Let's dive into some bad news and some good news, neither of which we hear about in establishment outlets. First, for the bad news, I like to end on an up note. So let's start with the bad news. The bad news comes via our friend David Stockman. And in fact, what I'm going to say to you today revolves around two books I have been reading over the past week or so. And the first one is David Stockman's book, Trumped, subtitled A Nation on the Brink of Ruin and How to Bring it Back. Now Stockman is not saying that Donald Trump is extremely knowledgeable about business cycle theory or interest rates or the Federal Reserve. His point of his book is not really about Trump at all. It really is about the condition the country is in. Such that people would think that the source of their problems is trade agreements and the market and whatever. He does believe that there's a greater chance under Trump that some of the dead would might get cleared out, but he says, I realize that's a pretty thin read to rest my confidence on. But that is an incredibly good book, and I strongly urge you to read it. And you'll say to yourself, I'm just going to read one chapter and then I'm going to do something else. And you'll be astonished. You're reading a book on the U.S. economy and you're just reading chapter after chapter. It's that good. What Stockman is going to say is, it's true that we have heard that there are many indicators of a healthy economy right now. Why? Look at the figures for unemployment and look at the stock market. Only an incorrigible perma-bear could have any concerns about the conditions of the economy today. As yet, let's consider how sluggish the so-called recovery has been. In year eight, we still have 45 million people on food stamps. Median real household income is 5% lower than it was in 2007. And this to me is the most revealing statistic of all. There are 71.3 million full-time, full-pay breadwinner jobs right now. And he's thinking of a breadwinner job as being a job that brings in at least $50,000 a year and it's full-time and it's not just, it's not a restaurant job or a bartender job, but it's a full-pay $50,000 a year at least job, sustainable. 71.3 million breadwinner jobs right now. That is nearly 1.4 million fewer breadwinner jobs than there were when Bill Clinton left office. So they've had 16 years to try out their monetary-central planning theories and that's what they have to show for it. We've had 93 straight months of virtually zero interest rates. We've seen the balance sheet at the Fed expand by $3.5 trillion. That amounts to four times more than all the bond buying that occurred in the entire first 94 years of the existence of the Fed. So it's not for lack of trying. The theory behind cheap interest rates is they're supposed to work like this. The cheap interest rates induce households to take on more debt. And when they take on this additional debt, this borrowing that they've done allows them to supplement the consumption that they can do out of their current income. Because now they have a loan, they can also spend that money. So they borrow and they spend and the spending stimulates aggregate demand. It stimulates, creates rising demand. That in turn leads to more production, which leads to more jobs, which leads to still more income and more spending keeps the cycle going. Now it turns out this is all preposterous nonsense and it becomes clear that this is so. These households reach what Stockman calls peak debt. Households get to the point they can't borrow anymore. They are tapped out. They are leveraged up as much as their income will allow. So now when the Fed keeps trying to do it, you see basically no change in household balance sheets. The whole thing has been a very, very long one-shot parlor trick. That what you are doing is borrowing economic activity from the future and enjoying it today. But when you reach that future and people are tapped out in terms of debt, the parlor trick doesn't work anymore. It has been expended. After seven years of massive monetary stimulus, the domestic production of consumption goods is still 9.1 percent below where it was before the crisis. And it's at a level, same level it was at in 1999. Now remember the whole point of the low interest rate is to stimulate all this consumption. And yet we have far fewer consumption, we have far less consumption, production of consumption goods going on. So it goes to show that the wheels are coming off this thing, in other words, it is not doing what it's supposed to do. So where does all the credit go? Where does all this additional credit go if it's not being borrowed by households and spent allegedly to goose aggregate demand? Where is it going? Well, as Stockman puts it, central bank credit flowed entirely into speculative carry trades, structured finance and corporate financial engineering, and it massively inflated asset values. That's where it is. So if you're wondering why at least some of the people in the 1 percent are doing as well as they are, it's because all this money and credit that was supposed to goose everybody is just gooseing them. Needless to say, the Fed does not come up when talking about the 1 percent or ill-gotten gains or frankly even international trade in the position of American workers. Stockman has a chapter arguing that extremely bad monetary policy rather than trade agreements themselves are responsible for in effect pricing Americans out of jobs and sending those jobs abroad. But since no one thinks to look at the Fed because the Fed has been kept off the table practically since its existence, it continues to get away with this even though it has engaged in the most appalling and preposterous series of monetary policy moves ever conceived. Never before, and again I quote Stockman, in the history of the world prior to 1995 had any central bank decreed that overnight money shall be indefinitely free to carry trade gamblers, nor had any monetary authority commanded that the hard-earned wealth of liquid savers be chronically confiscated by negative returns after inflation and taxes. Well what about inflation, hasn't it been low, isn't the consumer price index quite low? Well yes and no, the consumer price index has been quite low. However, Stockman urges us to consider what he calls the flyover CPI, that is the actual expenses incurred by ordinary people who happen to live between the two coasts. How do we figure this? He says well we weigh in more heavily the four horsemen, which are food, energy, housing and medical, and we get more accurate in reckoning medical and housing costs. And what we find is that those things since Alan Greenspan took the helm at the Fed in 1987 have risen 3.1 percent a year which is an enormous increase, especially cumulative over time. Just looking at the turn of the century to today, what had been $68,000 in today's purchasing power is now worth $55,000. Most people in flyover America can't afford that kind of erosion. Now what would we have had in the absence of this deliberate Fed policy? We would have had higher interest rates. We would have had price deflation. Prices would have gone down and for heaven's sake in the world of smartphones where we're incredibly productive because we can have a business meeting right on this phone. I can take care of things while I'm in the bathroom. I can do all kinds of productive work. Prices should be falling through the floor. Prices would have fallen. Nominal wage rates would have fallen not as fast and we would have had massive reinvestment in the nation's capital stock because we would also have had high savings rates. Well we look at what the Fed has to show for itself after all this. We have the breadwinner job statistic. We have the fact that when you actually look at a statistic that tells you about real people doing real work it shows an an anemic increase even though the American population, the adult population has gone up from 212 to 253 million labor hours in the non-farm economy since the year 2000 have gone up just 0.4% annually. That is one fifth of its rate in the previous 16 years. Meanwhile real capital consumption has risen by 53% over the last 16 years. Real net investment is down by 17%. We have reached peak debt conditions. When the Fed tries its old tricks they don't work. The money just cycles through Wall Street. It doesn't get out to the general public. They're not borrowing. What had been a fairly consistent 75 to 80% ratio household debt to income before 1980 by 2007 at the arrival of peak debt had reached 220%. It doesn't work anymore. The parlor game is over. Moreover what could zero cost overnight money be used for? Nobody uses zero cost overnight money to fund his inventory or equipment or receivables because you can't be sure that you could roll it over and then your business could be in complete turmoil if you can't meet the new interest payments. So nobody uses it. Consumers don't don't do that. It's used to fund speculative trades of Wall Street gamblers according to stock. So this is a pretty grim picture. But it's interesting to note that at the same time that if the Fed really is out of tricks sooner or later people are going to figure that out. Sooner or later there will be enough of us to get that message out. But that I think is a point that neither candidate is really understanding or willing to admit. And that's our theme today is what we don't hear from them. We certainly don't hear what I just told you. And we don't hear David Stockman being referenced by either one. He darn well should be. Now at the same time I told you I've been reading two books. Let me tell you the other book I've been reading. The other book I've been reading is a book by Kevin Kelly with the audacious title The Inevitable. I should have named some of my books that. Subtitle is understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future. Now I don't want to be one of these Pollyanna people who says technology will save us from the state and solve all our problems. But what I do want to suggest is that we are on the cusp of something very significant in which the private sector is going to outpace the ability of the state to act as a predator on us. So when we think back to the emergence of the Internet, it's interesting to note that at the beginning the commercial potential of the Internet was not appreciated and was actually disparaged. It was thought that to take this glorious and beautiful thing and start putting the electronic equivalent of billboards on it would be to soil it. So in other words, at the beginning people didn't actually think buying and selling would take place over the Internet. That's how much people didn't get what this thing was and what its potential was. Or they looked at it and they thought, wow, a lot of content can be transmitted through this thing. Where are we going to come up with all this content? We're going to need thousands of channels and they didn't realize we'll produce the content. Never even dawn on them. At the offices of ABC, they thought we're going to have to come up with like 5,000 channels for these couch potatoes to sit and watch. Never dawn on them.  Likewise, for we look at eBay, Craigslist, many of these other places, you get billions of transactions per year and users are doing most of the work. They photograph the item, they catalog it, they do their own, they post, they do their own marketing and they police themselves by and large. They police themselves. Facebook does not have to say, how are we going to generate enough videos and articles to keep people entertained? They produce no content whatsoever. We produce it. No one predicted that. No one predicted that. Or the Twitter or YouTube or Instagram, nobody predicted that. Initially, the thought was, where are we going to come up with all the content we can put on this thing? So it goes to show something just happened that nobody, it wasn't just the Internet itself, it was the human response to it. No one anticipated. Now, as we look at things that impress us technologically, we also have a certain trepidation because we're told that robots are going to take our jobs. Yeah, the Internet is wonderful, but robots, I don't want those. Robots are going to take my job. And I don't mean to make light of that because robots are going to take a lot of jobs. They're going to take a lot of blue collar jobs and they're going to take white collar jobs you don't think they can take. Already, there are robots that can dispense pills at pharmacies. And that's already being done out in California. They have not made one mistake. Can't say that about human pharmacists who now are free to be up at the counter talking to you while the robot is filling your prescription. It's incredible what they can do and what they will be able to do. To me, just the fact that one of Google's newest computers can actually caption a photo perfectly. It can figure out what's happening in the photo and give you a perfect caption. How about that? So just when you think, ain't no machine can do my job? Maybe it can. What kind of world is this that we're moving into? I understand the fear about that. But at the same time, let's think about, first of all, what happened in the past? In the past, most people worked on farms. And that was the case of 200 years ago. And automation pretty much took away 99% of those jobs, literally 99%. They're gone. People wound up with brand new jobs they could never have anticipated. And in pursuing those jobs, we might even argue we became more human because we diversified because we found a niche for ourselves that was unique to us. And we begin as automation is going to make it possible for human beings to do work that is more fulfilling. How is that? Well, first, let's think about the kinds of jobs that automation and robots do that we couldn't do even if we tried, so that first we'll have some kind of appreciation for them. Making a computer chip, there's nobody in this room who could do that. We don't have the precision and the control to do that. So we couldn't even make a single computer chip ourselves. We can't inspect every square millimeter of a CAT scan to look for cancer cells. These are all the points that Kevin Kelly is trying to make to us. We can't inflate molten glass into the shape of a bottle. So there are many tasks that are done by robots through automation that are tasks we physically could not do at all and would not get done otherwise. But also automation creates jobs we didn't even know we wanted done. And Kelly gives this example. He says before we invented automobiles air conditioning, flat screen video displays and animated cartoons, no one living in ancient Rome wished he could watch pictures move while riding to Athens in climate controlled comfort. But once it becomes easy, once our basic work can be done easily through automation, it'll be relatively easy for us to be fed and clothed and sheltered and have our basic needs met, then we can really ask the question, why are we here? What are human beings for? What is the point of my life? And again, from Kelly, industrialization did more than extend the average human lifespan. It led more of us to decide that human beings were meant to be ballerinas, full time musicians, mathematicians, athletes, fashion designers, yoga masters, fan fiction authors, and folks with one of a kind titles on their business cards. Same with automation today, we will look back and be ashamed that human beings ever had to do some of the jobs they do today. Now, here's something controversial. I was watching an interview that Kevin Kelly did. I want to get him on my show, but he's not doing many more book promotion till the spring. So I'm going to nab him then. But he says, you know, when you think about it, there are there's a sense in which we want jobs in which productivity is not the most important thing. Now we think about productivity and efficiency. Robots have that all over us. Okay. When it comes to who can do this thing faster, they can do it faster. So let them do jobs like that. That it's just a matter of, well, so to speak, robotically doing the same thing over and over and over and over again as fast as possible. We can't compete there. Why bother? Where can we compete? Well, we can compete in all the areas that are gloriously inefficient. Science is gloriously inefficient because of all the failures that are involved along the way. Same thing with innovation. Same thing with any kind of art. It is grotesquely inefficient from the point of view of the running of a pin factory.  Healthcare and nursing, these things revolve around relationships and human experiences. They're not about efficiency. So let efficiency go to the robots. We'll take the things that aren't so focused on efficiency and productivity where we excel. And we'll focus on relationships, creativity, human contact, things that make us human. We focus on those things. Now with extraordinary efficiency comes fantastic abundance. And with fantastic abundance comes greater purchasing power because of the pushing down on prices through competition. So even if we earn less in nominal terms, our paychecks will stretch much farther. That's how people became wealthy during and after the Industrial Revolution. It was that we could suddenly produce so many more goods that competitive pressures put downward pressure on their prices. And our paychecks stretch much farther. That will continue to be the case. And so even if I have a job that pays me relatively little, in terms of how many of the incredibly abundant goods I'll be able to acquire, it'll be a salary the likes of which I can hardly imagine. Now I can anticipate one objection. This is an objection I'll hear from leftists and also from some traditionalist conservatives. They'll sniff that consumption and greater material abundance, these don't improve us spiritually. These are actually impoverishing for us. Well, for one thing, there's actually much more materialism under socialism. When you're barely scraping enough together to survive, you are obsessed with material things. But secondly, let's consider what we have been allowed to do by these forces. First, by industrialization alone. I've shared this before, but on my show I had Deirdre McCloskey once and she pointed out that in Burgundy, as recently as the 1840s, the men who worked the vineyards when after the crop was in in the fall, they would go to bed and they would sleep huddled together. And they basically hibernated like that for months because they couldn't afford the heat otherwise or the food they would need to eat if they were expending energy by walking around. Now that is inhuman. And they don't have to live that way anymore. Because they have these terrible material things that are impoverishing them spiritually. The world average of in terms of daily income has gone from $3 a day a couple hundred years ago to $33 a day. And in the advanced countries to $100 a day. Yes, true. People can fritter that away on frivolous things, but there will always be frivolous people. Meanwhile, we have the leisure. Yes, we do. We do have the leisure to do things like participate in an American Kennel Club show or go to an antique show or a square dancing convention or be a bird watcher or or or host a book club in your home. Things that would have been unthinkable to anyone. Just a few hundred years ago. Unthinkable. The material liberation has liberated our spirits and has allowed us to live more fulfilling lives than before. So I don't want to hear the money can't give you happiness thing. I don't want to hear that. This doesn't make you happy that people are free to do these things and pursue things they love.  And finally look at what we are on the verge of acquiring. A universal library with all the knowledge in the world in one place. Kelly has a section on this. Imagine having every book in every language available to everyone everywhere. Ideally it would contain even every article ever written. Every painting every photograph every film every piece of music all radio and television broadcasts. Now the numbers are huge. There have been three hundred ten million books published. One point four billion articles 180 million songs and so on. Turns out this could be compressed and stored on 50 petabyte discs. Ten years ago to store all this knowledge would have taken a huge building. Today would fit in your bedroom. And in the future it will fit on your phone. But it's not just having access to all this. It's the weaving and the interconnectedness that will come about when all of us interact with all this material. Kelly writes human readers can reliably weave together the pages of old books one hyperlink at a time. Those with a passion for a special subject obscure author or favorite book will over time link up its important parts. Multiply that simple generous act by millions of readers and the universal library can be integrated in full by fans for fans. Imagine you might even be able to subscribe to the marginalia of someone you respect and see could you imagine if Murray Rothbard were alive today you could subscribe to his book marginalia and have his marginalia appear in your book. We are on the eve of an extraordinary transformation whose scope I have barely begun to describe in terms of what it will mean for the quality of our lives. The ingenuity of capitalism is about to overtake the bureaucrats and the monetary central planners. So am I bearish or bullish? Well like Ed Stringham I am bearish on the state and bullish on society. Thank you.


Obviously, it's really important that we have fast or reliable internet. It's a vital, vital part of our lives. It's important that we have it everywhere, everywhere in our state, not just downtown big cities. Hi, I'm Holly Wolt. I'm on the staff of the Nebraska Library Commission. I've been working with the Commission for about 13 years. I travel to 113 libraries over three years. Having the opportunity to go into the library, offer them new technology, set up new computers, but more importantly, to observe what happens in our rural libraries in Nebraska. I'm going to stitch together a series of videos of real people and real places where real progress has happened. The real progress refers to the installation of fiber to Nebraska public libraries. These video clips highlight the impact of digital broadband, or as we say at the Library Commission, fiber at Nebraska public libraries. We have an opportunity to hear from library directors, village board members, kids that love the digital broadband speeds available at the library, community business leaders, or rural entrepreneurs who found refuge for high-speed digital broadband at their local library and locally elected former and current officials. So let's get the show started. Welcome to Fairmont. I'm Wanda Margit, the director. I've been the director for 32 years. We've had two other directors before me, which started in 1922. The library was in many places around town, wherever they had a free space to use. And in 1963, the village fathers decided they'd build it with a fire station over here. So we've been here quite a while. So please come on in. I'll show you around. I use the internet here in the library to help me with my homework. If I can't get help with my homework, I might get in a lot of trouble. So I kind of need a computer. And now to our biggest improvement is our broadband fiber from Network Nebraska. It increased our speed from 32 megabytes to 200 megabytes. It's benefited the library because we have more people coming in to use it. And they always say, well, this is fast, you know. If they would need to download something or whatever, they come here and do it. They can come in and get our password and utilize their own laptop, their phone, anything. And a lot of people just stop by the outside. You see cars parked on the street. Well, even when I'm not open using the internet, which is great. And the village fathers board has even approved open hours more. So now I'm open 34 hours instead of 23. My wife works for Austin as her office manager. And she always come home and say how bad the internet was.  You know, she couldn't do her job because of the internet was always down. The internet is much faster here than it is at home. We want to keep up with the times. We want to keep the technology up to date so that we're helping the kids that are trying to keep up in school. The businesses that are, are struggling. We want to keep the library a vital part of the community. I love the library. I love the computers. I love the books. I love the legos they have. Yeah, the library is just great. The Fairmont Public Library connected to fiber in July of 2022. Currently, there is no fiber connectivity in the Fairmont's residential area. Did you know that nearly 33% of Nebraska households are identified as internet insecure or under connected? These households are vulnerable to not being able to fully participate in the digital economy and digital skills training. Libraries are often the only location in rural communities that offer free wifi. Libraries connected to fiber offer fast and reliable digital broadband access for digital skill training and a portal to the digital economy. We had to use all the different types that were provided and we went through several of them. They were inconsistent. We tried to have 100 speed and we get like 32 and when school got out everybody else was using it and it even would drop lower. So we needed to do something else and at times we would even not have internet for hours or two weeks at a time. Yeah, if you have any questions and Nebraska Library Commission is there to help, you call them. There's 800 number. They're online so you can get anybody you want. They'll guide you to the person that is helpful. Fairmont Libraries Board and Fairmont Village Board sat down and talked about why it was important for their rural community library to be connected to fiber. One to always try to keep up with everything that was going on out in the world and make sure that the library had the knowledge and the expertise to help the community and help the kids and whoever used the library. The library is able to bring that fiber into town. It can help more than just the library. It's a huge benefit and plus for other businesses, other facilities and villages and towns and themselves if they're able to get it. This year's 2023 Nebraska Legislature created the new Nebraska State Broadband Office with the passage of LB 683 signed by Governor Pellin. The office will be housed within the Nebraska Department of Transportation and work under the oversight of the Nebraska Department of Transportation and the governor's office. The broadband office is being formed to create a more transparent, flexible and proactive response for Nebraska's broadband needs. The new office will work openly and collaboratively with relevant government agencies and other stakeholders to ensure that the broadband deployment is strategic, cost-effective and that recipients of funding are accountable for their use of public funds. The Nebraska Public Service Commission provides the funding for the E-Rate Special Construction Matching Funds Grant. This grant provides libraries that participate in E-Rate Special Construction the opportunity to receive matching funds from the state of Nebraska for fiber installation costs. With the new Nebraska State Broadband Office, the Nebraska Public Service Commission will continue to offer the matching grant fund through the Nebraska Universal Services Funds. Both agencies will work together to maximize funding opportunities to bring fiber to Nebraska Public Libraries. Colin Robbins, the director of the Nebraska Universal Service Fund and telecommunications at the Nebraska Public Service Commission will explain more. The Public Service Commission has set up an application process that is fairly short once a library has gone through the federal application process. Our program is a complement to the federal program so it just consists of filling out an application. You basically have to verify that you participated in the federal part of the process and then our state processes. I consider it much shorter and much more simple. The commission started the Nebraska Universal Service Fund after legislation that gave the commission that authority in the late 90s. The purpose of the fund is really to accomplish a number of different goals. One is to make sure that there's broadband service to rural areas at affordable prices. The commission has several programs including Bede that we administer that are working to get broadband to our rural areas of the state to our unserved and underserved locations in the state. And really just making sure that there's broadband everywhere in Nebraska. First one would be our state broadband map. If you go to broadbandmap.nebraska.gov, you can go on there, put in an address. It'll bring up the list of providers for your area. You could easily identify whether any of those are providing fiber optic services. Second way would be to use the FCC's broadband map, which is broadbandmap.fcc.gov. There's a similar tool on that map where you type in an address that'll pull up the point where the address is located and a list of providers. And then the third way would just be to call our office. We have resources to help you find out rather quickly what providers have service in your area. Getting fiber to the library can really help also educate some of the residents on how to use it. That's an important part of what the Infrastructure and Jobs Act and Internet for All is really about is not just getting fiber to locations, but also programs that enable people to learn how to use the technology. That's another really good benefit of just getting something to a library, something that people can access and gain some knowledge on how to use. I'm Becca Kingery. I am the Education IT Manager for the Office of the Chief Information Officer in the Nebraska Information Technology Commission. As part of that job, I also will provide administrative oversight for Network Nebraska. Network Nebraska is the research and education network for the state of Nebraska, and we provide services to our K-12 schools. As of today, we provide services to approximately 99% of those K-12 public schools, 100% of the public universities, 100% of the state colleges, as well as the community colleges. By statute, we are also able to provide services to the public libraries throughout the state of Nebraska. As of right now, we only represent a small percentage of the public libraries throughout the state. That is an area of growth for us in the future. Why does this all matter? It's my absolute favorite question. Right now in the state of Nebraska, we have a unique opportunity to provide these services by utilizing special construction and bringing fiber into communities that have not yet had it to this day. And we can use that in conjunction because we are right now on the cusp of millions of dollars coming into the state from the NTIA, and that can be combined with special construction. So you can bring, you have an opportunity to bring fiber into your community for the first time and then the potential for those NTIA grants to deploy fiber to your communities. And thus, we can make that money spread a little bit farther by combining these multiple programs. Hello, I am Krista Porter, the Library Development Director at the Nebraska Library Commission. I have also served as a state e-rate coordinator for public libraries in Nebraska. What is e-rate? E-rate is the FCC program that provides discounts to schools and libraries on their monthly internet costs and internal connection costs. This would be things such as wiring, routers, switches, and other network equipment. The program ensures that schools and libraries can receive high speed internet at affordable rates so that students and library patrons can stay connected. All legally established public libraries in Nebraska are eligible to apply for e-rate, and most Nebraska libraries who apply receive somewhere between a 60 and 80% discount on their internet and network equipment costs. So what can libraries do to meet the internet needs of their patrons? Well, the Special Construction State Matching Funds program that is being offered through the Public Service Commission can be the answer. It offers an additional discount on top of a library's regular e-rate discount, which the e-rate program then also matches. So for libraries at an 80% or above base e-rate discount rate, the cost to the library is zero. E-rate in the State Matching Funds covers the entire cost of the construction of running the fiber to the library. We here at the Nebraska Library Commission are able to support our libraries with training, consulting, guiding you through all the forms and applications you may need to submit to implement the e-rate Special Construction program. Now is the time for public libraries in Nebraska to take advantage of this additional funding while it's available and bring that fiber connection to their buildings and their community. I just wanted to share a little bit about how the high speed internet at our local library in Bancroft has been such a blessing.  So I upload them all when our session is done and they're edited and send them off by email. And I had a lot of sessions that I needed to get uploaded quickly and send off to my clients. And I thought, you know, I'm going to go to our local library and see if their internet there is quicker. And if I can get this done a lot faster, I was kind of desperate with a lot of work to do and not a lot of time. And so I went to the library one evening and talked to Lisa there and sat down, got on my computer and I started uploading. I remember uploading like a hundred images from the session in like a minute and a half. And I was absolutely floored by how quick the internet was in town. It is so so much faster than what we have out here in the country. And so I just think that all rural communities, I hope all rural communities have access to that quick of internet because it has been in my busy seasons just a huge blessing. And it has allowed me to get things done that I would never be able to get done that fast at home. The benefit that's going to be tremendous for the library and the community if they want to get hooked up to it. Have you heard of Network Nebraska? Network Nebraska is a collaborative statewide networking effort to share telecommunication resources, network services and applications among eligible participants, which includes Nebraska Public Libraries. The Nebraska Public Service Commission provides a money matching program using Nebraska Universal Service Funds to assist libraries to pay for connecting fiber. Don't let the application and paper process stop you from applying. Today our community libraries are so much more than just places to check out a book. They're our community centers.


One of the lasting scars of war are the thousands of land mines that are left behind after the fighting ends. The Institute of Peace works with military and civilian partners to promote the rebuilding of war-ravaged societies. Helping in these efforts are the specially trained dogs who clear minefields, enabling farmers to work the land again. In this way, dogs become peace builders. Here is their story. One-third of the world's countries suffer from mines. Highly trained dogs can find these mines that have explosives in them. To date, there are over 900 dogs working in the minefield, sniffing out mines and saving and improving mines. I'm Perry Baltimore. I'm the president and executive director of the Marshall Legacy Institute. It helps work-torn countries that have been suffering the scourge of land mines. We began in 1997, which is the year I retired from the U.S. military after 27 years of service. When you are looking for a land mine, they're hard to find. The dog is trained to walk in a perfectly straight line, keeping its nose to the ground, sniffing all of the land as it goes along, looking for the explosives over. Then an ordnance disposal expert disarms that weapon of war. Truly, these are dogs of peace. These dogs are saving and improving lives so that children can play in safety, walk to school in safety, and so that land can be far and safe. Long after the ink is dried on the peace agreements, long after the bullets stop flying, people keep dying because of these land mines that are left hidden in the fields. There are tens of millions of them buried in the ground, just waiting for the unsuspecting foot of a mom, a dad, or a child. In this mine, neither nose nor cares who or what causes this plunger to be depressed. It's dangerous work, hazardous work. Every 30 minutes or so, there is a person happy, hopeful that loses a life or loses a limb. For every dog, there are tens of thousands of people that are able to bring life back to the villages that have suffered so horribly. Now, we just happened to have one of these dogs with us today. Today, Utsi, although retired from operational minefields, we take her all around the country, we visited several hundred schools, and by learning about the wonderful life-saving work that people and dogs are doing all around the world, we can get the children interested in peace. So we're going to go ahead and let her get started. Children fall in love with her, with her work. When she finds it, she sits still.  And this is what inspires us, the wonderful work that these dogs like Utsi do in the field. In recent years, we have found that a lot more mines are coming out of the ground. It makes such a wonderful difference for the people. It's our hope that within this next generation, the world can be made mine safe.


While many of you, or at least many people you associate with, are out fighting through stampeds of people trying to save $10 on the latest Fruit of the Loom underrues. I'm over here slaving away, trying to keep you up to date on Nintendo news, or at least as up to date as I can. Even if I have to babysit my super cute niece, just so my sister can join the millions, fighting for that $10 doorbuster deal, they just can't wait a few months from now to become the standard price. I get it, I just bought myself some eShop gift cards for a 10% off discount at Target online, just so I can give them away during our game awards special on December 7th. So, I guess I'm just as guilty as everyone else, except I didn't have to leave my home. Ahem. Today, we have a former employee of Platinum Games sounding off on a bunch of future or potential future games that will assuredly release on Nintendo Switch or even Nintendo Switch too. And so much sales data, it will make your eyes bleed red. Oh, okay, maybe that's not a good thing. Anyways, there's also a Ganondorf appearance that's a total simp fodder. Or is it really fodder if we're just simping that hard for Ganondorf? Whatever, that and more here. So, first, let's talk about Hideki Kamiya, the now former director and producer of a bunch of Platinum Games most well known and successful franchises. For those unaware, Hideki Kamiya recently left the company in October and it's interesting cause he actually co-founded Platinum Games in 2006. Yeah, he was that big of a deal there. He did not give a reason for leaving nor did Platinum Games press release on the situation. And if I had to guess, it seems somewhat tenuous. Current president of Platinum Games, Atsuchi Anodoba, literally stated back in February of 2022 that he wouldn't dismiss acquisition offers for the company. The first indication that Platinum Games could potentially be bought by another company. I would argue this doesn't really matter for Kamiya. If it wasn't for the fact he has stated on social media in years past that he never wants Platinum Games to be bought by another big company. Is this the impasse that led to him leaving the company he founded? Who knows. But if one thing is true of Kamiya, it's that we'll probably hear him rant about it at some point in the future once whatever NDA he's under after leaving the company expires. That being said, he recently conducted an interview that gave us a lot of details on some of the biggest games Platinum Games has to offer including many games beloved by Nintendo fans and more beyond Platinum as well. Future games perhaps. For starters, let's dive into Bayonetta. Now remember, he wasn't the director of Bayonetta 3 but he was still in the credits and yes had involvement in the project. Kamiya is the creator of the IP itself. So he had this to say on the future of Bayonetta. As I explained earlier, I worked on Bayonetta 1, 2, 3 and Origins. I've talked about this in various interviews that the Bayonetta series would consist of a total of nine episodes and that I wanted to grow the franchise as the Bayonetta saga. But it seems like I may have to take the full saga to the grave with me. It's a shame. It's not like I own the Bayonetta IP but I suppose those who do will probably keep it going. Naturally he was indicating he had an entire roadmap of nine titles for Bayonetta herself and potentially ideas for a lot of spinoffs that will never be fully realized. He also seems quite upset about it, indicating even more that whatever the reason was that he left the company, it probably wasn't amicably. That being said, he did say he thinks the series will continue. So maybe that indicates Nintendo has already ordered a Bayonetta 4 for Nintendo Switch 2. Only time will tell. Of course, now that Hideki Kamiya is a free agent and no longer part of Platinum Games, he has other options he would love to pursue if given the opportunity. There's no doubt that for however crass Kamiya can be, he certainly is a brilliant video game creator. He was an original planner and designer for the very first Resident Evil game and he was the actual director of a now classic IP known as Devil May Cry. We know about the Escavades at Platinum Games all too well with Bayonetta, the wonderful 101, Star Fox Zero and yes, Scalebound, right up until Microsoft pulled the plug on that. Yeah, I'm still kinda mad about that one. But before all of that, he also created beautiful Joe and Okami and now he's hoping his connections with Capcom will gain him the ability to revisit these IPs yet again. Here's what he had to say in this interview. Of course, I'd love to work on them if I ever get the chance. I actually had the story for a third beautiful Joe all thought out. I've always wanted to make it. I wonder if Capcom would let me make another beautiful Joe. Okami too, I felt like I left that unfinished. So if we could make that happen as well, I'd be happy. Now, technically those games did get other sequels in beautiful Joe Red Hot and the DS exclusives, beautiful Joe Double Trouble and Okamadin. But, Kamiya was not involved in any of those projects and they are not considered even close to the same quality as the first two beautiful Joe games and the original Okami. As such, a third and second title respectfully from his creative vision would be a welcome addition and yes, these games were fairly popular on Nintendo's old platforms. Of course, he is a free agent now running a YouTube channel and doing these interviews but he clearly wants to hook up with Capcom yet again and that's where his career first began oh, so long ago with Resident Evil. Only time will tell if they hire him back or at least let him work on select IP as an independent contractor. You know, kinda like Masahiro Sakurai. You can also independently hit that subscribe button if you haven't already and yes, go ahead and tap away on the like button because if you're still watching, clearly you're enjoying what you've heard so far, right?  Did you lose a bet? Well, be glad because there are worse things in life than having to suffer through this video. Seriously, have you tried tuna eyeballs? Be glad that wasn't your punishment. Next, we need to talk about something interesting with Super Mario RPG, a game I'm finally picking up today and I'm so excited to play. Now, here's the thing. Way back in the day with its original release on the Super Nintendo, there was a cheat code that was only available in the Japanese version of the game. The cheat code is special, all right? And now we can fully rejoice as this exclusive cheat code is now available to use worldwide on the Switch version of the game. So what does it do? After all, it's been elusive for nearly 30 years. Well, when you're on the menu screen in the game, do the following on your controller. Press down, then up, then right, left, L, R, L, R, B.  And bam, the game will let you know that you have found a secret code. Unbelievable!  For your efforts, you're rewarded with absolutely nothing. Okay, it's sort of a lie. Technically, you get a bonus conversation with Toad himself. Not only does he tell you that you found a secret code, he will also check all your stats just for fun and then say, I'll level with you, there aren't any other codes and this one will do the same thing every time. That's right, the cheat code just leads to Toad trolling you that something magical is about to happen right before Toad confesses this isn't going to do anything and the code is practically useless. Exclusive to Japan in the original release, the code was put in there to troll people who were commonly using cheat codes back in the day. We now get to experience Toad's savagery worldwide this time around. Next, sales are in for the launch of Super Mario RPG in Japan and it didn't exactly move the needle like many may have hoped for a holiday title. It did come in at number two, moving 301,334 units. Now, this is just physical and sales weren't tracked for the original release so we have no way of knowing how this really compares but it lost out to another new game this week from Konami called Momoyaro Dentetsu World. Okay, I'm just gonna leave it at that because admittedly I could barely pronounce my own name. Either way, this is a Switch game as well and it moved 314,699 units as a new release last week. Wondered Chimesen at number three, moving 50,000 units and finally crossing one million in sales in Japan alone. The Switch version of Hogwarts Legacy comes in at number four as a new release at 47,717 units sold with another new release in Persona 5 Tataka for Switch landing at number five with 26,794 units. Now, even though Super Mario RPG didn't blow the socks off the charts and easily claim number one, there were a lot of really good performing brand new Switch games last week. So naturally, the Nintendo Switch saw a huge bump in sales, right? Well, collectively the Nintendo Switch was the overall best seller in Japan last week with just over 66,000 units sold compared to PlayStation 5 at nearly 63,000 units though the base PlayStation 5 was the best overall individual system selling. But I noted with all these new releases, Switch sort of saw a big boost in sales but the data suggests otherwise. The week before the Nintendo Switch collectively sold 64,000 units and that's essentially what it's been selling the entire last six weeks. While these sales aren't anything to scoff at in Japan, it is down over the last month, year over year for this time of year. Falling in line with Nintendo's own projections that this holiday season, there certainly felt they would sell a lot less than last year, which is why they have projected to sell less systems this fiscal year than the last, despite being ahead in the first two quarters. Nintendo actually gets a majority of their sales during the holiday season when it comes to system sales. But I wouldn't get all gloomy. Nintendo already predicted this decline and 15 million is still an absolutely incredible number to do in year seven. That's right in line with year one in 2017. Nintendo has a plan and we'll just have to wait for it to play out. Of course, we want to end the day with something positive, positive thinking, right? Especially for you tired shoppers out there that were busy fighting off other people just for the last pack of gum at checkout after a long day of savings, I guess. Nintendo dropped images of a brand new Tears of the Kingdom statue to go along with the beautiful Link statue they used to market the game before launch. This time, it's Ganondorf in all of his simp glory.  It's really quite glorious to behold and I do truly wonder why they added this statue so long after the game came out. But it was used as a marketing event in Japan, showing Nintendo is indeed still doing a rather strong push for Tears of the Kingdom. And now that sounds really that surprising given it's the runaway best selling game for them this year having moved over 20 million copies after today. I tried asking Doug Biles around the phone how much it would cost to get the Ganondorf statue in my home because, hey, I'd like it to be a permanent part of a new set I want to build. Unfortunately, he gave me the classic, if you have to ask, you can't afford it line. And no, true words, I've probably ever been spoken. Something like this is truly priceless and will likely be an eventful addition along with link to the brand new Nintendo museum in Japan. And no folks, that was sarcasm. I don't have Doug Biles around speed dial. Or do I? That's gonna wrap things up today. While many of you have been wrapping presents for the next month's holiday extravaganza, I hope you enjoyed the journey from start to finish in this video as much as I did. I'm gonna catch all of you guys in that next video.


Up to now, I've been developing all the programs in files that happen to go in the same directory. This is great when the programs are small. However, as programs get more complicated, you might want to put related classes into directories to help organize your code. You can indicate that classes belong together by adding a package specifier to the code. The package name is the same as the directory name, and it must be the first non-blank, non-comment line in the file. By convention, package names begin with lowercase letters. If you don't specify a package name, your files go into the default package. Any properties or methods you define in a class in the default package are accessible by that class, or any other class that's also in the default package, but not accessible to any other package. This hasn't mattered so far because we haven't defined other packages. Once you start defining packages, you may wish to change who can access properties and methods that you've defined. If you proceed a property or method with public, that means your class, any class in the same package as yours, or any class in any other package has access to it. If, on the other hand, you proceed a property or method with private, then only the class that defined it can access it. The link in the description of this video leads to a zip file that demonstrates these levels of visibility and access. Along with the default, private, and public visibility modifiers, there's another one, protected, which we'll get to in Chapter 11. So, you may be asking yourself, why not keep everything default or public? What good is private? Take a look at this code for a class called circle, where everything has been declared public. Our setRadius method makes sure that the radius can't be negative by taking the absolute value of whatever value you pass to it. However, because it's public, there's nothing preventing you from directly setting the radius property to a negative number. Let's compile and run it, and you'll see our bad radius of negative 2.5. To prevent this, we can change the radius from public to private. Now, when we compile, we get an error. The radius has private access in circle. We can't set the radius directly. Instead, we must use the setRadius method, and that will ensure a non-negative number. We can compile, and now it's 2.5. This is called encapsulation. We have walled off the underlying implementation. Because programmers can't get to our data directly, we're free to change the representation of our properties, and the client programs don't have to change. In general, you should always make your data fields private. In a UML diagram, you proceed private data fields with a minus sign to indicate that they are private. Public properties and methods are preceded with a plus sign. The constructor must be public. In order to allow access to the private properties, you need to write public methods that access that data. These are called getters or accessors. By convention, these begin with the word get, followed by the name of the field, except for booleans, which begin with the word is. You'll also need to write public methods to set the values of the private properties. These methods are called setters or mutators. The Eclipse Interactive Development environment has an option to generate these getters and setters for you automatically. Such a deal! In summary, encapsulate your data by making properties private. It prevents programmers from accessing them directly. Instead, they have to use your getters and setters. This also gives you more flexibility to change underlying implementation without breaking your customers' programs.


Okay, so am I doing the math right? Here we go, an eight week buildup, holding the peak volume for three weeks, so nine, 10, 11 weeks, and then the three week. Onward and upward, how we doing today, everybody? All right, diving right into the studio, talking about marathon training blocks today, talking about the volume, peaking, pacing, all that good stuff. But first, I'll give you an update on my knee and the run today, and by the way, feeling so much better than compared to yesterday. If you saw yesterday's vlog, you know what I'm talking about, but today, I went four and a half miles, eight, 40 a mile, still nice and easy, but just felt so, so much better, and yes, zero. A big zero on the pain scale for the knee, and today's run was the first back-to-back runs in this marathon training block because last week, so my game plan last week, which the volume of training for last week, we're gonna talk more about this here in a second, but the volume of training was 15 miles for the week, which is pretty low for me, but I did that over the course of four runs, so I ran Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, so I took three days off because of my runner's knee, I was just being very, very cautious coming back from the injury to take a day off in between the runs, and sure enough, I'm arriving in the second week of the marathon training block, feeling very, very encouraged and healthy and good to go, so what is a training block? A training block is a given amount of time that you have to train for a race to get as fit as possible in that amount of time, okay? So usually for a marathon, it's that 12 to 14-week window, sometimes you can pull it off in that 10-week window, preferably you want about 12 weeks, and usually a lot of the elite runners will work with a 16-week training window, so about four months. For me, going into my spring 2020 marathon, it's gonna be that 12 to 14-week window. Now before I go too much further into the structure of my marathon training blocks, I wanna give a shout out to two old vlogs, so these vlogs go more into the science side behind why I train how I train. If you've been following the channel a long time, you know I'm a big proponent of building your aerobic capacity, your cardiac efficiency first before you start adding speed work and interval training, okay? So it's two old vlogs. I'm gonna, I will remember to link to them, upper radiant corner, those cards that pop out, you can click on those after you watch this vlog, so click on those cards. One of them is called how to run faster, build the aerobic engine first. That's the first one, that one's done very, a lot of people have watched that one, but this next one has actually done even better. It was all about the two hour training principle that I apply to my running and training, getting ready for a marathon race. So both of those are upper radiant corner. If you wanna go way further into the science behind why I emphasize aerobic training over anaerobic training, especially for a marathon distance race, okay? So there it is, upper radiant corner. Now as I'm formulating my training block, specifically a marathon training block right now, I am very, very focused on peaking. I love the art of peaking in a training block, okay? So what do I mean, peaking for those that have never heard this before is if the top of the mountain, the top of the pyramid is as fit as you can be, meaning you are primed and ready to go, your talent level is being drawn out of you because yeah, your natural talent level is being drawn out of you to the highest degree, okay? You're getting all that you can on race day out of your natural given ability, okay? So peaking. And for me, again, here's the pyramid. Here's your, at the bottom of the pyramid is that aerobic base of training, that big aerobic base that I'm a big proponent of, the bigger the base of aerobic training, I believe the higher the pyramid can be on race day, meaning the faster you can race on race day. So for a marathon training block for peaking, it's an art form, how to lay out your ascent in volume in what I already mentioned. So these are the four questions that I ask myself and that you can ask yourself as well in thinking about how do I structure my volume of training in a training block, okay? So here we go, I have them written down here. Where should my volume of training start, okay? I'll come back to that. How high should my volume go? How quickly should my volume get to that highest point, okay? And how long should I hold the highest point of volume, okay, before I start to taper, all right? Okay, number one, where should my volume of training start? Depends on a couple factors. The two that I look at mostly, there's some other factors, but the two major ones are experience level and injury history. Now, I'm coming off of runner's knee right now. Therefore, I'm starting a little lower than I typically would, okay? Last week, 15 miles a week, that's a pretty low volume of training for me in a given week. Usually as I start a training block, it would be closer to 30, okay? So that's point number one. Number two, how high should my volume of training go? Or another way to say it, what's my max amount of miles or kilometers that I will be running in a given week? And this will vary once again from runner to runner. And again, it comes down to experience, injury history. There's some other factors as well. For example, do you live at 10,000 feet above sea level or do you live right at sea level, okay? But for me, I'll just put a number out for you, not afraid to say it. I plan, yeah, asterisk, emphasis on plan to run 120 miles as my highest volume in this next training block. Now, why did I say asterisk or plan? Because you have to listen to the body.  Like as soon as I get above 100 miles a week, you're so tuned in to what's happening in your legs especially. You just have to listen to the body to make sure you're not going down a path of injury, okay? So, and then a number that I put out to folks that are curious, like Seth, I have no clue how many miles I should be running in a week. For my marathon, I often say, if you can aspire to get to 70, that's a great, when I get to 70 miles a week, my fitness levels, they start to, I feel like my fitness really starts to come around. So that's the number that I often share with people is at least 70 miles a week, okay? So that's number two. And number three, here we go. How quickly should my volume of training ascend to that peak point of 120 miles, all right? Another way to phrase it in your mind is how long, how many weeks does it take you to get there? And so you don't want, you want a nice, slow, gradual growth. You don't want two weeks or three weeks or even four weeks to get to that peak volume of training. For me, in this next training block, and again, I'm gonna listen to the body, but I will be adding, and there's different strategies out there, but I like to add 10 to 15 miles a week. So if you do the math, for me, if last week I ran 15 miles, I plan to get to 120 miles for my peak volume of training over the course of eight weeks. So that's two months of training to get there so that my body can adapt to the stress levels that I am putting it under, okay? But again, it's planning. If my body says, no, no, no, you need to pause, I will pause. In fact, I'm also planning just so you know, at 100, when I get to basically 100 or 110 miles per week of training, I plan to take a down week. So an easy week where I will cut my volume from 110 miles down to 40 to 50. I'm just gonna take an easy week. It's kind of a new game plan that I have for this next marathon training block, okay? So that's my ascent. It's not immediate. It's, and if you, okay, one last point, if you don't have experience with high volumes of training, I would not, do not add 10 to 15 miles a week. I would add honestly three to five miles per week. And I would not be afraid, this is another tip, tip of the day, is to add, go to, let's say you've never run more than 40 miles in a week, I would go to 35 miles in a week. And then I would pause there and hold 35 miles for at least two weeks. And if you have time, hold it for three weeks and then drop back down to 30, 25 to 30. And then go up to 40 just to make sure your body once again is adapting to the higher stress levels that you are putting it under with more volume of training, okay? So, oh, anyway, it's just, I just, I don't wanna see anyone get injured because they're ascending too quickly in their volume. Okay, number four, how long should I hold that peak volume of training, that 120 miles a week? For me, my go to number is at least two weeks and possibly three weeks. Again, listening to the body and listening to when does the body need to start the taper? You know, if you've been watching the channel for a long time, you know that I love the three week taper. A lot of people do two week tapers, which is fine. I prefer the three week taper mostly because I'm coming off on such a high volume of training. I feel like I need a three week taper. So going from 120 miles a week to that 90 to 100 mile a week and then down to, I believe I dropped down to like 60 to 70, maybe 75 and then all the way down to 30 to 40 that last week before the peak race, the marathon race. So am I doing the math right? Here we go. An eight week buildup, holding the peak volume for three weeks. So nine, 10, 11 weeks and then the three week taper, 12, 13, 14. Boom. Now I'm not gonna get into specific marathon training workouts in this blog. I'll save that for another vlog, but I will say this. As far as that 14 week window when I begin to introduce anaerobic training or interval training or yes, even threshold training, it does not start everybody. It does not start until week seven. So halfway through the training block. Why? Two reasons. Number one, I have found that when I plunge my pH levels, this gets into the scientific side a little bit, but the pH levels of my blood too early too often in a training block, I get so tired and sluggish.  And it's really, basically it takes more time for your body to recover, which makes sense because that's what workouts do. And so when I do that too early in a training block, it just makes the, it makes later in the training block really, really difficult when I'm hitting 100 miles a week, 110 miles a week, 120 miles a week. Okay, so that's number one. Number two is peaking, okay? I have found once again, that I would much rather arrive at the starting line just right at the top of the pyramid. And when I do the interval training too early in the training block, I end up peaking. I feel like I'm ready to race two weeks before the race, three weeks before the race, rather than feeling, okay, I'm arriving at the starting line at the exact right time, rather than, so like when you do a workout three weeks out from a marathon and you're like, this workout feels so easy, it might mean you're ready to race. And that's actually not a good thing. You don't wanna, you don't want your workouts at the end of the training block to be like race day, okay? You wanna save the good stuff for race day. So that's why also I don't introduce interval training too early in the training block and I wait till around right at week seven basically, depending again on how the body is reacting to that aerobic base building phase. Okay, just to wrap it up real quick, the four questions that I ask myself in preparing my marathon training block, okay? Number one, where should my volume of training begin? All right? What is my peak volume of training going to be? All right? Number three, how long does it take, how many weeks does it take me to arrive at that peak volume of training? All right? And number four, last but not least, how long do I hold the peak volume of training at that peak level? All right? There you go. That is my structure for creating my marathon training block. Oh my goodness.  Okay, question of the day. How do you structure your volume of training for a marathon? What does it look like? Okay? Now, if you want to chime in with a half marathon or 10K, that's fine too, if you've never trained for a marathon, but specifically if you train for marathons, this is where your wisdom can shine down in the comments. We would all appreciate it. Okay, I hope that helps answer some questions around how I like to structure my training going into a marathon. All right? Love you all. Thanks for being here. I'm gonna toss it back on the right too. How to run faster, building that aerobic engine first. That'll be on the right for you. And then we'll toss it back to the two hour marathon training vlog that'll be on the left. All right, everyone. Thanks for being here. Thanks for watching. See beauty, work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.


I'm Marsha Joyner and today we are at the Capitol with Representative Lynn DeCoyt from Molokai.  And it is, I think, still real Hawaii, old Hawaii. Last true Hawaiian island. Last true Hawaiian island. And there has been in the news this issue of Hawaiian airline cutting back on flights to and from Molokai. And last year the ferry was gone. So what does that mean to the people that live on Molokai? Have they really been isolated so far? Are they stranded? So we're here today to ask them to talk about what is going on with Molokai and what can we do? Well, one is we can talk with Hawaiian Airlines and we've had a lot of our constituents call in mostly in regards to ADA compliance because many of our kupuna need the ramp to get on to the airlines to come over to Honolulu and Maui for doctors. We've asked them to write in to Hawaiian Airlines. We've had a meeting with Hawaiian Airlines two nights ago on the island. It was well attended, about 80 people. And there were grave concerns for the next 90 days of discontinuation for the Maui to Honolulu, and Maui, Molokai to Maui flight as well as the midday Molokai to Honolulu flight. So once, tell me from the beginning, what is it with Hawaiian Airlines? What is it that they said they were going to do? So basically because they have a lack of fleet, they are required by FAA to take that plane out for service and maintenance, which is going to take about 90 days. So it's not forever, it's for this? It's for that 90 day period from September 15th to December 15th. Oh, Christmas time. Shopping time. Shopping time, canoe race time. They were gracious enough to accommodate Molokai for the canoe races and put in three extra flights. Now, I have been to Molokai on the little planes, but what about the ADA? How do you get wheelchairs and things on those flights? We can't. So that's why the pressure to have Hawaiian continue their flights to and from Molokai. Those planes are nine-seaters and they cannot accommodate wheelchair accessibility or ADA for people with Walker and cannot make it up to the steps. I was on one flight and they weighed everybody to make sure that we fit. Yes. And that's usually the case, you know, the balance of weight is a heavy concern. Our other concern is if a passenger is over 300 pounds, they cannot get on that flight also. So we're pretty strapped because our morning flights from Molokai to Honolulu are normally full and by moving a midday flight out from Molokai to Honolulu, you now look at people that are on the midday flight trying to get on the morning flight, of which it'll take a lot of planning, people that are going to go to doctors. It's really hard because in some case when a person has a heart attack or stroke, they're then referred back to a heart doctor and those doctors are here in Oahu or Maui and it's a huge inconvenience, especially if you're a caregiver trying to take off work. Now you're asking for two seats and it's a 48-seater. Again, two weight and balance will be huge factors on who will take priority on those flights. Nat, you have a clinic, health clinic. What about a hospital or other medical facilities? Well, we have Queen's Hospital, so Molokai General is a partner with Queen's Hospital which accommodates a lot of our patients, check-ups, heart surgeries, everything from chemotherapy and cancer. So, you know, the clinics will do the minor things, but anything after a stroke and stuff is air-vac'd out. Cost-wise, it's huge, unless you have Hawaii Life Flight Insurance or AMR. Now, there's other things going on, especially except the airline, but what about the sale of Molokai Ranch? What is that going to do to the island? Well, you know, actually Molokai Ranch has always been on the market for sale. I guess now it's come back in. I haven't had a conversation with Molokai Ranch yet, but you know, we're hoping that if Molokai Ranch is sold that they come back to the community and have these meetings with the community to see what is liking of what their proposal is. Development is a huge deal for Molokai as they want to remain the last Hawaiian island and keep culture, preserve its way of life, but at the same time trying to understand how do we keep our kids home with jobs, economic development, and figuring out if there's enough water, you know, and that's a big problem. Water. The fresh water you mean? Yes, potable drinking water. Do you not get enough rain? No, we don't. Every year we're in drought restrictions and it's played a huge part on whether or not we're cutting back whether it's due to potable drinking water or agricultural water. So if you were to put in a new farming, a new agriculture venture, then water would be an issue? Well, right now we haven't had, we're looking pretty good on ag water. It's just a matter of how long the summer and drought lasts. But people have been very good on conserving, on taking new precautions and measures on, instead of overhead irrigating, going to drip line and doing water conservation measures. Now, back to the children. We were there last year and for the Martin Luther King Peace Poem Project. And there were 57 winners in Hawaiian that they were fluent in Hawaiian. Their English wasn't well, okay, but that was amazing. The numbers of people on your island that speak Hawaiian, that is fabulous. You know, it's huge. Punanaleo thrives on Moloka'i. The immersion program also thrives with the support of, you know, legislature in supporting Hawaiian language. You know, the children speak fluent in a time when our generation was growing up. We wouldn't have the privilege really of being educated on Hawaiian language. But as MCC does provide for Hawaiian language, most of the parents have gone back and within Punanaleo it's a requirement that the parents come in and learn the language to interact with the children. There was one kid, he was reading his poem in Hawaiian, but he couldn't handle reading it in English. He was darling. And you know, that's a challenge that they face. But for many of the parents here who want to keep the culture and the education in Hawaiian language alive, it's strong and thriving. So what else is going on in Moloka'i? Well, we want to see more on the education line of MCC in offering higher degrees. They do have in higher education. A lot of our parents have gone back to school. We like to see that continue and enrollment to start to increase. Of course, healthcare is a big issue. Making sure Kupuna that are on fixed income have other options of basically surviving. Cost of living, highest, electric and gas. You know, we struggle for the jobs is to maintain those jobs and keep people living on Moloka'i that want to continue to live there. Now, what about the sweet potatoes? Is that still a big industry?  My family, as myself, a third generation sweet potato farm, our family still thrives and my dad still works with us raising Moloka'i purple sweet potatoes. So it's been a wonderful job and something that you got to like to continue to farm. Do we have many tourists? Not as much as people would like to see, but enough as they come onto Moloka'i, they're educated about the lifestyle, about who we are, about learning respect for one another and welcoming people with open arms and realizing that there's places you can and cannot go. But the tourists that come are very welcoming and they respect the people and the culture there. Well, I promised that we wouldn't keep you long. Your staff said you had lots of meetings. But thank you so much for spending this time with us and we will be back. Thank you, Marshar. I appreciate it. Thank you. Aloha.


Barring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, and yours truly, Don Wilson. You know friends, one of those Oscars, if it was given to a breakfast cereal, you can just see that Oscar zooming to a delicious, moldy, rich, grape nuts flakes. For when it comes to America's fastest-growing breakfast cereal, the verdict you hear is unanimous. Grape nuts flakes really taste swell.  They have such a grand, malty richness, such a glorious, crisp, tempting goodness. They bring you the flavor of grape nuts, an exciting, toasted, flake form, and grape nuts flakes bring you health-building, whole-grain nourishment, including proteins, minerals, and vitamins. So help yourself to health at breakfast. Help yourself to sweet as a nut luscious grape nuts flakes in the big 12-ounce economy-sized package. You don't give up a single precious ration stamp to buy grape nuts flakes. But it's fun, played by the orchestra.  That's right. They pulled the Kentucky derby right down over my ears. You always wear a derby that way. Quiet. Ever since this disastrous experience, Mr. Benny has been trying and trying to forget, but to no avail. What do you mean to no avail? I've forgotten the whole thing. When I lose money, that's the end of it.  What ad? Lost. One piggy bank on Genesee Street. Finer may keep bank, but owner has sentimental attachment to content. Now marry. Please return to Jackie Benny, age 45, Hollywood, California. That's who made up. Now go on. Go on with the story, Donald. Well, anyway, folks, Rochester returned from Louisville a week ago. But until yesterday afternoon, Jack was unable to get in touch with it. I should have known he was hiding down on Central Avenue. So now without further ado, we would like to take you to one of Central Avenue's delightfully intimate mixed drinkeries. The time late yesterday afternoon. Take it away. Mr. Sippy Barbecue Palace, Mr. Sippy speaking. I see. Now, Mr. Sippy, I'm trying to get in touch with Rochester. Rochester Van Jones. Are you mean the man whose horse has caused no end of unbalanced buttches in this vicinity? I lost plenty on him, too. Now is Rochester there? Just a minute, I'll find out. Oh, Rochester? Rochester. What is it, Sippy? Is that Mr. Benny? Yeah, what am I telling you? Same thing. Same thing. Okay. Wrong number. Goodbye. You know, Sippy, that was a narrow escape. Yeah. Say, how many days have you been hiding out from Mr. Benny? Four that I can remember and two that must have been sheer bliss. Say, Sippy, I was supposed to meet Louis Armstrong here. Have you seen him? Oh, Satchamone? Here he comes now. Off the lazy river where the oil mill's running. Well, look here. Hello, Rott. Hello, Satch. Well, Satch, I thought you were going to come load it. Don't worry, son. I got two gals coming over here in a little while that are tall, tan, tantalizing, and tender. Are they good-looking? Mine is. Yours is sort of a retread. Now, wait a minute, Satch. I should have the good-looking one. I'm a romantic man. Romantic? You heard me. When I kiss a gal, Cuba just stands there and says, My dog. Say, Rott, an important thought has just struck me. What are we going to do for money tonight? You know, legal lettuce. Well, Satch, you got money.  Well, let me tell you something, Satch. Byrd Corp. would have won that race if it hadn't been for the backstretch. What happened in the backstretch? He just rolled over on the road. He just rolled over on his back and stretched. Well, look, Rochester. We've got a hold. We've got to get hold of some stuff for tonight, and I've got a hunch that those gals are going to be hungry. Yeah. Well, it looks like I'll have to call Mr. Benny, my favorite comedian. Oh, you dog. Give me that phone, Sippy. Here you are. Thanks. Hello, operator. Give me Crestview 7071. From Natchez the Mobile. What? I can't down-miss. I got a high boy on each hand. From Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four wheels blow. Hello? Hello, Mr. Benny? Well, well, so it's you. What happened to you, boss? Where have you been? Where have I been? I've been on the phone for the last six days trying to reach you. I called every hotspot on Central Avenue that's got a telephone. Some of the best ones is primitive. Rochester, I don't want any flippancies. I want the truth. You've been back from Louisville a week now. Why haven't I heard from you? Well, last Tuesday I was right up to the door of your house in Beverly Hills ready to work. Uh-huh.  I see. Well, couldn't you walk around the cat? I did and wound up at the cotton club. Oh, well, so much, so much for Tuesday. Now, what happened Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday? I don't even remember where they happened. I thought, now, look, Rochester, I want you to be at my house first thing tomorrow morning. Okay, boss. I'll be there. You better.  I'm in desperate need of, say, about $25. I see. Well, let me ask you something, Rochester. Why should I give you $25 when I just lost 50 on your horse? Well, come on. Rochester, I want an answer to that question. It ain't ready yet. Now, listen, Rochester, I'll give you the money on one condition that you come over here right now and start a work. The house is a mess. Okay, I'm on my way, boss. So long. Goodbye. Now, listen, Satch, you keep the gals here. I'll run over to see Mr. Benny, put on the personnel. They'll be back in half an hour. Rochester, you forgot to hang up the phone. Uh-oh. All right, Rochester. Yeah. I heard your conversation. Come in the doghouse. That's where you belong, you old dog. Well, I better get over to Mr. Benny's house. So long, Sippy. Good luck, Rochester. Say, Satch, while you're waiting for the gals, why don't you get up there with the band and give out a little jive for the cats? Okay, I might float on down that old ladies' river for a few bars. Let's float, boys. The old ladies' river with the old ladies' river with the noonday sun hanging in the shade of a kind old tree. Throw away your troubles. Dreamer, dreamer, me, dreamer, dreamer, me. The old ladies' river with the robin song to bright light as we stroll along. Whose kind love above and the one I love of the ladies' river are happy we will be my ones. The old ladies' river It's over. The old ladies' river with the robin song to bright light as we stroll along. The powers have elapsed since our last scene. We take him out of Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills where he is busy dictating to his secretary. Take it away, Beverly Hills. However, madam, if you will send me 50 cents and cash or stamps, I will be glad... I think I'll laugh so quick. I will be glad to send you one dozen personally autographed naval oranges plus one large grapefruit with my picture pasted on it. I'll sign that as usual, your dream man, Jack Benny. Is there any more fan mail, Ms. Livingston? Oh, for heaven's sake, Jack, will you stop with that, Ms. Livingston? Why don't you call me Mary? Because every Saturday afternoon, you're supposed to be my secretary and I don't believe in familiarity. And why are you sitting on my lap? Because you don't know how to type. Now, is there any more fan mail? Yes, here's a letter from a lady in Nobody, Montana. Nobody, that's North Butte. What's the... What's the lady got to say? Dear Mr. Benny, those oranges you sent me were a little sour. Also your photograph. Also your program last Sunday. I'll have to spray those oranges. Also my writers. Now, let's see, how will I... Well, it's the big racehorse man again. Say, Mr. Benny, I made your bed, changed your shoes, and changed the oil on your two bags. Good. Can I have that $25 loan now? Rochester, I'm not giving you any money just because you got a date with a couple of girls tonight. Oh, I forgot all about them, boys. But tomorrow is Mother's Day and I want that $25 to buy a mami or a geranium. I've got a geranium? Well, you should get quite a geranium for $25. Oh, it ought to be huge.  Now go do them. I just got a manicure. I don't care, do those dishes. Do you think he's going out stepping tonight? He's crazy. But Jack, it isn't Rochester's fault that you lost money on his horse. That phony fortune teller told you to make the bet. You mean Princess Korsakov at the tea room? Give me that phone, Mary.  Oh, darn it. Have you got a nickel, Mary? Here you are. Thanks. A phone and a private house. That's the darnest thing I ever heard of. Well, it saves a lot of bookkeeping and sending people bills. I hope the princess doesn't... Hello? Hello. Anaheim's Gypsy Tea Room. Heim's speaking. Where's Anna? She ain't Heim. Now cut that out. Thank heaven I won't have to look at him much longer. Listen, I want to speak. I want to speak to... I'm only kidding. I want to speak to Princess Korsakov, your fortune teller. She can't come to the phone right now.  Put the princess on the phone, teacup and all. Okay, blue eye. I got two of them. That's right. Just because I'm a comedian, everybody. Hello? Hello, Princess Korsakov. I'm happy so peaceful when I look in my crystal-turking. Look, Princess, you gave me some fine advice when you told me to bet on Rochester's horse. According to the radio, the newsreels and the papers that came in last. It couldn't be propaganda. Now it couldn't.  Who's a phony? I said you'd be president of the Elks, didn't I? Elks? You said I'd be president of the United States. There was mayonnaise on my crystal. It wakes better now. Oh well, president of the Elks isn't bad. I'll tell you what, Princess, I'll be over for lunch tomorrow. What's the special? Leg of lamb with nylon stockings. Fine, I'll bring a girl. Goodbye, Princess. You know, Mary Princess Korsakov is a wonderful woman. She says I'm going to be president of the Elks. I'll have to buy a tooth for my watch chain. Why don't you get a few for your gums while you're at it? Oh, say that for the program. Say, I don't hear any activity in the kitchen. Oh, Rochester, how are you coming along with the dishes? Oh, fine, boss. I'm just stacking them up now. Good. You know, Mary, Princess Korsakov may have her pulse, but easy does it. Easy does it. I bet you broke every dish in the kitchen. No, I didn't, boss. The soup terrain is okay. Thank heaven. Of course, it's going to leak a little now. Rochester, those dishes are coming out of your next week's salary. Now go upstairs and press my blue suit.  Yes, sir. Hey, where do you fellas go every Saturday night? We have a bowling team. It's a lot of fun and good exercise. Well, here's Dennis now. Hello, kid. Hello, Mr. Benny. Hi, Dennis. Fine, Miss Livingston. Say, Mr. Benny, are we going to the... You know what, tonight? Quiet, kid. Yes, as soon as Don and Phil get here. Oh, boy. I hope... What do you call it is still there? Quiet, quiet, kid. Hey, wait a minute. Where are you fellas going? Every Saturday night, we go downtown to the burlesque show. Dennis. The burlesque show? Mary and Morgan, more curves than the Burma Road. Dennis, save that whistling for the theater. Say, Dennis, what's that box you got under your arm? Oh, you'll laugh. No, no, I won't. What is it? Well, tomorrow is Mother's Day and Mr. Benny has always been like a mother to me, so I brought him a box of chocolates. Well, well... Mother Benny. Some mother's taking you to the burlesque show tonight, eh, sonny? Yeah, isn't she sweet? Now, Mary, don't spoil it. Dennis gave me a box of chocolates. It was a very sentimental gesture, and I appreciate it. Thanks, Dennis. You're welcome. But, you know, kid, I haven't always been sweet to you. In fact, once in a while, I'm very mean. I know. One of the chocolates has a Mickey in it. A Mickey? Yeah, tastes a little like maple nuts. How do you know? I had one Thursday, and I didn't wake up till this morning. Well, I'll watch out for maple nuts. Speaking of Mother's Day, Dennis, have you got a song that ties into the occasion for the program tomorrow? Yes, I'm going to sing Little Mother of Mine. Would you like to hear it? Yes, I would. I'll sit down at the piano here and make off like an orchestra. Don't spoil the illusion. Sing, kid. See, this candy looks good. Well, Dennis, it'll be very good on the program tomorrow. Thank you. How do you like the way I played the orchestra? Oh, you were marvelous. Anyway, kid, that's a great number for Mother's Day. Speaking of Mother's Day, Jack, I sent Papa a check for $100. $100 for your father? A Mother's Day? She'll get it, don't worry. Oh, yes, your mother's a pretty big woman. She's taller than your father, isn't she? Only two or three feet. Well, that's enough. Say, boys, I've pressed your blue suit. How's it look? Fine. Now take it off and hang it in the closet. Okay. He always has to model everything. What a guy. Uh-oh, 8.30. Can I have that $25 now, boys? I gotta get down to Central Avenue and buy that geranium for my mother. $25 for a geranium. Now let's analyze this. How could you possibly pay $25 for a geranium? I got a florist that takes advantage of me. Oh, and you have to go to him.  Yes, sir. You know, Mary, you rock. You know, Mary, if Rochester would only come right out and say that he wants $25 to entertain a couple of girls, it would be different. You mean you'd give him the money? No, but he wouldn't be lying to me. That's different enough for me. Well, it's Don and Phil. Hiya, fellow. Hello, everybody. Hiya, gang. Say, Mary, I'm sorry you can't come along with us. Us guys are going, uh, we're going bowling. She knows, she knows. Dennis had us fill the beans. I didn't have to do it.  You said it. Say, Phil, do you have any trouble getting out of the house tonight? No, it was easy. But you'll notice I got a club foot. Of course, that kills my next line entirely, you know? My next line is, but then you've only been wearing shoes since your band started playing indoors. I love when they ad-lib. My next line means nothing, you know? Phil, now I want to show you the difference in the joke. Phil, do the original line. Okay, where are you going to start at the top? I say, Phil, didn't you have any trouble getting out of the house tonight? No, it was easy. But you'll notice I haven't got any shoes on. Oh, yes. But then you've only been wearing shoes since your band started playing indoors. He's a different folk. Phil, why don't you tell Alice you were going to a concert or something? Oh, it's all right with her. If I go out with you guys, I bought her a beautiful pair of mules for Mother's Day. Oh, bedroom slippers? No, mules. Jocances, jocances. She's got a victory garden to plow. Oh, really? Oh, I see. Jocances. Yeah, jocances. Oh, real mules, huh? Well, that's a... Mules, that's a very touching gift. I named him Jack and Jerk after you. Thanks, I expected as much. Oh, while we're on the subject of Mother's Day, Jack, do you know what I sent my mother in Denver, Colorado? No, Don, what did you send your mother? A whole case of America's fastest-growing flake cereal. Maldi-rich, toasty-brown, sweet as a nut, great nut's flakes. Well, that's a wonderful gift. And I enclosed a little note that said, Dear Mother, remember the day the stork brought me? There I was, just a 12-ounce economy-sized package. 12-ounce? Don, if you only weighed 12 ounces, how come the stork went right from your house to Murrieta Hot Springs? He's been grounded ever since. But that was a nice present, Don. I'm sure your mother will appreciate it. Well, Mary, you'll have to excuse us now.  Oh, wait a minute. Here comes that silly border of yours. Oh, yes, Mr. Billingsley. Good evening, Mr. Billingsley. Good evening, Mr. Benny. Stepping out, I see. Yes, yes, my friends and I are going downtown in bold. I was there last night. He's lovely. Yes, yes, she is. Would you care to ride downtown with us, Mr. Billingsley? No, thanks. I'm going upstairs and hit the hay. Going to bed, eh? No, I'm going to hit the hay. I'm mad at him. Oh, I see. Well, good night, Mr. Benny. Good night. There's very few of us left. Going upstairs and hit the hay. I was wondering why he was carrying that chilele. Come on, fellas, let's go. Now, Rochester, when I get home tonight, I'll expect you to be here. But, boss, what about the $25 for my mother's geranium? Rochester, I know you're not telling the truth. If that $25 was really for your mother, you could, uh... Uh-oh, I'll get it, boss. Uh, hello, Rochester. Uh, look at her, man. The girls are here. What's keeping you?  Mother? How are you, mother? How you been? What's the matter with you, Rochester? This is Satchmo. I know. Now concentrate, mammy. I'll be down in a little while with $25 for those geraniums. Geraniums? Oh, I get it. You dog. What's that, native? Just a minute, I'll find out. Say, Mr. Benny. What is it, Rochester? Can I have tonight off? Mother's having a little birthday supper for us children. Well, I think it might be, uh... Give me that phone, Rochester. But, boss... Give me that phone. I want to talk to your mother. But she don't speak English. Give me that phone. Okay. Hello, Mrs. Van Jones. How are you? I'm fine. I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. Mrs. Van Jones. Are you there, Mrs. Van Jones? Oh, yes, Mr. Benny. By the way, Mrs. Van Jones. Yes? Rochester tells me that you're having a little buffet supper tonight for your children. Are your daughters there yet? They've just arrived. Well, tell me, Mrs. Van Jones. Are your daughters good-looking? Mine is. I thought so. 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Well we're here today in beautiful Golden Ears Provincial Park, one of our busiest provincial parks, and we're here announcing capital investment of $500,000 over the next three years to improve trails and to replace a bridge. And that's on top of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that have gone into this park over the last few years. Basically what we're trying to do is increase the trails for people so that they have a better experience when they're walking, and it's not something that they could and they can experience it in all weather, not just the sunny periods. Very good, it means that all the trails that we have built in the past will now be maintained. If it wasn't for this announcement, the trails would deteriorate and they would have to be closed. So this is very important to happen now. New picnic tables, new accessibility features with pavement with boat ramps, more accessible handicap spots for people to park. So we're really trying to make sure that our parks are open to everybody in British Columbia, and that the trails are kept up, and that all of the crossings are intact as well. So this is another part of our $14 million capital program each and every year in BC Parks.


Hi, so we're here with Shenzhen Winton. Hi, so who are you? Yeah, this is Anna. Welcome to Shenzhen Winton Technology So we are the portable monitor manufacturer from Shenzhen. How is connect here this one? Just a sticker attached to the laptop and it can also be swivel. The sticker will not fall off? Yeah, it will stay. And how do you close? So you close it like this? We can close. We can turn. Yeah, we can swivel. Cool. Yeah, if you have a meeting with your colleagues or your business partners, you can also swivel the monitor. Yeah, on each side, you can see the... You can play a game where you cannot see what the other one is. You can play chess or something. And if you finish your meeting, you just close it easily by swivel. And it's protection of the screen. Yes. Is there a price for this display? Is it 1080p? 1080p. Full HD. We have two sizes for option 11.6 and 14 inch. Do you also do 4k? 4k, yes. On this? On this, no. Which one is your 4k display? 4k. This one, this one, this one, this one. But we also have OLED panel from Shenzhen. It's very clear and high resolution and very high brightness. Samsung OLED. So big. Yeah, Samsung. Is it very expensive? Yeah, expensive. A little bit. Expensive compared with the other normal models. So this is LCD? This is OLED. Oh, you did. Yeah. OLED. This is this LCD and OLED. OLED, yes. And OLED. 4k normal. And do you want to talk about the price? MOQ? What do you want to say? MOQ 500 pieces. Okay. And the price, they contact you. Or you want to say around? Is it less than 50, less than 100? Can you introduce from the entry level one? Yeah, what is the entry? High end one. What is the smallest one? The entry level one. Plastic one. Are always from 65. This is entry? No. Plastic one, yeah. 65? From 65 to 300. All right. 65 to 300. It's big range. Yes. And then the higher 300 is the top best one. OLED. And the one that connect like this around can start also. Can not offer. Can not say. Too much. Yes, here. Cool. All right. So do you have customers all over the world? Yeah. We are expanding their market share. And you use BOE? BOE panel? BOE. All right. And Samsung? Yes. LG? Yes. Also? LG at this moment, no. Okay. But Samsung Korea or Samsung China? Samsung China agent. Normally we buy the panel from the agent. Nice. All of the panel maker, they have the agent in China. Yes. And then you assemble in Shenzhen? Yeah. We design. We produce. Yeah. And many of them they support display port. So you can just connect. Can you hold this? Two Type-C. Type-C for data and power. And also one HDMI. Standard one. Or we also have the mini HDMI. How to switch? How to switch? We have an option here from the OSD menu. Yeah. So you click on the side and then it go from one to the other source. Two source, right? Yeah. We have toss choice. Type-C1, Type-C2 and HDMI. Yeah. We can just choose easily. How many display you make every month? That's a lot. So it's big factory? It's okay. Not so big, but we are okay in China. So you work very hard? Yeah. Actually from April. First of April, we are traveling to Japan and Hong Kong to exhibitions for the HKTDC in Wanjai. And then we come here. And from first of April, we went to Japan for exhibition. So we are quite busy for the exhibitions. And you also do kind of like a photo frame style? We can see this advertising machine. And you do a lot of touch? Touch screen? All of them? Touch is for the option. So when you do touch, then it will connect by USB to the computer? It depends on which interface you use. If you use USB-C, I mean Type-C, you can touch it directly. But if you connect with the HDMI, you will need an extra touch cable. USB-C to USB-A. Nice. And what is this display here? There. This is the switch? Yeah. Alright. Cool. Alright. Cool. I forgot what the switch looked like. Cool. Thanks a lot. Thank you.