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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Feb. 26: \u003c/strong>The Sunnyvale City Council has voted against a crucial component of a plan to create a bus rapid transit system in the heart of Silicon Valley. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four hours of public comment and debate Tuesday night, the council voted against a plan for dedicated bus lanes on El Camino Real through the city. Under a proposal from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, the bus-only lanes would allow dramatically speeded-up transit service along El Camino from Palo Alto to downtown San Jose. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 4-3 vote, the council passed a resolution backing an alternative idea: having the VTA’s enhanced bus service travel in “mixed flow” lanes along a corridor that would include improved “bulbout” bus stops. The new stops would allow buses to pick up and drop off passengers without pulling to the curb, which would improve travel times somewhat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday night’s vote was advisory, and Sunnyvale is just one of five cities along the proposed bus rapid transit route that must ultimately decide whether they support the effort or not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA is expected to decide on the details of the project later this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nOriginal post:\u003c/strong> U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27445216/u-s-transportation-chief-visits-google-unveil-30\">came to Silicon Valley \u003c/a>earlier this month to announce the administration’s transportation vision for the next three decades. That future includes faster public transit, and Foxx’s 2016 budget recommends \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-foxx-recommends-32-billion-expand-transit-options-improve\">a chunk of federal dollars \u003c/a>to help cities build bus rapid transit systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This speedier form of bus travel, set to debut in San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco over the next few years, is becoming popular in cities all over the world. Buses have their own dedicated lanes, priority at traffic signals, low floors for easy boarding, prepaid ticketing, Wi-Fi and other amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Valley Transportation Authority would \u003ca href=\"http://www.vta.org/projects-and-programs/brt-el-camino-real-brt-project\">like to build such a system\u003c/a> — tentatively called Breeze — along El Camino Real, Silicon Valley’s busiest bus corridor, to better serve its thousands of daily riders and attract newcomers who will be part of a projected population boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”SaAEyhX08cJtupWdjzmuU53TBQ0tkDHO”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA is in line to receive $75 million in federal funds as part of a $233 million bus rapid transit project that would make the buses run faster than cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s just one big problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the cities that run along the corridor, other than San Jose, have embraced it over fears it will make traffic worse, according to transportation officials and transit advocates. The center of tech innovation is also a region where the car is king, and having a fast public bus system is a tough political sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192825592″ 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>“There are very entrenched interests that don’t want to see this project happen, or want to see it watered down,” says Chris Lepe, a senior community planner for the transit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/\">TransForm.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto is backing an alternative to dedicated lanes: a mixed-flow proposal that VTA officials say falls short of true bus rapid transit. Tonight, the Sunnyvale City Council is expected to take an official position, and there is pressure to oppose dedicated lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA officials fear the lesser alternatives will put the project’s federal funding at risk because it won’t be a competitive project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10442130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 788px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10442130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png\" alt='The new bus rapid transit system in Silicon Valley is tentatively being called \"Breeze.\" ' width=\"788\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png 788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM-400x176.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed bus rapid transit system in Silicon Valley is tentatively being called Breeze. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Valley Transportation Authority )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 17-mile rapid bus route from San Jose to Palo Alto would run in dedicated lanes along the current 522 rapid bus route, starting at Diridon station in San Jose, and then onto El Camino Real through Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Los Altos, Mountain View and Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This busy bus corridor currently accounts for 20,000 daily trips. Under bus rapid transit, VTA officials estimate more than 10,000 additional riders would hop aboard by 2040.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year on El Camino Real, because of worsening traffic congestion, the buses slow down by an average of two minutes. That means today the buses are 30 minutes slower than they were in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under bus rapid transit, a ride from San Jose to Palo Alto is expected to take 40 minutes. Right now, it’s a 90-minute ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line with these buses is to make them fast, frequent and reliable,” says John Ristow, the senior planner on the project for the VTA. “In order to do that, we’ve got to actually find ways to allow them to move rapidly because they have to make stops and pick people up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new low-floor buses would have more comfortable seating and Wi-Fi, and people of all abilities would be able to board quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Riders \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10442133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus-.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10442133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A survey of 500 bus riders found they most are low-income working families and people of color who make an average household income of $38,000 a year. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus-.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent rider surveys found most are low-income, working families and people of color under the age of 35 who make an average household income of $38,000 a year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Valley Transportation Authority )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sneha Rajkumar is a software engineering student who lives in Sunnyvale and takes the bus to school in San Jose. Her husband takes their car because there is no transit connection to his job. It’s the bus ride home that pains her the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stops at each and every signal, then at each and every stop,” Rajkumar says. “You lose patience when it’s already 9:45 p.m. and you gotta get home, cook dinner and see your family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her experience is similar to 500 bus riders along the corridor who were recently surveyed by the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.wpusa.org/\">Working Partnerships USA\u003c/a>. Their average travel time on the bus is 50 minutes, but some had commutes as long as two hours, says Charisse Ma Lebron, the group’s director of health policy and community development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research showed that bus riders are predominantly working families, people of color, students and people from other underserved populations. VTA’s 2013 on-board survey found riders’ average household income was $38,000, says Lebron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Carmageddon’ Fears \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA officials say Sunnyvale residents and businesses have sent the most letters opposing dedicated bus lanes. Over the weekend, a group called the El Camino Coalition took out \u003ca href=\"http://ads.mercurynews.com/san-jose-ca/communication/newspaper/san-jose-mercury-news/2015-02-22-1603722-the-vta-s-ill-conceived-dedicated-lane-bus-rapid-transit-proposal-for-el-camino-real-due-to-an-insufficient-and-one-sided-public-awareness-campaign-most-santa-clara-county-residents-are-unclear-of-the-ramifications-or-unaware-entirely-of\">a one-page ad in the Mercury News\u003c/a> decrying the “ill-conceived” lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the opposition is being organized by car dealerships along El Camino Real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not opposed to transit,” says Ryan Hopkins, the general manager of the Honda dealership. “We feel that if you block off a lane on El Camino … it’s just going to create more traffic and congestion, and it’s going to divert traffic to the other streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But VTA officials say they studied the potential traffic impact at more than 80 intersections along El Camino, and concluded it would not worsen traffic. And Lepe of TransForm says fears about traffic congestion have not materialized from bus rapid transit projects in cities like Cleveland and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“The kind of carmageddon that folks fear might happen hasn’t manifested with these projects,” says Lepe. “Why? Because you have a mode shift that takes place. When people start seeing the bus traveling faster than cars, they say ‘Hey, maybe I should jump on that.’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Sunnyvale City Councilman David Whittum, who also sits on the VTA Board of Directors, says businesses along El Camino Real, which pull in 20 percent of city tax revenue, are concerned it will affect their bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Says Whittum: “If somebody comes and says, ‘Hey, I’m going to take away two lanes, but don’t worry, everything will be fine,’ my question would be: So what is your experience in doing that in some of these business communities, and can you show me examples of where everything is fine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says merchants are also concerned about disruptions that would be caused during construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u003cb> A Safer Street\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">El Camino Real is Sunnyvale’s most dangerous street for cyclists and pedestrians. When I visited the corridor, I found more than a few people biking and walking, especially transit riders on their way to and from bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“I have to ride as if people don’t see me, and I have no rights,” Tony McToy explains. I had spotted him pedaling slowly down El Camino, dressed casually, with a Popeyes bag hanging from his handlebars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“There’s no bike lane. So, whenever I can, and there’s no pedestrians on the sidewalk, I get on the sidewalk. Then if I see a pedestrian, I yield, but I have to watch my back,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The bus rapid transit plan calls for protected green bike lanes on El Camino Real, which transportation officials say would make the street safer for people like McToy. Officials would also install them along other parts of the corridor, along with pedestrian safety improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u003cstrong>Political Will\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It will be up to the board of the Valley Transportation Authority to decide whether to implement bus rapid transit, but if the cities don’t support the project it will likely die, say transit advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that population and job growth are inevitable in Silicon Valley, and doing nothing is not an option,” says Lebron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that many of the bus riders who would benefit from the project don’t always have time to attend meetings and voice their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not uncommon that the needs of traditionally underserved, underrepresented populations are excluded from the policymaking process,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, says Lepe, it’s a question of political will. Whether Silicon Valley elected officials will get behind bus rapid transit remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? Check out our \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boomtown series.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nOriginal post:\u003c/strong> U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27445216/u-s-transportation-chief-visits-google-unveil-30\">came to Silicon Valley \u003c/a>earlier this month to announce the administration’s transportation vision for the next three decades. That future includes faster public transit, and Foxx’s 2016 budget recommends \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-foxx-recommends-32-billion-expand-transit-options-improve\">a chunk of federal dollars \u003c/a>to help cities build bus rapid transit systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This speedier form of bus travel, set to debut in San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco over the next few years, is becoming popular in cities all over the world. Buses have their own dedicated lanes, priority at traffic signals, low floors for easy boarding, prepaid ticketing, Wi-Fi and other amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Valley Transportation Authority would \u003ca href=\"http://www.vta.org/projects-and-programs/brt-el-camino-real-brt-project\">like to build such a system\u003c/a> — tentatively called Breeze — along El Camino Real, Silicon Valley’s busiest bus corridor, to better serve its thousands of daily riders and attract newcomers who will be part of a projected population boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA is in line to receive $75 million in federal funds as part of a $233 million bus rapid transit project that would make the buses run faster than cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s just one big problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the cities that run along the corridor, other than San Jose, have embraced it over fears it will make traffic worse, according to transportation officials and transit advocates. The center of tech innovation is also a region where the car is king, and having a fast public bus system is a tough political sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192825592″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192825592″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very entrenched interests that don’t want to see this project happen, or want to see it watered down,” says Chris Lepe, a senior community planner for the transit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/\">TransForm.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto is backing an alternative to dedicated lanes: a mixed-flow proposal that VTA officials say falls short of true bus rapid transit. Tonight, the Sunnyvale City Council is expected to take an official position, and there is pressure to oppose dedicated lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA officials fear the lesser alternatives will put the project’s federal funding at risk because it won’t be a competitive project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10442130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 788px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10442130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png\" alt='The new bus rapid transit system in Silicon Valley is tentatively being called \"Breeze.\" ' width=\"788\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM.png 788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-8.06.20-AM-400x176.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed bus rapid transit system in Silicon Valley is tentatively being called Breeze. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Valley Transportation Authority )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 17-mile rapid bus route from San Jose to Palo Alto would run in dedicated lanes along the current 522 rapid bus route, starting at Diridon station in San Jose, and then onto El Camino Real through Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Los Altos, Mountain View and Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This busy bus corridor currently accounts for 20,000 daily trips. Under bus rapid transit, VTA officials estimate more than 10,000 additional riders would hop aboard by 2040.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year on El Camino Real, because of worsening traffic congestion, the buses slow down by an average of two minutes. That means today the buses are 30 minutes slower than they were in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under bus rapid transit, a ride from San Jose to Palo Alto is expected to take 40 minutes. Right now, it’s a 90-minute ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line with these buses is to make them fast, frequent and reliable,” says John Ristow, the senior planner on the project for the VTA. “In order to do that, we’ve got to actually find ways to allow them to move rapidly because they have to make stops and pick people up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new low-floor buses would have more comfortable seating and Wi-Fi, and people of all abilities would be able to board quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Riders \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10442133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus-.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10442133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A survey of 500 bus riders found they most are low-income working families and people of color who make an average household income of $38,000 a year. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus--400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/522-bus-.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent rider surveys found most are low-income, working families and people of color under the age of 35 who make an average household income of $38,000 a year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Valley Transportation Authority )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sneha Rajkumar is a software engineering student who lives in Sunnyvale and takes the bus to school in San Jose. Her husband takes their car because there is no transit connection to his job. It’s the bus ride home that pains her the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stops at each and every signal, then at each and every stop,” Rajkumar says. “You lose patience when it’s already 9:45 p.m. and you gotta get home, cook dinner and see your family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her experience is similar to 500 bus riders along the corridor who were recently surveyed by the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.wpusa.org/\">Working Partnerships USA\u003c/a>. Their average travel time on the bus is 50 minutes, but some had commutes as long as two hours, says Charisse Ma Lebron, the group’s director of health policy and community development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research showed that bus riders are predominantly working families, people of color, students and people from other underserved populations. VTA’s 2013 on-board survey found riders’ average household income was $38,000, says Lebron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Carmageddon’ Fears \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA officials say Sunnyvale residents and businesses have sent the most letters opposing dedicated bus lanes. Over the weekend, a group called the El Camino Coalition took out \u003ca href=\"http://ads.mercurynews.com/san-jose-ca/communication/newspaper/san-jose-mercury-news/2015-02-22-1603722-the-vta-s-ill-conceived-dedicated-lane-bus-rapid-transit-proposal-for-el-camino-real-due-to-an-insufficient-and-one-sided-public-awareness-campaign-most-santa-clara-county-residents-are-unclear-of-the-ramifications-or-unaware-entirely-of\">a one-page ad in the Mercury News\u003c/a> decrying the “ill-conceived” lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the opposition is being organized by car dealerships along El Camino Real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not opposed to transit,” says Ryan Hopkins, the general manager of the Honda dealership. “We feel that if you block off a lane on El Camino … it’s just going to create more traffic and congestion, and it’s going to divert traffic to the other streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But VTA officials say they studied the potential traffic impact at more than 80 intersections along El Camino, and concluded it would not worsen traffic. And Lepe of TransForm says fears about traffic congestion have not materialized from bus rapid transit projects in cities like Cleveland and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“The kind of carmageddon that folks fear might happen hasn’t manifested with these projects,” says Lepe. “Why? Because you have a mode shift that takes place. When people start seeing the bus traveling faster than cars, they say ‘Hey, maybe I should jump on that.’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Sunnyvale City Councilman David Whittum, who also sits on the VTA Board of Directors, says businesses along El Camino Real, which pull in 20 percent of city tax revenue, are concerned it will affect their bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Says Whittum: “If somebody comes and says, ‘Hey, I’m going to take away two lanes, but don’t worry, everything will be fine,’ my question would be: So what is your experience in doing that in some of these business communities, and can you show me examples of where everything is fine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says merchants are also concerned about disruptions that would be caused during construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u003cb> A Safer Street\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">El Camino Real is Sunnyvale’s most dangerous street for cyclists and pedestrians. When I visited the corridor, I found more than a few people biking and walking, especially transit riders on their way to and from bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“I have to ride as if people don’t see me, and I have no rights,” Tony McToy explains. I had spotted him pedaling slowly down El Camino, dressed casually, with a Popeyes bag hanging from his handlebars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">“There’s no bike lane. So, whenever I can, and there’s no pedestrians on the sidewalk, I get on the sidewalk. Then if I see a pedestrian, I yield, but I have to watch my back,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The bus rapid transit plan calls for protected green bike lanes on El Camino Real, which transportation officials say would make the street safer for people like McToy. Officials would also install them along other parts of the corridor, along with pedestrian safety improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u003cstrong>Political Will\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It will be up to the board of the Valley Transportation Authority to decide whether to implement bus rapid transit, but if the cities don’t support the project it will likely die, say transit advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to remember that population and job growth are inevitable in Silicon Valley, and doing nothing is not an option,” says Lebron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that many of the bus riders who would benefit from the project don’t always have time to attend meetings and voice their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not uncommon that the needs of traditionally underserved, underrepresented populations are excluded from the policymaking process,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, says Lepe, it’s a question of political will. 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"content": "\u003cp>A closely watched gender discrimination trial over a lawsuit against a top Menlo Park venture capital firm began in San Francisco Superior Court Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opening arguments portrayed Ellen Pao as a victim of retaliation while a partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, when she broke off an affair with a married colleague. But the firm's attorneys said Pao didn't have the skills necessary for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his opening trial statement, attorney Alan Exelrod described a male-dominated culture at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exelrod said his client, 45-year-old Ellen Pao, had received erotic poetry and sketches of nude women from a senior partner at the firm, and another male employee had interfered with her work when Pao broke off an affair with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"#lawsuit\">Read the lawsuit\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#lawsuit\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10442562\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-6.22.04-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-24 at 6.22.04 PM\" width=\"337\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Kleiner Perkins used Ellen Pao's many talents for six years, but when it came time to pick who would be the next generation of investing leaders at Kleiner Perkins, Kleiner only picked men,\" the attorney told jurors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm has denied wrongdoing and says Pao was a poor performer who didn't get along with her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ellen Pao did not succeed at Kleiner Perkins as an investing professional because she did not have the necessary skills for that job,\" said KPCB's attorney, Lynne Hermle. \"She did not come close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Hermle said in her opening statement that the company has been a leader in recruiting and supporting women in technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao is seeking $16 million in damages. The firm is seeking to limit any possible damages by arguing that Pao is well compensated in her current position as interim CEO of the popular social media company Reddit and hasn't suffered financially since leaving Kleiner after filing her lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Venture Capital's Reputation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venture capital firms provide much of the startup funds for tech companies and have a reputation of being even more insular and male-dominated than the companies they help launch. Kleiner Perkins helped build companies like Amazon, Netscape, Genentech and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In general, it's a culture that has not been welcome to women,\" said Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor who teaches gender equity law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192888715\" 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 study released last year by Babson College in Massachusetts found that women filled just 6 percent of the partner-level positions at 139 venture capital firms in 2013, down from 10 percent in 1999. Kleiner Perkins does have more female partners than many of its competitors, almost 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Pao loses, Rhode thinks that the case puts venture capital firms \"on notice that they're going to be held accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's rare for a Silicon Valley discrimination case to make it to trial, though, giving the public a glimpse into venture capital culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'll get to make our own decisions about whether a man would have been treated in the same way she was treated in some of these contexts,\" Rhode said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We'll get to make our own decisions about whether a man would have been treated in the same way she was treated in some of these contexts.'\u003ccite>Stanford Law Professor Deborah Rhode\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kleiner fired Pao in 2012 — six months after she filed her lawsuit. She had been hired in 2005 to serve as chief of staff for senior partner John Doerr, who helped direct early investments in Google and Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao left the administrative position with Doerr in 2010 to become a junior partner with full-time investment duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exelrod said she was excluded from a dinner at the home of former Vice President Al Gore -- a partner at the firm -- after another Kleiner partner told her \"women killed the buzz,\" and also was subjected to a conversation about pornography that a senior Kleiner partner did not stop, the lawyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hermle, however, said Pao \"repeatedly and consistently seeks to twist facts, circumstances and events.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial, in front of a jury of five men and seven women, could last four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pao Changes Reddit Culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pao became interim CEO of Reddit \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2013/04/11/ellen-pao-has-landed-at-reddit/\" target=\"_blank\">in November\u003c/a>. The company announced a new privacy policy on Tuesday under which it will remove photos, videos and links with explicit content if the person in the image hasn't given permission for it to be posted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a big shift from the online venue's hands-off approach to privacy, under which its 160 million users have largely policed their own forums within certain guidelines, such as no child pornography or spam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change came about six months after hackers obtained nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities and posted them to social media sites, including Reddit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca name=\"lawsuit\">\u003c/a>Read the lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/94428235/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_64211\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sudhin Thanawala and Michael Liedtke of the Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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You know, and possibly even give back.’ \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a security guard making less than $20 an hour, this is all he can afford. “There’s no place to go except to move out of the valley, and a lot of us have families here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is 52 years old, divorced, with three kids, two of them in local colleges, the other just graduated. He’s working full time, but unless he finds a more lucrative line of work, it’s hard to see how his life is going to improve soon. Or for that matter, the lives of people like him working in service jobs across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once We Were Young, And Engineers\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turn up Tuesday mornings at 7:30 outside a certain tech office in Santa Clara, and you’ll spot Johnson waiting for a weekly delivery from his buddy, Norman Meeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are famous for lavish food at catered events and campus restaurants. There are a lot of leftovers. No use in that food going to waste, Meeks thinks. So, with permission, he distributes it to other security guards and janitors. Today, Meeks has chicken wings and bok choy, a kind of Chinese cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone’s in a situation, you know, hey, pitch in and try to help,” Meeks says. Both men work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Protection Service\u003c/a>, a major security subcontractor. That’s where they met. But that’s not where either of them started. Johnson says both men know what it is to be on the sunny side of Silicon Valley’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at two black engineers,” Johnson says. “I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘You’re looking at two black engineers. I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.’\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Remember the dot.com bust about 15 years ago? Both men got laid off, and neither man recovered, not fully. Meeks was a field engineer. “It took me almost a year to find something, and then I got laid off again. 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Since he was laid off in the dot.com bust, he has been unable to get back into tech. 'It’s not enough to survive. We’re not here to survive. We’re here to live. You know, and possibly even give back.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14270_20150213_Michael_johnson_jt_032-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Johnson worked as an engineer until he was laid off in the dot.com bust. He has been unable to get back into tech. ‘It’s not enough to survive. We’re not here to survive. We’re here to live. You know, and possibly even give back.’ \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a security guard making less than $20 an hour, this is all he can afford. “There’s no place to go except to move out of the valley, and a lot of us have families here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is 52 years old, divorced, with three kids, two of them in local colleges, the other just graduated. He’s working full time, but unless he finds a more lucrative line of work, it’s hard to see how his life is going to improve soon. Or for that matter, the lives of people like him working in service jobs across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once We Were Young, And Engineers\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turn up Tuesday mornings at 7:30 outside a certain tech office in Santa Clara, and you’ll spot Johnson waiting for a weekly delivery from his buddy, Norman Meeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley tech companies are famous for lavish food at catered events and campus restaurants. There are a lot of leftovers. No use in that food going to waste, Meeks thinks. So, with permission, he distributes it to other security guards and janitors. Today, Meeks has chicken wings and bok choy, a kind of Chinese cabbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone’s in a situation, you know, hey, pitch in and try to help,” Meeks says. Both men work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Protection Service\u003c/a>, a major security subcontractor. That’s where they met. But that’s not where either of them started. Johnson says both men know what it is to be on the sunny side of Silicon Valley’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re looking at two black engineers,” Johnson says. “I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘You’re looking at two black engineers. I’m a communications engineer. I just finished my master’s in information security. I have 15 years experience. We both have project management experience. All of that.’\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Remember the dot.com bust about 15 years ago? Both men got laid off, and neither man recovered, not fully. Meeks was a field engineer. “It took me almost a year to find something, and then I got laid off again. I had a friend that said ‘Why don’t you try security?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The security guard gigs were supposed to be temporary, but that’s not how it’s worked out. “Once you get out of the workforce, it’s hard to get back in,” Meeks says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says human resources people who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> call him about his job applications ask why he’s looking for something in tech when he’s been in security for 10 years. He suspects it doesn’t help that he’s 52 and black, even though Silicon Valley companies are under pressure to diversify their employee base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk of a Union\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is doing better than many in security. He works \u003cem>full\u003c/em> time, and his company provides benefits, although the package is a lot thinner than it used to be. “You know, when I started in security in 2004, we used to have better medical benefits. We had paid time off. Yeah, my benefit package was really comparable. The big difference was stock. When I was an IT person, I had stock options and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before security firms started cutting costs to compete during the Great Recession, about seven years back. Universal Protection Service does offer \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalpro.com/documents/2010BenefitGuide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health coverage\u003c/a>, but Johnson can’t afford it. It would cost him 40 percent of his take-home pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson doesn’t blame his employer or security contractors in general. He blames their customers, the tech companies. “The truth of the matter is, they determine how much we earn. They determine our benefits. They determine the whole thing. Our contract agencies will do whatever they say do.”\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Elizabeth Warren said it best,” he adds, referring to the liberal Democratic senator from Massachusetts. “She said, ‘If you don’t have a seat at the table, it’s because you’re on the menu.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“I think Elizabeth Warren said it best. ‘If you don’t have a seat at the table, it’s because you’re on the menu.’ “\u003ccite> Michael Johnson,\u003cbr>\nsecurity guard\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But security guards will never make what engineers do. I press him to make an elevator pitch to a CEO worried about defending himself before shareholders who want to know why he would pay security guards a penny more than he has to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these companies are now setting record profits!” Johnson says. “When is that going to trickle down to the rest of us? That were in the boat with you. That tightened up our belts along with you. That have participated in your success. Why can’t we participate in your prosperity? When are you going to open the door for the rest of us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s still shopping his IT resume on \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-johnson/6/218/202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn\u003c/a>, but whether he breaks out of security or not, he’s now involved in an effort to unionize security officers in Silicon Valley. Security officers are unionized in San Francisco and the East Bay, but not in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Field is executive officer of the South Bay Labor Council, which represents 93 local unions. Field says Johnson’s comment about losing ground in the recession applies more broadly. “I think that’s been the case not just in security, but in service work generally. 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"content": "\u003cp>Arts organizations in the South Bay have often struggled for survival in a region where people sometimes seem too busy with their jobs for an evening of entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens when San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"http://cltc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">City Lights Theater Company\u003c/a> tries to get techies interested in theater with a play called \"Build,\" by \u003ca href=\"http://www.michaelgolamco.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Golamco\u003c/a>, about two video game designers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192651878\" 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>“I always ask myself when we’re choosing plays: Are we speaking to our community?” says Lisa Mallette. She’s executive artistic director for City Lights, and she directed this production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in the heart of Silicon Valley, and this play is about video game programmers and artificial intelligence. And it speaks directly to those people in their language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Build\" gives us two programmers, one in a bathrobe, the other in a designer suit, mostly in front of their computers at a kitchen table in a Palo Alto ranch house, trying to beat a deadline. Meanwhile, one of the programmers is in love with an artificial intelligence program he’s created to simulate his late wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Golamco wrote this human-AI love story a year before the 2013 release of \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/\" target=\"_blank\">Her\u003c/a>,\" the Spike Jonze film with a similar theme.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10439050\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14354_photo-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14354_photo-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Mallette, Executive Artistic Director City Lights Theater Company\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10439050\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14354_photo-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14354_photo-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14354_photo-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14354_photo-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Mallette, Executive Artistic Director City Lights Theater Company. \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The play and another audience-building strategy made for an unique pre-show experience on a recent night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Lights had partnered with \u003ca href=\"http://rockagesj.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Rockage,\u003c/a> a vintage video game festival, and founder Eric Fanali set up a few games in the theater lobby before curtain time, including Super Nintendo’s \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\" from 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fanali says the cliche of techies too busy with work to do anything else is often all too real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a big interest, and people are all about supporting the arts down here. It’s just a matter of getting people away from their busy schedules and jobs enough to do it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaming culture got at least one audience member in the door. Brandon de la Cruz is a freshman at \u003ca href=\"http://www.deanza.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">De Anza College\u003c/a> attending his first play ever, to fulfill a class requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ 'Cause I’m a big gamer myself,” de la Cruz says, with his eyes glued on a monitor and his fingers flicking a game controller, “and I was really interested that I can see a play, my first play would be about games. So that really hooked me on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Cruz’s attendance may not seem like a big win, but South Bay arts groups are fighting for audience members just like him, part of a changing demographic, younger, more Latino, more Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even a full house doesn’t guarantee success. Ticket sales rarely make up more than 50 percent of a company’s revenue. The rest comes from donations and grants, and that has often been a frustrating process for City Lights, said development manager Anne Younan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of high-tech companies in this area with a lot of money,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Younan says tech companies often tell City Lights they’re focusing their philanthropy on what’s called STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, San Disk stopped funding City Lights' student education program a few years ago\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I always ask myself when we’re choosing plays: Are we speaking to our community? \u003ccite>Lisa Mallette, executive artistic director for City Lights\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We submitted our grant,” Younan says, “and got the response, ‘Sorry, we aren’t doing that anymore. 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In other words, be part of the solution and not part of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not everyone sees the government as a hostile threat. Hitesh Sheth, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.vectranetworks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Vectra Networks \u003c/a>in San Jose, thinks the federal government -- with all its reach and resources -- can add a lot of muscle in the fight against cyberattacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That said, we should not for a second delude ourselves into thinking that the government is going to be the answer to this problem,” Hitesh adds. “It really is not. 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While Starbucks has not released the cost of its education program, Forbes reports that if only 3 percent of employees take up the company’s offer, the investment could cost Starbucks about $50 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on her reporting, Foroohar said that Starbucks already is experiencing lower retention costs and the program has become a recruiting tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IBM is another corporation attempting to address business weaknesses through education. In order to address the problem of finding middle-tier talent, the company started the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ptechnyc.org/site/default.aspx?PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH)\u003c/a> in Brooklyn, New York. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/six-years-high-school-two-extra-years-catching/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Participating students\u003c/a> can graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in applied science. IBM guarantees job interviews to qualified graduates of IBM-affiliated P-TECH schools, according to a company news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five other P-TECH schools have since opened in Chicago with IBM, Cisco Systems Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc. serving as industry partners. Since 2013, 20 more P-TECH model schools have opened in New York and by September 2016, the number of P-TECH schools in New York will triple, according to IBM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his 2013 State of the Union address, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-02-13/why-obama-praised-ibms-brooklyn-education-model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Barack Obama pointed to P-TECH\u003c/a> as an example of the kind of programs the country needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to give every American student opportunities like this,” he said. “We’ll reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering and math, the skills today’s employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now and will be there in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has said that money from the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act is intended to help colleges build relationships with businesses in order to create training that is relevant to the skill sets employers need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foroohar said she hoped examples like Starbucks and IBM would inspire Silicon Valley’s industry leaders to take similar steps toward improving education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called it “localnomics” — initiatives designed to bring together members of the private and public sectors to work together on local and regional issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lia Bolden, a U.S. Census Bureau data dissemination specialist who attended Wednesday’s Joint Venture conference, said the idea of companies helping their employees complete their education isn’t new. Indeed, there was a time when more companies were doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in complete agreement with the public and private sector sharing of the public load,” Bolden said. “The government can’t, nor should it, do everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borth Trudi Ryan, planning officer for Sunnyvale, and Aarti Shrivastava, assistant city manager of Cupertino, said they were primarily concerned with how public and private sector collaboration could address infrastructural issues. These include high housing costs and congested transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said they hoped the private sector could engage with the public sector to help solve their communities’ problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Boy, would I love to work with businesses,” Shrivastava said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private sector conference attendees also expressed similar desires to work with the public sector to find common ground, but said they were concerned about having the time to commit to civic causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Belgum, chief financial officer of cloud infrastructure company LeoNovus Inc., said he was worried about how a company focused on running a day-to-day business could fully participate in collaboration with local governments on community issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Beauchman, a consultant for AT&T and a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education, said there was an imbalance between the lack of resources in the public sector and the lack of time companies have to invest in civic solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public [sector] feels more of a sense of urgency and this is because of the resources they don’t have,” Beauchman said. “We need to have more people at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Bowes, a managing director at Accenture, said his company is always urging its clients to follow more sustainable models of development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think there’s a high correlation in serving the people in the world and growing the business,” he said. “It’s the special sauce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Peninsula Press’ Ileana Najarro and Katie Kramon contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article originally appeared on KQED’s News Associate site Peninsula Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The income gap in Silicon Valley is now the widest in the nation, according to the 2015 State of the Valley Index, an annual report released Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2015 Index, published by Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a regional organization of government and industry leaders, indicated the top-tier income in Silicon Valley averages $119,000 per year and the bottom about $27,000 per year. This compares with a high of $94,000 and low of $24,000 in California, the index reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the top-tier income averages about $81,000 and the bottom averages about $23,000, according to EMSI occupation employee statistics and the American Community Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The truth is that it’s going to take more than Washington, it’s going to take more than government, to fix these things.’\u003ccite>Rana Foroohar, assistant managing editor of Time Magazine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Income inequality is rising nationally, according to a\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/12/05/u-s-income-inequality-on-rise-for-decades-is-now-highest-since-1928/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pew study\u003c/a>, and with it the need for collaboration between private companies and the public sector is growing, according to Rana Foroohar, assistant managing editor of Time Magazine, who spoke at Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s annual State of the Valley conference Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an idea that is taking hold, that we are in a world that is bifurcated and will become ever more bifurcated, that things are going to be getting more unequal in society before they become less so,” Foroohar said. “The truth is that it’s going to take more than Washington, it’s going to take more than government, to fix these things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She added that her reporting shows that companies aren’t finding enough qualified individuals to fill middle-tier jobs, while there is a large talent pool for both high-paying jobs and low-end positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not do such a good job in this country of connecting the dots between job creators and educators,” Foroohar said to a roomful of public officials and industry leaders. “The educational system, except at a very high level, is churning out skills that aren’t necessarily required.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foroohar said that 60 percent of new jobs that will be created over the next three years will require a two- or four-year degree, making education vital to the success of companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foroohar said she believes the private sector can help improve education and the bottom line. In her talk, she cited Starbucks Corp. and IBM Corp. as examples of corporations that are investing in secondary and higher education in order to improve their respective talent pools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a companywide poll revealed that 70 percent of Starbucks’ workforce hadn’t finished their college degrees, the coffee giant announced in June 2014 that it would \u003ca href=\"http://www.starbucks.com/careers/college-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pay for its employees to complete their degrees online\u003c/a> through \u003ca href=\"https://asuonline.asu.edu/starbucks-and-arizona-state-university/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona State University\u003c/a>. While Starbucks has not released the cost of its education program, Forbes reports that if only 3 percent of employees take up the company’s offer, the investment could cost Starbucks about $50 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on her reporting, Foroohar said that Starbucks already is experiencing lower retention costs and the program has become a recruiting tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IBM is another corporation attempting to address business weaknesses through education. In order to address the problem of finding middle-tier talent, the company started the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ptechnyc.org/site/default.aspx?PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH)\u003c/a> in Brooklyn, New York. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/six-years-high-school-two-extra-years-catching/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Participating students\u003c/a> can graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in applied science. IBM guarantees job interviews to qualified graduates of IBM-affiliated P-TECH schools, according to a company news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five other P-TECH schools have since opened in Chicago with IBM, Cisco Systems Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc. serving as industry partners. Since 2013, 20 more P-TECH model schools have opened in New York and by September 2016, the number of P-TECH schools in New York will triple, according to IBM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his 2013 State of the Union address, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-02-13/why-obama-praised-ibms-brooklyn-education-model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Barack Obama pointed to P-TECH\u003c/a> as an example of the kind of programs the country needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to give every American student opportunities like this,” he said. “We’ll reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering and math, the skills today’s employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now and will be there in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has said that money from the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act is intended to help colleges build relationships with businesses in order to create training that is relevant to the skill sets employers need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foroohar said she hoped examples like Starbucks and IBM would inspire Silicon Valley’s industry leaders to take similar steps toward improving education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called it “localnomics” — initiatives designed to bring together members of the private and public sectors to work together on local and regional issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lia Bolden, a U.S. Census Bureau data dissemination specialist who attended Wednesday’s Joint Venture conference, said the idea of companies helping their employees complete their education isn’t new. Indeed, there was a time when more companies were doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in complete agreement with the public and private sector sharing of the public load,” Bolden said. “The government can’t, nor should it, do everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borth Trudi Ryan, planning officer for Sunnyvale, and Aarti Shrivastava, assistant city manager of Cupertino, said they were primarily concerned with how public and private sector collaboration could address infrastructural issues. 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"content": "\u003cp>Here's our \"day in the life\" video comparing the experiences of driving a taxi and driving for Lyft. You'll see that the drivers comment on many of the issues in the ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">battle between taxis and ride services\u003c/a>: the loss of business for the taxis, the lack of insurance for the ride-service drivers, and how Lyft and Uber have been able to exploit the weaknesses of the taxi industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the many interesting things about covering this story for a couple of years now is seeing the evolution of attitudes on the part of those on the front lines of the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, many cab drivers still despise Uber/Lyft and the part-time workers who have scooped up a substantial portion of their customers by driving their own vehicles, no less. And it’s true that some cab drivers would still rather pick up a drunken, carsick barbershop quartet than try to stake a claim in the “sharing economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426093\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/rideshare1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10426093\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/rideshare1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Looking back through one of the sideview mirrors on John Han's taxicab. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/rideshare1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/rideshare1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/rideshare1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking back through one of the sideview mirrors on John Han's taxicab. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But over the past year, many who used to drive taxis have been jumping ship to the upstart companies, leaving their former employers struggling to fill shifts. Obviously, many think they'll get a better deal working on their own. (You'll see in the video that cab drivers start every day in the hole, since they are responsible for renting the cab.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the ride-service side, when I talked to a group of Lyft drivers in 2013, just about every one felt like like they’d stumbled upon the greatest part-time job in the world. Good pay -- $25-40 per hour -- plus a cherished ability to literally work whenever they want with absolutely no notice required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Troubles Mount for TNCs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighteen months later, while the honeymoon may not be completely over, it’s at least on the return flight home where they're skimping on the peanuts. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/02/122446/\" target=\"_blank\">Fatal accidents\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\">insurance gaps\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-30/uber-drivers-may-have-employee-status-judge-says\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuits\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/battery/uber-driver-arrested-for-groping-passenger-897561\" target=\"_blank\">criminal incidents\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/13/as-regulatory-battles-continue-uber-and-lyft-win-some-lose-some\" target=\"_blank\">regulatory hassles\u003c/a> and an influx of drivers leading to \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2014/12/17/7402311/lyft-driver-pay\" target=\"_blank\">diminished pay\u003c/a>, not to mention the grind of driving hour upon hour day after day, have -- as some cab drivers had predicted would happen -- combed a few hairs out of the famous pink mustache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426091\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/john_cab.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10426091\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/john_cab-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"John Han has been a cab driver in San Francisco for 13 years. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/john_cab-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/john_cab-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/john_cab.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Han has been a cab driver in San Francisco for 13 years. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We picked John Han of Yellow Cab to follow around for several reasons. A former blogger on taxi issues, he’s as well versed on the issues concerning cabs, TNCs and how the twain have met as most journalists who cover the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also not an ideologue when it comes to the subject of TNCs -- he used to drive for Uber Taxi, a service that connects riders with cabs. And he attempted to join UberX by buying a car financed through an Uber program, but abandoned the effort when he couldn’t find the appropriate insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426092\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/mike_lyft.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10426092\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/mike_lyft-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Banko has been a driver for Lyft since December 2012. 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You’ll see in the video that Mike tells us straight up he hasn’t informed his insurance company about his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing you won't see in the video, but is an important part of any day in the life of someone who hauls passengers for a living: When we accompanied the drivers on their shifts, it was easy to see how dangerous driving in this crowded city has become. Both these guys appeared to drive very safely, yet traversing the city streets, dodging pedestrians, bikes and vehicles, it was not hard at all to imagine something occurring that would forever change multiple lives in the blink of an eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not sure the TNC drivers fully understood that when they originally signed up -- but I think those who have stuck with it now do.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Rock legend Neil Young has been popping up everywhere these days. Earlier this week, he joined “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon on stage for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6otmy3DAK8&feature=youtu.be\">duo performance of “Old Man.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed identically, down to matching cowboy hats, it was still easy to tell the “Two Neils” apart. But how easy is it to tell the difference between MP3s and high-resolution music files? That’s what Neil Young’s been talking about lately. Last month, his company, Pono, unveiled a $399 high-fidelity music player and downloading service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/190320953\" 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>Criticism from some in the tech community has been harsh. Yahoo Tech's David Pogue declared “\u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/tech/it-was-one-of-kickstarters-most-successful-109496883039.html\">the emperor has no clothes\u003c/a>,” and advised people not to buy the player. He pointed to some scientific research suggesting that the human ear can’t even discern a difference beyond CD-quality sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many musicians and avid music lovers who have long been dissatisfied with the sound quality of MP3s have been extremely receptive to Pono.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426189\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Pono-player.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10426189 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Pono-player.jpg\" alt=\"Leila Easa checks out a PonoPlayer at a listening party at the AudioVision SF store in San Francisco.\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leila Easa checks out a PonoPlayer at a listening party at the AudioVision SF store in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Audiovision SF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joe Shockman and Jeff Howe were among several self-described audiophiles at a listening party at AudioVision SF's store in downtown San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to hearing a Daft Punk recording of “Get Lucky” on the PonoPlayer, Shockman, an engineer for Google, noted, “There was a chuckle in there I had never heard before. I mean, you hear subtlety in the making of the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe, a building designer by day and a musician and DJ by night, gushed after hearing Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold.” “Actually being able to get source material -- and being able to carry around a player that can deliver that source in that quality -- was mind-blowing to me,\" Howe said. \"I'm kind of looking forward to getting one and going to parties where people are listening to iPods and other MP3 players. Unplug that and plug in a Pono, and show them what real digital audio can sound like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-fidelity music has long been the domain of audiophiles willing to shell out big bucks for expensive niche equipment, but the Pono system is one of the first serious attempts to push high-resolution audio into the mainstream, says Pedram Abrari, Pono’s senior vice president of technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pono is an end-to-end high-res music ecosystem,\" Abrari says, \"kind of similar to the original iTunes iPod, if you will, but it's all for hi-res music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The objective of Pono, he says, is to turn the tide on compressed music and restore the “feeling” back into the music. This is a word you hear often from Pono proponents, including Neil Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with John Horn for KPCC’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2015/01/14/41111/neil-young-is-on-a-mission-to-restore-the-history/\" target=\"_blank\">The Frame\u003c/a>,” Young said, “Do you want to hear all of the music that you can recognize on your iPod? You want to feel it? Do you want it to be a visceral experience? Do you want to get goose bumps? Do you want to cry? Do you want to laugh?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says that we’ve lost a visceral, soulful connection to music, which most of us now listen to in a compressed form. “I think MP3s, basically, are too much of a compromise. As an artist, I look at it that way. I think it’s the low bar for music.” He says it’s time to shift the focus back to quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When audio engineers talk about digital sound quality, they usually focus on bit and sampling rates. The more bits of data per instant of sound, the better the quality. Think of it like pixels on a television screen; the more you have, the clearer the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrari says, “It’s very easy for people to look at hi-res video and standard-def video on two TVs and say, 'Oh, that's better.' \"When it comes to audio, he says it’s a little bit harder to detect. “It's almost like trying to detect a difference between fine wine and wine out of a box. Once you develop a palate for it, the feeling that fine wine gives you when you drink it is very different than a feeling that really cheap wine gives you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426190\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Neil-Young.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10426190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Neil-Young.png\" alt=\"Neil Young behind the wheel of his Cadillac El Dorado outfitted with a PonoPlayer.\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neil Young behind the wheel of his Cadillac Eldorado outfitted with a PonoPlayer. \u003ccite>(PonoMusic Kickstarter Video)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, that’s what a lot of professional musicians have said about hi-res audio. Dozens of high-profile artists praised the Pono system in a highly successful\u003ca href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music\"> Kickstarter campaign\u003c/a>, which raked in $6.2 million. In the video, they’re shown riding with Neil Young in his Cadillac Eldorado outfitted with a Pono sound system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After listening, Norah Jones exclaims, “That music made me feel good; much better than I’ve felt in a long time listening to music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Matthews adds, “It’s really a difference. I don’t know … curved and round and there’s a dynamic. It doesn’t seem like it just hits a wall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says he turned to crowdsourcing after most venture capitalists he approached in Silicon Valley declined to invest. Again speaking with KPCC, he said, “The reason we went to Kickstarter is because the venture capitalists didn’t have the vision to see what this was. They have no interest in rescuing an art form. That sounds like a waste of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Young says, the success of the campaign proved there’s an appetite among consumers for higher-quality sound. But will they be willing to spend almost $400 on a player and about $2 per song?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I borrowed a PonoPlayer for a week and tested it out with family and friends. We thought we could hear a difference, but I wanted another opinion. So I turned to Adam Savage, co-host of the TV program \"MythBusters.\" He tests scientific theories for a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426193\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Adam-Savage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10426193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Adam-Savage.jpg\" alt='Adam Savage, co-host of \"Myth Busters,\" in his \"cave.\"' width=\"320\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Savage, co-host of 'MythBusters,' in his 'cave.' \u003ccite>(Joanne Jennings)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As it happens, Savage and his production team are developing a show about high-fidelity sound. Speaking in his “cave,” a personal workshop, Savage said, “I appreciate Neil being a studio musician, listening to his tracks the way he intended to record them and for all the decades he's been so great at what he does, having a goal for the listener to hear what he hears. But I also think that people can go a little overboard in terms of the compression ratios -- and from what I understand of the PonoPlayer, it's going into sound frequencies that dogs cannot even hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, with that in mind, he conducted an informal test. “So, we got a hold of a PonoPlayer and I thought, 'I want to find out if there's anything to this.' So rather than test on my own ears -- I did have a listen -- I enlisted the help of my son. He's almost 16.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They played “Harvest Moon,” by Neil Young on three different devices; the PonoPlayer, an iPhone and a laptop computer with a totally uncompressed file called a “FLAC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We listened to those and cycled them several times through his ears, without telling him the order they were going in. So, each time, I tested, I gave him a series of three listens to the beginning, the first minute or so of the song. And I asked him to assess: What was the best? What was the worst? What did you notice?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savage’s son said the PonoPlayer came out on top two out of three times. “These differences are very, very subtle and very minor,\" explains Savage, who adds that the PonoPlayer's quality was most apparent in the complex harmonics. \"That is stuff where the crispness really does matter. The crispness of drumbeats against silence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But listening to music can be a very subjective experience, says Jay Kadis, an audio engineer at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and author of \u003cem>The Science of Sound Recording.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because it’s so subjective, Kadis says measuring how the brain and nervous system experience music is very complex. “In order to get really meaningful, statistically meaningful responses, you have to do an immense number of tests and it's really impractical. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to hearing a Daft Punk recording of “Get Lucky” on the PonoPlayer, Shockman, an engineer for Google, noted, “There was a chuckle in there I had never heard before. I mean, you hear subtlety in the making of the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe, a building designer by day and a musician and DJ by night, gushed after hearing Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold.” “Actually being able to get source material -- and being able to carry around a player that can deliver that source in that quality -- was mind-blowing to me,\" Howe said. \"I'm kind of looking forward to getting one and going to parties where people are listening to iPods and other MP3 players. Unplug that and plug in a Pono, and show them what real digital audio can sound like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-fidelity music has long been the domain of audiophiles willing to shell out big bucks for expensive niche equipment, but the Pono system is one of the first serious attempts to push high-resolution audio into the mainstream, says Pedram Abrari, Pono’s senior vice president of technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pono is an end-to-end high-res music ecosystem,\" Abrari says, \"kind of similar to the original iTunes iPod, if you will, but it's all for hi-res music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The objective of Pono, he says, is to turn the tide on compressed music and restore the “feeling” back into the music. This is a word you hear often from Pono proponents, including Neil Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with John Horn for KPCC’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2015/01/14/41111/neil-young-is-on-a-mission-to-restore-the-history/\" target=\"_blank\">The Frame\u003c/a>,” Young said, “Do you want to hear all of the music that you can recognize on your iPod? You want to feel it? Do you want it to be a visceral experience? Do you want to get goose bumps? Do you want to cry? Do you want to laugh?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says that we’ve lost a visceral, soulful connection to music, which most of us now listen to in a compressed form. “I think MP3s, basically, are too much of a compromise. As an artist, I look at it that way. I think it’s the low bar for music.” He says it’s time to shift the focus back to quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When audio engineers talk about digital sound quality, they usually focus on bit and sampling rates. The more bits of data per instant of sound, the better the quality. Think of it like pixels on a television screen; the more you have, the clearer the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrari says, “It’s very easy for people to look at hi-res video and standard-def video on two TVs and say, 'Oh, that's better.' \"When it comes to audio, he says it’s a little bit harder to detect. “It's almost like trying to detect a difference between fine wine and wine out of a box. Once you develop a palate for it, the feeling that fine wine gives you when you drink it is very different than a feeling that really cheap wine gives you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426190\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Neil-Young.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10426190\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Neil-Young.png\" alt=\"Neil Young behind the wheel of his Cadillac El Dorado outfitted with a PonoPlayer.\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neil Young behind the wheel of his Cadillac Eldorado outfitted with a PonoPlayer. \u003ccite>(PonoMusic Kickstarter Video)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, that’s what a lot of professional musicians have said about hi-res audio. Dozens of high-profile artists praised the Pono system in a highly successful\u003ca href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music\"> Kickstarter campaign\u003c/a>, which raked in $6.2 million. In the video, they’re shown riding with Neil Young in his Cadillac Eldorado outfitted with a Pono sound system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After listening, Norah Jones exclaims, “That music made me feel good; much better than I’ve felt in a long time listening to music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Matthews adds, “It’s really a difference. I don’t know … curved and round and there’s a dynamic. It doesn’t seem like it just hits a wall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says he turned to crowdsourcing after most venture capitalists he approached in Silicon Valley declined to invest. Again speaking with KPCC, he said, “The reason we went to Kickstarter is because the venture capitalists didn’t have the vision to see what this was. They have no interest in rescuing an art form. That sounds like a waste of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Young says, the success of the campaign proved there’s an appetite among consumers for higher-quality sound. But will they be willing to spend almost $400 on a player and about $2 per song?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I borrowed a PonoPlayer for a week and tested it out with family and friends. We thought we could hear a difference, but I wanted another opinion. So I turned to Adam Savage, co-host of the TV program \"MythBusters.\" He tests scientific theories for a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426193\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Adam-Savage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10426193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/Adam-Savage.jpg\" alt='Adam Savage, co-host of \"Myth Busters,\" in his \"cave.\"' width=\"320\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Savage, co-host of 'MythBusters,' in his 'cave.' \u003ccite>(Joanne Jennings)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As it happens, Savage and his production team are developing a show about high-fidelity sound. Speaking in his “cave,” a personal workshop, Savage said, “I appreciate Neil being a studio musician, listening to his tracks the way he intended to record them and for all the decades he's been so great at what he does, having a goal for the listener to hear what he hears. But I also think that people can go a little overboard in terms of the compression ratios -- and from what I understand of the PonoPlayer, it's going into sound frequencies that dogs cannot even hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, with that in mind, he conducted an informal test. “So, we got a hold of a PonoPlayer and I thought, 'I want to find out if there's anything to this.' So rather than test on my own ears -- I did have a listen -- I enlisted the help of my son. He's almost 16.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They played “Harvest Moon,” by Neil Young on three different devices; the PonoPlayer, an iPhone and a laptop computer with a totally uncompressed file called a “FLAC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We listened to those and cycled them several times through his ears, without telling him the order they were going in. So, each time, I tested, I gave him a series of three listens to the beginning, the first minute or so of the song. And I asked him to assess: What was the best? What was the worst? What did you notice?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savage’s son said the PonoPlayer came out on top two out of three times. “These differences are very, very subtle and very minor,\" explains Savage, who adds that the PonoPlayer's quality was most apparent in the complex harmonics. \"That is stuff where the crispness really does matter. The crispness of drumbeats against silence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But listening to music can be a very subjective experience, says Jay Kadis, an audio engineer at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and author of \u003cem>The Science of Sound Recording.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because it’s so subjective, Kadis says measuring how the brain and nervous system experience music is very complex. “In order to get really meaningful, statistically meaningful responses, you have to do an immense number of tests and it's really impractical. What you think you hear is what you hear and that is one of the confounding variables, that the brain is doing the processing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we listen to music, Kadis says, we’re also getting influenced by everything else that’s happening around us -- what we see, touch and smell. “And all awareness interacts, so it's very difficult to isolate just our response to the auditory system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Thursday, Twitter reported a loss of $125 million, or 20 cents per share, on revenue of $479 million. That's up from $243 million a year ago. But the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/02/06/twitter-revenue-beats-forecasts-but-user-numbers-fall-short/dnVAaaTOxqQel4fdR3d9WK/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times\u003c/a> called the company's top-line growth \"a faint glimmer of good news,\" focusing instead on the platform's addition of an anemic 4 million users in the quarter, representing an increase of barely over 1 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investors did not agree with the Times. They sent shares \u003ca href=\"http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TWTR\" target=\"_blank\">up over 16 percent\u003c/a> today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whatever you think of the company's financial prospects, none other than its own CEO thinks it can do much better on a topic that's garnered a lot of press lately: Twitter trolls chasing users away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days ago, The Verge \u003ca href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/twitter-ceo-sent-memo-taking-personal-responsibility-for-the\" target=\"_blank\">obtained an internal memo\u003c/a> from CEO Dick Costolo lamenting the company's inability to deal effectively with those Twitterers who harass other users on the site. In response to an employee's question on an online forum about cyberbullying, Costolo responded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it for years. It's no secret and the rest of the world talks about it every day. We lose core user after core user by not addressing simple trolling issues that they face every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm frankly ashamed of how poorly we've dealt with this issue during my tenure as CEO. It's absurd. There's no excuse for it. I take full responsibility for not being more aggressive on this front. It's nobody else's fault but mine, and it's embarrassing.\u003cbr>\nWe're going to start kicking these people off right and left and making sure that when they issue their ridiculous attacks, nobody hears them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everybody on the leadership team knows this is vital.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a followup message, Costolo wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We HAVE to be able to tell each other the truth, and the truth that everybody in the world knows is that we have not effectively dealt with this problem even remotely to the degree we should have by now, and that's on me and nobody else. So now we're going to fix it, and I'm going to take full responsibility for making sure that the people working night and day on this have the resources they need to address the issue, that there are clear lines of responsibility and accountability, and that we don't equivocate in our decisions and choices.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Carolyn Petit agrees with Costolo that Twitter sucks at dealing with abuse. Petit is the former editor of the site GameSpot. (She has also written for KQED Arts.) In September 2013 she wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/grand-theft-auto-v-review/1900-6414475/\" target=\"_blank\">review of Grand Theft Auto 5\u003c/a> that talked about the virtues of the game but also its \"unnecessary strain of misogynistic nastiness.\" In a sort of prelude to the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy\" target=\"_blank\">GamerGate\u003c/a> controversy, the review drew more than 22,000 comments, including many that attacked Petit for her opinions. The negative comments also bled over to her Twitter feed, where, she says, she fielded death threats among the other attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a transgender woman, Petit says, \"it is not unusual for me to get hateful and harassing messages here and there on Twitter, but this review was the catalyst for a tremendous influx of hateful harassing tweets,\" including many slurs around her gender identity and appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She mostly responded by blocking the abusive Tweeters from sending her messages. \"That's often the only immediately effective response to trolls on Twitter,\" she says. \"The only problem is it doesn't acknowledge the fact that sometimes there are things that may need to be taken more seriously, like death threats that need to be looked into by law enforcement, (the users) that Twitter has the responsibility to step in and shut down in immediate and more effective ways than they do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her reports of abuse using Twitter's online form resulted in automated replies. Many times, she said, she'd get a followup email that the Tweeter was not in violation of Twitter's user policy, so the company was not taking any action, and that the best response on her part was to block him or her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These were really just disgusting Tweets about me,\" she says of the messages she reported. \"Things about me being transgender, really vile comments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/transcript\" target=\"_blank\">This American Life\u003c/a>\" featuring writer \u003ca href=\"http://lindywest.net/bio\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsey West\u003c/a> echoes Petit's complaints about trolls. From the segment's transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>One midsummer afternoon in 2013, I got a message on Twitter from my dead dad. I don't remember what it said exactly. And I didn't keep a copy for my scrapbook. But it was mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And my dad was never mean. So it couldn't really be from him. Also, he was dead. Just 18 months earlier, I'd watched him turn gray and drown in his own lungs. So I was like 80% sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I don't believe in heaven. And even if I did, I'd hope to god they don't have fucking Twitter there. It's heaven. Go play chocolate badminton on a cloud with Jerry Orbach and your childhood cat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there it was, a message. Some context-- in the summer of 2013, in certain circles of the internet, comedians and feminists were at war over rape jokes. Being both a comedy writer and a committed feminist killjoy, I weighed in with an article in which I said that I think a lot of male comedians are careless with the subject of rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's just a sample of the responses I got on social media. A quick warning, these are internet comments about rape, so it's going to suck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love how the bitch complaining about rape is the exact kind of bitch that would never be raped.\" \"Holes like this make me want to commit rape out of anger.\" \"I just want to rape her with a traffic cone.\" \"No one would want to rape that fat disgusting mess.\" \"Kill yourself.\" \"I want to put an apple into that mouth of yours and take a huge stick and slide it through your body and roast you.\" \"That big bitch is bitter that no one wants to rape her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went on like that for weeks. It's something I'm used to. I have to be. Being insulted and threatened online is part of my job, which is not to say it doesn't hurt. It does. It feels-- well, exactly like you would imagine it would feel to have someone call you a fat cunt every day of your life.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>West's story has a happy ending, of sorts. 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