Good afternoon or good evening, you can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman, you can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German or Turk or Japanese, but anyone from any corner of the earth can come to live in America and become an American. Life from Beijing, China is a nation of immigrants, a bivocally talk show program featuring the lives of immigrants and the descendants of immigrants, knowledge, diversity, and inclusion, created by Singtan Kowaii and Kingsville the Law Office. I am absolutely thrilled today to have our guest, my mentor and professor, Meredith McQuaid, associate vice president and dean of international programs at the University of Minnesota. Welcome, Dean McQuaid. Welcome, Dean McQuaid. So happy to have you today. Thank you, Chaim. It is just delightful to be here and it's wonderful to see you again. Thank you so much. I first met you during a campus tour at Myeongdong Hall in the summer of 2003. When Professor David introduced me to you and informed you that I had been just admitted to the University of Minnesota Law School, the tour and the meeting with you persuaded me to turn off other offers and accept your offer, one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. When I first began my legal education at UofM Law School, you were the dean of students and professor for introduction to American law. You have been my professor, my dean, supervisor, supervisor, mentor, and our leader for the past 20 years. I learned so much from you, Dean McQuaid, including diligence, confidence, perseverance, and loyalty. I want to take this opportunity to thank you once more. Do everything you have done for the University of Minnesota, for us, and for all the community. Thank you so much. You have been a role model and excellent leader for all of us. Thank you, Chaim. It's very flattering and very kind of you to say I've had a great career and part of the wonder of my job has been meeting wonderful immigrants like yourself. So thank you for that introduction. Thank you very much. I'm very proud to be your student. And today it is an absolutely privileged and honored to interview you for the talk show. You know the talk show is called Nation of Immigrants, but we do interview a lot of descendants of immigrants and you have a very long, you are a native of Minnesota and you have a long career with higher education. And I please allow me just to read a short bio your assistance sent to me. You have served Dean McQuaid served with the dictation at the University of Minnesota for decades. Dean McQuaid has been the University's senior international officer since 2007. Under her leadership, global programs and a strategic alliance staff have collaborated broadly to inspire students engagement and to advance innovative initiatives, uniting us all in the work of internationalization. Dean McQuaid's work at the University of Minnesota has been enhanced through her positions at professional organizations, including the president of NAFSA, Association of International Educators, board member and committee chair of international association of international education administrators, chair of the senior international officer groups of the Big Ten Academic Alliance and consultant on internationalization for American Council on Education. This is just a very, very brief version of your bio. If we have to read your bio, we're going to take the entire 30 minutes of the showtime. But I believe that our audience already get the impression that you have been an international educator all of your career. You have worked with many, many students of scholars and academic staff from all over the world. But my first question to you, Dean McQuaid, is you are native of Minnesota. You have received education and you worked in Minnesota. So how do you know how your ancestors settled in Minnesota? Did they settle in Minnesota or other parts of the country first? Well, my family, I must admit, were not very good about tracing our genealogy, but my mother was born in Frazee, Minnesota, which is pretty much the middle of the state, up near Park Rapids in that area. And her heritage is one half German and one half Irish, and both of those immigrant groups contributed a lot to the development of Minnesota. I know Minnesota is known for having more of the Scandinavian immigrants, but there were many Irish and many German as well. My father's family is 100% Irish, and it was my father's grandfather, my great grandfather that immigrated from Ireland, and my father's entire family grew up in New Hampshire. And they were all newspaper men in those days. All of the men were in the newspaper business, and my father was as well when he married my mom and moved to Minnesota to be with her.  So, yes, I'm a Minnesotan through and through, but German and Irish heritage. Thank you so much for sharing. I think one of the best reason Minnesota is such a well-run state is we have a lot of a lot of German, you know, descendants. It's a super technical, super scientific that the state is a very well-managed university is well-managed. Thank you very much. And so you grew up in Minnesota. Could you tell us a little bit about your childhood and schooling in the state? Sure. I'd be happy to. I'm fifth in a family of eight children. So my parents married and had four children before me, and then there were three more after me. We were lower middle class. My father was a newspaper man, as I mentioned. My mother was busy raising those eight children, so didn't actually go to work until most of us were out of high school. I went to a very small Catholic school for my first six years of primary education and then public school. I graduated from the University of Minnesota with a linguistics degree, and then I went on to law school and we'll talk a little bit about that later. But it was all very local, and I feel so fortunate to have had good teachers. And despite the fact that we had a large family without much money, I have a very fond memories of my childhood. I grew up, there wasn't much money, but there was a lot of love and a very great emphasis on education. Absolutely. Thank you so much. You have been after school, you have began to work and you went to law school, you have a very long career in education. And could you just summarize the path you took to go to the position you hold today? Sure. You know, I'm often asked because as you point out, I have a long biography because I'm just getting older. But I'm often asked by young people how I got to this position, which is both extremely rewarding, but also relatively high within the administration. So I went, I graduated with a linguistics degree from the University of Minnesota, as I mentioned. And when I was nearing the end of maybe a senior end of my junior year, the University of Minnesota announced that it was launching the first program in Chinese for undergraduate students in Tianjin at Nankai Dashui. And this was a brand new opportunity. There had been no Americans into China since prior to Mao assuming leadership of the country. And so this was a great opportunity to see China at a time when few Americans had, wasn't very expensive. It was for a summer where we would go and learn Chinese in a very intense environment. And I put the money together and I joined the program and it truly did change my life. I came back then and finished my linguistics degree. And then I moved to Japan. I wanted to learn both Chinese and Japanese. And with my linguistics degree, it was pretty easy for me to get a job teaching English. So I lived in Tokyo from 1983 to 1986. And then when I left Japan, I took a 13 month trip, 36,000 kilometer trip around the world by motorcycle. And I came back to Minnesota in about January of 1987. And I started law school in 1988. And with all of that experience of crossing borders and living in countries, crossing countries. Customs, what's required to enter a country, leave a country. I became very interested in immigration law. And so following law school, I did practice immigration law for about four years. And then I was hired by the University of Minnesota Law School to be its first international program officer. And so that was a first career, that was the first time anyone had been hired in that role at the law school. It's always exciting to be the first to do a job because you get to design it yourself. And then so I did that job for 15 years. And then this senior international officer position opened up the job I now have, a brand new position. It was one of the first universities in the country to have such a position.  And so I took that job 15 years ago. And it's just been, I have to say, I've been extremely fortunate to have opportunities that I was also pretty excited to just try something new. And I often tell young people that, that if you, you know, even if you have a career path in mind, you ought to keep your options open and take chances because they just might lead to a whole new opportunity that you had never previously even imagined. Wonderful. Thank you so much. I think Ken Jin was very fortunate to have you. China was very fortunate to have you. U of M law school and the way the international students are extremely fortunate to have you as our mentor. But for today, I sent the poster, this program poster to some Chinese alumni, alumni groups.  And we love her, you know, so heartwarming to serve her to see her face again. And you are just to become the simple for our American experience. You know, many international students come first came to the U of M and to the law school. The first person they knew was you.  So it's just we could thank you enough for you to do the internationalization, not only for the U of M and community, but also for the students, international students, for them to be truly understand American culture and American law and American education. Thank you very much. I'm extremely, extremely glad to hear you talk about immigration law practice. And then this program is the nation of immigrants and you practice law after law school. And could you tell us a little bit about your with your immigration law practice, mainly employment based, family based. It's an asylum related or refugee related or so which area you focus on and which part of the immigration law practice you enjoy? Well, I was so fortunate. I worked for a law firm that actually no longer exists now, but it had some of the best immigration lawyers in the country that were working here in the Twin Cities. And again, this was in the early nineties. And so because I was a new associate, I didn't have a lot of experience. I pretty much had this amazing opportunity to do a little bit of everything. I had the opportunity to do employment based immigration. So we would work with Minnesota companies who are hiring talent from overseas. I often then work to bring the spouses and children of those employees into Minnesota. I had the great fortune to work on some asylum applications, particularly for people from the Southeast Asian region. So some of the monks, some of Laotian. I actually worked on behalf of a very young Chinese, but he was 16 at the time, who was smuggled over on a ship. And the authorities found this group of young men that were being held against their will and forced to do a certain kind of work. We worked on an asylum case for that young man. And so we got to see a little of everything. I also did just insurance defense work, which is fun and interesting as a lawyer. But the more the better part of my practice was this range of immigration work that I was able to do, and it was extremely rewarding. Thank you so much. It's I part of the immigration law as well. And but I'm very just only focus on employment, basic immigration, other hearing from you. I think I'm going to try other areas as well. I saw a lot of you just meet the nicest people who are hardworking and want a new chance at life. And so you'll hear great stories and just meet wonderful, enthusiastic people who, as you have already pointed out, typically make our country even better. Thank you very much. Thank you for seeing that. Now let's turn to education and as a senior international educator. I have this question for you and by myself as a teacher, I teach at U of M and other schools. And but I keep reading this theory about the new skills the students need to function in the 21st century, the so-called four C's. The creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking. And unfortunately, none of the C's we can really teach to the students. The students have to work hard to figure it out. And what do you view as a senior educator and what does the student need to function and to be a professional in the 21st century? And how what are the essential skills for the students, not only American students, but international students as well in your view? You know, it's a great question and it's really true that what we often teach in the classroom, you know, from primary school upward are sort of the facts and the the the non. Right, the left side of the brain activity. So that is the analytical, the logical. Now, of course, if you go into design or any kind of graphic arts, you won't necessarily be focused only on logic or or or sort of linear thinking. But for most of us, we're raised to really learn the practical side. And that's what school teaches us. And that's what we get tested on. But there's this great book that I often refer to. And it's by Daniel Pink. I really I recommend this to all the young people I know. He's he's written many books. This one is a whole new mind. And his theory is that as society progresses, as a country like the United States has moved through the industrial age into what we have now, that the left brain skills really can be learned by people all over the world. That's why many of our jobs have left the United States. But the right brain skills are the ones that we need to practice and be good at. So, for example, he says it's not necessary. It's not enough to just learn argument, which is good for lawyers. But you also have to learn how to tell a story. So it's we need to learn the essence of persuasion and communication in order to move people to our side. And the his biggest point, I think, is this idea about that it's not just logic that we need to learn, but empathy. So that even though we feel that logic can is all we need to make a decision, we also have to learn how to share that knowledge with people in a way that they can appreciate. And his final point, I won't say much more about this. His final point is that we also learn to know why things matter to people. What what is it about a particular activity or object that brings meaning to someone's life? And that meaning could be different between you and me and a third person. But those are the skills that we must just encourage young people to consider as they age. So high school, college, postgraduate, all of the things that make us human and make our lives more interesting are not necessarily what's taught in books. And so we need to work together. As you say, not much of this can be taught, but we can put people in situations and ask them to consider what it means to be persuasive or how to tell a story instead of just present facts. And I think all of that is really relevant to preparing students for the future. Beautifully said, Demacrate, I couldn't agree with you more. And looking at the AI and looking at the current discussion about AI replacing the human being and even in education. And I see I feel something was missing discussion was missing the empathy. And I'm glad you pointed that out at the 24th century. And previously as well, the empathy is a very big part of human communication. And it's vitally important for people to to understand each other and to probably not necessarily love each other. But not not hate each other and the immigration law. I think that when the students asked me about AI replacing law practice, I said, I don't see that going to happen, you know, is even some parts some procedure might be replaced, but the constitutional law, immigration law and even other parts of the law, the criminal law and need a tremendous amount of empathy to for the client and the professional to communicate. So that's, I do not think that it will. The AI can't get empathy in any time. So thank you so much for your for your insights. Since I was a law student of youth and I went to the same law school and as you went to and it's a law school. It's a very that's that's us, you know, almost 20 years ago. You were my dean at the dean of the dean of the students at the law school. I was your student and you haven't changed a bit. You know, it seems like just yesterday, Chong, to be honest, I remember the day very well. Yep. Exactly. I remember that that was I at the science museum, I believe. When I was a law student, a law student and you told us how to be professional, how to memorize the black light law and how to find the law and how to think like a lawyer. There was a book about legal education called the purpose of legal education is to preserve the status quo and perpetrate the hierarchy. In law school, we are very conservative, even we are progressive. But the purpose of legal education is to preserve the current status current system is not to revolutionize it, not to radicalize it and not to overthrow it. So now we get to the bigger question. What do you think is the purpose of education and or the purpose of legal education in your view? And I honestly, I can't understand this question. I don't I don't think I have an answer to as for the purpose of education. What do you think, Demokry? Well, I think, you know, I don't know that law school education is designed to preserve the status quo. I think it in law school, we learn what the status quo is. We learn how we got to it, particularly as we look to precedence under common law. We can see the evolution of an idea or an attitude, say, for example, for the enfranchisement of women, the enfranchisement of black people, actually, all people of color, because so much of the property and and and rights, all rights were were really given only to white men. And so we learn what the status quo is and how we got there. But I think law students are encouraged to be disruptors in the sense that working within a system, we can actually change it. We have to know the basis for where how we got here. But we also know that step by step, we can make changes in the law that positively influence society. I think some non lawyers may perceive us as conservative because things take so long, but things take long. Change takes a long time when we're talking about the legal system because its impact is so great. And so I think those kinds of changes can't be done quickly because it needs so much. We need to really sort of it can't move until society is ready for it to move. And so it's both the societal pressures that come from all kinds of sources. And then there's the legal element. And those two things really have to intersect. And then we can sort of ratchet society forward. You know, sometimes it's up one step forward, two steps back, but lawyers have the capacity to positively influence the law that is the construction of our civil society. And so I think there's a way to be positive and kind disruptors in changing the status quo, but in a way that's at a pace that people can tolerate. I love the word you use, kind disruptors. You have to be part of the system in order to change it. I think we are quite fortunate to live and function in a system that will allow this kind of change in Minnesota and in the United States. And other systems, not so much, thank you very much. We're towards the end part of our program, but there are a few questions I do want to ask you. Your first visit to Tianjin, one of my favorite cities in China. And I was walking in the British concession last week. I absolutely love it. See the European architectures and Astor hotel for the British hotel built by the settlers in 1862. Just think about it. So your first visit to China and Tianjin in the 1980s, when was the last time you visited China? So within my capacity as the senior international officer for the University of Minnesota, I went in 2008, 2018. We took a number of deans with us, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the Dean of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and visited a number of the top universities in China. Both universities that we had relationships with to introduce these deans and then other universities that we wanted to have relationships with. So that was a fabulous trip. And then I went in 2019 and that was to talk with the Han Bang about our Confucius Institute closing. So those were my last two trips. And then there was another trip. We were ready to go on another trip in 2021 or 2022 when COVID hit. So I haven't been back since and it makes me sad because I've had just so many experiences in China.  And so I have a great fondness in my heart for China and the Chinese people. That's for a kind of a thank you so much. I can assure you that all of your students, not only LM students, JD students at law school, but all U of M alum in China, thousands of them are waiting for you to revisit. And you will receive the warmest welcome after the reopening of China. And we are going to throw the best party for you. And please return at your convenience. Well, now that's a difficult question. Do you think we cannot overly simplify the US-China relationship? But it appears it's getting more and more difficult for collaboration and even ideas change in not only in the past few during the COVID, but generally speaking for the past few years and a decade. Do you think the golden age of education, collaboration and exchange between U.S. and China have already passed? Oh, Chong, I sure hope that's not true. You know, if you look at the history of China and America and our relationship, I've heard it referred to as frenemies, you know, the combination of friend and enemy. I think both America and China need one another. And what our two governments do obviously has an impact on how the average citizen in each country can do to continue relationships. I don't think our current sort of cold war or impasse that I think we seem to be living under will last forever. I don't know how long it'll last. But the thing I just always keep remembering is that education is the best form of soft diplomacy there is. Despite the impasse, we do have Chinese students and scholars still coming to the United States. And we do have U.S. students traveling again to China. And it's those daily experiences that those individuals will have that will have the long-lasting effect, you know, to to think back to 1980 when I met my first Chinese friends and we would ride our bicycles at night to go out and get fried donuts. That is how I got to know the spirit of Chinese people. And as you said, all the Chinese people I've met both at the law school and now across the university, those individuals are having experiences that teach them what Americans are like, good and bad, what our society is like, good and bad. And it's those messages, those lessons people are going to remember long after they've gone back to pick up their careers in our respective countries. So there's definitely a slowdown in that relationship, but it won't last forever. And people like you and I have to really keep working to share what we know about one another's countries and people with everyone we know, our relatives, our friends and to persuade people that our governments are not necessarily representative of the hearts and minds of their people. And any in any way we can share what we know about the people in each country, I think will help towards breaking down this current situation. I think we have to be patient. And I think we have to hope for the best. I totally agree. Thank you very much. Very encouraging. And I think this trip with this current trip I'm taking, I think some I see some positive, you know, signals. So I look forward to see when I return to the states. Thank you. We normally conclude our show with two generic questions for our distinguished guests. One is what do you think the sum of the formative steps you took in your earlier days, in your teens and the 20s to become you today? That's a hard question. I think that because I was born in the middle of a large family, I was encouraged to take risks. I wasn't the oldest. I didn't have the big weight of that, that often oldest children do. I was smack in the middle of a tribe, a big, big group of kids. And so I was encouraged to try things without too much risk. I could always blame it on my brother. And then as I got older, I really think just jumping at opportunities that appeared before me without, you know, I think there's always an element of risk to any jumping at any opportunity. But if you give it as much thought as you can and in your gut, in your stomach, you feel like this is a good chance. It didn't fit into the plan you had. But here it is right before you. I really think as a young person before you've got, you know, house payments or a spouse and children. I think if you if you have opportunities that feel like this is exciting and I can't think of a good reason not to do it, that you should do it. The these these opportunities don't come along very often and they will change the trajectory of your life in small ways and in big ways. Important advice. You are the most adventurous people I have known. We try to learn everything from you. You are a very disciplined, professional, big, hard leader, but which are extremely adventurous of spirit. We try to learn to be professional from your teaching and the adventure spirit part is very hard to learn. I'll be honest. A final question. Any particular book or movie you're enjoying at the moment you want to recommend to our audience? Yeah, I just love to read. I read a lot. I read primarily nonfiction, but lately I've read some great novels as well. I will again recommend Daniel Pink's book, A Whole New Mind. It's old now. It's like 2008, maybe, but the the the message, the import of it remains. And I refer to it quite often, actually. I also just finished an amazing book called Breath by James Nester. I hope I got that right about the importance of breathing correctly and how the way we breathe and how we breathe affects how we feel. It's really it was impactful. I'm going to read it a second time. I just finished a book called This is Happiness by Niall Williams, I think, an Irish novelist. And it is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read and his writing is incredible. So I could go on. Honestly, I just I just love to read. And I do think one of the ways I learn about books is asking other people what they recommend. So I think keep reading everybody and Kindle, Hardcover, whatever. You can learn so much from books. Thank you so much. Great recommendation. I will definitely check them out. Well, we are have this great opportunity to interview you, to have you on our show, DemonQuit International Educator, my professor, our mentor and our leader at U of M. And thank you so much for your time. And I just couldn't thank you enough for everything for the past. Thirty years, you have taught me and taught my classmates and taught my colleagues at U of M and in the community. Thank you so much. It's great to see you. And I look forward to catching up with you when I return to the cities. Thank you, Chang. This has been a lot of fun and it's just always a pleasure to talk to you. And we're just extremely proud of you being a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. So thank you. I'm lucky. Thank you, DemonQuit. Aloha. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. 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Hey fellow buddies, thanks for watching. Okay in this video I am gonna talk to you about items I sold on Poshmark, but I'm not doing clothing I find that my Poshmark videos get the less views and I think it's because I show my clothes and Quite frankly, I don't think most of my viewers care too much about clothes. So this video is Non-clothing items. I think there's one clothing item, but it's just because it's like a specific You'll see. Anyway, but the rest are like hard goods, jewelry, toys, yeah, things other than clothes. So let's get started. I'm gonna show you my Poshmark BOLO items. These items sold faster on Poshmark. They were cross-posted to eBay and Mercari and sold faster on Poshmark. So let's get started. I Use list perfectly to cross-post. So what I do is I put my items on eBay first And then I cross-post them to Poshmark and Mercari if you're interested in trying list perfectly I do have a coupon code. 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I've got several videos that show you like a demonstration or a demo of How to list perfectly so definitely go check that out in Lego Lego friends and I've got a Lego story I bought all of these Legos and I ended up like counting pieces and I'm not even gonna tell you how long it took me it was a Nightmare and I don't think I will ever do it again, but I have some big money BOLO's from that lot in my eBay video But these are two of the smaller lots and I can't remember I Yeah, I think I counted these two not counted But if you go to the back of the book, which I didn't know you could do and it tells you the pieces The first set I actually built and took pictures of it because I didn't know until I got to the end of building it that All of the pieces were in the back anyhow Lesson learned, but hey, I had a good time building it, but I could not no way build those thousand piece Lego sets or 600 however many pieces there are So I did sell these and somebody bought these together for a total of $50 Poshmark took 10 and my earnings on it were 40 The next item I sold was this folk one is It's a puppet and I always pick up folk honest. I love selling it. It does pretty well It has a pretty good following some of its bread and butter some of its bigger money BOLO's this one sold for $23 And I probably picked it up for a buck or two These I have had for ever full disclosure. I was waiting on the right buyer I had them priced like really high in the beginning. I just thought they were fantastic, but they weren't moving and I Ended up taking an offer of $50 on these I picked them up at a garage sale super cheap but I just thought they were really special and I was holding out and Yeah, so I took a best offer of 50. I want to say I paid two or three dollars for the set The next item are these awesome pink start earrings. I Think I got these a garage sale or they were a part of my bulk buy, but again, I don't have much in jewelry I usually buy it in bulk and I sold these for ten dollars. I just wanted to share them because I thought they were super cool Another boys frog this one sold for 17 dollars. I picked these up in bulk at a garage sale tons of them I still have Not many left. I'm I would say I have less than 10 left but this one sold for 17 I think I have Gosh, I can't remember. It's like 25 cents or 30 cents something like that in each one the next item I have been buying Legos and I am lauding them up like this on Poshmark and I'm keeping them around two pounds this sold for 25 dollars and these were Lego brand This came from my I got it free garage sale and this is a Bermuda purse handbag with a wood handle and It's super cute It's got the two coverings on it and I sold this for 40 dollars and got it free So that is awesome. And if you guys have not seen that video, I got all of this stuff free at a garage So you got to go watch the video The next item is this clown children's costume. It's vintage. It's handmade I picked this up for a dollar or two at a garage sale and I have another one listed and it's got some condition issues It's not mint, but it's really really cool I picked these up at a garage sale. I think I've got about three dollars in the pair and I sold these for 40 dollars It's the Disney store exclusive Chip and Dale plush and they're about 10 inches tall These are a vintage wood trinket hinged box horse decoration. I picked these up at a garage sale for a couple bucks The head on the small one did come off and I had to glue it back on which was no big deal But they open up. They're really really cool Let me see if I can get you a picture and they open up like that So I sold those for 47 dollars and I picked those up at a garage sale I like I said, I think for a couple bucks. Wait, I think that was a garage sale find now I'm second-guessing myself You know what? I'm not a hundred percent sure on that one Huh, I'm usually really good at remembering stuff like that But it was probably two or three dollars because that's usually what I pay for stuff like this This is just a Christmas ornaments vintage lot. It's got some door hangers Sometimes I just lot things up and we'll sell them in little lots like this I sold this for 15 dollars and of course on posh market the buyer pays the shipping This was from my bulk buy. I bought it on eBay to sell on eBay. This is just a butterfly necklace interchangeable Little charms that you can put on it and I sold this for 23 dollars This is a Shopkins lot that I picked up at a garage sale and I did take the time to You know kind of display them. I sold Both of these for 49 dollars. So posh took 8 82 so my earnings was 35 28 Probably had less than five dollars in the set and in both sets It was a bulk buy. I bought like everything at the garage sale all the toys This is a radco glass dog ornament. I believe this was It's in my garage sale haul video it was either three or five dollars I will pay up a little bit for radco because I I know that it sells and I sold this for 40 dollars and the buyer paid shipping This is a Thomas the train and friends I always pick up these cases and these little trains if I see my garage sales I'll wait until I have enough to fill the Container or I'll just sell them in small lots. I sold this for 30 dollars And I probably had five bucks or less in it This toy story Mattel walking talking action figure. I think I paid a buck or two for him at a garage sale He sold really fast and he sold for 19 dollars These leapster games I sold these for 25 dollars. There's six of them here This was another big bulk buy at a garage sale. I bought a whole tote full of leap frog leapster items The next item scrapbooking They're like little scrapbooking sets like one is for birthday one is for friends one says thanks And these were a bulk buy from a garage sale. They did take a while to sell I'm gonna have to admit that but I sold them for 20 dollars and Yeah, the buyer paid shipping so definitely great margins and small I threw it in a tote It just sat until the right buyer came along This guy this Jimmy and I did I always say wrong a Bominable and bominable And bominable snowman kind of like Aluminum I really have to think about it say it This guy sold for a hundred dollars. Yes $100 this guy and I picked him up at a garage sale. I bought the whole table of Christmas items Can't remember what I paid for everything, but it was a really good deal It might I think I have a haul video on it So if you want to go watch that you can find out exactly what I paid because when I did the video, obviously I remembered what I paid, but I can't remember now, but I'm gonna say five bucks or less this is from when I used to sell Avon and I found these in a box because I bought a bunch of them because my sister and I loved them and Then I quit wearing makeup Like bronzers and blush and you know I never really wore a lot of that but this is just like it gives you like it makes you look tan and you Shake it. It's really really cool. And I sold this for $18 in the buyer paid shipping Puppy surprise. This is the Dalmatian Gigi. I sold her for $24 and This was a thrift store find and I think I paid $3 for it Here is a one-gallon mystery bag of small building blocks. These are not Legos these are like mega blocks and other miscellaneous blocks that all work together and These are girl colors and I sold this for $20 This is a Hasbro Jurassic Park Jurassic World dinosaur His name is chomp and he sold for $19 and he sold pretty quick So I picked this up at a garage sale for a buck or two these mirrors came from Thrift store and I bought I Think there were eight of them in a bag and I want to say I paid like eight dollars for all of them and I Sold the four of them for eighty five dollars posh mark took 17 and my earnings was 68 So I thought about selling them all together. I was gonna piece them out and that was definitely the right thing to do I Sold some more frogs. I sold all three of these frogs for $64. However, this one I had sold already on another platform and I forgot to take it down So I messaged them and told them to pick out two more so I ended up giving them one free because I made a mistake and So they ended up getting four frogs for sixty four dollars posh took 11 52 So my earnings was forty six oh eight and again. I had about probably 25 to 30 cents in each one This blaze in the monster machine truck I sold this for $15 and this guy is crusher. I Sold this Disney Pixar toy story. I believe I picked this up retail arbitrage at bargain hunt For like a buck and I sold it for ten dollars. So posh took two dollars and ninety five cents So my earnings was seven oh five. So, you know still made like five or six bucks on this The next item is a Retail arbitrage Dollar store. So I got these at the dollar store for a dollar each So I've got about two dollars and tax whatever that is in this They paid 13 for both two ninety five posh took so my earnings was ten oh five minus the two something So, you know still pretty good margins for a dollar store flip The next item is the Shopkins neon mystery edition Toys I got this at a garage sale again. I bought all of the toys So I got a really good deal on it probably have a couple bucks in it and I sold this for thirty dollars and the buyer paid shipping Universal Studios the secret life of pets. I cannot remember where I got this I'm guessing a garage sale and I sold these guys for twenty bucks These puppets oh Gosh, I can't remember where I got them either I'm gonna say probably a garage sale for a buck or two and I sold these for twenty dollars I think those were a garage sale and Twenty dollars is what I sold them for they're super cute this costume I always pick up costumes at garage sales Some of them do well some of them don't they're usually bread and butter. I sold this for fifteen dollars This came from my I bought it on eBay to sell on eBay bulk buy 344 pound a lot and if you want to check out that video you can see everything I got I weigh it and when I pick it up. It's three hundred and forty four pounds of jewelry This one sold for eighteen dollars and the buyer paid shipping the next item I bought this from a Support that seller Sunday in Dominic Crohn's Facebook group. It's called the reselling resource center Go check it out. If you haven't already he features somebody every Sunday and Everybody in the group that wants to participate buys from that person. It's awesome I just was picked recently and I sold over seven hundred dollars and one day just from people from the group So definitely go get involved in that this I bought from a seller that was featured And I try to buy things Whenever I can and a lot of times I will buy things that I can resell and if I can break even I'm happy because I'm helping Somebody else and then you know, I'm making my money back So this was a purchase from that and then I sold these for thirteen dollars on Poshmark and the buyer paid shipping This is a Gucci men's tie I picked this up at a thrift store It was a whole bunch of ties, so I'm not exactly sure how much I had in it I'm gonna say less than a buck and it sold for sixty five dollars plus shipping This is the shirt that I was telling you about I picked it up at a garage sale I think it was two or three dollars and Disney store Hawaiian shirts grab them if you see them. I sold this for thirty eight dollars This flyhawk came from a garage sale. I think it was like a buck and I sold it for 15 It was a long tail item, so I was happy that it sold but again just a You know, it doesn't take up much space and I just wait for the right buyer This I picked up at a garage sale and I was super excited because I thought my glasses were gonna fit in it But this was actually a slim eyeglass case So I picked it up for a buck at a garage sale threw it back on Poshmark first and sold it for 16 dollars This Norco Compression glove I picked up at a thrift store for a buck and I sold it for 13 dollars in the buyer paid shipping These I picked up at a thrift store. I want to say they were half off So I think I got them for around three dollars and fifty cents. They are a 11 wide that's why I picked them up and they were brand new and They're not like a name brand or anything, but they're just kind of casual and cute So I thought I would try it and I sold them for twenty two dollars These I picked up at a thrift store for five dollars their vintage Linux holiday dimension for glasses And this is the second one that I've sold and I bought two of them the same day Can't remember what the other one sold for but this one sold for forty dollars in the buyer paid shipping These willow tree I always pick up willow tree This is the our gift and this one is the angel of freedom and the angel of healing And somebody bundled these for thirty five dollars posh took seven. So my profits were twenty eight dollars This guy I picked up at a garage sale for a buck and these I got I believe at a thrift store And I think they were half off so I think I got them for three dollars and they bundled the two items for seventy five and posh took fifteen so my earnings on this were sixty it did weigh over five pounds So I did have to pay three dollars and ninety nine cents to Upgrade my shipping label to a six pound package. So still pretty good earnings and This Boyd's bear Noah the big boat Long tail item for sure, but I bought a bunch of these at a garage sale It was like a bundle price So I probably have a couple bucks in it and I sold this for thirty five dollars in the buyer paid shipping Those are my posh mark Bolo's Items that are not clothing that I sold on posh mark for I feel really great margins There were some big money Bolo's in there that I was pretty happy with and I'll try to remember to pull it up right now So it should be popping up on the screen and you can just click on it. All right, you guys thanks for watching Thanks for being here and I'll see you at the next video


oh good afternoon today we are going to New Orleans we're going to New Orleans today it's like 12 o'clock it takes like 10 hours to get there so we have a pretty late start right now


Well, my name is Brett Whiting and on behalf of my director. I issue triggers from the office of business opportunity I have the privilege of introducing today The honorable a mayor of Colombia Mr. Daniel Rickham in and he will speak to you guys a few words And again, thank you for coming. Thank you, sir You're welcome Well, it's a beautiful cool day here in Columbia, South Carolina We're excited to be here as you know humidity is good for the skin And so we promote it wherever we can But we're very excited about this re grand opening as I'd like to say of Chessnut College and a cottage Excuse me. I actually stayed here the night. I was married And the in the back bedroom with my wife and that's a story that we can tell another time, but it was This has been an institution in our community and very excited for Crystal and Ken to new be our new in Keepers, I guess is the proper term so congratulations It's incredible to have our past our most past Endkeepers here and then our our I guess the originator you y'all are the original endkeepers of the Chessnut Cottage in 1987 right? Isn't that correct? 87 that so I thought so 91 so that was incredible for a community of us at that time It was pretty Progressive and it has survived the time it continues to be a favorite of visitors throughout And very excited to have this historic cottage here again as it's been through a cycle. It's been medical offices It's been all types of things in its history But now we have our continuation of endkeepers and Crystal and Ken were so excited for y'all I know y'all are going to be excited. I know you've been excited. You've been doing this for a little bit But really for for being part and a way to introduce you to our community and I'd love for y'all to come say a few words About your new venture Thank you, Mr. Mayor Thank you so much. Oh, I needed that extra step We can make that happen Thank you gentlemen, that's why they call it the South I'll tell you this is why we love the South Welcome everyone to the historic Chestnut Cottage Bed and Breakfast It is an honor to share this day with you all and thank you, Mr. Mayor for being here Along with the Columbia City Council The city manager mr. Brett Whiting with the office of business opportunities Mr. Hammond Edwards and your vice president of Optus Bank so many people worked together For us to be here today. So thank you Um having moved here from California just this past December We are grateful for the friends that we have made in such a short period of time here in South Carolina Um and who are here today to show their support and you know Friends like Adam Catledge who drove all the way from Buford and you know people like that And I tell you you have shown us Californians the best of the south Um on this day we celebrate like the mayor said the grand reopening of this one and only bed and breakfast Remaining in Columbia. Did you guys all know that? and um and it was actually about 40 years ago when Gail Garrett and his brother took this dilapidated cottage and revived it and in 1991 um his then um Former wife Diane was the inspiration to turning this into a bed and breakfast So him and his wife Sherwood have started This this service to the community And until recently and back in 19 and in 2019 it was Mary Sparrow who then took over the reins And until recently like about 30 days ago These were the fine people who have preserved the civil wartime home of general james chestnut and mary boykin chestnut We wouldn't be standing here today And so many people would have missed out on the charm and the rich and important history Of this cottage had it not been for these fine folks Who took who took to heart the privilege of being an inkeeper and sharing with guests the relevance of this very important home But after this you will get a guided tour by the way, and mary gives a fabulous guided tour Today my husband ken and business partner are honored and grateful to be given this extraordinary responsibility of being the next generation of Inkeepers for chestnut cottage and we hope to make you all proud We aim to keep this bed and breakfast as a place where people come to experience True southern hospitality and you may be wondering true southern hospitality from californians Well, wait, we do hail from the south of california after all so there there is hope Okay, and we hope that um it could it brings to the community um a place for reflection and education And ken would you like to say a few words? I have to follow that Every day Just say yes, ma'am. Yes ma'am So, uh, thank you for being here this afternoon And you know one of the aspects that we see in the bed and breakfast that we'd like to enhance is you know through the local economy local economic and social systems and how we can bring a part of that down to The downtown and the community of columbia Um, you know through targeted promotions Tourism and up through into the eastern states elevate the awareness of all of the local businesses here We have the local restaurants. We have museums. There's so many local activities when the guests stay here They're always asking us for recommendations. What do we do? Where do we go? And we want to be that source and we've been spending a lot of time this last week or Actually the last couple weeks after we got our feet wet And really going out and visiting a lot of the local businesses around here We believe that you know, we can have a substantial impact You know with these businesses around here not only contribute to economic benefits benefits, but support The growth and innovation the city has planned and I see a lot of stuff going on through main Etc. So there's a lot of things happening here We are strong supporters of promoting a sense of collaboration within the city and kind of along with that theme I would be remiss if I didn't recognize my mother who Has the name Dixie Doyle. Please wave There she is Wasn't born in the south where she carries this other name and she's been one of our biggest supporters And fan, you know raging fan over the years. So Thank you mom for everything you have brought to the table And was there anything else that you were going to say? Well, I was just going to say first of all Thank you again for for coming here, but y'all y'all solidified what I've been trying to tell everybody Nobody retires anywhere but the south. So why start there and and clearly you've listened to our advice And you're gonna be here, but we're excited about this We're getting ready to cut the ribbon here on the grand reopening, but I love your commitment to continuing To push people to our small businesses there are the backbone of our community And if you need a list of places, I've got to one a mile long that you have all over I can tell you what to get when to get it and where to get it. So, uh, we're excited about this and thank y'all Thank you


Please kill, power through, yes that was great, that's great. Now we can wait out sparking and then finish Super Saiyan Goku off. So watch the Super Dash, that's what you're gonna wanna watch. Boom, how's it going everybody? Datu Doi here back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters Ranked Matches. And this time we are going with the main team because I realized past me, I gotta stop, I gotta stop ending Dragon Ball Fighters Ranked Match sessions on a ranked down match. Past me really does not care about future me at all, bro. It's crazy how often I set myself at a disadvantage. Wow, that was nice. Whoa, why would he 2M after that? That was really risky. He was like, yeah, I think I'm thinking about 2M. If he stops for a second, I'm gonna throw out my most damaging starter. And I'm just, I don't even care what happens to that. Any Dragon Ball? Okay, this game's off to an interesting start. Also, bad start. All right, we're in there. At least we got a hit. Now it's time to start calming things down a little bit. Get control and they're probably gonna go for the level three just because I need to get a character out as fast as possible. So we might as well aim for one of the beam assist that being Goku. We go low. Now we go red. Yeah, glad I decided that when I did. It's still not gonna kill. Oh no, we need a bar as well. No down heavy comes up. What is going on? Where's the dragon rush? I was trying to leave as much space as possible. All right, gotcha time. Let Goku heal up. I know it's not the most blue health in the world, but I still would rather him get that. Do we go light, light cross up? Oh, we tried it. That was a nice vanish though. No, we didn't touch the ground. All right, we do now. We didn't, we didn't there. We touched the ground and then I went for the heavy. I think, is it time to spark? The beam assist wasn't enough coverage. So many mistakes, so little time. Got to start warming up before these. Shout out to pass me. Shout out to pass, shout out to current me. That one was his fault. That was questionable. That one was questionable. That's a whole sparking gone. I'm actually feeling a little better about my odds now. This time we go low. This time we go low. OK, nice. Get Goku black out of there. Sparking's already gone. If we can get Super Saiyan Goku without dying or losing Yamcha, I would consider us an o. Oh, I can't believe the second hand it. I'm dead. Never mind. He's really trying to go in between our, not even block strings, just our normal hits. Again, he's clicking buttons. He shouldn't have used that spark so early. Level three should kill. That's the reason I'm doing it. I don't want Yamcha out. So that's kind of my reasoning behind it. Kill, kill, kill. Nice. Like I said, we got injured 16 out of two. Oh, three bars. And he can't even knock us out with one combo. I don't want to throw out too many beams. Super Dashing was so risky there. Why did I do it? He can level three, but it won't kill. What am I doing? What am I doing that Key Blast was so bad? Oh, we just took a winning scenario and made it into a losing one. And now we have to play extremely clutch. Or a bit of the, oh, we win. Never mind. That was weird. Thank goodness, dude. Oh my God. All right, let's try not to play as bad as we did there because that was intense for no reason.  Oh, can we please, yeah, that was a mistake. I agree. We both made some major mistakes there. Oh, he fell with that. Nicely done, Yamcha, good looking out. All right, we want a hard knock down here. We want a four. I just want to take a character out as soon as possible. The change, I should have been looking for it, but I wasn't. For being honest, I really did not want to see it. Okay, I think I don't mind switching out into 16 here. It cost the bar, but really enough time to vanish? That time we didn't get caught by the change, but I still didn't want to see it. No, there was no coverage or being clashed with the assist. A horrible position to be in. Oh, not a 2M, not a 2M. I'm throwing out lights like it's candy, dude. Please, please, I don't know, don't. Okay, he didn't get a sliding after that. That's interesting. I turned that into a pseudo hard knockdown. Not proud of my choices. Oh, just raw heavy. Another change. I'm going to start standing there and waiting down H. Yeah, I felt so bad about that one. And Krillin's dead, too. Wow. Wow, did I feel bad about that one? Get out, Krillin. Understandable. Save time, don't want to play out too many animations while Sparking's here, because we got a lot of catching up to do now. So much catching up to do. Thank goodness we get a lot of bar in Sparking, dude. Thank goodness these mix-ups are possible. He might Spark, which I would Spark if I was him, honestly. Yep. Oh, please kill. Please kill. Please kill, power through. Yes, that was great. That's great. Now we can wait out Sparking and then finish Super Saiyan Goku off. So watch the Super Dash. That's what you're going to want to watch. Boom. Now we can put the pressure on. Put the pressure on, don't let him escape.  Yep, all right, wrap it up, wrap it up, wrap it up. Ooh, baby. All right, we did what we wanted to do. We watched the Super Dash. If they got Sparking and it's down to an intense scenario, most of the time, they're going to want to click Super Dash. Just don't let it happen is the advice. The only worthwhile advice I could give. It's all clicking now, boys. It's all clicking now. Why did I do that? What the? What is happening? I should have downed heavy that. What is happening? That was the weirdest section of Dragon Ball fighters today. It was like we clashed once. I didn't know what to click. Okay. Try to take his turn, but there was no turn to take. We even stopped the beam assist, but I was still swinging and I was panicking too much. I was like, get him out, get him out. I'm not trying to see Goku Black right now. Why do I down tech there? Sparking this early? Can you even kill? I guess with the beam assist, yeah. I didn't realize we'd be including those. Wow. Man, I can't get a game where I get off to a good start. I just have constantly been a vanish. I'm a vanish too. Key blast. Key blast and I dash behind him. You confuse myself. I'm just kind of ruined the whole thing. Calm down here. Let me smack you around a little. Krillin was looking a little thirsty.  This was our worst match so far. Yamcha, paging Mr. Comeback. Can Yamcha, if Yamcha clutches us out, nobody can ever doubt why I put him on my team. Nobody can talk about how Yamcha's not out there. Why am I not that heavy, you know? This is the saddest match. He's just, this is the saddest match. This is the saddest match. Mr. Clutch, what happened? We're dead here.  I was holding down the button. Maybe I let go of a direction. No! Even further conclusion that that was the saddest game of all time. All right, that game was a mess. And we lost 2,000 points. I'ma set future me up for failure again. The cycle is going to begin anew. This time starring current me. All right, no bars, we ain't vanishing nowhere. Yeah, we got him for five minutes. And he's not vanishing anywhere. Not with these bars. Not when I'm putting these bars out on the table. He vanished because I missed. As unfortunate as it is, it's just the simple truth of the situation. Okay, Goku. Goku, let me talk to you. Boom, get him up. All right, he changed it. It's vanished change. It's never vanished. Let me try to take a turn real quick. Whoa, he's slicing and dicing. My dude is swinging. Nope, did you see that? If I was Goku Black, that wouldn't have happened to me. The instant transmissions we're not having. Sliding, I'll take it. No vanish for you. Didn't vanish that time either. Get Krillin back out here. Let Krillin talk to him. Krillin, do it again. Do it again, Krillin. Do it again and let's not let him vanish. This time we go overhead. All right, he sparked. That's fine, you can spark. That's your resource to spend. If you wanna spend it, I pushed it. I pushed my luck. I pushed my luck. Was arrogance. Wow, we kept cool. That was cheap. That was cheap and it probably shouldn't have been that way. But I have lost empathy. There we go. And this time I'm not dropping it. I'm dropping it. I'm dropping it because I didn't get the, all the inputs got eaten alive. Where were the inputs? Where were the inputs? Oh, I tried to do the assist change super so that Krillin could heal up. Maybe it was greedy, but it's not something you drop that often. Wasted that one. All right. He's gonna get vanished from this. Oh wait, is he? Well, if he blocks two of my hits, I think he does. So, oh, there's the vanish. Where's the change? There we go. And don't drop, and I dropped it. Oh, but oh, it was a mix. That was the every drop is an opportunity.  This isn't even sponsored, I'm just a big fan. Feeling good now, boys, we're feeling good. It would be very hard to lose this game now. But, you know, I am something of a comeback extraordinaire when it comes to throwing. Come on, grab, I wasn't expecting that, honestly. Okay, don't drop it, don't drop it. Nice. And that is where we can wrap it up. Current me has corrected the timeline. I steered past me away from failure. You know, a failure was pretty close. We're still right on the edge of failure. One more. No, I can't be swayed. I can't be swayed, I can't be swayed. I can't be swayed. Rematch doya, I would be setting my future self up for failure again. Oh, hopefully you guys enjoyed it. If you did, make sure to go down below and hit the like button. It really helps the channel out a ton. And if you wanna watch more videos, there should be some up on your screen. So make sure to check those out if any of them catch your eye. Especially that Guilty Gear video I did yesterday. That one was a lot of fun to do. So hopefully you guys checked that one out. Other than that though, thanks again for watching to the end. I have been Dr. Doya and I will see you in the next video.


So good morning, folks. Or good afternoon, I guess at this point we've crossed the noon hour. This is the house health care committee at Thursday, March 25th. And there are several things that I want to bring us up to date on. And I'll start with the first is the most immediate. I believe that we have, so I'm just gonna say this, that there was an amendment in the calendar that Representative Cordes and Representative Donahue worked on is on the calendar. And there were questions raised. And I think from my point of view, misunderstandings about what the intent of the language was. So there was a meeting this morning that was attended by Representative Donahue and myself, the commissioner of mental health and deputy commissioner. And we have just left a meeting of the house corrections and institutions committee meeting when I left. It seemed that they were moving toward a understanding of what the department and those of us representing the committee at least and Representative Cordes was also part of that at the corrections institutions committee meeting. So I'm gonna turn to Representative Donahue or can you share what the outcome was? I cannot share the outcome. There was a request by a member and then therefore a request by the chair that we have an up to date poll of our members on the amendment as redrafted, which they haven't seen. So I am begging the indulgence of the chair and the committee members. When I presented it yesterday and you all voted, it was with the understanding it might be adjusted to meet concerns of DMH. And that was the basis. It has been adjusted. I can send it to you ASAP, but they're kind of waiting for a response. And so let me suggest that you would be willing to take a straw poll to say. No, I'm gonna ask our committee to see the language as well. I will get it right away to you. Yeah, Colleen, would you put it on the screen? I don't know that she has it, but I will get it there instantly. Been a lot of moving things. And again, I wasn't able to be part of it because I was off getting my second vaccination yesterday. So I wasn't party to all the discussions, but I know there was a great deal of committee discussion and communication. And I guess I'm coming to you with, I'll be clear with recommendation that this committee adopt support for the amended language that Representative Donahue was just referencing. But let's share it with the committee before we ask the committee to adopt language without seeing it. That would really have been unfair. I'm sorry. I'm feeling the pressure from the chair of the other committee. I get it. So I have sent it to Colleen and to everyone. So here we go. Would you walk us through Representative Donahue? And let's just point it to the changes. We don't need to read through every word because much of it is the same. That's right. So the change, if we scroll towards the end, Colleen, thanks so much. The first sentence under C, nothing above that has changed. The first sentence has not changed. Beginning with the second sentence on line 13. The big concern from DMH was that our language would be misinterpreted to mean they had to do a redesign. So what this says is through interior fit up versus building redesign. The 16 bed facility shall include two eight bed wings designed with the capability to allow the separation of one wing from the main section if necessary. Now that's different from saying two wings, but if you're dividing one wing from the other, you are creating two sub areas. Both wings shall be served by common clinical and activity space, which is what we had. The seclusion area is unchanged. And their request on the outdoor space was that it be less specific about the types of uses, but that it would be adequate for exercise and other activities, but not less than 10,000 square feet. So the primary substantive change is the clarification that it's through interior fit up, not a building redesign that this would occur. And if I may build it BGS, which is in charge with building and construct designing and constructing the testified in the committee just within the last half hour that this language and the changes that it would bring about would not increase the cost of the facility, nor would it delay the construction of the facility. So they were good with it. I have a quick question regarding the design. It'll have to go through Act 250 and I guess the members of Earth know it won't. No, they just reported on that. I wouldn't have known that. They just filed for the permit. They do not have to do Act 250. They will need a CON and they just updated corrections and institutions on that. And will it have to, so there's no public debate on how it looks or anything like that? There is through the Certificate of Need process. Okay, so the locals can have the opportunity to weigh in on the design process and that sort of thing? They can through that method. It's important to also know though that it is down a steep driveway behind a cliff, basically not visual for some distance. It's not visible at all from the street or from even near the street.  I think it looks ugly, you know? Yeah. Hopefully they do something about it, you know? Other question, represent Golden. I just noticed they took out that really nice language about gardens and whatever. So what was the... I was very clear that we were not putting gardens in statute. I was just wondering the process. I was very clear. I dived right in and said, we are not putting gardens, greenhouses or garden beds in statute, period. Got it. I was just wondering where that came from, so. I'm glad it was for me. That's where it went. I can just imagine, well, we want to not have a garden, we want a compost pile, now we have to commend it through the legislative process. Not happening. That's a good learning moment for me. Thank you. So do we need a motion to approve the bill that Ann Donahue has... Please. ...and representative Donahue and representative Cordis and representative Lipper presented? Yes. Brian, I see your hands up. Brian. Yeah. So I just want to clarify that. The reason we would not put gardens in statute is because we don't want... Brian, think about our time. We do not have time to debate gardens right now. I'm being a little... I'm sorry. I don't mean to be rude, but seriously. It is in their design plan, Brian. It's in their design plan. It's just... They just wanted it more generic. It's a statutory language. I apologize for being so... Not letting me finish what I was going to ask? Yes. You're making assumptions about what I was going to ask about. What were you going to ask, Brian? I was going to just clarify that is the reason that you don't want to be so specific that if they don't want to do it, they're breaking the rules because we put it in statute. I mean, is that the idea to give them more flexibility by not... Yeah. Okay. In the same way that really statute needs to be able to stand on its own for some period of time and not to have things which require... If you go through the entire legislative process, yeah, I apologize. Let me... There's been a few things going on. Well, I understand. I more clearly understand why you wouldn't include it though. You're saying like, we don't want to force them to put gardens in. We want to leave it open for them to choose to put gardens if they wish and not require it. So, okay. Did someone make a motion? I can't remember. I believe what he did. Okay. Any other questions? We're just going to do this by Shaw Hands. By Shaw Hands, those who support the language that is the revised language to... This would be a substitute amendment on the floor, is my understanding. Okay. So, that shows a unanimous support of the committee and if you could report that to the corrections and institutions. My pleasure. Thank you. Okay, great. Thank you. I'm sorry, Brian, you have a hand up. What's that? I just want to clarify that. I voted yes because I want to support the effort to improve what's happening already, but I still, for the record, oppose building this facility the way that it's being built. So, I just want to be clear about that so that Representative Donahue knows so that what's not set on the floor is that the committee unanimously supports this idea because I don't. I support the amendment as a form of harm reduction. Noted. And I think there may be others who feel similarly that this was an attempt to try to... Given the decision of the corrections and institutions committed to move forward with a 16-bed facility, right? And rather than two eight-bed wings with one in a staged process, as some of us had recommended, but this is a decision their committee has made and this was an attempt to... And I want to just say that I appreciate the effort to maximize the clinical and therapeutic flexibility and the changes in the mid... Given that the decision has been made to do a 16-bed facility. Further comment, Brian? Your hand is still up. Okay. Once that provision hadn't kicked in yet, but it's now it has. All right. The legacy ends. Okay, so you also have received a via email from the clerk's office in amendment that Coach Christie, Kevin Christie is wanting to offer on our Bill House 210. I've been in touch with him. He's juggling many things today. He's also as some of you, I think he's the chair of the Human Rights Commission, but he certainly serves on the Human Rights Commission. I think he may also be the chair and they have a meeting today. So he's doing trying to be multiple places at once, but I reached out to him to explain that we would want him. I would want him to come into our committee to present the amendment that has been crafted and distributed by the clerk. So I've not been able to contact him at this point, but so I'm trying to think how best to proceed. We do know what the content of that amendment is, and we will want to review it as a committee and respond to it on the floor in terms of a committee vote. So let me ask first, have members had a chance to look at that language? Folks have, okay. I wasn't sure if folks would have had the opportunity. So, well, I think it would be far preferable to have Representative Christie here. Actually, what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna, I'm gonna suggest that you take a look at the language and that given the hour, I really want him to be able to be part of this rather than doing it on his behalf. So, but I will suggest this, that we're back on the floor at 1.15. Are members flexible enough to give you relatively short notice if Coach Christie becomes available, say in the next half hour or something like that? Can we text? Can most people receive texts? I know what he can't, but do other people receive texts? Text is preferable to me, emails get buried. Yeah, I agree, yeah, me too. So, how about, how about I suggest this, that we adjourn for now, and that if you have particular questions that in the interim, you direct them to me because I believe I understand what's intended in the amendment. So that will help maybe answer some questions in anticipation of the presentation from Representative Christie. If you have particular questions, please reach out to me. And in the meantime, I will continue to reach out to Representative Christie, who I know is, as I say, juggling different responsibilities throughout the day. If we're able to meet before my preference, my strong preference would be for us to be able to meet prior to the floor, but if we're not able to meet prior to the floor to hear from him, then I will seek leave of the speaker for us to leave the floor at some point, which hopefully we'll try to work out with all of you. So you're not, we're not leaving in the middle of something that's, I mean, there's, we should all be there, but there are times we have to leave the floor to do something, but that's my second choice, not my first choice, okay? So again, if you have particular questions, reach out to me in the meantime. In the meantime, I will be reaching out to Representative Christie, and we will try to reconvene the committee to look at that amendment prior to third reading of the bill today. Okay, Representative Goldman? I'm just trying to understand our process and what I'm hearing is that you would prefer that we don't talk about it before hearing from Representative Christie, because I'm just wondering- Because he's the presenter of the amendment. He's the presenter, so in the process, but I'm just wondering if there's a way we could get ahead a little bit on what he's offered just to get the language, in a very fundamental way, not in a philosophical way, but what's the meaning of the substitutions is what I'm wondering, but if you prefer not to talk about it, then that's fine. I'm suggesting that you reach out to me if you would like to have more opportunity between now and when Representative Christie is available, I'd be happy to talk with you. But I understand that other people may have great questions that I can learn from. That's all, I'm just trying to, this is all new and it's Zoom and I'm trying to get my head around it. I understand. And I'm trying to juggle lots of things as well. So I'm trying to figure out how to have the committee get what it needs and at the same time, move us forward and be respectful of the fact that when someone offers an amendment, they should be present when that amendment is presented to a committee. I mean, that's, I think that's the level of procedure and respect that I'm trying to reach as well. So Representative Gina. Yeah, I was just gonna say, I really do think we need to wait and let the presenter make their case before we start talking about it. I read it and I looked at what it does and I could also explain it to someone, but I feel like doing that before the presenter makes their cases isn't really proper. So I appreciate that. We just have to be patient, you know? We'll get there, but I think it's an important piece of the process at this point in time. Okay, other questions in terms of process? So Woody will call you if we're looking to reconvene. No, we'll reach out. We'll give you a call. Everyone else will try to text and people will... I do have email. You could always email me as well. I do check it periodically. Yeah, well, every two minutes. No. Good for you. Okay, good. And I appreciate your flexibility on this because I think it's important for us to try to move this forward and yet respect the process that is necessary. So great. Thank you.