineering and plann ing firm Moffat& Nichol to develop a structurally engi-neered repair solution that could be bid outto a highly qualified contractor with exten-sive experience in coastal environmentconstruction, according to city officials.

Engineers with the firm then presentedtheir design concept at Monday’s CityCouncil meeting.

“The work that will b e done is just to s ta-bili ze the area and will n ot fully restore it toits pre-disaster condition,” Public WorksDirector Van Ocampo said.

“The cost to reconstruct the wall andpromenade to its pre-storm condition isestimated at $2 million. The city hasrequested grant funds from the state of

California and we are hoping al l of the workqualifies for grant funds,” Ocampo s aid.

On Jan. 17, high tide and swells combin ed

with strong waves caused the seawall atBeach Boulevard and Santa Maria Avenue tofail, resulting i n a sinkh ole on t he prome-nade.

On Jan. 22, another storm system hit thecoastline, causing the seawall cap andhandrail to collapse, damaging the prome-nade even further. Then On Feb. 4, a secondsinkhole was located at Beach Boulevardand Paloma Avenue.

A third, smaller hole in the seawall wasalso discovered on Monday, city officialssaid.

El Niño sto rms have been blamed for dam-aging much of th e Pacifica Pier, the MilagraWatershed Outfall and the seawall alongBeach Boulevard.

Late last month, the City Council con-firmed a state of lo cal emergency due to dam-

age sustained by t he city infrastructure.

The city also evacuated three nearbyapartment buildings, located at 310, 320and 330 Esplanade Ave.

All three have been declared uninhabit-able because of eroding cliffs alongEsplanade Avenue and at least two of thebuildings will need to be demolished,according to city officials.

The seawall alo ng Beach Boulevard, northof the Pacifica Pier, was constructed in1984, using system of 5-foot by 7-inchthick concrete tiles that interlock, similarto puzzle pieces. The tiles sit on a s hallowconcrete leveling course and are held backto t he land’s edge through a syst em of metalstraps, city officials said.

Pacifica approves emergency repairs$450K project for seawall, promenade to begin later in the month

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Ash Wednesday (Feb. 10): The Imposition of Ashes and God’s

Divine Service at 10:00am & 7:00pm

First Sunday in Lent (Feb. 14): God’s Divine Service at 9:00am

Mid-week Lent 1 (Feb. 17): Matins at 10:00am & Vespers at 7:00pm

Second Sunday in Lent (Feb. 21): God’s Divine Service at 9:00am

Mid-week Lent 2 (Feb. 24): Matins at 10:00am & Vespers at 7:00pm

Third Sunday in Lent (Feb. 28): God’s Divine Service at 9:00am

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John Henry BlailockJohn Henry Blailock, born June 30, 1939, died Feb. 9,

2016 . A resident of Redwood City, he was 76.He was brot her to Pat Gibson of Redwood City and uncle

to Suzanne Dumont of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Linda (Larry)Rines of Millbrae. John was a longtime owner/operator of Atlas Automotive in San Carlos.

Family and friends are invited to attend the funeral service11 a.m. Feb. 18, 2016, at Redwood Chapel, 847 WoodsideRoad, Redwood City, CA 94061. Graveside service to fol-

low at Greeenlawn Memorial Park, 1100 El Camino Real,Colma, CA 94014.

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Firefighters put out a one-alarm fire on the 1600 block of Notre Dame Avenue in Belmont Friday. The home sufferedsmoke and fire damage but there were no injuries. A cat rescued from the home received CPR after suffering from smokeinhalation.

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SACRAMENTO — California prose-cutors announced Friday that they areseeking to block Gov. Jerry Brown’sproposed ballot initiative to reducethe state’s prison p opulation.

The California District AttorneysAssociation and Sacramento County

District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert

say in a lawsuit that the initiativeBrown announced last month wasimproperly amended onto an existingballot measure.

They filed a lawsuit asking aSacramento County Superior Court

judge to b ar Attorney General KamalaHarris from issuing the title and sum-mary that would let Brown and hissupporters begin collecting signa-tures.

The original measure would require judges in stead of prosecutors t o decideif juveniles should be tried in adultcourt.

In his initiative, the Democraticgovernor added provisions to increasesentencing credits for adult inmateswho complete rehabilitation pro-grams. It would also allow non-vio-lent felons to seek parole after theyhave completed their base sentences.

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Valentin e’s Day is histori cally the busiestday for weddings at the San Mateo CountyClerk’s Office but th is year the special day forlove falls on a Sunday, when most countyoffices are closed.

But those wanting to get married Sundaywill still have the chance as the countyclerk’s office will open for five hours startingat 9 a.m. for those seeking to t ie the knot.

The office opened last year too whenValentin e’s Day fell on a Saturday and againin 2011 when it fell on Presidents Day.

Chapel reservations are highly recom-mended.

Last year, every slot was full, said Jim

Irizarry, assistant county clerk.The office does not have to remain open but

County Clerk Mark Church has declared it so,Irizarry said.

There are 11 slo ts for weddings to be held atthe county chapel this year, he said.

Couples usually do not show up by them-selves, he said.

“Weddings are an event and an even biggerevent on Valentine’s Day,” Irizarry said.

Those marrying on Feb. 14 will receive ared rose and a complimentary DVD of the cer-emony i f reservations are made ahead of time.

The clerk’s office also o ffers a liv e Internetbroadcast of the wedding for loved ones to

watch from around the world for $50 .“It’s a very important day filled with love

and romance and relationships. What could

be better than that,” Irizarry said.The office performed 16 weddings on

Valentine’s Day in 2014. On most days,about four weddings are held at the chapel.

Wedding ceremonies are usually performedby volunteer wedding commissioners dulyauthorized by the county clerk. Couples canmake prior arrangements with the countyclerk for the ceremony to be performed by aperson of their choice — a friend, familymember or colleague — who must be depu-tized by the county clerk.

Couples are also reminded that weddingscannot be performed without a marriagelicense. The license application may be com-pleted in the office or online and couplesmust appear in person in front of the countyclerk to provide proof of identification. The

license costs $79, plus $15 for a certifiedcopy. The county’s chapel, located on thefirst floor of 555 County Center in RedwoodCity, can be reserved for a 25-minute ceremo-ny. The cost is $65. The chapel holds up to25 people.

“This is one of those days that gives us theopportunity to share with the community aspecial day as couples start their li ves togeth-er,” Irizarry said.

Go tosmcare.org/clerk/marriage/obtain_license.as

p for details regarding marriage l icenses. Tocontact th e county clerk call (650 ) 363-4500option 2, or visit smcare.org/clerk/mar-riage/default. asp to learn more about th e civ ilceremony.

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By Ellen KnickmeyerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SONOMA — Where did El Niño go?Winter h as suddenly switched off the rain

and flipped on heat up to 95 degrees inCalifornia, raising ji tters that the s trong ElNiño might not be the drought-buster thecrispy state had hoped.

“Forget El Niño, this is El No-no!”YouTube celebrity Hannah Hart tweeted.

Heat records have fallen across the Westin recent days, from Oregon to Phoenix toLos Angeles, where surfers hit the beachesand golfers st rolled fairways.

Much of California marked its 10thstraight day on Friday without measurableprecipitation. The blue skies were increas-ingly unwelcome in a state that just loggedits four driest years on record. Californiahas been looking for a robust and rainy ElNiño to bring it o ut of mandatory water cut-backs.

“It’s nice to have t he weather, b ut we hopeto have the rain,” Tia Gavin of Santa Rosasaid as she showed out-of-town visitorsaround the adobe central plaza of the wine

country town of Sonoma. Strollers inshorts surveyed restaurant windows andlolled on blankets on green grass under thesun.

The dry s pell came after El Niño droppednear-normal rain and snow earlier this win-ter.

“If you just looked at the precipitation,you wouldn’t think that there was an ElNiño going on,” said Sam Iacobellis, a cli-mate researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. He has beentaking not e of early blo oming flowers as hedrove to work this week.

Strong El Niños such as the one this yeartypically bring strong rain, Iacobellis s aid.However, there have been few modern ElNiños on the scale of this one, makingcomparisons trickier, he said.

National Weather Service forecasters werequick to offer soothing messages of drizzleyet to come.

“No need to be concerned,” forecasterSteve Anderson said.

The balmy weather has “been awesome.It’s been great. But it’s not go ing to last,”he said. “It’s still winter.”

Where did El Niño go? Heat, dry spell stoke drought worry

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Those interested inhelping coordi-nate the San

Francisco Bay AreaScience Fair, one of thearea’s largest academiccompetitions, are beingsought.

For more informationemail [email protected] call Bob Fabini at(510) 237-0266.

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South San FranciscoHigh Schoo l will host afree e-waste disposalevent Saturday, Feb. 13, in the school park-ing lot, 400 B St.

Proceeds from the event, which begins at10 a.m. and continues until 2 p.m., willhelp pay for bus transportation for seniorson grad night. Operable or non-functioningitems will be accepted. Email [email protected] [email protected] for more infor-mation.

***The Burlingame Community for

Education Foundation will host a danceand auction fundraiser Saturday, April 16, tobenefit the schools in the BurlingameElementary School District.

The event at the Hyatt Regency SanFrancisco Airport Hotel in Burlingamewill begin 6 p. m. Tickets, which cost $175,go o n sale Tuesday, Feb. 23. Early bi rd tick-ets, available until March 21, will cost$150. Visit bcefoundation.org for moreinformation.

***Britney Biddle , of Burlingame, was

named to t he dean’s li st at Colby Col legefor the fall semester.

***Nathan Madonich, of San Bruno, and

Adam Sakov , of San Carlos, were namedto the dean’s list at Ohio WesleyanUniversity for the fall semester.

***Torika Balei lek utu, of Hillsborough,

was named the dean’s li st at the University

of Memphis for the fallsemester.

***Matthew Surber, of

Woodside, was named tothe dean’s lis t at GeorgiaTech Univ ersi ty for thefall semester.

***S a v a n n a h

Christiansen and KiraTomli nso n , of Burlingame, Natalie

Davirro, Madeleinevan der Rijn andLil li an Hartzell , of San

Carlos, Jackson Horwitz, JordanStone and Margaret Ringler, of MenloPark, Marissa Maimome, of RedwoodCity, Zoe Monosson , of San Mateo,Abigail Mendez and Heather Ngai , of Hillsborough, Isaac Rothschi ld, of Portola Valley, Barbara Storch andJuli et Takla , of Foster City and AnnaStroe, of Woodside, were named to thedean’s list at Tufts Univ ersity .

***Benjamin Rosenberg , of

Hillsborough, has been selected to attendthe Washington Journalism andMedia Conference at George MasonUniversity in July.

***Jun Yu, of Foster City, graduated from

Miami University .***

Jessica Diedrich , of Portola Valley,was named to the dean’s list at TheCollege of Saint Rose.

***The San Bruno Park Elementary

School District received a $50,000 grantfrom the Peninsula Health CareDistric t to p romote wellness, h ealth educa-tion and access to health care for studentsand their families.

Class notes is a column dedicated to school news.It is compiled by education reporter Austin Walsh.You can contact him at (650) 344-5200, ext. 105 orat [email protected].

Man who died after car wentdown embankment identified

A man who was found dead Thursday in sidea vehicle that went down an embankment in

Portola Valley has been identified by theSan Mateo County Coroner’s Office.

Jeffrey Adan, 47, of Woodside was foundinside a red Jeep Cherokee at the bottom of an embankment off Skyline Boulevard nearOld La Honda Road at around 11 a.m.

A resident nearby told CHP officers thatwhen she noticed skid marks on SkylineRoad, she then looked down at the edge of the cliff and saw the car down the embank-ment, according to CHP officials.

Officers found the Jeep 16 0 feet down thecliff. Adan was pronounced dead at thescene, CHP officials said.

It appears he was headed north o n Skyli nesometime Tuesday night or early Wednesdaymorning when he lost control of the car,veered across the road and crashed down theembankment.

CHP officials believe Adan had likelybeen dead for more than 24 hours before hewas found.

Firefighters knock downthree-alarm fire at Pacifica tow yard

Firefighters battled a three-alarm structurefire Friday afternoon in Pacifica.

At about 2:30 p.m., fire officials receiveda report of a fire happening at 1070Palmetto Ave., according to North CountyFire officials.

The location contains a vehicle towingyard as well as a sing le-family dwelling, fireofficials said.

Firefighters were able to knock down theblaze by about 3:30 p.m.

Fire officials are investigating to deter-mine what caused the fire.

No injuries were reported, according tofire officials.

Urbanization leads to changein type of bacteria in the home

Local briefs

By Lauran NeergaardTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Whether it’s a junglehut or a high-rise apartment, your home iscovered in bacteria, and new research fromthe Amazon suggests city dwellers mightwant to o pen a window.

Scientists traveled from remote villagesin Peru to a large Brazilian city to begintracking the effects of urbanization on thediversity of bacteria in people’s homes.

It’s a small first step in a larger quest —understanding how different environmentalbugs help shape what’s called our micro-biome, the trillions of bacteria that shareour bodies and play a critical role in ourhealth.

“Very littl e is kno wn about the microbesof the built environment,” microbiologistMaria Gloria Dominguez-Bello of New YorkUniversity, who led the pil ot st udy, said at ameeting of th e American Association for theAdvancement o f Science.

Her team found that as people living inthe Amazon rainforest b ecome more urban-ized, the kinds of bacteria in their homeschange from the bugs mos tly found in n atureto those that typically live on people, shereported Friday.

In fact, in city dwellings, the researcherscould tell just by the microbial fingerprintsof the walls that “this is a kitchen or this isa bathroom or this is a living room. That’samazing ,” Doming uez-Bello s aid.

As she puts it, “the walls talk.”

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By Seanna Adcoxand Kathleen Hennesey

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENMARK, S.C. — The fightfor black voters turned into a tug-of-war over President BarackObama’s legacy Friday as

Democratic presidential hopefulslooked for an edge in SouthCarolina. Republicans, mean-while, crisscrossed the state insearch of a path out of DonaldTrump’s long shadow.

Hillary Clinton stepped up herhammering of rival BernieSanders for what she said are hisfalse claims on Obama’s legacy.Prominent black leaders echoedthe theme — an effort to use thefirst African-American presidentas a wedge between Sanders andblack voters.

“He has called the presidentweak, a disappointment,” Clintonsaid of Sanders at a town hallFriday. “He does not support, theway I do, building on the progressthe presi dent h as made.”

Coming off a bruising rout inNew Hampshire, the former secre-tary of state hopes the first-in-the-south primary will showcase her

strength with at least one coresegment of the Democratic coali-tion. A Democrat cannot win thenomination, much less th e WhiteHouse, without significant back-ing and enthusiasm from blackcommunities.

For Republicans, SouthCarolina is another chance toemerge as the viabl e alternative tothe bi llio naire reality-TV star whosnatched the race away from theGOP establishment. AlthoughTrump appears to have a so lid leadin the polls in the state, the rest of the field is hoping to peel off sup-port from the l arge and influentialevangelical community.

As his rivals hustled throughrare snowfall Friday, Trumpsho wed he won’t make it easy. Hewas able to steal the spotlightwith a Twitter threat to sue his

closest competitor.“If @TedCruz doesn’t clean up

his act, stop cheating & doingnegative ads, I have standing tosue him for not being a naturalborn citizen,” Trump wrote.

Another tweet questioned Cruz’sfaith: “How can Ted Cruz be anevangelical Christian when helies so much and is so dishonest?”

Jeb Bush and his allies havekept up his attacks on the bomb-throwing front-runner — hopinghis coarse style and record onsocial issues will turn voters off.

Right To Rise USA, the superPAC backing Bush, released anattack ad blasting Trump for sup-porting partial-birth abortion,allegedly defrauding students of Trump University and trying “toseize private property to line hisown pockets.”

“If Trump wins, conservativeslose,” says th e ad.

On Friday, Bush campaigned at afaith forum at conservative BobJones University in Greenville,where he mused about what hisfamous father, former PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush, would think of Trump’s cursing .

“I can’t imagin e my dad ... ,” JebBush s aid, trailing off as the audi-ence laughed, imagining the for-mer president cursing. “Yeah, ‘no tgonna do it.”’

Bush has embraced his family’snetwork in the state. He’s invitinghis brother, former PresidentGeorge W. Bush, to campaign withhim. On Friday, he picked up theendorsement of South Carolina’sformer first lady Iris Campbell, alongtime Bush family ally.

Bush’s rival in the fight for the

moderate establishment was stillintroducing himself to SouthCarolina voters. In a new biogra-phical ad, Ohio Gov. John Kasichnotes that his parents’ death in adrunk-driving crash in 1987“transformed” hi m and helped himfind his faith.

A second new ad promises awhirlwind of activity in the first

100 days of a Kasich presidency— “no excuses, no surrender,”says a narrator with a hint of aSouthern accent.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio , loo k-ing to re-establish his footing

after a fifth-place finish in NewHampshire, lashed out at Trump,

Cruz and Bush Thursday, sayingnone of them possesses foreignpolicy experience required of acommander in chief.

Presidential contenders fight for minority voters in S.C.

Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders Donald Trump Ted Cruz Jeb Bush John Kasich Marco Rubio Ben Carson

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Castle Mountain National Monument in the Mojave Desert. Nearly 2 million acres of scenic California desert have beendesignated as national monuments under an executive order by Barack Obama.

House sends North Koreasanctions bill to president for signature

WASHINGTON — Cong ress sent President Barack Obamalegislation Friday that hits North Korea with more strin-gent sancti ons for refusing t o stop i ts nuclear weapons p ro-gram.

House Republicans and Democrats joined together tooverwhelmingly approve the bill by a vote of 408-2 lessthan a week after North Korea launched a rocket carrying a

satellit e into space. Pyon gyang conducted its fourth under-ground nuclear test last month . Bot h actions sparked world-wide condemnation and height ened fears th e reclusive Asiannation is moving steadily toward assembling an atomicarsenal.

The Senate passed the legislation earlier this week.The Obama administration said it wouldn’t oppose the

bill , b ut officials declined to say whether or when PresidentBarack Obama would sign it . The sanction s from Cong resscome at the same time th at the U.S. and China are in delicatenegotiations over a U.N. Security Council resolution onnew sanctions, with China raisin g concerns about measuresthat could devastate North Korea’s economy.

The expanded sanctio ns are in tended to deny North Koreathe money it needs for the development of miniaturizednuclear warheads and the long-range missiles required todeliver t hem.

The legislation also authorizes $50 millio n over the nextfive years to transmit radio broadcasts into North Korea,

purchase communications equipment and support humani-tarian assistance programs.

Congress gives final OK tobanning local Internet taxes

WASHINGTON — Congress voted Thursday to perma-nently bar state and local governments from taxing accessto the Internet, as lawmakers leapt at an election-yearchance to demonstrate their opposition to imposin g levieson on line service.

On a vote of 75-20, the Senate gave final congressionalapproval t o the wide-ranging bill , which would also revamptrade laws. The White House said President Barack Obamawill sign it.

“The Internet is a resource used daily by Americans of allages,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who brokered an agreement with a Democratic leaderearlier this week that helped clear the way for passage. “It’s

important that they be able to do all of this without theworry of their Internet access being taxed.”

The ban on lo cal Internet access taxes had broad support.Even so, some lawmakers remained unhappy over its tradeprovisions and because the measure omitted a separate,more controversial proposal to let states force onlineretailers to collect sales taxes for their transactions.

Senate Minorit y Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the billwas full of “miss ed opportunities and half-measures. ”

Since 1998 in the Internet’s early days, Congress haspassed a series of bills temporarily prohibiting state andlocal governments from imposing the types of monthlylevies for online access that are common for telephoneservice. Such legislation has been inspired by a popularsentiment that the Internet should be free, along withRepublican oppositio n to most tax proposals.

Around the nation

By John RogersTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — President BarackObama granted national monumentstatus Friday to nearly 1.8 millionacres of scenic Southern Californiadesert, a move the White House sayswill maintain in perpetuity theregion’s fragile ecosystem and naturalresources, as well as provide recre-ational opportunities for hikers,campers, hunters and others.

Obama, in California this week for afundraising swing, signed proclama-tions establishing three regions asnatio nal monuments — Mojave Trails,Castle Mountains (both in the MojaveDesert) and Sand to Snow in theSonoran Desert.

The White House says the designa-

tions will nearlydouble the amountof public land that

Obama has desig-nated as nationalmonument statussince taking office.

“In addition topermanently pro-tecting incrediblenatural resources,

wildlife habi tat and unique his toric andcultural sites, and providing recre-ational opportunities for a burgeoningregion, the monuments will supportclimate resiliency in the region ...,”the White House said in a statement.

The designations will also connectthose regions to other protected gov-ernment land, including Joshua TreeNational Park, the Mojave National

Preserve and 15 other federal wilder-ness areas.

Mojave Trails National Monument,

at 1.6 million acres, is by far thelargest of the three new ones.

Sprawling across the vast MojaveDesert, it contains ancient lava flows,spectacular sand dunes, ancient NativeAmerican t rading routes and World WarII-era training camps. It also containsthe largest remaining undevelopedstretch o f America’s Moth er Road, his-toric Route 66.

Castle Mountains NationalMonument, also i n the Mojave Desert,links two mountain ranges as it coversnearly 21,000 acres that hold numer-ous impo rtant Native American archae-ological sites. The area is also home togolden eagles, bighorn sheep, moun-tain lions and other wildlife.

Obama moves to protect nearly1.8M acres of California desert

By Martin CrutsingerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Federal ReserveChair Janet Yellen cautioned Thursdaythat global economic pressures poserisks to the U.S. economy but said it’stoo soon to know whether those risksare severe enough to alter the Fed’sinterest-rate pol icies.

Yellen said the Fed will determine atits next meeting in March how mucheconomic weakness and falling marketsaround the world have hamstrung U.S.

growth. And for asecond day, Yellenwas asked about thepossibility that theFed would use nega-tive int erest rates asa way to give theeconomy more sup-port.

She repeated thatthe Fed had studiedthe prospect of

deploying negative rates in 2010 buthad decided then not to use them to try

to boo st the economy. But she said theFed thought it should study the issueagain now that other central banks,including in Europe and Japan, areusing negative rates to try to step uplending and energize growth.

“In light of the experience of European countries and others that havegone to negative rates,” Yellen said,“we are taking a look at them againbecause we would want to be prepared inthe event we needed” to nudge ratesbelow zero to try to fuel borrowing andspending.

Yellen: Too early to determine impact of global economy

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‘Finally’: Popemeets RussianOrthodox leaderBy Nicole Winfield


MEXICO CITY — With an excla-mation of “Finally,” Pope Francisembraced Patriarch Kirill onFriday in the first meetingbetween a pontiff and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, abrief but historic encounter heldduring a stopover in Cuba beforethe pope flew on to Mexico.

The meeting i n the s mall, wood-paneled VIP room of Havana’s air-port was a landmark developmentin the 1, 000-year schism that hasdivided Christian ity.

“We are brothers,” Francis saidas he embraced Kirill. The menexchanged three kisses on the

cheek.“Now things are easier,” Kirill

agreed. “This is the will of God,”the pope said.

Later Friday, Francis flew intoMexico City’s airport to begin a

five-day visit during which he

plans to bring a message of soli-darity with the victims of drugviolence, human trafficking anddiscrimination to some of thatcountry’s most violent and pover-ty-stricken regions.

A smiling Francis was greetedwith a rock concert-like show withblue floodlights illuminating astage and bandstands and crowdswaving yellow handkerchiefs.Mariachis serenaded as his char-tered plane pulled to a stop andpeople shouted “Brother Francis,you’re already Mexican.”

President Enrique Pena Nieto andhis wife met Francis on a red carpet.The pont iff made no public remarksbefore beginning a 22-kilometer

(13 1/2-mile) trip to the papalenvoy’s residence for the night.

In Havana, the two church lead-ers’ meeting and signin g of a jointdeclaration was decades in themaking and cemented Francis’ rep-

utation as a risk-taking statesmanwho values dialog ue, bridge-build-ing and rapprochement at almostany cost.

In the 30-point statement, thepop e and patriarch declared them-selves ready to take all necessarymeasures to overcome their his-

torical differences, s aying “we arenot competitors, but brothers.”

Francis and Kirill also called forpolitical leaders to act on the sin-gle most impo rtant iss ue of sharedconcern between the Catholic andOrthodox churches today: theplight of Christians in Iraq andSyria who are being killed and

driven from their homes by theIslamic State group.

“In many countries of theMiddle East and North Africa,

entire families of our brothers and

sisters in Christ are being exter-

minated, entire villages and

cities,” the declaration said.

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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, left, and Pope Francis embrace in Havana, Cuba.

Brazil minister says no doubtZika connected to microcephaly

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s health minister said Fridaythat authoriti es were “absolutely sure” that the Zika virus isconnected to devastating birth defects and rejected criticismthat the government was slow to investigate the surge of cases that set off international alarms.

Marcelo Castro made the remarks during an interviewwith the Associated Press i n Brazil’s capital. He spoke a daybefore tens of thousands of soldiers and health inspectorswere to take to the streets in an unprecedented drive to

encourage residents to be vigilant for mosquito breedingsites. The goal: visit 3 million homes in more than 350cities.

Brazil is at the epicenter of a mosquito-borne virus thathas been linked to rare birth defects known as micro-cephaly. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control andPrevention has warned pregnant women to avoid travelingto more than two dozen countries and territories in theAmericas where active outbreaks are takin g pl ace.

Although the li nk has n ot been scientifically proven andmyriad questions remain, Castro said the half-year gapbetween the v irus outbreak in South America’s l argest coun-try and the spik e in reported cases of microcephaly was nota coincidence.

Iran rules ‘decadent’Valentine’s Day celebrations a crime

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran says it is cracking down on

Valentine’s Day celebrations an d sho ps engagi ng in t hemwill be guilty of a crime.Iranian news outlets reported the police directive Friday

warning retailers agains t promot ing “decadent Western cul-ture through Valenti ne’s Day rituals. ” Police info rmedTehran’s coffee and ice cream shops trade unio n t o avo id anygathering s in which boy s and girls exchange Valentin e’sDay gifts.

The annual Feb. 14 homage to romance, which traditionsays is named after an early Christian martyr, has becomepopular in recent y ears in Iran and other Middle East coun-tries.

The backlash in the Islamic Republic is part of a driveagainst the spread of Western culture.

Saudi Arabia has also s ought t o s tamp out Valentin e’s Daybut it’s celebrated widely in nearby pl aces like Dubai.

By Pan Pylas


LONDON — The 19-countryeurozone is in its longest stretchof economic expansion since theglobal financial crisis in 2008 b ut

growth remains paltry despite aseries of tail winds and is suscepti-ble to a reverse if the worst fears in

financial markets come tofruition.

The region ’s economy grew by aquarterly 0.3 percent in the finalthree months of the year for thesecond quarter running, theEuropean Union’s statisticsagency, Eurostat, said Friday.

Though the report cont ained fewdetails on what drove the growth,information from individual coun-

tries suggests a rise in spendingby consumers and governmentsoffset the effects of waning glo baltrade. That’s certainly true forGermany, Europe’s largest econo-my, where energy cost savingsappeared to have buoyed con-sumers and the influx of refugees

prompted the government toincrease spending.The question for 2016 is

whether those over-archingdomestic trends can offset the dragfrom outside the region. The glob -al market turmoil of the past fewweeks, largely stoked by worriesover the Chinese economy, couldseriously erode Europeans’ senseof con fidence and wealth.

If the markets are righ t, t he eco-nomic outloo k has darkened mate-rially, raising fears that the euro-

zone recovery could swiftly gointo reverse. The risks are height-ened by th e fact that many gov ern-ments cannot spend much due tohigh debt and many banks — not

just in finan ciall y troubled Italyand Greece — are still trying toget rid of bad loans. Even banks

like Deutsche Bank, Germany’sbiggest, have been caught up inthe market angst.

Eurozone economy ends 2015 with whimper as dark clouds grow

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Dow 15,925.00 +313.00 10-Yr Bond 1.75 +0.10

Nasdaq 4,013.50 +52.00 Oil (per barrel) 29.09

S&P 500 1,859.25 +34.75 Gold 1,238.60

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:NYSEDeutsche Bank AG, up $1.87 to $17.38 The bank offered to buy back more than $5 billion in bonds in a displayof financial strength.Pandora Media Inc., down $1.09 to $8 The Internet radio company’s fourth-quarter profit fell short of estimatesand it declined to comment on rumors it’s looking to sell itself.Square Inc., up 68 cents to $9.30Visa disclosed a stake in the mobile payment services company andinvestors interpreted it as a major endorsement of Square.NasdaqGroupon Inc., up 65 cents to $2.89 The online daily deal service’s stock rebounded after its quarterly profitand revenue topped estimates.Activision Blizzard Inc., down $2.40 to $28.12 The video game maker’s profit and revenue fell short of Wall Streetestimates.Wynn Resorts Ltd., up $9.45 to $69.14 The casino operator’s fourth-quarter profit surpassed analyst expectations.Select Comfort Corp., down $4.93 to $15.58 The seller of beds, mattresses and bedding products reporteddisappointing sales and its outlook fell far short of estimates.Dentsply International Inc., down $1.78 to $54.73 The dental products maker’s revenue fell short of analyst projections.

Big movers

By Alex Veiga THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. st ocks ended a down week on ahigh note Friday, snapping a five-daylosing streak on the strength of ener-

gy and financial companies.A sharp rebound in o il p rices and anencouraging report on retail saleshelped lift the stock market to its firstgain since late last week.

Despite the rally, the major U.S.stocks indexes ended the week downabout 1 percent and they remain downmore than 8 p ercent for the year.

“It’s a relief to see after several veryugly days in a row, b ut I wouldn’t hangmy hat on i t and say the worst is o ver,”said Rob Eschweiler, global invest-ment specialist at J.P. Morgan.

The Dow Jones industrial averagerose 313.66 points, or 2 percent, to15, 973 .84 . The Standard & Poor’s 500gained 35.70 points, or 2 percent, to1,8 64. 78. The Nasdaq composite added70.67 points, or 1.7 percent, to4,337.51.

Global stocks have been in a slumpsince the beginning of the year onconcerns t hat growth in China, whichhas been the engine of the globaleconomy in recent years, is slowingfar faster than expected. Plunging oilprices and low inflation have added to

the market’s jitters that the globaleconomy is s puttering.

Those worries also helped drive thestock market lower in recent days, andcontinued to batter stocks in Asia.Japan’s main stock index lost nearly 5

percent Friday. But the downbeat trendin the U.S. snapped as investors wereencouraged by retail s ales and a rally inEuropean stocks.

A surge in oil prices helped putinvestors in a b uying mood early on. Aday after sinking to its lowest levelsince May 2003, benchmark U.S.crude climbed $3.23, or 12.3 percent,to close at $29.44 a barrel in NewYork. Brent crude, a benchmark forinternational oils, gained $3.30, or 11percent, to $33.3 6 a barrel in London.

The oil rebound sent the S&P 500’senergy companies 2.6 percent higher.Marathon Oil was the best performerin the sector, rising 48 cents, or 6.8percent, to $7.49.

“Oil, which has been one of the mostfickle, most vo latile series that every-body’s watching, is having a niceday,” said Tim Dreiling, regionalinvestment director for The PrivateClient Reserve of U.S. Bank. “Europeis continuing to look good. And itlooked like (the market) was over-sold.”

Financial shares led the market’s

advance. The sector is the worst per-forming part of the market this yearbecause investors expect that lowinterest rates around the world will sapbank profits, but it rallied 4 percentFriday.

JP Morgan Chase climbed $4.42, or8.3 percent, to $57.49, whileCitigroup added $2.56, or 7.3 percent,to $37.54. Bank of America rose 79cents, or 7.1 percent, to $11.95.Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank AG surged12.1 percent after the bank offered tobuy back more than $5 billion inbonds in a display of financialstrength. The stock gained $1.87 to$17.38.

Traders also welcomed a report fromthe Commerce Department in dicating amodest gain i n retail sales last month .The data, which came in ahead of expectations, suggested that con-sumers kept shopping despite sharpdrops in stock prices.

The positive sales report and recent job s data showing a pickup in wagegrowth suggest the economy is hold-ing up better than Wall Street thinks,Eschweiler said.

“It solidifies our view that the mar-kets are pricing in a significantlyhigher probability of recession thanwhat we think the fundamentals cur-rently dictate,” he sai d.

Stocks end a down week on an up

U.S. retail sales rise asconsumers shrug off stock price drop

WASHINGTON — U.S. retail sales rosemodestly in January, evidence thatAmericans kept shopping despite sharpdrops in stock prices.

The Commerce Department said Fridaythat retail sales increased a seasonally

adjusted 0.2 percent last mont h, t he same asin December. Excluding th e effect o f fallinggas prices, sales rose 0.4 percent.

Sales in December were revised higherfrom an initial estimate of a 0.1 percentdrop.

Steady hiring and early signs thatemployers are finally handing out higherwages means that Americans have moremoney to spend. A key question for theeconomy this year is whether consumerspending can keep growing and offset theimpacts of stock market volatility andslowing growth o verseas.

“The markets may have decided that theU.S. is headed for recession, but obviouslyno one told U.S. consumers,” Paul

Ashworth said in a research note. Lowprices caused a sharp fall in gas stationsales, but “otherwise, sales were strongacross the board,” he added.

Americans stepped up their purchases inJanuary of autos, home supplies and gro-ceries, and spent more online. They spentless at restaurants and bars, likely becauseof harsh snowstorms on the East Coast.

Visa discloses stake inDorsey’s company, Square

NEW YORK — Shares in the mobile pay-ment services co mpany Square rose sharplyFriday after Visa disclosed the details o f itsownership stake i n the company.

While Visa’s stake amounts to about 1percent of the company, and the stake wasestablished at least 5 years ago, investorsinterpreted the announcement as a majorendorsement of Square by Visa, the world’slargest payment processing company.

According to a regulatory filing, Visa

owns 4.2 million of Square’s Class Bshares. While Class B shares are not tradedpublicly, Visa could convert up to 3.5 mil-lion o f its Class B shares to Class A, whichwould give Visa a 9.99 percent ownershipof that class of shares. That conversionwould amount to just 1 percent of Square’stotal outstanding shares, however.

Documents show Volkswagenresisted Takata air bag recallDETROIT — Volkswagen resisted U.S.

government efforts to recall more cars andtrucks to fix potentially deadly Takata airbags — telling safety regulators that arecall isn’t n ecessary.

But the German automaker, already in hotwater with the government for cheating onU.S. pollution tests, eventually agreed tothe recall, according to documents postedFriday on the National Highway TrafficSafety Administration website.

Volks wagen AG is recallin g ab out850,000 Audi and VW vehicles in the U.S.from model years 2006 to 2014. But in a

letter to the safety agency, the companysaid the request to recall most of theVolk swagens “may be overbroad.” The let-ter said most VW and Audi vehicles have airbag inflators made at Takata’s factory inFreiberg, Germany, which have not experi-enced failures like those made in the U.S.and Mexico.

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By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Rivalry battles have a way of bringingout the best in teams, and that was certainlythe case for Mills boys’ basketball Fridaynight.

Locking up at archrival Capuchino’shouse, the Vikings’ fluid ball movementworked like magic in a 49-48 upset to endthe regular season.

The loss is devastating for the Mustangs(6-6 in PAL South, 12-12 overall), as itdrops them into fourth place in the

Peninsula Athletic League South Divisionstandings. Finishing tied for fourth withSequoia, Cap loses the tiebreaker havingdropped its one matchup to the Cherokeesthis season, knocking the Mustangs out of the PAL postseason tournament.

It was a tall order for Cap to play witho utits b est player, sen ior Lucas Magni. The 6-3forward exited Tuesday’s 42-33 loss to SanMateo with a concussion and will not becleared to play for at least another week,according to Cap head coach Marty Ruiz.

“We wanted to win,” Ruiz said. “The kidsplayed really hard. We played a really g ood

game considering we didn’t have Lucas. …We’ve won some close ones and lost someclose ones this year. We couldn’t get up onthem; and you don’t want to be pl aying frombehind against Mills. ”

The rivals t raded leads th roughout the firstquarter, but Mills pulled ahead on a short

jump sho t by center James Konto nis with35 s econds remaining in t he first half.

The Vikings (5-7, 8-16) maintained thatlead to the final buzzer. But it didn’t comeeasy. Despite leading by as much as 8 with

Mills outguns rival Capuchino

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Aragon’s Victor Lopez shoots and scores his second goal during the Dons’ 2-1 win over Sequoia in a crucial PAL Bay Division match up.

By Nathan Mollat

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Perhaps the Sequoia boys’ soccer teamwent int o Friday’s showdown with Aragon abit overconfident.

After all, the Cherokees had beaten theDons 5-1 back on Jan. 20 and they werecoming off two of their best games of theseason in a tie and win against Menlo-Atherton and Half Moon Bay, respecti vely.

Aragon, however, made Sequoia pay early

and it turned out to be th e difference in a 2-1Aragon victory.

“I think they were underestimating usafter that first game,” said Aragon coachGreg Markoulakis.

It’s almost unconscionable that Sequoiawould not be prepared for Friday’s game.Aragon, Menlo-Atherton and Sequoia allcame into Friday’s games tied atop thePeninsula Athletic League Bay Divisionstandings.

But a mix-up by t he Sequoia defense in the

third minute allowed Aragon (8-2-2 PALBay) to t ake a quick 1-0 lead. Moments afterAragon’s Dakota Severson was denied agolden scorin g chance, Victor Lopez pickedup the slack to give Aragon a 1-0 lead.Sequoia was playing lackadaisical defenseand the Dons forced a turnover deep in theCherokees’ end. The ball ended up on thefoot o f Aragon’s Ricardo Diaz, who s lipp eda simple pass through the heart of theSequoia defense and into the Cherokees’

Dons stay atop table

By Terry Bernal

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Through t hree starts th is s eason, Skylineleft-hander Daniel Madigan has made hugestrides in returning t o form after undergoin gTommy Joh n surgery over a year ago.

Madigan’s latest outing was his best per-formance yet, as the sophomore workedseven shutout innin gs to earn the win in a 5-1 victory for Skyline (4-2 overall) overShasta College (0-5) Friday at Trojans

Diamond. The southpaw allowed four hitswhile striking out six and walking non e toimprove his record to 2-0.

In throwing 104 pit ches against the clas-sic backdrop of a Skyline fog that overtookthe diamond as the game wore on, theplateau marked the first time Madigan hassurpassed 100 pitches since 2014.

“Overall I feel good,” Madigan said. “Ididn’t feel this g ood even before I got hurt.”

Not that Madigan was able to stay off thefield during his redshirt season of 2015.

While he wasn’t able to throw, he returnedto his alma mater Carlmont and served asthe pitching coach for a team that went 24-8 and reached the Central Coast SectionOpen Division semifinals.

With t he Scots, h e coached Skyli ne fresh-man right-hander Joe Pratt, as well as sec-ond baseman Aaron Albaum. And Madiganhas made the transition back to being aplayer seamlessly.

“[The relationship is] good,” Madigansaid. “They don’t look at it any differently

than t hey did when I was coaching. ”

Madigan said he took t o coaching t o keepfrom going crazy while not being able totake the mound. He join ed the Scots’ coach-ing staff after former pitching coach BobSargent stepped down following the 2014season. Including Sargent’s five seasons onCarlmont’s coaching staff, he was a long-time coach in the local Joe DiMaggioLeague ranks. So, when he left Carlmont, healso left some big shoes to fill.

Skyline’s Madigan returns to form following surgery

By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The games just keep getting more andmore critical for the Menlo-Atherton boys'soccer team.

Entering into play Friday locked in athree-way tie for first place in the PeninsulaAthletic League Bay Division, the Bears (8-2-2 in PAL Bay, 12-3-2 overall) needed toexecute a win at Burlingame (0-7-2, 1-10 -2).Fueled by a tiebreaking goal in the second

half by sophomore Jean Claverie, M-Asealed a 2-1 victory, maintain ing a two-wayshare for first place with Aragon, after theDons beat Sequoia — the other first-placeteam entering p lay Friday.

Now M-A and Aragon are on a collisioncourse, as the t wo teams meet Wednesday toall b ut decide the PAL Bay Divis ion champi-onship.

“The destiny is kind of in our hands,” M-Ahead coach Leo Krupnik said. “So I told theguys [Burlingame] is our most important gamebecause, i f we win, that gives us a chance.”

The chance presented itself as a novelcomeback for the Bears, who have rarelyplayed from behind this season. But whenBurling ame’s Matt Allen scored in the n inthminute, the Panthers challenged M-A to do

just that . And the Bears’ hyper-aggressi vetempo with a flare for showy ball controlsaved the day.

M-A got on the board near the end of the

first half on a strike by senior forward Kyle

Smith. The goal was the 60th of Smith’s

career, who tabbed a career-high 27 goals

last season as a junior. This year, however,Smith has b een plagued by i njury, including

his missing a stretch of four games after

coming out of M-A’s last match up with

Burlingame Jan. 20 due to a strained calf

muscle.Since returning to action last week

against Sequoia — a game that ended in a 1-1 tie — Smith has s cored three goals i n three

See HOOPS, Page 17

See BEARS, Page 15See ARAGON, Page 14

See SKYLINE, Page 15

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Mills sophomore Nick Brouqua fires a 3-pointshot in the Vikings’ 49-48 win over rival Cap.

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College swimmingCSM opens 2016 season

The Bulldogs competed in the first real competit ion o f the2016 campaign, earning two first-place finishes at theCoast Conference Kickoff meet at Las Positas College inLivermore.

Sophomore Morgan Smith won the women’s 100 fly in atime of 1:01.09, while sophomore Javier Rosas capturedthe men’s fly with a time of 53.44.

CSM will be back in action Friday, again at Las Positas,in the Hawk Invite.

Boys’ basketball — ThursdayMenlo-Atherton 82 Woodside 38

The Bears wrapped up an undefeated PAL South Divisionschedule with a rout of t he rival Wildcats.

Christian Fioretti led M-A (12-0 PAL South, 22-2 overall)with 19 p oin ts and 10 rebounds. Twin brother Lucas Fiorettibombed away from downtown, finishing with 18 points onsix 3-poin ters. Blake Henry chipped in 10 poin ts.

Woodside (4-8, 1 0-10) was led by Gabe DeVitis , who fin-

ished with 12 points.

Carlmont 51 Sequoia 29

The Scots limited the Cherokees to just two points in thefirst quarter and led 25-12 at halftime to cruise to the win.

Jacob Lloyd led Carlmont (3-9 PAL South, 9-15 overall)with a game-high 20 points. Daniel Zorb added 10 pointsand eight rebounds, while Tyler Brandenbery had 10 poi ntsas well.

Girls’ basketball — ThursdaySequoia 52 Carlmont 40

With t he game tied at 33 g oing into the fourth quarter, th eCherokees outscored the Scots 19-7 over the final eightminutes to post the win.

Mia Woo and Susie Lopez each h ad 14 po ints for Sequoia(5-7 PAL South, 8-12 overall). Carlmont (7-5, 14-10) wasled by Alyssa Hayes, who finished with 11 points.

Girls’ soccer — ThursdayMenlo School 6 Harker 0

The Knights won their fourth straight WBAL FoothillDivision title with the whitewash of the Eagles.

Menlo (8-0-2 WBAL Foothi ll) will have to share the tit le,however, as Sacred Heart Prep won it s regular-season finale4-1 over Castilleja.

Zoe Enright had two goals and an assist to lead Menlo.Emily Demmon added a goal and an assist, while AlexaThomases, Emily Tse and Kate Gruber rounded out the scor-ing for the Knights. Sasha Cassidy and Ashley Pimlottpicked up assists in the victory.

Local sports roundup

By Jon KrawczynskiTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TORONTO — When the Toronto Raptorssigned Dell Curry in 1999 to provide someshoot ing on t he perimeter, they also acquiredtwo young ch ildren in th e deal that would dart

around the back hallways of the Air CanadaCenter dribbling basketballs and bouncingoff the walls.

Steph Curry remembers tho se days well as apre-teen, horsing around with little brotherSeth in front of ushers who still work th ere.He recalls watching his first and only hockeygame when the Maple Leafs were home, andeven bein g held out of his first g ame as a mid-dle school kid because he did not do the dish-es earlier that day.

“To be back here and celebrate an All-Stargame is special,” Curry said on Friday.

He returns to the place he called home forthree years for All-Star weekend at the heig htof his powers, an NBA champion, the reign-ing MVP and the new face of the league whilehis Golden State Warriors blow the doors off of the competition.

“There’s a lot more to accomplish,” Currysaid. “It’s nice that I won a championsh ip and

an MVP and all th at and tobe here for weekends likethis. I want to conti nue tostrive for more.”

The Warriors are anastounding 48-4 at thebreak and have taken aim

at the single-seasonrecord of 72 wins by the1995-96 Chicago Bulls.Curry leads the league in

scoring at 29. 8 poin ts per game and splashes3-pointers like no one to have ever playedbefore him. A second straight MVP awardappears inevitable, and the baby-faced assas-sin has designs on doing for Under Armourwhat Michael J ordan did for Nike.

He has also made the 3-pointer cool again,with his showdown with teammate KlayThompson in the 3-point shootout onSaturday night as anticipated of an event asthe dunk contest. Maybe more.

“I’ve never seen anybody hit the shots thathe hi ts, ” Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal said.“That’s the only thing you can say right now.He’s really that good.”

Much of the All-Star festivities this week-end are concentrated on paying respects to

Lakers star Kobe Bryant in hi s final trip, andCurry joked when he took the podium after astampede of journalists raced across the ball-room floor to follow Bryant that, “Kobe istalking if anybody wants to g o.”

But there is no denying who owns the NBAright now. Curry’s jersey is the league’s best

seller for the second straight season, with theyounger generation becoming enamored withhis shooting range and slick ball-handling.And even his teammates have a hard timekeeping their composure when he rips off one of his shake-and-bake dribbles andlaunches a step-back 3 from another zip code.

“You’re definit ely wowed, but you just kin dof try to stay focused,” fellow Warriors All-Star Draymond Green said. “Because some-times he can catch yo u. We used to do it a lotand get wild about what Steph’s doing and

just g ive him the ball, give him the ball . Ithink we work better now when he’s havingthose moments and continuing to play. Butsome of the stuff he does is pretty amazing.”

For Curry, nothing is out of the questionanymore.

Greatest shooter ever?

“I feel lik e I could go toe-to-toe with prettymuch anybody,” he said. “But the longevity

of Ray Allen, Reggie Miller have been ableto accomplish. Sixteen, 17 years of shootingat a very high level. That’s what I’m strivingfor. I’m on a pretty go od pace, but that’s whatI want to continue to do.”

Single-game record for 3s?He hit 11 in a game at Washington on Feb.

3, just one short of tying the mark. “Ithought I had it two weeks ago,” he said.Iconic pitchman?With Curry serving as the face, Under

Armour is quickly climbing up the ladder insports apparel. “They had a nice template of success with Jordan’s career,” Curry said of Nike. “We’re trying t o do it our way, which i svery genuine and organic to what we’re try-ing to do. It’s been a great partnership sofar.”

The only thing that hasn’t worked out forCurry in recent memory was a foray intoproperty acquisition a little earlier in hiscareer.

“I dabbed in real estate too early before Iknew what I was doing,” Curry said. “So I’vegot a couple properties that aren’t doing toowell. If anybody’s in the market for a nice

three bedroom house in the greater Charlottearea, let me know.”

Steph Curry at the height of his powers

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Brewers trade OF Khris Davisto Athletics for two prospects

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers have tradedpower-hitting outfielder Khris Davis to the OaklandAthletics for a pair of prospects.

Milwaukee acquired catcher Jacob Notting ham and righ t-handed pitcher Bubby Derby in the deal Friday. The A’s andBrewers each won o nly 68 g ames last year.

The 28-year-old Davis hit 27 home runs last season,10th-most in the National League, and he batted .247 with66 RBIs in 12 1 games. Davis is no t eligib le for free agencyuntil after the 2019 season.

Davis has pl ayed exclusively i n left field during h is t hreeseasons in t he majors.

The A’s have used switch-hi ttin g vet eran Coco Crisp andslick-fielding Sam Fuld in left.

The Brewers have acquired several young players sincehiring general manager David Stearns last September.Shortst op Jean Segura and reliever Francisco Rodriguez areamong t he veterans Milwaukee has traded.

Nottingham, who turns 21 in April, hit .316 with 17home runs and 82 RBIs in Class A last year. He was acquiredby t he A’s in midseason for t he deal that sent Scott Kazmirto Houston — where Stearns h ad been assi stant GM.

Derby, who turns 22 later this month , was 1-1 with a 1. 21ERA in 1 4 to tal games at th e rookie and Class A levels.

The A’s also design ated left-hander Sean Nolin for assig n-ment.

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SAN FRANCISCO — If the San FranciscoGiants had any lingering concerns about MattCain’s health, the veteran pitcher helped easetheir minds with one impressive swing — onthe golf course.

Playing at Pebble Beach two days beforethe start of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Amalong with teammates including Buster Poseyand George Kontos, Cain hit a 340-yard driveshot on No. 18 that helped the Giants beat theSan Francisco 49ers as part of the ChevronCharity Shootout.

It was a shot that left many spectatorsbuzzing and had some fans questioningwhether it really happ ened.

For Cain, it was simply another signal th atafter two years of pain and problems in hispitching elbow, he is finally healthy andready to once again be a permanent fixture inthe Giants’ rotation.

“I think I’m where I need to be right now,”Cain said Friday on the eve of the Giants’

FanFest at AT&T Park.“Everything’s feelinggood. It’s still just fine-tuning and tweaking myrhythm and my motionand what I need to getdone and not getting toofrustrated with beginning.

It’s still early.”That hasn’t alwaysbeen Cain’s approach. He

admittedly tried to hurry back following sea-son-ending surgery to remove bone chips andspurs in his elbow just as the 2014 pennantrace was heatin g up.

Though Cain was back in time for the startof spring training last y ear, he op ened on thedisabled list because of a flexor tendon s train,spent another long stretch on the DL withnerve irritation in his p itching elbow and fin-ished the season 2-4 with a career-high 5.79ERA.

A 16-game winner in 2012 when heanchored San Francisco’s rotation and led theGiants to the second of three World Series

titles in a five-year span, Cain says the healthissues that bogged him down are no longer aconcern. He’s been doing some throwing inArizona and expects to be full-go when theGiants b egin spring training next week.

“I like where he’s at,” San Francisco man-ager Bruce Bochy said. “He’s in a good placeright now. I don’t know where he’s going to

pitch as far as in the rotation but I know talk-ing to (head trainer Dave Groeschner) who’sbeen watching him throw that he’s throwingthe ball very well now.”

Having Cain healthy for a full season wouldbe a boon for a pitching staff that is alreadyshaping up to be one of the best in themajors.

San Francisco added free agents JohnnyCueto and Jeff Samardzija in the offseason topair with ace Madison Bumgarner — an 18-game winner each of the past two years —and Jake Peavy.

A three-time All-Star who pitched the firstperfect game in franchise history on June13, 2 012, Cain is most likely to wind up atthe back end of the rotation as the fourth or

fifth starter.That might not be a bad thing if the 31-

year-old pitcher can regain his form a fewyears ago.

“The two guys that we’ve added are perfectfor the situation, are perfect for our club-house,” Cain said.

As for that 3 40-yard drive?

“It was close, ” Cain said. “We didn’t reallymark it off, we were just kind of guessin g fromwhat we had left into the hole. It was reallythe 5-iron that George hit next. He hit a 22 0-yard (shot) to get us close to the green andthen we were able to seal the deal with a littlepar there and get a win.”Notes: Posey says he plans to get in extra

work with Cueto and Samardzija in springtraining. “I’m going to try to catch (them) asmuch as I can in spring training to get a feelfor them.” ... 2B Joe Panik, whose rookieseason ended prematurely due to a lower backinjury, says he’s been pain-free since mid-December. . .. 3B Matt Duffy bulked up sl ight -ly during the offseason but doesn’t think itwill affect his swing.

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penalty box. Not only was Lopez there, s owas Severson. In fact, the two nearlyknocked each other off the ball, but coolerheads prevailed and Lopez ended up gettingoff the shot, slotting it just inside the farleft pos t for a quick Aragon advantage.

“We started out very, very flat,” said

Sequoia coach Kevin Huber. “I don’t know if it’s because we didn’t have schoo l [Friday]or what. We beat them 5-1 before. [We]thought it was a game in the bag.”

The Dons dominated the opening 10 min-utes, locking the Cherokees into t heir owndefensive h alf.

But it didn’t take l ong for Sequoia (7-3-2)to s ettle down and turn thi ngs around. Sevenminutes later, the game was tied. TheCherokees caught the Dons pushing toomany pl ayers forward and caught them with

a counterattack strike. Jaime Cortezreceived a pass near midfield and broketoward the Aragon goal with only onedefender to beat and Robert Hernandez onhis right flank. Cortez fed Hernandez, whowent around a defender and, from the top of the penalty box, slotted home a shot thatslipped just inside the far left post to knotthe game at 1.

“On that goal, our center midfielder waspressing too high and they went on a count-er,” Markoulakis said.

After the two early goals, the game went

back and forth the rest of the half. The Donscontinued to apply pressure on the Sequoiagoal, getting off 11 shots in the first 40minutes, co mpared to s even for Sequoia. ButAragon had the more dangerous chances. Aminute after the Ch erokees scored, Aragon’sLiam Laird nearly gave the lead right backto hi s team, but his effort from 30 yards waspushed over the top of the goal by Sequoiagoalkeeper Jhosse Prado. In the 22ndminute, Diaz and Lopez nearly hooked upagain, but Lopez was unable to shake the

defender while trying to trap the ball.Lopez did get that second goal less than

10 minutes later, ho wever. The Dons used agood buildup in the midfield, with Diazorchestrating the offense. He carried theball parallel to t he goal, abo ut 40 yards out,before sending a diagonal through balltoward the corner. Lopez beat a defender tothe ball , t urned the corner and had a step o nsaid defender. Lopez let loose his shot thathe slipped just inside the far left post to putthe Dons up 2-1.

About two minutes later, Lopez had a

chance for a first-half hat trick, but his shotfrom the top of the penalty box flew justover the goal.

Lopez had anoth er chance to earn his thirdgoal early in the second half, but again was

just o ff the mark.“Victor Lopez is a scorin g th reat any time

he gets on the field,” Markoulakis said.“He’s starting to hit his stride, which isgood for us.”

In th e second half, Sequoia pushed hard tofind the equalizer, controlling the action

over the final 30 minutes or so. But theAragon defense was up to the task andthwarted the Ch erokees at every turn.

“[Sequoia] was pushing (to score),”Markoulakis said. “(But our) defense hasbeen doing well all season.”

With the win, the Dons stay in a tie forfirst place in the Bay Division, along withM-A, which beat Burlingame 2-1.

Aragon and M-A meet for the second timethis season Wednesday in San Mateo in thepenultimate game of the regular season and

finish up with Half Moon Bay n ext Friday.Markoulakis said he is trying not to

weigh down his team with pressure orexpectations, however, as the Dons battlefor the Bay Division titl e. Last year, Aragonwas atop the Ocean Division standingsbefore crumbling late and losing out on thetitle.

“We’re trying to make them aware of the[championship] situation, but with anemphasis on playing good soccer,”Markoulakis said.

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