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The residential real estate markettypically heats over the summer,but after years of a sizzling homesales industry along t he Peninsula,some local mon ey lenders are sens-ing a cooldown on the horizon.

But others see current low inter-est loan rates and the chance to buy

into a Bay Area market histo ricallyinsulated from wild fluctuations inthe national economy as a uniqueopportunity.

Uncertainty regarding the sus-tainability of the ongoing eco-nomic boom has caused more to puttheir house up for sale, for fear of missing the chance to strike while

the market remains hot, accordingto so me lenders.

“I think a lo t of peopl e are start-ing to realize that if you are goingto sell something, do it before itdrops,” said Rich Wachter, of Wachter Investments inBurlingame.

Homes for sale are staying on themarket longer, bidding is not ascompetitive as it has been and

inventory numbers, though low,are gradually creeping up, accord-

ing to Wachter, who identified thetrends as potential signs of anindustry t urning.

“I just thi nk th at I see a softeningin th e market,” he said.

Ted Yamagishi, a broker withSpinner Mortgage in San Mateo,expressed a similar sentiment.

“The bubble is losing its air,” he

said. “I think it is at an all-timehigh.”

Pete Scattini, a home loan man-ager with Bank of America,acknowledged the signs as poten-tial symptoms of a slowdown, butoffered an alternative perspective.

“I have heard those rumblings,yet I’ve seen no visual evidence,”he said. “The jobs and growth thatseems to b e occurring i n and around

Money lenders sense slowdownAnxiety, nervousness cited by some, others see current low interest loan rates as opportunity

By Samantha WeigelDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Now more than a decade in themaking, one of the state’s largesttransit-oriented developments isnearing completion and welcom-ing new tenants with BayMeadows announcing this weekBlue Bottle Coffee and Tin Pot

Creamery will be the first retailofferings at the 83-acre site.

The former race and practice

tracks have been completelytransformed with the second por-tion of the 160-acre site known asPhase II currently under develop-ment and new tenants signing up

Retailers sign upfor Bay MeadowsDeveloper considers how to maketransit-oriented project successful

By Austin Walsh

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The San Mateo-Foster CityElementary School District’sEducation Foundation is under new

leadership, with a vision to rein-

vigorate the fundraising organiza-tion supplementing enrichmentprograms for local students.

New spirit invigorateseducation foundationNew fundraising group leader eyessponsoring enrichment programs

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Todd Marks will literally blow you away at the San Mateo Maker Faire with his invention ‘Vortex Smoke RingBlaster’ which blast a ball of air and smoke toward the crowd. The Maker Faire continues 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdayand 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. For more information or to purchase tickets visit http://makerfaire.com/bay-area/.

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The company that providesbicycle sharing at no cost toRedwood City will no l onger do sofor free and city officials will h aveto decide whether to start payingfor the service or ditch it in favorof a lon g-term solution.

Bay Area Motivate is t he current

operator of bike share programs inSan Francisco, San Jose,Mountain View, Palo Alto andRedwood City.

It installed the kiosks and pro-

vides the powder blue bikes at nocost to the city. Motivate, howev-er, will not continue the service inMountain View, Palo Alto andRedwood City starting June 30unless they pay for it.

The cost to Redwood City wouldbe about $160,000 a year.

City staff recommends that theCity Council vo te against contin-

uing the service and work withSamTrans and the other two citiesto create their own bike share sys-tem.

Last year, Palo Alto, Mountain

View, Redwood City, the ValleyTransportation System andSamTrans formed a collaborativeworking group called “PeninsulaPartners” to explore other bikeshare solutions.

The working group will look athow other cities implement simi-lar programs such as San Mateo.

San Mateo’s pilot bike share

program, which uses differenttechnology and pricing, launchedin May 2016 and is scheduled to

Bicycle sharing program may endRedwood City considering longer-term solution

Artist rendering of Town Square, an active, mixed-use plaza with indoor andoutdoor amenities expected to open in 2017, according to Bay Meadows.

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This Day in History

Thought for the Day

1927Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spiritof St. Louis monoplane near Paris,completing the first solo airplaneflight across the Atlantic Ocean in 331/2 hours.

“Being frustrated isdisagreeable, but the real disasters of

life begin when you get what you want.”— Irving Kristol, American writer

Sen. Al Franken,D-Minn., is 65.

Actor JudgeReinhold is 59.

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The gutted Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, currently known as Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome, is seenafter the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, in this handout photo taken by U.S. Army.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs around 60. Southwestwinds 5 to 10 mph.Saturday night: Mostly cloudy. Aslight chance of showers in the evening.Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10mph.Sunday : Mostly cloudy. Highs in thelower 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph .Sunday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.

West winds 5 to 1 5 mph.Monday : Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.Monday nig ht through Friday: Mostly cloudy. Lows inthe lower 50s. Highs in t he mid 60s.Friday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.Highs in the mid 60s.

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In 1471 , King Henry VI of England died in the Tower of London at age 49.In 1542 , Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died whilesearching for gol d along t he Mississi ppi River.In 188 1 , Cl ara Barton founded the American Red Cross.In 189 2, the o pera “Pagliacci,” b y Ruggero Leoncavallo,premiered in Milan, Italy.In 1924, in a case that drew much notoriety, 14-year-oldBobby Franks was murdered in a “th rill k ill ing ” carried outby University of Chicago s tudents Nathan Leopold Jr. andRichard Loeb (Bobby’s cousin).In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to flysolo across the Atlantic Ocean as she landed in NorthernIreland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland.In 1941, a German U-boat sank the American merchant

steamship SS Robin Moor in the South Atlantic after theship’s passengers and crew were allowed to boardlifeboats.In 194 5 , actors Humphrey Bogart, 45, and Lauren Bacall,20, were married at Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio (it was hi sfourth marriage, her first, and would last until Bogart’sdeath in 19 57).In 1959 , the musical “Gypsy,” inspired by the life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, opened on Broadway with EthelMerman starring as Mama Rose.

During his presidential cam-

paign in 1840, the opponentsof Martin van Buren (1782-

1862) said he “wallowed in raspber-ries,” which meant he lived withshocking extravagance.

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The name of the prince in th e Disneymovie “Cinderella” (1950) wasPrince Charming.

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The prince in the 1937 Disney movie“Snow White” had a minor role andwas never referred to by name.

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In the 1812 fairy tale “Little SnowWhite,” by the Brothers Grimm, adaughter was b orn th at was “as whiteas sno w, as red as blood and as black

as ebony wood,” so she was namedSnow White.

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About one in every 17,000 peoplehas Albinism. Their bodies do notproduce melanin. Albinos have little

or no pig ment in their ski n and hair.***

People with albinism always havevision problems, because of abnor-mal development o f the retina.

***The Latin prefix for the word white isalba. The word albedo refers to thepercentage of light an ob ject reflects.A perfectly white reflecting surfacehas an albedo of 1.0, a black absorb-ing s urface has an albedo of 0. 0.***

The color white is made up of all col-ors.***

Clouds are made up of water dropletsand ice crystals. The water and icereflect all colors equally. The colorscombined make clouds appear white.

***Do you know what the words n imbo-stratus, altocumulus and cumulonim-bus describe? See ans wer at end.

***A barometer measures atmosphericpressure. A rain gauge measures theamount o f rainfall and other forms of precipitation. An anemometer meas-ures wind speed in miles per hour.These are all too ls used by meteorol-ogists.

***The first weather satellite waslaunched into orbit in 1960. Thesatellite, called TIROS (TelevisionInfraRed Observational Satellite)drastically changed the ways weather

was forecast.***

The Weather Chan nel debuted in 1982and was available in 9 millionhomes. Today, The Weather Channelreaches more than 87 million cablesubscribers.

***In 19 85, The Weather Channel devel-oped the “Weather Star” system thatenabled them to gather all of theNational Weather Service’s local datainto their headquarters in Atlanta,

Georgia. With thi s development, TheWeather Channel could send localizedweather reports and forecasts to cablestations within minutes.

*** Ans wer : They are all types of clouds. There are four basic cloud classifications: stratus, cumulus, cir-rus and nimbus. Stratus clouds arehorizontal, layered clouds. Cumulusclouds are large and puffy. Cirrusclouds are thin and an altitude above20,000 feet. Nimbus clouds are rainclouds. The words for the four basiccloud descriptions can be combined to describe every type of cloud. Luke

Howard (177 2- 18 64 ), an Eng li shchemist and pharmacist, established the cloud classifications in 1803.

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Rhythm-and-blues singer Ron Isley (The Isley Brothers) is75. Rock musician Hilton Valentine (The Animals) is 73.

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3Weekend • May 21-22, 2016 THE DAILY JOURNAL LOCAL

BURLINGAMESuspicious person . A man, under theinfluence of a controll ed substance, was seen

standing in the middle of the road with hispants down n ear El Camino Real and HowardAvenue before 10:33 p.m. Wednesday, May18.Intoxicated. An intoxicated person wasseen throwing up at a bus sto p on El CaminoReal before 9:59 p.m. Wednesday, May 18 .Petty theft . Someone stole alcohol from astore and fled on Burlingame Avenue before9:1 3 a.m. Wednesday, May 18 .Reckles s driv er. A reckless driver wasdriving on the wrong si de of the road near ElCamino Real and Burlingame Avenue before8:2 4 a.m. Wednesday, May 18 .

BELMONTVandalism. A student put Vaseline on ateacher ’s car on Alameda de las Pulgas befo re11:59 a.m. Tuesday, May 17 .Disturbance . Juveniles put bricks in themiddle of the street near Hiller Street andMarine View Avenue before 3:17 p.m.Monday, May 16.Accident. The driver of a gray ToyotaCamry backed into a gray Ford Taurus on ElCamino Real before 10:16 a.m. Monday,May 16.Disturbance . A driver and someone wereseen arguing after the person yelled to thedriver to slow down on Chesterton Avenuebefore 7:49 p.m. Wednesday, May 11.

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By Daniel MontesBAY CITY NEWS SERVICE

The recreational Dungeness crab fisheryis now open along the entire Californiacoast after the California Department of Fish and Wildlife anno unced Friday th at th elast remaining stretch of coast has opened.

An area stretching from the Humboldt Bay

to the Reading Rock State MarineConversation Area was opened to the fish-ery, after the Office of EnvironmentalHealth Hazard Assessment recommendedthat the CDFW and the Fish and GameCommissio n lifted the closure, according toCDFW officials.

The area was the last remaining clo sure forthe Dungeness crab fishery, according toCDFW officials.

The commercial fishery for that areareopened Thursday mornin g, with a presoakperiod starting Monday at 8:01 a.m.

The recreational Dungeness crab seasonin Del Norte, Humboldt and Mendocinocounties will close July 30. In the countiessouth of Mendocino, the recreational

Dungeness crab season will close June 30,CDFW officials said.

While the commercial and recreational

rock crab fisheries are open along thestate’s coast south of Santa Cruz County,the commercial and recreational rock crabfisheries remain closed north of Santa CruzCounty and also in an area of state watersbetween Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Island,which is located in the Channel Islands.

The opening of the areas for theDungeness crab fisheries follows months of closure due to an algal b loom o ff the PacificCoast, which caused high levels of domoicacid to accumulate in the crabs, makingthem unsafe for human consumptio n.

The Dungeness crab season in Californiawas originally set to start in November,however, the CDFW decided to delay t he sea-son indefinitely after the neurotoxin

domoic acid was detected in the crabmeat.

In February, the state Department of Fishand Wildlife moved to allow recreationalcrab fishing south of Point Reyes, but con-tinued the closure of the commercial season.

The season’s cl osure, ho wever, caused anestimated $48 million in losses to theindustry, state officials said back in

February.In March, U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San

Rafael, along with U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier,D-San Mateo, announced legislation thatwould provide more than $138 million indisaster assistance funding for Californiafishermen and businesses hurt by the clo-sure of the commercial crab season.

The legislation, called the CrabEmergency Disaster Assistance Act of 2016 ,would provide $138.15 million in assis-tance to Dungeness and rock crab fishermenand related businesses. Funding for th e leg-islation is contingent on U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker declaring thestate’s crab fishin g in dustry a disaster and acommercial fishery failure.

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By Paul EliasTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — First, police fatallyshot two minority suspects carrying knives.Then transcripts surfaced showing officersusing racial slurs in text messages. Finally, ayoung black woman was shot dead as policetried to pull her from a stolen car.

The woman’s shooting death Thursday wasthe tipping point for San Francisco MayorEd Lee, who forced Police Chief Greg Suhr tostep down after months of mounting pres-sure.

The new chief inherits the daunting task of turning around a troubled department in a city

deeply divided by race — and doing it fast.

“Reforms, reforms,reforms,” acting PoliceChief Toney Chaplinsaid Friday when askedabout his priorities.

Chaplin, who is black,is a 26-year veteran of the department. UntilThursday, he was adeputy chief in charge of implementing Suhr’s

reforms. Previously, Chaplin was a lieu-tenant in charge of homicide investiga-tions.

The 47-year-old Oklahoma native said heintends to carry on with p lans to equip offi-

cers with bo dy cameras.

“It’s not going to solve everything, butit will gi ve us another look at what’s hap-pening, hopefully from the officer’s per-spective,” Chaplin said.

He said he will also continue to push forseveral reforms aimed at cutting down onthe number of officer shootings, such asgiving suspects armed with knives “timeand distance” to surrender rather than hav-ing officers pull their guns and shoot.

New San Francisco police chief inherits city divided by race

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San Mateo County is one of three coun-ties in California that provides health carecoverage to all chi ldren regardless of immi-gration status through a local Healthy Kidsprogram. The state’s implementation of full-scope Medi-Cal gives all children in

California health coverage and allows SanMateo County residents enrolled in HealthyKids to transition into a statewide programfunded by the s tate.

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Services Agency and Health Plan of SanMateo have provided health cov erage to thecounty’s youngest and least advantaged res-idents through Healthy Kids since 2003.

Healthy Kids will continue to supportchildren whose families are not eligible forMedi-Cal so they will still have health cov-erage.

“After month s of h ard work preparing ourfamilies for this transition, we’re thrilled

that the health of our most impacted chil-dren is put first and families can rest ass uredthey’re covered,” Wil Lobato, communityhealth advocate with San Mateo CountyHealth System’s Health Coverage Unit,

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Belmont man fallsvictim to secret shopper scam

Belmont police are warning of the latestscam involv ing email th at snared a 69-year-old man, who lost $3,400 .

On Tuesday, the man came to the PoliceDepartment to report h e had been the vict imof a scam. He told officers he had receivedand email asking him if he wanted to be a“Secret Shopper,” and be paid to use mer-

chants an d services and rate them. The emailclaimed to come from “National ShoppingService Network,” according to p olice.

After agreeing to participate, the victimreceived a cashier’s check in the mail with

instructions to deposit it in his checkingaccount and then use two different wire serv-ices to send money to a person oversees, sohe could rate the two companies’ service.After doing this, a second cashier’s checkarrived and he deposited that check into hisaccount. Before he received any more“assignments,” the man received noticefrom his bank that both cashier’s checkswere fraudulent and the bank was takingback the funds, according to police.

The Belmont police would like to remind

the public to be wary of any unsolicitedemails. While there are legitimate secretshopper companies, they require you go totheir website to sign up and never solicitvia email.

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million si gnatures on Friday backing his bid to ask v otersto approve new ways to reduce California’s prison popula-tion, a spokesman said.

Brown wants v oters in November to increase credits thatallow adult inmates to get out of priso n more quickly an d toallow earlier parole for non-violent felons. The measure“will give voters a chance to improve public safety by pro-viding incentives for people to turn their lives around,”campaign sp okesman Dan Newman said in an email.

CDC: Violation found in80 percent of pool inspections

ATLANTA — A government survey h as found at leas t o neviolation i n nearly 80 percent of public pool and hot tubinspections from 2013 in five states.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says itanalyzed more than 84,000 inspections of nearly 49,000public venues in Arizona, Californi a, Flo rida, New York andTexas, the five states with the most public pools.

The CDC says 1 in 8 inspections resulted in immediateclosure because of serious health and safety violations.

State unemployment rate down to 5.3 percentLOS ANGELES — California’s unemployment rate

decreased to 5. 3 percent in April, down from 5. 4 percent in

March and 6. 5 percent a y ear earlier.The state Employment Development Department alsosaid Friday that nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 59,600to a total of more than 16.3 million during the April.

The U.S. unemployment rate in April remained unchangedat 5 percent.

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SACRAMENTO — California’s non-partisan legisl ative analyst said Fridaythat he expects budget surpluses in each

of the next four fiscal years, rejectingGov. Jerry Brown’s projection of abudget deficit i f voters don’t renew tem-porary tax increases on th e rich.

The Democratic governor last weekprojected deficits in three of the nextfour budget years that would reach $1.7billion in 2018-19 and $4 billion thenext year, when the Propositi on 30 taxhikes fully expire.

While he refused to t ake a posit ion onextending the taxes, a question votersare likely to decide in November,Brown warned that budget cuts would beinevitable if they lapse.

Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor’scontradictory analys is projects s urplus-es of $3.8 billion in 2018-19 and $1.8billion the following year. Both pro-

jections ass ume there is no recession.Taylor’s more optimist ic projections

are based on estimates of both higherrevenue and lower costs than the gover-nor’s Department of Finance forecast.His anticipated costs for so cial serviceprograms are $4 billion less thanBrown’s in 201 9-20.

Proposition 30 raised tax rates forincomes above $250,000 by one to

three percentage points through 2019.Supporters said last week that they’returning in nearly 1 million signaturesin support of asking voters inNovember to retain the income taxhikes for an additional 12 years.

A temporary quarter-cent sales taxincrease would expire as scheduled atthe end of this year.

The legislative analyst did reduce hissurplus projections compared with ear-

lier reports after the state committed tosignificantly more spending in futureyears. Lawmakers raised the minimumwage to $15 an hour, which is expectedto cost the state $3.6 billion a yearonce fully implemented. Employeecompensation costs are also expectedto rise after corrections officers wonconcessions that are likely to bematched for other union bargaininggroups.

Analyst rejects Californiagovernor’s deficit projection

Gov. Jerry Brown last week projected deficits in three of the next four budget yearsthat would reach $1.7 billion in 2018-19 and $4 billion the next year, when theProposition 30 tax hikes fully expire.


LOS ANGELES — Commuter lightrail extended across metropolitan LosAngeles to t he Pacific on Friday for the

first time since the 1950s.The opening of the 6.6-mile final

leg of th e Expo Line connected seasideSanta Monica to downtown LosAngeles and Metro lines stretching asfar inland as s uburban Azusa, some 4 0miles from the coast.

The mileston e fulfills a decades-longdream of public officials and transit

fans, and its symbolic value is undeni-able. Its true test, however, will bewhether it can shake up the commutingstatus quo in s prawling and automot iveLA. The Los Angeles County

Metropolitan TransportationAuthorit y s ays t he ride from downtownLos Angeles t o Santa Monica will take48 minutes. That may hardly soundspeedy for a 15-mile trip, but the near-ly constant congestion of Interstate10, the usual car route for the trip , canoften take just as long or longer.

An Expo Line train burst through a

banner before the route opened tocrowds of riders at no on.

“From the skyline of downtown tothe shoreline of th e Pacific, this Expoline connects this city for the first

time in 63 years,” said Los AnglesMayor Eric Garcetti.

Frequent Metro rail passenger AnwarMarcus said his last job was in SantaMonica, and to get there from the eastside of Los Angeles he would take theExpo Line to its previous terminus inCulver City then ride his bike fourmiles to work.

L.A.-area light rail now reaches from distant suburbs to sea

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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday approved its$1.1 billion plan to combat the Zika virus, setting the stagefor difficult negotiations with House Republicans over howmuch money t o devote to figh ting the virus and whether to cutEbola funding to h elp pay for it .

The 68-30 vote added the Zika measure to an unrelatedspending bill and follows party-line passage of a separate$622 mill ion House bil l on Wednesday. The White House hassignaled that President Barack Obama would accept the Senatecompromise measure but has issued a veto threat on the Housebill, saying it doesn’t provide enough money.

The Zika virus can cause severe birth defects and can bespread by mosquitoes and sexual contact. The most recent st a-tistics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saymore than 500 p eople in the cont inental U.S. have contract-ed the virus. So far, U.S. cases are travel-related but it is fearedthe vi rus will spread more widely as mosquito season heats up.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director TomFrieden said in an i nterview with the Associated Press that theHouse measure is “just not enough” and would hamper theCDC’s ability to monitor women and babies with the virusover coming years, fight the mosquitoes th at spread it, anddevelop better diagnostic tests.

Vin Diesel, Chanel spark cultural backlash in CubaHAVANA — “Fast and Furious.” U.S. cruise ships. A star-

studded private celebration of Chanel.The triple tsunami of global capitali sm that pounded social-ist Cuba this month has spawned a fierce debate about thedownside of detente with the United States. Artists, writersand intellectuals who believe deeply in Cuba’s opening to theworld are questioning their government’s management of anonslaught of b ig-money pop culture.

On an island that prides itself on egalitarianism, sover-eignty and its long record of outsize accomplishments in thearts, many are openly critiquing opaque deals with multina-tional corporations seeking picturesque backdrops for carchases and summer frocks.

“The essence of th e thin g is t hat we’re a country with a par-ticular histo ry that h as a particular culture. We have to b e con-scious of those values and keep them in mind when it’s timeto negotiate,” said Graziella Pogolotti, an 84-year-old cultur-al critic who wrote a long editorial in state media calling fordeeper thinking about Cuba’s dealing with internationalentertainment brands.

Transgender woman: Guardkicked me out of women’s restroom

WASHINGTON — Police have ch arged a security g uard withassault after a transgender woman says the guard kicked herout of a women’s restroom in a Washington, D.C., supermar-ket.

According to an incident report, a woman told policeWednesday that a guard at the Giant Food store told her shecouldn’t use the restroom, and pushed her to the exit. Thirty-two-year-old Ebony Belcher told WRC-TV that t he guard said“You guys” can’t use “our women’s restroom.”

“They did not pass the law yet.”Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said 45-year-old

Francine Jones was charged with simple assault, which i s list -ed on the report as a suspected hate crime.

By Ben NuckolsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — A U.S. SecretService officer shot a man with a gunwho approached a checkpoint outsidethe White House on Friday afternoonand refused to drop his weapon, theSecret Service said.

The White House was briefly placedon a security alert after the shooting,which happened within view of sight-seers as sidewalks were crowded withfamilies, school groups and govern-ment workers.

The armed man approached thecheckpoint on E Street shortly after 3p.m. , and ig nored repeated orders from

the officer to drop his gun, accordingto a statement from David Iacovetti, aSecret Service deputy assistant direc-tor.

The officer fired one s hot at the manand the gun was recovered at the scene,Iacovetti said. The man was transport-ed in critical condition to a nearbyhospital, an emergency medical serv-ices spokesman said.

President Barack Obama was awayplaying golf, but Vice President JoeBiden was in the White House complexand was secured during the lockdown,his office said. The security alert waslifted about an h our later.

The gunman never made it i nside theWhite House complex, and no one else

was injured, the Secret Service said.A U.S. law enforcement o fficial said

Friday evening that authorities hadidentified the gunman as Jesse Oliveriof Ashland, Pennsylvania.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official wasnot authorized to release the informa-tion.

Federal agents found ammunitioninside a Toyota sedan, parked nearbyon Constitution Avenue, that the gun-man was believed to have driven, theofficial said.

Sightseer Jenna Noelle of Austin,Texas, said she had just taken a photoof the White House when she no ticed aman harassing an agent.

Secret Service shoots manwith gun near White House

By Sean Murphy


OKLAHOMA CITY — OklahomaGov. Mary Fallin on Friday veto ed leg-islation to make it a felony for doctorsto perform an abortio n, a measure thatwould have effectively outlawed theprocedure in th e state.

In vetoing the measure just a dayafter the Legislature passed it, Falli n, aRepublican who opposes abortion,said it was vague and would not with-stand a legal challenge.

“The bill is soambiguous and sovague that doctorscannot be certainwhat medical cir-cumstances wouldbe considered ‘nec-essary to preservethe life of the moth-er,”’ Fallin said.

“While I consis-tently have and continue to support are-examination of the United StatesSupreme Court’s decision in Roe v.Wade, this legislation cannot accom-

plish that re-examination.”The bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen.

Nathan Dahm, said the measure wasaimed at ultimately overturning theU.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decisionthat legalized abortion nationwide.Dahm said he was con sidering whetherto try to override the governor’s veto,which would require a two-thirdsmajority in each chamber, a threshold

it did not meet in the House when itfirst passed. The bill p assed on a 33-12vote in the Senate with no debate onThursday; it passed 59-9 in the 101-member House on April 2 1.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Donald Trump onFriday slammed Hillary Clinton as “heart-less” for backing restrictions on gun own-ership that h e said would leave Americans i nhigh-crime areas unable to protect them-selves. He also challenged Clinton to fol-low his lead and release a list of potentialSupreme Court nomin ees.

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DENVER — Gabriel McArthur is headingto the Democratic National Convention inJuly to serve as a delegate for BernieSanders. Screaming and shouting are a dis-tinct possibility from the Sanders camp atthe event, he says.

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As these super-fans chant “Bernie orbust,” Democratic officials are growingincreasingly worried about dissent, espe-cially after a recent state convention inNevada turned raucous. Some of the Sandersbackers who are going to the convention as

delegates for him — and th ere are more than1,400 — give party officials little reasonfor comfort.

“I don’t think we’re going to see a lot of violence, but we are going to see somescreaming and shouting if the DNC doesn’thumanize itself,” McArthur, a 24-year-oldadministrative assistant in suburbanDenver, said of the Democratic NationalCommittee. “A little civil disobedience isOK. It’s part o f being an American.”

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BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forcesfired tear gas and gunsho ts i n the air ashundreds of anti-government protest-ers stormed Baghdad’s heavily securedGreen Zone on Friday. Several demon-strators, mostly supporters of powerfulShiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, werewounded as the crowd rushed the primeminister’s office and the parliamentbuilding.

The violence prompted Iraqi PrimeMinister Haider al-Abadi to impose acurfew in the country’s capital but itwas lifted just a few hours later. Byevening, the protesters were clearedfrom the Green Zone compound.

Earlier in the day, crowds of mostlyyoung men gathered outside the Green

Zone walls, with their numbersswelling into the thousands. This ledsecurity forces to push through thecrowd on foot, firing volleys of teargas in an effort to push the peop le backfrom the gates. The violence quicklyescalated. The protesters who made itinto the Green Zone rushed toward theprime minister’s office and the parlia-ment building. Some posted jubilantphot ographs from ins ide the premier’soffice on social media sites.

An Associated Press reporter at thescene saw several protesters badlywounded and one was shot in the head.Ambulances weaved through the crowdto ferry away those hurt. Al-Sadr’smedia office said two protesters werekilled in the clashes. Hospital andpolice officials said at least 106 pro-

testers were wounded, five seriously.The officials spoke on condition of anonymit y as th ey were not authorizedto release the information. Al-Sadrreleased a statement condemning thegovernment’s use of force againstunarmed protesters Friday, saying hesupports the “people’s revolution.”

Friday’s events “cannot be acceptedand tolerated” al-Abadi said referring tothe prot ests and Green Zone breach in aspeech broadcast on state run TV lateFriday night. Al-Abadi referred to theprotesters as “sneaking elements” whowere allied with the Baath party and IS.

“Chaos is not good for the country,”Al-Abadi warned, as it distracts fromthe fight against IS and the currentwave of terrorist attacks in and aroundBaghdad.

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U.S.: Iraq on course todefeat Islamic StateBy Robert BurnsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TAJI, Iraq — The to p American general for th e Middle Eastsaid Friday he is confident that Iraq is o n course to defeatingthe Islamic State, but his words were spare and cautious, his

tone notably muted.Gen. Jos eph Votel, the new head of U.S. Central

Command, spent th e day consultin g with U.S. and Iraqi mil-itary officials and visiting a base north of Baghdad that istraining Iraqi army combat units.

“They are gettin g bett er,” he told reporters later, referringto hi s broad assessment of Iraq’s progress after the stunningcollapses in 2014-15 that ceded large swaths of territory tothe Islamic State in the north and west. “That said, there isstill a lot left to do.”

Noting the Iraqis’ recent battlefield successes, includingthe recapture of Ramadi late l ast year and their retaking thisweek o f Rutba, a s trategic cross roads i n western Iraq, Votelsaid he sees momentum developi ng and Iraqi confidence ris-ing.

“I think their readiness is improving,” he said, adding, “Ithink they’re getting a better handle on t he challenges thatthey face.”

The backdrop to this assessment is a persistent question

not v oiced explicitly by Votel but suggest ed by h is carefuldescription of progress in rebuilding the Iraqi army. Thequestion is: If, as U.S. commanders expect, Iraq eventuallypushes IS off its territory, will a divided government inBaghdad be capable o f sustainin g t hat s uccess and wardingoff yet another collapse?

The question recalls what h appened after President BarackObama pulled all U.S. forces out of Iraq in December 2011 .In the vi ew of many U.S. o fficials, th e Iraqi forces who theUS had trained for several years were allowed to atrophyamid sectarian mismanagement in Baghdad. When IslamicState fighters swept into Mosul in June 2014, the Iraqiforces collaps ed.

Votel, who has headed Central Command for about sev enweeks, came to Iraq to get an up-close look at the U.S.-ledinternational campaign against the Islamic State. At itscore, that campaign depends on the Iraqi security forcesgenerating enough skill, firepower and gumption to recap-ture and hold the vast stretches of territory that the Islamic

State still controls. That includes Mosul, the northernstronghold that is considered key to collapsing IS in Iraq.

Votel s aid the Iraqis n eed to do what it takes to co ntin uethe momentum they h ave gained lately.

“In general, we’re moving forward,” h e said.The next big move is supposed to be in Mosul, although

U.S. officials don’t believe the Iraqi security forces areready for an all-out assault there yet.

Airbus unit unveils 3-D-printed electric motorcycleBERLIN — What weighs 77 pounds, goes 5 0 mph (80 kp h)

and looks li ke a Swiss cheese on wheels?An electric motorcycle made from tiny aluminum alloy par-

ticles using a 3-D printer.European aeronautics giant Airbus unveiled the ‘Light

Rider ’ in Germany o n Friday. Manufactured by it s subsidiaryAPWorks, a specialist in additive layer manufacturing, themotorcycle uses hollow frame parts that contain the cablesand pipes.

The frame weighs just 13 pounds, about 30 percent lessthan conventional e-motorbikes.

APWorks chief executive Joachim Zettler said the com-plex, branched hollow structure wouldn’t h ave been po ssibl ewith conventional production technologies such as millingor welding.

The company i s takin g orders for a limited run of 5 0 moto r-bikes, costing 50,000 euros ($56,095), plus tax, each.

They’ll have a range of 37 miles (60 ki lometers).

G-7 finance leaders seekto reassure on global economy

AKIU, Japan — Finance leaders of major industrial coun-tries meeting in J apan need to find ways to use all th e “poli-cy levers” they have to help counter anxiety over global eco-

nomic prospects, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew saidFriday, in remarks echoed by h is Japanese ho sts.

The consensus was that while there is no one-size-fits-allapproach, all economies are facing a stiflin g lack of demand,and the private sector must play a pivotal role in helpingspur growth.

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NEW YORK — Stocks rose onFriday in a modest but broad rallythat erased much of the lossesfrom earlier in the week wheninvestors had sold over fears of rising in terest rates.

Health care and technologystocks rose the most, helping tonudge the Standard and Poor’s 500index back to slight gains for theweek and year. Nine of the index’s10 sectors closed higher.

Stocks rose from the start of trading, following sizable gainsin Europe. Among the winners,Intel climbed nearly 2 percent andPfizer closed up 1.1 p ercent.

Investors were spooked earlierin the week when the FederalReserve released minutes of itslast meeting that suggested it mayraise rates in June, something th emarket had not expected. Theyscrambled to readjust portfolios,selling oil and copper, U.S.Treasury bonds and stocks of steady dividend payers like utili-

ties that tend to fall when ratesrise.

But on Friday a measure of calmreturned. U.S. bonds barelymoved, commodities ended mixedand utilities rose, albeit just 0.2percent.

The S&P 500 rose 12.28 poi nts,or 0.6 percent, to 2,052.32. TheDow Jones industrial averageended the day up 65.54 points, or

0.4 percent, to 17,500.94. TheDow lost 0. 2 percent for the week.

The Nasdaq composite climbed57.03 points, or 1.2 percent, to4,769.56.

Applied Materials led the movehigher in technology stocks. Themaker of chipmaking equipment

jumped $2. 75, or 14 percent , to$22.66 after reporting earningsahead of analyst s’ forecasts.

Another big gainer for the day,Interoil, jumped $11.92, or 38percent, to $43.57 after rival OilSearch anno unced a deal to buy thecompany for $2.2 billion. Thedeal still needs approval by share-holders.

Friday’s gains notwithstanding,the major indexes have barelymoved this year.

Steven Ricchiuto, chief econo-

mist at Mizuho Securities, saysinvestors are uncertain about thestrength of the economy andthat’s reflected in their unwilling-ness to commit themselves tobuying.

“There’s no conviction,” hesaid. “There is no upside momen-

tum.”Jim Paulsen, chief investment

strategist for Wells CapitalManagement, thinks investorswill eventually come around. Hesaid he welcomes Fed talk of a rateincrease because it shows thingsare getting better.

“The economy is good enoughthat even the Fed thinks it mightbe able to raise rates,” he said.“Job creation is there, unemploy-ment is low.”

Among oth er stocks making bigmoves, Campbell Soup dropped$4.08, or 6 percent, to $59.90after reporting third-quarter salesthat fell short of Wall Streetexpectations. The company partlyblamed challeng es in it s V8 bever-ages business and problems withits fresh carrot supply.

Stocks close higher, led by health care, techDOW JONES INDUSTRIALS

High: 17,571.75

Low

: 17,437.32

Close: 17,500.94

Change: +65.54

OTHER INDEXES

S P 500:

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10,250.49 +58.01

Nasdaq: 4769.56 +57.03

NYSE MKT: 2293.51 +5.52

Russell 2000:

1112.27 +17.51

Wilshire 5000: 21218.34 +214.52

10-Yr Bond: 1.85 +0.00

Oil (per barrel): 48.49 -0.18

Gold : 1,253.20 -1.90

By Josh Boak THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Midwesternhomebuyers helped spark anational increase in real estatesales during April, a sign thatdemand for housing remainssteady despite rising prices andtight inventories.

Sales of existing homes rose1.7 percent last month to a sea-sonally adjusted annual rate of

5.45 million, the NationalAssociation of Realtors saidFriday.

Americans are eagerly searchingfor homes. But rising prices andfew sales listings have limited thenumber of people who can affordto buy.

Steady hiring and ultra-lowmortgage rates have provided afoundation of buyer demand. Thatdemand, however, has yet to coaxmore sellers into the market dur-ing the traditional spring buying

season when sales volumes aregenerally highest.

“Low inventory of homes forsale continues to dampen home-buyers’ ability to find propertiesin the face of solid job and wagegrowth,” said Ralph McLaughlin,chief economist at the real estatefirm Trulia.

Sales jumped 12.1 percent inthe Midwest, g enerally the mostaffordable region for housing.Purchases increased slightly inthe Northeast but fell in the

South an d West.A shortage of sales listings are

pushing up home values, creatingaffordability pressures for somepotential buyers. The number of listings has fallen 3.6 percentover the past 12 months. Priceshave climbed so substantially inthe West that sales volumes haveactually declined from a year ago ,evidence that buyers are priced outof the market where home valueshave constantly eclipsed wagegains.

U.S. home sales growth driven mostly by Midwest


DETROIT — People who boughtor leased 2016 General MotorsSUVs with overstated gas mileageon t he window sticker will be get-ting compensated, the automakersaid Friday. Those who purchasedtheir SUV will get to choose a debit

card or an extended warranty, whil elessees will receive the debit card.

For most people, the compensa-tion will be worth $450 to $900,but owners of some all-wheel-drive SUVs could get as much as$1,500. The payments will varywith lease terms and mileage dif-ferences b etween mo dels.

About 135,000 customers willget letters stating their amountsstarting May 25. GM says another35,000 fleet customers will behandled individually.

“We designed this reimburse-ment program to provide full andfair compensation,” GMspokesman Jim Cain said.

The Detroit automakerannounced last week that fueleconomy was overstated by one-to-two miles per gallon on the2016 GMC Acadia, ChevroletTraverse and Buick Enclave. GMblamed the discrepancy on newemissions control hardware andsaid the error was inadvertent.

GM offers debit cards or longer warranties in mileage case

Makeover comingfor food nutrition labels

WASHINGTON — A new look iscoming to Nutrition Facts labelson food packages, with moreattention to calorie counts andadded sugars. And no lo nger will asmall bag of chips count as two orthree servings.

Michelle Obama said parents

will be the beneficiaries.“You will no longer need amicroscope, a calculator, or adegree in nutrition to figure outwhether the food you’re buying isactually good for our kids,” thefirst lady said Friday, announcingthe n ew rules.

The changes were proposed bythe Food and Drug Adminis trationtwo years ago and are the firstmajor update to the labels sincetheir introduction in 1994. Theyare now on more than 800,000foods.

The overhaul comes amid scien-tific advances.

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By Janie McCauley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKLAND — A black sleeve protectinghis sore right elbow, MVP Stephen Curryinsists he’s fine after yet another postsea-son injury.

Curry banged his right elbow on what hethought was a metal platform after divinginto t he stands at the 2:54 mark of the firstquarter during Wednesday night’s 118-91

Game 2 win over theThunder. That evened thebest-of-seven WesternConference finals at onegame apiece as the seriesshifts to Oklahoma Cityfor Sunday night’s Game3.

“It’s fine. The swellin gwent down, so no wor-ries,” he said followingFriday’s practice. “It’s

sore just because of the impact. The spotit’s at doesn’t affect the range of motio n, soI can shoot and dribble and do all I need todo. It’s uncomfortable but not necessarilypain. ... It’s nice to have three days inbetween to get your body right.”

Curry said after the game the elbow was

so swollen “it looks like it h as a tennis ballon top of it.”

Yet Curry had plenty left, s coring 1 5straight points in less t han 2 minutes dur-ing a third-quarter frenzy on his way to 28points. He made 5 of 8 3-pointers and shot9 for 15 overall.

“It’s fine. Nothing wrong,” coach SteveKerr said. “There doesn’t appear to be anyswelling.”

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Both Burlingame and Capuchino have relied heavily on pitching and defense to get them to the second round of the CCS Division IItournament, where they will meet for a spot in next week’s semifinals.

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While it may be a small surprise to seetwo Penin sula Athleti c League teams meet-ing i n the secon d round of the Central Coast

Section Division II tournament, it’s not asurprise it’s Burlingame and Capuchino .

The two Bay Division foes — who splittheir regular-season series — will face off 11 a.m. at Sacred Heart Prep Saturday.

The Panthers and Mustangs were two of the ho ttest teams in th e PAL at the end of theregular season: the Mustangs won four of their final five regular-season games, whilethe Panthers swept Terra Nova in the final

week of the regular season to deny theTigers th e outright PAL Bay Divisio n tit le.

They both used that momentum in first-round wins Wednesday.

Fifteenth-seeded Capuchino comes inwith a ton o f confidence after rallying from

a 5-4 deficit with six runs in the top of theseventh — all with two outs — to stun sec-ond-seeded Aptos , 10-7.

Burlingame, the No. 7 seed, had a muchmore pedestrian — but no less impressive— 4-1 win over No. 10 King City. It was avictory that saw Panther starter AlexWaldsmith handcuff King Cit y t o th e tune of

just five hi ts.Saturday, however, will just be another

game if the managers have anything to dowith it. Burlingame skipper Shawn Scottsaid there is nothing to take away from thefirst two games the teams played a monthago.

“Due to the fact [Capuchino is] playing

pretty well now,” Scott said. “You can’tforesee anything. There’s never any oneway to g o after a team yo u see frequently.”

Capuchino manager Matt Wilson s aid theopponent isn’t as important as the timingof the game. When the goal every year iswin a CCS title, getting past the secondround is one of the steps. The fact it is aleague opponent is of little consequence.

Familiarity no benefit toBurlingame or Capuchino

By Terry Bernal

DAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Upon first witnessing MackenzieSchoustra’s athl etic prowess, it was clear toBurlingame track and field head coach DanHaas she was something special.

As a physical education teacher atBurling ame Intermediate School, Haas firstencountered Schoustra when sh e was a s tu-dent there. It would be three years beforeSchoustra would report to her first practicewith the Burlingame High School trackteam; she played lacrosse in the spring her

first two years atBurlingame.

As a junior though,Schoustra made up forlost time in her rookietrack season. It’s rare forsomeone new to thetrack world to excel athurdles so quickly. Butshe quickly ran into theBurlingame recordbooks as a hurdler,

breaking the girls’ 100-yard hurdles pro-gram record set by Cassie Root in 2005.

“Very rare actually because hurdles … takesome learning,” Burlingame assistant trackcoach Chris Coleman said. “It’s not a natu-ral thing but athleticism is something thatcan not be taught. Still, from a hurdlesstandpoint, it’s very surprising.”

Schoustra is making even bigger stridesas a senior. Last Saturday at the PeninsulaAthletic League Track and FieldChampionship s, she broke her own recordin the 100 hurdles with a time of 15.17 sec-onds.

The finish was go od enough to claim PAL

Schoustra leaving mark on

Burlingame hurdles history

Curry’s elbownot limitinghim on court

Sharks ride topline to a serieslead over BluesBy Josh Dubow THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN JOSE — Joe Thornton and his line-mates have managed to do what PatrickKane, Jonathan Toews and Jamie Benncouldn’t in the first two rounds of the NHLplayoffs: control the play against the St.

Louis Blues.San Jose’s top line of

Thornton, Joe Pavelskiand Tomas Hertl havedominated the play overthe first three games of the Western Conference

final and are a major rea-son why the Sharks leadthe Blues 2-1 to put themas close as they haveever been to reaching t he

Stanley Cup final.Hertl scored two goals in San Jose’s 3-0

victory in Game 3 on Thursday night off passes from each of his linemates and thetrio spent much of the night in St. Louis’zone creating chances and momentum.

“These guys in my mind are maybe themost dangerous and best line in hockey,”teammate Tommy Wingels said. “You see

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OAKLAND — CC Sabathia came off the dis-abled list to pitch six innings and become theeighth player in the modern era to win 100games or more with two teams, and the NewYork Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 8-3

on Friday night.Carlos Beltran doubled

three times and drove inthree runs, JacobyEllsbury added two RBIswhile Ronald Torreyes hada two-run triple during afive-run fourth inning tohelp the Yankees to theirsecond straight win inthis series after gettingswept by the A’s in April.

Sabathia (3-2) was just as sharp as he was inhis previous start before going on the dis-abled list with a groin injury earlier thismonth. The big left-hander allowed one run,three hits, walked one and had a season-higheight strikeouts for his first victory theresince 2012.

The win was Sabathia’s 100th in New Yorkpinstripes. He also had 106 victories with

Cleveland to join an illustrious list of playersthat includes Hall of Famers Nolan Ryan andGreg Maddux to win 100 or more with twoteams.

Oakland scored its only run off Sabathia in

the second on Matt McBride’s two-out si ngle.The Yankees gave Sabathia plenty of sup-port in the fourth inning when they battedaround.

Torreyes tripled in two runs to b reak a 2-for-23 slump and he scored on a wild pitch.Beltran’s second double of the game knockedin Ellsbury and Brett Gardner.

Beltran added an RBI double in the s ixth .Most o f the damage came off Oakland starter

Sonny Gray, who gave up five runs in 3 1-3innings.

Gray (3-5) continued to have commandproblems and was knocked out of the gameafter retiring 10 batters. He walked four, struckout three and threw three wild pitches in hisshortest outing of the season.

Two of Gray’s walks and two of the wildpitches came in the fourth. The A’s ace is 0-4

with a 10.38 ERA over his last five starts.Oakland committed three errors to raise its

AL-leading t otal to 34.

Trainer’s roomYankees : LHP James Pazos was optioned

to Triple-A Scranton to make room forSabathia.Athletics: OF Josh Reddick is scheduled

to meet with a hand specialist on Monday afterfracturing the tip of his left thumb stealingsecond base Thursday. . RHP Liam Hendriks(triceps strain) received a cortisone injectionin his elbow. . OF Sam Fuld is in Floridarecovering from rotator cuff surgery. . BackupC Josh Phegley will begin a rehab assignmentwith Triple-A Nashville on Saturday. . RHPR.J. Alvarez (elbow surgery) will throw a fullbullpen sess ion Sunday.

Up nextYankees : RHP Masahiro Tanaka (1-0)

pitches Saturday and h as allo wed two earnedruns or fewer in six of his eight starts thisseason.

Athletics: LHP Sean Manaea (1-1) iscoming o ff his first win in th e major leaguesand will try to become the first Oaklandpitcher since Aug. 2 2, 2015, to pitch morethan seven innings.

Yankees make it two in row over A’s

By Gideon RubinTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Jake Arrieta con tinuedhis impressive pitching and Kris Bryant pro-vided the power as the Chi cago Cubs beat theSan Francisco Giants 8-1 on Friday night.

The Cubs won in Arrieta’s 22nd consecutivestart going back to last season, with their acegoing 1 6-0 over that stretch. They won on theroad for the 24th time in 29 games as they

snapped San Francisco’s eight -game winningstreak.Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward left the game

in the bottom of the first inning after crash-ing int o the wall on a diving catch.

Heyward is under evaluation for an injury tohis right torso abdominal region, the Cubssaid.

Heyward chased a shot over hi s head off thebat of Denard Span, robbin g the Giants’ lead-off man of extra bases on the third pitch hesaw from Arrieta (8-0).

Arrieta, who leads the majors with a 1.29ERA, allowed four hits, struck out eight andwalked one in seven innings.

Bryant was 2 for 5 with four RBIs, including

a three-run homer to leftoff Jake Peavy (1-5) thathigh lighted a five-run out-burst in the secondinning.

After Bryant’s homer,Anthony Rizzo chasedPeavy with a single toright that snapped his

streak of 13 consecutivehitless at-bats.

Peavy allowed five runs, seven hits and twowalks after 1 2/3 innings. He threw 55 pitch-es.

Ben Zobrist homered into McCovey Covefor his sixth homer, becoming just the 38thopposing player and the second Cub (CoreyPatterson is the other) to reach San FranciscoBay’s waters with a “splash hit.” Zobrist’shomer extended his hitting streak to sevengames and his on-base streak in games inwhich he’s started to 26 .

Trainer’s roomCubs: OF Matt Szczur, on the DL with a

strained right hamstring, began a rehabassignment on Thursday with Double-ATennessee, going 1 for 2 with a walk, a runand a strikeout. Friday’s Smokies’ game wasrained out. Szczur was eligible to come off theDL on Wednesday.Giants: RHP Sergio Romo, out since April

15 with a strained right hip flexor, threw 24pitches in an extended spring training gameon Friday, manager Bruce Bochy said. Romowill start a rehab assignment at Triple-A

Sacramento o n Saturday and is expected to beactivated within two weeks.

Up nextCubs: LHP Jon Lester (4-2) has allowed

one or fewer runs in six of eight starts. Hetook a no-hitter into the seventh inning hislast time out against Pittsburgh (a 2-1 Piratesvictory in which he was tagged with the loss ).Lester is 3-0 with a 1.11 ERA against theGiants.Giants: RHP Matt Cain (0-5) has a 1.80

ERA with 13 strikeouts and two walks overhis last two starts. In his previous six startshe was 0-4 with a 7.84 ERA. Cain is 6-4 witha 3.84 ERA in 17 games against the Cubs.

Cubs halt Giants’ winning streak

By Beth HarrisTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANAHEIM — Ravaged by injuries, theLos Angeles Angels are taking a chance onTim Lincecum, the two-time NL Cy YoungAward winner who is coming off major hipsurgery and looki ng t o regain hi s career.

He signed a $2.5 million, one-year dealon Friday, eight months after having lefthip surgery. He didn’t pitch after June 27last year with th e Giants because of inj uries.

“I’m anxious, excited and a little nerv-ous,” Lincecum said by p hon e. “I’m pumpedto see what I can do out there on the field. I

know what I’m fightingfor and that’s to get backto a starting role.”

He didn’t sign with ateam after finishing a$35 million, two-yeardeal last season.

General manager BillyEppler said Lincecumwould need 20 to 30 daysto get ready. He will ini-

tially report to the team’s spring trainingfacility in Arizona, where he’s been livingfor the last nine months.

“The common denominator of these star-level players is they know their body reallywell,” Eppler said. “We’re relying a lot onthe player. He’ll tell us when he’s readybecause h e’s earned that. ”

Lincecum’s free-agent deal with theAngels includes $1,17 5,000 in performancebonuses and $500,000 in roster bonuses.He would receive $25,000 for making 11starts, $50,000 for 13, $100,000 for 15,$200,0 00 for 17 and $400,000 each for 19and 21 starts.

In addition, he would receive $125,000each for four, 30, 60 and 90 days on theactive roster, excluding disabled list daysspent due to a right hip injury.

The Angels certainly need the help. Theyhave 10 players on the disabled list includ-ing pitchers Garrett Richards, AndrewHeaney, C.J. Wilson, Huston Street andCory Rasmus. Tyler Skaggs is recoveringfrom Tommy John surgery and is on theminor league DL with Triple-A Salt Lake.

“Tim is an outstanding pitcher, one of themost competitive pitchers that has evertaken the mound,” Angels manager Mike

Lincecum signsa one-year dealwith the Angels

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Cubs 8, Giants 1

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BALTIMORE — Let it rain again on thePreakness. Team Nyquist doesn’t seem con-cerned.

A driving rainstorm didn’t faze AmericanPharoah as he splashed his way to victory inthe second leg of the Triple Crown last year,and it sure appears lik e Kentucky Derby win-ner Nyquist will have to do the same thing ina bid to set up another Triple try in theBelmont Stakes.

The National Weather Service forecastFriday night called for a 100 percent chance of rain beginning early Saturday in theBaltimore area and continuing th roughout theday, with as much as one inch possible insome areas. Temperatures are expected to be inthe mid- to upper 50s with wind gusts up to 2 0mph. Post time for the Preakness at is 6:45p.m.

“With a horse like Nyquist, I’m not overlyconcerned about the weather,” trainer DougO’Neill said on a bright, sunny Friday morn-ing. “As far as rain or shine, we’re not goingto change anything shoeing-wise He’s goingto wear the same shoes he’s got o n. We’d justlove to have a b eautiful day.”

Rain could be a good thin g for several of histop rivals, though, especially Derby runner-

up Exaggerator, or longshot Cherry Wine. Bothhave run well in the mud,with Exaggerator takingthe Santa Anita Derby on asloppy track and CherryWine breaking h is maidenby 9 1/2 lengths under

similar conditions.“I’ll be one of the few

people doing a raindance,” Cherry Wine’s trainer Dale Romanssaid.

Nyquist, with an 8-0 record, won the FloridaDerby over a surface listed as good eventhough t he track had been drenched by a rain-storm before the race.

The fleet son of Uncle Mo is a win awayfrom a shot at the Triple Crown, which wouldgive racing back-to-back Triples for the sec-ond time. American Pharoah became the firstto sweep the Derby, Preakness and Belmontsince Affirmed in 1978, a year after SeattleSlew won it.

But first, Nyquist h as to defeat 10 rivals at 13-16ths miles over Pimlico Race Course, atrack he’s become familiar with ov er the pasttwo weeks. The 3-5 favorite leaves from theNo. 3 post with Mario Gutierrez aboard.

O’Neill has been through this b efore, alongwith owner J. Paul Reddam and Gutierrez. In

2012 , they won the Derby and Preakness withI’ll Have Another, who was retired the daybefore the Belmont with an in jury.

Asked what would be an ideal trip forNyquist, O’Neill didn’t hesitate: “We breakgreat, have the lead and go really easy aroundthere. Mario knows Nyquist so well. He has somuch speed away from the gate, ideally, he

gets good position wherever that is and heruns a big race.”

Exaggerator, the 3-1 second choice, may bethe mos t accomplished mudder in the field. Inaddition to hi s Santa Anita Derby win, he wononce and fini shed second over muddy t racks.

“He’s run on every track that’s been putbefore him and that may prove to be an advan-tage,” Exaggerator’s trainer KeithDesormeaux said. “But I am not sure wishingfor one track over another. I’d prefer to havemy picture taken in the sun.”

Lani, the first Japan-based horse in thePreakness, is the only other Derby starter inthe field. The flighty gray colt arrived atPimlico on Thursday. He’s run three times on“off-tracks” in Japan, with a win, a second-and a fifth-place.

“It would not be great, but everybody has torun on it,” Lani’s trainer Mikio Matsunagasaid of a possible sloppy track.

Among the eight new shooters, AbidingStar, Awesome Speed, Cherry Wine,

Fellowship and Uncle Lino have shown theycan handle an off-track.

Horses usually are fitt ed with shoes made of lightweight aluminum. When a track surfacebecomes muddy or sloppy, trainers could optfor mud caulks — small cleats inserted on theback end of the shoe for better traction. Shoechanges are determined the day of the race.

Unlike the Derby, the Preakness is full of front-runners, horses who like to run on thelead. Nyquist is one of them, along withAbiding Star, Awesome Speed, Collected,Laoban and Uncle Lino. If the pace is too fast,it gives closers a chance to make a winningrun at the end.

Which is what Romans is hoping for whenCherry Wine breaks from the inside No. 1post.

“We’ll fall back and chase the speed andcome running at the end,” he said, adding jok-ingly (but sort of seriously), “I challengeDoug to be on the lead by the 5/8ths pole.Don’t listen to what anyone else says. Just gofor it. Make them go fast.”

It might not matter.“The thing about our horse is we don’t kn ow

for real how good he i s,” Reddam said. “Otherthan his maiden race, which doesn’t reallycount at five furlongs, he has not been in anall-out drive. So we think th ere’s a lot more inthe tank.”

Derby winner Nyquist ready for Preakness

Nyquist


The leader of the U.S. Olympic Committeesays the latest anti-doping headlines make it“increasingly difficult to defend the current sys-tem.”

In a wide-ranging interview Friday with theAssociated Press, USOC CEO Scott Blackmunspoke about America’s preparation for the Riode Janeiro Games — plans being jarred by

ongoing concerns about the Zika virus, alongwith a growing feeling among U.S. athletes thatnot everybody will be on a level playing fieldwhen the Olympics start in August.

In his first comments on the anti-doping cri-sis, Blackmun said “it is increasingly difficultto defend the current system following a break-down of this magnitude.”

“If the recently reported allegations prove to

be true, we need to admit that the system isflawed,” he said. “We need to fix it, and we needto find a way to assure the athletes in Rio thatthey are competing on a fair and level playingfield.”

Last week, The New York Times published astory detailing former Moscow lab directorGrigory Rodchenkov’s elaborate plans toensure drug-using Russian athletes would nottest positive at the Sochi Olympics by replac-

ing their dirty urine samples with clean onespreviously collected. The World Anti-DopingAgency has appointed a commission to lookinto the allegations.

A different commission released a report lastyear detailing a state-sponsored doping systeminside Russia used to benefit its track team. Thatreport led to the suspension of the team alongwith the country’s anti-doping agency and the

Moscow anti-doping lab that Rodchenkovheaded. The track team’s fate for Rio will bedecided next month by the sport’s governingbody, the IAAF.

At a WADA meeting last week, officialsreported that because the Russian anti-dopingagency was taken over by independent man-agers, testing in the country has decreased bymore than two-thirds, with doping-controlagents being harassed in some cities and the

Russian government often balking at payingbill s to run the revamped agency.

The cascade of reports has led athletes andother anti-doping authoriti es to call on WADAand the International Olympic Committee to actmore decisively to clean up an Olympic move-ment that, in many ways, looks as drug-addledas ever.

With the Olympics less than three months

away, and already swamped by a steady flow of emails from athletes and others, Blackmundecided to speak out, as well.

“As a global sporting community, we need toembrace the opportunity to shine a light on thebad actors who are responsible for the wrongdo-ing and corruption,” he said. “We are at a defin-ing moment for international sport. It is timefor strong leadership and decisive action.Doping is a problem all around the world, not

just in Russia.”Among those weighing in after reading

Blackmun’s comments was Sarah Konrad, anOlympic biathlete and cross-country skier whois chair of the USOC athletes’ advisory council.

“Well done, Scott Blackmun!” Konrad said inan email to AP. “It is great to know that we, asU.S. athletes, have the support of our leader-ship.”

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gold by a stellar margin. Not onl y was it thetop time in PAL this season, and the sixthamong Central Coast Section hurdlers, itbested silver-medalist Menlo-Athertonfreshman Megan St. J ohn b y 1. 61 seconds.

Schoustra also won gold in the 300 hur-dles, finishin g in 45 .1 seconds to miss her

personal record by the slim margin of sixone-hundredths of a second. It was still thetop PAL all season, and the third best inCCS.

“I just went out there and tried to run asfast as I could,” Scho ustra said.

Now, the easy-going Schoustra is gun-ning to finish her high school career with aflourish. She will loo k to take the penulti-mate stride to that finish Saturday at theCCS championship trials in Gilroy. Thefinals will be held at the same location nextFriday, May 27 .

Schoustra is part of a strong senior classin CCS, a class that saw plenty of successlast season when the top-flight hurdlerswere juniors. In each of the CCS girls’ hur-dles finals in 201 5, an 11t h-grader won; LosGatos junior Caice Lanovaz took CCS gold

in th e 100 h urdles, while Gunn j unior MayaMiklos took gold in the 30 0 hurdles.

Schoustra faired well in both events. Hersixth-place finish in the 100 hurdles with atime of 15.69 seconds saw her just miss thepodium. But her fourth-place finish in the300 hurdles with a time of 45.17 secondsnot on ly go t her on t he podium, it was ulti-mately good enough to qualify for the statefinals; while the top three finishers are theonly automatic qualifiers, third-place fin-isher Juliana Mount o f Notre Dame-San Jos esenior dropped the event at state to focus onthe 800.

This year at the CCS finals, Schoustra

again will take on Miklos and another oneof last year’s junior sensations, St. Francis’Melissa Seaman. Schoustra downplays anysense of rivalry though, citing that’s whatmakes the track world special — the cama-raderie between th e competitors .

“I’m not going to try to compare my timeto thei rs,” Schoustra said. “I’m just go ing tofocus on running my own race. Track, I feellike it i s an individual sports as much as it isa team sport. So, just trying to beat my timefrom last time, th at is what I’m runni ng for.”

She is also running against program his-tory in the 300. Since last season,Schoustra has maintained a consistent timein the 300. She joked that the reason shehas seen more improvement in the 100 isbecause it’s shorter, so she likes it better.

With her personal record in the 3 00 current-ly falling approximately one-quarter secondshy of Allison Daily’s all-time Burlingamerecord, she’s got to like the prospect of adding her name — yet again — to the pro-gram record boo ks.

“It’s out of hands but sh e’s very capable, ”Coleman said.

Committed to St. Olaf College — a smallliberal arts school in Northfield, Minnesota— Schoustra is sl ated to contin ue her careeras a two-spo rt athlete at the collegiate level.She also plays soccer, and was an all-PALhonorable mention as a forward for theBurling ame girls’ soccer team this s eason.

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TRACK “I’m just going to focus onrunning my own race. Track,I feel like it is an individual sports

as much as it is a team sport.So, just trying to beat my

time from last time, that iswhat I’m running for.”

— Mackenzie Schoustra

Scioscia said. “That will go a long way tooffset maybe some of the velocity changesthat have happened over the last four, fiveyears with Tim. He still has plenty of fast-ball, his off-speed pitches are still terrific,so when you put that whole combinationtogether he’s go ing to go out there and giveus a chance to win games.”

Lincecum said his landing leg is stableand he has freedom of motion for his uniquedelivery. Before the surgery, his biggestissues were lack of stability and strength asopposed to pain.

“Success will be being healthy at the endof thi s season and seeing where I’m at afterthat,” he said.

Lincecum won the Cy Young Award in2008 and 2009 and made four All-Star Gameappearances. He helped the Giants win t hreeWorld Series tit les in five years, and he hada pair of no-hitters against San Diego dur-

ing an 11-month span between the 2013and 2014 seasons.“Is he going to be the version of himself

six, seven years ago?” Eppler said. “I don’tknow, but the circumstances were right forus to take this chance.”

The Giants were the only other teamLincecum has ever pitched for, and he saidthey showed some interest. However, hisdesire to start didn’t match up with theGiants’ plans.

“It is to ugh because I’ve had a lot of emo-tions and time built up with them,” he said.

The 31-year-old right-hander went 7-4with a 4.13 ERA in 15 s tarts last season . Hethrew a showcase for int erested clubs May 6in Arizona.

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