Welcome to Recall Roundup. Todson is recalling about 40,000 of these. Topic baby seat two bicycle child carrier seats.  That is a laceration hazard and also an amputation hazard. If you have a red locking lever, that's what signifies that you are definitely part of this recall. If you have these bicycle child carriers, make sure you stop using them immediately. Contact Todson and Todson will send you a free retrofit kit, which is a hinge cover. About 13,000 girls jackets are being recalled because they have drawstrings at the waist. That is an entanglement hazard. These were sold exclusively at Ross stores nationwide for about $20 until about January of 2012. They were sold in sizes four to six X seven, also to 16 and small, medium and large. If you have one of these jackets, you can tell because they have a label, mejane or also a B-Hip by mejane sewn into the neck. Stop using these immediately, cut that drawstring and return these to the importer, Louise Paris Limited for a full refund. And finally, about 48,000 of these digital concepts, compact travel chargers are being recalled by SAICAR International. Now, as you can see the plastic holding the screws can break causing these screws to come loose and the casing to separate. This can expose energized components and can expose consumers to not only electric shock, but an electrocution hazard. If you have these, stop using them immediately. They were sold for about $10 at various retailers, including Radio Shack. You want to contact the company SAICAR International and you will receive a free replacement product. That's a recall roundup. Check to see if you have any of these recall products in your home as well as others on our website, saferproducts.gov.


Overnight, COVID completely exposed those companies that were really not ready for the digital age. There was a mad rush to the cloud in an effort to reshape the very notion of business resiliency and enable employees to remain productive so that they continue serve customers. Data protection was at the heart of this shift and cloud data protection has become a fundamental staple of organizations operating models. Hello everyone, this is Dave Vellante and welcome to this CUBE Conversation. I'm joined by two longtime friends of the CUBE, Rob Emsley is the director of product marketing at Dell Technologies and Stephen Manley is the chief technology officer at Droover. Guys, great to have you on the program. Thanks for being here. Yeah, great to be here, Dave. This is the high point of my day, Dave. All right, I'm glad to hear it, Stephen. It's been a while since we were missing you guys to tell you face-to-face. It's maybe it'll happen before 22. We haven't aged a bit, Dave. Listen, we've been talking for years about the shift to the cloud, but in the past 12 months, boy, we've seen the pace of workloads that have moved to the cloud really accelerate. So Rob, maybe you could start it off. How do you see the market and perhaps what are some of the blind spots maybe that people need to think about when they're moving workloads so fast to the cloud? Yeah, good question, Dave. I mean, we've spoken a number of times around how our focus has significantly shifted over the last couple of years. I mean, only a couple of years ago, our focus was very much on on-premise data protection, but over the last couple of years, more workloads have shifted to the cloud. Customers have started adopting SaaS applications and all of these environments are creating data that is so critical to these customers to protect. So, you know, we've definitely found the more and more of our conversations have been centered around what can you do for me when it comes to protecting workloads in the cloud environment? Yeah, now, of course, Steven, this is kind of your wheelhouse. How are you thinking about these market shifts? Yeah, you know, it's interesting in the data protection market, heck, the data market in general, you see these sort of cycles happen. And for a long time, we had a cycle where applications and environments were consolidating a lot. It was all VMs and Oracle and SQL. And we seem to be exploding out the other way to this massive sprawl of different types of applications in different places. Like Rob said, you've got Microsoft 365 and you've got Salesforce and you've got workloads running in the cloud. The world looks different. And you add on top of that, the new security threats as people moving to the cloud. And a number of years ago, we talked about how ransomware was an emerging threat. We're way past emerging into, there's a ransomware attack every six seconds and everybody wakes up terrified about it. And so we really see the market has shifted, I think in terms of what the apps are and also in terms of what the threats and the focus has come into play. Right, well, thanks for that. There's some hard news which we're going to get to. But before we do, Rob Stephen was mentioning these SaaS apps and we've been sort of watching that space for a while. But a lot of people will ask, why do I need a separate data protection layer? Doesn't my SaaS provider protect my data? Don't they replicate it? They're cloud vendors. Why do I need to buy yet another backup product? Yeah, there's a fairly common misconception, Dave, that both SaaS application vendors and cloud vendors inherently are providing all of the data protection that you need. The reality is that they're not. I think when you think about a lot of the data within those environments, certainly they're focused on providing availability. And availability is absolutely one thing that you can for the most part, rely on the cloud vendors to deliver to you. But when it comes to actually protecting yourself from accidental deletion, protecting yourself from cyber threats and cyber crime that may infect your data through malicious acts, that's really where you need to supplement the environment that the cloud providers provide you with best-in-class data protection solutions. And this is really where we're really looking to introduce new innovations into the market to really help customers with their cloud-based data protection. Yeah, now you got some news here. Let's kind of dig in if we could to the innovations behind that. Maybe Rob, you could kick it off and then Stephen will bring you in. Yeah, so first piece of news that we're really happy to announce is the introduction of a new Dell EMC PowerProtect backup service, which is a new cloud data protection solution powered by Druva. Hence the reason that Stephen and I are here today. It's designed to deliver additional protection without increasing IT complexity. So what, powered by Druva, what does that mean? Can you add some color to that? Absolutely. So, you know, when we really started looking at the expansion of our PowerProtect portfolio, you know, we already have the ability to deliver both on-premises protection and to deliver that same software within the public cloud from a PowerProtect software delivery model. But what we really didn't have within the portfolio is a cloud data protection platform. And we really looked at, you know, what was available in the market. We looked at our ability to develop that, you know, ourselves and we decided that the best path for our customers to bring capabilities to them as soon as we possibly could was to partner with Druva. You know, when we really looked at the capabilities that Druva has been delivering for many years, you know, the capabilities that they have across many dimensions of cloud-based workloads and we're really engaged with them probably about six months ago. You know, first introduced Druva as an option to be resold by our sales force and partners and then we're pleased to introduce a Dell EMC branded service, PowerProtect backup service. Okay, so we're just one more point of clarification than Steven, I want to bring you in. So we're talking about, this includes SaaS apps as well. I'm talking 365, the Google apps, which we use extensively, you know, CRM, Salesforce for example. What platforms are you actually, you know, connecting to and providing protection for? Yeah, so the real priority for us was to expand our PowerProtect portfolio to support a variety of SaaS applications. You mentioned, you know, real major ones with respect to Microsoft 365, Google workplace, as well as Salesforce. But the other thing that we also get with PowerProtect backup service is the ability to provide a cloud-based data protection service that supports endpoints such as laptops and desktops, but also the ability to support hybrid workloads. So for some customers, the ability to use PowerProtect backup service to give them support for virtual machine backups, both VMware and Hyper-V, but also application environments like Oracle and SQL. And lastly, but not least, you know, one of the things that backup service also provides when it comes to virtual machines is not only virtual machines on-premises, but also virtual machines within the public cloud, specifically VMware cloud on AWS. So Stephen, I mean, I remember I was talking to Jaspreet several years ago, I've always liked sort of the Druva model, but it felt at the time, you feel like a little ahead of your time, but boy, the market has really come to you. Maybe you could just tell us a little bit more about the just generally cloud-based data protection and the sort of lowdown on your platform. Yeah, and again, I think you're right. The market has absolutely swept in this direction, like we were talking about with applications in so many places and endpoints in so many places and data centers and remote offices with data sprawled everywhere. We find customers are looking for a solution that can connect to everything. I don't want seven different backup solutions, one for each of those things. I want one centralized solution. And so kind of a data protection as a service becomes really appealing because instead of setting all of these things up on your own, well, it's just built in for you. And then the fact that it's as a service helps with things like the ransomware protection because it's off-site in another location under another account. And so we really see customers saying, this is appealing because it helps keep my costs down, it helps keep my complexity down, there's fewer moving parts. And one of the nicest things is as I moved to the cloud, I get that one fixed cost, right? I'm not dealing with the, oh, wow, this bill is not what I was expecting. It just comes in with what I was carrying. And so it really comes down to as you go to the cloud, you want a platform that's got everything built in, something that, and let's face it, Dell EMC, this has always been the case. That storage of last resort, that backup that you can trust, right? You want something with a history. Like you said, you've been talking to Jespreet for a while. Drew was a company that's got a proven track record that your data is going to be safe and it's going to be a recoverable. And you're going to want someone that can innovate quickly, right? So that as more new cloud applications arise, we're there to help you protect them as they emerge. So talk a little bit more about the timing. I mean, we talked earlier about, okay, COVID really forced the shift to the cloud. And you guys clearly have skated to the puck. And you also, you referenced sort of new workloads. And I'm just wondering how you see that from a timing standpoint. And at this moment in time, why this is such a, you know, the right fit. Yeah, we've seen a lot of customers over the last, again, 12 months or so, one, really accelerate their shift to things like SaaS applications, Microsoft 365. And we're not just talking exchange online and OneDrive, but SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, really going all in because they're finding that as I'm distributed, as I have a remote workforce, my endpoints became more important again, but also the ability to have collaboration became important. And the more I depend on those tools to collaborate, the more I'm depending on them to replace what used to be in-person meetings where we could have a whiteboard and discuss things. And it's done through collaboration online tools. Well, I need to protect that, not just because the data is important, but because that's not how my business is running. And so that entire environment is important. And so it's really accelerated people coming and looking for solutions because they've realized how important these environments in this data is.  And I want to sort of poke at that a little bit. I mean, essentially what you're building is an abstraction layer that is essentially my data protection cloud. Is that how we should think about this? And you've got your reference pricing. I've seen your pricing, it's clean. It looks to me anyway, like a true cloud pricing. Going to dial it up, dial it down, pay as you go, consume it as you wish. Maybe talk about that a little bit. Yeah, I mean, I think if you think about the future of consumption is that if so many customers are looking for different choices than what many vendors have provided them in the past, I think that the days of going through a long procurement cycle and working through purchasing in order to get a big capital expense approved is just not the way that many of our customers are looking to operate now. So I think that one of the things that we're looking at across the portfolio, whether or not it be on-premises solutions or cloud-based services is to provide all of that capability as a service. I think that that will be a real future point of arrival for us as we really rotate to offer that across all of our capabilities, Dave. Whether or not it be in the domain of storage or in the domain of data protection, the concept of everything as a service is really something which is going to become more of the norm versus the exception. So what does a customer have to do to be up and running? What's that experience like? Is this going to log on and everything sort of there to them? What do they see? What's the experience like? Yeah, well, that's one of the great things about PowerPotect Backup Service is that once the customer has worked through their Dell technologies, their sales team or their Dell technologies partner, they effectively get an activation code to sign up and set up their credentials with PowerPotect Backup Service. And once they actually do that, one of the things that they don't have to worry about is the deployment of the infrastructure. The infrastructure is always on ready to go. So what they do is they simply point PowerPotect Backup Service at the data sources that they wish to protect. And that's one of the great advantages around a SaaS-based data protection platform. And it's one of the things that makes it very easy to get customers up and running with PowerPotect Backup Service. So I'm guessing you have a roadmap. You may be holding out on us and some of the other things that you're doing in this space, but what can you tell us about other things you might be doing or that might be coming? What can we expect? Well, I mean, you know, Dave, that one of the things that we always talk about is the power of the portfolio. So with the addition of PowerPotect Backup Service, it's not the only news that we're making with respect to client data protection. I mentioned earlier that we have the ability to deploy our on-premises solutions in the public cloud with PowerPotect Data Manager and our PowerPotect virtual appliances. You know, and with this announcement that brings backup service into the portfolio, we're also pleased to expand our support of the public cloud with full support of Google Cloud Platform, making PowerPotect Data Manager available in the Google marketplace.  So that's an excellent capability that we've introduced to reduce the cost of storing AWS infrastructure backups for longer periods of time. So really, you know, we've really continued to double down in bringing new cloud data protection capabilities to our customers wherever they may be. And nice. I'm Steve and you guys must be stoked. I have a partner like Dell, this massive distribution channel. I wonder if you could give us any final thoughts, you know, thoughts on the relationship, how you see the future unfolding. I mean, and obviously I've got, you know, history with Dell and EMC and Rob. And one of the things, you know, I think Dell has always been fabulous at is giving customers the flexibility to protect their data when they want, how they want, where they want, with the investment protection that if it shifts over time, they'll be there for them, right? Going all the way back to the data protection suite and all those fantastic things we've done historically. And so it's really, it's great to align with somebody that's got the same kind of values we do, which is at Druva, it's that same model, right? Wherever you want to protect your data, wherever it is, we're going to be there for you. And so it was great that I think Dell and Druva both saw this demand from our customers. And we said, you know, this is the right match, right? This is how we're going to help people keep their data safe as they start, you know, and continue and extend their journeys to the cloud. And so, you know, Dell proposes the PowerProtect backup service powered by Druva and everybody wins. The Dell's customers are safer. Dell completes its offering and let's face it, it does help Druva accelerate our momentum. So this is, this is, this is, and it's a lot of fun just hanging out with the people I used to work with, especially Rob. It's good seeing him again. Well, you guys both have kind of alluded to the portfolio and the optionality that Dell brings to its customers. But Rob, you know, I'll give you the final word. A lot of times optionality brings complexity, but this seems to be a really strong step in the direction of simplifying the world for your customers. But Rob, I'll give you the last word. Yeah, for sure. I mean, we've always said that it's not a one size fits all world. You know, I think that, you know, one of the things that this evolution of our PowerProtect portfolio brings, you know, is an excellent added option for our customers. You know, many of the customers, if not almost all of the customers that we currently sell to, you know, have a requirement for SaaS application protection. You know, many of them now, especially after the last year, haven't added sensitivity to endpoint protection. You know, so those two things alone, you know, I think are two things that all Dell technology customers can really take advantage of with the introduction of PowerProtect backup service. You know, this is just a continued evolution of our capabilities to bring innovative data protection for multi-client workloads. That last point is a great point about the endpoints because you got remote workers so exposed. Guys, thanks so much for sharing the announcement details and the relationship and really good luck with the offering. We'll be watching. Thanks, Dave. Thanks, Dave. And thank you for watching this CUBE Conversation. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE. We'll see you next time.


So let's play around a little bit more with cycle notation and see what comes of it. So one of the things that we want to be able to do is compose two permutations. And so if I have two permutations again, remember that we indicate the operation of composition by juxtaposition sigma tau, where this is read as apply the permutation tau first, then apply the permutation sigma. So if I have two cycles or more, I can also indicate composition in the same way. I could put them right next to each other and that says perform this permutation first and then do this permutation. Now as with permutations, again, we go from right to left, as with permutation. Again, it is important to remember that the permutation is not the ordering of the letters, but it's the replacement of the letters. So if I want to think about this, maybe I want to form the Cauchy table for this permutation. So let's see. So A, what is A going to be replaced with? Well, I'm going to apply this permutation first and because this one doesn't have A in it, I can assume that nothing happens to A, but this one says A is replaced with D. Let's see. So now let's see the letters of the alphabet, A, M, N, X, now A, A, B, so B is the next letter. So B, my permutation says don't do anything to B, don't do anything to B, so B stays the same. Next letter C, don't do anything, don't do anything, so C stays the same. Next letter D, D gets replaced with E, but then E gets replaced while nothing happens to it. So here's an important thing. The first cycle here replaces D with E. I do have to apply that second cycle and nothing happens to E. E, first cycle, replaces E with D, but wait, D then gets replaced with F. And finally, F, nothing happens, F gets replaced with A. So again, as with other permutations, composition is not necessarily commutative. So if I reverse the order of these cycles, well again, I'll do the same thing. So A gets replaced with D, but wait, D then gets replaced with E. So in the composition, A is going to be replaced with E. B, again, nothing happens, followed by nothing happens. C, nothing happens, followed by nothing happens. D gets replaced with F by the first cycle, and then F, nothing happens to. E, nothing happens. E is replaced with D, and then F gets replaced with A, and then nothing happens to it. So here's my reversal of those two cycles. And I get a different permutation. And this creates a big problem with our notation. If I write a cycle decomposition like this, A, C, E, D, F, what this might mean is it might mean a single permutation that looks like this. Maybe when you see this, it means a permutation that's been decomposed into cycles. But maybe I'm juxtaposing two cycles. This might mean the composition of two cycles. So this cycle, D, F, looks like this. Maybe I apply this permutation first, and then this cycle looks like this. Then I'll apply this permutation. Do I mean this or do I mean a composition? And this is very bad because it means that a juxtaposition of two cycles could mean two very different things. So which one is it? We don't like our notation to be ambiguous. Well, before we panic, let's see how big of a problem it is. So let's say I do have an expression like this, A, C, E, D, F. For example, this is a cycle decomposition. So if I read this as a decomposition of a permutation, then that permutation is going to be, well, A goes to C, C goes to E, and E goes back to A, and then D, B, nothing happens to you. D goes to F, and then F goes back to D. So this cycle decomposition corresponds to this permutation. On the other hand, if I read this as the composition of two cycles, then it's going to be the permutation. So let's see. So what's going to happen? Well, A, the first permutation does nothing to it. The second one, A goes to C. B, first permutation does nothing, followed by do nothing. C, do nothing, followed by go to E. D, first permutation, goes to F, do nothing. E, do nothing, followed by go to A. F, replace with D, and do nothing. So if I read this as apply this cycle first, then apply this cycle, then this permutation is going to give us that. And so now I have to decide, do I, when I write this, do I mean this permutation, or do I mean this permutation? So let's see, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking. Which one do we want it to be? Wait a minute, these are the same permutations. They look exactly the same and they happen to be the same permutation. So maybe this is not that big of a problem. It suggests, in any case, that we can read a juxtaposition of two or more cycles, either as the decomposition of a permutation or as the composition of cycles, because either way we read it, it looks to be the same. Except there's another problem. Composition is not commutative. If I compose two permutations, it's not going to, in general, give me the same permutation. So it's possible that the cycle decomposition of a permutation may actually depend on how we find it, and that if I reverse the order that I list the cycles, I may end up with a completely different permutation. Fortunately, we do have the following result. If I have two disjoint permutations, not just cycles, but in general, any sort of permutation, if I have two disjoint permutations, then the composition in one direction is the same as the composition in the other direction. In other words, if my permutations are disjoint, they commute. And this is something you should actually prove on your own, as this is an important result for the algebra of permutations.


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Okay. I did do a lot of, we did a lot of videos. We did a lot of videos. I'm only going to show two, and then I'm going to show an upcoming thing that we're doing. Okay. You ready? Yes. Hey, lady, what is this? Alright, I'm finally starting my project. I've been putting off for a couple of weeks, which is porting our seesaw core, which you can see here in the rotary encoder. This is SAMD09 that takes I squared C in, and then can read a rotary encoder. So it's like our little I squared C to anything converter. We use it for a lot of stuff. You can drive NeoPixels, analog digital converters, etc. We use the SAMD09, which has been working great. I love the SAMD09, but I can't get it anymore. So I'm thinking of porting the code over to the ATtiny 8XY series, which is a low-cost, 3 or 5 volt mic controller. It's not as powerful, but I can seem to get it. So I'm using this core from Spence Conde, and this is the pinout that they have for the Arduino core that runs on the ATtiny X17. So that's what I'm trying to port with. So far, I've got some blinking going. Hey, lady, what is this? Okay. I'm still working on my ATtiny 817 port of the seesaw code, which was SAMD09, but I can't get SAMD09s. So I'm porting the I squared C to GPIO or analog code that we written a couple years ago for the SAMD09 to this chip. I did digital IO in the last video, and this one I'm working for analog input. So if you see on the computer, I've got it reading the analog voltage, and this is all going through I squared C. So over here, you can actually see the debug from the ATtiny 817. It's getting the request, sending the data, and then this Arduino compatible is actually reading the analog through the I squared C and outputting it to the serial monitor. But so far, so good. So digital and analog looking so far. And here's a preview of the QDRP2040 Trinky friend. It's like an alligator, and the teeth are kind of like USB, and then the tail is a stemma. So that's a little bit of a preview, and that's top secret for the week. You're back in the vault. All right.


In my mind, I'm like, this might be the end.  That's exactly what we did. And I woke up the next morning with a really bad hangover. My girlfriend looks at me and she's like, you better figure this out. You felt sorry for yourself last night, but you okay today? We threw up this mock logo that said, Malibu's newest drive-thru. Called this 24-hour banner printer. I'm like, how big can you print this? It's like 30 feet, I go perfect. We get it printed, I climb on the roof of this building. All these other big corporations were boarding up their shops. And I'm looking around, I'm like, I'm here, we're not closing. I had no other option. I've just signed my life away less than 30 days before. You just went into action. Yeah, climbed on the roof of that building. I hung that banner facing the PCH and that first weekend came around. We got destroyed. Everyone showed up and we were cranky.  In the first week of the shutdown. Yeah.


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Well, he acted disgracefully last night and he looked ridiculous in that costume. The plumed hat, knee breeches, and a sword. What was he supposed to represent? His favorite historical character, Lord Calvert. Well, you just don't read. He was, he was the hero of that famous book by Alexander Dumas. The one about the winos. About what winos? The three muscatels. Well, I certainly was ashamed of Frankie. He ate like a pig. I doubt if he'll be able to move for a week. Oh, wait a minute. Don't you worry about Remly. I guarantee that when he comes down to breakfast, he'll be fresh as a daisy. Why, he never overdoes anything. Here he is now. Good morning, Frankie. Curly, worry you'd keep your stomach pumped. Ooh, those pains. Wait a minute. I'll never eat another drop of food again. Frankie, it served you right for overdoing it last night. I never saw anybody stuff themselves the way you did.  Never mind the lecture. What do you got for breakfast? I'm starved. Frankie, you're not going to sit at the table looking like that. What's the matter with the way I look? You're wetting an old-torn bathrobe of pills. Your hair isn't combed.  That's a fine thing. I'm a guest in her house and she insults me.  I can eat in restaurants, you know. I don't have to come here. Then why do you keep coming? I'm a moocher. Now, if you want me to change, I'll do it. But it seems silly to get cleaned up before a meal. What's silly about it? I'm a sloppy eater. I'll only get dirty again. Now, will you go upstairs and change? Alice is right.  And look, while you're up, see you's at the door. Yeah, all right. Yes? I've broken the groceries and... What's the matter with you? Tell me about it. I'm not Mr. Harris, I'm Mr. Remling. All right, beat it. I'll take the groceries then. Get your clammy mitts off of them linked sausages. I ain't leaving no groceries until I get the money. Oh, that. Just charge it to my account.   All right, if you want to be petty about it, I'll pay you now. How do you want it? You can have either an IOU or a promissory note of my personal check. Now, there's a nice assortment of absolutely nothing. I want it in cash. I don't have the cash. But would you accept the traveler's check? Yeah, yeah, traveler's check's all right. Let's have it. There you are. Thanks. Wait a minute. What kind of traveler's check is this? What's the matter with it? It's on the Moscow Express Company. This thing ain't no good. Of course it's good. Look, signed by the president of the company. Ivan Iron Curtain. I think I have stuff here till somebody pays me cash. Hey Remling, who is that at the door? Oh, here comes another deadbeat. About time you brought them groceries, kid. Here, I'll take them. I'll leave them till I get paid. I'll pay you. With what? With money. M-U-N-Y. With what? It's a ten dollar bill. That's about time. A pokey can you get. A Confederate bill. It ain't no good. What am I going to do with it? Save it, son. The South will rise again. Hello Julius. What's the trouble? I've brought some groceries and I can't get paid for them. I'll pay you. At last, real money. Oh, I'm here Miss Faith. It's something I want to talk to you about. Something that's for your ears alone. Well, do you want us to leave, kid? No, you can stay, Mr. Harris. I just spelled things out and you won't know what I'm talking about. What's on your mind, Julius? Well, I want your advice, Miss Faith. You see, I have a G-I-R-L and I want to get M-A-R-R-I-E-D. You think I'm too young? No, I think you're old enough to change your skates for a bicycle. Julius, are you serious? Excitingly. I'm in love and I want to get married. Quit kidding. What would want to marry you? A girl. She's in love with me. She thinks I'm the handsomest man she's ever seen. What do you think I ought to do? Marry her before she finds her glasses and changes her mind. We don't need... Can't take her home and live with my folks. Then take her back to Mars and live with her folks. Phil, stop making fun of the boy. Now, Julius, you're awfully young to get married. How long have you known this girl? Almost a whole week. You've only known her a week and you want to get married? Oh, the impetuosity of you. Julius, my boy, marriage is a sacred trust and before plunging into it, a man must know all about the woman he's going to marry. What do you know about the girl? Has she got a sterling character? I don't know. Has she got a good family background? I never asked her. Has she got money? $2 million. Has she got a sister? Uh-huh. Julius, I'm beginning to see this now. Look, kid, would you be so anxious to marry this girl if she didn't have money? Suppose she lost all her dough. What are you trying to do? Louse up a beautiful romance? But kid, listen to me. You can't marry a girl just because she has money and have her support you the rest of your life. What would you do about your self-respect? I don't know. What did you do about yours? Julius, I honestly think you're too young to get married. Why? When you and Mr. Harris got married, you were both young. At least you were. Don't you remember your romance? Uh, she'll never forget it. Oh, no, I won't, dear. It was so romantic the way we met. How did you meet? Well, one summer, Daddy took me hunting in Canada and Phil was our Indian guide. Oh, heap big joke. Then we brought him back to civilization and taught him the ways of the white man. How did you tame this savage beast? With music, I sang this song to him. If she sings the Indian love call, I'll kill myself. In the cool, cool, cool of the evening Tell him I'll be there In the cool, cool, cool of the evening Better save a chair When the party's getting a-blown And singin' Phil's the air In the shank of the night When the do-ins are right, you can tell him I'll be there Sue wants a barbecue, Sam Wants to boil a ham-grace Boats for Boonya-based stew Jake wants a weenie-baked steak And a layer cake He'll get a tummy ache, too We'll rare the Ted or Tee-pee Let the town cry or cry And if it's RSVP This is what she'll reply In the cool, cool, cool of the evening Tell him I'll be there In the cool, cool, cool of the evening Better save a chair When the party's getting a-blown And singin' Phil's the air In the shank of the night When the do-ins are right, you can tell him I'll be there In the cool, cool, cool of the evening Tell him we'll be there Cool of the evening Slicker on my head When the party's getting a-blown And singin' Phil's the air If we ain't in the clique And there's something to drink You can tell him Well, don't watch it, please. We're stereo. They're creepin' up the side of your garage. Any attention, then, Julius? Come with me and we'll discuss your problem privately, huh? Okay, much faith. Tell me something. What are that young, beautiful girl like you ever see in that wrinkled old chair? There goes a nice kid. Oh, great boy. He has all the charm of an old handball glove. You know something, Remly? I'd give anything to get rid of that kid. He's been driving me crazy for years. You know, Curly, maybe this romance of his is a way to get rid of him. What do you mean? Well, if we can talk Julius into eloping with his girl, we can tip off the cops and have him picked up on a kidnapping charge. He'll get life for that. Yeah, that'll... No, no. No, Remly, I can't frame the kid and have him sent away for life. Why not? That ain't long enough. Now, look, Frankie, all we want to do is to get rid of the kid, right? Right. So if we can get him to elope, that ought to do it. How so? How so. Here's how so. The kids' parents are against it, huh? Yeah. So if they elope, they'll have to leave town and then Julius won't dare to come back. Yeah. All we have to do is talk him into it. For us, that's a cinch. Oh, beautiful thing. I appreciate your advice and I'll do just that. Hey, Julius, wait a minute, kid. Hey, come in here a minute. Hey, Julius, what did I always tell you to do? She told me to wait at least a year before I get married. A year? Julius, you can't do that, Doug. Of course not. Love is something you can't keep waiting. Besides, we got everything arranged. What do you got arranged? I've planned an elopement with Mr. Harris. What if you think you're meant for each other? Go ahead. Julius, I'm not going to elope with Mr. Remley. Then you better keep your eye on him because he wants to elope with you. Will you try to get this through your flat little head? Now, Mr. Remley and I have planned an elopement for you and your girlfriend, Boog and Velia. Her name is Wisteria. I knew it was something that needs spraying. Look, kid, you love this girl and you want to marry her, don't you? So why not elope with her? Gee, it sounds wonderful, but I'm in no position to run away. I got no money and I wouldn't know where to go. Well, now we're going to help you. We're going to paper all your transportation, make your honeymoon reservations, and I'm going to loan you my car to go to the station. That sounds like a good deal and I accept. But how am I going to get Wisteria out of our house without her father knowing? Just leave that to us. You call her and tell her to be ready at 10 o'clock. Okay. Now, just let us know where she lives and we'll meet you there at a quarter of 10. Wait. Well, it's a bad time. What took you so long? I was detained. Say goodbye to your parents as a sad occasion. Julius, you didn't tell your folks what you're going to do, did you? What do you think? I'm soft on the head or something? I just made up an excuse. Well, did you call your girl and tell her to be ready? Yeah, she's all set. Good, good. Let's get started. Not so fast. Transportation and honeymoon reservations? Oh, yeah, I stopped downtown, took care of everything. Here's your hotel reservation. What kind of reservations did you get me? The best. I got you the bridal suite at the Black Hole Auto Court in Calcutta, formerly known as the Untouchable Inn in the Pine. It's the swankiest hotel in India. And you can have your choice of either Hindu or Muslim plan. Sounds good, don't it? Oh, yeah. Cut to the snake pit. I got your first-class transportation. Two lowers on the Ishtambu Kamal Express. Now, wait a minute. Calm down. You ain't going to India. We've got you train reservations to Fertiliter Falls, Nebraska. Fort Weiser Falls. On the banks of the Vigoril. I don't need the stuff, but I had to get out of that somewhere. Anywhere we got him, so you'll get your girl in a lope with her. Here's a ladder. Just put it up to her window and drag her down. Oh, fellas, I'm afraid to climb up that ladder in the dark. Oh, Julius, there's nothing to it. When I loped with Alice, I climbed up the ladder three times. Why three times? Once for Alice and twice for her money. Grab that ladder and get started. Sorry, fellas, I ain't going. You gotta go. We... Look, Julius, if I go up and get the girl and bring her here, would you elope with her? Okay, that way I'll do it. Good. Show me which house is hers and what room she's in. It's that big green house with the white shutter. Her room is the third window on the second floor. Got it. I'll be right back with it. You'll be ready for a quick getaway. Gee, Mr. Harris, I'm kind of nervous about getting married. Now, just take it easy, kid. Just be calm and easy. Hey, maybe I could calm you down if I sang to you. Well, that might work, except for one thing. What's that? Your voice makes me nauseous. The noisiest or not, you're gonna hear it. Now, sit down and put your chin on that curb and listen. I was riding down the lonely road one day in Tennessee. The time was nearly midnight. It was dark as it could be. Dark as it could be. When all at once I heard the sound of music from afar, that good old mountain music on a fiddle and guitar. Fiddle and guitar. Who wee, it was the Tennessee ghost. Who wee, it was the Tennessee ghost. A fiddler and a pickin' like a thousand menomore. The strangest mountain music you ever heard before. Who wee, a mighty man was he. The ghost from the mountains way down in Tennessee. So I rode on down the valley. Suddenly I saw that giant hill. Billy, my soul was filled with awe. My soul was filled with awe. One foot was in the valley. One foot was on a hill. A roar came from the mountain. One foot was in the valley. One foot was on a hill. A roar came down like thunder. He was laughing fit to kill. Laughing fit to kill. Who wee, it was the Tennessee ghost. Who wee, it was the Tennessee ghost. A fiddler and a pickin' like a thousand menomore. The strangest mountain music you ever heard before. Who wee, a mighty man was he. The ghost of the mountains from down in Tennessee. That oaky spooky mountain, that old man mountain from down in Tennessee. Well, Julius, how'd you like that? You said, how'd you like it? I can't hear you.    You can do it, too. Hey, Julius, I wonder what's taken Remly so long. Well, maybe he's having trouble getting my girl. Yeah, it could be. Hey, look, maybe you better get in the car and start the motor. Okay. That way, you see, then, when Remly gets here, you can make a fast getaway. Julius, get ready to go! Hey, good boy, Frankie. Dump her in the front seat next to Julius. Right? She put up a battle. She didn't want to go with me. Well, at least you got her. Now throw her in fast. Right? That's it. Okay, Julius, get going. Happy honeymoon. Happy honeymoon. Happy honeymoon. What'd you come back for? So I made a little mistake. What difference does it make? What'd I make?  She probably makes a better bed. Now, get going. Never saw such a fuss budget. When can a grocery boy get Remly?  Should I carry the maid back? No, no. She'll tip the whole thing off. Just put her in the back of the car and get the girl. Roger. Julius. Okay, we'll throw her in. Be careful. Hey. Huh?  Yeah, she's unconscious. On the way down, she banged her head on the ladder. Well, if she's marrying Julius, she's better off that way. Dump her in. Right. Right. Take her away, Julius. Happy honeymoon. Happy honeymoon. Can you be so stupid?  You got it. Fellow. Nothing doing. Now, Remly, look. Throw the mother in the back of the car with a maid. Julius, I'll go get your girl. I knew it. Middle room on the second floor. Got it. I got her this time. Here she is. Get going. Not so. I got in the right room, didn't I? Yeah, but you got in the wrong house. I thought her knees felt a little bony. Hey, Pop, why did you let me carry all the way over here? Why didn't you stop me? Why should I? This is the first time I've been able to get away from my wife in years. Where are you going, Fallon?  Hey, don't worry, Julius. I'll be right back. I'm going back once more. Don't bother. We got caught in it. What's going on out there? What's that ladder doing up against my house? Holy smoke, it's Wisteria's father and he's got a shotgun. Shotgun? Oh, come on, Remly. Let's get that car quick. We better get out of here. Yeah. Come on. Crosses. What are you doing here? I told you to stay away from my house. And this time... Please, please, please. We haven't got time for that now. If you want to save your happy home, call the cops and have that cop picked up. Why? Phil Iphone took your meter long to cook for them. Alison Phil will be back in just a moment. You can take advantage of a terrific bonus offer if you act now. 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Prigozhin has a similar one flying on his behalf. When Russian investigators searched Yevgeny Prigozhin's house after the June riots, they found documents confirming that he had a lookalike who could fly on behalf of the Wagner chief. The Guardian published information about this. It was reported that all the personal information in the documents belonged to Prigozhin except for the photo. Commenting on this, the New York Times drew attention to the fact that Prigozhin could use his likeness to hide during the fight. The image of the similar document that came out of Prigozhin's house during the uprising was also spread. It should be noted that on August the 23rd, Prigozhin's business jet crashed in the Tver region while flying from Moscow to St. Petersburg. All 10 people on board including Prigozhin died. It is highly likely that the plane was shot down or blown up from the outside because before the accident, witnesses observed two consecutive explosions in the plane while in the air. Most security experts doubt Wagner group can survive without Prigozhin, posing major questions about what will happen to the group's fighters, weapons and operations. They said the Kremlin may seek to further absorb the group into the Russian military or try to replace the Wagner chief with an ally, but it's unlikely there will be much appetite for that among Prigozhin's men. What's clear is that the fallout will be felt far beyond Russia's borders, especially in African countries where Wagner has been employed to help prop up leaders and suppress rebellions.


And on news outside Africa, former White House National Security aide Fiona Hill says Russian President Vladimir Putin is not bluffing on Ukraine. At a hearing of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Washington Hill said President Putin's threats are usually intentional and purpose-driven, adding that many of their allies are a bit skeptical about what is happening. Earlier on Wednesday, the United States announced it will send nearly 3,000 troops to Poland and Romania to reinforce Eastern European NATO allies in the face of what Washington describes as a Russian threat to invade Ukraine.


i want to close by saying those comments and those testimonies from our students have said to me we did the right thing and we're doing a good thing and opening and launching and running this career institute gaming career institute so i again want to thank you for your support for your confidence in cambridge college and uh for allowing us this opportunity which would not have happened without your approval uh finally i want to invite you to come visit us and to see the space because i think you will leave with a smile on your face about what we're doing and how the program in the space uh is a reflection of our respect for the students who have come to secure these credentials thank you for allowing me to speak today i think they do thanks i want to introduce now and i think you've met them already uh they've been here several times two of my vice presidents mark and uh rotundo to my far right and philip page and just to note um both of them will be embarrassed that i said this on the record but uh these two gentlemen are uh incredible and have from start to finish made this a vision become a reality and they have dotted every eye and crossed every t and assured that the partnerships with you and with on core have and with the other organizations i mentioned have all been wonderful every step of the way so i want to acknowledge and thank them for the work they've done they they as i like to say they do all the work and then they wind me up and allow me to come out and talk about it so thank you philip and mark thank you president jackson um good afternoon commissioners good afternoon mark and i are very excited to share where we are with the gaming school and so the presentation will walk through will detail sort of how we got there what was involved in setting it up what was involved in outreach and ultimately what we experienced in terms of the end result of having students come so i'll walk you through all of that starting first with just their reflection of the timeline i think it's important in appreciating all that was done how quickly everything came together and i think to echo debbers president jackson's sentiment it was in large part because of the nature of the partnership the team from on core boston harbour were phenomenal to work with every step of the way and they helped us really understand what it was that we needed to do to to bring this all together and the support from the gaming commission jill paul bill was just phenomenal in getting to that to that finish line so so there's much appreciation on our part there so in march 2018 we created the partnership informal terms with with boston on core boston harbour and named the greater boston gaming career institute by july we were prepared to submit a draft certification application to the mass gaming commission working very closely with paul connelly and and bill were then able to flesh that out and present a final draft certification two weeks later by august 15th and we are very proud that by august 24th we were able to receive our certification and be prepared to go um one of the things that is important to note as we as we move forward with the the shaping of the school is that the conversation about what were the defining parameters was something that we did have very many detailed conversations with bob the salvia o jenny peterson and the members of of on core boston harbour and what we wanted to do is to make sure that the school at the end of the day prepared these students in the best possible way to be successful in in being employed at on core boston harbour that's that's the end goal so the defining parameters started there but then included all of these other elements of commitment to recruiting diverse and local students um ensuring that affordability was was front and center with regards to the cost of entering that scholarship options we as many as we could make available as well as many as we can identify and and direct students to that would be something that would be important to make sure we established making sure as is consistent with the college practices for our students outside of the program that they were accessible and flexible in time of day and day of the week in terms of the students being able to attend a big opportunity presented self to make sure that we had the strongest curriculum possible and the relationship with on core boston harbour enabled us to acquire the atlantic cape community college curriculum which is which is the gold standard for um gaming school curriculum and finally but not least is making sure that not only did you have the curriculum but you had the best quality talent to teach the material and working with on core boston harbour to make sure that all of the instructions and instructors and professionals associated with the program would be top notch and not only in terms of what they taught around the games but their understanding of what was important to be hired to be to be a successful employee at on core boston harbour the academic program itself again shaped with a lot of input in fact um significant input and helpful advice from Doug Williams at on core boston harbour is shaped has come to be shaped this way this fall term with a we focused on blackjack and poker as the two core games that were delivered in the fall term understanding the greatest need that the casino would have the program is structured that we have a weekday format and week and format the weekday format has three time periods eight to twelve one to five and six to ten giving folks an opportunity to attend and engage depending on what their lives were um or encompassed by within that the blackjack program would run nine weeks and the poker program would run fourteen weeks and this runs parallel with the expectation for the amount of hours that each of those programs are required by by the commission rules the weekend program schedule runs almost a full day from eight to four thirty and it's only blackjack right now and it's nine weeks um and that's a matter of fitting the time in the amount of time we have in that fall semester all of the programs include responsible gaming cpr and customer service training um so we don't actually even call it a dealing class because all of this is is part of what you get when you pay your tuition to come to this to the program as part of the experience of being in the class we want to make sure that we added even additional um credibility to the students in their move from being a student to an employee by adding a final capstone that actually includes an interview and audition for the table game which is much in like much in in sync with what would be expected of them making the transition into full-time employment at on course so they'll have an opportunity to audition even before they complete the program as a in fact as a condition of completing the program which would further ensure that they would be ready for the job market when they were done in the spring term we'll begin to introduce additional games backrat craps and some of the novelty carnival games but we will continue to also have poker and blackjack offered then as well philip philip just a quick question is is your recruiting students um obviously there's a bunch of things they think to consider one is uh because of the partnership with on for boston harvard they have priority uh hiring goals for ever in mall mall is that right um so i mean i hope i expect you're keeping all that in mind uh are you looking for or do you express to students kind of what a is there any kind of like base level skills uh you know math skills or something that you're kind of encouraging candidates to have or to be strong in before they start um yes we and jill shared a little bit of that um the the real key parameters for students coming in is that we expect them to be able to to at least perform an eighth grade math level um they have to be 18 years old and older um and and we really want to make sure that they have the the right aptitude for customer friendly engagement so they there's a there's in fact as part of the recruitment process an interview that all students go through who are applying to the school to make sure that they have the capacity and both in terms of language skills and demeanor to be in front of an audience so we are we're looking at all of those parameters in addition to making sure that there's an interest and engagement with the idea of being a being a dealer so those are the core pieces of what we're looking for um obviously these positions are require licensing um how much of that do you try to talk to the students about in advance of having to go through that registry licensing process so for each of the sections that philip has mentioned the three uh weekday sections monday through thursday and the weekend sections we actually performed a 30 minute orientation with all of the students i delivered that orientation to make sure the message was the same to all of the groups we also walked through a student contract which becomes part of the student's record and in each of those we expressed and explained to them the partnership among the three organizations the role of each organization and things like the certificate of good fit and so forth in the licensing so we spent about 30 minutes orienting all of our students and all of those functions and we also have that on our frequently asked questions on the website so there's information even before the students apply that they can they can read and understand these are the requirements or expectations that will be had of that will be had of you in making your transition through the school and then into employment so the so understanding that you have to be licensed understand that there are background checks um things like that are are purposefully given to the students up front so they are fully aware of what's expected of them in making that transition from being a student to being an employee thanks so next what i want to do oops jump ahead is talk a little bit about that outreach and how how that was fashioned and and where we went to realize the kind of engagement that we were looking for from the school standpoint so from a marketing promotion standpoint one of the things that i think was very important for us was ensuring that we were as clear and explicit in the communication to all parties around what the what the program was and what the school had to offer we were tactical in in sharing and making the notion that the experience this experience would be life changing from a career standpoint because it not only was the position itself of being a dealer but where that could potentially take you so that's a part of the experience in the marketing process that we wanted everyone to be to be fully aware of this there were multiple mediums used to present the program and to reach out to the market the starting point would be our website which was cleverly and i think appropriately branded as bet on you and you if you've traveled on any of the public transportation certainly the orange line and seen some of the the signs it's for me it's always encouraging i'm a public tea rider so to see those signs and to see the reaction people get when they read through that is is quite nice the website was designed to be as user friendly as possible providing both a broad overview of the program but the level of detail we thought was appropriate for for students to and prospective students to really be aware of i don't have a link to that right this minute but i would encourage you to to go to bet on you to just sort of explore and test it through it's as user friendly as it could possibly be but the the homepage brings you in tells the story of what it's like to be a dealer with a video of somebody who's made the career we have a directory that is very clear and easy to manage your way through in terms of where the specific information is that you need to apply to understand about scholarships and frequently ask questions as well as policies of the school and we're very clear about making sure people know where we are so we've got that information in terms of where the school is located and who to contact if you have questions or require additional information so in addition to the website we were on radio we were on mbta ads we've done digital websites web search site search optimization as well as print media broadly there certainly was a focus to make sure that the communities both both the host community and surrounding communities that are part of the developed workforce development plan were front and center in that outreach but the breadth of this marketing and promotion strategy i think is is is quite quite impressive sports stations urban stations spanish language stations ethnic papers everywhere and anywhere we could get to the population that we were targeting for for outreach for student population with that the application process the application process for the institute we wanted again to circle back to that notion of making it as easy as possible so it's an online application multiple places on our website where you can click a button and get right to the application the application itself is fairly straightforward and and i think really easy for folks to complete once an application is completed students are invited to come to the institute for an initial admissions interview and to complete the math exam students are given as much time as they need about 20 question math exam again eighth grade level once they've completed that math exam then they move to an interview room where they have a brief conversation with with representatives of the school and in doing that we're able to determine whether or not the student has the capacity to both be successful through the course but also be successful in their pursuit for employment we've had about six sessions at Cambridge College and over 500 students actually came through that process when we when we held those students were notified within 24 hours of that interview so they weren't waiting long before they knew what their status was and we took an approach where the denied students who we thought had potential but were missing on maybe one aspect of the process that we would get back to them inform them of what the issue was and give them information that would potentially help them pursue resources that could possibly get them in on a second go round for the spring accepted students were provided all the registration materials they were given scholarship application information so we made sure that they were directly informed about that opportunity and we encouraged everyone to apply we made sure that the student contract as mark reference was available to them so that they knew that that was something that was going to be required for admission and for acceptance into the program because we wanted to make sure that they were they were really truly committed to understanding what they needed to do to get not only through the program but ultimately to get employment that they weren't halfway through or all the way through and then realizing there was something that they needed to do that wasn't that wasn't clear so we actually had them sign that contract to ensure that they are saying that they they've done that students who are coming in and we recognize that very many people are looking at this as many of the students who came in that they've been out of school for a while just like our students this may be a very pivotal moment in their their family's life history just like our students and so just like our students we made sure that we had our student navigator manager student navigation managers dedicated individuals who were available to these students when they came on campus to walk them through everything from how to properly go through the application process or admissions process on the computer to how to complete their scholarships and then to walk them through what they need to do in terms of coming for enrollment and the day first day of school so there was a lot of a lot of caring and concern provided to every student who came to that point of saying we wanted to be in the in the institute the program size was capped in part to meet occupancy code for the space but also because we wanted to make sure and we needed to make sure that we had enough equipment to manage the number of students the maximum number of students for the fall term the target was about 210 that would have had every seat filled and everyone running around like crazy I'm sure so with with that with all of the work that was done in setting up the outreach and the marketing and promotion we had over 1900 applicants in the course of about four weeks I believe it was that came through so that was really truly amazing 60% of those applicants were male 40% were female 4% veterans as self-reported 41% persons of color and 45% from the host and surrounding communities ever at Malden Boston Cambridge Chelsea Somerville and Medford of those 1900 the enrollment status was that we had 324 accepted applicants these were the applicants who went through the interview past the math test passed the interview and chose to continue down the down the path towards applying that was quite significant for us the total registered for the program out of that 324 with 166 62% of them choosing blackjack 38% choosing poker of that 166 enrolled student population 68% were male 32% were female 3% veterans 49% persons of color and 49% from the host and surrounding communities what's important about this data is that it now gives us an opportunity to shape some of the strategies we will we will employ going forward to make sure that we are not only meeting but exceeding the goals that were set in the workforce development plan and so we recognize that even within this short window we were successful in numbers but we want to make sure that we're also successful in meeting some of the other goals as well and that's that's going to be in very much an intentional part of the long-term strategy for the spring term that's coming up any any idea the discrepancy from those accepted and those entering the program I mean is there interviews with folks to find out why they chose not to continue you may not want to know but it is the number of hours of instruction so you have people who need to make a decision on an opportunity cost am I going to spend 200 hours coming to poker Monday through Thursday or am I going to bypass going and getting overtime to help pay for my family so the number of hours was the number one reasons given by students not tuition not instruction but the number of hours of instruction and your total accepted applicants is that did you cap it because you figured I don't want to accept so many people that I can't get into the program or no we didn't cap our accepted students we literally went through and did a very rigorous interview process and looked at those who were qualified are eligible and as my colleague mentioned for those who didn't pass the math test we actually sent them on a math study packet and we were going to re-interview them after they have passed that or sent them to the community colleges to come back to us thank you I'm curious if you know whether those 20% Asian might be also Cantonese or Chinese Mandarin speakers or is that something you know we don't know which dialect they speak we do know though that there was an organization in the city of Malden who sent many individuals so a community based organization Malden sent many individuals to us and so Malden in terms of our surrounding areas a host community actually came second only to Boston and the number of residents that came in so I also want to share that with regards to the affordability of the school we as I said encouraged every student who was getting through the pipeline no matter where they were in the pipeline that they should apply for the scholarship because they you just never know of that we received 61 total applicants for the Encore Boston Harbor scholarship which as you know it's 50 scholarships for folks applying to the school of the 61 41 were awarded and the what that means is that their income level was within the guidelines of what we set for the scholarship and we had 300% of the poverty level as the ceiling but the majority 51% were at 200% of poverty level so we we recognize that you know it really was serving an important function for very many of these students who were being accepted 50% of that pool was female 62% persons of color and 59% from host and surrounding communities so with that let me move to just sharing a little bit about the location and the layout so to give you a sense of that I think in the first presentation I indicated where we were on the site but Cambridge College's main building is 500 Rutherford Ave the Gaming Career Institute is located at a satellite which is 510 Rutherford Ave so it's a standalone entity within that we have four poker tables four roulette tables 12 blackjack and novelty game novelty game tables and two craps tables and in this next slide you can see the basic layout and positioning of the school as president Jackson noted we're very excited about having the school the gaming institute in this this location and in this this particular site because it is quite attractive if you walk up there the experience for both the instructors and the students I think is is quite profound and in doing so we think it's actually adds another added value for some of the recruitment process that will follow for the spring term certainly you can see in these images here before we had the student students coming in so the next steps for for us includes addressing some of the things that happened or that were at the end result of the fall term we have a waiting list of some students who either were from a timing perspective not able to get in in time to be part of the starting class the programs have a very rigorous and important to be kept timeline for participation so anything beyond that first day would be difficult to bring someone in to meet the hours that were required so we are assessing the waiting list that we have for students to see if it might be possible to even launch a second nine-week blackjack program in November that will end before the start of the spring term we are assessing with the students who are currently enrolled what kind of options we might want to offer for second games for the spring term so that we can be very clear to make sure that those that are in high interest of high interest are available to those students and we will also begin as I shared early earlier on to launch strategic outreach efforts within the community with community organizations to engage the underrepresented groups both in terms of the fall enrollment but also thinking strategically about what we are addressing from the workforce development plan so that is very much a big part of the next steps that we are engaged in and the timeline going forward is as such in October we will work with the team to identify the spring term instructors to make sure that we have a full array of appropriate instructors for the gaming programs that we will be running in November registration will open for the spring term by December we will begin the interviewing process for the new students who are coming in spring term will launch on January 14th and all programs will be completed by April which will give us May and June the opportunity to provide refresher courses for those who are going to be moving then into the employment realm we're very excited about what can happen in the spring term because we learned so much in this fall term execution that not only will we I think be even more effective in reaching our goals but I think we'll probably have bigger smiles on our face at the end of that journey as well so thank you very much for the opportunity to share what we have and we're open for questions yeah just a just a couple of notes and thank you for this presentation I also want to acknowledge not only are you positioning yourself as a solid partner here in Boston Cambridge College Springfield campus has also been a solid partner for our MGM licensee in terms of the apprentice program that you launched there to teach not just MGM employees but other hospitality and tourism workers around the region about the region itself so that's been a tremendous success I was there too and my relationship with Cambridge College goes back even further helping to recruit you guys to downtown Springfield just two other quick questions and I'm glad you highlighted you know launching strategic outreach efforts with community organizations Jill has heard a lot from those organizations so I'm going to offer up her time and talent and hours to help you out with that but also you know keeping in mind and some of this is born out of our experience in Springfield with the gaming school there is that folks obviously have a sincere interest in working for our licensee and at some point pursuing a gaming position career may not be what fits best for them or fits for our licensee but in Springfield we saw some success in helping those people who were really interested in working for a licensee maybe to consider another career path that might best fit their skills so I hope you'll kind of keep that in mind as well there are a number of positions to be filled so you know shepherding students to rethinking that if they hit a point that being a deal it may not work out for them I would encourage you let me assure you in the interview process if we did not accept some they were denied the interview committee literally was writing could be better fit for this and this and that information has been shared with on core we'll continue that and also with the people coming through the school also making sure they're aware so thank you for that suggestion good thank you anything else you know thank you for the presentation those numbers look great and they really do and the enthusiasm and the desire to really help these folks change their life is is terrific and you know it's good that on core is partnering with you with this initiative and we look forward to further updates as as the time gets closer thank you thank you all thank you all I think we're up to uh commissioner updates do we have any updates I I have just one and I'll say it was it was great to be out in Springfield on yesterday to hear my colleague commissioner Zuniga's presentation on the public health trust fund along with dph commissioner Tucker and it was great to see a lot of the local stakeholders who are interested in how that money is going to be expended and how it might help residents from western mass that might find themselves dealing with an addiction issue so yeah that was it was it was a good meeting there's a there's a group that's called a plan for progress they they're very much engaged members of the community the business community the non-profit human service agencies and we were in front of them there's quite a bit of interest in terms of that public health trust fund I think there's there's a lot for for us to think about in terms of going forward for that from that executive committee but it was good to be out there we also took a few key members too of that of that group to a tour of MGM and they were equally impressed with the facility many of the things that you know we all know about some of the back behind the scenes the games and space so it's it was a good day overall I have a couple of things first of all I was fortunate enough to represent us last week in the international gaming regulators conference I've spoken a panel about regulators dilemmas very interesting what the rest of the world is doing I think 76 countries were represented at this conference folks are very interested in what we do around responsible gaming and we had some of our staff work hard on the the statistics committee which really documents who is doing what around the world so if you're going to something new for example your state legislature passes some new piece of gaming and makes it legal well who who does it around the world who does it well who has the experience what are the best practices so Joan Matsumoto was our lead on that project also I want to give kudos as the rest of the the board did to our staff led by commissioner Zuniga who we we we volunteered or maybe I volunteered I asked nicely but we translated that report into Spanish so that the countries in South America Mexico could participate in this project so we got you know credit for that as well but lots of folks interested in in what we're doing secondly I did have an opportunity earlier this week to speak at a conference a women's leadership conference that was hosted by Penn National and the regional chamber and about 90 women about 10 supportive men at the event and you know we shared stories well you know I told a few stories right and but it was really interesting because we talked about some strategies and there's a group of that Penn is doing a national project a women's leadership because frankly they were very honest about the fact that their numbers are not great when it comes to women in leadership positions throughout all their properties and they really do want to address it so they have a leadership program 16 young women at Penn National a part of this program it's it's a you know they have homework assignments they listen to guest speakers books that they read and a very engaged group and one of the things I talked about was not being afraid to try right not being afraid to raise your hand and say yes I'd like to be a leader I'd like to move up and one young woman of color came to me afterwards and said oh my god that's exactly what just happened to me I was a beverage manager when there was an opportunity for food and beverage a larger position she said well I've never done food should I apply and she she actually got the position and she just loves learning the food part of the business and it just was I think it's a good initiative that they've started and it was nice to to be out there I guess it was on Tuesday so just it's just something that I wanted to report it's great anything else do we have a motion to adjourn so moved second adjourned thanks thank you


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