Our keynote speaker today is Scott Glenn, the newly appointed Chief Energy Officer of the Hoye State Energy Office. I'm sure, like many of you, you're very eager to hear from him, and Governor Ige gave an excellent introduction, so I'm just going to turn it over to you, Scott, now. Can you guys see that? No? No? Well, can you see that little dot in the middle? I hope you can. You know, recently we just did a strategic training with the office, and we're focusing on what are some of the strengths that we each as individuals bring to the office. And one of the strengths that one of our dearest and longest serving members, Howard Wigg, has is context setting.  And so I thought today to honor Howard and context setting, I'd start off with a picture of planet Earth from billions of miles away. And so if you are familiar with this photo, this is the pale blue dot taken by Voyager 1, and it's about 4 billion miles from Earth. And after this picture was taken, one of the effects of it was this increasing sense of our vulnerability as humans and the isolation that we have.  The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and Voyager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species has lived here on a moat of dust suspended in a sunbeam. And that brings us to looking back over the past decade, we have this thin layer of the atmosphere that protects us, that protects our home and it's what has allowed life to live here and it's grown hotter. In the past decade we've now identified that the temperature has risen about one degree Celsius around the planet and the Paris Agreement that most of the world except the US has committed to, has committed to no more than a two degree and ideally only 1.5 degree increase. That leaves us half a degree of room to work with, period, two degrees at the most. When we look at that, when we closed out 2010, what did we see? It's Ruff Lohan identified, coastal erosion, sea level rise, heat days, and at the very end of 2010 we saw a continent on fire as we're watching the news come out of Australia and it's resistance to doing anything about it. So moving into 2020, we now have the opportunity to look ahead, to look forward. At the start of the climate decade where we must take the action that Governor Yegay, that Representative Lohan identified, how can we dramatically change the trajectory of our energy future and our greenhouse gas emissions both around the planet but also here at home. Here in Hawaii, we've taken a very bold commitment to it and Hawaii itself is its own dot in the vast ocean that connects us to the rest of the planet. And one of the gifts that Hawaiian has, the language has given to us is that we know that there's a lot of words we use that have these embedded meanings in them and as we think about them, they call on us to think more deeply such as malama where we think about how we are taught to cherish but not just to appreciate something but to feel our connection to it and how we exist in relation to it. And in English, we have words like that as well. And we've lost some of the meaning of those words over time because they've built up especially many of our words that have Greek and Latin roots in them. And if you've seen my resume, I have my bachelor's degree in philosophy and archaeology so this is a little bit of me loving to talk about history stuff. But one of those words that we have from ancient Greek is the word oikos. And if you're thinking about yogurt right now, there's a reason. But oikos also in ancient Greek means home. It means house, habitat, dwelling. And that word comes to us today in English in the form of the word ego, E-C-O. And oikos is the same root and economy as it is in ecology. And so even in our own English language, we have this idea of home, habitat, where we live in our words economy and ecology so that we get the words ecology. You guys know ology, right? The study of. But it's more than just the study of our home, it's the understanding and how we see ourselves living in our home. And economy is more than just the money and how it moves around. The nomi in economy is how we share things, how we distribute. And so when you think about ecology and economy together, our ancestors have given us these words that say, think about the world that you live in and how you share it with the people around you. And so when you think about these two, they're intimately intertwined together. And as we move forward, this is how I encourage us to think about these two. And many people in Hawaii already have that sense that the economy is the environment. The environment is the economy. And our ancestors had that sense of as well and bequeathed that to us in our own everyday words. And it shows up today in our conversations now about a clean economy. So what does a clean economy mean? And how do we look at it? Well, I think this past session with the passage of Act 122, House Bill 852, the legislature set up a new structure in government to really focus in on this and think about what is a clean economy. And they've made several changes to how the energy office works. A couple of them are very important but subtle. One of them is to make it an attached agency. So up until now, the energy office had been a subunit of the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, which meant that energy was part of a larger portfolio that the director of D-Bed had to focus on. And so energy issues sat right next on their plate with every other issue related to tourism and the economy. And by making it an attached agency, what the legislature has said that this office is important, this issue is something that both the governor and the legislature need direct visibility on to be able to talk directly about energy issues when they need to and have the flexibility to be responsive to changing things over time, changing issues and priorities. So by moving us into that role, we now have the obligation and the opportunity to stop and help work with you all and our larger communities to address energy issues as the energy office. And in particular, I think going into the passage of Act 122, a lot of folks used to ask what is the role of the energy office? What does the energy office do? And now the legislature has provided us with a mission statement. It is, and as Governor Igay said in his opening, the purpose is to promote energy efficiency, renewable energy and clean transportation to help achieve a resilient, clean energy, decarbonized economy. And that word decarbonized is something that I'd like to focus in a little bit today because we're talking about climate change and energy. In addition to that, Act 122 has now been codified, so if you weren't aware, it's now HRS 196-71 is the energy office, our establishment section. And 196-72 is the chief energy officer's obligations and duties. And I've just highlighted a few words here. We're supposed to provide analysis and planning and to develop and inform policies with the legislature, with the Public Utilities Commission, and also with state agencies and other relevant stakeholders. And I would submit that relevant stakeholders includes our broader communities and the general public. Similarly, we're also meant to help reduce costs and work with all of these goals in changing our public facilities to do that lead by example to help implement the instructions and direction from the legislature and the governor to work with our partners at state and county agencies to move the needle on public fleet conversion and proving and reducing energy and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the built environment. Project deployment and facilitation to help the private sector and those that says when aligned with state energy goals. So we're not the ones who are necessarily deciding which projects to help. And that's the Public Utilities Commission's role to see who moves forward with what projects based on the variety of criteria that they have. Our role in this respect is those projects that the Public Utilities Commission has said these should move forward. We are ready to help and facilitate moving forward with the deployment of that project as long as it's aligned with the state's energy goals. And then finally to engage the private sector to help lead efforts and especially through the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative which is something that we will be reconvening and starting up and working on to help reinvigorate that effort because it meant so much to Hawaii achieving and starting off the whole renewable portfolio standard conversation. In addition, the Chief Energy Officer has 19 specified duties and obligations so not much to do. But I wanted to focus on four of them because I think this might be the only position at present in state government that has an explicit obligation to work on decarbonization. And so I wanted to talk a little bit about that today. And these four are those four items to identify, track and report on key performance measures and milestones, identify market gaps and innovation opportunities and to create and review proposed state actions that can move the needle on it and then also to advocate for our decarbonization goals at relevant venues including the Public Utilities Commission, the Legislature and the Consumer Advocate as well as other places where it would be appropriate to do that. And so this is something that I've kind of keyed into as that real space and direction that brings together climate and energy in very explicit statutory language for what we work on. And of course, you know how government works. So whatever the Chief Energy Officer works on, the office works on as well, right? So Howard, Chris, thanks guys. So what are our decarbonization goals? So we'll get into that in just a moment but one other thing that the Legislature instructed us to do is there is five cents of the barrel tax that goes into the Energy Security Special Fund and they instructed us to propose uses of that fund and in particular to help fund the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission and the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force. So I think there's some more direction there as well that our job is to support moving the needle with these commissions and task forces and then also to support achieving the zero emissions clean economy target. Are you guys familiar with that? You spent any time looking at that statute? Because now you get the opportunity to if you haven't. So here's the language of it and I've highlighted a few keywords in there. One of them is that the focus includes offsets. So it's atmospheric carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. So what's already in the air and what we're putting in the air, that we can look at offsets through local sequestration, pulling it out of the air and then long-term sinks and reservoirs. So those are the things that hold the carbon out of the air which are usually trees. And then we have the statewide target to sequester more than emitted and I think that's a really important phrase because we tend to talk about this as a carbon neutral standard and the idea of carbon neutral net zero is the idea that you're ending up at a zero point and our direction says to actually sequester more than emitted. So I tend to think of this as a carbon negative standard which is a higher calling and a higher obligation than net zero. And then also to look at the greenhouse gases that are emitted within the state and to hit this target as quickly as practicable which I think is an important thing to note that it's not by 2045. It's as soon as we can make it work and no later than 2045 which is a distinct standard from the RPS which has distinct milestones and target dates to hit those milestones. So this is what we are looking at now and thinking how can we put the work of the energy office in the context of this target. There's also one more decarbonization goal on the table and this is one you probably are familiar with the Global Warming Solutions Act, Act 234 from 2007. And this is the one that says we need to move the state's emissions back down to 1990 levels by the year 2020. And this is important because it also sets up the greenhouse gas inventory and if you haven't read that, the Department of Health Clean Air Branch publishes this every year. The Clean Air Branch just posted the 2016 numbers on New Year's Day, yes, the holiday, on their website and so I encourage you to go take a look at it. I'm going to get into the numbers here in a minute. I know we had some pictures and I know we got some words and I know you guys are data technical energy people so the charts are coming. Hold on just a moment. But something to note that in this returning to 1990 levels by statute we were told not to consider emissions from airplanes and that's a caveat that does not exist in the zero emissions economy target. We don't have carve outs for certain forms of emissions. It just says the state needs to sequester more than emits, writ large. So what does the inventory say? This is 2016 numbers and I've highlighted in yellow down at the bottom the net emission so this is all the caveats like taking out aviation and so based on the refigured numbers in this report in 1990 we were remaining 10.84 million metric tons of emissions based on this and so even so 2015-2016 we're at 9.3 million metric tons and notice that it ticked up a little bit from 2015 to 2016 not exactly a positive trend but at least we're under the 10 million and for that Global Warming Solutions Act law we're done but we're not, we could be done we need to verify that that so we're not fully done yet we need to get a trend going and ensure that we actually are below 10 million. You know one data point's not enough right we need a trend to feel confident about where we're going but let's say that we are and we pause at 9 million metric tons that's it, as far as that statute is concerned we can continue emitting 9 million metric tons a year and have achieved the purpose of that statute but it does not achieve the purpose of the zero emissions clean economy target to take another look at those numbers so these are those numbers now in a bar chart form and the blue part in the middle that's dominating the whole thing is what? It's energy right most of our emissions are from energy in fact about 88% of our emissions are from energy the red at the bottom that's the offsets those are trees that's forest carbon and so we have on here we have energy, industrial processes, waste emissions from agriculture and forestry and other land uses and then we have the sinks which is effectively forest carbon this is a breakdown in those sectors by category and all of this is in the greenhouse gas inventory so what we have is about 17 million metric tons of emissions from energy we have about 0.78 million metric tons from industrial processes and then we have and most of that is from the substitution of ozone depleting substances so that's HFC substitutes and then we have waste, agriculture, forestry and other land uses and then in green down here is the sinks so 6.51 million metric tons are sinks that absorb carbon compared to what we emit and so if you were to sink these so if you look at these there's a smattering of things but some of these really stand out so it's a little helpful to look at this by order of magnitude so what I did is I reconfigured that table so now the highest emissions are at the top by category and then that sector is on the right hand side and when you look at it by magnitude you can see that transportation that's ground transportation stationary combustion, aviation and international bunker fuels are the largest sources of emissions in the state and then going from there we have these other activities so if you were to balance that out and from the point of view of the zero emissions clean economy target you get this effectively if you can see this from CO2 from wood biomass down I've highlighted that in green because effectively the forest carbon that our trees absorb offset all of those items in the inventory but it still leaves international bunker fuel, aviation stationary combustion and transportation as unaccounted for unoffset emissions and one thing to note about those is that aviation and bunker fuels only count trips that originate within Hawaii so inter-island, Hawaii to California, Hawaii to another country it does not include any emissions from other places to Hawaii and that's consistent with national reporting and international reporting and that's one of the strengths of the inventories what it does is it sets it up in a way that allows us to take a look at what we do and make it comparable to the rest of the country and to the rest of the world and able to roll these numbers up to get to a global accounting of are we under two degrees, are we on our way to under 1.5 degrees so I wanted to highlight this because what we're starting to do is really marry up climate and energy and the energy office with these decarbonization requirements are now starting to put pen to paper and figure this out if you can tell from this picture we're actually looking at Hawaii from a different angle it's a little unusual of an angle these are all NASA satellite photos by the way so there's no copyright issues but I put it up here because it's the same thing we have to do we have to start looking at Hawaii and the way that we tackle energy and emissions from different points of view we've been set up the energy policy forum the clean energy initiative efforts to date through 2007 through the last decade have really brought us very far into being a climate leader as Governor Igay and Rep Loan identified but there's still a lot more to go and we need to put pencil to paper and we're here to be partners with you and pursuing this as we look at energy efficiency, clean energy both renewable energy in terms of electricity production but also in terms of alternative fuels and looking at ways to tackle ground transportation, aviation and shipping and tackling the four of those will provide I think the roadmap to help Hawaii actually decarbonize itself and achieve a clean economy so thank you very much my name is Amy Barnes and I am currently a senior advisor to California's former Governor Jerry Brown at the California China Climate Institute which focuses on facilitating cooperation on climate issues and prior to that I served in the Brown administration as a senior advisor to former Governor Brown who was at the time Governor on climate policy and prior to that I was a deputy secretary at the California Environmental Protection Agency working on climate issues and I got to know both Jeremy and Scott through the establishment of the US Climate Alliance which Governor Igay and Scott both mentioned which is this wonderful group of now 25 states bipartisan who are working together to continue to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement amongst those states and their borders and so some of the things that I worked on when I was in Governor Brown's office included establishing the US Climate Alliance a big meeting that we held there in 2018 called the Global Climate Action Summit which brought about 5,000 people together from states, regions, cities, businesses, civil society resulted in over 500 new commitments to climate action to really help drive momentum forward on climate and also on the executive order that we passed right around the same time that that summit was happening to set a new goal for carbon neutrality by 2045 and so I'm really thrilled to be here today to talk about bending the curve for a couple of reasons first of all from a personal perspective I'm a native Hawaiian descent my father's family is from here and my dad grew up just up the hill in Nuala Valley so it always feels a little bit like coming home when I come here and so I'm really thrilled to get to be here to talk to my climate and energy people but also my Hawaiian people about what we're doing and I really can't think of a more important time to be having this conversation when I look around the state of the world today and really the knife-edge that I think we're on when it comes to climate action we have a really unique opportunity I think still to bend the curve to achieve a mission reduction that will present the opportunity to save the future for our children and we also I think for the first time in a long time are seeing public support for that action when I look at what youth around the world and across the country are doing that gives me a lot of hope when I think about the policy work that's being done here in Hawaii that's being done all over the country it's clear that we have the policy solutions we have the technology solutions we know how to tackle this problem and so it's really just about building that momentum and implementing those solutions in a way to get to the goals that we've set for ourselves and so I know Sherilyn set out some broad framing questions and I think my quick answer to those are absolutely our 2045 carbon neutrality goals are possible but they're also they've been set in a moral and scientific imperative and so it's really our responsibility to meet those goals and I believe it's absolutely possible to meet them in a way that promotes equity environmental justice economic growth and prosperity an opportunity to have a conversation thank you Amy so Jeremy same question for you if you could introduce yourself and then I know that you're here sort of right Cooper and I'd like to hear in introducing yourself can you tell us a little bit about Governor Cooper's approach to climate change in North Carolina my role in the North Carolina governor's office is I'm governor's policy advisor on a number of topics including energy, environment climate change and transportation all of my favorite topics so and that listening to Scott it sounds like here you guys have taken an opportunity to really look at what you've done thus far on climate and energy and see if the government set up the right way an optimal way to get where we need to go long term in North Carolina Governor Cooper coming has really been a similar opportunity to look at where we are as a state and chart a new path forward over the past Governor Cooper's predecessor really did not do much on climate at all and so we've been our starting place was to really de-thaw state government and unlock a lot of the just unhelpful dynamics that were present and some of these are still are in North Carolina and so then the question is how do we starting where we are which is not much momentum going what is it that makes sense for us to do in North Carolina to get us moving in a holistic way and so here's what Governor Cooper has done on that I mentioned this not because you guys are going to remember everything and maybe even care that much what North Carolina is doing but there may be things that we're doing that make sense in Hawaii so the first thing is to have an executive order by the governor that really tackles climate change directly there's a lot of conversation in North Carolina about let's talk about clean energy or energy efficiency things like that in a way that sort of getting climate solutions without saying the word climate change or I think took climate on directly by issuing executive order 80 a year ago and it does it sets out a broad framework so it identifies three goals for the state one is to achieve 40% economy wide carbon reduction by 2025 very soon from 2005 levels to have 80,000 zero emission vehicles in the state by 2025 we have about 9,000 right now so there's quite a distant ways to go and to increase building efficiency in the state by 40% we've had a 30% go on the legislature they haven't been able to pass up to 40% so governor said this is where we should be and I think should leadership there in addition this executive order established the North Carolina climate change interagency council the first time we've had a council focused directly on climate change it's comprised of the governor and his 10 cabinet secretaries and their designees so we've been meeting for a year now it's been um there's a lot there that we can unpack it if you guys are interested the executive order also has a general directive that just frankly says to all executive agencies you should be considering and integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation into all of your policies and programs the approach here is to acknowledge from the governor's office we don't know every single little thing that needs to happen but that principle needs to be incorporated into everyday decision making and the agencies themselves know that's how to do that there are also a number of specific directives so instead of say establish a climate commission that then does long term study and creates a comprehensive climate action plan to achieve the governor's goal we took a different approach we said look any such climate action plan we know is going to address energy, transportation you know buildings etc so let's just start there and so it directed the development of a clean energy plan for the state of North Carolina zero emission vehicle plan for the state a resilience plan for the for the state our department of commerce has conducted a workforce assessment because there's significant transformation of energy and transportation sectors that have workforce implications we should know what they are and be training our workforce appropriately and there's a specific directive on converting the state motor fleet to zero emission vehicles whenever feasible and happy to talk more about that so now a year later what we had is four of these plans the resilience plan is due in March and that's really given us a framework to move forward with specific recommendations based on a stakeholder process so that's what we're tackling now obviously the topics I mentioned don't cover everything that needs to be addressed to deal with climate change but we felt like those are no regret initiatives and that's really how we've started so with that I'll pause I think hopefully that gives you a framework for some of the things I'll probably talk about next forward and how that fits into the Governor's overall approach on climate terrific thank you so I know from speaking to them beforehand that both Amy and Jeremy would like to help us with one particular sort of angle looking ahead and that is how do we rally communities to be how do we deepen the role of communities in implementing these types of solutions and these types of policies that you've described and so I'm going to take these a little bit out of board from what we've described I'd like to start with you Amy could you tell us a little bit about the climate communities project in California and in particular can you tell us about how that project is sort of combining climate and energy policy with other benefits, other upsides, other problems, other issues I guess maybe just to broadly frame it community engagement has been central to California's policymaking when it comes to air quality and climate change really from the very beginning and so not to go too far back but maybe just a little bit of context so AB 32 which is California's I kind of think of it as our climate constitution which was passed back in 2006 signed by then Governor Schwarzenegger, a Republican and let me start was really the first comprehensive piece of legislation that we had dealing with climate change but it also set a number of requirements for public engagement processes and again this is something that has always been required through our administrative processes act and other regulations but with climate I think we've really sort of started a new open a new sort of era of how we think about community engagement and so jumping ahead in time to the Department of Climate Communities program this was a program that was really born out of a number of years of experience implementing policies and regulations to achieve the goals of AB 32 which originally were really simply to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and then subsequent legislation set additional goals to do things like reduce emissions 40% by 2030 80% by 2050 a number of other complementary policies but through that process it became clear that disadvantaged communities in California did not feel like they were having a seat at the table in these conversations and some of the ways that they felt that they needed to be heard and also that we were getting into a lot of conversations about the trade off between taking action on climate change and addressing criteria pollutant issues and local air air quality and other local environmental issues in really impacted communities and so the TCC the transformative climate communities really came out of that moving away from a sort of the traditional way that we often tackle this problem which California has also done in thinking about transportation stationary source natural and working lands and looking at a community based approach and so really the first step that we took there was developing a tool called cow and virus screen and I can talk about this a little bit more later but that was critical to help identify where our disadvantaged communities actually were and what we meant by disadvantaged community and so we looked at data in communities across the state looking at everything from localized air pollution exposure to toxic but also things like visits to the hospital for asthma, academic attainment socioeconomic status within a zip code and so by looking at that suite of different metrics we were able to identify what the most disadvantaged communities were in California and to prioritize them and that tool is something that was done through a process of community engagement so the community was involved in building a tool and the tool itself also exists online so anybody can use the tool go on play around with it and it's something that we've used during community meetings ironically one of the things that happened was people would say my community is really disadvantaged, your community isn't disadvantaged, my community is the most disadvantaged and we need to have the focus and attention and so being able to have this tool to say we've looked at all of these indicators and this is these are our priorities and helped us to develop the transformative climate communities program and so what TCC does is it develops climate solutions on a community level that are cross cutting so again not just focused on transportation, not just focused on rooftop solar but really all of those things together through a process of talking to the community about what their needs are and one of the things that we found in the process of engaging the communities was that just going out to do these meetings and communities and to give them the opportunity to sort of air their grievances talk about what problems existed in their community was really part of the process, part of creating the trust and the space that then opened the door for us to develop these programs. Another lesson that we learned was that there was not a lot of trust between some of our local government agencies and the communities and so the way that the TCC program has been developed it requires a consortium applied to the program that includes local agencies but also community groups faith-based groups environmental groups to be parties to this consortium that applies for the grant funding so that we have community engagement that we're building trust between community groups and local agencies and then that we're also addressing challenges that are really priorities for the community. So again a project may be focused on improving bus transportation in a community but it may also be improving access to local health clinics. It may also be providing rooftop solar, residential rooftop solar. So really again looking at sort of a place-based way of aggregating solutions in communities and all of this is funded by I should have said before but all of this is funded by the revenue from our cap and trade program and so in the first round of the transformative climate communities program about $535 million was spent in a number of communities and subsequent to that first round we've had two additional communities developed and these are long-term programs this isn't just sort of a one or two year grant cycle these are you know three to five year investments to date in communities but that we expect will be long-term investments in transforming these communities not just from a climate perspective but also from environmental, social justice you know more holistic perspective as well. I have a follow-up question I think under the answer based on the funding but when you say we went out to these TCC communities who's the we what agency sort of does this program live with in California? So the program is administered by the Strategic Growth Council which is a specific entity that has worked on sort of thinking about how California can grow in a smart way for all is something that we've traditionally had to deal with and the so the Strategic Growth Council has really taken on the TCC program now that's one of its core initiatives but a lot of the early work even predated some of the legislation and so one of the organizations that was set out to coordinate Climate Action California from very early on actually originating in an executive order from then Governor Schwarzenegger in 2005 was something called the Climate Action Team and it sounds maybe like it's a little bit similar to what Jeremy what you have in North Carolina where the Climate Action Team brought together the heads, the secretaries of a number of relevant agencies whose work touched on climate so the Environmental Protection Agency the Public Utilities Commission, Energy Commission Natural Resources Business Consumer Services brought them all together to coordinate on a regular basis on the implementation of not just AB 32 which as I mentioned is sort of our our climate constitution if you will our sort of original founding climate document but then on subsequent policies and pieces of legislation and so you know we had both secretary level individuals from those agencies going out into communities participating in these workshops partnering with local community groups often to help facilitate bringing the right members of the community in to make sure the key decision makers were there and then also staff level individuals to help facilitate conversations the format of these conversations I think is also worth mentioning so it wasn't just this kind of format where it was the secretary of the EPA sitting behind a podium and speaking at the community we would do introductory remarks and then break down into small table discussions so that each member of the community who was there participating in the meeting had the opportunity to engage with somebody who was actually at an agency that might hold the responsibility for taking their recommendation forward and so I think that was really critical in making people feel like it wasn't just sort of taking the box activity of let's say that we've consulted the community about really hearing people and also just sort of a little administrative thing that we found was really important was holding those on nights and weekends so that people who worked full-time during the day were able to participate and really engage. I have lots more questions about the TCCC program I was hoping to ask Scott if there's any potential of launching something like that in Hawaii but he escaped us but I want to compare it then to North Carolina so I know that Jeremy you're quite proud of the work done on the North Carolina clean energy plan we have I'm told about five minutes if you could summarize sort of the key recommendations that came out of that plan but more importantly tell us more about how the how the community's input shaped those recommendations I think that we would be grateful to know more about that process. So one of the five plans that was directed in the executive order I mentioned is for our department of environmental quality to develop a clean energy plan and that clean energy plan was delivered to the governor on September 27th of this year for 2019 after an extensive stakeholder process with communities with experts etc that process included a series of meetings with 60 to 80 stakeholders representing different organizations and interest groups like I said over the course of I want to say eight months or so it included online like over 660 online comments that our department of environmental quality received numerous one-on-one meetings public listening sessions where this wasn't a formal rulemaking but to go out and have folks have information sessions around the state so different geographies again you know not just during the day but in the evening and on weekends so that folks understood what was happening these follow some of the principles that our department and I think our administration tries to follow when it comes to community engagement which includes things like making sure we're proactively letting communities know and businesses and other stakeholders at the same time know what is actually happening these are things we live with every day it's not top of mind for people who don't do this professionally so proactively letting people know through multiple venues not just putting a notice in the newspaper fewer and fewer people read but you know flyers of churches going online social media things like that having multiple avenues that the communities and stakeholders can comment on answering questions on and on just doing as much as we can so this whole process resulted in the clean energy plan which was pretty historic we haven't had a plan like this in North Carolina before we had prior iterations but particularly proud of this one some of the recommendations include the following I mean it's lengthy so I won't get through all of them but the first one is for the governor to convene a stakeholder process that is going and that is currently underway to evaluate different carbon reduction policies and see so that evaluate different carbon reduction policies with an eye toward core values like emission reductions resiliency of the energy sector prices equity etc and we are evaluating so what we've done is established this we have established this process which includes about 30 different stakeholder interests some of those individuals represent their larger community not just their particular organization we have subgroups etc and so we are working through to evaluate policies like trading program of different varieties clean energy standard energy efficiency resource standard having a carbon adder at the utilities commission proceedings in various ways so to go through all this model have modeling have legal analysis policy analysis and they will culminate in a report to the governor next December that will provide us everything that as much as we can do in a year for information that we would need in order to move forward to pursue one or more of these policies going forward another recommendation is to establish an ongoing energy process where the state and stakeholders are able to really look at our energy sector our regulatory framework our utility commission policies and programs and processes and update them for the 21st century a lot of ours are frankly created last century today we have new customer expectations we have new needs for a healthy public utility etc so we need to align our energy process and systems for today been very interesting and interested in what your commission has done with performance based rate making and we've sort of looked at that and something we're considering as we decide how to move forward with that process in short there are other recommendations like to establish an energy efficiency advisory council to move from integrated resource planning which really focuses on generation to integrated system, I saw in our system operation plans you're looking at generation transmission and distribution all in the same planning process we have a had a whole section on equity and justice to make sure that included a number of recommendations specifically responsive to some of the feedback we heard from stakeholders and especially communities during that process clean energy plan is a pretty comprehensive document and gives us a roadmap for actions that we're starting to take with the knowledge that those recommendations while they come from our department we're really grounded in stakeholder feedback along the way. We stay up here too much longer but Maria has been nice to us to hand up questions and so I'm going to ask you each to answer a question in 30 seconds and it's a hard question but it's one that I hear a lot and I think an outside perspective would be interesting so the question is this what is your response to people who say that Hawaii is too small to matter in terms of global greenhouse gas emissions and I might frame it a little bit different have you ever heard somebody say that a given community is too small to matter in this sort of universalized threat of climate change? Our individual actions are too small to matter in this global crisis and so whether it's Hawaii or North Carolina we have to do what we can do and get to where we need to be to be responsible for our portion of the problem get there in a way that can help others do the same alright so we need in the United States to get to our carbon neutrality by 2050 in a way that helps other countries do the same thing so we're exporting the solutions and technologies I'm here because I talked to Scott and looked at Hawaii and been inspired and seen lessons I mean part of the reason we joined the alliance is because we saw that Hawaii had joined in a number of other states so I would I'm not discouraged I think that Hawaii plays a really important role in fact I'm humbled to be here with California and Hawaii talking about climate leadership I would agree with everything that Jeremy said and maybe just give two examples of actually how Hawaii has inspired California and also just to say that we would have people tell us all the time in California that we were too small to make a difference and were the fifth largest economy in the world but we are responsible for less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions and so I think that's something that people will often trot out as an excuse to say well you shouldn't really be trying so hard because you're not going to make a difference and I think as Jeremy said you can but two specific examples one thing to loop back to what Jeremy had just been saying but so SB 100 our 100% renewable energy bill was under fire by a lot of people and not just the folks that you might have thought but also some advocates for renewable energy who just said this is doable up until you know 80-90% but wouldn't you get up any higher than that it's going to be impossible it's going to be so expensive and so having had Hawaii go first actually made it really a lot easier for us to push back and say there are other places that are doing this and it's feasible and that was really critical to us getting SB 100 passed same thing with our carbon neutrality executive order which I was very intently involved with moving and same debate you know why does it need to be carbon neutrality why does it need to be 2045 can it be 2050 can it be second half of the century and having Hawaii go first and set it at 2045 made it really easy for me to just go to Governor Brown and say this is the gold standard this is the benchmark this is what we need to do anything less than this and actually now that Scott's explained it I realize we are less because we didn't go negative but but you know anything less than this is going to set us behind and so I think it is so critical for us when we can when we have the ability when we have the courage to go forward and then to leave really clear instructions for how others can do the same and I know I'm going a little bit over but I just wanted to give a plug for what Jeremy said about the planning process we've done something similar in California it's our scoping plan I would love to talk to anybody after this about the process it is a comprehensive plan that lays out the moral imperative for why we're doing it the context for where we are in an emissions basis and then on a sector by sector example all of the major policies and objectives and how we're going to get there and it's a roadmap it's not just a roadmap for us but we talked to other states all over the country and around the world that also use this as a roadmap for how they can take action and like Jeremy said not all of it's going to work for every jurisdiction but maybe one piece is and so I think it's really important what you guys are doing here and thank you for your leadership


Mae'n gwneud o ddwyng am y golfer, ond mae'n un o'ch ei bod yn ddysgu'r ddau, mae'n ddysgu'r ddysgu'r ddysgu'r ddysgu'r ddau, mae'n gweithio'r ddysgu'r ddysgu'r o ar ddim yn ei wneud o'r ddysgu'r ddysgu yw'r awdd. Rwy'n meddwl cyhoedd gan 4 golffi, mewn gwirionedd yn 5 golffos, 5 handi-caps, all yn diogel ryw, yn gwneud, yn gwneud i'r ddysgu'r ddysgu'r ddysgu yn gweithio'r ddysgu. Dw i fod yn oed wrth fy ngryfant. Felly maen nhw'n fawr i gynhyrchu. Bwyd oedd o'r ddych chi'n ddysgu, ond rwy'n ddau bod yn cael ei gydrach. Ond yna'r wych yn gallu i ddechrau. Mae'r idea o ddweud yr hyn yn oed mae'n gweithio'r ddechrau o lleol o'r gyfnodau a'r ddechrau. Yna'r ddweud o rwy'n chi'n golygu. Felly rwy'n gweithio. Felly ydych chi'n gweithio. Fy wnes i gydwch. Let's start with Lewis Johnson, the PG professional. He's using P790 irons and currently, and he's going to give us his opinion of these G410 irons. So the look of the club really like how it sat behind the ball. The top line I thought was great and really liked it. Shelf appeal, I think the black and the red is an attractive looking club, there's no doubt about it. It's really like that and I think at a dress, going back to a dress, I think they definitely would use the offset which I really like. Being a slightly better player and I think that's a really appealing for me. So the feel of the club, a lot better than I thought. I think sort of off centre hits where as I'd expect from a cavity back club performed pretty good and I think on centre hits I think sort of for me it didn't really lose too much. Obviously not as good feel as I'm going to get from a more sort of players club but it's what you expect. But the contrast in performance was really good across the board. So overall the performance of the club, actually really happy I think going into the tests like this, my P790s are what I like, I've been fitted for them, something like this. It's not something I'd go for, it's sort of a bigger looking club, a more forgiving game improvement iron but in terms of performance I thought it was fantastic. Peak height, a lot higher than my own and didn't sacrifice any distance so got a really consistent loan from it as well which I've struggled with with cavity back clubs before whenever I've tried them. So in terms of consistency of performance I was really happy with it. I thought it was a great performer and a lot better than I thought it was going to be for someone of my ability. So really good. Right so an interesting start there from Lewis and quite a positive response that I wasn't quite expecting to be honest with you. And again I think he summarised it quite well there and great ball striking as well from Lewis. Anyway that's Lewis Dunn. Let's move back into, we've got a new kid on the block, Jay Byrne. He really gets involved with the channel, always involved in the comments and the great supporter and it's great to have him involved today. He's a 13 handicapper. He's a big lad and he hits the ball an absolute mile which you're going to find out very shortly. He's using currently AP2 irons when you see the numbers, slightly weaker lofted iron that he picked it up against but is his opinion on a G410 irons. For the looks of the club from a shelf appeal perspective, really nice looking club. You can tell there's a bit of weight behind it for that bit of help but when you lie the club down behind the ball you don't really notice that. The club sits really well. There's actually a slight chamfer to the back of the top leading edge which makes it appear slightly thinner, which is quite a nice feature. As you look down at the ball as well the centre of the club has got like a mat fin which offsets it against the setting which actually gives the appearance of a slightly smaller head which is really nice to the eye. I like that. So the way the ball feels when you hit it out the middle feels really nice, really solid sound and get really good feedback through it. Slightly off centre hits. You do get a little bit of noise, a bit more feedback that you've actually hit it like off centre but to be honest I play forged irons and mine give a very similar sort of feel when I hit them so I'm really happy with the way it feels when I hit the ball. I think for such a premium looking club and good performing club it's really good value. It's actually probably the lower end of what the major manufacturers are coming out out now so I'd be quite happy with that price. So I had the club performed, really happy with it. Good decent ball fly. I was getting good distances out of it. Even when I hit ones that were slightly low on the face and got low spin out of they still get a relatively good distance. Very similar numbers and in comparison to mine they flew slightly further and a little bit higher but there is a slight difference in the loft with mine but nothing massively different in comparison so I think it's a really, really good performing club. I've been quite a positive star to be fair and let's see if that continues now as we move over to Andy Roper been on the channel a few times nine handicap golfer again using P790 irons from TaylorMade let's see what Andy thinks of these but also make sure you hang on at the end of the video cos there's a few bloopers from Andy's summary of this club test and do not miss that bit either but here's Andy's thoughts on the Ping G410 irons. I'm not a fan of them at all I've never really liked Ping Downs anyway but they're too chunky too chunky from all angles really the bottom of them is much too wide for what I'd like from a sole I don't know whether it's a case of golf snobbery or once you reach a point with your golf ability whether you move up as to what you expect out of a golf club but from what I'm currently playing at the moment the P790 is the TaylorMade to that, it's like night and day it's hard to be positive about it I'm not a fan of the top line the offset the sole plate on it not even the finish just not a fan of it at all that's the main thing that stands out to me there's literally no feedback from the club at all it's like hitting a nail into a piece of wood it doesn't sound great even when you hit one right out of the screws there's no sort of feedback from it there's no sort of buttery crisp feel you get off a different line certainly off these TaylorMades I've got when you hit a good one the feedbacks there through the noise, you feel it right through the club coming back into you that you've hit one right out of the middle whereas with this low, high it was just totally devoid of any sort of feedback which surprises me because with this type of club I would expect to get a feeling that the ball is really firing off the face and with that the noise almost like it's trying to help the ball into the air a really loud sound whereas this is quite dull solid and boring really I suppose at 105 it's kind of a competitive market it's probably priced right for where they're trying to market their aiming at personally I think there's probably better clubs out there for that price bracket and certainly if you're somebody who feels reasonably competent in getting the ball in the air doesn't need a great deal of assistance with that then I'd probably stretch and go for something around the 130-140 a club marker rather than going 105 with these for me the positives with it really are considering the type of club that it is the spin number was pretty decent for it so I'd be quite happy going in at a green from sort of 150-160 confident that it would probably hold whereas with this type of club I would imagine ordinarily it would come in quite low and hard not a great spin rate and probably bounce on through so that's the positive with it in terms of comparison to my own club it didn't really see a massive amount of gains distance wise I think consistency I was probably decent across the board with both of them in terms of line I'm not a particularly long hitter of the golf ball by any stretch of the imagination so for me I get my advantages in consistency so for me to score well I just keep myself in play plodder on the course I don't necessarily need distance to be fair so with the club that I've currently got which is the 790 I know if I'm on a certain distance and I hit that reasonably well I'm going to get it on the button and on the green and I'll be in play whereas with this I wouldn't necessarily be as confident that I'd necessarily do it every single time just because of the disparity of sort of feel across the face I'm getting from it and it's jumping from you know the best strike being let's say for example 150 to the worst strike being 140 I know that obviously falls down to me but as a game improvement club I'd expect that to be a lot tighter whereas it is with this with the 790 because although I play off 9 I'm quite capable of playing golf to a level of 28 you know some days it just doesn't work and I'd want a little bit more from that club to help me on those off days which I feel I get on the tailor made and I don't with this Opinions slightly different there from Andy and a little less positive I suppose you'd say it's next up we move to Brian Treadwell Brian again 11 Andy Capgolfa using a forged Mizuno MP-18 iron we're going to pitch up your notes in the numbers he's using 6 iron as opposed to 7 iron because it's direct comparison in terms of loft so be interested in this one a current user of a forged iron used to cast club from ping what's Brian going to think I think it looks very bulky at address behind the ball I think as a club it's a decent looking club but it has a very large presence at address I didn't think there was much feedback if any from the ping G410 I was hitting shots and you'd have an idea as to whether they were good but there wasn't very much feedback in comparison to the Mizuno MP-18 SC which I play with I feel there is much more feedback and a much better feel with the club it also seems much of a best balance than the ping the ping felt quite heavy throughout the swing I don't know how that compares to Brian's in the market if it's around the same price as the others then I think fair play to ping if they're drifting upwards with it then I would really wonder about the value that you're getting out of this as opposed to other clubs that are within that range the 6 iron in the Mizuno club has a 30 degree loft which equates to the ping G410 so that's what I hit I have to say I much prefer the Mizuno in every single respect I have a better feel I felt it was a better strike through the ball in the sense that I am able to shape it there was much more of a feel about that to it so yeah significant preference for me probably has it expected from Brian quite a bit different in terms of feel from a forge club into these big big change there bore out in his comments I think last but not least he's currently using what you'd call a game improvement iron he's using a Callaway XR Ions 30 degrees 7 iron 30 degrees 7 iron a ping G410 it's a straight up head to head in terms of his numbers to compare but let's see what his opinion was of these irons from me from address looking down at the club the new ping irons they're a lot thinner than we could in club the XRs Callaway XRs less offset and the Callaway XR it looks as if it's got a little bit more meat behind the club which gives me more confidence when I'm looking down before the strike the new ping iron it wasn't much different in the feel of the club when I'm striking it a bad shot I was getting a fairly straight and the dispersion was good but when you look at the numbers I can't see much difference in the strike other than the XR maybe due to it being a bit more meaty felt a better shot I don't think it's overly priced for a club so if the numbers fitted for me then I would buy it it's a considerable difference and I wouldn't change I wouldn't change the Callaway XR for this ping iron and again look at the numbers which will be posted and that will give you the reasons for I'm getting a better strike I just wouldn't change so that's it lots of opinions lots of variables as well and as you'd expect I think for me to do a summary and you can draw your own conclusions but for me there was interesting elements throughout the day that I was watching and observing one interesting thing for me was that strike is still king and basically the people that hit the ball out the middle more consistently and if you take Lewis as being that prime example who struck the ball really really well actually probably approved the feel of the club but he tended to find a sense of it and what I'd expect from a game improvement iron is a little bit more of similar feel for off centre hits I think for the likes of myself and other players that tested this that perhaps weren't fine in the middle their opinions on the kind of feel and sound were quite negative I think that definitely with the size and bulk of the club head we've seen higher launch angle so the lower place CG certainly helps in terms of launch so anybody who's struggling with that then this kind of club without doubt helps you get that ball launching and get a bit better ball flight I think one again major positive was the spin number everybody produced relatively decent spin numbers and again from this kind of iron it's something that can really drop off and fall off the charts but again most people achieved something that was comparable with what they were already using in terms of spin that was a real positive again overall distances I think we just seen what you'd expect to see from a 30 degree iron there was nothing that was flying out there in terms of distance and again comparing like for like, loft for loft between the clubs they were currently using nothing really that was seen there I think the one major positive for me throughout everybody that played the irons and tried the irons was dispersion in terms of left to right dispersion it was noticeably it was straight it certainly seems to help across a cross section of players five players there and a ball fairly straight and in a good little compact area that we'd be happy with I think and I found that again out there on the course that dispersion and performance was overall good like I said my issue was all about sound and feel but that varies from person to person golfer to golfer so I think a real good test I certainly enjoyed it I enjoyed observing it I enjoyed the differences in the opinions and I hope you did too plenty more of this to come so I'll have maybe a bit of a league table at the end of 2019 in terms of irons and drivers and whatever else that's something that we'll look to continue to improve, evolve make better and your feedback is always welcome so for now thank you for watching hope you enjoyed that one and we'll be back very soon with more testing from Team Average I have a serious thing so start off LOL LOL describe honestly what you think are the looks of this golf club I'm not a fan of it at all LOL so the look of the club Don't you dare


Hey, welcome back to the channel. So in this video, I'm gonna talk about the secret to growing fast on Twitter. And I'm gonna share what helps the top accounts on this platform grow by thousands of followers every day and a tool that you can use to do it in the easiest and simplest and fastest way possible. So if you're interested in growing fast on Twitter, make sure you watch this video until the end to see exactly what the secret is. Now, if you're new here, my name is Sean and on this channel I teach you how to create internet income from writing online. So if you wanna see more content around that, make sure you hit the like and subscribe button so that you don't miss any of my future videos. And with that said, let's hop into my computer and let's get on with the video right now. So I'm on my computer now and what you're seeing is a secret to growing fast on Twitter. And it comes down to three words, high quality threads. And a thread is what you're seeing here. There is a original tweet here and there's multiple tweets under that that are posted as comments or replies. So you can see here, this is a thread that I posted on February 10th. It got 500 likes, 114,000 impressions and 262 followers in one day. And typically I get around 20 followers a day. So you can see here, if I can post, I post one of these a week, they help me grow like crazy. And if I can focus on posting one or two of these a week, not all of them are gonna go viral, but you can see the type of growth that I get when I post good threads that get traction. This is the secret that many of the top accounts use to grow quickly on Twitter and get hundreds, sometimes thousands of followers a day is they focus on posting one or two of these threads a week. Now, your next question is probably, okay, I know threads are important for me growing quickly here, but how do I come up with thread ideas? How do I come up with the format and the framework for these threads? And what I wanna do today is show you a tool that was introduced to me from a Twitter friend named J.K. Molina. He's actually a partner on this tool that I'm gonna show you. And I wanna give you a demo and review of this tool. And I use this not only to come up with thread ideas, but also to track my analytics and also to help me manage all of my individual tweets as well and come up with ideas for my tweets and for my threads. So I wanna hop into that tool right now. It's called Tweet Hunter. And I'm gonna show you the different features that I use pretty often that really help me with my Twitter growth. So when you log in, it looks like this. And this is just your basic feed. So I post three high quality tweets a day or I try to post three high quality tweets a day and I schedule it out based on time here. So you can create your own time blocks and when you wanna post these. And you can see here, I have one at 6.04 a.m., 8.07 a.m. and 11.05 a.m. So all I'm doing every day is I go in here and I schedule out three tweets for the next day. And I typically do this in the morning after I write my email. And what you can also do is you can write your entire thread in here. So you can see right here, like if I type one thread intro and I do three spaces, you can do a second tweet and you can see it showing up here, right? So this is how I created this entire thread. You can see it says right here, Tweet Hunter Pro. I created all of it within this content box here. Now there's a few other features that I'm not heavily using it but I will be using in the future. If you want, I like writing so I'm not gonna use this tool that much but there's an AI tool where it will help you write your entire tweets. So that's pretty cool. I don't use this because I enjoy writing. I like coming up with my own ideas but if you are someone who needs a head start or you need some help, there's an AI tool in here. You can also add images and emojis, some of the basic features here to your tweets which I did here. You can see I added images here as well. And so this is the main feature of this platform that I use to write my tweets, schedule my tweets and also to write my threads and schedule those. A few features that I'll probably be using in the future. Number one is this auto retweet feature. I probably should do this already because I just manually retweet but I'll probably set this for six hours is good and I'll probably set this for four times. So this means that it's gonna auto retweet your thread every six hours. So six hours, 12 hours, 18 hours and 24 hours later. And I typically do this manually anyway so I'll probably use this feature more for whatever reason I just haven't yet. There's also an auto plug feature. So if your tweet gets a certain number of likes, you can have somebody join your email list or to check out a blog article or to watch a video or purchase a product. So this is an auto plug feature. I haven't used this too much yet but I already plug it manually too. So I need to stop doing these things manually since this tool does it. But you can see here I plugged my newsletter. So this is automatically gonna plug your newsletter link or whatever you put here. It also has an auto DM feature. This one's pretty interesting because I already do this on Facebook where I say, hey, if you're interested in whatever this thing is, a free training or video, comment this below and I'll send it over to you. And I have my virtual assistant sending this manually but having this auto DM people is pretty cool, right? So I can have it say like, hey, if you're interested in this free guide, comment this below and I'll send it over to you. So I'm gonna be using this definitely within the next one to two months where it sends people an automatic DM if they comment below or they retweet or do something. So this is the main page here and this is the main features that I use is the scheduler for tweets and the tweet creator and the thread creator here. The second feature that I wanna show you that I use often is this engage feature. So if I go to people here, I put people that I get inspiration from that I like their tweets that I wanna follow and this helps me to see it in one place. I can engage with it here, like leaving a comment and I can also get ideas for thread formats and thread frameworks. So one guy that I follow, his name is Justin Welsh. He's really good at these threads and posting them out in a way that's easy to follow and easy to read. And I basically stole this hook from him. So he made one about growing on Twitter pretty quickly from zero to like 30,000 followers on Twitter in a certain timeframe. And I was like, I like this formula here, this framework. I'm gonna use it and adjust it and just write about email with subscribers instead. And so this gives you really good inspiration. Obviously you don't wanna copy and paste someone's tweets but you can look at the format of how they tweet, right? And the hooks that they use and the type of sentence structure that they use. So I get a lot of inspiration just looking at the things that people talk about that I respect and look up to. And it also shows you the engagement. So if I see something that gets a ton of engagement, I can look at this and say, what is this really about? And I can write my own variation of this tweet or take that same concept and apply it to something else. So I love this feature here. It helps me to see my favorite tweeters in one place and see what's getting engagement and see different ideas and structures of threads and tweets that I can use for my own profile. A third feature that I like on here is the staff picks. So the staff picks, what you can do is pick a category. So let's just go to make money online, for example. And what you can do is you can save tweets. You can see tweets that are doing well in engagement. You can get ideas again for formats and frameworks that you can use and different concepts that you can talk about. And it's broken down by category and you can save these to certain collections, right? If I wanna see it on Twitter, I can just click see on Twitter. And it'll bring you directly to that tweet. So you can see the comments that people are leaving. You can see the direct up-to-date engagement even though I believe this is up-to-date. And you get to see the tweet on Twitter directly if you wanna go and click over to that. You can also click this edit and tweet button. I don't use this too much, but you can see here, it'll copy and paste it into your tweet scheduler and you can change out the copy and you can change out the concept if you're gonna switch it and use it for something else. Again, you do not want to copy and paste this. You use this as inspiration, the structure, the topics that are doing well. And you can, I spend a little bit of time in here every day and just scroll through and see what's doing well in engagement. So I like this feature, the staff picks. You can also go to this ideas generator tab here and get ideas for threads. So if I go here, I can type in email marketing, click enter, and you can see it'll give you some ideas of hooks that you can use for email marketing thread ideas. I don't use this too much. I more so use the staff picks and the engage feature where I can look at people that I follow and see what's working well for them. So I like these two the best, the staff picks and that people follower there. This gives you enough inspiration to see like, hey, what's doing well here? Let's look for one that's doing well, 100, 100. I'm not seeing too many here. So I like to just go, I just use these basic categories here at the top and just pick one of these and look at that. Now another place that you can go to get ideas is the search feature. So if I go to search here and yeah, let's just use marketing or let's use crypto.  And you could type in whatever topic that you wanna see here. It gives you some suggestions, but you can see here it shows you threads and no threads. And so you can filter this based on you wanna see thread formats, you can see that. If you wanna see individual tweets, you can see that. But you can see here, there's a ton of ways to get inspiration for your tweets and your threads. This is how I get ideas from mine around the structure and the ideas to use in my own threads and my own tweets. So love these features. I also love how clean the UI is and how easy it is to find these different things here. But those are the main features that I use to get ideas and the different structures for my tweets. Now one more thing I wanna show you here is the analytics. So you can see if I go here and click on analytics, it brings me to this page. You can break it down by seven, 30, 90 days or even set a custom range here. And it shows you important metrics like your followers, your profile visits, your total engagement, the amount of impressions you had over seven days. So this is over seven days. This is the stats that I have here. And so you can also see your top tweets. And you can see the daily follower gain by this graph here. And then I can also sort by my different tweets. If I wanna sort by impressions, this one is the one I just showed you is the most viewed one so far in the last seven days. And you can see all these other tweets. So what I do here is every seven days or 30 days, I'll look at the tweets that did best and got the best engagement and I can write more tweets based on that. So this one here, for example, I know this one is about my email list so I can write more about growing an email list. This one is about building a lean million dollar business so I can talk more about that. This one is just a humor post about farting and jars so maybe a little more entertainment and humor I can add to my profile. So this helps me to come up with ideas around, okay, this worked here in the last month or so, I can create more tweets around this topic or this content idea or this structure. So this analytics feature is also how I come up with ideas and different frameworks to use based on the tweets, my own tweets that are doing well. And I can also track the performance of each individual tweet here. So that's gonna wrap up my demo and review of this tweet hunter tool that I use to come up with these thread ideas and these thread frameworks. And like you know, like I mentioned in this video, the secret to growing fast on Twitter is these high quality threads. And this tool, tweet hunter is gonna help you create and come up with ideas for these high quality threads. Now, as you probably know, I only recommend products and services that I use and love. I'm never gonna recommend a bad or mediocre product to you. This has my highest 10 out of 10 recommendation.  And so I highly recommend this product. If you'd like to check out tweet hunter so that you can start growing faster on Twitter, go to SeanAnthony.co slash tweet hunter. That's my affiliate link. It comes at no extra cost to you if you use that link to buy or sign up. If you don't wanna use my link, I still highly recommend it. Just go to their site directly tweethunter.io, I believe, and sign up there. 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On behalf of the whole team, Professor Helen Dewey, Patrick Kearney, Catherine Bazar, Professor Butts-Cuven, Ellen Young, Denise Driscoe, and Professor Danny Eckert, I would like to thank the Brain Foundation and other donors for this prestigious and competitive gift that we were awarded.  I came to Australia initially in 2014 for my PhD at UNS Southern Europe, where my PhD was on neuroscience. And the idea for this project was a continuation of my PhD. And the reason for this research is because MS patients are often presenting with fatigue, which is a very common and debilitating feature that happens in all multiple sclerosis patients. So obstructive sleep apnea happens in about 20% of all MS patients prior to diagnosis. And during disease course, it can build up to up to 90%. And traditionally, MS patients do not have the traditional risk factors for obstructive sleep apnea, such as overweight, middle-aged, male, so which implies that perhaps the neuroinflammation that happens in those patients may play a role in upper airway collapsibility during sleep. So to assess those patients, I'll be using two simple tools. One is the stopband questionnaire, which is a validated questionnaire to measure the risk of obstructive sleep apnea in general population. In MS patients, it has shown that the questionnaire itself can only identify about 56% of those patients. And I'll be also using another simple tool, which is the upper airway sensation testing with monofilaments that can identify up to 50% of patients with high risk of airway collapsibility during sleep. So during the study, I'll be looking at a cohort. This is a pilot study of 30 patients that will be divided or be categorized based on the stopband questionnaire on low versus high risk of obstructive sleep apnea. They'll be assessed with the questionnaire as well, and all of them will be followed up with the gold standard sleep diagnosis or polysynography. So at the end of it all, I'll be comparing the results. And we hypothesize that the combination of those two simple tools will increase the prediction of obstructive sleep apnea in this cohort of patients. And the ultimate goal of this study, obviously, it's a long-term research that is building data for more research, but we'll be aiming in the future to look at larger cohorts. And the goal of this study is we hope that improving the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea, we can better manage fatigue in those patients. And also, in the light of the recent changes in Medicare billing for the sleep studies, we also hope that combining those two tools, we can be simply or easily used in the clinical practice. We can identify those patients and reduce the burden to public health costs. So I would like to thank all the donors, all the guests present here, and the organizing committee for this gift. Thank you.


And in Bonnie Blackledge, our business is called B&B Farms, which is both a canola farm and a canola oil business. We applied for the SEAR grant back in 2011 because we wanted to see if there was a more effective way of running our farm than just selling our canola seed as a commodity to one of the big processors over in Canada. This year we've got about 105 acres of canola growing. It's planted in April normally and harvested in August. So what you see in the background here is about a week to two weeks from harvest. It's probably at about 20% moisture now. We want to get it down to about 10% moisture. We are in the middle of transitioning from what I would call a traditional way of growing canola, which is using a disc and a plow and a harrow and so on to repair the fields, to moving towards no-till cropping of canola. This year actually for the first time this spring, for the first time we rented a no-till drill and drilled 40 acres of our canola with that just as an experiment to see how it would work. Working with MSU, the county extension director here, Jerry Lindquist, and right now we are in a process of getting some of our, we do a wheat canola rotation. Right now we're in a process of taking one of our 20 acre wheat fields and preparing that for a cover crop. So that will be our first cover crop moving towards the no-till system. We're going to try 20 acres this year and see how it goes and we'll no-till canola into that cover crop and wheat stubble. So I think that's a big move towards creating a sustainable type of farming here. We started out with the Sire Grant using an incubator kitchen in heart and we were producing a small amount at a time and we have now progressed to having our own licensed kitchen in our farmhouse which makes it a lot easier and more efficient to produce larger quantities. Part of the Sire Grant was to ask for costs to get our business started and we had hoped originally to have someone else press the oil and we would just do the bottling and marketing while it ended up that we couldn't find anybody else to market or to press the oil. So we ended up having to buy an oil press and this Sire Grant actually helped us to pay for part of that oil press. So that was really a great thing to have. The first big thing that helped with the marketing was we ended up going to I think it was called Making It in Michigan conference that was put on by MSU and the product center and we had a booth there. We got to make a lot of contacts. It's how all of our first sales were made and it just seems like it's a type of product that once somebody has it and is using it, somebody else hears about it and everything just keeps moving and we keep getting more contacts, more sales. A lot of them have been through the incubator kitchen in heart. A lot of them have been through our relationship with MSU and the product center and a lot of them just word of mouth but we've made a few active attempts to market it with certain businesses but like I said most of it just seems to kind of happen. The canola crop and what we're doing with oil business right now is really attributable in large part to both the Sire Grant and MSU without the help and encouragement from both and technical expertise. I'm fairly certain we wouldn't be growing canola today. We'd probably be growing corn and soybeans in a traditional way. So it's been great to have that kind of support and somebody to turn to with all the questions we have and there's millions of it seems like.