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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_49396\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/Daniel_Kottke-225x300.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/Daniel_Kottke-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Daniel_Kottke-225x300\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49396\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Wikipedia\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago we posted \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/25/interview-apple-employee-no-12-dan-kottke-on-companys-earliest-days-and-steve-jobs-in-college/\">\u003cstrong>Part 1 of Peter Jon Shuler’s interview with Dan Kottke\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, aka Apple employee No. 12. Kottke first met Jobs when both attended Reed College in Oregon and the two became close friends, traveling to India together. 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Because I didn’t know I was not going to be eligible for stock options, and didn’t find out till many years later when it was too late. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days of the \u003ca href=\"http://oldcomputers.net/appleii.html\">Apple II\u003c/a>, Hildy Licht ran a business where she had housewives doing the same work. She was there right at the very beginning of Apple. She built the power supplies. If you don’t want thousands of something, only 50 — and money was tight back then — you do something like that. From the very beginning Apple was hungry for all types of peripheral cards, and there was a steady stream of work to be done. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hildy was a character. She had a start-up business where she had housewives doing the same kind of work Steve’s sister Patti Jobs was doing, where you could watch TV while stuffing boards with components. Then she had a wave solder machine and they would be run through. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I quickly developed an aptitude for troubleshooting. My whole first year was in production as an hourly employee. Then \u003ca href=\"http://www.storiesofapple.net/jack-of-all-apple-trades-interview-with-bill-fernandez.html\">Bill Fernandez\u003c/a> left, which left an opening for me to move into his place in engineering. I’ll always be grateful to him. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He left because he found out he wasn’t going to get a stock option. At the time, the issue of stock options wasn’t publicized, and there was no one to talk to about it because there was no such thing as a personnel department. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 1984, we were all recruited to do the trade shows and to introduce the Mac to everyone else. At that point I was 30 and had been working since the week I graduated college. So I went off to Europe for a few months and then came back and instantly had people offering to hire me as a contract engineer. So I didn’t have enough excuse to go back to Apple. That went on for 10 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Macintosh, I was the one who did the keyboard, which was a single-chip computer, a computer subsystem. That was my first embedded system project. And I did many embedded designs over the next decade for a range of start-ups, none of which made money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me as an unskilled person working in a different field, I like to think I was using some natural perseverance, and was hard working got good at what I was doing. I looked at Woz and Jobs and saw they didn’t have degrees. But what I didn’t appreciate is that they had been steeped in technology for many years. I was such a newcomer, the whole time at Apple I felt I was playing catch-up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It seems like Woz was the consummate engineer, and Steve was the promoter…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very much so. And Steve to his credit was harnessing Woz. Woz did not have the entrepreneurial urge and was really happy at his job at Hewlett Packard, and I think he’s been on record as saying he would have been happy staying there. So Steve jobs gets credit for seeing what the situation was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/bushnell.html\">Nolan Bushnell\u003c/a> of Atari also was a big part of forming Steve Jobs’ character. Because Steve looked at Nolan and his success at Atari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was very surprising to me how focused and serious Jobs got about what he was doing with the Apple I, because I didn’t understand the opportunity myself. That was where Steve’s personality shift happened –- long before there was money involved. There was money, but it was more like here’s something we can do and change society because the computer had huge growth potential. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much did he contribute to Woz’s design of the Apple I? Possibly nothing. Woz had this idea about sticking the processor on the TV/typewriter. It’s a complicated thing to make the timing chains to generate video. Then using dynamic RAM was a stroke of great brilliance. So the Apple I came out with 4k expandable to 8k. I can believe that Woz came up with all of that hardware on his own and somehow Steve heard about it and was smart enough to say well this is unique, maybe somebody would want to buy this. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the point that they decided to spend the money to lay out a circuit board, I think that was before the order to the Byte Shops, so they were going out on a limb. And that was when Steve sold his van and Woz sold his HP calculator and they raised a few thousand dollars and paid a layout guy to do a PC layout and make the circuit boards. And then there was the small item of the $30,000 worth of small parts that needed to be ordered. That was the point at which \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=ron+wayne\">Ron Wayne\u003c/a>, who was the third founding partner, got cold feet, because he had a mortgage to pay, unlike these 2 kids. He felt like he was the adult and he couldn’t keep up with these guys. When Steve Jobs told him he had ordered $30,000 worth of parts, that was a lot of money, and Ron backed out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a lot of ferment going on. In 1975, that was the year of the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club\">Homebrew Computer Club\u003c/a>. It was a whole auditorium filled with people and all kinds of stuff was going on. I didn’t appreciate technically what was going on; I was just tagging along. The Altair had launched onto the national market, and Bill Gates and Paul Allen were already down in Albuquerque starting Microsoft about that time. Right here, in Palo Alto, people were making graphic cards for the Altair other computers. And the first Internet broadcast packet at SRI was right around that time, too. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve gets immense credit for having the entrepreneurial spirit in taking that first step to make the Apple I. And Woz of course was a superhuman engineer in that he did the hardware architecture and built the prototype and got the hardware debugged and wrote the monitor ROM, which was the routines. And then he went right ahead and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC\">wrote his own BASIC\u003c/a>. It was the BASIC running on the Apple I that really set it apart, because none of the others had something like that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> So what do you think there was about Jobs’ personality that allowed for his great success? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a mix of all the various skills. You have to be technical enough to understand what you’re doing, you have to have a broad enough feeling for the culture you live in to know when to persevere. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m sure Steve idolized Thomas Edison as a boy; Edison gave us the clear message about perseverance. He was toiling away on lots of things, many of which were failures. The combination of perseverance, technical ability, and vision in a marketing sense. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He gets huge credit for the marketing vision embodied in the \u003ca href=\"</a>%E2%80%9C>Apple%20II</a>,%20which%20was%20the%20lightweight%20plastic%20case.%20That%20was%20not%20a%20technical%20decision;%20that%20was%20a%20consumer%20electtonics%20marketing%20direction.%20That%20was%20his%20vision,%20to%20make%20it%20lightweight,%20unlike%20all%20the%20other%20computers%20that%20had%20big%20grapefruit%20sized%20transformers.%20Steve%20created%20someone%20to%20make%20a%20power%20switching%20supply%20and%20got%20<a%20href=\" https:>Jerry Manock\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/design/apple2.html\">design\u003c/a> the lightweight plastic case. Another factor – personal charisma – managed to recruit \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww#hl=en&sugexp=ppwe&cp=8&gs_id=19&xhr=t&q=mike+markkula&tok=qgLmYtP9IFC4k1sebXCeRw&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=webhp&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=mike+mar&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=243aec9c1865a62f&biw=1016&bih=534\">Mike Markkula\u003c/a>, who has all these same skills. He was a retired millionaire at the age of 30 when he visited the Apple garage and saw the Apple I. He was the angel investor that took it to the next stage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sense the two Steves were very lucky Mike Markkula came along, because the whole thing could have fizzled at that point. I have seen many companies that had promising first products that have fizzled, where you have a circuit board and it has some kind of market acceptance but you can’t get to that next level of getting funding. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, funding alone is not enough. It’s the combination of pulling together people to get a board of directors, a line of credit at the bank, all those components. Steve was lucky Apple was able to pull in enough of the ingredients to keep the fire going and to follow up on that growth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there was the whole episode of the Macintosh. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=jef+raskin\">Jef Raskin\u003c/a> was was bitter about the way Steve treated him until the end of his life. Jef was a renaissance man in so many areas. Steve has a debt of gratitude to Jef in a personal growth kind of way. And it was Jef who clearly \u003ca href=\"http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/JefRaskin.html\">got that Mac project started\u003c/a>. He and \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=brian+howard\">Brian Howard\u003c/a> were compiling – they had those 2 big notebooks called the Macintosh papers, going back years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, I was working on the \u003ca href=\"http://oldcomputers.net/appleiii.html\">Apple III\u003c/a>, Apple’s business computer, which was a big disappointment. I got to build the Apple III prototypes. That was also the time Apple went public, and there was a huge frenzy about stock options. Everyone had stock options except me and a small number of others. So it was exciting to work on the Apple III but depressing to realize I wasn’t part of the millionaire club at the Apple public offering. But I didn’t have much of a career choice to leave. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then Steve did hire me on the Macintosh project, which I’m grateful for. He didn’t have to do that. He could have given me a little bit of career advice about stock options. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_49396\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/Daniel_Kottke-225x300.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/Daniel_Kottke-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Daniel_Kottke-225x300\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49396\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Wikipedia\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago we posted \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/25/interview-apple-employee-no-12-dan-kottke-on-companys-earliest-days-and-steve-jobs-in-college/\">\u003cstrong>Part 1 of Peter Jon Shuler’s interview with Dan Kottke\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, aka Apple employee No. 12. Kottke first met Jobs when both attended Reed College in Oregon and the two became close friends, traveling to India together. Kottke was witness to the birth of Apple, plugging in chips into Apple I boards part-time for minimum wage before becoming an engineer for the company. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Part 1, Kottke talked about the influences of eastern mystical literature on Jobs and himself, and what it was like to work for the nascent company that Jobs was putting together. In Part 2, Kottke reminisces further about the early days, discussing Jobs’ harnessing of the brilliant engineering of Steve Wozniak; the traits that allowed for Jobs to build the company; and the perils of not being savvy about stock options. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edited transcript: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n\u003cem>Daniel Kottke\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that first summer of 1977 I liked this kind of work. I didn’t have any training in computers and so what I didn’t realize is that I was headed on a very risky career path. Because I didn’t know I was not going to be eligible for stock options, and didn’t find out till many years later when it was too late. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days of the \u003ca href=\"http://oldcomputers.net/appleii.html\">Apple II\u003c/a>, Hildy Licht ran a business where she had housewives doing the same work. She was there right at the very beginning of Apple. She built the power supplies. If you don’t want thousands of something, only 50 — and money was tight back then — you do something like that. From the very beginning Apple was hungry for all types of peripheral cards, and there was a steady stream of work to be done. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hildy was a character. She had a start-up business where she had housewives doing the same kind of work Steve’s sister Patti Jobs was doing, where you could watch TV while stuffing boards with components. Then she had a wave solder machine and they would be run through. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I quickly developed an aptitude for troubleshooting. My whole first year was in production as an hourly employee. Then \u003ca href=\"http://www.storiesofapple.net/jack-of-all-apple-trades-interview-with-bill-fernandez.html\">Bill Fernandez\u003c/a> left, which left an opening for me to move into his place in engineering. I’ll always be grateful to him. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He left because he found out he wasn’t going to get a stock option. At the time, the issue of stock options wasn’t publicized, and there was no one to talk to about it because there was no such thing as a personnel department. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 1984, we were all recruited to do the trade shows and to introduce the Mac to everyone else. At that point I was 30 and had been working since the week I graduated college. So I went off to Europe for a few months and then came back and instantly had people offering to hire me as a contract engineer. So I didn’t have enough excuse to go back to Apple. That went on for 10 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Macintosh, I was the one who did the keyboard, which was a single-chip computer, a computer subsystem. That was my first embedded system project. And I did many embedded designs over the next decade for a range of start-ups, none of which made money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me as an unskilled person working in a different field, I like to think I was using some natural perseverance, and was hard working got good at what I was doing. I looked at Woz and Jobs and saw they didn’t have degrees. But what I didn’t appreciate is that they had been steeped in technology for many years. I was such a newcomer, the whole time at Apple I felt I was playing catch-up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It seems like Woz was the consummate engineer, and Steve was the promoter…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very much so. And Steve to his credit was harnessing Woz. Woz did not have the entrepreneurial urge and was really happy at his job at Hewlett Packard, and I think he’s been on record as saying he would have been happy staying there. So Steve jobs gets credit for seeing what the situation was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/bushnell.html\">Nolan Bushnell\u003c/a> of Atari also was a big part of forming Steve Jobs’ character. Because Steve looked at Nolan and his success at Atari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was very surprising to me how focused and serious Jobs got about what he was doing with the Apple I, because I didn’t understand the opportunity myself. That was where Steve’s personality shift happened –- long before there was money involved. There was money, but it was more like here’s something we can do and change society because the computer had huge growth potential. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much did he contribute to Woz’s design of the Apple I? Possibly nothing. Woz had this idea about sticking the processor on the TV/typewriter. It’s a complicated thing to make the timing chains to generate video. Then using dynamic RAM was a stroke of great brilliance. So the Apple I came out with 4k expandable to 8k. I can believe that Woz came up with all of that hardware on his own and somehow Steve heard about it and was smart enough to say well this is unique, maybe somebody would want to buy this. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the point that they decided to spend the money to lay out a circuit board, I think that was before the order to the Byte Shops, so they were going out on a limb. And that was when Steve sold his van and Woz sold his HP calculator and they raised a few thousand dollars and paid a layout guy to do a PC layout and make the circuit boards. And then there was the small item of the $30,000 worth of small parts that needed to be ordered. That was the point at which \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=ron+wayne\">Ron Wayne\u003c/a>, who was the third founding partner, got cold feet, because he had a mortgage to pay, unlike these 2 kids. He felt like he was the adult and he couldn’t keep up with these guys. When Steve Jobs told him he had ordered $30,000 worth of parts, that was a lot of money, and Ron backed out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a lot of ferment going on. In 1975, that was the year of the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club\">Homebrew Computer Club\u003c/a>. It was a whole auditorium filled with people and all kinds of stuff was going on. I didn’t appreciate technically what was going on; I was just tagging along. The Altair had launched onto the national market, and Bill Gates and Paul Allen were already down in Albuquerque starting Microsoft about that time. Right here, in Palo Alto, people were making graphic cards for the Altair other computers. And the first Internet broadcast packet at SRI was right around that time, too. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve gets immense credit for having the entrepreneurial spirit in taking that first step to make the Apple I. And Woz of course was a superhuman engineer in that he did the hardware architecture and built the prototype and got the hardware debugged and wrote the monitor ROM, which was the routines. And then he went right ahead and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC\">wrote his own BASIC\u003c/a>. It was the BASIC running on the Apple I that really set it apart, because none of the others had something like that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> So what do you think there was about Jobs’ personality that allowed for his great success? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a mix of all the various skills. You have to be technical enough to understand what you’re doing, you have to have a broad enough feeling for the culture you live in to know when to persevere. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m sure Steve idolized Thomas Edison as a boy; Edison gave us the clear message about perseverance. He was toiling away on lots of things, many of which were failures. The combination of perseverance, technical ability, and vision in a marketing sense. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He gets huge credit for the marketing vision embodied in the \u003ca href=\"</a>%E2%80%9C>Apple%20II</a>,%20which%20was%20the%20lightweight%20plastic%20case.%20That%20was%20not%20a%20technical%20decision;%20that%20was%20a%20consumer%20electtonics%20marketing%20direction.%20That%20was%20his%20vision,%20to%20make%20it%20lightweight,%20unlike%20all%20the%20other%20computers%20that%20had%20big%20grapefruit%20sized%20transformers.%20Steve%20created%20someone%20to%20make%20a%20power%20switching%20supply%20and%20got%20<a%20href=\" https:>Jerry Manock\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/design/apple2.html\">design\u003c/a> the lightweight plastic case. Another factor – personal charisma – managed to recruit \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww#hl=en&sugexp=ppwe&cp=8&gs_id=19&xhr=t&q=mike+markkula&tok=qgLmYtP9IFC4k1sebXCeRw&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=webhp&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=mike+mar&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=243aec9c1865a62f&biw=1016&bih=534\">Mike Markkula\u003c/a>, who has all these same skills. He was a retired millionaire at the age of 30 when he visited the Apple garage and saw the Apple I. He was the angel investor that took it to the next stage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sense the two Steves were very lucky Mike Markkula came along, because the whole thing could have fizzled at that point. I have seen many companies that had promising first products that have fizzled, where you have a circuit board and it has some kind of market acceptance but you can’t get to that next level of getting funding. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, funding alone is not enough. It’s the combination of pulling together people to get a board of directors, a line of credit at the bank, all those components. Steve was lucky Apple was able to pull in enough of the ingredients to keep the fire going and to follow up on that growth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there was the whole episode of the Macintosh. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=jef+raskin\">Jef Raskin\u003c/a> was was bitter about the way Steve treated him until the end of his life. Jef was a renaissance man in so many areas. Steve has a debt of gratitude to Jef in a personal growth kind of way. And it was Jef who clearly \u003ca href=\"http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/JefRaskin.html\">got that Mac project started\u003c/a>. He and \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=brian+howard\">Brian Howard\u003c/a> were compiling – they had those 2 big notebooks called the Macintosh papers, going back years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, I was working on the \u003ca href=\"http://oldcomputers.net/appleiii.html\">Apple III\u003c/a>, Apple’s business computer, which was a big disappointment. I got to build the Apple III prototypes. That was also the time Apple went public, and there was a huge frenzy about stock options. Everyone had stock options except me and a small number of others. So it was exciting to work on the Apple III but depressing to realize I wasn’t part of the millionaire club at the Apple public offering. But I didn’t have much of a career choice to leave. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then Steve did hire me on the Macintosh project, which I’m grateful for. He didn’t have to do that. He could have given me a little bit of career advice about stock options. There was a kind of personal friendship element that was lost there, to put it politely. Those were difficult years for me. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Macintosh project was a wild ride, and that was pure Steve Jobs’ personality. At that point, he had learned how to be an entrepreneur, and Apple was successful, and he was very wealthy and he was able to start it and get it funded. He then recruited \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=john+sculley+apple\">John Sculley\u003c/a> at Apple, which \u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20116606-264/erstwhile-enemy-sculley-jobs-was-greatest-ceo/\">came back to bite him\u003c/a>. But Sculley was very clearly good for Apple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple was floundering for awhile…\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>End Part II. We will post Part III soon…\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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One, 9-year-old Jacob Hamilton, held a sign that read, \"What is in your bag that's more important than my education?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the protesters from the Occupy movements in San Francisco and Oakland clashed with police when they briefly blocked the city's iconic cable cars until officers pushed them out of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the afternoon, some of the participants in what protesters called \"Don't Buy Anything Day\" sat down in the middle of Market Street, San Francisco's main thoroughfare, and blocked traffic while chanting, \"Stop shopping and join us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted us both to be here for the children,\" said protester Steve Hamilton, a screenwriter who traveled to the city from Winters, Calif., with his son Jacob. \"I see how the education deficit directly affects the schools; how the teachers struggle with so many kids in the classrooms and a lack of books. It's not fair to this generation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the street from Macy's massive store on Union Square in San Francisco, shopper Celia Collins of New Orleans said she worked hard to earn her MBA and pay off her student loans. She had every right to enjoy Black Friday, she said, and the protesters would be better off working within the system to find jobs and support the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they're a bunch of frigging crybabies,\" said Collins, clutching her shopping bags as she watched the protesters march down Stockton Street. \"I don't begrudge them the right to do it, but I just don't think they've really very smart.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of about 20 Occupy protesters in Sacramento marched from a park to a small outdoor mall where many of the storefronts are empty. A police officer on a bicycle trailed the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few puzzled shoppers, many toting large shopping bags, stopped to stare at the crowd as they read a manifesto asking people to support local merchants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele Waldinger, 57, a retired attorney who used to work for the U.S. Small Business Administration, said she joined the group to lend her voice to the Occupy effort to restore a social safety net and get corporate influence out of American politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support the movement, I support getting money out of politics and I support having people shop locally,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group paraded into a Macy's store, entering near the women's clothing department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are here today to ask you to shop local and sustain our local economy,\" the group's leader, a man who identified himself only as Brother Carter, read into a bullhorn. \"And not reward the 1 percent, large corporate stores like Macy's, whose profits enrich the 1 percent, while they pay next to nothing to their workers, the 99 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group stayed inside the store for several minutes chanting slogans such as, \"They call it profit; we call it robbery.\" Several shoppers crowded around taking photos with their cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just was took back by surprise that they came into Macy's,\" said Beronica Jones, 39, of Reno, who was carrying a Gap bag. \"I guess that it's positive for people to hear it when they're shopping for Christmas, when we're consuming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After most of the crowd had cleared out of the store, two young women wearing Macy's badges approached one of the protesters to ask what their rally was all about. One explained that it was to call attention to workers who perform all the labor but do not share in profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employees nodded their heads in agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Macy's manager threatened to arrest a reporter for The Associated Press before she could ask for the names of the employees or the manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betsy Nelson, a spokeswoman for Macy's, declined to comment on the group's assertion that the chain is among the \"1 percent.\" Nelson said Macy's usually asks the media to check in before reporting at its stores but apologized for the manager who threatened to have the reporter arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a place where people shop. We are not necessarily a place to protest,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with identifying new protest targets, people with the Occupy movement energized more established awareness campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Emeryville, a small city on San Francisco Bay that has been transformed from a manufacturing area to a shopping destination, more than 60 people attended a Native American community's 10th annual Black Friday protest of the Bay Street Mall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrina Gould, a lead organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, said the goal is to educate shoppers that the mall was built in 2002 on a sacred Ohlone burial site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one-third of the people at Friday's protest came from neighboring Oakland's Occupy movement, and Gould said having the new voices was invigorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jesse Smith, an Occupy Oakland protester, passed out fliers encouraging mall shoppers to instead support local businesses in downtown Oakland to help \"keep them in the black.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_48362\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/Daniel_Kottke.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48362\" title=\"Daniel_Kottke\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/Daniel_Kottke-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Kottke (Photo: Wikipedia)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remembering Steve Jobs has almost become a cottage industry. Walter Isaacson’s biography is \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-11-27/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html\">No. 1\u003c/a> on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction li st; \u003ca href=\"http://www.stevejobsthelostinterview.com/\">Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview\u003c/a> has been playing in movie houses around the country; and a new e-book called “\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Steve-Inside-mail-ebook/dp/B006B16JLQ#reader_B006B16JLQ\">Letters to Steve\u003c/a>” has collected \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/tech/innovation/jobs-excerpt-customer-service/index.html\">Jobs’ email responses to customer service queries\u003c/a>and other electronic correspondence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From our own archives, we’ve noticed a resurgence in interest in a Jobs-related post we put up over 10 months ago: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/18/dan-kottke-early-apple-employee-on-steve-jobs/\">Interview With Dan Kottke, Apple Employee No. 12, on Steve Jobs’ Health\u003c/a>, conducted by KQED’s Peter Jon Shuler after Jobs announced he would take a third medical leave of absence as Apple CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jobs stepped down for good in August, Shuler again turned to Kottke, who first met Jobs when both attended Reed College in Oregon. Kottke and Jobs became close friends, traveling to India together, and Kottke went on to work for Apple in its very earliest days, before it was even incorporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is an edited transcript from the first part of the interview, in which Kottke talks about the young Steve Jobs and the nascent business he started. Kottke, who began with the company plugging chips into Apple I circuit boards, went on to work on the Apple II, Apple III, and Macintosh as a computer engineer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you meet Steve Jobs?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met in the first few weeks freshman year at Reed College. Which is such a fertile and imprinting time of life. And Steve and I both happened to get copies of (a seminal book on yoga and meditation) \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_%28book%29\">Be Here Now\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. It had just come out, in 1971, and it was our mutual interest in that book that started our friendship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had a friend in a different dorm, and one day in the first couple of weeks he said you should come meet this guy, he’s interesting. And that was Steve jobs. Steve, I remember, had a big Teac reel-to-reel tape deck with lots of bootleg Dylan. It was a pretty expensive piece of gear; I don’t know how he wangled that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the other tie in was \u003ca href=\"http://macdailynews.com/2011/10/24/meet-the-lsd-love-guru-who-gave-steve-jobs-his-reality-distortion-field/\">Robert Friedland\u003c/a>, the student body president the year we were freshmen. That summer after our freshman year he went to India and was part of the \u003cem>Be Here Now\u003c/em> scene. He was hanging with the people in that book. Somehow I and Steve got to know him. We had an interest in Indian philosophy and spirituality in general. It was Robert who had the idea we should go to India. I had no money. But Steve had found work at Atari so he had money, and we went to see the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=Kumbh+Mela\">Kumbh Mela\u003c/a>, the biggest religious gathering in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mutual interest in \u003cem>Be Here Now\u003c/em> quickly led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ananda.org/inspiration/books/ay/\">Autobiography of a Yogi\u003c/a>. I had never read anything like that. Then \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna\">Ramakrishna\u003c/a> and his disciples, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_consciousness\">cosmic consciousness\u003c/a> by Bucke – I think Steve turned me on to that one. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mentioned that Steve dropped out but continued to audit classes…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think his parents loaned him the money for tuition, which might have been $8,000. It was a private college, so it wasn’t cheap like a state school. Steve, using talents that proved valuable later in life, did a cost-benefit analysis and came to the conclusion that he didn’t really need the college credit. He withdrew, got all his tuition money back, then went back to the dean and said, “can I just audit some classes?” He audited a few. He got good value for the money. I know he really liked Shakespeare and calligraphy and a drama class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did you imagine then that those early influences might lead to what he was to accomplish later on?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t. Not at all. Of course I didn’t know he had a background in electronics. I didn’t find out years later about the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box\">blue boxes\u003c/a>. I guess he didn’t see how I could contribute. I didn’t know anything about electronics or phones. But he was selling blue boxes that year, our second year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did bring Woz up to campus, and I met Woz. But we didn’t talk about anything like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I realize now is those Silicon Valley kids were all doing electronics in high school. There was a flea market for electronics. Everybody around worked in electronics; all the fathers of all the kids. all worked either at Lockheed or HP or Varian. Steve’s father worked at Spectra-Physics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve was a thoughtful, focused guy, and I really enjoyed my early conversations with him about wide-ranging topics in the world. We took psychedelics together on occasion and had good times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In hindsight, do you see anything from that time that led to his later success? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think there was a lot of entrepreneurial spirit here in Silicon Valley. They weren’t even calling it that at the time. I can remember running into Steve one day in the Reed coffee shop and he was drawing timing diagrams for some game he was working on at Atari. I had no idea what he was doing. I’d never seen anything like that. It was very foreign but he didn’t seem interested in explaining it to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At what point did you decide to stay here? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My girlfriend lived in Saratoga. I was coming to visit her and Steve. We were kindred spirits in many ways. I remember I first arrived on a Greyhound bus and Steve’s father came to pick me up at the station here in Palo Alto and he had his Ford Ranchero with a laser beam installed in the engine compartment, and he had a big toggle switch on the dashboard that said “laser.” I thought that was wonderful. That’s Silicon Valley for you. So his father was a tinkerer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That first trip when I came out, I was just trying to decide where to go to school. We probably went to the Los Altos zendo; Steve was very fond of that place. That was Steve’s main social networking influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve and Woz and their \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box\">blue box\u003c/a> activities — the story I heard was that this article came out about \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper\">Captain Crunch\u003c/a>, a Vanity Fair article about \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking\">phone freaking\u003c/a>, probably about 1975. I think Woz was a student at Berkeley, and somehow they connected with Captain Crunch and got the keys, so to speak. They figured out how to work these things, and then Woz figured out how to design his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My guess is that it was Steve jobs who was the entrepreneur, who said let’s make these things and sell them. It would be Woz’s style just to build a prototype. That’s an interesting question to ask Woz someday. I don’t know how many they made, but they were all handmade I think. But they sold them, they made money. Before the Apple One, they were selling the blue boxes. But Steve never said a word to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you get involved with Apple? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had stayed in touch with Steve and by ’75 I was ready to go back to school somewhere. I ended up applying to Columbia College and that’s where I got my degree. During that year we wrote postcards. At some point that year he and I went up to \u003ca href=\"http://macdailynews.com/2011/10/24/meet-the-lsd-love-guru-who-gave-steve-jobs-his-reality-distortion-field/\">Robert Friedland\u003c/a>‘s farm. It had a big apple orchard and Steve and I had both gone up there to pick apples. Simultaneously Steve had found Arnold Ehrtiz’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.arnoldehret.org/healthclub/Forgotten_Foods.html\">mucousless diet\u003c/a>, a fruitarian diet healing system. I thought that was interesting, so the two of us were doing a fruitarian diet, eating apples. That’s why the apple was in the air. And Robert was a very charismatic guy and has gone on to become a billionaire in his own right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I definitely see that Steve learned a lot from Robert. When we first met him at Reed he had done time in federal prison for being caught with tens of thousands of doses of LSD. That was impressive in a kind of an outlaw way. And he was applying for a Rhodes scholarship, as a convicted felon. I thought that was fascinating. So those were the combination of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That book, \u003cem>Be Here Now\u003c/em>, plus \u003cem>On the Road\u003c/em>, was the biggest event of our freshman year. Because Robert had a personal connection into that whole scene, that was very compelling. And that’s what led us going out to India, and me coming back to the west coast to visit, and to Robert’s farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called Steve up in the spring of 1976 when I was in my junior year in Columbia, and he said, you know, we’re doing this computer project and I said that’s kind of interesting. There’s no possible way anyone could tell it would be successful, there was a lot of hobbyist activity going on. So I’m trying to decide what to do for the summer, Steve said you can come help me, I said okay, and that was it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was when we were doing the Apple I, and when I first showed up at the Jobs’ house in Cupertino, his sister Patti was plugging chips into the Apple I board on the coffee table in the living room while she watched TV. I looked at that and thought, ‘I can do better than that.’ And she already had a job at Taco Bell, as I recall, so I just kind of jumped in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement was Steve would pay me $3.25 an hour, maybe $3.50, I’m sure it was the minimum wage. There was no electrical expertise required; all you had to do was pay attention and make sure the chip was not backwards and plug it in without bending the pins backwards and inspect the board. Then he taught me how to test the boards, which was not a technical thing. It was basically a factory assembly job. So I was just lucky to get that start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That summer didn’t really lead anywhere. Apple could have easily folded that summer. What happened was they basically got one big purchase order from the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Terrell#Byte_Shop_and_Apple\">Byte Shop\u003c/a>. That happened before I arrived. Steve had the circuit boards and was filling orders. 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It was a pretty expensive piece of gear; I don’t know how he wangled that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the other tie in was \u003ca href=\"http://macdailynews.com/2011/10/24/meet-the-lsd-love-guru-who-gave-steve-jobs-his-reality-distortion-field/\">Robert Friedland\u003c/a>, the student body president the year we were freshmen. That summer after our freshman year he went to India and was part of the \u003cem>Be Here Now\u003c/em> scene. He was hanging with the people in that book. Somehow I and Steve got to know him. We had an interest in Indian philosophy and spirituality in general. It was Robert who had the idea we should go to India. I had no money. But Steve had found work at Atari so he had money, and we went to see the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=Kumbh+Mela\">Kumbh Mela\u003c/a>, the biggest religious gathering in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mutual interest in \u003cem>Be Here Now\u003c/em> quickly led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ananda.org/inspiration/books/ay/\">Autobiography of a Yogi\u003c/a>. I had never read anything like that. Then \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna\">Ramakrishna\u003c/a> and his disciples, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_consciousness\">cosmic consciousness\u003c/a> by Bucke – I think Steve turned me on to that one. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mentioned that Steve dropped out but continued to audit classes…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think his parents loaned him the money for tuition, which might have been $8,000. It was a private college, so it wasn’t cheap like a state school. Steve, using talents that proved valuable later in life, did a cost-benefit analysis and came to the conclusion that he didn’t really need the college credit. He withdrew, got all his tuition money back, then went back to the dean and said, “can I just audit some classes?” He audited a few. He got good value for the money. I know he really liked Shakespeare and calligraphy and a drama class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did you imagine then that those early influences might lead to what he was to accomplish later on?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t. Not at all. Of course I didn’t know he had a background in electronics. I didn’t find out years later about the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box\">blue boxes\u003c/a>. I guess he didn’t see how I could contribute. I didn’t know anything about electronics or phones. But he was selling blue boxes that year, our second year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did bring Woz up to campus, and I met Woz. 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I looked at that and thought, ‘I can do better than that.’ And she already had a job at Taco Bell, as I recall, so I just kind of jumped in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement was Steve would pay me $3.25 an hour, maybe $3.50, I’m sure it was the minimum wage. There was no electrical expertise required; all you had to do was pay attention and make sure the chip was not backwards and plug it in without bending the pins backwards and inspect the board. Then he taught me how to test the boards, which was not a technical thing. It was basically a factory assembly job. So I was just lucky to get that start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That summer didn’t really lead anywhere. Apple could have easily folded that summer. What happened was they basically got one big purchase order from the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Terrell#Byte_Shop_and_Apple\">Byte Shop\u003c/a>. That happened before I arrived. Steve had the circuit boards and was filling orders. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/solyndralogo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/solyndralogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"solyndralogo\" width=\"202\" height=\"41\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47480\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SolyndraL\">\u003cstrong>Video: Hearing part 1\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Loanto\">\u003cstrong>Video: Hearing part 2\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/solyndra-hearing--steven-chu-testifies-live-updates/2011/11/17/gIQALRYQUN_blog.html\">\u003cstrong>Washington Post live blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 11:58 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Climate Watch's Craig Miller reports on today's congressional testimony by Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu regarding the Solyndra affair....\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Energy Secretary Stephen Chu stood his ground this morning at a congressional hearing on the ill-fated federal loan guarantee for Solyndra Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michigan Republican Fred Upton sought an apology from Chu for approving a loan for the failed Fremont solar company. But Chu said it was market developments that led to the company’s collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is extremely unfortunate what has happened to Solyndra but if you go back and look at the time decisions were being made, was there incompetence, was there any undue influence of a political nature, I would have to say ‘no,’ Chu said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the bottom of a market falls out and the price of solar decreases by 70% in two and a half years, that was totally unexpected...Fundamentally, this company and several others got caught in a very bad tsunami, if you will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans on the committee said they considered the loan approval illegal. Chu says that Energy Department administrators under both the Bush and Obama administrations found the Solyndra loan application worthy and placed it “at the head of the line.” Chu said his department will be watching future loans “like a hawk.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Watch \u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SolyndraL\">\u003cstrong>part 1 of the video replay of the hearing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> at C-SPAN. \u003ca href=\"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Loanto\">\u003cstrong>Part 2\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washington Post also \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/solyndra-hearing--steven-chu-testifies-live-updates/2011/11/17/gIQALRYQUN_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">\u003cstrong>live-blogged\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nAt the end of August, Fremont-based solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra went belly up, putting 1,100 employees out of work and touching off a scandal -- at least according to Republicans -- about a $535 million federal loan guarantee from the Department of Energy in 2009, part of a program created under the much-maligned -- again, by Republicans -- stimulus bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another House hearing on Solyndra is in session now. 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This summer, the committee subpoenaed documents from the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which was responsible for reviewing the risks of providing Solyndra the guarantee, which was part of the president's economic stimulus. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nThe company's failure was a particularly acute embarrassment to the Obama administration, and even to the president himself, who made a high-profile visit to Solyndra in May, 2010, hyping the notion that government should help cultivate clean-energy companies for reasons both economic and environmental. From his remarks that day: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I try to visit places like this about once a week, hear from folks as often as possible who are actually doing the extraordinary work of building up America. And I appreciated the chance to tour your plant and to see the incredible, cutting-edge solar panels that you're manufacturing, but also the process that goes into the manufacturing of these solar panels. And it is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world. And you guys all represent that. So thank you very much for that...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we recognized that we've got to go back to basics. We've got to go back to making things. We've got to go back to exports. We've got to go back to innovation. And we recognized that there was only so much government could do. The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra, will always be America's businesses. But that doesn't mean the government can just sit on the sidelines. Government still has the responsibility to help create the conditions in which students can gain an education so they can work at Solyndra, and entrepreneurs can get financing so they can start a company, and new industries can take hold...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. It's also worth noting, to achieve this doubling of our share of solar capacity, we actually need to make four times as many solar panels, because other countries are adding capacity, too. Nobody in this race is standing still. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/KYiJ-_K9NCo\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the company went out of business, the GOP has made much political hay out of a series of revelations related to the loan guarantee, including the fact that Solyndra \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/28/solyndra-received-favorable-irs-ruling-weeks-before-loan/\">received a favorable IRS ruling\u003c/a> weeks before it was granted, and the release of an October 2010 email \"from a Solyndra investment adviser to a colleague [that] said Energy Department officials were pushing 'very hard' to delay making the layoffs... public until Nov. 3, 2010 -- the day after the midterm elections.\" That's from \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/white-house-solyndra-emails-released-1.3327377\">AP\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have also made much out of the fact that bigtime Obama donor George Kaiser has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/george-kaiser-solyndra_n_1084568.html\">connection to a firm that was an investor in Solyndra\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the issue in September, Solyndra CEO Brian Higgins and Chief Financial Officer Bill Stover \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/23/video-todays-solyndra-house-hearing/\">invoked their Fifth Amendment right to not testify\u003c/a> to avoid self-incrimination. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, Chu \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/11/15/142361912/chu-discusses-solyndra-controversy\">appeared on NPR \u003c/a> to discuss the Solyndra controversy. From the interview with Melissa Block:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>BLOCK: People now, though, Secretary Chu, are saying that were a lot of red flags through this process, that the loan was not properly vetted, and that there was pressure placed to approve the loan before your visit for that groundbreaking. Do you think that's a fair critique, that there should have been more due diligence before that loan went through?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHU: We were very thorough in the application of loan at the time. In the end of 2008, the beginning of 2009, we asked outside people to give us second and third opinions. What was unanticipated was that the market for the prices of solar modules really plummeted. We're talking about something like over a two- or three-year period, we had more than 60 percent decrease. As we go back and look at what were people predicting as the months rolled on, they were consistently over-projecting what the selling prices would be. And so hindsight in some cases appeared to be better than 20/20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BLOCK: Hmm. But Secretary Chu, six months after the groundbreaking, the company's auditor, Price Waterhouse, warned that Solyndra had real financial trouble. They talked about recurring losses, negative cash flows and raised what they called substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern. This was the same month that you said you were confident that Solyndra would be able to repay its loan. Based on what? Were you aware of that audit at the time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHU: I was not aware of the audit instantly at that time, became aware of it later. And so what has happened during this period is we have a very good loan people, and they tried to, you know, what are the best projections, going forward, and how do you monitor progress of the loan? 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From CSPAN: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Energy Secretary Steven Chu is being questioned by House Oversight Committee lawmakers today on his role in the federal loan guarantee made to the solar energy company Solyndra.The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has scheduled a hearing entitled \u003ca href=\"http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=9090\">The Solyndra Failure: Views from DOE Secretary Chu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOP members are investigating a series of emails sent between Chu, the White House and Solyndra. Energy Committee Republicans began looking into the Solyndra loan earlier this year. This summer, the committee subpoenaed documents from the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which was responsible for reviewing the risks of providing Solyndra the guarantee, which was part of the president's economic stimulus. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nThe company's failure was a particularly acute embarrassment to the Obama administration, and even to the president himself, who made a high-profile visit to Solyndra in May, 2010, hyping the notion that government should help cultivate clean-energy companies for reasons both economic and environmental. From his remarks that day: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I try to visit places like this about once a week, hear from folks as often as possible who are actually doing the extraordinary work of building up America. And I appreciated the chance to tour your plant and to see the incredible, cutting-edge solar panels that you're manufacturing, but also the process that goes into the manufacturing of these solar panels. And it is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world. And you guys all represent that. So thank you very much for that...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we recognized that we've got to go back to basics. We've got to go back to making things. We've got to go back to exports. We've got to go back to innovation. And we recognized that there was only so much government could do. The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra, will always be America's businesses. But that doesn't mean the government can just sit on the sidelines. 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