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Home My WebLink About2022-01-03 City Council Emails701-32 DOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 1/3 /2022 Document dates: 12/27/2021 – 1/3/2022 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Bains, Paul; darylsavage@gmail.com; Council, City; Aram James; Filseth, Eric (Internal); jaythor@well.com; Shikada, Ed; Gennady Sheyner; Human Relations Commission; Jay Boyarsky; Jeff Rosen; Milton, Lesley; Lewis. james; Sean Webby; mark weiss; Bill Johnson Subject:King and Queen of the trash bags Date:Monday, January 3, 2022 6:38:48 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Mr. Bains you're no man of the cloth, the homeless plastic trash bag yes https://twitter.com/pafreepress/status/1478009963872239619?s=21 Mark Petersen-Perez Editor in chief Palo Alto Free Press Reporting from Nicaragua @PAFreePress Sent from my iPhone From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Aram James Cc:Roberta Ahlquist; Council, City; Human Relations Commission; HRW Silicon Valley; rebecca; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Palo Alto Renters" Association; ParkRec Commission; EPA Today; planning.commision@cityofpaloalto.org; Sajid Khan; Jeff Rosen; Raj; Lewis. james Subject:Re: WILPF SJ Branch Homeless Project Date:Monday, January 3, 2022 4:07:33 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://twitter.com/pafreepress/status/1477974176833097731?s=21 Mark Petersen-Perez Editor in chief Palo Alto Free Press @PAFreePress Reporting from Nicaragua Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2022, at 2:23 AM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Roberta, I just watched the entire WILPF video it was outstanding. I hope all members of the Palo Alto City Council, HRC members, Planning Commission and others will take the time to view it. Regards, aram Sent from my iPhone On Jan 2, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> wrote: Dear Concerned Friends, Our Women's International League for Peace & Freedom sister bench has produced a very informative video of the current status of some of the homeless in Santa Clara County. We hope that you will learn from it and consider volunteering, or sending a donation. Sincerely, Roberta Ahlquist -WILPF Peninsula Branch, Low-Income Housing & Homeless Committee https://youtu.be/EV65cPwSDIk From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; David Balakian; fred beyerlein; bballpod; Leodies Buchanan; beachrides; boardmembers; Cathy Lewis; Chris Field; Council, City; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Dan Richard; Daniel Zack; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; karkazianjewelers@gmail.com; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; margaret- sasaki@live.com; Mayor; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; david pomaville; russ@topperjewelers.com; Sally Thiessen; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Omicron is displacing Delta. Infection with Omicron protects against Delta!! Date:Monday, January 3, 2022 1:08:16 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 11:59 PM Subject: Fwd: Omicron is displacing Delta. Infection with Omicron protects against Delta!! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 10:34 PM Subject: Fwd: Omicron is displacing Delta. Infection with Omicron protects against Delta!! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 10:14 PM Subject: Fwd: Omicron is displacing Delta. Infection with Omicron protects against Delta!! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 4:49 PM Subject: Omicron is displacing Delta. Infection with Omicron protects against Delta!! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Sunday, January 2, 2022 To all-- Here is Dr. John Campbell in Carlisle, England today with some great research from the big gun experts in South Africa. They have demonstrated that infection with Omicron, and the antibodies one produces in response, protects one against future infection with Delta. Having survived Delta does not protect one against Omicron. But Omicron is far less likely to produce severe disease than is Delta. We see fewer symptomatic cases, fewer hospitalizations, shorter stays in hospital, less severe disease, fewer deaths with Omicron. We want to get rid of Delta and Omicron is doing that. Just watch this for 18 minutes: Omicron is displacing delta science - YouTube The US TV network evening news have been putting out a bunch of bull to the suckers, the saps, the American people, as they see their viewers. "The sky is falling because the number of Covid cases is soaring!!!!!!!!! We mean it is soaring. Therefore, we are all about to die due to Covid" For days that has been the ignorant, uneducated mantra from the major networks. NOT ONCE do they give a break down of Omicron v. Delta in those cases, and NOT ONCE do they say how many of those CASES, i.e. people who test positive for either Delta or Omicron, were vaccinated and/or boosted, how many of those have which variant and what percent of each get hospitalized, and NOT ONCE do they say how long the people who get infected with either variant are in the hospital and what their vaccination status was, and NOT ONCE do they say how many have symptoms just serious enough to hospitalize them or how many, and with which variant, and with what vaccination status, go the distance and develop severe disease- i.e. ICU, ventilator and maybe death. All of that information is available, but the BS artists running the US TV networks won't report any of it and fail to draw the correct conclusions from the data. Dr. Campbell does report the official data from the UK, the US and South Africa and he does draw the correct conclusions from it, as in the videos above and below and in the other recent videos he has put out. The outlook re the pandemic in the US is therefore far different in his view than the outlook protrayed by the TV networks in the US in their nightly news programs. Why would the networks engage in such fraud? The people writing the stuff they put out about the pandemic are all female and minority college drop outs with big, rich Nazi affirmative action jobs who know zero about the pandemic. They can't be fired, not even questioned. It is the stated purpose of the U.S. government to ruin the lives of white, American men, and this is the sort of stuff that results. OR the networks are being bribed by the drug companies to lie. OR they are being told to lie by the Biden Administration to scare people into getting vaccinated and boosted. I suspect that the first and third reasons are at work here. There could be others. The networks give the pandemic five minutes per night and provide no evidence. Dr. Campbell puts out a 30 minute video every day now showing the official DATA available and data from well conducted studies, and draws the correct conclusions from it. Nobody would suggest that getting vaccinated and boosted is less than a great idea at this point. We don't know about long Covid from Omicron, e.g. I am of the opinion that the truth is the best message to distribute about a pandemic. Last night, Saturday, January 1, 2022, the NBC News evening network news did break ranks and start to talk about the Omicron variant maybe producing less severe disease and the number of hospitalizations due to it being lower than one might expect, given the number of cases of Omicron we are seeing. But regarding the convincing evidence that Dr. Campbell provides that the Omicron variant is rapidly displacing the far more dangerous Delta variant in the UK AND in the US, the networks are almost silent. Dr. Campbell says we are at the beginning of the end of the pandemic. No such statement is broadcast by the major TV networks in the US. How could it be? With their sloppy, ill-informed reporting, they wouldn't know. On Thursday, December 30, 2021, Dr. Campbell provided in the video below very convincing evidence that the Omicron variant is displacing the Delta variant in London, in the rest of England, and in the US. He looks at Colorado, Florida and New York City. He looks at the higher prevalance of certain ethnic groups in London (how many there are of them), at their low vaccination rates, and sees the somewhat higher hospitalization rates in London. Besides their low vaccination rates, their darker skin is inhibiting their production of vitamin D, an important factor in maintaining the immune system. This too is a very important video by Dr. Campbell. I recommend it: This is the latest hard data and it shows that the pandemic is on its last legs, Dr. Campbell says. At 5:19: Data from Colorado: He shows that Omicron is fast displacing Delta. Hospitalizations will be up in the short term due to the huge number of new cases of Omicron. The elderly with co-morbidities can get sick from Omicron. People with compromised immune systems can too. The unvaccinated can too. There is still some Delta around. At 6:30: Data from California: Cases are up in the unvaccinated and in the vaccinatedl At 7:07 Hospitalizations are down in California for both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated. Omicron could be responsible for that. The sheer number of cases of Omicron in the next few weeks could change that. At 7:47: Deaths are down in California in both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated. At 7:57 Florida: Cases are up dramatically despite a good level of vaccination. Omicron is breaking through immunity in some cases. Florida is home to many retirees. Recall that the Kaiser Family Foundation said several weeks ago that breakthroughs happen more often to those who are older and who have co-morbities. At 9:10: New York City: A massive surge in cases. 88.4% of cases in NYC are now Omicron. Delta is 11.5%. At 10:38: UK: Omicron is displacing Delta in UK as a whole. Same in London. Omicron, orientation and unknowns - YouTube L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Aram James To:Roberta Ahlquist Cc:Council, City; Human Relations Commission; HRW Silicon Valley; rebecca; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Palo Alto Renters" Association; ParkRec Commission; EPA Today; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; planning.commision@cityofpaloalto.org; Sajid Khan; Jeff Rosen; Raj; Lewis. james Subject:Re: WILPF SJ Branch Homeless Project Date:Monday, January 3, 2022 12:24:05 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Roberta, I just watched the entire WILPF video it was outstanding. I hope all members of the Palo Alto City Council, HRC members, Planning Commission and others will take the time to view it. Regards, aram Sent from my iPhone On Jan 2, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Roberta Ahlquist <roberta.ahlquist@sjsu.edu> wrote: Dear Concerned Friends, Our Women's International League for Peace & Freedom sister bench has produced a very informative video of the current status of some of the homeless in Santa Clara County. We hope that you will learn from it and consider volunteering, or sending a donation. Sincerely, Roberta Ahlquist -WILPF Peninsula Branch, Low-Income Housing & Homeless Committee https://youtu.be/EV65cPwSDIk From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Aram James Cc:Figueroa, Eric; robert.parham@cityofpaloalto.org; Tannock, Julie; Human Relations Commission; Jonsen, Robert; Planning Commission; Council, City; chuck jagoda; Winter Dellenbach; Alison Cormack; Binder, Andrew; Jay Boyarsky; Enberg, Nicholas; Sajid Khan; Jeff Rosen; Raj; Tony Dixon; Joe Simitian; citycouncil@mountainview.gov; bjohnson@paweekly.com; jaythor@well.com; Jason Green; darylsavage@gmail.com Subject:Re: If you have not already read this series on when police dogs are weapons I highly recommend it… Date:Sunday, January 2, 2022 7:55:21 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments andclicking on links. When I read this material and BTW they deserve the Pulitzer Prize. What sick and demented minds would embrace the sadistic tearing of human flesh… I’ll tell you, the entire Palo Alto Human Relations Commission would…. And everybody else in between. But more iImportantly ask Daryl Savage. She’s always been a strong advocate police dog use and for that matter any police force…. All it take is a little Googling. Daryl, chime in anytime…..or any whom wish to support her….Like Chief Jonsen ant the Santa Clara DA’s office…. Do I need to mention any names? Mark Petersen-Perez, Editor in chief, Palo Alto Free Press @PAFreePress Reporting from Nicaragua Sent from my iPad On Jan 2, 2022, at 9:03 PM, Aram James <abjpd1@gmail.com> wrote: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/15/mauled-when-police-dogs-are-weapons Shared via the Google app Sent from my iPhone From:Aram James To:Figueroa, Eric; robert.parham@cityofpaloalto.org; Tannock, Julie; Human Relations Commission; Jonsen, Robert; paloaltofreepress@gmail.com; Planning Commission; Council, City; chuck jagoda; Winter Dellenbach; Alison Cormack; Binder, Andrew; Jay Boyarsky; Enberg, Nicholas; Sajid Khan; Jeff Rosen; Raj; Tony Dixon; Joe Simitian; citycouncil@mountainview.gov Subject:If you have not already read this series on when police dogs are weapons I highly recommend it… Date:Sunday, January 2, 2022 7:03:43 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/15/mauled-when-police-dogs-are-weapons Shared via the Google app Sent from my iPhone From:Roberta Ahlquist To:Council, City; Human Relations Commission; Planning Commission; HRW Silicon Valley; Aram James; rebecca; Paul George @ PPJC; Sandy Perry-HCA; Angie, Palo Alto Renters Association; Palo Alto Renters" Association; Pastor Kaloma Smith; ParkRec Commission; Dave Price; Mark Mollineaux; EPA Today Subject:WILPF SJ Branch Homeless Project Date:Sunday, January 2, 2022 5:59:22 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Concerned Friends, Our Women's International League for Peace & Freedom sister bench has produced a very informative video of the current status of some of the homeless in Santa Clara County. We hope that you will learn from it and consider volunteering, or sending a donation. Sincerely, Roberta Ahlquist -WILPF Peninsula Branch, Low-Income Housing & Homeless Committee https://youtu.be/EV65cPwSDIk From:Palo Alto Free Press To:darylsavage@gmail.com; Jonsen, Robert; Council, City; Shikada, Ed; Reifschneider, James; Andrew Jentzsch; Binder, Andrew; Aram James Cc:James Aram Subject:It"s new year and hopefully the last as a appointment for you... Date:Sunday, January 2, 2022 11:49:45 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. https://twitter.com/pafreepress/status/1477727591335346182?s=21 Mark Petersen-Perez Editor in chief Palo Alto Free Press Reporting from Nicaraguan Sent from my iPhone From:Palo Alto Free Press To:Council, City; Jonsen, Robert; Reifschneider, James; Perron, Zachary; Binder, Andrew; Stump, Molly Cc:Shikada, Ed; James Aram; Jeff Rosen; Jay Boyarsky; Brian Welch; darylsavage@gmail.com; dokonkwo@dao.sccgov.org; Human Relations Commission Subject:Former city Palo Alto mayor Sid Espinoza Date:Saturday, January 1, 2022 4:22:22 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Twitter account suspended….. https://twitter.com/pafreepress/status/1477248283030564864?s=21 Any comments? Mark Petersen-Perez Editor in chief Palo Alto Free Press Reporting from Nicaragua Sent from my iPad From:Yahoo Mail.® To:Honky Subject:HAPPY NEW YEAR Date:Friday, December 31, 2021 9:38:19 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. https://external-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php? d=AQHJ8bo1kb0JV6KF&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia3.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FzGN280HcCfFVZ6Xlyb%2Fgiphy.gif%3Fcid%3Dcafe52e9le4dsbkduimpp019n2u1oz8eot4wds18t516rpha%26rid%3Dgiphy.gif%26ct%3Dg&ext=gif&_nc_oe=6f508&_nc_sid=916624&ccb=3- 5&_nc_hash=AQF3tdSfpq5BXO6R From:Jeremy Pilaar To:Council, City Subject:Let"s keep our car(e)free space! Date:Friday, December 31, 2021 4:00:26 PM [Some people who received this message don't often get email from jeremypilaar@gmail.com. Learn why this is important at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification.] CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. ________________________________ I urge you to make University Avenue and Ramona Street open for pedestrians and bicycles, and closed to automobiles, PERMANENTLY. It's a matter of quality of life! Sincerely, A resident of Palo Alto Sent from my iPhone From:Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo To:Council, City Subject:We"re Hiring! Date:Friday, December 31, 2021 8:59:14 AM Some people who received this message don't often get email from info+friendsjmz.org@ccsend.com. Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. We're Hiring! Come and work with the Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo - the non-profit organization that supports and enhances the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo. We are excited to begin hiring for two key roles within our organization: Development Associate: The Friends Development Associate is responsible for providing broad fundraising support to our organization. The associate position is an excellent opportunity to learn and grow as a development professional, with room for advancement within the Friends. For more information, please respond to this email or visit the job posting on indeed.com. Office Manager: The Friends Office Manager is responsible for the management of all daily administrative activities and coordination of financial processes. This position works closely with the Board of Directors to meet organizational objectives. For more information, please respond to this email or visit the job posting on indeed.com. Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo info@friendsjmz.org | www.friendsjmz.org Connect with us ‌ ‌ ‌ Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo | 1451 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301 Unsubscribe city.council@cityofpaloalto.org Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by info@friendsjmz.org powered by Try email marketing for free today! From:Pat Landman Herriot To:Council, City Subject:Churchill crossing Date:Thursday, December 30, 2021 7:00:48 PM Attachments:Dear City Council.docx Some people who received this message don't often get email from kpat47@gmail.com. Learn why this is important CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. To City Council, We would like to know the details of the Churchill crossing plan. Our house is located on Churchill just east of Alma. Since Palo Alto is under pressure to increase housing, we are concerned about any housing losses. We would like to suggest holding off on Churchill changes until the Embarcadero configuration is worked out. We hope you support the ideas described above. Sincerely, Bob Herriot and Pat Landman Herriot To City Council, We would like to know the details of the Churchill crossing plan. Our house is located on Churchill just east of Alma. Since Palo Alto is under pressure to increase housing, we are concerned about any housing losses. We would like to suggest holding off on Churchill changes until the Embarcadero configuration is worked out. We hope you support the ideas described above. Sincerely, Bob and Pat From:Jeff Hoel To:UAC Cc:Hoel, Jeff (external); Council, City Subject:01-05-22 UAC meeting -- no FTTP item Date:Thursday, December 30, 2021 4:47:47 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Oops. Resend with correct subject line. Sorry. Commissioners, The agenda for UAC's 01-05-21 meeting https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities- advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2022/01-05-2022/uac-agenda- january-05-2022.pdf has no FTTP item. I don't know if Director Batchelor intends to give an FTTP update in his Director's Report. Here's what I'm curious about near-term: * Community outreach -- What's been done so far? Community outreach was supposed to precede the surveys. Folks who receive their utilities bills via snail mail got a flier about FTTP as an insert. (Here's an online image.) https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/utilities/bill-inserts/paloaltofiber_utility-bill-insert- nocropmarks_final.pdf Did folks who pay their utilities bills online get anything? * Surveys -- They were supposed to be done in November. Are they done? (NOTE: I'm not asking that the surveys be done before the community outreach has been done.) * Regulatory risk analysis -- On 10-06-21, John Honker said something will be coming in the next 45-60 days. i.e., before 12-07-21. (See page 14, near 0:24:40, here.) https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities- advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2021/11-03-2021- regular/november-03-2021-public-letters-to-uac.pdf What's available? I'm also curious about: * What architecture makes the most sense -- AE or PON? * How many huts do we need, and where can they go? But staff hasn't said it's willing to address these in the short term. At item IX of the 01-05-22 agenda ("FUTURE TOPICS FOR UPCOMING MEETINGS: February 2, 2022"), please consider asking staff to schedule an FTTP item for your next meeting, 02-02-22. NOTE: From 05-07-14 to 08-31-16, each UAC agenda had a scheduled item about the drought, just in case UAC wanted to talk about it. Might that make sense for FTTP? Thanks. Jeff PS: I noticed in this 11-26-21 article, "City's new bike overpass to Baylands opens," https://www.paloaltoonline.com/print/story/2021/11/26/citys-new-bike-overpass-to-baylands-opens that this overpass contains fiber optics (or at least conduit for fiber optics). What's the purpose? (Dark fiber network? FTTP?) Who paid for it? This 12-10-18 staff report (pages 28-29) shows where it goes. https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports- cmrs/year-archive/2018/id.-9882-highway-101-overpass-resolution-for-maintenance-agreement-with- state-and-google-easement.pdf?t=61630.15 (I don't know whether it was actually built that way.) Page 28 says 4" conduit. Page 29 says both 4" conduit and 2" conduit. (Possibly mirroring the discussion about whether the dark fiber extension network should use 4" conduit ($28 million) or 2" conduit ($22 million).) From:Jeff Hoel To:UAC Cc:Hoel, Jeff (external); Council, City Subject:Re: 12-01-21 UAC meeting -- no FTTP item Date:Thursday, December 30, 2021 4:39:53 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Commissioners, The agenda for UAC's 01-05-21 meeting https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities- advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2022/01-05-2022/uac-agenda- january-05-2022.pdf has no FTTP item. I don't know if Director Batchelor intends to give an FTTP update in his Director's Report. Here's what I'm curious about near-term: * Community outreach -- What's been done so far? Community outreach was supposed to precede the surveys. Folks who receive their utilities bills via snail mail got a flier about FTTP as an insert. (Here's an online image.) https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/utilities/bill-inserts/paloaltofiber_utility-bill-insert- nocropmarks_final.pdf Did folks who pay their utilities bills online get anything? * Surveys -- They were supposed to be done in November. Are they done? (NOTE: I'm not asking that the surveys be done before the community outreach has been done.) * Regulatory risk analysis -- On 10-06-21, John Honker said something will be coming in the next 45-60 days. i.e., before 12-07-21. (See page 14, near 0:24:40, here.) https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-minutes/utilities- advisory-commission/archived-agenda-and-minutes/agendas-and-minutes-2021/11-03-2021- regular/november-03-2021-public-letters-to-uac.pdf What's available? I'm also curious about: * What architecture makes the most sense -- AE or PON? * How many huts do we need, and where can they go? But staff hasn't said it's willing to address these in the short term. At item IX of the 01-05-22 agenda ("FUTURE TOPICS FOR UPCOMING MEETINGS: February 2, 2022"), please consider asking staff to schedule an FTTP item for your next meeting, 02-02-22. NOTE: From 05-07-14 to 08-31-16, each UAC agenda had a scheduled item about the drought, just in case UAC wanted to talk about it. Might that make sense for FTTP? Thanks. Jeff PS: I noticed in this 11-26-21 article, "City's new bike overpass to Baylands opens," https://www.paloaltoonline.com/print/story/2021/11/26/citys-new-bike-overpass-to-baylands-opens that this overpass contains fiber optics (or at least conduit for fiber optics). What's the purpose? (Dark fiber network? FTTP?) Who paid for it? This 12-10-18 staff report (pages 28-29) shows where it goes. https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/reports/city-manager-reports- cmrs/year-archive/2018/id.-9882-highway-101-overpass-resolution-for-maintenance-agreement-with- state-and-google-easement.pdf?t=61630.15 (I don't know whether it was actually built that way.) Page 28 says 4" conduit. Page 29 says both 4" conduit and 2" conduit. (Possibly mirroring the discussion about whether the dark fiber extension network should use 4" conduit ($28 million) or 2" conduit ($22 million).) From:pennyellson12@gmail.com To:"Eric Holm" Cc:board@pausd.org; "GMCA DISCUSS"; Council, City; "Don Austin"; Safe Routes Subject:Comments and Questions re: relocation of Palo Verde and Hoover to Cubberley/Greendell Date:Thursday, December 30, 2021 3:32:42 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Eric, Here are the additional comments I said I would share in writing. I’m sorry for the delay. I have been ill. These comments are followed by a copy of the comments I read into the record in the two minutes we were offered to ask question and comment at the 12/16/2021 CSTSC meeting. The comments I read into the record are pasted below as well. Questions/Comments re: Hoover and Palo Verde Relocation to Cubberley /Greendell Submitted by Penny Ellson on 12/30/2021 Relocating these schools will impact commutes of Palo Verde and Hoover students who are moved to Cubberley/Greendell, of course, as well as impacting commutes of students of Fairmeadow, Ohlone, JLS and Gunn who use neighborhood streets, driveways and pathways on and around Cubberley/Greendell. With school commutes to six school sites affected, careful planning is needed. Guiding Questions & Comments: Typically, the planning process for opening a new school will take a year or two. More time is needed to plan, fund, and implement school commute route mitigations. Rushing at the front end of the process has, in the past, resulted in longer delays at the back end of the process. Example: A former JLS plan was struck down late in the process by angry constituents who disagreed with the design approach and had been engaged too late. Early and frequent outreach through the design process could have averted this outcome. What is the district’s plan to avoid such an outcome with this rushed process? Eight months is not much time at all. Surprises are not good. What, specifically, can be done to help the school communities that are relocated maintain safe, healthy, sustainable school commutes? What is the PAUSD willing to do to work with the city, given that their sudden, unilateral decision will affect city planning and budgets and have broad impacts on both agencies and the community? What is the city willing to do? What are PTAs willing to do? What, specifically, can be done to mitigate safety impacts of new auto trips on existing Walk & Roll routes near Cubberley/Greendell that serve other PAUSD school sites? These routes must be kept safe for the families who live in these neighborhoods who attend school at: Fairmeadow, JLS, Gunn, Hoover, Ohlone, and soon Cubberley/Greendell. Existing PAUSD policies and guidelines can help us successfully navigate this planning process in partnership as we have in the past, preserving safe, healthy sustainable commutes for students. PAUSD and CoPA, please work in partnership with PTAs and neighborhoods following processes that have worked so well in the past. See: Building for Excellence Guidelines City School Traffic Safety Committee Policy Safe Routes to School Partnership Consensus Statement and related PAUSD Resolution related CoPA Comprehensive Plan and Bicycle Pedestrian Transportation Plan goals policies and programs)Timing: What are the timelines for CC and BOE decision-making? What touchpoints, beyond the recent CSTSC meeting, will be available to the public?Please make this process as transparent as possible in public venues that engage citizens— CSLC, CSTSC, BOE and CC meetings to name a few. Engage citizens early and often, so concerns that might cause opposition later can be addressed meaningfully. Staff cannot know what people need and want if they are not regularly talking with them as plans progress. Citizens can’t comment effectively if they don’t know what is being planned. Surprises like the recent BOE item are not good for building consensus that will be needed to get to yes at the end of the planning process. A project web site would be helpful to all participants. Please include all presentations, plans, public comments, staff responses so that they are publicly available and people don’t have to search for them. Again, surprises to do not generate good will.The next steps of design should depict bike/ped circulation, bike parking and relatedconnectivity to public street facilities and classrooms to the same level of detail as autocirculation and parking facilities. Auto circulation and parking were shown in the rough concepts and staff report, but no walking or bicycling infrastructure was depicted or mentioned. What will safe bike/ped infrastructure look like at Cubberley, Greendell and Hoover?Please distribute draft plans in advance of meetings so that the CSTSC and the public can digest and understand the information in them and provide thoughtful, considered, high quality comment in meetings. Things we need expeditiously to be able to understand what safety problems this new use of Cubberley may cause and what mitigations are needed: Palo Verde, Greendell, Fairmeadow, Gunn, JLS, Ohlone, and Hoover enrollment dot maps to help us understand and estimate probable origin/destination of trips. These are needed ASAP. Estimate of car trips to Nelson Drive that will be generated, especially by the Hoover relocation. To the city-- If there are counts for commuters who U-turn at Nelson /Charleston during the Hoover ES commute periods, that might be very helpful in estimating the number of trips that might divert to Nelson Drive for back route drop-offs. These counts may have been done when the city was adjusting signal timing. Is that data still available? How old is it? Did the city look at Nelson/Charleston intersection operations as part of the 525 East Charleston planning process? If so, maybe there is data there that might be helpful.Nelson-Shasta-Ferne is the bike/ped back route to Cubberley, Greendell, and the playingfields; therefore, closing the Nelson Drive and Ferne field gates is not an option. Further, some Hoover students live in Greenmeadow. Closing the gates would prevent them from walking and biking to school.Walk & Roll maps for Hoover, JLS, Fairmeadow, Gunn, Palo Verde, Ohlone, Greendell. 1. Looking at these maps together will help us understand where school routes overlap and where potential conflicts may occur. 2. The Greendell W&R map was developed with the assumption that adult bicyclists would be carrying preschool or kinder aged children. These routes were not planned for elementary school age solo riders. They need to be reworked for PAUSD’s proposed use of Cubberley and Greendell.Most current concept plans for Cubberley/GreendellBell times list for Hoover, JLS, Fairmeadow, Gunn, Palo Verde, Ohlone. Staggering bell time traffic surges has, in the past, been an effective tool to reduce impacts (particularly auto impacts) of one school’s traffic surge impacting student commutes to/from other schools who may share the same routes. Staggering bell times will be especially important for the Hoover transition. 66% of Hoover parents drive their students to school (the highest auto mode share in the district).Crossing Guards—What is the cost of additional crossing guard(s) at Louis/Charleston and/or Montrose/Middlefield and/or Middlefield/Charleston? Will PAUSD cover this unplanned cost? It seems PAUSD is assuming that guards can simply be moved from one location to another. Guards at Carlson and Nelson, for instance, also serve JLS and Fairmeadow commuters. There likely will be incremental cost for temporarily adding guards. This is a temporary need necessitated by PAUSD’s desire for construction convenience and cost savings. PAUSD could cover the cost of the additional temporary guard placements during the construction periods. PAPD could cover the costs of managing the contract changes and guard training. This seems like a fair distribution of expenses for a significant PAUSD-imposed cost that was not planned in a Covid-impacted city budget. A fair compromise.Please note that it is challenging to hire new Crossing Guards (just like bus drivers) rightnow.Busing—At the 12/ 16 meeting, I heard PAUSD say that bus driver availability is limited. I heard PV parents offer to connect the district to possible bus driver applicants and/or help pay for busing. What steps is PAUSD taking to follow up on that? How would busing work? Where would bus stops be? One stop at Ohlone seems inadequate, given the large size of the Palo Verde attendance area. How might this impact Ohlone commutes? Elementary school students who must travel farther than ½-mile should be offered bussing. Perhaps a few walkable bus stops along Louis and/or Ross might be helpful?What bike/ped improvements are possible at Montrose/Middlefield before Fall 2022?What bike/ped improvements to the Cubberley campus is PAUSD planning to provide forthe Hoover and PV relocation to Cubberley? It sounds like the C-A Plan improvements to Middlefield/Charleston and Charleston/Louis will be complete before Fall 2022 (assuming no delays due to Covid resurgence). If that is the case, what will be the auto carrying capacity of these two intersections and Montrose/Middlefield for bell time surge traffic for PV…and for Hoover? How might potential delays at any one or all of these intersections affect commute route choices of Palo Verde and Hoover auto, bike ped commuters? I’m thinking about diversion of auto trips onto neighborhood school commute routes.Is it possible to create an on-campus loop at Cubberley for efficient drop-off/pick-up onrainy days with room to stack cars off-road?How do we protect Montrose from cut-through traffic? Imagine drivers exiting Cubberley wanting to get to EB Charleston and 101 but avoid the Middlefield signal. How do we protect the Montrose neighborhood school route? This will be a problem for residents of Charleston Gardens and Greenhouse neighborhoods.How do we protect the Nelson/Shasta/Ferne school routes from cut-through traffic? Imagine Hoover drivers on EB Charleston wanting to avoid signal delays at the Middlefield and Montrose making a quick right on Nelson and looping through the neighborhood school routes. This will impact Greenmeadow and Greendell neighborhoods.Analyze how the move to Cubberley/Greendell may impact mode choices/splits for eachaffected school site: Fairmeadow, JLS, Gunn, Hoover, Palo Verde, Ohlone. Mitigate these impacts.What neighborhood traffic calming improvements are possible before the impacts ofsudden relocation hit these neighborhoods? Can we consider testing temporary pop-up traffic calming and parking management improvements at these locations to manage speeds, parking and turning movements of drivers looping through the neighborhoods to drop- off/pick-up?How can we integrate education and encouragement into our planning for these changes? Families will have to learn new routes. Student commuters may need to learn new skills to navigate new routes. How can PAUSD help with this additional work necessitated by the district’s unilateral action? It is critically important that we get the school commute piece of this right. With so many schools’ routes affected (Fairmeadow, JLS, Hoover, Gunn, Ohlone, Palo Verde), the potential for reverse mode shift is large and real. It has taken years to reach our current levels of foot-powered commutes. We do not want to get families who made the shift to get back into the habit of driving to school. We Should Be Thinking About Hoover Now-- Integrate That Planning With Current Cubberley Planning Timing: Hoover should be part of the planning for Cubberley/Greendell now. Though two years may seem like a long time away, it is fairly typical for multi-agency project planning of this magnitude to take that long. Enrollment Implications: What is current enrollment and planned future enrollment? Is the site being built to accommodate larger enrollment? Enrollment changes affect trip generation, and specific assumptions were made about that in development of the C-A Plan. Ingress/egress options: Explain the pros and cons of having ingress and egress on the west side of Hoover campus. Same for the east side. What changes to the C-A Plan would each of the Hoover concept options require? This needs to be a cooperative discussion with city engineers and the public. Ingress/egress next to mouth of the Waverley bike/ped path presents risks for foot-powered path users, especially commuters to superblock PAUSD schools and Gunn. Depicting circulation and parking for all modes: Auto parking and circulation is depicted in the rough concepts, though circulation and parking for bikes/peds is not shown on any of the rough concepts. This is inconsistent with B4E Guidelines. Circulation and parking for all modes should be depicted to the same level of detail throughout the planning process. Bus Duck Out: A bus duck out appears in one of the rough concepts. This was offered in one iteration of the C-A Plan, but PAUSD refused it. Why the change? This would require a new curb cut into a newly built bioswale that may or may not be allowed given the final design of the C-A project which PAUSD helped create. Auto Stacking Capacity: Hoover’s current perimeter driveway design provides off-street car stacking capacity for drop-off/pick-up, reducing congestion on Charleston. The new Charleston Road system, developed in close collaboration with PAUSD, assumed cars would continue to stack on campus. How much off-street stacking capacity is available in each of the proposed concepts? What is existing auto stacking capacity? How will each option affect congestion on Charleston Road at Hoover bell times in the future? Hoover is a choice school, drawing from the entire district with 66% of families driving to school. This is one of the highest auto mode shares in the district. It is a non- trivial problem. Please make the traffic studies that were done for the Cubberley expansion available to the public. Where can we find them? Perhaps post them on a project web site? Overall Suggestions Since citizens have taken time to provide these comments and questions in writing as requested, I hope PAUSD and the city will take time to respond in writing. A project web page would be useful for posting questions from the public with answers. It could also be used to provide updates as the work progresses. To PAUSD: It has been decades since Cubberley was used as a high school. The street network context (including traffic volumes of all modes) and density of surrounding area has changed substantively in that time. When Cubberley was a high school, it generated a lot of parking and auto traffic in the Greenmeadow neighborhood just as Gunn generates parking and traffic in the Greenacres and Barron Park neighborhoods. At that time, however, many thousands fewer PAUSD children were walking and biking to school (parents considered it unsafe because of the volume of cars and unsafe routes). We do not want Palo Alto to return to those conditions. This is a community that deeply values the ability of our children to walk and bike freely and safely to school and other in-town destinations. PAUSD has committed to partner with the city and PTAs to work cooperatively toward making it safe, convenient and fun for children to walk and bicycle to and from school. It was disappointing to hear a representative of district staff point to the former 1950s car-oriented high school use of the site to make the point that the site could handle the traffic. That is an erroneous assumption due to changed background conditions. Further, and more importantly, it will not be okay for the children, for the neighborhoods, or for our community’s valued bicycle and walking routes. Please review the Safe Routes to School Partnership Consensus Statement and Building for Excellence Guidelines. Let’s work together as we have in the past to make this site work well for children and families who choose healthy, active, sustainable commutes. Thank you for considering my comments. The comments I read into the record at the 12/16 meeting follow: CSTSC Comments December 16 2021re: Cubberley Greendell Good morning. I’m Penny Ellson, a former TSR Co-Chair of the PTAC Traffic Safety Committee, and resident of Greenmeadow neighborhood which abuts Cubberley. I encourage everyone to look at policy and guideline documents I sent to the School Board this week: Building for Excellence Guidelines Safe Routes to School Partnership Consensus Statement City School Traffic Safety Committee Policy These agreements, practices and policies have been the institutional foundation of our successful Safe Routes to School efforts. With a majority of PAUSD students walking and bicycling to school today, it is important that Safe Routes to School partners –the district, city, and PTAs-- work through this planning process together, prioritizing foot-powered commute efficiency and safety. The Hoover, Cubberley, and Greendell rough concepts depict parking and circulation facilities for cars, but no facilities for children who walk and bike. Following B4E guidelines, bike/pedestrian facilities should be integrated early in the district’s planning process to the same level of detail as motor vehicle facilities. Though Cubberley/Greendell will be a temporary relocation, let’s make sure that inattention to bike/ped needs does not unravel active commute habits that have been hard won over decades. I’m concerned about the project schedule. The district usually does several rounds of plan review and changes before we get to where we have clarity on what specific mitigations are needed to support school commutes for a new project. Rushing the process at the front end, has often led to large delays and failures at the back end. Eight months is a very short timeframe for this work. Successful planning processes require time to engage the community to build consensus and support for a final plan that works. Finally, Palo Verde is relocating first, so naturally it has been the primary focus of transportation discussions to date. However, Hoover, a choice school that draws from the entire district, will have very different impacts on nearby neighborhood school routes. 66% of Hoover families presently drive to school. Many coming from the west via Charleston Road. These drivers probably will turn right from EB Charleston onto Nelson Drive to avoid signal delays at Middlefield and Montrose for fast drop-off and pick-up at the Nelson Drive and Ferne field gates. Then they will loop out through neighborhood streets creating auto conflicts for other school commuters. On a street where pedestrians and bicyclists currently outnumber drivers by a lot (506:368), even a small increase in cars would significantly change the safety and comfort of Nelson, Shasta, and Ferne Walk & Roll routes. A solution to this probable safety impact is needed, and we should begin work on it now. A pop-up traffic calming trial might be a good start. I will submit the remainder of my questions and comments in writing. Thank you for this opportunity to share our thoughts. Thank you for your ongoing support of Safe Routes to School. Virus-free. www.avg.com From:b. beekman Subject:2. Blair Beekman. Thursday, December 30, 2021.....In hoping for less harm, with the Omicron variant. Date:Thursday, December 30, 2021 1:15:18 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear Bay Area govts. and local communities, To offer, in my 2nd letter, of today - As the name, Omicron, can suggest, we are trying to better understand, the future directions of this Covid-19 variant, and the future of the Covid-19 pandemic. We may be at new beginnings, to better control the pandemic, in the next few years. Or that, it is possible, that by this time, next fall, the Omicron Covid-19, can mutate, into hurtful, new ways. As the new, Covid-19 omicron variant is growing, and the need of community public health & safety provisions, is important, at this time - it seems there is an early promise, and an open, media process, that is offering, that the Omicron variant, may not be as strong, as the previous Delta variant. It is from this, that it is my hope, that for at least, this winter- the state of Ca. may still have, a bit of time & room, in its choices, of how to address community public health & safety. From this, it is my hope, local Bay Area govts. can continue to create, an openness & awareness of public health concerns, and the use of masks, in community gathering space. I feel these can be important ways, to help avoid, a mandatory vaccine process, for the private sector, and for local school children, by this February. And where the vaccine process, is currently mandatory, in the Bay Area, for local govt. workers - we need to learn, how to better develop, and to continue - cooperative, negotiative, forgiveness plans, for those who will still be uncomfortable, withtaking the vaccine. I feel, we are looking for ways, we can all grow more comfortable, n living our lives, by better understanding Covid 19, and the vaccine process. As I have been trying to much describe, this fall - we need to be continually looking for ways,to more openly describe - how taking the vaccine, can offer good health. for an individual person. And that can help limit the future spread, of the disease, throughout a community, or area. Yet, local elected officials, are having trouble. openly describing - how do we learn to better talk about, and make clear, the nanotechnology involved, with the vaccine process. Many people, simply want good health, and will continue, to be willing to take the vaccine, and its boosters, in the following months and years. Local Bay Area elected officials, need to learn, to more openly speak the language, of how everyday people, parents, and young people, in the SF Bay Area, are all learning, to openly acknowledge, address, and rationalize, how the vaccineprocess can become, a more regular part of our lives. And in, an ever growing world, of digital & internet technology. We are at a time, to ask how ACLU surveillance and data collection technology guidelines, open public policies, and Ca. state legal precedents, based on good minded, civil rights and civil protections ideas, can offer a framework, toward a more shared role, between everyday community, and their local govt. And create a neutral space, for all parts of a community, to help better address, navigate, and facilitate, our better democratic ideals, within the short term & long term, communitypublic health questions of the Covid-19 era. I feel this can help much, to address, hostility, confusion, and apathy, within a community. I feel, with the ideas of a liberal democracy, we can work to structure, a cooperative, shared dialogue, of community accountability, open democratic sustainability, and peace. These are ideas, of openness, community harmony, public health & safety, at this time. These are ideals, of a more participatory future, for local community democracy. And can help develop, a future of better public oversight. at the local level. , The past 20 years, of 9.11.01, continual war, and the Covid-19 pandemic, are the ideas, of state violence and extremism, as how to build, long term, large scale, societal planning goals, both locally, and across the world. We are at a time, to betterconsider, how ideas of reimagnine, equity, open public policies, and accountability - have also been also building, for years, if not decades. These are ideas, that are usually based on, peace, better reasoning, and simply to not harm each other, in the long term social planning questions, of community sustainability, at the local level. 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Anika Campbell Belton." <Anika.Campbell-Belton@acgov.org>, "staff." <desiree.sellati@acgov.org>, staff <erin.armstrong@acgov.org>, "staff." <Gabriela.Christy@acgov.org>, staff <aisha.brown@acgov.org>, staff <amy.shrago@acgov.org>, staff <raha.jorjani@acgov.org>, staff <bballard@acgov.org>, staff <brendon.woods@acgov.org>, staff <Tona.Henninger@acgov.org>, staff <youseef.elias@acgov.org>, staff <shawn.wilson@acgov.org>, "c.staff. d4.al.co." <anna.gee@acgov.org>, "c.staff. d3.al.co. Cinthya Munoz Ramos" <Cinthya.MunozRamos@acgov.org>, "D3.Supv.Al.Co. Richard Valle." <richard.valle@acgov.org>, "D2.Supv.Al.Co" <District2@acgov.ca>, "D4 Supv. Al.Co. Nate Miley." <Nate.Miley@acgov.org>, "D5.Supv. Al.Co.Supv. David.Haubert" <Dave.Haubert@acgov.ca>, "c. Al.Co. Administrator" <susan.muranishi@acgov.org>, "c.Al.Co.Sheriff" <pio@alamedacountysheriff.org>, "c. Al.Co. District Attorney" <info@alcoda.org>, "c. Al.Co. Public Affairs." <dale@acpublicaffairs.com>, "D1.Supv.Al.Co. Keith Carson" <Keith.Carson@acgov.org>, MsAMJones@gmail.com, "D1 Al.Co." <District1@acgov.ca>, "MSnelson@fremont.gov" <MSnelson@fremont.gov>, The Daily Californian <newsdesk@dailycal.org>, "Mark L." <MNumainville@cityofberkeley.info>, FremontPDPIO@fremont.gov, PoliceChief@fremont.gov, fpa@fpaonline.org, David Haubert <david@davidhaubert.com>, David.Haubert@acgov.org, "D5.Supv. Al.Co.Supv. David.Haubert" <District5@acgov.org>, "D5.Supv. Al.Co.Supv. David.Haubert" <David.Haubert@acgov.ca>, Mayor <MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org>, Board.of.Supervisors@sfgov.org, JP Massar <massar@alum.mit.edu>, "Dr. Eleanor Levine" <dreleanorlevine@yahoo.com>, John Lindsay-Poland <johnlindsaypoland@gmail.com> From:Allan Seid To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion CHOpinion Subject:Fwd: The Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act Date:Thursday, December 30, 2021 9:04:17 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. From: Allan Seid, Kimberly Eng Lee Date: Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 6:17 AM Subject: The Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act X-posting from a Facebook feed shared by Phil Tajitsu Nash: At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s Asian Pacific American Program in 2010, over 1,200 members of the DC area APA community celebrated our history for ten days in front of millions of people online and on the National Mall in D.C. Through discussions, dance, song, oral histories, language and craft demonstrations, cooking demonstrations, martial arts demonstrations, game demonstrations, and signing our names on a giant wooden sculpture shaped like a sign-in book at a sacred event, we paid tribute to the past, rejoiced in the present, and declared our faith in the future. Looking around us on the National Mall - at the museums dedicated to so many things and so many peoples - we felt both welcomed and marginalized at the same time. Our national museum, the Smithsonian Institution, was celebrating our APA community in a big way. But after ten days, we were back to being a small Smithsonian APA Program and a few APA curators and staff spread around a gigantic organization (although those Smithsonian APA insiders are doing a fabulous job with few resources - see the links at the end of this post). All of that marginalization is set to change in 2022. With the help of each of you reading this post, we are going to have a National Asian American Museum. Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY) and her colleagues in the Congressional APA Caucus have requested a vote on Rep. Ming’s bill, “The Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act.” Please read the news story below, spread the word, and be ready to tell your Members of Congress and Senators to support this. What a positive, uplifting way to start the new year! #aapimuseum #asianamericanhistory #asianamericanmuseum #SmithsonianAPA ########## FROM THE ARTICLE: Queens lawmaker requests vote on bill to create first National Asian American Museum By Carlotta Mohamed, 12/27/21 “Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng is calling for a vote on her bill that would establish the first national museum dedicated to preserving the history, culture and accomplishments of Asian Pacific Americans. “Meng sent a letter to Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, to make her bill the first measure that the panel takes up in January. If the legislation is approved by the committee, it would then head for a vote on the floor of the House. “According to the congresswoman, the story of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) is interwoven within the history of America, but is “forgotten or ignored in the greater narrative of American history.” “Our experiences — both good and bad — provide an opportunity for us to celebrate our accomplishments, honor the challenges we have overcome, and press towards a more perfect union,” the letter said. “Meng’s request follows her appearance earlier this month before a Natural Resources Subcommittee hearing where she testified in support of her bill. The hearing also included supportive testimony from journalist Lisa Ling and Stop AAPI Hate Co-Founder Dr. Russell Jeung. The House Natural Resources Committee is the panel that has jurisdiction over this issue. “Meng’s bill, The Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act, would create a panel of individuals with various expertise in museum planning or APA research and culture to look into the viability of establishing, maintaining, funding and operating a facility in the nation’s capital, possibly as part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the world’s largest museum and research complex. “The history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is filled with immense contributions and sadly embedded with stories of disenfranchisement, Meng said. “Museums are gateways to learning about ourselves, our communities and our history. They provide space to memorialize the accomplishments of ancestors, learn from the past, and be inspired by the richness of where our country can go,” Meng said. “From the thousands of Asian immigrants who helped build vital pieces of U.S. infrastructure, to the thousands who were denied entry and citizenship because of immigration laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act, AAPIs have shaped and been shaped by America for generations.” “According to Meng, the stories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders provide an opportunity to celebrate rich American history, the challenges they have overcome, and a step forward in unity.” https://qns.com/2021/12/queens-lawmaker-national-asian-american-museum/ ######## RESOURCES: - more on the process of getting an APA Museum https://thehill.com/homenews/house/587012-asian-american-leaders-push-for-national- museum-of-their-own - More on our Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebration of APAs in 2010 — https://festival.si.edu/blog/2010/asian-pacific-american-program-introduction — https://festival.si.edu/2010/asian-pacific-americans/smithsonian - Until we get a full APA Museum at the Smithsonian, let’s support the small but mighty APA Program there — https://smithsonianapa.org/ - Other Smithsonian APA Activities — https://americanhistory.si.edu/topics/asian-pacific-american-history/pages/apa-heritage- month-2021 — https://americanhistory.si.edu/righting-wrong-japanese-americans-and-world-war-ii — https://www.si.edu/spotlight/asian-american crotigrrss of fI 1<Unitra'tates Masiningttan, DC 21)313 December 21, 2021 The Honorable Raul M. Grijalva Chairman House Committee on Natural Resources 1324 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Grijalva, I write to request that you include my Commission to Study the Potential Creation of A National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act. H.R. 3525. in your first markup in January 2022. The story of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) is interwoven within the history of America. but frequently our history is forgotten or ignored in the greater narrative of American history. That is why we urge you to markup this bill as a first step to creating a national museum dedicated to the history and culture of AAPIs. Museums are gateways to learning about ourselves, our communities, and our history. They provide space to memorialize the accomplishments of ancestors, learn from the past, and be inspired by the richness of where our country can go. The history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is filled with immense contributions and sadly embedded with stories of disenfranchisement. From the thousands of Asian immigrants who helped build vital pieces of U.S. infrastructure, to the thousands who were denied entry and citizenship because of immigration laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act, AAPIs have shaped and been shaped by America for generations. My legislation is the first step in creating a national museum that is dedicated to interweaving AAPI history in the broader narrative of American history. Our experiences - both good and 'aad - provide an opportunity for us to celebrate our accomplishments, honor the challenges we have overcome, and press forward toward a more perfect union. That is why we urge you to take up this bill in your Committee markup and move it through the legislative process. We thank you for your leadership in ensuring that all components of our history arc memorialized, and we look forward to working with you as we preserve the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Sincerely, Grace Meng Member of Congress Ted Lieu Member of Congress Congress of tileMild attics IUzi hingtou, Ile W31a 04•Alt"% Andy Kim Member of Congress Ro Khanna Member of Congress Kaiali'i Kahele Member of Congress Pramila Jayapal Member of Congress Marilyn Strickland Member of Congress Jimmy Gomez Member of Congress FC Michael San Nicolas Member of Congress Raja Krishnamoorthi Member of Congress tclidt6' Katie Porter Member of Congress Judy Chu Member of Congress 110,..4„42.41 ttte_.— Barbara Lee Member of Congress Mark Takano Member of Congress Ami Bera, M.D. Member of Congress From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; Leodies Buchanan; beachrides; boardmembers; Chris Field; Cathy Lewis; Council, City; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; david pomaville; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; karkazianjewelers@gmail.com; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mark Standriff; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Sally Thiessen; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. John Campbell, Wednesday, December 29, 2021- Most hopefut to date!!! Date:Wednesday, December 29, 2021 10:33:34 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 10:19 PM Subject: Dr. John Campbell, Wednesday, December 29, 2021- Most hopefut to date!!! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Wed. December 29, 2021 To all- Dr. John Campbell for today. The most positive, hopeful vid from him yet. "This may be the beginning of the end of the pandemic". Most omicron hospitalisations incidental - YouTube Those hospitalizations involve people with a broken leg, e.g. and then they are found to test positive for Covid. That is an incidental hospitalization. That's good news, apart from the broken leg. It's not Covid that is putting them in the hospital, mainly, because it is, mainly, Omicron with witch they are infected now. Positive tests for Omicron are soaring, the number of infections is vastly larger than that, of course, but hospitalizations are NOT soaring, and are up only a little, and the number of deaths from Covid is also way down, since most of it is Omicron, at least in the UK Dr. Campbell expects to see the same scenario play out in the US. We still have a good amount of Delta around in the US and that can produce horrific results in the unvaccinated, of which we have 50 million in the US. But in London, and in England, Omicron is displacing Delta and it is starting to do so in the US as well. So very hopeful news. See how important good record keeping, good statistics, transmitted hourly all over the world really is? They didn't have that as recently as 1918. Think of the situation in 1350 in Europe. L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Allan Seid To:Channing House Bulletin Board Subject:Fwd: For a Happy New Year Read! Date:Wednesday, December 29, 2021 2:57:12 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. From: Allan Seid, Frances Burr Date: wed. Dec, 29th. Subject: For a Happy New Year Read https://www.thelily.com/a-27-year-old-wanted-to-see-her-asian-american-story-reflected-in- bookstores-so-she-opened-her-own/ From:UNAFF To:Council, City Subject:Musical gift from the 24th UNAFF (MOVING FORWARD) Date:Tuesday, December 28, 2021 8:15:37 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious ofopening attachments and clicking on links. Dear UNAFF Friends, We hope you are safe and enjoying the Holidays. We are sending you a small gift to cheer you up for the Holidays: two videos from the 24th UNAFF in-person musical performance from the films: FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK (https://vimeo.com/660564819/dbb4783f5a) RESURRECTION! AIRTO MOREIRA & THE PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND (https://vimeo.com/660565006/3b2de41d0f) With your help, interest, involvement, and attendance, we successfully and safely wrapped up the in-person United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) in spite of the pandemic. The 24th UNAFF, which was held in October for 11 days, presented 60 documentary films (64% directed/produced by female filmmakers and 60% by filmmakers of color), accompanied by six timely panel discussions, covering topics such as crossing borders, reforming criminal justice, youth action for climate, mental health and sports, censorship and press, technology, and our planet. This year’s theme was MOVING FORWARD. We were overwhelmed with the burst of positive responses from you, our community, as we found a way to fight frustration, loneliness, and ignorance, and several major newspapers acknowledged our efforts: PALO ALTO WEEKLY (https://bit.ly/3CSFtVu) SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (https://bayareane.ws/3bLAOJ3) SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (https://bit.ly/30aKV7P) This year’s UNAFF Visionary Award was shared by two people: the unique public servant Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and legendary singer, songwriter, musician, and activist Harry Belafonte, recognizing their lifelong unwavering commitment to human rights, leadership, persistence, and vision, which inspired several generations to promote economic, racial, and social justice and move us forward to a better and more equitable society. 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From:Loran Harding To:Loran Harding; antonia.tinoco@hsr.ca.gov; alumnipresident@stanford.edu; David Balakian; bballpod; fred beyerlein; Leodies Buchanan; beachrides; boardmembers; Chris Field; Cathy Lewis; Council, City; dennisbalakian; Doug Vagim; Daniel Zack; Dan Richard; esmeralda.soria@fresno.gov; eappel@stanford.edu; francis.collins@nih.gov; fmerlo@wildelectric.net; grinellelake@yahoo.com; Gabriel.Ramirez@fresno.gov; George.Rutherford@ucsf.edu; huidentalsanmateo; hennessy; Irv Weissman; jerry ruopoli; Joel Stiner; kwalsh@kmaxtv.com; kfsndesk; karkazianjewelers@gmail.com; lalws4@gmail.com; leager; mthibodeaux@electriclaboratories.com; Mayor; margaret-sasaki@live.com; Mark Standriff; merazroofinginc@att.net; newsdesk; news@fresnobee.com; nick yovino; russ@topperjewelers.com; Sally Thiessen; Steve Wayte; tsheehan; terry; VT3126782@gmail.com; vallesR1969@att.net Subject:Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK for Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021- Omicron is displacing Delta!!! Date:Tuesday, December 28, 2021 3:36:15 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 4:32 AM Subject: Fwd: Dr. John Campbell in UK for Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021- Omicron is displacing Delta!!! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 2:02 AM Subject: Dr. John Campbell in UK for Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021- Omicron is displacing Delta!!! To: Loran Harding <loran.harding@stanfordalumni.org> Late on Monday, December 27, 2021 To all- Here is an important, information packed vid. by Dr. John Campbell in Carlisle, England, just below the border with Scotland. This is 21:01 long. I have watched this, watched again taking notes, then watched most of it again. Highly recommended, especially to government officials in the US at the federal, State and local level. Here is the information, all evidence based, that you should be giving out. At 3:12: 50 to 70% fewer hospitalizations with Omicron than with ealier variants. At 6:35: There are MANY people unvaccinated in the US. With Omicron, THEY are only 11% less likely to be hospitalized with Omicron than they were with Delta. "We have a high vaccination rate in the UK. Omicron is not intrinsically a lot less pathogenic than Delta. The intrinsic pathogenicity of Omicron is only 11% less". "We are doing so well in the UK due to the high vaccination rate we have, not because Omicron is intrinsically so much less pathogenic. "So we could see greatly increased hospitalizations in the US. ("There have now been over 800,000 deaths in the US, which is just a terrible situation."), " I am concerned that the HOSPITALIZATIONS are going to go up in the US because some segments in the US have such low vaccination rates". He says that he is much more worried for the US than for the UK right now. In the US, 75% of ICU beds are occupied and 21.3% of the pts in those beds have Covid. LH - But he does not say which Covid. In the UK, 366 pts are hospitalized with confirmed Omicron, and 29 have died. That is fairly reassuring, he says. IMPORTANT IMPORTANT: At 11:00. "In London, Omicron is displacing Delta. See his charts here. This is important, I think. "In South Aftrica, (where it is almost all Omicron) not many are on O2. "in the UK, we see some, some increase in hospitalizations because the number infected (with Omicron- LH) is so massive". "The vast majority of Omicron cases are presenting as a common cold now". "The UK (LH- or London) has had 887 (Covid) deaths in the past 7 days, and 29 were Omicron" Look at that percentage people. Fauci, Wallensky, Collins, Biden, California State and local officials. US TV news organizations. Only about 3% of the deaths were Omicron. LH- Yes, that is because the UK has a high vaccination rate. We do not have that in the US. So we will now see a big increase in hospitalizations and, because Omicron is only 11% less pathogenic than Delta for the unvaccinated, and uptick in deaths, is what Dr. Campbell is saying. He did add that we do not know what level of natural immunity exists in the US. At the start of this vid, he provides evidence that it takes 10 days from the apperance of symptoms of Omicron before the pt. enters to hospital IF he enters the hospital. One very, very highly placed UK official looked at Delta data by mistake and told the Chief Medical Officer of the UK that the number was 17 days. Dr.Campbell says that these officials MAY MAY have tried to overstate the case. "Let's hope that is not the case", he says. Dr. Campbell lets them off the hook and attributes their statements to "incompetence", "unless there's a third for fourth alternative you can think of". Dr. Campbell says that something should be done about this but that it is not for him to say what. I'll bet he has action the PM Boris Johnson in mind. So below is the Dr. Campbell vid: Below that I include a vid. by Dr. Fauci discussing the pathogenicity of Omicron v. Delta. Omicron in London and New York | Dr. John Campbell Dec. 27, 2021 - YouTube Here is Dr. Fauci for 18 min. on Dec. 21, 2021. Is Omicron less pathogenic than Delta? Is Omicron Less Dangerous Than Delta? Dr. Anthony Fauci Weighs In | Amanpour and Company - YouTube L. William Harding Fresno, Ca. From:Allan Seid To:Channing House Bulletin Board; CHOpinion CHOpinion Subject:Fwd: Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing woman in nuclear physics, was my grandmother. I wish I knew more about her private universe. - The Washington Post Date:Monday, December 27, 2021 6:38:26 AM Attachments:imrs.php imrs.php imrs.php imrs.php imrs.php imrs.php CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautiousof opening attachments and clicking on links. From: Allan Seid, Ben and Frances Burr. Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2021 Subject: Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing woman in nuclear physics, was my grandmother. I wish I knew more about her private universe. - The Washington Post HAPPY NEW YEAR ! An inspiring story of a remarkable woman to bring in the new year. Allan https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/12/13/chien-shiung-wu- biography-physics-grandmother/ Accessibility statementSkip to main contenmocracy Dies in Darkness Style Perspective Discovering Dr. Wu The world reveres Chien-Shiung Wu as a groundbreaking nuclear physicist who made a startling find 65 years ago. But to me, she was Grandma — and I long to know more about her private universe. ( J i n g L i f o r T h e W a s h i n g t o n P o s t ) By Jada Yuan Reporter December 13, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST Someone pulled a cord and yellow fabric billowed down, revealing a three- story-tall statue of my grandmother. It was May 2012, in a city just north of Shanghai. And there she loomed, a sculptor’s rendition of Chien-Shiung Wu, the pioneering, internationally renowned nuclear physicist, who left China in 1936 to pursue her education in the United States, and, in a lot of ways, resisted looking back. She disproved what was thought to be a fundamental law of nature and raised my dad in Manhattan and taught me how to use chopsticks as a kid. In life, she stood maybe all of 5 feet, and shrinking with age. Now she was preserved as a young version of herself, seated atop an actual pedestal, draped in academic robes like the ones I’d only seen in photographs of her winning 16 honorary doctorates of science, including the first given to a woman at Princeton University. It took me a moment to comprehend that the statue was supposed to be her. So big, and so green — the same minty hue as the Statue of Liberty. S t o r y c o n t i n u e s b e l o w a d v e r t i s e m e n t My parents and I had flown to Shanghai, where my grandmother had been born 100 years earlier in 1912, and then drove an hour north to where she was raised in a fishing village called Liuhe, built where the Yangtze River flows out to the Yellow Sea. The local government had organized a centennial jubilee, which we experienced in a jet-lagged haze. I hadn’t expected the police-escorted motorcade, or the banners bearing her name strung across grand avenues. Or the raucous banquets with Communist Party officials every night, the kind with free-flowing mao-tai — a clear, fermented sorghum liquor that tastes like sweet turpentine. At such events the most sociable men, like my uncle, Su Wu, will go around to every table, offering a toast. Then you have to go around to every table and do the same, toast after toast, secretly pouring water into every other glass so you can get through them all without falling down drunk. Visits to China have always been a chaotic parade of relatives I didn’t know I had and a cacophony of a familiar language that my American-born father and I have heard all our lives, but can rarely understand. We were just going where we were told. The morning of the statue reveal, our relatives guided my father, Vincent Yuan (Chien-Shiung Wu’s only child), my mother, Lucy Lyon, and me (the only grandchild) to the front of a sea of foldout chairs covered in red and yellow fabric. Somewhere amid many untranslated speeches in Chinese, I heard my father’s name, then mine. My uncle gestured frantically for us to stand up and wave and soak in the applause.When my mother, who is blond-haired and blue-eyed and ethnically but not religiously Jewish, was introduced and stood up, the crowd of thousands gasped in unison. Trips to China to honor my grandmother were something we’d done before: In Nanjing, where she was an undergraduate, there’s a memorial hall. Another statueof her, in bronze, stands in Shanghai. On the centennial trip, we attended the opening of a museum that showcases her academic papers as well as the slit-legged qipao dresses she wore under her white labcoats. In her hometown, we visited classrooms at the school her father founded — mainly so his daughter could get an education. The children there sang songs about her. Chinese hero worship is impressive to witness — and surreal to experience when your grandmother is the one being revered. In New York, she had walked unnoticed between her laboratory at Columbia University and the nearby rent-stabilized faculty apartment she shared with my grandfather, who was a particle physicist, and my father, who would become a nuclear physicist. It is easy to lose the real person in so much veneration. I am a keeper of my grandmother’s memory, but an imperfect one. The work that made her famous changed scientists’ understanding of the universe. It inspired countless girls and women, who contact me to this day. The images I flash back to, though, are from my childhood: dancing around her in a polka-dot party dress she’d given me, or rushing downstairs with her to see Christmas carolers on Claremont Avenue. I am nearly the age she was when she made her great discovery.I’ve lived twice as many years as I knew her. Like many children who come from families of immigrants — or from families of scientists, or families who lived through war and destruction — I didn’t realize how little I knew of her life until it was too late to ask. Memories merge. Our family stories have been retold so many times in official accounts and biographies that it’s unclear which versions are true. The past is a closed chapter. The first generation works to distance itself from the old ways, the language, the food. Second-generation grandchildren, like me, circle back around, yearning to know more about where it all began. In China, my grandmother was a rock star. Then, in early 2021, she became a kind of rock star here, too, when the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative Forever stampin her honor. (You can also buy a T- shirtfeaturing her and other “Women of STEM” on it. Recently, she and her stamp were a clue on “Jeopardy!” — “Notable Asian Americans” for $800.) My grandmother’s stamp brings the grand total of Asian American women featured on stamps to two, alongside chef Joyce Chen, who popularized moo shu pork. The portrait on my grandmother’s stamp looks just like the woman I remember: wise, discerning, with her hair in an elaborate updo — its own achievement in physics. She has that mischievous half-smile that always made me wonder what she was thinking. We are all in a way just theorizing about the lives of those we were closest to; once they’re gone, we work with the data and notes that remain. I am not an expert on nuclear physics, but here is what I understand: An experiment my grandmother conducted in 1956 proved a theory that shattered our fundamental understanding of the physical world. She took on a challenge no one else in her field would tackle, and demonstrated the “non-conservation of parity,” which showed that the laws of nature are not entirely symmetrical. A phenomenon and its mirror image are not always the same. The universe does at times distinguish between left and right. As Janna Levin, an astrophysicist at Barnard College, told me, my grandmother’s discovery of asymmetry may be at the root of why there was more matter than antimatter after the Big Bang — why there is something instead of nothing, why everything didn’t annihilate into oblivion, and, ultimately, why the universe as we know it exists at all. S t o r y c o n t i n u e s b e l o w a d v e r t i s e m e n t My sense of who my grandmother was, on paper, comes from many sources, some as reliable as peer-reviewed science. There is a biography of her, originally written in Chinese by Tsai-Chien Chiang, and countless articles that pop up whenever there’s an occasion to honor women in science. A children’s book, “Queen of Physics,” published in 2019, turned out to be strangely useful in my attempts to know more about her, the simplest possible telling. What’s the most important thing to know about her career? Well, this: Your grandmother should have won the Nobel Prize. I started hearing that before I even understood her work (not that I could ever truly understand it). She is known worldwide as “the Chinese Marie Curie” and “the First Lady of Physics.” At Columbia, where she taught for decades, her students called her Madame Wu — or “the Dragon Lady,” if they were upset with her unrelenting perfectionism and the long hours she insisted they work in the physics lab. She preferred Professor Wu or Dr. Wu. I called her Grandma, although a Chinese kid with more exposure to the culture would have called her nai nai. She never won the Nobel, but her name is frequently mentioned alongside giants of physics who did, like Curie, Einstein, Fermiand Feynman. Chien-Shiung Wu was 11 when she left home, having outpaced what her parents’ school could teach her. She’d been lucky — a middle child with two brothers born to politically progressive parents, actual revolutionaries, who advocated for women’s rights and the education of girls. Fifty miles of bumpy country roads lay between her and the highly selective girls school in Suzhou she attended tuition-free, training to be a teacher. At night, however, she borrowed physics and mathematics books from classmates, studying them in secret. Why physics? She never told me, but thrilling discoveries were coming out of Europe and America in the 1920s, propelled by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Wanting to be a part of that is as understandable as a young Patti Smith wanting to be in the East Village in the late 1960s. She was 24 in 1936 when she began a month-long Pacific crossing on the ocean liner that brought her to America. An uncle paid her way. She had to go; there was nowhere in China to get a PhD in atomicphysics then. A Japanese invasion loomed in her home country, and those who got out then knew what they were fleeing. The first battle, the year after she left, took place in Shanghai, 27 miles south of her hometown. Then came the Rape of Nanjing, in which the Japanese raped or murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians (the number is contested), in the city where she’d just completed undergraduate studies, and where she’d led protests at Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek’s residence, demanding he do more to prevent a war. She couldn’t have predicted that the chaos would spread into World War II, or the deaths of her uncle and brother by torture in the Cultural Revolution. She thought she’d be back in a few years. Waving from that boat was the last time she saw her parents alive. When the postage stamp was being released, a reporter contacted my father and asked him about his mother. He CC’d me on his answers, which were more candid than he’d ever been with me. Could he describe how she was as a mother? She worked long hours in the lab and came home late at night, he replied. “She took care of me, but she needed to do her work.” She checked that he’d done his homework, but didn’t micromanage. What did they do together for fun? “We didn’t have much in common as far as fun went,” he wrote. “Her work was her life and her fun.” She preferred to spend time with him when they traveled, rather than the mundane day-to-day. S t o r y c o n t i n u e s b e l o w a d v e r t i s e m e n t He learned something about his own childhood from reading about her: “Her students in her lab bought a pair of tickets to the circus for us so they could get her out of the lab for a couple of hours,” he said. “She went off and returned in a half-hour with a big grin saying that she didn’t have to go, because the nursemaid had agreed to take me.” I come from a family of physicists,and grew up in Los Alamos, N.M., a town built on secrets. Many adults around me had security clearances, and we kids learned not to ask about work. They lived professional lives of mystery, off-limits to me. I was good at science and math, but I liked telling stories more. So I became a journalist, one who wrote a lot of sit-down profiles of celebrities, and relished grilling them about their lives. Somehow I’d never tried to peel back the layers of fame in my own family. Even now it’s difficult, because if I dig too hard, I have to confront the idea that, in the course of her many achievements, Chien-Shiung Wu didn’t balance her work and her family life, and those choices have trickled down, through my father and then to me, in ways that I’m only beginning to understand after years of therapy. This essay took months to write, during which I had surgery on my uterus and have been freezing my eggs — wondering if I, single at 43, will be the end of her family line. My grandmother got off that ocean liner intending to work on her PhD at the University of Michigan, but changed her mind and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley after a spontaneous visit. She’d been horrified to learn that Michigan didn’t let women enter through the front door of the student union. Then there was her Berkeley tour guide, another Chinese physics graduate student, Chia-Liu Yuan, who went by Luke. Luke was my grandfather, but there’s another love story here, which is less romantic — or perhaps more romantic, to physicists: Berkeley happened to have the world’s first cyclotron, a warehouse-sized apparatus that accelerates charged particles in spiraling paths and shoots them into smaller particles. As soon as my grandmother saw it, she knew she had to stay. She’d planned to return home, but Japan’s 1937 invasion of China cut off all hope. Unmoored, and, I believe, desperate, she threw herself into her lab work, typically staying until 4 a.m. Every exam she took was propelled by the fear that if she failed, she’d have nowhere to go. Every time she passed, which was always, she celebrated at a Chinese restaurant. S t o r y c o n t i n u e s b e l o w a d v e r t i s e m e n t At Berkeley, she began her life’s work — the study of beta decay. It’s one of three major forms of radioactive disintegration (alpha, beta and gamma), and is a manifestation of the weak interaction, the fundamental force that causes the sun to shine. As the world she knew crumbled around her, she focused on unstable atoms that, in falling apart, shed little bits of themselves to become stable again, emitting energy and becoming other elements. Being the rare, often sole, woman — let alone Chinese woman — in whatever room she entered became a constant theme in her sputtering rise. A 1941 Oakland Tribune article about her work on nuclear fission referred to her as “a petite Chinese girl” who “looks as though she might be an actress or an artist or a daughter of wealth in search of Occidental culture.” Almost anything written about her at that time refers to how pretty she was, Orientalist in a leering way, as if shocked that she could also be the person J. Robert Oppenheimer deemed “the authority” on beta decay. My father and I have had to piece together this part of her life from written accounts, particularly a chapter in a 1993 book called “Nobel Prize Women in Science” by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, who interviewed my grandmother and many of her contemporaries while they were still alive. Berkeley did not hire my grandmother for a permanent position. It was a harsh blow, which McGrayne believed was because of gender discrimination and the swell of anti-Asian sentiment during the war, particularly on the West Coast. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 had been bolstered with even stricter immigration laws in 1924. Japanese internment camps would soon be established. None of the top 20 research universities in the country had a female physics professor at the time. (Even now, according to the National Science Foundation, fewer women earn degrees in physics than in any other field of science.) My grandfather, also unable to get a decent-paying position at Berkeley, was offered a plum spot at Caltech,then a job in New Jersey developing radar for the U.S. Defense Department. They married and moved east, the one time she’d trail after his career. She briefly taught at Smith College, where she relished mentoring young women, but her teaching duties left no time for research.A year later, in 1943, she signed on at Princeton, as one of its first female physics researchers. A year after that, Columbia University lured her away for a secret wartime project. Two physicists in Columbia’s division of war research spent a day quizzing her, but avoided telling her anything about the work she’d be doing. Then they asked her to guess. “I’m sorry, but if you wanted me not to know what you’re doing, you should have cleaned the blackboards,” she said. They hired her on the spot, according to McGrayne. Picture a moment in nuclear physics when monumental discoveries were coming at such a frantic pace that scientists would pile into lecture halls, standing room only, or climb up on pillars to get a better view of equations on a chalkboard. My grandmother was at the center of that. By the 1950s, the symmetry of the universe, including left-right symmetry or parity conservation, was considered fact. Parity states that the universe does not favor left or right, that the laws of physics apply equally to anything and its mirror image. It had been proved to apply to macro objects such as planets and baseballs. But at the nuclear level, not so much. Scientists were using high-speed accelerators to explode particles into collections of smaller particles, and the results were coming out wonky. Either the experiments were flawed, or 30 years of physics were. In the spring of 1956, a male colleague of my grandmother’s at Columbia, Tsung-Dao Lee, told her about a controversial paper he was writing with Princeton’s Chen-Ning Yang. It theorized that parity might not be conserved in weak interactions, one of the four fundamental forces of the universe. (Gravity is another fundamental force; their theory was as provocative assaying gravity only works sometimes.) My grandmother, at 44, had earned a reputation as a tough and meticulous experimentalist. She was at home in the lab, proving whether the work of theorists like Lee and Yang had real application.She didn’t see physics as a mad dash to be first; she valued precision and being unimpeachably right. S t o r y c o n t i n u e s b e l o w a d v e r t i s e m e n t If the scientific world had not assumed Lee and Yang’s theory was far- fetched, there would have been a race of experimentalists trying to prove it. Yang later said my grandmother was the only person who understood the urgency and importance of testing their theory. She suggested orienting an experiment around the isotope cobalt-60, a strong source of beta decay, and bringing it down to near absolute-zero temperatures, eliminating variables and making it easier to measure the path and direction of electrons emitted during decay. Columbia didn’t have the right equipment, so she collaborated with the cryogenics team at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, led by Ernest Ambler, who was British American. Through the fall of 1956, she traveled from New York and back to use their lab, still teaching classes at Columbia while her husband and a nanny cared for their 9-year-old son. When pressed for memories, my grandmother’s former students tended to recall her rigor — the long hours in the lab, the nights spent sleeping on the floor. One night, a student gently reminded her that it might be time to go home to feed dinner to her son, who’d call the lab repeatedly, complaining of being hungry. “Oh, he knows where the can opener is,” she replied, and kept working. My dad was in first grade when he first started boarding school. According to McGrayne, Dr. Wu listed a “nice husband,” a short commute and good child care as prerequisites to being a successful woman in science. I saw my grandfather’s utter devotion to her. An accomplished physicist himself, he cooked, drove her everywhere (she never learned to drive) and often put her needs first. Preliminary results of her experiment were astounding. In a major, measurable way, far more electrons were shooting out of the south pole of the nuclei than the north. She reversed their spin, and got the same lopsided effect. On Christmas Eve, she boarded a train back to New York, bringing good news to Lee and Yang: her work — “the Wu experiment,” as it came to be known — seemed to prove that parity was not conserved in beta decay. The universe, it turned out, was slightly left-handed. She went back to Washington on Jan. 2 to verify her results. Two days later, Lee shared the news with a group of Columbia scientists — even though my grandmother had asked him not to, not yet. This is important, because it directly impacted her ability to get credit for her discovery. Another group of Columbia scientists, led by Leon Lederman, were working on another experiment that Lederman realized could be modified to also test parity non-conservation. They confirmed my grandmother’s results in four days. Word began spreading. My grandmother kept checking her results in repeat tests, under intense pressure to publish a paper that would beat Lederman’s. In physics, whoever submits — and publishes — first gets the glory. Lederman held off submitting his, at Lee’s request; had they not been colleagues at Columbia, such niceties were not likely to have occurred. It wasn’t until Jan. 9 that my grandmother’s team pulled a bottle out of a drawer, a rare 1949 Chateau Lafite Rothschild Bordeaux, and toasted the overthrow of parity. Both papers were published in Physical Review on Jan. 15, 1957. Lederman’s paper acknowledged that he only started his experiment after hearing of my grandmother’s results. Columbia held a press conference. The news ran on the front pageof the New York Times. At the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in New York that January, a large lecture hall at Columbia was “occupied by so immense a crowd that some of its members did everything but hang from the chandeliers,” according to a newsletter. It was a triumph, but the damage, in a sense, was done. Later that year, the Nobel committee declined to award anyone on the experimental side; Lee and Yang won for their theoretical work, and were the first physicists of Chinese nationality to receive a Nobel. Sexism seems present, if not directly overt. In 120 years, only four women have won a Nobel in physics. Chien-Shiung Wu’s work was lauded over the coming decades: an honorary doctorate of science from Princeton (where the university president called her “the world’s foremost female physicist”); tenure at Columbia; the National Medal of Science; the presidency of the American Physical Society; and Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize. We won’t know what went on in the Nobel deliberations until the records are unsealed, once Lee and Yang (aged 99 and 94, respectively) have died, but there were mitigating factors: dueling papers (and a third from Chicago a week later); some insistence that the NBS scientists deserved to share the credit; the Nobel’s limit on the number of people awarded in each category per year. I don’t know what my grandmother thought about this, or if she thought much about it all, because it involves the sort of feelings she never brought up. My dad says she would have wanted her work to speak for itself. When I wrote a Facebook post about the Chien-Shiung Wu stamp, some of my friends shared it with their circles. Someone I don’t know replied that he wouldn’t be buying the stamp because of her crucial work on the Manhattan Project, developing a method for uranium enrichment to increase the supply of fuel for the bomb. The scientists are not absolved of the destruction wrought on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; they also didn’t control their governments. Like her friend Oppenheimer, she had complex regrets.During a visit to Taiwan in 1965, she advised Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek never to go down the road of building nuclear weapons. The bomb in many ways brought my family to New Mexico. I grew up partly in the mountain town of Los Alamos, which is dominated by the national laboratory complex founded as part of the Manhattan Project, and partly in a rural valley where a walk to Ponce’s gas station to buy Jolly Ranchers was a full-day activity. My grandmother made precisely one trip to the high desert to visit us, when I was a baby. The altitude was bad for her blood pressure. There was nowhere to get good Chinese food. She was unimpressed. For college, my father studied physics and got his PhD at Columbia. But he was also a long-haired counterculturalist in the 1960s, and my grandmother thought he didn’t study hard enough. She wasn’t overjoyed when he fell in love with my mom, a very much not Chinese hippie with long blond hair who later became a glass artist. My own options for a rebellious streak were so limited that notbecoming a scientist was the most subversive thing I could do. I always wondered why my father went into physics — why follow in such large footsteps? Was it pressure? Was it a need to bond with his mother by partaking in her greatest passion? All of that, he told me recently, never occurred to him. He liked being a detective of science, working in a world where there were right answers, and a good experiment could prove them correct. S t o r y c o n t i n u e s b e l o w a d v e r t i s e m e n t Twice a year, usually on school breaks, my parents and I went to New York to see my grandparents. In their apartment, amid the carved jade statues and scroll paintings, was awall covered in framed photographs of my grandparents with various people I didn’t recognize. It took me until my teens to start asking who was in the pictures: Muhammad Ali, on the day he and my grandmother both received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Pope John Paul II. President Gerald Ford. Zhou Enlai, the first premier of the People’s Republic of China, whom she met when the country opened back up to the West in the 1970s. Physics was a small world and my grandmother kept company with the greats. Ernest Lawrence, who invited her to study at Berkeley, won a Nobel for inventing the cyclotron. Her thesis adviser was Emilio Segrè, a future Nobel laureate from Italy — also stranded far from home after Mussolini took power. When Enrico Fermi, who built the world’s first practical nuclear reactor (key to the Manhattan Project), became frustrated that it mysteriously kept shutting down, Segrè told him to “ask Miss Wu.” She confirmed his suspicion that xenon-135, a byproduct of nuclear fission, was poisoning the reactor. Oppenheimer, whom my grandmother called “Oppie,” called her “Jiejie,” an affectionate term meaning “elder sister” in Chinese. My father can’t confirm this tale, but I’ve heard it often: When he was born in Princeton in 1947, a friend of my grandma’s, a scientist who had also escaped the horrors of war, came to visit her in the hospital. That was Albert Einstein. On the 2012 jubilee trip to China, amid the commemorations and motorcades, one of my relatives asked: Would we want to see an opera tonight? It might be nice, I thought, to escape all the attention for a night out with close family. When we got to the opera house, I spied the title on the program: “Chien-Shiung Wu.” Of course. My grandmother had taken me to see Chinese opera in New York, the kind with more costumes and makeup than sets, with men playing the erhuand a huge, bug-eyed dragon snaking around in the darkness. This, though, was an elaborate, modern stage production. The curtain rose on a little girl in a village in China with big ambitions to change the world. There was plenty of truth: her devotion to her father, the rarity of her getting an education. Then it got (more) surreal. I had to stifle a laugh during the scene when she arrives in an America depicted by cardboard cutouts of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building and Mount Rushmore all at once, while singers danced around the stage on Rollerblades. The fact that my grandmother had never repatriated to China seemed to be a particular sticking point: The opera featured several arias about how she had only come to America to save China through science. A little boy playing my father appeared in a couple of scenes — including one in which he runs into the room, waving a passport, and asks, in a bratty manner, why would anyone want to leave America? The actress playing my grandmother slapped him so hard he fell to the ground, crying. I looked over to gauge my father’s reaction. He was asleep. Four years later, we heard from the Postal Service, in an email marked “Confidential.” Would we support Chien-Shiung Wu being a part of the Distinguished Americans stamp series? This was just the “recommendation” phase. They needed to see estate documents. The Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee gets around 30,000 nominations for stamp subjects every year. We still don’t know who submitted her name or how she got picked. As executor of her estate, my dad gets a lot of these types of requests. He’s bad about responding. Fans and admirers of my grandmother’s legacy often locate me as a last resort, asking if I can get my father to write them back. At 74, he still works on classified nuclear physics projects and has limited access to personal computer use, which he mainly spends checking on me, the New York Knicks or the Cleveland Browns.This was the only request I’ve seen him respond to right away. We knew better than to dwell on the stamp as a certainty, but two years later, the preliminary artwork came back — an egg-tempera painting by a Hong Kong-born, Brooklyn-based artist, Kam Mak. A couple of years after that, the USPS had more news for us: The stamp would be released on Feb. 11, 2021, in observance of International Day of Women and Girls in Science. It would be a Forever stamp, first class for all time. Unless you’re a collector, stamps are just stamps — at least until your grandmother is on one. This stamp has connected me with long-lost cousins and former students of my grandmother’s. Little girls who love science have sent drawings of their new hero, C.S. Wu. A friend in New York put the Dr. Wu stampon 100 postcards for the Stop Asian Hate movement, which she encouraged people to send to their congressional representatives. I told her she was overspending by 12 cents per postcard. She said having my grandmother’s face on them is far more important. I like to think of my grandmother’s New York apartment as where I learned to appreciate being Chinese. It was this other world of ornate tea sets and the smell of steamed cabbage and conversations in Chinese that always made me think my grandparents were talking about me right in front of me. Those trips to the city were filled with visits to relatives, many of whom my grandparents had helped immigrate to New York. There were banquets in elegant places with white tablecloths, where a wood-carved relief of a dragon greeted us at the entrance. My grandmother knew where all the secret best restaurants were, and they always seemed to be located under a highway overpass. The kids ran loose, receiving red envelopes filled with crisp dollar bills, dodging uncles trying to get us to eat sea cucumber. My grandmother presided over these events like a queen — Madame Wu in her splendor. S t o r y c o n t i n u e s b e l o w a d v e r t i s e m e n t She was an elegant writer, and fluent in English, but as a kid, I’d often get frustrated trying to decipher her accent on phone calls, and hand the receiver back to my parents. When I was 9, I remember her excitedly telling me she’d be taking me to see the … the what, Grandma? It was a “p” word. It wasn’t until we were pushing through crowds at the Bronx Zoo that I realized she’d been talking about the giant pandas, Yong Yong and Ling Ling,who were on short-term loan from Beijing. We did better in person and with the letters and postcards she’d send me from around the world. A stamp seems like a fitting tribute, affixed to her favorite means of communication. I’ll never know to what degree language prevented us from knowing one another deeply. It reduced communication to its purest exchange: I knew she loved me. I was the only one of my friends whose report card results were relayed to a near-Nobel laureate. I got one bad grade when I was 6 and then never again. My parents kept her abreast of my homework, and of my progress on the violin, which for a long while was my passion, all because she had taken me to a children’s orchestra concert, conducted by Yo-Yo Ma’s sister, Yeou-Cheng Ma. They were somehow friends. I wonder if the stories I tell make her sound too much like the stereotype of stern Chinese grandmothers. When really, all she wanted me to see was the limitlessness to life; what can be gained by pushing past the barriers around you. She was fighting to be seen and respected at a time when women and Chinese people in America rarely were. As early as 1965, she was giving speeches advocating for more women in science. At MIT’s symposium that year on women in science and engineering, she railed against the “unimpeachable tradition” of science being seen as a male field, and wondered aloud if atoms or DNA molecules “have any preference for either the masculine or feminine treatment,” the way our society did. “In our present society of plenty and proficiency, is it too much to provide excellent professional child care during the day so that mothers can get away from monotonous household chores and work in their chosen fields?” she asked. Yes, it was important for scientists to have home lives, she said. “However, this noble human desire to be devoted companions and parents must, ideally, be equally shared by men.” We had one fight that I remember, when I was a preteen and I proudly showed her my newly pierced ears. She was so angry. How could I choose to put holes in my body? Later I found out that her father had been adamantly against the foot-binding of girls, which was banned the year she was born but widely practiced long thereafter. She’d barely been spared. It was just one of the distances between us — my American incuriosity and her Chinese stoicism. My grandparents, who were finally able to return to China, many times, beginning in the late 1970s, never took their only granddaughter along with them — to meet relatives, to learn about the culture. China was home, but I imagine that for my grandmother it was also a place tinged with loss, the same kind of loss I feel whenever I pass by her street near Columbia. My last memory of my grandma is of her in one of the beloved pair of armchairs upholstered in faded yellow corduroy, where she and my grandfather enjoyed sitting together. I was holding her hand, not long after she’d had her first stroke in 1996. She loved to look out the window, down to the Barnard campus, where she marveled at the young women practicing basketball in a gymnasium with big windows. Look at how strong they are, how fast,she’d say. Look how hard they work. I was a month into the second semester of my freshman year at Yale when she died on a frigid Sunday in February 1997. She collapsed in her yellow armchair while my grandfather was making her lunch. “You have to call your mom,” my roommate said. “She’s called 20 times.” A classmate I didn’t know well told me how sorry he was; he’d read my grandmother’s obituaryin the New York Times before I did. Decades have passed. My grandfather died six years after she did, after being hospitalized on a trip to China. The postage stamp has been a blessing — a time to reflect on my grandmother’s life and talk to my parents about their memories. But it’s been hard sometimes to keep up the facade of endless enthusiasm about honoring her. I don’t want to have to learn about her from history books. I just want to hold her hand again and ask her to tell me what it was like: the ride across the ocean, the immeasurable sacrifice, the war, the rush of the Wu experiment, the singular thrill of discovery. I think about that night at the opera, and how much effort and devotion went into telling her life’s story for just those few performances, perhaps never to be seen again. How the singer who played my grandmother wept when she met us. How the story they told was Chien-Shiung Wu’s, but also not — how it was told through a lens of China wanting to claim her. It is a constant. People, institutions and countries want to claim her, just as I still want to claim her, in an asymmetrical universe where the reality of a person is not the same as the image of them that stretches on through space and time. I accept that a much larger part of who she was is completely unknowable, and belongs to everybody. 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