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We had a great conversation about coding, STEM, and CodeMonkey! Our students love using CodeMonkey, and it is fun to get started with. You will definitely enjoy this conversation with Javier! Be sure to connect with Javier to learn more!About JavierJavier Aguilar is in his eleventh year of working at East Fort Worth Montessori Academy as a bilingual technology applications/computer science teacher and robotics coach for our PreK to 5th Grade Students. Javier has an Associate of Applied Science degree in Computer Drafting from TSTC, a Bachelor's in Applied Technologies in Workforce Leadership and Training from UT at Brownsville, and a Master's of Education in Educational Technology from UTRGV.He is a current member of the Dallas / Fort Worth Computer Science Association chapter @dfwcsta CSTA.   Javier actively promotes equity and innovation in education, particularly within the realm of computer science for elementary school students.As a father of two girls, Javier believes it is important for educators to support minorities and encourage them to learn technology for their future. At his school, he leads after-school clubs for coding and robotics. Javier encourages girls to participate in these clubs to provide them the confidence of learning technology.  He believes the misconceptions of technology, computer science, STEAM and robotics are only for boys or smart girls. His goal is to expose ALL students to these fields and spark their early interest in them. Twitter : @javierfaguilar LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfaguilarAbout RachelleEducator, Keynote Speaker, Consultant, Attorney, and Author Subscribe to my ⁠newsletter⁠.Check out my ⁠blog⁠ and submit a guest blog.Contact me for speaking & training related to AI, AI and the law, Cybersecurity, SEL, STEM, and more! ⁠bit.ly/thriveineduPD⁠Interested in a sponsored podcast or collaboration? Contact me! Rdene915@gmail.com

Audrey is joined by Jaqi Cohen, Director of Climate and equity Policy at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. TSTC advocates for increased mobility in the greater NYC region. Its priorities are expanding public transit, creating safer streets, transitioning away from fossil fuels, and fighting for equitable funding of transportation projects. Their approach is talking to communities to learn about the history of the neighborhood and what its residents' needs are. Jaqi's time at TSTC began when the pandemic decimated ridership and is currently in the exciting infancy of congestion pricing, two unprecedented milestones in transit.  ●     TSTC https://tstc.org/●     TSTC gala on May 9th, 2025 https://tstc.org/gala2025/●     NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign https://www.nypirg.org/straphangers/●     New York State Transportation Equity Alliance https://nystea.net/●     Congestion Relief Zone https://congestionreliefzone.mta.info/●     Cross Bronx Expressway project https://www.crossbronx.info/●     Bronx River Alliance https://bronxriver.org/●    Transportation Alternatives https://transalt.org/●    Riders Alliance https://www.ridersalliance.org/ 

Texas State Technical College (TSTC) is advancing workforce development along the Texas Highway 46 corridor, with plans to establish a new campus in Seguin while expanding offerings at its New Braunfels location. This strategic move strengthens the college's commitment to addressing regional workforce needs and supporting the area's rapid economic growth. “Comal and Guadalupe counties are among the fastest-growing regions in the state and home to a large concentration of industrial employers,” said Mike Reeser, TSTC's chancellor and CEO. “So the Legislature's decision to expand TSTC into this region is timely and sure to contribute to the economic prosperity this...Article Link

HARLINGEN, Texas - The two official workforce boards in the Rio Grande Valley have been awarded almost $2 million to improve the development of the region's talent pipeline to high-quality jobs. The two groups are Workforce Solutions Lower Rio (WSLR) and Workforce Solutions Cameron (WSC). The former looks after workforce development in Hidalgo, Starr and Willacy counties. They have received a $1,991,745 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, with monies becoming available thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.Only two such grants were awarded in the State of Texas.The Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs grant will support public-private partnerships that provide worker-centered training programs. The  Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which aims to collaboratively build a better America.A news conference was held at Texas State Technical College (TSTC) in Harlingen on Dec. 15 to announce the grant. Among the speakers were Alberto Treviño, the labor representative on the Texas Workforce Commission, Cledia Hernandez, vice chancellor and chief external relations office for TSTC, Francisco Almaraz, executive director of WSLR, and Pat Hobbs, executive director of WSC.According to Almaraz and Hobbs, the program is designed to create career pathways to high-quality jobs in the renewable energy, transportation, and broadband infrastructure sectors while prioritizing the delivery of training and supportive services to those from rural and underrepresented communities. “The ultimate goal is to help job seekers take on high-demand, high-quality career opportunities in advanced manufacturing, information technology, and technical service occupations, “Almaraz said. “This will create a clear path to obtaining good-paying infrastructure jobs that will help our communities thrive in the long run.” Almaraz said the Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs grant will complement the local workforce boards' ongoing efforts to meet the Valley's infrastructure workforce needs. He said this includes aligning registered apprenticeships and workforce programs at community colleges and supporting state and local partnerships that seek to leverage workforce funding to provide high-quality training and supportive services. In his remarks, Hobbs stressed the importance of unity in the Valley - something Hernandez also did - and, as he has done in the past, decried the underfunding and under appreciation of training for trade skills."The Valley's two workforce boards are collaborating regionally to prepare locals for upcoming high-paying jobs. These jobs include the construction and operation of new LNG terminals at the Port of Brownsville, Space X operations at Boca Chica, clean hydrogen production facilities, and other upcoming technologies. This grant will aid in developing the necessary training and education pathways,” Hobbs said. Hobbs said the main goal of the two workforce boards is to respond to local employers and workers' needs through locally designed, demand-driven workforce development initiatives. Editor's Note: Here is an audio recording of highlights from the press conference.To read the new stories and watch the news videos of the Rio Grande Guardian International News Service go to www.riograndeguardian.com.

HARLINGEN, Texas - Mike Reeser, chancellor and CEO of Texas State Technical College, spoke at a recent groundbreaking ceremony at TSTC-Harlingen.The ceremony celebrated construction of two new facilities and renovation of one existing building at the Harlingen campus, including space for two programs new to the campus: Diesel Equipment Technology and Plumbing and Pipefitting Technology.The Automotive Technology and Diesel Equipment Technology programs will share nearly 50,000 square feet in one of the two new buildings, while the Electrical Lineworker and Management Technology program will get a new 12,000-square-foot building of its own. A renovated 87,000-square-foot facility will house the Biomedical Equipment Technology, the Plumbing and Pipefitting Technology and the Wind Energy Technology programs.Here is a podcast from the groundbreaking ceremony.Editor's Note: Go to the Rio Grande Guardian International News Service to read the full story.To read the new stories and watch the news videos of the Rio Grande Guardian International News Service go to www.riograndeguardian.com.

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: New developments in the Austin conviction of Army Sgt. Daniel Perry rejecting his clear self-defense situation. As the Leftist press continues to try and make it appear that the age-old pardon process is somehow a new and novel way to pervert justice, we have learned of what appears to be jury misconduct. We have also learned that the judge prevented items from being introduced into evidence in the case that should have been seen by jurors including the full police investigation report.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish sued personally by private investigative firm alleging he has not paid their bill. The important question is why was Parrish personally hiring private eyes this last October while serving as county judge? It could certainly be something innocent, the bill paying a separate matter. But, could it be why several county office holders seem to be intimidated by him? In general, it's not a great reflection on Mr. Parrish as even a bill dispute for only about a thousand dollars should be able to be handled short of a lawsuit.News from the legislature including “Border Security Legislation Creating New ‘Illegal Entry' Offense Advances in Texas Senate” and Lt. Gov. Patrick again saying the House appraisal cap ideas will not advance in the Senate. Also there is good movement on how the state pays community college systems; it's more like the success we've had with the TSTC system.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

NEW BRAUNFELS — Texas State Technical College (TSTC) and the TX FAME Lone Star Chapter will hold a preview event Thursday, April 13, from 5-7 p.m. at the chapter's FAME Technical Center inside Building A of the Central Texas Technology Center located at 2189 F.M. 758 in New Braunfels. This event serves as an informational session and tour for all individuals and their families who are interested in a career in advanced manufacturing and are available to begin courses in August 2023. TSTC recruiters will be on-site to assist anyone wanting to begin their application. To register, visit https://bit.ly/3njWMM9. Texas...Article Link

Are you 16 weeks out from a 70.3? Bek Keat, owner and founder of TSTC, 6x Ironman Champion, dives into strategic training and key sessions you should be doing at this point. Make sure you've got your race goals identified and what your strategic sessions will be, whether that is races or key workouts. If you're racing in April or May or June...you should be starting that 16 week plan. At TSTC we reverse engineer all our training plans based on RPE where your fitness is now...16 week out brick, 12 week out brick, 8 week out brick and a 4 week out brick. Always starting with shorter efforts, and build out to longer efforts. These key sessions will be about 3 hours, maximum of 4 hours with the run off the bike being an hour max. FTP Testing: Time and a place. Go absolutely flat out for 20 minutes. Make sure you warm up for 15-30 minutes beforehand.Best way to increase your FTP...The best ways is to do VO2 max sets, or 1 min max power efforts, time trials, strength efforts..etc.  *Lighter and leaner you are the higher your FTP will be. If you'd like to join these live chats in real time, join Team Sirius Tri Club for just $37/month, by visiting: www.teamsiriustriclub.com #teamsiriustriclub #rebekahkeat #sirilindley #swimbikerun

Bek Keat, owner and founder of Team Sirius Tri Club, 6x Ironman Winner goes into detail on Race Season Preperation and "how to choose the right races for you and your goals." She also discusses Team Sirius Tri Club in 2023, how TSTC training programs and key blocks are designed and how often you should race. If you'd like to join these live chats in real time, join Team Sirius Tri Club for just $37/month, by visiting: www.teamsiriustriclub.com #teamsiriustriclub #rebekahkeat #sirilindley #swimbikerun

Kevin Staton and Cody Davis are Electric Power Control instructors. They volunteered to be on the podcast not as a part of their job, but for their passion to let individuals know that TSTC can play a role in helping one live the American Dream.

Jimmy Doyce Boyett, “J”, as his granddaughter referred to him, of Waco, Texas passed away at the age of 63, June 21, 2022 surrounded by his loving wife, and daughters. Funeral services will be 9 a.m. Friday, June 24 at Meadowbrook Baptist Church with Pastor David Cozart officiating. Burial will immediately follow at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in West. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 23 at Meadowbrook Baptist Church. Services are under the direction of Pecan Grove Funeral Home. Jimmy was born December 13, 1958 to Alton and Reiko Boyett in Waco, Texas. Jimmy attended University High before transferring to Robinson High School, where he graduated in 1977, with the best group of friends you could hope for. He earned his associates degree from TSTC and began working at M&M Mars, where he would eventually retire from after 32 years. Jimmy met the love of his life, Laurie Boyett, and married her in May of 1987. He had three daughters, who he enjoyed coaching in any and every sport they were involved in. He was an avid golfer. Just about any Monday morning, weather permitting, he would be at Cottonwood for senior golf. He loved competing, whether it was golf, softball, or checkers. Jimmy loved coaching, hunting, fishing, and being the life of the party. He was a teammate, friend, brother, coach, husband, and his favorite title of all was “Dad.” He never went anywhere without knowing a friend, or making a friend. He coached too many teams to name, and touched too many lives to count. He was preceded in death by his parents, Alton and Reiko Boyett. Jimmy is survived by his loving wife of 35 years, Laurie Boyett; three daughters, Arin Dubois and husband Jeff Dubois, and precious granddaughter, Rory Dubois; daughter, Stacey Boyett and fiancé Cameron Cole; and daughter, Reagan Boyett and boyfriend Jason Hardin; his wonderful siblings including his sister, Susan Olle and fiancé Vic Baker; brothers, Rick Boyett and wife Laura Boyett; brother, David Boyett and wife Tammy Boyett; and countless nieces and nephews, who he loved dearly.

Live Chat on May 9, 2022 with Founder and Head Coach of Team Sirius Tri Club, Rebekah Keat! Bek talks about how TSTC teaches how/when they use and want to see metrics in their training programs. Coaches don't want to see all your Garmin metrics...Trust ME! We want to know how you felt? We want you to know your times(25, 50 & 100), what was your easy, what was your fast? We want you to learn how to use a pool clock! The more you think like a swimmer, the more you become a swimmer. How to use a snorkel properly and do a flip turn without getting water in your nose! Bek's thought about using flippers in the pool. Bek gives her best tips to be paying attention to in the water to keep getting faster...Make sure there is a difference between hard and easy. There should be a significant change in pace!! How to approach a hill climb in an Ironman Bike? Cadence is always the KEY! 80 is the number you want to shoot for in an Ironman. Consistency is everything! References when Rinny won in 2014. She had the most even power numbers the entire bike. Cause the whole time she strictly focused on cadence. Gradually shift while you climb when/if needed. How do you get ready for a HOT race when your coming from colder temperatures!!? To hear this recorded episode in real time, or get answers to all your questions visit teamsiriustriclub.com to sign up for your very own membership for just $37!!

MCALLEN, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott believes Texas higher education institutions need to be much more focused on preparing their students for the work place.Abbott said it is “inexcusable” that some students go to college for up to six or seven years and still do not find employment.Abbott made clear his views about higher education at a business summit co-hosted by the Texas Association of Business and the Rio Grande Valley Partnership. The event was held at the McAllen Convention Center.“We have a lot of people that have gone to college for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven years, whatever it is and they do not have a job. That is inexcusable. There needs to be a goal for education to provide. And that is a pathway to a job,” Abbott said.“When you graduate from high school you need to be prepared to be working toward a job, whether it be going immediately to a job or going to an education institution that will prepare you for a job that is right for you. It doesn't mean that everyone is going to be an engineer or a chemist, a scientist or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever. It could be that you are keenly interested in the arts. There are a lot of jobs in the arts.”Abbott added: “It is inexcusable that we have, in the United States, so many people that are seeking to have their tuition cost eliminated because they went to school and they don't have a job and they need the government to pay for their tuition costs. We need education to be focused on making sure people get a job.”In his remarks, Abbott gave a shoutout to Texas State Technical College. All the money TSTC gets from the State of Texas is dependent on its students finding work. The attached podcast features Gov. Abbott's remarks on the purpose of higher eduction and an interview with Cledia R. Hernandez, a former provost of TSTC-Harlingen who now serves as TSTC System's associate vice chancellor. 

Live Chat April 11th with Founder Bek Keat!Key workouts you should be doing 6-12 weeks out leading up to key races.Swim Workout - Monday or Sunday after the run, (30-40-50-60) 100's at your best possible pace, with short rest, so High End Aerobic!Tune in to hear the details...Bike Workout - 1/2 Ironman Key Workout3 hour ride: Ride for an 1hr big gear, 20min just slower than 70.3 race pace effort, 10 min easy, 15 min 70.3 race pace effort, 15 min big gear, 5 min easy, 10 min at 40K effort, 10 big gear, 5 min easy,5 min flat out as fast as you can, 5 min big gear, 5 min easy. Tune in to hear Bek's Key Run Workout!Cramping - How to deal with it? What are the causes? Best tips!Looking for a start of season training plan, 8 week, beginner, intermediate or advanced plan. Team Sirius Tri Club calendar of events! Bek will be Coaching on deck (swim, bike or run each month)starting in May!Free for anyone in TSTC! Not apart of Team Sirius Tri Club and interested in joining the clubplease visit www.teamsiriustriclub.com for more info!Questions about training, coaching or programming to teamsiriustriclub@gmail.com

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This week, we're joined by John Kennedy, Field Development Officer at TSTC and Deacon at St. Theresa Catholic Church, to talk about what the Texas State Technical College does, who it serves, and how different programs and opportunities continue to be created as they expand further into Fort Bend county.  In this episode, Aimee, Emily, and John cover: John's decision to become a Deacon after years in the Catholic faith  Transitioning out of a hospitality role into his role with TSTC Scholarship fundraising and the Helping Hands fund Programs and opportunities offered to students at TSTC Fulfilling community needs and placing students in solid careers

Mike Reeser and Michael Bettersworth are the Chancellor and Chief Innovation Officer, respectively, at Texas State Technical College (TSTC). In 2014, TSTC became the FIRST college in the country to fully align its public funding with its students' future earnings. Since then, graduates have seen their earnings increase over 100 percent! Their success is an antidote to the crisis of bad incentives in education today and should inspire other states to pursue similar reforms.

HARLINGEN, Texas - Michael Reeser says the next Tesla factory training center could be built in Harlingen. The chancellor and CEO of Texas State Technical College spoke about the possibilities of the Rio Grande Valley being attractive to Tesla at a recent breakfast event held at TSTC in Harlingen.“Tesla is growing like weed in Texas. They are selling more and more units all the time. And we are beginning to rival California and Florida in terms of Tesla automobiles,” Reeser explained.“So, Tesla, about two years ago came to Texas and started looking around because they needed a higher ed partner to set up their factory training centers for their technicians. And what they needed was a host with a robust automotive offering who could see the longterm vision of electric vehicles in our industry.”Reeser said that after interviewing countless colleges across the state, Tesla picked TSTC to be their education partner in the state of Texas. “So, their very first factory training center was in Waco. They picked it because it is centrally located. The second one is in Houston. It is under construction right now and it will be finished in January,” Tesla said.“And, I predict and we have talked to them about it, your next one needs to be in Harlingen, where we already have a robust automotive program. So, the point is, Tesla looked at everyone and they picked us up.”The tie-up with Tesla is just one of the partnerships TSTC has developed. Reeser also mentioned the FAME program run by the National Association of Manufacturing and NIMS, otherwise known as the National Institute for Metalworking Skills. And he mentioned a productive tie-up with Texas A&M University.Editor's Note: To read the full story, go to the Rio Grande Guardian International News Service website. 

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilbert Hinojosa says it is a “brilliant” idea to allow Matamoros residents to come over to Brownsville to have their COVID-19 vaccines.Hinojosa, a former Cameron County Judge, said he will take the idea to the Biden Administration and U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela.The idea of pilot program that would see Matamoros residents cross the Gateway International Bridge, receive a wristband that allows them to get the coronavirus vaccine at the old HEB store in downtown Brownsville has been made by public policy advocate and veteran broadcaster Ron Whitlock. Whitlock has been working on the project with Brownsville licensed real estate broker Larry Jokl.“I'd never thought of that. I think it is a brilliant idea,” said Hinojosa. “It is something that Joe Biden should take a look at. And the State Department and the different health agencies that are in charge of preventing the spread of this disease. It makes sense to me.”Whitlock said if the pilot project was successful it could hasten the full reopening of land ports of entry on the U.S.-Mexican border. They have been closed to so-called “non-essential” travel since March, 2020, in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus.Asked who he and Jokl are partnering with on the venture, Whitlock said: “We have already got a lot of important people signed up. We have Belinda Reininger, who is head of the University of Houston medical branch at UTRGV in Brownsville. Texas Southmost College has already volunteered to get involved with helping to train people to deliver the vaccine. I have met with Brownsville Fire Chief Jarrett Sheldon and Brownsville Public Health Director Dr. Arturo Rodriguez. They tell me they need help, that they are running out of volunteers. We have former Rotary Club Governor Andy Hagen; their clubs in Brownsville and Matamoros have agreed to work together. Andy has agreed to administrate. We have TSTC in Harlingen; the head of their foundation has agreed to assist. And I am going to be requesting from Charles Butt the use of his property, across the street. We can use the old HEB parking lot as a drive thru.” Hinojosa said the nation needs to think “outside of the box” when dealing with COVID-19. “It has had such a traumatic effect. Look what happened here in the Rio Grande Valley. We had refrigerated 18-wheelers with bodies stacked onto of each other for a certain period of time. We had ambulances waiting in line two blocks long with patients to get into a hospital that was already overwhelmed with patients. All of us had friends that died.”

Siri & Bek feature Suzy Ohannessian finishing her first ever Triathlon with 6 weeks training under TSTC. They also cover ●       Racing your first race after only 6 weeks of Triathlon training! ●       How to fill the gap with training until Ironman race season begins. ●       What should you focus on on the bike? ●       Speed cadence or power?●       Ideal cadence and leg speed while running! Until the end of September you can join the club for free and get access to all the amazing benefits of being a Team Sirius Tri Club member you can find out more on the website. We'd love to see you inside our club. https://www.teamsiriustriclub.com/team-sirius-tri-club-free-trial/ And remember "It's not just about swim, bike, run it's about who you become"

Meet the women behind Two Strikes Theatre Collective! TSTC is a company of Black Women theatre artists in Baltimore city. Learn about what they have coming up and their vision for the future of Baltimore Theatre. Guests: - Aladrian Wetzel -Christen Cromwell -Lauren Jackson Follow and support Two strike Theatre Collective: Facebook: @TSTC.Baltimore Instagram: @tstc_baltimore Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/tstcbaltimore

Saddle should be comfortable but also promotes good posture. You should be able to rotate forward.Shoes with the cleats should engage you and give you stability. It's not meant to be rocking side to side. Find out more tips and tricks from TSTC's trusted bike fit consultant, Ivan O'Gorman. He shows the basic things to look out for when it comes to your bike fit.More info about Ivan and his bike fitting service here http://www.ivanogorman.com/To join these chats live or for all the amazing benefits of being a Team Sirius Tri Club member you can find out more on the website. We'd love to see you inside our club. https://www.teamsiriustriclub.com/team-sirius-tri-club/And remember "It's not just about swim, bike, run it's about who you become"

This week, Bek talks briefly about how the world is being affected by the COVID-19 and some tips to keep yourself healthy, including staying hydrated, eating more greens  and getting extra sleep. While the world shuts down due to the Corona virus, that won't stop the TSTC coaches from helping you find a way to work out. Stay home, be safe, but you can work out. Swim chord workouts for beginners who've never used cords before -- and these can be used for pre-swim workouts if you can't get into the water for any reason (like this virus issue). You want to simulate your swim stroke as much as you can -- start out in front, pulling through with a high elbow and finishing right out the back. With the cord, the resistance is going to be a lot harder than it would be in the water, so break your workout up.To join these chats live or for all the amazing benefits of being a Team Sirius Tri Club member you can find out more on the website. We'd love to see you inside our club. https://www.teamsiriustriclub.com/team-sirius-tri-club/And remember "It's not just about swim, bike, run it's about who you become" 

This week, MC hosts the TSTC live chat. For today, she has requested to send out extra positive vibes to Siri & Bek as this is a big day when it comes to her recovery.Working on self-reflection. Writing it down and really reflecting helps you have clarity on your goals. Make a list of the things you want to work on for this year.  For example, MC's goal is to meditate instead of waking up in the morning and looking at her phone first thing in the morning. Next, track all the things that you did or didn't do. This allows you to track your progress in each area that you want to improve on. Your weakest area will drag you, and this ability to track will allow you to focus on what you need to improve for the following week.Reflect on how your day or week is going. This will allow you to look back on what to improve on or what to celebrate. You will also have an idea of what is causing you to feel a certain way and how to improve any negative feeling.Write your goals down for the week. Even if you fail at something (or you didn't reach your goal), as long as you see improvement. Don't worry if it seems like you are aiming too high because that will allow you to learn and grow. Always give your 100% -- even if you fall short, the fact that you've stretched yourself and increased your threshold is a sign of progress. This will help you feel fulfilled.To join these chats live or for all the amazing benefits of being a Team Sirius Tri Club member you can find out more on the website. We'd love to see you inside our club. https://www.teamsiriustriclub.com/team-sirius-tri-club/And remember "It's not just about swim, bike, run it's about who you become"

Maddy sends positive vibes and well wishes to Siri and Bek, then welcomes about 20 new TSTC members. Be part of Team Believe by purchasing a sweatshirt, tee or tank top from Siri's site.Wear this sweatshirt, tee-shirt or tank top so we can spread the healing energy and belief Siri's way.You can get yours here https://bit.ly/siri-team-believeAlso, congratulations to Coach Troy for his 2nd place win in Patagonia Man.Swimming with TSTCOur training programs not only improves your swim, but also compliments the bike and the run.  Swim gets ignored or doesn't compliment the bike and run.  Since it's the shortest leg in the race, it could be the one that is most disregarded.  Or, if it's not your strongest discipline, it could be intimidating. But if you can cut 5-10 minutes off your swim, you also become a smarter swimmer with lots of energy left over to give more on the bike and run.  We also develop a better fitness level when we do swim training.Developing strength under fatigue.  It builds strength.  This will have shorter sprints with higher rest intervals. It's hard aerobically -- it's hard on your muscles, but not as hard on your body. Strength swim requires a bouy, band and paddles -- these are tools we use to develop strength.  This will help build power up top and taking the load off your legs.The big hard swim -- "the killer set/Siri special".  These are less speed work at race pace and longer distances.  The Sunday Swim: the hardest mentally.  It comes after your hard bike and long run.  You're in fatigue.  It's a long aerobic swim with different equipment.  Why it's important? it builds the aerobic base and important for recovery.  It helps remove fatigue for the next week and get the blood flowing.Travelling (have access to a pool):-  in the US, go to a YMCA or a rec center (these have good rates).  Private athletic clubs will be expensive.Equipment: Paddles, pull buoy and bandBand: tie ankles together and forces you to swim with your arms.  This will make you feel like you're drowning, but it will help with core engagement and stroke turnover rate.Paddles: Stroke-maker brand - build extra upper body strength.  Helps you with your turnover.All Team Sirius Tri Club members can ask questions and join these chats live. To join the club head over to our website https://www.teamsiriustriclub.com/team-sirius-tri-club/

Our sponsor for the month of September is NormatecNormaTec is the ultimate athlete recovery.All members can go into the draw to win $500 towards any Normatec product, by listening to the Podcast during the month of September. Listen to find out how to get in the draw.https://www.normatecrecovery.comNormaTec's technology delivers a powerful and patented compression massage that helps athletes recover faster. It is used for a pre-workout warm up, and as a post-workout recovery. The NormaTec PULSE 2.0 Series increases circulation, and reduces pain and soreness. In addition, studies have shown the NormaTec recovery massage can help boost the pressure to pain threshold, clear lactate and metabolites, and increase range of motion. There are attachments for the legs, arms, and hips which allow athletes to rejuvenate their muscles, stay in top form, and maximize their training.Go to https://www.teamsiriustriclub.com/normatec for a $50 discount on Normatec recovery products. Available to all listeners of the podcast.Or Join the club to access a 25% discount https://www.teamsiriustriclub.com/team-sirius-tri-club/This week, Maddy is subbing for Siri and Bek.  Today's chat is about periodisation -- planning out training blocks for your race calendar year.  There are 2 different elements: off season training and the schedule during the year.  There are 2 kinds of athlete's during off season:1) One that looks forward to taking the time off2) One that struggles with having to take time off and being away from training.Off season:#1) Take the time off.  You need this.  TSTC recommends at one to two months off.#2) Plan your off season during the holiday season.  This is perfect because it can get busy and you can spend quality time around the family.  Do, at least, 2 weeks of nothing.#3) The next 2 weeks is an optional training.  Do one or two workouts a day that is super easy.  You'll still be able to focus on other things outside of triathlon.#4) The next 10 weeks is considered as a pre-season build.  You can do sports specific blocks to focus on swim, bike or run.  You can do 4 weeks of swim block, 2 weeks of cycling focus, 2 weeks of running, and finally, 2 weeks of a balanced plan. #5) Focus on your techniques, addressing any weaknesses and working on resolving issues with injuries, changes in nutrition or your bike fit, etc.   In season:#1) TSTC tries to think about these training blocks in a 4 week cycle -- 3 weeks of hard training to build strength, speed, intensity and 1 week of a recovery.    During the recovery, you could add a training race.#2) Then you do a one week of key brick.Planning your race calendar:#1) Space your races and build to your main races.  Recommended space time is one month.  #2) Stay consistent in your training -- get a handle on your recovery.#3) Be prepared for anything -- if you're injured, shut it down sooner rather than later before it costs you the race your training for.  Don't feel bad if you have to take 1 or 2 days off from your training.Tapering:#1) TSTC does a 10 day taper for a half Ironman, 7-10 days for Olympic distance race and 2 weeks for an Ironman race.  #2) You want to taper down because you want your muscles to recover enough to prepare for the race and maintain a feel for your race efforts and keep everything active.#3)You're going to decrease the duration of the different sports while maintaining the feel.#4) Be sure to do the key bricks.Run Focus -- do you pair this with the swim or the bike?You want to pair it a little bit with the bike, but do more with the swim.  This will allow you to recover through the swim.

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Dale and Randy sit down with Executive Director Suzanne Hack from Christian Women's Job Corps of McLennan County. CWJC helps women get the education and training they need to find quality jobs and realize their dreams.Find them online at: cwjcwaco.org/More about CWJC:Since its formation in September of 2003, Christian Women’s Job Corps of McLennan County has helped equip women in Waco and surrounding areas with both job training and life skills. Through a six month long mentorship and an education program, we have encouraged women to be self-confident, self-sufficient, and productive while developing meaningful relationships.Women who are alumni of the CWJC program are making a difference in McLennan County. Graduates are working in various fields such as office assistants, retail sales, medical, legal, mortuary, food service, call centers, apartment leasing, dog grooming, home health care, highway construction, warehouse, cleaning services, etc. Some examples of where CWJC alumni are employed are Veteran’s Administration, Waco Mortuary, MCC Adult Education, TSTC, Walgreen’s, Woofgang Bakery, EMSI, Baylor University, Cenikor, PCA, Baked Bliss, Cougar Paws, Aramark, Meadow Park Townhomes, Stoney Brook, and What-a-Burger. After completing the CWJC program, some women choose to continue their education at MCC or TSTC and have earned both associate degrees and bachelor degrees through the MCC/Tarleton program.The ministry of CWJC makes a significant difference in the lives of women and McLennan County families. We have seen God work in many ways:Women are developing self-esteem and self-confidence.Women are becoming devoted mothers, loving wives, and dependable employees.Families and future generations are changing, and the community is improving.On a yearly basis volunteers contribute over 5,000 hours as teachers, mentors, lunch providers, prayer warriors, encouragers, community resources, and mock interviewers.People from more than 150 churches, businesses, and organizations throughout the community have participated in the success of our program.About the Charity Champions Podcast:This podcast is produced by 360 Solutions and Randy Lane. To learn more about Charity Champions, please visit charitychampions.orgCharity Champions are nonprofit organizations working to make a positive impact in the Central Texas community. Each fall, TFNB Your Bank For Life employees choose six nonprofits from nominations that made on the website. Anyone can submit a nomination, and nominations are carried forward each year.The benefits of selection as a Charity Champions are leadership development training and increased awareness, both of which are usually cost-prohibitive for these organizations. It’s TFNB Your Bank For Life’s way of giving back to the community that has treated them so well for more than 125 years.Connect with us on social media:Facebook: facebook.com/TFNBCharityChampions/Twitter: twitter.com/TFNB_ChampionsInstagram: instagram.com/tfnb_charity_champions/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Susan Shaheen is co-Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center and Lecturer at UC Berkeley. She discusses the revolution underway in transportation choices which she believes will be driven by smart phones.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next [inaudible]. [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 2: Good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm the host of today's show. Our guest today is Susan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley. Susan also lectures [00:01:00] at UC Berkeley. Susan's Shaheen received her master's degree from the University of Rochester and her phd in ecology from UC Davis. She joins us to talk about the work she's been doing at the center as well as the centers. Broader scope. Susan Shaheen. Thanks for coming on spectrum. My pleasure. I wanted to get your perspective, a historic perspective on transportation and when you look back, what do you see as the profound changes that [00:01:30] have happened over a period of time that you're comfortable with reflecting on Speaker 3: [inaudible]? So I think transportation and the environment were significant, particularly in the state of California in the mid 1950s where relationships between exhaust emissions and smog and other types of air pollutants came together. And we started to garner a lot more understanding about that. And so in terms of [00:02:00] my personal interests, that was a really significant moment in time for the nation, but in particular for California, which, which led the way and that garnered a lot of interest and vehicle technologies and strategies for addressing transportation emissions. Speaker 2: And is that really what started the sustainability movement within transportation Speaker 3: in terms of transportation? Sustainability in those terms I think are more modern day than the mid [00:02:30] 1950s when we started to become really cognizant of smog and emissions, particularly in the La Basin area. There was a, the Brundtland Commission came about and in 1987 they produced a document called our common future and that really focused on sustainability. And that's when we started to hear more about the three pillars of sustainability. So economics, equity and the environment. And around that late 1980s early 1990s period, I believe that's really [00:03:00] when a lot of the discussion about transportation sustainability came about, but we had already been looking at vehicle technologies, fuels strategies for demand management, like carpooling long before then. But I think in terms of there being more of a movement or a focus on sustainability and transportation, that probably came about more in the late 1980s and early 1990s before I came on the scene. Speaker 3: How did the Transportation Sustainability Research Center get started? [00:03:30] So the uh, Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California Berkeley as part of the Institute of Transportation Studies. It came about five years ago. It was founded as the brainchild of Professor Norgaard and Professor Sam or Matt Nat. And they thought it was really important time for us to put together a center that focused on vehicles, fuels as well as demand management strategies that could [00:04:00] employ electronic and wireless communication systems. So that's how we got our start in the center. How do you choose your projects? Well, we always choose our projects based on someone's interest within a center. So some, some great form of passion associated with it. And we find that sometimes the scale of the project needs to be very, very large. So if there's an opportunity for a large grant and it fits [00:04:30] with our mission and mandate for instance, goods movement, we have a project that's by point $5 million to implement a smart parking, uh, management system for long haul truckers on the I five. Speaker 3: And that requires a lot of money and a lot of technology and a lot of getting out there and getting your hands dirty and implementing things. And it takes scale and money and time to build something like that. And so that's our largest project overall and it really warrants that kind [00:05:00] of financial base, but we can also do things for 50 to $75,000 that are highly impactful. We've received awards for research on car sharing, things that I think may have cost $55,000 in terms of grant monies to produce. But the work itself was impactful enough that it made a difference and was really powerful to people in the field and to decision makers and gave them the data that they needed. So a lot of it just has to do with our passion and [00:05:30] if there's a grant opportunity that fits really well with our interests, we go for it and we don't necessarily say, okay, a small grant isn't going to do what we needed to do because we know about it than that, we know that sometimes you need small grants to do really impactful things and sometimes you need massive grants to do really impactful things. Speaker 3: It just depends on what we're trying to do. But in my research I've found over time that I don't need is larger grant anymore to do as [00:06:00] impactful and innovative research as I used to have to. And that's because there's so many innovative entrepreneurial companies out there doing this that I don't have to go and build the thing anymore and create the service and imagine the service because there's entrepreneurs everyday contacting us saying, would you partner with us and help us to study and understand what we've built? And we're delighted because that means we can do so much more research when we don't actually [00:06:30] have to go out and build it. But if we need to go out and build it, we will do that. Speaker 2: It does the center deal at all with larger forms of transportation trucks. You mentioned trucks that you were involved with that do you get into shipping overseas, shipping trains, things like that because California has such a, a destination for so much material from Asia products? Speaker 3: That's a great question. We have a great deal of interest in all forms of goods movement at present. Our focus is primarily [00:07:00] trying to get our hands around and our understanding of origin and destination patterns and the long distance trucking industry. And I believe that you know, more and more will venture into freight to rail and also deal more with the ports. But it's a different area of research. It's not as well understood. It's an unregulated industry in many ways. And so getting data is a major issue and really understanding that data and working [00:07:30] with it is I think a notable contribution that we're trying to make with respect to just even understanding what's going on on the [inaudible]. So I think it's going to be a big area and continuing area of research at TSTC. I think there's so many opportunities for us to make freight and goods movement more sustainable, but it's not the easiest area to study or to get into and we're really trying to build up this understanding and then go from there. Speaker 1: [00:08:00] This is spectrum on k a Alex Berkeley. We're talking with Susan Shaheen about transportation, sustainability. Speaker 2: What are the strengths and weaknesses of the free market and government approaches to having an impact on transportation? [inaudible] Speaker 3: [00:08:30] no, I think government can play a tremendous role in making sure that we continue to have public transportation and we continue to have safe roads and bridges and that's a really significant role and they can also play a notable role in terms of public policy with respect to incentivizing different types of behavior if it's through road pricing strategies, so to s mode shift, get people think about taking a different mode at a different time, incentivizing people to [00:09:00] buy alternative fuel vehicles, giving them access to the Hov lanes or the high occupancy vehicle lanes. I also feel that the government can play a tremendous role in terms of providing third parties with access to data about transit services. And what we've started to see is a lot of new companies and new opportunities providing people with access to information that really wasn't there before. So I think the government can play a role in really [00:09:30] encouraging and facilitating openness and sharing and a really different way of experiencing transportation than we ever have before. Speaker 3: And I think industry has a tremendous role to play as well. Why not allow them to be as innovative as possible and create new opportunities and new modes if some of the things I study include car sharing, which is short term access to vehicles, and we've started to see lots of investment and interest in the idea of peer-to-peer car sharing or personal [00:10:00] vehicle sharing services where people could actually put their own vehicle into a shared use setting and we could see car sharing go outside of dense urban areas where traditionally lives into suburban areas and there's ideas for scooter sharing services. Public bike sharing is just growing and leaps and bounds around the world. It's about to double in size in terms of the number of programs just in the year 2012 in the United States. So [00:10:30] there's so many opportunities for creating new industries and new jobs and new transportation choices. Speaker 3: And I think the government has a tremendous role in that and creating and encouraging and inspiring these partnerships with individuals who have innovative ideas. I think we're really entering into a new era of mobility, which is very exciting. And then you have to tread the line between interfering with the market, choosing winners and losers gets run out [inaudible] [inaudible] [00:11:00] and not over-regulated. So there's a balance there. Right. And I think that's where research is really critical is to understand, you know, when you incentivize, what is the impact of that incentivization, you know, is it working, is it not working? Do you need to do more, do you need to do less? And that's where I think a lot of our work can come in to help provide policymakers and decision makers with more informed understanding about what, what is actually happening in the system. And we're really [00:11:30] moving into an era of massive databases and opportunities to look at real time data and in a way that we never could before because of the availability of electronic and wireless communication systems, the ubiquity of cell phones and smart phone technology and sensor technologies and the cost of these things are dropping. Speaker 3: So again, I believe we're really entering into a new era and mobility and transportation and it's just gonna require sort of a new way of thinking about openness and sharing. And there are [00:12:00] going to be some, some struggles in this, but I think there's more opportunities than there are barriers. And is the center very focused on having an impact in policy? We're very focused on that. So we truly want to make a difference and we want to do real world research and get out and be involved in demonstration projects and pilot projects and any type of endeavor. You know, we just received a grant from the University of California Transportation Center here at Berkeley [00:12:30] to look at personal vehicle sharing services. So we're not actually going out and implementing it or designing it or doing any of that, which we often do, but we're actually just working with companies throughout North America to see what they're doing and to help them actually understand through our data collection processes and analyses, what is this doing and what kind of impact is it having and what role might policy makers play to encourage more of this and what would work best overall [00:13:00] in terms of growing this opportunity? Speaker 3: If people really like it, I'm a big fan of diversity and choice and all of my research. If it deals with fuels or if it deals with giving people an opportunity to see, you know, when is the next bus coming or on a mobile app in a, where can I find the bike sharing vehicle? I am really, really a big fan of giving people choices and information because I think that's critical to giving people an [00:13:30] opportunity to, to experience transportation in a new way. But I think for a long time people haven't felt that there's a lot of choices and once they invest in a private vehicle, they viewed that a lot of those, you know, transportation costs are sunk and so there's really minor expenses associated with that, but that's actually really not the truth. But you know that fixed cost really does change people's relationship with other transportation modes. [00:14:00] The more we can give people choices and have him think about transportation costs is variable. We can see a really different attitude towards taking different modes at different points in time, including getting lots of physical exercise. Speaker 1: And this is the public affairs show spectrum on KALX Berkeley. We're talking with Susan Shaheen about transportation sustainability. [00:14:30] Next we talk about bike sharing and car sharing, the bike sharing during Speaker 3: project. Can you talk a little bit about that? You were mentioning that it's going to double. Yeah, so public bike sharing as a form of public transportation, it's gone through actually several evolutions. The first generation of it started in 19 five and Amsterdam and it was a system called provosts or white bikes, which you might've heard of. They deployed, 50 of them, put them around the community and [00:15:00] they promptly disappeared. And so then we've seen different evolutions of the bike sharing concept into the 1980s where we moved into a more technology based approach where you had a coined deposit system so you couldn't just take it for free. Shortly after that we saw movement into what we call the third generation, which is more IT-based, which requires sort of the identity of somebody to be linked to that bike. And what we found is that the more advanced technology use, the more reliable [00:15:30] these systems become and the more they can be integrated into people's Daily community, which is pretty significant. Speaker 3: Now, bikes are being used not just for recreational purposes, but to complete a first mile or last mile or a many mile trip that is actually part of a person's daily life. And these concepts have just taken hold. And I started to monitor this about seven or eight years ago and cataloged more and more of these bike sharing systems. They leave [00:16:00] has over 20,000 bikes in Paris. Honjo, which we've studied is in China. 60,000 bikes will, Han has over 70,000 bikes and it's public bike sharing system. New York City is sent to launch sometime late this summer or fall with 7,000 bikes leading up to 10,000 bikes. They're not taking a cent of public money to deploy the system. They have a title sponsorship with City Group, so [00:16:30] things are really changing in terms of transportation and mobility. How do they deal with the safety side of it all? All these people jumping on bikes without helmets probably. Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. On the safety side, it's actually quite interesting is the majority of programs do not require people to wear helmets, so the majority of people actually don't wear helmets and using these systems and I think liability issues associated with public bike sharing are going [00:17:00] to be become more prominent and more important, particularly as they scale in size and they become larger. We do think or hypothesize that as these systems proliferate and people become more aware of them, there will be safety benefits as well because drivers will be more aware that, okay, those are capital bikeshare bikes riding down the street. I need to be conscious and aware of them because there's a lot more bikers on on the road, but the issue of density and more and more of these bicycles hitting [00:17:30] the road is an issue and I think a lot of municipalities are working more and more to build supportive infrastructure. Speaker 3: New York City's an example of that. So these programs often go hand in hand with cycling infrastructure. But you do raise a good question associated with the helmets and there are some happening. San Vol is a company in British Columbia that's developed a dispensing system that actually cleans the helmet. So that could be a creative strategy. [00:18:00] A lot of the bike sharing programs actually offer helmets or give them out with a membership, but we think that a lot of times what happens is somebody who doesn't necessarily plan to take that bike and then realizes, wow, I want to take that bike. They're conveniently located like street furniture throughout the city. I'm just going to jump on it and go from point to point. And so the helmet is a difficult thing to plan for if that's how you use it. Carpools, car sharing. Can you talk about that a bit? Speaker 3: [00:18:30] Yeah, so I've been studying shared use vehicle systems since the mid 1990s I did my doctorate on car sharing. That again is the idea of short term vehicle access where you don't actually need to own a vehicle but you have access to a whole fleet of vehicles and you use them by the hour and we've seen over time tremendous growth in the number of operators throughout North America. We've seen a membership continually grow as we've been tracking it. We also see [00:19:00] some very interesting behavioral effects in response to what we call traditional or neighborhood car sharing where many times people who join these systems actually end up either foregoing or selling a vehicle after they start using the system because they realize they don't need a car and they can trade off this fixed vehicle asset for variable costs and take public transportation, more ride share, Carpool more bike more a, we're also seeing [00:19:30] a really neat concept which is called one way car sharing traditional car sharing works and that you go into an out of the same location similar to a rental car system and many of us in the shared use space of thought, if we were able to provide a one way service similar to public bike sharing where you start off one place and you leave the bike in another place or a vehicle in another place, this might attract a whole different usage pattern and what would this do? Speaker 3: [00:20:00] So several companies are getting started in this Daimler's cargo system, which uses a little smart vehicle launched in Austin. They're now in Washington, D c they're in Portland, they're in San Diego and this system is doing quite well. It requires a lot of public infrastructure because the vehicles have to be parked throughout the business areas or a neighborhood areas, but people actually instead of accessing the vehicle [00:20:30] by the hour, they're now actually accessing it by the minute and taking it one from one location to the next. BMW launched its program called drive. Now in the bay area, the first in the United States, it had only been operating in Germany prior to that. So lots of change and evolution in this shared you space coupled with public bike sharing, lots of innovation and ride sharing movements towards Uber taxi services and dynamic ride [00:21:00] sharing services have vago launched this spring and is providing dynamic ride sharing services. Speaker 3: So I think what we're going to start to see is the bundling of these concepts and technologies and hopefully linkages to smart card technology like your clipper card and it would give you access to any one of the car sharing programs or the public bike sharing program is planned for San Francisco. I think, you know, with time we're gonna see a lot more smart apps that tell us [00:21:30] what our choices are. If it'd be a taxi or a car sharing vehicle or a carpooling vehicle. And I think it's all going to be integrated. And I think the big mobility device is going to become our phone through these smart apps. So a lot is happening and there's a lot to be watching. We're actually keeping pretty busy these days. In terms of our projects in the shared use space, we, we just uh, got great news, uh, the end of last week that we were funded to actually evaluate cargos, pure electric [00:22:00] vehicle based one way, car sharing service in San Diego. Speaker 3: And we have another grant to look at the integration of electric vehicle bikes and to see car shares fleet in San Francisco. So it's going to be a service of both car sharing and Evy bike sharing, all combined into one service. So there's going to be a lot going on and a lot to watch in this space. And I, I do think the bay area is a critical location to see what's happening. What do you think is the best way [00:22:30] for individuals to find out about all of these options that are starting to happen? Is there someone who's consolidating these kinds of things on a website that they could go to or how do you search? I think you know for the bay area in particular, I think MTC, the metropolitan transportation commission has a really good five one one.org site that can provide you with a lot of information on your choices. Also, as of MTA has apps that you can download like the SF park site, so I think just go into your public transportation [00:23:00] operators websites like Bart, but also again, the regional transportation agencies are doing a really good job of getting information out there. Susan, Shane, thanks very much for coming on spectrum. You're welcome. It was great to meet you. Speaker 1: [inaudible] [00:23:30] regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next two weeks. Rick Karnofsky joins me with the calendar this month. Speaker 4: Leonardo art science evening rendezvous or laser is on Wednesday, October 10th at Stanford Universities. [00:24:00] Jordan Hall Building Four 20 Room 41 talk. Start at seven with Andrew Todd Hunter discussing bridging the fuzzy techie divide, the senior reflection capstone in biology. Terry barely years subsequent. Talk on where at the beginning meets the end. It's about making technologies vulnerabilities visible and illustrating how easily modern inventions can become footnotes to a bygone era. [00:24:30] Mark Jacobson then discusses a plan to power the world with a wind, water, and sun. He focuses on three of the most significant problems facing the world today. Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity. Tonight ends with composer Sheryl Leonard's music from high latitudes, making music out of sounds, objects and experiences from the polar regions. To Register, visit www.leonardo.info the [00:25:00] northern California Science Writers Association and Swissnex our host, Tina taught by why are dotcoms Kevin Polson on cybercrime an inside view.Speaker 4: He will talk about Max Butler, one of the highest value cybercriminals ever brought down by the FBI and Secret Service Butler, a hacker establish a worldwide operation from his safe house in a high rise apartment building in San Francisco's tenderloin. Butler eventually dominated a global black market in stolen credit card numbers, [00:25:30] supplying a far flung counterfeiting operation. Polson first described this in a wired article and then in his book published last year, kingpin, how one hacker took over the billion dollar cyber crime underground. The talk is on Thursday, October 11th doors at six 30 talk at seven reception with appetizers from seven 45 until nine 30 it's at Swissnex seven three zero Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Visit Swissnex, San Francisco. Dot. O R, g, [00:26:00] the San Francisco Opera, and the California Academy of Science Present Moby Dick, a whale of a tale in celebration of the musical conversion of Herman Melville's. Classic novel scientists will discuss Melville's famous dedication to the 19th century scientific accuracy in his writings. Speaker 4: There'll also be biologists who will present on modern day whale science and conservation practices. The event is at the California Academy of Sciences. 55 music concourse drive in San Francisco's [00:26:30] Golden Gate Park on Tuesday, October sixteenth@sevenpmitistendollarsforyourmembersandtwelvedollarsforthegeneralpublicvisitwww.cal academy.org now, here's Rick Karnofsky with two news stories to stellar mass. Black holes have been discovered in globular cluster m 22 located at 10,000 light years away by a team of international researchers who published their findings in nature on October 4th using the Carl g [00:27:00] jetski very large array in New Mexico. They found two black holes and argue that there may be as many as five to a hundred in the classroom. This runs contrary to earlier theories that suggested only a single black hole of that size could survive in a popular cluster. They are the first stellar mass black holes found in a globular cluster in the Milky Way and the first observed via radio waves that of course, I mean Arthur j straighter of Michigan State University and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics was quoted [00:27:30] by scientific American saying that because they were seen by radio, they have to not just be in binary's, but they have to be in binaries that are close enough that mass transfer is actually taking place. Speaker 4: In an article published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in September, Yale researchers showed that academic research faculty have a gender bias in favor of male students. The team performed a randomized double blind study in which university scientists were given applications purportedly from [00:28:00] students applying for a lab manager position. The content of the applications were all identical, but sometimes a male name was attached and sometimes a female name was attached. Female applicants were rated lower than men on the measured scales of competence, higher ability mentoring and we're giving lower salary offers. The mean salary offered by male scientist for male students was $30,520 for the female students. It was $27,111 female scientists recommended lower salaries for both [00:28:30] genders, but had an even greater bias against female students who received an average offer of 25,000 compared to the average offer of $29,333 per milestone. Speaker 2: [inaudible]. The music heard during the show is from an album by Lascano David entitled Folk Acoustic made available by a creative Commons [00:29:00] license 3.0 [inaudible] Speaker 1: [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us. Email address is spectrum [inaudible] at yahoo.com [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Susan Shaheen is co-Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center and Lecturer at UC Berkeley. She discusses the revolution underway in transportation choices which she believes will be driven by smart phones.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next [inaudible]. [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 2: Good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm the host of today's show. Our guest today is Susan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley. Susan also lectures [00:01:00] at UC Berkeley. Susan's Shaheen received her master's degree from the University of Rochester and her phd in ecology from UC Davis. She joins us to talk about the work she's been doing at the center as well as the centers. Broader scope. Susan Shaheen. Thanks for coming on spectrum. My pleasure. I wanted to get your perspective, a historic perspective on transportation and when you look back, what do you see as the profound changes that [00:01:30] have happened over a period of time that you're comfortable with reflecting on Speaker 3: [inaudible]? So I think transportation and the environment were significant, particularly in the state of California in the mid 1950s where relationships between exhaust emissions and smog and other types of air pollutants came together. And we started to garner a lot more understanding about that. And so in terms of [00:02:00] my personal interests, that was a really significant moment in time for the nation, but in particular for California, which, which led the way and that garnered a lot of interest and vehicle technologies and strategies for addressing transportation emissions. Speaker 2: And is that really what started the sustainability movement within transportation Speaker 3: in terms of transportation? Sustainability in those terms I think are more modern day than the mid [00:02:30] 1950s when we started to become really cognizant of smog and emissions, particularly in the La Basin area. There was a, the Brundtland Commission came about and in 1987 they produced a document called our common future and that really focused on sustainability. And that's when we started to hear more about the three pillars of sustainability. So economics, equity and the environment. And around that late 1980s early 1990s period, I believe that's really [00:03:00] when a lot of the discussion about transportation sustainability came about, but we had already been looking at vehicle technologies, fuels strategies for demand management, like carpooling long before then. But I think in terms of there being more of a movement or a focus on sustainability and transportation, that probably came about more in the late 1980s and early 1990s before I came on the scene. Speaker 3: How did the Transportation Sustainability Research Center get started? [00:03:30] So the uh, Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California Berkeley as part of the Institute of Transportation Studies. It came about five years ago. It was founded as the brainchild of Professor Norgaard and Professor Sam or Matt Nat. And they thought it was really important time for us to put together a center that focused on vehicles, fuels as well as demand management strategies that could [00:04:00] employ electronic and wireless communication systems. So that's how we got our start in the center. How do you choose your projects? Well, we always choose our projects based on someone's interest within a center. So some, some great form of passion associated with it. And we find that sometimes the scale of the project needs to be very, very large. So if there's an opportunity for a large grant and it fits [00:04:30] with our mission and mandate for instance, goods movement, we have a project that's by point $5 million to implement a smart parking, uh, management system for long haul truckers on the I five. Speaker 3: And that requires a lot of money and a lot of technology and a lot of getting out there and getting your hands dirty and implementing things. And it takes scale and money and time to build something like that. And so that's our largest project overall and it really warrants that kind [00:05:00] of financial base, but we can also do things for 50 to $75,000 that are highly impactful. We've received awards for research on car sharing, things that I think may have cost $55,000 in terms of grant monies to produce. But the work itself was impactful enough that it made a difference and was really powerful to people in the field and to decision makers and gave them the data that they needed. So a lot of it just has to do with our passion and [00:05:30] if there's a grant opportunity that fits really well with our interests, we go for it and we don't necessarily say, okay, a small grant isn't going to do what we needed to do because we know about it than that, we know that sometimes you need small grants to do really impactful things and sometimes you need massive grants to do really impactful things. Speaker 3: It just depends on what we're trying to do. But in my research I've found over time that I don't need is larger grant anymore to do as [00:06:00] impactful and innovative research as I used to have to. And that's because there's so many innovative entrepreneurial companies out there doing this that I don't have to go and build the thing anymore and create the service and imagine the service because there's entrepreneurs everyday contacting us saying, would you partner with us and help us to study and understand what we've built? And we're delighted because that means we can do so much more research when we don't actually [00:06:30] have to go out and build it. But if we need to go out and build it, we will do that. Speaker 2: It does the center deal at all with larger forms of transportation trucks. You mentioned trucks that you were involved with that do you get into shipping overseas, shipping trains, things like that because California has such a, a destination for so much material from Asia products? Speaker 3: That's a great question. We have a great deal of interest in all forms of goods movement at present. Our focus is primarily [00:07:00] trying to get our hands around and our understanding of origin and destination patterns and the long distance trucking industry. And I believe that you know, more and more will venture into freight to rail and also deal more with the ports. But it's a different area of research. It's not as well understood. It's an unregulated industry in many ways. And so getting data is a major issue and really understanding that data and working [00:07:30] with it is I think a notable contribution that we're trying to make with respect to just even understanding what's going on on the [inaudible]. So I think it's going to be a big area and continuing area of research at TSTC. I think there's so many opportunities for us to make freight and goods movement more sustainable, but it's not the easiest area to study or to get into and we're really trying to build up this understanding and then go from there. Speaker 1: [00:08:00] This is spectrum on k a Alex Berkeley. We're talking with Susan Shaheen about transportation, sustainability. Speaker 2: What are the strengths and weaknesses of the free market and government approaches to having an impact on transportation? [inaudible] Speaker 3: [00:08:30] no, I think government can play a tremendous role in making sure that we continue to have public transportation and we continue to have safe roads and bridges and that's a really significant role and they can also play a notable role in terms of public policy with respect to incentivizing different types of behavior if it's through road pricing strategies, so to s mode shift, get people think about taking a different mode at a different time, incentivizing people to [00:09:00] buy alternative fuel vehicles, giving them access to the Hov lanes or the high occupancy vehicle lanes. I also feel that the government can play a tremendous role in terms of providing third parties with access to data about transit services. And what we've started to see is a lot of new companies and new opportunities providing people with access to information that really wasn't there before. So I think the government can play a role in really [00:09:30] encouraging and facilitating openness and sharing and a really different way of experiencing transportation than we ever have before. Speaker 3: And I think industry has a tremendous role to play as well. Why not allow them to be as innovative as possible and create new opportunities and new modes if some of the things I study include car sharing, which is short term access to vehicles, and we've started to see lots of investment and interest in the idea of peer-to-peer car sharing or personal [00:10:00] vehicle sharing services where people could actually put their own vehicle into a shared use setting and we could see car sharing go outside of dense urban areas where traditionally lives into suburban areas and there's ideas for scooter sharing services. Public bike sharing is just growing and leaps and bounds around the world. It's about to double in size in terms of the number of programs just in the year 2012 in the United States. So [00:10:30] there's so many opportunities for creating new industries and new jobs and new transportation choices. Speaker 3: And I think the government has a tremendous role in that and creating and encouraging and inspiring these partnerships with individuals who have innovative ideas. I think we're really entering into a new era of mobility, which is very exciting. And then you have to tread the line between interfering with the market, choosing winners and losers gets run out [inaudible] [inaudible] [00:11:00] and not over-regulated. So there's a balance there. Right. And I think that's where research is really critical is to understand, you know, when you incentivize, what is the impact of that incentivization, you know, is it working, is it not working? Do you need to do more, do you need to do less? And that's where I think a lot of our work can come in to help provide policymakers and decision makers with more informed understanding about what, what is actually happening in the system. And we're really [00:11:30] moving into an era of massive databases and opportunities to look at real time data and in a way that we never could before because of the availability of electronic and wireless communication systems, the ubiquity of cell phones and smart phone technology and sensor technologies and the cost of these things are dropping. Speaker 3: So again, I believe we're really entering into a new era and mobility and transportation and it's just gonna require sort of a new way of thinking about openness and sharing. And there are [00:12:00] going to be some, some struggles in this, but I think there's more opportunities than there are barriers. And is the center very focused on having an impact in policy? We're very focused on that. So we truly want to make a difference and we want to do real world research and get out and be involved in demonstration projects and pilot projects and any type of endeavor. You know, we just received a grant from the University of California Transportation Center here at Berkeley [00:12:30] to look at personal vehicle sharing services. So we're not actually going out and implementing it or designing it or doing any of that, which we often do, but we're actually just working with companies throughout North America to see what they're doing and to help them actually understand through our data collection processes and analyses, what is this doing and what kind of impact is it having and what role might policy makers play to encourage more of this and what would work best overall [00:13:00] in terms of growing this opportunity? Speaker 3: If people really like it, I'm a big fan of diversity and choice and all of my research. If it deals with fuels or if it deals with giving people an opportunity to see, you know, when is the next bus coming or on a mobile app in a, where can I find the bike sharing vehicle? I am really, really a big fan of giving people choices and information because I think that's critical to giving people an [00:13:30] opportunity to, to experience transportation in a new way. But I think for a long time people haven't felt that there's a lot of choices and once they invest in a private vehicle, they viewed that a lot of those, you know, transportation costs are sunk and so there's really minor expenses associated with that, but that's actually really not the truth. But you know that fixed cost really does change people's relationship with other transportation modes. [00:14:00] The more we can give people choices and have him think about transportation costs is variable. We can see a really different attitude towards taking different modes at different points in time, including getting lots of physical exercise. Speaker 1: And this is the public affairs show spectrum on KALX Berkeley. We're talking with Susan Shaheen about transportation sustainability. [00:14:30] Next we talk about bike sharing and car sharing, the bike sharing during Speaker 3: project. Can you talk a little bit about that? You were mentioning that it's going to double. Yeah, so public bike sharing as a form of public transportation, it's gone through actually several evolutions. The first generation of it started in 19 five and Amsterdam and it was a system called provosts or white bikes, which you might've heard of. They deployed, 50 of them, put them around the community and [00:15:00] they promptly disappeared. And so then we've seen different evolutions of the bike sharing concept into the 1980s where we moved into a more technology based approach where you had a coined deposit system so you couldn't just take it for free. Shortly after that we saw movement into what we call the third generation, which is more IT-based, which requires sort of the identity of somebody to be linked to that bike. And what we found is that the more advanced technology use, the more reliable [00:15:30] these systems become and the more they can be integrated into people's Daily community, which is pretty significant. Speaker 3: Now, bikes are being used not just for recreational purposes, but to complete a first mile or last mile or a many mile trip that is actually part of a person's daily life. And these concepts have just taken hold. And I started to monitor this about seven or eight years ago and cataloged more and more of these bike sharing systems. They leave [00:16:00] has over 20,000 bikes in Paris. Honjo, which we've studied is in China. 60,000 bikes will, Han has over 70,000 bikes and it's public bike sharing system. New York City is sent to launch sometime late this summer or fall with 7,000 bikes leading up to 10,000 bikes. They're not taking a cent of public money to deploy the system. They have a title sponsorship with City Group, so [00:16:30] things are really changing in terms of transportation and mobility. How do they deal with the safety side of it all? All these people jumping on bikes without helmets probably. Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. On the safety side, it's actually quite interesting is the majority of programs do not require people to wear helmets, so the majority of people actually don't wear helmets and using these systems and I think liability issues associated with public bike sharing are going [00:17:00] to be become more prominent and more important, particularly as they scale in size and they become larger. We do think or hypothesize that as these systems proliferate and people become more aware of them, there will be safety benefits as well because drivers will be more aware that, okay, those are capital bikeshare bikes riding down the street. I need to be conscious and aware of them because there's a lot more bikers on on the road, but the issue of density and more and more of these bicycles hitting [00:17:30] the road is an issue and I think a lot of municipalities are working more and more to build supportive infrastructure. Speaker 3: New York City's an example of that. So these programs often go hand in hand with cycling infrastructure. But you do raise a good question associated with the helmets and there are some happening. San Vol is a company in British Columbia that's developed a dispensing system that actually cleans the helmet. So that could be a creative strategy. [00:18:00] A lot of the bike sharing programs actually offer helmets or give them out with a membership, but we think that a lot of times what happens is somebody who doesn't necessarily plan to take that bike and then realizes, wow, I want to take that bike. They're conveniently located like street furniture throughout the city. I'm just going to jump on it and go from point to point. And so the helmet is a difficult thing to plan for if that's how you use it. Carpools, car sharing. Can you talk about that a bit? Speaker 3: [00:18:30] Yeah, so I've been studying shared use vehicle systems since the mid 1990s I did my doctorate on car sharing. That again is the idea of short term vehicle access where you don't actually need to own a vehicle but you have access to a whole fleet of vehicles and you use them by the hour and we've seen over time tremendous growth in the number of operators throughout North America. We've seen a membership continually grow as we've been tracking it. We also see [00:19:00] some very interesting behavioral effects in response to what we call traditional or neighborhood car sharing where many times people who join these systems actually end up either foregoing or selling a vehicle after they start using the system because they realize they don't need a car and they can trade off this fixed vehicle asset for variable costs and take public transportation, more ride share, Carpool more bike more a, we're also seeing [00:19:30] a really neat concept which is called one way car sharing traditional car sharing works and that you go into an out of the same location similar to a rental car system and many of us in the shared use space of thought, if we were able to provide a one way service similar to public bike sharing where you start off one place and you leave the bike in another place or a vehicle in another place, this might attract a whole different usage pattern and what would this do? Speaker 3: [00:20:00] So several companies are getting started in this Daimler's cargo system, which uses a little smart vehicle launched in Austin. They're now in Washington, D c they're in Portland, they're in San Diego and this system is doing quite well. It requires a lot of public infrastructure because the vehicles have to be parked throughout the business areas or a neighborhood areas, but people actually instead of accessing the vehicle [00:20:30] by the hour, they're now actually accessing it by the minute and taking it one from one location to the next. BMW launched its program called drive. Now in the bay area, the first in the United States, it had only been operating in Germany prior to that. So lots of change and evolution in this shared you space coupled with public bike sharing, lots of innovation and ride sharing movements towards Uber taxi services and dynamic ride [00:21:00] sharing services have vago launched this spring and is providing dynamic ride sharing services. Speaker 3: So I think what we're going to start to see is the bundling of these concepts and technologies and hopefully linkages to smart card technology like your clipper card and it would give you access to any one of the car sharing programs or the public bike sharing program is planned for San Francisco. I think, you know, with time we're gonna see a lot more smart apps that tell us [00:21:30] what our choices are. If it'd be a taxi or a car sharing vehicle or a carpooling vehicle. And I think it's all going to be integrated. And I think the big mobility device is going to become our phone through these smart apps. So a lot is happening and there's a lot to be watching. We're actually keeping pretty busy these days. In terms of our projects in the shared use space, we, we just uh, got great news, uh, the end of last week that we were funded to actually evaluate cargos, pure electric [00:22:00] vehicle based one way, car sharing service in San Diego. Speaker 3: And we have another grant to look at the integration of electric vehicle bikes and to see car shares fleet in San Francisco. So it's going to be a service of both car sharing and Evy bike sharing, all combined into one service. So there's going to be a lot going on and a lot to watch in this space. And I, I do think the bay area is a critical location to see what's happening. What do you think is the best way [00:22:30] for individuals to find out about all of these options that are starting to happen? Is there someone who's consolidating these kinds of things on a website that they could go to or how do you search? I think you know for the bay area in particular, I think MTC, the metropolitan transportation commission has a really good five one one.org site that can provide you with a lot of information on your choices. Also, as of MTA has apps that you can download like the SF park site, so I think just go into your public transportation [00:23:00] operators websites like Bart, but also again, the regional transportation agencies are doing a really good job of getting information out there. Susan, Shane, thanks very much for coming on spectrum. You're welcome. It was great to meet you. Speaker 1: [inaudible] [00:23:30] regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next two weeks. Rick Karnofsky joins me with the calendar this month. Speaker 4: Leonardo art science evening rendezvous or laser is on Wednesday, October 10th at Stanford Universities. [00:24:00] Jordan Hall Building Four 20 Room 41 talk. Start at seven with Andrew Todd Hunter discussing bridging the fuzzy techie divide, the senior reflection capstone in biology. Terry barely years subsequent. Talk on where at the beginning meets the end. It's about making technologies vulnerabilities visible and illustrating how easily modern inventions can become footnotes to a bygone era. [00:24:30] Mark Jacobson then discusses a plan to power the world with a wind, water, and sun. He focuses on three of the most significant problems facing the world today. Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity. Tonight ends with composer Sheryl Leonard's music from high latitudes, making music out of sounds, objects and experiences from the polar regions. To Register, visit www.leonardo.info the [00:25:00] northern California Science Writers Association and Swissnex our host, Tina taught by why are dotcoms Kevin Polson on cybercrime an inside view.Speaker 4: He will talk about Max Butler, one of the highest value cybercriminals ever brought down by the FBI and Secret Service Butler, a hacker establish a worldwide operation from his safe house in a high rise apartment building in San Francisco's tenderloin. Butler eventually dominated a global black market in stolen credit card numbers, [00:25:30] supplying a far flung counterfeiting operation. Polson first described this in a wired article and then in his book published last year, kingpin, how one hacker took over the billion dollar cyber crime underground. The talk is on Thursday, October 11th doors at six 30 talk at seven reception with appetizers from seven 45 until nine 30 it's at Swissnex seven three zero Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Visit Swissnex, San Francisco. Dot. O R, g, [00:26:00] the San Francisco Opera, and the California Academy of Science Present Moby Dick, a whale of a tale in celebration of the musical conversion of Herman Melville's. Classic novel scientists will discuss Melville's famous dedication to the 19th century scientific accuracy in his writings. Speaker 4: There'll also be biologists who will present on modern day whale science and conservation practices. The event is at the California Academy of Sciences. 55 music concourse drive in San Francisco's [00:26:30] Golden Gate Park on Tuesday, October sixteenth@sevenpmitistendollarsforyourmembersandtwelvedollarsforthegeneralpublicvisitwww.cal academy.org now, here's Rick Karnofsky with two news stories to stellar mass. Black holes have been discovered in globular cluster m 22 located at 10,000 light years away by a team of international researchers who published their findings in nature on October 4th using the Carl g [00:27:00] jetski very large array in New Mexico. They found two black holes and argue that there may be as many as five to a hundred in the classroom. This runs contrary to earlier theories that suggested only a single black hole of that size could survive in a popular cluster. They are the first stellar mass black holes found in a globular cluster in the Milky Way and the first observed via radio waves that of course, I mean Arthur j straighter of Michigan State University and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics was quoted [00:27:30] by scientific American saying that because they were seen by radio, they have to not just be in binary's, but they have to be in binaries that are close enough that mass transfer is actually taking place. Speaker 4: In an article published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in September, Yale researchers showed that academic research faculty have a gender bias in favor of male students. The team performed a randomized double blind study in which university scientists were given applications purportedly from [00:28:00] students applying for a lab manager position. The content of the applications were all identical, but sometimes a male name was attached and sometimes a female name was attached. Female applicants were rated lower than men on the measured scales of competence, higher ability mentoring and we're giving lower salary offers. The mean salary offered by male scientist for male students was $30,520 for the female students. It was $27,111 female scientists recommended lower salaries for both [00:28:30] genders, but had an even greater bias against female students who received an average offer of 25,000 compared to the average offer of $29,333 per milestone. Speaker 2: [inaudible]. The music heard during the show is from an album by Lascano David entitled Folk Acoustic made available by a creative Commons [00:29:00] license 3.0 [inaudible] Speaker 1: [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us. Email address is spectrum [inaudible] at yahoo.com [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.