Hey everybody, my name is Adam Jones. I live and work at the beautiful Proctorer Academy in central New Hampshire and I'm the founder of the Adam Jones Education podcast. And I wanted to take a little bit of time today to kind of go through and explain why I created this podcast, why it's relevant in my life, why it matters, if it matters at all. One of the ways that I've always seen myself is as a storyteller. Every member as a young kid telling stories around the campfire or with my friends, recounting things that had happened at another day and just, you know, bringing them up and telling them in vivid detail. Sometimes embellishing, so I'm sure. But I love telling stories and as I've gotten older, I've learned there's lots of ways to tell stories. You could tell stories obviously with a written word, with audio, with video, and you can still tell stories just verbally. But I've always seen myself as a storyteller, somebody that's taking ideas and learning from them and then adding to them and passing them along. Throughout my entire life I've always had mentors. Mentors has been a huge part of how I've learned, how I've gotten feedback, how I've bounced ideas around, and having a podcast is another way for me to connect with mentors, to ask them questions, to learn from them. And then the podcast is just an opportunity for me to record it and then share it with others. It felt like a really natural extension of all these conversations, all these conversations that I already have with people to actually take the time to acknowledge them and appreciate them and listen to their work and record it and really give it the time of day they deserve. So having a podcast and not knowing anything about it and just learning from scratch, it was so much a part of my process. It's not only does it mix the storytelling part of who I am and my desire to have mentors, but it also is this third piece which is the willingness to just try things I don't know anything about and just practicing and just trying and failing. So, you know, I didn't know anything about podcasting so I started looking on YouTube, I started asking other podcasters how they learned what they learned. And silly but surely I found, I don't know, a foothold around some of the concepts my wife bought me an incredible microphone around Christmas time last year and that was the final catalyst for me to say, all right, let's start recording. Let's step out and see if we can figure out how to do this and actually produce something of value to other people. So having a podcast is a natural outgrowth of this desire of mine to share and to connect and to learn. Thinking about creating a podcast is really critical to me that I was creating something that was going to be professional and something that people, if they were going to invest a half an hour or 45 minutes of their time, that it was well done and that the audio didn't spike or the conversation was interesting, that the story was well done. The other thing that's great about starting a podcast is it's a really low barrier to entry. It's easy to learn. There's not a lot of risk, you know, you can be in your pajamas. You can edit as much as you want until you actually publish and the capacity to create a high quality product is there. You have a good microphone, you know how to edit and you learn how to edit over time and you keep things simple, you can really produce an incredible show all from your computer which is incredible. That's like, that's something that's brand new. You couldn't do that 15 years ago. The other reason behind having a podcast is that it hits multiple goals for me. I can tell great stories, I can work with mentors, I can prove something of a high value but I'm also doing something that helps build my resume. It helps tell the story of me as an educator. That's the fourth thing and the fifth thing is that I work at Proctor and for Proctor Academy to point to my podcast and say, hey, this is what this EdTech guy here is doing, he's telling these stories, I think there's real value there. Okay, so I want to talk a little bit about what I consider to be some of the best ways to learn. There's kind of essentially three components to really great, what I consider to be great learning, great independent learning. One is you need to have time to obsess over an idea. If you want to learn podcasts, you need the time to read about podcasts, to watch videos about podcasts. You just need time, uninterrupted time just to pour yourself essentially into the research and get fully exposed to it. So that's step one. The second component for a really valuable learning environment is the time to connect with experts. Making connections with people that know what you're doing better than you and learning from them, whether it is mentors or people you don't know or it's experts online or it's in books, but finding the time to connect with those individual people and ask them questions. So you spend time learning, say in step one, you get immersed and then from that comes a series of questions that are in context for your own learning and then you use those experts as a way to bounce ideas off of them to learn further in context for you. The third component to a really healthy individual learning environment is the opportunity to build something and to prototype and to try things out with the full knowledge that you're going to fail and I think that's critical. You have to be willing to make that leap based on your research, based on your asking questions, actually create a product and jump and leap so that you can fail. So it's when you create an environment all three of those things are possible. You have the time to obsess over an idea or something you want to make, the time to ask questions with people that know better than you and then an opportunity to build something and get feedback. When you have that loop, it's a really dynamic loop and I often think a lot about that loop and how I'm doing it in my own classes and maybe this isn't a side to just how the podcast was created and what I've learned from it, but how do we create learning environments where that is primary, where kids aren't following my curriculum as a teacher, they're following kind of their own interest, their own drive and we're giving them open, open-ended time to explore and wonder what about those interests they want to develop further and then how do we use Twitter and social media and other avenues, Facebook or even library data, how do we use those folks to connect our students with the outside world, you know the database in the library shouldn't just be books, it should be people, it should be our alumni and when that's available for students, when they're interested in you know, metal engineering and they can spend time researching and then go talk to a metal engineer and see their work and ask them questions and then the engineer says we'll now go practice it, I think that's just the best learning environment possible. So it wasn't like I set out to discover those, it wasn't like I set out intentionally with those three things in mind, it's just that was the natural learning process for me. So applying those three steps to the Adam Jones education podcast, the first step was time to obsess. So I, like I said before, I love podcasts, so I spent a lot of time learning what the genre of podcasting is like, you know, how people cut things, how stories are told, you know, there are different types of podcasts but really being exposed to multiple podcasts over multiple years where they got me curious and in love of the medium of the genre. And then as I said before, my wife gave me a microphone for Christmas and that was the catalyst for me to kind of take what I thought I knew about the podcasting genre and then leap and start recording and then I needed to figure out how to edit and I spent time with GarageBand just fully immersed in it, not knowing what I was doing, I watched some Lynda.com videos, I watched some videos on YouTube but I just poured myself into the different skills that were necessary. The other part of my research phase and obsession was reaching out to, well, I didn't reach out to Pat Flynn but Pat Flynn who's kind of a well-known smart income, passive income, podcaster guy, he's got an incredible program on YouTube, a six video playlist that really, I listened, I watched that multiple times and it really walked me through the steps to understand the full, like from the idea, from the beginning of an idea to the all the way down to publishing and that really gave me a sense of the scope of what it was like to do a podcast. The second step in my own learning process would be to have time to connect with experts and I really used Twitter for that. I reached out to other folks that run podcasts and I asked them questions about how much time does it take, how do you do your podcast, how much energy do you put into it, do you organize interviews way ahead of time, how much time do you spend editing them. I really reached out to those folks that were in the podcasting community that I really respected and thought their work was beautiful and I asked them about their work and I got great feedback whether it was through Twitter, talking on Twitter or it was through emails that I sent back and forth but it was just enough to kind of get my basic final context-based questions out of the way and answered so I could be have nothing between me and prototyping. Step three was just trying, just practicing and the first podcast today was with my wife, Kate, we were in the same place, it was easy to set up the microphone. I hadn't even thought about what questions I would ask, I remember I was sweating but we just we talked, we had a conversation and what I realized in that first interview was I just wanted the podcast just to be a conversation. It was good to have some questions for pair or some themes or some directions to go in but I didn't have to have it all written out and fully explained or fully diagrammed. I wanted the competition to have some flow to it. I wanted it to be organic and feel alive and I wanted to be able to go in different directions and I didn't really know that about my style as a podcaster until I just set out there and did it. Another example of prototyping is in my second or third podcast I interviewed one of my mentors and kind of people I look up to and her name is Star Sackstein, she works in New York and she does this really great work around standard-based grading and she and I talked a lot over Voxer and I asked her if she wanted to be one of the first guests on the podcast and so we had this amazing hour-long conversation where I thought all my devices were recording correctly and I was so excited it was going to be this awesome podcast and Star only has so much time and she spent a lot of time with me on the phone and then after I was done I realized that I had mistakenly recorded it like through an earpiece and the audio quality was terrible and I tried to turn up the gain you know in post-production but it just wasn't going to sound right and I knew that I wanted to have a high quality product and I wanted to do great work but I was like terrified to tell Star that I had messed it up but I got the courage and I called her and I said hey look you know this thing happened I really want to if we can have another conversation maybe we should wait a few days so we don't have to have the same conversation and she was awesome she was really great she's a teacher herself and she's like I understand and we actually the conversation we had the second time was better you have to be willing to leap you have to be willing to to try new things and be willing to fail and that's like the epitome of experiential learning is being willing to take a jump when you don't know if the ground is below you when I say jump I don't mean you just jump unintelligently you spend the time to obsess you you do your homework you do your research you connect with your experts you set yourself up for success and then you're willing to step out into the world and produce something and it might not be perfect the first time around you might make some mistakes like I did around you know not recording correctly or not really knowing what a conversation was what direction it was going to go or something but that's okay you just build it you create it and you publish it and you move on to the next thing and that is a learning process and it's an important process to be willing to take those risks and fail you identify somebody that you want to interview you reach out to them on social media you guys go back and forth maybe there's a follow-up set of questions they're curious about what you're going to be talking about maybe you set some early questions and some preliminary questions to them ahead of time set up a time to do the conversation you have a conversation you record it which is really exciting and then you're in this post-production place so if you have recorded for an hour you know it's going to take you an hour or two hours sometimes three hours to go through all that footage and edit the way you want it it doesn't have to take that long but certainly the beginning of the process it takes that long so you create it you edit it and then you publish it and that's not maybe you're halfway done at that point because there's still all the promotion to do you know you need to you need to get on facebook you need to get on twitter you need to connect with the person that you spoke to and put this audio it's already out in the world but how do you get people to listen to it i'm not super concerned about like how big the audience is i'm more concerned with just producing great content and that's one of the things that pat flinn i remember him saying was you know you just produce good work and those people that are interested in the work will find it and they'll listen and they'll learn from it and that's it like i'm not you know these are conversations with folks that i would have anyway and the fact that i'm able to record them and do something with them that and maybe that would bring value to somebody else's life that's great it's like the cherry on the top so i'm 15 episodes in and i got 10 episodes left to meet my goal for the year um and there shouldn't have any problem with that you know it's just a matter of finding the right amount of time to interview folks and then edit after the fact people some notable folks that i've had a chance to have conversations with in record the privilege to talk to um felix yakimino who's the founder of miami device i spoke to susan bearden who is the the founder of the twitch me app she's an incredible connector on twitter uh spoke to hans mondell who is a local colleague from new hampton who's taught me a lot star saksine as i mentioned before standard base grading i had the chance to spend time at uh ipad palooza in austin this summer and i did three episodes three days right in a row and then coming up uh and there's others you know you can go look at the podcast online coming up this november i'm going to be uh at miami device and i'm going to be kind of trying to tell the story of miami device in multiple podcasts some live some live radio and then some recorded and published stuff after the fact and i hope to have a few more episodes leading up to miami device with some of the keynote speakers my final message with podcasting is just try it you know there's nothing to lose it's it's a low risk low barrier to entry spend some time learning about it you know buy a nice microphone or not and just take a risk you know decide what kind of show you want to have if you wanted to be interview based like the show i have or if you want to if you have some knowledge or some expertise you want to just record yourself sharing with the world um i don't know just just take a leap and don't be afraid don't be afraid to fail in fact look to fail because that's the way that you learn having a podcast has certainly been an incredible catalyst for me to connect with other educators in the community to not only share their stories but for people i've had people approach me at conferences and say i'll listening to your podcast on you know standard based grading or relationship based pedagogy totally changed what we did in our district and that just blows me away because i just that was never my intention really i mean it's nice to hear that but it's great to connect with people at conferences but go a step further you know have a conversation with that person you know a month two months later and record it because you want to put it on your podcast or record it to share with your your circle of educators i mean obviously you have to let the person know you're recording and all that kind of stuff but i don't you know it's like we these conversations we have if they're valuable we should be sharing them so that we all can learn from one another and that's really the the central component here of this podcast is just a desire to tell stories to connect with mentors and to share those stories people find them useful and they inspire great if they don't that's fine too it's just it feels it feels right to produce a piece of art around people's stories and that's why i do what i do on the podcast i appreciate you taking the time to click on this video and watch it had somebody done a video like this when i was learning about podcasting it might have helped me know the path and it might have helped me know somewhere that i could have talked to so in that spirit if you're interested in podcasting or you're interested in anything around what i've talked about the educational model i explained all that stuff don't hesitate to reach out to me my twitter handle is adamjonesed um adamjonesed.com is my website just don't hesitate to reach out i'm all about connecting with people all about telling people's stories anything i can do to help the educational community which has given me so much i would love to do so thanks so much there's just people coming with their trucks can't do much have their trucks doing comes a truck i've seen you guys all like migrate it's not weird


We continue on today with Chapter 4. This need not be. If you cannot hear the voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen. That you do listen to the voice of your ego is demonstrated by your attitudes, your feelings, and your behavior. Yet this is what you want. This is what you are fighting to keep and what you are vigilant to save.  The glass in which the ego seeks to see its face is dark indeed. How can it maintain the trick of its existence except with mirrors? But where you look to find yourself is up to you. I have said that you cannot change your mind by changing your behavior. But I have also said and many times that you can change your mind. When your mood tells you that you have chosen wrongly and this is so whenever you are not joyous, then no, this need not be. In every case you have thought wrongly about some brother God created and our perceiving images your ego makes in a darkened glass. Think honestly what you have thought that God would not have thought and what you have not thought that God would have you think. Search sincerely for what you have done and left undone accordingly. And then change your mind to think with God's. This may seem hard to do but it is much easier than trying to think against it. Your mind is one with God's. Denying this and thinking otherwise has held your ego together but has literally split your mind. As a loving brother I am deeply concerned with your mind and urge you to follow my example as you look at yourself and at your brother. And see in both the glorious creations of a glorious father. When you are sad, know this need not be. Depression comes from a sense of being deprived of something you want and do not have. Remember that you are deprived of nothing except by your own decisions and then decide otherwise. When you are anxious realize that anxiety comes from the capriciousness of the ego and know this need not be. You can be as vigilant against the ego's dictates as for them. When you feel guilty remember that the ego has indeed violated the laws of God but you have not. Leave the quote sins of the ego to me. That is what atonement is for. But until you change your mind about those whom your ego has hurt the atonement cannot release you. While you feel guilty your ego is in command because only the ego can experience guilt. This need not be. Watch your mind for the temptations of the ego and do not be deceived by it. It offers you nothing. When you have given up this voluntary dispiriting you will see how your mind can focus and rise above fatigue and heal. Yet you are not sufficiently vigilant against the demands of the ego to disengage yourself. This need not be. The habit of engaging with God in his creations is easily made if you actively refuse to let your mind slip away. The problem is not one of concentration. It is the belief that no one including yourself is worth consistent effort. Side with me consistently against this deception and do not permit this shabby belief to pull you back. That this heartened are useless to themselves and to me but only the ego can be disheartened. Have you really considered how many opportunities you have had to glen yourself and how many of them you have refused? There is no limit to the power of a son of God but he can limit the expression of his power as much as he chooses. Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do. Do not settle for anything less than this and refuse to accept anything but this as your goal. Watch your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder its accomplishment and step away from them. Judge how well you have done this by your own feelings for this is the one right use of judgment. Judgment like any other defense can be used to attack or protect, to hurt or to heal. The ego should be brought to judgment and found wanting there. Without your own allegiance, protection and love, the ego cannot exist. Let it be judged truly and you must withdraw allegiance, protection and love from it.  To the ego's dark glass you need but say, I will not look there because I know these images are not true. Then let the Holy One shine on you in peace knowing that this and only this must be. His mind shone on you in your creation and brought your mind into being.   The first coming of Christ is merely another name for the creation. For Christ is the Son of God. The second coming of Christ means nothing more than the end of the ego's rule and the healing of the mind. I was created like you in the first and I have called you to join with me in the second. I am in charge of the second coming and my judgment which is used only for protection cannot be wrong because it never attacks. Yours may be so distorted that you believe I was mistaken in choosing you. I assure you this is a mistake of your ego. Do not mistake it for humility. Your ego is trying to convince you that it is real and I am not because if I am real I am no more real than you are. That knowledge and I assure you that it is knowledge means that Christ has come into your mind and healed it. I do not attack your ego. I do work with your higher mind.  I am your vigilance in this because you are too confused to recognize your own hope. I am not mistaken. Your mind will elect to join with mine and together we are invincible. You and your brother will yet come together in my name and your sanity will be restored. I raise the dead by knowing that life is an eternal attribute of everything that the living God created. Why do you believe it is harder for me to inspire the dispirited or to destabilize the unstable? I do not believe that there is an order of difficulty in miracles. You do. I have called and you will answer. I understand that miracles are natural because they are expressions of love. My calling you is as natural as your answer and as inevitable. And from the workbook lesson number 26, my attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests rather than against them. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other. The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first.  Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are. Practice with today's idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so. Six practice periods are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. Do not reduce it further. The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding, or preoccupation. Any problem is yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. Today's idea should be applied as follows. First, name the situation I am concerned about blank. Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection in which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically saying, I am afraid blank will happen. If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use and quite possibly more. It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. Try however to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can. After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself that thought is an attack thought upon myself. Conclude each practice period by repeating today's idea to yourself once more. So today's lesson number 26 is bringing all our focus and all of our attention back to the mind. We are coming to realize beyond a shadow of doubt with certainty that the only sense of invulnerability, the only sense of fear, must come from attack thoughts. This is truly seeing that there is no cause of upset in the world. There is nothing upsetting about the world. If we believe in attack, we must see that this attack is confined to attack thoughts in the mind. And this is another version of seeing that there is no world apart from mind, that the problem is attack thoughts and the solution is forgiveness, is release of attack thoughts, regardless of the form. And if I believe that it is possible to attack, then the effects must be placed on my mind. And Jesus tells us, it is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interest rather than against them. And he's referring to the power of the mind. He's referring to what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. Now attack thoughts will be projected. Remember that all thoughts are either extended or projected. Thoughts of love are extended. Attack thoughts are projected. And when they seem to be projected, you will fear attack. And this fear brings about this sense of vulnerability. They make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. It begins to dawn that attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. You can't be innocent if you believe in attack thoughts. You can't be happy, joyful, peaceful, loving if you believe in attack thoughts. It's a convincing job by the Holy Spirit to show you that attack thoughts are impossible. That attack is not a possible idea that God did not create attack. When you believe in attack thoughts, you will always attack yourself first.   And you can't know yourself when you believe in attack thoughts. Because a false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are. So, we are claiming responsibility for state of mind as we understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. He makes that clear in saying nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And most importantly, nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so. That you cannot be vulnerable as a son of God, as a child of the living God. You cannot be vulnerable. So, our focus today will be to watch our mind, search our mind for unresolved conflicts, situations that arise. And to look closely at all possible outcomes. All distressing possibilities available for each situation. And to open to the realization that all of these distressing possibilities, all of these upsetting outcomes that are imagined are simply attack thoughts. And we can go through, he says, and name each outcome of which you are afraid. And then tell yourself, that thought is an attack upon myself. So today, let's not brush off any situations or outcomes or distressing possibilities that cross our mind. Today, let's be truly all-inclusive with whatever thoughts are rising in our mind. Today, let's see all attack thoughts as the same. There aren't really subjects and objects in attack thoughts. Therefore, there can't be differences between subjects and objects, between victimizers and victims. Today, we realize that all attack thoughts are the same. There is no difference in degree or direction. They cannot be differentiated from one another. They all are the same, equally impossible, as we remind ourselves of the lesson of the day. My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.


Ond yn dod, mae gennym i'n gweithio, mae gennym i'r perthynau sy'n gweithio'n gweithio'r gwahanol yn gynghreifft dynnu gyd yn gweithio'r gwahanol, gynghreifft yn y cyfnod, rhai'r risoedd o bwylig, o'r resuol, o'r deall, rhai'r rhai'r risoedd, o'r rhai'r risoedd, a rhai'r risoedd o ran ddiddordeb eu ffordd i'r greu gweithio, sy'n meddwl unrhyw deilig yn siŵr ...fyniad o'r dweud y gallwn ni'n meddwl. Ac sy'n cael ei bod wedi bod yn oed i'r gweithio... ...gweithio a'r nifer o gweithio... ...ynghylch am gyllideb gyda gysylltu cyffredig... ...a gweithio cyffredig yn cynnig ffyrdd a gweithio. Yn ceisio, mae'n meddwl... ...a byddai'n golygu ffyrdd... ...y ffrindwyr y gwaith... ...y'n meddwl i'r gweithio'r gweithio... ...y'n meddwl yn gweithio'r gweithio. Rwyf i ddweud â'r llwyddiadau yma i chi'n gwybod i gyfnodrhau a'r adegau'r llwyddiadau o'r gweld i chi'r collu. ac mae'r adegau yw'r adegau erbyn i gyfnodr hwnnw, yn gweud i gynnig o gyfnodr, GDP, i ddechrau i gŵr, sy'n credu bod yn rhan o'r proses. Mae'n rhan o'r proses. Mae'n gweld i'r llefydd o'r gwir yw'r gweld i'r llwyddiadau. Fig an prickw the beard is that we travel down a path that sees nature really a place to put our waste or as the way in which we get various kinds of natural resources. We're not really seeing it as the underpinning of economic activity, which as we, increasingly, know it actually is. We're beginning to see some consequences as a result of not prioritising protection of the environment as a core economic activity and competence fel sometimes is facing relating to extreme weather and some of the effects of high rainfall. The damage caused by flooding, coastal anoddation are just at the beginning of what seems to be quite a lot of consequences in the system already. If we are to turn around this set of consequences that are going to increasingly cause the process of progress to be interrupted, what do we need to do? Well, the first thing we need to understand is that nature has real value and in a very practical and economic sense. This goes back to some very fundamental aspects of the earth system that we hardly ever talk about. One of them, of course, relates to soils that supply nearly all of our food. About 98% of the human food supply is being produced with the benefits of soil processes. Y gallwn ddysgu'r bram o'r gyd-dŵr, ychydig i'r hyn i ddechrau dŵr, y cwmwyllt rŵr yn cymryd. Mae'r cyflwyneu cyllidau yn ymgeithio gael o'r rhaglen oed, yn y gall wedi'i gŵr o'r gwirio cyflwyneu. Fyddwch chi'n gyfrifio gweld llefyddiaeth yn ystod, o'r ysgol yn ymgyrch yn ystod yng nghylch, i'r ysgol yn cael ei gweld sy'n ddweud 6 miliwn o'r cyfnod o bobl. Mae'r cyfnod rhan o'r cyfnodau gweld, ac mae'n rhan o'r cyfnodau gweld yn cael euchologist. Mae'r cyfnodau'n cael eu chymdeithasol yn cael eu cyfnodau organig o'r cyfnodau yn cael eu cyfnodau, sy'n gofyn yn cyhoeddiol y nifer genedlai cyllid yn gael. Fyddiw'r cyfnodau yn cyfnod yng Nghymru yn ychydig o fawr o'r cyfnodau arweinyddol a'r cyfnodau ar gyfer y llefyn yn cael eu cyfnodau agro-coil ond toonhau'n i ddweud peolwyd yn y ffadaf honno bwysig iawn, yr oedd ymddangos bwysig iawn. Rydyn ni'n ffordd o'r pethau o'r hyn mae'n cyflasau, cynnig arlaed o'r pethau arweinydd am y glengwyr llehgar yma, ac yn tyf yn oes. Rydyn ni'n gweithio arlaed o'r pethau a'r ond o lot yn dglers o ddweud. Roedd yma ddweud cyfle yma, ac mae yma fyrrif yn gyfreidio'r ffordd. Felly we have issues in relation to the production of food. We also have issues in relation to soil degradation regarding the climate change problem. There's actually more carbon locked up in soils than there is in the atmosphere and all of the forests combined across the planet. And because of the way in which we're farming, we're depleting that carbon matter. This is basically a reduction of the organic material, which is mostly comprised of carbon-based molecules locked in the soil. The way in which we're farmed is depleting that material. It's turning into carbon dioxide and going into the air. So we face major challenges in relation to this fundamental asset, which is being degraded right across the planet, largely as a result of how we're doing farming. Of course growing in the soils is not only crops. Across the planet we have still large areas of natural and semi-natural ecosystem. This is a tropical rainforest and many of you will know that this is one of the repositories of much of life on earth. It's also a massive repository of carbon. We have millions indeed, billions of tonnes of carbon locked up in these ecosystems as they're being cut down, cleared for agriculture, so that carbon is going into the atmosphere. And indeed, if you look at the broad numbers being produced by some of the climate change experts, you realise that this source of emissions is bigger than global transport, including aviation. We get very excited about aeroplanes and trucks. The CO2 coming from deforestation is actually bigger. And if you add the CO2 coming from the soils beneath after the forests have been cleared, it's bigger still again. When you start to understand the value of these kinds of systems and look at the alternative strategies we've got, for example going down the renewable energy route to reduce emissions or investing in nuclear power, you realise that actually conserving the tropical rainforest is about the best deal we've got on the table. And indeed a report for the British government published about five years ago told us that halving the deforestation rate by 2030 compared with 2010 would deliver carbon benefits worth about $3.6 trillion. That's a lot of carbon benefit. If only we can find the mechanisms to be able to hang on to these systems so that they can carry on providing that benefit and others long into the future. And of course the tropical rainforest, as I said, they're not simply doing the job of storing carbon for us, they're also home to most of the terrestrial biodiversity on the earth. Animals, plants, microorganisms, fungi, including creatures like this red-eyed tree frog, which increasingly we're discovering, have got all sorts of hidden benefits that they've developed over millions of years of evolution. It's an innovation lab that's been going on for millions of years and like all good innovation, many experiments are taking place, some work, some don't. The ones that work are based upon new things being invented by biological organisms, including new chemicals and including one that is found in this particular frog that has been discovered to block HIV infection. So medicines are being developed as a result of innovation that's been going on through evolution in ecosystems across the planet for literally millions of years. That biodiversity, of course, to be of any use to us and it's not just for medicine, it's also for food and increasingly for biomimicry, for use in design, for architecture and for energy systems. We're getting new ideas coming from wildlife. If we're going to do that, these animals and plants have to continue to exist and of course the clearance of those natural habitats that's releasing carbon is also causing these creatures to become more scarce and in many cases to disappear. So we've got tangible assets that have huge economic value. The ability of soils to produce food, the carbon capture in forests, the innovation that's been invented by different wildlife over eons of time. But there's something on top of this that I discovered through my work that's potentially even more important still, not only the different elements of the natural world but the relationships between them. And when it comes to relationships, perhaps one of the most profoundly important for life on the land is that between insects and flowering plants. This developed about 100 million years ago, it's turned into a form of mutualism between the insects and the plants. The plants producing pollen and nectar to attract animals like this bumble bee and then the bumble bee moving between flowers, moving the pollen, enabling the plant to complete its life cycle. It's a highly intricate set of relationships that have now evolved and it's not only important for the functioning of that tropical rainforest I showed you and many other ecosystems, it's also vital for global agriculture and indeed people have begun to try and put some numbers around the value of animals like bees in terms of the pollination work they're doing and have come up with some big totals. For example, the value of pollination services coming from creatures like this estimated to be in the order of $190 billion per year. That's not a small number but we're wiping these animals out. You may think to yourself, well that sounds like a highly theoretical figure that's been introduced into this discussion. Well let me give you a practical example of how you can reach figures like that and actually you can find an example of this right here in this country in southwestern China where during the 1980s very high levels of pesticide application were advocated to kill pest animals in orchards growing apples and pears. That worked in killing the pests and fortunately it also killed all the bumble bees. To the point today where farmers 30 years later are still having to climb in the apple trees in the spring with feather dusters and paint brushes and move the pollen between the blossoms by hand because the bees that once did the work for free are gone and one bumble bee nest to be replaced by human labour requires 20 people. Think about that from an economic point of view and then we find even more surprising connections between economic benefit and human well-being in relation to public health. This is a picture of a vulture one of three species that used to be very common in India until the early 1990s. They were inadvertently wiped out by the use of a drug called dichlofenac this is a anti-inflammatory drug it got into very widespread use in veterinary medicine in the countryside in India. What people didn't realise even though it's a good medicine for sick animals is that if this substance was in the body of a cow or buffalo when it died and if that dead animal was consumed by vultures which nearly all of them were it was lethal to those birds it caused organ failure. So this drug was very good for veterinary use actually was toxic to vultures and these birds went from a total population of about 40 million in the early 1990s to the early 2000s they'd effectively been wiped out become functionally extinct 40 million birds down to a few tens of thousands. Now these things eat a lot of rotting meat and between them those 40 million birds were cleaning up something like 12 million tonnes of rotting flesh per year. Once you take the vultures out you've got a nutritional windfall for other animals other scavengers and what happened as the vultures declined India's wild dog population rocketed as the wild dog population grew so hazards to public health increased as well. Dogs are of course the principal vector of rabies and in rural India 7 million more dogs which is estimated what occurred as a result of the vultures leaving more food there began to spread this disease more widely than would have been the case to the point where researchers looking at this discovered that something like 50,000 more people died of rabies between 93 and 2003 as a result of these birds being removed then would have occurred had they still been there. So there was an economic upside from the introduction of Daeclothinac from a veterinary point of view but the economic downside arising from that and other factors including the cost of cleaning up buffalo and cows was actually pretty huge to the point where the researchers behind the research I just mentioned suggest that something like 34 billion dollars in added costs were accru to the Indian economy because of the loss of these birds nobody saw that coming huge value for public health that actually was removed without anybody really doing any kind of economic calculation just seemed like a good idea to introduce this new method on top of food and health we have a set of relationships in the natural world regenerating our water supply and actually fresh water replenishment on earth is one of the most amazing stories that I've come across over my many years involvement with this including the role of oceanic plankton which are releasing substances into the atmosphere that helps cloud seeding this is really incredible you can't explain the amount of cloud on earth every day without invoking a role from marine photosynthetic plankton and then once of course the clouds meet the land they're falling onto ecosystems whether they're natural or semi-natural and some of those ecosystems can no longer process fresh water as they once did this is a tropical rainforest feeding a tropical river and that tropical river is going to run a hydroelectric dam it's going to irrigate crops downstream but if we remove the forest then we find that the fresh water cycle is interrupted and again another big hit for the economy as a result of having degraded nature I was in the ivory coast two weeks ago researching a new book about tropical rainforests and went to meet farmers who are growing cocoa this is the country's main export it's the main plank of economic development there they're finding reduced yields and reduced yields they're finding because of reduced rainfall and guess where the rainfall was coming from there's a clue in the name it was coming from the rainforest which is no longer there I came across some Chinese engineers downstream from where I met the cocoa farmers building a new hydroelectric dam I asked them if they had ever heard about any connection between tropical deforestation and less rain and therefore less river and therefore less power for the dam they didn't know what I was talking about a huge risk to that piece of infrastructure as a result of an ecosystem being damaged without people joining the dots the water supply is of course absolutely crucial and if there's anything that shapes the economic performance of any part of the world it's access to fresh water the time when you see the importance of this of course is the time when you don't have it and in a recent visit to Brazil where they've had a very large-scale drought across the south east of the country two and two is beginning to be put together but as a result of a drought that's been really quite disruptive including for the country's power supply because that nation has 80% of its electricity coming from hydroelectric structures if the river flow goes down so does the power production stranded assets of a different kind the oceans from where that fresh water is ultimately being derived by evaporation and the activity of plankton of course is also another source of our food marine fish worth about $278 billion per year in terms of the GDP generated another $100 billion on top of that in terms of ancillary services like building of ships and everything else this is a huge industry and of course not only important for food supply but also for employment where did the fish come from they did not exist in isolation they're a bit like bumble bees that pollinate the crops the fish are living in an ecosystem at the bottom of that ecosystem is the photosynthetic plankton that are helping it to rain at the same time as being at the bottom of a food web the ultimate is feeding these more complex animals that are the basis of so much protein especially in developing countries and those ecosystems that are making it rain and providing 90 million tonnes of fish a year are also responsible for another important human need take a deep breath about 50% of the oxygen in this room is being replenished by those same plankton that are at the bottom of that food chain and indeed those same plankton are taking a lot of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and taking it into the deep ocean these services between them in terms of what the oceans are doing have been estimated by some environmental economists to be worth about 21 trillion dollars per year we are abusing this system in a way which suggests it's absolutely worth nothing so we have a number of services that are being increasingly understood by researchers looking at the practical values we're getting from the natural world including in relation to human health beyond the management of disease a lot of people are concerned in public health agencies across the world about the effects of obesity and also the increasing prevalence of mental illness there's now a fantastically rich body of information and data that tells us that one of the best ways of both preventing these trends from getting much more out of hand as well as treating them is access to natural environments and indeed people doing economic calculations about the value of nature to society are discovering that the value is much bigger around areas where people live urban areas green space in cities green space by the edge of cities is delivering literally billions of dollars of value across planet earth but what do we do to these places we see them as prime building land huge value being lost some value being created but certainly the need for a more joined up approach some of the people looking at the place of humankind in nature have tried to quantify some of these headings that I've talked about a little today in terms of the carbon capture service the way in which nature is replenishing our water pollinating crops and they've reached them really quite surprising conclusions so Robert Costanza a famous environmental economist who's been working on this subject for many years published a paper in 2014 in the journal Nature setting out his most recent assessments as to the value of all of these things that are underpinning economic development and human wellbeing and to cut along the story short he reaches the conclusion that the value of nature to the economy in terms of this flow of services never mind the resources in terms of the oil on the minerals or the timber from the forest but the flow of benefits those ecosystem services are worth about twice as much as global GDP so whilst talking of that misconception I mentioned a second ago we're trying to maximise GDP and that's something we can broadly measure the bit of the economy we're not measuring and which underpins all of the GDP is being eliminated and nobody seems to think that this is something that should be on any balance sheet for a corporation or indeed a country this is one of the gravest oversights in history it seems to me and invokes the idea of natural capital this is the notion of looking at those different bits of the environment as we call it sometimes I described a second ago and seeing them as comparable to financial capital assets whereby you derive a dividend every year a flow of fresh water a flow of pollination services the capture of carbon the protection of coastal areas from flooding all of these things we can begin to put numbers on because all of them are real and indeed that's something which it seems to me needs to be on the agenda of organisations like this and indeed the organisations that come to meetings to talk about the economic future of the world because if we don't begin to rectify some of the failures as to where economy is cannibalising ecology in negative ways then the costs down the line will be very considerable indeed seems to me at times that the way in which we run the economy is a bit like a Ponzi scheme whereby you take the capital you pass it out to the people who'd like to use the capital you count that as a flow of benefits of dividends but actually what you're doing is annihilating the capital asset in the process of passing out the dividends now if you run a Ponzi scheme in the world of finance you go to prison if you run a Ponzi scheme in terms of rainforests, coral reefs and soils you tend to get a bonus that's something I think we need to look at as we look forward can we find ways of capturing the benefit of the carbon services being provided by tropical forests, temperate forests and boreal forests can we find the measures and mechanisms whereby we're going to eliminate the loss of species and do effective conservation in order to keep our options open for the future can we design agricultural landscapes whereby we see the economic benefits of pollinators and healthy soils and to be able to protect those as assets for the future rather than blowing them now for the benefit of so-called cheap food or the illusion of food security which is only building up problems for later can we investigate ecosystem services to understand the work being done by creatures like vultures in being able to protect public health from pathogens through maintaining a balance between different groups of animals and plants in the environment can we understand the ways in which the water cycle can be optimised rather than undermining the water cycle through deforestation, soil damage and indeed the increased acidification of the oceans can we look at the full benefits of the earth's commons including those taking place on the open seas where there is no country having any jurisdiction can we understand the incredible productivity of ocean food chains and harness those long into the future rather than taking all the fish today and seeing that as a means of generating profit and can we build resilience for the future by protecting coral reefs, grasslands and mangroves as the way in which we're going to buffer against the worst effects of climate change you start adding all these things together and it seems to me that looking after nature is the biggest no-brainer for the economy the world has ever seen if only we can get past this massive misconception whereby we see the destruction of nature as the price of progress because it's not true thank you very much indeed


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as we come to a close this this might be a three-hour question but you know you can answer it whichever way you want you've always been adaptable you've gone with the trend you've gotten ahead of the trend and you know it's been proven that a team that hits home runs can win World Series but a team that hits home runs and strikes out a lot and doesn't put the ball in play I mean the Red Sox were able to put the ball in play a lot and that's just strike out all the time is there gonna be a little bit of a change in the organizational philosophy or was that just something that you felt this team would not strike out as much as it did will that change in 2019 no I think that's part of our DNA is the strikeouts are there with a lot of players you try to limit them it's not like we're you know not thinking that's an accident but if you track through postseason whether it's this year or past years you know the team to hit the most home runs are winning the games and that's the bottom line it's a fact you can't run through run from we had our chance as the deep off and we had you know traffic on the base pass and yes we've had untimely strikeouts but if those more strikeouts they were home runs we're winning those games and so you only get you know and certain that that's shots and if you can transfer those shots into some sort of success you know whether it's you know an impactful double or a triple or a home or great you know the strikeouts are bad we all know that but but we have a very counted offense that when one obviously it's it's crushing that it's pretty unstoppable and but obviously when you run to some you know opportunities that doesn't go your way then you're on the flip side of the coin being judged by by you know hey you strike out too much and stuff but if you do follow year in and year out the teams advanced in postseason there's a number of different attributes of reasons why but the games that are being won from the offensive side or because they've out hit home run wise the opponent and that's time and time proven so hey at the end of the day we weren't better than Boston but we're you know we're still you know an elite team nonetheless that's not a man you know just look at us we still want to under games and don't misunderstand what I'm saying but I also don't want to over react to all right let me get rid of some of these guys that hit home runs and are you know massively impactful offensive players because they strike out too much so it's down great a bunch of you know it's not a bunch of but some contact hitters and get rid of some some guys that are you know you know we're lucky to have here so we'll continue to try to you know impact the baseball in a real hard impact away and but while doing that limit the strikeouts and you know that's something that is a reaction that's always in play not because hey you know Boston won and we didn't and they didn't strike out as much as it's not a reaction to that


This is stock number 9J29A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and use Jeep headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2019 Jeep Cherokee Latitude Plus. This vehicle has the 2-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder motor which pumps out 270 horsepower. From this HD video you will be able to tell that this Jeep is extremely clean all the way around. It has the LED fog lights, the LED running lights, and the LED head lamps. Bright white clear coat is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have your HD capabilities on your computer tablet or a smartphone device, turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle without actually being here. The Latitude Plus package comes with the 17-inch painted alloy rims. No scuffs or scrapes on this rim and it has the Firestone Destination 225-65R17 tires. These tires have probably about 90% of the tread left on them. Four-wheel disc brakes on the Cherokee. Didn't see any dents or dings on that front fender. The front bumper and grille area is very very clean. As is the hood of the vehicle I didn't see any dents or dings on that. Passing your side rim is in really nice condition as well. No scuffs or scrapes on that and as you go down this side of the vehicle you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down you can still see the vehicle hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. The roof is in really nice condition as well and on this side I didn't see one dent or ding which is really why we do the video so you can get the most accurate condition report possible without actually being here. Back rim very clean as well. Four-wheel disc brakes, back tire has just as much tread as the front tires and I always like to point out that in 2019 they switched to a capitalist fuel fill which is really nice. You never are going to get gas on your hands again. As we come around to the back you'll notice it has the dual rear exhaust. You get that with the two liter and the 3.2 liter v6 but this is the two liter. Rear gate is in excellent condition, no dents or dings on that and it does have the LED tail lamps. Back storage area is very clean as well. Those seats do fall down for extra storage and we have another storage area under here and under there is your spare tire and your jack tools. Now you do get the spare tire and jack tools when you get the four-wheel drive system. You also have little storage compartments on the side there as well. Back-up sensors in the rear bumper. No dents, dings or cracks on that rear bumper and as you go down this side of the vehicle just as clean as that passenger side. Back rim for full disclosure is an excellent condition. Yep didn't see any dents or dings down this side. It does have the enter-and-go system. You get the built-in directional signals and the heating element in the mirrors. Inside the latitude plus package gives you the black cloth and it's a vinyl-ish leather mesh. Both these seats are heated. It has a power driver seat and your lumbar. Factory all-weather floor mats part of the cold weather group. Power windows, power locks and power mirrors does have auto headlamps and as we hop inside here you can see that this Jeep has 5,860 miles on it. It has the outside temperature and compass display as well as your digital speedometer. You get the heated leather wrap steering wheel. No rips or tears in that, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. It comes with the 7-inch Uconnect Force radio. So that means that you get AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. Also it has Android Auto and Apple CarPlay capabilities on here too.  This is also where your backup camera shows up as well. There's a little storage cubby on top of the dash there. You have your backup sensors. You can turn those off. Stability control. This is your start-stop feature. You can turn that feature off. Climate controls. Down here is your active drive 1 system with your select terrain. So auto snow, sport, sand and mud terrain settings. It is a smart four-wheel drive system. Automatically we'll kick it in the four-wheel drive as needed if you have it in auto. USB and an Augs jack. The nine-speed automatic transmission. Passing a seat and format is very clean as well. No rips or tears on that. Smells very clean in this vehicle as well. And the headliner is in nice condition. You have your map lights up there. And we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system. You have two USB ports back here as well. All weather floor mats and these seats do fold down nice and flat like so. If you need to haul extra things, really nice feature. Side current airbags of course. This one also has blind spot monitoring in the mirror. Don't know if I said that before or not. I don't think I did. But it does have blind spot, cross path detection. I'd personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. Hopefully from this video you'll been able to tell just how clean this vehicle is all the way around inside and out. So you can make a smart buying decision and make the trip up and make this one yours today. Under the hood we have the two liter four-cylinder turbocharged motor. Engine base very clean runs very smooth. This vehicle has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. 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