>> good morning, mr. simpson. >> good morning, ma'am. >> i conducted your last hearing in 2013 with hearing representative mr. robin bates. do you recall that hearing? >> yes, i do. >> all right. at the time, we asked you what your plan would be if we to grant you to your consecutive sentence you told us you were going to complete commitment to change. have you done that? >> no, i haven't. at one point i couldn't take the course. you know, i took -- i took two courses that i guess you guys don't give much credit to. called "alternative to violence." i think it's the most important course anybody in this prison can take, because it teaches you how to deal with conflict, through conversation. i have been asked many, many times here to mediate conflicts between individuals and groups. and it gave me so many tools on