Inga mana, inga reo, inga rauranga tēlamā, tēnā kauta, tēnā kauta, tēnā kauta katoa.  No rara, tēnā kauta, tēnā kauta, tēnā kauta katoa. Kia ora ndf. Good to see you. It's really nice to be back. I thought I'd be able to do some follow-up from last year. So as you recall last year at the keynote opening, I shared a little bit of a story about some displacement that I'd had one week on from the Kaikura earthquake. And in that displacement, I was separated from some precious personal taunga, a piece of digital media, the 2003 classic science fiction disaster movie The Core. And I just want to let you know that one year on from the Kaikura earthquake, after we were able to get back into the building, I recovered it. Fantastic. So we'll get rid of that for now. But I also made a plea to you all to ndf at that conference to show some love for The Core because it was rated only at 5.4 on IMDb. And I think it's rightful to look at what has happened in that year. So 2016 5.4 out of 10 watts it's sitting at. Drum roll, beat. 5.5. So I don't know.  I'm happy. I'm very happy. So thank you. Thank you. And ndf is, I don't know if that's implied, but it's meant nicely. OK, for the serious part of the talk. A declaration. A treaty. A petition. He Whakapotanga o Te Rangatiratanga o New Terenu of 1835, Te Teretia o Waitangi of 1840, and the Woman's Suffrage Petition of 1893. These three of our most significant constitutional documents of our nation's history make up He Tohu, the heart and soul of He Tohu. It's a permanent exhibition jointly conceived of, designed and created by Te Rua Mahara o Te Kawanatanga and Te Puna Mataranga o Aotearoa, the sister institutions of archives New Zealand and National Library of New Zealand. He Tohu literally symbolizes the thousands of people that left their marks, their signs, their signatures on these icons of New Zealand's history. They're also physical marks of people's hopes, of their aspirations, and of their commitment to forge our nation. But in a more prosaic sense, they're also public records of long-term archival value for New Zealand. And as such, they fall under the preservation care, under the stewardship, and the kaitiakitanga of the Chief Archivist and Archives New Zealand. All in accordance with the Public Records Act of 2005. It's fairly important to remember that. But the more than just sort of dusty documents about some banal transactions, even of historical notes or curiosity, they are contemporary documents. They are living documents with contemporary value. And probably more so now in a 21st century as New Zealand is trying to find and make its way on the world stage. And especially in a digitally disrupted area where we seem to be obsessed with self and the immediacy of the here and now. And we too often forget about the past, and then alone think about the future. Which is why those ideas of the architects and the signatories of these documents are at the very heart of the kaupapa for He Tohu. He Whakapapa Kureru, He Whinoa Kura, talking about our past to create a better future. So these documents, He Whakaputanga Te Teriti and the Women's Suffrage Petition, they are potent reminders to us of the promises made by our tupuna. They serve to hold us to account and honouring the commitments that were made. Sometimes to make rightful amends. But probably more importantly in a world we were looking at the past and talking about it to create the future. They inspire us to become our better selves as people and as a nation. But I'm not a constitutional lawyer. I'm not a professional historian. And I'm not an archival expert in these documents. Luckily we have some great people that are. And here are a couple of them. Stephanie Lash, who is the lead curator. Jared Davidson, who was co-creator. These two important people from Archives New Zealand, part of the whole team that we had, helped create some of the content and the substance behind this amazing exhibition about the documents. My eyesight not being what it is or what it was. I misread lead curator once and I said to Steph, you're the Lord Curator. That's fantastic. And she said, yeah, you can call me that, but I prefer an E on the end of it. So yeah, not being a historian or an archival expert, but as Kaitiaki of these documents. You can't help but fall in love just a little or maybe a lot about these three documents. And really because they're filled with stories, rich, deep, human stories. Stories about their creation, their signing, their journey to our care. But probably more importantly, stories about the signatories. Signatories that I've shown you photos of or pictures of already. Like Eruera Mahi Patuone, who is recorded to have had four wives, which is actually just a couple more than I've had. He lived to the ripe old age of 108. He was well known to be friendly to the European settlers. He believed in the rule of law by the Queen. And he was a real peacemaker, you know, when he wasn't being a warrior. Or Te Rangitopiora, who was a composer and singer of Waiata. She was a fierce, informatable female rangatera, one of 15 that are known to have signed totility. And when she was baptized in 1857, she wanted the name Kuini Victoria, or Te Kuini, the Queen, Queen of the South. And she made her husband take on the name Albert. And then of course Kate Shepherd, who was the founder for the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand. Who worked tirelessly to get those petition sheets mailed out to all parts of New Zealand. When they were returned to her, she painstakingly used animal glue to paste them all together into 274 metres of a monster of a petition that weighs in around 7 kilograms. So we wanted to do something really special around these documents and Hitohu. And one of the things we wanted to focus on was preservation of these taonga, because they've seen hard lives. We need to protect them from the agents of deterioration. I'm not making this up. This is real in the archival community. Things like physical forces, like earthquakes, tsunami, these vandals, displaces of artefacts, fire, water, pestilence, pollutants, light, light exposures, a terrible agent of deterioration, incorrect temperature and relative humidity, probably the most harmful, that of custodial neglect. Because, ladies and gentlemen, you don't get a document, a record looking like this if you haven't valued it and looked after it. And it's our job to make sure this never happens again on our watch. But of course we also have some experts in this space too. Fantastic conservators like Anna Whitehead from Archives and her husband Peter Whitehead, who's a collection care leader at the National Library, Alexander Turnbull Library. This is date night for them. They're working on the suffrage petition, that little doodad that Anna's got. It's a spectrophotometer and archival geek speak, but it's a tricorder. And this is the team, Vicky Ann, Dave in the middle, and Peter and Anna, so just spending a little bit of time with the documents there. But we also care about access. So not just preserving these wonderful tanga for future generations, but ensuring that they are going to be accessible and more accessible than they have been in the past for at least the next 25 years, if not the next 500 years. Here's a little picture I took. Just yesterday I found this down in Archives. It's a little board that we used to have on the outside to invite people to come into Archives to look at the Treaty. We can't use it anymore because the license has expired. But they would come into the Constitution Room and look how cramped and jammed together the documents are. There's not a lot of space for people to move around and to really get good access to these. So we wanted to improve access. We also want to improve the ability of everyone to learn about these wonderful documents, to learn about their deep history and about the stories that they tell. And this is what it looked like in the past at Archives at Mulgrave Street. Just kind of a few boards up there. So we wanted to have a much more immersive experience for people in the future. So we knew, though, that we needed to create a fantastic new exhibition. And we needed to take it out of Archives at Mulgrave from the Constitution Room, which has had its life for 27 years.  We needed to create a new home, a new whare tonga for these incredible documents. So we worked with Studio Pacific Architecture. I think Fletcher Construction helped design and build a wonderful new place, a new home. And to work with artists and artisans and crafts people in New Zealand to help shape the new home for these documents. And we needed to find a house for this home. And that house was going to be at the National Library on Mollsworth Street. I like to refer to it, though, as Castle Black, which is a Game of Thrones reference. It makes work a lot more interesting. For those of you not from Wellington, you might not know where Mollsworth Street where the National Library is relative to Archives, so here's just a little bit of an overhead perspective. We had an enormous task ahead of us. We needed to move the documents from... I'm calling it East Watch by the Sea, Archives New Zealand on Moll Grave, over to Castle Black, National Library New Zealand. By the way, Shadow Towers, just where Parliament is. We needed to move it from this X to that X. Plan A, using our sharpest logistical planners, figured out that we could just go from point A to point B. Cos, you know, most school kids know that a straight line is the fastest way in two points in euclidean three-dimensional space. And we could probably use kind of a device like this that would make it really, really easy to get it instantly there. But apparently these don't actually exist yet, so we're just waiting for that. So we had to do this the hard way. So we scrapped Plan A and we thought of Plan B, and this is when our people really got clever. And so we worked out that we would need to move it very, very carefully in a very planned and controlled way from Moll Grave to Mollsworth in a slightly circuitous path. And that's what we did on Saturday, April 22 on the moving of the documents. And a really special, you know, ceremony with appropriate and respectful taonga for the entire event, for the documents and for iwi. But also, you know, using some state-of-the-art containment systems, these wooden crates that were specially designed to nestle in the documents, stop vibration, keep them weathertight. And in the early hours before dawn in the dark, it was a very cold morning that day, archives, archives people carefully took the documents in a very somba, a very respectful, very beautiful ceremony from Moll Grave Street a couple of hundred metres around into its new home at the National Library, where it would sit behind this hoarding. And what did it look like behind that hoarding? No, no. That's when it looked a bit... I actually don't have a photo of what it looked like on Saturday 22, so using this. But this is what it ended up looking like. It's absolutely stunning and beautiful room. We call it the document room. It's fashioned on a wakahuia, which is a treasure box. It's hewn from native Rimutimba that came from the Kaharangi National Park, or forest, which fell down in 2014 through Cyclone Ita. And it is just a magnificent building and a place to house our new documents. Inside is even more incredible. Just this stunning, stunning room that has an organic feel to it. It's beautifully lit. The lighting you'll see here actually is, you know, not as bright as it is when you go in there, for real, because light needs to be very, very well controlled. So we have Hefaka Putanga. Two sheets, four sides there. Tititi Awaitangi. We've got nine sheets. Two on animal parchment. One printed. And all but one in Te Reo Māori. And then, of course, the woman's suffrage petition. And a very special display cabinet because it's on a roll, like a broomstick that Kate Shepard used. And I joke to people. I say, you know, at Hitohu, in the document room, we have a WMD. That's right. That's a weapon of mass democracy. Only one in the world. Well, probably not. So in terms of preservation and access, we have created a wonderful new home for these documents to live in, to be safe in for future generations. And as you can see, plenty of space for people to come and see to look at the documents at all angles. And this is what it sounds like inside the document room. Pretty quiet. Someone told me that the document room has the elements of looking like a cave. Other people said it's like being inside the womb. I don't remember. So I'm not too sure. But I'll just take their word for it. But learning. Learning is the third goal. And we wanted to create an amazing experience to envelop the documents in that document room. So we have this incredible interpretive space which has, you know, vibrant content that's been created with the help of Story Inc. And it surrounds the document room. We have these incredible document tables which are fully interactive. They're able to be used by all age groups. And they're really massive iPads, fully integrated. And because we've scanned and digitised the three documents at incredible resolution and detail, in fact, Andy Fenton, he's over here somewhere, NZ MicroGraphics. They did He Whakaputanga in Tertility. We did the Suffrage Petition in-house. You're able to zoom in to each of these documents. You're able to get up close and personal at a level of detail you couldn't possibly do in real life. And we've even been able to do a little bit of digital enhancement. You'll notice that some of the records, when they weren't looked after, they've been eaten up by little rats or mice, by pests. We're able to reproduce what they did look like because we have the photolithographic facsimiles from 1877. And we also have data, lots of data, that sits behind these documents and sits behind the interactives, naming and providing the biographies and information that we have around signatories. So you can search through the documents and find people who have actually signed these documents, who could be tupino of yours. And then we have these incredible map tables, which are a real crowd, please. A real favourite. I've got a video of a little bit. I'll just show you a little part of it. This is an interactive video to show you how the suffrage petition was created and farmed out across New Zealand and recollected. All right, I'll stop there because I'm running out of time. But I will, a little bit of a spoiler. Women get the vote. Right. But this is a crowd-pleaser. You know, some pretty important people have come to see this. That's right, he's the Wilder Boy from a Taika Waiti film, Thor or something. I don't know. Yeah, he came, I think, on Opening Day. And we have hours and hours of video korero, interviews of luminaries and experts about the documents and constitutional law, which you can actually go watch on YouTube as well. But in the end, Hitohu is just an amazing place for people to come and visit to spend a bit of time, to learn, to watch, and to talk. And that's some of these girls here, chillaxing. Since May of 2017, we've had over 24,000 visitors. On a good year, we may have had 10,000 visitors in Wallgrave Street. And it's attracting sort of worldwide interest. Heads of State are coming to New Zealand and wanting to see Hitohu and our documents. We have a VVIP experience. This is the Croatian president. We've got the poufini for the Irish president just a few weeks ago. I just want to call out the National Librarian. He's Lord Commander at Castle Black. And this gentleman here, best boss in the world. Peter's just there. And I'm there too. I'm there. I'm there. Believe me, I'm there. See? I'm there. So in these ceremonial things I don't stand on the shoulders of giants. I stand behind the shoulder of a giant. A Scottish giant. So we have some amazing times there. So that's it. I just wanted to say, personally, I invite you to Hitohu if you haven't been. Bring your friends, bring your family, bring colleagues. I think it's something that every New Zealander should experience many times, multiple times over the next 25 years of this exhibition as we evolve it. Spend some time talking about the past so that we can create a better future. Thank you.


Hello, my name is David Rovois, I'm recording this video in December 2020 and today I want to show you how I do a commission ed artwork from scratch using the software Krita. It's an illustration themed about cat and cloud for the organization from Asoft. From Asoft is a not-for-profit popular educational organization and I'm proud to make some illustrations for them from time to time. And I'm also doing this video because I received many many many comments about what tablet I am using. So for the first part of this video I will use this little tablet. It's a Vakom Cintiq 13 HD. You can see the size compared to my hand and the stylus. It's a tablet connected to the computer with this cable here. It's not sponsored. This is just an old pen tablet and I'm using it right now because I'm more comfortable with it for sketching and inking but with me this type of thing is changing. Sometimes I'm going back to paper, sometimes I'm going back to traditional tablets. This is just the fashion of the moment. And I own ed in my career quite a lot of Cintiq, the 12 WX, the 21 UX and also the 22 HD. So finally I sort of dislike the ergonomy of the large Cintiqs but I sort of like the big display at the same time and all in all I prefer to keep a small one that I can connect on my desk when I need a little sketch or just for the pleasure to draw and see my hand and do some gesture. But you will see it's not my main tablet. I will launch a little timelapse to finish the inking and then I will talk more about it. So now my drawing is done and I will move from my Cintiq to my traditional tablet. And I take my larger tablet. It's a Vakom Intuos XL 4, the model 4. So it's a very old one and I put this plank of wood here. It's fake wood. It's that sort of plastic rendering and I can put my keyboard right here. The disposition of the monitor, the tablet and the keyboard is my favorite way to work with a traditional tablet. I'm really rarely using the Cintiq in fact. This is probably less than 10% of my artwork that I just connect this little Cintiq and start a sketch with it. But it happened so I wanted to illustrate it in this video. For this artwork I will continue it. I will tint the line and also build up a little bit of deep gray under the line art. You will see me also painting the background more than drawing it because I wanted to get a painterly effect and then I will just put a multiply layer group on the top and I will colorize on it. So I will launch a timelapse. Feel free to watch until the end and see you next time.


on everyone. Sam here with late in sports cards ripping 22, 23, Penitent Prison Basketball Hobby 4 box break number 34. Random team style, there's a look again at your random results as always. You can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat. Good luck everybody. Again guys, 4 to go in eminence. Drop me that link really quick again. 4 to go, 4 to go. Wayne, Reggie Bullock, Silver, Kevin Love, Jeremy Sohan, Wendell Moore, Silver Josh Hart, Random Rookie, Amari Stottemar, Stat. What birthdays do we got today, Vaughn, outside of Donnie of course. Bottom of Mitchell, Purple Ice to 1.49. Clark Kellogg for the Pacers on the auto, nice one there. Palo, Hyper Rookie, there we go, Magic, congrats. Nice one there for Orlando. I've sped home to catch up Sacramento Kings playoff game. Oh man, who would have thought you were going to say that at the beginning of the season. Miguel Yovitch, Blue Ice to 125. Rookie for the Kings, Jay Nivey, Shrooder, and Johnny Davis. Wait, Rookie Ty Ty Washington, Jimmy Butler, Keegan Murray, Denny Green, David Arati, Red Wave, Al Horford, one of you peeped the thumbnail, Brooke Lopez, Jaylin Williams, J-Dubb, Orange Wave coming up, it is A, Justin Holiday for the Hawks, 260. Why? Silver DeMontez Sabonis, Baldwin, Parker, Eminence Aroni up next everybody, I'm excited. Silver Kauai, Silver Walker Kessler, nice one there for the Jazz, congrats Utah, Eric. Yeah, yep, Wally Serviak and Birdman, yep, yes it is. In fact, yes it is. Tim Duncan, Blue to 199, Jaylin Brunson. Yep, that is most definitely. Currently, Forest has a really good thumbnail tomorrow too. Steph Curry, me and him are currently in thumbnail wars. Steph Curry? Yeah, who can make like the better one? I'm like non-released, I'm like Saturdays and Mondays and stuff, non-released. That's probably tied right now. Shade on Sharp, Luck of the Lottery, Jimmy Butler, Kiehl's, Carl Malone. Ooh, Gold, Gold, say red, Jada McDaniels, two at one, or 299, Gold, Gold Jaylin Williams, two of ten, holy cow man, huge card Eric, let's go dude, let's go. Another Eminence spot came in guys, round of three. Oh boy, we'll get that Mag right away Eric, congrats man. Paul Sarkrish and Kaloko Rookie, Terry Eason, holy moly dude, holy moly. Three to go in Eminence everybody, three to go, it's a big one dude, it's a big freaking card right there. Hell yeah, let's go Eric, congrats buddy. Three Gold Autos in this case, Mowgli in the first one, then Jeng in the last one, and now Jada in this one. It's not bad dude, it's not bad at all. Yeah, I know, could you imagine if you had the Thunder dude, you'd have two Gold Autos, not, Kenny Martin Jr. to 199, Otto Dave Bing for the Pistons, nice one there, Sensational Signatures, Pat Conaton, Jabari Smith, yeah, you're gonna buy the Thunder in a random team, Wave, Kevin Garner, KD, Josh Richardson, Danny Green, J-Val, gotcha, yeah, there we go illegal. Orange Wave, Josh Monat Rookie, nice for the Timberwolves, it's a 60 for his Madagant man, Silver, David's for Tom's, Ty Ty, Dougie McBuckets, Mojo, Andrew Nemhard, Rookie for the Pacers, Steven B, it's 13 of 25, great case man, congrats on that one, we'll get that magged up for you as well, great card right there, Silver Norman Powell, Chris Boucher, 2-299, fireworks, there's Isaac Acoro Pulsar, Shrae Murphy, and Ryan Ross, Red Wave, Tobias Harris, Max Christie, Marjon Bochamp, Jaden Hardy, base, Silver, Donovan Mitchell, Garland's, Silver Palo, geez dude, is that, we had a hyper, now a Pulsar and a Silver all in this case too in this break of course, got that mag for you, congrats again, Magic, Josh raking in those Palos, Jay Crowder, Hyper, Kiehl's, Tyrese Martin, Silver James Harden, Silver Devon Bissell, Dallin Terry, and Vince Williams, we actually have tonight, the first time I've ever worn this here is the New York Titans, so the Jets, the Titans of New York, their throwback, subdued hats lately, not a little bit, I'm still unpacking them all, that's the thing, for the third time now, yes Bradley, there's 2-99, Trace McGrath, got Larry Johnson, nice one there, Silver Auto for the mix, Tyler here, yeah they wear it on like the sideline when, like if they wear the throwback, like the Titan New York Titans throwback, like everybody will have these hats on which is pretty cool, Titans of New York, Silver is D'Anthony Melton, O'Chag Bahi, this Kyle Kuzma, Fireworks Yolk, Silver Eye of the Sood Moon, Dirk, Jayden Ivey, and Zion Williamson, yeah illegal what, drop guys a link again, two eminence breaking after this, yeah there's a lot, I don't have any Eagles hats, yeah that's unfortunate, probably none, purple eyes, Gary Payton, 2-1-49, got Adrian Dantley, AD, one of the original ADs for the Pistons, Lutort, good answer, hey Scotty Pippen, thanks illegal, out of all my Philly's hats I always wear, true, I'm saying illegal, Red Wave, Isaiah Ruby, Fireworks LeBlanc, Wendell Moore Jr. Hyker, Paolo Rookie, Devin Bissell, Christian Coloco, the power coming up here is Denny of Dia, 2-75, Jaylin Dern, yep not changing anytime soon, Silver Treyum, Jaylin what's TW, illegal, trying to think what that is, oh tiger what's that, that makes sense, true, Orange, Davion Mitchell, 2-49, for the Kings, O'Mellavall, Silver Daniel Tice, and Javarra Walker, yeah I think, yeah he's got fitted hats for sure, yeah oh yeah, Red Wave, Kevin Lowe, look uh Hyper Steve Nash, Jeremy Sohan, I think Sam is a big head though, not really a small head, it's like average, don't you have trouble finding hats or something, I have trouble because my size is so like, there's a lot of people that have it, so it's like stuff, sounds out quickly, Patrick Ewing, 2-175, there's Nicola Joach, yeah seven or four, not that big, Silver Jason Tatum, Fearless, Silver Chris Muller, Peyton Watson, yeah that's average I would say, Silver Donovan Mitchell fireworks, down to two to go guys, Josh Maas, Silver Rookie, two to go on Eminence everybody, two to go, took a spot, Kyle Kay, thanks Kyle, appreciate you buddy, let me drop you guys that link again, two spots to go in Eminence, yeah I know, big brains like me need seven and seven eighths, good god, now that's hard, find those, McCall Bridges, 2-2-99, Dallon Terry, Rookie Otto for the Bulls, nice one there, Kenyon Martin Jr, there's DeMonte Sabonis Hyper, Karen Jackson Jr, Blake Wesley, Price McGowan, Silver Jared Allen, Jalen Williams, yeah that's tough, being like three eighths, five eighths, or seven eighths is really especially seven eighths, that's probably the toughest size, I feel like if you're mostly indoors like going a bigger size is probably smart, when you're outdoors probably smaller, just stand your head, true, Lexi Pokhachevsky, Yovitch and Tim Duncan, especially down here when the wing gets like 30 miles an hour, right exactly, last prison box, again guys, Eminence up after this, 2-2-go, 2-2-go, 2-2-go, come in early, it's dumb because the my phone app's like oh there's like a 90% chance tomorrow, then you look hourly it's like only 50, so I'm confused, bipolar weather in Florida, yeah cold, Shay Gilgius Alexander, five of five, wow, have a break thunder, Eric, hi Shay, that's sick, Wayne's gonna love that dude, Fred Joellenby, 2-2-9-9, auto Ryan Rollins, for the Warriors, having four in the eye, Johnny Davis and Jalen Williams, I think the thunder are doing good because it's thundering inside, maybe, could be, could be, could be, weather mojo, it's sunny just the Phoenix, Phoenix as well, red wave, Yonsei Murray, Lottari, Jaden Ivy, Tim Duncan, Devontae, Ram, red wave, Steve Nash for the sums, Kwyler, Pulsar, Jabari Walker, Barclay, Terry Eason, for the Rockets, a red power coming up here, it's gonna be A, Josh Giddy, cut for the thunder again to 75, nice one there, second year Giddy, Harry, Silver, Big O, Big 00, kid at Maltaibrand, I'm Rookie, I think we have to do more research with this weather, this weather mojo, honestly, could we go guys, this day was 87, tonight's snow, Jesus Nick, we're, you're up north though, you're in like Minnesota or something, right, Nick, you're up that west, Purple Ice, Kevin Love to 149, you're getting snow in April, Al Horford, oh yeah, even Connecticut, we get snow in April every now and then, well I don't know really, yeah, usually in the march with our cops, kind of the end, another mojo, let's go dude, mojo, Quentin Grimes, for the next, QG, 24 of 25, there it is, oh my god dude, Silver Bobby Portis, Jeremy Sohan, I don't, I don't, I don't get the, I don't get the obsession man, I really don't, I don't, strange to me, really is, okay I'm red at Shredway, that's Danny of Dia, I don't know if that's a statement or a question or something after that, it's Kennedy Chandler, Minnesota, snow in May, three years, yeah see snow in May, only month that hasn't, snowed is August, good god man, blue to 199, Wilta Stilt, Trevor Kiehl's, Keegan Murray, Danny Green, Silver or Devin Booker, luck a lottery shade on, Trevor, Trevor Kiehl's, Silver, David Orati and Patrick Baldwin, Silver or Prismatic, James Harding, Evan Mobley, CJ McCollum and base, do a quick recap here guys, thanks again for getting this filled out, great case of Prism man, great, four boxes, Ryan Rollins, Delan Terry, Adrian Dantley, Larry Johnson, Dave Bing, Clark Kellogg, we had a, oh boy I don't know where to start, two Palos, that's Hyper and Silver for the Magic, Andrew Nemhard, Mojo, 13 of 25, we've got Shay Gilgers Alexander, five of five, the Thunder on the Black Gold and Cole Jalen Williams, J-Dubb, two of 10, that'll do it for the break guys, thanks again for the fill out, next is Eminence!


The Cavalcade of America sponsored by Dupont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presents Stephen Vincent Benet's modern miracle play, A Child is Born, starring Helen Hayes as the innkeeper's wife with Philip Maravale as the husband. Ladies and gentlemen, Stephen Vincent Benet's reverend and inspiring play, A Child is Born, was especially written for Cavalcade one year ago. We repeat it tonight because it was so widely acclaimed as a drama of great power and because it uniquely relates to a war-torn world, the timeless story of the Christmas birth in Judea. To introduce A Child is Born, Cavalcade is privileged to present William Rose Benet, brother of the late Stephen Vincent Benet. Mr. Benet. Christmas this year is not merely a day of gifts and trees. Our nation is learning something that is said in the drama you are about to hear. We are learning that life can be lost without vision, but not lost by death. The man who wrote those words died speaking against tyrants. The dream of human brotherhood was his dream. Now the tide of battle is turned. Slowly but surely we are wearing down the forces of manifest and unbearable evil. But there is also this. What my brother meant when he said here, something is loose to change the shaken world. He meant a better future for all men. Remember that. The voices that speak here are not only of their time, but of our own. The voice of the thief Dismas, not least. This is truly a miracle play, old but forever new. That answers everything. The country is occupied. We have no country. You've heard of that perhaps? You've seen the soldiers, haven't you? You know just what can happen to us sort of people once there's a little trouble. Answer me. I've seen, I know, but... But, oh, la, la, la, sometimes I think your ways will drive me mad. Is it your business what King Herod does? Is it your place to sing against King Herod? Do you pretend to know the ins and outs of politics and why the great folk do the things they do and why we have to bear them? Because it's we, we, we who have to bear them, first and last and always in every country and in every time. They grind us like dry wheat between the stones, don't you know that? I know that somehow King should not be wicked and grind down the people. I know that Kings like Herod should not be... All right, all right, I'm not denying that. I'm reasonable enough. I know the world. It's a bad world, but it must last our time. Herod is Herod, but my in's my in. I do the best I can. I pay my taxes here in this conquered and forsaken land. And as for all your fine rebellious souls who hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, call themselves prophets too and prophesy that something new is coming to the world, the Lord knows what. Well, it's a long time coming. And meanwhile, wear the wheat between the stones. Something must come. Believe it if you choose. But meantime, if we're clever, we can live and even thrive a little. Clever wheat that slips between the grinding stones and grows into the good, the profitable grain. At least if you'll not sing subversive songs to other people, but you poor old husband, who loves you still in spite of all your fancies and always will? Come, wife, I've got some news. I didn't mean to be so angry with you. Give us a kiss. I couldn't help the child. I know you think of that this time of year. He was my son too, and I think of it. I couldn't help his dying. No, my husband. He stretched his little arms to me and died. And yet I had the priest. The high priest too. I didn't spare the money. No, my husband. I am a barren bow. I think and sing and am a barren bow. The fault is mine. I had my joyous season. My season of full ripening and fruit, and then the silence and the aching breast. I thought I would have children. I was wrong. But my flesh aches to think I do not have them. I did not mean to speak of this at all. I will forget, not sing at all. It was long past and gone. Tell me your news. Is it good news? The best. The prefect comes to dinner here tonight with all his officers. Oh, yes, I know the enemy, of course, the enemy. But someone has to feed them. And they'll pay? On the nail? Good. I thought you'd say so. Oh, we'll make no great profit, not tonight. I've seen the bill of fare they asked of me. Quails in midwinter. Well, we'll give them quails and charge them for them, too. You know the trick? Yes. They must be well-served. I'll care for that. The honest innkeeper, the thoughtful man. Oh, I do not spoil my servants with largesse your worship. And he won't. He pinches pennies. But once he's come here, he will come again, and we shall live, not die. And put some coin, some solid enemy and lovely coin under the heartstone. Ah, spoil the Egyptians, eh? Hark, what's that? Oh, I'll go. The maids aren't up yet. Lazy bones. A minute, just a minute. It's early, yet you needn't beat the door down. This is an honest inn. Good morning. Hail Caesar. Are you keeper of this inn? Yes, sir. Orders from the prefect. No other guests shall be entertained at your inn tonight, after sundown. The prefect wishes all the rooms to be at the disposal of his guests. Sir, when the prefect first commanded me, there was a party of my countrymen engaged for a small room. He'd hear no noise, no noise at all. This is the prefect's feast, the satanalia. You've heard your orders. Yes, sir. Yes, indeed, sir. See, they are carried out. No other guests. Hail Caesar. Hail Caesar. Well, that's pleasant. All rooms at the disposal of the prefect. No other guests. Remember, no other guests. I will remember. Do so. It is an order. And now, about the quail. You'll make the sauce. That's the important thing. A crow can taste like quail with a good sauce. You have your herbs? Yes. Well, then begin, begin. It's morning and we haven't too much time. Sarah? Leah? Where are those lazy servants? Leah and Sarah, come and help your mistress. I'll rouse the fools. There's work to do today. You are listening to Helen Hayes as the innkeeper's wife and Philip Maravale as the innkeeper and Stephen Vincent Bonet as a child is born. Presented on the cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont. And the day passed and night fell on the town, silent and still and cold. The houses lay huddled and dark beneath the watching stars and only the in-windows streamed with light. Gentlemen, men of all... What's the prefect saying? I'm full of Rome's historic destiny and of our good friend, King Aaron, who has chosen alliance with Rome rather than a useless struggle. Keep them under with a firm hand. What is he saying up there? I don't know. I don't know the big words. The soldier said...  No, he's not so bad. He brought me a trinket. See? You and your Roman trinkets. What's this? Why are you standing idle? They're calling for more wine. Let Leah serve them. She likes their looks. Sarah. Yes, mistress. Please, Sarah, we've talked like this so many times. Very well, mistress, but let her go first.  I hope it pinches you. Mistress, it's not my fault. Does Sarah have to...? Go, go. Both of you.  She's insolent and showed it. She can't be too hard on her. Her father's dead, her brother's in the hills. And yet she used to be a merry child. I can remember her when she was merry a long time since. You always take their side. Yet you think a self-respecting in could have some decent and well-mannered maids? But no such luck. Solans and sluts, the lot of them. Give me a stool, I'm tired. Say, thirty dinners. And double for the prefect. And the wine. Best, second best, common. Not bad. But then why do you sit there staring at the fire so silent and so waiting and so still? I do not know. I'm waiting. Waiting? For what? I do not know. For something new and strange. Something I've dreamt about in some deep sleep. Truer than any waking. Heard about long ago, long ago. In sunshine and the summer grass of childhood when the sky seemed so near. I do not know its shape, its will, its purpose. And yet all day its will has been upon me. And there is light in it and fire and peace, newness of heart and strangeness like a sword. And all my body trembles under it. And yet I do not know. You're tired, my dear. Well, we shall sleep soon. No, I am not tired. I am expectant as a runner is before a race, a child before a feast day, a woman at the gates of life and death.  Something begins, something is full of change and sparkling stars. Cannot read it yet. I wait and strive and cannot find it. What's that? They can't come in. I don't care who they are. We have no room. Go to the door. Is this the end, sir? We're travelers and it's late and cold. May we enter? Who is it? Just a pair of country people, a woman and a man. I'm sorry for them. My wife and I are weary. May we come in? I'm sorry, my good man. We have no room tonight. The prefect orders. No room at all? No, no, it's not my fault. You look like honest and well-meaning folk, and nobody likes turning trade away, but I'm not my own master. Not tonight. It may be in the morning. Must you mix in this? Wait! Good sir, the enemy are in our house and we did not see your wife. I did not know. Her name is Mary. She is near her time. Yes, yes. Go, get a lantern. Quickly. What? Quickly. I, I once had a child. We have no room. That's true. And it would not be right. Not here, not now. Not with those men whose voices you can hear, voices of death and iron, King Herod's voices, better the friendly beasts. What am I saying? There is, we have a stable at the end, safe from the cold at least. And if you choose, you should be very welcome. Will you share it? Gladly, and with great joy. The lantern husband? Nay, I will take it. I can see the path. Come. Well, I suppose that you must have your way and any other night. They're decent people or seem to be. He has his arm about her smoothing out the roughness of the path for her. Although they are not even people of our town, as I suppose you know. So rough a path to tread with weary feet. There's a frost upon the air tonight. I'm cold. Or, yes, I must be cold. That's it. That's it now to be sure.  Something begins, begins, starlit and sunlit. Something walks abroad in flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loose to change the shaken world. The night deepens. The stars march in the sky. The prefects men are gone. The inn is quiet. But in the street outside. Who sings so late? How can they sing so late? I'll go and see. Wait, I'll rub the windowpane. It's rhymed with frost. They're shepherds from the hills. Shepherd? Yes, mistress. They have crooks and staves. They're tattered coats, a ragged on their backs. Their hands are blue and stinging with the cold. And yet they all seem drunken. Not with wine but with good news. Their faces shine with it. Cold and so late, poor creatures. Call them in. The prefects men are gone. I, but the master... He's dozing. Do as I tell you. Where did they go? Would they not stay with us? Mistress, they did not even look on me. They looked ahead. They have gone toward the stable. The stable of our inn. The stable of our inn? And they are gone. I gone, but... Mistress, do you hear? Hear what? The tread of steeds on the hard ground. A company that comes from out the east. I've never seen such things. I'm afraid. These are great lords. Great kings with strange and memorable beasts. And crowns upon their heads. What's that? Lords, nobles, kings here in Bethlehem, in our poor town? What fortune! Oh, what fortune! Stand from the window there, you silly girl. I'll speak to them. My gracious noble masters. Worthy and mighty kings. Our humble inn is honoured by your high nobility. Come in, come in. We fire in beds and wine. Come in, come in, tarry a while and rest. We cannot stay. We follow the bright star. They do not understand it. They are gone. They did not even look at me or pause, though there's no other inn. They follow the poor shepherds to the stable. They would not tarry with us? No, not one. Peace, husband. You know well enough why none would tarry with us. And so do I. I lay a while in sleep and a voice said to me, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, an excelsis tale. The child is born, the child, the child is born. And yet I did not rise and go to him, though I had waited and expected long.  And so I have my judgment and it is just... Dreams. Were they dreams, the shepherds and the kings? Is it a dream, this glory that we feel streaming upon us and yet not for us? Now, mistress, mistress, it is my fault, not yours. You told me seek the strangers in the stable and see they had all care, but I forgot. Mistress, the fault was mine. You told me also, but I did not go. If there was any fault, wife, it was mine. I did not wish to turn them from my door and yet... I know I love the chink of money. Love it too well. The good, sound, thumping coin. Love it, oh God, since I am speaking truth better than wife or fire or chick or child. Better than country, better than good fame. And sell my people for it in the street or for a price, but sell them. And there are many like me and God piteous. God piteous indeed. For we are human and do not always see the vision when it comes. The shining change. Or if we see it, do not follow it because it is too hard, too strange, too new. And now I know this.  Life is not lost by dying. Life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day in all the thousand small, uncaring ways. The smooth, appeasing compromises of time which are King Herod and King Herod's men always and always. Life can be lost without vision, but not lost by death. Lost by not caring, willing, going on beyond the ragged age of fortitude to something more, something no man has seen. You who love money, you who love yourself, you who love bitterness, and I who loved and lost and thought I could not love again, and all the people of this little town rise up. The loves we had were not enough. Something is loose to change the shaken world and with it we must change. No, that's well said. Who speaks there? Who are you? Oh, my name is Dismiss. I'm a thief. You know, the star-flea-bitten sort of boy who aren't stark alleyways in any town, sleeps on a fruit sack, runs from the police, begs what he can, and borrows what he must. That's me. How did you get here? By the door, innkeeper, the cellar door. The lock upon its old. I could pick locks like that when I was five. What have you taken? Nothing. I tried the stable first, and then your cellar. I slipped in, crept up, rolled underneath the bench while all your honest backs were turned, and then... And then? Well, something happened. I don't know what. I didn't see your shepherds or your kings, but in the stable I did see the child. Just through a crack in the boards, one moment's space. That's all that I can tell you. Is he for me as well? Is he for me? For you as well? Is he for all of us? There are so many of us worthy mistress. Beggars who show their sores and ask for arms. Women who cough their lungs out in the cold slaves, though I've been one. Thieves and runnigates who knife each other for a bit of bread, having no other way to get the bread. The vast sea, the wretched and the poor, whose murmur comes so faintly to your ears in this fine country. Has he come to all of us or just to you? To every man alive. I wish I could believe. And if you did, no doubt you'd give up thieving. Gently, lady, gently. Thieving's my trade. It's the only trade I know. But if it were true, if he had really come to all of us, I'd say to all of us, then honest man or thief, I'd hang upon a cross for him. Would you? There, I see, I've said something you don't like. Something uncouth and bold and terrifying. Yet I'll tell you this. It won't be till each one of us is willing, not you, not me, but every one of us, to hang upon a cross for every man who suffers, starves and dies, that there will be no crosses and no tyrants, no herds and no slaves. Well, it was pleasant thinking things might be so, and so I'll say farewell. I've taken nothing. And he was a fair child to look at. Wait! Why? What did you see there by the window? The dawn. The common dawn. The ordinary poor and mortal day. The shepherds and the kings have gone away. The great angelic visitors are gone. He is alone. He must not be alone. I do not understand you, wife, nor I. Do you not see? Because I see it last. Dismas the thief is right. He comes to all of us or comes to none. We are the earth, his word must so like wheat. And if it finds no earth, it cannot grow. We are his earth, the mortal and the dying, and if it finds no star, the sullen and the slut, the thief, the selfish man, the barren woman, and yet unless we go, his message fails. Will he bring peace? Will he bring brotherhood? He would bring peace. He would bring brotherhood. And yet he will be mocked at in the street. Will he slay King Herod and rule us all? He will not slay King Herod.  There will be other Herods, other tyrants, great wars and ceaseless struggles to be free. Not always one. These are sad tidings of him. No, no, they are glad tidings of great joy. Because he brings man's freedom in his hands. The thought, the wish, the dream of brotherhood, never and wholly to be lost. The water and the bread of the oppressed, the stay and succor of the resolute, the harness of the valiant and the brave, the new word that has come to the shaken world. And though he die, his word shall grow like wheat, and every time a child is born in pain and love and freedom hardly won, born and gone forth to help and raise mankind, there will be women with a right to say, Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis Deo, a child is born. Gloria, Gloria. Come, let us go. What can we bring to him? What mortal gifts? I have a ribbon. It's my prettiest. It is not much, but he might play with it. I have a little bell my father gave me. It used to make me merry. I've kept it. He may have it. My pocket's empty. My rags are bare. That I can sing to him. That's what I'll do. And if he needs a thief to die for him. Don't speak of dying. It's a nasty thing, nasty and cold. I will give my gold. I say I'll give my gold. All of my gold, every round piece.  I'm but a man. I will give all. Give all. Give all my heart. And I, my faith, through all the years and years. Though I forget, though I'm led astray, though after this I never see his face, I will give all my faith. Come, let us go. We, the poor earth, but we, the faithful earth. Not yet the joyful. Not yet the triumphant. But faithful. Faithful to the end of time. Come. Come, O ye faithful. Joyful and triumphant. Come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. To Helen Hayes, to Philip Merivale, and to the gifts of Stephen Vincent Bonnet, who wrote A Child Is Born, presents its thanks and deep appreciation for their contribution this Christmas season on the cavalcade of America. Free men know that it is neither incompatible nor inconsistent to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace in the midst of war. Only free men and those who fight for freedom know that this time we have the chance to create the peace that was promised that first Christmas long ago. We of DuPont add our fervent hopes to the prayers for peace. For whatever success DuPont has achieved has come in greatest measure from serving the needs of peace, of better living. So it is with hope and courage and abiding faith that the men and women of the DuPont Company join on this third wartime Christmas with people of goodwill everywhere in a wish for the greatest of all gifts, victory and peace. DuPont invites you to be its guest next Monday evening at the same time when cavalcade presents Richard Arlen as the twice-shipped wrecked Archie Gibbs in U-boat Prisoner, one of the most exciting stories to come out of the submarine war in the Atlantic. The orchestra and chorus this evening were under the direction of Donald Voorhees with special musical score composed by Arden Cornwall. This is Carl Frank sending best wishes from cavalcade sponsor the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


Good morning. My name is Raul Flamenco and I'm the founder of Capital Networks and Co-Organizer for Club Native San Salvador. I have with me today Mauricio Quevedo, who is also an organizer to share with us some of the experiences in Duen Comunities Community Day in El Salvador and also how the community came about, some of the things that we have learned. Mauricio. Hello everybody, welcome and thank you for coming here. Well, when you think about technology, probably you don't think about El Salvador, right? So this is something that we absolutely want to change and I want to tell you a little bit about our journey organizing the community here in El Salvador. So for starters, yeah, in El Salvador there are many things that we have to solve. Probably when we're talking about technology, of course, we are just a net receiver of technology and we have to learn and develop software for other countries. But let me tell you there are many good talents in this country that we can take advantage of. I have my company, we developed software for the US mainly and it's quite surprising when you see the level of talent that we have over here and this is something that we want to exploit in a good sense of the word, of course. And well, for this project we started this with a very broad idea that Raul Flamenco here brought to some of us and we started talking about the CNCF and the possibilities that we can develop through it and this is how we also made a team with Victor Morales from Mexico and who was a big support for or who is a big support of this project and we started as usual not knowing exactly what we were going to do, but we took an example of some other initiatives. We were taking a look to the website, we were looking and asking how some other countries did it and this is how we ended up having 18 volunteers. So we went to the local universities and happily we have some contacts and we have developed a network through the years with the universities in which we have been able to get their students to work for us and place them with other companies as well and the idea was that these volunteers were going to support initiatives that the social media strategy and they were going to be passing the boys in their own universities and so on and this actually turned a very powerful structure because well as you know this kind of initiatives cannot be done just by one or two people you need actually a team for doing this and at the same time this network of universities allow us to well to raise the work regarding CNCS so now we confidently can say that people in the universities know about the movement and at the same time we have sponsors and I will allow Raul to talk about them more in detail and of course all the support and all the tools that we have been receiving from CNCS let me tell you this it has been totally valuable for for this kind of initiative and I'm pretty sure you already have some experience regarding that that part so as a consequence of this effort we were able to develop the CUBE. Before that we actually had a couple of further meetings in which we were letting people know how CNCS works and at the same time to let them ask more about the opportunities and this ended with the CUBE come which we developed and in which we had 200 participants. It was quite an experience especially when the participants saw that we were going to have a lot of international guests in the event which turned out to be quite an amazing experience and let me tell you several of them have been totally impressed about the quality of what they saw some of them even asked if this is for real if it probably some of them thought that maybe that this wasn't a scam which we made sure to let them know that it was not but it was quite an experience because when you open this kind of opportunities you can actually can change minds and and this is something that we want to do as well with the project right you I'm pretty sure you have heard about all these immigration problems to other countries and I think what we are doing here contributes to avoid this kind of situations because at the end of the day what we need is to create opportunities and I think what we have seen from CNCF is quite amazing especially because it's about learning by doing right this is not like going and taking a class but actually putting your hands to work and I think this is completely different to another approach is that we might have seen here in the country and and this is something that I really love about about CNCF because this is something that we can use to change lives and and let me tell you this has a lot of value for for the country and of course there are many challenges with that we are still facing and and and there is now that QCOM is over of course we are going probably into the internships we are trying to move more interest towards them and we have found people who are already contributed to to the initiative here in El Salvador but they were like kind of isolated and they were not integrated in in a branch here in the country and and this is actually the afford that we have done so far and we want to continue doing it we know there are many things we have to face in the future and but for that part I'm going to allow Raul to to tell us about the future of our initiative here in El Salvador. Thank you so I think it will be appropriate to share with you how the idea came about during QCOM in North America and San Diego I noticed the participation were about 12,000 people and so the question was where the contributors are coming from and right away we were able to determine the majority were from North America, Europe and Asia so the next question was why not Latin America with 640 million people right and so after that started a conversation with Mauricio and also with Victor. Well Victor had more experience in working in the community open style so he noticed well in order to get to Kubernetes community day perhaps we need a community so why don't we just start a community so for everybody out there who's thinking about starting a community I'd like to also share that CNCF made it very easy for us to use Bebe which allow us to host the first three meetings prior to Kubernetes community day and so Victor took it upon himself to prepare the first presentations once were about Cloud Native 101 next about Kubernetes and then we had another presentation on service measures but after Kubernetes community day one of the things that we noticed is the priority had to be in terms of working with you know with the youth and so we started paying more attention to the opportunity to participate on the internships the most immediate one that we're working toward would be the one that is due on the 13th of these of as we record this this presentation and then the next one is going to start soon so two of the organizations that I have here very supportive of our efforts is Class Wing International there's an NGO in not only in El Salvador but in other countries as well in Central America where they offer they help with efforts in education the other one it is Superate, Superate has is working with those students that are in high school the commitment from the students is to to be part of the program during the school days at least three hours per day and so they concentrate on three things one is technology the other one is English and then in their bodies so we saw them as a natural partner to help us to get the message out so they continue continue to commit it to to this effort so as we move forward on this on this idea of getting more and more people connected to the to the global community some of the questions just like Mauricio mentioned is like some of the kids said number one we hear but this is hard right I mean the technologies are and also the idea of uh English right away but they say well but we're going to stick with it we're going to we want to participate so we see a commitment right away also they're trying to apply for the for the internships as well so I don't know if Mauricio wanted to share what actually happened the day the day of the event and how it was a structure perhaps you know um Mauricio wanted to share his experience you know what what he as a participant of Kubernetes community what what he what he noticed well you know it it was quite revealing as I mentioned we are always trying to identify good talent here in El Salvador and when the the event was over people were asking about the the the recordings right it was almost immediately we want we want to see the the the event again and and this was for sure something that we didn't expect we always uh well probably it's because we were having very low expectation regarding the attendance and and the response of the audience but they are really enthusiastic and I think this demonstrates the uh the need for for opening opportunities I think many people uh has this experience now that they can work remotely uh from El Salvador to the US as we are doing it and and they see this as a big opportunity in in that regard I would like to to to tell you I have spoken with a lot of young people over here and a common denominator is that they don't want to leave the country even though you are seeing this all news regarding the immigration when you talk to the real people in here they don't want to go and and they will prefer to have an opportunity and I think this is this is something that can bring these opportunities to them and and this is basically my conclusion what I saw when they when the event was over because sometimes you say okay it's over nothing is going to happen but in this case this was totally different yeah we're looking forward to build on what we have learned in terms of the community again the first goal was to do Kubernetes community but we came out of Kubernetes community with a community and so the community is is growing as well we have now over 250 members and so we see the level of interest but at the same time there is that element of you know hesitancy in terms of thinking is this for real right and so we need to continue working with local local partners in order to build that trust so now our goal our next goal is for those one two or three participants of the mentees to go through an internship to come back and then share the story I think that would be probably the most the most powerful I would say experience that we can share with the local community in terms of building you know an even stronger opportunity for for all those involved um I don't know if we have any any other information that we would like to share Mauricio please remind me of anything you want me to cover yeah you know I the main thing is to make the invitation you know in here there are people who are from all around uh please keep in mind uh you can inspire people right and and and we are willing to to hear from you for participating and suddenly given a uh a token or getting a gate with us uh Raul by how to mention this he lives in in California and he wants to give something back to to his country of origin and I think this is really valuable right to have people who go out of the country and they come back this is this is an example of people uh actually doing good things for for their own country and I think this this is uh something that we have to somehow emulate so the invitation is is here if you want to come and participate with us if you want to uh to give us a hand uh we will be really happy to to coordinate with you uh to try to to inspire more people through CNCF. Thank you and please one way to get in contact with us will be to visit cloud native since a lot uh look forward uh to uh to the next opportunity to do this in the physical world uh we have beautiful beaches um and so I we we we are eager to to make that happen right to be spending you know time at the beach and and get to know global community thank you for the time. Okay thank you very much take care everybody bye bye


First meeting of the 2013-14 Common Council to order I'd like to start out and have the clerk read the quote Thank you, ma'am. I hope our achievements in life shall be these that we will have fought for what was right and fair That we will have risked for that which mattered that we will have given help to those who were in need That we will have left the earth a better place for what we've done and who we've been Thank you Next we'll go on to the roll call Ballinger here boran here Carlson Decker excuse Donahue Hammond here Heidemann here Herman Lassard here Lewandusky Maddocek feel van Akron excused van der Wiel Versi and Wolf 13 present Next we'll have the presentation of the colors by the Sheboygan police department's honor guard right shoulder arms ready cut freeze and Next we're gonna have a moment of silence for the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Please bow your heads Thank you. Next I'd like to ask the barbershop group vaguely familiar to come up and sing the national anthem for us And Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance Shoulder order Ready Cut ready to ready Ready Next for the invocation I'd like to call out pastor Todd Smith of First United Lutheran Church Let us pray Good and gracious God we give you thanks for the gift of life and for the gift of this day We ask that you please be with our brothers and sisters and fellow citizens out in Boston and for the victims and their families We pray God for this government body here For mayor like van der steen and for his leadership and also for the leadership of all the older persons in this room We ask that you would bless their families continue to guide their ways As they seek justice and fairness We pray God that you'd be with them throughout this year as they work together to Help our community to grow and to flourish So that you get all the glory and praise His name we pray. Thank you very much. Please be seated Next we'll proceed to the swearing in with the mayor elect and later the older persons elect by the way This is my wife Julie I Restate your name. I'm Michael van der steen swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States Swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of, Wisconsin The Constitution of the state of, Wisconsin and will faithfully and impartially will faithfully and impartially Discharge the duties of the office of mayor of the office of mayor to the best of my ability So help me God. So help me God Next if we could have the older persons elect come up, please I Swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States And the Constitution of the state of, Wisconsin and the Constitution of the state of, Wisconsin and will faithfully and impartially Discharge the duties of the office of all the person The best of my ability Next I need a motion to approve the adopting the rules of the common counsel Thank You mr. Mayor I move to adopt the rules of the common the common counsel Thank you for that motion and second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye opposed motion passes Next we'll have the election of the president and vice president of the common counsel clerk Can we get nominations from the motion for nominations? Please? I move that nominations be received for the floor voting to be done by closed ballot And if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped on the list and balloting Continue until one candidate receives the majority Moved and seconded any discussion? Seeing none all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye opposed motion passes Carlson, thank you, mayor. I will nominate all the person Hammond for the office of president It's been moved and seconded. We have a nomination for Alderman Hammond for the office council president. Are there any other nominations? Any other nominations any other nominations? move Accept the motion to close those Thank you I move this I move that the city clerk be instructed to cast the unanimous ballot for all the person Hammond for president of the common Council second has moved and seconded Any discussion seeing none all those in favor of the motion please signify by saying aye opposed passes I Guess we have to do this the old-fashioned way We have to hand out some ballots and you have to fill them in so we have a record of this So ballots will be coming I think the city attorney is overruling the clerk and she agrees so Congratulations Alderman Hammond and next will be the election for the vice president of the common Council Thank you I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by closed ballot if more than two candidates are Nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue until one candidate receives a majority That moved and seconded Any discussion on the motion seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye opposed motion passes Alderman Hammond Thank You mr. Mayor. I move that Darryl Carlson be nominated for vice president of the council Thank you for that nomination. Is there a second? It's been moved and seconded Alderman Carlson is a candidate for this office. Are there any other nominations? Alderman height a man Okay, is there a second to that nomination second? It's been seconded by alderman born We have a second candidate alderman versey for the common council vice president. Are there any other nominations? Any other nominations any other nominations? Entertain a motion to close. Thank You mr. Mayor move that nominations for vice president be closed Thank you for that motion and second all those in favor signify by saying aye Aye opposed motion passes this time we will do ballots Alderman if you could please print your last name Because some of your signatures are not as legible as others not that I'm judging but That was Jada's favorite Yeah Alderman Carlson Congratulations. You're the new council vice president Next we'll move on to the election of representatives to serve on the city planning Commission The representative on the board of contract examiners and two representatives to sure to serve on the capital improvements Commission I move that not first for a city planning Commission I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot And if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to be To continue until one candidate receives a majority second Thank you for that motion and second all those in favor of the motion signify by saying aye opposed passes Then we'll go for nominations for these position on the city planning Commission Thank You mr. Mayor I moved that Scott verse he'd be nominated for city planning Commission Then moved and seconded that Scott verse he is a candidate for this Representative on the city planning Commission any other nominations Any other nominations Any other nominations Thank you. I move that nominations be closed and that the city clerk be instructed to cast unanimous ballot for all the person Versi for the representative on the city planning Commission Been moved and seconded all those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed unanimous Congratulations Next we'll deal with the representatives on the board of contract examiners Thank you, I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot And if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue Until one candidate receives a majority second. It's been moved and seconded all those in favor of the motion Please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed passes nominations are open Thank You mr. Mayor. I move that Susie Lissard be nominated for board of contractor examiners Second Thank you for that nomination Are there any nom and other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Thank you I move that nominations be closed and that the city clerk be instructed to cast unanimous ballot for all the person Lissard for the for a representative on the board of contractors examiners It's been moved and seconded all those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed Motion passes Congratulations Next we'll move on to the two representatives on the capital improvements commission Thank You again. I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot And if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue Until one candidate receives a majority second. Thank you for that motion in second all those in favor Please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed motion passes Under nominations Thank You mr. Mayor. I move that all the person Carlson and all the person versey be nominated to the capital improvements commission Moved and seconded we have two candidates for that position. Are there any other nominations alderman Heidemann Is there a second second We have three candidates alderman Bellinger is also a candidate any other nominations Any other nominations any other nominations, okay, we will begin the balloting Mr. Mayor I move that the nominations be closed and ballot or ballot be taken And Thank you for that motion in second all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed passes So we have three candidates what we want you to do is on your ballot put two names down It'll move things along a little bit So you've got alderman Carlson if I'm correct You've got alderman versey and alderman bellinger between those you need to put two names down on your ballot Put two names down So it's Carlson versey bellinger put two of those down Extra You can announce one okay, we have one candidate that that was elected that's alderman Carlson We have a tie between alderman versey and alderman bellinger. They're gonna have to take another vote to break that tie So obviously now you're just writing down one name and The choices are alderman versey and alderman bellinger the Second alder person elected to the Kaplan improvements commission is alderman versey Next we're gonna take a short recess to elect the committee of the whole chairman So this is what the big chair feels like All right, we are going to Begin the nomination process so I would entertain a motion to open the floor denominations for committee of the whole chair Alderman versey We need a motion to open the floor denominations is there a second Motion in a second all those in favor say aye post Nominations are open, please There's a motion in a second to nominate alderman born for a committee of the whole chairman are there any other nominations Are there any other nominations Finally, are there any other nominations for committee of the whole chair Okay, hearing known that entertain a motion to close nominations Motion in a second to close nominations I would entertain a motion to instruct the city clerk to Cassie now is valid for Jim born as committee of the chair Committee the whole chair Mr. Gas, I'm never gonna live that down am I There's a motion in a second all those in favor say aye opposed Carries congratulations alderman born committee the whole chair will reconvene the meeting of the common council next Report by council president on the election of the committee of the whole chair person All the person Jim born. Thank you very much Congratulations alderman born Next the president of the council's message We'll do it from here I'll keep my message brief Four scores seven years ago today. I'm just kidding That was for Corey who brought up at Lincoln yesterday First I just want to thank everybody for their confidence last year was a fun, but interesting year We got through it Over the last three years that I've been on this body. We've come a long long way But we still have many things that we need to accomplish My focus has always has been on economic development and will continue to be and then finally the budget that we have to tackle 2015 is going to be a very interesting year for the budget and we need to work now to start putting things in place for the long term The one thing I'd asked for this council To wrap up is as we go forward There's gonna be many difficult decisions we have to make and I would ask that we put our personal agendas be set behind and Focus on what's best for the the greater good and for the long-term vision of the city Thank you again. Look forward to working with you. Thank you for that message Next to the committee ill hold chairperson's message alderman born. Thank you And Don told me his was going to be five minutes. So I scheduled mine for about 45 minutes First I'd like to congratulate Mayor van der steen Mike and I go back many years. I didn't talk to Mike about this But I think Mike remembers the days when he played softball for the shabuigan Jcs and I was the the manager of Dicks towers dicks tower in and GNL sports shop And I just reminded wanted to remind you Mike that I think we beat you every time we played the Jcs But I think I pirated all the good the the good athletes on the on the Jcs that you did And then a little more serious note back when I had my business. I served on the Chamber of Commerce Government and Public Affairs Committee. I believe it was called government and public policy committee from 1986 and Until I sold my business in 2006 and Mike attended most of those meetings I think first as a small business person like I was and then also after you got on the county board I would and I look forward to working with you Mike. I think it's I'm very excited about this council year I'd also like to congratulate the the alder persons that reelected especially my fellow alderman Joe Heidemann from the 8th district Joe and I have been representing the 8th district Together for six years, and I look forward to working with Joe during the next year a Special welcome to our new alderman Todd Wolf Mark Herman and Bill Thiel. I look forward to working with you gentlemen. I Would also like to think think alderman Hammond and alderman Carlson for stepping forward to assume the Leadership positions on the council president and vice president respectively. I Want to thank my fellow alder persons for electing me to the third term as your committee the whole chairman It's an honor and a privilege to serve you The mayor's Confidential secretary Mary Rachel rager will again assist me in preparing agendas taking minutes and Having the minutes published in a timely manner. I very much appreciate Mary's assistance. She has done an outstanding job for me For those new alderman and people at home and in the audience The committee of the whole is a committee where all the alder persons meet to discuss issues that usually require a fairly lengthy Discussion a longer more thorough discussion than we could possibly do at a regular council meeting Any matter that the committee of the whole votes on is then referred back to the council for final approval The committee of the whole meets Generally between six and ten times a year the committee of the whole may get referrals from standing committees Where that committee believes a more thorough discussion is warranted on the issue This year I would like to again Encourage the mayor the chief administrative officer the department heads and my fellow alder persons to contact me and refer any topics to me for the committee the whole to discuss I Promise not to meeting up. I promise not to meeting us to death But I am willing to meet whenever an issue is referred to us for discussion Just to give you a flavor of what's upcoming our first meeting will be held next week Or the following week on that will be an alter aldermanic orientation for the new alderman and the And a refresher for the other alderman. I Also plan to hold a meeting very early in May with our chief administrative officer Jim Amorio As Don was saying our budget is very important for 14 and 15 And I want mr.. Amorio to give the new alderman and the rest of the council an update on the budget for 2014 and 15 So that That is what we're going to be doing in the next few weeks I again want to thank thank you for electing me to this position and I look forward to working working with all of you Thank you Thank you for that message alderman born Next is the mayor's appointments pursuant to section 22 77 of the municipal code the Standing Committee assignments are made by the mayor on April 16th and subject to confirmation by the full council on April 22nd It's the mayor's responsibility to make the assignments that will best serve the interest of the city of Sheboygan Under the municipal code each other person will be appointed to at least one but not more than two standing committees I've got a spreadsheet that I gave you along with those committee appointments And I'm proud to say that 12 of the 16 alderman got their first choice in a committee assignment and for the 16 Got there second, so I hope that you will find those acceptable and look forward to The approval of those on the 22nd Steve please read those Thank You your honor hereby submit the following appointments for your confirmation To the finance committee Don Hammond chair Daryl Carlson vice chair Joe Heidemann John Bellinger and Todd Wolf Public Protection and Safety Committee Daryl Carlson chair David Van Akron vice chair Scott Fursi Susan Lassard and Maryland Donahue The public works committee Joe Heidemann chair Jim Boran vice chair Jeremy Decker John Bellinger and Mark Herman The souring grievance committee Maryland Donahue chair Jim Boran vice chair Don Hammond Jodi Vander wheel and Todd Wolf And on the law and licensing committee Jodi Vander wheel as chair Kevin Maddichek as vice chair Scott Lewandowski Susan Lassard and Bill Thiel signed by the mayor Thank you very much moving on My first proclamation of the new term is going to be a proclamation Honoring Sheboygan barbershop harmony week Just read this quickly the society through preservation encouragement of barbershop quartet singing in America Known as the barbershop harmony society as officially was organized on April 11th from 1938 in Tulsa, Oklahoma What began as a small group has steadily blossomed into the world's largest all-male singing organization an international organization of men from all stations of life and Whereas the barbershop harmony society is dedicated to the spread of harmony for the enjoyment of all people in the world through organizing and encouraging close harmony Singing groups and whereas the barbershop harmony society encourages harmony amongst all people of the world through universal language of music And whereas the barbershop harmony society has actively preserved and presented a distinct style of vocal music that originated in North America And whereas the barbershop harmony society is dedicated to sustaining and preserving an American tradition the barbershop Portet and whereas the barbershop harmony society promotes the musical education through music scholarships and other means and supports Charitable foundations and whereas the barbershoppers are engaged in laudable civic activities in the enrichment of our cultural life Through the fostering of traditional values and entertainment and community endeavors I therefore Mike van der steen mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hereby proclaim the week of April 14th through 20th of 2013 is barbershop harmony week The barbershoppers couldn't stay until we got to this point in the agenda because they have a practice for a performance at the Wild Center this Saturday, so if you're inclined, please attend and support them Next we'll go on to the mayor's message I want to thank the voters of the city of Sheboygan for the opportunity and privilege that they've given me to serve as your Sheboygan mayor. I'm humbled by the positive comments. I've received since the election I pledge to do my best to move Sheboygan forward in the coming years The previous council put a great deal of work into the drafting of the guiding principles for the mayor I appreciate the thought that went into this document and to that end as mayor I will do my best to live up to these expectations not only of the council, but of the community to accomplish this I have Yesterday resigned as the manager of Du Bois formal wire and I also resigned my seat as a county board supervisor Early on I was asked if I was going to continue the role as a supervisor And I want a little bit more time to think about it And as I thought about it I really thought that there would be some conflicts and I wouldn't have to make a decision Not to go to one meeting or the other where I was needed to vote on a committee So I made the decision to have a little bit more singular purpose and just Be mayor of the city of Sheboygan. I think the conflict would have presented some areas where I couldn't attend or Participate as a county supervisor and that's best to last and left to a new individual to assume those roles Today is a new day and we can all learn from the past to secure the future I've been reminded that leadership is the position is not a position, but rather action You have been elected as leaders of this community. Our responsibility is to help form the vision in the future of Sheboygan We need to carefully consider all available options and deal with the opportunities that are facing us and Realize that many times without compromise. Nothing will change change is difficult and sometimes painstaking But without change Nothing will ever change as we look at our community I believe that there are areas that we need to focus on first economic development I believe we need to work with our industries and businesses to grow and prosper here in Sheboygan In addition, we need to attract new businesses and good-paying jobs to Sheboygan to work towards that goal I will be accepting a board position that has been offered by the Sheboygan economic development corporation I want to be sure that we are represented on this board and getting the full value for the city investment in this partnership Some of the current activities were Undertaking a city staff in partner with the SCEDC is continuing to work with a number of local employers To bring their expansion plans to reality at this time approximately a hundred to hundred and fifty new Manufacturing jobs may be created as a result of these current projects city staff is working on development Opportunities at the former Shukrit property City development is developing new wayfinding signage plan for the city to provide a consistent sign Signage from the interstate to downtown districts and also to key attractions The bid and the city are working on a master plan for the business improvement district with an emphasis on downtown This plan will prepare a market study for the district and future business recruitment efforts as well as design guidelines for new downtown Development the bid and the city are also involved in the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation's connecting communities program That offers technical assistance and networking opportunities to local leaders interested in revitalizing our downtown This year we can celebrate the completion of the 30-year Sheboygan River dredging project marketing that has occurred went out to a thousand Great Lakes Yacht owners that Sheboygan now has deep water The future economic impact for the local business community is going to be great with the river being usable again Legislative agenda in the guiding principles. We talked about the mayor being Speaking for the the council on legislative matters And I really feel that we need to work to develop a legislative agenda with position papers to support those changes that we feel Necessary in the laws of the state and or the administrative rules of the state in order to accomplish this We need to include the alderman department heads in regular meetings with our state and federal legislators an agenda and schedule will soon be developed In sustainability, I believe that the Sheboygan sustainable task force with their help we can improve our sustainability Score after establishing a baseline we can chart our progress if we continue to make future improvements Sheboygan is one of the two communities in the state that is in the non-attainment status Our sustainability improvements can affect our return to an attainment status and allow us to reduce city operating expenditures And those expenditures of businesses that operate here the city of Sheboygan's regional wastewater facility was along with Donahue engineers was recently honored with the American Council of Engineers companies Wisconsin 2013 engineering excellence award which recognized the collaborative effort between Donahue and the city to improve energy Efficiency production and recovery at the treatment facility This project makes Sheboygan's wastewater facility the first in Wisconsin to regularly Produce more electrical energy than it requires exporting excess renewable electricity to the grid as The city replaces its fleet of garbage trucks There's the opportunity to take advantage the new newly available less expensive fuels and convert those trucks to burn CNG Compressed natural gas Converting the city-owned street lights to LEDs can also continue and this will lose much energy And most of the communities have done this have experienced payback on this investment in less than two years Investing in our infrastructure As we all know some of our roads have failed to endure a tough winter with the council's blessing we can Reprioritize enough budgeted funds to repair the roads that were damaged by the winter freeze-thaw cycle There are some major road replacement and repaving projects that are currently slated to start soon very soon Eisner Avenue Erie Avenue South Business Drive In addition to the road improvements there will be pedestrian improvements along Eisner Avenue The interurban trail from Penn Avenue to Martin Avenue will be constructed this summer and converted to a pathway that can be used by walkers and bikers Partnerships and recreation the quarry will get a new look as a Verona recreation company Partners with the city of Sheboygan to add inflatable play devices to JC Park quarry JC Park will again become the summer attraction. It had been before many years This new partnership will put lifeguards on duty at the quarry to assure the community of a safe experience at the summer playground Clean and safe neighborhoods our neighborhood pride program has brought several neighborhoods together to form neighborhood associations We will continue to grow as many associations as we can and support the ones that currently exist Since the beginning of the year city departments have been involved in approximately 25 neighborhood meetings across the city Participants of these groups may be interested in forming formal neighborhood associations or will just stay informal for the meeting maybe perhaps as a neighborhood party either way these efforts are a way of Allowing neighbors to get to know each other and I encourage all of you to attend these meetings in your district I've been to several of them and it's been a real eye-opening experience It's part of the ongoing neighborhood revitalization strategy Designation for the neighborhoods around Erie Avenue The city staff is working to repave Erie Avenue with federal dollars from North 8th to North 14th And if budget allows some LED lighting in the street lighting will also be added to this project Habitat for humanity the Gateway Neighborhood Association the city have partnered in an effort to reinvest in properties along Erie Avenue Design guidelines for the homes have been developed Lighted properties will soon be purchased and raised and in 2014 new homes can be constructed We also enhance the code enforcement with a partnership between the building inspection department and the police department Two days a week representatives from both departments are walking the neighborhoods and writing up properties and needed repairs The city is partnering partnering with the John Michael Kohler Art Center in the Worcester Collective Sheboygan project Some of the work can be seen in the hallways of City Hall Under this collaborative art will be taken out of the gallery and put on the street in publicly owned Buildings and spaces around the city visiting artists and area residents and participants across the country will create works of art That will celebrate Sheboygan's culture and people budget development During the coming term I will ask the County Council to evaluate and prioritize all of our city programs This effort when finished will help to guide the council's future budget deliberations Regional cooperation several cooperative efforts whether municipal neighbors have produced positive results for the city I will continue to look for new opportunities to bring to the Common Council for their consideration If our vision for vision for the future is to have more effective efficient government That serves the residents and the businesses of this community We could start now with teamwork communication at City Hall Between our employees and the elected officials if we can accomplish this agenda for progress It means having an open discussion Active debates and compromising to make everything work better. I remind you that leadership takes action Thank you very much Has anyone registered for the public forum? No not this evening Next is a resolution Requesting the mayor to reactivate various special committees in the 2013-14 council Thank You mr. Mayor. I move that we put the resolution upon its passage Thank you for that motion in second any discussion Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. I opposed motion passes Entertain a motion to adjourn. Thank you mr. Mayor again Congratulations. Good luck, and I make the motion to adjourn It's been moved in second to adjourn all those in favor, please signify by saying aye Opposed we stand adjourned. Thank you very much