The topic is the blogging in a blogging country. So it's very, when we talk about blog and why the blog has a social change impact, we should come back to the arranger of the blog. Why blog can make a very big impact to the social change and democracy? It's just because two reasons. The first, you should have an election because if you have elections, so public opinion does matter. So that's why the blogger can become a, blog can become a mobilization tour for the election. And also for social change party, for example, the NGO part, blog does matter because so you can use it as a lobby, lobby tour. That means you can use the blogger to present the voice of the people and use the voice of the people to lobby the organization, or give the government. But these two very important reasons in China, it does not exist. That we have no election, we have no any lobby cases. So that why blogger, blog matters in China. So they changed China in totally different way. And the way it's not familiar with Western peoples. So when we discuss of that, we should, to, if you look at, we have another media project here to monitor the internet news and internet comment. For example, the Global Voice Online, the Chinese part. And for example, the other, the UCLA is, the China Media Project and the Hong Kong University's project. All the project want to gather the very sharp news from the internet, Chinese internet. But most important thing I want you to pay attention is that in the year of 2004 to 2005, these two years, most of the sharp news from Chinese internet is from bloggers. But after that, most of the news is from chat rooms. That means it's very, you know, because you, the people, you the people in the States, you see the English translation of the blog. You don't know what's the original from. But we can tell the from. I mean, before the year of two, I mean, June the year 2004 to 2005, these two years, golden years, bloggers dominate the news gathering, especially very sharp news, dissenting news. So that's why all the foreign media should cover the bloggers, Chinese bloggers, to get the news. But it's ended. What's the big game?  Mu Zimei is a woman.  In all the bloggers, you know, how many men they have sex with, about 70, seven men. It's the early months of the 2004. But and with the case of my case, my Microsoft blog was shut down by the government. After that, you can see the government can know every detail, how to control the content of the blog. They set up the keyword system. They use the firewall. They use the self censorship. Anyway, they know how to control that. That means after the golden years of 2004 and 2005, the blogger golden years, we come back to the old years of the chatroom years. Chatroom does exist in China. It's about since 1998.  Very long time. We still use chatroom together in very sharp news. That's very important things. When we talk about web 2.0, why this just happened in China? We come back to the past, not go on. Why blogging just the end? But we come back to the chatroom. Chatroom is very web, one point old things, very old things. We never, to see very important role in this in a state. But in China, it's still very important because, and not only the chatroom, but also the email. Email is older, much older things. Was introduced in China since 1996. Yeah, maybe around that years. That means about 12 years life in China. But it's all very important to elate networking. For example, sharing very secret information, very important information about politics, about the religious, about the social, academic. They threw the mailing list. They just go through the mailing list. That means we, China, what we use now to make the social change is using the web 1.0, 1.0 things. For example, the mailing list, for example, the chatroom. We don't use the web 2.0. Why? Because when we talk about web 2.0, we mention this very two important function. First is democracy, nice, sorry, democracy, nice. Democratization. Democratization. Okay, okay. Got me all right. That's an awarding. New world. And the other thing is decentralization. Decentralization is a very important function of the web 2.0. That means because of decentralization, so people can speak a voice. People matters because people can use many, many parts of the people's voice, can organize, become blogs via voice, can become public opinion. But it only happens in the democratic countries because the government, we review the blog very carefully. We found blog, it's not really decentralized things because they need the servers, central servers. Every blog, for example, blogger.com, for example, web, wordpast.com, they have servers. Thousands and millions of users to use one blog BSP, blog survey provider at their base. So it is easy for the government to control and easy to blog to firewall auto censorship. But in the state, we don't control that because it's about freedom of speech. Even the Bush administrator is so conservative but they don't care about, because it's the human right of the American people. They have, the right is born to, it's a born right. But in China, I don't think that, I think the Chinese government does not have no hesitate to control that because it's not so decentralized. But if we look at the email and you look at the chatroom, it's not so centralized like blog. It's very decentralized because of course they can find the chatrooms and block it. But every server can have a chatroom. It's very hard for the government to find any chatroom overseas. It's very hard for them. For email, email use, not use the web function. They use the POP protocol. I think of course it's easy to control but it will become very impact to the common communication between us. For example, everybody use Gmail. Can you block Gmail? No, because even the business guy, even the government guy can use the Gmail too. So it's very hard for, so that's why we still use Gmail, email and the chatroom to express our freedom of speech, something like this. But blogger, no, the happy time is just the end. So how about, I don't want to use some kind of new media theory to describe that because in China it's not new media. Blog is not kind of the new media but it's an all media thing because before the internet, we have no media. We have propaganda. Propaganda means one direction. The party want to speak their voice. You just listen. But when we face the internet, it's a two direction. That means the party, all the media can express their opinions but the people can comment, can feedback that. It's a real beginning of a Chinese media. So all the things now in the following discussion, I use the very old theory of the media. It's not about new media. So about, just about, I mentioned about the information flows. They use, just use the very chat rooms. They use the email to express the news, it's not blogger. And how about today's present situation about bloggers? When we talk about time pick up the you as the time people of the year. But that means you are the media but in China I'm not. It's not you are the media. It's you are the media. The meaning is common bloggers can become, common blogs can become media. But in China it's the opposite way. Media become blogs. That means very important to happen in 2006, I think in 2005. Cina.com. Cina.com is a very mainstream news portal in China. Every newspaper should put the content free to the Cina.com. That means in Chinese the young people don't read newspapers. They read Cina.com because it's easy to read every newspaper, every province newspaper. They don't use, use to subscribe one newspaper because it's more expensive. But look to browse the Cina.com is easy and it's free. But this so mainstream media in 2005 they set up their blog service. After that blog service blog in China just changed from so a mature one to a very professional one. What's the dominant part of the Cina bloggers? They are celebrities. They are professors. They are journalists. That means they are VIPs. We call the Mingren book of VIP bloggers. Blogging in China become very mainstream. That means why are we just like something just a Huffington post, you know Huffington post. It's just to invite the very famous guy to become the writers of the, this kind of blog is not really blog. It's a kind of column. Because in China we have, we lack, we China lacks two things. Very important, very critical to the media society. The first thing is the Hollywood style of the reporting. Because the celebrities want to some kind of public relation, you know, announcement, they need the news. But in China we have no agency or some kind of business to run for that. So when the Cina blog happened, all the celebrities, all the very famous entertainment guys find a way to do some public relationship. That means they use that to do some kind of club announcement. So every paparazzi of the tabloid in China every day update and refresh the Cina.com bloggers. They found that every entertainment news and the celebrity news follow these ways. And China also lack of the syndicate of the column. You know, column is very popular in the US media. So Tom's freedom and, you know, very important. And but China we have no syndicate. That means you can only write for one newspaper. That means one newspaper means one province, you lack of the readership. But this kind of blog, Cina.com blog, can give column very much readership, of course free, but very much readership. Because of the readership, they can, you know, add their cost of the money.  So that's very, very good way. And also the newspaper use the Cina.com blog to find which, who is the new column? It's a way of the recruit the new bloc, the columns. That means when we talk about the blog, so happened in Cina.com, it's not about blogger, the real blogger, real revolution of blogger in China. It's about very old things. Column, Hollywood style, paparazzi. And it's about, talk about celebrities. How about journalists? Journalists is very funny things. You know, in the world, only two countries have very strong, the journalists that dominate, sorry, dominate, sorry, the journalists that dominate the famous bloggers. Only two countries have, this thing happened. First is China, the other is Iran. Iran also have the situation that we, I can, now I cannot imagine a New York time staff writer can become a very famous blogger. No, never happened, because the blogger is just to be against them. It's a kind of, you know, competition.  I'm against you, I oppose you. This is the two sides of the media. But in China, no. Most very important, very famous journalists, the editor, they have bloggers. They are famous bloggers. I mean, they are together. Mainstream medias and liberal blogger, they are together. Why this happened in China? It's because we come back to the story of the 2000 years. You know, I said before that, in the 1980s, we are no media, we are only propaganda machines. But in the 1990s, the media group want to become very, you know, market, we call it marketization. Marketization, market. Sorry, they become a part of the market, okay? So that means that news group, they organized and united, become very, very big news group. For example, the Southern news group, Shanghai news group. And the Beijing news news group, very big ones. It's much bigger than that. Become a new, real news corporations. But the problem happened, it's about the shortage of the label hood. That means we have no workers, staff workers. We have no reporters. We have no enough reporter to feed up all the kind of the expansion of the media. So that's why the reason, since the 2000 years, since the year of 2000, hundreds of the G-School just funded in China. Now, in China, we have about 1,000 G-School in China, so much. But it's very quick, you can trust them.  The media can't trust them, so how can they do? They just turn to the media, to the internet. Because just I said, from the year of 1998, to the chat room, become very famous. So there is a male famous, we call it famous netizen. Famous netizen, that means you are very good at writing the commentary on the internet. I'm myself as an example of their very famous netizens. Before that, I'm only a hotel receptionist. Every day I just, welcome to my hotel. It's just such a thing. But when internet things happened in 1998, I write the commentary on the internet. I was hired by a news media in 2001, become chief correspondent of the media without any experience of just things happened. It's very funny, just like it's a miracle many, many hundreds and thousands of the young people have no background of the political education and the journalism education, social education. My college, my major is computer, without any knowledge about politics and the social and the writing. But I was hired by the media, become very, I get a very high salary, very high salary, from zero to middle class. It's just a very jump, it's a big jump. This big jump just happened in the 2000 and 2003, these three years. Thousands of the very famous netizens become journalists. That means if you look up now the media, newspapers, the TV station, especially, even their central TV station, they're very official. You were found very famous and very important journalists inside them, they are come from internet. So why, so that's the reason why the 2004, the blogger era come, the guys in the media because they have internet heart. Even outside the surface is very conservative and under the propaganda control, the media, old media fashion. But they inside them, they are internet heart. So they welcome the bloggers, blocks and become the dominant power of the bloggers. That's why the reason in China, the bloggers and the journalists, they are together, they are not disappointed, they party like America. So that's the journalist's part.  They write, you write a blog, that means it's your blog. If you write very sensitive, okay, your blog, your shadow blog, easily the shadow blog. So after 2004, 2005, even the journalists themselves, they can't post very sensitive blogs. They just, you know, to turn to the chatroom, very old one, turn to the old years. Okay, so when we talk about that, so you found very important thing in Chinese blog sphere. It's not about new media. It's about recruitment, the humans resource of the old media. That means the internet during the year of 1998 to 2003. It's about four years, five years, the internet changed the inside of the Chinese media. That means it's very funny thing for the state, then the people in the state, you can't understand. The guy censored my blogs. We are friends. We, every week, we just have the chat, we eat. We have, we're close friends. We says, I'm sorry, I should shadow your blog. Of course I understand, no problem. How about we meet together this weekend or kayaking, something like this. So we are very close friends. That means the censor, the guy was censored and the guy censored, we are together. That means we come back to the Chinese philosophy. We are lack of the religion. We are no religion. We didn't trust in God. That means we can live in two phases. One phase is very, very walking phases. That means I'm sorry, it's my job. I know you are right, but it's my job. I should do that, but you can't understand because we can exchange. When you get the job of me, you can do the same thing to me. I can understand too, of course. But inside, they are very liberal, very, very liberal because they live in the era of internet and the market because we know which is the right thing, but it's a different thing. So, and another blog is about a copycat of the American blog is IT gigs. We have IT gigs. Every detail is a copycat of every detail of American web 2.0, web 2.0 applications. For example, you have Twitter, we have Twitter. But to be the true, to tell the true, I don't think Twitter can become very popular in China because it's so centralized, the server. Everything, every service, every application, if you should have some centralized service, you can't go there in China because Chinese can easily control your censorship to you or block you, easy. So, if you talk about the blog sphere, okay, we should give the two version. The first is the American version. The second is the Chinese, but total difference. So, the IT gigs become very copycat of the every steps. They use the new technology, new media theory, but I will mention very important things. If you, there is some citizen journalism in China, there will be IT gigs. I don't think other, for example, the journalists or very common people can become very citizen journalists. Why? Because you need money. You need a job. Only IT gigs can easily find a job.  Citizen journalism means you're not journalist, but you do the journalist work. So, you should need a job first. Only gig can have this spare time and spare money to do that. And also, they know the technology and know how to copy the version of American applications. So, if you want to find the IT, I find the so-called citizen journalists in China, so turn to the gigs. We have a very famous guy. We call him Zola Zhou. Zola Zhou Chu Guang Zola Zhou. He's very famous. He is a real version of the copycat of the American citizen journalism.  They, someone gives the camera. They just take camera to the site to take the every comment to the live webcast of all the situation happened. And the only problem, they get the money from the guy, from the people, this is the problem. Because citizen journalists in America didn't get the money. They don't get the money from the reporting. But this guy, the money from that. So, it's a tiny different. But only IT gigs can have the spare time to do that. Okay, we talk about censorship and inspect. So, as I've mentioned that, all the web 2.0, 2.0 application when you come to China, everything changed. Because all the web, you have the server. Chinese are easy to block your servers. So that's very funny things. Every big web 2.0 things in China, we have a Chinese version of the copycat. For example, you have Google, we have Baidu. You have the YouTube, we don't use YouTube. We use the Baidu 2.0. You have everything, we have everything in Chinese. But we don't use the original one. Why? Because it is easy for Chinese local company to accept every detailed control rule of the censorship. They can accept. Although Microsoft tried very hard to compromise on Yahoo. But they can't do enough for the Chinese government. Only local guys can do enough. For example, Baidu. So that's the reason, that means all the very good, they accepted Gmail, Gmail or not. Because Gmail, we have no copyright of Gmail. Gmail is so good. So I can't imagine something in China can take place of it. So that's very good news for us. We have Gmail, not Google. Because Google, we have Baidu. Google, you can't use your China very freely. Because sometimes if you search some very sensitive pages, it's just a block down. You can't use it within 15 minutes. So how about YouTube? YouTube thinks, for example, video blog. Video blog is very hard. It's not so popular in China. Why? Two reasons. The first reasons, the content was so sensitive. So if you do some social change video blog or join as a video blog, just to censor you. Because it's easy. The second things, you need the camera. It's money. We Chinese are poor. Because even we got richer and richer, but now we're still poor. We can't buy easily about the camera. So video blog and about YouTube. YouTube is very slow in China. Nobody go that. So what's left? If we said everything is controlled, it's censored in China, what's left? What's the hope? I think the hope is social network and organization. What's left? I talk about chatroom. Chatroom's still left because it's hard to censor that. So we can also use the chatroom to leak the news. And all about email, Gmail. Very funny, including us. I have an organization, a think tank like the International Politics Think Tank. It's about the membership of the think tanks around the world because they are students in the foreign universities, they are scholars, they are columnists. We use the Gmail group to organize them. Even they are in different countries, different time zones, but it's okay because Gmail can be easy. And we use the Gmail, emailing group, to every week to deliver their magazines. So it's not only my case, another case. For example, there's a very famous underground church magazine. They very seriously discuss the Christian, Christianity inside China. Very serious commentary and discussion. And about another case is my friend's independent book review, like a New York book review. They just want to follow that. But also use email magazines. That means in China, we just come back 10 years ago. It's not a new era, it's an old era. But still works. I think why they still work? Because it's about networking. People can use Gmail, can use messengers, MSN messengers, can use chatroom, can use g-talk, can use a short message to organize, to find people with very similar to you. That means to share the same interests. Networking, elite networking is very important rule for Chinese social changing. Because you can easily organize, use the internet. For example, I think it's a very famous protest and a demonstration happened on the street in Shaman for two days very peacefully. About 20,000 people go on street against a chemical factory in Shaman. And the government didn't intervene because why cause this demonstration? Just a very famous blogger called Nian Yue. Nian Yue is not a very amateur blogger. It's not about non-mainstream. He is almost one of the most very famous column in China, columnist in China, very famous. So his blog just triggered this protest. Why this protest can go very peacefully? Because the supporter of this blogger, including the chief of the bureau of the public security. Local public security chief readership are readers of the blog. That means even the very chief officers of the local cities are supporters of the bloggers. It's not about internet. It's about elite and elix friends. It's about elite networking. So that's why we happened in China's internet. On the other hand, side very underground is networking of elites, social elites. And the other surface is about chat room of the common people news. For example, some protests. You use the chat room. Because chat room is easy to hide your identification, your identity. Blog is not. So if we come to the conclusion that it's why the internet train China? Train China is not about the blog. It's about recruitment of the old media. It's about changing the inside of the media, inside the institution, even the propaganda machine. The propaganda machine, inside them, they are very liberal. The people are very liberal. They do very conservative work. But inside them, they're very liberal. And the change in China is also about elite networking. I think it's very important in networking, social networking, about the elite people inside China. But the other dark side, that means Chinese government very successfully control the content of the internet and push the internet to the business and entertainment one. That means you can do everything, everything's free, except politics. What is it? It's a bigger Singapore. It's not a America. It's a bigger Singapore. It's not, it's good. It's good and not bad. It's bad? No. For most of the Chinese people, it's not bad. Because you have money. You have entertainment. You are freedom. You have free to go abroad to visit Egypt, to visit Paris. But you have no freedom to do any social movement, any political movement. So that's why the Chinese government won't do. And they succeed. After years of learning the controlled content where, and most important things, they found a very good tool to adjust the public opinion. Before, they don't know the public opinion. Something just happened. For example, 1989, Tiananmen Mass, Tiananmen Movement. They don't know why they happened. For example, Falun Gong suddenly happened. But now the Chinese government know what's the reason for. They know every very early age of any movement. And in the baby era of the movement, they just killed them through the internet. Because internet is very easy to fund the sentiment of the people. So I think the Chinese authorities use this way to make the rule very more tight and more stability and more longer. So I don't see any change in China because of block. I think Chinese government gets many benefits, many advantages from the blogging, from the blogger era. But we do hope social networking and chat-on steer work for the future of China and for democracy. OK, well. So if you have a question, thank you so much. It is very quick. I was wondering, what percent of the Chinese people are involved in social movements or social networking? You go into a long bar of internet cafe in China. You see hundreds of people, but they're all playing video games. What kind of people are involved in reading blogs when they have them, reading chat? So that's the reason I say elite networking. I don't say networking. It's not networking in the states. In the states, it's common people social networking. But China now, only middle class, only the guy who had the idea of social change, they attend this moment of the networking. So I call it elite networking. Not common people. It's true that in internet cafe, most of them, 90% of them just do video games. What about QQ?  Yeah, the networking is about social. It's about personal life and entertainment. QQ is because server is inside China. You record every sensitive thing. Even in the program itself, they have a DLR part. They have a very funny thing. They have a long list of the sensitive words. You will find the QQ program. It's easy to control. Can't, I'm sorry. Would it be possible for them to block Gmail and- What block Gmail? What do you mean, block Gmail? Well, you said that they block all these different things. Block. Why not block? Because about business. It's too important to businesses. It's too important to people in the government. Is that- No, no. I think, yeah. Because we have not a foreign countries have their employers, employees in China. Many, many others. They only use Gmail because Gmail is so good. So if they block Gmail, that means business loss. They don't.  It's a typical capitalism party. The company, big company is the God. We think the company is very important. So we can't just block Gmail. Gmail is, I can't imagine some days- So Gmail is part of infrastructure, as it turns out. But they can control too. Because we can use Gmail to do some networking. Very freely, because they can't- So it's a safe area. It's safe. It's very safe now. It's interesting. Yeah. I would think if Google knows that, they're gonna do as much as they can not to change Gmail. Because they can't. Because the government can't. Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting. This guy was first. Oh, yeah, great, thank you. First of all, is the divide between urban and rural? Blogging, I'm guessing it's mostly urban and less rural. Is that actually the case? Is the divide between urban, so, bloggers and cities? Urban and rural. Oh, yeah, yeah. And the countryside is much more- I think the blogging is only happening in the city. I don't think- I can't imagine some rural area can do some blogging thing, but they just go to Internet Cafe to browse the news or do some video game. Yeah. And then I guess I was wondering, also, Shifu said, if that's a national level thing, then maybe local movements will have a better chance of taking root in the box here, because the national government, like, you aware of this going on in the local state. I think- Yes, I think it's on another side of the Internet. Internet have no relation- I have no difference between the central and the local. Because they are- They're together. We- Media, we have local media with central media, national media, but Internet, they are all national, national. It's easy to national. You talked earlier about there was a trend towards using chat rooms again as a way of spreading information. Yeah. Could you tell us a little bit how- what kind of ideas might spread through the chat rooms and how that might work, and also what kind of surveillance or countervailing efforts the government might be taking against seditious ideas or bad ideas spreading through chat rooms. I think a chat room is a kind of two- age sword. That means in the era of the anti-Japanese movement in 2005. Have you remembered that? All the anti-Japanese movement, the sentiment just spread from the chat room. Chat room is not only liberal guys like, conservative guys also like, because you can hide your identity. It's easy to hide your identity. You just use a proxy. It's easy to hide that. So I think chat room is the only way we can say freedom speech. I can use chat room very freely. I can criticize the government, criticize- to leak any news I know. And if I knew some technology to protect myself, it is okay. It's not blah. Blah can't do that, but chat room can do. So that's why now the media-modeling project in the States, what they do, they just monitor every chat room. It's not bloggers, in fact, it's chat room. Because can you imagine very sensitive news from a blogger without doing some very dangerous to the blogger himself? No, I can't imagine. So very sensitive news now, it just now leaked from the chat rooms. A quick one. Is Red Flag a knockoff of Red Hat? What? So Red Flag is the Chinese version of Linux. It's the Chinese national distribution of Linux. I'm wondering if it's a knockoff of Red Hat. You're saying that there's these copies of other familiar programs. Yeah, I think Red Flag, the government just use the Red Flag. They don't use the original market one. They use the Red Flag as the official government. They don't use the application there. Yeah, they use the copyright. But they don't trust the American version. They think they have some backdoor of that. They use it. Oh really? Of course. For example, why now Microsoft, we can't accept Microsoft as the government to use the software just because of that. They give, we code. Oh, okay. That Microsoft give code to the Chinese government. Make sure that all the parts of that, we have no backdoor of that. Of course, we have the government of that. So we can't use that. So they have the source code. They have the source code to Windows, is that it? What I mean? Yes. Is it the source code to Windows? So the Chinese government has the source code to Windows. What's the source code? Some part, very important part of the code to the government, they make sure that there is no backdoor of the software. Oh, that's interesting. Michael, you said something very, very interesting at the end of the talk. You said a lot of interesting things at the top. But one thing that really struck me was this statement that China is not America, not becoming America, becoming a very big Singapore. And one of the things that a lot of us who work in IT for development have seen is that actually, Singapore is a model that a lot of countries are following. You have modernization, but you have control. Rebecca McKinnon, who used to be a fellow here, a friend of yours, a friend of mine, speculates that the Chinese internet that we see today is so much freer than many Chinese people were 10 years ago that the vast majority are pretty satisfied with the new opportunities and the new tools they have. So what I want from you is a number. What percent of Chinese people do you think are sort of aware of the levels of restriction, the levels of censorship, and are inclined to find a way around the censorship, to find a proxy, to use a tool to get around it? Is it less than 1%? Is it 10%? What percent of people actually care about this and are willing to look for a way around the Great Firewall? I think before I answer that question, I want to tell you a funny thing. So we will talk about China. But the Chinese now, the personal life is so free. When I first came to America and Europe, I find it so conservative, because we are so conservative. It's easier in China that we have the sex before the marriage.  And it's easier. The Muslim may have 70 men to have sex with, and she gets very famous. But we have no conservative party. We have no guard. We have no guard. The problem is why Chinese government allow we Chinese people have so much freedom about sex, about business. You know business, we are very freedom. We have no, just like capitalism is not like socialism, because we have no welfare. And it is easy. It's just like a very cruel capitalism and very easy for Chinese young people now to find a new company. It's easy. It's easy. That means if you got money, want to earn the money, just earn the money. It's easy for you. But why Chinese government allow people to have so much freedom, much more freedom than American, about personal life and a common life? Just because they want them to accept exchange of the political part of their freedom. That means I give you freedom that's much, much better than your parents. But you hang out your freedom of speech. And even you hang out your idea that your parents once have, because of our parents or me, I was born in 1975. But we now talk about the generation, the 1980s. We have some generation gap that I have the idea of a social change. I want to change China to democracy, but they are not. Because I experienced the Tiananmen mask, but they are not. So the new generation just accept exchange that we China arise. We China are rich. We have much more freedom about personal life than America. But as an exchange, you should hang out your political freedom. It's not big deal. Political is only very weird people care. It's not about you care. So I think that's the reason. So if you say the percentage, I think at least 95% of people don't care politics, don't care about the sensitive. Because it's easy for them to use QQ, use the Sena.com to find all the celebrity news and find the very paparazzi from the every good news from the internet or another on anti-Japan news. It's easy for them. But if you want to find very hard politics, it's very hard. It's a big exchange. I think in this case, China, Chinese government, succeed. They succeed very much. I can't see any hope that you can change the situation. When I talk about networking, I only talk about elite networking. But networking, there is a big gap between networking and action. Action is also very real in China. But action speaks loud. So my words, I add my words that we call it. Internet in the States is about Chigawara. But in China, it's a very harmonic ship. They can use it very beautifully, but it's good. But this is not Chigawara. To maybe reframe it, is it more that the vast majority, like you said, 95% of Chinese people are satisfied with the internet or they may be annoyed or there may be problems with getting certain information, but there's just nothing to be done about it. It's just part of the system that they live with. I think that's kind of a distinction. And also, I'm wondering in terms of issues that are not just strictly political in terms of the party or whatever that are very peripheral but still related, so financial information, all those kinds of issues that include an element of transparency, like environmental protection. You have land rights. I mean, a lot of city management, things like that, that aren't necessarily political, but do have to become political because. Yeah, I think it's just that they have some kind of line from the black to white. The white is very clean, non-politics, but black is politics. They just value the case. The case in the line is very clear. We're very close to the political one. They're just a band. So maybe we have some space in the gray one. Maybe we just live in the gray one. For example, environment. You can tell environment is social or is politics. I don't know. Some cases are social. Some cases are political. They just depend on the situation, depend on the feeling of the officials. I don't know. But some cases is a band. Some cases don't band. But this thing only happened in a gray part. That means they have no very clearly value of the non-politics or politics. But they value the internet censorship just like this way.  That means they want to build up a new Singapore, a big Singapore. But of course, we have much freedom than Singapore. Of course. Can you unpack Singapore a little bit more, for us to say a big Singapore in a two or three sentences? What do you mean by that? That means you are a happy citizen without any political idea. Very happy. A city for its own sake. What's a city? A city for its own sake. I mean, it's just sittiness or what's a happy city? Happy citizen. I mean, happy citizen. Happy people. Oh, happy citizen. OK. You are happy sitting without any political ideas. The rise of Britney Spears, doc. No. I don't know. But it's just the case. That means that when we Chinese authority think, what is the real citizenship? The citizenship is you are very elite. You can earn money. You have very good position and middle class.  That means you are a good citizen without any political dissenting. Very convincingly about the kind of change and from propaganda to media and the change of different kinds of technology uses for political or social discourse, what do you see as the next iteration? Where's it going to go next? What's going to happen with the 500,000 chat rooms or whatever there are in the however many blogs are claimed, 40 million or some incredible number of blogs? What's going to happen next? And where's it going to move? What's going to happen with mobile? I also want to talk about that. The first prediction is not very personal. It's not who knows the future. But the first thing is forget everything centralized. For example, Twitter. Forget it. I can't imagine Twitter can become very popular in China because the short message are more convenience and Twitter needs the server. And so forget every centralized thing. The second thing is networking of the elite become more and more popular. That means in Beijing, just like I don't know America, but in Beijing we call trends circle. Every elite have a group. If you want to enter the group, you need some permission, like a club. It's just a situation in Beijing. But the internet, the networking just to build up the virtual and the internet version of the group of the trends. That means it's very happy things. All the elite can easily organize through the internet but secretly. This is a very good situation for the changing of China because some days if the political situation changed, the next day all the media will become liberal. All the guy will face, will embrace the democracy. No any conservative left. Because everyone can say, no, it's only my job. Because inside them is very liberal. So I think with the networking, social elite networking build up, it is very good for Chinese to avoid some kind of chaos. Because if something happened, for example, the central government just collapsed because of banking system, what happened? You should need some organization. But the organization, on the ground, you can't exist because party don't allow you to do that. But internet, we still have some kind of organization, virtual one, secretly, but very effective. So it is a good side in the future of five years. We will see the trend that elite networking become stronger and stronger. That means very important because they can change the inside of China. But so the third one is, who can change China? Only party themselves can change China. Party members can change China. Because even the party members who control the internet, they are liberal too. They only live in the different life. But inside them, they are liberal. They are internet guy. So I'm very confident about the future of China just because we are born in the internet. Because the old guy will die. The new generation of the internet will dominate all the society. This is the future of China. Michael, are those people getting involved with the party? Are they getting involved with politics? Some of them. I know that, for instance, it's become very popular to pass around the sort of essays that you have to use to gain party membership or gain party promotion, that you can go onto the internet and you can download an essay that's very likely to get you passed by the local party committee. Like the US Army? Is that a sign that the people who, as you say, have internet in their hearts are becoming influential within the party? I think it's a good example, but not a very good example. Because this thing happened more typical in Iran. In Iran, even the president himself is a very famous blogger. But we officials in China seldom do blogging. I don't know, because we don't need election. So we don't need blogging. Blogging is a show. It's not an easy thing. But inside them is the internet. Because from now on, all the news, even including the party members, they're getting the news from the internet. For example, the president himself, they have an office. Every day gathering the internet news from the chat rooms. Because before we used the Xinhua news agency from the local places, we were all correspondent to get the news to the central government to very secretly, very report every detail about the officials. But now they use the internet to gather in the very intelligent, very secret news of the local movement of the case.  They know blog is good. OK, what's the definition of blog? Who cares? But blog is good. It's the direction. Yeah, it means, of course, we are not good. But we are not so bad. We still know internet and blog is good. Of course, we change the name. For example, with Chinese, all know democracy is good. But we don't use the Westernized democracy. We use the Chinese democracy as a party control democracy. But at least we think democracy is good. They just have an internet. Internet is good, but American internet is not good. Chinese internet is good. We should borrow it. What if anything is left with the old Mao era communist ideology besides the name and the color of the flag? I don't know. But in China, name is very important. Confucius means the communist party name. The name is very important. We call it in Chinese philosophy, name is everything. If you get a name, you get everything. Who cares inside? The name is very important. The party will never change the name. Because since they change the name, everything will be changed. Because now, they only left the name, left the propaganda system, left the control to the media and control to the military. But about ideology, they just lost. They are totally embraced capitalism. It's much more capital than France. France is so social. I will tell the truth. This time I traveled in Paris. They strikes. So I can only stay in the hotel. Chinese cannot imagine what is strike, because we are so capitalism. Well, but Doc, you've got the same thing in this country. Is it the same Republican Party under Lincoln as it is under Bush? No, it's not. But I was just wondering what it was. It's just interesting to me that that had been around for as long as it was. What might remain of it? And you just answered it. It's the control of the military, the propaganda machine. The rest of it. And the thing you said about name is really interesting and important, I think. Not something we perceive here, because there's nothing analogous to it. Yeah, because I think the party. It's just branding. Retreat. We don't understand it. Retreat from the main part of the life of the person, the people's life. Because before, in the country revolutionary, the party control everything, just like Iran, just like Vietnam. But now, after the fear of the country revolutionary, the Deng Xiaoping realized that we can only kept the name, kept the military, propaganda, and the personnel control. Everything that I just hand out to the market, to the people. I don't care. Because those things are very important, very critical to power. Power is most important. Who will care about the inside? I don't know. So maybe in the future, the party just chain, chain, chain, chain to a party was very similar to the European party. We can't directly tell the difference between them and this. Maybe this, we are beginning of the Chinese democracy. It just happened not one day. It happened about 10 years, very gradually. I don't know. So if somehow, magically, truly trustworthy, anonymous logging were able to get the infrastructure there and people felt that they could blog safely without fear of reprisal, would it only be the elite that would do it? Do you think there would be any movement, any enlarging of the? It will be the problem. We want to talk about politics. Politics with power in the politics is with the name. That means if you want to devote yourself to the politics, it's all about name. Only name can change the political situation. If you have no name in the internet, who cares about you? This is a problem. If you want to have a name, you will be faced a danger of the censorship, of the control. So of course, it is a very idea of things. It will be very safe for me without my name I block. I never write any articles without my name anti. Because I think name is my power. Without my name, I just lost all my power. If I write an article, for example, if Tom Fridman writes an article without his name, who cares? Who cares? It's all very tiny, little articles. Only that, only names matters. If George Bush speaks without the name of George Bush, who cares? It's just a kindergarten. I say, speak of that. So how do you establish a name? Yeah, so there's a possibility in the West of creating a pseudonym. And links go in, and you get known for your pseudonym, and nobody, people may not know who you actually are, but they recognize that this is a voice that they've written before, and the name takes on some power, although no connection to the actual person. That happened there. I know. That's not a possibility, is not how it works. It only happens about the news breaking up. If you want to break up a news, you can use it this way, because a clue is very important for the following news. But the most important is not the beginning. It's the after-word. I mean, after-word, the coverage of the media. Without the coverage of the media, if only one blog, no name blog to speak out to the CBS guy, have a lie, so who cares? But now, just the other media, covered, it becomes, it matters. But Chinese things have happened. Media doesn't cover in many cases, because this thing is very sensitive. But the case you mentioned just happened in China. Some news is just because a very no-name clue from the internet. Nobody knows who spread out. But after that, the news outlets just cover that, become very important. But most important is the media. It's not the beginning, I think. But now, media is totally controlled by the party. So I can't say. I can't tell what, yeah. But I have to ask one somewhat self-serving question. So when your blog was pulled by Microsoft, this, of course, made international news. And it also, interestingly, provoked a reaction in Microsoft in their policies. So it got them to change a process by which they were pulling blogs like yours. And the letter that Stephanie referred to, your kind of reaction to the Global Online Freedom Act, basically says, great if you Americans want to do this, but this is really our problem. We need the People's Republic of China. We need our government to protect our rights to free expression. So one of the things that we're working on here is a discussion with these international internet companies, human rights groups, socially responsible investors, and others on a code of conduct on some sort of a mechanism for these companies to behave better or more responsibly in environments like China, not only China, but certainly including it. And as you noted, it's challenging. You said, I think, Microsoft and Yahoo have gotten better, but still, I think there's a long way to go. Do you have advice, recommendations, or things that you would like to see international information and communication technology companies do either in China or in any kind of regime anywhere in the world, including the US, behaviors that you would expect of them? The reason why I wrote to the Congress is that the ban to the American company who compromised to the Chinese government is not necessary and not good. It's because I give you example, Google. Google have some kind of compromise about the Chinese version of the, if the Congress said, Google, you have compromised, so just quit. Oh my god, how about Gmail? Gmail is our everything, and Microsoft.  So the Congress said, OK, you are very bad, so you should quit from the Chinese market. You cannot deal with the evil. OK, so how about messenger, MSMessengers? We just use that to chat with my close friend about the liberal information. So you can do that. Of course, for Congress, it's very black and white. Very moral, clean things to just quit from the evil. But it will have a very big impact to the Chinese thing. Because Chinese people, we depend on this tour to express, to communicate our information about freedom, about rights. If you just, like regarded as a package, to go out, go out together, the real cause is the Chinese freedom. It's the freedom of the Chinese people. So that's why I wrote the letter to the Congress that I think is not necessary and not good. But except Yahoo, Yahoo is a real bad thing every time you say Yahoo. Yahoo didn't do any good to China. But about that, what's my advice? My advice is give more and more positive information to the Chinese society that internet is the trend. Internet is the good. It's the good thing. That means Chinese authorities, they know. They like the trend. They like to become very mainstream. They don't want to become very, you know, like at North Korea, don't know the mainstream. They want to become a membership of the international community, become big five to communicate with, you know, the other USA, America, Russia. They become others regard themselves as a responsibility. So that's, we encourage them to do more things about the internet. And to continue to say internet is good and introduce more and more tools to Chinese people and sponsor more and more, you know, very liberal part application inside China. That's the things the outside world to do. Encourage, not only blame. Blaming, blaming game is good, it's necessary. It's very, it's necessary because we need them to blame that. But sometimes doesn't work because Chinese government, Chinese people don't like blame. It's not like American, American people like some kind of criticism is making the balance of that. We just like good words. So give them good words to tell, to say the internet is good. We give you good things. For example, we'll give you Facebook, if we go Gmail, it's good, just take it. But now say you should do that, you should not do that, they will not allow. Because they are full of nationalism and think the Chinese is very good racing in the world. Including me, I thought too. But my idea is different with the authority. I think democracy should be a value of Chinese. They don't think, agree with me. But the common ideas with me is the Chinese is very proud of them nationality. It's the case, you cannot directly blame. You should encourage, it's the direction. For example, blog, blog become very popular in China. It's just because we say blog is good. If we say blog is revolutionary to the social change, oh my god, who will have a blog in China? With that, we have to thank our guest. Thank you so much, Michael, for this great lunch.


Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay. I've got 32 Bolo's coming your way items that these sellers bought low and sold for a profit. A lot of these are big money Bolo, so stay tuned I've got 16 featured members, so I'm gonna go over their channel or eBay store with you I'm gonna tell you their big money Bolo and then at the end we're gonna have a speed round So stay tuned for that. I'm gonna tell you where they got it what they paid for it and what it sold for These are Bolo buddies members Which means they have signed up for memberships to get perks to be in the video at level 2 So we are gonna get started here if you're interested in joining memberships for perks There is a link down below my channel is completely free, but if you want the perks you have to join All right, let's get started here Let's get started. All right the first item Comes from auctions for you and if you guys are looking for reseller Inventory, this is where you need to go if you watch my channel you guys see me do unboxings from tea And Donna telebot Alina they go back and forth on each other's channels. They are both linked down below But I've got some amazing items. I'm always happy with my stuff So be sure to check them out, but auctions for you has been buying up a bunch of toy stores And she just bought another one. So stay tuned for more toys at her auctions This item I believe came from a buyout and this is a department 56 And I know she has sold tons of these at her Selling events on her channel, but this one she sold on eBay. It is a snow village Uptown Motors Ford set of three retired. So let me show you the pictures here Super super cute. If you don't know some department 56 items can be big money A lot of them can also be bread and butter. So definitely do your research, but this is what it looks like here in the box This one again sold for 165 99 plus shipping The next item comes from 1987 Ventures Tracy also has a reseller channel. So definitely go check her out Her channel is new, but she has been reselling a long time and has a ton of knowledge. So go and sub her up This item is super super cool. It is a Memphis era Bruce McDonald Modernist t-ship teapot never seen anything like it. It's really really quite Interesting it kind of reminds me of like a spaceship or something Would you have picked up this item or would you have locked right past it? She ended up taking a best offer of two hundred on this. She got it in an auction house She only paid two dollars for it now it was a little long tail It did take her a year to sell, but if you ask me that was worth the wait two dollars into two hundred I love those margins the next one comes from Choosing Good's reseller and She recently had a She fell and got hurt so she's taking a little break from YouTube But you guys please go show her some love so that when she comes back you guys are subscribed and ready to see her next live show She interviews resellers and she does listing lives and she also has reseller content And she is just one of the sweetest people I've ever met. So go sub her up She sold this little kiddles these two dolls if you guys don't know about little kiddles They can be big money or they can be bread and butter But definitely pick them up if you can get them cheap because they do have they do so well But look at their little faces. They're just teeny tiny you guys teeny tiny and these look really good you know most of the paint still on their face and They look pretty good, but she ended up selling this for thirty five dollars and forty six cents best offer plus shipping and her dad Brought her over like a bag of vintage stuff and it was on her last live listing. I believe that She listed a bunch of this stuff. So if you want to learn about some vintage dolls, definitely go check that out The next item comes from a friendly flea and she does not have a YouTube channel, but she has an awesome eBay store I'm gonna show you a little bit of her eBay store right here lots of variety and again All of the links to the eBay stores are down below So if you want to check out what they're selling maybe make a purchase or Check out their solds. It's a great way to learn and you might see something you want So those are linked down below now. She said that this was definitely a nice surprise. She had no idea This was a bolo. She picked it up at a thrift store for one dollar and it sold for a hundred and seventy four dollars you guys NCAA football Xbox 360 Walmart variant Wow hundred and seventy four bucks for that super cool find The next item comes from be carried away and be carried away has an amazing YouTube channel You guys she is getting super close to 1,000 subscribers. So please go show her some love with a sub She also is a moderator in my Bolo buddies Facebook group, which is I think at 52,000 Members so if you guys want to check out my Bolo buddies Facebook group come on over I think we're up to about six moderators right now. So it's growing a lot that channel or that group This is her Bolo. It is a it says 850 vintage Barbie Burnett number six ponytail doll red swimsuit 1962 Japan She got this for a buck. So she was at a thrift store and she bought a Barbie case full of stuff for ten dollars So the breakdown was about a dollar for the item this sold for a hundred and twenty five dollars plus shipping And there she is so her paint looks pretty good on her face And I'm just gonna show you some of the pictures now on the bottom There's usually a patent date So you have to be really careful and make sure that it's the pat because it varies So it can be confusing because some of the newer dolls will have an older patent date on it She did a good job of taking a lot of photos one thing that you want to mention when you're listing These Barbie dolls And the only reason I know this is because I've sold them and I get the question a lot You want to tell if their legs snap in all three positions and hold so definitely keep that in mind Alright, so flipping palettes. So this is pretty crazy I'll just leave it here. I know that this video is up to 14,000 views. So she messaged me on Facebook and she's like hey my account got restricted and I'm like really and She didn't she'd never done a video where she was in front of the camera and I'm like you should definitely do a video She's like, I don't know and I'm like just do it. You can do it You know, and I just kind of cheered her on and you guys she did it and she did amazing and the video has 14,000 views which is Fantastic, so if you want to know why she got suspended after 22 years I think she had a three-day suspension if I remember correctly But it was for a product that she sold and she is just a wealth of knowledge. She also worked at the post office so It's not showing here, but she just did a video on the different types of Packaging supplies and materials. So that is super great for anybody that's newer or wants to learn about the different ways to package your items and Definitely check them out flipping palettes and they buy palettes and This item is called migra or migra leaf so it looks like it's a dietary supplement and What they do is they get these palettes and then they sell things in Multi-quantity, but she does say that sometimes she won't flood the market She'll just put a few out there and then as they sell she'll relist So she's got some great tips over there if you guys do palettes. I know nothing about palettes I know that you want to make sure that if the item is expired that you get it pulled off of eBay because you can get your account in trouble for that She paid a dollar each for these And it was a palette by sold it for 28 dollars and 99 cents and her caught Yeah, cost of goods was approximately a dollar. So what she said she does is she gets the whole palette She divides it out by how many listings she got and comes up with an average cost of goods per item The next item was sold by horse and hair curiosity shop and this item was actually sitting around her house for a long time She said she took a best offer of 150 and it's Lori Mitchell collectible bell and lucky bride and groom figure And they are resin Check them out. Would you ever have thought that this was a hundred and fifty dollar item? Pretty cute, right? All right, so that is horse and hair curiosity shop no YouTube channel, but an amazing eBay store and Let me just show you some of the amazing items in her store Just fantastic I I she sources some of the most amazing stuff I've ever seen Just just crazy Okay, the next item comes from This one comes from Leo's treasures no eBay store, but you can get to this area where it's a list I I went ahead and link that down below But again, just anybody need an Easter bunny. How cute is that? Those are a bolo for sure those bunnies people love them, but again lots of really really great items Super cute. Here's a little lovey never seen that one Okay, so what did she sell she sold this Anim, oh, I always say this wrong anime anime. I think that is gloomy rabbit Fantasy fur edition Japan. She got this at a thrift store for 50 cents and took a best offer of $80 and It has that I is that on the ear? I'm not really certain 541 Never seen anything like it, but I'm definitely gonna be on the lookout GP $80 plush right there The next item was sold by money-making mama And she has reseller content over here on her channel Her big thing is she buys from a place called dirt cheap and she flips those items for profit I'll show you an example in the Speed round here at the end of something that she does. This is a tonka vintage tonka Bronco She got this at the Goodwill for $2 and 99 cents and sold it for a hundred and nine ninety nine on best offer So she does a lot of the discount store Bulk Lots stuff up, but she also picks things up when she's out and about and sells things like this as well So definitely check out her channel The next item is antiques from Karen Janet and I told you guys about her last week or last month her mom had a I Want to say it was an antique store for many many years and Janet Said she calls it a hoarders I it must have been a substantial amount of stuff and she's slowly selling it off on eBay And I think she also does live sales on yeah live sales on her YouTube channel so definitely check her out, but she has it's not like It's vintage and antique amazing stuff Definitely check it out. So let me give you an example here. This is one of the items this sold for $350 best offer. It's a vintage Tyco HO scale NASCAR new old stock days of thunder slot car racetrack. I Mean, I'm talking amazing amazing stuff, and I'm sure you know There's stuff that's not as amazing. That's probably bread and butter But I have seen so many big money Bolo's that she has listed and it is just amazing The next item comes from the rebel reseller if you're not following her You definitely should be especially if you like plush She sells other things, but she I think she said she has like 5,000 listings that are just plush and that she paid off she paid her mortgage Last year with bread and butter plush I want to say either eight to ten dollar items paid her mortgage with that so I Know a lot of you guys skip those ten dollars and less items But it is possible to make big money by selling, you know a lot at low prices So she does also sell things other than plush. I picked this one out because it is an aluminum aluminum Tree branches not the tree. It didn't have the stand It didn't have the pole just the branches. She got these at an estate sale for ten bucks and Sold them for a hundred and twenty five dollars plus shipping The next item comes from Lombardi Limited and he sells tons and tons of postcards I want to say he picked up 5,000 postcards for five hundred dollars and I believe it was on Facebook So he has pennies in a lot of these but just Fantastic postcards if you guys are into postcards go check his store out unbelievable he sold this one and Vintage Halloween is if you can find those postcards they can go for big bucks He ended up taking a best offer of two twenty five on this one and again. He had pennies in it Greetings from Halloween and if you guys don't know if you click this little heart right here That will save the seller well Did it not work? I thought it like maybe it did I Figured it would fill it in. I guess I've never paid attention But you can save the eBay sellers. So again, they're linked down below go follow their stores so you can see when they list new items This next one comes from Jack's treasures. They are the storage units Buyers and they also do they have oh, what do you call them? Like the flea market they have booths. Yes, that's what they have and One of the items that they sold and I love finding these these are wireless and they interact with one another So you turn it on and they They like play a song together. I've sold these before they're almost always a bolo at least in my experience I've done really really good But they got these out of a storage unit the entire storage unit was two hundred and ten dollars They sold this one item for best offer of a hundred and fifty So pretty much almost made their money back with one item in the unit The next item comes from vintage Barbie and she just put out Her first video in a while and she went to an auction and she did a walkthrough a preview So go check that out show her some support. She has 20 subscribers.  She is a collector and that is why her YouTube channel is probably called vintage Barbie but this is some of her collection that she is selling off and Really really cool Barbie. She ended up auctioning this and it sold for three hundred and seventeen dollars plus shipping It is a vintage Barbie American girl blonde with Japanese exclusive dress The next item comes from any time picker and Wait until you see this polo he has Reseller content and he is getting super close to 500 subscribers. I bet he will probably be there by the time This airs, but let's help him get to a thousand. So definitely go sub him up He's got lots of lots and lots of content great Bolo items. So go and check him out This is what he sold. I love this Bolo. It is a bop it extreme. It's a handheld electronic game from 1999 he got this at the Goodwill for three dollars and ninety or three dollars and thirty nine cents and he sold it for a hundred and ninety nine dollars plus shipping Alright, so now we are gonna go. Nope. I'm sorry one more here Mutton Ridge finds this is her eBay store no YouTube channel again just a great variety of Items for sale definitely check her out. She sold this DVD Dr. Quinn medicine woman. Does anybody remember that from 2009? She sold this for a hundred and twenty eight dollars on best offer and she picked it up at the Goodwill for five or 51 it's either 51 or five. I think it's 51. So she did pay up for it, but Turned a nice profit on that All right, here we go with the speed round this one is Mutton Ridge finds this is a teapot look the mouth is a teapot. How funny is that and Then these are like little I think they're little cups. How cute 1979 Vintage Vander Imports Japan dog teapot salt and pepper sugar so cute She ended up taking a best offer of 60 on this and she got this at an estate sale and a box lot for $5 All right, we are back to any time picker. This is a daikon Precious moments plush doll from 1995 He sold this for 99 dollars and he got it at the Goodwill for four dollars and 59 cents and there's the little tag The next item comes from vintage Barbie. It's another Barbie. It is a Swarovitz Excuse me. I'm sorry swirl ponytail Barbie and her makeup. Look how good it looks Still looks great Vintage and tagged dress and it sold for two hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents This one comes from Jack's treasures. It's a monster's high sweet screams Frankie Stein retired and hard to find doll this one also came out of that two hundred and ten dollar storage unit that I told you about earlier and It sold for a full-asking price of 108 42 plus shipping The next item was sold by Lombardi. Oops. I'm sorry What did I do here? Who sold the dino bot? I obviously mixed up my things here my tabs. This one was sold by aunties from Karen Janet this dino and Her mom's the one that had the estate Sold for two hundred dollars on Best Offer. It's Beast Wars Transformers. Check him out two hundred bucks 1995 awesome All right, this postcard. It is a pookie Psy, New York postcard and This one sold on Best Offer for fifty two dollars and he had pennies in it. It was from that same lot This one is the Rebel reseller and it is a rubber dubbers Wiona whale plush from two thousand and three and she sold this the same day for a hundred bucks Got it at a habitat resale store for two dollars Look at that you guys Is it by play school? Yep play school huh How fun is that? All right, the next item This one comes from money making mama and I was telling you she gets the items at dirt cheap And she lots them up like this. This is band-aid brand hurt free first aid antiseptic wash liquid treatment six ounces each Um, she got these for 19 cents each at dirt cheap and sold these for a best offer of 4495 and if you go to her store, you'll see that she does this all the time with different products. It's amazing The next item comes from leo's treasures this picture is lasso Chromique, I don't know Malika It's a hand-painted picture. We're gonna go with that She got this at a thrift store for two dollars. It sold for 53 dollars and 75 cents best offer and took one day to sell This next item comes from horse and hair curiosity shop. It is a needle point She got it at the Goodwill for six dollars and 50 cents and it sold for 85 It is a needle point old man and the sea picture with a gold frame This next item was sold by Um flipping palettes. She said she paid approximately four dollars each and it came on a palette She's selling these for 25 50 each plus shipping and she sold 13 of them. You guys they're phillips Natural wide neck bottles. So it's a four pack of bottles and it's the pink edition so I don't know maybe Pink sells for more than just clear. Who knows anybody know The next item is from be carried away. It is this beautiful vintage mid-century modern stretch persimmon orange glass vase and it is swung Four dollars and 99 cents at the salvation army and it sold for 178 dollars and 62 cents The next item comes from a friendly flea. 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Actually, our next speaker needs no introduction. She's been emceeing here for us, but a 25-year career as an Air Force pilot. And just so you know, she's pretty quiet, really reserved, pretty shy. In fact, those of you sitting in the back need to come way, but you're not going to be able to hear her. So come on up here and get closer. No further ado, Moe Barrett. It's the summer after my freshman year at the Air Force Academy. And as part of the first summer curriculum, you either jump out of perfectly good airplanes or you learn to fly airplanes. And being of sound mind, I choose the stay in the airplane option. So on the agenda for today is a confidence maneuver of stalling the aircraft, which means we are going to starve the aircraft of airspeed by disrupting the airflow underneath the wing that normally keeps the plane aloft. And the reason for this asinine maneuver is so that I will learn to recognize or prevent a stall from happening, or recover from a stall if I fail to recognize or prevent a stall from happening. So we go out to the plane, we're in the motor glider, and seated right next to me is an actual Air Force officer. And he's a qualified instructor pilot, and he's stuck flying with a college kid who thinks she's all that because she made it through one year at the Air Force Academy. So he points the nose of the plane to the sky, he pulls back on the throttle, and we wait. Soon the aircraft loses its upward momentum, and the stick between my instructor's legs becomes ineffective. That doesn't sound good, does it? No. The mechanism used to control the plane becomes ineffective. The plane starts to shake, so we're at that wonderful moment between flying and falling, or that wonderful moment between being a bird and a rock. And now the aircraft will start looking for its flight. And now the way my instructor described it to me during the pre-brief was the plane would go from nose high to nose low. So I'm expecting the plane to go from nose high to nose low. And today the plane goes from nose high to right wing low. I look to my left and all I see is sky, to my right all I see is a fast approaching ground. My instructor sits right next to me like he's bored, and he calmly executes the stall recovery procedures, which means he pushes the nose of the aircraft over, and so what was once sky-earth is now all-earth. He is unconcerned that we are plummeting toward our death. He's got one hand on the throttle, one hand on the stick. That once ineffective thing between his legs is now becoming useful. And soon we are flying straight and level, and my heart rate slows down toward the triple digits. My instructor looks over at me. You okay? Yeah? Because remember, I've made it through one year at the Air Force Academy. You sure? Yeah? Okay. At some point during the stall or the stall recovery, call it instinct, call it reaction, call it foreplay. I look over and see that I am grabbing my instructor's leg. And unaware that I have grabbed my instructor's leg, I am equally unaware that I am still grabbing my instructor's leg. So I bring my hands to my side of the cockpit. Fast forward a couple years, now it's the summer after my junior year at the Air Force Academy, and I'm learning to fly the Cessna 172. Again on the agenda is the confidence maneuver of let's let the plane fall out of the sky. Same setup as before, I have a qualified Air Force Officer next to me, instructor pilot, and he's now stuck flying with a college kid who now knows she's all that because she's made it through three years at the Air Force Academy. Nose of the sky, throttle back, lose upward momentum, ineffective stick between legs, shaking plane, bird, rock, and I'm ready for anything. I know the plane can go nose low, right wing low, I've even seen the plane go left wing low. And this time the plane goes nose low, instructor executes the recovery, and I keep my hands to myself. Big day for a mo. But today my instructor is teaching a new confidence maneuver of secondary stalls, and secondary stalls are what happen when you recover too aggressively from that first stall. So we go nose high, nose low, through straight and level, I keep my hands to myself, then the plane goes back up to no momentum, ineffective stick between legs, shaking plane, bird, rock, and right wing low. Now, this time, call it automated response, call it airmanship, or keep calling it foreplay, I once again grab my instructor's leg. This is how rumors start. This is how reputations are built. This is not the reputation I want built, so once again I retract my hands to my side of the cockpit. Fast forward two more years, now I'm in pilot training, I'm heading out to stall the T-37. You know the drill.  Now, I know the plane can go nose low, right wing low, left wing low, I know about secondary stalls, but today my instructor is teaching me yet another new confidence maneuver called unloaded recoveries. In an unloaded recoveries, the aircraft will find its flying attitude where it damn well pleases, and today is behind us, so we start a lazy and unexpected float backwards. Because it's unexpected, what do you think I did? What is, even backstage a saying I grabbed is like, really? Did we not establish this report? I thought we knew each other better? No, you think I, no, because you're right, I did. I grabbed his leg. It may be surprising, or maybe it isn't surprising, I don't know, that I ended up in a crew aircraft because I think flying a single seat plane might have been a more appropriate choice given my airborne touching history. My leg grabbing career spanned five years, three different airfames, and three separate instructors. But in order to become a pilot, I had to let go of my instructor's leg, legs, and put my hands on my own controls and prove that I could fly the plane, that I could do the recoveries on my own. And isn't that kind of like how things are for us in life? We lean on other people, or fear me, you grope, we lean on other mentors as we're learning a new skill. But from each experience and each new environment, we learn something that can be applied and layered on to the next time we go through a similar experience, and we learn something from that time that we comply to the next time. Every single one of us in this room is going through some new experience, and we're doing it in the midst of ever-changing environments. And it's important for us to lean on others if we need to, at first. But at some point we have to let go, put our hands on our own controls and fly our own airplanes.  So how do we loosen our grip? How do we learn to recognize, prevent, and recover a lifestyle? I'm going to propose to you that we treat our decisions, our actions, and our foams stand by. Let me get closer to my computer here. Like an internal combustion engine. So this is when all the geeks kind of perk up and they're like, yeah, this is sweet, and everybody's got the right brains like, I'm going to change the uniform on my Bitmoji, okay? So stick with me. Now we're going to try to make this as simple as possible. At its most basic level, an internal combustion engine is a chemical process that converts a fuel-air mixture into action, yes? Not an expert. I'm just saying at its most basic level that's what's happening. So for all the engineers, I'm going to put a little math up here for you. Here's, maybe not. Yeah, you could. Here's some math for you. So here's some things that look like numbers and they look like a sentence, but there's numbers and there's letters where numbers should be and all this other stuff. But for everybody else, next slide please, stick with me. Okay? I am qualified to get you through this and we were going to do this together, okay? So stick with me. Next slide, please. Internal combustion engine has, in a four-stroke engine, has four cycles. Intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust. Next slide, thanks. During the intake, the inlet guides bring all the air flow in, and so regardless of what direction the air is coming in, it's able to take all that air in and streamline it as it goes into the next chamber. Next slide, please. Compression is exactly what it sounds like. We're going to mush all those oxygen molecules together because the more we mush those oxygen molecules together, the more powerful the combustion is going to be. So in the combustion, as that's where that fuel-air mixture is ignited and burned, and this is the only one of the four phases where energy is actually produced. And then exhaust. That combusted gas gets expelled into the atmosphere. And next slide, please. Because of Newton's third law of something about equal and opposite reaction, when the engine expels the gas, the plane goes forward. Next slide, please. So intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust. Simple, yes? I'll make it simpler. Next slide. If you are like me and have the attention span of a fruit fly, maybe a nat goldfish would be pushing it, or you have the maturity level of a 12-year-old I'm going to propose a different change for you. Suck, squeeze, bang, blow. Okay? All right. Next slide. How do we use this? Next slide. Thank you, Megan. So let's go through my stall scenario here. Next slide. When I had the gliders, never been in a glider before, never been in a plane before, I'm getting ready to go out to stall the plane. My instructor tells me the plane's going to go, next slide, nose high to nose low. And so that's my input. That's my expectation that's going to get compressed through the experience of when I go out in the plane. Next slide, please. So I go out in the plane, and I have this experience, I have this expectation. It gets compressed in the expectation that meets right wing low. And so when I have right wing low, then I have that experience, and now I'm going to have this reaction, and my decision is going to be to grope him.  That really wasn't what I wanted to do. So my exhaust is, I'm not going to do that again. So I'm going to try to think of a right way to say this.  So I go to T-40 once. Cessna 172, I'm like, yeah, yeah, I've done this before. I've been in a glider. I've got the pre-break for the Cessna 172. I know the plane can go nose low, right wing low, left wing low. Oh, but now I go through this experience of a secondary stall, and I have an action. And it is, again, to grab my instructor's leg. And then I use that as a filter, and I say, okay, you know what? I'm not going to do that again.  Megan, you're good. I love it. So now I know I can go nose low, right wing low, left wing low. I know about the secondary stall, and then I had this unloaded recovery thing, and we all know how that story ends. But this time, yeah, I'm not doing that again. Seriously, this time I mean it, okay? So I will say that the T-37 was the last time I grabbed an instructor in the air during stalls. It's the last time I grabbed a new instructor. Poof, okay, next slide, please. So how else can we use this? Do you guys write papers at all in any of the programs that you're in? Nobody writes papers. Do you type papers? Sorry, do you text papers? What do you guys, Twitter papers? Has anybody ever written a paper before? Yes. Yes, thank you. Thanks, Mel, I'm so glad you're here. All right, so when you write a paper, you get ready to do that. You take in as many inputs as you can. We've heard from so many speakers today who talk about get as many inputs as you can, right? We shouldn't be a single source of information. Take it in. We take it in from podcasts. We Google things. Nobody bings anything anymore, but we read articles and journals and we interview and all these things. Take in as many inputs. It's all raw data, and just like the internal combustion engine, we're gonna take that and we're gonna streamline it in and we're gonna pass it through this compression chamber of experience. Maybe outlines we've done. Maybe we're gonna do some peer review. Maybe we've written for this instructor before so we know the little trigger words that they'd like and so we can say, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I know what they like, so I'm gonna do that, right? These are all the experiences we've gone through before or maybe people are helping us with and we're gonna push it through that. But at some point, you gotta write the damn paper, okay? And I'm sure if you wait until the very last minute, no, that's okay. It's a nice piece of, no, there's just better. Yeah, those are your papers. Yeah, they're beautiful A-plus papers, perfect, but even the most perfect of papers, the most perfect of projects, they go every which way you, in every way you wanted it to go, there's still something that you can learn from that. There is still something that comes out of that bang that becomes the blow, because these are my papers. They're absolute works of shart. So that becomes, you can take something and you can learn some lesson from that, whether it's the timeline or the process or whatever you did. Again, use that blow to be part of the next suck. It becomes part of your input. Next slide, please.   My experience that I shared with you about the glider, about the T41, about the T37, those experiences become part of your input.  We all have a chance to provide cooperative input to each other, right? And it needs to be constructive input. Now when I talk about where you are in other people's life and where they are in yours, think about the constructive input you're taking in and think about the input that you're putting into other people. Make sure it's constructive. Let's lift people up. Think about all those inputs that are coming in. This is important and we can do it and it's free and it's easy. Next slide. The next thing we can do is we can help people filter through those experiences. This is what mentorship is. Mentorship isn't me making a decision for you. Mentorship is about us having a two-way conversation about what you're going through and I can share you maybe there's something similar I did or maybe there's something similar that you did and we share that experience so we don't have to make all the mistakes ourselves. I seem to be making more than my fair share of mistakes. But we help people frame experiences so we can do something with it. But at some point we need to act, right? We need to make a decision. At some point we need to get off the pot and do the thing. Write the paper. Make the decision. We're all leaders in here. We're all making decisions. The other thing I would caution you is make sure you're being gracious.  Yeah. I'm coming just to get under her skin. Or I'm going to come and I'm just going to try to get you fired. Nobody comes into work like that, right? Be gracious with people because everybody's going through this same iteration. Everybody's got different inputs. Everybody's got different experiences. Help people learn from that because we all know we're not perfect. We all know I'm not perfect. I don't always make the best decisions. I don't always make the decisions I'm most proud of and want to repeat again and again and again. But use that and that's what hot wash and feedback is for. Hot wash. After action reports. Feedback. Reviews. All those things that we do let those blows become a part of the suck. And because we're all leaders, remember that other people are watching what you do. They are watching what happens in your combustion chamber. They are watching what comes out of your exhaust. That doesn't sound good either. I might have to rework this speech. People are watching what you do and we need to be watching what other people are doing and that becomes part of our input. Yes? Next slide please. And again it's part of that input. One more Megan. I'm just going to leave you with this. I challenge you to take decisions, actions and experiences and run them through this internal combustion engine of action.  Take an inventory of all your experiences and look at how they have framed your decisions. Look at how you can use those to help others frame their decisions. Leverage other people's experiences so you can also learn from that and learn from their experiences. Think about the role you play in other people's engines and think about the roles of others in your engines. Some of the things that we take in might need to be just bypassed and they need to be used for other filters and other functions. When you do this you will be making deliberate action and you may be increasing your critical thinking. I just have to warn you about that. You also may accelerate your decision making and that will give you a leg up. Last slide. Thank you.


in their red kit with gray trims, this is how they will be lining up and they'll be playing with a 4-4-2. Lots of work in the transfer market, hospital is coming in, Trinningham as well, both Trinidad and Tobago Nationals. Or Wayne Gordon, who was the golden boot winner back in 2016, the last time they won with 19 goals. He's partner, Brian Brown, who is also a former golden boot winner as well. So an interesting lineup, they have the Brazilians in there as well, Korea and Ferrero, as well as their goalkeeper William Ferrero between the stakes. So yeah, there's a lot of new players in there, whether or not we'll see the fluidity as they would want is another matter. And at times you bring in new players, you just don't get the chemistry early enough and they'd want to get that against Waterhouse tonight. Waterhouse go back with their 4-3-3 formation. Not much changes in the squad here, even though they're looking to do business in the transfer market. Nikoi Christian has to settle for a place on the bench. Andre Fletcher is there as well, of course with 6 goals and in good form as well as Javier and Brian. They are clear to watch the point man as well with 9 goals this season. Rivaldo Mitchell comes in to the starting line up, always an exciting player in the wide areas. Kemai Foster as usual between the stakes and the ever-present Shamari Dallas with his work in the flank area. We expect him to be busy as well, this Waterhouse team as we said. So the full match highlights, Alexi Perry, the man in charge of this fixture. He was promising to be an exciting one and he started that way. Andre Fletcher with a delivery towards the near post but Simpson just couldn't get it on target. That one was on target from Trimminham early and he took a deflection and Foster was acrobatic in his save to deny Mabe United a goal. Then Mabe, the two senior forwards putting something together. Brian to Gordon, Gordon with the strike, it was on target but Foster did really well to deny him there. Coming off the body of Foster and going off the crossbar and then this moment of this May for Mabe United. No defending there at the back post and Javier and Brian, he needed no more of an invitation. The leader was from Blair and the finish to the far post was sensible from Waterhouses at number 9. His 10th of the season and it took just 33 minutes for Waterhouse to be away. Oh yes, Kemar, their long-serving fan, enjoyed that as well. Waterhouse continues to drive forward, moves towards the back post and this should have been 2-0. Andre Fletcher in the form he's in, that should have been his 7th of the season but put it wide and it would come back eventually to haunt Waterhouse. Then this, this was the first sign of a defensive mistake. This was from Elvis Wilson and he nearly played in Brian Brown who was looking to toe-past Foster who did well. Then this, the second goal from the corner. Did nada Thomas into Rivaldo Mitchell who got himself in front of William Ferreira and opened his account on the season. 2-0 to Waterhouse after 59 minutes. At that point they thought they had three points but Mabe they had other ideas. This finish first from Lucas Korea, his third of the season, saved initially from Kemar Foster. We had a reasonably good game Foster but put it back into the business area and Korea was there to finish with the right foot into the roof and Foster could do nothing. That was 2-1 and that one came after the 75th minute and you could see Mabe United growing in confidence and believing their fans behind them. The 12th man and then this moment for Wayne Gordon in front of his fans as he's done so many times before, 48 in his Premier League career, second of the season for the 32 year old and Mabe United were all square at 2 and now looking for that winner. Foster could afford a smile because he knew he could do nothing about it. For the second time on the evening and Wayne Gordon just preaching to his fans. Unfortunately for Mabe they weren't able to come up with a winner all square after 90 minutes. The lights are shining bright on the finish for Mabe United. Six shots on target from eight attempts, five on target for Waterhouse. They had 14 attempts, they should have been better with their finish at times and they would have put this game to bed early. 26 fouls and three yellow cards shown by referee Alexi Perry, Leodana Jimison, Shamar Booth. The guilty parties for Waterhouse and of course Darnell Hospitalis for Mabe United. They had four saves in Waterhouse and Mabe United with the majority of the possession at 55%. At the Mabe's, Montiga Base Sports Complex, the third square after 90 minutes. Mabe United 2, Waterhouse 2. Our man of the match is with Dwight Cherry-Meyer. I mean it's one of those nights, I mean with all your experience you probably would have seen it all. But just tell me what was going through your mind coming out in the second half and having it all to do. And when the second goal went in, what were you thinking? You know in the locker room we already talked about it. You know we are 2-0 down and we talk about what we can do to change the game.  It's the last game of the season, just give it your all. That was the word in the locker room, we come out and we execute. For a moment in the commentary box we were thinking that the way Montiga Base was playing in that first half it was causing you to go wide too often. But when you're in the frame of the goal you show that still at 32, the finish has not left you at all. That goal you scored, that first touch was exquisite. Yeah you know it's just the awareness and Brian already told me to push back post when I push back post the liquor flick. You know all I have to do is take the first touch and I'm so grateful for a good first touch you know. The only thing I have to do is just put it in the back of the net. There's a moment in that first half you brought out a smart save from Foster. Must have felt that one was going into the back of the net. Yeah most definitely, I was trying to go through his legs but unfortunately he pulled off a great save. But you have given some life and some hope for Montiga Base United and all the best going forward you're showing that with your 48th goal, a Premier League career goal here, you still have it. Thank you very much.