I feel like you have a lot of analysis but like you don't really it's not like connected you don't really know what it's like going towards. I would actually just cut this entire section right here. You feel that I should probably address the issue of purpose in my actual thesis statement. When we think about peer review it's useful actually to have a sense of how central it is. There's kind of peer review that happens in the classroom where peer students other people just like you are looking at your work and you're looking at theirs. Now in a professional level that person might be a peer it might be somebody you've never met you might be the preeminent scholar in your field and your peer might be somebody quite junior. Peer itself just that term is very open-ended it's basically anybody else engaged in the same project you're engaged in trying to understand these basic questions of the discipline. There's always a need to have somebody else tell you where you're going off course. Nobody writes alone. Nobody finishes work alone. Peer review is really the feedback mechanism about the quality of our ideas and how well we communicate them and that's really how academic work moves forward. The response to one's work in whatever form it takes is always crucial because you want to simply if people like your work but you also really want to get you know a qualitative understanding of whether or not your work is doing what you intended to do and whether it's satisfying some requirement of your audience. I wasn't taught how to do peer review. It can be a very mysterious process and certainly a scary one which is why we need to talk more about how it's done and what it involves. It's very hard to understand the process until you've done both sides until you've actually done the reviewing and as well as receive the reviewing. I've talked to all of you I think in conference now on this paper so you've gotten my feedback and today's peer review is for you to share feedback with each other. The students in my class working on each other's drafts what they were doing was really helping the writers produce these ideas to their best possible level. I just thought you could probably combine the first two paragraphs. I know you're trying to get at but I feel like you took too much like too long to explain it. If you're a student beginning the process of peer review and you're uncertain about what you might say to somebody I think one thing to remember is that what you're really doing is providing the experience of a reader. If you keep that in mind you can't really go wrong. I really like this. It was personal but it wasn't too personal that it would feel like you were talking about yourself. I tell the students that they get to say I liked it only once per class. They have to understand that there are collaborators here and that you know it's important to notice what's good in the work but you have to be focused and specific. This section here I might edit to be a little less inflammatory. We've all had some experience with peer review that isn't positive whether that's getting reviews on our own work or being put on the spot to say something when we're not quite sure what we think yet.  Those mutual newspapers give the effects of the situation in a way which creates negativity in the reader's mind but at the same time the document itself remains objective. When you're beginning to give peer review what that probably means is you're beginning not only to learn the process of peer review but you're beginning to learn the process of understanding whatever it is that you're reviewing. That's a perfect time to also begin peer review not to wait until you're an expert but to start at that point where everything is new where you're beginning because that's when you have the best questions you have them the most capacity to recognize features and to ask about them really freshly. Do you think that using the term social action to further explain the effect that that has on the audience would be a good inclusion in my essay? Coming into this class I had the notion that if I dedicated more and more time by myself to a certain essay that that was going to perfect it but you know really just one word or one sentence from someone else can open up possibilities for me that I would never have realized no matter how long I spent. Because it's a professional requirement peer review can seem like a mechanical exercise but my experience more and more has been that it's a tremendously creative endeavor and and done well is as important to the intellectual process of the work. It's the one place where the author's work becomes truly collaborative. It's central and it permeates everything we do in academia. It gives me the both those seem to be strong men in some sense right. I just wanted to have a some sense of how you people think about how you respond to that. It helps us get better at all the other acts we perform in academia. It helps us get better at learning the methods at creating ideas. Peer review keeps us on our toes. It complicates and enriches our thinking. And you know it's the best possible thing in the world to have a smart person really looking at your work with that depth and regard such that if you listen to what they say and work with it you you and your work become better. My writing isn't the best and I know that and when people play it out to me it's all the surprising and today they actually showed me how I could actually fix my essay which was quite constructive and hopefully when I go back and look over my essay I'll be able to fix those errors which will otherwise make my essay a lot better.


h I'm not um I'm going to hear from other commissioners but I would be um instinctively I would think our phone number is essential to have on a mobile device if someone's in crisis well and so advertising though this is not the oh it's going to be on it's gone it's on the mobile okay I understand yeah so if it's on advertising so rather than the number would be responsible game but no phone number no or two or both right so that's the question it's like you know I guess I'm imagining if it's if we're doing agency to help in terms of suicide assistance would we want only um information about getting general assistance or how to deal with suicide and not provide a phone number well but those those billboards are entirely devoted to the concept this is a concept that's getting rolled into a different message and so the question is do we want to also roll in adding in some sort of rg percentage in your ads um you know in addition to the phone number say we want x to at least have an rg message as well so on a tv ad the ad would be you know you know say responsibly our rg language no number no that's what I'm saying at all is do you do the phone number are we are going to layer on an rg component as well do we want to set a percentage overall that they shoot for so that it gets in there as well and this could be something I have a problem of taking the number out and including and not including the number that's my issue um it that's all I'm I'm asking yeah so I I mark with mark I think you said you you're worried about whether they could do all of it um you know I do think it merits further conversation with them whether we want to go in the future as this rolls out layer on some sort of mandate or percentage rg guarantee as they go forward um even with the phone number being in there I so this is an issue that came to me yesterday afternoon um an operator reached out and was asking for some direction on this and I of course went to the draft regulation to see if I could get some clarity and it and it wasn't entirely good you know what's clear is that the problem gambling upline is there in terms of the responsible gaming messaging that we would want to see it wasn't entirely clear how to proceed with that so um if it wasn't clear to me I want to I want to make sure that our regulation on this is clear moving forward okay so Sean could link to and phone number for the master's problem gambling help line using language provided by the department of public health and that information I happen I have been sharing that as as I've been asked for it so I do have that right madam chair if I if I might yes thank you there's a couple of there's a couple of things you could do but if it's just a simple I think what you were arriving at would be to actually require both for all advertising is that where that's going because I um if you look down at four it's information regarding the helpline and any other required responsible gambling information um at you so if you just take similar language what I would suggest is and Carrie I don't know if you have the ability just put that back up might be a little easier I don't want to make you type on the spot but it just a little bit easier to to see it um what I might suggest at the end of two would just to say um and uh such other information regarding responsible gaming as required by the commission and then put the sort of mini defined term it's really only used in this section responsible gaming messaging here you know so just as it appears in four in parentheses sorry I meant Carrie after that I would just put the parentheses responsible gaming messaging sorry I was just trying to um make it red so I didn't lose it could you say that one more time so sorry and then at the end of that I apologize for doing this on the fly like this too and then in parentheses responsible gaming messaging as a defined term oh yes thank you and then when you get to four um I would just say information regarding the problem gaming helpline and responsible gaming messaging must meet the following requirements and this is the standards for size appearance etc keeping in mind that if a particular operator then says well this is just not going to fit on this particular ad you do maintain and we're going to be bringing when we bring back the definitions reg for asking to formalize that again a waiver process for anything in internal control so an operator that cannot meet it for whatever reason should be able to ask for that in those cases. Does that work for you Commissioner Bryan? I think that captures it that was the the question that I was struggling with when I when Mark reached out to me right before the meeting was just that is do you add kind of that and language or an or RG message approved by the commission or in their internal controls that was the language that I was thinking about I mean I think that flags the concern yes other um other um thoughts commissioners to audit all right Mark are you all set? Thank you very much I I appreciate getting some clarity on that and I appreciate that the RG messaging is clear thank you excellent good good good okay anything else then on advertising or getting close Carrie can you remind the status of this um yep so you voted on this on Friday but we had held any filing um you know in the event you wanted to talk about it more so if you vote on it again today this is the version that we would file uh what most likely tomorrow um and what it would go into effect um should you vote to file it by emergency it would go into effect tomorrow commissioners are I'll settle that okay right the motion yep I move that the commission approved the amended draft of 205 CMR 256 as discussed and further edited here today and move that staff be authorized to take the steps necessary to file the required documentation with the secretary of the commonwealth by emergency and thereafter to begin the regulation promulgation process I further move staff be authorized to modify chapter or section numbers or titles to file additional regulation sections as reserved or make any other administrative changes necessary to execute the regulation promulgation process second okay any further discussion that it's okay okay Mr. Ryan hi commissioner hill hi commissioner Skinner hi and commissioner Maynard hi and I vote yes thank you all righty Mina we got through that one now we're looking at if we I think we're gonna go to item four six two of our CMR 232 commissioners is that the only one counselor um carers is that the only one just those two that you need to address today I believe the only two that I'm addressing today uh Kate on our carry and were there others you were hoping I would okay excellent thank you okay so we're turning then to which okay um I believe this begins on page 45 of your packet so this is really the first time looking at this um Mina do you want to walk us through it sure um so the the reason this is red line is it's been in in packets before um so but we have not talked about it before so I just saw a walk through the whole thing um 205 CMR 232 it covers the discipline um of uh really the whole gamut of folks involved in sports uh wagering um it is uh we were trying to balance a few different things here the the statute has uh a provision that references a commission's authority to discipline um sports wagering licensees and occupational licensees directly um unlike the the gaming act it does not get into much more detail than that um as with respect to the roles of the bureau or others so uh it gives the commission a bit more of a um uh of a canvas really to figure out the the proper enforcement mechanisms or enforcement process for sports wagering so in in drafting this uh with staff and the IAB and and and input um from the legal team the idea was to try to balance um swift and and and capable enforcement with um when necessary deeper dives into particular particular issues so there's really uh three sections and I noticed that the numbering on the header just got thrown off but I think it's correct everywhere else so we will correct that um the the first section states upfront this is a red line section um to to clarify things because I think we got feedback and it was sort of it wasn't clear that the commission retains the authority it does to um to to lead any enforcement action it retains the authority to assign to the bureau or to any other party um the to direct an investigation of um of a suspected or asserted the distinction obviously is if someone comes in it complains of a violation that's what I mean by asserted there of 23 n with sports wagering act or 205 cmr um and it also provides in that 232.01 that the commission can establish internal policies setting out reporting requirements for for such investigations that was partially something that was suggested after some of our discussions with the IV given the increase in just some number of licensees and and folks that you have as well as the fact that they will not all be physically based um there's just more complexity and and perhaps more need for uh for systematic communication along that line so that's that's why that's there um the second subsection of 232.01 uh refers to the commission's general disciplinary authority um and makes it clear that uh at any point uh the commission may issue a civil administrative penalty um under 23 and 16 or take other enforcement action um so excuse me sorry my watch is trying to find my phone which is not necessary so um and that is um a general statement when we get into the rest of section I think you'll see why we we decided to put this here but the the idea is so that there's no doubt um that when the commission needs to act on its own for instance an acknowledged violation or a violation that might be multiple states um there's already been a finding of liability let's say for a national act just to go back to the advertising where we just did um and there may not need to be further investigation um taken first but there may need to be discipline or a condition um that could be done um more swiftly uh in those cases so any questions on the first section? Michelle's question is on that I'll ask that. All right in that case I'll turn to 232.02 um so 232.02 and 232.03 refer to um when the when the bureau's involved in an investigation what might happen and here we were trying to balance um the need for um uh efficiency with you know opportunities for commission input and involvement as appropriate as needed so 232.02 covers discipline of an operator and only operators in those cases the process we are suggesting here would be that if the commission um or either has directed the bureau to investigate or the bureau has suspected a violation and begins an investigation um that it engages in investigatory process um with with the reporting mentioned above as a as an ancillary feature of that so that the commission can have some idea of when when things are happening etc um it then um if it determines that any of the following violations on pages bottom of page 45 top of page 46 have happened which really run the gamut of any of the rules or regs that you've been involved in but put in a variety of ways or other criminal activity um it can make a written recommendation to the commission regarding the it's it's recommended discipline um the recommendation it should also include as you see on the bottom of page 46 and in section two uh and essentially a narrative description of what's happened a citations to the law or regulations that have been violated or allegedly violated proposed action by the commission um it should describe that the operator has an adjudicatory right excuse me a right to an adjudicatory hearing um that may that if they waive um may cause that discipline to be enforced against them um and the matter of compliance for for operators that discipline would not take effect immediately or would not take effect automatically it would come up to the commission for review uh under subsection three and the commission can adopt the the um discipline it could reject the discipline um and impose its own discipline um um and that's it finds appropriate it could also um do that by it's holding a separate adjudicatory hearing or if there's an appeal of course at that point of the recommended discipline it could hold an adjudicatory hearing and decide that um following following such a adjudicatory hearings there would be further recourse to court but that's the that sort of be the end of the internal process so that would be for operators it would mean that all discipline for operators has to go before you before it comes by law um any questions on that part of the process? Are you comfortable with the process? I think okay I see uh questions. Okay thank you and and so for discipline of others involved in sports wagering um this this is where we again we're trying to balance what may end up being a higher number of potential investigations um in this case the process would start out the same that commissioner of the bureau um the commission would either direct or the bureau might start its own investigation um there there are sort of fewer categories but they're really again cover the violations of of the of a regulatory or statutory requirements the bureau at this point would make the decision itself to discipline instead of a recommendation first of the commission however there's sort of two there's at least two avenues where that process might get interrupted before it's imposed one is of course if the applicant and sorry I should mention this is for everybody else meeting occupational licensees vendors and registrants so there's really the categories here um so in the gaming context um that would sort of be the end of the matter except for appeals to the commission so we kept the appeals to the commission process here as well however we also kept in a process by which when the bureau issues its notice of the discipline that it's going to issue it goes to both the commission and the applicant and the commission could decide at that point during the appeal period to say we'd actually like to review this particular one at the stage of the investigation which won't be clear this is in addition to and not in lieu of the ability to do that from the outset um under section one that I mentioned but this is uh in the event that it that the commission wants to um to take a look at that one as well so we were trying to balance again the what might end up being um lower level offenses where the the uh or the sort of potential for efficiency with the ability for the commission to to put an eye on particular investigations and I that's really that's it for this this portion of the of the rec questions for me any questions any suggested edits a plus yeah I don't have any edits or suggestions I know this went around and around um and I think it it does a good job sort of reiterating what the inherent authority of the commission is to act on things but also realizing in the first instance and in most instances functionally it makes more sense for IEB to be the ones doing it but you know as the chair and I remember sometimes you have circumstances brought to the the attention of the commission that would require maybe the commission acting in the first instance to initiate something so I think this deals with that pretty well I agree with Commissioner Bryan's observation I really want to thank um um you Mina for for um providing that additional um tax that gives the commission really I believe that we probably had it through the statute I think that's what you would argue Mina but it um it it's now it's clearly stated in Reagan it gives us that nimbleness which I think is particularly important this industry versus gaming it's just a faster paced um industry we we learned a lot through our application process that violations and infections may occur rapidly um at the beginning because it's such a technology based industry so I think this gives us the flexibility commission to act if we decide we wish to act but I completely agree with um Commissioner Bryan and with the way it's structured that we're very fortunate to have all the resources that IEB provides and on the expertise it provides but this does allow us to have initial discretion should we decide to exercise it I mean it it it clarifies that discretion Commissioner Skinner, Commissioner Hill, Commissioner Maynard, all set that's 245 we're going to have I think we can have a motion on this yeah um I moved that the commission approved the small business impact statement in the draft of 205 CMR 232 as included in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today and further that staff be authorized to take the steps necessary to file the required documentation with the secretary of the Commonwealth by emergency in thereafter and begin the regulation promulgation process I further move the staff be authorized to modify chapter or section numbers or titles to file additional regulation sections as reserved or to make any other administrative changes that's necessary to execute the regulation promulgation process. Second. Any discussion? Okay, Commissioner Bryan. Hi. Commissioner Hill. Hi. Commissioner Skinner. Hi. Commissioner Maynard. Hi. I go yes 5-0. Thank you. Thank you. All right and we got you out on time. Yeah I was going to say Kale and I have 14 more minutes if there's another reg I'm supposed to take but I think I'm set. We'll think of something. Well I was going to offer that if there is foul play involved in a hot dog eating contest this now allows you to delegate it to Anderson and Krieger for review and we'll happily watch the tape so just let us thank you. I have to say I love a good hot dog. I'm just not sure I love like 30 of them. Okay we've got Paul commoners stepping in. That's great. Now who's taking over? Carrie or Kate? Paul? Okay so we Paul can kick this one off here. The next one is a draft of 205-CMR 229 related to transfers of interest and I will kick it right over to Paul here to walk us through this one. Thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. Well if you could remind us what page you have there. Yes this reg starts on page 29 which is surprisingly appropriate. Section 6H of chapter 23N instructs that the transfer of an operator license or any direct or indirect interest in that license requires commission approval. This regulation sets out the process for that approval. Much of the process set out here is based on the process set out in the 100 series of regs for transfers of interest in gaming licenses. This process is familiar to the IED and our gaming licensees and it has worked well. It balances the commission's need for time to adequately investigate the transferee with the transferee's need for a predictable process and a reasonable timeline to close their transactions permitted. There are some distinctions between this regulation and the Cognate gaming regulations owing to differences in the statute and the context and I'll walk you through those as we go. 220901 provides at bottom that parties intending to consummate a transfer of interest must notify the Bureau of their plans. This gives the Bureau an opportunity to review the transfer to determine whether a new qualifier needs to be designated and what other steps need to be taken. 220901 provides that certain transactions that have an attenuated relationship to the license itself both in terms of ownership and control and in terms of the financial relationship to the license do not require notification to the Bureau and in effect we do not consider these to be the transfer of an operator license or any direct or indirect interest they're in. These two exemptions were developed in conversation with the IED and are consistent with 205CMR21502's list of who needs to be qualified for licensure. If there are no questions on 220901 I'll move on to 2103. Any questions commissioners? 220902 and 03 together set out the process for the approval of transfers. I will try to mostly move through these from top to bottom but I'm going to skip ahead to 220903 after 220902. Under 220901 transfers that do not create new qualifiers may simply be approved by the Commission in a public meeting. The qualifier determination requires an adjudicatory proceeding and we'll get to that in a second where there is no designation of a new qualifier the commission may simply approve that agreement. This differs from the 100 series in that an agreement that does not require the does an agreement that does not result in the designation of a new qualifier for a gaming license does not require commission approval under that statute. Here the statute is slightly broader about the sets of transactions that require commission approval so we have this extra step. 220902 subjects transfers that require new persons be qualified to the process set out in 220903. 220903 has the same structure and design as the transfer of interest regulations in the gaming world. I'm happy to briefly walk you through it if that would be helpful. Well I think on 229.02 pardon me did I drop a two there I meant to say 220902. Yeah 022 no it's 252.502 is that which one is the adjudicatory hearing process so that's a 100 right okay. 2502 is persons required to be qualified. Okay if a person is required to be qualified then the process then the transaction is subject to 220903 which does require an adjudicatory hearing further down but the requirement for an adjudicatory hearing is set out in subsections of 220903. I think that just if we could put as a note council adjustment I think that might be the one that needs updating or am I wrong on adjudicatory hearing at least. That's actually in 116 so that's the different body but yeah we'll take a look at that. Madam Chair we don't adapt the portion of 115 that I know is up for amendment that gives the commission a greater degree of flexibility that whether to direct a suitability determination to a policy. Thank you very much sorry to interrupt. Commissioners would it be helpful for me to briefly review 220903 or may I move on to 220902.04. I think you can go through them the approval that's required. All right so this begins towards the top of page 31 so the purpose of this process is to ensure that a transaction that does not raise red flags can be closed promptly subject to a final determination on suitability that a transaction that does raise red flags can be appropriately managed and that the commission and the parties understand the timeline and the steps in some detail. So 2209031 requires any transfer that will result in the next the designation of a new qualifier to come with a transfer application. In effect these are a scoping survey for the IEV to determine the identity of qualifiers and the materials required to assess the suitability of new qualifiers. It also requires a trust agreement so that if there are red flags with the transaction the commission can order that the assets be placed into trust and managed by somebody who is neither the transfer or nor the transferee who has otherwise been who has been deemed suitable through a separate proceeding. 22032 in effect is the same as 22031 but for transfers of publicly rather than privately held securities. 22033 has the commission meet to conduct a hearing on interim authorization in accordance with the general rules of adjudicatory proceeding in 205CMR101. The commission must render a decision on interim authorization within 120 days or if they're the closing and settlement days further out the commission has additional time. The commission can either grant interim authorization in which case the transfer can be completed and can be completed pending a final determination on suitability in which case the parties need to be equipped to unwind the transaction or the commission can deny interim approval pardon me interim authorization under 22034 in which case the assets shall be in which case either the transaction does not close or or in the case of publicly traded securities the assets are transferred into trust 22035 sets out the suitability standard for and the extent of the investigation for interim authorization it is based on the preliminary suitability standard under 205CMR215 it also instructs the commission to review it also gives the commission the discretion to review questions such as whether the transfer of interest would be injurious to the commonwealth in any way other than the transfer to an unsuitable person or to address any other issues that might arise relating to the transfer is that a statutory standard um this is not a statutory standard in either 23k or 23 and I don't believe this is this is adapted closely from 23 from the CMR 116 standard most familiar to the read process that's standard we use for the read transfer yes exactly these are the same essential regulations of use for that and that's the standard used for that too okay thank you on the middle of page 33 uh 22036 sets out the standard for trust agreements this is consistent with the one with the cognate regulation 116 with I believe one exception which is that 116 has trustees qualified as key gaming employees there is no equivalent to a key gaming employee in the sports wage and regulatory scheme given that the trustee wields a level of control over the over these assets comparable to uh other individuals that we would require to be qualifiers we have the trustee meet um the standards for for qualification uh meet as someone who is derrily suitable uh 215 oh pardon me 229 037 um governs the powers of the trustee 038 uh provides that the trust will remain and the trust will remain in force and the assets should remain in the trust until the commission makes a final decision and 229 039 uh addresses what happens if the commission ultimately determines the negative ultimately issues a negative determination of suitability if there are no questions on 229 or three i'm going to take you back up to page 30 so we're back in 2202 2202 3 uh sets out the standard for the commission to reject a transfer of interests broadly the commission may reject any transfer of interests that it finds uh injurious to the interests of commonwealth of the commonwealth and regulation also makes clear that transactions may be considered injurious to the interests of the commonwealth if the transfer would be found unsuitable or there were the transaction would otherwise create uh statutory or regulatory issues 229 024 uh sets out the the commission it sets out a time period after the issue of issuance of a license in which rights to transfer are more limited this is adapted from the gaming regulations in the gaming context was based on a specific statutory provision uh that limited transfers for five years after licensure um here we thought it made we thought it made sense but it is not derived from a particular statutory provision we would be recommending the commission adapt it uh as part of your right as part of your regulatory uh as part of your implementation of the statute as the regulator uh we obviously shortened the time period from five years because uh the gaming context five years is one-third of the length of a license and the sports wage during context it would be the entire lifespan of a license and this would uh in effect rewrite the entire transfer of interest regulation 229 025 um it finally is meant to ensure the transfers don't result in either an unlawful agglomeration of licenses in one legal entity or the forfeiting of tethered category three licenses it's two two more subsections uh 229 04 picks up at the bottom of page 35 229 04 uh is also based on a regulation from the is also based on a regulation from the gaming context in this case 205 cmr 129 uh the point of this provision is to ensure that if a transfer of interests would result in a change of control of the company uh the new controlling person agrees to step into the shoes of the original licensee uh with respect to obligations to the commonwealth and any obligations to the federal government or any local or any local government under whose jurisdiction they are this is in a separate regulation or this is in a separate section from the transfer of interests from the process for the transfer of interests because it is possible for a regulation to not result in the designation of a new qualifier but to result in a change of control in certain extreme circumstances um subsection three of uh 229 04 also provides that transferees have the same duties of cooperation with the commission with the ieb uh as any licensee of permission finally 229 05 uh responds to a sentence in section 6h of chapter 23 n that provides that the commission may establish regulations permitting it to charge fees for the review of the transfer of interests uh obviously we uh we prepared a regulation allowing the commission to charge fees for the review of transfer of interests this is based on 214 uh which is the application fee regulation and closely tracks the language of that regulation questions questions i'm sure it's probably seems familiar because we've done i think all five of us have done a couple these a couple of weeks together so any questions for all okay oh thank you my promotion madam chair i will do a motion and this is for cmr 229 madam chair i move that the commission approved a small business impact statement in the draft 205 cmr 229 as included in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today i move that staff be authorized to take steps necessary to file the required documentation with the secretary of the commonwealth by emergency and thereafter to begin the regulation promulgation process i further move oh my lord i lost my space i have further move that staff shall be authorized to modify chapter or section numbers of titles to file additional regulation sections as reserved or to make any other administrative changes as necessary to execute the regulation promulgation process second any discussion any questions mr ryan hi mr hill hi mr skinner hi mr maynard hi five sterile with my yes thank you very much pal very helpful okay now we're going to the next drag it's number 213 withdrawal of an application yes good afternoon um 205 cmr 213 is withdrawal of an application that starts on page 40 of your packet give everyone a second to get there and once again we will let attorney commoners take the lead on this thank you pal thank you gatelyn 205 cmr 213 is based on and closely tracks 205 cmr 111 05 which governs the withdrawal of rfa1 gaming applications and the surrender of credentials by gaming licensees the point of this regulation uh as with 111 05 is to ensure that somebody who has reached the point in the licensing process where a proceeding has been scheduled where they are subject to the commission's jurisdiction and where the commission has invested potentially significant time and effort in them remains subject to the commission's law jurisdiction for law enforcement purposes until the commission can ensure that the withdrawal is appropriate and to give the commission the opportunity to impose conditions on withdrawal included such as not reapplying within a certain time to avoid cases where you have individuals where you have persons and companies trying to bounce in and out of licensing processes this year's do you have that in front of you any questions or concerns regarding the withdrawal regulation i just have a note madam chair yeah um hi paul uh licensee and registrant in subsection one doesn't appear to be defined in 202 so i don't know if the plan is to include those definitions or not but just wanted to flag that for you pardon me commissioner skinner that uh almost certainly overzealous capitalization on my part um uh sports wagering registrant is a defined term which means i've gotten into the habit of capitalizing registrant but the adjective sports wagering does not appear in that sentence let alone uh capitalized so i would it's an easy fix i would be happy to lower case both licensee and registrant here and then in subsection two just the typo i think cases in the third line from the top should should be singular in which sort of mine i believe it's pluralized because it refers to three possible conditions which are mutually exclusive the ones right below okay yeah um but i i see where it's grammatically problematic well yeah i it might be fine i've just never seen it captured that way before so i'm deferring to you anything else with respect to withdrawal of an application commissioner skinner an easy an easy uh fix to avoid all to avoid to avoid any possible problem would be to simply say withdrawal requests submitted instead of a withdrawal request for outset yeah okay any additional comments or questions i'll take a motion well done paul thank you well paul maybe no one wants to move on it they just want to sit on it for a second more there we go appreciate it thank you so much i i move that the commission improved the small business impact statement and the draft 205 cm r 213 is included in the commissioner's packet discussed here today i move that the staff be authorized to take the steps necessary to file the required documentation with the secretary of the commonwealth by emergency and thereafter to begin the regulation promulgation process i further move that staff shall be authorized to modify chapter section numbers or titles to file additional regulation sections as reserved or to make any other administrative changes as necessary to execute the regulation promulgation process second thank you commissioner any discussion okay commissioner brian hi commissioner him hi commissioner skinner hi commissioner maynard hi i vote yes five zero well done paul thank you so much to you and your colleagues at ank thank you very much commissioners madam chair great so we are regulations and i'm going to suggest that we may um just want to take a quick break we do have house rules in front of us to go through uh commissioners uh we do not have that on our agenda for tomorrow so i think that we need to um work on these today so um how about it's 313 but just a um you know 10 minute break and back it i just have a quick question madam chair because i know todd had to leave at three o'clock i don't know anyone from legal is covering that for him i know bruce and todd were on the agenda for this but i'm not sure if we needed todd for that do you know that bruce whether you need todd i don't know if todd is needed but i do know that um katelyn and i are not uh familiar with this topic so we wouldn't be able to help out here and i'm going to be honest i i'm not prepared to engage in the discussion around house rules today given that we got the material late in the evening yesterday um but i will participate in as much of the discussion as moves forward today but i'm not i'm not certain i'm ready to to take a formal action on them commissioners so i was um had the same conundrum in terms of the time when we got the materials in times of voting on this today um so i was going to be asking a lot of questions in terms of having people be able to compare and contrast and i had a couple specific questions it was one thing i was hoping to apply to everybody uh that i can certainly talk through today but in terms of a vote i would like to be able to actually read them a little more closely than i was able to last night commissioners would you allow me to have a ten minute break just so i can figure out the process a bit um going forward over the next few days and then we'll come back and if there's a reason to roll this over maybe we can present the questions that we have for the team so that when it comes in front of us we'll be prepared but i just need a chance to to look at um our calendar so thank you so much um we'll return it um three three twenty five thank you okay commissioners thank you thanks for that uh very helpful there's a break um um Deccan's meeting uh virtually they'll do a roll call hello again commissioner bryan hello i am here hello again commissioner hill hello again commissioner skinner i'm here and hello again commissioner maynard i'm still here all right i think commissioner hill i can see that he's here and i'm i'm betting that he can hear us but we'll continue on so um as an update tomorrow we had not posted the um the house rules so tomorrow our agenda um is complete so we will have no meeting tomorrow we have a meeting scheduled Thursday uh we will add the commission um the house rules for Thursday i ask that all the commissioners take the time to review and get your questions answered um from our team members in advance of Thursday so that we can be um particularly efficient um i think director wells will also be a great resource on the house rules as well as director van and um sirl and um councillor grossman so we will plan on that for Thursday um on Friday we will roll it over in the event that we have a need but um i would urge all of us to work toward a goal Thursday okay does that sound alright for scheduling commissioners and i think rest all she'll take care of amending Thursdays that's been posted but the public is quite a way of our intentions here to keep our business going along and Thursday makes great sense for us to turn back to the house i i will resend out the house rules because i noticed the page is or came out of order on your packet for some reason uh thank you i'll have it correct right thank you and you can coordinate that with i would turn on my video but it says you won't let me turn on my video really yeah hope i have that's likely means that an admin turned you off there we go it's probably dave she's seeing it off of me today i guess yeah there you go we see thank you we hear you and we appreciate that if you can resend that that'll be great and and again thank you for being available for any commissioners questions on the house rules and so commissioners um with that you may have any other updates hearing none we'll take a motion to adjourn then commissioners great work today move to adjourn second thank you commissioner hill commissioner brian hi christia hill hi mr skinner hi mr maynard hi i vote yes and to the team excellent work today uh thank you uh a and k for its assistance and to all of you all of the good work have a good night everyone


ism is constitutionalization of environmental issues. People are all staring at each other after the exam. You can answer that. Taj Trapezium case. Okay? Mehta case. Vellore Citizens Forum case. All of you will know this today. Okay? After you've asked the question. If you want to know that, you can only know that. Okay? That is why I am not a very great fan of reading so many books for this examination. But I would like to read something which nobody else reads so that I alone have something that others don't. You know? That is very essential for this exam. Maybe in the days to come, you will slowly realize that. When you want to have a good reading for case laws and all that on different issues, M.P. Jain's constitutional law, but you won't ask any polity faculty. The first response is don't waste your time reading. Okay? It is true. That is why I say you should not read the entire book. But whenever time permits, you do a selective reading of that book. Put Nali case law every topic. Okay? If you would have read that book, you would have got the answer for this gender justice case laws. Okay? The constitutional perspective of gender justice is the help of 11 case laws and constitutional provisions. Okay? As soon as I even saw this question, I got two case laws in my mind. One of the case law is what is called as Pragati Varghese versus Cyril George Varghese. Right? What is that case? That is a case in which the Indian Divorce Act was invalidated by the Supreme Court. Sorry, Bombay High Court I think. Okay? What is the Indian Divorce Act? It deals with marriage and divorce of Christians. We have different laws of marriage and divorce. So for Christians, the law that governs their marriage and divorce is what is called as Indian Divorce Act. What is the actual provision? If a Christian woman wants to get divorced, sorry, I am a Christian man. I want to divorce my wife. The only ground I can divorce her is on grounds of adultery. But if she wants to get divorced from me, she has to prove that not only I was into adultery, but she should prove that I was also involved in bestiality, torture. So Kothik Pona, as per the Indian Divorce Act, she will not be simply given divorce just because I was adulterous, but also because I was inflicting torture on her. Can you understand how discriminatory the provisions are? Correct? And in this Pragati Varghese versus Cyril George Varghese, that section was invalidated by the court. Okay? Don't you think that allows for equality between Christian men and Christians women? So constitutional perspective on gender justice with the case law? Yes. Like that, you get everything from that textbook. Okay? So that should not be read in the first year of your preparation because you don't have the time to do that. But with time, problems clear out of it, it will take a long time. Otherwise, it will be very useful. Okay? So whether you clear problems or not, the next period after your next problems, that is the best possible time you can get for your preparation. Okay? So make use of that time in a very productive manner. So anyway, yeah, I was talking about this defamation case. When it comes to defamation, there are three case laws which are relevant. Okay? One is Subramanian Swami versus Union of India. Second is Khushbo versus Kanyakumal. Okay? And third is Rajagopalan versus state of Tamil Nadu. Okay? First, Subramanian Swami versus Union of India. It was in that case, defamation was challenged as a defamation law for 499 and 500 of IPC were challenged contradictory and ultra-viars of Article 90. But the court had upheld it. I mean, what reasons have upheld it? Find it out. Okay? Khushbo versus Kanyakumal. That is also another significant principle put forward by the Supreme Court, which said that defamation applies not only to an individual but also to a group. But the group should not be an indefinite group. It should be a definite smaller group of individuals. Okay? That is the logic which the Rahul Gandhi's lawyers have argued that Modi, it can be an indefinite group. I did not say Modi of Ananagar. Correct? So, Rahul Gandhi's lawyers are arguing using Khushbo versus Kanyakumal principle that Rahul Gandhi's statements can be directed at an indefinite group of individuals. It is not a small limited group. So, it does not even amount to defamation. Right? That was the principle put forward. Do you know what is the Khushbo versus Kanyakumal case? That was a case where Kanyakumal was a PMK worker, Patali Makhalkachi. Right? So, she went and filed a case. Okay. All right. So, we will have some more sessions in the future. Okay? Current of our sessions. I will meet you in the coming days. So, as of now, we do have a lot of ground to cover. But I would ask you to do your own preparation. Please, just one more minute after that I will let you go. With respect to defamation, sedition, hate speech, have two or three case laws in your hand. And the best websites to have a collection of case laws, I am personally found on this website called wire.com. Okay? Wire. Wire. W-I-R-E.com. Okay? Wire. It is completely targeted by the BJP government because it is very, very anti-government. But it is anti-government with a clear set of logic, clear mention of cases. Okay? It is very critical. But that is how a media organization should be. So, wire.com gives you good perspectives. You can filter out whatever you want to choose out of it. Because most of the news platforms that I find online, except for Hindu, everything is pro-government. There is nothing tangible to have another side of the argument. So, that is why wire will give you good perspectives. You can have a look at them. Okay?  Enforcement direct rate is another topic which you can go through in depth. It is very confusing about the jurisdiction of ED with respect to PMLA and all that. Okay? So, just go through it and we will meet in some other class with new set of topics and we will have some discussions. All right? Okay. Thank you.


question directly about something it kind of widens the parameters of what they can talk about and what allegations they can if he's got an opportunity to it's very and it is an entertaining documentary it's a well done document you'll find the time flies through and it doesn't feel like it's that length whatsoever there's a lot of just really there's a lot of stuff happening all right okay things went a bit crazy down there that's uh quinn's country which is available on the quinn country sorry which is available on the rte player now i'm sure they'll broadcast it and it's also on like sky you can download it all together yeah and it's unusual for sky to take the rt stuff on their actual documentary channel or no it's on you can just because rt is one of their channels it's very unusual for them to actually have the programs that rt make that you can download and watch you can watch it through sky watch it through your player and i'm sure they're going to repeat it because it's really getting a lot of press it's getting a lot of attention so well it's making headlines and you don't often get that okay um michael i'm probably going to watch it yeah i'm going to watch it as well um there's a lot of interest on twitter and it's interesting to see the reactions to it pretty much in line with what fenilla was saying but it does seem to be something people don't think it was going to be the hot hot topic on twitter but it wasn't quite a maybe and obviously it all depends on who you follow and who you're interact with but it didn't have as much traction on that platform that i was expecting it to yeah but as i say i might not be exposed to the people that are talking about it plus twitter is very much an echo chamber it can be a little bit you know yeah when you think about it like the percentage of people a lot of people in this country yeah it's not as and it's mostly professional journalists prepare for the people and then well there's different cohorts of journalists on it because there's journalists like me right then who try and give information to the people but then i am pond food or or fish food for nationalist journalists who just see us me other regional journalists as a source of information right oh yeah yeah yeah so then what you find yourself going is that should i bother tweeting this because really all i'm doing is making other people's lives a bit easier yeah yeah that makes sense that makes sense so if you want something dear traction i suppose it's not a bad national platform all right let's uh we'll be uh seeing what michael's been watching after these that night until noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union seasonal loans now available for christmas apply online or via our app today and get your loan transferred directly to your current account hi dad just popping on to say hi love how did you manage to video call i'm a bit of a computer with these days i can see that and it's not just video calls with high 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fuels pierce road letter kenny 9113895 national fuels bringing you the time at the time is precisely 21 minutes past 11 all right michael leddie's in with us as well as is fenula rabbit and thank you to all of you at listening and watching the program today get involved in the conversation I wait 660 25000 tell us what you're doing for fun how you're entertaining yourself this weather five days at memorial is on apple yes it's on apple and again together with blackbird which is another apple show it's really prestige top tier drama again it's an also true story also based on a book um i'm a book you really don't waste any of those holes do you um i'm going to ignore you so basically uh it's a true story it's uh hurricane katrina and it's yeah it's new orleans and again uh i seem to be drawn to shows like trim a about this era and stuff that happened uh in 2005 when hurricane katrina hit the city and then in the aftermath there was widespread flooding and there was rioting and basically the city was kind of abandoned by the government uh local government and national government a lot of people uh feel very bad about that and have felt very bad about that for decades and there's a lot of investigations this story which is absolutely unbelievable i'm five episodes into the eight episodes a hospital was cut off for five days in the middle of this first five episodes i've seen each one focusing on a different day and then three days three episodes then focus on the aftermath and the investigation this is grueling television it's hard to watch there's not much light here this no there's not much light in this at all none zero zilch vira famiga a lot of people will know from the conjuring movies amongst other things julie and emory who i want to marry when i grow up i adore that woman she's on boss she's on handmade's tail she was on better calls all she just can't do a wrong move and she is superb in this the episode i watched episode five during the week she was incredible she had a she had the pivotal scene at the end of it basically you're watching the same thing over and over again but it gets increasingly distressing to watch uh early on the electricity is cut off the food is destroyed in the basement they get like 15 feet of water they have to move upstairs in the hospital they're completely cut off um it's the the storm was over it became really warm and really humid it's a nightmarish scenario and it is on many levels it's horrific it's horrific to see how quickly everything fell apart in a 21st century hospital that within 24 between 48 72 hours they were literally they had no way to monitor people look after so in right so once the storm was cleared okay i mean this is a hospital within a stage within a a metropolitan huge huge yeah so why was like this why was everything not that scrambled immediately airlift people away to the thousands of other hospitals around the place absolutely agree there these are the questions that people have been asking for years and the investigations for whatever reason the government was slow to respond they didn't take things seriously in New Orleans the corporation that owned the hospital and within that building there was actually two the corporation was kind of sitting back ignoring phone calls and emails we focus on one guy in corporate headquarters i think they're in texas somewhere he was trying to respond but his bosses were saying no leave that the national guard will take care of it so and from the point is made up early on that there's no profit for the corporation in doing anything and sending helicopters in in those first 48 hours that's a money losing proposition and in america in particular whatever about the rest of the world it's all about the bottom line if you're running a hospital it's all about profit profit profit if your hospital is flooded and people need to be getting out you don't pay what might be a shocking attitude in this country it's it's it's accepted as the norm then in the united states what's the the is the demographic of the state a factor in any of this um it yes is the short answer i think it's a complex question but yes uh there is a great feeling that possibly the bush administration didn't respond as quickly as they could have because these were undesirable people they tended to be poorer people they tended to be black communities that were affected and that's predominantly the makeup of the city and that's something that does come up occasionally in this it came up much more in trimmé when i was watching that show the hbo show from years ago but i'll tell you and this is something that struck with me in episode five and it does get surreal and it gets increasingly surreal for days they were stuck for days some helicopters went coast guard ignored them at certain times they were desperately trying to get patients out then there was a switch the police arrived in on the fifth day i had to look this up because i couldn't believe it was true and i ended up getting into a conversation with a guy on twitter who knows the story better than me when the police arrived they began to accuse was still 2000 people in the hospital at that stage because they had taken the people in the community they told people they were trespassing they told people they had to get out of that building by five o'clock that day they gave them four hours to get out they prepared and they were prepared to drag people away a woman dragged away from her dying mother in a hospital bed and that's where things got really ugly because doctors were in a position where they had to discuss euthanasia because they were being forced by the police of new orleans to leave the building by five o'clock that day and if anybody couldn't be moved they were being left to their own devices and 45 people died and that's where the rest of the investigation is going to come and what i found really disturbing and upsetting watching this their night was that these doctors and nurses were quite euphemistic about they weren't using the word euthanasia they were talking about making people comfortable doing what's necessary i'm familiar language oh yeah so the people at the top and i don't think there's any bad people in that hospital from what i can gather but they were making bad decisions but they were sort of leaving it over to their underlings to make the decision nothing was being made perfectly crystal clear so people were walking out of meetings going am i supposed to do what i think i'm supposed to do it's incredible television it's well worth watching i wouldn't say it was easy to watch because you know how true it is but if you want to watch something that's an important story and the performance is again juliana emory i hope she gets every award going in award season same with vira famiga cherry jones cherry jones from i missed that it's normally the kiss of death for an actor if you if you suggest cherry jones who was the president on 24 for one of the later seasons she's the hospital administrator robert pine isn't it anyone who grew up like myself watching chips captain gutrayer whose chris pines father great to see ron the man looks the same as he did as he did on chips back in the 70s he's the elder statesman of the hospital he's got a heart of gold so there's there's moments where they have to push him aside so he doesn't really know what's what's happening it's difficult to watch i don't think i'm gonna watch it from what you've said it's it's hard yeah it's a bit like there was a show with the uh i don't know it was about covid it was uh not the boris johnson one but i think the is it american one no no british i'll remember it in a moment uh but i just i just don't think i'm gonna be i'm watching the two of these back but i'm gonna be enjoying the fact that it's had such an impact on you but i just don't think it's getting nothing but amazing reviews oh yeah people keep telling me oh you need to watch you need to watch it yeah i'm watching it i'm blackbird back to back and i'm one episode left of blackbird blackbird is also hard watching it's so dark so i watched the two of them back to back on a wednesday then i went to the kitchen and sit in silence and try and figure out how i'm gonna get that out of my head further because they're heavy viewing but they're good good viewing is that your type of program for nula would you be i watched try me when it came out and i found it very hard to watch it was i in the sense that it was amazingly done and made and everything yeah but it's very difficult to watch because as as michael said from the try me one i'm assuming it's the same in this you know these people weren't bad people and fairness to them when they were talking about euthanize me it was in some ways the best medical decision given the circumstances that everybody found themselves it's still in it is horrendous to even think to think that would exactly it's just like to actually think that in a modern country in a modern world that that would even be something that would ever have to and it's worth saying i think somebody got arrested for it as well oh i think yeah that's where the show is heading yeah there was court cases and stuff one of the cases i mean i because i had to just google one of the real but when somebody goes in for a relatively simple procedure these are not long-term care patients but somebody goes in procedure katrina happens they can't move for a few days and that person didn't make it into the hospital and that's horrific all right co that is five days at memorial memorial hospital obviously yes and it's available for you on apple which many of you who persist with the iphone might get for free as part of any package someone wants to know the chosen there's only eight episodes on netflix where else are they being aired you've got a wee thing that you can find that out i can find that out just watch and tell me yeah exactly so what we'll do is we'll find that out for you during the break keep your contacts coming in to us good morning to ursula watching this morning as well and good morning kathleen and marie and all of you who've said hello there i didn't get to all of you but thank you so much for watching and your involvement okay in the next 29 minutes one of you who has entered the draw to win a brand new 30 000 euro nissan duke car is that still on show down in the shopping center it is yeah yeah it looks amazing it is on show in the middle of the shopping center so whether you're down there doing your shopping you love it so they're great at that point because they're so shiny the the the tires are still do you know that yeah yeah oh yeah no it does like the lights are just bouncing off it yeah it's it's it looks amazing yeah it looks fantastic all right okay so we're gonna give one of you who entered that a thousand euro the trombola is loaded and ready to go the nine till noon show is 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his band philomena begley brendan and emily shine followed by connor o'Donnell will host an afternoon of dancing from 4 till 7 p.m. this sunday 4th of december in aid of the creasler community support fund all artists are performing for free as all funds raised will go directly to the charity tickets are available online at the abbey hotel reception and also at the door all right lots of excitement coming up for you here on highland ready it's all it is for you really that's why we do it's not for our own entertainment coming up to christmas we've got some exciting things to announce and some great giveaways and of course we're going to be giving away a car and today we're going to be giving away a thousand euro but um before we get back to looking at what we're looking at um as I say we're throwing everything at it it's christmas aren't we it's going to be good fun yeah no well that's the plan anyway so we've alluded things to announce in the coming weeks of different competitions at the moment now the um home for christmas competition is closed and we're just working out uh the winners of that and then we have the um coloring competition which is running we've got uh love it love it love it we'll talk about that before the end i know i've asked santi for new crayons and everything it's very exciting and so we've got that we've got that going on we have the car draw that's happening as well and we have a lot of stuff that we have planned oh monday night sessions i'm gonna feel i promise jimmy and paul that we give it a mention monday night sessions are holding their live christmas show on the 19th of december in blake's bar and it's open to the public recorded live or actually been broadcast live broadcast live yeah broadcast live with live music i think they've got about 10 acts i don't know brilliant yeah awesome acts um so that's happening on the 19th of december so um anybody that wants to come down to that that'll be um open to the public as well 100 yeah i'm hoping to be around exactly there's not many things like that where you get multiple artists and it's live for radio and stuff it'll be good for you go michael 19th yeah i i love the way it go what am i doing it i'm i'm free every day between now and christmas stop attending otherwise i feel like i might be on stage that night yeah actually might i've seen you rehearse i won't be there there's no room for truth on on on the 9 to 11 she'll stop being honest it's our ninth and literally twenty nine twelve um want to say happy birthday to jeffie who's lifting to the show this morning and also to some other comments my sister lived in new orleans and lost her home in hurricane kentrina so it goes to show how yeah you know close this is five days at memorial says to call it it's a slow burner a harrowing story a slow burner is a good way to put a janet's he's harrowing i might i just i just i kind of know in my heart i think you'd enjoy it but i don't know if it's christmas feeling all right i'm too christmasy at the moment i don't know what you mean which is terrible if lindsay lochan was in it well you have watched that film yet have you i'm gonna you said i hear good things about it though three weeks i hear good things about it not from fenula not from fenula from lindsay lochan into freddy prince jr there's another guy that's after doing a christmas movie for netflix and he should have stayed at home right have you seen it i heard it was good you both uh no the theater we went to we had a good time at the oh yeah talk to us about that we did this is all things on stage on tally on big screen we're all over the place this was opera wasn't yes we but actually we went to the theater twice twice we got once together in separately once the first time i forgot to pick him up yes sorry you went to the theater scheduled with him yes went on your own yeah i forgot to pick him up i i did not notice and i i know she didn't i thought he was going to be there i confused the matters by sending a text message which said see you at my house at seven thirty by including seven thirty at my house i immediately caused fenula to think he's meeting me at the theater at eight yeah she was off the trail then completely it's like two minutes stage i'm like we're literally literally two minutes day checks back in my kitchen did you just stay at home in a huff or make your own way pride i took my mug of tea threw it against the kitchen wall must clean that up when i get home anyways so we had yes so we've so we've been to the cinema a lot separately and together but last um saturday night we went to see um an opera my first ever opera i was nervous going in because i really felt oh god this is going to do because i have tried the modern dance and to be honest i people love it but it's not for me but not while watching the opera you didn't um so i know i was nervous to go into the opera uh to see whether or not i would like it and we went to see don cut the scale the scale and uh it was done by the person sorry is this so ignorant no is this an individual performing or is this good no that's a good question no it's a story it's a play it's a play it's a several cast people it's no yeah that's a fair question are they all operas operating or are you singing they are okay and there's no no real speaking in it there's not a lot of speaking in it it's nearly all to even when they're talking they're singing nearly so that's why i was like oh i don't know um i managed le mes but i wasn't sure if i was going to manage this but actually we went it was done by the national opera um theater and they're touring now this is what they're trying to do and i would say it's because in the uk and things like that there's been a massive reduction in the government spend on the likes of opera and things like that and it's all about the fact of whether or not it's actually for the general public and that's where i would have to say that's what the buildup is i actually really enjoyed it it was very light sorry are you classing yourself amongst the general public yes well i would have always i would have i always kind of too busy to even pick up a friend she could have sent one of her people to do it i was at work i left work and went straight to the opera and no it went straight to the other show but this one was we we went to this and um i i have to say this one we saw together yeah i really enjoyed it and i was amazed that i enjoyed it because i have to say i always kind of taught opera was you know it's nearly always in italian it's a little bit too high brown i didn't think you know oh when i sit there through it all and actually was really enjoyable hugely enjoyable yeah it was very kind of light and airy and the story is easy to track and follow even yeah it was and they had ser titles which is the text of the entire story is projected onto screen or shown on two large screens like my worst nightmare and you can read it uh this is my ignorance this is no reflection on the performance but it's definitely work when my old thing about this is this one is over now because they only came down for one show and the reason why we want that i'm brought to to bring it up was because they're coming back again and they're going to be back with 2t con passive on 2t on april me yeah i'm 2t there you go uh it and this is going to be one that people will actually know some of the music from because some of the music from that has actually become kind of popularized see i like pavarotti yeah oh i saw him in concert once i've sat and watched his concerts on you know i do like it and i like other it's just the combination and rea betelie is just absolutely you see weirdly gregg might enjoy you might enjoy it too well you see this is this is a funny one but the days of me rejecting something as if oh i'm never doing that they're over so you know what i mean i would be whilst i'll say it sounds like my worst nightmare you might i i am so open to go yeah and have my views changed yeah i'm kind of at that stage of my life now that's what i kind of wanted to say to people was go and see you know keep an eye out for this they haven't got the exact dates but they're touring may june and letter kenny is on their list of touring because we checked at the theater to see when they come back i definitely think it's something people go and see and see how you think about it and particularly that'll be an easy one because as i said some of the music people will even recognize it and don't sort of say it's not for me because like now i will say one thing michael had read up about it beforehand and he had given me kind of a rough synopsis synopsis of what it was about and that did make it easier then because even though you know because it's very hard to be reading and even the even when they're reading it's not line for line it's more kind of giving you this is what it is and then six lines later it's still the same line up you know what i mean it's like oh the argument began or yeah she was mad you know and and so it's not like word for word that they translate it's just to kind of keep you in the whole feeling of it but the singing was absolutely stunning i cannot mention one of the one of the gentlemen in it is from um northern ireland yeah was amazing he's brilliant and i was like well there you go there's not there's a thing that you don't think when you're he was interviewed in the program as well there was like a five or six page interview with him which was really about how he got into that kind of thing but it's not something that you kind of automatically think of become an opera singer the one of the main characters in it then as well was a a gentleman from i think the congo originally or something like that but he had only just he studied engineering in school and had an interest in singing and suddenly did an opera and you're like he was amazing amazing and so it's just it's really worth going to see and it's on um then uh it's on as i said may june and then the one that we went separately i'll pull your mic down for this one like you know if you aren't needed he will he will he went to see that was uh the the better kenny musical and drama society have calendar girls on at the moment and there's two more nights left tonight and tomorrow and um they did a great job but fabulous yeah not mad about the show but as in the actual show that wasn't written by them if you know what i mean it's not really um i don't know the film you mean the film was also made into a musical okay so what it is is there's a bit of talking and then there's all these songs kind of dropped into it but they're not very like it's a rewriting and the original stage play has been gary barlow did all the songs for this and they've basically taken the same story but kind of it's yeah it's it's i normally love everything that gary barlow does i don't like these ones the women that are in it and the gentlemen that are in it are absolutely they are amazing yeah the talent that's in this part of the world is absolutely fantastic the loads of people were falling about themselves laughing are the crows not particularly in my team but they were the crowd the audience were falling about themselves the women are unbelievably brave and if anybody knows the story of calendar girls they'll realize that it's about these women who decide to do a a tasteful nude calendar in order to raise funds for a cancer society in the uk because one of them has lost their husband to cancer and the women on the stage here in letter kenny are equally as brave we will leave it at that it's well worth going to see you were so great might be old enough to be allowed to see something like this yeah it's it's definitely well now holland you make sure you don't promise it's not to differ no at this point no no no it's okay it's a very it's very tasty you don't have to say it's still i mean these are just regular women like you know fair that's what i mean is in fair place of them they're clearly having a lot they're clearly having a lot of fun up there like they clearly are like it's tonight and tomorrow is it tomorrow night and yeah the last two shows are tonight and tomorrow i would if people are interested but i would nearly be sure they're both sold out at the stage but i let don't take that as red if you really you know but i'm sure the box office cancellation but it has it's like i mean it was the night the night that i eventually did get to see us he said slowly looking across the microphone there was i think i was i was i think i saw like 10 empty seats in front of me like you know i was i was sitting in the back row i didn't have a proper seat with a few things that i've noticed booking i'm not saying it's the case there is that you book a seat right and there's one seat in between in one row and one in another do you know what i mean yeah that happened yeah and there must be a natural amount that they sacrifice because there's very few people are going to go last minute on their own to something i think i'm not saying you know i just noticed that in the forum and and stuff that there are little people book a seat and you can't say squeeze up there so i'd say there's one left somewhere in the middle there's a natural sort of loss i was in the back row watching i just want to remind people the draw is coming up very very shortly we delayed it slightly to make sure everyone uh that wanted to be involved was involved so please bear with us we'll be pulling out a ticket for a thousand euro very very shortly stay right where you are i beg your pardon no i was going to say i was looking i could see a seat like a random seat and i was thinking to myself who's waiting in their kitchen for finula even as i sit here is it possible you say there were 10 at your seats is it possible that 10 friends let down 10 other possible yeah it's possible you're stretching it to call us friends i mean i'm kind of close as you can possibly i've never said we're friends what kind of person and again i say i muddied the water by clearly saying seven thirty at my house you've made that point i mean it's too ambiguous we can cut that clip for you your ringtone listen thanks very much just to let you know by the way that yesterday we launched our 12 days of christmas uh and we are back today just click on the deal of your choice on highlandradio.com you'll see it as soon as you land on the website there all the information you need to have heard of the offer will be there our second uh deal of the 12 is from the silver tassie hotel and spa they're offering an amazing afternoon tea followed by their winter essence spa package for two for 20950 to book simply call the spa and 07491 uh 26251 there's other contact details and uh you can find all of that information out right now on our website highlandradio.com just click the 12 deals of uh christmas all right back with more including 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spells highest temps of eight or nine degrees with light east to south east breezes right okay it is that time now thank you by the way to all of you who entered the mega car draw this is just one part of it today we're giving away 3000 euro today a thousand around about now a thousand on around the northwest with john brezen and also a thousand on jive time with david so all of you who entered up until now uh unless you called in after i said that we were pausing it for today's draw just to make sure everyone knows exactly where we're at these are all in this uh this trombola which is um right there right okay i've by the way i've watched vanilla rotate it are you going to risk a live on air rotation because it is quite heavy to rotate my trombola right go for it i'm obsessed with this trombola okay although the weight of it now is getting a little bit much yep that's because of the quality materials in it i'm sure right okay so uh for those of you watching across our socials youtube highland radio island of course and on our facebook pages and on our website highland radio dot com for those of you are not fenula is about to open the trombola she's going to look away from the hole she's going to place her hand inside and she's reaching and she's arms are just about long enough just about and a number is coming out i'm not a large woman and it's on this camera over here to your left it is five eight nine one five eight nine one just so katie i thought she can see it all right so five eight nine one you have just won one thousand pounds we're retaining the ticket for now just to let we cross-reference it with names and stuff and then it will be going back in the draw drum the trombola and you could then go on to win uh one sorry a 30 000 euro nissan juke car which is available for you to view if you're in letter kenny in the letter kenny shopping center so it's all very exciting so someone's about to be a thousand euro better off yeah and they go back into the draw for the next two draws of the thousand euros on jones and david's and then obviously the big it's shown still obsessed with the possibility that one person is going to win all three thousand euros and i know he is he does he thinks that can happen it was a pains to point and don't forget you i i nearly i nearly sat down and i know but i nearly sat down and did the maths for him to show him how it works but actually i would say what is so amazing about this is like i had a lady on the phone yesterday and she was buying her tickets and for christmas presents and different things like that and lists enough all the people and i was thinking gosh she's great she's buying all these tickets and um she won she was one of the two and a half thousand winners in our last draw that we had and she was talking about how great it was just to be able to sit back and have that nice little the cushion in the bank and she was okay what you could spend on that kind of thing so it's lovely it's great coming up to christmas that we'd have three winners three people that could win a thousand and then be back in again great coming up to this weekend people will be able to do some christmas shopping all right um have either if you've seen or is it across your radar a cocaine bear oh yeah a caller wants to hear your review when it comes out so a caller has literally made a request you have to watch it trailer is amazing the trailer i love elizabeth banks anyway having said that i didn't watch charlie's angels because i just didn't think it would work for me but the trailer for cocaine bear which is based on a true story believe it or believe it not looks amazing and it is really odd as final screen performance um really yeah from and again loving him in black black bird yeah he's really really good in that he's so well cast in that but the short answer is the trailer i watched it a couple of times i thought it was amazing and i can't wait to see it it's up there with um violent night as one of those cookies series or a film pod migran's it's a movie and it's a comedy based on a true story like it's it's it's a heightened reality kind of thing about a bear that gets into a cocaine uh that's the cocaine ship and that's thrown from a plane so the bear is the principal character the bear is the principal character and goes on and go on his trip with a murder we go on his trip with him we go on his his crazy cocaine induced trip which is a murder i actually thought it was a joke yeah the more he explains the more it feels to me like a joke yeah i'm trying to play with it and it's it's uh i'm totally watching it it's carry rossel the lead from felicity and the lead from the americans she's the lead she's the lead yeah i did i genuinely thought it was kind of a you know when they put up those spoof kind of trailers on some people american shows sorry sorry no it's not you it's me i thought it was about five past 11 um unbearable weight of massive talent nicholas cage you've got him down as nick cage so obviously your relationship with him was significantly uh we're best friends we're best friends uh we're about okay well i have to say i watched this movie a little while ago it's been on amazon for uh for a while now in my to watch yeah it's and i was kind of like oh god and you know nicholas cage kind of came up and he came down and then he had a few kind of personal issues that came up and then he started being in i mean literally everything that was ever put on any kind of a film he was in and it and you're kind of like oh god it went through that bruce willis just absolute robert's period being absolutely anything and what is an a-lister though well everybody knows his name and that's the whole thing that's what made him an a-lister i think rather than the shows and he has well he has stellar performances too well but you kind of tend to forget because in the last 10 years he hasn't really done as much as he had done in the you know he's done more b stuff a lot of b stuff that i would consider b stuff but this is i have to say i highly recommend it i really enjoyed it nicholas cage plays nicholas cage he's invited he's he's offered a million dollars to go to a very rich guy's birthday party and while they're then they're uh all these things into one in which they're trying to write uh the guy whose birthday it is wants to write a movie with nicholas cage then there's a whole benefit i want to hear so much but wait a second because i can announce that the winner of one thousand euro is henry mcgloughlin from malin number 581 5891 congratulations henry henry wasn't able to come on with us his phone was ringing out it's probably busy but henry mcgloughlin from malin has won a thousand euro now the lines are open again if you want to be in with a chance to win that car of course but also the thousand euro and john breslin show and david james's show please uh get on those phone lines out get on the website primarily it's a quick and easy process for you highland radio dot com folks i have to say goodbye i kind of feel like i put you off in your prime finula but you understand it wouldn't be the first time of course listen thank you sadly my prime was a while ago what five past eleven ten past eleven you were really flying a little to the quinn review your right quarter past eleven was your prime about when she sent that text to you saying she'd be there at seven o'clock have a lovely weekend everyone stay tuned john breslin's come up around the northwest the nine till noon show is brought to you by letterkenny credit union with monster loans available up to 60 000 euro for all occasions visit letterkenny