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By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Attorneys representingMartins Beach are seeking a

judges approval to clos e the con-tested property to the public cit-ing evidence that visitors have

trespassed, engaged in vandalismand even made death threats

against theproperty man-ager.

M a r t i n sBeach LLCsfiled a motionM o n d a yrequesting a

stay or sus-pension of

enforcement of a county judgesDecember ruling to reopen theproperty as i t had been before ven-ture capitalist Vinod Khoslabought it for $32.5 million in2008.

At the same time, the owner ofthe secluded coastal property is

seeking a new trial to defendagainst the lawsuit won by the

Surfrider Foundation, whichasserted Khosla violated theCalifornia Coastal Act by puttingup no trespassing signs and deter-ring the public from the crescentshape property that was onceaccessible for nearly 100 years.

According to the motion filed

Monday, property manager JimDeeney has struggled to keep

Martins Beach open on selectdays and has contacted the FBI aswell as the San Mateo CountySheriffs Office to report threatsmade against h im in perso n and onsocial media.

More recently, the on-siteproperty manager, Jim Deeney,

Beach owner claims threatsMartins Beach manager says hes received death threats, wants approval to ban public

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District discusses

d.tech destinations

By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Concerned members of the Mil lsHigh School community turnedout for a special San Mateo UnionHigh School District board meet-ing to encourage district leader-ship to find a new campus for theDesign Tech High School .

Residents, students and teachersimpl ored the Bo ard of Trustees dur-ing the meeting at Hillsdale HighSchool Tuesday night to take thecharter school off the Mills cam-pus, and move it to a new locationwhere d.tech could flourish with-out impacting an existing highschool.

Trustees did not make a decisionregarding where the charter school

would be relocated, and instead

asked district staff to come backwith more exact information on

costs associated with relocatingthe school.D.tech needs its own site so

that it can have its own identity,said Maureen Seto, a Mill s parent,who has previously opposed thecharters co-location on the Millscampus in Millbrae.

The district is currently consid-ering a variety of available long-term and short-term options forrelocating d.tech, including mov-ing it to the former CrestmoorHigh School site in San Bruno,onto property owned by either theSan Mateo County Office ofEducation or San Mateo Co unty, orto a parcel of land in Redwood

Officials consider leasing spacefrom county for charter school

By Samantha Weigel

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

To avoid the possibility offuture conflicts of interest andreduce long-term liabilities, theBelmont City Council votedTuesday to change the benefitspackages councilmembers receive including the elimination oflifetime health benefits.

Previously, councilmembers

benefits were tied to mid-manage-ments health insurance and retire-ment packages meaning whenthe council negotiated terms withcertain city staff, it was alsoaffecting councilmembers perks.It is legally challenging to amendcurrent co uncilmembers benefits,

but there is n ow a new tier of ben-efits applying to future coun-cilmembers that eliminates the

Belmont nixes council

lifetime health benefitsChanges affect future councilmembers,though no current members receive them

By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Philz Coffee serves one cup at atime and Wednesday it was look-ing to hire one barista at a time forits new downtown Redwood Citylocation set to open next month.

The new Broadway coffee shop,located a block from the OldCourthouse, will be the SanFrancisco-based companys 17thstore. Philz now has locations inSouth San Francisco, San Mateo,Palo Alto and will open up anot hershop soo n in Los Gatos.

It held a job fair Wednesday inRedwood City at 2116 Broadway,which was home to the formerSpankys nightclub that closed in1999.

The company is hiring another10 baristas for the location to join10 o thers who already work for th ecompany, said Rob Montoya, thecompanys director of humanresources.

We are picky about who we

hire, Montoya said.The company is all about pro-

viding an amazing customerexperience that starts with hir-

ing g reat people, Montoya said.Job seekers showed up with

resumes in hand as free coffee wasalso being served to passersby.

Helene Muratore, assistant storemanager, was serving the compa-nys most popular blend, Tesora,to potential new customersWednesday.

When Philz opens, downtownworkers and shop pers can get theircoffee exactly how they want it.

Founder Phil Jaber developedthe one cup at a time experience

One barista at a timePhilz Coffee hiring for new Redwood City location

BILL SILVERFARB/DAILY JOURNAL

Philz Coffee held a job fair in downtown Redwood City Wednesday to hire baristas for its new location on Broadway.

See COFFEE, Page 16 See BENEFITS, Page 14

See D.TECH, Page 14

See BEACH, Page 16

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Police: Man hid cocaineinside prosthetic leg in his car

DOVER, Del. Police say aDelaware drug suspect went out on alimb to transport a stash of cocaine,but he was busted when officers discov-ered the drug hidden inside his pros-thetic leg.

Dover Police say 39-year-oldMarlow Holmes was arrested Mondayafternoon during a traffic stop. Theysaid police dogs alerted officers to t hepresence of narcotics inside the car

Holmes had been riding in. During asearch o f the car officers said they dis-covered more than 28 grams of cocainestuffed into the prosthetic leg thatHolmes was wearing, and arrested him.

Police say Holmes faces charges ofpossession with intent to delivercocaine and possession of drug para-phernalia. He was jailed, with bond setat $81,000.

Police say they kept the drugs as evi-dence but returned Holmes leg.

Bart the cat hit by car, buriedand then crawls from grave

TAMPA, Fla. Bart the cat was hitby a car, buried and seemingly crawledback from the dead.

Earlier this month, a car hit the 11/2-year-old cat in Tampa. Bartsowner was so distraught, he couldntstand the thought of burying him, sohe asked neighbor to dig a shallowgrave.

Five days later, on Jan. 21, a mattedand injured Bart emerged, meowing forfood.

At first it blew me away, said DustyAlbritton, the neighbor who buriedBart. All I knew was this cat was deadand Pet Sematary is real.

Bart had a broken jaw, a ruptured eyeand a torn-up face. He was dehydratedand hungry, b ut alive.

Owner Ellis Hutso n didnt kno w whatto do.

It was unbelievable, he told TheTampa Bay Times. Ive never seenanything like that before.

Hutson got in t ouch with t he Humane

Society of Tampa Bay, which throughthe Save-A-Pet Medical Fund will helpcover the costs of Barts care. OnTuesday, the cat underwent surgery toremove an eye, wire his jaw shut andinsert a feeding tube, which cost morethan $1,000.

The agencys executive directorSherry Sil k said Bart sho uld recover inabout six weeks and will be going

home with Hutson.Hes purring, even with all these

injuries, Silk said. I cant even imag-ine how awful he must have felt. Hes

just a really wonderful, pat ient , lo vin gcat.

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In 1820 , Britains King George III died at Windsor Castle.In 1843 , the 25th president of the United States, WilliamMcKinley, was born in Niles, Ohio.In 1861 , Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to theConstitution, which launched Prohibition, was certified byActing Secretary of State Frank L. Polk .In 1936, the first inductees of baseballs Hall of Fame,including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named inCooperstown, New York.In 1956 , editor-essayist H.L. Mencken, the Sage ofBaltimore, died at age 75.In 1958, actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward weremarried in Las Vegas.In 1964 , Stanley Kubricks nuclear war satire Dr.Strangelove Or: How I Learned to St op Worrying and Lovethe Bo mb premiered in New York, Toront o and London. The

Winter Olymp ic Games opened in Innsbruck, Austria. ActorAlan Ladd, 50 , died in Palm Springs, California.In 1975 , a bomb exploded inside the U.S. StateDepartment in Washington, causing considerable damage,but inj uring no one; the radical group Weather Undergroundclaimed responsibility.In 1990 , former Exxon Valdez skipper Jo seph Hazelwoodwent on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges stemmingfrom the 1989 oil spill. (Hazelwood was acquitted of themajor charges, an d convicted of a misdemeanor.)In 1995 , the San Francisco 49ers became the first team inNFL history to win five Super Bowl titles, beating the SanDiego Chargers, 4 9-26, in Super Bowl XXIX.In 1998 , a bomb rocked an abortion clinic inBirmingham, Alabama, killing security guard RobertSanderson and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons. (Thebomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and isserving a life sentence.)

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HALF MOON BAY

Arres t. A juvenile was arrested and transferredto Youth Services for poss ession of a knife atschool on the Half Moon Bay High Schoolcampus before 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21.Arres t. A male juvenile was arrested for beingin possession of marijuana while on proba-tion and providing a fake ID to the arrestingofficer on Airport Street and La Granada Lanebefore 2:09 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21.Arres t. A man was arrested after he provided afake ID to a pol ice officer during a traffic vio-lation stop and was later determined to have asuspended license on Highway 1 and GrandBoulevard before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.20.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCOAssault with a deadly weapon. A manwas hit across the head with something before

9:03 p. m. Sunday, Jan. 11.Petty theft. A woman loaned her car to afriend and upon return of the vehicle noticedthe firearm she left in the car was missingbefore 12:19 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8.

SAN BRUNOArres t. A deputy was assaulted and injuredwhile arresting a man for a separate assaultand battery charge on El Camino Real and SanBenito Avenue before 11:05 a.m. Sunday, Jan.18.

Police reports

Man, thats weirdA man was seen acting strangely andgoin g up and down the st reet pretendingto sh oot at t he houses on Fin ger Avenuein Redwood City before 11:27 a.m.Thursday, J an. 2 2.

By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Teachers and administration in theMillbrae Elementary School Districtreached an impasse in contract negotia-tions, but officials said they are hopeful

that an agreement can be found soon.District leaders and members of the

Millbrae Education Association agreed toengage in contract mediation with an unbi-ased third party to help both sides find acommon ground at the bargaining table.

Sticking points in the negotiationrevolve around the unions desire to receiv-ing a proposed 4 percent raise, while thedistrict is offering to increase annualsalaries by 2 percent, according to a districtdocument.

Teachers are also asking for $2,000 inpayments from the district toward healthand welfare premiums, while the district isoffering an $827 o ne-time payment, accord-ing to the document.

The two sides met for an ei ght-ho ur medi-ation session last week, and will go back fora second meeting Feb. 11.

Though both parties have agreed to notspeak publicly about the negotiations,Superintendent Lisa Luna said she is opti-mistic about the process.

I am hopeful for a resolution soon, shesaid.

Officials sai d they agree that t he teachersdeserve a raise, but said they are also tryingto balan ce the pay increase with an effort torestore other prog rams and services recentlycut during leaner budget t imes.

We want to give th em a raise, i ts just not

enough of a raise, said Frank Barbaro,member of the Board of Trustees.

Luna cited the desire to hire more classi-fied personnel, such as maintenance work-ers, technical support staff and custodians,as targets for th e district that run con currentto negotiation s with teachers.

Barbaro agreed with Lunas assessment ofthe districts priorities.

We are obligated to restore a lot of theprograms that we cut, and the personn el thatwe cut, said Barbaro, who noted that theschool board is not part of the bargainingprocess. If we can restore some of theseposition s, th ey do help the teachers.

Teachers though are frustrated by theadministrations unwillingness to agree tothe proposed 4 percent raise, while the dis-trict cont inues searching to add more classi-

fied staff, according to a report circulatedamong members of the union.

The district is currently searching for twosupervisors, o verseeing the business serv-ices and maintenance departments, whichteachers estimate may cost the districtbetween $250,000 and $300,000, accord-ing to a district report.

Following the initial mediation sessionlast week, the union report expressed dissat-isfaction with the bargaining process.

To say that the MEA Bargaining Team

was angry and disappointed with the littleprogress that was made today is an under-statement, said the report.

The report said teachers are due for a raise,citing that they are one of the lowest paidunions on t he Peninsula.

According to a report from the California

Department of Education, teachers inMillbrae made an average of roughly$69,100 last year. The average annualincome for elementary school teachers inSan Mateo County last year was roughly$73,9 00 per year.

Teachers in the northern region of thecounty, including Burlingame, South SanFrancisco, San Mateo-Foster City and SanBruno earned an average of about $65,900last year, according to the state report.

Teachers last year accepted a 4 percentraise, as well as a 1.5 percent pay increaseto health and welfare benefits.

Luna said the district is hoping that thetwo sides can agree to a multi-year cont ractgoing forward.

Barbaro echoed those sentiments, andsaid that annual negoti ation s makes the bar-

gaining process more difficult for the dis-trict.

We are trying t o get away from negot iat-ing every year, Barbaro said. We wouldreally like to get a two- or three-year con-tract, because we are goi ng back t o negot ia-tions every year and the contract is over sofast.

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Teachers and district hit negotiation deadlockMillbrae educators come to impasse over proposed pay raises

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT U.S. Rep. Jackie Spei er, D-San Mateo , was chosen as ranking

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UCs Santa Barbara campusrecognized for Latino enrollment

GOLETA The University of California,Santa Barbara, has become the fourth UC

campus and the nations first major researchuniversity to be recognized for having a stu-dent body that is at least one-quarterHispanic, university officials announcedWednesday.

The Hispanic Association of Collegesand Universities has designated UCSB as aHispanic-Serving Institution, a label thatcould make the school eligible to competefor a share of the $98 millio n in grants t hefederal government reserves for schools

with large Hispanic enrollments.

Moderate earthquake

strikes Northern California coastEUREKA A moderate earthquake with a

preliminary magnitude of 5.7 has struck offthe coast of Northern California.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports thequake shook at 1:08 p.m. Wednesday about40 miles southwest of Eureka.

Lt. Wayne Hanson of the HumboldtCounty Sheriffs Office said no damage orinj uries were immediately repo rted.

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Executive gets threeyears probation for child porn

A Hills borough executive who pl eaded nocontest to poss ession of child pornography

last year was sentencedTuesday to three years ofprobation and sixmonths in jail, prosecu-tors said Wednesday.

However, GordonBardet, 64, could avoid

jail time i f he is admittedto a work release pro-gram, according to theSan Mateo County

District Attorney s Office.Bardet, the chief executive officer of the

San Mateo-based engin eering an d manufac-turing company Pioneer Motor BearingCo., first came under investigation by theU.S. Department of Homeland Security in2011 based on an Internet discussion.

He was searched at San FranciscoInternation al Airport as he returned from th eUnited King dom on Aug. 29 of that year.

Investigators found child pornography onhis laptop and then searched his home andfound other laptops and disks containingchild pornography.

He did not have enough child pornogra-

phy for federal prosecutors to brin g charges,but the county district atto rneys office filedtwo felony counts of possession of childpornography.

Bardet reached a plea deal with pro secutorslast November and pleaded no con test to onecount in exchange for a sentence of no morethan 16 months in prison.

In addition to th e probation and possiblejail sent ence, Bardet must regis ter as a s exoffender for life, participate in a treatmentprogram, submit to random polygraph test-ing and have no contact with children.

His defense atto rneys were not immediate-ly available for comment.

Port of Redwood City reports 5percent increase in cargo movement

The Port of Redwood City reported a 5 per-cent increase in cargo movement across itsdocks for the first half of fiscal year 2014-15 compared to the prio r fiscal year.

Port officials said imported sand andaggregates accounted for 691,276 metrictons, 79 percent of the tonnage moved atthe port for the first half of the fiscal yearthat ended Dec. 31 . That was a nearly 8 per-cent increase over the s ame period last fiscalyear.

The next largest tonnage was exportedshredded scrap metal, which totaled135,8 76 metric tons, p ort officials said.

Fifty-four vessels, 30 ships and 24barges, made calls during t he first half of th efiscal year. That number was up from 30

ship s and six barges reported during t he firsthalf of the previous fiscal year, port offi-cials said.

Rare Chinese, Japanesecoins found on theft suspect

Redwood City police found some rare vin-tage Chinese and Japanese coins with a sus-pect arrested for a theft from a vehicle lastyear and are asking for the publics help infinding out who owns them, po lice said.

The suspect was arrested on Nov. 20 and asearch of his car turned up the rare coins,police s aid.

Investigators s uspect th ey were stolen butdont know from where or when. The suspecthas ties to San Francisco, p olice said.

To find the source of the coins, police pos t-ed a photo of th em on Pinterest and are ask-

ing anyone who recognizes them to contactthe Police Department at (650) 78 0-7100.

Inmate dies at SanFrancisco County Jail in San Bruno

The death of a 57-year-old inmate onMonday morning at a San Francisco CountyJail in San Bruno remains under investiga-tion.

The inmate, identi fied as San Francisco res-ident Alvin Haynes, reportedly died at SanFrancisco County Jail No. 5 at 1 MorelandDrive in San Bruno around 10:30 a.m.Monday, according to Chief Deputy KathyGorwood, a spokeswoman for the SanFrancisco Sheriffs Department.

Gorwood said Haynes had previously beenarrested for burglary, receiving or buyingstolen property, possession of burglary

tools and resistin g o r delaying arrest. He wasremanded into custody on a probation viola-tion for possession of a controlled sub-stance.

Gorwood did not say what led up to Haynesdeath.

An autopsy is being conducted since thereis no clear medical history that explains theinmates death, according to the San MateoCounty Coroners Office.

Since the jail is located in San Bruno, aninvestigation into the death will be handledby the San Mateo County DistrictAttorneys, Sheriffs and Coroners offices.

The San Francisco Sheriffs Departmentwill also investigate Haynes death and theevents that led up to it , as is protocol.

Gordon Bardet

Local briefs

By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

A judge has blocked the construction of 16homes planned to be built on Laurel Way inRedwood City and ruled the city must setaside permits granted to the developer.

San Mateo County Superior Court JudgeMarie Weiner sided with the group SaveLaurel Way th at argued the city demons tratedan abuse of discretion by approving anenvironmental report and issuing a PlannedDevelopment Permit for the project to moveforward. Weiner issued her decision Fridaywhich can be appealed within 15 days.

The developers attorney, Bill Warhurst,told the Daily Journal Wednesday thatWeiners decision is under review and that adecision to appeal has yet to be made.

The judges decision vacates the citysapprov al of the Laurel Way Jo int VenturePlanned Development Permit and the cityscertification of a revised environmentalimpact report on the findings the lots onLaurel Way were not created legally.

We are worried about risky and dangerous

hillside construction, said Save LaurelWays Beverly Purrington. We are delightedwith the judges decision.

The judges decision does not mean, how-ever, t hat the lo ts cannot someday be devel-oped, city spokeswoman Meghan Horrigantold the Daily Journal Wednesday.

Building new homes in a hillside area likeLaurel Way is a complex endeavor with manydifferent interested party viewpoints. Thecity appreciates the courts guidance and willconsider the courts decision as it evaluatesthe proposed development of upper LaurelWay, Horrigan s aid.

The city has not decided yet whether toappeal the decision , s he said.

The developer first approached the citywith the proposal in 2007 but attempts todevelop on Laurel Way date back to the 1960 swhen the city argued that development of thelots p osed substantial risk s, Purrington said.

The developer sought to build 16 houses

and a bi-level road on 4.75 acres of never-developed, steeply-sloped, wooded hillsides.

Save Laurel Way, a grassroots communitygroup that filed the civil lawsuit, hopesWeiners decision serves as a wake-up callfor the city that development is not suitablefor the area.

City planners have continued to presentnew hillside regulation recommendations tothe Planning Commission as recently as Jan.20 t hat Save Laurel Way calls vague.

Weiners ruling states that the facts andlaw do no t support a finding that t here are 16legal lots upon which 16 homes can be builtand do no t support a finding t hat the p roper-ty owners have a vested right to develop eachof the 16 alleged lots.

The city made its decisions based on theadvice of staff and assertions made by the

project owners that the lots had been legallytransferred or created, Weiner wrote in herdecision.

Weiner wrote in her decision that the citysfactual and legal error infects the entirety ofthe decision-making process leading to thegranting of a Planned Development Permit,the entry of Resolutions, and certification ofthe Revised Final EIR.

The city had argued that the lots were law-fully created through a 1926 subdivision maplong before the area was annexed by t he city.Weiner, however, ruled that the cit y could notprove that finding.

Judge blocks hillside projectLaurel Way planned development not legal

Marian WardMarian Ward, born Oct.

23, 1930, died Jan. 26,

2015.She was a resident ofSan Bruno.

Mother to Michael,Jeffery, Matthew andStephen (Mary). Brother

to John Lapicki. Gamma to Nicholas andThomas.

She will be missed.Services will be 10 :30 a. m. Monday, Feb.

2 at the Chapel of the Highlands, 194Millwood Drive at El Camino Real,Millbrae CA 94030 (650) 58 8-5116.

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By Fenit NirappilTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO Californiahealth officials Wednesday declaredelectronic cigarettes a health th reatthat should be strictly regulatedlike tobacco products, joining

other states and health advocatesacross the U.S. in seeking tightercontrols as vaping grows in pop-ularity.

The California Department ofPublic Health report says e-ciga-rettes emit cancer-causing chemi-cals and get users ho oked on nico-tine but acknowledges that moreresearch needs to be done to deter-mine the immediate and long-termhealth effects.

E-cigarettes are not as harmfulas conventional cigarettes, but e-cigarettes are not harmless saidCalifornia Health Officer RonChapman. They are not safe.

New generations of young peo-ple will become nicot ine addicts if

the p roducts remain l argely unreg-ulated, Chapman said. Last year,17 percent of high school seniorsreported using e-cigarettes,known as vaping, according to thereport.

Without action, i t is li kely thatCalifornias more than two decadesof progress to prevent and reducetraditional tobacco use will erodeas e-cigarettes re-normalize smok-ing behavio r, the report says.

E-cigarettes heat liquid nicotineinto inhalable vapor without thetar and other chemicals found intraditional cigarettes. A cartridge ofnicotine can cost anywhere from$5 to $20 dol lars and can be reused.

California banned the sale of e-

cigarettes to minors in 2010, butthe report raises concerns about theproducts appeal to children withflavors such as cotton candy andgummy bear. Reports of childrenunder 5 with e-cigarette poiso ning

jumped from seven in 2 012 to 1 54last year.

The California report says e-cig-arettes emit as many as 10 toxicchemicals, but advocates say thereis n o evidence those substances arereleased at dangerous levels.

Despite the health officersfalse claims, there is ample evi-dence that vaping helps smokers

quit and is far less hazardous thansmoking, Gregory Conley, presi-dent of the e-cigarette advocacygroup American VapingAssociation, said in an email.

Smokers deserve truthful and accu-rate information about the relativerisks of different nicotine products,not hype and conjecture based oncherry-picked reports.

Health officials called for restric-tions on the marketing and sale ofe-cigarettes, protections againstaccidental i ngestion of liquid nico-tine and an education campaign on

the dangers of using e-cigarettes.A state senator introduced legis-

latio n thi s week that would regulatee-cigarettes as tobacco productsand ban their use in public placessuch as hospitals, bars andschools. A similar bill was defeatedlast year over opposition from

tobacco companies.Chapman, the health official,would not take a positio n on legi s-lation, but said his departmentwould be rolling out an e-cigaretteawareness campaign with possib letelevision and radio advertise-ments.

E-cigarettes have become morevisible as they grow in popularityand commercials for the productsair in places where traditional ciga-rette ads have been banned.Businesses related to e-cigarettes,including v aping l ounges, are rap-idly popping up in cities acrossCalifornia.

Geoff Braithwaite, co-owner ofan Oakland store that sells liquid

nicotine for e-cigarettes, said heunderstands the need to restrictvaping i n public and prevent salesto minors. He says his customersare longtime smokers who shouldbe able to g et a nicotine buzz with-out the harshness of a regular ciga-rette.

Nicotine has all this stigmaattached solely to the medium weused to use, Braithwaite said.When you try to outright ban e-cigarettes, youre lumping in thesolution with the problem.

Other states, includingOklahoma, Tennessee andArkansas, already have i ssued advi-sories cautioning t he use of e-ciga-rettes. Legislatures have been

exploring restrictions on e-ciga-rette marketing, adding childproofpackaging requirements andimposin g taxes to discourage use.

Health officials want to beproactive on this important publichealth issue, said Lisa Waddell,who leads community health andprevention at the Association ofState and Territorial HealthOfficials. The issue of real con-cern here is we really dont knoweverything thats in these prod-ucts, and you are seeing the rise ofuse of these products in our chil-dren as well as our adults .

State declares electronic cigarettes a health threat

The California Department of Public Health report says e-cigarettes emit cancer-causing chemicals and get usershooked on nicotine but acknowledges that more research needs to be done to determine the immediate andlong-term health effects.

WHAT ARE E-CIGARETTES?They are electronic devices that

heat liquid nicotine derived fromtobacco into an inhalable vaporavailable in fruity and sweet fla-vors. Traditional cigarettes burntobacco leaves, which alsoreleases tar and carcinogenicchemicals. Paper cigarettes aresingle use and burn within min-utes, but e-cigarette cartridgescontain different levels of nico-tine and can last for days depend-ing on how often users puff.Using e-cigarettes is known asvaping.

WHAT ARETHE HEALTH RISKS?

Many of the long-term effectsof e-cigarettes are not knownbecause the technology is recentand research is ongoing. ButChapman says enough studies

suggest the products are harmfulto curtail their use. E-cigarettesemit at least 10 chemicals knownto cause cancer or birth defects,according to the California report.The report does not say if these arereleased at levels that threatenhealth, but Chapman says somechemicals such as formaldehydeare never safe. Nicotine is alsoharmful to youth brain develop-ment. While e-cigarette makerstout the product as safer than com-bustible cigarettes, the Californiareport says there is no evidencethe device helps people quitsmoking.

HOW POPULARARE E-CIGARETTES?

Surveys of students showteenagers already are choosingvaping over smoking. In one sur-vey, 17 percent of high schoolseniors reported using e-cigarettes

compared with 14 percent usingcigarettes.

IS THERE LEGISLATION?The health report says e-ciga-

rettes should be regulated astobacco products with restrictionson marketing and protectionsagainst accidental liquid nicotineingestion. SB140 by Sen. MarkLeno, D-San Francisco, wouldexpand the states smoke-freelaws to include e-cigarettes andprevent vaping in public placessuch as schools, bars, hospitalsand buses. It would also create

some restrictions to keep theproducts out of childrens reachsuch as banning vending machinesales and bannin g advertisementswithin 1,000 feet of a school.

The U.S. Food and DrugAdministration is also proposingregulations that include warninglabels and ingredient disclosurefor e-cigarette makers.

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AG nominee defendsPresident Obamasimmigration changesBy Erica Werner

and Eric TuckerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Confrontingskeptical Republicans, attorneygeneral nominee Loretta Lynchpledged a new start with Congressand independence from PresidentBarack Obama Wednesday, even asshe defended the presidents unilat-eral protections for millions ofimmigrants in the country illegal-ly.

If confirmed as attorney gener-al, I would be myself. I would beLoretta Lynch, the nominee toldher Senate confirmation hearing asRepublicans showered criticismon t he current occupant of t he job ,

Eric Holder. They said Holder wascontemptuous of Congress and toopolitically close to Obama, andrepeatedly demanded assurancesthat Lynch would do things differ-ently.

Youre not Eric Holder, areyou? Texas Republican JohnCornyn, one of the current attor-ney generals most persistent crit-ics, asked at one point.

No, Im not, sir, Lynchresponded with a smile.

It was a moment that summed upa Senate Judiciary Committee hear-ing that was often more aboutObama and Holder than aboutLynch, who is n ow the top federalprosecutor for parts of New York

City and Long Island. If con-

firmed, she would become thenations first black female attor-ney general.

Holder, Cornyn contended,operated as a polit ician using th eawesome power conferred by ourlaws on the attorney general.

Lynch asked the senator to takenote o f the independence that Ivealways b rought to every particularmatter, and she said that whenmerited she would say no toObama.

On immigration, Lynch facednumerous questions fromRepublicans critical of the admin-istrations new policy grantingwork permits and temporary depor-tation relief to some 4 million

people who are in the country ille-gally. The committee chairman,Republican Chuck Grassley ofIowa, called the effort a dangerousabuse of executive authority.

Lynch said she had no involve-ment in drafting the measures butcalled them a reasonable way tomarshal limited resources to dealwith the problem of illegal immi-gration. She said the HomelandSecurity Department was focusingon removals of the most danger-ous of the undocumented immi-grants among us.

Pressed by Sen. Jeff Session s ofAlabama, a leading immigrationhard-liner, she said citizenshipwas not a right for people in the

country illegally but rather a priv-ilege that must be earned.However, when Sessions askedwhether individuals i n t he countrylegally or those who are hereunlawfully have more of a righ t toa job, Lynch replied, The rightand the obligation to work is o nethats shared by everyone in thiscountry regardless of how theycame here.

Sessio ns quickly is sued a newsrelease to highlight thatresponse. Under later question-ing by Democratic Sen. ChuckSchumer of New York, Lynchclarified it, stating there is noright to work for an immigrant

who has no lawful status.The hearing was the first such

proceeding since Republicansretook control of the Senate inJanuary. Although comments fromSessions and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as the session neared itsconclusion suggested her stanceon immigration and presidentialauthority would cost someRepublican support, Lynch isexpected to win confirmation withlittle difficulty, in part becauseRepublicans are so eager to be ridof Holder. He has been a ligh tnin grod for conservatives over the pastsix years, clashing continuallywith lawmakers and becoming the

first sitting attorney general to beheld in contempt of Congress.

Lynch found occasions to differ-entiate herself from Holder withoutcontradicting him.

She stated without hesitationunder questioning from Sen.Lindsey Graham, R-SouthCarolina, that she considers thedeath penalty an effective punish-ment and has sought it in her dis-trict. That was a rhetorical shiftfrom Holder, who has expressedpersonal reservations about capi-tal punishment, particularly inligh t of recent botched execution s,but has also periodically author-ized it.

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An intoxicated driver whoplowed into the back of a SamTransbus in South San Francisco lastyear and then threw up in the back-seat of a patrol car after his arrestwas sentenced Wednesday t o a yearin jail, prosecutors said.

In addition to the jail sentence,Jimmy Velasco, 3 2, was sentenced

to five yearsprobation, SanMateo CountyDeputy DistrictAttorney SeanGallagher said.

Velasco couldavoid jail timeif a judgeapproves awork release

program, but Wednesday was

ordered to begin serving his sen-tence on April 25. He has nine daysof credit for time served, Gallaghersaid.

The crash happened just before 6p.m. on Jan. 3, 2014. Velasco wasdriving on El Camino Real andrear-ended a bus stopped at theintersection with Arroyo Drive,prosecutors said.

Multiple passengers were injuredand taken to a hospi tal.

Velasco was not hurt in the crashand told arriving officers, I hit th ebus, Im a little drunk, prosecutorssaid. Police testing found that hewas driving with a blood-alcoholcontent of 0.17 percent.

When Velasco was arrested, hethrew up in the back of the offi-cers patrol car. He pleaded nocontest to felony drunk drivinglast month in exchange for amaximum sentence of two years

in prison, prosecutors said.In addition to his j ail and proba-

tion sentence, he must pay restitu-tion to six victims, $7,341 to oneand an amount to be determined forthe other five. His driving privi-leges were suspended and he mustenroll in a nine-month alcoholabuse program, Gallagher said.

Velascos attorney was notimmediately available for com-ment Wednesday afternoo n.

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By Kelli KennedyTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Insurancecompanies, perhaps more than previouslythought, may be charging the sickestpatients extra for drugs under the federalhealth law, in an effort to discourage themfrom choosing certain plans, according to astudy released Wednesday.

One of the cornerstones of PresidentObamas si gnature health l aw forbids insur-ance companies from turning away peoplewith pre-existing conditions such as dia-betes or cancer. Yet hundreds of patientadvocacy groups say insurance companieshave found a way to discriminate againstthese people, who are more expensive tocover because they require lifelong treat-ments.

The companies do this by putting all oftheir medications in a special categorywhere the patient is required to pay a per-centage of the cos t of the drug, rath er than aflat co-pay. Some are as high as 50 percent,leaving people on the hook for thousandsof dollars. That compares to the average$10 to $40 per-medication co-pay thatmost pay.

A study published in the New EnglandJournal of Medicine only examined HIVdrugs, but noted the problem applies to

mental illness, cancer, rheumatoid arthri-tis, diabetes and other chronic conditions.Patient advocates have complained thatprescriptions for these patients were virtu-

ally unaffordable in some plans offered onhealthcare.gov.

The AIDS Institute even filed a formalcomplaint with Health and Human Servicesofficials last summer about four plans inFlorida. Georgia plans to fil e a simil ar com-plaint, but the scope of the problem hasbeen difficult to gauge as many of the com-plaints have been anecdotal.

The researchers studied 48 plans in 12states using the federal marketplace:Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan,South Carolina, Utah, Illinois, New Jersey,Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia.

They found that one-quarter of the plansplaced all of the HIV drugs in to th e high est-cost category an d required consumers to payat least 30 percent of the drug costs insteadof a flat co-pay. Annual drug costs in theseplans were more than triple compared withother plans ($4,892 to $1,615), accordingto th e analysis. And 50 percent had to pay aseparate deductible for drugs, compared toonly 19 percent of consumers in otherplans.

Insurers have historically placed drugs incategories with higher co-pays to encour-age consumers to s elect generic or preferredbrand-name drugs. The problem is exacer-bated as more plans place all drugs, includ-ing generics, in the more expensive catego-ry.

Our findings suggest that many insurersmay be using benefit design to dissuadesicker people from choosing their plans,the study noted.

Study shows insurers

may be using drug coststo discourage patients

By Alan FramTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON In a rare show of bipar-tisanship over President Barack Obamashealth care law, a Senate committee voted

unanimously Wednesday to exclude veteransfrom the 50-worker threshold that triggersrequired coverage for employees under thatstatute.

The Senate Finance Committee vote was26-0, a departure from the usual party-linefights over Obamas sh owcase 2010 law.

Yet senators comments suggested thatparty-line battling over many aspects of thestat ute and other laws could erupt whenthe measure reaches the full Senate.Lawmakers described po tential amendmentsranging from restoring expired tax creditsto paying veterans a $10.10 hourly mini-mum wage to exempting additional workersfrom the 50-employee threshold.

We should consider other categories ofAmericans who also should be relieved ofthis job-killing provision, said Sen.

Patrick Toomey, R-Pa.

Despite repeated pledges by Republicansnow running Congress to repeal and replacethe h ealth care law, Democrats said th e com-mittees actions Wednesday were anacknowledgment that such efforts were

going nowhere. Obama has promised toveto any congressional effort to dismantlethe law.

Senators do not make changes to lawsthat are go ing away, said Sen. Ron Wyden,D-Ore.

Obamas law is gradually phasing in arequirement that companies with at least 50workers offer health coverage to theiremployees. The Senate bill would letemployers exclude from that count veteranswho receive health care from theDepartment of Veterans Affairs or the mi li-tary.

Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said the bill will help our nationsveterans find needed jobs and encouragesmall businesses to hire them.

Panel OKs bill easing employeehealth care count unanimously

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The Obama administration say they hope to have 9.1 million people enrolled in 2015 coverageunder the Affordable Care Act nationwide by the end of the year.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Sixteen million childrenwere on food stamps as of last y ear, t he high-est number since the nations economy tum-bled in 2008.

Numbers released by the Census BureauWednesday as part of its annual look at chil-dren and families sho w that one in five chil-dren were on foo d stamp assistance in 2 014.The survey was taken last spring.

The number of people receiving foodstamps now called the SupplementalNutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP spiked through the recession and has stayedat a higher level since. In the 2007 Censussurvey, 9 million children received SNAPassistance.

Participation and spending appear to begoing down, though. The CongressionalBudget Office said this week that the govern-ment spent $76 billion on SNAP last year,down 8 percent from the year before. Thatwas th e first time s pending went down s incethe beginning of the recession.

Around 46.5 mil lion people received foodstamps last year, according to the Agriculture

Department, which o versees t he aid, up fromaround 26 million in 2007. Participation isexpected to decrease over the next 10 years,though higher food costs could keep spend-ing up. Half of the children receiving foodstamps in t he Census survey 8 million were living only with their mothers. Around5 million children receiving food stampslived with married parents.

The spike in food stamp spending hascaught t he attention of Congress, and House

Republicans tried to cut the program byaround $4 billio n a year in 2013. In an even-tual compromise, Congress agreed to cuts o faround $800 million a year, policy that wassigned into law by President Barack Obamaearly last year as part of a larger farm bill.Since then, many states have found ways toget around the cuts.

The SNAP program will still be underscrutiny in the new Republican Congress.The new chairman of the House AgricultureCommittee, Texas Rep. Mike Conaway, andthe new chairman of the Senate AgricultureCommittee, Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, areboth expected to take a look at food stampspending in t he coming year.

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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on theNew York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEUnited States Steel Corp., up $2.31 to $23.58The steel company reported a drop in fourth-quarter profit and revenue,but the results beat Wall Street expectations.Freescale Semiconductor Ltd., up $4.81 to $31.16The computer chip maker reported better-than-expected fourth-quarterearnings results and gave a positive revenue outlook.Tupperware Brands Corp., up $6.93 to $66.67The direct seller of plastic storage containers reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit and revenue.Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., down $4.49 to $98.45Chinese regulators accused the e-commerce giant of permitting sales offake goods and hurting consumers.NasdaqApple Inc., up $6.17 to $115.31The technology company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarterprofit and revenue on record sales of its iPhones.Electronic Arts Inc., up $6.20 to $54.61The video game maker reported better-than-expected fiscal third-quarterprofit and revenue on mobile and sports titles.CommScope Holding Co., up $1.56 to $27.13The telecommunications equipment maker will buy the majority of TEConnectivitys network equipment business for about $3 billion.Gentex Corp., down $1.03 to $16.47The maker of automatic-dimming rearview mirrors reported worse-than-expected fourth-quarter profit and revenue results.

Big movers

By Alex VeigaTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Investors struggled to figure out abarrage of signals from the FederalReserve, oil markets and CorporateAmerica Wednesday, and stocks fell

sharply for second straight day.The Federal Reserve issued its first

policy statement of the year, makingclear that it would remain patient inraising interest rates from near zero,which was expected. But it alsostrengthened its assessment of theU.S. economy, not ing it is expandingat a solid pace and generating strong

job g rowth .Thats good news for Main Street

and Corporate America, but signalsthat the Fed is moving closer to rais-ing rates, even if its not contemplat-ing an imminent hike. When interestrates remain low they tend to makestocks more attractive by comparisonto bonds.

The market is, on one hand, happy

the Fed is saying things look solid,but it means at some po int we will getthat first rate hike, said QuincyKrosby, market strategist forPrudential Financial.

Investors were buffeted by othercross currents. Impressive earningsfrom Apple and Boeing madeinvestors o ptimisti c and lifted stocksearly. But when benchmark U.S. oil

later sank to its lowest level in nearlysix years, investors worried aboutworsening earnings prospects forenergy companies.

The Energy Department reportedthat U.S. oil inventories rose to theirhighest levels ever recorded. Those

high supplies drove crude prices tothe lowest level since March 2009.Benchmark U.S. crude fell $1.78 toclose at $44.45 a barrel in New York.As recently as June, it traded above$100.

Inflation h as stayed ultra-low partlybecause of th e plunge in energy pricesand a steadily rising dollar. The Fednoted it anticipates inflation willdecline further before starting to risegradually.

Prices for the benchmark 10-yearTreasury jumped after the Fed state-ment came out, kno cking th e yield to1.70 percent, the lowest level thisyear. It edged back up t o 1. 72 percentlate in day, compared with 1.82 per-cent lat e Tuesday. The yield on t he 30 -

year bond, meanwhile, touched arecord low of 2. 27 percent.

The Fed has a much more benefi-cial view on the drop in oil than thestock market does, said JohnCanally, chief economic strategist atLPL Financial.

All told, the Dow Jones industrialaverage dropped 195.84 points, or1.1 percent, to close at

17,191.37.The Standard & Poors500 index lost 27.39 points, or 1.4percent, to 2,002. 16.

The Nasdaq composite dropped43.50 points, or 0.9 percent, to4,637.99.

The market had been in a wait-and-

see mode in advance of the Fed state-ment, drifting between small gainsand losses for much of the day.Falling o il p rices dragged the energysector lower, while strong earningsfrom Apple help ed lift tech stocks.

The market initially perked up afterthe Fed issued its statement at 2 p.m.Eastern Time. But the gains wereshort-lived, and by late afternoonthree major indexes slumped, extend-ing t heir losses for th e year. The Dowin now 4.8 percent below its all-timehigh of 18,053.71 on Dec. 26. TheS&P 500 index is down 4.2 percentfrom its high of 2, 090.57 o n Dec. 29.

The 10 sectors in the index fellWednesday, with energy stocksfalling the most.

Among the biggest decliners wereseveral oil and gas exploration com-panies, as well as drilling servicesand equipment providers.

Nabors Industries lead declines. Itslid $1.39, or 11.7 percent, to$10.49. Denbury Resources lost 67cents, or 9.4 percent, to $6. 47. HessCorp. tumbled $5.59, or 7.8 percent,to $66.02.

Stocks fade late as oil dips

By Barbara Ortutay

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK For th e seventh quarterin a row Facebook beat profit and rev-enue forecasts, continuing to win moremobile advertising revenue as mostusers shift to using the site on smart-phones and other portable devices.

The worlds biggest online socialnetwork said Wednesday that advertis-ing revenue jumped 53 percent to$3.59 billion for the fourth quarter with mobile ad revenue representing69 percent of the total. That percent-age has grown steadily in each quarterof this year. Facebooks massive user

base also continued to climb. It had

1.39 billion monthly active users atthe end of the year, up 13 percent froma year earlier. Daily users totaled 890million, up 18 percent. Mobilemonthly active users jumped 26 per-cent to 1.19 billion.

The bigger Facebook gets, itcements its position as one of themost dominant players in digitalmedia, and it has the size and reach tochange the rules of digital advertisingand convince others to p lay by th em,says Debra Aho Williamson, an ana-lyst at research firm eMarketer.Facebook, which turns 11 years oldthis year, began offering mob ile ads in

2012, the year its stock began pub-

licly trading. More recently, Facebookexpanded into video ads, which arevery lucrative, and last year it re-launched Atlas, a to ol for marketers tobetter target people across devices,platforms and publishers and to meas-ure how well th e ads work.

The company is still a long wayfrom catching up to rival Google Inc.in the digital advertising market,though. In 2014, Facebook had a near-ly 8 percent share of the market com-pared with Googles 31 percent accord-ing to eMarketer. Thats an increasefor Facebook and a slight decrease forGoogle from 2013 .

Facebooks status update: Profitand revenue beat expectations

By Eileen SullivanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Sheriffs saidWednesday that Googl es pop ular Wazetraffic app is making it harder to nabspeeders, adding to earlier police com-plaints that a feature in the softwarethat lets drivers warn ot hers about near-by police activity is putting officerslives at risk.

The National Sheriffs Associationhad previously focused its campaignagainst Waze on po lice safety after thefatal shoo tings of two New York po liceofficers in December. It broadened itscampaign with a new statement criti-cizing Googl es so ftware as hamperingthe use of s peed traps. The trade associ-ation said radar guns and other speedenforcement techniques have reducedhighways deaths.

This app will hamper those activi-ties by locating law enforcement offi-cers and puts the public at risk, thegroup said.

In the Waze app, which op erates likea free GPS navigation tool, users cantag the locations o f parked poli ce vehi-cles, accidents, congestion, trafficcameras, potholes and more, so thatother drivers using Waze are warned asthey approach the same location.

Sheriffs expand concerns about Waze mobile traffic app

Tiger fight: China andAlibaba face off over fake goods

BEIJING Theres a tiger fight going on in China.Regulators on Wednesday issued a scathing report against

one of the countrys biggest stars, accusing e-commercegiant Alibaba of failing to do enough to prevent fake goodsfrom being sold on its websites. Uncowed, Alibaba fired backwith charges of bi as and misconduct by a named Chinese offi-cial. Such public defiance is almost unheard of in China.

Even more dubious is the timing of the sternly wordedreport. The State Administration of Industry and Commercewrote th e report in July after meeting with Alibaba manage-ment, but postp oned issuing i t to avoi d affecting th e compa-nys New York stock market listing. Alibaba disclosed theissue of counterfeit goods as a risk factor in its p rospectus but didnt reveal any inv estigation by regulators before rais-ing $2 5 billi on in i ts September IPO.

The controversy dragged Alibabas U.S. -traded shares downabout 4 percent to $9 8.45 on Wednesday. It also threatens tocause headaches for Yahoo Inc., which holds a 15 percentstake in the Chinese company.

Mobile provider TracFone to

pay $40M in federal settlementWASHINGTON The nations largest prepaid mobile

provider, TracFone Wireless, will pay $40 million to settlegovernment claims that it misled millions of smartphonecustomers with promises of unlimited data service.

The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday thatTracFones advertising promised unlimited data, but the com-pany then drastically slowed down consumers data speeds a practice known as thro ttl ing when they h ad used a certainamount of data within a 30-day period. In some cases, theFTC said, the company cut off customers data service whenthey ran over the limit.

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By Jimmy Golen

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON NFL veterans who startedplaying tackle football before the age of 12are more likely to have cognitive difficul-ties after their careers, according to a studypublished on Wednesday in the journalNeurology.

Researchers tested 42 former players ontheir short-term memory, mental flexibilityand problem solving and found those whopicked up the sport before they were 12years old functioned about 20 percent

worse. Both groups scored below averageon many of the tests, according to RobertStern of the Boston University School ofMedicine.

There is a known period of critical braindevelopment that occurs around puberty.

And if the brain i s in jured during t hat t ime,it may have both short-term and long-termconsequences, Stern told the AssociatedPress. This s tudy supports that idea that weneed to protect the brains of our childrenwhile theyre going through this dramatic

development period.

The release of th e study during Super Bowlweek was a reminder for fans especiallythose who are also parents that the sporthas bigger problems than deflated foot-balls.

For the study, NFL players were dividedinto two groups: those who played as youngchildren, and those who did not. Those inthe former group performed worse on thecognitive tests, such as being asked torecall words from a list they h ad learned 15

Greater head trauma for NFL players who started early

By Nathan MollatDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

There may be more important games onthe schedule for the Serra basketball team,but none are bigger than when St. Ignatiuscomes to San Mateo for the annual JungleGame.

The Jungle Game is a big thing, saidSerra coach Chuck Rapp. Its th e epicenterof the Serra community.

Its definitely a big game. Sixteen, 17-year-old kids jacked out of their minds.

Serra, however, turned the game into alaugher with a 26-9 second quarter as thePadres cruised to a 62-36 win Wednesday

night.Making the win even bigger was the fact

that the Padres victory, coupled with St.Francis loss to Mitt y, pulled Serra into a tiefor first place with the Lancers in the WestCatholi c Athletic League.

The win was also the 300th of Rapps 15-year career with the Padres.

He was in no mood to talk about that,however. He was more than willing , h owev-er, to talk about how his team dismantled aSt. Ignatius team that featured five players6-4 or taller, including 6-9 center ArashPoorsina, 6-8 forward Will Emery and 6-6forward Henry Little.

One of the big strengths of S.I. is theirsize, Rapp said.

Serra (6-1 WCAL, 14 -3 o verall), however,neutralized the Wildcats length by using

tenacious defense, not allowing easy entrypasses into the post and more often thannot, limiting S.I. (2-5, 8-9) to o ne and doneoffensively.

When the Wildcats could even get intotheir offense that is. Serras defense was sosuffocating, the Padres out-rebounded theWildcats 32-22 and held Poorsina, Emeryand Little to a combined 12 points. Serraalso managed to force the Wildcats into 14turnovers and came up with 11 st eals as S.I.managed to take only 36 field goalattempts.

How dominant was Serra defensively? ThePadres had nearly as many second-quarter

Serra king of Jungle

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Serras Trevor Brown, right, muscles his way up for two of his game-high 15 points as the Padresburied St. Ignatius 62-36 in the annual Jungle Game in San Mateo Wednesday night.

The search for a 49ers offensivecoordinator appears to be finally coming to an end. Albert Breen

of the NFL Network reports current quarter-backs coach Geep Chryst will be promotedto the lead offensive coach position.

If Chryst is the man, at least the searchwill be over, but it still goes to show that

CEO Jed York andgeneral manager TrentBaalke had absolutelyno plan in place whenthey decided they

were done with JimHarbaugh. The onlyplan they had was toget rid of Harbaugh.Everything after that beginning withthe comical headcoach search that

resulted in the promotion of defensive linecoach Jim Tomsula to the top has beendone on the fly.

How can the owner and GM of a NFL teamhave no clue on how to rebuild a coachingstaff when the writing was on the wall earlythat they were sick of Harbaughs act? Theyliterally had 10 months t o compile a list ofpotential coaches for all positions and yet here we are: a head coach that leftmany scratching their heads and the most

incomplete coaching staff in the game, atany level. Heck, there are high schoolsand, I bet, Pop Warner programs that havemoved faster than the 49ers have.

The 49ers brass conti nued to insist therewere quality coaches sti ll avail able. Couldhave fooled me. Steve Logan, who mostrecently coached the Tampa Bay runningbacks in 2011 and has since been a radiohost in North Carolina, is reported theteams new quarterbacks coach.

At least there would be some familiarity,as Logan served as Tomsulas OC when hewas head man with NFL Europes RheinFire.

See SERRA, Page 11

No plan was in

place for 49erscoaching hires

See LOUNGE, Page 12

By Rob MaaddiTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHOENIX Almost all football fansknow Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, RichardSherman, Marshawn Lynch and RobGronkowski.

The New England Patriots and SeattleSeahawks wouldnt be playing in the SuperBowl on Sunday if it werent for their super-stars. But both teams got here with lesser-known players coming up big at key times.

Jermaine Kearse caught a touchdown passin overtime in Seattles win over Green Bayin the NFC championship game. JulianEdelman threw a TD pass in New Englandsdivision -round win over Baltimore.

Theres Rob Ninkovich, Michael Bennettand several others. Often, surprise playersare the stars in t he Super Bowl.

Just look at last year when Seahawks li ne-backer Malcolm Smith was the unlikelyMVP in Seattles win over Denver. Smithreturned a Peyton Manning interception for

a touchdown and recovered a fumble in a 43-8 rout. Now the former seventh-round pickhardly plays on defense.

Thats the beauty of our team that any-body can have an MVP-type of day,Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin saidWednesday. Thats what makes us special. Iwouldnt be surprised if somebody nobodytalks about is MVP.

Brady, Wilson, Lynch, Gronkowski andLeGarrette Blount have th e five best odds ofwinning the MVP award. But Smith i s li sted

at 100:1 by Bovada.To get to this point and to win these

games, its not about anything more thanthat, Smith said. That is how we can besuccessful.

Ninkovich, one of New Englands toppass rushers, is also at 100:1 odds. He hadeight sacks in each of the past three seasonsand will be a key factor in trying to containWilson.

You cant run past hi m, Ninkov ich s aid.

Surprise players often star in Super Bowls

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There is a known period of critical brain development thatoccurs around puberty. And if the brain is injured during thattime, it may have both short-term and long-term consequences.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

W L Pct GBToronto 31 15 .674 Brooklyn 18 27 .400 12 1/2Boston 16 28 .364 14New York 9 37 .196 22Philadelphia 9 37 .196 22Southeast Division

Atlanta 38 8 .826 Washington 31 16 .660 7 1/2Miami 20 25 .444 17 1/2Charlotte 19 27 .413 19Orlando 15 33 .313 24

Central Division

Chicago 30 17 .638 Cleveland 27 20 .574 3Milwaukee 23 22 .511 6Detroit 17 30 .362 13Indiana 16 31 .340 14

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division

W L Pct GBMemphis 33 12 .733 Houston 32 14 .696 1 1/2San Antonio 30 17 .638 4Dallas 30 17 .638 4New Orleans 24 22 .522 9 1/2Northwest Division

Portland 32 14 .696 Oklahoma City 23 23 .500 9Denver 19 27 .413 13Utah 16 30 .348 16Minnesota 8 37 .178 23 1/2Pacific Division

Warriors 36 7 .837

L.A.Clippers 32 14 .696 5 1/2Phoenix 27 20 .574 11Sacramento 16 28 .364 20 1/2L.A.Lakers 12 34 .261 25 1/2

Wednesdays Games

Philadelphia 89,Detroit 69Cleveland 99,Portland 94

Toronto 119,Sacramento 102Denver 93,New Orleans 85Houston 99,Dallas 94Minnesota 110,Boston 98Atlanta 113,Brooklyn 102New York 100,Oklahoma City 92San Antonio 95,Charlotte 86L.A.Clippers 94,Utah 89Phoenix 106,Washington 98Thursdays Games

Milwaukee at Orlando,4 p.m.New York at Indiana,4 p.m.Denver at Memphis,5 p.m.Chicago at L.A.Lakers,7:30 p.m.Fridays Games

Minnesota at Philadelphia,4 p.m.Portland at Atlanta,4:30 p.m.Houston at Boston,4:30 p.m.

Toronto at Brooklyn,4:30 p.m.Sacramento at Cleveland,4:30 p.m.L.A.Clippers at New Orleans,5 p.m.Dallas at Miami,5 p.m.Golden State at Utah,6 p.m.

Chicago at Phoenix,7:30 p.m.

NBA GLANCE

THURSDAY

Girls soccer

Harker at Menlo School,2:45 p.m.; Oceana at Jef-ferson, Sequoia at Westmoor, Capuchino at Mills,Carlmont at Hillsdale,3 p.m.; Mercy-Burlingame atCrystal Springs, 3:30 p.m.; Sacred Heart Prep atWoodside Priory, 3:30 p.m.; Menlo-Atherton atBurlingame,Aragon at Woodside,San Mateo at HalfMoon Bay,South City at Terra Nova,4 p.m.

Wrestling

Half Moon Bay at Capuchino, Terra Nova at ElCamino,South City at Sequoia,Sacred Heart Cathe-dral at Serra,7 p.m.

At Menlo-Atherton

Aragon v.Oceana,Menlo-Atherton vs. Burlingame,Aragon vs.Burlingame,Hillsdale vs.Menlo-Ather-ton,5 p.m.

FRIDAY

Boys soccer

Sacred Heart Prep at Menlo School, 2:45 p.m.; SanMateo at Aragon, Hillsdale at Westmoor,Jeffersonat Capuchino, Burlingame at El Camino, 3 p.m.;Woodside Priory at Crystal Springs,3:30 p.m.;SouthCity at Sequoia,Carlmont at Menlo-Atherton,Wood-side at Half Moon Bay,Mills at Terra Nova, 4 p.m.

Girls basketball

Sequoia at Woodside,Hillsdale at Capuchino,SanMateo at Aragon, Mills at Burlingame, Oceana at

Terra Nova,Jefferson at El Camino,Half Moon Bayat South City,6:15 p.m.; Mitty at Notre Dame-Bel-mont,7:30 p.m.

Boys basketball

St.Francis at Serra,7:30 p.m.; Sequoia at Woodside,Hillsdale at Capuchino,San Mateo at Aragon,Millsat Burlingame, Menlo-Atherton at Carlmont,Oceana at Terra Nova, Jefferson at El Camino,HalfMoon Bay at South City,7:45 p.m.

Mens college basketball

Canada at Skyline,7 p.m.

Womens college bask etball

San Mateo at Skyline,5 p.m.

SATURDAY

Boys soccer

Valley Christian at Serra,11 a.m.

Girls soccer

Notre Dame-Belmont at Valley Christian,11 a.m.

MONDAY, FEB. 2

Boys soccer

Terra Nova at Capuchino,3 p.m.; Westmoor at Jef-

ferson,4 p.m.

WHATS ON TAPEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GADetroit 48 28 11 9 65 144 123

Tampa Bay 49 30 15 4 64 158 131Montreal 46 30 13 3 63 126 108Boston 48 25 16 7 57 126 121Florida 45 20 15 10 50 111 127

Toronto 49 22 23 4 48 143 152Ottawa 46 19 18 9 47 126 128Buffalo 48 14 31 3 31 90 171

Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAN.Y. Islanders 47 32 1 4 1 65 155 130Pittsburgh 48 27 13 8 62 143 124Washington 4 8 25 14 9 59 144 124N.Y. Rangers 45 27 14 4 58 135 110Philadelphia 49 20 2 2 7 47 134 149Columbus 46 21 22 3 45 117 145New Jersey 48 18 22 8 44 109 135Carolina 47 17 25 5 39 102 122

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GANashville 46 31 10 5 67 141 107St.Louis 46 29 13 4 62 148 111Chicago 48 30 16 2 62 151 112Winnipeg 49 26 15 8 60 138 122Colorado 49 20 18 11 51 128 141Dallas 47 21 19 7 49 146 154Minnesota 47 21 20 6 48 130 138

Paci c Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 48 32 10 6 70 143 124Sharks 48 25 17 6 56 131 132

Vancouver 46 26 17 3 55 124 118Calgary 48 26 19 3 55 140 126Los Angeles 48 21 1 5 12 54 133 129Arizona 47 16 25 6 38 108 160Edmonton 48 12 27 9 33 110 160

Wednesdays Games

New Jersey 2,Toronto 1,SOWashington 4, Pittsburgh 0Los Angeles 4,Chicago 3Thursdays Games

Boston at N.Y.Islanders,4 p.m.Montreal at N.Y.Rangers,4 p.m.Winnipeg at Philadelphia,4 p.m.Arizona at Toronto,4:30 p.m.Dallas at Ottawa,4:30 p.m.Detroit at Tampa Bay,4:30 p.m.Columbus at Florida,4:30 p.m.Nashville at St.Louis,5 p.m.Minnesota at Calgary,6 p.m.Buffalo at Edmonton,6:30 p.m.Anaheim at San Jose,7 p.m.Fridays Games

Pittsburgh at New Jersey,4 p.m.St.Louis at Carolina,4 p.m.Nashville at Colorado,6 p.m.Buffalo at Vancouver,7 p.m.

Chicago at Anaheim,7 p.m.

NHL GLANCE

field goals made (10) as S.I.attempted in the first and secondquarters combined (14).

We put a lot of defensive pres-sure on them. That was key, Rappsaid. A lot o f offense was createdfrom defensiv e pressure.

S.I. didnt crack the 10-pointmark until there was less than aminute to play in the first half.

Offensively, the Padres h ad 11 of15 players on the roster get in th escoring column, led by 6-4 forwardTrevor Browns game-high 15points. Brown also pulled downfive rebounds.

Frank Lemos added 11 in thewin, while J eremiah Testa chip pedin with eight.

Jake Killingsworth, who wassurprisingly held scoreless, ledthe Padres with nine rebounds.Jack Wilson, a 6-10 freshman for-ward, added five rebounds.

This i s one o f the deepest teamsIve had, Rapp said. The more

the merrier.With all the hype surrounding

the game, it was no surprise bothteams came out a little tight tostart the game. Brown scored thegames first points on a pair offield goals with 5:04 to play in theopening quarter and by the timethe first period ended, the Padresheld a pedestrian 8-3 lead.

In the second quarter, Serra putthe pedal to the metal and all but

ended the game as the Padres out-scored the Wildcats 26-9. TheWildcats managed to hit just twofield goals i n th e quarter. They h ada chance to stay in the game asthey attempted 15 free throws inthe first half, but managed to con-nect on just six of them.

Jimmy Wohrer got the Padresrollin g in the secon d quarter whenhe took a pass as he cut down thelane and converted a layup to put

Serra up 10-3. Lee Jones wentcoast-to-coast for another layup,then connected on a jump-stop

jumper t o put the Padres up 14-5 .Brown used a variety of moves onthe block t o score another layup toput Serra up 16-5 and the rout wason. Testa came up with a steal andlayup to put the Padres ahead 18-6,Lemos and Testa had back to backlayups to put Serra up 22-7 with3:01 to play in the first half.Marcus Alvarez and Lemos thenconnected from downtown with 3-pointers and Serra led 30-9 with1:22 to play in the half. Lemos hita pair of free throw and StephonNettles rounded out th e scoring forSerra in the second quarter as the

Padres led 34-12 at halftime.

St. Ignatius started hot in thethird quarter, with Justin Wongburying b ack to back 3-pointers tocut the Wildcats deficit to 36-18,but Serra respon ded with a 10 -0 runto take a 46-18 lead. The rest of thegame was essentially spent justrunning out the clock.

I thought we played well,Rapp said.

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our body. Its responsible for every aspectof thinking, feeling, moving, behaving;its respons ible for who we are, Stern said.So the question is: Do we want to exposeour children to anything that may have sig-nificant neg ative cons equences for how thatbrain is goi ng to work later in life?

The difficulty faced by the former players,who reported an average of nearly 40 0 con-cussions each during their lifetimes, is sep-

arate from th e problem of chron ic traumaticencephalopathy, which can only be diag-

nosed after death.Stern said the research does not lead to

any simple solutions.Among the limitations of the study,

which he conducted with researcher JulieStamm, were that it only looked at formerNFL players; the conclusions cannot begeneralized to a broader population. Youthsports also have many health benefits thatneed to be considered by policymakers,sports organizations and parents, Sternsaid.

It also looked back at people who playeda long time ago; conditions could have got-

ten better as concussion educationimproved or worse, because athletes are

getting bigger and faster. There is a needfor so many follow-up studies, Stern s aid.

The issue for me is one of science beingbalanced with logic, he said. It does notmake sense to me, as someone who studiesthe brain and as someon e who h as four kids,to foster repetitive hits to the kids brains ata young age. Does that really make logicalsense? Do we want t o do th at to our childrenat that age whose brains are rapidly devel-oping?

Stern, whose research into CTE hashelped lead to a greater understanding of thedangers of concussions, said he isnt ready

to write off the sport. Although he said hecan no longer watch youth football, he isstill a New England Patriots fan who isplanning to attend the Super Bowl onSunday.

Im not s ure how to deal with th is in con-gruity between what I kno w and what I li keto watch, he said. Im not s aying we needto get rid of football. For me to be going tothe Super Bowl this year, with the Patriotsplaying, Im giddy with excitement. Andthat, along with watching the game onSundays, makes for a huge amount of self-questioning.

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Bill Bicknell, the Philadelphia Eagles widereceiver coach, was also reportedly in themix for the OC spot.

But do any of these names really inspi reany kind of confidence?

Bay Area News Group reporter Cam Inmanquoted former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer assaying on 95.7 The Game radio station theother day that word around the league is thatseveral coaches were interested in being th e49ers OC. Dilfer said the chance to work withquarterback Coli n Kaepernick i s appealing tomany coaches. Kaepernick, despite strug-gling in 2014, still has tremendous upside.

Im not buying that. If it was true, why ismanagement down to options 12, 13 and 14?I believe many coaches are turned off by t heway Baalke and York ran Harbaugh out oftown for really no good reason. If the 49ersbrass was willing to jettison a coach whoperformed a miraculous turnaround and led theteam to three straight NFC title games and aSuper Bowl appearance, h ow will they b etreated? There is also th at litt le fact thatmany see Tomsula as nothi ng more than apuppet for the Baalke/York regime. Who intheir right mind would want to work in th atkind of environment?

With the talent on the roster, I still believethe 49ers have enough to compete for a play-off spot, in spite of the coaching staff. But asthat talent ages and begins moving on,coaching will become that much more impor-tant. The way things look right now, it

appears it could be a long time before SanFrancisco is again a Super Bowl contender.

***Obviously, as sports editor for the Daily

Journal, I am constantly asked at this time ofyear: who is going t o win the Super Bowl?(Wait. Can I write Super Bowl, or do I haveto refer to it as th e NFL championship g ameso as not to get in trouble with the NFL?)

My stock answer is, assuming the 49ersarent playing, I just hope its a competitivegame.

But if youre going to pi n me down, Idhave to say New England.

Truthfully, I really cant s tand either t eam.Usually, I root for whoever is playing NewEngland, but my contempt for Seattle ismuch greater.

I used to be a Seahawks fan. Most of therelatives on my mothers side live in the

Seattle area and of course they are all die-hardSeahawks fans. My cousin even has seasontickets, I believe. Heck, growing up, I had aSteve Largent jersey literally the only jer-sey from a professional sports team Ive everowned.

It was much easier to root for Seattle whenthe Seahawks p layed in t he AFC West. Butwhen they were moved into the NFC Westbefore the 2002 season the 49ers divi-sion I simply could not root for them anymore, even when th ey were the dregs of thedivision.

Now that they are on top of the heap, Idetest them even more.

Nathan Mollat can be reached by email:nathan@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: 344-5200, ext. 117. You can follow him on Twitter@CheckkThissOutt.

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Those are when the big plays happen.You have to be under control, but also not

just st and there and not do anyth ing t o affecthim in the pocket. So you just have to besmart.

Bennett has helped solidify Seattlesdefense since arriving from Tampa Bay

before the 2013 season. The defensive endgets overlooked on a unit known for theLegion of Boom secondary featuringSherman, Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor.

I dont really worry about the atmos-phere of the game, Bennett said. I thinkfor us we treat every game exactly the sameand weve been in every situation we couldpossibly be in.

Heres a list of some surprise stars frompast Super Bowls:

Dexter Jackson

Jackson had two interceptions to help theTampa Bay Buccaneers beat the OaklandRaiders 48-21 in the 2003 Super Bowl.Teammate Dwight Smith returned two picksfor touchdowns against Rich Gannon andOaklands top-ranked offense, but Jacksongot the MVP award. Jackson signed a $14million, five-year deal with Arizona in freeagency, but was released after one seasonand returned to the Buccaneers.

Larry BrownBrown became the first cornerback to win

Super Bowl MVP when his two intercep-tions helped the Dallas Cowboys beat thePittsburgh Steelers 27-17 in 1996. Brownleveraged that performance into a $12 mil-lion, five-year contract with the Raiders infree agency, but lasted only two seasons inOakland and started just on e game.

David TyreeTyree only had 54 career catches, but h ell

forever be remembered for the helmet grabthat helped the New York Giants beat the

Patriots 17-14 in the 2008 Super Bowl,snapping New Englands perfect season.Giants quarterback Eli Manning was theMVP of the game.

Timmy Smith

After running for only 126 yards as arookie in 1987, Smith set a Super Bowlrushing record with 204 yards and scoredtwo TDs to help the Washington Redskinsbeat Denver 42-10. Quarterback DougWilliams was the MVP of the game. Smith

played only two more seasons in the NFLand ran for another 476 yards total.

Rod Martin

Martin had more interceptions (three)against Ron Jaworski in Oaklands 27-10win over Philadelphia in the 1981 SuperBowl than he had in his first four seasons inthe NFL. Martin ev entually went to t wo ProBowls and was a productive p layer for eightmore seasons . Quarterback Jim Pl unkett wasMVP of the win over th e Eagles.

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NFLReal Madrids Ronaldo suspendedtwo games for kicking player

MADRID Cristiano Ronaldo has been sus-pended from Real Madrids next two matchesafter his violent outburst in last weekendsleague game that included kicking an opponent.

The federations disciplinary committee onWednesday banned Ronaldo from home gamesagainst Real Sociedad on Saturday and Sevilla

on Feb. 4.The two-game ban will mean Ronaldo willreturn for the derby at Atletico Madrid on Feb. 7 .

Ronaldo, who won his third Ballon dOraward earlier this month, earned a direct red cardfor kicking Cordoba defender Edimar late inSaturdays 2-1 win. He then swiped the face ofCordobas Jose Crespo.

After being booked by the referee, thePortugal forward stroll ed off the pi tch while ges-turing to the badge on his shirt for winning theClub World Cup in December.

He apologized later.

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Hezbollah millitantsfire missiles and killtwo Israeli soldiersBy Ariel Schalitand Zeina Karam

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SHEAR YASHUV, Israel TheLebanese militant Hezbollah groupfired a salvo of missiles at anIsraeli military conv oy in a disput-ed border area Wednesday, killingtwo soldiers and triggering deadlyclashes that marked the most seri-ous escalation since the sides2006 war.

The flare-up, which also left aU.N. peacekeeper dead, added to theregional chaos brought on byneighboring Syrias civil war.Hezbollah indicated the attack was

in retaliation for a deadly Israelistrike on its fighters inside Syriaearlier this month.

The violence sparked fears inboth countries of yet anoth er crip-pling war between the two foes.Israels Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu warned Israel would

respond forcefully, and the mili-tary fired artillery shell barragesthat struck border villages insouthern Lebanon. Hezbollahresponded with rocket fire onIsraeli military positions.

The Israeli military said fiveanti-tank missiles hit the soldiersas they were traveling near MountDov and Chebaa Farms, along adisputed tract of land where the bor-ders of Israel, Lebanon and Syriameet.

The soldiers were in two unar-mored white vehicles without mili-tary ins ignia when they were struckfrom a dist ance of about three miles(five kilometers) away, according

to Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israelimilitary spokesman.

Israeli media aired footage show-ing the charred, smoldering vehi-cles after the strike, which alsowounded seven Israeli soldiers.

At U.N. headquarters in NewYork, spokesman Stephane

Dujarric said the U.N. peacekeeper,a Spaniard, was killed in cross-fireafter rockets were fired at Israeli

positions and Israeli forcesresponded. He said the cause ofdeath was under investigation.

However, Spains ambassador tothe U.N. b lamed Israel for th e deathof the peacekeeper, identified as36-year-old Cpl. Francisco JavierSoria Toledo. It was because of

this escalation of violence, and itcame from the Israeli side,Spanish Ambassador Roman

Oyarzun Marchesi told reporters atU.N. headquarters.He did not elaborate. However,

Lebanese security officials said ear-lier that the peacekeeper was kil ledby Israeli shelling that struck neara U.N. base inside Lebanon. Theyspoke on condition of anonymity

in line with regulations.The Security Council, meeting in

an emergency sessi on, condemned

the peacekeepers death in thestrongest terms and offered itsdeepest sympathies. In a state-ment, Israels Foreign MinisterAvigdor Lieberman said that heconveyed Israels condolences forthe death in a conversation withhis Spanish counterpart.

REUTERS

Two Israeli soldiers and a Spanish peacekeeper were killed on Wednesday in an exchange of fire between Hezbol-lah and Israel that has raised the threat of a full-blown conflict between the militant Islamist group and Israel.

By Karin Lauband Mohammed DaraghmehTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AMMAN, Jordan Jordanoffered a precedent-setting pris-

oner swap to the Islamic Stategroup Wednesday in a desperateattempt to save a Jordanian airforce pilot the militants purport-edly th reatened to kill, along witha Japanese hostage.

Late Wednesday, the pilotsfather met with J ordans kin g whohe said assured him that every-thing will be fine.

King Abdullah II faces growingdomestic pressure to bring thepilot home. However, meetingthe Isl amic States demand for therelease of a would-be hotelbomber linked to al-Qaida wouldrun counter to t he kin gdoms hard-

line approach to th e extremists.Efforts to release the pilot, Lt.

Muath al-Kaseasbeh, andJapane