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Napa County was not participating in the WEA program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of Saturday’s resource fair at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in downtown San Jose, a slightly less high-tech form of emergency communication was on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626696\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11626696 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor emergency speaker on display in downtown San Jose. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A large speaker was hoisted on top of a trailer and hooked onto the back of an SUV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sort of your basic, old-school loudspeaker getting out information,” is how Councilman Raul Peralez described it. “We have the ability to program it in multiple different languages, which we’re going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose resident India Meisner liked the idea of the WEA alert, but also said that a loudspeaker could be the best way to get in touch with her senior neighbors, who may not have cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”y65bbGWF84EZYsZohjy4WsZHaAE4SDlL”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be so annoying and so loud that you’d have no choice but to evacuate,” she said. “So it would encourage reluctant people to evacuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speaker system arrived in San Jose only a couple of weeks ago, but it already went for a successful test run in Santa Rosa, where Ray Riordan brought it to broadcast public health information for residents returning to the Coffey Park neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were able to hear a message on a regular basis about what they needed to be careful of as they \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/20/post-disaster-checklist-returning-home-after-evacuation-order-lifted/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">return home\u003c/a>,” he said. “We can use this system for alert notifications ahead of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials said they will use all available forms of communication should a flood or other disaster arise. They also urged residents to prepare their own disaster plans and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/10/heres-what-you-should-have-in-your-emergency-bag/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personal kits\u003c/a>, noting the risk of future disasters like more floods, fires or an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being better prepared individually is really one of the best things that we can do,” Peralez said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Instead they are sent to cellphones in a certain area, like an Amber Alert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t like to give their information out, which we respect and understand,” Riordan said. “The WEA alert system goes out using local cell systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After large wildfires broke out in Sonoma County this month, officials \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/17/feinstein-harris-press-fcc-on-wireless-alert-failures-during-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faced questions\u003c/a> over why the WEA alerts were not deployed. Napa County was not participating in the WEA program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of Saturday’s resource fair at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in downtown San Jose, a slightly less high-tech form of emergency communication was on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626696\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11626696 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/IMG_0702-e1509299903229.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor emergency speaker on display in downtown San Jose. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A large speaker was hoisted on top of a trailer and hooked onto the back of an SUV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sort of your basic, old-school loudspeaker getting out information,” is how Councilman Raul Peralez described it. “We have the ability to program it in multiple different languages, which we’re going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose resident India Meisner liked the idea of the WEA alert, but also said that a loudspeaker could be the best way to get in touch with her senior neighbors, who may not have cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be so annoying and so loud that you’d have no choice but to evacuate,” she said. “So it would encourage reluctant people to evacuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speaker system arrived in San Jose only a couple of weeks ago, but it already went for a successful test run in Santa Rosa, where Ray Riordan brought it to broadcast public health information for residents returning to the Coffey Park neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were able to hear a message on a regular basis about what they needed to be careful of as they \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/20/post-disaster-checklist-returning-home-after-evacuation-order-lifted/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">return home\u003c/a>,” he said. “We can use this system for alert notifications ahead of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials said they will use all available forms of communication should a flood or other disaster arise. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the robots came to online retailer Boxed, dread came, too: The familiar fear that the machines would take over, leaving a trail of unemployed humans in their wake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a lot of people asking me, ‘What is going to happen to us?'” said Veronica Mena, a trainer for the e-commerce startup, recalling the anxiety that rippled through her co-workers after company executives announced plans to open an automated warehouse in nearby Union, New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet their fears didn’t come to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the new warehouse opened this spring, workers found that their jobs were less physically demanding than at the older, manual warehouse in Edison, New Jersey. Instead of walking thousands of steps a day loading items onto carts, employees could stand at stations as conveyor belts brought the goods to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And rather than cutting jobs, the company added a third shift to keep up with rapidly growing demand.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”64lyqklsc4dSrrtcpHFBzWupYhmB6TaN”]\u003cbr>\nWhat happened at Boxed — and has occurred elsewhere — suggests that widespread fears about automation and job loss are often misplaced. Automation has actually helped create jobs in e-commerce, rather than eliminate them, and stands to create more in the years ahead. By accelerating delivery times, robotics and software have made online shopping an increasingly viable alternative to brick-and-mortar stores, and sales have ballooned at online retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surge in e-commerce has required the rapid build-out of a vast network of warehouses and delivery systems that include both robots and human workers. The robots didn’t take jobs from people, because many of the jobs didn’t exist before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not looking to do the same work with half the people,” said Rick Zumpano, vice president for distribution at Boxed. “Since we’re growing, we need everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newer robotic technologies do loom as a threat to some e-commerce jobs. Startup robotics companies are developing robot arm prototypes, for example, that can pick goods from shelves. Those devices may replace some workers over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the explosion of e-commerce and the ease of automation are leading e-commerce companies to build more warehouses. So even if each warehouse employs fewer workers, the proliferation of new warehouses is projected to generate hiring across the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=CQnt95QGtbY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, jobs have been lost at storefront retailers, which have suffered under the e-commerce onslaught. Venerable chains such as Toys R Us, RadioShack, and Payless Shoesource have all filed for bankruptcy this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are widespread fears that things will get only worse for the nation’s 16 million retail workers. Self-checkout kiosks and experimental stores like Amazon’s Go , which has no cashiers, could theoretically eliminate millions of retail jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But worries about a “retail apocalypse” have missed a more important trend: E-commerce actually leads to more jobs by paying people to do things we used to do ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people shop online, tasks that once filled their days — driving to a store, searching through aisles for a product, bringing it to a cashier and paying for it — are now done by warehouse employees and truck drivers. People spend less time shopping than in the past, research shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Song, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch who has studied government data, has found that working women are spending less time shopping — nearly 25 hours less per year compared with a decade earlier. Song attributes the time savings mainly to e-commerce. Families increasingly outsource shopping to e-commerce employees, just as many have long outsourced other household tasks to child care workers or house cleaners. In each case, jobs are created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the bankruptcies and store closings in the retail sector aren’t the complete picture. While jobs have been lost in stores, many more have been gained from online shopping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Mandel, an economist at the Progressive Policy Institute, calculates that the number of e-commerce and warehousing jobs has jumped by 400,000 in the past decade, easily offsetting the loss of 140,000 brick-and-mortar retail jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[WarehouseEmploymentGraph]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon accounts for much of the additional employment. Yet it’s also at the vanguard of automation. Since 2014, Amazon has deployed 100,000 robots in 25 warehouses worldwide. At the same time, it’s nearly tripled its hourly workforce, from roughly 45,000 to nearly 125,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its use of robotics has shaved the operating costs for a warehouse by about 20 percent, according to a report by Deutsche Bank. Such savings, in turn, have lowered the cost for Amazon to open new facilities — and hire more workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandel points out that it’s a lot like what happened more than a 100 years ago, when Henry Ford’s installation of assembly lines — an early form of automation — helped reduce the price of cars, which boosted demand so much that Ford needed more workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robots have displaced many manufacturing workers in the past two to three decades, enabling factories to produce more with fewer employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet e-commerce and warehousing are growing far faster than manufacturing is — a crucial difference that lessens the impact of automation. E-commerce sales are surging roughly five times as fast as storefront retail sales, according to market research firm Forrester. By 2022, they’re expected to account for 17 percent of all retail sales, up from 13 percent this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”JGMzvuK1EivhBdZgXRmVGQCASPgQHmxr”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a handful of distribution centers in 2000, Amazon now has more than 240 warehouses and smaller delivery facilities, according to MWPVL, a consulting firm. Those warehouses have created tens of thousands of jobs and boosted wages in some communities, which many local employers call “the Amazon effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Amazon is not the only company that has experienced growth due to e-commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, recently opened its sixth e-commerce campus near Orlando, Florida. Like the others, it includes a million square foot warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walmart is also expanding its online grocery pickup service to 2,000 stores, double the 1,000 where it is now available. It allows Walmart’s customers to order groceries online, but requires more workers, not fewer. Ravi Jariwala, a spokesman, says Walmart has created a new job classification — “personal shopper” — to do what customers once did themselves: Pick and package orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And XPO Logistics, which ships mostly appliances and other heavy goods, has hired 3,000 warehouse workers in the past year to keep up with growing e-commerce, bringing its total to 26,000. It’s adding a million square feet of warehouse about every four to six weeks, says Ashfaque Chowdhury, president of XPO’s supply chain in the Americas and Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chowdhury says items that many people wouldn’t have felt comfortable buying on the internet not long ago — from refrigerators to treadmills to furniture — are becoming routine online purchases. And the company is also planning to open a million square foot warehouse in the Midwest exclusively to handle returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There’s less lifting to do. There are a lot of little things that make the job better.’ \u003ccite>Veronica Mena, warehouse employee for e-commerce start-up Boxed\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All these trends have been helped by automation’s ability to hold down costs, such as Walmart’s use of drones to help track its warehouse inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, a tour of Boxed’s gleaming new warehouse in Union makes it easy to see why people worry that automation costs jobs. Everywhere you look you see machines and rows of neatly organized pallets of goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not so many workers. Through the 140,000-square-foot building, two miles of conveyor belts quietly whisk plastic bins containing customers’ orders. One machine stamps mailing labels on boxes. Spread thinly along the conveyor belts, roughly three dozen workers operate on the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the first stops on the conveyor is a four-story-high robotic contraption known as “Perfect Pick.” It enables one employee filling orders to choose from 700 items. An automated container, the iBOT, zips up and down and back and forth among the Perfect Pick’s shelves, where products are stored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The iBOT retrieves small items — health and beauty products and snack foods — and brings them to the employee, who places them in bins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Amazon’s much larger warehouse in Baltimore, there are more workers, but also a lot more robots. They lift shelves of goods and roll them to the company’s pickers, who select items that customers have ordered before the robots return the shelves to storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11496913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11496913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon’s orange robots move items all over the company’s Tracy fulfillment center, increasing efficiency and helping speed stuff to consumers. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even so, there are still jobs at both warehouses for people to do. At Boxed, the bins glide from the Perfect Pick to other employees, who select additional items to complete an order. A separate group, the packers, puts everything in pastel-hued boxes for shipment. Fitting multiple items of different shapes and textures into a box is something people still do much better than robots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Ward, 56, is a packer at Boxed, and like all her colleagues, she writes a thank-you note for each order she packages. It’s part of Boxed’s effort to preserve some aspects of the conventional shopping experience. When a customer has ordered diapers, a packer might write a congratulatory note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Amazon’s Baltimore warehouse, employees called “stowers” are needed to stock the shelves that are carried by robots. And that requires human judgment: Software suggests to workers where each item should be placed. But it’s an employee’s responsibility to make sure the shelves, which are tall and narrow, remain balanced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also “problem solvers” who position themselves near a scale on a conveyor belt that weighs each package as it whizzes by. If the weight isn’t consistent with what’s supposed to be in the box, the package is set aside for a problem solver, who opens the box to see whether the order was filled correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warehouse covers the equivalent of 17 football fields and was opened in 2015, one of the first to be designed with robots in mind. Still, it employs 5,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon and Boxed say their automated warehouses actually employ more workers than their non-automated warehouses do, because they handle far more volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many employees say all the technology and machinery has made their jobs better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11383243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11383243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This baby shop in Oakland closed its doors in late 2016, due to competition from online retailer, Amazon. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mena, 34, vastly prefers Boxed’s new facility to the manual warehouses where she previously worked. At one warehouse, owned by a medical equipment manufacturer, Mena says she would walk 15,000 steps a day to fill orders, according to her Fitbit. That’s about 7.5 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s less lifting to do,” she adds, now that goods are moved by conveyor belt rather than carts. “There are a lot of little things that make the job better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with Boxed growing rapidly, she was promoted to trainer less than a year after starting as a temporary employee picking orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward, meanwhile, says she expects to be able to work longer at Boxed because her job is less physically demanding, thanks to automation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jobs are growing off the warehouse floor, as well. The explosion of online commerce is also building demand for higher-paying jobs in software and robotics. Nearly 14 percent of software job listings are now posted by retailers, according to data analyzed by Glassdoor, the job recruitment website. That share has doubled from 2012, says Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor’s chief economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the software jobs are not as concentrated in places like Silicon Valley. Dallas, for example, has experienced a surge in software jobs, partly because of greater hiring by Home Depot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a huge change,” Chamberlain said. “Software-related jobs are a bellwether of automation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s career website lists nearly 5,000 open software jobs and 250 in machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence. Walmart is advertising 475 software and technology jobs, including data analysts, programmers, and software engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These aren’t folks who just maintain websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a customer shops on Boxed’s website, software calculates what size box will be needed and how much empty space it will contain, Zumpano said. Just before checkout, the website will recommend products that would fill the box’s empty space, yet not so many that the order would require another box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Automation and robotics will only get more sophisticated in the future, which will threaten some jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon runs an annual “picking” contest in which mostly startup firms and universities compete to see which team’s robot can most efficiently pick items from a shelf and place them in a box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going to happen next is robotic arms, combined with vision technology and suction technology,” says Marc Wulfraat, president of MWVPL, a consulting firm. “You can be darn sure that Amazon will take the first swing at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You’re going to need distribution facilities in the backyard of every city.’ \u003ccite>Marc Wulfraat, president of MWVPL, a consulting firm\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But it could take several years for such robots to be put into widespread use. For now, they work mostly with items in boxes and other rigid shapes, Wulfraat says. They can’t yet handle bulkier items such as basketballs or softer items like clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Robotic hand technology is still pretty far off,” says Boxed CEO Chieh Huang. The company recently installed robots in its three other manual warehouses to transport goods to workers, as an alternative to conveyor belts. They didn’t lay off any employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Mandel argues that if additional automation, such as robotic pickers, lowers costs further, it could create new markets for products and services, such as custom-made goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wulfraat predicts that hundreds of smaller warehouses will be built in large cities to shorten delivery times to as low as an hour, particularly for groceries. Amazon already has 53 such facilities, and its competitors will be forced to follow suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to need distribution facilities in the backyard of every city,” Wulfraat says. Those facilities will be smaller and cheaper and won’t be worth fully automating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Automation is also more likely in the coming years to make up for labor shortages rather than replace workers, Wulfraat says. Companies such as Target and Walmart have had to announce widespread pay increases in the past two years to attract and keep employees, a sign of a tighter job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many warehouse operators he works with anticipate the problem will only grow worse as baby boomers age and increasingly retire, Wulfraat says. Any warehouse workers displaced by automation will easily find jobs elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see hundreds of thousands of workers unemployed and on the street,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When the robots came to online retailer Boxed, dread came, too: The familiar fear that the machines would take over, leaving a trail of unemployed humans in their wake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a lot of people asking me, ‘What is going to happen to us?'” said Veronica Mena, a trainer for the e-commerce startup, recalling the anxiety that rippled through her co-workers after company executives announced plans to open an automated warehouse in nearby Union, New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet their fears didn’t come to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the new warehouse opened this spring, workers found that their jobs were less physically demanding than at the older, manual warehouse in Edison, New Jersey. Instead of walking thousands of steps a day loading items onto carts, employees could stand at stations as conveyor belts brought the goods to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And rather than cutting jobs, the company added a third shift to keep up with rapidly growing demand.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nWhat happened at Boxed — and has occurred elsewhere — suggests that widespread fears about automation and job loss are often misplaced. Automation has actually helped create jobs in e-commerce, rather than eliminate them, and stands to create more in the years ahead. By accelerating delivery times, robotics and software have made online shopping an increasingly viable alternative to brick-and-mortar stores, and sales have ballooned at online retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surge in e-commerce has required the rapid build-out of a vast network of warehouses and delivery systems that include both robots and human workers. The robots didn’t take jobs from people, because many of the jobs didn’t exist before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not looking to do the same work with half the people,” said Rick Zumpano, vice president for distribution at Boxed. “Since we’re growing, we need everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newer robotic technologies do loom as a threat to some e-commerce jobs. Startup robotics companies are developing robot arm prototypes, for example, that can pick goods from shelves. Those devices may replace some workers over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the explosion of e-commerce and the ease of automation are leading e-commerce companies to build more warehouses. So even if each warehouse employs fewer workers, the proliferation of new warehouses is projected to generate hiring across the industry.\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/CQnt95QGtbY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/CQnt95QGtbY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In the meantime, jobs have been lost at storefront retailers, which have suffered under the e-commerce onslaught. Venerable chains such as Toys R Us, RadioShack, and Payless Shoesource have all filed for bankruptcy this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are widespread fears that things will get only worse for the nation’s 16 million retail workers. Self-checkout kiosks and experimental stores like Amazon’s Go , which has no cashiers, could theoretically eliminate millions of retail jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But worries about a “retail apocalypse” have missed a more important trend: E-commerce actually leads to more jobs by paying people to do things we used to do ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people shop online, tasks that once filled their days — driving to a store, searching through aisles for a product, bringing it to a cashier and paying for it — are now done by warehouse employees and truck drivers. People spend less time shopping than in the past, research shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Song, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch who has studied government data, has found that working women are spending less time shopping — nearly 25 hours less per year compared with a decade earlier. Song attributes the time savings mainly to e-commerce. Families increasingly outsource shopping to e-commerce employees, just as many have long outsourced other household tasks to child care workers or house cleaners. In each case, jobs are created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the bankruptcies and store closings in the retail sector aren’t the complete picture. While jobs have been lost in stores, many more have been gained from online shopping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Mandel, an economist at the Progressive Policy Institute, calculates that the number of e-commerce and warehousing jobs has jumped by 400,000 in the past decade, easily offsetting the loss of 140,000 brick-and-mortar retail jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[WarehouseEmploymentGraph]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon accounts for much of the additional employment. Yet it’s also at the vanguard of automation. Since 2014, Amazon has deployed 100,000 robots in 25 warehouses worldwide. At the same time, it’s nearly tripled its hourly workforce, from roughly 45,000 to nearly 125,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its use of robotics has shaved the operating costs for a warehouse by about 20 percent, according to a report by Deutsche Bank. Such savings, in turn, have lowered the cost for Amazon to open new facilities — and hire more workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandel points out that it’s a lot like what happened more than a 100 years ago, when Henry Ford’s installation of assembly lines — an early form of automation — helped reduce the price of cars, which boosted demand so much that Ford needed more workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robots have displaced many manufacturing workers in the past two to three decades, enabling factories to produce more with fewer employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet e-commerce and warehousing are growing far faster than manufacturing is — a crucial difference that lessens the impact of automation. E-commerce sales are surging roughly five times as fast as storefront retail sales, according to market research firm Forrester. By 2022, they’re expected to account for 17 percent of all retail sales, up from 13 percent this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a handful of distribution centers in 2000, Amazon now has more than 240 warehouses and smaller delivery facilities, according to MWPVL, a consulting firm. Those warehouses have created tens of thousands of jobs and boosted wages in some communities, which many local employers call “the Amazon effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Amazon is not the only company that has experienced growth due to e-commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, recently opened its sixth e-commerce campus near Orlando, Florida. Like the others, it includes a million square foot warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walmart is also expanding its online grocery pickup service to 2,000 stores, double the 1,000 where it is now available. It allows Walmart’s customers to order groceries online, but requires more workers, not fewer. Ravi Jariwala, a spokesman, says Walmart has created a new job classification — “personal shopper” — to do what customers once did themselves: Pick and package orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And XPO Logistics, which ships mostly appliances and other heavy goods, has hired 3,000 warehouse workers in the past year to keep up with growing e-commerce, bringing its total to 26,000. It’s adding a million square feet of warehouse about every four to six weeks, says Ashfaque Chowdhury, president of XPO’s supply chain in the Americas and Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chowdhury says items that many people wouldn’t have felt comfortable buying on the internet not long ago — from refrigerators to treadmills to furniture — are becoming routine online purchases. And the company is also planning to open a million square foot warehouse in the Midwest exclusively to handle returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There’s less lifting to do. There are a lot of little things that make the job better.’ \u003ccite>Veronica Mena, warehouse employee for e-commerce start-up Boxed\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All these trends have been helped by automation’s ability to hold down costs, such as Walmart’s use of drones to help track its warehouse inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, a tour of Boxed’s gleaming new warehouse in Union makes it easy to see why people worry that automation costs jobs. Everywhere you look you see machines and rows of neatly organized pallets of goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not so many workers. Through the 140,000-square-foot building, two miles of conveyor belts quietly whisk plastic bins containing customers’ orders. One machine stamps mailing labels on boxes. Spread thinly along the conveyor belts, roughly three dozen workers operate on the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the first stops on the conveyor is a four-story-high robotic contraption known as “Perfect Pick.” It enables one employee filling orders to choose from 700 items. An automated container, the iBOT, zips up and down and back and forth among the Perfect Pick’s shelves, where products are stored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The iBOT retrieves small items — health and beauty products and snack foods — and brings them to the employee, who places them in bins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Amazon’s much larger warehouse in Baltimore, there are more workers, but also a lot more robots. They lift shelves of goods and roll them to the company’s pickers, who select items that customers have ordered before the robots return the shelves to storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11496913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11496913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25568_DC_3-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon’s orange robots move items all over the company’s Tracy fulfillment center, increasing efficiency and helping speed stuff to consumers. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even so, there are still jobs at both warehouses for people to do. At Boxed, the bins glide from the Perfect Pick to other employees, who select additional items to complete an order. A separate group, the packers, puts everything in pastel-hued boxes for shipment. Fitting multiple items of different shapes and textures into a box is something people still do much better than robots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Ward, 56, is a packer at Boxed, and like all her colleagues, she writes a thank-you note for each order she packages. It’s part of Boxed’s effort to preserve some aspects of the conventional shopping experience. When a customer has ordered diapers, a packer might write a congratulatory note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Amazon’s Baltimore warehouse, employees called “stowers” are needed to stock the shelves that are carried by robots. And that requires human judgment: Software suggests to workers where each item should be placed. But it’s an employee’s responsibility to make sure the shelves, which are tall and narrow, remain balanced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also “problem solvers” who position themselves near a scale on a conveyor belt that weighs each package as it whizzes by. If the weight isn’t consistent with what’s supposed to be in the box, the package is set aside for a problem solver, who opens the box to see whether the order was filled correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warehouse covers the equivalent of 17 football fields and was opened in 2015, one of the first to be designed with robots in mind. Still, it employs 5,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon and Boxed say their automated warehouses actually employ more workers than their non-automated warehouses do, because they handle far more volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many employees say all the technology and machinery has made their jobs better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11383243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11383243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Watt_Local-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This baby shop in Oakland closed its doors in late 2016, due to competition from online retailer, Amazon. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mena, 34, vastly prefers Boxed’s new facility to the manual warehouses where she previously worked. At one warehouse, owned by a medical equipment manufacturer, Mena says she would walk 15,000 steps a day to fill orders, according to her Fitbit. That’s about 7.5 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s less lifting to do,” she adds, now that goods are moved by conveyor belt rather than carts. “There are a lot of little things that make the job better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with Boxed growing rapidly, she was promoted to trainer less than a year after starting as a temporary employee picking orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward, meanwhile, says she expects to be able to work longer at Boxed because her job is less physically demanding, thanks to automation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jobs are growing off the warehouse floor, as well. The explosion of online commerce is also building demand for higher-paying jobs in software and robotics. Nearly 14 percent of software job listings are now posted by retailers, according to data analyzed by Glassdoor, the job recruitment website. That share has doubled from 2012, says Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor’s chief economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the software jobs are not as concentrated in places like Silicon Valley. Dallas, for example, has experienced a surge in software jobs, partly because of greater hiring by Home Depot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a huge change,” Chamberlain said. “Software-related jobs are a bellwether of automation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s career website lists nearly 5,000 open software jobs and 250 in machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence. Walmart is advertising 475 software and technology jobs, including data analysts, programmers, and software engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These aren’t folks who just maintain websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a customer shops on Boxed’s website, software calculates what size box will be needed and how much empty space it will contain, Zumpano said. Just before checkout, the website will recommend products that would fill the box’s empty space, yet not so many that the order would require another box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Automation and robotics will only get more sophisticated in the future, which will threaten some jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon runs an annual “picking” contest in which mostly startup firms and universities compete to see which team’s robot can most efficiently pick items from a shelf and place them in a box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going to happen next is robotic arms, combined with vision technology and suction technology,” says Marc Wulfraat, president of MWVPL, a consulting firm. “You can be darn sure that Amazon will take the first swing at it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You’re going to need distribution facilities in the backyard of every city.’ \u003ccite>Marc Wulfraat, president of MWVPL, a consulting firm\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But it could take several years for such robots to be put into widespread use. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ahmet Ustunel remembers his daily commute to high school well. He’d wake up at home, on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey, a city that straddles two continents. Then he would take a ferry across the Bosphorus Strait to the European side of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After boarding the ferry, Ustunel liked to buy tea and sesame bread, and take it outside on the deck. He’d stand at the railing, feeling the spray of the water on his face and listening for nearby boats. Ustunel has been blind since he was 3 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I used to think one day, this strait, Bosphorus, should be more accessible to blind swimmers, blind surfers or sailors,” Ustunel said. “People should be able to see blind people using boats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 11 years, Ustunel has lived in the U.S., and finally he’s making good on that high school aspiration. He plans to return to his homeland next summer, to be one of those blind people using a boat on the waters off Turkey. His goal is to kayak solo across the Bosphorus Strait.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A ‘Blind Captain,’ Inspired by a Mythological Blind Navigator\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/10/BlindKayaker.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Ahmet1-1180x637.jpg\" Title=\"The Water Belongs to Everyone, and This Blind Kayaker Will Prove It\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ustunel lost his sight because of eye cancer when he was a child, but that never kept him away from the water. He spent afternoons fishing with his father, and summers swimming in the Black Sea, where his grandmother had a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he’s 37 and still loves being on the water. But instead of going out in another person’s boat, Ustunel wants to go out on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ustunel first became inspired to captain his own boat in high school, while studying Greek mythology. Ustunel remembers one myth about a blind navigator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was this blind king called Phineus, and he used to live on the north side of the Bosphorus,” he recalled. “His mission was guiding sailors in the dark safely to the Black Sea from the Mediterranean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phineus, although mythical, became a role model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was in college, Ustunel met an American woman whom he eventually married. After moving to the U.S. so the couple could be together, they decided to leave his wife’s Midwestern hometown and settle in San Francisco, in part because of Ustunel’s love of the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair started kayaking in a two-person boat, and his wife would steer. Sometimes, Ustunel would kayak solo, but he’d go along with a group, and ask a sighted friend to wear bells so Ustunel could hear and follow as they paddled across the water. But his desire to kayak independently persisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"Ustunel paddles his kayak solo on San Francisco's Lake Merced.\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-800x445.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-1020x567.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-1180x656.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-960x534.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-240x134.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-375x209.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-520x289.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ustunel paddles his kayak solo on San Francisco’s Lake Merced. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, he saw an opportunity that could make this possible: A nonprofit launched a new award to fund blind and visually impaired people undertaking adventures. \u003ca href=\"https://www.holmanprize.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Holman Prize for Blind Ambition\u003c/a> offers grants of up to $25,000 to accomplish a bold project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization behind the prize,\u003ca href=\"http://lighthouse-sf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/a>, received over 200 applications from 27 countries. They finally whittled down the winners to three individuals. In addition to Ustunel, the other prize recipients were a Ugandan beekeeper hoping to expand job opportunities for other visually impaired people, and a British baker hoping to travel with her prize money and connect people across cultures through food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LightHouse has been able to fund these creative projects after receiving an unexpected gift of $125 million from a Seattle businessman upon his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ustunel, the money will help him buy the right kind of kayak and the instruments he will use to navigate. He’s documenting his training process on his \u003ca href=\"http://theblindcaptain.com/\">website\u003c/a>, where he calls himself “The Blind Captain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do you kayak if you can’t see?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ustunel says the first thing is to use your other senses, which can convey lots of information. When he nears the shore, Ustunel smells plants or flowers. If it’s rained recently, the land produces an earthy scent from the soil, called petrichor. If Ustunel is out on the open water, he will sometimes sense a smell similar to watermelon. He thinks this might be a kind of seaweed scent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ustunel also uses his ears to locate people, construction or cars. These sounds mean he’s close to shore. When he’s out farther in the water, he mostly just hears birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to cross the Bosphorus, Ustunel will need more than just his senses. His journey will be just over 3 miles, but the strait is one of the busiest shipping channels in the world: the waters are dangerously crowded with huge freighters and tankers, alongside small ferries and fishing boats. And the currents are strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Ustunel will need gadgets that can tell him exactly where he is and what’s around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"Ferry boats criss-cross the Bosphorus Strait off Istanbul, one of the world's busiest shipping channels. Crossing it safely is a huge challenge for a blind kayaker.\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous-1180x807.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous-960x657.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous-240x164.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous-375x256.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous-520x356.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ferries criss-cross the Bosphorus Strait off Istanbul, one of the world’s busiest shipping channels. Crossing it safely is a huge challenge for a blind kayaker. \u003ccite>(OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To prepare, Ustunel is training in a variety of waterways, including Tomales Bay, San Francisco Bay and Lake Merritt in Oakland. And he’s testing new technology every time he goes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Tuesday, he launched on the calm waters of San Francisco’s tiny Lake Merced. He got there by taking a public city bus for people with disabilities. Once at the lake, he rolled his suitcase to the end of the dock and popped it open. Inside, he had a black-and-yellow kayak, neatly folded up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After inflating the boat, Ustunel took his white-and-red cane and stuck it on the back, like a flagpole. This cane is a symbol, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a blind guy kayaking, raising awareness,” Ustunel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmet Ustunel sets up his kayak with many gadgets to help him navigate the water. He attaches his white cane to his boat to indicate that he is blind.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmet Ustunel sets up his kayak with many gadgets to help him navigate the water. He attaches his white cane to his boat to indicate that he is blind. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With his red life jacket zipped up, he climbed into his boat and pushed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the lake, there was a loud road, which Ustunel used as a landmark, steering toward the sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he pulled out his smartphone. Like all his devices, he has it set to play at double speed for maximum efficiency. In a fast, robotic tone, the GPS device on his phone told him his coordinates, and Ustunel decided to head south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the GPS on his phone, Ustunel placed another on the back of his kayak, just behind his seat. He refers to that one as “Mr. Beep.” It beeped slowly and steadily when Ustunel was correctly following a pre-programmed route, and quickly to alert him if he drifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-800x436.jpg\" alt=\"Ustunel uses an app that connects him to a sighted volunteer who can look through the camera on his phone and tell him what's around him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-800x436.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-1020x556.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-1180x643.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-960x523.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-240x131.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-375x204.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-520x283.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ustunel uses an app that connects him to a sighted volunteer who can look through the camera on his phone and tell him what’s around him. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ustunel’s kayak is powered by foot pedals, which allow him to keep his hands free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the water, he also tested a sonar used by fishers to find fish. Ustunel instead used this to scan the water in front of him for objects or debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when he wanted even more information, Ustunel opened an app on his phone that connected him to a sighted person, a volunteer who could be anywhere in the world, who could look through the camera on his phone and see for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This particular volunteer was in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hello?” a female voice said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi,” responded Ustunel. “I am on a kayak on a lake and I want to know what’s around me. I hear a street on my right. Can you see the street?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tools Ustunel uses are prototypes. He is providing feedback to engineers who will tweak the devices so that other people who are blind can use them, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ustunel is not a stranger to helping other blind and visually impaired people access opportunities. This is what he does in his day job as a teacher of visually impaired students in San Francisco public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent school day he met privately with Ethan, a 15-year-old who Ustunel was helping write a letter to the city about an intersection that’s not accessible for blind people. Together Ustunel and his student went over a draft of the letter. A computer program read it out loud. The pair made tweaks and spell-checked the document. Then, they agreed, it was ready to send.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, Ustunel says he teaches because when he was young, he had trouble finding role models. He took whatever he could get — even mythological Greek kings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now times have changed, and it’s much easier to find blind heroes, because they’re walking around us every day. Or maybe they’re kayaking on a nearby lake. Just look for the white-tipped cane jutting out the back.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ahmet Ustunel remembers his daily commute to high school well. He’d wake up at home, on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey, a city that straddles two continents. Then he would take a ferry across the Bosphorus Strait to the European side of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After boarding the ferry, Ustunel liked to buy tea and sesame bread, and take it outside on the deck. He’d stand at the railing, feeling the spray of the water on his face and listening for nearby boats. Ustunel has been blind since he was 3 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I used to think one day, this strait, Bosphorus, should be more accessible to blind swimmers, blind surfers or sailors,” Ustunel said. “People should be able to see blind people using boats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 11 years, Ustunel has lived in the U.S., and finally he’s making good on that high school aspiration. He plans to return to his homeland next summer, to be one of those blind people using a boat on the waters off Turkey. His goal is to kayak solo across the Bosphorus Strait.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A ‘Blind Captain,’ Inspired by a Mythological Blind Navigator\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he’s 37 and still loves being on the water. But instead of going out in another person’s boat, Ustunel wants to go out on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ustunel first became inspired to captain his own boat in high school, while studying Greek mythology. Ustunel remembers one myth about a blind navigator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was this blind king called Phineus, and he used to live on the north side of the Bosphorus,” he recalled. “His mission was guiding sailors in the dark safely to the Black Sea from the Mediterranean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phineus, although mythical, became a role model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was in college, Ustunel met an American woman whom he eventually married. After moving to the U.S. so the couple could be together, they decided to leave his wife’s Midwestern hometown and settle in San Francisco, in part because of Ustunel’s love of the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair started kayaking in a two-person boat, and his wife would steer. Sometimes, Ustunel would kayak solo, but he’d go along with a group, and ask a sighted friend to wear bells so Ustunel could hear and follow as they paddled across the water. But his desire to kayak independently persisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"Ustunel paddles his kayak solo on San Francisco's Lake Merced.\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-800x445.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-1020x567.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-1180x656.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-960x534.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-240x134.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-375x209.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonKayak-520x289.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ustunel paddles his kayak solo on San Francisco’s Lake Merced. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, he saw an opportunity that could make this possible: A nonprofit launched a new award to fund blind and visually impaired people undertaking adventures. \u003ca href=\"https://www.holmanprize.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Holman Prize for Blind Ambition\u003c/a> offers grants of up to $25,000 to accomplish a bold project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization behind the prize,\u003ca href=\"http://lighthouse-sf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/a>, received over 200 applications from 27 countries. They finally whittled down the winners to three individuals. In addition to Ustunel, the other prize recipients were a Ugandan beekeeper hoping to expand job opportunities for other visually impaired people, and a British baker hoping to travel with her prize money and connect people across cultures through food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LightHouse has been able to fund these creative projects after receiving an unexpected gift of $125 million from a Seattle businessman upon his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ustunel, the money will help him buy the right kind of kayak and the instruments he will use to navigate. He’s documenting his training process on his \u003ca href=\"http://theblindcaptain.com/\">website\u003c/a>, where he calls himself “The Blind Captain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do you kayak if you can’t see?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ustunel says the first thing is to use your other senses, which can convey lots of information. When he nears the shore, Ustunel smells plants or flowers. If it’s rained recently, the land produces an earthy scent from the soil, called petrichor. If Ustunel is out on the open water, he will sometimes sense a smell similar to watermelon. He thinks this might be a kind of seaweed scent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ustunel also uses his ears to locate people, construction or cars. These sounds mean he’s close to shore. When he’s out farther in the water, he mostly just hears birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to cross the Bosphorus, Ustunel will need more than just his senses. His journey will be just over 3 miles, but the strait is one of the busiest shipping channels in the world: the waters are dangerously crowded with huge freighters and tankers, alongside small ferries and fishing boats. And the currents are strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Ustunel will need gadgets that can tell him exactly where he is and what’s around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Bosphorous-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"Ferry boats criss-cross the Bosphorus Strait off Istanbul, one of the world's busiest shipping channels. 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Crossing it safely is a huge challenge for a blind kayaker. \u003ccite>(OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To prepare, Ustunel is training in a variety of waterways, including Tomales Bay, San Francisco Bay and Lake Merritt in Oakland. And he’s testing new technology every time he goes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Tuesday, he launched on the calm waters of San Francisco’s tiny Lake Merced. He got there by taking a public city bus for people with disabilities. Once at the lake, he rolled his suitcase to the end of the dock and popped it open. Inside, he had a black-and-yellow kayak, neatly folded up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After inflating the boat, Ustunel took his white-and-red cane and stuck it on the back, like a flagpole. This cane is a symbol, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a blind guy kayaking, raising awareness,” Ustunel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmet Ustunel sets up his kayak with many gadgets to help him navigate the water. He attaches his white cane to his boat to indicate that he is blind.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27757_IMG_7449-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmet Ustunel sets up his kayak with many gadgets to help him navigate the water. He attaches his white cane to his boat to indicate that he is blind. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With his red life jacket zipped up, he climbed into his boat and pushed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the lake, there was a loud road, which Ustunel used as a landmark, steering toward the sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he pulled out his smartphone. Like all his devices, he has it set to play at double speed for maximum efficiency. In a fast, robotic tone, the GPS device on his phone told him his coordinates, and Ustunel decided to head south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the GPS on his phone, Ustunel placed another on the back of his kayak, just behind his seat. He refers to that one as “Mr. Beep.” It beeped slowly and steadily when Ustunel was correctly following a pre-programmed route, and quickly to alert him if he drifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11626486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11626486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-800x436.jpg\" alt=\"Ustunel uses an app that connects him to a sighted volunteer who can look through the camera on his phone and tell him what's around him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-800x436.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-1020x556.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-1180x643.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-960x523.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-240x131.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-375x204.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/AhmetonNav-520x283.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ustunel uses an app that connects him to a sighted volunteer who can look through the camera on his phone and tell him what’s around him. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ustunel’s kayak is powered by foot pedals, which allow him to keep his hands free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the water, he also tested a sonar used by fishers to find fish. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you've been reading about the\u003ca href=\"https://www.scistar-study.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> SCiStar\u003c/a> stem cell trial, you know the company's \u003ca href=\"http://asteriasbiotherapeutics.com/inv_news_releases_text.php?releaseid=2303887&date=October+02%2C+2017&title=Asterias+Announces+Two+Significant+Developments+for+Spinal+Cord+Injury+Program%3Chttp://asteriasbiotherapeutics.com/inv_news_releases_text.php?releaseid=2303887&date=October+02%2C+2017&title=Asterias+Announces+Two+Significant+Developments+for+Spinal+Cord+Injury+Program%3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports\u003c/a> of its initial results sound truly remarkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">All six paralyzed patients in Phase II of the SCiStar trial have regained some movement, and 4 out of 6 have made significant gains.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The trial is injecting \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodendrocyte_progenitor_cell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oligodendrocyte progenitor cells\u003c/a>, produced from human embryonic stem cells, into patients ages 18-69. These trial subjects have suffered recent spinal cord injuries in the neck, resulting in the loss of nearly all sensation and movement below the injury, as well as some paralysis of the arms and legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The results so far: One year after six people with severe spinal cord injuries received a dose of more than 10 million stem cells, all six patients have progressed at least one motor level on both sides of their bodies, based on a widely used \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232636/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scale \u003c/a>\u003c/span>that measures the range of movement in various muscles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In addition, four of the patients jumped two levels on at least one side, and one patient advanced three. And two patients progressed two motor levels on both sides. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">This is all according to Asterias Biotherapeutics, the company conducting the trial. Asterias also says\u003c/span> patients in this cohort showed improvement between the six-month and 12-month marks from the time they received the infusion of stem cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The take-home message is that we can only hope to truly demonstrate efficacy in a randomized control trial.'\u003ccite>Dr. Edward Wirth, Asterias Biotherapeutics\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Usually what you see is a plateau, and that’s not what we’re seeing here. They continued to improve,” said Dr. Charles Liu, an investigator on the study and director of the USC Neurorestoration Center. “It was a durable effect. And that’s incredibly exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The trial is legitimate. It’s partially funded by the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cirm.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> California Institute for Regenerative Medicine,\u003c/a> the state's stem cell agency; well-known spinal experts are participating; and the FDA has certified the treatment as one that preliminary clinical evidence indicates has the “potential to address unmet medical needs” related to a “serious or life-threatening disease or condition.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">There have also been a steady stream of media reports about the possibility of a breakthrough, including our own \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/tag/spinal-injuries/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coverage \u003c/a>and a recent \u003ca href=\"http://discovermagazine.com/2017/oct/what-once--was-lost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feature\u003c/a> by Discover magazine and front-page\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Super-exciting-results-in-stem-cell-therapy-12245199.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> story \u003c/a>from the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\"'Super exciting' results in stem cell therapy trial,\" was the headline, quoting Dr. Edward Wirth, the chief medical officer at Asterias.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's Still Early\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regaining two motor levels in spinocervical patients is significant. That level of improvement could mean the difference between full paralysis from the neck down, requiring a ventilator to breathe, versus regaining some arm, hand and finger movement, enabling patients to take care of many of life’s daily tasks unassisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is video of Kris Boesen, a patient in the trial who at the age of 20 was paralyzed from the neck down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't drink, I couldn't feed myself, I couldn't text or pretty much do anything,\" he says. \"I was basically just existing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the stem cell treatment, he says, \"I'm able to live my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ZWqBWDoQI&ab_channel=AmericansforCures\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another trial patient, Lucas Lindner, was in a car accident that left him a quadriplegic, with no use of his hands or legs. After receiving the stem cells, he recovered to the point of being able to throw a ball, type and use a soldering gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DerDpM_FO4&ab_channel=AsteriasBiotherapeutics\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are compelling stories. And if the treatment really does work, it could provide hope to traumatic-injury patients who might otherwise show little progress or improvement in their paralysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, the sample size we've seen so far is small — really small — just six patients. And it's true that some patients have been known to spontaneously recover some movement after spinal injuries without having received a cutting-edge stem cell treatment. Also, in this second phase of the trial, there is no control group. A double-blind, control-group study is planned in Phase III next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'As a scientist I think it’s very exciting.'\u003ccite>Oswald Steward, UC Irvine School of Medicine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So we wondered, how can the people running the trial know, right now, that the level of improvement in their subjects is favorable to patients who haven't received the treatment, prompting such optimistic press releases? And how much excitement should anyone allow themselves over these early results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using Historical Data to Compare\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The likelihood of all six patients recovering to the degree they have on their own is unlikely, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“This is as good as you could hope at this point,” said USC's Liu, in March. “So far all the evidence is pointing in the right direction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asterias, based in Fremont, Calif., has tried to assess these early results by comparing the improvement in its cohort of patients to historical data from an estimated pool of 3,300 spinal injury victims in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.emsci.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Multicenter Study about Spinal Cord Injury\u003c/a>. Asterias says the level of progress for its six subjects is about twice the rate of recovery patients saw in the European data, dating back to 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 12-month data showed 67% (4/6) of Cohort 2 (subjects) have recovered 2 or more motor levels on at least one side through 12 months, which is more than double the rates of recovery seen in both matched historical controls and published data in a similar population,\" the company wrote in an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.asteriasbiotherapeutics.com/inv_news_releases_text.php?releaseid=2303887&date=October+02%2C+2017&title=Asterias+Announces+Two+Significant+Developments+for+Spinal+Cord+Injury+Program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Oswald Steward, director of the Reeve-Irvine spinal cord research center at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, there are so many variables to be considered when you look at historical data, you really have to take any conclusions with a few grains of salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds good, but it’s not a control group, there’s no real data here,\" Steward says. \"It’s nice to give some background, to give you a sense of [comparative recovery rates], but that’s definitely the way I would put it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting background information to give a rough framework of comparison is exactly what the company wanted to accomplish, according to \u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wirth, Asterias' chief medical officer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\"The take-home message is that we can only hope to truly demonstrate efficacy in a randomized control trial,\" he says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">That's the plan in Phase\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>III of the trial. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\"The historical controls are merely a temporary comparator to help us determine whether the ... program should move forward.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>An Unusual Step\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historical data is often used in cancer studies because of the fixed nature of outcomes in some cancer types, but it's unusual to see early-stage clinical trials in other areas use it as a comparison, says Karen Messer, chief of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics division at the Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Use of historical controls is common in early-phase cancer studies because they usually have small sample sizes and the end points are really well-defined,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But spinal cord injury outcomes may be more varied, Messer says, so the results of an intervention wouldn't be as reliable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(T)here are a few things to watch for: Are the patients comparable? Has treatment changed? You want to make sure the response assessment is not subject to any judgment calls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asterias mined the European historical data because it was the only large spinal-injury database with current information that could be licensed, Wirth said in an internal memo on the rationale and methods for compiling historical data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that memo, Wirth wrote that some variables are not included in the European database. These include MRI data on spinal cord lesions and the timing or quality of decompression, a bone-trimming surgery that makes more room for nerves. These differences in the data make direct comparisons harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Miglioretti is a biostatistics professor at UC Davis. She says historical data is an interesting approach to frame a comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously it isn’t as strong as a control group,” she says, “but if there aren’t major time trends, it can be a reasonable alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, Miglioretti says, if outcomes haven't changed over time — due to improvements in treatment, for example — it's not out of the question that historical data can serve as a control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to spinal cord researcher Steward, that’s the main concern about taking historical data on spinal injuries at face value .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past we treated spinal injury differently,” Steward says. “For instance the amount of time people spend in rehab is a lot less than it was 10 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strong Anecdotal Statements\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Steward’s point of view, the real reason to get excited about the phenomenal initial results of this stem cell therapy is not the supporting historical data, but rather the anecdotal statements by the clinical researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, he points to the statements by Richard Fessler, the lead investigator of the Asterias trial and a professor of neurosurgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. “I’ve been treating these kinds of patients for 30 years,” Fessler said in the San Francisco Chronicle story, “and I’ve never seen anything like this before.” (Fessler has no financial stake in Asterias, company officials say.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone like Fessler says 'I’ve never seen anything like that,' ” Steward says, “I spend more time listening to that than to historical data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steward also points out that this stem cell therapy won’t help those with chronic spinal injuries, but says it could be a game-changer for newly injured patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Still, this is huge,” he says. “Things are progressing in a positive way. 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It’s partially funded by the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cirm.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> California Institute for Regenerative Medicine,\u003c/a> the state's stem cell agency; well-known spinal experts are participating; and the FDA has certified the treatment as one that preliminary clinical evidence indicates has the “potential to address unmet medical needs” related to a “serious or life-threatening disease or condition.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">There have also been a steady stream of media reports about the possibility of a breakthrough, including our own \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/tag/spinal-injuries/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coverage \u003c/a>and a recent \u003ca href=\"http://discovermagazine.com/2017/oct/what-once--was-lost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feature\u003c/a> by Discover magazine and front-page\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Super-exciting-results-in-stem-cell-therapy-12245199.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> story \u003c/a>from the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\"'Super exciting' results in stem cell therapy trial,\" was the headline, quoting Dr. Edward Wirth, the chief medical officer at Asterias.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's Still Early\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regaining two motor levels in spinocervical patients is significant. That level of improvement could mean the difference between full paralysis from the neck down, requiring a ventilator to breathe, versus regaining some arm, hand and finger movement, enabling patients to take care of many of life’s daily tasks unassisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is video of Kris Boesen, a patient in the trial who at the age of 20 was paralyzed from the neck down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't drink, I couldn't feed myself, I couldn't text or pretty much do anything,\" he says. \"I was basically just existing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the stem cell treatment, he says, \"I'm able to live my life.\"\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/N0ZWqBWDoQI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/N0ZWqBWDoQI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Another trial patient, Lucas Lindner, was in a car accident that left him a quadriplegic, with no use of his hands or legs. 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And it's true that some patients have been known to spontaneously recover some movement after spinal injuries without having received a cutting-edge stem cell treatment. Also, in this second phase of the trial, there is no control group. A double-blind, control-group study is planned in Phase III next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'As a scientist I think it’s very exciting.'\u003ccite>Oswald Steward, UC Irvine School of Medicine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So we wondered, how can the people running the trial know, right now, that the level of improvement in their subjects is favorable to patients who haven't received the treatment, prompting such optimistic press releases? And how much excitement should anyone allow themselves over these early results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using Historical Data to Compare\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The likelihood of all six patients recovering to the degree they have on their own is unlikely, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“This is as good as you could hope at this point,” said USC's Liu, in March. “So far all the evidence is pointing in the right direction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asterias, based in Fremont, Calif., has tried to assess these early results by comparing the improvement in its cohort of patients to historical data from an estimated pool of 3,300 spinal injury victims in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.emsci.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Multicenter Study about Spinal Cord Injury\u003c/a>. 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