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Thursday • June 11, 2015 • Vol XV, Edition 256
ONE YEAR LATERWORLD PAGE 9
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BUSINESS PAGE 10
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SUBURBAN LIVING PAGE 17
SPORTS PAGE 11
IRAQ STILL IN DISARRAY AFTER ISLAMIC STATE TOOK MOSUL ON JUNE 10, 2014
By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Design Tech High School willtake a first step in the effort tomove onto the campus of OracleCorporation, as the science andtechnol ogy focused charter schoolin the San Mateo Union HighSchool District gained an initial
approval from the Redwood CityCouncil.
The council unanimouslyapproved on Monday, June 8, aproposal to begin developing anenvironmental impact report forthe project, which is the first offi-cial movement toward construct-ing a two-story b uilding for d.techin Redwood Shores.
Should the project continuetoward construction, the collabo-ration b etween Oracle and the highschool district’s only charterschool would offer a permanenthome to the d.tech, which hasbeen th rough tumultuous stretchesin its search for classroom space.
The proposal includes con-structing an 85,000-square-foot
school on a 2.9 1-acre site adjacentto Belmont Slough and the BayTrail in Redwood City, whichwould accommodate up to 550 stu-dents and 30 employees, accord-ing to a city report.
Students would not have desig-nated space for athletics or activi-ties beyond the classroom, butfacilities such as the gym, con-
vention center and kitchen locatedon the Oracle campus would beshared with the school, said thereport.
Officials in the high school dis-trict recently ag reed to l ease spacein Burlingame from the San MateoCounty Office of Education to
Design Tech High School moves toward OracleCharter high school gains momentum in effort to relocate onto campus of tech titan
By Jullia HorowitzTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO — After t akin g asignificant recession-era hit,California’s economy has bo uncedback up to the seventh largest inthe world as the state’s grossdomestic product reached $2. 3 tril -lion in 2014, show figuresreleased Wednesday by the U.S.Bureau of Economic Analysis .
That was enough for Californiato edge past Brazil’s 20 14 GDP of $2.2 trillion, but still below the
sixt h-place United Kingdom.California had slipped in the
ranks since 2002, when it lastclaimed the No. 6 spot. The statebottomed out at ninth in 2010after a harsh drop in economic out-put after the 2008 financial crisis.
But 2014 saw statewide econom-ic growth on multiple fronts, par-ticularly in professional and tech-nical services, which includes
job s s pannin g fro m IT cons ultin gto construction-related engineer-
California’seconomy is
on the riseEconomic resurgence bounces stateback to seventh largest in the world
By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF
A month after passing a parceltax that advocates claimed wasnecessary to attract and retain top-notch educators, the San CarlosElementary School District is pre-pared to grant a 9 percent raise toteachers.
The district Board of Trustees isexpected to vote Thursday, June11, on a tentative agreementbetween officials and teacherswhich would grant six bi-annualpay hikes worth 1.5 percent over
the next three years.The agreement, which would go
San Carlos teachersare set for pay bumpRecently approved tax measure leadsto 9 percent pay raise for educators
By Hannah AlbaraziBAY CITY NEWS SERVICE
Two men ass ociated with a seriesof robberies in San Francisco inrecent months were arrested and acache of assault rifles, sniperrifles, handguns and explosiveshave been seized from a suspects’home in South San Francisco, SanFrancisco police Chief Greg Suhrsaid Wednesday.
Investigators are now working
with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco, Firearms and Explos ives
Cache of assault rifles seized in South City
Twenty-two assault rifles, 12 handguns, two shotguns, two bolt-actionsniper rifles and 5,000 pieces of ammunition, including some ofmilitary-grade that can pierce through armor, were seized from a suspects’home in South San Francisco.
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Report of plane crash actuallymonster truck’s bath time
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Ambulances,law enforcement officers and severalemergency responders rushed to a prop-erty in southwest Missouri upon receiv-ing a report of a possib le plane crash.
Instead, they found a man washinghis jet-powered semi — named“Shockwave” — on Monday afternoon.
Owner Neal Darnell’s new neighborscalled 911 after hearing the loud noise
and seeing smoke over their tree line.Darnell said he recently raced thevehicle, which can reach 376 miles perhour, on a dirt course so it needed to bewashed on Monday, the SpringfieldNews-Leader reported. To wash the36,000-horsepower truck, Darnell hasto use its jet engin es, which causes a lotof noise and white smoke.
“We do it from t ime to t ime and it willusually generate a couple of 911 calls,but today for some reason it b rought outa whole army of emergency vehicles,”Darnell said. He also said he doesn’tblame the neighbors for being con-cerned.
A Greene County sheriff’s deputy toldthe newspaper that no citations wereissued and that t he 911 callers had acted
in good faith because they believedsomeone might be in danger.
Darnell said he takes Shockwave totruck shows across th e country, where itdoes things like setting stacks of carson fire or racing fight er planes.
Colorado sees firstcamp resort for pot users
DURANGO, Colo. — Colorado i s fullof all-inclusive ranch resorts whereguests hike, fish, play horseshoes androast marshmallows. This one has anew offering — smokin g pot.
The 170-acre CannaCamp openingJuly 1 in Durango in southwestColorado calls itself the nation’s firstcannabis-friendly ranch resort.
Guests won’t be given marijuana,because that violates state law. Instead,
the resort allows guests to bring theirown pot and use it while at the resort.
In addition to horseshoes and hiking,guests are offered yoga sessions andworkshops on marijuana cultivation.
“We’re bringin g an element of luxuryto th at adventurous, exploratory vib e of childhood summer camp —in a beautifulsetting where visitors can enjoy mari-
juana in a safe, comfortable, socialenvironment,” Joel Schneider, head of the management group openingCannaCamp, said in a statement.
Man dismissed from jury dutyfor wearing prisoner costume
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. — A Vermontman has escaped jury duty — by getting
dismissed for wearing a prisoner cos-tume.
James Lowe of Barnet says he wasreleased from jury duty on Tuesday whenhe showed up to court wearing a black-and-white-striped jumpsuit with a
matching beanie.The Caledonian Record reports that
Lowe showed up on time and joinedother prospective jurors before the startof the selection process. Deputiesdirected him to an empty courtroom tomeet with the judge, who told him toleave.
Lowe says the judge told him hecould’ve been found in contempt of court. That could’ve meant a fine or jailtime.
Lowe says th e juror ins tructions don’trestrict clothing, but that he’s happy t o
be released because of his work scheduleand family obligations.
Truck carrying 2,200 pigletsoverturns, killing about half
XENIA, Ohio — Authorities estimateup to 1,100 piglets may have died whena semitrailer carrying 2,200 pigletsoverturned on an Ohio highway.
Agencies and volunteers worked tocorral the animals after the crashMonday night on U.S. Route 35 inXenia Township, near Dayton. Crewspicked up squealing pigs by their hindlegs.
Some may have escaped into woodedareas. Deputy Chief Greg Beegle of thetownship’s fire department says author-
ities rounded up those they could findbefore ending the search. He says 1,100were taken to Greene CountyFairgrounds to await transportation.The truck was traveling to Indiana fromSouth Carolina.
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Actor PeterDinklage is 46.
This Day in History
Thought for the Day
1919
Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes,becoming horse racing’s first TripleCrown winner.
“People do not believe lies becausethey have to, but because they want to.”— Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and commentator
Pro Football Hall of Famer JoeMontana is 59.
Actor Shia LaBeouf is 29.
Birthdays
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Migrants and activists sail an inflatable boat in a symbolic action on the Ill River in front of the European Parliament inStrasbourg, France.
Thursday : Mostly cloudy. Highs in themid 60s to lower 70s. Lightwinds...Becoming west 5 to 10 mph inthe afternoon.Thursday night: Partly cloudy. Patchyfog after midnight. Lows in the lower50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.Friday : Mostly cloudy in the morningthen becoming partly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning.Highs near 70. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
Friday nig ht: Partly cloudy in the evenin g then becomingmostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower 50s.Saturday : Mostly cloudy in the morning then becomingpartly cloudy. Patchy fog and drizzle. Highs in the 60s.Saturday ni gh t and Sunday: Partly cloudy. Patchy fog .Lows in t he lower 50s. Highs in the 60s.
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In 1509, England’s King Henry VIII married his first wife,Catherine of Aragon.In 1770, Captain James Cook, commander of the Britishship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running ont o it.In 1938 , Jo hnn y Vander Meer pitched the first of two con-secutive no-hit ters as he led the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 vic-tory over the Boston Bees. (Four days later, Vander Meerrefused to give up a hit t o the Brookl yn Dodgers, who l ost, 6-0. )In 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed alend-lease agreement to aid th e Sovi et war effort in World WarII.In 1959 , the Saunders-Roe Nautical 1, the first operationalhovercraft, was publicly demonstrated off the southern coastof England.In 1962 , three prisoners at Alcatraz in San Francisco Baystaged an escape, leaving the island on a makeshift raft; they
were never found or heard from again.In 1963 , a Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc (tihk kwangduk), set h imself afire on a Saigon st reet to protest the g ov-ernment of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem (nohdeen dyem).In 1975 , Robert Altman’s ensemble musical drama“Nashville,” released by Paramount Pictures, opened in NewYork.In 1977, Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturingthe Triple Crown.In 1985 , Karen Ann Quinlan, the comatose patient whosecase prompted a historic right-to-die court decision, died inMorris Plains, New Jersey, at age 31.In 199 3 , t he U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who com-mit “hate crimes” motivated by big otry may be sentenced toextra punishment; the court also ruled religious groups had aconstitutional righ t to s acrifice animals in worship services.
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U.S. Rep. Ch arles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., is 85 . Actor GeneWilder is 82. Comedian Johnny Brown is 78. InternationalMotorsports Hall of Famer Jackie Stewart is 76. Singer JoeyDee is 75. Actress Adrienne Barbeau is 70. Rock musicianFrank Beard (ZZ Top) is 66. Animal rights activist Ingrid
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Burglary . A window was smashed and alaptop was stolen from a black HondaAccord on Old County Road before 7:41a.m. Tuesday, June 2.Disturbance . A resident of a complexcomplained about a fire pit and loud musicon Village Drive before 11:47 p.m.Saturday, May 30.Suspicious circumstances . Someoneleft two pink 15-gallon bags with a bio-hazard sign on them on Ralston Avenuebefore 12:03 p.m. Tuesday, May 26.
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Not drought tolerantPolice were contacted when a neighborwas sp raying water and cussin g at a manon Kentucky Street in Redwood Citybefore 6:31 p.m. Tuesday, June 2.
By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF
While the ann ual Pride Celebration in SanMateo County is only in its third year,organizers are enthusiastic it will ultimately
become an institution that brings the entirecommunity together.This Saturday, Central Park in San Mateo
will be the site of the 2015 Lesbian, Gay,Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Question ing,Intersex, Two-Spirited Pride Celebrationwith the theme being “Beyond the Binary— Celebrate the Diversity of OurCommunity.”
The theme highlights the importance of recognizing gender identity and sexual ori-entation as part of a spectrum rather than amale/female, gay/straight bi nary that is notreflective of peo ple’s true identit y, s aid Dr.Jei Africa, director of the co unty’s Office of Equity and Diversity.
The event will not only be fun but a placeto gather information on how the LGBTcommunity and its allies can advocate for
policies and gain access to resources thatwould improve their li ves.
The celebration comes just before theU.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to makehistory by ruling on marriage equality.
“The whole po int o f this is to raise aware-
ness, ” said Africa, on e of the event’s organ-izers.Mostly, however, the event will be fun,
family oriented and relaxing , h e said.“We want to show that the county is wel-
coming to all k inds of people,” he said.This year’s Pride Celebration will also
acknowledge the resilience of the raciallyand ethnically diverse communities thatcontinue to confront multiple forms of dis-crimination in their daily li ves.
The celebration is sponsored by thePRIDE Initiative and LGBTQ Commission.
The PRIDE Initiative was established in2007 through San Mateo County’sBehavioral Health and Recovery Service’sOffice of Diversity and Equity.
The LGBTQ Commission of San MateoCounty was founded by the Board of
Supervisors in June 2014. It’s the state’sfirst county or city commission focused onthe co mmunity ’s needs.
“The LGBTQ Commission is proud to be aco-sponsor of this countywide celebrationand welcomes everyone to join in the fes-
tivities. Expect fun for all ages includingcrafts, music, poetry, performances, greatfood and an opportunity to be filmed for anLGBTQ oral his tory project, ” Jenny Walter,commission co-chair, wrote in a statement.
Comedian Marga Gomez will emcee theevent which will feature a “queer fashionshow,” a variety o f music, disc jockey LadyChar, resource booth s and vendors.
The Pride Celebration starts 11 a.m.,Saturday, June 1 3, Central Park, 50 E. Fifth
Av e. , San Mateo . Go towww.smchealth.org/bhrs/ode/pride orlgbtq.smcgov.org to learn more.
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Pride Celebration coming to Central ParkOrganizers expect bigger crowd at third annual event in San Mateo
By Fenit NirappilTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO — California businesseswould pay billions more in property taxesunder a longshot bid by two Democratic law-makers to unravel some of the voter-approved tax limits in Proposition 13.
A coalition of unions and liberal groups joined state senato rs Wednesday to s upport aconstitutional amendment that would rollback property tax limits on s ome companiesand real estate owners.
Voters approved Propositio n 13 in 1978 tocurb the rise of prop erty taxes on h omes and
other real estate. The proposed amendment,
SCA5, would require commercial and industri-al properties to be taxed at regularly assessedvalues, not just values assessed when build-ings and land change ownership. Some busi-nesses are able to avoid property tax in creas-es through corporate restructuring.
“We have large corporations and propertyinvestors th at have used loopholes in t he lawto avoid paying their fair share,” Sen. HollyMitchell, D-Los Angeles, said at a news con-ference with her co-author, Sen. LoriHancock, D-Berkeley.
The senators estimated their measure wouldraise billions of dollars annually for educa-tion and other public services. Business
groups counter that the proposed overhaul
would add to an already high tax burden andhinder economic growth.
“California, even with Prop 13, is a highproperty tax state,” said Jon Coupal, presi-dent of the Howard Jarvis TaxpayersAssociation, which is named for the champi-on of Proposition 13. “There’s no com-pelling reason given the tax revenues thatare now flowing into the state.”
Democrats propose Proposition 13 overhaul for businesses
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By Paul Larson
MILLBRAE –Some say that
science and religiondon’t mix. Some
say that science isthe ultimate searchfor God. Some say
religion supersedesscience, some say both have equal statureand others say both are hogwash. Everyone
has their own personal assessment of thecorrelation between science and religion.
The aspiration of religion along with theaspiration of science is to explain theuniverse and answer questions about life, in
addition to satisfying human psychologicalneeds when dealing with the realities ofdeath. Religion is based on faith, science is
based on observation, and both are based onhuman curiosity and the need to find
answers. Whether a person is repetitivelyreading religious scripture, or fascinated byrepeatable scientific experimentations, both
are searching for methods that answerquestions about the universe around us.
It can be debated that early humans
turned to religion as a way to alleviate theirfears and gain reassurance with the concept
of life after death. This helped to give thema sense of order in a confusing world that
often seemed mysterious. Eventuallyscientific realization evolved along sidereligion and the process of “trial and error”
established itself as a way to solve some ofthese mysteries. Fire the wheel farming.
The more humans observed the world theylived in, the more they leaned how thenatural world worked and how they could
manipulate it to their advantage. Over thecenturies religious power came at odds with
scientific discovery, which led to a period of
scientific stagnation: “The Dark Ages”.Later at the dawn of “The Renaissance”science was again embraced leading to great
advances in art, architecture, medicine,astronomy and other natural sciences. Over
the ages science and religion have beenevolving together on a roller coaster ride ofacceptance, denial and equilibrium.
We now appear to be at a crossroadswhere religion is not only viewing science
with an evaluative broadmindedness, but isexploring hand in hand with scientificprocesses. One prime example is the
Vatican’s “Pontifical Academy ofSciences”. Quoting John Paul II: “...today
eminent scientists are members a visiblesign of the profound harmony that canexist between the truths of science and the
truths of faith...”. Gregor Mendel, the fatherof Genetics, was an Augustinian Friar.
Georges Lemaitre, who developed much ofthe Big Bang Theory, was a Belgian priest.Recently, Pope Francis, who has a Master’s
Degree in Chemistry, insisted that there isno reason to believe that science and God
are incompatible.With all this in mind, every human being
is unique as a fingerprint, and every humanbrain has its own unique consciousness.
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It took a jury 20 minutes Wednesday to
find Stanford University student ClaytonWilliam Evans, 2 2, guilty for blocking theSan Mateo-Hayward Bridge on the MartinLuther King Jr. holiday in January.
Evans and 67 oth er Stanford students werearrested Jan. 19 during a “Black LivesMatter” protest that stranded thousands of drivers on the bridge for nearly two hours.
Evans is the third to be convicted by a jury as Paul Dwight Watkins II, 19 , wasfound guilt y last week of willfully an d mali-ciously obstructing a person’s free move-ment in a public place. On Monday,Jennifer Rebecca Telschow, 24, was con-victed for the same crime. Her jury took 22minutes to return a guilty verdict.
Evans, however, received 100 hours of community service compared to the 45hours sentence for Watkins.
The sentence for Evans was stifferbecause of his attitude on the stand, JudgeJonathan Karesh said, according to prose-cutors. Evans testified on his own behalf for about 5 0 min utes Wednesday.
One juror was excused from th e trial, how-ever, after submitting the follo wing note toa court official.
“Your Honor,Please encourage both sides to get to th e
point. This case appears to be an open andshut case. It is all on video. I do not under-stand th e defense.
Why doesn’t the prosecutor just say whatlaw was violated? Again, it is all on videoand I don’t believe it is contested.
What is the defense?Does he think it should be legal to run
across bridges and block traffic?Please move things along. It has taken
five hours to present 30 minutes of content.Thank you,” the dismissed juror wrote.Of the 68 students originally cited by th e
California Highway Patrol, 44 pleaded nocontest and were sentenced to 30 hours of community service and are required to t ake aclass on the First Amendment. Their misde-meanor convictions will be reduced toinfractions after completing the terms of their sentences.
For those convicted, however, the misde-meanor will stay on their criminal records,according to prosecutors.
One defendant, however, Maria Diaz-Gonzalez, 20, was found not guilty lastweek by the same jury that convictedWatkins.
The trial against another batch of Stanford students accused of blocking thebridge, Yeji Jung, Sevde Kaldiroglu andTianya Katherine Pulphus, is also under-way.
The District Attorney’s Office chose toprosecute the students because of the highnumber of victims.
Calls to 911 from some of the victimswere part of the evidence prosecutors pre-sented during t he case.
The victims i ncluded a young mother witha newborn, an elderly man who needed topick up his grandchildren and another whocalled 911 complaining that he needed touse the bathroom.
Prosecutor Jenna Johansson said lastweek during the Watkins trial that it was“pure luck” that t he prot est did not create anemergency on the bridge.
Third Stanford student isguilty for blocking bridge
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By Marcia DunnTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An experi-mental solar sail is being called a successthree weeks after its arrival i n sp ace.
The Planetary Society said Wednesday itstest flight resulted in an almost full deploy-ment of the sail — an estimated 90 percentto 95 percent of the 344-square feet lightand shiny surface — and has set the st age fora follow-up mission next year.
The goal is to create a sail th at can be pro-pelled through space by sunlight, thusopening exploration to practically anyone,anywhere.
“Solar sailing is worth doing because ithas the potential to democratize space,”said the society’s chief executive officer,
Bill Nye, more commonly known as BillNye the Science Guy. Small organizationswill be able to build solar sails and sendspacecraft to “almost any destination in thesolar system if you have time. You can getthere because you never run out of fuel. Thesun shines all the time.”
Spacecraft using solar sails could be usedto chase asteroids and comets, or observethe sun’s vi olent storms.
“There really isn ’t much of a l imit o n whatyou can do in the solar system,” Nye toldreporters, “and this LightSail test flight isthe first small step on that long journey.”
The Mylar sail for the current LightSailspacecraft is bigger that many living rooms
— 344 square feet when stretched flat. It wasfolded into a little boxy spacecraft for itsMay 20 launch from Cape Canaveral, hitch-hiking on a secretive Air Force space planemission.
For days, the LightSail team struggledwith a series of vexing software problemswith the spacecraft once it reached orbit.The sail finally opened Sunday on the thirdtry. It wasn’t until seeing a picture beameddown of the open sail, on Tuesday, that thesociety could declare success.
“That was quite a thrill” seeing the pic-ture, said project manager Doug Stetson.“This has really b een a roller coaster ride of emotions, a lot of sleepless nights. ”
With its orbit gradually declining,LightSail is expected to re-enter the atmos-phere thi s weekend.
The society knew the flight would beshort given LightSail’s relatively low orbit.The main objective was to demonstrate therelease and operation of the sail. Next year’sspacecraft will shoot for a higher orbit andtake a crack at true solar saili ng.
A similar experiment by the group endedin failure 10 years ago this month when theRussian rocket failed to put the solar sail inorbit. This time, the society relied on anAmerican Atlas V rocket.
The Ligh tSail p roject was funded by mem-bers and supporters of the Pasadena,California-based Planetary Society, a non-profit space interest group co-founded bythe late Carl Sagan in 1 980.
Planetary Society’s solarsail test a success in space
Artist’s rendering of the Planetary Society’s LightSail spacecraft.
By Don ThompsonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO — A state board votedWednesday to distribute $500 million forlocal jail cons truction after making it clearthat th e money must be used to create spacefor rehabilitation and treatment programs.
Sixteen advocacy groups persuaded theCalifornia Board of State and CommunityCorrections to clarify that counties can’tuse the funds to simply replace aging,crowded or unsafe jails. Board membersalso will require that counties prove theyhave sufficient funds to operate the jails
once they open.The board unanimously made the chan ges
as it invited counties to apply for themoney in coming weeks.
The changes largely satisfied StevenMeinrath, an advocate for the AmericanCivil Liberties Union, one of the 16 advo-cacy groups. It is important to emphasizerehabilitation programs, he said, becausethe buildings th at will be cons tructed withthe money “have the potential to transformour local criminal justice system byinforming the type of facilities we willhave for the next generation.”
But Brian Goldstein, an advocate withthe Center on J uvenile and Criminal Justice
in San Francisco, said the board shouldhave done more to make sure the moneydoesn’t go to b uild new jails. Other groupscritical of the board’s original proposalinclude the American Friends ServiceCommittee, Children’s Defense Fund-California, and Alliance for Boys and Menof Color.
They complained that the guidelines th atcounties will use to apply for the moneywere developed by a 10-member board-appoint ed committee that is dominated bysheriffs and other county officials. Theadvocacy groups said the committeereleased drafts of the guidelines only
moments before committee hearingsbegan, too late for the public to provideinformed comments.
But the full board spent 75 minutes lis-tening t o 42 representatives of communityorganizations. Many of them said theboard should delay any vote on jail con-struction until it could gauge whethervoter-approved Proposition 47 willchange the need for more jail space byreducing some criminal p enalties.
“Californians do not want any more jai ls ,” sai d Euniss es Hernandez, an advo-cate with the Drug Policy Alliance who saidrecent ballot in itiatives sh ow a majority of voters favor alternatives to incarceration.
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Sergio Reyes, returning champ of the pie eating contest, won for a second time in a row at the 81st annual San MateoCounty Fair that started Saturday. Each day there will be a new contest that will start at 3 p.m. at the central mall food court.
A TASTE OF THE FAIR
Construction to close lanes on Sneath LaneSneath Lane in San Bruno will have ramps and lane clo-
sures at the connector ramp between 280 and 380 inter-states Friday, June 12, and Saturday, June 13, according toCaltrans.
The southbound off-ramp at Sneath Lane will be closedbetween 7 p.m., Friday until 7 a.m. along with three south-
bound lanes on Interstate 280, while two will remain open.The northbo und on-ramp at Sn eath Lane will be sh ut downbetween 11 p.m. and 9 a.m.
On Saturday, the n orthbo und Sneath Lane on-ramp will b eclosed, along with three northbound lanes of Interstate280, while two remain open from 7 p.m. until 10 a.m. Thewestbound Interstate 380 connector ramp to northboundInterstate 280 will be closed from 1 a.m. until 6 a.m.
This work is part of a seismic retrofit project at theSneath Lane overcrossing , and work is s cheduled to b e com-pleted by the end of spring.
Visit www.dot. ca.goc/dist4 for more information.
By Alicia ChangTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GOLETA — The cost of cleaning upthe oil spill that fouled beaches lastmonth on the California coast hasreached $62 milli on so far, th e pipeline
company said Wednesday.Costs are running at $3 million a day,and there is no timetable for when thecleanup will be complete, Plains AllAmerican Pipelin e’s on-scene coordina-tor, Patrick Hodgins, told theAssociated Press.
The company is responsi ble for foot-ing the bill after a pipeline break nearSanta Barbara forced the closure of twostate beaches and prompted a fishingban in the area.
Hodgins said the pipeline op erator isnot focused on the money.
“The responsibility here is to get itcleaned up as quickly as possible,” hesaid.
About 76 percent of 97 miles of coast -line — mostly sandy beaches — havebeen cleared of oil. Crews are usingputty knives and other tools to scrapeoil off rocks and cobble beaches — alabor-intensive process that’s dictatedby ti dal conditions.
“The beaches are fairly clean,” saidCoast Guard Capt. Jennifer Williams,one of two federal response coordina-tors. “We’re making progress on theshoreline cleanup.”
The May 19 spill occurred after anonshore pipeline operated by Texas-based Plains All American ruptured,leaking up to 101, 000 gallo ns of crude.
About 21, 000 gallons entered a stormdrain and washed out to the PacificOcean off Santa Barbara County.
Wildlife experts have recovered 161dead birds and 87 dead marine mammals,mostly sea lions . Another 106 animalswere found coated in oil and are undergo-ing rehabilitation.
The toll of the spill is a sliver of the1969 oil platform blowout off SantaBarbara County that blackened miles of coastline and killed thousands of shore-birds and other wildlife.
At the height of the cleanup, therewere almost 1,200 people involved.Eighteen boats skimmed oil from thewater while a pair of helicopters and afixed-wing aircraft buzzed overhead.Crews have n ot used the aircraft for sev-eral days and the number of skimmershas b een reduced to three.
Plains revised the total cleanup costafter initially pegging i t at $69 million.Company spokeswoman MeredithMatthews said daily costs are expectedto decrease as work progresses.
The cause of last month’s break hasnot been determined, but documentsreleased by federal regulators after thespi ll said testing conducted in early Mayfound extensive external corrosionalong some sections of the pipeline.
State oil spill cleanup costs reaches $62 million
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In early rush, Hillary Clintondeploys organizers coast to coast
MANKATO, Minn. — Hillary Rodham Clinton haslaunched a sweeping national jobs program — for her presi-
dential campaign.In the eigh t weeks s ince she announced
her run for the White House, Clinton’scampaign has deployed roughly 100organizers nationwide and opened 15
offices in early-voting states. That’s farmore than any other candidate of eitherparty in the 2016 contest.
In Iowa, Clinton now has at least 27paid organizers — three times as many asany of th e roughly dozen Republicans inthe race. Her campaign has hi red at least
one staff member in every state, the District of Columbiaand the U.S. t erritories.
She has two region al directors i n th e reliably Democraticstate of California and even put one person o n the payrol l inWyoming , a st ate that has no t vot ed for a Democratic nomi-nee in more than 50 y ears.
The overwhelming favorite for her party’s nomination,Clinton doesn’t necessarily need the volunteers now. Buther team, worried she will lack the power of a competitiveprimary to energize the core group of supporters she willneed for the general election, has gone on an early hiringspree rare in presidential pol itics. “You can’t get to a point
where the polls are tight and say, ‘Oh, wow, we need to dosome organizing,”’ said Marlon Marshall, Clinton’s direc-tor of state campaigns and political engagement.
Senate GOP denies funds forlawyers for immigrant children
WASHINGTON — A GOP-controlled Senate panel onWednesday blocked President Barack Obama’s request for$50 mil lion to pay for legal h elp for unaccompanied immi-grant children coming to t he United States after fleeing vi o-lence in Central America.
The lawmaker responsible for the move was RepublicanSen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, chief author of a sp endingbill funding th e Justice Department’s budget. The spendingmeasure won init ial approv al on Wednesday but has a lo ngway to go b efore becoming law.
The flow of children fleeing gangs and other dangers inGuatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and finding their wayto the U.S. is down significantly from last year, when aninflux created a humanitarian crisis, in st ates along t he U.S.-Mexico border. Sig nificant backlog s remain.
Without lawyers, chil dren are much more likely to b e sentback to their ho me countries. Under federal law, immigrantchildren have two options to seek legal status, includingrequesting asylum for fear of returning home to face gangviolence.
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WASHINGTON — Con gress and the st ateswill need to find an answer if the SupremeCourt strikes down t he federal subsidies th atare a foundation of President BarackObama’s health care law, his health secre-tary told lawmakers Wednesday.
Sylvia Burwell also said the presidentwould reject any proposals restoring thosesubsidies that Republican lawmakers havealready produced because all would roll backcrucial elements of the overhaul law, ineffect repealing it .
“Something that repeals the AffordableCare Act is somethin g the presi dent will n otsign,” s he said.
Burwell’s comments to the House Waysand Means Committee marked a continua-tion of Obama administration efforts topressure Republicans should the justicesvoid subsidies that help millions affordhealth i nsurance. A decisio n is expected thismonth.
The GOP runs Con gress, and 26 of t he 34states li kely to be hardest hi t by s uch a deci-sion have Republican governors.
In additio n, 22 o f the 24 GOP senators upfor re-election next y ear are from those same34 states. Many Republican strategistshave said the party would face retributionfrom voters in next year’s elections if thesubsidies are eliminated and Congress doesnot advance legislation p rotecting the mil-lion s of peo ple who would be hurt.
The case before the Supreme Courtinvolves a Republican-backed challenge byconservatives to the 5-year-old health law.The suit says the law limits the subsidies topeople in s tates that run their own insurancemarketplaces — and not to residents of the30-plus states that use the federalHealthCare.gov website.
The committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan,R-Wis., asked Burwell how the administra-
tion would respond to a decision that tossedout the subsidies.
“We’re going to do everyth ing we can andwe’re working to make sure we’re ready tocommunicate and work with states,”responded the health and human servicessecretary.
But she added, “The critical decision s willsit with Congress and states and governorsto determine if those subsidies are avail-able.”
Burwell’s comments were a more pointedversion of previous administration state-ments that i t is no t preparing a contingencyplan for a decision that erases the subsidies,which are paid as tax credits.
Though many Republicans seem to favorextending the federal aid temporarily, noneseem ready to back down from demands thatin exchange, other parts of the health lawshould be jettisoned, such as its require-ments that insurers provide minimal levelsof coverage.
The day’s back and forth showed that thelaw remains a high-octane political issuedestined to influence next year’s presiden-tial and congressional elections.
“They still refuse to entertain the notionthat their health care law might get struckdown by the Supreme Court,” Ryan toldreporters afterward. “And they refuse toacknowledge they are even thin king about abackup plan. I think that’s unfortunate.”
While Ryan said the health l aw “is busted,”Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan, the topDemocrat on the committee, said the onlything broken is th e GOP attack line on the l aw.
“You sit as armchair critics as milli ons of people have insurance who never had itbefore,” Levin said. “You’re livid becauseit’s getting better?”
Congressional Republicans have workedon several plans to temporarily restore thecredits and curb some of the law’s require-ments, though there are no signs that anyhave enough votes to win approval.Republicans say they h ope to come out witha plan backed by both House and Senate
GOP leaders once t he court strik es down thesubsidies.
Health head: Congress’ problem if court voids health law aid
The case before the Supreme Court involves a Republican-backed challenge by conservativesto the 5-year-old health law. The suit says the law limits the subsidies to people in states thatrun their own insurance marketplaces — and not to residents of the 30-plus states that usethe federal HealthCare.gov website.
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Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter’ssquare at the Vatican.
By Nicole WinfieldTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VATICAN CITY — Pop e Franci s t ook t hebiggest step yet to crack down on bishopswho cover up for priests who rape andmolest children, creating a new tribunalinsi de the Vatican to hear cases of bish opsaccused of failing to protect their flock.
The init iativ e, an nounced Wednesday, hassignificant legal and theological implica-tions, since bishops have long been con-sidered masters of th eir dioceses and largelyunaccountable when they bungle their job,with the Vatican stepping in on ly in casesof gross negligence.
That reluctance to intervene has pro mptedyears of criticism from abuse victims, advo-cacy groups and others th at the Vatican had
failed to punish or forcibly remove bishopswho moved predator priests from parish toparish, where they could rape again, ratherthan report them to police or remove themfrom ministry.
The Vatican said Francis had approvedproposals made by his sexual abuse adviso-ry board, which includes survivors of abuseas well as experts in chil d protection p oli-cies. The proposals call for a new mecha-nism b y which t he Vatican can receive andexamine complaints of “abuse of office” bybishops, and bring them to trial in aVatican tribunal.
A special new judicial section, with per-manent staff, will be created inside theCongregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
“to judge bishops with regard to crimes of the abuse of office when connected to theabuse of minors, ” a Vatican s tatement sai d.
Details must still be worked out, includ-ing po ssible punishments and the statute of limitations to determine whether old casesof negligence by bishops dating back 20 or30 years can now be heard.
The congregation currently reviews allcases of priests who have abused minorsand the statute of limitations is 20 years,though the congregation can waive thatlimit.
“I sincerely believe this is a real step for-ward,” commission member Marie Collins,herself a survivor of abuse, told theAssociated Press in an email. “Time willtell the effectiveness of the new measure,but I am hopeful.”
The main U.S. victims group SNAP wasmore cautious, noting that bis hops current-ly in office have delayed reporting abuseand yet no punishment has ever been metedout.
“In the face of this widespread denial,timidity and inaction, let’s be prudent, stayvig ilant an d with hold judgment until we seeif and how this panel might act,” saidSNAP’s David Clohessy.
The sex abuse scandal exploded decadesago in the U.S., Ireland, Australia, and else-where in large part because bishops andheads of religious orders moved pedophilepriests around or sent them off for therapy,rather than report the crimes to police orconduct church trial s as canon law requires.
Pope Francis creates tribunal forbishop negligence in abuse cases
By Sarah El Deeb and Haggag SalamaTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LUXOR, Egypt — Militants tried toattack the ancient temple of Karnak insouthern Egypt on Wednesday, with a sui-cide bomber blowing himself up and two
gunmen battling police. No sightseerswere hurt in th e thwarted assault, but it sug-gested that Islamic extremists are shiftingtargets from security forces to the coun-try’s vital tourism industry.
The violence left the bomber and onegunman dead, the o ther wounded and arrest-ed, and four other people wounded. Thetemple was not damaged.
The attackers carried guns in backpacks,and one wore a belt of explosives. Theyrode in a taxi through a police checkpointto a parki ng l ot an d sat at a cafe and orderedlemonades, witnesses told the AssociatedPress. The taxi driver, suspicious after they
refused his offer to help with the packs,alerted police.
When a policeman approached, thebomber tried to hug him, but the p olicemanwrestled away. Seconds later, he detonatedthe explos ives, and the others pulled auto-matic weapons from their b ags and opened
fire wildly, sending a small group of European tourists running for cover, thewitnesses said.
The attack follo wed one this month o ut-side the famed Giza Pyramids in which gun-men killed two policemen.
The violence points to a change in tac-tics by Islamic militants against t he gov-ernment of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. For two years, attacks have beencentered in the Sinai Peninsula, mostlyby a group that has sworn allegiance tothe Islamic State group and largelyfocused on retaliation against police andsoldiers.
Suicide bomber strikes near ancienttemple of Karnak in southern Egypt
By Ken DilanianTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A cybersecurity firmwith close ties to Russian int elligence saidWednesday it uncovered a cyber-espionagecampaign targeting hotels that hosted Irannuclear negotiations, the details of whichare among the most closely held secrets inworld diplomacy.
The firm, Kaspersky, said the malware wasso sophisticated that it must have been cre-ated by a government. Citing former U.S.intelligence officials, The Wall StreetJournal attributed the spying to Israel,which opposes the emerging nuclear deal
being hammered out by the U.S., Russia,
several other European countries and Iran.Negotiators hope to clinch an agreement bythe end of the month to curb Iran’s nuclearactivity for a decade in exchange for bil-lions of dollars in sanctions relief.
A former senior U.S. intelligence officialwho dealt with such matters told theAssociated Press th at the n uclear talks are alikely espionage target of several countries,including Israel and Russia. The former offi-cial said he couldn’t b e quoted on the recordand demanded anonymity.
The Israeli gov ernment declined commentWednesday.
The allegation coincides with deepeningtensions in the U.S.-Israeli relationship,
much of it linked to Iran.
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By Vivian Salama THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD — The Islamic State group
gave only three options for the soldiers andpolice officers guarding Mosul, Iraq’s sec-ond-largest city, when they neared it a yearago: Repent, run or die.
Many ran. Those who resist ed died, oftengruesomely in mass killings filmed anduploaded to the Internet, only fueling fear of the extremists.
The collapse of Iraqi security forces,which received billion s of dollars in aid andtraining from the U.S. during its occupa-tion, haunts this divided country today, ayear after the Islamic State group seizedMosul and a third of the country. Its s ectari-an divides grow deeper as millions remaindisplaced, milit ary gains have seen militantcounterattacks and a U.S.-led campaign of airstrikes appears not to have changed thestalemate.
What can change the situation i s unclear,as lower oil prices sap the Iraqi economy,the U.S. limits its involvement on theground and the Iraqi people as a whole con-tinue to suffer.
“There’s no salary, no jo b, n o life,” s aid a31-year-old former soldier named after thecountry’s former dictator Saddam Hussein,
who saw his young son killed as his familyfled Mosul for Irbil in Iraq’s Kurdish region.“And if you have a child and he gets sick,you can’t treat him. ”
On June 10, 2014 , th e Islamic State grouptook full control of Mosul, part of its light-ning sweep from its territory in war-ravagedSyria and Iraq’s Anbar province. Videosquickly emerged of the extremists wavingtheir trademark black flags in parades downMosul’s streets or driving Iraqi forces’ U.S.-made Humvees, as darker films of theirmassing killings followed.
Weeks later, Islamic State leader Abu Bakral-Baghdadi purportedly spoke at Mosul’smain mosque and the group declared a“caliphate” over territory it controlled,demanding the loyalty of the world’sMuslims. A U.S.-led air campaign began inAugust targeting the group, the number of strikes no w numbering around 1,90 0.
While Shiite militias advised by Iran and
Iraqi forces have recaptured Tikri t, Saddam’shometown, th e battle on the ground appearsat the least locked in stalemate — or at theworst, not in Iraq’s favor. Former PrimeMinister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite whostepped down in August amid calls for hisresignation , i s widely b lamed for the corrup-tio n and incompetence in Iraq’s armed forcesafter he replaced top Sunni commanders with
his o wn loyalist s. The Islamic State group’sadvance merely exposed the rot, as entireunits collapsed and soldiers stripped off
their uniforms as they fled, leaving behindlarge caches of U.S.-supplied weapons.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi hasvowed to empower Sunni tribesmen th roughthe formation of a national guard, whichwould oversee security in the Sunni heart-land — areas predominantly under IslamicState control t oday. But the force has failed
to g et off the g round and many remain suspi-cious of the Shiite-led government inBaghdad.
Meanwhile, the U.S. remains hesitant tobecome too involved in the war after U.S.President Barack Obama withdrew allAmerican ground forces at the end of 2011.There now are slightly fewer than 3,100U.S. troops in Iraq training and advisinglocal forces, but they are not fight ing on th efront line.
Iraq still in disarray oneyear after IS took Mosul
By Jim Kuhnhenn and Lolita C. Baldor
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President BarackObama ordered the deploy ment of up to 450more American troo ps to Iraq on Wednesday
in an effort to reverse major battlefieldlosses to the Islamic State, an escalationbut not a significant shift in t he strugglingU.S. strategy to defeat the extremist group.
The U.S. forces will open a fifth trainingsite in the country, this one dedicatedspecifically to helping the Iraqi Army inte-grate Sunni tribes into the fight, an ele-ment seen as a crucial to driving the IslamicState out of the Sunni-majority areas of western Iraq.
The immediate objective is to win backthe key city of Ramadi, which was seizedby extremists last month.
The U.S. is i nsistent that Americans willnot h ave a combat role. But in th e deploy-
ment of American forces and th e equipp ingof Iraqi troops, the U.S. must make sure“that we can be nimble because clearly thisis a very nimble enemy,” Deputy NationalSecurity Adviser Benjamin Rhodes toldreporters.
The plan is not a change in the U.S. strat-egy, the administration says, but addressesa need to get Sunnis more involved in thefight. Some local citizens in Sunni-majori-ty areas fear an invasion and reprisals fromIran-backed Shiite militia even more thandomination by the Islamic State, under-scoring a need for any military campaignthere to be led by local fighters.
But the Shiite-led Iraqi government’srecord in recruiting Sunni tribesman hasbeen mixed at best, slowing efforts toregain Ramadi and Fallujah, a nearby citythat Islamic State militants have held formore than a year. Iraqi leaders fear thatSunni fighters, once armed, could turnagainst the government, and they have
deployed most U.S.-trained Iraqi troops indefensive formations around Baghdad, thecapital.
Obama this week lamented that the U.S.lacks a “complete strategy” for defeatingthe Islamic State, and officials pointed to a
glaring lack of recruits among Sunnis.
Wednesday’s anno uncement of a new train-ing site at al-Taqaddum, a desert air basethat was a U.S. military hub during the2003-2011 war, is designed to fix th at. Theadditional troops will include advisers,trainers, logisticians and security person-
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Dow 18,000.04 +236.36 10-Yr Bond 2.48 +0.06
Nasdaq 5,076.69 +62.82 Oil (per barrel) 61.17
S&P 500 2,105.20 +25.05 Gold 1,185.30
Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on theNew York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEHCC Insurance Holdings Inc., up $20.66 to $77.35 The insurance company is being bought by Japan-based insurer TokioMarine Holdings Inc. for about $7.5 billion in cash.Oxford Industries Inc., up $3.54 to $84.55 The clothing and apparel maker reported better-than-expected first-quarter profit and revenue and raised its outlook.Johnson Controls Inc., up $2.03 to $53.59 The maker of auto components and building systems is exploring optionsfor the potentially spinning off its automotive business.FleetCor Technologies Inc., up $8.23 to $159.51 The provider of fuel cards signed a contract with Uber for a universalcard program for that company’s U.S. drivers.NasdaqBoulder Brands Inc., down $1.97 to $6.91
The health food company lowered its sales outlook for the second quarterand said co-founder and CEO Steve Hughes resigned.Recon Technology Ltd., up 31 cents to $1.96 The provider of oilfield services in China won contractor status and acontract with a China Petroleum & Chemical subsidiary.OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc., up 19 cents to $2.79 The biotechnology company said the FDA agreed to a plan that allowsit to move ahead with development of a potential cancer drug.Sigma Designs Inc., up $1.27 to $10.21 The maker of semiconductors used for Internet TV and other platformsreported better-than-expected first-quarter profit and revenue.
Big movers
By Matthew CraftTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Signs of progress innegotiations over Greece’s debts helpedlaunch a st ock market rally Wednesday,snapping a weeklong sl ump.
The rally was broad: All 30 stocks inthe Dow Jones i ndustrial average and all10 industry groups in the S&P 500index made gains.
“Everybody’s screen is full of green,”said Matt Kaufler, a fund manager atFederated Investors.
Major indexes started higher at theopening of trading, putting the marketon track for so lid gains. Around midday,Bloomberg reported that GermanChancellor Angela Merkel may be will-ing to release more money fromGreece’s bailout fund if the Greek gov-ernment commits to at least one moveto tighten its budget. Without a deal bythe end of the month, Greece faces theprospect of going bankrupt and drop-ping t he euro.
The stock market surged after the newsbroke and held most of its gains untilthe closing bell.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 indexclimbed 25.05 points, or 1.2 percent, toclose at 2,105.20. It was the best dayfor the broad-market benchmark in amonth.
The Dow Jones in dustrial average ral-
lied 236.36 points, or 1.3 percent, to18,0 00.40 , while the Nasdaq compositegained 62.82 points, or 1.3 percent, to5,076.69.
U.S. government bond prices contin-ued to slide. The drop nudged the yieldon the 10-year Treasury note to another
high for the year, 2.49 percent. In latetrading the yield was 2.48 percent.Long-term interest rates have surged inrecent months as the economy showssigns o f shaking off its winter slump.
“The market is starting to price in animproving economy,” said BradMcMillan, the chief investment officerat Commonwealth Financial. “Andwe’re seeing a lot of great economicnumbers.”
McMillan pointed to last Friday’sreport from the Labor Department thatshowed employers added 280,000workers to their payrolls last month.Wages, which had barely moved in pre-vious months, also edged up. “Therewas just a lot to li ke in that report,” hesaid.
Major markets in Europe finishedwith s olid gains Wednesday. Germany’sDAX jumped 2.4 percent, whileFrance’s CAC-40 closed with a gain of 1.7 percent. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares added 1.1 per-cent.
The yen jumped against the dollarafter the head of the Bank of Japan said
the country’s currency was unlikely tocontinue its slump. The dollar fell 1.4percent to 122.64 yen.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225slipped 0.2 percent, and South Korea’sKospi shed 0.6 percent. Hong Kong’sHang Seng lost 1.1 percent, while
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 closed 0.1percent lower.Back in the U.S., Netflix’s stock
soared to a new high after shareholderscleared the way for the Internet videoservice to split its stock. Netflix rose$23.95, or 4 percent, to $671.10.Netflix has nearly doubled in price thisyear.
An announcement by JohnsonControls, an industrial parts supplier,that it was considering splitting off itsautomotive business propelled the com-pany’s stock higher. Johnson Controlsgained $2.03, or 4 percent, to $53.59.
In the commodity markets, preciousand industrial metals futures settledslightly higher. Gold rose $9 to$1,186.60 an ounce, while silver was
unchanged at $1 5.96 an ounce. Copperpicked up 3 cents to close at $2.75 apound.
The price of oil closed at its highestlevel since December after the EnergyDepartment’s weekly supply reportshowed a surprisingly big drop in crudeinventories along with rising demandfor gasoline.
Stocks rally, break weeklong losing streak
By Candice Choi
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Taco Bell executives are
studying a strange new vocabulary emerg-ing on this side of the border — the lingo o f its young customers.
CEO Brian Niccol said the company fea-tures a “Millennial Word of the Week” at itsheadquarters as a reminder of how thechain’s biggest fan base communicates.Niccol said the words are “curated” by agroup of employees in their 20s who sendout an email every Tuesday or Wednesday.The words are also posted on screens andmonitors around the office in Irvine,California.
The practice is another illustration of
how eager companies are to understand mil-lennial s, who marketers say have quirks andtraits that separate them from past genera-tions. It’s a demographic that’s particularlyimportant for Taco Bell, which is kn own for
having younger customers who gobble upcreations like Dorito-flavored tacos.
In the past, Niccol has said Taco Bell’ssuccess has been driven by the time itspends understanding what makes its cus-tomers tick. That apparently includes famil-iarity with the way they talk.
One installment of the “Millennial Wordof th e Week,” for i nstance, featured the word“lit.” According to a company email, theword is an adjective “used to describe a cer-tain situation, person, place or thing asawesome/crazy or just ‘happening’ in gen-eral.”
As an example of usage, it said, “TacoBell was so lit last night. I had to wait inline fo r 15 mi nutes before I could order.”
Other slang terms featured in Taco Bell’sweekly updates have included “throwing
shade,” which Urban Dictionary says is topublicly denounce or disrespect a personand “Dat ———, doe,” which translates to“That ———, though,” and is used toemphasize that something is “particularlyawesome,” according to Urban Dictionary.
“Some of these words you see, I don’teven kno w how you could use that i n a sen-tence,” said Niccol, 41.
That proved true last year when he spokeat a presentation by Taco Bell parent com-pany Yum Brands Inc., which also ownsKFC and Pizza Hut. At the time, Niccolinformed the audience of analysts and
investors about the millennial phrase “oncleek,” which he explained meant “onpoint.”
Later, the website Buzzfeed noted thatNiccol had meant to say “on fleek.” In a
conversation with the Associated Press,Niccol said his social media team was quickto correct him after the meeting.
“The next day they were like, ‘You wereclose’,” Niccol said. “I accused them of telling me it’s ‘on cleek’.”
Taco Bell’s push to connect with teensisn’t limited to a study of their linguisticspatterns, of course. Niccol said the chain isalso formalizing a “teen advisory board”that will meet regularly and give the compa-ny feedback on what’s happening in culture.
“In the end, that’s how Taco Bell staysrelevant,” Niccol said.
‘Throwing shade’; Taco Bell execs bone up on youth lingo
By Tom Murphy
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Millions of people will be able to see adoctor on their smartphones or l aptops foreveryday ailments once the nation’s largestdrugstore chain and two major insurersexpand a budding push into virtual healthcare.
Walgreens said Wednesday that it willoffer a smartphone application that linksdoctor and patients virtually in 25 states bythe end of the year. That growth comes as
UnitedHealth Group and the Blue Cross-
Blue Shield insurer Anthem prepare to maketheir own non-emergency telemedicineservices available to about 40 million morepeople by next year.
Doctors have used video feeds and othertechnology for years to treat patients inrural areas or remote locations. But expertssay growing smartphone use and customerdemand are fueling a rapid expansion of thepractice, called telemedicine, into everydaycare the family doctor used to handle. Nowthis push is gaining an additional boost
from health care companies with broad,
national reach.
The American Telemedicine Associationestimates that about 450, 000 patients willsee a doctor through the Internet this yearfor a primary care consultation. That’s asmall slice of the roughly 15 million peo-ple who will have care delivered by telemed-icine, which has mostly been used by spe-cialist doctors. But the primary care portionhas probably doubled over the past coupleyears, said Jon Linkous, CEO of the non-profit association.
“I would say without a doubt it’s the
fastest area of growth in telemedicine,” hesaid. “There’s this convenience factorthat makes it so compelling to con-sumers.”
Drugstores, grocers and big retailers likeWal-Mart have been opening clinics insidetheir stores for years now, giving patientsseveral less-expensive alternatives to adoctor’s office when they need help.Internet doctor visits aim to offer even moreconvenience by providing care whereverthe patient is located.
Walgreens, insurers push expansion of virtual doctor visits
Netflix’s stock soars asshareholders clear way for split
LOS GATOS — Netflix’s stock climbed tonew high after shareholders cleared the way
for its board of directors to make the Internetvideo service’s stock more affordable.Shareholders set the stage for Netflix to
split its sto ck by approving a proposal thatwill allow the board to increase the compa-ny’s outstanding stock to as many as 5 bil-lion shares. The previous limit had been 170million shares.
Although the vote taken late Tuesday atNetflix’s annual meeting was considered aformality, investors still celebrated the out-come because it empowers the board to splitthe company’s stock.
Splits are a commonly used maneuver tolower a stock’s trading price. This is done byincreasing the n umber of outstanding shares.
Federal judge: Wal-Martviolated state minimum wage laws
SAN FRANCISCO — Wal-Mart could be onthe hook for more than $100 milli on in backpay after a federal judge ruled the companyfailed to pay California minimum wage totruck drivers for activities that includedinspecting and washing t heir trucks, an atto r-ney said Wednesday.
The ruling came after the company arguedthat the drivers are paid for particular activi-ties that i nclude those tasks .
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illstonsided with the drivers in her May 28 ruling,saying activities that are not compensatedseparately cannot be included in tasks thatare paid for by the company.
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By Nathan MollatDAILY JOURNAL STAFF
San Mateo swimmer LarisaTam, who recently completedher sophomore year, is a ratherunusual two-sport athlete.Unlike a lot of swimmers whoplay water polo during the fallseason, Tam is on the completeopposite end of the spectrum.
In addition to swimming, Tamis also a member of the school’scheerleading squad.
“They’re, like, two differentsports ,” Tam said. “I did gymnas-
tics before, but it took up toomuch time so I took up cheerlead-ing. It’s fun.”
It’s can also be dangerous, asTam found out. A previous kneeinjury flared up during swimmingthis season and it put a crimp inher season goals. While manyhigh-caliber athletes would haveshut down their season to avoid any potential furtherdamage, Tam gritted her teeth and worked through it . Shestill had enough to dominate for the Bearcats, whosegirls’ squad completed its third straight undefeated dualmeet season in the Peninsula Athletic League’s OceanDivision . She went on to be Swimmer of the Meet at theOcean Division championships. While she postedCentral Coast Section qualifying times in nearly every
individual event, she focused on the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard individual medley. She made theCCS finals in bo th races, finishing eighth in the breastwith a time of 1:04.64, breaking her own school recordin the process and earning All-American consideration .She was 15th in the IM with a time of 2:09.52,
For her efforts, Tam is the Daily Journal’s Girls’Swimmer of the Year.
By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF
The Kmak attack is back.For the second straight year, Serra’s
Joe Kmak has been named the DailyJournal Boys’ Swimmer of the Year.
The reason: Kmak was simply betterthis season as a senior than he was as a
junio r. And h is junio r seaso n was onetough act to follow.
To close the 2014 season, Kmak tooksilver in 100-yard breaststroke at theCentral Coast Section championshipswhile setting a new Serra record with atime of 55.80 seconds. It was a trend hestarted as a sophomore when he brokeRay Looze’s record, a mark that stoodsince 1986.
The trend continued this year, as thesenior once again bested his schoolrecord with a swim of 54. 92 i n the CCSprelims May 15 at the Santa ClaraAquatics Center. While he didn’t betterthe mark in the finals th e following day,he still celebrated a gold-medal finishwith a swim of 55.05.
The CCS breaststroke title was the
realization o f a career-long dream of thefourth-year varsity senior.
“Ever since I was a freshman, I alwayswanted to win CCS,” Kmak said. “Thatwas always one of my goals. So, I gotthat this year. I was pretty happy aboutthat.”
The accolades didn’t stop therethough. Kmak’s finish clinched hisfourth cons ecutive All-American honor.The CCS finish also qualified him for ahistory-making swim, as Kmakadvanced to the inaugural CIF StateSwimming and Diving ChampionshipsMay 22-23 at Clovis West High.
Kmak took bronze at the state meetwith a time of 55.27, finishin g just .05seconds shy of gold medalist HankPoppe from San Ramon Valley High,who won the tit le with a 5 5.22.
“It’s nice to have a high quality swim-mer,” Serra head coach Bob Greene said.“I’ve done this a long time and whenyou have one of the best in the country,it’s pretty exciting.”
Competition is in the bloodlines for
Kmak simply the best
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Thursday • June 11 2015
By Brian Mahoney THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEVELAND — All things considered, theGolden State Warriors would rather have beengolfing.
That’s what some players did the last timethey found themselves in this situation, whenthey were getting outmuscled and even out-hustled, banged and beaten by a bigger team.
They couldn’t get a tee time Wednesday.NBA Finals rules required the team to come tothe arena for media obl igations on the off day.
“So it’s going to be dark by the t ime we getout of here,” swingman Andre Iguodala said.
But just as they fought th eir way out of thatsituation against Memphis in the WesternConference semifinals, they believe theywill overcome another 2-1 deficit nowagainst Cleveland.
“We’ll figure out our game and the adjust-ments we need to make as we watch film latertoday, and we’ll be ready tomorrow to giveour best effort,” MVP Stephen Curry said. “Ifeel like we’re pretty confident we can turnthis around.”
They’ve accomplished it before, against ateam that did some of the same things theCavaliers are doing now.
The Grizzlies, with big bodies inside, playa rugged style reminiscent of EasternConference basketball. They won Game 2 atOracle Arena and came home to win Game 3in that series, sending Golden State to thevideo room.
The Warriors didn’t even go to the gymbefore Game 4 in Memphis, instead watch-ing two hours of film in a hotel ballroomwhen the players weren’t on the course.
Coach Steve Kerr said they might’ve donethe same thing Wednesday if they didn’t haveto report to Quicken Loans Arena, butplanned to watch tape at so me point.
“We will watch significant parts of it, butthe similarity is there,” Kerr said. “Physicalteam that slows it down, like Memphis did.Our frustration with our pace and tempo isthere. So it ’s very similar and it’s very help-ful that we’ve been through this process.Obviously, the personnel is different; the
Warriors know comebacks are what they do best
Giantsput ona power showto down MetsBy Charles O’BrienTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Brandon Belt hit one of San Francisco’s three homers off a strug-gling Matt Harvey, and the Giants scoredfive times in th e sixth innin g of an 8-5 vic-tory over the New York Mets on Wednesdaynight.
Buster Posey had three RBIs, including atwo-run double off Harvey t hat t ied the scorein the sixth. Belt followed with a two-runshot, and Justin Maxwell added a longhomer later in the inning to give SanFrancisco a 7-4 lead.
One night after they were held hitless byGiants rookie Chris Heston, the Mets hand-ed Harvey a 4-2 lead. He couldn’t hold it.
Nori Aoki matched a career high with fourhits and Joe Panik added three for theGiants, including a two-run homer in thefirst on an 0-2 pitch.
The three homers allowed were a careerhigh for Harvey, who is 1-3 with a 7.2 0 ERA
See GIANTS, Page 14See KMAK , Page 16
Today begins our Athletesof the Spring series, hon-oring the best high
school athletes during the springsports season, and it concludeswith the overall Male and Female
Athletes of the Year.
These arenever simpledecisions.For somesports, thereare a multi-tude of choic-es, in other
sports? Notso much. Wehave no set-
in-sto ne criteria for our selec-tions. Obviously they had to havehad a successful s eason individu-ally. Other than t hat, we usuallyrely on what I like to call the“jump out at y ou” factor. In o therwords, those athletes who makeyou take notice with their play.
Sometimes, th e deciding factoris ho w a player performed in t hepostseason. In sp orts like swim-ming and badminton, there is abig gap between the elite playersand the rest of the competition in
their league. It is t heir perform-ance in the playoffs, againsthigh-caliber opponents, that cansway a vote.
Not that there are many voters.There are just two: mine andsports reporter Terry Bernal’s. Aseditor, I break any ties.
And just so you know, we do putquite a bit of thought into ourdecision s. We don’t always gowith the flo w, our girls’ swimmerof the year, for example, may not
jibe with who o ther publicat ion smay select. Rest assured, howev-er, that all our selections merit
the honor.***
Now I remember why I’m not ahuge fan of the NBA, despit e theGolden State Warriors being i nthe finals. It’s the final few min-utes of nearly every game that justdddrrraaagggsss.
By th e time I got home Tuesdaynight, there was a minute andchange left in Game 3. TheWarriors were down and I didn’tthink they had it them to pull outthe win.
I got o ut of my car and instead
Tam tough enough
See LOUNGE, Page 16
Honoring the best
athletes of Spring
See TAM, Page 16
See WARRIORS, Page 14
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By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OAKLAND — Sam Fuld slid into home to just b eat the thro w for the winning run withone out in the ninth and the OaklandAthletics snapped a four-game losing streakwith a 5-4 victory against the Texas Rangerson Wednesday night.
Fuld had a one-out single off Keone Kela(4-3) for just his eighth hit in 80 at-bats andstole second. Fuld advanced on Billy Burns’infield single and shortstop Elvis Andrusheld the ball rather than th rowing to th ird.
Josh Reddick followed with a sharp
grounder that second baseman Adam Rosalesfielded and threw home just barely too late. Itmarked Reddick’s fifth career game-endingRBI.
Oakland’s comeback spo iled a 10-s trikeoutnight by Texas starter Yovani Gallardo.
Billy Butler hit a tying single off TannerScheppers in th e eighth after Oakland scoredanother run on third baseman Joey Gallo’sthrowing error.
Tyler Clip pard (1-3) pi tched a perfect nin thfor the win.
Rangers right fielder Shin-Soo Choocaught Max Muncy’s deep fly at the wall toend the eighth .
Gallardo o vercame a 30-pitch first inni ngthat put him in a 1-0 hole and got strongerlate. He struck out the side in order in thesixth to gi ve him four straight Ks. He reacheddouble digit strikeouts for the 19th time inhis career and first since Sept. 19 atPittsburgh.
Mitch Moreland hit a pair of RBI singlesas Texas lost for only the 13th time on theroad.
A’s starter Jesse Hahn las ted just 3 2/3inning s and hit three batters.
Hahn p lunked Choo i n the right upper backto lo ad the bases with no ne out in th e third.Prince Fielder followed with a sacrifice fly.
Hahn also hit Leonys Martin in the thirdand Fielder in the fourth. The three hit bats-men matched an Oakland record done eighttimes previously and first since Barry Zitoon April 15, 2005.
A’s walk off, snap skid
By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF
It was a big day for Burlingame baseballWednesday, as two Panth ers alums were draft-ed back-to-back in the 28th round of theMLB First-Year Player Draft.
“That was pretty good,” Burlingame man-ager Shawn Scott said. “It was a very pleas-
ant surprise.”The highly-anticipated selection of Jonathan Engelmann came with 8 30th over-all pick to the Minnesota Twins. Ranked asthe 253th amateur prospect in the nation byBaseball America, the third-day selection islikely an indicator that Engelmann — whorecently graduated from Burlingame —intends to fulfill his commitment toMichigan State.
The surprise, however, came one draft slotprior to Engelmann’s as 2011 Burlingamegrad Zac Grotz was selected by the HoustonAstros with the 829th overall pick. Grotzrecently completed his junior season atEmbry-Riddle University in Daytona, Florida.
The right-hander wasn’t considered a proprospect in high school, but he was able to
put himself on the mapthis year. After workingwith Scott in the offsea-son, he posted an 8-2record with a 0.70 ERA tohelp the Eagles to theAvista-NAIA WorldSeries.
“He got better at his
craft,” Scott said. “Hemade some adjustmentsin his arm slot this last summer. He camehome and he got h is arm slot … and got hisvelocity back.”
As for Engelmann, he is one of the mostintriguing amateur prospects t o come out of Burlingame during Scott’s tenure. He won thePeninsula Athletic League Bay Division bat-ting crown this season with a .462 averageand broke Merrick Belding’s Burlingamestolen-base record by swiping 31 bags in2015.
“He has a huge upside with being 18 yearsold,” Scott said. “The type of talent he has interms of his arm, his speed and his bat, obvi-ously all that stuff stands to get b etter as hegets older.”
As good of a day as it was for Burlingame,it was an even better one for San JoaquinDelta College. Three Mustangs were draftedWednesday, with former Serra standoutCollin Theroux being selected in the 33rdround, also to the Twins.
Theroux recently wrapped up hi s communi-ty coll ege career by leading Delta to the statefinal four and the Northern California home
run ki ng. He was also an i ntegral componentbehind the plate, with two Mustangs pitch-ers being drafted. Left-hander CameronLeeper went to the Giants in the 17t h roundand right-hander Dean Kremer went to thePadres in the 38t h.
Theroux said he wasn’t expecting to bedrafted after being bypassed on Day Two, butwas confident in his transfer commitment t oOklahoma State.
“I’m in a good situation,” Theroux said.“I’m committed to Oklahoma State. So, I wasin go od spirits and looking forward to beingdrafted next year.”
Just one day later, he is serious about theprospect of going pro.
“I do have a number I will sign for,”Theroux said. “So, if I get that number,
there’s a chance I will b e playing profession-al baseball.”
Theroux said he was surprised to be draftedby the Twins. In the week prior to the draft,he had attended workouts for bo th t he A’s andthe Giants. During the Giants workout atAT&T Park, he was in a gro up of approx i-mately a dozen players, including San Carlosnative Braden Bishop, who was draftedTuesday out of University of Washington inthe third round by the Mariners.
Growing up a Giants fan, Theroux hasattended many games at AT&T Park over theyears. Having practically the whole yard tohimself, however, was a surreal experience, hesaid. And during batting practice, he deposi tedseveral balls into the left-field bleachers.
“It was nice hearing them hit those metalseats out there,” Theroux said.
Also drafted Wednesday was MenloCollege catcher Daniel Comstock, who wasselected in the 18th round by theDiamondbacks. Comstock was an NAIA All-American and the NAIA West Player of theYear. The Petaluma nativ e hit . 393 t his s ea-son while setting the Oaks’ single-seasonhome run record with 16 bombs.
Burlingame, Serra alums plucked on final day of draft
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CHICAGO — Brandon Saad and theChicago Blackhawks finally broke throughTampa Bay’s rookie goalie and then barelyhung on to even up the Stanley Cup Final.
Saad scored the tiebreaking goal with13:38 to play, captain Jonathan Toewsscored in the second period and theBlackhawks b eat the Lightning 2-1 in Game4 on Wednesday nig ht, knottin g the Final attwo games apiece.
Corey Crawford made 24 saves and surviveda frantic final minute for the Blackhawks,who rebounded from consecutive defeats in agritty, defense-dominated game.
Saad scored the eventual winner by chip-ping a backhand under Andrei Vasilevskiy,the 20-year-old Russian goalie forced intohis first NHL playoff start. He made 17 saveswhile replacing 53-game winner BenBishop, who was scratched with an undis-closed lower-body injury after hobblingthrough Game 3.
Game 5 i s Saturday night in Tampa.
Alex Killorn scored in the second periodfor the Lightn ing, whose four-game road win-ning streak ended.
Vasilev ski y pl ayed well eno ugh underextraordinary pressure, but couldn’t quitematch Crawford, the 2013 Stanley Cup win-ner who regularly follows up poor stretcheswith big games for the Blackhawks.
Tampa Bay pummeled Crawford with multi-ple scoring chances in the final minute withVasilevskiy pulled for an extra attacker, butthe veteran stopped them all — including apoint-blank shot by Lightning captainSteven Stamkos, who has no goals in theseries.
The series is now a best-of-three, withChicago needing at least one more win atAmalie Arena to secure its third champi-onship in six seasons. Tampa Bay has ho me-ice advantage, but a fraction of theBlackhawks’ big-game credentials .
Despite their differences in experience andage, these teams are incredibly close: This isthe first Final since 1968 in which all fourgames were decided by one goal.
Chicago ties Stanley Cup series
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By Michael WagamanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SANTA CLARA — The gray in his g oatee isgetting much more noticeable. Yet 49erskicker Phil Dawson isn’t yet thinking aboutretirement, even at a t ime when many of hi sSan Francisco teammates have done just that.
Dawson, who turned 40 in January, is moreconcerned about getting comfortable with anew holder than h e is abo ut life after the NFL.
“Not one second,” Dawson said when askedif he con templated stepping away. “When Isigned this deal two years ago, I expected toperform at an elite lev el for the term and thensome. I’m more encouraged now that I can dothat than I was two years ago when I sig nedit. Feel better, feel stronger. I expect bigthings.”
That’s an encouraging sign for SanFrancisco, which heads into the 2 015 s easonwith a revamped offense minus some of itskey components from a year ago.
Running back FrankGore left to sign withIndianapolis as a freeagent, wide receiverMichael Crabtree fol-lowed him out the doorand signed with Oakland,three-time Pro Bowl right
guard Mike Iupati signedwith Arizona, and righttackle Anthony Davis
retired.With s o many new pieces in place, it could
take some time for the 49ers to get rolling o noffense. That will likely put more pressureon th e team’s kicki ng game.
San Francisco traded punter Andy Lee toCleveland in the offseason, leaving fifth-round draft pick Bradley Pinion to handle the
job . Pinio n will also take o ver Lee’s choresas ho lder.
It’s an adjustment Dawson has had to makeseveral ti mes previously in his career and he
doesn’t believe it will be a big issue.“I’ve been th rough it b efore so it’s certain-
ly not insurmountable,” Dawson said. “But itis a big part of the process. When you con-sider from snap to kick is 1.3 seconds, thereneeds to be a level of comfort with howeveryone works.
“Every holder holds the ball a little differ-
ent, just their body posture. But it’s notinsurmountabl