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Google created a system for reviewing requests to remove content from search results after a 2014 European Court of Justice ruling determined that individuals have a right to ask for content associated with their names to be removed if it’s “inadequate, irrelevant … or excessive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Simpson, privacy project director at Consumer Watchdog, argued in \u003ca href=\"http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/ltrftcrtbf070715.pdf\">the FTC complaint\u003c/a> that Google’s refusal to implement a similar program in the U.S. should be considered a violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Internet giant aggressively and repeatedly holds itself out to users as being deeply committed to privacy,” Simpson wrote. “Without a doubt requesting the removal of a search engine link from one’s name to irrelevant data under the right to be forgotten (or right to relevancy) is an important privacy option. 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They’ve looked at over a million URLs so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Consumer Watchdog, Google denied removal requests for nearly 59 percent of the links.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expanding the system of review to the U.S. “would involve a significant expenditure of time and resources,” Bronfman noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to be forgotten has been polarizing in Europe. The BBC, for instance, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-06/25/bbc-right-to-be-forgotten\">published a list of stories that had been purged\u003c/a> from Google, demonstrating how the policy could impact news content. The debate would likely be just as intense if the practice were implemented in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have also derided the right to be forgotten as a tool that would make it easier for the wealthy and well-connected to hide their activities from public view or that invites censorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google itself has made it clear it disagrees with the policy. While the search giant didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time, \u003ca href=\"http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2014/07/searching-for-right-balance.html\">a blog post published on its website in 2014\u003c/a> spells out Google’s take on the matter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The European Court found that people have the right to ask for information to be removed from search results that include their names if it is ‘inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive.’ In deciding what to remove, search engines must also have regard to the public interest. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google Inc. revealed Monday that its self-driving cars have been in 11 minor traffic accidents since it began experimenting with the technology six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company released the number after The Associated Press reported that Google had notified California of three collisions involving its self-driving cars since September, when reporting all accidents became a legal requirement as part of the permits for the tests on public roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The director of Google's self-driving car project wrote in a Web post that all 11 accidents were minor -- \"light damage, no injuries\" -- and happened over 1.7 million miles of testing, including nearly 1 million miles in self-driving mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident,'' wrote Google's Chris Urmson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies to test them on public roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two accidents happened while the cars were in control; in the other two, the person who still must be behind the wheel was driving, a person familiar with the accident reports told The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three involved Lexus SUVs that Google Inc. outfitted with sensors and computing power in its aggressive effort to develop \"autonomous driving,\" a goal the tech giant shares with traditional automakers. Parts supplier Delphi Automotive had the other accident with one of its two test vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google and Delphi said their cars were not at fault in any accidents, which the companies said were minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since September, any accident must be reported to the state Department of Motor Vehicles. The agency said there have been four, but would not comment about fault or anything else, citing California law that collision reports are confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person familiar with the accident reports said the cars were in self-driving mode in two of the four accidents, all of which involved speeds of less than 10 mph. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the reports publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five other companies have testing permits. In response to questions from the AP, all said they had no accidents. In all, 48 cars are licensed to test on public roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that neither the companies nor the state have revealed the accidents troubles some who say the public should have information to monitor the rollout of technology that its own developers acknowledge is imperfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Simpson, a longtime critic of Google as privacy project director of the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog, pointed out that the company's ultimate goal is a car without a steering wheel or pedals. That would mean a person has no power to intervene if a car lost control, making it \"even more important that the details of any accidents be made public — so people know what the heck's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chief selling point for self-driving cars is safety. Their cameras, radar and laser sensors give them a far more detailed understanding of their surroundings than humans have. Their reaction times also should be faster. Cars could be programmed to adjust if they sense a crash coming — move a few feet, tighten the seat belts, honk the horn or flash the lights in hope of alerting a distracted driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A higher priority so far is teaching them to avoid causing a serious accident that could set public and political acceptance of the technology back years, said Raj Rajkumar, a pioneer of the technology with Carnegie Mellon University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the October accident involving Delphi, the front of its 2014 Audi SQ5 was moderately damaged when, as it waited to make a left turn, another car broadsided it, according to an accident report the company shared with AP. The car was not in self-driving mode, Delphi spokeswoman Kristen Kinley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, which has 23 Lexus SUVs, would not discuss its three accidents in detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accidents are not Google's first: In a briefing with reporters a year ago, the leader of Google's self-driving car program acknowledged three others between when the company first sent cars onto public roads six years ago — without the state's official permission — and May 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Google said that since September, cars driving on streets near its headquarters in Mountain View had \"a handful of minor fender-benders, light damage, no injuries, so far caused by human error and inattention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google said that while safety is paramount, some accidents can be expected, given that its cars have gone \"the equivalent of over 15 years of typical human driving\" since fall. That would be approximately 140,000 miles. Google said its cars have gone over 700,000 miles in self-driving mode since they first hit the road in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national rate for reported \"property-damage-only crashes\" is about 0.3 per 100,000 miles driven, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that context, Google's three in about 140,000 miles may seem high. As the company pointed out, however, perhaps 5 million minor accidents are not reported to authorities each year, so it is hard to gauge how typical Google's experience is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three other states have passed laws welcoming self-driving cars onto their roads. Regulators in Nevada, Michigan and Florida said they were not aware of any accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As self-driving cars proliferate, other issues will arise that human drivers have dealt with for decades, notably who's liable for an accident. Each test car is required to have $5 million insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interest in accidents will remain high, especially if the self-driving car is at fault, said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who has written extensively on the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a lot of reasons,\" Smith said, \"more might be expected of these test vehicles and of the companies that are deploying them and the drivers that are supervising them than we might expect of a 17-year-old driver in a 10-year-old car.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contact Justin Pritchard at \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/lalanewsman\" target=\"_blank\">http://twitter.com/lalanewsman\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies to test them on public roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two accidents happened while the cars were in control; in the other two, the person who still must be behind the wheel was driving, a person familiar with the accident reports told The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three involved Lexus SUVs that Google Inc. outfitted with sensors and computing power in its aggressive effort to develop \"autonomous driving,\" a goal the tech giant shares with traditional automakers. Parts supplier Delphi Automotive had the other accident with one of its two test vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google and Delphi said their cars were not at fault in any accidents, which the companies said were minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since September, any accident must be reported to the state Department of Motor Vehicles. The agency said there have been four, but would not comment about fault or anything else, citing California law that collision reports are confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person familiar with the accident reports said the cars were in self-driving mode in two of the four accidents, all of which involved speeds of less than 10 mph. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the reports publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five other companies have testing permits. In response to questions from the AP, all said they had no accidents. In all, 48 cars are licensed to test on public roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that neither the companies nor the state have revealed the accidents troubles some who say the public should have information to monitor the rollout of technology that its own developers acknowledge is imperfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Simpson, a longtime critic of Google as privacy project director of the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog, pointed out that the company's ultimate goal is a car without a steering wheel or pedals. That would mean a person has no power to intervene if a car lost control, making it \"even more important that the details of any accidents be made public — so people know what the heck's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chief selling point for self-driving cars is safety. Their cameras, radar and laser sensors give them a far more detailed understanding of their surroundings than humans have. Their reaction times also should be faster. Cars could be programmed to adjust if they sense a crash coming — move a few feet, tighten the seat belts, honk the horn or flash the lights in hope of alerting a distracted driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A higher priority so far is teaching them to avoid causing a serious accident that could set public and political acceptance of the technology back years, said Raj Rajkumar, a pioneer of the technology with Carnegie Mellon University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the October accident involving Delphi, the front of its 2014 Audi SQ5 was moderately damaged when, as it waited to make a left turn, another car broadsided it, according to an accident report the company shared with AP. 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Google said its cars have gone over 700,000 miles in self-driving mode since they first hit the road in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national rate for reported \"property-damage-only crashes\" is about 0.3 per 100,000 miles driven, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that context, Google's three in about 140,000 miles may seem high. As the company pointed out, however, perhaps 5 million minor accidents are not reported to authorities each year, so it is hard to gauge how typical Google's experience is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three other states have passed laws welcoming self-driving cars onto their roads. Regulators in Nevada, Michigan and Florida said they were not aware of any accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As self-driving cars proliferate, other issues will arise that human drivers have dealt with for decades, notably who's liable for an accident. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/02/rain-rain-did-someone-say-rain\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Waiting for rain\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: The National Weather Service says heavy rain may start in Sonoma County during the day Thursday, then spread across the rest of the region Friday. Rain, occasionally heavy, is expected to last most of the weekend. Until then, enjoy a dry and mostly sunny Tuesday and Wednesday. \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=special%20weather%20statement\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Unveiled in Silicon Valley: Federal government's 30-year plan for America's roads\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Riding to the Googleplex in a driverless car, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx visited Google to unveil a 30-year vision for what American transportation might look like in the coming decades. Automated cars, such as the models Google is inventing. Drone-delivered packages. A flourishing of the ride-hailing services that Uber and Lyft pioneered. And, if changes are not made soon, a dystopian headache of traffic clogging outdated roads and worsening the wealth divide. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27445216/u-s-transportation-chief-visits-google-unveil-30\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Obama's new transportation budget: The good, the bad and the ugly\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Streetsblog USA)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>With federal transportation funding set to run out by May 31, Congress is gearing up again to reset national transportation policy. Or, if that doesn’t work out, to limp along indefinitely under the status quo. President Obama unveiled his opening bid in the process on Monday. The $478-billion, six-year plan includes many administration proposals unveiled last year. Congress didn’t buy those ideas then, and with Republicans now controlling both houses, chances remain slim for reforming highway-centric federal transportation policy. \u003ca href=\"http://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/02/02/obamas-new-transportation-budget-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Google betrays Uber, and now it's war\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Valleywag)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Remember how Eric Schmidt spent years sitting on the Apple board, quietly learning everything about the iPhone — and then, presto, Google suddenly came out with Android and it looked a whole lot like the iPhone operating system and Steve Jobs went nuts on Schmidt for being such a sneaky, backstabbing son of a bitch? Well, Google just snuck up on another victim. This time it's Uber. \u003ca href=\"http://valleywag.gawker.com/google-betrays-uber-and-now-its-war-1683355569\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Uber announces deal to develop its own self-driving vehicles\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(TechCrunch)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Driver-on-demand service Uber is building a robotics research lab in Pittsburgh to “kickstart autonomous taxi fleet development,” sources close to the decision have confirmed to TechCrunch. They say the company has hired talent from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, including lead engineering and commercialization experts. \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/uber-opening-robotics-research-facility-in-pittsburgh-to-build-self-driving-cars/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Artifacts show a Rosa Parks steeped in freedom struggle from childhood\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Washington Post)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When Rosa Parks was a little girl in rural Alabama, she would stay up at night, keeping watch with her grandfather as he stood guard with a shotgun against marauding members of the Ku Klux Klan. ... “I wanted to see him kill a Ku-Kluxer,” the renowned civil rights leader wrote in a brief biographical sketch years later. “He declared that the first to invade our home would surely die.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/artifacts-show-a-rosa-parks-steeped-in-freedom-struggle-from-childhood/2015/02/02/90ee01f4-a7de-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html?hpid=z3\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Seismic music at UC Berkeley's Campanile, performed by the Earth\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED Arts)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When the bells of Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus ring out on the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 3, the sound will amplify the low rumble of the earth that most of us in the Bay Area prefer to forget. In a project called “Natural Frequencies,” conceived by composer Edmund Campion, artist and roboticist Ken Goldberg and artist Greg Niemeyer—all UC Berkeley faculty—the bells are programmed to play a score composed in real time by the seismic shifts taking place along the Hayward Fault, directly below the Campanile. Accompanying the bells is a light show, also programmed to respond to the fault’s movements. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/02/02/a-seismic-composition-at-uc-berkeleys-campanile-performed-by-the-earth/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Foreign-investor visa program to pay for new West Oakland grocery\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Oakland Tribune)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After years of trekking to Emeryville or Alameda for groceries, West Oakland residents soon will have the best supermarket a collection of green-card-hungry foreign investors can buy. Businessman Tom Henderson is raising eyebrows even among boosters of the hardscrabble district by announcing plans to open a full-service grocery store that he says will make \"Safeway look like a 7-Eleven.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27433062/proposed-west-oakland-supermarket-would-take-bite-out\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Roald Dahl's letter on the measles death of his daughter\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Mic)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dahl, the author of \u003cem>Matilda\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The BFG\u003c/em>, among many other novels, lost his eldest daughter, Olivia, to measles in 1962. In 1988, he wrote a letter to British health authorities about his loss. His message: \"There is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. ... Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family, and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.\" \u003ca href=\"http://mic.com/articles/109646/27-years-later-roald-dahl-s-heartbreaking-letter-on-vaccines-matters-more-than-ever?utm_source=policymicTWTR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Tech job of the week: Executive assistant and nanny for CEO's baby\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Valleywag)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.skymosity.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Skymosity\u003c/a>, a \"weather-based marketing and analytics\" firm in San Rafael, is looking for someone who will be an executive assistant three days a week and on the other two days work as a nanny for the CEO's \"adorable\" 9-month-old kid. \u003ca href=\"http://valleywag.gawker.com/tech-job-of-the-week-executive-assistant-and-nanny-for-1683259223\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Until then, enjoy a dry and mostly sunny Tuesday and Wednesday. \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=special%20weather%20statement\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Unveiled in Silicon Valley: Federal government's 30-year plan for America's roads\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Riding to the Googleplex in a driverless car, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx visited Google to unveil a 30-year vision for what American transportation might look like in the coming decades. Automated cars, such as the models Google is inventing. Drone-delivered packages. A flourishing of the ride-hailing services that Uber and Lyft pioneered. And, if changes are not made soon, a dystopian headache of traffic clogging outdated roads and worsening the wealth divide. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27445216/u-s-transportation-chief-visits-google-unveil-30\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Obama's new transportation budget: The good, the bad and the ugly\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Streetsblog USA)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>With federal transportation funding set to run out by May 31, Congress is gearing up again to reset national transportation policy. Or, if that doesn’t work out, to limp along indefinitely under the status quo. President Obama unveiled his opening bid in the process on Monday. The $478-billion, six-year plan includes many administration proposals unveiled last year. Congress didn’t buy those ideas then, and with Republicans now controlling both houses, chances remain slim for reforming highway-centric federal transportation policy. \u003ca href=\"http://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/02/02/obamas-new-transportation-budget-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Google betrays Uber, and now it's war\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Valleywag)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Remember how Eric Schmidt spent years sitting on the Apple board, quietly learning everything about the iPhone — and then, presto, Google suddenly came out with Android and it looked a whole lot like the iPhone operating system and Steve Jobs went nuts on Schmidt for being such a sneaky, backstabbing son of a bitch? Well, Google just snuck up on another victim. This time it's Uber. \u003ca href=\"http://valleywag.gawker.com/google-betrays-uber-and-now-its-war-1683355569\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Uber announces deal to develop its own self-driving vehicles\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(TechCrunch)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Driver-on-demand service Uber is building a robotics research lab in Pittsburgh to “kickstart autonomous taxi fleet development,” sources close to the decision have confirmed to TechCrunch. They say the company has hired talent from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, including lead engineering and commercialization experts. \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/uber-opening-robotics-research-facility-in-pittsburgh-to-build-self-driving-cars/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Artifacts show a Rosa Parks steeped in freedom struggle from childhood\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Washington Post)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When Rosa Parks was a little girl in rural Alabama, she would stay up at night, keeping watch with her grandfather as he stood guard with a shotgun against marauding members of the Ku Klux Klan. ... “I wanted to see him kill a Ku-Kluxer,” the renowned civil rights leader wrote in a brief biographical sketch years later. “He declared that the first to invade our home would surely die.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/artifacts-show-a-rosa-parks-steeped-in-freedom-struggle-from-childhood/2015/02/02/90ee01f4-a7de-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html?hpid=z3\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Seismic music at UC Berkeley's Campanile, performed by the Earth\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED Arts)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When the bells of Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus ring out on the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 3, the sound will amplify the low rumble of the earth that most of us in the Bay Area prefer to forget. In a project called “Natural Frequencies,” conceived by composer Edmund Campion, artist and roboticist Ken Goldberg and artist Greg Niemeyer—all UC Berkeley faculty—the bells are programmed to play a score composed in real time by the seismic shifts taking place along the Hayward Fault, directly below the Campanile. Accompanying the bells is a light show, also programmed to respond to the fault’s movements. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/02/02/a-seismic-composition-at-uc-berkeleys-campanile-performed-by-the-earth/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Foreign-investor visa program to pay for new West Oakland grocery\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Oakland Tribune)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After years of trekking to Emeryville or Alameda for groceries, West Oakland residents soon will have the best supermarket a collection of green-card-hungry foreign investors can buy. Businessman Tom Henderson is raising eyebrows even among boosters of the hardscrabble district by announcing plans to open a full-service grocery store that he says will make \"Safeway look like a 7-Eleven.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27433062/proposed-west-oakland-supermarket-would-take-bite-out\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Roald Dahl's letter on the measles death of his daughter\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Mic)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dahl, the author of \u003cem>Matilda\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The BFG\u003c/em>, among many other novels, lost his eldest daughter, Olivia, to measles in 1962. In 1988, he wrote a letter to British health authorities about his loss. His message: \"There is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. ... Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family, and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.\" \u003ca href=\"http://mic.com/articles/109646/27-years-later-roald-dahl-s-heartbreaking-letter-on-vaccines-matters-more-than-ever?utm_source=policymicTWTR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Tech job of the week: Executive assistant and nanny for CEO's baby\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Valleywag)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.skymosity.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Skymosity\u003c/a>, a \"weather-based marketing and analytics\" firm in San Rafael, is looking for someone who will be an executive assistant three days a week and on the other two days work as a nanny for the CEO's \"adorable\" 9-month-old kid. \u003ca href=\"http://valleywag.gawker.com/tech-job-of-the-week-executive-assistant-and-nanny-for-1683259223\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Redwood City has long been home to tech companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oracle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ea.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a>, but until recently it wasn’t really considered part of Silicon Valley. That’s changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been to downtown Redwood City recently, there’s no escaping the construction. Construction cranes crowd the sky as office buildings and condo complexes rise up to meet tech company demand. As Big Tech grows its employment base, Redwood City is proving an attractive place to expand because it sits right at the midpoint of the Peninsula, between San Francisco and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/184932205″ 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>Without a doubt, the biggest new commercial tenant downtown is \u003ca href=\"https://www.box.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Box Inc.\u003c/a>, the cloud storage giant. The site Box is leasing for its new headquarters is \u003ca href=\"http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140916006332/en/Box-Leases-100-Kilroy-Realty%E2%80%99s-Redwood-City#.VKL4rP8Ass%20http://redwoodcity-ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">334,000 square feet\u003c/a>. That’s bigger than three average Wal-Mart stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new headquarters (in the background) is the biggest commercial office addition yet to downtown Redwood City, in the vicinity of City Hall. (James Tenusan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new red-brick headquarters (back left) is the biggest commercial addition yet to downtown Redwood City. (James Tenusan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why here? Well, to start, there’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/stations/redwoodcitystation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caltrain\u003c/a> stop just steps away. That means tech talent is an easy draw, whether they’re coming from San Francisco to the north or any number of cities to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”FxneX50LRxZTF4LMF4Mu3ZaqNztK5jG4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and down the Peninsula, tech companies are looking for this combination of a large commercial footprint and easy transit. And it doesn’t hurt that Redwood City has also begun offering the kinds of cultural amenities tech workers have come to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.beanhunter.com/united-states/california/redwood-city/redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bliss Coffee\u003c/a> opened a few months ago, serving high-end roasts such as Verve and Four Barrel within eyeshot of the Caltrain station and the new Box site. Tyler Hooper admires the view as he sips on a mocha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hooper’s a VP for the commercial real estate company \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiddermathews.com/professionals/hooper-tyler.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidder Mathews\u003c/a>, and he specializes in representing tech companies. “The companies that are looking at Redwood City,” Hooper says, “are also looking at all the other downtowns, pretty much from Sunnyvale probably to San Francisco, along Caltrain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397524 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='From the Redwood City Caltrain station, you can see the iconic sign that says \"Redwood City: Climate Best by Government.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Redwood City Caltrain station boasts the city’s motto on an iconic sign, “Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test.” And yes, there was a test — an early 20th century climatological survey by the U.S. and Germany. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not every town with a Caltrain station is sprouting construction cranes the way Redwood City is. Besides Box, Google just \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/10/03/google-to-buy-big-chunk-of-pacific-shores-iconic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bought close to a million square feet\u003c/a> by the waterfront. That’s going to send local commercial real estate prices up. Even so, Hooper says land values in Redwood City are still far cheaper than in more developed mid-Peninsula markets like Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve kind of reached capacity in those markets,” Hooper says, “so they’ve spilled over into the adjacent markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason to choose Redwood City: its downtown \u003ca href=\"http://www.redwoodcity.org/phed/planning/precise/FINAL-DTPP/NewDTPPDownload.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development plan\u003c/a>. Nearly every city has one, but Redwood City did something unusual for the Bay Area. It created an umbrella environmental review, so companies like Box could sidestep the usual lengthy approval process. Mayor Jeff Gee says this plan was 20 years in the making, with lots of community meetings along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that it’s difficult right now because of all the construction, but that will pass,” he says. “And what will evolve and emerge is a new neighborhood [that] will be an addition to our city. Not everyone will probably see the benefits right away. We can’t just stand still and let time pass. We need to evolve and change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics challenge the particular shape of this evolution — and its scale: originally, 2,500 new residential units, 100,000 square feet of new retail and 500,000 square feet of new office space. While that seems like a lot of room to grow, the Box deal alone ate up more than half the allowance for office space, and other companies waiting in line to get their projects approved were disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the City Council recently\u003ca href=\"http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2014-12-11/downtown-redwood-city-plan-tweaked-in-favor-of-office-space/1776425134820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> raised its office space expansion limit\u003c/a> downtown from 500,000 to 670,000 square feet. To offset that, the council also reduced the limits for residential and retail space. That kept the totals roughly the same, but it also adjusted the balance to tilt even more heavily in favor of office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the change downtown is widely welcomed by locals. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call "Redwood City's living room." (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents are enthusiastic about some of the changes downtown. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call “Redwood City’s living room.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Did we get it right?” Gee asks. “I don’t know that yet. If we didn’t, we’ll make adjustments.” As if anticipating blowback, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jeffgee.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gee\u003c/a> promises that this expansion is just about done. After Box, he says, there are three other deals in the pipeline, and that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redevelopment of downtown started with revamping entertainment venues, and those changes have inspired a lot of praise from locals: the outdoor concerts at Courthouse Square, for instance, and the renovated \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxrwc.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Theatre\u003c/a>. The new restaurants are packed on the weekends. But the scale and crush of the new office buildings and condo complexes has people grumbling about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-to-manhattanize-a-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manhattanization\u003c/a> of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skyline is filled with taller buildings. The streets are crammed with traffic. It may not necessarily cost more to shop and dine downtown, but many of the glossy new buildings make some old-timers feel the welcome mat is not rolled out for them so much as it is for well-heeled newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Planning Commission at City Hall, a number of people decried the lack of parks and public art — attributes that offset density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that all this is really bad, because it’s not all bad,” says former mayor Brent Britschgi. “I mean, we’re seeing change. We’re seeing the future. Most of the developments are fair. But we have to have other things that come along with them. And I think we’re not seeing those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s plan does have rules meant to soften the impacts of development. So Box, for example, must have underground parking, retail on the ground floor and landscaping around the building. But Britschgi’s concern about parks remains unaddressed. The city is getting money from downtown developers to buy park land, but it’s using that money to expand parks elsewhere in the city, where the land isn’t selling for $400 to $500 a square foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: 'What?'. "You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control." (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’. “You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control.” (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control,” says Julie Pardini, who runs a Facebook group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/709200909129615/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s retired now, but Pardini used to work in construction and real estate. As Redwood City prices rise to San Francisco levels, Pardini worries about the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have [affordable housing], we don’t need to talk about it. But you begin to talk about something when it’s gone,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something else Pardini misses about Redwood City as it was just three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are missing the feeling of space around things and between things and above things,” she says. “Everything has a feeling of being cramped — moving traffic, parked cars, buildings stacked one right next to the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, downtown Redwood City used to be so sleepy, locals nicknamed the town “Deadwood City.” Nobody would call it that now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, people crowded into four venues for the \u003ca href=\"http://foxrwc.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2nd Annual Silicon Valley Ball\u003c/a> — the kind of fancy event that’s new for Redwood City’s downtown. It was a party to dress up for, and Jennifer Williams dressed up, wearing a faux fur wrap into which she hot-glued LED lights. When she’s not lighting up downtown, Williams does sales training for Genentech in South San Francisco. She’s lived in Redwood City for about 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s so funny,” Williams muses. “When Redwood City started to become developed, one of my neighbors said, ‘I’m so against that development, because it will be crowded.’ And I thought, ‘Right, because people are going to want to go there! You know?’ And I remember the day when there was nothing down here. So, I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397523\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397523 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg\" alt='Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. \"I’m just so excited with everything that’s happening.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)' width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13891_IMG_0777-qut-e1420387560438.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Williams of Redwood City is thrilled with the vibrancy of the new downtown. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s something else most development boosters here tonight will tell you. The tech boom is much bigger than Redwood City. The markets for housing and jobs are regional — even international.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Bill Ekern says Redwood City can’t fully control its destiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t know how all the pieces fit together till you get enough of the pieces in place,” he says. “That’s where we are now, is, we’re building the first of the pieces. We’ll get to the next phase and we’ll say, ‘OK.’ Cause the economy’s going to slow enough that we all get to take a breath. We’ll go, ‘OK, we’ll built this. Now what happens? We like this. We don’t like that. Now we can fix it going forward.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This boom will end, Ekern says, and Redwood City will have the chance to assess whether it took the best advantage of tech money while it was available.\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 Boomtown series: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http://www.kqed.org/boomtown\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Redwood City has long been home to tech companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oracle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ea.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a>, but until recently it wasn’t really considered part of Silicon Valley. That’s changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been to downtown Redwood City recently, there’s no escaping the construction. Construction cranes crowd the sky as office buildings and condo complexes rise up to meet tech company demand. As Big Tech grows its employment base, Redwood City is proving an attractive place to expand because it sits right at the midpoint of the Peninsula, between San Francisco and San Jose.\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/184932205″&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/184932205″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, the biggest new commercial tenant downtown is \u003ca href=\"https://www.box.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Box Inc.\u003c/a>, the cloud storage giant. The site Box is leasing for its new headquarters is \u003ca href=\"http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140916006332/en/Box-Leases-100-Kilroy-Realty%E2%80%99s-Redwood-City#.VKL4rP8Ass%20http://redwoodcity-ca.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">334,000 square feet\u003c/a>. That’s bigger than three average Wal-Mart stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new headquarters (in the background) is the biggest commercial office addition yet to downtown Redwood City, in the vicinity of City Hall. (James Tenusan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13908_20150105_boomtown_rwc_jt-7-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 334,000 square feet, Box Inc.’s new red-brick headquarters (back left) is the biggest commercial addition yet to downtown Redwood City. (James Tenusan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why here? Well, to start, there’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/stations/redwoodcitystation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caltrain\u003c/a> stop just steps away. That means tech talent is an easy draw, whether they’re coming from San Francisco to the north or any number of cities to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up and down the Peninsula, tech companies are looking for this combination of a large commercial footprint and easy transit. And it doesn’t hurt that Redwood City has also begun offering the kinds of cultural amenities tech workers have come to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.beanhunter.com/united-states/california/redwood-city/redwood-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bliss Coffee\u003c/a> opened a few months ago, serving high-end roasts such as Verve and Four Barrel within eyeshot of the Caltrain station and the new Box site. Tyler Hooper admires the view as he sips on a mocha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hooper’s a VP for the commercial real estate company \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiddermathews.com/professionals/hooper-tyler.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidder Mathews\u003c/a>, and he specializes in representing tech companies. “The companies that are looking at Redwood City,” Hooper says, “are also looking at all the other downtowns, pretty much from Sunnyvale probably to San Francisco, along Caltrain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10397524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10397524 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='From the Redwood City Caltrain station, you can see the iconic sign that says \"Redwood City: Climate Best by Government.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13892_RWC-Caltrain-Station-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Redwood City Caltrain station boasts the city’s motto on an iconic sign, “Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test.” And yes, there was a test — an early 20th century climatological survey by the U.S. and Germany. (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not every town with a Caltrain station is sprouting construction cranes the way Redwood City is. Besides Box, Google just \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/10/03/google-to-buy-big-chunk-of-pacific-shores-iconic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bought close to a million square feet\u003c/a> by the waterfront. That’s going to send local commercial real estate prices up. Even so, Hooper says land values in Redwood City are still far cheaper than in more developed mid-Peninsula markets like Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve kind of reached capacity in those markets,” Hooper says, “so they’ve spilled over into the adjacent markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason to choose Redwood City: its downtown \u003ca href=\"http://www.redwoodcity.org/phed/planning/precise/FINAL-DTPP/NewDTPPDownload.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development plan\u003c/a>. Nearly every city has one, but Redwood City did something unusual for the Bay Area. It created an umbrella environmental review, so companies like Box could sidestep the usual lengthy approval process. Mayor Jeff Gee says this plan was 20 years in the making, with lots of community meetings along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that it’s difficult right now because of all the construction, but that will pass,” he says. “And what will evolve and emerge is a new neighborhood [that] will be an addition to our city. Not everyone will probably see the benefits right away. We can’t just stand still and let time pass. We need to evolve and change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics challenge the particular shape of this evolution — and its scale: originally, 2,500 new residential units, 100,000 square feet of new retail and 500,000 square feet of new office space. While that seems like a lot of room to grow, the Box deal alone ate up more than half the allowance for office space, and other companies waiting in line to get their projects approved were disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the City Council recently\u003ca href=\"http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2014-12-11/downtown-redwood-city-plan-tweaked-in-favor-of-office-space/1776425134820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> raised its office space expansion limit\u003c/a> downtown from 500,000 to 670,000 square feet. To offset that, the council also reduced the limits for residential and retail space. That kept the totals roughly the same, but it also adjusted the balance to tilt even more heavily in favor of office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10399313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the change downtown is widely welcomed by locals. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call "Redwood City's living room." (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13911_IMG_5066.JPG-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many residents are enthusiastic about some of the changes downtown. Case in point: the Courthouse Square, what Major Jeff Gee likes to call “Redwood City’s living room.” (Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Did we get it right?” Gee asks. “I don’t know that yet. If we didn’t, we’ll make adjustments.” As if anticipating blowback, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jeffgee.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gee\u003c/a> promises that this expansion is just about done. After Box, he says, there are three other deals in the pipeline, and that’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redevelopment of downtown started with revamping entertainment venues, and those changes have inspired a lot of praise from locals: the outdoor concerts at Courthouse Square, for instance, and the renovated \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxrwc.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Theatre\u003c/a>. The new restaurants are packed on the weekends. But the scale and crush of the new office buildings and condo complexes has people grumbling about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-to-manhattanize-a-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manhattanization\u003c/a> of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skyline is filled with taller buildings. The streets are crammed with traffic. It may not necessarily cost more to shop and dine downtown, but many of the glossy new buildings make some old-timers feel the welcome mat is not rolled out for them so much as it is for well-heeled newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Planning Commission at City Hall, a number of people decried the lack of parks and public art — attributes that offset density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that all this is really bad, because it’s not all bad,” says former mayor Brent Britschgi. “I mean, we’re seeing change. We’re seeing the future. Most of the developments are fair. But we have to have other things that come along with them. And I think we’re not seeing those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s plan does have rules meant to soften the impacts of development. So Box, for example, must have underground parking, retail on the ground floor and landscaping around the building. But Britschgi’s concern about parks remains unaddressed. The city is getting money from downtown developers to buy park land, but it’s using that money to expand parks elsewhere in the city, where the land isn’t selling for $400 to $500 a square foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13886_20150101_boomtown_rwc_jt_002-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: 'What?'. "You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control." (James Tensuan/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Pardini runs a Facebook group called Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’. “You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control.” (James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You know, it feels like something swooped into our city, and we have lost all control,” says Julie Pardini, who runs a Facebook group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/709200909129615/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood City Residents Say: ‘What?’\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s retired now, but Pardini used to work in construction and real estate. As Redwood City prices rise to San Francisco levels, Pardini worries about the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we have [affordable housing], we don’t need to talk about it. But you begin to talk about something when it’s gone,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something else Pardini misses about Redwood City as it was just three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are missing the feeling of space around things and between things and above things,” she says. “Everything has a feeling of being cramped — moving traffic, parked cars, buildings stacked one right next to the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, downtown Redwood City used to be so sleepy, locals nicknamed the town “Deadwood City.” Nobody would call it that now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, people crowded into four venues for the \u003ca href=\"http://foxrwc.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2nd Annual Silicon Valley Ball\u003c/a> — the kind of fancy event that’s new for Redwood City’s downtown. It was a party to dress up for, and Jennifer Williams dressed up, wearing a faux fur wrap into which she hot-glued LED lights. When she’s not lighting up downtown, Williams does sales training for Genentech in South San Francisco. She’s lived in Redwood City for about 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s so funny,” Williams muses. “When Redwood City started to become developed, one of my neighbors said, ‘I’m so against that development, because it will be crowded.’ And I thought, ‘Right, because people are going to want to go there! You know?’ And I remember the day when there was nothing down here. 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(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s something else most development boosters here tonight will tell you. The tech boom is much bigger than Redwood City. The markets for housing and jobs are regional — even international.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Bill Ekern says Redwood City can’t fully control its destiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t know how all the pieces fit together till you get enough of the pieces in place,” he says. “That’s where we are now, is, we’re building the first of the pieces. We’ll get to the next phase and we’ll say, ‘OK.’ Cause the economy’s going to slow enough that we all get to take a breath. We’ll go, ‘OK, we’ll built this. Now what happens? We like this. We don’t like that. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133673\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS378_Google_082411-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-133673\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS378_Google_082411-lpr-640x403.jpg\" alt=\"Google headquarters in Mountain View. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"320\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google headquarters in Mountain View. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Google is winning plaudits for disclosing data on the diversity, or lack of diversity, in its U.S. workforce. As Martha Mendoza of the Associated Press reports (see the story below), no less a diversity campaigner than the Rev. Jesse Jackson praised the online search and advertising juggernaut for taking “the bold step” of making public the racial and gender breakdown of its staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=overall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The report, released Wednesday,\u003c/a> shows that Google’s overall workforce in the United States is 70 percent male and 30 percent female. The racial/ethnic breakdown: 61 percent white, 30 percent Asian, 4 percent two or more races, 3 percent Hispanic, 2 percent black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you look just a little further into the numbers, though, the gender divide in what the company defines as its \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tech workforce\u003c/a> is even more pronounced: 83 percent men and 17 percent women. The tech worker group is 60 percent white, 34 percent Asian, 2 percent Hispanic, 1 percent black, and 3 percent two or more races. Among \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=non-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“nontech” employees\u003c/a>, the gender number is a nearly even split, 52 percent men and 48 percent women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statistics are derived from \u003ca href=\"http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/diversity/2013-EEO-1-consolidated-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google’s latest EEO-1 report\u003c/a> to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother Jones — “\u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/google-diversity-labor-gender-race-gap-workers-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Firms Are Even Whiter and More Male Than You Thought\u003c/a>” — has some cold data to dash on the warm welcome Google has gotten for making its numbers public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MJ’s Josh Harkinson filed a Freedom of Information Act request for diversity data from 10 leading Silicon Valley firms: Apple, Google, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Intel, Gilead Sciences, eBay, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard and VMware. The numbers suggest that’s what’s true at Google is true throughout the Valley. They show whites make up 63 percent of the overall workforce at the 10 companies, Asians 25 percent, Hispanics 6 percent and blacks 4 percent. Males predominate, making up 70 percent of company personnel. Whites hold 83 percent of executive positions, the same percentage of males in top jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harkinson also includes a critique of the claim that the composition of the Silicon Valley workforce is just an example of merit at work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Prominent techies like to say that the Valley is a pure meritocracy, but the glaring disparities make that a dubious claim. “In polite company, I would say it’s a fallacy,” says Laura Weidman Powers, the executive director of Code2040, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that promotes racial diversity in tech hiring. “In impolite company, I would say it’s bullshit.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mendozamartha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martha Mendoza\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN JOSE — In a groundbreaking disclosure, \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google has revealed\u003c/a> how very white and male its workforce is — just 2 percent of its Google employees are black, 3 percent are Hispanic, and 30 percent are women. About a third of the company’s workforce is Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The search giant said the transparency about its workforce is an important step toward change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity,” Google Inc. senior vice president Laszlo Bock wrote in a blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers were \u003ca href=\"http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/diversity/2013-EEO-1-consolidated-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compiled as part of a report\u003c/a> that major U.S. employers must file with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Companies are not required to make the information public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gender divide is based on the roughly 44,000 people Google employed throughout the world at the start of this year. The company didn’t factor about 4,000 workers at its Motorola Mobility division, which is being sold to China’s Lenovo Group for $2.9 billion. The racial data is limited to Google’s roughly 26,600 workers in the U.S as of August 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg recently said the social networking company is headed toward disclosure as well, but it was important to share the data internally first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple, Twitter and Microsoft did not respond immediately to queries about possible plans to disclose data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hewlett-Packard spokesman Michael Thacker said the firm, with 331,800 worldwide employees, has been publishing this data going back to 2001 as part of a Global Citizenship Report. In its most recent report, the company reported almost 7 percent of its U.S. workforce was black, 6 percent Hispanic and 33 percent were women.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re the first to admit that Google is miles from where we want to be. … Being totally clear about the extent of the problem is a really important part of the solution.’\u003ccite>— Laszlo Bock,\u003cbr>\nGoogle senior vice president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bock said Google has been working to diversify, not just its offices but in the broader tech sector. Since 2010, the firm has given more than $40 million to organizations working to bring computer science education to women and girls, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also is working with historically black colleges and universities to elevate course work and attendance in computer science, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we’re the first to admit that Google is miles from where we want to be, and that being totally clear about the extent of the problem is a really important part of the solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender and ethnic disparities are reflected throughout the tech industry. About 7 percent of tech workers are black or Latino in Silicon Valley and nationally. Blacks and Hispanics make up 13.1 and 16.9 percent of the U.S. population, respectively, according to the most recent Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, Google said, it will work with the \u003ca href=\"http://kaporcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kapor Center for Social Impact\u003c/a>, a group that uses information technology to close gender and ethnic gaps in the Silicon Valley workforce. The center will be organizing a Google-backed conference in California focusing on issues of technology and diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Co-founder Freada Kapor Klein, who started the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lpfi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Level Playing Field Institute\u003c/a> 13 years ago to teach and mentor black and Latino students in science and math, said Google is showing leadership “which has been sorely needed for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google is the company known for the moonshot, and applying that part of Google DNA to this problem is a breath of fresh air,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Rev. Jesse Jackson launched a campaign to diversify Silicon Valley, asking to meet with leaders of several iconic technology companies about bringing black and Hispanics into their workforce and leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he’s been leading delegations to annual shareholders’ meetings at firms including Google, Facebook, eBay Inc. and Hewlett-Packard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday Jackson said Google is to be commended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bold step in the right direction. We urge other companies to follow Google’s lead,” he said. “Silicon Valley and the tech industry have demonstrated an ability to solve the most challenging and complex problems in the world. Inclusion is a complex problem — if we put our collective minds together, we can solve that too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iris Gardner, a manager at nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://code2040.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code2040\u003c/a>, which places high-performing black and Latino software engineering students in internships with top tech companies, said Google’s disclosure could mark a pivotal moment in the push to diversify Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a big deal for them to be transparent about something that most companies haven’t in the past been willing to share,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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About a third of the company’s workforce is Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The search giant said the transparency about its workforce is an important step toward change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity,” Google Inc. senior vice president Laszlo Bock wrote in a blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers were \u003ca href=\"http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/diversity/2013-EEO-1-consolidated-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compiled as part of a report\u003c/a> that major U.S. employers must file with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Companies are not required to make the information public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gender divide is based on the roughly 44,000 people Google employed throughout the world at the start of this year. The company didn’t factor about 4,000 workers at its Motorola Mobility division, which is being sold to China’s Lenovo Group for $2.9 billion. The racial data is limited to Google’s roughly 26,600 workers in the U.S as of August 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg recently said the social networking company is headed toward disclosure as well, but it was important to share the data internally first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple, Twitter and Microsoft did not respond immediately to queries about possible plans to disclose data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hewlett-Packard spokesman Michael Thacker said the firm, with 331,800 worldwide employees, has been publishing this data going back to 2001 as part of a Global Citizenship Report. 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Since 2010, the firm has given more than $40 million to organizations working to bring computer science education to women and girls, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also is working with historically black colleges and universities to elevate course work and attendance in computer science, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we’re the first to admit that Google is miles from where we want to be, and that being totally clear about the extent of the problem is a really important part of the solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender and ethnic disparities are reflected throughout the tech industry. About 7 percent of tech workers are black or Latino in Silicon Valley and nationally. 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And I flag down three friendly-looking teenage girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re hovering around a smartphone — not a flip phone. And I ask Rezina Gerba what kinds of things she likes to do with it. She gives me the universal look for “duh” and explains, “Like everybody else, I send text messages with it. I make calls. I listen to music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask the girls to play me a song. They take out “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1JPKLa-Ofc&feature=kp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drunk in Love\u003c/a>” by Beyonce. It’s the exact same song I’ve been playing — on repeat — since I left San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that moment it hits me: While the cabs of Dakar are more beat-up than the ones back home, the cabbies are texting-while-driving. While the wireless signal is way more shoddy, the kids are downloading songs whenever they’re connected. Our appetite for digital life is basically the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cell Phone Alley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I turn the corner into a dingy, cluttered alley. It’s the gray market for mobile phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the entrance peddlers are selling diamond-studded iPhone cases, right by a classy statue of a busty woman on a bike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140914\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DemeCellPhoneAlley.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/DemeCellPhoneAlley-400x514.jpg\" alt=\"Tidjane Deme, the head of Google's office in Dakar, buys the latest Samsung Galaxy in this gray market because it's not yet being imported through official channels. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140914\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tidjane Deme, the head of Google’s office in Dakar, buys the latest Samsung Galaxy in this gray market because it’s not yet being imported through official channels. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This looks nothing like the Apple Store. But the narrow stalls, squished side by side, are stocked with the latest phones. They’re not all coming in through official channels. Vendors here fly to Europe, pack suitcases and bring them back. There’s also a lot of Chinese knockoffs that go for 70 bucks US — about what a teacher here makes every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vendor Aziz Abdou Salam Sy has had his stall for years. He tries to hustle me. We all know technology loses value as soon as you buy it. But smartphones are so hot, he says, they make a great investment — just like gold!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have extra cash and you don’t want to burn through it, you can buy a phone and store your money that way,” Sy says. “Then if you need cash, you can always sell it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley on a Humanitarian Mission?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobile explosion in sub-Saharan Africa came as a surprise. In the 1990s, Western aid groups talked about communal computing — village cyber cafes where businessmen could work by day and village children could Web-surf by night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now nearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.gsmamobileeconomyafrica.com/Sub-Saharan%20Africa_ME_Report_English_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one in three\u003c/a> people has a mobile phone, and smartphones are a lot cheaper than desktops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethan Zuckerman, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://civic.mit.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT Center for Civic Media\u003c/a>, says, “If you’re an aspirant to the middle class, one of the first things you’re going to do is move from a dumb phone to smartphone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Zuckerberg isn’t just the CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook.com\u003c/a>. He’s also the founder of \u003ca href=\"http://internet.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet.org\u003c/a> — a nonprofit he started last year to spread the Internet around the world. He describes the mission as a humanitarian one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean here we use things like Facebook to share news and catch up with our friends,” he recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8N3wGjiPYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN\u003c/a>. “But there, they’re going to use it to decide what kind of government they want, get access to health care for the first time ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every tech titan buys his philanthropic intent. Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder who funds African health and education initiatives, has said of the Internet campaign: “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dacd1f84-41bf-11e3-b064-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2jXaraByW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As a priority? It’s a joke\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://profiles.ucsf.edu/eric.goosby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Eric Goosby\u003c/a>, a public health expert at UCSF, is less critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy that they’re rising up and saying how are they relevant to this burden of disease on the planet,” he says. “”But I’m prepared to say they’re not going to get anywhere without aligning it with knowledgeable people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goosby has been on hundreds of missions to Africa. He welcomes all hands on deck. And even if the motivation is commercial too, that’s OK. But, he says, the digital superhighway doesn’t bypass the need for real roads, real schools and real experts on the ground. “The connectivity doesn’t replace the interaction with a person at a moment of crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Google Guy: Let’s Leapfrog\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now is not if Africans will use mobile more, but how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has a tiny outpost in Senegal. Tidjane Deme is the head of it. After studying abroad and running a failed startup, he returned to his native Dakar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days of this office, he’d call his colleagues in Mountain View and they’d kind of hang up on him. ‘”Hmmm you say you’re from Dakar. We have an office there? Let me check,” Deme recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140916\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/SyCellAlley.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/SyCellAlley-400x538.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime vendor Aziz Abdou Salam Sy says Africa's growing middle class loves their phones; and he has creative sales pitches. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140916\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime vendor Aziz Abdou Salam Sy says Africa’s growing middle class loves their phones; and he has creative sales pitches. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Silicon Valley, tech companies have gated campuses. Here, IBM and HP are in the same downtown office building. The scene is so small, they’re literally next-door neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deme shuts the door, sits on a giant beanbag chair, and lays out his theory about mobile growth. In sub-Saharan Africa, \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicef.org/french/adolescence/files/ADAP_Learning_Series-5_Africas_Young_Urbanites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most young people live in cities\u003c/a> now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are really cosmopolitan. They’re watching premiere league soccer games or the last Beyonce clip,” he says, “but they’re also watching comedy, film TV series made by a local creator. So they really consume an interesting mix of local and international content. And Internet should not just be about half of their life. It should be about all of their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they need way more local content — especially video content. When Deme compares the written word — typed or SMS texted — versus the video form, “I know without doubt that video form will win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given illiteracy in Africa, visual makes more sense. And also, much like the rest of the world, Africans like to see themselves online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will require much better \u003ca href=\"https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regulatory-Market/Documents/IIC_Africa_Final-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broadband connection\u003c/a>, not just 2G and 3G signals. So the mobile operators have to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are more likely to leapfrog in the digital age if we go straight for high-quality Internet bandwidth rather than if we go and build crappy Internet as we have crappy roads,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google data show there’s pent-up demand. So Deme says, each company investing in mobile stands to cash in big time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His theory has a provocative edge. I ask him if it’s unethical to push an Internet connectivity strategy in which people who do not have clean drinking water are paying for digital life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says without pause, “We should definitely not be telling people you’re too poor to get the benefits of Internet. I think that would be ethically wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local YouTube Celebrities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of local artists agree with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the stars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLaem52jXY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal Rapp\u003c/a> — an edgy news show that’s kind of like the “Daily Show,” except they rap the news. They’re capitalizing on the mobile economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years and years, host Xuman Mactarfal says, he’d see corrupt politicians squandering tax money. “They’re buying luxury cars. And without even hiding. All of that was on TV. It was put on TV”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he and his partner tried to get on TV, producers shut the door. The show’s rhyming format was kind of weird. And the government wouldn’t appreciate the content. So the rappers aired their pilot on YouTube. And on that very same day, “by 7p.m. TV called and said, ‘Yeah guys, we got your contract.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now they’re on TV and online. And when Google makes money from ads, they get their cut — much like Beyonce.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But smartphones are so hot, he says, they make a great investment — just like gold!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have extra cash and you don’t want to burn through it, you can buy a phone and store your money that way,” Sy says. “Then if you need cash, you can always sell it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley on a Humanitarian Mission?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobile explosion in sub-Saharan Africa came as a surprise. 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Google declined to say how many pictures are already in Street View, which spans 55 countries. The look-back feature will be available in all but three of those countries: Germany and Switzerland, where government regulations restrict Google's use of the past images, and South Africa, where technical problems have slowed the feature's rollout.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">When a retrospective is available in Street View, a small clock appears in the left corner of the current picture of a location. Clicking on the clock produces a visual portal into different time periods.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">The trips can be emotional. For instance, Street View's scenes often include people who happened to be in the frame when Google's cars took the picture. 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(Noel Celis/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, a large number of interested parties submitted nine\u003ca href=\"http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content/view.php?pk_id=0000000725\"> amicus briefs\u003c/a> in support of Google’s petition for a rehearing of a ruling by a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, which ordered the company to take down the controversial video, “Innocence of Muslims,” from YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those submitting the briefs included 34 Internet and copyright law professors, 17 tech companies -- including Facebook and Twitter -- and 18 media companies, including NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The briefs all argued that the ruling ordering Google to take down the video violates the fundamental right of online sites to host content that they did not create.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the briefs, a large group of legal experts \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/15/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Internet%20Law%20Professors.pdf\">argued\u003c/a> that the ruling violates a section of copyright law that “provides the legal foundation for many of the most popular websites that enable users to communicate with each other or the world at large.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In essence, they argued that if this decision is not reversed, those who are featured in any video would have far too much power over both the content creators and the content hosts going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media companies, including Facebook, \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/15/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Adobe%20et%20al.pdf\">stated \u003c/a>that even though they compete with each other and with Google, they unanimously urged the court to rehear the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to its own interests, \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/14/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Netflix.pdf\">Netflix \u003c/a>stated that despite the “odious” nature of the video, “the panel majority risks wreaking havoc with established copyright and business rules on which all third party distributors, including Netflix, depend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floor64, the company that puts out Techdirt, acknowledged the harm that this video might have done to an American actress, Cindy Lee Garcia, whose image appeared in the video in a way she did not permit, but wrote in its \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/14/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Floor64.pdf\">brief \u003c/a>that honoring Garcia’s copyright “won't make (the video) cease to exist or the matter any less important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Background\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, which was posted to YouTube in July 2012, was produced by a convicted felon who has gone by at least six pseudonyms, and depicted the Muslim prophet Muhammad in a highly negative light. 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Assuming Ms. Garcia's contribution was limited to her acting performance, we cannot register her performance apart from the motion picture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sued Google, claiming a copyright to her brief appearance, and hoping to win on the grounds that said copyright was violated when her performance was used in a way she didn't intend.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Internet and copyright law experts nationwide have responded very critically to the decision, voicing the hope that it will be reversed.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Contrary to a district court’s earlier ruling and\u003cem> \u003c/em>the Copyright Office’s decision, two of the three judges on the appellate panel ruled on Garcia’s side, granting her claim on the basis that the producer, Youssef, had violated any license he had with Garcia’s performance when he lied about the nature of the video, leading to real threats against her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Content of Video 'Beside the Point'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University, and a co-author of one of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/04/15/12-57302%20Amicus%20by%20Internet%20Law%20Professors.pdf\">amicus briefs\u003c/a> filed this week, the content of the video is actually beside the point. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-131633\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/googleglass.jpg\" alt=\"googleglass\" width=\"553\" height=\"369\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/04/03/cracks-in-googles-bid-to-trademark-glass/\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal reports\u003c/a> the U.S. Trademark Office is balking at Google's attempt to trademark the \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/\" target=\"_blank\">latest noun\u003c/a> affixed to its corporate moniker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Google, which has successfully trademarked the term “Google Glass,” submitted an application last year for a trademark on just the single word “Glass,” \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/0403glass.pdf\">displayed with the same futuristic font\u003c/a> used in its marketing campaign. But the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is holding up the company’s bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/googleglassuspto.pdf\">In a letter to the company\u003c/a> last fall, a trademark examiner raised two main objections. One concern was that the trademark was too similar to other existing or pending computer software trademarks that contain the word “glass,” creating a risk of consumer confusion.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's the best part, if you're thinking of entering a career as a patent and trademark civil servant:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Trademark attorneys for Google, Anne Peck and Katie Krajeck from Cooley LLP, wrote back to the trademark office examiner two weeks ago with a 1,928-page letter in defense of the application. (About 1,900 pages of the letter are just clips of articles about Google Glass.)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.litkicks.com/SeymourGlass#.Uz7UP1fM18E\" target=\"_blank\">Franny, Zooey and Seymour Glass\u003c/a> were unavailable for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/03/cracks-in-googles-bid-to-trademark-glass/?mod=WSJBlog\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full WSJ article here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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