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GIANTS MAKE ATRADE FOR BYRD

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‘ULTRA’ A VIOLENTSTONER’S COMEDY

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By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Residents at a mobile home park inPacifica who were given notices to vacatecan stay put for now as ownership is set toalso offer them relocation assistance, CityManager Lorie Tinfow announced

Thursday.The relocation assistance includes phys-

ical relocation within the park for someand financial assistance and support serv-ices for others who decide to leave thepark, Tinfow wrote in a statement.

“We appreciate that the notices havebeen rescinded to relieve the pressure onthe tenants to move. In addition, we have

reviewed the relocation assistance andbelieve the package being offered isappropriate,” Tinfow wrote in the state-ment.

The notices to vacate were rescindedMonday, Aug. 17.

She negotiated with the attorney forPacific Skies Estates Carol McDermott to

reach the deal.“We will also be finalizing our rental

assistance program for residents in thenext couple of days and are hopeful withthe cooperation of residents that we canfind good housing accommodations forthe tenants who seek our assistance,”McDermott told the Daily JournalThursday.

Many of the tenants showed up to thePacifica City Council meeting Monday,Aug. 10, to share their stories.

At least 22 notices of termination weresent to residents of Pacific Skies Estates,on the coast in Pacifica, and were told tovacate by Oct. 1.

The owners are replacing older mobile

homes, 93, with newer pre-fabricatedhomes.

Some tenants fear though that the rentswill nearly double and that they will nolonger be able to afford to live at thePalmetto Avenue park.

Susan Burwell, 69, received her notice

City helps tenants stay putMobile home park residents to get relocation assistance

DAILY JOURNAL FILE PHOTO

Residents of Pacific Skies Estates mobile home park inPacifica will receive some relocation assistance fromownership after city officials negotiated with the park’sattorney. Pictured are Mike Doeltz, Lisa Sanchez, SusanBurwell, Barbara Garrett and Odile Renery.

New bill grants

students hopefor graduationLegislation aims to clear confusioncaused by exit exam uncertaintyBy Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The future is looking much brighter for local high schoolstudents whose path to higher education was previouslyblocked, under the advancement of legislation which aims tomake graduating a little less bumpy.

The state Assembly voted 69-1 in favor of Senate Bill 725on Thursday, which would exempt seniors in the class of 2015from the requirement to pass the California High School Exit

Exam.The bill, which will now work its way on to the Senate, aims

to remove a roadblock hindering roughly 40 students in theSan Mateo Union High School District whose scholastic

Redwood City Councilpicks new city manager

Post office considered for repairs

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT

The Redwood City Council will nameMelissa Stevenson Diaz as city manager atits Monday night meeting.

Diaz, the assistant city manager in

Mountain View, replaces the retired BobBell and will take over the city’s top lead-ership position from Aaron Aknin, who has

See PACIFIC, Page 31

See BILL, Page 23

Melissa DiazSee DIAZ, Page 31

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Rehabilitation work has been proposed for San Mateo’s downtown post office, a landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.

By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

A San Mateo landmark may get a makeover as the U.S. PostOffice is seeking to rehabilitate part of its downtown buildingripe with history dating back to the 1930s.

Known as the Saint Matthew’s Station, the post office locat-ed at 210 S. Ellsworth Ave. earned a spot on the NationalRegister of Historic Places in 1988 and could receive some

tender loving care in the coming months. Repairs to the his-toric doors, some of the nearly 37 windows garnishing thebuilding, the exterior stucco and dock canopy, as well as

Preserving San Mateo’s history

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Pair of centenarians to celebratetheir wedding anniversary

CATONSVILLE, Md. — Two cente-narians are celebrating their 75th weddinganniversary at a Maryland retirementcommunity.

Walter and Leslie Kimmel were mar-ried on Aug. 18, 1940. They are both 100years old.

They’ll celebrate their anniversaryTuesday afternoon at CharlestownRetirement Community in Catonsville,

Maryland, where they live.The Kimmels met at EmmanuelLutheran Church in Baltimore when theywere 22 years old. Leslie played the organand Walter sang in the choir.

Walter was a longtime employee of Baltimore Gas & Electric. Leslie workedas a secretary. They have two sons, fourgrandchildren and four great-grandchil-dren.

Kangaroo-type peton the loose in Arizona

TUCSON — Authorities say one ortwo wallaroos, a type of kangaroo, haveescaped from a north Tucson home.

Pima County Sheriff’s Departmentspokesman Tracy Suitt said a person

reported that at least one pet wallaroowent missing Monday afternoon.A video captured the kangaroo-type

animal hopping down a far north Tucsonstreet. Suitt said that a second animal mayalso have escaped.

He said it’s legal in Arizona for the ani-mals to be kept as pets and that they arenot considered aggressive.

The breakout mirrors one by two lla-mas who escaped from an assisted-livingfacility in the Phoenix area in February,causing a social media spectacle as livevideo footage showed the animals avert-ing authorities numerous times.

Sunken 1715 Spanish treasureship yields more gold coins

SEBASTIAN, Fla. — Diver William

Bartlett had just started exploring a 300-year-old shipwreck with a metal detectorlate last month in the waters off Florida’sAtlantic Coast when he found his firstSpanish gold coin. Then one coin becametwo and two became so many he had tostuff them into his diving glove.

When he resurfaced, “every fingertipwas stacked with gold coins, and weknew then we were into something superspecial,” the captain of his boat, JonahMartinez, said Thursday.

Over the next two days, Martinez,Bartlett and another treasure hunter, DanBeckingham, found 350 coins worth $4.5million, the most valuable find from the1715 shipwreck site in recent decades.

Eleven treasure-laden ships that made

up the 1715 Fleet were heading to Spainfrom Havana on July 31, 1715, when theyencountered a hurricane off Florida’s cen-tral coast. The winds and waves smashedthe ships onto reefs, claiming as many as1,000 lives in one of colonial Spain’s

biggest maritime disasters off Florida.Now it’s turning out to be a treasure

trove.In June, a family of treasurer hunters

found $1 million in gold coins in areasouth of the latest discovery.

The latest group of treasure hunters tofind millions of dollars in gold coins fromthe 1715 Fleet shipwrecks said theybelieve “magic” has played a role in thediscoveries this summer, coming on the300th anniversary of the sinking of Spanish colonial galleons.

“We all enjoy doing this and we allknow the odds when we’re out there arefinding nothing,” Martinez said. “To beable to go and do that, and then succeed insomething like that, is more than anytreasure.”

They expect more discoveries to come,with $400 million in coins still undiscov-ered in a coastal area stretching fromMelbourne to Fort Pierce, known asFlorida’s Treasure Coast.

“Five years ago, before I got into thisbusiness, I would have told you thatmagic is in fairy tales,” said BrentBrisben, whose salvage company, QueensJewels, owns rights to the 1715 Fleetshipwreck site.

“I truly now believe that there is anenergy that pervades these shipwrecks,

that I can’t quantify. I truly believe thatthese shipwrecks wanted their story tocontinue, that this magically happened onthis anniversary because this story stillneeds to be told and it’s currently unfold-ing.”

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This Day in History

Thought for the Day

1945

President Harry S. Truman ended theLend-Lease program that had shippedsome $50 billion in aid supplies to

America’s allies during World War II.

“I don’t measure America by itsachievement but by its potential.”

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Actor-directorMelvin VanPeebles is 83.

Actress HaydenPanettiere is 26.

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Artworks, sculptures and performers are seen at ‘Dismaland,’ a theme park-styled art installation by British artist Banksy, atWeston-Super-Mare in southwest England, Britain.

Friday: Cloudy in the morning thenbecoming partly cloudy. Patchy fog anddrizzle in the morning. Highs in the mid toupper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.Friday night: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fogand drizzle after midnight. Lows in theupper 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.Saturday: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog anddrizzle in the morning. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday night: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight.Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.Sunday: Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partlycloudy. Patchy fog. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.Sunday night through Thursday: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog.Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.

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In 1831, Nat Turner led a violent slave rebellion in Virginiaresulting in the deaths of at least 55 white people. (He was laterexecuted.)In 1858, the first of seven debates between Illinois senatorialcontenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place.In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was stolen from theLouvre Museum in Paris. (The painting was recovered twoyears later in Italy.)In 1940, exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died ina Mexican hospital from wounds inflicted by an assassin theday before.In 1944, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and Chinaopened talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that helpedpave the way for establishment of the United Nations. (Thetalks concluded on October 7.)In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive

order making Hawaii the 50th state.In 1963, martial law was declared in South Vietnam as policeand army troops began a violent crackdown on Buddhist anti-government protesters.In 1972, the Republican National Convention opened inMiami Beach.In 1983, Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr.,ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, was shot deadmoments after stepping off a plane at Manila InternationalAirport. The musical play “La Cage Aux Folles” opened onBroadway.In 1991, the hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S.Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led byRussian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.In 1993, in a serious setback for NASA, engineers lost contactwith the Mars Observer spacecraft as it was about to reach thered planet on a $980 million mission.

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FOSTER CITYBurglary. A car window was smashed and apurse was stolen on Beach Park Boulevardbefore 9:01 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7.Vandalism. A car’s tire was slashed on EastThird Avenue before 12:36 a.m. Friday, Aug.7.ID theft. An unauthorized line of credit wasopened using stolen information on BalboaLane before 3:36 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6.Accident. A traffic accident resulted ininjuries on East Hillsdale Boulevard before12:26 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6.Burglary.A 23-year-old San Jose woman wasarrested on suspicion of commercial burglaryon East Hillsdale Boulevard before 10:57p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4.Burglary. A vehicle’s window was smashedand a purse was stolen at Tarpon Street andBeach Park Boulevard before 12:06 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 4.

REDWOOD CITYAssault with a deadly weapon. The driver of a black Mustang hit someone in the face caus-ing them to bleed on Whipple Avenue before2:58 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8.Petty theft. Three men wearing black cloth-ing took items from a store on El Camino Realbefore 12:51 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8.Stolen vehicle. A gray 1989 Camry wasstolen on El Camino Real before 8:31 a.m.Saturday, Aug. 8.Vandalism. A rock was thrown into a houseon Maryland Street before 5:43 a.m. Saturday,Aug. 8.Petty theft. A man stole a pack of cigaretteson Broadway before 10:46 p.m. Friday, Aug.

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Nobody puts baby in a cornerA person outside a residence was heardyelling “I don’t like your baby” onLexington Avenue in Redwood Citybefore 6:14 a.m. Friday, Aug. 7.

By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The fate of San Mateo’s worker resourcecenter that provides a safe haven for daylaborers and potential employers will make itsway to the City Council after the CommunityRelations Commission opted to support thenonprofit-managed site despite concerns fromsome neighbors.

The commission gathered at a packed meet-ing Wednesday to discuss extending the city’slong-standing contract with Samaritan House,which provides services for workers in aneffort to deter people from soliciting for jobson the street.

Creating the center was originally promptedby neighborhood complaints over impactssuch as litter, public urination and safety haz-ards created by hundreds of day laborers gath-

ering near downtown.Instead, the city offered its site at the corner

of Fifth and Railroad avenues while partner-ing with the nonprofit to provide a place forworkers to connect with employers while pro-viding other services such as food, job train-ing and county-provided medical care.

“The model we use is used all acrossCalifornia and is considered successful whenyou have at least half the workers off thestreet,” said Samaritan House CEO BartCharlow. “These are people who are desper-ate, they’re poor and they’re working veryhard. And I tell you, no matter how hard theywork, their lives are very hard. And in anyway shape or form, closing the center willmake their lives harder.”

The commission voted 4-0 to recommendthe City Council approve a two-year operating

agreement with Samaritan House while con-sidering adding performance metrics to judgethe efficacy of the center.

Ultimately, the council will decide whetherto continue its contract while its site, pur-chased with redevelopment agency funds, islikely slated for redevelopment in the comingyears, according to staff.

“My main concern here is the fact thatalthough the population is trending down, myconcern is to close the center immediately, orin a short period, that population would stillbe going on the street,” said Commissioner

Randy Torrijos. “I agree we need to look for abetter option, but it seems to me that’s goingto happen regardless.”

A coalition of about 10 to 12 residents in theCentral neighborhood adamantly opposed thecity continuing to fund the center to the tuneof nearly $250,000 a year between operatingand police staffing costs, as attendance hasdeclined since it first opened in 2003.

“The Worker Resource Center is failing, itdoes not achieve its goals and is extraordinar-ily expensive,” said Todd Murtha, a 12-yearresident who represented the Central neigh-borhood coalition.

Murtha said the city’s data shows fewer

workers are using the center than ever beforeand officials should begin phasing its closurewhile allocating the money to other servicessuch as police. Acknowledging that having acenter may be the right thing to do, an inef-fective center isn’t worth the cost, Murthasaid.

“If this were a business, we’d say it’s adeath spiral,” Murtha said during aPowerPoint presentation he gave at the meet-ing. “In terms of government spending, theWorker Resource Center is really the classic$30,000 toilet.”

Yet other nearby residents recalled lifebefore the center, said helping people is aboutmore than dollars and cents, and noted it couldbe difficult to relocate as it was challenging tofind a suitable location in the first place.

“We worked really hard on finding the rightplace for the center and I was very happy thatmy city had a heart and cared about peoplethat are less fortunate,” said Clare Bouquet,who served on the committee that helpedorganize the center. “It would break my heartif the city pulled the rug out from underthem.”

Several residents, Samaritan House volun-teers and employees spoke favorably aboutthe center, while noting they need volunteersto help it reinstate its English language cours-es.

Carlos Chavez said he’s volunteered at and

brought donations to the Worker ResourceCenter. As an immigrant from El Salvador,Chavez said the day laborers and the workthat’s conducted at the center are vital compo-nents of what it means to be an American.

“I think life is not just about statistics andopinions, especially negative opinions. I thinkthis country is great because it’s a country of diversity and we all have a beginning,”Chavez said. “These are lives. … Day labor-ers are part of the community.”

Josh and Ianthina Hugg also recollectedwhat life was like before the center providedpeople with a place to seek work. The couplenoted how crowded the streets near theirhome and the entrance to downtown used tobe.

“Just coming in to downtown, any outsiderwould see that and be taken aback. I see theWorker Resource Center as being successfulin that it’s really created a win-win in so manyways. … It also provides a place where peoplecan come and grow beyond their current situ-ations,” Josh Hugg said, adding he hopes thecity will “continue to serve this vulnerablecommunity that lives within our community.They are part of our community. Particularlyin these hard times, it’d difficult to be poor inSan Mateo County. … Let us continue to be aray of hope for those people.”

Visit samaritanhousesanmateo.org for moreinformation about the Worker ResourceCenter or cityofsanmateo.org for more infor-mation about San Mateo’s operating agree-ment with Samaritan House.

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Community rallies behindWorker Resource CenterSan Mateo’s day labor site gets boost from commission, some raise concern

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California bill aims to warnconsumers about recording TVs

SACRAMENTO — Readers who scanned

the user manual for a new Samsung smart TVmay have been surprised to learn their house-hold conversations could be recorded withouttheir knowledge.

State Assemblyman Mike Gatto certainlywas.

“The passage was almost word-for-wordcomparable to a passage of the book ‘1984,”’Gatto, D-Glendale, said, referring to a line in theprivacy policy that said conversations, includ-ing personal or sensitive information, could becaptured and transmitted to a third party if usersturned on wireless voice recognition.

After taking a lashing in the media and online,the company changed its policy and the usermanuals in February. Samsung now says it willonly record voice commands if a user clicks anactivation button and talks into the remote or amicrophone.

Still, Orwellian anxieties have already takenhold, and Gatto’s Committee on Privacy andConsumer Protection is pushing a bill to rein inspying TVs before the problem becomes worse.

His AB1116 is the first legislation of its kindin the United States, according to the NationalConference of State Legislatures. After unani-mous passage in the Assembly, the bill nowgoes before the full Senate before theLegislature finishes on Sept. 11.

It would require that users be explicitlyinformed when their smart TVs are installedthat the devices could start collecting conversa-tions.

It also forbids TV manufacturers and relatedthird parties from using or selling stored con-

versations for advertising purposes, and wouldallow manufacturers to reject law enforcement

efforts to use the feature to monitor conversa-tions.

Samsung declined to answer questions fromThe Associated Press but said in a written state-ment that it supports Gatto’s legislation.

“Protecting our consumers’ privacy is one of our top priorities. Our TVs are designed withprivacy in mind,” the company said in a writtenstatement.

Community colleges couldrequire sexual assault disclosures

SACRAMENTO — The California Senatehas approved legislation requiring communitycollege applicants to disclose if they’ve beenpreviously expelled for sexual assault.

Transfer students would also need to share if they were expelled for rape or sexual battery at

other schools or are currently undergoing anexpulsion review.Local community college governing boards

would have hearings to decide whether to admitthose students.

The Senate approved AB969 by DemocraticAssemblyman Das Williams of CarpinteriaThursday on a 35-0 vote, sending it to the gov-ernor.

The bill was amended so it no longer requiresstudents to disclose if they were suspended forsexual assault at another school.

Democratic Senator Hannah Beth Jackson of Santa Barbara says it’s important that the billapplies to school disciplinary action and notcriminal action.

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Beverly BrackettBeverly Brackett, a longtime resident of

Casa de Redwood, died Aug. 8, one monthbefore her 94th birthday.

Born in Prosser,Washington, Beverlygraduated from OlympiaHigh School and attendedthe University of Washington. She movedwith her family toNorthern California in

1961 and spent themajority of her life in California.

An accomplished apartment manager untilage 75, she also enjoyed retail sales, grocerystore demonstration and entertaining chil-dren as a birthday clown. She was a DeltaDelta Delta sorority sister and a member of PEO.

A mother, grandmother, great-grandmoth-er and aunt, she loved visiting with theyounger members of her family.Predeceased by her husband Dick Brackett,her later years were spent in retirement com-munities in Belmont and Redwood City,where she enjoyed interacting with fellowresidents. Even after two falls requiring hipsurgery, she maintained an upbeat demeanorand displayed a passion and a zest for life.

She is survived by her son, Bob Brackett,and daughters, Barbara Burgelin and CherStrickland; eight grandchildren; nephewsJohn Price and Robert Westerfield; niecesPat Learman, Kathy MacMillan and BarbaraWesterfield; five great-grandchildren; andlongtime family friend Woody Elliott.

John CrookWilliam (Bill) Crook, SM Peninsula

native, died Aug. 12, 2015, at the age of 87years. Bill was raised in Burlingame and was

a Redwood City residentfor 55 years. Bill was theloving husband of Joan,who predeceased him,and companion to Patricia(Pat) Jennings for the last11 years. He is also sur-vived by his sons Johnand Bill Jr., and fourgrandchildren. Bill’s

family would also like to make mention of the care he received in his last weeks fromVirginia and her attentive staff atLaurelwood Residential Care in San Carlos.

A proud U.S. Marine, Bill was a veteran of the Korean War. He worked for BethlehemSteel in San Francisco for many years beforestarting his own home remodeling business.Bill was a devoted friend, father and grand-father who enjoyed family trips to LakeTahoe and the Russian River.

Friends and family are invited to a memo-rial and reception 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29,at the Poplar Creek Golf Course clubhouseat Coyote Point, 1700 Coyote Point Drive inSan Mateo. Memorial gifts can be made inBill’s name to the Alzheimer’s Associationor the Marine’s Memorial in San Francisco.

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ObituariesSen. Jerry Hill seeks to increasecap on school budget reserves

State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, intro-duced legislation Thursday to raise the cap on

school budget reserves,allowing districts greaterflexibility to make deci-sions for their students.

Senate Bill 799 wouldresolve a hastily approvedcap that was passed as partof last year’s budget pack-age. Hill seeks to increasethe ability for school dis-tricts to maintain ample

reserves by increasing the current cap from 6percent to 17 percent.

Before last year’s last minute budget pack-age addition, the average cap was 30 percent,according to Hill’s office.

“When the governor presented his budget inJanuary, he said that the school reserve capissue should be addressed,” Hill said in a pressrelease. “This bill represents the compromisewe could have achieved had there been anopportunity for negotiation last year when theschool reserve cap language appeared on atrailer bill.”

The new proposal received bipartisan sup-port with 16 legislators co-authoring the bill,according to Hill’s office.

Man pleads no contest toarson for fires set at SouthCity apartment building

A 19-year-old man found intoxicated andsleeping in a car parked at a South SanFrancisco apartment complex surrounded bysmall fires and vandalism pleaded no contest toarson Wednesday, prosecutors said.

Juan Jose Tapia-Garcia of South SanFrancisco entered the no contest plea to the

felony arson charge and acharge in a separate casefor selling prescriptionmedication, according tothe San Mateo CountyDistrict Attorney’s Office.

Tapia-Garcia was foundintoxicated and sleeping ina car parked in an apart-ment garage on Nov. 28.

Surrounding cars hadslashed tires and a newspa-per was burning on the garage floor, prosecu-tors said. Other cars had been damaged or bur-glarized.

At the nearby apartments, one doormat hadbeen burned and a chair on another front porchhad been burned, according to prosecutors.

Tapia-Garcia was carrying matches similar tothose left at one of the fire scenes and a witnessidentified him as a suspect, prosecutors said.

In exchange for his no contest plea, Tapia-Garcia will be sentenced to no more than a yearin jail when he returns to court on Oct. 28,prosecutors said. He remains free on $150,000bail.

Mountain lion sightingreported late Wednesday

A mountain lion sighting was reported inWoodside on Wednesday night, according toSan Mateo County sheriff’s officials.

The sighting was reported at about 10:30p.m. in the area of Kings Mountain andWoodside roads, according to the sheriff’soffice.

Anyone who sees a mountain lion is urgednot to approach it, especially if the animal isfeeding or with offspring. More informationabout mountain lions can be found atwww.keepmewild.org.

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rushed up a narrow, winding gravelroad with steep hills on either side.

It proved to be a deathtrap.Their vehicle crashed, and before

they could escape, flames rolled overthem, killing three firefighters insideand injuring four others nearby, onecritically, authorities said.

The tragedy Wednesday night casta pall in Washington state andbrought to 13 the number of fire-fighters killed across the West thisyear during one of the driest andmost explosive wildfire seasons onrecord.

The blazes have “burned a bighole in our state’s heart,” Gov. JayInslee lamented Thursday, describ-ing the outbreak as an “unprecedent-

ed cataclysm.”“These are three big heroes pro-tecting small towns,” the governorsaid, urging residents to “thank afirefighter.”

Fire officials with notebooks andcameras walked the hills and banksnear Woods Canyon Road outsideTwisp, investigating how the disasterhappened. Authorities gave few

details, shedding no light, for exam-ple, on the crash, other than to saythat it was not the accident itself thatkilled the victims, but the fire.

The deaths happened in the scenicMethow River valley about 115miles northeast of Seattle, where aseries of blazes covering close to 140square miles had merged. The flamesburned an undetermined number of

homes and triggered orders to about1,300 people in the outdoor-recre-ation communities of Twisp andWinthrop to evacuate.

“It was a nightmare,” OkanoganCounty Sheriff Frank Rogers said.“Everything was burning.” Headded, “We know it was a firestormin there.”

All the dead were U.S. Forest

Service firefighters. The agencyidentified them as Tom Zbyszewski,20; Andrew Zajac, 26; and RichardWheeler, 31. Their hometownsweren’t immediately released.

Zbyszewski was a junior atWhitman College in Walla Walla,majoring in physics and active in theschool’s theater department, the col-lege’s president said in a statement.

Wildfires wreak havoc in Washington

By Ellen Knickmeyer

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — The car-

casses of salmon, trout and morethan a dozen other newly extinctnative species lie in dry streambedsaround California.

Exhausted firefighters in theSierra Nevada battle some of thebiggest wildfires they’ve ever seen.And in Central Valley farm towns,more and more parents hear the

squeal of empty pipes when theyturn on water taps to cook dinner.

A new report by the Public PolicyInstitute of California nonprofitthink-tank paints that distressing

picture of California for the nexttwo years if the state’s driest fouryears on record stretches furtherinto the future.

Written by water and watershedexperts working at the policy center,at the University of California,Davis, and elsewhere, the reporturges California to do more now to

deal with what researchers projectto be the biggest drought crises of 2016 and 2017 — crashing wildlifepopulations, raging wildfires andmore and more poor rural commu-

nities running out of water entirely.A separate study published

Thursday in the journal of theAmerican Geophysical Unionwarns that climate change is makingdrought the new normal inCalifornia.

By the 2060s, climate modelsshow California in a condition of

semi-permanent drought, brokenonly by short, hard rains,researchers said.

Already, higher temperaturesfrom climate change have made the

current drought at least 15 percentworse, they said.

So far, of all the sectors dealingwith the current drought, Californiacities are doing relatively wellthanks to the lessons of pastdroughts, researchers said in theanalysis by the Public PolicyInstitute of California.

Study sees dying wildlife, bigger fires if drought lasts

Court rejects Oakland lawsuitover marijuana dispensary

SAN FRANCISCO — The federalgovernment’s decision to try to seizethe property of a large medical mari-

juana dispensary cannot be second-guessed by a court, a federal appealscourt ruled Thursday as it rejected alawsuit by a California city thatwants to keep the dispensary open.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said prosecutors have dis-cretion to bring the type of civil for-feiture action they are pursuingagainst Harborside Health Center inOakland, and a separate procedureexists to challenge those decisions.The court affirmed a lower court rul-ing dismissing the city’s lawsuitagainst the attorney general and U.S.attorney for Northern California.

A representative of the city attor-ney’s office did not immediatelycomment. Harborside bills itself asthe nation’s largest medical marijua-na dispensary.

U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag saidat the time she began the process toseize Harborside’s property in 2012

that Harborside violated federal lawby selling marijuana, even thoughmedical marijuana was legal inCalifornia.

Political watchdog boardapproves campaign fines

SACRAMENTO — California’spolitical watchdog agency approvedlarge fines Thursday against two statesenators and a campaign committeethat spent $3.3 million backing Gov.Jerry Brown in 2010.

The fines, agreed to by the candi-dates and campaigns and recom-mended by commission staff earlierthis month, also include $76,650 inpenalties against a donor accused of laundering political contributions toWendy Greuel, a failed candidate inthe 2013 Los Angeles mayoral race,the Fair Political PracticesCommission said.

An agreement calls for $22,500 of the fine against Moo Han Bae of Tarzana to go to the state and the restto go to the Los Angeles EthicsCommission.

Around the state

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Group says CoveredCalifornia slow to fixcustomer problemsBy Judy LinTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO — California’shealth insurance exchange is stillsluggish when it comes to resolvingcustomer service problems, leavingmany people unable to access healthcare or finalize their tax returns, aconsumer advocacy group saidThursday.

Covered California has been slowto fix enrollment mistakes enteredinto its computer system, accordingto the Health Consumer Alliance,which is made up of legal aidgroups throughout the state.

Exchange staff has a limited abil-

ity to update a state computer pro-gram for determining whether peo-ple are eligible to enroll in CoveredCalifornia or in Medi-Cal, thestate’s low-income health program,the group says.

Covered California’s executivedirector, Peter Lee, respondedThursday at the board meeting that“a very small percentage” of cus-tomers file appeals when they arerejected, and the exchange is com-mitted to resolving problems quick-ly. Since March, the agency says ithas added staff to try to resolve dis-putes informally without having togo through an administrative lawproceeding.

“We still have work to do,” Leesaid.

The agency will provide adetailed report on the number of appeals and their status at the nextboard meeting in October, he said.

The alliance also claims CoveredCalifornia has failed to correct taxsubsidy forms in a timely manner,preventing people from getting taxcredits or amending their taxes. Forexample, advocates said a woman

from the Inland Empire has notbeen able to correct her tax subsidyform since Jan. 28.

“We are concerned that publicsupport for the (Affordable CareAct) will erode as more and moreconsumers encounter these types of

tax problems and face exposure toIRS debts and penalties,” the groupwrote in a letter to exchange boardmembers this week.

Covered California said it is look-ing to troubleshoot information

technology problems so staff canmake changes directly rather thanhaving to file help desk tickets thatcan take weeks to resolve.Accenture won a $359 million con-tract in 2012 to build and maintainthe state’s online platform for health

insurance programs called theCalifornia Healthcare Eligibility,Enrollment, and Retention System,or CalHEERS.

“The challenges with big IT, itdoes not necessarily mean nimble

IT,” Lee said. “We’re working tospeed those up. But the issue of hav-ing effective and as prompt as pos-sible resolution to appeals is some-thing we take very seriously.”

Jen Flory of the Western Centeron Law and Poverty, a member of

the alliance, said she was pleased tohear the exchange set a goal of mid-September to resolve tax forms butworried two years remains too longfor some CalHEERS system fixes.

“We do want to work with staff to

Covered California has been slow to fix enrollment mistakes entered into its computer system, according to theHealth Consumer Alliance.

By Ricardo Alonso-ZaldivarTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Move over,“Obamacare.” A new poll findsAmericans worried about medica-tion costs and broadly supportinggovernment action to curb drugprescription prices.

Overall, 72 percent said the cost

of prescription medications isunreasonable, according toThursday’s poll from the nonparti-san Kaiser Family Foundation.

Regardless of party affiliation,large majorities support requiringpharmaceutical companies to dis-close how they set prices (86 per-cent); allowing Medicare to nego-

tiate drug prices on behalf of ben-

eficiaries (83 percent); limitingwhat drug companies can chargefor medications to treat serious ill-nesses (76 percent); and allowingconsumers to get prescriptionsfilled by pharmacies in Canada (72percent).

The 2016 presidential candidatescontinue to debate President

Barack Obama’s 5-year-old law

expanding coverage for the unin-sured, but the survey suggests thepublic has other priorities.

“The public is more focused onconsumer issues like the price of drugs and out-of-pocket costs thanthe continuing political battlesover the health care law,” saidDrew Altman, president of the

foundation, a clearinghouse for

information on the health care sys-tem.

The Pharmaceutical Researchand Manufacturers of Americaargues that government price con-trols would stifle an innovativeindustry that is delivering cures forlife-threatening illnesses andallowing many people with chronic

disease to lead productive lives.

Poll: Majority in U.S. wants gov’t to curb prescription costs

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By Seth BorensteinTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Earth just keepsgetting hotter. July was the planet’swarmest month on record, smashing oldmarks, U.S. weather officials said.

And it’s almost a dead certain lockthat this year will beat last year as thewarmest year on record, they said.

July’s average temperature was 61.86degrees Fahrenheit, beating the previousglobal mark set in 1998 and 2010 byabout one-seventh of a degree, accord-ing to figures released Thursday by theNational Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration.

That’s a large margin for weatherrecords, with previous monthly heatrecords broken by a 20th of a degree orless.

“It just reaffirms what we already

know: that the Earth is warming,” saidNOAA climate scientist Jake Crouch.“The warming is accelerating and we’rereally seeing it this year.”

NOAA records go back to 1880.Separate calculations by NASA and theJapanese weather agency also foundJuly 2015 to be a record.

The first seven months of 2015 werethe hottest January-to-July span onrecord, according to NOAA. The seven-month average temperature of 58.43degrees is 1.53 degrees warmer than the

20th-century average and a sixth of adegree warmer than the old record set in2010.

Given that the temperatures havealready been so high already — espe-cially the oceans, which are slow to cool— NOAA climate scientist JessicaBlunden said she is “99 percent certain”that 2015 will be the hottest on recordfor the globe. The oceans would have tocool dramatically to prevent it, and theyare trending warmer, not cooler, shesaid.

Crouch, Blunden and other scientistsoutside of the government said thesetemperatures are caused by a combina-tion of man-made climate change and astrong, near-record El Nino. An El Ninois a warming of the equatorial PacificOcean that alters weather worldwide forabout a year.

The oceans drove the globe to recordlevels. Not only were the world’s oceansthe warmest they’ve been in July, butthey were 1.35 degrees warmer than the20th-century average.

Feeling the heat: Earth in Julywas hottest month on record

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People crowd on a beach to escape the heat in Dalian, Liaoning province, China.

Cheating website subscribersincluded White House, Congress workers

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of U.S. government employ-ees — including some with sensitive jobs in the White House,Congress and law enforcement agencies — used Internet con-nections in their federal offices to access and pay membershipfees to the cheating website Ashley Madison, the AssociatedPress has learned.

The AP traced many of the accounts exposed by hackers

back to federal workers. They included at least two assistantU.S. attorneys; an information technology administrator in theExecutive Office of the President; a division chief, an investi-gator and a trial attorney in the Justice Department; a govern-ment hacker at the Homeland Security Department and anoth-er DHS employee who indicated he worked on a U.S. coun-terterrorism response team.

Few actually paid for their services with their governmentemail accounts. But AP traced their government Internet con-nections — logged by the website over five years — andreviewed their credit-card transactions to identify them. Theyincluded workers at more than two dozen Obama administra-tion agencies, including the departments of State, Defense,Justice, Energy, Treasury, Transportation and HomelandSecurity. Others came from House or Senate computer net-works.

The AP is not naming the government subscribers it foundbecause they are not elected officials or accused of a crime.

Hackers this week released detailed records on millions of

people registered with the website one month after the break-in at Ashley Madison’s parent company, Toronto-based AvidLife Media Inc. The website — whose slogan is, “Life is short.Have an affair” — is marketed to facilitate extramarital affairs.

Florida woman says shesecretly recorded Jared Fogle

INDIANAPOLIS — A Florida woman says former Subwaypitchman Jared Fogle told her years ago about his interest inhaving sex with minors and that she went to authorities whotold her to record the conversations.

Rochelle Herman-Walrond, a former journalist, told mediaoutlets she wore a wire to record conversations of Fogle, whoagreed Wednesday to plead guilty to allegations that he paidfor sex acts with girls as young as 16 and received childpornography produced by the former director of his charitablefoundation.

It is unclear how Herman-Walrond knew Fogle. TheAssociated Press could not reach her for comment. Authoritiesin Indiana who handled the investigation into Fogle would notconfirm whether she was involved in their case, but they havesaid their investigation began several months ago based on atip to Indiana State Police regarding Russell Taylor, the then-executive director of the Jared Foundation.

However, Fogle’s plea agreement does mention that wit-nesses in Florida, Georgia and Washington state providedrecordings and information it says show Fogle “repeatedly dis-cussed with them his interest in engaging in commercial sexacts with minors or stated that he has done so in the past.” Itsays the recordings “were produced beginning in or about2007 and continuing thereafter.”

The suburban Indianapolis man is expected to enter a formalplea at a later date to one count each of traveling to engage inillicit sexual conduct with a minor and distribution and receiptof child pornography.

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Ahint of wedding bells

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City Hall Wednesday

afternoon as a ceremony celebrat-

ing new staff hires kicked off with

an unexpected marriage proposal.

City Manager Larry

Patterson went off script to bring

his Office Assistant LisaDitlevson to the front atrium

under the guise of getting her last

name pronounced correctly.

Steve Camilleri, a sewer main-

tenance leadworker in the Public

Works Department, interrupted

stating his last name would be

easier to pronounce.

Pulling out an engagement ring,

Camilleri got down on one knee

and proposed to Ditlevson. Cheers

and applause erupted from the

crowd as Ditlevson, a 22-year city

employee, and Camilleri, a 29-

year city employee, became

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in shaping the future of their

hometown are encouraged to

apply to fill vacancies on the

city’s Beautification or Parks

and Recreation commissions.

There are four seats available on

the Beautification Commission

and two vacant seats on the Parks

and Recreation Commission.

Those interested in applying

should visit www.burlingame.org

for more information. The dead-

line to apply is Friday, Oct. 16.

***

Those who drive electric cars,

or appreciate sources of renew-

able energy, should attend the

unveiling of a new vehicle charg-

ing station in Millbrae.

The charging station, located in

the city public parking lot at

Hillcrest Boulevard and Magnolia

Avenue, is the second that the city

has opened in recent months.There is another public charging

station in the parking lot of the

Millbrae Library, 1 Library Ave.

Similar to the library location,

the new station will allow two

cars to be charged simultaneously.

Both locations are free, but two

hour parking limits are enforced.

***

The Bay Area Catholic school-

teachers’ union ratified a new

contract Wednesday with the

Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The contract extends to 2018

and covers 236 full-time teachers

at four Catholic high schools,

according to the archdiocese.The schools are Archbishop

Riordan High School and Sacred

Heart Cathedral Preparatory in

San Francisco, Marin Catholic

High School in Kentfield and

Junipero Serra high schools in

San Mateo.

Teachers and the archdiocese

disputed the contract and a teacher

handbook for a year because of

questions about the teachers’

rights under labor laws.

The vote was close as 90 teach-

ers voted yes and 80 voted no.

***

The Saris Regis Group of

Northern California has

received high compliments from

building officials for its environ-

mentally-friendly design of a San

Mateo apartment complex.

Completed in January 2014, the

158-unit luxury complex at 888 N.

San Mateo Drive was chosen by

the U.S. Green Building Councilto receive a Leadership in

Energy and Environmental

Design, or LEED, for Homes

Award.

Named the national winner of

the outstanding multifamily proj-

ect, developers of the LEED

Platinum certified complex

achieved a 28 percent over code

energy savings, according to a

building council press release.

Saris Regis achieved the signif-

icant savings by equipping every

unit with low-volume water fix-

tures, advanced filtration systems

as well as installed special attic

insulation and windows. The land-

scaping is also efficiently irrigat-

ed to reduce outdoor water use

and chemical-free, low emitting

materials were used throughout

the interior of the complex,

according to the release.

The LEED for Homes Awards

are given to developers and prop-

erty owners who are considered

trailblazers in the field of sustain-

able home building.

The Reporters’ Notebook is a weeklycollection of facts culled from thenotebooks of the Daily Journal staff.It appears in the Friday edition.

Reporters’ notebook

By Erica Werner


WASHINGTON — PresidentBarack Obama’s nuclear deal withIran is picking up crucial support

from swing-state Senate Democratsdespite Republican oppositionheightened by revelations of a secretside-agreement between Iran andthe U.N. agency that inspectsnuclear facilities.

On Thursday, Sen. ClaireMcCaskill, D-Mo., became the lat-est to declare her backing, saying ina statement: “This deal isn’t perfectand no one trusts Iran, but it hasbecome clear to me that the world isunited behind this agreement withthe exception of the government of Israel.”

McCaskil l ’sannouncementfollowed a simi-lar declaration aday earlier fromSen. JoeDonnelly, D-

Ind., who said:“I am willing togive this agree-ment the oppor-

tunity to succeed.”Their support brings to 26 the

number of Senate Democratswho’ve come out in favor of theagreement aimed at dismantlingIran’s nuclear program in exchangefor billions in sanctions relief.Supporters now include 10 of the 12members on the Democratic side of the Senate Armed ServicesCommittee.

Obama Iran deal gains Demsbacking heading toward vote

By Dan Perryand Josef Federman


JERUSALEM — At first glance,one might think Israelis are solidlybehind Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu’s all-out diplomatic waragainst the U.S.-led nuclear dealwith Iran. But look closer and deepfissures appear: There is angst overwhat some see as a reckless diplo-matic adventure that pits Israelagainst its indispensable backer.

Most Israelis seem to agree that abetter bargain could have been

squeezed out of the IslamicRepublic, theircountry’s topnemesis. Theydon’t like Iran’sability to delayinspections insome locations;the speed withwhich sanctionswill come off; or

the prospect that Iran will soon havetens of billions of dollars inunfrozen funds, greatly enhancingits ability to foment regional mis-chief and unrest.

Not all Israelis are with

Netanyahu on nuke deal

Barack Obama

BenjaminNetanyahu

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Israeli army: Four rockets from Syria hit IsraelBy Ian DeitchTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — Militants in Syria fired several rocketsinto northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, prompting Israeliretaliatory fire, the military said — the first time since the1973 Mideast war that rockets from Syrian territory haveslammed into Israel.

A total of four rockets exploded in an open field in northernGalilee, where sirens warned residents of the incoming pro-

jectiles. The rockets sparked small fires but caused no injuries.The Israeli military said it responded to the attack by target-

ing 14 Syrian military posts in the Golan Heights, the strategicplateau that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideastwar. Despite constant hostility between the two countries,Syria’s leaders have been careful to keep the border mostlyquiet since the 1973 war, though Syria’s conflict has renewedtensions in the Golan Heights.

Israel’s military said the rockets were fired by the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad group. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

Israel also said it holds the Syrian government responsiblefor attacks emanating from Syria. Sporadic mortar shells andgunfire have hit Israel on several occasions since the Syrianconflict broke out in 2011, but this was the first time rocketswere used.

In southern Syria, an opposition activist said Israeli tanks

fired at least four shells at Syrian army and pro-governmentpositions. The activist, who goes by the name of Abu Omar al-Golani, said the shells hit near the Syrian town of Baath andthe village of Khan Arnabeh.

Syria’s state run news agency SANA later said that an Israelihelicopter fired several missiles inside Syria, targeting thegovernorate building in Quneitra but that the strikes causedonly material damage.

Israel and Syria are bitter enemies, and Israel has avoidedtaking sides in the Syrian civil war, which pits PresidentBashar Assad’s government against an array of militants,including the brutal Islamic State group, which has imposed aviolent interpretation of Islamic law, or Shariah, on the parts of Syria and Iraq it now controls.

Still, Israel provides free medical treatment at Israeli hospi-tals for Syrians wounded in the fighting that reach its frontier.

Israel has responded occasionally to attacks from Syria. Itsays some of the attacks have been accidental spillover fromthe conflict next door while others have been intentionally

aimed at Israeli civilians and soldiers.Later Thursday, an Israeli military official speaking anony-mously in line with protocol said that an Iranian military com-mander “orchestrated the attack.”

“The attack was a clearly intentional one,” he said.“For us this is a clear act of aggression meant by the Iranians

to use the chaos in Syria to escalate tensions in the region,” hesaid.

Tensions rise in

Korea as shells

fired over DMZBy Eric TalmadgeTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PYONGYANG, North Korea — South Korea fired dozensof shells Thursday at rival North Korea after the North lobbedseveral rounds across the world’s most heavily armed borderand threatened to take further action unless Seoul ends itsloudspeaker broadcasts. The North denied it fired any shotsand warned of retaliation for what it called a serious provoca-tion.

Officials in Seoul said the North fired across theDemilitarized Zone to back up an earlier threat to attack SouthKorean border loudspeakers that, after a lull of 11 years, havestarted broadcasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda. But theSupreme Headquarters of the Korean People’s Army issued astatement later Thursday denying it had launched any shots atthe South.

“Using the pretext that our forces fired one shell to thesouth, which is not true, it made reckless moves by firing 36

shells at our military posts,” said the statement, published inKorean by the North’s state media. It said the shells landednear four military posts, but caused no injuries.

“This reckless shelling incident is a serious military provo-cation to our sacred territory and military posts which is intol-erable,” it said.

The broadcasts began after South Korea accused the Northof planting land mines that maimed two South Korean soldiersearlier this month.

North Korea first fired a single round believed to be from ananti- aircraft gun, which landed at a South Korean border townon Thursday afternoon. About 20 minutes later, several moreartillery shells fell on the southern side of the DemilitarizedZone dividing the two Koreas.

South Korea responded with dozens of 155-milimeterartillery rounds, according to South Korean defense officials.

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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the NewYork Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEValeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., down $15.85 to $229.06 The drug developer will pay about $1 billion to buy SproutPharmaceuticals, which makes the first women’s libido drug, Addyi.Stage Stores Inc., down $4.95 to $11.95 The department store operator reported weaker-than-expected second-quarter profit and revenue and will close 90 stores.Amira Nature Foods Ltd., down $1.81 to $2.84 The maker of packaged Indian specialty rice replaced auditor DeloitteHaskins & Sells with ASA & Associates LLP.Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc., down $1.06 to $6.56 The maker of cellulose products used in a wide range of consumer goodsis in a contract dispute with Eastman Chemical.Buckle Inc., down $1.07 to $41.82 The teen clothing retailer reported better-than-expected second-quarterprofit, though the market was disappointed by its sales.

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Big movers

By Ken SweetTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — The U.S. stock mar-ket endured its worst performance in 18months on Thursday, driven lower byanother slump in Chinese shares andheavy selling by technical traders.

The global rout started in China,where sharp declines in energy andproperty stocks pushed the ShanghaiComposite down more than 3 percent.That selling soon spread to Europeanand U.S. markets, where the Standard &Poor’s 500 index moved further below aclosely watched trading level.

Investors, facing screens full of red,retreated to their usual places of safety:bonds, gold and cash.

“The emerging markets really gotslammed overnight and that quicklyspread to the rest of the world,” said J.J.Kinahan, chief strategist at TDAmeritrade.

The Dow Jones industrial averageplunged 358.04 points, or 2.1 percent, to16,990.69. The S&P 500 dropped 43.88

points, or 2.1 percent, to 2,035.73 andthe Nasdaq composite lost 141.56points, or 2.8 percent, to 4,877.49.

It was the biggest percentage declinefor the Dow and S&P 500 sinceFebruary 2014. The blue chip index isnow at its lowest level since October2014.

Buyers of stocks were few and farbetween. Selling outweighed buying bya ratio of more than eight to one in heavytrading. Still, even with the sell-off, theS&P 500 was down just 4.5 percent fromits record close of 2,130.82 on May 21.

As the selling picked up Thursday,investors moved money to traditional

havens in times of uncertainty.Gold rose $25.30, or 2.2 percent, to

$1,153.20 an ounce, the metal’s best daysince April. Demand for ultra-safe U.S.government bonds rose, pulling downthe yield on the benchmark 10-yearTreasury note to 2.07 percent from 2.13late Wednesday. The 10-year’s yieldstood at 2.19 percent only two daysbefore, and its decline since then repre-sents a major decline.

Worries over China, the world’s sec-ond-largest economy, spurredThursday’s losses. The ShanghaiComposite Index dropped 3.4 percent.Chinese shares have had a wild ride thisweek and that has raised questions aboutBeijing’s ability to stabilize the marketand the devaluation of that nation’s cur-

rency.The move has caused other countriesto devalue their own currencies, notablyoil-rich Kazakhstan and the manufactur-ing hub of Vietnam.

Strategists and traders, noting the lackof major U.S. economic news onThursday, said the drop in stocks was

also likely tied to programmed selling,which came after the S&P 500 movedbelow one of its most closely watchedindicators, a 200-day moving average.

While many investors buy and sellstocks based on a company’s businessoutlook, there is a different class of trad-er who relies on such technical indica-

tors to make investment decisions.“I see this drop as likely because we

crossed the 200-day moving average,and that’s causing us to have further sell-ing,” said Scott Wren, chief global equi-ty strategist at the Wells FargoInvestment Institute.

Media stocks were hit particularlyhard. Walt Disney shares fell $6.43, or 6percent, to $100.02. Analysts are con-cerned that viewers are moving awayfrom cable, which could hurt lucrativeDisney properties such as ESPN.

Viacom, owner of CBS, fell 6 percentas well while Twenty-First Century Foxslipped 4 percent.

The year’s biggest winners also werehit hard, possibly a sign that investorsfeel the seven-year bull market for

stocks might be slowing down. Netflix,which is up about 130 percent sinceJanuary, fell 8 percent. Gilead Sciencesdipped 3 percent and Google declined 2percent.

The price of benchmark U.S. oil roseslightly but remains near its low point of March 2009.

Dow drops 358 points on China fears

By Brandon Bailey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard Co. reported sales and profit fellin the last quarter, and its stock slippedfurther in late trading Thursday after thegiant computer-maker issued a forecastfor the October quarter that was lowerthan Wall Street expected.

The results showed HP is still strug-gling with a host of challenges as it pre-pares to split into two companies later thisyear.

HP reported net income of $854 millionfor its fiscal third quarter, down 13 percentfrom a year earlier, as sales fell 8 percentto $25.35 billion. The company has seen

year-over-year revenue declines in all butone quarter for the last four years.

Earnings for the quarter, which endedJuly 31, were slightly better than WallStreet estimates. HP said its earningsamounted to 47 cents per diluted share, or88 cents per diluted share after adjustingfor one-time gains and costs. The averageestimate of 13 analysts surveyed by ZacksInvestment Research was for adjustedearnings of 85 cents per share.

Revenue fell short of analysts’ expecta-tions, however. Eleven analysts surveyedby Zacks expected $25.64 billion.

HP, based in Palo Alto is one of theworld’s leading sellers of personal com-puters, printers, commercial data centerhardware and tech services. But after sev-

eral years of weak performance, the com-pany is spending billions of dollars on

restructuring as it prepares to split intotwo separate corporations — one focusedon PCs and printers, and the other sellingcommercial tech products.

CEO Meg Whitman contends the splitwill leave each spinoff in better position tocompete in their respective markets.

HP has been shaken by several years of management turnover and major shifts inthe tech market. Consumers are buyingfewer PCs and printers, while businesscustomers are shifting to a “cloud com-puting” model that lowers the cost of soft-ware and reduces the need for massive, in-house computer centers to run their oper-ations.

HP revenue and profit slide,stock falls on weak forecast

By Michael LiedtkeTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix is get-ting jeered for excluding the employees inits DVD-by-mail service from a recentlyintroduced benefit that gives up to a yearof paid leave to most of its workers afterthe birth or adoption of a baby.

At least three online petitions posted byactivist groups are urging Netflix toextend the baby benefit beyond the rough-

ly 2,000 workers in the Internet videoservice that generates most of its revenue.

Netflix has about 450 temporary, part-and full-time employees in its steadilyshrinking but still profitable DVD divi-sion.

The protesting groups contend Netflixis unfairly favoring the mostly high-paidcomputer programmers and other technol-ogy specialists working in its Internetvideo service over the lower-paid employ-ees who sort through discs and stuff

envelopes in the distribution centers thatreceive and send DVDs.

Many of the DVD workers are paid bythe hour and make a fraction of the six-figure salaries doled out to many of theInternet video service employees. Netflixpay varies widely, ranging from $15 perhour for customer-service representativesto more than $200,000 annually for soft-ware engineers, according to informationshared by company workers on employerreview website Glassdoor.com.

Netflix facing protests over DVD-less baby benefit policy

Gap maintains forecast as 2Q profit fallsNEW YORK — Gap is keeping its fiscal-year profit forecast

unchanged after further struggles in the second quarter markedby weakness at its namesake and Banana Republic stores thatoffset rising sales at Old Navy.

The San Francisco company also said Thursday its plan toclose 175 Gap stores in North America, as well as some loca-tions in Europe, will cost a bit less than it expected.

During the quarter, the company said it would close someGap locations as it tries to strengthen the brand, with most of the closures coming by the end of January. It closed 26 of thosestores over the three months that ended on Aug. 1 and openedsix more. The company will also eliminate 250 positions at itsheadquarters. Gap now expects $130 million to $140 million incharges connected to those moves, down from an estimate of $140 million to $160 million.

Gap Inc. said it expects to earn between $2.75 and $2.80 pershare for the year. Analysts expect $2.74 per share on average,according to FactSet.

The stock slipped 3 cents to $33.63 in extended trading fol-lowing the release of the earnings report.

Twitter’s stock falls belowIPO price on user growth worries

NEW YORK — Twitter’s battered shares dipped below their

IPO price on Thursday as investors worry about the company’sability to grow its user base.Shares of the San Francisco-based short messaging service

fell 5.8 percent to close at $26, after trading as low as $25.92during the day amid a broader market decline.

Twitter went public in November 2013 at an initial publicoffering price of $26 per share.

The stock is down 29 percent since Twitter’s July 28 earningsreport, when it warned that boosting its user growth rate willtake a long time.

The challenge for Twitter is broadening the appeal of its serv-ice to the mass market amid fierce competition from Facebookas well as messaging apps like WhatsApp or Snapchat.

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By John PerrottoTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PITTSBURGH — Charlie Morton com-bined with two relievers on a six-hitter andNeil Walker hit a two-run home run to leadthe Pittsburgh Pirates over the San FranciscoGiants 4-0 on Thursday night.

Morton (8-4) scattered four hits over 6 2/3innings while striking out eight and walkingtwo. He was pulled in the seventh inningwith a four-run lead after the Giants loadedthe bases with two outs.

Jared Hughes, who got Gregor Blanco toline out to end the seventh-inning threat, andTony Watson completed the shutout.

Walker hit his 13thhome run in the sixthinning off Jake Peavy (3-6) to push the Pirates’lead to 4-0. They hadgone ahead 2-0 on RBIdoubles by AramisRamirez in the first andshortstop Jung Ho Kangin the third.

Walker, Kang andStarling Marte each had two hits.

The Pirates (72-45) moved a season-high25 games over .500 with their seventh win ineight games, pulling within 4 1/2 games of the idle St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCentral.

The Giants dropped 2 1/2 games behindthe Los Angeles Dodgers, who were off, inthe NL West.

Peavy allowed four runs and seven hits insix innings with five strikeouts and onewalk. He had won all three of his career

Pirates shut

down Giants

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With all three starting outfielders in various stages of injury, the San Francisco Giants picked up veteran outfielder Marlon Byrd from Cincinnati.Byrd is batting .237 with 19 home runs and 42 RBIs in 96 games with the Reds this season.

Byrd shores up outfieldBy John Perrotto


Pittsburgh — The San Francisco Giantsacquired outfielder Marlon Byrd and cashThursday from the Cincinnati Reds to boost

their injury-plagued outfield for the stretchrun.

A day after losing out on second basemanChase Utley, whom the Philadelphia Philliestraded to the NL West-leading Los Angeles

Dodgers, the defending World Series cham-pions made their own move to replenish anoutfield that has dealt with injuries to allthree starters.

San Francisco trailed the Dodgers by twogames at the start of the day.

Center fielder Angel Pagan is on the 15-day disabled list with an injured right knee.Left fielder Nori Aoki came off the seven-day concussion list Thursday ahead of theseries opener at Pittsburgh but right fielder

Hunter Pence went on the DL with a strainedleft oblique.

“I’m excited,” Giants manager BruceBochy said. “Marlon is a real pro whoknows how to play the game and, mostimportantly, gives us a much-needed bat.He’s going to be a good addition for us. Italked to him and he’s very excited to becoming here.”

The 37-year-old Byrd hit .237 with 19

See BYRD, Page 14

By Ben Brigandi


SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Allfour games at the Little League World Serieswere washed out Thursday, setting up adelayed start with all 16 teams in the tourna-ment playing on Friday.

Officials made the decision to call off the

opening schedule as storms rolled in shortly

after noon, with up to an inch of rain expect-ed. Opening ceremonies were canceled andwon’t be rescheduled.

Eight games are now set for Friday. LittleLeague officials believe that is the mostplayed in one day at the world series. Theseries used to be a single-elimination eventwith eight teams needing just eight gamestotal over a few days to declare a champion.

The tournament introduced pool play in

1992 and expanded to its current 16 teams in2001. Little League has used a modifieddouble-elimination format since 2010.

Williamsport’s National Weather Serviceforecast for Friday called for a slight chanceof showers before 2 p.m. EDT, then clouds,sun and high temperatures around 80degrees through the middle of next week.

The revised schedule for Friday is:

Uganda vs. Dominican Republic at 10 a.m.,

Pearland, Texas, vs. Portland, Oregon at 11a.m.; Venezuela, vs. Australia at 1 p.m.;Bowling Green, Kentucky vs. Bonita,California at 2 p.m.; Surrey, BritishColumbia vs. Mexicali, Mexico, 4 p.m.;Taylors, South Carolina vs. Cranston, RhodeIsland at 5 p.m.; Taiwan vs. Japan at 7 p.m.;and Lewisberry, Pennsylvania vs. WebbCity, Missouri at 8 p.m.

Rain washes out Day 1 of Little League World Series

See LLWS, Page 16

See GIANTS, Page 14

Charlie Morton

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Giants starter Jake Peavy worked six innings,giving up four runs on seven hits whilestriking out five in a 4-0 loss to Pittsburgh.

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SANTA CLARA — JarrydHayne certainly had no intentionof inducing a collective laughwhen it came to his thoughts on thefair catch in football.

“You stick your hand in the airand they can’t touch you,” he said,straight-faced.

The former Australian rugbyleague star is coolly making hisway through an impressive firsttraining camp with the SanFrancisco 49ers, showing that justmaybe he can prove everybodywrong and earn a spot on the 53-man roster.

With a little unintentional humormixed in to boot.

The 27-year-old rookie is sayingall the right things, too: He’s farfrom polished, is still learningevery day and wants to improveeach week. No bold predictions

about his standing, either.Hayne’s next chance in a gamesituation Sunday against the DallasCowboys will be another opportu-nity to build off quite a preseasondebut last weekend at Houston. Hehad a 53-yard run early in the sec-ond quarter of a 23-10 lossSaturday night to the Texans andfive carries for 63 yards in all. Inaddition, there was his 33-yardkickoff return and a pair of puntreturns totaling 24 yards.

“I felt comfortable out there, andI think it showed,” Hayne saidThursday. “I was always confi-

dent. For me, I didn’t need a playto have that confidence. It’s one of those things, with good or bad, Iknew that I always was going tohave to work on something.”

Hayne has never doubted hecould make the daunting switchfrom rugby to football, even giventhe increased contact involved fora man who just pulled pads on forthe first time earlier this month totake his first training camp hit.

While Hayne knows he mighthave to fair catch at some point, hetrusts his instincts and ability tocatch the ball and get away.

“I had opportunities to do it, butI backed my ability,” he said. “Ifelt comfortable being able tocatch the ball and get out of theway.”

49ers special teams coordinatorThomas McGaughey Jr. loves that“fearless” nature. He and coachJim Tomsula saw glimpses of thatin watching hours of rugby game

film to scout Hayne.“We’ve got to find out what wehave and if we take a knee we’llnever find out,” McGaughey saidof Hayne’s returns. “You obvious-ly want to make smart decisions,but Jarryd is fearless. That’s one of the characteristics that it takes tobe a great punt returner. It’s funwhen you see a guy that can makethat first guy miss and he’s notscared because he’s very, verycomfortable fielding the ball andwhen you have that fearlessness itdefinitely gives you an edge onyour opponent.”

Hayne spent the past nine years— from 2006-14 — with theParramatta Eels of the AustralianNational Rugby League before

deciding to make this move. He isa big deal back home, everyonehaving taken notice.

“There’s huge amounts of

excitement back in Australia,friends and family that have beenalong for the journey as well.They’re ecstatic not only to see meplay but I guess to see me dowell,” Hayne said. “It’s a hugething that I’ve done with takingthat chance, so they find a lot of

joy in it.”

Whether others will follow hispath, Hayne isn’t sure. Nor does hehave time at the moment to reflectmuch on his previous life.

“If they can play like Jarryd,”McGaughey said, “they mighthave a shot.”

Notes: On Wednesday, a punchwas thrown by 49ers wide receiverQuinton Patton during practiceafter he became tangled up withdefensive lineman Tank Carradinefollowing a running play in 11-on-11 drills. Offensive players alongthe sideline quickly broke up the

scuffle and Tomsula stopped prac-tice for a bit before both playersremained on the field. ... The 49erswill honor late Hall of Famebroadcaster Lon Simmons beforeSunday’s preseason game againstDallas, with his family membersscheduled to attend. Simmons diedin April at 91. “I felt thatCandlestick and I were soulmates,” Simmons said in 2013ahead of The Stick’s last season.“We were both big and ugly, wewere both windy, and they couldnever figure out how to get rid of either one of us.”

49ers’ Hayne continues to make NFL strides

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Running back Jarryd Hayne, who showed flashes of brilliance in his NFLdebut last week, continues to impress in 49ers training camp this season.

Ravens security directornot guilty in groping case

BALTIMORE — A jury onThursday found the director of securi-ty for the Baltimore Ravens not guiltyof charges that he groped a stadiumworker after a game.

Darren Sanders was acquitted of second-degree assault and a fourth-

degree sex offense stemming fromaccusations that he inappropriatelytouched a woman who works for acleaning crew contracted with M&TBank Stadium after a game inDecember.

The woman told jurors that Sandersappeared drunk and touched her but-tocks multiple times despite her repeat-

ed requests that he stop. TheAssociated Press generally doesn’t

identify alleged victims of sexualassault.

Sanders denied the allegations andtold jurors the worker approached himand asked for his phone number, but herebuffed her advances. Sanders said henever touched the woman.

“It’s a shame Mr. Sanders had to gothrough all this,” said Andy Alperstein,

Sanders’ attorney. “It was a very diffi-cult time for him and his family, and

we’re very pleased the right thing hap-pened.”

During closing arguments Thursday,prosecutor Gavin Patashnick told

jurors that the trial revolved primarilyaround power, and that Sanders, a manin an important position for a high-pro-file corporation, leveraged his influ-ence to exploit a hard-working woman

who was vulnerable.

But Alperstein told jurors that

Sanders “didn’t do a darn thing” and“has nothing to hide.”

“When people make things up, theymake it up for a reason,” Alpersteinsaid. “This woman thinks she’s foundher lottery ticket.”

The trial lasted three days, with thefourth day dedicated to closing argu-ments and jury deliberation.

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By Josh Dubow


NAPA — Christian Ponder is under no illu-sions about what kind of reaction he’ll getwhen he returns to Minnesota.

“I would expect some boos probably,”Ponder said.

Ponder even joked that he might evenrespond to the expected harsh treatment witha bow when he takes on the Vikings in anexhibition game for the Oakland Raiders onFriday night.

The game comes just over four years afterthe Vikings selected Ponder 12th overall,three years after he helped take Minnesota tothe playoffs and two years after he lost hisstarting job.

It’s been a rapid fall for Ponder from poten-tial quarterback of the future in Minnesota tolikely clipboard holder in Oakland as thebackup to Derek Carr. Ponder accepts theblame for his struggles.

“I just didn’t p

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