Welcome to David Wong's Iron Body Qigong right now. It's episode four. Welcome back. We're going to do some more Qigong meditation. If you don't know what Qigong is, it's an ancient Chinese meditation practice that we're reserved only for the royalty or very special people. It is a very closely guarded secret of how to enhance your health and prosperity and longevity, as well as used for martial arts purpose. So it's used for fighting, self-defense, and actually used in real combat. It's been said that in the old days, in the ancient days, people have elevated their abilities to such a level that they become superhuman. So you've seen them in some old Chinese or even like recent Chinese kung fu movies. You see them flying in the air, hitting people, and then basically killing them with one touch. Is that real or not? I'll let you decide for yourself. But this kind of practice, this Qigong practice is what they use according to the legend to enhance their abilities to such a level that they have so much power that they can break rocks or they can jump over trees or they can even, like I said, they can kill people with just a touch. So we're not going to be training how to do that, but we're going to be focusing on using this Qigong practice for better health and specifically better resilience. So if you don't know, I have another boxing channel that I've been working on a lot of boxing in the last couple of years, I'm learning my martial arts from Tai Chi and Wing Chun into modern boxing techniques and using different techniques and strategies and so on to improve myself. And I've been working also on this Qigong. So this Qigong, what I use it for is for resilience.  In fact, if you block with your shins or with your elbows or even punch somebody else's punch, they get hurt a lot more when they block their attacks. Anyway, not everybody is interested in self-defense martial arts, but this is also used for better health, longevity, resilience, better energy, calm violence, and just better immune even. So let's get started, okay? So let's just rub our hands together. If you're standing around, that's ideal. If you're standing up, you know, put the phone on the tripod or put it on the surface or something like that so you can stand up. If you see it, then just sit up straight. Better than just, better, you know, you need to sit up straight. You don't want to be leaning back to do this. You want to have your spine as straight as possible. You want your spine to basically stretch up and stretch down at the same time, which I'll explain in a second.  Okay? Take a breath. Start breathing deeply, okay?   Brush, brush, like this. Hit and brush, hit and brush. Okay?  Take some deep breaths. Relaxation breaths while you're doing this is really helpful for you to relieve any stress or any tensions in your forehead. Great for headaches. Now you can brush through your scalp like this. Brush backwards like this. Like you're washing your hair. Once again, take a deep breath and then exhale. Feel the relaxation as you exhale.  Okay? And then just follow that path behind your neck and then just come behind your, around your neck like this. Now brush it down your shoulders. Brush it down your shoulder like this. Now brush your neck. Take a deep breath and then relax and let it brush all the way down to your belly. From your neck, brush down your neck. Just imagine you are just loosening up any tensions or any blockages and you're brushing open those channels in your body. Now you can start doing one side of your chest like this. Brush it down to your belly or to the abdomen and then brush down this side. Take a deep breath. Start from the top again and breathe out as you brush downwards. This is good for overall relaxation. A lot of times we have a lot of tension stuck in our neck, right? Especially when you're sitting at a computer. At long times we have a lot of tensions in our shoulders. Okay? Give your neck a little massage. Back of your neck a little massage. Help release any tensions. Okay? Now brush it down your shoulders. Make sure it's nice and relaxed when you're brushing. So this arm is relaxed, right? It's loose and relaxed. Okay? Let it just hang from your shoulder. Balance a little bit and you can feel it just dangling there. Now as that arm is relaxed, you use your other hand and brush downwards. So you can feel the channels or the energy brushing down your arm.  You've got the top quadrant, you've got the back quadrant, you've got the underside quadrant and you've got this quadrant, right? So you brush all four of them. So we start usually, let's say, with the thumb.  And just imagine a line of energy going down out your thumb like that as you brush. Breathe deep breath. By the way, be here. Make sure that you click the like button and write some comments, give me some emojis so the algorithm can know that this is a great live and share it with other people.  And then imagine a line going down your middle finger. So you usually brush down, you don't hold it out like this, just brush downwards. I'm just showing it so you can, putting it out so you can see. But you're going to brush downwards like this. Hey, from Portugal. Welcome. Hey, hey, by Smoke. David Max from NYC Second Visit. New here. Great, welcome back. Thank you. Okay, so I'm brushing basically all around my arm. And then with each brush, I am focusing on it coming out of the thumb, the middle finger, and then the pinky. Now if you want, if you do this more, you can focus on each individual finger. So let's say, focus on your index finger, brush it out that way. Focus on your middle finger, brush it out that way. Focus on your ring finger, brush it out there. Focus on your pinky, brush it out there. Okay, now flip it over and brush it out the palm. And then the next one will be to brush down your armpit here. Loosen lots of, lots of, you know, limbs in your armpit. So it's good to hit that, loosen up any stuck toxins in there, and then brush down like that. Okay, let's do the other arm, the front of the shoulder. Make sure it's loose, loose, hanging loose. Brush, brush, brush, brush, brush, brush. Keep those comments coming. If you've got questions, now's a good time to ask. What's that question? Please tweet why you're doing this. So if you read the title, this is iron body qigong. This is a, you can say it's like a health practice. Health practice for better resilience. Pass down through thousands of years of Chinese traditional medicine practice. Okay, doesn't look like I'm doing much, but if you do this every day, do this every day for 21 days and tell me that you can get stronger and get more resilient. Okay, I challenge you. I challenge you to do this 21 days every day. Now I'm, you can do a shortened version. You don't need to do it the long version. I can do it now. Just do it for 10 minutes. Okay, so I'm brushing down each of the fingers. I'm brushing down the thumb, brushing down the index finger, starting from the shoulder and the neck, brushing down the middle finger, brushing down the ring finger, brushing down the pinky, brushing down the bicep and the palm. Okay, and when I say brushing, notice that I go start here. I brush down here. I start a little bit lower and then brush a little bit lower. I start lower and then brush a little bit lower. Start lower. See? It's kind of like a cascade or step. Step, concept, right? So that's what I'm doing, okay? Okay, so that's it for the arms. Keep doing the body. And today my gut feels a little bit tense, so I'm going to do more in my gut. I can use my thumbs and actually use my thumbs to kind of massage my abdomen like this downwards. Resilience physically and or emotionally are both. Well, is your body connected to your mind or is it separate from your mind? Is your mind connected to your body or is it separate from your body? Answer that question.  Okay, now we can do the back. The back, you might have to flip your hands backwards. Go as high as you can without stretching or, you know, I'm not that flexible with the shoulders because I use it so much. That's as far as I can go. Left hand go further. Let's see how far you can go and start brushing your back. So you can even flip your hands backwards like this and then brush down with that. So you're brushing down your kidneys. Remember to breathe in. All right, and then we're going to do the legs.  I need a bench to show you.  Any more questions? Make sure you like the live. So the algorithm knows that this live is awesome. I'm going to share it with other people. So notice what I'm doing. I'm brushing the side of my thighs. Brush the side of my thighs downwards. Brush the back of my thighs. Breathe in. David, do these frequencies machines work? Yes, they do. Brush the knee. I'm brushing the knee. All different parts of the knee behind the knee. Now if you do the back, just straighten up your leg. So that opens this up, right? If you do it like this, it gets stuck there.  Same for the calf. Keep going down the calf. Okay, this side. Going down the calf. Keep going down the shin, like this. The side of the leg. And then inside of the leg. Of the shin. Inside of the shin. This is a good one. I feel you stuck on there. Loosen that up. And then for the feet. You know, I would do something like that. But you would do this while the feet is on the ground. I'm just wondering what you're doing. Under the feet, you can do this. Brush it down under. Brush it down out the toe. Brush it out the pinky. Brush it out the middle toe, and so on. Is this for fascia or limbs? I would say both. You have a rife machine. Well, you should get the cheek oil. It's better. It's the best rife machine right now. Which rife machine do you have? If you have a cheek oil, and you need help with feeling it. Just watch my tutorial. There's lots of things that you need to be aware of. When you start using it. Go to the setup page. There's a whole tutorial on how to use your cheek oils. But generally, you might want to try different frequencies. You might want to use it with the sound. Yeah, if you have a spooky tooth, then you probably need a cheek oil. A spooky tooth is not as powerful as a cheek oil for sure. You want to get a cheek oil or the wand. Not sure which one. The cheek oil is more popular. It depends what you want to use it for. What do you want to use it for? Hit by smoke. A spooky tooth is basically like the... It's older technology. It's a good company. It's a good product. But if you want to get the most advanced. And better technology. You get cheek oil. You like the nano cheek oil? That's great. Let's continue. I did all the brushing. Next step is to add some light tapping. The amount of force you put into it is up to you. You can go from just light taps. Especially the heads. You don't want to tap that hard. We want the light taps in the same direction. Down those meridians. We go back to the ear. Down the jaw like this. And then out the chin.  Light taps with just the fingers. Back of your neck. Like taps like this. Just with your fingertips. You don't want to hit too hard. Just with your fingertips. Down the neck. Just with your fingertips. Okay. Once again, deep breath. Okay. So just light taps on the neck. You don't want to hit too hard. You might injure yourself or bruise yourself. Okay. Now you get to shoulder. You can hit harder. Heavy dental infection. Also clear tonsils. Hair regrowth. Immune boost. Neurodocrine balance. Just get cheek oils. Cheek oils you get. If you're thinking about one. Then the price point is higher. So you probably should get the Cheek Oil Max or Cheek Oil 3. Cheek Oil 3 is like the standard professional one. So yeah, I would recommend that one. Cheek Oil 3 or Cheek Oil Max. Okay. So now what I'm doing. Now I'm not just brushing. Brushing is just brushing like this. I'm not hitting. Now I'm adding hitting with the brushing. Hit. Brush. Hit. Brush. You should hear a big smack. Smack. Okay. Hit. Brush. Hit. Brush. Hit. Brush. Hit. Brush. Hit. Brush. Hit. Brush. Hit. Brush. Hit. Brush. There's one to work differently from the coil slightly. I mean, they all use the same frequencies, um, but the one is more hand held. It's more like artisan, more like jewelry is more like, God save quit geometry on it. Uh, it's heavier is produced and in aluminum. So it's up to you. Um, I have both obviously, right? so the one you can see it's it's more artistic and has gems and has actual gold plating as ruby and sapphires and it has all these other gems you can add to it you can see the sacred geometry on it so it's it's a you call this like a luxury wellness product whereas the coils this is the chi-coil max so it would roughly have the same range as the one the chi-coil max you come into with a good thing about the chi-coil is you have yin and yang so you can combine or interchange them and you get scalar energy when you use yin and yang together facing each other so do you have that added benefit versus the one whereas the one is has the luxury or the jewelry artists in aspect to it not to say that this is not also artistic they're both quite artistic so it's up to you which one you want can I get the BBC frequency I've always been asking well just get it then it's on the website what was I oh yeah so you can hit and smack and rush like this the price of them the price of chi-coils start it's quite large is a quite large range is it starts $179 and you can finance that for like I think $40 a month so it'll be like a $1.50 a day so it's crazy it's very affordable we have the most of one of probably the most affordable right machine or more most affordable PMF therapy in the world and definitely the most affordable considering how much technology and how advanced it is compared to everything else and they go up you'll go up to $60,000 for a basic bigger system of four of these with the frequency of all the frequency is we like about $70,000 so it is a quite a large range so it depends what your budget is and how much you want to invest in it not the most what most affordable I'm saying the most affordable for the advanced technology there's cheaper ones that you can get but they're not advanced up to you right it's up to you but for the value I think we have the best value in terms of the technology I'm sure there's cheaper ones that are I mean I've tried all of them then they're crap right but for $179 that's really really good value compared you know considering how much quality and how much technology and versatility goes into it just want to private consult with someone before you decide so just go to our website she likes store.com go click on the menu and then book a free consultation yeah the testimonials on the site are incredible this is in the the results speak for themselves if you can go you can go through any website any competitor they don't have reviews like we do I mean our like our reviews like dramatic life-changing like in your face mind-blowing reviews and those are just some of them and then you go the other websites you know other products oh yeah I feel I feel better or I feel a little bit better or I feel this this is happening they go to our website they have complete life transformations so so the results speak for themselves can you tell me Mr. David how long does the product 179 last as long it last forever I would say as long as you don't break it like if you can break it if you drop it a few meals or it's like your phone right how long does a phone last if you drop the phone many times you probably won't last very long but this is something you just put in a table so it probably lasts forever if you use it you know use it normally what makes mine so much better you can just watch the video I mean many videos about this comparing my technology with other people you can watch it there's many many points it's on YouTube just go cheap oil comparison and then you can compare it with any other technology but generally we just have it just better made it's better made the quality is better we have combined more technologies the range is better it's it's more powerful we have the most frequencies we have the most advanced frequencies we call higher quantum frequencies that nobody else has we have quantum crystals inside of the cheap all three and max and nobody else has we are in you know endorsed by lots of medical professionals and practitioners and cowpractors and so on you know the list goes on they look better right we have scale energy we combine rife and PMF therapy they're compact and portable they're much more easier used and most of out there so there's many reasons so if you guys are here somebody asking a question maybe you can ask answer it love dovetail here want some answers but the frequencies are expensive yeah they are because they work and they're most powerful in the world you see if you if you but it does come with all the right frequencies so 10,000 plus right frequencies that's a good place to start it's only 999 per month and then you can use 10,000 right programs it comes with depends on which system you get but the basic one it comes with eight free frequencies and if you pay $10 a month you get 10,000 right frequencies and then if you want to upgrade this quantum higher quantum advanced quantum inner circle and ultimate abundance and yes the higher you go the more expensive it is but if you look at the reviews it's worth the money so it's expensive because it's worth it price point is open long as I got the best one as I got the best one if you want the best one then get the best for what right we have the oral coils which are pretty big they cover 3,000 square feet we have smaller ones like the Chico mini and the 3 which are more portable so best for what right if you want something best for you know putting up in your home as a piece of arts as well as something that can energize and protect your home then the oral coil would be the best if you want something that's got the most portability and the most technology in it then the Chico 3 right would be the best so depends on what best for healing you they all will help you heal but if money were not object I would I would get one of these for the house to help everybody in the house and then I would get a set of Chico 3's that's probably all that you need really and then if you want to give away gifts to people then get the Chico Nano which is 180 dollars and give that to your mom dad parents grandparents whatever right that they can start using it the small one is 179 yeah pre-order right now we ship in May so many questions I don't have time to do my Chico anyway yeah keep them coming thank you I'm not saying don't ask the questions but let's do Chico so where was I oh yeah so you're doing that now do the same thing we did but now to your body here how much per month for frequencies middle of the road so with our we have quantum frequencies that's $27 a month so that's about 200 another 200 sets of frequencies I use quantum frequencies so that's how much it and then higher than that if you do the higher quantum we don't have monthly for that because that is actually our premium frequency so it is quite expensive $3,000 for higher quantum but you get you actually get a lot of most powerful frequencies that you can use so you can see the package is actually better than buying them separately if you want more consultation about it especially go to our website click on the menu and says book consultation and then talk to our technology expert and he is a yeah you get a free consultation with him the frequency for the hundred seventy nine is the one for abundance frequency we have a coil for $479 we have many levels of abundance frequencies we have five tiers so I guess tier one two three or five we have a free one you can start with which is a luck boost right and that's the one of the abundance frequencies and then if you look at the website goes up in the tiers the more tiers then the higher and more potent it is you did I feedback for scanning yeah that's good so scanning is good but this writes right you don't so you have something I read this is something that writes it writes a program to your body so and it doesn't quite effectively okay down the middle yeah if you do biofeedback frequencies then they're probably different kind of frequencies probably you know a O scan or something like that right you write to your body when when the programs like we have our programs we have our programs in our tablet and also on a web app so it's simply simply as playing them and then it comes out the cheek oils and then the cheek was a broadcasting the magnetic energy and it goes into your body right so your body absorbs it because your body absorbs electromagnetic energy it communicates your cell and DNA communicates through electromagnetic frequencies so it does it that sense and also we have sound therapy so we combine the sound therapy so the sound therapy gets absorbed by your skin and by your body as well in your brain so that's how your body gets how you write to the body it's actually programming it as you are listening or and also using the coils for the magnetic energy how long does it usually take to see the frequencies working in the body I don't know depends on the person sometimes it's the moment they turn it on sometimes it's a few days sometimes it could be three weeks or so just depends on how energetically and sensitive it is so you have a oscan it does not it uses a series of numbers it basically uses a series of numbers that it douses basically is dousing and it uses a random number generator to randomly you know guess basically what stuff you need and then but and then they'll randomly send some frequency that's guessing what you need that's how it works and it does not using sound is not using electromagnetic fields I mean some people swear by it but then it's not as reliable as like you know if we have a frequency for payment it's been like we know that works for payment we absolutely for sleep and then there's you know the sound comes out the frequency comes out of the coil it's it's set it's not random right they're not guessing what frequency you need so I would say it is getting good but it's not as reliable because it's it's literally guessing like it's software is just guessing and where the coils is you know you have a problem look at the frequency find a frequency plate of frequency that's it okay so yeah I mean if you go is this more like ripe it is bright and a lot more so we have right frequencies plus we've added a lot more technologies to do that to arrive technology it was actually six different technologies we combined into our coils we have the you know the right the PMF we have the scalar waves we have quantum sound therapy we have crystal resonance and we have even map protection so we actually combine six things on top of a brave machine and obviously it's a lot more easier to use because we just use you can use the web website and just play it through the coil where's I okay so I'm down to my back now you're welcome love doctor so are you a love doctor because you are like a specializing relationships or something attracting soulmate like why do you why you call it why are you a love doctor hey Tommy I love my yin yang chi close my console three awesome Tony Tommy what kind of results did you get natural medicine practitioner okay yeah so definitely chi calls would be something you had really be helpful in your arsenal of whatever tools you're using once you start using it you'll find that it is I would say a lot more comprehensive and a lot more effective than a lot of the stuff out there especially be compared to spooky 2 we know you know from many user experiences this big spooky deal has been around for a while so a lot of spooky to customers get our chi calls and they say well I don't use much to you up to anymore I you know I'm using my chi coils you know after some time right they start after using chi calls so self-love teacher okay great hey lovely you have two minis love them yeah so thanks for coming on and then thanks for your support if you're suffering from disease that means your body is lacking a frequency yeah that's right if you're lacking a frequency or your frequency is probably out of tune love listening to the financial but it's for better mood less stress yeah it works did you guys see the new review that I posted from Dr. Joe Vitali you guys know who knows who dr. Joe Vitali is instead of showing some cheek calls show me some cheek on I was doing cheek on but then they're getting so many questions from Instagram and and TikTok and I'm still doing the cheek on as I as you can see but yeah this is the Qigong you know session but also there's lots of people here to have questions I can't just ignore them I have to answer the question so you know hopefully I can help both people if you want to do the two cheeky cheek on just follow what I'm doing you know physically and if you want to ask questions and just ask questions okay so we've done the padding now we're gonna do something like this basically it's called Chi energy packing okay so what we've done kind of loosened up all the energy in the body and we created these channels going downward outward from the arms down for body down with the legs to the ground so we're creating these energy channels to allow we us to dissipate energy or to drain any kind of the toxins or to drain any kind of tensions down to the ground in the body right well yeah I forgot one thing we got to do the bounce to the bounce stop and bounce so oh like that who read like this it helps you to relax oh I'm stomping one foot and then focusing on one side focusing on one side letting everything shake oh why do you need to well some people like to have more than one cheek or I mean they have become in different sizes and then if you have multiple family members everybody wants their own because even my wife she said where's the cheek I'm using it no I want to use the cheek also so they want to always use the cheek oil we have pets to the pets use the cheek oh so eventually you have cheek oh for every family member so that's why you may have multiple ones or you may have one you have for the car one up for the office one for your home one for your home office right so you have to produce this for one of the clothes material we are wearing fake linen and does it affect our frequency yeah it does it does a little I mean I know that when I wear some materials it actually makes me feel my energy drained when they wear wear some other materials I feel more balanced and calm so just test different kinds of materials we do have to actually EMF protection t-shirts and hats and beanies so if you want to have something protect even if it's called energy armor and check it on out on the website can you use frequency app on headphones will still give you effects was a cheek oh better so yes frequencies have effects by themselves but she clothes are better what have you been rather about time we get some intelligent teachings okay what kind of teachings do you want where's I okay so we've done a stop paying now we do something called she energy packing so just imagine you are underwater you have your holding like a big ball so everything's round this is around inside here is a ball you're holding this ball but this you're holding this giant urn and your your legs are really wide right short apart and and then imagine you're just holding this ball while your head is suspended okay so imagine there's a bag wrapped around your head like this and it's pulling your head up the bag is pulling your head up and then your body is loose and and suspended from there and then you're also holding this giant urn like a giant pot like this so just hold it like there and just imagine that you are underwater while doing this where your body is has weight but then it's being lifted up at the same time because of your buoyancy because you're underwater your body kind of floats right so you want to have that feeling take some breaths and this is relaxed and with each breath you want to relax more keep doing that and when I say relax I don't mean drop your structure you can see that my spine is very straight still and I'm still holding the giant pot relax more thank you so much I'm gonna get one soon the cheek oil mini and I can wear around my neck yeah hi thank you you're doing it thank you okay yeah so okay so everything is round you notice that even my fingers are round my hands are like this it's kind of round and there's no straight line in my body even my spine it's not completely straight but it's kind of like a slight curve you can see the slight curve anytime deep breath just imagine that the energy is flowing down where it's with the channels that you just opened up with all that brushing and patting flowing down all those channels okay relax even more just shake it shake it move it find yourself tensing up just shake move wiggle and then get back in that position and relax more now what you may feel is you may feel a little bit of heat like in your hands or fingertips or palms and that's good okay so you can feel yourself underwater like you have no tensions whatsoever you're just floating there your feet are relaxed even the bottom of your feet are relaxed and spread out just imagine your feet are spreading out and relaxing and melting into the ground with every breath melts the feet so you got to relax the ankles and then the bottom of the feet and relax all your toes see now you feel really grounded right and it feels hotter doesn't it it feels like you kind of turned up the heat so the more relaxed that your body and your muscles are in a more line and you have then the more heat or more tingly electric magnetic feeling you should feel in your hands it's kind of like a way to check if you got the cheat turned on my left side neck hurts after studying on my computer does she call help yeah it definitely does pay management use the soothe frequency David I deal you could model all your cheese stuff we won't have to hear about it what do we model our cheese stuff can this work for a clinical meopathy cervical for cervical meopathy we can't make any medical claims but we probably have that frequency on our rife collection and you can use it with the cheat calls for that purpose you have the mini two that's great okay so now you kind of stood here floating underwater you should start feeling the heat build up so now I want you to focus on that heat just imagine there's this like layer of cotton around or like clouds or whatever dense dense energy starting to build all around your body about let's say an inch thick around your body so you got an inch thick of energy building around your arms okay to start with the fingers and then how you build energy is just relax it just imagine that there's a layer of energy your clouds covering that part of the body and then the head start the top fuel that layer of energy layer of thick dense energy around your face around your neck and now your shoulders loosen any tensions that you have and get into that position underwater and then more still you are the more relaxed you are then the more dense the energy comes becomes now you're up your chest your chest so just slowly go down your whole body now the chest and up the torso and then the hips and the waist and the thighs and then the knees and then the calves and the legs just being wrapped with this dense layer of energy and then your ankles and your heels and your feet and your toes okay can you feel that all that dense energy so now by this time you can feel like you can stand there all day long and you wouldn't be tired because because you're like just relax your body into that structure which is ideal and you should feel like you're kind of like just floating there not really moving and your arms are just suspended like that and it feels like you're almost like sleeping but you're sleeping while standing okay so now that you gathered all this energy take a deep breath and relax your entire body you breathe in through your entire body imagine you're sucking all that layer of dense energy around every part of your body suck it into your body as you breathe in so big deep breath suck it into the dantian so into your belly so imagine all that layers of energy being sucked in there so you're breathing with your whole body essentially and your whole body is sucking in that energy and you're focusing it on to your belly button do you have frequency for kidney we do have a lot of kidney support frequencies yes okay now as you're doing this I want you to basically squeeze your muscles while you're sucking it in so we're gonna squeeze your hands and suck it in and relax squeeze your forearms and relax so it's actually squeezing this squeezing this squeezing this squeezing this okay like a chain reaction so squeeze up to your shoulders down the belly and then relax and then so every time you're sequentially squeezing more so squeeze your hand squeeze your arms like you're squeezing the energy in now squeeze the chest squeeze and then into here into your belly button so both hands going to squeeze fingers hands fists forearms elbows biceps triceps shoulder squeeze your chest squeeze your belly and deep breathe in and then as you hold your you want to hold your breath for a second and squeeze it all into your belly squeeze squeeze squeeze squeeze and then relax same thing again from this position squeeze squeeze squeeze squeeze squeeze relax one more time from here completely relax first and squeeze your fingers like a chain reaction squeeze it into your belly okay so that's your upper body now we do the same thing with our lower body and squeeze your toes squeeze your calves squeeze your inner thigh squeeze your outer thigh squeeze your butt muscles bring it up three belly squeeze the belly relax everything back to position relax start from your feet imagine your feet are gripping the ground squeeze and then up the thighs I mean up here up three calves ankles of the thighs squeeze inside the thigh outside the thigh squeeze in your crotch squeeze in your buttocks squeeze in your waist so bring it and it's gonna be a bring it up to here bring up to belly squeeze hold relax one more time relax in the position squeeze your feet up your thighs of your calves inside thighs outside thighs buttocks squeeze to your belly squeeze relax now we're gonna do one more big squeeze so just relax for a second before we do a big squeeze I'm just gonna go just enough your joints wiggle a little bit now get in that position again completely relax under water holding the big bell okay relax relax now I'm gonna what we're gonna do we're gonna squeeze both the hands and feet imagine that all your entire body and limbs are squeezing everything focusing all that squeeze into your belly okay so I'm starting hands we squeeze up squeeze up like this and sequentially right same in the feet squeeze okay at the same time you guys ready so I'm gonna take a deep breath as we squeeze in slow deep breath in squeeze squeeze squeeze squeeze squeeze squeeze one more time deep breath in so as I'm breathing in I'm gonna be you want to be squeezing one more time last time deep breath in okay now get into this position give your hands here and just focus your breathing on your belly okay and then just like so that's called energy energy packing so what you've essentially done is took all the chi that you've activated and then you're basically storing it or packing it condensing it in your belly okay one more exercise I like to do is get into whatever position you want let's say you want to get stronger in any kind of position and so for example in boxing there's like you know obviously there's a jab this is a jab and then this is the cross so get into the position that you want to get more balanced for you can say and this is a hook right your hook right so the one I want to be working on is this work on let's see which one I want to work on today okay let's work on this one so I'm gonna work on this one which is basically a body hook here so I want to use all that I practice so it's more about visualization rather than the actual movements so remember today we focused on getting the energy down those channels and also feeling like we relaxed by still structured and also feeling like we're underwater okay so that's the feeling I want to get as I go pretty slowly so I'm imagining right now I'm doing this punch so here's my punch right it goes like this oh that's my punch okay so what I'm imagining is all my energy sinking into the ground but still remaining my structure my my muscles are relaxed and loose and kind of hanging there you see they can bounce and at the same time I'm imagining that line of energy I created through all the brushing and padding coming down my shoulder down my arm and into my two knuckles here and at the same time I'm underwater and then there's this layer of energy around my body while I'm doing this the same way that we practiced today and I'm just gonna do real slow and keep all that visualization happening while I'm moving and the reason we move so slow is because we want to feel every bit of it and we want to feel all those visualizations happening in body while there's them while we make the movement so I know there's a lot right because I'm actually done this for a while so I'm not so I can combine of them but just pick one okay is it gonna be the sinking melting feeling is it gonna be the flow of energy down that channel is it gonna be the underwater sensation is it gonna be the the energy layer around your body pick one of them and do one movement you can do this movement you can do this movement any small any movement but then I want you to do it super slow while thinking about that aspect or that quality of visualization okay just pick one of them remember the breath is very important when you do this so I'm as I'm doing this what's happening is I'm feeling everything sinking to my feet even though I'm moving I can still feel that my energy is still sunk and melted into my feet it's like my feet are melting into the ground same time I'm feeling this channel this line of energy coming out of my shoulders we're actually coming out of my the feet from the ground or to my Dan Tian and then out through this line here there's a line here that we did remember we brushed this line so we're gonna imagine I feel the energy flowing it out that line as I do the movement I'm just showing you the head of what I'm imagining as I'm doing the movement the fingers pointing to where I'm visualizing actually this is helpful so use these two fingers and then as you do the movement just feel the energy coming through your arm like this so even if you're punching imagine actually I haven't done this before it is pretty useful so so you want to imagine going from the shoulder down your elbow and then into your knuckles here right so use your finger start from the beginning of the punch and as it comes out imagine it coming out there imagine it coming out there so whatever why you just basically draw a line with your other hand and then guide the energy down there while keeping everything else so that's the second thing the third thing like I said was to feel like I'm underwater so if I'm underwater I'm kind of floating I have no weight or very little weight right so everything is relaxed as if I'm like sleepwalking while I'm imagining those two things the sinking the line of energy and also imagine I'm underwater I'm kind of floating underwater while I'm doing this so is this Tai Chi yes this is Tai Chi concept but not a Tai Chi move this is not this is not a well there is a Tai Chi move it's this one right it is Cloud Hands right I'm basically doing that movement but I modified it for the purpose of boxing this is a basically a body shot okay so you know you can see it in the in the Tai Chi form right this one here boom so but then I'm adding the Tai Chi you can say the Tai Chi visualization into it underwater what is this electric energy it's probably Chi energy see what happens if you speed it up then you kind of lose it you lose that visualization so that's right do slow you have to keep those senses keep the underwater sense now keep the layer of energy around your body keep the sinking and also imagine that line so it's a lot to imagine if you want to do everything at once but just pick one of them and just do that one okay let's do something more common let's just do a cross right this is everything melting sinking relaxed underwater that line of energy it helps to look feel that line of energy that's a boxing version but in Tai Chi is probably seen as this one it's fresh brush me right it's very you know it's a very standard Tai Chi move same concept though right same this is brushing in Tai Chi brush me so I kind of use it with boxing same concept okay any more questions when you end your sessions it's helpful to do another visualization like this maybe three times within right now what are your thoughts on hydrogen water yeah maybe helpful I don't necessarily drink it I don't feel like I really need it but I guess it's great I mean what what I use with water it's just cuz I'm playing Chico's in my room I have the jar of water in my room so it gets charged up while I'm using Chico's anyway so I don't really need anything else okay so bring it to belly and then now I'm gonna rock left and right just stand and focus your breathing on your belly whenever you're ready once you feel calm and centered and relaxed and peaceful then you can open your eyes okay so that's it for the today's episode four how you guys tune in I aim to do these a couple times a week probably on Wednesdays and Wednesdays on the weekend Sundays is a good day around this time Wednesday Wednesday around this time also and maybe on Saturday so so just keep posted and if you want to watch the replay I think the replay is going to be posted on Instagram yeah yeah so if you want to check it out go there and check it out hey Darren thank you for so much of your demonstrations and you're working for you see you're welcome you're welcome yeah check out we just launched our pet pet chi coil store if you go to our website cheelifestore.com you go to the menu look at chi coil for pets and now we have well we already had always had chi coils but now we have specifically showing them being used with dogs cats and horses so check it out it's pretty cool okay so thanks for coming use the chi in prosper and change your frequency change your destiny


One specific part of this B-Ware project is Toga. And that's what you have to know about that. Hi, everyone. Thank you for being here. I'll be sharing about B-Ware and Toga project, which is one of the projects under B-Ware suite. I'm Paul. I'm a developer. And at work, I use .NET and Microsoft stuff. And outside, I use Python, R, and the rest So that is my GitHub. You can check out my work in GitHub. And then that's also my feature. So why do we have this? So recently, early this month, there was PyCon Australia. It was held in Melbourne. So usually, PyCon have this. After the main conference, they usually allot two days for Sprint. So Sprint 1 and Sprint 2. And I joined two projects. One is MicroPython. And then the other one is B-Ware. So this Sprint is an avenue for enthusiasts, developers like you, and anyone who came to the conference to be able to contribute to open source. So one of the open source projects that I work on is B-Ware. So what we're going to tackle today or in this session are we'll delve into three things. We'll look into what B-Ware is. So that at least you'll get to know what Toga is later because it's one of the projects inside of B-Ware Suite. And then after that, I'll show you what happened in the Sprint. Let's say if you want to extend B-Ware or extend Toga project later, how should you go about it? And then we'll just wrap up. So yeah, so this is based on sharing. I didn't dig deep much into the framework, but I'll share what I have explained so far during the Sprint. So what is B-Ware? B-Ware is a collection of projects that can help develop, debug, and launch Python software. So it's a collection of various things. It can include tools that enable Python to run on different devices like Windows, Apple Mac, Android, phone, iOS. And it's also include packaging libraries so that you can develop your Python application and then have a way to deploy it in the various platforms. And then libraries that accesses native widgets. Native widgets in Windows using botnet framework. Native widget in Android using Java. And also I think in Mac OS, I think they use something called Tocowa. And tools to develop, debug, analyze, and deploy. So it contains a number of other things like converting from Python to Java, converting from Python. So they categorize this collection of projects into six categories. One is applications, which is if it's a standalone project under the B-Ware suite. So the icon that you can see here is Podium. It's an open source project under B-Ware that is used to do presentations. The one that you can see on the tools, actually, under the tools, if you click that in the website, there are several of them. But the one that I can highlight is at least this one. This one, they call it B4. B4 is in BEE4 because after you build or after the deployment, you want to have checks like, is my code meeting the code in the standard? So that's B4. So it's B4. And then you see the other icon, which is it looks like a suitcase or briefcase. Briefcase is our packaging library so that the idea is you package your application, you go to the Windows building, to the Linux building, the Android building, and then have it deployed there. So that's briefcase. And then the library, which is the one that we will be digging into further later, that's the Yak. That's the mascot for Toga. Why do they call it Toga? Because in Rome, they wear Toga. That is the library that is used so that when you develop your Python application, that enables you to run your Python application as a native equivalent. Let's say if you deploy it to Windows, it will run as a dotnet application. If you deploy it on your phone in Android, it will run as a Java application. Of course, that wouldn't be possible if you don't have bridges. Bridges allow you to convert your Python code into another language that is supported in that platform. So if you click here, there are like two popular converters or transpilers. This one is called Batavia. If you search like Australian history, it's about like a, yeah, there's a hidden story to it. I'll leave it to you to explore. So this Batavia is the one that converts your Python code into JavaScript. And then this one, VOC, that's the library that converts your Python code into Java. This is the one that is used when you deploy your application into Android. Because in Android, we convert our application into Java so that it can run in the ecosystem. So it makes use of templates so that, a while ago, we discussed briefcase, right? So when you deploy to an Android application, basically it uses like a cookie cutter so that it will generate the Android Studio project so that it will be able to deploy on the Android platform. And then, of course, there are other supports if it's intended to Mac OS and so on. So, but for this session, we'll dig more into Toga because that's where I contributed during the conference. So what is Toga? Toga is Python-native and OS-native GUI toolkit. Why Python-native? Because you don't have to know, let's say if you're developing a Toga application, you don't have to know C-sharp or .NET. You don't have to know Java. You don't have to know the other OS. You just develop it up in Python and if you want to deploy it in Windows as a .NET application, you just, right? And then deploy and it will run as .NET. If you develop, if you want, instead of your application to run on mobile, you just use Toga to run it as an Android application. So that's why it's, what you call this, it's interesting. So native widgets, not themes. This is one of the sort of philosophy that they try to adapt because you can see in other frameworks there are already existing applications such as Electron. You write in JavaScript and you can run in Windows and Linux and other operating systems. Let's say if you run, anyone here heard about Xamarin? You write in C-sharp and you can deploy both in iOS and Android and so on. But for this, what we want to do is, you write in Python, but it should run as a native application. Anyone here, anyone, any Game of Thrones fans here? It's like Arya wearing a mask, right? But when Arya wears a mask, it's still Arya. It's not really the person. But what we have here in Toga, you develop in Python and it runs as the real person in that particular target. So it's different. It doesn't, it looks as a native application because it is a native application. It's not a mask, it's not a covering. So abstract the broad concepts. So abstract the broad concepts meaning, with that in mind, one develops application in Python, but when it deploys, there's something that we are delegating. Let's say if you develop a widget like a button or a text box, this button or text box or let's say the menu will have their own interpretation in the particular target that you're targeting for. For example, when you're developing a menu, a quit button, right? A quit button, let's say in a Windows application, you'll find it under file and then do the quit, right? That makes sense if you're developing for a Windows application. How about if you're developing Mac? Do you have any Mac users here? Where is your quit button located? In the command queue or in the, they call it in the application menu. That's what they said. So different application may have different implementation of a certain concept. So what Toga allows you to do is it allows one to, I just want to specify, I want to have a quit button or a quit approach in my application, but delegate how the quit button will look like, where it will be located in the platform that I'm targeting. It's Python native and it embraces mobile because I think currently the frameworks that I've seen, at least Electron, it's mostly for desktop applications. Xamarin, I think it's mostly for mobile applications. You can develop in C-Sharp, deploy in iOS and Android. But Toga, Toga can do everything. Develop your application in Python. If you want to deploy it as a desktop application, Windows, Linux, Mac OS, it's possible. Not only that, if you want to deploy your application into mobile platforms such as iOS and Android, it's possible. And not only that, what if you want your application that you just developed to run as a web application? It can run as a Django application also. But we're in early days, so we're going to go through it. So Toga, these are the widgets supported by the platform. Of course, if you're using a widget that is not existing in your target platform, it's pretty hard, it won't work. So if you want to run, let's say, like maybe three or four platforms, when you develop your Toga application, you need to ensure that the widgets that you're using in your application are supported in your target platform. So you may ask, what's the current state of Toga? So let me just, I don't have the, let me just connect to the internet. It's not yet there there in terms of maturity. But at least when I think of it, when I was explaining to you the idea, this matures, I think it's going to be a very, very interesting project. Currently, this is the status that we have in terms of the availability of widgets. So you can go to, I place, I'm going to share the slides later so that we can, so currently you have iOS, Win32 web, and Django, I think this is for iOS, right? If you wonder why there's so much support in Cocoa, I think Russell, Russell, Keith McGee is the founder of, and founder of the V benevolent dictator, like the benevolent dictator for this project, I think he's using Mac also, and GTK for Linux, and then Android. So currently, other platforms don't have support, but we're working on it. At least the team is working on it, and then it's an open source project. So let's say you're expert in, if you're expert in Django, or let's say you want to contribute on the Django side of things, want to develop widgets on Linux or Mac OS, then check the Toga website on how to contribute. I'll show you later anyway on how to do that. By the time maybe next year and so on, we will be able to build up the rich target of this ecosystem. So the one, the particular one that I developed during the sprint is stable. So as you see in here, this table was only present in Cocoa and GTK, GTK meaning Linux. So during the sprint, I tried to help make the table available on Windows as well. Let's go back. So this is the state of the Toga widgets, and then we'll do a sort of demo for now. So I'm going to run at least both Linux and Windows. So at least you can see the sort of difference. I'm using Bash on the Ubuntu on Windows. It's too small, I'll need to, how about this? Good enough or can I do, it's good, okay, so I'll just, so earlier I did a virtual environment for, so I did a Linux virtual environment. I installed, pip install Toga and then so that I can run a Toga application here. So how does a Toga application look like? Well, I'll just show a little bit. Is the font good enough? So for a simple application, that's the whole code, you just import Toga and we are using event handlers for our botan. Basically we just print hello whenever this event handler is called. This is our main program. So this botan is implemented in various targets. So you have, if I do Toga botan, if this program runs in Windows, it will invoke a botan from .NET. If I run this program in Linux, it will invoke from DTK. Yeah, and then this is our start up application. So we just call DLD to the DTK function. So how do we run this? Okay, okay, sorry. Thanks, thanks. Okay, so I'm using, what's the call this? Bastion of Buntu in Windows, I need to export. So this is the botan. So it's running in Linux, it's me. This is Bastion of Buntu in Windows. So we're running Ubuntu 16, I think. So I'll just drag this here. So we have an event from the botan, right? So if I click here, you see the hello on the side. So this is a Linux application. What happens if I run it as a Windows application? So it's going to be the same thing.  So here in the command line, I'll just, same thing, same command. Instead it will run as a .NET application. So this is now a .NET. So same thing, you can still do the hello. So here, Toga botan, I explained a while ago, it has its own application. But this is too simplistic, right? How does it, if you have multiple botans and text boxes, how does it look like? So I'll just show you another example. So Toga works like, in terms of layout, it works like flex boxes. So you create the botan or the widgets first. Once you have the widgets created like this one. So here, what I'm doing here is I created a box, which serves as a container. So you have a C box, which is like our Celsius box where we put our widgets that is related to Celsius later. We're going to build a Celsius to Fahrenheit converter. So whatever is related to Celsius, we'll put it in the C box. Fahrenheit box, we'll put it there. And then the main box, which is a Toga box to put everything together. So once I have declared that, for each of the widgets that I'm going to use, I'm going to create like text input for that particular widget label, and then the other values as well. And then this one is, if I want to use a handler for the botan later. So here, after you've declared all your widgets, you need to add them sequentially. So here I'm adding the input, which is the input for the Fahrenheit, and then the label, the label later. And then that will be part of the F box. And then I do the same for the Celsius. And then once I have the F box and the C box, I put that in the mother box. And then that's how we compose the Toga application. So if I run this, it will have something like this. So you type this one. So that's sort of how it will look like. Now, the second question is, this is okay. This is okay if you want to just write a Toga application and then just run. What if you want to sort of, you see the missing widgets a while ago, right? If you want to contribute or to add more widgets into the Toga project, how can you, how should you be able to do it? So Toga is part of GitHub. So you have, yeah, so you just go here and then once you clone the Toga widget, then you'll have the code in hand also. So I'll just show you a bit. I won't dig much further. I will save the demo for it next time. But at least you'll get some idea on how it will look like. So here, Toga. So this Toga folder is the one that I just clone. And then here, let me go to at least this. So here it's composed of different platforms that Toga is able to deploy to. So you have GTK plus Django, TVOS, WatchOS, Web, Win32, WinForms. So during the sprint last time when we had in PyCon, what I did was I checked the GTK because we know a while ago that table is already implemented in the Linux platform. So GTK under GTK, you have Toga GTK and then widgets. You have the list of widgets that is available for that platform. So what I did was I checked the implementation of table there. So basically for table, it's like two things that you just need to ensure. How the table is instantiated, which is, this is the way that they do it in GTK. And then you need to provide an interface called insert so that when you insert to the table, the rows, how that target is able to handle. So that's the sort of interface that you need to build. This is what they did in GT in Linux. Now, my task is to be able to extend this widget to be able to work also on Windows. So what I did was I just sort of copy the table and then I just add the table inside widgets this is under WinForms. So in WinForms, I have this table.py and then I provided how to create the table object as well as the interface. But as you notice here, it's not the Linux application anymore. Under the hood, and I'm not sure if anyone knows about, there's another library called PythonNet. PythonNet allows your code to be converted from Python to .NET and vice versa. So under the hood, it's using that library. So now here, if you can see, this is WinForms that data gives you that is by the help of PythonNet library. So we're now able to access the .NET API using this. So once you have this, you'll be able to have your own implementation of the table object. I won't go through deep into this because of time constraints, but at least you get an idea on how it looks like. So just going back to the summary. So in summary, Beware is really a big project. If you ask me them with regards to maturity, I think it might not be there yet. In terms of promise, it's really, really, if it works, it's really great because you can just write your application in Python and then deploy it anywhere you want. But of course, execution is another thing. Execution, I think, is, they're still in the process of developing the widgets. But of course, I mean, there's a dedicated team that is looking into this, but during Python conference, they usually hold spin so that people can also contribute in developing such widgets. And Toga, that's a project under Beware that is dedicated for that particular GUI toolkit. Now, if you ask, how can I help? You can go to this link. So there are like, it doesn't matter if you're an expert or not. If you want to contribute something, there's something for everyone. So there are like for first time contributors, code contribution, and then platform usage. If you want to test something, let's say you just want to run the Toga application in your application. Let's go through the tutorials. If you face any issues, just feedback as an issue in GitHub, or there's a Gitter as well. So PyBee Gitter, you can just check that out. And then if you don't want to code, they are also accepting a membership which helps the team to focus more on the development. So yeah, that's it for Beware and Toga. For this, because it depends on that platform as well. Because let's say for, if you're targeting that net, it will be compiled or be transformed into the target application. So that net will have its own garbage collection on that side. It's just that after the conversion you're delegating, it's not running in Python anymore, it runs as a dot net. So whatever approaches for garbage collection of that platform, it will be done in that way. So they have another project, the one that I showed you a while ago, but I don't have time to demo. We have this thing called GIF case. So if this is like, if I want to deploy it on Windows, for example, this is the command. So I already have a develop app.py that contains the Toga and then the widgets. I place that in a certain folder and then I run this setup. What this setup do, it will create another folder called Windows. Once this setup is done, it will create an MSI. And then that MSI, you can give to your friends and then they can install it as a dot net application. This is the same approach to other platforms. So the Windows here, you can replace it with Android, Linux platforms. I tried Android the other day and today, I think if you run it on Mac OS, I think it might work because Russell, the founder, he used Mac. I tried it a while ago in Windows. It has some sort of, it's not that smooth yet. So there are like some things that need to be considered. But at least Windows and Linux, I've tried and both of them work because this one has to be considered. You saw a while ago, right? When we are trying to interpret, there will be interfaces for each of the platforms. When I develop a button, when I develop a certain menu, when I use that widget, that particular platform is doing the sort of implementation. So when I, let's say if someone is using Async.io on Python side, then the target application has to be able to interpret that. But if it's not coded then, that's why when we develop widgets for this, then there are certain things that we need to consider as well. Ah, good question. For this, at least for this, when I, I don't have time to demo, but I can debug it using Visual Studio Code. So what I do is, there's a command that you run in the command line. So that when you do your VN, when you try to build your Toga, so that when you do the import Toga, it will use the one that you have in the current environment. And then here, I'll just show you a bit. So here, let's say for example, I'm using Visual Studio Code. I have this launch that we've done. If I do it like this, so this is in a particular, the particular Python path here is in a particular environment. So VN, virtual environment. So it will use that Python. So whatever libraries that is loaded in that particular virtual environment, that's the one that it will use. So when I build my Toga application and put it in that environment, when I run this, it will invoke the current code. So I can debug too. Or PDB, but I haven't tried because this one is Visual. So I can just, you know how easy it is. I can just do like this and then I can run the debug. Yeah, so I mean it's, people have like their own favorite tools and stuff. Any, there's a dedicated team. And in terms of contributions, I think they are welcoming contributions. This is what I tried to share here. So membership, I encourage membership for enthusiasts, professionals, and small businesses. So they have those kind of packages if you want to sort of support the project. I believe it's very, very great project. It's just that, of course, Arasel doesn't work on this full time because he has to, of course, everyone has to eat, right? So, yeah, sort of support themselves. But of course, code contribution is always welcome. There's another, you can explore here. There's another link to the code contribution if you want to contribute. I think this is like maybe an activity that community can take part in. We don't have, I don't think we have to wait for Picon sprints to be able to do sprints. If there's enough interest, I think you guys can organize sprints like Saturday Sprints or something so to be able to do to open for it.


Thank you very much and welcome to this session. I'm Sarah and I'm with the Moodle US team. I work as a solution architect there and help clients to set up their Moodle and train them on how to use Moodle. So I'm going to share with you five different ways that you can use the database activity. So the database activity in Moodle is one of it can be very simple and it can be very complex at the same time. But you can start very simple like making things just mold it into what you want it to be. I take it like Play-Doh or clay or just Lego bricks that you put together to make numbers and letters to start off with like I taught my son and then all of a sudden he was making Mario and Mario in both Lego and in clay. But you can take your database activity to that complexity if you want to. So I'm going to show you some simple setups and I'm going to show you a few of the complex ones as well. So three key characteristics that you want to keep in mind about the database about the database activity. I can't hear myself though. Can you hear me still? No. Yeah. It's going to go higher. Thank you. OK. So three key characteristics about the database activity are that it's multi-purpose and portable and adaptable. What do I mean by multi-purpose? You can have academic activities that are for learning within courses. You can have it that is non-academic being used by staff for clerical reporting and tracking of things in the back office. You can use it in a group setting for team-based activities and you can use it as an individual one-on-one student, single person using the tool, private. It's portable because you can package it up and give it to someone to use on their own Moodle site or you can set it up in such a way that people on the same Moodle site in a different course, a different instructor can use the templates that you've provided. You can also adapt it so when you get to reuse it, you can take it as it is and use the same setup or you can change a few things, change some colors, change the names of the fields that are in the database and adapt it to make it what you want it to be. So those are three key characteristics about database. So first example, there was a biology teacher who had a project for the class that they had to set up, they had to research an organism and write up the details in a web page. Back in the day, they used Microsoft's front page, anybody remember those days? And then they started trying Dreamweaver, but it ended up becoming a problem that the students are trying to learn HTML in order to just get their information up on the site rather than focusing on the learning that they had to do. And so we decided let's use the database activity to solve that problem. So in this, they did their research on their assigned organism and then they put the information into the database activity as a template and then they used a questionnaire tool to use for peer review. Everybody reviews their friend's posts and then based on the information and feedback, then they post, make a revision and then in a final second database where all the different groups of organisms that belong together, like different species that belong together, were grouped in a final database. And they just had a standard form that they filled in with very familiar tools. It ended up giving them a standard page that looks like a web page, but they didn't have to figure out HTML, they didn't have to figure out CSS or anything. Even images that they put in, whether whatever size they put in, because the database, you can specify the width and height of what the images should look like, everybody's image was the same. And so that standardization really helped them. And they added a print button so that they could print their page to a PDF and take it with them to add to their portfolio later on. So that was really nice. When they are editing or adding entry, they see very familiar tools, text boxes, radio buttons, drop down menus, very, very familiar. Nothing confusing, no HTML code in sight. So in the second example that I'm going to share, the problem was that a online education team needed to track where professors were in their course building journey. And the marketing team needed to know which courses are ready so that we can begin to market them for the upcoming semester. And they didn't know that. So what we did here is a non-academic use case, clerical, for the backend office to track where course development was. In the description area of the database, we have a generic filter giving us tabs with instructions of how to use the database. And the second tab was a list of YouTube links for videos and training on how to do things. So here you're looking at the list view, which gives you the list of entries and each entry is a course that somebody is building. And you can see who is building it, what department, what school, what faculty, what certificate program it belongs to. And then there's a little tag on the end there about how much percent in terms of the progress. And so the marketing guys can come on in and say, oh, this one's a hundred percent. Ooh, that's the last one in the space program certificate. So we're ready to market that one. So very easy for them to big picture, see what was ready. And the online education team could also track and see, okay, the last time this was modified was like a month ago. Where is this professor at? You know, what's going on? You can follow up and see what's going on with this person and why they haven't updated their course development. So again, when you're looking at a single course, a single entry, you have control over what it should look like. Up in that orange little cell there, we actually have a little JavaScript that is computing the percentage. So as they fill in different parts of their completion, the percentage goes up until they've completed everything and it's a hundred percent. This is what it looks like when you're adding an entry. You have control over what it should look like. OK, so big form, labels on the left, information to fill in on the right. You have checkboxes, you have multi-select tools. We even have links to the YouTube video. So every role is a step in the course development process. And so if you are at course data completion, what do I need to do there? You click show me. It takes you to the YouTube playlist. You learn what to do. You do it and then you check off the box and say, yeah, I've done this, I've done that, I've done that. OK, so easy to track. All right, third use case, academic. I'm taking it back and forth. So an academic use case here was a post first discussion board. What in the world is a post first discussion board? You might be wondering, well, sometimes you have a topic that might generate common answers or similar answers across the board from different students. And you want them to post their original thought. First, before they see what the rest of the class has posted and then you're like, oh, yeah, I agree with so and so. Let them focus on their initial thought, post it, share it, and then they can see what the rest of the class has done. So it's kind of called, in a funny way, academic, pin the tail on the donkey. And the way that this works in the database activity is the settings where you have the entries. You can say you want them to complete x number of entries before they can view any entries. And so that is what's happening over there, the settings. You might wonder why not use a Q&A forum? The Q&A forum is a thread by thread, but not the entire forum. You want them to be able to post before they see the rest of the forum, but it's not possible to arrange that in a Q&A forum. So the database is a solution alternative to that. Fourth use case, another academic use case. A clinical, well, medical school had students doing their clinical rotations and every time they have to submit certain documents after a rotation, it wasn't very easy to figure out have they submitted all the required documents for a particular rotation? And this was because they had 10 assignment links, 10 individual assignment links and it was confusion. But by creating one database, it was easy to see for one student all the different rotation documents. You set it up so that each student is in a group by themselves with the advisor. So it's private because it's a medical school, there might be HIPAA situations where there's patient data and things like that. So keeping it private would solve that problem there. And then the student uploads their information into the database, the advisor is able to see it and give feedback. So 10 links to one, very beautiful. So you're looking at entries by one student, you can easily see by sorting by rotation. There are three documents from the literature, there's one for medicine, pediatric, oh, he's missing one more thing for medicine. So you can easily see and track and chase after the students for what they need to do. And the student can also see for themselves, oh, I'm missing something. So this is the list view. And when you look at a single entry, you can see a little more detail. And the advisor can provide a feedback document and also there's a comments feature so that the advisor can actually have a discussion with the student about that particular entry. So you can introduce some interactivity through the comment field. Again, adding an entry, the form that they use to add the entry, you have so much control, you can even put the instructions in on what they need to do when they're filling the entry, right? It's your form, whatever you wanna put on it is up to you. So students know very, very specifically how they should name the file, what information they should put, et cetera. Okay, last use case, community service log. So kind of academic but not quite really community service. Everybody has to help out in the community and they get certain credits for getting X number of hours and the students couldn't really tell how they met the requirement for graduation. They get to the time where they want to matriculate and then they say, oh, you haven't finished your community service, oh, but I did blah, blah, blah. Okay, so solution database and let's track your community service. So here, a student can enter their different activities that they've done and how many hours they served for that activity and there's JavaScript that is computing the number of hours and totaling it up for them so they can see. I needed to have 10 hours of project A and five hours of B and one hour of C and they can see where they are in all of that. Okay. So you might be like, whoa, this is all interesting. How do I create this now? So how to create a database activity really quickly? You add an activity or resource and the database is not a plugin. It is out of the box in your Moodle site. You can find it there right now. So add an activity and select database, put in the name, put in the instructions and the main thing is in the setup of entries and all these other configurations. That's where your decisions make a difference on how the students interact with or your end users interact with the tool.  What information do you wanna collect? So you have to set up your fields. Then you have to set up the templates for how things should look when they're looking at a list. How should it look when you're looking at a single entry? How should it look when they're adding an entry? All these are decisions that are in your hands and you can do whatever you please with it. So let's take a look at the secrets. So in adding entries, you have decisions on when and when you want to open the database for entries to be added. You can set up a date when entries should be closed. You can set up whether you want them to enter X number of entries before they can view. You know what are your requirements for that? You can set if you want to allow comments as a text box, you can say yes, let's do comments. And there's an approval system actually too. So if you enable the approval system, you get a little thumbs up icon that allows you to say this can become public to the students. Otherwise, it's only the author, the person who uploaded the entry who can see it and the teacher. Okay, so if you introduce the approval system, you create a private, you add a privacy element to the activity. You can also introduce ratings so that students can rate each other's posts with numbers or thumbs up or stars. You can add a rating system. I talked about adding fields. This is the screen for adding fields. You have all these different types of fields. You can collect checkboxes, dates, a file where they browse and pick a file. So all these options are there. You can make something required or not required. So go ahead and set up your entries and then the templates. So as I said, you have a template for when you're adding an entry, when you're viewing a single entry, when you're viewing a list of entries and when you're even searching. That's a search feature. So if people are searching, you probably don't want all the fields there. It doesn't make sense to have all of them. You might want the name of the activity and maybe a date and things like that. So pick and choose what you want them to see when they're searching. So you get a wizardware editor, HTML. What you see is what you get. You can color things. You can add images. You can add links as you saw. I put in YouTube links and things like that. And you can turn off the editor so that you just work with HTML. And usually when you're doing the list view, it is recommended that you turn off the editor. I show you there's a little checkbox. In modal 4.0, there's a little checkbox in the lower right corner that you uncheck so that you can just look at it in HTML and have more control.  What do you do? You can archive the entries that students have posted and you can do that with a button there for exporting your entries. If they uploaded files and images, those do not get exported. So in order to be able to save that, you need to back up the activity. So you know you can do a backup of a course, but you can also back up an activity. So while you're on that database page, you go to the dropdown and then you do backup and it backs up only that database activity with everything that's in it, okay? And how do you then share it with somebody else? So you can package it up as a preset. A preset stays on the same site and becomes a radio button that they pick from. You see in the bottom right, you see a whole list of radio buttons. So you can pick and say, I want to use this template and it gives you the same setup, exact same setup and then you can customize. Or you can export a preset and it gives you a zip file and you can share the zip file with somebody. They'll use it on their Moodle site and it works exactly the same. Very, very handy. Okay, so this is the portability part. There are goodies for you to download and you can go to the site that I've set up and download the presets that I've made available. There's a preset for 3.11 and there's a preset for 4.0 and above. So you can download all of that. And I've also set up database activities that you can actually play in but you need to create an account and then play around. Add an entry, see how it works and ask questions. So thank you very much. Are there any questions for Sarah? So I was really excited to hear you say you can use it for administrative tasks because I just got asked to build this. They want to use it for special topics course proposals and what I was wondering is if there's a way to have multiple teachers comment on it because it needs to go through like a three-step approval, how would I register that three different offices have seen it after one person has submitted it? I'm sorry, give me the last part. Three different people have to... So, that's loud. So a professor submits their special topics course idea. Their department chair needs to sign off on it and academic dean needs to sign off on it then the registrar needs to sign off. Is there a way to have like three different sets of comments where I'm tracking where it is gone in the process? Oh yeah, because it's user specific, right? When you post a comment, you know who posted the comment and when, so they could do that. If you maybe put them in private groups, each student is in a group by themselves and you put in the other approvers into that same group then they see that student's work and they can comment on that together. But it will show up in the same comment field. Like there isn't a way to add like a post submission box where it's coming in later. Is there? Oh, the permission thing? The approval? Yeah, it's only one person who can approve that. Okay, okay, thanks. Top honcho. Any more questions? Mary? Actually, it's not a question, it's just an observation on MoodleNet, the new MoodleNet. There's a collection of lots of database presets, I think including yours because yours are great. So go to MoodleNet and if you search for database presets, you get lots of ideas there. Think there's one over there. Hi, I was just wondering if the database uses tables for the ListView and the SingleViews, how we will be making those accessible in the future because there are strong recommendations for not using tables for presenting non-table data. So are there other ways of making the database activity accessible to users who use screen readers or other aids to access their Moodle courses? That's a good question. So you don't have to use the tables in the templates. You can make it table less if you want. I mean, people use CSS and just code the information, make it look in a particular way. So you're not actually using table cells but it looks as though it's a table but just because the CSS is controlling it and therefore then you can also put in accessibility, like tab structure and all that kind of thing if you want to. But I think that probably in the upcoming 4.1 database improvements, they are working on improving that for the future. Any other questions? Thank you. Oh, there's one more there. So it's not really a question. It's another example of a non-academic use of a database. I'm a lecturer but I'm also in charge of the schedule generation for my department. And when I start this job, we ask the lecturers a lot of data about the requirements of the lecturers on exams. And each year we have to re-ask the same question and receive the same information. So after that we, in order to avoid that, we start to use a Moodle database and now the lecturers will introduce the data one time at the beginning. And after that each year she just has to check if everything is okay or not and to change what should be changed. And one, another advantage of this method is that the database is always available. So if a lecturer changes something in his lectures and it will influence the way we will have the exam, maybe a written exam will change into a neural exam and he could change it in the database when he performs the change and not have to wait for the time we ask for the requirements. Because sometimes they forget that there is a change. Thank you.


If you're worried that somebody that you care about is thinking of suicide, I think that the most basic and important thing that we can do is to connect with that person and spend time listening to them and help them to really get a very sort of deep sense that somebody cares about them. Now, sometimes that is enough, right?  I probably wouldn't have jumped. And, you know, that's, it's a nice story. It doesn't cover everybody, but listening is really important.  Don't be afraid of saying, hey, I don't know if I'm saying the right things, but I really want to let you know that I, it's important for me that you're in this world. And, and, you know, tell me more about what's going on, right? So to have those conversations, you can have them over the phone, you can have them over Zoom, you can have them over text. Most suicidal crises don't last for a long time.  Ask the question. And, and in your brain think, okay, I'm, I'm probably going to be checking in with this person pretty regularly for the next three to five days. And I'm going to make sure I'm getting support and things like that. But, you know, this is not sort of the new normal. This is how it's always going to be. And I say that because sometimes people are like, oh my God, I can't, I can't do this right now. Right. And that's a, that's a legitimate response also. So ask the questions, let the person know that they're important to you. If you have access to a crisis line yourself, you can always call them and say, hey, I'm talking with a friend of mine who is talking about suicide, they don't want to reach out to you, but I would love some support and know what to say, blah, blah, blah. And oftentimes people will say, sure, here, you know, let's triage this, let's do this together. So I think all of those things are important supports.


I think sometimes in our lives, it's really easy to compare ourselves to other people and to think, man, if I was just as talented as they were, or man, if I just had your talents, then I could be successful. But I want to share with you 10 things that literally require zero talent. Number one, being on time. Number two, making an effort. Number three, being high energy. Number four, having a positive attitude. Number five, be passionate. Number six, using good body language. Number seven, be coachable. Eight, doing a little extra. Number nine, be prepared. And number 10, having a strong work ethic. These 10 things literally, they require zero talent. Hard work over talent will always win.


Okay, first of all, how do you like Anche's dress? Anche, this dress. That's fantastic. Let's hear it for Anche's dress. This is a great dress. Where'd you get that dress? Where'd you get the dress? Well, I'm gonna dress in drag. The dresses are that great. Where'd you get it? Absolutely. Where'd you get it? You probably got it in Amsterdam. Germany and Germany and Amsterdam. You didn't wear it in Berlin, probably. This dress you got in Pilder? Oh my God. Pilder people. The fashion capital of Western Europe. Who knew? Who knew? Okay, so anyway, how is everybody tonight? Doing well. I'm just so thrilled that so many people stuck around. I mean, it's kind of flattering, you know? Anyway, Anche, if you want to talk on it, you don't let me get away.  You go ahead and talk. You need to talk into the mic. They would never hear you. You could never hear me, right? That's right. You should ask the questions. I should ask the questions, okay. How far is Pilder from Berlin? When I go to Berlin, I ain't got to pop over to Pilder. Look at this dress. Is it that great? It's so great. So, you're welcome. We're seeing this right. Well, it's late. It's early. We're going to go for hours, people, to just know. It was all three of you. It was really amazing presentations. Really enjoyed all of your presentations. And really, just one or two questions. A, I wanted to ask about the inspirations for the piece. So, where did you start? Sure. I started, this work has a few beginnings. The first one was learning that my great grandmother was a black Indian root worker. And many of my ancestors have died, especially the women in my family have died very young. So, I started just doing a lot of internal work around premature death in my own family and what that has looked like and what it has meant to not have elders in my family and having a similar relationship to plants and medicine and spirituality as an ancestor that I didn't know felt like a really compelling place to start to research and learn some things. The second beginning was taking that through the black seminal and maroon communities research and its connectedness or the language of their several hundred years or 150 year fight for sovereignty and land and freedom felt very similar to a contemporary conversation around anti-black violence. So, it's now also taken on a lot of language that relates to contemporary violence. It's taken from the diary of Samuel Peeps and then Annie rewrote this segment about this episode with between Sam Peeps and Deb Willett and his wife Elizabeth. And that's what that is. In a sense, I guess it started here when we were doing the monuments, those things like the structure of what I did, the mic and going to the mic because it was going to be here. But I think that it's really the beginning of what I'm working on. It comes partly from having spent the last few years working with a large group and being in a place where I am struggling financially so I can only make work by myself right now so it's out of need. I'm barely rehearsing. I'm not rehearsing, this was my rehearsal, basically. I don't mean it to be as smart as... I've been working with my dancers in this process of trying not to treat them as the workers to create a product so then I arrived at a place in my career and my personal life where I got separated, I have sons, I'm struggling financially and as an artist, even though I've gotten a lot of recognition and I have gotten a lot of friends, this is very personal but it's really why where this piece comes from. So that song that I started singing is a very traditional song from Venezuela where I grew up, although I don't know why, I grew up in political exile in Venezuela. Venezuela is right now in a really deep crisis and struggling a lot because that song is about women hitting the mortar with the corn in the fields so it's kind of about women's work and I guess personally I'm struggling with issues of the hardship of being a mom and alone and an artist and trying to make a living so I'm making work. I'm also really working on not taking on the role of self-pity but through my work I'm trying to use my work, I'm trying to not separate and make the work that is healing for me and it's empowering and that flips the power so the mic, the phallic nature of it and the power that having the mic and speaking has and the mailness of it and not to be like fuck man or anything like that at all but I guess it's my process of what I make work well so I could go on it. One thing that I saw in all three of your pieces is that there is something very painful, so pain I felt I played a big role in whatever ways and forms and I was wondering what role, pain, ritual, mythology and all of that place in your work. Wait, who? A mythology? Or an individual in pain and all of that? Pain is rather universal in some sense I guess. But I got a feeling that Alice could answer this question better than me up here on the stage, which would be great. Pain and pleasure, I mean it's funny because I feel like I'm also working with pleasure, I've been working with the practice of being in pleasure but I guess pleasure and pain are very connected, very close and slippery, they slide in and out of each other I hope, I mean maybe it's because it's for me maybe it's the beginning, so I guess there's something if you talk about like making art as a kind of healing practice you know we were talking about that in the panel before so I'm stuck in that and I do make work from that place a lot it's a kind of not just as art therapy but not just as a kind of oh I'm going to get this out so I feel better but it's a process of undoing some kind of thing or more like as a shift of perspective I guess the pain I don't know, I mean I hope it doesn't seem like it's just like oh poor me, poor me, I think that you go through expressions of pain when you're busting out and somehow and also I think that I hope that there is an that the audience gets to, that there is a in experiencing with someone some aspect of pain and pleasure that there is an empathetic experience that the audience gets to have and that allows them to purge some of their own stuff and get to more pleasurable Welcome to mythology, as a part of what you asked because I think pain arises in the process of making things because I'm trying to be honest and there's a lot of pain in the world and I just, if I'm trying to experience the world in my body in an authentic way then I'm present to pain but I'm not trying to make work from that place so it shows up because I'm trying to be available to everything that is there and pain is one of those things and the idea for me of creating a mythology feels really important because there I'm essentially talking to people that lived a hundred years ago and I can't know what their words were like or what their movement was like and a part of imagining a future for myself is to create that and to look at writers and artists and folks who are creating in that cosmological futuristic space who are the people who are doing that and what does that look like and how can I dream in that way so a lot of the writing, the writing is a big part clearly the process that I'm in is about that dreaming and mythologizing and what I hope becomes a space where I'm dreaming and mythologizing in my physical vessel as well of how doing that in my body becomes a question for me and it's one of the dual process that I'm in right now is figuring out how much of this writing wants to be heard and how much of it is just the page and what does the body want to pick up and I think some of it is trying to find out how much of the pain is on the page and how much of that is physicalized and how much healing can I engender through both Thank you Just in case one of you has a question otherwise, thank you so much for coming and thank you so much for your pieces Thank you, Ancha