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"content": "\u003cp>After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. War Relocation Authority made a decision it would soon regret. It hired famed photographer Dorothea Lange to take pictures as 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes on the West Coast and interned at remote military-style camps throughout the interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency \u003ca href=\"http://apjjf.org/-Linda-Gordon/2260/article.html\">had hoped\u003c/a> Lange's photos would depict the process as orderly and humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the hundreds of photos that Lange turned over did the opposite. She considered the internment a grave injustice, and her photos depict it that way. They captured the confused and chaotic scenes of Japanese-Americans crowding onto buses and trains, the stressed and confused looks on their faces, their shuttered businesses, the threadbare barracks that would become their homes for months or years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868583\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 634px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10868583\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c.jpe\" alt=\"A newsstand in Oakland, California, in February, 1942.\" width=\"634\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c.jpe 634w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c-400x394.jpe 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c-32x32.jpe 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c-64x64.jpe 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c-75x75.jpe 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A newsstand in Oakland, California, in February, 1942. \u003ccite>(Dorothea Lange/Courtesy Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead of allowing Lange to publish her photos, the government seized them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, some of them are on display at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles through this Sunday. They are part of an exhibit that tells the story of Japanese internment through the pictures of three photographers: Lange, the equally renowned landscape photographer Ansel Adams, whose photos from California's Manzanar internment camp anchor the exhibit, and Toyo Miyatake, a Japanese-American photographer who was interned at Manzanar but smuggled in a camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stories that photos tell depend so much on who's snapping the shutter, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.skirball.org/exhibitions/manzanar-ansel-adams\">Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams\u003c/a> illustrates that in dramatic fashion. Each photographer offers a vastly different perspective on what Japanese internment was like, their photos reflecting not only differences in style, but in the relationship each photographer had to this shameful chapter of U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dorothea Lange\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The photo below, showing a Japanese woman recently arrived at her living quarters, was among the hundreds of Lange's photos that were seized by government censors. On this original proof, the word \"Impounded\" is handwritten in the lower margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"A Japanese woman in the door of her living quarters in San Bruno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment-800x588.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment-1180x867.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Japanese woman in the door of her living quarters in San Bruno. \u003ccite>(Dorothea Lange/Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This next photo is of a converted racetrack in San Bruno, where Japanese-American families were temporarily housed in horse stalls while they awaited transport to internment camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868646\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"This center is a converted race track. Here are shown what were horse-stalls, remodeled into living quarters for families.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls-960x719.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This center is a converted racetrack. Here are shown what were horse stalls, remodeled into living quarters for families. \u003ccite>(Dorothea Lange/Courtesy The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lange's photo of the Manzanar internment camp during a duststorm highlights the camp's remote desert location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Scene of barrack homes at this War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. A hot windstorm brings dust from the surrounding desert.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange-1180x882.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange-960x718.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene of barrack homes at this War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. A hot windstorm brings dust from the surrounding desert. \u003ccite>(Dorothea Lange/Courtesy The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ansel Adams\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868584\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868584\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-800x1053.jpg\" alt=\"Joyce Yuki Nakamura\" width=\"800\" height=\"1053\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-800x1053.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-400x527.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-1920x2528.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-1180x1554.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-960x1264.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af.jpg 2036w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce Yuki Nakamura \u003ccite>(Ansel Adams/Courtesy Photographic Traveling Exhibitions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ansel Adams visited Manzanar to take photos in 1943 at the request of camp director Ralph Merritt, who was a personal friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't look quite as dusty, and quite as forbidding as Dorothea Lange's photos,\" Robert Kirschner, the Skirball's director, told me as we walked through the exhibit recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the place that looks barren and depressing in Lange's pictures manages to look beautiful in Adams'. You get little sense that it was even a detention center, in part because Adams, like other photographers, was not allowed to shoot the guard towers or barbed wire. This photo, though, was taken \u003cem>from\u003c/em> a guard tower:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868585\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Manzanar from a guard tower.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-1920x1236.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-960x618.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manzanar from a guard tower. \u003ccite>(Ansel Adams/Courtesy Photographic Traveling Exhibitions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are scenes from a baseball game, kids walking to school, a gathering outside a chapel. Lots of smiles, too, and portraits of camp residents cropped so close you can see every blemish and stray hair. In Adams' vision, Manzanar comes off as a place where Japanese-Americans, dignified, resilient and optimistic in spite of their circumstances, built a temporary community in the desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WGdVf8javJ5eycpih7EOr7XIs9AOvjIE\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirschner says that if Adams' photos appear to sugarcoat the indignities of life in an internment camp, it is because he did not see himself as a social activist the way Lange did. Still, Kirscher says, Adams was challenging internment in his own way, by depicting its victims as patriotic, law-abiding Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10868586,10868587\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Lange, Adams was given permission to publish his photos. Before the war ended, he did so in a book called \"\u003ca href=\"http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=gdc3&fileName=scd0001_20020123001bfpage.db\">Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans\u003c/a>,\" in which he warned about the dangers of letting wartime hysteria justify depriving U.S. citizens of their freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Toyo Miyatake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868717\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868717\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake-800x978.jpg\" alt=\"Ansel Adams took this picture of fellow photographer Toyo Miyatake, who was interned at Manzanar.\" width=\"800\" height=\"978\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake-800x978.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake-400x489.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake-1180x1442.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake-960x1174.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ansel Adams took this picture of fellow photographer Toyo Miyatake, who was interned at Manzanar. \u003ccite>(Ansel Adams/Courtesy Photographic Traveling Exhibitions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before World War II, Toyo Miyatake had a photo studio in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo. When he learned he would be interned at Manzanar, he asked a carpenter to build him a wooden box with a hole carved out at one end to accommodate a lens. He turned this box into a makeshift camera that he snuck around the camp, as his grandson Alan Miyatake explains in the video below, which is featured in the exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearful of being discovered, Miyatake at first took pictures only at dusk or dawn, usually without people in them. Camp director Merritt eventually caught Miyatake, but instead of punishing him, allowed him to take pictures openly. Miyatake later became the camp's official photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His photos, some of which are featured in the video above, convey an intimacy with camp life absent in the pictures that Adams and Lange took. He captured laughter at a picnic and men delivering vegetables to the mess hall (at 4:21 in the video).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=466453528&mediaId=466969457\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His photos also had moments of silent protest. In one picture (5:03) three boys peer through the camp's barbed wire fence to the outside world. And in another, Miyatake's son, Archie, holds a pair of clippers against the fence, \"to show,\" Kirschner said, \"that at some point, the barbed wire has to come down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. War Relocation Authority made a decision it would soon regret. It hired famed photographer Dorothea Lange to take pictures as 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes on the West Coast and interned at remote military-style camps throughout the interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency \u003ca href=\"http://apjjf.org/-Linda-Gordon/2260/article.html\">had hoped\u003c/a> Lange's photos would depict the process as orderly and humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the hundreds of photos that Lange turned over did the opposite. She considered the internment a grave injustice, and her photos depict it that way. They captured the confused and chaotic scenes of Japanese-Americans crowding onto buses and trains, the stressed and confused looks on their faces, their shuttered businesses, the threadbare barracks that would become their homes for months or years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868583\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 634px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10868583\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c.jpe\" alt=\"A newsstand in Oakland, California, in February, 1942.\" width=\"634\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c.jpe 634w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c-400x394.jpe 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c-32x32.jpe 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c-64x64.jpe 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/newsstand_custom-ae2a653cf5d66eae57c702e0c50df6869f10c12c-75x75.jpe 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A newsstand in Oakland, California, in February, 1942. \u003ccite>(Dorothea Lange/Courtesy Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead of allowing Lange to publish her photos, the government seized them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, some of them are on display at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles through this Sunday. They are part of an exhibit that tells the story of Japanese internment through the pictures of three photographers: Lange, the equally renowned landscape photographer Ansel Adams, whose photos from California's Manzanar internment camp anchor the exhibit, and Toyo Miyatake, a Japanese-American photographer who was interned at Manzanar but smuggled in a camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stories that photos tell depend so much on who's snapping the shutter, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.skirball.org/exhibitions/manzanar-ansel-adams\">Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams\u003c/a> illustrates that in dramatic fashion. Each photographer offers a vastly different perspective on what Japanese internment was like, their photos reflecting not only differences in style, but in the relationship each photographer had to this shameful chapter of U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dorothea Lange\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The photo below, showing a Japanese woman recently arrived at her living quarters, was among the hundreds of Lange's photos that were seized by government censors. On this original proof, the word \"Impounded\" is handwritten in the lower margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"A Japanese woman in the door of her living quarters in San Bruno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment-800x588.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment-1180x867.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DorotheaWomanInternment-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Japanese woman in the door of her living quarters in San Bruno. \u003ccite>(Dorothea Lange/Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This next photo is of a converted racetrack in San Bruno, where Japanese-American families were temporarily housed in horse stalls while they awaited transport to internment camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868646\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"This center is a converted race track. Here are shown what were horse-stalls, remodeled into living quarters for families.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SanBrunoStalls-960x719.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This center is a converted racetrack. Here are shown what were horse stalls, remodeled into living quarters for families. \u003ccite>(Dorothea Lange/Courtesy The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lange's photo of the Manzanar internment camp during a duststorm highlights the camp's remote desert location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Scene of barrack homes at this War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. A hot windstorm brings dust from the surrounding desert.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange-1180x882.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/DustStormLange-960x718.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene of barrack homes at this War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. A hot windstorm brings dust from the surrounding desert. \u003ccite>(Dorothea Lange/Courtesy The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ansel Adams\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868584\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868584\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-800x1053.jpg\" alt=\"Joyce Yuki Nakamura\" width=\"800\" height=\"1053\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-800x1053.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-400x527.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-1920x2528.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-1180x1554.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af-960x1264.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/joyce-yuki-nakamura_ansel-adams_custom-7e942db0fed51e4697a80db57f3e45939e18e2af.jpg 2036w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce Yuki Nakamura \u003ccite>(Ansel Adams/Courtesy Photographic Traveling Exhibitions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ansel Adams visited Manzanar to take photos in 1943 at the request of camp director Ralph Merritt, who was a personal friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't look quite as dusty, and quite as forbidding as Dorothea Lange's photos,\" Robert Kirschner, the Skirball's director, told me as we walked through the exhibit recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the place that looks barren and depressing in Lange's pictures manages to look beautiful in Adams'. You get little sense that it was even a detention center, in part because Adams, like other photographers, was not allowed to shoot the guard towers or barbed wire. This photo, though, was taken \u003cem>from\u003c/em> a guard tower:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868585\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Manzanar from a guard tower.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-1920x1236.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/manzanar-from-guard-tower_ansel-adams_custom-224edaa2017990b48dcd50cf3f6e3bb0a4c3492a-960x618.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manzanar from a guard tower. \u003ccite>(Ansel Adams/Courtesy Photographic Traveling Exhibitions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are scenes from a baseball game, kids walking to school, a gathering outside a chapel. Lots of smiles, too, and portraits of camp residents cropped so close you can see every blemish and stray hair. In Adams' vision, Manzanar comes off as a place where Japanese-Americans, dignified, resilient and optimistic in spite of their circumstances, built a temporary community in the desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirschner says that if Adams' photos appear to sugarcoat the indignities of life in an internment camp, it is because he did not see himself as a social activist the way Lange did. Still, Kirscher says, Adams was challenging internment in his own way, by depicting its victims as patriotic, law-abiding Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Lange, Adams was given permission to publish his photos. Before the war ended, he did so in a book called \"\u003ca href=\"http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=gdc3&fileName=scd0001_20020123001bfpage.db\">Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans\u003c/a>,\" in which he warned about the dangers of letting wartime hysteria justify depriving U.S. citizens of their freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Toyo Miyatake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10868717\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10868717\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake-800x978.jpg\" alt=\"Ansel Adams took this picture of fellow photographer Toyo Miyatake, who was interned at Manzanar.\" width=\"800\" height=\"978\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake-800x978.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake-400x489.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake-1180x1442.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ToyoMiyatake-960x1174.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ansel Adams took this picture of fellow photographer Toyo Miyatake, who was interned at Manzanar. \u003ccite>(Ansel Adams/Courtesy Photographic Traveling Exhibitions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before World War II, Toyo Miyatake had a photo studio in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo. When he learned he would be interned at Manzanar, he asked a carpenter to build him a wooden box with a hole carved out at one end to accommodate a lens. He turned this box into a makeshift camera that he snuck around the camp, as his grandson Alan Miyatake explains in the video below, which is featured in the exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearful of being discovered, Miyatake at first took pictures only at dusk or dawn, usually without people in them. Camp director Merritt eventually caught Miyatake, but instead of punishing him, allowed him to take pictures openly. Miyatake later became the camp's official photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His photos, some of which are featured in the video above, convey an intimacy with camp life absent in the pictures that Adams and Lange took. He captured laughter at a picnic and men delivering vegetables to the mess hall (at 4:21 in the video).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=466453528&mediaId=466969457\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His photos also had moments of silent protest. In one picture (5:03) three boys peer through the camp's barbed wire fence to the outside world. And in another, Miyatake's son, Archie, holds a pair of clippers against the fence, \"to show,\" Kirschner said, \"that at some point, the barbed wire has to come down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The leaking natural gas storage well near Porter Ranch on the outskirts of Los Angeles has been permanently sealed and shut down, after spewing methane into the atmosphere for months, California officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California Gas Co., the utility that owns the leaking well at its Aliso Canyon storage facility, announced Thursday that the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources has confirmed that the well is sealed for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The well had been leaking since late October, and was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/12/porter-ranch-gas-leak-temporarily-sealed-but-residents-still-uneasy\">brought under control last week\u003c/a>, after releasing \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/aliso_canyon/aliso_canyon_natural_gas_leak_updates-sa_flights_thru_feb_4_2016.pdf\">more than 5 billion cubic feet of natural gas\u003c/a>. California regulators recorded \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT9w1y72I6M\">video\u003c/a> of the moment the leak was sealed (the gas is invisible to the naked eye, but can be viewed on infrared camera):\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/TT9w1y72I6M'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/TT9w1y72I6M'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The well will now be taken out of service and never used again, as ordered by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/california-regulators-order-socalgas-to-permanently-close-leaking-well\">California regulators\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She says she and co-producer \u003ca href=\"http://itvs.org/films/no-mas-bebes/filmmaker\">Virginia Espino\u003c/a>, a historian who wrote her dissertation on the case, wanted to tell a multilayered story, one that revealed how even the best intentions could do harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tajima-Peña and Espino explore the roles played by federally funded family-planning programs; a growing popular movement to curb population growth that attracted both environmentalists and anti-immigration proponents; doctors fresh out of medical school working in under-resourced maternity wards; cultural misunderstandings; and the popular belief that poor women who need public assistance should abstain from having children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, these factors created what Tajima-Peña calls a “perfect storm” resulting in the sterilization of thousands of vulnerable women across the country in the late ’60s and early 1970s. 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"content": "\u003cp>Local air regulators are suing Southern California Gas Co. over the massive ongoing natural gas leak near the Los Angeles neighborhood of Porter Ranch, seeking millions of dollars in penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2698855-Civil-Suit-Against-SoCalGas.html\">The civil suit\u003c/a> alleges that SoCalGas's negligence led to injuries and has created \"an ongoing public nuisance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Coast Air Quality Management District's suit also notes the leak's deleterious impact on the environment, saying that global warming \"has caused significant harm to animals, plants and people around the globe\" and that the leak has increased the risk of future harm. The Los Angeles Times recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-porter-ranch-gas-leak-sg-20151225-storygallery.html\">broke down\u003c/a> the leak's impact on the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accusation of negligence is broad. The lawsuit accuses the gas company of negligence in designing, constructing, operating and inspecting the well; negligently operating and inspecting the facility as a whole; negligently responding to the leak once it had begun; and negligently hiring and overseeing contractors to work at the well and the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"GVT7PlYFiaqXiZJYC7jlPvZLQ5yqzahu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also accuses the company of knowingly violating the law, failing to act quickly enough to address the problem and causing physical harm to residents living near the leaking well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations carry a civil penalty, up to $250,000 for every day of the leak — a maximum that could push $30 million, given how long the utility expects it to take to cap the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times and The Associated Press both say SoCalGas declined to comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaking storage well at the Aliso Canyon facility has been spewing methane — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/12/14/the-hidden-climate-threat-that-gas-companies-noticed-but-rarely-fixed/\" target=\"_blank\">a potent greenhouse gas\u003c/a> — into the air for months now, and isn't anticipated to be repaired until late February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The odorants in the gas can cause headaches, nausea and vomiting; toxic chemicals such as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/15/gas-company-understated-benzene-exposure-from-porter-ranch-leak\">the carcinogen benzene\u003c/a> are also present at low levels. In the case of benzene, the gas company and state regulators say those levels are safe, while the World Health Organization says there is no safe level of airborne benzene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people living in nearby Porter Ranch have been evacuated, and Gov. Jerry Brown has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early attempts to plug the well failed due to the high pressure of the leak, and efforts to shut down the well have been delayed until the gas company finishes digging a relief well to reduce the pressure. On Monday, the company announced the relief well has reached 8,400 feet deep and is 200 feet away from intercepting the leaking well — but crossing that last bit of distance \"requires precision and accuracy, which takes time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleging negligence comes just days after the same air-quality regulators \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/california-regulators-order-socalgas-to-permanently-close-leaking-well\">hit SoCalGas with an abatement order\u003c/a> instructing them to shut down the well permanently and to fund independent research into potential health effects of the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Porter Ranch residents were upset that the Air Quality Management District hadn't ordered the gas company to shut down the entire Aliso Canyon facility, which contains more than 100 wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, questions continue to mount around the practices SoCalGas was utilizing at Aliso Canyon — and the broader issue of how effectively natural gas storage facilities are regulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10846970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10846970\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"A SoCalGas worker at the company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. A new lawsuit accuses SoCalGas of negligently operating and inspecting the facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-1440x899.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-1180x737.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SoCalGas worker at the company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. A new lawsuit accuses SoCalGas of negligently operating and inspecting the facility. \u003ccite>(Kim Rice-Bogdan/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Ingrid Lobet \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/21/463865377/california-examines-safety-of-gas-wells-amid-methane-leak\">reported on NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> last week\u003c/a>, the failed gas well was being used in a way that was risky but legal. The well consisted of a narrow tubing inside a casing — instead of using just the tubing to inject and withdraw gas, the company was using both. And the well, which is more than 60 years old, didn't have full concrete protection like a more modern well would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA Weekly had \u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/news/what-went-wrong-at-porter-ranch-6405804\">earlier reported\u003c/a> that a shutoff valve designed to stop catastrophic leaks was removed in the 1970s and never replaced — again, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/12/porter-ranch-gas-leak-spurs-legislation-to-avert-future-disasters\" target=\"_blank\">perfectly legal for that well\u003c/a>, but raising the risk of an unstoppable leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this week, Reuters reported that SoCalGas itself had been concerned over the infrastructure — even pieces of equipment that met regulators' criteria:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The leaking well's owner, Southern California Gas Co, warned state utility regulators in 2014 of 'major failures' without a rate hike to pay for comprehensive inspections of 229 storage wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twenty-six of its wells were 'high risk' and should be abandoned — even though they complied with state regulations, the utility wrote in a rate filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The previous year, Pacific Gas & Electric pointed to an absence of safety standards for storage wells as reason to launch its own monitoring program that went beyond state rules, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The industry's rising concern underscores the scant oversight of 400 underground natural gas storage facilities in 30 U.S. states. 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On Monday, the company announced the relief well has reached 8,400 feet deep and is 200 feet away from intercepting the leaking well — but crossing that last bit of distance \"requires precision and accuracy, which takes time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleging negligence comes just days after the same air-quality regulators \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/california-regulators-order-socalgas-to-permanently-close-leaking-well\">hit SoCalGas with an abatement order\u003c/a> instructing them to shut down the well permanently and to fund independent research into potential health effects of the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Porter Ranch residents were upset that the Air Quality Management District hadn't ordered the gas company to shut down the entire Aliso Canyon facility, which contains more than 100 wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, questions continue to mount around the practices SoCalGas was utilizing at Aliso Canyon — and the broader issue of how effectively natural gas storage facilities are regulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10846970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10846970\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"A SoCalGas worker at the company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. A new lawsuit accuses SoCalGas of negligently operating and inspecting the facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-1440x899.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-1180x737.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/AlisoCanyonWorker-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SoCalGas worker at the company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) finally manages to seal a natural gas storage well that's been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/porter-ranch\" target=\"_blank\">leaking for month\u003c/a>s, the company will have to shut the well down permanently, California regulators say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the meantime, the company will have to minimize air pollution from the ongoing leak and fund an independent study on potential health impacts on the surrounding community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Coast Air Quality Management District voted on \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/home/library/public-information/2016-news-archives/aliso-canyon-hb-order-issued-pr\">the new restrictions Saturday\u003c/a>. The order comes in response to a well in the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility that has been leaking since October, and isn't expected to be sealed off for another month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"X6XHUpRJx83eCrwyLbDNme01GWFxvvDz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive leak, in the outer reaches of Los Angeles, mostly consists of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, but also contains \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/15/gas-company-understated-benzene-exposure-from-porter-ranch-leak\">the carcinogen benzene\u003c/a> and other chemicals. The AP has said SoCalGas was not consistently alerting the public to unusually high levels of benzene. The company says none of the levels were dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compounds, added to natural gas to make it easier to detect, also have short-term side effects, including nausea and headaches, health officials say. Residents of the nearby Porter Ranch community have been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/reports-of-price-gouging-as-porter-ranch-families-look-for-temporary-homes\" target=\"_blank\">relocated to new homes\u003c/a> while the company works to cap the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas says the leak poses no long-term risks to human health. One of the requirements of the new abatement order is that the company fund an independent study evaluating the impact of the leak on residents' health — including the consequence of exposure to the odorants added to the gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also requires the company to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Permanently shut down and seal the well — not just fix the leak\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fund continuous air monitoring of the area\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Develop and implement a leak detection and reporting program covering all the wells at the facility\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Monitor the leaking well with an infrared camera for 30 days after the leak has ended (the gas is invisible to the naked eye)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Minimize gas leaking from the well as they work on the long-term solution.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Provide data to regulators to help calculate the total amount of methane leaked\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Submit a plan for notifying residents and the government of future emissions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Report all odor complaints to regulators\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Obtain approval from regulators before using \"odor suppressants or neutralizers\" to reduce the smell caused by the leak.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents were unhappy that regulators didn't go further and order SoCalGas to shut down the entire Aliso Canyon facility, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-porter-ranch-regulators-approve-comprehensive-abatement-order-over-massive-gas-leak-20160123-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10844733\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10844733\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-800x1006.jpg\" alt=\"Workers on-site at a relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1006\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-800x1006.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-400x503.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-768x966.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1440x1811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1180x1484.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-960x1207.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on-site at a relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Lance DeLaura/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\" target=\"_blank\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a> over the leaking well earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company attempted to plug the well several times, but the pressure of the leak overwhelmed the would-be blockages. The failed efforts appear to have weakened the well and increased the risk of a blowout, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">the L.A. Times has reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas is drilling a relief well to reduce the pressure before plugging the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/21/463865377/california-examines-safety-of-gas-wells-amid-methane-leak\">On NPR's \"All Things Considered\" last week\u003c/a>, Ingrid Lobet of the investigative news organization inewsource reported on the injection practices that may have contributed to the well's failure:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/463865377/463865398\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"An examination of state oil and gas records shows, and a state official confirms that the gas well that failed was being injected in a way that, while legal, can be risky. It's like this: Many wells have both a seven-inch casing and a narrow inner metal tubing. Think of it as a metal straw within another metal straw.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Natural gas was being forced down this well through both straws.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Experts told Lobet that injecting and withdrawing only through the inner tubing is safer, and protects the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The well, which was drilled in 1953, was used heavily — with injections almost daily, Lobet says. \"Like many wells its age, it also didn't have a full cement job. Cementing protects underground aquifers and it protects the well, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobet said the company declined to comment on its practices, but that a representative had previously said it would be premature to talk about the cause of the well failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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One of the requirements of the new abatement order is that the company fund an independent study evaluating the impact of the leak on residents' health — including the consequence of exposure to the odorants added to the gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also requires the company to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Permanently shut down and seal the well — not just fix the leak\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fund continuous air monitoring of the area\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Develop and implement a leak detection and reporting program covering all the wells at the facility\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Monitor the leaking well with an infrared camera for 30 days after the leak has ended (the gas is invisible to the naked eye)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Minimize gas leaking from the well as they work on the long-term solution.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Provide data to regulators to help calculate the total amount of methane leaked\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Submit a plan for notifying residents and the government of future emissions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Report all odor complaints to regulators\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Obtain approval from regulators before using \"odor suppressants or neutralizers\" to reduce the smell caused by the leak.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents were unhappy that regulators didn't go further and order SoCalGas to shut down the entire Aliso Canyon facility, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-porter-ranch-regulators-approve-comprehensive-abatement-order-over-massive-gas-leak-20160123-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10844733\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10844733\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-800x1006.jpg\" alt=\"Workers on-site at a relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1006\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-800x1006.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-400x503.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-768x966.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1440x1811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1180x1484.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-960x1207.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on-site at a relief well at SoCalGas' Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Lance DeLaura/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>In Fresno — the heart of California's agricultural community — police are looking for whoever attacked two elderly Sikh-American men. The incidents happened a week apart over the holidays. One man was fatally stabbed, another badly beaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attacks come amid reports of increased bullying and violence directed at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/01/02/461479969/long-before-they-were-apparent-muslims-sikhs-were-targeted-in-u-s\">Sikh-Americans around the country\u003c/a>, apparently because they are mistaken for Muslims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unprovoked and apparently unrelated attacks are a hot topic on \u003ca href=\"http://900kbif.com/\">KBIF-AM\u003c/a> in Fresno, where Gurdeep Shergill and his wife, Sonia, co-host a program on Saturday mornings for the 35,000 Sikh-Americans who live in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This morning I was talking about the hate crime, I was giving them the definition, what is hate crime, why they happen,\" Gurdeep Shergill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subject of hate crimes is ripe in the community. The day after Christmas, a 68-year-old farmworker, Amrik Singh Bal, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fresno-hate-crime-sikh-reward-20151229-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">was attacked and beaten by two white men\u003c/a> as he waited to be picked up for work. Bal was wearing a turban at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I tell my audience that we are Americans, and if we can’t feel safe in America, there’s no other place in the world where we can feel safe.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then on New Year's Day, another 68-year-old man, Gurcharan Singh Gill, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article53423305.html\" target=\"_blank\">fatally stabbed in the liquor store\u003c/a> where he worked. In that attack, Gill was not wearing a turban indicating he was Sikh, said Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we are looking at this as a potential hate crime as well,\" Dyer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer asked the FBI to help with their investigation. He said Sikhs have lived in Fresno for more than a century. As Dyer talked about what's happened in his hometown, his eyes became red and moist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was at a community meeting last week with a number of those individuals, and you could just sense the fear,\" he says. \"Are they being targeted as a result of being mistaken as a terrorist or extremist? Is it because of what occurred in San Bernardino or Paris? And those are all legitimate concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National advocacy groups are concerned as well. A spokesman for the Sikh Coalition, Mark Reading-Smith, says since the San Bernardino massacre last month, it's received three times as many reports of hate backlash than in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"nd4uVPmXF3U63EwxrfXzzA0h8CVXUhA5\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attacks are also unsettling to people attending Fresno gurdwaras — Sikh houses of worship. One man, who identified himself as \"Mr. Singh,\" said he won't stay at home or be intimidated from wearing a turban in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anytime, anytime something could happen\" says Singh as he shrugs his shoulders. He says Americans need to be better educated on the differences between Sikhs and Muslims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But would the attacks on Sikhs stop if people realized they aren't Muslim? That question troubles many in the Sikh community, especially younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem in that kind of narrative is it actually implicitly says there is a proper victim,\" says Nandeep Singh, executive director of the Jakara Movement, a youth-oriented nonprofit based in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we see rising Islamophobia, are we to back away from our fellow Americans, or to embrace them that much tighter?\" he says. \"To say that attacks against all is wrong. It really isn't attacks against Sikhs that are wrong, but it's really attacks against anybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh expects attacks on Sikhs could continue. But he also sees an opportunity for those in the Sikh community not just to educate people about who they are — but remind them they are Americans, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radio host Gurdeep Shergill agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tell my audience that we are Americans,\" he says. \"And if we can't feel safe in America, there's no other place in the world where we can feel safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of people drive for Uber in the U.S. The ride-hailing company has had high-profile fights in courts and city halls over the status of these drivers: Are they employees or contractors? Can they unionize?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fight that’s gotten far less attention — one that may affect drivers far more — is the competition between Uber and its main rival, Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Competition for drivers is so great that, about a year ago, Uber sent covert operatives into Lyft cars — to recruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isabella Dure-Biondi was one of these covert operatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t really care Lyft versus Uber,” she says. “But I had the chance to make money and I was getting free Lyft rides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Dramatic Tactic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2014, a woman who worked for Uber told Dure-Biondi she could make cash quick. They met at the Arbor Cafe in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had a laptop, and then she had me sign some” papers, Dure-Biondi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of 2014, Uber had hired hundreds of people across the country for this very grass-roots job. For its part, Lyft says it offers bonuses to current drivers who sign up new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dure-Biondi got Uber training on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We took a couple of rides together, and she kind of showed me how to” get Lyft drivers to switch to Uber, Dure-Biondi adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recruiter, who independently verified these details with NPR, gave Dure-Biondi an iPhone. For two months, Dure-Biondi would order Lyft cars, hop in and start chatting up the driver: How are you doing? How’s your day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, where are you from? Asking nice-people questions. Just being nice,” Dure-Biondi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, she’d casually slip in: “Why’d you decide to drive for Lyft? Oh, yeah, that’s really interesting. Well, would you ever consider driving for Uber? Why did you decide Lyft over Uber?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point in the conversation, Dure-Biondi would reveal that she’s an Uber ambassador, and if the driver signs up right now, they’ll each make hundreds of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, only one guy agreed. Dure-Biondi says the big bonus wasn’t enough: “A lot of people chose Lyft because of the morals of it versus Uber. It was more of a friendly company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drivers Compare the Services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Christopherson drives for both Lyft and Uber. “Yeah, I think that there is a difference in the relationship between passengers and drivers in the two platforms,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with two dozen people who decided to work for both companies. And consistently, these drivers say: In Lyft there are fewer expectations. It’s more touchy-feely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passengers are supposed to hop in the front seat and be friendly because, as the motto goes, the driver is “your friend with a car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have very few problems with Lyft passengers,” Christopherson says. “They’re generally very nice. Or if they’re not nice, they’re quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber started as a luxury brand. Its motto is “everyone’s private driver.” So, Christopherson says, for people like him — people who drive super-part time, who have other jobs — it’s not a great feeling when passengers expect a chauffeur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t really kind of care about what you think of them. And so it’s a little more fraught,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/463473462/463503908\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driver Jennifer Rose agrees there’s a difference, but doesn’t think it’s a bad thing. On days when she’s high on life, has great news about her kids, she can really enjoy a chatty Lyft passenger. Other times, she likes the quiet. “I can appreciate the person who wants to talk the whole trip or the person who just wants to sit there and take a ride,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financially, there are differences too. NPR examined drivers’ payment statements. Lyft takes 20 percent of fares. Uber takes 20 to 25 percent on the standard service, and 28 percent on the SUV service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most drivers say these percentages are fairly comparable. It’s another line item that stands out: “The one thing that Lyft does and Uber doesn’t is tipping! Did you notice that looking at the [statements]?” Christopherson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft says its drivers earned about $58 million last year — on top of fares — through tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lyft: Mission Is Different \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft Chief Marketing Officer Kira Wampler says the company is more focused on driver well-being than Uber is because Lyft has a different mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While both companies want to improve transportation, Lyft explicitly has an environmental goal: having fewer cars on the road and filling empty seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t fill every seat in every car unless the people in each car treat each other well,” Wampler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber declined an interview to discuss driver benefits. But in an email, Faryl Ury, a company spokeswoman, says it’s misleading to just say that Uber takes a bigger cut from drivers. Driver earnings depend a lot on how many rides they get, and in most markets Uber has more passengers calling. On tipping, Ury says, research shows tips are not really based on quality of service, so drivers could be rewarded or dinged unfairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryder Pearce, co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sherpashare.com/\">Sherpashare\u003c/a>, a site that tracks wages and expenses for on-demand drivers, says competition is an “enormous benefit” for workers. When Uber or Lyft announces a new perk, the other follows, thereby pushing up the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, both companies recently announced short-term car rentals for drivers who don’t have their own wheels or insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uber and Lyft both recognize that if they don’t keep rates competitive, and add more driver perks — and both have very large teams working on this — they will lose out on drivers,” Pearce says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherpashare data indicate many drivers work for more than one service. Pearce says they don’t have a strong incentive to be loyal because the differences between companies are not that stark. Drivers’ bottom-line concern: “They just want to log in and have passengers to pick up,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If one company won and got all the business, he says, drivers would lose out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+The+Battle+Between+Lyft+And+Uber%2C+The+Focus+Is+On+Drivers&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcript :\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s turn now to one of the fiercest business rivalries made possible by the smartphone app revolution. It’s time for All Tech considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAPIRO: Hundreds of thousands of people now drive for either Uber or Lyft, providing rides at the touch of an app. There have been legal debates over their status. Are the drivers contractors or employees? Can they unionize? Now add this to the driver’s dilemma: When they sign on to drive for one company, drivers become a recruitment target for the other. Here’s NPR’s Aarti Shahani in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AARTI SHAHANI, BYLINE: In the Bay Area, both companies are big, and competition for drivers is so great that about a year back, Uber sent covert operatives into Lyft cars to recruit. Isabella Dure-Biondi was one of these covert operatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ISABELLA DURE-BIONDI: And, like, I don’t really care Lyft versus Uber, like. But I had the chance to make money, and I was getting free Lyft rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: In November of 2014, a woman who worked for Uber told Dure-Biondi she could make cash quick. They met right here at the Arbor Cafe in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DURE-BIONDI: She had a laptop, and she had me sign some, like, online papers. And I think she had some, like, paper papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: By the end of 2014, Uber had hired hundreds of people across the country for this very gras-roots job. For its part, Lyft says it offers bonuses to current drivers who sign on new ones. Dure-Biondi got Uber training quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DURE-BIONDI: We took a couple of rides together, and she kind of showed me how to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: The recruiter who independently verified these details with NPR gave Dure-Biondi an iPhone. For two months, she would order Lyft cars, hop in and start chatting up the driver. How are you doing? How’s your day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DURE-BIONDI: Oh, where are you from — asking kind of, like, nice-people questions, just being nice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: And then casually slip in …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DURE-BIONDI: Why did you decide to drive for Lyft? Oh, yeah, that’s really interesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: Nod, nod, nod, and then …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DURE-BIONDI: You’d be, like, well, would you ever consider driving for Uber? Like, why did you decide Lyft over Uber?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: At this point in the conversation, Dure-Biondi would reveal she’s an Uber ambassador, and if the driver signs up right now, they each make hundreds of dollars. Interestingly, only one guy agreed. Dure-Biondi says the big bonus wasn’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DURE-BIONDI: A lot of people chose Lyft because of the, like, morals of it versus Uber. You know, it was more of a, like, friendly company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SCOTT CHRISTOPHERSON: That’s the thing. Yeah, I think that there is a difference in the relationship between passengers and drivers in the two platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: Scott Christopherson drives for Lyft and Uber. NPR spoke with two dozen people who decided to work for both. And consistently, these drivers say in Lyft cars, there are fewer expectations. Passengers are supposed to hop in the front seat and be friendly because, as the motto goes, the driver is your friend with a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHRISTOPHERSON: I’ve had very few problems with the Lyft passengers. They’re generally very nice, or if they’re not nice, they’re quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: Uber started as a luxury brand. Its motto is, everyone’s private driver. So, Christopherson says, for people like him, people who drive super part-time who have other jobs, it’s not a great feeling when passengers expect a chauffeur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHRISTOPHERSON: They don’t really kind of care about what you think of them, and so it’s a little more fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: Financially, there are differences, too. NPR examined drivers’ payment statements. Lyft takes 20 percent of fairs. Uber takes 20 to 25 percent on the standard service and 28 percent on the SUV service. Most drivers say these percentages are fairly comparable. It’s another line item that stands out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHRISTOPHERSON: The one thing that Lyft does and Uber doesn’t is tipping. Did you notice that looking at the things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: Chief marketing officer Kira Wampler says Lyft is more focused on driver well-being than Uber is because it’s got a different mission. While both companies want to improve transportation, Lyft explicitly has an environmental goal to get fewer cars on the road and fill empty seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KIRA WAMPLER: You can’t fill every seat in every car unless the people in the car treat each other well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: Uber declined an interview to discuss driver benefits, but in an email, a company spokeswoman says it’s misleading to just say Uber takes a bigger cut from drivers. Driver earnings depend a lot on how many rides they get, and Uber has more passengers calling. 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"content": "\u003cp>The company that owns the leaking natural gas well in Los Angeles understated the number of air samples showing higher-than-usual levels of benzene, The Associated Press reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to concerns over the disaster, efforts to stop the leak appear to have destabilized the well, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>, raising the risk of a blowout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leak at Porter Ranch, which recently prompted California to declare \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\">a state of emergency\u003c/a>, has been spewing enormous quantities of the greenhouse gas methane into the air \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/23/porter-ranch-residents-at-wits-end-over-months-old-gas-leak\">for months\u003c/a>. It's expected to take months more to fix. The disaster \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/11/462627012/la-councilman-compares-porter-ranch-gas-leak-to-bp-oil-spill-but-on-land\">has been compared to the BP oil spill\u003c/a> for its impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company that owns the leaking well, Southern California Gas Co., \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/12/14/56207/socal-gas-took-days-to-inform-residents-local-agen/\">has been under fire\u003c/a> for not quickly communicating to nearby residents when the leak (which is invisible to the naked eye) began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10833735\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10833735\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1.jpg\" alt=\"Workers on-site at a relief well SoCalGas drilled to try and stop the leak at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"768\" height=\"934\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1-400x486.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on-site at a relief well SoCalGas drilled to try and stop the leak at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Lance DeLaura/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now the AP says the utility has also been less than transparent about the results of its air tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas \"understated the number of times airborne levels of the cancer-causing chemical benzene have spiked during the crisis,\" the wire service reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice-daily \u003ca href=\"https://www.alisoupdates.com/acu-aliso-canyon-air-sample-results\">air sample results\u003c/a> have been posted online by the company. Summarizing the results, the company said benzene — which is known to cause \u003ca href=\"http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp\">leukemia and anemia\u003c/a> — was detected at \"extremely low concentrations ... consistent with the levels expected for the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Coast Air Quality Management District's \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/air-quality/air-toxic-studies/mates-iv/mates-iv-final-draft-report-4-1-15.pdf?sfvrsn=7\">most recent report on air pollution\u003c/a> notes that average levels of benzene across the L.A. area are less than 0.5 parts per billion. But the company puts \"levels expected for the area\" at up to 2 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP reports says that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Apparently relying on that standard, SoCalGas originally said that benzene was found in amounts slightly higher than background levels in just two samples, both on Nov. 10. The suspect readings were 5.6 parts per billion in one gated development about a mile from the well and 3.7 parts per billion in the Porter Ranch Estates neighborhood of 1,100 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, a more detailed look at the data by the AP and outside experts showed at least 10 other instances over seven days in November when benzene exceeded 1 part per billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In its update Thursday, SoCalGas said that nearly 1,200 tests had found 14 instances where benzene exceeded 1 part per billion, including one time in December.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A SoCalGas spokeswoman called the omission of those readings from the summaries \"an oversight,\" the AP says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company maintains there's no health risk posed by the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much benzene threatens human health? It depends on whom you ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>SoCalGas points to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=10043\">OSHA standard\u003c/a> for acceptable workplace exposure, which is 1,000 ppb over an eight-hour period.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://oehha.ca.gov/air/chronic_rels/pdf/BenzeneRELsJune2014.pdf\">California's EPA\u003c/a> has defined stricter levels for benzene: 8 ppb for acute exposure (one hour) and 1 ppb for eight-hour or chronic exposure.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The World Health Organization maintains there is \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/ipcs/features/benzene.pdf\">no safe concentration of benzene.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">reports\u003c/a> that SoCalGas' efforts to cap the well have actually increased the risk of a blowout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"KSBPwVARzVWbX3cKA8YnSpQtbpEUeYUL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven attempts to plug the leak have made the area less stable, the paper reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The chief deputy director of the [California Department of Conservation], Jason Marshall, and a senior oil and gas field regulator assigned to daily watch at Aliso Canyon, Scott McGurk, told The Times the site and wellhead were made more unstable by the gas company's attempts to stop the leak by pumping a slurry directly into the well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last of those efforts, which stretched over several days beginning Dec. 22, expanded a crater around the wellhead, state and gas company officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The crater is now 25 feet deep, 80 feet long and 30 feet wide, those officials said. The wellhead sits exposed within the cavernous space, held in place with cables attached after it wobbled during the plugging attempt, Marshall and McGurk said. The well pipe and its control valves are exposed and unsupported within that hole, atop a deep field of pressurized gas. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" 'If the wellhead fails, the thing is just going to be full blast,' said Gene Nelson, a physical sciences professor at Cuesta College. \"It will be a horrible, horrible problem. The leak rates would go way up.' \"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The newspaper also notes that even without a blowout, the leak could catch on fire. It quoted California Department of Conservation spokesman Don Drysdale as saying the possibility is \"a concern.\" You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-aliso-well-hole-20160115-story.html\">read the Times' full report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. 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Summarizing the results, the company said benzene — which is known to cause \u003ca href=\"http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp\">leukemia and anemia\u003c/a> — was detected at \"extremely low concentrations ... consistent with the levels expected for the area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Coast Air Quality Management District's \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/air-quality/air-toxic-studies/mates-iv/mates-iv-final-draft-report-4-1-15.pdf?sfvrsn=7\">most recent report on air pollution\u003c/a> notes that average levels of benzene across the L.A. area are less than 0.5 parts per billion. But the company puts \"levels expected for the area\" at up to 2 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP reports says that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Apparently relying on that standard, SoCalGas originally said that benzene was found in amounts slightly higher than background levels in just two samples, both on Nov. 10. The suspect readings were 5.6 parts per billion in one gated development about a mile from the well and 3.7 parts per billion in the Porter Ranch Estates neighborhood of 1,100 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, a more detailed look at the data by the AP and outside experts showed at least 10 other instances over seven days in November when benzene exceeded 1 part per billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In its update Thursday, SoCalGas said that nearly 1,200 tests had found 14 instances where benzene exceeded 1 part per billion, including one time in December.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A SoCalGas spokeswoman called the omission of those readings from the summaries \"an oversight,\" the AP says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company maintains there's no health risk posed by the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much benzene threatens human health? 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"content": "\u003cp>News that the NFL's owners approved a plan to move the St. Louis Rams back to Los Angeles next season is causing excitement in California — and bitter dismay in St. Louis, where fans and officials alike say they feel betrayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late on Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/12/462848857/nfl-votes-to-move-rams-to-los-angeles-with-option-for-chargers-to-join-them\">the NFL endorsed Rams owner Stan Kroenke's proposal\u003c/a> to build a $1.86 billion stadium in Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles. It also gave the San Diego Chargers an option to share the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, St. Louis fans vented their sadness and anger, mixed with appreciation for the franchise that won a Super Bowl in 2000. 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Local podcast host Kelly Manno launched a plan to send $250 worth of animal excrement to Kroenke — a plan that has now apparently been carried out, after Manno said \u003ca href=\"http://kellymanno.blogspot.com/2016/01/who-wants-to-help-send-stan-kroenke-box.html\">her public financing goal\u003c/a> was surpassed in just six hours. She used a Web service — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipoopyou.com/\">I Poop You\u003c/a> — to send the package, as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/01/13/yes-a-st-louis-radio-host-just-sent-stan-kroenke-a-huge-pile-of-shit\">Riverfront Times\u003c/a> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other fans took a more personal route, dropping off jerseys and other team memorabilia at Rams Park. Local TV \u003ca href=\"http://fox2now.com/2016/01/13/silence-of-the-rams-nfl-approves-vote-to-move-to-los-angeles/\">2 Now reports\u003c/a> that \"fans, or former fans, are purposely driving past the park to throw out unwanted jerseys and team gear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10831757\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10831757\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-1440x1652.jpg\" alt=\"St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke.\" width=\"640\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-1440x1652.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-400x459.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-800x918.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-768x881.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-1180x1353.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-960x1101.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke. \u003ccite>(GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saying that the NFL had ignored the truth about his city as well as fans \"who supported the team through far more downs than ups,\" St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay says, \"St. Louis is great place to live and build a business — with or without NFL football.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collecting other reactions Wednesday, the \u003ca href=\"http://sports.live.stltoday.com/Article/1694945-Rams-fans-react-to-teams-departure\">St. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c/a> included several tweets from fans who cited kids' disappointment. One photo showed a child opening a Christmas present containing a Rams jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breakups between a pro sports franchise and a host city are rarely amicable. For many in L.A., there were hard feelings when the Rams left after the 1994 season. And in that city today, the mood for many enduring Rams fans is one of jubilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A posting about the move on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/latimes\">the Los Angeles Times Facebook page\u003c/a> has drawn enthusiastic responses, with some fans welcoming the return of rivalries such as the 49ers-Rams. But one of the highest-ranked comments read, \"LOS ANGELES RAIDERS... nobody wants the rams only those yellow journalism workers at the LA times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/news/nfl-football-returns-to-la-6472979\">LA Weekly\u003c/a> celebrated the decision by exclaiming, \"NFL Football Returns To L.A.!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti welcomed the move by saying, \"With the NFL returning home, Los Angeles cements itself as the epicenter of the sports world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans in St. Louis will likely take scant solace in the fact that they're not the only losers in this deal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000621841/article/nfls-return-to-la-business-deal-smiles-on-rams-hurts-others\">NFL.com's Judy Battista writes\u003c/a> that Chargers owner Dean Spanos and Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis, who presented a rival plan to share a stadium in L.A., were also spurned:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They, alone on that stage, knew what St. Louis Rams fans were feeling Tuesday night, because they had just endured a day in which the people they thought would have their backs had instead rejected them — dramatically, stunningly, but soundly.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Battista also notes that when the NFL's team owners voted on the proposals, they did so by secret ballot. The final tally was 30-2 in favor of Kroenke's plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current and former Rams players had a range of reactions to the deal. Kurt Warner, quarterback of the Super Bowl-winning team, told \"all the awesome St. Louis Rams fans\" that he'll never forget them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former running back Eric Dickerson, who played for the Los Angeles Rams in the 1980s, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EricDickerson/status/687088316613693440\">tweeted\u003c/a>, \"Welcome home! #LARams2016.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the headline \"It's over,\" \u003ca href=\"http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/its-over-kroenke-moving-rams-los-angeles\">St. Louis Public Radio\u003c/a> reports, \"The moving trucks lining up at Rams' Park will mark the second time since 1988 that an NFL squad departed from the Gateway City. It's unclear whether the city will get another chance at hosting that professional sport.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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Local podcast host Kelly Manno launched a plan to send $250 worth of animal excrement to Kroenke — a plan that has now apparently been carried out, after Manno said \u003ca href=\"http://kellymanno.blogspot.com/2016/01/who-wants-to-help-send-stan-kroenke-box.html\">her public financing goal\u003c/a> was surpassed in just six hours. She used a Web service — \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipoopyou.com/\">I Poop You\u003c/a> — to send the package, as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/01/13/yes-a-st-louis-radio-host-just-sent-stan-kroenke-a-huge-pile-of-shit\">Riverfront Times\u003c/a> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other fans took a more personal route, dropping off jerseys and other team memorabilia at Rams Park. Local TV \u003ca href=\"http://fox2now.com/2016/01/13/silence-of-the-rams-nfl-approves-vote-to-move-to-los-angeles/\">2 Now reports\u003c/a> that \"fans, or former fans, are purposely driving past the park to throw out unwanted jerseys and team gear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10831757\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10831757\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-1440x1652.jpg\" alt=\"St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke.\" width=\"640\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-1440x1652.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-400x459.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-800x918.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-768x881.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-1180x1353.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/StanK-960x1101.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke. \u003ccite>(GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saying that the NFL had ignored the truth about his city as well as fans \"who supported the team through far more downs than ups,\" St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay says, \"St. Louis is great place to live and build a business — with or without NFL football.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collecting other reactions Wednesday, the \u003ca href=\"http://sports.live.stltoday.com/Article/1694945-Rams-fans-react-to-teams-departure\">St. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c/a> included several tweets from fans who cited kids' disappointment. One photo showed a child opening a Christmas present containing a Rams jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breakups between a pro sports franchise and a host city are rarely amicable. For many in L.A., there were hard feelings when the Rams left after the 1994 season. And in that city today, the mood for many enduring Rams fans is one of jubilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A posting about the move on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/latimes\">the Los Angeles Times Facebook page\u003c/a> has drawn enthusiastic responses, with some fans welcoming the return of rivalries such as the 49ers-Rams. But one of the highest-ranked comments read, \"LOS ANGELES RAIDERS... nobody wants the rams only those yellow journalism workers at the LA times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/news/nfl-football-returns-to-la-6472979\">LA Weekly\u003c/a> celebrated the decision by exclaiming, \"NFL Football Returns To L.A.!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti welcomed the move by saying, \"With the NFL returning home, Los Angeles cements itself as the epicenter of the sports world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans in St. Louis will likely take scant solace in the fact that they're not the only losers in this deal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000621841/article/nfls-return-to-la-business-deal-smiles-on-rams-hurts-others\">NFL.com's Judy Battista writes\u003c/a> that Chargers owner Dean Spanos and Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis, who presented a rival plan to share a stadium in L.A., were also spurned:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They, alone on that stage, knew what St. Louis Rams fans were feeling Tuesday night, because they had just endured a day in which the people they thought would have their backs had instead rejected them — dramatically, stunningly, but soundly.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Battista also notes that when the NFL's team owners voted on the proposals, they did so by secret ballot. The final tally was 30-2 in favor of Kroenke's plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current and former Rams players had a range of reactions to the deal. Kurt Warner, quarterback of the Super Bowl-winning team, told \"all the awesome St. Louis Rams fans\" that he'll never forget them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former running back Eric Dickerson, who played for the Los Angeles Rams in the 1980s, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EricDickerson/status/687088316613693440\">tweeted\u003c/a>, \"Welcome home! #LARams2016.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the headline \"It's over,\" \u003ca href=\"http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/its-over-kroenke-moving-rams-los-angeles\">St. Louis Public Radio\u003c/a> reports, \"The moving trucks lining up at Rams' Park will mark the second time since 1988 that an NFL squad departed from the Gateway City. It's unclear whether the city will get another chance at hosting that professional sport.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two teams of geologists say portions of the seafloor along the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska could produce tsunamis more devastating than anything seen in the past century. They say California and Hawaii are directly in the line of fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsunamis — the giant waves generated by undersea earthquakes or landslides — have hit U.S. shorelines before. Often they start along the Aleutian island chain that curves in an arc across the North Pacific. Right underneath, there’s a trench where two pieces of the Earth’s crust are colliding. The edge of the Pacific Plate is shoving itself under the edge of the North American Plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occasionally a segment of the trench along the plate margins gives way with ferocious results — a massive earthquake. These \u003ca href=\"http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/eoc/teachers/t_tectonics/p_subduction.html\">subduction\u003c/a> quakes are the type that produce a tsunami, as a giant section of the earth collapses. It’s like waving your hand underwater — the collapse creates a wave that can travel thousands of miles. In the past century, several such tsunamis have inundated parts of Hawaii, Alaska and California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geophysicist \u003ca href=\"http://energy.usgs.gov/GeochemistryGeophysics/SeismicDataProcessingInterpretation/SeismicStaff.aspx\">John Miller \u003c/a>and a team at the U.S. Geological Survey have been studying one particular segment that worries Miller. It’s quiet. Too quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/462708068/462821853\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stress isn’t being relieved by small seismic events,” Miller says, referring to small earthquakes. “It suggests that it’s building up a tremendous amount of tension.” If too much tension builds up, the segment will unzip along the plate margin or along faults in that margin, causing a quake. His research team’s \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GC006147/full\">analysis\u003c/a> was recently published online in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”cXyGFgMKxBj9oCGy2kRXqiqYlMlwNWNi”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller says this segment of the trench, called the Semidi, poses a special risk. A tsunami created by its rupture would travel outward at a 90-degree angle from the segment. “[A] perpendicular [line] to that section of the trench,” he says, “aims right at California.” He says that means a big quake could produce a tsunami that would score a direct hit on California’s coastline from San Francisco to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past 100 years, other tsunamis have come from other parts of the Aleutians, he points out; since the trench is shaped in an arc, each segment of it “points” in a slightly different direction in terms of the waves created when it ruptures. Consequently, tsunamis emanating from that region of the seafloor in the recent past have mostly missed population centers, or struck only glancing blows. The Semidi, in contrast, points directly at Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Miller says a tsunami from the Semidi could be as big as the one that struck Japan in 2011.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Miller and his team have found evidence that the Semidi segment ruptures about once every 180 to 270 years. The last time it erupted was 1788.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That last great earthquake was 227 years ago; so there’s a possibility that we’re going to have another big one at any time,” Miller says, because we’re near the end of that recurrence interval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller says a tsunami from the Semidi could be as big as the one that \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/04/07/135181474/in-japan-shaken-soil-turned-soft-after-quake\">struck Japan\u003c/a> in 2011. “I think the public just needs to be aware that tsunamis of this magnitude can occur, and they can cause a lot of damage,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coincidentally, another USGS team says there’s \u003cem>another\u003c/em> part of the Aleutian chain that poses what the scientists say is a “previously unrecognized” tsunami threat. Geologist \u003ca href=\"http://alaska.usgs.gov/staff/staffbio.php?employeeid=445\">Rob Witter\u003c/a>, out of Anchorage, Alaska, led that team. An underground rupture and resulting quake along certain parts of that trench, he says, would point a tsunami “straight toward Hawaii.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10830638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10830638 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-1440x900.jpg\" alt=\"People run from an approaching tsunami in Hilo, Hawaii on April 1, 1946. The same tsunami hit Central California, and was generated by a fault rupture near the Aleutian Islands.\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-1440x900.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-400x250.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People run from an approaching tsunami in Hilo, Hawaii, on April 1, 1946. The same tsunami hit Central California, and was generated by a fault rupture near the Aleutian Islands. \u003ccite>(USGS/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Witter says this segment of the trench hasn’t been considered a threat by most scientists because it’s “creeping” — the opposing edges along the trench there are actually moving, relative to each other, but very slowly. Theoretically, that should relieve the stress, making a quake unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not so fast, says Witter. There’s now good evidence that this creeping segment has in fact caused quakes as well as tsunamis in the past. His team has found evidence of at least six such events over the past 1,700 years that probably started with ruptures in this Fox Island section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence includes sheets of sand and debris that were pushed up onto hills on another Alaskan island as the big waves moved in. One of those tsunamis was so big it pushed huge logs and other debris about 50 feet above sea level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witter notes that Hawaii and California have warning systems that would alert people of a tsunami’s arrival at least four hours ahead of time. But residents have to pay attention to those warnings, if they’re to work, he says. “I think the take-home message here is, be aware and practice your evacuation plan. A tsunami along the coastlines could happen. It could happen tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witter’s \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL066083/abstract\">research\u003c/a> was published online this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. He says he is not surprised that the peculiarities of these segments are just now coming to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hardly anything is known about the long-term history of earthquakes and tsunamis in the Aleutian chain over the last several thousand years,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an urgent need, he says, to do more surveys of the seafloor in the area to understand what’s going on there, and what’s likely to happen in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/\u003c/p>\n\n",
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A tsunami created by its rupture would travel outward at a 90-degree angle from the segment. “[A] perpendicular [line] to that section of the trench,” he says, “aims right at California.” He says that means a big quake could produce a tsunami that would score a direct hit on California’s coastline from San Francisco to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past 100 years, other tsunamis have come from other parts of the Aleutians, he points out; since the trench is shaped in an arc, each segment of it “points” in a slightly different direction in terms of the waves created when it ruptures. Consequently, tsunamis emanating from that region of the seafloor in the recent past have mostly missed population centers, or struck only glancing blows. The Semidi, in contrast, points directly at Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Miller says a tsunami from the Semidi could be as big as the one that struck Japan in 2011.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Miller and his team have found evidence that the Semidi segment ruptures about once every 180 to 270 years. The last time it erupted was 1788.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That last great earthquake was 227 years ago; so there’s a possibility that we’re going to have another big one at any time,” Miller says, because we’re near the end of that recurrence interval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller says a tsunami from the Semidi could be as big as the one that \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/04/07/135181474/in-japan-shaken-soil-turned-soft-after-quake\">struck Japan\u003c/a> in 2011. “I think the public just needs to be aware that tsunamis of this magnitude can occur, and they can cause a lot of damage,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coincidentally, another USGS team says there’s \u003cem>another\u003c/em> part of the Aleutian chain that poses what the scientists say is a “previously unrecognized” tsunami threat. Geologist \u003ca href=\"http://alaska.usgs.gov/staff/staffbio.php?employeeid=445\">Rob Witter\u003c/a>, out of Anchorage, Alaska, led that team. An underground rupture and resulting quake along certain parts of that trench, he says, would point a tsunami “straight toward Hawaii.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10830638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10830638 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-1440x900.jpg\" alt=\"People run from an approaching tsunami in Hilo, Hawaii on April 1, 1946. The same tsunami hit Central California, and was generated by a fault rupture near the Aleutian Islands.\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-1440x900.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-400x250.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HiloTsunami1946-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People run from an approaching tsunami in Hilo, Hawaii, on April 1, 1946. The same tsunami hit Central California, and was generated by a fault rupture near the Aleutian Islands. \u003ccite>(USGS/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Witter says this segment of the trench hasn’t been considered a threat by most scientists because it’s “creeping” — the opposing edges along the trench there are actually moving, relative to each other, but very slowly. Theoretically, that should relieve the stress, making a quake unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not so fast, says Witter. There’s now good evidence that this creeping segment has in fact caused quakes as well as tsunamis in the past. His team has found evidence of at least six such events over the past 1,700 years that probably started with ruptures in this Fox Island section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence includes sheets of sand and debris that were pushed up onto hills on another Alaskan island as the big waves moved in. One of those tsunamis was so big it pushed huge logs and other debris about 50 feet above sea level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witter notes that Hawaii and California have warning systems that would alert people of a tsunami’s arrival at least four hours ahead of time. But residents have to pay attention to those warnings, if they’re to work, he says. “I think the take-home message here is, be aware and practice your evacuation plan. A tsunami along the coastlines could happen. It could happen tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witter’s \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL066083/abstract\">research\u003c/a> was published online this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. He says he is not surprised that the peculiarities of these segments are just now coming to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hardly anything is known about the long-term history of earthquakes and tsunamis in the Aleutian chain over the last several thousand years,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an urgent need, he says, to do more surveys of the seafloor in the area to understand what’s going on there, and what’s likely to happen in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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