Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss a question which says that choose the rule of the size measurement. First part is 8 inches 8.3 inches. Second part is 80 feet. Now let us start with the solution of the given question. Let us start with the first part. Now in the first part two measurements 8 inches and 8.3 inches are given to us and we want to find the more precise measurement out of these two given measurements. Now here we can see that both measurements have same units that are inches. So to know more precise measurement we will see the greatest possible error in both measurements. Now in 8 inches the last significant digit that is 8 is at unit space possible error will be half of the position of the last significant digit that is 1. So this is equal to 1 by 2 which is equal to 0.5. So here the greatest possible error is equal to 0.5. Now in second measurement that is 8.3 inches the last significant digit is 3. It is at position 0.1 that is one tenth. Hence greatest possible error is equal to 1 by 2 into 0.1 which is equal to 1 by 2 into 1 by 10 that is equal to 1 by 20 which is equal to 0.05. The greatest possible error is equal to 0.05. Now 0.05 is a smaller error then 0.5 point with smaller error will be more precise that means 8.3 inches is more precise measurement then 8 inches. Now let us start with the second part. The second part 2 measurements 4 yards and 18 feet are given to us and we want to find the more precise measurement out of these 2 given measurements and we will see the units of both the measurements. Now both measurements have different units that is yards and feet. Now a foot is a smaller unit of measurement than a yard so 18 feet is more precise measurement then and that's all for this session. Hope you all have enjoyed the session.


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My name is Sam Vakne. I'm the author of Malignal Sunflower, Narcissism Revisited and other books about personality disorders. I have spent the past few years developing a new treatment modality, a new therapy. It is geared and intended to treat mainly people with cluster B personality disorders, with emphasis on narcissists and psychopaths. People who have been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. It seems to be effective with both these personality disorders as well as with certain types of mood disorders, especially extended dysthymia and major depressive episodes. I dubbed this new treatment modality cold therapy, cold as opposed to warm or hot. Cold therapy is built upon one observation and one major technique. The observation is that it is a mistake to try to treat narcissists and to a lesser extent psychopaths as adults. It is a mistake to use tools and instruments from the arsenal of therapies which are geared to deal mainly with adults, most notably cognitive behavioral therapy. Both narcissists and again to a lesser extent psychopaths are the outcome of dysfunctional attachment, attachment disorder, problems with early childhood attachment, owing to early childhood abuse, a type of trauma, or the violation and breaching of the child's emerging boundaries as an individual by the parents. So we are talking about situations of arrested development. Narcissists are children, psychodynamically speaking. Because they are children, cold therapy makes use of tools and instruments, techniques and tactics which are common in child psychology rather than adult psychology. So this is the first of the three. Now the technique at the core of cold therapy is that cold therapy seeks to recreate, regenerate, rebuild or reboot the environment conducive to the replication of original childhood traumas. In other words, cold therapy is about re-traumatization. It is intended to allow the client to resolve early childhood conflicts, to cope with early childhood pain, and in a way to reverse the pernicious outcomes of early childhood abuse and trauma by going through the very same experiences again as an adult. As an adult, the client or the patient is much better equipped to deal with many of the issues which, when he was a child, looked insurmountable. And so re-traumatization is at the core of cold therapy. But to re-traumatize, we should create an environment which is not a holding environment, not a safe environment, not an empathic, emotion-filled, warm, welcoming environment. Because in these kinds of environments, safe, empathic, holding environments, it is not possible to genuinely experience traumas, except perhaps on the abstract intellectual level. But re-traumatization, and especially cold therapy re-traumatization, has to be emotional, has to be deep, has to be all-pervasive, has to affect the client exactly as it had affected him when he was a child. So we need to create a similar environment which is essentially hostile, dangerous, frightening, ominous, cold therapy. It's a cold environment, a cold space where the client enters and knows and anticipates trauma and abuse. Only he is given the tools or already possesses the tools as an adult to cope with these issues, resolve the conflicts and emerge the other end of the cold therapy space, healed, changed, if not unscared. So these are the core concepts of cold therapy. Now, I'm going to have the first-ever certification seminar for cold therapy in Vienna sometime around April or May. If you as a therapist, psychologist, mental health practitioner, if you are interested to attend, please write to me. Go down to the description under the video where you will find relevant links and email addresses where you can register with me. At this stage no payment is required, just an expression of interest. You will be put on a mailing list and we will keep you updated with the progress of the certification seminar. The seminar will be held, as I said, in Vienna, Austria. It will be held for a period of three days. The duration is three days and at the end of which we will be providing the first certificates called therapist certificates. But perhaps even more importantly, the idea is to create a cold therapy institute where early childhood trauma and abuse will be studied as the antecedents and leading to certain personality disorders. In other words, the approach is, the exception is that narcissistic personality disorder, for example, is a post-traumatic condition. So the emphasis in the institute will be on studying trauma and its outcomes. One of which, or major one, is narcissism, pathological narcissism. At any rate, all the participants in the first certification seminar will be given a single share in the cold therapy institute. And in effect, will have become the founders of this institute. As it grows and expands, hopefully, as work is done, studies conducted. And published, probably. These people, the first ones to have attended the certification seminar in Vienna, these founders of the institute will, of course, grow with the institute. And that's the idea. The idea is to make all of you stakeholders interested stakeholders. Stakeholders who will both contribute to the growth of the cold therapy, shall we say movement, on the one hand, and on the other hand, benefit from it. Now, as I said, the workshop or the seminar, the cold therapy certification seminar, is comprised of three days. In the first day, we will discuss narcissistic personality disorder. More generally, typology of personality disorder, comorbidity of personality disorder. And we will discuss other treatment modalities which tried valiantly to cope with narcissists in a therapeutic setting. And we will also try to dissect and understand why the overwhelming majority of treatment modalities and therapies failed miserably. In effecting any long-term substantial change in the narcissistic patient. And then, at the end of the first day, we will have acquired a good overview, I hope, of narcissistic personality disorder. And then we will discuss presenting signs and symptoms, problems with the clinical interview, the intake interview, as the narcissist attends therapy. Similarly, diagnosis, prognosis, problems with psychological tests and the interpretation of such tests. Narcissistic defenses and narcissistic resistances in the therapeutic setting. Possibility of alliencing or contracting with a narcissistic patient. And then setting realistic therapy goals, very specifically. And then, second day, we will focus on the therapist. So the first day is focused on the patient, second day or the client, and the second day is focused on the therapist. Issues of idealization and evaluation cycles to which the therapist is subjected by the narcissistic patient. Copying with transference and counter-transference. The therapist's own narcissistic defenses provoked by the patient. Co-optation and collusion with the patient. And, of course, the therapist's victim, which they often end up being when they deal with narcissistic patients. Having finalized or finished the overview, we'll begin to tackle the rudiments or the path leading to call therapy. How to leverage the false self-defense mechanisms and the narcissistic grandiosity for therapeutic goals. How to tackle cognitive deficits, thinking errors, and the narcissist's victim stance. The role of medication and placegos in therapy. How to deal with confrontation with the secretary delusions, with narcissistic rage, narcissistic shame, and so on. And then, on the second day, second part of the second day, we begin to study call therapy. Call therapy techniques. So, the hostile comfort zone, grandiosity reframing, guided imagery, negative iteration, erasure, happiness map, mirroring.  They don't exist in any other treatment modality or therapy. These 25 techniques have been developed especially for call therapy. And some of them have proven to be pretty powerful. Escalation role play, called therapy type role play. A simulative contrabulation, hyper vigilant referencing, reparenting, other scoring, and so on and so forth. This is the second thing. On the third day, we will simulate call therapy sessions and simulate call therapy supervision. And we will use advanced techniques such as magnification to introduce the participants in the seminar to the unique aspects of call therapy. And the unprecedented environment that it seeks to create in the therapeutic setting or space. And the possible reactions of narcissistic patients and psychopathic patients to the various techniques that we have enumerated before. At the end of these three days, you receive certificates and your founding share in the Institute of Call Therapy. I hope to see you all there. Call therapy is a totally new, totally innovative approach to dealing with narcissistic character disturbances, narcissistic personality dimensions, and disorders. It has the potential to revolutionize the field of treating narcissists by inducing real and long lasting healing. It is less effective with psychopaths, but definitely much more effective than anything I know of. And it is surprisingly and totally unexpectedly very effective with mood disorders, especially depressive disorders. So there's a lot to learn, a lot to apply and implement.  We all don't know enough about call therapy and about reactions to call therapy of both clients and practitioners. We are all here to learn together. I will introduce you to the fundamentals, but the rest of the path, the rest of the trajectory and the route route is yours. Looking forward to meeting all of you in Vienna, Austria, in April or May. Again, to register, go to the description under this video and use either the link or my email address to write to me so that I can put your name on the mailing list and update you as things progress. Thank you for your patience and thank you for your interest.


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Here we are in our QuickBooks Online test company file using the account and view as opposed to the business view you can toggle between the two views by going to the cog up top and switching the view down below duplicating some tabs to put some reports in let's go to the tab up top to do so that is duplicate it and then right click on the tab that has been duplicated to duplicate again back to the tab to the middle as the one to the right is thinking reports on the left hand side we want to open the balance sheet as it is thinking let's tab to the right reports on the left and this time we want of course the P and the L the profit and loss the income statement close on the hamburger up top and change that range 010124 tab 123124 tab January to December 2024 we're going to run it tab into the middle close in the hamburger we want that range to be the same from 010124 tab 123124 tab running it to refresh it and let's tab to the left now we've been focusing in on the receipts tracking our receipts so in the accountant view that's under the banking and then we're on the receipts on the right hand side so we talked about basically once the receipts are in the system what we can do with the receipts how we can basically track the receipts now there's a couple ways we might get the receipts into the system so of course we have our options up top we've looked at the option of uploading them from the computer we can often you know take a picture of it or snap it on our phone possibly get it on our computer and then upload it from there we got the application which we can also use to get the information into the system the phone acting in essence like a scanner to give us that nice pdf format oftentimes so we can populate that into the system and QuickBooks is more likely to be able to read it we might have it on our google drive we might have a system where we have it on our google drive and then we might have the manage forward email kind of set up here now this you would expect that if you were the manager and you were doing your your own receipts that you you might have the app to to basically take pictures of the receipts if you want others to be given you our receipts then you have to have some way for them to populate or give you the receipts obviously you can have them email the receipts to you put them on your computer or your google drive and then upload them from there but if you'd like to obviously cut out that middle step and just have them going directly from the email that whoever is sending possibly uh employees possibly contractors for example directly into this space so that then you can manage it then we might be able to use this manage forward email option here now note what will basically happen is if we get this set up properly they're going to send this to the forwarding email and this forwarding email isn't one that you're going to basically go open up and check and look at all the time right because the point of it is to forward it's just the passing point to get it from there into your your system here so the receipts should automatically come into uh this system with the use of your contractor or employees sending them to this forwarding email once they're in here they're not actually added to the financial statements as we saw in prior presentations which is kind of good because we don't want to get forwarding emails that are automatically going to affect our financials generally we're going to have them come in here and then we're going to do whatever we're going to do to them that we talked about in prior presentations so how can we set up this forward email i'm first going to look at this in uh a the craigs design and landscaping because i haven't set up anybody in this one yet so this one's a clean copy so if i go to the banking section and i go to the receipts and we go to the forward email it will look like this if we haven't set one up before yet so it says let's uh create your forwarding email send receipts and build to an email uh just for craig's design so here's your enter your email so notice what it has here it's got some characters at the qboddocs.com right qboddocs okay that makes sense qboddocs.com and so this again this isn't your actual email address obviously you're not putting and that could be a little confusing because when you first set this up you might be thinking well does this need to be my actual email address that i'm going to look up am i going to set up another email address and go look at it on google email or whatever or something like that no this is an email address through quickbooks that you're not using to open your emails but rather using it simply as a forwarding tool to get that information from someone else's email into your uh quickbooks account so you can pick something here you have to pick something that hasn't been chosen before uh by somebody else so you want something memorable that you could give to people that are trying to forward your receipts whoever that is employee's contractors and that has someone else has not yet taken and over here we have a copy of we've set ours up already so if i go into this one i just set up testco one two three now i couldn't set up just testco because somebody had used to testco right so i put testco one two three and then at this email address so now we can say okay employees or whoever we want to be giving us information what we would like you to do is get the receipts and then email them uh into this email which should then pull them into this screen so we can do whatever we need to do them with them either help to populate our financial statements with them or possibly make a reimbursement type of thing based on those receipts now when they send the receipts uh ideally you would think that we would want those receipts to be on separate uh separate screenshots so you can have multiple attachments on the email but you would like to have one receipt per picture i think would be the general rule and generally you would think that the pdf format would be the best format for the thing to read in other words if you take a picture on your phone it might be like a jpeg or something like that as the type of file and maybe quickbooks can read that one but you would rather have you would think a pdf file which is more likely further for it to be able to read it nicely now even if they don't have the quickbooks integration app they should have you can get apps to to take a picture with your phone as a pdf instead of a jpeg and so it's like a scanner app you can have a scanner app so if your employee has a scanner has a phone they could probably get a scanner app they could take a picture of the receipt and then email it as not a p not a jpeg but a pdf file would be the general idea now the the kind of quirk here that we have to deal with is that you have to set up this person as someone as a user within quickbooks which is kind of kind of like not ideal because you might want it from your contractors for example uh or your employees but they have to be basically a user so the way you set up the users is uh you could actually go in here and add a user down here and that takes you to this screen which is which is actually you can also get there by going to the cog up top and then going to the uh manage users same same thing so now we've got our users so we of course have the admin of the account and then we have uh our other users that we can add so they have to be somewhere in here as a user so if you wanted to add a user you can say add user and then you have your options of standard user company admin reports only i don't believe if you try to put them in here as reports only so they can just view the reports that they will have the capacity then to use the forward email function obviously i believe the admin would work and your other option is the standard user if you want to give them limited options so i'm going to go there and then hit next and then within here how much access do you want this user to have all payroll none limited you can experiment with these options however i believe if you select none then you may not have the capacity for them to be able to send you the emails with the forward email so you kind of have to play with these if you want to give them limited uh capacities to see what's the the smallest amounts you can give them while still allowing them to have that forward email capacity so in other words if i close this out and i go into my uh hamburger and then i'm going to go down to the banking and in the forward email they should show up down here once you have added them so you can play with those settings if they if they don't show up down here then possibly you don't have the settings high enough for them to be showing up for whatever reasons quickbooks whatever threshold they put on the settings and so you might have to level up to the settings so that they show up here once they do show up here then you'll be able to toggle this on where it says up top manage receipts senders select who can forward receipts and bills only register users can send documents so once that's set up then you can give them your forward email address which i'm going to say is this item i'm going to copy it here and we'll test out an email and so that's let's open up a receipts thing these are the receipts we made before and i'll just make a couple new receipts i'll just say that are at the end of the year like november and let's say november i'm going to add two two receipts but i want to add them as separate receipts this is how you might want to ask your employee or your contractor to give you the receipts in an email have them have separate receipts hopefully in a pdf format so they might take a picture of it but you want them to use that scanner app and i'm going to say this is going to be receipts let's make it 12 and then i'm going to say this is a pdf file i'm just going to save it as a pdf for example purposes receipts 12 let's do the same thing to the second one ultra vase file save as browse and receipts 12 or 13 this time it's going to save it as a pdf pdf pour favor and so there it is and so now i'm going to open up an email we are now imagine ourselves to be the contractor with our email address and we're going to send it to that test code one two three qbo docs.com and i'm going to make an attachment attachee we need an attachee an attachee helicopter we'll open that and there we go and we'll just name it receipts receipts and then we will send it out back to quickbooks on the administrator side of thing i could see things thinking here i refreshed the screen just to make sure that it's it's picking up but you may not need to do that and you could see they're they're pulling in so we're getting info from documents so notice what's happening here that that email that we're sending to i'm not actually going into the email so i don't have to go into the email and then sort through all the spam and the garbage in order to get the receipts and then upload them in here it's just a forwarding email i'm not even going to look at it thank goodness and then it's just going to forward that stuff into into here for us and then here is our receipt once here like we've seen in prior presentations it has not yet been added to the financial statements at this point in time it's in basically bank receipts limbo it has not yet been pulled into the promised land as the creation of of our financial statements or an attachment to an expense form or something so that's what we do here so now we can go into the managing of it just like we have seen in prior presentations so pretty neat system if you if you want other people sending you receipts possibly because you're reimbursing them or something like that then you can use that forward email but you have to set them up as a user in order to pull that information into the receipts limbo field and then do whatever you're going to do with it from that point


Welcome to Think Tech Hawaii's Food and Farmers series. My name is Stephanie Mock and I'll be your host for today. Today we have a guest named Brandon Todd from the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the Pacific Islands area. And he'll talk to us about connecting federal resources to farmers, a profile of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and how they can help Hawaii food and farmers here in the islands. So I've met Brandon a couple of times now in the field just doing NRCS work and working with farmers on how we can steward natural resources. But today I thought I'd invite him so he could tell us a little bit more about who he is, his background in agriculture, and how NRCS PIA is looking to help Hawaii food and farmers. So the Natural Resources Conservation Service is a tongue-tie, right? So they are also called NRCS. And NRCS has been around for about 80 years now helping people help the land. NRCS was originally created out of the phenomena of the dust bowl. So I'm from the mainland. We learned about the dust bowl every single year for 12 years about the phenomena of droughts and dust and wind storms that happened in the Midwest and the South. NRCS was created out of this because there was a need to combat this kind of erosion. And so NRCS, originally the Soil Conservation Service, was created to assist landowners, farmers and ranchers in helping their land and steward natural resources. So our show today is called Connecting Federal Resources to Farmers, and we're going to talk to Brandon about how NRCS is helping Hawaii farmers. I'd like to take a quick minute and just say hi, Brandon. Hi. Thanks for having me. I'm sure it is. Thanks for joining us. I believe you are our first NRCS staff. So thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. We know that NRCS is a really, really strong branch or service that is here in Hawaii, part of the United States Department of Agriculture. That's correct. Right. So your title is the Oahu District Conservationist. Yeah. So I'm in the field office. We cover the island of Oahu, the district conservationist. So I'm responsible for implementing programs and technical assistance to farmers along the island. Okay, great. And so I thought we could spend the first half of our show getting to know you as a person, just your background, where you're from, your education, and what is your experience with agriculture? So I guess first and foremost, where'd you grow up? So I grew up in a place called Roosevelt, Utah. Okay. Utah has the corner cut out of it. So on the northeast parts, it's sort of nestled underneath the UN of mountains. It's the second biggest mountain range that runs east to west. Okay. That's a good trivia fact. It's an interesting place. We're a desert. We get 10 to 12 inches of rain a year. Oh, wow. Yeah. Most of it comes in the form of snow. So I grew up there. My grandpa's farmed. My great-grandpa's farmed. My great-great-grandpa's farmed in that area. They settled an area called Monarch. Bluebell is another one. And so back home, there's a lot of dairy farms that's how they started out with pasture, some small grains, corn a little bit. So I grew up around agriculture. Like I said, my grandpa's farmed. My grandpa and my dad side the dairy farmer until he got older and sold the dairy. So I remember being young and going out and spraying down the dairy. So yeah, I grew up around agriculture, spent a lot of summers, thankfully not as much as other people, but bail in hay and so going that route. And then growing up, I lived in town, so I was able to play sports. It wasn't like living out a hundred miles away from everything, living on the farm. But yeah. After high school, I went on a service mission for the LDS Church to Korea. I came home, started school. I sort of bounced around. I didn't know what I was doing. So I decided to go build houses for a while, just taking school at night. And I ended up at Utah State, and I started taking classes, sort of like taking the shotgun approach, sort of taking anything. I gravitated back towards the natural resources side. I got my bachelor's degree in physical geography. I studied a lot of remote sensing, RGIS, using that to try to find relationships between physical aspects of farming. One thing was remote sensing and trying to figure out how we could use it to find out ground cover, which ties back into the dust bowl I'll talk about in a little bit. And then during going to school is when I thought, man, I need to get some summer work. I need to get some experience, yeah, formal experience. So I found, I was just cruising USA jobs, and I applied for this job in like January. And six months later, I got a call in the morning, and it was my good friend, Brett Prevodell. Okay. I knew who he was at the time, but we were like buddy, buddy, and he said, do you want a job? I was like, wait, yeah, like, who are you again? And so I showed up 30 minutes later, and I started just as summer help for the NRCS. So he was a district conservationist in Roosevelt. And so I started out that summer and continued just keep applying for these NRCS jobs, and they didn't run me off yet. So I worked in Roosevelt as just summer help, and then I got into what's now called the Pathways Program. So when you go to school, you work part time with NRCS, help out, just sort of understand the agency. And if it's a good fit with the agency, once you graduate, they'll hire you on full time. And so I spent time in Logan, Utah, it's the northern part of the state. And that's where Utah State is. And then I worked in the NRCS office up there, then I got hired full time back in my hometown for some reason. Wow. Yeah, I worked out great. I spent about six years back in Roosevelt as a soil conservationist.  And Utah is a really sort of unique area in terms of a geography. Millions of years ago, they had an inland sea. And over, yeah, you wouldn't think of that looking at Utah. After all that time, the sediment came in, deposited salts.  So when we came in and started doing agriculture, there's a lot of salt on the ground. When we irrigate, yeah, it picks up the salts, go down the Colorado River, ends up in California. And in order to improve water quality, we help conserve the water, the natural resource that is water. And I did a lot of work in that area doing conservation work with the local agricultural producers. Yeah. So that's sort of how I got started into NRCS. I've been on island for three weeks now. I saw an announcement about, I don't know, four months ago. And it was for here in Hawaii, and I thought I'd apply for it and thought the worst thing that could happen is they'd hire me, and it did. The worst thing that could happen? Yeah. But it's been great. I've been, everyone on the island has been really kind, and there's a lot of great things we went on with the ag producers here. And I'm excited for the opportunity. It's been really good. Yeah. So I'm excited it happened. So it sounds like you've been with NRCS essentially since college. Yeah. About nine years. Wow. Yeah. And you already knew some of the team members here in Hawaii as well. I did. So you're kind of coming into this tight-knit group already, and you understand NRCS and seeing how NRCS can apply its resources to help farmers here in Hawaii. Yeah. So what NRCS does just from a bird's eye view is they'll work with private landowners. Everything we do is voluntary. We're not like a regulatory agency.  A government agency that's not regulatory? Yeah. Wow. We're all voluntary. Like you said, when we got started around the Dust Bowl era, it was actually called the Soil Conservation Service back then. Okay. And I think like in the middle of the 1990s, they changed it to the Natural Resources Conservation Service. And the reason they did that is because we take a broader approach things and not just focusing just on soil or looking at water, animals, plants, air, things like that. Everything that encompasses a farming operation or a ranching operation. So you're taking these natural resources into mind not only for economic benefit, but also the environmental benefit. Yeah. And the way we look at it, if you're going to, we want to take things in a long term perspective. Okay. And so things that you do from an environmental perspective will help you economically in the long run. Right. We want to make sure that people understand what we're trying to help them do will not only help the environment for that specific instance, but will help their operation be longer, more sustainable over time. Yeah. And then also we try to help people get in compliance with other state, county, federal laws that might come in to be or come about. One is, for example, like nutrient management, there's some things that people with large animal feeding operations need to be careful of. Like I'm not here to discuss policy or anything, but we can help people get back into compliance. Like you said, you're not regulatory, you're a resource for farmers so that not only so they can come into compliance, but they also can access federal resources to improve their operation long term and have that sustainability mindset. I mean, sustainability now is such a buzzword, right? Like everyone knows about sustainability. But when the soil conservation service came about in 1935, this idea of planning a farming or ranching operation for decades wasn't really there. And I think we have some photos of the Dust Bowl just to give people an idea of what kind of a natural disaster this, and this was going on for decades. Maybe we have some photos here courtesy of USDA NRCS, just kind of showing this insane dust storm that's taking over this farmhouse. And this would happen all the time. And why was this happening? So what would happen is you have the native prairie through the Midwest. Someone invented the moldboard plow, so you completely invert the sod over. A lot of the soil structure would be destroyed. And you think sort of like when you're making flour, you know, if you keep on pounding that grain, it's going to get dust. It just flies up just like this dust. And so in so many words, that's what happened. It wasn't the protection over the soil that would allow it to keep a structure, keep it where it's supposed to be. You get things like this where the wind would come up, it'd pick it up. There was actually an instance where it was, I don't know, I won't say like divine intervention or anything, but when Hugh Hammond Bennett was in Washington, D.C., trying to pass legislation, there came a huge dust storm all the way from Midwest, came 300 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean, and it just darkened the room. And they're like, look, we need to do something about this. Clearly there's a need for this, right? And the federal government passing that soil conservation service or the Soil Conservation Act in 1935 created this resource for farmers, right? They weren't going after them in a regulatory sense. They were like, this is a problem that all farmers are experiencing. How can we help them and provide access to capital for them? Yes. So we started out more of the technical agency. We'd go meet with the farmer and show them information on how to reduce soil erosion, like we said before, we'd expand that to other natural resources, water, air, but we've also added a financial aspect to our programs. And so that's a way that we can explain that and how NRCS can help with that. Great. So we're going to take a quick break right now. We learned about Brandon Todd, the Oahu District Conservationist for NRCS or the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The second half of our show will feature more in-depth look at NRCS programs and how those resources farmers can access them here in the Hawaiian Islands. We'll be right back. Are you tired of sleep walking through life? Are you dreaming of a healthier, wealthier, happier you? You're not alone. And that's why thousands of people tune in each week to watch RB Kelly on Out of the Comfort Zone Tuesdays at 1 PM. Make a change. Get the help you need and stop sucking at life. The Army, we're going to go live. Hello, it's 1 PM on a Tuesday afternoon and I'm your host RB Kelly. Welcome to Out of the Comfort Zone. Welcome back. Our show today is called Connecting Federal Resources to Farmers, the Natural Resources Conservation Service. I'm joined in the studio today with Brandon Todd, the Oahu District Conservationist for NRCS. He'll talk a little bit more about what a district conservationist is, who his team is, and what NRCS can do to help farmers, specifically their programs, technical assistance, and many other resources that they supply.  That was a result of many different factors, but one of the main things that you were talking about was this idea of lack of soil conservation knowledge and implementation. And so, obviously, NRCS was created so we don't have another dust bowl. I know Hawaii did not have a dust bowl that I know of. And so I thought you could talk a little bit about your role as district conservationists simply because a lot of farmers and ranchers and the general public may not know what that means. So here in Hawaii, we haven't had a quote unquote dust bowl. I've only been on the island for three weeks. Okay, so maybe we'll check the research first. What I'm going to say is everyone talks about the ocean becoming milk chocolate. Sometimes after it rains. That's because the soil isn't staying where we want it to stay. It's eroding.  They'll go over all the natural resource concerns that exist on land, whether it be soil erosion, maybe water quality, poor irrigation habits. And then they'll create a conservation plan. This conservation plan will address those natural resource concerns. They'll give the producer the technical information that they need in order to address that resource concern. There's also programs that NRCS has that farmers, agricultural producers can sign up for. It's a competitive process. It changes sort of every year the processes. So people can go on our website and learn about that. But it's also a way that we can give people the ability to financially do these practices. Sometimes there can be pricey. Sometimes it's tough to initially jump into something that you're not so sure about. Right. Especially in Hawaii, where farming is just so expensive. I mean everywhere, even on the mainland, it can be very expensive. But just the high costs of land and water to have someone say, oh, let's also invest in these practices that you may not see the economic benefit initially, but over time you will, right? You're focused on making money. And there's nothing wrong with that. But you also have to think of that long term sustainability ethic. So you talked about the soil conservationists. I was wondering, who does your team encompass? What does your team look like? So we employ engineers. We employ the soil conservationists that we talk about. We have biologists on staff to make sure that we are being cognizant of the threatened and dangerous species on island. There's a lot of different players that have forestry, people that know more about private forests. We have a lot of specialists involved. And so soil conservationists is sort of like the Swiss army knife. Sort of know a little bit of everything. But they'll bring in an expert that knows what needs to be done. And they can give them the technical information that they need. So what happens is our team, we have a couple of planners right now on staff in RCS, but we're building relationships that we want to get more robust. One of them is the Wahoo RC&D. Another one's the soil and water conservation districts that are going to be getting a new planner on board. And we want to build up these partnerships so we can better utilize the tools that our hands help the farmers out. Right. And so you're talking about these soil conservationists, forestry technicians, biologists. I was wondering, I mean, I know you have been here like a month now, but I think you could speak a little bit more about who are the general, I guess like recipients or like who are good, who's a good fit for programs with energy? Anybody who is a farmer, anybody who has any agricultural interest, anyone who owns a piece of land that might produce agricultural products is a good fit for us. You could have an acre of land. You could have 1,000 acres of land. And policy changes a lot. So we know this. So don't shoot the messenger? Yeah. No, no, I'm just going to say, I won't. But we just want to help everybody. That's our goal. And we want to help people help land. That's one of the mantras of our agency. In order to do that, we need to get the word out to people. One thing that we really want to work on is making sure that people are aware of the services that we have. Being able to write our conservation plans not only beneficial just for the producer, but for maybe the producer's children down the road. Land's a premium here. We talked about this a little bit. So if we can help that acre of land or that 1,000 acres of land be profitable, be healthy, right now we're going through a soil health initiative where we're really focusing on trying to make soil as healthy as it can be, following certain principles. We want to make sure that the soil life itself, the microbes that are in the soil, are healthy. We want to make sure the structure of the soil is where it is healthy as well, where it can infiltrate soil, where air can get in, where the biological life can thrive. There's symbiotic relationships between that. And in turn, your plants will be healthier. You get better yields. I think you'll have less soil erosion. It's just a win-win for everybody. But sort of just taking that first step and to go in and putting these actual practices into play. So you're talking about improving soil health, increasing this knowledge, right? It sounds like you're getting back to basics, getting back to the roots of the initial soil conservation service. Because ultimately, if you can serve the soil, you're addressing these other issues of erosion and possibly degraded water quality, that kind of thing. So we've kind of been very vague about the programs that NRCS offers. You've talked a little bit about, I guess, the in-field technical assistance. Are there any specific programs that you'd like to highlight here? Yeah, there are. There's one called the Environmental Quality Center program. We just call it EQUIP. We like acronyms. So EQUIP's really good for first-time farmers, for farmers that have been there, say, 50 years. Somebody who's wanting to just get started on things, it's meant to address resource concerns across the whole spectrum. There's financial assistance available. EQUIP's a great program. It can, I advise everybody who has an interest in it, look it up, go to nrcs.usda.gov. You'll have all the information on EQUIP you could ever want and then some. That's E-Q-I-P. E-Q-I-P, yeah. And there's also AMA, it's Agricultural Management Assistance. It's a similar program. We don't get as much money here at EIA across the nation. Yeah, but that's Farm Bill, that's a whole other. We'll see what happens with that. And then we have what's called CSPA. It's not real big in Oahu right now. I think it's something that can really take off here. It's called the Conservation Stewardship Program. It's meant to help people take their conservation to the next level. Say they've worked with EQUIP before, they've met those beginning natural resource concerns they've treated them. Then they want to take their conservation to a higher level. And this Conservation Stewardship Program allows them to help them get to that next step. It's also financial assistance as well. And it goes through the program process as well. But I think it's something that can be beneficial on Island. We'd like to get that word out for people. We run on a continuous application process. So at any time anyone can come into our office, anyone can give us a call. We can get started on the application process. And meet with them quick. We want to be out on the ground. So where's your office? So right now our office is on in the Prince Federal Building. I can't say the whole word. Prince Cuyo? Yes. 300 Alamo on a boulevard. And we're there on level four. For now we're trying to get out. It's hard for producers to get in town. And we realize that. Hard for all of us. And so that's why we want to make sure that we're available, that we can get out to the field. We got our staff is really good about trying to meet with people on the ground. And so we're happy to take calls anytime and make sure that we're providing the customer service that we want to provide. And that should be top notch. Yeah, so we've talked about the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, EQIP, or EQIP, if they want to speak your language. We've also talked about the Conservation Stewardship Program, CSP. So all they would have to do is go to your website and click on those programs to learn more. Or they can come to your office and maybe talk to someone directly about this. And also maybe contact you as the district conservationist. I'm not going to put your phone number on blast here. But I think checking out the website and going to the office, too, is there any recommendation you have for people when they reach out to you? For example, they've started learning about conservation practices. Or they have a general map of their property. Or can they just come in blank and say, please help us at NRCS? You can come in with wide eyes and just say, I'm curious, what do you have to offer? And you can come in and you can know everything about EQIP and you can teach us about it. And that's fine. That's fine. We're not a, we just want to help anybody and everyone that comes in. And we're, our goal is just to work with every producer that wants help. We're not going to go in and tell somebody what to do. We're, like we said before, we're voluntary. Voluntary, yes. So yeah, we're pretty easy to work with, I would say. We want to be approachable. We want to be dependable. We want to be reliable. And so yeah, if someone just has no clue what we're doing, but they want to know a little bit more, I'm happy to talk to anybody. Yeah, really, really capitalizing on that customer service ethic, right? You have the technical resources, the financial resources, the programs, but engaging farmers and landowners one on one so that they feel comfortable participating in these voluntary programs. But also, farmers tend to be weary of the federal government. So as a non-regulatory agency, you're able to help them with those compliance issues. But also just the conservation issues as well. So I want to thank you so much for joining us today. We're out of time. Maybe in a year or so we'll have you back on so you can talk about the successes you've had working with farmers here in Hawaii. That'd be great. Thank you for coming on the show. If you'd like to learn more about NRCS, I encourage you to check out www.nrcs.usda.gov. You'll need to click on EQIP to learn more about the Environmental Quality Incentives Program that Brandon mentioned, as well as the Conservation Stewardship Program, CSP. We love having you watch our show. We hope you watch it every two weeks with Matt Johnson and Pomei Weigard, our other hosts. And we'll see you next time on Hawaii Food and Farmers.


Hey guys! Welcome back to Six Sister Stuff. Today I'm sharing with you five of the easiest ways to eat healthier when shopping at Kroger. So I'm Kristen. I am sister number two from SixSisterStuff.com and I just want to thank Kroger for sponsoring this video today. So I have shopped at Kroger my whole entire life. Even when I was little, my mom used to shop at Kroger. She would pass three grocery stores on her way to Kroger because she loved that specific store so much. Now that my sisters and I are older, we all shop at Kroger and I think we might love it just as much as my mom does. So I recently moved from Texas and there my store was called Kroger. But now that I've lived in my new place, I shop at Smith's. Now Kroger owns a lot of different stores, so check out any of these stores if any of these are by you. They are also owned by Kroger. So I think eating healthy is really important.  So here are some of the easiest ways you can eat healthier when shopping at Kroger. Number one, you're going to shop the outside edges or the perimeter of the store. That's where your fruit and your fish and your healthy breads and your milk and just everything is on the outside perimeter that usually is better for you. Lots of the processed things are in the middle of the store that are in boxes that are man-made pretty much. Usually if you shop the outside, it's going to be better. Number two, now Kroger just came out with a new app called the Opt-Up app and it is awesome because it kind of ranks your food of how healthy it is for you and you can also compare other foods. As you notice that bread's 50 and that bread is now 94. It also gives you an average of how healthy you're eating compared to week after week after week. So my target is 600. That last week I got 607 and if you can see I fluctuate up and down. Now I love it because you don't have to keep track of your numbers. It's more of colors. So you have three colors, green, yellow and red. Now each color represents how healthy it is. So red is the least healthy and they want you to stick around 10% or less. Now the next color is yellow. They want you to aim for about 40% of your products to be yellow. Now yellow is not as bad for you but not the healthiest you can get. It's just right in the middle and the last color is green. They want you to get 50% or more of the color green. I'm pretty good at hitting my green because I like to eat healthier. Now I'm a huge fan of shopping online. It's my most favorite thing but the cool thing about this app is that you can just swipe it right over and it will automatically go into your shopping cart so you can shop healthy from the start. Now number three, I'm going to talk about the fish and meat counter. So when I shop at Kroger I get a lot of complaints that fish is just too expensive. That's one of my favorite sections is the fish and meat counter. And so let me show you some of the things to make it less expensive when purchasing fish. So my first suggestion is to look around the meat and fish section. Lots of times they have these save a dollar or more on this package because they are pre-packaged. Next shop the clearance fish. Shop what's on sale. Now I love the fish section at Kroger is because look at this. They can put it in a little bag for you.  So if you've never done fish this is the perfect way to do it. Number four, now we all know this but looking at labels is so important. Now this is a peach yogurt which is actually pretty good for you. It's 140 calories there's some protein in there there's a lot of sugar but if you go a Greek yogurt look it's you have 90 calories 13 grams of protein only seven sugars compared to 14 just look at your labels and you'll be able to eat healthier. Number five, packaging your own organic items. Now I didn't know this until a friend taught me. I've slowly been starting to get into more organic grains. Now if you have a bulk area where you can fill up your own bags at your Kroger you should check this out because a lot of times the prices are a lot cheaper especially when you're dealing with organic items.  All right it's almost time to check out let me show you what I'm going to grab for dinner. First I'm going to grab one pound of baby carrots now if you go to the opt-up app you can see that they are 90 points. Next I'm going to grab some mushrooms and those are 90 also so I'm doing great in my grain section. Okay so he's going to swipe those over there's my salmon. Salmon is 78 I'm still in the green section. All right I'm going to run home and I'm going to show you how I cook these in the oven. Okay the first thing is the salmon so with these awesome pre-packaged things all you have to do is stab a fork into the plastic and you're going to put it in the oven for however long it tells you to. Next I'm going to grab my carrots and my mushrooms and then pour them out onto a cookie sheet. Next I'm going to add my extra virgin olive oil I don't really measure it out I just kind of pour it on. Next I add some garlic salt you can add pepper too if you like I just love garlic salt. Okay now I'm just going to mix around all of the olive oil and the salt so it hopefully is covering everything. Then spread it flat onto your pan so you can cook it in the oven so it will cook pretty evenly. All right now it's time to cook everything I like to cook my vegetables at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes check your carrots it depends on what texture you like them. Now the fish I just followed the directions on the back of how long to cook them for so when you're done you're just going to cut the foil and the plastic right off of your salmon. Now it already smells so good but when you peel that foil and plastic away oh I could just eat it right out of the package. Now I love when I order the salmon like this because it cooks perfectly inside that package and not only that the cleanup is so easy you just put your salmon on a plate and chuck the rest. All right my vegetables are done I'm just mixing them one more time making sure they're all coated in the olive oil and they are ready to serve so I just serve that right next to my salmon and I have three green zones from the opt-up app that I'm eating for dinner which is awesome. Now if you love this video I would love for you to give me a big thumbs up or comment below one of your most favorite things to buy at Kroger. All right you guys that's all I have for you today I'll see you next week. Bye!