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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131220\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/google2-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters delay a Google bus in the Mission today. (Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters delay a Google bus in the Mission today. (Photo by Zach Mack)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2 Wednesday: \u003c/strong>In Oakland today, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/02/oakland-tech-bus-protest/\" target=\"_blank\">another tech bus protest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1 Wednesday\u003c/strong>: Opponents of San Francisco's tech shuttles have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Appeal-targeting-S-F-tech-shuttles-shot-down-5369085.php\" target=\"_blank\">lost an environmental appeal\u003c/a> to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last night, the board voted to go ahead with a program that would allow private employee shuttles to pay for permission to use city bus stops -- but only at $1 a stop per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was 8-2, with supervisors David Campos and John Avalos voting to oppose rejecting the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents' attorney Richard Drury told the board there should be an environmental review first. \"You don't approve a project and then find out what are the impacts by measuring air quality, pedestrian safety risks, after the buses are already out of the gate,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents are considering filing a lawsuit over the pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus controversy is so intense that master's candidates have been doing their theses on it. Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dot Com Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter asked and answered the question: \"Does the provision of shuttles and knowledge of shuttle stop locations influence commute mode and residential location choice? In short -- yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The data show that nearly half of current shuttle riders would drive alone if the shuttles were not provided, supporting the positive impacts of the shuttles provided, on environmental and congestion reduction goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, since 20% say they would use public transit were the\u003cbr>\nshuttles not available, the shuttles do have an impact on public transit ridership and finances. With regards to residential choices, the data indicate that many are choosing to live farther away from their workplace than they otherwise would. Additionally, 22% of shuttle riders have already moved farther from their jobs since accepting their offer, suggesting that shuttles enable some commuters to live in San Francisco who would otherwise live closer to work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>--Bryan Goebel and Jon Brooks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (Bay City News and KQED) -- Google \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/03/31/round-googles-jokes-april-fools-day-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">played a lot of April Fools' Day jokes today\u003c/a>, but this wasn't one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters decked out in colorful outfits, some walking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEfhz53rWXU\" target=\"_blank\">stilts\u003c/a>, handed out fake \"Gmuni\" passes as they blocked a Google commuter bus in the city's Mission District this morning. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10007012\" target=\"_blank\">Video from KPIX here\u003c/a>.) The action was just the latest in a string of protests against the shuttle service, which to some has become the No. 1 symbol of gentrification in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/27/how-much-to-afford-a-1-bedroom-apartment-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly unaffordable San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest came ahead of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing this afternoon on a pilot program to charge private shuttle buses for using public bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"72b4bf907427a06d75a90f0cff481c5f\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they were called around 9 a.m. as a group of 20 to 30 people blocked a private shuttle bus at 24th and Valencia streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers told the group to disperse and the bus, apparently transporting Google workers, was able to move around 9:15 a.m., police said. No one was arrested or injured during the brief protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.heart-of-the-city.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart of the City Collective\u003c/a>, which has been staging protests at tech commuter bus stops throughout the city since December 2013, said on its website that it organized today's action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131211\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus11-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on the protesters' website, the group wrote, \"Let's take back the city!\" and included a list of demands, including the halting of private shuttles from public bus zone use and making Muni free for all residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group called for \"tech companies (to) pay for their impact on housing and public infrastructure\" and to fund affordable housing initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent phone poll by the Bay Area Council actually \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/poll-finds-support-for-sfs-commuter-shuttles-and-their-regulation/\" target=\"_blank\"> showed wide support for the buses\u003c/a> in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/how-do-san-franciscans-really-feel-about-google-buses\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/03/25/poll-says-sf-loves-tech-buses-doesnt-ask-spanish-speakers\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Guardian\u003c/a> this week questioned the objectivity and accuracy of the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a hearing today on an appeal of a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency pilot program concerning the shuttle buses, slated to start July 1. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\" target=\"_blank\">Watch today's board meeting live\u003c/a> at 2 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month program would charge private shuttles $1 per stop to use designated Muni stops. Some opponents have called that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1476478739231261/?ref=22\" target=\"_blank\">giveaway\u003c/a> to rich tech companies like Google, Apple and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents appealed the planning process after the SFMTA board of directors approved the program in January with a California Environmental Quality Act exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"gbus3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The appellants, including members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, affordable housing advocates and other community activists, are calling for an environmental review to study the impact of the new shuttle program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board accepts the appeal, the start of the program would be delayed to include a more thorough CEQA review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning's protesters said in a statement that SFMTA and the city government \"will decide if these corporations can continue to use public bus zones for a mere $1 per stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Meanwhile, underfunded Muni is considering a fare hike. Why fund Muni on the backs of poor and working class people while rich corporations use public infrastructure for pennies?\" the group wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Here's one from a UC Berkeley student called \"\u003ca href=\"http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dot Com Boom 2.0\u003c/a>.\" And here's a more recent one from UC Berkeley called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielledai.com/academic/dai-weinzimmer-shuttles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Riding First Class: Impacts of Silicon Valley Shuttles on Commute & Residential Location Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter asked and answered the question: \"Does the provision of shuttles and knowledge of shuttle stop locations influence commute mode and residential location choice? 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Additionally, 22% of shuttle riders have already moved farther from their jobs since accepting their offer, suggesting that shuttles enable some commuters to live in San Francisco who would otherwise live closer to work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>--Bryan Goebel and Jon Brooks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (Bay City News and KQED) -- Google \u003ca href=\"http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/03/31/round-googles-jokes-april-fools-day-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">played a lot of April Fools' Day jokes today\u003c/a>, but this wasn't one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters decked out in colorful outfits, some walking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEfhz53rWXU\" target=\"_blank\">stilts\u003c/a>, handed out fake \"Gmuni\" passes as they blocked a Google commuter bus in the city's Mission District this morning. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10007012\" target=\"_blank\">Video from KPIX here\u003c/a>.) The action was just the latest in a string of protests against the shuttle service, which to some has become the No. 1 symbol of gentrification in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/27/how-much-to-afford-a-1-bedroom-apartment-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly unaffordable San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest came ahead of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing this afternoon on a pilot program to charge private shuttle buses for using public bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they were called around 9 a.m. as a group of 20 to 30 people blocked a private shuttle bus at 24th and Valencia streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers told the group to disperse and the bus, apparently transporting Google workers, was able to move around 9:15 a.m., police said. No one was arrested or injured during the brief protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.heart-of-the-city.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart of the City Collective\u003c/a>, which has been staging protests at tech commuter bus stops throughout the city since December 2013, said on its website that it organized today's action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131211\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus11-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by Zach Mack)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement on the protesters' website, the group wrote, \"Let's take back the city!\" and included a list of demands, including the halting of private shuttles from public bus zone use and making Muni free for all residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group called for \"tech companies (to) pay for their impact on housing and public infrastructure\" and to fund affordable housing initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent phone poll by the Bay Area Council actually \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/poll-finds-support-for-sfs-commuter-shuttles-and-their-regulation/\" target=\"_blank\"> showed wide support for the buses\u003c/a> in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/how-do-san-franciscans-really-feel-about-google-buses\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/03/25/poll-says-sf-loves-tech-buses-doesnt-ask-spanish-speakers\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Guardian\u003c/a> this week questioned the objectivity and accuracy of the poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a hearing today on an appeal of a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency pilot program concerning the shuttle buses, slated to start July 1. (\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\" target=\"_blank\">Watch today's board meeting live\u003c/a> at 2 p.m.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month program would charge private shuttles $1 per stop to use designated Muni stops. Some opponents have called that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1476478739231261/?ref=22\" target=\"_blank\">giveaway\u003c/a> to rich tech companies like Google, Apple and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents appealed the planning process after the SFMTA board of directors approved the program in January with a California Environmental Quality Act exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/gbus3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"gbus3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Zach Mack/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The appellants, including members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, affordable housing advocates and other community activists, are calling for an environmental review to study the impact of the new shuttle program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board accepts the appeal, the start of the program would be delayed to include a more thorough CEQA review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning's protesters said in a statement that SFMTA and the city government \"will decide if these corporations can continue to use public bus zones for a mere $1 per stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Meanwhile, underfunded Muni is considering a fare hike. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-131168\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS2361_108330194-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404020850/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the story on The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.eventbrite.com/directory?q=startup+event&loc=Washington%2C+DC\">delegation\u003c/a> of representatives from Silicon Valley start-ups is making the rounds in Washington, D.C., to press for patent reform legislation. Even in an election year, proponents are optimistic they can garner bipartisan support to tackle what many consider a cancer in high tech: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack\">patent lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Samuels is executive director of the group organizing this week’s lobbying trip: \u003ca href=\"http://engine.is/\">Engine\u003c/a>. “The House of Representatives last December passed a bill, and the White House has already said it would sign it. And it looks like the Senate is hopefully going to pass a similar bill that will make this better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engine goes to bat for small firms in tech — as opposed to, say, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/about_us\">Fwd.us\u003c/a> a lobbying organization that’s garnered national attention with big names like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and Bill Gates of Microsoft. Samuels says tech companies big and small share many of the same interests: patent reform, net neutrality, cybersecurity, copyrights, taxes and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list is growing, along with Silicon Valley’s clout in the nation’s capital. Sarah Bryner is research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/\">Center for Responsive Politics\u003c/a>, a campaign finance watchdog. She says that in 2013 Big Tech was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\">#4 Big Spende\u003c/a>r on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Industry\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Pharmaceuticals/Health Products\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$225,715,937\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Insurance\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$153,116,559\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oil & Gas\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$144,682,462\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Computers/Internet\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>$140,297,606\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Electric Utilities\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$129,618,239\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>TV/Movies/Music\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$117,972,447\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Business Associations\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$108,371,903\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 1998, which is the earliest year that I have data for, the industry has increased their lobbying by 258 percent, and that’s more than double the rate at which the lobbying industry as a whole has increased their activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has been lobbying in Washington, D.C., for a half-century now. \u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, one of the first major Valley firms\u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">,\u003c/a> was a military contractor. One of its co-founders, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard\">David Packard\u003c/a>, served in the Defense Department during the Nixon administration. Bryner says the \u003cem>kinds\u003c/em> of tech companies that \u003cem>top\u003c/em> the list of big spenders have changed as the industry has changed over the years: from a focus on hardware, to software, to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still have traditional tech companies like IBM and Oracle and HP all at the top. But now, you see not necessarily newer — but newer to the game — players like Yahoo, and Facebook is climbing, and Twitter just hired a lobbyist this last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Google was No.1 by a wide margin, having spent $14 million on lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Client/Parent\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Google Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$14,060,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Microsoft Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$10,490,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oracle Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$7,190,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Hewlett-Packard\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,921,692\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Facebook Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,430,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>IBM Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,950,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Entertainment Software Assn\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,210,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Intel Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$4,393,750\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Amazon.com\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,456,831\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Apple Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,370,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&year=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google actually is one of the few companies that hired a former member of Congress on their own staff to do lobbying,” Bryner notes. “Most companies that hire [former] members of Congress do so using lobbying firms based in D.C., but Google \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/business/susan-molinari-adds-to-googles-political-firepower.html?pagewanted=all\">hired Susan Molinari\u003c/a> of New York from their own payroll. And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. But they’re still spending, holding private fundraisers here in Northern California for key Democrats –- and Republicans –- from all over the country. Just a couple of weeks ago, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201403190850/a\">paid a visit to the Bay Area\u003c/a> for the latest in a series of private fundraisers put on by TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech executives.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-the-4-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/img_6883/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-130989 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_6883-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Julie Samuels, from Engine, moderated yet another panel discussion in San Francisco on the challenge of expanding the labor pool in tech. Right off the bat, she acknowledged the argument that companies should do more to find and cultivate homegrown talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to find good engineers, and there are two sides of this. It’s the businesses who can’t find people, but it’s also the people who want to be there and can’t get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was held at a start-up incubator called \u003ca href=\"http://www.parisoma.com/\">PariSoma\u003c/a>, and organized by Fwd.us. The crowd was young, hip and international. Mexican native Miguel Cervera is a software engineer at \u003ca href=\"@MiguelCervera\">Twitter\u003c/a>. Over sliders and beer, the 23-year-old expressed distress over the lack of movement on immigration reform.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see for the people to stop thinking that we are coming here to steal jobs,” Cervera said. “As an immigrant, that’s how I feel, that –- maybe not here in the city, the city is really open in that aspect — but in other places, I feel like if I am Mexican, and I am coming here, they think I am here to steal some other U.S. citizens’ jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even outside Silicon Valley, American opinion may be changing faster than Cervera realizes. A February bipartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/poll_support_immigration_reform\">poll\u003c/a> that Fwd.us likes to quote found a thousand likely general election voters nationwide overwhelmingly support immigration reform. Whatever happens in D.C. – or doesn’t – Silicon Valley money is working hard to keep immigration reform near the top of the legislative agenda. Patent reform, however, could graduate from the Senate Judiciary Committee as early as this month.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The new poll found that a majority — 57 percent of the 500 likely voters polled — had a favorable or somewhat favorable impression of tech employee shuttle buses, while 15 percent said they had never heard of such a thing. The telephone survey also found that those surveyed had an even more favorable impression of tech workers and the impact of recent tech sector growth on the city. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/20/activists-appeal-san-francisco-tech-bus-plan\" target=\"_blank\">A plan to allow the shuttles to use some city Muni stops also garnered support\u003c/a>, because people believe the tech shuttle buses decrease traffic and pollution. However, 70 percent also said they supported some form of regulation of the shuttle buses. 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Recent studies have shown that these deaths from window crashes may account for 1 to 5 percent of all bird deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers don’t include other urban threats to birds, including air pollution, habitat loss, artificial lights (which confuse birds), traffic and noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no doubt that birds colliding with buildings is a concern,” said Alicia King, a spokeswoman for U.S. Fish and Wildlife. “In urban areas, it’s an issue, especially ones considered flyways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Going to the Birds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 400 bird species can be found at times in the Bay Area, which falls along the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Flyway\">Pacific Flyway\u003c/a>, a migratory path for birds stretching from Alaska to Argentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, a few Bay Area cities have implemented bird-friendly building policies. San Francisco started strict regulations in 2011, followed by Oakland last year and Sunnyvale this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>The focus on birds is part of a shift within the sustainability movement, which emphasizes revamping consumption and energy to include nature – something Shani Kleinhaus, an environmental advocate with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scvas.org/index.php\">Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society\u003c/a>, hopes will catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An emphasis on birds would really bring back a lot of other elements of natural ecosystems, like the plants that the birds like,” she said. “If you have birds, you have a really healthy ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Many of the newer and planned campuses for tech companies have park-like settings, with pathways through greenery. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Birds eat insects, help pollinate plants and disperse seeds in a mutualistic relationship. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, birds are a bellwether of environmental health — for better or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the newer and planned campuses for tech companies have park-like settings, with pathways through greenery. There is bird nest monitoring for egrets at Google in Mountain View, for example, and one for bluebirds at Intuit, as well as full-grown trees and a living roof at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social network giant, which implemented many of San Francisco’s standards for bird-safe buildings, plans to minimize light pollution and turn off unnecessary lighting at night during spring and fall migrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook has a commitment to protecting the environment, which is particularly important since the campus is situated adjacent to protected marshland,” said John Tenanes, Facebook’s director of real estate. “Our employees also enjoy spending time outdoors. 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The serene environment in Cupertino is meant to reflect Apple’s principles of “innovation, ease of use and beauty,” Apple said in a project description filed for approval by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Birds and Corporate Values\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By integrating nature within their Silicon Valley campuses, the companies are also creating brick-and-mortar monuments that represent what they say are their company values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t call it restoration because it really is a different creation,” Kleinhaus said. “It’s ‘how do we bring nature into our campuses to create a more harmonious campus?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intuit has this core value of owning your responsibilities,” said Michael Gulasch, real estate director of Intuit, based in Mountain View. “We are part of this community, we need to be good citizens, it’s our responsibility to own the habitat concerns and wildlife concerns because we (abut) right adjacent to the parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The bird element is a natural extension of Intuit’s ideas about sustainability and community, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, you might ask, what about that well-known local tech company that has a bird as its icon? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/03/20140324science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Apollo-7-astronauts.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15579 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Apollo-7-astronauts.jpg\" alt=\"The Apollo 7 crew, from left to right: Command Module pilot, Donn F. Eisele, Commander, Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Lunar Module pilot, Walter Cunningham. (NASA)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1968, two members of the Apollo 7 crew developed head colds. Crankiness ensued. Crew members, from the left, are Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, Commander Walter Schirra, Jr. and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham. (NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scientists at NASA’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/#.UyzQ_oXDX_k\">Ames Research Center\u003c/a> in Mountain View are sending fruit flies (among other creatures) up to the International Space Station, hoping to better predict some of the physical challenges that may befall astronauts when, sometime after 2030, NASA sends up the first human mission to Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA has already learned some of these lessons the hard way. For instance: Having a head cold in space is no picnic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15581\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 288px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/9400_transform-288x162.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15581 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/9400_transform-288x162.jpg\" alt=\"In the first live television transmission from space, astronauts Don Eisele and Walter Schirra Jr. deliver a message to viewers. (NASA)\" width=\"288\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the first live television transmission from space, astronauts Donn F. Eisele and Walter M. Schirra Jr. deliver a message to viewers. (NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The First Colds in Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1968, NASA needed some good press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year before had been a disaster. All three crew members of the Apollo 1 Mission had died in a cabin fire before the spaceship even launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If NASA was going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it needed to win back public confidence in the program. And it would do so on live television during the Apollo 7 mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apollo 7 launched on October 11, 1968, with a plan to bring three astronauts safely into Earth’s orbit, and then back home again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time, Americans got to see what astronauts looked like floating around in zero gravity. On live television, they watched Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, Commander Walter Schirra, Jr. and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham eat meals, bat a lens cap around the cabin and send radio reports to ground control.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Perhaps you’ve never considered the effect of zero gravity on snot?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Wally took one Actifed,” Cunningham reported. “He feels fine; he’s just got a little stuffy nose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham and Schirra indeed had head colds, and the stuffy noses turned out not to be such a “little” thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The astronauts had trouble sleeping. They worried about their eardrums rupturing. Their interactions with ground control became testy, particularly on the subject of whether or not they would wear helmets upon reentry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Policy: Quarantine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So after Apollo 7, NASA set a new policy: Astronauts would now be quarantined before each launch to make sure they’re healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the quarantine isn’t a guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA astronaut \u003ca href=\"http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/barratt-mr.html\">Mike Barratt\u003c/a> caught a cold during his six-month stay on the International Space Station in 2009. “It was probably the most miserable cold I’ve ever had,” he told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15591\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15591 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"The International Space Station. (NASA)\" width=\"294\" height=\"188\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Space Station. (NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps you’ve never considered the effect of zero gravity on snot? Barratt hadn’t either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Earth, Barratt said, “where you’d have a little gravity to help you drain things, all that was absent there. Everything kind of pools where it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Barratt invented a zero-gravity nose-blowing technique, involving swinging his body in an arc as his hands clasped a metal handrail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move created a sort of artificial gravity, Barratt said, propelling mucus out of his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do what you gotta do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finding Work-Arounds in Zero Gravity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans evolved with gravity. Take it away and we start looking for work-arounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these are well known. For instance: in space, muscles atrophy, especially in the legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the waist up, they look strong,” Barratt said, describing how this affects humans. “From the waist down they look more like Kermit the Frog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So astronauts spend an enormous amount of time exercising—two or three hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the eyes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Apollo-7-astronauts.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15579 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Apollo-7-astronauts.jpg\" alt=\"The Apollo 7 crew, from left to right: Command Module pilot, Donn F. Eisele, Commander, Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Lunar Module pilot, Walter Cunningham. (NASA)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1968, two members of the Apollo 7 crew developed head colds. Crankiness ensued. Crew members, from the left, are Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, Commander Walter Schirra, Jr. and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham. (NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scientists at NASA’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/#.UyzQ_oXDX_k\">Ames Research Center\u003c/a> in Mountain View are sending fruit flies (among other creatures) up to the International Space Station, hoping to better predict some of the physical challenges that may befall astronauts when, sometime after 2030, NASA sends up the first human mission to Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA has already learned some of these lessons the hard way. For instance: Having a head cold in space is no picnic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15581\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 288px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/9400_transform-288x162.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15581 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/9400_transform-288x162.jpg\" alt=\"In the first live television transmission from space, astronauts Don Eisele and Walter Schirra Jr. deliver a message to viewers. (NASA)\" width=\"288\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the first live television transmission from space, astronauts Donn F. Eisele and Walter M. Schirra Jr. deliver a message to viewers. (NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The First Colds in Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1968, NASA needed some good press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year before had been a disaster. All three crew members of the Apollo 1 Mission had died in a cabin fire before the spaceship even launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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On live television, they watched Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, Commander Walter Schirra, Jr. and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham eat meals, bat a lens cap around the cabin and send radio reports to ground control.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Perhaps you’ve never considered the effect of zero gravity on snot?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Wally took one Actifed,” Cunningham reported. “He feels fine; he’s just got a little stuffy nose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham and Schirra indeed had head colds, and the stuffy noses turned out not to be such a “little” thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The astronauts had trouble sleeping. They worried about their eardrums rupturing. Their interactions with ground control became testy, particularly on the subject of whether or not they would wear helmets upon reentry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Policy: Quarantine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So after Apollo 7, NASA set a new policy: Astronauts would now be quarantined before each launch to make sure they’re healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the quarantine isn’t a guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA astronaut \u003ca href=\"http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/barratt-mr.html\">Mike Barratt\u003c/a> caught a cold during his six-month stay on the International Space Station in 2009. “It was probably the most miserable cold I’ve ever had,” he told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15591\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15591 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"The International Space Station. (NASA)\" width=\"294\" height=\"188\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Space Station. (NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps you’ve never considered the effect of zero gravity on snot? Barratt hadn’t either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Earth, Barratt said, “where you’d have a little gravity to help you drain things, all that was absent there. Everything kind of pools where it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Barratt invented a zero-gravity nose-blowing technique, involving swinging his body in an arc as his hands clasped a metal handrail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move created a sort of artificial gravity, Barratt said, propelling mucus out of his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do what you gotta do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finding Work-Arounds in Zero Gravity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans evolved with gravity. Take it away and we start looking for work-arounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these are well known. For instance: in space, muscles atrophy, especially in the legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the waist up, they look strong,” Barratt said, describing how this affects humans. “From the waist down they look more like Kermit the Frog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So astronauts spend an enormous amount of time exercising—two or three hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the eyes. 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(Ana Tintocalis/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Dinosaur.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130085\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Dinosaur-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dinosaur\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nDinosaurs may be long extinct, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/20/how-quirky-is-berkeley-check-out-these-dinosaurs/\" target=\"_blank\">they survive in Berkeley front yards\u003c/a>, where small, medium or big, they stand as declarations of individualism in a city of individualists. 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Alonso joins his dad during the summers spending long hours picking lettuce and strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get home … and you don’t even want to talk to nobody,” Alonso recalls. “I would fall asleep on the floor … then wake up and it’s already time to go back to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experiencing that kind of manual labor motivated Alonso to graduate from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says teenagers who drop out of school tend to work in three places: the mall, a fast-food restaurant or the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Young people) don't see themselves doing something big in life,\" he says. \"They get paid $10 an hour and they settle for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alonso refuses to settle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a year ago, he was registering for his classes at Hartnell College when he learned about the \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/csitin3/\" target=\"_blank\">Computer Science and Information Technology-In-3 Program\u003c/a>, an accelerated degree program specifically for students of farmworker families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In partnership with California State University, Monterey Bay, Hartnell is promising a bachelor’s degree in computer science in just three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"a3a8c35d23cb79bc87033ae6c3afe1ec\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso applied and was accepted. His mother ensays it was like winning the lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years the family has been hustling hard to earn more money. Norma was able to secure a real estate license several years ago, but hasn’t been able to find steady work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogelio tried to work in construction, but then the recession hit and he returned to the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea was to give our kids a nice place to live, a nicer house, a nicer future,” says Norma. “But the economy went down and we couldn’t find a good job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past five years the family has been living on Rogelio's farmworker wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the pressure is on Alonso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He joins 32 other students who spend 40 or more hours a week at Hartnell and CSU-Monterey Bay, cramming four years of computer science instruction into just three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instructors say these young people face a steep learning curve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students have not mastered calculus, a skill needed for this line of work, and others still need remediation in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instructors say another challenge is the lack of academic support at home to help them with understanding programming languages and algorithms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Daniel Diaz says his dad thought computer science was about fixing computers. \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I'm at home, I'm by myself,” Diaz says. “My mom always asks me, ‘Why are you always in your room and on your computer?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Program organizers admit the academic experience can be isolating, which is why they keep students together as much as possible during the school day. 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She realizes she needs coding skills herself to survive in the job market, so when she enrolled her teenage daughter in another coding program, Black Girls Code, she started doing the take-home quizzes, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the applications or software for coding were really technical and hard to decode for an adult, and so I went straight to youth-targeted programs,” Saint-Jean says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the weekend, each team pitches their ideas for new software and mobile apps to a panel of judges and a community audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White takes the mic and demonstrates a prototype of his team’s fitness app, with sample videos of himself and his teammates doing jumping jacks and other exercises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another team wants to build a social networking app for black private school students. 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