Hi, people. I'm just going to go because we have short amounts of time. OK, my hip got it. I'm Georgia Bolin. I'm going to talk about a game I have been designing as a side project. At the moment, it's called the tech policy card game. I am taking name suggestions. You can even do it on the GitHub if you want. So first, who am I? My background is in human-computer interaction in UX. I've worked a lot in data viz, technology, and a lot of community and research work. I'm currently the executive director at a nonprofit called Simply Secure. I won't read that, but that's up there. I'm also an advisor at Measurement Lab and at Tech Congress. And I was previously at the Open Technology Institute, which is where we started this project and the Spatial Information Design Lab. So the idea was, how can we use a game to better understand the policy space? So policy is pretty obtuse to most people, I would say. And people who work in policy aren't really great at making it approachable. As a usability person and a techie, I was like, let's do something about this. People love games. Maybe we can make a game to make it easier to understand. There's a lot of alignment, like structures, systems thinking, you have opportunities for creativity. So maybe we can get better at problem-solving or on policy if we have games to play. It makes it a lightweight way to understand those concepts. We could use it for workshops and teaching and honestly, just to decompress a little bit. Because when you lose the net neutrality fight, again, you get kind of tired and maybe you want to be able to joke about it with your friends. So I pitched a game company. I reached out to Looney Labs that makes Flux because that was what we were basing it off of. I was like, hey, super cool idea. And they were like, nah, that's cute. We don't think that'll make any money. I was like, too bad doing it on our own. So actually, that was just made it fun for us.  Started at the Open Technology Institute. We did some there with the lawyers and techies who work in the office. We did some with some people who work in movement hosting. So groups like Rise Up, Electric Embers, things like that. I took all those ideas and tried to figure out a way to then pull that together. My lovely partner, twins, built a way for us to quickly prototype that. So all the cards are defined in JSON. There's a Python converter to turn them into printable HTML. And then we printed at MozFest and workshopped it some more and have actual cards. So this is all available on GitHub. You can modify it as you want. So some things we've learned. People are really good at coming up with, hey, these two things should mean this thing. They're not really great at making rules or actions. They were really excited about it as something different. People get really into the game, which is fun. Lawyers really don't like to know how their work can be simplified. It's kind of threatened by it. And then we, in play testing at MozFest, we really found some issues around the global and local scale. Things that we think are general knowledge. Acronyms or concepts or agencies don't always translate. So yeah, that's the GitHub. Please fork remix. It is super simple. If you have questions, let me know. Hi, I'm Stuart Geiger, and I am, I'm gonna talk to you today a little bit about documentation. I am the staff ethnographer at the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science, which is a kind of weird role. I come from a background of anthropology and history and philosophy of science and very interested in how we know what we know and how that's changing around data and computation. And I wanna talk to you a little bit today about a project that's done in collaboration with several of my colleagues at BIDS and around documentation, which is something that is crucial, but often something that we have a lot of issues with. And this came out of a sort of interview in field-based study around documentation in free and open-source software, particularly in the data science space. Initially around this event called the Docathon, which was sort of an event around sort of saying that you're gonna only work on documentation for a week as opposed to working on other aspects of software. And the paper is now published in the Journal of Computer-Sported Cooperative Work. So go check it out at bit.ly slash OSS docs. And I'm gonna give you just some brief, high-level sort of findings and sort of teach you about some things that are sort of interesting and that we've learned from this. So first off, almost everyone routinely relies on documentation, especially veteran programmers. But one thing that's interesting is that many newcomers to programming, particularly students, sometimes think that Docs using the documentation is cheating or it's sort of wasting time. And so this is one thing sort of in education and training that a lot of, this is something that science education also deals with is sort of rote memorization versus learning sort of higher level concepts, learning how to use the documentation that the documentation is okay is an important part of computer science and programming education. There's also kind of the paradox of documentation, which is often that sort of those who are best able to write documentation are often those who need it the least, which is sort of an open source. There is this sort of, it's based on scratching your own itch, which in the case of documentation can sort of cause some issues if it's sort of just relying on people to produce things that they themselves need for their own sort of positionalities. We also sort of find that in an interview sort of documentation work was often perceived as not being technical work, but it involves many technical and non-technical skills too. We also found that most sort of open source free and open software developers said that they didn't enjoy writing documentation as much as they did sort of writing code and they feel like they get less credit from their peers for doing various kinds of documentation work. We also find that documentation work is not equitably distributed in a lot of these communities. It can also be gendered in the way that a lot of sort of community work is in these kind of projects. And some projects sort of require, have policies requiring documentation for new features or give maintainer author status explicitly for people who do documentation work, but many do not. And so to wrap up, this is sort of part of a much larger ongoing project on sustainability, invisible work and burnout in free and open source software. It's been funded by the Sloan and Ford Foundation. So if you'd like to talk to us about these issues, please get in touch, contact info is there. We'd love to talk to you if you're sort of in these sort of spaces or have thoughts and feelings about them. So thank you very much. All right, hello everyone. My name's Gabrielle Hayden. This is Vicki Steves. And we are both librarians for research data management and reproducibility. I'm at UofL and Vicki's at NYU. And we are here to say that when you think about reproducibility and communities of shared responsibility around reproducibility, you think librarians. The job of the library is to use cutting edge technologies to disseminate reproducible knowledge from the papyrus to the printing press to the repository. Our titles talk riffs on Walter Benjamin's famous essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility. And there he talks about the aura, right? The place and time in which something is created. So with apologies to my former career as a humanist, let's think about the aura as the computational environment, right? And as Dr. Whitaker noted, given the pace of computational change these days, that aura is increasingly difficult to replicate, to approximate when we want to make our research reproducible. So, and she did such a great job of talking about reproducibility. I'm not gonna belabor that definition here, but really just say people have started to really think of libraries when they think about research data management. But the role of libraries in assisting in reproducibility is not just in data management, but in everything that goes into data management best practices plus capturing the workflow and provenance of research practices and really capturing, as we say, that aura, that computational environment. And so I'll just say an overview of sort of what data librarians do, which is sort of the niche of librarianship in which Gabrielle and I are situated, is that we provide services for data and information literacy. We collect data for reuse by our community. We support you and your grants. We provide repository services and we do digital preservation and digital preservation is not just about keeping bits safe. It's about enabling reuse. And so you can see where weaving these together could really have a lot of potential for holistic research reproducibility services. And so here are a few ways in which I've worked in reproducibility services in the library and in which Gabrielle will also be working. A few of these just to gloss over infrastructure. So providing funds, labor and use of floss reproducibility tools. No corporate capture of reproducibility. You know who I'm talking about. Education, we teach a ton of classes on helping folks work reproducibly. The biggest area of improvement for libraries is making sure that the things that we are collecting are reproducible. And then in digital preservation land, we see, oh, I timed myself. There is emulation as a service as a means of preserving software and operating systems and making those available to researchers for computational reproducibility. Call to action this. Hello. So I'm a little stressed out. But I'll try to tell a story. So I come from Belarus, which is a country not many people know about. Or not many people know about what's going on there. It's a place where there are 23 universities. Lots of educated people. But not a huge impact on the scientific for publishing worldwide. So there was an attempt, or there was a chance for Belarus to be put on the map of the big science in the 30s when Albert Einstein applied to get a job at the Minsk University because his favorite assistant was teaching there. But the decision was escalated all the way to Joseph Stalin, if I said that, no. And no. So I think there is a chance for people to put Belarus on the map of science now. And there's something that's happening that's kind of like a revolution. Because 10 years ago, the librarians from 23 universities, all the universities in Belarus got together and made their universities publish all the research online and all the syllabus and all the teaching materials in an open format, all texts, everything fully searchable on an open source portal, this piece. And right now it's 600,000 articles.  And there is a part of Belarus that's completely cornered on off and there are just wildlife things happening there and scientists. And you can find out about what happens when, from these publications, I mean, what happens when there is a language disappearing in real time, because 20 years ago, 30 years ago, there were 4 million people speaking my language. And now there are probably 200,000. So it's happening right now. And there are studies about that. Or maybe you just need a data set about how things are changing in the generations, in the academic setting, in the non-English-speaking area or country. So any of those things can be uncovered. If you need this data set, talk to me. I'm happy to open this up to anyone else. Thank you. Questions? Questions? Hello. My name is Asura. And I'm here to present Open Knowledge Maps, which is a project that wants to change the way we discover research. How do we discover research? We usually go to these, to our favorite search engine, type in our keyword, get a lot of results. And then, as we don't have the time to skim read two and a half million papers, we'll probably head over to the most cited one. And for reasons that are probably not good in a lightning talk, we believe this is bad and suggests an alternative, which is a visual approach. We create knowledge maps based on these results, extract key topics, build clusters. You can dive into these. You can read the papers.  And please head over to openknowledgemaps.org and try it out. The second issue that I want to address, two lightning talks, goes back to this issue. All of us use Google Scholar. Everyone does it. This is part of research culture. And second of all, the more important fact is that this is bad, because Google Scholar does not provide APIs. We do not know how they rank the results. We have no access to historic data. And this is bad because it not only affects researchers and institutions, but also institutions. And as a matter of fact, by doing this, we are running into a wall of dark knowledge. This term coined by Jesh Kedal, 2016. Please look it up. Basically, it refers to the knowledge lost not only behind paywalls, but also behind the missing reproducibility, behind privatization, behind commercialization, and does also apply to all these other platforms that all of us use. So this is why we at Openknowledgemaps also support open infrastructure for discovery, for knowledge discovery. And please, two things, head over to Openknowledgemaps if you're interested, and also check out hashtag Don't Leave It to Google on Twitter. Thank you. Questions?


good to go. Okay. Good morning. This is a convening of the Massachusetts Gaining Commission for one of our agenda setting meetings holding this meeting virtually saw take roll call attendance. Good morning, Commissioner O'Brien. Good morning. I am here. You know what, I realized that maybe Commissioner Hill may not have yet point. Commissioner, I'll go to Commissioner. Yeah. Good morning. Good morning, Commissioner Maynard. Good morning. And we'll just hold for a second. Mr. Hill might be just having some challenges joining us. What I can do is start up. I guess I didn't realize he had not joined. We'll see if I can just. There he is. And Commissioner Hill. Are you present? Yes, I am. Excellent. Thank you. And we've checked in with Commissioner Skinner, who's joining right now just on our video. She'll join us in video a little bit. And then Commissioner Maynard's all set. We'll get started. But today is Wednesday, May 10th, and it is public meeting 145, actually. We recognize and give Grace some credit here just in terms of reviewing our documents and the minutes that we were off on. And we needed to reconcile that. So Grace and Ian Yang will take care of that for us. The minutes were right and our just starting numbering was a little bit off. Okay. So call this meeting to order and we have some minutes. Yes, Madam Chair. I move that the commission approve the minutes from the April 24th, 2023 agenda setting meeting that are included in the commissioner's packet subject to any necessary corrections for typographical errors or other non-material matters. Second. Second. Thank you. Everybody have a chance to review? Okay. Hearing no edits or comments. Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Maynard. Aye. And I vote yes. Five-zero. Thank you, Ying. Okay. Moving on then to our agenda planning process. We have the upcoming meeting schedule that everyone can take a quick reference to as we go along. But our next full public meeting is May 16th. And it looks like it's going to be a one minute please. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. A good one. We have started administrative update, Karen. Yeah, we can just keep that on. I don't know if this is an administrative update issue or you want a separate agenda item, but the governor has rescinded executive order 595. I think that goes into effect May 11th. So that will, you know, it begs the question, just the commission as a body want to adjust their policy on COVID, both the vaccine requirement and what the rules are for guests coming into the office. That also ties into what the commission plan is for using the public space, if you want to resume public meetings. So these are all, these are all issues that are tied together and we want to consider putting that on the agenda when convening the commissioners. Commissioners, how would you like to proceed on that? We adopted a policy. Commissioner O'Brien, you were part of that working group. How would you like to proceed? It is. So I think what might be helpful is if we get a refresher on what the current status is in terms of what other requirements that we put on visitors, et cetera, coming in, and then we have a conversation about, I think it's bifurcated, right? It's people that are coming in, what are we dropping everything? And then also the question of what are we going to do meetings going forward? I think it's a separate question than people coming in. I know we can't discuss it here, but Tripti has done a whole bunch of research on what we have and the status. She can update on that. She can also update on what her research has been done for the executive branch and what their rules and requirements are. I guess I would also like, could we, could we see what the policy was, the fulsome policy that was adopted for COVID and not just on visitors? For the MGC? That would, OK, OK, yes, yes. No, that would include, I know. Anything that's written the whole policy, right? I mean, because yeah, because we had a vaccination requirement and that sort of thing, which we may or may not want to drop, right? So I think getting an update on the requirements for staff and visitors was a good jumping off point. And then we can have that conversation. I actually would, if we just concentrate on vaccination and not look at the whole policy, I kind of feel like I think it might be helpful for everybody to see what our COVID policy. Oh, no, I just did that as an example. I agree with you. If we see it as sort of there's the in there's the inward facing and the outward facing. I just threw the vaccination out as an example of something we may as an example. Got it. So Karen, is that how to just bring it? What we what was decided? What was adopted? There was a working group for those who weren't here that I I asked two commissioners were on it with members of the team and their recommendations made that extended beyond the vaccination. So that's what I'm getting at. I think it warrants a good discussion. I know that the 16th is going to be busy. Grace, is there another day in the future that we can maybe recommend in commissioners? We would just be a little bit behind the administration that works for you, Karen. Whatever days for the commission we can do. Just today's date. I just said it. The 10 tomorrow is the administration. We're going to be behind in any case. Yeah, we could add it if we added a little bit of time to the 22nd meeting, which is the community implementation application for transportation applications. And we also added on MGM's quarterly report to that last agenda setting meeting. So if we extended that meeting, I'm pretty missed. I don't know if we can have it on then, certainly. Joe, what are you thinking of in terms of how long is that meeting going to be? I only think we're going to be at least a couple of hours on the applications, you know. And then we got, you know, say a half hour for the MGM quarterly. We have four hours right now, which hopefully is enough for applications and the quarterly report. Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping that should be more than Attica because we're going to be doing two by twos on all of these. So I think the commissioners will be well briefed on the applications. Okay, Karen, it may make sense to at least try to address that that day. One more second. Yeah. That's fine. I think it's important. And we can get together and just figure out the materials for the packet. Just so I have everyone and I have everything for all the commissioners who will be reviewing this, the vaccination policy for employees and our guests, our other two items and our current vaccination policy, correct? And also it'd be helpful a memo to summarize what the executive branch rules are now. Okay. The commissioners get that as a point of reference, please. Thanks so much. Sure, I just wanted to make sure I had what everyone was looking for. Well, on any COVID related rules. Steps that we've taken as an agency. That was adopted by the commission out of that working group. And that we, yeah, anything that's COVID related, Trukia, may just read those two that you said. Right. There are things that tie into that. And actually the HRD just sent out a memo which stated things around job descriptions and parts of the offer letter. And those are things that we've implemented as well. So I'll share with you all the things that we've done so that way you can make a decision. Thank you. Okay, great. All right. Anything else you want me to manage to update Karen? No, that's it. So yeah, so we don't need to have anything particular for the 16th to save some time. Well, my speaker is defaulting again as it seems to have, does at least once a meeting. There we go. We'll have meeting minutes perhaps, Judy. I don't know if she's on. Yeah, we're gonna have meeting minutes from November 29th, 2022 and December 1st, 2022. Great. I say we have a lot of minutes coming your way, folks. Thank you, Commissioner. All right, and then let's just say to update. We're gonna hear from Commissioner Hill and Greg from Beacon Hill that relates to the game. We lost you for a little bit. I'm having trouble hearing. Yeah, you're cutting out again. Nothing has changed on the speaker. Now we can hear you. Okay, it's my speaker, I don't know why. Okay, so not working again? No, you're good. No, no, we're okay. All right, it's telling me all kinds of things. So we'll have a legislative update on everything that's happening on Beacon Hill that relates to the gaming commission in some way. Pretty much a high level discussion at this point in time. And then if there's any action items you and Grace will coordinate, Commissioner. All right, we have a bunch of regulations scheduled and I understand perhaps too that you wanted to add another one legal. And I think Grace was perhaps getting concerned about time. So Grace, did you have a chance? I know it was literally five minutes before this meeting started to speak with anyone from legal. I think Caitlin and I connected and so legal is gonna be adding 222 back to this agenda as well. So we have five regulations on if we, I think we're pushing up against five and a half hours for this meeting. And it seems that we could if we wanted to have a separate regulation meeting the following week, if we wanted to just do regs on that its own meeting. So not to pile on, but I was talking to Caitlin and Mina yesterday and they reminded me of something that was in the minutes we just approved, which where I brought up the concept of the winner lose language that cropped up when they took out the risk free, no risk from the ads. And I did wanna have us have a conversation about making sure our intent is covered in the reg. We didn't write it to say, if you don't say risk free, you're good. But things like win or lose may run afoul of what we intended. And so I did, apparently April 24th and since 256 is coming up, I would love to have that conversation with legal too. Yeah, and we had that down as a notation commissioner because I think we had this discussion before that maybe the language needs to expand to intent and not just the word. So to your point, I'm gonna turn back to Grace and legal. I forget, so that would be in the advertising, 256. 256 is on this list, so that's not adding on. That's the good news, it was contemplated. How is the timing for legal Grace if we did push this over to a separate? Does it work for them? Yes, I don't believe anything was contemplated enough that it couldn't wait a week for it to end. Yeah, nothing was up for a final vote, so we don't have sort of those deadlines for any of these. I wouldn't wanna push them off too far just because we'll start backing ourselves up. We have a bunch of regs coming on June 1st or we're planning to come on June 1st. So happy to move these two and other data if necessary, but again, just don't wanna back them up too far. Okay, but 256 is already final, correct, Caitlin? Yes, and the one thing I'll note about 256 is we can bring back sections of it, so we can bring back, you know, 01 and not the whole regs so that we don't lock the whole reg up as necessary. Yeah, 01 is the section that Commissioner Brown's mentioning. That might be helpful to bring up on the 16th because of somewhat of a sense of urgency around that discussion. That, Commissioner O'Brien, I think is what you were getting at in terms of timing, right? All right. So I apologize, just for our planning purposes, are we taking the regs off of this or are we just gonna see how the meeting goes and then decide at the end? Let's decide at the conclusion of revealing through 12, okay? See what else we are necessities, but I would say for right now, certainly 205, CMR 256 is a necessity, at least with respect to 01, all right? The delegation authority, we need to adjust that. Commissioner Maynard, Commissioner Hill and Dr. Lightbound. We were gonna make a two-part discussion. I think it's okay that it's become a one and I think Liga was gonna maybe memorialize your discussion in some kind of a document for us. How are we doing on that? I think that we're ready whenever it fits the calendar, right? We got bumped that day, but I think we're ready. Okay, great. East Broadway expansion, that would be the discussion on priorities, Joe. You'll be ready? We should be all set with that. We'll have sort of that laundry list of issues that we wanna talk about and see what we wanna get from Encore as part of any application. Okay, and yesterday I did catch up with Joe because we've identified for the public hearing, because we, Commissioner, remember, we thought that maybe a second might be warranted. You know, it may be that not many attend because in fact, we did broadly broadcast that our first public hearing, but some people missed it. So we're gonna do a virtual, and June 6th was identified, right? June 6th, yep, during the lunch hour, lunch hours. During the lunch hour, like 11.30 and 1.30. So Joe and Todd discussed whether or not it would work to have the public hearing after this meeting scheduled for the 16th. And it was agreed that that would work just fine. In fact, we might get some intelligence about even our June 16th meeting. Yeah, I think they can work in parallel. They don't have to be sequential. Right. So we'll go forward with number six, Encore expansion. All right, anything else on that? Nope. Okay, and then you've got MGM and PPC's quarterly report. And actually that's Encore and PPC. That was my mistake. I had the wrong, so it's Encore and PPC. Yep. Encore, okay, got it, no problem. Yeah, MGM had a couple of internal conflicts, so we moved them out to the 22nd. I remember now. Okay, then they'll be ready though. Yes. All right, then we have an item eight, local skinner and Derek, commissioner skinner. I don't know if you're able to hear, but it'll be all set for the third quarter budget update next week on the 16th. We will. Commissioner Skinner? Okay. We will. Okay, excellent, thank you. All right, we've got sports wagering. Yes. Cheryl is out and Crystal are at Metal Land learning a bunch about sports wagering, that's good. Yes. He will be ready for both item nine and 10. Great, okay. And then we've got Bruce, the fanatic certificate of operations, but they'll be all set. They'll be all set, yes. Goodness. Okay, and then we have schedule and Marianne. Good morning. Good morning. We're all set. You're all set, and that would require an executive session. Mm-hmm. So nothing dropped off on legal, but commissioners, let's consider our calendars. Do we, I don't know how people feel about that particular day, but if we want to go on in and get everything done that day, we certainly have had longer than five and a half hour meeting. So I just wanna check in with you. It may not even be longer than five and a half hours if we did all those regs, but I wanted to just check in should we rather than pushing it down to just make another meeting, either the 21st, 22nd, or 23rd will end up being lengthier. So. Are we talking about June 1st? No, no, we're talking about May 16th. So I'm not attending, but I know an alert went out about some event. I think Boston Chamber event that night. I'm not attending, but I didn't know if anybody else was. You might be bumping up against a need for someone to get out on the seaport. It's the Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting that night. Yeah, starting at 4.35 o'clock. Yeah, that's okay. I'm not going, I just didn't know if anybody else was. I was not planning on it. Yeah, I'm fine with an extended meeting on the 16th. Yeah, and the other one is a big kind of dinner event. It's not such a speaker thing. So we will hopefully not be that late. Okay, so, Grace, we're gonna stay with it. We're gonna stay with it. Okay, so, Caitlin, let's plan on all five. Sounds great. 256.01, okay, could we leave it? Sorry, and just to be clear, it's not, I don't think it's actually 01. I was just using an example, but I'll make sure that Grace has the right sections for the agenda. Oh yeah, the third part uses 01. Yeah, so whatever section it is on the language. I think we've received some input from some stakeholders through the media and Elf's and other ways, other platforms that Mills has been collecting that might be helpful, Caitlin to make sure we can address that Mills has some materials that might be germane to this discussion. So if you could check in with him as you prepare for. In what I might say then, just given that these are some additional thoughts and a pack of materials are basically due today, maybe we can have sort of an initial conversation. The 16th and then any actual edits can come at a future date. I'm good with that. Commissioner O'Brien, you're fine with that? Then we could roll over that one to adopt it, but I think the discussion alone is warranted and timely to have it on the 16th. Thanks. Okay, so grand return to the next meeting is May 22nd. Administrative update, we've got some minutes that will come through probably. I don't know if there's anything particular, Karen, for you on that, but now that is the COVID update will be that. That will be it. And then we really are dedicating this meeting to Chief Delaney. Yeah, so community mitigation fund, we'll be ready to go. We actually changed things around a little bit. We will not be doing transportation on the 22nd. We're gonna be doing some of the other categories, but we were still waiting for a couple of responses back and we had to keep some coordination with MassDOT, so we've shifted things around. But we'll be doing two by twos on Monday, so everybody will get a briefing on the particulars. Okay. And then I think the MGM quarterly report, I'm wondering if we shouldn't put that right up front rather than having them. We don't know exactly how long the Community Mitigation Fund applications will go and it might be good to just get them in and in and out. Yeah, in the order of the agenda setting, never dictates the order of the agenda. Right, right. Yeah, so Grace will check in on that. Good. Is there anything else we need to add? Matt, Chair? Yes. I kind of, with the volume of things have been coming at us with sports wagering, I'm kind of requesting that sports wagering become a standing item that we could opt out of if we have nothing in the meetings going forward. We've just been getting changes to the house rules on a pretty regular pace. I don't think at this point we have anything for the 22nd, but my guess is we probably will get something, it might be a small item or something like that, so just to be safe, I would like to have something reserved for the sports wagering division. Yeah, so we don't have an agenda setting meeting between now and the 22nd. I think, you know, Bruce and I talked, you know, I think at agenda setting meetings it makes sense to address whether there would be something, but we don't have one between now and then. So I think, Bruce, if you have something in particular, the agenda would need the specifics. Yes. Or it would be included in the agenda, if you just work with Grace and Kathy for the 22nd, and then at agenda settings, we can just make a notation, show us, check on the sports wagering, does that make sense? Yes. So we'll have sports wagering on our agenda setting as a standing prompt, right? Right, yes, yes. Yeah, and then, you know, when something comes up, you know, working with Grace and me is the best way and then we can be as responsive as possible. Yes. When we understand your pain, that's for sure. Yeah, it's clarifications need to be done or house rules. It just seems to be steady flow at this point. Yeah, but for agenda, just to Karen's point, we have to be specific anyway, so just we'll, you know, we'll have it. Yes. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Okay, anything else? Commissioners or team for the 22nd? I have a couple items that would be ready on the 22nd if you want to put them on the 22nd. So first, there's a non-compliance matter involving a category three sports wagering operator, draft King's notified director banned on March 23rd that it had accepted wagers on an unapproved event for a period in March. And the IEB did review the incident and prepared a written summary of the review that is available for you. And in keeping with the process that you've established, the thought was to provide you with the summary and allow you to discuss it at your meeting to determine how you want to proceed. That's fine. I don't know if we've established that process. It's come in different ways before the non-compliance came to us and then we asked IEB to review. If it's going to be coming through Bruce and Bruce makes that decision, we just need, I think the commissioners would want to have, we're waiting for that process. I think that legal is developing. Yes, that's correct. Darrell counsel Grossman has that at least a draft and he's finishing up that draft. So that would be presented to the commission for your approval on the process. In this case, it sounds as though draft King's made a self closure. So the only reason that we need to understand the process is for purpose of public discussion. It means that the public and the commissioners hear about the disclosure a little bit later than they would have heard when it first came in. So that's a matter for the commissioners to think about whether it managed to us or not. Commissioners, is there anything you want to weigh in on or to help on the process? Should we just wait for the draft to come? I think in the other ones, if you would call that came to us directly and then we asked on eB to review, this case came to Bruce, Bruce asked on eB to review, so. I guess the only thing I would want is an alert to us that a self disclosure came in, almost just like a docket entry or docket list so that we know, so that if something, if we do say we want to advance this ASAP, we know. I think in general, coming through that way makes the most sense, but I would love us to be able to have some sort of running lists so that if we as a commission get together and say we want to jump this one up, that we know it's out there. And again, that's because 23N is different than 23K. That's the only way to describe it. So Bruce, it's a little bit of an adaption from what you're used to under gaming. God, commissioners, were you weighing in or just coming in? Okay. Good morning. Mr. Hill, commission Maynard, any thoughts on? It's probably helpful at this stage to know when self disclosures are being made, like that idea. I mean, okay. And your next item. The next item is that the IEP can update you on a recent civil administrative penalty that was assessed under an agreed protocol with MGM Springfield. So we've recently executed a matter and our protocol has been that we've updated you publicly and we'd be prepared to do that. I think it will probably be about a 20 minute discussion. Okay. And you're coordinating that with Mills. Correct. Okay. Anything else from the team for the 20 seconds? How are we doing on time, Grace, if you have a guess for that day? So we, it was a short ends meeting. Given that it was originally just for the see my publication review. So we have about four hours now. I would say we would need another hour tacked onto that to get through both of IEP's issues and the public executive order. So we have the time to add on that Monday if it is okay with commissioners. So I want to make sure I heard correctly. Did you say that it would, it will work to accommodate most commissioners and would we have any extra time if there were another item? I couldn't quite hear. Sorry, my speaker. No, Trudy, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it would be fine to add an hour to that meeting on the commissioners calendars. And we would need to add additional time to get through all these items. And add another hour to get through just what we just went through. And if we added another item, we might need another half an hour or so. One issue that has come up that Karen, I believe you're ready to take one portion of the discussion. This is on the discussion around promo play and policy. A majority of the commission decided that there was discretion in the interpretation of the law that allowed, or there was the ability to give through the interpretation of the law that the commission would have discretion on whether promo play expenditures were tax deductible or not. Karen, we gave Karen a list of items to attend to. It occurred to me that it might make sense to do it a little bit piecemeal in order to make sure that we weren't having Karen jump through hoops unnecessarily. So you have a comprehensive report Karen from IRSN, is that right? Yeah, they actually broke it down into two. I was actually very impressed with what they put together, very helpful information. I think CFO Lennon's meeting with them today to review it as well. And so the only issue is some of the information which has really helped to put it in context. It's helpful in the promo play issue. It's also helpful, I think, just for the commissioners in understanding how the business works. They really had some good insight, but they have identified that on both their presentations, there's information in there. I don't think confidential is the word, but would be potentially appropriate for an executive session as opposed to public discussion. So I have the slides, they've identified which slides. I need to just have legal review that. If you'd like to do that kind of briefing by RSM, I think most of it probably would have to be done in the executive session, but legal give some further advice on that. So we could do that on the 22nd or on the 23rd. We have the adjudicatory hearing in the afternoon on PSI, is that correct, Caitlin? And Grace? That is actually not going to be on the 23rd. There's potentially going to be more paperwork in this case than in the normal cases or regular cases. So they're asking for an early June date. And so I'm working on that. I'm disappointed. I'll tell you that I wanted this to get resolved faster. I wanted it to get in front of us. I'll just put that on the public record. My name's not in your head.  I've gotten increased from the public, from outsiders. And I did ask for that. We attended to quickly. I know we gave an extension. I didn't know that we gave another extension. Well, I'll just say right now, we haven't. We were, we could still keep it on the 20. I believe we could still keep it on the 23rd, if necessary. It might be a push. Is that for them or for us, Caitlin? Just make sure I understand. Both given potential filings they may make. Like that. Yeah. And then our response, okay. Yeah. And just as a housekeeping matter, that hold was till four in the afternoon on the 23rd, but I have a hard stop at three. So I can start earlier than what the hold is, which I think is that noon, but I have a hard stop at three that day. Yeah. Thank you. I'm assuming there might be somebody has something in the morning because it's a noon start. Right. That's what I figured. Yeah. So Caitlin, do you remind me when that first came to us? It was, I don't have it off the top of my head. It was a little while ago. Yeah. May have been March. Yeah. See, these came in in March. It's May now. And I was really, I think that the issue that's in front of us on that will help inform our operators and us on a critically important subject there. We do, we have the pre-hearing conference in the case tomorrow. I'm not sure if that's helpful at all. I could report, I could report back after that. I was wondering if that's done, right? Caitlin, that's good progress. So let's see. So let's look. So it's going to be, we hadn't marked up for the 23rd and what day were you looking at in June? I think they were, I just got the email a couple of days ago. They were looking at, they were asking about early June and I had not yet connected with Grace and Trudy on that. Caitlin, is there an interim date where they are submitting material? And so that sounds like that's the issue that they want more time to submit something and then we have to respond to whatever they submit, is that the issue? That's exactly right. So we're going to have the pre-hearing conference tomorrow where we'll have a better sense of if and what they're going to submit, which would then require them to actually submit it, the commission to review it in advance of the actual hearing. Okay. So it sounds as if there hasn't been a deadline for them to give you the information because our legal team needs time to, it's not fair. We did have an earlier date set, Karen, and there was a request for a continuance based on somebody's personal professional schedule and we gave it. So there was a, and so I think perhaps once there was attention given to it, they've learned that maybe there's more paperwork involved that they may not have anticipated. So it sounds like it's getting pushed down. Commissioner's, are you okay with it going into June? But Trudy will work her magic to do so. Fishers, are you okay? Commissioner Maynard, thoughts? Commissioner Hill. No, I'll set. That's a tough question. And I can see Commissioner O'Brien's face too. Check out at the grocery store and they say, is this dollar amount okay?  I mean, if we can't stop procedurally some of the things that are happening, I understand. But like, if I want it on the record that, I want this taken care of in short order and it will have to be okay. That's kind of how I'm feeling too, right? You know, none of us are jerks.  But, you know, this does, as Commissioner Maynard points out, it will help informer where we are on these matters. It will probably informer Reg, and it will send, you know, some good information to the industry in general. Commissioner Skinner, Commissioner O'Brien, I'll set. All right, Trudy, work your magic. We thank you for all that you do, Trudy, to accommodate this busy schedule. And to the legal team, we understand. All right, so that frees up that afternoon. Why don't we do a promo play in the Arsene presentation. It'll be mostly an executive session to the early afternoon. Madam Chair. Yes, Commissioner Maynard. Could that be, just in case, could that be part of the public session too and potentially marked up as a vote? Yes, yes, it could definitely go in and out. I would take care of it that way. But now we have that time, noon to three, it sounds like grace, right? No, noon to three. We could accommodate a public discussion, go into executive session and then return. Just like we did, I think, Karen, we learned a lot about the business from our Arsene and our executive sessions before. So I suspect some of it will be new, some of it will be very fresh or so. I was also asking because, Madam Chair, sorry. I was also asking because we've received additional information during this time too, right? And so I'm a little more informed than I was the last time we had this conversation. Okay. And in terms of any additional information, commissioners that you want to be included, now would be okay time to say if you want any report from anybody on the team, for the promo play, you know, Derek or others, we do have the RSM, my position is very clear. I don't think, you know, and I'm on the record, I think the law dictates that it's not taxable. I mean, that it is taxable and not deductible. So I will let those who voted differently from Commissioner O'Varie and me decide what you want. Well, can I actually? Yeah. I voted the same way, I'm the same mind, but I believe there's a responsible gaming impact on that choice as well. So in terms of if this is a discretionary choice on the part of the other three, I do think, Karen, from Mark's group on this and the impact of removing taxation on promo plan, what it does to advertising an RGA I think is part of this conversation. Right, Commissioner O'Varie, I appreciate you're helping our colleagues figure out the policy development. But yeah, I think the three, you know, when you're thinking about the discretion, certainly RGA issues. Is there anything else for those? Madam Chair, I'm going to try to be very careful on what I do, because I know it wasn't marked up today. So I'm going to be very careful on what I say, but I do want to get this over to Commissioner O'Varie's point. I still think that we have the right to make the decision.  But I know more now about what I think the legislature was intending to do on that early August morning. And I'm really hesitant. I'm not going to stop my fellow commissioners, but I'm really hesitant to spend a lot of the team's time. Now that, you know, I've informed, my decision is now informed, I feel. And that's even without the RSM information, but I'm open-minded, but I think my decision's informed. So commissioners, we could approach this in a couple of ways. I could take the temperature of the room going in and see if in fact there has been changes in positions with respect to vote before either. It may not be the same action taken. I think the question presented might be different. Commissioner O'Varie, you know, we were looking at strictly the interpretation of the law to the extent that you're looking at having discretion in that interpretation, if it makes sense to take the temperature of the commission in advance of our doing more work to understand the direction of your decision, I'm happy to do that. Commissioner Hill, commissioner Scare, commissioner Maynard. I think that makes sense, Madam Chair. I feel similar to commissioner Maynard. We've received some additional information outside of the responsible gaming realm, outside of the RSM financial realm. If you recall, I think I posed this question to commissioner Hill. Is it reasonable for us to solicit input from the legislature? We didn't do that as far as I know, but we did hear from the legislature. And so I think with that additional information in correspondence, I'm okay with you taking the temperature because commissioner Hill's right, there's no need to send staff down a road that is not gonna make a difference either way if we are revisiting the initial vote as to whether or not the commission has the authority to make these deductions taxable or non-taxable. And I'm happy to hear this because I did say to Karen, maybe pause on the work because she was gonna do a slum in a bunch more things. And it was going to take a lot of time. So we put a pause until we could have this discussion and at least have the RSM stop. The RG I know Mark would be ready for. So should we take the temperature immediately and not even, and then reserve the right to go to the RSM or should we wait on even asking RSM to be present? If so, what we could do is... I'm actually, Madam Chair. I mean, the work has been solicited and produced by RSM. And I think in terms of just an educational exercise for the commission, even if there is a consensus that no more information is needed. And obviously the time pressure is different, but I would still wanna hear RSM's analysis. As would I. Yeah, if that needs to be done in a public meeting, fine. But I wasn't, I mean, it could be, you know, in a two by two as well, perhaps. I was thinking of literally that we're paying them to do it. So if we really think it's a value, then we can go forward. And I think we should just do it as part of our public meeting. Just as I described, start off, take the temperature, go into executive session here, come back, and then they convince you in a way that you would shift your thinking, something influences you. We would take the final vote on the matter if we're prepared at that time. Is that what you would like? And then Mark could weigh into, but it becomes, it will be then, you know, we'll reserve that time on March 23rd for that discussion. Excuse me, may I just ask about the reg side of this? Would we be expected to have draft language for that? Or would we hear the vote and then could we come back with language based on the vote? Well, I never thought a reg was necessary, Caitlin, but I'm not gonna weigh in. What do we wanna do? I think we have, I don't know if it's a majority or not, Derek can help me if necessary, but the reg is already promulgated as final, that I guess the logical place where this would go. There's no reg on this. There is a logical location for this provision of the reg if we would like promulgated and I think it would require, Caitlin would have to weigh in, but I think it would just require an amendment. But that being said, it's not my feeling that legal should be prepared with draft language on the 23rd. Okay, thank you. Can I ask, am I mistaken?  Yeah. I'm sorry. Did I not say that? I thought that's what I said. I couldn't quite hear you. I'm sorry. Okay. I thought I said that. To remind everyone, this gets to the discussion of defining for accounting purposes. If you recall, I don't know if we understand that. Well, I just wanted to define, because you said there wasn't a reg and we talked about this multiple times during that discussion, the definition of the gross gaming revenue and I adjusted gross sports wagering revenue and how it could be differently defined under gap. And we've talked about that four or five times. So commissioner Skinner is correct. Thank you. For the regulation, there is something to talk about. Thank you, Derek. Thank you very much for that. I think that we are going to have our wholesome discussion on the 16th and then I'll turn to Caitlin and our legal team to figure out whatever regulation is needed. Thanks. And I'm sure they'll be weighing in with you, Derek. All right. So we've got about nine more minutes. May 30th. Is there anything else on the 22nd? The 23rd will have just promo plays or anything else on promo on the 23rd that needs to go forward. Okay. May 24th. We have a gender study meeting. Just do we have anything else that has to follow May 20th? Okay. May 30th. Our next meeting. Is that right, Grace? Yep. And that one is just for semi-population review. Originally for public safety, but it sounds like that's getting checked in a bit. Yeah. We're going to rejigger some of those things again just done. I think that might be the transportation one. And we've also been working with Grace to lock up one more day, specifically for community mitigation fund, trying to fit all those in is in other meetings. It doesn't seem like it's really going to work. Yeah. So that was another question for the commission. I think if you all would like, we could add it to the mid-June meeting, June 15th. It sounded like for Millie that they might need another two to three hours. So we can tack it on to that meeting or if you would rather have a separate meeting in mid to late June, just on the remaining occasions, we can do that as well. So I'm not sure. What do you think, Chris? So my question is what's exactly on for the 30th? I have a medical in the morning. And so I'm going to be possibly able to hop on a 10 for the first half hour or so. So are we talking about being able to shorten the meeting on the 30th or is this in addition to what's already on the hold? No, this is in addition. The 30th is going to probably be all the transportation planning and construction. And then we were going to look for, excuse me, one separate meeting for public safety. Public safety is the majority of our application. So we felt that that really needed its own day or at least a big block of time at a meeting. Okay. And you're saying that would be May 30th? May 30th would be transportation. Would be transportation. And June 15th would be public. Yeah, yeah. Does that work to you, Commissioner Bryan? How much time would you be off? So I'm basically, I'll be in the car for the better first part of that morning on the 30th, but I will be until about 10, 15, 10, 30, I may need to leave the meeting for a brief period of time. It's a medical for one of my kids. And so I'm going to need to disappear for a little bit sometime between 10 and 1030. And then after that, I can be on the car and participating in back once I get back. So is that first, if you did a 1030 start, that would probably help me a little, if we could do a 1030 instead of 10. Commissioner, does that work for, I don't know, Trudy on the other end, does that work for everybody? It does. Yeah. Happy to accommodate. Great. Yeah. I'll get her all set. Okay. Commissioner Hill, great. Thank you. So anything on the 30th that we would need to add in addition to community mitigation, besides our anything else that's standing, doesn't look like any regs. I don't have Todd, but I've got Caitlin, nothing other than for regs on that day. So we had been planning on regs on June 1st. If there is a timing in, sorry, I should clarify regs that are not already on the agenda the first non-racing related regs. So if there was time on the 30th and you wanted to add regs to that date into the first, I think we could make that tweak on our end. Oh, okay. So we'll turn to the first to see how that goes. Besides regulation, anything else, commissioners? I mean, our team members. Okay. So June 1st, another full Sunday that does include right now, look at like on racing, which is exciting. Caitlin, I'm not going to go through administrative update because of timing Karen, but on the first regulations, we have racing and a racing application review and then ADW regs and then whatever regs you have in mind. As well as the escrow for Dr. Lightdown, she's still in the direction. Right. So I think we have about four additional regs that we would want to put on that date. So if you think that the meeting time is okay, we're happy to sort of do that all together. If not, we could try to move the additional regs to the 30th. How long do you think you need, Caitlin, for if we were to do all racing and additional regs? Racing, Judy, if you're on, do you have a sense of how long the racing will take? Judy's been really taking the lead on this racing piece of this. And I'll take a look at the regs and see. I don't see her on the race. I would say at least an hour and a half, two hours on the racing. I don't know if she's on, but maybe not hearing us. Oh, sorry. That would be my estimate for that. It's just a lot of different areas. There'll be a lot of sort of walking back through what all the processes are, I think. The regs for, the big reg for the first is gonna be the data privacy reg. There'll be, I think, a robust discussion about that. The other regs aren't that detailed, or there's not that many changes. So I would say maybe an hour and a half on the regs. Okay, so let's explore Grace. Keep in mind what Caitlin offered that maybe she could split up a little bit of the reg for work in June, May 30th versus on June 1st. If you start to find that out, okay? You might take it up on that on the third channel. And I'll just have to check with A&K, of course, but if we need to do that one more. I like that we've got kind of good horse racing theme going on. Dr. Leipan, how are we doing with respect to the escrow issue? Yeah, he still wants that on. Good, okay. And how long do you think you need for that? I would say it might go half an hour. It really depends on how many, you know, how detailed the conversation is with the commissioners. Okay, all right. That will work out just fine. It's good to get that addressed. Now we have Mark. You've got the on clearing the license plate study. Yes, break the racing theme. I'd like to bring that forward. We're set for that date. We have a lot of time. Could we say 40 minutes, 30 minute presentation, 10 minute discussion? Okay. Commissures, are we all set? Then we've got Commissioner Skinner and Derek on the initial fiscal year 24 budget. Nikisha, Derek? It's going to defer to Derek. We should be set. All set. And this is initial, then the final will be a little bit later in the month, right, Derek? Correct. After we put it off for public comment. Two weeks later. Okay. So that's going to be a good full meeting, but do we have anything else for the team for June 1st? Okay, June 15th. Right now it looks really, we just rolled something in the community mitigation, right? Yeah, and that with the public safety, I think we have 24 applications. I mean, if each one took 10 minutes, we're talking a pretty long period of time. Some of them probably won't take that long, but it's three to four hours, I would say. Good. The only comment about that is I will be traveling out of the country on that day, and I see that's for the budget review, so I don't know if you'll find that I'd be there on the day you do the budget review. Yeah, we need to get it done by the end of the year, but I'll just flag that. I know we don't want to resolve that. Well, we can maybe look at the next date, right? Grace, for that, because it has to just be before June 30th, right, Derek? Well, I believe Derek, if I'm wrong, we need two weeks before the end of the month. So what we had done this year was we pushed it up two weeks, just in case there were additional questions on sports wagering, because it's the first time we're doing a full budget, but as long as we get, and if there were a lot of comments coming back from public comment, we can play that by year. If we don't have a lot of comments as of the 15th, we can absolutely push this to the 30th, but the 15th would just be to deal with public comments, and then Karen, if you weren't around for that, we could always let those ahead of time. And then let the commission think about that and come back on the 30th to make a final vote. And it would be the 20th. There's the next public meeting. June 29th. Can we just plan on that then, Karen? Yep, that's good. All right, so in addition to the community mitigation fund, we're going to roll budget over. Commissioner Skinner, you're OK with that, right? All right, thank you for the thumbs up. And then nothing else right now. So it could truly be basically a community mitigation fund, Joe, which we want to make sure we give every application it's due. Oh, Mark's hand is up. I see Mark. Yeah, I see him now. I'm sorry. We are due for a game sense. Yes. When we bring court. And I think we can make it relatively brief, but I was also going to ask Long if he could provide an update on the voluntary self-exclusion program enrollment, especially with the introduction of sports wagering and having both programs fully up and running now. Yeah, and I know we talked about that, Mark. Gracie, how are you feeling? Is this a big day? Yeah, it's the 15th. If that works for Long, right? That will be just a really happy day. Game sense and community mitigation fund. I'm just pulling up notes. OK. OK. So far as we've gone along before we get to further review, raising your helpful notes, what we haven't addressed in my quick review is I believe, commissioners, you asked for an update on the 90-day audit. If you remember correctly, that would come from director Van Schaap. So what day would be best to add that to? Do you have that in mind, Bruce, at all? I would say everything should be done by June 15th. We could probably add it in there. That would be a short sports wagering update, Karen. Yes. Is that OK that you wouldn't be there for that? Karen, that's OK, right? If you're not there. Yeah, that's fine. OK, let's put that in, Bruce, if the timing works. Yes. All right. Thanks. OK. Nothing else for June 15th, right? Team commissioners, are you all set? And let's go to under review, 1104. Is that under review, Commissioner Hill? Yeah. Yes. OK. I think we're good on on Corpus Broadway expansion now. Yeah. Michelle Bryan, compliance committee. So the conversation that we'll start in the next meeting about the officers can then springboard into a conversation on compliance. But for now, I think we'll leave it under review, given what's up in the next month. OK. Springfield Community Driven Research Project, Mark. Yeah, we're finishing that up, but I want to keep it under review. I'm really looking forward to hearing that one. OK. And Commissioner Skinner and Joe on the HCA compliance? Yeah. Setting up some of my meetings right now with the licensees to start these discussions. This will probably be a sort of a multi-meeting kind of thing with them, because it's more than just the HCA. It's the surrounding community agreement. It's the second one finding just the whole sort of external compliance component. Joe, can you work closer with Commissioner Skinner? Absolutely. So it's Commissioner Skinner? Yes. No, I don't have anything to add. I'm sorry if I gave that impression. No, no, it's me. I'm just having a little bit of trouble hearing sometimes at the beginning, especially at the beginning, it kind of kicks off. So you're all set, because I know that you asked for that. And I think it's a really important discussion. So if you can be part of that process, I think you should that be great. Absolutely. Thank you. All right. Oh, Dr. Weidman, recognition of the Jockey Guild. Yeah, if we can keep that under review for now. OK. And then Director Bann, only Valleys, right? Yeah, we're waiting to curate on Valleys. So yes, that's still under review. OK. Have we done their house rules? Pardon me? We do their house rules. No, we're still waiting to get all that from Valleys. Oh, OK. Maybe we can just include that too then. Any other house rules outstanding? House rules come in and bits and pieces, and they're always amending them. So yeah, OK. All righty. Then we have the sort of process questions that Karen, I think you will be working with Bruce and team on the event catalog additions in that process. I think that's underway. That's just going to review then, Bruce. Yes. And then on number nine, I think that came from a suggestion from me where a good idea that comes up, if maybe the sports division could maybe make a recommendation to us that you'd like to have it be universal. But I know that that means legal needs to weigh in on how that approval process would work. So you're working. OK. And then the risk free. We just readdressed that, right? Commissioner O'Brien, I'll set that. Grace, anything that we need to address right now? No, I think we got there everything in the nick of time. OK. So next for the commissioners, we have a public meeting that starts in seven minutes. So just a quick break. We will have a executive session at the end of that meeting when you anticipate that. So just be mindful when you need breaks. OK, commissioners, I know it's going to be a little bit of a long morning. So thank you. So if there's nothing else, team, thank you so much for everybody's input. Sorry, I had to be a little bit compressed, but it keeps us going. All right, I have a motion to adjourn. I move to adjourn. Thank you. Second. Thank you. Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner, you moved on me. Aye. And Commissioner Maynard, you moved on me. Thank you. And I believe that's 5-0. Thank you so much, everybody.


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And then I went back down. I decided I didn't want to be there. And then I met my husband and we're both foodies. And so we both love to eat together. And it was just something that we did not only for entertainment, but we wanted to find new places to eat and yummy things to eat and just things that we enjoyed. But then it got too far to where I was binging worse than I'd ever binged before. And I am a binge eater. I'm an emotional eater. I'm a binge eater. I'm a sugar addict. Hello, my name's Melissa. I'm a sugar addict. And so what I want to do is I just want to talk to you guys a little bit about this decision I've made about having weight loss surgery. And I didn't come to this lightly. You all know that I had a very scary bout with a wound on the back of my head that was a cyst that opened up, got infected and became necrotic.  And then I had to wear an open wound on my head for several months. And I also ended up with MRSA, which as you know is a super bug. It is something that antibiotics have a hard time with. And I had to have IVs for that. Then I've also right after that because my immune system was so far down, I got shingles. And if any of you guys know, it comes from the chicken pox, the virus from the chicken pox, and it's so painful. So I had about three to four months at the beginning of this year, when I literally, I just didn't know how I was going to do it anymore. And you get to that point to where your health becomes so bad that your mind just goes, this isn't worth it.  There was days when I was just like, I can't make it to the bathroom and my bathroom is right in my bedroom, you know, I have a bath off my bedroom. And I was just, this is more than I can handle. We have a huge flight of stairs, it's a two level townhouse that we have. And it was hard. I couldn't go downstairs to get my own food. It was just too much. And then after all that, I noticed that my right side, my shoulder, my elbow, my wrist, my hip, my knee and my ankle were really suffering. And I couldn't figure out what in the world is going on. Well, in the period of time, well okay, in the period of time that I had all of those infections and it was on my head, in that period of time, I gained 40 pounds in four months. And I'm now at the heaviest I've ever been in my whole life. And I've said that before in many videos. And I'm just like, how is this ever going to stop?  How's this ever going to stop? So I decided two things. Number one is that I am going to have bariatric surgery. And I'm going to have it probably within this month. And the other thing is I'm also going to take on a therapist to help me with that, with that emotional part of it. Because not only is it an emotional part, it's like entertainment, it's social, it's all those things. But you know what?   We can't stop that because it's our life. But we have to relearn what we're doing. And that's really where I'm at. And I've relearned it over and over again. I got it all up here. But for some reason right here, not much is making it down to this heart. Not that my heart doesn't know better. It's just that at that moment, the heart wants what the heart wants. And lots of people, you know, say that the heart is the seed of the motivation, the figurative heart. I know you guys are knowing that. But the figurative heart and my heart wanted food, my heart wanted donuts, my heart wanted candy and sugar. And that's my big thing. And so I know that this is drastic, but I've been trying for such a long time. This last bout of never being able to get even close to my goal weight in the past, I don't know, probably the past 15 years has just been too much. And I think that my body is finally just truly giving out. And I've noticed that not only is my joints on my right side suffering so much, but my back is too.  It's that feeling like you're living in the flu 24 seven. And when you get to the point where you're like, I just can't do this anymore. And I'm spending so much on food that I could easily do something more drastic about it if I wanted to do so. My husband and I, I know that a lot of you saw that I was selling my Mustang. It's actually my son's Mustang. He gave it to me and we decided to sell it because my health is so degraded. And if I don't do something right now, my quality of life as I get older, I'm 51 this year. I turn 51 next month. If I don't do something to get my quality of life up, I'm not going to be around to enjoy my grandkids. I'm not going to be around to enjoy my husband. And I just found him seven years ago. So how can I not stick around for him? So I'm sharing all of this with you guys because I'm about to take a huge journey.  You're my huge support group. You're my AA meeting without there being alcohol involved. You're my FA meeting, my food anonymous meeting or whatever you want to call it. I love you guys so much. I know that this is a very controversial issue. A lot of people say, well, just diet and exercise. Gosh, if I could list amount of times that I have dieted and exercised and failed and gained all the weight back. And if I had a few dollars for each time, I'd be a millionaire a couple of times over. So haven't come to this decision lightly and just want to share it with you guys. I know that so many of you have reached out to me and said that you deal with so much of the same things. And then a lot of you when I post my want to do better with my weight, whether it's through keto or whatever I talk about at the time. So many of you are saying, we got this. We can do this together because you're going through the same thing. And I don't take that lightly. It might be a better example to you guys, but I don't know how to do that in the situation that I'm in right now. It might be the worst thing I've ever done for myself. But for the first time in a long time, I am doing this for myself because I can't spend my life in the big, dark abyss of being morbidly obese. And I'm actually not even morbidly obese.  I'm not even in the morbidly obese category. I'm in the super morbidly obese category at this point. That is hard to hear. And I, why I told you about my, my joints. I've been told for the last 10 years that I needed my hip replaced, but I've also been told that if I got the weight off of that hip, that I might be able to live with that hip for an extra five or 10 years without having to have it replaced. And you knew as soon as my knee and my foot and my shoulder started hurting, that I was having the same thing going on where I was going to have to have that replaced, those things replaced because they're just taking a beating with all this weight on them. So I'm going to try. I hope that you guys understand. I know that you all will. I won't be able to get to all of your comments here. I'm going to try. I'll try to answer as many as I can, but please know that this is a really hard subject for me.  Just get on a diet and exercise and gosh, if you, if you have chronic illness, you want to just smack somebody.   You'll be fine.  You know, but anyway, I know you guys are here for the making. I know that you guys are here for that. But for me, the beauty that I need to see in myself needs to come from feeling good too now. So that's what I'm doing. I wanted to share with you guys and that's it for today's video. I love you very, very much. I know that all of you are going through some of the same struggles. I wish you all the very best of mental health to be able to take care of your struggles. And I wish you all good physical health too. Take care of yourselves and I'll see you in my very next video. Love you. Bye.


In the year 2000, a new human hormone was discovered. It was the 21st documented fibroblast growth factor, so they called it FGF21. Since this discovery, FGF21 has emerged as a key agent for promotion of metabolic and artery health, leanness, and longevity. Injected into fat monkeys, and they lose body weight without reducing food intake. They're not just a little, a 27% drop in body fat, eating the same amount. In mice, it increases their lifespan 30 to 40% comparable to life-long caloric restriction, but again was achieved without decreasing food intake. The researchers conclude that FGF21 could potentially be used as a hormone therapy to extend lifespan in mammals, which has gotten big pharma salivating, increasing the question, can aging be drugged? And that's not all it can do, the idea that one drug can treat obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemia like high cholesterol, and hypertension all at once might have seemed impossible a few years ago, but is now a tantalizing and exciting prospect. The reason you can't just give people straight FGF21 is that it gets rapidly broken down in the body, so you'd have to get injections like every hour or two around the clock. So drug companies try to patent a variety of longer-acting FGF21 look-alikes, and indeed give people little PF050 to 31023, and they can lose about 10 pounds in 25 days, along with dramatic drops in triglycerides and cholesterol. But then the side effects of these newfangled drugs started cropping up. Okay, so hey, what about this? We package the FGF21 gene into a virus, and then inject the virus and have it like stitch extra FGF21 genes into our DNA, or you can just lace on your running shoes. Exercise boosts FGF21 levels, which may in fact be one of the reasons exercise is so good for us. Which works better, though? Aerobic exercise, eight weeks of running, training, or resistance exercise, eight weeks of weights? The answer is both. But the resistance exercise edged out the running, a 42% increase in FGF21 versus a 25% increase in the aerobic exercise group. Okay, but what can we do with food? Yeah, you could try engineering and injecting it, but wouldn't it be easier to just stimulate our own endogenous natural production through diet? One way is through no diet at all. You may have noticed it's been dubbed the starvation hormone. It's because fasting induces FGF21, but not just a day or two. Physiologically, FGF21 expression is markedly increased in response to fasting starvation, but unlike mice, which show an increase after just six hours of fasting, humans don't get a notable surge in FGF21 until after a week. Fasting can quadruple FGF21, but it takes 10 days of fasting, which is the very poster child of an unsustainable eating pattern. So, how can you get the benefits without the starvation? Might a ketogenic diet be able to mimic the fast? Nope, keto diets don't work. In fact, keep it up for a few months and you can actually get a significant decline in levels. High-fat diets may even interfere with the boost you get from exercise, seen here in a study of high-intensity interval training. What kind of diet does work, then? We'll find out next.


Three-quarters of the overwhelming majority of India's nearly one billion people still live in villages and not big cities Just as they always have Her farmers still feed one-sixth of the world's population who live in a country one-third the size of the United States A population which speaks more than a dozen languages and a thousand dialects and which supports more than 20 political parties in The world's largest and one of its youngest democracy Two Indians live side-by-side in a stark contrast that alternately maddened and delights Bender series from a more authentic India arrive in New Delhi each morning from their homes They converge at Central Secretariat the seat of administration to attend to the business of the nation the British had left behind canals roads railways and a civil service and Precious little else India could not feed itself and was virtually without industry Its people were overwhelmingly illiterate and its society plagued by social and economic disparities At the moment of her birth the country was divided into two Even as one-sixth of the population of the world was being liberated from colonial rule at the stroke of the midnight hour Nation and her people were being torn apart The greatest migration in the history of the subcontinent was about to begin More than 15 million people were uprooted Displaced Muslims heading towards Pakistan passed long shuffling columns of homeless Hindus and Sikhs streaming into India Today's India is plugged into the world economy Virtually anything from French perfume to American basketball sneakers is now available at the glass-fronted local department stores The only visible reminder that this is still India is the bullock cart Which has also been overtaken by the views of change Modern India has still not lost contact with the old India where Maharaja still entertain their guests Their guests are tourists from around the world in search of old India where memories of the past loom large reflecting the passions of a bygone era in history's shadow India lives Alive to the needs of tomorrow's children to the dreams of a prosperous India


Hello everybody! In this video, I'm going to show you how to open furters with such extensions as H-E-I-C in a Windows operating system and how we convert them quickly into another format. Hello friends! If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browse in history. Hetman Software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. When working with their computers, more and more users are coming across photos saved with such extension as H-E-I-C – high-efficiency image codec. Most often, these are people using the latest iPhone models with iOS 11. By default, such iPhones take pictures in this new format instead of the good old JPG. Similar changes are expected in Android P – the 9th world-stream of this operating system. H-E-I-C format has several advantages making it far better than JPG. With the same quality, a photo in the new format takes up twice less space than a JPG. One, H-E-I-C file contains several separate pictures, which is very good for the photos. It supports transparency like in GIFs. It saves any modifications of the picture, like rotation, cropping, which can be canceled if necessary, so you can go back to the version of the picture you need. It also supports 16-bit colors, while JPG only works with 8-bit colors. With such set of advantages, JPG has little chances to keep its positions and will evidently give way to H-E-I-C soon. In Windows 10, when you try opening an H-E-I-C picture with the standard photos utility, you'll see the message saying, install additional codecs to work with this file and download codecs at Microsoft Store. If you click on the link, the store will open automatically and suggest you to buy the codecs. Below, you will see that one of them can be installed for free, and the other wants your money. Install the free version if it's available or follow the link in the description for this video and download them. By following the links, you can get these extensions for free and install them to your computer. After installation, you will be able to open H-E-I-C photos easily. If the links didn't work properly for some reason, use an online converter to quickly transform H-E-I-C images into JPG. Find the link in the description. Just drag all your photos into this window and then click download or download all JPG images, if there are several photos. And the upload will start. Soon, you will get your photos in the conventional JPG format that Windows opens easily. There are also lots of programs to help you with converting H-E-I-C photos into another format. One of those, whereas mentioning, is a PowerSoft photo viewer, a futility which can be downloaded from its official website and you will find the link below this video as before. When run the program, then click open, specify the path to the necessary file or drag it into this window. With this program, you can view all pictures that you couldn't open with the system standard means. And if you want to save them in another format, click menu, in the upper right corner of the screen, the button with the three dots, and choose save as. Then specify the folder where this photo should be saved, choose the format and click save. After that, you can go to that folder and view the file. As you can see, it's got the JPG format that you have chosen when saving it. One more way to open photographs with H-E-I-C extension is to upload them to your Google Drive. All you have to do is to drag all your photos into this window and the service will open them. If you don't want your iPhone to save photos in this new format, but save all of them in JPG, Open Settings, Camera, Formats, here check the option Most Compatible instead of High Efficiency. You can also set up your phone so that pictures are saved in H-E-I-C format on the device, but they are converted to JPG automatically while you send them to your PC through a cable. To do it, go to Settings, Photos in Camera, and in the section Transfer to Macro or PC, select the line Automatic. When transferring, it will convert photos to JPG automatically. And that is all for now. Hit the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching and good luck.


What's up gamers welcome to my speedrun So today what I'm going to do is I'm going to speed run I'm going for the world record of Installing an email server as quickly as possible the I'm doing script percent meaning I can use a script To do all the difficult stuff. I don't have to type everything in manually I'm gonna go for five minutes. Let's see if I can do it under five minutes now Of course, I'm gonna be using the script that I wrote email whiz Which many of you guys actually now run email servers using this script But this basically you can start off on any VPS that's running Debian or Ubuntu Just run the script and it basically installs everything you need for an email server In fact recently I've added it even gets SSL certificates for you It has failed to ban for some extra security in addition to the stuff that it's always had And I've also made some other improvements. So I'm gonna do a speedrun. We're gonna see how long again We're going for five minutes. We're going for five minutes here and so the only thing you need to run this script is of course, you need a domain name and a VPS like, you know some a server to host your thing on so all you need on your DNS records is You don't need any of this stuff We're gonna add like the mail records and the text records in this speedrun all you need at the very beginning is You need to direct your domain name in its DNS records To the IP address of your server or really you need to redirect the mail subdomain now I have a wild card here that's gonna redirect mail But you want mail dot your domain to direct to whatever your server is here. So here's my IP address Here's my IPv6 address And another thing you want to start off with I already have set these it's not well We'll say this is not part of the speedrun, but you also want to have reverse DNS addresses and On vulture so I usually use vultures Vultured I'll host a lot of my servers and I originally made this script for it You can check the video description to get a server there, but I Set mail dot the conus.net it as its reverse DNS address And this is like for validating that this is the right email or you know the IP address and the server are correctly matched So I have one for IPv4 and IPv6. Okay, so that's the only stuff I have set up now everything else. We're gonna do in this little video and So yeah, let's let's go ahead and do the speedrun and then I'm gonna test Sending mail out to another server or something like that. So let's uh, what's what's a thing called term? Term down. Okay, so this is gonna be our timer. All right, so get ready kids get ready for this actually Just go ahead and go over here Okay, so I'm gonna start time starts now. I have not logged into the server yet now to download my Script you can go to The larbs.xyz slash email whiz actually I think you can do my own main domain slash email is in the work So now the script is downloaded on this other window I'm also gonna log in on this server because I'm gonna do something else It's gonna do this prompt You're gonna say internet site and then type in the domain name that we're using here So one is Boconus.net and that's gonna do basically the rest of the work But we have some other things to do here So we want to add in a username Billy of the mail group So any user that is of the mail group will be able to send and receive mail And I'm also gonna add a password for Billy because we're gonna I've already prepared a password for him But we're gonna try sending out mail as Billy. So now we're done with this terminal Actually, we want to let's let's go over here We need to put in some let's see Text records here. Actually, let's go ahead and put our in our MX record While the script is running and we want that to point to mail dot Boconus Dot net our domain name and of course I think we want a trailing period here And that's just when someone tries to send mail to you know, Billy at Boconus.net. It will pop up It will go to the mail sub domain So for these we're gonna wait for the script for the end of the actually we can go ahead and start putting them in because I have Some in memory so mail dot domain key And then I want to say there's underscore D mark actually I can look at this because I think like they're kind of written here So yeah, the SPF address so these addresses are these like weird things weird cryptic things that I'm putting in here they are for Reducing like the chance of you being spammed. They're basically ways of your DNS settings telling people Like, you know, what to expect when they connect to their e to your email server The most important one is this one we have to wait for I guess the script just finished so great So this really long one. This is the one that you put under mail dot underscore domain key This is basically a public cryptic cryptographic key That's corresponds to oh, you know what? We're done. So I'm gonna say two minutes and 22 seconds. I'm gonna say that was our time So But let me explain what that was. So this is like probably the most important one What it basically when your server installs that? When it in when it installs open DKIM it generates a cryptographic key that you sign all emails with and then you put Put the public key here and it's a way of like people validating. Oh, this email actually came from their server It's not just someone for well for those who don't know you can actually just put any from address on any email And so open DKIM is a way of avoiding that. So All right. Now, let's see what we got So I have an email here that I've already prepared and I'm going to send it It's it's with the billy address with the password I prepared in advance and I am going to send it to this gmail address Okay, now I never actually use gmail in real life, but I want to use for this test Oh my goodness it actually went through and the reason I want to use gmail is gmail is usually the most finicky About getting mail from domains. It hasn't seen So my meal my mail has successfully gone through a triumphant email And the important thing so that means basically our open DKIM stuff all of that worked fine This probably works good So I will say if yours let's say you're following along. Let's say you did the speed run guys beat my speed running world record Yeah, don't actually do that. That's cringe, but if you want to install this Because you want to email server Let's say if things aren't going through there are a couple things you can check I put a bunch of these links at the bottom You know this site you can send an email address I Just ate like almonds and I have like almond crust like in my throat. I'm coughing it up But this site you can send an email to them and they'll tell you if something's wrong with your open DKIM And then you can check and see if your server IP is in a blacklist all this other stuff So one thing I don't think I noted before that you do need to have not before you set this up But before you really start sending mail is you want to make sure that where is it you want to unblock your ports? So on vulture and a lot of other sites By default they block mail ports now once your account you just open a ticket with them and say hey Could you unblock your mitt my mail ports? I want to be able to send mail I'm not going to be spending sending spam and they will open it up for you So you want to do that and notice that that is different than opening the script itself actually opens up ports with like UW or yeah, UFW But there's a difference between opening the ports on your side and opening the ports, you know as them as your internet provider in essence Okay, so yeah now you have an email server now. There's no graphical Like log in for this. This is just a bare bones email server If you want some kind of graphical log in actually no, don't do that.  What's a word? I don't know web interface for your mail. You can go look at the rain loop Tutorial that's on landshad.net that's linked here and that rain loop is just like this way it looks like this Right. It's it's a way for you getting your email on in a browser or something But I always use it. I I always use like email clients and nothing else So just another note. I'm just gonna talk about how the script works in the meantime Wow, I'm just my heart is just racing from that world record. Wow two minutes and 22 seconds. That's that's trips Um But anyway, what was that gonna say some some other things know about this now I added a user so you remember I like added Billy as a user user add You know, I don't know Amanda Any user that you add with the mail group and you want to of course give the M option So it creates a home directory because it actually stores the mail in you know in folders in the home directory But as you can just create normal Unix users on your machine Like if your friends if you want to give them an email address Just use this command to create, you know, their account and then add their password with password, you know Amanda Or something like that very simple So that's another thing here. I'm trying to think if there's anything else funky I need to tell people in this video while I have it on instead of getting like 5,000 emails and questions One other thing that sometimes like people with the script. They want to do is they want to have multiple domains So like let's see where is DKIM So you you have to do that manually like the script doesn't do it itself, but you'll see like an Etsy post-fix DKIM I've created this didn't used to be the case. This is now some a change that I've made to the script It used to be I put all the DKIM information just in this directory But now it actually makes a separate sub or sub folder for whatever, you know, main domains you use So if you this is kind of canonically like if you want to add a new domain address You can look up the commands that it runs here like basically you just generated open DKIM Key was I looking for it. So this and then of course you would have to put that into you the Domain or the DNS records of that email or that domain name you're talking about so many words I'm like getting confused in this video because it's just like all these abbreviations and terms and they all they're all used in the same context because I don't know technology Everything in technology is basically just one. I don't know one small segment of my brain That is getting increasingly confused at this point because I care so little about it None the rest nonetheless Nonetheless, I am now a world record holder of installing an email server as fast as I possibly can Oh, yeah, this is the stuff about generating domain keys and all that. But anyway So try it yourself Try it on vulture links below or actually it should be able to work on any VPS provider Vulture is the only one I ever really use it on but you know either way to you guys next time Wow, I'm so wow. I'm this is so amazing world records are amazing. Okay. Goodbye


As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across Pike County, Pikeville Medical Center, and medical professionals joined for a press conference in hopes of informing the public during the ongoing surge. And if you go back all the way to February, January last year, the biggest week that we had in differential apposite was 473 compared to last week at 489. If you go back again, just four weeks ago, we were at 79. This is alarming. It's concerning. And it's having impact on those who are not only the first line of defense when you're sick, but it's your last line of defense now. Since July, Pike County has seen an alarming increase in case numbers, mostly attributing to the Delta variant. Joining the press conference was Pike County health director, Tammy Riley, who says the county is just now beginning to see the second escalation. So we had 501 cases on Monday morning, looking at Monday through Sunday. And you can see what I think is very notable here is that the escalation that occurred back in the fall leading into winter took 15 weeks to reach that peak. I do not believe we've reached their peak yet, but we have surpassed the winter peak in six weeks, which really is a very clear indication of what we've been talking about with the Delta variant that it's moving to two and a half times faster. And you can see this clearly indicates that two and a half times acceleration. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute, we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting edge technology, providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. Riley continues to say that out of the seven day case spread, 77% of those are attributed to non-vaccinated individuals. Joining Riley during Wednesday's press conference was CEO Don Van Blackburn, who says that out of 15 individuals in the ICU, only one is a breakthrough case, adding that people need to get vaccinated. And why this is important is because our emergency department, like so many other hospitals throughout the state and nation right now are overburdened, are unable to accept transfers in as we had once been able to do before. We have hospitals calling from places like Macon, Georgia, looking for bed space to transfer COVID patients into an ICU. This should be alarming. Afterward, Blackburn was joined by infectious disease director Dr. Fadi Alacross and chief medical officer Dr. Aaron Crum, who emphasized how the surge changes daily. This is stretching our infrastructure, not only at PMC, but all hospitals in the state and in the nation very thin. And the problem is, my concern is, somebody needs different kind of care. They will not be able to find it. That's why we need to all be a part of the solution and stop the spread. For Mountaintop News, I'm Joel Horgill.