All right, folks welcome on back here this Thursday afternoon shortly after 2 30 p.m. Eastern time Of course here this Thursday August 17th still great to see all our students and members alike inside our live Trading Room perhaps waking on a few of us up here John and Leda here now can hear me loud and clear Great to have you back John great to have you back great to have you back and Brian and Leda and all our students members here perhaps Chuck from before as well Larry as well Michael Richard and Lori and then Lauren all of our students You're like so great to have you all back there great to have you back perhaps on social Facebook live LinkedIn Twitter YouTube Etc. I ended up getting the hot tag from Fausta this morning or this afternoon to do a bit of a workshop our Multi-speaker masterclass get Jerry Allison from traders accounting on C2 platform here earlier today I'd followed up right after him. It's actually a nice topic here to go over on the h e trade Hawaiian Electrics here, so we'll talk about that in just a moment But if you'd missed out on those webinars earlier today You can go right to our YouTube channel youtube.com forward slash cyber trading you You should just be right there under the most recent live stream that we just did so hey with this right now each e This was a stock that I was going over during my presentation And it was a crazy example because you never know what you're gonna catch live And really I mean that more in the morning and later in the day, but man I'll tell you it was like a perfect example with level 3 and level 4 so The h e trade where we weren't really expecting it to happen just out of nowhere this big 72 plus thousand share iceberg popped up on the buy side on the bid of level 4 It was here so with that you're thinking okay Well so long as that iceberg order doesn't get pulled or so long as it doesn't get broken through There's a really strong chance for this to continue to go right? I mean if you look at it here There's not much resistance ahead in total 1240 to a 50 then after that not much at all Well, we ended up watching this real-time live. We're out of nowhere Wait for it. There we go this order got pulled So the it's like asking what happens when you're in a trade and the rug gets pulled underneath You know the whole the whole stock's gonna collapse the floor is gonna crumble and with that this ended up just diving off Big iceberg on the ask side here of level 4 above the stock so is you know popping up on the sell side here Pushing it down even further. So this was a really cool example just watching it live There is hope to see this try and go but what happens when support gets pulled What happens when the rug gets pulled underneath you there?  You're trying to buy and load up on right now So in the volume when the momentum dies off on an upward move like this Oftentimes this is the end result anyway, but it's even more interesting when you have that iceberg out there on level 4 So led to a big drop off where's that pen here? So the stock is still down, right? It's not necessarily at the lows but given how volatile it's been and I mean that in a good way You know, it provides good opportunity for us to try and follow this for like 50 cents Perhaps in either direction. I would first look at you know following this on the way down Just dropped off from earlier. It looks like a bit of a lower high round the top building here So wouldn't shock me if this keeps dropping lower coming coming back down to 11 again Now coming back down again the whole markets coming back down right now So another drop off here looking at the spy and with that will follow a few other short trades, right? Mara I just called it out earlier down over 8% right now. I'm in this trade from 1262 63 Basically off the VWAP you could say there. It's easy to say but Really more on the Mara trade. I'm gonna put this on our side list for right now I could definitely see myself slipping this on the main list for you I feel like there's a lot more room on the way down if it's not today Then it could be tomorrow or or so forth Yeah, this has been popping up here over the last week and a half I've had my eyes on this for the last week and a half here in Mara and you know these big big stack of bids are popping up Long story short if I can give you an summation my theory I think we're gonna drop down towards 10 10 50 over time before we bounce. So, you know, that's not necessarily a swing recommendation I'm not trading this as a swing. I'm getting out of this trade before the market closed today but Obviously know what I'm gonna you know what I'm gonna be following though, you know over time tomorrow next week day over day I'm looking at Mara as a short. So so long as I can get the shares today with it being easy to borrow That was my focus. So, you know what I have it on the side list I could see myself slipping it on the main list if it continues to kind of chop down here a bit Let's go from top to bottom though, really we had a couple good trades there to show But let's see what we could put on our main list actually here So BGLC not everything is dropping I love days like today because obviously you could look to follow the market buy puts look to short stocks and that is what we do We do do that folks if you ever ask like do they all go long? No, we follow stocks down I just showed you a stock I'm short on But I love days like today because it goes to show that not everything is going with the market You know, don't feel too threatened about buying a stock if it's presenting a buying opportunity for you So it's saying that you know hey this had good volume on the order books still does right now It popped up really well from the morning session here. So there's certainly now We're kind of hoping for this to go higher, but looks good starting to move back up a little bit for right now So actually I'm gonna put this on the main list for right now Maybe I'll come back to it and just check in one last time, but for now it looks good All right, so I'll say a mouth's been dry today got a nice bottle of water here But as we go through folks really top the gainers list You got a bunch of cheap stocks on there not a whole lot out there and like really Within our price range this ADMP trying to make a push now Long day.  I mean just look what happened earlier today guys, right? I mean we were all ripping our hair out on this trade I'd say most of us were at least so you know this I took one trade on after the market opened up I took a small loss and pre-market on it, but even after the open, you know I was looking for this to pop from 520 and I waited so long and I did good on it But then it stopped me out took a small loss then it chopped up higher later But even when you're looking for that much better pop pop and run higher here finally it broke the highs here It could soar could run up much better. It came right back down So, you know that I really missed too much on that trade not a whole lot But it just goes to show you don't want to follow a stock. That's too choppy So I was saying that it ended up coming back down dove back off lower after Let's see if there's anything else looking just you know better than this at this point the ID AI We'd called out just before speaking of shakes Thing was a mess here is popping up pretty well just before but then out of nowhere spread opened up massive drop Yeah, that's not looking to appeal in out this point. So TRK a same deal There's the age I Kind of just really go through this with the fine-tooth comb right now Obviously direction in the markets down so I'm gonna follow some shorts But like I said, there's a few stocks that could go against the grain You do want to do your job and go through So far nothing else really standing out of that much, you know more Rekr having a good day up nearly 12 percent. It's near the highs good volume on the book So that actually checks out pretty well treating about e to 9,000 shares a minute So hopefully more ice and catch-on to this year. I don't mind it for right now. Rekr. I'll slip on there See if there's anything else looking good here across the gainer side CDE gold mining stock I believe this is not doing a whole lot there TME I think this is one of the other Chinese stocks that we saw up big in pre-market popped up pretty nicely after the open to See if there's anything else looking good here though PGen actually nice daily chart popped up. Maybe like a week ago has been pushing up pretty well consistently since Obviously right now. It's like right near the highs. I'm gonna come back to this at the end I like this for right now. I'm just gonna put it on the side list All right, so I mean if there is anything else looking good folks, you let me know You know check out Benzinga before we finish up to Mara short is rocking and rolling. It's down at 12 37 right now So things are looking pretty good on the way down from Mara So let's see if there's any other shorts that we could at least follow The hell is this T. R. M. R. Dead order book just wanted to look at the chart there Each e already on our list like we'd said just I think that that has a good chance of dropping lower towards 11 Perhaps lower than that At the wolf stock here I saw that in pre pre-market during the meeting in the morning and it's given the price There's no need to follow this type of stock right now. Certainly not now and from the morning I said the same thing, you know happy with standing by that just cheaper stocks and better volume that move better CLSK took a huge hit earlier today. It's actually could be a decent short You know, actually, you know what?  Hopefully not too slow for our liking otherwise But it checks out and you shortable on the way down right at the lows. I think Brian actually just I don't know how I remember this but Brian mentioned charge point at all-time lows And I think even me mentioned that yesterday So I just thought CLSK I'm thinking EV related tickers and see HPT see HPT is another one. Yeah, Brian was right with that at least the time all-time low 722 here and it is currently Right there. So actually charge point if you can get the shares to short it this could be pretty interesting It's hard to borrow on my platform. Just double check if you can get them shortable All right, so folks say let me know if there's anything else looking good I think I am gonna slip Mara on our main list not just because I admit it but it is dropping off pretty nice still so Definitely convincing me more to put it on our list here So again, let me know if there's anything else looking good from Lori John Richard Michael Lawrence and all of us since in here Inside the live trading room break open Benzinga Pro just before we wrap up that Viri PRZO The mod stock I thought was restricted from trade station earlier today MODD this thing has been a chop-fesk all day So I couldn't care less if this pops from this point if it does it like 330 Then maybe we'll look at it But I think there's other stocks that are better from our list already P. Gen. Hey, we said this one we'd come back to also from our side list We wrote down and this actually I'll slip on our main list now at this point. So there we go Michael says I don't follow them, but right seems it was a better short than Mara Then somewhere you got in I mean percentage wise, maybe it's down a little bit more, but Let's teach the wrong making money Michael You know at the end of the day Both are moving down pretty nicely to me, you know if Mara makes a move down Right's gonna go with it if right makes a move Mara is gonna go with it You know no competition there as long as you're following the call-outs that I made earlier and give me a good shot All right, so hey, let me know folks if there's anything else looking good So, you know if we're calling out Mara, we're gonna focus on this year, too But I'm just gonna kind of not overwhelm the watch list. Otherwise Let's say coin-based same thing, right? All right, so I think that we're just about good to go here Hey a lot of talking here today gonna refill up on the old water bottle I got a coaching call with one of our students coming up at three o'clock I will be in the chat board up until 3 30 as I typically am but hey for all its on social media Facebook live linked in Twitter YouTube Etc as much as I'm done talking here. I'm sure you're done hearing me here So Fausto will be back on Monday you got one more day of myself in the morning tomorrow But Fausto will be back next week coming back from vacation. So I'm sure as much as he's enjoying his vacation I'm sure that I'm much like myself at times. You just get the itch to come back So come Monday next week He'll be pretty thirsty to come back into the market check out a few stocks to all of us here live But any questions that you got for myself here to shoot me over a quick email Josh at CTU trading comm You're interested in joining us inside our live trading room Just scan that QR code on the top left of the stream right there Otherwise, if you're not as fancy as high-tech with your phone all good Go right down to the link on the bottom banner right there the stream the link on the bottom of the stream right there You'll be good to go to join us But for Lori John and Lata and all of us here live right now Hey best of luck trading going into the market close rich will be on in just about 15 or so minutes. Take care


Today we'll go through the top four penny stocks to buy in 2021 why I believe these stocks are going to do really well in 2021 some of the information that I've got for you on these stocks. I've got to say I'm not a financial advisor I'm a business teacher in my daily life, but I'm buying new means and expet on the stock market Okay, but let's get right into some of these penny stocks just to respect your time We're just going to say that really quickly that I want to say thank you to everybody who's new and subscribed Because the channel's been growing massively over the past few days. You can see right here Here on one day, we actually earned a hundred subscribers in a single day and In one single day, which is fantastic. So the channel's been growing massively, you know so thank you for everybody who's new and subscribed and Anybody who continues to always like the videos and helps it get up into the YouTube search results It really does help me out, but I'll get right into the information for you without that favor of do So let's go in so first one that I've got for you is actually a company called driveshack Okay, so you'll notice actually for the second of December. They've gone from 1.5 And at one point they were over three they almost doubled in a matter of two weeks And now it's kind of dropped off a little bit and it's hovering around sort of 2.7 Okay 2.8 and hopefully this can come down a little bit further before maybe we buy into this I'm really wanting to get into this stock, but I want to kind of get it at the level of around two this around here And I think that it's got a lot of potential for the future as well So we'll go into this and what is driveshack so very quickly Because I just want this to be a quick list of stocks just to put them on to your radar and then you can then obviously go Have a look at favor into these but driveshack. What are they? So essentially they're a company that it's kind of an entertainment venue and they have a range of Activities in this venue. So they have 300 plus TVs and they've got a range of locations for these They've got free and plus TVs bars and restaurants. They've got like a PGA golf pro retro arcade games roofs and terraces 90 full service or weather bays Interactive games and golf courses flexible meetings ultimate unlimited golf balls and trackman technology So this is sort of entertainment company, which provides a range of activities in this location Which is it's a great company that I think is going to fry after the the pandemic Okay, so I think that this is a recovery play I think that this stock is going to do really well because as people start to go out more They're going to want these kind of experienced kind of experiences rather than, you know Buying material goods. They want to experience more stuff So that this is a company that's going to do well after the pandemic Okay, and I think that this is going to grow exponentially as well and they've got expansion plans as well I may make a full video in detail on this stock in the future So be sure to subscribe on that and I'll go into more information But drive shack is one that that's that I've got on my radar to buy in 2021 The next one is called CLRB, which is selected by your sciences and they are a clinic and I've talked about this one before and it's already gone up We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of cancer. Our core objective is to leverage our proprietary Drugs there. So this this basically is a is a bio science company Okay, and these are tend to be very volatile because these are often based on the the trials that they have for new drugs And you know if they're successful or not and then that adds kind of volatility to this stock So there is that concept of in the back of your mind to always do that and research But for this stock at the minute Is interesting because it's actually trading at 216 I actually I actually suggested this stock when it was around 190 and again This could drop from 216 again back into the the mid ones or you know low ones or higher ones We don't know because penny stocks are always volatile But I kind of go off the fundamentals, but also let's look at some what the analysts are saying here So the analysts actually have this as a low as a low of three dollars a median of five dollars And a high of ten dollars. Okay, and it's only trading at two dollars at the minute So I think that this has got a lot of potential to run up from its current price Okay, and I think that this is a potential buy at this price or certainly if you can get it in the mid You know kind of 1.7 to 1.9 Then I think that's also a buying opportunity there I think this is stock has got a lot of potential and that's why I want to put this on your radar Certainly as you say like the analysts are saying that this is going to be even lower three dollars at the free end At the low end. It's only going to be three dollars. Well, it's only trading at two dollars So even you know in the next 12 months, it could be potential here to still make a decent amount of profit Or if it is to the the high end, then obviously you can potentially 5x almost 5x your money So so this one's a very interesting one to look into it See what you think just want to put it on your radar Okay, and this is where we're looking at here. It's at 220. Okay, so you want to try to get this between Well, this price is a good buying price or anything between 1.7 and 1.9 as well Okay The next one is Idex. Okay, and this company is involved in the EV industry acts as a sort of middle man in the EV industry. I've made a in-depth video on this particular stock in the past So check my channel for that and go look on my channel to find that if you want more information on it Idex But just as to put it on the radar here It's it's trading at 227 What I would say is if this ever drops back down to the 1.5 1.7 level This again is a buying opportunity So that this is a stock that I'm keeping an eye on I remember buying it before around 1.5 1.7 And then I actually sold it around three Um, I think it was around three So, you know, this is one of these swing trades. I'm not too sure and holding this company long term I'm just saying that if it gets to a cheap price that this is one that to look out for in terms of in 2021 As a buying opportunity, especially as in 2021 we start to see the EV industry growing even further Um, and ultimately from the current price Actually, one of the analysts has rated it as a buy But I'm always looking for an even better price So if honestly if you see this between 1.5 1.7 consider it And you know because this analyst is saying that it's a buy at its current price Um, which you know, it could be but um, again, I always like to wait for the dips. Okay Um, and if they don't happen I'm patient. There's always other stocks. So, you know, so don't get Firm. Uh, and then you've got ABML, which is American batteries metals and these do basically recycling of lithium Batteries the recycle batteries And this one's run up from the 21st of December, which is trading about 0.4 all the way up to now, which is 1.17 It is almost tripled in price already. So again, I'm waiting for I do like this company. I like the fundamentals of it I like what it's doing. I like its purpose as a company. I think that there's a need for what they're doing I just don't like this. Well, I like the massive run up if you got into this in the massive run up Well done But what I'm looking for is if you haven't yet bought into this stock I'm waiting for a bit more of a dip. So if it dips to the this sort of level here You know, you get kind of 0.7 level Then maybe try again into this as a small position again your penny stocks are only a small part your portfolio You've got your rubber growth stocks and long-term stocks alongside your penny stocks here. Okay As we always say diversification So what I'm looking for on this stock is for it to be dipping and then I'm going to be buying it in 2021 And I think that this is one you should have on your radar Um, I know they've recently had some agreements that have been made There's there's a lot of information going on with this company I may cover it in a video soon actually and go in depth with it So do subscribe for the to the channel and look out for any videos on these stocks. Okay So that's what I've got there is abml. I think that this has got good potential again I just I'd want to try and get it just a bit of a better price than what it's at You never know though. It could run up even further much further. It's got a lot of potential. I would say 2021 I think this could be one of these stocks that you don't necessarily have to swing trade You can kind of hold and sort of what watch it grow over time Because of the fundamentals of the company there as well So I just want to say at the end of this video, obviously be careful with penny stocks They're always volatile do your own research as you're always doing and also subscribe to the channel if you're new to the channel Then subscribe and And like the video it helps out get up in the youtube set results Thanks for all the support on the channel and all the recent views on the channel and subscribers And do let me know any stocks you want me to cover in the future in terms of penny stocks I I'm always looking for them and keeping them on my radar. So I'll always listen to to people as well So thanks for watching and I'll see everybody In the next video, which will probably be In a few hours. Okay. Bye


I'm Steve Hallott, from Cranford University. Professor of Applied Environmental Informatics, along with Ron, one of the two digital environment champions for this project. It's absolutely wonderful to see you all here today. Thank you so much for coming. We now move to a part of the programme, which is to hear the voice of experts and stakeholders from the various partner organisations and other organisations who use digital approaches in their work. We have a panel discussion now, and a chance for you to put some questions to colleagues here, and then we have some presentations after lunch. We're just going to push lunch back a little bit, looking at the time of things. But I'm absolutely delighted to invite and to welcome here a number of colleagues. First of all, we have Sally Brown, the Principal Scientist Flood and Coastal Risk Management Research from Environment Agency. Thank you very much. We have Mick Wheeler. Now, of course, this morning we heard from Isabel Stephen about the SPF programmes. Delighted to welcome Mick, from the SPF Landscape Decisions programme, which is in fact coincidentally running at a conference here in this very room for the next couple of days. Kate Gill from the Q Science. Thank you, Gill, for coming from Digital Revolution and the priority lead of that. Lastly, Julie Gregory, Senior Program Manager from the Climate Change Task Force Network Royal. What I'd like to do is just invite each of the colleagues here to give just a few comments and introduce themselves a little bit about their work, and then we'll have a discussion. So, Kate, may I start with you, and we'll move down there. Hopefully you can hear me. Sounds good. So, Dr Kate Gill, I've come from the Royal Botanic Runs Q, but I am not a biology student remotely. I'm an aeronautical engineer, so basically I'm a data scientist who's done software, and that's kind of where my kind of head comes into this conversation. People ask me why I work at Q. This is my fifth government department. In terms of my conversations, I always come back to like a quote that I remember from a colleague of mine, actually, who's a Wilson, an American biologist, who basically said, we're drowning information while starving for wisdom, and that's kind of in my life for the last 40 years in various departments around government. I've landed at Q because I'm leading the Digital Revolution Project, which is basically digitising and capturing anything and everything that moves or doesn't move in Q, including the Millennium Seed back in Wakehurst, and that's really what I'm trying to do is kind of mobilising the data, mobilising the information and then helping the Q staff and other researchers worldwide to access that and kind of be the really exciting bit, which I'm kind of looking forward to in the next step, which is why we've got all this data. Now, what can we learn from it? And that's the bit I'm getting very excited about now. Thank you very much. So, yeah, I'm Julie Gregory. I work for Network Rail as Senior Program Manager, as Steve said, for Climate Change Task Force. So, this is a role that was created about eight months ago, but I actually got involved with this work with one of the projects in my previous role, where I was a sponsor for the South West Rail Resilience Programme, bit of a mouthful, but that basically was looking at the piece of railway down in Devon, between Dawlish and Tymeth, where you have a sea on one side and steep cliffs on the other side, twin massive environmental threats to the railway, and it's obviously a key link connecting the South West Peninsula with the rest of the network. And so, I became engaged in the Cream Tea Project as part of that, which looks at the overtopping at Dawlish, and we're looking to use that information to help us respond in real time to high tides and overtopping, but also to think about what we might need to do longer term to kind of make a resilient network. So, yeah, it's been fascinating to come along and just hear, you know, the breadth of the programme and lots and lots of insights, particularly interested in the, was it, the Alessandro's Talk, because we've got loads of cliffs and loads of earthworks that are causing a threat to the railway. So, yeah, loads of really interesting stuff to think about, and, yeah, echoing your point about information is what we need, not data. Thank you. The Sansom project there was, yes, thank you. Sansom. Please. Hello, everybody. My name's Sally. I work at the Environment Agency, where I'm in one of the national teams that look after flood risk, and I'm particularly interested in research. Research needs related to flood risk, sucking information in and getting it to the right people in the Environment Agency. I've been in my post for a year, and so I'm still exploring what the Environment Agency does. One of the things I'm trying to do is to start a project on digital technologies. How do we get the right digital technologies into the Environment Agency? So it's been really good to listen today to hear about some of the cross-cutting things that are going on, and particularly the processes, skills and techniques as well. So just some thoughts I've had so far listening to today, and also talking about 50 different colleagues from around the Environment Agency as well for some of those challenges. First of all is that data. There's a lot of data out there, we've just said again, but trying to get it in the right space is really important. It's also about the data quality, integration of that data, the storing, formatting. There's a lot there, a lot of historical data as well. It's not just what you're picking up now, but how do we actually get that into a friendly and usable way, particularly if you want to use it for different applications like AI, machine learning, how do we actually get that in a comprehensible way? The second thing is how do we use that data to make a decision? So is that actually lots of data really helpful, or do we have enough already? And that again is a question of affordability, is a question of the skillsets, is a question of the visualisation of how we can make decisions quickly and efficiently and effectively, and about the longevity of any model in any data set as well. It's okay running something for the duration of a project, but what happens next? Who's responsibility is it to keep that data alive and to keep that project alive? And then the final point is about the use of ethics, the appropriate use training as well for staff that may need upskilling to make sure that we continue to improve what we do. So that's another legacy, what I'd really love to hear today as well from people with different projects, how we're going to continue that to make sure the data gets to the right users at the right timing so we have the right information to make decisions. Thanks very much, and linking up the SPF projects. Mick? Thanks Steve, so thanks very much for inviting me here. Just by good fortune we, as Steve said, happened to be running our final programme meeting right here over the next couple of days. If by way of a plug, if anybody is interested in coming to that meeting is a bit late in the day, but there might be an opportunity for signing up, so please see me afterwards if you're interested in coming along. By way of background, I'm basically the University of Leicester, I'm a professor of environmental science, I have a background in hydrology and biogeochemical cycles originally, but over the last 20 years I've got into synthetic organic compound, fat and behaviour, so my own research is water quality. The reason why I'm sitting here this afternoon is because I also sit on the programme coordination team for the SPF landscape decisions programme. So the programme, as you've probably picked up, is there's a huge overlap, I mean one of the things that struck me this morning from hearing the presentations was the massive amount of overlap between what's going on in landscape decisions and what's going on in this programme. The strap line for the programme is towards a new framework for using land assets in the UK. There are 63 interconnected projects spanning a very wide range of disciplines, most of them are interdisciplinary, lots of work on developing new techniques, new mathematics and models and applying models for looking at landscapes, but also we have a work package which is called New Thinking and Communities, which brings in people into the equation. So thinking about landscapes and landscape decisions, it's really important to remember the people and not get lost in the data and the modelling. A few reflections on what I've heard this morning and maybe overlaps. The first thing that I think Ron picked up this morning was the ethics and legal thing and that's really quite important and I think the last speaker talked about drawing data from software that's used by farmers and that's a very touchy sensitive issue that farmers aren't always that pleased to give away their data. There's a lot of commercial sensitivities and legal sensitivities about that, so when we're talking about bringing data or taking data and using that to make decisions, we do have to be very mindful about the legal and ethical considerations. Lots of things going on. One of the drivers, I guess, for landscape decisions was the DEFRA 25 year environment plan, which basically is built around this idea of multifunctional landscapes. So a key concept for landscape decisions is that the landscape is multifunctional. It provides lots of different services. Traditionally, it was food and fibre production, but over the last 20 years we've started to become increasingly aware of the other services that are provided by landscapes. In the agricultural landscape there may also be disbenefits, so externalities that are farming, for example, may cause losses of biodiversity, water quality problems and problems with water quantity. A lot of what is going on in landscape decisions is thinking about multifunctional landscapes, trying to quantify ecosystem services. Some of those are easy to quantify. Some of them are less easy to quantify. For example, biodiversity itself, as a thing to measure, isn't always that easy to measure. We've also got other things like cultural services that are very important, how people value landscapes, that are very difficult to incorporate into models. So there's a big challenge there. Some projects in landscape decisions have been trying to grapple with that challenge. I'm going to show up in a minute. Obviously, this leads very strongly into policy. Most of you will wear more than me that DEFRA are trying to develop a new set of agri-environment schemes around this concept of multifunctional landscapes, public money for public good etc. Very central to that will be collecting the evidence for the benefits that are generated by different landscape uses and interventions. It's really important that we get it right. Data is going to be really important for that. Models are going to be really important, sensing everything we've been talking about today. The last thing I'm going to mention I picked up from several talks this morning is the value of visualization and interaction and producing software that's actually engaging that pulls people in. It's great to do all this fancy modeling and data analysis, but if you don't have a user that's actually going to be interested and going to be drawn in, then it's not going to be of much use. So I think visualization and software developers have a really important role to play in all of this. So I'll leave it there and we'll open it up for one of the speakers. Yeah, thanks Mike. So it's so true visualizations are a key part of this and that's a very nice example. I'm also interested, you mentioned the ethics and so on as picking that up and I just drew my thoughts to the, we did a webinar series as another plug for the YouTube channel by the way. We did a webinar series on the ethics in AI and the intellectual property and bias in AI and there was some really insightful talks there. It's a fascinating area. So what I'd like to do now is just throw out a couple of themes really to colleagues here and I'm hoping we'll have some questions from all of you as well so you can be thinking of your questions, but maybe we could just start by just putting to all of you really what you think the advantages, the strengths, the opportunities that digital approaches have in the way that organizations like yourselves conduct business and what is the art of the possible in a sense for some of the things we're hearing about. Who'd like to have a crack at that? Julie perhaps? Yes please do. So we clearly do need data to drive our decisions. Earlier I said we don't need data, we need information. We need information to drive our decisions for that information comes from data doesn't it? So in the real way we have to make operational, we have to make safety and performance decisions every day and very often they're not driven particularly by particularly robust or comprehensive data. So particularly in the kind of the weather resilience space and climate adaptation we need to make sure that we've got those kind of real data-led kind of decision processes. We're constantly balancing two things really in the railway so Network Rail for those that don't know manages all the infrastructure of the National Rail Network and we're constantly balancing safety and performance. So obviously we want to keep passengers safe but if we wanted to keep them 100% safe 100% of the time we wouldn't ever run a train so we have to make decisions about performance as well so we need to basically route these decisions in as best data as we possibly can so we can balance those two things and run trains safely but also run them as reliably as possible as well. So yeah it's really what decisions are, is the data going to drive and that's absolutely key I think. Thank you. Sally and the Environment Agency how are things done? I was going to say health and safety is one of them if you're out on site or where your limits are particularly in extreme weather conditions really really important. It's also about efficiency and how we work so if we've got a lot of data do we have the right skills in again making sure you're right the skills in the organisation are correct so if AI can do something you know can we use up skill people in one area to make sure we can use their time effectively and also can we avoid doing boring tasks I think that's the other thing of actually how can we actually be efficient in what we're doing and use different technologies in different ways to do the things that maybe we don't really want to do. Yeah that's right. Kate just thinking we had a discussion before and I was fascinated to hear about the span and breadth of all the work that you and your team do at QScience. I mean what's missing do you think at the moment technology skills onboarding I mean is a familiarity of these technologies with management what's missing do you think? I think thanks for the question. I think in terms of the the conversation we were having because again I've had different environments and different conversations it's that cultural confidence about digital conversations is in every job I've been in it's case of I didn't know how to ask the right question every time or I didn't know I could do that or I didn't actually kind of think oh it's got to be a specialist person who does that and I think collectively and this community as much as every other digital community I've spoken to it's just like we will have to have a little bit more confidence in asking the question because sometimes you kind of go I don't know what I don't know but actually I just need to throw myself into it so in terms of what's missing it's that confidence conversation sometimes and also that kind of acceptance of the fact you're going to fail. My last job I failed spectacularly in so many different ways but I also succeeded and that's the kind of like that conversation is sometimes we're a bit risk adverse in terms of that data conversation and sometimes you should throw yourself into it and you will learn something from the journey not necessarily what you thought you were going to do so in answer to your previous question about what are we missing that predictive AI I always find really interesting conversation because everyone says well that's great AI is going to solve world peace it's not because it looks backwards but in terms of that predictive AI is we're going to find some stuff that we never thought we didn't know and we just need to kind of cope with that and have that conversation and then understand why we didn't think we didn't know that etc that known unknown kind of conversation piece and just have a little bit more comfort with that I think that's one of the real things that I think is missing. I mean I think the make we talked about the convergence really of some of the things that you're some of the themes you're looking at and and and what you've heard here today I'm just you know what where are we going with this what's what's the future for for these sorts of digital approaches and looking at things like land landscape decisions where do where do where do the these technologies fit in what is it going well I think maybe just go back a little bit I just just to reflect a little bit on how far we've come you know thinking back to when I first started in in environmental science you know how hard it was to get data how little data there was out there now we are it is absolutely amazing I mean when you when you reflect on the technology that's in our pockets that's in our homes the the computational power on our desktops compared to the computational power that we had only a few years ago I distinctly remember when we got a machine that had a gigabyte of not the memory of a gigabyte hard disk and we were you know what's ever going to use a gigabyte how can you and and of course how things have come along so I think we are now in a position with the technology of sensing technology particularly remote sensing it is unbelievable that that that this space based technology is now at everyone's fingertips and many of these data sets are you know open source and are available to everyone so I think that is absolutely incredible I think going forward I think there's so much opportunity to use these data to gain insight so it's all about getting the insight you know we've got a lot of data a lot of numbers flying around we're drowning in information but we're we're we're scarce of knowledge I think that's very very poignant for this conversation and a key thing we want to try and get insight we want to learn something from the data and key to that is to be mindful that the data do need to be quality controlled and there needs to be a you know some work done on on making sure that data are consistent I think Matt mentioned that the data are being collected by a whole range of different organisations made perhaps using different methods and aren't always comparable so that's one thing that I think we need to be mindful of it's very easy just to throw numbers into an AI and we get nonsense nonsense in nonsense out etc but I think that the the potential is tremendous for gaining insight from all of this data I'd like to see and it's happening more in situ sensors for example for greenhouse gas emissions but also for water quality part of the sort of an outcome from the recent outrage about water companies spilling raw sewage into into our rivers is that combined sewer overflows will be much more heavily monitored in future and that will degenerate a whole set of very very useful data so I'm looking forward to seeing more more sensors being used also to seeing the data being provided in you know the right format in an open access format I can't remember the the phrase I quite like at the beginning somebody mentioned I wrote it down analysis ready as one of these phrases that was that was it analysis ready I quite like that so analysis ready data sets with good metadata so that they're you know they're easy to use and quick quick to use so that that that that's I think within our grasp I think we we're definitely able to do that now and I'd like to see a little bit more of that so stop there yeah the print the principles of sort of fair data sets that's findable accessible interoperable and reusable this is something that's really emerged hasn't it in the last few years and the emergence of curated described analysis ready data sets vast bodies of data through centres like cedar and the jasmine super computer and Daphne colleagues in the audience from both of those facilities is a you know it's extraordinary development. I also actually should just note that this is capturing that insight that you meant from the data is a key factor in the NERC digital strategy which is something we should all have a look at. I think there's an opportunity now to ask you to pose some questions to our panel members so who'd like to start proceedings with a question for our colleagues here should put your hand up and if you'd like to say who you are and thank you. Hello my name is Rachel Chakros I come from the marina fisheries directorate within DEFRA as part of the digital strategy team. I'm interested in understanding how you determine your baseline on which to build your evidence platform. If you start from today we've already had a lot of degeneration and so therefore if you're going onwards from there then how do you determine how well you're improving a system? If you start from a long time ago you may not have the data sufficient to give you that quality baseline. Thank you. Thanks very much. Baselining, who'd like to have a crack at that? Can I start? I think that's a really great question because if you're going to track progress over time you need to know where you started from and sometimes we do have good data already but not always so I can't really answer the question but I think it's a good point that's well made that that quite often we don't spend enough time thinking about how we're actually going to measure progress over time. One of my big frustrations in the in the sort of water quality world is an obsession with interventions without proper measurement of the effect of the intervention so the intervention itself is the good not the actual outcome and it's the outcome that we really want to achieve and we need to monitor the outcome we need to be able to measure the outcome and track that over time so it's a good point. Thank you. I think we've got time for a couple of quick questions before we break for lunch. Please at the back. Thank you. Did I see the second one over there, John? Yes, thank you. Please. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Cowdery. I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the James Hutton Institute. I do data synthesis with models and I'm responding to the comments about visualization and also earlier thoughts on essentially how does digital develop with the natural research and I was thinking about how often we start with thinking with working with data sciences we think about how we have to tell our story we make our figures we have to work with people who know how to interact with policy but these days there are so many more fields things like user interface UI user experience UX studies web design app design if I were to design a new project I could have a whole new area of team members who do all of these different things can you imagine projects moving forward that would include this entire new area of all these new people just focusing on these areas to help move digital the digital aspect of the research forward and help us support this side so that the data science can focus on what we do best even with the same say monetary resources that we have. Okay, thank you. You have programmes of capturing vast amounts of data from all of the money samples and so on at Q and visualization of this to support the science must be key. I mean how are you approaching visualization of all these? That's a fantastic question and I was desperate to answer it so thanks for giving me a question. Q and white curse we clearly have a lot of customer interaction and that kind of inclusion conversation is really really forefront how do we tell the story how do we tell it the story of the data in a way that lands with those communities both in the UK and worldwide and then also the visual kind of web based interface conversation as well in multiple languages in multiple ways and how do we actually get that conversation because we've got some very very informed citizen science communities now a lot more I would say than we had a few years ago and I think if COVID bought us one thing it's bought us that community that's said at home and actually engage we have a huge amount of those that engage with Q so we're being challenged constantly all the time as to is it a video is it AI is it an augmented reality is it we're currently doing that and trying lots of different things in Q now we've just employed some some augmented reality specialists for exactly that reason because we need to tell the stories in the way that lands and actually that's a really important part about the data so so well we're doing we're doing the project and I'm very fortunate that I'm actually in a in the middle of a four-year project that's funded at the minute and my biggest concern is what happens in two or three years time when that drops off the cliff so that I don't think I've solved everything on this conversation it's more of a case of totally recognising what you've said about how do we actually employ the specialist to tell the stories and there was a digital comms person that I employed about six or seven months ago who's now done some amazing things that I would never even have thought about thinking about let alone actually put into place and it's only because they came in with a completely different set of eyes and said well why are you not doing this again for me it's just like yeah I didn't even know I could ask that question so I'm challenging that environment as well and I think the more different skills you can bring into a conversation that the more kind of opportunities you have for that data exploitation so thanks for a fantastic question is the public interface to the data science isn't it it's the and if you're doing it public engagement and it's absolutely crucial so I think we have one last question before you break please hello I'm Ryan Chris I'm a PhD student at Cranfield I had a question about kind of using this data rather than just having this huge this huge data set is actually using it you know requires a lot of computational power and one of the things that kind of I've been reading about is that the UK kind of compared to places like the US lacks this kind of capacity for compute the kind of the hardcore data crunching how much an issue is this for your just kind of respective areas and how do you think it can be solved in the future so access to compute sorry just clarify yes access to kind of supercomputers and the kind of things that like particularly like AI based analysis the kind of high level it's okay thank you thank you very much do the how did the the environment agency and network where it will deal with supercomputers to you I mean a network rail with the new measurement train are collecting terabytes of data absolutely extraordinary amounts of data and I was lucky enough to go on the train and saw this huge amounts of data being pulled off and actually process before the train had even stopped and all the processing actually going on on the train but where does that data go and how's that as a supercomputers use for yeah I mean I used to work for the Met Office and we had supercomputers but I have no idea if network rail has supercomputers I would think probably not and I think that's it's really good to hear you know that at the cutting edge of data research and data science is is all of this thinking about what do we do with these huge amounts of data that we're now being able to download from various places and and the next steps you know of how we make them usable I can't pretend to know what network rail doesn't afraid but I just think it's um it's really key to kind of talk to the the ultimate users and you know trying to get that post processing into the most usable form possible yeah I think I think the the data opportunities are fairly significant and you know I was also lucky to go to the the data center and down in Bath the environment agency I mean the environment agency are also collecting and dealing with huge data data resources are supercomputers used in in do you know I mean I don't know the details there and I think I think modeling some of the the flows in the North Sea I've spoken with colleagues on the Ipswich offers and I think there are circulation models that do use supercomputers but it's you know that it's interesting to know how we how we actually give access to some of these these platforms really I don't know make if you have any thoughts on I'd like to just put the question out to the audience do people think that that computing resources in the UK are lagging behind the US and you know is there a need for additional resource in this area can we have a show of hands to people feel like it's a constraint I guess it depends on where you're coming from but there's a few people I mean there must be a few people think well you know I only need a you know a desktop laptop computer I can run everything on that but um yeah I don't know I guess it's I guess it's sort of context specific I know the Met Office have allegedly very high performance computing facilities probably other organisations that also have that but maybe generally across the board that's not the case we have a colleague from from Jasmine and from Daphne here just please a quick thought from you and then we'll break hi I'm Matt Pritchard from the Jasmine team at Rall and yeah I suppose I can I can talk a little bit um from the point of view of Jasmine but also the CEDA the Center for Environmental Data Analysis which is sort of run from the same same team so one of the interesting things there is that um you know whereas we started with a service that allowed people to download data from what was the British Atmospheric Data Center and the NERC Earth Observation Data Center that grew into the the CEDA archive covering not just those disciplines but also sort of climate model data and and it's been really interesting to see how with the advent of Jasmine it's not just about providing the data it's also providing um a platform a sort of collaborative space where people can come together and do do their stuff collaboratively and that's a really important part of of providing some of those big facilities that it's not just the data and the compute power and that sort of thing it's actually the the interactions that happen between groups between scientists between disciplines even and and facilitating that to happen. Thanks very much Matt and um with Daphne I think the Daphne user conference is just going that might just be time for people to sneak in uh to let's let's go um yeah okay just have a quick quick one on them. Yeah well it's just to follow on from this about user needs for HPC and things I from my point of view I feel like we're quite well served for heavy number crunching you know we have lots of big supercomputers in the UK that do a great job for that from from my point of view and I don't know if others feel the same I feel like there's a bit of a niche in the middle between desktop or local servers and the very heavy stuff something in the middle to you know where you can play around with data analyze data sets et cetera things like the sinodes on jasmine or the clouds offerings I feel like there could be more done in that space I think that's that's a bit of a gap that we have personally. Thanks Matthew. Right colleagues I think uh much as we like the discussion to go on here there's plenty of discussion over lunch uh we'll break now and um you'll notice the exhibitions are all there please take the opportunity to talk to the teams who've kind of


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2019, 2020, Panini, impeccable basketball three box, random team break number 25, Brian Frank in the house, there he is. Bought the very first spot in this, thank you so much. And thanks everyone else for getting in as well, congrats again to the winners of spots right here, appreciate it. There are the teams right here, thank you teams, let's roll in random names and teams four and a six, ten times each. Good luck, one, two, three. And Don is here too, 10th and final time, there you go, Don's name on top with the spot that he won and on the bottom, the 30 spot. Four and a six, ten times for the teams, one, two, three, four. And 10th and final time, good luck everybody. After 10 we've got the Mavericks on top, down to the Portland trailblazers. Before you make trades, remember this is 2019, 2020, this is Zion, John Morant here. I know this time of year can get confusing because we're breaking 2020, 2021 product and we still have 19, 20 product coming out so there's a little bit of a crossover, be sure to pay attention to the titles in the descriptions.  Let's get all this on one screen and let's sort by team name. And I'm going to give everybody a few minutes to kind of digest their teams and see, you know, think about what they could get and maybe make some trades when we come back. We'll pop open this fresh case and we'll see what's inside. BRB. All right, welcome back, folks. No deals were done. That is all good. This remains the same three box random team 25. I didn't see any more cases in the back, so for now we don't have any more, but keep an eye on the website. You never know when stuff like this will reappear again. High end basketball is really nice. I think we did opulence the other over the weekend, maybe got some impeccable today. Maybe we'll dig up some other fun stuff as well. Thanks everyone. And good luck. All right, so there's the plate card, the cards themselves and the little filler cards here. Let's see what's in here first. We're going to lead off with a nice plate of Yanis Antitikumpo. Nice. There you go. 50 out of 99 for Milwaukee, that'll go to Gretchen. We've got another plate there. It looks like it's in an autograph spot, so we've got to use this blank card right here to slow play the hits a little bit. We're going to lead off with Dennis Smith Jr., 23 out of 75 for the Knicks, that'll be for Blair. We've got Kristaps Forzingis, 57 out of 99 for Dallas, that'll be for Daunt. We've got 25 out of 25, R.J. Barrett, rookie R.J. Barrett, he's been playing some good basketball lately, Knicks, Blair with New York. And our first autograph is going to be rookie Jersey and Otto, Cody Martin, 29 out of 99. And that, of course, will go to Charlotte, Jimmy Connell with the Hornets. Now remember, there's been a top loader shortage, which has finally reached us. So we've been having to put cards in much bigger top loaders than they should be in. So we're putting blue painter's tape right over the top so they don't rattle around during shipping. But if you were to remove them or for whatever reason, tape wasn't there, just be careful because they're going to be pretty loose in some top loaders. So just public service announcement. We're trying to scrounge up some more. Here's Kenny the Jet Smith, five out of 25 on card autograph for the Rockets. That's going to be for Kane Anderson. These should be in like 120s or 130s. But unfortunately, we don't do not have those. Kane with the Rockets. And here is Gary Harris, 28 out of 99 impeccable shots signatures. That'll go to Colin and Denver. Right, Thomas, if there is a blue painter's tape, if there was a shortage on this, then I don't know what we're going to do. We probably just have to put everything in slider boxes. And if we run out of slider box, I don't know what we're going to do then. All right, there is Nassir Little on plate autograph. Nice. Portland. That'll be for Don.  It's like 16 out of 49 on that one. Right. And then if we were just, we may just have to personally fly cards, fly everyone to the shop to pick up their cards. Right. Bring bring your own top loaders. B Y O T 94 out of 99. That's Cam Reddish Jersey and autograph. We'll give it two colors, right? Different shades, like a charcoal color and a black color right here. That'll be for Atlanta. That'll be for Blair. That was box one. Box two, right? Yeah, it's definitely a first world problem. Topler or shortages. There's something that directly affects our livelihood. All right. So I think that's autograph on the bottom right there. All right. All right. We've got Jared Culver, 19 out of 60, going to Brian and the Timberwolves. Pop that right there. Jared Jackson, Jr. One out of 10 Grizzlies. That's going to be for Blair with the Gris 28. Out of 49, Paul George. Going to Kobe Chan and the Clippers. And we've got Isaiah Thomas, 67 out of 99 for the Wizards, Blair. And our hits, first one is Quinn Buckner, 17 out of 99, Canvas Creations. That'll be for Gretchen and Milwaukee. We've got Alvin Adams, 71 out of 99, Lustrous Inc. for the Phoenix Suns. Colin with Phoenix. There you go, the Oklahoma kid. Alvin Adams. Couple more on a plate autograph. There's Casey Ocbala, 47 out of 99, Miami Heat. Blair with Miami. We've got Ignis Redzikus, two-color jersey and autograph. 10 out of 10 for the Knicks. Blair with the Knicks. One that spot in a filler break. Back here is the plate autograph, Darius Basely, for OKC. That'll be 65 out of 99. All right, that's Blair, again, with the OKC Thunder. All right, and the final box. And here's the case hit. Usually it's a big piece of silver. It could be gold, though. There's John Collins, one out of 10 for Atlanta. Blair, eight out of 25, Kevin Love. Blair, Cleveland. Deandre, eight and 78 out of 99 for the Suns. Colin with Phoenix. And a redemption. And we got Dan Issell, one out of 25, Denver Nuggets. Colin with Denver. Any guesses on that redemption for bragging wrecks? We got Sam Jones, indelible ink, nine out of 25, for the Celtics. Blair with the Cs. Roberts thinking John Moran on the redemption. The plate autograph is Nikhil Alexander-Walker. I thought it was going to be his teammate for a second. That goes to Don and the Nolans' Pelicans. Danny guessing Barclay, 28 out of 99 on that Nikhil Alexander-Walker. The last one here is Damien Lillard. Yes, highlighting his 23 and a half points per game, 14 out of 23. Damien Lillard for Don and the Portland Trailblazer with the spot he bought straight up. That's some pretty good career numbers. He's pretty good. All right, the redemption is going to be Jackson Hayes for the Pelicans. Do I have a little pen here? No, I don't. Pelicans, Don with the pelts. All right, that goes to the New Orleans Pelicans right there. And the last one here is going to be a piece of silver. And it's going to be for the, it's the answer. Allen Iverson, nice. One out of 25, a Troy Allen to a fine, fine silver with the basketball hall of fame stamped in there. Nice one for the Sixers. That'll be for Matthew Shearer who won that spot in a filler break. There you have it, boys and girls. Thank you very much for getting in. That was three box Ranham team 25 of 2019, 2020, Panini impeccable basketball. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break on Jasper's Case Breaks.com.


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Hey everybody, this is Harish from in Athens. It's Sunday Jan 28. It's in the evening about 7 p.m Wanted to do a quick market update video here as you saw on Friday The markets went up very very big the S&P moved up about 30 plus points Now what was the real cause of that kind of a move? We don't know In fact, there was a GDP number that came out that morning and by any means I mean 2.6 is a great number But the market was actually expecting 3% and so in that sense it was somewhat of a Disappointment and and still the markets went up. There's a lot of things going on right now But there's really no reason why the the S&P should have gone up that much and as you can see it It also did it on low volume at least the ES and you'll see the same thing on the spider as well You can see that this is a big move of you know over 30 points at volume was very low You know I did a couple of analysis here and I just want to point out that now during this run You can see from the beginning of the year. It's been bullish, of course But look what what the VIX has been doing so the VIX Of course We know is a short-term measure of fear in the markets and you can see that the VIX has been going up as well It's not a common thing to see the S&P as well as the VIX go up at the same time It does seem to have pulled back especially on Friday But still you can see that you know otherwise there are more green bars than red and If you look at the historical volatility of the VIX even that is going up Can I put another study here? It's called the relative strength compared to the VIX and so while this so what it measures is the relative strength of the ES as Measure to the VIX so here also you can see the relative strength of the S&P is actually coming down Of course granted Friday was a very big day So you would see this and the last one I want to show is the average true range So the average two range is the real Calculation of how much up or down a stock moves on a particular day And you can see the average two range has climbed up to now 2122 so what this is saying is on a daily basis the range of the S&P is moving up to 22 so all of these are somewhat of Yeah, of signals that a big move is coming. You know, we don't know whether it's going to be up or down We know there is a government shutdown thing looming and that's coming up on Feb 9th, but even otherwise I see the Things are just a little bit extended more extended than it, you know, really should be especially this VIX Which is a measure of the short term fear in the market So overall all of this says that that there's something going on in the market You know now the SPX now as we know has three, you know three expires And so there's a way and with such big moves There's a there's there's ways to really capitalize on these three expires Just from an intraday basis because on the last day of expiry option prices are low But there's a lot of movement going on. So which means there's a lot of you know up and down You can whether it's calls or puts we can take advantage of them And so the next class of the expiry is coming up on Wednesday So you can find the details on this link right here If you can click that link, you'll find more information on this class, but regardless It's I think it's a time to be a little watchful on the market because this definitely is Saying something here and of course VIX is a short-term measure of fear So over the next month to two months is what the VIX is actually measuring and so you know that tells you There's something in the air so time to be watchful and to take advantage You can take advantage of the intraday spx expiry day options. Thanks


A level 3 predatory offender will soon be released from custody and will be moving to a home near Ironton. Crowan County Sheriff Todd Dahl says 35 year old Dagan Michael LaSart will be released on June 1st and live at the home near Crowan County Road 28 and Lake Road. LaSart's history includes sexual contact with an adult female victim he did not know. LaSart, who wore a mask, used force and a weapon to gain compliance with the victim. In order to inform the public, the Crowan County Sheriff's Office will host a community notification meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Crosby City Council chambers to discuss LaSart as he is a new level 3 predatory offender in the city. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Thank you very much John Peter. Good afternoon everyone So I will give you an overview of how civil society is giving an input in the European Union level I'm not the chair, but I'm a member of the civil society forum on drugs. This is actually the major forum or mechanism to involve civil society into decision-making in the European Union level I've been participating in the forum since its beginnings in 2006 and This is now has become an expert group of the European Commission it we have more than 40 members selected by the Commission for three years and we have five people in the core group and We have annual meetings annual plane plenary meetings and we also have joint meetings with Meeting of the governments, you know the European Union member state representatives meet every month in Brussels and this meeting is called the horizontal working party on drugs and Now we established the connection between the two for two for and we have regular meetings with them although this relationship was sometimes quite difficult and The civil society forum on drugs has four working groups So the first working group is on international relations mostly giving an input on the UN debate for example chaired by IDPC and The second group is on the European Union's action plan and drug strategy and this was chaired by me for several years and We have the third working group on civil society involvement in the national level in the European Union And then the fourth working group is working on implementing quality standards for harm reduction and demand reduction Services in the European Union and you should know you see this This is this was the last plenary meeting of the forum in Brussels and this is a really diverse group so divers in terms of geographical Distribution but also in terms of word views and approaches. So we also have you know recovery organizations and not only harm reduction organizations and the CSF D was involved in preparing the current EU action plan on drugs So the European Union has a drug drug strategy, which is for the year 2013 2020 and it had to It has two action plans the the previous one expired in 2016 and in 2017 The EU council adopted the new action plan and also made a mid-term evaluation of the previous Drug strategy and in this process in this whole process civil society forum on drugs was Involved completely and I think that's in itself a big achievement now that civil society participates in Creating the most important documents in the European Union level and I'm happy to report you that our recommendations were Adopted and accepted by the Commission in many cases. So we This this EU action plan on drugs is actually the most progressive one Has ever adopted also in terms of harm reduction. This is the first action plan for example You know mentioning and in favor of innovative harm reduction services such as drug consumption rooms drug checking services and Naloxone distribution also it is specifying different, you know vulnerable groups women prisoners migrants It it also has an action on Measuring the human rights impacts of drug policies It is promoting civil society involvement in the national level into the national level of the policymaking implementing quality standards Of harm reduction and demand reduction and also promotes alternatives to coercive sanctions as you know in the unit Is no consensus on Decriminalization, but there is a consensus on promoting alternatives to coercive sanctions So it's a very very strong and progressive action plan on drugs, but there are Serious shortcomings with this document. So for example, it's not legally binding So you you know many times people ask me like so can you force our government to implement the EU drug strategy? And that's not the case Because it's not a legally binding document. It's more like, you know recommendations are more like a policy document for for member states and There are also problems with the drug coordination in the European Institutions so the drug unit which is coordinated drug policy in the European Union is at the home department of the Commission and Not in the health department and sometimes, you know, there is a kind of lack of proper communication between the house and home I think you have in many of your countries. You have the same lack of coherence in terms of drug policy coordination and The European Commission has a very low budget on drug policy So maybe many of you applied for this easy just grants, you know, it's the Every year the EU has this grant, but it's like two million and sometimes hundreds of NGOs are applying for that very small amount of money and There it's again another problem that although there is an evaluation of the EU action plan on drugs and drug strategies It's not an impact evaluation. It's usually an outcome evaluation. So for example, you know with police like How much how much drugs the police seized but it doesn't Take account like what is the real impact of that seizure on the drug market? The civil society forum drugs prepare the produce the Survey to give an input on to the to the implementation and Evaluation of the current EU action plan on drugs So we were we produced an online questioner and they redistributed it among NGOs and we were we would like to We wanted to you know map the perceptions of NGOs on access to and quality of different services 12 major services including the main harm reduction services opiate substitution treatment NSP drug consumption room now locks on drug checking In a 10 point scale and also not only in among the vulnerable Not not only among the general population, but also in specific groups such as prisoners women Young and aging people migrants ethnic minorities So this report is about which was now published on the website of the civil society forum on drugs You can download that report this is about perceptions of those NGOs civil society organizations who work on the field So as you see most of the respondents were working or providing harm reduction services So this is not to you know replace emcdda report, but it's more supplementing what emcdda reports have and Actually, there is a plan to make this regular report now on behalf of the civil society forum on drugs we got 169 responses from 32 European countries including all member states except Malta and Unfortunately, not from a from not every country. We got a high number of responses So for example like Denmark Greece or Croatia The we had less responses and that's so the Results were findings were not so strong, but from many countries we received several responses from several NGOs and In those countries responses are stronger and this is the This graph shows the mean access and to end quality of service different services in the European Union perceived by Those who are providing the services and advocating for them and as as you can see The Those harm reduction services that the innovative harm reduction services such as OST naloxone drug checking drug consumption room The access to those services is really minimal very low in it in most or most of the countries This is for this this graph shows perceived access to needle and syringe Programs and as you can see in most European countries, this is a really perceived as one of the most Available or accessible services, but in the eastern part of the EU the access to this service is really extremely low and There is a country where actually there is zero access to needle exchange program Bulgaria and This is showing the perceived access to opiate substitution programs This is a access to Naloxone distribution, which is actually completely missing from most most member states and the same situation is with drug checking services In many countries that there are NGOs, you know or community organizations Distributing some kind of rapid tests, you know in parties and festivals, but that's that that's not real drug checking with the proper technical equipment and and with perceived access to drug consumption rooms is the lowest among all services and That doesn't need that doesn't mean that actually we don't need drug consumption rooms because even in the east where there is Absolutely no access. That is a huge huge need for for drug consumption rooms we also asked about how How professionals rate, you know the accessibility of Services among specific groups and as you can see for example harm reduction services are Access to harm reduction services really low in among the prisoners and migrants ethnic My minorities in the EU. So those are those groups where you know, there are the most significant gaps And we can see a very serious divide regional divide in the European Union and we have been talking a lot about that in this conference that in the Eastern part of the EU and also some of the Candidate countries of the EU that is extremely low access to some harm reduction services And I think we can talk about the crisis and sometimes I felt at this conference that this is not really Emphasized enough that we are we are really having an emergency situation in many countries a crisis where Their harm reduction services which were established in the 2000s completely collapsed and this is partly because of change in funding environment also partly changing political Environments and let's say the problematic countries are Those reflected are highlighted on the map for example Lithuania Poland, Slovakia, Hungary Serbia and Romania and Bulgaria and for example here where we are in Romania, we know that Clients served by needle exchange programs in just this year dropped from 7500 to 2,000 people In Bulgaria needle and syringe programs completely stopped. That is no not no needle exchange anymore because of lack of funding In Hungary, we still have on paper many needle and syringe programs and some of them really operate But the two largest programs were shut down actually who which served more than half of needles distributed in the whole country Okay, and and I think it's also important to To show that there is also something common in these countries And that's that this these harm reduction programs are serving the same population people marginalized people living in poverty and Sometimes if you ask for example harm reduction service providers in Slovakia Romania, Hungary, Serbia like how many of your clients are Roma people They will say that nine out of ten and I think this issue is not really not not emphasized enough again because I think this is what we have Here is a population living in deep poverty and excluded completely from society and They are using drugs in such environments. For example, this one is from Sofia or this We made a movie and my organization made a movie in Belgrade but harm reduction program which actually closed down a few years ago and This was one of the house where drug users live in the outskirts of Belgrade and this Picture shows one drug scene in my own kind of my own city, Budapest so We don't really I think in in these cities. We don't really have a drug problem, but we have a poverty problem We have a social exclusion problem racism problem and the segregation problem And I think we don't really address that enough so We need to do that So some conclusions We have a very strong action plan, but a very weak Implementation there is not enough funding and not enough political will to implement the action plan on drugs Or even you know governments made a commitment To implement it, but in many countries that are really serious shortcomings And and it's my experience as a member of the civil society forum It's really really hard to address these issues in the European level in the European fora For example at the HDG level. We very rarely have a meaningful discussion about drug policies It's kind of same similar to the UN where we have a gentlemen club and nobody is naming and shaming countries for their shortcomings Then as I already mentioned that we have outcome evaluations no impact evaluations And for example with new psychoactive substances, you know We make a lot of efforts to ban new substances But does anybody take the efforts to actually evaluate the impact of those? You know measures when you know new substances are taken under a broad under control So what will what effect it will have on the market and nobody is investigating that it's just you know ticking the box new substances banned and Then another problem, especially in the eastern parts we have structural funds development funds in these countries in the new member states But they are very rarely can be used for harm reduction programs and in case when We have for example Lithuania now made available structural funds for harm reduction But at the same time they cut the budget for from the central budget for harm reduction program So it doesn't really help then For example in the European Union and the European Commission made a lot of effort to create You know the early warning system and emergency legislation to bring new substances under control But we don't have a similar system or mechanism to intervene in Cross-border public health crises. So for example when we have outbreaks of HIV and hepatitis We don't have any funds emergency funds to support people working on the ground And I think that's a really, you know one-sided approach Even if the European Union is always proud to have a balanced approach But in terms of money efforts our approach is not balanced at all then another problem that's Innovative harm reduction services actually innovation ends with the Eastern Border of the EU. So there is no innovation at all in our countries like Hungary or Bulgaria Then as I told that is there are huge regional gaps and and this interrupt interruptions of services in the East are Should be addressed in the European level because this are not problem of individual countries We see cross-border patterns here and I think the EU after you know the big big Fund big donors such as Global Fund leaving the region I think the EU must step in and take responsibility for their own countries and give support for harm reduction programs and then finally that The services among vulnerable people are much less accessible than among the general population and My that's my view that drug policies are still used in many countries to discipline the poor people and To you know to segregate them from society and to punish them for for being minorities actually Yeah, thank you very much for your attention. I'm happy to answer your questions Thank you very much for your excellent presentation in which you somehow combined the two main themes of this of this session one is on drug policy and civil society consultation and on the other hand, it's this the state of affairs of harm reduction in in Europe and It's good that you mentioned the word crisis because that that picture with with a map clearly shows that That is a serious rollback in harm reduction in a significant part of Europe Do we have any questions or comments for? Peter Okay, yeah, I will bring to the militia My actually my question I know the situation and thank you for for making it's very clear and Visible but my question to you do believe that a EU action plan could be used For advocacy for funding because because we discussed it several time and I don't know what what you feel because it is The only point we could stay yes You support harm reduction and thanks to your advocacy and civil society for my drugs We could say it in the chapter 24 even for accession But do you believe that we could use the action plan as a background for for advocacy for funding for? Well, I think that one problem is that there is very little awareness in the member states about the existence of EU level You know strategy documents, so I I think that we don't use them enough and now we should use more and that's why I Present I made this presentation to point out that we have this very strong and progressive document And I think this can be an advocacy tool But it depends on us NGOs how we can use it as I mentioned it's not legally binding documents, but Clearly governments made a commitment To scale up these services and what we can see is that for example in the eastern part of the EU? No countries scaled up harm reduction services except maybe Latvia, so and yeah Croatia But but no other no other no other member states, so I I think that we should use it more Thank you final Question for militant militant from drug policy that works out this Europe It doesn't seem very important, but I think it is in a way Why are members of the civil society forum appointed by the European Commission? That's the usual procedure with all expert groups of the Commission so the CSFD is an expert group of the EU Commission and There is an open call so all NGOs can apply and then it's it's the Commission who is selecting them based on Applications so there is like a detailed application and based on their competence experience in the field and Experience in international affairs. It's not the perfect system. It's I sing but But yeah, I don't know how you could improve that Yeah, I mean that's the problem which we face very often on national level where the governmental people are appointing NGO representatives and they can be either from gongos and all these things and very often they Find it as an excuse. I know that it's not in this case But if we are a civil society, we should fight for our own position and our own internal mechanisms to appoint people there and not to Give the accredited to give this opportunity to governmental people. Just it doesn't seem logical to me. Thank you Thank you Just to measure that for example in Hungary We had a system where NGOs elected their representatives themselves to the Governmental body not with this current government, but previous one. So We could do that, but I think it's EU rules, you know here bureaucratic rules Thank you very much We've got a couple of minutes left and I Would like to ask the panelists if you look at the situation in Europe regarding harm reduction in terms of drug policy If we if you look at the global situation It's obvious that we're living in challenging Times on the one hand there are There are more and more countries accepting harm reduction In paper they have some so they have services on the other hand funding is a serious problem in many parts of the world and nowadays also in the big parts of Europe That's one side And on the other there's the big drug policy debate which comes to another let's say There's another big event next year in March. What would you as as as experts? What would you give the audience as a kind of a take-home message? What can The people in the in the room do we're setting homework? Okay, I Would say if there was one thing it would be as a Harm reduction community as we are to we've got to keep speaking up speaking up about bad things because there's plenty of those Speaking up about the good things because there's also plenty of those But keep speaking up. We have to keep having our voice heard at every level of this debate national regional international And obviously that includes the task force Please apply to speak please come to Vienna Please be part of that debate because that debate is happening anyway Whether you're there or not, but at least if you're there you can you can try to steer it and try to influence it So that would be my one piece of homework Speak up Sam, what would you like to? In the hope that it's not too self-promoting although it is I would say read the global state of harm reduction Because there's no way that we as as Advocates or activists or as a movement can know where it is We want to go if we don't know where we are at the moment We have to have a good idea of what the situation is around us and What civil society if we're coming from a perspective of civil society? We need to know what it is that civil society says the actual situation is on the ground where there are gaps between policy and practice So I would set some reading Excellent, thank you very much Ingo with all your experience What would you to ask and tell or tell the the audience to do when they come home on Friday or start working on Monday? Well concerning my experience in Germany it as I already mentioned there is a strong NGO movement and Deutsche AIDS service still how to say leading organization and Getting money from the government, but using this money Really for trainings for advocacy work for some for example. There's a big Had been a big challenge concerning OST treatment in Germany, and they had this there's now a big improvement the law and the NGOs had been very supportive And they are not fighting against for example the medical doctors who are providing OST, but try to cooperate and Help them to change maybe Some attitudes on the other hand, of course I would like that these NGOs should be more involved in this international sphere because I Always try to inform About these meetings in Vienna, and there's a wonderful papers from IDPC, but anyway, it's very difficult to get in Germany even NGOs to be involved It's a lack of language whatever and sometimes I'm not interested what is going on in Vienna and of course It's also my experience. I told you are there discussing 24 hours of One resolutions and I'm proud while we have this paper and nobody interested in this paper But anyway, I'm it is good. You mentioned this new strategy you an action plan Of course we can use this and the NGOs should use these also the international standard so to strengthen the the the capacity and to Yeah, and and to improve the situation of drug-using population. I Think it's can help for example at the German service organization the NGOs are having organizing in 21st of July each day a year a national Remembrance day on on drug-related deaths and they're using it also in now at 50 cities in Germany all over Germany Also to discuss drug policy and and to do to have a loud voice on this and think these kinds of activities are very helpful Of course there are gaps, but we are improving although for example, my my boss is from conservative party of former boss and she went to Lisbon and She was now she came back and said oh Portugal's Portugal model is well quite good. Maybe we can do it in Germany as well I was surprised, but did you do it to convince her? Thank you and the final word of of homework so we've heard Speak up read be engaged. What would you ask the the audience to do? Yeah, my experience is that We it's important to understand that decisions are not made in Vienna and Brussels about drug policies but they are very important indicators of change and I think when we are advocating for like this outcome documented the Angus or EU action plan on drugs We should not mistaken them To the final goal of our advocacy. These are only tools very very important tools But if you don't use them in the national level in the local level Then it's just you know half of the job to have progressive documents such as the action plan on drugs Or we hopefully in 2019 we have we will have something more even more progressive at the UN level But we will not we will see but to have these documents is just Half of the job and then we need to use them in the in the national level in advocacy and in this this regard I would say that a homework could be to leave our comfort zones and Try to mainstream this debate and not only you know preach to the converted and not only you know Speak always to the same people who are already Who are already converted to the cause of harm reduction, but try maybe to broaden your alliances with with like other Fields and we have many social justice movements and what I feel sometimes is that we are fighting in an isolated way Everybody has its own, you know narrow narrow focus and We miss many opportunities to cooperate and and also to to see the bigger picture in Advocacy which is also about you know transparency transparency accountability of decision-making and democracy itself and civil society, so That would be my advice Thank you very much. I Would like to finalize This session. I thought it was a brilliant session of very inspiring with some homework for all of us to read to be engaged to to speak up and speak up to different audiences and Continue doing this work Having that said I would like to have a final round of applause for the for the panel and I Wish you a very fruitful conference and hope to see you Tomorrow and in the evening at the party. See you at the dance floor. Thank you


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