intrigue, mystery, romance, starring Lauren Bacall, together in the sultry setting of Tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean. Once again the magic names of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and a tale of mystery and intrigue. Please, Slade, if you're going to sing, would you mind walking on the other side of the street? Kate said it was our song, now I've got the hang of it, I'm not going to let it go. How did she get you to you? In sign language? You don't understand a girl like Kate. I understood a girl like Kate from the time I understood about girls. She's sensitive, refined, throws nice parties. That dress she was wearing knitted it with her own hands, she told me. But how many stitches can a girl drop? You know, Saylor, I asked myself the same question. Oh, that's what you were doing with her on the balcony so long. Counting him, huh? Ah, you see how wrong you can be. All she was doing was giving me a choice. Yeah, we all noticed. You took vanilla. Choice between every little movement and the dipsy doodle for our song. I'll have you know it threw me for a while, but then I picked every little movement. Oh, not again, Slade. Look, we're home. It's late. You want the people in the hotel to wake up screened? Now look, Saylor. Just open the door. Do not trouble yourself with opening up doors in your Shannon. No, what are you doing here, LaSalle? This time of night every little policeman should be home in bed.  It grieves me to spoil such gaiety. See, Slade, you see what happens when you sing? You spoil gaiety. It is much more grave than that, Senorita. It is you we are concerned with the most, most gravely. You are under arrest. Look, I'm on your side. I tried to stop him. You need sleepless. How do you act crazy without it? Into my car, please. And do not force me to waive my authority, this gun, in your faces. You are wanted for questioning by Commissioner Rodriguez. I prefer to deliver you in a piece to answer such questions. Understood? See, it is understood. Hello, Greg. I got news for you. That's nice. They went straight home after the party. The cops picked up the Duval Dame, the way we planned. A boyfriend went along with it. Slade Shannon? I guess. Hmm. Now he's a corner of Havana who appeals to me. And he can pick his own corner. If you'd have been at the party, you'd have seen why. Don't make wishes to yourself. He's liable to wind up dead. All right, all right. Look, baby, business. I said all right. Let me ask you something, Greg. Sure. Does it become me? These things we're playing with. Defense plans, murder. Does it go with the way I wear my hair, the way I use my lipstick? It goes good with you. Like me. Funny. What is? Spy talk. You and me. Can't make an honest dollar, so we sell out. Buy people like a nickel toy. Buy them, break them, and throw them away. Does it worry you? No. No, it doesn't worry me. I just want to get out of Havana, that's all. This is the big one, Kate. Then we'll go to the moon. Hey, I'm talking to you. What's the matter, this Shannon guy warping your sense of values? This guy's just got the go-kit. Sure he does. Break him and throw him away. Look, Rodriguez, you've held us here at police headquarters through the night, through the dawn. It was a delicious dawn. When we are finished here, I will go home and write a poem about it. You guys must be spy happy, Rodriguez. You've got a loosening of the brain. What makes you think, Sailor? We have been over it to a point of weariness in your Shannon. The information we have in our file states that...  The fact that Miss Duval's papers were destroyed in Europe, the fact that she cannot establish her American citizenship, these things we know and are simpatico, however, recently a dossier came to our notice.   I told you, he taught me how to ski. All it was between us was slaloms and herringbones. We have reason to believe there was more. In any case, Cuba is too vulnerable to suffer your presence, Senorita Duval. Delectable as it may be. Well, don't cry, Rodriguez. I couldn't bear it. You have twenty-four hours, Miss Duval. Use it as you wish. And at the end of these twenty-four hours, deprive us of yourself. Get out of Havana. Let's go, Slate. He's eating into our time. Yeah. Havana will be desolate without you, Senorita. My heart bleeds for Havana. I'll get a cab. Why spend good money when you can use my car? I'll sell it someplace else, but come on, Seller. With the car goes a way to keep Miss Duval in Havana. No extra charge. It's going hard, Seller. I want to help him make it easy. What's all this about, friend? My arm. Brittle bones, huh? Come on, talk. You'll break it. I said talk. How come you know things about Seller that I don't? How is it that you know the formula to keep Seller in Havana and I don't? You'll never know. Go ahead, strongman. Beat me up. Throw me in the gutter and walk away. You'll never know. Seller Duval gets thrown out of Havana. Now you're being sensible. I am. Okay, Buster. You got yourself a fare. Let's go. We've been driving for a half hour. All you've done so far is point out the tall buildings. You're dying to know how I'm going to let you keep Miss Duval forever and ever. Is that it?  You can do that. Me and a friend of mine? Oh, no. It's a partnership. Who is the friend? I'm taking you to her now. Lovely girl. You'll adore her. You can keep me from being thrown out of Havana, thrown away from Slate. I'll dine her socks, wash her pots and pans. Any little odd chores are on the house. That won't impress her. It's going to take something much more than that. Money? How much? Not money. Just Mr. Shannon. If you get out here, Mr. Shannon, that's the house. I'm going to. I'm taking you home. That's the price, Miss Duval. Slate Shannon goes to talk to my friend, and I take you home. You're going to buy? She buys. Go home, sailor. Havana needs you. Hello, Slate Shannon. Well, if you stare at me that way, I'll blush. Then you'll lose the illusion. Come on in. All right. Sit down. Over there would be nice. It's my turn to stare. I like the way you move, Slate. I've got a hop, skip and jump routine that used to be the talk of PS 62. You want to see it? Sit still. Talk to me. I like Havana best because the climate is nice all year round. Why don't you try me in 20 words or less? You bewilder me. A few hours ago, you were cooing at me at a party. Now you're mixed up with... Tell me what you're mixed up with, Miss Dottet.  My loud, clear voice. Man told me you'd know why Mr. Val is in trouble. Listen to me. I'm greedy for a thing. Once during the last war, a defense plan was set up by the island republics. A master Caribbean defense against invasion. Against enemy submarines. Now these plans have been elaborated, bettered. Espionage. You're working for a foreign government. And you, too. And you're Mr. Val. Friends of mine who can do such things have planted documents in government files which incriminate her. I'll take it from there. I get the defense plans and sail us off the hook. That's right. Deliver the plans and the evidence on Miss DeVal will disappear. What am I supposed to do? Walk into the chamber of commerce and tell them I'd like to have a copy of the Caribbean defenses? A copy of the plans will be stolen. In place where you can get to them. You know the waterfront. Near the edge of it, to the south, there's an old fish shanty built on pilings. Poncho's old place is deserted. Sometime before ten o'clock tonight an envelope will be hidden between two large pilings that stick up together from the pier. A few minutes after ten you will be there and pick up the envelope. Such a simple thing for an experienced spy. Why don't you do it? So I can keep on being an experienced spy. There's always a chance of a courier getting caught, you know. And if it's you that's caught, you'll have to suffer for it. Not me. I'll deny even knowing you. What do you want to do with me, Slate?  I'll bring you the plans and I'll flip a coin. What time is it, Sela? You've still got another hour. I didn't ask you that. I said what time is it? Nine o'clock. Slate. Yeah? What do you want? I'm chilly. Have you seen my scarf? No? I must have dropped it in Mr. Lane's car. Slate. Yeah? Are you sure you're doing the right thing? I'm sure. There's a simpler way, you know. I get on that plane tomorrow morning and leave Havana. Leave. Well, now don't make me get sloppy. We're gonna do it my way. See this thing through, then turn it all over to the police. Plans, cake, everything. That way we clear ourselves. Not you. Me. It has been our slate. It's a word you read in books. How did it happen to us? Wait a minute. Can I help you, Chico? Senor Shannon. Slate Shannon. What's the matter with you? You look sick. Run away from them. Spies. Get some water, Sailor. Hello, Chico. Why don't you sit down? The plans. I put them. Do not... Here. Here. Here. Let me help you. Run from them, Senor. Run. Here's the water. You better drink it yourself. Little Chico tried to warn us about something, Sailor. He didn't make it. He's dead. Second act of our story. Say, Lord, she feel a great remorse Like a girl who ride backward on a very fast horse To wave farewell to Havana this day And to sigh at places where she used to stay Now comes a great big complication A fellow appears in big agitation To make matters worse, he say, Spide, then he die And the police, they raise fat brow over eye I don't feel more music, Mr. Slate. You get it. How long has the sound been in there with Chico, Sailor? About a half hour. The little guy was trying to help us. He was saying, run away from them. Here comes the man now, King. He'll tell us what to do. What about it, Inspector Lissalle? The man who is dead is named Alfonso Gomez. Senor Gomez was a member of the Cuban government. A minor official, now murdered, poisoned. What do you know of him? We don't know anything. He walked into the hotel, then he fell down. Then Slate saw he was dead. Then I called you. I witnessed all of it, impeccably as Miss Sailor has described it. The man walked into the hotel, then he fell down, then... Keep out of this, King. Or Sailor knows Sailor is telling the truth. I make no comment except to remind Miss Duval, eight hours in Havana. That is all that is left for you. She said between two pilings sticking up together. She must have met the ones over there. The butterflies, I still got them, Slate.  Right here. Hold on to them. We'll pin them up in a glass case and shortle over them on dull evenings. Dull, he says. Right now, I'd settle for a lifetime with Dull. Hold the flash, Sailor. I want this to be our secret. Ours and Cates and Mr. Lanes and Gomez and King. You know, if we play our cards right, maybe we can get three sisters to sing a song about it. I've got it. Complete with fans? Uh-huh. Look at the code word they use for defense plans. Yeah, let's see. D-E-F-E-N-S-E. P-L-A-N-S. Come on, Sailor, I just bought Havana for you. You're going to give the plans to Kate? I told you to the police. I was just checking. Why should I give them back to Kate? The very question I asked myself, Mr. Shannon, over and over. Well, look, it's that polite Mr. Lane. I already thanked you for the ride home. You came back for more? Uh-huh. I've been trying to remember the sweet things you said. I said, thank you. The words I've been scratching my brains for. Thank you. Thank you for the plans, Shannon. You're ahead of yourself, aren't you, kid? Not at all. You'll give the envelope to me. I'll say thank you. Not for this, you won't. You could have made it easy. I like it this way. That's a matter, kid. You fall down from something in the teeth. Slate that car. They shot him down. We've got to help him. Leave him alone, Sailor.  Come on. One minute, Sailor. The time it would take to walk down there to police headquarters and wave this envelope under LaSalle's nose. While he's sniffing it, you might remind him how those documents about me were planted. You think you'll believe it? Sure. We had anything to do with espionage. Do you think we'd come running to him? LaSalle will... Sorry, Amigo, I didn't see you. Your sorry is accepted. And since we have bombed each against the other poor favor, you have a match. Yeah, here. Thank you. I must confess the reason which I have asked a match of you is for the following. To light my own cigarette, I must take my hand from the gun which I carry in the pocket. Emily Post would never forgive you for that. What are you, Buster? What's on your mind? I am Carlo.  The police station is but across the avenue. The abode of Senorita Kate Stoddard is in the opposite direction. We just got lost, Chico. Oh, of course. That is a lie. However, Miss Duval... What? Do not argue with me. Come with me for a happy thing that will happen to you.  Taxi? Gracias, driver. The change is for you. Now, we will walk, Miss Duval, but a short way for the happy thing. Why don't you tell me about this happy thing? What is it? Just one little hint? One happy thing is that Mr. Shannon cannot go to the police because I have you on one side of a gun. Gee, that's swell. Another as follows. There is a man in that house who wants to talk to you very badly. What man? You will see. In this house, Miss Duval, you will go alone. Remember, there is a gun pointed at you. Just because you ask me like a gentleman. Adios, senorita. Hello, Miss Duval. Inspector LaSalle, what are you doing? Please come in. In here, please. I'm glad you are here at the home of Senor Rodriguez. Senor Rodriguez? See, Rodriguez is the commissioner. And I must tell you this. You are under arrest. Again? For what? For his murder. You will go over all of it again, senorita Duval. You made senor Rodriguez to die, where he lies there in the library.  I haven't got a small caliber pistol.  It is embroidered with your name. Look, I told you. I forgot the scarf in Mr. Lane's car. You must have planted it next to the body. You have but to produce this Mr. Lane. We will question him. He was shot down near Pancho Shanti on the wharf. We left him there. I told you that fifty times. It grieves me to call the beautiful senorita a liar. Mr. Lane's body was not on the wharf as you told us.  We did find blood on the wharf. But there was no signers in your Greg Lane. Why would I kill my alibi for Rodriguez? You had a motive. You thought by the murder of Rodriguez you could stay in Havana with Slade Shannon. You had no wish to leave Tuba. We will make that wish come true. In a prison. Perhaps for the rest of your life. Hi, Slade.  Which is it?  Give me a chance to flip my coin. There's more room inside. I brought your envelope. Thanks. Carlo is a very impressive little man, isn't he? Yeah, he is. What do you do with Sailor? By now, she's probably in jail. She killed a government official, Rodriguez. The man who ordered her out of Cuba. That's Sailor. Impetuous. Does it bother you about her? No, if she's in jail, there's no use bothering about her. You bother about me? I can't relax around you. There are so many somers who dropped dead in my hotel. Poisoned. Why? We didn't need him any longer. He planted the documents about Mr. Val. Stole these plans and put them where you would find them. Just tell me about Mr. Lane. Now, there was a fellow who acted like he had a lot on the ball. The only time I saw him get sloppy was when he wanted those plans from me on the pier. Oh, Greg. You know, he shouldn't have done that. Is that why you had to empty a gun into him? I bet I didn't miss once. Now, that's your reaction when somebody tries to double-cross you. Uh-huh. Cold and calculating. So don't you try it, Slade. I brought you the plans, didn't I? Yeah. And that brings out the other me. Warm and feminine.  I'll get all that for the plans. Uh-huh. Say yes to me, Slade. We'll go a long way from here. With the money the plans will bring anywhere you want. Find your place near the edge of the world. Sun burns through you and at night the moon does the same. I'll go well with that. I'll get it. Leave it alone. It'll go away. I'll send it away.  You must have missed. It's Lane. Greg. Come on in. Sit down. Greg, listen to me. Put that gun away and listen. There's a dead man outside. Carlo. He tried to stop me. Greg, listen to me.  Then it's you and I. Think of what we could do. You'll take you anywhere you want to go, kid. Kill him, Greg. He doesn't mean anything to me. Kill him. Keep talking, Katie. You've got him almost convinced. Stop staring at me like that, Greg. I'll be the way you always wanted me. The things we could do. Shannon's in the way. Get rid of him. I'll take the gun, Greg. Thanks. You fool! Getting him that gun. Don't scream at him, Katie. Hear a whisper up close. He's dead. You think you can scream like that again? I want LaSalle to hear it. Slate. Slate, I knew he was dying all the time. You've got to believe me. You've got to... Police department. Let me speak to Inspector LaSalle. Slate, wherever you want to go. That place you talked about. We'll go there. The sun will burn through us in the moon. Everything like you said, Slate. Kate, for the time you get out of this jam, you'll be too old for that sort of thing. Let's go dancing, sailor. Let's get a bucket of red paint and tear Havana apart. Uh-uh. I just want to stand here and look at Havana. I almost lost it. I almost lost something, too. Slate, you mean me? My suitcase. You packed your stuff in it. You'll get it back. Cardboard, twine and all. Yeah, we'll see that I do. Is that all I am to you? A cheap cardboard suitcase? That's right. Where that suitcase goes, I go. You mean you were going to go with me? Come here, Slate. Why? Come here. I'll explain it to you. That's why. Do it again, sailor. I didn't understand a word. And so our two stars, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, have brought to a close our latest bold venture story. Special music was composed and conducted by David Rose. May we invite you to listen again next week at this time for another exciting adventure starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall together in bold...


No breakup happens overnight. It usually stems from repressed feelings or realizations that a relationship just isn't working. Before you make the critical decision to part ways, there are seven questions you should ask yourself that will make the breakup as smooth as possible. Pains, hearts and shed in few drops of tears may occur during the process of making your decision, but with time, they will become mere memories. The way and manner you make your breakup decision will determine how fast the pain will pass away. Hence, in this video, I will share with you seven questions to ask yourself before you break up. 1. Do my priorities align with my partner's own? Getting your preferences straight is an important thing to do in life, especially when it has to do with the lifelong decision such as relationships. So, one foremost question you should ask yourself before breaking up is, what are my priorities? It is also essential to go a bit further and ask what are my partner's priorities? Afterwards, answer the question, do my priorities align with my partner's priorities? Although you don't have to share precisely the same goals as your partner, it is essential to have at least similar vision for the future you want to share. For example, if one of you desperately wants kids and one is resolutely child-free, that's not an issue you can compromise on. Being in touch with what you want for your future can help you figure out whether your current partner is the right person to accompany you on your life journey. If you find out that your priorities match, you can decide to give the relationship another try. 2. What attracted you to your partner? In her iconic hit, Come Clean, Hilary Duff mentions, go back to the beginning. This question requires you to look back and think deep. You ought to think back to when you first met your partner and reflect on why you were first drawn to them. What qualities attracted you? Was it their appearance? Apart from the looks, what else attracted you to your partner? Were there any red flags you ignored? Naturally, everyone makes changes in their attitude as individuals, while in a relationship. If you notice your partner's perspective going sour, don't just jump into breaking up. Instead, think back to when you just met them and how they were. Try to find out what went wrong along the line. The chances are that your partner is not becoming worse, but you are the one who has become less tolerant. You and your partner grew into two people who are less compatible than they once were, and that is okay. 3. Does the relationship bring out the best in you? Do you feel that you are the best version of yourself now? Or were you more productive before you got into the relationship? A relationship that is meant to last is one where a partner supports, encourages and admires when the other partner achieves new things. A good companion stares up the passion for self-development and learning new hobbies in the other partner. So, before breaking up, you must determine if your partner is a positive influence on you. If you feel that your partner pulls you down and prevents you from developing at your chosen pace, then that's a reason to think things over because your discontent with each other will probably only increase in the future. Knowing this will even help you determine whether or not you want to steal be friends with that person even after the breakup. Indeed, not every separation has to end in fights and malice. 4. Do we have common goals for the future? Assessing the goals of you and your partner to determine the ones you share is a crucial task to carry out before calling it to quits. Common plans and views will minimize your arguments if you want to live a full life of traveling, partying with friends, adventures and bright moments and your partner is a homebody and an introvert, then you would probably have conflicts because of this. The plans regarding family, work, etc. are no less important. If you believe that you need to build a successful career first and then make plans to have children while your partner supports you, that is great. However, if there is a clash of interest between you and your spouse, then you might need to break up. 5. What could you lose if you go? Before letting go of your relationship, you must first consider what you stand to lose. It might be as simple and mundane as the loss of your partner's income or it could be having to share custody of your kids, thus losing some time with them. Before deciding to carry out your plan to break up, you must first look through all areas of your life where you might lose something, friends, extended family, material possessions, career, aspiration, anything at all. Don't get indecisive over the substantial losses compared to the possible losses. If it is a possibility, put it on your list. You are to give yourself an honest look at the ways your life will change if you live. Keep in mind that not all losses are damaging to. For example, in an abusive relationship, you would lose the need to lie about how you get bruises by leaving. Try to think ahead to several months or even years into the future too, because you might realize there are more things you lose as time goes on. 6. Do you have a communication problem? If you find yourself contemplating a breakup, those negative thoughts can be aggravated if you and your partner don't have good communication habits. Nevertheless, there are specific questions you must answer as regards communication before making the final decision. When you argue, do you feel listened to and disrespected or degraded and beaten down? Can you have a mature, productive, honest discussion with your partner about your relationship? Well, no matter how much you love your partner, if you have very conflicting views on how best to communicate your problems, it might spell doom for your relationship. Again, it's all about how willing you and your partner are to work through the issue. But if you and your partner are reluctant to get on the same page about something as important as communicating your problems, it might be best to part ways. 7. Will it make you happy? Another essential question to ask yourself before breaking up with someone is if you are delighted in the relationship or yearning for more from the relationship than you are currently getting. Even if you cannot put your finger on why you want to break up, that's okay, because all that matters is that you feel like you're making the decision that's best for you. According to Lean Zachary LCSW, there are no mistakes, only learning opportunities, and every relationship is practiced for the next one. Thus, getting to know yourself and what you need from a relationship alone was worth it. When it comes to breaking up, no one except you can decide what the right move is. Even if you're sad about ending your relationship, it is vital to put yourself in your own needs first and learn not to settle for a partner who doesn't fulfill your needs. Breakups hurt, but remember that being single again is just another chance to fall in love all over again, and it is better to be happy and single than to be in a relationship and be unhappy. No one ever goes into a relationship thinking they will break up, except of course you were not serious from the start. Still, throughout your date and live, you'll probably either be dumped or do the dumping at some point. You don't have to overwork yourself when the breakups happen, be sure that you have accurately answered relevant questions before deciding. If you're one of our great fans who have been wanting to know who is behind this channel, now you can know. Kindly check the description box to join Steve Courage's personal channel, learn directly from him, or ask him any question. Thanks!


My guest today is Ross McGill, a man that probably needs no introduction, but I will give an introduction. Ross is the founder of Teacher Toolkit, the company he started in 2008 with a simple Twitter account. Ross is an experienced senior teacher with a career history spanning 25 plus years, working in state schools across London. He's also an award-winning teacher, author and blogger. He's frequently asked to speak at national conferences across the world and is asked to reflect on educational developments around education and policy. In 2015, Ross was nominated as one of the 500 most influential people in Britain for his influence on education, with his blog and resources having reached over 11 million people. That is a phenomenal achievement. Can I just say, Ross, that is a phenomenal achievement. My family won't speak highly of me compared to all these things written down. Well, I haven't even finished. He's the author of seven books, including Just Great Teaching, Mark, Plan, Teach, 60 Seconds CPD, and more, which you can find on his website. I know, I know, and one last thing, he's currently training teachers and studying for his doctorate at Cambridge University. Ross, welcome to the program. Oh, that last one, it reminds me, I need to get down on my research. I'm running out of time. I've literally got five months to upgrade. Crack on, crack on. Yeah, I'll be fine. I'll be fine. I like the pressure. Great to meet you, and thank you so much for joining us today. That's my pleasure. Hello, everyone. It's, I think, you know, it's a great day as we're recording this in October. And after all, everybody's been through this year. I'd like to start with, could you share some of your tips for having a happier work life? Well, you know, I've been through the whole bell curve with workload as a teacher. And the blog, you know, became a full-time job at its own right, which I've tried to manage for easily five years on top of working 50 to 80 hours a week as a school leader. All my own doing stroke passion, I suppose. But I guess when I start to recognize that I was burning out and it started to impact on family as well as my performance in the classroom as well as my performance at home. Being a good dad and, you know, a husband and things like that.  For me, especially, it's the only way that it gets me to switch off two walks a day. And lockdown, I did the kind of purchase on a bicycle. My boy got his bike upgrade, I suppose, off stabilizers in May of lockdown. So it was a good excuse to get myself a bike and then suddenly I could take the dog for longer and faster walks and border collies, as you know, got notoriously high energy. So it was good to kind of double up on my fitness as well as tie the dog out. So that's been the best thing for my own managing my stress recently. You know, and I'm 46 now, probably in my early 30s, I wouldn't have been interested in doing stuff like that.  So, you know, earlier on in my career, probably, you know, gym or out partying at the weekend with friends totally trying to separate myself from teaching altogether. But I think all in all that the advice I always give to teachers specifically is a hour of sleep a night, a large bottle of water on your desk and you're five a day. And it sounds silly, but it is critical. Absolutely, absolutely critical. And I like the doability of that, you know? Yeah, it's easy. And it's, you know, we hear it all the time with, you know, five a day, that type of stuff. And, you know, sometimes, you know, thousands of days in my teaching career, I wouldn't eat lunch. I'd go to work on an empty stomach and I'd come home on an empty stomach. So it's any surprise that you get, wanna get through. But, you know, that's the nature of teaching is very, very similar to the medicine industry I suspect as well, people working long shifts. Yeah, yeah, funnily enough, I was just on looking at Twitter before we started recording this and there was a tweet about that, very much about lunch, who has lunch, as if there's no expectation of having lunch. And as a well-being, I'm a well-being consultant. Well-being is my thing for 30 years, I've felt something. And it's just so critical. But we've squeezed it out of teaching and what's the answer there? How do we find time and space to take care of ourselves? I think, you know, and I'm far from innocent, but I would probably, you know, you go back to teaching research on well-being, you'd struggle to find any academic sources maybe eight or nine years ago, but now it's in abundance. And, you know, I suspect in the next decade, we'll really start to see research saying that happier teachers, schools with great well-being policies are producing better outcomes. The jury's still out for many people, but the real point I want to make is we have people within our own profession treating others as unprofessionals. So I'll give you one example that I heard recently, a teacher at home who's tested positive for COVID being asked to set cover lessons, which in the teaching sector, that's pretty standard setting cover lessons at home for most people, which saying that out loud is just bizarre, using your own phone to contact parents and children to check in while you're also sick at home with COVID. And that's a real question for school leader. So, you know, several questions. One, it's highly inappropriate, but two, why working at school and two, why do school leaders do that to teachers and then worry we have a recruitment crisis? And there's no perfect solution, but you know, some of these simple human attributes are being lost and squeezed and whatever the word, but just, you know, we're doing very inappropriate things to each other. So, you know, teachers want to be trusted and respected, but yet we do these things to each other. So it's any wonder that parents and politicians don't give us the respect that we desire because we don't respect each other. Mm, big, big subject there. So how, where does that start then? Does that start with respecting ourselves and our boundaries? Well, you think of all aspects of school life. The government underfund schools full stop. You know, only today there's an announcement coming out that they're now canceling all the kind of budgets for training and whatever else and recruitment, despite seven years of missed recruitment targets and a decade of underfunding. But we all know through COVID unemployment figures out today, 1.4 million people and 9 million people still on furlough. There's been a huge shift of people going towards teacher applications. So, you know, if I work with Office for National Statistics alongside the government, I say, look, we've got loads of people covered over the teaching. We're not gonna have this recruitment crisis. Let's get rid of this funding here. And we cannot have a world-class education system on a shoestring budget as simple as that. And we all know that research always says the quality of teaching matters. But if you just getting people to get their QTF status and then stick them in the classroom, whether it's through a fast track route or a bit more deep and meaningful, without the kind of support around them, especially in the first couple of years as we know with teacher attrition. We're just repeating the same old, same old. So, you know, the vast majority of these politicians do not have a scooby-doo. And what's the answer there is? Well, the answer is highly complex. You know, I guess that's why I started blogging because I wanted to share the reality. So now, 12 years later since I've been blogging, you've got all sorts of people doing it in any industry, whether it's on the front line of LHS or undercover as a police officer. And it just raises awareness. And people become, people grow a kind of popular fellowship, I guess, through being known, being liked for their contents and providing some reliable data that challenges orthodoxy, I suppose. And I think that's what I've done.  But if you can find your own allegiance, whether it's with Toby Young and his free speech union or whether it's with teacher toolkit and on the voice of teachers to have a better kind of working conditions, then you'll, if, you know, going into a kind of my blogging theory, I suppose, when your content's regular and consistent and it's practical for the people that you intend it for, then it will naturally grow in popularity and that's snowballs and that's what's happened to me. I read something that you wrote recently that leading a school through COVID is like riding a ghost train. You know it's gonna happen, you just don't know when. Yeah, now that's not mine. I like that analogy from a colleague that I connect with on LinkedIn and I asked for her permission just to share that. And it's the best analogy I've heard. And, you know, it's rabbit and headlights for many of us.  You know the jump's gonna happen, but it happens when you least expect it and that is pretty much like COVID. I think, you know, one million kids, I think, out of school at the moment in England's and we're not even in the depths of winter yet. Yeah, yeah. And what, let's talk about COVID then. What's it like? What are the threats now to teachers, to pupils and young people? What do you foresee in your, you know, in the...  If you take pupils out of a school and move them somewhere else, what makes the school? Is it the building or the community?  Will it be a building or, you know, if I was proficient at football and I was travelling the world with Arsenal or West Ham, I'm logging into tutoring lessons and virtual lessons and, you know, if you think of your kind of Moodle and Blackboard systems with university, we've been teaching online for nearly over 20 years now. Schools with lack of funding and not necessarily teaching online or no huge desire to, have obviously been caught unaware through no fault of their own. But this whole notion of virtual schools and teaching online, obviously now everyone's doing it and we're all up to speed and we've still got a few little things to go and now it's an expectation of government and off state, I suppose, that you will provide us but the reality for teachers is I've got 30 kids in front of me, two of them are at home self-isolating, I've got a time to teach them online and set work and interact with them but at the same time I'm with my class five hours a day. So that's the real threat at the moment. My insights, teacher marking is the greatest burden all teachers face, that workload issue. Right now it's shifted to planning or adapting resources to online in particular or that recovery curriculum. So those are the kind of immediate threats. I think the long-term threat is we've got a perfect opportunity to overhaul assessment in particular and we're just going to go and do what we've always done. Kids are going to sit exams in a hall then they're going to be ranked and filed from top to bottom and we're going to just keep perpetuating this myth that exams are the best indicator of performance and our disadvantage or people bringing kids to really work harder than most to try and even get an opportunity to get into college or university or whatever it is. So that's currently I see the kind of biggest threat stroke regrets to the education system as we know it. And in terms of this ideal opportunity to reform the system, where do you think we're missing a trick there? And I know that we're straying a little bit from well-being but I think all of these things impact well-being so directly and so powerfully. It's worth the discussion, I think. What trick are we missing and how could we not miss it? How do we... I think as ever, people will say this in any workforce. It's when the government have a disconnect from people on the ground. So all the kind of things that I read and are part of or was part of when I was a teacher is when teachers are around the table in form and policy, the kind of, I guess, the announcements or recommendations are a bit more respected if the general population of that particular industry are aware that there are people represented and not just union representation. So I think that's the trick but we're all working under new circumstances. We just haven't to respond very quickly and who would want to be the prime minister? I mean, you're going to get it in the ear from all angles regardless of what you do. But when you think of other departments such as Gavin Williamson and whoever else doing their bits, I'm sure they've got the same pressures and whatever political ideology you have, you're always going to get it in the ear for whatever you do. But I think my preference, particularly with education and teacher well-being and disadvantaged pupils is we need to get to a place where education policies is a kind of cross-party political interest stroke protection and that we have some common goals. But I always ask this question, which is fantastic. Do you believe in some people succeeding or just some? And there will be some people that will just believe just some. So if you think of grammar schools and whatever else, there you go. And then we think of parents that might be on high salaries and send their kids off to certain schools. They don't necessarily want roughs from people premium background who carries a knife in his pocket and difficult circumstances at home. So this illusion of parental choice, I believe all schools are good regardless of off-stead gradients. The bottom line for parents, I guess, is safety and happiness and then getting an education that will lead towards a career that the children choose. There's so many forces, opportunities into college, industries, perceptions of skills and all those types of things. I don't know what the answers are. And certainly through COVID, it's gonna make it even more difficult. I think I was reading the research by Education and Dynamic Foundation that are disadvantaged kids. I've seen a decade behind it, but I've actually read something somewhere. I've got to dig out the source, but I think 500 years I've read somewhere for disadvantaged kids to catch back up on the work that we've done over the last 10 years. I'd love to check that source. Can you say that again? I think 500 years seems far-fetched, but I'm absolutely certain I've read or heard that somewhere that that's how long it would take. The work that's been done over the last 10 years to get to level the plane field with disadvantaged kids has been undone and it would take that length of time to get back to where we were. But I'll say it with caution. I'd love to check the source, but regardless of the timeframe, we all know that our disadvantaged pupils are gonna be pushed really further behind, but things like the National Cheetah Room Programme start in and other things that are gonna help. I am optimistic in some aspects, but that announcement just that I've read before we came online about the training budgets being taken away because we've now got loads of people that want to be a teacher. We can't achieve this world-class education system that I think we all want, not just if you're on Gavin Williams' team. Talk to me about what your insights are from social media, Ross. What do you... Oh, we have to start. So it will... I'll just do it in parent time, just in what's a kind of a snapshot of... Oh, so my Twitter channel is the easiest place to go to. In a normal month, I get 10 million impressions. So that's how many people will see my tweet on their device. Right now, that's dramatically reduced to about two or three. And for me, predominantly the vast majority of people are teachers that follow me, 75% are UK audience. So if it's dramatically reduced, I'm always thinking, am I sharing the wrong things, not relevant, that type of stuff? And I understand I'm not in the classroom. I'm not necessarily sharing things that teachers may be talking about currently, but the resources I share, I do think will make a difference. But I haven't done this for a long time now. It suggests to me that the working habits of teachers, which is pretty much shaping and influencing my own academic research, is that you come home, seven o'clock at night, kids to bed, have a bit of tea on the sofa, watch, go back to be with all the COVID stress. People don't have time for social media at the moment because they're just anxieties much higher. So that well-being aspect of school life is a bit more stressful. The example I gave you earlier, I might have COVID, I might be self-icentered, or I might be in school teaching socially distance with 20 kids in the classroom, but 10 at home. And I'm having to do a double-up act of delivery online in the classroom and at home as well as physically in school for five or six hours a day. And then the kind of surveys that I've been conducting, planning and meetings have now become the biggest workload issue. And it's just how our professionals respond into the pandemic, I understand it. And it's never an easy feat for any school leader to reduce that burden on teachers. But it always goes back to, if you give education to your panel here or there, then if that went to schools, you can reduce teacher contact time. So they have a bit more time in a day to do their marketing and planning rather than doing it at home on a Sunday. And it goes back to something that said earlier in the podcast, we treat each other like this. If I keep asking you to reply to an email after school hours or do your marketing or call these parents at home on your mobile phone bill that you pay for, we're just perpetuating the expectation that this is what we'll do. Whereas if we all said no, and we did it in school hours, we'd suddenly shift the influences of the profession versus funding and the terms and conditions of the job. You know, when I first qualified to be a teacher on blackboards without computers, the kind of workload dialogue didn't include emails. Whereas today we all know that we are spending night and day in front of a device. And if we're traveling work during norm stands, swiping left to delete all the emails to try and keep up and reply before we even get to our office. So there's lots of research on email culture now that, you know, out of office responses, great source in Germany, that if you email me over the teacher holidays, your email's automatically deleted, it notifies you and it actually sends it again when I'm back in the office. And I love that. And it's little things like that that can help improve our own understanding of each other's well-being as well as our own and our expectations of working and how we want others to also work. But there's a great TED talk by Nigel Marsh about well-being and it's a good 10 plus years old. But when I watched that, it really was a eureka moment for me. And he said, if you do not define your own version of work-life balance, someone else will define it for you and you might not like their definition. And it really resonated with me. So from that point, I deleted the apps on my phone that connected me to work. I've came up with other little simple ideas for me to at least have a reference point if I needed to do anything. But I really started to take control of, you know, particularly the notifications because I had, you know, the school leadership life stuff going on as well as four or 5,000 tweets a month. And that's just Twitter, never mind my website, you know, the cart checkout stuff and all the other platforms as well. So I had to take back control. And what would you say to somebody listening to this? Who is a teacher, maybe a middle-leader, maybe a senior leader, who is saying, yeah, that's easy for you to say for me to put these boundaries in place. How do I actually do that? What advice would you give to somebody to say, I need to take more control of my... Well, you know, my best friend's father who passed away about 10, 15 years ago as the best piece of advice he said to me was, people do what they want to do. And that's it. If people want to work 80 hours, they will. But at some point, each of us will have, I use the word crisis loosely, a mental health crisis. God forbid that we do, but if it does come to you at some shape or form, it's either going to impact on you personally or the people around you. And we all have different forces in our life, whether it's happiness with your home circumstances or not or kind of things lurking behind the scenes. But people do what they want to do. So if people want to work, if I run home at 3.30 to go and pick up my son on the school run, I shouldn't give that perception or be given the perception that I'm lazy and I'm running home because I might run home, do the school bit, put him to bed and then at seven or eight o'clock I'm catching up with my emails and I want to work then when it suits me and my work, I'd rather not suit you somehow. This is a deadline just in any industry, not just teaching, but the challenge with teaching is it's always imminent, particularly with cover lessons at the moment during COVID. That increases anxiety and stress and all sorts of things compared to, like you and I sit in the home now without 30 kids around us.  It's a huge stress. And that Sunday night, feeling a lot of teachers will know what that feels like.  And I'd only say now, this is my fourth year out of the classroom full time. I find Sunday nights are a very happy place, whereas for 25 years, I wouldn't say all of them, but the vast majority were not very comfortable circumstances. And I'm talking like meeting your friends for dinner, popping to the cinema on a Sunday night, I would never, ever have done anything like that, probably in the last 10 or 15 years of my career because of the, I'm a design and technology teacher, so if you go out and have a glass of wine or something, I'm not saying you get the shakes, but you've got to be, if you're using machinery and you've got 30 kids in front, you've got to be on top of your game, so just that. But then if you're going out and you're having that meal with your friends to try and improve your wellbeing, you have a late night during the working week, you're 11 o'clock and you're at the house at half six and at your school desk by half seven. To be one step ahead of the kids and you've got 30 emotions in front of you, it's high pressure and it's not like being a pilot or a doctor, I appreciate it, but it's a difficult profession and it's very easy for teachers to burn out. I do think how on earth did I manage 25 years? Yeah, I know, it's common and I see it, I'm in schools well online or in schools a lot and I see it and it's heartbreaking because then we're losing so many talented people. We need to be looking at this in different ways and as you say, it's not an easy situation to resolve its complex. I fully appreciate that. Oh, where to go, Ross? Where should we go from here? Yeah, what's life like for you as a blogger? It's good fun, I'm just looking to the side of me now. I mean, I've naturally, through no fault of my own and no desire, I'm in pretty much the world of kind of education, PR and marketing and although I enjoy it, I don't want it ever to be the only thing I do. My passion's in the classroom with teachers and kids and before lockdown, I was doing that in schools all around the world so I can't wait to get back out really. But the push-pull challenge for me was doing my own stuff, sharing resources and ideas and opinions on my blog, writing my books and my research when I can get down to it. But I get a lot of product placements, I suppose, as the official type or I guess that kind of influencer type and I've been doing it for seven or eight years and it started through companies offering me some freebies to trial and returned to tweet or blog about it and now it's probably five years ago, it started to be great things for the school, where it's be saving the school 20, 30,000 pound in various products and site licenses just for me to share the resource or blogger journey of how we used it. But the issue was it blurred the lines of my work and my blogging life and the school would benefit but I would be doing the work after school hours. So sometimes it would suit the school and then I could kind of half do a tweet or a blog at my office desk after school hours or more often than not, it was at home till midnight or on a Saturday or Sunday, it just became too much. But you know, working with UNICEF, Microsoft, the Department for Education, not yet after but that day will come, I'm sure. The Red Cross and anything and everyone, the education and downward foundation and just thousands of different software companies. It makes my lens wider just like the blogging data does, it tells me what teachers are reading as well as me being in school. So I kind of got that macro lens of the teaching community and in also different countries in the world. So professionally I've been to about 15 countries in the last two years. So my insights, which is what I tried to put in my book Just Great Teaching, which is trying to unpick the challenges all schools face but how they deal with them in their own context, whether it's a country or a part of the UK or a particular building or particular school structure whether it's grammar independent or what have you. So yeah, my blogging life, when people ask that question, why not a head teacher? You know, and I've done various acting, very temporary kind of acting headship roles in my cover for the day or a week or a term, nothing significant but I've been a virtual head teacher when I look at my blogging life and trying to analyze it, things that I've seen and the people that I'm dealing with whether it's parents, students, off-stud inspections or just the teacher wanting a resource on my site. I've been managing my website as a virtual head teacher without really realizing that's what I've been doing. So that data I've been collecting on a daily basis has been very fascinating. So the blogging, I got probably a tipping point in 2014 where I used to love coming home from work and the blog was just a hobby and it was an escape and I think my boy was probably, what was he, three years old so it was just something to do because you don't necessarily get out and see all your mates as much as you used to so it was just something to do at home on the sofa, on the laptop and through no fault of my own or maybe it's my fault, it's become a full-time job. So now probably about 40,000 teachers have a login inside the site and they're doing all sorts of interesting things behind the scenes and that's led me to kind of data protection, privacy policies, legal expenses, copyright issues, the whole spectrum which I never thought a blog would take me into so I now have to be quite careful because it started as a Twitter blog, free blog just like anyone else but now it's developed into a company, a business and it pays my salary, it funds one or two kind of entrepreneurial and charitable endeavors and when there's a little bit extra cash in the bank I can kind of go off to the far reaches of the UK and work in some disadvantaged areas that can't necessarily pay your usual CPD, never mind whether I'm cheap or expensive and just to get out and do some work that's of value I suppose but I need to put food on the table and the blog has given me another conduit to do that and probably about 2007, in fact early maybe 2014 my blog was turning over an advertising income that was equivalent to my teacher salary sorry, school leader salary so it's a huge sum of cash so a long story short when I lost my job to teaching and took redundancy and then had to sell my house to claim my debts my blog gave me an opportunity to reinvent myself and then soon it started to make an income and then the books and things and I thought well that's a good way to pay my debt so it became part of survival more than anything if we'd strip everything away it was to survive and feed my family then when I got back into school it started to pay the bills and then maybe pay a holiday and then after five years of not having a holiday when my son was born premature we got our first holiday off to Portugal my book royalties paid our flights so that was a real win and then last six, seven years it started to become a place where I can employ five or six other people and just try and share my wisdom and support teachers and challenge policy where I think best fits so that yeah, it's kind of snapshot of where I am day to day right obviously now I'm home full time but I would probably say 75% in schools and probably 25% at home but I'm trying to get a balance before lockdown to do both so I think going forward post pandemic whenever that happens for us all I'd like to sustain that 50-50 split because I do enjoy the website but it's nice to get out and see people and see the reality Definitely, definitely Prior to this I was looking around your website and I noticed a blog about your childhood experiences do you want to share a little bit about that to explain to our listeners what happened Yeah, sure, so I'm a sexual abuse survivor childhood male sexual abuse didn't tell anyone for 32 years I mean I told close relationships probably less than one handful but speaking out first started with the police and then with my mother and then kind of immediate family and then go into a place where so if people read the blog they'll see that it kind of starts off with a safeguarding perspective as a teacher and how organizing a safeguarding event at my own school as a school leader sitting on the table talking about it or not me specifically but the trainer at the front of the room talking about that you know some people in this room may have experienced it and then to hear a colleague next to me and say yeah right under his breath and for me there to not challenge it as a school leader number one but two as a sexual abuse survivor maybe think right I need to sort this out and that was in 2011 so we're looking at six years later before it even got to a place so it's been a big journey for me for 32 years you know seeing comments from Boris Johnson about sexual abuse historical cases and shouldn't waste police funding on that all these types of things all the kind of Chelsea Stoke City football cases and the more people speaking out particularly social media I've been a real help to kind of bring that energy up to the surface I suppose but I guess the best thing for me was a non-verbal signal but the doctors really I think I was just going for a general kind of cold or tonsillitis checkup and in the men's toilets there was a poster male sexual survivors survivors UK's the charity a London based organisation and they just had a green badge and I think I parked that for probably this must have been maybe even 10 years ago so it must have parked it into my psyche then saw it again and then as more things brood along I contacted them and then they sent me a huge bag of green badges and then one of my own ways of starting to learn to talk about it was wearing the green badge on my suit so you might find one or two pictures on my website or social media with a green badge on my lapel and I wore it because I knew one day someone would ask me and the funny thing is although it didn't happen on the high street it was one of our best friends that came around to our house at the time and just fleetingly was that and there I was in front of my wife for the first time having to tell somebody and I did it and then I just literally I was like 30 seconds away from running out the door anyway but I did it comfortably, calmly jumped out the door walked out the tube and thought that was a big step so that was part of all the healing process I suppose but what I wasn't prepared for was the flurry and I'm talking thousands of messages publicly and privately of other people disclosing so apart from me having sympathy in signposts and various websites some of this it's all relative I suppose experiences but abuse is abuse some of the stories are just shocking and had mums leaving me voicemails on the phone saying my son's just read your blog and we've discovered it's my husband or another chat has kept it quiet for 60 years so I think just by speaking out it's going to help others and I know that when I wrote it it did have a huge impact I don't necessarily tweet it and share it often but I have it quite proudly on my personal Twitter as I just kind of signpost so people know that it's part of my identity and I live with it from the age of 13 so that's all through school unnoticed all through university with all my friendships growing and university trials and tribulations all through my professional career as a teacher and I think also being out of school I know recently before I left full-time teaching I started to slowly talk about it subtly in some conversations with individuals but then going public on my site knowing the platform I had I thought it would be a missed opportunity and plus good therapy for me I never really pursued counsel which I don't necessarily regret I've just think I've learned to deal with it to a place where I'm now managing and I did all the right things police and what have you tried to hold the person to account so yeah, I think that's probably a whistle-stop tour of how, why, what and who and stuff like that Thank you for sharing that, Ross and what would you hope that people listening to this would do either on their own behalf if they've experienced something like this or in a safeguarding issue if there's a safety... I think one is there's always going to be someone else sadly who's probably experienced the same thing as you so there will be someone that's ready to listen or can share their own story or experience of how they learn to deal with it whether it's privately or then when public you know, I don't... I guess being able to talk about it it's just like I'm doing now it's good therapy for me but otherwise it just would have been then a conversation I never spoke about, ever so that'd be my advice there'll be someone out there that can help there'll be definitely a charity I think it raises awareness ultimately what we're trying to do is educate the next generation so that these things stop happening but recently there's just something in the press about the Church of England these things are horrific there's no place for any forms of abuse in our society particularly in a leading country such as ours but it just makes your heart sad that whether you're an adult or a child it's just not a very nice thing to do to another human being so I hope that people listening maybe get some reassurance That's about it, are you ready?   Anyway, yeah I hope it kind of signposts people to speak out or to support other people that do and actually genuinely listen to them but it's not, you know often the critique is why did it take 32 years? Well, because it did it's taken me that long to process it and you know, we all have different cultural capital some of us have got good schema where we can use different resources know how to talk to other people whether through learning needs or whatever take a longer time to process it so I think we should respect people regardless of how long it takes them Absolutely, and it's the most private thing and there's no expectation for anybody to publicly declare something that's happened to them privately it would be my wish that they would get support Yeah, I guess my one regret is you know, 32 years ago is very hard to track any evidence so, you know, if people are listening where something has happened recently and I know a lot of people might have various risks associated, you know, threats to life and stuff like that so that's obviously different context but the sooner you speak out, report and share evidence with the people that need to know the better for you bringing these people to justice would be my top tip Yeah, thank you Is there anything else you'd like to mention before we wrap up? You know, I just want to say really that, you know teachers are doing incredible work right now and you know, earlier in the pandemic where we saw a lot of politicians and media great teachers for sitting at home on full pay and not offering, you know, that remote learning the reality versus the perception is always very different you know, teachers are working flat out in any industry you'll get one bag of egg here or there or a bad example, you know but on the whole teachers are through kind of the characteristics are incredibly generous and hardworking people and sometimes whether it's school leader I say that cautiously but all whether it's government try to take advantage of that and you know, I think we should, you know particularly now, so we're in October and schools are open, kids are in school thank goodness mental health and all this exam debate up for grabs you know, the anxiety on teachers still today and the kind of little notice of you know, lockdown aside but a little notice about exams or how things are shaping out it just doesn't necessarily give them the respect that they deserve as a qualified profession and you know, if we look at all OECD countries across the world, you know teachers in England work the highest number of hours and are paid one of the lowest salaries and we need to change that and this political rhetoric about world-class education it's just nonsense so to teachers listening you're doing amazing work I think blogs like myself and anyone else anyone else that can share their stories and get the reality out to change perceptions only a good thing I think so yeah, huge respect to our teachers working there Yeah, for sure, here here Thank you, Ross I've been speaking with Ross McGill you can connect with Ross on Twitter at teachertoolkit and his website is teachertoolkit.co.uk where you can find out more about his membership site his five-minute lesson plans or five-minute planning books, blogs, podcasts and much more, Ross thank you so much for all you do in education genuinely you're a force for good and it's been... it's been a privilege speaking with you, thank you Thank you very much


My name is Salim al-Hakam, director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development at the Independent University of Bangladesh, and also a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London. I'm about to go to Marrakesh for the 22nd Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. And in the UNFCC process, I act as an advisor to the group of the least developed countries, which are the poorest countries in the world, nearly 50 of them, and to the chair of the group who is Mr. Tossin Banu Banu from the Democratic Republic of Congo. And I specifically advise them on issues to do with adaptation and on loss and damage. And while I'm at the COPS, I have been doing this for a number of years. I do a daily video log on progress from the perspective of the least developed countries or more broadly the vulnerable countries. So this is my first video log about the COP22 Marrakesh. And since it hasn't started yet, I'm going to give an overview of what our expectations are from the COP over the next two weeks. And I'll mention three things. One of them a high-level issue and then the other two more specific to the vulnerable countries. The high-level issue is the need to ramp up ambition to reach the one and a half degree long-term temperature goal, which is something that we, the vulnerable countries and the least developed countries, small island states and African countries and climate vulnerable forum countries all fought for very hard in Paris to get it into the Paris Agreement. The good news is that we have ratified the Paris Agreement in record speed and we are going to, it will come into force within a matter of days. And so the first conference of parties after Paris is actually going to talk about implementing the Paris Agreement. Not about simply when is it going to be ratified and come into force. Which is a very good sign. We need to keep the political momentum going so that all countries, and this is one of the characteristics of the Paris Agreement, it's a universal agreement that all countries have to take action to reduce their emissions to achieve the one and a half degree temperature goal. So that is by far the most important overarching issue that we want to get out of the Marrakesh meeting. The second important issue from the perspective of the vulnerable countries like the east of our countries is an issue called loss and damage. This is again something that we the vulnerable countries have pushed for some time. In the Paris Agreement we have an Article 8 on loss and damage. But in Marrakesh the most important bit is something that happened at the 19th conference of parties in COP 19 and Warsaw which was the setting up of the Warsaw International Mechanism on loss and damage. That has a committee, an executive committee who have been meeting and developing a work program in nine different areas. I won't go into the details now. But they have produced a report which is going to be discussed in COP 22. And we hope that by the end of COP 22 we will have a new decision on taking forward the issue of loss and damage over the next five years. And that's going to be somewhat controversial because it is a politically sensitive issue. But I'm hoping that we will be able to find consensus to take it forward beyond COP 22 into the next five years in a pragmatic manner that everybody can agree on. So a loss and damage decision and in many ways I think COP 22 will be in some ways the loss and damage COP because this will be one of the major issues that will be discussed and decided on. The third and final area that I'll mention is the issue of adaptation finance. So finance from the global annex one countries or developed countries to support adaptation in the vulnerable countries. This is a perennial problem. Money gets promised. Money doesn't get delivered. And there is a lot of angst and heartburn about this. So we're hoping that the current bottlenecks in getting the money to the most vulnerable which is actually trickling down at a base that is not sufficient at all and indeed isn't even spending the money that is available. And so we really need to ramp up the rate at which funds that are being made available particularly through the Green Climate Fund for the most vulnerable countries to deal with the impacts of climate change which are now real and happening already. These are not something that's going to happen in the future. Flow to those countries quickly and robustly. At the moment they're just a trickle and that needs to be increased and enhanced and I'm hoping that we will find pragmatic ways in which all countries can agree to manage to send the money to the most needy in a manner that they can then use most effectively. So we hope that an agreement on speeding up adaptation funding is something that will come out of the COP 22 in Marrakech as well. This is my first video log for the COP 22 in Marrakech. I'll be doing one every day once the COP starts on the 7th of November. So please do look them up if you want to follow the issues that I follow which are the least developed countries, negotiations, positions and adaptation and loss in damage.


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okay folks in this video what we're going to do is we're going to go over the chart of snap snap chat symbol s and ap and we're going to talk about how we are overbought relative to the rsi and in fact the bonger bands on not just a daily time frame but on a weekly time frame and we'll discuss the reason why i am bearish on snapchat in the short term but first what we're going to do is we're going to follow up on a video i completed on the 19th of october only a short time ago and i want to re-review the outcome of a chart that i went over of 10x genomics i use it as an example of an extreme nosebleed contrarian overbought stock which was ripe to fall now the video was met with a lot of good positive feedback the ratio of likes versus dislikes was very high i had one dislike why he didn't like the fact that i was saying the stock was going to go down i had nothing to do with the content of rsi now why do i make these videos the reason is is i put myself out there in advance of an anticipated move in a stock why it's that when somebody takes a look at my results or if they take a look at my videos they know i come from a place of honesty i make the call in advance of the price move that way i can go back in time and say this is what i said then that way you know it's date stamped by a third party whether it be youtube twitter stock twitch whatever it's validated unlike my competitors out there who want you to believe with a spreadsheet these are my returns or they want you to take a look at their brokerage statement which may or may not have been photoshopped and tell you after the fact when the trade has been made how much money they made a i don't talk about the dollars that we make or lose on a trade i talk about percentage terms gains or losses because i don't want the hype i don't want to feed that to people i would rather educate and have people want to do business with me because of what i have to offer in terms of education not Lamborghinis but lessons so let's begin with what i had to say with regards to the share price of 10x genomics on the 19th of october prior to the recent move and i would encourage you to please watch the video of my rsi strategies i'm going to link to it at the end of this video and i'm going to link it down below in the video description area and if you stick around for the entire video at the end of this video i'm going to give you a stock that is in a macro meaning quarterly yearly rsi bubble it's a big stock everybody knows it over the age of 10 if not over the age of five to be honest with you so stick around enjoy the video if you have any questions leave a comment below and please like share whatever enjoy the video talk to you soon that's the Bollinger band strategy the fifth and final strategy i mentioned earlier and it's really what inspired me to create the contrarian trader back in 2005 and we have trained thousands of members on how to learn how to use technical analysis learn how to use discipline to identify opportunities in the marketplace with reduced risk and maximized reward and the strategy i put together was the contrarian trading style and what that combined was primarily the rsi at times the bollinger bands but in all cases candlesticks and volume and the mac d now the mac d is a lagging indicator however it validates what i'm seeing on the leading indicator being the bollinger band and primarily the rsi and as a final bonus i'm going to leave you off with a very popular stock and it's a stock that anyone over the age of 10 has definitely heard of but it is in an rsi bubble and i'm going to leave you off with that so stick around to the end now the first example of an extreme overbought stock which is what the contrarian trading style is all about finding extreme overbought and extreme oversold stocks to trade because the probability of once you have rsi greater than 90 the probability of it being sustainable for the longer term is unlikely you're going to get a reaction to the downside at some point in time i can do far more in-depth detail about this trading style if you're interested please leave a comment below but i don't want to get too in-depth with it right here right now because this is a video regarding the rsi primarily but this is an advanced strategy i would strongly encourage you to not trade this style until you've watched future tutorials from me because there are a lot of nuances on how to trade extreme overbought extreme oversold stocks using the contrarian trading strategy now example number one 10x genomics now oddly enough i was long of this stock not too long ago and i booked profits on or about here where we pierced the third standard deviation bologna man so we left some money on the table as the shares continued higher but the market became shaky and when i see a stock begin to show me a profit and the market is a bit shaky i invoke my old traders adage first out best out and that's what we did here but in this case we left a little bit of money on the table but we are looking to short 10x genomics based upon rsi candlesticks and let's bring up the mac d and volume now my settings here on rsi to revisit are at 14 day rolling period upper band 80 lower band 20 not the upper band 70 not the lower band 30 as suggested to be used by the books written many many years ago remember we're dealing with rsi now 21st century we need to up our game that's why we're using these new upper bands and i hope that in in updated volumes of getting started in technical analysis which is a very very good book overall i use it to this day i hope that they update in the next volume overbought 280 and oversold 220 now here with rsi you still have rsi validating with a move higher that the shares are very strong the problem is is that what we did on the last trading day which was a friday is that we did break out but we faded along with the rest of the market and while this is becoming an interesting short we're not there quite yet but we're very close now to really drive home how out of date the 7030 rule is for overbought oversold i'm going to adjust this i'm going to change 80 because i'm open minded to the fact that you know what 80 may be getting a little bit older now and we need to revisit it what about if we change this up to 90 take a look at where rsi is right now we are at 89 spot 89 on the last close and not only that we broke out the last trading day above resistance with rsi well above 70 well above 80 close to 90 this is why again i hate to keep pounding this home but the old way 7030 rule out the window that myth is now busted i don't want to see anyone lose money now the catarian trading style what we look for here is not only our primary primary indicator trading above the 80 mark what we're looking for are signs by the market that we're beginning to see price action weakened as you saw this past trading day we had broken out on that day but faded to close well off the highs of the day but that in and of itself is not a short signal we are close we're also looking at volume volume was very light on this particular trading day it wasn't institutional distribution that may resume the next trading day and we may see higher volume in a break of the support level that would have me much closer to shorting the stock if that were to happen and one of the one of the other indicators which is the lagging indicator which is the mac d what you're seeing here are i don't use the lines i use the histogram the mac d histogram what you're seeing here is momentum which is lagging waning it's declining these are the indicators that we must see declining up volume rsi well over 80 and price action beginning to fade and ideally on an entry day basis we'll use a 30 minute chart on an entry day basis to identify whether or not we're beginning to see signals by the market that we're beginning to put in lower highs and you can see here that we clearly are lower high and what's rsi doing breaking down to lower highs you can see how we close down below it and now we have lower lows so the intraday or the internals of 10x genomics indicate that if you are long you should be booking profits because the rsi on a daily time frame on an intraday time frame is sending you a signal to get out because you're probably going to see shorts lean into the shares and you're going to see some institutional profit selling in the very near term so that's what i had to say back on october the 19th of 2020 with regard to 10x genomics using rsi extreme overbought contrarian trading strategy and now for the remainder of this module what i want to do is i want to talk about how that extreme unsustainable overbought condition played itself out then we're going to talk about a very similar stock in terms of being at extreme nosebleed overbought levels and that's going to be snap ticker symbol s and ap we'll do the same analysis the same deep dive on snap as we did with 10x genomics and then i'll leave you off with that bonus stock at the very end of the video which is at extreme nosebleed overbought rsi bubble levels and everyone knows the stock but the pin and the bubble are not recognizable to most because they're not using the charts that we are so stick around let's get to 10x genomics i'm going to begin here where we left off using an intraday chart a 30 minute chart and that was right here on the 19th what happened the very next trading day when the shares reopened they rallied they failed to make new highs and once we broke back down to a new lower low it was all over the markets were sending you a signal that there were not enough bulls to take out prior highs and in fact there were sufficient numbers of bears to take the shares back down below key support this is a very short term micro using a 30 minute chart a micro double top and here on the 20th of october a confirmation breakdown so we began analyzing this trade using a daily chart let's see how it played out from a higher level view that 5000 foot view here's the daily chart and the qualifier to make it onto our screener as a short trade was rsi at extreme nosebleed levels where do we peak out on rsi we actually peaked out on the 16th of october i recorded that commensary on the 19th of october there's a weekend involved there so technically we had already put in the highs on rsi which was at let's round it off to 90 we were just actually just shy of 90 on rsi now remember i'm going to take you back and if you didn't watch that first tutorial i referenced i published on the 19th i suggest you go back to it we busted a myth with regards to rsi being over 70 as being overbought rsi went above 70 right here on october the fifth now what if you would have went short of 10x genomics using rsi above 70 as overbought you would have more than likely have been forced out of the trade by a broker if he did not use a stop loss order and had you not been stopped out then you would have sustained a very large loss and to this day you still would have not have made it back to even money that's why it pays to wait for rsi trading well above the 80 mark but you need to use in conjunction with the rsi price action meaning are we showing signs of topping action i already went over the 30 minute chart let's go back to it going back here where we peaked out on the 16th lower high on the 19th that was an indicator that we may in quotations may have a double top it's not a double top no matter what time frame you're using weekly chart monthly chart daily chart 30 minute chart doesn't matter you need a confirmation this was your confirmation candlestick right here on the 20th that it was probably all over this would have been your cue to lean into the short side at a bare minimum ideally you would have had a trailing stop loss order set you would have let the market take you out of the trade or you would have just manually stopped out now since i've made that commentary right here on the 19th of october the shares have fallen from a high of 166 spot 31 to a recent low of 141 spot 33 and it appears as though we are going lower here that is the power of the rsi and using the contrarian trading strategy to drive consistent results but you need to know the nuances of the trading style that's what i teach members now let's go to our new trade that we're looking to short that is snap ticker symbol s and ap if you're under the age of 25 i don't know how you don't know about this stock everybody loves it they just reported earnings let's talk about it now this trade here this is a daily time frame this trade here actually fits into two of our strategies one the bolinger band strategy if you want to take a look at the entire video with regard to my rsi strategies look below there will be a link for that entire video it's a bit lengthy but the feedback has been that it's worth to watch and in fact vid iq which is a vendor of youtube marked the engagement of viewers as incredible that's the highest score you could get back to snap daily time frame so the bolinger band strategy requires that rsi and in fact on the contrarian trading style requires that rsi be well above the 80 mark have we checked those boxes well let's begin with the bolinger bands the three standard deviation bolinger band not the two standard deviation bolinger band are we trading above it yep check that box bolinger band strategy in effect also rsi needs to be above 80 where is rsi on a closing basis as of the close on the 23rd of october rsi is at 92 spot 15 love it check that box we're good to go here now the problem is with snap historical resistance above on a monthly time frame so we don't have overhead supply meaning sellers from the past coming back and looking to get made whole by selling their shares in our corner we're dealing with the stock that is at all time highs that could leave shorts with a bloody nose if they don't play it right by using the technical tools at their disposal our strategy and of course in the end it all comes down to the individual's ability to display patience and i was not born with patience and believe me in terms of the stock market i paid a lot of money to learn how to invoke the value of patience into my trading style so in short bolinger bands and rsi are telling us we're not supposed to be here add to that on a weekly time frame we are trading well above the third standard deviation bolinger band with an rsi of 87 so on a daily time frame we have an extreme overbought stock that is at nose bleed unsustainable levels which is also validated on the weekly chart so all we need to do now is stalk our prey and what i like to do at times like this is go to the intraday charge and see whether or not are we seeing signs of technical breakdown at current and i have to say no i think we're moving up higher here very short term but that's going to be an opportunity this is a 30 minute chart take a look at how we closed out the day on friday i'm recording this on a weekend 30 minute chart nice consolidation closed strong on the session very close to all-time highs and in fact at all-time highs so the probability of us making higher highs into the new trading week is quite high but that's why i'm going to be looking to lean into the short side to take advantage of amateur money chasing this stock at unsustainable levels do i believe that snap is going to crash no of course not kind of pull back 10 percent 20 percent absolutely so numbers more to come on this trade now as i promised earlier i'm going to segue over into a stock which i believe is in a rsi bubble everyone knows this stock so here you go take a listen and enjoy now i promised you that i would leave you off with an extreme overbought stock that everyone knows and it is a bubble and that stock is drum roll please microsoft that's right microsoft is in a bubble this is a daily chart i need to use stock charts dot com which is a very good software as well but it's falling behind trend spider which again 35 discount code below because trend spider has so many more features now than stock charts dot com anyway i can get time frames on stock charts dot com that is soon coming to trend spider which i'm going to go through in a moment so you may be saying i don't see a bubble here bob what are you talking about the chart looks pretty good yeah it's it's pulled back a little bit this past trading day on a friday but otherwise we're close to a breakout on microsoft and i won't argue with you however what we do here at the contrarian trader is we use multi-time frame analysis meaning if i'm going to buy a stock like microsoft as a potential breakout trade i don't care about the daily chart than many do i care about the higher level charts meaning the daily chart is a view of the battlefield from a five thousand foot view whereas a weekly chart this is your view from a ten thousand foot view of the battlefield and you could see strong up trend but it's this chart that begins to tell us a story not the daily chart keep an eye on the rsi rsi peaked out on microsoft the week of february the 10th it sold off due to covid rallied back and ultimately broke out to new all-time highs there's a problem though as you fast forward to present day and you look back ever since february rsi has been putting in lower highs and now lower lows despite the fact we've been putting in all-time highs that is a bearish divergence we went over bearish divergences earlier but this is not why we have a bubble i'm not done yet we have more let's move back a bit let's go all the way to a quarterly chart now we're talking about the fifty thousand foot view of the battlefield and this is where we enter bubble territory rsi and microsoft on a quarterly basis is at 92 spot 86 think about it microsoft a company worth over one trillion dollars has an rsi of 92.86 does this mean i'm going to short microsoft on the next trading day not yet i'm going to wait for the break the charts the price action rsi stochastics they'll tell me when it's time but what i'm doing is i'm using the quarterly chart and rsi as a qualifier it gets better let's further validate using what i taught you earlier the bolinger band strategy on a yearly time frame now we're talking about 100 000 foot view of the battlefield on a yearly time frame we have rsi at 93 spot 76 all-time highs and probably one of the most overbought stocks on the universe and when you take a look at the bolinger bands the bolinger bands i mentioned earlier that out of the box you have a two standard deviation bolinger band that's in green i use a three standard deviation bolinger band that's in red we have traded for the past four years above the third standard deviation bolinger band folks we're not supposed to be here microsoft is a bubble so that i hope that if somebody's watching this a year two years from now you're looking back saying my god the guy was right if you're if you're watching this two years from now this is october of 2020 please leave a comment saying whether or not i was right hey folks i hope you enjoyed the video and if you did get some value out of it please smash that like button subscribe follow me on whatever social media platform you watch me on and i want to say thank you for taking time out of your day to watch this far everybody have a very great remainder of your day and a profitable trading week be well