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Thursday • April 23, 2015 • Vol XV, Edition 214

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BONDS’ OBSTRUCTION CONVICTION THROWN OUT BYAPPEALS COURT

By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

As housing prices continue toskyrocket in the region, moreindividuals are asking the govern-ment to help th em pay the rent.

More than 22,000 applica-

tion s from individuals seekingrental assistance have flooded

into the SanMateo CountyH o u s i n gA u t h o r i t yafter it decidedto expand avoucher pro-gram in 2013,

according to ar e p o r t

released Wednesday.Another 7,500 families already

approved for support remain onvarious waiting list s for vouchers,according to the county’s housingindicators report for March.

The county, h owever, h as a lim-ited number of the vouchers, about

4,300 , th at are almost all entirelyin use.

Trouble is, however, fewer land-lords are accepting Section 8vouchers as the rental market con-tinues its climb.

“Utilization rates have beendropping steadily here as fewerand fewer landlords are acceptingvouchers, which has p ut the coun-

ty and local social service agen-cies in a b ind. You get the ‘go lden

ticket’ and you can’t find any placeto use it,” said Josh Hugg, pro-gram manager with the HousingLeadership Council of San MateoCounty.

The county’s Housing Authorityis working on a variety of incen-tives to encourage greater partici-

Thousands seek housing helpWait list for vouchers growing, fewer landlords accepting them

By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The family of a young man whooverdosed while under the care of the San Mateo Medical Center issuing the hospital, Sheriff’sOffice and county for negligenceas another patient was allegedlyable to smuggle in and distributemethadone at the ps ychiatric ward.

The mother, father and twoyounger sisters of MohammadMashal, a 24-year-old schizo-phrenic man who was involuntari-ly admitted to the hospital Aug.15, 2014, filed a lawsuit in San

Mateo County Superior CourtTuesday.

According tothe lawsuit,Mashal wasunder the coun-ty’s care whenanother patientsmuggled inmethadone anddistributed it toat least two oth-ers, includingthe deceased, at

the locked-down psychiatric unitat 222 W. 39t h St. in San Mateo.

On Sept. 21, doctors spent 20minutes performing CPR to resus-citate Mashal who was later trans-

Family sues county,medical center andthe Sheriff’s OfficePsych patient allegedly overdosed

on illegally distributed methadone

By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

About 700 nurses at SutterHealth Services in Burlingame andSan Mateo are prepared to walk o ff the job next week to highlighteroding health benefits andstaffing shortages, according tothe California Nurses Association .

Sutter officials, however, saythe union is “strike happy” andthat their hospitals exceed thestate’s safe staffing ratios.

A one-day strike is planned

Thursday, April 30 at the t wo localSutter hospitals and three othersin Northern California.

The action will coincide withother strikes planned at threeother California hospitals and onein Chicago.

“We are striking against thetakeaways o n th e table,” s aid CNAspokeswoman Joanne Jung.

The nonprofit health care

provider is offering the nursesself-insured Sutter plans that

Sutter nurses plan to strikeNonprofit claims union is ‘strike happy’

By Austin Walsh

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Coming off one of the greatestregular seasons of all ti me and intoan early lead in a playoff series,Golden State Warriors mania isseizing Peninsula residents, andlocal businesses are reaping thebenefits in an unprecedented fash-ion.

Representatives from sportsmemorabilia shops in San MateoCounty claim they are having atough t ime keeping Warriors relat-

ed items on the shelf, followingthe team completing its best regu-lar season in franchise history.

And as the professional basket-ball team has jumped out to a 2-0lead in a playoff series against theNew Orleans Pelicans, manyexpect the fervor to continuegrowing, as the Warriors trod ontoward the pursuit of their firstNBA title since 1975.

Tony Rohatch, owner of ManCave Memorabilia in FosterCity, said he has never seen sucha degree of local enthusiasm forthe Bay Area’s only professional

basketball team.Rohatch s aid items such as auto-

graphed basketballs or jerseysfrom Warriors players, especiallyfrom the star backcourt duoStephen Curry and KlayThompson, are wildly po pular.

“We do auctions all across thePeninsula and every time I bring aSteph Curry or Klay Thompsonitem, they are sold, and the pricedoesn’t seem to matter,” he said.

The team’s success thi s year is abreak from the struggles it has suf-

Warriors WorldGolden State success spurs local enthusiasm for Bay Area’s basketball team

Josh Hugg

MohammadMashal

AUSTIN WALSH/ DAILY JOURNAL

Tony Rohatch, left, chats with Allen Braun, of South San Francisco, about the Golden State Warriors at ManCaveMemorabilia in Foster City. Rohatch said he has seen an uptick in sales of Warriors apparel as the team enjoys its

best season in franchise history.

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See LAWSUIT, Page 20

See HELP, Page 18

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Frustrated technophobe‘kills’ computer, gets citation

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. —For killing the source of his frustra-tion and abandoning the body in analley, a Colorado man could be con-sidered lucky for just receivin g a cita-tion — except his victim was hiscomputer.

The Colorado Springs Gazettereports that 37-year-old Lucas Hinchwas slapped with a ticket for discharg-ing a weapon within city limits afterhe took his computer outside and shotit eight times.

Colorado Springs police Lt. Jeff Strossner, who issued the citation,says Hinch told him he had beenfighting his computer for monthsbefore he decided to exact hi s reveng e.Hinch accepted his citation withoutproblem and told Strossner he did notrealize he was breaking the law.

The penalty for the citation will beup to a judge.

Massachusetts policereceiving calls from Australia

NORTHBRIDGE, Mass. — AMassachusetts police department hasbeen receiving some curious callsfrom people with Australian accents.

Police dispatchers in Northbridgesay they have recently received sever-al calls on their business line frompeople in an Australian community

with the same name.

Northbridge, Massachusetts, isabout 35 southwest of Boston.Northbridge, Australia, is a suburb of Perth.

Lisa Gaylord, who’s been a dis-patcher for 16 years, tells TheTelegram & Gazette she got her firstcall from Australia in March. Shethinks people there are probablysearching online for “Northbridgepolice” and calling the first numberthat pops up.

One disgruntled Australian said thecall would “cost a fortune,” and hungup.

Australian callers have also toldGaylord about a fight and to report amissing person.

Firefighters rescue duckstuck in Louisiana fireplace

SLIDELL, La. — Firefighters inLouisiana have rescued a duck lodgedin a fireplace.

WVUE-TV reports firefighters inSt. Tammany Parish responded to anunusual call Sunday from a home inSlidell outside New Orleans. Whenfirefighters arrived, they discovered alarge duck trapped in the fireplacewith its head poking out of the bot-tom of the chimney.

Firefighters had to dismantle part of the fireplace to reach the duck. It tookover two hours to safely remove thebird.

It’s unclear how the duck becamelodged in the chimney.

Sea lion pup waddles awayfrom water, gets ride back to sea

FORT BRAGG — A healthy sea lionpup that was returned to the sea bydeputies after waddling a quarter-mileonshore seemed to be staying in thewaves on Wednesday — at least fornow, officers said.

“There’s no reports of him runningdown the street or anything,”

Mendocino County sheriff’s Capt.Greg Van Patten said.

Deputies patrolling Highway 1, justsouth of Fort Bragg, spotted an ani-mal moving s lowly in dark, dense fogon Sunday. They discovered it was asea lion pup, measuring 2 1/2 feetlong and weighing about 20 poundswith a tag attached to its front flipp er.

The animal — believed to have methumans previously through a stay in amarine-animal rehabilitation project— seemed happy to have come acrossthe deputies.

“He kept coming up to them,” like apet dog, “rubbing against their legs,”Van Patt en s aid.

Officials contacted the Marine

Mammal Center in the San FranciscoBay Area, and officials there identifiedthe pup from its orange tag as havingbeen released from a marine mammalrehabilitation center in SouthernCalifornia.

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This Day in History

Thought for the Day

1789

President-elect George Washington

and his wife, Martha, moved into the

first executive mansion, the Franklin

House, in New York.

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

— Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Filmmaker, authorMichael Moore is60.

Actor Kal Penn is37.

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Smoke and lava spew from the Villarrica volcano, as seen from Pucon town in the south of Santiago, Chile.

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ing mostly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the upper 40s. Westwinds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph decreasingto around 10 mph after midnight.Saturday: Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers.Highs around 60.Saturday ni gh t t hrough Tuesday : Partly cloudy.

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In 1014, the Battle of Clontarf took place near Dublin asforces loyal to Brian Boru, High King of the Irish, defeatedan army led by the King of Leinster with heavy losses onboth sides, including Brian, who was killed.In 1616 , Engli sh po et and dramatist William Shakespeare,52, died on what has been traditionally regarded as theanniversary of his birth in 156 4.In 1791 , the 15th president of the United States, JamesBuchanan, was born in Franklin County, Pa.In 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt deliveredhis famous “Man in the Arena” speech at the Sorbonne inParis.In 1940 , about 200 people died in the Rhythm Night ClubFire in Natchez, Miss.In 1943 , U.S. Navy Lt. (jg) Jo hn F. Kennedy assumed com-mand of PT-109, a motor torpedo boat, in the SolomonIslands during World War II. (On Aug. 2, 1943, PT-109 was

rammed and sunk by a J apanese destroyer, kill ing two crewmembers; Kennedy and 10 ot hers survived.)In 1954 , Hank Aaron o f the Milwaukee Braves hit t he firstof his 755 major-league home runs in a game against th e St.Louis Cardinals. (The Braves won, 7-5. )In 1969 , Sirhan Sirh an was sentenced to death for assassi-nating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (The sentence waslater reduced to l ife impriso nment. )In 1988 , a federal ban on smokin g during domestic airlin eflights of two hours or less went into effect.In 1993 , labor l eader Cesar Chavez died in San Luis, Ariz.,at age 66.In 2007 , Boris Yeltsin , th e first freely elected Russianpresident, died in Moscow at age 76.

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3Thursday • April 23, 2015 THE DAILY JOURNAL LOCAL

REDWOOD CITYArrest . A person with a knife was arrested

inside a home on Roliso n Road before 3:42p.m. Wednesday, April 1 5.Disturbance. A man threw coffee at a per-son as they were getting into a car on ElCamino Real before 11:07 p.m.Wednesday, April 15.Strong arm robbery . Three people

jumped s omeo ne at Bay Road before 12 :27a.m. Wednesday, April 15.Arrest . A man was arrested for providingtobacco, paraphernalia and possibly mari-

juan a to mino rs on Oak and Pil arci to savenues before 5:03 p.m. Tuesday, April14 .Minor injury accident . A cyclist wasinjured in a collision with a vehicle butrefused medical care on Hazel Avenue andMadrone Street before 7:22 a.m. Monday,April 13.

HALF MOON BAYShopl i f t ing . A person stole 20 DVDsworth $339 from the 10 0 blo ck of Highway1 before 7:45 a.m. Monday, April 13 .Traff ic col l i s i on. A traffic accidentoccurred on the 100 block of Highway 1before 10:34 a. m. Monday, April 13 .Arrest . A woman that was st opp ed in a rou-tine traffic stop was arrested for drivingwhile intoxicated on Highway 1 before12:2 3 a.m. Friday, April 10.

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Only love conquers hateA man tried to ki ss and hug a woman sit -ting on her balcony on East BayshoreRoad in Redwood City before 1:18 p. m.Wednesday, April 15.By Ronald Blum

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Barry Bonds has beencleared legally after 11 1/2 years in court.

His reputation remains t ainted in the mind of many baseball fans.

A federal court of appeals threw out thecareer home run leader’s obstruction of jus-tice conviction on Wednesday, ruling 10-1that his meandering answer before a grand

jury in 20 03 was not material to the govern-ment’s investigation into illegal steroidsdistribution.

“Today’s news is something that I havelong hoped for,” Bonds said in a statement.“I am humbled and truly thankful for the out-come as well as the oppo rtunity our judicialsystem affords to all individuals to seek jus-tice.”

Now 50, Bonds said “I am excited about

what the future holds forme as I embark on thenext chapter.”

Bonds broke HankAaron’s long-standing

career record of 755homers in 200 7, finishedthat season with 762 andwas indicted thatDecember for his testi-mony before a grand jury

investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, when he answered a questionabout injections by saying he was “acelebrity child.”

He was convicted of the obstructioncharge in 2011, and a three-judge panel of the 9t h U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unani-mously upheld the conviction in 2013.

But the larger group, which listened toarguments from prosecutors and Bonds’

lawyers last September, concluded there wasinsufficient evidence his initial evasiveanswer was material to the grand jury’sprobe.

“The most one can say about this state-

ment is that it was non-responsive andthereby impeded the investigatio n to a smalldegree by wasting the grand jury’s time andtrying the prosecutors’ patience,” JudgeAlex Kozinski wrote. “Real-life witnessexaminations, unlike those in movies andon television, invariably are littered withnon-respons ive and irrelevant answers.”

Jessica Wolfram, one of the jurors whoconvicted Bonds following the three-weektrial and four days of deliberations , s aid shecouldn’t help but feel the decade-long prose-cution was “all a waste, all for no thin g.”

“Just a waste of money, havi ng th e wholetrial and jury,” she said in a telephon e inter-view with t he Associated Press.

Bonds’ obstruction convictionthrown out by appeals court


WASHINGTON — Almost no one is mov-ing to San Francisco to save money.

They might come for the tech jobs, thecomfortable weather or even the artisanalespressos. But average home rent has

jumped nearly 15 p ercent in t he pas t year —to $3,129 last month — according to realestate data firm Zillow.

Across the country, rising home priceshave been shifting many Americans intorentals, a trend that has driven up rents.Over the 12 months that ended in March,rents nationally climbed a seasonallyadjusted average of 3.7 percent nationally,Zillo w reported Wednesday.

The improving economy is the main rea-

son. Employers have added 3.1 mil lion j obsover the past year, an influx of paychecksthat is being spent in part on apartmentrents. But builders have been unable to rampup construction to meet the demand, therebycausing an apartment shortage that hasfueled higher rents .

“It’s very hard for housing supply torespond quickly to increases in demand,”said Skylar Olsen, a senior economist atZillow.

Exacerbating the squeeze, rents are risingfaster than most people’s pay. This meansthat all the new jobs are producing morepeople with money to spend, but risingcosts are consuming more of people’s pay-checks.

San Francisco epitomizes the trend.

Silicon Valley compani es such as Google,Facebook, Apple and Yahoo are making iteasier for their workers to li ve in th e city byproviding free shuttles equipped with Wi-Fito cover the 30- to 40-mile commutes totheir offices.

The influx of tech money helped fuel anaverage 14.8 percent increase in housingrent in th e San Francisco metro area over thepast 12 months. In the nearby San Josearea, the jump was 12.3 percent.

S.F. housing rent up a sizzling 14.8 percent in 12 months

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Heroine clings toprecarious life in‘Head of Passes’By Judy RichterDAILY JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

People who live in the south-ernmost part of Louisiana have aprecarious existence as three pas-sages of the Mississippi Rivercreate swamps and cause the landto shift constantly.

Nevertheless, Shelah Reynolds(Cheryl Lynn Bruce), a lo ngtimeblack resident, clings to herhome even as it and her life liter-ally and figuratively b egin crash-ing i n on her in “Head of Passes,”presented by Berkeley RepertoryTheatre.

Tarell Alvin McCraney namedhis play after this coastal area,which often experiences severestorms and hurricanes.

“Head of Passes” takes placeduring a heavy rainstorm asShelah’s family and friends gatherto celebrate her birthday. Theparty was arranged by her sons,Aubrey (Francois Battiste) andSpencer (Brian Tyree Henry).

Joining them are old friendsMae (Kimberly Scott) and Creaker(Michael A. Shepperd), alongwith Creaker’s teenage son, Crier(Jonathan Burke). Their good-

natured banter reflects their longfriendships as well as their love

for Shelah.Her stepdaughter, the edgy,

troubled Cookie (Nikkole Salter),makes a brief appearance beforerushing off.

A surprise guest is her whitephysician, Dr. Anderson (JamesCarpenter). He’s the on ly on e whoknows she’s seriously i ll, but shewants to b e the one to tell the oth-ers.

The final character is the Angel(Sullivan Jones), whom onlyShelah can see because he’s theangel of death. He, like th e otheractors, does well in a challengingrole.

Symbolically, the living roomsprouts one leak after another asmore is revealed about Shelah’ssituation. Much of t he house col-lapses at the end of Act 1.

Act 2 begins the next morning,when Shelah’s friends arrive anddeliver one piece of tragic newsafter another. After she ordersthem to leave, she launches into alengthy prayer-monologuebewailing her sorrows andregrets.

It’s an astonishin g p erformance

that holds the audience rapt.Under Tina Landau’s direction,Bruce paces this scene well, b uild-ing Shelah’s lamentations, theneasing off before going too far.

Also astonishing is the setdesigned by G.W. Skip Mercierand built by a Berkeley Rep crew

that had to incorporate not onlywater but also beams and otherstructural elements th at can safelycollapse.

Running about two hours withone intermission, “Head of Passes” is the work of a mostpromising young playwright and

an engrossing theatrical experi-ence.

It runs through May 24 onBerkeley Rep’s Thrust Stage,2025 Addison St., Berkeley. Fortickets and information call (510)647-2949 or visit www.berke-leyrep.org.

KEVIN BERNE

From left, James Carpenter (Dr. Anderson), Kimberly Scott (Mae), Cheryl Lynn Bruce (Shelah) and Michael A.Shepperd (Creaker) perform in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Head of Passes.’

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Robert J. ReedRobert J. Reed, 70, died April 18, 2015.Born in Pueblo, Colorado, Robert spent

the majority of his life living in Woodside,California.

He graduated from Sequoia High School in1962, where he developed his passion forcars in its auto shop program. Robert wasemployed by the San Mateo CountySheriff’s Office for 28 years before retiringin 1996, and he was also a proud life mem-ber of the Elks Lodge in Redwood City,California.

Survivors include hisloving wife Karen, andhis three children Trina,Ryan and Jason. Robertwas preceded in death byhis parents Larry andMarguerite Reed.

A memorial service willbe 1 p.m. Saturday, April25 at Hope Lutheran

Church in San Mateo, California.

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Popular pesticide hurtswild bees in major field study

WASHINGTON — A common type of pes-ticide is dramatically harming wild bees,according to a new in-the-field study thatoutside experts say may help shift the waythe U.S. government looks at a controver-sial class of chemicals.

But in the study published by the journalNature on Wednesday, honeybees — whichget trucked from place to place to pollinatemajor crops lik e almonds— didn’t show thesignificant ill effects that wild cousins like

bumblebees did. This is a finding some

experts found surprising. A second studypublish ed in th e same journal sho wed that inlab tests bees are not repelled by the pesti-cides and in fact may even prefer pesticidecoated crops, making the problem worse.

Bees of all kinds — crucial to pollinatingplants, including major agricultural crops— have been in decline for several reasons.Pesticide problems are just one of manyproblems facing pollinators; this is sepa-rate from colony collapse disorder, whichdevastated honeybee populations in recent

years but is now abating, experts said.

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PETER MOOTZ/DAILY JOURNALA 33-year-old man was shot by a family member on the 800 block of Crestview Drive Wednesday.

By Judy Lin


SACRAMENTO — Opponents of a pro-posal that would require California school-children to be v accinated vowed to con tinuetheir fight after a Senate committee over-whelmingly approved the bill Wednesday.

The Senate Education Committee vot ed 7-2 on the bill by Sen. Richard Pan, aDemocratic pediatrician from Sacramento,with votes from both Democrats andRepublicans.

The bill now heads to t he Senate JudiciaryCommittee for a hearing next week as partof a long legislative process.

“We will continue to show our strength,and we will continue to educate lawmakersand the public about why this is a bad bill,”said Jean Keese, a spokeswoman for the

California Coalition for Health Choice.

The proposal was among several draftedacross the nation in the wake of a measlesoutbreak that st arted at Disneyland and sick-ened more than 100 people in the U.S. andMexico.

It would eliminate California’s personal-belief and religious exemptions so unvacci-nated children would not be able to attendpublic or private schools. Medical waiverswould only be available for children whohave health problems.

Lawmakers had delayed a vot e on the b illlast week after some on the EducationCommittee worried it would deprive unvac-cinated children of an adequate education.

Pan made changes that let families thatopt out of vaccines to homeschool theirchildren together and allowing students toseek independent study.

After delay, lawmakers

advance state vaccine bill

STAFF AND WIRE REPORT

A 66-year-old man shot a family membermultiple times in San Carlos Wednesdayafternoon, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.

The shooting was reported just after 4p.m. at a residence where they bothlived on the 800 block of CrestviewDrive, according to sheriff’s Deputy

Rebecca Rosenbl att.The 66-year-old man apparently thought

he needed to defend himself from h is familymember and shot the man multiple timesinside the residence, Rosenblatt said.

The 33-year-old victim was alive and con-scious when he was taken to the hospital.The 66-year-old man is being questio ned bydeputies.

Man shoots family membermultiple times in San Carlos

By Fenit Nirappil and Justin PritchardTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO — California’s state gov-ernment reported meeting its own overall

water conservation goal for 2014, thoughdata released Wednesday showed half theagencies fell short of the 20 percent targetwhile the drought worsened.

Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown set the sav-ings goal for homeowners, businesses andlocal governments — as well as stateoffices, prison s, parks and work crews.

Inmates began taking shorter showers,sprinklers at state buildings stopped, leakswere found and fixed, and vehicle fleets wentunwashed.

Overall, state agencies used 23 percentless water last year compared to 2013,according to data from the Department of General Services, which is helping coordi-nate the st ate’s drought response.

But while half of the 32 agencies in thedata met the 20 percent conservation goal,

half fell short, including four that actuallyused more water in 20 14.

Overall, water use fell from 19.4 billiongallons in 2013 to 14.9 billion gallons in2014 , according t o the data. Caltrans, whichminimized watering o n enough roadside landto cover 22,000 football fields, accountedfor more than half of the total water savings.

The largest water user, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, cut 15 per-cent, according to the data. A spok esman didnot return a call and email seeking comment.

“It’s our goal to lead by example,” said

Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for theDepartment of General Services. He alsoacknowledged that agencies must do more.

“There is still room for improvement,”Ferguson said.

“As the drought worsens it is incumbenton all departments t o take additio nal steps toensure they are reducing their water use.”

A review last summer by The AssociatedPress found few departments had startedtracking conservatio n efforts, and many thatdid not were not meeting t he 20 p ercent tar-get.

The state’s wild land firefighting agency,CalFire, had the largest increase at 50 per-cent — from 88.5 million gallons in 2013to 132.5 million gallons in 2014.

The agency fought 1,000 more wildfireslast year and hired hundreds of additionalfirefighters and support staff who also usewater at base camps, CalFire spokesmanDaniel Berlant said.

The Department of Fish and Wildlife con-served only 7 percent, which spokeswoman

Jordan Traverso attributed to a pos sibl e leakor meter error at a facility near Sacramento.

Use was flat at Department of Justi ce crimelaboratories. Spokeswoman Kristin Fordsaid water is necessary for critical functionsincluding DNA tests.

Conservation also varies widely acrossCalifornia communities. Only 33 of 411local agencies that report monthly water useto state regulators said their customers cutmore than 20 percent compared to 2013,according to data published by the StateWater Resources Control Board.

California government says itis meeting water-saving goal

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Sheriff’s deputies arrestman found inside stolen vehicle

San Mateo County sheriff’s deputiesarrested a man near unincorporated LaHonda on Tuesday after they found himinside a vehicle that had been stolen in SanFrancisco, according to t he sheriff’s office.

At about 8:2 1 a.m. Tuesday, deputies saidthey received a report of a vehicle blockinga driveway in the 2700 block of La HondaRoad.

When deputies approached the vehicle,the man inside, Ricky Tauanuu, 23, said he

ran out of gas, sheriff’s officials said.Deputies noted that Tauanuu, a transient,

appeared nervous and fidgety, sheriff’s offi-cials said.

Once they determined the vehicle wasstolen out of San Francisco, deputies con-ducted a search of t he vehi cle, according tothe sh eriff’s office.

Inside the car, deputies found a glass pip ewith a residue suspected to b e methamphet-amine, as well as a hypodermic syringe,sheriff’s officials said.

Deputies arrested Tauanuu on suspicion of vehicle theft, receiving stolen property,possession of paraphernalia and posses-sion of a hypodermic syringe, according tothe sh eriff’s office.

SFO unveils new

automated passport kiosksInternational travelers arriving at San

Francisco International Airport will be ableto get through customs a little faster nowbecause o f new Automated Passpo rt Con trolkiosks.

The airport Wednesday unveiled 40 newkios ks — touch screen devices that can scana passport and customs declaration form.The machine then issues a receipt for thetraveler to hand to a U.S. Customs and

Border Protection officer.Checking out with the machine only

takes about 90 seconds, airport officialssaid.

The machines are already in use in numer-ous U.S. and international airports, includ-ing in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas,Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles,Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix,San Diego and Seattle, according toCustoms and Border Protection officials.

International traffic at the airport grew5.5 percent in 2014, with more than 4.4million travelers going through customs

there, SFO officials said.People with U.S. and Canadian passports

as well as international travelers under theVisa Waiver Program can use the kios ks.

The kiosks are produced by Vancouver-based Innovative Travel Solutions, whichwon a bid to install and maintain the kiosksfor $2.45 million over three years, accord-ing to SFO officials.

At-risk teen missing sinceSunday found safe Wednesday

An at-risk Daly City teen who went miss -ing Sunday evening was found safeWednesday morning , p olice s aid.

Destiny Peoples, 16, had left her home inthe Serramonte area of Daly City at about7:30 p.m. Sunday and hadn’t been seen

since. She has a developmental disabilityso was consi dered at-risk, poli ce said.She was found safe wednesday morning

and is with her family, according to police.

Stanford Ph.D. candidate getsyear in jail for beating ex-girlfriend

A Stanford University Ph.D. student wassentenced to a y ear in jail Tuesday for beat-ing an ex-girlfriend so s everely she requiredsurgery, San Mateo County prosecutors

said.Yishun Dong , 33, of Mountain View, was

in an engineering graduate program withthe victim. They dated for a year and brokeup last June, according to the DistrictAttorney’s Office.

But on July 19, Dong went to her MenloPark home and angrily hit her six to seventimes, fracturing her eye socket and requir-ing surgery, pros ecutors sai d.

Hospital staff called police. The victiminitially denied the allegations but eventu-

ally told police Dong had attacked her,prosecutors said.

He pleaded no contest in February tofelony domestic violence causing greatbodily injury on the condition that he serveno state prison ti me.

Judge Leland Davis handed down the yearsentence Tuesday. Once released, Dong willserve three years’ probation as well, prose-cutors said.

He was also ordered to take 104 hours of domestic violence counseling and perform30 hours of community service, accordingto the district attorney’s office.

Dong’s attorney, John Halley, was notimmediately available for commentWednesday morning.

Gas leak causes school evacuationA gas leak on a main road in Menlo Park

was capped Wednesday afternoon after caus-ing a shelter in place at a nearby school,fire and utili ty o fficials said.

The leak was originally reported at 12:24p.m. near Willow Road and Ivy Driveinvolving a 1-inch plastic service line,PG&E spok esman J. D. Guidi said.

Guidi said the leak was capped at 2:34p.m. Fire officials said preliminary reportsindicate the cause of the l eak was an unseen

gas line that was struck by a telecommuni-cations company running fiber optic linesin a horizontal boring operation.

Nearby Mid-Peninsula High School,located at 13 40 Willow Road, was o rdered toshelter in place as a result of the leak. Thecampus was already mostly empty becausestudents were at various local organization sas part of the school’s Community ServiceDay, a schoo l employ ee said.

Parents were told to pick up students atthe Facebook campus entrance on ChilcoStreet during the road closure, fire o fficialssaid.

Daly City woman reported missingDaly City police are searching for a

woman who has been missing since lastTuesday, when she leftfor a shopping trip andfailed to return home.

Rowena Gracia, alsoknown as RowenaVelonza, left her home i nthe St. Francis area of Daly City on Tuesdayaround 10 a.m., accord-ing to police.

Police are concernedbecause she suffers from

short-term memory loss, is blind in herright eye and is under a conservatorsh ip dueto a t raumatic head injury. Sh e is no t carry-ing any identification or a cellphone.

She is described as a Filipi na woman withblack shoulder length hair and brown eyes.She is 5 feet 3 inches tall and 150 pounds,wearing dark sunglasses, a cream-coloredtrench coat an d dark blue jeans.

Gracia also has a tattoo of three roses onher left ankle, police said.

Anyone with information on h er locationis asked to contact Daly City poli ce at (650 )991-8119 or the detective handling the caseat (650) 991-8146.

Local briefs

By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The San Mateo Union High SchoolDistrict may take anot her step to ward relo-cating its district headquarters, as officials

can open the door on purchasing a piece of Bayfront property in Burlingame to ho useadminist rative offices.

The Board of Trustees will voteThursday, April 23 to enter negotiationsto purchase a 54,000-square-foot officebuilding sitting on 2.26 acres of land at875 Mahler Road in Burlingame.

The board can approve accepting anoffer to purchase the Crown Building,which would be a step closer to spendingthe $16 million requested to acquire theproperty, according to district documents.

Should the board move forward, the dis-trict would then have 90 days to negoti atewith property owner Harvard InvestmentCompany.

Officials have been looki ng for years torelocate district headquarters, in hopesthat shuffling properties will bring aboutthe most efficient use of its land.

Board President Marc Friedman, in an

email, expressed the district’s interest toproceed gradually o n po tentially purchas-ing th e Burlingame property.

“The board is discussin g on ly th e idea of evaluating whether to further explore theproperty over 90 days so that the boardcan make an informed decision as towhether or not to p urchase,” he said.

The district offices, which house thesuperintendent’s office, human resourcesdepartment, curriculum and instructionservices and more operations, are current-ly located on the north end of the SanMateo High Scho ol campus.

If the district ultimately purchases theproperty, Friedman said th e current districtoffice space would be transformed to addi-tional parking spaces for the high school.

The decisi on s lated to b e made Thursday,

March 23 i s a continuation o f a discussionheld last week by officials regarding howto manage the more than $78 million in

various capital improvement funds, morethan half of which were born from the$186 Measure O bond passed by vo ters in2010, that need to be allocated to addressa variety of facility n eeds.

Officials are simultaneously consider-

ing how to manage Crestmoor HighSchool, located at 300 Piedmont Ave., inSan Bruno which currently houses th e dis-trict’s alternative prog ram Peninsula HighSchool and its s pecial education s ervices.

Assistant Superintendent Liz McManushas said the district is cons idering fin dingfacilities th at are more centrally l ocated toserve Peninsula High Schoo l students.

Crestmoor High School was closed in1980 due to dropping enrollment.

The high school district has also con-sidered including Crestmoor in a land swapwith another public agency or school dis-trict, which could offer a low-cost so lutionto the difficulties associated with findinga new parcel of l and closer to th e heart of the district.

The board will take a deeper dive

addressing solutions for Peninsula HighSchool next month.

Last mon th, the bo ard approved relocat-

ing the district’s only charter school,Design Tech High School, from the MillsHigh School campus to property owned bythe San Mateo County Office of Educationon Rollins Road in Burlingame.

Also at the meeting, the board stands to

approve raisin g pay for teachers at the SanMateo Adult School .

Under the tentative agreement, signedby both administration and representa-tives for the teachers, educators will enjoya 3.5 percent increase to all steps in thesalary schedule, retroactive to July 1,2014.

Teachers will also accept increased con-tributions to their health and wellnessbenefit fund, under the tentative agree-ment.

The district’s general education teachersagreed in February to a receive a 7 percentpay bump, split across two years.

The board will meet Thursday, April 23,at 7 p. m. at th e San Mateo Adult Schoo l, at789 E. Poplar Ave. i n San Mateo.

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(650) 344-5200 ext. 105

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House passesbill to thwartcyberattacksBy Ken DilianTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday passed long-awaited legislation designed to thwart cyberattacks byencouraging private companies to share information aboutthe attackers’ methods with each other and the go vernment.

The measure, which passed 307 to 116, grants protectionfrom liability if companies follow certain procedures.Many companies have been reluctant to share internal dataabout cyberattacks for fear of being sued, leaving b oth thefirms and the government less equipped to battle anonslaught of cyberintrusions, including state-sponsoredcampaigns to purloin American intellectual property.

“At some point, we need to stop just hearing aboutcyberattacks that steal our most valuable trade secrets andour most private information, and actually do somethingto stop them,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, ranking Democrat

on the Intelligence Committee and one of the measure’sprincipal authors.

In a statement, the White House praised the bill thatpassed Wednesday while also exp ressing concerns, arguingthat the liability protections in some cases went too farand could ultimately reduce the incentive for companies toreport breaches. The White House also called for languageensuring that data is not shared by businesses to thwartcompetition.

Wednesday’s bill came out of the IntelligenceCommittee. The House is expected to pass a similar bill onThursday that emerged from the Homeland SecurityCommittee. The two measures will be reconciled into a sin-gle piece of legislation before heading to the Senate,where a similar bill has been introduced with bipartisansupport.

By Denise LavoieTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — After the firs t bomb wentoff down the street at the BostonMarathon, Adrianne Haslet-Davissomehow knew there was another onecoming.

“I wrapped my arms around my hus-band and said, ‘The next one’s gonnahit, the next one’s gonna hit,”’ sherecalled Wednesday at the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The next thing she knew, s he was onthe ground. Her husband, Adam, tied atourniquet around her ravaged left leg,but he couldn’t stop screaming.

“My first thought is, he’s in shockand I have to save myself,” she said.

The professional ballroom dancer

crawled through broken glass, draggingher bloody leg along the pavement,shredding her forearms in the process.She made it into a restaurant.

Her husband walked in soon after,then collapsed on the stairs. An arteryin his foot was spurting blo od, his facegrew pale, and his eyes began rollingback in hi s head, sh e said.

“I thought he was dying,” she said.He survived; she ended up losing her

leg. Her account — some of the rawesttestimony heard to date in the case —came on the second day of the penaltyphase of Tsarnaev’s trial. The jury thatconvicted the 21-year-old former col-lege student in the bombin g is decidingwhether should get the death penalty.

Three people were killed and morethan 260 wounded when Tsarnaev andhis older brother, Tamerlan, detonatedtwo pressure-cooker bombs near thefinish line of the race on April 15,2013.

Dancer describes losingleg in marathon bombing

By Carla K. Johnsonand David MercerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — President BarackObama’s health care law has had a sur-prising side effect: In some states, itappears to b e enticing more Americansto apply for food stamps, even as theeconomy improves.

New, streamlined application sys-tems built for the health care overhaulare making it easier for people to

enroll in government benefit pro-grams, including insurance coverageand food stamps.

In most affected states, the enroll-ment increases were not huge, rangingfrom 1 percent to 6 percent over twoyears, according to an AssociatedPress analysis. The sole exceptio n wasNevada, where enrollment shot up 14percent.

The enrollment is climbing asRepublicans try to cut the costs of thefood program and at a time when foo d-

stamp usage would normally beexpected to decline. Eligibility ruleshave not changed.

West Virginia’s food-stamp enroll-ment increased 4 percent after aMedicaid expansion that was part of the health care changes. Enrollment

jumped because peo pl e were “moreengaged with our systems and moreaware what they’re eligible for,” saidJeremiah Samples of the West Virgini aDepartment of Health and HumanResources.

Health law brings growth in food stamps in some states

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The House bill passed Wednesday would grant companiesliability protection if they stripped out personal informationfrom the data and shared it in real time through a civilian portal,most likely run by the Department of Homeland Security. REUTERS

Celeste Corocoran one of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, speaksduring the sentencing phase of themurder trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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By Paul Larson

MILLBRAE –

(This was first

published in 2010,

but it’s currently

needed again with

updated details)… Attacks from a

number of out ofstate cremation corporations have been

waged upon our local and well respected

mortuaries. By now many of you reading

this article have been targeted by the flood

of junk advertising being spread across the

Peninsula & Bay Area by these cremation

outfits that use deceptive language to spread

their misleading message. It’s no secret that

“societies” such as the Trident-Neptune

Corporation are using scare tactics to sway

consumers when they are most vulnerable.

Their mailings, which are many times

disguised as friendly notes, use falsehoods

to imply that their business practice “just

makes sense” or is “much less expensive”

luring in unsuspecting consumers. Their

shrewdly worded letters which use

implications such as “fancy and expensive

funeral home”, “falling victim to pressure to

overspend”, “spending your family’s

inheritance” or “up-selling” are crafted to

imply some sort of dishonesty. Also, an

alluring enticement to “WIN” is flaunted

with tempting instructions to “include your

phone number” & key personal data.

The truth is that these “societies” are no

more than wealthy competitors to your

locally owned mortuary, and their costs are

not only comparable, but many times

MORE expensive than what your local

mortuary offers. I’ve had families come to

me at the Chapel of the Highlands with

stories of being seduced by certain

“cremation societies” with talk of lower

costs and other persuasive language. Tales

of unimpressive staff and meetings in

bunker-like facilities are common. After

comparing local mortuaries & cremation

costs it was discovered that a mortuary’s

total balance can be similar or even LOWER

than these “societies”. Families have

realized that it would have been much more

comforting if they had called the Chapel of

the Highlands first. Our Chapel is wellexperienced and has been highly regarded

for assisting families with low cost

cremations… decades before cremation-only

corporations ever existed. We are also a full

service facility offering our Chapel for

Memorial Services if desired.

My advice if you ever wish to

investigate cremation:

Do your homework and call your locally

owned mortuary first to compare costs

along with reports on good reputation;

Don’t let cremation societies’ message

of being “much less expensive” or offers

to “WIN” fool you;

Don’t turn over your phone # or personal

info to un-requested cremation solicitors;

If you must use a “cremation society”

find out where they are headquartered

and about any prior or active lawsuits.

Thank you for reading my rebuttal. It

bothers me that these “societies” are openly

using misleading language and making

blanket implications about mortuaries.

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desire is for the truth to be known.

If you ever wish to discuss cremation,

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please feel free to call me and my staff at the

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Millbrae at (650) 588-5116. We will guide

you in a fair and helpful manner. You may

also visit us on the internet at

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SANAA, Yemen — Hours after SaudiArabia declared an end to its coalition’snearly month long air campaign in Yemen,new airstrikes Wednesday hit Iran-backedmilitants and their allies in two cities, andthe rebels said they would welcome U.N.-ledpeace talks in the conflict that has killedmore than 900 people.

The continued airstrikes suggested thatthe U.S.-backed offensive, aimed at restor-ing Yemen’s internationally recognizedpresident, was entering a new phase inwhich the Saudi-led military action will bescaled back but not halt ed completely.

Air raids struck positions held by therebels, kn own as Houthis, and their allies in

the southern port of Aden and the centralcity o f Taiz, Yemeni officials said. Fi ghti ngcontinued in both areas between the rebelsand supporters of exiled President AbedRabbo Manso ur Hadi, a clo se U.S. ally whofled Yemen on March 25.

The capital o f Sanaa was calm, h owever,giving residents their most peaceful nightin almost four weeks. In the evening, thou-sands of pro -Houthi demonstrators marchedand vowed they would never submit to whatthey described as “Saudi-American aggres-sion.”

The Shiite rebels are backed by formerPresident Ali Abdullah Saleh, an autocratwho ruled the impoverished but strategiccountry for three decades until he wasremoved amid a 2011 Arab Spring uprising.His military forces have aided the rebels

who advanced from the north and controlmuch of Yemen, including Sanaa.

Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its Gulf allies began the air campaign March 26,aimed at crushing the Houthis and alliedmilitary units loyal to Saleh. The Saudisbelieve the rebels are tools for Iran to takecontrol of Yemen. Iran has provided politi-cal and humanitarian support to theHouthis, but both Tehran and the rebelsdeny it h as armed them.

The airstrikes in Taiz hit the rebels asthey gathered at a military headquarters theycontrol near the old airport southeast of thecity, officials s aid. Also targeted was Aden,where warplanes b lasted rebel forces in out-lying districts.

Street fighting continued in bo th cities,especially Taiz, where officials said pro-

government forces control most of the city,and dozens were killed on both sides. InAden, rebels fired mortars, said the offi-cials, who spoke on condition of anonymi-ty because they were not authorized to talkto j ournalists.

At least 944 peo ple were killed and 3, 500wounded since the coalition airstrikesbegan March 26, the World HealthOrganization said. It also has created anescalating humanitarian crisis, with dwin-dling s upplies o f food, water and medicine.

The rebels and their allies have lost littleground, and Hadi remains in exile in SaudiArabia. Aden, where he had established atemporary capital before fleeing, is grippedby fierce fighting. Al-Qaida’s powerfullocal affiliate has exploited the chaos toseize the southeastern port city of Mukalla.

On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia declared“Decisive Storm” over and announced thestart of a more limited military campaignaimed at preventin g th e rebels from operat-ing.

At a news conference in Riyadh, coali tionspok esman Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri said theheavy airstrikes would be scaled down, butdid not confirm whether they would stop

altogether. He said the goals of the newoperation are to prevent Houthi rebels from“targeting civilians or changing realitieson the ground.”

Riad Kahwaji, director of t he Dubai-basedInstitute of Near East And Gulf MilitaryAnalysis, said that if there were any suspi-cious military movements, “the coalitionwill attack it. ”

New airstrikes inYemen after Saudissay operation over

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Followers of the Houthi group demonstrate against the Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen.

By Charles BabingtonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Emotional disagree-ments over trade erupted in Congress onWednesday, when a liberal senator delayed acommittee’s likely endorsement of a toptrade prio rity for President Barack Obama.

The day began with Senate FinanceCommittee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,

predicting a “strong bipartisan vote” for“fast track” legislation. The measure wouldrenew presidential authority t o present t radedeals th at Congress can endorse or reject butnot amend.

But liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., afierce opponent of the trade legislation,invoked a Senate scheduling rule to delaythe committee’s actions for hours.

“This job-killing trade deal has beennegotiated in secret,” said Sanders, whomade a lengthy Senate speech denouncing

the legis lation . “It was drafted with inp ut byspecial interests and corporate lobbyists,but not from the elected representatives of the American people. ”

Hatch rejected the claims, saying fasttrack and other trade proposals have beencarefully negotiated and will undergo longpublic scrutiny.

“We need to be doing all we can tear downbarriers to American exports while, at the

same time, creating enforceable rules for ourtrading partners so we can be sure thatAmerican workers and job creators are com-peting on a level playing field,” Hatch said.

He said the committee would work lateinto the night if necessary to address manyproposed amendments. The committeeresumed its meeting in the late afternoon.

The Hatch-Sanders dispute is one of manyemerging as Con gress turns to trade propo s-als bitterly opposed by labor unions andothers who say trade pacts hurt U.S. jobs.

Emotions over Obama’s tradeagenda roil Senate,delay action

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By Josh Lederman


EVERGLADES NATIONALPARK, Fla. — Amid lurking alli-gators and the steamy heat of Florida’s Everglades, President

Barack Obama on Wednesdaysounded the alarm about damagefrom climate change he said wasalready wreaking mayhem inFlorida and across the UnitedStates.

In an implicit rebuke toFlorida’s governor and otherRepublicans, Obama accusedthose who deny the man-madecauses of climate change of stick-ing t heir heads in th e sand. He saidrising sea levels that have infusedthe Everglades with harmful saltwater have already jeopardizedFlorida’s drinking water and its$82 billion tourism industry.

“You do not have time to denythe effects of climate change,”

Obama said, with the sprawlingwetlands as hi s backdrop.

Obama’s quick visi t to the SouthFlorida landmark, timed to coin-cide with Earth Day, marked hislatest attempt to connect the dotsbetween carbon emissions andreal-life implications. With hisclimate change agenda underattack in Washington and court-houses across the U.S., Obama hasbeen on a mission to forceAmericans to envision a world inwhich cherished natural wondersfall victim to pollution.

So the president ditched hisusual suit and tie Wednesday for acasual shirt and sunglasses as hishelicopter touched down inEverglades National Park. A parkranger at his side, Obama walkedthe Anhinga Trail, west of Miami,where a series of wooden walk-ways took him through denseshrubbery and over the slow-mov-ing river. Small alligators couldbe spot ted swimming i n the watersand shallow areas nearby, as a fewlarge birds ducked in and out of th edeep-green waters.

The vast Everglades, known asthe “River of Grass,” fuel theregion’s tourism economy andwater supply. Now roughly 1.4million acres, t he park comprises

most of what’s left of a uniqueecosystem that once stretched asfar north as Orlando.

Yet damage that started early inthe 20th century, when peopledrained swamps to make room forhomes and farms, has only grown

more alarming as sea levels rise.Researchers fear by the time thewater flow is fixed, theEverglades’ native species couldbe lost to i nvasive plants and ani-mals.

“This is not a problem for

another generation — not any-more,” Obama said. “This is aproblem now. It has serious impli-cations for the way we live rightnow.”

Even still, the political over-tones of Obama’s visit were

impossible to avoid.

Two Florida Republicans gear-ing up presidential campaigns for2016 — Sen. Marco Rubio andformer Gov. Jeb Bush — havetreaded carefully on the issue of climate change amid deep pockets

of opposition within theRepublican Party. And GOP Gov.Rick Scott has attracted nationalattention over his resistance toacknowledging man-made causesof climate change head-on.

Scott, ahead of Obama’s visit,accused the president of cuttingmillio ns in hi s budget for repair of an aging dike around LakeOkeechobee, Florida’s largestfreshwater bo dy. Altho ugh Obamadidn’t mention Scott by name, heoffered a series of thinly veiled

jabs over allegat ions h is admin is-tration banned state employeesfrom using the terms “climatechange” and “global warming” —a claim Scott h as denied.

“Simply refusing to say thewords ‘climate change’ doesn’tmean climate change isn’t hap-pening,” Obama said. “It can’t beedited out. It can’t be omit ted fromthe conversation, and action canno longer be delayed.”

Florida and the federal govern-ment have partnered on a multib il-lion-dollar Everglades fix, but theeffort has languished amid legalchallenges and congressionalinaction. But Scott sought to putthe blame on Washington — andObama in particular — for leavingFlorida on the hook for the repair.“Our environment is too impor-tant to neglect and it’s time for thefederal government to focus onreal solutions and live up to theirpromises,” he said.

Unable to persuade Congress toact on climate, Obama has spentmuch of his second term pursuingexecutive actions to cut carbongreenhouse gas emissions in theU.S. and abroad. Aides s ay Obamasees spurring action on climate asa central part of his legacy. Butsteps he’s taken on his own, suchas strict emissions limits forpower plants, have elicited fiercepolitical oppositio n and a host of legal challenges that could under-mine parts of his plan.

Obama sounds alarm on climate damage

REUTERSBarack Obama delivers remarks on climate change at Everglades National Park.

By Matthew Lee|and Julie PaceTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — PresidentBarack Obama will once againstop short of calling the 1915massacre of Armenians a genocide,prompting anger and disappoint-ment from those who have beenpushing him t o fulfill a campaignpromise and use the politicallyfraught term on the 1 00th anniver-

sary of the killings this week.Officials decided against it afteropposit ion from some at the StateDepartment and the Pentagon.

After more than a week of inter-nal debate, top administrationofficials discussed the final deci-sion with Armenian-American

leaders Tuesday before making itpublic. The White House said theofficials pledged that the U.S.would use Friday’s centennialanniversary “to urge a full, frankand just acknowledgement of thefacts.” That language echoed theadministration’s five previousstatements on t he anniversary, aswell as those of previous adminis-trations. But it did not use theword “genocide,” as many hadhoped.

As a senator and presidentialcandidate, Obama did describe thekillings of Armenians as “geno-cide” and said the U.S. go vernmenthad a responsibility to recognizethem as such. As a candidate inJanuary 2008, Obama pledged torecognize the genocide and at leastone of his campaign surrogates —

the current U.S. ambassador to theUnited Nations, Samantha Power— recorded a nearly five-minutevideo at the time imploringArmenian-Americans to vote forObama precisely b ecause he wouldkeep his word on the issue.

But Obama has never used thatdescription since taking office,mainly out of deference to Turkey,a key U.S. partner and NATO ally,which is fiercely opposed to the“genocide” label.

Tuesday’s announcement,accompanied by word that TreasurySecretary Jacob Lew will attend aceremony in Armenia on Friday tomark the anniversary, was madeshortly after Secretary of StateJohn Kerry met with Turkey’sForeign Minister MevlutCavusoglu in Washington.

Obama avoids calling 1915 Armenian killings ‘genocide’

Israel grapples with whether torecognize Armenian genocideBy Aron HellerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — The Nazi genocide of European Jews iswidely commemorated in Israel and etched deeply into thepsyche of a country founded in the Holocaust’s aftermath.But when it comes to the 1915 Armenian genocide, Israelhas largely stayed silent.

Fearing repercussions from its former ally Turkey andwary of breaking ranks with American policy, Israel hasrefrained from calling the mass killing of Armenians byOttoman Turks during World War I a genocide. Now, daysbefore Armenia holds centenary commemorations, and withties to Turkey frayed, there are growing calls from withinIsrael to finally do so.

In a first of its kind gesture, Israel is dispatch ing a pair of lawmakers t o t he ceremony in Yerevan on Friday. However,the low-level delegation is under strict instructions to referto the killings as a “national tragedy” rather than “geno-cide.” One of those backbenchers, Nachman Shai of thecentrist Zionist Union party, said it was time for Israel toacknowledge that genocide took place.

“In foreign policy, there are interests and there are val-ues,” he told the Associated Press. “In this case I think val-ues should trump int erests. As Jews, we must recogni ze it.”

Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenianswere killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World WarI, an event widely viewed by scholars as the first genocideof the 20 th century. Turkey denies th at the deaths const itut-ed genocide, saying t he toll has been inflated and that tho sekill ed were victims o f civil war and unrest.

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Dow 18,038.27 +88.68 10-Yr Bond 1.97 +0.06

Nasdaq 5,035.17 +21.07 Oil (per barrel) 56.30

S&P 500 2,107.96 +10.67 Gold 1,186.20

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on theNew York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEChipotle Mexican Grill Inc., down $51.29 to $641.23 The Mexican food chain reported lower-than-expected sales growth,partly because of an ongoing pork shortage. Tupperware Brands Corp., down $2.60 to $67.25 The direct seller of plastic storage containers reported better-than-expected results, but gave a weak outlook.AutoNation Inc., up 93 cents to $65.83 The auto retailer reported better-than-expected first-quarter results andgave an upbeat outlook for new vehicle sales.McDonald's Corp., up $2.97 to $97.84 The fast-food chain reported better-than-expected first-quarter profitand will announce plans for boosting sales.NasdaqProcera Networks Inc., up $1.91 to $11.42

The technology company is being bought by the private equity firmFrancisco Partners Management for about $240 million.Angie's List Inc., up 31 cents to $6.46 The consumer reviews service swung to a first-quarter profit, surprisingWall Street, which expected the company to post a loss.Broadcom Corp., up $2.20 to $46.18 The chipmaker reported a boost in first-quarter profit on higher revenueand the results beat Wall Street expectations.Super Micro Computer Inc., down $2.91 to $31.90 The server technology and software company reported worse-than-expected fiscal third-quarter profit and revenue.

Big movers

By Matthew CraftTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Investors cheeredmoves by Google and credit-card com-panies on Wednesday and sent thestock market to a solid gain. Google

helped set off a surge in technologystocks after it unveiled a low-cost wire-less phone service.

Google’s new wireless service,dubbed “Project Fi,” costs around $20 amonth for basic service and chargescustomers for the amount of data theyuse. The low-cost p lan puts t he Internetsearch giant into competition withAT&T and Verizon Wireless. Google’sstock gained $6.25, or 1 percent, to$549.18.

For most of the day, the marketlooked like a driver given bad direc-tions . Major indexes sh uffled betweenslight gains and losses in morningtrading before turning higher in thelate afternoon. The gains were modestbut shared widely: All 10 industries in

the Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose.McDonald’s said a strong dollar and

restructuring charges weighed on itsfirst-quarter results as a new CEO triesto turn the hamburger chain around.The company’s sales continued to fallin the quarter, but its earnings b eat WallStreet’s estimates. McDonald’s gained$2.97, or 3 percent, to $97.84.

Jack Ablin, chief investment officerat BMO Private Bank, called the mar-ket’s response to McDonald’s earningstypical of the earnings season so far.

“It was pretty lousy report, butinvestors remain optimistic about thefuture,” Ablin said. “I think investors

are willing to shrug off one bad quarterfor earnings. We’ll see what happens i f we get a string of disappointments.”

The S&P 500 index rose 10.67points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,107.96.That’s just 10 points shy of its recordhigh reached on March 2.

The Dow Jones industrial averagewas up 88.68 p oints, or 0.5 percent, to18,038.27, and the Nasdaq compositepicked up 21.07 p oints, or 0.4 percent,to 5,035.17.

Visa and MasterCard surged follow-ing n ews that Chin a plans to allo w for-eign companies to handle bank-cardtransactions. Visa’s stock jumped$2.66, or 4 percent, to $68.01, whileMasterCard gained $3.43, also 4 per-cent, to $91.20.

Among th e big companies turning inquarterly results, Boeing reportedhigher profit and revenue for the firstquarter. But the aircraft maker’s salesmissed estimates, while costs climbedfor its 78 7 Dreamliner. Boeing dropped$2.14, or 1 percent, to $151.19.

Chipotle said bad weather and ashortage of pork slowed its sales

growth at the start of the year. As aresult, revenue for the first quarter fellshort o f Wall Street’s targets. Chipotl esaid the issue could last until the end of the year. Chipotle’s stock sank$51.29, or 7 percent, to $641.23.

Major markets finished mixed in

Europe. France’s CAC 40 rose 0.4 per-cent, while Germany’s DAX dropped0.6 percent. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell0.5 percent.

In Asia, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei225 rose 1.1 percent to finish at20,133, the first time since April 14,2000 that the index closed above20,000 points. South Korea’s Kospiwas little changed. Hong Kong’s HangSeng gained 0.3 percent and China’sShanghai Composite jumped 2.4 per-cent.

Back in the U.S., government bondprices fell, driving the yield on the 10-year Treasury note up to 1.98 percentfrom 1.91 percent late Tuesday.

In commodities trading, benchmarkU.S. crude oil fell 45 cents to $56.16 a

barrel in New York. Brent crude rose 65cents to $62.73 barrel in London.

In other futures trading on the NewYork Mercantile Exchange, wholesalegasoline rose 3.6 cents to $1.925 agallon, heating oil rose 1.8 cents to$1.871 a gallon and natural gas rose3.1 cents to $2.606 per 1,000 cubicfeet.

After a sluggish start, stocks finish higher

By Stephen Ohlemacher


WASHINGTON — The IRS’ overloaded

phone system hung up on more than 8 mil-lion taxpayers this filing season as theagency cut millions of dollars from taxpay-

er services to help pay to enforce PresidentBarack Obama’s health law.

For thos e who weren’t discon nected, only40 p ercent actually got through t o a p erson.And many of those people had to wait on

hold for more than 30 minutes, IRSCommissioner John Koskinen saidWednesday.

The number of discon nect-ed callers spiked just as tax-payers were being hit withnew requirements under thehealth law. Last year, thephone system dropped360,000 calls, Koskinensaid.

For the first time, taxpay-ers had to report whetherthey had health insurance

last year on their tax returns. Those whoreceived government subsidies had torespond whether they received the correctamount.

A new staff report by Republicans on the

House Ways and Means Committee criti-cized the agency’s spending priorities. Thereport said the IRS diverted $13 4 milli on inuser fees that had been spent on customerservice last year to other areas this year.

“It looks to me like you’re purposelyharming taxpayers,” Rep. Kristi Noem of South Dakota told Koskinen at a hearingWednesday.

Koskinen said the user fees were spent oncomputer upgrades to impl ement the healthlaw as well as a new law requiring foreignbanks to report information about U.S.account holders.

He also said budget cuts approved byCongress left him no choice. The agency’sbudget has been cut by $1.2 billion since2010. It now stands at $10.9 bill ion.

“Customer service, both on the phone

and in person has been far worse than any-one would want,” Koskinen told the Waysand Means oversight subcommittee. “It’ssimply a matter of not having enough peo-ple to answer the phones and provide serv-ice at our walk-in s ites as a result of cuts toour budget. ”

Koskinen said the agency is required bylaw to implement t he health l aw and the for-eign reporting law, leaving him with fewother places to cut. He said the agencyrequested a total of $600 million over thepast two years for computer upgrades toimplement th e new laws.

Hello? 8M phone calls unanswered as IRS cut taxpayer service

By Mae AndersonTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — EBay says i t i s work-ing to stabilize its marketplaces busi-ness as it moves to spin o ff its PayPaldivision later this year.

The San Jose company onWednesday reported first-quarter netincome that beat expectations as con-tinued strong growth in its PayPalpayments unit offset the impact of thestronger dollar. A stronger dollar cutsinto revenue generated overseas whenit’s translated back into dollars.

The results sent eBay’s stock up 5

percent in aftermarket trading.The e-commerce company is s eekingto reinvigorate its marketplace busi-ness, which includes the e-commercearm of eBay. It st umbled last year whenit had to deal with a change inGoogle’s algorithms that made eBayproducts come up in search results lessoften. It was also hit by a data breachthat l ed to all its users bein g required tochange thei r password.

For the quarter ending March 31,marketplaces revenue fell 4 percent to$2.07 billion, hurt by the strongerdollar. But the company said it seessigns of stabilization in active buyers

and gross merchandise volume, or thetotal amount of goods sold, excludingthe impact of the stronger dollar.

Overall, on a per-share basis, netincome totaled 51 cents per share.Earnings, adjusted for restructuringcosts and stock option expense, cameto 77 cents per share.

The results surpassed Wall Streetexpectations. The average estimate of 20 analysts surveyed by ZacksInvestment Research was for earningsof 71 cents per share.

Revenue totaled $4.45 billio n in t heperiod, also exceeding Street fore-casts.

As PayPal split looms, what’s next for eBay

By Barbara Ortutay THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Nearly three-quartersof Facebook’s advertising revenuenow comes from mobile ads, as manymore users access the social networkon smartphones and other handheldgadgets.

On that front, the company is doingfine — better, even, than it has in pre-vious quarters. But the rate of it s ov er-all revenue growth slo wed down in thefirst three months o f this year, causingthe high-flying st ock to fall in extend-ed trading after the results came out.

Wednesday marked the first time s inceearly 2013 t hat Facebook failed to sur-pass Wall Street’s expectations .

Shares of the Menlo Park-basedcompany fell $1. 79, or 2. 1 percent, to$82.84 in after-hours trading. Evenso, th e stock’s closing price of $84.63shows an 8.5 percent increase sincethe st art of the year.

Facebook has grown mobile ad rev-enue steadily since 2012, when itstarted showing ads for the devices’smaller screens. In the previous quar-ter, mobile represented 69 percent of total advertising revenue. Facebookhad 1.44 billio n monthly active users

as of March, up 13 percent from a yearearlier. The number of users whoaccessed Facebook on mobile devicesat least once a month grew 24 percentto 1.25 billion.

The company reported adjusted earn-ings of 42 cents per share in theJanuary-March quarter, above the 41cents per share that analysts polled byFactSet were expecting. Revenueincreased 46 percent to $3. 54 bill ion,from $2.5 billion a year earlier.Analysts had expected $3.56 billion.

Net income declined as Facebook’sexpenses grew 83 percent from a yearearlier.

Facebook mobile ad revenue continues to surge

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By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — The way DonMattingly saw it, p inch-runner Gregor Blancowas stopped by his third base coach, shouldhave been called out on interference and neverin posi tion to score the winning run.

Third base umpire and crew chief FieldinCulbreth let Blanco stay on third despiteMattingly’s argument, Joe Panik hit agame-ending sacrifice fly moments laterwith the Dodgers in a five-man infield, and

the San Francisco Giantsedged Los Angeles 3-2Wednesday nigh t.

“They missed the callbasically. I don’t knowwho was supposed to bewatching but theyweren’t watching,”Mattingly said. “He did-n’t see i t. He was watch-ing the play. I don’t

know why th e third base umpire’s watchingthe play. .. . It’s not reviewable.”

A sing le by Brandon Belt loaded the baseswith one out, and prompted Mattingly toargue that Giants third base coach RobertoKelly improperly made contact and sto ppedBlanco at the bag. Blanco insists he hadalready st opped before runnin g in to Kelly.

“It wasn’t like he stopped me. I was stop-ping on third,” Blanco said. “I don’t feel hewas stopp ing me at all.”

After the delay, Panik delivered a long flyoff J.P. Howell that easily scored the win-ning run as the champion Giants wound upposting back-to-back wins for only th e sec-

ond time this season.“My first reaction was, ‘Now I know whatan NFL kicker feels like getting iced at theend of the game,” Panik said. “It showed alot o f character for this team scrappin g out awin agains t Kershaw.”

Reigning World Series MVP MadisonBumgarner and current NL Cy Young Awardwinner Clayton Kershaw kept things close,dueling until it became a battle of thebullpens.

Giants walk off with second straight win

By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Runs were at a premium Wednesday atWashington Park. And Terra Nova almostran its way out of its best scoring opportu-nity of the game.

But then, Anthony Gordon did what greatplayers. The senior slugger delivered a two-out, two-run single in the fifth to break ascoreless tie as the Tigers went on to downBurlingame 4-1 in a critical Peninsula Athleti cLeague Bay Divis ion baseball matchup.

Entering into play Wednesday tied forthird place in the Bay Division withBurlingame, Terra Nova (7-3 in PAL Bay,13-8 overall) takes over sole po ssession of

third place, one game back of a first-placetie between Carlmont and Sacred Heart Prep.

“It's a big win because now we're rightback on track to compete for first place,”Gordon said. “Friday we're competing for afirst place bid. Everybody is st arting to p ickit up more. Everybody is starting to playwith a little more heart. It's good to see.”

Terra Nova almost ran itself out of itsthree-run rally th ough. With two on and oneout amid a scoreless tie, Jacob Braslaw hit atowering drive well over the head of Burlingame left fielder Kaleb Keelean. ButTerra Nova's lead runner went back to secondbase to tag up and ultimately was able toonly advance to third to load the bases.

“That's the longest single I've ever seenin my life,” Terra Nova manager JoeyGentile said. “And poor [Braslaw], he

thought he had a double and some RBIs andhe got nothing. But Gordon came throughwith the big hit. And that's what we count onhim for. He's our best player.”

The Tigers went on to score three in theinning in support of starting pitcher JaredMilch. The junior left-hander pitched out of an early first-inning jam then settled in tofinish strong to earn the complete-gamevictory, allowing just one unearned run onthree hits while striking out five, includingfour of the last five batt ers he faced.

“His ability to finish is unreal because hewas getting better as it went along,” TerraNova catcher Joey Pledger said. “His curveball

Tigers rising in PAL Bay

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Junior left-hander Jared Milch got better as the day went along to fire a complete game in TerraNova’s 4-1 win over Burlingame Wednesday at Washington Park.

Whenever Capuchin o and Millsathletic teams get together,the atmosphere is usually

electric. After all, these two rival schoolsabout three miles apart from each otherand the football teams compete in theannual “Battle of the Strip.”

The two so ftball t eams will reki ndlethe fire that goesalong with the rival-ry series when theymatch up Saturdayafternoon in SanBruno.

While the focuswill be on thegames, the atmos-phere surroundingthe game will be alittle bit different asthe San Bruno“Relay for Life,” afundraising walk that

honors cancer survivors, will take placeon the Capuchino track before the game.

The players, however, will have try tokeep their focus on the task at hand andboth teams have plenty for which toplay. Capuchino finds itself with a 3-4record in Peninsula Athletic League BayDivision play, tied with Burlingame forfourth place in the standings.

Only the top three Bay Division teamsearn automatic playoffs spots in theCentral Coast Section tournament, withthe fourth-place team usually receivingan at-large bid. A win o ver Mills couldhelp the Mustangs grab an at-large bid tothe playoffs — assuming the Vikings winthe Ocean Divis ion t itle. A win o ver aleague champion is worth extra po werpoints when it comes to CCS berths andseedings.

As for Vikings, they are having one of their best season in years and at 7-0 inthe PAL Ocean Divis ion, are sittin g alon ein first place with a three-game cushio nover 5-3 South Cit y. They will need towin the division to assure themselves aspot in the postseason.

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Lot riding on

‘Strip’ game

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By Janie McCauley THE ASSOICATED PRESS

DALY CITY — Lydia Ko l ooks back at t heyear she’s had since winning her first LPGATour event as a pro and credits the g reat golf she played at Lake Merced with helping tolaunch her young career.

She even celebrated her 17th birth day dur-ing the inaugural Swinging Skirts LPGAClassic last sp ring, and the world No. 1 willtry to defend her title this week in a fieldthat features 19 of th e top 20 players in the

world rankings.Ko should be well rest-

ed after a week off, t oo.“The first win is always

important because it kindof gives you that firststepping s tone where thepath or the door is kindof open from there,” Kosaid. “Winning here wasreally important to me.

The first is definitely one of the most mem-orable ones.”

Ko turns 18 on Friday, and might justreceive another on-course “HappyBirthday” serenade from the gallery as shedid in 2014 at the first tee box. She hasearned three more victories since herSwinging Skirts title with its $2 millionpurse.

She overcame a one-stroke deficit on thefinal day last year with birdies on three of her last four holes on the front nine of herfinal round to overtake runner-up StacyLewis with a 3-under 69 to finish 12 under276.

It will be equally tough this time, and thecool weather, mist and wind coming fromthe ocean near San Francisco again look topose a challenge on an already rigorouscourse. Lewis is playing again, along withU.S. Women’s Open champion MichelleWie and local favorite Paula Creamer.

“It’s a great field. It’s not a major but itfeels like a major,” Ko said. “The top play-ers are here. You have to play well week in ,week out. Everybody’s playing so well.

Ko back at Lake Merced to defend Swinging Skirts crown

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By Joe Resnick THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANAHEIM — Sonny Gray outpitchedJered Weaver with seven in ning s of t wo-hitball, and Billy Butler homered during a five-run seventh inning that carried the OaklandAthletics to a 9-2 victory over the LosAngeles Angels o n Wednesday nig ht.

Gray (2-0) struck out seven, escaped a bases-loaded jam in the third and retired his last 14batters. The right-hander faced the Angels inthree of his final eight starts last season,going at least seven innings each time.

Eric Sogard greeted Fernando Salas (0-1)

with a leadoff single in the seventh, stole

second and advanced on Marcus Semien’ssacrifice bunt before Steph en Vogt deliveredthe go-ahead run with a single through theright side off Cesar Ramos with one out andrunners at t he corners.

Vinnie Pestano came in to relieve andthrew a wild pitch to Butler that allowedSam Fuld to score. Butler drove a 3-1 pitchto center field for his 14th career homeragainst the Angels, and Brett Lawrie’s run-scoring infield hit capped the rally.

The A’s tacked on three more runs in theeighth and finished with 18 hits. They haveoutscored their opponents 62-5 in theireight v ictories, and have been outscored 56-21 in their eight losses — in cluding a 14-1

drubbin g Tuesday nigh t.Oakland stole three more bases, making

the A’s 10 for 10 o ver their last ei ght g ames— after playing their first eight gameswithout attempting a stolen base.

Weaver was done after six, allowing a runand eight hits with three strikeouts and nowalks. He is 0-2 in four starts with a 5.24ERA. It’s the first time in Weaver’s 10 bigleague seasons that he was winless in hisfirst four outings.

The score was tied 1-all in the third whenthe Angels loaded the bases on a one-out sin-gle by Johnn y Giavotella and two walks. ButGray struck out Albert Pujols on a pitch inthe dirt and retired David Freese on a pop up.

Butler’s blast lifts A’s over Angels

By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Morgan Monashefsky made Sacred HeartCathedral hist ory Tuesday.

Monashefsky — a Millbrae resident —fired a perfect game in SHC’s 6-0 victoryover Riordan at

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