Welcome to Stanley Energyman here on Think Tech Hawaii on another absolutely gorgeous June day here in Hawaii. You've got to love it. Nice trade ones blowing, keeping everything cool. I'd like to start off the show by thanking the folks over on Maui that put together the Hawaii State County Association event at the Wailea Resort. Awesome conference. Their theme was sustainability and they truly stayed focused on it and had some great speakers, great panels, great presenters, and a preview of even one of the films at the Maui Film Festival which is going on right now. So if you're lucky enough to be over on Maui Nokooi, check out the film festival as well, some great stuff going on. But thanks again to Kelly King and Bob King and all the folks from Maui who put that on. It was a really outstanding first class conference. Our guest today comes to us from the Pacific Northwest, home of the Totem Poles and Northern Coacutal Indians as it were. And he's been to Hawaii several times, been on the show several times, been on the Wednesday energy show with Jay once or twice. He's got some great ideas. He's a poet. He's an artist. He's a piano player.  And just tried pizza baking for a while, too. But Toby Kincaid is coming to us live from the Big Big Island over in Washington State, I think. Washington and Oregon, Toby. Where are you at? Oregon. Portland. Okay. Portland.  Okay, Cascadia. It's a whole region. She's at Cascadia. But anyway, thanks for being on the show today, Toby. And I know we've got a lot to catch up on. Why don't you start off by letting the audience know who you are, because they may not have seen our earlier shows. Well, thank you so much for having me on. It's an honor. And if I may, I'd like to take a moment. I understand you're retiring soon. And I would like to say publicly, thank you so much for your tenure at HCAT. You have been a bright light in advocating where many people don't want to go. And that is asking the real questions. How do we actually become clean? And I admire you greatly. And you've been a tremendous inspiration to me. And I know to others. So thank you for all your great work and many more to come. Bless your heart. Thanks, Toby, for the kind words. Yeah, I'm often referred to as the fecal matter in the punch bowl by being brutally honest. So thanks for actually laying a couple of flowers on me there. And I appreciate the compliment. Well, I'm happy to join you in that in that punch bowl. But, you know, I go way back in clean energy and that gives me a perspective to appreciate what you do. And I started as an optics lab. And we were looking at solar energy and the different parts you have infrared and visible and ultraviolet. But we normally think of sunlight as one thing, sunlight. But actually Newton showed us that sunlight is really 17 different things. It depends on the frequency and the wavelength. And so my early work was in trying to leverage solar cells optically. And that led me on a long path of doing projects really all over the world. I've been in 17 countries. And it's just amazing to see solar energy really work for people and change their lives. So we're kind of all living under a lie that we have to burn carbon. It's just not true. We don't need carbon at all. And as you have know and have been advocating that the energy is actually in the hydrogen, not in the carbon that it's stuck to. So it's kind of led me on this path. The last five or six years, I've been doing a lot of work in the EV charging space. So assisting in designing the site plans, the layouts, the regulatory affairs, doing all the permitting to actually put in the infrastructure to do fast charge. And it's a big ambition, of course, to convert away from the piston engines of 1882 and kind of enter the 21st century and realize that fuel cells and electrolyzers and hydrogen as the working fluid, as the energy carrier is absolutely superior. And I intend to make that case as we apply it to actually EV charging stations and infrastructure for getting us decarbonized. I think there's two issues that we recognize locally that are kind of holding back EV charging stations. Well, three things, actually. Number one is cost. Number two is you're still connected to a fossil fuel grid. So in many cases, even though you're charging your clean powered car, you're charging it off of a fossil fuel burning grid. And the last thing is just the permitting issues that are connected with connecting to the grid. When you connect to a public utility, you have all kind of permitting requirements by the utility, by the PUC, by the county, and sometimes by the state to get things done. So I think some of your ideas and your plans are just, they're great because they take away some of that complexity by using pure renewable energy to make clean electricity and then charge vehicles from that. And it actually is a much faster, more efficient, much cleaner process. Absolutely. And it is the future. And it's the only way that our children's children are going to survive. And we have to take this seriously. A few days ago, it was 55 degrees here. In the last couple of days, it's been 97. When you dump 30 billion metric tons of carbon in the atmosphere, year after year, decade after decade, we're going to see these expressions. So the stakes couldn't be higher. We're literally talking about the future of humanity and being able to operate with so many people and have something decent as a lifestyle. So it's vital what you're doing and it's an honor to play some little part, if I can. If I may, maybe we could jump into the slides and I'll give you a little bit of an update of what's going on in the charging station space. Great, we'll throw up the first image and we'll get going with that one. Okay, during our last episode, I was telling you about a patent I filed for a multimodal charging station. And so when you write a patent and then you file a patent, the next thing is to build some hardware so you can justify why you went to the trouble to write it. Here's the benefit. So you can see this is a little test we did. I put together my arrays and wired them in through my controller and I have an e-bike there and I put a little rig together. Just this is not the commercial product. This is just to throw something up and let's do a test. Let's find out how far can we go charging e-bikes. With solar energy. And when I first put it together, I had a full charge on my e-bike and I wired up my plugs. I checked it about eight times and I thought, you know, when I plug this in, if I'm wrong, it's going to blow up in my face. So I kind of cringed to put my glasses on it. Oh, great, nothing happened, worked. So the next day we did the test. So I put out the e-bike the day before, I ran it down to zero. And these e-bikes are really fun. It doesn't have a throttle like a motorcycle. You just pedal forward and it senses that and then boosts you. And you can choose mode one, which is very little boost to mode five, which is maximum boost. I chose mode five and I rode down. It took me three hours to get the battery down to zero for my test, but I finally got it down to zero. So the next day I plugged it in, let it charge all day. And then the next morning unplugged it and then everything settled down, jumped on the bike, set the odometer and the trip meter and took off. And the question was, how far can I go? Well, when I got to around eight miles, I thought, well, if I get to 10, that's a C. When I got to 10, I said, well, if I can get to 13, then maybe that's a B. I'm more happy with that past 13. I said, okay, if I get to 15, that's an A. Well, we went 21 miles. Wow. And it's amazing. You don't want kind of a girthy guy to get on a bike and to haul me up those hills. I was very impressed. So the idea of actually hooking solar panels up to e-bikes, I couldn't find any data. So using the controller I designed and the wiring, it worked. So it was pretty cool about that. So that's a step. You know, over at the Maui conference, it just came from, they had a couple guys talking about e-bikes. And they actually have a company over there that rents e-bikes to tourists. And they're very active in opening up bike paths and making them available to the bicyclists. But everybody that talked about e-bikes, you know, they asked the question, how many of you folks have ridden an e-bike, not a regular bike, but an e-bike?  It's actually a game changer. If we had e-bikes in a lot of the cities, people probably wouldn't bother with their cars. Because they're really, you know, you can drive to work and not be all sweaty.  You can actually get to and from work and are all around town with an e-bike. And it's actually a lot of fun. They really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to jumping on an e-bike here soon. Oh, it'll surprise you.  Often there's no showers. But if you have an e-bike, you can just kind of pedal up the hill and it takes you right up there. And I thought, oh, this is really good. So the idea that I'm trying to develop is to merge the station with the e-bike. So now we have a package. And actually, if you want to jump to the next slide, I'll show you the next iteration. The station I had before had kind of a vertical axis. And that was fine for a test. But when you're in the tropics, really we're going to swing that panel up. So you can see kind of the rig. I've got a little solar canopy and a little mounting hardware. And then you have your e-bike there. And it has the little plug-in and a little latch so that when you slide it in, it locks in and it aligns the charging plug. And there you go. So with your smartphone, you just go up like we have here in Portland with the kick scooters. Just scan the QR code and it unlocks the bike and you're ready to go. And I would like to put these stations really at almost every bus stop. So now we can reimagine what a bus stop is which hasn't changed in 100 years it's just a pole with a plaque on it. Now we can add these charging stations and then people have these options. Do you want to take the scooter? Do you want to take an e-bike? Or you can still take the bus. So that's how I see the future is a distributed network of these charging stations. And it's 100% clean energy today. And you know, we've had a couple of experiences here with the scooters that you can just pick up and zoom around with and then lay them down and somebody can pick them up. And then we have like hoverboards, the little monowheel things where people are driving around. And quite frankly, they're a little scary for me because bicycles have a pretty set protocol with, you know, they drive in the same lane in the same direction as traffic. And there's bike lanes that are pretty well understood and they follow the same traffic signals as the cars. But I tell you, when you have some of these guys on electric skateboards or electric scooters, they come zooming down sidewalks and I fear for some of the pedestrians. And I see some of these guys try and make the crosswalk before the light changes and they don't make it. And I'm afraid one of these days the car's going to take off and not see them coming and pull out right in front of one of these guys or smack into them because they're that size vehicle and they're going too fast. And they usually don't have predictive head gear on or anything. And you know, people don't realize you go much more than 10 miles an hour. You're actually speeding. A human being doesn't run 10 miles an hour. At least not guys like you and me for sure. But even premier athletes, they don't press those kinds of speeds.  And these people on these skateboards and stuff, they don't realize how badly they can get beat up. And they're mixing in with pedestrians during rush hour and people try to get home. But the e-bikes, they fit in really well. I really like the way they fit. Well, I very much agree.   So it is dangerous. In Portland, you're supposed to wear a helmet and you're supposed to not be on the sidewalk. But many people don't really follow the rules. And then the idea of this dockless idea where you drop the bike anywhere you want. I just see that as really very disorganized. Also the ADA, the American Disability Act, doesn't really allow you to drop things in the sidewalk if it can block a wheelchair access. So there's a lot of issues with just this dockless Wild West.  So I completely agree with you. That's from a safety standpoint, the e-bikes have the big, normal bike tires and you can really go through pretty rough rides and not be tipped over. So absolutely, the e-bike I think is a better way to go. Mine is a multimodal charging station so we can charge both the scooters and e-bikes, but I'm with you. I think the e-bike is a more comfortable, safer, faster way to move people out of cars. Okay, so we're going to take a quick break here and then we're going to come back and let you zoom through the rest of your slides. And we'll see you in 60 seconds. Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, host of Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. My show is based on my book, also titled Beyond the Lines, and it's about creating a superior culture of excellence, leadership, and finding greatness. I interview guests who are successful in business, sports, and life, which is sure to inspire you in finding your greatness. Join me every Monday as we go Beyond the Lines at 11 a.m., Aloha. Aloha, I'm Yukari Kunisue, the host of Konnichiwa, Hawaii, Japanese talk show on Think Tech, Hawaii. Konnichiwa, Hawaii is all Japanese broadcast show and is streamed live on Think Tech at 2 p.m. every other Monday. Thank you so much for watching our show. We look forward to seeing you then. I'm Yukari Kunisue. Mahalo. Hey, welcome back to Stand the Energy Man, Sonoserman here on my lunch hour, as usual. Talking to Toby Kincaid over in Portland, and we're talking about a really neat concept of plug-in chargers for e-bikes that use solar power. So, Toby, let's get back to you and jump into some more of your images there. No, wonderful. The next image, if you bring it up, is a charging station that we do. This is a DC fast charge station. This just opened in Hillsborough, Oregon. This photo is, I think, is still under construction when this was taken. But you can see the pedestals here. This was designed and built by Evie Global, Hans Vandermeer, probably the most brilliant engineer I know. He's incredible. He knows everything about fast charging cars. He designed and built this station. And I wanted to show you the little pedestals. How kind of lovely they are. They're very slender and nice. Now, these are fast charge. So, each one is 50 kilowatts. And that's quite a bit of power. It's about equal to 10 homes, if you think of a five kilowatt house. So, each dispenser is 50 kilowatts, and we use four of those. We add a couple of level two chargers. But, really, it's four fast charge stations that are kind of the focus. And that requires, because there's four at 50 kilowatts, a 200 kilowatt transformer. Now, this is all state-of-the-art. And in the last picture, you can see where the power conditioning equipment is in the cabinets. You can't really connect a dispenser to the grid at this level, because the grid comes into a parking lot, usually through a primary, and you locate where that is, and then you can trench or bore the power into the transformer, then into the power conditioning equipment, and then out to the dispensers. So, these are lovely stations. I would very much like to install fast charge stations in Hawaii. But, as you point out, there are a few challenges. So, if we go to the next slide, I can go into that. So, when I look at Oahu, and forgive my artwork there, there's a circle that says Oahu in it, you have nearly, the best information I have, nearly a million cars on Oahu, a million cars and trucks. Now, these are all piston engines. The EV part that you have, the best numbers I could get are about 5,500. So, that's about half of 1% of your fleet today. You have existing on the island about 350 level 2 chargers. Level 2 is slower than fast charge. It takes about six hours to charge your car at that level. But, if you're parking, and this is destination charging, so you don't go to a gas station, you park where you're going to the parking lot, and that's where you're going to charge. So, you've got 350 of those. You've got about six fast charge stations that I could find. Those are public stations, I think owned and operated by HECO. I'm not going to speak to Tesla. I think they have their own private network. They run at 140 kilowatts. So, it's kind of a supercharger. But, most of the state of the art at fast charge is 50 kilowatts. And so, when we look at that last graphic, we can see that there are some serious challenges. So, if I use, in planning the charging stations, if I use the ratio of, if we look at 1% for example, of your coming fleet, that's 10,000 EVs. Now, there's 16 EVs per charging station. So, we need 625 charging stations to service 1% of your fleet. So, and how many of those will be fast charge? Well, here's where the rubber meets the road. I put a little, a one fast charge station, 20 and then 200. The issue is, when you plug in a DC fast charge dispenser to the grid, we're going to draw 50 kW per dispenser. So, we're going to draw 200 kilowatts at any time, any one time if everyone is using the charger. Now, there is, the way that electricity is charged nowadays in utilities is they charge you in two ways. They charge you for the electricity that you use, the usage, the kilowatt hours. But they also charge you for the delivery called the demand charge. And under the schedule in Hawaii, if you're a large electricity consumer, you pay about 15 cents for the kilowatt hour. But under schedule P, you're going to pay $26 a kilowatt. So, every month they're going to measure what is the maximum power you drew for a 15 minute period. And that's going to be your demand charge. Well, now I'm starting to run into some trouble here because if I connect fast charge to the grid, I'm going to have a 200 kilowatt demand. And I do the math, that's about $5,200 a month. So, if I were going to do 200 stations, I would have a demand charge of a little over a million dollars every four weeks. That's difficult to, when I run through scenarios and I look at how many charges we can do, what's the cost of energy, what's the cost of my hardware. I really run into a wall here. So, it's very clear now. And even if we look at renewable energy and clean energy in general, we're reaching the point where the utilities at certain times of the day have too much solar for a particular area. And now they're asking people to turn it off. In fact, if you put a solar system in, you need a disconnect switch by the utility so they can curtail you and turn you off because the grid is instantaneous. The demand has to equal the supply and the supply has to equal the demand. Demand goes up, supply goes up. Demand goes down, supply goes down. So, if I plug in 200 kilowatts of fast charge, I'm drawing 200 kilowatts. I've got a $5,000 demand charge. And if I do 200 stations, it's a million bucks a month. And before, I paid for the station or the energy. So, this was really a stymied me for a while. But the answer is clear. We need a battery. And most energy experts who talk about grid balancing and the ability to balance the load to the supply and peaker stations, it's very complicated. But everyone agrees we need a battery so we can separate and divorce the load. So, let's look at my station. I have 450 kilowatt dispensers. I need 200 kilowatts. And I need to do that for five hours because between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., that's the peak of your utility. I don't want to charge during the peak, but I certainly don't want to tell a customer, hey, you mind charging earlier in the day or after? No, no, no. People charge the car when they want to charge the car. So, I've got to separate it. And so the key is the battery. Well, sounds fine. Why don't I just get a battery and everybody's happy? Well, batteries are expensive. The cost has come down. In 2011, the cost of the kilowatt hour for a lithium-ion battery was about $1,000. Now, they've pushed that down to $300. That's great, but the rest of the pushing it further is going to be a little more difficult because they're kind of reaching the max of what they can get. So, when I look at doing my battery, I can calculate what I need. I need 200 kilowatts for five hours. That's 1,000 kilowatt hours. So, what's that going to cost? And how are we going to do it with a battery? Well, if I look for a lithium-ion battery at $300 a kilowatt hour, now I'm looking at $300,000 per site for the battery. Well, I look at that and I run the projections, I run the numbers, and there's no way I can do it. So, on one end, I can't buy the energy directly because of my demand charge. The other end, I can't afford the battery so I can separate the demand charge. So, I looked at that and started to remember what you have been talking about for many years and look back again at hydrogen and went, wait a second, let's look at the physics here. One kilogram, 2.2 pounds of lithium-ion, that will store about 300 watt hours of energy. Fine. Hydrogen of the same mass, one kilogram, will store 40,000 watt hours. So, I look at that and went, wait a second here, let's, and we can go to the next picture. Let's take a look. What would a hydrogen-fueling station look like? First, not just actually selling the hydrogen, I'm using the hydrogen internally as a battery because it's an ideal energy carrier. In fact, it's the best energy carrier known to science. So, when I do the layout, you can see I'm looking for where to put my gear in a parking lot. I see a little landscaped area, measure it out, okay, I can put it there. I'm not showing where the energy comes in from the vault, but I have a blue line from the water main. I can bring the water in, bring it to the electrolyzer and make hydrogen and then use the hydrogen when I'm off the peak time or when I'm during peak time and use that to actually energize the 50 kilowatt fast charge dispensers. So, at the moment I'm not dispensing hydrogen, I'm just using it internally. And what's amazing is to get to 1,000 kilowatt hours, I only need 25 kilograms, maybe 30 of hydrogen. That's very manageable. So, if I look at the size of a 1,000 kilowatt hour lithium pack, that's like 10 cars stacked side by side because each car is about 100 kilowatt hours. How am I going to put that in a parking lot? I can't. But when I look at the hydrogen footprint, I can't believe it. It is incredibly competitive. In fact, so now I can use an electrolyzer and only draw 50 kilowatts, store the energy on board, and then when I want to run 200 kilowatts, I just run that through the fuel cell. I have a 200 kilowatt stack of 450 kilowatt fuel cells. The energy comes out and charges and then I get a lot of water, which I then recycle, which will go into the next slide, which is how do I design the system? And so here's what I've come up with. This is actually every component is known, every component is commercial. I can buy every part of this. I just can't buy this. So I looked at this and it kind of went, my goodness. We have electrolyzers. We have fuel cells. So why not combine it all into a whole system? So now instead of drawing 200kW, I only draw 50. I draw it from nine o'clock at night all the way to four in the afternoon, so I don't touch the peak. And most importantly, I can take the most valuable resource that you have. And that is all of the clean energy you're turning off. Curtailed energy is a huge problem that the oversupply and there's nothing to do with it. They got to do something with it. So the only thing they can do is turn it off because if you have too much energy in a circuit, it's going to try and find a way to ground and that's dangerous. It's called an arc flash. So it is very important for the safety of everyone that we keep the grid in balance. And so now by studying what we could do with all of this equipment and knowing exactly the battery that I need, it kind of was a, oh my goodness moment. It just jumped out of the page. If you slapped me with a wet towel, it would have been a tickle. I was like, oh, I found a particular application. Well, Toby, now that we got your attention with hydrogen and you figured out how valuable it really is, I'm looking for the next set of patents you come out with. But believe it or not, we blasted through 30 minutes talking to you. Oh no, we don't want to, oh. And so we're going to have you come back. I have so many other charts I want to show you. No, unless you got to write at least one more poem before I let you back on the show so you can read it out loud. But you mentioned I'll be retiring. I'll be retiring end of July, but I still plan to do some think tech shows. So I don't know if we're going to be counseling Stan the energy man anytime soon. So we'll have more opportunities to have you back on. But thanks for joining us today, Toby. And we'll bring you back on the show later. And thanks to everybody for watching today. Till next Friday, Stan the energy man signing off.


Hello. My name is Brian Parman. I'm the Ag Finance Specialist for North Dakota State University Extension Service. And today I want to talk to you about backgrounding cattle and do a little bit of a budget and analysis for feeding cattle, holding back weaned calves and feeding and finishing them out yourself. I think we have a bit of an opportunity this year for that to pay, perhaps more so than it has in the past for a couple of reasons. Number one being we have a fairly unique scenario this year with a late crop getting into the field due to wet weather, then continued wet weather into the fall, one of the wettest on record, causing dry down issues, quality issues with wheat, and then of course a freeze up making it difficult to get that crop out of the ground and get everything harvested. And you couple that with, for the most part, quite a bit of grass availability during the year due to the wetter weather that we've had. And decent hay crops in other areas, not necessarily just North Dakota, but just speaking regionally in general, a decent year for hay as far as that goes. So what I wanted to talk to you about and go through some scenarios is the net returns or the returns to labor and management for feeding cattle out, feeding calves, retaining some of those weaned calves, putting weight on them and selling them into the future. And again, like I said, we've had disease due to the wet weather, low falling numbers with wheat and huge discounts and in some cases, you know, elevators don't even want it when the falling numbers get low enough. And so what do you do with it? Well, there's still some value in it, at least as far as an animal feed goes. That's the same thing with frost damaged crops or wet corn, those kind of things. What can you do with them? Well, they're still valuable as an animal feed and we have a year where that's coming into play. And then, of course, hay stocks. We've had some dry spots in North Dakota that notwithstanding it's been a decent grass year for the most part in the region and especially into the plains south of us. So that hasn't been an issue at all. And so this perhaps provides an opportunity for us to really think about a cattle retaining those weaned calves and putting some of the weight on them ourselves. And one of the other things to go along with that is there's kind of some distress or fear that this year might have a short corn crop and we won't really know the extent of that until places like North Dakota that still has a lot of corn left out there really knows what the yield is until we actually get it harvested. A short crop is expected, how short it remains to be seen, but one of the things that's done is depressed calf prices in the fall of 2019 compared to 2018. Not only that, but the fire down at the packing plant in Kansas has depressed some prices. And so when you look at the price slides this year versus years past, cattle feeders are willing to pay for somebody who's putting weight on their animals this time. And so we're going to kind of go through some opportunities there. So here's the price assumptions and the cost assumptions that we're using in this analysis. These you see here are price of hay, grass hay versus alfalfa hay, corn silage, grain, DDGs, limestone, salt and vitamins. We're going to operate under a yardage assumption of 35 cents a day, interest at 5.5% and these marketing and vet med costs are in dollars per head with a trucking cost at 75 cents per hundred weight plus a 3% shrink and a 1% death loss assumption. So these assumptions I'm showing here until I say otherwise or what we're going to use moving forwards. Now as far as the market prices for the weaned calf that you retain, which would be viewed as either an opportunity cost in the sense that you could have sold that calf for a certain price. Therefore, you should charge yourself that price for having not sold it as if you'd bought it from yourself essentially. And this is showing steers in North Dakota away from, you know, lightweight all the way up to about 150, 850 weight animals. Okay. And this is where I'm getting my prices from for both the weaned calf and then the future sold heavier weight calf. And this is the same. This just shows the same thing, but for heifers, obviously heifers are worth a little bit less per hundred weight typically. And this reflects that. And this is as of current as of Friday, December 13th. So these are the prices I'll be using going forward again as we go through these scenarios that I'm that I'm about to talk about here. So we're going to run six different scenarios in this case, three for steers and three for heifers. And there are with the steers, there's three different average daily gains. Okay. 1.8, 2.8 and 3.6. So the assumption is we hold them until we achieve this final weight that we anticipate selling them from going from five to eight hundred weight five and a quarter to 805 and then 575 all the way out to 1270. Okay. Then heifers, we have two scenarios where we're going to run 1.8 pound average daily rate of gain. And the first scenario is going to be a lighter weight heifer up to 750, a heavier 550 weight heifer up to 850. So the upper end of the replacement quality and then a 2.8 pound average daily gain from five and a quarter up to 805 pounds. So similar finishing weights and the heifers just different rates of gain and different starting weaned weights scenarios. Now scenario one is 450 pounds up to 756 pounds. That gives us an average daily gain of 1.8 pounds. All right. And days on feed of 170 days at an average daily gain of 1.8 pounds. So our market weight 756. So the beginning value of a heifer of 450 pounds is $140 per hundred weight and the projected sales price of almost $129 per hundred weight. So here's the ration on the right. You can see the table on the right shows a ration to achieve this daily rate of gain with the heifers. That's one of the options using grass hay corn silage and some DDGs mainly. And again, you'll see our yardage fee of 35 cents per day per head. Our trucking fee stays the same. So in our first scenario, we have a net return to labor and management of 90 and almost $95 per head. So you could think of that as your wage and other words that you're paying yourself your revenues for for actually maintaining this animal every day. One thing that's and so that's a pretty, pretty decent profit. You'll see there, like I said, almost $95 per head under the assumptions that we're operating under here. And again, those feed feed costs that I showed several slides ago under this ration and assuming that 1.8 pound daily rate of gain and all the way up to $756. So scenario two, in this case, we still have that 1.8 pound daily gain, but we're starting at a weaning weight of $550 and feeding them out to almost $850 weight. This puts them on feed for 165 days and our projected selling price and beginning values. So our beginning values lower and our projected sales price is close. But the ration is changed or the ration is similar, slightly different. And we have basically the same again, the same lot and yardage fees and everything else. This one, this scenario here, it does not pay quite as much as the previous scenario did, but close at almost $88. So this is nearly $7 per head less. The biggest reason for that being that the days on feed are a little bit different and the ration has changed some. But those two scenarios are both very similar. You're essentially putting on the same amount of weight or close to the same amount of weight and really the biggest difference there being in the price slide for those weight of animals. Explaining most of it as far as that goes. So our third scenario in this case is five and a quarter weight heifers to 805 pounds at a 2.8 pound daily rate of gains. So that's one pound per day higher than our last two scenarios. This puts them on feed for less time, 100 days. And in this case, the ration changes quite a good bit. We're feeding more silage corn or some silage corn, quite a bit of that. But we're also feeding corn for grain or grain corn, which a bit more expensive using that. But at the same time, we can see our return quite a bit higher here. Again, what this is signifying, a lot of this comes from this, not just the ration that's being fed and the relative cost of corn and these other things, but the price slide. If you go back and look, these 800 weight animals are selling pretty high compared to 500 and a quarter to 550 weight animals. And then the relatively cheap cost to feed as far as like silage and these other things. Well, that's basically, if you're able to achieve those prices and those costs in this rate of gain, you can see that this $114 is quite a bit more than our last scenario, which was in the 80s. And the other part of that is the less time that they're in the lot, you think about vet med costs and trucking in terms of dollars per day. Those are lower if an animal spends more time, or I should say less time being fed out. Because again, this is $10 per head. So when you think about the cost per day, these actually go down. So again, our net returns to labor management pretty strong on this high rate of gain heifer scenario. And a lot of that's because right now, you know, feed costs relative to the price of price of livestock is still pretty low. Now the market again on these on these heavier weight animals is pretty strong, not so not as strong on the lighter weight one. So we save some money on the opportunity cost and then make a little bit more money on the back end due to the higher value of cattle, heavier weight cattle. So our first scenario, which is scenario four in this case, but our first scenario as far as steers goes is taking a wean 500 pound steer and feeding them up to 800 pounds. Now at a 1.8 pounds per day, that gives us 167 days on feed, which using this ration here with grass hay, silage corn, no grain corn and some DDGs, salt and minerals of 79 cents per day on feed costs. We use the same yardage fees, the same interest and the same death loss and shrink. On the steer side we come out to in our first scenario putting 300 pounds on that animal over the course of 167 days at $48 a head. The biggest difference between steers and heifers being that with steers, our beginning value is quite a bit higher than it is on the heifers. So the slide goes back to that slide difference I talked about on steers. An 800 weight or a 900 weight steer compared to an 800 or 900 weight heifer in terms of dollars per 100 weight are a lot closer than it is versus a 5 and a 600 weight steers and heifers. So there's not as big premium put on the steers at the heavier weight versus the lighter weight against heifers. So we don't have as much return. It's still fairly strong at $48 but at the same time you could see that feeding heifers out for that amount of days yields a higher return. And a lot of that is in the cost of the animal when you first put them on feed. But we can see in the next scenario where we're putting on a lot more weight, the relatively low cost to feed. Our return on the steer gets a good bit higher at $76.81 so in this scenario we're doing a 2.8 pounds average daily gain. And they're only on feed in this case 100 days going from 5.25 to 805 weight animals. So for the most part our projected selling price and our beginning value stays relatively similar to the last scenario. But they're on feed less for less time and we're using grain corn in this case which is relatively inexpensive compared to the value of the calf. And as a result our return to labor and management on taking a steer from 5.25 to 805 at 2.8 pounds per day. We get a net return per head of almost $77 which is again pretty strong this year.  So this animal would have to be on feed under that scenario for 193 days. I took this selling price here of $120 per 100 weight straight from the futures price. Not from the North Dakota values but from the futures price and that comes out to $120 per 100 weight. That beginning value of $165 per 100 weight. And again our assumptions on everything else stays the same but our ration change is quite a bit. We're going to feed a lot more grain corn, quite a bit of silage for very little hay relative to the overall ration. Which comes out to $1.33 per head per day in terms of feed costs with our yardage again and everything staying the same. But if you look at our return to labor and management that comes out to $162.43 per head. Now one of the things with all of this as I'm going through it is of course if putting on weight is less expensive. And you're actually turning a profit by putting on this weight. It would make sense that heavier weight animals when you sell them is going to have a higher net return. So one of the things you might want to think about in this case is here and that's net returns per day. Okay daily profits and dollars per head going back to like what I was saying before. Our daily profits and dollars per head you wonder well yes if I sell a heavier animal and I'm making any amount of profit per day the heavier it is the more money I'm going to make. And what you see here though is that the actual daily profits per head goes up the heavier the animal or the relatively shorter period of time that you put the weight on. Because that yardage fee is 35 cents per day but what happens is the relative cost of feed that puts the weight on fast is relatively cheap right now. So doing these high daily gains of 2.8 in the case of the heifers and 3.6 in the case of steers and even 2.8 in the case of steers relative to 1.8. Those hotter rations that are putting on a lot more weight more quickly right now under our current prices. Right now that's paying out more per day than it is feeding them on grass type hay or a lower energy concentrated ration right now. That the daily profits are a lot higher in the cases of a hotter ration than more of a more of a grass based ration if you will. That the high protein high energy diets are really paying off based on again the futures prices as they are current calf prices and feed prices cash prices across the state.  But one of the things about keeping animals on feed longer and then taking a gamble with higher feed costs is that there are some risk considerations that we have to take into account. One of them being the final sales price of steers and heifers. You know if prices of heifers or steers you know if they were 850 900 weight or whatever those prices continue to trend downward as these animals are on feed. You know that's a risk you take the longer you keep them on there so everything looks pretty good at let's say 75 80 cents per per pound per day. But again that assumes that the prices that I'm projecting in these budgets wind up being the final prices that you see when the animals sold. So the longer you hold them the more risk you take of prices falling but at the same time also the more risk you have of the prices actually improving while you hold on to these animals. So depending on which way you think the market's going you might see an improvement in terms of dollars per day gained or you might see a reduction. Then of course there's the feed cost risk feed costs can change the price of corn can change and if you don't have all of it contracted for the life of the animal which probably most people don't then there's a chance that feed costs can go up. Again we're assuming a constant feed cost but those things fluctuate into the future just like anything else and so there's a risk of holding on to the animals and worrying about feed costs increasing or possibly decreasing. And then our daily gain assumptions this is a big assumption here too because suppose we have some really cold or nasty weather over the winter and we feed them as if we're trying to get 2.8 pounds per day and we don't because the weather is poor we wind up with some poor animal health due to wet weather in the spring or something like that and so we have all these costs we're incurring but at the same time we aren't getting the benefit of the daily gains that we need. So these are kind of the big three risks going forward and I'll just kind of highlight exactly how those would impact the other. So let's just take our scenario five which is 525 weight to 805 pound steers okay to on our 2.8 pound assumption of average daily gain. So let's assume instead of being sold for $140 per 100 weight at 805 pounds let's assume the price falls from 140 to 125. So we're going to hold everything else equal we're just going to take the price down from 140 to 125. You can see here if you look in the lower right hand corner of both of these tables side by side so the one on the left is our initial assumption the scenario I showed before. The table on the right shows the returns if we go from $140 per 100 weight to 125 and you can see we go from a profit of almost $77, $76.81 to be exact profit to a loss of almost $40 per head $39.11. So just and we've seen you know we've all seen prices declined by 10 $12 $15 per 100 weight that can happen especially over the course of 100 days. It's it's it's taken a lot less than that in the past before to fall that far and you can see that's that's you know quite a swing that's well over $100 swing you go from a 70 almost $77 profit to nearly a $40 loss. That's that's quite considerable. So I just wanted to this just illustrates how sensitive this whole process is to the future price of calves. All right. Now here's the next the next illustration and this we're going to take the same assumptions as before this 525 pound 805 pound steer we're feeding towards a 2.8 pound average daily gain. But in this case we're going to assume we only achieve two pounds instead of 2.8 due to weather or illness or whatever the case may be. And again this one on this table on the left shows our return to labor and management of that almost $77 per head $76.81. And in this case by not getting that 0.8 pound and getting to instead of 2.8 on average, our profits fall from 70 almost $77 a head down to $19 a head. So this keeps those higher prices that $140. But our days on feed in order to achieve 805 pounds goes up by 40 days. All right. So you can look at it two ways. In this case I took the assumption that I'm going to keep feeding them until they hit 805 pounds one way or another. And those extra days on feed really eats into my profit margin. And I wind up at $19 and 31 cents because I had to keep them for almost five little over five weeks longer than I'd originally anticipated to hit that 805 pounds. It could it could be, you know, you might sell them early earlier and they don't hit the 805 pounds. Maybe it's closer to 700. But again, you're going to see a loss in that case because you fed them as if they're going to achieve a 2.8 pounds, but they only achieve two. So not as sensitive in this case as the price price drop in the in the market price for for calves, but still a substantial impact on that returns. And again, this is also sensitive to feed costs, right? If feed costs had been really high in our scenario relative to cattle prices, then this would have a much larger impact on overall revenues, overall returns. But as it stands right now, the futures price is more impactful. And then just a kind of a final sensitivity scenario, we're going to assume a 25% increase in feed costs. So the same as before 525 weight steers up to 805 pound steers 2.8 pound average daily gain. But let's assume that there's pretty shortly a 25% increase in feed costs. In that case, we go from $77 per head to $53.06 per head in total profit or returns to labor and management. So I kind of showed it in order in terms of impact. And the biggest mover, again, is going to be that futures price or that market price of cattle. What you pay what you charge yourself an opportunity costs or lost an opportunity costs versus what you're able to sell the animal for being the most impactful. Then those average daily gains being extremely important and then feed costs having an impact. Should they move one way or another having a fairly considerable impact, you know, we're talking about over over $20 a head here. So those are important things to consider. And, you know, one of the one of the big things here is that to be thought about, given how high the how large the impact is of the sales price, the final price of that calf that you sell, taking on some of these risk management tools like LRP or something like that, or working with perhaps one of your lenders to package some sort of futures contract or something like that, locking in some of these profits when you see just how impactful that final sales price per hundred weight is on the animals that you're feeding. So again, just some final comments and takeaways. Retaining animals under the current market and current prices given current feed costs makes financial sense right now. And again, a lot of assumptions are being made in terms of your ability, what you're going to get for those calves once you finally sell them and the prices of feed. But so far at this moment from the way things look right now, retaining weaned animals and feeding them out makes a lot of financial sense. And a lot of that's because cattle feeders are paying a premium for animals that farmers and ranchers have already put weight on for them. That's really what it amounts to. Yes, there's some lower feed costs right now, but the slide between heavier weight and lightweight animals is just not as big as it has been in the past. And again, money can be made by narrowing that price between heifers and steers by feeding heifers out. The relative price per hundred weight on heifers looks a lot better relative to steers, the heavier that they get. And again, the risk of that market price reductions being the largest risk that you're really going to take on in this case simply because it has the largest impact on overall profitability. And again, and finally, it's important to hit those daily rates again because even a slight increase in feed because of a higher ration having to be fed is not quite as important as hitting your average daily rate again target. Well, I want to thank everyone from watching. I hope hope you found this presentation to be informative. I have my information here on this final slide. If anyone has any questions or comments, feel free to email me or there's my office number there. Thanks again for watching. I hope that you guys are able to take something out of this and going forward able to make a little bit more money. Thanks.


Kusuwe wajad ni majana, nimatailita kuja 1 papatani, 1 ay시ijata So, meza hana na hana kuwa Beth okotu wajad pokuwa And jia wajad na ahata nikata Nika nezakutu kuwa kwa majana? Kdevikumia muka? Kuko wa hana na miha, na meza Englisha Betyokva Ni majana, kwae vaibu mezi Namakami Betyokva I'm happy to be in this place to just highlight the people of the things that I do. I have two major things that I would like to talk about today. I'd like to talk about a ministry that I'm involved in. It's called Widow's Transformation Ministry, and then later on I'll talk about Ahadi reusable pads. Widow's Transformation Ministry was started by a lady called Mrs. Kabasella, also known as Mamamore. Mamamore got widowed, and when she got widowed she found that she was in many troubles. It was fortunate for her because she was an educated woman, and at the time she retired she got another job, which was better than the first job that she was doing. But she had an urge in her heart to reach out to widows because widows can be transformed and be able to stand on their own. Because we find that in this society, especially in western and as now we are changing, women when they lost their husbands, they were really in a bad situation. And you as a woman, what inspired you to be part of this association that helps widows and also what inspired you to start Ahadi Foundation that helps the gods in this society? What helped me, what inspired me to join widows was the passion I saw in Mrs. Omore. It's not that she had Mrs. Kabasella, it's not that she had much, but she would just gather widows who are less fortunate and prepare a meal for them and just listen to them. And many were transformed, I know particularly of two women who could not even afford transport from Dandora to Kayole to come for the meetings. They would walk and by the time they reach Kayole the meeting is over and they just in time to say grace, they could collect offerings of maybe 10 shillings or 20 and that is what would be given to go back. These two women have built houses in their rural area. So they are transformed and they are able to stand on their own. Trusting God and working hard and looking for opportunities so that they are not dependent and when they are empowered even their in-laws cannot mess around with them. Okay, so apart from being inspired by these two fenomenal women who are changing their lives of widows is there a personal story attached to it that made you decide that me as Beth I'll be part of this? Okay, I got widowed in 2006 and I was very angry for a long time and I didn't even want to be associated with widows. I remember one time when I was coming from Ushagu sister-in-law told me welcome to the club and so I was so mad I asked her which club, the widows club and I was still hurting. So I just said I don't belong to that club and I just closed but when I came and saw this lady and how she was coming up and helping people I decided why not and she also trusted me and she wanted me to help her because she's a woman I knew when I was young she was a bit elderly we were staying together in the same estate. And how are you able to separate yourself from that bitterness from that heart to becoming a person who inspires others in the society? God dealt with me in that heart because when a woman's husband dies they think why me because it's so nice to go to other women and encourage them when their husband has died you don't think that yours may also die so I decided that I'll just trust God to bring me up because I knew there was life ahead I had children and I knew I had to stand for myself I know where I come from I didn't have anybody really to depend upon okay my parents were there they could support me emotionally but I really need to do things so that I would be afloat others I would belong there by now I know one particular lady she died 7 months later because it was too much for her to take so that is what inspired me to come up and join Mrs. Kabasehla yes and so we meet regularly once a month this is a pastor called Reverend Washira he has given us the church where we meet free of charge he doesn't charge then we just have a few few people who help us to buy him food so every time we meet we have meals very nice meals you know he does also they like to be pampered they would love to so they come and we talk we air out we help each other in the issues that we pass through every day and there are many issues that we do pass through apart from the in-laws and the society you have your own personal needs you need to survive you need to be empowered economically you need to deal with issues of your children you need to deal with your own emotions and many other so you find that some widows they are dispossessed from their husband's home and so when these widows come we help them we haven't gone so far as in going to feeder to help us advocate and things like that but that is what made me so when our founder was moving to Eldoret she you know she just brought me in slowly she didn't ask me come they have got involved until now I'm there okay that's really nice and you're also our founder of Ahadi Reusable Pulse so before we get to Ahadi Reusable Pulse maybe you can tell us your experience as a girl or what motivated you to form this organization that helps girls okay as a girl may I grew up in Nairobi and we were living in Jeriko in Jeriko the houses are small and we were many and we had relatives in the house so my parents were not poor they could not afford many things luxury and the issue of pads is atabu so you find that girls are shy to ask their mother for pads or even to talk about it menstruation was such a secret and a Wu thing so when I was in Form 3 we used to go to the reading room at a church called St. Joseph's in Jeriko and one time I was just seated and reading and doing my homework 9 o'clock is home time I found myself in a pool of blood so embarrassed there is so much shame and stigma around menstruation so from that time I wasn't able to go back to the library because I didn't know how it would be me my grades started falling I was in a day school so later on I found that it's either my career I wanted to be a teacher or I just now live in shame I just took courage and I went back nobody asked me so from that time it rang in my heart that we need to do some no later on when I grew up was coming towards menopause the available solutions were not satisfactory for me so I had to improvise pads I'm also a teacher but as a teacher I was in a boy school so the thing didn't really magnify itself in my eye so later on when I came to this myself I found that hey there's a problem then I started researching on what can be used and that's how I came with this I realized from research that 2.8 million girls in Kenya cannot afford pads and they need to leave school for one way or another many have fallen by the way said because for pads they go to border border men or men they get pregnant and HIV then they cannot make it so for this reason I thought why don't I come up with an affordable solution that can help sustained girls so that they can stay in school for one more year these pads can last for one year plus other months so what makes them different from the normal pads that maybe are sold in the supermarkets and the shops the difference is that these pads are reusable you can wash them properly we don't have such a big problem of water in Nairobi and a lot of the counties I know there's some dry places but a woman is able to get at least 5 litre for water to wash her pads and because women have been using all sorts of things they cannot afford the regular pads that are in the shops they are expensive but they cannot afford but this ones though the initial cost is high but they end up cheaper because you can use them for more years than that and they have other benefits also like they save the environment a woman disposes or whatever they use in a year so if in Kenya we have 22 million women menstruating tell me about the environment how it will be messed so apart from providing the pads to the girls in the society is there any form of education that you offer to the girls and also to the boys when we do menstrual health management we put both boys and girls because we are demystifying the issue of menstruation and when it comes to now the very details then we can have girls alone on how to maintain menstrual health hygiene I also do training and counseling to these vulnerable girls and I concentrated so much in the lockdowns especially the first lockdown I realized that girls are getting pregnant and they are falling by the wayside so God helped me I did almost 5 outreaches one was in Kisumu another one was in Karyubangisa and three were in Kiambio and God gave me the idea to reach out because I already had the solution so I just invited people to come and support because you can buy two pads for two girls to cost you only 1,000 and you will maintain that girl for one year in school if she finishes one year and she is informed three she is likely to say what animal is from four in my back and we inject that in them we teach them self defense through box girl organization and the stances in boxing are really encouraging for example there is a stance that they do like this it's called God it causes you to focus so the focus on the education the focus on the career of the future and now keep going so when they are on God they will God against all these other things and remain focused so is there like a specific when reaching out to the girls do you reach out to every girl in Kenya is a specific group that you focus on it's so easy to identify girls who cannot afford pads me main area is Kiambio kijiji because they will just come and ask and already vulnerable girls are there you can find them how did I reach out to Kiambio this one lady who came to my house to help me in housework so one day she could not come and her daughter came and she was in lockdown so I asked her do you know of girls who have become pregnant because it was all over news and she told me so through some more organization I was able to do an outreach to girls who had gotten pregnant to give them pads so that they empowered now they don't have to worry about pads they can go out and look for view so is how then now we reach to the other girls who are young and in school starting from age 14 to 18 so we do we do outreach so I ask people to come and support through cash or in kind I have women who are empowered and there are big women also in the society to come and talk to the girls I have one girl she has an organization called slay healthy she talks about vaginal health I have Mrs. Waweru she talks about questions girls would ask and I also teach them about personal care and I also counsel them on how they can take care of themselves and in your raising matters because you have dealt with this issue for quite some time maybe you can explain to us how menstrual health and menstrual awareness and also the provision of this pad how that is affecting the girl child positively I would start from the conclusion from the girls that we reached out none of them fell out they all came back to school when the schools were open and I would really clap for the people who supported us the headlines were how girls are pregnant for the exams we can find some girls are having exams in the maternity some girls are having exams in places where they shouldn't be because of the lockdown and the effect of not having pads and also the craminess so I would really like to do some more in the coming few few months but unless people come in to join with me it will be very slow so far we have reached since I started our hard pads we have reached almost 1000 we have had in our last outreach kukakula came and gave us drinks because what we need is some drinks they are aspiring MP for that area gave us the hall and then I donated the pads and people also helped me to donate the pads at the end of the day I had a shortfall I didn't make any profit I am not making any profit but because this month I have gotten somebody who is buying pads maybe you can demonstrate to us how to use the pads ok this is reusable pads many people ask me how come they are reusable they are reusable because they are made of cloth these are just cloth they are like our clothes but these are special this top layer is called fleece soft and comfortable so it doesn't have chemicals also so what is inside what is inside is a cotton blanket I'll just call it a cotton blanket but it is an absorbable layer like the normal pad yes so this when the menstrual fluid goes in it is soaked and you use it now as a normal pad you will just know that now it's my time for changing so apart from the fleece we have the cotton bunting we have an oil cloth that helps to make sure that there is no leak and then this bottom part is there just to make it look nice to finish so once a girl is in her periods she will be having there are four pads there are four pads inside here ok and this is a reusable bag also and it is waterproof so a lady is likely to use two pads in the day so she will carry one pad inside here and once she is wearing so when she feels that she needs to change she will go to the bathroom and use this one she will just fold it in there is a way to fold in so that it doesn't leak so once she has locked it she will be able to put it here and we tell him that they should not be ashamed of their periods whatever they are using so she will just come and they should not feel that ok on her periods don't make embarrass them don't laugh at them so she keeps in her bag and she goes home in the evening she has a bucket she will just come and in menstrual health we teach them to take her bath at least twice morning and evening she will take it out so after 15 minutes maybe they are likely to be two pads she will pick the pads and just finia out the dirty water press out the dirty water once you press out the dirty water it will use less water so you take cleaner water and rinse a bit then the water will be rather clean now you put soap and wash you can use ordinary soap you can use the soaps that are available but no hot water and then you wash you rinse when the water is clean you just hang them out we tell them there is no shame in hanging out your pads and in any case these pads I believe they are quite cute so just hold them here with a peg in the sun the sun will sun it as your pads and you are good to go you keep them dry and you will be able to use them for many months teaching and making the girls child understand there is no shame in your menstrual period but when you go to the slums or go to the areas that you are donating these pads you find girls who have already gone through so much gone through so much shame so what is the process of educating them what does your organization do to make sure that apart from getting these pads the mentality on menstrual health is changed we talk to them if we had time I could have shown you clips but maybe for next time we talk to the girls I am a mother and I ended up myself to them as a mother and the other ladies that we work with we even have Ahadi Baba so we just talk to them and tell them that you don't have to live in the past you look forward see what you can do now that we have free education we have not started leaving them to go back to school because you find some girls have had even pregnancy some have done miscarriage some have even died in the process because they are doing backdoor abortions so we just encourage them we talk to them when they come we take each individual case and we have not found anybody that we need to hand over maybe to another organization that can handle the scope of what they are going through but I have counselors with me women who are also interested in this so what are some of the cases that you face through in the slums that the girls go through and what is the most extreme case that you have dealt with so far the girls that I have dealt with who have had an issue were 10 girls who were pregnant and they dropped out of school I just looked for them this lady Mama Kamu I just told them it was Chana Waluwameza they were more than I could handle I wanted only 10 and also with COVID restrictions so they came and we talked and now they are called a hardy girls they empowered also in the slums there are rape cases and that is why we were teaching them self defense the box girl people we teach them self defense one of the first self defense is to scream just scream don't be embarrassed shout out that will be your first defense and then others will fall maybe you can please teach us again after screaming after screaming after screaming you can pull out a stance normally the houses in the slums they are not at the walls they are concrete people will just come so what I am understanding is that you guys are not only about menstrual health but you are all about the culture maybe you can list some of the activities that happen in a hardy apart from donating and giving out pads okay train women in the slums to make pads now Fundisha Kushauna I am on my second girl right now the first one has really gone beyond me she has gone and gotten a job she is earning maybe a lot more than I because you find that man is almost like a donor organization I need to rely on other people I am on my second girl but I have also trained two men I have even now if we go to my workshop you will find there are two men and one girl the one man is doing the cutting because I got some work this other man is teaching and I trained me have always been teaching we had a sewing machine at home so I have skills though I am a teacher so I have trained those ones secondly we need to do we want it to do together at the middle of April to follow up on our girls because we told them they will come back we have quite a number of girls by the way so we would follow up have a cup of tea bachni chai namandazi bless the Lord for Kokakola they give us drinks so those are the things that we do you have also talked about boxing and self defense mechanisms and I am just wondering you have said that after you donate your pads you just don't leave the guards you have to remember the Islam that they come back we have their phone numbers the people who brought them can still follow them because even their parents won't just allow them to go anywhere though some girls can sneak so we just follow them up so when they come back do they come back to be part of a hadi or they come back just to say I am grateful how is your organization our organization does not have but we had set rules because also we are evolving we just go to caves they will give me caves then I will have my product on the supermarket it wasn't working that way and I still needed to reach out so they will come for activities maybe we haven't arranged but when they are going to come back for these girls they will just have activities they will play ball, they will talk these three groups will discuss how was their school term and what are their grades what are the changes that you have noticed from the time you started this organization the girls are confident they are not afraid that they are menstruating and the boys in the schools where we have gone they are not going to laugh at them I just asked the boys one day the whole class how many of you would like to be fathers one day all of them and how many of you would like to be mothers all of them then the only way you will become a father at the right time if you are healthy and menstruating then you can become a father so don't laugh at them they are your sisters and they are your future wives so we can find that the attitude is changing you see like when I came into the studio one of the guy was saying he is V2 they are not V2 they are just panties underwear and everybody needs them so we should not be ashamed about a natural process and it is beautiful when a girl if you are reached your age and maybe you are menstruating so you can go to India you would have gone to India to be treated so that's how it is ok that's really interesting and maybe you can tell us the materials that are used to stitch and to make the pads because we want to make this affordable we could have used a cotton fleece but cotton fleece is 600 shillings so is this something that you can make on your own okua home no like a common mananchi a common girl who doesn't have in areas like Pukot where we want to go and also in Kajiado we tell them they can make their own pads they can use cotton materials that they have at home they can use old sheets they can use t-shirts they can use towels and so we just like some organization in Kajiado calling me to come and train girls to make even in Kisumu so just go and train you look in your house and you see what is available by feeling because I will be having different pieces you can be able to tell which are the absorbent ones so you just put layers for yourself and you can use and you maintain hygiene so is that part of your education like how to make your own pads like when you are educating the girls on how to also make your own pads yeah that's one of the things that we do and in a month how many pads does a lady require the ones that we give four pads you see these four pads she can use but Aga would really need to build them up if Aga would have eight pads she can be very sure that she will not have any trouble she will always have one in her bag and then whatever happens she will just use she can change easily this is because sometimes the weather does not allow them to dry sunona they dry relatively fast in a fair weather but when it is wetish it might need a day or two to dry so if you have more it is better and you don't have to have all the more at once you can build up the stock and have you faced a case of rejection like have you gone to a place and wuka faced rejection maybe from the girls themselves like they are not willing to come out they are still in that kakun no, I haven't had that because the outreach that we have had the girls are really enthusiastic to come and they call their friends remember I started with one girl and she called her friends and then the area rep came to know about it we don't have capacity we will just go step by step so we took 10 girls the ones for mama girls then we took 25 then we took another 25 so like in another place the children saw me in a room I wanted to donate only 10 pounds but I felt in my spirit take 20 I think that is why God has blessed me with another job this time so what are some of the challenges that you face majority is that I really need people to come and support me by buying pads I would really love organizations that I have hold as in education for girls to come up and buy pads for the girls I know the government gives some in one school where I went the girls are given 3 pads a term they go home, there are 3 women in the house the next day the girl comes to the school and says teacher nipati a pad what happened you just given pads last week my mother took them so you see that is what we really need to go out especially if we can give them all one packet of reusable pads then they can have the other ones also just like a standby so you have talked about a student or a child that takes me to another question do you also educate them the mothers the parents on how to talk to their children when they get to that point in their life? not yet at the moment because I don't think that would be our area we are dealing with a girl directly and as I told you we are a small organization we better just concentrate on what we need to do so as you are winding up maybe you can talk to the girls out there who are listening to you what advice will you have for them or what would you tell them? I would really tell the girls that you can make it if I made it then you can make it period should not hold you back and in case you really need help you can even go to your local chief and tell them they would have programs but these are the days when girls can compete equally with the boys what a boy can do a girl can do because there are so many boys that are crying out here from the niya so we are pushing them but we are also telling the girls Musiachi liya right now you see Tanzania has a female president so why can't you become the next president of Kenya you can be the admissions of alliance girls you can even be the vice chancellor or the chancellor we had the chancellor of Kenyatta University so nothing should stop you and periods should not be anything that should hinder you in your path to your destiny our target is support her girl, help her fulfill and maximize her potential that would lead to her desired destiny all of us have a desired destiny so once you have identified that this is what you would like to be you can concentrate on it maybe you can also share where people can find you or if there is anyone who wants to reach out the easiest is my phone number maybe you can share it with us my phone number is a safari kumlain number it's<PHONE_NUMBER> I repeat 0723 309229 that is a safari kumlain we can communicate and see exactly how you can come in to help us support the girls then we also have a Facebook at Ahadi Pads is that how it said Ahadi Pads on Facebook Ahadi Pads on Facebook that you can find us very easily okay thank you so much Elizabeth history is really inspiring and on to Ahadi Reusable Pads so you can find us on Facebook at Ahadi Reusable Pads thank you so much for joining us and creating time to demonstrate and helping the girls in the society so that was Elizabeth Okos who is a phenomenal woman in the society who is helping girls in the slums and in the society to to know more about menstrual health menstrual health and also donating parts to the society so usibandu ke right about now we will take a short break but next on a discussion and don't forget to follow us on all our social media platforms at Y254 channel


State budget officials delivered the good news of a $329 million budget surplus on Wednesday after previous indications that the legislature may have to fill a budget shortfall. But Governor Mark Dayton isn't ready to start laying out specific plans for using the surplus. Dayton called the surplus modest in caution lawmakers against overspending. The governor says he may lean on the surplus to fund school safety improvements and to pay for fixes for the state's troubled new computer system for drivers licenses and plates. He'll release a detailed budget proposal on March 15th. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


is redefine your concentration in terms of, I'll say, 100 mils for percent solution or liters for molar solutions. Because remember we said that for percent solutions we would take it to 100 mils and for moles we would take it per per one liter, right, by definition. So then once you redefine it in terms of your desired concentration then you can set up your proportion for the volume that you're looking for, right. And so you can set up a portion and cross multiply and then solve it for the amount the solute desired for your requested volume. So in the case of molar solutions you must convert moles to grams, that is the calculate the weight of solute equal to the number of moles that you need. So let's look at the example it says prepare 25 mils of a 4 percent weight to volume solution of sucrose. So let's redefine 4 percent is equal to 4 grams per 100 mils. So we set up that proportion we're wanting 25 mils so we say how many grams we need way out to make our 25 mils solution, right. So if we do our thing and 4 grams times 25 mils is equal to our question of grams time 100 mils, right. And in the solve for that we divide both sides by 100 mils. So 4 grams times 25 mils divided by 100 mils is going to equal our question of grams. So I'm going to move the mils here and cancel out 25 over 100 is going to be 0.25. So let's give me a little bit of room. So 4 grams times 0.25 is equal to 1 gram. So we would add, so we would add 1 gram, right. To less than 25 mils dissolve it and bring it to volume 25 mils, right. So we add that gram of sucrose to 25 mils pre-measured it's going to change our volume slightly. So dissolve it in a little less than 25 mils and then bring it to your final volume. Our own says prepare 200 mils of a three molar solution of sodium hydroxide. Now you need to go to your periodic table and sort out the molar weight of sodium hydroxide but the molecular weight is equal to 40 grams per mole, right. So we define we want three molar so that's three moles per liter, right. So we will say three moles per liter is equal to how many moles per 200 ml. So we do our cross multiplication so we will say three moles times 200 ml is equal to how many moles times I'm going to change one liter to 1000 ml to get the same units, right. So we will divide both sides by 1000. So we get three moles times 200 ml divided by 1000 ml is equal to how many moles, right. So units cancel until we get 200 over 1000. So we get three moles times .2 is equal to how many moles. So .6 is the number of moles we need 200 ml but now we need to know how much is the weight of 0.6 moles, right.  So we say 3.6 moles times 40 grams per mole is going to equal 24 grams. So we dissolve 40 grams in a little less than our 200 ml but rank a volume of 200 ml.


Well, hello there Psych2Goers, welcome back. Do you seek change in your life? Maybe things have felt rather dull or repetitive. Sometimes change can be good, like living someplace new or taking on a new job or regimen, such as diet or an exercise plan. Other times, not so much. Changing your life in six months can seem like a lifetime away. When you think about how long six months feel, however, honing aspects of the way you chase and approach the things you're trying to get is a good place to start. So here's how to change your life in six months. Number one, defining your goals. Have you ever written down the goals you want to achieve? This may sound like a very obvious first step, but in a study conducted by Mark Murphy, it has been shown by neuroscientists that by writing down your own goals, you become more easily capable of visualizing them. And thus, more likely to retain and remember why you're doing something. Now, it's not possible to always have a pen and paper lying around or maybe you don't feel as though you want to go find it. But as you are seeing this, see if you can find a pen and paper or open up notes in your device and write down what exactly it is that you want. One big goal that will be at the very tippy top. This goal should be the biggest thing that sticks out in your mind. The reason you clicked on this video. For example, if you want to be the strongest person in the world, you may write three core steps, such as exercise every day, eat healthier, and find a trainer. These on their own sound very challenging and as though they may take a lot of time, money and effort to achieve. Break them down a bit further. For exercise every day, you may make sub-bullets such as Google a good gym, five crunches in the morning and five at night and borrow weights from a friend. Now write a few steps about how you have to get there. Start with three steps. Make sure that these even smaller goals are the absolute tiniest steps that you can start as soon as possible. This may assist your brain in visualizing steps that are attainable rather than picturing them as so out of the blue that they're impossible and bringing them down to earth.  Number two, starting small, yet forgiving. This is the time that it'll be different. I'm going to do it perfectly. If you find yourself striving for perfection, telling yourself this can sometimes be a detriment to your success even before you start. Ouch. If you've ever started a New Year's resolution before or known someone who has, burnout or fatigue can be unforgiving. Leaving you to feel as though if you fall through with your promise, then the entire thing is run. Maybe you're starting a new diet, yet you slip up once and figure that you may as well throw the whole thing away. Sticking to a plan doesn't mean doing the plan perfectly each time. Knowing your own limits and what you're likely and not likely to do can help you decide for yourself. Let's say that you want to wake up early. It won't be very helpful if you set your alarm clock for six in the morning despite having slept at midnight the day before. Instead, try to be more understanding of yourself in the same way you would understand a family member or friend. Setting an alarm for 7.50 in the morning may not seem like a grand change that you were expecting. But the longer you wake up at 7.50, the more you can inch the time back once your new wake-up time becomes 7.50. It's 10 more minutes of success versus waking up at 8 a.m. dissatisfied that you weren't able to follow your goals. Progress is progress. Be gentle with yourself. Number three, celebrate your growth. Understand your hiccups. All success that you make should be celebrated, right? By designating a specific day to review your progress helps you reflect on the progress you've made. You will notice your daily or weekly tasks are turning into routines and that you've made a visible change. And as the mistakes that you may tend to dwindle, you'll feel that you may be ready for more challenges.  You are actively increasing the amount of change that you can introduce into your life. You may find that you've been doing exercises for 20 minutes instead of the five you promised. If you notice that it's something that you're able to keep up, then relish in your success. On the flip side, if you have found yourself skipping daily habits or steps every so often, analyze why they aren't quite working. Be honest with yourself. Is it too boring, too hard? You don't understand it or just don't have time. The answers will help you to adjust these goals to make them fit better for you. Once the six month period has passed, you will notice that instead of having only a few weeks or months of rigorous progress, only for it to stop short in disappointment, you're making steady progress to a goal that you formulated, nurtured and worked for all by yourself. What are some of your goals that you're going to be working towards over the next six months? Feel free to leave a comment down below with your thoughts, experiences or suggestions. If you found this video helpful, be sure to hit the like button and share it with others who need to hear this. Don't forget to subscribe to Zeg2Go and hit the notification bell for more new videos. Thanks for watching.


Hey traders T Bradley 90 here for those who do not know Alex took on the challenge recently of seeing how much he can grow a $30,000 account in 30 trading days and the results are in and he made $84,000 in less than 30 trading days, which turned his $30,000 account into a hundred and thirteen thousand dollars Alex recently put together a free mentorship course with his mentor bow explaining exactly how he did this the link is available at my Investing club dot co slash Alex there's limited seating every single week So be sure to reserve your spot as a very special gift to our YouTube viewers I want to announce something very special This is my personal phone number my personal number that I am putting out to you guys If you have any questions about joining M. I see or on the fence about joining our wonderful club You can contact me now directly and personally and I will get back to you All right should be recording so guys this is I Have no idea what week this is but this is a I think this is week 21 or 22 of The new member orientation webinar that I give every single Wednesday at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time officially recording What I like to do at the end of this is thank you guys so much for coming by for the tutorial if you guys are First things first if you guys are a member Now you know how to you know navigate everything if you guys are not a member This is a great chance for you to get a look inside M. I see and a look inside You know how we operate and how supportive we are and what we focus on and what we do the best one is the next one Yeah, so the whole point is this is just this is just like a lookbook and then I see so if you guys have any questions you know reach out to me and You know you can you can text me. I just put my new member my new number out there I'm literally have my number so hold on. Let me guys get let me get this for you guys I think I have it. I just tweeted it the other day. Let me let me see if I can get my number or one sec You guys go to my Twitter. You can see it, but Once that you guys can just if you're not a member yet. You can literally text me directly We are here for you But does anybody have any questions today does anybody oh here we go MTP get up to the kid up to the 130 baby.   No, I have a girlfriend now. She'll kill me But here's my number guys so<PHONE_NUMBER> if you guys need to text me directly Non-members and you need help joining in my seer you have any questions.  I'm gonna post B walls is numbered next week How to get into acting Yeah, boy All right, so who wants All right, I won't post this number. I'll just post Tom diesels. Ah psych All right, who's who's got some questions for me? 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This is what I was looking at Wafu now remind you Yeah, yeah, yeah, I will we'll definitely talk about that be wells for sure So actually there's one right there that which is a great example So and then also a little bit right here. So we'll definitely talk about that for sure as that's literally my number one niche But right here, this was my thought process on all of these. So let's go through these And if I sound like Darth Vader is just so be it alright Where was what was another one Yuma? That was the one before Wafu. That was the one that was all and I talked about this too So that was the one. Okay, cool. Yeah, there's a lot to talk about today real quick. So Did and this was a pump so this did not come about literally This was the watch this this morning think about it live So I'm gonna try to give you guys a little bit of like Exactly what I thought about live because I'm just gonna tell you the exact situations that I was looking at So in my exact thought process and we'll go through each one. So MTP was I try not to build in it. Here's here's how you do it man I'm like every single day I'm waking up.  I'm not a short buy. I'm not I'm not a pre-market shorter, man I don't trade pre-market. I never will I just I always happen to like break my rules during pre-market and the second you break your rules in your process You lose so my number one rule is I don't trade pre-market.    I don't care what it does pre-market.  I don't care. I'm not trading until intraday. So I make a plan Based on where the pre-market action is about 10 minutes before every single day So I saw MTP and I said wow, this is a terrible company. They had like a phase one So not really good news at all. Yeah, they met some endpoints, but it's actually it's it's it's a piggy Like the daily looks like crap So once it started really breaking down and giving us what's called bag holders, right? So like the top was 150. This is just descending down. This is like a staircase You know each stair step is lower and lower lower highs my thought process was this I want in Immediately really big rejection out the gate to short pops major weakness or up to about here again Where are the previous tops? So look at this. 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