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"content": "\u003cp>Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the electric car company is making improvements to the Autopilot system used by its vehicles, which will dramatically reduce the number and severity of crashes in which they are involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday's \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-radar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news\u003c/a> comes in the wake of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/01/business/inside-tesla-accident.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a May crash\u003c/a> involving a Tesla Model S that was using the semi-autonomous mode at the time. The driver died after crashing into a tractor-trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a conference call with reporters, Musk said he thinks that the improvements, which will roll out globally in the next week or two in the form of a software update, probably would have prevented that crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is investigating the crash, said Sunday that Tesla has provided it with information about the changes to Autopilot, which it will review. It declined to provide an update on its \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/12/federal-investigators-want-tesla-data-on-fatal-autopilot-crash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla investigation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk called the upgrades a \"massive enhancement,\" but he said he believes Tesla cars are already the safest on the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not about going from bad to good,\" Musk said on the call. \"Things are already good. I think it's about going from good to great.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he acknowledged that there's no such thing as perfect safety, he predicted that the improvements will cut the accident rate for Tesla vehicles by more than half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla's Autopilot system can maintain a set speed, keep the car within its lane and brake automatically. Radar, which was added to all Tesla vehicles starting in October 2014, currently helps the car see things that may be blocked to cameras in bright sunlight or bad weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The improvements announced Sunday call for Autopilot to rely more on radar and less on vehicle cameras. As part of that shift, the radar will use more advanced signal processing to create a better picture of the surrounding world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk said that he has wanted to make these kinds of improvements to Autopilot since last year, but he was told it couldn't be done for various technical reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We really pushed hard on questioning all of those assumptions over the past few months,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tesla, one of the biggest challenges was the need to eliminate false positives. While slamming on the brakes is crucial if a driver is about to hit another vehicle, it isn't if they're about to hit something smaller, like garbage in the road. And these kinds of stops always have the potential to cause injury, making a false positive potentially dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Musk says the company has solved the problem through software improvements. He added that he expects the radar system to continue to improve over the next several months, as the company collects more data and makes changes.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/atreyart/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erica Atreya\u003c/a> never fell out of love with San Jose. The Silicon Valley capital just became too damn expensive. Her husband, Krishna, really wanted to buy. But even with his engineer’s salary, the couple could only afford to rent a one bedroom town home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Atreyas soon realized that if left the San Francisco Bay Area, they could actually buy a piece of the proverbial American dream. So they started house-hunting farther and farther afield, in places like Pleasanton, Dublin and Livermore. But their goal of homeownership continued to remain elusive. “We kept getting bought out by people who were offering cash,” Atreya says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the Atreyas found their way to Folsom, east of Sacramento. Erika Atreya loves the small city’s easy-going vibe and its proximity to nature. But she misses San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/282129559″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year and a half out, she continues to struggle with the emotional fallout of the change. “There was more than an adjustment,” says the self-taught visual artist, who lived in San Jose for 18 years before she and her husband decamped for Folsom. “There was depression, and loneliness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, San Jose’s demographic mix makes for a richer, multi-cultural feel, which Atreya loves. For another, the art gallery scene in Folsom doesn’t really compare to her old home base. “Back home, I had so many people to reach out to in my art community,” Atreya says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Room to paint in Folsom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the Atreyas’ new three-bedroom house gives the couple space to breathe and grow. Now, instead of ever so carefully spreading out on the couch with her materials, as she used to in San Jose, Atreya has her own studio in the garage. She also has enough wall space in the house to accommodate 40 works of art, many by friends she had to leave behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atreya is constantly adding to the collection with new works, like this one:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 549px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11980479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/13076600_1290210411006559_6598698964301793119_n-549x600.jpg\" alt=\"“Eve,” by Folsom artist Erica Atreya, was produced for a show with a collective called reCREATE, that upcycles items like this body form of a female torso.\" width=\"549\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/13076600_1290210411006559_6598698964301793119_n-549x600.jpg 549w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/13076600_1290210411006559_6598698964301793119_n-400x437.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/13076600_1290210411006559_6598698964301793119_n.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Eve,” by Folsom artist Erica Atreya, was produced for a show with a collective called reCREATE, that upcycles items like this body form of a female torso. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Anthony Barbaria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I did lot of detail and texturization with puff paint,” Atreya says of one of the pieces on display in her home, titled \u003cem>Eve\u003c/em>. “So you can actually touch the piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Johnny Cash’s Folsom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Folsom the Atreyas moved to is not the one that comes to mind from the 1968 Johnny Cash song “Folsom Prison Blues.” These days, the city is like a comfortable, middle class Sacramento suburb. \u003ca href=\"http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibility/intel-in-california.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intel\u003c/a> is the biggest employer. Half the population hails from the San Francisco Bay Area or Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042710\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042710 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21101_IMG_2710-qut-400x533.jpg\" alt='The Atreyas moved numerous times within San Jose before they left. \"We kept moving further away from the main tech companies, because it would get cheaper the further we moved,\" but those rents rose, too.' width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21101_IMG_2710-qut-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21101_IMG_2710-qut-450x600.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21101_IMG_2710-qut.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Atreyas moved numerous times within San Jose before they left. “We kept moving further away from the main tech companies, because it would get cheaper the further we moved,” but those rents rose, too. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Erica Atreya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s cyclical,” explains Mary Ann McAlea, senior vice president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.folsom.partners/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Folsom Partnership\u003c/a>, a consortium of organizations that oversee tourism, trade and economic development in the region. McAlea says Folsom’s population expands every time real estate booms to the west. “It’s tied to the real estate values on the coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAlea says Folsom has witnessed a spike in in-migration over the last five years, especially young families looking for more square footage in an area where they can also find well-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dramatic losses for San Jose\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, rising real estate prices have pressured – or forced – artists to leave San Francisco and Oakland for cheaper places elsewhere. The same thing is happening in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average rent for a San Jose apartment these days is $2,600 according to the real estate brokerage firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.marcusmillichap.com/research/researchreports/reports/2016/06/20/san-jose-apartment-research-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcus & Millichap\u003c/a>. That’s not as bad as San Francisco, but San Jose rents are still steep, and nearly 50 percent higher than they were five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for those who can afford to pay the rent, the pull to leave for cheaper living is hard to resist — especially if you’re an artist whose partner makes the bulk of the household income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042714\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042714 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"These days, Erica Atreya still drives three hours from Folsom to San Jose every month to participate in Arte nella Piazza, an art bazaar in San Jose’s Little Italy.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-600x600.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These days, Erica Atreya still drives three hours from Folsom to San Jose every month to participate in Arte nella Piazza, an art bazaar in San Jose’s Little Italy. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the time since she left for Folsom, Atreya says she knows of five other artists who left their hearts in San Jose. This number includes a musician who like her also moved to Sacramento County, a painter who moved in El Dorado County, and three people who left for Oregon. “We know the market has changed drastically,” acknowledges Kerry Adams-Hapner, San Jose’s director of cultural affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams-Hapner says the city of San Jose is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseculture.org/DocumentCenter/View/30592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveying its artists\u003c/a> for the second time in eight years to get a current handle on their housing and work space issues. Real estate costs are dramatically higher now. But even five years ago, 47 percent of the 700 artists canvassed in the survey found San Jose area housing unaffordable; two-thirds reported spending more than 30 percent of their income on mortgage or rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need a space to live, fundamentally,” Adams Hapner says. “Also, people need a space to present their work. They need a space to rehearse. And they need spaces also to connect with each other and network.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042717\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042717 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Many Silicon Valley artists, including Steve Borelli of Campbell, don't even begin to pay the rent with their art. But that's not a reason to give up the practice, or the community.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-450x600.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-885x1180.jpg 885w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many Silicon Valley artists, including Steve Borelli of Campbell, don’t even begin to pay the rent with their art. But that’s not a reason to give up the practice, or the community. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Folsom, Atreya is gradually building a new network of friends and professional contacts. But she still feels an emotional pull towards her old home. “All my art family’s there, mostly,” Atreya says. “So, my heart’s still here in San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atreya still regularly drives three hours southwest to reconnect with her friends in San Jose. She’s still a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SanJoseArtSalon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Art Salon\u003c/a>, a group of creatives who meet regularly for collective inspiration. And every month, she returns to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Arte.nella.Piazza/?fref=ts\">Arte nella Piazza\u003c/a>, an art bazaar in San Jose’s Little Italy neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Those that stayed behind\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This exodus of artists is depressing for those left behind in the South Bay, too – even if they’re not about to get priced out. At the art fair, Steve Borelli has his own table set up near Atreya’s with his abstract drawings available for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every passing day, I feel I’m luckier,” Borelli says. Borelli bought a house years ago in Campbell, near San Jose. Borelli pays the mortgage with his salary as a graphic designer. But his true love is drawing – and his connection to the local artists’ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fear for the future,” Borelli says. “You know, if it keeps going the way that it is, eventually you’re going to see a mass migration out, and I just hope it never comes to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042718\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042718 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21098_13891871_1374119459282320_2980430368697866441_n-qut-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mia the cat gets interviewed at Erica Atreya's Folsom home.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21098_13891871_1374119459282320_2980430368697866441_n-qut-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21098_13891871_1374119459282320_2980430368697866441_n-qut-450x600.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21098_13891871_1374119459282320_2980430368697866441_n-qut.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mia the cat gets interviewed at Erica Atreya’s Folsom home. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Erica Atreya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The exodus is a function of the economy, says Matthew Mahood, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjchamber.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of school teachers and firefighters might seem to be a more pressing concern for San Jose than the flight of artists. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, San Jose’s demographic mix makes for a richer, multi-cultural feel, which Atreya loves. For another, the art gallery scene in Folsom doesn’t really compare to her old home base. “Back home, I had so many people to reach out to in my art community,” Atreya says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Room to paint in Folsom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the Atreyas’ new three-bedroom house gives the couple space to breathe and grow. Now, instead of ever so carefully spreading out on the couch with her materials, as she used to in San Jose, Atreya has her own studio in the garage. She also has enough wall space in the house to accommodate 40 works of art, many by friends she had to leave behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atreya is constantly adding to the collection with new works, like this one:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 549px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11980479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/13076600_1290210411006559_6598698964301793119_n-549x600.jpg\" alt=\"“Eve,” by Folsom artist Erica Atreya, was produced for a show with a collective called reCREATE, that upcycles items like this body form of a female torso.\" width=\"549\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/13076600_1290210411006559_6598698964301793119_n-549x600.jpg 549w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/13076600_1290210411006559_6598698964301793119_n-400x437.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/13076600_1290210411006559_6598698964301793119_n.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Eve,” by Folsom artist Erica Atreya, was produced for a show with a collective called reCREATE, that upcycles items like this body form of a female torso. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Anthony Barbaria)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I did lot of detail and texturization with puff paint,” Atreya says of one of the pieces on display in her home, titled \u003cem>Eve\u003c/em>. “So you can actually touch the piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Johnny Cash’s Folsom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Folsom the Atreyas moved to is not the one that comes to mind from the 1968 Johnny Cash song “Folsom Prison Blues.” These days, the city is like a comfortable, middle class Sacramento suburb. \u003ca href=\"http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibility/intel-in-california.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intel\u003c/a> is the biggest employer. Half the population hails from the San Francisco Bay Area or Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042710\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042710 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21101_IMG_2710-qut-400x533.jpg\" alt='The Atreyas moved numerous times within San Jose before they left. \"We kept moving further away from the main tech companies, because it would get cheaper the further we moved,\" but those rents rose, too.' width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21101_IMG_2710-qut-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21101_IMG_2710-qut-450x600.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21101_IMG_2710-qut.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Atreyas moved numerous times within San Jose before they left. “We kept moving further away from the main tech companies, because it would get cheaper the further we moved,” but those rents rose, too. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Erica Atreya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s cyclical,” explains Mary Ann McAlea, senior vice president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.folsom.partners/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Folsom Partnership\u003c/a>, a consortium of organizations that oversee tourism, trade and economic development in the region. McAlea says Folsom’s population expands every time real estate booms to the west. “It’s tied to the real estate values on the coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAlea says Folsom has witnessed a spike in in-migration over the last five years, especially young families looking for more square footage in an area where they can also find well-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dramatic losses for San Jose\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, rising real estate prices have pressured – or forced – artists to leave San Francisco and Oakland for cheaper places elsewhere. The same thing is happening in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average rent for a San Jose apartment these days is $2,600 according to the real estate brokerage firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.marcusmillichap.com/research/researchreports/reports/2016/06/20/san-jose-apartment-research-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcus & Millichap\u003c/a>. That’s not as bad as San Francisco, but San Jose rents are still steep, and nearly 50 percent higher than they were five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for those who can afford to pay the rent, the pull to leave for cheaper living is hard to resist — especially if you’re an artist whose partner makes the bulk of the household income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042714\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042714 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"These days, Erica Atreya still drives three hours from Folsom to San Jose every month to participate in Arte nella Piazza, an art bazaar in San Jose’s Little Italy.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-600x600.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21099_IMG_2395-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These days, Erica Atreya still drives three hours from Folsom to San Jose every month to participate in Arte nella Piazza, an art bazaar in San Jose’s Little Italy. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the time since she left for Folsom, Atreya says she knows of five other artists who left their hearts in San Jose. This number includes a musician who like her also moved to Sacramento County, a painter who moved in El Dorado County, and three people who left for Oregon. “We know the market has changed drastically,” acknowledges Kerry Adams-Hapner, San Jose’s director of cultural affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams-Hapner says the city of San Jose is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseculture.org/DocumentCenter/View/30592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveying its artists\u003c/a> for the second time in eight years to get a current handle on their housing and work space issues. Real estate costs are dramatically higher now. But even five years ago, 47 percent of the 700 artists canvassed in the survey found San Jose area housing unaffordable; two-thirds reported spending more than 30 percent of their income on mortgage or rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need a space to live, fundamentally,” Adams Hapner says. “Also, people need a space to present their work. They need a space to rehearse. 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But that's not a reason to give up the practice, or the community.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-450x600.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-885x1180.jpg 885w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21100_IMG_2400-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many Silicon Valley artists, including Steve Borelli of Campbell, don’t even begin to pay the rent with their art. But that’s not a reason to give up the practice, or the community. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Folsom, Atreya is gradually building a new network of friends and professional contacts. But she still feels an emotional pull towards her old home. “All my art family’s there, mostly,” Atreya says. “So, my heart’s still here in San Jose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atreya still regularly drives three hours southwest to reconnect with her friends in San Jose. She’s still a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SanJoseArtSalon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Art Salon\u003c/a>, a group of creatives who meet regularly for collective inspiration. And every month, she returns to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Arte.nella.Piazza/?fref=ts\">Arte nella Piazza\u003c/a>, an art bazaar in San Jose’s Little Italy neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Those that stayed behind\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This exodus of artists is depressing for those left behind in the South Bay, too – even if they’re not about to get priced out. At the art fair, Steve Borelli has his own table set up near Atreya’s with his abstract drawings available for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every passing day, I feel I’m luckier,” Borelli says. Borelli bought a house years ago in Campbell, near San Jose. Borelli pays the mortgage with his salary as a graphic designer. But his true love is drawing – and his connection to the local artists’ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fear for the future,” Borelli says. “You know, if it keeps going the way that it is, eventually you’re going to see a mass migration out, and I just hope it never comes to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042718\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042718 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21098_13891871_1374119459282320_2980430368697866441_n-qut-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mia the cat gets interviewed at Erica Atreya's Folsom home.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21098_13891871_1374119459282320_2980430368697866441_n-qut-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21098_13891871_1374119459282320_2980430368697866441_n-qut-450x600.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/RS21098_13891871_1374119459282320_2980430368697866441_n-qut.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mia the cat gets interviewed at Erica Atreya’s Folsom home. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Erica Atreya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The exodus is a function of the economy, says Matthew Mahood, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjchamber.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of school teachers and firefighters might seem to be a more pressing concern for San Jose than the flight of artists. 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That suggests they were not persuaded this was extraterrestrial life reaching out, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Shostak wrote on SETI's site that it's \"not terribly promising\" that this is a message from alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11065885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May 2015. \u003ccite>(SAO RAS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To put things in perspective, Eric Korpela, an astronomer at UC Berkeley who is a project scientist for the SETI@home project, notes that there are millions of \"potential signals\" that have been detected from space, and that this signal was detected only once out of 39 scans. \"I was unimpressed,\" he wrote \u003ca href=\"http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&id=80193\">on a SETI forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now is not the time for either delight or panic, depending on your feelings about encountering alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>time for more investigation, Shostak says. The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in California has been turned toward HD 164595 since Sunday evening, looking for a repeat of the signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://meti.org/optical-seti\">METI International\u003c/a> is also using a Panama-based observatory to investigate in that direction, \u003ca href=\"http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/\">GeekWire reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might remember that in 1977, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/05/28/126510251/aliens-found-in-ohio-the-wow-signal\">astronomers detected the \"Wow\" signal\u003c/a>, an odd burst that might, possibly, have been sent by alien life-forms. 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That suggests they were not persuaded this was extraterrestrial life reaching out, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Shostak wrote on SETI's site that it's \"not terribly promising\" that this is a message from alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11065885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May 2015. \u003ccite>(SAO RAS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To put things in perspective, Eric Korpela, an astronomer at UC Berkeley who is a project scientist for the SETI@home project, notes that there are millions of \"potential signals\" that have been detected from space, and that this signal was detected only once out of 39 scans. \"I was unimpressed,\" he wrote \u003ca href=\"http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&id=80193\">on a SETI forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now is not the time for either delight or panic, depending on your feelings about encountering alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>time for more investigation, Shostak says. The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in California has been turned toward HD 164595 since Sunday evening, looking for a repeat of the signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://meti.org/optical-seti\">METI International\u003c/a> is also using a Panama-based observatory to investigate in that direction, \u003ca href=\"http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/\">GeekWire reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might remember that in 1977, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/05/28/126510251/aliens-found-in-ohio-the-wow-signal\">astronomers detected the \"Wow\" signal\u003c/a>, an odd burst that might, possibly, have been sent by alien life-forms. But it has never been detected again, leaving scientists with little to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If things are different this time around and one of the arrays finds a repeat of the new signal, that would \"immediately spur\" follow-up research, Shostak writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, it has prompted speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, astronomers are cautioning that this might easily be a false alarm. But if the signal \u003cem>were \u003c/em>sent from alien life in the HD 164595 system, what would that mean? There are two primary options, Shostak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One scenario is that the life-forms sent a powerful signal in all directions — a \"here I am\" sent to the universe in general. To reach us at its current strength, that would mean the planet had access to 100 billion watts of energy, \"hundreds of times more energy than all the sunlight falling on Earth,\" Shostak wrote, indicating a very advanced alien society, with capabilities far beyond ours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternately, the message could have been directed at us. That's a lower energy requirement — about equal to \"the total energy consumption of all mankind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in that case, they'd have to know we're here. The system is too far away to have picked up any TV or radar from humans on Earth, \"and it's hard to understand why anyone would want to target our solar system,\" Shostak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>BRUSSELS — Apple will have to pay up to $14.5 billion plus interest in back taxes to Ireland after the European Union found Tuesday that the Cupertino-based technology giant had paid next to no tax across the bloc's 28 countries for over 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the promise of a windfall that could total $21 billion once interest is calculated, the decision brought an angry response from the Irish government, which says Apple has paid all the taxes it owed. Apple also says it has paid its full tax bill. 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Apple made $10.5 billion in the first three months this year alone, and the company is holding an estimated $200 billion in cash reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EU investigation found that Apple had used two fully owned Irish subsidiaries, Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe, to record all its sales in Europe in Ireland, rather than in the countries where the transactions actually took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That internal company practice, as well as two favorable Irish tax rulings in 1991 and 2007, \"enabled Apple to avoid taxation on almost all profits generated by the sale of Apple products in the entire EU single market,\" which now encompasses 28 nations and more than 500 million consumers, according to the European Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple accused the EU executive body of engaging in efforts \"to rewrite Apple's history in Europe, ignore Ireland's tax laws and upend the international tax system in the process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The commission's case is not about how much Apple pays in taxes, it's about which government collects the money,\" the company said in a statement. \"It will have a profound and harmful effect on investment and job creation in Europe. Apple follows the law and pays all of the taxes we owe wherever we operate. We will appeal and we are confident the decision will be overturned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EU also risks fueling tensions with the U.S., which argues that the EU is singling out American companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the bloc's decision on Apple, the U.S. Treasury Department voiced disappointment, saying retroactive tax assessments by the European Commission \"are unfair, contrary to well-established legal principles and call into question the tax rules\" of the individual countries in the EU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, the U.S. government agency warned in a statement, the Apple ruling \"could threaten to undermine foreign investment, the business climate in Europe and the important spirit of economic partnership between the U.S. and the EU.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department had accused the EU of using a different set of criteria to judge cases involving American companies, terming the development \"deeply troubling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Irish finance minister, Michael Noonan, said he would seek approval from the Irish Cabinet to legally challenge the European Commission's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is important that we send a strong message that Ireland remains an attractive and stable location of choice for long-term substantive investment,\" Noonan said. \"Apple has been in Ireland since the 1980s and employs thousands of people in Cork.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Vale, a Dublin-based corporate tax expert for the accounting firm Grant Thornton, calculated that Tuesday's decision, if upheld, could ultimately cost Apple $21 billion because the EU order also includes interest for unpaid taxes going back more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EU decision will require the Irish tax collection agency to soon issue a demand to Apple for payment, Vale said. 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"content": "\u003cp>Here's a sobering idea during one of the most destructive fire seasons in memory: Over the next few decades, climate change is expected to supercharge fire risk in California. Researchers think summers will be hotter and drier, increasing the potential for big blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/western-wildfires-climate-change-20475\">One study by the research group Climate Central\u003c/a> predicts that by 2050, the number of high-risk fire days in the state will jump by a fifth, from 120 a year to 145. Add that to the fact that right now, there are 11 million Californians living in fire-prone areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this looming threat ahead, what are firefighters doing to prepare?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blowing up hoses for starters, said Sam Wu, project leader with the San Dimas Technology and Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is a sprawling 18-acre campus owned by the U.S. Forest Service in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. It's where the future of firefighting is being developed and tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059781\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Wu holds out two samples of fire hose used at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-1180x795.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-960x647.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Wu holds out two samples of firehose used at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wu and his team push trucks, pumps and hoses to their limits. On a typical day, they might pump a hose with as much as 1,200 pounds per square inch of water pressure, four times what your normal firehose experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they'll drop hot metal cubes on it to see how well the material withstands being struck by a burning ember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty often the hoses explode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last year we bought over 6,600 miles of firehose,\" he added. \"That's a lot of firehose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Jsm6yMVdwcJvzf2DdJSXwD9njlUMFmte\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's all in service of making sure firefighters have the toughest, safest and most effective gear when battling blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Dimas Technology and Development Center was founded just after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government was looking at repurposing excess military equipment to use for domestic firefighting efforts,\" Wu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service took trucks, planes and even helicopters and turned them into tools for fighting fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, the center started designing better fire engines that could climb steep hills without tipping over. Today it's still tweaking the design, strengthening cabs so trucks that roll over won't crush passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059789\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Staff at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center use a tilt bed to see how much incline fire trucks can take before they start to tip over.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-960x675.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center use a tilt bed to see how much incline fire trucks can take before they start to tip over. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also helped develop special filters that stop fire-causing sparks from flying out of the exhaust systems of motorcycles and chainsaws. And it pioneered standards for the use of planes that drop fire retardant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, the center is working on helping the Forest Service switch its fleet of fire tankers from propeller planes to jets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though jets are old hat to commercial airlines, converting them to firefighting safety standards has taken time. Making sure these new planes drop the right amount of retardant in the right place is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281630829\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest models are piloting a newly developed tanker door system to evenly spread that signature orange goo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's worth the effort, said test pilot Brent Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's been flying and fighting fires for more than 30 years. One thing he likes about the new jets is the speed. Last year he was able to zip from a fire in Fairbanks, Alaska, to another fire in Wendover, Nevada, in roughly four hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the older airplanes, depending on what that was, that could have been a six to 10-hour flight,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" link=\"file\" size=\"medium\" ids=\"11059836,11059835,11059840\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//giphy.com/embed/l0MYssaDHN0nXDIpG\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big part of firefighting is dealing with, well, a lot of fire. How do you do that in a controlled setting to test crucial gear without accidentally burning down your lab?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center just recently purchased a new burn simulator. It's a machine that can create a large and controlled fire, perfect for seeing how much heat new equipment can take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the first of its kind in the country and cost around $350,000. The simulator is capable of generating a wall of fire 47 feet long. The center plans to use it to evaluate the toughness of trucks and other firefighting equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059843\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"A large fire simulator. The U.S. Forest Service recently purchased one to use in various tests of new firefighting equipment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large fire simulator. The U.S. Forest Service recently purchased one to use in various tests of new firefighting equipment. \u003ccite>(SAN DIMAS TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The center also evaluates new firefighting tools developed elsewhere, like the Personal Alert and Tracking System (PATS) created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a combination monitor and communication device that can send alerts across several miles of wilderness, even when there’s no cell reception, said Ed Chow, project leader for the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it can let firefighters know if a blaze is headed their way. It can also keeps tabs on where team members are. It monitors their vital signs and even senses if one falls down a slope and needs help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow said the San Dimas Center tested the system and gave feedback on everything from the display to the batteries, which at first were fancy lithium ion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then firefighters say they only use AA-batteries ... all the equipment uses AA-batteries,\" he laughed. He switched to AA after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the system is just a prototype, but it could one day be a crucial tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059845\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Chow with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows off the Personal Alert and Tracking System he helped develop for firefighters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-800x546.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-1180x805.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-960x655.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Chow with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows off the Personal Alert and Tracking System he helped develop for firefighters. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, new technology alone won't be enough to curb the growing threat of wildfire, said Tom Scott, a natural resource specialist based at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s some point where the concept that you have gear that’s going to save you is irrelevant,\" Scott said. \"That’s not going to happen because the fires are going to be too intense and people are going to die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott thinks research and forest management are also a key part of reducing fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stresses the need to think critically about where homes are built since in Southern California, people are by far the number one cause of fire. 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Pokestops and gyms are often in popular commercial districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so people go to these restaurant and bars because they want to go level up,” Kooragayala said. “And because they’re more likely to be in white majority neighborhoods, that actually has economic consequences on where people go to spend their money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Oakland, Othenin-Girard and I go into \u003ca href=\"http://www.rosamundesausagegrill.com/temescal-oakland.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosamunde\u003c/a>, a popular sausage grill and beer house that sits on the corner near two Pokestops. I poked my head into the kitchen and met Emelyn Parker. She’s a bartender and works the grill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked her if she’s seen people playing “Pokemon Go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, they come out in groups and do their Poke thing,” Parker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker says Rosamunde has seen an uptick in business since the game was released earlier this summer. 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