to Germany, from Alaska to Puerto Rico. All over the world, the United States Army is on the alert to defend our country, you, the American people, against aggression. This is The Big Picture, an official television report to the nation from the United States Army. Now to show you part of The Big Picture, here is Sergeant Stuart Queen. A fascinating but little-known organization is the Army's exhibit unit, which visually dramatizes vital parts of the Army's story. For our first story on the Victoria Report today, we will show you the operation of this unit and one of its most striking displays, the recreation of prison camp life in North Korea. This was Pyok Tong, POW camp number five. In appearance, it was just one of many small villages in North Korea, but there was a difference. The winter months were the worst. There were 16 of us in a 10 by 12-foot room. Sleeping was quite a trick. Cold, you could cut the air with a knife. This was called the icebox. The guards every now and then threw water on us and then would get a kick out of watching it freeze to our skin. But then there was always the hospital, well-equipped with a doctor who was an expert at handling crude knives, shop scissors, or anything else available. You'd need a hospital after hanging like this for a few hours, or was it a few days? This was home for 33 days. It was during the rainy season, and sometimes the water would rise as high as my chin. Ever been given a hot foot? Well, I ought to given anything for one that day. Name, rank, serial number. I can't remember how many times I said it. Yes, it did happen in Korea, and it is happening here, thanks to the efforts and talents of the U.S. Army Exhibit Unit. Here is the story behind this true-to-life presentation. Backstage, we see final details of the exhibit taking place. On a frame device, the prisoner of war scenes are adjusted so as to appear in an opening of the exhibit sky. Rotation of the frame holding the POW scenes in place in coordination with a tape recorder reveals to the audience out front exhibit A. We call this the ice box. Our POW backstage story really begins when a branch of the Army requests an exhibit. Once approved, things happen and fast. Not a minute is wasted before the designers are working on blueprints and plans. Then the sculptors take over to make the original model of the exhibit. Art Department's door opens 100 times a day inside exhibit details are firmed out and supervised by Mr. Charles Plasto, the POW presentation takes shape.   An exact reproduction, only the materials are different. Cardboard instead of flesh, plexiglass, styrofoam, salastic and just plain grass instead of blood, disease and death. Exhibit A, prisoner of war, one of the many hundreds of such exhibits produced by the U.S. Army exhibit unit located at Cameron Station, Virginia. This is home and workshop for more than 50 sculptors, designers, photographers, cabinet makers, electronic specialists and artists. Everything from a miniature reproduction of the Washington Monument to an exact model of an atomic cannon is possible here. In other words, they are jacks of all trades and masters in all and masters in showmanship too. This playing for the American public, the vital role played today by the U.S. Army. Since the end of World War II, Japan has been recovering steadily from the destruction and the humiliation of that war. To the United States Army, which went to Japan as an occupation force and stays there now by mutual consent as a protector, Japan has also been winning a place of honor and trust. One of the functions which reflects this trust is the operation of the Japanese Security Guard. Installations of the United States Army in Tokyo are today guarded by Japanese men and women. These Japanese symbolizing the progress Japan has made and the respect she has earned in the years since World War II are employed by the Army and entrusted with many important duties. Serious-minded and well-disciplined, they carry out their assignments with an alertness and devotion to duty which were once recognized as the best qualities of the Japanese soldier. The guards are efficiently organized into a security guard division, an official branch of the Army Provo Marshal's Office in Tokyo. With a strength of almost 2,000 guards, the division supplies protection to some 90 military installations in the Tokyo area and permits Army commanders to use their own troops for more vital work. The Army furnishes the uniforms, but pride in uniform, that elusive but all-important quality which indicates spirit and high morale in any unit is supplied by the guards themselves. Illustrating the high aspre decor which exists in the security guard division, the guards purchase their own uniform accessories, the large white belts, lanyards and white bootlaces which give their uniforms an added sparkle. Although it is not a military unit, the security guard division is organized along military lines. An extensive training course is given to all guards, both men and women, before they are placed on duty. Women guards are used primarily to protect the living quarters of wax and women civilians working for the government. These students are learning the proper way to execute the hand salute, traditional military greeting. Their instructors are Japanese. Only two Army officers and two enlisted men supervise the entire security guard division. The guards training is as varied as their duties. Since they are taking the place of American soldiers, they must be just as capable of meeting emergencies of all kinds. They must be ready not only to protect property, but to save lives if necessary. Consequently, they are drilled thoroughly in the techniques of artificial respiration and first aid. Practicing on each other, they learn how to bandage, apply tourniquets, make splints and many other principles of emergency care. The guard's first duty, the protection of property, carries with it an implicit ability to protect himself on the job. The night stick or riot club is his chief weapon. In learning how to use it, his training program begins to get rough. In the flare with which these guards handle their riot clubs, students of Japanese law might detect the historical influence of the samurai warriors of an earlier day in Japan. However, we can see here even a stronger influence of the present day training techniques of the Army's Corps of Military Police. Army training techniques extend to the rifle range, where guards learn to fire Army weapons under the supervision of American officers. Japan, completely demobilized at the end of the war, still has no Army today. But in the post-war years, Japan has been emerging as a potentially strong and stable force for peace in the East. And it can be reasonably expected that the future will find her building a new Army to help defend that peace. The training which is being given today to these members of the security guard will prove to be very useful for these men and the members of all Japanese constabulary forces who are being trained could well serve as a nucleus of that Army. The Japanese guards take their training seriously.  By the time their training is completed, they will be a credit to any military outfit. In their well-dressed ranks, the Army finds not only efficient and trustworthy custodians to guard its property, but also strong friends and formidable allies for the future. For special occasions, members of the security guard division hold formal reviews on their own time. It gives them an opportunity to show off their organization in parade-ground pageantry. With each battalion proudly bearing its own colors, the guards assemble to pass and review before representatives of the U.S. Army. Today, a new Japan regaining her pride and her strength is ready to take her new place of honor among the free nations of the world. In these formations of the Japanese security police who serve the United States Army today, there can be seen the emerging shape of a security guard for a peaceful oria. Map service is the largest mapping service in the world. Among its components are the mobile mapping units which can follow combat organizations into action. Producing on the spot large quantities of maps for the all-essential guidance of troops in battle. In Germany, you will see one of these mobile units in action. The job of making maps for the Army in the field falls to engineer topographic companies like the 524th, here setting out on a training mission in Germany. Exercises like this one, in which the 524th will provide maps to support a core maneuver, to keep these companies highly trained and ready to map any area in the world. The 524th is a fully mobile unit carrying all its equipment with it. Operating under tactical conditions, the company's first step after reaching the area to be mapped is to protect itself from enemy observation. After the equipment is set up, survey teams gather the material for the map which will be the combat unit's most reliable source of information about the area. Often, it's only source. Working swiftly, these specialists ascertain everything there is to know about the land and its features, both natural and man-made. They determine the condition and the dimensions of the roads that cut through the area, the rise and fall of the ground, the ridges, the wooded areas, and the open spaces that mark it. Team members test the depth of streams and other bodies of water in the area, and the capacity of the bridges over them, information which would be vital to a commander. Under the probing of these soldier engineers and the instruments they use, the topography of the entire area is reduced to basic engineering formulae. Inside a company van in the Bivouac area, technicians go to work on the information the survey teams have gathered. First, the identification of the map is set in the margin. Its name, scale, contour level, all the information which will enable the user to read and understand the map quickly. The bridges and streams, the roads and ridges and hills studied by the survey team are transferred to paper as lines and symbols in an exact representation of the area. A separate drawing is made for each color used. After the finished product is edited carefully, the map is ready for reproduction. It is photographed in another company van, each color drawing for multiple color maps is photographed separately. A final inspection is given to the negatives. If a minor error is discovered here, it can still be corrected by retouching the negative. In another van, technicians prepare the offset lithographic plates for printing the map. If offset plates are regrained, they can be used many times, thus saving large amounts of money. The plates are sensitized with a material which is distributed evenly by a centrifugal force dryer. The color drawing negatives are printed onto the sensitized plates with arc lights. The plates are developed and are sent on to the printing press van. Here, the map sheet passes through the press as many times as there are different colors, each time adding new information. The printing presses of an engineer topographic company can produce from 3,000 to 5,000 impressions an hour. When the maps are finished, they go to yet another van for trimming and bailing. Thus, the 524th Engineer Topographic Company completes its mission in support of a core maneuver. This report today, let us look at the American Forces Network, which supplies American-style radio services to our armed forces in Europe. An historic castle in the suburbs of Frankfurt, Germany is the key station in a vast radio network operated by the United States Armed Forces. In charge of the Frankfurt station, and on hand now to explain the function of the network, is Captain Joseph Given. I'm a reserve officer on active duty with the Army and I feel fortunate that I may pursue a radio activity while in the uniform. AFN Frankfurt is the key network station of the American Forces Network and as such has a dual role. We furnish network programming to the rest of the stations in the network and we also serve our local area of Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Wiesbaden. From the standpoint of personnel, we have 56 people working here. 41 of those are enlisted men of the American Military Service, three are American civilians and 12 German nationals. In programming, 80% of our programming is network caliber feed. The other 20% is of a local nature. One of the most important of the network's functions is the broadcasting of news. The Frankfurt station operates a newsroom like that in any large commercial center. News from all over the world comes into the news bureau and is disseminated factually and objectively by announcers in uniform. Celebration of the 36th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Paris. The French... American troops rely heavily on these news broadcasts to keep informed on what is happening not only in Germany, but everywhere else on the globe and in addition to American troops and civilians, many citizens of Europe have come to regard the American radio report as one of the most authoritative sources of information available. And that's it from the Associated Press, the United Press and the International News Service. The next newscast over this network is scheduled for 18, 15 hours this afternoon. A regular feature of the Frankfurt station is the broadcasting of religious services of all faiths. The newspaper of Chaplin's branch presents Jewish Sabbath evening services. Our speaker tonight will be Chaplin Joseph B. Messing, Frankfurt municipal detachment. Shamoy Israel, Adonoy Elohim, Adonoy Ahad. Hero Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Praise be his name, whose glorious kingdom is forever and ever.  On these words which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt speak of them when thou sittest in thy house, when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up, and thou shalt bind and pray sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thy house, and upon thy gates, that ye may remember unto all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. Among entertainment programs, music ranks high in popularity. Listeners represent a variety of tastes, so the station gives them a wide selection. Here is a study in sound. Again, we are assembled, a Joe Cardinal quartet, four capables with four instruments, and many new fresh ideas of modern jazz, and me, Private Frank Batters. So let's study the sounds, and observe on this opening song the intricate, delicate, round sounds of which we speak. If you listen carefully, you'll note this as much like, I only have eyes for you. The Concourses Network faithfully brings this kind of recreation to its listeners. Here, broadcasters are at Landstow, Germany to report on a football game between Air Force teams from Landstow and Wiesbaden air bases. When a Navy salvage crew tries to retrieve an army vehicle which is plunged into the Rhine River, the station sends a reporter to find out what is happening. Here we have a young sailor who's going to go down and get this car back for the U.S. Army this afternoon. What is your name, please? George Holstein. George Holstein, and where are you from? Kingston, New York. It's upstate New York, isn't it? Yeah. Is this the, I don't, I know it isn't your first trip. How many dives have you made, such as this? Oh, such as this, well, I haven't made too many before I come over to Germany, but since I've been over here, I've been down quite a bit. Because of the Army, there's a lot of Army over here, a lot of lakes, guys all the time going out in the lakes and getting drowned. These bridging operations, they're always, things are always falling off them. And you're the boy who's called upon. Yeah. The small little Navy unit here is really well known in Germany, then, aren't you? A little bit, I guess. This kind of on-the-spot reporting of interesting events is a regular feature of the American Forces Network. As the diver descends into the river to begin his search for the lost car, the reporter describes what is going on in detail for his radio audience. In the station, technicians keep open. The channels which carry the reporter's first-hand account of the success of the salvage operation. Now the car is completely out of the water. And during this operation, up to all about a half hour ago, an Army crane has just arrived on the scene to take this car back to its respective motor pool, I believe, Darmstadt, wherever the car came from, and perhaps salvaged the car for whatever they can. Didn't get banged up too much. The top, naturally, is pushed in, and the sides pretty well banged. After more than a decade of constantly expanding and improving service, the mission of the American Forces Network remains constant to broadcast the best of radio fare for the information, education, and entertainment of the American Forces in Europe. Men and women of the United States Army are the best equipped and the best trained in the world. And because of functions like the American Forces Network, the best informed. Now this is Sergeant Stuart Queen inviting you to be with us again over this same channel next week for another look at the big picture, the United States Army in action. The big picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the Army at home and overseas, produced by the Signal Corps Victoria Center, presented by the US Army in cooperation with this station. You can be an important part of the big picture. You can proudly serve with the best equipped, the best trained, the best fighting team in the world today, the United States Army.


Okay, so I have talked about Wheel of Time a couple of times on this channel, and I think it's about time that I just went through and reviewed all the books, so yeah, let's do that. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. So real quick, before I start, I do just want to say, one, I won't be reviewing New Spring because I haven't read that, and two, this is going to be a pretty brief review of each book, and it'll be pretty much impossible to talk about the series that way without spoilers, so I will say that every time I go to a book, there will be some spoilers for the previous books before that, so just, you know, be aware. There's not gonna be many for the first one, but after that, just, you know, be aware if that bothers you. So first up, we have The Eye of the World. Now, this book is, in a lot of ways, it's pretty traditional fantasy.  Let me tell you, it took me three times before I actually finished reading this book, and by the time I got to the end, I did really like the climax, and that's not to say there's nothing good in here, because I liked that as they were traveling, we got this feeling that this world is huge, and you hear little bits of information about other places, but they really only see a pretty tiny corner of it, and to them, even that tiny corner is huge, because they've spent their whole life in this rural, backwoods village, and so while this is a fairly traditional story, maybe, I wouldn't say generic, especially because later on it does change a little bit, but you know, it's a traditional story, there's, you know, chosen ones, and magic, and the bad guy is just the dark one, you know, a force of absolute pure evil with nothing redeemable about him, you know, there's wizards, there's all that sort of stuff, it's pretty traditional, and so if you're well-read in traditional fantasy, you might want to check this out, but it's not really going to be anything new or different, at least at first, and if you haven't read a lot of traditional fantasy, this might be good to check out as well, but it's, keep in mind, it is traditional, it's not really modern fantasy where it's harder to tell what things will happen, because if you're well-read, it's pretty easy to guess a lot of things that go down here, and like I said, that middle third is just very difficult to get through, because just not a lot happens. So now book two, The Great Hunts, this one picks up about a month after the last one, and Rand has, you know, figured out he can channel, he doesn't think that he's the dragon reborn, at least not yet, but other characters do think he is, and he's planning on just like taking off and running, because he doesn't want to get gentled, and Egwayne is preparing to go to the White Tower to train and become an ice to die, you know, that sort of stuff, and the leader of the ice to die comes and visits them and actually tells Rand, hey, we think you're the dragon reborn, but before he gets the chance to leave, some dark friends and shadow spawn attack, and they steal not only the Horn of Valir, which they need for the last battle, but they steal the dagger that Matt is connected to, and they need to break that bond, otherwise it'll kill him, so they need to go off and get those two things, and so Rand decides, okay, I gotta go off and do this stuff, and so he goes off on his own adventure with most of the other characters, and meanwhile Egwayne goes down to Tar Valin and learns to be an ice to die. Now, I really liked both of these plot lines, like, I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with them, but I am saying that when I read this book, I was realized, okay, I am not wasting my time reading this, you know, this is actually a pretty good series, I just had to get over the hump in the first book, and now I'm fine, like, little did I know that there was a much bigger hump to come, but you know, that's in the future, so I loved Egwayne's story because it's her learning all about channeling, and so we get a bunch of information about how that works, and you know, I just love seeing that because in the first book, channeling was like this mysterious and almost kind of scary thing that we didn't know much about, and from this point on, we actually understand how it works, and so it feels more like a science or a hard magic system than anything else, and Rand's storyline, also really good, you know, it's still kind of similar to before, where it's a travelogue and they're doing stuff, but the stuff they're doing is more interesting and it feels more focused than before, so it wasn't all that difficult for me to get through, and then at the climax, or near the climax, I should say, we get introduced to these new people called Shaunchan, and I'm not going to go into detail about them, but they do expand what the world feels like even more. We realize, wow, these guys are from this other place, the world feels that much bigger, and also they are, you know, an antagonistic force other than just the dark ones, or like, okay, so this might be a little more complicated, and then, you know, there's, it's a climax, so there's a big battle, which is really cool, and yeah, it's just enjoyable. It's a pretty enjoyable book. Book three, The Dragon Reborn. Now, this one starts off with Rand having just kind of, well, not totally, but kind of accepted the fact that he's the Dragon Reborn and that he's gonna have to do all this stuff in order to save the world, and the responsibility is really weighing on him, so he kind of runs off and goes to this place called Tir, which is just another country, and he needs to fulfill one of the prophecies of the Dragon while he's there, and then, Edwaine is still training a little bit, but she's also doing her own thing. The other characters follow after Rand. You know, it's just, at this point, the story does split up a little, and it loses some focus, but it's not bad by any means, I don't think, because, well, I actually read this one in about three days. That's the fastest I've read any of these books. Just like before, you know, it's a lot of buildup with some smaller plot points that happen, which are kind of fun to go through, and then at the end, there's this big climax, and, you know, further confirmation that, yeah, Rand is the Dragon Reborn. He really is the guy that is gonna save the world. But the most noteworthy part about this book to me, at least, is how, near the beginning, Matt finally gets healed and his bond with the dagger is broken, and this kind of resets his character, because before this, he was just kind of Rand's friend who was a troublemaker and would occasionally say something witty, but he just wasn't that interesting of a character, and he wasn't that cool or anything, so it didn't make up for his lack of being interesting. So, you know, he was just kind of there. You know, I didn't dislike him or anything. But then in this one, he gets a reset, and he becomes a lot different, and from this point on, he becomes a hell of a lot better. Like, he becomes a badass, he becomes helpful, he tries to run away from responsibility, but he just can't bring himself to do it, and he always does the right thing, so yeah, just Matt becomes a really good character at this point. Book four, The Shadow Rising. Some people describe this as like, the pinnacle of Wheel of Time. I wouldn't go that far, but it is very, very good. Because in this one, Rand leaves the Stone of Tear and goes off with the IEEL because the IEEL are these people that were mentioned a little bit in the first two books, but they were, again, these like far away dudes who we didn't know that much about. They were these mysterious people. Then we were introduced to them in the Dragon of Born, and in book four, we really get to see their culture and see what they're like, and they think like, okay, maybe Rand is our chosen one as well, who is different from the Dragon of Born, so that's cool and all. And then while all of that's going on, there is a little bit of stuff in the White Tower, which is not as interesting as it maybe could be, but it's still, I didn't hate it reading it, and it is building up to something pretty big, which is cool. And then the Climax with Rand in the IEEL waste is pretty great. It shows him, well, it just shows him fighting and you realize, yeah, this dude's actually really, really powerful. He's not just some guy that can make a few fireballs.  But my personal favorite part of this book is how Perrin actually splits off and goes back to the Two Rivers, where they're from, because that's getting attacked by the Dark One's forces and they're like, oh fuck, they need help, so they get back there as quick as they can, and there's a whole plot line with that, which is, I mean, it's just a war plot line, but it is really good. It has a good beginning, good middle, good end, and we do see a little bit of how the people back in their old home are reacting to the news that Rand is the Dragon Reborn and that they're doing all this crazy stuff, which I liked. I thought that was cool. Book five, Fires of Heaven. So Rand is learning more and more about the One Power because he took Asmodean, or Asmodean, I'm not sure how to say it, but he took him prisoner and is forcing him to teach him how to learn. That's cool and all. And after the coup in the White Tower, some of the old Isidae are running away and they're trying to gather up and become their own force and they eventually coalesce into the rebel Isidae. And then meanwhile, Rand and most of the Aeile go after the Shido, who were a clan that abandons the Aeile and just invaded the rest of the world and they're trying to take over and they're causing trouble, so Rand and them have to go and help them out. And one thing I wanna mention is that, one, throughout all of this, Rand is, and the other main characters are becoming much more developed because they start off as pretty clear stereotypes. And while they aren't all my favorite, some of them are pretty annoying, they do all change and grow over the course of the series, which I think is pretty great. And Rand especially started off as a scared kid, accepted his position and at this point, he's still not totally comfortable with it, but he is getting better at it. And I'm not gonna go into a lot of detail, but it does, at this point, we do get one of the only good romantic relationships in the series, starts to develop a lot more. And like I said, not gonna spoil it, but it's pretty great. And there are some good twists and some good character deaths in this that I didn't expect. So yeah, Fires of Heaven, pretty good. Book six, Lord of Chaos. Now, this one I feel is overrated, honestly. Like a lot of these I feel are overrated, but Lord of Chaos, it is kind of starting with Rand becoming a little bit crazy. We don't really see that more until a little later books, but with Sydeen apparently causing everyone to use it to go insane, it's a big concern not only on his mind, but on everyone else's. So that's a big deal. But what's even more interesting than that is that at the beginning of this book, Rand founds the Black Tower and he starts putting out the word for like, hey, men who can channel or who think they might be able to channel come here and we'll learn and we're gonna fight the shadow together. And so he founds his own army, basically. And then throughout the course of this book, the rebelized Sydeis start to coalesce and they start to learn to do their own thing. Meanwhile, like Nine Eve and Elaine and some of the other characters are just kind of off traveling. And honestly, that's a big part of not only this book, but a lot of them is just people traveling and it's not that interesting, but whatever. More important is Rand founds the Black Tower. It's really cool. And throughout the course of the book, but especially at the end, we really see his power and how he's coming into being as this warlord basically and how he's not just gaining allies that will help him fight the bad guys. He is a power in his own right and that's really, really cool to witness. Book seven, Crown of Swords. So this is the beginning of what I called the hump before. Like this is a much bigger hump. It's just a very long stretch of multiple books which is very, very boring and I hate it. So book seven, Rand is fighting some of the Forsaken and he's going crazy.  And so people are trying to find out how to fix it. And I mean, that's not a bad subplot that they go on but it lasts a long time and people travel forever. And it just, you know, it's, this book isn't great, but it's far from the worst. Book eight, Path of Daggers. So this one has a lot of Perrin trying to rescue his wife and it's very boring and Matt, or not Matt, Iran continues to go insane and Matt continues to do his thing. He is what kept me going through a lot of these books, honestly, like for a long, long, long time he was the only part that I just found interesting. Not the only part, but one of the only parts that I found interesting. And God, I think you can even tell just from the way I'm describing this, like this book, I barely even remember anything about it. Like I looked up a plot summary and looked through it just a couple of minutes ago to prepare myself for this. I'm like, oh yeah, most of that's unimportant. Book nine, Winter's Heart. So after everybody used the bowl of winds and they fixed the weather, it's now winter again and Perrin is continuing to fight the Shido or not even really fight, just look for his wife. And Rand continues to go insane, but that's not interesting. There's like traitors among the Black Tower, which is kind of cool, but they don't deal with it all that well. And then just whatever, the climax to this one is great. Okay, I'll say that, but the climax is genuinely awesome. I didn't like expect it to happen in this series, but it did.  That's pretty cool. And then book 10, Crossroads of Twilight, AKA the absolute worst that the Wheel of Time has to offer. Now, I'm just gonna say this one takes place mostly simultaneously with Winter's Heart. So throughout a lot of it, characters can feel the massive surge of Sidar and Sideen, which is Rand cleansing Sideen. And they're just kind of worried like, wow, I hope my friends are okay. I hope no one's doing anything. I don't know what's going on over there, but I gotta keep doing my own business. So like Elaine is just politicking and trying to get herself like officially put on the throne as the Queen of Andor. And Matt is traveling with Tuon and apparently falling in love with her, which is, I don't buy it, honestly. Like even after finishing the series, I really didn't buy their love because the only two good relationships, romantic relationships in Wheel of Time are Matt and Avienda and Matt and Min. Okay, him and Avienda is pretty good. Him and Min is fantastic.  Yeah, you can generalize that.   And just this whole book, Nothing Happens and I Hate It. And then book 11, Knife of Dreams. Now, this is the last one written by Robert Jordan before he died, but I'm glad he did because it's actually, well, it's a return to form, let's call it. Because this one, stuff happens. Perrin rescues his wife finally. I know that sounds like a spoiler. You knew it was gonna happen eventually.  And we do, at one point, get a, let's say we get some insight into the personality of Isha Myle, who is the leader of the Forsaken. Like, we get insight into who he is and why he decided to serve the dark one, which is pretty great.  I will say he was introduced in Crossroads of Twilight, so I guess that part of that book wasn't terrible, but he's just a cool character. He's just this genius general who is a brilliant battlefield tactician and it's cool to watch him work. And he sticks around with the rest of the series and we get some more of him in this book, which is great. Mostly, though, this book is good because it wraps up a lot of old plot threads that had them left hanging. Like, in this one, we finally start to get an end to the conflict with the Isidae and the Rebel Isidae. And I liked the way that ended. And Egwayne really starts to act like a leader at that point, which even after she officially became one, I didn't feel like she was acting like one. And it just felt a little bullshit-y, but, you know, I liked seeing that in this book and there are a lot of other smaller plot threads which get wrapped up, so pretty great. We're entering the home stretch now. Book 12, The Gathering Storm, is the first one written by Brandon Sanderson. And if I had to describe it in a word, and in fact, I would describe Book 12 and 13 in a single word, it would be set up, but it's very, very good set up. So most of The Gathering Storm is Rand, like, losing his mind and just going absolutely batshit insane. Like, whereas before he was starting to go insane, now he is like full on crazy and nuts. And this book kind of deals with that. And some people might say that they don't like the way it was dealt with. They feel it went a little too fast. I disagree. I thought it was a very satisfying end to that, well, maybe not an end to that story arc, but I thought it was a very satisfying place to take his character. And that was, yeah, that was great. And then there are some other battles going on which are also great. There's other characters just getting ready for the last battle, basically, because they're like, okay, the forces of the dark one are gathering up and they're almost ready to go. So we gotta wrap up this last couple of things. And so, yeah, like I said, it's mostly set up, but it's very satisfying set up. Book 13, wait, that's an eight. I don't know, 10, three, there we go, is the Towers of Midnight. And like I said, this one's mostly just more set up except Rand is like not crazy now, so he's actually a nice guy going around doing things that need to be done but doing it in a nice way. And just hanging out with his dad for once, which is great to see. And I obviously love seeing him with Min. And then near the end, Matt goes off on his own little adventure, which is pretty great. I mean, I don't feel like it really needed to be in the series. And honestly, if they were gonna do it, then they should have done it like three or four books ago. But whatever, you know, I like seeing Matt do his heroic badass thing. That's pretty great. And watching him and the band of the Red Hand continue to gather up and get ready for the final battle is pretty great. But yeah, there's not a whole lot else to say about this one. You know, there's some cool battles in here with Rodel and with some other people. But, you know, you kind of expect that by this point. So yeah, just Towers of Midnight is a pretty good book. And at the end, it has a really nice cliffhanger which got me pumped up and excited to read A Memory of Light. And finally, we reach A Memory of Light, which is the final book in the Wheel of Time. And I can describe this one pretty simply as well. This is the last battle, okay? Almost this entire book is just the last battle.  Like, it built up for like 23 years or 24 years, I think, to get to this point. And I think it paid off. Now, granted, I didn't wait 23 or 24 years because I was not old enough, but whatever. You get the point. It's a hugely satisfying battle. There's a little bit of unnecessary conflict at the beginning, I think, between like good guy characters.  But anyways, like, that's a little obnoxious, but just seeing the armies of the light have this plan, get pushed back, have to come up with a contingency plan, have to do this other stuff, and watching Matt like do his own thing with the band of the Red Hand is amazing. Watching some of the ideas they come up with to defeat the Dark One's forces is amazing. Rand actually confronting the Dark One himself is a little weird because it's like 50 pages worth of stuff but it's spread out over like five or 600 pages, so that's a little weird, but it's not bad, I wouldn't say. It's just, I wish it had been spread out less, but at the same time, had you done that, it would have either ended too soon or it would have taken forever to start, so this might have been like the only way you could do it, but, you know, whatever, and also throughout the final battle, pretty much every major character and a shitload of side characters gets, they finish their arc, you know, and they finish it in a very satisfying way. Lan finishes his arc in a very satisfying way. Galad and Gawin finish their arcs in a very satisfying way.  Okay, Loghain, the way his arc ends, is pretty great. Ranz, the way his arc ends, is pretty great, and so on and so forth. Like, all of them are great. Just, this book has a million little climaxes, I think is a good way of putting it. And rather than just having a big battle at the end, well, the big battle is the end, okay, because this is the end to the whole series. And well, very few people can write big battles the way Brandon Sanderson does, so even though I do wish Robert Jordan had been able to finish his Magnum Opus, because I'm sure he was disappointed in himself that he couldn't do it, and I would've loved to see what he'd do with it, I think that if they were gonna choose somebody else to do it, Brandon Sanderson was the best choice. And honestly, this is a very satisfying ending to the Wheel of Time.  This is the one piece of epic fantasy, okay? It's a good series, but there's so much bullshit in there that doesn't need to be there. I would say you could make this series about 30 or 35% shorter and not lose anything substantial. I really do think that.  I still to this day hate reading about traveling in epic fantasy because Wheel of Time ruined it for me. On paper, I feel like I should be able to enjoy, like characters move to another location so that they can do a thing, and along the way they run into a little bit of trouble now and then, but I just can't do it anymore. So Wheel of Time ruined that for me, but beyond that, I have other issues, like a lot of the characters because there are literally thousands of them, so a lot of them you just can't remember, okay? A normal person just cannot be expected to remember all of them, and a lot of the major characters are just super annoying, either some of the time or all the time. Now, obviously this series talks a lot about gender roles and gender politics, which I'm not gonna get into here because I'm just not gonna get into it here, but a lot of the women in this, especially come across as just extremely stuck up and extremely entitled, which is annoying to read, and then a lot of the men come across as like just stupid, honestly, but it's never so bad that I wanted to stop, I don't think, or rather the closest I came to wanting to stop is in that big hump section where Rand is losing his mind, and just that was terrible to go through, but you know, at the end of the day, this is a very solid fantasy series, it's a traditional series, like I said at the beginning, there's not a whole lot here that's new or different, but you know, if you wanna read about chosen ones saving the world, if you wanna read about epic battles, if you wanna read about the forces of good overcoming the forces of evil for now, yeah, you should check this out. 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I was just looking for a beautiful place to shoot and then somebody recommended and I was like hey let me go find out when I go here I was like wow just look at it for a moment look at it for a moment wow guys this place is beautiful oh my god just look at the pool and you have the beach you know the seashore like this is the perfect place for relaxation this is perfect this is beautiful this is like an African style combined with the western way of building thank you so much you said you want one again? I want ice cream is it here? dessert ice cream and homemade chocolate cake I want cake but not chocolate cake I don't love chocolate this one is sliced fresh fruit I am hungry for all so what are you going to have? you have fufu here Ghana fufu you don't have oh come on bro you should have fufu here man do you have curry? yeah you have ugali? you have ewo gony you know ewo gony? do you know ugali? ugali you don't have ugali? is it Nigerian dish? it's African you have pounded yam? yeah okay give me oh my god man this is just pizza, sandwich salad, snacks this is white meal man I need some African meal though but anyway give me the beef burger give me the beef burger the beef burger yeah give me the beef burger I take the ice cream and do you have juices like lemonade it's like spread lemonade juice? yeah I think that's spread sorry? sprite yeah lemonade is spread yeah lemonade I guess now you know why I wanted to bring you to this place yeah now I can see why what do you think of this place? that's so beautiful like I'm blown I'm so impressed by this place you know like Africa is beautiful man yeah and tea is like I might say that Gambia really surprised me I know right not like a small country like that you never know that they have such a beautiful hidden games like hidden treasure you already know walking in the streets oh my goodness this is so beautiful man for real I just want to tell each and everyone out there you just have to come visit this country man this is not an advertisement for the hotel or something but I just want to encourage each and everyone travel within Africa man don't believe the lies they've been telling you I feel like something is exaggerated on media you see the design the architecture it's greenish the green oh my goodness do you want to swim? me swim here again? the last time I did that oh my god man everyone is on your case everyone is on my case you don't know how to swim it's okay I'm just always going to hate man people are hating on me I don't know how to swim so what I don't know how to swim I don't want to die right now I was just moving around here and then in every one that I see in here it's like Africans are living their own continent to another place to enjoy and people out there also coming to enjoy but I met you and I was like first time seeing a black one in here where are you from my brother? Nigeria oh I'm from Nigeria I was in Nigeria man like you face one wow are you serious? yeah where do you stay in Nigeria? yeah like you you live in like you too yes on the island face one? yes face one wow which means maybe we were neighbors but we couldn't be anyway what brought you to this place? oh I got a vacation yeah vacation you didn't want to go to Dubai? oh it's so beautiful here it's safe I'm surprised that we have such resources in Africa and we keep traveling outside Africa to have vacations please let's make use of what we have in Africa we are so blessed we are right here in the Gambia I've had so much fun in the two weeks I've been here I've not had this much fun I've practically been all over the world I've been around a lot of countries but what we have here in the Gambia what we have in Africa is the best I assure you I'm so much at peace with myself I've been to a lot of places I've had so much fun so much at the elephant house elephant tree yeah we went to a tree house somewhere in Lamin we had so much fun so peaceful lovely people we are so blessed in Africa really I keep on telling Africans that to call yourself an African it's a blessing but we don't realize it did you look around I think we're just about the only black people in this hotel there's so many people so many Americans so many white people from all over the world they are tripping in in thousands and then we are moving out we don't even value what we have and you see them they're having so much fun oh my god I've had so much fun there's so much peace here I talked to one white man in here and he was telling me that my brother I'm not going back to my country most of them come here and they don't go back they stay for 6 months they don't go back they come in in hundreds according to our findings they have houses here they want to stay here they come here and they can't believe what they see it's beautiful the seaside and it's so safe here it's so safe I'm glad that I'm not the only one who is preaching this message it's so safe Africans please let's make use of what we have let's enjoy our own let's enjoy our own if it's the shopping with this office ticket head shops you want there are 9 shops here have been out there there are shops you can relax and enjoy a revocation come on guys thank you so much thank you too it's so nice to meet black people here God bless you I just hope that you guys enjoy this amazing episode and I hope you enjoyed your food thank you for bringing me here man I love this place I recommend this place like 100% it's beautiful yeah it is for sure it's beautiful don't forget to like this video and I also realize that 75% of the people who watch my video have never subscribed to my channel oh wow really what if people need to subscribe subscribe subscribe and turn on the notification because we are here to take Africa to the world so why Mr. Goddard baby and I hope you enjoy this beautiful episode peace out bye


Give a thumbs up. I'm glad those of you got there safe and sound. All right. Great. Thank you. This is a convening of the Master's of this Game and Commission. It is January 24th, 2024. It's our public meeting for agenda setting purposes, number 161. We're going to get started with our minutes. Commissioner Maynard, I know that there was. Madam chair, did you want to do a roll call? Sorry. Yep. I'm a little bit off. I just reported to colleagues that. I did a turnaround because of traffic today. I live about 20 minutes away from downtown Boston and. About an hour and a half later, I realized I needed to turn around to get to our meeting. So. Thank you for the virtual option. I did think about that Eileen commissioner Brian and I said, well, you know, I can do this virtually. I'm here. Very unfortunate. We have that flexibility. So the roll call commissioner Brian. I am here. Thanks. Commissioner Hill. I am also here. Mr. Skinner. Good morning. Good morning and commissioner Maynard. I'm here. Great. All right. Now we'll get started properly with public meeting number 161 and. Commissioner Maynard, my apologies. I realized that the minutes that did get to us somehow didn't get distributed until just a little bit earlier this morning. So I just want to let you, you know that they are, I think now are in the packet. Trudy, but my, our apologies. So there may be a request. All right. No problem. I'll make the motion and if somebody needs more time, they can let me know. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to need more time. Sorry. They came through when, when I was in another meeting, so I didn't have a chance to look at them. We can roll them over to the next meeting or to the end of the meeting. It doesn't matter. Whatever, whatever you want to do. I prefer the next meeting so that I don't have to try to multitask here. Perfect. I would draw my motion. Thank you. And so we'll have them. We know that there are two sets ready for the next meeting. My apologies. Commissioner Maynard. Okay. We'll get started then with our agenda planning commission as you have this meeting schedule through March 14th now. As you'll see that immediately following today's agenda setting meeting, we do have a special short public meeting regarding the IEP screening committee's update and advancement of finalists. So that will follow this at 1130. Okay. Turning to February 1st. Administrative update. Good morning again. Interim executive director Grossman. Good morning, madam chair. Good morning commissioners and hello everybody. I get a couple of ideas for administrative updates for the upcoming meeting. Burke Kane and his team have some interesting end of year stats that they are prepared to share with the commission and discuss, including things like the intercept numbers if that's of interest and maybe get into a little bit about that program. We thought that might be of interest to the group. And so they can do that on the February 1st meeting. A couple of other things that I just wanted to mention and we can be prepared to talk about as well. We do have an onboarding group that's been assembled by our chief per people and diversity officer Dave Muldrew. And I thought it might be interesting to just discuss that with the commission, let you know what's going on with that and what the plan is moving forward. If there's interest in that subject. And then the other one that's come up and I've gotten a few questions about our non disclosure agreements that we have with our casino licensees. That would be helpful. I'd be happy to talk a little bit about those with an administrative update as well. I certainly don't think all of these need to be on February 1st, but I think each of those are subjects that I thought might be of interest to the commission. So I'm happy to move forward as helpful on those manner chair commissioners. Any questions for Todd commissioners. Okay. That's the meeting that it's planned quite few. How's that look commissioner Maynard. It's looking good. It's totally sitting with me the legal team. Finish their part. I'm finishing my part. Judy did a great job and they'll be ready. Okay. I'm going to get those out early, Judy, as soon as we get them, let's distribute them because there's so many. I think they're also going to be lengthy too. Thank you, Judy. I should be able to get those out to you chair today. Oh, okay. When I was saying to truly when she gets them will immediately send them all around to the commissioners. Okay. I just said about date commissioner Hill. So I'd like to keep it on because I believe we're going to be seeing the budget that's presented by the governor. And at that time we will have been able to go through it and if there's anything that affects us. I'll give you an update on it. So yes, if we could just keep it on there, just in case. Thank you. Okay. And just to note that that letter, Todd did go into the mail. It has not gone out yet. There were a couple of edits that need to be made to it based on the discussion. It was actually in the state house news yesterday. The actual letter itself. So it's been more broadly circulated than we had even hoped, but we will get the actual letter out. Hopefully today or tomorrow. Great. Thanks. Yes, commission. This is just directed to Todd commissioners have an opportunity to see it again after the edits have been made. Please. Sure. Thank you. Actually, why don't we just do that right. Can we sort of administrative could we just talk. I'm trying to imagine what edits they are because. Commissioner Skinner, I would, I think time is of the essence given that it's actually out. I thought that it had been mailed. You know, in terms of the edits, they're not substantive. Are they Todd. I don't remember that there were any edits needing to be made. So that's why I asked to look at that. It was removing the one paragraph where we didn't have unanimity. Other than that, I thought it was ready to go. We also needed to send it to the economic development committee. So we needed to get. I can send that right over to you. Those are the they're on their annual report there. They're titles that maybe melds you could send that over to Todd and incorporate that into the letter. We just recognize that there were another set of officials that should be included. The technology and emerging. Yeah. Yeah, so there that was that was the only thing that needs to be done is all those other folks need to be added on to the light. Right. So, yeah, in that case, I don't need to see it again. Thank you. Excellent commission scanner and just a time being a little bit of the essence here. And also, I didn't think we had any substantive ones. No, there's nothing. Yeah, yeah, but certainly commissioner Brian's right, taking out that the one that we didn't have 100% consensus. Just to be clear that that paragraph had already been removed. I was asking to put it back in. That's right. Thank you commissioner Hill. In some form. Yeah. Okay. And it just would be adding those two titles and putting our signatures on and getting it right out. I think Tom, you could send it in the in the US PS and then also send it electronically right with the attachment to all of those individuals. And I think Tom has all the email addresses for those. Statehouse. Tom, am I am I assigning knowledge that you may not have. Mills. I'm sorry, Jerry, I thought you were saying Todd, not Tom. Yeah, no, I can get that for sure. He'll help you. Todd, so you can get it right now. Okay, thanks. Actually, Mills can send it to under his copy, but probably doing it electronically and in a snail now is a good idea. US PS. Okay. Thanks. Regulations. I've got one. Todd, is that right? Or do you have more? This is a good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Yes, we will be all set for 257, the data privacy regs on the 1st. That's the only one that will have coming on the 1st. Okay. And can you remind us of the status of that? This would be coming back for initial review of changes. So you'd be seeing some changes for the 1st time. Okay, thanks. All right. Now we have sports waiting. Good morning. Andrew. Morning, Madam chair. Crystal here today. Crystal, you want to start? Oh, there's Crystal. Good morning. Hi. Good morning. Yeah, so are you specifically asking for February 1st, right? Sorry. I was slightly distracted. So we had previously asked to bring back the item on the wind bet request, which has now become more of a general overview of the customer service and phone requirements. And I can get you that language. I also had previously asked for addition of a new event request, the women's professional hockey league, which I think we had said Andrew would be bringing forward, but I actually will be bringing forward. So that's a little bit of a change. And then Andrew, are any of the new ones that you have for February 1st? We have 2 new market requests and fanatics as well. New head coach and new player team wagering on where the player may play next season, which coach will coach next season. Both those requests come for fanatics. Andrew, I'm sorry. I got head coach and miss the next one. Player new team. So you can what they're asking wager on if a player will play for a certain team next season or where coach will coach next season. Oh, okay. So 2 new markets and that's both fanatics. Correct. Okay. And we do have 1 other item. The, we're going to bring forth a cessation for 1 of our operators. You've received that information. And that pertains to 205 CMR 258. So we will intend to have the formal plan and that may include some waiver requests. We're still looking into exactly what will pertain for that meeting. But I think between us and legal, we'll get you some more information and agenda language. So that will be a joint legal sports wagering. Okay. I believe so. That's all I have Andrew. Am I missing anything? That's just for 201. We'll be back for 215. Yes, absolutely. Okay. We're ready to give it to item number six, Madam chair and all I can kind of jump in there. Right. And I know Kathleen too is going to add some parameters. So thank you. I be in sports wagering. Thanks. So if we're ready to move on to item number six, that deals with the legend on compliance matters. Before we get into that, I just wanted to talk a little bit about the process if I may. Of course, as, as you're all aware and familiar with, we've talked about the handling of category one or group one matters. You'll recall, of course, the commission essentially approved, although we need to bring back a draft of the handling of category one matters relative to sports wagering on compliance issues. So item number six gets into what we had referred to as category two and category three and how those would be handled and whatnot. And so of course, if it's not a category one, what that means is that the matter has to be brought before the commission for review. And so what we wanted to talk about with the commission was the idea of essentially streamlining the information that comes before the commission. And that's important for a couple of reasons. The first is the idea that we want to ensure when we bring these matters to the commission that we don't engage in any kind of adjudicatory bias by sharing too much information at the early outset of a particular matter where it hasn't been investigated. It has not really been thoroughly vetted by the IEB. And it's oftentimes really just an allegation. Sometimes it's brought to us by the operators themselves, but ordinarily these are matters that have not been investigated in any material way, which means that we want to just be really really careful about the information we're sharing at this juncture. So the idea is that we would in the IEB specifically would streamline the breadth and scope of the information that is shared at this juncture in public with the commission. The idea being, of course, that the commission would still make a decision based upon the information as to how it wanted to proceed from there, whether it wanted a full IEB investigation, move into an adjudicatory proceeding. Of course, as Caitlin discussed the other day, assessing a essentially a fine at that point based upon the information you have before you. So it's the same process, but we're really just talking about streamlining the information that would come before the commission. So that is just an area that we wanted to raise now. And Kathleen, I certainly invite you to jump in if you'd like to add any more color or context to what I've said. Yeah, I think it's important for Kathleen to add in because I know she and Caitlin have been coordinating. Caitlin's happily, I believe at Disney World, if I'm right. So yeah, yeah, that's good. Yes, I'm hopefully she has some warmer weather that we have up here. Happy to jump in. I did speak to Caitlin briefly last week and she had floated this idea of perhaps, yes, Todd just indicated changing the procedure in which the matters come to the commission for the first review for further decisions by the commission as to how to proceed. I think what was being suggested was as taught indicated a brief or a brief overview of what the event entails. I think that would be less information, perhaps then the IB has been doing in the past and holding off on sending any sort of written, you know, two to three page memorandum until the commission decides how they want to proceed with the matter and if the matter goes to an adjudicatory hearing certainly the IB could submit a briefing for the commission to have or if the commission wanted to send it back to the IB for further investigation. I think all of the same options that are available to the commission would be the same it would just be changing the procedure in which the matters first came to the commission is my understanding from conversations. Commissioners do you have questions for either Kathleen or Todd on this it's just going to be a more streamlined truncated process for us to make our decision just so that we don't creep into an area where we've unfairly talked about the facts without really the other side being represented. Okay. Is this up for discussion, or is this a decision that's being made, I mean just or it is, or will this be coming to us to discuss on February 1. So I think that this is a decision from our legal and IB team to protect us from. There's not another option, we don't want to do something that creates a judicatory bias so I think we're hearing from our legal team, Todd is speaking with a couple pass on from a legal perspective and Kathleen with with Caitlin Caitlin did bring this up to me. As much as what I just heard from Kathleen and Todd, and it's to protect us. So I don't, I wouldn't encourage that this becomes an option, Commissioner Skinner. If we need further information as to why and to understand a judicatory bias, I think our legal team could provide that. Yeah, I'm happy to get that. Yeah, I'm happy to get that outside of this meeting. I just, I mean, there was another option, obviously, because we have been following a different process up till now so I'm just interested in a little bit more as to, you know, why we're shifting. Right. And it's the advice now that's coming out illegal. I just want to, I just want to have the sort of the backstory, if you will. I think that the trigger and Todd alluded to it is these matters as they've been self reported presented a little bit of a different analysis than if they are not. It occurred to this whole team because they're doing great work and thinking, you know, being, you know, thinking for always to make sure where we are having best practices in place that they are recommending this approach. So, is that fear Todd. I think that's fair and you know, ultimately, it's really kind of the same process. It's really just that the, the breadth of information that we will be bringing in public to the commission will be a little more limited. That's really all we're talking about. Yeah. Obviously I realize, you know, you haven't had a chance to think about this but that that is if everyone's comfortable with it we can kind of move forward with that for the upcoming ones and Kathleen I apologize I didn't ask whether you feel like the ones that are on this agenda we would be prepared to move forward in this fashion with is that. Yes, I think so I think the thought process would be starting next week at the February 1 meeting there were three matters that the IV has been reviewing that were referred to us by sports wagering that would be bringing to the commission. And I think that the thought process here would be that that would be the implementation of this new process would be to give the commission a brief overview of those events and then for the commission to then determine how they wish to proceed with the three separate matters. And, and that, and yeah, three, the three separate matters that MGM. Okay. Yeah, the second one that we've alluded to in our earlier meetings, right. Yes, there was that presented last week on a matter and as you said, Sharon made reference to a second matter that is similar nature and then there are two separate matters both involving that MGM. Okay, I was just going to say if everyone is inclined we can just give it a try. Next, in February 1 with this approach, and, you know, kind of see how it goes but I think that this is, this is the proposed approach just to ensure the integrity of the process. And in between I think Commissioner Skinner is going to, you know, reach out to you, Todd and Kathleen to understand those those risks around adjudicatory bias it's something we bring up often but we may not always truly understand what the trigger is so other commissioners do the same. Okay. All right. Item number seven. Now we are still scheduled to have the Attorney General report to us on February 1 with respect to the FSN there. You know, they their view on their regulatory authority and responsibilities with respect to the FSN then also their commitment to approaching and the same as the same issues that we're interested in which is to create a level playing field for our licensed, our licensed operators versus the illegal market. So we expect to have the Attorney General's office in on February 1 right now we are anticipating an executive session, we'll see as to that, that issue so stay tuned on that. Okay. Then we have the mission statement, Commissioner O'Brien and Commissioner Maynard. We distributed it to the three of you at the last meeting with the idea being now would be enough time to get comments and potentially vote to adopt. Trudy, can you redistribute that so it's at the top of our email boxes so that will be all fresh on that's that statement. And then we'll move, hopefully to make that adoption. Okay. Okay. We've got you mark on the rest of the of the items for right now, February 1. Your favorite. I know you've been thinking about this presentation and a little bit with some concern as to how to approach you all set for number nine. Yeah, we are all set for number nine working on it right now. But yes, we'll be ready. How long do you think that will go mark? Um, could we give it 25 minutes? And the only reason why I'm asking now is because I've got sort of a sense for the others and the Attorney General's office has a thing. I want to make sure that we can work within their window. All right. And then number 10 play my way report which looking forward to. Yes, that we are also will be ready for act. Just this viewer talking right there. Our draft slide deck came into my inbox from Dr. Michael wall. So that will be if you put Dr. Michael wall is an outside presenter on that. The coordinating with him. He was hoping to be able to present that sometime between 1 and 3pm for his commitments earlier in the morning. 1 and 3pm Eastern time. Correct. Okay. Right. That's helpful. And Mark, I am going to ask for you and your team to just send the exact language. Okay.  Okay. Excellent. I'm looking now at item number 11 long. Good morning. Hi. Yes, so we're prepared game sense quarterly report will be ready. I will forward I truly the presenters at the mass council. And we will have to the presentation ready. That's always a good one. So we'll just figure out Dr wall schedule around your presentations and figure out the attorney general's office. Okay. And then, then you've got this, this legal and RG combined efforts of carry and mark. Yes. We all set for that as well. Mark. Yes. I concur with Kerry. Okay. So do we have a sense as to how long that will be? It's a relatively short presentation that I would say would probably be around 10 minutes with maybe another 10 minutes of discussion. Kerry Bonnie, what do you, what do you think? Yeah, I think 20 minutes sounds good. There's Dr. Andrews is nodding her head. Does that sound good? Okay. And you're all set on the, the other items to write Bonnie. Yes, thanks. All right. I just want to make sure Mark is estimating the correct time. So, we'll go. We have February 1, we're all set other items from the team that they would like to present on this busy day. We do have one other item for the first man chair based on the conversation and vote last week on 205 CMR 221 the sports measuring license being regulation. We would just be bringing back the waiver as you had just that last Thursday waiver from the one section that we would be removing. So that's from the January 18th, right? Right. Okay. Other items from for the team. Let's go back to your administrative report. I want to make sure I have two items. Did you have a third one? Yeah, there are three. And as we pivot into February 15th, we can actually spread them out a little bit. But yeah, so the one for February 1 is the end of your statistics from Burke and in the gaming team. The second one was the onboarding group program that we're putting together. And the third or a non disclosure agreements. Oh, that's what that whole process. Perhaps that one could go on to the 15th. Okay. I'm sorry. I couldn't read my handwriting. So I need to go back. So either. We'll check out how we're doing Todd with respect to timing. Because that actually is pretty substantive in nature. To give us that update. It certainly can be. And just as a reminder, I'll actually be out next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. So I think it'd be actually helpful to me if we could do the NDA presentation. For the 15th. Yeah. Okay. Even better. So Todd, do you want to say why you're going to be out? I'm having a celebrating a special birthday. I tell people I'm turning 70. But I'm going out of town with my family to celebrate, which is something we rarely ever do. Yeah, but it's a big birthday. So we are going to. We'll miss you, but we'll be celebrating with you. Okay. February 15 then. Administrative update. We'll have a non disclosure anything else right now. Not at the moment. Okay. And then minutes. We'll figure that out. Commissioner Maynard in terms of the actual dates. Yes. I don't want to get ahead of Judy on this. She may, she may get. Yeah, I apologize. I normally have the dates like locked and loaded, but we are well into May 2023. So I think they'll be from those dates. Yeah. Yeah, Judy, I'll get you those as soon as possible. Thank you, Judy. Okay. Commissioner Hill, legislative update. We'll keep on. Okay. And regulations. Anything anticipated carry. Yes, we will be prepared to bring 250604 related to advertising restrictions for discussion. And we would anticipate including in that discussion some relevant sections as well as from 238 and 247. There will be a, you know, a large discussion about what exists and possible changes, and then potentially coming back for both if there are at its major in the meeting. And this is the one we've had under review on number 12 right here. Yeah, okay. So we'd be bringing number 12 up. That's really, that is going to be a big discussion. So, okay, then we have. Thank you. There you are. Quarterly reports. Actually, did you have anything on sports wagering? Oh, I skipped. Thank you. Sports wagering Andrew. Yeah, we anticipate one item for the 15th, a new league request, the United Football League. Two of our approved Massachusetts football leagues, the XFL and the USFL have merged in December. I think it was New Year's Eve. They made the announcement. And the New Year's Fandall has requested the United Football League to be approved for wagering. I expect that by the 15th, if not, we can always move it. United Football League that made news. Okay. My apologies for skipping over five crystal. Are you do you have something else? I don't. I don't know if we wanted to address, we do have a meeting in between that for those executive sessions, but also I'm not sure if we've decided on the quarterly reports meeting yet, but those are my only outstanding items. So for the, for the 15th at this time, I have nothing else to add. Well, I didn't want to jump the gun, but I think that we have on our, our calendars commissioners for February 9 crystal, the, the executive sessions that will be very. I think it's the 7th, the 7th. So, we have a agenda saying in the morning and then that afternoon, we found the number of hours that crystal felt would be most appropriate for us to hear. From the operators. Remember, they've offered to give us information about their strategies and tactics to address. KYC and proxy wagering. I believe Todd, we have the green light to use the executive session, but you'll confirm all that with crystal. And so that that's what you'll see on the calendar. Should we continue? Should we plan on that commissioners? Okay. All right. So that's an additional standalone public meeting. And then I think we have under review the your, your quarterly reports crystal. But if you have, I can't remember if that's, if you intrude, you have selected dates for that or not. I don't believe so we wanted to have the executive sessions first so we can now finalize those dates. Okay. All right. So anything else though for now for February 15th on sports wagering. I think so. Not at this time. Okay. Right. We'll move on now to Joe. Thank you, madam chair commissioners. So on core and PPC are all set for the 15 for the 15th. I did get a request from MGM to, if we could defer theirs to the next commission meeting, they would like their new president to be available for that. And he is not available on the 15th. So I think the next available meeting would be on the 29th. So if, if we could move that one to the 29th, that would be appreciated by MGM. Okay. I'll set commissioners on that. I'm not hearing any objection. Okay. All right. Item number seven. Thanks, Joe. And then we will have, we'll make sure to reserve the executive sessions for your capital expenditures reports. And the, the I love as well in toggle confirm that that's all. Okay. All right. Item number seven. Good morning, Derek. And I'm not sure if John's on, but we're talking procurement. I think John is on, but his computer may have been updating. So we should be ready for the procurement discussion. I don't know if you will want to have that second discussion until after you've gotten an overview of 801 CMR 21 and the process we follow for all types of documents. So I know last time we talked, he said, it may be two sessions. So we can keep them both on. And if we get into the delegated levels, that's great. If the commission needs some time to build the information and then consider delegated levels, we can do it across two meetings. Should we just plan on it? I think that's the cleanest, but I know that sometimes after two by twos, maybe people have a better on, you know, clear understanding of the information and they just want to move forward. But we will do two by twos on the PowerPoint that we're going to present as well as the information. Okay. So, but February 29th, I'll reserve on that time for the threshold issue. Okay. And then maybe what you could have when this will be for the future as we've talked about this in the over the last several years, that your experience with other agencies on that issue. If you gave a couple of concrete examples, that's always helpful there. Okay. Item number eight. This is, I've been working with IEB on this came out of a press from Detective Lieutenant Leo to have executive sessions to just bring us up to date on really screening issues at the casinos that we've addressed in the past. And this would just be an internal meeting with, I think, Mike and at the lead and Caitlin. Is that correct? Kathleen, are you updated on this? I believe that is correct. So it would just not with with the operators at this at this juncture, I think, Mike wants to, to give an update as to how things are going and then see if there are any questions from the commissioners. Yes, I believe that's correct. I'll confirm with him and touch base with him and Caitlin as well. Okay. And then back to you. Derek, I put your number nine ahead of number 10, because I think you made a good point that you'd like to go over that before we talked to about that related. USA. Correct. So, Judy, did you want to. So jump in first, because I see your hand raised. So I didn't know. Go ahead. I can just wrap up at the end of the meeting when we summarize. Thank you though. I'm looking at the notes and not at my screen. My apologies. I missed you. Thanks, Derek. No problem. Yeah, so we should be ready for that. The AGO will be one of them. Discussion topics that we bring up their request for funding through the ISA will also bring up the RSM review will give an update on where sports wagering is with the additional money that was provided to them at the end of the year and how much of that is remaining. And I think there was one more I wanted to touch on. Oh, we'll be working with Todd and the legal team to see how A and K spending on the sports wagering side will do compared to our estimates at the beginning of the year. I think they're well under, but that will be one of the areas that we had brought up at the last quarterly update that we would follow up on. If there's anything else that the commission wants us to take a dive into, we'll do that as well. Okay. And will there be a vote for that at that juncture? I think there will be just because we'll have to increase, please reserve it. I think we'll have to do it just for the RSM item, as well as the AGO item, because those two items combined may be a little bit of money. And if we do not have total savings, and if the sports wagering team is going to use up some of the money on the sports wagering side, the 750,000 that we had set aside. We won't have enough to not increase that budget. In savings. Is there any questions for Derek on all of this? We'll have a two by two on that too, because it seems like there'll be a lot of moving pieces. So you'll be seeing a lot of us before that meeting. Okay. Okay. Anything else for February 15th from the team? Madam chair, if we could, if it's possible for timing. We have a couple of sets of executive session minutes that we'd like to bring forward for approval and review. So we'd have to have an executive session. To review executive session minutes. Correct. And at those executive session minutes that commissioner Maynard was present for. I think these ones are slated to go to commissioner Hill, given the date on them there from early 2023. So, but the good news is, is that they're pretty short. I know that's what you guys have a lot of reading to do with minutes, but I'll be gentle. I promise. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry about that, Judy. Mr. your use of our. Your hand raised hand. Just the, the ISA matter. I remember 10 dirt alluded to it, but I just confirmed that the AG's office is ready to discuss that at that time window that's set out there that still works. I think it's, if it's going on the agenda, it's actually interdepartmental service agreement is the nomenclature there, but that's ready to go. We're planning on having the AG's office set the stage so that all commissioners are aware of what the, you know, attorney general's office is steps it's taking and anticipates taking in connection with the ISA. So, hopefully the February 1st meeting will be helpful. Anything else for February 15. Okay, moving on into February 29. And we've got the MGM spring fields quarterly report. Possible delegation threshold setting discussion with Derek's lead. Anything else that we anticipate for February 29. Okay, let me have a. Let me have a look at the agenda setting in between. So I'm sure things will develop. Our next agenda setting meeting is. February, February 7. Okay. All right, under review. I love my right that we're going to keep it under review. Yes. Okay. Michelle Brian under review. Yep. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Chief Delaney on the HCA compliance. Yeah, that's that's ongoing. Okay. Is it ongoing or just still under review? Yeah, I mean, we're still working on, you know, working with our licensees and reviewing items and so on. What is our outcome that we're looking for here? Commissioner Skinner, what's the plan? You know. I can't remember how I think when this came out of the diversity, honest that we're conducting of the casino licensees. We didn't want to. And there I think it was necessary to review all of our licensees and all the areas that. That we're responsible for overseeing. I guess in terms of their section, section 61 findings. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the whole thing, I mean, essentially, these are all requirements of our licensees to comply with. And we're reviewing the compliance with that. And ultimately what will come out of it is a report that shows, you know, areas where they are in compliance and areas where they may not be in compliance. So you are imagining some report that will actually outline that. Yeah, I mean, I think just to probably a memo to the commission. And then once it goes to the commission and you all have a chance to review that, then we'll decide how we want to proceed with that.  Thank you. Okay. I'll turn back to. I guess it is with more with Andrew than with crystal, if my notes are correct. It's both of ours, but that can be left under review, please. Andrew, I'm sorry, right when you spoke, I got a little. Yeah, that's, that's both of ours kind of what you can, that can be left under review, please. Okay. Thank you so much. Then we have the two screening committees, the executive director. Of course now I'm getting alerts. I think commissioner major, I don't know if we put it on for an update on meeting on the first. I think we'll be ready for an update on the first. Yeah. So for your update on the first, will you be able to give us kind of a timeline. So that we can anticipate. When this gets wrapped up. I think so. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I'll go ahead and say it right now. We're close. Okay. Okay. That would be helpful. And so I'll put that on for February 1st. Okay. And then commissioners. Skinner and commissioner. You actually have something happening today. We do. So for that reason can take this off of. Under review. We held our last meeting this morning to take care of the business of. 80 minutes. So we are. Prepared to hand this over to the full commission at this point. That's excellent. So. Cross it off the list and then we'll have our next meeting at 1130. Okay. Excellent. I'm going to turn to Tom and Dave on the annual report. Yeah. Thanks chair. Actually, I copy of it sitting on my desk right now. We received the. From our vendor the other day. And David and I went through and made some. Comments on it. And I know Dave's going to be working. With the vendor to make those updates. And it should be ready for the commission. By the time of your next public meeting. So it would be self of February 1st. Dave and Tom, would it be fair that. You'd be able to distribute it in advance of February 1st. Or should we say it gets distributed every first for the February 15th? How do you want to proceed on that? I'll hand that over to Dave since he's been more communicative with the vendor. But I think we're in a pretty good place, right? Dave. Yeah. I'm going to be meeting with Jack rabbit tomorrow to go over our final edits. And so. It just depends on those could get turned around. I think it's probably best to err on the side of caution and get. Distribution for the first for the February 15th meeting. But if they're able to turn it around quicker, we could always try to move up that, that calendar. I, it's a, it's a full sum report. It's our annual report. I think it's good to give it the commissioners all the time to look at it and review it. But as I understand it's going to have the photos in it. And the language. So commissioners, you'll have the chance, you know, a couple of weeks to, to review. And that also gives the team a chance to move on to the final edits. I'm just going to say the final edits that Dave met are the ones that Dave and I came up with. And obviously there'll be time for more edits from the team. You know, if need be. Of course. Okay. So distribution February 1st. We'll just note that, you know, whether you distribute it a couple of days before February 1st doesn't matter. Dave, but that will just say that spend distributed. And then on 15th, it will be subject to. Discussion on changes and edits. Yeah, it looks good. So we're, we're excited. We're, we're close. Great. And I have to. We should acknowledge here, even though I'm sure she's listening to our public agenda, setting meeting. But grace was very instrumentative. And I think we're going to have to, you know, We'll have to do some more editing to our public agenda, setting meeting, but grace was very instrumental as you all know. Getting the draft done. Had the pleasure of visiting with her at her home over the weekend. And she is. Just a wonderful mom to this new baby. And she's also looking forward to, to working with all of you. Again. And is very comfortable with her arrangement. And I think it's going to be a great place nicely. Chair. That's a, that's a fine point. Cause I wouldn't be able to say that we are close. If it weren't for grace's work on this. Yeah. Well, and it's a great exercise for both of you. You're getting acquainted with it. And I know crystal was so instrumental in helping on the template. As well as. Past. Lots of past contributors to the process. So. Thanks. Anyway. We'll make sure to. Give grace a hard copy for her. Her souvenirs when she. When she comes back. Okay. That's good news. All right. Okay. Good morning, Dr. Lightbound. How are you, Alex? Good morning. Good. Thank you. Okay. So your item, how will we bear still under review? Yes, please. If you could still keep it under review. Okay. And anything that. Anything that you're. Is it just a matter of timing or. Resources or anything you're just working on it? Cause I know it's not an uncomplicated issue. Yes. Judy's still working on it. She's on if she wants to comment. But she's still working on a few items. So. Okay. I just wanted, I wasn't sure, Judy, if you were involved. So I'm just glad that Alex is getting all of your help. That's great. It rests with me. I'm doing a little bit more research and I've reached out to the social law library on just one component. And then I'll be able to hopefully bring it out and schedule it for a public meeting. I just want to be sure of our recommendations before presenting it publicly. And for those who are not lawyers. The. The big. Library legal library is actually called the social library. Because that's how lawyers do. We. We spend all our time hanging out. The library is a social vehicle. So. Okay. Well, thank you. And then. We've got number 10. Going to cross that off with this crystal. And then. We're back to. Joe. Yeah, let's keep that under review. Just a quick update. MEPA did finish their process and issued their final decision on the project, which I forwarded to all the commissioners last week. And. We are meeting at the end of this week with, with MEPA and mass. And. And A and K is going to sit in as well to talk about the development of our section 61 findings for this project. So we will start kicking off that process. Because once the MEPA process finishes, then we have to do our work with section 61 findings. So. And I am going to reach out again to on court to see if we have an update from them on when they anticipate submitting to actually, you know, make the modifications to their license and so on. Okay. We're lucky Joe that. How familiar you are with all of those processes. It's not lost. Thank you. All right. Item number 13. My. My office. Just presented me with a nice new cup of copies. Yeah. There we go. Thanks. I think this is still under review because I think I just asked to add this. At the last meeting. Yeah. I know that we've got a few regs to look at to. Commissioner O'Brien. And I want to make sure that we don't lose track of these developments. I think I've got a couple of ones that are, you know, that we, we are lucky because we, we can hear from other regulators and. And learn. And in addition to commissioner O'Brien. Promo bonus that we saw developed out of Ohio. And would like to learn from it. Ohio too is looking at. Mandating the multi factorial authentication right now. Ours is discretionary. I think some operators do employ. That's an option. I don't know if any of them mandate it, but I, I'd like to add that to kind of this reg list. Carrie and team. I think we've, we have that in our email boxes too. And Ohio's announcement. And then another one that came up. During our meetings, commissioners, you'll probably remember Bruce is not here today. But I think that's an option. Because commissioners, you'll probably remember Bruce is not here today. But I feel like I'm not misquoting him because I think both he and I were in agreement that. When we, when we, we all struggled on that. Draft King's voiding issue. Remember that, that question, and it was a lot. There's very involved meeting. For some of us, I think our reg. I think I think I publicly said, I'm wonderful. publicly said, I wonder if we should revisit the regulation. I felt maybe that it didn't have as much wiggle room as maybe I felt we needed at the time. I think I'm not gonna assign anybody else the failings, but I did feel like we should maybe re-issue it. And since then, and maybe at the time, Andrew and Crystal, we knew this, New Jersey that we turn to for frequently, and they do require that there's no option to void of mistake. So do you agree that? We knew that at the time. I would like to revisit it because I think Commissioner Maynard flagged this to me in one of the meeting minutes at the time that it was, I made my interpretation of it clear at the time we adopted the reg, which was more in alignment with New Jersey. And so it's probably time for us to go back and revisit to see where we wanna land on that. Right, and I agree with you, Commissioner Bryant. I think New Jersey, it was made clear. I don't think we had necessarily their exact language in front of us. So I think it merits us going back and looking and seeing where we are as a commission on that item. Commissioner Hill, Commissioner Skinner, Commissioner Maynard, do you agree? So those are three rags, again, kind of cheating because we're turning to other regulars, but that's the beauty of having colleagues across the nation who are thinking about these tough issues as well. Okay, so we'll add those two other ones to 13, voiding in. We may learn more about the multi-factual authentication to when we have our meetings that Christos arranged for February 7th. We'll have to be careful what we share publicly if it's given to us in a confidential fashion. All right, then now we're to your quarterly reports, Crystal. All right, I hit mute and my entire computer windows option opened. So I actually think that this one was related to the quarterly financial reports. That had been on our radar for a while and I'm not seeing it here now, but that would still be under review. We are working with the financial investigation team and have received a great list of everything they'd like to have. And now we just have to work on the operators as to what they can and cannot provide. So probably early March. 14, how should I better describe that, Crystal? What you're doing with the planning? Yeah, that's a good question. I think it's regarding the confidentiality component of the quarterly financial reports. There's... Oh, so I'm not sure if you were on last, well, the genocide, but I think Todd and I took that language off. You did, okay. Because we didn't know. I did hear you guys talking about it, but I wasn't sure if it was something that was coming in Todd's administrative update or if this was on hold forever. I know that it's something we've included in the letter and stuff going forward. So then we could just take this off because our quarterly reports will just work with Trudy. We don't really have to have that on hold, but I thought that's what that related to. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, I actually was thinking it was the quarterly reports that you're going to schedule. So... Sure, technically coming. I'll let you and Todd figure out if we need to be more affirmative for agenda setting on your topic, but yeah. I think it would be, it's going to be a bit because there's lots in the works anyway. So we can just take in general that whole topic off. Okay, great. Thank you. Then we have the general population survey. Ms. Mark, on... Sorry, sorry. I'm here. Hi. There you are. Yeah, let's keep that under review and figure out a plan for that. But it's done review. It's more working on it. Nicely done, Mark. Jump right in there. Thank you. Okay, and Dr. Andrews, you'll be all set too. Thank you. And then, Mark, before you leave, we have also the evaluation of game sense. Correct. And, Ani, we have... The game sense evaluation has... Like, it's four evaluations in one and we're... There's certain pieces of it that are done and rolled up are very close to that. So we need to figure out how to break that up or present it as one larger evaluation for the commission that I want to talk with. Ani and Dr. Wall about that. Perfect. But it is on track. We're excited to share that. Okay. Other items for under review. One thing that's going to be on our calendar that you referenced earlier, Todd and Kathleen, is the adjudicatory... Or maybe we didn't reference it today, but the adjudicatory hearing for PPC. Do we have that date now? Not that we always put that on these agenda setting, but I just... That's the beginning of our licensing review. Justin's turning on his... Do we just have it for planning purposes or date? The fifth. We have it on to the fifth currently, Dr. Wall. Okay, thanks. And then just to add under review, I spoke with Todd and we felt that it's just for purchases of important collaborations that we are hoping that DPH will repeat for us a presentation it did for the GPAC on their approach in terms of their work with problem gambling. Be really helpful for all of the commissioners to hear that report. Some may have tuned in for that. I think Commissioner Maynard, if I remember, you were there for that GPAC meeting. But I believe that there's been even further evolution of their department's work. So to the extent that they're able to give us some time, we're hoping that there'll be a presentation. Okay, anything else? All right, commissioners, do you have anything that you wanna add to the agenda? Our team's keeping us plenty busy. Commissioner Bryan, anything? No, the only other thing that should go in, and I think the response we get back, we don't need a reg change for this is the idea of the seal on the legal entities. Could you just say, I missed one more. I had talked about, we had all liked the idea of putting some sort of graphic on. Yes, I'm sorry. And I think the response we get back from legal was that at least one interpretation is they already have language based on the reg. So having it be a seal versus wording, we don't necessarily need a reg change, but if we could have that sort of under review marked up pretty soon, so that we can get confirmation of the reg interpretation and then movement on a design in a process. On a design, I'm sorry. I just couldn't hear the word seal. Yes, it was on my mind. And actually, for purposes of the minutes, I did note I was gonna make a suggestion, commissioner Maynard, that on page two, this would be for you and Ying, to the extent that we could add for number 10, commissioner O'Brien, it says my name, but really this seal, I was looking for confirmation and I was looking at commissioner O'Brien. And so, Ying, if you could just add for number 10, recognition of commissioner O'Brien too. That would be great. It's on for January 4th, the January 4th meeting, page two, number 10. Okay. So thanks, thanks for that reminder, commissioner. But right now we won't have a marked up date, but I think it would be good to get that too, moving along sort of later, because I do think it's really helpful for the betters to have that. And I know Nils is continuing to make sure our website reflects that. And I think Dave also sent something out before playoffs, right, Tom, that reminded the public as to our licensed operators in Massachusetts. Yeah, absolutely. We're always trying to make sure that folks know who is licensed in Massachusetts and we'll continue to update that as that landscape changes. Okay. Excellent. Anything else, commissioners? Okay. We've got a few minutes before the next meeting. I need a motion to adjourn if we're all set. So moved. Second. Thanks. Okay. Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Maynard. Aye. And I vote yes. Five, zero. Thanks, everyone.