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    Tuesday Aug.6, 2013 Vol XII,Edition 303

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    SACRAMENTO FitchRatings boosted Californias bondrating to an A grade on Monday,revising the states outlook to

    positive in another signal thefinancial industry approves of thestates efforts to trim spending andprograms.

    In its announcement, the ratingsagency said California has madenotable progress on timely, more

    s t r u c t u r a l l ysound budgets,s p e n d i n grestraint, andsizable reduc-tions in budget-ary debt,

    resulting in itsupgrade from anA-, which thestate had held

    since 2010.

    Californiasbond ratinggets a boostFitch revises its outlook to positiveafter state efforts to trim spending

    By Michelle DurandDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    County supervisors mightincrease planning and building

    fees 5 percent nearly across theboard and add more than a dozennew ones but opponents say theproposal will only increase illegal

    work performed by unincorporatedarea homeowners who cant affordthe pricey permits.

    Emerald Hills resident NancyMangini, no stranger to butting

    heads with the county over plan-ning changes over the years, said

    San Mateo County considers

    planning, building fee hikeOpponents call it short-sighted,say illegal work will increase

    By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    The worlds first fully automated3-D-printing vending machine,dubbed the Dreambox, will beavailable for use in downtown SanMateo soon as its makers are busylearning how to grow their busi-ness at Boos t VC, an incubator foryoung entrepreneurs.

    The Dreambox kiosk will helpanchor a pop-up retail site at theformer Collective Antiques build-

    Whats in the box?Local entrepreneurs develop 3-D-printing vending machine

    Service expanding,founders hope to overcome regulatory strifeBy Angela SwartzDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    FlightCar, which began its air-port car rental business at SanFrancisco International Airportlast year, launched FlightCarMonthly yesterday and is hopingthis will help them get off theground despite facing some bumpssince running up against govern-

    ment regulations.Launched in February 2012,FlightCars primary service isrenting out peoples cars throughits website while traveling, giv-

    ing it a share of the proceeds, freeairport parking and a car wash inexchange. Customers are taken bylimousine from a nearby airportparking lot to their flights at SFO,while the company says rentersget a cheaper price.

    Run by three teenagers, the newservice is born out of the realiza-tion a lot of people who live inbusy cities and own cars barely use

    them. Instead of parking ingarages for $300-$400 a month,car owners in San Francisco andBoston can rent out cars for theentire month, said co-founder and

    COO Kevin Petrovic. Car ownersreceive a flat-rate monthly pay-ment of $150-$400 to park-and-share.

    While it may seem like a win-win for some, the San FranciscoPublic Utilities Commission hasproposed new guidelines for simi-lar companies and San Franciscocity officials say the company isundercutting rental car companies

    at the airport by acting like arental company but ignoring theregulations that govern them.

    Teen startup FlightCar taking off at SFO

    BRIAN ONG

    FlightCar co-founders Kevin Petrovic, 19, Rujul Zaparde, 18, and ShriGaneshram,18 at work.

    BILL SILVERFARB/DAILY JOURNAL

    Will Drevno peers into the Dreambox,a 3-D-printing machine he helped develop. It will be ready for public use

    in a couple of weeks at the former Collective Antiques building in downtown San Mateo.

    See PRINTING, Page 19

    See FITCH, Page 19

    See FEE, Page 20

    Jerry Brown

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    Chinas heat wavebrings deadman back to life

    BEIJING Having the dead guyjump up for a drink probably wasntpart of the script.

    A staged protest claiming that cityofficials had beaten a sidewalk vendorto death in central China went awrywhen the man playing dead under awhite sheet was overcome by theregions heat wave and sprang up toquaff a bottle of water, state mediareported Monday.

    Its too hot. I cant bear it any-more, the man was quoted as sayingby state-run Xinhua News Agency.

    More than 10 men had gatheredSaturday with a gurney that purported-ly carried the vendors body, coveredby a sheet, in the Hubei provincialcapital Wuhan. They were demandingtens of thousands of yuan (thousandsof dollars) in compensation for thealleged death, Xinhua said.

    The incident drew 300 onlookersand about 80 police officers.

    It was not immediately clear how thegroup intended to press their claimswithout submitting the body for aninvestigation and autopsy. In anycase, the game was up when the man as Xinhua reported jumped up from

    under the sheet.The man on the gurney was identi-fied as Han, who has been detained fordisturbing social order, said a districtadministration official in Wuhan con-tacted by telephone. She refused to

    give her name.Han told the police that urban man-

    agement workers - known as cheng-guan clashed with the group ofvendors earlier Saturday after tellingthem that their drinks stands wereblocking traffic near a subway stop,Xinhua said.

    Many members of Chinas publichave long resented the heavy-handedtactics of the countrys chengguan.Though they have no legal authorityto use force, they are often accused ofbeating people who commit minor

    infractions in shows of power thathave fueled social tension, triggeredriots and aggravated public discontentagainst the government.

    Tagliani pays off wagerwith beaver-suit stunts

    INDIANAPOLIS IndyCar driverAlex Tagliani has made good on a bethe lost to fellow driver Scott Dixon bywearing a beaver costume while ridinga tricycle and milking a cow at theIndiana State Fair.

    Taglianis stint as a clown onMonday happened because Dixonmanaged to raise $1,130 more than hedid for charities through an initiativecalled Power of 2. Together, the two

    racers raised more than $13,000.Tagliani also tried unsuccessfullyto ring the bell at the Strong Mangame on the midway and had photostaken with the fairs worldslargest male hog and the worlds

    largest popcorn ball.Tagliani, still wearing the beaver

    suit, prevailed over Dixon when thetwo raced go-karts for five laps on aquarter-mile banked oval track.

    Auction set for goldfortune amassed by recluse

    CARSON CITY, Nev. The finaltreasures of a quiet man who collecteda fortune in gold coins will be auc-tioned off Tuesday in Nevada.

    The body of Walter Samaszko Jr. wasfound in his Carson City home in June2012. After his death, a cleaning crewhired to tidy his modest, ranch stylehome where he had lived for fourdecades came upon a stunning discov-ery - boxes and boxes full of goldcoins and bullion collected over anunassuming lifetime. It was enough tofill two wheelbarrows.

    One batch, mostly bullion, was soldat auction in February for $3.5 mil-lion. Tuesdays auction at the CarsonCity courthouse includes more than2,600 coins to be sold in six lots.

    These are the rated coins; the col-lector types, said Alan Glover,Carson City Clerk-Recorder who ischarge of handling Samaszkos esta te,on Monday. Its a little more compli-

    cated on the pricing that it is on thebullion.He estimated the value of the collec-

    tion at $3 million, though the finaltally will depend on the condition ofthe coins as assessed by bidders.

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    This Day in History

    Thought for the Day

    1945During World War II, the United Statesdropped an atomic bomb onHiroshima, Japan, resulting in anestimated 140,000 deaths.

    No man ever got very high by pulling other peopledown.The intelligent merchant does not knock his

    competitors.The sensible worker does not workthose who work with him.Dont knock your friends.

    Dont knock your enemies.Dont knock yourself.

    Alfred,Lord Tennyson, British poet (1809-1892)

    Rock singer PatMacDonald is 61.

    Actress SoleilMoon Frye is 37.

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    A construction vehicle lies where it was swallowed by a sinkhole on Saint-Catherine Street in downtown Montreal,Canada.

    Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog anddrizzle in the morning. Highs in the lower60s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.Tuesday night: Cloudy. Patchy fog anddrizzle after midnight. Lows in the lower50s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.Wednesday: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fogand drizzle in the morning. Highs in thelower 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.Wednesday night: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog and drizzle

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    In 1825 , Upper Peru became the autonomous republic ofBolivia.

    In 1862, the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas was scut-tled by its crew on the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge,La., to prevent capture by the Union.

    In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swimthe English Channel, arriving in Kingsdown, England,from France in 14 1/2 hours.

    In 1930, New York State Supreme Court Justice JosephForce Crater went missing after leaving a Manhattan restau-rant; his disappearance remains a mystery.

    In 1942, Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands became thefirst reigning queen to address a joint session of Congress,

    telling lawmakers that despite Nazi occupation, her peo-ples motto remained, No surrender.

    In 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov became the sec-ond man to orbit Earth as he flew aboard Vost ok 2.

    In 1965 , President Lyndon B. Johnson signe d the Voti ngRights Act.

    In 1973, former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, 72, diedin exile in Spain. Entertainer Stevie Wonder was seriouslyinjured in a car accident in North Carolina.

    In 1978 , Pope Paul VI died at Castel Gandolfo at age 80.

    In 1988, an attempt by New York City police to enforce acurfew in Tompkins Square Park triggered a melee that left52 people injured and led to the filing of more than 110claims of police brutality.

    In 1993 , Louis Freeh won Senate confirmation to be FBIdirector.

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    Jazz musician Charlie Haden is 76. Actor-director PeterBonerz is 75. Actress Louise Sorel is 73. Actor MichaelAnderson Jr. is 70. Actor Ray Buktenica is 70. Actor DorianHarewood is 63. Actress Catherine Hicks is 62. Country musi-cian Mark DuFresne (Confederate Railroad) is 60. Actress

    Stepfanie Kramer is 57. Actress Faith Prince is 56. Rhythm-and-blues singer Randy DeBarge is 55. Actor Leland Orser is53. Country singers Peggy and Patsy Lynn are 49. BasketballHall of Famer David Robinson is 48. Actor Jeremy Ratchfordis 48. Country singer Lisa Stewart is 45.

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    3Tuesday Aug.6, 2013THEDAILYJOURNAL LOCAL

    SAN MATEO

    Suspicious person. A woman and herdaughter were approached by a stranger ask-ing if they wanted drugs on the 200 block ofBayshore Boulevard before 8:10 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 4.Disturbance. People were yelling at aDennys restaurant on 2900 block ofNorfolk Street before 2:34 a.m. Sunday,Aug. 4.Fraud. Two counterfeit $100 bills werepassed at a bookstore at the HillsdaleShopping Center before 4:38 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 3.Theft. Two vehicle license plates werestolen on the 4300 block of BeresfordStreet before 11:06 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3.Burglary . A vehicles window was smashedand an iPad was stolen on the 3100 block ofEl Camino Real before 7:05 p.m. Friday,

    Aug. 2.Disturbance. A man and an apartmentbuilding employee pushed and kicked eachother on the 1000 block of East PoplarAvenue before 4:18 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1.Fraud. A persons Social Security informa-tion was used to create a fake ID on the 2200block of Bridgepointe Parkway before10: 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1.Suspicious circumstances. A personwas unable to open their residential doorbecause someone had tampered with the

    locks on the 900 block of Peninsula Avenuebefore 6:5 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 31.

    BURLINGAMEArrest. A person was arrested for being inpossession of drugs on the 1200 block ofBayshore Highway before 10:32 a.m.Thursday, Aug. 1.Burglary . Several vehicles were brokeninto on the 1400 block of BayshoreHighway before 12:59 p.m. Wednesday,July 31.

    Vandalism. A girls car was egged on the1700 block of Broadway before 10:15 a.m.Wednesday, July 31.Fraud. Aperson with a fake ID attempted tocash a forged check on the 100 block ofPark Road before 4:35 p.m. Tuesday, July30.Traffic mat ter. Aman was cited for drivingwithout a license or insurance and talkingon his cellphone on the 1100 block ofCalifornia Drive before 3:36 p.m. Tuesday,July 30.Theft. A womans purse was stolen from ashopping cart on the 1400 block of HowardAvenue before 11:28 a.m. Tuesday, July 30.Recovered propert y. A vehicle stolenfrom the East Bay was recovered on the1300 block of North Carolan Avenue before1:29 p.m. Monday, July 29.

    UNINCORPORATEDSAN MATEO COUNTYBurglary . A bicycle valued at $5,000 wasstolen from an open garage on the 100block of Amesport Landing before 4 p.m.Sunday, July 28.Burglary . A vehicles window was smashedand several items were stolen on the 100block of North Cabrillo Highway before8:38 p.m. Sunday, July 28.

    Police reports

    What a dogAman made lewd gestures and harassed awoman because he was upset about herdog barking on the 1400 block ofFloribunda Avenue in Burlingamebefore 7:59 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1.

    By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    A handful of parking meters will soonserve double duty in downtown San Mateo asA) an art installation and B) a way to raisefunds to support more art in public places.

    The Downtown San Mateo Association isteaming with the Public Works Departmentto install eight of the decommissioneddevices to be displayed in a meter gardenon Third Avenue and San Mateo Drive in aplanter box. The garden will also be movedon occasion to other planter boxes down-town.

    Six of them will also be painted by localsas the DSMAhas announced a call for artiststo add their creative touches to the meters.

    They will also be functional, allowingpassersby the opportunity to feed the meter

    to help fund more public art in the area, saidDSMAExecutive Director Jessica Evans.The DSMA, with volunteer help, just

    added two murals downtown on Fifth Avenueand North B Street as a way to liven up thearea and is looking for new ways to raiseawareness to support the arts.

    Yarn bombs have also popped up down-town on phone booths, mailboxes andother items as the city has worked withartist Lorna Watt to add some color to down-town.

    One of the meters is already painted andanother will be painted by a youth partici-pant in the San Mateo Police ActivitiesLeague.

    The garden should be up in time for down-towns Oct. 5 Wine Walk, Evans said, andhaving local artists paint them should give

    the meters a local feel.San Mateo Mayor David Lim has already

    pledged $100 to support the project.I am thrilled by the efforts of the

    Downtown San Mateo Association to bringmore community-based public art to down-town San Mateo. Beyond its aestheticvalue, art has the ability to inspire the souland this project is a perfect way to inspirethe creativity of not only local artists butour entire community, Lim wrote the DailyJournal in an email. Public art deserves oursupport.

    The call for artists is open to all adult andstudent practicing artists and all entriesmust be an original design and artwork andmust be suitable for viewing by all ages.

    The deadline to submit is Aug. 23 andselected artists will be announced Aug. 30.

    For more information, including eligibil-ity, rules and the application form, go toh t t p : / / d s m a . o r g / w p -content/uploads/2013/08/meter-garden-rfp.pdf. Application and fees may bedropped off or sent to DSMAat 318 S. B St.,San Mateo, 94401.

    In other city news: San Mateo hasentered the 2013 Rand McNally Best SmallTown competition and is vying to win thebest food category. To vote, go towww.bestoftheroad.com and vote SanMateo for best food now through Tuesday,Sept. 3.

    San Mateo has so many strengths, andone of them is food, Marcus Clarke, thecitys Economic Development Managerwrote in a statement. We have a high quali-ty and diverse selection of grocery stores,restaurants and specialty food stores. TheRand McNally competition will promoteour local food mecca on a broad scale and

    can help to draw tourists and visitors look-ing for new culinary experiences.

    Public gets chance to feed art projectArtistic meter garden to be installed in downtown San Mateo

    The Downtown San Mateo Association is teaming with the Public Works Department to createa meter gardenart display on Third Avenue and San Mateo Drive in a planter box.

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    Harlean MorawietzHarlean Morawietz died Aug. 2, 2013 at

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    adventure in life by trav-eling the United Statesfrom New York, her placeof birth, and made herhome in California whereshe met and marriedGuenter Morawietz andhad two children, Victoriaand Gregory.

    She lived life on her own terms and wroteher own rules. She had an unshakable

    willpower and never gave up on lifes chal-lenges. She was a lifelong entrepreneur,active in several clubs and organizations,loved to read, knit, travel and adored herdogs. Of all her accomplishments, Harleansgreatest achievements have been in theeffect she had on the lives of her family,friends and work.

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    Obituary

    Lawsuit filed overinvalidated AP exams

    Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, the firm rep-resenting the San Mateo Union HighSchool District, filed a lawsuit againstEducational Testing Service and the CollegeBoard yesterday to release 641 invalidatedAdvanced Placement test scores at MillsHigh School.

    The suit, filed in the San Mateo CountySuperior Court, states that there is no evi-dence of misconduct by the students and noevidence that the testing irregularities mate-rially affected the test scores.

    It goes on to state that defendants ETS andthe College Board adopted a guilty untilproven innocent position that would seemanathema to the concept of American jus-tice.

    Complaints include: breach of contract,breach of implied covenant of good faithand fair dealing, violation of the CaliforniaUnfair Competition law, declaratory relief, a

    temporary restraining order, injunctiverelief and violation of constitutional dueprocess.

    Firm partner Nancy Fineman will handlethe case.

    The situation came to light July 17 whenthe school district reported that ETS, testdistributor College Boards securityprovider that administers the AP Exams,invalidated tests in 11 AP subjects taken by

    286 students this past May because of seat-ing irregularities.

    A representative from ETS has said a thor-ough investigation was initiated inresponse to information voluntarily provid-ed by a Mills student who complainedschool personnel failed to comply with spe-cific seating guidelines. The representativealso said both ETS and the College Boardunderstood the frustration and offeredretests.

    Local brief

    DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT

    A decision to place a business taxincrease on the Nov. 5 ballot was pushedoff by the South San Francisco CityCouncil to Wednesday so an alternativeproposal can be considered.

    The proposal by Clear Channel, a bill-board company that opposes the taxchange, will be reviewed by city staff andheard by the council again Wednesday.

    With the proposed measure, the newbusiness license tax change, the citywould gain $350,000 more revenue annu-ally, and increasing up to $1 millionannually if the tax were fully implement-ed and if potential new revenue basedupon business expansion plans were real-ized, according to a city staff report. This

    would come from a $50 tax per up to$100,000 in gross receipts, $100 for$100,001 to $200,000 in gross receipts,$2,000 for $200,001 to $300,000 ingross receipts, $5,000 for $300,001 to$500,000 in gross tax receipts, all theway up to $40,000 for the first $500,001of gross receipts plus $8,000 for eachincrement of $100,000 of gross receiptsover $500,00 0, the staff report stated.

    At a public hearing July 31, a represen-tative from Clear Channel said that the $1million revenue is the same as the currentrevenue numbers from business licensetax and that this proposed measure unfair-ly targets the billboard industry.

    We have a long-term relationship and

    wed like to foster that going forward,said Bruce Qualls, Clear Channel vicepresident of Real Estate and GovernmentAffairs at last nights meeting. I can seethe pressure from the community to bal-ance the budget and still offer them serv-ices. We feel like right now we proposedan alternative that was aggressive for usand we hope that youll consider it.

    Councilman Mark Addiego asked Quallsif he could explain the Clear Channelalternative proposal in detail publicly,but Wallace said he could only talk to

    staff about the plan. This prompted theadditional meeting date tomorrow morn-ing .

    Councilwoman Karyl Matsumoto saidshe would like to see an agreementbetween the city and Clear Channelreached.

    Businesses currently pay a per-employ-ee charge, which started at $15 in 2007,with a provision to increase as inflationdoes. Prior to that, the tax was a $75annual fee plus $5 per employee with a$1,000 cap that was set in 1976 with noadjustment for inflation.

    The next special meeting will takeplace 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at City Hall,400 Grand Ave. in South San Francisco.

    SSF business taxchanges delayedCity Council pushes back vote to see alternative plan

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    By Mihir Zaveriand Shaya Tayefe MohajerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SAN FRANCISCO Hundredsof thousands of San Francisco BayArea commuters got a temporaryreprieve from a massive transitstrike when Gov. Jerry Brownintervened in a labor contract dis-pute, but the clock began tickingagain with the potential for anoth-er strike in less than a week.

    Sunday nights eleventh hourorder averted the walkout and leftthe morning commute to proceednormally, without the widespreadtravel congestion that a strikeinvolvin g Ba y Area Rapid Trans it,the nations fifth-largest rail line,would have created.

    Brown named a board of investi-gators for a seven-day inquiry intothe contract dispute that had laborunions poised to walk off the jobat midnight Sunday.

    The board called for a publichearing Wednesday in Oakland forboth sides to present their argu-ments.

    Browns order was issued under adecades-old law that allows thestate to intervene if a strike will

    significantly disrupt public trans-portation services and endangerpublic health.

    It came after BART BoardPresident Tom Radulovich sent aletter to the governor requestinghis intervention and a cooling-offperiod of 60 days, BARTspokesman Rick Rice said in astatement.

    For the sake of the people ofthe Bay Area, I urge in thestrongest terms possible theparties to meet quickly and as longas necessary to get this disputeresolved, Brown said in the order.

    The board will report its find-ings to the governor, who canthen petition a court to call a 60-day cooling-off period, said EvanWestrup, a spokesman for Brown.The report will explain BART andthe unionspositions, but will notfind fault or issue a recommenda-

    tion.Meanwhile, commuters whorely on BART breathed a sigh ofrelief. Matthew Purpura, 25, com-mutes from San Francisco toOakland, where he works as a cof-fee roaster. He said he would haveborrowed his friends car to get towork, but the commute would havebeen a nightmare.

    Brown orders BART inquiry,boardsets hearing to probe labor dispute

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    A board created to investigate Bay Area Rapid Transits ongoing labor fightis calling for a public hearing to investigate the contract dispute betweenthe agencys managers and unions.The hearing is scheduled for Wednesdayin Oakland and will be open to the public.

    By Laura OlsonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SACRAMENTO AssemblySpeaker John Perez said Mondaythat he expects the Legislature willapprove a $7 billion to $8 billionwater bond proposal to replace atwice-delayed $11.1 billion bondscheduled to go before voters nextyear.

    The Democratic leader said hesees strong legislative interest for abond package to pay for water infra-

    structure projects across California.A ballot measure to provide that

    funding was postponed in 2010 and2012, amid lagging public supportand concerns over the cost.

    In a March poll by the PublicPolicy Institute of California, 51percent of likely voters surveyedsaid they would vote against the$11.1 billion bond set for theNovember 2014 ballot, while 42percent expressed support. Whenvoters were asked how they wouldfeel about a less costly proposal,

    support increased to 55 percent.A revised bond proposal for the

    2014 ballot will have to be signifi-cantly smaller than the previouspackage, Perez said. He said heviews the sweet spot as $7 bil-

    lion to $8 billion.I think theres an absolute

    appetite to get this done and I thinkyoull see a package coming out ofthe Assembly that is substantiveand has most of the stakeholders onboard, said Perez, of Los Angeles.

    Senate President Pro Tem Darrell

    Steinberg, D-Sacramento, andRepublican legislative leaders alsohave previously signaled supportfor rewriting the bond to rearrangeits priorities and lower the borrow-ing.

    Steinberg has also said the extentof his support for a revised waterbond will be tied in with resolvingcertain issues with the governorsplan for a massive twin-tunnel sys-tem that would carry water from theSacramento-San Joaquin RiverDelta.

    State Assembly crafting leaner water bond package

    East Bay bus driversgive strike notice

    SAN FRANCISCO Unionemployees of a San Francisco BayArea bus system say they will walkoff the job this week if they dontreach a contract deal.

    The Amalgamated Transit UnionLocal 192 issued a strike notice on

    Monday. The union representsabout 1,800 Alameda-ContraCosta Transit District bus opera-tors, mechanics, and dispatchers.

    Union spokeswoman MargaretHanlon-Gradie says the unionplans to go on strike at 12:01 a.m.Wednesday.

    The news comes as the Bay AreaRapid Transit agency and its trainworkers remain locked in a con-tract dispute.

    Hanlon-Gradie says the unionand AC Transit are at odds over thehiring of part-time workers andhealth and safety issues. A call toAC Transit was not immediatelyreturned.

    AC Transit carries about

    175,000 passengers every week-day, mostly in the East Bay. It wasvital during last months BARTstrike.

    Chevron agrees topay $2M in refinery fire

    RICHMOND Chevron Corp.on Monday agreed to pay $2 mil-lion in fines and restitution andpleaded no contest to six chargesin a fire last summer at its refineryin the San Francisco Bay Area cityof Richmond that sent thousandsof residents to hospitals, manycomplaining of respiratory prob-lems.

    The San Ramon-based oil giantentered the plea to charges filed by

    the California Attorney GeneralsOffice and the Contra CostaDistrict Attorneys Office, includ-ing failing to correct deficienciesin equipment and failing to requirethe use of certain equipment toprotect employees from potentialharm.

    Around the Bay

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    Republicans want NBC,CNN to pull Clinton programs

    WASHINGTON The RepublicanNational Committee charged Monday that

    NBC and CNN are pro-moting a potential presi-dential candidacy byHillary Rodham Clinton,threatening to blackballthem from future GOP pri-mary debates if they airupcoming programs onthe former secretary ofstate.

    RNC chairman ReincePriebus called a planned

    NBC miniseries on Clinton and a CNN doc-umentary on the first lady an extended com-mercial for a future Clinton presidentialcampaign. In separate letters to the net-works, he urged them to cancel this politi-cal ad masquerading as an unbiased produc-tion.

    Clinton has not yet said whether shellrun for president again in 2016 but herfuture remains the subject of wide specula-tion in political circles and beyond. Theprimary debates typically provide a ratingsboost for the networks and are highly-cov-

    eted as the presidential campaign unfolds.In making the charge, the RNC was rais-ing a common complaint amongRepublican activists that news and enter-tainment industries favor Democratic candi-dates. Republicans have also used a poten-tial Clinton campaign as a fundraising toolin recent months as both parties begin toassess the crop of candidates to succeedPresident Barack Obama.

    Fort Hood survivorsto face gunman at trial

    LILLINGTON, N.C. Alonzo Lunsfordhas trouble getting out of chairs and warnshis family to wake him gently. KathyPlatoni cant shake the image of the manwho died in a pool of blood at her knees.Shawn Manning still has two bullets in his

    body and gets easily unnerved by crowds.Survivors of the 2009 shooting rampage

    that claimed the lives of 13 people at theFort Hood Army base in Texas fight thesedemons daily.

    Now after years of delay, they will comeface to face with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan,the Army psychiatrist who goes on trial inthe attack starting Tuesday. After dismiss-ing his attorneys, Hasan got permission torepresent himself, putting him in the unusu-al position of asking questions of the verypeople he admits targeting.

    Around the nation

    By Ryan J. FoleyTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    IOWA CITY, Iowa College studentsconsider the University of Iowa the nationsbest party school, even though Iowa Cityhas tried to make its famous bar scene lesshospitable to underage drinkers.

    The Princeton Review bestowed Iowa with

    the top ranking Monday on a list deter-mined by 126,000 students in a nationwidesurvey. Rounding out the Top 5 are:University of California, Santa Barbara; theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; West Virginia University andSyracuse University.

    The organization also released its stone-cold sober schools list led again thisyear by Brigham Young University inProvo, Utah; and followed by WheatonCollege in Wheaton, Ill.

    Officials in Iowa City arent celebratingthe ranking, which comes after theyvemade recent strides in the battle againstbinge drinking on campus and downtown.University of Iowa spokesman Tom Mooresaid The Princeton Review gets somethings right, by describing Iowa as an

    affordable Big Ten university with studentswho are both studious and social.

    That indicates they are balancing theiracademic responsibilities with their socialpursuits, he said.

    The rankings are based on surveys inwhich an average of 333 students per cam-pus are asked 80 questions about a range ofsubjects in the last three school years. Itsmethodology uses a five-point scale, allow-

    ing for school-to-school comparisons.Universities routinely dismiss the rank-

    ings as unscientific and invalid, while prais-ing the free publicity that comes along withpositive ones. For instance, Emerson

    College is likely to embrace its rankingMonday as the most LGBT-friendly school,and the University of Mississippi will cer-tainly tout its most beautiful campus des-ignation.

    Packed Iowa City bars blaring dancemusic, off-campus house parties and tailgat-ing before Hawkeye football games are asmuch a part of Iowas culture as the corn-fields that surround the city. Fraternities and

    sororities also contribute to the partyatmosphere.

    But the No. 1 spot seems out of step withnational data released this year showingfewer Hawkeyes are drinking and engaging

    in high-risk drinking. The percentage ofIowa students who reported drinking in thelast 30 days (75 percent) was the lowest in20 years of studies, even if it was above thenational average.

    Policy changes have scaled back IowaCitys bar scene, and a 2010 ordinancerequiring customers to be 21 to enter bars instead of 19 is credited with reducingdrinking and crime.

    In May, SamTrans announced the win-ners of the annual county-wide studentart competition, Art Takes a Bus

    Ride at its regular board meeting. The win-ning entries were selected from more than400 submissions from schools in SamTransservice area. The artists, who are in first to

    sixth grade, were asked to illustrate thetheme Window t o Your Cit y.

    The students work illustrates sights that arider would see from a SamTrans bus. Secondgrader Lukas Wiggers drew a detailedpanorama of the Carlmont ShoppingCenter, which is served by SamTrans Routes260, 262 and 295.

    Keya Arora, a third grader fromSandpiper Elementary School , painteda SamTrans bus waiting for a gaggle of geeseto cross the road. I live in Redwood Shoresso I see this happen all the time, said Arora.

    T a y l o rGee, a fourthgrade studentf r o mS a n d p i p e rElementarySchool, used

    colored pen-cils to draw acity-scape ofa busy inter-section in

    Belmont. Gee was a winner twice before, inkindergarten and third grade. Even so, shewas not sure she would win this year. Ilooked at the winners from before on thewebsite and I thought they were so much bet-ter.

    Sixth grader Alina Kalmeyer, whoattends Hillview Middle School inMenlo Park, also was surprised to find outthat she was a winner. She used colored pen-cil and black marker to show the view look-ing out the window of the bus, something

    she sees every day when she rides SamTransRoute 83 to Hillview Middle School.

    Other winners include first grade studentTymo fiy Kornyeyev from Sandpiper, andsixth grader Adrienne Evans from NorthStar Academy in Redwood City.

    All of the winning entries will be featured

    on adcards inside SamTrans buses and on theoutside of SamTrans rolling museum knownas the Art Bus. The Art Bus will be in serv-ice for a year. The winners received aSamTrans Summer Youth Pass, a certifi-cate and a framed copy of the bus adcardshowcasing their art.

    This is the ninth year that SamTrans haspartnered with the San Mateo CountyOffice of Education to present the art con-test.

    Class notes is a column dedicated to school news. Itis compiled by education reporter Angela Swartz.You can contact her at (650) 344-5200, ext. 105 orat [email protected].

    University of Iowa claims top party school title

    Hillary Clinton

    TOP 20 PARTY SCHOOLS

    1.University of Iowa,Iowa City,Iowa2.University of California,Santa Barbara,Santa Barbara3.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Urbana,Ill.4.West Virginia University,Morgantown W.Va.5.Syracuse University,Syracuse,N.Y.6.University of Florida,Gainesville, Fla.

    7.Ohio University,Athens,Ohio8.University of Wisconsin-Madison,Madison,Wis.9.Penn State University,University Park,Pa.10.Lehigh University, Bethlehem,Pa.11.University of Georgia,Athens, Ga.12.Florida State University,Tallahassee,Fla.13.DePauw University, Greencastle,Ind.14.University of Mississippi,University,Miss.15.University of Texas at Austin,Austin,Texas16.Miami University of Ohio,Oxford, Ohio17.University of Maryland,College Park,Md.18.Tulane University, New Orleans,La.19.University of Vermont,Burlington,Vt.20.University of Oregon,Eugene, Ore.TOP 20 SOBER SCHOOLS

    1.Brigham Young University,Provo,Utah

    2.Wheaton College,Wheaton, Ill.3. College of the Ozarks,Point Lookout,Mo.4.Thomas Aquinas College,Santa Paula5. U.S.Military Academy,West Point,N.Y.6.Grove City College,Grove City,Pa.7.Wesleyan College,Macon, Ga.8. U.S.Coast Guard Academy,New London,Conn.9. U.S.Naval Academy,Annapolis,Md.10. Calvin College,Grand Rapids,Mich.11. City University of New York-Brooklyn College,Brooklyn,N.Y.12.City University of New York-City College,New YorkCity13. City University of New York-Queens College,Flushing,N.Y.14.Mills College,Oakland15.Agnes Scott College,Atlanta/Decatur,Ga.16.Franklin W.Olin College of Engineering,Needham,Mass.17.California Institute of Technology,Pasadena18.Simmons College,Boston19.Wellesley College,Wellesley,Mass.20.Xavier University of Louisiana,New Orleans

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    By Ricardo Alonso-ZaldivarTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON You can now open

    your own personal Obamacareaccount but youll have to waitawhile before you can actually use it topick a health insurance plan.

    Just eight weeks before the Oct. 1launch of open enrollment underPresident Barack Obamas health careoverhaul law, administration officialsannounced Monday that the AffordableCare Act is a step closer to reality formillions of uninsured Americans.

    Health and Human Services SecretaryKathleen Sebelius said consumers cannow go online to healthcare.gov andcreate personal accounts by establish-ing a username and password.

    However, serious shopping willhave to wait until sometime inSeptember, when details on insurance

    plans and premiums offered in localareas will become available throughthe new online marketplace.

    While Mondays announcement maysound like partial progress only,Sebelius quickly moved to put thelaws doubters on notice. Let me beclear, she said. We are on target andready to flip the switch on Oct. 1.

    The congressional GovernmentAccountability Office and Treasurysinspector general for the InternalRevenue Service have been among thenonpartisan oversight organizationswarning of possible delays with therollout of the law.

    The new personal account featureunveiled Monday will be available just

    in English for the time being. HHSsaid personal accounts are comingsoon to the Spanish-language market-place, at cuidadodesalud.gov. TheSpanish name for the health care web-site isnt an exact match for theEnglish version, either. It roughlytranslates as care of health.

    Adding to the logistical complexityfacing the Obama administration is therefusal of congressional Republicansto provide additional implementationfunds the president has requested.Some GOP lawmakers are advocating agovernment shutdown to try to blockwhat they deride as Obamacare aterm the administration itself hasstarted using.

    Former Burlingame city councilmanRuss Cohen has qualified for the CityCouncil race. So far, incumbents An nKeighran and Michael Brownrigghave also qualified, while RobertSchinagl, Steve Duncan, NirmalaBandrapalli, Ricardo Ortiz, AlexDent and Andrew Peceimer havepulled nomination papers to run.

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    dacy has qualified for the four-year seat.William Bil l Lock, CarlosMartin, John Harry Prouty, MarkNagales and Liza Normandy havepulled papers in the same four-year seat.Incumbents Pradeep Gupta and KateMacKay have pulled papers for thethree open four-year term seats in CityCouncil. Incumbent Kary lMatsumoto has pulled nominationpapers for the one two-year seat on thecouncil.

    Obamacare enrollmentlaunch eight weeks away

    Amazon founder Bezosto buy Washington PostTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founderwho helped bring books into the digital age, is going afteranother pillar of old media: the newspaper.

    Bezos is buying The Washington Post and other newspa-

    pers for $250 million, The Washington Post Co.,announced Monday. Bezos is buying the paper as an indi-vidual. Amazon.com Inc. is not involved.

    Washington Post chairman and CEO Donald Grahamcalled Bezos a uniquely good new owner. He said the deci-sion was made after years of newspaper industry challenges.

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    Amazon Inc founder Jeff Bezos has agreed to buy thenewspaper assets of the Washington Post Co., including itsflagship daily,for $250 million.

    By Erica WernerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON For many Houseconservatives, President BarackObamas decision to delay a centralprovision of his health care law hasemerged as a major arguing point not against that law but in oppositionto immigration legislation.

    In the weeks since the announce-ment that employers wont have toprovide health insurance for anotheryear, complaints have increased

    among House Republicans that theycant trust the Obama administrationto implement any law they pass. Thatincludes strict requirements for immi-grants, tighter border security andgenuine workplace hiring enforce-ment.

    That refrain is heard often from GOPlawmakers, most of whom now arehome for a five-week summer recessthats expected to feature demonstra-tions around the country by advocatesas well as opponents of a broad immi-gration overhaul.

    Immigration bill criticsfocus on health law delay

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    Many conservatives say that they dont trust President Barack Obama to implementany law they pass. And they say that makes them wary of acting on the touchysubject of immigration.

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    By Paul Larson

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    By Lara Jakes and Kimberly DozierTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON An interceptedsecret message between al-Qaida chiefAyman al-Zawahri and his deputy inYemen about plans for a major terrorattack was the trigger that set off the

    current shutdown of many U.S.embassies, two officials told theAssociated Press on Monday.

    A U.S. intelligence official and aMideast diplomat said al-Zawahrismessage was picked up several weeksago and appeared to initially targetYemeni interests. The threat wasexpanded to include American or otherWestern sites abroad, officials said,indicating the target could be a singleembassy, a number of posts or someother site. Lawmakers have said it wasa massive plot in the final stages, butthey have offered no specifics.

    The intelligence official said themessage was sent to Nasser al-Wahishi, the head of the terror net-works organization, based in Yemen,

    known as al-Qaida in the ArabianPeninsula.

    Both officials spoke on condition ofanonymity because they were notauthorized to discuss the sensitiveissue publicly.

    American spies and intelligence ana-lysts on Monday scoured email, phonecalls and radio communicationsbetween al-Qaida operatives in Yemen

    and the organizations senior leadersto determine the timing and targets of

    the planned attack.The call from al-Zawahri, who took

    over for Osama bin Laden after U.S.Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida leaderin May 2011, led the Obama adminis-tration to close diplomatic posts fromMauritania on Africas west coastthrough the Middle East toBangladesh, east of India, and as farsouth as Madagascar.

    The U.S. did decide to reopen someposts on Monday, including well-

    defended embassies in Kabul,Afghanistan, and Baghdad.

    Authorities in Yemen, meanwhile,released the names of 25 wanted al-Qaida suspects and said those peoplehad been planning terrorist attacks tar-geting foreign offices and organiza-tions and Yemeni instal lations in thecapital Sanaa and other cities acrossthe country.

    Al-Qaida chiefs message led to embassy closures

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    Police troopers secure a street leading to the British embassy in Sanaa,Yemen.

    By Jason StraziusoTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NAIROBI, Kenya The U.S. State Department closed itsembassies in four sub-Saharan African nations as part of aheightened security alert, days before the 15th anniversaryof al-Qaidas bombings of American diplomatic missionsin Kenya and Tanzania.

    Those two embassies targeted in the Aug. 7, 1998,attacks were rebuilt as more heavily fortified structuresaway from populated areas where they would be less vulner-able to attack. Those embassies remain open, but the diplo-matic missions in Rwanda and Burundi, small countrieswhich border Tanzania to the west, and the island nations ofMadagascar and Mauritius were ordered closed.

    The State Department has shut down U.S. facilities incountries including Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Yemen, SaudiArabia and Kuwait until Aug. 10. U.S. diplomatic posts in19 cities, including the four in sub-Saharan Africa, will beclosed through the end of the week.

    U.S. officials gave no hint as to why the four U.S.embassies in sub-Saharan Africa were closed. None of thefour is known for high-level terror threats. A StateDepartment spokeswoman for Africa didnt respond to anemail query.

    But al-Qaida operatives remain in East Africa, and oneAfrica expert noted that Burundi and Rwanda each have anolder U.S. Embassy building that is less secure than newerembassies, such as those built far off the road in Tanzaniaand Kenya.

    U.S. State Departmentcloses embassies infour African countries

    By Jenny BarchfieldTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    RIO DE JANEIRO When two policeofficers tore little Chico from the arms of

    Elizete Carmona, they said it was for hisown good. After all, 71-year-old women

    arent meant to live with endangered tuftedcapuchin monkeys.

    But the case has upset many in Brazil, andthousands of people have signed an onlinepetition calling on Sao Paulo state environ-

    mental officials to return Chico to the onlyhome hes known for the past 37 years.

    Its illegal to keep wild animals as pets inBrazil, especially those classified as endan-gered on the International Union for theConservation of Natures Red List of threat-ened species, as the tufted capuchin monkey

    has been.But the Carmona family contends Chico is

    completely domesticated and might not sur-vive the stress of separation.

    When the officers came to their house inthe city of San Carlos on Saturday, Chicograbbed onto Carmona and hugged her tight,

    one of the womans sons, Everaldo Furlan,told the Globo television network.

    Brazil: Thousands urge return of pet monkey Chico

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    Letters to the editor

    By Warren Slocum

    Imagine how you would feel if you andyour family lost everything in a fireand you couldnt find a new place to

    live? Now imagine your home was one ofthe very few affordable places to live inone of the most expensive areas of the

    country.With one-bedroom units in Redwood Citycommanding an average of $2,053 permonth (an increase of 8.2 percent over lastyear), the victims of the July 7 six-alarmfire at the Hallmark House Apartment build-ing on Woodside Road are in desperatestraits to duplicate the rare living arrange-ments they had. Eighty people (out of 97)have not been able to find a place to live inSan Mateo County that they can afford.After moving from a temporary shelter atthe National Guard Armory to local motels,the fire victims are facing yet another chal-lenge: they have to vacate the motels in 30days. They, along with so many others,must vie for a limited affordable housingmarket.

    County motels have provided accommo-dations to the fire victims up to now.However, motels are not permanent hous-ing solutions. They have done their part indealing with emergency housing. We than kthem.

    We are now asking San Mateo Countyapartment building owners for help. We ask

    that you consider offer-ing one vacant unit inyour building to a firevictim. We realize this isa unique request; thesepeople have lost theirhousing because of a fireand not through any faultof their own.

    For those people withvacant in-law units, motels with livingunits and home-share opportunities:

    Were not asking that the unit be free were asking that it be affordable;

    Were not asking that it be forever were asking that it be for as long as thetenant wants to call it home;

    Were not asking for multiple units were asking for a single unit.

    If enough housing rental units arentfound in the next couple of weeks for thesepeople, the 80 fire victims will be forced tolook for housing in places like Modesto,Fresno or Galt communities that are notknown, not home.

    Cant we do better as a community? Cantwe find a way to accommodate the victimsof this tragedy?

    These fire victims are fellow Peninsularesidents; some are veterans, seniors, fami-lies with children and people with disabili-ties. This could have happened to any ofus. We ask the apartment building commu-nity in Redwood City, East Palo Alto,Menlo Park and San Carlos for their com-

    passion and action.Help just one individual, couple or fami-

    ly who are fire victims to stay in our coun-ty, stay connected to their friends, doctors,dentists, schools, favorite parks, storesand familiar places. Help them keep whatsleft of what they know as home.

    Just one unit. Thats what were asking.To offer a unit to a fire victim, please

    contact Supervisor Warren Slocum at (650)363-4570 or [email protected]. Hisoffice will coordinate an appropriate refer-ral match.

    Warren Slocum is a member of the San Mateo

    County Board of Supervisors, represent ing

    District Four that includes the cities of East

    Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Redwood City and

    the unincorporated areas of North Fair Oaks

    and Stanford Weekend Acres. Among his

    board responsibilities is as the liaison on

    the Housing Our People Effectively Board

    (HOPE) a project initiated in 2005 to begin a

    planning process to prevent and end home-

    lessness in San Mateo County. He is a 30-

    year resident of Redwood City.

    Why are so many embassies closing?Editor,We have been told repeatedly that

    Osama bin Laden is dead and al-Qaida is onthe run. If so why are we in retreat, clos-ing embassies and consulates in theMuslim world? We have been told thatBenghazi is a made up scandal. We havebeen told that the IRS is a made up scandal?We have been told that operation Fast andFurious was no big deal. We have beentold that unemployment is down to 7 per-cent. We have been told that the Keystonepipeline will only create 50 jobs. Am I theonly one who no longer believes what ouradministration is telling us?

    Keith C. De Filippis

    San Jose

    Height of corruptionEditor,Back in November, we found out that the

    private Seton Medical Center spent$900,000 supporting the Measure Ataxincrease on Novembers ballot. That was90 percent of the funds raised to supportMeasure A. Oh, and the campaign manager

    was an official on leave from Seton.Why would a rich, private entity play so

    heavily in a local tax measure? Maybe itsbecause they felt entitled to working fami-lies money for their personal use. Sureenough, now the county Board ofSupervisors has paid off Seton with a giftof $11.5 million of tax dollars as a thankyou for convincing voters to raise taxes(Seton gets $11.5 million in county salestax revenue in the July 24 edition of theDaily Journal). Thats more than a 1,000percent return on their investment. Ifthat isnt the definition of corrupt, cronycapitalism, I dont know what is.

    John McDowell

    San Carlos

    Enough is enough

    Editor,So now Charles Rangel is calling tea

    partiers the same group of white crack-ers who fought civil rights back in the60s. Just like the majority of people inliberal circles, it is fair game to usedemeaning racial terms to describe teaparty members like myself. Forget the factthat I was in diapers when the civil rights

    movement was taking place. Forget thefact that it was democratic segregationistsfrom the south like George Wallace, LesterMaddox, Robert Byrd and Orville Faubusthat tried to deny civil rights to blacks inAmerica. Forget the fact that Martin LutherKing and Abraham Lincoln were bothRepublicans and finally forget the fact thattea party members come from every ethnicgroup in America. These facts are incon-venient to Democrats, instead they want topaint us as a bunch of racists which is bothdishonest and reckless and avoids the realissues that are affecting our country today.

    The tea party stands for three things:limited government, free markets and per-sonal responsibility. If you want to arguethese issues, we welcome the discussion.Race hustlers like Charles Rangel and oth-ers in the Democratic Party who cantdefend their positions in an honest andintelligent way are quick to pull the racecard. Keep in mind, racial tension today isbeing stirred by liberals, not conserva-tives . As we get closer and closer to the2014 mid-term elections, this rhetoric willonly increase and watch who spews thehatred.

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    Just One Dog earsof summerI

    need a new book to read, quick. If Idont hurry up and jump head first into anew tome fiction or nonfiction,

    either will do I will no longer have anyvalid excuse for not cracking the cover onBrideshead Revisited which was graciouslyloaned to me by afriend and which hassince been collectingdust on a shelf.

    In defense of my lit-erary procrastination, Idid not ask to borrowthe book which isactually a feebleexcuse because I actu-ally like when some-body shoves a volumeat me with the insistence that it is the bestthing ever. So it went with the Evelyn Waughclassic. The miniseries is fantastic, he toldme. Dont bother with the movie remake.Actually, read the novel instead. And I washappy to accept the book. Even had plans toactually devour the story in a single sittingor two since it doesnt appear too lengthy.

    But days turned to weeks turned to months. Iwas loaned the boxed DVD set as motivationto read. It was eventually reclaimed,unwatched.

    Its not that I am averse to the book orperiod pieces in general but theres a time andplace. After a long day at work that stretchesinto night or a lazy weekend afternoon in thesun is, admittedly, not that particular timeand place. Its like Schindlers List andevery other important movie put in my ini-tial Netflix queue sounds great at the timeof choosing but in reality completely shovedto the wayside in favor of mind candy likeHot Tub Time Machine or the twisteddetails of the Biography channels run ofnotorious killers.

    For a spell, other books legitimately tookprecedence as I put aside my long-held beliefonly physical books are legitimate and accli-

    mated to the electronic format. SusannahCahalans Brain on Fire caught my atten-tion as a journalist with a fascination for theweird and medical. The Hunger Games trilo-gy? Perhaps a few generations on the youngside but didnt I have to read them before see-ing the first movie? Then came Gone Girl this years must-read version of Girl Withthe Dragon Tattoo which led to GillianFlynns other dark novels and poorBridesheads dust blanket grew thicker andthicker.

    But as I struggle to find the groove withThe Devil in the White City cant authorErik Larson just get to the murder already andstop talking about architecture? I realizetime is a-ticking to find another reason notto bend the paperback spine over aristocraticBrits. August is squarely here which meansfall and winter are just around the corner. The

    darker days will be time to ditch the fluffy andpopular and return back to books with bigwords and bigger ideas. There will be littleexcuse not to dust off Waugh, realize what Improbably missing and get the book returnedbefore I forfeit all future borrowing privi-leges.

    That said, I need a new book so you outthere tell me what I should be reading. Email,call, even a tweet. Do not dare to recommend50 shades of whatever but anything with mur-der, mystery or mayhem is acceptable. Allsuggestions are welcome Real-life storiesof plagues and pandemics, Hawking-likebreakdowns of science into regular speak,biographies on people I should know about,classics never assigned by high school teach-ers (although admittedly these might holdcourt next to Brideshead until those previous-ly mentioned gloomier reading days, satire,

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    Dow 15,612.13 -46.23 10-Yr Bond 2.64 +0.038

    Nasdaq 3,692.95 +3.36 Oil (per barrel) 106.49

    S&P 500 7339 -2.53 Gold 1,303.10

    Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the NewYork Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSETyson Foods Inc.,up $1.18 to $29.69The stock in the nations biggest meat producer hit a 52-week high aftertopping Wall Street expectations during the third quarter.The companystuck by its earlier revenue forecast,which was already better that analystprojections.The Allstate Corp.,down 86 cents to $51.29Deutsche Bank downgrades Allstates stock, which had risen almost 28percent this year,saying that company leadership has done just aboutall it can to deliver value to shareholders.Revlon Inc.,up $1.66 to $26.16The beauty-products company is buying Colomer for $660 million in abid to grow internationally.About half of all Colomer sales are in Europe,the Middle East and Africa.

    The New York Times Co.,down 5 cents to $11.88The price tag for the companys sale of The Boston Globe disappointssome investors.Three bidders who fell short in their attempts to purchaseThe Globe say they offered more than Boston Red Sox owner JohnHenrys winning $70 million bid.NasdaqApple Inc.,up $6.91 to $469.45President Barack Obamas trade representative vetoed a ban on importsof some Apple iPads and older iPhones over the weekend,deliveringgood news to shareholders of the technology giant.Fossil Group Inc.,down $6.90 to $107.42Company shares slump 5 percent on a downgrade from Barclays,whichsaid that Google searches for the Fossil brand have declined during 14of the 18 weeks since the end of the first quarter.That is during a periodof heavy promotion by the watch and handbag maker.Kraft Foods,down $1.05 cents to $56.45Mac nCheese is becoming an increasingly crowded space,accordingto analysts with Jefferies & Co.,which downgraded the companys stock.Kraft shares had already risen 24 percent this year and now it facesgrowing competition from General Mills and Campbell Soup.Canadian Solar Inc.,up $1.64 to $15.75The company sold five utility-scale solar power plants worth over $277million to an affiliate of real estate developer Concord Pacific.

    Big movers

    By Matthew CraftTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK A quiet day of tradingleft stock indexes mixed Monday.

    There was little in the way of news toshake the market out of a summertimestupor, other than a report from theInstitute for Supply Management thatthe U.S. service sector expanded inJuly, helped by a rise in new orders.

    It was the latest piece of data thateconomists and investors puzzledthrough as they try to judge how wellthe U.S. economy is doing.

    Last Thursday, the ISM reported thatmanufacturing increased last month.The next day, the government reportedthat companies werent hiring asmany workers as economists had pre-dicted.

    The report out Monday wasntenough to drive the market above itsalready high levels.

    I think its flat for a reason, saidTerry Sandven, chief equity strategist

    at U.S. Banks wealth managementgroup. With broad indexes near all-time highs, were due for a pause.

    The Standard & Poors 500 indexbreached 1,700 points for the firsttime last week. An improving U.S.economy and rising corporate profitshave helped push the index up 19.7percent this year.

    The S&P 500 index slipped 2.53points, or 0.2 percent, to close at1,707.14 on Monday. Utilities ledeight of the 10 industry groups in theindex lower. Technology and con-sumer-staples companies eked outgains.

    The Dow Jones industrial averagefell 46.23 points, or 0.3 percent,

    to 15,612.13.The technology-heavy Nasdaq com-

    posite index rose 3.36 points, or 0.09

    percent, to 3,692.95.Apple, the biggest company in the

    Nasdaq, rose after news that PresidentBarack Obamas administration pre-vented a ban on imports of someiPhones and iPads. Apple gained$6.91, or 1 percent, to $469.45.

    In June, the U.S. International TradeCommission ruled that the Appledevices violated a patent held bySamsung and issued the ban. TheObama administration had 60 days todecide whether to let it take effect.

    Among other companies in thenews, Berkshire Hathaway crept high-er on the first day of trading after itsearnings report. Warren Buffetts con-glomerate posted a 46 percent rise in

    profit late Friday, easily beating WallStreets estimates. Berkshire reportedbig paper gains on the value of its

    derivative contracts and higher earn-ings from its BNSF railroad. Its stockedged up 41 cents, or 0.4 percent, to$118.23.

    Big companies have been reportingbetter second-quarter results. Analys tsestimate that earnings for companiesin the S&P 500 increased 4.4 percentover the same period a year earlier.

    In the market for U.S. governmentbonds, the yield on the 10-yearTreasury climbed to 2.64 percent from2.60 percent in late Friday trading.

    The dollar edged lower against theJapanese yen and rose slightly againstthe euro. Gold fell $8.10 to $1,302.40an ounce and oil fell 38 cents to$106.50 a barrel.

    Stocks slip on a quiet day

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    By Martin CrutsingerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON U.S. service firmsexpanded in July at the fastest pace sinceFebruary, fueled by a brisker month ofsales and a jump in new orders. Theincrease suggests economic growth couldbe picking up after a weak first half of theyear.

    The Institute for Supply Managementsaid Monday that its index of service-sec-tor growth rose in July to 56.0, up from52.2 in June. Any reading above 50 indi-

    cates expansion.The survey covers businesses thatemploy 90 percent of the workforce, suchas retail, construction, health care andfinancial services.

    A measure of business activity, whichincludes current sales, rose to 60.4. Thatsthe highest since December and was drivenin part by faster home construction. And agauge of new orders, which indicates salesover the next few months, increased to57.7 a five-month high.

    Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMOCapital Markets, noted that 16 of the 18industries surveyed reported growth inJuly, encouraging news for the broaderU.S. economy.

    Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist atCapital Economics, said the July gains in

    the service sector, along with a solid monthof manufacturing growth, suggest the econo-my is growing at an annual rate of 3 percentin the July-September quarter. Thats nearlydouble the rate in the April-June quarter.

    One concern is that a measure of employ-ment at service companies fell in July.That echoed last weeks governmentemployment report that showed hiring hasslowed.

    Employers added 162,000 jobs lastmonth, the Labor Department said Friday.Thats down from 188,000 in June. Nearlyall of the hiring took place at servicefirms. And most new jobs were in low-pay-ing industries half were at retail busi-ness or restaurants and bars.

    Growth in the service industry dependslargely on consumers, whose spending

    drives roughly 70 percent of economicactivity. On Friday, the government saidconsumers increased their spending inJune at the fastest pace in four month.

    The economy grew at a tepid 1.7 percent

    annual rate from April through June. Thatsup only slightly from the 1.1 percentannual rate in the previous quarter and thethird straight month of subpar economicgrowth.

    Still, the rise in consumer spending andservice activity follows other reports thatpoint to stronger growth.

    Home sales and prices continue to rise,and Americans confidence in the economystayed last month close to a 5 1/2 -yearhigh.

    U.S. factories have begun to reboundafter slumping at the start of the year. A

    separate ISM released last week showedmanufacturing activity jumped in July tothe highest level in two years, reflecting asurge in new orders, increasing hiring andrising factory output.

    Growth at U.S.service firms jumps on new orders

    Time Warner Cable:CBSshould be sold a la carte

    LOS ANGELES Time Warner CableInc. CEO Glenn Britt has offered to enda four-day blackout of CBS stations inthree major cities, saying the cableoperator would allow CBS to sell itsstations signal a la carte to con-sumers instead of bundling it withother channels.

    That would allow customers todecide for themselves how much value

    they ascribe to CBS programming,Britt said in a letter to CBS CEO LeslieMoonves that was released to themedia. CBS Corp. said it is formulat-ing a response.

    CBS signals have been blacked outto some 3 million Time Warner Cablesubscribers in New York, Los Angelesand Dallas since Friday in a disputeover how much the cable operator hasto pay for CBS programming. Brittsproposal is a radical departure fromhow TV is sold today in packagesthat can contain a hundred or morechannels, many of which consumersdont watch.

    Penney hires Kraftexecutive as marketing chief

    NEW YORK J.C. Penney Co. hashired an executive from the mac-and-cheese world to reconnect with its mid-dle-income shoppers.

    The beleaguered department store onMonday named Kraft Foods Inc. execu-tive Debra Berman as senior vice presi-

    dent of marketing to help revitalize thestruggling brand, filling a void in thecompany that remained for 14 months.

    Penney is trying to win back cus-tomers who fled during a transforma-tion plan spearheaded by the chainsformer CEO, Ron Johnson, that back-fired and led to massive losses andsales declines.

    Berman, 45, who has worked forKraft since 2009, served as vice presi-dent for marketing strategy and direct-ed global brand strategy for all Kraft-owned brands, including Velveeta,Philadelphia cream cheese and Kraftmacaroni and cheese.

    All-coach JetBlueAirways adds a first class cabin

    NEW YORK JetBlue, known forshuttling vacationers from Northeastcities to the warmth of Florida and theCaribbean, is making a play for corpo-rate road warriors.

    Starting next year, the all-coach air-line plans to offer 16 lie-flat seats onflights between New York and LosAngeles and San Francisco. Its thefirst time the egalitarian carrier will

    have a second class of service.The transcontinental routes are the

    most profitable and highly contesteddomestic markets for airlines. Businessclass tickets frequently sell for $4,000roundtrip. American Airlines, Delta AirLines and United Airlines are all in theprocess of putting lie-flat beds in theirpremium cabins on those routes. VirginAmerica, which also flies from coast tocoast, has a traditional first class cabinwith larger seats.

    Transcontinental routes have hadhigh premium fares we believe we canbeat, CEO Dave Barger said in a state-ment.

    Business briefs

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    By Nathan MollatDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    The Belmont-Redwood Shores 11-12Little League All Stars got off to a slow startin its third game of the Little LeagueWestern Regional tournament, but it fin-ished with a flourish, according to the ESPN3 Internet feed.

    BRS scored nine runs in the bottom of thefifth inning to record a 13-3 win over Utah

    in a game that was called after five inningsbecause of the 10-run mercy rule.

    It was a tight game until the end, saidBRS coach Rudy Lopez via telephone.Their pitcher did a good job of keeping usdown. The floodgates opened a little bitwhen their second pitcher came in.

    The win moves Belmont-Redwood Shoresto a perfect 3-0 record in pool play and allbut securing a spot in the single-elimina-tion semifinals beginning Friday. The top

    four teams qualify for the final four. BRS isnow 16-1 in all-star play this summer.

    Utah fell to 0-3 for the tournament.Belmont-Redwood Shores was put to the

    test early as it allowed its first runs of thetournament. Starting pitcher BradShimabuku labored through 3 2/3 inningsof work, but left in the fourth in a 1-1 tie.Shimabuku allowed five hits, but struck outsix.

    Utah scored an unearned run on

    Shimabuku in the first inning, as he allowedtwo hits while his defense committed anerror behind him.

    In the second, Utah loaded the bases butcame up empty.

    [Shimabuku] did a good job. He wasntvery efficient, Lopez said. But he was ableto get out of trouble. His command wasntgreat today, but he minimized the damage

    Belmont-Redwood Shores wins again

    Serra defensive end Matt Dickerson had scholarship offers from more than a dozen DivisionI schools before ultimately committing to University of Notre Dame this past weekend.

    See ALL STARS, Page 14

    There is, apparently, still rampantperformance-enhancing drug usein Major League Baseball. There

    is a jackass Heisman Trophy winner,Texas A&Ms quarterback JohnnyManziel, doing everything he can tothrow away his college eligibility from heavy partying to breaking NCAArules by accepting loads of cash for sign-ing memorabilia. Minor league baseballplayers are accused of raping a woman intheir apartment, the San Francisco Giantsare in danger of the dreaded first-to-worst moniker and the Americas Cupregatta in the San Francisco Bay has been

    a farce to this point.Isnt there any

    happy, feel-goodnews in the world ofsports these days?Actually, there is. Ipresent to you theBelmont-RedwoodShores Little League11-12 All-Star squad,which has now sup-planted theHillsborough teamsof the mid-2000s asthe best program

    Ive seen since I started covering thePeninsula in May of 2001.

    Those Hillsborough teams captured dis-trict championships and a few sectionaltitles, but always came up short in divi-sional play which is the defacto statetournament.

    Because California is so large, with somany Little League teams, it is consid-ered two states Northern and SouthernCalifornia as far Little League is con-cerned.

    But I digress. This BRS team is the firstteam out of District 52 to advance to theWestern Regional tournament in SanBernardino. No matter what anyone says,Im not counting Ravenswood LittleLeague out of East Palo Alto as a District52 team when it advanced to the West

    By Joseph HoytDAILY JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

    Matt Dickerson certainly fits the mold of aDivision I defensive tackle. Hes big, 6-foot-5, 275 pounds to be exact, andextremely agile for a man of his stature. Butgiving him the standard eye test doesntbegin to tell the viewer the internal strengththat this young man possesses.

    Dickerson, an incoming senior at Serra,verbally committed toplay football for theUniversity of Notre Dameafter taking an unofficialvisit to South Bend, Ind.

    this past weekend.After the first day on

    campus, I knew it was theone. I loved the campus,academics, players,coaches, fan base, loca-tion and faith,

    Dickerson said. I thought long and hardabout my decision and didnt get any sleepthe night before, but I knew Notre Dame wasthe one.

    Dickerson average 4.2 tackles per gamelast season and recorded 1.5 sacks. He alsohad a scholarship offers from University ofSouthern California, according toRivals.com. The website indicated he hadscholarship offers from 16 Division Ischools, including nearly every school inthe Pac-12. Rivals.com has Dickerson

    ranked as the 31st-best college prospect inCalifornia and the 17th best strong-sidedefensive end in the nation.

    Scout.com, another website that rankshigh school players, has Dickerson as the38th-best defensive end in the country.

    Serra coach Patrick Walsh, however, does-nt get caught up in all the hype and rank-ings of players. He lets college coaches seethe product on the field, on game tape andlikes to let the recruitment process happen,as he said, Organically.

    He and his family believed in theprocess, Walsh said. [Dickerson is] not

    Dickerson picks Irish

    By Ronald BlumTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK Defiant till the end, AlexRodriguez is intent on evading baseballsmost sweeping punishment since the BlackSox scandal.

    Rodriguez was suspended through 2014and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peraltaand Everth Cabrera were banned 50 gamesapiece Monday when Major LeagueBaseball disciplined 13 players for theirrelationship to Biogenesis of America, aFlorida anti-aging clinic accused of distrib-

    uting banned perform-ance-enhancing drugs.

    The harshest penaltywas reserved forRodriguez, the New YorkYankees slugger, a three-time Most ValuablePlayer and baseballshighest-paid star. He saidhe will appeal his sus-pension, which covers

    211 games, by Thursdays deadline. Andsince arbitrator Fredric Horowitz isntexpected to rule until November or

    December at the earliest, Rodriguez was freeto make his season debut Monday night andplay the rest of this year.

    Sidelined since hip surgery in January,Rodriguez rejoined the Yankees five hoursafter the suspension in a series opener at theChicago White Sox, scheduled to play thirdbase and bat fourth.

    The last seven months has been a night-mare, has been probably the worst time ofmy life for sure, Rodriguez said.

    The other 12 players agreed to their 50-game penalties before they were announced,giving them a chance to return for the play-

    offs.Ryan Brauns 65-game suspension last

    month and previous penalties bring to 18the total number of players sanctioned fortheir connection with Biogenesis.

    At the center of it all was Rodriguez, oncethe greatest player of his time, reducedMonday night to saying that he was hum-bled, at 38, just to have the opportunity toput on this uniform again and adding if hedidnt fight for his career, no one else would.

    A-Rods drug penalty was for his use and

    MLB suspends 13, including A-Rod, who plans appeal

    See DICKERSON, Page 14

    Matt Dickerson

    Alex Rodriguez

    See MLB, Page 13

    BRS epitomizes

    good in sports

    See LOUNGE, Page 15

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    SANTACLARA Almost every time DonteWhitner looks at rookie Eric Reid hes remind-ed of what it was like to be a safety selected inthe first round competing for a starting spot.

    Whitner, San Franciscos savvy strongsafety, had little time to adjust to NFL life.After being taken eighth overall by theBuffalo Bills in 2006, he had quite the Week 1opponent: Tom Brady and the New EnglandPatriots.

    Reid, the former LSU standout the 49ersdrafted at No. 18 after trading up to get him, ishoping to start aga inst Aaron Rodgers and theGreen Bay Packers in the regular-season open-er Sept. 8. And when San Francisco hostsDenver in his first preseason game Thursdaynight, Reid might even get a few snapsagainst another former NFL MVP: PeytonManning.

    I think that would be great, Whitner saidMonday. I think that would be great for himto get experience in all four (preseason)

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