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SYRIAN MASSACREWORLD PAGE 8

PREVIEWS OFM-A,MILLS

SPORTS PAGE 11

LAWMAKERS TOTACKLE PENSIONS

STATE PAGE 5

MASS BURIALS AS TENSION CONTINUES

By Heather MurtaghDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Funding education in Californiahas taken numerous hits in recentyears making it no surprise that twopropositions on the November bal-lot are aiming to raise funds forschools.

Statewide, two propositions arehoping to provide funding forschools propositions 30 and 38

called Schools and Local PublicSafety Protection Act and OurChildren Our Future respectively.The challenge for voters will bedeciding which, if either, of thepropositions should be supportedthis November. Proposition 30 isbeing proposed by Gov. Jerry

Browns office. Without it, he prom-ised massive mid-year trigger cutsto education. Proposition 38, knownas the Molly Munger initiative, has

always had strong support from theCalifornia State PTA.

The first thing to understand isonly one measure will be success-ful. Both tax measures would not gointo effect. Instead, the one with themost votes will win. However, bothpropositions could be defeated.

Generating money is a bit differentdepending on the measure but bothpropose an increase in incometaxes.

Proposition 30, for example, willincrease the personal income tax onpeople making over $250,000 forseven years starting in 2012.Currently, the states personalincome tax rate is 9.3 percent. Thatwill increase to 10.3 percent to 12.3percent for individuals making at

least $250,000 or couples making$500,000 or more. In addition, themeasure would increase thestatewide sales tax by .25 percent to

7.5 percent for four years.Throughout the state, the averagesales tax would be 8.4 percent,should the measure pass, accordingto the states Legislative AnalystsOffice.

The measure promises to raiserevenue estimates vary between

$5.4 billion to $9 billion dependingon the year to be used for main-

Voters will decide ed propsCompeting measures have similar goals,different approaches

See PROPS, Page 22

By Michelle DurandDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

San Mateo and two other countieswill not forfeit extra property taxesto the state under a proposal byAssemblyman Jerry Hill, D-SanMateo, that tweaks an early redevel-opment cleanup bill and meansmore than $1 million annually forlocal schools, cities and special dis-tricts.

The trailer bill eliminates the pro-vision that counties with excessEducational Revenue Augmentation

Funds after funding local schools

not receive thebalance. For SanMateo, Napa andMarin counties,that part of theredevelopmentagency billpassed in Junemeant the loss of$3.2 million.

Obviously,the three counties were upset, Hillsaid of the restriction. I couldntcome to any rational reason why this

Hill proposal willsave county more

than $1 million


Finding the right partner be it inbusiness, friendship or romance canbe a challenge.

Working with that person oftenadds another challenging element.However, talking to Gregory VanSudmeier and Lee Foster only gen-erates praise for the other. The hus-

band and wife duo works together athome but also in the artistic world.More recently, their partnership hasfocused on productions at Foster

Citys Hillbarn Theatre. As of thismonth, they will add the Fremont

Art, a family affair

See HILL, Page 22

See DUO, Page 23


Hard hats and orange vests areseen on most people working on thesoon-to-open Aloft hotel inMillbrae.

About a month away from actual-ly welcoming its first guests, muchwork has been completed on theremodel. Renovation of the former

Clarion site called for moving theentryway to the eastern side of thebuilding, updating rooms to offersleeker amenities and introducing amore modern feel overall. Onceopen at the end of September, the253-room hotel will bring in rev-

enue thats been on hold for the city.Were so thrilled. It will be such

an asset for our city, said MayorMarge Colapietro, who added she

hopes the new hotel will also createextra business for local businessesand restaurants.

But first, there is still work to bedone.

From the outside, a person pass-ing by might notice the signature

swoof the blue raised area atopthe roof. Theres nothing inside, but

Nearly AloftHEATHER MURTAGH/DAILY JOURNAL

The former Clarion Hotel in Millbrae will reopen soon as the Aloft Hotel.

Bill will tweak early redevelopment bill

Jerry Hill

Hillbarn duo to also lead Fremont Symphony

A weekly look at the people whoshape our community

Renovation of aging Clarion Hotel nears completion

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This Day in History

Thought for the Day

1942The Times of London published an edi-torial calling on the British government

to promote the production of penicillin,the first mention of the antibiotic by anewspaper.

Doing whats right isnt the problem.It is knowing whats right.

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the UnitedStates (1908-1973).

Rush guitarist AlexLifeson is 59.

Actress Alexa Vegais 24.

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Children with Down syndrome prepare before taking part in a 5 km race in Lima Sunday.The race was organized by the Pe-ruvian Society Down Syndrome to support and celebrate the life of people with the condition also known as trisomy 21.

Monday: Cloudy in the morning thenbecoming partly cloudy. Patchy fog anddrizzle in the morning. Highs in the 60s.North winds 10 to 20 mph.Monday night: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fogafter midnight. Lows in the lower 50s.Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog in themorning. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.Tuesday night: Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming

mostly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the lower50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.Wednesday: Mostly cloudy in the morning then becomingsunny. Patchy fog. Highs in the 60s.Wednesday night through Friday: Mostly clear exceptpatchy fog. Lows in the lower 50s. Highs in the 60s.

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In 1770, German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel(HAY-guhl) was born in Stuttgart.In 1776, the Battle of Long Island began during theRevolutionary War as British troops attacked American forces,who ended up being forced to retreat two days later.In 1859, Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well inthe United States, at Titusville, Pa.In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resultingtidal waves in Indonesias Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000lives in Java and Sumatra.In 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of theUnited States, was born near Stonewall, Texas.In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlaw-ing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.In 1939, the first turbojet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He

178, went on its first full-fledged test flight over Germany.In 1957, the USS Swordfish, the second Skate Class nuclearsubmarine, was launched from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyardin Maine.In 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was founddead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and threeother people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas,were killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimedby the Irish Republican Army.In 1989, the first U.S. commercial satellite rocket waslaunched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. a Delta booster carry-ing a British communications satellite, the Marcopolo 1.Ten years ago: President George W. Bush met at his Texasranch with Saudi Arabias ambassador Prince Bandar binSultan; a White House spokesman said Bush told the Saudidiplomat he had not yet decided whether to attack Iraq.

Author Dame Antonia Fraser is 80. Actor Tommy Sands is 75.Musician Daryl Dragon is 70. Actress Tuesday Weld is 69. ActorG.W. Bailey is 68. Rock singer-musician Tim Bogert is 68. ActressMarianne Sagebrecht is 67. Country musician Jeff Cook is 63.Actor Paul Reubens is 60. Actor Peter Stormare is 59. Rock musi-

cian Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols) is 56. Country singer JeffreySteele is 51. Country musician Matthew Basford (Yankee Grey) is50. Rock musician Mike Johnson is 47. Rap musician Bobo(Cypress Hill) is 44. Rapper Mase is 35. Actress-singer DemetriaMcKinney is 34. Actor Shaun Weiss is 33. Actor Kyle Lowder is32. Actor Patrick J. Adams (TV:Suits) is 31. Singer Mario is 26.

Almanac forecast:Wintryweather and mystery

LEWISTON, Maine The weatherworld is full of high-profile meteorolo-gists like NBCs Al Roker and theWeather Channels Jim Cantore. But theguy making the forecasts for theFarmersAlmanac is more like the manbehind the curtain.

Hes cloaked in mystery.The publisher of the 196-year-old

almanac, which goes on sale this week,

takes great pains to protect the identityof its reclusive weather soothsayer, whooperates under the pseudonym CalebWeatherbee. Calebs real name andhometown are a secret. And so is hisage-old formula used for making long-term weather forecasts.

The mystery mans forecast for thecoming winter suggests that people fromthe Great Lakes to northern NewEngland should get out their long johnsand dust off their snow shovels becauseits going to be cold and snowy. Its alsosupposed to be wet and chilly in theSoutheast, and milder for much of therest of the nation.

Even just to speak to the forecaster,the almanac would agree only to an

unrecorded phone call with the manfrom an undisclosed location.

Its part of the mystique, thealmanac, the history, said Editor PeterGeiger of the current prognosticator, thealmanacs seventh, who has been under-

ground sincestarting the job inthe 1980s.

The weatherformula createdby almanacfounder DavidYoung in 1818was based onplanetary posi-t ions , sunspots

and lunar cycles. Since then, historicalpatterns, weather data and a computer

have been added to the mix.In an election season, the almanac

dubbed its forecast a nation dividedbecause theres a dividing line wherewinter returns for much of the east, withmilder weather west of the Great Lakes.

Scientists generally dont think toomuch of almanacs formula.

Ed OLenic, operations chief forNOAAs Climate Prediction Center,declined to knock the almanacsmethodology but said sun spots andmoon phases arent used by modern-daymeteorologists.

Im sure these people have goodintentions but I would say that the cur-rent state of the science is light yearsbeyond what it was 200 years ago,OLenic said from Maryland.

In this years edition, the almanacseditors are contrite about failing to fore-cast record warmth last winter but theysuggested readers should go easy on thepublication and on Caleb becausenobody forecast 80-degree weather in

March that brought the ski season arapid end in northern New England.

Lets face it the weather was sowacky last year. It was so bizarre, saidSandi Duncan, managing editor, point-ing out that NOAA and Accuweatheralso missed the mark.

Indeed, NOAA and Accuweather did-nt project the extent of the warm winter.

We missed it too, to put it bluntly,said Tom Kines, a meteorologist atAccuweather in State College, Pa. Itwas a weird winter last year.

The Maine-based FarmersAlmanac isnot to be confused with the NewHampshire-based Old FarmersAlmanac. Both issue annual forecasts,with the Old Farmers Almanac sched-uled for next month.

Geiger, who keeps a copy ofWeatherbees secret weather formula ina secure location, is quick to point outthat theres more to the almanac thanjust weather forecasts. Hearkening to itsold traditions, the folksy almanac fea-tures recipes, gardening tips, jokes, factsand trivia, and a guide to a simpler life.

For example, who knew that youcould clean your toilet by pouring inCoca-Cola instead of harsh chemicals,or that putting a spoonful of vinegar in apets water dish keeps fleas at bay?

As for the weather, almanac readerssay its all good, clean fun.

Its a fun publication to get and toread, to watch and see how accurate itis, said Wanda Monthey of Alexandria,Va. Its a lot like a game.

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When World War II broke out, therewere less than 400,000 servicemen ready to defend the United

States. The population of the United Stateswas 132,164,469, however most of this popu-lation was on the West and East coasts. TheAmericans were able to muster up six fighterplanes when the Japanese attacked and theybegan engaging in dogfights, but were shotdown almost immediately. Most of the air-planes never got off of the ground and weredestroyed by the Japanese. There were new B-17s arriving from San Diego and they wereimmediately attacked. The B-17s were notarmed and most were destroyed almost imme-diately. Most of the remaining B-17s we had

were destroyed in the Philippines in their firstengagement of the war. Airplanes and man-power were needed immediately ... and justabout everything else to fight a war for whichwe were not prepared.

Luckily, Congresswoman Edith NurseRogers had introduced a bill in Congress inMay of 1941 that allowed creation of an all-volunteer womans corps in the Army (TheAir Force was still under the control of theArmy). It wasnt, however, until May of 1942that Congress approved a bill creating the

Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). Itwasnt until that this bill had transformed theWAAC to the Womens Army Corps (WAC)that the women attained Army military status.They enlisted for the duration and sixmonths.

In 1940, Nancy Harkness Love (a test pilot)and Jacqueline Cochran had made separateproposals to the Army Air Force to begin a

womens program utilized for ferrying aircraftfrom factories to airports, pull drones and aer-ial targets to relieve male pilots from this dutyas they were needed at the front. They wereboth refused at first but, on Sept. 10, 1942,Loves proposal was accepted. JackieCochran was outraged at this pick and, on

Sept. 15, 1942, her plan was also put intomotion. It wasnt until July 1943 that the twoplans were merged and the WASP, or WomenAirforce Service Pilots, was formed.

Each WASP had a pilots license and hadabout 1,400 flying hours. They were immedi-ately retrained in the Army way during 30days of orientation and then were assigned tovarious ferrying commands. The women werenot trained for combat but their course ofinstruction was almost the same as that usedfor aviation cadets. The WASPs were consid-ered civil service and did not receive militarybenefits. On June 21, 1944, a House bill togive WASP military status was narrowlydefeated. Immediately they began ferryinglight aircraft and primary trainers such asStearmans and PT-19 Fairchilds. They quick-ly rose to check out larger aircraft including

pursuit planes such as the P-38 and P-51.Dec. 20, 1944 marked the end of the WASPprogram. At the conclusion of the WASP pro-gram, 915 women pilots were on duty withthe AAF: 620 assigned to the TrainingCommand, 141 to the Air TransportCommand, 133 to the numbered air forces inthe continental United States, 11 to theWeather Wing, nine to the technical com-mands and one to the Troop CarrierCommand. The G.I. Improvement Act of1977, signed by President Jimmy Carter, gavethe WASP corps full military status for their

service. In 1984, each WASP was awarded theWorld War II Victory Medal. Those whoserved for more than one year were alsoawarded American Theater Ribbon/AmericanCampaign Metal for their service during thewar. On July 1, 2009, President BarackObama and U.S. Congress awarded the WASP

the Congressional Gold Medal.After the WAACs were formed in May of1942, the women service for the Navy wasorganized The WAVES (Women Acceptedfor Volunteer Emergency Service). Thewomen Air Force service WASP (Women AirForce Service Pilots) was formed inSeptember 1942. The Marines got on board in1944 without a nickname. The Marine com-mandant said none was needed. Being aMarine says it all.

Because of all of the hassle related towomen being allowed into the services,President Harry S. Truman signed theWomens Armed Services Integration Act in1948, allowing women to serve directly in themilitary. On Oct. 15, 1948, the first eightwomen were commissioned in the regularNavy.

During the war, almost 400,000 womenserved in the armed forces. By the end of thewar, there were few noncombatant jobs inwhich women did not serve. The attitude ofwomen serving over my dead body that wasaccepted before 1941 quickly dissolved whenthe women of the United States proved theycould serve our country as well as males.

Rediscovering the Peninsula by Darold Fredricksappears in the Monday edition of the DailyJournal.

Women in the services World War II

AUTHORS COLLECTION

BURLINGAMETheft. A female reportedly shoplifted fra-grances from a store on the 1200 block ofBurlingame Avenue before 12:48 p.m.Tuesday, Aug. 21.Theft. Registration tabs from a vehicle wasreportedly stolen from the 1400 block ofRollins Road before 7:57 a.m. Tuesday, Aug.21.Theft. Lawn furniture was reportedly stolenfrom the 1800 block of Barroilhet Avenuebefore 6:22 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21.

Burglary. Someone reported that the rearwindow of their car had been broken and theirlaptop and briefcase stolen on the 1500 blockof Bayshore Highway before 9:48 p.m.Monday, Aug. 20.Fraud. A report was made to document a caseof embezzlement on the 1500 block ofBayshore Highway before 12:28 p.m.Monday, Aug. 20.Theft. A woman reported her credit cardswere stolen at a store on the 1800 block of El

Camino Real Highway before 9:38 a.m.Monday, Aug. 20.Theft. A woman reported her ex had stolenher cell phone on the 900 block of LagunaAvenue before 8:35 a.m. Monday, Aug. 20.

BELMONTSolicitor. Someone was given a warning forsoliciting at Buena Vista Avenue and CiprianiBoulevard before 8:57 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21.DUI. A man was was arrested for drivingunder the influence on Belmont Canyon Roadbefore 8:03 p.m. Monday, Aug. 20.Vandalism. Someone reported damage doneto their car when someone tried to break in onIrene Court before 10:52 a.m. Monday, Aug.20.

FOSTER CITYPetty theft. Someone was taken into custodyfor taking a $249 Garmin GPS at the CostcoWholesale on Metro Center Boulevard before4:04 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18.

Petty theft. A report was made for an attempt-ed theft of fuel on East Hillsdale Boulevardbefore 2:41 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18.Vehicle burglary. Someone broke into a vehi-cle through the driver side window and stole agarage access pass and $25 in cash on E.Hillsdale Boulevard before 2:04 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 18.DUI. A man was arrested for driving underthe influence at Catamaran Street and ShellBoulevard before 4:08 a.m. Saturday,Aug. 18.

Police reports

Damn news!A person was seen cursing and kickingnewspaper racks on the 1200 block ofBurlingame Avenue in Burlingame before3:01 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 22.

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SAN DIEGO Dozens of small tomoderate earthquakes struck the south-eastern corner of California on Sunday,causing minor damages to structuresand rattling nerves in a small farmingtown east of San Diego.

The largest quake registered at a mag-nitude 5.5 and was centered about threemiles northwest of the town of Brawley,said Robert Graves, a geophysicist withthe U.S. Geological Survey. Anotherquake Sunday registered at magnitude5.3.

More than 30 additional earthquakeswith magnitudes of at least 3.5 jiggledthe same area near the southern end ofthe Salton Sea, Graves said.

The type of activity that were seeingcould possibly continue for severalhours or even days, Graves said.

At the El Sol Market in Brawley, foodpackages fell from the shelves, littering

aisle ways.Several glasses and a bottle of wine

crashed to the floor and shattered atAssaggio, an Italian restaurant inBrawley, said owner Jerry Ma. Theshaking was short-lived but intense, hesaid.

It felt like there was quake every 15minutes. One after another. My kids aresmall and theyre scared and dont wantto come back inside, said Mike Patel,who manages Townhouse Inn & Suitesin Brawley.

A TV came crashing down and a fewlight fixtures broke inside the motel,Patel said.

A Brawley Police Department dis-patcher said several downtown build-ings sustained minor damage. Noinjuries were reported.

The first quake, with a magnitude of3.9, occurred at 10:02 a.m. The USGSsaid more than 100 aftershocks struckthe same approximate epicenter, about

16 miles north of El Centro.Some shaking was felt along the San

Diego County coast in Del Mar, some120 miles from the epicenter, as well asin the Coachella Valley, southernOrange County and parts of northernMexico.

USGS seismologist Lucy Jones saidearthquake swarms are characteristic ofthe region, known as the BrawleySeismic Zone.

The area sees lots of events at once,with many close to the largest magni-tude, rather than one main shock withseveral much smaller aftershocks,Jones said.

The last major swarm was in 2005,following a magnitude-5.1 quake, shesaid.

Sundays quake cluster occurred inwhat scientists call a transition zonebetween the Imperial and San Andreasfaults, so they werent assigning theearthquakes to either fault, Graves said.

Series of quakes rattle SoCal Gas prices up 7 cents over 2 weeksCAMARILLO The average U.S. price of a gallon of

gasoline has jumped 7 cents over the past two weeks.Thats according to the Lundberg Survey of fuel prices,

released Sunday, which puts the price of a gallon of regular at$3.76.

Midgrade costs an average of $3.91 a gallon, and premiumis at $4.04.

Diesel rose 13 cents to $4.05 a gallon.

Of the cities surveyed in the lower 48 states, El Paso, Texas,has the nations lowest average price for gas at $3.32. Chicagohas the highest at $4.22.

In California, the lowest average price was $4.03 inBakersfield. San Francisco has the highest at $4.13. The aver-age statewide for a gallon of regular was $4.09.

Multiple victims in small plane crash at TahoeRENO, Nev. A small, single-engine plane crashed short-

ly after takeoff from the airport on Lake Tahoes south shore,and authorities say several people were killed.

The single-engine plane burst into flames upon impact lateSaturday night in a wooded area near South Lake Tahoe, Calif.,said El Dorado County sheriffs Lt. Pete Van Arnum. The crashstarted a 1-acre fire that took more than 90 minutes to put out,he said.

State briefs

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SACRAMENTO Californialawmakers head into their finaldeadline rush this week with someof the most pressing legislative mat-ters still to be resolved, or even pub-licly revealed.

Democratic leaders are pledgingto pass comprehensive changes tothe states overburdened public pen-sion systems before they adjourn onFriday, as Gov. Jerry Brown hasbeen asking them to do. But SenatePresident Pro Tem Darrell Steinbergsaid lawmakers are still working outthe details with the Democratic gov-ernor.

Similarly opaque is a proposal tooverhaul the states $16 billion sys-tem for providing medical care andcompensation to injured workers.

Brown is supporting the late-developing workers compensationnegotiations. Business and laborinterests say change is needed toimprove benefits for injured work-

ers and keep costs down foremployers.But supporters have yet to reveal

specific lan-guage, insteadreleasing a 45-point outline.The proposedchanges couldincrease bene-fits for disabled

workers byabout $700 mil-lion while sav-

ing businesses and governmentemployers twice that amount bycutting benefits for some conditionsand putting less weight on lostpotential earnings.

If it passes, the deal would seek tomake improvements on a round ofreforms passed in 2004 under then-Republican Gov. ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

Lawmakers also are consideringwhether last-minute legislationwould be needed to enable theCalifornia Department of MotorVehicles to give drivers licenses toan estimated 350,000 young immi-

grants who are in the country ille-gally but are now eligible for feder-al work permits under President

Obamas deferred deportation pro-gram.

A bill by Assemblyman GilCedillo, D-Los Angeles, wouldallow any federal documentreceived by a person eligible for thedeportation deferral to be usedwhen applying for a state drivers

license. Cedillos previous propos-als to allow licenses for all illegalimmigrants have failed or beenvetoed over security concerns.

We obviously still have to com-plete the pension package. Thereswork being done on workers com-pensation, said Steinberg, D-Sacramento. Theres a lot ofimportant public policy at stake, soit will be a hustle and bustle, butwhat I expect to come out of it aresome important advancementsaround education, the economy andother important subjects.

Lawmakers face a midnightFriday deadline to send bills toBrown before they adjourn untilafter the November election.

Among the details still beingworked out on public pensionreform are minimum retirement

ages and how much employees con-tribute to their own benefits.

The governor proposed a 12-pointpension plan that raises the retire-ment age to 67 to match SocialSecurity and moves new workers toa hybrid system in which definedbenefits are combined with a

401(k)-style plan like those widelyused in the private sector.Brown also wants public employ-

ees to contribute a minimum of 50percent of their pension costs, butDemocrats and labor organizationswant to be able to negotiate the levelof contributions through collectivebargaining.

Senate Minority Leader Bob Huffcomplained that the Democraticmajority has dragged its feet as pen-sion problems worsen beyond the$150 billion unfunded liabilityreported by the states public pen-sion funds for government workersand teachers.

We were promised pensionreform, said Huff, R-Diamond Bar.

Theres something floating aroundout there. We havent seen what thatis.

Pension reform among issues facing lawmakers

Jerry Brown

Highlights of lastweeks bill action

SB623: Provides a two-yearextension to study whether nursepractitioners can safely perform acommon method of abortion.

Republican lawmakers calledabortion an inhumane way to endlife while Democrats said theytook offense over Missouri Rep.Todd Akins statement thatwomen have enough control overtheir bodies to prevent pregnancyduring a rape. The bill passed theAssembly on a partisan vote andreturns to the Senate for a vote onamendments.

SB1167: The Senateapproved extending a tax creditfor the film and television indus-try, prompting a robust debate bylawmakers about the states taxcode and how it favors certainindustries. It extends a $100 mil-lion-a-year credit for two years,

until 2017. The bill now moves tothe Assembly for final approval. SB1221: The hotly contested

bill would ban the use of dogs tohunt bears and bobcats in thestate. Proponents say its wrongto chase an animal into exhaus-tion. Hunters defended theirsport, and Republicans said thebill was part of a broader attackon hunting. The Assemblyapproved the bill on a party-linevote, and it now goes back to theSenate for final approval.

SB1525: Lawmakers sent thegovernor a first-in-the-nation billto protect college athletes. Itwould require major Californiauniversities to give academic

scholarships to students who losetheir athletic scholarshipsbecause of an injury while play-ing their sport. The bill applies touniversities that receive morethan $10 million annually insports media revenue. Stanfordofficials objected, saying the uni-versity is among four schoolsbeing singled out.

AB1436: Despite concernsabout voter fraud, Californianswould be able to register to voteany time, including on ElectionDay, under a bill approved by theSenate.

Man,88, says he didntsupport wifes suicide

SAN DIEGO The 88-year-oldman who was arrested shortly afterthe death of his ailing wife on suspi-cion of aiding in her suicide says itwas her decision to die, and shealone carried out the act.

Alan Purdy tells UT San Diego(http://bit.ly/PdbeJ2 ) he didnt sup-port the idea but he knew she was in

crippling pain from an autoimmunedisease and had attempted suicidebefore.

He says he watched and cried as84-year-old Jo Purdy ingested sleep-ing pills and placed a bag over herhead at their San Marcos home inMarch.

Alan Purdy says he was baffledwhen he was arrested. He spent anight in jail before being bailed outby his son.

San Diego prosecutors determinedlast week that the case against Purdycouldnt be proven beyond a reason-able doubt.


SAN FRANCISCO The thou-sands of firefighters makingprogress against a series of wildfiresacross California were facing newchallenges as strong winds raisedconcerns that some of the fires could

jump containment lines, fire offi-cials said Sunday.

The National Weather Serviceissued a red flag warning across a

wide area of Northern California,with forecasters predicting windgusts up to 35 miles per hour insome of the fire zones.

The stronger winds come afterfirefighters were able to improvecontainment lines during the pastfew days around the Ponderosa Fire,which is burning about 25 milessoutheast of Redding, or about 150miles north of Sacramento.

In the past 24 hours the fire hasnot grown in size, but our main con-cern today (Sunday) is with windspicking up, said CaliforniaDepartment of Forestry and Fire

Protection spokesman DanielBerlant.

The winds have a lot of potentialto spread this fire or to allow it tospot over the perimeter line,Berlant said.

The blaze, sparked by a lightningstrike on Aug. 18, was 74 percentcontained after about 43 squaremiles.

The wildfire has destroyed 64homes and 20 outbuildings, mostly

near the tiny community of Manton.About 300 homes are still consid-

ered threatened, but despite theincreased winds, officials stillexpected crews to have the blazecontained Monday.

A second major fire in the region,this one burning in the PlumasNational Forest since July 29, hasexpanded to more than 104 squaremiles.

The nearly 1,400 firefighters onthe lines have the blaze 61 percentcontained, but officials alsoexpressed concerns about gustingwinds.

Weve got a lot of wind on thefire right now, said fire spokesmanLarry Helmerick, as he spoke from atent that he said was being shakenby the wind.

Were just hoping to hold ittoday, because we have today,tomorrow and maybe part ofTuesday where we have this wind-driven stuff, he said.

Firefighters also faced challengesfrom the wind as they battled a fire

burning outside the MendocinoCounty community of Covelo.

One home and five outbuildingshave been burned since the blazestared Aug. 18, and a fire enginewas destroyed by the fire Saturday,said fire spokesman RalphGonzales. The four firefightersassigned to the engine escapedinjury, Gonzales said.

Its (the fire) burning in an areathats really dry and hasnt burnedfor years, Gonzales said.

The blaze was 33 percent con-tained after consuming more than41 square miles.

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By Thomas BeaumontTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TAMPA, Fla. The politicalrisk was slight for Mitt Romney inscrapping the first day of his Floridaconvention in the face of TropicalStorm Isaac: TV networks werent

planning to broadcast it live any-way.

As the storm veered toward NewOrleans, however, the decisionabout what to do next was fraughtwith peril. Romney is trying to bal-ance celebrating his presidentialnomination with being mindful ofthe ghost of Hurricane Katrina andthe stain George W. Bushs handlingof it left on the GOP.

You dont want to be havinghoopla and dancing when you havethe nation focused on tragedy andsuffering, said Al Hoffman, aRepublican from West Palm Beachand former finance chairman of theRepublican National Committee.

The next few days will test

Romneys abili-ty to both pres-ent himself tothe Americanpeople as aplausible alter-native toP r e s i d e n t

Barack Obamaand to lead aparty still

smarting from the image hit it tookin the aftermath of the 2005 GulfCoast devastation.

Since then, Republicans havebeen so sensitive to the politicaldanger around hurricanes and theappearance of partying at a time oftrouble that they delayed the startof their national convention by aday in 2008 when Hurricane Gustavbore down on the Gulf, a full 1,200miles away from where delegateswere gathering in St. Paul, Minn.

Four years later, a storm again hasdelayed the start of the convention and again is barreling toward

New Orleans, the city that Katrinaso badly damaged.

Memories of Katrina hung heavyover Tampa as Republican delegatestraveled here to anoint the partysnew standard-bearer. All overFlorida a critical battlegroundstate people were preparing for

the worst. Homes and shops wereboarded up in Key West. About 800miles northwest in the Florida pan-handle, the Wal-Mart in Destin,Fla., had sold out of bottled water.

By Sunday afternoon, Tampa wascloud-covered and windy outsidethe hall where Romney is to acceptthe nomination Thursday night.Inside, tense Romney advisers hud-dled to figure out how to proceed.

Its a mess all around and itsfraught with risk, said SallyBradshaw, a Florida Republican andlongtime senior aide to formerFlorida Gov. Jeb Bush. Its notgood for anybody particularlythe people impacted by the storm.

Weather was recognized as poten-

tial trouble when Republicans choseto hold their convention in Floridaduring hurricane season, a decisionmade well before Romney lockedup the nomination.

Beyond the safety and image con-cerns, Isaac presents another wrin-kle for Romney: It allows Obama to

show leadership and flex the leversof his administration to help peoplebracing for a storm.

As forecasts grew grim, Obamadispatched the Federal EmergencyManagement Agency to assist, andthe White House said the presidentwas closely monitoring the storm.

The president also told the gov-ernor to let him know if there areany unmet needs or additionalresources the administration couldprovide, including in support ofefforts to ensure the safety of thosevisiting the state for the RepublicanNational Convention, the WhiteHouse said Sunday.

The president had no immediateplans to visit. But he might as

most presidents do if the damageis severe. And if he does, Romneywould have to weigh whether toproceed with his convention orscrap more parts of it and cedethe limelight to the man who holdsthe office he wants.

Mindful of the danger of appear-

ing to put politics before safety,Vice President Joe Biden, theObama campaigns surrogate-in-chief, canceled a campaign swingthrough Florida on Monday andTuesday.

Back in Tampa, Romneys con-vention planners were busy workingto cram four carefully scripted daysof speechmaking and celebrationinto just three. The announcementdelaying the start of the conventioncame late Saturday, with Romneymindful of the good politics of put-ting safety before, well, politics.

The safety of those in Isaacspath is of the utmost importance,Romney said in a tweet lateSaturday.

Romney faces balancing act with convention,storm

Mitt Romney


WASHINGTON MostAmericans say go ahead and raisetaxes if it will save Social Securitybenefits for future generations.And raise the retirement age, ifyou have to.

Both options are preferable to cut-ting monthly benefits,even for peoplewho are years away from applyingfor them.

Those are the findings of a newAssociated Press-GfK poll on publicattitudes toward the nations largestfederal program.

Social Security is facing seriouslong-term financial problems. Whengiven a choice on how to fix them, 53percent of adults said they wouldrather raise taxes than cut benefits forfuture generations, according to thepoll. Just 36 percent said they wouldcut benefits instead.

The results were similar when peo-ple were asked whether they wouldrather raise the retirement age or cut

monthly payments for future genera-tions 53 percent said they wouldraise the retirement age, while 35 per-cent said they would cut monthlypayments.

Right now, it seems like weretaxed so much, but if that would bethe only way to go, I guess Id have tobe for it to preserve it, said MargeYoungs, a 77-year-old widow fromToledo, Ohio. Its extremely impor-tant to me. Its most of my income.

Social Security is being hit by awave of millions of retiring baby

boomers, leaving relatively fewerworkers to pay into the system. Thetrustees who oversee the massiveretirement and disability program saySocial Securitys trust funds will runout of money in 2033. At that point,Social Security will only collectenough tax revenue to pay 75 percentof benefits, unless Congress acts.

Lawmakers from both political par-ties say there is a good chanceCongress will address Social Securityin the next year or two if the White

House takes the lead. Yet so far,Social Security has not played a bigrole in the presidential election.

In previous polls, Democrats havetypically scored better thanRepublicans on handling SocialSecurity. But the AP-GfK poll showsAmericans are closely divided onwhich presidential candidate theytrust to handle the issue.

Forty-seven percent said they trustPresident Barack Obama to do a bet-ter job on Social Security, and 44 per-cent said they trust his Republican

opponent, Mitt Romney. The differ-ence is within the polls margin ofsampling error.

Charles McSwain, 69, of Philadelphia, said he trusts Obamabecause he thinks the president ismore likely to stick up for the middleclass.

He at least gives the appearance oftrying to help people that arent superrich, and Romney doesnt, saidMcSwain, who works part time sell-ing real estate.

Poll:Raise taxes to save Social SecurityDespite Isaacs soaking,Keys residents laid back

KEY WEST, Fla. TropicalStorm Isaac barely stirred FloridaKeys residents from their fablednonchalance Sunday, while the GulfCoast braced for the possibility thatthe sprawling storm will strengtheninto a dangerous hurricane by thetime it makes landfall there.

Isaac was expected to cross theKeys by late Sunday, then turnnorthwest and strike as a Category 2hurricane somewhere between the

New Orleans and the FloridaPanhandle on Wednesday, the sev-enth anniversary of HurricaneKatrina.

GOP convention protesters:storms wont stop them

TAMPA, Fla. The few hun-dred protesters gathered under wetskies in a park about a half-milefrom the GOP convention onSunday said an impending hurricane

that is supposed to dump even heav-ier rains on Tampa wont stop themfrom trying to get out their messagethat Americas middle class is introuble and needs to be restored.

Giant blocks of ice spelling outthe words middle class were melt-ing on a warm, sticky, rainy day.Occupy protesters it represents themelting away of the middle class.

American Taliban seeksgroup prayer in Ind.prison

INDIANAPOLIS AnAmerican-born Taliban fighterimprisoned in Indiana will try toconvince a federal judge that hisreligious freedom trumps securityconcerns in a closely watched trialthat will examine how far prisonscan go to ensure security in the ageof terrorism.

John Walker Lindh was expectedto testify Monday in Indianapolisduring the first day of the trial overprayer policies in a tightly restrictedprison unit where he and other high-risk inmates have severely limitedcontact with the outside world.

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By Jamal HalabyTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AMMAN Dozens of bloodied bodieswere buried Sunday in mass graves in aDamascus suburb where activists claim morethan 300 people have been killed over the pastweek in a major government offensive to takeback control of rebel-held areas in and aroundthe capital.

The British-based activist group SyrianObservatory for Human Rights said 32 moredead bodies were found in the streets ofDaraya on Sunday and that they had beenkilled by gunfire and summary executions.Among them were three women and two chil-dren, the group said. It put the toll for the pastweek as at least 320.

Another activist group, the LocalCoordination Committees, claimed 300 bod-ies were discovered Saturday in Daraya and633 people have been killed there since thegovernment launched its assault last week.

President Bashar Assad, in comments car-ried by state media, reiterated his long-stand-ing claim that a foreign plot was behind theuprising against his rule and said he would not

allow it to succeed whatever the price mightbe.

Britains minister for Middle East affairs,Alistair Burt, meanwhile, said if confirmed,the massacre would be an atrocity on a newscale requiring unequivocal condemnationfrom the entire international community. Headded that it highlights the urgent need for

international action to bring an end to the vio-lence, end this culture of impunity and hold toaccount those responsible for these terribleacts.

Burt said he had discussed the killings withU.N. and Arab League Joint SpecialRepresentative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi.

It was impossible to independently verifythe death tolls because of severe restrictionson media coverage of the conflict. However,activists and residents have reported excessiveuse of force by the regime in major battles,with indiscriminate shelling from the groundand the air.

The Local Coordination Committees saidsome of those killed by regime forces inDaraya were buried in mass graves onSunday. Video footage posted by the groupshowed bloodied bodies wrapped in colorful

blankets lying next to each other with branch-es of date palms strewn over them.

Another video posted on the Internet anddated Saturday showed dozens of bodies onthe floor of a mosque in Daraya. Most of thebodies were bloodied and wrapped in blan-kets. The anonymous commentator said therewere at least 150 bodies there and blamed a

pro-government militia known as shabiha forthe killings. The authenticity of the twovideos could not be independently confirmed.

The Local Coordination Committees saidan additional 1,755 people had been detainedin Daraya, suggesting that hundreds moremight turn up dead.

On Thursday, troops backed by tanks andhelicopter gunships stormed Daraya afterintense shelling and fighting that lasted days.

The battle for Daraya showed the regime tobe struggling to control Damascus and its sub-urbs though the firepower available to it is farsuperior to anything the rebels might have.Government forces are stretched thin, with amajor ongoing battle for control of thenations largest city, Aleppo in the north, aswell as smaller scale operations in the eastand south.

Mass burials in Syria amid massacre report

REUTERS

Syrian opposition activists accused PresidentBashar al-Assads army Sunday of massacringhundreds of people in a town close to thecapital that government forces recapturedfrom rebels.


TRIPOLI, Libya Libyas interim interiorminister resigned on Sunday after members ofthe newly-elected parliament accused hisforces of neglect when attackers bulldozed aSufi shrine and mosque while police stood bya day earlier.

Saturdays attack on the shrine was the lat-est in a string of assaults on Sufi places ofworship, sparking fears of stewing sectariantroubles in a country that is still without astrong central government and largely withouta functioning police or military.

The official Libyan news agency LANA

reported that Fawzi Abdel-Al submitted hisresignation to Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib.

The spokesman for Libyas security servic-es, Abdel-Moneim al-Hurr, said Sunday thatthe interior ministers resignation had beenaccepted by both the prime minister and par-liament.

Adding to the tension, a security officialtold The Associated Press that after lawmak-ers spoke out against the security forcesinac-tion, Tripolis police and militias who worktogether as part of a security committee wereordered by their superiors to withdraw from

the streets.

Libyas interior minister resigns after attacks

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Leave Romneystax returns alone

Editor,Gene Mullins guest perspective (A

taxing situation: Romneys returns

from the Aug. 23 edition of the DailyJournal) is a good one.

Romneys returns are irrelevant, theyare beyond the information he needs toprovide by law, which he did. DoesMullin really believe that the IRS is notcarefully looking at the tax returns pro-vided? Especially for an individual thatclearly has been very successful? So

please stop harping and lets get on tothe real business at hand. The issue isnot about what Romney has paid,because he would be in jail if he didsomething illegal. Is the tax codewrong? If it is, lets fix it. Its not

Romney's or Obamas fault. However,throwing good money at somethingbad, doing the same old processes andexpecting a different outcome is down-right irresponsible from both parties.

So the Feds plan pushing another tril-lion dollars in a third bailout. That istotally unacceptable. The previous twoQEs were abysmal failures. Why

expect a different outcome this time?We are just extending the pain and suf-fering for everyone. In the meantime,our economy is not getting enoughattention, small businesses do not getfinancing even though trillions of dol-

lars are piled up in all the banks and wekeep harping on a set of tax returns thatreally will be used just to vilifyRomney. Get over it and, while you areat it, ask Obama to publish all of hisrecords.

Harry Roussard

Foster City

Letters to the editor

Guest perspective

By Jahan Alamzad

To merge or not to merge; that isthe question. A wrong answerwill have Shakespearean

tragedy for American Airlines. Before

considering any merger, American firstneeds to figure what kind of an airlineit wants to be after exiting bankruptcy.

American has a sensational legacy asthe airline that transformed the globalcommercial air transportation.Examining the airlines past is instruc-tive to chart a path forward.

Bob Crandall, of whom legends aremade, arrived at American in 1974 asnew chief financial officer, at a timethat the airline was not much differentthan others. He quickly became presi-dent and was the architect of a spectac-ular transformation.

That metamorphosis took about 10years, while the industry went throughdramatic changes as a result of the sud-den airline deregulation in 1979.Crandall had a clear grasp of the futurederegulated environment, and evenopposed deregulation. He knew fullwell that American needed to be a com-pletely different airline if it wanted tosurvive in the new competitive land-scape.

By the time the change was complet-ed, American was breaking every finan-cial and performance yardstick, and thecompetitors were scrambling to learnand emulate that transformation. WhenCrandall retired as chairman and CEOof the company in 1997, American washugely successful and was a fearsomeglobal competitor, employing tens ofthousands more than the day Crandallarrived at the airline.

The strategy behind the change wassophisticated and needed much disci-plined work. It also required a work-force that was a mix of the existingpeople making the transition to the newparadigm and a new breed of workers.

It all started by recognizing thatunder any feasible circumstance,American would have a higher cost

structure, unlike itsupstart competitorsor those benefitingfrom bankruptcyproceedings. Withthat understood,

Crandall thendevised the winningstrategy.

While the coststructure was high, the unit cost thecost to fly one seat, one mile couldbe lowered if the airline expanded. ButAmerican did not want to expand ifeach additional flight did not bringdown its unit cost. Be it through reck-less addition of flights, or equallysenseless acquisitions to grow quickly,one airline after another vanished postderegulation. American was not goingto fly that path.

Containing costs has two elements:tight-fisted control of expenditures andautomation. The first part requiresmuch discipline. Automation not only

includes data processing but also devel-oping sophisticated models to makebetter decisions. And that sophisticationparted American from the rest andmade it shine.

On the revenue front,American couldnot have sold every seat at a low fareoffered by discount carriers and remainprofitable due to its cost disadvantage.Market dynamics also prevented it fromcharging a premium price for everyseat.

To solve this,American created yieldmanagement, an awesome practice ofincreasing revenue by offering multiplefares on the same flight. Low-cost carri-ers offering only low fares had a night-marish experience facing Americanssuperiority in yield management. Only

those avoiding direct competition, likeSouthwest Airlines, survived.

In bitterness, many of the losersclaimed that Crandall purposefully puttheir airlines out of business. A betterdescription would be that those airlinesput themselves out of business sincethey didnt recognize the power of

sophistication, and didnt want to dothe needed hard work. By the time thecompetitors woke up, it was too late forthem.

Crandall created the largest computernetwork, only next to the Pentagon, and

hired some of the most brilliant mindsacademia produced. At its heydays, youcould throw a stone in the Americancafeteria during lunch time, and hit aperson with an advanced degree fromone of the most prestigious universities.

Other CEOs did claim culturingsophistication in their managementranks. But the proof was in the pud-ding. The pudding of other CEOs endedup being just a puff.

Crandall used to clear his calendarfor the entire afternoon to listen atten-tively to his operations research ana-lysts presenting him with highly com-plicated mathematical models. He hadan amazing ability to soak in those dif-ficult models, discuss them intelligentlyand offer constructive comments.

Crandall successfully created a spe-cial DNA in Americans organizationalbody. Other airlines raided American tolure away its managers, but transplanti-ng that special culture proved practical-ly impossible. Besides, Crandall wasthe key link in that DNA.

That culture was also not hospitablefor acquisitions, except in extraordinarycircumstances. Thats why Americanalways championed its organic growth.

A definite argument can be made thatrestoring the DNA that Crandall createdduring his era is the only clear pathwith the least turbulence for American.

That then puts the question of anymerger into perspective. If transplantinga new organ via a merger provesincompatible with the restoredAmerican DNA, then the end result willindeed be Shakespearean tragedy.

A former analyst at American Airlines,

Jahan Alamzad is managing principal of

CA Advisors in San Jose. He lives in San

Carlos.

Past clues for American Airlines future

Ballot integrity orvoter suppression

This is an embarrassing time for the United States.We have one of the lowest voter turnout rates forestablished democracies. Since 1988, national

turnout has fluctuated from a low of 52 percent to a high of61 percent in 2004. Meanwhile, turnout in Canada is usually70 percent to 75 percent andwell over 80 percent in other

democratic industrializedcountries. One of the tenetsof a successful democracy iscitizen participation. Wewant to encourage people tovote or do we? Has votingbecome a partisan issue as itwas once a southern issue?

***Its hard to know where to

start. Since the 2004 elec-tion, Republican legislaturesin several states, Indiana,Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania,to name a few all key inthe upcoming presidential election have enacted a varietyof laws to make it difficult for some to vote. Measures haveincluded reducing early voting, requiring voter identificationat the polls, intimidating the efforts of organizations, like the

League of Women Voters, to register voters and widespreadpurging of voter rolls.More than 21 million Americans get by without a drivers

license or a passport because they dont own a car or cantafford to fly. That group will find it much harder to vote inNovember. According to some, the new voter ID require-ments match the historic voter suppression efforts that havetargeted minorities rather than preserving the integrity of theelection. Mississippi led the way in creating barriers byusing poll taxes, literacy tests and elaborate registration sys-tems to keep African Americans from voting. Today, muchof the new restrictive laws will have the largest impact onAfrican-American voters.

In Ohio, early voting is no longer allowed three daysbefore election day or on weekends. Early voting makes iteasier for working people to vote especially those whomay be working more than one job. The long lines of votersin Ohio in 2004 led to new legislation for early voting. Thiswas to ease the strain on election workers and to reduce thelong wait at the polls after 8 p.m. on election day. The bill

had bipartisan support and was implemented through therecent presidential primaries. Then the Republican legisla-ture decided to restrict early voting in Democratic countiesbut extend early voting in Republican counties. There wassuch an uproar that Ohios Republican secretary of statestandardized early voting hours but cut out early voting onweekends and the three days before the election. The target black voters. According to Jonathan Alter of BloombergNews, it was designed to discourage the tradition in blackcommunities of busing worshippers from church to pollingplaces. In 2008, blacks made up more than half of the earlyin-person voters.

In Florida, a federal court has blocked much of the statesvoter suppression law in five counties. ... A dramatic reduc-tion in the form of voting that is disproportionately used byAfrican-Americans would make it materially more difficultfor some minority voters to cast a ballot, the three-judgepanel wrote in its opinion. Meanwhile, the League ofWomen Voters has stopped its traditional registration drive.

Harsh regulations require registers to turn in forms within 48hours or be fined. Since Floridas election law took effect,about 80,000 fewer voters have registered than during thesame period in 2004. Meanwhile, the states Republican gov-ernor is in the process of purging up to 180,000 voters toprevent likely Democrats from voting.

***The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2008 Indiana mandato-

ry photo ID case that the risk of voter fraud is real and thatstates have a legitimate interest in counting only votes thatare real. But evidence included not a single case of in-personimpersonation the only fraud a photo ID can reveal. Dittofor Pennsylvania where a new state law signed by itsRepublican governor requires voters casting ballots in personto have a photo ID from a limited number of sources such asa drivers license or a government-issued employee ID. APennsylvania court upheld the law but it is being appealedon grounds that the ID requirements are stricter than those inIndiana. In its case, Pennsylvania said there had been no

instances of voter fraud. So what goes? Pennsylvania StateHouse majority leaders explained, Voter ID is going toallow Romney to win the state.

***Perhaps the time has come to implement Section 2 of the

14th Amendment. It says that when the right to vote at anyelection for choice of electors for president and vice presi-dent and for members of Congress is denied, the basis ofrepresentation in that state shall be reduced proportionally.Meanwhile, all Americans, no matter what their party,should be outraged by these un-American activities.

Sue Lempert is the former mayor of San Mateo. Her column

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By Bernard CondonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK Someone call a doc-tor. The stock market just lost its pulse.

Prices are barely moving day to day.Investors are trading far fewer sharesthan they did last summer. And the

future looks equally comatose. The Vix,a sort of crystal ball of stock volatility,recently hit a five-year low.

August is usually slow, but this is ter-rible, says Howard Silverblatt, seniorindex analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.Nothing is happening.

On Wall Street, dull is bad. TheStandard & Poors 500 index has risen12 percent this year. But the slow tradingis widely seen as evidence that investorslack conviction, a warning sign that therally could peter out or collapse.

The summer of 2012 may indeedprove the calm before the storm. Butthere are reasons to be skeptical, andenjoy the break:

OUR MEMORIES ARE PLAYINGTRICKS

The market feels dead because lastsummer was wild ride. Congress squab-bled over whether to raise the debt ceil-ing, the U.S. was stripped of its AAAcredit rating, and people feared anotherrecession.

Stocks in the S&P 500 climbed andfell every day by an average 1.42 per-cent, according to Silverblatt. Thatincluded four straight days on which theDow Jones industrial average fell 634points, rose 429, plunged 519 and shotup 423.

This summer, stocks in the S&P 500have moved up or down each day by anaverage of 0.67 percent. Historically,

thats just about right. The average dailystock move since 1928 is 0.75 percent.

COMPUTERS ARE DISTORTINGTHE NUMBERS

Trading volume, the number of sharesbought and sold each day, is down by afifth from last year more evidencethat relatively few investors are pushing

up stocks as Main Street folks abandonthe market.But Matthew Rubin, director of invest-

ment strategy at Neuberger Berman, afinancial management company, saysordinary investors may have little to dowith the recent fall in volume.

He says high-frequency traders, whouse computers to profit from split-sec-ond gaps in prices as stocks gyrate, havebeen trading less because prices arent

jumping around as much.Though theyre relative newcomers to

stock trading, HFTs are behind seven ofevery 10 trades, so a small pullback canhave a big impact on volume. A drop involume shouldnt make you as nervousas one did 10 years ago, Rubin says.

RELAX, ITS THE SUMMER

The fall in the Vix, popularly knownas the fear index, could mean investorsare complacent. If you believe tradinglore, stocks could soon fall. As the WallStreet saying goes, When the Vix islow, its time to go as in sell.

But the Vix tends to drop most sum-mers as hedge fund traders and profes-sional money managers retreat to theirsecond homes in the Hamptons. Theexception was last year.

The Vix hit a high of 48 in August2011, nearly double the highs in Julyand June, according to FactSet, a finan-cial data provider. That high was also 2.5times the high this month.

Theres still plenty to worry about.After the stock market had one of its qui-etest days of the year Monday, DavidRosenberg, chief economist at moneymanager Gluskin Sheff, sent a report toinvestors noting companies are barelygrowing earnings and too few stocks arerising above their 200-day average price,

a sign the rally may not have enoughbreadth to sustain itself.This has been one of the more boring

months, says Ryan Detrick, senior tech-nical strategist at Schaeffers InvestmentResearch in Cincinnati. We made theremark that we should all take nextAugust off.

But while boring is best avoided ondates and in novels, it may not be so badin investing.

Consider the Vix, which earlier thismonth hit 13.45, the lowest since June2007, six months before the GreatRecession began. Waiting to buy untilthe Vix shoots up has a certain logic. Theidea is that in worrisome times, when theVix peaks, most everyone who wants tosell has already done it, so stocks can

only go higher.This has worked out wonderfully in

some years, like 1999. The Vix that yearwas high, rarely breaking below its long-term average of 20. Better yet, its dipsand rises that year tended to anticipatethose of stocks, meaning you could havemade money if you invested when thefear index was at its peaks. The S&P 500rose 21 percent that year.

But as Ken Fisher points out inDebunkery, his book on market myths,stocks have done well even when the Vixhas been low and flat. In 1995, the Vixrarely rose above 15, and barely moved.Stocks rose 38 percent.

Light trading not so worrisome


SHOREHAM, N.Y. A jolt of sup-port from a popular Web cartoonist hasre-energized a decades-long effort torestore a decrepit, 110-year-old labora-tory once used by Nikola Tesla, a vision-ary scientist who was a rival of Thomas

Edison and imagined a world of freeelectricity.

In little more than a week, tens ofthousands of donors from more than 100countries have kicked more than $1 mil-lion through a social media fundraisingwebsite to pay for the restoration ofNikola Teslas Wardenclyffe laboratory,

located about 65 miles east of New YorkCity.

A small band of followers who havestruggled to establish a science andresearch museum and learning center inhis honor are giddy with delight aboutthe lightning-quick response they havereceived.

Web comic helps fuel donations to Teslas NY lab


ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. Nucky Thompson, meet JimmyBuffett. And both of you gentlemen, meet the Mohegan Indians.

An unusual arrangement is coming soon to Atlantic City inwhich the operators of Mohegan Sun casinos in Connecticutand Pennsylvania will buy a piece of Resorts Casino Hotel andrun its day-to-day affairs.

The deal centers on a $35 million expansion that will bring aMargaritaville restaurant to the casino, splashing palm trees andparrots across its facade. But the casinos existing Roaring 20stheme, adopted to take advantage of interest in the hit HBOseries Boardwalk Empire about Prohibition-era Atlantic City,is staying, too.

The idea is to bring new excitement (and new customers withtheir new money) to a casino that has struggled since nearlyhaving to close two years ago.

The alliance with the Mohegans and their well-establishedcasinos in Connecticut and Pennsylvania should give a bigboost to Resorts, which was the first casino in the United Statesto open outside Nevada.

We are really excited about this, said Mitchell Etess, CEOof the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority. Its a win-win foreveryone involved.

The arrangement must be approved by New Jersey casinoregulators. A vote has yet to be scheduled, but one could comenext month.

It became necessary following the sudden death of Resortsco-owner Dennis Gomes in February. A veteran of the casinoindustry, and the inspiration for the hit movie Casino, Gomeshad been working to turn Resorts around from years of lossesunder previous ownership to bigger, newer competitors inAtlantic City and in surrounding states.

Mohegans seeksuccess through

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New players, same M-A philosophyBy Julio LaraDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Last we saw theMenlo-Atherton foot-ball team, it was trick-ling off the Terra NovaHigh School turf,heads held high afterbattling Serra in theCentral Coast SectionDI title game a bat-tle they lost.

So, coming off theheels of their latest

CCS title game appear-ance, the Bears enter the

2012 season with outsiders

expecting more of the same success. Fortunatelyfor M-A, the system and foundation set by thelast couple of years under head coach SioneTaufoou is strong.

The key for us is to continue to get better, its

about consistency and competing, Taufoou said.Our roots are still the same: pride, accountabili-ty, commitment. Were still standing by thoseteam values. Nothing changes here. Were tryingto develop that concept of, get better every day,get better every moment. It doesnt matter ifthats on the football field or the classroom.

But heres the bad news: M-A enters the 2012season, high outside expectations and all, withthe task of replacing seven all-league players including three Players of the Year. In a sense,Menlo-Atherton 2012 team is a victim of its 2011success. Those seven players were all seniors.And M-A wont be getting any sympathy pointsfrom the very tough Peninsula Athletic LeagueBay Division nor do they want any.

I dont think you really can replace [thoseplayers], Taufoou said. New people have to step

into their own roles. I think that passion, thatdrive, were looking for guys to step into thoseroles. We have a couple of guys that are doing a

Mills hopes 2012 is foundation for futureBy Julio Lara

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Mike Krieger, the new head football coach atMills High School, spent the summer layingdown the foundation for what he hopes will be theresurgence of a once-proud Vikingsprogram.

On Saturday, in a scrimmage against Marshallof San Francisco, Krieger and the Vikings werefinally able to put up the pillars.

We played very well, Krieger said. Wescored a few times and our defense held[Marshall] from getting into the end zone. I toldthe guys after the game that it was a really goodfirst step. We saw some good things and we alsosome things we need to work on so we can beready for the game against Galileo.

Slowly but surely, the rebuilding process ispicking up steam at Mills. And while Saturdaysperformance against Marshall wont go down inthe win/loss column, when youre a team that hasgone 3-26-1 the last three seasons, moral victories

are sometimes more valuable.

Im confident in what were doing and confi-dent the coaches are teaching the kids what wewant them to learn and the kids so far executedwhat we wanted them to do, Krieger said.

Galileo looms five days away, and right now,the pro-set offense implemented by Krieger isauditioning a pair of quarterbacks. Their com-mand of the offense is pretty good at this pointwith what weve introduced them to, Kriegersaid. We have a core belief in the type of offensewe want to run and then based on the players,what their strengths and weaknesses are, we kindof focus more plays in one direction or the other.

Well run the ball and do play-action, Kriegersaid. Then well have the ability to get into dif-ferent packages. But thats going to take anothercouple of weeks before we get the base offensewhere we want it to be.

Krieger said he likes what he sees so far fromhis running backs. Antonio Jeffrey, a junior,showed flashes of promise Saturday. Hes a

smooth runner, Krieger said. Hes got good feetand hes one of the faster guys on the team.

A point of concern for Krieger is the offensiveline where he said the team is a little thin num-bers-wise and will be moving some playersaround in hopes of filling some of those gaps.

Right now, the bulk of the responsibility fallson center Erick Garcia, a junior, whos done a

solid job so far on making the blocking callswhen the Vikings break the huddle.

Defensively, itll be all about discipline in YearOne of the rebuild.

Good thing about them is that theyre rallyingto the football, Krieger said. We had two, three,four guys making tackles yesterday which issomething we hadnt really seen before. We had-nt been in the situation to see it, but certainlythey executed the defensive plan as well.

Krieger said hes counting on a linebackingcore, led by Anthony Vozaites and Joey Himuro,to anchor an otherwise young group.

SeeMILLS, Page 12

Key Players:Evan Perkins (sr.,WR/DB);Nicky Gallagher (sr.,LB/OL); Brian Jag-

gers (jr.,LB);Tasi Teu (sr.,RB/S); Zack Moore (sr.,QB);Tom Bucka (sr.,OL/DL).

2011 record: 4-1 PAL Bay,9-4 overall.

2012 schedule (home games in CAPS): 8/31@ El Camino High School,7

p.m.;9/7 @ Los Gatos,7:30 p.m.;9/15 @ St. Ignatius,2 p.m.;9/21 SOUTH CITY,

3:15 p.m.;10/5 ARAGON,7 p.m.;10/12 BURLINGAME,7 p.m.;10/19 @ Half Moon

Bay,3 p.m.;10/27 @ Sacred Heart Prep,1 p.m.;11/2 TERRA NOVA,7 p.m.;11/9

WOODSIDE,7 p.m.

Key players: Anthony Vozaites (sr.,LB/FB);Bryan Num (sr.,DL);Joey Himuro (sr.,

FB/LB); Antonio Jeffrey (jr.,RB/DB);Erick Garcia (jr.,OL/DL).

2011 record: 0-5 PAL Lake,1-9 overall

2012 schedule (home games in CAPS): 8/31 GALILEO,3:15 p.m.;9/7 @ Cu-

pertino,7:30 p.m.;9/15 HARBOR,2 p.m.;9/22 HARKER 2 p.m.;9/28 @ Menlo,3:15

p.m.;10/12 @ Carlmont,7 p.m.;10/19 SAN MATEO,7 p.m.;10/26 @ El Camino,

3 p.m.;11/02 @ Hillsdale,7 p.m.;11/10 CAPUCHINO,2 p.m.

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Menlo-Athertons Zack Moore is one of two play-ers vying for the starting quarterback positionwith the season opener less than a week away.See BEARS,Page 12

By Arnie StapletonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER Peyton Manningwas magnificent in his final regular-season tuneup Sunday, throwing hisfirst two touchdown passes for theDenver Broncos in a 29-24 loss tothe San Francisco 49ers.

Manning completed 10 of 12passes for 122 yards, including TDtosses of 10 and 5 yards to EricDecker, and was nearly perfect. Thetwo misses were a dropped pass by

Joel Dreessen and an errant pass toBrandon Stokley, who was held onthe play but didnt draw the flag.

After managing one TD to gowith four turnovers in his first sevenpossessions this preseason,Manning drove the Broncos (1-2) toscores on all three of his posses-sions, then put on his visor with 46seconds left in the first quarter afterstaking Denver to a 17-0 lead.

Alex Smith threw a 49-yard TDpass and David Akers kicked fivefield goals for the Niners (2-1), who

outscored the Broncos backups 19-0 in the second half but lost widereceiver Ted Ginn Jr. to an ankleinjury early in the second half.

For the second straight week, theBroncos backups were awful. Inblowing a 24-10 halftime lead,theyve been outscored 40-0 afterhalftime in the last two games.

Denvers first drive stalled whenthe replacement officials failed towhistle cornerback Carlos Rogersfor a blatant hold on a third-downpass to Stokley, and the Broncos

settled for Matt Praters 53-yardfield goal.

Manning was money after that.He completed all six of his passes

for 83 yards on a long drive thatended with his first touchdownthrow in orange and blue, a 10-yardstrike to Decker, who beat Rogersover the middle.

The highlight of drive was a 38-yard pass to running back LanceBall, who left the game with a ribinjury. Manning was blasted bylinebacker Parys Haralson in the

chest right as he released his longestpass of the preseason. Manningbounced right up, raced downfield,lined up in the no-huddle and hitrunning back Willis McGahee for14 yards to the San Francisco 12.

It was the second time Manning,who missed all of last season with aneck injury that required four oper-ations, had been hit hard in the pre-season, and both times he respond-ed with a big pass for the first down.

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great job. Every team has their own identity,every individual has their own identity andeveryone is going to find and needs to findtheir own way of doing things.

The only expectation I really hold on thesekids is PAC (pride, accountability, commitment).What other people see of our team,Id like to say

were a team that plays with a lot of effort. Itdoesnt matter win or lose. Id like to say we havea bunch of kids that show up, put on their bluecollars and go to work. Were humbled thateveryone has great expectations of us but at thesame time we just want to show up and play hard play extremely hard.

On offense, the Bears welcome a newoffensive coordinator, who is implementing acouple new folds into one of last seasonsmost dynamic offensive attacks.

The kids are still adjusting but in the longrun were a team that tries to run the ball welland were going to continue to do that,Taufoou said. Offensively I dont think muchchanges. Were going to run the ball. Weregoing to be physical at the point of attack.

The departure of all-league quarterbackWilly Fonua means either Zack Moore or

Royce Branning take over the signal-callingduties for M-A. Both had their moments inthe Bears scrimmage against Serra, Sequoiaand Encinal. Whomever gets the nod will relyheavily on wide receiver Evan Perkins.

I dont know if were the biggest team upfront, Taufoou said of his offensive line. Imlooking forward to them playing well. Otherguys are starting to step up in their roles andits nice to see that people are starting to work

together.On paper, the biggest hole for M-A will be

on defense, where theyll need to replace fourall-leaguers including the PALs DefensivePlayer of the Year.

Were not there yet, Taufoou said. Butwere in the process of getting better. Were try-ing to get better every day. Were trying to com-pete. We want to put in a lot of effort.

M-A is expecting a big season from juniorlinebacker Brian Jaggers. Hes the heart andsoul of the defense,Taufoou said. Hes the onethat lines us up and gets us ready to go.

Another point of interest for M-A this seasonwill be its special teams unit. Thats somethingyou cant say about most squads, but given thefact that the Bears graduated the best kicker andmost dynamic returner in the league, specialteams is definitely something to keep your eyeon if youre a Menlo-Atherton fan.

Its going to be a dog fight just like the lastcouple of years, Taufoou said of the PAL BayDivision. Its a tough league and its swung alittle to where, not were the young group.Were going to have to battle every week we really are.

All the talk about replacements makes forgreat speculative chit-chat. But rest assured,Taufoou believes he has the kind of team he canchallenge a preseason schedule that includesroad games against two reigning CCS champi-ons in Los Gatos and St. Ignatius speaks volumesto the confidence the M-A head coach has withhis team. If nothing else, the Bears will be battle-tested come their PAL opener against Aragon.

This team needs to find its own way,Taufoou said. They need to find their own wayof getting it done. They need to compete,get bet-ter every day. We love the guys that left, they lefta great standard and they left some great expec-tations. Now its the willingness of this group tostep up and fulfill those expectations.

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Joey showed really strong commitmentduring the summer and as the season has got-ten underway, Krieger said. Hes got somesenior leadership. Were expecting him to be aleader on the field.

The next couple of weeks will be superimportant for Mills as they try to build confi-

dence heading into their Lake Division open-er against reigning co-champion Carlmont.The Vikings have only won one league game

the last three seasons, so It will attempt tobuild momentum against four teams that hadlosing records last year (a combined 11-29record) before their first big test againstMenlo School.

I think couple of months ago, a .500 sea-son would be a successful season comingfrom where theyve been the last few years,Krieger said. But certainly, we would expecttwo or three wins in the Lake Division.

Continued from page 11

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RENTON, Wash. Terrell Owens NFLreturn lasted less than three weeks.

Owens was released by the SeattleSeahawks on Sunday, part of the league-man-dated roster reductions from 90 to 75 players.

The 38-year-old posted a message on hisTwitter account shortly before 11 a.m. PDT

that he had been released and the Seahawksmade the move official later in the afternoon.

Im no longer a Seahawk. I THANK theorganization 4 the opportunity, Im trulyblessed beyond belief. My FAITH is intact &will NOT waiver.

Owens wasnt the only veteran to get cut bythe Seahawks. Offensive linemen Deuce Lutuiand Alex Barron both had their veteran con-tracts terminated, while Seatt lewaived/injured defensive back Roy Lewis(knee), tight end Cameron Morrah (toe),defensive tackle Pep Levingston (knee) andlinebacker Jamison Konz (shoulder).

Owens signed a one-year deal with Seattle (No.22 in APPro32) on Aug. 7,following a sterling work-out that had coaches andSeahawks staff ravingabout how good he lookedfor having not played anNFL game in more than18 months.

He signed just beforeSeattles first preseason game and made hisdebut in the second week against Denver.

But his preseason performance was morenotable for the passes he dropped than any-thing he caught.

Owens dropped a potential 46-yard touch-down against Denver on a perfect throw fromMatt Flynn.

He failed to make a catch in any of his fivetargets against the Broncos and then hadanother glaring drop against Kansas City onFriday night.

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By Genaro C. ArmasTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. Arms outstretched in the air witha smile from ear-to-ear, NoriatsuOsaka couldnt contain his glee.

Neither could his teammates fromTokyo after Osakas third home runof the game put an exclamation pointon Japans 12-2 victory overTennessee in five innings in the LittleLeague World Series title gameSunday.

The 12-year-old Osaka added atriple for good measure, too, to topoff his 4-for-4 afternoon. In a sym-bolic gesture, Japans players joggedthe traditional postgame victory lapcarrying the flags for both their homecountry and the United States.

We had such a great time inPennsylvania and we really played agood game today. It was kind of a,Thanks, Osaka said through aninterpreter.

Starter Kotaro Kiyomiya struckout eight in four innings and addedan RBI single for Japan. The gameended in the fifth after Osakas thirdhomer made it a 10-run game.

We thought we played the best inthe tournament so far, especially towin by the 10-run rule in the finals,said 12-year-old Rintaro Hirano,who homered in the fourth to make it10-1.

A day after pounding out a 24-16

win over California in the U.S. titlegame, the Goodlettsville, Tenn.,

sluggers could only muster two hits solo shots by Brock Myers andLorenzo Butler.

It was a bittersweet final game fortwo teams that grew close duringtheir two weeks in SouthWilliamsport. They exchanged cus-tomary postgame handshakes at theplate before Japan received theWorld Series championship bannerand took their warning-track run.

Tennessee was our best friends in

the U.S. division, Kiyomiya said.Japans jog finally stopped in front

of the teams giddy cheering sectionas proud family members and friendsstood shoulder-to-shoulder to takepictures through the infield fence.

There were so many highlights,including five home runs offTennessee pitching.

That was more than enoughoffense for 13-year-old aceKiyomiya, who had a fastballclocked in the high-70s, The right-hander with the hitch in mid-delivery

pitched like a big-league ace inallowing just one hit.

Regardless, this is still a banneryear for Goodlettsville after itsexhausting victory Saturday overPetaluma, Calif., for the U.S. cham-pionship. That game set a record formost combined runs in the WorldSeries.

The thrilling victory kept theTennessee players and their familiesup late into the night.

(The parents) must have partiedharder than the kids did, managerJoey Hale said. I knew wed be flattoday.

Tennessee lost a 10-run lead in thebottom of the sixth of that gamebefore scoring nine times the nextinning to finally put away Petalumain a Little League classic. Even moreimpressively, Butler had threehomers and a record nine RBIs afeat so unique the 12-year-oldsname became a trending topic onTwitter.

Butler went deep again off relieverOsaka in the fifth Butlers fourthhomer in two days to cut the leadto 10-2 and give Goodlettsvile somehome hope. Tennessees mini-mash-ers have proven they can break outany time at the plate.

It feels really good and it wasreally great, Butler said simplyabout his hitting exploits. He said histhree homers Saturday were thelongest he had hit all season.

Its pitching depth sapped,Tennessee turned to right-handerJustin Smith to start against Japan the first time the 12-year-old hadpitched in the World Series or inSoutheast regional tournament.

Everybody knew our pitchingwas depleted and we were bound fora letdown, Hale said. Im not say-ing we were going to beat Japan. Ithink they were the best team here ateverything by far, pitching, hitting.But I think last night is how we wantto be remembered.

Leadoff hitter Osaka, 12, didntwaste any time with a first-pitchtriple to the right-field corner in thefirst. Kiyomiya delivered his RBIsingle two batters later to get thescoring started.

Osaka then homered in the secondto left-center, just in front of theLittle Leaguesign above the fence,before leading off the fourth with hissecond homer, this time to center, fora 6-1 lead.

The Kitasuna league all-star teamfrom Tokyo won Japans eighthLittle League t

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