The author of the novel we're going to dramatize on words at war this evening is here with us She is Lynn Tai Yi author of war tide We're honored to have you with us tonight miss Lynn I'm happy to be here. Would you tell us a little about war tide? Is it your first book? No, but it is my first novel and it tells of your own experiences while being bombed by the Japanese Oh, no, my book is a novel the story is imaginary But you were in Chongqing in 1940 during the heaviest bombings of that city. Yes, I was there Won't you tell us a little about it? But I do in my book, mr. Castello in my book I tell of the war tide just what is the war tide miss Lynn the war tide The war tide is a spirit mr. Castello a Spirit that has swept through China and met all men as one It is a spirit that unites men in the same peril and makes them into a single unit One called China one called strength. What is this spirit miss Lynn? The spirit is anger mr. Castello and courage and it is this spirit that makes us know that we shall win this war Our dramatization of your book doesn't follow exactly the incidents as you wrote them But I think it will preserve that spirit that is all that matters because the spirit is the war tide And one more question Lynn Tai Yi would you mind how old are you? I'm 17 years old words at war Tonight the national broadcasting company in cooperation with the council on books in wartime Presents an adaptation of a powerful new novel written by a 17-year-old girl the book war tide by Lynn Tai Yi My grandmother had nine fingers only nine. She was very proud of it. She said that all through her life She'd been blessed like that She said that our family was different special But we weren't special We were just a normal Chinese family living in Hongchou My father owned a silk chop shop and like most fathers.   Your voice should not be heard until your own It shouldn't for heaven's sake. For heaven's sake what little bean? Shen oh Shen I think you'd better marry low-yen soon. Well, so do I little bean, but low-yen will not have me She won't why not? Why won't you have Shen? Hush little bean everyone will hear you. But if you marry Shen Then that would give me another brother Royal pearl is my new sister and Shen would be my new brother Please I think you should marry him mother. Don't you think so? What little bean? Don't you think Shen should marry low-yen?  Oh, yes? Yes? Yes? Ladies and gentlemen Ladies and gentlemen my house is honored by your presence This is a happy occasion for the house of tai I Asked you to join me in welcoming my new daughter my son's wife royal pearl They live a long and happy life together may peace and plenty bless their house And may they have ten children and name them all after me Ladies and gentlemen, please another toast this time to my mother My mother Who is my home's most beautiful ornament?  Why do you look so sad and secret? It's your wedding brother. Please be happy come into the next room We have something to tell you There's not much time sister come What is it fine? What have you to say that makes you both look so? So you tell her Loin Loin the war is coming. Yes, I know but fine, and I must prepare to stop the Japs. I Don't understand the devils have thousands of planes. Loin thousands And we must keep them from crawling through our sky. We're to report to the airfield in Hong Kong When? now Shen loyin listen to me When I'm gone, they'll be only you to take care of our family Only you to take care of my wife. Oh No, fine royal pearl is very beautiful loyin. I Lever very much Please loyin there's no one else but you Little beam the old lady mother father royal pearl All of them depend on you You must stay and take care of them Promise me that when war comes you'll keep this family safe and strong promise You must promise loyin. I'll do my best fine Thank you. You're a good girl Goodbye sister and take care and loyin Keep royal pearl safe Yes, fine I'm gonna say goodbye to oh Shen yes dear. What is it? Shen Fine said the Japanese have thousands of planes. How many? How many of you? Oh, don't worry loyin? We'll stop them. They haven't a chance. How many planes have we're strong? And I'm afraid and we'll drop them right out of our so many planes. We have five That night the night was deep and the storm beat against my windows and I couldn't sleep The storm beat down upon the windows and I lay in bed thinking of Shen and my brother fine We've gone off to do battle in the sky. I Thought of my mother and my father And the old lady and royal pearl of little being my brother I Thought of taking care of them all And I heard laughter in the rain loud laughter gay and high very high Listen rain beat down fast and energetic and it wasn't laughter at all It was wailing voices weeping and sobbing weeping and sobbing and that was when the war came to my home It came and settled down and wouldn't go away the war war Nonsense the war won't come here The Japanese won't come here. They wouldn't dare father the war has come man king our capital has fallen No, not my king. Yes, mother and already the devils are on the edge of Hong Chu right here on the edge of town Listen father listen do you hear gun way? It's only the wind low yin not guns. Oh only the wind father, please I promised fine. I'd take care of everybody. Help me mother Royal pearl low yin. What should we do? You're making your brother cry. I won't have it. I won't have it come here little bean Stop making those noises Those aren't guns You hear Those are not guns only the wind The wind and war came down and it broke out like a plague in Hong Chou and all over Until it spread thick over China and ran into the sea And everywhere it went people recognized it The clouds fizzed and the sky cracked and up came the hell and down came the heaven and no one could tell them apart But the devils from the East Ocean have come The devils from the East Ocean have come Dead littered the earth and ghosts stalked in the sun and men were torn limb from limb And women were raped and slit open and that was what war Bombs flew as gracefully as birds and the old lived in the young died and God was mad and men were angry Men were angry and it was ugly But with it came a spirit Beneath this ugly world There was woven a hope came from the birth and death of men And this spirit made us want to spit and want to stir and it made us restless in feverish and The spirit was the war tide It swept in and there was light and there was happiness Because the spirit which was the war tide was anger and courage and it swept in and filled the people of China Mother and royal pearl and little being left for Chu Chang But father and my grandmother would not go and so I stayed behind with them and That night the Japs entered Hangzhou. I Hurryed to the silk shop to warn my father Father are you there?  I found my father sitting dark and lonely in a corner of the store Around in piles and piles of silks were he slashed ruined. I Went up to him and found myself staring into the eyes of a madman My life's work Gone Father the devils are everywhere and they're burning everything and killing yes the devils They're the ones who did this. They're the ones who slash and burn That's it burn I'll burn them all all my silks Where's the match I want to find God and heaven where where is there a match? Here's one Right here a match See What you doing Now now we shall see the end of everything Watch no you see how the flame catches old Orange flame pretty That's my silks were pretty Watch no you know, it's a good fire See how it burns Choked on the smoke He stood there coughing and choking Flames spurt it up all around him and he wouldn't come out.   Don't cry.  Dare not tell her Because the war brings sorrow That allows no time for weeping and So we were on the war for waiting for the little steamer to take us down cold Take us to Shen Who will pay $600 for safety one ticket Little lady. Do you want the last ticket? I have four tickets and we need only one more for my little brother. He's very little. Oh, please don't make us pay for you Yeah, where is he? We're here say something little being hello The boy is small all right, but there's nothing I can do about it. I'm sorry We have not the money to pay for my brother's fare. Well, you'll have to leave him here then who wants this How can I sell the ticket if your troubles are louder than I am stop then Why you're even louder than the bomb Oh Here's sunny Don't worry up and get on that boat We have the ticket for little being the man gave us the ticket we have five not six six No, they're only five Where's the ticket for your father? Where is your father? Why is royal pearl crying? Mother I can't keep it from you any longer What kind of a world is this when we haven't even time for our sorrows?   Please cry No matter what it's better to cry.  You stand there as a statue, but you must concern yourself with the living Later later you may remember and be haunted for the dead, but now Now there is no time come daughter. She won't come. She just stands there Oh goddess in heaven help me to touch my mother's heart and remind her of the world again help Mother I'm afraid the bomb. Yes, little bean Never mind We'll get on the boat now We'll get on the boat My brother fine. Oh everything will be all right and uncle No bonds nor blood and then we'll be men again not beasts. Oh Things will be all right and uncle a few seconds more so unbearable Measure your steps to an old woman's child. Excuse me. All right Mother royal pearl You're here at last.  Can we be safe now quite safe little bean quite safe? Here old one welcome to hunker Oh Yes, Louie Louie in thank you for taking care of royal pearl and everyone so well fun. Where's Shen? Louie in Where is he? Is he dead? Oh, no But he's been wounded Where is he here in the hospital? He's been calling for you. You'd better go to him. Is he? badly wounded you You'd better go to Yes I'm here. You've come you really come Yes, Shen. Are you all right? Oh, yes, I'm all right, but you are you Shen I'm afraid to ask Oh, yeah, I've been wounded and don't tell me Please don't tell me. It doesn't matter because I don't mind You just fate Look, Louie and you must look See Is that all? Yes, that's all Just one arm shut away Do you mind? Well, I am do you mind I Love you Louie in will you marry me? Louie in will you And darling listen, I'll take care of you. You're so young and you've done so much. No, I'll take care of you I've only one arm true, but I have my legs in my head and everything else. I Can't fly anymore, but I can teach it. I Will teach flying in you You will teach sacrifice Will you marry me now? I Was afraid before Shen but now I know that in these times risk is nothing and Words like safety and reason and logic have no meaning It's only the heart that makes sense Because the heart hasn't been invaded by this terrible civilization yet Yes, I'll marry you Gladly I'm lucky so lucky and I hear something oh Shen yes, dear Not here to oh not here too. No, you listen to me.  There's nowhere on earth where there isn't death Bush loyan will be married and go to chun king. There'll be no bombs there and I'll teach flying in oh Shen I can't Not anymore Listen to me loyan. Listen to me War is an unpleasant black mask with death and blood and sacrifice a smear on it, but one day it will wear off You have a job to do again, and you will do it There is still sorrow and hardship and pain Bombs will fall and blood will be shed and we will all starve or die But the wartide has got his body and soul Don't you remember? anger and courage anger courage Look at me Don't you remember I? remember I remember It is a war time As the 30-second program of words at war we have brought you a radio version of war tide the novel by Lynn Tyee The book was adapted by Edith summer of the NBC staff Francis Heflin was heard as loyin and others in the cast were Billy Dasha Nell Harrison K. Renwick Edwin Bruce Stuart Brody Patricia wheel Alan Devitt Melvin Elliott Sanford Bickert and Rod Hendrickson The original music was by William Meader and Mr. YF Lee was heard playing the Chinese air who or violin The production was under the direction of Anton leader Next week words at war will present an adaptation of condition read by Captain Frederick Bell a story of a destroyer Words at war is brought to you in cooperation with the council on books in wartime By the national broadcasting company and its affiliated independent stations This is the national broadcasting company


afternoon. I'm Kendra Ramsey, she, her Executive Director of the California Bicycle Coalition, and I'm joining you today from Sacramento. I'm so excited to see such a great group of folks from all over the state here with us today. Welcome. This is the first of a series of sessions which will preview topics likely to be discussed at the 2024 California Bicycle Summit to be held April 18th to 19th in San Diego. Today's session is titled Bike Advocacy and Infrastructure Successes in San Diego. In a moment, I will introduce our panel, but first a bit about the summit. The Biennial California Bicycle Summit is the state's must-attend bicycle event and one of the nation's leading bicycle-related conferences. Our summit theme for 2024 is Crossroads, because our state and our society stand at across roads. This is a crucial time for the active transportation movement. As the pace of climate change accelerates and damage from severe weather accumulates, our window to decarbonize our transportation system shrinks. The summit will feature several dynamic days of informative and transformational keynotes, plenaries, and workshops as well as exciting and interesting bike rides around San Diego and many opportunities to learn, network, and exchange ideas. The summit is an opportunity to learn from people advancing promising policies, planning great infrastructure, and building more sustainable, equitable, and multimodal communities throughout California. More information on registration and a special discount for the summit will be shared at the end of the session. Summit speakers will share knowledge from throughout the state that participants can take home and apply in their communities. We have unique opportunity to learn from the dedicated people and organizations working throughout the San Diego region and even see some of the great work in action in April. To give a preview of some of the things going on in the region and share some strategies for success in both policy and infrastructure, we have a great panel today to share some of what they are doing. I'd now like to introduce you to today's panel. Chloe Lowers, the Executive Director of the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, a nonprofit organization with a 35-year history of successful advocacy for education about and celebration of life by bike. Josh Clark is a Senior Regional Planner at the San Diego Association of Governments and serves on the California Walk Bike Technical Advisory Committee to Caltrans. Jeremy Bloom is the COO at Circulate San Diego working to create excellent mobility choices and vibrant, healthy neighborhoods. Everett Hauser is the Bicycle Program Manager with the City of San Diego Transportation Department. Anar Salayev is the Executive Director at Bike SD. Bike SD is a grassroots advocacy organization that is working to make the City of San Diego a more bikeable and livable city for all. Last but not least, Randy Torres Van Vleck is the CEO of Takayo Engagement, the co-organizer of Los Crisadoras and an appointed member of the Caltrans CalSTA, California Transportation Commission Interagency Equity Advisory Committee. I think that wins for the number of acronyms and words today. Yeah, like Kendra said, we're an organization that's been around for many years since 1987.  And our main focus is advocating for and protecting the rights of all people on bicycles and promoting bicycling as a form of transportation and recreation. Next slide, please. So, as Kendra said, we have three main pillars in our organization, advocating, educating, and celebrating life by bike. You can go to the next slide. In terms of education, we've actually had unprecedented demand this year with the e-bike revolution. So, that's been really exciting. In one day, our educator, Mr. Kevin, actually reached 1,000 people through six different classes that he taught in one single day. So, that's incredible. And annually, we reached about 15,000 people. But that's far from the 3.3 million total in our county. So, we really want to build our capacity. And one way that we do that is by collaborating with other organizations that you see on this panel. And this slide just gives an example of one of the things that we recently did together, which was to host a film screening of this street project, which is about the revolution of taking our streets back for people who aren't in cars and how it's happening globally, nationally, and then locally. So, we kind of brought it home with a panel discussion that you see where we discussed how we can apply the inspiration of the film to our local context. And so, anything that we talk about today, just to kind of set the stage, what you'll hear from others, you'll hear about certain projects, but just know that they've been a collaborative effort. And that's one of the things we love about our region and our community and our advocates is that we work really well together. Sometimes we might overlap a bit, but we don't really see it as a redundancy, but rather a way to reach more people. And also that sometimes people need to hear it from more than one voice or more than one organization to kind of really get that message across. So, and besides collaborating with the other mobility orgs, we also collaborate with climate orgs because reaching our climate action goals is really supported by changes in mobility mode. And then we partner with trauma prevention groups at different hospitals, because of course, through talking about safety and educating folks on how to navigate our streets and communicate with drivers and wear helmets and everything, we can prevent trauma and injuries.  And here's an example of something that we're about to prototype in the region of Claremont. It's in San Diego, the city of San Diego. It's a great neighborhood. It has some challenges that are endemic to our region, which are that we have a lot of canyons. They're not really shown here on this map, but you can just imagine that we have Mesa's and then canyons. And so sometimes that can be challenging in navigating and getting like connected networks of bikeways when you have those topographic changes. So it also has 29 schools and a lot of community parks. And so what we're looking at is actually collaboration with Bike SD and Bike Claremont, which is a neighborhood org to prototype neighborhood greenways. And here's just one example. It's a 2.5 mile stretch. It goes the total east-west corridor. And as you can see, biking is only three minutes longer than if you were to drive and if you add in like parking and other things, it's biking is probably the most efficient way to get across this neighborhood. So this is something that I presented to the Mobility Board with a Bike SD member, Jason Vance. And just an example of how we're working grassroots ground up as well as with our regional partners to kind of do top down like things like complete streets. So we're, if we can get this through in a kind of more quick build, quick to deploy mode and demonstrate how effective it can be in terms of getting cars off the road, reducing emissions, increasing safety, and just making life more enjoyable for our neighbors, then we can have a more broad policy for neighborhood greenways across our region. Next slide, please. Oh, no, that's actually circulate. So you can go back. Just a couple other... It seems like we're missing a slide. Anyway, maybe I added it too late. Is there a slide before this one? Like slide? No. Okay. I guess we have a different version of the slideshow. But anyway, what I'll just mention is that as a small but mighty team, we have to rely on our city governments for the 18 different cities that we work with across the county. So one way that we partner with those cities is by supporting them when they come out with their like active transportation plans or their mobility master plans. And we review them and guide them. And we've actually been in conversation also with other cities like Vista to update their sort of enforcement codes regarding cycling. So we serve as a resource to these cities across the region. Of course, we don't have the staffing to be consultants on everything, but we do our best to support them and then give public comment at city council meetings and just really encourage them for all the active transportation planning and mobility master planning that's going on in the region. You may have heard that there was a state of emergency in Carlsbad and Encinitas that was declared in terms of roadway safety. So we've also partnered with them to really amp up the classes that we offer for city cycling as parents and youth are really concerned about the state of affairs. And so, yeah, we're really happy to be here on the panel. Thank you for inviting us and I'll turn it over to our next panelist. Thanks Chloe. I believe Josh is next and I am going to transfer screen share. I'm in the engineering and construction division here at Sandeag. Sandeag is the regional MPO and council of governments and long-range transportation planning agency in the San Diego region. So excited that you're all going to be here in San Diego. I'm going to show you some examples of recently completed projects and just want to say that I'm really pleased to be on this panel with everyone. And thanks Cal Bike for coordinating it. Everyone on this panel and their organizations had a big role in the projects that I'm about to outline and share results from. Cool. So I want to talk about the projects themselves, but I should start with the program largely. Ten years ago, Sandeag Sportive Directors made a commitment to building 77 miles of bikeways in the region to fill out the regional network and they committed $200 million to that and that's been vital to always point back to say that there is a commitment to plan, design, implement these bikeway projects with that funding committed and obviously the cost of these projects have gone up. However, we've been very competitive with grant funding because these are innovative projects for all these vulnerabilities and so we've got a one-to-one leverage for using that funding that was committed for these projects to go out and get grant dollars. And you can see here the chart shows the projects, the mileage for each phase that they're in currently. So this equates to approximately 11 projects that are in final design currently, four projects that are under construction right now, and then 11 projects that have been completed. So I'm going to talk about those completed projects, some of them, and talk about the evaluation results because I think this is something that hopefully you can all share to say that there are some major impacts that these projects can bring to travel on these corridors and to these communities. So we'll start here with the Fourth and Fifth Avenue bikeways. I trust that when you all are here for the summit, you very likely could make your way onto this bikeway. This connects downtown to uptown and is 4.5 miles and is a couplet, separated bikeways heading in both directions on these two one-way streets. So it's been exciting to compare the 2017 precondition, which was a class two buffered bike lane thanks to a road diet from the city of San Diego. So that 2017 condition compared to the 2022 condition, we still had a 54% increase in bike ridership on this corridor. This is the only corridor that I'm going to provide results from where pedestrian travel decreased, and I'll note that that's because this is connecting downtown. So I don't quite think that the downtown business activity district had fully returned to kind of full activation post-pandemic in 2022. So that is a big reason why the drag for pedestrian volumes is lower. I wouldn't say that it's the result of the project, but I do need to point that out. So exciting to see that motor vehicle travel on this corridor decreased as well from the precondition and that the speeds decreased. So let's move over to another part of the network. And these are the east-west bikeways, the Georgia Mead bikeway here on the north segment and the Landis bikeway itself. These connect North Park City Heights, University Heights and Normal Heights. Just outside this map is the 4th and 5th Avenue bikeway. So there's obviously an important network element here. And so we look at these two projects specifically, which are effectively kind of like what Chloe mentioned neighborhood greenway or bike boulevard projects. The bike ridership increased on these corridors once we implemented this all-ages and abilities bikeways. Pedestrian travel also increased and you can see the motor vehicle travel decreased. There's a ton of roundabouts, I think like 18 totals between these two projects or neighborhood traffic circles and a lot of really good innovative bikeway design elements like these pop-outs here. It's great to see that that contributed to a decrease in motor vehicle speeds too. So let's go look at the Landis bikeway. Here's an example of one of those neighborhood traffic circles and some other cool innovative bikeway design elements like this Contraflow raised bikeway that I adore riding on. So here we are looking at a segment of the Landis bikeway. And I removed one count location here because it was a major outlier in 2017. There was a special event. So yeah, the pitfalls of data collection without liars. But anyways, removing that one for a good pre and post shows the same thing, right? Increases in bike, pet travel. And I wanted to point out specifically that we measure the segment speed for like the free flowing traffic conditions similar to the way that a speed survey is done for setting posted speed limits. And it's so great to see that on a street segment here, the 85th percentile speed reduces down five miles per hour. And so when the city of San Diego goes out and does their speed survey and posts the speed limit here, they can start with a 20 mile per hour speed limit, which I think is a great outcome that these physical interventions resulted in. Okay, so I want to talk about the coastal rail trails Rose Creek Bikeway. This project was built with the mid-coast trolley extension. The blue line trolley extends from downtown San Diego to UTC in the UC San Diego area. So you can see here that the trolley tracks and the low sand tracks are in the image here. And then this class one bikeway was built parallel to Santa Fe Street as a good kind of rails and trails project. So same thing, right? Bike ridership increases, pet travel increases shouldn't be surprising. There was no sidewalk here before. So that's exciting to see and the motor vehicle travel decreases on the segment. And so I want to talk about the riders revealed preference at this screen line location of the Rose Creek Bikeway, because I think it was very telling to compare the precondition with the post. So the precondition, this is a class three bike route, right? On Santa Fe Street, where you can see the Cheros, the shared lane markings. And in the precondition in 2017 on a typical Wednesday, we see the 24 hour volumes are approximately 300 total. Here they are shown 24 hours for north south biking. Now let's look at the same period post project in 2022. There's a 75% increase in bike volumes on the corridor and 95% of those users are choosing the all ages and abilities Rose Creek Bikeway instead of the Cheryl marked Santa Fe Street, which I think was very telling. So all of these, these locations we're tracking along with the mileage. So it's been exciting to see as we build out more all ages and abilities bikeway facilities throughout the San Diego region, what this, what effect this has on ridership. So I saw that Quinton from ego counter was on the, on the call. So shout out ego counter. These are all counts that we get from automated bike counters in on eight different corridors. And you can see we've been tracking them for a long time. And I want to point out and highlight that the three corridors. So obviously we see the bike boom in 2020, but from 2021, it doesn't revert back to the 2019 pre pandemic volumes. It's, it's still increasing between 2021 and 2022. And I want to point out three corridors that had the biggest increases. They were all all ages and abilities bikeways. So as I mentioned the fourth and fifth avenue bikeway, University Avenue and Hillcrest, it will be upgraded still, but it's a, it connects to all age and abilities protected bikeways. So there's a network effect there where that where we're seeing increases in connecting segments of the network. And then the, the, the corridor with the highest ridership, I think we'll talk about other folks we'll talk about during this webinar. And I think certainly merits a deep dive at the bike summit is the 30th stream project. And on that corridor, there is a 67% increase in people biking after a full year of it being completed in 2022. And before it was just a share and signed class three bike route. So I think that's remarkable. And certainly, yeah, merits a full hour of discussion. So I just want to take a step back and say that I talked a lot about the capital projects that our colleagues here at sand egg have been implementing. And they're remarkable, but we're always working on the overall program and, and the process of planning, designing and implementing these projects is iterative. So we're excited that we're using what we've learned to continue to refine the, the regional bike network with our colleagues in the plain division here at sand egg with an ongoing in progress update to the San Diego regional bike network through a regional active transportation plan. We're also working on a vision zero action plan. I expect either or both of these things have probably be presented on at the summit or we can talk about them while you're here. And then lastly, I got to say that our, it's so critical to have communications and outreach team that has been working on this whole process. So they've worked routinely to get feedback and provide information to anyone interested. And critically, they manage a construction hotline here at sand egg. So as you saw, some of those bikeway projects are, are in people's front yards and they unfortunately don't hear about them until they start going into construction, for example. So I'll be, I just want to say how important it is to have staff here that are mindful of those impacts and, and failing any knowledge vacuums and providing people with all the information they need and, and reasons why we're doing this. And it was exciting to share the results from these projects. So thanks everyone. I really appreciate the opportunity to share. That's it for me. Great. Thanks, Josh. I will share my screen again. I believe that Jeremy has some slides. Thanks Kendra. And yeah, echoing Josh. Thanks Cal bike for organizing this webinar and welcome everyone to San Diego in the spring. We can't wait to show you our, our cold bike lanes. As Kendra mentioned, circulates work to create excellent mobility choices and vibrant healthy neighborhoods. And we do that through the intersection of kind of our three core pillars. Housing, sustainable growth, safe streets, and public transit advocacy. And we really do that through a number of different community engagement and advocacy advocacy work. I thought I would touch a little bit on kind of our, our approach to policy and advocacy and then talk a little bit about our education work as well. So at Circulate, we follow a proven advocacy model to make change. And our formula is really simple. We identify a problem, recommend a well researched solution, work with the media to remind the public and over and over again of who is the decision maker that's responsible for solving that problem. And then once it's resolved, we do a lot of public credit to credit the decision makers for, you know, taking action and doing the right thing. And so one of those advocacy areas that we worked on since 2015 is our Vision Zero. We did a lot of work to get the city of San Diego to commit to a Vision Zero commitment. And so we did that in 2015. First, we identified, we threw a report, our hope for Vision Zero. We identified it, identified 15 intersections, we called them the fatal 15, to identify to the city of San Diego as areas and intersections that contributed to the most crashes and pedestrian loss of life. And so we did that. We identified those 15, those fatal 15 and really hammered the mayor's office at the time to implement corrections. And over the course of a number of years, the city not only invested in those 15 intersections, but actually that's the top 100. So we're actually going back to that model again. Now in this post-pandemic world, we circulate is actively working to release a brand new report in 2024 called Hope for Vision Zero 2024 to use some of the new data that's out there from the pandemic and post-pandemic world to identify again the 15 most dangerous intersections and then hold the city accountable not only that, but we have three kind of big pushes that we're going to be doing around Vision Zero next year. So that's kind of our Vision Zero work and our advocacy work. Another kind of advocacy area that we took on last year, and this is kind of the intersection of public transit, housing and safe streets in Vision Zero, but we worked with the city to have them pass a sustainable development area to invest in communities, making them more walkable, more dense by changing the land codes around transit areas and making instead of a 30 half mile walkshed, one mile walkshed for transit oriented development at the city level to hopefully implement better biking, walking, infrastructure in those areas as new housing goes in. And then this last piece, just with the photos that I have here, circulate not only does that advocacy work on our policy side, we also have circulate planning, which is our fee for service planning work. We do a ton of work with the Office of Traffic Safety here in San Diego, partnering with a number of jurisdictions in the city of San Diego, the county as well as Chula Vista Police Department and the San Diego Police Department to implement education and community outreach. So we do a lot of transit field trips. We do walking field trips where we work with communities to identify areas that need to have better infrastructure investments. And then we do community outreach around biking safety. And we do a lot of work with bike rodeos with the schools. And so we have some of the photos here. And then we also release reports around this as well. So on our website, we are State Bike Field Guide, our State Versus Schools Toolkit. We also did a cool demonstration project at UCSD around their own bike lane. I believe I'll pass it over to Anar with Bike FD. Cool. Thanks, Jeremy. And thanks to Cal Bike for hosting us and also for bringing the summit to beautiful San Diego, America's finest city or so we think. My name's Anar Salayev. I'm the Executive Director of Bike SD and I'm going to go over few cool things that we're up to. I'll also share my screen. So one second. All right. So Bike SD or Bike San Diego is a grassroots volunteer driven 501c3 non-profit advocacy organization. That's a lot of words there. But we do a lot of work in San Diego. We have a ton of volunteers, some that are working with Chloe, others that work with Circulate, and others that do small things in their own neighborhoods, all sort of under the Bike SD umbrella. And our general mission is to make San Diego a more bikeable and livable city for all. And so while our name is Bike San Diego, traditionally we have focused primarily on the central core of San Diego, which is sandwiched between the eight in the north and the Coronado Bridge down south and then the airport in the west and then sort of the eastern border or boundary of city heights in the east. This is mostly due to bandwidth and our base being primarily located in the central core of San Diego. But also we feel that the central core being some of the oldest neighborhoods in the city are lower hanging and are ripe for change, not only in regards to bike infrastructure, but pedestrian and transit improvements. Just due to the sheer amount of density, the narrower corridors, the amount of small businesses and parks and schools that are scattered throughout, we think this is a really good place for the city and the community-based organizations to make real material change that we can experiment with and then expand out to other parts of the city as we see fit. So for bandwidth reasons and maybe philosophical reasons, we focus primarily on central San Diego. We have been successful in more recent years in places like University City, specifically around UC San Diego and the surrounding neighborhood there, as well as in the sort of Bird Rock Pacific Beach, Ocean Beach, Mission Bay coastal communities on the western coast of San Diego. So we're trying to expand our reach there. So if anyone on this call lives in any of these neighborhoods or any other neighborhoods and they would like to be involved with our work or to expand our work into your respective community, please reach out to me. Moving on, I'm going to touch on three core pillars or maybe categories of work that we have and will continue to focus on over the next few years. So first is our shifting focus from project work to policy work. So traditionally, we've been very involved with pushing specific corridor improvements think 30th Street Park Boulevard and some of the other pathways that Chloe and Josh had touched on. And that's a lot of grind work where you need to get involved early on for every single street or block or corridor that is planned for work. And so now we are looking to shift our attention instead to policy and legislative work to make lasting change that trickles down to multiple individual projects at once rather than going with the piecemeal approach that we've done historically. So some campaigns in line with this shift of focus now are we're working with the city and council on their complete streets policy, as well as their updated streets design manual, which we hope to get our hands on in the next couple of weeks. On top of that, we've also been working collaboratively with some folks here on the fiscal year 25 budget. So stay tuned for more news around that. And then also, now we're pushing for AB 43 and AB 413 implementation in the city of San Diego. For those who might not be familiar, AB 43 allows municipalities to reduce speed limits by five miles an hour on specified corridors. And then 413 is a daylighting bill, which allows municipalities to stop people from parking 25 feet from a marked intersection. And so those are our next two big sort of legislative campaigns that we'll be working with the city and council on over the next few quarters. Oh, that animation didn't work how I wanted to. There we go. Our next pillar here is our bikes mean business. So oftentimes some of the loudest opposition to new bike infrastructure comes from small business owners. And we get it. Change is difficult and losing parking is sometimes perceived as an end to their livelihood. So what we've been doing is partnering with local business improvement districts and associations as well as directly with local businesses to promote their offerings and discount and provide discounts to customers that are arriving by bike by foot by transit. And so currently we're working with places like North Park Main Street, the alcohol Boulevard Business Improvement Association and South Park Business Group to develop a bikes mean business coupon book, which we hope will encourage more people to frequent their favorite local businesses by bike and be incentivized to do so. And finally, community engagement. So in the battle for safer streets, we find that most San Diegans and local leaders aren't even really aware of the problem. They're just they're not vehemently opposed one way or another, nor are they dead set on the autocentric realism in which we live today. They really just want to live and move freely without fear of death, getting from point A to point B. So what we're trying to do is engage these individuals particularly through group rides, workshops, hackathons, seminars and tabling events to make them aware of the dangers of our roads and how they can be made better. We essentially want to convey to them that the way our roads built aren't a given. They have been changed and they can be changed for the better. And so this involves a lot of shuttle diplomacy, which requires that we have an open ear, mind and heart when speaking to all stakeholders involved in doing this work. And if you'd like to be involved with any of our campaigns, programs, outreach or have any ideas for new campaigns, visit us at bikest.org or find us on any social media channel. We're at bikest. Thanks, y'all. Thanks, Anar. And I believe, Everett, you'll be sharing your slides as well. Yes, looking good. Good. All right. Thank you. Thanks, Cal Bike. Thanks to all the panel members. Good to see everyone out there on the zoom lands. I'm Everett Hauser, a program manager with the city's transportation department. And let's get started. So again, welcome to San Diego when you do arrive next spring. This was the scene back in 2015. Met at the Wyndham down by the bay downtown San Diego. And prior to that downtown did not have any dedicated bike facilities. It was tragic. But people will stay out there because they ride when they need to get where they're going. But when you arrive, you'll see our new downtown mobility plan approved cycle tracks. This is Pacific Highway. You can see hotels still in the background. Removed a travel lane created a buffer. And so my presentation today is really light. Just kind of going to highlight a few things you might see since last time or if you're locally, you'll pick on other things. So like Josh mentioned, the region has done a good job counting and recently we installed some eco counters as well. So you can see that way over here with the display unit. So that displays the ridership on Pacific Highway. Here's this guy riding over the loops. And so we get a good sense of how these facilities make improvements in ridership trends. So if we're downtown in the spring, you can check out Pacific Highway. And downtown is really our city's core. Big deal to build out in that network with so many destinations and opportunities. And then so we continue up onto Balbo Park into the Central Mesa area. This is a recent project bundled with a pipeline. Again, as mentioned, a lot of advocacy work by the different organizations to really help push this, push the museum organizations along, all the groups in Balbo Park. Everyone that's concerned about any changes in Balbo Park. So big deal to get this one through. But it brought in these bike lanes, some bus lanes, and you can check that out here as well. As mentioned, this is 33 in North Park. And another counter really to demonstrate the impact of that program. And it's really bringing a lot of good connections for all the families that live in North Park. Finally creating that option for all ages and abilities people to get around. And so we're very excited about that project and its success in the city. And hope you check that out. I've got some new big infrastructure pieces that since you were last year too. This is the West Mission Bay Bridge. Newly rebuilt sections under for the San Diego River Trail and up top on this bridge deck on each direction are big 10-foot wide lanes connecting for bikes and peds across the San Diego River. So this is out towards the West. Check this out when you're here. Just a little bit of a highlight. Again, moving farther out where we go with implementing our community plans. This is a feature on Kearney Mesa. All the little dash lines are projects that we've bundled with either overlay projects or again group jobs. Those are pipelines or a slurry program and really connecting the planned separated network that these community plans envision. So really expanding our network mileage connecting to those regional facilities. So there's a lot of new facilities and mileage out there that the region has been building and we're connecting into. So again, here's the Kearney Mesa area. And that right in the middle the North South Road is called Convoy Street and that is the hub of the Convoy District or Pan-Asian Business District. So tons of restaurants, a lot of cultural activity in this area. And to go along with that community plan update it's going to be receiving a lot more development. So right now it's a lot of industrial land, strip malls, big box stores. Here's Convoy Street and it's new bike lanes that'll be ready to go. Springtime when you all arrive. If you ride up to Kearney Mesa. And then sort of like is alluded to on the cover, you know, new development, helping fill in that housing need that we all have in the state. But providing that in a community that has a lot of destinations already that people will be able to walk and bike to. And so this is where that bike lane is going to be really critical. So that way people can make those short trips within their community without having to drive. And so you can see that building under construction there. And then just to wrap up again, some folks have already alluded to looking ahead in San Diego. We're updating our street design manual. We also are updating our bicycle master plan. And so we're working with Sandeg to craft the regional and our local bike master plan. And so we'll encourage everyone to participate in those updates and opportunities that go along. And that concludes my thing and I could take any questions at the end. But thanks again for coming to San Diego and we'll see you then. Great. Thanks so much, Everett. And I will go back to showing my slides for Randy, who will be presenting next. Good afternoon, everyone. Good to see you all. My name is Randy Torres Van Vleck and I'm a community planner working in San Diego. And I'm really excited for the return of the California Bike Summit. It's one of my favorite summits. Been to mostly all of them except for the most recent one in Oakland. And in 2015, I was on the steering committee for the summit and a group that I co-founded and organized with called Los Cruzadores. We organized an event as part of the California Bike Summit in affiliation with it to basically promote the summit. It's called BC California. And so our group Los Cruzadores, we organized trans border bike rides from San Diego to Tijuana to really celebrate and highlight the unique beauty of our San Diego Tijuana mega region. As Kendra mentioned, the theme this coming year is Crossroads. And our community is a border community. Folks cross the border every day to, you know, to live and work and play. And so that's a big part of our identity as a region. And I grew up in that the border community grew up in Southwest Chula Vista, closer to downtown Tijuana than to downtown, no, closer to downtown Tijuana than to downtown San Diego. And so Los Cruzadores, we organized trans border rides. And in 2015, we led this event that was the idea was to connect the Californians together. And so we worked with advocates from Tijuana, from Baja, from Mexico, and the city of Tijuana to organize an event that did that, that rode from one California to the other. And it was called BC California. And it was a fantastic event. We're in talks with Cal Bike about potentially doing another Los Cruzadores ride next year. It's part of the summit. I'll stay tuned on that. You can see the photo on the right there. Those are my tocaios. Hugo, Randy Salgado, and Randy Armenta, we'll actually name Randy in Mexican Spanish. Some of your same name is your tocaio. So Randy Armenta and I decided that, you know, we're really inspired by the work that we've been doing together with the flyer design and the organizing that we decided to start our own LLC, doing community planning, community engagement. So it's called tocaio engagement. And so that's kind of my new, my new venture. Next slide, please. Before that, I worked for the City Heights Community Development Corporation for 13 years, amazing organization founded 1981, that that has done a lot of great community organizing, policy work, affordable housing, production, transportation justice organizing, and infrastructure advocacy. In fact, they led the way for the first freeway cover park in the entire state of California on the SR15. But those a lot of stress and organizing and work that took place to get that. And unfortunately, it took, you know, allowing another freeway to be built through City Heights to allow that. And that was the 15 freeway, which is pictured depicted there on the left in 1981. That was kind of the sentiment when residents were working in that planning process. They felt that the freeway, another freeway in a black and brown community, another freeway in a low income community that would divide City Heights, just as it had done sadly in Southeast San Diego and in Body O'Logan and other communities throughout the country. And so City Heights CDC refused to allow that to happen again. And so they worked on their own community plan to underground the freeway and get freeway cover park on top and transit down the middle, housing and transit oriented development. Before that turn even existed, they're advocating for these amenities. And there was a lot of stress and work that took place over the years. The eight blocks of cover was watered down to five blocks and then to three and then to one. But still a lot of successes that were created from that. 2008, Sandag and Caltrans decided to change their mind after the freeway opened, seven years of allowing the freeway to open with no transit amenity built at all. In terms of the centerline stations, that is, they decided that they wanted to use the space dedicated to inline transit to use that space for another car pulley. So more cars being pumped through City Heights at the detriment of the impacted community. And so City Heights CDC and leaders refused to allow that to happen. And so in 2008, they organized to save the centerline station. So the Oregon State was was effective in doing that and that momentum that we created through the organizing carried on to other movements. If you could go to the next slide, please, Kendra. That'd be great. That movement work carries on and City Heights in my opinion today is really the center of the transportation justice movement in the region. I'm proud to be a resident of City Heights myself. And we carry that momentum forward to other campaigns, like the Orange Avenue Bikeway, which we kind of rebranded to call the Orange Avenue Family Bikeway, because it connected about eight different schools in City Heights from high schools to elementary schools, daycares. It's really the street that's going to connect families and parks and schools and to get the support for it. We really wanted to center families in that. And it's, you know, we've been part of the regional bikeway on planning since 2000, since 2009, 2012, and that funding with that 200 million was committed. And Josh mentioned, we're there advocating for it. We've been at the table ever since. The projects are great. They're most of the projects have traffic diversers as part of the network. Fortunately, most of those were removed. But the one that's remained is an Orange Avenue. And that's because of the strong organizing, the community support we're able to build. So the first regional traffic diverger network along the active transportation corridor will be in City Heights along the Orange Avenue Family Bikeway. And that's going to construction, I believe next year. So really excited on that. And, you know, we have really kind of a, you know, we recognize that we're trying to create a network, right? And so it's not just this project or that project, but we need to create a network for all of our communities, starting with our environmental justice communities who've been left behind. And so we've got a lot of good projects coming forward. But we also recognize that our residents want to be able to go to North Park as well. And they want to be able to go to Kensington and downtown and to UCSD and SDSU. So looking at those connectivity enhancements are important. So the 30th Street Bikeway was an opportunity to connect a lot of those Sandag infrastructure projects that were mentioned. And when that opened in 2021, that was huge. And we were happy to support that even though it wasn't in City Heights, but we saw the connection to improving the West East corridors. Final slide. As I mentioned, Tokayo Engagement, we are in LLC and we're partnering now with Urban Collaborative Project. And that's my main focus now is working with them to help kind of design housing program for them and build upon their transportation program. Just last night we walked 47th Street and Imperial Avenue in Southeast San Diego. Fortunately, Southeast has been on the back burner of regional prioritization in terms of investments, home to three Vision Zero corridors, Euclid Market and Imperial, minimum width sidewalks throughout most of the community, not a lot of tree canopies and regional investments. So we're trying to change that together. We're working on a letter that's going to be coming out soon. And the photo there on the right is from the All the Way to the Bay bike ride that City Heights CDC led with the bike coalition and stopped last year at Southeast San Diego's Transportation Expo. So the work goes on. I know that we're going to be highlighting a lot of successes, but we still have a lot of needs as well. And so in this time we hope to dig more deeply into those and work with you to brainstorm troubleshoot how we can get these projects done more quickly. So I appreciate you all. Great. Thanks, Randy. And thank you to all of our panelists for sharing your work with us. I really appreciated hearing what each of your organizations and agencies are doing in collaboration. 30th Street is a great example and just all of the other work you're doing. So thank you so much for sharing today. And if anyone wants more information on any of the organizations that joined us today, any of their work, websites are on the screen. So we have a few minutes left for questions. There have been a few coming in that I will share with panel. I'll share in a moment. But yeah, definitely appreciate that many of you put in questions during the talk. And some of these questions have already been answered. So very excited to see the conversation there. And I will also while those are coming in, share the information on registering for our summit. So to register for the summit, you can go to CalBike's website, CalBike.org. The direct link is there. And in the chat as well, we have early bird registration going on right now until December 15th. And for folks attending today, we have a special code on the screen, San Diego Success, all one word, lowercase, to have an additional discount back to our 2022 summit, early bird pricing. Given that we unfortunately, I unfortunately, Miacopa, established this webinar today with a cap using the wrong part of Zoom. And a few folks were not able to get in. We will extend that code to allow the folks to access the recording through Friday and use that code and it will expire at the end of the day, midnight on Friday. We're also open for proposals right now. Link should be up on our website for that request for proposals. And it'll be in the chat as well to propose sessions for the summit. So on to questions. The first one that came in from Carter was for Josh. Can we ask why 2014 was so high in ridership? Yeah, that's a good question. I think ridership coming off of the recession was high for a sustained period. And I think started to dip around 2016-17. So I do think there was a strong surge. We started counting in fall of 2012 primarily with these eco counters at the regional bike network locations. And I think we have to recall 10, 12 years ago that there were a ton of people in a very different economy that were depending on bike travel, I think, to save money. And I shouldn't extrapolate too much. But I think that's a big factor. Great. Thanks, Josh. And another question. Anar, you sent this in. I think it was during Jeremy's talk. So I'm not sure if it was to Jeremy or someone else. But any updates on the dangerous intersection improvements that were supposed to be funded in the fiscal year 24 budget? I know, sir, we're updating our Co-Privileged Zero Report next year as a recap of the fatal 15 and we'll be releasing that data next year. And actually, I could probably speak to that one too. I'm trying to find if we've put it out there on our public budget website. It was $1.5 million for intersections. They all got allocated, but I'll find that information and share that with the group. But it was a mix of signals, roundabouts, and a couple hawks that needed some additional funding. Great. Another question just came in from Felipe. Have your coalition worked with the San Diego Community College system to help aid students who might not have the easiest access in getting to school or perhaps promoting bicycling as a form of transportation? I'm assuming that's to any of our non-profit folks here today on the panel. Yeah, I was actually going to respond in thread. But back in, I don't even remember when, I want to say Q1 of this year, there was a student that got hit by a car somewhere near San Diego City College. And the entire campus community rally to put out an op-ed and publish some article on how unsafe it is to be a pedestrian or bicyclist coming to City College. And then they had a whole piece written. And then I think somebody in charge stepped down and then they completely pivoted their media work. So until that point, we were working with City College specifically around Park Boulevard advocacy work. But once that shift took place, the original point of contact we had became unresponsive. And since then, we haven't really been in touch with them. But if anyone here has a contact at San Diego City College, that would be open to working together on more advocacy work around their campus or elsewhere would love to reach out to them. Yeah, I actually know that student. His I think that you're referring to his name is Alex. And he has given public comment at the mobility board and other places. And I'm in contact with him. So happy to work with you on that, Anar. He's a very outspoken advocate. I think he's actually been hit more than once. And he uses his bike to get around everywhere. So yeah, I think that's some low hanging fruit that we could definitely work together on. Great. And I know, let's see, I haven't seen any additional questions. So I'll go back to one that was answered to share with folks who might not be reading the chat there. Someone asked about funding for the projects that Sandag Sandag was mentioning that Josh was mentioning and and how that funding is distributed. And so scrolling again back to where that was answered. Here we go. So I know that lost the inline is confusing me here. Sorry, folks. I have to acknowledge that Stefan on this call as well had a really good response down below. And the inline I think should should address that specifically that this was a trend. This is a sales tax amendment that was passed by voters in 2004. And that is the that is the like the core funding source. And then the pie chart should be helpful to see that that cities are getting a lot of that funding as well from the same sales tax measure. But we have a specific portion called out specifically for this program, the bicycle pedestrian neighborhood safety program. And so that is a as a guaranteed percentage of money from the sales tax that we are getting annually and can use it for that that matching source. And that's a great a great point that funding is is critical to all of our work throughout the state and every community and statewide and judging from a few responses we've already received to the request for session proposals. I know that funding is a topic folks would like to see talked about. So definitely encourage encourage conversations about that for the summit. Let's see a new. Are there any other questions from folks I missed any please chime in or raise your hand we don't have too many people trying to speak over each other so while not seeing any again really appreciate everyone's participation today. We are very excited to get everyone together in April and San Diego and learn more both from the great folks on this call as well as folks throughout the state. Look forward. Look look out for communication from Cal bike on a few additional would be some advanced sessions coming at the start of the year. And please you know feel free to connect and propose sessions and we look forward to seeing you all in San Diego in April. Thank you so much.


The 1970's Surgeon Ecological Awareness saw many books published in our relationship with the natural world. Food for Free, by which it may be, was published 50 years ago, in 1972. As a child it was a joy to be taken out into the country lanes to collect berries, in expectation of the sweet meal to come. This wasn't an affectation. It was a tradition activity passed down generations of my semi-rural family, and when my parents bought a copy of Food for Free, I eagerly read it to learn more. As I spent more time walking in the countryside I saw the plants pictured in the book, and so I began to snack on them. And from that process I began to understand the crisis of modernity that maybe describes in the book. The most natural looking foods are the one that seem least naturally desirable. This paradox is most marked in the modern supermarket, around whose fruit and vegetable sections I often used to stroll while writing this book, wondering gloomily if anyone could ever be persuaded to venture beyond those seductive shells. Their contents seem to epitomise healthy modern living, yet it is difficult to believe that some of these products actually grow, so perfect are their proportions. Fast forward to today, where people are totally captured by the globalised food system, and that creates a cost to living food crisis. People have been severed from the land by progress, and their taste and expectations corraled by the boundaries of that exploditive process. As maybe says, The first time I was offered a whole dish of wild vegetables I was frankly scared. The plant was Marsh Samphire, a skinny little succulent that grows abundantly on saltings. It lay on a plate like a mound of shiny green pipe cleaners, and I went for all the usual anxieties when experiences when confronted were an unfamiliar food. When caution was eventually abandoned for the sake of science, the taste, needless to say, was a revelation. The book has been revised a number of times since 1972. In some ways that radical vision of 1972 has been softened, and recent additions are less critical of consumer culture. But still, the central idea remains. I wrote this book because it seems sad to me that this enormous storehouse of free, wild food is now all but ignored, and that the ability to capitalise on it is in danger of vanishing from popular knowledge. There are at least 320 wild food products growing in this country, 130 of which are common throughout the British Isles. Food for three is about these plants, and how they have and still can be used for food. It is a practical book, but it will be foolish of me to pretend that there are any pressing economic reasons why we should have a large-scale revival of wild food use. That tempering of expectation of reality is important. There are significantly less wild countryside around since maybe wrote the book. Likewise, the law and the machinations of land access have changed too. Today, people are even more remote from the land, reinforced by the unchallenging, status quo positions of shows like countryfile or allegedly radical ideas like rewilding. The crisis may be described 50 years ago as metastasised to become a crisis of complex global food supply chains, and why, once again, wild food may be called upon to help ameliorate the collapse of that system. By the Elizabethan era, the range of wild plants and herbs used and understood by the average housewife was wide and impressive, but like so much else, these old skills and customs are eroded by industrialisation and the drifter towns. If the knowledge of how to use and was fading, the plants themselves continued to thrive in woods and hedgerows. Then some crisis will strike conventional food supplies and people will be thankful for this persistence. It was the two world wars and the disruption of food supplies that accompanied them, which provided one of the most striking examples of the usefulness of wild foods. A conservation lobby has an uncritical blind spot for the damage wrought by modern agriculture, compared to which the impact of forages is minimal. They do not perceive the need to make nature integral to our everyday lives rather than isolate it behind restrictive laws and higher fences, as maybe says. I know there may be some who will eject to this book on the grounds that it may encourage further depletions of our dwindling wildlife. I believe that the exact opposite is true. One of the major problems in conservation today is not how to keep people insulated from nature, but how to keep them engaged more closely with it. The most complex and intimate relationship which most of us can have with the natural environment is to eat it. Far from encouraging vandalism, it helps deepen the respect for the interdependence of all living things. I would agree that wild food is too often portrayed, perhaps as a result of this book, as free food. In reality, to successfully harvest wild food, you must understand and read the landscape and spend a lot of time perfecting that skill. Inevitably, that time outdoors changes you as a person, not just your diet. Fifty years after its publication, Food for Free still stands as a progenitor of the modern preoccupation with wild food, but too often its radical message has been lost in the desire for that wild consumer experience. They're added to by many similar books since and more recently by practices such as Bushcraft, who remains one of the most comprehensive manuals on foraging and its deeper message is even more relevant today.


This study investigated the acoustic properties of Poseidonia oceanica fibers, which are abundant in the Mediterranean Sea. The fibers were tested for sound absorption at various densities, and an analytical model was developed to predict the acoustic behavior of the fibers based on their density. The model was used to optimize sound absorbing panels made from the fibers. Additionally, the fibers were found to be naturally cleaned by waves and saltwater, making them ready for acoustic applications. This article was authored by Francesco Pompoli.


Good morning, I am Destiny Marmor. This is news update. The organised labour has stummed out of the meeting of the presidential steering committee on subsidy palliatives that was scheduled to take place at the presidential villa at Buja. The president of the NLC, Joe Agero, had learned his delegation to the chief of staff's office venue of the meeting at about 5 p.m. but walked out of the villa moments later. The meeting could not proceed because according to some members of the steering committee there was no quorum. Recall that the steering committee meeting had met with the government delegation on Wednesday where the two parties agreed to reconvene on Friday to get brief from the three subcommittees set up to look into various demands. It was gathered that the chief of staff, right honourable Femmick Buja Biamila, had earlier waited for the labour delegation with other members of the team at his conference hall. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Now we will start with the attendance and the certificate module, I am Vania Gripal from IET, DAVV Indore and he is Rajdeep Penge from DIICT, Gandhinagar. This is the FDP coordinator's interface, whenever the FDP coordinator logs in, he will be seeing the list of all the workshops and when he will be clicking on any of the particular workshops, then he will be able to see the list of dates for which the schedules for the particular workshop has been assigned. On clicking on any of the particular dates, we can see the details of the participants and their absent and the present. In attendance module, we have different views for the FDP coordinator, the FDP coordinator can view the attendance of the participants and he can also update the attendance. The RCC coordinator can only view the attendance and generate the Excel report and the principal delivery manager can generate the reports based on the filtering conditions. Now we move on to the FDP coordinator's module, we can see the, whenever the FDP coordinator logs in, he will be able to see the list of the dates for which the schedules for the particular workshops are being done and whenever he will be pressing it on the blue button, he will be able to see the, he can update the attendance and when he is updating the attendance, the button will turn to green and after the update, he can see whatever he has updated. There are also gray buttons which are disabled, the gray buttons are for the past sessions and the blue buttons are for the active sessions. The admin, the FDP coordinator downloads the attendance sheet and he will get the signature of all the participants and then he will be uploading it. He can also, this is the attendance sheet, he can upload the attendance sheet and then he can view the uploaded attendance sheet. Now we will move on to the remote center coordinator's interface. Starting with the remote center, the basic objective of remote center coordinator is to manage the remote center. So remote center can see the attendance for that particular remote center. So as we can see the list of workshops that the remote center coordinator sees and a similar interface is there. Just the thing is that instead of the editable checkboxes there, right now we have just the display attendance button. So only the attendance gets displayed in this part. Then one more feature is there that report, the attendance report for the. The attendance will be filled manually or something automatically. The earlier module what she explained in there, the attendance will be filled manually by the. You didn't have anything like biometric interface or something. They can fill 15 means 15, 20 means 20, there is no counter check, right? That is why we have to, we have that attendance sheet where the participants have to sign that attendance sheet and we can verify it so that there should be no discrepancy in that. So it is a manual work. No, no, no, it gets worse than that because what the manual team does is wherever they can also look at the AVU footage, snapshots and then they go back to the remote center and say you are saying that 15 people attended but actually only 4 heads. So that also, that much monitoring has to do because the earlier workshops were run with government funding so that the remote center used to get money per participant. So they will enroll so many and nobody will be there, there were cases where the students were asked to attend because our people asked 4 heads, so next time 15 heads but never some student. So they are cheating to collect money from the government so that huge thing was coming. So if we go into the funded mode category, I do not think all these things is necessary but it is a past. But it is always good thing that you can integrate the biometrics. Not biometrics. What I asked, what I had asked them to do is, biometrics we cannot insist at every remote center. So what I had asked them to do is whatever is the, your signature which form is uploaded that I can do image analysis and find out how many have signed, that can be done at least. 11 signature in a day one and then show every day new signature. I think they can, I think they can but there are some people who are genuine so they will say that I have not signed anything yet. Okay. Attendant sheet, when our attendance sheet is under, it has a particular barcode. So attendance sheet is being sent from over side or they don't? Generated. They print. Okay. Generated dynamically. I was thinking of actually doing some barcode etc but everything they can biometrics is the only way and the verification should be done on server. So their biometric impression should be stored on server, they have to come put the thumb print so that it will verify by the server. Yeah, continue. So this is sort of attendance report that the remote center coordinator can see. We have added two new features in this part. That was the requirement here that the total number of participants that can be generated that have attended the session on that particular day. So that is here the last row that it can be shown. The second feature that we have added is the total number of sessions that the participants attend and the percentage attendance of the participant. Those two features we have added in this part. Now moving on to one of the most important parts that has been assigned to us of fetching the grades actually from IIT Bombayx. So as we know the online component is hosted on IIT Bombayx and the grades will be fetched from there. So this is the basic structure of the interface, the process flow that I can, I have understood and I can tell you that here in the center there is this T-Cube user interface. On the right-hand side the IIT Bombayx, MySQL database, Mongo database and here our T-Cube MySQL database. Now what happens is the core structure and the grading policy of the course hosted online is stored in the Mongo database of IIT Bombay. While the actual marks for each participant and each question are stored in MySQL database. So we have to get the core structure from Mongo and get the actual marks from MySQL. So this has been, it has took a lot of time for me to understand. So this is basically. Why do you have to get the core structure? Sir, the structure of the IIT Bombayx database is such that it stores the marks with a problem ID for each problem and each participant. So we have to filter it accordingly from MySQL. But these problem IDs are actually stored in the Mongo database only. So we have to get those problem IDs from Mongo database. And the Mongo database has this complex structure wherein it is a hierarchy. First question is why Mongo they have used? Whenever the course is generated. Anything special support that they are getting from using the hybrid databases or only for the sake of only passion. Let's use somewhere mango, somewhere use raspberry strawberry, orange. Sir, whenever the course is generated, each course can have variable number of fields, variable number of questions, variable types of questions. So all this is variable and it cannot be directly stored in MySQL. Why? Because MySQL table is fixed. So we have to get the. Create new table. Sir, but if a particular field does not exist. Create a field. Sir, but it cannot be applicable to all the courses. Why not? There are so many applications which are running on MySQL. Do you say that MySQL doesn't have the capability of handling such kind of structure. It is a too much complex structure that it is not acceptable for the MySQL to sustain the load. The thing is that whether you ask your mentor also why there are two databases. Whether it is originally available, that is why you have taken or you have worked out something. Sir, it's actually the open edX database structure that has. Okay. Why open edX? There may be some reason why Mongo. So not specifically, but they have created in sort of Mongo. They are creating, they are distributing the data in three collections. So, and this is particularly important as they are using the active version stable to store the course definition. The structure stable in which all these things are stored, the blocks, course chapters and problems and definition. So this is not a fixed structure of a course, it gives the flexibility of generating the course as well as generating the types of questions that we want to add, types of modules that we want to add. So, all this flexibility is actually given by the Mongo database. Sir. How does Mongo do things? Sir. Yes. Yeah. Let him present. His time is going on. Don't interfere. This is, you have to answer the question. Why Mongo? Then this is kind of flexibility what you are saying is whether it is not possible with other database like you are saying MySQL. That is what the question was. Yeah. So exactly, sir, whatever I have understood from this partner, both the databases. No problem. If you don't know the answer, say that I don't know. It's not an issue. Right? Rather than giving the wrong answer, it is always good. I always suggest that. Except I don't know. Sir, I don't know the exact answer. I'm whatever I have understood. I'm telling you that for me, it has been this much that the convenience for course creation that is the Mongo giving. So that is what I have understood from this. The next part is, so this is a complex database structure and a hierarchy of a whole lot of blocks that they have made. So understanding this. So till now we have got this much till this much that we have created some participants for testing purpose in IIT Bombay X and we are the marks here are for a particular email ID. Since we know that email ID is unique between both TQ and IIT Bombay X. So we are using email ID and we are getting the marks for that structure. The marks shown are this final percentage marks of online component after applying all grading conditions from the grading policy that we are getting from IIT Bombay X. And these marks have been mapped with TQ database using the unique email ID that we are getting. There is some improvement part that is still remaining in this that we have to actually store these marks in the database and use forward it further to the first certificate generation to get the actual grades to generate certificates. That part is still remaining and I will be doing it in the next way I am here so I will be doing it. Next we will move on to the certificate module. In this we will be generating the certificates for all the participants who have fulfilled the grading criteria and whenever the principal delivery manager logs in he will be able to see all the list of the active workshops. He can also switch to a particular workshop in which he will be able to see all the remote centers registered for the particular workshop and in the left there is a button download template. He can download the template for the face to face component to fill the marks and then he will upload it after uploading the marks he will generate the marks for the participants. The admin can also see the participants in a particular workshop. You are coming for a second time right? So how many times you are going to come? This is the last time? Okay, thank you.