Hello, this is David Diga Hernandez, and you are watching Spirit Church here on the Encounter TV Network. I'm continuing now my series on the symbols of the Holy Spirit, and right now I'm going to be focusing in on the symbol of water, which reveals the refreshing, life-giving nature of the Holy Spirit. But first, Stephen Mockezuma is here with me. He's going to lead you in some very anointed worship, and then we're getting right into this lesson. You're Stephen Mockezuma. So years ago, my grandfather took me to go and see a powerful man of God preach the gospel. Now, this man that we went to go see preach has been in my life a spiritual father and a mentor, and there are many things that I've learned from him. My grandfather and I went to this service, and it was actually held here in Southern California at an arena if they could seat, like I think like 20,000 people or more. And so we arrived to the service, and when we arrived there were thousands of people already packing the stadium. We walked in and we tried to find the seat, and as soon as we entered into the building, they announced to us that that level of seating was completely full. We ran up to the next floor, and they said this level is completely full. We ran up again to the next level, and they were already filling up that level, but we finally found a few seats that we could use, or a couple of seats that we could use. So we're sitting in the service, the power of God's moving, the worship was awesome, and all of a sudden this man of God says, I want every preacher of the gospel to get down here. Now, mind you, at that time I was 14 years old, was already preaching the gospel, I started preaching at 13, and I knew that I wanted to get down there and receive an impartation. Now the Holy Spirit can touch you anywhere, anytime, but God also uses people to flow through. So I knew that God was going to touch my life in a special way. So I start running down, but I realized by the time I got halfway down that the crowds were already beginning to press onto the platform, and by the time I got to the floor of the arena, the stage was several dozen feet from me, and the crowds had backed me up all the way to where I didn't think I was going to get access at all. So I go around the crowd, and I find myself pinned between the crowd and the stage, and there was no way I was going to access the stairs, as this man of God went back and forth laying hands on people. Now I'll never forget what I sensed in that moment, it was the first time in my life I had ever sensed anything like it. I'm standing right up against the platform. The crowd is pressing me into the stage, not to where I couldn't breathe, but to where I couldn't move. And I remember being up against the platform, and I'm looking onto the platform, and it was about shoulder height to me, the platform was. And I watched this man of God go back and forth, and I'm seeing the people react to the power of the Holy Spirit as he's laying hands on them. The choir and the worship team are singing, Holy, Holy, Holy are you Lord. The elders and angels bow, the redeemed worship you now, and I realized in that moment that my body was trembling. The power of God had physically manifested, and I was sensing this shaking come over me. And off of the platform I could fill, what were like waves and currents. I'm telling you before God, I sensed this in my body, my physical being. It was like waves were coming off of the platform, waves of water, like there was a river on that stage, and I was standing in that river. Suddenly I look up and there's a security guard standing over me. For some reason I don't know why he broke protocol. Stretch just hand out to me, pulled me onto the platform, and then helped me get prayer. I remember that as I was walking toward that man of God, I felt like I couldn't even stabilize my stance because it was as if the ground was shifting under me, as if I was standing in an actual river. And all I remember is this, I saw that man of God approach me, he was praying in tongues, his face was all red because he was praying fervently in tongues. I closed my eyes, I lifted my hands, and he barely even touched the side of my face, and I had not realized, I didn't realize, that I had fallen out under the power of God, and I opened my eyes, I'm on the floor, and I see my body shaking in that current of power. Next thing I know, I'm being picked up by some people on the sides of me, and I couldn't even feel them picking me up. They took me off the platform, walked me down the stairs, I could barely stand. I remember looking around, and they had chairs laid out for people who were unable to make it back to their seats because people were just shaking so, so, so I should say violently, but it's, you know, not violently as in it hurt them, but they were shaking very intensely. And we come off the platform and they sat us on the chairs, and I looked around, there are several people who couldn't even get back to their seats. That experience in the presence of God marked me in a way that I'll never be able to fully explain, and in that moment there was a refreshing that came on me.  That was that refreshing flow of the river of life. In John chapter 7, verses 37 through 39, the Scripture says this, On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, anyone who is thirsty may come to me, anyone who believes in me may come and drink, for the Scriptures declare rivers of living water will flow from his heart. When he said living water, he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him, but the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet entered his glory. The Holy Spirit is that river of living water which brings life. Now in Psalm, the book of Psalms, chapter number one, the Scripture says this, O the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers, but they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season, their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do. When a tree is planted by a river, its roots go deep, its roots become strong, and that tree, according to the Scripture, bears fruit in each season. Not in some seasons, there is this supernatural abundance that comes upon that life, and we can bear the fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, and so forth. We can bear those fruits in each season, even when we are facing hardships. Why? Because we are planted by the river of life, who is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings life. Joel said that the Spirit would be poured out, which is a reference to him, as you would refer to water. Joel chapter two, verses 23, and then 28 through 29 say this, be glad then ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out, there's that phrase pour out like water, pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions, and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit. Water cleanses, water quenches thirst, water refreshes, water gives life wherever the river of the Spirit flows there is life, there is refreshing, there are deeply rooted trees. The Holy Spirit cleanses your soul, he quenches your spiritual thirst.  Not only does the river cause life and vegetation to flourish, but it also has a mist that flows off of it. If you ever get around a river that's rushing, you'll notice that you'll get wet even before you jump into the river because of that mist that's coming up out of the river. When you have the Holy Spirit in you, there's a holy mist around you. There's a holy mist that affects the atmosphere, that causes those around you to sense something refreshing about you, something life-giving about you.  There's something about you that causes those fruits of the Spirit to flourish in every season. There's something about you that quenches a spiritual thirst. I like to say there's not something about you, there's someone about you, and that is the person of the Holy Spirit. This life-giving river of God flows through our lives. Water represents this side of the Holy Spirit. He is life-giving. He is refreshing. He quenches spiritual thirst and he cleanses us. That is the power of the person of the Holy Spirit. That is the side of His nature that is revealed by the biblical symbol of water. And now I pray today, right now, at that same river about which I'm talking, that same mighty flow will move through me right through that camera and touch you right where you are. You're about to be refreshed in the river of the Spirit. I want you to get ready. I want you to let your faith and expectation rise and ask Him. It's so simple. Ask Him to flow through you. The river of the Spirit is going where it's going. It does not change directions. So the key is surrendering to that river. You can't change His flow, but you can jump into the river and you jump into the river by faith. He wants to refresh you. He wants to quench your spiritual thirst. He wants to give you life and divine energy. He wants to cleanse your soul. He wants to cause you to bear that fruit. So Father, in the name of Jesus, right now I pray this mighty river would flow and touch those watching. Father, I pray that the river of life would flow and begin to refresh that one who's weary. Help them to surrender and jump into the river I pray. Use them for your glory in the name of Jesus. Somebody's watching me right now. There's an issue with your eyes, but it's not visible. It's something behind the eyes, like in the socket. I don't know what that is, but God is healing it right now. I thank you, Jesus, that the healing power is flowing right now. Lord, I give you the glory. A dislocated knee is being healed right now. I thank you, Jesus, for your healing touch that's not flowing. There's somebody watching you. I see you smashed your finger. There's swelling and it's a very painful injury that you have, but I pray right now in the name of Jesus that God would make you whole. I give you the honor, Lord, in the name of Jesus. There's a dust in watching me. I don't know what's going on with you, but you were just asking the Lord to speak to you. He wants to use your life. He wants to touch you for his glory. It's time to surrender. Father, touch each one I pray in the name of Jesus. Wow. And I want you to say amen. That is it for the lesson. I want to welcome now the new members of Spirit Church. There you are up on the screen. We love you. We are praying for you. I always say that because I always mean it if you'd like information on how you can join the Spirit family. Go to davidhernandezministries.com slash Spirit Church. Look, you might be looking for a home church right now, somewhere to call home. Why don't you join the Spirit family and gather with us in Spirit? When you sign up to Spirit Church, every single week I'm going to send you a brand new teaching fresh from heaven and Stephen Mock to Zuma will put together a nice worship service for you to enjoy online. So go ahead right now davidhernandezministries.com slash Spirit Church. Join the Spirit Family today. And now to your comments. And these comments come from my teaching symbols of the Holy Spirit, the cloud. If you have not watched that teaching, I recommend that you go back and watch it. This particular lesson talks about the very glory of God. And if you've been praying about wanting to understand the presence of Jesus, the glory of God more and especially how the Holy Spirit reveals that presence, then you need to make sure and go watch symbols of the Holy Spirit, the cloud. And while you're at it, be sure to subscribe, click that notification bell so that you can receive all of the notices when we put out content. And if you're watching us on our social media platforms, be sure to also follow us there. Now here are the comments. Oh, one more thing. If you want me to potentially read your comments on next week's edition of Spirit Church, then go ahead and leave a comment in the comment section right now. And I may read your comment next week. So these comments once again come from symbols of the Holy Spirit, the cloud. Child of Light 5778 writes, When you were describing how the cloud conceals the presence of God at the very beginning of the video, I felt a cloud coming out of my screen. I was so overwhelmed that for a moment I couldn't continue to watch. Walking with Christ writes, I love this version of the anthem I'm in awe. And that's another worship song from Stephen Mock the Zuma. The anthem that he covered was also on his album of worship covers. If you'd like to listen to his music, be sure to type in Stephen Mock the Zuma on your preferred music platform. Mezi Kusso writes, Even in the midst of this pandemic, Your messages always inspire and strengthen my spirit. I always feel the connection whenever you pray at the end. Thank you, Pastor David and Brother Stephen, hoping to see you all in India someday, if it's God's will. Love from Nagaland, India. And we are prayerfully putting together a trip to India. We have to put together some of the final details, but we're praying about it. We're trying to find connections on the ground we can trust. So pray us in and I know the Lord will put it together. Fernando writes, Thank you, Pastor David. As you were praying, I could feel the breath of the Holy Spirit and the atmosphere turning electric. Wow, that's the glory of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for this anointed teaching. Yes, several people are reporting from our videos having divine encounters while watching the content. Why? Because this is the Holy Spirit's channel. And the final comment that I'm going to read comes from Melissa T. who writes, I just joined your ministry. Honestly, I have been in need of a home church. I rejoice that God uses you and everyone in your team. Brother Diga, I believe that this is the first step to finally help me become closer to getting better because I won't be alone in this journey. Although I have grown up in the church, I've never felt fully accepted.  Well, Melissa, that blesses me to know that the Lord is using this ministry to pull you unto himself. And Melissa's not alone, guys. There are people being touched all around the world. And when you hear these testimonies, I want you to listen to me. I know the video is getting closer to ending, and maybe you see something else you want to click on and watch, but stick with me just for a moment. Whenever you hear these comments, it's very easy to kind of just go, oh, that's wonderful and just brush over it. But I want you to realize these comments and these stories represent real people with real experiences with actual occurrences. These are lives that are being transformed. Now, I thought of this scripture. It's found in Hebrews. And the scripture is Hebrews chapter number 12, verse number two. Listen to this, and I want you to really get what the Holy Spirit wants to communicate. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. There was a reward set before the Lord that motivated him through his suffering. When Jesus was being crucified, when he was laying down his life, there was a joy set before him. There was something to which he was looking forward. That, in part, was the salvation of the lost. Do you realize that for every soul that is one, Jesus is reaping the reward of his suffering? If that joy was worth dying for, surely for us that joy is worth sacrificing for. He gave his life. He gave his all. Surely we can give our support. If Jesus was willing to die for us, can't we be willing to live for him? We talk about sacrifice. We talk about submitting to the Lordship of Christ. We talk about doing anything for the gospel, doing anything for the Lord, doing anything for souls. And then when it comes down to moments like this, we say, oh, maybe I won't do that. Now I'm not trying to make you feel guilty. Guilt is not how we should operate when it comes to giving, but I'm trying to put things in perspective for you. I want you to see giving as an opportunity to participate in what God is doing in the earth. And I want you to see it as an opportunity for Christ to reap the reward of his suffering. That was the joy set before him, souls, lives being transformed, hearts being changed. That is why he gave his life. And that is why we give to the gospel.   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Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's coverage here at AWS re-invent. Our 11th year covering re-invent has been quite a journey. I'm John Furrier, host. Dave Vellante is at the analyst event getting Q and A with Adam Slepsky. We've got George Gilbert, Shelley Kramer. A whole team is here. Got team coverage, Rob Hofe, Mark Albertson, Broadcasting Palo Alto, getting all the signal here at the event. It's been quite a journey to watch AWS over the past 11 years continue to grow. This year more than ever, you see a legit next level set of issues hitting, generative AIs, obviously the hot conversation, but the impact up and down across the stack is pretty significant, opens up all kinds of opportunities and challenges, one of them is security. We have a security expert here, Eric Brandewine, VP and distinguished engineer at Amazon Security, welcome to theCUBE. Great to see you. Thanks John, great to be here. So we were just talking before we came on camera about two things. One I want to start out of the gate. One is AWS now has a re-org with the security team. Stephen Schmidt is CSO, Chief Security Officer for our Amazon and Amazon has a security team and we talked about generative AI and the fork in the road. So let's start with the AWS update. Pretty notable focus that you guys have now one security to explain for the current situation. So historically we cared about security across the company of course and we had separate teams that handle different lines of business but with Steve Schmidt taking this new role as Chief Security Officer for the first time we have one security team that covers the entire company. And our biggest concern is that each of the teams that were already in place were competent. They were serving their businesses. They were enabling them to delight customers and we have to make sure that we don't break that. We have to make sure that as we move forward and we appropriately centralize and consolidate our efforts that we enable each of those business line CISOs, each of those security teams to continue delighting their service teams that they can delight their customers. So is it the case that it's across all Amazon which is very diverse business.  Is there a CISO for every kind of group or is it all one team? How does that work? So there's a CISO for every major line of business. So for example, we've got a CISO for the digital business. We've got a CISO for the consumer business. We've got a CISO for the AWS business, of course. But then there's a number of other security teams that are smaller and embedded with other parts of the business. For example, we have a security team on Kuiper. And if you're going to be launching satellites into the space, there's a whole different set of concerns. You can't touch them. Like once they're in orbit, they're gone. Like you can't touch them. And so you have to be able to do software updates securely. All of that stuff is ITAR restricted, international traffic and arms regulation. And so there's a whole new layer of security controls that you have to put onto everything starting from your development processes. And so we have a team that focuses on nothing but that because we need expertise there. So there's a lot of diversity there. And so the challenge is to figure out what data to share. We were talking about some of the things. What are some of the things that you're thinking about that's on your plate right now? Is just holistically zoom out and go, okay, we've got a wide aperture of security. What are some of the challenges that you guys think? Because it's not one model, one security framework can work. There are plenty of challenges but the best opportunity that we have is that there's all of these smart people across the company that have completely different perspectives on these problems. And we found all sorts of gems all over the organization that we've been able to use more broadly. And that addresses our big challenge which is the cost to serve. We're not going to compromise on the security bar but security is not cheap. And we want to make it such that our service teams can launch and launch securely but they need to be able to launch faster and the cost of the security efforts we provide them has to go down. And so figuring out how we can automate, how we can centralize, how we can turn a whole bunch of the common work across the organization into structured tools and mechanisms so that the engineers can then focus on the thing that differentiates their business. Yeah, and Adam Sileski mentioned that to me and my one-on-one, it's intrinsic to everything that we do. And he has this the same line, he has the same tone every time, okay, got it, we got it. And that's important, part of this Amazon culture. So that's super cool. I love to revisit that. I want to focus to the question here at the event. Genervai is the hot topic. I heard there was a drinking game going on where every time someone said Genai, they do a shot and everyone's kind of stumbling around the hallways. But in all seriousness, how do we understand the path of Genervai because the good guys have a chance now to get better but the bad news is the bad guys have the tools too. So you have a perspective on this. Absolutely, and that's the first fork in the road that you get to, is if Amazon is going to launch a generative AI powered service, the bar is going to be very high. We're going to do a tremendous amount of review and testing and validation to make sure that that service does exactly what we think it does and nothing else. If one of our customers in AWS is going to launch a generative AI powered service, they're going to invest similar care. The burden is again going to be high. Whereas our adversaries, they're just going to launch things. If you've got a trove of stolen data, like they'll point an AI at it, they'll start indexing it, they'll start asking questions. And if it hallucinates, who cares? Like maybe the key that you got out of it isn't valid, throw it away, ask again. If you want to attack someone's support processes, customer service, things like that, maybe a whole bunch of the context that generates are nonsensical. Who cares, generate more. And so there's an asymmetry there and we have to be prepared for this. The nice thing is that these aren't fundamentally new attacks, they're just efficiency gains in existing attacks. But the advantage that we have and what we're really going to double down on is that anywhere we learn across all of Amazon, we can apply that to all of our generative AI services. Fleet learning. So anytime we get an adversarial example from any service anywhere in the company, we can add that to our corpus of adversarial prompts. And we can use that to make all of our models better. And so that scale there, we're using the scale of Amazon and the breadth and the diversity of Amazon as a benefit to us. You know, I remember when I first interviewed Steve Schmidt 2015, at that time, okay, again, this is dating myself but back at that time, all the naysayers were saying, the cloud's not secure. We're better off on premises. What you just pointed out, I think illustrates that actually the cloud can be secure at a big time level because of the scale and data opportunity you guys have. Absolutely. I think it's very parallel to flying versus driving. If you ask a room of people, how many of you are above average drivers? Everyone's going to put their hand up. Of course.  I don't know how to fly a plane, I'm not competent, I'm not qualified, the pilots are more deeply trained than I am to drive a car.  And anytime you make a partnership with a service provider and it really is a partnership, anytime you do that, you're seating some control and that can be uncomfortable. That can be a hard thing to let go of. But the simple reality is that because of our scale, we have been able to invest. My largest customer as an AWS security engineer is AWS. My second largest customer is Amazon. And these are large going concerns. I mean, Amazon was a big company even before the cloud came along. And you look at the traditional infrastructure that Amazon used to run on. And this is our core competency. We were really, really good at it. And you look at what they get to run on today in AWS and there's absolutely no comparison. The amount of data available, the amount of control available, the scalability, the rate of new feature releases, like I am so much happier with our services running in the cloud than I was running on our traditional infrastructure. And our traditional infrastructure was world-class. Let's talk about customer enablement. Great call out there by the way and great masterclass on Amazon security and the cloud. But now let's talk about customers. What does this enable them? Because now I'm the customer, I want to run securely on your cloud. Thank you very much for doing that work. What do I have to do? Because I want some control. I got data in there. So where do you see the enablement to be adaptable? Because that's one of the key features we heard in the keynote yesterday. Adaptability is the key to success in general AI. So this is something that we struggle with constantly is we're designing our services because there is no correct answer. There is no one size fits all. For your workload, a certain configuration may be entirely appropriate, but it may be wildly inappropriate for my workload. The thing that I love about the cloud is that it's democratized access to this stuff.  You're looking at months on the short side. And if you wanted a high availability, you needed two data centers, like your budget just more than doubled. If you want to run a highly available application in AWS, you just launch a second instance in a different region. We're talking the cost of a cup of coffee. Yeah, and by the way, we just had a MasterCard on while you were waiting. They're talking about the rules in country for data, Colo, they got to call the data in the country. It's sovereign clouds. And so all of this sovereignty issues, like if we have a region there, just run in that region, you don't have to hire a bulldozer and a surveyor and start from a cement slab. And so you get the same kind of democratization in our security controls. Every single host, every single instance in a VPC is wrapped in a security group. You've got fine-grained network segmentation and you don't have to argue about like how many firewall ports do I have or do we have enough bandwidth to handle the east-west traffic. If you want encryption and we strongly encourage people to encrypt, great, use KMS. It's already integrated with all of the services. Key management, encryption is incredibly hard. Like it's super easy to just, you know, you pull down a crypto library and you encrypt some data. Like anyone can do that in five minutes. But to build a robust, secure, scalable, available crypto system is really difficult. We have a world-class team that has spent years getting there. And every single one of our service teams and every single one of our customers can take advantage of those years of investment and expertise with a couple of API calls. And I think, you know, the generative AI only makes that more available because now it's automating and scaling you guys because your services can scale with generative AI because you're generating, I mean, it's not deterministic but that's good for the customer. Because they'll determine what's for them and they'll use gen AI for that. Right, and so we're really looking forward to some of the generative AI features that Adam and Swami talked about where we're incredibly hopeful that this is going to make it much easier for customers to discover the bits and pieces of AWS that they need. Again, it's not one-size-fits-all. The things that are incredibly important to one customer may not matter at all to another customer. And so helping them discover these things, get the right configuration in place and to move forward more quickly and more constantly. I mean, I think some of the things that are like the little trivial stuff like S3 buckets, other configuration mistakes are going to be flagged immediately. You get the best practices kind of coming in, my word, not your word, but like using all that data to kind of be a best practice library for customers with one prompt. Hey, am I secure? No, you're not. You've got something hanging out there. I mean, that could be the case. I mean, that's what the future is right now, right?  Am I secure? Yes, you are. There's no such thing as am I secure? Because security is not a Boolean discipline. It's about understanding and managing risk. But the question that we are hopeful that we can answer, I think we're going to get there is if I want to improve my security, what should I do right now? Making it actionable and then taking the customer by the hand and helping them take those steps, making it as simple as possible for them to achieve that next level and then the level beyond that. I got to ask you, Eric, because I've been sitting on the cube and I'm trying to get some input on this, maybe because I'm just kind of riffing, but the first time I saw a 3D printer, I'm like, that's freaking amazing because it was cool. I've never seen it before. Like it's building something, it's not printing. It's like, that's like a cool factor, a wow factor. Are we going to be soon in an age or are we there now where the infrastructure can self-build pipelines or take dynamic policy-based actions where the AI gets smart around what's happening and can build scaffolding around something or maybe do something that's been initiated that could be in a best practice? Are we going to be at an era where the infrastructure could just provision itself? Dynamically, around use cases. In that kind of 3D printer way, it's kind of maybe a bad analogy, but like I'm envisioning magic happening. That's positive. I have a 3D printer and it is magical. Like it is incredible that I can conjure this object and then it exists, but they're slow. It's really boring to watch a 3D printer. And I think that some really revolutionary things are going to be coming, especially from our customers and our partners. So we've launched a bunch of these foundational things with queue and agents and things like that. And I'm really looking forward to seeing what our clever customers do with those things. But yes, a tremendous amount of the infrastructure and of the code that people write today, that people build today is scaffolding. It's boilerplate. It's similar to other things that have come before and relieving the human from the burden of managing that stuff is going to be a huge advancement. Well, I'd love to unpack more. Great to have you on. I always love talking with you. It's like a master class.  Final question for you, as you look at today's event or this week's event, the keynotes, just swammies today, Adams yesterday, we've got Werner coming up. Got an ecosystem that's robust, building apps on top of AWS Resolve, Google. What are you most excited about? What are you thinking about these days? What's cool that you're working on? I know you're thinking about the whole organization thing, but what's on your mind and what are you excited about?  We've got a large and very competent team. But what does it mean to be the Amazon security team? And honestly, like it's trite and you expected this, but I'm most excited about what we're going to be able to do with generative AI. We have a whole bunch of projects in flight already, using generative AI for security workloads for our own internal security needs. We had a couple of engineers go off and this was basically a weekend project. They pointed an AI at our security knowledge base and indexed it and made a chat bot. And this thing is not awesome. Like it hallucinates occasionally, it gives better advice. It is so much better than anything we've ever had before. And it was a weekend's worth of effort. And like if that's the ante, if that's how much it costs to get a seat at the table, like imagine what's going to happen when we get a full service team involved and we really invest here. So I think that's going to be a transformative technology for us. I mean, I think that's the kind of value that this latency concept of getting action, not just latency packets, but like that weekend project, they're already in value mode as default. And that is just left in the finger. Imagine the next iteration, the next inference, adding more data in. So I think this is going to be creative. It's tsunami. It's so exciting because now the team has this direct visceral experience of it's not this huge complicated insurmountable hill to climb. Like look, like my colleagues just did this and it wasn't a huge investment. I should go do it too. And then the other engineers go, I got FOMO. I want to get out of the action. Yeah, and then the ideas start sparking and things start happening. And I think that's why this return back to work is a cool thing. And whether you're doing it virtually or whatnot, this interaction and that group dynamic of inventing and building stuff and solving problems, you get to, you get the things faster. I mean, we index all our transcripts. It's really cool. And we got a little chat bot too. It's like, but it's great because it helps us get, what's the strategy for this company? And then the people who talked about it, and then it pops up. The vector embeds are beautiful. And it wasn't that hard to do. So great stuff, Eric. Great to have you on the queue. It was always a pleasure. And all the security action going on here. The thinking is the key is the thinking with this generator is changing. The queue is reporting this on the ground here. The world has changed legit next level things happening. Weekend projects turned into innovation roads and then people working together. Customers building value. This is what's going on here at Reinvent this year. Completely different vibe than any other year we've covered. We'll be back more coverage after this short break. Back to you in the studio.


Here's a Hubble image of the center of nearby active galaxy IC 5063. It contains a supermassive black hole. As material approaches the black hole's event horizon, massive amounts of radiation is released in all directions. But note the V-shaped shadows emanating from the central core. Astronomers suggest that a ring of dusty material surrounds the black hole and may be casting its shadow into space by blocking some of this radiation. These dark shadows extend across at least 36,000 light years.


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله يا رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام وعلى أشرف الخلق وعز المرسلين محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين عندما يأتي إلى الإسلام ومسلمين لدينا so many things to talk about عندما يتحدث عن الإسلام في طريق أخرى أو أخرى تساعد الإسلام أو يشاهد أفضل الإسلام وعندما يحاول أن يحاول أن يدفع الإسلام وعندما نرى كل هذا التساعد من so many doctrines, philosophies في المدينة بين المسلمين ومسلمين الإسلام and other ideologies نحن لدينا to understand what's going on عندما يأتي إلى الإسلام وعندما يتحدث عن كل شيء أسيطر عندما يأتي إلى المسلمين ومسلمين من المسلمين يجب أن يصدر إسلام بشكل بربيط من خلال أسيطر يجب أن يصدر إسلام as a religion that does not consider the peaceful dimension and the moral and the morality when it comes to building generations is right? The followers of Islam are the problem in this earth is right? All that because of Islam and because of its teachings, people are dying in Syria, people are getting murdered, slaughtered, killed in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Africa, just name it. The whole world watched so many innocent people that killed in USA in 9-11, so many innocent people that killed in so many other places. Is that Islam? Is that the consequences of Islam? The consequences of the doctrine of Islam? The consequences of the teachings of Islam? The consequences in general of religion? Is it right that religion is the opium of the people? Is it right that religion does not allow us to change and get improved? And whenever there is a handicap, static society, that because of religion? So all these questions, they need an answer or they need answers. Some of it is related to Islam, some of it is beyond Islam, is related to the religion in general. Brothers and sisters, it is very important, it is very important to distinguish between the ideology and its followers. Very important. You cannot accuse my ideology if certain groups are misbehaving. If Muslims were to be good, if any person who belongs to Islam were to be good, then why there is heaven and hellfire? Why there is punishment? Is punishment just for non-Muslims? No. Why there is something called just and unjust person? Why there is a Muslim and a believer? Islam definitely has its identity. And Islam try to build the Muslims based on that peaceful moral good identity. If some Muslims they misunderstood, if some Muslims they misbehaved, if some Muslims they went astray, then this is not a problem of Islam. And more than that, if some fatwa or even what so called scholars they delivered a wrong message about this religion, they delivered a wrong fatwa against religion and against the humanity that not because of Islam. It's either because of their limited understanding, which has nothing to do with the religion, has to do with their capabilities or because of politics that letting them getting the money and dispelling their wrong ideology. That's what's going on nowadays. Why if I look at the Muslims and then I come to the thoughts, to the doctrine, let's look at our real life nowadays. If you tell me oh people are getting murdered, slaughtered in a very inhumane, unhumane way. And the guy is saying Allah Akbar or God is great or whatever. You tell me this is Islam, I will tell you no this is not Islam.  And overall Islam denies that. And more than that, why you are only looking at this person? Why do not look at the other Muslims who are against his act? Who are fighting his injustice? Who are defending humanity because he is unhuman? Why don't you pay attention to that? Why you only show me Muslims are killing violent? And you do not show me the Muslims who are going against those so called Muslims? Why? Why you are so unfair? It's a question I have the right to ask. Those who are nowadays fighting the terrorists, are those are Muslims fighting those terrorists? Why don't you mention this? It's a question, you have to answer this. You have to think about it, you have to pay attention to it. Yes, from the day one of Islam, people because of their personal advantages, they misused religion. As any ideology, or as any powerful authority, people they might misuse it. And the Prophet warned us about those people. And he said the person who has to lead the Muslims, he had to have enough knowledge and enough piety. That means he has not just to be Muslim. He has to be pious. He has to have good heart. He has to have common sense. He has to have rational thinking. And above all he has to be just knowing. Knowing the real rulings of Islam. Nowadays what we see, a person who studied for a couple of years. All of a sudden now he is issuing verdicts. Why? A real scholar, it might take him about 30 years to study in order to say one fatwa. Maybe more than 30 years sometimes. And he is hesitant, I might be right or wrong. In order to come to a state of legislation.  A مشtahed. That means you have to spend so many years. And understand so many opinions. And as you know, half of the knowledge is a killer. Half of the knowledge is worse than ignorance. And reading in one book is more dangerous. So when we talk about Islam, how did Islam establish the identity of Muslims? That is very important. Let's see the attributes of this identity. When I say Muslim, what does it mean? Yes, you have to believe in one God and Muhammad is his messenger. And by that you believe in all the prophets before Muhammad ﷺ. As you know, as a Muslim I cannot deny Jesus. As a Muslim I cannot deny Moses. As a Muslim I cannot deny Abraham. So how did Islam build this kind of identity? Let's read Islamic heritage. First of all, who is the Muslim? The Muslim means you are not going to hurt others. And that means you are not a problem in the society. And so people are happy. They are safe from what? He is not going to use his hand against them. He is not going to be stealing them. Killing them. Cheating on them. Destroying their properties. Hurting his neighbors. Stealing from others. This is not Muslim. Also when it comes to the words. He does not say a bad word. He does not backbite. He does not show any disrespectful way of talking. He respects others. Whether they are among him or they are away from him. That's from him. And also when I say a Muslim, that means I'm talking about a peaceful human.  That's a Muslim. The first meeting with a Muslim is to declare his peaceful identity. السلام عليكم. Peace be upon you. That's a Muslim. That means I'm declaring that I am a peaceful person. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm not going to harm you. I'm not going to downgrade you. This is the first sign that Islam built. Even when you see people you want to rather than saying hi, bye. How are you? You say the first thing. السلام عليكم. When you're talking with a person, and right away you say hey what up dog? Or a dude or whatever. No say use peaceful words. كل عبادي يقول التي هي أحسن.  Pick the proper words. You do not just say hi. It's like hello. I have a better way. I say peace be upon you. السلام عليكم. That's a very powerful meaning. Very powerful declaration. So this is one of the attributes Islam put for a Muslim. Secondly, whenever the Quran, whenever the Muslim is reading the Quran, every sura except only one sura. 114 chapters except only one. Every chapter starts with an ayah. Said verse. Said بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. In the name of Allah the all merciful. Every chapter except one. Every chapter you open. The first thing you have to remember that Allah is merciful. Therefore you have to be merciful. Because the Prophet said تخلقوا بأخلاق الله. If Allah is merciful, then you have to be merciful. If Allah is nice, then you have to be nice. If Allah is kind, then you have to be kind. If Allah is just, then you have to be just. And that's why we have so many narrations about justice for instance. That's another attribute of a Muslim identity. Justice. إن الله قد يأمروا بالعدلي والإحسان. الله سبحانه وتعالى قد قمت as a Muslim to be just. Even if that justice is against your personal benefits. You have to be just. Even that justice is going to make you lose money. You have to be just. Even if you are by being justice you might lose certain benefits here or there. You have to be just. إن الله يأمروا بالعدل والإحسان. Then be nice with others. Be helpful. It's not just to be just. It's not just to give me what I want. Go beyond that. Be more merciful. Be kind. ويتائذ القربة. And be nice with your relatives.   Do not just take her and throw her away in a shelter.  She needs you. Be nice with them. If she needs money give her what she wants. Same thing with your father. Same thing if you can help your brothers. Sisters. Same thing if you can help your relatives. ويتائذ القربة. إنها عن الفحشائي والمكر. And you are not allowed to be sinful. To be a wrongdoer. You can't. And this is another beautiful image. Another beautiful attribute of that identity. That the Western media And some very muted Mutant ideology here in the Middle East Is trying their best not to show us what's going on. To show us this beautiful message. To show us Islam is just about murdering. Islam has no place for other opinions. Islam has no place for being kind. This is not Islam. إن الله يأمر بالعادل والإحسان. To be just and to be nice. Kind. Helpful. Supportive. This is another good attribute. Also. الله سبحانه وتعالى رفيق. You have a riff. Some narration said Allah is kind. And love. Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Love's kindness. Allah سبحانه وتعالى is kind. And he loves kindness. And he gives on kindness upon kindness. What he does not give. Or more than giving upon other things. To be kind. Allah is kind. Therefore be kind. These are some important attributes. When you say a Muslim I have to see it there. Yet. Sometimes we don't see it. ومن أحسن قولا من من عمل صالحا. من من داع إلى الله. وعمل صالحا وقال إنني من المسلمين. If you want to say to people I am Muslim. First when you are talking to them about Islam. Show them the good doing. Show them the good behave. Show them your peaceful identity.  Not a destructive one. Who is better than such a person. The Quran here is saying. Who is better than such a person. Who calls upon the path of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Do good in the society. And then after doing good. And then after helping others. He would say. I am a Muslim. Not the opposite. There is no reason and no place for you. If you say I am a Muslim. And you steal. If you say I am a Muslim. And you cheat. And Islam is saying. ليس من غشنا ليس مننا. If you cheat. You are not one of us. There is no place for you in Islam. If you are unjust. There is no place for you in Islam. If you misuse your authority. For your personal benefit. There is no place for you in Islam. If what all you care about. Is to live your way. And eat your way. And drink your way. And enjoy life your way. With no respecting. With no respect to any Islamic rulings. Or Islamic laws. There is no place for you. And that's why. Islam does not. Build such kind of careless identity. Once you see it. Say this is not Islam. Yes. Some Muslims they misuse the religion. They misbehaved. They corrupted earth. As well as some other religion followers. Other ideology followers. Is not a problem of a religion. Is a problem of a human weakness. A human weakness. Is not a religion. While Islam made it clear. Even if there is a war. During the war. The other party. The enemy said. I declare. I don't want any more war.  When Janahul Selmi. If they want to stop the war. And go through a truth. Then go for it. Let's make a peaceful situation. If those people are fighting you. And the only way is just to fight them back. Okay fight them back. But if they stop. You have to stop. And if there is a fight. If there is a war. Then make sure. Do not destroy a house. Do not kill. Do not cut a tree.     An injured person in the battle. Just fight those who are fighting you. This is Islam. As a Muslim I have to respect others rights. Because my job is to be a good brother to others. A good help to others. I have to feel that I belong to this humanity. And my role is to improve this humanity. And Islam made it very clear. Through your good deed. You can convert people to Islam. Not the opposite. لا اكراه فدين. You cannot force others. And that's why we see in this globe. We see so many countries. The people of those countries converted to Islam. Not because of force or power. They converted to Islam because they saw the good identity of Muslims. Which nowadays we are misusing it. When you go to the west. When you go as an immigrant to the west. Islam will tell you you have to obey their rules. Because once you get your visa. You will have a contract between you and the government. Therefore you are not allowed to steal. You are not allowed to cheat. You are not allowed to say I am divorced. And you are married. To get some governmental benefits. You are not allowed to steal from the bank. Or a credit card. You are not allowed to cheat on an insurance company. You are not allowed to be a bad neighbor. You are not allowed to hurt your neighbors. You are not allowed to disrespect any laws. Whether it has to do with regular laws. Or other laws. Even while you are driving. You have to respect the speed limits. Like this. Are you aware of that?  And that's why once you have this identity.  If you don't have it.  That means nowadays in USA. For instance. This guy is an immigrant. Then the status green card. Then the status is a citizen. Then the status good citizen. Bad citizen. Misdemeanor. No misdemeanor. Isn't that we have. In Islam. When you enter to Islam. The first step is to be a Muslim. Once you start. Gathering the attributes of this. Islamic identity. The real authenticated. Identity that the Prophet Muhammad. صلى الله عليه وسلم. Ta'at us. And Jesus. Peace be upon Ta'at us. And even the prophets. Before Jesus. Showed us. Once you gather all these attributes. Or you at least. You have some of them.  To the second level. A believer.


six o'clock and I will call the 21st regular Common Council meeting to order. The clerk please state the code of the day. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Communication works for those who work at it. Thank you. Will the clerk please call the roll? All the person Ackley. All the person Decker. All the person Felde. Excused. All the person Flicky Panesky. All the person Laster. All the person Mitchell. All the person Pirella. All the person Salazar. Unexcused. All the person Savaglio. Present. All the person Walton. There are eight present. All right, thank you. Next we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance. We have Scout Pack 3859 from St. Dominic, so we'll lead us in the pledge. If you want to come up to the podium here and then if everyone could stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance and the Scout Pack will lead us in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, thank you so much. It's great to see young students get involved in their community and active in the Scout, so stay involved and keep doing great work. Thank you so much. Next, we'll item number three is approval of the minutes for a previous meeting. Vice President Flicky Paneski. Move to approve. There's been a motion in second. Any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none, all those in favor please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Those minutes are approved. Thank you. Next is mayoral appointments. Assistant City Attorney Cameron. Hi honorable members of the Common Council. I hereby submit the following appointment for your consideration. Salisani Sander to the Zoning Board of Appeals. And that will lay over. Next is public forum. Clerk, anyone for public forum today? There's no one this evening. All right, next we'll go to number seven, the state of the city address. Well, good evening everyone. Council President Feldy, Vice President Flicky Paneski, Council Members, Administrator Wolff, Assistant City Attorney Cameron, City Clerk De Bruyne, City Staff, Department Heads, and most importantly, fellow Sheboyganites. Good evening and I stand here before you today to present with you the state of the city address. Before I dive in, I want to just give some important council recognition because leadership is a collaborative endeavor and the work that is done here in the city is never done alone. This council marks several historic milestones and for the first time in history, we have a female majority on the city council. Additionally, for the first time in our history, we have both of the leadership positions in the council president and vice president held by strong women leaders as well. By many benchmarks, this council is the most diverse in history in age and in background. Representation matters and it is truly a benefit for our city that the legislative branch is a little more reflective of our community. 2021 has been a comeback year for our community and is still fully recovering from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. I want to let all of Sheboygan know that the state of our city is stronger than ever before and we are better positioned more than we've ever been. We have more businesses growing and expanding and making major investments like we've never seen before. It has been exciting to see the commitment that so many Sheboyganites have in our great city. Our downtown and lakefront are the heart of our community and there's so much happening in Sheboygan. Downtown storefronts that were once empty are filling up and bringing new jobs and life into our downtown area. Tonight I want to share with you one of those stories of success from a small business owner, someone who's decided to invest and grow their business even during the pandemic. Lynn Podien the owner of the game board cares deeply about Sheboygan and has been in business since 2006. She started her business the game board because she believed in bringing innovative gameplay to all ages to advance critical thinking and stimulate brain development. Lynn moved locations to grow her business. Her investment in downtown along with her loyalty in many other small businesses is a great reflection of the passion that many Sheboyganites have. Growing businesses in our downtown riverfront or anywhere in the city creates a great sense of vibrancy and health for our entire city. I want to thank all of our local businesses for their continued commitment to the city's Sheboygan. If you're ever looking to grow or expand your business please reach out to the city, the Chamber of Commerce, the SC, EDC or the Business Improvement District. Together we continue to support our many local businesses this year and into the future whether you're downtown, in the state of the art business park or any corner of the city. I also want to recognize another important business and community leader. I want to thank Vu Yang for his long-term leadership in the Hmong community. From his wonderful radio show to running the union market to funding and founding the Hmong Veterans Memorial in D Land Park. Vu is a shining example of what a community leader looks like. Vu's patience and determination and continued leadership has helped us all get to know each other a little bit better in our diverse community. Vu has also been recognized and received the Community Building Award at the Hmong Diaspora Banquet this past fall. Vu, on behalf of myself and the entire City Council in the city, we wish you the best of luck in your retirement and next adventures. Our city has also so many wonderful tourism destinations for locals and travelers alike, whether it's the John Michael Kolar Art Center, Bookworm Gardens or even Blue Harbor, we have so much to offer. And of course everybody knows that Sheboygan is the Malibu of the Midwest. In this past year we had one of our best tourism seasons on record. We were on the world stage and got to show off all the great things that Sheboygan has to offer, and the Ryder Cup played a major role in bringing thousands of visitors and golfers from around the world to our great community. We were on the world stage and our community stepped up to this extraordinary event and truly put Sheboygan on the map. However, the long-term success of our tourism economy truly lies in the success of our many small hospitality businesses. Tonight I want to highlight another true success of a local business that has been in our community for many years. He has been responsible for bringing many travelers from all over the United States and the world right here to the Malibu of the Midwest, Sheboygan. I want to recognize Dan Welch for his leadership in running one of the largest charter fishing fleets on the Great Lakes. For many years, Dumper Dan Charter Fishing has brought thousands of people to Sheboygan to fish and have fun on our beautiful Lake Michigan. Every year there is a strong increase in interest in charter fishing, which results in an increase in tourism throughout our city and the entire community. Thank you Dan for all that you do for showing off Lake Michigan, one of our true gems, and our true gem within the city. Looking back at the accomplishments of 2021, we were able to strengthen and resolve many of our priorities in 2022. I want to thank Administrator Wolfe and many of our department heads for leading a lot of the internal audits and fixes that we've made to make our city work much more harder inside and out. In April of 2021, I was elected mayor by the citizens of Sheboygan. The people of Sheboygan made it loud and clear that they want the state governments to focus on fixing their crumbling roads, devise a plan to address and tackle affordable housing shortage, and support local businesses, and continue to make sure that Sheboygan is a great place to live, work, and play. I'm here tonight to share with you that the city is committed to making these vital infrastructure improvements. In 2021, we completed many road and infrastructure projects, including North Taylor Drive, Superior Avenue, parts of South 12th Street, Park Avenue, Bell Avenue, North Franklin Street, Georgia Avenue, South 10th Street, and parts of Geely and Union Avenue as well. In 2022, our hard-working public works employees will be diligently working on many more infrastructure and road projects as well. We'll be working on finishing parts of Geely Avenue from North Taylor Drive through North 38th Street, South 12th Place, parts of Menning Road, North 8th Street and Superior Avenue intersections, South 12th Street and the Georgia Avenue intersections as well, parts of New York Avenue, Wisconsin Avenue, additionally parts of Niagara, Ontario, and Grace Avenue. I want to thank our entire public works team for all these great projects and ensuring that these projects move forward and we get our roads fixed. One key indicator for the vibrancy and quality of life for any community is access to affordable and quality housing. As a city, we know that we need to ensure that affordable housing is accessible to all of our citizens. That is why the city is working diligently to address our housing needs and we are already tackling and making great strides in what has been outlined in our affordable housing study. This year alone, 250 HANU units will be available at the Oscar Apartments on South 14th Street and Broadway. This is great news because many folks have already signed leases even before this project has been complete. We are also working on redeveloping the formal capsule property. This $26 million project will provide up to 101 units with 85 reserved for affordable senior units and 16 live work units as well. Additionally, we are working on a $12 million housing project that will be revitalizing 14th and Illinois Avenue and will provide 48 affordable housing units as well. The rents on this project will be ranging from $350 to $900 per month. We're also working with one of our great non-profits in the community, Partners for Community Development, on a project on North 13th and Erie Avenue for Veterans Housing Initiative. This will be a $12 million undertaking and will provide 44 apartments with rents starting at $350 per month. While we're also focusing on acquiring new additional land for affordable housing developments. Right now, the city is moving forward with purchasing the former Juckams Hall on North 15th Street. This will provide this neighborhood with much-needed investments and attention. Now this is just a snapshot of some of the projects that we are working on with many different private and public partners. While campaigning as your mayor, I told you that under our leadership, we'd be laser focused on addressing affordable housing that is so necessary for good neighborhoods in a strong and vibrant community. While we're also focusing on filling several vacant buildings and spaces throughout our city, which is also important to the success of our community. You've probably heard the exciting new redevelopment news, which will be taking place at the former Shopco site, which will now be the new Hobby Lobby and Ross Dress for Less. We are very excited that we'll be providing new retail options right here in Sheboygan. Additionally, you've probably heard the news that will be filling the old Save a Lot building on North 8th Street, which will now be our new senior center, Uptown Social. We are excited to provide a new hub for many of Sheboygan's active seniors. As we move forward through the 21st century, it is vital that we set a clear vision that helps our city grow. If our city does not move forward, we will fall behind. To ensure that we have a path forward, we are revamping our strategic plan and bringing it to the next level. Currently, we have a citizen's questionnaire open, and we need your thoughts and ideas. So please check out the city's website, visit one of our social media pages, and please complete the citizen input questionnaire. Your thoughts and ideas are very valuable, and this is a community effort. I also want to thank and recognize the great work that our police and fire departments do every single day to continue making Sheboygan one of the safest cities in the great state of Wisconsin. It truly takes a village to make our community a great and safe place, and with your help, we can continue on this success. Consider getting involved and active in your neighborhood association, or sign up to take part in either the police and or fire citizen's academy and get a great hands-on learning experience. Now, we still have many challenges that we still need to tackle. We still need to recruit many more people to our community to help support our many businesses. We need to continue to build more affordable and accessible housing which was outlined in the housing study, and of course we need to keep fixing our roads, as well as many other obstacles that are in front of us. To strengthen the state of our city, we need to continue to work together and cultivate partnerships from all across the community, and we can get it done and we can tackle any challenge that has thrown our way. Sheboygan has so much opportunity and potential, and we are not taking our gas off the pet, we're not taking our foot off the gas pedal, and with your help, we can continue to move Sheboygan forward. Thank you so much, and God bless the great city of Sheboygan. Thank you. All right. Next, we'll jump into a hearing regarding item number 112122, older person, Flicky Paneski. I moved to close the hearing. You need to open the hearing. Okay. No. Okay, never mind. Sorry about that. Jumping the gun here. Pursuance to a notice published in Percival notices sent by the city clerk. There is a hearing scheduled this evening to amend the city's future land use map of the city of Sheboygan's comprehensive plan to change the land use classification of property located on Erie Avenue. Parcel number<PHONE_NUMBER>0 and parcel number<PHONE_NUMBER>0 from class employment to class multifamily residential. Is there anyone wishing to be heard on this item? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Final call. Anyone wishing to be heard? Seeing none, Alder, Flicky Paneski. I moved to close the hearing. There's been a motion and second to close the hearing. Any discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor of closing the hearing, please state aye. Anyone opposed? The hearing is closed. All right. Next is item number nine. Hearing number 122122% to the notices published in Percival notices sent by the city clerk. There is a hearing scheduled for this evening to amend the city of Sheboygan's official zoning map to change the land use classification and property located on Erie Avenue. Parcel number<PHONE_NUMBER>0 and parcel number<PHONE_NUMBER>0 from class urban industrial to class urban residential. Anyone wishing to be heard? Anyone wishing to be heard? Final call. Director Peljack. Thank you Mayor. So this is the parcels of land directly east of the Burger King on the corner of North 14th and Erie Avenue. There's four parcels of vacant land there. Two of the parcels are zoned residential and two of the parcels were zoned industrial. So the request is to rezone the two that are industrial so they're all consistent with residential and this is where partners for community development and their partners will be looking to construct the affordable housing project that the mayor just referenced for veterans housing. So this has gone through the planning commission. We haven't heard any issues from the neighbors. We believe this is a good use for that parcel in that neighborhood to try to revitalize and continue revitalizing the gateway neighborhood so staff and applicants support this moving forward. Thank you. Thank you Director Peljack. Last call anyone else wishing to be heard? Seeing none. Alder Flicky Paneski. I move to close the hearing. Second. Motion and second from Alder Decker. Any discussion from Alders? Seeing none. All those in favor of closing the hearing please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? The hearing is closed. Thank you for doing that. All right next is item 10 the consent agenda items 11 through 16. Alder Flicky Paneski. I move to receive and file all reports of officers and receive all reports of committees and adopt all resolutions and ordinances. Second. There's been a motion and second by Alder Decker. Any discussion on the consent agenda Alder Flicky Paneski? I am referencing number 12 which is the report from the police department regarding their goals. I see that Chief Domogowski is not here. I had a question because the goals for 2021 in the September report changed from the December report so my question is the goals are for 2021 why did they change change for three categories theft property crimes and Facebook likes. So I will probably vote to not include this because I would like to have that answered before we adopt it or file. Would you just like to move to hold this item then Alder Flicky Paneski? Sure. I will move to hold item number 12. All right until the next meeting. Yes please. There's been a motion to hold item 12 until the next council meeting. Is there and then there's a second by Alder Decker. Any discussion on holding item 12 to the next council meeting? Seeing no discussion all those in favor of holding item number 12 please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed item number 12 is now held until the next council meeting. All right back to the main motion the consent agenda is a motion to approve any other discussions on the consent agenda. Alder Flicky Paneski. Starting licensing these particular licenses were in regards to liquor licenses and I have a question for our city attorney. I am familiar with licensing when it comes to zoning or property you've you've got to not put your ice machine here and you've got to stay X number of feet away. Are there likewise the same kinds of restrictions to liquor licenses? When it's read you're on. There we go. Thank you Alder person Flicky Paneski. There are there are many restrictions when it comes to alcohol licenses it's a very regulated industry and there there's a number of rules that must be complied with and then if they're not complied with there's a process by which that alcohol license can be either suspended for a period of time or revoked depending on what the what the behavior is. And that goes back to that subcommittee? It starts at that subcommittee and then would would generally come back to the council. Perfect thank you. Alder Perla is this the comment on this item? Any other discussion on item 14? All right Alder Perla? Yeah just a clarification on the 11 so how does that work? We the board submitted an application for a building contractor that has already been granted. Director Palchak you want to take that one? Under the committee rules I guess they award they review the qualifications of the contractors based on staff review and then they have the motion they have the authority to grant or deny. This is really coming to the council more as a matter of record than an action item and it's just to bring everybody up to speed of who they either approved or denied. Thank you. Thank you Alder Perla. Any other discussion on the consent agenda? Seeing none all those in favor of approving the consent which one? The consent agenda needs to be a roll call so the clerk will please call the roll. Alder Person Ackley? Aye. Alder Person Walton? Aye. Alder Person Dekker? Aye. Alder Person Feliki Paneski? Aye. Alder Person Laster? Aye. Alder Person Mitchell? Aye. Alder Person Perla? Aye. Alder Person Svoglio? Aye. Eight ayes. All right the consent agenda is approved. Next items report of officers. Items 17 through 20 will be referred to various committees. Next item 21 resolution number 26 21 22 by Alder Person Feliki Paneski authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute a conflict waiver letter prepared by von Besen, Brason and Roper SC regarding the representation of the city shawaiian and Rogers behavioral health. Alder Person Feliki Paneski? I move to suspend the rules. There's any objection to suspension? Seeing none please proceed. I move to adopt the resolution. There's been a motion to adopt the resolution. Is there a second? Second. Second by Alder Dekker. Any questions on this item? Alder Feliki Paneski? What I was understanding in the documents behind this is that the company von Besen and Roper were asking to to represent Rogers and do business with Rogers behavioral health but they also have done done work with the city so that that's why there may have been a conflict. Assistant City Attorney Karen? That's correct. The city we've got a number of outside legal counsel that we use for various things. We use von Bresen for some of our HR related items and because they were approached a different attorney than the ones we work with were approached about representing Rogers behavioral health sort of the the standard practice is to ask for the conflict waiver. Nothing that they've learned from representing us is sort of relevant in what they're what they would be doing and it's different folks doing it. So this is plain vanilla? Yet this there is nothing unusual about about doing this. Okay thank you. Thank you. Additional comments on this item? Seeing none. This is a roll call vote. Will the clerk please call the roll? Alder Person Ackley? Aye. Alder Person Walton? Aye. Alder Person Dekker? Aye. Alder Person Feliki Paneski? Aye. Alder Person Laster? Aye. Alder Person Mitchell? Aye. Alder Person Fogla? Aye. Alder Person Foglio? Aye. Eight ayes. That's approved. Resolution number 292122 by Alder Person Dekker and Mitchell authorizing the mayor to execute the 2022 general contract between Sheboygan County Health and Human Services Department and Shoreland Metro regarding transportation for elderly and disabled individuals. Alder Dekker? Thank you mayor. I'd like to suspend the rules. Any objection to suspension? Seeing none. Please proceed. I'd like to make a motion to adopt the resolution. Second. Motion by Alder Dekker, second by Alder Pirella. Any discussion on this item? Alder Person Svalio? Thank you.  It seems to be coming quickly from a government entity that should we should have plenty of time to have seen this previously. I'd like to understand a little bit more. Director Palchuk? From what I understand is this has been in the transit commission's referral for some time and they don't meet. I think they meet maybe quarterly or every other month so they took this up at their last meeting and I'm not sure what happened at that from that point but it didn't come forward in time so that's why it's a suspension of the rule so that they can continue to provide the service. Thank you. Alder, Flicky Paneski? I had the same question your honor. Thank you. All right thank you. Additional comments on this item? Seeing none. All those in favor of approving item number 22 please stay die. Aye. I'm sorry this is a roll call vote. Alder Person Ackley? Aye. Alder Person Walton? Aye. Alder Person Dekker? Aye. Alder Person Flicky Paneski? Aye. Alder Person Laster? Alder Person Mitchell? Aye. Alder Person Perla? Aye. Alder Person Svoglio? Aye. Eight ayes. That's approved. Items number 23 through 32 will be referred to various committees. Next is item number 33 report of committee number 2042122 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred chapter ordinance number 12122 by Alder Person Sveldi and Flicky Paneski to establish the office of director of senior services as a position at the department head level to permit the city administrator to make interim appointments to fill vacancies in all department's head level administrative offices where specific provisions to fill said vacancies is not otherwise provided by state law. Alder Mitchell? Thank you mayor I move to receive the IRC and adopt the charter ordinance as amended. Second. There's been a motion second. Any discussion on this item? Alder Mitchell? Just a couple comments for background for those that are not on the finance and personnel committee. The title of this ordinance sounds like we are passing two things tonight both be officially making the director of senior services into a department head level position and laying out a process for interim appointments however the fact it is listed as amended is because in committee those two ideas were separated out so the amended ordinance says we have it unless anybody tells me I'm wrong is just focused on the director of senior services. Thank you for that background. Any additional comments? All right seeing none this is a roll call vote will the clerk please call the roll. Alder Person Ackley? Aye. Alder Person Walton? Aye. Alder Person Decker? Aye. Alder Person Flicky Paneski? Aye. Alder Person Laster? Aye. Alder Person Mitchell? Aye. Alder Person Pirella? Aye. Alder Person Savaglio? Aye. Eight ayes. That's approved. Next is item 34 that will be referred to the city plan commission. Item 35, number 1152122 by the city plan commission to whom was referred. General Ornance number 332122 by Alder Person Pirella amending the city's future land use map of the city's comprehensive plan to change the land use classification of property located on Erie Avenue parcel number<PHONE_NUMBER>0 and parcel number<PHONE_NUMBER>0 from employment to multifamily residential classification wishes to report that this matter was discussed at a regular city plan commission meeting on January 11 and after due consideration recommends receive the arrow and adopt any of the ordinance. Alder Person Mitchell? Thank you Mary move to receive the arrow and adopt the ordinance. Second. Just going to motion and second. Any discussion on this item? Seeing none. Board of Clerk please call the roll. Alder Person Ackley? Aye. Alder Person Walton? Aye. Alder Person Decker? Aye. Alder Person Flicky Paneski? Aye. Alder Person Laster? Aye. Alder Person Mitchell? Aye. Alder Person Pirella? Aye. Alder Person Savaglio? Aye. That's approved. Right. RO number 1162122 by the city plan commission to whom was referred general ordinance number 342122 by Alder Person Pirella in RO number 1112122 by the city clerk amending the city of Sheboygan's official zoning map of excuse me amending the city of Sheboygan's official zoning map of the city Sheboygan's zoning ordinance to change the use district classification for property located on Erie Avenue parcel number<PHONE_NUMBER>0 and parcel number<PHONE_NUMBER>0 from class urban industrial to urban residential classification wishes to report that this matter was discussed at a regular meeting of the city plan commission on January 11 after due consideration Romans filing the filing the RO and adopting the ordinance Alder Person Mitchell? Thank you mayor I move to receive the RO and adopt the ordinance motion by Mitchell second by Pirella any other discussion on this item seeing none will the clerk please call the roll. Alder Person Ackley? Aye. Alder Person Walton? Aye. Alder Person Decker? Aye. Alder Person Flicky Paneski? Aye. Alder Person Laster? Aye. Alder Person Mitchell? Aye. Alder Person Pirella? Aye. Alder Person Savaglio? Aye. Eight ayes. That's approved. All right next is other matters authorized by law assistant city attorney Cameron. Resolution number 1382122 by Alder Person's Mitchell and Flicky Paneski a resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute an engagement letter with Corals and Brady LLP to serve as bond council with regard to general obligation promissory notes and that will be referred to the finance and personnel committee. All right we've exhausted the agenda for the evening. Alder Person Flicky Paneski? I move to adjourn. There's been a motion in a second to adjourn. Any discussion? Seeing none all those in favor of adjourning please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? We're adjourned at 6.32


Hello everyone, welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you how to create your own unique filters or filter styles inside Photoshop, kind of like what you would do with Instagram, but you get infinitely more control and you can do more polish and do more things in Photoshop than you can with some of the pre-built filters, although I do recognize that Instagram and a few other ones are starting to add in a few more sliders for you to do this and that. But it's not as good as Photoshop and you can do a lot more. So let's just get right into this, guys. I've got a picture here of a girl in a pool and you know what? It's a nice picture. It's a little faded, a little washed out for me, but I want to add in some contrast. I want to add in some brighter colors. I just want to make it pop a little more, even though graphic designers don't like the word pop, but that's what we're going to do. So I'm just going to dig right in. The first step is you want to load the image, obviously, then click on the layer. You want to go down to the bottom. We are going to add an adjustment layer. So this little side rake-ish half-filled, half-unfilled circle here is the adjustment layer button. Ding, ding, ding. And next, we want to go up to color balance. Now when you click on this, nothing happens. Do not panic. That's just par for the course. What happens here is we've loaded up the color balance and we're going to go ahead and start making some serious changes to it. So it defaults, as you can see here in this drop-down, it defaults to the mid-tones. And for me, I want to start working in the shadows and we're going to go from dark to light. So let's start with the shadows. So you can just click on the shadows and then you'll notice here that we can make a few changes. For example, in the shadows, and the shadows, for those of you guys who aren't aware, are the darker parts, the less luminous parts of the image. We're going to add in some color. And this one, I want to start adding in some red. You'll see some nice orange-y colors in the sky, but I want to make that really stick out. And we're going to start adding in a little bit of red. Of course, we're going to do a little bit more inside of the highlights, but let's go and let's just get this rolling. So I am going to move this slider. And as I do it, you're going to notice here, Holy smokes, it's adding a lot of red. It's also giving the girl a little bit of a tan. But anyways, we're going to adjust that later. So I'm going to add in a whole bunch of red. I'm going to add in a little bit of... What do you guys think? Greenish red? You want a red-green sky? I mean, this is part of the... I'll just stop here. This is part of the awesome part of Photoshop, is we can hone in on all of these different parts. So you can literally create it exactly how you want it. So let's go ahead and add in some green in the shadows. And... Yeah, okay, a little bit of blue. Okay, whatever. We got something there. We're on our way. Midtones, similar idea. You got red in cyan in shadows. You also got red in cyan, sorry, but it's also magenta green. This one here, red cyan. But we're going to go ahead and add in some cyan. Pardon me, for the midtones. So for the midtones, which are the less... Well, they're just the middle. The middle half of the spectrum is going to go... We're going to add in some cyan. We're going to add in a little bit of green. This is getting a little wonky looking, not going to lie. And we'll add in a whole bunch of blue. And finally for the highlights, like I said, we want to add in some red. So we want some red. Now the highlights, as you can imagine, are the lightest parts of the image. And there's quite a bit of light parts of this image, especially in the sky here. So we're going to make the sky a little red. And presto, we're adding in some red and it's starting to look pretty good. Maybe you guys want to go with a little bit of green sky, or yeah, let's go with a bit of green because then it's getting way out of line. And then let's add in... No, no, no, no. We're going to add in a bit of blue.  We're going to add in even a little bit more red. I'm going to click off of it. And again, guys, this is a custom filter, basically like a custom look. You guys can customize it as you see fit. We're just doing this for demonstration purposes.  This was the original image. And this is the new look. It's looking pretty good. It's not a huge jump, but again, it's a different look. And we're just going ahead and creating some cool stuff here. So the next step, and this is a part that you can't really do inside of Instagram, for example, is you can make a selective or you can make a partial mask, or you can create so that the top part of the image has the effects applied to it, but the bottom half doesn't. Let me show you how to do that. First step, you want to left click here on this mask. This is the layer mask thumbnail. So make sure that is selected. Now hit G or go over to your toolbar and select the gradient tool. Make sure you're on black and white. You can drop down to select your options. And now watch this. I'm going to select the lower part of her body. I'm just going to draw a little gradient up to the top of the pool type area. Now, it's not a huge, huge effect, but if I turn it on or off, you are going to see that the bottom of the image now has a feathered less of that of the filter applied to it, whereas the top does not. So you'll see that also inside the mask here. So this is a way to create custom looks or custom filters for your own images and to have all sorts of variability, all sorts of options on how to do it. So this is a quick video, guys. Thanks for watching. If you have anything that you'd like to learn or any questions, please leave them in the comment section below. And I'll be back soon with some more stuff. Thanks for watching.


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Let's move on to the next concept, simple question based on section formula. Done? Sir, one minute, just 5 seconds. Okay, Shriya is done. Sir, done. So let me discuss it, we divide the point P and Q. P has position vector i plus 2j minus k. And Q has position vector minus i plus j plus k. Okay. If the division ratio is 2 is to 1, internally. Okay. Then my formula is, okay, I'll just write down the formula for internal division. It is, let's say this is P vector, this is Q vector. So it will be 2Q plus P by 3. For external division, it will be 2Q minus P by 2 minus 1, which is 1. Okay. So just plug in the values 2Q plus P by 3.  Okay. And external division will give you a minus 3i, 0j plus 3k. Is that fine? Is this what you are getting? All of you? Yes, sir. Fine. So now we are ready to take up the concept of resolution of vectors. First we'll talk about resolution of vectors in 2D. So let's say we have a vector a. Okay. I can resolve these vectors along two perpendicular directions. And normally we choose those two perpendicular directions as your direction of the x-axis and the y-axis. Okay. So this vector can be resolved along x direction and y-axis direction. Okay. Now how do we resolve it? Very simple. See, let's say the magnitude of this vector is mod a. Okay. And let's say this angle is theta. Correct. So if I drop a perpendicular from here, can I say this length would be mod a cos theta? Okay. So let me name it as OAP. So OP length will be mod a cos theta and AP length will be mod a sin theta. Correct. At the same time, we know that if the coordinates of a is x, y, x actually could be written as mod a cos theta, y could be written as mod a sin theta. Okay. Now think as if you want to reach from O to a. Then take a path from O to p and then take a path from p to a. Correct. O to p path would be nothing but mod a cos theta into a unit vector along the x-axis which we know as i cap. Okay. Pa is nothing but the length of pa that is mod a sin theta and a unit vector along AP. So this unit vector is the same as the unit vector along the y-axis which is j cap. Okay.  And since your x and y are your mod a cos theta and mod a sin theta respectively, you can write this like this. Okay. So one thing is for clear over here is that the position vector of a, the position vector of a that means the vector connecting origin to the point a which is nothing but this vector is actually the coordinates of that point along with i and j unit vectors attached to them. Are you getting my point? So if I say the position vector of a point is 3i plus 4j, what does it mean? That means the vector connecting this point with the origin, this is 3i plus 4j and this coordinate of this point is actually 3 comma 4. Okay. So this is how we can resolve a vector along the direction of x and the y-axis respectively which we call as the resolving of vectors. Is that fine? This concept is very well known to you. Okay. Now the problem comes when we are trying to resolve a vector in 3D. So let's talk about resolution of vectors in 3D. Okay. So let's say this is my right-handed coordinate system. This is your x, this is your y and this is your z. Okay. And let us say we have a vector like this, a vector. This point is a. Okay. Now before we understand the concept of resolution of vectors in 3D, we have to understand something called direction cosines. Have you heard of this term in your school? Yes. All of you have heard this? Yes, sir. How do you define direction cosines? It's the cos of the angle made by the vector with x, y, z. Absolutely correct. So basically let's say this is your vector a and this is your positive x-axis, positive y-axis, positive z-axis. If you draw a plane which is containing oa and ox, I hope you can imagine a plane which passes through ox and oa. Then this angle which we call as angle alpha. Okay. If you draw a plane through oa and oi, let me call this plane as containing this angle beta. And if you draw a plane through oz and oa and that plane contains this angle gamma, then cos of these angles basically are called the direction cosines. These are your direction cosines. Normally we address them by simple alphabets to make our life easy. LMN. Okay. Later on, this will be a very useful concept for understanding the equation of plane and line in three-dimension. Okay. So in 2D, we have the concept of slope. So in 3D, the same concept of slope is now converted to direction cosines concept. So there's nothing called slope of a line in 3D. The equivalent concept of slope in 3D is direction cosines. Are you getting my point? Okay. Now, in order to resolve this vector along 3D, okay, let me again use polygon law of addition. Okay. So let me drop a perpendicular from a on the xy plane. Okay. So let's say, yeah. Let me draw, drop a perpendicular, let's say a dash. Okay. And let me connect a line parallel to a dash with the x-axis. Let me call it as p. Okay. Now, let's say the coordinate of this point is xyz. Okay. So can I say this length is x, can I say this length is y and this length is z? Okay. You will all realize that your length x is nothing but the length of this vector into cos of the angle between the vector and the x-axis.  Correct? So in order to reach from O to A, I have to take a path. You can see the figure over here. From O to A, if I want to reach, I can take a path O to P, P to A dash, A dash to A. Okay.  A dash cos alpha times I vector. I is the unit vector along x-axis. P A dash. This is this length over here. You can see the motion of my pen over here. P A dash. Let me slightly put it to the left. Yeah. P A dash will be mod A cos beta in times j cap and A dash A vector would be mod A cos gamma into k cap. Okay.   This is nothing but your vector A. Okay. So basically you have resolved the vector A along the I, j and k components. So you can write this like this also. Okay. Okay. One thing is very clear from this derivation is that if you look at this term, A by mod A actually represents cos alpha I cos beta j cos gamma k, which is nothing but saying that A cap, remember A by mod A is A cap is li plus mj plus nk. Now this is a very useful relation for us. This relation says that the direction cosines are nothing but the i, j and k components of the unit vector along that given vector A. So if I have a vector A like this, then a unit vector along this A, this is nothing but let's say this, this vector has direction cosines l mn. Then this vector is actually li plus mj plus nk. Very useful information. We'll be using this later on very frequently. Is this clear guys? Direction cosines represent nothing but the i, j and k components of a unit vector of the unit vector along the direction of A. Is this clear? Yes, sir. Now, if this is clear, let me ask you some questions. Hope you can read this question. Let me know once you're done. Okay, Shreya is done. See, very simple problem. Let's say I'm showing my original coordinate axes like these. Now you rotate it 5 by 4 in an anticlockwise direction. So let's say now along the z, that means z doesn't change. So this is 5 by 4, this is also 5 by 4. Now in this rotated coordinate axes, these are the components of a vector. Find the components of these vectors in the original system. Okay, now when you rotate, let's say z axis is not rotated. Let me show you a 2D view. So let's say this was your original x and original y. Okay, and let's say you rotate a vector, you rotate these coordinate axes 45 degrees anticlockwise. Okay, 45 degrees anticlockwise. Okay, now any unit vector in this direction, let's say I call it as i cap dash. Can I say i cap dash is nothing but it is original i plus j by root 2. Yes or no? Do you agree with me on this? Okay, similarly, the new y component, let's say j cap dash. j cap dash could be written as minus i cap plus j cap by root 2. Do you agree with me on these two fronts? Yes or no? Then only I'll move forward. Yes? Okay. Now, if I want to make a vector, remember k will not change. So k cap dash is same as k cap. So if your vector was in the new coordinate system, 2 root 2 i cap dash, 3 root 2 j cap dash and 4k cap dash. Then if I convert it back to i and j normal components that we had in the beginning of the system, this i cap dash is nothing but i cap j cap by root 2. j cap dash will be minus i plus j by root 2. k cap dash is same as k cap. Okay, so this root 2, this root 2 cancels, this root 2, this root 2 cancels. So it's 2 i plus j plus 3 minus i plus j plus 4k. If you expand it, it becomes minus i plus 5j plus 4k. That means the components, these are the components of the vector in the original coordinate system. That is what we are asked to prove over here. So as you can see, this is what we are asked to prove. Is that fine? So basically here it is the concept of knowing how your unit vector, when you are rotating the x y axis is 45 degrees anti-clockwise, how does the unit vector actually gets changed?