Item Number – SCP-522 Object Class – Safe Special Containment Procedures – SCP-522 should be kept in an airtight room with adequate light sources. Asmet suits are strongly advised, as anyone leaving the room must go through a thorough decontamination process to prevent the potential spread of SCP-522. Once every two weeks, one pig, or animal of equivalent body mass, is to be placed at the center of SCP-522. Except for purposes of experimentation, at no point should any person stand on SCP-522 while alone inside the enclosure. For this reason, all personnel entering SCP-522's containment room should be accompanied by another person. Description – SCP-522 appears to be a square swatch of red carpet, approximately 3.5 meters on each side. However, when a human being stands atop it, SCP-522 wraps itself around the victim with surprising speed. Once the victim has been completely unfolded, thousands of hair-like protrusions extend from the surface of the carpet and dig into the victim's skin, quickly draining them of blood over the next few minutes. After draining the victim's blood, SCP-522 unwraps and attempts to return to its original position, leaving the blanched victim in a heap at its center. Further investigation into the structure of SCP-522 indicates that it is a normal red carpet that has been infested by a previously unknown form of fungus, or slime mold. This raises the possibility that there may be other copies of SCP-522 in the wild, and necessitates the decontamination procedures to prevent any accidental spreading of spores on site. Furthermore, the red coloring of the carpet is simply just that. The color of the carpet, having nothing to do with the organism or the task it performs. Theoretically, SCP-522 could live in a carpet of any color, undetected to the naked eye. Of additional note, SCP-522 appears to possess a rudimentary amount of intelligence. If another individual is present within the room, it will not attack, unless it is in a position to overwhelm both people at once. Current observations show that it is also patient. How long it can go without feeding is currently unknown. See experimental log for more details. SCP-522 was discovered during a murder investigation, in the town of Rwanda, when one of the investigating officers fell prey to its effects. The mysterious coincidence of two people being utterly drained of blood within the same building prompted the Foundation to investigate, at which point SCP-522 was discovered. The Foundation is currently assessing the viability of using SCP-522 as a covert assassination tool. Addition to breeding, additional copies of SCP-522 pending approval. Experimental log. Experiment 1. One D-class personnel, placed on the center of SCP-522. Results. Once security left the room, the SCP-522 immediately wrapped up and around the subject. Subject could be seen thrashing through the underside of the carpet. Total exsanguination occurred after rwanda minutes, at which point the carpet released the drained victim and returned to its original state. Experiment 2. Two D-class personnel, both placed at the center of SCP-522. Results. SCP-522 engulfed both subjects. Total exsanguination occurred after rwanda minutes. Experiment 3. Two D-class personnel, one placed at the center of the SCP-522. The other placed at the exterior edge. Results. Even after security left the room, SCP-522 remained in its dormant state. Experiment terminated after six hours of no activity. Experiment 4. Two D-class personnel, one placed at the center of the SCP-522. The other placed off SCP-522 entirely. Results. Even after security left the room, SCP-522 remained dormant. Experiment terminated as per previous. Experiment 5. One D-class personnel, placed at the center of SCP-522. SCP-522 fastened to floor with carpet staples. Results. SCP-522 rips upward with surprising force, pulling carpet staples from floor. Total exsanguinating occurred in same time span as Experiment 1. Carpet attempted return to dormant state, but staples remained free. Experiment 6. One D-class personnel, placed at the center of SCP-522. A heavy desk was placed at the exterior edge. Results. SCP-522 pulled itself out from under the desk and engulfed to the subject. Overdraining subject of all blood, it managed to wedge itself back into its original position, slipping beneath the desk. Experiment 7. One rat, placed at the center of SCP-522. Results. SCP-522 engulfed the rat. Total exsanguination occurred in 1 second. Note from Dr. R- You mean we could have been using animals all along?  Exposing of the remains would have been much easier if I'd known that earlier. Experiment 8. Two rats, one placed at the center of SCP-522. The other placed at the opposite side of the enclosure, acting as an observer. Results. SCP-522 engulfed the rat placed upon it, despite the presence of the observer rat. Note from Dr. R- Curious. The only difference between Experiment 4 and Experiment 8 are the species of the subjects in question, yet we see two totally different results. This bears further investigation. Experiment 9. One rat, placed at the center of the SCP-522. One D-class personnel placed off to the side, acting as an observer. Results. SCP-522 remains inert. One D-class personnel placed at the center of SCP-522. One rat placed off to the side as an observer. Results. Total exsanguination occurred in f***ing minutes, f***ing seconds. It seems to be getting faster. Note from Dr. R- It appears SCP-522 is able to determine whether or not a person is in the immediate vicinity. Now it makes the determination as to when it is safe to act has yet to be determined, but it does not seem to realize that we're observing it with the cameras. End Experimental Log Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-521, the post box, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


What's up everybody welcome to Barazzo Media Lab and this is where we are launching Wazel podcast platform officially guys and right here with me I have a very beautiful lady who's going to be introducing herself and telling us what does she do for Wazel hi mama hi how are you thank you thank you for having me Harry Boussana now let me ask you what role do you play on this amazing platform oh well I work at summer box so we're part of the team that is launching Wazel so we're really excited for the podcast platform and what it means for podcasters in Kenya is we're really excited about it yeah now let me ask you something when you guys were creating you know this platform what was in your mind especially when it comes to what you guys are offering to the podcasters well mostly it's about visibility for the podcasters you know Spotify all those other podcast platforms are fantastic but if you have your podcast they're 320 something million users of Spotify worldwide so the chances of your podcast getting noticed at least for Kenyans it's not that high so our priority is visibility especially for now at least for now for Kenyan podcasters yeah of course working with summer box you've interacted with so many podcasters you get you know to to know how the industry is going on that direction let me ask how do you feel what is the status of podcast in Kenya right now I think podcasters are getting a lot more trust they're getting a lot more trust from the audience from you know the public from corporates but that is also a lot of responsibility because we can't just talk carelessly on our platforms we can't be spreading misinformation we can't be spreading you know just bad vibes online so we have a lot of responsibility and and hopefully money is coming into the the industry as well yeah the money path for sure I know we definitely cannot wait to see what you guys have to offer us what are we expecting this evening we're going to have a showcase of a couple of podcasts that we work with here at summer box and then we launched the app so that's the most important thing yeah for sure yeah all right mama thank you so much we can't wait to see how it goes thank you thank you hello you look nice thank you thank you I shouldn't choose my mic not really I think we're gonna use mine please tell us what you're doing today for was a podcast platform all right so today we are launching was a podcast myself and Ben psycho are okay myself and Ben psycho are hosting the event today so we just want to take you through the whole podcasting space and there's a lot I don't want to say much because I know Doris has already said the the bit and Dan is also gonna say a few things but I'm excited for what we have I'm excited that our podcasters are getting recognition and for the first time in Africa podcasts are being monetized by one of our own now of course as a digital creator Claudia um the podcasting is something you might have to interact with and also probably you have your own I know that how does it feel to have now something of our very own this is all right I'm happy this is beautiful it's good to see we're all about monetizing Kenyan talents right now so we are on the right path I believe what do you like to tell someone who's probably just starting off someone as young as you what do you like to tell them when it comes to podcasts all right so uh fortunately right now you don't have to do a lot of pro bono gigs you can start with your own things so that you get that recognition so you can start by doing your own podcast and guys will just be attracted to you we have our tech talks Africa they're part of our program we're gonna interact with them they've also been monetized and they didn't start by doing pro bono gigs they started by their podcast so and it's it's it's amazing to see how there's a lot of growth and development hey now Claudia you are very young quite young I must say but I've been seeing you on these platforms you know hosting and even this one is quite a big deal for you to be here what character or trait do you think you actually possess that has been getting you this gig I think I'm really ambitious extremely ambitious and I'm very self-driven I have a lot of goals and for me it's just a matter of pushing yourself and putting yourself out there you might be really good but guys don't know you're good so you have to put in extra effort so that you can get noticed I was telling a friend of mine the other day um you know you the way you fan girl over celebrities it gets a point it gets to a point where now you're the celebrity how did you get there and most most of the times it's not hanging out with celebrities it's your work that gets you that recognition that gives you that fame and I believe sometimes when the fame comes it also comes with money for sure all right Claudia what are we expecting from you today as the host what what tell us you're going to have an interactive session that's all I can see very conversational because podcasting is all about conversations very conversational so there's a lot that you're going to get and it's going to be very insightful all right my dear I know you're just about to start so I'm going to let you go so that you can get yourself you know some some some self-time all right I've seen Willis Raburu somewhere I just yeah I've seen him some I'm just going to say hi to him and also Ben cycle all right all right thank you as always thanks man you know the the the brief of the outfit was hippie and podcasty so you're a good one you're a great one for that matter you know joyride has been doing so good and I see you guys have you know not deviating but introduced something tell us about that Ben so I think it's a joyride is about growth I think podcasting interview president I think it's just like expanding from just expanding the space so that joyride becomes more than bigger than us because the dream with other sub-shows I watch every every episode pitching on camera this is for you yeah I want you this is from Miss Kitingi and she's very rich so let's talk about why we're here today we're here because of the Wazzo podcast platform how does it actually make you feel for us to just have our very own in Africa for the first time I think it's first of all you see it serves the it you see the the problem about products being launched in Europe US exactly because the markets are very different you see the market in in Switzerland or Finland or US it's very different from the market in Nairobi so when you have one that's Kenyan that means the platform understands what people want how people can make money you can be paid easily I'm sure in future they can introduce a table they can pay via MPSA so you don't have to be going every time to the bank and follow up so that's the beauty about having a Kenyan platform because we tell the story from our perspective yeah yeah now what are you looking for especially this platform because I know you as a host you have a deeper brief than the rest of the people what are you expecting from this podcast precisely um this platform I just want Sema box to tell us how we're going to make more money no Besa hey we just I just want to see how the monetization element is going to come alive and I'm sure they'll do a good job yeah what are we expecting from you as a host tonight oh my god tuna and Soma so guys better watch out for that so um just looking forward to having an engaging uh crowd I hope the crowd will be a sport yeah I think these are podcasting so they're quite energetic and all the feedback they better give me feedback now Ben as we wind up please inspire a young person or just someone who's would really want to start a podcast right now tell them something oh man podcast is in the hands of you know Kitambo podcast because I'm a Barbie but now I know podcasts in Kituie I know radio stations who their biggest shows are podcast we have now podcasting Kiku you as well so that is the future so get in with the wave I'm sure this is just the beginning of podcasting because in Africa it's South Africa Kenya then Nigeria in podcasting you have it from the biggest in Kenya right now not even just Kenya Africa that podcast of yours guys is so big say hi to one zero for me and thank you so much I will thank you so much for having me


If we had really good eviction data, we could do a better job of targeting the scarce resources that we have to reach the people that most critically need them. That's people of color, that's women headed households, that's families with limited English proficiency, that's seniors in our communities. Getting the right eviction data helps us intervene in those cases and keep those families stably housed. The more eviction data that we have, the better job that we can do as well. So the earlier in the process we're able to intervene when we find out somebody is in financial hardship and at risk of housing loss. Having that data is the crucial point that lets us target our resources, do the right outreach, find folks and help them stay stably housed through challenging times.


Good afternoon everyone. My name is Emily Polak and I'm a researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, IID, and we're hosting this afternoon's webinar. I'd really like to welcome everyone to this fifth webinar in the series that we're running at the moment on approaches to empowering producers in commercial agriculture. It's fantastic, so many people could join us today. A lot of people have registered, there's interest in this and it's a critical issue. So this webinar series on empowering producers in commercial agriculture is supported by a four-year project led by IID but in collaboration with partners in Nepal and Malawi and it's funded by UK aid in connection with commercial agriculture for small holders and agribusiness program or CASA. So you can find out more on either of those by contacting us and through the links on the channels you reached this webinar by. A key part of this endeavor, this webinar series and of the project as a whole, is gathering evidence from around the world and testing approaches on how producers are exercising agency to address challenges in their value chain relations. So it's starting from the producer and for example approaches to address information and power, asymmetries and approaches that support producers to be in the driving seats or at least to be engaging and interacting with public and private sector actors from a position of strength or a stronger position than they might otherwise have been in and it's about producers and their wider communities looking also at household level and social differentiation. We're very pleased today to be hosting a group of panelists who are going to share their experiences of a Kenyan based social enterprise that has been for the past decade seeking to disrupt business as usual in the coffee sector. Vava Coffee began operations in 2009 and now has a rich experience of seeking to tackle barriers to an inclusive, fair and sustainable coffee sector. Vava Coffee is of course now facing unprecedented conundrums from COVID-19 like the rest of us and like many other enterprises, businesses, investors and we're interested to know what that is meaning, what that is telling us about their relationship with producers and how producers can continue to have a voice and overcome the challenges we're facing. So this webinar will tread a path between what lessons have been generated by the work of Vava Coffee with a sharp focus on women and youth over the past decade and then also on the other hand the options and strategies for sustaining this work to strengthen producer agency in their value chain in the pandemic context and beyond. IID is not directly involved in this initiative. This series is a learning event to generate lessons from different cases and contexts so we bring you this in the spirit of mutual exchange and learning and we very much invite you to share your insights and experiences and pose questions relevant to this discussion following the panel. So without further ado I'd now like to introduce our panel who will take you through the key components of the work that they do, the progress and then challenges currently being faced and maybe some lessons for others both kind of out of the COVID context but also what's happening now and how we might move through it as an international community. So first Vava and Gwenni will give us an overview presentation and Vava is the creator of Vava Coffee which is a social enterprise that trades, roasts and consults on coffee value chains. Its main aim is to contribute to better future prospects for coffee communities and the industry as a whole. So that will be our key presentation to understand more from Vava Coffee and their experiences and following that overview we'll hear from two panelists connected to the initiative to hear reflections from their perspective. Brian Morare is a young Kenyan farmer age 23 and current farm manager intern at Vava Coffee. Brian is currently heading the Kisarjukipeto organic food project. So Brian's going to reflect on his understanding of some of the social inclusion dynamics in the coffee sector and also what he hopes to gain from engaging in the youth entrepreneurship mentoring scheme that is offered by Vava Coffee but currently on hold as I understand it due to the pandemic. Holly Kragiopoulos is owner and director of Northstar Coffee Roasters, a coffee roastery academy and coffee shop based in Leeds in the UK and a buyer of Vava Coffee. It's a business focused on quality and ethics showcasing some of the greatest specialty coffee grades from around the world and investing in communities across the coffee lands. Holly founded Northstar in 2013 and is responsible for managing producer relationships so Holly's going to share some reflections about her relationship with Vava Coffee and particularly now how they're seeking to be flexible and adaptable in the context of in this case the UK government's lockdown measures to sustain the relationship to suppliers and to the producers behind them. So unfortunately under the current circumstances we're not able to have a coffee producer with us on the panel due to movement restrictions and internet challenges but we're delighted to have these speakers join us and we look forward to hearing their perspectives. So without further ado I'd like to hand over to our presenter today Vava and Guenny to take us through the Vava Coffee experience and I look forward to sharing this with you and the discussion that follows. Thank you. Thank you Emily. Hi everyone and thank you IED for hosting this webinar today. So I'll move swiftly I'll say through the presentation to allow I'll say sufficient time maybe for Q&A and for my other panelists to also share their stories but I'll just quickly touch on why we do what we do and as Emily briefly mentioned we are a B Corp which is basically a benefit corporation with a social enterprise model and have been in this sector for for 10 years now and I also I mean today I'll also touch on a bit of the work that I also do with my other organization Hentadel Futuro which has done quite a bit of work on women and youth within the region and in Latin America and hence taking some of those learnings and fusing them into current scenarios that we're faced with. So having started on this journey 10 years ago it's definitely not been an easy ride but I can say that the failures and the lessons learned have been better than any MBA class that I've been a part of so I wouldn't despite all the challenges that we're faced with I really would not choose another career so I'm grateful for all the experiences. Now within the coffee sector we've got different various players and everyone's been affected in different ways. Today I'll touch more on the folks that we work with very closely which are the producing communities but also what our business has been faced with be it in logistics issues and being a trader as well how the current scenario has also impacted our business. When we look at the producers I would say this would be the most vulnerable sector of folks within the supply chain because some of us do have like a fallback plan or better ways of shielding ourselves during this pandemic however say for producers especially because some producers are having their harvests happening currently we see an increase in cost of production and extra costs which have to be incurred if they have to provide PPE to laborers and existing employees as well as perhaps further investments in more drying beds and some may also not be able to offset some of the loans they they have outstanding with some financial institutions. When it comes to our millers and marketers they may have certain delays from certain clients and certain operational disruptions based on the curfew that we see and movement restrictions currently in place in Kenya. As for traders which is where we fall into play is well there's given the some knee jerk reactions that we've had from various BIT clients we could see a reduction in order volumes. In this time it's also definitely tougher to sign on new clients because everyone in the world is affected by this situation so any sort of expansion plans we had in terms of maybe increasing volumes are I mean those are tough to come by in this times and also from various discussions we've been having with other industry players be they coffee shop owners or roasters we've seen people lose massive volumes in in business and we also see consumers unable to experience that third place experience where they want to visit their favorite coffee shop and get a great coffee from a barista. Later on in this presentation I'll touch a little on how or what we're doing as a business to um still have a positive impact on the community as well as um a couple of tips that we may share with others on this webinar. I want to lay the landscape a little on various coffee growing regions in Kenya primarily these have been the central and rift valley regions and the central regions cover mostly the Mount Kenya region and the eastern region the eastern region being Ambu, Meru and the Mount Kenya region being Tika, Nyeri, Kiambu and other parts and then you've got rift valley which covers Nandi, Kericho and you've got the western parts of Kenya that also grow coffee. Now based on statistics that I came across from um the Federation of Women Lawyers when we look at land ownership um in Kenya we see that 94 percent of land is owned by men five percent is owned jointly and only one percent of land is actually owned by women and then we also look at um how many households are actually uh headed by women 32 percent and 68 percent of households are headed by men but I think we all know who actually heads those households um regardless of that so another sort of data point that has influenced our work is what when we look at age distribution in Kenya majority of the population is under 35 years and unemployment rates from past statistics have shown the unemployment rate in Kenya to be at 40 percent but obviously with COVID affecting all economies we should see this percentage rise over time. Now looking at all this different data points um we decided as a business to um create what we call a social value chain. Now a social value chain is an analytic framework which combines a theory of change and look and also fusing a value chain analysis which helps companies to strategically assess their social objectives we created a social value chain which then informs our activities as a company but also helps us keep on track in actually looking at whether we're actually having an impact on farming communities in this country. Now our focus has been primarily on women and youth now some people may ask why women and youth well agriculture being an important engine of any economy in particular in Africa we've seen that there's a lot of barriers to entry when it comes to women and also youth when it comes to land ownership as well as capital access to capital and also just access to proper training to enable women and youth actually take up opportunities that present themselves in this be it in coffee or in agriculture in general. Now during um this pandemic that we're faced with we're asking ourselves how do we sustain the agency of women and youth in these times where both as business leaders and business leaders and people within the sector we're faced with massive challenges and literally just trying to keep our heads above water. We realize that we're faced with a system failure in our economies whereby we have 42 percent of Kenyans still living under the poverty line and 36 percent of Kenyans connected to electricity whereas in neighboring Uganda and Tanzania we've got the statistics you see on your screen and when we talk about environmental issues we see that deforestation numbers are still pretty high now despite what we're faced with the world is still demanding better of all businesses now in the past 20 years we've seen companies try to sort of measure how they do good using certain certifications but as the world demands better we've had to look for new ways to sort of measure what we do and how we do it hence what I present as a better alternative for us even during this time is tools which have been provided by the bee community. Now what is a bee corporation? Certified bee corporations are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose and it looks at a business in the areas that you see on your screen from governance to workers to community and environment. What you see on your screen currently is the Vava Coffee score but of course we've got our weak points where we still need a lot of work however this is a tool, the impact assessment tools that are provided under BeeCorp are what we are currently utilizing to help us still monitor the work and how we engage with our community bee producers and various other suppliers and the youth and women communities that we're trying to impact. I'll skip over the next couple of slides fairly quickly but some of the other benefits that we see being engaged in the bee community are a group of like-minded be it CEOs or like-minded individuals who are still striving to do good despite and in spite of the challenges that we're faced with as a community. Now faced with the various challenges that we see today I'd like to talk about how we can turn the challenges into opportunities and I think the role of leaders in this times is to ask ourselves how can we innovate and how can we still motivate be it our employees and the community in which we engage and diversification is something that we've always trained and talked to our producers about and in this times part of what we've done as an organization is also delve into projects around food security and how we can engage the youth in the community in learning better ways of farming but also keeping them busy during these times hence you know delving into other I would say revenue streams for the organization hence the quesadro quipeto organic food project that Brian is currently heading. The other is how do we continue engaging in sustainable coffee projects with the women who have previously been beneficiaries of our work and the funny thing about sustainability is that it has to be sustained so we've had to sort of find smart ways of keeping things going and finding other ways of engaging coffee producers be it ways of having them increase in animal husbandry and finding ways of having them produce biogas but also looking at how we can perhaps build on value addition locally and in as much as Kenya is not a coffee consuming country is just to drive that agenda in how do we entice local consumers into finally appreciating the coffee that's produced here and sort of tying that into also food and having that as an offering as a company whereby if folks are ordering our coffee locally they can also get a food basket. So these are some of the innovative ways that we see we can still keep engaging positively in the community and increasing both local consumption of coffee but also other ways that we've seen within our supply chain is how do we leverage on the partnerships we have be it with folks like Holly at North Star how do we share the stories of how we're being impacted in this COVID times and how do we share lessons amongst ourselves so that at least after this pandemic that our businesses are both there and we're all supporting each other through openly sharing what the challenges are but also openly trying to find solutions because I honestly believe that despite all the negatives that have come with COVID there's certainly opportunities that we can leverage as folks within the supply chain in coming up with smart collaborations that could boost all of us. Now the other I would say bigger player in a thing we can leverage here is technology and social media these are proven to be very powerful tools in how we can remotely connect with not just producing communities but folks around the world in storytelling and you know telling what's happening within the community and seeing how these stories can help impact or bring about positive solutions and also ensuring that through all of this the vulnerable constituents of the community especially women and youth are also protected because what we've seen also as a negative side effect to all of this is the levels of insecurity that have cropped up be it I mean in Kenya we've had cases of police brutality but also cases of women not feeling very safe trying to beat the curfew and getting home there've been those incidents of sexual abuse so how do we all come together to ensure that we all come out of this on the other side in one piece so with that I think of sort of come to my time and thank you and I'd like to hand it over to the next panelist thanks thank you so much Vava and I should mention my name is Thierry Berger and I'm an associate at IID and I will be moderating this event I will now ask Holly if she would mind sharing her remarks in relation to Vava's presentation just five minutes and then we'll give the floor to Brian so Holly over to you okay thanks Thierry yeah so as my introduction kind of mentioned I'm one of the directors and owners of a company called North Star Coffee Roasters we're based in the UK and we're relatively small small business we have a huge focus on very high quality coffee and service both wholesale clients from coffee shops restaurants bars cafes and to also an online community of home coffee enthusiasts and I guess in this five minutes that I have it's sort of I'd quite like to comment firstly on how we have been impacted by COVID and therefore how our producing partners have been will be impacted and a little bit about why we kind of choose to work with Vava and the work that she's doing why we align ourselves so closely with those values when it comes to our sourcing for Kenya and Tanzania which is kind of the two origins that we currently work with Vava for so very briefly like many businesses in our industry with the kind of situation just spiraling out of control with COVID we found ourselves almost overnight having lost the majority of our kind of business which was to supply wholesale customers in the hospitality industry which really it did feel overnight kind of just closed its doors and hopefully temporarily but we're kind of now starting to feel some repercussions that that may be a bit more longer term and for us that was a really terrifying situation and after kind of trying to build a business for the past seven years we really really identify with what Vava says about how challenging that is and although the challenges we face may have been different you know it's certainly not been a kind of an easy route to getting there to try and convince people that they need to pay more for their coffee that coffee you know can be can be much more than just you know instant granules dissolved in hot water and so yeah really terrifying situation for us when when the kind of impact of COVID really started to make itself known and as Vava sort of stated in her presentation obviously we are fortunate to be at the kind of consumer end of the supply chain and therefore definitely more resilient you know to kind of facing issues like this and hopefully coming through the other side we we sort of took some time out and managed to to try and well really pivot the focus of our business focused on online sales which we you know we already had a platform set up to do that and it just became you know more important than ever that that was performing effectively and that meant you know that we could crucially sort of continue roasting beans and and making our way through through lots of forward contracted coffee stocks which was ultimately our probably one of our biggest concerns really when all of this started to hit was the question of how we would you know be able to buy from the producers that we work with you know this year and and therefore make impact you know through our purchase as a small business that's the only tool that we have really is to to try and drive value back to the to the producer and and kind of increase the impact that we're actually able to have and so thankfully we are at a point of sort of maintenance I would say at the moment with the business that we we have through the online shop and we're utilizing this time to really try and communicate issues like the the like Babas discussed really you know through our own social media channels through reaching our customers who you know arguably are facing issues of the of their own right now but you know it seems to be in times of crisis like this we've seen in the past you know in times of economic decline that the kind of rise of conscious consumerism has really is something that hopefully we can take hope from that you know despite the the kind of challenge around you know facing economy locally and and internationally hopefully what will come out this will be a greater appreciation for for kind of behaving in a more responsible way as a consumer and briefly just to touch on why we kind of work so closely with Vava and why we share her mission to sort of raise the profile of women and youth in the supply chain and coffee and I've stated obviously as a small business we're we're somewhat limited in the kind of financial impact that we can have through our purchasing and we're not we're not kind of by any means a big buyer of coffee in comparison to some of the world's biggest coffee companies but we very very much believe that our our you know every every sort of dollar we spend on coffee we wanted to have maximum impact and maximum benefit for those who are responsible for growing it and therefore kind of sustaining our entire industry and what's become known within the coffee industry over the past few years is that the average age of coffee farmers is is gradually increasing to around 55 years old and and you know that does present us with a kind of a bit of a question mark over the future of our industry and with a slightly aging population of producers and you know and more more use kind of being motivated to move out of rural areas into urban areas like leaving coffee behind the question has to be asked why is that happening and what kind of becomes clear to us is the industry as it is right now is very very volatile and the the kind of pricing mechanisms that the coffee is is bought and sold under it you know drastically need updating and climate change issues that producers are facing and is leaving them much more open to volatility environmentally and and ultimately that's leading to a situation where coffee farming is not really attractive you know to sort of stay with them the other kind of principle around all of this is obviously the the theory of agency and producers having agency and essentially control over their their business and so the question is how do we kind of ensure producers are looking at what they do as a business and then showing that they feel engaged and empowered in what they do to put them in a stronger position and take a bit more control over their own supply chain and so that's just touching on the youth aspect women obviously the partnership gender equity sort of has found that 90 of every dollar earned by a woman will be spent back on the household and on the family where only as in comparison to 40 percent in comparison to dollars earned by males and therefore you know it's in this manner that we feel coffee can be a huge opportunity for community development economically and that's kind of where we see the potential in what we do if we can ensure women are able to access more more money from their supply chain but they are all too often solely kind of responsible for in terms of harvesting you know mulching pruning picking everything and they're currently denied huge access from the market and that's something that we feel and if we could try and change and turn around you know that ultimately the impact economically could be huge and so that that's kind of why we've aligned ourselves closely with the work that Bob was doing because of that focus on on kind of empowering women and youth and we lend our kind of time in terms of running sensory workshops when we when we kind of visit which we intend to do hopefully again next year and just spreading the word you know trying to do as much as we possibly can to ensure that our own our own customers understand the the initiative of Hentad El Pitura that we can contribute to financially as well through sales of our Kenyan in Tanzanian coffee and so in terms of how how this relationship will be impacted by Covid obviously we really hope it won't be and last year you know in terms of our sales of our purchase of Kenyan coffee we purchased from the fly crop and therefore landed coffee in around August as opposed to slightly earlier in the year so we kind of wouldn't usually be looking to put to make another purchase from new crop until around about nine to twelve months after that that time that gives us a bit of leeway to hopefully ensure that our purchases and our volumes won't be too affected by by Covid and and we we kind of really look forward to talking about that with Baba very soon and and yeah but in between now and then we're just going to be doing all that we possibly can kind of share the word and share these stories really to ensure consumers are as informed as they possibly can be. Thank you very much Holly. Brian would you like to share your comments please? Okay here what I'm saying is the government said the other day we lost 1.2 million jobs here in Kenya as a result of Covid-19 so youths are affected here and we are trying to say that all is not lost this is an opportunity for the youth also to venture more into agriculture we have a lot of land to farm and not just farming we have a lot of land to farm on the good food that is organic food which we must advocate for for each and every farmer here in Kenya to produce good food that can be eaten around. Now on the community side around we are trying to impact the community around the youth also in training them on on organic organic food production which will impact them positively okay and they'll know how to produce these things because as I have said someone have to travel as much as eight kilometers from where we are to go to a market to get some spinach and kale and some maize these are staple food here in Kenya so the idea is to try not only the coffee farmers we try and sensitize that this thing can be done it's not it's not from the it's not from the blues and it can be done and we can show them how to do it so as to impact them positively. Over to you Teri. Thank you Brian and apologies for the participant for the quality of the connection thank you to our panelists I think Emily wanted to share very very brief remarks Emily over to you. Okay thanks Teri and thanks once again to all the presenters it was a very rich conversation. It would be very hard to wrap up everything in this one minute or 30 seconds as I said we will be doing a blog to summarize the discussion and there's opportunities to continue through comments there that will be shared with you and I think we're in very interesting times and the I think what the current context is is doing is is forcing people to ask and not only how can we continue to do what we do but what are the opportunities and so Brian touched on opportunities for youth in the context of mass unemployment and then there's opportunities to to rethink value chains and global supply chains and in many cases people are looking to the indicators of resilience between global supply chains and more local supply chains and looking at what creates that resilience and food security in times of crisis and so there's lots more to be discussed about how how resilient value chains are even when they are at the end of the spectrum that is looking to generate the most impact at the community and producer level as the the project that we're working on and empowering producers and looking at agency we're interested to see where metrics around or perhaps not metrics of qualitative information around how agency and empowerment is is also featuring there how our producers themselves seeing their role in their agriculture and who they sell to and how they sell looking at how they negotiate and that type of question so this is rich data and exchange for for those questions so I won't take I won't make further comments in that regard we can continue the discussion we hope you'll all stay engaged with the project and there'll be opportunities obviously to follow up with with Vava and North Star through their own contacts this is a very micro case in the whole of the coffee sector or the whole across agriculture and small scale producers so we hope you've enjoyed a kind of zoom in to a particular case as well as through the medium of zoom and we look forward to continuing the discussion


So, good morning everyone and welcome back to the lectures on Classics in Total Synthesis. We have been discussing total synthesis of many natural products and the last few lectures we are focusing on synthesis of quite a few alkaloids. So today and tomorrow we will talk about an alkaloid which is also very well known and famous alkaloid which is used as a painkiller is none other than morphine. So, morphine is an interesting alkaloid in fact in 1806 that was a year where the morphine was isolated in pure form, it was isolated in pure form from the puppy seeds. So, that was the beginning of isolation of pure natural products from the natural source. So, it was done by a young pharmacist called Fredridge Satunar and this is the structure of morphine. So, if you look at this molecule it is a pentacyclic structure as an aromatic ring having a phenol and 3 6-cell bud rings 1, 2, 3 and a dihydrofuran ring and you can see 1 chiral center 2, 3, 4, 5. There are 5 contiguous chiral centers in this molecule and since then there are many natural products which were isolated in pure form from the naturally occurring sources. And as you can see the natural product is quite complicated as structurally. So, it took quite some time to elicit its correct structure in fact about 100 years ago Sir Robert Robinson a well known synthetic organic chemist he proposed the correct structure of morphine and it took another 27 years to confirm the structure of morphine as you know those days any new structure was isolated and then the correct structure was proposed by someone but still the final proof came in the form of only total synthesis. So, the first total synthesis of this molecule was reported by Gates in 1952 and 3 years later X-ray also confirmed its structure. So, there are several total synthesis of this molecule considering its complexity it is understandable many synthetic groups jumped on the total synthesis of this molecule more than 30 total and formal synthesis are there in the literature. However, this molecule if it has to be used in you know treatment particularly pain related treatment still people use only the natural sources because it can be obtained in huge quantity from natural sources. So, that is why that is a major supplier for morphine and its analogs. And since morphine is well known pain reliever people started making several analogs one of the infamous analogs is nothing but diacetylmorphine which has a unique name called heroine because of this particular infamous molecule which can be easily obtained by simple oscillation of morphine with acetic anhydride. Acetic anhydride is a controlled substance okay. So, we all know so when you have to use acetic anhydride you have to follow certain guidelines and then you cannot get more amount of acetic anhydride for academic purpose. And simple reason is the conversion of morphine to heroine can be done in single step using acetic anhydride. And there are several analogs some are natural see for example if one of the hydroxyl that is the phenolic hydroxyl group if it is methylated then this is called codeine. So this is also naturally occurring and if both the hydroxyl groups are methylated then that natural product is called pibane. And if the phenolic hydroxyl group is free and the other hydroxyl group that is you have a diene in fact it is you oxidize this the alphabet the allylic alcohol to alphabet answer the ketone then you form the dienol ether so that is called pibane okay. So these are all naturally occurring but there are many semi-synthetic molecules. So one is hydro morphine that means you reduce the double bond and also oxidize the alcohol so that is called hydro morphine and if this hydrogen is replaced by hydroxyl group then it is called oxymorphone okay and this molecule is called hydrocodone where the hydro morphine is just methylated the phenolic hydroxyl group is methylated. And here too the oxymorphone to oxycodone what you have done is the phenolic hydroxyl group is methylated these are all semi-synthetic morphine derivative and instead of n-methyl group okay. So you morphine n is methylated and it is a methyl group if you have allyl group and here if you have a hydroxyl group then this is called naloxo okay and this is diacetyl morphine already I told you its common name that is heroin and if you do not have carbonyl group if you do not have that oxygen if you do not have the double bond and if the phenolic hydroxyl group is acetylated so this is called disomorphine these are all for just information and you do not have to worry too much so why I am saying all this and then showing all these structures is because morphine derivatives are used as analgesic so there are still lot of work going on in making more and more analogs of morphine. So this particular molecule if you look at this is made from tibane so they take tibane and then do a Diels-All reaction okay they do a Diels-All reaction with methyl vinyl ketone and followed by addition of tertiary butyl lithium you introduce this and here instead of methyl group you have cyclopropyl methyl group okay so this is also a very interesting analog of morphine. So now let us see how this molecule was synthesized and reported for the first time as I mentioned gates was the first one to report the total synthesis of morphine and that was in 1952. So you can imagine it took almost 150 years since its isolation and 27 years after its structure was proposed by Robert Robinson to complete the first total synthesis. So this is a structure of morphine so if you do a 180 degree rotation okay you get this structure okay and that can be written like this because this is also important when you think about any molecule in 3 dimensional way so the confirmation is very important. So I leave it for few seconds so that you know you can see how this molecule can be redrawn in this form okay and as I mentioned morphine has 5 contiguous stereocenters okay and the first synthesis was reported by gates and they took about 27 steps to complete this total synthesis. So from the retrosynthetic point of view the first disconnection was the methyl group here if you can demethylate then you will get the morphine and this is also a natural product as I mentioned it is codeine and this codeine can be obtained from this bromocodino. So basically you have to debrominate and then do the reduction of the keto so both can be done in one step if we use LAH so debromination can be done and the keto group can be reduced and this can be obtained from this ketone and if you look at this this is one of the key steps in the synthesis of morphine what they have done they have to introduce a double bond here and they have to form a CO bond at the same time they also have to introduce a bromine okay all these were done in one step I will come to that it is a beautiful step and how it was done I will discuss little later and this compound can be made from this alkene okay so you do either hydroboration oxidation but that time hydroboration oxidation was not known it is just addition of water okay it is a tradition of water introduced the hydroxyl group and when you see this molecule you can see a cyclohexene and you all know the cyclohexene can be obtained by a Dielsall reaction so the precursor for this compound should be the corresponding alkene and the diene okay before that this methylation and reduction of this will lead to the required compound basically what is important is the cyclohexene how you introduce the cyclohexene is introduced using the Dielsall reaction between this dienophile you can see this dienophile and simple butadiene okay then this CH2Cn can be reductively cyclized with this ketone okay we will discuss more in details when we talk about the synthesis so that leads to this particular orthoquinones okay that can be obtained from either the corresponding aminophenol or dihydroxy compound and which in turn can be obtained from the dihydroxy naphthalene so this dihydroxy naphthalene is the starting material which also is a symmetric compound okay now let us see how gates as synthesize this morphine starting from dihydroxy naphthalene so he took this dihydroxy compound as I said this is symmetrical compound so one can selectively protect one of the phenolic hydroxyl group as benzoate then followed by you know nitrosion so treatment with sodium nitrite and acetic acid one can introduce a NO group at this carbon okay so that is what he did and that NO group can be reduced to get the corresponding NH2 so once you have that then you oxidize with ferric chloride so what you get is the orthoquinone and this orthoquinone now can be reduced to get the corresponding dihydroxy compound so this is how the dihydroxy was introduced which as you know one of them should be protected methyl group the other one should cyclize here okay so once you have this dihydroxy compound methylate both of them okay the standard method is use a base mild base like potassium carbonate and dimethyl sulfate to introduce the methyl group. So the next step you have to remove this benzoate so you can remove it with potassium hydroxide and methanol and introduce the NO group here okay so the same thing sodium nitrite acetic acid you introduce the NO and again reduce it to get the corresponding NH2 and oxidize this under the same condition which I had discussed where is ferric chloride you get the corresponding quinone so if you look at this this is a Michael acceptor okay this is a Michael acceptor so that means it can undergo a 1, 4 addition so the next step has been the addition of anion generated from this cyanoythyl ester okay so that will undergo 1, 4 addition followed by introduction of the double bond so that can be done with potassium ferricionate so in this step 1, 4 addition takes place followed by introduction of the double bond you get this compound okay. Then you can do the decarboxylation you do not need this ester once that it served its purpose you have to remove it so that ester could be removed by potassium hydroxide methanol so you get only the CH2CN the CH2CN only is intact okay. So what is the next step you have the digenophile and now you should do the intermolecular dielsal reaction with butadiene okay so that worked well and the cyclohexene is nicely introduced the next step should be to reductive coupling reaction or reductive cyclization the cyanide should be hydrolyzed to CONH2 and the CONH2 to cyclize with one of the ketones of the orthoquinone. So that is you know safely done with hydrogen and this copper chromium reagent so that reduce the cyanide to CONH2 and then cyclized and this was the final product. So now you have introduced 4 rings one aromatic and 3 6 membered rings so what should be done to complete the total synthesis one one has to methylate here because N-methyl is required for the synthesis of morphine then you have to cyclize or the oxygen should form a bond with this and also the double bond should be isomerized at the same time you also should introduce an oxygen at this corner okay. So these are the few things to do to complete the total synthesis of morphine. So the easiest one and obviously the logically the first one to do is to methylate here okay but before doing methylation you do not need this ketone is not it. If you look at the structure of morphine that carbonyl group is not required. So you remove the carbonyl group using modified version of Wolf-Kristener reduction okay. So now you remove the ketone then obviously the next step is the methylation of this lactum. So methylation was done. So the next step is the removal of the carbonyl group. So that can be easily done by reducing with LAH to get the corresponding amine then dilute sulphuric acid treatment is nothing but addition of water. So the addition of water takes place across a double bond and you get this regioisomer as a major product. So once you have that now what you need to do between these two methoxy groups this particular methoxy group should be demethylate so that you can get the corresponding hydroxyl group then you try to cyclise here. So this was done almost under the same conditions as Wolf-Kristener reduction okay. So when they carried out the Wolf-Kristener reduction you know as you can see in the earlier slide they also I got some demethylated products. So that is why they tried to repeat the same thing after other functional group transformations were done. So now they could get the corresponding phenol. Then you oxidise the secondary alcohol. So this was done using Woodward opener oxidation condition to get this ketone. See until here this was a resimic synthesis until here it was a resimic synthesis and at this point they resolved with dibenzyl tartaric acid to get the naturally occurring skeleton okay. So the dibenzyl tartaric acid was used as a resolving agent. Then comes the key step. See in this one step many reactions were done. What is that? You add bromine and 2, 4 di nitro phenyl hydrazine and acetic acid. Look at the product how many reactions were done in one step okay. One this bromine was introduced. Just obviously if you have a phenol and if you treat with bromine bromination will take place fine. Then what happened? You introduce a bromine here. You introduce a bromine here. So basically 3 bromines were introduced okay. That is the first step. Second step this one cyclised. This one cyclised to form the dihydrofurendering and third one the elimination of HBr. Elimination of HBr to introduce this double bond and the fourth step the ketone and 2, 4 di nitro benzylamine it form an imine okay. So 4 steps took place in this one step. 4 reactions took place in this one step. So once you have that next you have to hydrolyze this imine to get back your ketone. So that was done with HCl and water. And the next step just before completing the total synthesis is to remove or reduce the ketone okay. Reduce the enone 2 corresponding allylic alcohol and remove the bromine. So both were done in one step by treating with LAH and this is nothing but another natural product called codeine and from codeine what you need to do is just to do the demethylation. So that was done with pyridine HCl at 200 degrees to get the corresponding demethylated compound which is nothing but morphine. So overall if you look at that synthesis it was started from an Aphthalene 2, 6 diol and the key reactions were Dilsal reaction and one part tribromination, elimination, cyclization and imine formation. So this is the second key step and it took about 27 longest linear steps and the yield was poor but considering the conditions in the year in which it was reported and that was the first total synthesis as well it was one of the classical synthesis of morphine reported until now okay. So now we will move to the second total synthesis actually this was the first I would say asymmetric total synthesis and was reported by Overman and he has used an intramolecular HEK reaction intramolecular HEK reaction as the key reaction to synthesized morphine. Let us see how he has done the retro synthesis because when you write confirmationally it is easy to visualize and this can be obtained from this enone. A simple reduction of this enone you will get this axial alcohol. Now you reduce the double bond because the double bond can be reduced when you go for the forward reaction. So this will lead to this compound called dihydrocodino okay and that can be obtained from this alcohol. So basically if you treat with MCPBA so it will form epoxide and then immediately this can cyclize isn't it and this double bond can be obtained through intramolecular HEK cyclization and that can be obtained from these two compounds okay. So you have aldehyde and this amine and it can cyclize to give this compound and this particular compound that silyl one can be obtained from this aldehyde. So that aldehyde can be obtained from this diprotected aldehyde using a homologation and this particular allyl cyanine can be obtained from two allyl cyclohexene okay. Now let us see how this synthesis was done and this is the you know catalytic cycle for HEK reaction. So I will not go into the details. HEK reaction is one of the well-known reaction and he has cleverly used this tetromolecular HEK reaction in the total synthesis of morphine. So he started with two allyl cyclohexenome and used CBS reagent that is CORE boxy shibata boron reagent oxazoborolidinol to get this allylic alcohol and once you have this then treat with phenyl isocyanate to get the corresponding carbamate. Now the silyl group was introduced and for that before you do that this double bond should be protected. So we did the osmium tetroxide dihydroxylation followed by protection. So you get the corresponding acetonide then you treat with this phenyl dimethyl silyl lithium in the presence of copper. So it undergoes SN2 reaction on this, SN2 reaction on that particular carbon leaving this carbon okay. So once you have that you remove the acetonide and you get the diol and treat with sodium pyruvalide please the diol to get the corresponding aldehyde okay. You have that aldehyde then you treat with dibenzo-suburon amine and that along with sodium cyanoborohydrate it undergoes a reductive amination okay. So the DBS is nothing but dibenzo-suburine okay that NH2 okay this NH2 here if it is NH2 the NH2 will undergo emine formation followed by reduction you get this.  This DBS is a protecting group that can be cleaved under hydrogenation condition. So you have this NH so now this aldehyde which is commercially available was protected as dimethoxyacetal. You treat with butyl lithium and quench with iodine followed by removal of the acetal you introduce the iodine here as well as remove this. Not only the acetal will be removed but also mom group also will be removed okay. So first you introduce the iodine the mom group helps to introduce at this carbon and then remove the mom group as well as the acetal using HCl condition. Then protect the hydroxyl group protect the phenolic hydroxyl as the benzyl ether then you homologate the aldehyde to corresponding epoxide with dimethyl sulphonium eryne. Then the epoxide and treatment with BF3th rate it rearranges to give the aldehyde which is now the homologated aldehyde. If you see this is a CHO a protected CHO and you have increased it by one carbon. Take this aldehyde and then treat with this amine which we already discussed and do the reductive cyclization okay. First it forms the iminium ion and that iminium ion undergoes this is a key cyclization you can see this double bond will add and the silicon will come here. So because whenever you generate a positive charge at beta carbon with respect to silicon the silicon will stabilize the positive charge okay. So that is called beta silicon effect and that gives you this particular compound in 91 percent. This also can be written like this okay. So I just leave it for few seconds so that you can understand. So this can be redrawn like this. So this is the A ring this is the B ring so you can see this is A so this is B and the whole unit is here. So now this is set for the intramolecular hex cyclization. So when you do the hex cyclization the double bond also will migrate is not it? So that is how the double bond migrates and then C-C bond formation takes place and now once you have the double bond as I said you can treat with MCPBA okay you can treat with MCPBA to get the epoxide and the epoxide can be opened. But before that you need this benzyl group to be removed. So then only as soon as the epoxide is formed the phenol can open the epoxide. So benzyl group removal was selectively done with BF3 ethyl and ethyl and you get the corresponding phenol. Then you can treat with MCPBA camphor sulfonic acid so as soon as the epoxide is formed intramolecularly the phenol will open the epoxide to give this alcohol okay. So now you can see all the 5 rings are ready okay. Oxidize the secondary alcohol okay to get the ketone then remove the protecting group to get the corresponding secondary amine and what you do when you remove that say in the presence of formaldehyde what happens as soon as the NH is formed the NH reacts with formaldehyde to form the iminium ion okay. That iminium ion again is further reduced and you get the corresponding methyl group. So if you look at this this is dihydrocodionol what needs to be done is you have to introduce a double bond and reduce it. So this is this was already reported so that is how Orman's the formal synthesis of morphine was done where intramolecular HEC reaction was the key step and he started from the commercially available isovaniline and second important key step was sequential iminium ion allylsilane cyclization. Overall he took about 10 steps and yield also was quite high compared to what Gates has reported it is about 1 percent overall yield 10 steps 1 percent overall yield is less but you have to see this is a conceptually a new synthetic root to synthesize morphine in 1993 okay. So I will stop here and then we will continue our discussion on total synthesis of morphine by 2 more groups in the next lecture okay. Thank you.


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Francois, the car has been both an instrument and a symbol of national power in the world. We're entering into new times and new equations for cars. Are there countries or regions that have particular advantages that are likely to emerge at the head of the line for driverless cars, electric cars, and specifically will the driverless electric car of the future be a European or a national product? It's a good question. When you look at the dynamic of the world right now, the most pushing country is China. China has technology, has a scale, and China has a big issue because they're building the infrastructure for the country. And they don't want the economy to depend upon the price of oil. Elon Musk yesterday signed a huge agreement to build another Gigafactory to build not only the Model 3, which will be the mid-range car, but also the battery. And they want by 2021 at least 25% of electric cars, so it's a political regulatory driven by the states. If you go to the US, it's a different equation. The US has won the battle of internet, the cloud, and they're winning the battle of data. So there is two main things which gather data. The other data is first the car, because the car, when it's connected, then everything about your life, what time you go to work, how you drive, they can hear you as well, so you need to be careful, and at home. That's why you have all those personal assistants popping up everywhere, because they will know at what time you go to bed, if you have a cat, how many kids, what you see on TV, what you talk about, and all the information will go into the cloud. And definitely today, the US is pushing very hard, but in terms of technology, the game of the US is to build an infrastructure in the cloud, which is mutualized, and the rest of the world tries to connect to the cloud, and they are very, very advanced right now. Europe is late. Europe is a me too attitude, so they've tried to create internet giant, they failed. On the cloud, I was chairman of the cloud research industry group for Nelly Cruz, and after three months, I said, dear Nelly, we lost the battle. And now for the data, they want to be part of the game in regulating and putting rules around privacy, but if you close your world, you will not have access to the services. The more you open yourself, the more access you have, the better service you have. But coming back to what has been said by my two colleagues, I'm very bullish on the future, because with all the technology progress right now on the power of the chips, the power of the cloud, because you have trillion lines of code that can be used everywhere into the world, and the power also of the R&D that we have, you will see an exponential progress in this industry very soon, and the future will be sooner than expected, I think. I was stunned to learn the other day that China today manufactures more electrical vehicles than the rest of the world put together. It sounds like we're in for a repeat of what happened with the digital information revolution where the United States exploited it, China decided to compete and capture, and Europe decided to accept and regulate. We may be back there. Me too. Patrick, this coming world of swarms of drones delivering packages, I'm using journalistic hyperbole, but you'll put me in order. I want one way. And helicopter-borne taxis, how well-prepared are governments to begin to regulate that? Is it at a point where they are already falling behind? Actually, it very much depends on the authorities we're talking about. Obviously, the traditional one, like I'm talking about now aviation authorities, like the FAA in the US, like the ASEAN Europe, they are very cautious, and we believe rightly so. They are very cautious because they have the wealth of experience, and for many years they've been certifying commercial aircraft manufacturers, helicopters aircraft manufacturers to carry people at very high altitude, very high speed. So they have to be careful. On, I would say, younger economies, people are more bullish. So some are still a little bit in a me too. I mean, for example, in Singapore, they're on the one hand very, very pushy to get the solution very fast, very early. But on the other hand, when you talk with them and say, well, we wait to see what the FAA is going to do, and then we'll kind of copy-paste the FAA. Then we've got the Gulf countries and the Middle East, and these are the most precious today. They really want a solution. They want to be the first one to have flying cars in their cities. It's a question of national pride for them. So they're pushing hard. So I think here the regulators are almost asking the industries how they can accelerate, what can they do? So it's a little bit different dynamic from the normal one, which is the industry pushing, and the authorities calming us down in terms of making sure everything is done by the book. And China, of course, is a key player. It's the biggest manufacturer of drone today. They do like 80% of the drones flying. You've got companies doing drone today that employ 5,000 people that have research centers in Europe, in the U.S., and they are very, believe me, it's cutting-edge technology. This is what they do is extremely impressive. It was in Shenzhen a couple of weeks ago, meet with them. It's absolutely fascinating. So here the question on China is, are they going to leapfrog the helicopters? Because there are almost no helicopters, very few helicopters in China. The question is, will they jump directly from having almost no helicopters to having kind of flying cars and electrical ones? So, and it goes very well with, indeed, as we said, we all know that in certain countries are really pushing very hard for environmental matters for various reasons. And the Chinese do have a huge pollution issue in large cities. So yes, a huge push on electrical, but there's also a push to try to resolve the traffic issues they have. And that could be one of them. And yes, they are. They are very likely to be the first, either the Gulf or China, will be the first place where it will go. And the limiting factor and the people deciding the timing won't be in the industrials because we'll have solutions fast. It will be the regulators. The regulators. The regulators. Don Yves, my question for you comes on the governance side of this. So much of our communications today pass through space, including in many countries, including my own, a certain dependence on command and control systems of our nuclear forces and our communications with our military. Satellites are quite vulnerable to space attack, it seems to me, but perhaps you can enlighten us on that. Are governments beginning to figure out how to offer protection for these satellites that are off in space? And how would they do that? In fact, you have a number of different satellites and most of them are completely protected against this kind of attacks. But of course, after that is a race. You have a protection and the people invent something else and so on. But I am sure that if someone wants really to attack the satellite system, it's probably easier to attack the software on ground than to attack the hardware in space. Because we know that there are many, many cyber attacks and it's probably easier than to attack satellites. But we have satellites which are protected and I do not know, and I think that it doesn't exist, an example of a satellite which has been attacked from the ground. But it could happen in the coming years, but there is a lot of protection and I can tell you that it is not so easy to attack a satellite. It's very difficult. But I gather that in some countries, China is one example I hear cited. There is quite an effort underway to develop systems that can attack satellites. Yes, to develop systems. But I do repeat, I think that it's much easier to do it on ground than to do it in space because without countering into details, there are some other countries in China which develop countermeasures to avoid such attacks. Well, I want to thank the panel for a really invigorating discussion that has given you some inkling about what lies and wait for you and what advantages and dangers that technology brings to our modern world. And so we end the session here. Thank you very much.


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I see him in the chat down to Greg six and a three nine times for the teams and A ninth and final time after nine times. We've got the Orlando magic down to the Timberwolves Right so Jeremy you have the magic Anthony with the Mavs rich with the gris James with it's a good set of teams Right or James with the pelicans Jimmy Connell the pelicans Eastwood with the Hornets Edwin with the Hawks Greg with the Sixers Victor with the Jazz JD with the Warriors rich with the Nets Dennis with the pistons Adam with the Rockets Aaron with the Wizards Nick with the Bucks Jimmy with the Pacers Chad with the Knicks Daniel with the Suns Jeremy with my Lakers Talon you got the Raptors Anthony with the Blazers Kurt with the Bulls Dan with the Thunder Stacey with the Celtics Louis with the Kings Jamie with the Spurs Nick with the Nuggets Rich with the Cavs Josh with the Clippers and Greg with the Timberwolves now Trade at your own risk ladies and gentlemen Because I mean, I don't know what old-school guys or You know or top grades or whatever maybe could be in there for any player You know anybody on this list so I'm gonna pause the video allow people to kind of get an idea of their teams Maybe possibly trade and when we come back, we'll see if there's any trades and then the break stick around BRB All right, welcome back folks. There were no trades no trades, but that's okay. It's all good I think it's a little risky to trade in these things in any way. Thanks for joining us on a Friday. Happy Friday everybody Got weird with the internet going down for a little bit, but think Back on track. There's nothing in there. It's just rocks Table so they only made ten cases ten boxes a case only a hundred boxes here. Good luck, everybody Oh, you know what our usual Since there's no checklist for this our usual college or non-pro uniform rules apply So if it's someone in their team USA gear or their college gear or their high school gear as the case may be They'll go to the team that they are currently on if they're an active player Right. So if it's LeBron in his high school gear, it's going to go to the Lakers That's the team he's currently on if it's a retired player if it's Scotty Pippen and is in his team USA gear He's retired obviously so it'll go the team that he played for the longest which would be the Bulls and then tie break I don't think though. It's gonna be a tiebreaker, but if there is we'll We'll figure that out probably by probably by games on pro basketball reference comms All right, there's good hit parade advertising right there. All right But most of these should have their teams on there, and I think it should be pretty obvious where they go All right So first one is it's pretty obvious where that goes Larry bird right out of the gate six out of ten From NT basketball on cart autograph That is from 1617 NT hoops nice good start for Stacey and the Celtics Next one and I think we I think Nick posted another one So that should be up on the side right now. I Think we were unable to access some of the administrative areas of our site. So I think Think some of you not all maybe some of you might experience some Some of that cloud flare internet internet related issue there, but I think I'm seeing orders come in So I think most of you should be okay All right next one is Lonzo ball Lakers edition. I had some prison basketball I thought there was more information on the back of this on a backup prison basketball autographs that goes to my Lakers Jeremy Jeremy s with the Lakers Love it or listed in the background ladies and gentlemen need life sports to come back another encased card We haven't seen a graded one yet. There should be a couple graded cards in here, and it's a dual autograph Nice. Oh and a randomizer Anthony Davis pelicans Carly Towns Timberwald 43 out of 49 from 1617 immaculate hoops Dual on-card autographs. It's really nice. All right, so Jimmy with the pelicans Greg with the Timberwolves one happy person one sad person at the end. We'll do that the end of the end of the break different dice roll with Along with any other randomizers that we have to do Yeah, pretty nice stuff There's another one. I think on the side right now folks. Check it out. Next one is Chris Paul three color patch an autograph seven out of ten National Treasures game gear. This is the most recent one Right. Yeah, 19 out of 20 Okay, see Dan There you go, Dan Dan P with that one next up. Good luck, and it's Julius Irving. I've heard of him. He's pretty good Nice from a what is that? A panini white box authentic one-of-one signature. See that that's pretty cool nice Greg with the Philadelphia 76ers. I guess technically it's a one-of-one All aboard the big hit Express Out of fives under get the train whistle Nice, this is box 100 out of 100 eBay one-of-one and Nice sneaker spotlight Colin Sexton 32 out of 99 Rich Schmidt with the calves these sneaker spotlights out of noir Do really well. In fact folks We've got a our last one box of NT one box of noir basketball mixer I think just a few number block spots away from unlocking So check that out on jaspy's case breaks calm and we can find some of that in there All right, four more to go. That's on jaspy's case breaks calm, of course Jaspy's case breaks calm jaspy's case breaks calm jaspy's case breaks calm the advertising radio industry They say that three times. I think is what gets it into people's heads jaspy's case breaks calm Jaspy's case breaks calm jaspy's case breaks All right, next one is Dennis Rodman the worm out of mosaic bowls That will be hurt with Chicago. Is that I'm not sure if that's a what maybe that's just a regular mosaic parallel But there might be some Genesis II colors on the background, but Maybe not so nice the worm. All right. Yeah, fill yourself up HP With a big bowl of jaspy's case breaks calm Mmm delicious refreshing Jaspy's case breaks calm. All right, so this thin one here. It's D Wade nice Dwayne Wade 18 out of 49 from 15 16 select basketball D Wade Miami Heat Zack win there you go, Zach. I think did Nick post a second. I think there's enough. We do have another case of this I'm pretty sure. Yeah, another case is up folks 10 box random team break number two Remember they made only 10 cases of this and we got two of them. So give it a go Israel how many Bowman sapphires we have left to and they're both in that Bowman baseball mixer Which I think is almost sold out All right next up is in focus Kevin Durant Warriors edition Nice That will be for JD Daniels six out of 15 Warriors come out to pay All right, and the last one before we make one person happy one person sad We always randomized folks next is Hakim a large one illustrious ink 15 out of 25 Nice Hakim the dream a large one Rockets. There you go They we don't have any sapphire available on Jatsby's case breaks calm Israel Adam with the Rockets, but if you see them on the other site, then they must then we have some of your mark for them If that's where you're talking about All right Nice one for Adam Hakim the dream was that from impeccable impeccable nice so now Let's go and get some new dice There you go ram not a work back on track. Let's make one person happy and one person sad There's New Orleans Pelicans and Minnesota Timberwolves new dice roll. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it ten times name on top or team on top after ten gets the card one two three four nine And yeah, one more 10th and final time team on top Minnesota is the team on top after ten Greg with the Timberwolves. There you go. You got the dual auto Congrats to you and for the pelicans Jimmy, we'll get him next time. Thanks for getting in appreciate it We got one more of these cases folks check it out on Jatsby's case breaks calm I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break


All right, folks, TGIF, and we are rounding third, heading on home here this afternoon. Friday afternoon, April 5th, that is for the records, but great to see Susie and Margaret still with us here and Wendy just right now joining us here and the ladies at the trading room all together right there and perhaps Leda as well, waiting for the Friday riddle still. But great to see Gary at Grant before, I had Bill before, I had Charles, Joyce, Alan, Alex, a lot of our students, perhaps they may have left, started their weekends early, I don't blame them, I really don't blame them. Oh, there's Leda inside our live trading room there loud and clear from her, Ron, like myself, waiting for that Friday riddle, we'll get to that I'm sure just a bit. All right, so I'll tell you what, if you took off early, I don't blame you because we haven't gotten too much of anywhere since like 12, 31 o'clock, last hour and a half, two hours, things have been pretty slow, flat, and maybe there's been one trade actually pushing back up, actually, might I say two, Susie, CGC, ACB, those pot stocks, both, right? I mean, CGC had a little bounce earlier here, pre-volatile stock, and I mean that in a good way, volatile is not always a bad word, right? It's only a bad word when there's no big money out there in the order book, when there's a 15, 20 cent spread and thin volume out there like here, you know, it's got a tiny spread, one to three cents maybe, but pretty liquid, ACB, which has been the better of the two like really this week from the end of last week into basically yesterday, the ACB trade was really the star of this week. So, you know, pushing back up itself, you know, I kind of fall towards the other one a little bit more, CGC, that's just me personally, both are very tradable, I could put them on our list to begin, I'm gonna put them on our side list though to start off though, and you know what we'll do is just go right from top to bottom across the gainers list. I had a question from one of our new members earlier, you know, it's just tough to provide a very thorough explanation on some questions, especially if they're like relating to volume, right? But more so, this one was simple where it was like, you know, you know, you're doing the wrong thing by trying to scan for stocks the gainers list, but based off of the dollar amount, dollar amount here, right?  I was joking when I said that there at least, but obviously that is the case number one, it was booking.com number three here. So, you know, you're not gonna really find stocks that are A, trading a lot of volume because they're so expensive and then B otherwise, how many shares can we really trade at them? So that's why we typically, you know, try and follow the percent gainers list, the stocks that have made the largest move by percent from yesterday's close. Now, obviously not all of those are gonna be active, a lot of them are gonna be washed up at this point, you know, like I said, the last hour and a half, two hours outside of maybe that CGC trade, things have been pretty slow. MDIA had a great pop earlier today, so we'll talk about that. Stock took off pretty much as soon as the market opened up. You know, it wasn't really on the main morning watch list I put out there, because as you could see just at eight o'clock, it felt flat, it was dropping back down after, it was going nowhere leading into the open. So it was on our pre-market list, we were hopeful for that pop at eight o'clock, didn't get it. Well hey, as soon as the market opened up, of course it popped back up on our scanners, we followed it right away at that point, and then up building the higher and low as you could see roughly off of 325, 330 a share, and obviously made a huge pop after.  It's gonna bring out the crazies, it's gonna bring out some of the other stocks, like low flow, low volume that could potentially make that same type of reaction, so easy to say in hindsight, but hey, MDIA made that pop. Now XXII, this is one I was hoping for with that in mind, this was up maybe like 30% at the time, 35% at the time. Now, this ended up making a push right off of $2 and at like 208 the price was, right? You were talking about that on a couple of different one-on-ones earlier today. You know, it's easy to say in hindsight because of just what we saw in level four on the heat map, but once it broke above, re-broke above that 208 level, there was no looking back, right? Ended up just completely taking off from there. Thankfully, there was room for at least another opportunity as it built support from, you could even say 250-ish, we were looking more off of 280-290 at that point than three. So it led to a decent play heading into the early to mid-afternoon, wasn't bad. Just obviously didn't break higher and it's not gonna make that higher high. The chances of it pulling back, double bottoming or even breaking lower increased that much more. So you know what, hey, at this stage, does it hurt us to put the XXII on our main list? Hasn't technically broken lower, right? So for that reason, I guess, I'll just kind of add it for now, but if it ends up tanking like mid-meeting then, you let me know, how about that? You let me know as I go through and I'll probably scrap it, right? BTDR, this thing's dragging down. I think this may have even got a halted on the way down. It looks like you're moved right on up towards. Whole number resistance at 10 bucks. Looks like it topped off at 994. Then just got smashed. Yeah, this got halted on the way down.  That's not looking good.  So DXYC, this had a big pop today. You could just tell looking at this chart, but I wasn't even watching this. I didn't even know that this hit 75. So there's that. What goes up comes back down, right? And that's not even to say on the crazy stocks. It's even on this thing here too. HUBC, this had a nice push earlier today, right? Nice little push, but otherwise it came back down lower high, lower low, go below the VWOP there support. So with that, you know, just kind of move forward from this trade. It's trying to make another little push back up, but otherwise just there's other trades. Let's see what else we got here. Ah, this one's cheap. Too cheap, too cheap. 26 cents, didn't mean to click it. My bad. Anything below a dollar, we're just skipping pretty much completely. Now this one, CADL. Hey, we were looking for this to try and at least break resistance off of nine and say the more times they could test it in a shorter concentration, there's a case for it. But once it rebroke it here, there's a strong rejection. That's not good. And then from that point ended up completely pulling.  I think that's honestly pretty poor management overall because there was a huge difference between a day trade and a swing trade and the difference is known before you press the buy button. You know what I mean? You don't wanna just recklessly change your game plan overnight. So when we had called it out, it was a day trade. You get in, you get out and maybe the next day if it could pop, you could try and jump back in. And at least for this stock, that actually came into fruition. There was a maybe here, it did pop again afterwards. So, you know, most stocks end up actually just gapping down and then dropping. So it just gave us a second run. I think that we're done with this trade though for the time being, CADL. It was nice knowing you.  You know, I'm giving a month or two, three, who knows? All right, let's see, what else we got here? Blade, BLDE, I know a few of our students had Blade earlier today, right? You know, Irving was on that maybe, I think it was just him perhaps. He had a few comments, maybe it was just him, but in and out he was at 380. You know, he re-bought it at 362 out of 376. He went off to a bowling tournament, wishing our student Irving well here. He wrote that earlier in Toledo. So wishing him well on his travels and in his bowling tournament. He used to be a decent bowler, but man, I lost, not the touch, but it's just, I can't compete. I'm not as good of a bowler as I want it to be basically. But basically here, hey, Blade ended up leading to an ice pop early this morning. The better part about it now is that it is holding. It's holding at the highs, moving back up. Looks a little spotty, is it? Yeah, a little spotty of a graph, but otherwise it has great order of focus, the type of liquidity you'd want to see on level three. Hopefully more people step in and just break through that sell volume there, but you know, I had Blade. You got two stocks there now, XXII, Blade, Megan Pustox, maybe. All right, what else we got here? CDE Minor, I think, right? GDXU, probably find some gold stuff on here, right? Gold, silver stuff on here, maybe? Scanner refreshing on me, there we go. IMPP, I saw this from earlier here. It was moving up nicely, but it wasn't turning a whole lot of volume on the total day. I had good order, but though, which I liked just hasn't gone anywhere since, right? This stock could be a short squeeze candidate. That's pretty, like, how do you say, ambiguous? Vague, vague, pretty vague.  Well, the fact that this is breaking above resistance again on the weekly chart back from earlier this year, it looked like it was kind of holding generally that area back in May of last year. Hey, as long as we see support get flipped into, there could be a case to see a higher high. I mean, even for this afternoon, maybe next week. So I don't mind giving it a look. It has a penny spread. It's had a penny spread the whole time. Been watching it for the last couple hours. But yeah, I mean, there's a lot that could look like this that might pop, might maybe possibly in those words I do not like using. So, you know, I don't want to add much more that looks like this. And from there, we'll see if there's anything else looking decent. We'll see anything better. Number four, well, it's actually pushing up that trade at least there, right, as I move on. But yeah, that trade IMPP, and perhaps that could make the higher high. All right, let's hop over to the losers list seeing if there's anything looking just as good if not better. Nothing really down too much percentage wise for like a dead cat bounce. That's fine with it there, but everything else, like everything else is hard to borrow. And, you know, maybe you could just use the short low-kit app. But honestly, doing this long enough, just you can go through this losers list relatively quick. You know what? We did have Tesla earlier today. It dropped off nicely this morning, pulling back a little bit here. Let's take a look at the market for right now. Spy had a nice bounce back up earlier today. Chopped up at first, then made a better push. Lower high since, but hasn't really gone much of anywhere overall. But getting back to Tesla, I'm gonna just keep it on my side list for right now. If you do well on Tesla day to day, then definitely follow it. Definitely put it on your personal list. Shout out to my student Gary here in chat. He's probably tuning in. His bread and butter stock will always say, but yeah, let's go all folks up, down, left, right. More than 5%, anything else that you'd want me to look at, call out here. Now's your chance. Check back on the pot stocks right now, CGC. Yes, this one in particular is looking pretty good. I mean, up a lot more percentage-wise compared to that ACB. I could probably put both on our list, but CGC is looking pretty good here today. So add that, I guess I'll add the ACB too. Like I said, STRC. Got a chat on YouTube on that. So pushing up now, I don't know maybe if I skipped over this or if this was going from bottom to top, as I was going from top to bottom. Honestly, I don't really see it here. What was that there? STRC, it said. It's only trading 670,000 shares total on the day. IMPP wasn't trading a whole lot when I was looking at it earlier. So that's where I kind of look at the order book and see, all right, are we on a bit of a spread? If so, then I'm not going to be as interested in. It is up 23%, which is decent, but there you go, right now. It's just opening up a 7 cents spread I saw for a split second. I'm not trying to go into something low float or not just that, but low volume. So I'll pass on this trade for the time being. I'll write it down for the side list though. You're only stopping on the side list since I put the other two on the main list. And DIA not going anywhere. FRGE, ooh, hello. Hello. Definitely a good looking chart and good looking order book for the time being 13,000 share seller even up top here at 239. That could be like a little target to watch out for there. You know what? Yeah, it's a good look. I don't mind to hear this FRGE. All right, anything else? I'll go one more then.  Okay, so this one I guess I don't have my price filter set properly, so my apologies there. All right, last one or two. Yeah, I think that now we'll finish up here. Maybe a potential GAT fill in this STI looking at the daily, but outside of that, I like what we got here primarily first. XXII, Blade, IMPP, you got the POT stocks, FRGE, don't worry, you don't need to remember that all. I'm gonna type it out to you in just a little bit folks. So for all of a sudden YouTube, for all of a sudden Facebook Live, just on social media streams and platforms alike. Enjoy the weekend. Again, I'd said that earlier, but if you are not there, even furthermore, TGIF. Hope you have a fun weekend. Hope you're having it. First off, actually, for anyone up in the Northeast, oh my goodness, yeah, what, a 4.8 on the Richter scale earthquake earlier? Jesus, I mean, I had to call my parents, make sure they're all right. No, I mean, thankfully everyone was good to go. It wasn't as crazy as one would possibly imagine one to be, thank God. But yeah, that's a pretty crazy story to hear about, right? I'm from New York, so moved to Florida a couple years ago. Yeah, what, 4.8, 5.0 earthquake, whatever it was. Have a safe weekend, have a fun weekend, but otherwise we'll catch back on Monday. Hey, either way, for all of a sudden, inside the trading room at least, you know, there right now, Rich will be on the mic coming up soon. I'll be in chat intermittently, but either way, folks, best of luck trading all together and we'll catch back with everyone going into Monday. Take care.