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While some students stress about whichpath they may take after high school, guid-ance counselors are busy reminding themthat myriad paths to success remain even if they will not be attending th eir college oruniversity of choice.

As the calendar turns to April, students

who have been accepted into th e Univ ersityof California and California StateUniversity sys tems will h ave one month toannounce their intent to enroll.

But should a student not get accepted totheir school of choice, or be stressing ov erwhich to attend, local school counselo rs areattempting to provide a healthier perspec-tive on life after high school .

“We are not going to fall all over our-

selves endorsing the frenzy that your life isover if you didn’t get into UCLA,” saidAlice Kleeman, college advisor at Menlo-Atherton High School.

Kleeman said it is important to startcoaching students early that the universitythey attend will not ultimately define them.

“If I felt there were only 20, 30 or 40 col-leges worth going to, I wouldn’t be doingthis job. It would be ridiculous,” she said.

“You are going t o get hear yeses and nos,but that is just life.”

She said high school should not solelybeen seen as a period of time when s tudentsmold their college resume, but also as anopportunity to shape their interests andpersonality, which should guide the deci-sion regarding where they elect to attend.

Guidance for students during trying timCounselors offer broader perspective to stressed students during college acceptance

Questionslinger on

Iran dealParameters for a comprehensiveaccord still include some big holesBy Bradley KlapperTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The frameworknuclear deal sealed by world powersand Iran leaves major question s: Co uldIran cheat? Possib ly. Would the U.S oranyone else be able to respond intime? In theory, y es. Are they preparedto use milit ary force? Questio nable.

Would a final deal settle g lobal fearsabout Iran’s intentions? Almost sure-ly, no.

But the surprisingly detailed factsheet released by the United States after Thursday’s diplo-matic breakthrough in Switzerland provides President

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Police hopeful crisis traininghelping to make a differenceLaw enforcement amicably resolves twoencounters with potentially suicidal subjectsBy Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Almost a year since a young woman with schizophrenialost her life after being s hot b y a deputy in Half Moon Bay,

law enforcement arrived to the same housing complex lastweekend on a strikingly similar call. The recent incidentended differently as a teenager who was reportedly suicidal

See IRAN , Page 8

See TRAINING , Page 8

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Aldo Noboa, left, instructs one of the School of Rock bands through practice with Charlie Dowden, 17, on guitar. Dowden isone of the more advanced students at School of Rock and will be leaving and graduating within the next year. Below : GibsonPhillips, 12, strums along to other bandmates performing on stage.

By Joseph JaafariDAILY JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

Before the drums started, BenKaufman keyed out a few notes on theelectric keyboard at the front of theroom. After a few measures, a smallchorus of his bandmates, lining astage with a mural of Led Zeppelinbehind them, broke out in song.

“Live and let die,” they chimed in,singing the lyrics to the iconic PaulMcCartney and Wings song.

“OK. Stop,” said Aldo Noboa, themusic director, trying to get the groupback on track.

It was a completely impromptu

These kids rockSan Mateo’s School of Rock immerses young artists in music

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See STRESS , Page 10

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Actor RobertDowney Jr. is 50.

This Day in History

Thought for the Day

1865President Abraham Lincoln, accompa-nied by his son Tad, visited the van-quished Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, where he wasgreeted by a crowd that included for-mer slaves.

“You can kill a manbut you can’t kill an idea.”

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Actor Craig T.Nelson is 71.

Actress JamieLynn Spears is 24.

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In 1818 , Congress decided the flag of the United Stateswould consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with anew star to be added for every new state of the Union.In 1841 , President William Henry Harrison succumbed topneumonia o ne month after his inaugural, becoming t he firstU.S. chief executive to die in office.In 1850 , the city of Los Angeles was incorporated.In 1859 , “Dixie” was performed publicly for the first timeby Bryant’s Min strels at Mechanics ’ Hall in New York.In 186 5 , the Crossness Pumping Station, a key componentof London’s new and improved sewage sys tem, was officiallyopen ed by Edward, Prince of Wales.In 1933 , the Navy airship USS Akron crashed in severeweather off the New Jersey coast with the loss of 73 lives.In 1945 , during World War II, U.S. forces li berated the Naziconcentration camp Ohrdruf in Germany. Hungary was liber-ated as Soviet forces cleared out remaining German troops.In 1958 , Johnny Stompanato, an enforcer for crime bossMickey Cohen and the boyfriend of actress Lana Turner, wasstabbed to death by Turner’s teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane,who said Stompanato had attacked her mother.In 1968 , civil righ ts l eader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, wasshot and killed while standing on a balcony of the LorraineMotel in Memphis, Tennessee.In 197 5 , more than 13 0 people, most of them children, werekilled when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuatingVietnamese orphans crash-landed shortly after takeoff fromSaigon. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allenin Albuquerque, New Mexico.In 1985 , Gary Dotson, who’d served six years of a prisonsentence for rape, was freed on bail from the JolietCorrectional Center in Illinois after his accuser, CathleenCrowell Webb, testified that the attack had never occurred. T he Great Chicago Fire of 1871started in the barn of Mr. andMrs. O’Leary. More than 17,000

buildings were destroy ed in the fire thatburned for two days. Ironically, theO’Leary’s h ome was n ot damaged.

***Binti Jua, a gorilla at the BrookfieldZoo in Chicago, b ecame a hero in 1996when she rescued a 3-year-old boy thatfell down 18 feet into the gorilla exhib -it. The 150-pound gorilla picked up th eboy and brought him to the zookeep-er’s entrance. The boy h ad only minorinjuries, and Binti Jua was rewardedwith 2 5 pounds of bananas.

***A group of monkeys is called a troop.

***Different monkeys have been inepisodes of the animated series “TheSimpsons” (1989-present) over theyears. Homer Simpson had a helpermonkey named Mojo. Krusty theClown had a chain-smoking monkeynamed Mr. Teeny. Mr. Burns had afighting monkey named FuriousGeorge.

***Marge Simpson’s mother on “TheSimpsons” is named Jackie Bouvier.

***After graduating from college in 1951,Jackie Bouvier (1929-1994) worked forthe Washington Times-Herald as theInquiring Camera Girl. She asked peo-ple on the streets questions aboutissues and their opinions were printedalong with their picture. That is howshe met her future husband John F.Kennedy (19 17-1963).

***Roy Halston Frowick (1932-1990)began his fashion career by designinghats. Halston designed the famous pi ll-box hat that Jacqueline Kennedy woreto her husband’s inaugural festivities in1961.

***Fashio n design er Diane VonFurstenberg (born 1945) becamefamous in 1973 for designi ng t he wrapdress. In 1975, the popularity of thedresses was at its peak, with sales of 25,0 00 dresses per week.

***Dianne Feinstein (born 1933), formermayor of San Franci sco, graduated fromStanford University i n 195 5 with a his-tory degree.

***The motto of Stanford Univ ersity i s Die

Luft der Freiheit weht. It is a Germanquote from 16th century humanistUlrich von Hutten (1488-1523) thatmeans The Wind of Freedom Blo ws.

***When the football teams of rival col-

leges Stanford University and UCBerkeley (known as Cal) play againsteach other every year, it is known asthe Big Game.

***Do you know what the mascot is forStanford University? The mascot forCal Berkeley? See answer at end.

***Since 1933, the team that wins t he BigGame takes ho me a victory trophy; thesymbolic Stanford Axe. The origin of the ax goes to an 1899 game againstCal when Stanford cheerleaders yelled,“Give them the ax! Where? Right in theneck!”

***The most common type of wood for axhandles in hickory.

***Superstition says an ax buried under ahouse will keep witch es away and an axplaced among crops will protect theharvest against bad weather.

*** An s we r : Stanford does not have anofficial mascot. Their unofficial mas-cot is the Stanford Tree. From 1930 to1972, the mascot was an Indian, but that was dropped due to protest from

Native American students . Cal’s mascot is Oski the Bear, represented by a per-son in a bear costume. Prior to 1941,liv e bears were used as the mascot .

Know It All is by Kerry McArdle. It runs inthe weekend and Wednesday editions of theDaily Journal. Questions? Comments? Emailknowitall(at)smdailyjournal.com or call 344-5200 ext. 114.

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SAN MATEODisturbance . A man was arrested for hit-ting the wall with his hands on NorthFremont Street before 8:49 p.m. Sunday,March 15.Theft . Someone stole an elderly person’sdebit card and pain medication on Oak Streetbefore 11:46 a.m. Sunday, March 15.Burglary . Two vans were broken intobehin d Nick’s Deli on South El Camino Realbefore 11:04 a.m. Sunday, March 15.Strong arm robbery. A group of peoplewere stealing belongings at Beresford Parkon Alameda de las Pulgas before 8:40 a.m.Sunday, March 15.Suspic ious c ircumstances . A womancontacted police after one of her vehicleswas stolen and anoth er was found with s tick-ers inside of them at Chuckies on Via Vistabefore 9:31 p.m. Saturday, March 14.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCODisturbance . At least 15 gangmemberswere seen blocki ng a road with t wo vehicleson Eighth Lane before 3:16 p.m. Thursday,March 23.Disturbance . A student who was suspendedfor cyberbullying refused to go home withher guardians and was s een verbally arguingloudly at Alta Loma School on RomneyAvenue before 2:51 p.m. Thursday, March23.

Police reports

A bad startA couple were seen s tealing a pregnancytest and ot her items at a CVS/pharmacyon El Camino Real in South SanFrancisco before 10:02 a.m. Thursday,March 23 .

By Kristen J. BenderTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Seven San Francis co

poli ce officers accused of sending racist andhomophobic text messages have been sus-pended, and the police chief has recom-mended that they be fired.

Chief Greg Suhr announced Friday that hehas asked a police oversight committee toapprove firing the officers. Six others facedisciplinary actions that include reassign-ment to positions that don’t have contactwith the public. Another officer tied to theinvestigation already has resigned.

The text messages “are of such despicablethinking that those responsible clearly fallbelow the minimum standards required to bea poli ce officer,” Suhr said in a st atement.

But t he officers, who were not identified,violated department policy to varyingdegrees, Suhr said.

Two officers who sen t in flammatory t extswere reassigned and will have their casesconsidered by the police commission,which can hand down penalt ies up to t ermi-nation.

The remaining four officers did not sendtext messages that included “hate speech,”said Suhr, who will decide how to punishthem. He can s uspend an officer witho ut payfor up to 10 days.

Authorities say the texts targeting

blacks, Mexicans, Filipinos and gay menwere sent between 2011 and 2012. Theywere discovered by federal authoriti es in ves-tigating a former police sergeant, who wasconvicted of corruption and sentenced tomore than three years in prison.

Meanwhile, District Attorney GeorgeGascon said his office will review all casesgoing back 10 years that were linked to theofficers either by writing a report, submit-ting evidence or testifying in court.

City leaders have raised concern that anyprejudice by the officers could have led tounfair treatment, particularly in casesinvolving black defendants.

The San Francisco Police OfficersAssociation earlier issued a statement say-ing t he actions were not emblematic of indi-viduals it represents.

Seven San Francisco officerssuspended over racist texts

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The San Mateo County coroner has i denti-fied the man who died in a possi ble hi t-and-run motorcycle crash Thursday evening inSan Mateo as Hayward resident Larry Pack.

Pack, 53, was driving a Harley Davidsonon the connector ramp from southboundHighway 101 to eastbound State Route 92shortly before 6 p.m. when the bike crashedinto a concrete barrier, according to a

spokesman for the California HighwayPatrol.

The crash caused Pack to be ejected fromthe bike and propelled over the side of theramp and into a field of mainly dirt anddebris, CHP Officer Moises Escoto said.

Escoto said emergency personnel pro-nounced Pack dead at th e crash si te.

Escoto said witnesses initially said awhite Jeep or similar SUV may have beenpart of the reason Pack crashed, but those

witnesses now say the SUV was green. Thewitnesses said the SUV initially stoppedand then left the scene on eastbound StateRoute 92.

Escoto said the SUV might have damageto its right si de.

The collision closed the connector rampuntil shortly before 8:30 p.m., snarlingtraffic in th e area. Anyone with informationabout the crash is asked to call Officer MikeAquino at (650) 369-6261.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Police have arresteda man who viciously hit a San Franciscohomeless man in the skull with a metal pipeearlier this week.

Police arrested 35-year-old Arthur LeeJones of Fairfield Thursday night at thesame intersection where the attack hap-pened.

Police arrested Jones after an officer rec-

ognized him from surveillance video thatwas made public.

The attack occurred in front of a b ar in th ecity’s Tenderloin district on Wednesdaynight.

The homeless man’s name and age werenot released. He remains at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital in critical condition.

Officer Carlos Manfredi says the attackerhit the h omeless man so hard that the pipefell out of his hand.

Homeless man has skull smashed with pipe

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Police are investigating a robbery of acab driver in Daly Ci ty l ast Saturday.

Police said the suspects were picked up b ya cab in Daly City around 3 a.m. and weredropped off in the area of Clarinada Avenue.

One of the suspects gave the cab drivermoney b ut punched and robbed the cab driv-er when the driver making was makingchange for the suspects, police said.

The first suspect is described as aHispanic man in his 30s, about 185 pounds,6 feet tall, with brown hair, brown eyes andlight facial hair. He was wearing a graysweatshirt.

The second suspect is described as aHispanic man in his 30s, about 5 feet 5inches tall, about 150 pounds, brown hair,brown eyes and no facial hair. He was wear-ing a blue jacket.

Police said both suspects spoke Spanish.Anyone with information on the robbery

or the suspects is asked to call Daly Citypolice at (650) 991-8192 or (650) 222-9614.

Driver injured when vehicleoverturns on Highway 101

A driver suffered minor injuries in a sin-gle-vehicle rollover Friday morning onHighway 101 near San Francisco

International Airport, in unincorporatedSan Mateo County, according to theCalifornia Highway Patrol.

The driver was transported to SanFrancisco General Hospi tal on complain t of pain, according to th e CHP.

The incident was first reported at 9:03a.m., in volving an overturned 2007 Scionon t he 101 just south o f San Bruno Avenue,according to the CHP.

A Sig-alert was is sued at 9:1 9 a.m. for thefirst and second southbound lanes of thehighway, and all lanes of traffic had beencleared by 9 :51 a.m., according to t he CHP.

Three sought for armed robberyEl Guanaco Restaurant at 2950

Middlefield Road in unincorporatedRedwood City was robbed at gunpoint bythree men Thursday night, according to theSan Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.

At approximately 9:46 p.m., the threemen entered the restaurant and orderedemployees to open the cash register andremove cash. They also removed oneemployee’s personal property from herpurse, according to the Sheriff’s Office.The men fled on foot west on BerkshireAvenue but deputies on scene within about30 seconds did not locate them, accordingto t he Sheriff’s Office.

All three were armed with semi-automatichandguns. The first suspect was described as5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall, thin, withgloves, a black hooded sweatshirt, blackpants an d black shoes; t he second was 5 feet9 inches and 5 feet 11 inches, heavy build,black jacket, black hooded sweatshirt,white T-shirt and a dark mask; the third was5 feet 9 inches, thin, black hooded sweat-shirt, black pants and a dark mask.

Anyone with additional informationabout this crime is encouraged to cal sher-iff’s Detective Hector Acosta at (650) 363-4064 or via email at [email protected], you may also remain anony-mous by calling the San Mateo CountySheriff’s Office Anonymous Tip Line at(800) 547-2700.

Robbery in front of pizza placePolice are on the lookout for someone in

his late teens who took a backpack fromsomeone and punched her in the face infront of Little Caesars Pizza at 660Magnolia Ave. in Millbrae Thursday after-noon, according to the San Mateo CountySheriff’s Office Millbrae Bureau.

At approximately 4:15 p.m., the victimand a witness were walking in front of thepizza shop when the suspect came up frombehind and ripped her backpack from her

shoulder. She attempted to retrieve it butwas punched in the face and fell to theground. The suspect ran north and the wit-

ness ran after him but lost sight near GreenHills Park at 2 21 Ludeman Lane, accordingto police.

The suspect is described as being in hislate teens with short dark hair, cleanlyshaven and last seen weaning a black hood-ed sweatshirt with blue jeans, according topolice.

Anyone with information about thiscrime is encouraged to call the San MateoCounty Sheriff's Office Millbrae Bureau at(650) 259-2300.

Thousands more bikes couldhit San Francisco Bay Area roadsSan Francisco Bay Area riders could have

thousands more bicycles to share.City leaders hop e to ex pand the Bay Area

Bike Share program from 700 to 7,000rental bikes, including new bikes inBerkeley, Oakland and Emeryville by 2 017 .

The number of bikes in San Franciscowould jump from 328 to 4,500. San Josewould go from 129 bi kes to 1, 000.

Riders pay a membership fee to check outbikes for short rides, returning the bikes toself-locking kiosks. Trips longer than 30minutes incur overtime charges.Washin gton , D.C. , and New York City alsohave bike share programs.

The bay area bike pilo t prog ram launched

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HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah —Utah, check. One more state to go forPresident Barack Obama: SouthDakota.

Utah was the 49th state visited byObama and the latest stop on hi s recenttour of Republican “red” states.

Since Republicans took control of both houses of Congress in January,Obama has traveled to 10 GOP states:Arizona, Tennessee, Idaho, Kansas,Indiana, South Carolina, Alabama,Georgia, Kentucky and Utah, all of which voted for Obama rival MittRomney in 2012. Obama also has vis -ited nine states that voted for his re-election.

The White House says there is noconcerted effort to put the p resident i nRepublican states. “There are really

important, substantive reasons thatexplain the places we go,” WhiteHouse s pokesman Eric Schultz sai d.

After spending th e night in Salt LakeCity, Obama appeared on Friday at HillAir Force Base near Ogden t o ann ouncenew steps to support military veteransby training them for solar industry

job s. “A lot of o ur men and women inuniform at some point are going totransition into civilian life and wewant to make sure that after they’vefought for our freedom that they’v e got

job s to come home to ,” th e p residentsaid,

The departments of Energy andDefense are starting a program at 10military bases nationwide, includingat Hill Air Force Base, t o teach s ervicemembers who are transitioning out of the military how to install s olar pan-els.

The Energy Department h as commit-ted to training 75, 000 people, includ-

ing veterans, for solar industry jobsby 2020.

In terms of travel, Obama had visited46 states by the start of the year. TheWhite House quickly scheduled presi-dential appearances in Idaho and SouthCarolina — two of the four remainingstates — followed by Utah.

South Dakota now has the distinc-tion of being t he only state awaiting apresidential visit by Obama. With 21months left on his t erm, he has plentyof time to get there.

When he gets to South Dakota,Obama will become the fourth presi-

dent to hit all 5 0 states, according tothe White House HistoricalAssociation.

Richard Nixon was first, fol lowed byGeorge H.W. Bush and Bill Clint on.

Ronald Reagan came four statesshort of the goal.

George W. Bush never made it toVermont.

Utah 49th state for Obama,South Dakota still remains

Rocky Mountain snow offersscant encouragement to California

DENVER — Drought-weary Californians can’t expectmuch encouragement from mountains elsewhere in the West:Snow that fills the Colorado River is lagging, too, officialssaid Friday.

The snowpack in the Colorado and Wyoming valleyswhere the river origin ates now ranges from 51 to 79 percentof normal, said Brian Domonkos, Colorado supervisor of

the U.S. Department of Agriculture snow survey, which mon-itors s nowfall and water availability.The Colorado River supplies water to about 40 million

people and 6,300 square miles of farmland in seven states,including California.

The Rocky Mountain sn ow that melts into the river does-n’t flow directly to California and other downstream users.

Instead, it’s held in a series of reservoirs that releaseenough water to fulfill the legal allo tments to southwesternstates under a series of agreements and court rulings.

The reservoirs have sufficient water to prov ide Californiaand other downstream states with their full shares this yearand for the foreseeable future, said Matthew Allen, aspokesman for the federal Bureau of Reclamation, whichmanages the reservoir system.

Californians with century-oldwater rights face restrictions

SACRAMENTO — Farms and other Californians that havebeen shielded from water reductions because of century-oldclaims could face new restrictions, the State Water ResourcesControl Board said Friday.

It’s another sign of the rising severity of California’sdrought, now in its fourth consecutive year. Surveyors onWednesday found the Sierra Nevada snowpack containing

just 5 percent o f its no rmal water level, which makes it s wayinto rivers and streams and provides 30 p ercent o f the state’swater.

Thousands in California, mostly farmers but also citiesand energy companies, have rights to divert water for theirneeds, including irrigation and for hydroelectric dams. But if dry conditions continue through summer, they will likelyface restrictions on taking water, the b oard warned in a letter.

San Diego revenge-porn siteoperator sentenced to 18 years

SAN DIEGO — The California attorney general says a SanDiego man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison foroperating a “revenge porn” website and charging vi ctims toremove th e images.

Attorney General Kamala Harris said Friday that KevinBollaert’s s entence sho ws there are severe consequences forexploiting people online.

Bollaert was convicted in February of identity theft andextortion in San Diego Superior Court.

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Denise (Daley) BanksDenise (Daley) Banks of San Carlos, daughter of Charles

and Claire Daley, died peacefully March 28, 2015, at the ageof 62.

She was surrounded by family and friendsthroughout her year-long battle with can-cer and in her final days.

Denise was a loving mother, sister andgrandmother. She will be missed and sur-vived by her children Brian and Kristie

Banks, Shauna Banks and Jesse Gutierrez,Carrie Banks and Rob Davies; her grand-children Taylor and Brooke Banks, Jackand Cole Jaron, Robby and Mia Davies

and Addison Gutierrez (expected July 201 5). She was also sur-vived by her sibl ings Lynn and Wayne Ruggs, Kevin and NanDaley and Bill Daley. Denise was an employee of DignityHealth at Sequoia Hospital for over 20 years.

Services will be 10:30 a. m. Tuesday, April 7 at ImmaculateHeart of Mary Church, 1040 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmontwith a reception to follow at the Bay Club at 200 RedwoodShores Parkway, Redwood City. A vis itatio n will be 6 p.m.-8p.m. Monday, April 6 at Crippen & Flynn Carlmont Chapel inBelmont with a 7 p.m. rosary. In lieu of flowers, the familywould appreciate donations to the Melanoma ResearchSociety.

Barbara Joan ButlerBarbara Joan Butler, born March 2, 1951, died March 25,

2015, in San Mateo, California.She was 64.She was raised in North Shoreview and lived in the Bay Area

for most of her life. Babs is survived by her father, JohnBiehl; brothers Jerry, Frank, Kenneth, David and Michael.

She attended North Shoreview Elementary, College ParkMiddle School, graduated from San Mateo High School andlater attended College o f San Mateo and College of Marin. Shewas a paralegal for many years, an avid reader and passionateabout politics and human rights. Babs had many friends inBurlingame, San Mateo, Corte Madera and the Peninsula.When young she enjoyed Big Sur, California, with her familyriding t he pony, fishing and the beauty of the wilderness.

“She will be deeply missed by her family, friends, and thos ewho knew her.”

A memorial mass will be 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 10 at OurLady of Angels Parish, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. Inlieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to afoundation of your choice or any organization trying to find acure for cancer. Arrangements are under the direction of theChapel of the Highlands in Millbrae.

ObituariesS tudents from South SanFrancisco High Schoolparticipated in So c ia lJusti ce Educatio n Day on Friday,March 20, at St . An th o n y ’sDin in g Ro o m in San Francisco.

The 40 students helped two seniorcenters distribute clothing to theneedy, and serve 2,400 meals.

** *Ell a Brennan , a s ixth -grader at

St. Mattews Catholic School ,attended the National YoungLeaders Conference.

The conference, which b eganThursday, March 26 in San Jose, willhelp st udents build leadership sk illsand strategies that are critical forsuccess in t he 21st century.

** *Serra Hig h Scho ol raised

$7,350 and packed 28,000 meals for

needy peop le of San Mateo Countyand Nicaragua on March 23.

The effort was a collabo rationbetween the scho ol and GenerationAl iv e , a nonprofit organizationlaunched by San Francisco

Giants relief pitcher JeremyAffeldt .

** *Anthony Bellanti , of San

Mateo, Kevin Gray , of Belmont,Evan Isenste i n-Brand , of Pacifica, Michelle Karpish in , of San Mateo, will participate in theUpwind Summer Scho larshi pProgram.

The four students have been select-ed to particip ate in a primary flighttraining program that begins withground school in April and conti nueswith flight training once the academ-ic school y ear is completed.

Class notes is a column dedicated to schoolnews. It is compiled by education reporterAustin Walsh. You can contact him at (650)344-5200, ext. 105 or at [email protected].

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Pope Francis leads the ‘Via Crucis’ (Way of the Cross) procession, which commemorates thecrucifixion of Jesus Christ, at the Colosseum in Rome.

By Frances D’EmilioTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROME — Pope Francis, presiding at thetraditional Good Friday Colosseum proces-sion, decried what he called the “complicitsilence” about the killing of Christians.

The evening, torch-lit ceremony at theancient arena recalls the s uffering and deathof Jesus by crucifixion.

After listening silently, often with headbowed and eyes tightly shut, to reflectionsread aloud about Jesus’ suffering, Francispressed what lately has been an urgent con-cern of his papacy — the present-day mar-tyrdom of Christians in parts of the MiddleEast, Africa and elsewhere.

“We see, even today, our brothers perse-cuted, beheaded and crucified, for their faithin yo u, in front of our eyes or often with ourcomplicit silence,” he said, as he prayed.

A few hours earlier, Francis had con-demned the deadly attack by Islamic mili-tants targeting Christians at a Kenyan uni-versity. Earlier this year he denounced themurder in Libya of 21 Coptic Christians byIslamic State-affiliated militants, sayingthey were slain simply for being Christian.And he has lamented how Christians in parts

of the Middle East have been forced to fleetheir ancient communities to escape perse-cution.

Among those chosen to take turns carry-ing the lightweight, slender cross in theprocession were faithful from Iraq, Syria,Nigeria, Egypt and China.

One of the prayers during the processioncalled for the “fundamental right of reli-gious freedom” to spread throughout theworld.

In another reflection, a lector said “ourconscience is troubled. We anxiously ask:When will the death penalty, still practicedin many states, be abolished?” There wasalso an ap peal for the end of all to rture.

Tens of thousands of tourists, pilgrimsand Romans held candles as they joined inthe prayers on a warm night.

Pope Francis presides over GoodFriday procession at Colosseum

By Alicia ChangTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Don’t blink. There’s atotal eclipse of the moon Saturday — andit’s an unusually short one.

If there are clear skies, the 3 1/2-hourspectacle is visible from start to finishfrom the western U.S. and Canada where itoccurs before dawn. Skygazers in theMidwest and East Coast only get part of thelunar sho w.

The eclipse can also be seen in its entire-ty Saturday night from eastern Australia,New Zealand and Japan. Europe and Africaare shut out.

Things to know about the celestial attrac-tion:

HOW LONG IS THE TOTAL ECLIPSE?NASA calculates the total eclipse — the

moment when Earth’s shadow completelyblocks the moon — at only five minutes.Using a different model, the U.S. NavalObservatory put it at about 12 minutes. Ineither case, it’s the sh ortest lunar eclipse of the cent ury.

On the west coast of North America, thetotal eclipse — what astronomers call total-ity — b egins sho rtly before 5 a.m. PDT.

WHY SO BRIEF?In this case, the moon skims the upper

part of Earth’s shadow. If the moon passesthrough the middle of the shadow, theeclipse lasts l onger.

WHY A “BLOOD MOON”DURING THE ECLIPSE?

“Blood moon” refers to its orange or redappearance — the result of sunlight scatter-ing off Earth’s atmosphere.

Whether the moon appears dark red, cop-per, bronze or another shade depends onseveral factors including the amount of vol-canic ash in the atmosphere.

“That’s what makes lunar eclipses sointeresting,” said Geoff Chester of the U.S.Naval Observatory in Washington.

WHEN IS THE NEXTTOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE?

The next full eclipse of the moon occurson Sept. 28 and will be visible across theU.S. an d Canada, as well as western Europeand Africa. Totality will last a little over anhour.

IS SPECIAL EQUIPMENTNEEDED TO WATCH?

Unlike solar eclipses which require eyeprotection, you only need clear skies toview a lunar eclipse. A pair of bin oculars orbackyard telescope will enhance your view,but they’re not necessary.

“Get a comfortable chair ... and just lookup,” said Mitzi Adams, an astronomer atNASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center inAlabama.

Brief total lunar eclipseto grace the sky Saturday

“We see, even today, ourbrothers persecuted, beheaded and crucified, for their faith in

you, in front of our eyes or oftenwith our complicit silence.”

— Pope Francis

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Barack Obama significant ammunition for the fight he’llface selling an agreement to skeptical U.S. lawmakers andMiddle East all ies.

That is, if negotiators can get to that p oint over the nextthree months.

As Obama said from the White House, “Their work, ourwork, is not yet done and success is not guaranteed.” Andthe parameters for a comprehensive accord by June 30 stillinclude big holes for Washington and its negotiating part-ners.

The limits are vague on Iran’s research and developmentof advanced technology that could be used for producingnuclear weapons. Inspectors still might not be able to enterIranian military sites where nuclear work previously tookplace. The Americans and Iranians already are bickeringover how fast economic sanct ions on Iran would be relaxed.And Obama’s assertion that the penalties could always besnapp ed back int o force is undermined by the U.S. fact sheetdescribing a “dispute resolution process” enshrined in theagreement.

But the biggest issue may be one U.S. officials haveemphasized above all ot hers: th e “breakout time” Iran wouldneed to surreptiti ously produce a nuclear weapon . The frame-work imposes a combination of restrictions that wouldleave Iran needing to work for at least a year to accomplishthat goal, rather than the two-to-three months currently.

Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have cited thelonger breakout period as proof they’ve secured a “gooddeal” and say the one-year window is enough time for theU.S. to detect a covert Iranian push toward a bomb and torespond.

That standard would hold only for a decade, however. Overthe fol lowing five years, it’s unclear how far Iran’s n uclearprogram would be kept from the bo mb. And after the 1 5-yeardeal expires completely, there appear to be no constraintsleft to speak of — something congressional opp onents andIran’s region al rivals Israel and Saudi Arabia poin t to as evi-dence of a “bad deal.”

“This deal would pose a grave danger to the regio n and tothe world and would threaten the very s urvival of th e State of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after anIsraeli cabinet meeting Friday. “In a few years,” he said,“the deal would remove the restrictions on Iran’s nuclearprogram, enabling Iran to have a massive enrichmentcapacity that it could use to produce many nuclear bombswithin a matter of months.”

These matters and many more will now be weighed by aCongress that has watched impatiently ov er 18 months of negotiations. Republicans are almost universally op posedto Obama’s diplomatic effort; Democrats are divided.Together they’ll look at two possible pathways for con-gressional intervention.

The first would give lawmakers an up-or-down vote on adeal, something Obama may be amenable to despite pastopp osit ion. He stated his confidence Thursday in bein g ableto demonstrate that an accord will advance U.S. and worldsecurity, and said his aides would engage Congress on howit can “play a constructive oversight role.”

The second potential congressional action is more risky:imposing new sanctions on Iran’s economy. That could endthe diplomacy altogether by jeopardizing the basic formulafor a final pact: removal of Western sanctions in exchangefor stricter nuclear limits.

But Obama has more working in his favor n ow than he didlast year when the negotiations twice missed deadlines.Even then, his administration managed to hold off congres-sional pressure.

This week’s deal would compel Iran to cut in half th e num-ber of centrifuges it has spinning uranium. No bomb-mak-ing material could be fed into machines at a deeply buriedunderground facility that may be impervious to air attack.Advanced centri fuge models would be disconn ected. A heavywater plant would not be all owed to produce weapons-gradeplutonium. Inspections would increase.

And the lon g-term arc of Iran’s nuclear activit y could wellargue for continued diplomacy.

The administ ration and oth er supporters of the agreementnote t hat in the years Washing ton refused to talk to Tehran,demanded that Iran stop all enrichment and sought a totaldismantlement of its nuclear facilities, the Iranians expand-ed from several dozen centrifuges to a capacity of 20,000.They establi shed a secondary si te at a fortified underground

bunker. They began enriching uranium to levels just belowweapons-grade.Since November 2013, Iran is operating only 9,000 cen-

trifuges and that number is to drop to just over 6,000. TheIranians aren’t producing any high er-enriched uranium any-more and are to ship out or neutralize most of their stock-piles. The threat of a plutonium bomb seems settled at leastfor now.

The Iranians say they don’t seek nuclear arms, with theirprogram focused only on energy, medical and researchobjectives. Iran will “remain loyal and stand by promises,”President Hassan Rouhani said Friday.

Obama and his top advisers don’t believe the Iranians onthat front. But they say the agreement makes Iran’s claims atleast verifiable and does far more than s anctions or militaryaction t o ensure Iran doesn’t assemble an atomic arsenal.

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IRANand brandishing a knife received med-ical attention.

It’s the second time this year SanMateo County law enforcement faced apotentially deadly crisis situationinvolving someone in psychologicaldistress and officials are ho peful spread-

ing awareness will continue the trend.San Mateo County officials areexpanding their efforts to educate firstresponders on how to effectively inter-act with so meone in psycholog ical dis-tress through crisis intervention train-ing and developing a new responderprogram.

Sheriff’s deputies were called to theMoonridge Apartment Complex in Half Moon Bay around 11:30 a.m. Saturdayon reports of a teenager in crisis whosefamily was concerned she may hurt her-self with a knife or jump from a second-story window. Deputies determinedthere was no immediate threat to thesafety of family members or respondingpersonnel and she was ultimately trans-ported to the hospital, according t o theSheriff’s Office.

Officials were pleased to ann ounce thesituation was resolved peacefully, par-ticularly as it contrasted with the deathof 18-year-old Yanira Serrano-Garcia atthe same apartment complex last June.

Serrano-Garcia was sh ot and killed bya sheriff’s deputy who responded to theMoonridge Apartments and encounteredthe young woman brandishing a knife.Serrano-Garcia, who had schizoph renia,was reportedly killed within 20 secondsof deputies arriving on scene.

The San Mateo County DistrictAttorney later determined the deputyacted in self-defense.

“I definitely think there’s a signifi-cant increased awareness of those situa-tions and a real commitment to trying t oavoid these kinds of things that hap-

pened in the earlier MoonridgeApartment incident,” said StephenKaplan, director of the county’sBehavioral Health and RecoveryServices. “So I’m really pleased thatthere’s such a strong commitment in thecounty and police departments andSheriff’s Office and oth ers.”

Crisis trainingA collaboration between the county’s

Health System, Sheriff’s Office and

National Alliance on Mental Illnessputs on Crisis Intervention Training forfirst responders such as law enforce-ment, police dispatchers, paramedicsand security guards. There is typically awaitlist for the 40-hour-program andthis year the county is expanding tothree training sessions, said sheriff’sDeputy J im Coffman.

The county h as also committ ed to cre-ating a new psychiatric emergencyresponse team comprised of Coffman,as the law enforcement liaison, and a

licensed clinician, Kaplan said.The pilot program should begin in the

coming months as the new clinician andCoffman are working on protocol,Kaplan said.

Coffman said he first took specialtytraining through the San Jose PoliceDepartment in 1999 and learned itsvalue after having worked for Palo Altopolice downtown. “We encounteredmentally ill people all the time and atthe time, it gave me a different perspec-tive on their plight in life. They are suf-fering from an ill ness just like s omeonesuffers from cancer or liver disease.Except that they’re out in the world andthey’re interacting with you and me.And me especially, since I am in lawenforcement,” he said. “They call me

when they g et in crisis situations so allthe CIT training gave me other ways inwhich to deal with them, help them andcalm the situation, control the situationso they can get the help they n eed.”

San Mateo incidentAnother recent success story came

after a five-hour standoff between SanMateo police and an allegedly suicidalman who paced in front of his h ouse andpointed a gun at officers Feb. 4. The SanMateo County Mental Assessment andReferral Team, SMART, was called toassist the incident in the 19thAvenue/Park neighborhood. TheSMART van l iaiso n con tacted the man’smental health professional to get infor-mation that assisted in de-escalating the

situation.Coffman said those who are found in a

mental health crisis are typically trans-ported via the SMART van or an ambu-lance; a small but significant differencein protocol.

In the old days at his former agency,Coffman said, “we would take the p ersonto the hos pital in th e back of a patrol carand looking at that, I see that’s proba-bly a li ttle cheaper, but treating th is asthe medical condition t hat it is, I think

it s tarts o ut as a more therapeutic ride tothe hospital as opposed to in the backof a caged poli ce car.”

Timing and circumstancesCoffman said the county typically

sees nearly one 5150 case, or a personwho is placed on a 72-hour psychiatrichold, per day. But it’s the incidentswhen law enforcement and those in cri-sis collide that gain attention, Kaplansaid.

Yet even with all the training in theworld, Coffman and sheriff’s DeputyRebecca Rosenblatt said timing and cir-cumstances ultimately dictate out-comes.

In the case of last weekend’sMoonridge Apartment call, Rosenblattsaid none of the respon ding deputies hadundergone the county’s specialty train-ing, but they likely recollected theSerrano-Garcia confrontation.

“I think it was a thought in theirminds. Obviously everybody was awareof this incident and in responding,hoped this would not be that again. Butagain, you can only do so much andsometimes the parameters of the situa-tion are what they are,” Rosenblatt said.

Deputies took proactive steps to easethe situation by turning off lights and

sirens when they got closer to the callso as not to alarm the young woman andthey spoke with her family to explainwhat was going on and get a better senseof how to respond, Rosenblatt said.

Program expansionCoffman and Kaplan said they were

pleased to h ear the woman received helpand are seeking opp ortunities to expandthe voluntary CIT program.

State officials are also picking up onthe sign ificance of promoting s pecialtycourses and legislation proposed bystate Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, wouldrequire peace officers to undergo moreextensive training for dealing with peo-ple with developmental disabilities ormental illness.

In the meantime, Kaplan said hehopes to continue to find other ways toextend educational opportunities,including mini-trainings for those whomay not have time for the 40-hour CITcommitment. For now, he’s glad to seethe crisis interventions in San Mateoand Half Moon Bay ended with peoplereceiving help.

“These last two situations are just theway we want to go,” Kaplan said. “So Ithink we’re on a good path.”


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By Nasser KarimiTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’sPresident Hassan Rouhani onFriday pledged that his nati on willabide by its commitments in thenuclear agreement reached the pre-vio us day in Switzerland.

Rouhani also called on worldpowers to fulfill their part of thedeal, a reference to further liftingof sanctions imposed on Tehranover the controversial nuclearprogram.

“Everything we promised in thenuclear talks .. . we will remainloy al (to) and stand by our promis-es,” Rouhani said in a speech tothe nation about the frameworkagreement. Iranians “do not seekto deceive” the international com-munity, he added.

After a week of grueling negoti -ation s, Iran and the six world pow-ers announced a series of under-standings on Thursday on how tocurb Iran’s nuclear program. Theyface a June 30 deadline for a finaldeal that is meant to cut signifi-cantly into Iran’s bomb-capabletechnology while giving Tehranquick access t o ass ets and marketsblocked by international sanc-tions.

The deal was met with criticismby Iranian hard-liners but wasoverwhelmingly backed by theestablishment.

Iran’s Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarif, whonegotiated the agreement inLausanne, Switzerland, received ahero’s welcome upon his arrivalback to Tehran on Friday.

Crowds of cheering supporterssurrounded Zarif’s vehicle andchanted slogans supporting himand Rouhani. One of the chantsalso offered sarcastic “condo-lences” to both Israel and to thehard-line Kayhan newspaper,which has opposed the negotia-tions from the start.

Zarif tried to reassure Iraniansthat t he country’s nuclear programwill continue but said any negoti-ation requires gi ve and take. “It isnot supposed to be one partyreceiving all the concessions andthe other party surrendering,” hesaid.

Zarif also expressed his grati-tude for the support of Iran’sSupreme Leader Ayatollah AliKhamenei and said Thursday’sunderstandings will be a “base fordrafting the final agreement,” in

July.If implemented, the deal will

substantially pare back someIranian nuclear assets for a decadeand restrict o thers for an addition-al five years. It would be the first

significant success for the UnitedStates and its partners in morethan a decade of diplomatic effortsfocusing on capping Tehran’snuclear advance.

Like Zarif, Rouhani also sought

to reassure Iranians that the coun-try will con tinue to enrich uranium— something it has always insist-ed was for p eaceful purposes o nlybut which the U.S. and its alliessuspected was a cover for pursuingnuclear arms.

“Our enrichment and entire

nuclear technology is onl y for thedevelopment of Iran,” Rouhanisaid. “It will not be againstregional countries or against theworld.”

A new chapter of “cooperationwith the world” will begin whenthe final deal goes in to effect afterJuly, Rouhani added.

“Some think we have no o ptionexcept to fig ht th e world or to sur-render. But there is a third way,too. We have to have cooperationwith the world,” sai d Rouhani.

Iranian hard-liners claimed theagreement was a bargain for theWest and a disaster for Iran.

“We gave up a race-ready horseand we got in return a broken bri-dle,” Hossein Shariatmadari, aKhamenei adviser and Kayhan’schief editor, tol d the semi-officialFars news agency.

Another conservative analyst,Mahdi Mohammad, referred to theFordo underground uraniumenrichment facility and told thenews outlet th at under the deal, “adisaster happened in Fordo.”

As part of the Lausanne under-standings, Iran agreed to stopenrichment at Fordo and changethe facility to a nuclear researchcenter.

Another member of the negoti-ating team — Ali Akbar Salehi,the head of Iran’s atomic agency

— said, “I see the future verybright and shining. ”Ahmad Tavakkoli, a prominent

conservative lawmaker, wrote aletter to Rouhani on Thursday,saying the agreement needs ratifi-cation by the country’s conserva-tive-dominated parliament.

But supporters of the negotia-tion s have claimed that the nucleartalks have been conducted underthe direct supervision of Khamenei, and therefore don’trequire parliamentary approval.Khamenei, who has final say onall state matters, h as not made anypublic comment on t he deal.

Iran president: Nation will abide by nuke de

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Secretary of State John Kerry, second left, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, second right, and staff watch a tablet in Lausanne as Barack Obama makes a state address on the status of the Iran nuclear program talks.

By Bradley Klapperand Matthew LeeTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Food boxesstrewn across the floor. Theespresso machine constantlybuzzing in the background.Sleepless nights punctuated bylong talk sessions in different

rooms on different floors.Physicists occasionally catnap-ping, heads on table.

No, thi s wasn’t a college cramsessi on for a major exam. It wasthe scene at one of Switzerland’s finest hotels asU.S. diplomats worked hourupon hour to reach a landmarknuclear deal with Iran this week.

For America’s diplomats, thesessions included lots of roomservice and messy brainstormingsessio ns. And if the pressure was-n’t enough, there was Secretaryof State John Kerry poppin g intothe room to pull individuals asideor tell them to accelerate theirefforts, according to U.S. offi-cials, who weren’t authorized tospeak publicly about behind-the-scenes in teractions and demandedanonymity.

Kerry, too, exhausted himself in sealing the framework dealthat outlines how Iran wouldscale back its nuclear programand how the U.S. and its negoti-ating partners would roll backsanctions crippling the Iranianeconomy. Those steps are contin -

gent on si x nations and Iran fol-lowing the framework up with acomprehensive accord by the endof June.

From the start of Marchthrough Thursday’s break-through, Kerry spent 19 days inthe Swiss cities of Geneva,Lausanne an d Montreux n egoti at-ing with the Iranians. For muchof that time, the Europeans,

Chinese and Russians stayedaway or sent lower-level offi-cials. Kerry and Iranian ForeignMinister Mohammad Javad Zarif spent more than 10 h ours togeth-er in one-on-one sessions.

The last round of discussionsbegan March 26 with the goal of wrapping up work within fivedays.

Food on floor, catnaps as Kerry and company seal deal

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End of robust hiringstreak raises doubtsabout job marketBy Josh Boak THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — For months,the U.S. economy’s strength hasbeen flagging.

Manufacturing slowed. Fewerhomes were built. Cheaper gasfailed to ignite consumer spend-ing. Yet month after month ,employers kept on hiring vigor-ously.

In March, the economy’s slumpfinally overtook the jo b market.

Employers added just 126,000workers — the fewest sinceDecember 2013 — snapping a 12-month streak of gains above

200,000. At the same time, theunemployment rate remained at5.5 percent.

The slowdown reported Fridayby the Labor Department posed apuzzle to economists:

Was the tepid job gain a tempo-rary blip due mainly to a harshwinter and an economy adjustingto much lower oil prices?

Or did it mark a return to t he mid-dling performance that’s definedmuch of the nearly 6-year-oldrecovery from the GreatRecession?

No one will know for sure untilthe government’s monthlyemployment reports later thisspring help gauge the direction of the job market. That leaves theU.S. economy — until veryrecently the envy of other indus-trialized nations — facing a

renewed sense of uncertainty.“We knew less than we thoughtwe did,” said Tara Sinclair, aGeorge Washington Universityprofessor and chief economist atIndeed, the job-posting web site.

The optimistic view is thatmuch of the weakness will pass.An unseasonably cold March fol-lowed a brutal winter that slowedconstruction and other key sec-tors. A since-resolved dispute atWest Coast ports might havebriefly disrupted trade.

Last month’s subpar hiringcould make the Federal Reserveless likely to start raising interestrates from record lows in June, assome have been anticipating. The

Fed might now decide that theeconomy still n eeds the benefit of low borrowing costs to generatehealthy growth.

Reflecting that sentiment, go v-ernment bond yields fell Friday.The yield on the 10-year U.S.Treasury not e dropp ed to 1.8 4 per-cent from 1.90 percent before the

jo bs report was released. U.S.stock markets were closed inobservance of Good Friday.

Many companies appear to betaking a cautious approach.

“Employers aren’t laying peo-ple off,” noted Patrick O’Keefe,director of economic research atthe accounting and consultingfirm CohnReznick. “What they’vedecided to do is slow down thepace at which they’re hiring untilthey have more confidence.”

Last month, the manufacturing,

building and government sectorsall shed workers. Factories cut1,000, snapping a 19-month hir-ing streak. Construction job s alsofell by 1,000, the first drop in 15months. Hiring at restaurantsplunged from February. The min-ing and logging sector, whichincludes oil drilling, l ost 11,0 00.

Some other categories managedto extend their gains. Health careadded 22,000 workers.Professional and business servic-es — a sector that includeslawyers, engineers, accountants

and office temps — gained40,000. Financial servicesexpanded by 8,000, and retailersmaintained their 12-month pace

by adding 25, 900.In addition to reporting slug-

gish h iring for March, the g overn-ment revised down its estimate of

job gain s i n Feb ruary and Januaryby a combined 69,000.

Wage growth remained modestin March as it has for the past sixyears. Average hourly wages rose7 cents to $24.86 an hour. Thatmarked a year-over-year payincrease of just 2.1 percent. Butbecause average hours worked fellfor the first time in 15 months,Americans actually earned less on

average than t hey did in February.Many Americans remain out of the labor force, partly becausemany baby boomers are reaching

retirement age. The percentage of Americans either working orlooking for work fell in March to62.7 percent, the lowest such ratesince 1978. That trend illustratesthat one reason the unemploy-ment rate is low is that many peo-ple without jobs are no longerseeking work and so aren’t count-ed as unemployed.

The Fed signaled last month thatit would gradually raise rates fromrecord lows. March’s weak hiringcould delay an increase untilSeptember or l ater.

“I think (June) is completely off the t able,” said Carl Tannenbaum,chief economist at the financialservices compan y Northern Trust.

REUTERSBarack Obama, second left, greets employees on a tour of the software development company InDatus inLouisville, Ky. Obama is making the stop at Indatus to highlight his TechHire jobs initiative.

Tesla 1Q new vehicledeliveries rise 55 percent

Tesla’s first-quarter new vehicledeliveries climbed 55 percent from ayear earlier to more than 1 0,000 cars.

The electric vehicle maker saidFriday th at it has decided to reportthe number of new car deliverieswithin three days of quarter’s endgoing forward because “inaccuratesources of information are some-times used by others to project thenumber of vehicle deliveries. ”

Tesla Motors Inc. said that thedelivery fig ure is o nly one measureof its financial performance andshouldn’t be relied on as an indica-tor of its quarterly financialresults.

Business brief

By Justin PritchardTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — A tentativecontract agreement that restoredthe flow of international tradethrough West Coast seaports earli-er this year took a big step closerFriday to becoming official, asrepresentatives of the dockwork-

ers’ union overwhelmingly recom-mended that rank-and-file mem-bers vote to approve the deal.

Difficult contract negotiationsnearly closed 29 seaports from SanDiego to Seattle, causing majordelays in the delivery of billionsof dollars of imports and exports.

Negotiators for theInternational Longshore andWarehouse Union reached the ten-tative, five-year deal in Februarywith companies that run the mas-sive ships and sprawling marineterminals which are integral totrans-Pacific trade.

This week, a caucus of 90 uniondelegates met in San Francisco tostudy the offer in detail.

On Friday, 78 percent of dele-gates voted to urge the broadermembership to approve the con-tract, the union said in a state-ment. The contract covers about20,000 workers but only 13,000have voti ng right s. Votes are cast

by mail and will be talli ed May 22,the union said.

The tentative agreement resto redlabor peace on the West Coastwaterfront, which handles about$1 trillio n of trade each year.

At the height of the dispute,three dozen ships stacked withtens of thousands of containerswere anchored outside the twinports of Los Angeles and LongBeach, awaiting space at already

jammed docks. On Friday, therewere 13 vessels, according to theMarine Exchange of SouthernCalifornia.

The executive director of thePort of Los Angeles estimated in

February that the traffic jam wouldtake several months to clear.

The Pacific MaritimeAssociation, which representsshipping lines and port terminaloperators, called the caucus vote“an important endorsement ... anda critical step forward,” in a writ-ten statement.

Neither the union nor the mar-itime association has publiclyreleased a copy of the cont ract.

In a letter to his members justbefore the final agreement inFebruary, association PresidentJames McKenna outlined what hecalled employers’ “last, best andfinal” offer.

Reps for West Coast dockworkers urge union to OK contract

Francisco Negri, head guidancecounselor at Woodside HighSchool, echoed those sentiments.

He said when deciding where toenroll, students should focus lesson name recognition, and more onwhether a school offers the t ype of programming that interests themand grants the clearest path to grad-uation in a field about which theyare passion ate.

“The message for students is tochoose a program that meets theirneeds, rather than go where theirfriends are going, or pick a school

just because it has a goo d name,” hesaid.

In the case in which a studentdoes not get accepted into theirschool of choice, or is not

afforded the opportunity tochoose between preferredoptions, Negri said it is impor-tant to consider attending a com-munity college.

He said community coll eges offerstudents a lo w-cost op portunity tocomplete general education require-ments, while gettin g anoth er crackat applying to their school of

choice.“Students can rewrite their script

and put their bes t foot forward com-ing o ut of community college,” hesaid.

He likened the path of a studentwho uses the opportunity grantedby community college to gainacceptance to their school of choice to the commute from thePeninsula to San Francisco — thereare a variety of routes, some morecircuitous than o thers, but they alllead to the same destination.

“Community college is a good

route, and an absolute avenue forstudents to get in to the schoo l thatthey want,” he said.

Suzanne Poma, counselor andtransfer center coordinator atSkyline College in San Bruno,agreed, and added attending a com-munity college can offer a studentmore time to grow their field of interest before committing to a

major at a university.She said Skyline offers programs

to many students who may nothave succeeded in high schoolbecause of prohibitive life circum-stances, such as family or jobrequirements, and community col-lege can provide them anotheropportunity to refocus o n t heir edu-cation.

“Sometimes a student may get anew sense of belonging and confi-dence that they may not have hadduring high school, ” she said.

Alex Guiriba, a counselor and

recruiter at College of San Mateo,concurred and also noted thethreshold for gaining acceptance tothe University of California sys-tem is l ower out of community col-lege than it is high school.

“By going th e transfer route ... itmakes accessing these schools alot easier,” he said.

Beverley Madden, spokes-woman for College of San Mateo,said many students do not realizethe opportunities afforded tothem by the community collegesystem, because of the stigmaattached to attending a schoolother than four-year universityout of high school.

She said it is important to educatestudents, but also, and especially,parents about alternatives in high-er education .

Kleeman said parents need toacknowledge the role they can playin influencing their student’s

notions about which school theyattend.

She encouraged parents to besupportive, regardless of whichcourse their student takes throughschool, and reminded them not tocast aspersions on takin g the routeless traveled.

“I think we need to think aboutthe words that come out of ourmouths before we speak,” she said.

It is also important though forparents to remind their studentsthat successes as well as failures arepart of building character, she said.

“Too many adults are saying ‘oh,you poor thing ,’ but I’m not goingto go there,” she said. “I’m sympa-thetic to a degree, but excited aboutthe rest of the positive options outthere.”

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By Genaro C. ArmasTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INDIANAPOLIS — Reading a box scoreisn’t always the best way to measure guardJosh Gasser’s impact on a Wiscon sin g ame.

Not unless the stat sheet also includesdrawing charges, diving for loose balls andcareening head-first toward the sideline tosave a loose ball.

Meet the Badgers’ “glue guy.”The senior is someone who “helps us win

basketball games, makes plays that a lot of people don’t necessarily see that reallychange the course of the game,” teammate

Frank Kaminsk y sai d.For all the attent ion deservedly h eaped on

Kaminsky, Gasser has had just as much o f animpact during Badgers’ two-year run of Final Four appearances.

The other national semifinalists havethose guys too. Often, it’s someone likeGasser who doesn’t need the attention lav-ished on a star like Kaminsky.

The definitio n of a glue guy could changedepending on the makeup of a team. Onshort-han ded Duke, there’s more than on e of those guys.

Sometimes, it’s someone who is more of an experienced scorer. On other teams, a

glue guy could be a freshman.The common quality is that they do a lot

of the little things besides score, whetheron or off the floor.

A look at Gasser and other glue guys towatch in th e Final Four on Saturday:

WisconsinGasser averages 6.9 points a game,

though he is also 40 percent shooter from3-point range.

But he’s most valued as Wisconsin’s b eston-ball defender, typically drawing theassignment of trying to shut down a team’sbest scorer.

Gasser sli des int o the g lue guy role effort-lessly, even though the high school scorerhad to adjust once he arrived in Madison.The goal was to do “anything I could to geton t he court,” Gasser said.

“The reason I came to Wisconsin was sothat I could win games, win championshipsand compete in championships,” Gassersaid. “This year, we’ve definitely done that,and I think the wins speak for themselves,and I think that’s the proudest thing I havefrom my career.”

‘Glue guys’ who could make a difference in Final Four

NATHAN MOLLAT/DAILY JOURNALCarlmont’s Vinny Bologna watches his first-inning, two-run homer during the Scots’ 3-1 winover Menlo-Atherton Friday afternoon in Belmont.

By Nathan MollatDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

The baseball teams in the PeninsulaAthletic League’s Bay Divis ion are so even-ly matched, Carlmont manager Rich Vallerobelieves as l ong as a team doesn’t get sweptby anybody, they have a chance to make arun at a division title.

So the Scots were under a lot of pressureFriday afternoon when they hosted Menlo-Atherton, after the Bears had beaten

Carlmont 4 -3 o n Tuesday.A two-run blast from sophomore VinnyBologna and a gutty pitching performancefrom Ryan Giberton translated into aCarlmont 3-1 victory, assuring the splitwith M-A.

“If they win [Friday], they’re 3-3 andwe’re 4-4,” Vallero said. “We separated our-selves a little bit (with th e win).”

Much lik e the first meeting Wednesday inwhich the teams combined for seven hits,Friday’s game was a pitcher’s duel betweenGiberton and M-A starter Kody Conrad.

Both starters went five innings — withGiberton allowing only one run on threehits and Conrad giving up three runs on sixhits.

It was the Carlmont offense, h owever, th attook advantage o f Conrad’s mistakes. There

were only a couple, but the Scots made thempay each time.The first came in the first inning whenBologna turned on a 0-1 offering and hit atowering home run over the 325-foot signin left-center field to drive in Julian Billot,who had walked to lead off the bott om of th efirst and moved to second on an AaronPleschner groundout.

Off the bat, it appeared the ball might betoo hig h to get o ut, but it just kept carryingand the M-A center fielder, who appeared tohave a bead on it, finally gave up the chaseas he ran into the outfield fence as the balllanded just on the oth er side.

“He’s an unbelievable t alent, ” Vallero saidof Bologna, who as a sophomore is alreadyin his second varsity season. “He has all thetool s. He’s already on pro g uys’ radar.”

It was th e third game in a row in which th e

Scots earn split with M-A


RANCHO MIRAGE — Lydia Ko slashedout of the left rough on the par-4 13t h holeand watched her ball bounce up on the ele-vated green, curl to the right and settle 15feet from the pin.

Maybe this was her day after all. Backunder par for the round after a birdie on the

par-5 11th, the 17-year-old New Zealanderwas in position for another birdie and acushion in her bid to break the LPGA Tourrecord for consecutive rounds under par.

Instead, th e putt circled the cup and cameback at her. Five holes and two bogeyslater, she signed for a streak-ending 1-over73 o n Friday in the ANA Inspi ration.

“After that 360 horseshoe, everything

kind of turned around,” Ko said. “I wouldhave never th ought it would do a whole cir-cle around the hole. That’s harder to do th anholing that putt.”

Needing a birdie on the par-5 18th toextend the streak to 30, Ko hit her secondsho t int o the water after catching a flyer outof the right rough on her layup attempt.

“I just hit a three-quarter 6-iron, ” Ko said.

“I would have never guessed that I wasgoing t o hit a 6-iron 19 0, no t even if I wasLexi (Thompson). Obviously, that was thewrong club at the end of the day, but Ithought even if it flew out of there, it wouldhave at least stop ped.”

After a penalty drop, her fourth shot

Ko’s under-par streak ends at 29 at LPGA’s first major

By Josh Dubow THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN JOSE — With each win, the challengeof getting back to the playoffs gets slightlymore realistic for the San Jose Sharks even if they still need plenty of outside help to getthere.

Logan Couture and Joe Pavelski scored inthe opening 5 minutes and the Sharks held on

for their fourth win in five g ames, 3-1 over theArizona Coyotes o n Friday night .“We talked a while ago about playing well

and putting a string of wins together and seewhat happens,” coach Todd McLellan said.“The guys have done a goo d job. I don’t th inkthey’re getting too far ahead. I don’t think wefeel any more comfortable now than we did aweek ago. We shouldn’t. We still need a lot of help.”

Matt Nieto added an insurance goal late forthe Sharks, who moved within three points of Los Angeles and Winnip eg in the race for thefinal wild-card spo t in the Western Conference.The Kings and Jets each have one g ame in handover San Jose, which is trying to make theplayoffs for an 11th straight season.

“We put ourselves in th is p osition, ” Couturesaid. “We have no one to blame but ourselves

that we’re in the position we’re in now. Wecan’t change anything. We can’t go back andwin games that we lost. We can only win thegames that are ahead of us. So that’s what we’retrying to do.”

Antti Niemi made 20 saves in his return froman illness that forced him to miss the past twogames.

Mark Arcobello scored for th e Coyotes, whohave lost 2 3 of 27 g ames and have not won inregulation since Feb. 3 in Columbus. LouisDomingue made 34 saves.

Arizona remained two points ahead of Buffalo, which has the worst record in theleague and currently the best chance to win thedraft lottery.

“They’re a team with lots to play for and wedidn’t execute under pressure,” coach DaveTippett said. “We didn’t match their despera-

tion.”

Sharks keep theirplayoffs hopes alive

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FORT MYERS, Fla.— The Minnesota Twins spent $55 mil-

lion on Ervin Santana to bring some much-needed talent andexperience to their beleaguered starting rotation.Now, thanks to an 80-game suspension for testing positive

for a banned substance, the Twins will be without theirbiggest offseason acquisition for half the season. And theirpitching staff has become a major question mark once again.

Santana was suspended by Major League Baseball on Fridayafter testing positive for the perform-ance-enhancing substance Stanozolol.

“It’s disappointing. It’s difficult,”Twins GM Terry Ryan said. “We had a fair-ly decent spring. Now we’ve got toregroup here and hopefully it won’t affectus as we move forward.”

In a statement released through theplayers’ union, Santana said he was sur-prised by the news but does not plan toappeal. New to the Twins this year, he’llmiss the first half of the season.

This was the third penalty for a positive Stanozolol testreported by MLB in the last eight days, following Seattlepitcher David Rollins and Atlanta pitcher Arodys Vizcaino.

A person familiar with the penalties told The AssociatedPress that MLB will look into whether there’s a commonsource to the three cases. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation i s not finished.

Santana signed a four-year contract with the Twins afterpitching last season with Atlanta and was slott ed in the No. 2spot behind Phil Hughes in a rotation that has been amongthe worst in the majors the last four years. The 32-year-oldrighty will lose $5,901, 639 of his $13. 5 million salary thisseason.

Twins pitcherfails drug test

Ervin Santana

By Ben WalkerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Now this was definitely a deep rotatio n.In manager Joe Girardi’s office at spring training, the

March calendar was posted on a big whiteboard. Inside eachbox, he wrote the initials of the starting pitcher that day.

At one point, the succession of New York Yankees armsstretched past a week: Chase Whitley, Chris Capuano,Masahiro Tanaka, Adam Warren, Michael Pineda, EsmilRogers, Nathan Eovaldi, CC Sabathia.

Eight games, eig ht different starters.OK, maybe not so strange in exhibition play. Still, in t his

era when big league teams are trying to protect their pi tchersfrom tight triceps, twisted shoulders and Tommy John sur-gery, could it be t ime to cons ider a six-man rotatio n?

“In a perfect world, it ’s something that’s a great concept,”Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said.

“You hear many times the interest level in having a six-man rotation, and there’s a lot of positives from that,” hesaid. “But it ’s hard to pull off.”

For more than t hree decades, a five-man rotation has beenthe s tandard in t he majors. The Los Angeles Dodgers oftenare credited with doing it first, in th e early 1970s with a staff that, in fact, included Tommy Jo hn.

Over the years, th ere have been exception s.Jim Tracy tried a four-man rotation — with a 75 -pitch l imit

— for a while with Colo rado in 2 012. The Rockies set a fran-chise record for losses and Tracy lost h is jo b.

In 2011, Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillenbriefly went with a six-man rotation . His team finis hed witha losing record and he, too, was gone.

Truth is , mos t teams have trouble finding j ust a few solidstarters. And keeping them healthy, that’s a whole otherstory.

Yu Darvish and Zack Wheeler already are out for the sea-son, Cliff Lee and Justin Verlander are ailing, Matt Harveyand Jose Fernandez are coming back after major surgery.Plenty more on those list s.

Could an extra starter mean extra rest and a diminished

workload, and po ssib ly fewer injuries?“There’s no guarantee that a six-man rotation, for exam-

ple, which implies fewer innings pitched with more days off,is go ing to have any impact on certain cases,” Mets generalmanager Sandy Alderson said soon after Wheeler’s damagedelbow was diagnosed.

“Six-man rotations, more days off, more spot starts bypitchers in your minor league system, t here are lots o f waysit can be addressed,” h e said. “But ultimately so me elbowsare going t o break down and some are not.”

To Toronto knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, a six-man setup“would certainly cut down wear and tear on pitchers.”

“But it’s hard enough to find five starters right now thatcan do the job. It’s very difficult to start. I think that wouldmean giving some of your best guys less opportunity tohelp win games, and I don’t think anybody is going to dothat, ” he said.

Put Baltimore opening day starter Chris Tillman in thatcamp.

“It’s li ke the more off days you have, t he rustier you get,”he said. “We did it a li ttle bi t last year. At first it g ot t o me alittl e bit. I wasn’t a fan, b ut we pitched well, and we kind of got it going, so you can’t hate it. If it was my preference, Iwould not have it. ”

Even so, the idea of six starters is “a very strong trend,”St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said.

“There are a lot of p itchers, o urs in cluded, t hat don’t lik ethe thought of it at all. But this game is constantly evolv-ing,” he said.

Change certainly doesn’t come swiftly on t he field.It took more than 100 years before pronounced defensive

shifts became commonplace. The concept of on e-out reliev-ers or pitchers batting eighth or five-man rotations alsotook a while.

In 1971, 13 pitchers made at least 38 starts, with MickeyLolich leading with 45 (and 376 innings).

No one has made as many as 37 st arts in the majors si nceGreg Maddux in 1991. Dickey and Tillman were among 10pitchers who t ied for the major league lead with 34 s tarts lastseason.

Could six-man rotationsbe in baseball’s future?

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NEW YORK — Los Angeles Angels outfield-er Josh Hamilton will not be disciplined byMajor League Baseball for his latest problemsinvolving cocaine and alcohol. Team officialsresponded by saying they were surprised anddisappointed.

Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto said hedisagrees with the ruling by an arbitratorappointed under MLB’s joint drug program withthe players’ association. MLB said earlierFriday that it disagreed with the ruling.

Hamilton, a five-time All-Star and the 2010AL MVP, has played poorly during the first twoyears of his five-year, $125 million contractwith the Angels, who still owe him $83 millionin salary over the next three years.

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