This is the first in-class GPRC5D targeting bispecific antibody. So that study showed that the response rate was over 70%. There were a couple of different doses studied, but for the most of this presentation, we'll focus on the 0.8 milligram per kilogram every two weeks. So every two week, subcutaneous drug. And that drug in a patient population that was heavily treated, five to six different chemotherapy regimens, including prior T cell redirection, showed a very impressive response rate of over 70%. And in that 0.8 every two week dosing, the progression cruise arrival was 14 months, which is really impressive for an off the shelf. And I think people may not have heard about, but at the Greece meeting at IMS, we showed that the PFS for high risk and standard disc were identical, which is rare to see in myeloma. We also have not seen a lot of infectious deaths, like even though this drug was accrued, the study was done during COVID. Unlike some of the other products, we didn't see a lot of infectious complications. We know that people can mount an antibody response to the COVID vaccines. So those are all of the plus points, but I think there's some unique side effects that we saw. These are what I would describe as untarget off tumor. And what that means is GPRC5D, yes it's expressed on myeloma, but there are other tissues that also express GPRC5D.  And yes, that'll give you myeloma control, but it can give you lots of taste, peeling of the hands and feet, rashes, and then nail changes. And those have to do with what we think that where the GPRC is expressed. And so basically what the purpose of this study was, if that's the background, we know that TalcrataMAP median time to response is actually one month and median time to best response is three months. So as we really try to figure out these unique side effects, which you don't usually see with other myeloma drugs, what do we do? And the question was, well if the drug is so active and it works so quickly, can we back off on the drug in terms of dose and schedule in the patients who've had a response? And that's really the premise of this study at ASH. The infection rates with this drug are quite low compared to the other drugs in this space. So for example, BCMA bispecifix with the most follow have a grade three, four, which means serious infections of about 55%. Here we're seeing it about 20, 25%. Also, we're not seeing deaths from COVID as much. We only had two deaths out of almost 300, whereas the BCMA bispecifix have a lot more of those. So I think it's a generally favorable infection profile, also less neutropenia with lowering of white counts. So because we saw that the drug was highly active and worked quickly, we started with looking back at patients who had been treated already and looked at about 50 patients who had had a reduction in the dose intensity. They came from any of the three cohorts, either the weekly, every two-week, or either of those doses, but in a cohort of patients who had prior T-cell redirection therapies like CART-T and bispecific. And what we found in those 50 patients is there didn't seem to be any compromise of efficacy. The responses and progression physorobyl seemed to be very encouraging. The problem with that data is that it's not the right way to do the analysis because when you reduce a dose, it's usually people who are doing well, right? And so doctors and patients may not be as excited to reduce a dose in somebody who's not doing well, so can't really tease that apart. So then the second part of the study was actually to do it intentionally in what we call a prospective fashion. So take patients who are responding, what we call partial response or better, which means a 50% reduction that are more or higher, and then reduce it from there. And so that study showed that there was no apparent compromise again in efficacy and safety-wise. We saw that there was a hint of improvement in oral toxicities, skin toxicities, and also nail. We didn't see as much difference in weight. One other interesting finding that I think people may be intrigued to hear about is that as we were looking at this information, we realized that when you look at the first three months, patients who have these taste losses and peeling of the hands and feet, there's actually a 20% higher likelihood that they're gonna respond. So it's unique because in our solid tumor colleagues, they have drugs where if somebody has a rash, it actually means the drug is working. And we don't really have that in myeloma, right? And so here, this is unique because I wanna be, might make sure that people understand that the drug works in many patients and the side effects are very common, but should you have the side effect, it tends to mean that you have a better chance of responding, right? So it's not that if you don't have a side effect, you're not gonna respond, but I think that's an interesting finding and it's a different way of looking at the side effect rather than like, okay, this is, yes, we wanna minimize this, but it's actually a sign that maybe the drugs work for you. I think we'll have to study each drug by itself because each drug's dosing, schedule, route of administration is all different and the target, of course, is different because this is the only BGPRC-ID. But what I can tell you, which pertains a little bit to this is we wanted to look at also the immune fitness and what we found was that when patients had this planned dose reduction, the T cells became less exhausted. So what does that mean? I describe, you know, like, if you keep giving a bispecific repeatedly on schedule, it's like teenagers who party too hard and they get exhausted, right? And so what it turns out is if you take a break, those T cells don't get as beaten up and that made both well, both for not only the benefit of efficacy of the current treatment, but many of you even down the road for your next treatment. So I think that finding suggests that this may be something that could be studied in other drugs, but I want to be careful and not say that we should be doing this without proper study, but what other bispecifics targeting other targets are also similarly realizing that we're being in backing off seems to be beneficial. But again, I think it's important that people don't hear this information and say, well, why not start lower? Because if you are a heavily treated patient with myeloma, you need these initial starting doses, right? Because you know what's worse than side effects is having uncontrolled myeloma. So first we need to control the myeloma and then when we have that, we have the some breathing room to maybe adjust the dose. The one final thing I would add is that in a hundred or so patients, I've treated with Toccautamabally, one person has come off for side effects and not for disease progression. And it's not that I've had a magic sauce, I work with the patient and I'm like, listen, the drug's working for you. We're gonna, if you're having these side effects, we're gonna find the right dose and schedule. And I think the other thing I would want patients to know is that if and when somebody comes off the drug, these side effects are reversible.  So yeah, I think that's, hopefully it'll give patients hope that this drug really is a lot of potential for them.


Save 10% with my code Bobby10 on raw, organic, grass-fed and grass-finished, freeze-dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. All right guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, today we're gonna finally react to Sheikh Abdel Hakim Murad with his lecture Tasawuf is at the heart of Islam. This is absolutely amazing because I wanted to react for the longest time to Sheikh Abdel Hakim Murad and moreover I really wanted to understand the spiritual aspect of Islam which apparently is called Tasawuf. I read a bit about Ibn Arabi, a bit about Rumi, but many many people will say that those people are heretics.  Correct me if I'm wrong here yet again. With no further ado now, let's have a look. But Imam al-Junayt says, defines it quite simply, Tasawuf is a good character. So whoever improves your character has improved your Sufism. That's what an indigenous definition is, not an orientalist definition, not a modern polemical definition or not the Iranian definition which really problematizes and sometimes persecutes Tasawuf. But the indigenous definition is simply transcending yourself and applying that inner dimension of the sunnah. So it's rather to be a total package, not just for what you do with your body which is the fiqh or what you do with your mind which is the aqida but something deeper still. And this is really what I am looking for guys as I said countless times, I come from a spiritual background, I come from a Christian background, I went to the Amazon rainforest to drink aqa with the shamans and whatnot. I was and I still am extremely interested within the spiritual aspect, within the inner aspect of faith, of knowing God. And this is why when I started looking into Islam, I fell in love with the strictness of Islam, with the guidance that Islam provides for the family structure and society. But I was missing this spiritual aspect, I was looking for it and I didn't truly understand where to find it. This is why this lecture here is extremely interesting to me. Let's continue.  Anybody who doesn't think that they need sorting out in their internal lives really doesn't have too much self-reflection, that is a necessary discipline. And when the alama say, they mean it in a shara'i sense as well. Because if you look at the books of Asal al-Filq, the books which explain in extraordinary detail sometimes, the rules whereby the sunni legitimately deduces the rulings of the sharia from the Qur'an and the sunnah and it's really complicated because the text sometimes really complicated and Arabic is really difficult and you have to use all kinds of rigorous methods of deduction rather than just saying what you think it means.  Because ultimately these things are about theory choice. And theory choice is determined by the human subjectivity which is often subject to emotion.  We can see why, but that is the case, and it's also the case for fatwa. Nobody, however many qualifications he may have, is allowed to give a fatwa if they're in a kind of state of emotional turbulence. And this it seems to me is part of the tragedy of the umma nowadays, which is that instead of setting aside the lower tendencies of envy and fear and anxiety and rivalry and the stuff that every one of us, including myself, have within ourselves to identify to muhassaba and self-knowledge and putting it in its box and stamping on it and keeping it out of the way of dealing with the Qur'an and the sunnah, instead we open the sort of box, the Pandora's box, of all of those affarit, all of those demons, and they're the ones that sway us when we reach for particular fatwas and options. That's a catastrophe, and that's really the end of the Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, and that's the tragedy of the umma today. People saying, I know that the consensus of the umma is X, but I'm really angry, and therefore I'm going to follow Y, because I've seen this clip on YouTube where somebody seems to be saying that you can interpret it that way. That's the end of the Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, because that's breaking all of the rules. And the reason for that is Lemya Tathawaf, that individual, has not worn the prophetic robe, the robe of not really being interested in dunya, and being in complete control of emotion. Very, very interesting man. Just by listening to this man, I get the idea of a complete system finally. If we look at Buddhism, Buddhism is concentrated in words. Buddhism is concentrated only on this inner work, to be totally honest, because you don't see a strict ruling for society. Anybody can do whatever they want, essentially, and ultimately they're going to get reborn, again, incarnated and whatnot, but you see the monks doing the inner work. Then if you look at Islam only from the material perspective, you see Sharia, you see strict rulings, but is there really a complete implication of material world, dunya, as he said, and the spiritual world? Is it truly a complex system that embodies everything? And the way that Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad here speaks about it, makes perfect sense to me personally. Yet again, I'm not a scholar, I cannot know, but it resonates with me listening to it. He speaks about a person that is basically spiritually evolved, if you will, and then that person has the power, has the foresight to apply certain rulings, and otherwise you cannot, the spiritual aspect would be missing within that material ruling. This makes sense to me. So, a philosophical way, abolishing emotion, because that would be inhuman, but instead to have it all in due balance and the ego to be disengaged. All of the problems of today's ummah, it seems to me, are the result of ego, nafs, shaitan, hawa, and when that gets into the driving seat in religion and its institutions, then you have a kind of inversion. Instead of religion becoming the symbol of everything that brings hope to humanity, and a symbol of that which is a thousand times better than the sort of mega consumer turmoil that the world is now trapped in, instead of it being a symbol of beauty and openness and something ideal, it becomes simply a mirror to the envy and the anger and the viciousness of the souls of the people who now think that they're in charge of the texts. Absolutely, man, and this is how I saw Islam within Germany. I know I sound like a broken record. I have to repeat this over and over again, but I'm simply sharing my own perspective, growing up in Germany. I didn't see a beautiful representation of Islam. I saw a violent representation, and I'm not saying that this is correct, but this is what I saw. Or, as he said correctly here, a better option, because when I was living in the West, yeah, the West wasn't great, but nevertheless, it seemed way better than the other option, which would be Islam. Islam, the way that was represented to me, was violence, was destruction, was strict rulings, laws. There was no beauty in it, the way that I perceived it back then. Now learning about it, I of course can see the beauty, but I would wish that we have more people talking about it like he does. So if that's the alternative to Yatthasawaf, then it is haram. The alternative to purifying the self is to have an impure self, and you can't disengage the self from the process of delivering fatwa and choosing your fatwas, and therefore religion becomes just a mirror of the ugliness of your inner life, of your infestation, perhaps even your mental illness. You find interpretation has to graphically find that deep inner imbalance, and the result is a catastrophe, and religion becoming the inversion of what it should be. Instead of showing to people through the sunnah, Islam is the sunnah, the beauty of the heart of the chosen ones, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the joy with which people enter Islam, instead you show them the raging volcano of your anxieties and fears and disquiet and envy and viciousness. If you're showing them that, and you say that is Islam, then that is the ultimate blasphemy against the holy prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, because you're saying my ugliness is the sunnah, and you're attributing the turbulences and the darkness of your own ego, or sub-ego, to the best of creation sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and that's the worst thing anybody can ever do. To attribute ugliness to the one who is the purest is about the worst decision that anybody can take, and this is the way the shaitan and the nafs and the howa operate. They want to take the best things, those things that give most light and hope and serenity to humanity and the human heart, and to turn them into things that are scary and ugly that drive the world away. So instead of da'awa, invitation, you have tanfir, repulsion, which is inevitably what happens when people are not able to jattasawaf to control themselves, to understand themselves, to overcome their lower impulses. So in that sense, we would say that classical Islam, as enshrined in the doctrine of Imam Laqani, is correct. He's actually correct. Whether or not you define Sufism as a particular type of tasawaf or not is not really the point. Tasawaf, as understood by the al-Amaa, all of those commentators on Bukhari means the process of self-transformation, the process of diqr, the process of remembering Allah, the process of fiqr, the process of reaching out and seeing the humanity and the vulnerability and the needs of others, and not really paying too much attention to your own insecurities because inwardly, when we really think about ourselves, we see there's not an awful lot there that's really beautiful and interesting. So forget that. Look at the other. Look at the ghayr. Without that possibility, without that tasawafah, Islam is simply a megaphone for our own shaitan, for our own hawah. And therefore, not to engage in tasawaf, it is clear. And this really should be a matter of consensus for Muslims. If we're using this indigenous vocabulary, that tasawafah is actually an obligation. If the alternative is tanfir and the uglification of Allah's religion and the taking of decisions and fatwa choices that are subversive and close the doors of Allah's mercy, to human beings who have never needed their creator more than they do in this age of confusion and precariousness, that's a monstrous sin. So we would probably say, we don't need this thing's Sufism, but we would probably say using the indigenous vocabulary, we have to have this thing tasawaf and that's why the ulama consistently, really without exception, down the centuries of our civilization have agreed that we do need this thing called tasawaf. And even some people say, but Imam Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah says the Sufis do this and that, read him for yourself. Don't listen to what the brothers in the masjid are telling you. Read him. I guess his commentary on the Futuh al-Ghayb of Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, he loves Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, case closed. Who is a Sufi if not Abdul Qadir al-Jilani? Yes, of course, he has issues with certain aspects of the Wahdat al-Wujud school. That's fine. He has issues with them. They're well expressed, but it's not against us. Yeah, Wahdat al-Wujud is the unity of being expressed by Ibn Arabi and even though this could be only described as a monist perspective, if you truly look into it, I can understand how people would see it as pantheism and with that as shirk. Tawaf, Ibn Taymiyyah, it's not against tasawaf. Who is? This is one of the remarkable points of unanimity and consistency in our civilization. Despite the many voices and the plurality which we've always said has constituted its most authentic theme, still the olima have agreed, the al-Sunnah al-Jama'ah, that this tasawaf really is necessary in order to operationalize your Islam. Even if you don't use that word for whatever reason, even if you just say self-knowledge and dhikr and riyadhah and muhassabah and sabr and shukr and hosn al-kholaq, use that vocabulary instead, that's fine. But the term the olima have usually preferred to define the science of those inward processes of transformation is tasawafah. So we would conclude that Islam can do without Sufism, but Sunni Islam is constituted by having tasawaf at its heart and without it it will have no heart. All right guys and this is it for today's video. Absolutely beautiful lecture, absolutely amazing speech by the sheikh here for me personally, as you clearly noticed, this puts puzzle pieces together. This makes sense and resonates to me, because first and foremost I am interested in the spiritual aspects of religion. I always was. Theology, history is interesting to me to a certain extent, but then I am very curious about purifying myself. What do I have to do in order to go to paradise? How will I cleanse my soul? What do I have to do here in the spiritual inward aspect of my reality, of my existence? I don't believe to be just a mere flesh body, just a biological machine like the atheists do believe. I believe that I am body and soul. So therefore if I put in the work for the body, what is that work required for the soul and looking into the spiritual aspects of Islam is very gratifying here. If anybody in the comment section knows more about tasawafah, please let me know. I really want to learn more about it. But what is even more interesting to me personally is, is this Sheikh here acknowledged? Do people see him as a good representation of Islam or do they see him as a heretic? Seeing him I see a man that obviously converted to Islam and now he has a certain viewpoint on Islam. I would like to understand if they see this man as a heretic, as somebody that got into the religion, didn't really understand the religion and now tries to innovate it. I do not know. I'm just a bystander. I'm trying to learn, but because he is a Westerner, I of course have to assume that he got into the religion. So I would have to be very, very critical here, of course, of his statements. As I said, for me personally, absolutely beautiful, absolutely amazing speech, the deliverance, everything about it, the content of his speech resonates. But is it really true what he has to say? Please let me know in the comment section, guys. I would really like you to clarify this for me. All right, guys, but this is it for today's video. If you liked it, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. And if you want to support this channel via Patreon, all the links are in the description box below. Thank you so much for your ongoing support, guys. And as always, may God bless you all. Much love and peace.


Another one What's up money geeks, Mr. V here welcome to another video guys when to this video We are going to take a look at another IPO that's coming up here pretty soon Roblox so if you guys have been watching the channel, this is another gaming IPO So first one we did here on the channel was unity software, which it's right now Just killing it and so our roadblock is actually looking to go public before the end of the year So we need to take a look at it understand the business see what they are planning on doing and then I'm gonna give you guys My take at the end of it But before we get started guys, we are new to the channel We took about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell So you don't miss out on new content So Roblox again as a company that allows people to be able to create games that Are either 2d or 3d and so the company has been most recently Really doing really great because of the pandemic again This is not just for Roblox, but a lot of companies have been taking advantage Especially gaming companies have been taking advantage of people being trapped at home In making tremendous amount of money subscribers for most of these companies have gone up Revenue has gone up, which is I think to me it's a it's a good thing that if they're doing great business wise But not really a good thing that this because people are trapped in the house kids can't go to school Everything is just so messed up again. It's one of those things where I know it's bad for one person But it's good for another person So if you look at it like small businesses are really struggling and going on there, you know online platforms are doing great Because people are subscribing Netflix Disney all these other platforms are doing wonderful So I mean it's a cash 22 I don't know if Roblox can sit there and say oh we're praying that we don't get a vaccine anytime soon So your business can continue to to grow. I don't know. It's just left to be seen So again ticket symbol for these particular IPO is going to be RBLX And we don't know exactly when they plan on going public They just say that hopefully go public before the end of the year So if not this not this coming week or maybe in the next two weeks because we only have about three more weeks in the month of December so I'm anticipating that they have to they're gonna have to move fast if you still want to do it this year So let's just looking solely at the numbers About Roblox and that's why I got interested in really doing a video on this one because if you look at just a number So the first nine months of 2020 Roblox had a daily active user of about 31.1 million that's up 82 percent from last year, which is I mean 82% from last year that is how many people are actually sitting there and using these platforms playing games either Streaming on YouTube and how you can just whichever way that you enjoy games You know people are doing it. So revenue in the first nine months of 2020 was 588 million that's up 68% from last year again guys Everything has gone up for these guys not just gone up and said 10 15 percent. We're talking about gone up over 50% so the only thing that I worry about these guys or companies like it is Since they are really doing great because of a pandemic does that mean they we're gonna see a tremendous amount of pullback As soon as we get a vaccine or life goes back to normal Oh, who knows this might be our new normal We can sit here and think that oh just waiting for a vaccine to come out This might definitely be our new normal week. We don't really know this is just crazy guys So again, this guy is a company is doing just fine. So I am anticipating that Coming out of the gate with these numbers like this if you if you think about it when we did another another video here Again, I did another IP back here, which was unity software if you guys remember that again This is another company that Create or allow users to create 3d content for games and all that good stuff So we did that video here if you didn't watch that one, I'm gonna hook it up here So you can definitely go watch it. So this company came out right out of the gate If you can see here Look at just how it the thing has performed out of the gate It came out at $75 and ever since then got a pull back to maybe 68 Came down and now we're looking at somewhere at about 155 for a high. So This is this is crazy guys. So as of when I was doing this video is sitting at 150 So if you had bought this stock when it came out at $75 you would have double Your investment in this particular stock. So that is unity software. So I just want to give you guys some perspective So that as we're talking about gaming, I know some people don't like you just game But these companies they found a wonderful niche on Online if you go on YouTube some of the top YouTube and there's Gamers people that you see and stream their games online and people are watching it. So you cannot just Ignore this. This is this is a big Place where people are spending a lot of time and where people are spending time and giving your eyeballs That's where the money is at for advertising people were at what they're paying that Millions of dollars just to get those eyeballs to watch their ads So one key thing that I want to bring up to you guys is the fact that seems road blog and Unity are competitors there. They have a little bit of differences between them Unity requires people to actually do some coding to make it work. We're at road block You can just drag and drop and you're good to go So a lot of people that don't like coding. They don't they don't want to use unity So those people would gravitate towards Towards our roadblocks or that would be to me that would be for your average person who doesn't know how to code So roadblock has a good business Needs for me. I think that people that hate coding would gravitate towards roadblock and people that love coding will go Towards unity and so there's there's a great healthy competition right there just from their user base Which I think it's a good thing So personally, I think roadblock again coming out of the gate. I'm gonna be watching this one Looking for that opportunity for it to dip a little bit before I jump right in so right now They haven't really given us, you know good numbers as to what price they're gonna be listed at again If you look at if we look at example from someone like unity, they came out at $75 So I'm anticipating that these guys are probably gonna want to be in that same price range Of our $75 in some change or even lesser than that or as soon as they determine that I'm gonna make sure that you guys know exactly what the price range is going to be and again They don't have an exact date when they're gonna be listed. So I'm gonna keep my eyes On on that one. So let me know in the comment section. What do you think about? Roadblock do you think this is a buy or it's a wait and see again like for me? My whole idea is right out of the gate if you're not there trading if you're not the one that chases just to catch that big Spike out of the gate then just wait usually these things will come out and pull back We've seen examples here. I just showed you guys with Unity software look at how it came out of the gate at 75 pull back down to about 68 And that was a good entry point and ever since it's just been going up and up and up So definitely make sure that that's your approach because that's gonna be my approach Again, if you're new to the channel guys We're talking about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and any notification on belt So you don't miss out a new content and also if you're looking to get started with investing guys We both currently doing a promotion right now where if you sign up and deposit a hundred dollars You get four free stocks to get you started links in the description below and as always guys always do your homework Don't be a greedy savage and stay motivated


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They're all dead now. I had a friend from, well I think she ended up living out near, her name was Torchy. We called her Torchy. She was tall and red-headed. She's the one that sent me to Halifax because she was playing illegally. She drew the ticket for Vancouver and I got Halifax. I forget how she did that, but that's why I went to Halifax. During my time in the services, I had a couple of friends, Torchy and her husband. They were both in the services and we stayed friends for many years. Another friend that I stayed with while I was working in the war plants in Ontario. Unfortunately, neither are here any longer.


We will get another episode of our series Rising Stars which profiles the emerging talent of the music industry and on this episode we have with us a very talented singer straight from the hills, Shubhangi Tiwari with us, we welcome you on our show Shubhangi. Thank you so much Agneshvi, thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much for your time, so Shubhangi my first question to you is, tell us about your musical journey so far, how it has been? Well so far so good, it's been great, I was immersed into music as a little child because my mom is a musician, she's the Sitarist, those were like some of the first sounds I heard you know, her playing Sitar, so I guess somehow it got in vibe in vibe with me and no matter what I did music is always stayed with me and so of course like I have done my masters in another subject prior to picking up music full-time and I was also briefly an assistant professor of political science but then I decided to take the plunge and become a full-time musician. Oh wow that's great, that's great so far so good your music journey. Absolutely and some of the music full-time and I moved to Mumbai, my career and it's very rewarding to be in Mumbai because there's so many creative people, very very talented people in such a small space you know so the chances of meeting somebody you can be inspired by and learn from are so much higher because you know the place where I live very very creative people, actors, writers, directors, musicians, singers so it's pretty exciting so I'm sure. In contrast to that only who are your biggest musical influences?  Oh wow that's great and although basically I started with Indian classical music that's what I heard mostly at home so there were some very great musicians like Pandit Shikumar Sharma ji, Pandit Hari Prasachara Seji who would be at home because my mother also curated their travels to different countries, concerts so they'd be at home, they'd be practicing, they'd be talking music and I'd be hearing that so that was my first sort of immersion into music and after that I would say my parents would play their favorite Bollywood songs and so I would definitely say Latamungeshkarji so anyway sweet voice you know that sort of like tuned everybody's yours for generations and generations of people you know set the benchmark for what great music sounds like so in contrast to that only I would say when did you realize that this was the this was it that I have to sing and how did you discover your passion for singing that this is it this is how I had to do in future right um I think I was pretty young I knew I wanted to sing all the time because it just just brings me so much joy so passion turned into Kailiur basically yes absolutely absolutely and then when I was I would sing a lot at the school level at the college level just because I was in a dhyanamesha music and all those extra critical activities related to music mostly and also theater a bit but mostly music I would always gravitate back oh so when I sort of became an assistant professor of political science and I was teaching and I do enjoy joy teaching I it's very rewarding work um I also teach music now vocal coach and a voice healer kind of music you teach um so there are many aspects to what I do so um like one aspect is vocal production like the mechanics of how to sing properly without damaging your voice uh using your instrument um in the best possible way you know yes so technique we work mostly on technique and the instrument of course then there's another aspect of my work where I heal voices that have been damaged due to improper technique oh wow that was like yes for that I work in tandem with ENT doctors mostly I get patients referred from Gangaram hospital in Delhi so that's another aspect of my work then I also prepare students for exams if they want to give exams you know okay so it could be western music exams so it could be avrsm rock and pop you know these are different boards for example and I always teach Indian classical in the study that's great that's great so are you planning to study further for this music this kind of any specific specialization basically well to be honest learning music is a lifelong thing you know so I could have been a great singer 10 years ago you know but the way I will approach a song the same song I sang maybe 10 years ago I will sing it completely differently now because it's the experience the ear training and you know just uh you're a better performer because you've done it so many more times and you have improved upon your practice you know that has all sort of evolved so it's an ongoing thing definitely and you know I do want to learn more Indian classical because there's so many rugs I can learn and so many bandishes you know you understand bandish it's like a it's a composition it's a musical composition in the khayal style of singing in our Hindustani classical music and I'm also working on writing a book on you know where I'm sort of work again it's the technical part of singing so it's like how to teach voice in the most painless and most effective most optimal way so it'll be sort of like a reference guide sort of a thing for vocal teachers okay so when is this book is launching when the book is that's a very good question I'm working on it and hopefully it should happen by uh the end of this year end of this year oh very excited to look forward so uh what genre of music do you enjoy singing the most your favorite genre in music well um I I really enjoy using my voice so you know when I have been trained in various kinds of music and I've listened to so much music we all have you know we have access to so much music now uh at the snap of our fingers and at the press of the button so I really enjoy exploring what my voice can do so don't be surprised if I tell you that I love singing in this tiny classical music but I also love singing rock music you know I really enjoy how my voice sounds yeah it's just all for the pleasure of it you know I connect to various kinds of music so could you share a memorable moment from your singing career so far a most memorable most unforgettable right um so to be honest uh being a singer being on stage performing for an audience it's a blessing and all of these moments are just just happy core memories you know uh but I would definitely say one thing that really stands out to me um has been my experience with my grandfather so uh my grandfather uh my nanaji my maternal grandfather uh Dr. Madhra the Pandey uh he was a celebrated writer and he was awarded the president's award like twice and in numerous awards and he was still writing and working prolifically um even at the age of 93 he passed away like when he was 94 in 2020 but uh so he had he had this uh desire that I would compose and sing some of his creation some of the songs he had written so um so he was uh he was ill he was fading uh at that time but I came up with this song his song you know uh which he had written and I sort of pleaded for him the audio and just watching him light up and get energetic and just sort of just so much love in emanating from him at that moment I I felt like I'd done something I felt like I actually made a difference you know through my music and made him really happy so I think that's one memory that is going to stay with me forever so nice so nice that's a very emotional moment for any granddaughter and a very proud one also yeah so what is your creative process like when it comes to composing and writing a music a song a new song what are your thoughts and what all you do tell us the process right so um would you see what happens is uh since we're in this in the music industry there's no one particular movie or I write songs so depending on what I'm writing for so it could be for a client so the brief is different the timelines are very different and when I'm working with say uh it could be that I haven't worked with the producer or the writer before you know so we sort of make a team to create that particular song so you know what could do it that way or one could just be writing something and the lyrics come first and become from the depths of your own experience and the brief is uh there is no brief really because it's just expression and so songs are written that way too and sometimes you know you hear a tune that your friend made and you just start humming a tune and then you put words to it and that's another way a song can be born all right and sometimes you're just walking around and you get inspired and you think of a cool beat and you start producing it on your software and then you know it goes from there so any point could be like an insertion into writing of a song it could be a cool beat that you hear it could be a deadline you know so yeah so Shivani these days we don't need any particular record labels and any music companies we we just put our song on jails and it goes it goes viral in few hours few days I mean what what's your take on this oh that we use our playing a major role in the music industry so definitely I mean it's a good time for content creators yeah definitely definitely but I would still say there is a structure yeah which you have to put yourself through for that music to be heard exactly right so you have to still insert your song your music you have to get those numbers and actually your song the metadata you have to enter it you have to put it into distribution websites you know for it to be distributed even on platforms like instagram and or any other platform to be honest you too if it's playing somewhere it's been tagged it's been you know you added the metadata you paid the fees you've taken a membership you know for you for your music to be online so as with everything online you're paying for the services all right and then of course there's the whole marketing aspect of it yeah there's so much content it's just a struggle to be seen the visibility factor is it is real you know so so you're gonna have to put in some sort of strategy and advertisement for your content to show up for them and yeah and to meet the right sort of audience which will pick it up and then share it and then of course things gain momentum and things go viral but definitely there's a structure to it so yes so there's no it's not like oh it's instant or it was unplanned this could be a case definitely but it's it's very minuscule in the logic scheme of things so are there any particular artists or bands you want to collaborate with so many so many but uh right now um what I'm who I can think of is I love an artist called Andhra Bocelli I think he sounds divine and I would love love love to do a duet with him and a song with him just have share that space with Andhra Bocelli and I also really respect and admire the work of Marty Friedman he's a guitar player based on Tokyo and he used to play for a metal band in the eight back in the day so I definitely want to work with him because I love his sensibility in the way he composes and I think we could do something really nice together that's great that's great so you are recently working on your folk songs right yes yes absolutely so I am from the Himalayas so I'm from a Himalayan state called Uttarakhand so I've so I haven't really lived in Uttarakhand of you know because of work because of work yeah we were mostly traveling me and my parents so for their work and I was sort of obviously had to leave my parents so we never really stayed in Uttarakhand but I've always had this desire to connect with the culture of my ancestors and what better way to understand the culture and how people think what they feel what they sound like then through the folk songs of the place so I was very fascinated I you know so interestingly my mother has also done her PhD on folk tunes of Uttarakhand so she has sort of so by definition of just the folk tunes are not written down you know we are sung by communities and it's more of like a traditional sort of like a lot of music is written down right it's notated but like classical music is you know but folk music is mostly passed on from generation to generation so the children will be the parents singing and their children after them and that's how it's passed along so my mother which is done is she's taken the tune the authentic tune whatever she could understand and because again the tune varies the paragraphs vary you know that's the nature of folk music she she took that and she notated it so that people like me I guess you know who haven't lived in that culture so much but want to learn more about it want to sing the music can get an authentic feel for the music through the recorded material you know yeah so so I've taken some of the tunes and you know reimagined it because you know I need to be authentic to my musical influences as well and there's I mean I it's not like I have to be there's no other way I'm going to interpret every tune through my my hearing how I interpret music through the lens of my experience and education so that's I've taken that those folk tunes and worked with producers and so we've come up with a modern sounding take on it so it's in process or is it coming out soon so so I have released about four tracks they were on hooper okay wow okay yes yes so I've also ended up doing some songs in Punjabi and you know Himachali because I do like folk songs in general but most of them are in the Kumawni language as they've already been released and a video has also been released for one of them so I plan to do more of that for sure and I'm also working on my the whole project of that I mentioned earlier my nanogies yeah and these are again I'm these are songs in Sanskrit and the way I'm treating them is that they're going to be popular songs in Sanskrit so usually you'll find that in Sanskrit all the music that we show is from usually religious texts right their mantras and other sacred material but the interesting thing about what I'm trying to do is that all of this is profane it's not sacred so it's written by a you know by a writer who you know who has lived amongst us and just passed away but he has lived you know my nanaji and he's written about uh mundane topics yeah so it's like Sanskrit literature basically and songs proper songs in Sanskrit so I can afford to make them pop songs you know are there any causes or issues that you are passionate about and what and you want to raise awareness through your music any anything you want to circulate a public message from your music or something like that well definitely we'll just be like I care about justice I like things to be fair you know around me in society I care about harmony you know that human beings live in harmony with each other you know beyond the divisions artificially created divisions of religion caste gender you know so any sort of divisions and also live in harmony with each other and live in harmony with the natural world so you could say I'm passionate about the environment you could say I'm passionate about harmony you could say I would like to see more peace in the world and I would like to see a more just world you know where people have access to basic the basics and an access to a good life a respectable life which every human being deserves so definitely I would in the future hope that my music can create more of these values in the world more of this vibration in the world definitely so can you sing one of your favorite songs okay whatever you feel like I'll sing the song I create for my nanaji that way okay so this was called ashadasi pratham divasai it's in Sanskrit and it's by my nanaji Dr. Mathuradat Pandey and do you understand Sanskrit at all oh listen I would so ashadasi pratham divasai it's basically the first day of the rainy season oh ashad that's it we get that in India as well so as you can imagine the forward writer he is talking about the first day of the rains and we all know what that feels like right after the one summer you know everything is just cleansed and renewed with friends all this hope and this and life seems to just and it's coming well so it's on the way it's on the way yes so he's talking about that and then he's also talking about how everybody gets amorous you know in the rainy season so again very very mundane stuff but relatable yeah so I'd like to sing oh Madhno nishitam sharampi dhalte Shanti sa mejane vijyatarsatiya Shauri garshatiya Shauri chana chana Mokta munchati Garjati mandram Kamag jao garshatiya Shauri garshatiya It was very pure bliss to my ears. It was amazing, Shivangi. It was sweet and gorgeous. Thank you so much. Shivangi, my last question to you is what advice do you have for aspiring singers and budding singers who have just come into the industry? Any advice you would like to give them? Well, when one sets out to be an artist, one has to remember there is no template. There is no formula.  And the more you do that, I think the more you can leave a legacy because what you do is coming from an authentic place, a unique place within you. So I would just like to say that be yourself, be unique. And apart from that, the basics, which are persevere, hustle, to an extent. And absolutely, and what else? Basically, this is it. And be yourself. And one very, very important thing, yes, which I'd like to add, is work on your craft. Always keep working on your craft. Very true. Very well said. That is what makes me new and you'll be able to get the best you can to the world. That's great. That's great. So Shivani, thank you so much for your time. And we would like to see you another time with another episode, another series. Thank you so much. See you. I would love to come back again. And thank you so much for having me this time. And I would just like to say to the viewers that if they would like to sort of follow me on my journey, they can join me on Instagram, maybe. So my handle is instagram.com slash Shivani. Just my name. Thank you so much. Take care. Bye.


head to AutoDS, click on Settings, then we're going to click on the Templates tab and here we have all of our templates. What you want to do is add a blank template here on top, give it a name for example my new template and click on Create and as we can see here my new template, I'm going to click on Edit to open up the editor and what I want to do here is paste all of the code that I got from my freelancer. So in this case let me show you the file that I got from one of the freelancers that I work with. So as I mentioned you're going to get a code file. This is the code that you want to paste inside but first let me show you the HTML file that I got that will show you what my template is going to look like once I add that code inside. So I'm going to double click on the HTML file. So here's the template that I got from my freelancer as you can see it looks nice and clean. My product's title is going to be here, the image will be here, the main image, the product's description will be written here along with the product's features and I've also got my shipping statement, my shipping policy, my warranty and returns, who we are, contact us and so forth and of course a couple of trust badges which I talked about. All right so now let's open up the code file that I actually need to paste in order to get that template to work on my store. So here's that no file and as you can see it's just a whole bunch of letters and numbers you don't really need to understand anything here just highlight all of the text and of course copy it. Then on the right side I'm going to click on source to let the system know that this is an HTML code and I'm going to paste the code right over here. Now I'm going to unclick on source and as you can see the template loaded up really easily and in just one second after pasting down the HTML source code you can continue editing the text right here doesn't have to be an HTML it can be in live like right here in exchange of the product instead of item so you can completely turn around what your freelancer did edit around the text and do whatever you want to make this eBay template the most professionally made for your eBay store. Now if you do not want to set aside a budget for your eBay template you really don't have to you even have free templates from using AutoDS. Let me show you what I mean and where that's at. So I'm going to go back to AutoDS we'll close this custom template that we just created and on the left side instead of my templates my own custom made templates I'm going to click on AutoDS templates eBay. Here I've got a whole bunch of free templates that I can use right off the bat and that is all there is to it. So as you can see here we've got nonstop China we've got Black Friday we've got Halloween we've got ready templates for all of these holidays coming up as you can see here as I just mentioned Black Friday Halloween sale and Merry Christmas we've also got for other occasions like Valentine's Day or if you just want to have a general template for free like this one everything for your store let me just click on preview so you guys can really get a much better glance at this so all you need to do is click on preview on your templates to see what it will look like and here as you can see everything for your home improvement in one place so if you've got a home improvement niche this is the right template for you as you can see we've got nice hover effects and once again all of this is 100% for free you don't have to pay anything as long as you have an AutoDS subscription you can use these eBay templates no hassle and no worries and of course you can assign each template to any listing that you want or assign one template to all of your listings by simply clicking on settings and under your store settings click on the supplier that you want to apply this rule to for example I'm going to select it for my eBay USA store on all of my Amazon US products as you can see here on the right side we have default template and here you can choose whatever template you want to use for all of your listings that will come from eBay USA from Amazon US as a supplier and eBay USA as your selling channel so we can click on AutoDS templates and let's say we want to go with Black Friday sale 24 hours this is a template that we want to have until Black Friday is over and then when Black Friday is over we're going to use a different templates maybe we'll move from there to Christmas already and start preparing our stores for Christmas so that is all you have to do to set a default template and of course you can apply different templates to different listings one by one for example here I'm going to click on drafts to get to some of my products then I'll open the item editor for one of them I'll click on the descriptions tab and here I can choose a different template for just this product this bluetooth speaker so I can use the free AutoDS templates I can use templates that I uploaded manually like from getting from a freelancer I can choose to do whatever I want and that is one of the best things when you combine eBay templates and AutoDS together now let's talk about how we can customize and edit our templates even though I showed you a small example just about a minute ago let's head back to the settings page and to our AutoDS templates so I click on settings I'm going to click on templates now let's say we want to start from scratch and create our 100% own unique template so what I'm going to do is click on my templates then I'm going to click right here on add a blank template just like we did before only this time call it blank template only this time we won't be pasting a source html code that we got from our freelancer we'll actually just be creating it ourselves so what I'm going to do here this is the blank template I'm going to click on edit and once again we are starting right here from scratch so everything here is blank now we've got some triggers up here you can automatically insert the product's title so I'm going to click on it and as you see here we've got title in a little bit of code product description you can add your store name and we'll just make it look a little bit better by adding a space so we'll know what we're seeing so the product's title the description the store's name and you can also add your own text like shipping and warranty and of course start using the text editor to make it look nice like making it in bold making the letters a little bit bigger adding some colors to it you can completely play around and make it as fully customizable as you need it to be then when you are finished you've got the preview button so we're going to click on that and see how our template came out so far now I didn't do too much but AutoDS will show you a random product inside your custom made template to show you how your template is going to look if you continue with what you did so far so that is how simple it is to create your own template and you don't even need to have any coding skills for that now in order to edit your templates like I showed you before it's actually really really simple just keep in mind that you cannot edit AutoDS's templates but you can definitely edit your own custom made templates or the ones that you uploaded


y last year on the northern strand they did come in under the under the transportation construction category but you know so again we're I guess we're fine with this one as it is but we definitely want to look at our guidelines for next year to make sure we're being abundantly clear on on what category things should fall and with that I will open that one up for questions. I already decided to expand on public safety because that means you know that's the I could see why they would want to put this under public safety quite frankly so yeah I mean like I said there's there's definitely that it's just that we didn't have anything in our guidelines that was really clear that this should go one place or the other which is why we're considering it in the category in which you would submit. Yeah yeah okay bike trails and lights commissioners questions very consistent with our work in the past right commissioners okay um thank you Joe anything else that is it for today that is it for today they tuned for round five and six in June and and thank you to Lily and Mary um commissioners if you don't have any further questions or as a team here I know that we have uh approvals to be made is there someone who um starts up our very questions before we go to that okay do I have a motion then I certainly will attempt to do a motion madam chair thank you I move that the commission approved the applications uh from the following applicants for funding from the community mitigation fund for the purposes described in the submitted applications and materials included in the commissioners packet and for the reasons described therein and discussed here today they are as follow the city of Everett $100,000 town of Foxboro plain villain rent them $136,000 the city of Malden $100,000 upon submission of satisfactory evidence to the chief of community affairs that it has appropriate ownership or control of the subject property the city of Medford $100,000 town of Northampton $75,000 on the condition that the city develop develop and provide to the commission a written plan that outlines the specific steps that it will take to transition the subject website into a self-sustaining platform this plan shall be submitted with the first quarterly report to be submitted by october 1st 2022 to the city of revere $100,000 to the hampton county sheriff's department $400,000 and to the city of sagas $187,000 and further that the commission staff be authorized to execute a grant instrument commemorating this award in accordance with 205 cmr 153.04 second any discussion okay commissioner brian hi mr hill hi commissioner skinner hi and i vote yes thank you and now with respect to this one outstanding application i believe i have a motion do we not have to move normally no we do yes okay i'm going to make that motion thank you thank you i move that the commission deny the application for funding from the community mitigation fund for safety improvements collectively submitted by the cities of springfield west springfield and holy yoke for the reasons described in the memorandum in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today second thank you any further discussion on that okay mr brian hi mr hill hi commissioner skinner hi and i vote yes four zero i i did vote last time correct thank you um all right um with that i believe chief delaney you've completed your your community affairs work today am i right uh not quite we still have plain rich park casino to do what oh that's right my apologies and of course they are ready to go next so um we're now um they they needed to go between 1231 45 1245 it could start so i suspect lisa is prepared so this is now we are prepared there we are this is item five c on our on our agenda and then we're going to be able to resume the um the agenda in order thank you everyone good afternoon and thank you for your patience absolutely good afternoon if you're ready for us to present and i'll share my screen and we can get ready to go let's see share screen and assuming you can all see that i think i should be ready to go we can see it that's all right fantastic good afternoon madam chair and good afternoon commissioners plain rich park is pleased to present our q1 2022 report i'm joined this afternoon by kathy lucas our vice president of human resources and heidi yates akbaba our new vice president of finance um i will present the slides on compliance but right now i'm going to hand it over to heidi who will cover the slides on the financials and i will take over for her when we get on the section of compliance good afternoon it's a pleasure to be here nice to see you all right uh you can see that q1 2022 was very similar to q4 that q4 2021 for us both had slot revenues of 33.7 million state tax at 13.4 versus 13.5 race tax was three million in both quarters and total taxes were 16.5 so a smooth transition into 2022 for us next slide yep lottery sales continue to perform well for us by outperforming q1 of 2021 by 49 thousand or up 10.7 percent year over year we continue our marketing promotion efforts to support lottery sales next slide q1 total qualified spend from massachusetts it's up 200 thousand over q4 of 2021 which was 412 thousand dollars operational spend is what drove uh this increased uh spend for plain ridge the qualified spend outside of massachusetts was driven by the purchase of an it server equipment uh and cash recycling machines which were from specialized vendors in illinois next slide q1 local spend with our closest neighboring communities was 76901 leaving 87 of that 612 thousand or 536 thousand in massachusetts communities that were outside of our local region next slide okay so let's talk about uh vendor diversity we were able to exceed our overall goal of 21 primarily by surpassing our minority spend this was driven by purchases of tito tickets some it equipment general printing and maintenance supplies from minority owned businesses the we the wbe spend was slightly below target at 11.78 percent the percentage on this slide does round up so uh we did fall a little short of our q1 goal and vbe spend as well but we have no concerns about meeting our overall annual goal in that area next slide okay so putting some uh dollar figures to the previous slide you can see that uh wbe spend was down 22 000 to q4 there were some capital projects uh that were um benefited in q4 by our women owned businesses that did not repeat in q1 the mbe uh spend increase related to the aforementioned goods uh that were uh mentioned in the previous slide and you can see the 4k delta and the bbe spend to q4 and that was largely driven by equipment and apparel purchases that also did not repeat in q1 okay great so and on the compliance side in first quarter we prevented a total of 169 patrons from entering the gaming establishment seven of those patrons were minors 23 were underage 139 had expired invalid or no credentials there were two instances of underage patrons accessing the casino floor and there were two instances in which an underage patron gambled thank you new earth good afternoon madam chair and commissioners um we'll look at the information on our employment slides these employees referenced were current as of q1 in 2022 we had 325 team members we continue to exceed our diversity goal of 15 percent in q1 with 24 percent of our team members being diverse as well we exceeded our veterans goal of 2 maintaining six percent from q4 and then we exceeded our well in q1 we achieved 42 percent of our women team members goal of 50 percent which is a little bit of optic from our last couple of quarters um but it's still held back because our casual restaurant embankment departments haven't reopened in q1 our local team members were 34 close to our local goal um the areas that are included in this count are adelboro foxboro neansfield mirth adelboro plainville and rentham and you can also see on the slide that we had 70 of our team members full-time and 30 part time we did not have any seasonals because recent didn't open until q2 next slide north well before you move on actually can i ask about the women's stat um so you said that um you seem to be attributing the eight percentage delta to primarily the the restaurants that haven't opened yet right so fluties which is our casual dining restaurant usually we have anywhere from 13 to 20 servers that are usually on the female side heavy um we do have male servers but it's usually more female oriented so that's about you know anywhere from 13 to 18 persons there and then with management it's usually that 60 40 split higher on the female side for managers in the casual dining and then similar to banquets we're you know with our our banquet servers so we do have event bartenders that we brought back but we didn't haven't brought back banquet servers yet or a banquet manager and what's the projection on that in terms of bringing that stuff back online so i'm going to defer to north yeah so i think with with this department it's certainly our desire to get it open with banquet we are slowly reopening that um we're starting to get requests for events so those things are coming in and as we do uh we're taking those things those things realistically for about three to four months out right now um is kind of the the schedule of what we're seeing in those requests are kind of starting to pick up a little bit with regards to the food outlet again that's one where our biggest impediment to being able to reopen that outlet right now is culinary staffing like most of the rest of the restaurant industry getting cooks is is the hard part front of house staff is less difficult for for us to come by at this point we continue recruiting um we do have some additional outlets that will be opening this summer primarily on the patio um but it is our intention to open that outlet so is it really a staffing issue that's holding up the reopening it is okay thank you you're all right so in this slide it speaks to our supervisors in above and you'll see 26 of our supervisors identify as diverse five percent are veterans and 31 percent are women next slide north so just wanted to share some information in regards to what we're doing around uh our community initiatives and diversity and inclusion in q1 we were able to support two organizations that align with our commitment to local diversity and women's organizations with Tito box donation the first being the boston proffin foundation which advances and supports education by providing underserved students with the financial assistance needed to attend college specifically their focuses on furthering the education of young black women who enroll in who enroll as freshman in a four-year college or university and then new hope which ends domestic and sexual violence by engaging survivors stakeholders and communities to build an anti-violence movement they seek to create communities free from violence where individuals and families are able to achieve their full potential we were also able to make donations to the american cancer society um under the making strides breast cancer in the real men wear pink campaign and then to the friends of north adalboro veterans who we partner with in the past for their local holiday event next slide north and you've all met hidey today exciting news is that hidey joined us as our vp of finance increasing the level of talent and experience on our executive team tremendously some other notable mentions we did go back to johnson and wales university for more talent we did pick up some interns that will start with us this summer and thanks to your presence at the 2022 racing opening day we were able to celebrate steve and dom's milestone anniversaries in a monumental way north also hosted our town hall meeting during the 2022 goals and our 2021 successes with the team and then we also celebrated women's history month and had our first local community sip and sell giving local entrepreneurs primarily women the opportunity to showcase their items for sales so thank you any questions commissioners i'm sorry i mean i have a question on regarding the the banquet in the restaurant opening north in can you just maybe touch upon where you've reached out for these culinary jobs because we've been in the community we just dealt with the community mitigation funds and i know in the past we've given grants out to local community colleges to try and feed that world that you know no pun intended to feed that industry to try and get some help for the casinos and surrounding restaurants and boston and out more importantly on the western part of the state can you just kind of touch upon how have you reached out to community colleges have you reached out to like a bridge water i'm just trying to think off the top of my my head where these kids or prospective employees might be right so um we in this area there are a lot of local technical schools that are primarily with high school age kids which is a little bit of a challenge for us the other but we have found some success working with the united regional chamber of commerce they've been able to provide some good resources for us we've had some success working through the night united regional as they have a business for example that may know a restaurant for example that's shutting down they sometimes have a heads up on those types of instances and we're able to go to those businesses and say hey you know it's unfortunate that you're you know closing but we do have jobs available so we are we're making some inroads that way we have different other online recruiting platforms that we're using like i hire chefs obviously we use indeed a couple of the other online recruiting platforms with regards to local community colleges i think that that's probably one that's worth us going into a little bit more obviously not within the commonwealth that johnson and wales has been a good source for us of culinary talent both for folks who are looking for internships as well as folks who are looking for full-time jobs to to work or to work at least part time while they're going to school but we can certainly reach uh bridge water state i can tell you only uh what i've experienced on the north shore where we have a lot of uh technical schools as well and they now are partnering with our community colleges so that they can get right into uh college get the uh get the uh education they need and they get right into jobs within two years so my hope would be that that's what's happening over with your vocational schools but it's been very successful here on the north shore right can i just address that also so so um through the tri-cities chamber we have um also partnered with um a couple of the folks that are at the community colleges to share our job postings and actually get myself and call in the opportunities to speak locally so you're you're exactly right in regards to um having that relationship we're we're we're pounding the pavement i think one of the things that we're we're finding is is that um there there are a lot of opportunities right now in that world and so we're we're working not only with recruitment but with our benefits and and also um with competitive salaries to to be an employer of choice for for those students that are coming out of out of um college too and i think we can share that i think i think what i'm hearing or at least seeing is a lot of uh venues and again i can only speak for the north shore at this point because that's what i see and that's where i live is you know a lot of the banquets and a lot of the restaurants are now starting to open again and they're starting to book weddings again and i just hope that that will happen in your facility as well out in your neck of the woods so bread i'll also just share we um had a conversation with um our director of food and beverage damien um literally three days ago and um we're stepping into the arena he's entertaining uh breakfast meetings uh the control of putting out a breakfast meeting or a brunch meeting is a little bit more feasible than than doing potentially a wedding with like um five courses so he's he's fully engaged as north said so that we can um actually we actually have those jobs posted now so um hopefully in q2 we'll be able to to share some successes thank you and i'm sorry to take up your time on that no sorry's discussion other questions um if you want uh to take down the the program we can i'll see each other um but we are seeing each other right here it's a little uncomfortable quite frankly sorry look at our picture um so um commissioner is an excellent presentation from bpc do you have any follow-up questions now no well let's be um helpful uh kathy with all your efforts that uh fluties gets going because we know it's center stage um at your property and we we hope that that can get engaged it's an important amenity um thank you any any questions in terms of being there for the um opening day i think there's some races too that we'll want to get on our calendar um so we'll coordinate with dr lightbound about those races coming up we always love to be part of the excitement but we also just on a day-to-day basis appreciate the continuing work that you do with that that um uh part of your your program as well we we didn't get an update on derby day although we were quite informed uh going into it because you were going to use um the drive-through um element but i understand the weather didn't cooperate for you weather was not was not great that day madam chair um it was a little cold and windy um but there were a lot of folks inside the property looked great a lot of people had a good time that day um and you know we look forward to derby day next year yeah and it was a big race it was it was it was uh if you didn't get the the chance to watch it it was a fantastic uh race to watch there was an amazing race to watch yeah but did you end up um executing the drive-through or because of the wind did you keep it inside all all that inside we did for a limited time okay it did end up getting pretty windy um that day and made it a little bit difficult to execute um so we did pull back but yeah but you were able to use a little bit okay yes and it's on our calendar next year to make sure that we get a request in early if it's something that we would like to do i love to know those details thank you noras um and i think my fellow commissioners shared that so it was really helpful and again we thank the team for sort of the last minute playing it together lisa to inform keep us informed so thank you so much yes okay um any other questions or comments thank you north and team we appreciate it um and i guess Heidi i i feel like this was our our first virtual meeting right i think i just got word of your um your appointment through perhaps our ieb director and so congratulations and thank you for joining us today my pleasure thank you for having me thank you all right commissioners okay then um jo unless there's something else we're that completes my work for today thank you so much thank you all right and thank you again to north then we're going to move right into um because i think we only have a couple short items rather than break if you could just bear with me um we'll go right into the legal division and we've got cary on board for the new regulation yes good afternoon madam chair and commissioners uh so you have one draft regulation in your packet it is 205 cmr 116.03 um this is part of the larger 205 cmr 116 which relates to persons required to be licensed or qualified by the commission uh and 116.03 specifically gives the commission authority to grant waivers from qualification requirements for certain individuals um so we just have one small change related to institutional investors and this was flagged by the ieb as part of the reg review process i'm just going to share uh the red line with you just so you can see just the small change we're talking about here can everyone see that okay um so you'll see here in section b just this one small change 23k section 14 reads that the commission may waive the licensing requirements for institutional investors holding up to 15 percent of the stock of the applicant company etc um and the existing reg as you can see reads that the commission may waive the qualification requirements for institutional investors uh if they hold less than 15 percent of the stock um so we're just updating the reg here to bring it in line with the statute of course up to would include 15 percent and less than would not include the 15 percent so just a small change here to make the regulation consistent with the statute um so happy to answer any questions that you might have and if not we'd just be looking for a vote to um begin the promulgate promulgation process on this one commissioners questions from fairy good catch on the reg review there we go right um excellent very good yeah um so ieb that um it's a simple straightforward amendment but an important one so thank you all right do i have a motion for carry i believe that the commission approved the small business impact statement and amendment to 205 cmr 116.03 as outlined in the commissioners packet and authorized staff to take all steps necessary to begin the promulgation process second thank you um any further questions all right commissioner brian hi hi um commissioner hill hi thank commissioner skinner hi thank you and i vote yes so thank you fairy you get the process underway thank you and now on our last matter of the day um we have an update on legislative update us christa motion and then commissioner hill and um Todd grossman general counsel and anybody else who wants to join in on the subject matter christal hello i'm just a really quick update just a few items all of which you can also find in the memo i attached to the packet um for sports betting i think we're all aware but the senate did pass their version of the bill on may 4th few notable differences there from the house bill primarily the restriction on collegiate sports and much higher tax rate and some language on credit card use and gambling advertising additionally we it we saw that that bill pulled the licenses for veterans organizations out of their amended final version um the similarities were some including the occupational licenses temporary licensure which we had been looking for in other versions of bills in the past includes some of our reporting requirements funding similarities and some language regarding mbe wbe and zbe and i don't think i'll actually turn that over quickly to commissioner hill but i don't think we had anything we've seen in the last few days that has changed from our last our recent update correct that's accurate um just making sure yeah we provided this this memo early so there has been a conference committee put together uh consisting of representatives paris hella with the lets meridian and for the senate um we have uh redriga's eric lesser and senator o'connor as well um that conference committee will collaborate to report to us a final bill we don't have a date on it for the budget we had a very small just an update to our appropriations there's a little bit of an explanation in your memo from uh cfo lennon thankfully he he had his eye on this anyway and this is related the brief change is related to the local aid payments um and the racetracks so this assists moving forward in the past we haven't been able to provide full payment to the cities and towns the amendment to the budget remedies uh and in my last update we just noted that there were a couple racing bills we have our eyes on nothing has happened related to those bills we do still currently monitor them as they would have impacts for our racing division um we should probably hear something on those shortly and then of course we have also been watching what happens with the open meeting law allowing our remote meetings and uh as you guys know because i took in this and voted on it in the last meeting we have submitted a letter to the legislature um expressing our interest in being able to continue remote access beyond the deadline of july 15 so that's all i had for you guys today if you have any questions please let me commissioner hill or todd no questions questions at the stage are you sure you have no questions commissioner hill i think he's a key player here we want to probably think about putting together a matter um addressing the first racing deadline yes so uh we have had a brief internal conversation um with alex as well as todd and we will be meeting shortly to review the letter and and look to see what changes we should need from that by commissioner hill and we have planned to do that before the end of june it's a i think we i think we'll be bringing it i'll be bringing it in front of you guys as well so that you can vote on that i believe we're aiming for the june okay great and um i think we todd we've done one in the past it will probably follow very closely to what we've done i think we can view that as a helpful reminder really i think they'll appreciate that right commissioner hill um okay so that would just be on our radar for one of our our june meetings okay thank you importantly for the comments or questions all right well thank you and it's very helpful to have it in writing a very helpful memo thank you you're welcome okay any further updates from our commissioners after a long day yesterday i thought we would probably appreciate finishing before 1 30 and lunch so um again i appreciate all the work that we did yesterday and uh thank you like i think we have a a meeting tomorrow um that will be following up on yesterday's suitability work so thank you um so with that we need a motion to adjourn move to adjourn madam chair thank you all set anyone oh nothing further okay commissioner brian hi commissioner hill hi mr skinner hi and i vote yes four zero thank you so much how good rest of the day everyone thank you thank you thank you so much


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No, it's true me either I don't play a lot I can't because my schedule apparently Higley. I don't know avarie williams for the falcons No, we have personals after group breaks tonight steve. Uh, Kyle will be back on trip tomorrow night I've got a game higley can play There's camera dicker dicker the kicker nice one there. It's over mars. It's over mars Go yanks, baby. Volpe What platform are you on higley? It's definitely a pc gamer Probably hundred bucks. Yep called it. Okay Called that I had a one and three chance You did tanner connor. I'm assuming fortnite cross compatible for everything, right? Yep Yeah, you can play. I mean, I mean literally even switch Will be surprised Uh, Matt corral nice one there two of 22 draft class auto for the panthers. I'll go home and download it today. Yeah And then just complain on being fortnite tray mcbride base rookie auto For the uh Cardinals higley. How am I supposed to top one playing fortnite same though? Who's in here? 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