I'd like to call the 25th regular meeting of the 2018-2019 Common Council order. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity. Thank you very much. Would the clerk please call the roll? There are nine present. And all the person wolf is on his way, so you should be here shortly. Next move on to the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand and join me. 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. Next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from our last council meeting. Alderperson Donahue. Thank you, Mayor. I move approval. Thank you for that motion and support. The minutes from the last meeting are before us. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Next we'll move on to Mayor's appointment. I'll turn it over to our city attorney. 1.4 is an appointment by the mayor submitting the following appointment for your consideration. John Matisca to be considered for appointment to the library board to fill the unexpired term of Amanda Salazar, whose term expires April 19, 2021. That appointment will lie over. Next is confirmation of Mayor's appointments. City attorney. 1.5 is confirmation of the following appointment submitted by the mayor for your consideration. Betty Ackley, the Alderperson of District 4, to be considered for appointment to the licensing hearings and public safety committee to fill the unexpired term of Rosemary Trester, whose term expires April 15, 2019. Thank you very much. Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to come for her. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Next we'll move on to a presentation. This is on the Green Tier Annual Report presented by Chad Pellecek, Sheboygan Sustainability Coordinator. I have to say I guess that's my other title. I'm also the director of planning and development. And what we wanted to do today is run through our sustainable efforts from the past year. I know the city administrator had forwarded to the members of the council the report that you'll be adopting later on in the agenda. This kind of follows it and gives an overview of where we are. So we can go to the next slide. So in 2014, the city of Sheboygan became a Green Tier Legacy community. This was an initiative with the League of Wisconsin Municipalities and the Department of Natural Resources. And it was really the collaborative, working collaboratively with other communities on sustainable initiatives that really drew the committee together on the task force at the time, the sustainability task force together on developing a mission and a goal and a plan as to where our sustainable efforts for the community were going to go. So each year we're responsible to submit an annual report to the Department of Natural Resources reporting our accomplishments for the previous year. And that's what this presentation and the report you'll adopt is doing. Next slide. So these are just a little background. These are the communities and counties in the state of Wisconsin that are currently part of the Green Tier Legacy Program. It's really a network of communities and counties. They recently opened up two counties. So there's a pretty good presence around the lakeshore and then spread out through the rest of the state. Next slide. So under the Green Tier Charter, these are really the benefits that we get for being part of this group. The networking opportunities with other communities where we can share best practices and things that have worked. If we're applying for any kind of DNR grants or loans, particularly in the Clean Water Fund and Safe Drinking Water, the two programs at Wastewater and the Water Utility Use, we get additional points on those scoring criteria. We're also part of this PACE funding, which is Property Assessed Clean Energy. It's similar to a development incentive, so developers can use it to make energy-efficient improvements in properties and it can be assessed against as a property tax. So the County, Sheboygan County has implemented this one of, I think, seven or eight counties across the state that's doing that. It also allows the city to apply jointly for grant opportunities. Later on, we'll talk about some of those we recently were awarded a tree grant for Emeraldash Boar. They've done some energy audits and we're working on a three-year grant with them on health initiatives in the community. Next slide. In 2014, the City Council adopted the City's First Sustainability Plan, so each year's action items that we across all the departments use are consistent with this plan. We're working to update this plan at the end of 2019. It's a five-year plan, so we'll take a look at where we are and where we're going and make changes to that. Next slide. So starting with the accomplishments in 2018 under the energy, there was a two new events that were led, particularly with Mayor Van der Steeen, under around bike month in June. There was an event called Bike with Mike, where it encouraged residents to come out and bike the city and it was kind of a listening session on your bike. And then Talko about biking was held in conjunction with Activate, and it was an event encouraging people to talk about biking. It was held at Evergreen Park and they ate tacos and talked about the biking in the community and what could be improved and what we're doing well and all of that. So there was a very well-received event. Next slide. We're also working this year. We were accepted into the SoulSmart initiative, which is a designation to say that we are a solar-recognized community and that we're removing local barriers to implementing solar technology. So right in 2019, staff is working through that scoring system and hoping by the end of the year to be officially designated. And it's one of these things where any type of developer, there are certain types of developers that are looking for developing communities that have these type of designations. Next slide. The Department of Public Works continued with conversion of city-owned lights into LED fixtures. So 393 light fixtures were converted to LED. That's an ongoing process, but there's definitely energy savings that are had by these conversions. Next slide. Under the water side of things as it relates to the accomplishments, the mayor and the water utility rolled out a Wyland Foundation pledge that pledged Cheboygan residents would lower their water consumption and energy consumption. Last year was the first year in that pledge that the pledge has just come out recently. I'm sure Mayor Van der Steen will talk about it in his comments that the city is embarking on it again in April of this year and working to lower water consumption and energy. We did continue to sell rain barrels for residents at rain barrels in the Kits at Maywood Environmental Park. That's been an ongoing project as a place where people can go and get reduced cost rain barrels if they want to collect rain water. Anti-icing prior to snow events, you've seen that with the Department of Public Works spraying the streets and then continued street sweeping, 32 weeks totaling 723.3 tons of debris was collected as well as 338 tons of debris from catch basins. Next slide. Under the recycling and composting, these are statistics again for the Department of Public Works. 3,582 tons of recycling goods were collected, 182 tires, 234 tons of scrap metal, 10,700 gallons of waste oil, 1,734 tons of leaves, and then 2,830 tons of yard waste. So this is the stuff that happens as part of the city's collection area and the pickup as well as Christmas tree recycling that happens after the holiday season. And then the city continues to work with a piranha shredding service as a document shredding service to recycle and destroy documents. Next slide. Under the community initiatives, we held our second year of Rock the Block events in partnership with the Habitat for Humanity Group. We held our third year of the Fund for Lake Michigan Adopt a Beach and Adopt a Habitat in conjunction with Camp Waikota. This was a grant that we had received to bring all third and eighth grade students to the lakefront to learn about the beach ecosystem as well as habitat. So that program has been very well received with the Sheboygan area school district. And then in late 2018, we became part of the network known as the Wisconsin Active Together, which is a network that's encouraging people to get out and be active in their community with bicycling and pedestrian walking and those types of things. So we're just new into that network. We were one of seven communities in the state that joined it in late 2018. Next slide. In partnership with the Department of Public Works, the Adopt a Park Adopt a Trail was implemented in our parks in trails with a number of projects underway. And the Mead Public Library held a winter green event that I believe was related to seed sharing and some other things in programming that they did in February to get ready for the spring season. Next slide. Under land use, city staff worked with the Bay Lake Regional Planning Commission to complete a city code review for green infrastructure and make sure that our code of ordinances, both our zoning code and our municipal code, weren't becoming hindrances or barriers for people to implement green infrastructure improvements. So we're working through that today. Mayor Van Der Sien sat in on these meetings with us and will be probably coming forward in 2019, with the city attorney's office on some changes to our ordinances to make it easier for people to implement green infrastructure. So these could be things like rain gardens and infiltration beds and those types of things, particularly as it relates to stormwater management. In partnership with the Green Tier Initiative, we received $20,000 for new trees to replace emerald ash bores. So that was a benefit of being as part of the network they applied for the grant and they'll be funneling us the money here later in 2019. And then as we all know, the renovation of City Hall into a more energy efficient building. Next slide. So that's it for the year. The report is in your packet. If there's any questions, I'm happy to answer them. But it's a collaboration between amongst a number of departments and we continue to do stuff in the most sustainable manner as we can. So thank you. Thank you very much, Chad. Appreciate all your work in that area. Well, we have a double header tonight. So the next presentation is on our GPS bus tracking system that was revealed and opened up about a week ago. And Derek Mink from Shoreline Metro will be here to present that. I would get a podium. Can everybody see me? I'm Derek Mink. I'm the Director of Transit and Parking. Little humor. Transit we like to have fun. I'm here tonight to talk about our bus tracker app that we launched on March 18th a couple weeks ago. Really exciting for the first time in Sheboygan Transit Shoreline Metro history. We have a convenient app that allows our customers to locate their bus. Really no more waiting extensive times out on the corner in the cold or in the snow or in the rain. We provide a convenient way to track your bus. Next slide. So what is Bus Tracker? Well, it's a real-time app used to view location of our buses on road. It uses GPS technology to map vehicles on Shoreline Metro's bus routes. You can view the bus number of the bus on the assigned route and view a list of stops, time points, if you will, along each route. It's available for your Android or iOS devices as well as PC. And it does not display driver information or any personal information. That's kind of a disclaimer. It comes with the territory. Next slide. So what's a little different about it is it's a traditional website link. The cost of an app is quite a bit more expensive. We partnered with Unite GPS who does this for several transit agencies. They create a web link that's very mobile friendly that you can turn into a shortcut app on your device's home screen. So creating it, recommended browsers are Safari, Chrome, or Samsung Internet. The web link is listed there and with some screenshots of what you might see on either device. Next screen, please. So just a quick shortcut here on Android. If you open your browser, enter the web link in the right-hand corner. In the upper right-hand corner you can click to add a home screen. This is a shortcut that will be permanently on your device's home screen. Next slide. And the same thing for iOS. Just a little bit different for Apple iPhones or iPads. Next slide. So just a real quick rundown on the screen. You will see a list of our routes. They're all color coded based on the routes. So you'll see the route banner. You will see a couple things on screen. You'll see the stop list up on top. You'll see the time points along the route. You'll see the bus route itself. And then the actual location of the bus out on route. Next screen. So enjoy. Just some pointers for those that are using it. You can click and press on the bus location to reveal the bus number. You can zoom in as far as you'd like. Actually, if you zoom in far enough, there are property and house numbers, which is actually really convenient for knowing exactly where you are on the street. Bus location is in real time. We dare you to test it. But in all regards, it's within three seconds of the actual location. And it refreshes every five seconds. So we've challenged it. The active bus will appear off-road if it hasn't been to the transfer station for the start of the next route. And it uses GPS technology, which we all know is technology. It's prone to fail. So it's very reliable, and we hope we never have to use that disclaimer. But it is subject to malfunction at times. Next slide, please. So enjoy. There's a couple ways. We have some how-to guides that you can get right off of our website. That'll take you step-by-step on how to create the mobile device, everything that I've just talked about in this presentation. So check out our website, and you can get more information. Next slide. So just some initial comments that we've gotten back. So the real-time chatter on Facebook. As you can imagine, people like it. Our staff love it. So we hope all of Sheboygan uses this and relies on it. And we hope to continue to work with organizations on this wonderful technology. Next slide, please. So I'm just going to show you kind of a real-time thing right now. If you want to click on 10 South for me. The banner that, yeah. So the wonderful part about this is I just have to say this that every time I look at this, it's always at quarter to and quarter after the hour when our buses are at the transfer station. I have no idea what's with my timing, my internal body clock. But every time I'm at my computer and I'm looking at it, it's always quarter after and quarter to. So, again, this is going to be kind of boring right now because it's at our bus station because, of course, it's quarter after the hour. But you get a kind of a sense of what's going on. So you can minimize banners by clicking on them. Meredith, you want to click on that again. And then collapse like 10 South, or three South if you would. So it's just, it's pretty easy to maneuver between the routes themselves just by clicking on the banner head and looking for the bus. So that's that. So we're happy again, excited. If you have any questions or would like any assistance, feel free to give us a call or check out our website. Anybody have any questions? Thank you very much, Derek. All right. Thank you. Next we'll move on to a public forum. Do we have anyone this evening? There is no one. Thank you. Next is Mayor's announcement. I'd like to invite up some special guests tonight, members of the Lutheran High basketball team, if you please come to the front. These gentlemen have done an amazing job. Went down to state and won the division five basketball championship trophy. And tonight we have a proclamation to present them from the office of the mayor of the city of Sheboygan proclamation. Whereas the members of the Lutheran High School basketball team include Robby Michael, Matthew Witte, Jackson Holsmire, Malik Kai Staples, Graydon Grabowski, Michael Berger, Joseph Thomas Schultz, Max Leonard, Delvin Barnstable, Jonah Juris, Jacob Ugnavik, Casey Verhagen, Zachary Verhelst, Colin Gridalkus, and our coach by Nick Verhagen. And whereas the team was top seated in second rank, they finished the season with a 27 and two record in a winning state for the first time since 2012. The Crusaders are also the first boys team from Sheboygan to claim two WIA state titles. And whereas the team defeated the Columbus Catholic Don 77 to 69 on Saturday, March 16th of 2019 in the WIA division five state title game at the Cole Center in Madison. I now therefore, Mike Van der Steen, mayor of the city of Sheboygan, to hereby wish to congratulate the Lutheran High School boys basketball team on winning the division five state title and have a special proclamation for the school and copies for all the boys on the team. So congratulations to everyone. Thank you for being here tonight. And I'd like to present this to the coach. Thank you. It is an honor and privilege to be here. And thank you guys for what you do for the city of Sheboygan. Much appreciated. And I know it's a lot of hard work that you do. Tonight we've, there's three of us. I'm the principal and athletic director of Sheboygan Lutheran. So a lot of our kids play spring sports or some of these guys included play you basketball and some of that practice tonight. And just our season's over, but there are other seasons beyond. So but I just appreciate these young men and all of them for their work and our whole student body. And we hope we made Sheboygan proud of what we did at the state and our kids. They work hard. They, they went with class and they represented our city well. And I just appreciate that and appreciate being here tonight. So thank you. Thank you very much. I also want to go over a few of the details from the spring election. Congrats to Tray Mitchell and welcome back for a second term on the city council. And congratulations to Barbara Feldy on her election to serve as all the person representing the first district in the next term. Barb's in the back. And I want to thank everybody for the work they did to promote the referendum, which passed on the dark store by almost 90% with a favorable vote. So that was just amazing. We got a call from the league today and they really appreciated the work that we did to keep that issue alive because all the other referendums were held back in the November election and get kind of old. And this is keeping it fresh in all of our legislators minds as they go through the process of approving the budget and the legislation that's before them this year. And as Chad mentioned, the mayor's water challenge for water conservation is starting on April 1st. So we missed a couple of days, but we ask that people consider going online to mywaterpledge.com and taking the water pledge. And that'll be available through April 30th. They have some prizes that people can win. And they also have a drawing for a new vehicle for one of the not-for-profits in the area that people can suggest. And again, this will be, you know, across all the states that do this. We also have Money Smart Week coming up the week of April 6th. Many of these seminars are going to be held at the Meade Library. And you can go to moneyspartsheboygan.com events in order to get a complete list of the different seminars that will be presented. Now, several of the documents on the agenda will be referred to the Committee of the Whole. And Ryan Sorenson has set a meeting for next Monday, April 8th at 6 o'clock in this room. So mark your schedules for that. And I also want to remind the public that winter parking alternate site overnight parking has been in place until April 30th. It's a month longer than normal. And we want to see how this works. And so we're going to continue this year. And then we can evaluate it further if needed. And I also want to remind everyone at 61 days until our council meeting in the New City Hall on June 3rd. Thank you. Okay. Next, we have some hearings. Item 2.1 is hearing number nine of 1819 pursuant to a notice published in the personal notices sent out by the finance director. There's a hearing scheduled for this evening to confirm and exercise the police power in making an assessment for those benefited properties against which assessments are proposed in parking to district number one, parking assessment district number two, and parking assessment district five. Is there anyone here wishes to be heard? Is there anyone here who wishes to be heard? Okay. I'm sorry. There's also a hearing including district number four. Is there anyone who wishes to be heard? Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to close. Is there a second? Second. Thank you for that motion in support. Would the court please call a roll? Ten ayes. Motion passes. I move on to the consent agenda which will include items 3.2 through 3.12. Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to accept and file LROs, accept and adopt LRCs and pass all resolutions and ordinances. Second. And thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on any of those items on the consent agenda? Alderperson Boren. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a question on 3.11 on the truck that Public Work wants to buy. I didn't see any information in the documents about the cost and I believe that's the one that's going to be leased. I can turn it over to Director of Public Works, David Bebel. Yes, this is the sewer vector. Our lease is coming up and actually that this document is is just giving them basically our intent at this point to renew the lease. Okay. So once that becomes available next year, we will have much more detailed information on that new lease. But the new lease that we're looking at starting in 2020 next year, it will be less expensive than our current lease and we'll have an updated newer vehicle as well. Thank you. Are there any other discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? Alderperson Salaglio. Motion passes. Moving on to reports of officers. Item 4.1 is our own number 237 of 1819 by the director of planning and development and sustainability coordinator, Chad Pellecek, submitting the 2018 Green Tier Legacy Communities Annual Report and outlining the city's shabuagans in 2018 sustainable accomplishments and reporting that the document will be submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to accept and file. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those with the clerk please call the roll? Ten ayes. Motion passes. Items 4.2 through 4.5 will be referred to various committees. Under resolutions, item 5.1 is resolution number 202 of 1819 by Alderperson Wolff and Sorensen, authorizing emergency hydraulic oil repair and related equipment for the East Street drawbridge. Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to suspend. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to pass the resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? Ten ayes. Motion passes. Items 5.2 through 5.4 will be referred to various committees. Under reports of committees. Item 6.1 is RC number 282 of 1819 by the licensing hearings and public safety committee. To whom was referred pursuant to RO number 234 of 1819 by the city clerk submitting various license applications and recommends granting the licenses. Alderperson Donahue. Thanks. Thanks for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk call the roll? Ten ayes. Motion passes. Item 6.2 is RC number 283 of 1819 by the licensing hearings and public safety committee. To whom was referred direct referral RO number 235 of 1819 by the city clerk submitting various license applications and recommends granting the licenses. Alderperson Donahue. Thanks. Thank you for that motion and support. Any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? Ten ayes. Motion passes. Item 6.3 is going to be referred to the committee of the whole. And item 6.4 is RC number 285 of 1819 by the finance and personnel committee. To whom was referred direct referral resolution number 195 of 1819 by Alderperson Grinflash and Born. Authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute an intergovernmental cooperative agreement for the development and operation of an Aurora Medical Center of Sheboygan County between the city of Sheboygan and Sheboygan Water Utility and the village of Kohler with regard to the land located on the northwest corner of Taylor Drive and Union Avenue and recommends approving the resolution with the updated agreement. First of all, let's get a motion on the floor. Alderperson Grinflash. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. I'd like to turn it over to the city attorney to kind of explain the changes in the language and we apologize that this wasn't on the board docs because these documents were being revised yet today as our meeting approached. City attorney. So on the intergovernmental agreement as Alderman noted there are some changes from the document that was approved at the finance and personnel committee nine days ago. The primary changes come in section five and you do have the new document in front of you but there is one additional change that was made even after we printed off the copies and that change is in paragraph five a about ten lines down where it talks about the village has made a formal request to the city and the Sheboygan water utility for third wholesale water connections for access to the water main owned by the Sheboygan water utility and located in it'll say in Union Avenue and Taylor Drive. The changes in five primarily come down to two things. First of all there's been some discussion about exactly where the wholesale water connection where we are providing water to the village of Kohler where those exactly will be and where the meters will be and after some lengthy discussion I think we got actually even better language than we had as of last Monday. In essence what has been agreed is that the wholesale water connections and the meters will be the meter for those connections will be at or near the actual physical connections. There had been some talk about allowing the meters to be inside a building there are some good reasons for doing that but in the end that didn't seem to be really the proper option given some other things that Aurora and the village of Kohler are perhaps looking to do inside their campus and we don't want to be involved in any of that we just want to provide them the water and what they do with that water and how they bill for that that's the problem of the village of Kohler and Aurora so that is in essence what's happening we're providing them water we're providing it a loop system so it's in two places we're metering it very close to where those connections occur so that we're actually billing for the exact amount of water that's being used and any changes that they make inside their system is sort of out of our hands. As a result of that there are some changes as well to some of the issues having to do with water connection charges so there have been some changes to that and some changes to what might happen with other village water customers because it's anticipated again that none of that really is involves us at all. Those are really the only changes since the finance and personnel committee meeting there were a couple of changes between the last council meeting and finance and personnel that had to do with some of the details of the intersection at Union Avenue and Taylor Drive as well some of the details on the cost of law enforcement services but those were all updated as of last Monday. Thank you for that explanation is there any further discussion or questions all the person born? I just want to mention to my fellow council members that I reviewed this extensively before we had our finance and personnel committee meeting and I think it's a very good agreement for all of the parties involved and I think very very good for the city. I want to thank city administrator Hoffland the city attorney and all of the team that worked on this because I think it's a very good agreement. Thank you for those comments any other discussion? Seeing none I'll ask the clerk to call the roll on item 6.4. Ten ayes. Motion passes. Moving on to item 6.5 is RC number 286 of 1819 by the finance and personnel committee to almost refer direct referral resolution number 196 of 1819 by all the persons Ryan Flesh and Boren authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute the redevelopment agreement between advocate Aurora Hall think and the city of Sheboygan with regard to the property located at 2629 north 7 street and recommends approving the resolution with the updated agreement all the person Ryan Flesh thank you for that motion and support city attorney did you want to give us a recap? Yes and so the amendments again things that have changed since the Monday finance and personnel committee they're a little more significant or at least throughout the entire document but again I think we have a better document even than we had on Monday in front of the finance and personnel committee. The primary changes are as follows we changed the definition of the project in article one just to make it clear we're kind of dividing the project into a couple of different phases there's the demolition phase when Aurora will demolish the buildings at the old site this the sale of the property by Aurora to a developer and then the ultimate redevelopment of the property which we're calling the redevelopment phase. In the overview in article two then we've made some changes there again to reflect that three phase process for the project and also to clarify what it is that we're expecting to be done during the demolition phase we're looking not only to remove the material to knock down the building to make sure the materials are all removed from the site and that the site is restored to a flat dust free environment that is suitable for residential construction and that's important because what we don't want to have happen is what happened 40 years ago for example with the brewery site that we're dealing with now where things were just sort of dumped into the ground and we don't want those kinds of things to happen. Under the third article undertakings of Aurora we have made it very clear that during the demolition phase no concrete stone brick masonry is going to be allowed to be buried on the site that in order to say that they have completed that stage of the demolition they're actually going to have to provide to the city a report prepared by a properly licensed and credentialed soils engineer confirming that the soil is properly compacted and capable of supporting residential construction in sort of in the same way that the other residential areas in the surrounding neighborhood are done so that again that really kind of relates to making sure that the demolition is done right and that the soils are prepared properly. In article 5 the third party redevelopment this then gets to that third phase where there's no concrete stone brick masonry we've added a provision in which Aurora agrees that if it does sell the property to a developer before they've completed substantially completed that demolition phase so before we get to the redevelopment while we're still in the demolition phase as a condition of approval of the sale the city may require that one or the other of the seller or the buyer of the site would bond in the amount of three million dollars in essence they would post a bond at the value of three million dollars that would ensure that if somebody just stops the job the city would be able to go in finish the job and be paid to finish the job of demolishing the building. Finally there are there were just some changes at the very end updating information about to whom the documents are going to be able to help advocate health not particularly important to us but important certainly to the document. So those are the amendments since the finance and personnel committee last Monday. Thank you very much. Under questions all the person boring. Thank you mayor. Again I think this is a very good document for the city it's great that we can get Aurora the other thing that is great about this is being that it's going to be zoned for residential will eventually have some very nice single family homes up in that area that will be on the property tax rules. So that's also very important that when that day comes that will add a lot of property tax value to that to that area. So again I want to thank the city administrator and his team and the city attorney for work on this discussion. All the person down here. And I don't think I gave it a close enough reading but are there any environmental considerations have you done phase one or two or I'm not you us but Aurora on this. We have not and so the primary environmental concerns that we relate to here have to do with the demolition. So is it possible that there are other environmental issues at the site? Yes it is. What we're primarily doing here is making sure that we're not adding to that by the way that the demolition takes place. There is always the potential at least for there's going to have to be some environmental work done at the site. I presume there's some lead in asbestos issues. I don't think we know that for sure but I think we can make some educated highly educated guesses. Does our demunification clause cover us? Well we're not going to be the owner of this site. So we shouldn't have any concerns in that regard. The only place where we might have potential concern is again if we have to step in and do the demolition because Aurora and or its redeveloper sort of fails to do what they promise to do. In that unlikely event we might have to step in but again that demolition bond is designed to cover all of those costs and that would include the cost that we would incur as far as environmental issues. Again we wouldn't own the property. We would merely be demolishing it but there is always the potential when you're demolishing a building that you have to deal with. Yeah I mean I think that's that is potentially but you think the demolition bond which is substantial will costs of other demolitions and 3 million is on the high end but it is not unprecedented. Richmond, Virginia for example there was a hospital that it actually cost them 4 million to demolish but it's a little bigger scale than this one. Yeah I think 3 million is a high end but it's not crazy high. Because I think ongoing you can be thinking about you know the discovery of wonderful little gifts all over the property and that a developer is not interested or starts and abandons or something like that so I mean that's worst case scenario but I mean a hospital has stuff and so I so that's good thanks. Thank you for those comments. Any other questions or discussion? Seeing no hands will the clerk please call the roll on item 6.5. 10 ayes. Motion passes. Item 6.6 is RC number 287 of 1819 by the Public Works Committee to whom was referred to a direct referral resolution number 197 of 1819 by Alderperson's Wolf and Sorensen authorizing emergency slope repair along the Sheboygan River near New Jersey Avenue and South 17th Street and recommends a resolution. Alderperson Wolf. Thank you Mayor I make a motion to accept and adopt and pass resolution. Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk call the roll. 10 ayes. Motion passes. Item 6.7 is RC number 288 of 1819 by the Public Works Committee to whom was referred general ordinance number 50 of 1819 by Alderperson's Wolf and Sorensen authorizing emergency slope repair resolution number 277 of 1819 by the Public Works Committee to whom was referred general ordinance number 30 of 1819 by Alderperson's Wolf and Sorensen. Item 6.7 is RC number 288 of 1819 by Alderperson's Wolf and Sorensen. Item 6.7 is RC number 288 of 1819 by the Public Works Committee to whom was referred general ordinance. Item 7.7 is the motion passes. Item 6.8 and 6.9 both deal with the new garbage cart system that Public Works is proposing and those will be referred to the committee of the whole. And item 6.10 will be referred to the new council. Under general ordinances other matters received after the agenda is published I'll turn it again over to our city attorney. 8.1 is an RO by the city clerk submitting a public license applications for the period ending June 30, 2019 December 31, 2019 April 14, 2020 and June 30, 2020. That will be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee. 8.2 is an RO by the city clerk submitting a communication from visit Sheboygan making various requests for Sheboygan concerts and fourth of July events. That will also be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee 8.3 is a resolution by Alderperson's renflation directing the purchasing agent to seek requests for proposal for an operational and departmental structure study of the city of Sheboygan finance department and human resources department. That will be referred to the finance and personnel committee. 8.4 is a resolution by Alderperson's renflation authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract for the installation of new floor coverings at mead public library. That will also be referred to the finance and personnel committee and 8.5 is a resolution by Alderperson's renflation authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract for certain roof repairs at the mead public library. That will also be referred to the finance and personnel committee. Next we have a contemplated closed session. Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you, mayor. This might take a second. Go ahead. I will move to convene a closed session under the exception in section 1985 sub 1 sub e with stats where competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session related to a possible developer's incentive for the former Kingsbury development. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Please call the roll for closed session. Ten ayes. Motion passes. We'll take a three-minute recess and reconvene for our viewers at home. The council meeting transmission will end. We'll be adjourning in closed session.


So we just made it to the woods and this time of year hunting on public land I need to wear some hunter orange. So we're going in there with some orange We're gonna make a slow walk through these woods and look for squirrels rabbits hairs So we got some big post-oaks here a lot of acorns are dropping right now So this is a good time for squirrels to be out. It is freezing literally 29 degrees So there should be a lot of animals moving as soon as the sun comes up and we could even get into some rabbits Some hairs things like that. So small game. That's what we're going after. There's no deer hunting out here And we're gonna be using shotgun only my very special shotgun that I've had since I was seven years old So four ten gauge and we're gonna be looking for all these small game animals Just making a slow track through these couple miles of woods coming off really bad weather high winds a lot of rain Animals were probably bunkered down. So Should be pretty good animals are gonna be moving. Let's get out there and see what we can see Tracks already right there This is why we're here. Look at these big fresh Tasty acorns falling all over the ground squirrels should be out gathering these and the deer should be out eating too Even though we're not deer hunting, but Really fresh Really fresh tracks right here. We're probably gonna run into some deer. That's always cool here a couple of hundred yards and I haven't seen any squirrels or rabbits yet small game, but See yeah, this is what a deer scrape looks like they normally do it under a tree Just like that. You can see where he's been scraping That's where the end of his hose right there. There's a fresh track right in it I just love being out in the woods seeing all the stuff. It's awesome We've even got some fresh pecans Look at that wasps nest. I think we'll stay away from that one There's gushing out of that curry car the leaves are falling over it I think there's any squirrels out here though. I've still got a lot of ground to cover It's a good morning to get some exercise out in the woods anyway, so I'm gonna keep walking, but there's no squirrel chatter out here It's looking like there's also some hogs That have been rummaging around back here perfect place for hogs right by the water to run him by this creek Let's hope we don't bump into a big bore out here.  Delicious pecans. Just laying around That one's hard. Man Be a lot of work being a squirrel. I kind of just prefer this in some pie This is very much alive with the birds.  It's okay Isn't that amazing y'all? Just kind of walk through the woods quietly. You just run up on deer like that so close I'll tell you I don't think there's a squirrel out here in these woods But there are deer in there are definitely How look at these wallers Dad go Leading up to the water. I think it's time to put it up That little dough. I think she was just telling me just just go home Go home today is actually Halloween y'all. It is Emmys first Halloween and She's actually dressing up as a deer. So I'm gonna go see some of that cuteness So a while back Texas made it legal for you to go out and hunt these public lands, but for the area I was at today You're allowed to hunt a small game. You can hunt. You can hunt hogs You can't hunt deer and you can hunt doves Like there's a lot of things that you can go hunt and there's these public lands that are designated across the state So when I found out about this, I thought man, this is really cool You know, I've had the opportunity to go hunt some really cool places some private land places and obviously that's big in Texas But in Colorado huge public land areas, but I've never really thought about it for Texas So when I found out I was like man, that's cool. I want to go try that So that's what I did and I had this old shotgun that I haven't broken out in a long time Some of you may have seen this I think I showed it briefly on a video one time I mean my dad were deaf hunting, but this is a It was made for Mosberg. It's called a new Haven It's a model 273b. It's a 410 gauge. It takes three inches and it's a single single shot bolt Action, this is my first gun that I got this is what my dad gave me when we first started to go deaf hunting and hunt squirrels and things like that and it's a really safe way to learn how to use a gun and and It's it's pretty small and it doesn't have a lot of kick at all. So it's perfect and Since you can't use Rifles out here You can only use archery or shotguns because the shot doesn't go very far You know a lot of these places are close to Houses or parks and things like that. So they don't allow you to use like a 22 They don't even allow you to use a pellet gun or a BB gun I really just wanted to check it out cold from a cold freezing morning Things should be moving around, but I can safely say your nature Valley Bars and any nutrient grain bar that you have out here in the woods If you're going for a hike is completely safe from the squirrels and other woodland creatures But I am not giving up just yet. There are tons of these public lands all over the state if you go to Texas parks wildlife comm if you're interested, I'll leave a link down below you can check these out. They have a map and all you have to do if you at least just want to go out there and Explore if you're like me, you just like exploring new areas going into the woods, you know checking things out You can go on there and see the different lands that are close to you see the different regulations things that they have and You have to pay. I think it's $48 to get a public lands hunting pass I think if you're a Texan, it's definitely worth checking out And if you're from other states check out and see if your state has these public lands because it's at least an opportunity to get Out there see some awesome animals in the woods and just have a nice quiet morning walking with an old relic from your past that Just brings back some good memories, you know, so now it's time to put the old 410 away I bet you I will go home and probably see squirrels in my backyard, but that's not nearly as fun as walking around here in the woods I mean seeing white-tailed deer coming up to you close just trying to check you out and not knowing what you really are There is a moment when you lock eyes with a deer or other animals and they're checking you out It just ignites a primal Instinct in your brain if you're not a hunter you don't enjoy wild game meats and all that you at least just need to go experience that Amy what did you get? Dad brought you home Subnuts some acorns. She is obsessed with pumpkins right now. She calls them pump pumps But any sort of little round objects. She's just she's all over it and honey I brought you a set too These are about the biggest pair I'm nuts. I've encountered out in the woods really look at these. Oh, they're hairy, too They are I thought you could use those in your home deck for See normal acorns all the time and I got to look at those and I was like those are huge You know and sometimes big pine trees in the south they have big pine cones And yeah, yeah, so I guess there's small acorns and then there's Gigundo a cause when we were in Colorado, they had like the tiny little pine cones So anyway, I thought you could throw those in with some pumpkins and some nature decor Yeah, some nature decor, you know and as we go through the day get ready for the trick-or-treaters It's time for Amy to put on her costume. She's actually Rifling through some new clothes right now. Yeah, we got there Well, she needed a new jacket like we don't the butt-paste. Oh, yeah, that's good pace. We're out of that, too We're on but boarders Boudros butt paste the first tournament I ever fished in as a co-angler like a paid event It was called a BFL.  It's okay Amy and today in the woods I saw a deer a Little deer like you a little dough. Yeah, there's a little fuzzy thing on top of there Y'all just got to go ahead and hit the like button for that cuteness right there I thought I did in the day on just My little bundle of joy and if y'all want to see more of the public land hunting videos Let me know in the comments down below and if you like hanging out here You want to see more go ahead and subscribe right here to the channel, but just don't do that Go ahead and hit the notifications I'm not quite sure if that really works But we'll take YouTube for it on this and if you super much like the page super much Just made that word up. Go ahead and just bookmark it and come back I do videos about four times a week usually just come on and hang out with me in the great outdoors until I just can't get Enough of it want to be out there every day and I hope you want to be there with me and I'll see you


The next step, if you have practiced that meditation for a long time and you're really good at it and you don't have to think when you do it and you can do it very naturally, the next step is to instead of drawing energy from just the front, also draw energy from all directions.   So you're making this big sphere that's centered around your chakra.  The bigger it is, the better. So imagine, feel that bubble all around your body expanding and then when you breathe out, feel that bubble just dissipating, breathe in. Imagine expanding of the bubble and then breathe out, you're centered on your chakra. So that's one, another way, more advanced technique. They can try when you do the color breathing method. Now beyond just color, what else does the eye perceive when it looks around and perceives the world? We also see shapes, what kind of shapes, circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, all sorts of shapes we see. Maybe look at nature, do you actually see shapes? There's many people who think that nature is just complete chaos, the universe is just complete chaos and there's no design behind it, there's no pattern to it. But actually it's been scientifically proven that there is a pattern to all that's happening around us, to all that we perceive in reality. For example, there's the fibonacci ratio of 1.6180327. So what's so special about this ratio, what's so special about this number? We measure nature, everything is based on this ratio. We measure the dimensions and the ratio of the different parts of your face.  What else is measured with this ratio? If you look at coral, spiral, as it gets bigger and bigger, it's based on that ratio too, sunflowers, all flowers when they grow, all plant life when they grow, most of it grow according to that ratio. And if you really do your research, you can find that there's many places in nature. Even the galaxy or Milky Way is based on that ratio, the spiral ratio of 1.6180327. So if the world is all chaotic and disorganized without any kind of design, then how come there's this one ratio that appears all over the universe and very consistently throughout nature? Now let's talk about ratios. Isn't ratios the universal language of the universe? Because if you think about it, even on our own planet, we have our measurements. We have kilometers, we have miles, we have centimeters, inches, right, it gets confusing after a while because we have so many different units of measure. Now I just imagine theoretically that there's an alien from another planet, how would they measure their time? How would they measure their distance? Would it be the same as using a meter here? Would it be the same as using a second here on Earth or an hour? Probably completely different.  But what remains the same is ratio because it doesn't matter whether it's the size of each individual increment. When you have a ratio, it doesn't matter what the measure on the increment is because it's also always a ratio between one and the other. So ratios could possibly be the universal language of the entire universe. For example we have the Pythagoras Triangle which has the three sides A, B and C and the formula for that is A squared plus B squared equals the C squared so it's all based on a ratio. So the study of these geometries in Hindu mysticism is called Yantra with a Y. Now you've probably heard of Mantra with an M and Mantra uses our voices and chanting and sound for the purposes of spiritual enlightenment in the Hindu mysticism. But Yantra is using geometries and also in Chinese mysticism we have many geometries too. There is the Yin Yang symbol which is a circle and it's also geometrical. And there's also the Yi Qing which is based on the hexagram.  Well geometries actually do the same thing. Different shapes and different ratios of what you perceive or even your surroundings around you. What you are living in, the space that you're living in, the geometries and ratios based on your space could possibly affect your mind and your body and your spirit and your psyche and everything about you. Haven't you ever walked into a room where you felt that it was very uncomfortable or you felt that it was very cold, not just physically cold, but it just felt cold and it just felt that it wasn't very welcoming. Or have you walked into a place that you felt very alive and you felt very invigorated and very energized? So what are some ways that you can incorporate these colors and these geometries into your meditation? Well one way to do that is to use some geometric shapes that you can find that people have been using to meditate. So one shape that you can use is a flower of life. Flower of life pattern, it's a very powerful pattern, why is it called the flower of life? Then you can do some research on that on why the flower of life is such a significant symbol, such a significant geometric shape. So having all these colors and shapes and geometries it may be confusing and it may be even distracting to your meditation. Well the point of this is not to make you confused and distracted, it may be confusing and you don't want to be doing all of this stuff at the same time. You want to maybe pick one thing and just work on that one thing and focus on it until you can just do it naturally and eventually you'll be able to increase your awareness of what is really happening in the universe. Because we can be distracted with all our thoughts, things happening in our lives, what we want to do is to focus on just what is natural, what is nature. And all the things that I talked about today are all based on nature, all based on the universe. We are talking about electromagnetic frequencies that we can observe with our eyes and what we cannot even observe with our eyes. We are talking about geometries and ratios that exist throughout all the universe without nature. So once you understand those things, then you can start to see the universe in a different way and start to be able to concentrate and focus on these things, rather than things that are not natural. So one of the highest levels of meditation is to have no mind, being able to do everything without doing anything. Which is kind of like being able to do everything and being very powerful, being very confident without being even aware that you're doing it. So you're so good at it that you don't even have to try and you're doing it without thinking, you're doing it without intentionally doing it. You're just doing it naturally. That is one of the highest levels of meditation is to be able to achieve higher states of awareness without even trying and without even doing anything. But to get there, there are many steps. You can't just get there by the way. So there's four levels of mastery. The first level is being unconsciously incompetent.  You don't even know, you're not even aware that you're so bad at it. You're unconsciously incompetent. Well, the next step is to be consciously incompetent.   Now you are now aware that you're not good at something. Well, after that, let's say you practice meditation for a few months or years or a few days, even for some people. And you start to develop confidence consciously. So that means you're consciously confident. Now the next step if you do that for many years for 10,000 hours, they say, you would achieve the mastery level, which is now you're unconsciously confident. You don't even have to think about it and have this naturally. There's no intention and then you just do it automatically. So before we can reach high levels of meditation, it does take a lot of practice and you have to go through those four steps of mastering. Anything just like anything. So you want to achieve higher states of awareness. Yes, you have to go through a process. You can't just snap your fingers and be there by the way. I wish that was possible. So we have to go through some sort of process in order to get there. Now there's ways to accelerate that process, which I can talk about in some other lessons, but it is still a process. So you have to understand that you have to practice and you have to be really dedicated to achieve those higher levels. So ask your questions in this comment section. If you have any input that's going to help people watching this video, then also add it into the comment section. Make sure you click the like button. Share this with your friends and subscribe to this channel. 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The Cube, at Big Data SV 2014, is brought to you by headline sponsors WAN Disco. We make Hadoop Invincible, and Actian, accelerating Big Data 2.0. Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante, and I'm here with Jeff Kelly, and this is the Cube. These are covering it live of Big Data SV, Silicon Valley, we're here at the Santa Clara Hilton, right across the street from the Santa Clara Convention Center, we're strata-confused going on all week, and the Cube is, as you know, a live mobile studio. We go out to the events, we extract the signal from the noise, and we love to bring innovators on, startups, big companies, mid-sized companies, customers, and we have a Cube alum here today. Lawrence Schwartz is with Attunity, he's the Vice President of Marketing, and has been on a number of times. Lawrence, welcome to the Cube, good to see you again. Thanks for having me back.  You got some announcements this week that we're going to talk about, but let's start with, you know, what's going on across the street at strata. Sure. I hear it's, you know, pretty packed, as usual, a lot of good is Dev going on, so what's your take? Yeah, no, it's been pretty interesting, you know, I've been here for a couple years now, and it's amazing to see the evolution. I'm always intrigued by how much more and more we hear about Hadoop, and I know I've heard you talking about the trend here, where there's just a lot of changes to that platform. I sat through the Hadoop 2.0, you know, tutorial yesterday for a couple hours, and to see the developments there with, you know, yarn that they're putting in, and all the stuff with storm, and making this more real time, that's offering kind of a good glimpse into, you know, the future of where the adoption is going to go. So it's interesting to hear that, interesting to hear the use cases for it, and I think now you hear, you know, you still hear about the interesting cool technology, but a lot of people are really talking about how it's driving, you know, value for their businesses, how they're using it in conjunction with data warehouses, its role in the ecosystem, so it's, you know, people are putting the pieces together. And you guys, you know, play a vital role, I mean, everybody talks about data, having data strategies, we've had a lot of discussions about chief data officers, so it all starts with the data, and being able to integrate all the different data sources is a key starting point, really.  Sure, sure. So I keep hearing, you know, the term used a lot here around a data lake, right, and the things that you can do with the data lake. You know, I'm from New England, I like the state of Maine a lot, you know, there's a couple of thousand lakes in there, right? But one of the problems that you have is you have all these, you know, waterways in Maine, and as I like to say in Maine, you can't get here from there. Actually, they say you can't get here from there. Exactly, that's a good accent. So I think that's the problem that we see in the digital lakes side of things, right, people have all these repositories, they might be, you know, one thing on SQL server somewhere, somewhere on Oracle, Vertica, you know, you name and terror data, and how do you move data around as you need to in a very efficient fashion, a quick, efficient way to do that with speed, with performance, ease of use, and that's kind of the problem that we go after and we help out with. Some people have called that a data landfill, right, it's just there and you can't get to it, maybe the tributaries aren't connected, or maybe they are, you can't really navigate them, right, and that's really what you guys do. And it's, yeah, and you think about the time to value, right, it's, you know, of course everyone cares about performance and we help with that, but there's also the fact that, hey, if I want to set up a new data stream, pull it in from somewhere else and I've got a new project that you're going, if it's from an existing data store, which in most of the time it is, you know, that could take somebody weeks or months to do, you know, dedicated DBA, dedicated development effort, and all of a sudden this great idea you had for a project to put to test is something that you're now looking at three months down the line and how valuable is it then. So addressing those types of problems, getting the data to where it needs to go is a big part of what we do. You know, I wonder if you could unpack that a little bit because I think for a lot of people, it sounds like black magic, right, taking all these diverse data sets and all of a sudden you're making sense out of it and does that really work? How does that really work? What's the sort of secret sauce behind all that and why all of a sudden is this industry able to do it? I mean, I presume it's a confluence of another factors, storage, processing power and algorithms and the like, but I wonder if you could sort of help us squint through that confusion a little bit. Sure, sure. Well, I think if you look at the history of this year, right, people have had tools, you know, for 20, 30 years now around ETL, right, for moving data, which is all about extracting, doing the transformation, doing the loading. So most big companies have that in their toolkit and it's something they, the first thing they think of when they want to move data. But a lot of those technologies were built, again, for the databases, data warehouses, if you will, of 20 years ago. Now things are much more fluid, dynamic, there's so many more different ones. And that process doesn't work.  And so you have the capability now to get the data over there and then do the work, you know, use the processing horsepower to actually do any, you know, real transformations or other things you might want to do on it. So the paradigm has changed. People really care about get it over there as quickly as possible. And then the technologies evolve that you can actually figure out what you want to do with it once it's over there. So that's been kind of one shift that's enabled us to come along and look at it a little bit differently. You don't have to do this in a batch process.  And we've been able to come in there and use newer technologies like in memory processing, looking at how you do change data capture and doing that, not just for transactions, but optimizing that for data warehouses. We have a lot of data moving in one direction most of the time. We've been able there and really update the interfaces. I mean, we have a very nice, easy to use, you know, GUI interface. As you might expect, most platforms will have, but a lot of the people who are doing ETL products, they either look they're either a command line interface, believe it or not, or they are, you know, they look at Windows 3.1 interface, you know, very basic and simple. So the technology has changed and needs have changed and that's allowed us to come in there and play it a little bit differently. Excellent. So let's talk a little bit about some news you guys announced back in December. Some important news, acquisition of Hayes technology and I understand it's focused around SAP and some of the, of course, HANA is the center of their efforts these days. Really, they're building out their whole portfolio on top of HANA at this point. Tell us a little bit about Hayes and what kind of capabilities that brings to ATINITY. Sure. Sure.  And they solve the problem of when you look at an SAP, you know, dataset, it is very interconnected, right? If you have one transaction record, it might touch, you know, a piece of the dataset that might be over an HR, it might be a piece of the data might be over in sales transactions. So it touches all these different places at the application level. And we've seen our customers ask about this and we're very focused on the, you know, database and data warehouse level, but you have to kind of think the next level up with SAP. And they have been working with SAP for many, many years on solving the problem of how do I get the data out if I need to do something efficiently with it, whether that's my test and development set, how do I carve a piece out, or if I need to do some sort of synchronization between two sites. And how do I do that efficiently? Because one way to do it is just take a whole copy of everything, move it over, and then do your work. And that would take you, in some cases, days or, you know, and be very expensive to store it. And then the problems only amplified, as you said, with HANA.  But you have to think about the cost for performance trade-off. And trying to move a whole, you know, HANA set over would be, you know, an expensive proposition. So it's a way to solve, again, that data movement problem that we address. And we've been doing that for files and databases and data warehouses and taking that to the next logical step. But what are the challenges people have at that SAP level, or more of that application level, and help them with their data movement? So just digging that to a little bit more, if you could. So is that, so it's a challenge because not only is it the database layer, but they've also got all these different applications where the data is essentially a surface to multiple applications. And that would, that's what makes it more of a complex effort to get that data out. Is that correct? Exactly.  And you might have to take over this one and that one because that could change with it. Even if it hasn't, right, it's going to basically insist that you're moving large parts of it over because they want to bring a very large consistent set of the SAP information. And so being able to know those endpoints, being able to carve those pieces out and bring over that consistent is a hard challenge. And the founder of Haze, a guy named Matt Haze, you know, has been working on that for 10 plus years and really focused on that and they become a very popular solution for the SAP community.  But there are always there has always been some challenges getting data in and out of the system and getting, in a lot of cases, non SAP data to kind of integrate with SAP focused data. But so talk about how that kind of complements your overall portfolio. So I mean, sure, you've ticked the boxes, right? You work, you can work with Oracle, SAP, right, some of these new no SQL databases. We'll talk a little bit more about Hadoop and where that's going. Sure. It sounds like you kind of got the pretty much you got the database ecosystem, all the boxes checked, it sounds like. It does. It does. It's funny, you know, in the fall, we did a little blog, I think we called it, you know, the 31 flavors of databases because we cover so many, right, and data warehouses. So this this adds to that and very complimentary. So it's, you know, it fits with our model of trying to help our customers and, you know, it makes sense from business side. We already had customers out there who were using attunity products for doing more typical like SQL work location and whatnot. And they were looking at Hayes and after the acquisition, they said, oh, well, you know, we're already using attunity. It's easy for us to sign this deal. You know, we know attunity, they're a true vendor and bring it in. So there's a complimentary, not just on the technology side, of course, but on the business side, a lot of the customers that we face are the larger enterprises that have, you know, lots of different flavors of databases and data warehouses and 10 to one, you know, they're probably going to have an SAP somewhere in their business. So it lets us, you know, call on each other's customers and understand how we can help them with kind of some of those broader questions. Right. It's a good fit from a customer perspective. So let's talk about Hadoop. You mentioned, you know, we're seeing a lot of action around or people working to make Hadoop real time. Sure. That's through yarn, integration with Storm, as you mentioned, it was kind of the streaming framework born on Twitter. So talk a little bit about how that, how you approach that market. You know, we're at that point now, we're seeing a lot of talk about that. And that's clearly where the platform is going. Sure. And so what role does that play in or what role will data integration play once, you know, once you've got the promise of a real time platform, you've got to get the data into the platform and you've got to do it in a timely way. And that's right where attunity comes in. Do you have plans to kind of work closely more closely with the Hadoop community? How do you see, see yourselves attacking that problem? Sure. Well, I'd say it is an interesting area. And, and I, you know, I heard Jeffrey Moore's talking of the crossing the chasm. And when you think about Hadoop, you know, I think that's an interesting one that's going to kind of move up and, you know, grow an adoption there. I also think it's, you know, disruptive, right? When you think about disruptive technologies, it kind of starts out for one uses data like processing lots of things. And then as it moves up market, right, if you think of adding on storm and other things, now it becomes more real time. So that changes the landscape of everything around it, right? It's not just how fast can I get the data, but what other things can come in there support it. And that's where data integration is going to play a role. You know, we see people today thinking about the problem of maybe I just want to get things and do my data like, you know, do the processing in there and then move it into, you know, maybe a data warehouse on the back end. So we see those cases. Today, we're, you know, we're kind of at the beginning steps of that. We work a lot with Amazon and the cloud and whatnot. And besides, you know, Redshift and RDS, we also support EMR. So customers will take files and bring them into S3 quickly and efficiently. And we help them with that. And then they'll get them into EMR. So we're seeing, at least in our community, that kind of sandbox, you know, trial proof of concepts, easy to get spun up in the cloud. And as the demand grows for doing this more, you know, on site and other things, we're definitely going to follow that closely because I think more of those data integration challenges will start popping up. Yeah. And I mean, just what do you make generally of the, I guess, the Hadoop ecosystem and kind of the landscape, you know, obviously we cover here that we cover the horse race between the different players. Sure. Sure. What do you, what do you, what is your take on kind of where the, is all that competition benefiting the platform generally, seeing more innovation because of the competition? How do you kind of view that Hadoop landscape? Sure. I think it's, I think it's very, you know, it's been good for the landscape. It's not just the new players that are doing it.  So can I predict, you know, how that's going to look in five years? I look, I have no idea. But I think it's forced enough of visibility into the market that people now have a lot of selection, a lot of choices and that's a big thing, I think, for the end users. Yeah. Well, it's interesting to see how the kind of the megabenders, the IBMs, the oracles of the world are kind of contorting themselves to fit into this Hadoop world and, you know, where they've got these legacy products and databases that don't really fit, you know, especially with the appliance model, with the scale out, you know, open source commodity hardware paradigm. Sure. But it's interesting to watch and I'm curious to see, of course, we've talked about today whether we'll see more acquisitions in this space, but always very interesting. So, but let's talk a little bit about what's next for you guys. What do you expect this year in terms of, what's on your roadmap, I should say, is it focusing on some more technology innovation or is this more kind of a year for you guys to scale even a little further in terms of sales? What's kind of on your roadmap this year? No, we've had a, you know, great run last year in terms of both of our products and whatnot. Our big data offering products grew by about 140 percent. So it was a nice year. So we've really replicated. That's a replicate. Yeah, it's those and products around those. And so we've had very good growth there. So we've focused on, you know, looking forward on how do we capitalize on that? So we've hired a lot on the sales side, you know, to grow that in the marketing side. So we're trying to, you know, scale up the business. We'll be integrating more and more of all the things we do with with the haze technology and the crossover with SAP. We'll also are looking at, you know, more of the, if you want to think of the systems management side of replication, because a lot of our users will use us in, you know, certain departments in certain areas. And then they start thinking about, well, how do I manage, you know, everything around that and put all the pieces together and have that kind of control panel view, if you will, of things. So we're working on some innovative things around there. And as I mentioned, you know, we've got some work with Hadoop now through the EMR side. And we're following that market. And I think, you know, we'll keep an eye on that. And then, of course, it's been very successful with the cloud and Amazon. So we're we're working closely with them, looking at ways to, you know, grow that that model as well. So a lot of different fronts will keep us busy. Well, kind of related to just one more question about the cloud. How do you see the cloud playing, playing out that the whole cloud meets big data? Sure. You know, we've been covering this, we did our market study. And it's still relatively small. Kind of the big data workloads that are in the cloud. We're seeing a lot of tests and dev and nobody else.  Sure, sure. I think like a lot of things it's it's showing the value of it. And we've helped, you know, customers do that. So a lot of people see the promise, you know, the ease of scalability, lower cost points of like Redshift as an example. I know you've talked to some of our customers who use that before as well. And I think what shows up on the value side is they can see that the tangible results, you know, when they start using Intunity right away. So oftentimes, I mentioned, you know, you see the promise of cloud, but then wait, it's going to take me three months to get in there. I'm going to have to dedicate a DBA to the project and do all this work. Well, this isn't sounding as good as I thought it would, right? So, you know, if we come in there and others come in there and really ease that onboarding process, right, then you start delivering more of the value and people can really capitalize on it. So I think it's seeing that ROI, seeing the quick ROI, that's what's going to help drive adoption overall. So I wonder if we can talk about your growth. I said at the top of the spot here that you guys have been smoking and the street, segments of the street have been catching on. I mean, you're still, you know, sort of viewed as a niche to a lot of people, but your growth has been quite astounding. You had a great quarter, last quarter, you know, showing good run rate, see if you're executing it also investing a lot in sales and marketing. So you got all these new salespeople. I wonder if you could talk about how you as the head of marketing are helping make them more productive. That's all, you know, right, right. The company you're under a lot of pressure, obviously, to execute. And a lot of that falls on you to make the salespeople more productive. So what are you doing there? And then I got a follow-up question on just partner productivity. Yeah, yeah. No, it's and those are absolutely related. So, you know, it's a big part in training that we do.  I think they're starting to say, you know, who is this attunity here? You know, why are they coming in here and taking our business? And maybe I want to join them, right, you know, when a recruiter might reach out. So we're, you know, making sure that we hire the people who know the business well and can kind of get in there and up and running. So that helps make my job easier. You know, I've been focused on really getting the word out in, you know, different platforms on what we do. And that's, you know, all the traditional things like events and whatnot. And when we look at events and how you think about that, because we work with so many partners, we focus a lot of our time on those events and making, you know, those successful and making our partners successful. And then it's, you know, other things that we do on, you know, making sure that, you know, we're in the conversations that happen around it. You know, we did a great infographic that we're going to release soon that talks about data movement in the industry. That has a lot, and it pulls together a lot of research as well and work with some agencies on that. So it's trying to be, you know, trying to get the word out a lot more. I mean, I joined about eight months ago and we were relying, not completely on word of mouth, but we were, you know, very lucky our customers were bringing us in. We had a little bit of visibility, but I've tried to amp it up on the press, the analyst work that we do, you know, the partner work. And just from all those angles, and we're starting to see that critical mass, and you know, in terms of website performance, leads coming in, and that's been very helpful. Okay, and then I wonder if you could talk about the competition more specifically.  What sets you apart? Where are you winning? Sure, well I think for us, if you look at, you know, the competitors and other people in the market, you know, there was a company, still a part of Oracle called Golden Gate that was acquired by Oracle. And you know, I think now that they're, you know, they have to work with, you know, the bigger Oracle portfolio and bigger company, and they're working on technology that's been around for a while. Our products are fairly new, fairly innovative, so we've got that kind of technology advantage when you look at that. And then we also have, you know, the unique side of being independent, right? So that if other players, other major data warehouse providers want to work with someone, we're kind of that neutral Switzerland in the mix, if you will, that's big enough and have enough known customers that they're comfortable working with. And that can be attractive from a business side to work with versus that. When you look at Informatica, you know, they're a great company, but a lot of their solutions are very focused on, you know, the ETL side of things. Again, we're more focused on adopting the technology, our replicate technology for the modern use case, where it's all focused on getting it over there as quickly as possible, making the process easy, making it efficient. And because we're so focused on that, we bring immediate value there in a bit of a different play. So you can, I guess historically, you compete with Golden Gate, but you're also a partner with Oracle, right? Do you not? I, yeah, I can't say that much about Oracle as a company and what our relationship is, but you know, we find ways to work with a lot of people. Yeah, okay, all right, great. So I guess my follow-up question there is, I'm trying to get to an opportunity in IP and how critical it is to your partners, you know? Yeah, yeah. And it's, again, sometimes it's hard to squint through all these relationships, so I guess, oh, you can't talk about it too much, but. But I'll give you an example, you know, we have a great relationship with, you know, Microsoft, right? You know, they, you know, they OEM a lot of our stuff, so they find it as a critical technology. Obviously they have a lot of work they do with SQL Server, they have stuff they do with PDW and whatnot. So, so yeah, I think the big players are seeing, you know, high value in what we do.   I mean, would they lose the sale if it weren't for you? Or could they replace you with some other?  I mean, that's a big yes for our partners. For them, it's a question of I have a new implementation, you know, going that I wanna get running and I need to get the data in there and I need to get it quickly, easily. I wanna make this as efficient process as possible and we help them with the sale that way, right?  Yeah, you'll get paid. Yeah, you'll get the money. Just delivery. Exactly. But yeah, so they bring us in. We're very fortunate of that and because again, they get high value on it. So what makes a good partner for you guys? I wonder if you could describe that generically. Sure, sure. I think one of the things we've benefited very well from in the partnership ecosystem is, you know, working, you know, getting that close open door to like their test labs and what they do. So I'll give the example of, again, we have a lot of partners but I'll give the example of Vertica. I know the guys are just in here. But it was fantastic. We had our Vertica offering, you know, middle of last year or so, announced it at the Vertica show. And, you know, as part of that, we spent weeks, our technical guys in their labs working side by side, basically getting pretty unfettered access to the questions that arise, the specific ways that they do things, how they do their copy commands on the technical level. And when the partners trust us enough to open the doors for that type of relationship, it's beneficial for both sides. We have a better solution. We get a better working relationship. And then they want to pull us in, right? Because they know us well. We know them well. And if there's an issue props up, we know exactly how to kind of resolve it. So pretty much any database vendor would be a great partner for you, right? Is that fair? Yeah, yeah. And when we've covered the, you know, we've covered the waterfront pretty well.  We've added- Are you working with Green Plum at all? We work with the Pivotal guys and all that, yeah. You used to work at EMC, right? I used to work at EMC, but that predated my join. Yeah, yeah, right. So they've had a good relationship with EMC. So it's, yeah, it's hard for us to mention, you know, somebody that we don't work with. The list is pretty well set now. Well, I think the important point about being the Switzerland is it's hard to imagine HP letting, you know, Golden Gate Oracle to come into their lab and work that closely with them. And that's what I think being independent allows you guys to do. Yeah. So, you know, while, you know, Golden Gate has the benefit of, you know, the Oracle machine behind it, they don't necessarily get the access and the kind of integration with some of the database players that an independent player would get. Yeah, well, you said it, not me, but yeah. I think that's a good thought, yeah. That's my take. That's my analysis, Dave. What do you think? Well, I think again, I just, I think that you've got a differentiating technology. It fits perfectly with the momentum of the big data market, as I say. I think your partnerships are making you guys very, very productive. Absolutely, yeah. And that, to me, is a key to you guys continuing to execute and live up to the expectations, more recent expectations. Again, I think nobody really knew about attunity. You came sort of on the map. Wall Street sort of picked up on it.  And I think there's a lot of momentum right now for you all. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm very, very happy where we've come, especially in the last year, so. Good, all right, well, good.  That's right. You can't let up in this marketplace, but Lawrence, thanks very much for coming back to theCUBE. It's always a pleasure. Good to see you again. Oh, great to be here. Thanks for having me. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We'll be back. John Ferrier, Jeff Kelly, and myself and the entire CUBE team. 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Hey, what's up everybody? My name is John Hammond and welcome back to another YouTube video and tutorial In this video, I want to get started with a little bit of a repository for me to put code in and actually be able to Have it so that it's in a clean place and I'm hoping that you will be willing to do the same thing I'm gonna put all this code in BitBucket rather than Git So BitBucket is actually a little bit privately by default So if you have not already created an account with BitBucket you can go ahead and do that I think you'd be able to just enter any email addresses and actually create an account with any information So I already have an account you probably have to create like login with an email username if you create one in password That sort of thing but since I already have what it wants me to log in So I'll go ahead and log in just like that and it should show all the repositories that I already have set up I actually want to create a new one though So this is my first time. I'm kind of going in cold for this. So let's see if I can figure out how to do this Repositories create repository. Okay. That's what I want I am the owner of that. So my repository name Let's call it tutorials and it is a private repository and we'll use git to work with it We don't need any other advanced settings. I don't think so. I'm not gonna actually Set those up, but we can go ahead and create the repository and it says awesome our repository is set up Let's go ahead and put some bits in your bucket So if we don't have already have git if you don't already have kit You can go ahead and get a knit or anything that you've already had to create a path to it and Then go ahead and actually clone the repository. It looks like Let's just do that get a terminal open if you don't already have git installed you can pseudo app git install git You'll be prompted for your password. You should be able to log in just fine Let's amp that up for you And I'll create a new directory actually. I'll just clone this in the repository You can just kind of take the link and You should be able to get clone it get clone The URL cloning into tutorials it'll ask me for my username which I will give it my password Which I will also give it which I totally mistyped. That's okay. I'm gonna do that a lot in all these videos. I Think I did it again. Okay, cool. So I have clone an empty repository. That's awesome. That's exactly what we wanted We should be able to now move into that repository name as a directory And there's nothing in here other than if I LS dash a to see all the files We do have a dot git directory. So we know yes, this is actually a git repository So if I were to actually make changes fire to touch any file Now that's filed that it that file has been created. I can actually Make it a read me files. Let's move Any file into a read me md for markdown? I'll go ahead and open that up with an editor Sublime text I'll drag that down so you can see it open up in Tutorials that read me file and I can say my repository tutorials And I'll bold that The markdown syntax. I can say this is a new Repository I hope to fill with lots of things like code notes and Other stuff There really nothing there. So Hope you enjoy it and make your own repository too sweet, so we just have a really simple file and Now that that is in our repository we can add that with git add so Add the file that we want to give it we can commit those changes that we just made and The commit message for this can be really anything if you've never used git before That's okay. Ask questions, but I'm just gonna run through this if you're under the assumption blah blah blah Our first commit Save changes, I just need to control O to save control X to break out of nano and now we can push those changes I Will can of course give it my username and Password which I promise you type correctly this time. Yes. I did it sweet and Now if we go to that web page we should be able to refresh And hey it now has a read me With all of its information there And we can view the source to see what other actual files are in there like the read me But our repository is working just fine cool So that's really how we did I just created an account. I logged in as myself repositories you could create a new repository and for now We're good now that we have this setup We should be able to add more things to it and from any other location We can get pull or get clone this repository push and pull information and code back and forth and then we'll be able to work with stuff real easily and remotely Also with a good management system. So cool. Thanks for watching guys. Hope you enjoyed it real simple stuff We'll move on to cool stuff and coming tutorials by


But now I have the pleasure to announce that Vice President Constancio will now reveal to us the winner of the Young Economist poster sessions. And I would like to call the Young Economist to come and join us on the stage here. Thank you very much. Indeed, it is a pleasure to now have the final element of our meeting in giving the prize to the paper that deserves that distinction out of the very good papers of good very good quality that were presented and selected by our jury to start with. We have initiated these events since our first forum here in Sintra. I think it's very rewarding. We send letters to all departments around the world for professors to stimulate their students to present papers at our forum. And they come, as you have seen, from everywhere in the world. It's not just for European universities. So that is very important indeed. So there was a jury, which was the following. We had some ECB staff members, Philip Artman, who was the chairman, Ines Cabral and Peter McHatham, and two external academics, John Muehl-Bauer and Ricardo Reyes, respectively professor of economics at Newfield College Oxford and professor of economics at Columbia University and more recently at the London School of Economics. So the winning paper is as the title, The Effect of Central Bank Liquidity Injections on Bank Credit Supply by Matteo Grossignani from New York University, which impressed both the selection committee and the conference participants who voted on their iPads across the two dimensions of the selection. So as most of you may have seen, it is addressing the key current issue to which extent unconventional monetary measures are effective. During the case of the ECB's three years LTROs, the first initiative, of course, to have data to see the impact, it finds a significant positive causal effect on Italian bank credit supply. It stands out from the literature by first exploiting very rich data from the Italian credit register, and second, pursuing a particularly innovative identification strategy. So please join me in congratulating the recipient of the 10,000 euros prize for the best paper presented at our ECB forum.