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Foster City officials said they need moretime before outlining a plan on how toaddress the lack of affordable housing andrelated impacts as they consider new poli-cies requiring developers to contribute.

The City Council met Monday to discussthe results of its portion of a countywide

nexus study looking at how residential,commercial and office space developers canhelp offset their impacts by either payingfees or building affordable housing units.The city is the first among the San MateoCounty participants of the “21 ElementNexus Study” to consider implementingnew policies suggested by consultants.

Although city staff and consultants had arange of recommendation s regarding impact

fees, inclusionary zoning requiring units tobe built on site at new residential develop-ments and different spending programs; thecouncil needed more time to consider itsoptions.

Witho ut a firm plan as to h ow to spend themoney collected from impact fees, coun-cilmembers opted to send their individualcomments to staff before reconsidering theissue at a later date.

The loss of redevelopment agencies in2012 has left many cities scrambling forsolutions to the region’s growing jobs-housing imbalance that contributes to traf-fic congestion and environmental impacts.Councilman Charlie Bronitsky said he’sconcerned the city is putting the cart beforethe horse by n ot identifying how the money

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 The San Mateo County Law Library in Redwood City is open to the public but a drop in funding jeopardizes its fate.

Foster City tries to tackle affordable housingCouncil needs more time to consider options for developer impact fees, spending

By Bill Silverfarb

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The San Mateo County Law Libraryneeds immediate support to continueand maintain it s resources and servicesto local attorneys and the general pub-lic as it s revenue from court filings hasdropped dramatically since 2011,Director Andrew Gurthet said.

Per state law, California County LawLibraries are funded by a portion of alitigant’s fee on their first filing incourt, whether a complaint or answer,which amounts to $38.50 per filing. ASmall Claims Court filing, however,only generates $3 for the libraries.

The law library’s income in 2010 -11was $841,000 but dropped to$549, 544 for the 20 14-15 fiscal year.It is expected to be $480,000 for2015-16, a 43 percent drop since2010-11.

Gurthet has been forced to suspendupdating the library’s book collec-tion, lay off four part-time employees,cut evening and weekend hours andsuspend some of its electroni c databas-es to reduce the budget.

“Without this service, many will

have no access to justice,” Gurthetsaid.

Expenses for 2015-16 are expectedto be $5 96,20 0, a 3 3 percent reduction

over its high of $881,296 in fiscalyear 2013-14.

For now, the library is surviving off its reserves but that is not sustainablefor too many more years, Gurthet said.

“Book sales and fundraisers aren’tenough to make up the difference.We’ve been living off reserves whichis fast coming to an end,” he said.

In the meantime, the CaliforniaCouncil of County Law Libraries h avehired a lobbyist to find ways to g et thestate Legislature to increase funding

for the lib raries, most of which are suf-fering, Gurthet s aid.It is unlikely, however, that the state

Law library’s fate in doubtDrop in funding limits services to local attorneys, the general public

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an evil act’Suspect allegedly sexually assaulted17-month-old girl before beating herto death, could be death penalty caseSTAFF AND WIRE REPORT

The man accused of murdering andmolesting his girlfriend’s 17-month-olddaughter could be sentenced to death if convicted, according to the San MateoCounty Dist rict Attorney’s Office.

Daniel Contreras, 27, is being chargedwith murder, felony child abuse resultingin the death of a child and multiplecounts of performing lewd acts on achild, San Mateo County DistrictAttorney Steve Wagstaffe said Tuesday.

Contreras allegedly sexually assaulted the toddler whothen would not st op cryin g so he beat her to death Thursday,

Wagst affe said.The victim had multiple h ead injuries, he said.

Cash-strapped school districtfinds transportation savingsSan Bruno recommends district run its own ride systemBy Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

In an ongo ing search for chances to trim from a traditio n-ally sli m budget, San Bruno schoo l officials are look ing forsavings by overhauling th e transportation system for stu-dents in the special education program.

The San Bruno Park Elementary Schoo l District Board of 

Trustees i s s lated to discuss Wednesday, Aug. 12, a propo s-al to reduce outsourcing special education transportation

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In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move toimpeach him as h e defied Congress by suspending Secretaryof War Edwin M. Stanton.In 1898 , fighti ng i n th e Spanish-American War came to anend.In 1902,   International Harvester Co. was formed by amerger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., DeeringHarvester Co. and several o ther manufacturers.In 1915,   the novel “Of Human Bondage,” by WilliamSomerset Maugham, was first published in the UnitedStates, a day before it was released in Engl and.In 1939, the MGM movie musical “The Wizard of Oz,”starring Judy Garland, had its world premiere at the StrandTheater in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, three days beforeopening in Hollywood.In 1944,  during World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eld-

est son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killedwith his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy planeblew up over England.In 1953,   the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of itsfirst hydrogen bomb.In 1960 ,  the first balloon communications satellite — theEcho 1 — was launched by the United States from CapeCanaveral.In 1962, one day after launching Andrian Nikolayev intoorbit, the Soviet Union also sent up cosmonaut PavelPopov ich; b oth men landed safely August 15.In 1978 , Pope Paul VI, who had died August 6 at age 80,was buried in St. Peter’s Basil ica.In 1981,   IBM introduced its first personal computer, themodel 51 50, at a press conference in New York.In 1994, Woodstock ’94 opened in Saugerties, New York. A

n adult human brain is about 2percent of total body weight.The brain of a goldfish makes

up 0.3 percent of its total body

weight. ***Corn was domesticated about 10,000years ago in the highlands of centralMexico. Corn, also known as maize,has been found at archeological sitesin Mexico.

***Castroville is k nown as the ArtichokeCapital of the World. In 1947 , a youngwoman named Norma Jean wascrowned Castroville’s first ArtichokeQueen. She went o n to become actressMarilyn Monroe (1926-1962).

***The footprints left by astronauts onthe moon will last about 10 millionyears.

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Dream analysts say th at a dream with adoctor in it represents an improve-ment in all departments of your life.

***The most recognized smell in the

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***An average yawn lasts about 6 sec-onds.

***Without looking, can you name thefamous faces on the U.S. penny, nick-el, dime, quarter, half-dollar, silverdollar and $1 g old coin? See answer atend.

***The minimum wage in the UnitedStates in 1949 was 40 cents per hour.

***“The Hank McCune Show” debuted onNBC in 1950 and ran for three years. Itwas the first television show to use alaugh track.

***Power steering in cars became com-mercially available in 1951. FrancisDavis of Massachusetts inventedpower steering after working for thetruck division of the Pierce ArrowMotor Car Company.

***On Oct. 15, 1952, General Electriccelebrated its 75th anniversary bygiving five shares of stock to anyemployee who had a baby on that day.The company guessed there would be13 births out of the 226,000 employ-ees. However, none of the women onstaff were under age 17 or ov er age 65,

and it was the Baby Boom era. Therewere 189 G.E. babies born that day***

Meringue is egg whites and sugarwhipped together until the mixturegets stiff.

***In 1954, Swanson & Sons sold 10 mil-lion TV dinners. After Thanksgiving1953, Swanson had 270 tons of unsold turkey and needed to do some-thing with it . Thus, TV dinners wereinvented. The 98-cent meals hadturkey, corn bread dressing, butteredpeas and sweet potatoes in aluminumtrays.

***“Virginia is for Lovers” has been theslogan for Virginia tourism since1969. The slogan debuted in an ad in“Modern Bride” magazine.***Perennially young Dick Clark (1929-2012) wrote three books on th e histo-ry of “American Bandstand,” one boo kwith grooming tips for teens (“DickClark’s Easygoing Guide to GoodGrooming” 1986), and a book of hismemoirs entitled “Rock, Roll &Remember!” (1976).

*** An swe r : The faces on U.S. coi ns are: pen ny -Ab raham Lin col n (18 09 -1865), nickel-Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826), dime-Franklin D. Ro os ev elt (18 82 -19 45 ), quarter-George Washington (1732-1799),half-dollar-John F. Kennedy (19 17-1963), $1 coin-Susan B. Anthony(1820-1906), $1 gold coin-Sacagawea(1786-1812).

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Former Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., is 90. Actor GeorgeHamilton is 76. Actress Dana Ivey is 74. Actress JenniferWarren is 74. Rock singer-musician Mark Knopfler (DireStraits) is 66 . Actor Jim Beaver is 65. Sin ger Kid Creole is 65 .Jazz musician Pat Metheny is 6 1. Actor Sam J. Jones is 61.

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Stray animal . A deer with a bro ken l eg wasdiscovered in a backyard on Laurel Waybefore 7:12 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9.Disturbance. A woman contacted policebecause she was upset and wanted to slapsomeone on Veterans Boulevard before 6:17p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9.Petty theft . A pink bi cycle was stolen onHoover Street before 12:51 p.m. Sunday,Aug. 9.Burglary . A person was seen st ealing i temsfrom the trunk of a vehicle on JeffersonAvenue before 5:53 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 9.Battery . A group of friends were attackedby three unknown people at their home onBroadway before 1:47 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 9.Arrest . A drunk man was arrested for punch-ing his wife in the face before 9:18 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 8.

Disturbance. A woman was seen throwingchairs and fireworks on Broadway before5:44 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8.

SAN CARLOSDrunk in publi c. A man was arrested forbeing drunk in public on the 1300 block of San Carlos Avenue before 4:06 p.m. Sunday,Aug. 9.Petty theft. A petty th eft incident o ccurredon the 1600 block of Hull Drive before 8:30a.m. Sunday, Aug. 9.Burglary. A residential burglary occurredon the 500 block of Emerald Avenue before12:45 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8.Arrest . A man was arrested for a misde-meanor warrant on the 1100 block of Industrial Road before 10:43 a.m. Saturday,Aug. 8.

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That blowsA neighb or verbally att acked and point-ed a leaf blower at an elderly womanwho was walkin g her dog on D Street inRedwood City before 11:59 a.m.Sunday, Aug. 9.

By Sara Gaiser

BAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

The owner of seven residential care facili-ties in San Mateo, Burlingame and SouthSan Francisco has paid more than $200,000

in b ack wages and damages after an investi -gation found she had failed to pay employ-ees minimum wages or overtime, U.S.Department of Labor officials said Tuesday.

Adora Ancheta has ent ered into an admin-istrative settlement and paid $101,791 inback wages and an additional $101,791 indamages to 53 employees for a two-yearperiod between 2012 and 2014, accordingto the labor department.

Ancheta owns faciliti es in cluding Tricia’sCare Home, Kelly’s Home, Cortez Home andShoreview Home in San Mateo; AlbrightHome and Olympic Home in South SanFrancisco; and Flora’s Home in Burlingame.

Investigators found that the employees,who care for elderly, ill and disabled clients ,were paid flat monthly salaries that often

amounted to less than the federal minimum

wage of $7.25 an hour. Some worked morethan 40 hours in a week without overtimepay.

Ancheta also failed to keep accuraterecords of work hours and pay and in correct-ly classified some employees as independ-ent contractors rather than employees,labor department officials s aid.

The labor department has completed aseries of such investigations in the BayArea since 2011, resulting in orders to paymore than $6.8 million in back wages tomore than 1,350 residential care workers.

“These hardworkin g emplo yees, who carefor our loved ones, must be paid what theyare due,” said Susana Blanco, district direc-tor for the Department of Labor’s Wage andHour Division in San Francisco. “The divi-

sion continues to fight this disturbing wageviolation trend in residential care facilities,which harms workers and their families. ”

The workers included in the settlementwith Ancheta were all Filipino. Labordepartment officials said it is common forrecent immigrants to be severely underpaid

in t he residential care industry.“Recent immigrants are often extremely

vulnerable, bo th because of a language issueand also because they don’t know the locallaw and don’t know who they can go to forhelp, ” said Michael Eastwood, assistan t dis-trict director for the San Francisco office.

Eastwood said the industry historicallyhas op erated by pay ing workers flat salariesand keeping minimal records, but a recentcrackdown by federal officials has led tosignificant change.

“We’re seeing a huge shift in the indus-try,” Eastwood said. “The folks who are stillcontinuing to pay folks wrong probablyknow there’s a problem.”

Efforts to reach Ancheta for commentTuesday were unsuccessful.

Care home owner pays back wages, damagesSeven facilities in San Mateo, Burlingame and South San Francisco

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By Judy LinTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO — California AttorneyGeneral Kamala Harris faced a Tuesdaydeadline to issue key wording o n a pensi oninitiative that could dramatically changethe way the state and local governmentsprovide pension benefits to public work-ers.

Harris, a Democrat, must issue the titleand summary on a ballot question beforebackers can begin collecting the 585 ,407voter signatures needed to qualify for theNovember 2016 b allot.

The wording is considered crucial to

whether voters are like-ly to support the push torequire public votes ondefined benefits for newemployees and in creasedbenefits for existingworkers.

The initiative’s pro-ponents accused Harrisin 2014 of using falseand misleading phrases

to create prejudice against another pen-sion-reform proposal. Then-San JoseMayor Chuck Reed abandoned that attemptto enable gov ernments in California to cut

future pension benefits for current workers

after losing a court fight ov er the attorneygeneral’s legal description .

Now Reed is partnering with former SanDiego Councilman Carl DeMaio on a newtactic. Rather than allow cities, countiesand other California governments toreduce future benefits through collectivebargaining or a local vote, the so-called“Voter Empo werment Act of 20 16 ” requiresvoters to approve any new pension bene-fits o r upgrades to current ones.

The proposal would require voters toapprove defined benefits for new employ-ees hired starting Jan. 1, 2019, as well aspension enhancements for existing work-

ers.

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Suspect at large aftersexual assault in victim’s home

The San Mateo Co unty Sheriff’s Office iswarning the public to b e vigilant of suspi-cious people in their neighborhoods after awoman was sexually assaulted Sunday nig htin her San Carlos home.

Around 10:15 p.m., a woman in her 30sanswered a knock at th e front door of a homein the 2 00 bl ock of Chestnut Street.

The victim allowed the suspect into thehome. Once inside the suspect sexuallyassaulted her, according to sheriff’sdeputies.

The suspect walked out the front door andleft the scene in an unknown direction.Responding officers were unable to locatehim, and the investigation is ongoing,according to deputies.

Anyone with information about similaractivity is encouraged to contact DetectiveAndy Hui at (650) 363-4192. Anonymoustips can be called in at (800) 547-2700.

Teen girl arrestedfor attempted murder

A 16-year-old girl was arrested Fridaynight for allegedly stabbing a 19-year-oldman.

Police were called to a residence on the200 block of Emaron Drive around 7:57p. m. in San Bruno where they found the manhad been stabbed in the chest , arm and hand.The victim was transported to the hospitalwhere he is expected to survive, accordingto San Bruno police.

The girl was arrest ed for attempted murder,assault with a deadly weapon and domesticviolence then transported to the HillcrestJuvenile Facility, according to police.

Anyone with additional information isasked to call San Bruno police at (650) 616 -7100.

Gas prices fall amid glut of crude

Crude oil oversupplies and record high-refinery output are responsible forCalifornia gas prices falling for 15 consec-

utive days, according to AAA NorthernCalifornia’s latest gas survey.

Today’s price is registering $3.56 onaverage for a gallon of unleaded gasoline.That is a 24 cent decrease in one monthsince AAA’s last mo nth’s g as survey on July10, 2015.

In San Mateo County, the average pricefor a gallon of gas is $3. 41, down 13 cents,according to AAA.

The least expensive average price inNorthern California can be found inMarysville, where regular unleaded gasolin eis $3.09 per gallon. Of all metro areastracked by AAA in Northern California,Yreka registers the highest price at $3.48per gall on of unleaded regular, according toAAA.

Expectations that the global oil marketwill remain oversupplied in the near termare keeping downward pressure on t he priceof crude. The Chinese econ omy con tinues toshow signs of weakness, which increasesconcerns that this expected driver of globalconsumption may not be poised to helpcounter the market’s oversupply, accordingto AAA.

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Gertrude Hermine EbaughGertrude Hermine Ebaugh, daughter of 

Franz and Elvira Bartnik, age 92, of MenloPark, California, died peacefully at homeWednesday, Aug. 5, 201 5.

Trude was bo rn in Vienna, Austria, Oct. 7,1923. Among her accomplishments wasserving as translator for the Allied HighCommand at the end of World War II. She

immigrated with her American husband to

the United States in 1948.Trude was married to Edward Ebaugh, an

American soldier, in 1948 until his death in1972. They were married for 25 years. Trudeis s urviv ed by her son David Ebaugh and herfive grandchildren, Steve, Christopher,Lauren, Natalie and Teddy and great-grand-daughter Kayley.

The burial will be 11:30 a.m. Wednesday,Aug. 12, at Alta Mesa Cemetery. The memo-rial follow at 1:30 p.m. and will be held atBethany Lutheran Church, Jon Coyne, pas-tor, Beth any Lutheran Church will be offici-ating. Funeral arrangements are being han-dled by Crippen and Flynn WoodsideChapel.

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CALIFORNIA BLAZE GROWS Brown signs bill lettingnannies’ kids go to local schools

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown has signed twobills introduced in response to an affluent East San

Francisco Bay Area school district’sdecision to expel a second-grader whosemother was a domestic worker at a homein t he district, his office said Tuesday.

The Orinda Union School District

made news after it h ired a private inv es-tigator to look into a second-grader’sresidency. She was living in th e districtwhere her mother worked five days aweek.

The Democratic governor signedwithout comment SB 200 by Democratic Sen. RicardoLara, which p ermits the chil dren of l ive-in workers suchas nannies and maids to attend school in the districtswhere their p arents work at l east three days per week.

“Now, so me parents won’t be p ut in the unfair positio nof having to choose between spending quality time withtheir kids during the work week or spending that timeaway at work,” Lara said in a statement.

The Orinda district later changed course and determinedthe 7-year-old could continue to att end school t here.

Brown also signed a companion bill, AB1101 byAssemblywoman Susan Bon illa, D-Concord. The new law

requires that schools have a set policy for investigatingstudents’ residency before hiring a private inv estigato r tolook i nto residency. It also prohi bits st udents from beingphot ographed or recorded by inv estigators and mandatesan appeals process.

Both bills received unanimous support in the Senateand the Assembly.

California governor signstwo bills tied to police misconduct

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown has signed twobills relating to police misconduct in California asdebates about th e use of excessive force by officers con-tinue across th e country.

The bills make clear that it’s legal to record or photo-graph police in public areas and prohibit using secretgrand juries to t ry officers in cases of l ethal force.

The Democratic governor announced Tuesday that he

signed SB411 by Democratic Sen. Ricardo Lara of BellGardens, clarifyin g that recording p olice is n ot sufficientcause to charge people with o bstruction of justice.

SB277 by Democratic Sen. Holly Mitchell of LosAngeles prohibits using grand juries to probe policeshootings, which she says are too secretive. She cites thedecision by a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury not t o indictthe officer who kil led Michael Brown.

By Eileen SullivanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — A court challengeover the difficult process for airlinepassengers to remove their namesfrom the U.S. g overnment’s list o f sus-pected terrorists banned from flying istaking an unexpected twist, now focus-ing on the mysterious ways federalagents add passenger names to the no-fly list in the first place.

The latest fili ng i n a fiv e-year feder-al case challenges the government’sundisclos ed method of predicting who

might commit a terrorist act in thefuture.The case could provide a glimpse

into the government’s secret practicesbased on details about an airline pas-senger’s friendships, travels, financialtransactions and more.

Plaintiffs in the case, represented bythe American Civil Liberties Union,

want the government to provi de all thereasons, including evidence, why theyare on the no-fly list, a roster of tens

of thousands of people banned fromflying to, from, within or over theU.S. They want to chall enge tho se rea-sons in a court hearing.

As a result of the lawsuit filed inPortland, Oregon, the Obama adminis-tration came up with a n ew policy ear-lier this year to tell some Americanswhether and why they were on the lis t.

No-fly list case could shed light on U.S. terror predictions

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STATE GOVERNMENT• Gov. Jerry Brown has

signed Assembly Bi l l 5 54 intolaw, allowing high school stu-dents who are lawful permanentresidents to serve as poll workersin California elections. This bil l,authored by Assemblyman

Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco , expandson Assembly Bi l l 8 17 , which was signed into law in2013, which allowed lawful permanent residents 18 andover to assist as poll workers in our state.

Currently there is a shortage of poll workers whospeak languages other than English and this bill pro-vides elections o fficials the opp ortunity to draw from anexpanded pool of bilingual poll workers, according toMullin’s office.

Can super PAC supportsave cash-strapped Perry bid?

AUSTIN, Texas — Rick Perry has raised so little moneyfor his s econd-chance presidential b id that he’s stop ped pay-

ing his campaign staffers, the kind of cash crisis that could normally sink acandidate.

But the former Texas governor haswell-funded super PACs that say they’re

ready to step in and keep his messageafloat at least through th e Feb. 1 caucusesin Iowa, where Perry has s pent more ti methan any other White House hopeful.

It’s the latest sign of how influentialoutside groups — armed with small cadresof millio n-dollar donors — are reshaping

presidential politics.Perry raised only about $1 million in his first month of 

campaigning, a sum that isn’t enough to cover his payroll.A pair of pro-Perry o utside groups, each with “Opportunityand Freedom” in its name, amassed almost $1 7 millio n overthe s ame period.

Kerry, top Democraticsenator spar on Iran deal, sanctions

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry sparredTuesday with the lone Democratic senator to publiclyoppose last month’s historic Iran nuclear deal, saying there

was no way the U.S. could prevent American allies fromdoing business with Tehran if Congress were to reject theagreement.

Speaking across town in New York, Sen. Chuck Schumerdisagreed and suggested Washington still could force theworld into isolating the Iranians until they make deepernuclear concessions .

The dispute goes to the heart of the questions thatAmerican lawmakers are considering as they prepare to vo teon the nuclear accord.

If they were to shelve the deal — and override an expectedpresidential veto — they could severely complicate theObama administration’s ability to honor its commitmentsto roll back economic sanctions on Iran. In exchange, Iranhas agreed to a decade of tough restrictions on Iran’s nuclearprogram and a far more intrusive in spections regime.

Around the nation

By Ken DilanianTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The FBI has takenpossession of thumb drives containing

Hillary Clinton’s emails, some of which have been deemed to containhighly sensitive classified informa-tion, according to a U.S. official briefedon the matter.

The official was not authorized to bequoted publicly and spoke o n conditionof anonymity.

Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall,turned over the emails after the FBIdetermined that he could not remain inpossession of the classified informa-tion, the official said. The StateDepartment previously had said it wascomfortable with Kendall keeping theemails at his Washingto n law office.

The news came asSen. CharlesGrassley said two of the emails, whichtraversed Clinton’sinsecure home emailserver, were deemed“Top Secret,S e n s i t i v eC o m p a r t m e n t e dI n f o r m a t i o n , ”

which is among the government’shighest classifications.

Grassley said the inspector general of the int elligence community had report-ed the new details about the higher clas-sification to Congress o n Tuesday.

Those two emails were among fourthat had previously been determined bythe inspector general of the intelli-gence community to have been classi-

fied at the ti me they were sent. The StateDepartment disputes that the emailswere classified at the time.

The U.S. official said the FBI recov-ered at least two thumb drives contain-ing the emails from Kendall. The drivescontain around 30,000 emails thatClint on deemed work-related and turnedover to the State Department. Shedestroyed thousands o f others t hat sh esaid were not work-related.

The inspector general for theIntelligence Committee told Congressthat potentially hundreds of classifiedemails are among the cache thatClinton provided.

Former Secretary of State Clinton, aDemocrat running for president, hasfaced criticism over her use of a privateemail address and home server for offi-cial business.

U.S. official: Clinton lawyerturned over her emails to FBI

By Ivan Morenoand Ellen KnickmeyerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER — The U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency took full responsi-bility Tuesday for the mine waste spoil-ing rivers downstream from Silverton,Colorado, but people who liv e near theidled and leaking Gold King mine saylocal authorities and mining companiesspent decades spurning federal cleanuphelp.

They feared the s tigma of a Superfundlabel, which delivers federal money up-front for extensiv e cleanups. They wor-ried that corporations would kill ahoped-for revival in the area’s min ingindustry rather than get stuck withcleanup costs . And some haven ’t trustedthe federal government, townspeoplesay.

The EPA pushed anyway, for n early 2 5years, to apply its Superfund programto th e Gold King min e, which has beenleaching a smaller stream of arsenic,

lead and other wildlife-killing heavymetals into Cement Creek. That waterruns into the Animas and San Juanrivers before reaching Lake Powell andthe lo wer Colorado River, a basin serv-ing five s tates, Mexico and several sov-ereign Native American nations.

As millions of gallons of spilledsludge spread hundreds of miles down-stream Tuesday, officials from the cen-tury-old mining towns of southwestColorado defended their opposition tofederal help .

Colorado contested Superfund status for mine

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NOTICE

 All schools in the South San Francisco Unified SchoolDistrict are ready to begin instruction on

 Wednesday August 12, 2015.

 Although the District is actively completing severalconstruction projects, student enrollment

 will not be affected. All of the schoolsites are safe and ready for students.

Please visit our district website at www.ssfusd.org as it

contains a wealth of information and resources forparents, student, staff and the community and is a

great way to stay informed about news andevents throughout our district.

For updates regarding our construction projects,please visit our Measure J site at www.ssfusd.org/mjb.

By Jim Salter and Alan Scher ZagierTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FERGUSON, Mo. — As another proteston Ferguson’s beleaguered West FlorissantAvenue began to t urn rowdy, Jo n Belmar wasamong the first to confront protesters.

Wearing neith er a helmet nor a shield, th e

St. Louis County po lice chief strode directlytoward demonstrators, telling them to getout of the street and urging calm.

“They’re not going to take the streettonight,” Belmar told an Associated Pressreporter standing nearby. “That’s not goingto happen.”

One night earlier, things turned danger-ously violent when shots rang out and an18-year-old black suspect was shot bypoli ce after he allegedly fired a handgun intoan unmarked poli ce van. Police used smoketo disperse the crowd. Three officers wereinjured.

The scene was markedly different onMonday night and early Tuesday, after theSt. Louis County executive declared a stateof emergency, a move that gave Belmar —instead of interim Ferguson Police Chief 

Andre Anderson — cont rol of security.This time, the police presence was fargreater. Officers lined several blocks of West Florissant, rather than staying con-fined to a smaller area. And each time pro-testers left the sidewalk for the street, pol iceconverged.

Unlike Sunday, there was no gunfire, noinjuries and no reports of looting or proper-ty damage.

More than 20 peopl e were arrested. Policenever deployed smoke or tear gas, thoughthey were at times pelted with water bottlesand rocks.

Reaction from prot esters was mixed.“I think they took command out of the

hands of the new chief of Ferguson prettyfast,” Charles Mayo, leader of a moderateprotest group that has sought to improve

relations between protesters and police,

said Tuesday. “They put the response inBelmar’s hands. Me personally, I thinkBelmar did a great job. ”

Ferguson resident and military veteranHershel Myers Jr. criticized the policerespons e as aggressiv e and unnecessary. Hesaid Ferguson police should have been incharge.

“This is treatment we’ve been putting upwith forever,” Myers said. “It’s always St.Louis County pushing us around and makingup rules.”

Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III dis-puted the notion that the county taking o verwas a negative reflection on Anderson andFerguson police. It simply marked a changein tactic, he said.

County Executive Steve Stenger said thestate of emergency could be lifted as soo n asWednesday, depending upon how Tuesdaynigh t unfolded.

Events marking the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death were peaceful untilSunday night, when multiple shots werefired and Tyrone Harris Jr. was shot. He isaccused of firing into an unmarked policevan. The four plainclothes officers insidereturned fire. Harris was struck multipletimes and is hospitalized in critical condi-tion.

“Obviously, there’s a point at whichyou’ve got to put an end to it,” Knowlessaid. “Property and life needed to be pre-served. Their (police) tactics were going tohave to change.”

St. Louis County police on Tuesdayreleased a 13-secon d clip o f security camerafootage they say shows Harris minutesbefore he fired at plainclothes officers. Theclip sh ows a person po lice identify as Harrisgrabbing a handgun from his waistband andrunning toward a parking lot, police say inresponse to other shots being fired duringthe protests.

Harris’ father disputed the poli ce accountMonday but declined to discuss his son’sshoo ting Tuesday.

St. Louis chief regained control of Ferguson protests

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By Joe McDonaldand Christopher S. RugaberTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING — China’s surprise moveTuesday to devalue its currency has intens i-fied concerns about a slowdown in theworld’s second-largest economy, whosegrowth rate has reached a six-year low. It isalso fanning tensions with the UnitedStates and Europe, whose exports couldbecome comparatively costlier.

China’s central bank said the yuan’sdevaluation was a result of reforms int endedto make its exchange rate more market-based. The yuan is linked to the dollar,which has jumped in the past year. Tuesday’smove will mean the yuan will more fullyreflect market fluctuations, Chinese offi-cials say.

A close peg between the dollar and theyuan has hurt Chinese exporters by keepingtheir goods expensive overseas, therebythreatening jobs in key manufacturingindustries. Exports in July plummeted by anunexpectedly steep 8.3 percent from a yearearlier. A cheaper yuan will lower the pricesof China’s exports.

“The move signals that (China) is willingto use all available tools, including a weak-er currency, to prop up exports and itsdomestic economy,” said Eswar Prasad, aninternational economist at CornellUniversity.

Yet many economists cautioned againstseeing Beijing’s move mainly as an effortto benefit its exporters at the expense of overseas competitors. They note thatChina’s currency, left to market forcesalone, would have declined in value in recentmonths.

 Japan committed to nuclearpower despite Fukushima fiasco

TOKYO — With the p ull of a l ever, con trolrods were lifted Tuesday from th e reactor coreat a plant in so uthern Japan, ending a ban onnuclear power following meltdowns atFukushima in the northeast that forced tensof thousands of people to leave their ho mes,most of th em for good.

Crowded, energy-scarce Japan remainscommitted to nuclear power despite theMarch 2011 accident at the Fukushima Dai-

Ichi plant and its messy aftermath, for eco-nomic, envi ronmental and polit ical reasons.

Polls s how that most J apanese don’t wantnuclear power, but public opinion has beentrumped by leaders who say keeping thecountry’s 4 3 workable reactors offline forev-er would be to o damaging economically.

Turkish warplanes strikePKK targets in southeast

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish warplanesstruck Kurdish rebel targets in a series of raids in southeast Turkey, the military saidTuesday, a day after heavy violence in thecountry left at l east nin e dead.

The Turkish military said jets h it 17 targetsof the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK,around the Buzul mountain and the Ikiyaka

region in Hakkari province, which borders Iran

and Iraq, and later also targeted two anti -aircraftguns in the neighboring province of Sirnak,along the Iraqi border. In further violenceTuesday, Kurdish rebels attacked an infantrybrigade command post in Sirnak, seriouslywounding a soldier who later died in a h ospit al.

On Monday, nine people, including fivepol ice officers, were killed in separate attacksin Istanbul and in the southeastern Sirnakprovi nce which were blamed on the PKK.

No bail for couple accusedof trying to join Islamic State

OXFORD, Miss. — A young Mississippicouple who are charged with attempting to

 join the Islamic State were ordered held with-out bail Tuesday, pending federal grand juryaction on the charges.

Twenty-year-old Jaelyn Delshaun Youngand 22-year-old Muhammad “Mo” Dakhlalla,who were arrested at a Mississ ippi airport justbefore boarding a flight with tickets boundfor Istanbul, went before U.S. MagistrateJudge S. Allan Alexander in Oxford onTuesday. Alexander denied bail, saying thateven though th e pair have never been in trou-ble with the law and have relatives willing tooversee their home confinement, shebelieved their desire to commit terrorism is

“probably still there.”

China’s move to devalue currencycould reverberate around the globe

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By Maxine Terner

As the November electionapproaches, so do the num-ber of school bond and

municipal tax measures th at willappear on th e ballot. Do you believethat voters have the right to k now

what they’re voting for? Especiallyfor measures that ask for our hard-earned money? Of course you do. It’sone of t he foundation s of o ur democ-racy to be able to trust the ballot.

Would you be surprised to find outthat no one appears responsible forensuring that the language on bondmeasures is accurate and truthfully letsvoters know what in fact the moneywill be used for? Sadly, not even ourelected officials who lend their go odnames for endorsements and thenappear on th e ubiquitous electionmailers asking us to trust their sup-port.

The state Const itution requires thatschool bonds provide “the listing of specific school facilities projects” to

be funded from bond revenue. Thisrequirement was added after st ate l aw-makers gave school districts a hugegift by changing t he 66.7 percentmajority vote required to pass bondmeasures to 5 5 percent. The word“specific” plainly means “exact, pre-cise, detailed,” not “vague, ambig u-ous or undefined.”

Before voters (or poli ticians) decideto support additional bonds, perhapsit is worthwhile to examine how vot-ers can be misled, by using the exam-ple of the San Mateo CountyCommunity College District. Insteadof the l egally required specific projectlist, the college district’s 2014 ballotactually stated “whenever specific

items are included in the fo llowinglist, they are presented to provideexamples and are not intended to limitthe generality of the b roader descrip-tion of authorized projects. ” Was thebond measure even legal when it did

not comply withthe stateConstitution? Didvoters intend togive the collegedistrict a blankcheck?

Nowhere on l astyear’s ballot or in

election mailerswere vo ters i nformed about whatmajor projects the college districtreally intended to build, although theboard had already identified whichprojects to finance from the bond. Noelection material mentioned that thebulk of the $388 million bon d wouldfund a new social science/creative artstheater building 150 percent largerthan the existing building at Skyline;a new kinesiology and wellness build-ing (gym and another private healthclub) 200 percent larger than theexisting building plus two new 25-meter pools at Cañada; and a newkinesiology and wellness building(gym) 40 percent larger than theexisting building at CSM, which

already has a controversial privatehealth club funded by previous bo ndmoney.

Are these projects really in syncwith th eir educational prioriti es? Arethese n ew, l arger buildings necessarygiven that “enrollment at the threecampuses h as stabi lized” for the fore-seeable future, according to t heir ownenviron mental document. Or are theywasteful and ext ravagant? In everycase, according to their own projectbudgets, the cost for new constructionfar exceeds th e costs for moderniza-tion and renovation. It’s the reasonpeople are saying the community col-leges feel more like country clubsrather than servin g as educationalstepping stones t o hig her education

and skilled jobs.No wonder voters feel deceived andit adds to the distrust of gov ernmentfelt throughout the country. It alsonegatively affects how voters feelabout other lo cal bond and tax meas-

ures. How frustratin g to see our localelementary and high school districts

scramble to find a few hundred milliondollars when vot ers already havegiven the college district over $1.5billion under false pretenses.

Sadly, school bond deception is notonly a local issue. As columnistDaniel Borenstein wrote in the ContraCosta Times in 201 4, “we teach ourchildren to be forthcoming about thetruth. Sadly, school and county offi-cials won’t do th e same. It’s decep-tion by omission. It’s morally, ethi-cally and possibly legally wrong. If these officials won’t do the rightthin g, s tate lawmakers must unam-biguously insist o n it. Most schoolbond measures merit public s upport.But voters deserve full i nformationbefore deciding whether to raise local

taxes by hundreds of millions of dol-lars.”It’s past ti me for our state lawmak-

ers to ensure bond measures are truth-ful by mandating that the languagethat appears on the actual ballot statewhat big ticket projects the majorityof bon d money will finance. Further,the supporting ballot informationmust include the specific list of proj-ects to be funded as required by thestate Constitution.

Pay attention voters and insist thatour elected officials sp ecifically tellus what our hard earned tax dollarswill be spent on before we vote.Otherwise, we only have o urselves t oblame.

 Maxi ne Terner is a former memb er of 

the San Mateo Planning Commissi on.

She has lived in San Mateo since

1983.

School bonds must comply with state law Utterly devastated“E

ach time mental illness is cited as a possiblefactor in high-profile mass k illings, there’s acollective sigh among mental health profes-

sionals. Even as they see an opportunity for serious dis-cussio ns o f problems and remedies, they also worry aboutsetbacks to their efforts to destigmatize mental illness.”— “Mental health exp erts respond carefully to masskillings” — Daily Journal, July 28, 2015.

If you have been reading my columns during t he past s ix

years or so, you know that the health and welfare of chil-dren are foremost in my min d. When th e story o f the unbe-lievable, heartbreaking slaughter of Madyson Middletonin Sant a Cruz came out on July 27 , we were all devastatedby the insanity o f it and the impossibility o f imagininghow terribly thos e who knew her and loved her are suffer-ing.

This is another incon-ceivable news story thatinvolves o bviously severe-ly demented young menwho kill — whether schoolchildren and teachers atSandy Hook, Connecticut,movie viewers in Aurora,Colorado, church membersin Charleston, SouthCarolina, drive-by shoot-ings, or any of the otherunconscionab le murdersthat regularly haunt us.

When I think of my two9-year-old granddaughters, I wonder how long we aregoing to keep hearing these stories and convincing our-selves that they can’t be prevented. Of course, strict guncontrol would help a lot, but that wouldn’t have helpedMaddy. What I want to ask to day is : Where is our psychi -atric establishment in all of this? I would like them toplease answer the following questions.

Have peop le who are considered experts in th is fieldbeen studying why so many teens and young men turn outto be psychopathic killers? If so, why haven’t we heardabout it? Have they been trying to find out if somethinghad gone wrong in utero? Or what th e mother has (or has-n’t) ing ested during her life and pregnancy (drugs-legal o rillegal, alcohol, nutrition, etc.)? Could child neglect,parental violence, rigid and punitive home atmosphere, orhead injury have s omething to do with it ? Were theresigns from the young man’s past that he was unstable orhad serious adjustment problems? Is the penchant for vio-lence and mental instability somehow hereditary? Is itschizophrenia — and if so, why do so many young menfall victim to it?

At any rate, there is something terribly wrong with ahuman being who will willingly go out and kill otherhuman beings without any conscience. I repeat: Has theAmerican Psychological Association looked into the sim-ilarities of such youth in their backgrounds, their heredi-ty, th e way th ey were raised (or not), and their behavio r?Is it more important to protect the mentally ill or t hementally sane? As Lisa Silas who lives in the complexwhere Maddy’s murder occurred commented: “We don’tkno w what happ ened. This may have been th ere but wedidn’t see i t. I can’t speculate for A.J.” (th e accused) “orhis mental history, but to do something like that, he musthave had some his tory we didn’t kn ow about.” — Bay

Area News Group, July 3 0, 201 5.Why can’t the APA or other related researchers come upwith a list of sympt oms th at we should all be aware of?Shouldn’t those with a history of mental problems betaken seriously and some method of separating them fromsociety (before they commit hein ous crimes) be devised?Does the APA go too far in their attempts to protect thosewho are mentally disturbed and prone to viol ence? Couldthey possibly quit hiding behind rhetoric and face realityso t hat such illn ess is diagnosed and treated more oftenbefore such tragedies occur? Could some tests be devisedthat would provide a clue as to which of the mentall y il lmay be more l ikely to become murderers?

Has it g otten to th e point th at we in this country aregetting used to these things happening? Do we feel com-pletely at a loss as to how we might prevent such outra-geous slaughter? To protect some mentally ill people frombeing unfairly stigmatized, are we supposed to put up withan unprecedented number of such vi olent deaths? Are

teachers, coaches and other school employees taughtabout the problem and how to spot those youngsters whomay show signs of future violence?

According to the July 29 editorial in the San JoseMercury News, “Crime is down. ” But, as reported on th ePBS Newshour Aug. 4 , t he latest s tatist ics in dicate a star-tling in crease in violent crime since the beginning of 2015, averaging 19 percent in 31 of our big cities. Yet theMercury was right ab out one th ing. “One loo k at MaddyMiddleton’s s weet smil e reminds us what cold comfort sta-tistics are. It breaks our hearts.”

Since 1984, Dorothy Dimitre has written more than 800

columns for v arious l ocal newspapers. Her email address is

gramsd@aceweb.com.

Guestperspective

By Steve Okamoto

Ihave been honored to serve asyour councilmember for the p astfour years. I was asked in 2011

to run for th e council because FosterCity was facing a multi-million dollar

deficit. It was thought that with myfinance and business background thatI could poss ibly help reduce thedeficit. After four years, I am happy tosay that the 2015 -16 budget is in bal-ance and if projections hold true thebudget could be in balance for thenext fiv e years. However, I feel thatmy most revered work is FosterSquare, a senior/mixed use communitythat will allow Foster City seniors t ostay in the city they love.

My first term is nearing an end so Iam asked frequently, “Are you goingto run for re-election ?” My customaryanswer is “I stil l haven ’t decided.” Ihave given four years to the city I’vecalled home for the past 37 years andwatched it g row from a dusty, sleepy

town to a thriving and bustling city.Many longtime residents have notbeen happy with the growth, but afterfour years working b ehind the scenesI know that it is vi tal to continue togrow in order to pay the b ills so thatFoster City could be the best place towork, live and play.

Many question sneed to beanswered beforedeciding whetherto do this foranother four years.Have I accom-plis hed what I set

out to do? Is theremore that I need to

do? What else can I do if I am not acity councilmember? How is myhealth? How is this job affecting myfamily?

The decision to run has been a v erydifficult question for me. On one handI have many, many people hop ingthat I would run again . They feel Ihave been doin g a wonderful job and Ihave been a steadying influence onthe council. On the other hand, thereare folks o ut there who would like totake on t he duties o f the council and Icertainly would want them to hav ethat oppo rtunity.

However, my final decision i s reallysimple. It comes down to the fact that

an unhealthy environment has beencreated on th e council which hascaused, in my opinion, many goodstaff members to l eave or findemployment els ewhere. Our civicleaders should be settin g go od exam-ples of responsible behavior. It is myopinion t hat some have not. The

actions of those members, again inmy opinion, are an embarrassment tothe city. I have lived with this shame-ful behavior for the past four years.

Therefore, I would like t o ann ounceI will not be seeking re-election forthe 2015 election. I make this deci-sion with a great deal of deliberationwith not only my family but withpeopl e who I admire and trust. I willcertainly miss the staff that, in myopinion, makes Foster City the bestcity in the country. They really careabout their jobs, they are true profes-sion als and I will always admire them.However, I will no t miss the dysfunc-tion on the council.

Thank yo u for giving me the honorof four years on the council. Goodluck to t he three new members. I willcontinue to work for Foster City in aprivate capacity an d I will s tay busyas I am on four nonprofit boards and apro bono consultant to three others.

Steve Okamoto is a member of the

Foster City Council.

My decision

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BUSINESS10 Wednesday • Aug. 12, 2015  THE DAILY JOURNAL

Dow 17,402.84 -212.33 10-Yr Bond 2.14 -0.10

Nasdaq 5,036.79 -65.01 Oil (per barrel) 44.09

S&P 500 2,084.07 -20.11 Gold 1,108.10

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the NewYork Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEHertz Global Holdings Inc., down 62 cents to $16.50 The rental car company, which is working to cut costs, said that its profitand revenue fell during the second quarter.United Continental Holdings Inc., up 72 cents to $57.87United Airlines said passengers flew more miles and left fewer seatsempty in July compared with the same month a year ago. Terex Corp., up $4.95 to $26.78 The crane maker is merging with Finnish rival Konecranes in an all-stock deal. The new company will be called Konecranes Terex PLC. The Gap Inc., up 19 cents to $35.45 The retailer, which is struggling to overhaul its namesake brand, posteda second-quarter earnings forecast that was below expectations.NasdaqGoogle Inc., up $27.16 to $690.30

 The Internet search company is creating a holding company calledAlphabet containing Google, research projects and other businesses.Symantec Corp., down $1.57 to $21.34 The cybersecurity company is selling its Veritas information managementbusiness for $8 billion to The Carlyle Group and GIC.Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc., down $8.16 to $80.15 The casual restaurant chain's second-quarter earnings beat Wall Streetexpectations, but its revenue for the quarter did not.SFX Entertainment Inc., down 2 cents to $2.34 The electronic dance music promoter posted a wider second-quarterloss, but its revenue grew 48 percent from a year ago.

Big movers

By Steve RothwellTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — A move by China’sgovernment to devalue its currency s etoff a sharp sell-off in global financialmarkets Tuesday as investors worriedabout the health of the world’s second-

largest economy.China’s government said the move

to weaken the yuan was a result of reforms intended to make its exchangerate more market-oriented. However,most investors interpreted the actionas an attempt by authorities to stimu-late a slowing economy. A cheaperyuan will benefit China’s exports bymaking them less expensive over-seas.

The move triggered a wave of sell-ing. Oil, copper and other commodityprices fell as traders anticipated weakerdemand from China. That led to bigdrops energy and materials stocks.Companies that derive a large part of their sales from China, like Apple andYum Brands, also fell s harply.

“China is the second-largest econo-my in the world, and they are certainlygoing through a stage right now wheregrowth is not as robust as it has been,”said Michael Scanlon, a managingdirector at John Hancock AssetManagement. “China is one of thebiggest risks to the equity market as awhole.”

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell20.11 points, or 1 percent, to2,084.07. The Dow Jones industrialaverage lost 212.33 points, or 1.2 per-cent, to 17,402.84. The Nasdaq com-posite index fell 65.01 points, or 1.3percent, to 5,0 36.79

The Chinese government allo wed the

yuan to fall 1.9 percent, the biggestone-day drop in a decade. In recentmonths, the yuan has strengthenedalong with the U.S. dollar, hurtingChinese exporters. China’s exportsfell by an unexpectedly large 8.3 per-cent in July. The yuan was valued at6.32 per dollar on Tuesday, comparedwith 6. 21 p er dollar a day earlier.

Yum Brands, the owner of the KFCand Taco Bell chains, was among thebiggest decliners in the S&P 500. Thefast-food company g ets more than h alf of its sales from China. The companysaid last month that it was expecting astrong second-half of the year inChina. Yum fell $4. 28, or 4.9 percent,to $83.54.

Apple, another company that makes

a lot of money in China, dropped$6.23, or 5.2 percent, to $113.49 andWynn Resorts, which generates morethan half of its revenue from theChinese gambling hub of Macau,slipped $2.39, or 4.3 percent, to$54.36.

The price of oil had another big drop,closing at its lowest level in six years.

Oil prices also fell after OPEC said itsproduction increased to a 3-year high,adding further evidence of a global sup-ply glut. U.S. crude fell $1.88 to settleat $43 .08 a barrel in New York, its l ow-est close since March of 2009. Brentcrude, a benchmark for internationaloils used by many U.S. refineries, fell

$1.23 to close at $49.18 i n London.The losses for stocks on Tuesday

wiped out a large part of the g ains froma day earlier, when the market loggedits largest advance in three months asthe price of oil logged a big gain andsome corporate deal news boostedinvestor sentiment.

Investors shouldn’t be too worriedby the big mo ves in market prices, saidDavid Kelly, chief Global Strategist atJPMorgan Funds, because the moveswere likely being exacerbated by lowtrading activity during the summermonths.

“It’s another sign of softness in theglobal economy and that’s what ishurting the market today,” Kelly said.“But I wouldn’t make too much of the

violent reaction because it’s a ratherthin market to say the least.”Google was one of the biggest gain-

ers in the S&P 500 on Tuesday.The tech giant gained after it

announced a new structure for the com-pany t hat in cluded separating its lucra-tive internet business from some of itsmore speculative research projects.

Stocks, oil prices sink after China currency move

By David PorterTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEWARK, N.J. — An international webof hackers and traders made $100 millio n onWall Street by stealing a look at corporatepress releases before they went out and thentrading on that information ahead of thepack, federal authorities charged Tuesday.

Authorities said it was the biggestscheme of its kind ever prosecuted, and onethat demonstrated another alarming vulner-ability in the financial system in this age of increasingly sophisticated cybercrime.

In a 21st-century twist on in sider trading,the hackers broke into the computers of some of the biggest business newswire

services, which put out earnings announce-ments and other press releases for a multi-tude of corporation s.

Nine people i n th e U.S. and Ukraine wereindicted on federal criminal charges, includ-ing securities fraud, computer fraud and con-

spiracy. And the Securities and ExchangeCommission brought civil charges againstthe nine plus 23 other people and compa-nies i n th e U.S. and Europe.

The case “illustrates the risks posed forour global markets by today’s sophisticatedhackers,” SEC chief Mary Jo White said.“Today’s internatio nal case is unprecedent-ed in terms of the scope of the hacking atissue, the number of traders involved, thenumber of securities unlawfully traded and

the amount of profits generated.”The nine indicted include two people

described as Ukrainian computer hackersand six stock traders. Prosecutors said thedefendants made $30 mil lion from their partof the scheme.

Authorities said that beginning in 2010and continuing as recently as May, the hack-ers gained access to more than 1 50,0 00 pressreleases that were about to be issued byMarketwired of Toronto; PR Newswire in NewYork; and Business Wire of San Francisco.The press releases contained earnings figuresand other corporate information.

The defendants then used roughly 800 of those news releases to make trades beforethe information came out, exploiting a time

gap ranging from hours to three days, pros-ecutors said.

A strong earnings report or other positivenews can cause a company’s stock to rise,while disappointing news can make it fall.The conspirators ty pically used the advance

information to buy stock optio ns, which areessentially a bet on the direction a stockwill move.

In 2013, for example, the hackers got anearly peek at a press release from PaneraBread Co. announcing that it was loweringits earnings projections. The hacking ringbet correctly the stock would fall when thenews came out, and turned a profit of about$1 million the very next day, according tothe indictment.

Rite Aid stores nolonger shun Apple Pay

SAN FRANCISCO — Rite Aid stores willstart accepting Apple’s mobile paymentsystem, Apple Pay, later this month after

initially sh unning the service in favor of arival system.

The pharmacy and retail chain says it willbegin accepting Apple Pay and other “tapand pay” services at its 4,600 stores onAug. 15. It also plans to accept Google’srevamped Android Pay service when it’sreleased for mobil e devices later this year.

Rite Aid was one of several retailers,including Walmart, that have not workedwith Apple Pay since the digital servicelaunched last y ear, whil e they were part of a

merchant consortium developing a rivalsystem known as CurrentC. Apple Pay isstill not accepted at some major chains, butconsorti um member Best Buy also s aid ear-

lier this year that it would start acceptingApple Pay in its U.S. st ores.

RiteAid Corp., which is based in CampHill, Pennsylvania, says it will also acceptCurrentC when it b ecomes available.

Symantec to sell Veritasbusiness for $8B in cash

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Symantec will sellits Veritas information management busi-ness for $8 billion in cash with plans to

funnel proceeds back into its main line of work, cybersecurity, and to buy backshares.

The move was cheered by analysts whosaid the under-performing division was adrag on t he company. But Symantec’s stocktumbled almost 7 percent after the companyreported revenue and earnings below esti-mates for the last quarter.

The Mountain View company saidTuesday that the private equity investmentfirm The Carlyle Group and Singapore’ssovereign wealth fund, GIC, will acquire thebusiness in a deal expected to close Jan 1.

Shares of Symantec closed Tuesday down$1.57 to $21. 34. The stock is down almost17 percent so far this year. The Standard &Poor’s 500 index, in contrast, h as climbedabout 1 percent.

Startup energy bringsDisney’s BB-8 droid toy to life

GLENDALE — If it weren’t for someonewilling to entertain a new idea, the new“Star Wars” droid, BB-8, wouldn’t be

rolling into li ving rooms this ho liday sea-son.

The robot — which looks like a mechani-cal head on a spinning ball — was thebrainchil d of filmmakers beh ind “Star Wars:Episo de VII - The Force Awakens, ” who wereunaware their puppetry-animated charactercould function i n real li fe.

But in July 2014, the CEO of Lucasfilm-parent Disney, Bob Iger, showed secretimages of BB-8 to a st artup company calledSphero.

Hackers accused of making $100M by peeking at press releases

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It was a bit of a surprise when Menlo-Atherton announced varsity volleyball headcoach Ron Whitmill was stepping down afterthree successful seasons .

But the Vision carousel produced a promis-ing replacement in new head coach FletcherAnderson.

Whitmill — a coach at the prestigiousVisio n Volleyb all Club in Los Altos —resigned his post at M-A in June after his LadyBears won t heir second Central Coast Section

Division I championshipin th ree years. He will t akeover as varsity head coachat Valley Christian-SanJose this season.

The position at ValleyChristian opened up whenanother Vision coach, Jeff Kim, resigned to relocateto Baltimore. AndAnderson, the co-headcoach of Vision 16-Blue,

was in line t o take o ver at M-A per Whitmil l’srecommendation.

“Ron liked him a lot,” M-A co-athleticdirector Paul Snow said. “He told us he’d beinterested and that he could help with the tran-sition. So he was Ron’s recommendation, butwe still put him through the ringer to makesure he can handle it. ”

Anderson had already come aboard at M-A asan assistant coach. A personal trainer at BayClub Courtside in Los Gatos for the past fouryears, Anderson’s initial varsity departmentwas as the strength-and-conditioning coach.Two weeks later, Whitmill resigned withAnderson in place to app ly for th e head coach

 job.

“I was a little bit apprehensive at firstbecause I’ve never coached a high school pro-gram before,” Anderson said. “But now thatI’ve accepted it, I’m kind of running with it .”

Anderson does have experience as a highschool assistant coach, having served twoseasons at M-A under former head coachJennifer Wilso n. He also coached at the Bay toBay Volleyball Club before moving to Visionfour years ago .

Losing just two graduating seniors from lastyear’s starting lineup, M-A looks to have a

Anderson to lead M-A volleyball program

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Madison Burgrmer struck out 12 — including seven in a row — while throwing a complete game in the Giants’ 3-1 victory over Houston.

‘Killer Bs’ lead Giants to win

By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SANTA CLARA — Former San Francisco49ers right tackle Anthony Davis is nowtalking about an NFL return next year atsome point, just two months after heannounced his early retirement at age 25following a head injury last season.

“When I return I’ll be the best RT in theleague again. Hands Down.(hash)KnowYourself,” Davis po sted on h is

Twitter account Tuesday.He has said he expectedto take a year off to allowhimself to fully heal.

On June 5, Davisannounced his retirementfrom the Niners in anot h-er surprising offseasondeparture for the team.San Francisco’s 11thoverall pick in the 2010

draft out of Rutgers was affected by a con-

cussio n late last y ear. He became the fourthprominent 49ers player to retire in threemonths — joining linebackers PatrickWilli s and Chris Borland and defensive endJustin Smith. The announcement came justfour days before the team’s mandatory Juneminicamp, and he hadn’t participated in theorganization’s offseason program.

“First of all, I’m not even thinking aboutthe playing side with Anthony,” 49erscoach Jim Tomsula said Tuesday. “It’s well-documented we’ve talked about it and he’s

taking care of Anthony. I’m really excitedabout that. I’m excited about hearing that hewould like to come back with football. Ithink that speaks volumes of where he’s at,how he’s feeling. ... Anthony’s s tatement,that’s a different time and a different place.It does make you feel good, obviouslythings are going in the right direction forhim.”

On Dec. 4, Davis said he was able to drive

Former 49ers OL Davis talks comeback

By Eddie PellsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Jordan Spieth letout a very large “Whooooooo” after watch-ing the 20-foot putt hit the bottom of thecup.

Sunday on the 18th green at the PGAChampionship? Not quite.

But still very satisfying. And it wasn’teven Spieth’s putt.

Rather, it was rookie Justin Thomas mak-ing the lo ng twister on No. 16 at WhistlingStraits to give himself and Spieth a 2-uplead over Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowlerin th eir Tuesday best-ball match. Mickelsonhas been setting up these practice-roundgames — just for fun and a bit of cash — foryears.

“It feels good for everyone,” Spieth said.“That’s why Phil gets them together.”

Two-down with two holes to go,Mickelson and Fowler pressed Spieth andThomas on the 17th tee box, setting up anew bet that covered only the last two

Top players addsome spice to apractice round

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Phil Mickelson, right, shakes hands with JordanSpieth following their practice round Tuesdayfor the PGA Championship this weekend.

FletcherAnderson

By Janie McCauley 

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Madison Bumgarnerpitched a five-hitter with 12 strikeouts,Brandon Belt broke up a pitcher’s duel withtwo solo homers, and the San FranciscoGiants beat the Houston Astros 3-1 onTuesday night.

Belt’s homers, in the fourth and sixth

innings, gave him 17 this season to match hiscareer high also done in 2013. It was his thirdcareer multihomer game and second thi s y earfor the defending champion Giants, whobounced back at home after being swept by theCubs in four games over the weekend atWrigley Field.

Bumgarner (13-6) outpitched fellow south-paw Scott Kazmir (6-7) in an anticipated inter-league matchup of top lefties for the World

Series MVP’s eighth career complete gameand second this season. He didn’t walk a b atterin the 1 05-pitch gem.

Kazmir, who had allowed only one earnedrun for a 0.44 ERA in three starts since join inghis hometown Astros in a July 23 trade fromOakland, committed two throwing errorswhile losing his second straight start.

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Michael Tinsley — working class hero.After catching all but one Big 12

Conference game at the University of Kansasin the spring, Tinsley got thrown into theCape Cod League fire with the FalmouthCommodores.

At the outset of the season, in the mostprestigious collegiate summer league in thenation, Tinsley spent the first week as theteam’s only catcher. Before relief arrived inWeek 2, the former Serra star caught sevengames in six days, finishing with a flourishby catching all 16 inning s of a doubleheaderJuly 14 against th e Chatham Anglers.

“I had to catch almost all the games atKansas, but nothing really compared tocatching that volume of games in thatamount of time,” Tinsley s aid. “So, it was agrind … but it was fun.”

The workload took it s toll on th e left-hand-ed hitting Tinsley though. After a spring inwhich he anchored the middle of theJayhawks’ order batting .337 with a team-

best 39 RBIs, Tinsley struggled in his firstseason on the Cape. He hit .228 with twohome runs and just three RBIs in 92 at-bats.

Before ending his season prematurely July12 due to a wrist inj ury, however, Tins ley wasfinally getting cooking. Over his final two

weeks, he hit .297 (11 for37), including home runsin back-to-back gamesduring what would be hisfinal weekend of the sea-son.

“Right before theinjury, I was just getting

really hot … after goingthrough the initial learn-ing curve,” Tinsley said.

“Towards the end I was starting to get into agroove, then it'’s like — great, you’reinjured.”

Tinsley suffered two partial ligament tearsin his left wrist. The prognosis was a short-term injury, he said. He expects to be back onthe field in two weeks, and ready for the fallball season for hi s junior year at Kansas.

Entering his first draft-eligible season,Tinsley said he’s more mindful of turningaround a Jayhawks team that finished in thecellar of the Big 12 in 2015. After hitting.362 in part-time action as a freshman in2014, he knows opposing pitchers will begunning for him n ext year after ranking sev-enth in t he race for the Big 12 battin g crownthis y ear.

“I feel like I’ve made a good name formyself,” Tinsley said. “The pitching in theBig 12 is amazing just like the Cape is, butthe difference is you have a lot of scouting

reports on everybody. I was able to have agood season batting in the middle of theorder. So it will be in teresting to see how thatgets broken down (by opposing pitchers)going into next year.”

A Menlo Park native, Tinsley didn’tencounter too many familiar faces uponarriving in the Big 12. He did, however,

come across a former Serra teammate in theCape Cod League when the Commodorestook on Sean Watkins and the OrleansFirebirds July 7.

It was an off-day for Tins ley, who was get-ting loose for bullpen catching duties whenhe heard Watkins’ name announced as thestarting p itcher.

“I was really mad [I wasn’t playing] assoon as I figured out he was starting,”Tinsley said.

As a high school senior, Tinsley caughtthe then junior Watkins for one season atSerra. Tinsley’s evaluation of Watkins afterseeing him throw on the Cape is that theright-hander out of Loyola Marymount hasreally filled out.

“He look ed pretty big ,” Tinsley s aid. “It’sbeen a few years since I’ve seen him and he’sgrown up as a player. … [In high scho ol] hewas just the typical two-way guy — throwhard and had a good breaking b all. From whatI saw when he was pitching against us, hehad a good changeup and his breaking ball

was better.”Tins ley isn ’t immune to the dream of goin g

pro next year, but said he is keeping his base-ball career in perspective.

“Every kid’s dream is to be drafted,”Tins ley said. “I would love to be drafted. Thatwould be amazing. But I also know the cold-ness of th e draft, so I can’t really think about

that as the only option . … I’m keeping focuson the college team because the only guaran-tee I have right now is playing for theUniversity of Kansas.”

The Cape Cod League is slated to concludethis week, with the Yarmouth-Dennis RedSox and the Hyannis Harbor Hawks currentlytied 1-1 in the best-of-three championshipseries. The Red Sox’ leading hitter isStanford infielder Tommy Edman, who is b at-ting .318 while anchoring the shortstopposition.

“He’s a very fundamentally sound baseballplayer in every respect,” said MikeyDiekroeger, Edman’s fellow infielder atStanford. “He does everything right. Heknows how to play baseball.”

A Cape Cod All-Star this season, Edmanhelped even the championship series afterYarmouth-Dennis dropped Sunday’s opener8-1. Monday in Game 2, Edman went 3 for 5with a home run in a 9-3 Red Sox win. Game3 was posted due to rain Tuesday and has beenrescheduled for Wednesday.

Tinsley wraps up grueling season on the Cape

 Judge pressures NFL, union,Brady to settle lawsuit

NEW YORK — A federal judge took a peacemaker’s roleTuesday, urging New England quarterback Tom Brady andNFL Commissio ner Roger Goodell to find common groundto settle differences before he lowers the gavel on a con-troversy over deflated footballs.

U.S. Distri ct Judge Richard M. Berman ask ed Brady andGoodell to “engage in further good faith settlement

efforts” a day before they meet in Manhattan federal courtfor the first time.

Brady was not at Patriots training camp on Tuesday.Two weeks ago, the NFL sued its players union, asking

Berman to declare that Goodell followed the league’s col-lective bargaining agreement with the NFL PlayersAssociation when h e suspended Brady for four games afterconcluding the quarterback had to know balls were pur-posefully deflated.

The union countersued to block the suspension, s aying aJune arbitration hearing Goodell presided over was a shamand Brady was punished severely for something he wasnever warned about and for which th ere was n o p recedent.

Berman directed lawyers, including Brady and Goodell,to update him in p rivate Wednesday about sett lement nego -tiations a half hour before they appear in court.

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holes. Mickelson responded by hittin g his tee shot pi n high,to 8 feet, on the 223 -yard par 3, then making the putt for birdieto win the hole.

That set up some drama on 18, when Fowler drained a 20-foot birdie putt, forcing Spieth to knock one in from about 5feet to halve the whole, keep the lead in the overall game andend up even in the betting.

Which, of course, is what really counts on days like this.“You don’t want t o lose and have to hand those guys what-

ever you play for,” said Spieth, who goes for his third major of the season when t he ‘real’ golf starts Thursday. “There’s a lit-tle bit of nerves strictly because of bragging rights. And alsobecause it means something.”

Nobody reveals the stakes. Suffice to say it’s not a $2Nassau. The combined career earnings of the four players ismore than $135 million.

Thomas, a 22-year-old tour rookie making his secondappearance in a major, has won only $2 million of that. Hisentry into this game is another longstanding tradition of Mickelson’s. In addition to getting sharp for the grindingweek ahead, Mickelson sets up these games to giv e the youngplayers the tas te of pressure — and, specifically, pressure in ateam game, the likes of which they p lay every year on the U.S.side in the Presidents o r Ryder Cups.

“If I go out and play on a Tuesday, I don’t get much out of i t,”Thomas said. “You lose focus. You kind of hi t shots that don’t

mean anything. Every shot means something on a day liketoday. The nerves can get going.”

Anticipating the showdown with Mickelson, Spieth sug-gested last week that he might bring the U.S. Open trophy hewon at Chambers Bay and place it on every green. It’s the onlymajor trophy Lefty has yet to win. “It’s the first time I havesomething on him,” Spieth said.

But it n ever came to that.Less is more, Spieth said, when going against Mickelson, a

Grade A trash talker who once made copies of the $10 0 bi lls h ewon off Tiger Woods, drew smiley faces on them and placedthem in Woods’ locker, along with a note telling Tiger theBenjamins were very happy in their new home.

“He doesn’t like it if you’re quiet,” Spieth said aboutMickelson. “If you give it back to him, that’s when he knowsit’s bothering you.”

And so, after Thomas made the 20 footer on 16 to go 2 upwith two to go, he passed Fowler and gave him a nice slap onthe butt. That, along with Spieth’s shout, were the winningteam’s most outward displays of emotion.

With money st ill on the line on the 18t h green, Fowler madehis long putt, then high-fived and shared a Ryder Cup-esquehug with Mickelson. Then, they stood almost directly behindSpieth as he lined up a fairly simple 5-footer to ensure he andThomas would break even.

Spieth made it. Never a doubt.“Me making (my) putt was to save some money,” Fowler

said. “And it was nice to walk away with that.”After his final make, Spieth simply offered a meek bow

toward Mickelson, who brought him into these games a fewyears back.

The four posed on the green for some pictures. A friendlyclose to a bloodless, but still-entertaining day.

“It was a great match,” Spieth said. “We had a good time withit. And we kept Phil quiet most of the day.”

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Little League claims fraud,cover-up by Jackie Robinson West

CHICAGO — Court documents from Little LeagueInternational contend Chicago’s Jackie Robinson Westbaseball team was stripped of its national championshipbecause of “fraud and cover-up.”

Little League filed documents last week in respons e to alawsuit by Jackie Robinson West seeking documentationfor why the league too