All right, so Norbertus says, this is the question, okay? So my buddy Norbertus says, I've been really enjoying reading your content, Loot of Dream, it has always fascinated me, but I have a small question, instead of just having a Loot of Dream, is it possible to set up a dream before you go to sleep? I feel like that'll be really interesting. Now, okay, so I'm gonna approach this question in a few different ways. So, in terms of setting up a dream before you go to sleep, yes, it is possible to sort of seed your mind for a certain dream and then have that dream, or at least dream about that topic when you go to sleep. That being said, you can never create entire dreams before you actually go to sleep, because what happens is when you're in a dream, before we get into this, guys, could you just please take two seconds to subscribe, leave a like, and as you're watching this, if you feel the need to comment, then please do. I try and reply to them all, and I try and pin a comment that might be most interesting to you guys. It's your subconscious mind that creates the scene, okay?  So, firstly, just appreciate my amazing drawing, but so, this is the mind, okay? This is the sea level, I guess you could say. This tip of the iceberg here is the conscious mind. This massive chunk of ice here, underneath the water, is the subconscious mind. The idea is that this part is almost never visible, or you can never really experience or interact with this part because it's subconscious, right? So, what that means is that because it's the subconscious part of your mind that creates the dream, you can't really tell it what to do. So, I mean, that's the definition of it, it's subconscious. It's below the conscious threshold. If you imagine your consciousness is the top part, which is what allows you to make decisions and to choose what to do, your subconscious is the part of your mind that is responsible for those really profound, complicated things that you have no idea how to do or how to choose to do, like regulating your blood pressure, building dream scenes. Like, this is the sort of thing that your subconscious mind is very good at, but your conscious mind would have no chance at even attempting.  When you have a dream, it's the subconscious massive chunk of your mind that you're largely not in control of that is responsible for creating the whole dream scene that you experience, right? The mountains, the sky, the weather, the feeling of the place, the dream characters, everything is your subconscious mind. And by lucid dreaming, what you're doing is awakening part of your conscious mind in a way that allows you to feel like you're experiencing something brand new but in reality, what's actually happening is you're waking up a small part of your mind to allow you to be aware of the world that your subconscious mind is creating. I don't know if you're, hopefully you're following along with this, but it's like an inception where they say that your mind creates and experiences the dream at the same time. So, at the same time as you walk down the street, you might think that you're exploring or discovering that street in the dream, but what's actually happening is your subconscious mind is creating the street at the same time as you're exploring and discovering it. So, where does that leave us? Well, that leaves us with a problem. You can't tell your subconscious mind what to create because it's subconscious, it doesn't listen to your conscious mind for the most part, okay? There are exceptions to this. But what you can do is you can influence your subconscious mind when you're in the dream and that starts with influencing it before you're in the dream. Now, let me explain what I mean by this. So, your subconscious mind will take hints from your conscious mind. If you repeat something over and over and over and over again, it seeps into your subconscious mind. I can't really think of an analogy that will bring this back to the iceberg, but just imagine that your subconscious mind is like a sponge and it will absorb pretty much everything that your conscious mind experiences. Okay, so everything that your conscious mind hears, sees, smells, feels and thinks will be absorbed by your subconscious mind, okay? Now, I can't tell you where the subconscious mind will store that information or how it will even organize it, but I can tell you that if you consciously repeat something over and over again, eventually, and you know, this will take some time, but eventually your subconscious mind will absorb it and take it on board as a valid idea. This is how beliefs are formed, this is how habits are formed and this is pretty much what governs most of our lives is the things we repeatedly do consciously, I think the things we at first, right, consciously choose to do, eventually seep into our subconscious mind and become a habit or a belief. This is what governs pretty much whether we succeed or fail in life, this is what governs our beliefs. Almost everything is governed by this process. So I'm gonna bring it back full circle to the creating a dream scene in a minute. So we've got this massive subconscious mind that is able to create the whole dream scene and decide how you're gonna experience it and everything like that.  I don't know why I'm using food as an analogy, but here we are. So your conscious mind or the bean at the very top is responsible for your choices, okay, and the things that you choose or decide to think or do. So what you can do, you can't tell your subconscious mind what to do, but you can consciously decide what to believe or think about or imagine, okay. Now, hopefully you'll see where I'm going with this. If you consciously, when you're awake, repeatedly imagine something over and over and over again, and you vividly visualize it, okay. You really put effort into imagining this thing, whether it's a dream scene or a belief or a statement, affirmation, even just telling yourself that you can give up your bad habits, like waking up late or something, whatever it is.   So here's what you do. To create a dream scene, I know this has been a long-winded response, but I felt like going on a rant today. So to create a dream scene, you need to consciously, when you're awake, decide what the dream is gonna be, whether it's, you wanna dream about being on a beach or whether it's dreaming about climbing Mount Everest or even just sinking to the bottom of the ocean and being able to play with a fish, I don't know. You know, some people like that sort of thing. So you need to consciously visualize the exact dream that you want. Now, when I say the exact dream, I don't mean visualize specific details. This is where my words are gonna sound a bit sort of confusing if you're not following along. I don't mean to visualize exact specific details. What I mean is visualize the exact type of dream you want, whether that's on a beach or on a mountain or under the sea or on a planet, whatever it is. Visualize the type of dream that you want and then let your mind sort of create or fill in the blanks.   Or, you know, it probably won't happen that night. It might happen in two weeks time. It might happen in two months time. I don't really know. It's gonna take some time, but if you constantly do it, it will happen. So close your eyes and visualize the dream that you want to have. Now, when I say visualize, say let's use an example. Let's say if you want to dream about being on a beach and you want, on that beach, you want to reunite with your lost family member, okay? So visualize the beach and then imagine or think about the person, the family member that you want to connect with, right? What will happen is your mind will fill in the blanks. So you'll start to daydream. This is what daydreaming pretty much is. You're visualizing things that aren't there. Your mind will start to fill in the blanks and start to fill that daydream or that thought, right, that visualization with. Memories of that person.  One day you might have different memories of the person than the next day. And this is obviously based on how you feel on that particular day. This is why I say you can never visualize or you know, you can never create an exact stream scene because it will always be tainted by whatever you're feeling that day, okay? Or however your subconscious mind is feeling that day. So think about the person, think about the scene and then just do that every time that you would have done a reality check. Do it 10 or 20 times a day.  I can't tell you when it's gonna happen because I don't know. It might happen in two days, two months or even longer. I don't know. But if you constantly visualize that exact type of dream that you want to manifest then it will happen. Your subconscious mind will make it happen. Now, there's one final thing. This has gone over 10 minutes but I'm sorry guys. This is fairly important. So one final thing is when you visualize the dream, okay, when you're visualizing the dream 10 or 20 times a day, you need to at the same time as visualizing it just just like with a reality check you also attach a belief or an affirmation to the check, right? Am I dreaming? You need to attach a mantra or an affirmation to the visualization, okay? I'm using a lot of big words but here's what I mean. Every time you think about the dream that you want to have, you need to tell yourself, I will have this dream or something along those lines. I will have a dream about being on a beach or this is what I will dream about tonight. You really need to believe it. You need to make yourself a believer. And that's pretty much it. You just do that. You do that 10 or 20 times a day, every day until it happens. And it will happen fairly fast usually but it might take a bit longer. It depends on how strongly you're visualizing it, how much you want it and how much experience you have with lucid dreaming anyway. You might not even be lucid when it happens. You might just have a normal dream about the thing. But that is how to manifest dream scenes. And I know this is a pretty long video but it's not a simple idea. So hopefully you enjoyed this. If you have actually watched to the end of this then well done. You've done better than average. I think the average of you time on YouTube is about two minutes. So well done. Give yourself a reward by subscribing to me. I don't know, that might work.


We got it, bro, he was tweaking What's good, George Boron, back again with another video So we're gonna check out Botchermania, episode 464, man, back with another one Y'all already know, I love me some Botchermania, man So I gotta check this out, per usual Appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on the channel, man So we're not gonna waste no time, we're gonna get right into this one Let's check it out That's right, this is our big moment, the Botchermania intro Alright, let's do it Ladies, gentlemen, everybody I am the luminary, and I welcome you to Botchermania Alright I like this little retro intro This is cool This is actually pretty dope what they're doing here with this intro Got the old-school Mortal Kombat style This is cool, man Very creative Very, very, very creative Duh, this is very, yo, this is really dope I wanna know how they did this Jesus!  Oh no, oh, he wasn't even nowhere near close Yeah, the The Woman's War Game Match definitely had quite a few amount of botches for sure Still enjoyable, but definitely some botches for sure This has some matches as well. Oh, whoa. Oh, yeah, he failed. John Moxley was, you know, trying to do the little run in. They were having a brawl with John Moxley and Adam Page and he failed on the ramp. Going up there, he ended up falling. Whoa. Oh, the fan messed it up. Whoa. Oh, yeah, she couldn't get it. Yeah, she couldn't get it in there. The trash talking has triggered something. You talk too much. You talk too much.  I say you talk too much.  Remember, it was back in Summer's Land that Bianca defeated. Hurt audio. Not an enjoyable match. Yeah, you're getting together. You got the joint threes on. You talk too much.  I love that. That's cool. Too much.  Fans are really taking their sides here tonight. You're like the fourth man, if you want to call it that. Yeah, I call it that fourth man. Fourth man three, three on three and then there's another man. Sports reference. That's hard for you. It's usually terrible having four guys at the boot. That's what Don was talking about. Three-year-old, you're one man short. Listen, I'll call me short, first of all. Second of all, it's usually 12th man, but that's okay. I get what you're saying, man, because it's a three on three. Chas, imagine if there's four guys at the boot. It would be. Especially when three of them are talking at once. But let me say happy Thanksgiving to everybody here. Oh my gosh. I think sometimes you overlook Ty because she's a sports cover by Ty. Yeah, thank you. I was sitting out for the call of the. Yeah. Okay, Tony, I got it. Don't be a wise guy. Okay, bro. The commentary move is so like it's. They have the good moments, but it's just chaos over there and AWW their commentary is just. It's just anarchy. It's just whatever, bro. Trying to be nice to you. There's the first. That's a new joke going around. Have you heard it? Okay, so that was the spot apparently that wasn't planned and it ended up, you know, I don't know if he was saying he potentially ruptured his ruptured his eardrum Roman Reigns, but he was upset at the time obviously because I guess he didn't plan for that spot. But I mean, if you've ever been slapped hard enough, you could potentially rupture rupture somebody eardrum. Hopefully he's okay. But I know he was very pissed at this spot. Regarding the report on what happened backstage with Roman Reigns and Kevin Owens, the story is accurate in the sense Reigns got upset after being popped and had not a civil bruising under his left eye. There was talk of a possible broken eardrum, but that was not confirmed to us. What is confirmed is that it came from a slap by Owens. Reigns was upset, but 20 minutes later it had all blown over so there is no lingering issue regarding it.  I love it, the little reader. He definitely tried to hide it.  Oh, you botched that one.  There's no such thing as a botch. This is a live show. Mistakes happen because why? Because you were human beings and we're live. So what is the strategy for Bianca, knowing that E.O. Sky and Dakota Kai are rings. Bianca needs to keep her head on a swivel. I know it's a cliche, but in this scenario, it's the truth. Bailey cannot forget about the women's tag team champions on the outside while simultaneously maintaining focus on one of the most dangerous veterans in the business in Bailey. She didn't know I graduated from the Guerrilla Mon School. Come on. This is for me to say. If Reigns were Don and Marty wouldn't blow his ears off. Coy Graves botching it up. There are things no one can talk about. So I'd encourage people to let it go. It doesn't change that we want a team effort. E.W. I don't even mean implicitly myself and my opponent. It also means the referee, the fans, the people he set up the ring, everyone. So I encourage people to move away from it. 24 hours later. Yeah. Yeah. You didn't move away from it.  They didn't move away from it in this match. I just wanted to let you know that. Didn't see it. The biting. The GTS. I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Oh. Oh, no. I just have a bad feeling about this. Oh. Whoa. Somebody threw something. Oh. Oh, he threw a drink. Back and to the left. He doesn't care, too. He doesn't care. Come here. Come here. Check this. Check. What's this? What's this? Jim Ross Doopie messing up. Doopie getting the shows confused. 24. 34. That's a time stamp. That was a cool little sign. Is that glass? Oh, the table didn't break. This just looks all kinds of dangerous. The table didn't break. Let me guess. It's not going to break. Oh, it didn't break. They just bounced off of it. Looks like it's going to be good. I am the table. All I want you to do. All I want is to be on Boxer Mania. Well, there you go, my God. This beat go hard. I have granted your wish. Oh. It definitely did not look like that. April bumping. That looked like that. From the smoking guns Wikipedia page. From their debut until January 1994, they would fire blanks in the arena with real guns. But then they received complaints from families that they were scaring children, which caused them to stop firing guns in the arenas. Whoa. It would be cool to see some of the footage of the crowd reacting to some of that. Wow. Whoa. Hear the commentator? That is truly the definition of a different time in wrestling. You can't even. No. Whoa. No, no, no. You can't even even. Can't even think about doing that. The commentary alone. He was losing it. Holy. This is definitely giving me, um, Squid games. This is, this is, this is definitely giving me Squid Game vibes. Definitely giving me Squid Games vibes, bro. If you've seen Squid Games, you understand the reference here. That is awful. The match is already over. All the money and trinkets and everything else on the ring. Y'all still wrestling, right? From a wrestling, just from a realism standpoint, I would just pick up the stuff and leave. Oh, wow. They had to collect everything. The sound effect. That was great. Listen, we need to have a talk about Vanderoff. The fact is he's the sponsor. And you signed a contract guaranteeing him certain concessions. One of them being a spot on the show. Well, that's where I see things just a little differently. Contractor, no. I will not bow to any sponsor. Ah, I see what they did there. Sorry, you feel that way. In device, bro. Yeah, sure. I've been flexing here with this Taiwan life. I didn't see that. I didn't see that. You know, I miss this past Monday Night Raw. So it seemed human like that vice was kind of kind of creepy. Oh. Oh, yeah. I saw this on Twitter. Oh, book and see. That's what he's wondering. Yeah. She definitely did hit that. Really? Like he playing in a guitar here, bro. And you hear the booze. I love this song. But it's so funny. Oh, yeah, this was a great moment.  He still embodies the boring personality. But he got a new hat. But are you serious right now, bro? I remember this. I just wanted to test it. I could marry me pipe. My wife wouldn't care.  It's party time. Get your drugs out. If you want to make clothes, get your moustache. It's party time. Get your drugs out. What was that? It's party time. Get your drugs out. I want to make clothes.  It's party time. Get your drugs. Party time. I think it fits. One more time. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Bro, you can't tell me that's not funny, bro. It's party time. Get your drugs out. If you want to make clothes, get your moustache. It's party time.  It's party time. I'm a hard keyboard on machine. I'm like a guy. Let the doctor just take his soul. Listen up, child.  Call me granddad.  What's when they live in a church? Who's stepping with my black school shoes? Don't you need to make your back.  It's party time. Get your drugs out. If you want to make clothes, get your moustache. It's party time. Get your drugs out. If you want to make clothes, get your moustache. It's party time. Get your drugs out. If you want to make clothes, get your moustache. It's party time. Get your drugs out. Oh my God. I'm done. I hope YouTube doesn't block that. Oh my God. That was fantastic. Sing Vince Mann do this, bro. I'm done. There's nothing else for me to say, bro. There's nothing else for me to say. That was fantastic. That was, I love that part, bro.  Comment down below. Let me know what's your favorite part from this video. For me, it's that ending song. It fit perfectly. Vince doing this with his neck. It looked like he was coked up. It looked like he was on, you know what I'm saying? He was high as a kite on some type of substance. I've never seen Vince dance like that. What is that? I appreciate all the love and support. Well, it's like 150K. Appreciate y'all kicking it with me. See y'all next time.


Welcome back to HPE Discover 2021. My name is Dave Vellante and you're watching the CUBE's virtual coverage of Discover. We're going to dig into the most pressing topic, not only for IT, but entire organizations. And that's cyber security with me is Cineal James, Senior Director of Security Engineering at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Cineal, welcome to the CUBE. Come on in. Dave, thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Hey, you talked about Project Aurora today. Tell us about Project Aurora. What is that? So I'm glad you asked. Project Aurora is a new framework that we're working on that attempts to provide the underpinnings for zero trust architectures inside of everything that we build at HPE. Zero trust is a way of providing a mechanism for enterprises to allow for everything in their enterprise, whether it's a server, a human, or anything in between, to be verified and attested to before they're allowed to access or transact in certain ways. That's what we announced today. Well, so in response to a spate of damaging cyber attacks last month, President Biden issued an executive order designed to improve the United States security posture. And in that order, he essentially issued a zero trust mandate. You know, it's interesting, Cineal. Zero trust has gone from a buzzword to a critical part of a security strategy. So in thinking about a zero trust architecture, how do you think about that? And how does Project Aurora fit in? Yeah, so zero trust architecture as a concept has been around for quite some time now. And over the last few years, you've seen many a company attempting to provide technologies that they purport to be zero trust. Zero trust is a framework. It's not one technology. It's not one tool. It's not one product. It is an entire framework of thinking and applying cybersecurity principles to everything that we just talked about beforehand. Project Aurora, as I said beforehand, is designed to provide a way for ourselves and our customers to be able to measure, attest, and verify every single piece of technology that we sell to them, whether it's a server or everything else in between. Now, we've got a long way to go before we're able to cover everything that HPE sells. But for us, these capabilities are the root of zero trust architectures. You need to be able to, at any given moment's notice, verify, measure, and attest. And this is what we're doing with Project Aurora. So you founded a company called Sightail and sold that to HPE last year. And my understanding is you were really the driving force behind the secure production identity framework. But you said zero trust is really a framework. That's an open source project. Maybe you can explain what that is. I mean, people talk about the NIST framework for cybersecurity. How does that relate? Why is this important? And how does Aurora fit into it? Yeah, so it's a good question. The NIST framework is a broader framework for cybersecurity that couples and covers many aspects of thinking about the security posture of an enterprise, whether it's network security, host-based intrusion detection capabilities, incident response, things of that sort. Spiffy, which you're referring to, secure production identity framework for everyone, is an open source framework and technology base that we did work on when I was the CEO of Sightail that was designed to provide a platform agnostic way to assign identity to anything that runs in a network. And so think about yourself or myself. We have identities in our back pocket, drivers license, passports, things of that sort. They provide a unique assertion of who we are and what we're allowed to do. That does not exist in the world of software. And what Spiffy does is it provides that mechanism so that you can actually use frameworks like Project Aurora that can verify the underpinning infrastructure on top of which software workloads run to be able to verify the Spiffy identities even better than before. Is the intent to productize this capability within this framework? How do you approach this from HPE's standpoint? So Spiffy Inspire will and always will be, as far as I'm concerned, remain an open source project held by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It's for the world. And we want that to be the case because we think that more of our enterprise customers are not living in the world of one vendor or two vendors, they have multiple vendors. And so we need to give them the tools and the flexibility to be able to allow for open source capabilities like Spiffy and Spire to provide a way for them to assign these identities and assign policies and control regardless of the infrastructure choices they make today or tomorrow. HPE recognizes that this is a key differentiating capability for our customers. And our goal is to be able to look at our offerings that power the next generation of workloads, Kubernetes instances, containers, serverless and anything that comes after that. And our responsibility is to say, how can we actually take what we have and be able to provide those kinds of assertions, those underpinnings for a zero trust that are going to be necessary to distribute those identities to those workloads and to do so in a scalable, effective and automated manner, which is one of the most important things that Project Aurora does. So a lot of companies, Sunil, will set up a security division and so, but is HPE strategy to essentially embed security across its entire portfolio? How should we think about HPE strategy in cyber? Yeah, so it's a great question. HPE has a long history in security and other domains, networking and servers and storage and beyond. The way we think about what we're building with Project Aurora, this is plumbing. This is plumbing that must be in everything we build. Customers don't buy one product from us and they think it's one company and something else from us and they think it's another company. They're buying HPE products and our goal with Project Aurora is to ensure that this plumbing is widely and uniformly distributed and made available. So whether you're buying a Ruby device, a primary storage device or a Perlian server, Project Aurora's capabilities are going to provide a consistent way to do the things that I've mentioned beforehand to allow for those zero trust architectures to become real.  It just seems as though, and I'd love to get your comments on this. I mean, the adversaries are well-funded. You know, they're either organized crime, they're nation states. They're extracting a lot of very valuable information. They're monetizing that. You've seen things like ransomware as a service now. So any knucklehead can be in the ransomware business. It's just this endless ex-escalation game. How do you see the industry approaching this? What needs to happen? So obviously, I like what you're saying about the plumbing.  How do you see the industry coming together to solve this problem? Yeah, it's, if you operate in the world of security, you have to operate from a standpoint of humility. And the reason why you have to operate from a standpoint of humility is because the attack landscape is constantly changing.  And so you have to be able to consistently and continuously evolve and adapt towards what customers are facing on any given moment's notice. I think to be able to, as an industry, tackle these issues more and more so, you need to be able to have all of us start to abide, not abide, but start to adopt these open source patterns. We recognize that every company, HPE included, is here to serve customers and to make money for its shareholders as well. But in order for us to do that, we have to also recognize that they've got other technologies in their infrastructure as well. And so it's our belief, it's my belief, that allowing for us to support open standards with Spiffy Inspire and perhaps with some of the aspects of what we're doing with Project Aurora, I think allows for other people to be able to kind of deliver the same underpinning capabilities, the plumbing, if you will, regardless of whether it's an HPE product or somebody else along those lines as well. We need more of that generally across our industry. And I think we're far from it.  I mean, it's more than a battle. It's a war that actually is never going to end. And I don't think there is an end in sight. And you hear CISOs talk about the shortage of talent. They're getting inundated with point products and tools. And then that just creates more technical debt. It's been interesting to watch. Interesting, maybe it's not the right word, but the pivot to zero trust, end point security, cloud security, and the exposure that we've now seen as a result of the pandemic was sort of rushed. And then of course we've seen the adversaries really take advantage of that. So I mean, what you're describing is this ongoing, never-ending battle, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, no, it's going to be ongoing. And by the way, zero trust is not the end state, right? I mean, there was things that we called, you know, the final nail in the coffin five years ago, 10 years ago, and yet the attackers persevered. And that's because there's a lot of innovation out there. There's a lot of infrastructure moving to dynamic architectures like cloud and others that are going to be poorly configured and are going to not have necessarily the best and brightest providing security around that. So we have to remain vigilant. We have to work as hard as we can to help customers deploy zero trust architectures, but we have to be thinking about what's next. We have to be watching, studying, and evolving to be able to prepare ourselves to be able to go after whatever the next capabilities are. What I like about what you're saying is, you're right, you have to have humility. I don't want to say, I mean, it's hard because I do feel like a lot of times the vendor community says, okay, we have the answer to your point. You know, okay, we have a zero trust solution or we have an security solution and there is no silver bullet in this game. I think what I'm hearing from you is look, we're providing infrastructure, plumbing, the substrate, but it's got an open system. It's got to evolve. And the thing you didn't say, but I'd love your thoughts on this is we've got to collaborate with who some of you might think is your competitor because they're still, they're the good guys. Yeah, I mean, our customers, our customers don't care that we're competitors with anybody. They care that we're helping them solve their problems for their business. So our responsibility is to figure out what we need to do to work together to provide the basic capabilities that allow for our customers to remain in business, right? If cybersecurity issues plague any of our customers, that doesn't affect just HPE. That affects all of the companies that are serving that customer itself. So I think we have a shared responsibility to be able to protect our customers. And you've been in cyber for much, if not most of your career, right? Correct, that's good. So I gotta ask you, did you have a superhero when you were a kid? Did you have sort of a save the world thing going? Did I have a, you know, I didn't have a save the world thing going, but I had two parents that cared for the world in many, many ways. They were both in the world of healthcare. And so every day I saw them taking care of other people and I think that probably rubbed off in some of the decisions that I made too. Well, it's awesome. You're doing great work. Really appreciate you coming on theCUBE and thank you so much for your insights. I appreciate that. Thanks, David. All right, and thank you for being with us for our ongoing coverage of HPE Discover 21. This is Dave Vellante. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in digital tech coverage. We'll be right back.


This patient will be having now is a product usage metrics practical trainers from Kiran kasha, so he's on stage now. Yeah, thanks for the Let me share my screen So, thank you all. Thanks for joining good. Good evening and good morning to everybody from wherever you are and Before we start the topic let me Introduce myself. So I am Kiran. I work as a Strummaster at Lowes and And I'm also an open source contributor and and I'm a blogger Also, I'm a conference speaker. I wherever possible. I try to share what I have learned and And I love playing badminton and and I'm a traveler So, yeah, this is my intro So before before we start the topic the the topic name is product usage metrics, right? So what exactly do we mean by product usage metrics? Let's try to understand that and then we can then I'll share you few stories among this topic So here let me let me try to divide this Term into three. So product usage and metrics. So what is a product? product is something which solves a problem or Or which gives you something of value that that's a product and usages. How do you use the product and The final term metrics. How do we measure? to use the product So this is what product usage metrics means. So what we are going to talk for another like 15 20 minutes is how You know, in my experience, how we made use of How we measured the product is being used by the customer so So we I think we are very well familiar how to I know how we build product There are multiple process like Scrum Kanban. We have multiple things But this topic is mainly around what happens after we give the product to customer How the customer is using our product? How can we? I know what are the insights we get based on how the customer is using the product? So this is the talk So what I'll do I'll share you three stories. How we made How we measured the product being used, right? So I'll share you in the form of three stories So So let's to to share this story. Let's let's assume we have a team, right? The team contains the product owner Development team and Scrum Master Let's let's discuss the the first story So the one with the prioritization problems so so we often have this problem like The product owner often ends up saying, you know We have Priority, but but he finds it difficult to you know, prioritize a single item if two or three High priority items are there. We often end up product owners, you know, all these three items are equally important and And it's difficult for me to prioritize And and I'm sure you all know there are other other techniques where you can prioritize the stories Let let me this this this story. I'll try to share another technique which we can use to prioritize your story So let's say we have a product and it has two features feature one feature two and We have two stories here story a and story B so story a modifies feature one and story B modifies feature two and Both have equal business well, right and both have equal agency So we often end up in this scenario where It's difficult for product owner to choose which one is important here So so what did we do here? So we started, you know, we heard we heard about this Concept called product usage metric. So what did we do? We created a data table and We started collecting metrics here. So for example, let's say feature one We had multiple User subscription. We had a diamond kind of a customer and silver subscription customer So we understood that diamond customer work was using the feature one on an average 350 hits per day when I say hit he was using the feature around 350 times per day and And the same feature was also used by the silver customer And that was around 450 hits each day So like this we started collecting data for all the features Right and and and it also based on the user category whether he's a diamond customer or a silver customer So as we started and another point to add here is we didn't find much change in performance while we were collecting data So as we as we started collecting data We generated a report which was something like this. So we understood that more number of Users are using feature one more than feature two So it was it was way more the feature one was used way more than feature two irrespective of Whether the customer was you know diamond subscription or a silver subscription So this held the product owner to sort of help his prioritization problems Now now product owner has two options. So, he knows feature one is being used more Let me try to improve the feature one so that user can have better experience because he's using the feature one more No, and another way the product owner can think is I see the feature two is not used much at all. Is it because Is it because that you know the the feature itself is like that or it's not used much or is it because it's not so Friendlies that is why the you know the user is not using it So so here the product owner can get more insights and then he can decide which particular story He can pick it up. I mean can he pick up can he prioritize the story which changes the feature one or can he Pick up the story which modifies the feature And it did not stop there What did product owner do he went on? You know, he went to use it even better. So what did he do? He understood there is a customer eggs Who is very important to us? Right and his renewal is ending this month Let us prioritize feature one because he uses this feature more. Let us try to make it better and You know and it gives us more probability of retaining the customer And it is another way this is the extension of the bus story where product owner leverage leverage that data we got So there ends our feature one and and let's let's discuss the the story to So This story is around how it the cultural aspect of how this matrix helped us to to know to to do better So it helped us to motivate developers. How did we do it? There was a time where We received an email from the customer saying Thanks a lot. This features says at least 10 minutes of manual work time. I was doing and While the time it reached developer developers were saying we never knew it We never knew we are adding this much value to the customer So what did we know what happened here? You know the product owner gave vision and help the importance all these things were good enough Good enough for the developer but adding to that This can add even more motivation to developers when they see value of their work actual value Where it is helping the customer, right? If if so, what did we do? We took it to we took it One level more and we started generating reports Something like this. So what did we do? We we displayed this We started collecting how much time for each feature the customer is saving for example, because of this particular story or this particular Product of feature we were able to help customers save like, you know, 10 minutes every time he uses it Or five minutes every time he uses it. So we started adding The the time each time the user uses so this was the displayed out in the open Where with the developers it in the office so they can see it every time and they And and it makes them Visible of how they are actually adding value to the business right this this help the developers to Contribute even more and it motivated them they they got to see their actual value what they were adding and And all these graphs which you are seeing right right now It's the graph which you're seeing this helped we we took it from the Grafana So it helps us to generate all this kind of graph So So let me see how much time we have Okay Yeah, so let's discuss one more story before we end so so another story What we did was So the product owner was a little confused. So how did we help? To clear the confusion of the product for you here the the confused word I'm using not in a negative sense So the product owner wanted to make sure the best value comes you can he can he can get the best value of the Work done by the developers. So in that term he was sort of confused what can give the best value So there was a particular feature What it did was it it gives the cost we give the user to configure an email and And then send out you might have heard this feature like called as email campaigns So where user can perform the email campaigns. So what he does is he'll he'll just put a lot of You know email recipients in the two column and then he goes to the the email body Pills in the relevant information and this is this is how the flow goes Now now the product owner was stuck which approach to follow Why because we had two solutions Right in front of us and both solutions seem good. So the solution a was let's say Screen one enter Email recipients and screen to draft the email body. This is how the screen goes in the solution a and the solution be was First, let us show him that no to draft the email body in the first screen and later We last the user to enter the email recipients So here both both solutions seemed good, but we were not sure which one to take So here we had to consider either one of them You know, we had two options. We can either consider either one based on You know just gut feel or experience or the other The other way around is We can decide this solution based on the actual data we get So what we did was we we requested some beta users to use both these solutions For example beta users. I mean, they are actual users, but they were willing to help us, you know in testing or Or to check some features if they are okay with it or to get their feedback So these are set of beta users where we had We requested them to Use the both the solutions. How we did was we had one set of beta users We requested them to use only the solution a and we had another set of beta users We requested them to use only solution be Now the next step, how do we know which solution was better what we did was if the solution is good What we did is we asked both the set of beta users to raise a support ticket whenever they have a concern Right, so if the concern can be anything whether they are not understanding the new feature or or there is slowness or No, we just can't use it. This is not user friendly. Whatever they feel There is a support ticket So what we did was Which ever solution gets more number of support tickets, we will ignore it We will take the solution which was quite natural for the I know for the beta users to use which was which was more user friendly and What we understood the solution be Beta users were raising more number of Tickets Right, so we understood that let's go with the solution a because people are it looks like The beta users are getting along with it pretty well without raising any support tickets and Also, whatever the support tickets were being raised for solution a right We we also went through the tickets and we understood what problems they are facing even in that and and even that Even that changes we made in our Feature and then we were able to give it to the actual customers So, yeah Here it is. So thank you all for listening. Let's Let's hear if you have any questions there Okay, Kiran. Thanks a lot. That was awesome We have some questions. I guess you can there's one under Q&A A bunch of discussion going on in the audience Yeah, you can probably go through them and answer them as Yeah, I'm looking at them in case of Difficult or legacy customers. We don't get any feedback from them They just want to get their work done What do you suggest? So is this question for the third scenario Yes, okay so so here we can so one is We will have somebody from the product Business side right like the product owner will be representing from the business we can We can either create a relationship with the product owner and explain him how to get in the beta users How to get in the actual users to help you along or If not, you know, we can we can you talk to even the leaders and explain them this problem. There is no I Would say there is no clear cut solution here. We'll have to We'll have to create a relationship It all depends on how good relationship we have with the management with the leaders and if you're a Strum master, maybe you can you can post the product owner to to help the actual users to help us or Or if you're in management, you can directly talk to the business and see get sort things out So did I answer your question? I'm Or was it any helpful? But I didn't get your name there So she yeah shock she Yeah, there is no clear cut answer there. We'll have to just trial and error. It's this is all That's a be testing rotation. Yes, that's a be testing. We can call it Me know how such metrics can be built on a product where we have multiple customer and they require their customized version Maybe we can Create multiple tables For creating graph That's a good question. I even even I need to explore their menu Yeah What tools did you use to collect the analytical so the tools was Grafana, right? The the table we added the once we got the data on the data table We used Grafana to create all the graph Any any other questions from anyone? Alright Okay. Thank you so much for Giving a platform to to talk. Thank you. We come and thank you


Welcome to this CNCF session on an introduction to telecommunications from the Cloud Native Competing Foundation. I'm Taylor Carpenter, owner and a software cooperative vault co-op. I've been using Linux for over 20 years and an open source advocate the whole time. I've been working with CNCF the last three years helping with CICD, DevOps, Cloud Native Networking, and other items. If you'd like to continue this conversation for this ONES session, we'll be on the Cloud Native Networking Slack channel in ONES and these slides should be available in schedule after the session if they're not up there available right now. Priyanka Sharma, general manager of CNCF is also here and if you have questions during session please press the little Q&A button and add them in. Lucina and Product Owner on some of these initiatives, CNF Conformance, CNF Testbed, and Owner and Vault Co-operatives also here to help answer questions. Today we're going to go over the different initiatives. We'll talk about some of the driving factors and then dig in a little bit to each one of the initiatives, talk about how you can get involved, and have some time to go over any Q&A items we didn't go into during the live session. Alright, so the Cloud Native landscape is extensive as you can see here. Dan's had a funny tweet about it where some folks are finding it useful, some overwhelming, some call hellscape. The main point here would be there's a lot of projects, technology, groups that are building Cloud Native software and trying to help others. So CNCF would like to help service providers and developers in the telecom domain and navigating that landscape and trying to gain the benefits from the different technologies. There's currently three initiatives, the telecom user group, the CNF Testbed and CNF Conformance, providing output for the different end users. The telecom user group's a place to come together where we can discuss ideas, new technology, needs from the telecom domain, from providers, service providers, from vendors, and any telecom developers and look at things like best practices from different communities, talk about gaps in the technology or maybe processes. A lot of it can be the language trying to understand the difference. My audio is out. Okay, I hope I'm back, y'all. So the CNF Testbed is a platform, a framework, and a set of examples that help you in reviewing the different emerging technologies. And you can reproduce the test results, the use cases, any examples, you can also use it for creating your own. The CNF Conformance initiative is a test suite, an open source test suite that helps service providers and developers by allowing you to test the workload applications or cloud native network functions, as well as the underlying telecom platforms. This helps service providers to select solutions that meet their needs, when those solutions adhere to principles that are important to them. And it helps the developers in both demonstrating that they follow these best practices. And it also directly helps them to improve their software by providing feedback and tools in testing. Behind all of these initiatives, we have cloud native guiding principles. These build on years and years of other best practices and principles like those from DevOps, all the way back through Unix philosophies, agile software development, and other best practices and patterns. The cloud native definition talks about some of these and what would be expected to be seen in the technologies and how these can help a telecom make changes like security updates move quickly into production in a predictable manner. There's a whole set of cloud native networking principles papers that go in depth on each one of the principles that have extensive references to other documents, best practices and experts in the domains. And it helps us to ask questions from a telecom perspective, how you're going to configure these systems and how do we handle a mutable infrastructure? And what are the different properties underneath so that we know how to apply them at every layer? And then we can get to specific definitions like a cloud native network function. And a cloud native network function is a cloud native application. Cloud native applications have a lot of best practices and principles that you can look at running microservices and following the mutable infrastructure. One of the big ones would be the repeatable deployment process. So in DevOps philosophy, one of the big things would be your CICD pipeline that allows you to safely and predictably move all those changes. So that's a big thing on allowing developers to make changes, have new features, make security updates, and then safely move those into production. The platform also builds on the same principles. So when we look at service discovery, if the platform provides service discovery in a cloud native way, then your workloads can register and find other workload components CNS to build themselves. And the platform can help manage that. It pushes a lot of the work into the platform and allows the CNF developers to focus on their business needs that they can excel at. And you're going to see this all the way through all the layers of the platform and up through the workload. Another driver is community collaboration from the CNCS side. From the LF standpoint, there's engagement all the way through many different large communities. So all of the LNF groups like ONAP and FDIOC set for the testing, the new XG Vella platform service initiative, the OPNFV and CNTT work for the Kubernetes reference architecture, as well as all the CNCF and Kubernetes initiatives like individual projects and SIGs and everything else. There's also interaction across the different communities and outside of LNF like that folks from the O-RAN Open Air Interface software alliance and providers like Packet who are interested in working with the different communities and we engage with them and give feedback. And then we go directly to end users like the telecom service providers and developers themselves so that we can get the feedback to the CNCF initiatives and back into other communities that we're interacting with. So many efforts and initiatives and CNCF is from the telecom perspective is trying to be engaged in all the parts so that we can help from the requirement side where you look at cloud interprinciples best practices from the Kubernetes and CNCF community implementations like those that you see in the CNTT OPNFV effort XG Vella directly collaborating with projects on the testing side. We build on to existing testing to add additional parts like the Kubernetes India tests and conformance and then what CNTT is doing to be able to plug in there as well as the certifications that different groups would like to have. So this all ties together from those principles, community collaboration, into the different initiatives and the output having all of those as the drivers for many different end users, individual as well as groups. The telecom user group has a good number of members from both vendors as well as service providers. And we have been meeting regularly since 2019, including some face to face. This one would have been a face to face if we were all together and talking about those different ideas and looking at the different network requirements and gaps and how things are moving forward within the Kubernetes and CNCF community as well as the changing needs in the telecom world. We have created a white paper called the cloud native thinking for telecommunication, which is more of an introduction on the collaboration between cloud native and telecom. And then there's a extensive set of papers cloud native networking groups in the cloud native thinking for telecommunication as well as within other groups. And that goes back to the collaboration. So the Kubernetes based reference architecture documents for the CNT-TOP and Fee work, the principle papers are sourced and a lot of that's in there. And this comes from best practices and references within the Kubernetes and cloud native world. We've identified various gaps and scope within the requirements, both for the reference architecture as well as the implementation side and continue to give feedback and work directly with both CNCF and Kubernetes projects to ensure that they're hearing those things and encouraging collaboration. So the telecom user group meets on the first Mondays of the month. It has alternating times, 1500, 1100 UTC. The next Zoom meeting will be October 5th, 1500 UTC. And you can find more details on the telecom user group GitHub page. I see one question. I'm going to take a quick look and see what's there. It looks like it was dismissed and audio. Okay. It was an audio question, so I dismissed it since you fixed it. No problem. All right. And then if anyone in chat, if you have any questions, just please add them to the Q&A or raise your hand if you would like to speak directly. Hi, Jim from Elephant. I see you and some other folks. All right. So the CNF Testbed is a second initiative and it also has collaboration across many vendors and service providers that are engaged. You can see some of those here and different projects and initiatives. I'm pointing out the FDIC set where we've had a lot of direct collaboration on the testing efforts that they do. Network service mesh involved with some of the examples Intel and Samsung have been engaged trying to provide examples updates. And we've had many different participants helping in different ways in this effort. So it's an open source software across the board. And it allows out of box deployments to packet for both the hardware and network provisioning portions. The focus is on supporting different technology options and trying to have each stage of the process be as uncomplicated as reasonably possible so that you can come in and understand the pieces. We can plug in different parts if we want to try different technology. It also tries to use upstream community tooling. So we use CubeSpray, a SIG testing project, and we use NFE Bench, which is an open FE project for performance testing. And there's other tools in there and technology that are upstream within the different communities that we're interacting with. And we try to follow cloud native principles wherever possible. And that ties in with how things are done on the cloud native principles. We're looking at applying those from the provisioning standpoint when we're going from the hardware provisioning, the host or node, if you're saying on the Kubernetes side, the networking underlying underlying network, so layer two networking or whatever we're working with, as well as all the way through the different layers up through the examples and use cases that we're deploying. And then we try to highlight any problems that we may see for either whether it's missing items that we may want for telecom needs or out of band procedures. So maybe it's not Kubernetes native or we feel that we're having to step outside of a process that we think would be more helpful and try to note those. And we also try to highlight where specific technology has done a good job in following cloud native principles or being more Kubernetes native for that side and bring some focus to that. So it's fully repeatable where possible use in band components. The examples go all the way from very minimal so that you can understand one small piece all the way through larger use cases. And those build up and where wherever possible, we try to make it where each component can be put together and into larger, more complicated potential use cases, but you can break it down at the small side. And we have several examples that show different types of technology being used. That's the same type of use case or examples so that you can compare those and and have an idea of which you may want to use. So we welcome your participation in the scene of testbed. And you can get the software on the GitHub page. And if you have an API key from packet, then you can deploy the testbed. You should be able to deploy any of the examples that we have active right now. If you'd like to deploy your own network functions, you should be able to package them up and do that. If you want to share any results from that, we would love to see it. And if you'd like to contribute, we would love to see more examples, improvements to the actual tool chain, so provisioning process, the deployment of the cluster. And you're, you're welcome to do that, including ideas for issues, or we have a spec board, if it comes to something that we need to brainstorm. On the CNF confirm it side, we also have many different contributors from different projects and companies. It's a open source test suite. It's modeled after the Kubernetes conformance program. And by that, I'm saying the testing portion. So the, and the process for how you could test it so you can self test, you can download the software and run it to test your CNS, the cloud network functions or the applications specifically as well as the underlying platform. And it should provide visibility on how well the platform and those CNS are following cloud native principles. We expect it to help service providers in adhering and identifying solutions that adhere to the principles. And we wanted to provide the tools and feedback that can help developers improve their technology. It's also something that we hope could be used as a checkbox, the tool suite, as well as and the results for any type of certification programs. Along with that, I would announce it has been integrated with the CNTT open opnfv project, specifically the fun test fun test framework that's used for validating the Kubernetes based architecture. Right now it's integration for the workloads that's running. Platform testing will be added. And we expect to test different CNS as we collaborate with them. So here's a look at some of the categories within the conformance test suite. These are used for discussing the different needs that telecoms may have and tests themselves may go across different categories. Sometimes the focus is on that configuration lifecycle, the initial deployments of insolability. And then we can get into other things like statelessness, which means cloud native, how to handle data in a cloud native way, all the way through resilience and observability. If we take a look at some of the workload tests that are there and available right now, you'll see some and many of the categories for microservices all the way through resilience. On the resilience side, you can see a few like containers or the applications dying or having problems. What would we do? What would we handle? And what's expected by the application? Likewise, if we look at the platform test, you can see different ones from compatibility. Are they thinking about configuration from the CRD side security aspects? And then when we get to the resilience, you'll see problems, how the platform can handle problems like a node failure. So does the machine die? Does the platform handle stuff like network outages and other things in a way that allows a telecom service provider to continue with services as they would need? So the platform testing itself is expecting that any telecom platform would be conformant to Kubernetes conformance. So this could lead to the platforms that are being provided to a service provider could even be certified Kubernetes. And then what happens then is the CNF conformance builds on that. So looking at add-ons to Kubernetes, as well as underlying provisioning aspect for the nodes and host and how things come up. And we care about all the layers in between. So this is an extension to that core testing, AD testing, that's very extensive that Kubernetes does. And we go to many different places to gather requirements. When we're thinking in users, and how do we help them? Of course, as mentioned, we do talk with CNTT and work within the Kubernetes reference architecture. And there's back and forth on trying to understand and gather that. We're also working directly with service providers, developers, and then within the Kubernetes and CNSafe community, going to the different projects, talking about best practices for security and observability and all those sort of things, and those driving cloud native principles. Within the CNF conformance itself, we have some examples. So this would be in addition to stuff you may find in CNF Testbed. We have Core DNS, the Envoy Proxy, a VPP-based IP forwarder, which can be used for service training and other things. Linker D2. These are some that we have examples that you can come and see. We may add some future ones. The Clearwater IMS and BIOS are software that's being used by CNTT for testing, and some service providers also use those. So we're looking at testing those with the CNF conformance. And there's many others, including Evolve packet core examples and other items. If you would like to test using these, you can go and look at the large amount of documentation we have from very simple quick starts for CNF developers. If you want to test CNFs or test your platform, all the way through extensive source based insulation, or if you'd like to get engaged as a test developer, a lot of that's going to be good. There's usage instructions that cover from the individual test, all the way through running categories, or the whole suite with platform and workload, prerequisites, including how to use kind, if you'd like to do that, use the CNF test bed toolchain to deploy a cluster and test with that, and the different example configurations, if you'd like to get started and either use the CNFs that are there, or use those to test your own CNFs. Here's a quick look at running it. If you'd like to test all of the workload items or CNF specifically, you run CNF conformance workload, likewise for testing, all running all the platform tests you can run with the platform command. And you should see in the console, an output similar to this, where you're going to have all the different tests. And this is a snapshot, it would continue going of the different tests and whether you passed or failed. And then there's a final score for all the tests that ran, and how well it did for the platform or the CNF itself. The results are saved into an external file, which you can check. So the scoring system is based on the Sonaboy Kubernetes conformance test suite, which allows you to within CNF conformance, you can configure the scoring for the different individual tests and the AML configuration file, and other items. And then the test results are also saved into a AML file with all of the individual tests, the different groups as well as the final score. So that can be consumed and then re-displayed in some way, similar to what's happening on the LFN, CNTT, OVB2 results, and likely to be directly part of the badging program on their side. But it could also be used directly by service providers that are wanting to test a platform or an application side, and then by the CNF developers directly so they can get the feedback. What I showed before is minimal information, but we can also turn it on for highly verbose for developers to use. If you'd like to contribute, we have a contributing guide. We'd love to see pull requests for improvements across the board from documentation through new ideas and new tests. And we're going to continue to collaborate with the different communities providing output from all these different initiatives. We'd love to invite you to the meetings on the CNF conformance and test bed. We have a technical meeting that's combining both of those. It meets every Thursday at 14.15 UTC. And then again, the Telcom user group is the first Mondays with the next one on October 5th. You can reach out to us via the Telcom user group mailing list, the CNCF public Slack channels for all these initiatives. You can reach myself directly via email taylor at www.coop or Dan We're also on Twitter and GitHub if you'd like to reach us that way. So there's some related sessions. I wanted to point out the cloud native for Edge and service providers. This was a Monday session. So you can check out the recording. And it had six CNCF projects all showing how they can be used within the Telcom community. And then right now there is a panel session with some service providers and different project leaders, including some people from the CNF conformance and test bed. These slides again will be available on Sketch. Happy to continue the conversation in the cloud native networking Slack. We'd love to hear your feedback on the presentation as well as how we can help service providers and developers in using the CNF conformance and developers in using the CNCF and cloud native technologies. Let's see if there's any Q&A. All right, Jim. Elephant host an end user advisory group that is made of only the network operators. And there's members across both the groups. And the question is, are there opportunities to collaborate more? I think absolutely. I would love to collaborate more. And whether that's on gap analysis or requirements, very important. Many service providers are saying what is the underlying why and business reason. And I think getting listening directly to the those network operators to be great. So and it's going to help what Elephant is doing, which is on the more opinionated side and CNCF, which is giving the options and view. So that collaboration, I think is very important. I think we are at time. I'm not seeing any other questions in the Q&A. If anyone doesn't has anything else, please join the cloud native networking Slack channel on ONES or any of the CNCF Slack channels for these initiatives. Please reach out to us. And we're happy to help. Priyanka, Lucina, and myself specifically that are on this call. Thank you.


Zodway on heartbreak to finding love, again. Mzansi's national treasure Zodway Wabantu's love life made headlines for several reasons including she and long-term bae, and Tobako calling off their wedding. Zodway who's no stranger to being a topic of discussion, further cemented her place in the entertainment world when she let fans into her life through her reality show. Viewers also got to witness the roller coaster that was her love life. The couple were supposed to tie the knot but things didn't go according to plan, with Zodway confirming to Chwisa Elibe that her wedding was off for good. She explained that she had broken up with Antobako hinting that fame may have been at the heart of the issue. Even though Zodway and Antobako's split was apparently fueled after all the attention they got from the reality show, she saw it through to the end. People understand me better now hence I cannot wait for the second season of my reality show. Just because I cancelled my wedding and gave Antobako a break, he thought that I wouldn't proceed with the final episode. This is why I posted on Instagram telling people they shouldn't ask me about my relationship again. Even though she didn't make it to the altar, Zodway reassured fans that she did believe in love and will one day find it. I still believe in love. I love too much so I want to love less and give less. I don't want to teach a lot cause people tend to use what you have taught them and turn it against you. Although she was nursing a broken heart, in September, the reality TV star told Chwissa L.I.V.E. that she was on cloud nine after finding love in the arms of her new band 10, Basi Bukalizi. She and Basi are still head over heels with each other and you could tell by the Instagram posts she shared. Maybe 2020 will bring wedding bells along with it.


Hi, I'm Nicole and welcome to the Produce Mead Simple Kitchen, where you're a go-to resource for all things fruits and veg. I'm just about to have lunch and I thought I'd share with you one of the most popular recipes off of the website. It's a lemon dressing. So, what we've started with is a third of a cup of olive oil. We're going to use the juice of half a lemon, a little bit of salt, pepper, a teeny pinch of sugar, and some Dijon mustard. That's it. You'll see this is something you'll be able to use over and over again and you'll never really want to buy salad dressing again. I'm just going to squeeze it with my hand over it so that we don't get the pits inside. This works out to about two tablespoons if you're not sure or you want to measure it. It's also optional that you could zest a little bit of the lemon first, but I'm going to keep mine pulp-free today. That's the sugar, about a quarter of a teaspoon. And this is two teaspoons of Dijon.  So, you'll find this is a really fresh, light dressing that you'll really enjoy not only over salads, but over sort of boiled vegetables or even roasted vegetables. Okay, so that is it. Now we're going to just put it on the salad and then be ready to go. I'm going to say this would store in the fridge. Probably you'd want to use it up in about three days. And there you have it, the simplest salad dressing ever. Please like, comment, and subscribe for more produce made simple. See you soon.


Hello and welcome once again to the rugged Rockhound. It's another Monday, so it's going to be another week of just whenever I can get out rockhounding after work. Today, nice day, a little windy, about 70 in the mid-70s. Great day for it. So I'm parked in a little different area. I've gone further down the road and I saw this nice little area out here, this valley, and I was like, I'm going to go check those hills. You can see them coming out there and we'll explore this area. See if we find anything in this spot. Wish me luck. So I'm up on the hill here. Apologize for the little bit of wind. That's where I parked. So I'm getting better feel for this and I thought I'd stop and kind of help instruct on how I'm finding the bearite. So you walk across and you're trying to find where you see the calcite, right? Now a lot of places will have already been dug, but if you see any good evidence of calcite, then go ahead and maybe scratch a little bit, get into the surface a little bit. And if you can find any decent sized vein of calcite that hasn't been dug up yet, there's a good chance that if you keep following it, it'll get into one of the nodules. I find that these areas usually aren't just like, here's one nodule and then there's one nodule. Usually they come in like groups. That's what I've been seeing anyway.  And then you go dig it and low and behold, there was more. You dug into it and then boom, you find some bearite. So that's what I'm kind of learning and figuring out here. So if you ever come out here, that's what I suggest. Go around and even look at the ones that have already been dug and take a look and see if you can find a nice vein of calcite on the side somewhere or whatever and be like, hmm, maybe I should follow that. Here's a good example of what I'm talking about. Here's the main hole somebody dug. You can see the calcite all over there.  And then I saw, look, calcite vein in the rock itself. And then I've been moving some dirt and here's some dirty ones coming out. And there you go. Look, there's a vein right there. And there's some of the calcite. So this is a good spot to check. So I'm going to go ahead and dig this. It may lead to something. It may not, but this is the stuff you want to check. So I was following kind of the vein. It was kind of running along like this and it was kind of here and then it was gone. And a lot of it was pretty thin, but I just kind of kept going and even after digging through this dark stuff, which is what you don't want. Okay, see that dark limestone? That's not what you want. What you want is this red color. And there you go. All of a sudden kept digging and there you go. Not far from the surface. We're hitting some calcite and what may be some buried in there too. Not very thick yet, but that's okay. There's the crystals that I saw originally, but I didn't see this. There's a whole thick vein right here. It's kind of dark still, but it is mostly buried. I've been pulling it out over here. I don't know how you can see it, but it's mostly buried. And I can tell because of how heavy it is, you know, and the crystal faces are much cleaner usually. They're more clear than the calcite typically. So yeah, so I'm gonna get all this out and see if we've got any nice, nice crystals. So far, nothing that's really terminated. It's like just broken with a few faces here and there. All right. Things are going really well, but I want to point something out. A lot of the times I've been fun, you know, since I've been here that some of the best crystals are tiny and you'll miss them if you're not going slowly. Now, there's a bunch in here. You might not even be able to see them because they're kind of dirty and they're small, but yeah, I've already pulled out about half a dozen that are like this. So go nice and slow and careful and really look at every little bit that comes out. Just slowly move everything. Just take a close look, anything that looks suspect. Put it in a pile so you can take a closer look at it.  Take a closer look at it or take it home when you can clean it off. Here's this crystal cleaned off. Very small, but nice and clear. This is just a bunch of the crystals. I have quite a few, but these are some of the nicer ones. So end it up with a good dozen or two smaller crystals, all terminated, all nice and clear. Really cool. So I've continued digging into it and this is just fun. The majority of what it is is actually barite. It's a vein of barite mostly. So you're just pulling out pieces of it. The only ones that are really fully terminated so far have been really small, but still it's really cool. And the busted pieces, some of them are just nice and clear, just beautiful, you know. So just, yeah, worth keeping in my book. So I'm just grabbing every little piece that looks somewhat decent and thrown it on the pile. Pulled off some more rocks and exposed more. It just keeps going. Still small veins, still mostly mess, you know, just a vein that just falls to pieces.  So I've been digging for quite a while, getting a bunch more stuff. I just, I have tons of stuff now, but I wanted to bring you in because I just pulled this out. Look at that crystal. Oh, that's beautiful, terminated. You can see right there where it kind of ran up against the pocket. It's beautiful. So cool. So clear. Love it. Here's this one washed off. This was really nice. Beautiful clear crystal. Nice termination to it. Look at what I just pulled out of the clay. Look at that crystal. Oh, it's beautiful, isn't it? I'm a fractured. I'll be careful not to touch it too much and I'll try and protect it. Hopefully keep it from cracking anymore because it's beautiful. Here's this crystal all cleaned off. Really nice. Once again, wish it didn't have the fractures, but it's a nice terminated crystal. So you remember that one I pulled out? So I think I may have finally hit a pocket for the first time. I think these are crystals here even though they're just covered in mud. It looks like rock, but I pulled these out and these are crystals. These little ones. So yeah, exciting. I'll have to get them out and eventually get them cleaned off for you. Here's this crystal cleaned off. I love this one. Look how sharp the tip is. It comes to a nice flat wedge. Really cool. These two are also quite nice. This has a nice termination to it. This one is two crystals. They're broken, but I like how they come together there. And it's Tuesday. So day number two of the week. Today I'm actually off work, but I've got a lot of stuff to do. So once again, it's only going to be about two hours out here, but I am joined with my wife. Say hi. So I'm going to go back up to the pocket I was digging yesterday. I feel like there's still more there. So I want to go check it out again, which was that hill right there, really close. Back at the hole. So this is where I was digging yesterday was in this. And then I went ahead and cleared all this off to try and get back into here. And as I was clearing, found a little bit of calcite here and tiny bit of berry, but it wasn't very good as broken. Then I found some more right there. I've been pulling stuff out. No full crystal yet, but those are definitely pieces of berry. So we're going to keep searching in here. See what else we can get out of it. Here's this crystal berry cleaned off. It was very dirty and cracks in it. So it didn't come out the best, but it's still buried. The pocket that was here, while the stuff I was digging ended up just being a vein and I kind of just piled the stuff here. I don't think I got any crystals out of it, just broken pieces.  I doubt they'll survive, but I'll try and see if I can't get a few of them to survive. So we dug down a little bit and look at that. It's a really cool vein of calcite.  But it's calcite. Still kind of cool, though. And this is what you want to follow to hopefully find the berry. So after digging a well, well, that's a bunch of calcite. No berry that I could see. So I think if you kind of get deeper when they get all solid veins of calcite, it might be that there just wasn't space for the berry. So maybe the berry is further up. So I'm gonna forego going any deeper here and instead go that way, which is where I was finding stuff yesterday.  It was just very clear. So I just wanted to kind of showcase a nice piece of calcite that was really clear. So you can go out there and look for this stuff. And I think it's worth keeping a few of these pieces. Beautiful. Okay, so we weren't digging over there. And I searched around a little bit because that was kind of disappearing. So I dug there and there. I hit some calcite veins, but after digging for a while, didn't really hit anything. Came to this whole pit somebody dug here and off to the side, starting to see all this calcite. You can probably see it here. But I dug this, just pulled this out and boom right there, berry crystals. They're really dirty out in the way. You can see them. But these are all berry crystals in here. How do you spot those? So look at the way calcite is, how it's faded, and then look how clean that berry is and how smooth that surface is. That's a good way to tell them apart. So here you see a close-up, how nice that crystal is. And then you can see there, these are berry crystals. They're just really dirty. So when I get them cleaned off, you'll see better. Here's this crystal cleaned off. This is a pretty nice one. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the full termination. It broke, but that's the way it is sometimes. And here's this thing cleaned off. So we have this berry crystal here, broken, didn't terminate. You have another nice berry in there, a bunch of smaller ones aside, and a beautiful terminated one right there.  So it's a lot of crystals in here. And overall, it is really nice. It is hard to see everything in it, but I'm happy with that. Uh-oh. So I got down here and it turned into clay. See that? Clay. When you hit clay, that means you hit the edge of the natural and you won't get any more going that way. Let's do that. And we're back at the vehicle, so I'll get ready to head out. And yeah, overall pretty good day. Found a few more barites, that one specimen. I'll wash it off. It's probably going to be pretty cool. And that's probably all I'm going to get out this week. We've got a lot of work of a job going on. Sorry about the wind. It is windy today. I don't know if you can hear me. But yeah. So that's it for this week probably. So I'm going to go ahead and end the video here. That's barite again. So until next time, hopefully not as windy. Remember, there is treasure everywhere.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. Happy Tuesday. Coming at you with 2021 Panini Origins Football, four box, random team break number four.  These are the final four boxes from that case that we popped open not too long ago. Remember, we marked those RTs so we know that they're all from the same case. I'm gonna use this to kind of hide the cards here. This is our last break of origins for now. But keep your eye on the website jaspyscasebreaks.com. We may get some more back. Big thanks to this group for making this happen. Let's W up.  W up likes her mix a lot. All 32 teams are in. And let's go. Let's roll it, randomize it. Three and a two, five times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, and once more, right? Yeah, fifth and final time, five. After five, we've got Brian Frank down to Cameron. Three and a two, five times for the teams. One, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. After five times, we've got the Titans down to the Buffalo Bills. And we'll give you a chance to trade teams if you want to as well. Trade at your own risk. Brian Frank, Tennessee Titans for you. Jason with the Colts, James with the Cowboys. Bo with the Saints. Scott with the Chargers. Chris with the Niners. Brian with the Panthers. Gail with the Buccaneers. Chris with the Vikings. Ryan with the Jets. Bo with the Packers. Brian with the Ravens and the Browns. Scott with the Bengals. Travis with the Rams. James with the Seahawks. Peter with the Pats. Travis with the Giants. Steve Wright with the Falcons. Ryan with the Cardinals. Steve with the Broncos. Robert with the Chiefs and Eagles. Chad with the Lions. Cameron with the Bears. Jason with the Texans. Blaine with the Washington football team. Gail with the Jags. Chad with the Steelers. Blaine with my Raiders. Peter with the Dolphins. Cameron with the Buffalo Bills. Let's alphabetize. Let's sort by column B, by team. And we're gonna pause the video. When we come back, we're gonna see if there's any trades. And then we will have the break. Stick around, B, right back. All right, welcome back, folks. No deals were done here on a Tuesday, the 12th. Four box, random team, a number four. Big thanks to everybody for getting into the action. I appreciate it. All right, so, let's see what we got. Good luck, everybody. Giants had Dodgers in the background. Just getting underway. We got a redemption on the bottom. All right, there's Devonte Adams to 2.99. And 31 out of 79, Debo Samuel. Devonte Park are going to bow in the Packers. And Debo will go to the Niners. And that'll be for Chris. We got CD Lam and Jamar Chase, obviously all cards will ship so we'll get everything. And now your hits. The relic is Jalen Darden, 40 out of 49. Piece of his jersey going to Gale and Tampa Bay. The on-card autograph is for the Chiefs, Cornell Powell. That'll be for Kansas City. That's for Robert. And the redemption is a Rookie Jumbo Patch Autograph Orange. Let's see what's gonna be. R, is this the usual suspect? H? H, yes, for Andre Stevenson for some reason. Wasn't signing in this set. That'll be for Peter and the Patriots. All right, first box, next box. Out of 175, we've got a nice second year Justin Herbert. He's playing some excellent football. That goes to Scott and the Chargers. Got Juju Smith Schuster, 182 out of 2.99. I think he got banged up a little bit. That's Steelers Chad. Couple base cards here, DK Metcalf, Nico Collins. And got more Chargers. That's Josh Palmer, 165 out of 199. Three color patch. Last Palmojo strikes again, 70% of the time. It's 100% of the time. The on-card auto will be Semi Feoco. For the Cowboys, Dallas, James with the boys. And the RPA is Ian Book, Bookit, Jersey and Autograph. Bo with the Saints. All right, halfway through this four box break. DJ Moore, 18 out of 99. Carolina for Brian. Is Miles Garrett to 2.99. Brian with Cleveland. Marquis Brown, Brandon Iac. Ezekiel Elliott. Hometown Roots Relic, 5 out of 99. From Alton, Illinois. Dallas Cowboys, James. We got another Ian Book. On-card auto this time for Nollens. Bo with the Saints. Next there we go, Corey. Right, and the RPA is an Eagle. Fly Eagles, Fly Jersey and Autograph. Kenneth Gainwell. And that's for Robert and the Eagles. Final box, good luck. That's a double, let's go, Trey Turner. Corey Seger's going home, aggressive, like it. In, let's go. It's a quick run, I like it. Ooh, and a book. Book time. All right, here's, oh, sorry, George Kittle. Here's Run CMC. Christian McCaffrey, 62 out of 2.99. There's George Kittle to 1.75. Chris with the Niners. Christian McCaffrey going to Carolina, going to Brian. We got Amir Smith-Marcett. Ooh, and a nice short print here. Matthew Stafford, originals.  Oh, come on, Will Smith. And Will Smith has a captain on my show now. All right, what do we got here? We've got a relic, we've got JK Dobbins. Nice Future Fabrics, three color patch. Four out of 25. Ryan with the Ravens. And let's do the book last. Back here is, wow, Justin Fields and a book? Jersey and autographed Justin Fields Cameron with the Chicago Bears. Nice rookie patch auto. He's the man now in Chicago. Starter from here on out. All right, and the book. The book is a Jalen Waddle. Wow, big three color patch and on book autograph. Ooh. And that is 21 out of 25. That is awesome.  Miami Dolphins, Peter with the Dolphins getting the nice Waddle book. He's on his way to having a pretty nice season as well. He's got some moves. It's gonna be pretty good. Thanks everybody. That was 2021 Panini Origins Football Four Box Random Team Break number four. Keep your eye out for more Origins and other great football breaks on jazzy's casebreaks.com. I'm Joe and I'll break more with you next time. Bye-bye.


This is Chris Pipe. Muffins come a big see! I'm back again guys, today I want to talk to you about a couple ideas that we're working on around here at Freedom. The first one is, it's just hypothetical, it's conceptual right now, but we're thinking about making a website for video gamers, for freedom partners, that'll focus on their gaming. Now I know a lot of people are gamers, and some of you guys don't play games, and we're going to work on that too, but we got to start somewhere, and I'm just kind of wondering, if you could create a website, let's pretend you are freedom, and you wanted to create a website that had a gaming fix to it, and it was for freedom partners. What would you want on that website? This is an open question. Some of the things that come to my mind is maybe you would want a profile page where you could have your profile, maybe a place where you could submit your videos to like an editor or a team of editors, and then like either the best videos or the most recent games type thing, maybe they would go on the front page, maybe you would have an account on the website. There's so many different things that can be done, maybe there'd be a news section that has daily news, or updated news for video games, reviews maybe, but we kind of want to know what you guys think, what would you like to see, because you know what, we're always looking for something new to do, we're looking for projects, and as much as we can come up with it by ourselves, and we've got good ideas, it's your guys' ideas that really are going to make this thing run. You're our partners, you're the guys that make the videos, so let us know what you want, and you know what, we might get cracking on that, so that's my first thing. The second thing I want to talk about is the old featured on Freedom series, where you know, freedom partners like yourselves would submit videos in the links in the comment section, and then every day we'd pick two or three freedom videos from you guys, and feature them on the main channel, also give you backlints from the website, but more importantly we just want to feature your videos, talk about them, have a couple laughs, get you some more subscribers, get you some more viewers, that type of thing. We're looking at bringing that back, in fact I'm personally looking at bringing that back, so if that's something that interests you, and you want to do it, you know what, leave a link on this one right now, like let's just get this ball rolling, I'm pretty sure we're going to do this, so post a link to a video that you'd like that you may, maybe a recent one, and write a little description saying, hey here I am playing Fallout 4 and I beat this part of the game, or whatever the video is, it doesn't matter, here's my latest sketch comedy. Guys, two things are going to happen, one, we're going to read them all, two, all of the freedom partners are going to read the comments, the people that read the comments, pardon me, are going to see your link, because I approve every link that goes in there, as long as it's not like spam, and they're going to see it, and they're going to watch the video, and they're going to go to your channel and check it out. Also, it might get into the daily, you know, three video type things, so here's where we are right now guys, leave some comments, leave suggestions, and more importantly, any ideas that you have regarding either these two things, or anything else you would like to see at Freedom, leave them in the comment section below, I'm Big C, I approve all comments, because I roll like that, and I can't wait to see them guys, this is Big C, I'll check it out for now, I'll be watching these comments, I'll be making a video tomorrow, talking about them. Thanks, cheers.