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<br />NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS
<br />CITY OF REDWOOD CITY
<br />REDWOOD CITY,CALIFORNIA
<br />Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the Cit y of
<br />Redwood City at Cit y Hall by the City Clerk’s Office,1017 Middlefield Road,
<br />Redwood Cit y,Califor nia up to 3:30 PM PST,Wednesday,December 2,2015,
<br />for the following bid.
<br />“VHF PORTABLE RADIOS FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT”
<br />The Notice Inviting Bid packets may be obtained from the Redwood
<br />Cit y Fire Depar tment,755 Marshall Street,Redwood City,CA 94063,
<br />online at http://www.redwoodcity.org/business/bids-proposals,or by calling
<br />(650)780-7400.All proposals must be submitted by the specified time
<br />and place and plainly marked on the envelope:“SEALED BID FOR
<br />VHF PORTABLE RADIOS FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO BE
<br />OPENED AFTER 3:30 PM PST ON WEDNESDAY,DECEMBER 2,2015”.
<br />The Council of the City of Redwood City reser ves the right to reject or
<br />accept any proposal or bid or any par t or por tion thereof or any combination
<br />of bid items or bids,and fur ther reserves the right to waive any informality
<br />or honest clerical error in any bid.
<br />SILVIA VONDERLINDEN
<br />CITY CLERK
<br />Date:November 4,2015
<br />Published in the Daily News on November 13,2015.
<br />30 FRIDAY,NOV.13,2015 THE DAILY NEWS PALOALTODAILYNEWS.COM 150H
<br />moto, a partner at WiL and
<br />a former vice president of
<br />Yahoo! Japan.
<br />Japan risks losing ground
<br />on innovative growth as
<br />more young entrepreneurs
<br />there strive to work in cor-
<br />porations, where creativity
<br />sometimes suffers, Oku-
<br />moto said.
<br />In recent decades, Japan
<br />has focused on creating in-
<br />novative products for its own
<br />citizens, but the prime minis-
<br />ter’s goals mark a renewed
<br />effort for Japan to think glob-
<br />ally, Okumoto said.
<br />The “Abenomics” of Ja-
<br />pan’s top leader is based on
<br />a three-pronged strategy of
<br />fi n ancial stimulus, economic
<br />reform and more govern-
<br />ment spending. The goal is
<br />to grow the gross domestic
<br />product by 20 percent, up to
<br />600 trillion yen, by 2020.
<br />Yasuko Chigira,who
<br />works in Toshiba’s research
<br />and development division,
<br />sees common ground in the
<br />strong performing nail care
<br />industry in Japan, the U.S.
<br />and other markets.
<br />Chigira wants to embed
<br />secure silicon chips in arti-
<br />fi c ial nails that are dispos-
<br />able after a few weeks, like
<br />contact lenses. The nail can
<br />be painted over with polish
<br />or other nail art.
<br />The chip technology in
<br />the nail would sync with the
<br />wearer’s phone and elimi-
<br />nate the need to carry ac-
<br />cess cards for the subway
<br />or vending machines popu-
<br />lar in Japan, Chigira said.
<br />Other Shido entrepre-
<br />neurs had project ideas in
<br />mind for faraway places,
<br />from California to Africa.
<br />One participant is re-
<br />searching a substance that
<br />would help soil retain water
<br />and another is working to
<br />improve the preservation of
<br />donor organs during trans-
<br />portation.
<br />Shido participants are
<br />picked from a group of
<br />about 120 businessmen and
<br />women who took part in a
<br />three-month program in
<br />Tokyo.
<br />The finalists represent
<br />a variety of companies like
<br />Toyota and Daiwa Securi-
<br />ties Group, and the group
<br />had access to about 50 men-
<br />tors from World Innovation
<br />Lab and Silicon Valley com-
<br />panies.
<br />Program organizers
<br />intended to choose partici-
<br />pants who had company re-
<br />sources to make ideas ma-
<br />terialize.
<br />The Shido group also
<br />participated in “Moment
<br />2015,” the first ever U.S.-
<br />Japan Venture Capital Con-
<br />ference, at the end of Octo-
<br />ber at Stanford University.
<br />The event drew about
<br />400 participants, with more
<br />than half coming from Ja-
<br />pan.
<br />The boot camp culmi-
<br />nated Nov. 6 in Palo Alto
<br />with each of the entre-
<br />preneurs participating in
<br />three-minute presentations
<br />and peer reviews.
<br />Email Jacqueline Lee at
<br />jlee1@dailynewsgroup.com
<br />or call her at 650-391-1334;
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<br />such as a small plain post
<br />marking where his first
<br />house was built in 1846 in
<br />the Jasper Ridge Biological
<br />Preserve that is not part
<br />of any tour, and a sign in
<br />Woodside along Old La
<br />Honda Road that reads
<br />“Dennis Martin Creek.”
<br />That sign graces the cover
<br />of Crane’s book and is what
<br />sparked the idea for the
<br />book, when he ran across
<br />the sign while biking. Once
<br />he began researching Mar-
<br />tin, he became hooked.
<br />“It’s like a Greek trag-
<br />edy of somebody who tried
<br />to make it,” he said, add-
<br />ing that Martin eventually
<br />became alienated from the
<br />rest of his family, includ-
<br />ing his four daughters, who
<br />didn’t attend his funeral
<br />when he died in 1890. “He
<br />loses everything, he goes to
<br />work in 1882 as a common
<br />laborer and moves around
<br />from boarding house to
<br />boarding house, from job to
<br />job until he dies of the flu.”
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