Hey, hi, it's Bridgette. Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee with Bridgette. Alright, so if you have been following me on Instagram for the past few weeks since the first week of August, you know a lot has happened for me. I spent some time in Florida at one of my favorite places ever Walt Disney World and I came home and had an unexpected souvenir, you might say, which is why my voice sounds a bit odd still. It's been about a week since I have been working through moving through the virus that I have avoided for the last two and a half years very feeling very fortunate that I did not have the first few rounds, however many. What round are we on? Are we on round seven? And so yeah, so I'm gonna sound a little bit different. I don't feel all that bad at this point. I want you to know I'm about a weekend now and I'm actually feeling quite a bit better, which is why I'm recording. This is the first time I've been able to record in a week. It feels good to be able to connect with you and to share through this Sunday morning coffee podcast, you know, how much I love to share coffee with you in the morning.  So during this time I have had a lot of insights because yeah, it took me down for a few days for sure and and had an opportunity to really, really deeply care for my body. During this week, it has been the big Lionsgate portal, the 8-8 portal. If you're familiar with energy or follow astrology in any way, you understand that that's a huge manifestation energy vibration in addition to the fact that there are so many things happening astrologically. I am not an astrologer but I know for my friends who are very connected in that area that there is a lot that is impacting everyone and it kind of makes people feel a little crazy. In addition, we've just had a full moon. I was fortunate to be able to feel well enough on the full moon to be able to do a blessing bowl ceremony and then to do a burn, a ceremonial burn, which I did share on Instagram. So check that out from August 11th on Instagram. In August 12th, I did share a little, a few videos of the burning that I did and so I'm happy to talk to you about that if you're interested. Perhaps I'll do a video on Fairy Grasshopper, my vlogging channel and talk kind of about what I do, what inspires me to do a burn and what that looks like and what it represents for me because there's a lot and it can have a lot of different intention, a lot of different outcome and so I can share that for you there. Hey, yeah, I'm just really appreciating your presence right now. Thanks for being here. Thank you. So a lot of things. I had my journals handy by me and as I was, you know, going kind of through the ups and downs of what my body was feeling and honoring my body and really radically just constantly letting go and giving in to what my body felt, what I felt intuitively my body needed and there was so much healing happening at an emotional level for me because of all of the, I actually initiated a clearing the week that I was in Florida on Sunday, the last day of July, Sunday, July 31st, I initiated a huge clearing and was dealing with the kind of spinning up of things from that experience when then I got sick and so it all is the way it is intended to be and I just really have had this incredible multiple opportunities just to surrender and it's been difficult. It's been painful, physically painful and my body is just processing so much emotional energy and it had been just squeezing and tensing up and resistant to letting go and acknowledging all these little pockets of fear that were in my heart space and this doubt and this questioning and this confusion over what's real as far as perception and understanding and acknowledgement and what it all means for me at this stage in my life, like 20 years post my father's death, what it all means here at this point in my life with all of the life experience that I've lived and then the recent turmoil and turbulence that I have been really fighting with inside my heart it's just it really is a fighting against myself and I have felt so torn up and finally during this last few days I think the last four days or so I finally just had to give in, I had to totally surrender because I recognized that control is just not an option. We can't control other people at all. We can't control other people's actions or behaviors or their feelings. We can't control their feelings. We can't make things better.  We can only at best be in alignment with ourselves in any given moment and so that's what I have been working with. So in this Sunday morning coffee I want to talk about the topic of chosen specifically the unchosen and what that means. It's big isn't it? Yeah it is. We might want your journal for this one to be able to dig in and go deeper and explore what it means for you as we start here whatever we start here we'll start to kind of swirl around a little bit. What might be just below the surface for you and if that's the case I would ask you to allow the sweetness of being aware of your senses of your body of your heart even if your heart starts to flutter and get that kind of anxiousness to just breathe into that to create your own space room just for you room for your feeling room for your awareness within your body. So many other experiences other people's stuff has moved into the sacred space that's you and this is a time now to un-choose with a conscious reverence. Un-choose with a conscious reverence a ferocity of a deep and devoted love to yourself to un-choose the others who have put into your sacred space their definition of love their own personal need the prioritization of others feelings over your own. It's time for an ownership again for a reigniting commitment to your sacred self in the heart space. I didn't choose I did not choose to get this virus at this time I didn't choose that but at the same time I think my body decided to un-choose so many things at once that I didn't even know were bad for me or didn't even realize were pulling me under into more anxiousness into more prioritization of other people's feelings and other people's needs and needing to listen and be there for them when really the truth is is who's there who's going to be there for you who really is going to be there for you. I'm not suggesting to abandon your friendships your relationships your all of the support systems they exist for a reason but I am inviting you to know what truly is supporting you and what is taking from you the peace and the self-love that you have earned over all this lifetime of work of seasoned experience you have earned a self-love and a devotion to yourself and other people in your life have not earned that from you and they and their need to feel better or feel good may have inadvertently decided that you were their sunshine and the truth is they need to be their own sunshine they need to be their own center of their own universe and other people like my attention to that other people's needs does not make them feel better truly it is a temporary energetic connection that is really quite out of alignment from the core of self-love that we are as individual beings each person really not helping other people by being their fix we're not helping them we're not helping us we're not helping us and trying to avoid pain trying to avoid difficult conversations or hard truths only hurts more deeper and is extraordinarily destructive so this opportunity to un-choose you have it too especially now with all this stuff all this psychic energy you have it and maybe some of the best things will come from being unchosen in this opportunity to choose yourself once again because there was a time I promised you that you did that you were on your side hands down no matter what your ride or die was you not just your sweet sassy soul but your heart she had your back at one point you had your back and along the way you gradually un-chose yourself in little moments and bits of time you started to fragment just a little bit here a little bit there and pretty soon all these pieces of you existed outside of yourself and it turns out that those pieces were just temporary for the people who received them for the circumstances situations environments that they were gifted to sooner or later they just were discarded because those pieces of your light would only glow because of you and who you are and they eventually wouldn't work for all those people or places or situations that you gifted them to or that you borrowed them to so now where you're at may kind of feel a little bit disjointed like who am I maybe the proper question is who's are you I've said this before in my work on fairy grasshopper youtube on above life channel youtube and my private coaching sessions with you and bridget inspired who's are you who's are you as brunet brown would say we all just want to belong we all want a sense of belonging maybe the truth is it's you the ownership is within you maybe at the same time you can simultaneously be committed to yourself and be completely sovereign and free and maybe the way through into your own freedom is through the deepest commitment of the presence of yourself of all of the facets and parts and instead of regret and resentment for the pieces of particles that you've given off over the course of the years of the years maybe you sit here right now and you call back in the light that you are instead of going to each of those people and saying you owe me this or you need to give me that or I didn't intend to borrow you this or you took advantage of that that's an ego presentation and a misunderstanding or a misuse of your light because your light transcends anything the mind could possibly in its tiniest little vision understand and where you sit here now on the throne of this moment is exactly the right place where you need to be to call your light in it doesn't have to come back to you you can breathe breathe yourself whole you can un-choose you cannot change the past but in this moment you can choose differently how you see yourself how you feel yourself how you treat your beautiful body that's on you nobody else you and you create boundaries and you honor that to keep your beautiful essence sacred and if you choose to violate that sacred trust that sanctity that is also on you that is also on you but right here and right now we you and I we can witness each other I see you I see you watching this video I see you doing the dishes listening to this as an audio I'm gonna have a sip of coffee and offer those of you who are just listening we get to be exactly who we want to be we get to live exactly how we choose to live and that comes from our essence and it's not about your circumstances it's not about your relationship or the conditions of your life or the lack or the distance between here and the goal that you've set for yourself it is not external this power is in it's in us it's in you it's in me and our essence is every it's absolutely it is the key it is the missing piece you are the missing piece and who's are you you are yours you are yours you own your body you own this heart and these emotions the mish mash mixed up ups and downs mood swinging emotions that you have you own that that is yours that creative eclectic vibration of unboring incredibly interesting curious it makes you great it makes you you it makes you so interesting this art space you own this you own it it's yours and you also own your mind this beautiful brain that I know sometimes gets a bad reputation because it is really old school really stuck in this like survival mentality of that eight-year-old kid or that 21-year-old or that 30-year-old or that really insecure person that you were at one point or that feeling of that that person who felt so broken or damaged this mind just like saved you right it just kept you safe and yet it's so overprotective and and it is a part of you so you get to own it which means which means then you have a choice to un-choose you can un-choose some of the thought patterns you can un-choose some of the behavior patterns because that's where it is behaviors the cycles the same relationship over and over again the same job over and over again the same I have this a great idea I only stick to it for two months and then it falls by the wayside the same patterns the habits the belief systems that's in your brain so you gotta own this you gotta own it it's nobody's fault that you are dating the same person over and over again that's your fault okay if you gotta blame somebody blame yourself just own it and change it when you recognize that there's a pattern then you can recognize that you can un-choose that then you can step in and try something different do something out of your comfort zone that puts you into a state of building a relationship with your mind that then provides a platform or foundation of trust of a commitment to yourself to be aware and then try different things not everything you try is going to work to break the cycle or to make a change but you can create and introduce new patterns new thoughts you can use new programming in your mind by like meditation or other mindfulness types of activities like tapping or EFT or even yoga can help clear the mind or the energy of putting in positive thoughts like a great podcast good music things that are going to put actual thought formations into your mind that are something that will get you to focus that you can own that is something you can choose when you un-choose a pattern of belief a thought process that is typical for you before it gets into the hard space and takes over your essence you can make a different choice little choices lots of choices it's not a one-and-done you got to be committed to this to knowing this brain and what she does for you and sometimes she's tricky she can be manipulative and she can convince you that you'll just feel it'll feel so good if you just do this and you know what this is like so stick with your comfort zone no no how do you grow how do you get a better outcome by trying different things by stepping outside your comfort zone by doing something different that is healthier for you not temporary but more fulfilling not a piece but the whole that's what you do I am going to mention too I've been using you watch Sunday morning coffee I've been using some of Melody Beatty's meditations for daily meditations that helps the brain I do one in the morning and one at night and the one in the morning is from the have it here actually I think it's on my bed right now on my bed right outside it um it sets the tone it gives my mind something to focus on or think about so that then I can get to the work that I need to do the other goals the the way that I want to work into my day instead of reacting or responding to what my mind thinks is the most important thing which is staying exactly where I'm at which is status quo that's what the brain does this is job it's good at it it's really good at it but you are a mind heart a soul and a body your physical body honor yourself because if you don't nobody else will you want respect you have to give it to yourself first you have to embody that you have to commit to yourself so much over and over again it's not hard do it either it's easy it's not complicated loving yourself it's not difficult what makes it difficult is all these thought patterns and these kind of habitual things that you just kind of mindlessly move through and you gravitate toward what is familiar and comfortable which does not help that is not good for you it might feel good in the moment just because it's familiar but it's not overall the best alignment for you to be committed and be in relationship with yourself so you have to choose some of these old things to try some things that are different to help change the trajectory ever so subtly of your day of your week and of your life because when you're in new space you get to make new decisions you would make choices that are different than you would have done in the past which would lead to beautiful adventures and more extraordinary outcomes and experiences and people and things of that nature so this is one of the books that I just want to mention that if you need help to do that as well I had this experience myself actually and I should share about it when I was in florida and it was august 1st 2022 was 20 years since my dad's death and after a morning of horseback riding and just moving I changed hotels moved into a different hotel with a beautiful balcony kind of a more contemporary hotel really upbeat more um less disnified more adultish more grown up and with a gorgeous view I got to see the sunrise I watched the boats go back and forth to the abcott and to disney's hollywood studios and I was actually in the dolphin and swan hotel area if you know that is not too far from the beach club yacht club and boardwalk hotels on disney road property I was actually swan and dolphin hotel I was actually in the dolphin hotel and on my balcony I could look out and see the swans on top of the swan hotel which was great it's so great and so I moved into that hotel and was able to get just I was very gentle with myself after the first back riding was awesome I was so so gentle with myself I was really in kind of a place and it wasn't an easy day necessarily but it was just I was just so so present for me I had to be I didn't have any other choice I was on a solo trip I was by myself and it was feeling a lot of feelings as I mentioned the day before I had a massive clearing in the sheet and and the timing just it kind of sucked but it was also good the mice will do this now kind of I won't do this now let's just do this let's just do this in the happiest place on earth and I just was present and so then when I got into my hotel room I was able to like shower and get ready and put on a cute little black dress and just feel just the purest essence of me I'd been at Disney World for two days at that point this is my third day and I just got dressed up and I went I thought I'm gonna go have a drink at the top of the Riviera the beautiful hotel Riviera at Disney World it's gorgeous it's I think it's the newest hotel there now trying to think if anything else opened after I don't think so I mean technically the swan reserve did but it's not a Disney World hotel technically it's right by it but it's not and so I'd say the Riviera which I love I love the smell of that place I first stayed there last year actually in 2021 I stayed there with my sister a very expensive beautiful hotel super in love with it so in love with it I'm like I want to go there again I know how good it feels to me to be there I'm gonna go there and I want to have a drink at the top and the lounge the beautiful restaurant top of Lino's Terrace and I thought when I was there during the COVID I didn't have the chance to go up there and do that it was closed you couldn't go in just unless you had a reservation and it was a whole thing and everything was limited seating and all that so I just got already and I went over there and I thought when I get there I'm just gonna ask if I can go up there and they said well yeah I think you can yeah go ahead and try go up and they they told me that go ahead and go up like an elevator that go ahead I'm like all right so I did and I had the most incredibly amazing night I had a great server who's not my friend hi nice to see you well now a friend I met um three awesome people from a great little startup company in California and hung out with them and then two other ladies who were there on business they worked with like insurance shipping and stuff like that um out on the east coast and uh based in Connecticut I believe it was and so I just like I made friends with people around me and the server moved me toward the window I actually sat away from the window and such and uh table opened up and she said wow we can move you over there you'll have the best seat in the house and so I'm like yes as I went over and I got to wash the sunset and I was gonna have like the best view of the fireworks from that window actually and I'm like oh my gosh I'm in the bar area and I'm at one of the high top tables and I have like the best she's like you have the best table in the house and then it started to rain and so there was like this lightning storm that happened it was beautiful and all these people were like whoa everybody was coming to the window and looking and that's how I met all these new friends and I said um I was talking with them and then they were at my table and then we're having having them drinks and talking and it was just such a cool unfolding and there were so many little tiny nuggets of synchronistic signs and symbols and and pieces that were just affirming for me of why I'm here why I'm here why I was there at that moment why I'm here now and I actually met um one of the people that I met there were four lady five ladies and one man and the man that I met actually is um almost the age of my dad he was 51 I think this man and my dad was 52 when he died so this kind of concept of sitting across the table and having this great conversation we talked about everything like politics and I mean just everything and just really interesting listening to stories and just I just these people were so interesting to me just all their stories and just really being present in the moment and meeting people and seeing them for who they are and being seen for who I am was the coolest part of the whole experience for me just me just being seen as me showing up there as Bridget just me and just such a cool engaging just experience and sitting across from someone that was about my dad's age when he died so it was this reminder of how life is truly so short and such a gift and and meant intended to be savored and our commitment to ourselves that that whole representation of who we are that essence of us although we're different people at different times in our lives and we have different moods and different emotions and different experiences that bring out maybe not the best parts of ourselves yeah maybe not my finest moments at times right overall recognizing that it is a part of me but I will not piece myself out anymore I just won't do it any longer I won't give a person just this little part of me so that they can only see this part and this is what they I just in me and I'm just going to show up as me because I need to show up inside of me as me it takes too much effort and too much work to to go through all the parts and pieces and undue stuff so you can decide what you're going to bring forward for someone and if you're bringing forward only certain parts of yourself sooner or later the whole of you the parts of you that are missing the parts of you that are in feel inadequate the parts of you that are insecure are going to show up and they're going to rage when they rage that other person is going to get the blunt of that and it's going to be ugly and it's not going to be authentic and it's going to be painful for both of you and trust me on this you've got to give yourself the grace to bring all these parts and pieces and just accept that you are this incredible rainbow of energy and of moods and of information and of personality traits and experiences and that's how everybody is even if they don't show that to you and it's okay it is okay and it is to be loved and cherished and respected within yourself first and then you will present in a loving respectful and honoring authentic way within any environment that you're in you won't feel like you have to hide or hold back parts of yourself you get to just be you and it's a very humbling feeling to have that happen to have that moment where you're like wow wow wow it turns out I am really all this good stuff and the stuff that I think isn't so good really isn't that bad it's not that bad it just gives a little flavor flavor a little spiciness a little pain to the dessert that is me very good oh it has been so fun to talk to you and to reconnect with you I look forward to channeling this week on above life channel if you're looking for me yes I'm doing private sessions there is a link below click on that link if you want to have a private session with me okay if you want to have an interactive interesting psychic and intuitive conversation with me we can do that click on the link below and schedule a session okay you can totally do that I'm super up for it now okay so this is Bridget thank you so much for joining me for Sunday morning coffee with Bridget thanks for hanging in if you've hung in this long I appreciate you this part of my life very very much I appreciate it I hope I've inspired your spirit and filled you with hope today and encourage you to live your life it's yours it's yours after all it's yours you get to live it just live it it's for being here


So let's just call them moving to order. So it was three and a half months ago that we first did a meeting on June, which we thought that we might have to do another meeting on June, and here we are in the middle of July. There's no end in sight, so this is the new normal, I guess. In accordance with the current shelter-in-place orders, this planning commission meeting is not physically open to the public. Limited staff are present in the council chambers, and planning commission is participating remotely via video call. Members of the planning commission can use the reaction choices in June to indicate they would like to speak. Those haven't worked for a living in the past, so we can do this now. As always, this meeting is tabled past live on target communication cable to be channel 8, and it's being recorded to be rebroadcasted on the following Wednesday at 8 a.m. and on Saturday following the first rebroadcast at 1 p.m. on target channel 71 and on target channel 25. Meetings can also be viewed live from the city's website, with the new moving link also available on our website. Our technician tonight is Sean. Public comments can be emailed or called in the planning commission. Members of the public may submit public comment once for each item by email or phone call. You may not submit more than one email or call per item. With that said, we'll do a roll call, which we will do by June, our participants, showing Nick Ruth's presence, Peter Will's presence, C. J. Welch's presence, myself's presence, and Courtney Christian's presence as of yet. Next is the pledge of allegiance, so we'll give that another try. So, ready to go, I pledge allegiance to the flag, flag, and the flag, and the flag, and to the Republic for which it is, and one nation, one God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all from. Okay, good. All the commissioners remembered the pledge. That's excellent. Matt, do you have any additions to the recent city agenda? Matt, you're on mute. I know. I know. We're going to get the weird reverb, I don't know how to get around it, but no additions or deletions. Yeah, we've got to do it with the feedback. Okay, no additions or deletions. The next item is public comment. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the commission on matters that are not on the agenda. We will pause for a couple of minutes to see if anyone, has anyone so far sent in any comments? Public comments? Apparently not. The members of the public, a little more time to be asked, but you know, if they would. You have no comments at this time. You have several attendees, but nobody yet has raised their hand. So, the attendees on your screen. I can see them. I can't tell if anybody's raised their hand. We have four attendees, but nobody yet has raised their hand. You have to do it for public comment. Do any of the commissioners have any comments to make at this point? No comments. Okay, and the staff, anything to add from the staff? No. No. No. Staff is being unusually quiet today. So, that takes us to the few minutes of your June 4, 2020, regular meeting. We've seen everyone receive their copy of those. Do we have any changes or corrections, or is not a motion to approve? I move we approve the minutes. Is there a second? A second. Is that Commissioner Christensen? That's Commissioner. Yes, it is. Okay. Good. Thank you. You are present. Okay. Sorry. You need to do a roll call. Commissioner Ruth? Here. You approve minutes? Oh, yes. Commissioner Christensen? Yes. Commissioner Wilk? Aye. Commissioner Wilk? Yes. Yes. And I also approve. So, that was unanimously. So, the next item is the consent calendar. We have one item on the consent calendar, which is a design permit for the property at 111 Jackson Avenue. It's the conversion of an attached garage, a living space, and a new detached airport for an existing two-story single-family residence located within the R1 single-family residence zone. Is there anyone in the commissioners wish to have this heard in a public hearing? We will take a minute to see if anyone in the public wishes to have this heard by public hearing. Sean is printing back a state. He'll be back on the public comment. You say there is someone from the public? I don't know. He's going to check. All right. Can you guys hear me? Yes. Okay. So, I've got the director's report here. As you've probably heard, due to the number of COVID-19 cases. The comment on Jackson Avenue. What was that? Oh, sorry. Yeah. There are no comments as of this time. Okay. Hold off on that report for just a minute while we wrap up the consent calendar. There has been no one asking for this to be removed from the calendar. So, do we have a motion? Motion to approve the consent calendar. Second. We'll have a motion in a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. We'll take a roll call vote. Commissioner Ruz. Aye. Commissioner Wilt. Aye. Commissioner Wilt. Aye. Commissioner Christensen. Aye. And the chair votes yes also. So that passes unanimously. And that does take us to the director's report. Okay. Thank you. As you've probably heard, due to the number of COVID-19 cases in California, continuing to rise. Governor Newsom issued a new statewide. Districtions this past week. Under the new order. Restaurants. Winery. Sorry, wineries. Movie theaters. Family entertainment. Households. Studios. Museums. And card rooms must see. Indoor operations and bars must close. All operations. City planning staff has been contacting all capital restaurants about the availability. A free permit for outdoor dining. And setting up appointments for site visits with the building official to design outdoor seating areas that are safe and meet ADA requirements. in outdoor dining. If they open during the pandemic, please let them know that there is information about free outdoor dining permits under the COVID-19 updates tab in the what's new section of the city's website and that they are welcome to contact city planning staff for more information. Second, I also wanted to provide the planning commission update about the two Queen Palms at 4199 Clare Street because during the review of the project, there are several planning commissioners expressed a desire to have the trees preserved. The owner was able to work with the owner of the adjacent property to the west, 4191 Clare Street to relocate the palms to that property. The lot is very long and narrow and the trees will be located in the rear yard. If the planning commission does not have any objections, the city is planning to allow the relocation of the two Queen Palms prior to the issuance of the building permit for 4199 Clare Street. This action has no effect on the landscape plan for the project at 4199 Clare Street as the two Queen Palms were going to be removed as a part of the project anyway. And that's that's it. Okay, well I'm not sure if you're asking for any planning commission action because it's so it's kind of an easier process there. No, okay. That's not normally the way we would address the necessary. So anything further on the director's end? No, that is that is it. Okay, commission, communication. I just think it's great about the Queen Palms. I know I know what he's talking about. A lot of people like those palms and they were in a bad place. They just needed to go and they, you know, the city tried, city didn't want them, but thank goodness somebody actually made it work. That's great news. Okay, I have a comment which is I'm not sure that we're planning to make some jurisdiction, but today there were 105 million COVID cases reported in Santa Fe County, which if you've been following the numbers, that's just you. That's more than we've had in all of April and March. And there are 27 cases currently in Capitola that have been reported. I think we all see that there are lots of visitors to our community who don't seem to have gotten the memo. And I know we have signs up, but I don't know what we can do to be more proactive to try to protect our community from what appears to be a really striking threat in Santa Fe County. I just throw that out for anybody that happens to be with them. We can close the beaches on weekends. It's not just the beaches, it's the people just walking all over town. Okay, anything further? It's not? This meeting will be adjourned until the first meeting in August. I'm sure it will be virtual once again. See you then. Stay safe. Thank you.


Okay, I guess that's my cue to get started a little bit early How's everybody doing good? so I'm gonna be talking about a It's my slides up yet So I'm gonna be talking about So in a world of infameral containers, how do we keep track of things so essentially about how do I keep track of state? in a World where containers can kind of disappear So My name is Ian Lewis. I'm a developer advocate at Google. I I work on the Google Cloud platform team I'm based here in Tokyo So if you guys ever come back Hit me up. I'm on Twitter. So there's my ID. It's Ian M. Lewis It's really original so So today's today I want to talk about like, you know a few things So I'm gonna basically give a kind of a context of like clusters and ephemeral containers and then Talk about actually like the problem of keeping track of things why that's a problem and and a little bit about how to solve it several different patterns and ideas about how to solve it and give some concrete examples and Then kind of wrap up and at the end there So so just to kind of set expectations I'm not gonna be giving you guys like a silver bullet or or something that you can go and and take home and and be like Okay, if I do this then like, you know, my state will be okay And you know everything will be all right And so there's no real silver bullets like there's a number of different patterns and trade-offs that you can use to to deal with with state and You actually do use different patterns for different types of state that you want to deal with in a in a container or a cluster of containers so ephemeral containers So like So just to kind of like get an idea of the of the room. How many people like actually know what containers are Okay, so like pretty much everybody. Okay, so how many people have actually used Docker? You know played with it run the Docker command. Okay How many people are using it in production? Okay, a few or Okay, so so how far down this rabbit hole should we go? So are you using it do you have like a full? Like see I you know click to deploy kind of thing going on. Who has that anybody? Two people Awesome Okay, so so these guys are getting their Their their salaries worth at their companies so So what are ephemeral containers or what are containers in general so like containers are just You know, there are a technology for for for encapsulating things into making things easier to deploy but what does the ephemeral part mean like And I'm going to kind of just give a You know kind of hand way over the part of like actually trying to get you Into actually using containers, you know, I'm just going to kind of assume that we all want to use them and we all want to to We're all on the same page in terms of actually using containers versus not using containers and They give us a number of things so like they're a great way of doing of providing isolation Between jobs so they don't interfere with each other. This is more like resource isolation or like isolation in terms of like them seeing each other. This isn't something like security isolation but you know other things like life cycle and discovery like actually You know service discovery setting up services doing monitoring and health Checking those types of things may become really a lot easier in containers, but ephemeral containers. What are they? They're they're essentially Disposable, right? They're things that you can throw away So that's what ephemeral means. It's basically just means temporary, right? So if you if you're storing state on something that's temporary, then your state is also temporary, right? So if like that's your say your credit card details or whatever or your customers credit card details And you're like kind of those containers just kind of go away. Then that's that's like important information that that You know your your customers wouldn't really be happy about that so So I'm gonna be talking mostly in the in the context of kubernetes and end of container engine because that's what I know best You know working at Google makes you kind of bias in the technology choices but so So what it kubernetes is basically a container over striker So I'm gonna be talking of storing state and and coming up with state in this in the context of actually Running a bunch of containers in a cluster so Running containers on a bunch of different machines, not just on your local laptop or or whatever And so kubernetes is basically a cluster orchestrator It runs on a bunch of different machine or creates a cluster for you that you can run containers in and It schedules the containers for you So if you say okay run this container It will decide where which actual physical machine to run it on or which VM depending on the environment and It's built based on based on Google's experiences Running containers inside of Google. So we run pretty much all of our services in containers and Kubernetes is an open-source project. So it's like an open-source project for real. It's on github and You know, everybody can use it there. It's not like other ones that shall be Remain nameless that that are they come out every once in a while but so it's really really cool actually to go to kubernetes on the github page and see all the issues and the And the discussion kind of going back and forth between the developers Because it's really gives some insight into how like people at Google think and how other people at other companies that are really Into the going full in on the containers thing how they how they think So kubernetes like introduces a couple of different of new Terminology or a few terms One is called the pod a pod is essentially a set of containers that get scheduled and run on the single host so It's essentially the atomic unit of scheduling when you're scheduling within the container or within the cluster and so When you actually say run this this container you actually don't really say run this container you say run this pod and it Has a number of containers defined within it We also have the idea of a replication controller and a replication controller is something that they kind of babysits your pods So you basically just say like hey, I want to have this many pods and you give it a template and that template says gives is a is that kind of a way of You know a cookie cutter that allows you to like create a bunch of different pods or the the right number of pods that you need And then kubernetes also provides a something called a service and this is a way of Creating a single endpoint basically gives you a virtual IP and a port that you can connect to and Then have the the connections load balanced across the all the pods that are actually implementing your service And then labels so you can attach labels to any Any resource but essentially you add these two pods and then you use these to like As part of a selector when you do the service so this when you create the service so the service has says like okay, you know my you know app engine X or whatever is Is what's in my service? And so it selects all the pods using the labels to know which pods to actually rot traffic to and so it's basically a way of Managing a cluster of machines and it's very declarative So you basically say here's the desired state of the cluster that I want to do Or I want to have and it kind of figures out how to Make it so So just to give you like a little demo of that Let's see So this is gonna be like pretty small On here So here's container engine So this is like the easy button, right? So you can start up Kubernetes on like any one of your on like bare metal or on AWS or on like whatever But it the easiest way to do it is to like do it in cloud platform So it's like you're really Into that or or if you want to try it out, then it's it's much easier to do it here so you can come here into the The console and like you can create a cluster. I've kind of done the The cooking show thing and created one already But just to show you how you do it like you can you give it a name and the type You know the place that you put it and then the machine type and Then you give it the number of nodes that you want to run And then it will create the nodes and install Kubernetes on it and and have it ready for you to actually access So I've created one already so in order to access that I Have a You have what's called the kubic control command And you can say things like get pods and this is basically just an API client The Kubernetes has an API that you can hit To get all the information that you need about like what pods and services and things like that are running So here I don't have any pods running So I'm going to start up my my service. This is actually kind of a guestbook service So here I'm going to create a my SQL pod and service and a memcache service right and then So I've created Can I maximize this? Yes, sure Make this a little bit bigger and then Create the replication controller for my front-end. It's a PHP application and the and the service for my front-end so Each one of these are like different applications like so once my SQL ones my memcache And one is the actual front-end PHP application and each one of them has a service associated with it That you can access so that they can actually talk to each other and So what does this look like in the in the cluster? So here's a a Kind of an overview or like a visualizer that will show you the state of the cluster and so here I've got the These are all the pods and replication controllers. I just created this and this front-end part is a service and This over here is the replication controller. This is my little babysitter that babysits my pods So I don't have a replication controller for these ones You can create just regular pods, but that's not particularly advisable, but you can do that and then you can do things like You can scale You can scale the the replication controller to have a different number of pods And so here I just it's actually too fast, but I just scaled it to to five pods and it started up five pods Here and so it basically just started up two new pods. It just and kept the the old ones around So that's what it means by basically declarative state. You tell it what How many pods you want it to run and then it kind of figures out how to get from where it is to where it needs to be So that's a pretty simple kind of demo. I'll probably come back to that a little bit later So so where's the state? So I've got this actually let me go back and actually show what the application looks like So I created a front-end that will give me an actual public IP or public load balancer and So here's the actual guest book. So if I Blow this up and then like start typing some messages then I can save those in the in the database and actually Reloaded and see that So, where's the state of this application like what? What type of a state do we have? I think that there's a Several actual pieces of state Does anybody have any idea like like what types of state there would be? So like one one is obviously that there's the the memcache server has state So it it stores like the actual database with the messages and that sort of stuff and We also have We also saw that we have memcache running. So that's that's actually a kind of a type of state It's a a cache that has the cache data in it That's a little bit more temporary You can it can go away and the application will still run but I could have performance implications I did mention the database. That's what mice mice go But there's also like there was also a memcache that I started up. Yeah So and then so there's those two type of states. There's also There's also configuration for my for my application. So like how does my PHP application know? where the database is or what the name of the database is or Where the what the name of the service is for the for memcache Also like there's one more type of state that's really kind of an interesting one So the the state of the cluster itself like so how many pods are running and what services there are and things like that That's also a piece of state. That's that is somewhere So I'll kind of talk a little bit about each of those So yeah, so where is my state? Oh, yeah, I basically thrown it away already, but so the but the so I'll kind of get into the state and stuff a little bit later But I first I want to kind of talk about the difference between containers and images Because I think a lot of you are pretty familiar with how Docker works And many of you have probably run it on your machines and done Run all the different commands But one of the things that the Docker does is It allows you to create images like package them up and gives you a really nice format that you can put on Docker hub or whatever and So it's and it's kind of a read-only system like set of layers of of Actual files that that get they can get built up so you can Usually you do something like build maybe push to repository pull to like the host that actually executes it And then like start in a container from the image but when you're doing that locally you can kind of like start it up and and and run it and then You know either make some changes To the to the hard disk or to the local drive or whatever and then actually like do a commit like Docker commit or something and so that's actually saving some states to the to the image itself and so That's that's something that we actually want to get a little bit away from if we're gonna actually start talking about clusters of machines so in contrast to two images water containers containers are actually that the a An amalgamation of kind of a bunch of different features in the Linux kernel So there's a few apis one is called C groups that helps reach restrict resources for that our processes can consume CPU and memory and disk IO and things like that There's also a set of things called namespaces Which you can you can create a namespace for a set of processes or a processor set of processes that's kind of creates a a You know walled garden of of network interfaces and PIDs and and users and mount points and things like that so this kind of like walls off your your application and do it into a you know a box or something and the then there's a set called capabilities which a features they call they're keep called capabilities that Lip limit what the user can do so things like whether they can mount or kill processes or change the owners, etc So if you use these all together You can actually do a lot of like really cool things which is like which is what basically that containers do which is run processes that that have some sort of Some resource isolation between them as well as not being able to actually see each other unless you want them to So each one of them kind of thinks that they're own running on their own little box within a box So in a sense, it's kind of a very inception like but it's a They're essentially processes. They're just running directly on the on the machine or the host that they're running on So when we're using Docker and we're starting up a bunch of different containers from the same image you're actually creating a A read write interface or each one of them has their own you know Local system file system that you can rate read and write to but each one of them are essentially copies of the original image and so you can't expect that we each one of them could write that data down or write write to the file system and then Then save it and then be able to be restarted somewhere else like each one of them has different state and so and when you restart it like each one of the the Containers all start from the same image. And so they're all going to start with the exact same state so they need some way So you need to have a system where each one of them can start up and Essentially figure out what it's what it needs to do to get started or to actually do the work that it needs to do So there's a number of ways that you can do things like try to Create states that is going to outlive the container essentially And so one of them is you can create a host or mount a host directory to the container So one of them so what you can do is where the actual container is running you can mount it Mount a directory to the hope from the host to the container and then write to that directory and when you restart like when you shut down or restart the that particular container it will be able to remount that particular host directory and Continue on But there's a downside to this and that it's only available on that particular host you're also going to be You need to have a separate host directory or separate directory on each host or on the host for each container Because each container has its own will have its own state that it needs to be able to store And so you need to manage be able to manage those to those things those directories and So that can be pretty unwieldy so and the Including the the host directory like so essentially what you need to do is you need to try to get the the state that you're That you want to be able to store or to save like outside of the container completely So you need to be able to store it somewhere else outside of the container outside of the container cluster even that Where when you so that when you start up a container No matter where it starts up again. You can actually access the data That it needs to or access the state that it needs to So we'll talk about a couple of patterns for actually for actually doing that and doing it more In a more correct way, I would say So one is to basically use network storage that's available to your cluster So The the canonical example is if you use like GCE or or AWS or something like that For to run Kubernetes. You can mount a network drive. So in GCE would be or In compute engine, it would be a persistent fault or a participant disk So you can mount that persistent dicks to a particular Container and that container can then or that pod can can then continue to run no matter where it's restarted or moved around and So this is mute they're mutable like you can actually read and write to them, but and they outlive the container and also Very importantly, they're they're accessible accessible from wherever the the container actually happens to be running so you can so Kubernetes has a number of plugins that you can use to actually mount disks like this so like I Mentioned the GCE persistent disks and AWS block stores But as well also you have like NFS or ice-guzzy or those type of or like Gluster FS There's a number of plugins that you can use that that will allow you to essentially get the same thing so Next I want to talk a little bit about a few more patterns for actually keeping track of things So the the actual patterns are So storing Storing outside the cluster. I kind of talked about a little bit So you essentially run the the software that you need to to like store the state completely outside the cluster and then and so block stores are kind of a one type of that where you actually have the The the persisted volumes outside stored outside the cluster and managed outside the cluster And you can basically have something like this like however you like manage it however you like and It's basically it connects over the network so you can also do things like have a you know my SQL or or another type of database that's actually managed and and Outside of your cluster so you might have like say your company has a bunch of DBAs or something that That are are really good at managing databases. And so, you know, it's perfectly viable to actually just use that Or you could use another managed service from from a cloud service So something like cloud sequel or like you know cloud big table or whatever those type of things The the second kind of pattern is to kind of adapt it adapt your your database to to run in the cluster. So So this is more maybe more along the lines of the the mounting the persistent volumes But so most software except expects to be able to access the file system So like basically have the file system state stored elsewhere So this is essentially like running my SQL or a type of database on the on the cluster itself And then the third is to actually have a cluster native kind of application so something that's Was designed originally to run in clusters and kind of replicates the data around enough times that it doesn't really matter if if the If the containers get moved around a lot, you've replicated the data enough times that it's it's available for you no matter what This is actually pretty challenging so But it's it's definitely a pattern or a type of pattern that you could actually have So the the first pattern that I talked about running outside the cluster is a Look something like this so essentially you would have like your containers running inside the cluster and then Talking to a service that's outside the cluster and completely managed outside So adapting it to run in the cluster is is basically a Would be running it in a container inside the cluster and then accessing it over at a service Or something like that To get service to cut discovery for it But then basically just talking to that and then that storing its own physical like hard drive data Or file system data on a volume or something analogous and then lastly the the cluster native Approach is something looks something like this essentially each you have a bunch of nodes or a bunch of of Of of replicas of your of your database running and each one of those will replicate data a certain number of times and so that would actually allow you to Have a more kind of highly available Database But you there are a number of drawbacks to that so in practical terms you actually do need to have volumes attached to these but Theoretically you could have something that would run without volumes. That's that's ephemeral But you need to have a little bit more guarantees like Like say if you happen to have a database that has a that replicates and has a quorum of like three Three nodes then you have to make sure that all three of those those particular pods or containers are are not running on the same physical hosts And things like that. So if the physical host goes down then your data wouldn't be wouldn't be lost so one I'm going to talk about a Concrete example, but Basically what you need to do is to determine your apps data needs for each of the For the state that you need to store so So for things like cash like you might not necessarily care as much as as something like your actual database like your your mysql database or Cassandra or whatever you happen to be running so So essentially like the the outside the cluster like the merits of actually using the outside of the cluster pattern would be That it's pretty easy You don't have to really deal with the the nuances of actually running in the cluster And you may already have something like this So like you might already have DBAs running at your machine or working at your company that already manage SQL machines or my skill machines and you know, they managed Or they do a good job doing that and you know, they already have the infrastructure and everything in place So you can just use it. That's that's one definitely a viable option Or you could like use you like I mentioned a cloud service So cloud services are also things that are really really easy to use so you can just Because they're completely managed. You don't actually have to manage the physical machines And they also provide you with a lot of cool Features like like failover and and automation of backups and things like that so adapting to running in the cluster is is another option and So This is really cool because you can you know, essentially run it inside the cluster and and it can When you're running things like databases alongside other other types of applications like web servers that they kind of use CPU you can actually Utilize the cluster a little bit more efficiently than you would be able to otherwise and You can basically restart the process on any node So like if you're your if you had a mysql like running outside of your cluster And it was running on one machine and that machine happened to explode Then you'd be kind of in trouble but if you have been adapted to run in the cluster you could kind of restart it on any other machine and with a little bit of down with a short downtime and You'd basically be okay But obviously with things like this you would really want to test your workload and make sure that That you would get to the the types of performance that you did you that you want out of some running it inside the cluster so things like the networking and Actually storing the volume Storing data on a network volume will give you a slightly different performance characteristics than actually running something outside the cluster on bare metal so the the third actual The cluster native kind of approach so There's this is kind of a shout-out to to a project that was started YouTube called VTES and VTES is essentially a sharded mysql server and So it kind of manages a bunch of mysql shards and then kind of allows you to interact with it as if you're interacting with one SQL server or mysql server and and they've actually provided a number of Of set up scripts and things like that that you can use to to run VTES on Kubernetes In a container cluster, so it's actually kind of working in a in a containerized world It's like it's a really pretty good example of how you would actually get that running It has a number of kind of services internally to it to kind of manage the shards and things like that But it's really really interesting So There's actually the Kubernetes configuration included in the examples directory and on the github repository So essentially so just to kind of repeat it like you need to like Figure out your your apps data needs so like so Based on to and then consider the patterns that I talked about here before actually Implementing that in your In your app for your application So like one of the one of the things that I talked about earlier was the the service abstraction so you can definitely use that as part of actually trying to run things natively in a cluster and You you'll probably end up with multiple data type of services So you might have like one service that's that's for your key value stores or one one data service That's for your your mysql service or And and cache and whatnot And you may even have like different ones for your users versus your your your other types of application data or or logs or things like that and so This kind of a service oriented architecture is really the kind of way you want to go with that so kind of the last type of state that I want to talk about is is configuration and and secrets so Configuration is it is it kind of tight is a kind of state that Usually doesn't change and in this case. I'm actually this is actually immutable state, but so In kubernetes what you can do is actually you can configure containers with with environment variables You can actually pass environment variables directly to the containers when they start so You can do things like a change based on the context so whether you're running in development or production or You're running on GCP versus your Bayer metal or your your open stack cluster or Whatever and other things like logging in vague or the name of your service for your your back end back in database but one thing that you don't really want to be storing in the in the kubernetes config files or or in the Environment variables is passwords, so you you know storing passwords or SSA or keys Kind of encryption keys and things like that You don't really want to be able to want to have to store those in your repository or in a text file So what about these so you can actually store secrets in what's called a secret file or a secret in Kubernetes so you actually do create a file for this, but you probably don't want to commit it to repo because these this The password data here or the data for each individual secret is actually just base 64 encoded so you would basically create this or this file and like and and Created in kubernetes and then once you have a secret that secret is basically a Written one time you can't actually read the data of the secret through the API anymore, but You can then You can then mount the the secrets as what's called a secret volume to your to your container And that's basically just a directory with a bunch with a bunch of text files that contain the the data for each of the secrets so that's a good way to Make it so that your your application can read those type of secrets and passwords and things like that without actually having to Interact with the API and send passwords over the wire and things like that So to wrap up like here's a here's a few kind of other Resources that you can take a look at to to learn more about containers and state and How a cluster management works? The first is a is a really good talk by Jag Wilkes and the the second link here is actually the the white paper that we at Google have Released about Borg which is our internal Container management system so kubernetes was based on Borg and Kubernetes itself as well as several patterns in Kubernetes so the each of these are Kind of talking about how to actually Create state or save state and stuff. So in here is some examples of how to run my SQL or Cassandra As well as how to use secrets Sorry about that Everybody done taking photos? You're still taking photos It's okay. If you if you don't get it didn't get a photo then I'll you can I'll send you all of this so where you can take a picture of it from here or something later So that's all I had for today. So thanks a lot for coming and I hope you got something out of it I'll take some some a few questions Because I think I have a few minutes But it's so if anybody has them I'll take them right now Yeah, so so for like ice-cazi That would be something that like would have to be I'm not really familiar especially with with ice-cazi itself. So but Yeah, that would be how that would have to be something that would be managed for you to actually move it to another physical host if you were running in a physical You know environment around bare metal Right so in that sense in that case I don't think that currently like Kubernetes really has a way of setting like affinity to a particular host or something like that So that would be something that that would be a feature coming probably in the future But basically being like storing stuff on the host is is gonna be You know, you won't you won't have any guarantees that that your your container would be started on the same post again It does kind of restart things on the same host because you might be using things like hosted host You know host directories or ice-cazi or things like that that were running on the single host But obviously if the host goes down it will have to move the container somewhere else and then you're kind of out of luck Yeah, so I don't really have a good option for you right now, but yeah, right There's a couple things that you can do like for for for processes to like make them Get shut down more gracefully But obviously yeah, like if hosts explode or something like that, then you don't have the guarantees in that sense Any other questions? Gosh, you guys are really easy Shouldn't let me off like that Somebody's got to have a hard question That was actually pretty hard question. Okay. All right. Well, if you if you guys have any questions or think of something later Then I'll kind of be around for a little while. So just come and grab me and Ask away. Thanks a lot


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The car set was roofed by 1310, and thereafter the private chapels strung along the broad eastern end of the top that were decked out with frescoes and stained glass and water pieces by Giotto and his followers. For Florence's richest families, while the navy itself was still a building site. The sacristy, a large room highlighted here in yellow of a corridor from the right transept, was built in the next phase, not gone afterwards. It served a community estimated to number around 150 frys by the early 14th century. The earliest decoration in the sacristy, as among wellies that the sodium is shown, was the fictive marble paneling with standing figures of saints that can now best be seen on the western wall, along with the three remaining original windows and the entrance from the church. The array of wooden furniture around the walls and in the centre of the room dates mostly from the 15th century, with earlier survivals and later additions. Those cupboards once held the conference treasures. The sacristy is having share of thefts and dispersals, but some of its most prized possessions remain in the Santa Crochet, such as the crystal reddick grip containing the fragments of the true cross. The habit once claimed to be the one worn by St Francis when he received the stig Marta, and the beautiful reddick grip of the Beata umiliana di Cet, a Franciscan tertiary, whose cult was assiduously promoted by a wealthy Florentine family who was in a chapel here. There was also a spine from the crown of thorns gifted by Louis IX of France, a hand from one of the Holy Innocence and other reddick puris. The reddicks of Santa Crochet used to be a major attraction for pious tourists. They're listed reverently in the earliest guidebooks to Florence, such as these from 1591 and 1754, and they still sometimes make the news today as when the tuning of St Francis was laboratory tested and found to be about a century too late. But in today's guidebooks, the sacristy is primarily noted for its paintings. Documentary evidence about the room is almost entirely lacking due to the loss of the convent's archives in the disastrous floods of 1333 and 1557. For the unusual silence of the sacristy, it's the largest in Florence, and its decoration, show that this was now isolated in a strong strong room, hardly a secret space. Our understanding of the room has in fact been transformed by the realisation that it also functioned as the chapter house of the convent, as was first argued by Paola Voinevic in 2007, and confirmed by a subsequent publication of a document of 1366. It would evidently continue to play its dual role until the building of Brunaleschi's Patsy chapel as the new chapter house in the 15th century. By the 14th century, the chapter house walls of mendicant convent were starting to be treated as mirrors for the self-image of the order, where the friars gathered in chapter could see their own saints and martyrs portrayed around the central image of the crucified Christ. Here, the central crucifixion is by Tadeo Gadi, who succeeded his master Giotto as in effect the official painter to Santa Croce, after Giotto himself let Florence to the Royal Court of Naples in 1328. This crucifixion has been dated to any time between the 1340s and the 1360s, with recent opinion tending to the earlier period, and erected several decades before the busier and more anecdotal fresco surrounding it by Nicolo Gerini and Spinolo Arretino, which date till the 1390s. As Andrew Laddys pointed out, Tadeo was meant to picture a contemplation rather than a narrative image. Angels form a crown around a cross, collecting eucharistic blood from Christ's wounds, while John takes the burden into his care to lead us to Christ's last command. On the right, some Francis of Seasy and Louis of Toulouse provide a model for the friars in their generation of the cross, and between them stands the other world of St. Louis, Louis IX of France, whose feast the Francis can celebrate it. At each corner, gesticulating prophets burst out of the picture play in their eagerness comment on the scene like over-enthusiastic art historians, and little being yet sort of ecclesia and synagogue in the lateral borders underscore the message that we are witnessing, not so much the death of Christ as the birth of the Church. Funding for this act, it seems to have come from the Perotsie family, bankers to the ruling houses of Europe, and already owners of one of the transept chapels painted by Giotto. The Perotsie arms, golden pairs appear high in the four corners of the room. It's an irony that the funds confiscated by the Florentine commune from the Perotsie after their bankruptcy in 1343 were kept in a strongbox in this very room under the eye of the Franciscan sacrister, along with those from the other great banking family and patrons of St. Perotsie, the Barthie. Just another indication of how intricately involved the content was in the civil and not just the religious life of the republic. The east wall was knocked through around the middle of the century to allow the building of a funerary chapel initially for the Guidalotti family. The operation would have destroyed any decoration in the centre of that wall, and painted figures to either side were subsequently mutilated by the insertion of the large lateral windows, which in their current form date from the 19th century, and you would still make out the lower part of a bishop saint under the right hand window. The chapel walls profess to it the scenes from the lives of the Virgin and of Mary Magdalene. But the Guidalotti abandoned their patronet rites before the decoration was finished, and the chapel then passed into the hands of the enormously wealthy Rhinocenian capital. They installed the splendid raw-time railings bearing the family name under date 1371 in gilt letters, and they commissioned the polyptych on the altar dated 1379. Franciscan safes are on the chapel as well, so Francis on the altar piece and the entrance arch, along with other frars, here on the right hand side, to use again and Andrea of Annabine, a frat commemorated him, Santa Croce up to his death in 1382. More Franciscan saints and worthyers are portrayed on the main roof beam high above the sacristy, almost illegible to the naked eye. However, for a florentine chapter heist, it is remarkably a little visible today that celebrates the life and deeds of the fondness of Francis. That task, most unusually, fell for a series of small painted panels. These panels are universally attributed to Tadeu Gadi, author of the Chris Fiction fresco, but generally dated earlier to the mid or late 1930s. They show scenes from the lives of Christ and St Francis. There are 28 of them, most of them now in the academia museum in Florence, the ones you see here. The panels were removed from the sacristy in 1810 during the Napoleonic suppressions. The gaps marked before that were sold off at that time and found their way to Germany, where they can now be seen in Berlin and Munich. Most of the scholarship on these panels have been devoted to reconstructing their original layout. The older reconstructions tried to make them fit onto one large, rare career covered, whether single or double-sided. But more recent and plausible ones envisaged the paintings arrayed in two rows, the Christological scenes above the Franciscan ones, as the formal relationships within and between the cycles would lead one to suppose, and as they were in fact seen in the 18th century by Giuseppe Ricca. In this format, they're most easily envisaged as part of the Spagliere or bat paneling above the sacristy cupboards, as was first argued by Mintloch Boschavitz. Probably, in fact, the cupboards that are still there in the southwestern angle of the room, now with patently non-matching and later Spagliere above them. The effect might have been similar to slightly later examples, such as these in the Benedictine Church of San Miniatua Monte, a short walk away from Santa Croce. And another room, incidentally, which combined the functions of sacristy and chapterhouse. The half lunettes are now attached together in reverse order, the ascension before the Annunciation. Originally separately, they would have formed bookends to the cycle, probably under Cornish or Canopy, like the one in San Miniatua, as envisaged in the recent reconstruction by Giovanni Dioro. The imagery of the panel has received much less attention, with the may be the exception of August Braves, PhD thesis published ten or five years ago. But evidently, the intention was to portray Francis as, in some sense, the mirror of Christ, as it was recalculated in 1754, lo speciol de Jesus Arbatori. That speculatiy was sealed into the saint's very flesh by the miracle of the stigmatisation. When, in the words of Saint Bonaventure, Francis was transformed totally by a fiery divine power into the likeness or effigy of the one he saw, that is, of the crucified price who appeared in the guise of the Seraph. So the pairing of the crucifixion and the stigmatisation was a natural one, which had already been made in the famous fresco cycle of the upper church in Assisi, painted in the 1290s. Other parallels, not shown as Assisi, were suggested by the same textual sources. Bonaventure's Ligenda Mayor made an explicit comparison between the touching of Christ's wounds by the dietling of Apostle Thomas and the verification of the stigmata on the dead body of Francis by the legman Geron of Assisi. The luminous central pattern cycle, the 7th of 13th, combines the transfiguration of Christ with an epise when a glow like the sun on a fiery chariot entered the hut in which Francis' early friars were sleeping. The attitudes of the friars tells the story as it unfolded, from their initial terror on being woken by the blinding light to the subsequent comforting realisation that they were being granted a vision of their absent father Francis. And going beyond the text, Tadeo Gadi presents these friars as new apostles, mirroring the three dazzled by the transfiguration of Christ. For Bonaventure, this epise revealed Francis as an alter-elias, another Elijah, who was taken to heaven on a fiery chariot and who it was believed would return to herald to Christ's second coming. But typology of this time could be almost endlessly elaborated and seems like these gave some way towards justifying the usual art historical description of these handles as showing Francis as an alter-Christus, another or a second Christ. This ambiguous, even potentially blasphemous phrase does start to appear around this time, not in the official Franciscan literature, but in popular writings associated with the fundamentalist, so-called spiritual wing of the order. The spirituals made their stand on a rigorous approach to Franciscan poverty, but they were not above making bold and dangerous claims for the apocalyptic role of St Francis in the coming battle against the antichrist of his allies, often identified with a corrupt and materialistic church. Tuscany was a centre of spiritual ferment in the early decades of the 14th century with distant friars being imprisoned and exiled in Provence before even burned at the stake. Against this background scholars have sometimes been tempted to see a crypto-spiritual agenda in Tadeo Galli's alter-Christus panels, not least because two of the leading idyllogs of the spirituals Peter John Olivia and Ubertino Dacazali had been influential lectors at Santa Croce in the late 1280s. But those days were long past, and as Silvan Pyrrhon and Julian Gardner again had amply demonstrated, Santa Croce was firmly under mainstream conventional control by the time the new church was out of construction. Indeed, the whole project was bitterly denounced by the spirituals as a betrayal of Franciscan poverty. These powers are typologically adventurous, but they are emphatically not a manifest for the spirituals. Narrative is subordinated to argument in the cycle. Key Franciscan scenes are missing. Others are taken out of chronological order in order to make point. Here, the motility is paired with the miracle of the crew at Grecia, when a baby was seen to appear in the manger set up by Francis as part of Advent celebrations three years before he's dead. Francis is shown twice. Dressed in the deacons rose, he's reading the opening of John's Gospel on the left, and again on the right, taking the Christ child in his arms, the word indeed made flesh. The miracle has been moved from its original open air setting into the chancellor of a church, and the lay onlookers who were found in earlier versions are firmly excluded. The scenario underscores the theme of clerical orthodoxy that runs through this cycle, appropriate for and by now thoroughly clericalised order. Every friar in Santa Croce could imagine himself at the centre of this composition, as the priest presiding at one of the church's many altars, affecting the eucharistic miracles of materialising the body of Christ. The following scenes take us back into Francis' early career.  Below, Saint Peter points out Francis holding up the tottering later in church to the dreaming pope of the third. Next, the submission by Jesus and his parents to the law of Moses in the presentation of the temple is the example of Francis' submission to papal authority as he receives approval for his rule. The young Jesus astounding the doctors in the temple with his precocious wisdom is echoed by the supposedly unlettered Francis preaching a spontaneous sermon before Pope Orlorus III of his cardinals. It's long before the stigmatisation that Francis already displays the stigmata as he did in the fiery chariot. It's surely made for instance that the feast of the stigmata was added to the Order's liturgical calendar as a major on duplex in 1337. But these painful scenes also reflect a relationship that was in need of some repair after the long reign of the French pope John XXII who died in 1334. In his impatience over the interminable experience about poverty, John had struck at the very heart of the Order's ideology. First, he removed the legal basis for the friar's claims to poverty by declaring that they owned and didn't just have use of their goods and property. Even worse, he then declared that belief in the absolute poverty of Christ and the apostles, a belief shared by all Franciscans, spiritual and conventional, was heretical. This was the time of great tribulation as the Franciscan chronicler Arnold of Sarawak called it. Even the Minister General, Michael of Chesner, scourge of the spirituals was provoked into open rebellion against the Pope. By the time these panels were installed, John's more conciliatory success of Benedict XII was the most probably in our fix we've been hearing about at both posts. And both sides were making efforts to restore their previously placed relationship. But the Order was badly in need of a re-affirmation of his self-identity. Its belief that the mission set by its founder remained valid, uncompromised and within the mainstream of the Church. That's what I think these panels represent. The first and last panels of the Franciscan cycle chose scenes of renunciation and martyrdom. They're paired with the visitation and pentacost images of humility and apostolic mission respectively. These panels, which are narrower than the others, framed and defined the cycle. In the first, the young Francis makes the decisive choice to renounce his family in possessions, scribbling off his fine clothes before his furious father, and taking shelter under the mantle of the Bishop of Massisi, poverty embraced by the Church. Boys throw stones at the native Francis, a display of the world's disapproval. And here no adults restrain them as they do in Tadeogaddy's immediate model, Jotto Espresco, in the barbie chapel of this same Church. In the last scene, a group of friars suffers worldly rejection in his ultimate form by undergoing martyrdom by the heady during one of the Franciscan missions to the Muslim world that began in the lifetime of St Francis. The figure in black watching the execution says the Franciscan saint Anthony of Padua, who was inspired to abandon the rose of an Augustinian cannon and join the new order by reports of the friar's martyrdom in Morocco. These scenes would have had a special resonance for their first viewers, who might have taken their vows in this very room and whose contemporaries were still being sent to their deaths overseas. Together these panels offer a vision of the Franciscan mission which begins with the renunciation of secular values, but finds its fulfillment in active re-engagement with the world. The journey begun when Francis stripped off in Assisi is a continuing one, carried on by the friars assembled in the Sacristican chaptais. This little wonder that the villain's faces have been scratched out. To conclude, Tania Gagli's Sacristican panels are a significant marker of a renewed effort by the Franciscans of Tuscany in the mid-14th century. Barous can be moralized as they were by internal splits of papal rebuffs to glorify their founder as an image and a mirror of Christ. Within such a crotchig there are dawn covers that contain the greatest treasures the economy possessed. Emblems of the cross and the Stigmata, contact relics of Stun for the bodies of Christ and Francis. The panels would have spoken directly and intimately to the friars who gathered here, reassuring them that they, like Francis, were following in the footsteps of Christ.


update good afternoon folks the roads coming to you live from the shores of very sunny delray beach florida you know we've got a big football game down here tonight that'll be the michigan georgia game out there i was trying to get tickets to that win that game of as soon as i knew who was in it and the ticket prices are extraordinary i insist extraordinary so uh plus i don't know that i'd be going down to the game tonight based on all the viral stuff that's going on anyway let's get to the markets out here right now we've got the uh let me get to my screen we've got the dow is trading up 61 points the s&p is up to nasdaq 100 is off 53 russles up one semizer up seven that's flat trend he's up 128 gold is up 15 bucks taking out it appears to be taking out the resistance at top of its weekly profile out there so that's looking pretty good let's go take a look at our indice charts out here we did cover these during the last hour but uh for those of you that are just listening in here in the upper left hand corner you're going to see the dow as we end the year if the dow closes below 36 565 73 not in favor that that's going to happen don't know for sure then the dow maintains its td9 count top it has a top in place if we take a look at the s&p 500 yesterday there was an a to b equal cd to the upside it's not the kind that steve likes to see because this is more than 0.786 retracement but nonetheless you do have that signal out there price should pull back to 47 52 we get below that that tells us that we may have that top that steve's been looking for the nasdaq 100 the ndx it's got a rogement to mitigate or top still in place as does the russell the semis they formed a rogement to mitigate or top four days ago price below their green oscillator and change line that suggests to pull back out here the transports that just haven't really been able to make heads or tails as to what it is doing from a pattern standpoint so i'll just simply move beyond that you've got the xau so gold is taking out a key swing swing the key resistance level atop of its weekly profile and it has taken out a swing point to suggest native b equal cd to the upside is forming the xau needs to close above the high from december 28th and that high out there is 130 230 so we've got the xau and right now it's straight out at 132 29 one one penny so if you get the xau to close above that teeny nine count gold to close above the top of its weekly profile well that looks pretty good but pretty good means that it just heads right to the top of that monthly profile that's gold that is the monthly profile for gold would be 1868 70 we get above that then we are off to the races to the upside folks have a happy new year out there we'll see you on monday be safe and now thanks for all of your support throughout the year take care