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    Friday Aug.16, 2013 Vol XII,Edition 312

    DEATH TOLL SOARSWORLD PAGE 7

    ORACLE MAKESMORE WAVES

    SPORTS PAGE 11

    JOBSJOBS IS MOREIS MOREABOUTABOUT APPLEAPPLE

    WEEKEND PWEEKEND PAAGE 18GE 18

    EGYPTS DEADLIEST DAY LEAVES MORE THAN 600 DEAD

    By Michelle DurandDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    An effort by Assemblyman Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, to secure state funding for SanMateo Countys replacement jail inRedwood City didnt pass out of a key com-mittee yesterday which leaves local offi-

    cials without a hefty subsidy for the esti-mated $150 million facility.

    Hills bill would havegiven San Mateo Countypreference because itsproject is shovel-readyrather than conceptuallike many of the coun-ties previously awardedfunding. After the bill

    failed to gain a motionfor vote in the Assembly

    Public Safety Committee yesterday, Hillchalked the defeat up to those counties feel-ing their money would be jeopardized byprioritizing ready counties like San Mateo.He said there may be future amendments thatcould make the idea more palatable andpromised not to give up fighting.

    Meanwhile, those opposing the jail under

    any conditions, like Redwood City Councilcandidate James Lee Han, hope the bills

    failure will stop construction in its tracks.Its not just the social justice issues. Its

    about being fiscally conservative, Hansaid. We should just cut our losses now.

    Han pointed to a civil grand jury reportquestioning the reality of San MateoCountys structural deficit, saying thestates resources should not be allocated to a

    County jail funding effort failsSenators bill to help San Mateo County sinks in committee

    Jerry Hill

    Hackathon headsto Redwood CityFree event focused on buildingmobile apps for multiple devicesBy Angela SwartzDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    Programmers, developers, students and user groups areinvited to the first of four regional hackathons this week-end, which will culminate in a $20,000 grand prize compe-tition in Las Vegas during the Consumer Electronics Show.

    The events including one in Redwood City are cen-tered on building mobile apps for multiple devices, focusedon gaming and artificial intelligence.

    Memories of golf and gamesLifelong friendships began at soon-to-be-closed MalibuBy Michelle DurandDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    John Esplana has 24 good reasons for being glad he tookthat post-high school summer job at Castle Golf & Games one for every year of marriage to his wife, Margaret.

    The Peninsula amusement venue also provided Esplanawith his best friend of 31 years, numerous other loved ones

    AT&T DEVELOPER PROGRAM

    Participants in a hackathon run by the AT&T Developerprogram in Barcelona,Spain.

    See HACK, Page 23

    SeeMALIBU, Page 23

    See JAIL, Page 22

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    A heard of goats and sheep graze near the bluffs in Half Moon Bay as part of the Coastside Land Trusts conservation efforts.

    By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

    For six days, a large group of goatsand sheep indulged in a meal of coastalbrush and grass after being herdedtoward the bluffs between Poplar andKelly state beaches in Half Moon Bay.

    The goats and sheep are used to mowdown overgrown vegetation and reducefire hazards. The nonprofit CoastsideLand Trust hired these hungry grazersto help preserve some of the citys his-

    toric open spaces.Half Moon Bay and the San Mateocoast have such rich and diverse open

    Got your goat?Coastside Land Trust coordinates eco-friendly brush management

    See GOATS, Page 31

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    Woodlake centerremodel approved

    Major improvements to SanMateos WoodlakeShopping Center, andits Safeway and LongsDrug stores, wereapproved the week ofAug. 16, 2008 by the San MateoPlanning Commission.

    The Woodlake Shopping Ce nter, atthe corner of Peninsula Avenue andDelaware Street, was built in the mid

    1960s. Shopping center ownersapplied earlier in 2008 for the neces-sary permits and approvals to revampthe 40-year-old shopping center.

    The remodel of the 50,000-square-foot center included new exterior andnew signs, a repaved parking lot,fresh landscaping, a new drive-through pharmacy and redesignedSafeway and Longs.

    County to require food labelingCounty supervisors unanimously

    agreed the week of Aug. 16, 2008 torequire food labeling in unincorporat-ed San Mateo County.

    The ordinance affected approxi-mately 30 businesses in the countyplus chain outlets at San FranciscoInternational Airport.

    The controversial proposal nearlymet one opposition vote bySupervisor Rich Gordon. AlthoughGordon emphatically supported the

    idea, he initially suggested the coun-ty postpone a vote untillawsuits were settledagainst San Francisco andSanta Clara counties over

    similar ordinances.

    Schools face legal battleThe firm fired in 2007 from oversee-

    ing $298 million in construction

    projects at local school districts fileda claim against the San Mateo UnionHigh School for unlimited funds theweek of Aug. 16, 2008.

    Oakland-based Skanska Building,Inc. was slated to oversee construc-tion management for the six-yearconstruction plan associated withMeasure M. Numerous questions ledthe district Board of Trustees to giveSkanska the pink slip in April 2007before finding a new company tooversee construction efforts. On Aug.4, 2008, Skanska filed a claimagainst the district calling for pay-ment promised from a letter of intentto hire. The board unanimously deniedthe claim that week during a closedsession vote.

    Yee proposes HalfMoon Bay park plan

    A plan drafted by state Sen. Leland

    Yee, D-San Mateo/San Francisco,the week of Aug. 16, 2008 aimed touse state housing and park money tohelp Half Moon Bay settle a landdispute without compromising envi-

    ronmental precedent.In March 2008, a settle-

    ment agreement dropped a$41 million federal judg-

    ment against the city in exchangefor legislation that would allowdevelopment on two wetland parcelsin Half Moon Bay known asBeachwood and Glencree. The legis-

    lation drew opposition from theCoastal Commission and environ-mentalists because it appeared tosidestep environmental protectionlaws.

    Under the settlement, both thecity and developer Charles ChopKeenan agreed that if the legisla-tion, Assembly Bill 1991, did notpass than the city would take owner-ship of the land in exchange for $18million.

    Yees proposal would have provid-ed up to $10 million in Proposition1C funds, a 2006 state bond forhousing and rural parks, to create apublic park at the Beachwood prop-erty.

    From the archives highlights stories origi-nally printed five years ago this week. Itappears in the Friday edition of the DailyJournal.

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    Singer Madonna is55.

    This Day in History

    Thought for the Day

    1977Elvis Presley died at his Graceland

    estate in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.

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    Director JamesCameron is 59.

    Actor Steve Carellis 51.

    Birthdays

    San Mateos Denise Nelson poses with fashion designer Alexandria Von Bromssen and Tim Gunn,one of the stars of ProjectRunway outside Von Bromssens Red Square Boutique, a design collective on Palm Avenue in San Mateo. Von Bromssen iscompeting on the show this season.

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    In 1777 , American forces won the Revolutionary WarBattle of Bennington.In 1812, Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the Warof 1812.In 1858 , a telegraphed message from Britains QueenVictoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted overthe recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued Proclamation86, which prohibited the states of the Union from engagingin commercial trade with states in rebellion i.e., theConfederacy.In 1913, future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Beginwas born in Brest in present-day Belarus.In 1937 , the American Federation of Radio Artists waschartered.In 1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York at age

    53.In 1954, Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc.In 1956, Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for presidentat the Democratic national convention in Chicago.In 1962, The Beatles fired their original drummer, PeteBest, replacing him with Ringo Starr.In 1987 , 156 people were killed when Northwest AirlinesFlight 255 crashed while trying to take off from Detroit; thesole survivor was 4-year-old Cecelia Cichan (SHEE-an).People worldwide began a two-day celebration of the har-monic convergence, which heralded what believers calledthe start of a new, purer age of humankind.In 1993, New York police rescued business executiveHarvey Weinstein from a covered 14-foot-deep pit, wherehed been held nearly two weeks for ransom. Actor StewartGranger died in Santa Monica at age 80.

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    Movie director Bruce Beresford is 73. Actor Bob Balaban is68. Ballerina Suzanne Farrell is 68. Actress Lesley AnnWarren is 67. Rock singer-musician Joey Spampinato is 63.Actor Reginald VelJohnson i s 61. TV personality Kathie LeeGifford is 60. Rhythm-and-blues singer J.T. Taylor is 60.Actor Jeff Perry is 58.

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    SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO

    Burglary . A rear drivers side window of asilver Porsche was smashed and a backpackwas taken on Dubuque Avenue before 6 p.m.Monday, Aug. 5.Narcotics. Four subjects were seen in agold Chevrolet Caprice smoking marijuanaon Hawthorne Place before 5:11 p.m.Monday, Aug. 5.Stolen vehic le. A vehicle was stolen onForbes Boulevard before 10:48 a.m.Monday, Aug. 5.Burglary . A rental car was broken into andtwo camera bags and a cellphone were takenon Airport Boulevard before 12:13 p.m.Sunday, Aug. 4.Stolen vehic le. A vehicle was stolen onMcLellan Drive before 11:47 a.m. Sunday,Aug. 4.

    SAN BRUNOSuspicious circumstances. Someonereported the balcony door of their apartmentwas open on the 800 block of CommodoreDrive before 5:44 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14.Vandalism. Property was vandalized on the600 block of Fourth Avenue before 9:13a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14.Suspicious circumstances. A neighborreported a woman who claimed she waswatching after her sisters home on the 500block of Redwood Avenue before 8:28 a.m.Wednesday, Aug. 14.Burglary . Two passenger windows of awhite Nissan Versa were smashed on the1100 block of El Camino Real before 8:28p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13.

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    Snobby thiefA woman was caught on video stealingwine worth $200 on the 2800 block ofSan Bruno Avenue in San Bruno before1:43 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14.By Angela Swartz

    DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    Facing ever-growing enrollment, theSequoia Union High School District is one

    step closer to starting a facilities taskforce to address the challenge.

    At Wednesday nights Board of Trusteesmeeting, the board gave direction to thesuperintendent to establish a task force tomeet the needs of students and better alignfeeder schools to high schools.Infrastructure improvements would be con-sidered for classrooms, rest rooms, foodservice, locker room space and parking.The task force will report to the superin-tendent.

    Its not just a question about facilities,but starting with broad questions withinstructional issues like more art and musicat schools, said Trustee Allen Weiner.Will we have small specialized highschools or alternative education? I wouldencourage the task force to think very

    broadly about districts educational mis-sion.

    The task force will be made up of about10 people and will likely include two boardmembers, administrators, teachers, classi-fied staff and community representatives.Superintendent James Lianides said thetask force should begin meeting by the endof September and conclude around March2014.

    The current remaining $165 millionMeasure J bond, passed by voters in 2008,has been exhausted on other projects.These projects include adding five class-rooms to Carlmont High School, the moveof the maintenance and transportationdepartments to Douglas Street and the pur-chase of 980 Myrtle St. in East Palo Alto,according to a staff report. There will alsobe construction on the site of 10 addition-

    al classrooms for Stanford New Schools,according to the staff report.

    The work is going to be very importantto determine future facilities needs,Lianides said. It will be a strong factor indeciding whether to pursue a bond meas-ure.

    Lianides said the bond consideration isan ongoing topic.Trustee Carrie Du Bois said she would

    like to see a strategic plan in place beforethe district sets up a full plan for facilities.She said she would like to see broad com-munity input, including that of teachers.

    At the meeting, trustees Alan Sarver andWeiner both expressed interest in joiningthe task force.

    Looking ahead, the district needs to setan enrollment target for each campus thatincludes the future growth. It can then workwith the community to discuss possibleboundary changes. Staff also plans onbringing a revised open enrollment policyto the board at a later meeting.

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    Sequoia faces growth challengesTask force to begin this fall to address district enrollment,facilities

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    DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT

    A former convict who shoved multiplesteaks into his overalls at a Daly City gro-cery story and threatened officers with abox cutter was sentenced yesterday to fouryears in prison.

    Andrew Thomas Brown, 63, was con-victed in June of two counts each of felonyarmed robbery and felony assault with adeadly weapon, commercial burglary andtheft. On Thursday, he was sentenced to

    four years incarcerationwith credit of 160 days.He must also pay $200restitution to Safewayfor the purloined meat.

    Brown stole the beefMarch 30 from the storein the WestlakeShopping Center. Lossprevention officersreported seeing Brown

    shove multiple packages of steaks intohis overalls before walking out of thestore. When two officers approached andasked him to return to the store, Brownreportedly admitted the stealing and pulledthe meat from his pants. When the officersreiterated he must return to the store,Brown pulled out a box cutter and waved itat them before running away.

    Daly City police were called and chasedBrown down after nearly a mile.

    Steak thief imprisoned four years

    Andrew Brown

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    4 Friday Aug.16, 2013 THEDAILYJOURNALLOCAL

    Anthony FoianiniAnthony Foianini died unexpectedly Monday, Aug. 12,

    2013 in Ft. Bridger, Wyo. He was born Nov. 9, 1958 toAlbert and Alivera Foianini in Oakland.

    He married Susan Anderson inCalistoga in November of 2003.

    Anthony was a member of the CatholicChurch. He enjoyed life to the fullest, wasinvolved in numerous sports and was verycompetitive as a triathlete. He enjoyedteaching and coaching others. He was anavid biker and rock climber and enjoyedcliff diving, snorkeling and surfing.

    Anthony is survived by his wife Susan of San Mateo; step-son Eric P. Anderson of San Mateo; stepdaughter Emily K.Anderson of San Mateo; and sister Rosemarie Biasotti ofPleasant Hill.

    He was preceded in death by his parents, and brother AlbertFoianini.

    Graveside services will be noon Saturday, Aug. 17 at theFort Bridger Cemetery, in Fort Bridger, Wyo. Aviewing will

    be held 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Saturday at Crandall FuneralHome in Evanston, Wyo., prior to the service.

    Memorial donations may be made to the March of Dimesand would be very much appreciated.

    Online condolences can be made at www.crandallfhe-vanston.com.

    As a public service, the Daily Journal prints obituaries ofapproximately 200 words or less with a photo one time onthe date of the familys choosing. To submit obituaries,email information along with a jpeg photo to [email protected]. Free obituaries are edited for style, clarity,length and grammar. If you would like to have an obituary

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    Police seek residentialburglary suspects,wants publics help

    Belmont police are hoping the public can help identifysuspects in a residential burglary that took place Friday at ahome on Belmont Canyon Road.

    The three suspects and their vehicle were captured on asecurity video camera.

    The vehicle is described as a silver Nissan Pathfinder withtemporary registration in the windshield.

    The first suspect is described as a black male adult, heavy-

    set and bald wearing a black T-shirt and red sweatpants witha white stripe down the side.The second suspect is described as a black male adult,

    wearing a black hat with a dark hooded sweatshirt and grayjea ns.

    The third suspect is described as a black male or Hispanicmale adult, wearing a black hat with a white dot on it, red

    jacket, blue jeans and white shoes.Anyone with information on the suspects or the vehicle

    can call Belmont police at 595-7400.

    Funds added to college districts loan programAn additional $1 million in funding from the post-retire-

    ment fund will go to the San Mateo County CommunityCollege Districts Employee Second Loan Program, theBoard of Trustees decided Wednesday night.

    The loan program is designed to help faculty and staffmake down payments on homes and be able to afford to pur-chase homes in the Bay Area, Chancellor Ron Galatolo said.

    The increase in funding comes with a recent increase in thenumber of employees seeking to purchase a home.

    The program offers a 10-year loan, with a maximum loanamount of $50,000, interest and payment are free for fiveyears and beginning in the sixth year, interest is calculatedat the district rate plus 2.5 percent for the term of the loan,paid monthly.

    To date, the district has made 21 loans; nine of which havebeen paid back for a total return to the district of $95,798which represents a 18.74 percent return on investment. Thedistricts portfolio of loans is currently valued at $775,577.

    The districts loan program has been in place for the last12 years.

    Local briefs

    Burglary suspects and their vehicle.

    By Terence CheaTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    OAKLAND Despite broken earth-quake-safety bolts that threatenedmonths of delays, California trans-portation officials approved a planThursday to open the new eastern spanof the San Francisco-Oakland Bay

    Bridge around the Labor Day weekend asoriginally planned.The Toll Bridge Oversight Committee

    voted unanimously at a public meetingto approve a temporary fix for the boltsand open the span Sept. 3 instead of aslate as December.

    The decision came days after federaltransportation officials signed off onthe temporary fix. The plan calls for theentire bridge to be closed Aug. 28 and toreopen Sept. 3 using the sweeping new$6.4 billion span instead of the exist-ing, decades-old span that has remainedin use during construction.

    That we can open the bridge soonerthan in December is a very welcomeddevelopment, Steve Heminger, execu-tive director of the Metropolitan

    Transportation Commission and over-sight committee chairman, said

    moments before Thursdays vote.Officials made the decision to close

    the bridge on Labor Day weekendbecause they believe traffic would belighter at that time than during otherweekends.

    We had a lot of conflicts no matterwhere else we landed, Heminger saidabout the timing.

    Gov. Jerry Brown initially playeddown worries about the broken bolts butlater expressed concerns, saying thespan was not going to open unless itsready. On Thursday, Brown spokesmanEvan Westrup said the governor accept-ed the committees decision.

    Democratic state Sen. MarkDeSaulnier, who has been critical aboutdelays, cost overruns and construction

    to repair the bridge, said in a statementthat the old eastern span has not been

    seismically safe since the Loma Prietaearthquake in 1989.

    The new span is 10 years late, and $5billion over budget, said DeSaulnier,chairman of the state Senate transporta-tion committee. The commuters are theones who have paid for this project as ithas skyrocketed over budget, and theyhave been left vulnerable each day spenton the old span.

    In a letter made public Tuesday,Vincent Mammano of the FederalHighway Administration told the bridgecommittee that the agency wasimpressed with the level of expertiseused to come up with the temporary fixand saw no reason to delay opening thebridge to traffic before long-term repairsare finished.

    Bay Bridge set to open around Labor DayThe commuters are the ones who have paid for

    this project as it has skyrocketed over budget,and theyhave been left vulnerable each day spent on the old span.

    State Sen.Mark DeSaulnier

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    By Michelle DurandDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

    The San Mateo man accused of stab-bing his mother late Monday after-noon appeared in court yesterday forthe first time since police reportedlyfound him standing over the injuredwoman.

    John Jacobberger, 53, was chargedwith attempted murder causing greatbodily injury on a woman over 70years old, felony assault, felony phys-ical elder abuse and, on all threecounts, the allegation he used a knifein the Aug. 12 incident that sent his76-year-old mother to the hospital.

    Just before 4 p.m. Monday, policesaid they found the woman on the floor

    and Jacobbergernext to her on thesecond floor of anapartment complexon the first block ofWest Fourth Avenuein San Mateo.

    The mother hadcome to check onJacobberger andspotted him inside

    on a chair surround-ed by knives. She asked him to grabhis backpack so they could go see hisdoctor, said District Attorney SteveWagstaffe.

    Jacobberger picked up a kitchenknife and attempted to exit, overpow-ering the woman as she pushed againstthe screen door, and slashed at her,

    Wagstaffe said.She was stabbed once in the chest

    and upper arm. When police arrived, hereportedly dropped the knife and drift-ed in and out of coherence. He also toldpolice I stabbed my mother, justshoot me and Its the drugs that mademe do it, Wagstaffe said.

    Jacobberger declined to enter a pleaat Thursday afternoons arraignmentand instead asked for a court-appointedattorney. Both are due back in courtAug. 19 and he remains in custodywithout bail.

    Jacobberger was charged with misde-meanor drunk driving in the 1980s buthas no other criminal history in SanMateo County, according to courtrecords. Jacobberger remains in custody.

    Man charged for allegedly stabbing mom

    John

    Jacobberger

    Governor appoints sevento senior administration posts

    SACRAMENTO Gov. Jerry Brown has named sevenpeople to senior posts within his administration, includinghis first appointment to the position of cabinet secretary,which he had previously rejected.

    Dana Williamson, a 41-yea r-old senior adviser to the gov-ernor since 2011, was named cabinet secretary on Thursday.

    The appointments also include two staff additions in

    Browns office of communications, which has been short-handed since the departures of two people last spring. Healso named a senior adviser for tribal negotiations,Joginder Dhillon.

    Brown rejected the cabinet secretary and chief of staffpositions upon retaking the governors office in 2011.Senior adviser Nancy McFadden has been serving in thatrole since last year. The appointments come just a yearbefore Brown faces re-election. The jobs each pay between$98,000 and $160,000 annually.

    State Senate votes to end loophole in old rape lawSACRAMENTO The state Senate unanimously

    approved a bill on Thursday that would close a loophole inCalifornia law that resulted in a rape conviction being over-turned because the woman was not married.

    The 2nd District Court of Appeal in January reversed theconviction of Julio Morales for impersonating theboyfriend of the woman.

    The court ruled that a state law dating to the 1870s speci-fies that assailants are guilty in such cases only if a womanis married and the perpetrator is pretending to be the spouse.

    Defense attorneys said Morales thought the sex was con-sensual because the woman didnt object to his advancesuntil she saw him in daylight.

    Bill outlaws growing problem of revenge pornSACRAMENTO The state Senate has approved a bill

    outlawing so-called revenge porn, which lawmakers sayis an increasing problem on the Internet.

    People who post identifiable nude pictures of someoneelse online without the victims permission, intending tocause emotional distress or humiliation, could be chargedwith a misdemeanor under the bill. The penalty is up to ayear in jail and a $1,000 fine.

    Republican Sen. Anthony Cannella of Ceres says hisSB255 punishes those who exploit intimacy.

    The Senate approved the bill 37-1 on Thursday, send ing it

    to the Assembly.Democratic Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco was the only

    no vote. He and the American Civil Liberties Union are con-cerned the bill could interfere with free speech rights.

    Judge halts water releases for salmonFRESNO A U.S. District judge in California has tem-

    porarily halted the planned releases of water from aNorthern California reservoir to prevent a salmon kill inthe lower Klamath River.

    The judge ordered the releases from the Trinity Reservoirtemporarily stopped until August 21.

    The order comes after farmers in Californias San JoaquinValley sued the federal government over the releases, alleg-ing they would be unlawful and would further decrease the lit-tle water available to them for irrigation.

    Around the state

    By Seth BorensteinTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON Imagine a mini-raccoon with a teddy bear face that isso cute its hard to resist, let aloneoverlook. But somehow science did until now.

    Researchers announced Thursday arare discovery of a new species ofmammal called the olinguito. The red-dish-brown animal is about 14-incheslong with an equally long tail andweighs about 2 pounds.

    It belongs to a grouping of largecreatures that include dogs, cats andbears.

    The critter leaps through the trees ofmountainous forests of Ecuador andColombia at night, according to aSmithsonian researcher who has spentthe past decade tracking them.

    But the adorable olinguito (oh-lihn-GEE-toe) shouldnt have been so hardto find. One of them once lived in theSmithsonian-run National Zoo inWashington for a year in a case of mis-taken identity.

    Its been kind of hiding in plainsight for a long time despite its

    extraordinary beauty, said KristoferHelgen, the Smithsonians curator ofmammals.

    The little zoo critter, named Ringerl,was mistaken for a sister species, theolingo. Before she died in 1976,Ringerl was shipped from zoo to zoo

    in Louisville, Ky., Tucson, Ariz., SaltLake City, Washington and New YorkCity to try to get it to breed with otherolingos.

    She wouldnt .It turns out she wasnt fussy,

    Helgen said. She wasnt the rightspecies.

    The discovery is described in a studyin the journal ZooKey.

    Helgen first figured olinguitos were

    different from olingos when he waslooking at pelts and skeletons in amuseum. He later led a team to SouthAmerica in 2006.

    Adorable new mammal species found

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    An olinguito, described as the first carnivore species to be discovered in theAmerican continents in 35 years,is pictured in a cloud forest in South America.

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    An artists composite of the Kepler telescope is seen in this undated NASA handout image.

    By Marcia DunnTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla NASA calledoff all attempts to fix its crippled Kepler

    space telescope Thursday. But its not quiteready to call it quits on the remarkable,robotic planet hunter.

    Officials said theyre looking at what sci-ence, if any, might be salvaged by using thebroken spacecraft as is.

    The $600 million Kepler mission hasbeen in trouble since May, unable to pointwith precision at faraway stars in its questfor other potential Earths. Thats when acritical second wheel failed on the space-craft. The first of four gyroscope wheelsbroke in 2012. At least three are needed forprecise pointing.

    Since it rocketed into space in 2009,

    Kepler has confirmed 135 exoplanets planets outside our solar system. Its alsoidentified more than 3,500 candidate planets.

    NASA expects to know by years endwhether the mission is salvageable. Kepler

    is already on an extended quest; its prime, 31/2-year mission ended in November.

    The spacecraft is 51 million miles fromEarth, orbiting the sun.

    If nothing else, new discoveries are expect-ed from data collected over the past fouryears.

    This is not the last youll hear fromKepler, promised Paul Hertz, NASAs astro-physics director.

    Kepler has made extraordinary discoveriesin finding exoplanets, including severalsuper-Earths in the habitable zone, saidJohn Grunsfeld, a former astronaut who headsNASAs science mission office.

    CIA acknowledges Area 51in declassified documents

    LAS VEGAS The CIAis acknowledgingthe existence of Area 51 in newly declassifieddocuments.

    George Washington Universitys NationalSecurity Archive obtained a CIA history ofthe U-2 spy plane program through a publicrecords request and released it Thursday.

    National Security Archive senior fellowJeffrey Richelson reviewed the history in

    2002, but all mentions of Area 51 had beenredacted.Richelson says he requested the history

    again in 2005 and received a version a fewweeks ago with mentions of Area 51 restored.

    Officials have already acknowledged inpassing the existence of the facility in cen-tral Nevada where the government is believedto test intelligence tools and weapons.

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    By Juliet WilliamsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SACRAMENTO The state has failed toproperly monitor more than $7 billion in

    voter-approved money for mental healthprograms from Californias extra tax onmillionaires and cannot reassure the publicthat it is going to help those most in need,the state auditor reported Thursday.

    California can offer little assurance thatthe counties have effectively and appropri-ately used the almost $7.4 billion, AuditorElaine Howle reported.

    Howles review came in response to aninvestigation last year by the AssociatedPress that found tens of millions of dollarsraised under Proposition 63 have gone toprograms designed to help those who havenot been diagnosed with any mental illness.Those so-called innovation programsinclude yoga, gardening, art classes andhorseback riding.

    Media reports have reflected skepticismabout counties Innovation programs, someof which include acupuncture and yoga, the

    audit said. Assessing and reporting on pro-gram effectiveness is therefore critical toensure that only effective programs are con-tinued and that the taxpayers and the publicare assured that MHSA funds are put to thebest use.

    Voters approve d Proposition 6 3 in 2004,creating a 1 percent tax on incomes of morethan $1 million to fund mental health pro-

    grams. The money raised through theMental Health Services Act has created some1,500 programs so far.

    Audit shows that mental healthspending not properly tracked

    Media reports havereflected skepticism about counties

    Innovation programs,some of whichinclude acupuncture and yoga....

    Assessing and reporting on programeffectiveness is therefore critical to

    ensure that only effective programsare continued and that the taxpayersand the public are assured that MHSA

    funds are put to the best use. Auditor report

    By Alicia ChangTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    LOS ANGELES California regulatorshave launched an investigation into offshorehydraulic fracturing after revelations that thepractice had quietly occurred off the coast forthe past two decades. The California CoastalCommission promised to look into theextent of so-called fracking in federal andstate waters and any potential risks.

    We take our obligation to protect themarine environment very seriously and were

    going to be looking at this very carefully,

    executive director Charles Lester saidThursday during the commission meeting.

    As a first step, the coastal panel planned toask oil companies proposing new offshoredrilling jobs if they will be using frackingand require them to submit an environmentalreview. It will determine further action aftercompleting its fact-finding mission.

    Arecent report by the Associated Press doc-umented at least a dozen instances of frackingsince the late 1990s in the Santa BarbaraChannel, site of a disastrous 1969 oil plat-form blowout that spurred the modern envi-

    ronmental movement.

    Panel launches probe into offshore fracking

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    CAIRO Weeping relatives insearch of loved ones uncovered thefaces of the bloodied, unclaimed deadin a Cairo mosque near the smoldering

    epicenter of support for oustedPresident Mohammed Morsi, as thedeath toll soared past 600 Thursdayfrom Egypts deadliest day since theArab Spring began.

    World condemnation widened for thebloody crackdown on Morsis mostlyIslamist supporters, including anangry response from President BarackObama, who canceled joint U.S.-Egyptian military maneuvers.

    Violence spread Thursday, with gov-ernment buildings set afire near thepyramids, policemen gunned down andscores of Christian churches attacked.As turmoil engulfed the country, theInterior Ministry authorized the use ofdeadly force against protesters target-ing police and state institutions.

    The Muslim Brotherhood, trying toregroup after the assault on theirencampments and the arrest of many oftheir leaders, called for a mass rally onFriday in a challenge to the govern-ments declaration of a monthlongstate of emergency and a dusk-to-dawncurfew.

    At least 638 people were confirmedkilled and nearly 4,000 wounded inthe violence sparked when riot policebacked by armored vehicles, snipersand bulldozers smashed the two sit-ins in Cairo where Morsis supportershad been camped out for six weeks todemand his reinstatement. It was thedeadliest day by far since the 2011popular uprising that overthrew auto-

    cratic ruler Hosni Mubarak andplunged the country into more than

    two years of instability.Also on Thursday, The United

    Nations Security Council called onboth the Egyptian government and theMuslim Brotherhood to exercise max-imum restraint and end the violencespreading across the country. Councilmembers called for national reconcili-ation.

    The Health Ministry said that 288 ofthose killed were in the largest protest

    camp in Cairos Nasr City district,while 90 others were slain in a smaller

    encampment at al-Nahda Square, nearCairo University. Others died in clash-es that broke out between Morsis sup-porters and security forces or anti-Morsi protesters elsewhere in theEgyptian capital and other cities.

    Mohammed Fathallah, the ministryspokesman, said earlier that the blood-soaked bodies lined up in the El Imanmosque in Nasr City were not includedin the official death toll. It was not

    immediately clear if the new figuresincluded the ones at the mosque.

    Death toll soars to 638 in Egypt violence

    REUTERS

    Egypt is in turmoil after security forces moved in to crush the protest camps ofthousands of supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi onWednesday and violence spread around the country.Protesters clashed with policeand troops who used bulldozers,teargas and live ammunition to clear two Cairosit-ins and hundreds have been killed.

    By Julie Pace and Nedra PicklerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    CHILMARK, Mass. President Barack Obamascrapped plans for joint American-Egyptian militaryexercises Thursday, announcing the first concrete U.S.reaction to the spiraling violence in and around Cairo butstopping well short of withholding $1.3 billion in annu-al American military aid.

    The measured response underscored the Obama adminis-trations concern that revoking financial support couldfurther destabilize Egypt, the Arab worlds most populouscountry and an important U.S. ally in a combustibleregion. And it was unclear whether the cancellation of themilitary exercises, known as Bright Star, would have anyimpact in stemming the violence that threatens the inter-im Egyptian governments promises of a political transi-tion following the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.

    The president, speaking from his rented vacation homeon Marthas Vineyard, warned that continued fightingwould lead Egypt down a dangerous path, and he calledon both the government and protesters to show restraint.He said that while close engagement with Egypt was inU.S. national security interests, our traditional coo pera-tion cannot continue as usual when civilians are beingkilled in the streets and rights are being rolled back.

    U.S. scraps military drillswith Egypt but not aid

    By Darlene SupervilleTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    CHILMARK, Mass. PresidentBarack Obamas family vacation onMarthas Vineyard is now complete:Daughters Malia and Sasha arrivedThursday.

    They had been finishing up at camp,and their absence was noted whenObama, first lady Michelle Obama and

    their dog, Bo, arrived on this pictur-esque Massachusetts island lastSaturday for the familys fourth summervacation since Obama took office. Itsthe first time the girls came separatelyfrom their parents.

    Obama, who played 18 holes of golfevery day but one this week, cut hisgame to just nine holes Thursday beforereturning to the familys $7 millionChilmark rental home to see 15-year-

    old Malia and 12-year-old Sasha.Reporters had been given the signalthat Obama would spend the rest of theday on the property.

    He had joked several weeks ago aboutfeeling lonely at the White Housebecause his children were away.

    The White House announced the girlsarrival Thursday afternoon by email.

    Obama is scheduled to return toWashington on Sunday.

    Obamas daughters join familys Vineyard vacation

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    By Zeina Karamand Bassem MroueTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    BEIRUT Apowerful car bombtore through a bustling southBeirut neighborhood that is astronghold of Hezbollah onThursday, killing at least 18 andtrapping dozens of others in aninferno of burning cars and build-ings in the bloodiest attack yet onLebanese civilians linked toSyrias civil war.

    The blast is the second in justover a month to hit one of theShiite militant groups bastions ofsupport, and the deadliest indecades. It raises the specter of asharply divided Lebanon beingpulled further into the conflictnext door, which is being foughton increasingly sectarian linespitting Sunnis against Shiites.

    Syria-based Sunni rebels andmilitant Islamist groups fightingto topple Syrias President BasharAssad have threatened to targetHezbollah strongholds inLebanon in retaliation for inter-

    vening on behalf of his regime inthe conflict.

    Thursdays explosion rippedthrough a crowded, overwhelming-ly Shiite area tightly controlledby Hezbollah, turning streetslined with vegetable markets, bak-eries and shops into scenes ofdestruction.

    Dozens of ambulances rushed tothe site of the explosion and fire-fighters used cranes and ladders totry to evacuate terrified residentsfrom burning buildings. Some fledto the rooftops of buildings andcivil defense workers were stillstruggling to bring them down tosafety several hours after theexplosion.

    U.N. chief deeply troubledby Israeli settlements

    RAMALLAH, West Bank U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Kimoon said Thursday that he isdeeply troubled by Israeli settle-ment building and that it couldultimately prevent the establish-ment of a Palestinian state.

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    Eucalyptus trees on El Camino

    Editor,I must admit that the eucalyptus treesalong El Camino Real are still there(ECR project faces tree concern inthe Aug. 13 edition of the DailyJournal). Eucalyptus trees can be dan-gerous trees. They grow fast and thewood is brittle. They have a habit ofdropping branches. Not twigs, butmajor limbs. Do we have to wait for abranch to fall on a car and injure or killsomeone?

    Palo Alto has started removing largeeucalyptus trees next to sidewalks for

    just thi s reason.Yes, the trees add character to El

    Camino Real, but are they worth risk-ing life and limb over?

    Robert HarkerSan Mateo

    Masks and the presidencyEditor,President Nixon was portrayed as

    Tricky Dickey, complete with

    Halloween rubber masks. PresidentReagan was portrayed as a lovable

    dunce falling asleep in meetings. Thereare rubber masks of him, too. Cartoonmasks were made of both the Bushpresidents and cartoon images of themappeared regularly. President Clintonhad rubber masks and he was portrayedwith his pants around his ankles. Sohow come a rodeo clown wearing anObama mask is a big deal? It appearsthis comes with the office of president.

    Keith C.De Filippis

    San Jose

    The vision of Elon MuskEditor,Athinker like Tesla CEO Elon Musk

    comes along once in a lifetime. He has

    a bachelors degree in physics andseems to have a gift for surroundinghimself with others who make dreams areality. We all would be wise to paymore attention to a man who is current-ly making a wonderful looking electriccar (for profit), sending rocket shipsinto outer space (SpaceX) and puttingsolar panels (SolarCity) on roofs.

    There seems to be no limit to his capa-bilities.

    Now Elon Musk is addressing high-speed rail. The proposed high-speedrail in California has been a fiascofrom the beginning and is starting tolook as over budget as another circusin California, the Bay Bridge. Yes,Elons proposed $6 billion budget forHyperloop may be way off but is a farcry less then the proposed ever risinghigh-speed rail figure of $69 billion.All the people on (and off) theCalifornia High-Speed Rail Authorityowe it to California taxpayers to listento what Elon Musk has offered.Amazingly enough, he is even willingto put some of his own money into theproject.

    Not too long ago we lost Steve Jobs,a man who was another brilliant

    thinker. While Elon Musk is with us,we would be wise to listen to himclosely. California needs all the help itcan get.

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    Letters to the editor

    Sacramento Bee

    Civil libertarians andHollywood celebritiesrecently signed a letter voic-

    ing support for prisoners engaged in ahunger strike over conditions in thesecurity housing unit at Pelican Bay

    State Prison.They ought to save their outrage.Inmates fomenting the hunger

    strike claim human rights are beingviolated. But they include killers andleaders of the most brutal gangs in theprison system. They are from theAryan Brotherhood, Black GuerrillaFamily, Mexican Mafia and NuestraFamilia. One shot-caller was named asan unindicted co-conspirator in feder-al indictments returned last week inLos Angeles seeking to disruptMexican Mafia operations.

    Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beardtold The Sacramento Bees editorialboard that the hunger strike has noth-ing to do with conditions and every-thing to do with gang leaders wanting

    to get into the general population sothey can more readily conduct theirgang business. We see no reason togainsay his statement.

    California prisons are monitoredclosely by the federal courts, a court-appointed special master, and areceiver who oversees health care,plus aggressive prisoner rights attor-neys from the Prison Law Office inBerkeley.

    U.S. District Judge Thelton

    Henderson of San Francisco and U.S.District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton ofSacramento have issued orders thathave forced California to spend bil-lions to vastly improve health andmental health care in the prisons. The

    judges orders led to the U.S. SupremeCourt decision prompting the state toreduce the number of inmates from174,000 to 119,000.

    There was a time when The Beeseditorial board urged strict o versightof Pelican Bays security h ousingunit, for good reason. In its first yearsof operation, there were instances ofterrible abuse by guards of inmates.Health care clearly was inadequate,and prison officials inhumanelyhoused severely mentally ill prison-ers in the units. Isolation exacerbatedtheir illness.

    In 1990, the Prison Law Office fileda class-action lawsuit alleging thatconditions in the unit amounted tocruel and unusual punishment. In

    1995, Henderson issued a scathingdecision upholding much of what thePrison Law Office sought and appoint-ing a special master to oversee theunit. The judge lifted that oversight in2011, after becoming convinced thatthe prison was adhering to his decree.

    Henderson left unanswered the ques-tion whether a decade or more in secu-rity housing is so detrimental toinmates mental health that itamounts to cruel and unusual punish-

    ment. The New York-based Center forConstitutional Rights has raised thatclaim in a suit on behalf of inmatesincluding the hunger strike leaders.The matter is pending before U.S.District Judge Claudia Wilken.

    In the past, gangmembers could getout of the units only by agreeing toinform on their fellow gangsters,

    which was tantamount to a death war-rant for the informant. Prison offi-cials last year modified the policy andnow offer inmates ways to get out ofsecurity housing units short ofinforming on fellow gang leaders.

    Beard made clear that he is trying tomove away from long-term segrega-tion, while reserving long-term hous-ing in the units for truly hard cases.

    Security housing units are stark.But its not as if they are rat-infested,medieval holes. Many inmates havecellmates and can talk through thelocked doors to their neighbors.Pelican Bay inmates have televi-sions, with 23 channels, includingthe four broadcast networks, PBS,BET and ESPN, plus educational and

    self-help channels and Bible channelsin English and Spanish.

    Security housing units are not coun-try clubs. But inmates have to work toget there. For the safety of otherinmates, thats where some of themshould remain. Celebrities such asPeter Coyote, Jay Leno and SusanSarandon and civil libertarians dimin-ish their credibility by embracing thecause of gang leaders who masqueradeas human rights advocates.

    Why are celebrities aiding prison gang leaders? Sacramento,celebrities

    There have been a number of celebrity sightings inSacramento this week. Halle Berry and JenniferGarner were speaking in front of the Assembly

    Judiciary Committee about a bill that would impose tougherpenalties for paparazzi who harass celebrities and theirchildren. And Jason Patric, of Lost Boys fame, alsospoke in front of that committee to testify for a billauthored by state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo. That bill would allow cer-tain sperm donors to seek paternityrights in court if they prove levels ofinvolvement in the childs life.

    The paparazzi bill passed out of thecommittee while the sperm donor billwas put on hold. However, Hill saidits a good bill and he will continue towork on it.

    So does having the attention thatcomes with celebrities help or hurt?

    Hill said it helped in the case of thepaparazzi bill because Berrys and Garners presencehumanized them, and made the issue seem more real. For hisbill, Hill said the attention hurt because it sailed throughthe Senate with nary a peep and only got attention becauseof Patrics custody battle with his former girlfriend, whoHill also said mounted a fairly substantial public relationscampaign.

    It was just a Hollywood media frenzy, Hill said.In the end, Hill said it is still a good bill because it sim-

    ply provides the right for someone to take their case tocourt and allow for a judge to decide. In this age of spermdonors and surrogates, getting a handle on parental rightsis certainly warranted at the state legislative level. Perhapsas the Patric paternity battle is removed from the equation,there can be a more contemplative discussion of it.

    ** *Hill is also making waves in his proposed legislation

    that would curtail the ability of nonprofits to mount politi-cal campaigns with public money. On the surface, it soundsfair. However, the League of California Cities has mounteda substantial campaign against the gut-and-amend billsince it would hinder its ability to fight state policy thatharms cities budgets. In years past, the league lobbied forstate propositions that would ensure cities retained taxmoney they believed to rightfully theirs. Cities pay mem-bership fees to the league, and the league advocates forcities. Much of that activity centers around ensuring that

    the state government keeps its hands off local money.Taking away that right is bad policy. And Hill should knowthat after cutting his political teeth on the San MateoCounty Board of Supervisors, and the San Mateo CityCouncil before that.

    ** *Speaking of Hills former stomping grounds, the deci-

    sion by Brandt Grotte not to run for a third term on the SanMateo City Council took many by surprise, though therewere grumblings about the possibility for the past fewmonths. Grotte has been a quiet councilman but he does hishomework and cares about the city. The first time I metGrotte in person was at a neighborhood meeting at theBoys & Girls Club in the North Shoreview neighborhood.At issue was the Federal Emergency Management Agencysdecision to put thousands of Bayfront residents on a floodmap which came with the requirement of costly new insur-ance. Grotte was president of the United HomeownersAssociation at the time and was fighting hard to right this

    wrong and I had talked to him over the phone for a previousstory on the issue. The first thing he said to me was, Iknow you. You quoted me accurately. Little things like thatcarry a long time.

    Through Grottes dedication and that of the city includ-ing Public Works Director Larry Patterson those homeswere eventually taken off the flood map.

    ***Circling back to celebrities, the San Mateo County

    Democratic Party is hosting a celebrity chef barbecue noonto 4 p.m. Aug. 24 at San Mateos Central Park. So who arethe celebrity chefs? Bobby Flay? Tyler Florence? GuyFieri? Nope. Hill, state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco,Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco,Assemblyman Rich Gordon, D-Menlo Park, and Joe Ross,San Mateo County Community College District trustee.Notable? Sure. Celebrity? That might be a stretch.

    ***If you want to see a true celebrity, no need to look further

    than the Redwood City Community Theatres performanceof Hairspray opening tonight at Sequoia High SchoolsCarrington Hall. Its one of those stories that was a movie,made into a play, then made into a movie, then made into aplay. Playing Tracy Turnblads mother Edna (portrayed inthe original movie by the cross-dressing Divine) is StevePenna, publisher of Redwood Citys Spectrum Magazine.Admission ranges from $10-$25. And Pennas performanceshould be worth the price of admission alone. For moreinformation about the play, the theater company and per-formances, go to rwctheatre.org.

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    Dow 15,112.19 -225.47 10-Yr Bond 2.755 +0.043

    Nasdaq 3,606.12 -63.16 Oil (per barrel) 107.19S&P 500 1,661.32 -24.07 Gold 1,365.20

    Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the NewYork Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEWal-Mart Stores Inc.,down $1.99 to $74.41The worlds biggest retailer cut its outlook for the year and disappointedWall Street with its quarterly profit,revenue,and comparable store sales.Estee Lauder Cos Inc.,up $2.23 to $67.36Stronger sales of skincare products and makeup push fourth-quarterprofits up 84 percent at the beauty products company.Kohls Corp.,up $2.67 to $53.51One of few bright spots in the retail sector.The department store postedbetter-than-expected comparable store sales.NasdaqEBay Inc.,down $1.05 to $53.18The online retailer takes a hit after Facebook confirms to AllThingsD thatits testing an online payments product that would compete with PayPal,

    eBays fastest-growing business.TripAdvisor Inc.,down $3.03 to $70.52The companys stock slides for a second day after CEO Steve Kaufer saysduring an investment conference that travel has been lighter thanexpected and that visits to its online travel site,usually bustling this timeof year,have been missing.Smith & Wesson Holding Corp.,down 96 cents to $11.22A KeyBanc Capital Markets says he feels that the rush to buy firearmsmay start to ease soon.He downgrades Smith & Wesson to Underweightfrom Hold.Cisco Systems Inc.,down $1.89 to $24.48The computer networking company is cutting about 4,000 jobs and CEOJohn Chambers called the global economy challenging and inconsistent.Intel Corp.,down 54 cents to $22.03The worlds largest maker of chips for PCs gets a downgrade from R.W.

    Big movers

    By Matthew CraftTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK Grim sales forecastsfrom two major companies and con-cern that the Federal Reserve will soonstart withdrawing its support for theeconomy pummeled the stock marketThursday.

    The Dow Jones industrial averageslumped 225 points, its worst day innearly two months. Investors alsodumped bonds, driving the yield on the10-year Treasury note to its highestlevel in more than two years.

    Before the start of trading, Wal-Martcut its estimates for annual revenue andprofit, warning that cautious shoppersare spending less. The news followed adisappointing revenue forecast fromCisco Systems late Wednesday.

    In a twist, more signs of resiliencein the U.S. economy weighed on thestock market. Reports on inflation andthe job market appeared to raise theodds that the Fed would begin windingdown its massive bond-buying pro-

    gram as early as next month. Manyinvestors think that the Feds efforthas underpinned the stock marketsrecord run.

    People are worried that this moveup in interest rates will kill the recov-ery, and we wont see the anticipatedsecond-half improvement in growthand corporate earnings, said AlecYoung, global equity strategist at S&PCapital IQ.

    The Standard & Poors 500 index fell

    24.07 points, or 1.4 percent, to1,661 .32. The selling swept across all10 industry groups in the index.

    The Dow lost 225.47 points, or 1.5percent, to 15,112.19. The Nasdaqcomposite index fell 63.16 points, or1.7 percent, to 3,606.12.

    Some investors cautioned againstreading too much into Thursdays drop.

    It seems like an overreactiontoday, said Randy Frederick, manag-ing director of active trading and deriv-atives at the Schwab Center forFinancial Research. Corporate earn-ings are solid and the economy isimproving, he noted.

    The stock market hit an all- timehigh two weeks ago. The Dow is still

    up 15 percent in 2013; the S&P 500 up16 percent.The government reported that the

    number of Americans applying forunemployment benefits dropped to320,000 last week. Thats the lowestlevel since October 2007, two monthsbefore the start of the Great Recession.

    A slowly improving economyshould eventually lead to higherspending and more sales for big com-panies. But thats down the road. Rightnow, investors are more focused on the

    Feds next move, said Natalie Trunow,the chief investment officer at CalvertInvestments.

    Theres this counter-intuitive reac-tion to economic news, Trunow said.Positive data comes out and marketsarent excited about it. They say, Uh-oh, the stimulus will be removed.

    Thursdays corporate news wasmostly negative. Wal-Mart fell $1.99,or 3 percent, to $74.41 after theworlds largest retailer cut its profit andrevenue forecasts for 2013. It alsoreported second-quarter results thatmissed Wall Streets estimates.

    Cisco Systems announced plans tocut 5 percent of its workforce, roughly4,000 employees, as sales slow. CEO

    John Chambers called the global econ-omy challenging and inconsistent.Cisco plunged $1.89, or 7 percent, to$24.48, the biggest drop of the 30 bigcompanies in the Dow.

    Ciscos announcement led to sellingin other technology stocks becausethe company is widely regarded as abellwether for the industry. Cisco sellsa wide range of products to corpora-tions and governments and its fiscalquarters end a month later than mostmajor technology companies.

    Warnings of slower sales drive stocks downPeople are worried that this move

    up in interest rates will kill the recovery,and we wont see the anticipated second-half

    improvement in growth and corporate earnings. Alec Young,global equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ

    Facebook to test mobile payments serviceNEW YORK Facebook plans to test a mobile pay-

    ments service that lets users make purchases insidemobile applications using payment information theyhave added to their account on the social network.

    Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it is working on avery small test and the company says there is no setschedule for making the service available to users. Theservice would use payment information that shoppersstore on Facebook to automatically complete checkoutforms of certain mobile apps. Then, the app wouldprocess the purchase.

    Spokeswoman Tera Randall said in an e-mailed state-ment that Facebook has a great relationship withPayPal, and this product is simply to test how we canhelp our app partners provide a more simple commerceexperience.

    Wal-Mart cuts profitoutlook on shopper worries

    NEW YORK Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the worlds

    biggest retailer, said the weak global economy contin-ues to batter its low-income shoppers.

    The chain on Thursday cut its annual profit and rev-enue outlook for the year after reporting second-quarterresults that missed Wall Street estimates. The compa-nys stock fell nearly 3 percent on the news.

    Wal-Marts sober assessment adds to worries aboutconsumer spending that arose when Macys Inc. loweredits profit expectations for the year after reporting disap-pointing results on Thursday and Kohls Corp. did thesame on the following day even after posting solidresults.

    Business briefs

    By Carla K. JohnsonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    CHICAGO With the new healthlaws enrollment period set to open in

    just a litt le more than six week s,President Barack Obamas administra-tion announced $67 million in awardsThursday to organizations that willhelp people understand their new insur-ance opportunities and get signed up.

    Health and Human Services SecretaryKathleen Sebelius announced the

    Navigator grant awards to 105 groups

    in states where the federal governmentwill run online insurance market-places. Sebelius said consumers arehungry for information.

    These navigators will help con-sumers apply for coverage, answerquestions about coverage options andhelp them make informed decisionsabout which option is best for them,Sebelius said from Tampa, Fla., duringon a conference call with reporters.

    Ideally, navigators will use a varietyof math and logic skills to walk people

    through the somewhat confusing

    process of buying insurance. Forexample, navigators will help peopleestimate their family income for 2014,important in determining eligibilityfor federal tax credits to help pay thecost of coverage.

    Navigators may need to answer ques-tions about family size, such as: Doyou count the kids if they are claimedon an ex-spouses income tax? And,they will need to be able to explain thedifferences between the bronze, silver,gold and platinum insurance policies

    offered on the marketplaces.

    Navigator groups get $67M to sign up uninsured

    By Christopher S. Rugaberand Anne DInnocenzioTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON Bleaker outlooks atretailers like Wal-Mart and Macys areraising doubts that consumers willspend enough in coming months to liftthe still-subpar U.S. economy.

    Though the economy is growingsteadily, Americans are being hamperedby weak pay, higher taxes and tepid hir-ing. Sluggish overseas economies arealso slowing sales for U.S. retailers. Itsa picture the Federal Reserve will weighin deciding whether to scale back itsbond purchases as soon as next month.

    Consumers arent going to startspending with abandon until we seemuch stronger job and wage growth,

    says Mark Vitner, an economist at WellsFargo.

    Average weekly paychecks havegrown just 1.3 percent since the reces-

    sion ended more than four years ago.Over the past 12 months, pay has trailedeven low inflation. Thats partly whyspending has remained lackluster andwhy many Americans may be postpon-ing purchases at department stores sothey can buy cars, homes and other cost-ly necessities.

    Americans increased their spending atan annual rate of just 1.8 percent in theApril-June quarter down from a 2.3percent rate in the January-March peri-od. Consumer spending is expected toimprove in the second half of the year.But most economists foresee only aslight acceleration to an annual rate of 2percent to 2.5 percent.

    Those spending rates are historicallyweak. And theyre too meager to signif-icantly boost the economy, which grew

    at an annual rate of just 1.4 percent inthe first half of the year. Consumer

    spending fuels about 70 percent of theU.S. economy.

    For much of this year, manyAmericans have made major purchasesthat they had postponed during therecession and the weak recovery. Autoand home sales have strengthened. Yetthats left less spending money for dis-cretionary purchases such as electronicgoods, clothes and eating out.

    Consumers are very much need-based, said Ken Perkins, president ofRetailMetrics, a retail research firm. Iftheyre buying a new car, that leavesless money for a childs wardrobe.

    That trend has weakened the sales andprofits of retailers like Macys. OnWednesday, Macys reported a disap-point ing profit for its second quarter andcut its outlook for the year.

    Tepid retail sales raise economy doubts

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    Jenkins not concerned with preseason slow start

    Oracle making waves

    REUTERS FILE PHOTO

    Luna Rossa Challenge skipper Max Sirena looks on during a news conference.

    Italian skipper says Americas Cup champ cheatedBy Bernie WilsonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Skipper Max Sirena of Italys Luna Rossais the latest Americas Cup competitor toaccuse defending champion Oracle TeamUSA of cheating in what potentially couldbe one of the biggest scandals in the regat-

    tas 162-year history.For sure, Sirena said when asked

    Thursday at a news conference in SanFrancisco if he thought Oracle cheated

    Oracle last week acknowledged it modifiedits boats without permission of theMeasurement Committee for four AmericasCup World Series regattas last year, whichwere warm-ups to the 34th Americas Cup.

    Oracles admission prompted GrantDalton, the managing director of EmiratesTeam New Zealand, to say on Tuesday thathe thought the American syndicate wascheating.

    REUTERS FILE PHOTO

    Oracle announced Thursday that it will forfeit victories in four Americas Cup World Series regattas after determining its AC45 catamarans were

    modified in violation of race rules.

    By Craig MasseiTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SANTACLARA The San Francisco49ers dont seem too concerned withwide receiver A.J. J enkins slow startto the preseason.

    Neither does Jenkins.The teams 2012 first-round draft

    pick has impressed teammates andcoaches alike with his hard work andbig-play potential this summer. Butafter an unproductive rookie season,there are immediate expectations forJenkins to start delivering in games.

    He didnt in San Franciscos exhibi-

    tion opener last week against Denver,when Jenkins lost a fumble after his

    only reception. Jenkins and the 49ersare looking for better results when theteam travels to Kansas City forFridays game against the Chiefs.

    Jenkins is aware he has yet to live upto his draft status. But thats not mak-ing him any more anxious for his nexttest against the Chiefs.

    I dont feel no pressure, Jenkins

    said Thursday. I just go out there andplay football. Right now, Im just try-

    ing to play my best football. Im notworried about all that other stuff. Justkeep working hard and keep trying tomake plays for this team, and every-thing else will take care of itself.

    The 49ers expected Jenkins to devel-op into a playmaker when they select-ed him with the No. 30 overall pick oflast years draft. But he was a nonfactor

    49ers looking for better results when the team travels to Kansas City

    I dont feel no pressure....I just go out thereand play football.Right now,Im just trying to play my

    best football.Im not worried about all that other stuff. A.J.Jenkins

    REUTERS FILE PHOTO

    The 49ers expected Jenkins to develop into a playmaker whenthey selected him with the No.30 overall pick of last years draft.See NINERS, Page 15

    See ORACLE, Page 12

    Sanchezs 3-runhomer leads toa Giant victoryBy Brian McNallyTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON Pinch-hitter HectorSanchez hit a three-run homer with two outsin the ninth inning, helping the SanFrancisco Giants beat the WashingtonNationals 4-3 onThursday.

    Down to his laststrike, Sanchez connect-ed off Nationals closerRafael Soriano (2-3) on afull-count pitch. Thedrive landed just insidethe right field foul polein the second deck.

    Sergio Romo worked ascoreless bottom half for his 29th save.Javier Lopez (2-2) pitched 1 2-3 scorelessinnings of relief to earn the win.

    The loss snapped Washingto ns five-game

    winning streak and spoiled Dan Harens si x-inning, one-run effort.

    Ian Desmond doubled home two runs andJayson Werth added two hits for theNationals.

    Brandon Belt homered for the Giants andextended his hitting streak to 10 games.Ryan Vogelsong allowed three runs in thethird inning, all with two outs. SanFrancisco snapped a three-game losingstreak.

    Since coming off the 15-day disabled liston July 8, Haren has a 3.20 ERA in sevenstarts.

    Vogelsong labored during a 39-pitch thirdinning. Desmonds double into the gap inleft-center drove home both Denard Spanand Werth.

    Adam LaRoche then followed with an RBI

    single to score Desmond and put theNationals up 3-0.

    In the seventh inning, LaRoches linedrive struck Giants reliever Sandy Rosarioin the chest. Rosario immediately left thegame and was replaced by Lopez.

    San Franciscos struggling offense did lit-tle against Haren, who during one stretchallowed just two runners to reach base out of14 batters. One of those runners came viaerror and was erased by a double play.

    Belt snapped that stretch with a solohome run in the sixth inning to cut thedeficit to 3-1. But Haren escaped the inning

    Giants 4, Nationals 3

    See GAINTS, Page 14

    Hector Sanchez

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    By Rachel CohenTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    NEW YORK U.S. Open rain delays atArthur Ashe Stadium will be no more by2017.

    The Grand Slam tournaments center court

    could be covered by a retractable roof assoon as the 2016 tournament, but morelikely the following year, U.S. TennisAssociation officials said Thursday.

    As the mens final was delayed to Mondayeach of the last five years, they had insisteda roof wasnt yet feasible financially orstructurally. Adecade after the USTAstartedstudying the issue and three years afterarchitectural firm Rossetti began research-ing the project, the price tag and the tech-nology are finally workable. The construc-tion will cost about $100 million, downfrom earlier projections of $200 million.

    The U.S. Open becomes the last of thefour major tournaments to cover up. Themain stadiums at Wimbledon and theAustralian Open already have roofs, and theFrench Open is planning one.

    The Ashe roof is part of a $550 millionproject that also will rebuild and expandother courts at the Billie Jean KingNational Tennis Center. No. 2 stadiumLouis Armstrong will eventually be cov-ered, too.

    The Grandstand, the third-largest court,will move to the opposite corner of thecomplex, with capacity increased from6,000 to 8,000 fans. Armstrong, which cur-rently seats 10,000, will be replaced with alarger version that can hold 15,000. Theconstruction will allow for more andimproved concessions than the two 50-year-old stadiums currently support.

    Someday the Grandstand will probablyhave a roof, too.

    New tournament and practice courts withadditional seating also will be built so morefans can see the players in action; theycould be complete as soon as next yearsOpen. As of now, only a few dozen specta-tors can squeeze in a view of the practicecourts through a fence.

    Walkways will be widened and esplanadescreated in an attempt to reduce the bottle-necks that frequently pile up between themain entrance and Ashe. The tennis centers

    capacity for each day session will increasefrom 40,000 to 50,000 people.

    The new Grandstand is scheduled to openby the 2016 Open and Armstrong by 18.Fans will see some of the work in process;temporary bleachers likely will be usedaround the new Armstrong court at the mid-point of the two-year project.

    The USTA must still receive finalapprovals from the city for the plans.

    The organization had commissioned threedifferent studies over the years that deter-mined a roof wasnt feasible. The last time

    the USTA made a request for proposals, in2009, it did not select Rossetti, the originalarchitect for Ashe.

    The firm took it rather personally, saidDanny Zausner, the tennis centers chiefoperating officer.

    Behind the scenes, they worked on the

    project for free for a year to try to come upwith a concept that no one else thought of,he said.

    When Rossetti presented its findings toUSTAo fficials in 2010, they were intrigued.Still, the firm was a long way from solvingthe riddle of topping Ashe.

    As USTAexecutive director Gordon Smithput it: It wasnt built for a roof, and theland conditions around it on the site areabysmal.

    We had to find out how to support 5,000tons of steel on soil that is mush, saidMatt Rossetti, the firms head.

    Using lighter materials atop the stadiumwas considered, but that proved unwork-able. The USTAwas willing to remove someseats, though not the entire upper bowl.

    Technology innovations over the years

    helped in making what was once impossi-ble possible, Rossetti said in particular,computer modeling. But about 80 percent ofthe shift simply came from the painstak-ing, time-consuming process of delvinginto different options.

    A big breakthrough occurred just sixmonths ago, when the firm surmised that theroof could be supported by only eightcolumns. At one point, the prediction was32 and there wasnt space for that at thetennis center.

    It was only two months ago that Rossettidetermined the eight columns would actual-ly work.

    U.S.Open stadium to have roof by 2017

    REUTERS FILE PHOTO

    The Grand Slam tournaments center court at the at Arthur Ashe Stadium could be coveredby a retractable roof as soon as the 2016 tournament,but more likely the following year.

    Oracle Team USA is owned by softwarebillionaire Larry Ellison, the CEO ofOracle Corp.

    An international jury is investigatingand can sanction Oracle, including a fine,forfeiture of races or disqualification fromthe Americas Cup.

    Its unclear whether the jury would takethe drastic step of disqualifying Oracle.The forfeiture of any races in the best-of-17 Americas Cup match, especially if itsopponent is powerhouse Emirates TeamNew Zealand, would certainly hurt Oracle inits quest to defend the oldest trophy ininternational sports.

    Asked if Oracle cheated, Sirena said: For

    sure. I mean its pretty obvious whattheyve done, which is pretty bad for oursp


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