Y Bodrodad, thank you for joining me at this week's Welsh Government press conference. This morning I want to set up the action that we're taking to support the Welsh economy, creating better jobs in stronger businesses, narrowing the skills divide, backing innovation and selling Wales to the wider world. Our economy is facing enormous headwinds from high inflation and dramatic supply problems I watering energy costs and labour shortages. This is tied up with the hit to family finances in this cost of living crisis and the consequences of multiple austerity budgets. It's precisely because we face such threats that we'll prioritise offering as much certainty and stability as we can to businesses here in Wales. We're working to strengthen what works in Wales to secure and create jobs and to open up new options for businesses from local opportunities and public contracts to major export and investment. In recent months, the Welsh Government has had a busy programme of international engagement to ensure that we're in the fight for investment in what is a crowded and competitive field. Later today, the First Minister will update Senedd members on this Government's work to promote Wales to the wider world. The First Minister, my Cabinet colleagues and I have been pleased to welcome several ambassadors and other representatives to CARDIS to discuss issues of mutual interest between our nations. In our engagements, our focus is squarely on what we can do together to enhance partnerships between our nations for the benefit of people here in Wales. Next week, I'll be attending the Paris Air Show, the biggest aerospace event in the world, to bang the drum for our leading Welsh aerospace businesses. From the wings at Airbus and Broughton in North Wales, through the impressive new and innovative technologies our space sector companies are developing across the country. The sector plays a significant role in our economy by employing tens of thousands of people across Wales. My message in all my engagements with business, potential investors and representatives of government remains clear. Wales is a great place to do business, and this Welsh Government is a stable, accessible Government and a partner that businesses can trust. To secure our vision for the Welsh economy, the decisions we take are focused on creating an environment where more young people feel confident about planning ambitious futures closer to home. With an ageing population, meeting this test is more important than ever. I'll be working with each economic region here in Wales to consider how their distinctive offer can help to create that compelling offer for young people here in Wales. To turn that vision into a reality, we're also focused on creating new jobs in the new green industries and services of the future. The Welsh Government needs the UK Government to be a partner with us in taking this work forward. On freeports we've proven a willingness to stand by mature negotiations within a partnership of equals to progress a Welsh freeport programme that we believe works for our economy. I would welcome a similar level of dialogue with the UK Government on the steel industry and the interests of providing the certainty and the clarity needed to secure a strong future for the sector. I've recently met with the chair of Tata Steel UK, Henryc Adam, his comments to the media this morning and last night underscore how urgent this issue is. Stronger businesses need access to finance, and I'm pleased to report that the Development Bank of Wales is going from strength to strength in providing innovative, responsive support to businesses here in Wales. Across a year, when economic conditions and uncertainties led to many high-street lenders to be more risk-averse, the Development Bank has helped to keep a vital flow of accessible finance available to businesses right across Wales. The Welsh Government took bold action in creating the UK's first regional bank with a service that is able to act at scale whilst understanding the needs of the Welsh economy and our businesses. The broad suite of funds offered by the Development Bank of Wales have helped hundreds of businesses to leverage investments and to secure the funding that they need to invest and grow. I would encourage businesses to consider whether the bank will support their next steps, especially as they explore how to decarbonise and how to preserve their bottom line. Our universities are at the heart of our research, development and innovation mission. Last Wednesday I was pleased to attend a ceremony to mark the start of work to build the Innovation Matrix, a new centre for digital innovation and enterprise at the University of Wales, Trinity and David's new campus at SA1 in Swansea. Funded through a strategic partnership between the university and the Swansea Bay City Deal, which includes significant funding from the Welsh Government, the Innovation Matrix will encourage and support the development of a sustainable innovation-led economy, which is based upon knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship. Much of the funding for innovation since the beginning of devolution came from EU structural funds. Following our departure from the EU and the loss of EU funds to Wales, we've taken difficult decisions to prioritise the support where it's needed most. The Welsh Government doesn't hold all the levers and can't simply replace the EU R&D funding pound-for-pound. In my discussions with the UK Government Science Minister George Freeman, I've set out clearly our position on the problem that we face. As yet, there has not been a definitive solution forthcoming. So today I'm calling again on the UK Government to bring forward a solution without further delay. In the meantime, the Welsh Government is doing what we can to support Welsh organisations. Last week, together with my colleague, the Minister for Climate Change, I announced a £30 million package of investment to boost innovation in Wales. This funding would help us to deliver on our new innovation strategy. And support Welsh organisations to develop and embed new and innovative products and services to help improve people's lives. To grow the economy and to address the climate and nature emergency. These are just some of the actions that this Welsh Government is taking to create the stronger, fairer and greener Wales that we all want to see. Thank you, Diolch yn fawr. I'll now take some questions from journalists. And I think we're going to start on Zoom, and then we'll eventually come back to people in the room. So I'm going to start with Elia Gwadr from BBC Wales. Wales has seen the largest increase in employment over the last year. How concerned are you about these figures? I've seen the Labour Force figures, the Labour Force survey figures the ONS have published today. And we are obviously concerned about what the figures show, whilst we're also looking at some confounding data as well. So on the one hand, and these figures are volatile, they're subject to revision as you know, we're concerned about whether this is a blip or the start of a genuine change in trend. And so the concerning points around the fact that there does appear to have been lots of employment, that there is a genuine and continuing challenge with economic inactivity rates, is a real concern for us. So whilst the UK economy won't go into recession, we know there's difficult ground ahead. We also, though, the confounding point that I refer to is over the period of devolution, the growth in the economy has outpaced Scotland, Northern Ireland and most English regions apart from London and the South East. And actually on current PAYE dates that only covers employees rather than self-employed, we're actually seeing growth. So the challenge of that is we're seeing a higher rate that we would expect to see when we compare the labour force survey things. So we do need to work that through to then understand the choices that we need to make. I actually think the overall picture isn't any different, though. We know we've got a challenge in a range of areas. We know it's affecting there to be more challenge when the last part of the energy support scheme was drawn for businesses and it still means there have to be UK-wide choices made as well as choices that we could and should quite rightly make it.  Well, as you know, we've got commitments to look at nationally as second homes, local authorities have powers that is a matter for them to address whether they've got their own mandate and their own responsibility. What we want to see is an increase in housing supply for where we know there's real need. That's why we've got commitments in our programme for government to not just improve housing supply but also the quality of housing too as well. And the quality of housing really does matter. So the retrofit programme we have is really important from a climate perspective for the quality of accommodation. That makes a big difference in a number of areas. We have a challenge and a balance of the market when it comes to housing. To make sure housing is accessible for local people and to make sure that if, for example, you have the benefit of a thriving tourism sector, you still have a balance in thriving communities and housing supply and availability is a key part of that. We're working through that with both local authorities and the partners to the cooperation agreement, but we do know that there is a real challenge. It could be helped again on a UK level when it comes to the sort of housing additions we want to see and then making sure that we build enough homes that are generally available for local people in whatever part of the country they have to live in. Thank you. We'll now go to Dean Thomas from ITV Wales. Good morning, Minister. With the headline figure of unemployment rising in Wales, we also hear the news of Tafnall's delivery service going into administration over 2,000 jobs across the UK at risk there. A number of those employees are in South Wales in Newport. What is the Welsh Government doing to help those jobs that are at risk and has the Welsh Government been in touch with the company? My officials will be in touch with the company. What we have done, you've seen this in the food sector where we've had redundancy events, Teleravallee Foods, Two Sisters in Anglesey, but also the consultation that's taking place with Avara Foods as well based in Monmouthshire. We're looking to work with companies in advance in making choices when they've made choices or when they've gone into administration. We've always provided support that both works with what the UK Government could and should do through the Department for Work and Pensions, and I should say that local relationships in Wales are good with their staff on the ground. So it's about the support they can get from the UK Government. It's also about the support they can get from us, and in particular our two programmes, Communities of Work Plus, so our React Plus programme helps people to acquire new training and opportunities and we've been able to provide job at fairs as well. When it comes to logistics businesses, actually there's still a need for people in that sector. So we'll want to work with the company and with the staff and with staff representatives to make sure we can do all we can between both governments to try to secure alternative employment. I think this goes to some of the challenges we face in the economy. We know there'll be businesses that will struggle. We know there'll be some businesses that will not operate through the rest of this year, and there'll be a real cause of concern for people running and leading those businesses as well as people in those jobs. In other sectors of the economy, we'll still see growth. So that's why the economic picture is really challenging for the year ahead. That's why I spoke about the headwinds we face. So I don't think this will be the last significant unemployment event in Wales or across the UK and then just secondly, on the comments made by the leadership at Tata, what do you fear are the concerns if the company doesn't get the support that it's asking for to decarbonise? Well look, there's a number of things that need to be in place and these are state secrets. There's been a long run call from the whole steel sector to do something about industrial energy prices. Prices in the UK are significantly above France and Germany so our main European competitor economies and industrial economies, it's easier to produce steel and it's cheaper to be steel in those countries. That's one of the concerns. There's an ongoing concern around carbon. You'll have heard what President Biden said and we refer to trying to lock out dirty steel and the deal that the US did with the European Union. We want to see competition take place on a base that is fair to steel producers here and so actually understanding the carbon cost of steel is really important as well we think. And there is then the sort of deal to be done on what co-investment looks like between the UK government and any steel company on investing in a greener form of steel production. But also then has policy consequences I think for what happens to scrap metal in the UK. We actually export lots of scrap metal out of the UK and if we're going to have more recycled steel production then there's got to be a policy choice made about retaining more of that scrap metal within the UK. So there's a number of choices there and a policy. I mean all of those have consequences for jobs and investment. So this has been a conversation I've been taking place for several years. You remember way back when Kwazi Kwating wasn't just in government but he was actually the base secretary the conversations were taking place then when Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson were still in number 10 and number 11 down his street. So there's a real need to make some choices and to provide that certainty because steel really is a strategic asset for the whole UK and you can't have a significant steel production within the UK without having a future steel production here in south Wales or a matter to people of trust when shopping too. So there are choices that I believe need to be made and you can't I believe wait for a general election for those choices to be made. So this UK government needs to make choices that are in the interests of all of us and the sort of greener future we want to have where that steel will come from and how it's actually provided and produced. Thank you, Dean. Now I've got Jordan Howell from LBC who is in the room. Jordan. Thank you minister. Another topic in the headlines today is obviously the Covid inquiry getting underway today. Now we know the Welsh Government will contribute to that as well as other stakeholders here. There won't be a Wales specific inquiry we know that already. Now the first module of the Covid inquiry focuses on resilience and preparedness for the pandemic. How resilient and how prepared was the Welsh Government for the pandemic? So I think the starting point is to recognise that the inquiry is a huge important event for all of us but particularly for those bereaved families and people who are still living with harm from the pandemic and I know they're starting the inquiry today by hearing the voices of those bereaved families and I think it's really important that that does take place because that sets the context for why the inquiry is taking place and my thoughts really are with all those people who suffered loss in the pandemic and I hope that the inquiry will provide them with answers that they're seeking. When it comes to your second question of preparedness that's a question for the inquiry to examine and determine. What I don't want to do is to try to half answer inquiry questions here when I'll be going to give evidence on what will the First Minister both in this first stage inquiry and I expect that I'll be invited to attend on future occasions too. We will obviously not just go through the plan but the resources and what that looks like both here in Wales and across the UK. It's the right place to do it and to think about the context of the time on which we are making all those choices in advance the pandemic as well as the really difficult choice that all of us had to make during the time of the pandemic itself. But I'll say my primary thoughts today are with those families who won't just be having a day to day of reflection and difficulty but throughout the inquiry period and no doubt for some of them. And just my second point on that you mentioned the families affected there they will be the ones that continue to call for a Wales-specific COVID inquiry. Do you, the First Minister of the Welsh Government stand by wholeheartedly the commitment we'll hear from everybody in Wales that's been affected and that everything that's happened in Wales will be fully scrutinised by this committee? Well, we want there to be full scrutiny of the story here in Wales with the choices we made. We want that to be properly examined within the context of the UK decisions are definitely affected choices we made here in Wales. But also we have agreed as you know on a cross-party basis for a Senedd committee to be established so that after each element of the inquiry they call in the modules they'll run a report on a section of what happened produce a report and then the Senedd cross-party committee will be able to look at that and decide if there are areas that they want to look at in more detail that haven't been covered by the inquiry. And I think that's a sensible way forward and I'm pleased we've reached agreement on that. It will also mean that all of the evidence that the UK inquiry has gathered and published will be directly available to the Senedd itself as well. And I think that's a process that I think should work in giving people assurance that there really will be a public mechanism for any additional scrutiny that is required to take place here in Wales. But I think it's a sensible approach that we're taking and we are absolutely committed to both being open and transparent for the UK inquiry and should the Senedd determine there are things it wants to look at as well to do the same here. Thank you. Will Hayward, who is online. Thank you Minister. The First Minister has said Wales is a better place for England to do business. So can you just explain why unemployment is rising in Wales but falling in other parts of the UK? We're talking about the environment for businesses to make choices and for them to understand the sort of partnerships they have with us here in Wales. And this is a regular message we hear from business organisations. In a variety of sectors from the event sector to manufacturing investments to the tech sector that is making more investments here in Wales as well. And that's because we've managed to create something here in Wales not that we have tools like the Development Bank and others but actually the nature of our relationships are mature and they're stable. And that's the point that we're definitely making. In other parts of the UK we don't have the ability to have the same conversation with local authority leaders who are now even better at collaborating with each other within the four regions. And I think there's a growing successor referred to the Swansea bay city deal area and at the same time that doesn't get into an unhelpful and competitive relationship with the Welsh Government as well and the fact that we have mature relationships with business partners and trade unions and that is an environment where certainty can be provided on the Welsh Government doing what it says it will do as a trusted partner and not underrun through lots of different hoops. Actually the confounder and the real outlet continues to be London and the South East which I think is more than just UK Government relationships and London itself is well ahead of every other area of the UK when it comes to economic output. Sorry, you didn't necessarily explain why an employment was rising in Wales but falling across the rest of the UK but I want to ask you a different question if I may. Mr Mark Drakeford has said he'll be stepping down within the next 12 months. Do you have ambitions to be the first minister and will you be running for the later leadership when the time comes? When the time comes any candidate who wishes to put themselves forward will have lots of opportunities to answer your questions. There isn't a vacancy and I have a job to do here in the Government and I'm not going to get blown off course but I appreciate the attempt to do so. The next question in the room is from Claire Baud or I hope I've answered correctly from Bauer Media. So going off the unemployment figures again today the Welsh Government's servitives have said high business rates are one of the reasons to blame for the rising unemployment in Wales. Why do you think unemployment rates are rising? I don't think there's any objective evidence to support the Conservative tackle on this and that's just a bit of a nonsense story actually when you look at where we are you look at some of the challenges that are taking place look at the food sector you look at what's happened there and lots of that has been about energy costs and broader inflation. I've also said to sisters for example said that the change in trading conditions post Brexit is also a factor as well but the reason why I'm more concerned about what might happen at the end of this quarter when the last part of the UK energy support come to an end is that energy costs are a real challenge in the here and now for businesses and because inflation remains stubbornly high higher than the bank of in than expected actually that's a real risk for a range of businesses and a range of different sectors if you go back to Liz Truss and Quarting's period in office that then introduced an immediate increase in interest rates put off lots of business investment and business investment is still a real challenge across the UK it made it harder and more expensive to get business investment and we're still living with some of that reality in the here and now so the challenges we face if you exclude London and the South East there's more similarity than difference in the rest of the UK and I said at the top of the questions we want to understand more about the labour force survey statistics they are subject to revision and I'd say the confounding picture is that on PYE data it covers employees our figures are relatively strong so those two things don't necessarily add up so we do understand more about what's happened there and at the same time there are real challenges for us that we need to have intervention and support here in Wales and we do also need UK Government action too So the Welsh NHS continues to struggle dentistry in Wales is on its knees and families up and down the country are struggling to feed themselves how much of a priority is it for the Welsh Government to give all this money to projects like the innovation matrix and appearances at the Paris air show and how do you plan to justify that to people across Wales who are struggling to put more resources into the NHS here in Wales than ever before it's a larger portion of the Welsh Government's budget than ever before and we also continue to invest in preventative services across local Government social care and others and our challenge is given the last 13 years of budget settlements that have reduced the real terms value of the Welsh Government budget and then the challenges of inflation the cost of living costs on top we have an even bigger problem in how we continue to have decent properly funded public services and how we support the economy here in Wales as well and you can't just flee the pitch when it comes to these opportunities to support the economy here in Wales I think people do want a vision of the fact that a Government believes there's economic activity here in Wales we can build on and we couldn't just should invest in more of that including the really high value jobs in this sector if you went to North East Wales and you said the Government shouldn't be supporting the aerospace sector in Paris I think you get a pretty robust response from people not just those directly employed by Airbus but in that broader sector they understand the importance of it and you'll see the same message in other parts of Wales as well the Government needs more than one thing whilst at the same time making a clear argument we couldn't should have more investment on a UK basis or a policy in skills and in business investment across the UK and not having competition on those areas that it evolved skills, policy being an obvious one would help all of us to get to the point of a positive part that I talked about earlier we don't actually want to have a fight but we can have a deal we'd much rather be partnered and get on doing what we can all do to improve the economic picture and that of course has a direct benefit that will be online as well Yes, thank you Minister Yes, I wanted to ask going back to Tata Steel obviously you mentioned they are currently in discussions with the UK Government over financial aid to help with decarbonise which is currently quite a question mark over the future of the Port Albert Steelworks they obviously the UK Government offered 300 million What support does the Welsh Government stand ready to give Tata to help to decarbonise Tata Steelworks and hopefully keep the Steelworks in Port Albert Well, we're committed to the future of a thriving steel sector in Wales including at Port Albert it's a significant employer direct and all of those jobs that are aligned on it and actually when you look at the offer from the Celtic Freeport bid and the jobs it can create actually you want to see more steel production of the right type of steel being produced locally to go into those opportunities both in the offshore energy production but also in the potential to improve and increase high value manufacturing near to where you want power to land and to come in so it's a key importance to the future of the economy what we are doing in our regular conversations with both this company but other steel companies as well and trade unicide and with UK ministers is we know that the key us and the key choices are made at a UK level we can't resolve industrial and energy prices here but we know that's a key us we can't resolve a carbon border adjustment mechanism that works with other economies whether in the US or the European Union that's for the UK government to agree with partners as well we aren't in the position to deliver the sort of the scale of co-investment that might be needed to deliver a change in the way steel is produced what we can do, what we have always done both with Tata and other significant employers is to look at where we can be positive in particular around skills to help people to shift and to improve the jobs they do and if the nature of their work has changed how we can co-invest with the company in the skills of the workforce and to be fair Tata have always value that as indeed have other businesses too so we stand ready to do the things that we can do and the areas that we are responsible for as well as continuing to make the case for a healthy and positive future for the steel sector here in South Wales and it's key important as a sovereign asset for the wider UK Thank you and the second question is that you mentioned the loss of EU structural funds then to Wales following Brexit the report by Audit Wales earlier this month showed that Wales still has about 500 billion of EU funding that needs to be spent by the end of this year or it could be lost how confident are you that some of this money will go to projects in Wales designed to boost the economy I'm as confident as I can be because that's the point and the purpose for which structural funds were used and the positive is that that 500 million pounds is allocated it's earmarked for products to do just that to help boost the economy and our broader prospects here in Wales of course that's money we won't be getting in the future and if we were still within either the EU structural funds programme or indeed if you can keep this promise we would be spending money from a new programme and that money would also be supporting more investment here in Wales investment in people in skills, in innovation as well as some of the broader challenges we still have on infrastructure too so we will do everything we could and should do and well we are to be transparent about how that money is spent there the process for us to make sure we do so and I look forward to further centre scrutin on what we actually are doing on making best use of the end of the structural funds programme thank you Laura the final set of question is from David Nicholson good morning on Tata Steel are you frustrated with the Westminster Government's slowness in responding to Tata's approach for financial help and on financial help is there a figure you can quantify for the support given by the Welsh Government to Tata Steel no I don't think it will be helpful for me to start producing figures or to try to think of the top of my head about the amount of support over an indefined period for Tata but we do have provided support on skills in the past as we have done to a range of other companies when it comes to the UK Government it is frustrating that there hasn't been a conclusion to a long running conversation as I said when quality quality was still in government and the base sector this conversation was going on for a period of time anyway not being able to reach agreement is a negotiation that is two-way and I accept and understand that but the churn in UK Ministers has a real consequence having lots of different people needing to come into the brief to try to understand it to have different chancellors and the approach they take different prime ministers in the approach they take as well I think there is something simple here that I said more than I said I'm more than I have to say it again that steel production should be seen as a sovereign asset for the UK if you believe that if you believe the UK should not be the only G7 country in the world that does not have a significant steel making capability that has direct consequences and it must mean there is a future of steel production here in South Wales there is such a significant chunk of steel production across the UK and these are jobs that pay well above the average wage, they are jobs that could have a future, the greener economy that we talk about actually steel is an essential part of that as well as ongoing infrastructure projects as well so I'm frustrated we haven't seen a conclusion I do think we need to get to the points that I've mentioned about what does co-investment look like in moving to a greener production phase what about the carbon challenges for steel producing in a different way in other parts of the world having a common approach with other economies and of course industrial energy prices too on each of those there should be some agreement that could be reached and progress on any one of them I think may unlock some investment choices for the future so I look forward to negotiations reaching a conclusion and seeing a bright and positive issue of steel making jobs here in Wales and on job vacancies figures from the Royal College of Radiologists show that Wales has an oncology vacancy rate of 11% with 80% of those vacancies remaining unfilled for over six months what actions are being taken to get those vacancies filled as a matter of urgency well we do of course have a training programme to try to recruit and train new staff of the future we've got an imaging academy that's been launched some time ago as well I remember this in my time a couple of years ago now as the health minister but the challenge is not for the investments that we're prepared to make here in the future training and the ongoing efforts to recruit people it does matter what happens in the rest of the UK especially in England if England can't maintain its staff then it has a knock on consequence for the rest of the UK and some of that is about is about the future of your employment and wage rates but it's also about whether you think there's a positive future across the service more generally and actually that's why getting to a approach of more partnership and less confrontation at a UK level would help all of us to meet some of our challenges but I'm sure that the health team will be more than happy to be ready with more detail on specific action being taken in the field of radiology many thanks everybody for your time enjoy the rest of the day and I'll see you soon


Let's take a look at a numerical example of Kirchhoff's current rule. And I'm doing a simple one with just three things. And in this particular case, I've got it set up so that current 1, which has a value of 5.2 amps, and current 2, which has a value of 1.65 amps, are both going into the junction. So they're on the left hand side of the equation. And current 3, which I don't know, is going out, and it's on the right hand side of the equation. Plugging in the numbers I get this, which is just a simple addition, and that means that my actual value here is just 6.85 amps. Now I can change this around a little bit to show you some different examples. So I could actually change the direction of current 2 and make it going out instead of going in. Well, that would change my base equation because now the i2 has to go over to the right hand side of the equation in both the symbolic and in the numeric one, which will change my answer. Now I have to actually subtract the 1.65 over to the other side, leaving me with a value of 3.55 amps. You can change things around here in different configurations until you figure out what the answer should be. As long as you know all but one of the currents, Kirchhoff's current rule will allow you to find the unknown one. I'm going to do a few more examples in one more video.


But dad came to this property in 1954. One of the biggest struggles that we had was water, and there is no shallow water here, and shallow water to me is anything under 500 foot deep. When starting out, probably in the late 50s, why dad had a great planes contract and they went to building dams on this ranch. Moving on into the 60s, we were in a multi-year drought, and the property that we were on this morning, why dad took 100 cows over there, and they were there three weeks and they had to bring them home because they ran out of water. So on 62, why we drilled our first deep well, the well that furnishes this ranch is 1,780 feet deep. It is free-flowing, it'll flow about 100 gallons a minute with 50 to 60 pounds of pressure behind it. So I've got 20-some miles of pipeline on this ranch that I've put in over the years. I've got two rural water systems that we're tied into now. I've got one on the south end of the ranch, the Bear Butte Valley, and I'm on the board of that Bear Butte Valley water. And then also from the north, we've got Butte Meade water. So this ranch isn't ever going to run out of water again. Well, we're still putting some pipeline in down there at the home ranch, and so we've done quite a bit of it. The first ones, we kind of learned what we should not do, probably, or that maybe there's a better way to do it. And the later ones we've put in down there at the home ranch have been working really well. We have as much or more pipeline in on that ranch down there that we do up here. After putting pipeline in down there for years, we kind of had an idea of what we wanted to do. And we saw the benefits of the pipeline and water tanks down there on that ranch. We saw the calf health and, you know, heavier weaning weights and being able to move the cattle around with the water a little bit and get them to utilize the grass where we wanted them to instead of just on the dams or the low spots. And so we knew what we wanted to do. When we got this place bought, we had a pretty good plan in mind and had it kind of put together and talk to the NRCS. And when we got a chance to actually get possession of this ranch, we kind of hit the ground running and had the well drillers lined up and drilling the well and digging pipeline in. And I remember I brought Gary up here from the NRCS office in Bell and showed him where I wanted to put the storage tanks, showed him where we were going to put the well and looked up through these rocks. And Gary said, I don't think you can hire anybody to dig up through them rocks. And I said, you let us worry about that. We'll figure it out. And so we leased our own excavator and just Ed went to digging and we got her put in. And we got quite a little done that first year. And I think by the end of the second year, we were pretty much had the main plan with the equip done for pipeline in tanks. My uncle Ed and dad Rich are partners in the operation and I was fortunate enough to come back after college. By the time I was kind of growing up, they'd already made the decision to start rotational grazing in the land management stuff.  The Blair Ranch is both Tutop and Butte County and here on the home ranch in Neen County. Grass is abundant and it's not just because we had somatic wet rainfall throughout this growing season. It's that way every year. You'll always notice that they seem to have more grass than the conventionally managed or the season long grazed pastures that are just across the fence or just down the road. That's not by accident. What does that mean for the general public or the taxpayer in New York City or Tampa, Florida? It means that the watershed up here in the northern Great Plains that eventually hits the Missouri River and then the Mississippi and then the Delta in Louisiana is cleaner. The raindrop that falls on this ranch or the one up in Butte County will find its way into the soil rather than in the form of runoff carrying any nutrients that might be present on the soil surface downstream with it. This ultimately leads to reduced impact or reduced footprint for the hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. It means that there's abundant wildlife and clean air. It means that there are fewer needs for inorganic compounds to combat pests, insects and fungus and disease because the ecosystem is in a healthy state. And a healthy ecosystem doesn't require those unnatural inputs. Not to say that zero are needed or used on this ranch, but it means that far fewer are necessary to continue doing business and being economically viable. We want a high quality range land. We want high quality water. We want bird species. We want wildlife. We want to raise a high quality cattle product. We want to treat the cattle right. I think it's a whole mindset on everything you do is about, well, let's do a good job of it. Let's do a quality job on everything we do. And I guess in my mind it's always paid off. We involve my nephews and we involve my kids in the operation so that they've got an appreciation for it. And I think if they've got a good appreciation for it, they'll want to come back someday.


A question about adding LinkedIn connections, whether you should add people that are very overlapped in their niche with yours. In other words, how direct of your competition should you be adding? So here's my view on competition, really. Most people, sadly, have the traditional view of competition which is, hey, if I add you, and if we're both leadership coaches to aspiring executives, and if I add you, then someone who's looking at my profile might find you and go with you instead of me. So I'm not gonna add you, right? Traditional view of competition is, well, I should try to hide all my competitors from all my potential clients, right? Good luck, right? That's traditional, and it's understandable. People are naturally scarcity-minded and fearful, just based on our evolution. My view about it is this, your most productive referral source is going to be your most direct competitor who is collaborative and abundance-minded. Well, think about it, right? If you and I do exactly the same thing for the exact same people, who is getting inquiries all the time who could be my perfect client? You are, okay, right? Because we do exactly the same thing for the same people.  And inevitably, you're gonna find some potential clients who are not the best fit for you. It could be time zone issue, even. It could be just because right now, just the time of year, right now, you can't take on another client for whatever reason.  I've got just the right person who can serve you, does something very similar to me, and it's just a great person to get to know. Please meet Liz, something like that, if my name or Liz. And versus, right? So that's your best referral source, is the person who is like the mirror image of you, who is collaborative and abundance minded. And they are out there. And the question is how do you vet them, right? That's really, and also, by the way, they are the person who's a mirror image to you in terms of doing the same thing you do with for the same people. They wear the same clothes you do. I mean, the more the mirror image they are, the better the collaborate, the better the referral source potential, but also the better they are as a teacher for you in terms of marketing, because they're gonna be doing marketing because they're selling the same thing you are. So they may be doing marketing where you can study and go, oh my gosh. Wow, that is either really brilliant, like how come I never thought of doing that or saying it in that way? Or, wow, I hope I don't do that. Like I hope I don't say it in that way or I don't do that kind of technique. When you see something you like, I'm not saying you should copy them because some people are really sensitive. I'm not sensitive, I always tell people, listen, you can copy my website word for word, just don't tell me. Even if you tell me, I don't care because I'm abundance minded. I'm like, great, go ahead. That just gives me urgency to create new stuff, right? Anyway, but some people are not abundance minded and you have to be careful not to copy people. You can emulate their style or emulate the idea, the general idea. You can use a chat GBT to reformulate the idea anyway. But some people are really abundance minded. If you know that, you can emulate more of what they do. So in other words, bottom line is if you see a mirror person, the perfect competitor to you, I personally love to reach out and go, hello. You're my soulmate in business. Do wondering if you wanna support each other, learn from each other, right? We might be able to refer clients to each other. We can certainly learn from how we're each doing marketing because we're marketing the same people doing the same thing. So we can learn from each other's marketing. And if you're open to that, let's chat. I mean, when you talk to them and you see they genuinely are that kind of person and if they are great, you should become best friends and refer business to each other and share techniques and things. So hopefully this is helpful and I look forward to seeing your comments below. And please spread this message of the benefit of having abundance minded collaborative direct competitors. Spread this message to everywhere you know because hopefully this opens people's minds and hearts to say, oh my gosh, of course, that makes sense. Your best partners and your best teachers are the people who look the most similar to you in terms of business niche and audience and everything. So thanks for watching this.


Hey everyone, welcome to the channel, my name is PhillyBeatsU and in this video I'm going to show you how to get all the Ginter items in Pokemon Legends Arceus fast. If you enjoy videos like this, make sure to hit that like button and don't forget to subscribe. This number constantly goes up. I'm serious, if you go back to any other YouTube video and check it out, it's lower and it keeps getting higher every new video. Let's not waste any more of your time and get into the video. So for new players who start the game, you're only going to notice Ginter showing up after you beat Cleaver, that's when these guys move into town. You're going to notice you come up to them once in a while and they're going to have these rare wares or great deals. This guy over here is always going to have the static amount of berries and stuff. This stuff is not changing or rotating at any point in the game. Now Ginter over here is going to have this special offer for you all the time. He's here to make that purchase after all. He has a Jet Ball set, it could be cake sets, it could be evolution items. We'll go over the whole list of stuff he has, but he'll offer you an item or a set of items and he'll charge you for it. And if you do decide to buy it, say I take it for example, you go ahead and you're going to get that item. And then as you continue to go throughout your game, you just randomly came back to town and he had new items, but you never knew exactly how to do it. Well, here's the trick on how to get Ginter to get you new items. All you have to do is walk out of town and catch 20 Pokemon. That's it. It doesn't matter what 20 Pokemon you catch, just go for 20 Pokemon. Now you can either catch the 20 Pokemon in the Obsidian Fieldlands that is pretty easy or you can be a little more smart about it. And if you have a mass outbreak on your map, you can just go ahead, do one mass outbreak, clear it out completely, see if there's a shiny Pokemon, and use all of those as the 10 Pokemon you caught. And if you do happen to get a shiny, then great. If you want more information about the mass outbreak shiny hunting, you can check it out on the screen here. But I'm going to go to the Crimson Mirelands to this Chancy outbreak, catch all of them. Okay, I got my minimum amount of 20 Pokemon from the Crimson Mirelands, caught an extra three just because I got distracted, but it's 20 Pokemon. Once you get back to Jubilee Village, all you have to do is walk up to Ginter and here's how exactly you know his items reset. He will say the words, rarewares, great deals, go here. And that's it. He reset. He's done. And we got a new item. So he's a special product. This time he's got me a bean cake set. So that's pretty much how you're going to reset. Now, Ginter is very important in this game and there's a bunch of different items that you can get from him. Here are some of the item sets that Ginter sells to you. It'll be like a mushroom cake set and they'll come in sets of 10. As you can see, we got honey cake, pineapple, the knob berry, popo berry, raspberry, 10. You also get max revive sets, which is pretty cool. Grape balls, I mean, but these are quite a bit of money. You can probably craft some of these things in the game.  Basically, I think you can get all the Pokeballs from him as well. And then if he's going to give you an evolution item, they're not going to say exactly oval stone or thunder stone. So you want to pay attention to this list over here. It could say things like, so does egg like rock, which will be the oval stone, lightning bolt rock, thunder stone, moon like rock, moon stone. Some of them are pretty simple. The egg one, I didn't really know which one at first, but the rest of them seem pretty intuitive. Dazzling rock is the shiny stone. Deep dark rock is the dust stone. The eye like rock is the Dawn stone, metallic spread, metal coat. And then these two are very obvious for the electrolyzer, magmarizer, electricity box and magma box. The protector box is going to be unwieldy armor. So you can go ahead and throw that on your ride on so you can get riperier. You got your Reaper cloth. So it is the mysterious cloth. Mystery fang is the razor fang. Mystery claw is the razor claw and the transparent mechanism is a dubious disc. But the most important items that he does sell are actually these. These are big ones, the mechanical items. Now these mechanical items are going to be expensive. They're going to start at 20 grand and they're going to start working their way up 40 grand, 60 grand and going all the way up into the 100 grand. These mechanical items are going to be all for the sake of changing Rotom in the game when you get them. And you can have access to these before you even get Rotom registered to your Pokedex. If you have come across any of these mechanical items at any point in the game and you remember it, please let me know when exactly in the story you did see them. A lot of reports I'm getting from people who play the game and friends is that these mechanical items start to show up after they complete the Arcanine quest. So let me know when yours shows up. So mechanical box is going to be for the Heat Rotom. Mechanical cabinet is going to be for Frost Rotom. Mechanical tub is going to be for Wash Rotom. Mechanical pinwheel is going to be for Fan Rotom. And the mechanical circular saw is going to be for the Mo Rotom. Now I have all these items. So Ginter is going to tell you when you buy them that he's going to have someone delivered to your house for no extra cost. So if I go in my house over here and you'll start to notice these little devices, got a lawnmower here, got a little washing machine, my microwave, my little refrigerator and my fan. And when you do interact with any of these items, let's say I'm going to interact with the microwave and I hit yes. Because they choose a Rotom.  And just like that, there you go. You now have Rotom heat. And now it is an electric fire type Pokemon, just like that. And you can change them at any time. So if you want to keep all of them in your decks, just catch multiple Rotom and you can keep all the forms in your decks. It's that simple. One pro tip before we end this video, do the farming method in this game at the same time while doing the same one with Ginter. So if you want to farm apricorns, medicinal harvests, vegetable harvests, mushroom, berries or mints, you're going to also do this at the same time because it has a requirement of catching Pokemon too. If you want to know more about the Mint harvest guide that changes Pokemon nature, I'm going to have that video linked somewhere over here. So go ahead and click that if you want more information on how to mint farm.  We'll just go do 20 Pokemon and Ginter and any item from the farm should be easily refreshed at the same time with Ginter. And now you know everything about Ginter and how to refresh it. Also the little pro tip of doing everything together at once. If you enjoy this video, make sure to hit that like button. Subscribe for more content like this and get this number up. Look at that. It already jumped from the beginning of the video. How cool. Thank you very much for those who hit subscribe during the video. I'll see you guys in the next one. Thank you very much for all the support and love on the channel. My name is Philly Beats you. Take care. Have a good one and stay alive when you're fighting Pokemon. Bye bye.


In a dry state like Wyoming, most rain and snow is good, but did you know that some precipitation is better than others for growing vegetation? The timing of precipitation is what's important. In fact, when the precipitation falls will not only impact how much plants produce, but also what species of plants grow. On many Wyoming range lands, we are concerned with the grass production for livestock grazing. Rain that falls right before and during spring green up of grasses will influence their production the most. Grasses are generally divided into two groups, cool and warm season. Cool season grasses grow in the cool spring, while warm season grasses grow in the early to mid part of summer. If an area is dominated by cool season grasses, you can bet that most of the rains fall in the spring. Areas receiving most of the rain during summer monsoons will typically have warm season grasses. Winter snow typically provides little benefit for grasses because by the time the grasses are growing, the snow is usually soaked too deep into the soil or it's sublimated into the atmosphere. From the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service, I'm Barton Stam exploring the nature of Wyoming.


This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Apple sold over 15 million iPads just in the final three months of 2011. Now the popular tablet computer is in its third generation. But as Apple prepared to launch a new iPad on March 7th, it faced legal challenges in China over rights to the name of the device. A court in Guangdong province heard a case brought by the Chinese company ProView Technology. ProView is based in Shenzhen in southern China and belongs to ProView International Holdings. The company says it holds the legal rights to the iPad name in China. Apple says it bought the iPad trademark in China and nine other countries from a business owned by ProView in 2009. A lawyer for ProView said he believes Apple has not provided new evidence for the case in Guangdong. Apple was appealing a decision by a lower court which found that the company did not own the iPad name. Another lawyer for ProView said the legal issue over the trademark was clear. He said his company is fighting Apple over the idea of ownership. He also said ProView was willing to settle with Apple for the right amount of money. ProView says it holds the trademark for the name of a device called an Internet Personal Access Device or iPad. The device looks like a desktop computer. ProView says it sold about 20,000 of them over about 10 years. It says it received the trademark or legal rights to the name in 2001. ProView is in financial trouble. It has reported losses since 2008 and dismissed thousands of workers. Apple's legal team says that ProView is nearing failure. Apple says ProView has no product, no buyers, and no suppliers. Apple argues that a ruling against Apple would harm the interests of consumers in China. Apple holds 76% of the tablet computer market in that country with its iPad. A final decision by the High Court in Guangdong is expected to take weeks. The trademark issue has not herped Apple's stock price at least so far. Apple has become the most valuable publicly traded stock in the world, worth about $500 billion. For VOA Special English, I'm Mario Ritter. You can read, listen, and learn English with our programs and activities at voaspecialenglish.com. You can also find English lessons at the VOA Learning English page on Facebook.


I'm Marcia Joyner and we are navigating the journey. And today, what a journey this is. We are going with my dear friends, and you all know I only talk to dear friends. My dear friends, Leon and Malia, and we are going to see a 40-year journey with these two. In fact, I was just talking to Leon and Malia. When I first met you, my children were little and you were doing the concerts at the zoo. So you know how long that's been. Yes. Yes. A local Leon is so excited to be here today. Yes. So you've been on a wonderful journey. Yes. Yes. 40 years of this. Or more. More. Yes. You're counting 40. We're celebrating certain landmarks here as 40 years, but we started way before that. Yes. So we have a beautiful little piece about all of those 40 years. All right. And let's see what 40 years looks like. Welcome to Backstory, the musical journey of Leon and Malia. Being duo, Leon and Malia has been part of Hawaii's music scene for over 40 years, composing and performing a wide range of music in Hawaii and around the world. In this special series, we'll be hearing the fascinating backstories behind their amazing journeys in music from Waikiki to the London Symphony, from the momentous triumphs of Hokulea to the Hawaiian cultural renaissance. And we're back. Was that the Hokulea? Yes. We were involved in that. What you saw in this trailer is the beginning introductory part of our new show called Backstory, which is on O'Lello. Oh. And it's a 12-part series. So we're down to the last few parts right now that has been running all year, and it focuses on various aspects of our career. We take season by season, and we have some that are focusing on what we do with children, like you were mentioning when we've been at the zoo and other places like that. And the videos we've done for children and all the songs that are in the schools right now have been for the last 30 years in schools. So that's a whole part of our activity was to do music for children. Hawaiian friendly Hawaiian educational music for children. Well, that's right. Very family friendly. And very benchmark so we can meet certain DOE national and Hawaii benchmarks as far as the type of song they're singing about as we're talking about children. As you know, we are always involved with environment sustainability and responsibility. And culture. And culture. And nature. Now you mentioned the songs in Hawaiian. Some of them are Hawaiian. Yes, some of them are in Hawaiian or a mixture of Hawaiian and English. But they've become really anthems for many of our schools that have adopted the songs as their school anthem and things like that. Well, for example, the one song called the Ohana song is sung in every school in the entire state. Most of them have adopted it as an anthem for their school. Because we talk about three values. That's Ohana family. And the other one is Lokahi, which is harmony. And the third is Aloha. And with those three, which are principles we're teaching to our children, those three are so important to us as a family. So they have a recording of it? Or do they just now they just sing? We do sort of everything. We have DVDs and CDs of the songs that we do. So most of the schools have that in their library for their teacher's use. And then, for instance, we see thousands of school children a year in live concert. Prior to coming to their school, they will learn certain songs. And then when we go and there's 600 of them in the auditorium or in their cafeteria, we all sing that song. It's a big sing-along. Wonderful time for that. So each of the school has a recording and they play all the kids. And also the recordings are available in the open market. So many, many parents and grandparents purchase the recordings for their children. But fast forward just a moment since we're talking education schools and whatnot to the two Hokulea song kids that we've done. So we've been involved with the Hokulea voyage and the experience. Since its practically its inception. We were there at the launch and of course we're working with the Hokulea project, the Polynesian Voyages Society, from the early, early days. And then, when they took off for Tahiti, then we were involved with the National Geographic Project to document the trip. So then we wrote the soundtrack for it when National Geographic made a TV special on the voyage of the Hokulea in 1977. So we've been involved. So recently because of its worldwide journey, we wrote some new songs for children because a lot of times the children are sort of left out of the equation when these big historical and cultural things are going on. So what we've been doing is making sure the children actually understand or participate in what's going on. So we wrote some songs and we decided to put them into song kits that can be used by the schools to teach children about Hokulea. And then, lo and behold, Hokulea comes after its journey, comes and visits the different communities and the children know the songs. Well, I am glad to know that because, you know, with the voyage when it was coming home and we were all excited, but my grandchildren kept saying, well, what does that mean? Yes, yes. You know, those that don't live here. Right. The pictures are great and we understand that you're excited, but what does that mean? And that's a good question. So, for instance, on the Polynesian Voyaging Society website, if you go to curriculum, it shows that songbook anyone in the world can get it and be able to read it to learn what it's all about. It's downloadable. We did two. One was for preschool level. We're talking about two years old to four years old. And the second is for the kindergarten through sixth grade, really. So, it's quite covered in those areas. That is wonderful. Anyone can find out on our website. That is wonderful. Now, hey, I don't get paid for this. So, but this is a plug. This is coming Christmas and if your grandchildren are like mine that didn't quite understand what all this was about, because I've been following the voyage since the beginning, then I think that is a great Christmas present. So, how do they get it? Tell us again. Sure. All you have to do is go to our website, which is HawaiiKidsMusic.com. Very simple. HawaiiKidsMusic.com. Everything is there. I just made up my mind. That's what they are. Simply because they kept saying, Grandma, what's this all about? What's it all about? Yes. What's the excitement? Especially those in Wisconsin. Right. Well, we've reached out. We have people from England and from many other countries who come to the website or the information that they want their kids over there to learn all about. Right. So, school teachers all over the world use it to introduce kids to things in Hawaii. So, we have not only that but the other videos that we have issued, there's Keiki Kalabash and HawaiiKidsKalabash, DVDs, videos, they're also posted online. So, those are our songs about our island home and our culture here.   Yes. They know when you're coming. They know who you are. Right. By your music. Well, that's wonderful. And that's just one aspect of our music. Yeah. Because of course, we do Hawaiian music as well for our four adults. And we also do Waikiki first. They show us. And visitor. Yeah, right. Music and we've also done concerts throughout the U.S. and in some places around the world. And so, we were talking earlier. What did you do with the London Symphony? We did that in 1979. Oh, thank you. So, this is one of the 40th, this is the 40th anniversary of it. Oh, really? It was a symphonic piece that we wrote with a friend of ours from here. And it's the first and only Hawaiian symphonic piece ever recorded. Well, it's... First and secondly, ever recorded by the best orchestra in the world. Right. Wow. It's called a heroic fantasy. And it was a combination of a famous author, artist, John Thomas, and an orchestrator, Jerry Tanner, and two of us. Ten years in the making, mind you. Now, do you put all those artists together for ten years? Are you really accomplishing something? That is great. That is like goodness. Yes. And so, we performed it, what, 50 times here? Yeah, with the Honolulu Symphony. Honolulu Symphony. Yeah. In pieces. And then when we went to record it, we, the record company, wanted to use a new process called digital recording. Yes. And so, they hired the Honolulu Symphony. I mean, the London Symphony Orchestra. Yes. To do it. So, this was not only a breakthrough with Hawaiian music being performed in a symphonic setting, but it was also one of the first digital recordings made. Well, so, that, since you had used the Hawaiian music, the Hawaiian music, the Hawaiian, everything. So, when you transfer that to London, was there a learning process, or did they just... No, no. The symphonic... Just musical pieces. Just music. Yeah, it's music. Right. But they do... We did take some Hawaiian instruments, implements for them to play, and things like that. But really, the symphonic orchestra simply read the orchestration and played it. We also had a choir, a 50 voice choir, that sang with it. And so, they asked, I mean, they could sing Hawaiian because they sing Italian. Yes. Spanish. Other languages. No, no languages. But they also asked, what kind of English do you want this for the English part? That is, do you want a... American English? A British accent, or a Latin accent? English. And so, they sang it that way. Wow. It was fascinating. Yes. So, we were able to... No pigeon? No pigeon. No pigeon. Wow. So, that was a fabulous experience. So, that was a season of the orchestra we've had seasons of Children's Music. Well, they were all overlapping, actually. So, the same year that we recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, we also released our first children's album called Mokulana, which was a fantasy album. And one of those big 12-inch records, with a book that opened up and all that. So, that was the same year. And then we did another project that same year. Again, it all culminated in that one year. Another one called Heartland, which is about our travels across the U.S. America, yes. Yeah. With our band. So, those are still available? Well, actually, bored with Goldfish, the London Symphony one is available. And so, as Mokulana... To be unavailable... Yes. The other one, Heartland, will be made available again soon because we had to remaster that. Okay. We need to take a break. Okay. And when we come back, we'll go for the rest of the journey. Okay. Thank you. Very good. And we'll be right back. Aloha. I'm your host, Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, of Sister Power here at ThinkTech of IE. And Sister Power is all about motivating, empowering, educating, and inspiring all people. And we have various subjects here. Sister Power is here at ThinkTech every other Thursday at 4 p.m. Again, my name is Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, host of Sister Power. We look forward to seeing you. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at sistersinpowerandkawaii at gmail.com. Look forward to chatting with you soon. Aloha. Hi. I am Yukari Kunisue, host of Konnichiwa Hawaii, ThinkTech Hawaii's Japanese program, broadcasting every Monday from 2 p.m. I usually invite a guest in Japanese-language community. That's an interesting thing and I'd like to share stories with you guys. Please, tune in and listen to Konnichiwa Hawaii. Aloha. We are back and we are navigating the journey and my gosh, what a journey this is. And I am just so involved in like, what come I don't know? What come I didn't have a voyage like this? We're with Leon. We have our own voyages. Yeah. Leon and Malia. And we are celebrating 40 years of them being this wonderful voice of voices of Hawaii from and for and about Hawaii. So tell us about, you know, we were talking about the symphony and all of the big music, but when it's just the two of you, what's the performance like? Do you play instruments? Yes, I play guitar and Malia and I both sing. And so that's really Leon and Malia at its core. All the other stuff is production and that's what we've been talking about, the different productions we've done and the different compositions we've written. But in the performance, it's really where we really enjoy being there because you have a live audience. Malia and I started out in Waikiki. I was already singing in Waikiki. Malia came back for kind of a short visit. She was on her en route to someplace else, but she got up on stage the first night she was back. She got on stage with me. I asked her to come up and sing a song. The owner of the of the establishment where the restaurant we were in. Where were you? This is Chuck's seller. I remember Chuck's. I remember Chuck's. Right. So the owner approached us right after and he said, can you be here every night? And I said, can you sing about it? Okay, fine. So we were an immediate group then. And so we had to rehearse and make sure we had had enough songs together to go through the night. But that started out then. Within a few months, we were offered a job at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, which is a very world famous place where many, many stars got their launch from Jim Neighbors from the Stiller, the Kingston Trio, the Smothers Brothers and those. So we were there for a couple of years. We worked there a few months and they come back here for a few months and back and forth. And meanwhile, we were also playing other clubs on the West Coast. And this was during the time of the folk era. Right. So we were playing mostly folk music but inserting Hawaiian music in there because it's folk music. It is. And it always got some really strong response to it. People loved it. So anyway, so that's what we were doing and started recording almost immediately as well. We did our first recording in Los Angeles in 1970, I think it was. But what was really fun was being in performance. So we'd come back and forth from San Francisco once a year for a very big reason, the Diamondhead creator concert. Yes. The festivals. Yes. And so we were there at the very first one and at many other ones and sometimes we were by ourselves, sometimes we'd have a band with us, and whatnot. But it was, you know, you get to be with Linda Ronstadt and all those people from that era. Fabulous. Yes. The concert. How long did it last at the Diamondhead? Now, I can only remember. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. We only played for the first few, maybe three or four of them. Because it only went once. Right. Because the newer ones in the newer years are quite different from what we had when we started. The old years. Yes. But anyway, they were really enjoyable and it was quite, you know, a lot of fun to do that. So we did those kinds of concerts. We did a lot of college concerts on the West Coast and, you know, traveling up and down by train with our group that we had at the time. And then, of course, we did a lot of work in Los Angeles, part of the Hokulea film. But we also worked on several other film soundtracks and did a lot of recording. What other films did you do? Well, I worked on one called Sail Away, which was from, anyways, it was an adventure film that, down through Mexico. It's a sea of cortex. Oh, that sounds interesting. Yeah. It was a sailing feature. And then, we did a couple of others for National Geographic. Because we had started with Hokulea and then we went back for the Great Whales and then for this other one called The Tigris. Oh, the Thor Hired Dog. That's right. The Thor Hired Dog. Yeah, something like that. Right. And the interesting thing is that we all, those stories, as well as Hokulea and the things about Hawaii, all kind of had some connections. Yes. I was going to say, especially Thor, quite yes. Yes. He was quite a character. Yes. Right. So, again, are all those available? No. No. Well, I believe the voyage of the Hokulea is still available through National Geographic. Yeah, but that sail away or whatever that film was, I haven't seen that in a long time. We have to look into it. We'll look into it now we're talking about it. Yes. You know, it would be really interesting those even, Yeah. Those are the early days. And then we, Uncle Tom Moff had booked us on a number of rock concerts. What was then the HIC? The warm-up act is for the, at the HIC. Right, right, right. Yeah. And so, again, it was quite a contrast, you know. I was going to say, you are folk. Yes. So the funny thing was that sometimes we'd be performing with the Honolulu Symphony at the concert hall. And then, And then go around the corner. Next evening we'd be in the arena with Jethro Tull or Leon Mussel or somebody like that. Right. Right. Those were pretty exciting moments. Mm-hmm. Switching hats. Mm-hmm. Anyway, it was a great time. And then one other thing I wanted to mention was Territorial Tavern. Oh my, yes.  Right. And so, we were there very early on. On one of our trips back, they asked us to headline and then we kept coming back but, you know, Buga Buga, of course, and the Beamer Brothers and the Brothers Casemiro or Sons of Hawaii was the anchor on Sunday, Sunday Jam. Yes. And there was such an incredible time. The music was just flowing and developing. So, we were just really blessed to be a part of that. Mm-hmm. This modern Hawaiian music, Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. J was saying that he doesn't get to hear it. How did, ordinary, I know, ordinary people get to hear this new Hawaiian music? I thought it was everywhere but Jay says he doesn't get to hear it. Hmm. Well, there are certain stations that play it here and, of course, there are quite a few concerts going on as well in live performances. Oh, yes. Yes. Things like that. So, if Jay would go look at some of those Hawaiian concerts, he's quite it. Yeah. You see, what I remember of Waikiki when it was magic, that you could walk, all of the hotels had show rooms and all of them had Hawaiian entertainment. Yes. And we would walk down the beach at night and sit out and watch the concerts. Right. And that's why we also made sure that we did not abandon that part because that was a very important part of Hawaiian music. It was. And that is what the visitors heard and it was also an opportunity to educate visitors about the depth of Hawaiian music and so we were really pleased to be able to do that too. We played the Royal Hawaiian Hotel for years at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Moana. Moana Hotel and most of the hotels all went out. All along with that show room on the beach. On the beach to the beach. Yes. Right. And we really enjoyed playing for the visitors because it was what we were trying to do is elevate their exposure to Hawaii. Yes. Instead of just what they saw on TV or in the films. Yeah. But like I said, I hated to see that disappear. It seemed like it was here and then one day it was gone. Yes. It's faded out but there are pockets of it here but you're right. It's not like you can go from one place to the next right down the strip and here is great Hawaiian music. Great great Hawaiian music. Yes. So, okay now what are you up to? Well, we're sort of archiving things right now. We're digging through our archives and finding recordings that we've never forgotten about and then actually we're bringing them back out and remastering and we're going to be releasing some of these but most of them we're going to archive. Right. But this coming year we will be really mastering and re-releasing three different albums. Oh great. Yeah. Well a client sale. And we still have some projects in the works you know when we have time we work on them. Now what the last time I talked to you was at the Life Park. Yes. Well that's one other thing that we're looking at. Yeah well we are talking with them because they're right now remodeling a great deal of the park and they want to put in what we're looking at is a fin and feathered friends show because we have songs about the sea creatures and whatnot and we'd like to get that across. So we're talking to them we know fin and feathered friends right in the the whole new and the Mark Seol and you know we're still contemplating whether we should call a fin and flippered friends. Oh that's true flippered friends you know sea animals that's true but there are birds they have a lot of birds come in they have a big bird this way so that's a possibility right we'll be doing a great deal yes as you know for his work as well as well as my we do yes yeah it's always like well when I ask there well where is he or which hat is he wearing that's what we should ask yes he wears so many hats we you know everybody knows Leon and then they remember Leon and Malia as a group yes so do you get to work with him on these journeys as much as I can yes I do Malia is also a music educator yes and so I have we have a young preschool entertainment program that we came up with and so I work with the toddler to the five year old and develop songs and at different schools at different schools yeah it's wonderful because every day we have innocence and joy and just you know energy energy that they always have to get up to it you know but it's wonderful we have many plans we'll keep on going and if anyone's interested they can look at our website that's when I said HawaiiKidsMusic.com or go to Facebook we have Facebook.com Leon and Malia like I said everybody knows Leon and Malia yes and my husband when I said you were going to be a guest he said oh I remember them yes I hope they all do yes yes anybody that had little children remembers Leon and Malia yes well the great thing is that little children know us also because of the exposure to our music well also but the little children the parents and grandparents yes and so well we've influenced just young generations so we get letters in the mail let's say I was so influenced by your music where can I get it and things like we sent them our website but also they're saying how profoundly affected they were as children growing up right and so they're looking for the music how immediate difference in their lives but don't we all want to do that yes but somehow there is this thing these black dots on a piece of paper and then you hear something else you don't hear black dots on a piece of paper it's just magic it's magic it is magic it is just wonderful and your magic and this has been such a pleasure well thank you for inviting us with you with us sure and you will come back yes as your projects move on yes yes and there's so much more I want to ask about all the music and your archiving and how we can get it and like so alright thank you thank you it's been a pleasure and Godspeed Aloha Aloha and we'll see you next time but in the meantime ta-da we have a Halloween party the day of the dead Saturday and it is in Hawaii, Kai at the Mexican restaurant and it's the same shopping center where Safeway is so the day of the dead Halloween party it's free just come and enjoy and have fun and it's for adults so the children get to play tomorrow but this one's for adults so again thank you and we'll see you next time Aloha