We'll go ahead and start, this is our last panel of the day, pretty amazing that we're going to start even a minute early. But anyway, I want to thank you all for being here and hope that this, that today has been a good learning experience for you, a chance to talk to exhibitors both in the Gold Room in 2168 as well as the FOIA, we've tried to cover a whole raft of technologies, ways to think about clean energy, renewable energy, energy efficiency, what it means in terms of manufacturing, what's happening in terms of economic investments with regard to jobs, etc. And so this last panel is going to really look at biosolutions, looking at biobased energy and biobased materials. And so we have six speakers and so we want to start going through to really look at all of this because I think there is a lot of exciting information that is available and that is continuously evolving in this important area. And actually in Arlington right now, the Department of Energy is holding a two-day conference on biomass technologies, all sorts of research and new products and technologies that are becoming available. So to start us off this afternoon is Jim Lemon, who is the co-founder and CEO of BTR Energy. And so he is going to be talking about electricity generated with biogas. So just remember, there is no such thing as waste if we use it right. Okay, thank you Carol and thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak today. You probably know that the EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard Program, or RFS Program, is a statutory program that commenced in 2005 and it requires increasing percentages of renewable transportation fuel to be used in the United States and is commonly known as the ethanol program. But do you remember the exciting one-of-a-kind RFS development that occurred three years ago next Tuesday? If you don't, you're forgiven because nothing really happened. Actually, a final rule was published on that date three years ago by EPA and some very noteworthy things were supposed to have happened since then, but they didn't. For the first time, a nonchemical fuel electricity was to be included in the RFS program. For the first time, parties generating electricity with biogas produced from stuff that nobody wants, manure, like manure and rotting food waste and sewage, were to be included in the RFS program. And for the first time, vehicles that don't burn fuel and don't have tailpipes, i.e. electric vehicles, were to be included in the RFS program. When you put it all together from beginning to end, what it was, and what it is, is an official RFS fuel pathway with many environmental, economic, and energy attributes, and it's called the RFS Renewable Electricity Pathway, we call it the Electric Pathway, but it still hasn't been plugged in. How would it work? Well, in a nutshell, the Electric Pathway works by pairing or matching electricity produced with biogas, with electric vehicles that are consuming electricity on the same connected grid, in accordance with the RFS rules. And of course, biogas is composed largely of methane that is collected from decomposing organic material that can be at a farm, at a wastewater treatment plant, and other facilities that process the waste through anaerobic digesters are also called biodigesters. And biogas is also collected from many landfills that are filled with decomposing waste. Under the RFS, participating pathways must show that biogas-based electricity was used as transportation fuel, and that would allow them to generate and sell RENS, which are the credits that are purchased by the obligated parties, and under the RFS program, the obligated parties are gasoline and diesel refiners and importers. So they can sell these RENS and earn extra cents per kilowatt for their renewable electricity that they're generating. So that in a nutshell is the program. Now the RFS Electric Pathway has tremendous potential environmental, economic, and energy attributes that this administration should love. How would they love it? Let me count the ways. Let's talk about energy attributes. First-based American-made renewable power is fully aligned with an all-of-the-above energy policy, and implementation of the electric pathway would increase domestic energy production. And according to the EPA, every 100 miles driven in an electric vehicle eliminates the need for four gallons of gasoline. That will help reduce the need for imported oil. So that's motherhood in apple pie. And those two things, increasing domestic energy production and ensuring the nation's geopolitical security, those two things are line-item goals in the president's recent executive order on promoting energy independence and economic growth. So that should make President Trump happy. Now generating electricity with biogas results in domestic energy production, distributed energy, and base load power. There are about 2,000 facilities doing this right now in the United States with the support from this electric pathway we could add another 11,000 facilities. That should make Secretary Perry happy. And let's talk about economic attributes. On the micro-level, farmers that use bio-digesters to produce electricity with biogas from manure can reduce or eliminate their own need to purchase electricity, fuel, and fertilizer. And they can actually sell the electricity back to the grid. This results in improved economic viability of farms and rural communities, and it creates additional agriculture revenues and jobs. That ought to make Agriculture Secretary Perdue happy. The electric pathway can improve the economic viability of urban communities by creating additional income streams at their municipal wastewater treatment plants and landfills because both of those entities can generate biogas. And with the biogas, they can generate electricity just like a dairy farmer can with manure. Local governments everywhere would like those things. We right now are generating enough organic waste in this country to provide feedstock for thousands of additional biodigesters that could be built at farms and communities across the country. They can capture the methane, turn it into waste, and generate renewable electricity. It can catalyze the construction of thousands of new renewable, rural and urban anaerobic digesters and tens of thousands of jobs to build and operate them. And it could create a new domestic bioenergy and bioproducts industry. On the environmental attributes side, another one of the line item goals in the President's executive order on energy independence is to quote, promote clean air and clean water for the American people. Well implementation of the electric pathway can help achieve cleaner inner city air from the zero emissions that the electric vehicles and buses could bring to those communities and the related improvements in public health. This pathway will increase demand for methane at farms, landfills and wastewater treatment plants where it is currently being flared or wasted or simply vented into the atmosphere. The pathway will provide much better options for management of human, animal, food and other organic wastes. This pathway, and this is very important, it can reduce surface and groundwater pollution from agriculture waste. And that's a big problem. We do have water pollution in this country and agriculture plays a part in it. And you can certainly make the argument that if we want to make America great again, we need to make the Gulf of Mexico and Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay and the Great Lakes great again by cleaning them up. This pathway would help do that. Now finally, what would the impact be on the RFS program itself? Well without going into a lot of detail, let me just say that implementation of this pathway would increase the amount of cellulosic biofuel produced under that program. The cellulosic biofuels have the lowest greenhouse gas emissions. And if you know anything about the RFS program, you know that more cellulosic biofuel is badly needed. In closing, the obvious bad news is that the electric pathway has never been implemented and therefore never been used by a single dairy farmer, a landfill, or an electric car or bus. Apparently it simply has not been a high priority at the EPA for almost three years and counting, even though it has all of the attributes described above and more. The good news is that the electric pathway is literally a tool in Administrator Pruitt's closet. It requires no new legislation, no new regulations. It simply needs to be used and we are working hard to make sure that the Congress and Secretary Perdue and Secretary Perry and Administrator Pruitt know that this pathway is there at EPA and just begging to be used. And we believe the President and Administrator Pruitt will want to make this happen on their watch and soon. And if they do, it is certain to be something you will remember the next time you're asked about it. Thank you very much. Thanks, Jim. We're now going to turn to Leslie Cortes, who is the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships with the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves. This is an enormous issue across the world. Did you want to come up front during the breaks? You can sit. There are no more chairs. Chairs with your name on them. So thanks, Carol, and to everybody here for your attention. I'm going to talk about something that's a little bit different than the usual topic at one of these sessions and something you might not be familiar with. I'm going to talk about a problem that affects about 3 billion people every day on the planet, and that's the issue of lack of access to clean cooking. So many of you have traveled internationally. You've seen people, largely women and girls, cooking over open fires, breathing the smoke from these fires, often walking hundreds of miles a month to collect fuel for their families to cook. And this problem is something that affects most of the developing world, certainly all the countries where they cook over open fires and with solid fuel. It's a problem that has huge health impacts. About 4 million people every year die from diseases associated with breathing smoke. So diseases, you would imagine, connected with smoking or some of the same diseases that affect these women and children, pneumonia, lung cancer, heart disease, et cetera. The smoke is very toxic. There's no way to really avoid it if you're cooking over an open fire. And it's not confined, obviously, to the household. It also spreads to the ambient air pollution. It's a cause of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants as the fuel is burned and has trees are felled for fuel. And it's also an issue that affects women's livelihoods. Women aren't in school. People aren't in school because they're spending so much time collecting fuel. So that's the problem. That's why it's important because it is a cross-cutting issue. It's one that affects health, it affects gender, et cetera. But it's one, fortunately, that has the solution. And much of the solution involves renewable fuels. So I work for an organization called the Global Alliance for Clean Cooking. We have roughly 1,700 partners around the globe. Around 248 of them are based in the United States. These partners cover the gamut from research institutions to small enterprises, NGOs, large corporate partners, small developers of enterprise solutions. But they're all working around a common premise, and that's that access to clean energy is a human right. It's one that has enormous implications for the planet and one that we can do something about. So I'm going to be very brief, just talk a little bit about the Alliance and our role. We were founded in 2010, has an organization designed to address a lot of the issues surrounding the use of solid fuels but in conjunction with partners. So we don't actually do the work in the field. We support our partners. We have funding from a number of sources, foundations, individuals, governments, et cetera. And the work we do does a number of things. One promotes the use of clean fuels. And you can cook with solar, you can cook with ethanol, you can cook with clean pellets, you can cook with biogas from the waste, animal waste. All of these are cleaner fuels that can provide immediate relief to women and children in terms of how they breathe every day. So our work entails supporting enterprises, developing global standards, working to raise awareness among policymakers so that they understand how important this issue is. And in a lot of countries, because it's largely seen as a women's issue, it flies under the radar for a lot of the policymakers. So our work might entail kind of the global stage of big forums like Sustainable Energy for All or the World Health Assembly, but it also entails raising awareness about the importance of clean renewable fuels at the policy level or at the national level. One of the things we're most excited about is that we do work with a number of U.S. partners. So like I said, we have about 248 partners. That number continues to grow. And certainly many of those partners work with our international partners as well. But just to give you a sense of how these partners work, we've got research institutions like UC Berkeley or MIT or North Carolina State who are working to better understand the health impacts of open fire use for cooking and also the benefits of clean cooking. We have a number of organizations that are working on policy, everything from the Center for Disease Control, which is working with national governments to address this issue at the international level, to NREL in Colorado, which is working with us on tariff and tax structure to the big U.N. agencies based in New York. We have a lot of enterprises that are working to share American ingenuity with their counterparts in other countries, companies like Burn Design based in Washington State, which is working throughout Kenya, Africa, and India, Envirofit, which is based in Colorado, which is working on stoves addressing a number of different fuels, and then closer to Home Project Gaia, which is working with companies like Nova Zimes on ethanol fueled stoves. There are many U.S. partners that are also working on investment in clean cooking enterprises, so Acumen, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank of the Americas, et cetera, that are working to finance clean cooking solutions. And then finally, a number of companies are supporting clean cooking pilots in areas that they work in other countries. So for instance, Cummins, which is based in Indiana, is doing a number of pilot projects in India to share clean cooking technology as part of their smart cities program. Levi Strauss is providing clean cook stoves to their workers in Haiti as part of their health and wellness package that includes clean water kits, et cetera, but looks at cleaner biomass as an option for reducing health impacts. So in a nutshell, this is an issue we're happy to share more about. We have a booth down in the expo. It's something that we think really touches on a lot of the people in this room, even if it's not something that affects you in your daily lives, but it's certainly something that affects three billion people around the world. Thanks. Like I said, a terribly important problem. There are solutions, and that's what we all need to be about. So we're now going to hear from Ann Stuckel, who is the Vice President for Federal Affairs with the National Biodiesel Board. Well, thanks, Carol. Good afternoon, everyone.  It's the last panel session, but we have a lot of good content that I think everybody's going to be providing. So thanks for sticking with us to the bitter end. So as Carol said, I am Ann Stuckel with the National Biodiesel Board, and the National Biodiesel Board is the trade association that represents biodiesel and renewable diesel. Biodiesel and renewable diesel are the alternatives to diesel. They can be made from a variety of feedstocks, such as recycled restaurant grease, used cooking oil, animal fats, soybean oil, canola oil, and a variety of other feedstocks that we're working on right now through different technology processes. Jim talked a little bit about the renewable fuel standard. The renewable fuel standard is an incredibly important program for renewable fuels, such as biodiesel. It really allows our industries the opportunity to be able to grow and diversify. Obviously, we're competing against the diesel industry, which is the petroleum industry, certainly a highly entrenched industry, as we all know. So the renewable fuel standard really does offer these newer energy technologies the opportunity to be blended into the transportation supply system. So part of what we do at the National Biodiesel Board here in D.C. is really work on federal policy efforts, and again, the renewable fuel standard being pretty much our largest priority in terms of what we're working on right now. EPA goes through a yearly rulemaking process, during which time they set the standards for how much renewable fuels are going to be used in the transportation supply system. As you may have heard last week, a proposal was put out by EPA on our numbers. Unfortunately, they weren't the volumes that we were hoping for. The biomass-based diesel program was essentially flatlined, which for our industry is incredibly problematic as we want to be able to continue to grow and diversify the diesel market. We are an advanced biofuel, which means we reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% compared to regular petroleum. So we are also considered part of the advanced fuel, and the advanced biofuel program. So we fill most of the advanced program, obviously, as well as the biodiesel program. Most of advanced, when Congress originally put the statute in, was supposed to have a lot of growth in the cellulacic ethanol industry. Unfortunately, we really haven't seen the growth that I think folks in Congress had talked about initially, and so we've seen those volumes continue to be lowered over the last couple of years. What we're going to do as an industry is really talk about the benefits of our industry and the importance to really continue diversifying. I think when people talk about renewable fuels or the RFS, they think about ethanol, and it being the ethanol program. But when Congress wrote the statute back in 2007, the intent was really at this point in time to diversify off of the traditional conventional corn-based ethanol and move more into these advanced industries. And there's a lot of different technologies that are out there. So we're really going to focus on working with EPA to get those volumes up, so different renewable industries like ours will be able to continue to grow and diversify. We have plants in just about every state across the country, and so for us, this has been a really important jobs issue. We support over 50,000 jobs domestically, and so it's important that we have our numbers grow within the RFS so we can continue to grow and support jobs locally. Many of our jobs are in rural communities, but we also have a lot of jobs in urban areas as well, because we aren't just a corn-based ethanol fuel. We are running off recycled restaurant grease and animal fats. You see a lot of diversification into areas such as New York State. New York City actually has a city-wide mandate to use 2 percent, and they just increased it to 5 percent of a bioheat. And bioheat is a really cool new thing that's going on. For those of you that are from the Northeast or that now live in D.C., there's a lot of home heating oil that we use in this area and more in New York and Pennsylvania to heat homes. I'm from Illinois. We don't really have a lot of it there, but in the Northeast, this is a really growing part of our market, and what we do is we take biodiesel and we blend that into the home heating oil to be used in generators and things like that, and it really cleans the air because, again, it is an advanced biofuel which reduces greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 percent. So we think we have a lot of exciting, innovative things going on, so we're going to continue to work and continue to grow the renewable fuel standard and figure out how it works best for our industry. The other issue that our industry works very hard on is the biodiesel tax incentive. It's a tax incentive that is a dollar gallon that allows when blended to whoever blends the fuel to receive the dollar gallon. And so this really makes it a lot more cost competitive when compared to regular petroleum diesel. Unfortunately, that tax credit did expire, as most tax credits did expire last year that had typically been in an extenders package, and so as Congress kind of weaves its way around and maybe do tax reform or may go back to tax extenders, we're going to be working with our supporters on Capitol Hill to ensure that our tax package, that any kind of tax package, does include a biodiesel tax credit. An important part of that reform of the tax credit is moving it to a production tax credit. And this would ensure that only fuel that is produced domestically receives access to that dollar a gallon. What we're seeing right now is a lot of fuel come in from other countries such as Argentina and Indonesia, which then receives our dollar a gallon tax incentive. So this fuel is subsidized in its own home markets, and then it comes in and dumps and dumps and subsidized prices, and then displaces our domestic production. And so it's essential as Congress thinks about tax reform, how they can really look comprehensively at these tax incentives and ensure that the tax credits and that our tax dollars actually go to incentivized production here at home. We're about a three billion gallon industry, and last year a billion of that was from imports. So for our industry it is an issue of great concern and something that we're going to continue to monitor and keep our eyes on. I promise Carol I'd keep to my limited time frame, so I will end with that, but happy to take questions if anybody has any at the end. Thank you. And I think one of the things that is so important is that with regard to thinking about the renewable fuel standard is that there are so many different sources in feedstocks that are starting to really come in now with regard to that standard. And so it really provides an opportunity for greater diversification on the fuel side. So hope you will keep that in mind and ask our speakers questions about that later if you have them. And so I now want to turn to Arlen Peters who is the head of sustainability for North America for Nova Zimes. And this is a company that again provides all sorts of applications in terms of their industrial processes and the work that they're doing with enzymes that enable all sorts of other things on materials and fuels to happen. Thank you. So thank you Carol. You actually gave my speech, that's pretty much it. But really I don't know, how many folks here have heard of enzymes before and heard of Nova Zimes? Just kind of get it. Wow. Okay. So that's probably like twice as many as the general population. When I say have you heard of enzymes, have you heard of Nova Zimes? Maybe like one out of a hundred will have heard of who we are. But enzymes actually are in almost every product that touches your lies. So if you've worn some stonewashed jeans like my friend over here, enzymes were used in making that product. If you've had a loaf of bread, probably about 95% of loaf bread uses enzymes as a way of extending shelf life and thus reducing food waste. If you've driven on a gallon of gasoline, enzymes have been used and are used to make the ethanol that goes into a portion of your gasoline. So that type of catalytic ability is in a lot of areas in our lives. Nova Zimes is headquartered in the United States in North Carolina. We have a pretty large manufacturing facility down there, have all of our business units in that area. And basically what we do is we find biological answers to solve the world's problems. That primarily comes in the form of enzymes, as I mentioned before. But we also get into microorganisms, which is the use of the whole organism to find some kind of beneficial impact. Primarily use as use in agricultural products. I'm head of sustainability and I'm very happy to let you know that sustainability is a big part of our company. That's reflected in our goals, so we try very hard to reduce the environmental impacts of our own company with specific focus on water use and energy use. So by 2020, we aim to reduce or improve our energy efficiency by 25% and also improve our water efficiency by 25%. We also think that our products have a lot to do with meeting global reductions of CO2. And so we have a pretty ambitious target of reducing 100 million tons of CO2 with the use of our products. So that kind of brings me to this next report, which I would like to highlight. If you came to our booth last year, we talked about sort of this wide variety of applications and we talked about, okay, what are the CO2 reduction possibilities for each of those applications? But this year, what we are trying to do is basically look at what happens when you apply an integrated approach using various biotechnology solutions in agriculture. And we call it the one-acre study. And so our basic premise here is if you look at an acre of land and look at sort of the conventional way that we are using that land and what we're getting out of it, and then you take a variety of biotechnology solutions and apply it to that, what can you expect to gain? And I think the result is pretty significant, and you can see it in this sort of summary right here. A bunch of these at our desk, the table, is it table 20 over here in four-year, the four-year out there. But we started off with the idea that that acre of land would be producing corn, average about 152 bushels of corn per acre. And most of that corn, all that corn would be going towards providing feed for chickens, chicken production. It's a very efficient use of animal feed. And if we look at inoculant technology, which is, as I mentioned before, the use of micro organisms to enhance yields, we can get about a 2% increase in yields from that land. And then you take the additions, basically what you're producing in addition to that or in addition to what's already been produced there. And you use that to make a variety of things. You can use that to make starch-based ethanol, so ethanol from corn. You can use enzyme technology to also make cellulosic ethanol. So taking the corn stover from that land, about 30% of that corn stover, and using that to produce cellulosic ethanol. You can take enzymes, and I have a friend of mine here in the poultry business, and use that to improve the digestibility of animal feed. So chickens are able to get more nutrients out of the feed that they're consuming. What that does is make that one acre of land much, much more productive. And because you're using fuels that offset gasoline, one of those fuels is biodiesel. You can also get some biodiesel out of that. You're able to save a lot of greenhouse gases. So we calculate, I won't go to all the details, but we calculate that you get about one metric ton of greenhouse gases saved per acre by using a variety of these biological solutions. When you expand that and think about, okay, what if you scale this up to the rest of the country? So not just one acre. We calculate that you could get about 87 million metric tons of CO2 savings, which is about 18 million cars off the road for one year. So not an insignificant amount of beneficial environmental impact. So basically what we're interested in is how do you think about biological solutions not just isolated, but the synergies of these biological solutions? And what can you do with that? So looking forward to the questions afterwards. And also if you have more questions, feel free to come and see us at our booth down there in the foyer. Thank you. Thank you. And now we are going to turn to David Bederman, who is Executive Director of SWANA, which stands for the Solid Waste Association of North America. Thank you, Kara. So since Arlen did a survey about enzymes, I have to do this. How many of you have heard of SWANA? Okay, we got three. That's great. Two of them work for me. So SWANA is the Solid Waste Association of North America. We have about 9,000 members in the United States and Canada. We're the largest waste-related association in the world. And our members include people in all 50 states. It includes people who work for big companies that you've heard of, like Waste Management, local governments like the District Plummies Department of Public Works, and thousands of communities in between. And our strategic plan at SWANA, and it relates to this exposition, it states that the association's purpose is to advance the responsible management of solid waste. See, solid waste is actually a resource. Yeah, we throw it away, but our industry is trying to extract value from it. So we recycle a third, or more than a third, 34.5% of what Americans generate. And a lot of the things that we don't recycle become feedstock for energy. And there's two places where that happens. It happens in landfills, and it happens at energy for waste facilities, which some people refer to as incinerators. And I'll talk about those in a minute or two. Now, the waste that we generate here in the District of Columbia, or we generate where I live in Fairfax County, or some of you probably live in Montgomery County. Those materials all go to energy from waste facilities. Waste is a feedstock for electricity, and the industry is very interested in extracting as much value from that, both because it's the right thing to do, and because there's an economic benefit in doing so. The waste sector is remarkably innovative and progressive. More than half of the new trucks placed into service in the waste industry in 2016 are not fueled by diesel, they're fueled by alternative fuels, mostly natural gas. Now, a few months ago, I had the privilege of speaking at a renewable energy conference down in Cuba, and I'm glad that I went when I did, because apparently it's gonna be tougher to go to Cuba moving forward. That's the extent of my political statements, by the way, I hope. But at the conference, which was attended by people throughout the Caribbean, they were surprised to hear that renewable energy could be derived from waste, and that it's an important portion of the renewable energy portfolio here in the United States. It's often overlooked, like people know about solar and wind and hydro, those are the sexier renewable energies. But there are days when the wind doesn't blow, and there are days when the sun doesn't shine. And what do we always generate in the United States every single day? Trash. We always generate trash, a lot of it, 260 million tons of it every year. And despite our best efforts as a society, the amount of waste that we generate goes up every year, partially because of population growth. So coming up with ways to extract energy from that waste, from that feedstock, is vitally, vitally important. And in recent years, we've seen an increased interest in a new line of business relating to the waste sector where energy is extracted. Some of the previous speakers referred to biodigesters or digesters in agricultural settings, there's an increased interest in diverting food waste separately from the regular municipal solid waste because that has a high energy value. And on the west coast and on big cities in the northeast, we're starting to see some of those projects come into fruition. So some numbers for you, there are about 650 landfills in the United States that generate renewable energy. That's according to the US EPA's ELMOP data. ELMOP stands for Landfill Methane Outreach Program. There's about 77 energy from waste facilities. If you've ever driven up I-95 past Baltimore and you've seen that big smoke stack on the left side of the road right before the Inner Harbor, that's Baltimore's Waste to Energy Facility. Most of the waste for energy from waste facilities in the United States are located either in the northeast, Florida or the upper Midwest. The reason for that is in the northeast, land is expensive and it's difficult to site landfills. In Florida, it's because the water table is very high, so it's difficult to build landfills. I see somebody in the back nodding. And in the upper Midwest, they have always had a very progressive ethos about not going to landfill as their predominant method of waste disposal. Some numbers about the benefits of these processes. Just from the landfills, just from the 650 landfills that generate energy, they generate the equivalent of the energy that fuel 4 million houses. It's the equivalent of the CO2 emissions from 4 billion, that's with a B, 4 billion gallons of gasoline. It's the equivalent of carbon sequestration of 37 million acres of forest. In the energy from waste sector, the energy from waste sector, where about 12% of America's waste is disposed of, it generates 14 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. That's a lot of electricity, guys. And just one company in the sector, Covanta, which I assume some of you have heard of, it's the largest in the space. They produce just by themselves 1 million homes worth of electricity. And we're even starting to see some of the gas from landfills start to be made into fuel stock and used in the transportation as a transportation fuel for the garbage trucks. So a garbage truck goes to a landfill in California, tips its load, and then fuels up from fuel generated from garbage disposed there years ago, closing the loop completely in our sector. There are three principal obstacles to increasing the amount of waste-based renewable energy. The first one is economic. It's the low price of energy. We thrive in a world of $100 a barrel fuel. At $50 a barrel, it's more difficult to compete. And we've seen a flattening out of new projects coming online. Secondly, and it was referenced earlier, the tax treatment of both capital investment and the energy generated through alternative fuels is now, there's some uncertainty about that. That's been to our detriment as alternative fuels get caught up in the tax reform situation. And then thirdly, there's rampant opposition to waste facilities. Nobody wants to live next to anything related to the waste sector. You've heard of NIMBY, right? But how many of you have heard of banana? Banana is, build absolutely nothing anywhere near anybody. That's what we face in our sector. We could be making gold in our facilities. But trucks have to bring that stuff in, and then the truck leaves. And it's the emissions from the trucks that cause problems. So those are the three principal obstacles that we face. But the industry is very progressive and innovative using data and technology to derive more value out of both the energy as well as operate more efficiently. And I know many of you are fascinated by this and want to learn more about it. We have our big national conference coming up in September in Baltimore, right up the road. You can drive right past the incinerator there. We'd love to continue the conversation with any of you and of course answer any questions that you may have. Thank you very much. And like I said earlier, if we use things in a responsible, sustainable way, there is no such thing as waste. It is a resource. I'm always reminded by the country of Denmark, which has no landfills, because they make a point in terms of all of their different kinds of policies and their hierarchy of policies to make sure that they basically make use of everything. So whether it's landfills, whether it is food processing, looking at just food waste coming out of grocery stores or whatever, or looking at wastewater treatment plants, there are all sorts of sources where we've got the ability to make use of these resources for energy that create new revenue streams too. So anyway, we'll now move to our final speaker for this panel and hopefully we'll have a little bit of time for Q&A. And our final speaker is Claude Convisser. Convisser. Convisser, okay. Who is the CEO and General Counsel for Plant Oil Powered Diesel or Pop Diesel. Claude. Thank you, Carol. And thank you all for being here at the end of the afternoon. I'd also like to thank our host, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucuses, the Sustainable Energy Coalition and the Environment and Energy Study Institute. Now it's my turn to ask the same question. How many of you have ever heard of the Jatropha tree or Jatropha plant oil? All right. A couple. That's fantastic. All right. Well, pure Jatropha plant oil coming from the fruit seeds of the tropical Jatropha tree, inedible fruit seeds, performs better in a diesel engine running at 100% concentration in a Pop Diesel inexpensively equipped engine, performs better than petroleum diesel fuel, will cost 50 cents a gallon less and is the only 100% renewable solution for engines in the heavy-duty sector of the economy. Trucks, locomotives, ships and other heavy equipment. Because electric motors mounted on a mobile platform don't generate enough torque to move a heavy-duty load. In my remarks on this panel last year, which are posted to the homepage of Pop Diesel's website, I explained why and how Jatropha plant oil coming from trees grown in West Africa alone is capable, in theory, of replacing all of the petroleum diesel consumed in the United States, about 22% of worldwide supply if it's running in Pop Diesel equipped engines. With those advantages, you would think that policies and regulations would welcome this fuel and engine equipment to the U.S. market, but they don't. They block it. And the primary culprit is the tailpipe rule, which is the way by which fuel economy, cafe standards for cars and trucks, and also greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty and light-duty truck and car engines are measured by looking only at tailpipe carbon dioxide.  On the greenhouse gas side, I think folks generally understand that when you're looking at the global warming impact or the mitigation value of an energy source or a fuel, you need to look at the life cycle. So a pure plant-based fuel is getting the hydrocarbon that this is, plant hydrocarbon oil. The carbon is coming from the plants extracting the carbon from the atmosphere. So the life cycle, although it's producing carbon out the tailpipe, the life cycle impact is very low. Petroleum, of course, is taking fossilized carbon that's been in the earth for hundreds of millions of years, combusting it and releasing that to the atmosphere. But because the tailpipe rule causes the federal regulatory agencies to look only at tailpipe carbon emissions, that benefits petroleum, because petroleum produces lower tailpipe carbon emissions than plant oil fuel does. So we are barred, essentially, from ever getting EPA certification on new engines because we can never satisfy the... we can never meet the tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions that petroleum can, because it makes lower tailpipe carbon dioxide, even though our fuel has much lower overall greenhouse gas emissions and, in fact, the lowest of any source for heavy-duty engines, so half as low as biodiesels. The other blockage that we face, principally, is at the renewable fuel standard, which you've heard about some this morning, blocks, Jatropha plant oil from being imported from Africa and Asia. And I won't go into the reasons for that during this time. But because of these blockages that are fuel phases, which are essentially put in place to favor petroleum and fuels that blend in subordination with petroleum and keep out 100% renewable alternative for diesel engines, excuse me, we've had to think outside of the box. And speaking of which, I don't know if any of you saw this op-ed piece, June 20th in the Washington Post, by George Shultz and Larry Summers, saying that a carbon tax is the inevitable solution for climate change. So given that, these luminaries say that Congress is eventually going to have to focus on a carbon tax. I'd like to offer a few pointers on a proposal that Pop Diesel has developed for an America-first comprehensive worldwide fossil fuel tax. First thing that we recommend happen is that the petroleum fuel market needs to be opened up to 100% alternatives like pure plant oil. And I might add that Volvo Trucks agrees with Pop Diesel that the CAFE standards and the fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and trucks disincentivize them as an engine manufacturer from developing new engines to run on lower carbon alternatives to petroleum. So in place of the CAFE standards, Congress, if it would like to encourage Detroit to make better engines, can adopt engine efficiency standards where engine efficiency is the measure of energy in terms of BTUs or calories going into an engine regardless of the fuel per unit of work performed. And that would be a way to get better engines produced from Detroit that would not have the deleterious effects that I've described. The second thing that we would recommend for a carbon tax proposal in order to make it work is once the carbon tax is there leveling the playing field, there's no further need for these credits and subsidies that right now support fossil fuels as well as renewable energy sources, the renewable fuel standard credits, solar and hydro power, wind power, those credits are no longer needed and each of those has a distorting effect and we're sort of the poster child for a product and a company that hasn't received the blessing of Congress or EPA to get any of these credits and it's distorting the market. So the third topic is that since Congress is only going to look at a carbon tax once, you might as well make the remedy as broad as possible. There are certain industrial processes such as the calcining of lime that produce carbon dioxide emissions regardless of fossil fuel combustion. That should be taxed. The agriculture sector contributes 12% of overall US greenhouse gas emissions for man-made sources. So tax each head of cattle for the methane that cows burp which is actually believe it or not a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Also there could be a tax credit to encourage farmers to purchase no-till farm plows and other no-till equipment. Fourth step is we get to the worldwide portion of the America first comprehensive worldwide fossil fuel tax. Congress in addition to imposing a tax on the extraction of domestic fossil fuels and on their import to the United States can require every other country in the world to reciprocate by adopting the same kind of tax. Global warming is a global problem. It requires a worldwide solution. The US can do this. We have the influence to cause other countries to do this. There's a couple of examples. Under human rights law, the Secretary of State audit or verifies other countries' human rights performance if a country is failing, the president is authorized to impose sanctions. Similarly the US essentially requires other countries to adopt transparent banking practices and if they don't go along with that their banks can be excluded from international banking transactions. There's no person better than Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil to take a look at the Russian and Saudi state dominated petroleum companies books and determine whether they are paying their due tax that Congress would have imposed on the US fossil fuel sector, whether those companies are paying their tax to their domestic governments and if they're not then the US can impose duties on the import of their products and similarly we would require other countries participating in this regime to impose duties of their own on these countries' products based on the audit that the US Secretary of State can do. Now we get to the America first portion of this. If Congress goes along with this program of having a worldwide tax that the US would essentially foist upon other countries in the world and the Canadians adopted a reciprocal fossil fuel tax of their own, Canadian petroleum would be taxed domestically in Canada and on import to the United States for that petroleum from Canada that came into the US. So Canadian petroleum sold in the US would have twice the tax burden of domestically, US domestically produced petroleum. So that's going to advantage and favor American fossil fuel production and consumption of our own fossil fuel resources here in the US. The carbon tax proposals that I've seen put forth by people like Senator Bernie Sanders, the R Street Institute, the Climate Leadership Council led by George Schultz and Jim Baker all are just simply a domestic fossil fuel tax and they would require a federal bureaucracy either the Treasury or the EPA to have conduct a very mammoth rulemaking to determine the carbon and energy intensive content of products that are traded in commerce. American manufacturers who are exporting those products would be reimbursed a portion of the tax and then importers from other countries who are bringing high intensity energy or carbon products to the US would be taxed upon those products entry to the US. There's three problems with that scheme. First is it would be a very difficult rulemaking for a federal bureaucracy to undertake. Secondly, administratively, it's very difficult to manage. How do you reimburse all these taxes and tax additional products that are crossing the border all the time? And third, it places American businesses in the middle of enforcing this kind of a carbon tax. Why? Because if an American manufacturer feels disadvantaged that they are paying too much of the tax or if they see a competitor from another country who's importing a product to the US that is not being taxed enough it's up to the American business to petition the American Government Agency be a Treasury EPA who had adopted this rule and seek an adjustment in the tax that way. And third, if Congress adopts what I've proposed is the reciprocal tax requiring other countries to adopt a reciprocal tax it's then up to the foreign countries and the foreign companies to challenge this regime in the World Trade Organization and American businesses are taken out of it. This whole scheme should be compliant with the World Trade Organization if the US is imposing a tax not only on import of fossil fuels but also on domestic extraction. So one of the things here to wrap this up is that if Congress moves forward to adopt a reciprocal tax system like this requiring other countries to adopt the same tax package as us and enforcing it then we will see fossil fuel producing countries start to reduce their tax burden in anticipation of imposition of a later tax that would be required or encouraged by Congress's action we already saw that actually possibly because in March of this year whether true or not there were rumors circulating that the White House was going to propose a carbon tax as part of tax reform and the Saudis went ahead all of a sudden and reduced their domestic tax on Saudi Aramco Oil by 80%. So what you'd have to do to counter that would be to have the audit date by which the Secretary of State would be looking at other countries and whether they were imposing a domestic tax would have to be retroactive to say January 1st of this year so that would mean that the Saudis would have to essentially reimpose their 80% tax plus the additional increment that Congress would be imposing on domestic fossil fuel producers and I'm sorry for Saudi Arabian friends but that's the only way to treat American fossil fuel producers fairly. Coal is treated disproportionately with any carbon tax that is assessed according to the carbon content of the fuel. At today's market prices the tax on coal would be 10 times what it would be on petroleum so it would be necessary to phase in the carbon tax on coal and also out of any revenue neutral fossil fuel tax system that's adopted why not take a portion of the revenues and devote them to hard hit coal areas in West Virginia and Wyoming and help President Trump to meet one of his campaign pledges to support those areas. The last thing I'll say and thank you very much for listening to me rattle on about this is that it doesn't really matter what quantity of tax is imposed whether it's $10 a metric ton or $100 a metric ton provided the tax is increasing over time that's what creates the proper incentive. The key is really to get this started as soon as possible because we are sort of running out of time. Thank you so much. We are running out of time. So anyway, if anybody has any questions we could take maybe two questions really quickly. Okay, those two questions so we'll start Barbara first and then you, okay. A conversation worth having. Do you guys want to just very quickly do like a lightning respond? Do you want to start? Sure, yeah. I think there's definitely some validity and some validity is very important in our industry and I think that's one of the things that I think is really important and I think that's one of the things that I think is really important and one of the things that we certainly think our industry and so having continue that. I would concur. I think Nova Zimes has been a part of this conversation for quite a while when you all were sort of putting together the standards to begin with and I think that that is one of the messages that needs to get out there is that these fuel sources are sustainable and we should ensure that they are. I would think the waste sector would be supportive of participating in some sort of externally facing activity that reflects the fact that not just our sector but my partners or co-panelists view sustainability as something that's a goal but we have to be mindful of the fact that we can't be setting unreasonable goals as we move forward in that area. I don't speak for any particular industry but certainly the agricultural industry has different organizations I know that have sustainability standards such as the Dairy Council and groups like that so that's all really I have to say about that. Our role is a bit different but the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves has been working with ISO the International Standardization Organization and ANSI to develop consensus global standards for cook stoves and define what truly is clean and allow for better understanding by consumers and investors etc has to what constitutes clean in terms of emissions and efficiency. If the renewable fuel standard is replaced by a fossil fuel tax then there will be a need for some mechanism to make sure that folks aren't going around and clear cutting rainforest in order to plant other kinds of trees. Your question. In order for the business to continue to gain profits off the incremental release of those kinds of consoles you draw it out so I was wondering for the gentleman from Nova Zimes have you seen a situation where you're in a lab and you have certain ingredients in the soil that makes food grow really really fast like tomatoes, corn things that families in DC could plant in their small yards that they have to try to offset the rising costs of food as a lot of people are having a hard time making ends meet have you seen anything like that like super food growth that's healthy and sustainable that we could implement right away? I don't know about super food growth but I think that's one of the challenges with the agriculture industry today is that we've gotten some diminishing returns with a lot of the technologies that are out there and so what we're trying to do is find new ways of increasing yields that haven't been developed before and the whole basis of this I talked about microorganisms and inoculant technology that is a very very new area that a lot of companies are looking into and we don't really know what the potential is out there in fact we don't really know we don't really understand the microbiome around us it's one of these sort of uncharted territories just now there's this whole human microbiome project that is looking at what different types of organisms are living on your body and how do those relate to your health well that's the human body but if you think about a teaspoon of soil they're literally like thousands and thousands and thousands of microbes in that teaspoon of soil and we've never looked into what they actually do so the hope is that by understanding that better we will come to technologies that can provide this super yield that you're talking about and obviously there is so much that still needs to be learned needs to be studied needs to be applied at the same time there are all sorts of technologies that are available that can make a huge difference now which we've been hearing about all day so I hope that this whole day and the exhibitors have all been helpful to you please feel free to follow up with any of them or with us at EESI and thank you all very much for being here and at the end of the day and thank you to our presenters


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Hello and welcome to another special October edition of Fright Fleeve Forgotten's Trash or Treasure! Before we get started, what are we drinking? The Demeter's Fate Russian Imperial Stout. Ooh, 8%? Yeah. You feeling this later? Last year, we tackled Halloween 5 for Season 5. So for Season 6, we'll continue tradition and tackle Halloween 6 and give it the Trash or Treasure treatment. Halloween 6, The Curse of Michael Myers, is directed by Joe Chappelle. No relation to Dave Chappelle. No, sadly.  Yeah, I think it would. This movie stars the man himself, Donald Pleasance, right? We don't need to go into what he's done. Paul Rudd is in this. We also don't need to go into what he's done. He's a big actor. This was one of his breakout roles. Mitchell Ryan is in this. He played Riker's Dad in The Next Generation. Ambu Jitsu. They're playing Ambu Jitsu. And he's in Lethal Weapon. So Halloween 6 starts off six years later after the events of Halloween 5.  And Tommy Doyle is narrating, saying it's been six years since the disappearance of Michael Myers and Jamie Lloyd after that fateful night of massacre at police station. We see this girl who is Jamie Lloyd giving birth to this baby and these weird druids are like delivering the baby that man in black from the end of part five who broke Michael out of jail. He takes the baby away. There's this midwife who kind of sympathizes with Jamie's cause here. She steals the baby back, gives it to Jamie and shows her way to escape. Michael Myers is there, he's following her and she gets into a truck and drives off. Michael gets in another truck and starts trailing her. He can drive. Yeah, as we saw in the first movie and the fifth movie, he can drive. We're reintroduced to Dr. Loomis. He's enjoying his retirement, listening to the radio and they're talking about the events of Halloween. Whatever happened to that, that old Loomis guy? Is he dead? Is he dead? We're not dead. He's very much retired.  Speaking of death's door, he gets a knock at the door and it's his old buddy from Smith's Grove, Dr. Wynn. Cheers to your retirement, Sam. By the way, would you like to come back and work at Smith's Grove?  They hear the radio, this call-in show. Girl calls in asking for help, begging for help saying Michael Myers is chasing me. I need your help, Dr. Loomis. If you're out there, I need you. It's Jamie. She's reached a phone at this bus station. Michael catches up to her at like this barn.  Just before she dies, she tells him, you can't have the baby, Michael. Get out of the baby, Michael. He goes to get the baby out of the truck and it's just this roll of towels. We then get introduced to a grown-up Tommy Doyle from the first movie. Tommy Doyle was the boy that Laurie strobes babysitting way back in 1978. He's a grown man now living in this boarding house. Yeah, like doesn't he have a job or anything? He's a bit of a recluse and a bit of a weirdo. He's like the town weirdo now. Become like a Michael Myers fanatic. We also get introduced to the new Strode family in town, right? They've moved into the old Myers house because we learned that the Strode's, they couldn't sell the house, so he just moved his asshole brother into the house. And this family is very dysfunctional right off the bat.  He's all chopping down that sign on the line.  He's all wearing that robe that's way too short. It's all like his wife's robe. It's super tight.  He couldn't just pull the sign out of the ground. He didn't need to take his hatchet to it. The dad is not happy that the daughter had to move back in, right? With the kid.   And he sees the mom slip her all this money. He's like, God, yeah, it's real good, Deborah.  Throwing all that money at her.  He slaps her. There's a knife at his belly, right? And it's the little boy, Danny. Danny is seeing visions of this man in black, right? He's hearing voices. Tommy was listening in on this whole radio segment. And he deduces from what he heard that she was at this certain bus people, right? He goes to the bus station and he ends up finding the baby. He takes the baby and he goes and he actually runs into Dr. Loomis at the hospital. Tommy Doyle. Yeah. Actually, Loomis has turned completely around. Yeah, he's like, oh, Dr. Loomis. Well, you didn't even see his face? Yeah. How do you know it? It could just be some useless old man. He tells Dr. Loomis that he's got a theory about Michael Myers. Meet up with me later. Loomis goes to the Strode house. He wants to warn the current family that Michael is going to come back here. Gives the mother this wicked speech. This rage that's inside of him. Classic Loomis speech. Exactly. The mom actually phones the dad and he's all at work and everything's dressed out.   He's letting strangers into our house.  He all pulls the bottle out and starts drinking. She goes to leave. Who gets into the house? Michael Myers, right? She starts getting into these sheets and everything that she hung up.  The same hatchet that the dad is using to cut down that sign. And just whacks her. The dad comes home and he's all pissed and drunk. He's got the shirts all untucked. The lights go out. So he goes downstairs and the washing machine is on. The power's out. So how is the machine off? Yeah, it's kind of strange.  Michael Myers is there and Michael stabs him and then rams him into like the circuit box. He starts getting electrocuted and the basement's all glowing and flashing. And his head explodes.  Tommy takes Cara and Danny back to his place and he tells them, well, it's not safe to be in the Myers house. Proceeds to tell her about what he thinks is going on with Michael Myers and this whole thorn theory, right? The theory about the stars aligning into the thorn symbol and etc, etc. And that's where we're going to end the plot. So if you want to see what happens with Tommy Doyle, Dr. Loomis, Cara, Danny, and this thorn theory, keep watching Halloween 6. So Halloween 6, trash or treasure. Let's start with the treasure as we always do. It does really feel like a Halloween movie. And that's I think it feels like it takes place during Halloween, during fall time. It looks like a Halloween movie. You know, lots of leaves, pumpkins. It's got a really good atmosphere to it. A good vibe, a Halloween vibe. You got a lot of the sets too that they use, right? They're lit really nice. And there's a lot of fog and mist like in the beginning when James getting chased. Looks really cool. Yeah, it is a good looking movie for sure. That scene where that one guy gets his neck all broken. Like it's like foggy and it's dark. It feels like a cold Halloween night, you know? And that's exactly how it should feel. And it does feel like it takes place in the same universe as all the other Halloween movies. There's a lot of good callbacks to the first movie, Strobe Realty. Like in the first movie. And they tie that in like they're still trying to sell the house. Yeah, yeah. And it's the Myers house, right? Yeah, they're still trying to sell the Myers house. Mrs. Blankenship, they reference her in the first movie. You got Tommy Doyle, right? From the first movie. And a lot of the music too, right? The theme, they still keep the same theme throughout. The other melodies from the first Halloween movie are in this movie. And it really makes it feel like a real Halloween movie. The characters are great in this movie actually. And a lot of them stand out. One of the biggest standouts is the dad.    You love to hate him. Yeah, exactly. You love to hate this guy. Loomis is another, of course, fantastic character. This is his last movie too, right? And he kind of goes out on a bit of a bang in this movie, right? He's got the poignant dialogue. He's got that great speech. Yep, like he always does in all the Halloween movies. It's sad that, of course, Donald Pleasant's died. But it's also kind of neat that his last movie was a Halloween movie. Yeah. The movie really put him on the map as like this iconic character. His involvement makes it feel like a Halloween movie. Every other Halloween movie that came out after without Loomis lacks that Donald Pleasant's presence. Yeah, so much so that they're always using him in certain ways, right? They have flashbacks. Flashbacks or the dialogue. The fake Loomis talking in H2O or whatever, yeah. It's like the later movies just cannot let go of Loomis because he has such an important role to play. Dr. Wynn is also a pretty good character in this. I don't think he gets enough screen time, really. Still a good antagonist in this, right? He's kind of the bad guy. He's the man in black. Exactly. So he's actually pretty good. Danny's actually pretty good. He's a little kid, right? Normally little kids are not that great of actors. But this kid actually does a good job. Yeah, especially at the end where he's really scared, where Michael is after them. He's like, mommy! And he's like cowering. Yeah, you get pretty tense there. He's not a great actor, but he's good enough to get the job done. He doesn't wreck the movie.  Yup. The shining, made for TV version. It's good packing snow. Good packing snow!  I also think it's neat that Tommy Doyle in this is almost becoming the new Loomis. Right. Because Loomis obviously is old, not many years left. Obviously, you know, you died right after making this. But they really turn him into the new Loomis. The person who's like, yeah, Michael is evil. We got to go fight him. I'm leading the charge. It's my responsibility. That really becomes Tommy Doyle's job in this. I wish they would have pushed it more. It kind of is a passing of the torch. If H2O was a different movie, it could have been Tommy Doyle. You know, he is the new Loomis. He's the one fighting the evil. Yeah, they could have completely taken that and ran with it. Kills in this movie are actually quite good. The whole chase scene and death scene of Jamie, which is pretty damn good.  And included in that scene is where he breaks that guy's neck. Yeah. And it's great effects where you see the bone come out and everything. Yeah, it's awesome. Good kill. Hey, get away from my truck. Yeah. The way Jamie dies on that machine, like, that's pretty awesome. The mom, when she gets killed. I like how you don't see it, but you see the blood. The lead up to the kill is great. The chase through all those sheets. Again, the sheets are a hark back to the first movie. Exactly.  How can you get any better than that? That's a great death.  Near the end, when he's chasing Tommy and Cara and Danny, he uses the guy's face to open up that gate. Then Michael goes in a crazy killing spree in the hospital. Kills everybody. All the nurses and doctors in that room is crazy. Good kills and high kill count in this movie. And another piece of treasure in this is they did not disregard all the other sequels. They did their best to take that whole man in black bullshit in the thorn sign that you see on Michael's wrist in part five and try to make sense of it and try to kind of tie up those loose ends. That leads us to the trash. How they went about doing that. This whole thorn side plot. Not even side plot! That's the huge part of the movie.  It takes all the mystery and all the mystique and everything away from Michael. It also takes the burden off of Michael because all he is is just a machine to be used. Yeah just a pawn, just a puppet that they use. It's a cult that is the real bad guys and the whole thing.  Other ways you could have solved the man in black thing. Yeah. He could have been operating by himself. Just some crazy weirdo maniac who wanted to break Michael out.  Ridiculous.  Another piece of trash in this is they didn't get Danielle Harris to portray Jamie in the beginning of the movie. She wanted to do it but they didn't want to pay her good enough wage for it.    And apparently she was actually really good friends with the girl that did hire to play Jamie's. The production company was not super happy so they cut out a lot of this cult stuff. But in doing so it makes the movie have so many plot holes and so many loose ends that never really get tied up. For example if you watch the theatrical cut you have no clue it happens to win. Doctor win. Yeah he's just gone. He's just gone. Michael wipes out that whole operating room. Why?  Yeah it makes no sense. Makes no sense. Another problem I have with this movie and I have this with a lot of Halloween movies after part one is they show Michael too much. They show the mask too much. Like he should be the shape. Desensitizes you from Michael Myers. He's no longer scared. You seem too much. Another piece of trash for this movie is all the other music for this movie right. All the background score. It's not the Halloween music. Yeah. The score is done by Alan Howard. So you'd think that it would be good. But he kind of shits the bed on this one. It's a little too contemporary with all the guitars. Yeah.   Like you don't need electric guitar in a Halloween movie.  That goes nowhere. Like why is he there? He's just a body. He's all strung up in those trees. That's actually a cool part of it. Look mommy it's raining. So that brings us to the producer's cut. You didn't think we were going to mention it, but we got to talk about the producer's cut.  And even eludes that Michael is the father of the baby. So like he raped his own 15 year old niece? Like what? No, that's not Halloween.  That's just sick. And what does that do to the character? What it's doing? It's not raping Jamie Lloyd. It's raping the Halloween. What it's doing? It's going against everything the Halloween stands for. Mystique and mystery and ending. Like in the producer's cut the way they defeat Michael Myers. He all throws those rune things on the ground and all that. He just stops? Like what?   All the things Michael Myers has been through. Been stabbed and the iron blown up and burned how many times. And then these rocks just stop him. I like the way that they ended it in the theatrical cut with Loomis, right? He goes back in here. No. So you kind of assume that Michael killed him. In this he sees that thorn symbol on his wrist. Yeah. And then that's why he's all no.  What kind of ending is that? So the producer's cut I really dislike because it really pushes all that way too far. The theatrical cut is more of trying to be a traditional Halloween movie. So is it trash or treasure? It's treasure.  Now that we're reviewing movies more and being a lot more stringent, I actually enjoyed the movie more this time around. Because I started to really look at it with a critical eye and going, you know what, I maybe thought that that was garbage before, but I like it. Yeah, I think it's treasure too. The theatrical cut is treasure.  It had to clean up the mess that Halloween 5 left behind. It kind of succeeded, but when it boils down to it, it's a fun movie with some good kills that continues the story. Looks like a Halloween movie. Exactly, yeah. It looks and it feels like a Halloween movie. What do you guys think? Halloween 6, trash or treasure? I'm sure a lot of you think it's trash and we're not going to argue with you. No, no. But this is our personal opinion. Until next time. Keep drinking.


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To be successful, you have to have the biggest house out of all your friends. You gotta be in love with the person that you're with. You gotta have the cutest kids, or you gotta have the biggest job, or you open the best business. Okay. No, that's not success. Today we are talking about why your definition of success is completely wrong. Keep watching. I live in Nanyo, and today we are talking about success. Look at the success. Look, I just bask in it. The definition of success, based on the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is to set a goal and achieve it. That's it. To set a goal and achieve it. Okay, so we gotta talk about why that is so important. I washed my hair last weekend. I put it in two braids. I took it out and I got curls, waves. That is success. I put on lipstick before this recording. I don't have it smudged all over my face, but if I did, I cleaned it up. That is success. I put on a clean shirt. I came and sat down. I'm right here. I turned on my camera. That is success. Okay, you have to realize how successful you are. If you're watching this video on a cell phone, look at you. You bought that phone or you're paying the bill for it, or the lease agreement. Success is everywhere. Okay, and I need you to start realizing how successful you are. So out to eat with a good friend. And I was talking to her and I was like, you know, this is happening and some of my friendships are getting kind of weird and I don't know and she was like, well, a lot of people can't handle your success. I record videos in my basement because I was fired from a job a year ago. No, no, no, no, no.  We have moved from a 900 square foot apartment to a house. That is success. We set a goal to get a house and we moved. She says, you still enjoy your spouse and talk to them. That is success. We've been working for a home for almost three years and we still enjoy talking to each other and hanging out and having fun together. Okay, I have a successful relationship, right? And so she was just pointing out things to me. Success, success, success, success. Okay, and so what I want you to realize is that you may not be where you want to be and that's okay. Because I think we should have ambitions. We should have aspirations. We should not always be looking for the next thing but you're allowed to have goals because you have to set a goal to be successful. Success is setting in a goal and achieving it. If you start to think about, wow, look at all the successes in my life, I really think that'll change things and it'll help you out because I am still doing that. I wanted to do this. I did it. Look at all the success. I wanted to make these shirts. I made one for myself because I think lawyers are cool. Look at all the success, right? So I challenge you to spend the next couple of days looking at all your success, thinking about how successful you are. Think about every goal that you set and every time that you've met that goal because all of that is success. You have a history of being successful. So yeah, so when I thought about it like that, I really had to sit back and look at my life and I was like, the big thing that always comes to mind for me is that I failed the bar exam. I have a whole video. I will tag that here where I talk about what it, what you should do if you fail the bar exam and how I felt when I did not pass the bar exam. And that hung over me for a really long time but I wanted to go to law school and I applied and got in. I met that goal that was a success. I did it in my three years. I graduated like success, success, success. Cause we really just have to change the way that we talk to ourself and about ourself. You are successful. You can do anything that you decide to do, right?  So I challenge you to do, to set another goal and go meet it but really think about how it feels to meet that goal.    You're swimming in success, okay? Look at all the success, okay? Look at all the success, okay? So if you're enjoying this video, consider subscribing to the channel. I talk about books all the time. I talk about life. I talk about success today. So thanks for watching. I appreciate you spending some time with me.


Welcome traders to another Tick-Mail earnings report preview with me, Patrick Manoli. Before we jump into today's report, it's important as always that we adhere to the risk disclaimer the material provided is for information purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice. The views, information and opinions expressed by me in this recording are solely mine and they are not indicative or representative of those held by Tick-Mail UK or Tick-Mail Europe Limited. So let's jump into today's report. We are looking at Coinbase who announced after the closing of New York today looking for an earnings per share print of 17 cents on revenue of 1.5 billion. Cryptocurrency exchange has likely going to face further headwinds as it reports this evening. The company has already warned investors during its fourth quarter earnings that it's expecting lower trading volumes and monthly transacting users given a drop in crystal asset volatility and the macroeconomic headwinds. As a result, Wall Street analysts have mostly reduced their earnings and volume estimates heading into the report. Despite the downturn in crypto activity in the first quarter by a few sudden price winds which can lead to higher volumes on increased volatility. However, the period was instead marked by a steady continuing decline with periods of rangebound markets leading to relatively muted volumes. Overall trading volumes of 322 billion in the first quarter likely down from estimates of 355 billion started the second quarter hasn't really inspired analysts either to anticipate more headwinds for Coinbase's outlook. Average daily trading volumes on Coin have averaged 2.3 billion thus far in the second quarter approximately 30% below first quarter levels. On a four quarter basis this would imply about 210 to 215 billion of volumes for the second quarter. Coinbase's non-fuggable token or NFT segment will garner some attention as investors will get to look at its early days and engagement with users. The company recently launched its beta version which has shown relatively low usage stats. Still, some remain upbeat that Coinbase's NFT segment will help make the company a one-stop shop for mainstream crypto adoption. Let's take a look at some of the statistical trading patterns around Coinbase releases. Shares have moved lower in the immediate aftermath of earnings to be out of four previous reports. On average stocks come down 2.2% in the first day of trading after the company reported earnings. Based on the previous four earnings releases, Coin is more likely to trade lower one day after earnings for an average loss of 0.4%. On average the stock has also moved lower 6.5% one week after earnings. Let's take a look at volatility and what options traders are pricing in in terms of movement around the release. They're looking for a 22.6% move on earnings. However, the stock is actually on the average a 3.8% move in recent quarters. From a flow and sentiment perspective, there has been some notable selling. 2,916 contracts of the $85 put expiring this Friday, May 13th. Options order flow sentiment in general has been a little bit more bullish. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 38% expecting earnings beats. Coin's share price has drifted down 52.8% post its last earnings announcement. Using the last 12 quarters, the days of the average drift between earnings announcements is 4.2% and that represents a negative 1.4 standard deviation move. So let's jump into the charts and see what the technical setup could tell us here in terms of near-term trading opportunities. Given the negative sentiment and flow perspective, I'm inclined to look at shorting opportunities here through any close through the $77 level.


Hello friends, and how are you all doing today? The question says find the equation of all lines having slope 0 Which are tangent to the curve y is equal to 1 upon x square minus 2x plus 3 Let us rewrite the equation of the curve once again Now here Let's first differentiate y with respect to x and on doing so we get dy by dx is equal to minus 1 into 2x minus 2 upon x square minus 2x plus 3 the whole square that is on Using the quotient rule on Simplifying it further we have 2 minus 2x upon x square minus 2x plus 3 the whole square as Our dy by dx also. We are given that the slope That is dy by dx is Equal to 0 so we have 0 is equal to 2 minus 2x upon x square minus 2x plus 3 the whole square or 2 minus 2x is equal to 0 or x is equal to 1 now when the value of x is equal to 1 the value of y is 1 upon x square That is 1 minus 2x that will be 2 plus 3 That gives us the value of y as 1 by 2 so the point of of contact is 1 comma 1 by 2 Now we need to find out the equation of line through This point that is 1 1 by 2 and having a slope as 0 we have y minus y 1 Equal to n that is slope bracket x minus x 1 Or we have 2y minus 1 upon 2 equal to 0 Or we have y is equal to 1 by 2 So the answer to the question given to us is The equation of the line is y is equal to 1 by 2 Right, so this completes the session. Hope you understood it. Have a nice day


Welcome traders to another Tick the Wave Analysis session with me Patrick and we want to review natural gas here on the weekly time frame looking at a impulsive five-wave sequence. So we have our Wave 1, 2, complete. We're now looking for a third wave to complete into the 3.618 fib extension of the 1, 2 section and that should complete in around this 650 level three-wave corrective pullback holding in and around this 5.23 level should then see prices extending in a fifth wave up into projected ascending trend line resistance and a wave 1 equality objective up towards the 750 level. As always traders, plan the trade, trade the plan and most importantly manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much


I've got some Meyer lemon, so today we're making some lemon curd. Now if you're not familiar with it, well, it's like a spread or a topping. It's very creamy and just has a wonderful mouthfeel. It's very tart and sweet at the same time. Very intense flavor. So what do you do with it? Well, you can put it on your toast or you can put it on pancakes.  You can use it in a cake, like make a nice layer of lemon filling in there. You could put it in your yogurt. I like to do that. Put it in plain yogurt with some granola for a great breakfast. So there's a lot of things you can do with it. And I think you're going to love the intensity of the flavor and it's way better than anything you'll buy in the store. I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you how to make it right after my chef joke. What has lemons and 3.14 slices? Lemon pie. We're going to start off here with our eggs. So I'm going to place two whole eggs into my large bowl here. In my small bowl here, we're going to separate our egg yolks from the egg whites. And we're just going to keep the yolks and you can save the egg whites for, you know, breakfast the next morning or any other dish you want to add them to. This is the easiest way I have found to separate eggs.  And you have no rough edges and it rarely breaks.  And don't forget, you can find the written recipe below the video in the description area. Once all the eggs are separated and in their bowl, then we will take a whisk and whisk them up good. One thing I really love about this recipe is there are so few ingredients. It's just simple. It's lemon zest. We've got lemon juice. We got eggs and we have butter. So we want to prep everything up here so we have our eggs separated. Now I'm going to do my butter and what you want to do here is just cut it into little cubes. That way it'll melt nice and easy when we add it to our mixture. Now we're going to move on to prepping up our lemons. Now hands down the best lemons you can use are Meyer lemons. If you can get your hands on some of these, do it. So before we juice the lemons you're going to want to zest them first. It's just easier to zest if they're a whole fruit. So go ahead and do that. And we're only going to zest two of these because that'll be enough. And you can always go ahead and zest all four of these and save the other two zest and then freeze them for future recipes. Now we can cut our lemons in half and juice up the rest of the lemons. You can use either a citrus press like I have here, or you can use an electric one, which I tend to use if I'm doing more than one or two lemons, as this makes quick work of this. So by using Meyer lemons, the flavor is noticeably better compared to regular lemons. They taste less acidic and have a nice, sweet, zesty flavor. If you want to find the Meyer lemons, look for them in early winter through early spring. Okay, we've got our three quarters of a cup. We're good to go. You're going to need a double boiler for this recipe, so this is what I've got. So I'm going to pour the lemon juice and the lemon zest into the double boiler and we're going to mix it with a whisk. All right, we're going to take this over to the stove and we're going to heat it up over medium heat. It must be time for Chef Chef number two. Now why do lemons and limes love to fight? Because they're bitter rivals. Now while the lemon juice is heating up, we're going to add some sugar to our eggs. So blend those eggs again and then we're going to add a little bit of sugar at a time and just keep blending it until it's all dissolved. Now once all the sugar is added, now we're going to temper the eggs and I'm going to show you how to do that. Tempering the eggs is where we add a little bit of the hot juice to the eggs so that they don't scramble. So we're doing it very gradually. You just want to drizzle that liquid in there and keep whisking constantly. Don't stop doing that. Okay, so we want to bring the temperature up slowly in the eggs and then we're going to add the mixture of the eggs back to the rest of the juice. Now because I didn't have that much juice to put into the eggs, I put almost all of it in here and then I just put it back into the double boiler. But usually you'll have a lot more liquid and so you might just add half of it. But in this case, you know, like you see here, I added almost all of it and that's okay too. So again, the reason we do this is so that the eggs don't scramble. If you just were to add those eggs right into the hot mixture, they would scramble up and you wouldn't be too happy. So here I'm showing you how slow I'm pouring this back into the pan while I whisk constantly. I'm trying to avoid any curdling as I can avoid.  You can see here that it's starting to thicken up, right? And so you're going to want to cook it for about 10 minutes so that you get the eggs nice and cooked. Now if by some chance you get some clumps or, you know, some curdling in your eggs, you can always run it through a strainer. So don't worry about that. So I ran mine through a strainer because there were little specks of things in the egg. I didn't have any curdling, but anyway, I just want to show you here that you can do that and it makes it nice and smooth and creamy. I almost forgot to add the butter so I'm going to do it now. It's still warm enough to melt it. That's all you really need. So just take your spatula and stir that in and it will melt that butter and make it nice and creamy and silky. Not to mention adding a little buttery flavor. There you have it. Some delicious, creamy and flavorful lemon curd that is 100 times better than anything you can buy in the store. And it's so easy to make. Now stay tuned for my next video. I'm going to be making a recipe using this lemon curd that is going to be pretty awesome. So stay tuned for that. In the meantime, if you love lemon, well then you got to try my creamy lemon ice cream. Click the link on the screen and it'll take you right to this recipe. I hope you enjoyed today's recipe. If you did, let me know by smashing the old like button. And next week I think we're going to make something using our lemon curd. So stay tuned for that. Alright, we'll see you back here next week for another delicious and healthy recipe.