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Good day again. This is Professor Resnick and today I want to introduce you to the class theory of Marx since we have now covered the logic of a Marxian theory the dialectic or what I have been calling overdetermination and I've already in the first couple lectures introduced you to the overall idea of Marx this class theory We want to today present the or begin to present the details of this class idea Marx's as I've told you Marx's entry point the way he begins to organize His understanding of society is from the perspective of class And what he means by class is the organization of surplus. So that's the first idea In the thought concrete that he's going to construct of society He argues that human beings lay human beings labor To produce wealth That's not an original idea that human beings labor to produce wealth to sustain themselves And I'm Adam Smith had that idea Ricardo and others as well What Marx however adds to this is something entirely new in social theory in other words He inaugurates a whole new idea. He breaks that labor process into two parts The first part he calls necessary labor that is the quantum of labor required to produce goods and services consumer goods to sustain the laborer notice there's two parts here The quantum of labor to produce the consumer goods In the second part to sustain the laborers we're going to come back to that throughout the course, but in any case the first Idea here is it breaking up the labor process into necessary labor any labor above and beyond necessary is what he calls surplus labor So he Begins to then ask Questions once he's done this ask questions about this Necessary and surplus labor first question you're going to ask is who produces necessary and who produces the the surplus Who gets the surplus that's being produced by those individuals who produced the necessary and the surplus labor What do they do the people who get the surplus? What do they do with the surplus that they acquire? and Are there individuals in society who get? Shares of this surplus even though they didn't initially get it and why do they get a share of the surplus? From the individuals who initially receive it so we can ask all kinds of Questions about this organization of surplus once he divides this labor process into these two parts of necessary and surplus class literally classifies a population into those who Perform an appropriate or receive this Surplus so let me let me since this is so important. This is the entry point Let me put this on the on the blackboard. Okay, this this first idea this thesis of Marx so He's arguing here that people do necessary labor once again the labor That is required to produce the goods and services to sustain the laborer Plus they do a surplus labor and then the total would be the labor that they perform Okay, that's what the new idea of Marx is this organization of surplus this idea that you can classify a population into those who perform necessary and surplus and Those who receive the surplus without performing necessary and surplus by the way It's quite possible in a society to have individuals both Perform necessary and surplus and receive the surplus And it's also possible to have a society or societies in which people perform the necessary and surplus But they don't get the surplus This is the labor process divided into these two aspects these two parts okay the necessary labor times a productivity would be the consumption to sustain those laborers so They perform let's say four days Times the wealth produced by those four days so we can put up here the little a is the wealth per unit necessary labor and Then that would be the consumption wealth to sustain the laborers, but they don't stop Marx is arguing people labor above and beyond the necessary and they do a surplus labor Times the I'm going to make the same a productivity and so they produce this surplus wealth Above and beyond their consumption and of course the total them would be the wealth produced in a society Okay, then the question is This part this aspect emanating from the necessary labor times its productivity that sustains the laborers The goods and services to sustain the people who are doing the necessary and surplus Then the question is who gets this extra wealth surplus who gets the extra wealth? Is it the same individuals that are producing it or is it a different set of individuals in? Capitalism where he spends where mark spends most of his time Analyzing the workers who produce this totality only get this amount The capitalists get this amount In communism to make the striking contrast the capitalism the workers produced this amount as they do in capitalism But in communism the workers as a collectivity not only produce it. They get it Okay, so there's the direct contract contrast between capitalism and communism in terms of this organization of Surplus I'm going to come back to that, but let me continue Why wouldn't anybody produce surplus? I mean once you introduce this you got a The logic is you could ask the question. Why would anybody produce produce an extra above and beyond what is necessary to sustain those laborers? It marks then theorize Theorizes and this is in volumes 2 and 3 of his great work capital that the surplus is necessary For a society to exist why well This extra wealth this surplus above and beyond necessary Provides the wherewithal for What kind of expression can I use for a social glue to exist in society to hold the society together? Because this is going to support those individuals in society Who provide the conditions of existence remember that that language that we use that provide the conditions of existence? the non-class processes Which will enable this organization of surplus to exist and be reproduced over time So there will be individuals in society other than these individuals who are doing necessary and surplus Who will do a different kind of labor very important labor. It's just a different kind of labor than these That label will produce political economic cultural processes Which will enable this kind of Class process that I just described to you to exist and to be reproduced over time. So those Those other individuals are you might call them initially enablers they are producing a set of non-class processes which Enable the class process to exist and be reproduced over time for example Some individual society may be producing religious ideas political ideas They may be producing tools and equipment and so forth So those various non-class processes why non-class because they're not directly They're not involved directly with the production in appropriation of surplus so they produce the the culture of religion the politics of the laws and the economics of Investment goods and so forth which enable this class structure once again to exist and be reproduced over time So each and every society Needs a surplus to support the laboring of those individuals Who provide again the conditions of existence of that surplus well the next step then Would have to be that this surplus here that has to be distributed To support all these politically economic and cultural these non-class processes Enabling the the surplus to exist in the first place. Okay now in your reading The organization this this surplus this production of surplus and This is new once again after consumption this production of the surplus and this Appropriation of the surplus is called the fundamental class process in your reading the distribution of the surplus is called the subsumed class process okay, and the individuals who get the surplus Called the fundamental class processes. I'm sorry. Let me do that again the individuals who appropriate the surplus Called the fundamental classes then have to take that surplus in Distributed that's called the subsumed class process To all those other individuals they are called subsumed classes who provide the conditions of existence of that Fundamental class process. Let me put that on the blackboard since that's a lot of words Race this we have a surplus Okay, so this refers to the fundamental class process a single process in which individuals Once again do necessary labor The yield of that is their consumption that do labor above that surplus that surplus is received Let's say by by another group then that surplus has to be distributed. That's the Subsumed class process. That's the distribution of it to support. I'll use a Greek letter That's a sigma to support all of the expenditures the subsumed class payments To whom to the subsumed classes who provide the conditions of existence of this so over here on the right hand side we have these individuals securing Let's call them non-class processes They get a cut of the surplus to help support them They produce and disseminate non-class processes politics Culture economics That is economics other than class Which provide the conditions of existence of the left-hand side? That's the logic of overdetermination, but of course the left-hand side also Supplies the condition of existence of the right-hand side in other words each side of the equation is both Cause and effect each over determines the other with deploying then are the logic we learned about the dialectic or over Determination to understand this class theory of society Okay Let me give you an example of this okay, let me start with with Capitalism our society in the United States today, so I'm going to use this I'm going to use this theory we just presented this overview to talk about then Capitalism consider the the Corporations in the United States industrial corporations Marx is claiming that the workers in working in those corporations. They produce a surplus quotes called gross profit and the surplus is received by a board of Directors why well the board of directors literally We're talking 20 22 people the board of directors in that corporation general electric they personify the corporation under the law The corporation is a person and the person is personified in its board of directors and then put the Politically and culturally and economically that small set of individuals receives the profit of the Corporation that is the surplus that the workers have produced


1. How to establish rapport with students. A teacher has an important responsibility to get to know his or her students to ensure that they are engaged with a lesson on a daily basis. Learning another language is not easy so it is imperative that a teacher does everything in his or her power to get to know their students and become as familiar with them as possible. One of the most effective ways a teacher can begin to do so is by establishing rapport with their students. When should a teacher build good relationship? Establishing rapport with students is ideally something that should happen at the beginning of the course. It is better to get to know your students as soon as possible rather than later. There is much to be learned by recognizing and understanding each student's unique interests, motivation, goals, and background. It also demonstrates to the students that they have an educator eager and truly interested in getting to know them as individuals and on a personal level. There are a number of specific activities that a teacher can utilize to effectively create rapport with their students. These activities include questionnaire surveys, the tell us about board game, the pass the ball game and a needs analysis that is particularly useful for business students. These activities can and should be done on the first day of class rather than immediately going to the textbook. These activities can not only be useful but they can help with nervous students and getting everyone to feel more comfortable with each other. First day activities The questionnaire survey is commonly introduced by many teachers on the first day of class and it is a preset questionnaire that lets the students get to know each other while an observant teacher can also gather useful information about their proficiency level while the activity is taking place. In the tell us about board game, students play by rolling the dice and tell the class about the topic that their counter has landed on. In the pass the ball game, students gently toss a ball to another student to ask him or her questions and the teacher can also participate in this rapport building game. In the needs analysis, which can be a formal questionnaire or an informal chat between the teacher and student, students answer questions pertaining about their interests and explore the specific areas that they would like to focus on during the class to assist with their jobs or careers. Planning lessons Once a teacher has some information about his or her students from these rapport building activities, he or she can begin to create lesson plans around this information. For example, in one of my classes, I noticed that all of my students had a strong interest in dance and music and many were even actively involved in one of the fields on a recreational basis. I used this information to create English lessons on popular song lyrics and used warmers that also cater to their interest. This made the class on a whole lively, engaging and much more interesting for my students as the material connected to things that they were already interested in. On the other hand, if a teacher went straight to the textbook and dived into grammar drilling activities the teacher would not have had this information and might not have been able to make this important discovery with their students. In addition, it is also important to identify the English level of individual students and ascertain their needs, strengths, and weaknesses. Some students may have years of experience or lease some familiarity with the English language while other students may be complete novices or beginners. Understanding what kind of students you have is one of the most important first steps to ensuring a successful class. If for example, lessons are based for intermediate or advanced students when a classroom is filled with most beginners, it could have a negative effect on student participation and achievement. Once a teacher has this information, he or she can begin to create lessons based on student needs and modify the course to specifically address their goals. In conclusion, rapport building activities are not only fun for students and help to get to know each person in the class, but it also helps the teacher create and modify lessons that are catered to student needs, goals, and interests in order to maximize their cognitive development. Are you ready to teach ESL students? Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Hi everyone, yeah so my name is Ash Strud and I've been very lucky to be able to travel the world's basically giving this talk and talking about something that's really passionate to me. I wouldn't have been able to do this if it weren't for the help of a lot of companies that are basically sponsoring a lot of the work that I do because I work for myself and I've been basically educating people full time about this for the past six or eight months. I haven't had time to actually make money so I appreciate that other people are helping me out and doing something that's really important to me. So programming diversity, like I said my name is Ash Strud and I'm Ash Strud and pretty much everywhere on the internet so if you have questions later that you don't get a chance to ask me or if you're looking for some resources you can find a lot of that stuff on my website. So what is diversity? A lot of times when we talk about diversity it's kind of code for where are the women and I want to talk about the fact that diversity is a lot more than gender. It's about a lot more than just male and female as well. There's an entire spectrum that we're kind of leaving out when we ask the where are the women question. Gender or I'm sorry, diversity makes up various backgrounds, experiences and lifestyles. There is a lot that you can't see about a person that makes them different and makes them diverse in our industry. So what actually goes into diversity? These are some of the larger groups but certainly not all of them. If you think about for instance age we tend to not have people that fall on the younger or the older end of the spectrum. We tend to have people that have at least graduated high school and many who have gone to college even though they might not necessarily have computer science degrees and socioeconomic class which includes not only their current socioeconomic class but ones that they had previous in their lives. So just so we're all on the same page I kind of want to define a few terms so that we can kind of speak the same language. A lot of the work that I do is founded on this idea of intersectionality. Intersectionality is basically the way that the different traits that make us up interact and the way that society chooses to allow us to go through life because of that. So if we looked at those bubbles again this is basically the overlapping, the pancaking effect of all of these different things together.  So what does this actually mean in reality? Well in the United States women earn about 80.9% of what men do. This is controlling for other factors including education and time in and away from the industry. But Latina women earn only 59.3% of what white men do. So we can see that just by adding one other vector this drastically changes the way people are going through life. Another one the unemployment rate in the US depending on who you trust is about 7.5% but for the blind community it's 10 times higher. So we can very quickly see that just by adding this one little bit of information, this one other piece that makes up people's lives, it vastly impacts the way that they're able to go through life. So the next term is privilege. Privilege is an unearned advantage that you get for being the person that you are growing up the way that you did or the place that you were born. Having privilege doesn't make you a bad person but it just means that we have to keep in mind the kinds of things that we get for free because we have privilege. So what kinds of things make up privilege? For instance, I'm a white person. White people get some of the most privilege that you can have in the world. I also live in the United States. I was born here. I speak English as a first language. I'm abled. People assume that I'm straight. So even though I'm not straight, I still get the privilege of the people that are straight because I pass a straight. So it's kind of complicated. We just have to keep in mind the things that we get that other people don't because of this privilege. So what kind of stuff do we actually get? Things like a better education, access to technology at an earlier age, higher pay, assumed competency. People aren't constantly challenging you for the things that you know. And you're seen as a skill set instead of traits.  The first one you don't have to qualify because you already assume something about somebody who's a geek. So the next term is stereotype threat.  But a stereotype threat is the fear that you're going to confirm a stereotype. So I think that most people have seen this comic before. This is XKCD.   So we have the stereotype that women are bad at math or bad at programming, whatever it is. And a stereotype threat is worrying that you're going to confirm that. Because not only have you proven to this person, just because you happen to be bad at math or bad at programming or whatever it is. Not only have you proven to that person that you are not good at what you do, it's also being able to confirm that for everybody else in that group. So I have this empirical evidence now, this data, because I have seen a woman not do well at math that all women are bad at math. There's actually a study that was done at Yale that shows that prompting people based on their gender or their race. And saying, did you know that people of your gender or race don't do as well on this test as people who are of another gender or race actually makes them do worse? By saying, did you know that people of your gender or race actually do just as well as people of other gender or races? They do not only just as well as the other group, but actually outperform them. So there's something about the stereotype threat that kind of makes you take it in and say, I'm not good enough. And that's okay because biology says that I shouldn't be good at this. And that's perfectly fine. So imposter syndrome, how many people in here have imposter syndrome? Okay, a few of us, cool. So imposter syndrome is this phenomenon where we're unable to internalize any accomplishments that we have. So people who have imposter syndrome will say things like, I am really bad at what I do.  I'm a fraud. I can't imagine doing something like pair programming because someone will sit next to me and they will see exactly how bad of a programmer I am. Regardless of how good they actually are. And unfortunately this is especially pronounced in groups that have a negative stereotype that affects them. And people like this are less likely to apply for certain jobs, especially where they have to prove their competency. They're less likely to submit a talk to a conference. They're even less likely to attend a conference. Considering a lot of people in our industry get jobs and other opportunities specifically by going to conferences, they're basically removing themselves from an environment where they can do better and they can be better, specifically because they have this imposter syndrome. So the last term is marginalized. Now if you remember from high school when we had the ruled paper with the blue lines and the pink lines, you can think of marginalized is kind of the same way. You have the big middle area where you would write all of your chemistry notes. And then off to the side, there was a pink line. And out past the pink line was a little bit of space and that's where you would draw your unicorns and write like little sarcastic things about your professor cuz you didn't really care for them. And marginalization is kind of the same way. So this middle area is where the needs for the vast majority, the default, the normal group of people go. Marginalized people, their needs or their wants are kind of pushed to those margins where we draw unicorns. So there's not a whole lot of space for them. They're not given the spotlight and they're kind of ignored. Unfortunately, society teaches us to do this to everyone with the marginalized groups. This is just kind of the way that our society works. And you might be sitting there thinking, but I don't do that. I'm logical, I'm rational. Especially people who are programmers tend to think this. We don't see gender or race. I don't discriminate against people based on their gender or race, because I'm a very equal person. But unfortunately, we know that this isn't the case. The people that we exalt most in society for being logical and rational, scientists, STEM professors, if you're not familiar with STEM, STEM is science, technology, engineering and math. They do this to each other as well. There was a study that was done where they took a bunch of professors and they said, hey, we want you to hire somebody new for your department. We're gonna give you two resumes, like let us know who you'd rather hire. What you would pay them, rate them on a scale of one to seven for how likely you would be to hire or work with them. And then give us some adjectives to describe these people. What they didn't tell them was that the resumes were exactly the same with the exception of the first name. One was named John and one was named Jennifer. So they gave them the two resumes, they went away, looked at them and came back and they said, okay, who would you rather hire? And they said, well, we think we would rather hire John. On the scale of one to seven, we gave John a four and we gave Jennifer a 3.3. We figured that Jennifer, she should probably make about 87% of what John is making. And we decided this because John seems like he's a really good team leader. He's somebody that you really wanna work with, he's driven, he's passionate, he's uplifting for other people. Jennifer seems to be out for herself.  People aren't gonna like her and she's just kind of out for herself. And again, these resumes were exactly the same with the exception of the first name. What I didn't tell you is that this was actually a group of professors that was mixed gender. So women were doing this to other women as well. This is something that society just teaches us and we don't realize that we've internalized it. So now that we've established that exactly, how diverse is the tech industry? If we take a look at the tech industry versus the US population, we can see some weird discrepancies, especially in this top area. So women make up about half of what we would expect them to make in tech. And like I said before, women are the group that we tend to talk about when we're talking about diversity in tech. But then you also have these two other groups. You have Hispanics and blacks, and this is specifically for the United States. So blacks make up about half, a little bit under half of what they should make. But Hispanics make up only a third of what they should make if they were equally represented as far as the US population goes. So they're actually the most left out group in tech. And that's a group that we tend not to talk about when we're talking about diversity. So let's dig a little bit deeper. Unfortunately, a lot of these statistics are women based because that's where a lot of the research dollars go for universities and that kind of thing. But women make up about 24% of the industry. Like I said, it's about half of what they make up in the US population. But we're only 3% of all open source contributors. So think about every job that requires that a candidate has open source contributions. You're automatically weeding out a very large percent of the population just because they aren't able to participate in this one activity. And we can kind of feel better about ourselves because it's not just us. There are a lot of places in the world that have the exact same problem that we do. So if we just look at the computer science graduates that are women from a lot of different countries around the world, this is what we see. India about 8% of computer science graduates are women. The US is 17%. This is actually falling by about 3% or 4% every five years. And it's been steadily declining since the 80s. The UK is 18.2%. France is 20, Brazil is 20, South Africa is 25. Like I said, they're all pretty close. And at this point, a lot of people will stop me and say, well, maybe women just aren't interested in programming them. Like if they're not there, then maybe they just don't want to and we shouldn't force them. But we also forget the fact that the first compiler and the first programming language were written by women. We have women that have shaped what we see today as computing and programming and so saying something like maybe women just aren't interested in programming is categorically false. There would not be a programming industry if it weren't for women. Or people will say, well, maybe women just aren't biologically predisposed to programming. Which is possibly my absolute favorite reaction to this. Because I love science. I actually was going to be a biologist before I decided to be a programmer. And I learned a lot about evolutionary biology. And evolutionary biology basically says that you tend to pass on traits that make it better for the next generation to survive. It's fine over here, whatever that was. So for instance, if you know that you can run faster. So you can escape bears and that kind of thing. That is an evolutionary advantage that you would want to pass on to your progeny. Programming doesn't give you those kinds of skills. I've never been able to outrun a cheetah because I'm a really great programmer. That is just not something that we pass on. Science has taught us that there's no physical or biological difference between people of different genders or different races that makes them better at being a programmer. That makes them more logical or able to do algorithm work better than any other group. The nice thing about that is that means that these are purely social and cultural constructs. These can be changed. We just have to want it enough. We have to be able to focus on it. And we have to actually look at the problem critically. So one of the countries that I failed to mention before was Bulgaria. So comparing this to the United States, I said it was 17% of CS grads in the US or women. In Bulgaria, it's 73%. Now, as an American who has an American high school education, I would be hard pressed to locate Bulgaria on a map. Let alone think very highly necessarily of their STEM programs. But they do a lot actually to push people of all genders into STEM. They know that their economy and the wealth of their nation, the innovation that they're able to produce as a country, is directly related to how well they do in these fields. They don't see programming as something that only men do. They push all of their children equally into this. So why does diversity matter? Especially sitting here is a lot of people who look kind of the same. The vast majority of us are white. So how does it actually affect us? Well, we know that as racial and gender workforce diversity increases, so do things like sales revenue, the number of customers you have, market share, profits relative to competitors, all of those things go up. We know that diverse teams solve complex problems better and faster. We know that they're more creative and stimulated through persistent exposure to minority perspectives. When I say minority, I don't necessarily mean racial minorities, anybody who's in the minority in the US population. So we know that this is the case. We know that diverse teams make better decisions and they generate more innovation. This is especially important in a field that is pushing for the boundaries of everything that we know. We're making changes today that affect how we do science, how we practice medicine, and the kinds of things that we are able to explore in space. So we affect a lot of things all across the board. So we know that the financial success and viability of not only our companies, but of our country and our global economy is all directly related to how diverse our teams are. So why aren't we spending more time on this? So why do we have a lack of diversity? While there are three main areas, the first one is pipeline. This is the people coming into the industry. And we're seeing that they're not having things like cultural cues that tell them that this is something for them. We have a difference in toys and games that are given to children in a very young age. Boys, for instance, given things like Lego. Girls are given things that are much more static and require imagination, but not a whole lot of modularity like dolls. We don't have any famous role models to represent these groups of people. The access to technology that they have at a very young age is different. So for instance, boys get their first computer at age 11 and girls at age 14. We know that from biology, this period in a person's life is extremely important for what they're able to learn.  This is the best time in life to learn something new and you'll hold on to it for the rest of your life. So things like musicians, other scientists, people who are able to do really great at math. This tends to be the area that they are starting to focus on those things. We're seeing them start to study those things at this age and do well all through the rest of their lives. We also know that African-American and Hispanic households have much lower computer ownership rates and also broadband adoption. But they also adopt smartphones at a much higher rate.  Imagine if that was the only view of the internet you ever had. It's extremely frustrating. There's a lot of things you just literally cannot do, because we're not programming our websites or apps to be able to have the full functionality of what we can do with an actual computer. Access to quality education is extremely important. We know that a quality high school education is one of the greatest indicators of earning potential. And we know that schools that are in poor neighborhoods are releasing children that are going to college that are about 25% less prepared in science and math, specifically for people of color as compared to their white counterparts. Access to healthcare is also a huge issue. In the United States, hopefully this is becoming less of a problem. But we know that people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, all of these people have less access to quality healthcare and it's less consistent as well. People are much less likely to take a risk of moving and losing that insurance because they might have people that rely on them for things like childcare or they might be taking care of sick or ailing relatives. The second area is attraction. There's a lack of role models, like I said before. We're less likely to see people that represent us in companies and at conferences. There's also this idea of a geek stereotype.  What does a geek look like?  Any adjectives? Pocket protector? What else? Glasses, okay, what'd you say? Urkel, okay, anything else? What's that? Anyone else? Okay, perfect, okay. What do they tend to look like? Male, anything else? White, okay. Cool, how is there social anxiety? Pretty high, right?  And we're teaching this to people from a very young age. You see it in TVs and movies all the time. We have this one stereotype of what geeks are. And we know that this is not what all geeks look like or how they act like. But we see this over and over again. And we actually have studies that show that this is hindering us. There was a study that was done in a university and they took a class and they brought in a visiting professor that met the geek stereotype. So this is somebody who's socially awkward. They're kind of fumbly. They're not too great with talking to people of the opposite sex.  They wear glasses. All of these things that we know about the geek stereotype. They followed the students for the rest of the year and they found that students were 40% more likely to drop out of that program after being exposed to somebody who meets the geek stereotype. So this is kind of complicated. I certainly don't want to discourage anybody who meets the geek stereotype from talking to people or from interacting with other people. Or doing awesome things like helping out college students. But this is a really complicated problem. It's not something so simple. Just being exposed to somebody who meets that stereotype that you might not feel you identify with is enough to deter you from going into a field. And this is regardless of the person's gender. So it's a really complicated issue. So the third area and why I actually got into this is attrition. We see that about 56% of women leave tech within 10 years. I'm very lucky that every day I kind of get through this. I've been in the industry for 12 or 13 years now. So I'm beating this statistic. But the longer women are in the industry, the more likely they are to drop out. And this is twice the attrition rate of men. And this accounts for things like people leaving the industry to have children. So what is actually happening that so many people are leaving? Well, we have issues like harassment, especially over the past three months we've seen, or I'm sorry, the last six months, we've seen a lot of very visible incidents of people being harassed at conferences. A lot of very visible reports. There's been a lot of very lively discussion about it. And not going into any of the specifics of those, because I think a lot of us have seen them, I was kind of curious. And I said, well, I wonder how we affect that? Like, I know that people react really poorly when people report. But what does that actually mean for the person who's going through this? I asked on Twitter, I said, hey, if you have reported harassment at work, can you just shoot me an email and let me know what happened to you afterwards? Like, don't tell me about the incident itself, that's a privacy issue, but just let me know what happened afterwards. 25 people responded, and 23 of them were fired within three months. The people who reported. I tweeted this, and it's one of the most far-reaching tweets that I've had. Thousands of retweets, hundreds of people replying to me saying that that happened to me, too, that happened to me, too. So it's not only on the people who are doing the harassment.  It's also on us as business owners, as coworkers, to understand what people are going through and to empathize with them. To work with them to make a situation as good as it can be coming out of something like that. If we need to be giving people counseling, if we need to be making our environment a lot safer, giving them more flexibility so they can deal with something as catastrophic as harassment can be, we need to be doing better with that. We know that people in marginalized groups are twice as likely to report being harassed. And there are a lot of people that are probably sitting in here thinking, well, I've never seen somebody get harassed. And that's probably true. We tend to go to conferences and meetups and other events that are very homogenous. There are a lot of people that are like us, that look like us. We tend to hang around with people that are like us. So we're not always exposed to people that are different to be able to see this kind of behavior happen. We also know that it's really subtle. It's not always obvious to us what exactly harassment is. And that's tough. It's super tough, especially if you don't want to be a person who does or says those kinds of things. It's hard. So the last area is discrimination. And this comes in three different areas. Pay, advancement, and job offers. Men in the US are 2.7 times more likely than women to be promoted to high-ranking jobs, even though they're just as likely to be promoted to mid-level jobs. Just as likely. So something is happening here that we're only recognizing the achievements and then the drive of certain groups of people. We also know that other things factor into this. People that are able to work longer hours who maybe don't have to take care of children or who aren't worried about health conditions that they have to leave the office to go to a doctor or to take care of otherwise. And a lot of you might be thinking I had to work hard to get where I am. And I know that it's hard for other people too, but I've had a lot of horrible things happen to me and things that I've kind of stumbled on. And it's made it more difficult for me as well. And as somebody who speaks about this a lot, and I talked to a lot of different kinds of people. This is something that I actually have a hard time learning and I re-learn it every day. The last time I was in San Francisco was a few months ago and I gave a talk similar to this. And I said, I go to a lot of conferences and I talk about programming and I talk about what we can do to be better teams and work better together and be more innovative as an industry. And I'll go to an after party and three or four people will come up to me and say, so are you a project manager? And they don't mean anything bad by that. But once you've had it happen to you so many times and you've told people outright, that's not what I do. I'm a programmer. It gets to be a little rough. And after I told that story, a Hispanic woman walked up to me and she said, I go to conferences and people think that I'm catering staff. And I was like, that is my privilege showing. Like the fact that people don't assume that I'm there working the event for far less money that I don't actually even belong there. So that's an aspect of my privilege that I'm dealing with every day. So I do work hard and I struggle a lot. But there are some people who struggle a lot more than me. So we just have to recognize that kind of thing. So what can we actually do about this? Now that I've given you this litany of very depressing and sad things. There's a lot that we can do. That's the nice part. And the good thing to know is that change starts with us. Like I said, this is a social and cultural problem. And we are social and cultural beings. So we just have to change the way that we're acting towards each other and the way that we're interacting with people who have these kinds of problems. Start educating people about these kinds of things. Share the kinds of things that I told you about today. Read things that you wouldn't normally read. I share articles all the time about the inequality in the industry. The difficulty that certain people have in just obtaining electronic devices to be able to even begin learning programming, to be able to go to school if that's something that they want to pursue, or to be taken seriously because of what they look like. Get to know people that are different than you. This one is a little rough. Like I said, we tend to know people that are like us. This is just a sociological fact. We tend to be around people that are of the same socioeconomic level. They tend to be the same gender or the same race. So we aren't really seeing the kinds of problems that other people are having to deal with on a daily basis. One thing that I do is anytime I go to a new event, I pick a color and I go and talk to every person who's wearing that color. So it's something that you can do that you don't have to worry about, am I walking up to them because they're a woman or because they're a person of color or because they're visibly handicapped? You don't have to, none of that plays into it. It's basically the randomness in which people choose their clothing in the morning. So for as people who have a lot of social anxiety and people who tend to be introverted, which a lot of us are, start this off easy, pick yellow. Not a lot of people wear yellow. If you're in Portland, don't pick plaid, that's boss mode, right? That's a little bit tough. Know that bias and discrimination are often subtle. A lot of the things that we see when we start at new jobs and you go through sexual harassment training, a lot of the videos are still like, hey, slap somebody on the butt, we know that that's not a thing we should do hopefully. But that's not really the vast majority of cases of what's happening. When I talked to my grandmother about what I do and about the kinds of things that we face in the industry, she actually told me, did you know that I'm a programmer? I was like, I had no idea, that's really cool. And she said, when I started programming in the 80s and she lives in Chicago, she used to, when she started programming she was a programmer for one of the largest health insurance companies in the country. And she said, in the 80s, at this first job I had all of the programmers for women, and they sat us all in the middle of the office in this huge sky-rise building. We're all sitting in the middle of the office together in a cage made of steel, locked from the inside. Just like, I'm sorry, what? I don't even, that doesn't even process in my brain. And she said, well yeah, because we were having a hard time getting our work done because the sales people who are sitting around us would come up to us and touch us or talk to us or otherwise distract us from our work. So we couldn't actually get things done. So the solution that this company figured out was to lock them in a cage from the inside. And I was like, well, I'm very happy that I'm not treated like a zoo animal. I appreciate that. Progress has been made, yay. But there's still a lot of bad stuff that's going on. So that kind of stuff isn't happening on that kind of scale like it used to. A lot more people are much more aware of those issues. But going into meetings and always asking the woman to be the one that takes the notes, walking into an office and seeing the first person who is a person of color and asking them to get you a glass of water. Like these are things that are all subtle about us that are biases that we have that we don't necessarily realize. Learn to apologize. This is a tough one. We practice a lot about being better at what we do every day. We read books. We talk to other people. I'm a programmer. We do things called code retreats where we literally sit in a room for a weekend and practice over and over and over again, being better programmers. But we don't do this with being people. We don't have really a lot of the people skills that a lot of other people, a lot of other industries are forced to practice. And apologizing is a skill that we need to work on. A friend of mine, Kronda, told me this awesome story about how when she was a kid, and like many of us, an officer came to their school and they said, hey, we want to teach you about fire safety.  The one thing. Stop, drop, and roll, right? Exactly. And they teach you this over and over and over again. I mean, when I was in school, they actually made us practice it, like stop, drop, and roll over and over again. And the interesting thing here is that the statistics on the number of children who actually catch on fire every year extremely low, believe it or not, right? Like not many kids jumping over bonfires while drunk or playing with grills or any other incident that would actually cause you to catch on fire. So why do they teach ten year olds this? Why do they teach kids that are younger than that this?  And it is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you and the first thing you do is panic. And then you flail around, you make the situation worse. And being able to teach kids from a very young age, drilling this into them, stop, drop, roll, kind of makes that intuition then when something bad happens and they catch on fire as adults. And it's much the same thing with apologizing. We tend to make situations worse because our first reaction is to get defensive or to get angry versus actually being like, hey, I did something wrong, let me think about this for a second before I react. So apologizing is much the same way and a skill that we have to practice for when these things happen. So apologizing comes in three steps, just like stop, drop, and roll. One, what I did was wrong. Two, I'm sorry, and it's as simple as that if you say the word but, then stop and start over because that's not an apology. And then the third one is try and do better next time. Try not to do this again. When somebody steps on your toe, the first reaction you have is not what the hell, why did you step on my toe? It's like, and back up, and then they apologize because it's not something they did intentionally. And it's much the same way with being people. We make mistakes and we apologize and it's the same thing. We can talk about these issues openly. That's fine, I'm on like last couple slides. Let me fast forward here. Cool, yeah, there's a few more. Cool, all right, so things we can do, change our workplaces. Remember what the about page of your website looks like. There's an awesome Tumblr called 100% Men. You do not want your business's website to look like that. We can change our cultures internally. It's a lot harder to retain than it is to recruit people. Think of your culture internally as a garden. You want to value variety and prune any of the weeds. Do a lot of outreach sponsor events where people are different than you that attend. And change your job listing language and requirements. Make sure that all of the gender pronouns are not he. This guy, this man, his duties will be. Make sure that your benefits are inclusive. What are your same-sex partner benefits? Do you have trans-inclusive health care? Do you have flex time? What are your parental leave policies? Go through and make sure that people are actually being paid equally. You actually have to do this about every six months. This is something that is the law. People should be paid the same amount of money we still have vast income equality. Do things like mentoring and career goal attainment as soon as people come into your company. Ask them what they want to be learning, what they want to be doing, and train them on those new things. Like I said before, this requires participation from everyone. All of us can do better at this. I practice it every day. I fail all the time, and that's perfectly fine. I just stand up and start over again. But think about what we can accomplish together if we work on this. So thank you.


Hello and welcome to public money public code a campaign framework to promote software freedom My name is Bonnie Merring. I'm a junior program manager at the free software foundation Europe And I have been with the free software foundation Europe since 2019 and I have also worked on the public money public code campaign since 2019 yes Today I will introduce to you what are the aims of the public money public code campaign and also show you some possibilities How you as an individual or as a group could participate in the campaign framework and Use the campaign framework to promote software freedom Yes, so first of all, I will begin with what is free software as this is one of the basics So what is free software? Free software means software that is published under a free and open source software license Every free and open source software license includes the four freedoms And there are many free and open source software licenses out there Out there, but the important thing is that they're all of those have included for and grant the four freedoms The four freedoms are to use, study, share and improve the software To use means you can use the software for any purpose that you can think of so for any use case that you Want the software to use for you can use the software and there are no restrictions Then to share means you can share the software with everyone and there are no limitations in sharing the software so you could for example share the software with a company with your local government with a museum or a library a university Yes, so you are an individual so you could share the software with everyone and there are no limitations in sharing the software to study means you can study the software and analyze how the software works look at the code and Yeah, understand what the software does so you could study the software To improve means you can improve the software and of course this includes fixing box box But this also includes Modifying the software and adapting the software to your specific needs So for example, you could add a nice little or a big feature to a software and Yeah, adapt the software to your specific situation Then you could also pay somebody else to do this for you if you're not your a coder yourself You could pay a company for example or somebody an individual to add a nice little feature to the software and or a big feature to the software and Yeah, adapt the software to your needs through this and then you could also give something back to Community and share the software again So you could also share the improved version of our software those are the four freedoms that are granted by every free and open source software license and Software that is published under a free and open source software license is called free software Yes, so what has this to do with public money public code? Well, the public money public code campaign once legislation requiring That publicly financed software that is developed for the public sector should be made publicly available Under a free and open source software license. So software that is paid for by taxpayers monies and Used for the pop and developed for the public sector should be made available under a free and open source software License and thereby granting the four of freedoms Yes, this is the core aim of public money public code There are of course many reasons for this and there are also Loads of advantages and I will now give you a quick overview of some of those reasons for public code so Yeah, for example through public code you could save taxes in our middle and long-term perspective as For example similar applications would not need to be programmed from scratch every time But for example could be reused. So if one museum would develop a software Then another and publish the software under a free and open source software license and thereby making it available for everyone another museum for example could use the software and would not need to Pay again for developing a similar application So yeah in a middle and long-term perspective for example, you could save taxes Then you could also work together. So for example, if two Libraries say would need the same kind of software or something similar They can share expertise. They could share knowledge and yeah, just work together and collaborate and also share costs Then true public code You could also serve the public by giving something back to the people and the citizens of the city, for example or of the town And as the software would then be publicly available for everyone and yeah, it could be used by everyone and Also, if you make free software one of your core elements of the your digitalization agenda You could serve the local economy. For example in Barcelona made free software one of their core elements of their digitalization agenda and they invested into around 2019 70% of the new development budget Into free software and they had 3,000 companies working with them and 60% of those 3,000 companies were small and medium enterprises So you could serve the local area and the local economy by using free software and Purchasing free software as a public entity or for the public sector Then last but not least you could also force the innovation as similar applications would not need to be reinvented from Like you would not need to reinvent the wheel every time So if you have a software solution, then this solution could be used and develop further but would not need to be Reinvented so if you for example have a solution for a specific problem Then you could use the solution that was already invented out there Yeah, those are some of the reasons for public code and so that we could reach out to the people and Tell them about public money public code and the advantages of public code We made a public an open letter This open letter demands that publicly finance software which is developed for the public sector should be made publicly available under a free and open source software license and also lists some of the advantages and reasons of Yeah doing so and Making for software that was publicly financed available under free and open source software license So far this open letter has been signed by 30,000 individuals and if you haven't signed this letter yet, it's now your chance to do so and thereby supporting public money public code and Yeah, so Individuals are also always welcome and of next to those Over 30,000 individuals. We have over 200 civil organizations that have so far signed the open letter Among them are of course some well-known free software projects as You can see on this page there Of course, I'm sure there are some logos that you will recognize at least the open Susie logo. You will for sure recognize Mmm, and there are also some local hacker spaces that have signed the open letter and Yeah, there are also some museums and some five public administrations that have so far signed the open letter the public administrations are to Spanish cities the city of Barcelona and The city of Beniganim my Spanish is not really good. So I hope my pronunciation was correct then there is also the Spanish Parliament from Asturias, which has also signed the open letter and public entity the Swedish public entity chop tech development and Last but not least the German some commander outmarsh Yeah, those are the Five public administrations that have so far signed the open letter and that are in support of public money public code So just a quick overview of public money public code and now It's a question how you as an individual or as a group could participate in the public money public code campaign so first of all For example, you could participate through translations so far we have 20 translations of the open letter and More translations are always will come as it's always helpful if you want to approach your local government or a local public administration if they If you would use the native language Yeah, so if you want to participate with a translation, you're very Welcome in doing so This is one possibility then another possibility You could also contact. I am your local decision maker so but How could you contact your local decision maker? Well for this we have first of all created a wiki page Which gives a nice overview and also lists some of the reasons for public money public code It's also available so far in three and four languages English Spanish French and Italian Yeah, and you can look at this Page and go through it because gives a detailed instructions how to contact a local decision maker step and Yeah, it is a step-by-step guide So yeah, and to contact your local decision maker You could Reach out to them via email or making a phone call or having a face-to-face meeting Of course in times of corona this might not best idea, but after corona I'm sure you can again have face-to-face meetings. At least that's what I hope for Mmm. Yeah in sending an email to the local decision maker that you want to reach out to first of all, it's important to tell them what is free software as Not everybody knows what free software is and explain to them what are the four freedoms and yeah talk to them about What free software? wants to achieve Yeah, and then you can also give them some of the reasons for public money public code Like it would give something back to the citizens of your city or it would also save long-term costs and Yeah, it would support the local economy and You could also include our expert brochure as our expert brochure gives a nice overview of the public money public code campaign and Also, let's tell the story of some best practice examples like for example the story of Barcelona So this would be a possibility to include this in the in the email or yeah in the dialogue that you have with them and you Could use our material from the campaign web page as well One is the question Who you could get in contact with so of course you could reach out to your local government This but this always needs some time. So this is not done within a month. So if you have some time Yeah, of course, you could reach out to the local government and also ask them to support public money public code but You could also reach out to a museum or a library or a University so it does not mean that you only could reach out to your local government, but there are many public entities and Public administrations that use public money to finance their software and You could reach out to them and ask them to support public money public code and ask them to sign the open letter Yeah, this would be some of those Public entities that you could reach out to and now I would like to tell you about two best practice examples The first example is from castle and the second example would be from Spain About the local hack club called pica pica which reached out to their local government in Asturias So I will start with the example of castle Castle is a German city in the middle of Germany and There was in 2019 there was a motion in the city parliament of castle which asked the government to Implement public money public code as a guiding principle for the purchase of new software this motion was brought to our attention by The person behind this motion and they asked us to support them and yeah to Talk to the members of the parliament about public money public code that's what we did and We reached out to each individual of the parliament and asked them to support the motion informed them about what is free Software and what are the aims of the public money public code campaign? What are the advantages of using public code? Etc. Etc. We also sent them our expert brochure and Yeah, give them some material from our campaign web page mmm this was not always quite easy as Not every mail address is publicly available and We also made phone calls and asked around and yeah eventually we reached out to every member of the parliament And I have also reached out to some members via Twitter Mmm. Yeah, this took us half a year and The motion was always postponed and then after half an year it was passed in the parliament And we have reached out to those members of the parliament multiple times and started a dialogue with them and yeah so This would be one best practice example because now in Kassel it's public money public code is a guiding principle for the purchase of new software and This was also achieved by One person from the parliament who just got active and yeah ask the parliament to Ask the city parliament to support public money public code Then my second best practice example is from Spain and in Spain in the Area in Asturias there is a local head club called pica pica and the people from pica pica decided that they also wanted to ask their local Parliament from Asturias to support public money public code How have they done this well they reached out to the members of the parliament via an email and Ask them for face-to-face meetings and also Yeah, explain to them what free software is and use the campaign material from the public money public code campaign web page And yeah started a dialogue with the members of the parliament and If they had a face-to-face meeting they also knocked on some doors afterwards and asked other members of the parliament to If they could talk to them about public money public code and free software After almost one year they have convinced enough decision makers in the local parliament from Asturias to support public money public code and then it was put to the parliament and asked if they would sign the open letter which they did and now they after they signed the open letter they Also implemented the Intention that for the purchase of new software it should be considered if done to use free software So it's not a law about an intention and yeah, so This is how the local head club from pica pica Got their local government their local parliament to support public money public code Yeah, and to summarize You could reach out to your local government to your local museum to your local library or university by sending an email to them and starting a dialogue asking a question and also asking for face-to-face meeting And yeah afterwards knock on some doors and talk to them again and again and also use our campaign material like our expert brochure and yeah this is And the important thing to remember is to be always friendly and kind to the members of the parliament or to the members of the Public entity or public administration that you want to reach out to Even if those people do not share your point with you um This is how you could for example support public money public code And then it's left for me to say that Many small people in many small places do many small things and that can alter the face of the world So if every one of us would reach out to the local government to the local university museum Library etc and ask them to support public money public code and think about free software We could change the face of the world and support public money public code and thereby also supporting software freedom And yeah, thank you for listening and thanks to all supporters of the fsfe I will be available for questions and Yeah, I'm I hope to hear about some success stories from you side Bye


Hello and welcome back to OpenJS World. This is a lightning talk about Dojo, a progressive modern TypeScript framework. You might have heard of Dojo before, but if you haven't checked it out in the past couple years, it's completely new framework. I'm Dylan, one of the original founders of the Dojo toolkit dating back to 2004, and I'm actively working with Dojo for nearly 16 years now. So I just want to quickly give a summary of where we're at with Dojo. The most recent release was version 7. So if you use Dojo toolkit before, there are some similarities, but almost everything is new rewritten from the ground up over several years with the Dojo 2 release coming out in 2018. So Dojo is in many ways a modern progressive reactive TypeScript first framework. And what that means is we started with a TypeScript and ES6 foundation as the basis for how we would design a modern framework and went from there. So we really focused on the ergonomics of using TypeScript APIs, having strict, strong type definitions for everything we do, and really just thinking about what's a natural way, not just for us to build a framework with TypeScript, but for users to work with it as well using TypeScript plus practices. It's reactive and that our components use a JSX or TSX syntax, and there are some similarities with React and other modern frameworks. We have gone to great lengths to align with and interrupt with emerging standards from intersection observers and resize observers to the forthcoming internationalization API, inert state on form components and so on. We like to describe modern Dojo as a batteries included lean framework. So the result is quite small, but we do give you a lot of the things you need to build a modern application without having to make hundreds of dependency tree decisions on which routing library do I use, which component system do I use, what build optimization tool do I use and so on. And the result of putting those things together is we can assume things about the framework that allow us to create something that's consistent and easy to use, and also results in really small modern applications. You know, typically a like a Hello World style Dojo application is about somewhere between 10 and 20 kilobytes GZIP, so it is quite tiny. We have a custom rendering engine for widgets and DOM nodes. It's based on, you know, the sort of virtual DOM pattern that we did quite a few optimizations to make it interesting. And we have a flexible approach to middleware to connect like resources or data or state to your application. We also have done quite a few things around custom elements also known as web components. So basically, if you create a component in Dojo or an application in Dojo, you can export it with zero configuration as a custom element for use in other applications. We have a test renderer that makes it really efficient and easy to test VDOM based Dojo components. We work with a very nice modern approach to state management. You might think it's like Redux, but it actually is quite a different structure for how we sort of separate operations processes and things like that. We have a nice CLI build tool. We have a very strong mantra of do the right thing by default. And so the idea is, yes, you could do better if you know better, but by default you shouldn't have to make 100 decisions before you're productive. We have code splitting that automatically works based on your routes or your configuration or both. And we have a conditional polyfill loading system. So evergreen browsers really don't load much at all, but older browsers that don't support those polyfills, particularly IE11 right now, which we still support, will load the dependencies as needed. We have out-of-the-box progressive web application support with just a couple lines of configuration. And similarly, we can do build time rendering to inline our HTML and CSS and generate fully static sites if that's appropriate for you. We have this concept of a dojo block, which allows us to execute node modules at build time and then local bundles at runtime. We have a comprehensive widget library that includes theming and dojo7 added a material theme for that. We have commands for creating applications and widget libraries, not just for creating an application. So those are different CLI-based tools for generating the scaffolding and infrastructure you need to either create an application or a widget library. And we have a new thing called dojo parade, which is sort of a way to generate a collection of widgets that you have in your application and or that we have in our framework, and then documentation about each of them. So that's sort of where we're at today with our recent version 7 release. And also a lot of the components are function-based widgets and we also added something known as dojo resources, which is a way to sort of make a component aware of a resource without having to do a bunch of extra boilerplate in your component. Up next for dojo, we're working on application level widgets, which is kind of like a mega widget for an application. For full design system support, we just released the dojo resources thing, so we want to make refinements to that.  We also have a lot of resources, but if you're looking for dojo and you end up on dojo-toolkit.org, that's the old dojo. So find your way to dojo.io. There are a lot of community resources, such as documentation, examples. We're on code sandbox. We're also part of Versal, which used to be known as Zeit, in terms of if there's an automatic deploy to Versal with zero config if you want. And then widgets.dojo.io is our example of the dojo widget system inside of dojo parade, so you can see what components we have available and how to use them. Thanks for your time. And we also, at this conference, we have a session about how we got from old dojo-toolkit to new dojo. There's a dojo workshop available. There's also an intern workshop, which is a framework for testing that comes from the same team as dojo. Also an OpenJS Foundation project. And then we're also just available online anytime to help you get started with dojo. So thanks for your time.


Hey y'all welcome to What Chelsea Eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. In this video I'm going to give you three tips on how to reverse iron deficiency anemia.  My name is Chelsea Knudsen and I'm a certified holistic health coach and I coach women on how to heal naturally from female related conditions using food as medicine. So if you're new to my channel and you like what you see hit the subscribe button and don't forget to hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode. Some of you are really suffering with iron deficiency anemia low iron. I've been there and I've overcome it and I'm going to give you three tips on how you can overcome it too. So stay tuned, watch the whole video until the end because I'm going to share with you some information about supplements that might be able to help you. So first of all healing iron deficiency anemia low iron is not just about taking supplements it just really isn't it it's impossible just to throw iron at iron deficiency and make it go away. Ask yourself the question how long have you been fighting iron deficiency and you've been taking the iron pills and you've been going and getting the infusions or the blood transfusions. Has any of it worked? I would think not. Sometimes it improves for a little while but then it goes back down just like for example if you get an iron infusion a big dose of iron like it will help you for a little while but in a few months you're right back in the same position that you were in from the get-go. So that's not how you heal the problem. In order to reverse iron deficiency anemia you have to deal with the organs and glands that are associated with reproductive health. You've got to get those organs and glands working in the perfection in which God created them to work but to name just a few of them you've got your kidneys your adrenals your pituitary gland your colon and your liver so those are the five that really need worked on in order to correct this whole situation but I can't teach you all of that in a five minute video so what I am going to do is to give you the three tips that will help you out tremendously. If you want the whole picture of how to heal your reproductive issues across the board you may want to consider joining my 90 day walk to freedom from fibrates group coaching program. The next one is going to be in January. If you're interested in learning more about that the link will be in the description box below and up in the cards above. The first tip is that you have to attack one of the main culprits that is contributing to the heavy bleeding that is causing you to be anemic or have low iron in the first place and that is what you put in your mouth. I know I'm always talking about it y'all y'all are probably like would you stop talking about this already but it is first of all it's not the only issue but it is the the first thing that you can do to help alleviate some of the symptoms. So when you have practiced a diet and lifestyle that is primarily consisting of junky foods, processed foods, sugar laden foods, not enough healthy foods your body becomes toxic and you know I'll talk to a lot of women and they'll say why eat healthy and I'm still having heavy bleeding well here's what I'm going to tell you about that. If you eat healthy and you still have heavy bleeding then you might not be eating healthy enough for your particular body so there's probably some things that you need to clean out of your diet in order to help alleviate the toxic waste that is in your body that is contributing to why you are bleeding too much that's causing you to have low iron anemia or iron deficiency. The junky foods that we eat causes our bodies to get clogged up and toxic and one of the channels of elimination in the body is the vagina for women. Men don't have a vagina so they don't have that area of elimination but women do so when we have our period what'll happen when our body is trying to eliminate excess waste that it can't eliminate through other channels because they are all clogged up too like the colon the skin the liver the lungs etc what ends up happening is the the uterus tries to purge toxins through the vagina through bleeding and that's why you'll have like these episodes of hemorrhaging every month and it's because your body is trying to release toxins and in some cases there are people who are just bleeding non-stop I used to do that my body used to just bleed non-stop and I can tell you exactly why my body used to do is because I one of the problems I had was I was constipated I was constipated since I was a little kid I can remember being like four or five years old and sitting on the toilet and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for something to happen and it didn't and I had always been like that my entire life there would be some periods where I might go more than others but I'm telling you I was constipated so my body was on overload as far as toxic waste so no no no wonder I developed fibroids and acne and all kinds of toxic conditions so that's just an example of why someone would be pushing blood out of their uterus in that way is because your body's trying to get rid of toxic waste and the first line of defense is by changing what you are putting in your in your body so most of you know I created a foods to avoid list if you don't have that list you can get it in the description box below or up in the cards above it's called the foods to avoid to help you shrink fibroids naturally it's going to give you the basic foods that you should eliminate from your diet to help you in this process but in general what you would need to alleviate to give your body a break so that it can heal is meats, dairies, processed foods, sugar, grains, grains, alcohol, caffeine but if you download the ebook it'll give you a little bit more detail as far as what you should avoid so if you eliminate the foods to avoid that's going to help with your process of reversing anemia or low iron so the second tip is eat your greens eat your greens as much as you possibly can right here I have a green smoothie and this smoothie is filled with swiss chard that's the green of choice in this particular smoothie it tastes really good I can't even taste the greens in this smoothie it has a pineapple banana and swiss chard that's what's in this smoothie and if you eat greens every day you are feeding your body the chlorophyll that it needs to help replace your minerals and your iron in your body the thing about this smoothie that's different than juice is that the smoothie has the fiber intact if you prefer that great but you can you can drink green juices as well but the thing about juices and smoothies is that if you do green juices and smoothies I should say you are going to give your body an infusion of greens that it needs to replace the minerals and the iron that your body has lost through the heavy bleeding so I would do at whatever I could to replace my greens I would drink green smoothies or green juices or both I would drink eat big salads and also I did a what I eat in the day what I eat in a day video that had a smoothie recipe and a salad recipe in it and if you haven't seen that I'll link that right here in the cards above and down below in the description box for you to see but it'll give you some examples of what I mean by how many greens you should eat in a day to help replenish your iron stores and your mineral stores but the next thing that I want to share with you about the greens is I also recommend to my clients to to use liquid chlorophyll and I will put a link below with the type of chlorophyll that I recommend my clients to use it is a concentrated liquid chlorophyll it is a really good quality liquid chlorophyll and it's going to help you to replace the minerals in your body so so far we've talked about changing your diet getting rid of the foods to avoid and getting your greens in and last but not least there is one iron supplement that I absolutely love I have had many of my clients come and say hey my iron level was an eight and now it's a 12 after a few months and that is fast for iron to increase that quickly so I definitely recommend this one and this one is the mega foods blood builder I'll put a link down in the description box for you to go ahead and get that if you're interested in it but one thing I want to say about the liquid chlorophyll as well as the blood builder do not think for one second that you can just go out and buy these two blood this blood builder and this iron supplement and say I'm going to take it and expect miracles to happen and not do anything else about changing your diet because as long as you keep on doing things to yourself that contribute to the problem you will never be able to reverse the problem so a lot of us we pray and ask God to help us to reverse these problems and everything and we don't want to change our lifestyle we don't want to stop doing the things that has caused the problems in the first place I don't think that you taking iron pills and liquid chlorophyll is going to do the thing that you want it to do so I would say combine all three together change your diet drink the liquid chlorophyll and take the iron supplement and I think you will have good results now there is more to the story around anemia like I have not talked to you about the whole picture here but you will be able to get some results by implementing these three steps into your life like I said in the beginning of the video if you want the full picture of exact steps on how to heal naturally from these issues consider joining my 90 day program in January all right y'all I have shared with you three of my tips on how to reverse iron deficiency anemia I hope this video has helped you and until next time I'll talk to y'all soon take care


Hello, Lavaz, I am joined today by Damon, Joe. I forgot your name, so. And Damon and Joe, yeah. It was helpful. It's so awkward. I was like, who these people in my house? Do you know what? You guys speak five languages. Yeah. Okay. Why is it that everybody who speaks more than one language speaks five? What? It's like that. Yes, it is.   To confirm, yes. I feel like a lot of people say that they speak five, but they don't actually speak five, and we always have to test our five because we made videos in other languages. Right. Well, I'd also say that. But it's never seven, it's never 12, I'm trying to get to six. It's because there are five, no, there are five romance languages. Not like, lovey, lovey romance, but once you learn one romance language, they all have the same pattern. Yeah. And so it's easy to learn the other four. So Portuguese, French, Spanish, and Italian. And Polish, somehow. Okay, so today we're going to be doing a part two video that I did with Ari before, which is kind of a competition in a way. So we're going to respond to three awkward dating situations individually in the comment section below.  Like, who is the best at finagling this dating game? I'm not on Tinder plus level, so I'm worried that it might be you, but you're also a direct flirt. I'm a very direct, I'm a closer, so it's a good competition. Who's going first? Me. Oh, yes. All right, let's do it. Okay, so this actually did happen to me. It wasn't a fling though. I think it was trying to be a fling, but it didn't actually happen. I was at the gym and I just got coffee with this guy, and he said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, like let's meet up, let's go get a drink later, whatever, let's go out to dinner. And I said, you know, I'm actually leaving for LA tomorrow.  That is not convincing at all. Oh my gosh.  Yeah, so crazy. You know how I was supposed to leave yesterday? There's a huge storm coming in, and they decided to reroute all the planes, so I have a little bit of a layover here, but you know, next time I'm in town longer, we should definitely get together again, giving them false hope. Hi. Yes, of course I remember you. You look fantastic. Yes, I've been traveling so much that I got my flights all mixed up, so I'm actually staying a little longer, which I am stupidly grateful for because there's so much I want to see and experience new people that I want to meet, pound in the pavement, or other people. So, so what are you guys doing later? Oh, you're going to the bar? Yeah. Do either of you like red wine? Oh, you do? Okay, cool. Yeah, what's your favorite? Maybe we should go and pick out a bottle later for the whole group. That is so, so sweet of you. I think that you are absolutely incredible and fun, and I just, I really enjoy being around you, but if I'm going to be honest, which I want to be honest with you, I think I was kind of feeling your friend, and I think just all in all you guys are really great groups to hang out with, so I don't necessarily want to, you know, make it anything romantic. I think we're just all enjoying each other's company, and I want us to still be cool because like you are definitely a really, really cool person. Hey, yeah, yeah. Wait, do you guys have Instagram? Okay, cool, cool. Yeah, yeah, just because I saw you guys were in a group together here, and I don't know, maybe we could all hang out later together, and then what you do is you go on the Instagram, you look at their tag images, and then you tag, you let go to the friend, you DM the friend, and then you guys go out together. That's a good answer. Excuse me, do you mind if we put the armrest up? I know, I seem small, but I'm actually like a football player in my mind, so I just like to have the option to spread out just to get a little bit more, you know, comfortable because it's going to be a long flight, so I don't want to feel confined, and you shouldn't either. Just let it all out, be yourself. Hey, yeah, turbulence, I know, mm-hmm, yeah, we could put, yeah, yeah, here, I'll put my arm there too. What are you watching? Oh, I love that movie. My favorite actor in that movie? Who's in it again? Oh yeah, I like them. What? Yeah, I'm actually, I'm going to Paris because I love that city. What about you? What are your favorite places there? Oh, what, how about you show me that place, and we can go there together. Nailed it! Excuse me, hey, yeah, so, so crazy for me to ask this of you, I get really nervous on planes, so do you mind if I just grab your hand if there's turbulence? It's going to be a little clammy, my bad, but where are you headed? Oh, that's crazy, I've been there before, have you seen this? And that's how you get them. That's the end, okay, so in the comment section below, let us know who you think won, like who is the ultimate tease, flirt, finagler, schmoozer, all that good stuff, and while you guys are down there, also go in the info box because you guys can find links to all of their social media channels.  We are. We're trying out here. We're trying! We're trying. It's day one, you already stressed it out.  We're teaching Shannon how to flirt in French. So if you want to know, then you better go, or as I like to say, allay. Right? Allay! I like what you bad sound.