Let's go over the questions. Benny, thanks for doing hard work over there. On X and wiping out all of the scammers, I appreciate it, we all appreciate you. Pretty sure everyone who buys Soul doesn't know the tech, oh, I'm guaranteed. Trust me, trust me. Oh, and then one more thing about Orca. If you're in the United States, you can't use that. Like I'm in Puerto Rico and I can use it. And I'm not saying that you should use a VPN for that because that is illegal. But if you wanna use a VPN to protect yourself from online hackers, I got a great link in the description. You can use NordVPN, they probably have a big sale today too. And I'm not saying you should do that to access any DEXs or any airdrops because that is illegal and you should not do that. But again, you wanna protect yourself. VPN is the way to go. Virtual private network, you can set yourself as being from wherever you wanna be. If you wanna be from Ireland, and that's where your internet provider thinks you are, that's where you're at. That's the beauty of a VPN. Very easy to use too. Full Soul Bowl.  Yeah, I mean, it looks to be like it's doing pretty well. I don't know if it's gonna win or Avalanche's gonna win or Cardano's gonna win or Polkadot or CASPA or whatever it is, I have no idea. No one knows. That's why I diversify. Whoever wins, great, I'm with you. That's all. Yeah, ETH fees are gonna be as downfall. Maybe they can fix it. Maybe they can fix it, you know? I mean, remember, Ethereum did go from proof of work to proof of stake. It wasn't 100% smooth, but they did it. So maybe they can fix those fees. But I think that's the whole point of layer twos. That's what surprised, that's what's nice about Cardano. It's also what's nice about Avalanche. It's also what's nice about Solana. Is that their layer ones? Guess what? Our fees are nothing. But the question is then, because when it gets congested, what will the fees be? I mean, remember, Bitcoin fees were nothing. Like I just was reviewing a video, the tangent video today, a matter of fact. And I saw myself, I had transferred, I show you in the tangent video how to transfer crypto off of an exchange. And one of the pieces, I took Bitcoin off of Coinbase. And it was only 41 cents. And I was like, wow, it's pretty good. And I just did it like a couple of days ago and it was like eight bucks. So, but we know why it's the ordinals. So... What about the fees? Hello, Tesla, dog, day, Sosa, meme, red panda? Oh yeah, sweat coin. Verity, the wife likes those. Shoes of memory foam, they're good. But she were walking a lot. Everett says, mean reversion. No, so Binance will be sued in every country or world or just in the US. Only you and only the United States cares. That's really what it comes down to. Ah, man, World Health Organization announces a new epidemic. I had heard about this. There's a new, I think they call it Whitelum that's a lot of respiratory illnesses coming down in China. Why does everything start in China? Remember Avian bird flu?  Now we got this new one, Whitelum. Man, what's wrong with that place? The beer flu. A little metal. You don't have to, not on my account. It's Friday, it's funny. Yeah. Senko, Senko says, other crash just around the corner, could be. This is why it doesn't cross the average. The temptation to go all in that was very, very, very real. Just how it goes. But I still try to refrain from going, you know what? I cannot go all in to Pepecoin. It's not the right time. So yeah. Or Bonk, or that dog right there. Can I add those Aida you're not using? I'd love if you could have them, but I gotta figure out how to get them. Because again, I lost, this isn't a very early day. This is when the deadless wallet was just a test flight. And I had written them down and then my computer crashed. And I was like, oh, well, I'll just back it up. Well, had the mnemonic phrase that can do anything. 20,000 Cardano. And can you imagine what that's gonna be worth in the next bill run?  But that's again why you really want something like this. I mean, I love this book.   It's smear proof, it's smudge proof, it's water proof.  You're like, well, there goes my life savings. So, and what I like about it is you get two today because I've got three personally, ones in my house and two other places, which I will not tell you, but there's backups because you never know, what if the house burns down? Right, gotta be careful. Yeah, you can do a steel plate, steel plate. I've seen those. See, Dave is smart, you know, you gotta keep dry pad on the side, never know when we get new blacks one. That's what I like about the DCA part because like you, you know, as money comes in, because we all have jobs or, well, I don't really have it. I mean, I just, mine's just managing properties now. I mean, essentially short-term and long-term rentals, things that we own, me and the wife. And so like as money comes in, you just kind of like, oh, I got this much this week. So we'll put X amount into this and X amount goes in the sports facility and X amounts goes into houses and so on and so forth. So yeah. So that's what's great about it. And then if you don't have like a big stack of cash, you can just go, well, I'll just do it over time. She does, she does. Bitcoin knows, some people despise those. They think that it's bringing down Bitcoin. Man, I'm sparking dogs maybe for at home. Samson Robb, I was your back. Well, I'm still laying down. So I'd say about 95% of my day is laying like this. Either sleeping or laying down. I get up, I do some things, but tomorrow is a good day. I get to go to therapy and I get to go to acupuncture. And yeah, Mike says, Orca is an amazing dex. Orca is a great dex. Also Jupiter for Solon is a really good dex. I've used that just a couple of times, but you can tell the cost average is pretty cool. The thing you have to remember though is that story that we just took a look at, the hybrid network, once you get into dexes, like I always disconnect my wallet as soon as I'm done. Because if I leave it connected, I always feel like, you know, since it's connected, there could be something I could have accidentally clicked and it could have gone to some kind of smart contract. So that's why I just, I'm not a big huge fan of dexes, but they are a necessary tool that we have to use.  And they're just there specifically for you to click on and for them to get access to the wallet in some way, shape, or form. That's what's great. I mean, Orca doesn't have that many tokens on there. So it's a little bit safer. But as time goes on, you probably see more of that same nonsense going on. If hackers, you give them an opportunity, they will hack, hackers hack. That's it. US government response to the ordinals. I don't think so. Hey, Rob, how was Floppy going? Going along? Just had meeting with the partners. Still, maybe Q, looks like Q1 2024. We'll see when it goes. Let's see. Special 2020, it's in China. Everything starts in China. It does. Oh yeah, don't forget SARS. Yeah, that's true. I have seen some of those pictures of the quality, the air control in the China. Rob, did you do any research the tangent rings? Yeah, so I had the folks from Tangem on and they were telling me that we're gonna have this, we had this great new thing. It's called a tangent ring. And instead of having your, here, I'll show you. I don't have it. Here's my tangent card. And instead of you having to do this to your phone, now you just have a ring that looks pretty much like this. You just go like this. And that's you moving funds around on your card or on your tangent account. I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. Hopefully that works out. That doesn't sound like something I want to get into. So no. Like it sounds great, but everybody else can test it out. Tell me how it works for you. I'll take the three cards. Great question. How to buy Python U.S., let me show you something. So what you want to do, I actually bought Pyth, I don't remember. I talked about Pyth at some point and we were talking about Chainlink and then we got into Pyth and I was saying how I was really happy that Gary was protecting me so hard so I couldn't get an airdrop and da-da-da. But Pyth, if you go to their website, pyth.network, you scroll all the way down. Where'd it go? Oh, they hid it from me. Nah, there is a site. Let's do SimpleSwap. So you can use something called SimpleSwap. And to get the right website, this was not a good idea. See something. Here we go.  Oh, you can use Orca too. Hey, look at that. You can use a dex like Orca and I was eating the Solana and do not use a VPN if you're in the United States. That's illegal. That's almost what's up there. But I use SimpleSwap and that's how I got, I didn't know I could get on there and I would have done that. So that's how you do it. Yes, they're trying to do it right now. They're asking for feedback from the IRS to see if they're gonna do KYC and AML. Again, check out this video we did yesterday with me and Shehan. It's scary. And a lot of repercussions I think. We just saw one. Vincent Van Gogh says, do you believe in the ETF yet? I've always believed it's, let me say this again. I don't think it's going to be approved next year. I still don't. But does it matter what I think? It doesn't. The only thing that matters is if it gets approved or not. So I think people are 95% sure it's gonna be approved. And they say this is why it's gonna be, it's gonna be great, da-da-da. I always say like the one major boss that we have to get through is Gary. I know the whole thing with manipulation and I think that now that CZ is out and now that the US government has their tentacles into Binance, they can monitor everything and they're gonna approve it. I hope that's true. And I just, I'll believe it when I see it. We'll see that. Like George Carlin said, behind every skeptic or every cynic is a failed optimist. Is a jaded optimist. I hope it does. Cause I'd like to stop talking about it. And Norman says, the ring thing seems like an easy way to get mugged. Yeah, but I mean, how many, first of all, how many thieves would know anything about that as far as like with crypto? I mean, maybe they know crypto, but a ring to access your crypto on an app which you need a face ID or a pin, they'd have to know you, I think. And then of course, it could seem an uglier. Pythe pronounced Pith, all right. Why is the use of VPN legal in the US? I'm telling you, virtual private network to access dexes to trade is not legal. You can use a VPN in the United States to protect your identity, to go on the internet and protect yourself against hackers, but to specifically use that for the usage of a decentralized exchange or a airdrop is going against the terms and conditions of that project that you were doing with. So I can't tell you to do that because it's illegal. But a VPN, I've got a VPN, but I use it to protect myself from hackers. Yeah, there you go. Now, there's even ins and by coins leaving them to sell it to us, right? Do you think that Javier Malay will bring the rest of Latin America into crypto? I don't know, but I will tell you something. He, I don't know if you guys saw this. So it's pretty great. Let me see here. There I am, crypto T. New President of Argentina just issued a, the new president of Argentina just issued a statement confirming he's shutting down their central bank and it's not a negotiable matter. I saw it also, or was it? I think it was Steven that's, yeah. The exact quote is this, due to false rumors being spread, we'd like to clarify that the closure of the central bank of Argentina is a non-negotiable affair. So he's gonna do that. And I can say that curly, it could be, it really depends on how successful they are because I think a lot of different countries are looking at El Salvador going, you know what? Maybe it wasn't a good idea to take a huge loan from the IMF and have them squatting over us and dictating everything. Maybe we should opt out and do this Bitcoin thing. It seemed very risky. And remember, the GDP of El Salvador, I wanna say is like $28 billion, so it's not that much. Let's take a look. GDP El Salvador, oh, 20, sorry, 28 billion. GDP of Argentina is, I wanna say 20 times that. Yeah, Argentina, 487 billion. So, and right now they're in a massive hyperinflation. I think it's at 120%. So if they can pull this off, then you're gonna see a lot of countries move forward, not just a small country like El Salvador telling everybody it works, but a large country. I think Argentina is the third largest country by GDP in Latin America. So yeah, I think you do very well. I'm a big fella. Chris says, hey, Rob, do you see the Bitcoin with a $3 million fee? Yeah, pretty crazy. Hopefully the miners give that back. That's pretty insane. All right, buddy. So look, coming up on the 50 minute mark and I think it's going pretty good. Again, I think these are the good days. If we can just get through quarter one and the economy doesn't collapse, we don't get an official recession, which I gotta tell you, I don't know on a presidential election year, who knows? I think we're in the clear, but I can't say yet. But that's it for today. So look, like today's video, thumbs up, consider subscribing, all the good stuff. And that is it for today and I will see everybody tomorrow. So have a good weekend. Have a good one, bye.


Welcome to tonight's meeting. Before I ask the city clerk to read our quote for the week, which will be very appropriate after what I'm about to say. Please, please try to be here about 20 or 30 minutes before the meeting and get all the documents in. There's no need to have Sue Russian through the documents to make sure that they're placed. It's imperative that those documents are signed before we conduct business. It's okay to socialize and all that, but the documents should be next to her at no later than 10 minutes before the meeting starts because it just creates a little panic. And I believe Sue would appreciate that too. That would be great. Thank you, Sue. Please. Team player, one who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust. Thank you, Madam City Clerk. Call it 20th, the regular meeting of the Common Counselor Order. Please call the roll. Lauren. Here. Burke. Serta. Here. Davis. Here. Clioness. Here. Manny. Here. Meyer. Here. Montemayor. Here. Radke. Here. Ryan. Excuse. Sushia. Here. Vanderweel. Excuse. Hanver-Hassel. Here. 14 present. Quorum is present. Alderman Serta, would you please lead us in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Do we have any appointments for the meeting? Okay. Thank you, Vice President Serta. Approve the minutes, President Burke. Yes, thank you, Your Honor. I would move that the minutes be approved as entered on the record. Motion to second to approve minutes. Any discussion? There being none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Resignations and appointments, turn them clean. Thank you, Your Honor. One resignation from Andy Giesen, advising the mayor and the council that he's, for health reasons, resigning effective January 1st from the Commission on Aging. And I'd ask for a motion to accept and file. Move to accept and file. Second. Motion to second to file. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Resignation is accepted. And two appointments, both dated today's date. Hereby submit the following appointment for your consideration. David Bebel, to be considered for appointment to the Naming Rights Committee to fill the unexpired term of Thomas Holton, whose term expires 4, 16, 0, 7, signed by the mayor. And that will lie over. And John Vandermal, to be considered for appointment to the Commission on Aging to fill the unexpired term of Andrew Giesen, whose term expires 4, 30, 0, 7, also signed by the mayor. And that will lie over. Thank you, Attorney McLean. Next item on the agenda is the proclamation, honoring Martha Hill. And I would ask Ms. Hill to please come forward and perhaps her parents. No? Hi, Martha. As I always say, being a mayor, you get to do a lot of things, but it's when you do a proclamation like this, it adds a lot more significance to my job and a lot more pleasurable. It's a proclamation, honor Martha Hill. Whereas Martha Hill is a graduate of Sheboyga North High School and has been an active participant as an athlete in Special Olympics for more than a dozen years. And whereas Martha has been appointed to a two year term as an international global messenger for the Special Olympics. And whereas Martha is one of only 12 individuals worldwide to receive this designation. And whereas Martha will be going to Washington D.C. for training in her role as international global messenger. As part of the training, Martha will be visiting the various embassies to learn about the cultures of the athletes. And whereas in October, Martha and her fellow messengers will serve as master of ceremonies for the Special Olympics World Games in China. Martha will be joined by NBA star for the Houston Rockets, Yao Ming in Shanghai. Now, therefore, I, Juan Perez, by virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Sheboyga, do hereby extend my personal congratulations and those of the entire city of Sheboyga to Martha Hill and encourage all citizens of the city to join me in recognizing the accomplishments of Martha Hill and letting her know how proud we are of her. Thank you very much, everyone. Thank you for this recognition, Mr. Mayor. I am very honored and I will represent Special Olympics and many athletes from around the world and I'm very honored. Thank you very much. Thank you again, everyone, for joining us and congratulating Martha. Next item on the agenda is a public forum, Madam City Clerk. Yes, Scott Lewandowski. And Scott, can I have your home address, please? 2201 Fury Avenue, Sheboyga. And you will have five minutes. Thank you for allowing me to speak tonight. I'm here tonight as chairman of the Historic Preservation Committee and as Assistant City Historian. And I would like to speak about the proposed changes that are under consideration at tonight's meeting and the next Common Council meeting. I am here because there are many misconceptions about these ordinances and at the next meeting you will vote on these changes. All 16 of you will vote on these changes and possibly the mayor if there's a tie. But what you do now know about the background of these ordinances, Alderman Ryan is on the committee and attends the meetings. So he knows the background of why we are against some of these changes. Of the other 15 Alderman here who will vote on these changes, none, I repeat, none of you have attended a Historic Preservation Committee meeting. And only one of you, Alderman Shusha, has even called me up and asked questions. Even Mayor Perez has attended more Historic Preservation Committee meetings than 15 of the Alderman here. Some background on Sheboygan and its Historic Preservation efforts in the past. Sheboygan has the worst record in the state in this area. In 2001, Sheboygan started a survey of potentially eligible sites. Sheboygan was one of the last cities in Wisconsin to start this survey and the last of Wisconsin's major cities. The survey was finished last year and it is shown here. And identified 1,600 potential historic sites. Sheboygan was one of the last cities in the state to finish this survey, as they said. And it's one of a handful of cities in the state and the last major Wisconsin city to have no city landmark sites of any kind. The city of Sheboygan is the only major city in Wisconsin to not even have its own historical society. Here in Sheboygan County, Usberg, Cedar Grove, Random Lake, Plymouth, Sheboygan Falls, Howard's Grove, and Elkhart Lake have their own historical societies. Even Lakeland College and Culler have museums for their history. But the city of Sheboygan has nothing. Last week Thursday on the front page of the Sheboygan press was a photo of a pile of rubble of a building that was torn down and it's right here. And the building next to it is also scheduled to be torn down. Nothing was done to save these two buildings even though both buildings were listed in the survey. The historic preservation committee was not even notified that these buildings would be torn down. One of these two buildings was unique in that it was the oldest building on 8th Street between Michigan Avenue and Indiana Avenue. I repeat, it was the oldest building on 8th Street in the business district. Not only was it the oldest building, but it was the oldest and only building built before the Civil War, still left on 8th Street. It was built in 1860 as a harness shop. When the Sheboygan city was only seven years old, but it's now gone. On Thursday, I went to take pictures of what was left and I met three young people in their early 20s asking why the city of Sheboygan does not do anything to save historic buildings like other cities. One of these young adults asked why couldn't these two buildings be remodeled into condos instead of torn down for new condos. She added that out of city developers come to Sheboygan and don't even care about our history and destroy our old buildings. The historic preservation ordinance we now have that you wanna change was based on ordinances in other Wisconsin cities and from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. One major misconception is that if a building is landmarked, you can't do anything to change it. That is not true. With permission from the Historic Preservation Committee and or the Common Council, changes can be made. You can find the same information on the Wisconsin State Historical Society website. Historic homes and businesses can also receive tax breaks for work done on historic homes. Again, this is on the Wisconsin State Historical Society website. The work even includes installing new wiring, plumbing and roofs to preserve these buildings. I ask each one of you to visit the State of Wisconsin Historical Society website and look under Landmark Buildings and see what they have to say before you vote. I'll be glad to speak to anybody here tonight after the meeting or if you wanna call me at home. But I ask, how can you vote on this ordinance when you don't know the reasons or what is in the ordinance? Excuse me, Scott, would you like an additional minute? You're five minutes. Okay, go ahead. Even though you read the minutes, you don't get all the information on the discussions as to why something was approved at the committee. When you voted, one prime example of the ordinance that you don't know what's in the ordinance was when you voted to amend the ordinance last week and add that the common council asked to approve all Landmark sites even after city attorney McLean said this was already in the ordinance. You voted to add something to the ordinance that was already in it because you did not do your homework and read the ordinance beforehand. Now, you will be voting on more potential changes without knowing all the reasons why. I ask the people of Sheboygan to let your alderman know how you feel so that we don't lose any more buildings like we did the two on East Street last week. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Scott. Thank you very much for addressing the public, the council at the public forum. I wanted to talk just briefly about as we step into a new year, talk about what I perceive as a new challenge for the 07. To me, this is the year, the new year is the year of a new mindset. It is a year to take one simple step towards being positive and towards being a champion of Sheboygan. I really, really believe that the people of Sheboygan have had enough negativism, disrespect, fault-finding, and just plain chronic complaining. As a council, we truly have a lot to be proud of, and the people of Sheboygan have taken notice, and they appreciate the great work that all of us are doing. There's five things that I like to touch on, although there's a lot more, but one of the things that Jubal accomplished in 06, I'm looking back towards, looking back at 06, and then we'll talk a little bit about 07, but you put together, all of us put together, a pretty aggressive street repair and reconstruction program. As I go out into the community, as I went out into the community and talked to people, one of the things that kept percolating up all the time was our streets are in pretty bad shape. When are you gonna fix our streets? It was important to me, and I believe important to you, to put together some comprehensive plan by which we can address our deteriorating streets, and we have done that. For example, in 06, we resurfaced New Jersey Avenue from 15th Street to the bridge. We did High Avenue from 7th to 12th Street, Union Avenue from 11th to Business Drive, 13th Street from Illinois to Wisconsin, 8th Street from Ontario to Michigan, Commerce Street from Penn to Indiana, Concord Drive from the extension to the Gateway, Washington Avenue from South Business Drive to Taylor, and South Business Drive from Washington to Carmen. Folks, that's a lot of streets. When in the past, streets were being put in the back burner because other things were starting to take priority. And one of the things we cannot ignore is that streets will never maintain its original look. They will begin to deteriorate, so we need to always keep in mind that if we neglect our streets, sooner or later we're gonna be spending more and trying to repair them than we would in just trying to maintain them. In 07, we have on schedule on South 7th Street from Indiana to High Avenue, and at North 7th from Ghillie to North, and North 3rd Street from Bluff Avenue to North Avenue. In Lincoln Avenue, which has been one that many people have called about several years and never got a response, Lincoln Avenue from 8th to North 13th, and North 13th from Merton's Avenue to Ghillie, and Niagara Avenue from North 4th to North 6th, same on Avenue, the curbing we did from 15th to the 21st Street, Indiana Avenue will be doing that from 14th to 17th Street, and that will finish off most of our corridor on Indiana Avenue all the way up to the bridge. And then the most important, one of the very important ones I should say is 5th and New York stormwater repair where we have a 14 inch sewer, a stormwater line that's gonna be replaced by, I believe, a 40 inch, which will be able to just take care of all that backlog of water that people were having a lot of problems with. So one thing that you have to be proud of is the aggressive street repair and maintenance and reconstruction program that you put together and helped me and supported me in putting it together. The other thing that I think is very important for you, look back and talk to your constituents and talk to the public about is the Clean City Initiative. And as we look back, and I believe you would have seen an article in the newspaper, there were about 834 nuisance complaints. 97 of those complaints were dealt with either by the property owner or the city of Sheboyga. That is a huge accomplishment. It's 834 areas that needed cleaning up, that no longer need cleaning up this year. We took care of that. And of all that activity, which is amazing to me, only 41 citations were issued. 41 citations is not a lot. That means our community, our residents are cooperating with us. Now unfortunately, when you issue ordinance violations, there's a cost for that. And there was about a little over $9,500 that was collected by the city. We don't issue by citations simply because we want to collect money. I think for most people it's going to be cheaper to clean it up than to try to pay citations as they move along. And I think you have a lot to be proud of as we move into O7 because that program is gonna get better. Paul Adhanderz and I and the inspections department are working on how do we improve that program even better so that Sheboyga is a much, much cleaner, enjoyable place to live in and so that people can take their properties a little bit more serious as others do. And I've always said, and I will continue to say, there's absolutely no reason why a person or a property owner that takes care of his or her property should have to look out their window and see garbage. There's just no excuse for that. And I think it's our responsibility to act on that. The third thing I think you should be proud of and that you've accomplished is we put together a pretty progressive city development plan. And as we move progressively in developing the Green Warehouse, the Morning Star Condominiums, the Rice Condominiums, the Highland Restaurant, the little town square there that between the Highland Restaurant and the Kepsel Billion, as we develop all these properties and continue to develop the peninsula, we're still maintaining that good old hometown flavor. People like that because progress a lot of times has its price and you sacrifice some of the things that are dear to you for progress. I don't think that we wanna do that. So in all that city development, we're still able to maintain that good old small town hometown flavor. The other thing I think that we can be proud of is the preservation and the maintenance of our parks. For the longest times, our parks were neglected. It was almost cliche to say, parks are not used. Well, of course not. They weren't accommodating. They weren't welcoming parks. People call a park a block of land. Now parks have playground equipment for kids. A great example that said there was an issue is Sheridan Park. The gazeb was going up. The restrooms will be going up. Lighting has gone up. If anybody has taken a drive by there, you'll see that there's light now. Grittles have been put out, picnic tables, trash bins, benches. We've got the fence in the back on 13th Street that whole street had been paved and curbed. We're taking care of parks because those parks mean a lot to us and they mean a lot to future generations and their children. And that we have a duty to do that for our residents. And the fifth one that I want to talk about is an area that I think you will be proud of as we move forward and look into a comprehensive engineering plan. And some of these things I've borrowed from our city engineer that he has in plan. But I wanted to share some of these things with you because these are some of the things that are going to be, that will be done. And Bill bulky has been just a great asset right off the bat. But there will be looking at providing you with a state of our streets report. It'll give you keen insight and updated information as to the condition of our streets and the needs that we have. There will be a report which will identify where our needs are for the next 10 years. That'll tell us that'll be able, that'll allow us and able us to plan for 10 years as opposed to doing things year after year and wondering how we're gonna go about the next year. There'll be lots of meetings with the Department of Transportation to solicit funding for major street repairs. We cannot exist or operate in the vacuum. We have to reach out. We're looking to improve traffic flow along our main corridors. A lot of people take traffic corridors and just general traffic for granted. We drive up and down these streets and really not really pay attention to what's going on and the activity that's going on. Thankfully we have engineers, city engineers that do. And as they pay attention, they'll make our driving more friendly, more accessible. We'll be reviewing and analyzing current policies for sidewalk replacements. Our sidewalks for the longest time have taken a beating. And we'll be working on that pretty aggressively. We'll be analyzing and determining the needs and upgrades of our agent infrastructure. A lot of our infrastructure, again, has not been worked on for a lot of years. And one example, as I said, with Fifths in New York. We'll be doing that. And we'll be pretty aggressively on that. Finally, I think that another one that some people take for granted, although some don't in some particular neighborhoods, is analyze and determine our lighting needs in certain sections of the community. There's areas that definitely could use more light for a lot of reasons. Vandalism, drugs, anything. Or just plain light so people can enjoy their properties at night. Those are five things that I think you can be very proud of. And having done looking back and looking forward is that we will accomplish. Now all that is under take one simple step towards being positive and being a champion for Sheboygan. Now where in the world did I get that? Of course, there's always a story behind this. I was at the library last week and I sat down to read a book just briefly. Actually flipped through it and enjoyed the pictures. A gentleman came and sat down next to me and we started talking. And somehow our conversation ended up with New Year's resolutions. And I told him that I had several but I never really worry about it and just hopefully things go through like most people do. I asked him, what is your New Year's resolution? And he said, take one simple step towards being positive and be a champion for my family. And I'm thinking, what in the world does that mean? But before I could ask, he said, you know, for many years I had been negative, contradictory with my wife. I have not treated my children right. I have neglected them, I've ignored them. He said, quite frankly, it was a bitter life. I wasn't enjoying it and neither were they. And I was very negative and bitter because of everything that was happening. He said, but this year I'm going to take one simple step towards being positive and for championing my family. Now I asked him if I could repeat this and he said it was perfectly all right but I didn't ask him his name so I don't need to do that. But if you think about take one step, one simple step towards being positive and to be a champion in our case of Sheboygan is going to take us a long way because there's 16 of you, one of me and a lot of department heads. Folks, if we spread the word of the good things that we're doing, the positive things, people cannot help but notice and appreciate. So when you're confronted with negativism, when negativism appears to prevail, when personal attacks appear more tempting than personal praise, take one simple step toward being positive and being a champion for Sheboygan. When people show you disrespect, promote disrespect toward you or other elected officials and show no grace, take one simple step toward being positive and being a champion for Sheboygan. When people are pointing fingers, finding fault and trivial matters, take one simple step toward being positive and being a champion for Sheboygan. And finally, when aimless chronic complaining positions itself as a norm, when compliments fall short and praise is nowhere to be found, just take one simple step toward being positive and being a champion for Sheboygan. And I just wanted to point out something that's happened this last year that's incredibly important, sometimes even I forget. In 06, you held yourself together. Fiscal responsibility, I think, was the accent of your tenure. You held the line with a 0% increase in taxes. What does that mean? That means, folks, that you saved the taxpayer $1.8 million roughly. You eliminated the stormwater tax. It's $1.5 million that the taxpayers would have had to pay. And that's 1.5 per year for the next three years. You eliminated the wheel tax, $210,000. You adjusted the price of a police station from $13.5 million to $9,000. And we're still gonna have an adequate and affordable and beautiful police station. People in the police department are going to be extremely proud of that beautiful building we're gonna put up. You also saved Sheridan Park and you preserved all other parks. You made it pretty difficult for anyone to threaten to take a park again. What price did we put on that? Priceless. So if you think of those things, the total savings that you gave the taxpayers in 06 that the taxpayers don't have to pay well over $8 million, that's a huge accomplishment for a common council. And you've done it all. Every single day we should hail our accomplishments. Every single day we should take one step forward, being positive and being a champion for Sheboygan. As we dedicate ourselves with humility, pride and grace to improve the quality of life of our citizens, be mindful that the duty belongs not to one person, but to all. Every single day we humbly hail our accomplishments. Every single day we should take one step towards being positive and being a champion for Sheboygan. Sheboygan belongs to all of us. Thank you very much. President Burke. Yes, thank you Your Honor. You move that we accept and file all the ROs, accept and adopt all the RCs and put the general ordinances upon their passage. Motion is second to approve. Under discussion, Alderman Bourne. Thank you, Your Honor. Before we vote on these, I would like to bring forward document number 2017 just for a comment. This document has to do with the study at the traffic study at South 12th and Wilson Avenue that's been going on for some time. And I received a lot of calls on this study. The study proposed changing that intersection to either currently during the study it's flashing red lights and stop signs. I'm happy to report that public protection and safety voted at their last meeting that effective on February 6th that that intersection is going to revert back to traffic signals. And that's basically what the people on the south side have been communicating that with this four way stop with the stop signs and the flashing red lights it just has not been working. It's been causing, that's the intersection right by Wilson and South High School. And at the busy times of the day it's just been a huge inconvenience for people that are driving their cars and also for the students that have to cross the street there guessing when they can safely cross. So I'm happy to report to the people on the south side that use that intersection that again on February 6th it will be going back to traffic signals. Thank you. Thank you, Alderman Boren, Alderman Sousha. Thank you, Your Honor. I was wondering if I could just have an explanation on 2018 from Deputy Chief Shervin. Is there motion to open the floor to Deputy Chief? I move to open floor. Second, second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Deputy Chief Shervin, which please sir. Please do. This is actually an easy question, I think. I'm going to introduce a talk from a friend of mine who was about how dearly we place these police events. And I was reassured then that when we replace squad cars it's almost half a look at it. For each one year that they're on the streets it's almost equal to being on the streets three years because there's three ships and those cars are constantly going. So if we replace them say every three years that people will be replacing a squad car that's probably nine years old because they're used 24 hours a day. But the second question that the constituent had I couldn't answer. And it states here that there are 14 police department patrol duty sedans, less trade and two detective duty sedans without trade. And the question is what happened to the old cars that we're now treating it? We'd be using those cars because there were few miles left on them and we figured that it could save the taxpayers money by having the detectives use those cars and having other purposes rather than having new vehicles. And I would agree with you as far as the amount of money that's used in these cars or the amount of mileage that they have. They're on the road 24 hours a day. Normally we had traded the squads in every two years. It's three years and we're end up having additional problems such as fuel pumps and different front end parts that didn't need to be replaced. We definitely believe we needed to replace them. Okay, thank you, Deputy Chief. Okay, Alderman Hanna. It's just, I just had a question. Okay. For Chief. Please Deputy Chief. Sorry about that, thank you. Please continue. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. On average, when we turn a patrol car back in how many miles does it have on it? It would have 70 to 100 dollars and these would have, I believe, pretty close to 100. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much, Deputy Chief, again. All right, there's no further discussion. We will call the roll. Berk, Serta, Davis, Graff, Hanna, Kittleson, Cleunis, Manny, Meyer, Montemayor, Ratke, Sushia, Verhaselt, and Bourne, 14Is. Motion carries. Communications and petitions 2019 through 2024 to be referred. Report of officers to 2025 by the city attorney stating that a response has been received from the attorney general's office, which concludes that a municipal library is authorized to enter into an employment contract with a library director, which includes provisions for a term of a certain number of years, termination for cause, and a lump sum payout if terminated without cause. President Berg, except in file. Yes, I would ask that the report of officer be accepted and filed. Second. Motion to accept and file. Second. Under discussion. There being none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. 2026 through 2027, lies over. 2028 through 2042A to be referred. And vice president Serta. Thank you, Your Honor. I would like to take 2036 and make a motion to file. Second. Motion to file 2036, under discussion. Thank you, Your Honor. Due to what Alderperson Bourne had just stated that this issue is going to be rectified with the feeling of earlier resolution. Thank you. Any more discussion? Here, Alden Graff. Thank you, Your Honor. I know Mr. Justice, who circulated this petition, had brought me a copy of it. And I'm wondering, do they get, will all the petitioners on here get notified as to what happened as far as what they signed, you know, to let them know that the stop signs will be replaced or? I believe we can do that, Alden Graff. Is that sir, your pleasure? Would be beneficial to the people that signed the petition. Thank you. Susan Hart, Susan, would you please make a notation of that? Thank you. We'll get that letter out tomorrow on the board. Thank you, Your Honor. I should have mentioned this before. I spoke with Mr. Justice today, the one that passed the petition around and I explained what we were voting on in the consent agenda and he was fine with filing this document. He had no problem with that. Okay, thank you very much. Okay, resolutions introduced three, 2042 by Alderman, oh, I'm sorry, there was a motion to file. No, didn't we take a vote? Okay, there are no other discussion. All those in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. 2036 is filed. Thank you, Attorney McLean. Resolutions introduced three, 2042 by Alderman Meyer, dissolving the special committee on pet friendly parts. Alderman Meyer. Thank you, Your Honor. I would move that the resolution be put upon its passage. Motion to second, to put 2042 upon its passage. Under discussion. Under discussion, I would like to thank this special committee that was formed on to look at the dogs in the parks issue. And that would be Harold Bebel, Paul Meyer, Vicki Hall, Bill Steffen, and Steve Stauber. And they did an excellent job of researching this and talking to the community. And I just would like to thank them for their hard work and it was very well appreciated. Thank you, Alderman Meyer. Alderman Cleetus. Thank you, Your Honor. There was some question about enforcement. Did the committee bring discuss any of that at all before they disbanded or? Yeah, I will be bringing in, under Alderman Meyer's name at the next council meeting, at the ordinance forum, the changes that are reflective of what was recommended and approved by the council. Thank you. Any other discussion? There being none, all those in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 2043 by Alderman Meyer. Excuse me, Alderman Meyer. Authorizing, executing a one-year lease for the agricultural property in the town of Wilson formerly owned by John Poth Jr. Alderman Meyer. Thank you, Your Honor. I move that the resolution be put upon its passage. Motion is second to put 2043 upon its passage. Under discussion, Alderman Sousha. Thank you, Your Honor. I just have a question. This is 30 acres of land that the city owns in the town of Wilson, correct? Yes. Just wondering what our future plans are if we're just gonna continue to allow this gentleman to farm at $50 an acre. It's a well-kept secret what our future plans are. The land is not a bud in any other city property. For now, it sits there and we make whatever use we can of it by leasing it out at a very nominal charge. But I would consult with Paulette Anders with respect to that particular so she can speak to you individually. Anyone else that has any interest in that? Would that be okay? Sure. Thank you. Anything else? We will call a vote on 2043. Please call the roll. Serta. Davis. Graf. Hannah. Kittleson. Clioness. Manny. Meyer. Montemayor. Radke. Sousha. Verhassel. Warren. Enberg. Nye. 14 ayes. Motion carries. 2044 by Alderman Vanderweel authorizing the mayor to sign the memorandum of understanding allowing for the 2006 Justice Assistance Grant Award of $10,840 to be transferred to the Sheboyan County Sheriff's Department to continue the upgrade of life scan fingerprint system. Vice President Serta. Thank you, Your Honor. I move that the resolution be put upon its passage. Motion in second under discussion. There being none, please call the roll. Davis. Graf. Hannah. Kittleson. Clioness. Manny. Meyer. Montemayor. Radke. Sousha. Nye. Verhassel. Nye. Warren. Nye. Burke. Nye. And Serta. Nye. 14 ayes. Motion carries. 2045 lies over to March 5th, 2046 through 2048 lies over. 2049 and 2050 to be referred. Report of committee six, 2051 by law and licensing, recommending denying beverage operators license number 5096 based on the applicant's habit of breaking the law, his failure to reveal all convictions on his application and his record of convictions related to license activity. Alderman Radke. Thank you, Your Honor. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted. Motion in second under discussion. Under discussion is Garrett Meehan here this evening. He's not here this evening, Your Honor. Thank you very much, Alderman Radke. Any further discussion? There being none, please call the roll. Graf. Nye. Hannah. Nye. Kittleson. Nye. Clayunus. Nye. Manny. Nye. Meyer. Nye. Montemayor. Nye. Radke. Nye. Sousha. Nye. Verhassel. Nye. Warren. Nye. Burke. Nye. Serta. Nye. And Davis. Nye. By finance recommending the adoption of the naming rights policy, Alderman Graf. Thank you, Your Honor. I would move that the RC be accepted and adopted. Motion in second to accept and adopt. Under discussion. There. Alderman Hanna. Thank you, Mayor. I think this is a very important step for the city to seriously move forward and to allow people to name properties within the confines of the city. This is a, we had a very successful program with the Schrodinger School District. I'm very optimistic that people are gonna step forward. There's gonna be plenty of opportunities, not only with existing facilities, but we've got a new police station going up. There's opportunities down along the lakefront for smaller donations. So I'm looking forward to another successful naming rights campaign. Wonderful, thank you, Alderman Hanna. Any other questions? There are none. Please, please call the roll. Hanna. Kittleson. Clayunas. Manny. Meyer. Montemayor. Radke. Sushia. Verhasselt. Bourne. Berg. Serda. Davis. And Graf. 14 ayes. Motion carries. Orguses introduced 10, 20, 54 by Alderman, wait a minute. Yeah, by Alderman Graf. Amending a section of the municipal code so as to provide for a petty cash fund for the newly separated departments of engineering and public works. Alderman Graf. Thank you, Your Honor. I'll ask for suspension, please. Is there a second to that? Second. Is there any objection? There is none. Please continue. Then, Your Honor, I would move that the general ordinance be put upon its passage. Motion and second, under discussion. Under discussion, Your Honor, I need to make an amendment. Under the first paragraph, where it says in ordinance amending and so forth, where it says newly separated departments, I would move that that be changed to offices of engineering and public works rather than departments. I need a second. Thank you. Yes. And then I have one question. Should under section 2873, number six and number seven, should those be departments or should they be offices also? Okay, then also I would amend that item six and item seven rather than department of engineering and department of public works would read office of engineering and office of public works. There, wait a minute. Is that acceptable under your second, Alderman Metzky? That'll cover it. Okay. It's an amendment covering all the language. Any discussion on the amendment? There being none. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Now I need a motion to. Then, Your Honor, I would move that the general ordinance as amended be put upon its passage. Motion in second to prove as amended. Any discussion? There being none, please call the roll. Kittleson. Clayunas. Aye. Manny. Aye. Meyer. Aye. Montemayor. Aye. Radke. Aye. Sushia. Aye. Verhasalt. Aye. Boran. Aye. Berg. Aye. Serda. Aye. Davis. To. Arrest them. Actually of every section of the labor law which is easier to clerks and donuts or third parties. To. 235 lies over 2056 through 2060 to be referred. made in a voucher paid during the months of November 206. Alderman Graf. Thank you, Your Honor. I would move that the RO be accepted and adopted. Motion and second. Any discussion? There being none, those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. 1928, General Orden's number 640607 by Alderman Berg amending the municipal code relating towards and voting polls so as to change the location of the eighth ward voting poll to the St. Andrew Lutheran Church, President Berg. Ah, yes, thank you. And I would ask that the ordinance be placed upon its passage. Motion second. Under discussion. Under discussion. This is a change of location, I believe from Wesley to St. Andrews and I believe the city clerk can give us the reason why and perhaps some of the information about the change and how the residents will be notified. So I guess I'd ask the city clerk to elaborate upon. Thank you, Tim Clark. Yes, thank you Alderman Berg. Obviously we don't like changing polling places, it becomes challenging for the voters. However, in this case we find that after years of being at Westland we're grateful for them to let us use their location. It's challenging for voters to get downstairs in the basement. It's sometimes cold down there, it's sometimes wet down there and we felt that we needed to try and move it to a close proximity and St. Andrew Lutheran Church was gracious enough to agree to having the 8th Ward polling place in their location which we're very happy about. What we'll be doing in the next probably week we'll be sending out cards, notices to all of the registered voters in Ward 8. So they will be notified, we will have signs on Wesley Church at least for the next two elections to say if they do happen to go there they know where they're gonna be going and we'll be putting it in the published paper that comes out the day before the election that the county puts on. She will be putting a big splash in there. We will have it on our website. I will be talking about it on the radios. It'll be in the paper. So we will do everything we can to get all of these registered voters aware that this is going to be changed. Any questions for Sue? Oh, Mayer? Thank you, Your Honor. I just have one. This question has been brought up a few times. Why are we using churches for voting polls versus where we used to use schools? And a few people have asked me this over the years and I don't have any answers and I was just wondering why we went from public schools to churches. And probably long before I was here they started using, I know that in years past they had used a lot of schools but we find that the schools are very challenging to use because of the classes going on, activities throughout the day in the gym. We usually use the gymnasium for the voting poll especially for the larger boards and the schools were just saying this is not working for us. So then we were down to where do we put 16 voting polls? And it turned out that the churches ended up being the place where there's very little activity on a Tuesday, so that's really why. It's really the location. We don't have 16 places to go within the city of Sheboygan. So I think that's where it came from. Thank you. Sure. Thank you very much. Okay, please call the roll. Clioness? Hi. Manny? Hi. Mayer? Hi. Montemayor? Sushia? Hi. Verhastelt? Hi. Boran? Hi. Berg? Hi. Serda? Hi. Davis? Hi. Graf? Hi. Hanna? Hi. And Kittleson? Hi. 14 ayes. Motion carries. Other matters authorized by law, 2061 will be referred to public protection and safety. 2062 will be referred to public protection and safety. 2063 will be referred to city plan commission. 2064 will lie over. 2065, a resolution by Alderman Hanna amending the rules of order and procedure for addresses to the Common Council and its committees via the public forum. Alderman Hanna? Thank you, Mayor. I would like to make a motion to file the document. Second. And a motion to second to file 2065. Thank you. Under discussion. There being none, please call the roll. Manny? Meyer? Hi. Montemayor? Hi. Radke? Hi. Sushia? Hi. Verhastelt? Hi. Boran? Hi. Berg? Hi. Serda? Hi. Davis? Hi. Graf? Hi. Hanna? Hi. Kittleson? Hi. And Clioness? Hi. 14 ayes. Motion carries. 2066, an RC by salary and grievances, recommending filing various documents. Alderman Sushia. Thank you. I move that the RC be accepted and adopted. Motion is second to accept and adopt 2066. Under discussion. There being none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. 2067 will be referred to city plan commission. Other matters? Attorney McLean. 2068 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30, 2007 and June 30, 2008. That will be referred to law and license in committee. 2069 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting a communication from Sergeant Tushinsky forwarding a request from the Sporgan North High School staff to add and or change parking restrictions on School Avenue due to the Newfield House area at North Twelfth Street. That will be referred to public protection and safety committee. 2070 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting a communication from charter communications stating that they have been contacted by Deutsche Welle, the German programming provided on their expanded basic channel 78 informing charter that they will be unable to renew their agreement for continued carriage. And that will be referred to finance. Motion is second to adjourn. Any discussion? Anybody want to stay here longer? All those in favor say aye. Any opposed? Stand adjourned.


Welcome to the tea of the day today. I've basically just decided to do let's do a fun mix and talk about a little bit about herbal teas about how you can mix them around and basically the last couple days what I've been doing is just been miscellanously throwing in lots of different little herbs together and I Tell you most of them have come out perfectly fine It's like if you're wanting to be refined and you want to be like I want to have this taste Accented by this flavor. Yes. Mmm. This is a lovely blend Then yeah, of course you can do that. Yes I'm going to take three sprigs of thyme and two sprigs of oregano and one of basil and throw it all together And it'll be lovely But that I mean at the end of the day with herbal teas You can mix and match a lot of them in there and it's like oh, I've got a little bit of this I'll toss it in there.  I got a little bit of pizza. I'll finish a slice of that off Oh, I got some tuna off a bit of that too, you know They're all good and you know, you know, so they want to have tuna pizza, but Not the best example, but as far as the herbal teas are concerned Unless you're dealing with the strong stuff You can blend it pretty much Miscellaniously and get away with it So like I've been blending my his off my mince so the apple mint the spearmint peppermint chamomile the What else do I have going on out there? Not the marjoram. I've got the oregano. I've got the Time I've got the cinnamon basil the regular basil the sage The lavender and a couple others that I've just been miscellanously playing around with and They've all blended really well together. The trick is is like I said with the strong ones. So the sage the rosemary the Oregano even can be a bit stronger As is the time if it's a woodier time and not a fresher time So like it's been around if you're grabbing more of a woody stemmed one That is a bit stronger Especially if you end up putting the stem in there So it's like if you get a fresh one that's a green stem and you just put it in there with the leaves That can be okay, but if you get a woody stem and you put it in there, that's definitely gonna affect the flavor Okay, just saying if you just want to you know say hey experiment and throw a bunch in there You can do that And you can actually let them steep quite a while this I kind of actually even forgot about and left for like 10 minutes or So and I'm perfectly happy with it. It tastes great It doesn't taste too strong It which is the imperative thing and when you leave certain herbs that can get bitter So the rosemary can get better the sage can get better the basil can get ugly Kind of bitter nasty tasting kind of like I've said before with that spinachy taste where it's just the evil grassy water Blah mmm taste that nobody likes And if you do lucky you How do you like that all pretty much every flower except like a hibiscus, which is a very strong fruity flower You can get away with doing because they're all lighter the the hyssop the chamomile the calendula even valerian even Stevia, I mean, you know pretty much any of the herbs Yeah, that aren't heavier. What are your herbs or have a strong taste that can get bitter Okay, you can just mix and match and play around with That's my point. Have fun with your tea. Enjoy Have a good day


TheCube presents HPE Discover 2022, brought to you by HPE. Welcome back to HPE Discover 2022. You're watching TheCube's coverage. We're day two here, Dave Vellante with John Furrier. Heiko Meyers here. He's the executive vice president and chief sales officer, relatively newly minted chief sales officer at HPE and Paul Hunter, who's the senior vice president and managing director of North America for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Gentlemen, welcome to TheCube. Thanks for having us. Heiko, this is the first time back in Vegas in a while. Three years, I think it's been, and you're first as the chief sales officer? Yep. What's the vibe like? How's it feel? I can tell you, it's so cool, is it? You walk down the hallway, everybody's smiling, and you see people from, you have seen three years ago, or in this format on your screen the last three years. I think what is amazing, we had exactly three years ago, we had this event and Antonio mentioned, hey, and by end of 2022, you will see everything being available as a service. And nobody thought about that we will not meet in person until 2022 at that point in time. And guess what happened? I can tell you, it was the best decision to make an in-person event here in Vegas with so many people because it's about, hey, the change in the market, the demand, the transition, and so I think I couldn't be more happy to see the last two days than looking for the rest of the event. Paul, you have a background in the channel, and now you're heading North America. What are you seeing in the ecosystem? Is there a difference? Is like I was saying from 2019, is there a different feeling, different conversations? What are you seeing? Yeah, well, the good thing is like, because we haven't been here for three years, you've got a really marked moment of comparison. So you'll cast your mind back, what were the conversations like? I think three years ago, we were talking about cloud services and partners were nodding their heads and thinking, yeah, but the world is going to continue as normal. And we fast forward three years and the partners are really talking about proactively, how do they build up that cloud services? And they're also talking about customer experiences as well. We've landed on one new customer. So that's really sort of thrilling to hear that they're really excited about the journey they're on with us. You know, I'd like to get your perspective on what happened during the pandemic because we saw, first of all, Zoom and Videocon was saved, the internet had meetings, but the partners delivered a lot of value. Customers had to pivot or if they had a tailwind, they had, they took advantage of it. Some had headwinds with the pandemic. Everyone's working at home. So a lot of disruptions for all the companies, but a lot of the partners had success during the pandemic and because they have that solution. What was the learnings that you guys saw during the pandemic? Because now with cloud, cloud scale, hybrid, mainstream and now a steady state, people lived it and partners delivered a lot of solutions in hybrid mode, in virtual mode. What was the learnings for you guys coming out of that with customers and partners? I think, first of all, we all learned during the pandemic that you can do business in a different way. But as well, you learned how to pivot faster in the digital transformation. This makes a difference and this creates value. And I think together with our partner ecosystem, we were able to develop faster solutions there. While we developed everything as a service and came up with more and more cloud services. The good thing is, it resonates. And our history with the partners is, I don't know, as long as I can think back in my career. And you only can do that together with the channel partners. And I think they appreciate that we learn from each other. We do the same enablement from my guys, like from the partner guys. And this close relation, I think made the difference. You know, in 2019, GreenLake as a service was really a financial vehicle, right? And now that's evolved.  And so, what's the resonance been with customers? Because everybody says they want that cloud experience. They may not all want OPEX. So what have you heard from customers? First of all, what I hear is not the if, so the strategy is clear. The customer, they'll love it. They like it. They want to have the cloud-like experience. And guess what? We have 70 cloud services now. And we have announced a lot of new ones the last couple of days. But it's not so much the if they should do this. It's more the question, how can we help me to scale faster? And that's the feedback I got the last couple of days. And for us, it's a motivation. We are on the right track. This is a moment where you have a demand from the market and a strategy that fits. And this is so strong. And you can do this with the partner, through the partners. And you see the customers, they love it. I have never seen an event where I got so many requests the last two days. So I say, I thought that can you help me to get there faster? It's perfect. Yeah, I think it was also a landmark moment when we presented the cloud platform as part of Antonio's keynote. I've had a lot of partners say, this was sort of really marked the moment when we felt there was this real substance to the offering now. And I had one of the sales guys relate to me a story where they have a client in the audience and they're thinking about how they might have a relationship with us. And through seeing the kind of significance of it for us, we were able to close deals. So that's also a really exciting thing. We're actually, you know, we're closing deals and winning new customers. Hey, being agile and closing deals fast is a good thing, right? I mean, that's what you guys like. Yeah, that's what we like. So I love the channel conversation and partners because one of the things that I've observed and knowing the HP channel is so strong, they're, obviously they want to make money. Gross margin is all about the profit. The profit motive, but the enablement that you guys have, how is that translated into this shift? Everyone's aligned behind Green Lake and as a service because this seems to be a good fit for partners because they're going to go to the customer, the ultimate end customer and bolt on services. Yeah. How is that going? Because this to me seems like a dream scenario for services, which we all know is high gross margin. Yeah, and I think it's a journey. What's a journey for our sales organization a station like it is for the partners, but it's a journey worth to do that. And so what is our strategy to have this together with our channel partners in mind to combine their strengths. And they can, we have a kind of modular approach so that they can plug in their strengths, their IP or as well their services, which makes them sticky and relevant to the customer and it drives profitability. And I think that's the secret behind the model working with the channel, not separate to the channel. And I think this resonates, this story, it's a journey. And we learned a lot, a lot three years how to sell it. In the past, we were selling transactional hardware. Now we are selling services, cloud services, like you mentioned, different game. And this is an enablement and we offer the same trainings we are doing with our folks to our channel partners because we are together in this journey. Yeah, you described it really well. And so did HIKO, essentially this is, it requires a lot of persistence because you're not going to get it right the first time. And so we've now seen partners try and fail several times but now try and fail and succeed. So that's exciting. And also I think what we're also seeing is partners are doing quite a good job of building services that integrate into the cloud services. So they're right into the APIs. I was with a meeting with a partner called CBTS and they talked about the whole of their services portfolio now is embedded in GreenLake. So that certainly was not the case three years ago. And the other big tailwind too is you got the open source software movement. You're seeing the ability for partners and ultimately the channel being software enabled. They're adding services, not just professional services but cloud services where they have the domain expertise that are close to the customer. And they could really be customizing solutions. And that's going to always be great for the customer. The question I have for you guys is do you see that domain specialism with machine learning and with software, you see partners start to get vertically focused and start to get more targeted towards, say, verticals? Yeah, you go. No, go first. Well, again, it's funny, your questions are completely resonating with the conversations we've been having all day. I was with a partner called Connection and they're talking about how do they build practices in four areas. And I'm quite closely aligned to our areas of Edge Cloud and data. They have another one which is also workplace transformation. And they're thinking, how do we add expertise? How do we hire, recruit and retain the best talent? And that, again, that wasn't a conversation we were having two, three years ago. So where partners really add value to us is through their services and their expertise and progressive partners are hiring and doing that. Yeah, and this transformation I mentioned earlier, it's selling outcomes, business outcomes for the end customer. And I think selling outcomes means you need to be specialized in something. Be it on a domain area or be it on a vertical. And I think when you focus on that, that's the best way you can add value to a customer. This creates this trust relationship. So Edge Cloud and data, obviously, I think Edge, you guys, you get sending stuff out of space, that's the ultimate Edge. You got some proof points there. Deep Edge. I think Deep Edge, yeah. That's very good. I think Cloud, you showed the console for Delma, it had a very clear and strong platform message. Okay, now go build. The data piece to me is the least mature when I walk around. Although I did see Starburst out there. I think Starburst is a very advanced leading edge thinker. So that was a good sign. What do you see as having to happen to really build out that data ecosystem now? So I think what is important, this is all connected to each other. Edge, Cloud and data. And at the end it's about how you can create insights out of the data. Where they live, where they come up the data, how we structure them, how we get insights out of the data. So I think this is an area we'll see much more. It's not only about AI, but it's about having a data strategy as a customer. This is one of those areas we have customer advisory boards that tell us, hey, help us. We want to create our data strategy. And this is something where I think we can play together with our partners to really create value, get these insights out of the data. Are you hearing conversations where customers or partners are saying, okay, I want to get insights out of the data, but I actually want to build a data business. I want to build data products on GreenLake. Are you hearing that yet? Yeah, we are. Particularly the sort of, we think of them as sort of information modern companies. They're building out new service lines. I mean, we see it in a lot of industries now. You can see like how car manufacturers are increasingly thinking about how do they monetize the data they're getting from it. And so there are new businesses being established like in lots of different verticals. And pharmaceuticals will be another one where traditional players are really being challenged and there are big businesses growing very rapidly based off data. So we're seeing it quite extensively and we have to think about how do we access those new customers? How do we intersect them? And it's not just the people that we've been dealing with for 10, 20 years, they're very new companies. Which announcements got the most buzz in your conversations with customers and partners? It's funny. So I had, when I started my conversation at a couple of meetings now, the last two days, always started and said, what resonates? And first of all, the funny thing is everybody told me the clarity of the message, the strategy. Second, the consistency that we do what we promise to do. A couple of them I noted down, it's a private cloud enterprise. It's a great solution here. And then what I hear as well, with our clarity in the strategy, we are leapfrogging the competition. That's what I get out of these meetings and I think that's the best compliment we can get for the two days. Yeah, I think the platform and the conversations around machine learning AI, we even had an HP executive talk about quantum. So you guys are already starting to think about what's around the corner. And I think if the platform works, the test will be and the results will be enablement. Ecosystem will be flourishing. And we're going to watch that. So I want to get your take on the early shift. Cause I think this year with GreenLake and the platform, it's it's maturing it up to the right. No doubt about it. We see the momentum, but there's still a lot more to do and go. So how do you guys envision the ecosystem developing? Because that'll be the true test, the flourishing because if you enable, people will get value out of it. And it's got to be a step function, not incremental value. I think we always talk about, hey, we landed and then we expand from there. That's the beauty of the model. And the good thing is there's no when they're looking for the customer. So they are free. That's a modular system. And what we see it's really, first of all, to understand the customer digital journey where on the journey. And they're all in a different place. And we have this digital next advisor workshop. When we have this anchor point, you start there, you really can grow. And then you add workloads based on where the customer sits, what are the partnerships we have to bring to that. So it's really a model which starts and is designed for the future. The field must love it. The folks in the field. We love it. You guys love that. Absolutely, yeah. Give it the customer plan, future. And I can tell you, the partners love it as well. Got it. When I talk to CIOs and I ask them, what's changed with Ukraine and supply chain and inflation and rising interest rate, what's changed in terms of your assumption from the beginning of the year? You know, let's say in terms of IT spend and they're saying, well, not a lot actually. We're going to continue to spend and we are reprioritizing. You know, we're taking Robin a little bit from over here to put it into security. Okay, but generally speaking, it's the same as we expected. Let's call it six, 7% growth, which is pretty good on top of last year. And maybe there's some dry powder there depending on how business goes. It also seems like there's a lot of headwinds at the macro in B to C. You know, some of the consumer companies, but B to B is booming. So I think that. What do you guys see? Absolutely. I completely agree that the demand will continue for different reasons. It could be a little bit shift within the demand as you described, but they know exactly they're on a journey in the digital transformation. If they stop now, they have a competitive disadvantage. So they are wisely investing. So I think that the demand will stay here. Yes, everybody talks about macroeconomics recession. We are confident we will see in our B to B part continued demand. And they're well capitalized as are a lot of the ecosystem partners. Yeah, and it's not a nice to have. It's a must have. I mean, I don't know of any customers that are de-investing in technology, de-investing in the lifeblood of their business. Guys, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. It's great to see you. Congratulations on being here. And best of luck with all the follow up from the show. I'm sure there will be a lot. We're going to update next year to see how it turned out. Yeah. Don't worry, it'll be good. It turned out first. Thanks for having us. Thank you. Thank you for watching this segment. This is Dave Vellante for John Furrier. theCUBE's coverage of HPE Discover 22 from Las Vegas. We'll be right back.


It's a great pleasure to be here and honor. I know many of you, many of you are part of our community. We're now 3,200 strong and growing, and we, Jim and I sat together just about a year to the day in San Francisco and had dinner and talked about kind of what happens after what comes next. Microsoft had just become a participant in the community and had exposed its patents as part of its transition to open culturally as well as through implementation and participation in forums like this and obviously as a member of the board of the Linux Foundation. And so we saw that as a watershed event, a very significant symbolically as well as directly and in actuality. And so talked about kind of where are the other threats, what are the risks, what are the things that can destabilize or put the confidence that has grown over the last 15 to 20 years at such an acute level where people are collaborating, incorporating code of all types from the open source projects and then feeling confident about their ability to do so without fear of litigation. And so that nice new norm that's been established over the last dozen years or so, we wanted to make sure that we could reinforce that. And so we talked about how we could collaborate and one of the things that kind of, again, Jim's I think comments about GNOME are quite accurate. There are hundreds of companies that are out there, their purpose and goal is to aggregate patents for with a desire to be able to serially litigate. Just to give you a sense that Rothschild who's the litigant, the plaintiff in the suit against GNOME has filed 714 suits over the last six years. This is a bad company. This is an entity that's antithetical to the goals of innovation and it doesn't care what's in its path. It will sue foundations. It will sue obviously not for profits. It will sue individuals. It will sue corporations and the playbook is to be able to establish a pattern of wins through relatively modest settlements. But I think you should feel comfortable. The community, the maturity of the community is really reflected in Neil McGovern and how he's managing and coordinating with really top flight counsel. 10 or 15 years ago, this would have been a much more of a fud situation. Now it's just kind of business as usual. The community's maturity, resilience is something that's quite remarkable and I've seen it over the last 11 and a half years of my tenure in managing and coordinating the activities of OIN. And I think that's a testament to the fact that there is this great legal network of individuals across the world that understand the copyright side and understand the patent side and are driving increasingly toward this new set of norms that Jim referenced. And so what we are looking to do is, and this is just a kind of an advance notice on something that we've been working on really since that time in October of 18. What we're looking to do is come together to collaborate along with two very significant companies, operating companies that are active in many, many projects and to work with those companies and to work with the community to invalidate poor quality patents. That's really the lifeblood of these non-praxing entities. And so what we will be announcing in the next several weeks is a program where the LF and OIN are getting together to fund in conjunction with support from two very significant operating companies, a program designed to attack poor quality patents and to invalidate them so that they can't be used in the way that Rothschild is using the patents that they own to be able to try and extract rents on patents that actually have a very significant amount of prior art. And so the activities of the GNOME Foundation are laudable, kudos to Neil and the great council that he's brought in from Sherman and Sterling, which is really a Kenyan and Kenyan group that was hired in a couple of years ago. And we've been providing prior art doing what we do all the time. We just provided the most recent spate of prior art last week to counsel to the Sherman and Sterling people. Things are working as they should in that case and I think you'll see a good result as they stay the course and proceed with the legal process. And I want to basically say that what you're seeing and what I'm talking about now is the pivot of OIN. We focused almost exclusively in the beginning on practicing entity, operating company risks, patents that essentially were held by operating companies whose behaviors were antagonistic to Linux. There are fewer and fewer of those companies as we move forward in the community and open source becomes more relevant to all companies. And so now we are pivoting to be able to focus on non-praxigianity risk as well as some residual operating company risk. And so that's part of the nuanced strategy to be able to provide more benefit to the community and reduce risk. And so I just wanted to let you know that this is something that we take very seriously and the reduction of risk is something that we live and breathe on a day in and day out basis. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be with you today and I hope that you have a great set of days.


Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Liz Wade. And I'm Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Once upon a time there was a very strong woodcutter. A king hired him to cut down trees. The pay was good. And the work conditions were good too. The woodcutter wanted to do his best. The king gave him a sharp axe to cut trees. He showed the woodcutter the area where he would work. The first day the woodcutter cut 18 trees. The king was pleased. The woodcutter was encouraged. So he tried harder the next day. But he could only cut 15 trees. Each day he cut fewer and fewer trees. The woodcutter wondered if he was becoming weak. He told the king that he did not understand what was happening. The king asked, When was the last time you sharpened your axe? The woodcutter replied, Sharpen my axe. I have no time for that. I have been too busy cutting trees. Mayo Ocean wrote this story for the website Thrive Global. The point of the story is that sometimes people work more and more. But they forget what is important. With a small fix they could be working smarter. Today's spotlight is on managing time to do more. Everyone has things they need to do. These things can be school, work or things at home. People may need to care for children, fix a broken window or sit through a meeting at work. These are all important things. They all take time and attention. But everyone also has things they want to do. These could include finishing school, writing a book or learning a new language. These things help us change, improve or add to the world. So how do you balance the things you need to do with the things you want to do? You can learn to use your time in better ways. Maybe like the woodcutter in the beginning of this program, you just need to sharpen your axe. You may need to just work in a smarter way. Here are six tools of time management you can use. The first tool of time management is to remember the big picture. Instead of thinking about all the things you have to do, think about where you want to be in one year. Write it on a piece of paper. Put it where you will see it every day. It could be in your kitchen or bathroom. You could make it into the wallpaper on your phone. This will remind you of your bigger goals. The second tool of managing your time well is to plan out your week. When you plan out a week, you can make sure that you are spending time on things that are important. Plan out everything. Plan time for work, but also plan time for learning, exercise, rest, and time with family and friends. You may think this means you cannot have any fun, but a good plan can create freedom. Jake Knapp and John Zaratsky wrote a book called Make Time. In it, they write, When you do not have a plan, you have to always decide what to do next. You can use a lot of time thinking about all the things you should or could do, but a completely planned day provides the freedom to concentrate on the moment. You do not have to think about what to do next. You can trust the plan set out by your past self. A good plan is a good start, but this is only the beginning. The third way to manage your time is to avoid distractions and interruptions. Distractions and interruptions stop us from concentrating on something. When we are distracted, we lose the progress on that important work. Deep Patel wrote about distractions for the website entrepreneur.com Even with the best of effort, we still look at social media when we should be working on a project. We touch our cell phone when we hear a noise. If we are not checking our email every five minutes, we worry we may miss something important. Statistics show that distractions cause a huge loss in productivity. Employees spend 28% of their time dealing with interruptions and then trying to get back to work. Distractions and interruptions are everywhere, but the fourth way to manage time is to minimize distractions. You cannot avoid all distractions. That is impossible. But you can try to have fewer distractions in your day.  Turn the internet off on your computer. If possible, go somewhere that is not your office. Even if you only focus for an hour, you can get a lot done. There is very little in life or work that cannot wait one hour. The fifth way to manage your time is to do your most important thing at the beginning of the day. Oshin explains. As a rule, plan your most important and creative work in the early hours of waking up. This is when you have the most energy. On the other side, you could plan your low creative work such as email, social media or phone calls later in the day. This is when your energy is lowest. The sixth and final way to manage your time is to know when to stop working. Many people take their work home. They even bring their phones into bed with them. People are always connected to each other and their work. In a survey from Forbes, 82% of people say they stay connected to the office even when they go home. The same survey said 50% are still connected when they go to bed. Managing time can help us get more work done. But it can also help us do more of the things we want. Following these tips can help you do both. Then you can follow one common English saying, work smarter, not harder. How do you plan your week? Do you use an app? Do you write a list of things to do? What is your best tip for time management? Tell us what you think. You can leave a comment on our website or email us at contact at spotlightenglish.com. You can also comment on Facebook at facebook.com slash spotlight radio. Subscribe on YouTube at youtube.com slash spotlight English one. The writer of this program was Adam Narvis. The producer was Michio Ozaki. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. You can listen to this program again and read it on the internet at www.spotlightenglish.com. This program is called Six Tips to Manage Your Time and Do More. Goodbye.


Welcome to the third in a series of four presentations to help prospective candidates learn more about BC general local elections. This year's general local election may take place during a pandemic. It may be important for prospective candidates to contact their local government to understand any procedures they have in place to administer this year's general local election during COVID-19. This presentation provides an overview of the eligibility requirements and nomination process for individuals planning on running for an elected official position in the 2022 BC general local elections. Similar to voter eligibility, candidates for local elections must be 18 years of age or older on general voting day, be a Canadian citizen, have been a resident of BC for at least six months prior to filing nomination documents, not be disqualified under the local government act or any other enactment from being nominated for being elected to or holding office, or be otherwise disqualified by law and be nominated by eligible electors from the jurisdiction in which they want to run. The minimum number of nominators required for each candidate is two and the local government can require 10 or 25 nominators depending on its population size through its election procedure bylaw. It is recommended that prospective candidates have more than the minimum number of nominators required in case any are deemed ineligible. Prospective candidates are responsible for ensuring their nominators are qualified to nominate them for office. Your chief election officer and the election procedure bylaw are important resources for specifics on how many nominators are needed, if a nomination deposit is required, and when nomination packages will be available. Candidate nomination packages are generally available from local governments a few weeks before the nomination period, which starts on August 30, 2022. Nomination packages include a number of solemn declarations you are required to make. You can submit your nomination document in person and make the declarations in front of the chief election officer or their desegnet, or you can make a solemn declaration in front of a commissioner for taking affidavit. A statement of financial disclosure listing your assets and liabilities at the time of nomination must be completed and submitted as part of the nomination package. These forms are required under the Financial Disclosure Act. More information can be found online. Nomination packages must be completed and returned to the chief election officer or their desegnet during nomination period, which is between August 30 and September 9, 2022, at 4 p.m. local time. It is the potential candidate's responsibility to ensure the nomination documents are delivered to the local government before the deadline and filled out completely and correctly. This deadline is legislated under the Local Government Act and there are no exceptions. If you submitted the nomination package by fax or email, you must still submit their original hard copies by the end of office hours on September 16, 2022. Otherwise, you will be deemed to have withdrawn from being a candidate in the general local election. Financial agents, official agents, and scrutineers may be appointed in the nomination documents. See the candidate's guide to local elections in BC, the scrutineers guide, and the second presentation in this series for more information about participants in local elections. Candidates are declared by the chief election officer on September 9, 2022, after 4 p.m. local time. Once they are submitted, nomination documents are available for public inspection in local government offices during regular office hours until 30 days after the election results have been declared. Challenges to a nomination can be made by an elector, another prospective candidate, or the CEO, through the provincial court until September 13, 2022, at 4 p.m. local time. Candidates may reconsider and withdraw their candidacy during the nomination period and for 7 days after the post of nomination. If you want to withdraw after the deadline of September 16, 2022, Minister of Municipal Affairs approval is required and your name might not be able to be removed from the ballot. Being an elected official is a big responsibility. Elected officials will be entrusted with making decisions that directly affect the daily lives of residents, families, local business owners, and many others in the community. Check out the other videos, webinars, and brochures on the Ministry of Municipal Affairs web pages that highlight some of the things to think about before an individual commits to this responsibility.


What if you could only see one color? Not that everything in the world would be the same color, but you could only see things that were, for example, green, and everything else would be invisible. Not such a pleasant reality, is it? Well it turns out that in a way, it's true. When you look around you, your eyes see what scientists call visible light, and that light, the one we're used to thinking about, is just a very, very small portion of all the different kinds of light that exist in the universe. And most of them are invisible to our eyes. But there are animals that are not blind to those kinds of light. That's why snakes can see even during moonless nights, and bees can see the flowers with the biggest amounts of pollen. They can see lights that we, humans, can't. Snakes can see infrared light, the same kind that allows you to see if you put night vision goggles on. And bees can see ultraviolet, the light that gets your skin burnt unless you protect yourself with sunscreen. All these lights are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, where there are also radio waves, microwaves, X-rays, and gamma rays. All the other lights that we can't see, but are essential to our daily life. Microwaves are used to heat up your food, and X-rays that can go through skin are used by doctors to see your bones. The thing is, the story of the universe, of galaxies, stars, and planets, is told through all of these different kinds of light. And because our eyes are no good to see beyond the visible light, astronomers created new eyes that allow them to see far more. Telescopes that can see the invisible light. ALMA is one of those telescopes that can see radio waves. Some places in the universe look dark to our eyes, but shine bright in radio waves. The places where stars are born, for example, are full of dust which blocks visible light, and therefore they are very dark. But radio telescopes like ALMA can see straight through that dust. They can see stars being born. They allow the study of things impossible to study otherwise, like galaxies that are very, very far away, or even the birth of other star systems like our own.


T F N N headline news update Welcome folks. We had the Dow industrials finished up 248 Nasdaq up 64 S&P's up 27 that gave you a gain in all the indices folks of nine tenths of 1% Gold gold as well as silver caught the bid yet gold contract up forty four dollars trade in 1393 that's in an ABC structure in the way up to with the price projection of 1401 Silver up forty seven cents fifteen dollars forty three cents lightly crude also caught the bid up two dollars eighty-nine cents trade in 5665 notes and bonds higher price lower yield. You had the ten-year note up three ticks 127 31 30 a bond up seven at 155 25 what the tenure did do out here today folks is that it broke the two percent barrier We got down to one point nine eight I expect we're going to see one point seven three and You know bottom line is that we get down to two pretty quick and broke that two pretty quick King dollar King dollar down four hundred and twenty two ticks trade in ninety six one sixty if we get over We take a look at King dollar What we do have is this We had volume once again now the real kick is going to be this tomorrow Can we get volume on the way down once again tomorrow because what we have had since last October is this The King dollar has been in a range the range that's been in is about 94 to about 97 50 since last October What we have had is that each time that it's trying to get to higher price It gives it up in price. There's no volume each time that it is back down However, the volume has dried up tremendously now We're down two days in a row with volume that is only that's happened once before and then the third day No more sellers. This has already broken the uptrend. It has a 94 price projection the Proof are the probability would go much higher if in fact we get volume again tomorrow We're twenty five thousand seven hundred and sixty nine and we'll see how this shakes out There's been a lot of movement inside the currency. Well inside all the markets out here Inside the currency market, of course what ends up happening inside the currency market That is what is moving the commodities In a big way.