He's a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow, and he's the recipient of the 2011 Alfred C. Carey Prize for Poetry. And this is his book, Angel Park, and it just came out on Friday. Please welcome Roberto F. Santiago. When I first came here, I just moved here in July, the first reading that I came to was a radar reading, and it was because of Baruch who's sitting right there, who's awesome. He brought me here, and it was the first reading that I was like, oh, I have to do this, I want to be a part of this. It was mostly because of this really pink wall, and also the people that read were awesome. So before I actually read anything from Angel Park, I wanted to read something pretty new, and it's actually published by CrabFat, and it'll be out next month, and it's probably a little more ambitious because, like I said, I think I have kind of a cold, but who cares, we'll just go for it. So this one is titled Meet You Downstairs, and it's Amy Winehouse's response to a poem written about her in the Paris Review. So Meet You Downstairs. A poet is nothing within the scheme of my years. Just another rugged rum-runner, run-ragged, trying to pacify the what's inside that never dies.  A breathless blackened cat-eye spilled onto the kitchen floor. I swam on Billy's holiday, pedal-eared between tattoos of pin-ups. I waged wars unholy while in bed, chest pained, only to awake a singer, singular, your same old safe bet. And you can't help but analyze my action.  And all I can ever be to you is 27 darkness and no, no, no. Treading water's time and edge will only hold me for so long. An unforgotten poet dies a hundred times. Halftime cherry, wooden string, bow-tied, Moschino brawl, ribbon-wrapped, and frank take the box to withdraw as inevitable. And I wish I can say you broke my heart. But that's something three poems can never do. So take them back. Take the whole box. Marlboro, red, beasties, tea, outsiders, and my new buttoot. Half-smoke verses that chorus the spaces between ears, both yours and mine. I had 68 days, maybe 69, but never more. How much more torture would you have put me through? So that's for Amy. I actually wrote that poem because I read the poem in the Paris Review, and it annoyed me because I didn't think it was a very good poem. You can tell him I said that if you know who wrote it. So, Angel Park, it's right here. It's cute. It looks like a little building block. It probably took me about all my life to write because it's semi-autobiographical, which is about 16 years. Thank you. But consistently writing it and rewriting it, I would say about seven years, which feels like a really long time. But I'm so glad that it's here now. And the way that I broke it up is into three different parts. The first part is home, so I'm going to read a little bit from each section, and then I'll read a little bonus poem that I've actually never read out loud because it's so new that the ink is still wet. So I'll just go into that.  And a big part of why I wanted to get this book published now was because I wanted my grandmother to have a book that she could read while she's still here, so she's a big inspiration for this. Much of the chagrin of my paternal grandmother who is not mentioned here at all. So here's the first one. It's titled A Blessing. By the ankles she was held above my head. Her eyes, wide as malice, stared beyond me.  The men and women danced in white skirts, beads and arms waving like flags and wore as if they had all been absolved from the sins of revolution. As she was lowered towards me, her wings unfurled, a wreath of ivory pliant as a lover's apology. In her descent, her wings began to jutter like the dancers. With each flutter, the percussion brightened in tempo and tense. La Gagina was not scared. She knew exactly what was happening. Abuelita whispered smoke into her ear before she snapped her neck. So it's kind of the type of party that I used to go to when I was little. This next one is titled Collecting Spanishes. And a big thing that I've been obsessed with is translation and how there's so many different versions of the Spanish that I grew up with. There's my grandmothers, my mothers, my fathers, my grandfathers. So this is just trying to document how different those Spanishes were. And it's titled Collecting Spanishes. Abuelita's English was just like her bread pudding, punctuated with raisins nobody ever asked for, condensed milk contradictions, fattening tenses, cinnamon questions and eggshell. Bapi Spanish was a group of poets' workshopping, not overly concerned with agreement and never without purpose. I don't ever remember him speaking in enneas to me, but I loved him most when he spent all his accents on mama. Mama Spanish was slow-moving silkworms. She sometimes threaded stars into Greek myth and lullaby. Other times she tangled words into ivory, wrapping up a building brick by brick. Abuelo Spanish folds itself into English tea sandwiches. Cucumber and watercress covered in adobo y habichuela negra. I never tasted that recipe. He wasn't around often enough for them to be prepared, and something like that doesn't really keep well. This next one is a real New York one, so I want to dedicate this one to Miguel, who's right there in the front row. I miss his birthday tomorrow, so you should give him a hug and tell him happy birthday. This one's titled City Island in the 90s. So City Island is a place where you, if you were in the Bronx or in New York, you would go there as soon as the seafood was ready, and it was the best place to get the worst type of greasy, nasty food. So it's a big part of my childhood. So I'm going to share it with you. City Island in the 90s. Dodo la familia hops into the little blue Ford Taurus. The tape deck DJ shotguns the playlist bringing the concourse to the water. Tummies rumble to the beat of a freestyle snare based rattles the Styrofoam cooler in the trunk. Salsa, trumplets, treble twists, new car scent out of the little tree that hangs off the rearview mirror. We're off to Johnny's. Boppy always orders baskets of oil sizzle streaming shrimp on a bed of shoestring potatoes sliced with the skin still on. Are you hungry? Mama bays her grease limp fries in Tabasco and professes to them her undying love. The kids carry trays of not enough napkins, too many straws, and a rainbow pallet of plastic cups to catch up tartar and cocktail and hot sauce. Even though we all got the same thing, hands always reach across the table to double dip the secret sauce concoction I made by mistake on purpose. Sitting on chain link benches, we'd sway to the breeze keeping an eye on the seagulls. Over the years, they got pretty smart. The dirty pickpockets work in teams. One dives next to you and gets your attention while the other one steals one of your fries. The teamwork ends. Feathers fly into a pay-per-view fight over a half-eaten fry and we love to watch them. Soaring white-winged rats squeak in squawk symphonies that sound like TKA, like Nocera, like Nayobi, like La India. I thought, did you see what Clara is wearing? Sí, pero también, did you see whose husband she was with? Mm-hmm, loca. The birds and the chisme harmonize. In the book it says bochinche, but I had to say chisme because I know where I am. This next section is titled Away, and it's about all of the different institutions, either museums and colleges, and just going to these different places that transform you in a way, and I guess libraries too, I should say. And this one is titled Two Old Ladies at the Met Staring at a Mural. This is art? You don't think so? I'm asking you. This is what the Met calls art. Is it a painting? I think it's a collage, magazine, clippings, and the building dressed as neon, paint and lights. The shout of a liquor store, Marquis sings jazz to the kids without parents smashing like atoms against the pavement. It's really colorful. Yeah, but the kids are smaller than the mousetrap. Isn't the tablecloth pretty? And why is the mousetrap in color but not the kids? The green and white polka dots. Yeah, but that's where they eat. Why put a trap on a table? The building's lovely. Pink and yellow, yellow and brick. Glassless windows, rust for a mattress, and a table of splintered knots all sit together in a room where a mousetrap babysits the kids. Where are the parents? There seems to be a mother and father on the corner. They're dressed nicely, maybe for church. What kind of church wouldn't allow children? Baptist? I would never leave my children home alone, even on a Sunday. The women on the corner are wrapped in white ermine and the men in freshly steamed and feathered hats. Why are all the colored people so sad? The sky is the color of a sky interrupted by shapes of clouds. I don't think you should say colored. The empire scrapes the uptown sunset and the black and tangle oppies panhandle the edge where Lennox bends into 132nd. Why not? They are colored. You were marked on the colors of the buildings, not the people. Why is what you said okay, but what I said isn't? That was actually kind of a real conversation that happened. And I decided it was worth writing about, I guess. This next one is titled A Year Without. My best friend passed away. It'll be five years ago this July. So I tried to write a poem every year talking about what it was to be without him, which is... it got more difficult as time went on, but this is the first one. It's titled A Year Without. I'm not ready for this year to end. With both hands at the edges, I tried to pierce dates back together and needle and thread dawn upon dusk so that another year or another summer won't wither-fade like rose thorns and greeting cards. If I permit this year to pedal and waft to the cement, then you never really were. If I, by some magic, were able to circle the earth, reverse the jet stream, pull the stratosphere closer, stop minutes from devouring seconds, catch you before you hit the pavement, separate sand from sea, pull myself through the eye of a needle, setting a drop, a dromedary, maybe you wouldn't be gold markings on ribbons and kind words whispered from the arms of strangers. If memories or fireflies gliding mid-air, fragile moth-winged moments, I would reach up and pull you back, placing time into a mason jar before this year becomes another and another becomes a stumble-blur. If there could be nothingness for a second, there would be you. I don't think that poem gets easier to say aloud every year. It actually gets harder in a different way. But I'm very glad that I wrote it, and I'm sure that he likes it. Or if he doesn't, he's not here, so who cares? This next one is... So one of my favorite movies is All About My Mother, and so I wrote this because I was so angry that I didn't actually write that last scene where the woman, Uma Oroho, was actually practicing for a play. So I thought, I'm just gonna write it anyway. I don't care. So it has a very long title, and it's called There Are People Who Think Children Are Made In A Night But It Takes Time, A Very Long Time. I gave you the devil in me. Graffiti stains the names I chose on everything from greasy or pizza plates to old love letters. I bled hearts and Psalms inky blue to cover up my mistakes. You know what it's like watching your only son from the distance of arms, but unlike you, I had no third day promise, no cross and spear, no virgin birth, no right hand to ascend and smite. You left me with the monstrance of glass and topaz.  Didn't buy anything, didn't paint his room, didn't even look at wire hangers, crochet needles or the bales of pink or blue yarn as I got off to the bus for my monthly, then bi-weekly, then weekly appointments. I took all the vitamins I could swallow, hoarded money in a college fund, but when you took my son, I pulled earth to my cheek, tar and asphalt. He was split between two yellow lines. I soaked my hands in him and licked the red from the webs between my fingers, because it was mine. So this last section is titled Far Away, and it was where I started to delve into myth and like much more esoteric versions of travel. And this first poem is called Rooftop Kingdom, and I was trying to figure out whether or not I should say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. It's a really pretty poem in my mind, but it's actually just about a rooftop low job, so that's information that isn't in the book secretly. Rooftop Kingdom. He is the shadow of a hunter under his shirt, brave in the bottle longing for the bird's feather-flitten song, long before the first notes of moon splintered across his smile. His hands, rope and knot us above the city, press whisper into my neck and the light of sound swivel sway the currency. His intent, encased in silence, a handful of stones, darkness, a glasshouse neuron, synapses butterflies that leave scars. He bows, allowing my hands to trace the lattice whirl and lace of his crown. Do you have time for two more or one more? All right, so I'll skip to the one that I've actually never done out loud, which is probably a bad idea, but who cares? So it's called Dearly Departed, and like I said, I'm really obsessed with this idea of translation, and I like the idea that there are certain words that can't be translated really easily into English, and in one of my workshops, this one poet brought up Saudaji, which is about this deep longing and missing, and it takes more than a few words to describe it, so I decided to write a poem about it, and it's titled Dearly Departed, and it's an exclusive for you guys. Saudaji means missing more than absent means broken off at the hilt or unable to forge a sickle sharp enough to protect yourself from yearning. Saudaji means missing as much as semi-free, why don't you bathe? Means, oh, sentiment, we're gonna run due. Means I changed, means I can't, means I won't, means another sorry without I am. Saudaji means missing as much as unrequited means longing for remedy or respite from the ills of spirit which prayer cannot definitively calm, imprison or destroy. Saudaji means missing as much as tears mean joy or pain or I'm still not okay means I wish I never met you or empty means full of regret or without means I hate not having. Saudaji means missing as much as periphery means tracing a land's borders where time can only be measured in distance from another land and the inevitable elastic return.  Thank you very much. Thanks Roberto of Santiago. Our next reader is here from Vancouver and it's Amber Dawn. She's right here before. She's a writer, filmmaker, a performance artist and the author of the Lambda award-winning novel Sub Rosa, so my favorite books ever.


When the Narcissus game finally ends, Narcissus play games. They enjoy a contest. They're very competitive. They engage in periods of play ending with a definite result. They manipulate situations in a way that is not honest or fair. They show no moral principles. They're very untrustworthy. They act in direct opposition to you. And for them it's an activity that they do to have fun. It brings them amusement and enjoyment. It gives them a thrill at your expense as they manipulate you to their advantage. They toy with you. They deal with and control you in an unfair and selfish way. They play with your emotions. They consider your ideas or plans but not very seriously and not for a long time. They deliberately attempt to evade, deceive and misinform you in order to manipulate you and achieve some desired outcome. So it's like a game of cat and mouse. A series of cunning maneuvers designed to prevent you from accomplishing something or to oppose your plans or ambitions by derailing or obstructing you, by confusing you or by tricking you into making a mistake so that they have an advantage over you. They will pretend as though you're on the same page and as though as long as you go along with their agenda they will give you what you want but then they will act as a hindrance to its progress and development. They will deliberately provide resistance and delay because they don't find any fulfillment in the things that you do. They're not really with you. They're not really on the same page. They're just engaging in these behaviors in the same way that a cat chases or plays with a mouse before finally killing it because in the end all they're going to do is try to conquer and defeat you because they view you as their opponent and the relationship is nothing more than a means to gain access to you while also using it as a disguise to keep you under their spell which is why when you catch on to their game the game finally ends. They don't even play the game anymore because it's no fun for them once you're on to it. It doesn't give them that same thrill.  It excites them. It makes them feel alive when they can mislead you, when they can get you to doubt yourself when they can make you think you're going crazy. That really does it for them. That's what they live for. They love having someone that they can get one over on someone who they can use. It's like the only thing that brings them pleasure because they don't find fulfillment in relationships like normal people do they find pleasure in toying with you in treating you as recreational use rather than a serious purpose which is why they go through all of that effort to devalue and destroy you. It's why they didn't even put a fraction of that same energy into building you up or into trying to make things better because that just doesn't do it for them but they love it when you do that for them they love to see you try to make them happy they love when you try to help them all the while they already know that they're full of shit they know they're not about anything but just to watch you go in through it and taking them seriously the entire time nothing feels better to them than that which is why they will often have their victim jumping through hoops throughout their entire life trying to win them over trying to gain their validation when they could have given you that a long time ago they deliberately chose not to because it makes them feel good inside when they have the power to do that to you the only other option would be for them to reveal to you who they actually are and then you would run a mile you wouldn't want anything to do with them because then you would know that they're corrupt and foul you would know that they're no good you would be in your right state of mind and then you could make a considered decision to leave them which is not what they want you to do because they want to keep the game going for as long as possible they want to milk as much out of you as they can because it's fueling them it's a distraction from their past traumas and emotional pain when they can give you this false character while knowing that it's something they can never live up to when they can manipulate you when they can give you lies and future faking when they can make you believe anything when they can tell you the sky is green as crazy as it sounds that actually boosts their self-esteem it makes them feel confident because either way they're still telling you what to think and what to do so they look at it like they've won they've conquered you when you never should have been around them to begin with you should have known that they're no good but it was difficult for you to decipher because they gave you a false character they strung you along while making you believe that you were establishing something meaningful when it was just to stroke their ego it was just to make them feel important and this is how you know you're not dealing with a normal person because a normal person would know when to blow things off they wouldn't keep it going for months or even years they would feel bad they would accept that they cannot be who you need them to be they would accept that they're not what you're looking for but narcissists will keep the game going for as long as they can without a care without any consideration for you because they're greedy and selfish they have a void that can never be filled they're never satisfied and they lack empathy so they find no joy in giving anything back to you that doesn't do anything for them which is why the longer you stay with them they typically end up doing less and less for you while you end up doing more and more and you're left just to long and yearn for some more sort of validation or reassurance that you're doing the right thing that you're not wasting your time when the reality is that they only targeted you because they knew that you could fulfill them they never intended on giving anything back to you they never intended on bringing anything of value to your life because it's just all about them they have no identity of their own they have no self it's just a bottomless pit that they're trying to fill so as time goes by they just end up running their targets into the ground they take your time, energy, money and resources they destroy your physical, mental and emotional health and at the end you're left with nothing nothing but dreams and mirage this idea of a possible future with them when they knew all along that they could never give that to you they knew that you would never accept them if you knew who they are and if you knew what they're really about which is why if you look back you'll realize that everything they did was never to add value to your life it was only to take value away they gave you constant insults and put downs because they didn't want you to realize your true worth if you knew that then you would have left them a long time ago you would have known that they're not going to be anything to you but even when you finally put the pieces together and you begin to figure this out and their game is finally over and you desire to move on and start something new with another person they're not letting you move on and it's like they'll do anything to stop you because if you were to do that it would only remind them that they're worthless and that they couldn't satisfy you so when the target finally wakes up and they realize that the entire time they were being played for a fool the narcissist shifts from being this lazy ignorant person to being like a man or a woman on a mission someone who is ready to take you down as though it's this task that they consider to be a very important duty like a job that they have been given to do when they were never serious about anything before they saw nothing wrong with playing you for a fool but when you become wiser and more knowledgeable and you'll start to shine the light on them of what they've been doing behind the scenes now they can't take it they're coming to get you they're going all out to destroy your reputation to prevent you from establishing anything after dealing with them that might prove to them and everyone else that they were wrong that they mistreated you that they strung you along because although yes they may have done that they don't want to look at themselves and their actions they don't want to own up to that so they go all out to prove to themselves that they're not bad, crazy or wrong that they're not completely despicable and contemptible when in fact that's exactly what they are because they have a track record a clear pattern of behavior of things that they've done to you and not only to you but they've done this to other people before you to the point where they've become masters at it they know exactly what they need to do to get people to succumb to their will to get people to do what they want and it always has the same result in the end they destroy everything they come into contact with they ruin people's lives and yet they never have to deal with the consequences it's always left for someone else to deal with while they get away unscathed but they develop a lot of hatred, envy and resentment towards the very people that they destroyed which is why the last thing they want is to see you moving on they're not going to let you go without a fight because they already know what they've done they're left to deal with the shame and it's eaten away at them so the only other thing they can do is keep abusing you they can't let you get away they've got to hold on to you for dear life because it's either that or they're left alone to their own devices they're left to look at themselves in the mirror and reflect on everything they've done to you and to everyone else in their lives they've destroyed so many people people who could have went on and become something if they had never interfered but narcissists only care about themselves they don't consider anyone else you may have a family you may have people who love and care about you you may have children you may have people who depend on you but none of that matters to the narcissist all they care about is themselves so it's nothing for them to target you and affect you in the way that they do they don't even consider the consequences or the knock on effects of their actions they don't consider how it impacts other events or situations they really don't care they're not even thinking about that all they're thinking about is what they want in the moment and by any means they're going to get it they don't care what effect it has on you or anyone else they're senseless they're mindless and foolish all they care about is what they want or what's going to make them feel better if it comes to the cost of destroying people's families jobs and the hopes and dreams for the future then their minds has a fair price to pay as long as they get what they want that's all they're concerned with which is why they throw in the towel they give up on you as soon as you stop giving in but even then the game isn't over where they narcissists the game never ends they just find new participants thank you for watching if you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up share your thoughts in the comment section hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications if you would like to support the channel you can donate our payable to me such as Narxa Viva you can book a one-on-one with me on my website it's Narxa Viva the Co-UK thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


Alright, what's up guys? Today I'd like to talk about essentially lucid dreaming devices, you know, lucid dreaming masks, the sort of technology you can buy. There's been a lot of different projects on Kickstarter, on all sorts of Kickstarter and crowdfunding campaign websites.  Because each one seems to have, you know, this new and exciting video, which sort of teases you into, you know, funding it and investing in these things. And they all seem more impressive than the last, you know, I'm sure you've heard of, for example, let me just list a few that you may have heard of. You've got the iBand, you've got the Sleep Shepherd, Lucid Catcher, the Aurora, they're all sorts of lucid dream masks and devices like this. And each one seems to have this really impressive punchy video that says, you know, buy this mask and you're lucid dream. And I really wanted to just make this video just to sort of compare a few of them and really talk about how they work and how you can actually use them to lucid dream. Because if you were like me, you know, when I first started lucid dreaming, there wasn't really much out there. I think the Remy mask, the Remy, however you say it, I think that was one of the first ones that I remember from back then, this was a few years ago. But even then I remember thinking, well, how is this mask going to just help me automatically lucid dream? How can it actually enter my subconscious mind and help me become aware? And I think the way that mask, that particular mask worked was through flashing LEDs, which sort of detected when you're in REM sleep, rapid eye movement state sleep, and sort of flash these LEDs in your eyes, which was the idea was they were supposed to go into your dream. So in the dream, you'd see like a flashing red light in the sky or something like that. And train yourself to remember or recognize that that means you're dreaming. And, you know, I think I had a bit of, I did a bit of experimenting with this sort of mask, and I don't remember it doing much for me. It was only until about a year or two later that I really started playing with things like binaural beats, and that I really started getting some results and started actually seeing a difference in my lucid dreaming and not just sort of, you know, one day I'm not lucid, the next day I'm lucid, but more like a consistent sort of improvement on my dreams over say several months. So that's what I'm going to talk about today. So firstly, when you watch these videos, just bear in mind that these are companies, they are obviously trying to make money as any company would. And you have to be a bit skeptical of, not all of them, but you have to at least look at how they're supposed to work. Okay. So at the moment, the most sort of pioneering or promising ways of inducing a lucid dream through technology, you've got two or three different things. You've got firstly, the ones that sort of give you stimulation they detect when you're in REM sleep through the use of an EEG, which sort of senses your brainwaves. And then they respond to that by playing either sounds through headphones, binaural beats through headphones as well, or they will flash things in your eyes like LED lights or that sort of thing. Now they can work, but I find that they're not as effective. They don't seem they do work and they can work. But you have to sort of work with them. And what I mean by that is you don't just put these those sorts of masks on and then automatically have a lucid dream. Because it just doesn't work like that, you know, you need to actually train yourself and practice recognizing the stimuli that they're giving you the lights and the auditory simulation. You need to practice recognizing that and then training yourself to become lucid as a result of that. It's like you're sort of using the mask as a reality check. But you need to put the work in otherwise it won't do anything and just make you have a slightly disjointed sleep and you'll wake up feeling a bit tired. You won't have a lucid dream unless you really understand that you need to work with these sorts of masks. The ones that flash lights and play sounds in your ears. They do work, but you need to work with them. You need to practice lucid dreaming techniques like the things I teach in the boot camp, alongside using the mask. And when you do that, it will be a case of one plus one makes three, you know, you will actually get better results if you're doing the two in tandem. That's important.  You need to do that in tandem with using the lucid dreaming masks that flash LEDs in your eyes play sounds, that sort of thing. So that's the one one case of effects you've got those sorts of masks and they work well, but you need to put in the effort with them. Now, then you've got the other sort of masks that now there aren't many of these at the moment. I think the iBand might be doing something like this. But I can't quite remember but the main one is what's called lucid catcher. Now, the lucid catcher is is very different to any other mask that is intended to lucid dream or help you lucid dream because not only does it detect your brain waves and give you stimulation, but it also directly sort of stimulates your brain waves using electricity.  And this is obviously all very new. This is all very fresh, very new industry. We don't we haven't done a lot of studies on this sort of thing. Because it's well, because of that, it's simply brand new. No one's really done this before. What I can say is I did try it. It did work. Okay. And there are various testimonials of this of the lucid catcher on the internet that you can have a look at. But the way it works really is it's all to do with the microchip in the actual device. So the device, I haven't got one with me, but it's upstairs.   And I think I think actually the update is, you don't have to do that, you know, you just put the mask on.  And it will actually stimulate your brain using electricity, it will give you small electrical charges at strategic times during the night, which will move you towards a lucid state. Now with that sort of mask, with the sort of mask that can do that, you don't really need to put in as much or even any work, I would say, compared to the other type of mask where you do. So that's really the two sort of situations that you have. Okay, you've got the one mask which electrically stimulates your brain and sort of does the work for you, but it's more expensive. Okay, it's several hundred dollars. And then you've got the other sort of mask which you can pick up very cheaply. For example, the Remy, Remy lucid Remy mask, that's, I think that's about 40, 50 dollars, you can get that on eBay. There are various resellers of that. And it's very affordable. So what I would suggest as a beginner, if you just don't know which mask to get, you don't know what to do, pick up a Remy, learn how to lucid dream without it and then try and lucid dream with it. So I would suggest going through my bootcamp links, these links, by the way, will all be in the description. There'll be a links to all the different types of lucid Remy masks you can get, along with a discount, most of the links you collect, there should be a discount I've arranged for you guys. But if not, it will just take you to the site and you can read testimonials, you can watch a video, who's that sort of thing. So yeah, I would recommend going through the bootcamp, getting a cheap lucid Remy mask to begin with, like the Remy. And then just learning how it works and learning to use it alongside what you already know. And then when you've done a bit of that, you understand how it works, then you can maybe move on to the more expensive, sort of higher spec lucid Remy masks, like the lucid catcher, like the eye band. And like I think the Aurora is quite a promising one as well. And there has been talk of another one called the lucid dreamer. But they haven't been very responsive to messages and they haven't really posted many updates recently. So hopefully they will, because it looks very promising. But at the moment, you've got the lucid catcher, which is definitely in production. And the eye band, which is launching soon, I think this year may be wrong. Anyway, so that's it guys. Like I said, you can get discounts on all these things below in the description. But what I would suggest is going through the bootcamp or any other lucid dream, of course, really, I just obviously I created the bootcamp. So I know it's quite effective. But however you want to learn how to lucid dream, do that and do that alongside using something cheap like the Remy. And that's it. That's really it, guys, you don't even need lucid dreaming masks to lucid dream. They obviously can help and they do help. But really, first, I would suggest just learning how it works without the sort of technology. And then when you do use it, it's just going to make it easier. So I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you next time.


OK, we start with this session, this is the last session for the long day.I briefly introduce myself, I'm a former pivotal among the cloud computing department, cloud platform architect.Today I will talk about the cloud native continuous people application on the platform.首先我們參加這個會叫QCon,CNCF, cloud native computing foundation.So let's first take a look at the cloud native, cloud native being the future of my team.It has four parts, the first one is DevOps, the integration of development and operation, they are not separate.We use some tools and actions to integrate development and ops.It's more about the process procedure.The second part in the cloud native concept is continuous delivery of a deliverable integration.It's more about the tools, we can use the tools and tool chains to realize the drivers.And also the microservice and the container technology, these are the other two parts of the cloud native.The microservice will also have a similar design of a microservice, especially for cloud migration.How can we turn it into cloud native microservice?And whether it's a Docker or the Kubernetes, they provide the container technology and the container orchestration technology.These are the four technologies in the cloud native and what is the relationship among them.We can see microservice and containers and technologies, what are the purposes?The purpose is to realize the automation of development and operation.So from the perspective of business value, the functions can be launched into the market as soon as possible.So that users can use main functions.And therefore the DevOps is more about the culture of the procedures through the CIC.The other tools we can realize that we can use the microservice and the containers and DevOpsand the continuous delivery to make sure the applications can first respond to the changes.And then we can launch the continuous delivery by building the microservice.In the different environments of production, we can pass continuous delivery.So today I will focus on the CIC.So we use our tours for the continuous delivery and continuous production.Now we take a look at the CIC.If you are engaged in a development operation, you know about the CIC,but to give you a deeper understanding, I can show you the definition.The CI will continue its operation,referring to the changes you will make on the cloud channel.And then the changes should be combined into a major launchby the automated tests and checks to make sure the application and procedure will not be disrupted by these changes.So the key part is the chain-underminated test.So it's more developed and oriented for any cold-chain delivery.It should make sure the code can be released to the environmentand set of tests.The continuous delivery,a part of the formula,the automated tests,will rebuild the test and release.So it should be done in a faster and more frequent way.So for the CI should cover the plan called build and test,then we can move on.如果我們講CIC,but for CD,it should cover the steps of the techniques.But also there is a continuous deployment.Continuous deployment,is closer than the release.So for the CI and CD,for the softwares,it will provide as a requirement for each feature of the software development.It is after the cold-chaindeployed into the production environmentand it shows that you or your softwarehas completed the feature.But to the topic,today,the topic ishow come the CI,CIC,DT,will help with the applications and the platformto continue the delivery.So we can have a two-part release.This slide will say the pure tall products我們用的是簡單介紹一下主要的項目,we have two PES,one is PT,the other one is PES,the other one is PES,the other one is PES,the other one is PES,the other one is PES,the other one is PES,the other one is PES,the other one is PES,we want to have a CIso we take the opt-out pathwaythrough GitHubthe resource doc to manage it. Later on,share you the concourseit's a very important for the 20thand I'll give you some down-down concourseso the applicationrelease the application for CI,C,DTthen we can use the opt-out path to the platform,就是我們現在什麼時候都做ICDOne way talk about CI-CD is more about applicationbut for the continuous delivery and continuous deploymentthere is a report to the part that is a platformwhere they show the as upgrading or ground funding upgradingfor the operators and containersit is really difficulthow can we have the applications for upgrading our company现在我们来看看Pyplon的功能在Pyplon的功能中它有三个功能一是Page二是James如果你做Pyplon的功能或者是Summable你会做Pyplon的功能您需要一些评论您需要一些评论您可以有些特别的评论但是这些评论的评论您需要新的评论您需要一个新的评论您需要一种新的评论您需要一个新的评论您需要新的评论您需要新的评论您需要新的评论您需要新的评论您需要新的评论您需要新的评论您需要新的评论您需要新的评论您需要新的评论那么我们来看这三个设计现在我们来看第一个概念的话这个RESOURCERESOURCE是一个概念例如所有的团体系统它可能是一个RESOURCE一般的RESOURCE是包括GIT也许是S3也许是Dunker所有的RESOURCE所有的RESOURCE所有的设计也可以做到一个发布这个材料可以 also be the issueRESOURCE最重要的发布是发布的预设发布的配上对发布的配上对发布的配上能够得到的另外一个概念这个设计其实是定义的在这个设计上分类到预设的设计参与了3D的分类可以把设计组织了或是解先了在设计中就有了设计 对立的配上来自这个冠状Key concept is the task itself, each task can help you with some real execution of the scripts, the new scripts can be exported to the catalog, they can be run in stand-along containers, so the concourse, the software itself is a cloud-native software based on container is different from the genus from the most sublaves, is different from that, the concourse is running in the container, each job can be running in the container, so, relatively speaking, the resource of stand-along is independent, the task running environment is all different, so we will show you a simple plan now例如,我們需要將我們搜索給一些單元設施,給一些united tasks,給一些搜索給一些leasing to the platform所以, you can see the discrimination for you, they define the resource, is from a git, and the resource, and there is the cf, this is the time, that is the cf of the final product release, and for the jobs, one job is united task, it has a one-plan, we need to get to the cloud and run tasks, this is the task它这个Task 第一件是在我们家里进行的Task进行的Yammer Fire we can define it然后这里有一个Output that is released所以这是一个很简单的图案那么我们再来看一下我们所有的图案都会运动Task will be running in their individual stand-alonecontentless whether it is a compilingor screenshot or any other tasksit will run in a relatively standard container所以你可以看到整个如果在做concoursefor the concourseand horizontal scaling or scale-upit's very easy based on the container technologyand this can help to improve the horizontal scaling capability那么我们说其实concourseconcourse is very suitable to build the cloudit's a very typical scenario to release a true serviceif we have many different microservicestypically we need to integrate with the external servicesbut for microservices we can form some ABI testsfor interface testsbut still in addition to mock and testwe also need integration testsduring the test we can do a lot of parallelyou can test and theninclude in one job to do the integration testif the microservice is very largewe can open many containers so that they can run togetherif you are running a complicated cloud-native microservicesystemthis is very suitable to usehere is the demoI hope you read the network biblenot wellbut let's have a tryso here we have a springboard instructionstructure that here the streamers of the toolsit is one of the applicationsfirst we define that there are different jobs after the build we are deployingand then we needso together there are three jobs它的速度的話the inputdocker imagethen you can see a docker image然后下了速度的话for the output那么中间的话还有in betweenthere is an architecturewe need to put it after the buildyou might be familiar with the maverick's nexus那么我们这边here we use the address flow architecture那它们这个具体的这个步骤的话there are these specific stepsso I also put it on a githubif you are interestedyou can search on githubit basically means of steps在concourse的话there is another advantagethere is time pointthe UI shows you the whole show stageslike you can see three jobs firstyou need deployed and then release前面的话我有两个速度一个是说我们原码previously we have two inputsone is artificial那么一旦有原码的变换之后we can trigger it那我现在的话那我稍微改一点点就好now I slightly modify the source code比如我现在是1.0so now it's 1.0version 1.0and then I submit it to githubso every one minutesthere will be a freshduring the deploymentI want to finish my follow up那我们可以看点如果我在做if I'm runningif I'm working on the application deliverythe workflow will be like thissomething wrong with the slideokthe workflow looks like thisso submit the code and the buildand there will be a batteryand then put it in our warehousewhich is the warehouseand then run the testyou can perform some testor some integrated testand then the package will beput in this stage for testingthere is healthwhether it can satisfy the end usersand then deploy to such a production environmentso this is how we deliver the applicationthe demo will present you withthe processbefore we release the new versionwe want to guarantee thatold version will not be affectedby switching routersthe new version can be smoothly updatedso this is about the delivery of new applicationsand this is about platformthe typical scenario is thatwe have several upgradesand CVE that needs to be updatedand also the platform level operationand thisis suitable for the operators to usethe typical scenario hereis that we have a new CVEafter we have itthe CVE will be uploadedinto our storagethere are two scenariosone is the publiclastto do a updatewe can update itand the other is the privateprivate lastwe can see thatsince weiterate ourprojects the pipelines will changeand become more complicatedwith the projectby using concourseand the configuration fileseven when treatingsuch complicated workflowwe can still seethe detail processand on the topit's switching different groupsafter having many jobsyou can categorize themand by using different buildsyou can see clearlylikewe can binding with different peopleplaying different rolesand now we canturn back to the demofinallyso I have to close the slide firstfinallywe release itin the cloud foundryin the cloud foundrywe can seethere are two applicationstwo applications have been launchedone is registry demoblue and greenare two versionsafter releasingblue and green versionsfor examplehere is the original versionwhich is the green versionin the green versionwe have the independence router我要去替换它的时候it's very substitutionsince it is binding with the MACin the DNSfor switching to blue versionI will first release the versionand thendo some testto see if the blue version works welland thenyou can see the meant routerwe switch it to the blue versionwith such a switchrouter switches very quicklywe can basicallyachieveswitch without interruptionfor those businessesnow we can click on itand visit itso it's the version 1.0you might still in the processin the releasingso after you finish the workflowit will be updatedso quickly sum upsomething wrongorit's not onlyit's like a home-cycle-basedpracticeit requiresthe effective operationamong all the involved peopleso all the dev and opsthey cancommunicate without any gapsat the same timein a very complicated environmentwe can release ordeliver our latest productit is with low riskfrequency,localand rapidand predictablefinally we can usethe cultural and organizationstructure changes to achieveandrealize practicesfor developments orITmissions inside companiesdifferent companiesthey have differentprocess or workflowsif you want todeliver micro-servicesto achieve continuousdeploymentthis willchange thecompany culturalto a certain extentbut it is not onlyinvolve pipelinehaving toolsis not equal tofinal successthere are other factorslike database migrationrisk management etcin the companyafter applying solutions of toywe need to control the riskotherwise the existing systemand we need tomanage the life cycleand the auditing workif wewant tousing cnc issuedeliver ourapplication anddeliver the platformthe main challengecould bethe company cultureand thenthe links to our resourcesthe linkfor a coursethe tutorial of a courseand alsosome samplesi want toshow you nowby clicking on ityou will see the blue version and green versionand also some upgradationfor example like pksor pkshow tonew version of pksandhow to interact withawshow to interact withthe platformwe have very rich sampleson thislink


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Let's go into that area. We're going to go to the banking tab and the accounting view to do so.  If you were in the business view, by the way, it would be in the bookkeeping area. And then within the bookkeeping, it's gonna be in the transactions up top and then your transaction detail closing up the hamburger. These are your cards showing the different financial accounts that have been connected, the information down below. Here it is in our practice file where we have the banking tab. I'm gonna close up the hamburger once again. So we only have one card at this point in time. We will have more cards when we add the credit card and possibly other items in future presentations. Remember, there's two ways you can connect to the bank. You can connect directly to the bank or you can download the information from the bank and import it into the system. We used the second way, but either method that you use, you'll end up with this system right here where you have this information pulled in that has not yet been used to create the financial statements or to double check the creation of the financial statements in essence, a kind of bank reconciliation tool which the bank feeds can be used as. Now bank feed limbo here can be a very scary place. It can be intimidating because now we have all these transactions in here. What do we do at this point in time? And you don't wanna be afraid of it. It's okay. In the promised land over here, they just need to be given a little bit of love, a little bit of more information to pull them over to the actual promised land of the financial statement creation, making the balance sheets and the income statement. The primary thing they need is the account that they need to be assigned to as well as the customer and vendor or vendor which oftentimes we can get from the memo. And as we do that, we can create rules and as we create rules, we're teaching the bank feeds in the future to know what to do without any more assistance to go right through bank feed limbo and on into the promised land automatically. That's the goal. All right, so let's just take a look at this. We've got our card up top. You've got the dropdown of the different accounts if you had multiple cards which is another way you could toggle through the cards this way. And within the cards you have an editing item.  You've got your links. So if you wanted to upload from file or manage connections or order the checks, you've got the dropdown here to do so. Now remember that these banking information is actually linked to a general ledger accounts. Let's just show that real quick. If I've right clicked the tab up top and duplicate it. So I can show this on another tab. I'm gonna pull it to the left and then I'm gonna go down to our chart of accounts which is located in the accounting tab. And then we've got our chart of accounts up top closed in the handbook. If you're in the business view, by the way, it's located in the bookkeeping tab and then the chart of accounts.  You can see the indication here that it is linked up or pulling information data from a financial institution. In this case that has been imported, you have the register. The register is not the same thing as the bank feed limbo that we are looking at because this would represent the transactions that have already been entered into the system to help create the financial statements or double check them. Back to the bank feed limbo. So we have that and then down below we've got for your review. Notice that all the transactions thus far are in this tab for your review as opposed to categorized or excluded. And that's because QuickBooks doesn't know what to do with it yet. We have to give the added information. So if there's added information that necessary, QuickBooks is gonna dump them in here which is the bank feed limbo area. You're gonna have to add that added information or verify the information that has been added. And as we add the rules, they will no longer be coming in here possibly to the limbo area. Or if they do, all we'll have to do is I kind of click them off to add them because hopefully the information will be there because of the rules we set up. And so then you've got your categorized tab. If they've been categorized excluded means that we're actually kind of deleting the transactions. Remember that this information is coming from the bank. So you would think that we would not be deleting transactions unless something was incorrect coming from the bank. So you wanna be quite careful of deleting or excluding transactions only doing so if you can tell if there's like a duplicate transaction. Otherwise, if it came from the bank, you would think it is a solid transaction that we either have to match to something we entered into the system helping us with the reconciliation process or add it to the system because it's an actual financial transaction that took place that we need to record. So then if I hit the dropdown here, we can sort by the dates. So we can sort the dates down below. We can use the to from date. So if we're pulling in like a whole year's worth of data into Bank Feed Limbo here, we might use different sorting options in order to populate that information. And that often could happen if you work as a bookkeeper or something because sometimes people will come in and say, hey, I need to do my taxes. I don't have anything. I don't know what I'm doing. I just started my business but I do have this bank account, right? And so we might try to import a whole year's worth of bank accounts and try to upload them as best we can to construct financial statements or something so that we can do whatever needs to be done such as preparing the tax return or something like that. You can imagine a scenario like that happening. You've got this item where you can say all transactions, recognized transactions. So those are ones where the system kind of thinks it knows what to do with the transaction. Matched transaction, if you're sorting by the matched transactions, that's QuickBooks saying, hey, look, I think there's a transaction in your system already that has been recorded possibly from another bank feed, another account, such as a credit card account that's been attached to the bank or you entered a transaction such as a deposit form that you entered on your side or an expense form that we think matches. So we would match it here. We could sort by the items that the system feels are matches that detects as a possible match. Transfers, if there was a transfer that often happens between accounts like two check-ins accounts are set up so we could sort by transfer. You wouldn't expect too many transfers to be in place, but when you're searching for those, then that can be applicable. A rule applied, so you can search for the items that have a rule applied to it. We're gonna set up the rules later and then that can help you to kind of import them or finalize them quickly. And then missing payee or a customer that's often one of the fields that are missing and sometimes people start to add transactions applying the required field of the account but they neglect to add the payee or payer or customer even though they can pull that or extract it from the memo data. So if you've been doing that, you probably wanna go in here and add the payee and customer and you might be able to easily do that by sorting by this item unassigned meaning it hasn't yet been assigned. So we're gonna sort by those items. You can also search up top. We have the search field. You can take the tour. You can go to the register. This will take you to the related register. So if you're not really sure like which account this thing is tied to although it should be indicated.