Thank you very much for joining. It's always a great pleasure to welcome you in this monthly open air provide community course. So we are running this community since September, October last year. The idea is to share recent developments and to share the services, the details of the services that open air have for content providers. So it's always a pleasure to welcome you. We have different people in this call from managing different kinds of data sources of open air and also part of the open air community, the open air network, national open access desk. So it's a great pleasure to welcome you. As for all the other community calls, just to check if we are already recording, okay, perfect. So we have always this first three, four minutes where we provide some updates and this is what I am going to do in the coming minutes and then usually we dedicate one some more time, like 20 minutes for a main topic for discussion. And today is the on the the users account service, our user statistics functionalities available in the dashboard and but behind because this is a service also available in other components of the open air ecosystem. But we will focus today on what we have in the dashboard and why we have this service and how can you enable and use the data from this service. We will count with our colleague Dimitris that is the manager of this service technically speaking and he will do a presentation and then we have more time for questions and comments, not only about the users counts of course the first part is dedicated to the users counts service but then you can also address other issues related with other services or issues that you are encountered using the dashboard. So this is the time to use. So usually we dedicate 50 to one hour, 50 minutes to one hour at each call and you will feel free to put questions in the chat or to just unmute yourself and ask your questions. So I have four main informations to share with you. There are always lots of things that we can share but one is not a good information because unfortunately we were not able to put in production in November the new, the developments that we are doing in our broker service so we thought that we can do it until the end of November but unfortunately we were not able. For sure before Christmas we have it as soon as possible in December we want to have it so other priorities we faced other priorities and unfortunately we didn't dedicate the time to finalize our technical team didn't have the time to finalize what we need to finalize so this in fact is already available in beta but so we need to put it in production as soon as possible and we hope to have novelties in the coming weeks for you. So if those that are not aware so I'm just please be aware that we did one call entirely dedicated to this the broker developments we did it in early October so the recordings are available but basically just for you for those that are not aware so I think it's important as you know we have the broker service running two years in open air and the visible part of the broker service are the metadata enrichment events that we provide via the dashboard and we realized that the way that we are delivering these events to the end users to the repository managers via the dashboard was not completely scalable for us in terms of the management of the infrastructure and we realized that we should do some changes the service is quite good and mature but we have changed the way that we are delivering the metadata event so just for you to know some of you are already aware of that because you have participated in previous calls but I just want to share this slide just for so what we have changed is that we have now three phases and until the the second phase we just deliver 100 events metadata enrichment events for for you to be aware that we have relevant enrichments for you for the different categories of events that we have available links to projects the abstracts open access versions the pids of the different events that we have we just create the sample okay be aware that we have events for you we can expose you 100 or less depending on the events that we have available for you and then if you are interested in a specific event in a specific get cat type of event category of event you just go and create the subscription and only after the creation of the subscription we can deliver for you we will deliver for you all the events that we have available can be 200 or 2000 depending off of each repository but so we are not sending the total metadata enrichment events for you in advance without having your interest or not so first we exposed you okay this is what we have to offer you if you if you are interested in for example metadata missing pids or missing links to projects you just subscribe and then we are going to send you all the events related with that we and we will notify you about that so we are not sending you all the events if it's not necessary and relevant for you so if you want so for sure in the coming year we will have another call dedicated to this and when when it's in production we will do a quick demo in the i hope i hope to have it in the first call of the year in the in january but but be aware that you can listen to claudio wazzori from cnr e3 presenting the these changes in the in the broker event so and the other the other thing is that in the in the last two or three months is that there were at least two translations of the the literature guidelines version four so it's available in the in the in our website guidelines dot open rdu the translation in in spanish there is also a translation in in portuguese so if you look into the to the website of our guidelines guidelines dot open rdu you'll see that we have guidelines in the version four in english and the in translation also in spanish and be aware that there is also our colleagues from ebect the brazilian institute of information science and technology also did a translation in in the end of september and they have it available in a like kind of publication in their repository so be aware of that so it's a brazilian portuguese translation so if you if you want to to to know more about the guidelines and you want to do it in your own language spanish or or portuguese you can you can do it already and then a novelty about the users the users count services so new infrastructure workflows the data from the statistics already available in production so almost all issues the majority were fixed the meeters will talk about that later but be aware of that we only have some issues with some graphics that we are presenting in a minimal number of repositories if you have if you encounter graphics that they only have that until 2018 please contact us but but we are aware of that and we will solve that in the coming days but we we have the list of repositories that have this issue but all the data behind the the queries and the reports that you can get it's correct only the graphics the visual part is not correct but maybe the meeters can add some more information about that during the presentation another thing so we have decided that after the broker this new way of delivering events this update the next update will be the new functionality the multi-user access something that you all are asking for to have since the beginning finally we find time to do it basically what we want to do and we are almost there it's a you know I have a slide here to share so basically the idea is that under the update tab of the dashboard you will have new the new new menu a new tab update permissions where basically what you can do is that you can invite more users to access imagine and manage your data source it's not your account of course it's not sharing the account is sharing is providing access to another account to manage the data source the repository for example this case is a print screen of the university of menu repository so our manager that is Ricardo Ricardo will provide access to other persons to manage and we don't need to share the login and the password so we just invite others to and to and we assign these permissions to other this is something that lots of of of you base maybe in this call and and in in different presentations I've asked it to have so we are happy so we have already checked all the requirements so we have this prepared and we hope to have this soon in the in one of the coming updates for sure we will have this new tab under update and you can invite more users to access and to and to manage your your your your data source so these are the four highlights that I want to give in this first part now we will dedicate some time to the main topic of the of this session and I will invite the meters you can present yourself the meters and then then run this presentation we will have also a mini meter for you to collect some some feedback so stay active in the coming meetings in the minutes also to come up with some some some feedback for us because this is important at the end we will have questions if you want to to ask questions during the in the shot you can do it do it during the presentation of the meters but at the end we will have time for questions also about these updates or about other things so Dimitris yeah thank you for that let me share my screen and thank you I see some more people that have joined so thank you for those that have already joined you can you can turn on your camera or then for the questions and answers also do it in using the microphone because it's this is a community call and this is good to see faces okay can you see my screen now yes perfect yeah thank you so uh hello let me welcome you also to in the 10th community call of open air the main topic is the is about the users count service which is one of the services offered by the open air ecosystem and I'm Dimitris Pierracos I work for Athena Reset Center and together with my colleague my colleagues from University of Bilford that they are just I can Yohesir Vangen we have developed the users count service of opener the users count service actually the service that measures the engagement and the impact of this engagement or to the content offered by open air and I will explain in detail what this is all about during this presentation before that I would like to ask you just for a warm up to participate in this uh many meter questions you can go to this link and use this code we have created some questions there and as you know Adre will you share your screen yes I will start to share my screen and share okay thank you many results I think you are seeing my thank you my screen okay first of all would like to ask you if you are using any kind of a user statistic service whoa let me draw no okay so eight out of the 50 people don't use any user statistic service at all okay can we go to the next question so that makes our presentation very interesting because the majority doesn't know the service at all or has it knows about the service but hasn't read it yet okay and then last one so if you ever use the for those who have used some kind of your statistic service what which issues have you identified uh privacy technical issues standardization accuracy don't care too much okay so your main concern is standardization then accuracy and then okay if you don't actually care too much okay that's fine that's fine okay thank you thank you these are the questions so I can go on with my yeah excellent contributions yeah sure yeah so after this warm up let's proceed with presentation these are the topics that will be discussed I will provide an introduction to the service which I will try not to extend it with a lot of technical details and I will focus mainly on the most attractive parts which is what you can get from the service how can you get what are the interfaces and the tools that we offer and that could be used to get the interesting analytics from the service and I will also present how can you participate how you can register them be a member of this service so you can have access to hopefully all these interesting stuff that will be shown uh today so first of all um uh where is uh where does users service does users count service is placed inside the open air infrastructure and open air ecosystem as you may know open air uh simply collects research from content providers like institutional repositories aggregators uh data archives and a lot of other content provide types of content providers and a set of open air services is applied to this content for example the duplication harvesting the mine and the final outcome is the open air uh research graph the main entity of the open air research graph is the research project which could be a publication a project organization uh uh dataset etc and what the users count service actually does it measures it simply counts the usage of the of these research products across content providers in other words it measures how many times a particular research product is accessed and this access refers to either metadata views or downloads of this research product and after finishing with accounting the service produces statistics user statistics about the the performance of of the product uh the usage of the product not only inside a set of content provider but also across many content providers where this research product has been accessed so this is more or less a description of the of the placement let's say of uh open air uh users can serve inside open air so how we do it um what is the architecture that we have built and what are the workflows that are used for the users count service well we're following we're following two approaches the first approach the first one is called push since the users activity information is pushed directly to our analytics platforms and in real time to achieve this we have um provide a set of tools in the form of plugins or scripts that could be uh installed or executed in case of script of a script in at the repository site and push information send information directly to our analytics platform the analytics pattern that we use is the open source analytics platform which is called matomo uh maybe you are aware of it um this is our first approach so um we install um or provide scripts and we retrieve uh usage activity role users activity from content providers directly to our mat to our analytics platform um the second approach is called uh pull approach since we do not retrieve the actual role usage activity but we collect user statistics uh in the form of reports that are prepared using um standard schemes like the counter code of practice for which is provided by counter initiative initiative these reports are collected from aggregators like for example iris uh uk so in both cases either push or pull uh uh approach uh following these two approaches information is stored in our statistics database and which is fair and is further processed and combined using information from other open air resets uh uh graph items in order to produce the user statistics for uh either the resets product or uh the content provider for example institutional repository these user statistics are uh then published uh uh in our open air infrastructure uh portal infrastructure like explore or provide or they are available um using a open open apis uh following the susie light uh protocol i will describe this later so this is more or less uh our architecture and the workflow just remember that we are following two approaches the push to collect directly um usage activity and the pull to collect uh already available standardized reports this is a rather technical uh uh slide uh just to uh be informed that we are uh our main infrastructure based on hive and bala we have moved from the old infrastructure which is uh which was in a PostgreSQL database and for an analytics platform we are using the matomo uh open source uh analytics thus to uh summarize the usage count service features um we follow two approaches for tracking the usage we call it push and collecting counter reports standardized reports um we follow the pull approach um the all all information that's collected is anonymized so we keep uh we preserve users uh privacy and we anonymize the ip the ip addresses of all uh usage activity that's collected uh by exploiting the metadata duplication um service offered by open air we are able to accumulate the usage for the same set uh outputs i will provide a certain example later in this talk and finally because uh most of you are uh worry about the standardization we produce counter code of practice compatible um reports uh these are standards based use statistics and this allow us to uh compare our statistics and statistics that we produce with statistics from other data sources so just keep in mind that um in terms of standardization we are compatible with counter code of practice uh which is now uh offered in which now support release for and in the next uh version we will support also counter code of practice release and five so um keep in mind that um uh usage counts is a measure of of of scholar impact we measure the the engagement of of of uh resets products uh we we simply count and we produce results about how a particular resets product is used and the uh since impact is number let's see some numbers so if you go to the uh provide dashboard open as code provide that you you can see the the performance uh in terms of usage activity of a very certain uh repository for example umino you can see the number of use of of using the downloads and this is the graph uh that that is uh shows the evolution of um of this service uh for this particular repository this is the graph that Pedro mentioned that has issues and the statistics are displayed only until uh 2018 although we have collected information uh until uh last october this is will be solved in the next uh in the next days and uh as a content provider as a repository method you can also use this interface to ask uh to retrieve reports specifically for a period of time for your repository using this interface which is provided by content provide uh the dashboard um you can also see this the same information in the other portal of uh the other interface provided by by by open there in the explorer portal where you can see the same numbers for this uh for this repository uh and you can check it in the uh explorer dot open net uh dot edu this is uh not only for um repository management but this uh public you can see uh uh the performance of other uh repositories there uh another important thing is the in exploring you can see the performance the users statistics for uh a particular uh product research products for example a publication you can see that the this publication has been has 167 accesses total use statistics uh from from these statistics the 82 are downloads and 84 are total views and one opener uh one is opener uh views and but the most important part in this um for this item is that um uh aggregation of this number so the 82 downloads the 84 views have been aggregated for more than uh one repository so we have this information and we'll be displayed in the next version of the explorer um so and you can check it in this slide you can see that the 82 downloads have come from two different repositories and the 84 84 views have also come from uh two different repositories so uh this information is uh important and we can have it uh using the by exploiting the the duplication service offered by uh open air uh reset graph uh apart from a general services uh portals of open air for the provide and explore we have recently developed a portal dedicated to the users current service where you can find a lot of information about the users current service such as the architecture there is the various resources that are offered for this service you can also have we can also provide uh have a contact form where you can ask us about the service and most importantly we have numbers we have analytics and we have analytics like the total number of um uh user statistics that we have in our uh uh uh databases the number of the total number of repositories and the total number of user downloads that we have collected so far worldwide and you can set for um uh user statistics for a particular country for example for Spain you can have um the repositories and the views and downloads for this particular European country and we also have uh reports for um uh countries uh outside Europe from uh uh for example Argentina because we have collected also statistics for uh uh uh uh la referencia the national uh uh south america aggregators latin america aggregators uh in this uh uh portal you can also see the evolution of uh open air user statistics uh service you can see we have started with a few statistics and now we are uh evolving too fast and we are collecting uh and producing a large number of uh views and and downloads apart from these interfaces you can also exploit the usage counts uh open air dot u or user statistics api uh it is based on the sushi light protocol and from there you can retrieve again countercode of practice at least four compatible reports standardized reports um you can have article reports book book reports uh item reports like using identifiers like open air uh id doys or i record IDs etc you can have a repository report using identifiers this should be issued by open air or open door or general reports using identifiers like uh is issn um this is an example of of the report that you could get by using this api you can uh on the left you can you can see a repository report and on the right you can see a report that is retrieved by using a particular uh uh item one of our stakeholders could be a funder so we can have information about uh funders for example you can see here the number of downloads for all uh uh funders that are using that we have collected in open air this is an important information if you are a funder and we can provide uh similar uh analytics for other uh uh stakeholders uh and now how how can you join this service how can you um participate you can register by the provider's passport if you are a literature repository data repository journal or aggregator by registering the service we will provide you with the um um instructions to join the service uh so from your side or your side you have to download the tracking code for your repository we you have to configure according to the instructions that we provide and then deploy the tracking and from in our side we will validate the installation of the tracking code and inform the repository manager that everything is is okay and the service is up and running without any issues by enabling the metrics for the selected data source you will be able to retrieve the repository software that I mentioned initially for the pull up for the push approach which is provided either as a patch for virus or virus version of the space from the space four to the space six as any print plugins for version three and most importantly we have developed a python script which can be used in any platform in any other case so it can be used for this patient it prints also and they they are available and you can install it you can run it you can execute it easily and send us any kind for any kind of usage activity from your repository so um about the future and um we have to engage more research uh content provide more content providers to uh to count more instance products like research data monographs books etc um we have to move to we are planning to move to counter code of practice release five and we try to offer more analytics more enhanced visualization to cover uh stakeholders more stakeholders etc and we try to build a use that counts have that we combine and deploy the formation for many research products example publications with research data so thank you very much for your attention this is more or less the presentation of the service and i'm ready to answer to your questions if is any thank you great many many thanks Dimitris so i think it was a very good presentation clear so we are aware of the the features of the service which works what we can offer and how to enable or register in the service can you can you clarify how many repositories have we already part of our part of the service are benefiting from this service you you have the updated numbers yes yes i've as mentioned we have around 200 repositories that have uh yes that are using the search this is a um a number that is shown that that can be accessed in usage counts to open a dotu portal if you go there you will see the numbers for its country for its in the worldwide in total okay thank you so you can turn on your microphone or camera if you want and ask questions and try to clarify any specific issue if you have any relevant topic that you need to issue problem with the dashboard you can also put in the the comments here so we have already in fact some questions okay that i will we have one question in the chat and also in the google doc okay the chat i was i was checking the google doc and thank you for for that i'm also i will share my screen also so the question in the in in the chat where is it um yes i have been able to show this Jordan right yes the journal i have been able to say this yeah yeah uh how can i i think this there is a button that allows you to retrieve the service to retrieve the data sorry um from there to uh artist what is it the the the the dot so every label can i download this that uh the the report okay okay yes yes i think that in the open provide open a dotu there is the functionality there is a button that allows you to download the report but i will i will check it yes let me let me also do one and i can share okay Jordan Jordan we will demonstrate that then we can address this issue uh there are other questions here in the chat also let me share my screen so thank you for those that have created them so Cristobal from from Barcelona uh can the the open air users count service track the uses that come directly okay yes this is an important question to the digital object pdf for instance from the google school this is an important question Cristobal and this we have a clear reply to that because we we did a pilot in the past yes yes yes this is this is why we have used all these patches and plug ins and the generic tracker because um we have we have to to solve this issue we had to solve this issue because uh if if uh uh a request arrives from google scholar to a repository uh using some client-based let's say um uh code uh software uh this request uh is not uh uh track so that's why we are using this um uh software either by plug ins or uh the generic tracker and we count all any kind of request that is arriving in the repository so we are not missing anything i hope i answered i have answered your question i have replied to your question thank you very much um we have other other questions here uh okay i stopped sharing my screen without okay sorry i stopped sharing the screen that i didn't realize i stopped okay we have a question from ellie thank you ellie for your question from from dance from the the Netherlands the narcissist is a national aggregator and being harvested by open air can the users counts be used by our different repository managers yeah this is the same issue um it's not currently the the the the the the proper answer is no it's it's possible uh if we do some further developments it's not possible currently in what we have now in fact uh the meters maybe you can clarify a bit the the work that we are doing with uh with uh with la referencia is in fact uh can be used by by a national aggregator like like like narcissists because la referencia is the the latin america network of repositories the data will be provided for the nodes for the national nodes for the for the the national networks of repositories and we will have data collected for la referencia that then we can distribute for the individual repositories and the type of approach that la referencia is doing is something that we can also do in open air if we have time and effort for that Dimitris do you have something to add to that uh not something special most specifically i think we can follow a similar approach with la referencia with any kind of national aggregator so for sure we can we can uh we can enable for um ellie this is something that we can do between to enable this service maybe we can we can talk um offline so we can we can change some emails and we can enable this service for this specific aggregator uh then we will start collecting uh data um what is important is to collect data then we will find ways to deliver the problem is deliver the data for the individual repository managers this is not possible to do it now collect data uh from from from the aggregation the aggregator itself we can do it but let's see what what we can do for the individual repositories because currently this is not physical but um yes there are there are yeah but we need to we need to put this in our in our in our because there are several issues for national aggregators that we need to address always the same for now we have a reply for those issues for now we have the iris where we collect uh reports using uh the countercode of practice uh i don't have a service for that yes yes and we have also uh la referencia where we collect uh from their um aggregation system let's say but we have to find a solution it's uh as you mentioned the problem is how to collect data do you see the question from sir from biliana yes you're right biliana just take it and i think it has to do with um the name it's serbia and montenegro i i'm not sure what to say i will check it i will check it with my the developers of the portal if you go to analytics yes in search for the country uh i will i i will take it if it is an issue yes we will see we will fix that because okay okay and just to make some note if i chose the serbian montenegro there is no result there because yes yes that's what i replied just now i think there i think there is an issue with us with the string the service in modenegro i will i will check it but the the statistics are there don't worry now it will be solved soon thank you and then do you want to to ask the other questions i don't make a comment liana as you have but yeah yeah your main problem i'm yeah yeah i'm really disappointed because the things which are properly work uh last two or three years and our special repository manager used this both this all of these services a lot and now they are just stopped working exactly they are working but not working properly let's say the monitor dashboard i know my credentials i see all my validation history but now i could not found any of repositories and i know there are 15 of them there in provide in provide the provide yes in the monitor there are these three funders we have it also for months before we have all of them all funders there so this is my complaint that uh developing you are right things and the all things which were stable are not anymore yes in the monitor monitor uh i don't have an explanation for you i think this was um already um presented by other people with responsibilities in open air that i think it was uh an error it was a precipitation i think i'm i'm i'm with you i was lucky because the information of the portuguese funder was there because what was the first pilot but but this is so it's not not good to have it for provide provide this table okay let me say provide this table we have an issue with you all log in it's it's a login issue it's not a service issue okay the i think i hope so i i think i can say that the provide this table that we are increasing and then providing more functionality since we have delivered the service first in in september 2018 i think uh almost every semester we have introduced something new but yes you are right so andre we really need to check why reanna's login don't have access to the repository this is something that we need to we need to talk with the three or four persons because we didn't find yet the where is the issue the issue is somewhere between any uh connector that we are not sure why so aai so there was an update today from the the aai the authentication service um so we need to check when we when we we play with uh with in the same service in this dashboard for the case with different apis with different services so we can encounter this kind of problems reanna it's a promise that after this call we will do our best to so good there is no need to give a highest priority but no no no this is important because we we receive the same type of request sometimes so the the usual problem is that repositories don't repository managers don't find the data source in their login but usually the issue is that is related with previous registration so someone registered that data source using another login another email and now we need to change it but we usually we solve it we solve it in uh one hour or in 24 hours so we can solve it quickly um but sometimes we have this this issues with let's see let's see i'm not sure if some of my colleagues that are here in the call can help but i don't think so thank you morris if you want also to to talk about your use case or you you can talk but uh so you are in um yes i can project so uh thank you for putting the question here because then we can provide more information here sure if i think maybe this might be too complex to to answer and we need to talk it offline uh but uh my use case is uh that that i'm in a project with 11 universities i need to collect uh publication data but also i want to collect um use statistics from them to see what what the usage is of course um but i i'm not i'm not a provider of uh of all each of these so uh either i need to uh ask people to give me the cz file or whatever that's been downloaded uh and put it into my collection or maybe there is an easier way uh to do it with an ip api or something like that i don't know yes yes um the the answer yes this this should be possible using um our our api and we need to check if it's possible for all because we need to check if we have as direct that's the sources this uh repositories from this 11 universities or other kinds of that the sources from this 11 universities some of them may may have um for example um journals or journal systems this kind of things but we need to check so we can we can talk offline and i saw i saw in the call i saw in the call someone from Barcelona let me check if he's here Maurice um sorry for no no no it's not here um but um for your for your knowledge Maurice um poly I'm checking so it's the Polytechnical University of of Barcelona they have a similar use case so in fact they did but but of course they it's only one um it's only one university but they have used our api to check for the the duplicates and in in their repositories to check for um uh and to and to enrich or to fix issues in their repository so yeah I uh the colleague from the Polytechnical University of Barcelona have already presented that in um in a in a webinar in the end of October he presented in a conference and also in the end of October but it's only in Spanish so I can put him in contact as a use case and just talk with him but but be aware that we this is possible to to do so we are talking about the duplicate publications and I think Dimitris is also providing some more information about yes about the use statistics um you cannot for now you cannot collect all this information with one single request but um you can try yeah you can try to use uh uh our api the one that I mentioned above and you can just uh check for an item um there you will provide the doi and you will see all this information that's available for that doi why oh yes yes and if it does not have a doi but a handle or other identifier I think we covered doi's all oi ip mates I think identifiers uh don't remember I think if you if you check the api we will find information what can be used as input yeah you can contact directly and check the check this together yes and can you put the api or the the link to yes documentation okay thanks you put information in this document but also we can can exchange an email and you if needed we can put you in contact with other persons but the api is is up to date and you can you can try to test it and good thank you thank you super and then for Jordan the the the answer I was not I didn't read before so what what we have is just currently what we have is just the the the results that you can we don't have a way to to extract for for to CSV the results of the reports so you can see the results per per item you can check the the views and downloads but we don't have a way for you to download yet we need to to have it it's in it's in our priorities in the beginning of the service I remember that we we thought about that then there were several issues with the scalability of the user's statistic service that we have faced it and and and and solve it finally now Dimitri's next step is to to put this in production so the all the results per query of this report we need to to put it in the in the in a way to click and download the CSV file this is feasible and we just need to prepare it I think I'm not thinking yeah so maybe we need to check in our next management meeting and then provide some information here in the coming call or or we can we also have the contact from Jordan we can we can send the information yes this is the the the same the same for the broker events Jordan you are aware so we only have a way to manually check that information and to manually see it in the dashboard but for the broker we when we release this when we put in production this new way of delivering the broker events it's not only releasing the new way for the new workflow subscribe etc is also releasing the way to download the CSV file so for the events this is will be in production soon for the statistics we need to to decide maybe this is a topic for our next meeting the management team and then we we we can come up with them in our roadmap with a specific timeline to to to deadline to have this delivered program delivered thank you for your question and for the the screenshots okay perfect so so when it's off pass too thank you for for for your questions and the the meetings do you have anything else to to to help no just to thank you all for your participation and hope you see you joining the the service okay yes for those that are already part of the service I think we hope that we can you can now finally have the the proper data and play with the information and have some to date graphics and and reports that will be useful then now that we have the data presented in the correct way then we will try to find and to have your requests about new ways to deliver this information so we have already one request from Jordan and that was trying to find the button to download the results of the reports and for sure we will have others so this is a community effort that we need to we need to find the good ways to deliver the service with proper quality of the data but then creating features so we will have the first call in December in the in January next year I'm not sure when it is but it's in the first week I know that the first of December the first of January is a Friday so let's let's see if we can do it in 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So you often hear people saying global warming is the single greatest challenge ever to face humankind. We've got it treated as just like World War II and fully mobilized society in order to combat this problem. And nothing else really matters. Compared to this, nothing else is important. I've had an environmentalist say this to me really, like, like, come on Charles, you know, like, yeah, you might be interested in repairing relations between the genders or you might be interested in reviving dying languages or even in saving the lions in Southern Africa, you know, or something like that. But those are not actually important because if we have runaway global warming, then there aren't going to be any lions. They're not going to be any communities. They're not going to be any languages, you know. Now is not the time to pay attention to all those things. You have to devote all of your efforts to the one important thing, the one thing that solves everything else or that allows us to even have the chance to solve everything else. So I'm suspicious of this narrative. It is very much a fundamentalist narrative and it's very much a kind of war thinking because when the enemy is at the gates, then you sacrifice everything else for the war effort. You sacrifice civil liberties. You sacrifice the arts. You sacrifice the finer things in life. And it becomes a way to control everybody and deny what makes life beautiful. And that doesn't mean that there isn't an enemy at the gate. I'm not saying that there isn't. I'm not saying that there isn't right now. That's not my point. My point is that there is a fundamentalist or war mentality operating in the standard narrative of climate change. And you could call it global warming fundamentalism or carbon fundamentalism. Here's the one important thing. It's very similar to the mindset of money, which is, I think this is one of the major ways in which we habituate to this kind of thinking, that if I only had enough money, I would be able to solve all my problems. It's the one thing that gives birth to everything else. So when I was doing my research and from the living planet hypothesis, the living planet view, I believe that soil erosion or biodiversity extinction is going to affect the climate because it's a living being. And if you have, say in your body, if you have massive cell death, if you have an organ deteriorating, maybe you won't be able to regulate your global ecosystem, your body temperature even. So I have this hunch that the causality goes in that direction.  Everybody's talking about how climate change is going to cause biodiversity decline, how climate change is going to cause soil erosion, et cetera, et cetera, which fits into, it's a comfortable way to think. Wouldn't it be nice if we could solve all of our ecological problems and social problems too? Climate change is causing migration, climate change causing war, et cetera, et cetera. Wouldn't it be nice if we could solve all our problems by addressing this one thing that can be and for which our progress can be tracked by measuring a number. And it becomes a min-max problem. It becomes a matter of reducing a number, making a budget, reducing this much carbon here, offsetting this forest here with another one there, with solar panels here, et cetera, et cetera, maybe using carbon capture machines to draw down carbon from the atmosphere, et cetera, et cetera. This is something that we're very familiar with, this kind of thinking. So it is a reduction, a comfortable reduction of health, which is organic and physiological and nonlinear into a matter of a quantity. That is a kind of a reductionism. And what is the problem with that? It leaves out everything that doesn't fit into that measure. The things that we can't measure, the things that are unmeasurable, the things that we don't understand and cannot predict, they get left out. So in the carbon reductionist frame, how important is an elephant? How important is a whale? How important is a beaver? What's the carbon contribution of these? It's really hard to measure, a bear. But when you understand ecology and when you see the world as a living being, then you start to think, okay, each of these beings, whales, bears, salmon, whatever it is, elephants, these are an organ. These are a tissue. These have a role to play in maintaining health. And so you start to look for it. And then you discover things like Paul Stamets discovers that bears scratch marks on trees. So the resin, the sap comes out and then fungi grow on that sap. And then bees are attracted to those fungi and they derive antiviral compounds from those fungi that allow them to withstand some of the diseases that are devastating bees and maybe other insects today, which then allow them to pollinate more and maintain the food web that allows forests to be healthy and crops to grow healthy and soil to be healthy, which then draws down carbon. So, oh, actually bears are important. But can you put that in a model? Can you put that into a climate model? Can you possibly measure all of those multiplying lines of causality? It's impossible to do that. So those things get left out of the models. They get left out of the budgets, the carbon budgets. They are not emphasized in environmental policy. They're not the climate strike people and they're not on the radar screen. They don't seem as important. When you reduce the problem to a matter of levels of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases, you render invisible the things that only make sense that only seem important when you understand Earth as a living being. So I'm asking, and this is one of the main movements inside myself that brought me to write this book, I'm asking that we expand the scope of our care beyond the things that we can add up in a carbon budget, that we expand it to include all of life on Earth, every place, every ecosystem, every species, whether or not we can calculate its greenhouse gas effects, its carbon footprint. But we expand the scope of our care in the knowledge that every one of these beings is important. To maintaining climate health, to maintaining more generally ecological health. This is the place we need to come from. It's a holistic view rather than a reductionistic view.


I've lived in Virginia Beach most of my life. My parents are from here. It's familiar and I'm someone who likes familiarity. I like loyalty. A kindness is what people are looking for, you know, especially in this day and age and it needs to for sure start at the hospital. They're coming here and trusting us with their lives in their most vulnerable spots. So kindness needs to be at the center at the forefront of every interaction. It's huge.


So, this is bringing us to the end of the five presentations that we have and I think that what this has really shown me over the last six months is that there really is no straight line to the solutions and often in government, as I think David said, that we're focused on that really detailed piece that it can be difficult to expand and see what else is happening and see how else we can operate. This has been iterative and it takes collaboration and to be honest, a little bit of risk and vulnerability which we've seen all across the board. But that is where innovation happens and I have been so privileged to have a front row seat to all of this. So for my personal thanks to everyone who has shown up on this project and dedicated their time and it needs to be said as well that these teams have been volunteering on this work. So these teams have dedicated the companies, have dedicated their time because they saw value for this process. So again, thank you so much and I'm looking forward to learning more about how the experience is going. With that said, I would actually love to switch the slide. Yeah. Okay, so now that we have a beautiful background, I would like to invite Parliamentary Secretary for Technology Rick Lumac to come up to the stage and offer us some final comments. Well thank you for the introduction, Sue. I am so impressed with what I saw here today. Holy smokes. I'm so honored to be here on behalf of the government and here today earlier with my friend and colleague Bruce Ralston, the Minister of Jobs, Trade and Technology. And I'd like to congratulate all the companies and all of the departments in the government that have worked together to put these projects, these pilots forward. And like I said, I'm just so impressed with what I've seen. I didn't know what to expect today and I'm just blown away and you know, BC, like we, our government is committed to be a global hub for tech startups and tech companies. We are doing so much right now to try to grow this sector. We know that it's one of the largest drivers of our economy and we're very excited with all of the opportunities we have ahead of us and all the jobs that we're going to be creating in this area. The talent that I've seen here today is a perfect example of the kind of talent that we have here in BC and I've been going around and talking to a lot of tech companies and been impressed by what we have here in this province. I come from the tech sector myself. I'm kind of like, we've had, you know, government on one side and tech on the other and I'm kind of the same, I'm one person representing all of it and I, you know, I've worked in, I've seen innovation and, you know, even in the tech sector, it's not easy sometimes. Like I've been in some companies where we've had to be transformative with our technology. I was at a company, we were doing computer animation, TV shows and direct to video and we wanted to do a feature film and the transformation that we needed to happen there was challenging and it was difficult. And but what we're doing here, we're taking these little bite-size things and we're showing what technology can do and in just a few weeks, the change that can happen is incredible.  Yeah, we have so much potential in this province, that's the point and when it comes to improving the way we deliver services in the things we've seen here today, I would like to see so much more of this. We live in a technological world and we need to embrace these technologies in government and it's going to be more and more of this as we move forward. Government needs to keep up. We are a big bureaucracy and like I said, to have these opportunities to show in government how we can improve services is I think the best way to move it forward. We, yeah, you know, seeing, for example, that the first project there, seeing how it can simplify something that can take, you know, a day to communicate back and forth and I'm sure there's a lot of other areas where things are missed and all of this and to have everything in a central place where people can communicate clearly is, I mean, we should be doing this already. So it's one example. I mean, I've heard from people around, you know, mental health, the challenges that people have in trying to figure out how to get help, you know, and the technology can help solving that problem. Maybe some of the technology that was shown here today can help with that. The results are tangible. Wait times can be reduced significantly by utilizing technology. That's a big, big concern on a lot of areas of government. How can we make things faster? How can we have a quicker turnaround for people that are in need of these services and technology is a way to do that. And here we are and we're the first place, I think, in Canada where we're utilizing this kind of a project come from San Francisco. I guess this idea and we're doing it here in B.C. I'm very proud of that. So I'm very excited about what the future holds. I'm very excited to see how these projects develop. And I like to see more of this in government. And so I want to thank all of the people that have put this together and all the time you took to bring everyone together and show us what is possible. We value the contributions that you're making to government and it's making things, it will make things better for all British Columbians. And so I look forward to more. Thank you very much. Thank you Parliamentary Secretary. That was a really great way to end on our day. I love your comment about you're somewhere in the middle of there. So that's pretty lucky for us to have you on the team. So these were our presentations. I have seen these decks. I've popped in on meetings I've had bi-weekly calls and it only sunk in today how incredible all of this work is. So thank you everybody for all of your hard work. This is really exciting. This was just an idea a little less than a year ago from San Francisco as you pointed out. And we pulled it off and that wouldn't have happened unless the smart ideas and the smart companies came. So awesome. Thanks so much. So stick around. We've got some food and we've got some coffee and we've got some opportunities for some more of the demos. And for those who have been watching online and anyone else who's in the room that might be curious about how we how we've structured this type of a program which is definitely a little bit different. I'm really happy to talk about it and maybe we can see how we can spur on more stir programs in other places in Canada. So thanks so much everybody. Sorry. Hey folks just one thing just one thing. I didn't want to let Sue get off the stage without saying thanks to Sue if you haven't been directly involved in the program you wouldn't know how much work she's put in and bringing us all together cranking through a whole ton of difficult questions pushing through the legal things pushing through the procurement things pushing through all these details that really matter and the structures that have facilitated all of this. So huge congratulations to a really great job.


Hello, this is Ian Alfano. After 30 years in the trucking business, I've settled here in the sea turtle nesting capital of the world, Satellite Beach, Florida. But the way I get my day started each morning after drinking my coffee is with Trucker Josh Vlogs. That's TJV on YouTube. Don't forget to like and subscribe and check out Brits Beat. Also a special shout out to all my buddies. Diesel, Frankie, and that little tiny lap dog, Chevy. Tune in. Coming with us, so that's a good sign. Yes. He made it to Brandon. Going in for some breakfast to hump diesel over there. Chevy, you got to stay in here though. You've already had your breakfast. You're going to stay here too, Diesel. You want second breakfast? We're going to have a good breakfast, and then we'll be back on the road, back on the way. We've got to park across the street, and that's all right. I like having a good breakfast. And I don't really need as big of a lunch, I find. Yeah, we've got yogurt bananas in the truck. I don't always snack on that if we get hungry later, but. Raisin toast. They even gave you a cherry on top. Here, you want my stem? There you go. Thank you. You're welcome. It's like a wish stem. It's like a wishbone, but it's a wish stem. Do you know any bar tricks, time or not? I don't. I can't do that. A little guy needs a peeperoo. His bladder is a little smaller than the other guys. He came out real quick. You guys stay, Chevy. Hey, I had told you to stay. Can you back up? Back up? Good boy. Good boy. Just wait. She's coming back. Promise. Okay, promise. Oh, she's coming. She's right outside. I know. No, she'll be okay. She's okay. Rookies. She's right outside. She's going to be back, man. I don't know where she went. I'm scared. Do you have anything to say to the good people? Say something to the good people. Can you howl? Can you howl? That's barking, guys. That's not howling. Can you sit? Oh, good harmonies. Good harmonies. All right. We're all aboard the Geesprecht train. No one else is going to get our choice. No, but we do. So that's all that matters. All right, Chevy. And we're back on the road. We've still got a long way to go today yet. Just like me. This guy's scary though. He's been getting close to everybody, like within like six inches to a foot with his truck. There's like seven open spaces over there. It's not like he's trying to get into a tight spot either. And this is his third time pulling forward and backing up again. Oh, we shouldn't laugh. Well, I mean, I shouldn't. I shouldn't judge because it's not like I've ever done it, but I just feel like it wouldn't be this bad. Yeah. But maybe it would be. There goes that guy that recognized us. Hey, there he goes. Hey, you're on YouTube, man. Did we get his name? I think he said it, but it was so loud and he was still too far away as he was saying it. I'm so sorry, my friend. You're right there hauling those campers. Thanks for saying hi. He actually recognized Britt before he recognized me. I got recognized. That was a first. Yeah. Okay. So we're in Balgoni, Bologna. Balgoni, Bologna. We got our coffees. We had a little rest break here. Everybody's been all the guys pooped and peed. Yep. Just going to say it like it is. Well, Diesel didn't poop, but he's saving it for a good one for later. You always poop. You're like the pooper of the family. I think Chevy's the pooper. Is he now? He poops every time. Diesel poops like morning and night. Chevy every time. He saves it so that he can spread it out. Diesel just saves it up so that he can do it all at once. You are so just sweet.  You guys are very kissy. Thank you. All right. So we're off. We're going to next stop is Saskatoon. You want to stop for a shower yet? We've got to continue. Continue on to Edmonton. Yepers. We've got something going on up here. A couple of vehicles in the ditch. Oh, that's one of those campers. Oh, it's a camper. Oh, boy. Campers in the ditch. Somebody was going a little faster than they could handle, I guess. He's probably a transporter who is bringing it up to here somewhere. Well, it could have been someone on vacation. Knock it back over. Still attached to the campers. Yes. Someone's vacation got ruined in 80 days, Saskatoon. We're just going to the north side of town here. We're going to stop at the Flying J. Put the shower before continuing on to Edmonton. We've got as close as we can tonight yet. I think I got a lot of water on the streets here. Nice. That huge rainstorm just passed through here. Just on the end of it. We're facing Edmonton right now, so it looks like clear skies that way. I can see if we can find ourselves a spot here. Shouldn't have a problem. It's only, but 645. Hopefully there's a shower available right away. I only want to wait very long. Still got a lot of miles to cover. We're all showered up smelling good. I smell like Dr. Squatch. Dr. Squatch, right? That's what it's called. Dr. Squatch Bay Rum. Stepped off a pirate ship in the Caribbean. It's like the commercial, right? It's called me Jack Sparrow. All as good as Bay Rum. But he smelled like rum. That's true. See how close we can get to Edmonton yet. We won't go right up to the city because we won't find any parking in the city. Not by the time we get there. Probably not. We'll get this freight unloaded tomorrow yet. So we can head back home. It's just a quick one, just Edmonton and back. And the day is coming to a close. We made it up to Innisfree. Take the next right onto Alberta 870 North. Every day in summer I'm still amazed that the sky is so bright outside. It's midnight. I think it's past midnight, isn't it? Now it's midnight here and the sky out there. Oh, I guess you can't really see it in the camera right now. We'll be staying at the Petro Pass, say our eight hours here and then we'll make our way into Edmonton tomorrow. My name is Simon. On rainy days especially, we watch Frankie, Chevy and Diesel and TJB. Sometimes we watch Josh too.


Ac mae'n gynhwys ychydig fel y gweithio, rydyn ni'n gweithio gwaith o'r maes yn ymwyllteisio'r game yw'r gweithio'r gweithio. A'r gweithio yn y bag hwnnw eich teimlo er oed yn y perffifftol gyda'r cymdeithasol, a'r cyflwysteriaeth yn ffordd ac yw'n gweithio'r 100. A'r gweithio yn gweithio'r gweithio'r 100. Mae'r goffwll wedi gael i'r llwynt 14 clubs yn yr bach, dwi'n gweithio'r 7 mae'n gweithio'r 100. The last.... I want to say cheatssticks. They certainly make this game a lot easier and if you'll look into break 100 Fern some of these clubs will definitely help you in some of the issues you're suffering from right now. And this is one of them. You see we all know that golf is a tough old game. It is not easy and we need as much help as we can get and often we can overcomplicate matters by putting 40 clubs in the bag. Ac rwy'n dweud i'n gweithio i gaelill mewn y maes gennym o'r amser gyda ni, oedd ei dweud i'n gweithio i siaradau. Yn cyfrifio amddai gweithio'n cyfrifio, yn gyfrifio'n amser ei wneud gwysig yw'n cyfrifio'n 100. A byddwn i'n ceisio'n gweithio i fi'n gweithio. Ac o'r aur�no, rwy'n cyfrifio y gallai gwybod eich cyfrifio ffagur y ffordd fel gwneud o'u cyfarfodd yn cael eich bod dweud. Ac rwy'n meddwl y gallwch y gallaf yng Nghaerwyr yn gymaint, maen nhw'n oeddi'r gyrdd, yn y llyfr yng Nghaerwyr HB. Felly mae'r clwb yn gyflawni ar hyn yn hyn iawn cyflawni. Mae'r cyfriferaen iawn o'r cyfriferaen cyfriferaen i gyfriferaen a'r cyfriferaen sy'n gwneud. Mae'r cyfriferaen i gyfriferaen i gyfriferaen, rwy'n meddwl i gael fwy, a'r gyfriferaen i gyfriferaen yna yn ei gwybod fel yr ysgol, Fel cael ei bodwch chi, mae angen dweud efallai'n gwybod i'r wybodaeth. Mae'n iedden nhw i'n fathau'r cyangelu. Mae'n drwng hwnnw, yn fwrdd, mae'n ddych chi'n dod, fe fydd ddon ni'n mas grannol yn unrhyw o'r cyflwyng pleid. Mae'r fφardwch yn iawn i'r bydd. Mae'n gallu i'w gwirionedd y bulkl ac mwy yma. Mae'n gilydd i'r bledau'r i roed Gael o'r llan o gyll wideniau a llai. Mae'r bwyswch i'r gwasanaeth'n cael ei roeddu cyflwyng. Ac ydych chi'n gwybod i'w dweud, dwi ddim gwybod, mae'n gwybod i'w ddweud 100. Rhaid yn bwysig i'w ddweud cael ei gael o'r pwysig yn eich gweld, ac ydych chi'n gwybod i'w ddweud, ydych chi'n ddim gwybod i'w ddweud'r cantyn o'r bwysig a'i dweud eich bwysig i ddiweddol yn rhan. Ac mae'n ddiw i'w ddweud eich gweithio'r llyfrig, yn cael ei gweithio yn ddiweddol, ac mae'n gwybod i'w ddweud. rai hyffordd hyffordd iron ac rwy'n dweud yn dweud i'r rai cymdeithasol. Rwy'n oedd 150 oed yn dweud i'r ferwy. Rwy'n oedd yn dweud i'r ddeudio'r ddeudio mor ddeudio'r ddeudio. Rwy'n oed yn ystod arfer llefyd y gwaith. Mae'n dweud arall, wedi'i ddweud yma, ni'n dweud o'r blaid. Ond hefyd, mae'r golfer yn y gweithio, mae'n gwneud mae'r ddweud i'r llwythau ar y clyw. Roedd yw'n gwybod yw'r gweithio gwybodaeth yn eu bodi'r gweithio'r hwn a'i gweithio'r gweithio'r gwybodaeth, mae'n gweithio'r gweithio. Roedd yw'r gweithio'r golygu a'r cofais gwybodaeth, ac yn gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio, oedd ychydig yn ymgyrchyniad ar gyfer yr adeg, ychyniad yn cael eu cyfer y cyfer. Yn cael eu cyfer, mae'r gweithio'r 46 o gyfrifau am yr oeddiad gyda'r gweithio, ac mae'n rhan o'ch meddwl yn dod yn dwylo'r meddwl. A bobl, mae'n meddwl yn ystod ar y rhan o'r meddwl. A oes rhan o'r meddwl yn y fideo, mae'n ei modd yn ei meddwl yn dwylo'r meddwl. Felly, mae'n meddwl yn ei meddwl yn rhoi meddwl. A bod hynny'n gwybod i'n meddwl yn ddod, wedi'u meddwl, mae'n meddwl yn ymddangos y bobl. Mae'n meddwl yn yma yn arfer. Mae'n cymdeithasio ar y gwaith ymddangos. gyda rhoi'r bod yna'r gwahyddiad o'r brodd yma. Ond wedi gynhyrchu'r bobl hynny, mae'r gwahyddiad o'r bod yn yr hyn yn ymddangos o'r brodd. Rwy'n credu'r brodd, ac yn dweud i'r hynny'n meddwl. Rwy'n credu'n meddwl, i'r ysgrifennu'r gweithiau ymddangos, mae'n meddwl i'r gweithio, yn ymddangos i'r gwahyddiad, ac yn ymddangos i'r gwahyddiad, mae'n meddwl i'r lliwyr, I can't get this wrong. All I'm doing is executing an extended putting stroke. And whether I'm in and around the green, I do exactly the same thing. So you've got to have a chipper in your club if you want to break 100, just that little bit easier. But whilst that chipper is really effective when there's nothing in front here, in other words, you don't need a great deal of loft and it's very much a chipper and run style shot. We all know that golf never quite pans out that way. And effectively during your 18 hours of golf, you're going to end up in a situation like this where you've got, you need some loft, you need to be able to flight the ball over the likes of a bunker. And therefore we're going to need a different club in the bag. That different club in the bag is obviously a wedge, that wedge that I've got in hand is 58 degrees. But the key factor is it's the wide sole wedge for me that is the key element that makes the execution of the shot just a little bit easier. These wide sole wedges, I've happened to have the sort of this is the Hito big foot, that's the one is what I've got in hand right now. But are there many that have sort of promoted if you like over the last couple of years, like to the CBX range from Cleveland is another typical example of how good that bounce can be in terms of helping out average golfers. And for me, I mentioned this in a previous video in recent weeks is keeping that sort of V in the arms again, just that putting stroke, trying to make things simpler. And as you see, it pops the ball up in the air. We're back in with a chance in terms of holding out a port. And more importantly, we haven't gone and stuck it in that bunker, which is essentially where we really start to lose shots. So plenty of loft in the bag as well at the opposite end, wide, wide sole, keep that putting stroke going. And again, should eliminate a lot of the shots to keep tallying up and making you score way too many on holes. Right, so we've gotten ourselves to the green. So what is the most effective putter out there to help me break 100? Well, in my opinion, the first thing you need to get, and this is a little bit subjective or putter, but what I would say is that you want a face balanced, mallet style putter. The reason I say that is because they're more forgiving and they're more stable than that of the likes of a blade that is the sort of other end of the spectrum, if you like, and there's plenty in between all that. The second thing I would suggest and I've chosen this putter to demonstrate it is something with a real strong alignment aid. And that doesn't come any better than the classic sort of Odyssey two ball. That, for me, is great if you're struggling with alignment. You've got your ball and you've got the two balls that are imprinted on the putter, so to be able to align those three effectively makes it a real easy or easier way of aligning putts and hopefully getting that ball next to the hole. The next thing you need to obviously work on is your execution, your ability to control the pace and all those other things. But first of all, we've given ourselves a chance in terms of stability and in terms of alignment. Go on ball, roll out, roll out. Now I take that any day of the week, but the key factor is yes, the pace was good, but the key factor was the putter helped me keep things nice and stable, nice and steady and got that ball rolling at the hole on my intended line. Now let's not be foolish and I'm certainly not getting ideas above my station. I am not in any real position to tell anybody how to play the game of golf. But like I said, in recent weeks in particular, certainly over the last few months, I've tested out a lot of product that I've thought, you know what? We made this game already a difficult game as hard as we possibly can by choosing the wrong type of products and this bag I've put together today. Well, like I said, it's not it's not genius. It's not an instructional video. It's just me trying to relay some information to you that if you're struggling with certain elements of the game and certainly off the tee, irons, flop shots, chip shots, put in even all those kind of elements, they're difficult and you're likely to be struggling with maybe one or maybe more than one of those issues. And some of these products I'm showing you today can hopefully help you out. And if they do, I'll be pleased with myself. OK, so the first shot I hit today, I suggested that was one of the clubs you may need in a bag and I didn't quite get round to tell you what that was, but I will now. Essentially, on the tee is a big issue for most average golfers who are struggling, it can be an area of real concern, of real worry. Confidence can be low and now I'm faced with something that I don't particularly like if my confidence is low and that's trouble left, trouble right and a fairly tight gap. So what do I do? Well, from the tee, naturally, everybody would pick up driver. It's just what we do. We watch it on the telly. Our mates go for driver. So therefore we think well, we better go for driver as well. And it's a huge mistake right now in this bag that I've put together, the longest club that I have in the bag, well, it's a five wood. And I'm suggesting that you do the same. Now, there are other options from this position, but right now I'm going to suggest the longest option you go for, depending on how you're feeling in terms of confidence. And don't forget this is the longest shaft as well. So the one that I've got least control with, well, that's less five wood. Well, let's see if we can find a bit of a gap. That's right down the middle. The interesting fact is this, everything I've just preached right now about reaching for driver is exactly what I would normally do on a Saturday afternoon in a competition. I've just hit five wood. It's gone right down the middle and I'm in position A. I don't know why I can't take heed of my own advice at times. Now choice of shot is also key to conquering that breaking 100 or certainly lowering your score. And it's very easy to be in this position, which we've just come to from the five wood off the tee. We're going across the angle of a bunker, which is probably another 20 yards further on. And my shot to the green is probably about 60 or 70 yards. So right now, this is a real dilemma because I'm suggesting to you, you've got a 60 degree, 58 degree wedge in the bag and you've got a chipper. What do you do where you adapt the style of the chipper would be my opinion. And you choose a more logical route to green and that's not go directly over the bunker. So if things go wrong, we kick on along the side of it and we don't go straight in it. So right now I'm aiming at the top side of the bunker. I'm going to extend my putting stroke. And that's a perfect example of where poorly executed shot and gone away with it because I made the right choice in terms of the line that I took. If I had played that shot that I've just executed directly at the flag, which meant taking on the bunker, I'd have gone straight in the bunker and then I'm struggling to get out and then I'm starting to add shots to my score that were unnecessary just by making bad decisions. Now, another typical scenario where things go well, they go all kinds of wrong from this kind of position where we know we should be playing some kind of wedge shotty in terms of our short game, but our confidence again is low on a tight lie. That's a little bit of a tricky one for us to play. Now, we have got the chipper, which I think again can be played from it and eliminate some of those problems. But I also suggest that we kind of look and consider the putter a bit more often, often referred to as a Texas wedge. I think sometimes people are a little bit scared or embarrassed to play a putter from this kind of position because they know in theory, they should be playing a nice fancy wedge shot, but I just want to get it on that green and give myself a chance of making par. Now break, now break. Now all of a sudden I've got to ask myself the question. I've got to within two, maybe three foot and that's a put for par. Don't forget, we've played five wood, we've played chipper, we've played putter and I've got two or three foot to make par. I've got to ask myself the question, how things could have turned out if I'd made different decisions from Tita green? Would I be making a put for par then? So I still didn't reveal what that club was that I played from the very first shot of the day. Well, it was a seven wood. We've played a five wood that I suggest is an essential in the bag. We've got a seven wood, which I think is an essential part of the bag. And now we're going to go to that third longest in the bag, which is a hybrid, but it's a five hybrid with 25 degrees loft on it. And I think that's the important fact here. What we want is we want a club with plenty of versatility. So I can play this from the fairway, I can play it from the rough, I can play it from a tee box, I can play it from in and around the green for a chip and run.  Right now I'm faced with a par three. I don't know how far we've got, 160, 170 yards. All the trouble is in the bunkers, both right and left of the green. So what I just want is that half swing like we played with the iron at the beginning, and I want this ball to go straight and I want it somewhere down there. I'm not trying to reach the green, I'm trying to break a hundred. If it gets to the green, that's fantastic. I just want half a swing and I want to see what this club will do for me. Well, it's going right at the flag. It's going right at the flag. Well, we're actually just gone through past the flag a little bit. But again, all I'm trying to demonstrate and hopefully I'm doing that is that that swing was again like I don't know, 75 mile an hour is what I would think it would relate in sort of trackman data. It was a slow, nice and easy tempo swing and I let the club do all the work for me. I didn't put a teapag down either. We just took that straight off the turf. But the important factor for me was this. Yes, we've gone through past the flag on the green, but the thing was it was straight and it was controlled because the way in which I'm going to lose shots and I'm going to add up to my tally of going past 100 is if I start to go left and right. And even if I get this wrong, let's say, even if I doff this shot another 10 or 15 yards and I don't get it quite right, let's be honest. This isn't going to cure all your problems, this bag set up that I'm referring to. But we're in play, we're straight and we've got a club in the bag in an amongst the seven essential that I've just suggested that can play that next shot for us. And what we don't need is another seven clubs to make life even more confusing for us. Let's just master these seven shots and these shot types. And I'm pretty sure it would reduce scores pretty significantly. So this would be five hybrid, two ball putter, nearly. Right, so let's put this theory to the test and we're going to combine it all in this 18th hole at Cardin Park. I've got seven clubs. Don't forget to choose from 456 yard par five. The first being the longest club I have in the bag, which is a five wood. My issue here is I want to avoid the bunkers down that right hand side. I want half a swing or three quarters of a swing, whatever you want to call it. Just controlled and I want to get down in that fairway. Well, that's a superstar. My five wood has arguably got me into position A. I certainly didn't need driver for that one. Right, now this next shot potentially provides me with a dilemma.  But I'm putting this as a consideration of somebody who's looking to break a hundred. And my thought process is this. I've got the tree on the left and the trees on the right that are my potential hazard. They're the danger here. If I go into either of those or block myself out in terms of either of those, then I've got a problem in terms of shot number three. So I'm taking my ability into account and what I'm going to do, I'm going to go to that seven iron of my hybrid iron and I'm going to aim towards down the middle, but if things go wrong, I know that I haven't got enough club really to put me in trouble behind those trees. And if things go right, I've still got a chance of reaching a green in regulation. But again, it's all about control and keeping straight. We've got right down the middle, right in between the gap. And that's gone further than I thought, if I'm perfectly honest with you. I keep saying it, but I don't know why I just can't play like this myself. Right. OK. So now we've got a real dilemma on our hands because we've probably without getting the yard is I've got about 100 yards to go to that flag. But if I go on a direct route to it, then I'm taking on two bunkers that are very much staggered between me and the flag at a real high risk shot. So from me looking to break a hundred, I've got to be thinking right. Well, what am I going to what's the shot I can play that stays out of trouble, but still me helps me get somewhere near that green. And I can see the left hand side of the green, the bottom half it. Yes, I'm going to be a long way from the hole, but at least I'm somewhere near that putting service. And don't forget, this is my third shot I'm playing. So I'm aiming left of the bunker. And what I'm going to try and do is get it somewhere up on that green and I've opted to play with this chipper. And get over that, kick on, kick on, kick on. It looks from here. We've just managed to stage just a yard or two short of the fringe. We avoided the bunkers and don't forget, I'm on there in three shots. So I've still got two to possibly make par, but as someone who's looking to break a hundred, if I walk off with a six, I'd be delighted and a seven double bowy on a par five. It's not the end of the world right now. Right, so the flag is as far back as it'll go to be quite honest to you. So this is we're playing as tough as it can be in terms of the flag position. And we were a yard or two short. Now arguably a lot of people for this kind of distance would be looking to chip. The chipper is certainly an option, but for me, it's keeping that ball on the ground. I'm using the two ball putter. I've got my alignment. I've just got to hope I can get the pace of this all the way back to the hole and get a chance of making a par. The line is good. The pace is bang on. It just drifted off on the bottom on the last end of the put, the roll. But I've got three foot and I've got a chance of making par. And don't forget five wood, seven iron chipper putter. Do you know what that did better than I actually thought from back there? We've got the weight so good, but the important bit was like, like I said, for me, it's just about giving yourself a chantrum back there. And it was a lot harder to judge a chip than it was to try and judge a put. This one's got a little bit of break in it. But can we get a par five using just our little seven essential golf clubs? No, we can't. In fact, we've hit the worst put of the day and it's swung a lot more than I thought. And now we're struggling to make six. We'll take six. So we finish with a bogey six on a par five. You've seen the clubs I used, you've seen the mentality behind it. I said earlier on the thought process is also key. The choices we make and decisions we make or game management, as opposed to what you call it, is also a key element. But what I've shown you today is hopefully seven clubs that can make a difference to part of your game. And if you've identified something in amongst all that today that you've been struggling with, whether that be off the tee, whether it be from the fairways, whether it be running around the greens. If you can take one element of that and it's any good to you, then I'll be really, really pleased because, as I said, I'm very conscious of the fact that I never tell anybody how to play this game. I've certainly got my own problems to worry about. But seeing these products and test these products over recent weeks and months, I've learned that there are ways that can help certain aspects of your game when you are struggling with them. So as ever, take from it what you will. Hope you enjoyed the video. Cardin Park has been absolutely gorgeous today. I'm only keeping this jacket on because my mic's wired up to it and I'm absolutely roasting and can't wait to get it off. Right. Thank you for watching. Comments down below. Give me any feedback you wish and I'll see you all soon.