The first thing that I would like to get straight with you is that a yoke has nothing to do with an egg. Somebody just told me Tuesday night that they were working with an exchange student who was studying in the U.S. Catechetics and read that passage, my yoke is easy and my burden is light. She said, I know because I always break those yolks in the egg when I try to flip them, but it just makes me so happy that Jesus is going to make it easy for me. It has nothing to do with that. Jesus' methodology in this is to first ask people to think about the heaviness of the yoke that they might be carrying. It made me remember my college roommate, Scott. We were both in architecture school together. Scott's about 6'3", all muscle. Great guy. I was in our architecture lab on time. He was late. So he's got this big backpack that he always carried on himself, heavy, like a heavy yoke. And he was running from the physics building to the architecture building. And as he's running, he's trying to take his backpack off his shoulders. And when the straps are right down around his elbows, he kicks the curb and launches into the air, arms flailing like a chicken, head first into the dirt. And Scott felt the heaviness of his yoke that day, his backpack. And I think he actually stopped carrying it.  It was easier for me to assimilate this kind of a passage when I was actually carrying the heavy yoke of sin, which was all my life, but really it came to a really bad place when I was in college. Same time I was roommates with Scott. And that's when it was very easy to appeal to me to say, don't you feel the heaviness of your life?  Aren't you tired yet of disappointing your family and everybody? Aren't you tired? That's sort of one of the things Jesus was appealing to in this gospel today. And it's easy to appeal to people when they're obviously feeling the heaviness of their sin. One summer, that heaviness came to a place where I had to make a decision when I was somewhere around 1985. And you know, I was out of the church at the time. Now I'm receiving the sacraments, not hardly ever attending Mass unless I was home with my parents. So one summer they were away on a trip and I was home and I started watching TV. And I also want to tell you that I want to also give a shout out to all you youth ministers out there. When I was 13, I think it was, at a youth ministry meeting at our local parish, I heard the gospel. I heard a charismatic catechesis. I heard that I was being invited to give my whole life to him who had given his whole life for me and loved me infinitely. And I'd heard it, but all the way from 13 until 21, I didn't know how to receive it. Nobody had really shown me how to repent, believe, experience the redemption of Christ and start to walk in a new life. And so here I was in my parents' house and I turned on the TV and I wasn't looking for religious programming. At this point in my life, not looking for religious programming. I was searching through the channels, smoking a cig. And here comes Pastor Marvin Gorman at the Believer's Bible Hour, something like that, a Pentecostal preacher. And he says, some of you are feeling the heavy weight of your sin. You want to be a Christian. You've heard the message, but you don't know how to make it work. Many of you have never asked for a personal Pentecost in your life. And I'm like, yeah, I guess not. I was confirmed, but I had a tie on when I was confirmed and I had four cigarettes in the lining of my tie. Had I ever asked for a personal Pentecost and I thought, I guess maybe I hadn't. He said, tune in tomorrow and we'll lead you in prayer to receive a personal Pentecost. And I did. I tuned in the next day. I made sure I was there. Everyone was gone from my house, so I wasn't embarrassed. And I turned on the TV and reached out my hand towards the TV set. But the truth is, I was filled with the Holy Spirit. I knew in that moment that I was God's beloved Son through Jesus Christ and that He was pleased with me. Flooded me with grace that never has gone away. Oh, yes, like Melanie and Damon had told us, it ebbs and flows, doesn't it? But it's never gone away. A revelation was made from the heart of God through the Holy Spirit to my spirit, that Jesus Christ is God's Son, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, co-eternal, co-essential with the God, the Father, and the Spirit. And I wasn't even thinking about being a priest. I was going to be a Pentecostal. I think that was the first time that Jesus helped me to wake up to the idea that my yoke was heavy and I was weary and I could trade my yoke for His light and easy yoke. And that's the easy way to do it. But the passage gets harder when the heavy yoke is not just overt, terrible sins. For example, for church people, sometimes the heavy yoke is those elements of my life and ministry that are good, but they've really been fashioned by my own plans, my own ideas, and my own ingenuity, rather than built by the Spirit of God. And we invest so much time and energy in them, gosh, we would never let them go or loosen them up a little bit because I've given so much of myself. And you might say, well, aren't you weary? Yeah, I am a little weary, but I'm not going to let go of it. That's the harder when the Lord is asking us to give Him our own programs and our plans. And when we feel God, when we feel the Lord Jesus calling us to try something new, when we feel the Lord Jesus saying, you know, I appreciate your hard work, but can you open yourself up to an easier way?  It's really, but you know, we get scared of it and so we say, Lord, I've got an idea. What if we just not have a yoke? What if we just have no yoke at all? But now did you notice that that was not given as an option? He didn't say you can have the heavy yoke of sin and shame or your own self-will and the light easy yoke of me, or you can have perfect freedom and no yoke at all. Did you notice that's not an option? Jesus says, take my yoke or live the heavy yoke. There's only two choices. Well, there's really only one choice between two things. That's un-American, really, because we're Americans. Well, you're not all Americans. Some of you are Canadians, but Canadians the same.  I can even choose to say to Jesus, I don't believe in yokes. There's something from the past that you put across two animals to do some work or two human beings to do some work. I don't even believe in yokes. I don't believe they exist. I identify as a yoke-less person. And I'm free to identify and I don't have to accept what you're proposing to me. So how do you deal with that person? How do you bring the reality that they have to make a choice between the heavy, weary-some yoke or the easy light yoke? You know, I've asked many of my friends, most of them are priests, you know, tell me about how do you evangelize and cataclyse the guy who's not a bad person? He's a really good agnostic. And he has like everything. You know, he wakes up on Sunday morning and his beautiful wife is by his side and he's very dedicated to her and the coffee smell is wafting through the house and the dog is at the foot of the bed and the well-behaved children are all in their rooms doing their thing and he makes a lot of money but he's philanthropic and he gives money to lots of organizations and really helps the poor. He's just a good guy. How do you make that guy feel the heaviness and the weariness of the yoke of the world and the lightness and the beauty of the yoke of Jesus? And I've gotten three answers. One is really bad. The other one is almost really bad. And the third one was re-emphasized to me right here at this conference.  Have a nice day. The second one is a little more interesting but I've heard a lot of people and I've even tried to do this is you try to make the person who's the happy good agnostic feel that it's going to come down the pike that they're going to start feeling bad about where they are in life. So one of my friends who I was friends with in the seminary is now married to a man. And they have a very wonderful happy life. So my role is to convince them that they both have deep father wounds and it's one day going to really show them that they're not happy even though they think they are. Have you ever tried to convince a happy pagan that they're not happy? It doesn't really work too good. The third answer was re-emphasized to me here but I sort of knew it because of having heard the gospel when I was young and really having to go through all of this fighting until I'm in my 20s and start to receive it and walk in it and walk in a new and a divinely inspired way. I really relate to this. And I was at a workshop this weekend, this week by Mark Cardonella and he talked about that we present before people a hero's journey. And we're on this journey and we can start out at home just chilling with ourselves and not really wanting to go anywhere but when the catechist proposes this journey to us basically by saying you are made for more than this. That's when we start going, oh really? And that's what I say to the good atheist lying in the bed and he's all happy with his wife and his family and everything. I'm saying you are made for more than this because even though most of Damon and Melanie's talk was about how their life is always in chaos. Well that wouldn't really it but the reason they were telling it is that their marriage is a sacrament and it's actually filled with divine grace and it's actually pouring out divine grace on really all the world because they're all over the internet. I've listened to their talks and seen their ministry and their wisdom and their marriage is a vehicle for grace to move into the world. That's the hero's journey right there. It's not just an individual hero. It could be a couple hero in marriage. It could be a priest hero or a deacon hero or a sister hero. It could be a young person. We're starting to see more and more of these saints who are just young people and they like computers and they all of a sudden become a saint. And I think that's what one of the things that's been mentioned over and over in this conference is we have a new invitation to a heroic journey and it's represented by this new catechetical directory. I'll tell you honestly my whole life as a priest I've been a priest now for 28 years but even before that I've been trying to propose to people that if we do not situate the charisma as the very foundation of all catechesis we're going to go nowhere. And it's not just recently that I've been themed all my life. So when I open this directory and it's got like a whole chapter on charismatic catechesis my heart flipped. I started buying copies because it's an invitation. And it's an invitation that for the first time I think even though some people have told me this weekend that this idea has been around for a long time it's the first time I've seen it in a document that it's so prominent. It's the first time that I've seen it as an invitation that's going to be widely diffused in the church so that I don't have to say it all the time. Just read the directory and then try to do what it says. I think that's the Lord's call and I think we're going to see amazingly beautiful things if we accept that easy light yoke of the Lord and follow it. Amen. Now let me just give you a little encouragement from St. Bonaventure since this is his memorial and he wrote about an epic heroic journey called the journey of the mind into God or the journey of us into the mind of God or something like that. And he said this if you ask how such things can occur seek the answer in God's grace not in doctrine in the longing of the will not in the understanding in the size of prayer not in research seek the bridegroom not the teacher God not man darkness not daylight and look not to the light but rather the raging fire that carries the soul to God with an intense fervor and glowing love. Jesus is beside you right now because a yoke means that you're on one side and he's on the other and he's looking at you right now and he's saying come to me especially if you're laboring and heavily burdened take my yoke upon your shoulders and I will give you rest. Amen.


Live from the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California, it's The Cube at Oracle OpenWorld 2014. Brought to you by headline sponsor Q-Logic with support from HGST, Violin Memory, and MarkLogic. Now, here is your host, Dave Vellante. Hi everybody, we're back at Oracle OpenWorld 2014. We're here at Moscone South. Inside the Q-Logic booth, our friends at Q-Logic have sponsored us now for the fifth year in a row at Oracle OpenWorld. It's going to tunnel our way in in 2010 and we like it here. So we just sort of embedded ourselves like a tick. The Cube does that. So The Cube is a SiliconANGLE's live mobile studio. We go out to the events, we extract the signal from the noise. Steve Karam is here. He's the Oracle Alchemist, Cube alum. He's now with Delfix. Steve came on last year and we were rippin' about what it's like to be an Oracle DBA. He's the director of customer education and experience at Delfix. Really interesting company. One that I didn't know much about until Steve and I started talkin' off camera. Steve, welcome back to The Cube. It's great to see you again. Thank you very much, Dave. Good to see you too. So let's get right into it. Let's start with Delfix because it's an interesting story. If I can, just as a point of reference, a lot of the people in our community know about Actifio. Actifio does copy data services. A bunch of folks have been following them. A hot company in the East Coast. You guys are similar but different. So I'm sorry to start with sort of a reference point of another company but it helps sometimes with our audience and in my simple brain to do that. Talk about Delfix, what you guys do and how you're different from the other copy data service guys. Sure. So copy data is at the core of what Delfix does. If you look at what Delfix does, we take source databases, source data and we bring it and sink it into Delfix from there we can provision out virtualized copies of apps, databases, whatever we want in minutes. Well we do sync to over 10 different heterogeneous sources, flat files, Oracle databases, SQL server, Postgres, et cetera. The big difference is it's not just copy data. Copy data is great. It has to be at the foundation of that. But it's the layer over top to solve the business challenges. It's the ability to provision out multiple copies over time, snapshot data over time to be able to provision your entire app stack as of a certain point in time like the end of a fiscal year, data masking, various other capabilities that really round out that entire cloning concept. Okay, so it's based on snapshot technology. We talked again off camera, you've got a catalog which is fundamental to anything like this. So the catalog is a metadata catalog that tells me what's been copied, where it is, what version of it is. So talk about the architecture a little bit more in the secret sauce if you would. Sure, so at the architectural level, you basically got Delphix which is a software appliance. It can live in a vSphere environment. It can live in Amazon EC2. It can live in VMware vCloud. And it can run on any storage. It can run on any hardware, any Intel based hardware as far as that's concerned. And it syncs to the source systems. Those source systems can pump in change data over time. It builds what we call a time flow. So you're asking about a catalog. What our catalog looks like is almost like the cover flow in iTunes. You've got a catalog of all of your sources with all of their changes over time. You can bookmark and snapshot those points and then you pick a point in time, you click the provision button and you have a full copy of that environment in a few minutes with no extra storage. And that's where the change data part comes in. But that environment that you've cloned can then also be, it has its own time flow. It can be rewound. You can provision virtual databases off of virtual databases. You can build a golden copy that you then replicate to another Delphix engine. And you provision masked copies off of that. And that's just the database. That doesn't include the app stack, the other databases that support it, flat files, all of that. And that's where Delphix brings its value. Is it encompasses the enterprise? It encompasses all of the needs you might have. So one obvious case is data protection. Is that right? We'll have to talk about it. So the company was founded by Jetta Daihua who was the founder of Avamar, sold Avamar to EMC. So he knows a little bit about backup. So that's an obvious use case, but it transcends backup. And I want to get to those other use cases.  And they'll, which is great, de-dupe, wonderful, relative to tape. But then what happens when you run out of capacity is you buy another one. And you buy another one. And when you buy another one, in your architecture, you're using very space-efficient snapshots and you're just saving the changes. You're using your catalog. So you need a lot less capacity, less capacity, less hardware, less software, less maintenance, less people, less op-ex, all that wonderful TCO stuff. Is that where you started or no? That is where we started. I wouldn't say it was more from an application agility framework. And we've expanded from there into data protection as an obvious use case, as you mentioned, and then other use cases. Again, coming from that point that we can store it in a very small footprint, we can grow that vertically or horizontally. And you can build, again, it was an agile application development use case at first and we've expanded drastically into other markets. That's interesting. So you started in application development because the problem with backup is it's insurance. Yes. Nobody wants to pay a ton for insurance. And so if you keep pouring money into the insurance policy and not getting anything in return, people get mad. Yep, absolutely. Okay, but so then the architecture that you're talking about lends itself to other use cases. So let's talk about those. Application development, test dev is an obvious one. Absolutely. Populating data warehouses and analytics is maybe another one. So I wonder if we could just sort of progress through those and talk about those a little bit. Sure. So as far as analytics is concerned, we've got some amazing use cases that are going on right now with some of our customers where they're actually provisioning out a virtual database, a copy of many terabytes. You can provision out a clone of your entire Oracle data warehouse. Doesn't matter how big it is. And give one to each reporting team. You can give copies of production with no overhead on the source system to each reporting team. You can build complex analytics because it's a virtual database. It's fully read right. So what they can do is take their source production, source data warehouse. 10 minutes later, you've got a clone of each. Do whatever destructive changes and testing you want on it at the end of your testing, at the end of your analytics, whatever you're trying to work out, you can rewind, you can trash it, you can keep on using it. So there's a lot of cool features in there that lend to building highly complex analytics scenarios. So you think of like an actuarial company where what they're going to want to do is take their source data, clone it off for analytics purposes and run risk models, run assessments, rewind, run them again and try different formulas to expand their own business. Mega what if scenarios. So let's unpack this a little bit because what you're saying sounds good but a lot of people might not fully grasp the nuance. So let's take the world pre-delfix. Let's take a test and dev example. I want to spin up an instance, do some test dev. Take me through what I have to do, pre-delfix with the data sets and some of the challenges that I face. Sure, you know I can do that because I lived it for 15 years, 16 years. I'll give you an example at a place I recently worked. Database was eight terabytes in size. They wanted five QA and dev environments, a total of five. It took three days to clone our source database over there. So you think about that. Those five environments, it's going to take three days per environment to clone it or refresh it. It's going to take 40 total terabytes to populate them of storage and it's going to cut into every timeline you've got. A single error just kills the entire development lifecycle. So what we had were teams that didn't want to give up their QA box for three days to have this happen and possibly screw up. You add, but we needed constant refreshes. So I'll tell you what we ended up with. We ended up with a two year old development system that hadn't been refreshed in two years. We ended up with data subsets which was what we brought in about 500 gigs worth and hope that was enough, you know? Because the amount of time it would take for the DBA, CIS admins, the storage requirements, the project managers, all the way up to the managerial level, every time you needed to refresh, we're talking about tens of thousands of dollars in waste and man hours and storage and time and downtime for your environments. And then when that didn't happen, if a company, if we decided, well, let's go ahead and not refresh. Let's just use what we've got. Now you've got errors that make their way into production. And as you know, downstream errors cost a heck of a lot more. Once they get there. So you were essentially doing sampling with old data. Yeah, exactly. For your QA. For QA development, whatever else. But that is so common. Which is common. Everybody does. Everybody does it. Now bring in Delfix. How is it different? How is your life, my life as a developer, different with your platform? Sure. So with Delfix, you basically, you've got the Delfix appliance, which it's a virtual data platform. As I mentioned, it runs in vSphere. You install Delfix and you sync up your data sources with it. Not only that, but we have a product called Jetstream, which is a developer and end user oriented provisioning tool. It has branching. It has bookmarking. It has rewind. It has rollback. You can almost think of it as like Git for all of your data sources. Awesome visual interface, developers, QA engineers, they go in, they look at the branch of the software development cycle. They pick a point in time and they say, give me that. If they want to do some destructive testing, they say, save this branch, rewind, or switch over to this one. And Delfix will automate and orchestrate. That's the biggest part. The bringing down, bringing up VDBs, DBAs don't have to lift a finger. Once they're set up for self-service, Delfix will automate the bringing down, the bringing up of the Oracle VDB. It'll mount file systems and do all the heavy lifting. End users just click the button and they're off. And again, another nuance here that I want people to understand, Steve, so help us is the freshness of the data. Why is operating on fresh data so important? Maybe it's obvious to people, but it wasn't to me when I first started thinking about this. Sure. Well, it's absolutely important from a performance aspect. Let's talk one aspect of QA. There's functional QA and there's performance QA. From a performance level, you need to have your full range of data because all it takes is an extra 1,000 rows in production or an extra 10 megs. And suddenly, yeah, your performance, it's on a nice clip and then it just drops. So being able to test with a full set is very important. From a functional aspect, you need to have the most recent cases for whatever your business does. Your business just started adopting a new use case. They sell a new product. They have a new line in their inventory. You need to have that fresh data for QA purposes or you're not going to find the errors at the right time. Now, a lot of clients that I've worked with in the past, their legal department, the GC, doesn't want them keeping data around forever. Can you help me with that problem from a compliance standpoint? Can you help me defensively delete data? That's actually a really interesting one because you've got some that don't want to keep data around and you've got plenty that want to keep it around for a long time. And they want to categorize it and keep track of it. We can help with both. So basically with Delfix, we can keep data for as long as you want. We set our own retention windows. Delfix is implicitly a right once read many type of environment. So we can snapshot data, for instance, at the end of each fiscal year over the course of three years, a company can then provision a clone of their entire app stack as it was at the end of fiscal year three years ago or at a specific point in time for legal, for compliance reasons.  We can help with that. But as far as not keeping the data around, fully adjustable. So the timelines, the retention, what we keep is fully adjustable. We can get rid of virtual databases as of certain points in time. And then we also have masking capabilities so that the consumers of those virtual databases don't get the actual data. They get a garbled protected version of the actual data. Still fresh, still on time, still the same size and smell and feel, but the data, the sensitive data is going to be masked. It's safely masked. Yeah, because I mean, you're right. Some people want to keep it forever, especially these days and want to do analytics on it. And then you got the example of a pharmaceutical company who has a work in process. Exactly. And they were maybe testing, hey, there could be a problem with this drug. Yep. And then later on they figured, oh no, there's not a problem with the drug. And but they have that work in process that's hanging around. I want to delete, if I'm the GC, I want to get rid of that. I want to have a policy to get rid of that. You're saying you can help me with both of those. Yes. Okay. Wow, anything else you want to tell us about Delfix? Because I want to start, I want to switch hats and talk about Oracle, but any other sort of final thoughts on Delfix? Well, you know, so the only thing I would say is like I mentioned, we do have a multitude of products when it comes to that. We are a virtual data platform. You know, we go from modernization, which includes automating the transition from Solaris to Linux. We have a compliance engine. We have, you know, and then we also have a new copy data engine purely meant for the core use case of, I have a bunch of data. I want to sync it. I want to copy it. I want to be able to clone it. So, multiple things and... Cool. Yep. And you guys based here in Menlo Park. Absolutely. To say Jed is your CEO and founder. And we'll be watching. I got to learn more about this company. Okay, let's switch gears. Oracle in transition. Did you hear Larry's keynote last night? I heard of Larry's keynote. I was in flight at the time. Okay, so a lot of talk about cloud. We heard last year was the announcement of 12C. Now we're hearing it's close to actually becoming, you know, widely adopted in C. So, but cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud was really the message last night. Interestingly, Larry said that we made a commitment to our customers 30 years ago that dictated that we had to get into all three layers of cloud, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service. He never really explained what he meant by that commitment, but nonetheless, they're doing it. And they're all in. So, the company's in transition, its license revenue is down, the on-premise license revenue, its cloud business is exploding. I think it's a two billion dollar run rate, I want to say. It might even be bigger than that. I got my, I'm lost in my notes. Yeah, it's a two billion dollar run rate in all cloud, so pretty substantial, growing at 30% a year. Mark Hurd said they're going to grow even faster, so they're on an accelerated growth curve. He said 40% going forward. What do you make of Oracle? People say they were late to the cloud game and yet their cloud business is exploding. People say they're living off of maintenance, which they are, they're on-premise license businesses declining, their maintenance business is growing. People like Workday say, hey, we're cleaning up against Oracle, Oracle says we have more customers, we signed more new customers this quarter than Workday has since their inception. What's going on? Right, so I do think they were a bit late to the cloud. Oracle's usual response, and this is maybe a little cynical of me, but let's add a letter to the end of our version number and hey look, we're cloud ready. But as we know, that doesn't mean they're cloud ready any more than the eye on Oracle 9i meant that they were internet ready because Java was used. That being said, there's some great innovations coming and they do need it. Like you said, the on-prem dollar that they're earning from that is all tied up in maintenance. I think I mentioned that last year when we were talking about this, is that the maintenance costs are the core of that. Cloud is the way they've got to go. From what I understand, there's going to be some great innovations. I've heard talk about different ways to get to the cloud and do things in the cloud. I still don't feel like I've heard the meat that makes me feel like it's going to be an amazing innovation over other companies right now, but I'm looking forward to seeing it. Well, it's certainly broad. The portfolio is as broad as any software company. We can agree on that, I think, right? That's fair. Absolutely. The fact that they're doing infrastructure and database and middleware, including Java, that's a goodness, because they've got the number one database in the world and Java's the number one programming language in the world. And they've got eight zillion apps that are sort of, to me, still stovepipe, but Fusion apps sort of brings those together. Right, right, so if you're RedStack, the value proposition is I want to test with you is, like you said this last night, Larry, with one click, I could take my on-premise database, make it cloud-ready, and modernize it. He had a great statement. We can bring your apps to modernity, endow the apps with modernity. It's what he said, I was like, wow, what does that mean? But I think what he meant is it's in memory, it's probably compressed, and it's cloud, it's multi-tenant. Sure. One click, I'm skeptical. Well, you know, I can't talk too bad about it because Delphic's promise is, with one click, we can provision your things to the cloud too. But as far as that's concerned, you're right, he's got all the stack, he's got the entire stack from top to bottom, which is great. The hardware side, he also mentioned something about how hardware and software engineered together is the key, and in some ways I agree, I use a Mac, you use a Mac, I notice. And there's a reason we like that, it's because it's all done in lockstep and it all comes out very smooth. So I think that's going to be a good offering, it's going to be a strong one. I'm still, again, maybe it's the skeptic in me, I'm still a little skeptical, I want to see how fast that ramp up really is. I don't know about that one click thing either. I like to think it's going to be that simple, but it's not as easy as it sounds. Any more than ungodly speeds of last open world are as simple as just turning on a new feature and suddenly all of your BI works at ungodly speeds. I think it's back to nine I. What can we learn from that in terms of Oracle's track record on accommodating new innovations? Larry said, I want you to help us stink test this. He said, back in the mainframe days, he said Oracle version two, which was really Oracle's first database. He didn't name it version one because he said nobody would buy version one. No one would buy version one. He was running on a micro, I'm not a micro, it's a Vax, I guess. Deck mini computer, I'm not sure if it was a Vax. Probably was, but anyway, it ran on IBM mainframes. And when the world went to client server, he said, customers came to us and said, we want to port our applications to client server. And Oracle said, well, great, rewrite them. And they were like, we don't want to rewrite them. So we did the hard work to move everything to client server. Now, PeopleSoft did a lot of that. They were one of the first, actually, you know, Oracle owns PeopleSoft. So when he says we, he could be including that in that statement. And he said, now with cloud, we're doing the same thing. So that was sort of Larry's version of history. How accurate is that? How, what can we learn from that in terms of Oracle's ability to seamless, seamlessly? It's not seamless, we all know that. But to seamlessly enough, enough being before you lose the customer, migrate people to the cloud. What can we learn from previous experiences? Well, so from a technical point of view, the reason for skepticism on this is you look at 9i, Oracle 9i, actually it was in Oracle 8 that they added the i to the end, meaning internet. And what did that mean? It meant that it could plug into Java. You could get some advanced functionality with internet by use of Java, Java stored procedures, things like that. 10g came along and they attached a g. The g stood for grid, which no one I don't think really understood at the time. It was the idea of almost basically making your own private cloud inside of your data center. So, you know, I have a running joke on my blog where I scratch out the i and the g and put a c and I say we meant cloud the whole time, you know? Internet, I mean grid, I mean cloud, you know? We've been building these features, but one of the big new features I've heard about in 12c, well, we now have JSON support built into Oracle. Now, in 2014, how long has the apps world been focused on JavaScript development? I mean, we've got all of these technologies that are based on JS, everything. You know, we've got our Mongos and our meteors and our expresses. JavaScript is the foundation for so many fast market apps and yet we're finally supporting JavaScript natively inside of Oracle. So, that's the brilliance of Oracle's marketing. They'll relate to the game and then go and opt into the act like they invented it. They do a really good job. They do a great job at that, though. So, okay, so what do you think happens to Oracle? Obviously, you know, it was interesting. I mean, a lot of people have said, oh, big data's going to disrupt Oracle. Larry's talking about big data. Cloud's going to disrupt Oracle. Larry's up there talking about cloud. Amazon, you know, Microsoft, Google, he said we're going to price the same as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. We're just going to be more reliable and more secure. I'm not sure if he's including database licenses in that pricing statement. But I heard there's changes coming. Say it again. I've heard there's changes coming in the way we look at Oracle licensing, so that's interesting. Well, it is interesting. And maybe they've looked at it and said, okay, run some thinking or models and say, hey, we can actually get more business. We can make it up in volume, so to speak. And Oracle potentially has the capability to do that. So what do you make of those statements? What's the future of Oracle? So one of the things we talked about last year, I think there's always going to be the enterprise user, the enterprise corporation, all of this cloud. There's companies that will never move to the cloud. Or if they do, it's going to be their own version of it. You know, I think there will always be a home for the enterprise app, for the enterprise system, the enterprise server. The thing that Oracle is doing right is they've finally gotten away from the, we're Oracle, you do what we say, mentality. Big data is getting to be not a problem, but a big thing. Let's go ahead and interface and work with Cloudera. Let's bring other companies into the fold. Let's start opening up our technology and working with others. I think that's going to keep Oracle relevant. If they can change their licensing model to make them more accessible and make it easier to get into in the cloud, I think they could be very, very successful in a way that they're not used to now. And I think that Larry's recent transition to where he can, his Iron Man moment, where he basically handed the company over to Pepper Pot so he could focus on being Iron Man, right? He was in that film too, Larry Ellison. This was his moment where he can now innovate without worrying about being at the brunt of everything and taking care of the finer details. And I'm hoping, I'm hoping that that innovation is along the lines of let's change our business model to support massive innovation and growth from the enterprise as a whole, not just from those big whale companies. So that's interesting. I mean, it's sort of the competitive landscape changes. So what Safra talks about going from a license model to a maintenance to one where Oracle's providing the hardware, the middleware, the applications all in one. So they're doing more for the customer. So Oracle's making more money. The value proposition for the customer has to be we can do this more efficiently. It changes the competitive dynamics. You know, of course, Oracle buying Sun changed a lot of competitive dynamics too, but who's the competition? It's clearly Microsoft, IBM, to a great extent Amazon now. Oracle doesn't want you running its database even though it will let you in Amazon. It wants you running on the Oracle's cloud. So the competitive landscape's changing.  Hannah powers the cloud. What cloud? Who's cloud? Where? You know, who's classic Larry moment? So you got the traditional competitors, many of whom rely on Oracle databases like Salesforce. He pointed out everybody were Orc Day and IBM by the way, IBM, I think buys a lot of Oracle, although maybe some, maybe not internally, but their customers do. But who are the competitors of Oracle now? Well, so I would say that Oracle is doing the equivalent of, you know, fighting a land war in Asia sort of thing. They're enemies of everybody. Oh man, because what you've got, you've got all of these database vendors that they've always been competitors with. Then you've got these little upstarts, the no sequels and the other, you know, the free ones, the open source ones, which have their own use cases and they're disrupting things left and right for big RDBMS vendors like Oracle. They've got, not enemies, but you've got competitors in the apps area and the reporting area, now in the hardware. And then as far as the cloud is concerned, like you said, Amazon, you've got your rack space, you've got your various different clouds. And I do find it very funny that the whole idea of cloud is let's get rid of this lock in and let's get into the cloud and everything. Well, now we're going to be locked into a particular cloud, right? So it doesn't stop there. Oracle is going to try to bring customers into their cloud. They're going to be competing with Amazon big time. I think that's their biggest one. I know Google's expanding their cloud offerings. I don't think they'll compete much, but Amazon has that relational database service, which is tailor made to run Oracle in Amazon's cloud. And from what I understand, it's fairly popular option. RDS is a popular option. And of course Amazon's saying, okay, BYO software, but ideally we want you to put the software in the marketplace, which I would think Oracle doesn't want you to put the software in the marketplace. So very interesting dynamics going on. All right, Steve, I'll leave you with the last word. You can pick Delphix, you can pick Oracle Open World, you can pick your blog and the Oracle Alchemist, but the bumper sticker on the back of the truck pulling away from Oracle Open World this year, 2014. Bags are all packed. The conference center in Moscone's shut down. They've kicked us out, which they'll do on Wednesday. What's the bumper sticker in the back of the truck say Oracle World 2014? Oh man, it's going to probably say Oracle World 2014 time to go to the cloud. I mean, that's what it all is. It's all about being cloud ready and getting there. I will add to that. You said I can, you know, this is the final word. I will say one of the things I mentioned about Delphix specifically, one of the core features I see is that ability to get from your data center to the cloud. That whole click of a button thing that Oracle mentioned sounds great, it does. But how are you going to test it first? How are you going to get there and have a full environment in the cloud, ready for testing, ready to test your entire app stack against to make sure you're ready for that move. Because it's not the kind of thing you just want to jump right into and trust that it's going to be great. Good advice from the Oracle Alchemist. Steve Karamp, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. It's really always a pleasure. Thank you, Dave, it was great. All right, keep it right there. We'll be back with our next guest right after this. This is Oracle Open World 2014 and this is theCUBE. We'll be right back.


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a a robust uh database national shortly um but our clients also compare their own ratings to those to other to the nps the national community survey this is a standardized five-page template community survey uh and it is structured around these 10 facets of community visibility that you see on the screen um we found that these align most closely with the aspects of livability and community residents have identified as being most related to their quality of life where they live in addition to that it's also a great way to organize the results in the report in terms of usefulness by department so um different departments can easily access their results post in the long pdf and then the report's also available on several public the more interactive online format you can click through the tabs there it's just great to the topic to be a choice so that is how the overall format of the reporting and the and i do want to cover the methodology that we use for driving into the specific results for the city so the survey was conducted from October 1st sorry October 1st 2021 to November 9th um and we employed a hybrid code for this so there were a total of 27 schools selected in the community um these households were randomly selected and in order to complete that process we start with lists of households that are provided by the U.S. School of Service we use U.S. D.S. address lists because they are the most comprehensive up-to-date um unlike some other lists so the billing lists or registration records which may not which typically do not include the insert community starting with those U.S. D.S. lists of households we then geo coded each household um within the depot that serves in a group to ensure that each household in eligible lists is actually within city limits and then from that list then identified as within city limits we randomly selected 27 houses to receive the survey invitation these 27 houses 2700 households were split into two groups 1200 received um a three-part mailing 1500 received the three-part mailing uh just for to get a little bit more into that so that three-part mailing that group a mailing those folks received a postcard in the mail that included a survey online as well as a web link so that they online right that was followed by survey packet so it suited the five paper survey in the mail one week later and followed by a second survey packet a week after that both of those hard copy surveys were accompanied by a cover letter with instructions also included a web link so they go online to complete it as well and a postage page which was that group group a have the option to please decide to survey either online or return the first survey in the mail the 1500 group be respondents recipients rather um they received two postcard invitations to complete the survey online one week apart the reason for this methodology is that we are and especially in the news communities of Santa Cruz not there and we haven't conducted some the NCS or a survey like it in the years we are trying to gauge the difference in response between these two groups and it is far more cost effective to invite residents to take the survey online as well as eco-friendly to uh be printing and mailing and a lot lots of postage costs etc so we are trying to gauge the difference in response rates between those who receive online invitation versus those who receive the survey in the mail and use that information to form our recommended methodology going forward in future survey years we found a really robust survey response using this split method in Santa Cruz total of 474 responses received and overall response rate of 18 percent nationwide we see that an average around 15 up to about 20 percent so you all are and then 20 percent is really on the high end for this um hybrid approach so and first just see a successful response rate in addition to the probability base that's because of the random sample nature of the address selection so in addition to that probability base okay we also conducted an online only open participation community-wide survey this survey opened about a month after those first mailings went out a random sample survey and that survey was promoted to the public at large loaded on the city website push media and we received 393 responses okay those data were collected separately separate different web links for the open participation survey and so those two datasets were separate the body of the report and the main result of the report reflects just the random sample responses to the survey but you can also find separately the responses to the open participation survey toward the end of the pdf report and also the tableau public report as well both of those more statistically weighted to reflect the demographic of panic groups overall and we do that process with the statistical weighting process in order to make your results more representative of the i'll talk about that more in the next slide with 474 responses received to that scientific survey that gives us a plus or minus 4.5 percent margin of error which is great but we shoot for a five percent or less margin of error for these types of surveys so four or five percent is perfect and well within what we like to see on that subject weighting so this weighting table is also included in the report demographic weighting is an important part of survey research because we hear from different a different proportion of folks in different demographics and actually live in the community so just to broadly generalize we hear from far fewer residents who are young residents who are of color who are renters who live in tax housing and slightly fewer male than female so those are just fairly very broad generalizations about who under response surveys so this process is the goal it starts through balancing that how we look at census data and American community survey data for panic groups and then we use statistical adjustments to align the survey data so that they are more representative of your community as a whole so I previously mentioned our national pensioners database there are currently more than 500 conservative communities in this database approximation and these are communities that have surveyed within the five years this data is fresh and relevant and Santa Cruz also elected to compare their results to a subset of communities so I will talk about that momentarily more in more detail so getting into Santa Cruz's specific results there are two broad questions on the survey asking about both quality and the importance very broad characteristics of the community and um fastest of community livability so this first slide is showing the responses to that first quality question those percentages are combined excellent workload rating 13 so again reflect the the fastest community livability that I mentioned earlier economy safety natural environment etc that same question that asks on an important scale percent essential or very important to combine and I'm showing you these two slides to show you how we populate art this is our quality and importance also included in support so we identify any fastest that are located in that lower right quadrant of this art as those that are have been rated relatively higher in importance lower in quality than the other fastest utility we use this information to inform some of the highlights that we've written in other next steps that we might recommend so looking at the comparisons to the national benchmarks we out of a total of number of items on the survey for which benchmark conversion that were available nine were rated higher than the national averages seven were rated similar and another seven were rated lower than the national averages and then as I mentioned before so I have a custom tier benchmark so these benchmarks are what will be reflected in the body of the report versus the national one uh this custom subset uh for a group of communities that included those that are similar all of the communities are in the same region as Santa Cruz so Pacific region and then also within that further subsets of similar population size well as similar median household and Santa Cruz to try to identify other communities that are most likely so within that custom subset 13 items were rated higher than the averages 68 were similar and then 42 were lower getting into the survey highlights and I do want to point out these highlights are what stood out for us as survey researchers uh but there is a wealth of information in the report for their data points and for their highlights to be gained as well and so our first key finding safety is important to be Santa Cruz so when asked to rate as I showed in those previous slides and asked to rate both the quality and the importance of the overall feeling of safety in the city residents gave this facet of eligibility and relatively lower quality rating and relatively higher importance rating so indicating that this is an area of focus so ratings within this facet in general did tend to be lower than both next and peer community benchmark comparisons particularly regarding safety in their neighborhoods and in the county area but also from other types of crime and safety for looking at safety related services um when evaluating these uh a majority of residents gave excellent overall ratings to four out of the six of these safety related services and then two were were rated positively by fewer than a number of respondents those were police services and crime and then these safety services were lower than these are again reflecting the peer community comparison so ratings for EMS ambulance police services and prevention were lower than the peer benchmarks these other ratings were similar to the peers I think finding services for unhoused residents is an emergent need so in addition to the standardized questions on the survey for which we can provide benchmark comparisons there's also a space on the survey for uh for our communities to ask custom questions so we don't have benchmarks available to these unique custom questions they vary from community to community but this was a unique custom question survey so this question gave stage president support for funding a variety um and about nine and ten residents strongly or somewhat supported um the following um items in this list related to unhoused residents so mental health crisis response services developing affordable housing reliable services for the unhoused as well as outreach and case management services for the unhoused and all of these go through the top of the priority list and it's a different question that asks residents to create the importance of addressing issues related to more than eight and ten residents thought it was essential or very important cities to partner with other organizations that provide services to people experiencing homelessness outreach and case management services um about three quarters thought it was important for the state to create a court of housing opportunities emergency shelter to provide excuse me provide access to other services they were least likely to rate increased enforcement of the city's camping laws as essential or very important depending to our third key finding mobility is so it's community priority so survey respondents also gave relatively low quality ratings and rather overall quality of the transportation system in the group so this is another suggested area of community priority ratings for alternative transportation tended to be similar to those given in the other peer community um so roughly two thirds of residents gave positive reviews by facilities travel walking in the city about one quarter were pleased to travel by public transportation those were those services walking by civil public transportation those were on car with the peer benchmark service vehicle related travel easy travel car traffic filling major streets those i am curated lower than the bench um looking at our station in alternative transportation however can increase the ratings that were higher than the peer benchmark comparisons so uh can increase residents more much more likely than those in other communities to a block device they're driving and then more likely than others and then using transfer public transportation that 25 percent has done that at least once in the past year of that peer and being at mobility related services most of these tended again to be similar to the next part of the peer benchmark uh with about 10 giving high marks to street lighting street cleaning traffic timing services um and then roughly one third they're giving positive mark sidewalk maintenance traffic enforcement to be prepared street cleaning and traffic enforcement were lower than the peer benchmark comparison all others were similar uh looking again at that priorities question for funding potential city projects and i'll show that question in full at the fourth end of the presentation um at least nine and ten residents strongly or somewhat supported the city funding maintenance based streets roads sidewalks and other public facilities and at least eight and ten supported city increasing sustainable transportation or fortifying the natural environment and the teacher of the group so more than eight and ten residents gave positive ratings the overall quality of the national environment through higher than both the national and peer community benchmark comparison and then ratings for air quality preservation of national areas water also above peer community averages and um natural environment environment related services yard with preservation open space cycling um these were rated positively by at least six and ten residents and or similar to or higher than those peer community compares well rating their level of support for initiatives related to the next environment so most residents voiced strong support for funding east of the east included addressing the impact of climate change mitigating risks of wildfires in open space natural areas and then maintaining park spaces and recreational facilities about nine and ten residents voiced support for each fifth and final defining the economy as a central area for the city with affordability particularly acute too and so about nine and ten residents gave positive ratings and accrued to visit this was higher than both the national and peer benchmark and then ratings for other aspects of economy tended to be similar to or lower than those given given another peer community those that were lower living affordable quality housing and economic development um I do want to mention while we are on this slide that uh possible living and affordable quality housing uh while this is lower than the the national and the peer benchmark comparisons um we have also seen um this is the first time that you are serving with us and so you don't have trend lines for this data if you want to highlight here that we've seen decreases in these two areas in particular both regionally and a specific region itself in the last couple of years we wanted to highlight that um looking at items specifically related to job jobs and affordability so um developing affordable housing for low and minor households and support for local businesses um at least nine and ten residents somewhat supported that and then supported improving town crews recruiting businesses and jobs to the city well job training programs this is the um policy question the the city funding question in its entirety um I did talk about each of these pieces individually as they related to the different facets to highlight the facets the question in its entirety as well as the questions on the impact of people experience at home work this is how they were formed on this and this is the recap of the students access cover uh some of our suggested steps for digging deeper um that's already spoke process but you do have the opportunity to follow up much of the light on the local platform um and we highly encourage our clients to do so you have ongoing access to that platform as well as your subscriber existing subscriber base which will continue to grow over time as you continue to do some surveys on the platform so some of our suggestions um we do offer a business survey for business owners and managers since economy was again really um identified as an area focus this is an economic development workforce survey available a law enforcement and policing survey uh the national law enforcement survey um and then we also have so those top three items there we have full surveys on those areas that are available to you and then um additionally we have a number hundreds really of individual questions available in our library on the local platform quite a few of those relates which um that was identified as one of the areas to be funding in that uh some questions so some opportunities there for follow-up as well and then um yeah there's as I have mentioned and Elizabeth too but I don't want to labor this point but last month's opportunity for further outreach on the platform um when I checked about 15 minutes ago um police and a group of 540 panel subscribers already um so that is survey efforts that you've already conducted each time uh residents are invited to take a survey online on the local platform they're asked if they would like to subscribe to the city's profile so that will build your subscriber base over time and give you a larger and larger panel to engage with over time I'm happy to take questions thank you so much Dave um let's are there any helpful members with questions for Jade or for Elizabeth Smith council member commentary Johnson thank you so much for the presentation that was amazing amount of information filled into what you just provided so I appreciate that um I don't really know who this question goes to maybe Elizabeth um I'm just wondering how we will look at this really rich information in comparison to what we collect locally and I'm thinking about um the community assessment project survey that's done every other year and indicators for the four outcomes that's done at the county level so is there a plan for us to I mean the comparison here is really great they're planned for us to see how we're how and where it aligns a lot of alignment with the areas that we are looking at here and the areas around poor conditions at the survey um which is what we've used and embedded into the health and all policies of measuring our security so just where is all of where's the intersectionality I think there's a lot of we have you know honestly there um that's that's territory that we haven't um charted yet and I think there is opportunity however I want to be clear you know this is really specific set of data and and we want to make sure that we are sort of it's it's encapsulated in this set of data and we don't want to make assumptions on how it connects to other data but I do think that there are ways that we what trends are we're seeing across and if there are any sort of trends in sort of vertical demographic areas that we need as a as a city um but uh I think that is to be determined mostly I just wanted to get us on a regular schedule of having some benchmarks so that our council members had data to go on and our department heads had data go on on where are communities priorities unrelated to any other issue but just general quality of so um but I love I love your idea Chevra so I I will check into that and look into how we create that at least in your planning process or other times where we have inflection for planning and um and assessment great thank you yeah I think um I mean those other um areas those other surveys and areas that talk about are more at the county level so I don't I haven't seen anything this robust and richness city levels really great um and maybe we can have health and all policies subcommittee with and talk about what that next step thank you for the work it's so excited as a grant writer to see data like this that's like zeroed in it makes me really thank you thank you council member Calantari Johnson I council member Myers yeah I wanted to thank um thank our presenter and and um just also recognize how much information in here um and I yeah I guess maybe asking I just had a question I guess for our city manager or um sort of how do you see this sort of getting used in the work ahead around you know some of our main work areas or is this something that the council can use for example in a planning session or kind of where does this fit in our sort of role as calls for my thanks council member Myers I would echo Elizabeth's comments I think it's a really powerful tool to help inform the council's future work around through planning I think it also shed some light on provide some really helpful context some of the other survey work done uh we did the poll just a couple of weeks ago that was you know just focused on likely voters this uh this survey is much broader than that and I also it was fairly significant alignment of what the community is telling us is possible what areas they want us to prioritize and it allows us to be intentional as work through the district plan as well as the upcoming budget process for that that information is reflective reflective decisions so I'm excited about it as well on a data nerd like many of us are and also always take opportunities data driven approach to the work we're doing I see this is being a really powerful tool that we can continue doing and use this as a baseline um yeah I you know if it between the uh the polling we did a couple you know three weeks ago now and this data I mean to me I think it it reflects on you know a lot of the emphasis we've done over the last year and a half so is you know we're on track this is doing whether that's housing reduction um the economic development steps that were done you know after before and after COVID I guess we're always going to be in COVID but also more importantly some of the public safety some of the homeless policies it was well I think it's all tracking with requests that community and have us engage policy so um it's it's yeah it's a great great set of data thank you for doing it the work thank you for the thorough report thank you council member Myers council member brown mayor and thank you so much for this this wonderful presentation really did cover a lot of information very clearly nicely and the report itself is so rich and I'm already mining it for so use that data um you know for various effort community effort and um so I guess I wanted to and I am a big kind of data I super appreciate the robustness of survey methodology all of the tools that um have access to now uh this platform and I'm really looking forward continuing to utilize it and dig deeper as the best at the end of the present um so I guess um you know and and I without I'm not going to make a whole bunch of comments on what I see in terms of how we're tracking with what um participants in the survey suggest are important to them with respect to quality of life um I I do some discrepancies around the you know kind of our our homelessness response and um particular and then around housing as well and I understand we are um I mean are the the interest in addressing these challenges there um and we're also hearing or seeing in this data that are in these data that aren't ranked we're not ranked very well in some of those areas and um so I I guess I I'm I'm wondering in particular around development questions um is that and I guess this is a question for uh for well I guess I'll I'll just put it out there um I it may be Elizabeth and um Jade for for sure are there tools available through this platform that can help us dig deeper into questions around land use and development um and and so I guess I just if that's the case I'd really like for the city to pursue that because I think that the data it's all I mean it tells us something but um one of the reasons that I tend to in my own work that I do as a researcher try to incorporate a traditional or depth interviews and that diving deeper because you don't get the why as much right I mean we don't know if we're not ranking uh you know police response but why what is that about right um people are saying you know the quality of development is we're we're lower we're the comparable communities what is that about is it well thinking there's not enough or is actual quality of structures so you know a lot of those um uh why is I think are are important for us to do and try to kind of get that dive um and then I guess I kind of following up on some of our commentary Johnson's point about how this might integrated into the work uh that around health and all policies you know it feels like uh really great opportunity and and I get this this data doesn't um correspond necessarily with of the other survey data we have um however it provides some really interesting um information that I think bears thinking about how we ask those questions like are the recommendations are our policy is our policy agenda consistent with the findings of this survey um as for a respondent defining their views on the health of the so um I I do hope that the health health policy staff take that on and wrestle with how to the best uh to improve and our policy and just to briefly address some of the topics that you brought up we absolutely do have multiple questions that have been asked by other can be in other communities that have been added by survey experts that you can post a platform that is um I love you know you something that we often say the survey research is that a survey such as this one can tell you about what residents think but not why they think it and the focal platform gives you the opportunity to do a little bit more of a qualitative approach so you know you can ask these sort of forum questions that you might only have a few questions but they're open there's an opportunity for residents to write in a response they're in their own words comments on a particular topic so um that is a really really nice um opportunity to engage with residents on that and then yes and we have um entire surveys on law enforcement as I mentioned and on economic development but also individual questions relating to other more specific topics like land use and development thank you council member brown council member coming here and thank you for that presentations was really great I don't unexpected it now in terms of things come forward and it was really great the survey that was conducted and all the the valuable data that's there I'm just kind of wondering um this is more out of curiosity anything else but I'm just wondering if there's any way this information can be taken into consideration for revenue measure by the revenue subsidy it seems like there's a lot of information about sentiments around business workforce development housing safety public safety so I'm just wondering you know what thought there is or if there's an opportunity for us to you know with any polling that has been done you um juxtapose the data we're getting that polling against what's coming out of this survey to just kind of see how two different types of surveys um what what the community is that I think the survey called have strong alignment question that revenue support or in terms of both science measure it has strong alignment but we can find like there's uh as I look at um what themes this survey really underscores he is telling us loud and clear that they have turns around our lack of tasks around homeless response I think the community is telling us loud and clear that we have a need for more affordable housing really put available solutions in place around housing affordability and availability I think the community has also continued to share across the last conducted that there's a strong interest in ensuring a safe and healthy community I think that applies downtown as well but the missed survey as well as all of those are planning to prioritize if the council uses so I can settle all that bringing this data back to the subcommittee I think is a great idea we can ensure that the information that he's telling us really aligns with the current direction we're going but based on the themes I think we're moving in the right those are all my comments so I just thanks again for that survey and for taking the time to get with us to see discuss this one just one more plug there is the results are posted on our website in the community relations section of the city manager's department there's also the results are there in Tableau so those of you who are through data nerds can go in there and play around and highlight different things that you want to do and then if there are any follow-up questions you dig into the data have questions or you want to initiate some sort of outreach by all means let me know I am here to investigate things that are important to you we have 500 people ready and waiting to take surveys so and then we'll be looking to build that build that platform bigger so that we can get more representative information so thanks thanks for the time and the ability to bring this to you tonight thanks for your enthusiasm over having some data in your thank you so much Elizabeth and thank you Jade just all the categories that were there I think though was labeled livability of standard community with ability and really you know having those different categories of safety and law enforcement mobility and transportation and um you know some of the health and wellness and engagement and um it's really a great start I'm glad we'll be doing that on a regular basis and I'm excited to go to the website and can you say one more time Elizabeth where that is on our day of Santa Cruz dot com website sure if you go to the city manager section on the website there's a but there's a link for community relation it's just that link they're in community relation um and we'll just we'll update that with um additional surveys as they become available and then as we do more engagement we can create more of an engagement hub there um on all sorts of topics um so we're just getting started wonderful um if that concludes council member questions thank you so much babe for Rocha for joining us to Elizabeth thank you on your time and your information thank you we um have one more item on our agenda and um it's oral communication that's 630 um since it is time certain I will go ahead and um call for a break and we will return at nine yam and continue with oral thank you so much welcome back thank you many hours of mute okay wait Rudy hey or while we're waiting if I could ask them I received a call during the break from somebody who was persistently trying to raise a hand to you I'm not sure if um I was worth having issues but I did see his hand club a few times but last week was a comment and while you guys already okay uh I'm going out to attendees is he there now I his name on the mic had a d on our list and and so you know at this time we've voted on the I am and so um I'm happy to have him um oh there's his hand hand is up and so before I go into communications I'm happy to um open up that time for him to comment on that item before we go into oral communications or after I think since oral communications is I'm certain maybe we should do that first and then I'm happy to go um and allow him that time to speak on item number four hopefully it can stay on I do see your hand is working now thank you so much councilmember brown for bringing that to our attention um okay so oral communications is an opportunity for members of the community to speak less on items that are not for members of the public who are streaming this meeting if you want to comment during oral communications now is time to call in and instructions are on your screen oral communications is an opportunity for members of the community to speak to us on items that are not listed on today's agenda you are interested in addressing the council raise your hand either by dialing star nine on your phone or selecting raise hand in the webinar controls on your screen you will have three minutes and it is your time to speak you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted we request that you clearly and slowly state your name before making your comment so that we can accurately capture in the meeting minute however it is not required please remember this is a time for council to hear from the public we are not able to engage in dialogue with member of the public but when we are able we will address the questions raised after oral communication so I will go out to our attendees and the first person with their hand raised for oral communications is I am watching you hi I cannot state more strongly the city support for the mockeries of basic individual rights and the covid mandates must now have a defined end date there never was and now it is he is he admitted after scores of studies the cloth mask did nothing to stop covid except promote fear and control that unvaccinated people must still wear masks is irrational fear mongering totalitarian get the jab for origin assisted by legacy media government collusion promotion do our studies show vaccine protection wanes and some indicated actually goes negative meaning eventually the vaccine become more likely to contract covid at some point and serious side effects have been ignored there is no rational scientific or moral reasons to mandate force of endless annual jabs with all the associated side effects including death even bill gates now admits omicron did more for immunity than the vax ever did with some estimated 75 percent omicron immunity with only 10 percent of the delta morbidity that the mandates ever did stop covid that those policies ignored the intense stratification of age health risk as well as the better natural immunity the max suffering from lockdowns is still ignored there are risk children still suffer and must wear a mask because some teachers are carrying flowers that omicron is really just a bad flu like so many before that effective outpatient treatments are still being denied and zero prioritized that children are callously targeted to avoid big pharma's vaccine liability all these points but in moral greed collaterian powerless for russian a revolving door cdc fda lap dog to big pharma and a turning point where individual liberty and informed consent is either lost or saved the unjustified thousand dollar fines for walking on the beat for persecuting people without useless masks on and trader joes will be on the wrong side of history every single person i saw in safely on saturday was still wearing a useless cloth mask and after that always baseless peer mandate was partially lifted that accrues is loaded with the government and token spirit or media lied to brainwash state worshiping state dependent fault-like collectivists including communists the ds a types grievance loving other blamers so i don't expect much protest here against the state stale state's destructive authoritarianism but my message is it's time to take all the mandate chains off people's lives with or without mass protest a january 31 mon month university poll showed about 70 percent of americans agree with this statement time we accept that covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives on a different matter i'd also like to mention government by opinion polls subvert a more proper direct detailed rational dialogue between the people and government almost none of the questions in the national community survey were related to demographic intense over waiting for young people and the intense under waiting of older response is a poor and false assumption that everyone in an event demographic and so great thanks for calling in for moral communication i am going to go to caller ending in seven four zero seven go ahead welcome good afternoon can you hear me yes i can hear you okay on my screen i wasn't able to raise my hand but i can see the members of the public how to comment like the instructions are on my screen so i'm actually using my phone great my name is elise thank you my name is elise casby and i'm very sorry i missed the agenda item on redistricting and about going to ballot i think that would be tragic but i'm calling in to talk about um a concept that i've recently found um after some research called inverted totalitarianism inverted totalitarianism and the reason i want the public to know about this is because it must become so incredibly difficult to really have any voice within our so-called democracy and i think santa korea is a a really good example of how our public voice has been all but extinguished through you know the sham and very very deceitful dishonest recall were big money and lies that were utilized and smearing and you know in the sentinel which did the service to the public uh the way the sentinel made it look like our old the uh harmful members who were unceded you're putting it to ballot on june 7th which is a time when the least number of people go to the polls i think it's very important that the public start to understand uh the most our true situation with the democracy i recommend shelvin rollin s-h-e-l i think it's fio and chris hedges an old article it's no disease it's it's being a lease for calling in for oral communications um are there any other callers for oral communications um before i move on to steven fosper it's indies i don't any other hands up so that will include oral thank you oh we do have one more we have richard louis go ahead richard thank you hi there unmute yourself there's either a star's unmute yourself on your phone or unmute yourself hi there at 83 it's not easy when i found you yes thank you justin and martin you remember fifth grade those young people have something to say you're both attended any of it i know that take on a block forming center is papers so something that focuses on as martin is certainly knows health doesn't start in the hospital start in the community so i'm on and listen but this was the first time because i watched your meetings on the tv but now i really get to see you so turn to me with good ideas how about a youth fair and a youth city council how about using the resources in cabrillo from your vision so best i can do is not create one more bigger or better so united way or you name them but just and i remember when i first met with these sir let's see what we can do now the ideas you can't do in three minutes but we can't have a cup of coffee as starbucks speaks to one cup at a time one neighborhood at a time and so i learned more about i hope i spoke great conversation with a email call over and out thank you thank you so much richard loose for your oral communication and if there are no further oral communication let's see any other hands i will close oral communications and i will open it up for for public from it item 14 go ahead give in and mute yourself yes can you hear me now yes all right finally got through to you after all thank you very much taking this late coming into your meeting i'll be very much pleased if you felt it's going fine to give me feedback please but if not i hope thought your planning will help the process uh better okay this uh head number 14 the name of the i am having a hard time hearing you leave the way maybe from the okay yes okay okay try again um the aim of the california voting right back is to treat each citizen equally to remove as much vote dilution possible from our as you know a deleted vote is one that has not hoped to elect a favored candidate for example the 2018 and 2020 elections that produced the existing council diluted 50 sorry 54 percent of all the votes passed by citizens yet neither the pros proposed seven district models nor the six district model with an elected mayor at large they likely that less half of all the citizens vote passed will continue to be wasted diluted since then by the california right right back in fact this mixture of elections still seems so to violate the california voting right back this makes it also vulnerable to challenge half of the votes wasted would not be so bad if there wasn't a better way available for elected council but california's election code explicitly offers a better method in its chapter two it is called all pc rank choice voting san francisco berkeley oakland and many cities elsewhere use rank choice voting this method invites each citizen to express their different judgments about the candidate first choice second so forth consequently about 88 percent of all the votes passed helped to elect a winner they have favored not half of all the votes wasted but only about 12 on a different issue it is important to note that california's attorney general has made it clear that the california voting right back does not require the adoption of this this that claim has been made many times in this in the previous thank you even your time is that the timer has sprung up three minutes i understand that but if there's no one else wanting to talk i would appreciate it you would want to talk maybe three or four or minutes at all i i have to i have to end it at three minutes okay that's your rule thank you so much for calling in i'm glad you were able to get through okay so with that as our last item of public comment and oral communications is done and i would like to say this meeting is adjourned and would also like to encourage anybody else who would like to email city council at city of sanacruz.com there are any further comments while we're sitting down there thank you so much meeting is adjourned tonight everybody


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