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Here's the city's mayor, quoted by Sacramento's KCRA TV: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a statement, Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva said the move is a sign of \"profound economic recovery\" for Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now with things getting better every day in Stockton, and a big name like Google coming here, (other businesses) will consider coming here, too,\" Silva said.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The Google barge, long the subject of rumors and minor controversy, has left San Francisco Bay. Its new home, at least for now: Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stockton Record \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140306/A_NEWS/403060327\" target=\"_blank\">has the story\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Google Inc.'s mysterious floating technology showroom is due to take up residence at the Port of Stockton, the port director confirmed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Aschieris said the port has made arrangements, through agents working on behalf of Google, to house the tech company's barge that had been under construction at its previous mooring at Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've reached an agreement for them to dock at the Port of Stockton,\" he said. \"I'm absolutely delighted to have this agreement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the pact, the port would house the Google barge for six months, with Google paying the standard dockage fee. Given the watercraft's roughly 200-foot length, that would be about $10,000 a month, Aschieris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know when the arrival time is, but it could be anytime in the next six months, but it's also likely sooner than later,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>We'll go with sooner. Helicopters from Bay Area news outlets have tracked the barge, propelled by two tugboats, as it moves east from Antioch. Twitter has been relayed the occasional semi-goggle-eyed report from along the route of the 80-mile voyage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GoogleBarge\">@GoogleBarge\u003c/a> Hey! I just spotted you passing my house on the San Joaquin! How do you like the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CADelta&src=hash\">#CADelta\u003c/a> so far? Will u help us stop the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BDCP&src=hash\">#BDCP\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Dawn Gulick (@DawnGulick) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DawnGulick/statuses/441594897649258496\">March 6, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The barge is expected to arrive in Stockton, also known as Mudville, Fat City and (as of this writing) The Jewel of the San Joaquin, late Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since \u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57608585-93/is-google-building-a-hulking-floating-data-center-in-sf-bay/\" target=\"_blank\">its existence was reported last year\u003c/a>, onlookers have been speculating about exactly what the megacraft is and what the megacompany intends to do with it. Would it be a floating data center? A floating store? The consensus, \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/10/30/googles-crazy-barge-scheme-your-complete-guide/?tid=pm_national_pop\" target=\"_blank\">semi-confirmed\u003c/a> by Google itself, is that the barge is being turned into a floating showroom for Google technologies. (CNET's Daniel Terdiman broke the Google barge story last fall and wrote \u003ca href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619673-93/google-barge-%2435-million-and-counting/\" target=\"_blank\">the definitive \"life and times of the Google barge\" story\u003c/a> for the tech news site last week. He says the company has sunk $35 million into the project so far.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The minor controversy around the barge has centered on where the thing will be docked long term. 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(Andrew Stelzer/KQED) \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8 a.m. Wednesday Update: \u003c/strong>The Oakland City Council voted to go ahead with a significantly scaled-back deployment of a surveillance system that opponents say threatens privacy and could be misused by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Council heard from scores of public speakers Tuesday night before voting just after 1 a.m. to proceed with plans for the Domain Awareness Center — but only on Port of Oakland property and at Oakland International Airport. The system envisioned by city staff and consultants would have blended a wide array of data from traffic cameras, the city’s ShotSpotter audio monitoring system, and police and fire dispatching information. The proposal to reduce the scale of the system was put forward by Councilwoman Desley Brooks and seconded by Mayor Jean Quan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was 5-4, with Quan casting the tie-breaking vote. She was joined by Brooks and Council members Patricia Kernighan, Larry Reid and Dan Kalb. Council members Rebecca Kaplan, Lynette Gibson McElhaney, Libby Schaaf and Noel Gallo voted against. Most of the opponents on the Council said they wanted to see privacy and data-retention rules finalized before the center is allowed to go ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linda Lye, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, told the Oakland Tribune the vote was a major victory for the plan’s opponents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“This is a very significant win for privacy and civil liberties and for participatory democracy. It shows a City Council being responsive to the concerns of the public and not being bribed by federal grant money.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The system will be built with funds provided by the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Tuesday):\u003c/strong> Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said she’d like to see the city scale back its planned creation of a surveillance system that civil liberties advocates and many community groups oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversial Domain Awareness Center would use Department of Homeland Security funds to set up a citywide surveillance network, combining live video and data feeds from the Port of Oakland and other sources that could eventually include license-plate readers, traffic cameras and public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has touted the center as a way of preparing for emergencies and fighting crime. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/17/oakland-domain-awareness-center-surveillance-plans/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some reports\u003c/a> have questioned whether the system could actually be used to combat crime and whether the city is simply using that rationale to win support for the project. Domain Awareness Center opponents have pointed to the danger the system could be used to track residents’ daily activities and that it could have a disproportionate impact on people of color living in East and West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council is scheduled to consider the center Tuesday night. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/210654130/Open-Letter-From-Mayor-Quan-Regarding-Domain-Awareness-Center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an open letter \u003c/a>released Tuesday afternoon, Quan argues the city does indeed need a centralized information system to help respond to emergencies like the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and the 1991 East Bay Hills firestorm. She cites the example of \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/dowd004006.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland police Officer John Grubensky\u003c/a>, who died while trying to lead residents to safety during the fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… As they fled downhill on Charing Cross Road, the officer and ten residents became stuck where the road had narrowed and become impassable with abandoned cars. All eleven people perished. However, they might have survived if the officer had better, quicker, broader access to information about the safest routes out. This tragic toll is just one example that underscores the urgency of our work to prepare and organize our resources to more effectively respond when another disaster strikes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Quan also notes the high level of discontent expressed at a series of public meetings on the Domain Awareness Center and suggests a change in approach: first, a new effort to draft policies that would address concerns about privacy and who has access to the system’s data; and second, scaling back the launch of the center so that it operates at first only on Port of Oakland property:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… We will hold off on the aspects of the project that would include cameras on city streets. We will return to those elements separately, and only when the advisory committee is satisfied that the safeguards we’ve built together with the community are sturdy and enforceable. Any new camera systems, or any other additions to the Center, would have to be proposed separately and go to our City Council in a public process.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For now, Quan’s proposal is just that — an idea that the City Council will need to go along with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linda Lye, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, told the San Francisco Chronicle’s Will Kane she thinks Quan’s move is a step in the right direction but the city needs to go further to alleviate concern over the center:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she was pleased to hear Quan was asking the City Council to slow down the process and limit the surveillance to just the port, Lye worried the city would still reach the same result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We endorse the approach of dialing it back, but we want to make sure that the system truly reflects that principle,” Lye said. “One of the main concerns with surveillance systems is mission creep: when it is advertised for one purpose and then used for something else.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here’s Quan’s “open letter”:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_71230\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/210654130/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Sometimes my mom would send me out to buy bread and Oscar Mayer luncheon meat and maybe some dessert. She'd give me a five-dollar bill, and I'd jump on my bike and ride five or six blocks to the nearest store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every once in a while, I wouldn't have the money when I arrived at the market. Somehow, I'd have managed to drop the cash along the street, and it would just be gone. My reaction had several layers: I'd be sorry that I was going home empty-handed -- hey, no bologna sandwiches today, guys. I'd be upset with myself for doing something so careless. I'd dread having to go back home to tell Mom I'd lost the money (again).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was something else, too; there was a sense of loss that went beyond the importance of a dropped five-dollar bill which, believe me, was important enough. My connection to something I wanted and needed had been severed; that thing was out in the world somewhere, maybe blowing along the street, or in the hands of some kid from school, or floating down the local creek. I could imagine anything and search all I wanted, but once that precious cash was out of my hands, my connection to it was broken and, yes, I felt bereft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, I've lost lots and lots of stuff — it's part of the lifestyle if you accumulate things and take them outside the house. Among the pile of never-to-be-recovered items that have fled my possession: a baseball glove I liked; a brand-new and fully loaded daypack I somehow left on a Muni bus; more pairs of brand-name sunglasses than it's decent to admit having owned; umbrellas, both inexpensive and pricey; a Kindle that apparently fell out of my pocket during a stroll through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> few days ago, on the way to work, it was my iPhone's turn to go missing. I realized after getting off BART and walking a few blocks that I didn't have it. I did two or three of those self-pat-downs that are universal sign language for, \"I've lost something important,\" retraced my steps and checked with the BART station agent. No, no phones had been turned in anywhere along the line I'd been riding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I headed to the office, pondering the potential damage. The phone has a pass code to prevent just anyone from picking it up and using it, but I assumed a skilled thief could defeat that. What sort of personal information was on the device? Lots. What else was important about the 2-year-old phone? Well, maybe not much. But I use its camera a lot and reflected sadly on the very last shot I had taken, just before I'd gotten on the train to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At work, I went online to see if the iPhone finder app would actually tell me anything about the phone's whereabouts. I was pleasantly surprised to see the phone's location popped up immediately: It had traveled down the BART line a few stops, then accompanied some stranger to a residence in Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Whoa. The phone was moving again. Up to San Francisco General Hospital, just a half-mile from my office. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the app lets you send a contact number and text message to whomever might have the phone, whether well-meaning stranger or light-fingered ne'er-do-well. I sent my office phone number and a message first thing. The app also allows you to turn on a loud, ringing pulse from the lost device. I activated that. The app offers a third option: Erase iPhone. If you \u003cem>know\u003c/em> the phone has been stolen, hit that and, in theory, you can wipe your personal information from the device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing happened when I sent the phone number and message. The app had pinpointed the phone at a specific address. I street-viewed the location on Google Maps, then tried a reverse directory search to see if there was a phone number associated with the address. No — no phones or residents listed at the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And right around here, after the phone had been out of my possession for an hour or so and I could see where it was supposed to be and no one was responding to my message or repeated pings, I started to get a little obsessive. I sent a second message mentioning I knew what block the phone was on. I sent more pings. I sent a message offering a reward. I sent more pings. I looked at Street View again. Then more pings and more Street View. Damn! The phone wasn't moving. Why didn't whoever had it call?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> thought about calling the police, remembering \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/21/berkeley-police-chief-sent-10-officers-on-hunt-for-sons-iphone/\" target=\"_blank\">an incident in Berkeley\u003c/a> in which the chief had sent 10 officers looking for his son's lost iPhone. I also recalled an episode in which a neighbor had used Find My iPhone to track and retrieve a stolen iPad. But I didn't call the police because I wasn't really sure my phone was stolen and it felt a little weird to enlist the cops for my own personal lost-and-found detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about erasing the iPhone. When I opened the window to do that, though, the app warned I would no longer be able to track the device if I proceeded. That felt too final, and part of me still held out hope that a kindhearted, soon-to-be-revealed good Samaritan would deliver the phone into my hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The phone headed in the opposite direction, up over Potrero Hill. It made a feint toward my office, then traveled north...\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I was thinking about borrowing a car and driving down to Daly City when suddenly the map showed the phone moving. First, it got on Interstate 280 and headed north. When it got to U.S. 101, it headed north again. The phone stopped just off the freeway in the Bayview District for 10 or 15 minutes. Google showed the location to be a storage warehouse, so I wondered whether my phone was about to be added to a bin of hundreds of lost or stolen mobile devices. I filed an online lost property report with the San Francisco police and waited further developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoa. The phone was moving again. Up to San Francisco General Hospital, just a half-mile from my office. Maybe some tech-savvy, kindhearted good Samaritan had figured out where I worked and was bringing it to me! I sent a message saying I was in the neighborhood if the Samaritan wanted to drop by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no. The phone headed in the opposite direction, up over Potrero Hill. It made a feint toward my office — \u003cem>Is the kindhearted Samaritan lost?\u003c/em> — then traveled at public-transit speed north to the Caltrain Station at Fourth and Townsend, through SoMa, across the Financial District to North Beach and the edge of Chinatown. And there it came to an extended stop again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sent a couple more pings and another text during this odyssey and after I saw it had stopped. Still no answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had insisted on updating coworkers on this drama's minute-by-minute progress all afternoon. By this time, after 5 o'clock, most had voiced the reasonable opinion that the lack of response over several hours meant that whoever had happened upon the phone had no intention of returning it. I suspected they were right, but I also could picture the finder throwing it into a purse or backpack and forgetting about it. When I said that out loud, one office-mate shook her head and commented on my surprising faith in humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's true I wasn't necessarily thinking the worst about whoever was carrying the phone, but this wasn't really faith. I was able to see where the phone was. But as long as the unseen finder remained silent, the phone was just as gone as those five-dollar bills I was in the habit of losing as a kid. So my messages started reasonably enough as a simple return request, then progressed from implied threat to promise to cajolery to resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>inally, I had drawn out the workday about as far as it would go. I was noodling around with a couple of things and getting ready to leave work, and abandon my poor lonely iPhone in the city, when my desk line rang. I answered. \"My boyfriend found your phone and would like to return it,\" a woman said. \"Well, I'd love to have it back,\" I answered. The woman, who said her name was Andrea, gave me an address — it matched the location the phone-finder app gave — and told me her boyfriend, Danny, would be there when I arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coworker dropped me off in North Beach, I stopped at an ATM to get some cash, and then I went to the address on Pacific Avenue, a run-down city-owned apartment block. It was dark by this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I made my way up to the open-air second-floor corridor and found the apartment number I was looking for. The passageway was lined with containers full of empty bottles and cans to be recycled. The venetian blinds on the windows were broken and askew. I knocked on the door. No one came. I left to check whether I was at the right address. Yeah, I was. I went back upstairs and knocked again. Again no answer. I knocked louder. After 15 or 20 seconds, a lock turned and the door opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're Danny?\" I asked. \"Yeah, that's right.\" he said. \"I guess you don't have to go and buy a new phone.\" He said it twice and handed me the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I shook his hand and took out my wallet, removed a twenty and gave it to him. \"I wanted to give you something,\" I said. \"Wish it was more.\" I looked past him into the apartment, where there seemed to be a floor-to-ceiling pile of, well, stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He closed the door behind him. \"That's OK,\" he said. \"That's OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me he had seen the phone lying on a seat when he got off the train in Colma and picked it up. I wanted to ask him about the messages I'd sent, whether he had heard the phone going off and what he had made of all of that. But I didn't. He was my good Samaritan, it turned out, and kindhearted enough to call me. 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Up to San Francisco General Hospital, just a half-mile from my office. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the app lets you send a contact number and text message to whomever might have the phone, whether well-meaning stranger or light-fingered ne'er-do-well. I sent my office phone number and a message first thing. The app also allows you to turn on a loud, ringing pulse from the lost device. I activated that. The app offers a third option: Erase iPhone. If you \u003cem>know\u003c/em> the phone has been stolen, hit that and, in theory, you can wipe your personal information from the device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing happened when I sent the phone number and message. The app had pinpointed the phone at a specific address. I street-viewed the location on Google Maps, then tried a reverse directory search to see if there was a phone number associated with the address. No — no phones or residents listed at the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And right around here, after the phone had been out of my possession for an hour or so and I could see where it was supposed to be and no one was responding to my message or repeated pings, I started to get a little obsessive. I sent a second message mentioning I knew what block the phone was on. I sent more pings. I sent a message offering a reward. I sent more pings. I looked at Street View again. Then more pings and more Street View. Damn! The phone wasn't moving. 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Up to San Francisco General Hospital, just a half-mile from my office. Maybe some tech-savvy, kindhearted good Samaritan had figured out where I worked and was bringing it to me! I sent a message saying I was in the neighborhood if the Samaritan wanted to drop by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no. The phone headed in the opposite direction, up over Potrero Hill. It made a feint toward my office — \u003cem>Is the kindhearted Samaritan lost?\u003c/em> — then traveled at public-transit speed north to the Caltrain Station at Fourth and Townsend, through SoMa, across the Financial District to North Beach and the edge of Chinatown. And there it came to an extended stop again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sent a couple more pings and another text during this odyssey and after I saw it had stopped. Still no answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had insisted on updating coworkers on this drama's minute-by-minute progress all afternoon. 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Clipper Card data shows 266,000 more rides by youth Muni riders in May 2013 than in May 2012. Approximately 45 percent of Free Muni for Low Income Youth participants plan to ride public transportation as an adult, while 70 percent would recommend Muni to their friends, according to the San Francisco Unified School District Student Survey results.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Free Muni for All?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED's Stephanie Martin\u003c/strong> spoke with Tommy, a local activist who has been involved in recent Google bus protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's certainly a good thing because I think the program to make Muni free for youth who are low-income is a good thing, but it's only a beginning,\" said Tommy. \"I would like to see Google and other companies that are using our bus stops chip in enough money to make Muni free for everybody. 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