What's up everybody, Jason here for jazbyzcasebrakes.com. 2022 Pinuni Legacy football four box break. Pick a jeans number two, just sold out. And again guys, we're giving away $250 in break credit if you buy two or more teams. So if you buy two teams, you got one entry into that giveaway, and then if you get four, two entries, six, three entries. Top two names at the end, well $125 in break credit. Each, I remember guys, only inserts, rookies, numbered cards, and hits will ship, so no vet based ships. And here we go guys. So I actually have a stack of the five, five like rolls columns right behind me right there. So from left to right, one, two, three, four, five. We're gonna generate to see which one we're gonna use here. And then of course everybody's here on the list. Last one was Jack got the cardinals and the buccaneers to sell it out. So let's generate a number. Let's go here, five, and it's one. So we'll go with the first stack. All right, here we go guys. Oh Anthony's here, nice. Man Anthony, just what I thought. And Anthony might not be here to help. Just like Batman. Come to the rescue. All right, here we go. Nothing so far. Little mini crowd pits. And that's to 125. Oh nice, there you go. Delvin Cook, and we have a Kenny Pickett. Look at that. That's autograph. Well I know where that goes. That is Steelers by Google Loochie. Had a pleasure meeting Michael for the first time at the national. There you go man, congrats. I'm gonna get a copyrighted. We have Darius Lutter to 150 and Redemption. Little mini there. To 75, Joey Bosa. Warren Monter to 2.99 for the Patriots. All right, looks like no dare to tear, right? We just got lucky. Kenny Pickett. George Pickens, rookie premiums, penmanship, silver. That's card number 157, which is another stealer actually. And then silver is out of 125, looks like. All right, next. All right, next one. Nice, Jameson Williams. Very nice, Detroit Lions. Adam Copper, well there you go buddy. All right, we got Matt Ryan there, that's Falcons. Actually sorry, I know it's Colts now. I think it says right here, Traded 2. Oh no, we got a dare to tear right here, I think. No, actually no. Trey McBride to 2.49. And Trey is Karnos. Ah, it was a split second late. I'm gonna end to me. I actually have the checklist pulled up right here, but it's not an alphabetical order. So that's AZ with that one, Jack, last spot mojo, period duty. We have a Haskins, and then we have a Nukobi Dean for my Eagles. We have a Damien Harris, it's $1.99. Patrick Mahomes is 75, under the lights. Kavon Divido for the Giants. Next one. Yeah, I mean, classics and this are both lower end stuff, Gilo. Classics, I kind of prefer this a little bit more than classics, to be honest. At least me, I know you might not agree, but classics was a little rough at times too. At least here you get, you know, RPAs and stuff like that. All right, redemption there. Isaiah Likely, we have a Frank Tarkington, and we have the 249, very nice RPA of Jalen Weidemeyer. Two colors at the bottom there. Padding Mahomes under the lights. We have a Likely there for the Ravens, and then a Bills for Weidemeyer. We have a Drake London, for the Falcons. Pits, we have a Wondale Robinson, to 125. Then we have a Ryan Tannehill. All right, redemption time. Bam. Whoa, under the lights, yellow diamond of Josh Allen. And let me make sure that this is not like the defensive end, Josh Allen. Cause you never know. But I'm pretty sure it's the quarterback. Under the lights, yellow diamond is numbered at 25 or less. And most likely, if he's out of 25 or 35, he's probably to 10. He's card number 29.  Hold on. What is this, tattoo? So, hold on. Under the lights, yellow diamond says 25 or less. But Josh Allen only signed five of these. So, I'm assuming that that's out of two, maybe? Take a look. That's actually a big card. So, as you can see, yellow diamond says out of 25 or less. Well, that's too much. Right there. But Josh Allen only signed five. So, I think that's probably less than five. Probably at least out of two, maybe? I mean, Dak Prescott and Joe Burr only signed two of these. So, most likely he's in the platinum and then out of two. And it says not all players are in each parallel. So, yeah, that's probably out of two, maybe, or something, I don't know. That's pretty awesome. So, there you go. That's Bills. Lucas Snow. There you go, man. Nice buffalo break. Solid. All right, last one. Also, too, guys, it looks like Steve and Brittany wanna play and got spots in the National VIP Golden Silver Pack Break, bringing it down to eight left. Eight left. If you guys wanna continue that late night rally, eight left from 11. That could be our last break of the night, guys. Instead of three, there you go, yeah. So, yeah, that's a pretty big Josh Allen, man. I remember last year, I hit a Tom Brady out of four, I think, under the lights. I don't even know if he's in this checklist, though. Is he in this checklist, too? No, I don't think so. He was in last year, though. All right, here we go, last one. Garrett Wilson to 60. Very nice one there for the Jets. Adam Cupperman, there you go. Fields, that's out of 10, 10 of 10. And Romeo Dobes to 249. Packers for that, I don't think, Anthony. Packers going to Kyle. Then we have Matt Corral there, that's for the Panthers. We have to 100, Michael Strahan. How about Latra Russell Wilson? 10 of 10, Latra Patrick Davis. We have Jerry Judy, and there you go.  I mean, I wish I had tobacco mini top loaders here, but. Oh, well. All right, well, not a bad four boxes here, though, guys. I must say. Josh Allen to three, Weinermeyer. We got McBride, Jameson Williams, George Pinkins, Kenny Pickett, Garrett Wilson, Romeo Dobes, and a lot of other nice stuff in here as well. All these are numbered and will be top loaded as well. So, appreciate it, guys. This was legacy number two. Now let's do the randomizer here for the giveaway. $250. So, number top two, get 125 each. Let's alphabetize. Man, Cupperman got six, so that's three entries. Adam R just got one. Brian Wofford just got one, Christian just got one, Kota got one, Dean got two, EA got two, Jack got two, Jeremy won, Jared won, Karen, Kyle Lucas, Michael Bellucci. Patrick Davis was three. Oh, pretty good odds for you guys. Roy and then Tanner just had two here. So there you go. 11 out of the possible 16. All right, good luck, guys. Roll it. We got ourselves A, five into two, seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Boom, that's right. Adam with 125 bucks and Tanner Wilson with 125 dollars. I'll be sending that to you guys to your email. Break credit code you can use it on whatever you guys want at jaspyscasebreaks.com, guys. Thank you.


While the lake is now at 98% full and only 5 feet from the top, it is nothing we haven't experienced before. We've been full many times. We've had to release up to 150,000 CFS through the spillway and not cause flooding in the immediate Oroville area. With the combination of flooding in other rivers, there's, you know, could be other downstream impacts that we don't know about right now or not, you know, prepared to talk to. And historically this current outflow is a medium high flow event. We've released more than double this amount in 1997 and only as recently as 2006 released more water than this and there wasn't any impacts to the community in 2006. So we don't expect to see any flood event that it will impact any bridges operations community.


Hey Virgo, welcome back to the channel. Gonna do your weekend reading coming up, I can't even believe it. March, oh my gosh, first through the third, right, wait, am I, do I have that right? I probably don't. I'm so confused. No, that's right. March first through the, through the third. Okay, so let's take a look and see what your messages are for your weekend and actually I'm gonna do this, what I've been using my Chinese, oh, straight off the bat here. Okay, you have, you're starting with wisdom. To focus on the past is to lose the future. Heat advice from an older person which will allow you to move on, holy, what, what's happening this weekend, Virgo? Okay, so that's Friday, what does Saturday look like? What's your message for Saturday, oh good, yeah this yesterday, achievement, enjoy the limelight, you've earned it, although on the family front someone's health could cause some secret worries and sleepless nights, that's worries and fears, okay, Saturday and Sunday, friendship, mm, okay, a friend needs your help, your kindness and excellent counseling skills will put them back on track, okay, that's a Virgo thing, I really feel like that's a Virgo thing, Virgos are all about like, what can I do for you, help me, help you, all right, let's take a look, so moving on from someone here, to focus on the past is to lose the future, someone gives you advice, an older person which is going to help you walk away from someone or something involving love, okay, the lovers, mm, someone's going to say if someone truly, if they really loved you, they wouldn't put themselves in a position to lose you, it's time to walk away, there's better things, better people, better energies out there for you, and from yesterday's reading it seemed like somebody new was coming in, wow, they're going to say Virgo, do you feel safe? So this always, you know, feels like my safe card, because it's like money, it's like money in the vault, you know, in the bank, somebody's going to tell you, it could be a Gemini, or another earth sign is going to tell you, you need to open yourself up to someone, like get rid of that past person, and open yourself up to safety, security, and a loving relationship, so I feel like Friday, you're going to get some really good advice, and it could be from someone who has been in a very long, healthy relationship, you know, length of time doesn't indicate health, okay, because people can be married for two years, and have the healthiest relationship there is, or involved for two years, and others could be together for 25 years, and it's toxic as F, you know, so this is someone who's in a very healthy relationship, possibly even married, could be somebody at your work, or someone that you work with, or is attached to some type of business you're involved in, or a family thing, it feels like it's going to either, they're either going to be talking about a king of cups, or it's going to be coming from a king of cups, okay, and there may even be an actual king of cups, who somebody tells you to go for, that this person, they might even, they might even be, they might even be the king of cups, trying to convince you to be with them, like long-term, on Friday, they might even be saying, forget about the past person, and they might be older than you, you know, masculine or feminine, come with me, be with me, okay, forgo, let me just get a couple clarifiers for that, but somebody's gonna say it to you, on Friday for sure, it could be, at any time during the weekend, but we're looking at Friday, somebody's going to either tell you they want to be with you forever and ever and ever, happily ever after, let's move in together, start a business together, let's have home together, all that, buy a house together, all that, or they're gonna be telling you that that's, it's somebody else saying to you, that's what you need to be focusing on, not the past person, okay, so look, we're clarifying the lovers, okay, that's you, that's you, the Nine of Pentacles is the Virgo card, single as a Pringle and doing just fine, hmm, all right, clarifying the King of Cups, so if it's this person, the King of Cups, water sign, giving you some advice, they've known you for a long time, okay, and it's either to be with them and they want you to be with them, or they're giving you advice, it could be a sibling as well, or someone that you've known for way back, giving you advice, or maybe even wanting to introduce you to someone and telling you forget about that past person, that's not gonna work out, right, so, so we're gonna have to wait and see how this plays out, and remember, if Friday comes and nothing happens, it doesn't mean the weekend's not over yet, so just wait and see, definitely leave me a comment though and let me know if this plays out for you, or if it already is, okay, now you've got achievement showing up here on Saturday, right, so enjoying the limelight, so whatever energy you've been putting in, Virgo, whatever you've been doing, okay, you received some kind of an award, or a diploma, or a certificate, you achieve, okay, now will you actually get it Saturday, you might, could it come through the mail, yes, could it just be an email, and you get a notification that you like, hey, we want you to come speak, or you know, there's a limelight energy around it, so that pretty much means you're gonna be in the spotlight on Saturday, okay, night of wands, ooh, yeah, this is a legal thing, yeah, this is, and whoever, it could be a company, it could be one person, it could be a group, they've been kind of taken, oh, alright, so this tallying up results, this is what I'm hearing, oh that's strange, votes, maybe you're running for something, are you running for something, council seat, or something that has to do with justice department, or something legal, being voted, being voted for, something along, like you're, I feel like, maybe it's a position, it's like a judge or court, something, you're gonna hear, you're gonna hear back, you're gonna get this, like, when I'm looking at this nine of wands, I kind of, it makes me feel like, it's been a lot of hard work to determine the winner, that's what I'm hearing, and they've been doing it behind the scenes, but it looks like, winner winner chicken dinner, it's you, you're gonna be the one that receives, and also as far as, like, someone in your family could have, like, a little bit of a health issue, so it's, feels like either, somebody like, sprains their elbow, or they knock their head on something, and you rush to get them checked out, but for some reason, you would be extra worried about this person, and it could have, oh, okay, so it's not worried if they're gonna be okay, it's, like, worried about how we're gonna pay for something, so I'm hearing, like, if there's someone in your family that's recovering from something, and they, they get out of bed too soon, they needed to take an extra week, or they have, like, you know, maybe some surgery or something, and they accidentally get hurt on their own, there's this, there's this concern of, like, how are we gonna pay for something here, I'm just seeing kids with a grandma as well, a couple of kids, or a mother with kids, or it could be a child that's hurt or something, it's kind of, nothing, there's nothing major, okay, so don't go down the rabbit hole, it's just, it's more about, like, health insurance, or finances is what I feel, okay, so what they're trying to say, it's, it's, like, secret worries and sleepless nights about how are we gonna pay for this, I feel like whoever the person is, you know, even if it's you, or someone in your family that, like, you know, I don't know, they, maybe they hit their funny bone, and it's, and it's just now all wonky or something, whatever the issue is, like, they're, they're gonna be okay, this just feels like, oh, more money out of your pocket, right, times are tough, you guys, like, I went and bought a pound of Swiss cheese and a pound of ham from the deli, and it was $30, I paid $30, $27.99 to be specific, for a pound of cheese and a pound of ham, $30 freaking dollars, are you kidding me, like, you guys, I don't really get on here and get into all that, I'm usually just like, yeah, you know what, times are tough, but man, this is BS, this is BS, and, and even like, okay, yeah, I can, I can, right now, I can afford that, but there's people out there that cannot, you know, like, what are we supposed to do, just like, I don't know, go get the garbage can and scrape the sides and put it in a pot of boiling water and have dirt soup, is that what we're supposed to be eating in this country, like, are you kidding, all right, I'm done with my rant, it just, I couldn't believe it, so you might be feeling the pressure and the pull a little bit, and it's not just the country, it's the world, right, you might be feeling the pressure and the pull of a financial strain, okay, maybe it's one of your kids or something like that, you know, or maybe somebody's insurance has run out or they too early to get the senior care or something, like, there's legal help, though, for paying bills, okay, I just want you to know that after I've gone on my rant, do your due diligence, search, seek, find the money, it's somewhere, you will find it if you need it, okay, my ham and cheese is gonna last me for a month, because you know what, I'm gonna stick it in the freezer, and then when I want it during the day, I'm just gonna thaw out a little bit, and then that's how I'm doing it, I'm trying to save, because I'm a Virgo, I don't like to spend money, but that right there, no, it's just a couple of years ago, I feel like a pound of ham was like, what, $6.99, are you, I've been kidding, anyway, you've got friendship, a friend needs your help, your kindness and excellent counseling skills, we'll put them back on track, they're your good friend, Virgo, you really are, friendship could be anybody in your life this weekend, whoever, it could be a friend, it could be a lover, it could be your offspring, it could be family members, friends, colleagues, somebody comes to you, and so somebody's not asking you to like help them move their furniture, it's not that, they're not asking for you to give them a ride somewhere, this is, I'm having a emotional, I need help, I need to talk, okay, so you come in with, yeah, see someone's feeling like some kind of loss or heartbreak, they don't want to go to work, they're putting a lot of, they put a lot of effort into something, okay, this, but I feel like, and I just want you to know that this conversation, that this setting someone on track, helping, you know, so easy to kind of logic out another person's situation, because you don't have an emotional attachment to it, to their person, so it's easier for you to have like an objective view, it's hard to have an objective view when you have an emotional attachment to your own situation, and the way you deal with your own situation is you don't think with your emotional brain, you use your logical brain to sort out your own dilemmas, okay, because your heart is always going to just say, no, no, no, no, no, no, I love you, anyway, so this kind of helps you, I feel, this little bit of logic, helping somebody get back on track, kind of put you on track in a way as well, so they're gonna say, you know, they're heartbroken, they put a lot of effort into something, or a relationship or something, and they're like, they're, they're distraught, they have a lot of remorse and regret, yeah, their self-esteem is shot to shit, they are, they're broke busted and disgusted, they feel mentally trapped, they feel victimized, somebody might have sabotaged their relationship, or they might be blaming themselves, they were so happy with someone, or a situation, or a person placed her thing, and now they're just like feeling so much loss, somebody might have ghosted them, Virgo, this might be ringing a few bells in your ear about some of y'all, your own situation, and I feel like you might just be like, you know what, let me tell you what to do, because Virgo, like, ask yourself, what would you tell someone else who's going through a similar situation as you, you'd be like, get the hell out of here, tell them to take a hike, right, that's what, but for yourself, are you applying that same logic, right, so I feel like this is gonna give you a little insight into maybe your own situation, so either someone decides not to commit to this person anymore, or there it's ghosting, or there's like, it's just they left, or something along those lines, they have a heartbreak, Virgo, you're gonna be like, tell me what's going on, come on, give me everything, let me know, give me the tea, so you're gonna have like a little bit of a sit-down or something, and you're really gonna like, you're gonna bat one out of the park for this person, and I feel like it's really gonna help you, too, in a lot of ways, like this is my, this is my, my first basement at the plate, you know, swing, bat about a swing, so I feel like you're really gonna, pshh, set somebody straight, be like, just get your ass out there, get around your friends, your support group, date a little if you have to, go out and do things, get social, don't, don't sit in your bed and cry for hours, take your time, but try to balance it out with, you know, make sure you get a little something to eat, a little something to drink, you don't want to dehydrate yourself from this shit stain who's screwing you over, um, Virgo, I feel like this is a two for one for you on Sunday, really, and, and like I said, it could, it could happen Friday, it could happen Saturday or Sunday, or just gonna get it, go through the whole weekend, so it's really just depends on, you know, your situation, but, I don't know, Virgo, I kind of feel like, I feel like your weekend is pretty good, you know, like if I, scale one to ten, I feel like your weekend is like, pretty much eight and a half, nine, you know, sans the stress with trying to help someone financially, with maybe some health stuff, but, yeah, I feel like, um, I feel like you're good, you're gonna have a good weekend, so 1969, 1982, someone is 30, um, O, E, I just heard, oh, O, E, O, E, O, what's that song? I forget, I forget that song, O, E, O, E, O, what's that go to? Somebody, somebody leave it in the comment, what's the name of that song? Excuse me, Mr. Officer, do you love me like that?  I am the Informer, all right, anyway, move on girl, move on, okay, so we get the letter J, the letter S, Jose, August 31st, always here, always, the letter C, oh, that was a C, now it's a B, the letter N, okay, oh, bone, or that could be somebody's last name, bone, or how do you say, B-O-E-N, or B-E-O-N, bone, or am I saying that right, or bean, or bean, okay, we've got Jennifer, for sure, we've got Jessica, Jocelyn, I just heard, okay, we got someone's nickname, they're saying Nessie, Nessie, Ness, Nessie, okay, 52, someone's 52, we got September 9th, 55 again, September 20, give me a little, September 20 again, okay, September 21st, and September 22nd, okay, we got the month of June, someone was born in June, letter I, letter A, we have Ian, just saw Ian, oh that 55 just turned and turned again, somebody's 22, they're just saying, this is 5555, okay, someone is in New Zealand, New Zealand and Jakarta, is that a place, Jakarta, I just heard Joe or Joseph, Bo, somebody's named Bo or Bober, oh, hello Mr. Al, okay someone is 39, we have September 5th, 3095, could be somebody's phone number, 8269 5539, okay, all right, let's see, I'm not gonna pull any of the signs here because we really aren't too specific, okay, September 16th, someone's born in 1990, someone's name, initial starts with an O, okay, someone, PF Chang, I just heard PF Chang but we have the letter F, Frank, Francesca, we have P, 1962 is also here, somebody's really nosy in your business this weekend or right now, somebody's very very nosy, I just want to tell you that, someone's like trying to get all up in your business and someone is 32, someone is 40 and somebody's birthday is in November, November 10th, oops, yes, November 10th is getting all up in your business, all right, could be a Leo, they're just saying now to figure this out, could also be a Leo, could be a Gemini or an Aries, okay, in 1975, so look, you've got an owl here, you know owls are attached to aliens, I just heard that, you know I'm on an alien kick right now, I watch this guy on YouTube, I mean he's my newest, I just crack like I lay in my bed and I laugh my ass off, I can't not, his name is Casper Sight, you probably have heard of him, like I said I'm always late to the party, like fashionably late but he does a lot of like reaction videos too, like I just want to say paranormal, all kinds of freaky deaky things that are, he's from the UK, all kinds of freaky deaky things that like people upload videos about and I'm just like oh that is so insane but I'll watch, I'll watch, I love the alien stuff, like I love it, like the paranormal stuff, yeah I scare the shit out of myself with that, like I can't, I can't, I'll watch like a surgery show, you know, as long as it's not surgery on the head, like I'm totally fine with watching them like pull out your guts and stuff and repairing and all that stuff but the horror gore, I can't do that and the paranormal scares like seriously the shadows and the ghosts and stuff, I'm just, I can't with that, I just, everybody's got their thing, that's not my thing, okay, but the aliens, so anyway, I'll leave a link below if nobody knows what I'm talking about, Casper Sight, he's hilarious, he's funny, he's like such a reactionary, like at first I was like this guy's nuts but now I love it, anyway, so somebody said something to me that the owls are attached to aliens, I don't know why, maybe because they kind of look like an alien a little bit here, this actually looks like a robot alien, this kind of reminds me of Rosie from the Jetsons, does anybody remember Rosie, the house cleaner, tell me, if you remember the show, I know a lot of us are all the same age, but if you remember the cartoon show The Jetsons by Anna Barbera and Rosie, the house cleaner, does that not look like Rosie, is it me, so I don't know, maybe somebody's name is Rose or maybe you're cleaning your house or maybe you have like a Roomba that's running, I had one and it broke and I had to say goodbye to it, but there's, I don't know, this owl looks like super either, either super stoned or seriously stressed, what do you think, I'm just hearing like a button owl, like an owl with buttons too, not hearing it, well the impression I'm getting is like a button, an owl made of buttons or a button owl, I don't know what that means, but you know obviously owls, they represent wisdom and insight and that kind of stuff, so there's a connection to an owl for someone here, I don't know who, I don't know, maybe you'll spot like an alien, I told you guys I saw an orb right, I did, I saw an orb and I can't remember if I did I tell you that, I was like just walking through the parking lot and I saw like this, I saw this metal and I swear to god because I'll tell you what once you start watching all that stuff then you start seeing them, you do and it was like a round metal orb, I don't know it was pretty big, I guess it was kind of far away but it looked weird, it wasn't like a helium balloon because a helium balloon will kind of go up, now if it's like low in helium it could go across but it will still kind of do a little bit of this as it's going across this thing was just like that straight across the parking lot into the woods and I followed it and it just disappeared into the woods, I watched it and I was like I did not just see that and I'm still, I'm not really confirming whether I did or not but I have the image in my brain, like a moving picture in my brain of it and every time I see it in my mind, again, that was not what I'm used to, there's something off about it, okay, so I don't know there's something going on with these orbs, these orby things, I don't know, they could be drones, they could be who the hell, maybe Google's got a whole new Google Earths thing and they're not doing the truck anymore and they get these orb things, I don't know what's going on, maybe you'll see something over the weekend if you do let me know, but you also have a lion, how about that, so strong Leo energy over this weekend for you, okay, but listen, the lion is the king of beasts, the lion is not the king of the jungle, lions do not live in jungles, they live in the Serengeti, they live in the, you know, the open whatever it's called, the king of beasts, okay, so there's something here about, hopefully it's not anything bad, but you know, or perverted, twisted, or queer, or like weird, but there's something here about the king of beasts, okay, or a beast, gosh, I don't know, I don't know what's the connection to that, but it is Leo, it is Leo energy, so Leo will be significant over this weekend, you could be on the cusp of Leo and Virgo, so it's just more of a confirmation that this is your reading, but I am picking up a really strong, like, power, there's a power force, a power energy this weekend, okay, for you, so I'm gonna leave that there, I hope that you enjoyed that to some degree, it wasn't too crazy, and I will see you all back here on Sunday, have a fantastic weekend, thank you everyone for joining the channel, if you didn't get a shout out for me today, I will come back Sunday and give you one, if you have joined my channel, $2.99 per month, and yeah, don't forget personal reading links, description box below, I will leave Casper Sight's YouTube channel down there, hopefully I remember, if it's not there I'm sorry, the name is Casper Sight, S-I-G-H-T, he's on Twitter and Instagram and all that, but I don't really use that stuff, so yeah, go check it out, all right you guys, have a great weekend, see you later, bye. 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Hey everybody, it's Christian Buckley with another post tweet jam takeaways And gonna do something a little bit different this time this month. This is the 10th anniversary of the collab talk tweet jam So I thought before I jump into the topic of what we did this month and just give you a summary I actually the artwork for this episode has picture of me As well as a photo of me from ten years ago About the time that we started this well, yeah, so any who Why the tweet jam so this has been a question that I know a number of people have asked I am regularly going out kind of canvassing talking to people saying hey you should get involved in this and so that's why there's a Huge number of Regulars as part of every tweet jam because people really enjoy the process But every month there's a handful of new people that are in and of course There's always lurkers people that participate. It is Twitter. It's a conversation. It's open to the community So anybody can get involved, but I just wanted to talk about like what how this started So as some of you may know my from my history, I was working for an ISV in early 2012 That was actually when I earned my Microsoft MVP the first year, which is now you can see the wall. I'm a 10 year MVP but I Wanted to break out of the echo chamber of my immediate community and part of it was I was a SharePoint MVP I was really embedded within that the SharePoint community involved in the creation of migration and administration, you know tools governance tools for the SharePoint space and I wanted to talk about topics around Collaboration and not just have SharePoint people involved I wanted to branch that out and regularly invite people in including competitors to the Microsoft ecosystem because most of our topics While they're on SharePoint related technology. It's part of the conversation Are bigger than that. It's not about the technology. It's about how we're using the technology and what's happening within our organizations It's the small C collaboration discussion So of course didn't invent the concept of tweet jams. They've been going on, you know throughout Twitter Within the Yammer community at that time. There's a lot of question Well, shouldn't you hold this in in Yammer and Yammer communities had created something called Yam jams Which was created as part of Twitter and but we wanted to be open We didn't want to be in a closed network where you had to go and register and sign up for that Process to get into Yammer. We wanted it to be open to the world And so we created that and over the years we fine-tuned the model for this Like how many questions do we ask? How long should it go? You know the types of questions that we that we ask and we've came up with this magic formula that just seems to work It seems to be the right pace. It's very fast when I've removed There's seven questions every time when I've removed a question. It always seems to be slower We tried that a number of times and so we went back to seven So that's what that the tweet jam is. How do you participate? So I have kind of my you know got the questions that we're gonna cover We have a topic for the hour. It's always late in the month at 9 a.m. Pacific always at 9 a.m. Pacific Apologies to the 4 a.m. People in Melbourne who just can't bring themselves to wake up to join Occasionally will have folks from APAC that will jump in But we do have people from all over the rest of the world that do join in and so it's always interesting to see that But at the start of the tweet jam I Kind of launched the announced the topic. I have a bunch of cut and paste You know of different things that I go through kind of guidance on how to participate But essentially is everything that we do via Twitter. I usually have several Twitter pages open So that I can see the live feed everything around the collab talk hashtag And I'm constantly refreshing that page So I see things as well as a page for notifications where people repeat or they ask me questions And then also a folder for direct messages And so that's what I recommend people use back in the old days the Twitter API is actually allowed us to go and There was a Twitter feed API Twitter ended that era There are third-party tools that there's cool things that we could do But we don't have that anymore. You can use Hootsuite or or You know any of the other tools that are out there I don't people use buffer and other tools to kind of manage their their visibility into the conversation But as as I go through I give people an opportunity to introduce themselves And then I post I usually warm up I said here comes question one and then I post q1 question one and post the question with the hashtag and to Respond people put a one answer one and they with the hashtag and then they put their response in there And it's important to always respond with the hashtag that way Everybody who's following the conversation can see that it's in line as in context to the discussion that's happening even if somebody responds to your your Your response to question one and they then don't include the hashtag or don't include the question number if you Respond back answer to them add that in again so we can kind of keep track of everything and we go through that I basically seven or eight minutes for each question over the course of the hour again that seems to be the pace It's very fast It can be very quick to see the conversations that go by and there's no way that any of us can follow Every line of conversation that happens one of our sponsors is tigraph. They provide tool set It's all in power bi so at the end of every session You can go in and on the last tab of the power bi dashboard is Every single tweet over that course of that hour Using the collab talk hashtag you can go through in order and review every response So I always spend some time over the course of the rest of the day. I'm looking back through the responses Finding gems seeing what the side conversations were some of the jokes the memes What happens if we have a really active tweet jam? We tend to trend nationally on Twitter and you start to see the bots pick it up You see the advertisers jump in utilize the hashtag and promoting things in there Which is always fun to see but the output of this. Why do I do this? Why have I been doing it for ten years? it's because one of the Kind of the the reasons for starting it in the first place as I mentioned was to To break out of the echo chamber of the people that I was working with day in and day out and get other ideas I wanted to validate ideas. I wanted to hear other opinions get other perspectives I don't think any topic that I've done for ten years There's there's always Some response from someone within the community that I never thought of And so it's great to have that perspective as a content generator I get ideas for videos and blog posts. I push ideas to my teams I also see based on the responses I reach out to people say hey, would you like to do a video or would you like to do a guest blog post or Hey, would you like to collaborate a night on an idea around this? and so I'm sharing that information and Strengthening the relationships that I have out in the community and building new relationships and so extending that social network It's also just a great way because people provide links to other articles to other to books and white papers and research And companies that are out there and so that's fantastic to get those resources as well And I guess the the number one idea a benefit of participating Is it allows me to share my ideas and expand on those things so again as a content creator I'm looking for validation of some of my ideas get some refining ideas in there But then to be able to go and five an idea around an article or a new session that I want to give it a conference And so it's a great way for me to kind of break the ice and get that initial feedback So that's why I started that that's what the how you participate the tweet jam again It's wide open to anyone so if you ever see a tweet jam topic if I'm talking about it If you're able to join just mark it on your calendar Let reach out to me and say hey, this is something I'm an expert in or I'm passionate about I'd love to participate I'm happy to add you add to add new names to the panel. So just reach out to me and connect So for this month for the 10th anniversary we Discussed the topic of objectives key results and the employee experience And so that of course I we dig a little bit into the questions. I'll go through here in a second But cover Microsoft's recent acquisition of ally.io, which is an okr or objectives key results Technology company and they're adding that solution into their Microsoft Viva platform, which is part of their broader Employee experience Effort, you know that initiative so exp of course it's not a Microsoft thing It's a focus on your end users on employees and making sure that their end to end experience and whatever it is that that You know, they're they're doing over the course of their day that we're thinking about that ISVs that solution providers like Microsoft like my company have point are thinking about that end to end you know end user experience and Whether we're providing the end-to-end experience or just a piece of that experience that we understand The what the customer needs is the end-to-end and so even if we're just a little piece of that experience We need to make sure that we're doing everything that we can to make that end-to-end experience exactly what the customer needs and to work with all of the other players that in that continuum that are part of that experience and Looking at not just what people are doing. So the technology that they they purchase a piece of software They're out there utilizing the capabilities. That's not just what it's about But it's whether they're being productive whether they're being efficient whether they're happy Are they getting burned out in this activity? And so what can we do to? To have longevity in the solutions that we provide as well. So I know there's a lot more to it than that I'm just trying to provide kind of a synopsis, but that's what the employee experience exp is and Having shared objectives shared goals shared outcomes as part of your organizational planning is something that in my experience a lot of Organizations fail at I started my career early on I spent a number of years about a third of my career in the project portfolio management space so Task management task tracking project planning all those kinds of things the portfolio view would be Multiple projects and having kind of a global view of time and people and resource management kind of all those components Did that for a number of years and what my my path into? Collaboration into knowledge management space into the SharePoint world and and now the Microsoft 365 ecosystem Was through project and portfolio management in fact my first? Microsoft deployment technology deployment. I'd use the office apps and things before But my first deployment was actually project server back in 2004 2005 And with that an early version a free version of SharePoint and a year year and a half later I was working at Microsoft in what is now part of Office 365. So I kind of caught the bug I caught the vision of what it could be although my project server experience wasn't that great But even then a big part of that project portfolio management was it's a key to success of a lot of those solutions Were those that had like an okr component the ability for at the top level a company to come in and say Hey, here are three Pillars of what we're trying to accomplish this year to move forward These are three big items that we're focusing on for the fiscal year for our company Then the next level down is each business unit needs to be able to say well Here's the five things we need to do and all five of these Drive towards achieving that top three and then you have the team level down to the individual level the idea is that we have a shared understanding of What is it that we're trying to accomplish as a company and that I as an individual Understand how the tasks that I'm doing on a daily weekly monthly quarterly annual basis Drive towards all the way up to those top line Goals or objectives the desired outcomes as a company So having tooling to do that and that's the the project portfolio management side that I that I worked on But even then a missing piece of a lot of that that technology was the actual the the Objectives the the results the outcomes and so it's just a different way of thinking and planning and making sure that people are on the same page and we're working towards the same goals and and Because we have that shared understanding those shared goals and they're measurable They're traceable through the organization then we can measure those things and know well how close are we do achieving our Goals, what are our stretch goals? How do we go above and beyond what those goals are so that's that's this space? I'm very excited that Microsoft is it's been I think a gap in Microsoft's technology And so I'm excited to see them do that. I'd love them to fix some of the problems This is a longer discussion around their project management software We can have a discussion about that Microsoft would call me we can talk about that But I'm hopeful that there's movement in task management. I'm just not seeing it yet, unfortunately But back to the focus of this okay ours So here's the questions that we discuss and I'll just I'll run through these very quickly and share some of my thoughts and just wrap This up and you can always go on Twitter and do a search on the collab talk hashtag and just over The it was it was January 25th was the event date and you can search you can find all of this as well As I'll have a link to the tigraph stats so you can go into power bi and you can go see every single tweet That was sent out and all of the sentiment analysis and other information of who participated I think we had 31 31 active tweeters Hit for this discussion. So just a lot of great content as within that so the first one So what are your key employment experience goals for 2022 and beyond I can tell you organizationally ours is to So we were actually moving forward with we're looking at ally.io Prior to Microsoft acquiring them So that is actually something that's on our calendar year plans as a company is to deploy that start using that and so that We can have better alignment by team by business unit and all the way up roll up to the top levels of the organization So a key part of our experience is to do a better job of getting Everybody on the same page so that we know as individuals What we're working on how that impacts what the business is trying to achieve which I think is just so important Especially having just gone public last year. We have huge growth plans Our revenues is growing the number of products that we're releasing is growing We're moving into new areas and so it's important that we're all on the same page The second question we discuss is what is your company's internal management approach or culture for goal-setting? objectives intact the task execution So I'd say we're it's kind of a mixed bag. I'll be honest, you know without getting into detail around it There is now we're a very flat Organization a lot of the ownership the responsibility falls on the individuals We try to hire the smartest people possible And so we expect them to own and go and drive and shape their own career To ask for help when they need it those kinds of things But I do see and while we do a great job of communication Especially during the pandemic. We're constantly, you know meetings when there need to be but a lot of just one-on-one Conversations a lot of chat that's happening people aren't shy And so they reach out and connect but we are lacking in that Clear-cut top level down to each business unit down to each Organization to the team level to the individuals and it'll be great to have that kind of structure that kind of alignment so we'll have very clear areas of what we own and When we go above and beyond it'll be easier as an individual contributor It's easier for you to go and show that you're going above and beyond when everything is clearly defined Because if there's no definition of success How do you know you've succeeded if there's no definition of success of what we're trying to achieve? How can you go above and beyond? There's no measurement. You're always just claim that it's it's a project management term called scope creep That happens when you have no definition it gets defined for you So three so that's that's kind of the culture. So it's just kind of open people talk But we could use more structure Three how does your organization connect the work that people do every day to broader company? Objectives and outcomes that I said it's it's meeting culture We do have I mean we we do a good job of on part of our monthly Discussions company-wide town halls of here's what's going on. Here's what's changing Here's what we need to focus on and the leadership the VPs the GM's and the directors do a good job of Translating that down to the teams, but as we get bigger.  I mean the the the most effective team size is a manager with five direct reports I don't know where I read that. That's that's my MBA speaking But I know in my own experience when I had five to eight employees I was the more most effective when I had more employees. I've managed up to 40 50 people directly That was very difficult to go and do needed to put some structure in In place around that, but you know, so how can you? Understand all of the tasks all of the objectives all the desired outcomes of every one of those employees The more people you have the more complex that it gets so We're doing everything via chat. We've got plans. We've used some planner some other task management I've never seen a Gantt chart any kind of formal project management tools to that degree It a lot of PowerPoint But it's just through Through those discussions like I know what my individual commitments are I talk with my manager We've agreed to that and so every time we meet. I'm basically running through here's my high-level commitments So in some ways, I'm essentially doing what the technology Can't provide. We're just going to get better at it Number four was how do you work within or change a company culture that is task focused instead of objective focused? You know, there were Number of people whose respond to the sayings like is that is it either or can't we be both of those things? Yeah, no It's not meant to be a lot of the questions that I the way I pose them is I I want them to be open Sometimes I want them to be like people that question the question itself and have discussion around that It's up to interpretation around what that means one way of looking at this are some people are just so focused on You know like task-driven they kind of lose sight of you know, the of the forest They you know, what is it you the who's the forest for the trees? You know, anyway, there's a saying that's out There's a mark, but you know, we're so Focused down on our work that we lose the perspective And sometimes it's great to have the perspective, but it never translates into The the the tasks of what people actually do you would need to have both of those things You need to have the high-level objectives, but you need to have the day-to-day tasks people Not that I'm a I'm not a believer in the ticket-taking approach to to most things people should have I'm much more of a here's what I need you to go and do. Here's the time frame for that Here's the success metrics It's up to you on how you go and do that whether you're working at your desk Whether you're working from a table in the cafeteria surrounded by people you're working from a hot desk in the middle of other support org or you're working from home in this this era, you know, it's irrelevant if You're achieving the goals if you're if we're getting the desired outcomes as the company So a big part of this is looking at you know our how much are we focused on the tasks? Are we losing sight of the goals or vice versa and make sure that it's a balance of those things? How do you work within your organization to change the culture around that? One of the things I talked about I've experienced at three companies now where I've done stood up like a daily scrum And again, this is something where as me as a people manager with a small team It's difficult to do with a larger organization and be effective, but for smaller working teams is to To do this on a regular basis, especially if you're in a fast-paced environment a lot of changes constant barrage of Customers you're coming in with new requests and you're constantly having to reprioritize things Here this you can tell I that I've worked in operations organizations support organizations when in IT project management Type organizations where there's constantly those requests coming in with a limited number of personnel of engineers and project managers and Analysts to be able to go and solve these issues. You're constantly prioritizing based on who's asking them for the request What's the urgency of this project? What's the dollar of value that's attached to it and you are then applying resources to these things based on those priorities and so you you need to You need to have communication open communication. You need to be clear on the process when I did the daily scrums So I did this at well get a couple companies One just before I joined Microsoft I did it again when I was at Microsoft where I did I instituted daily Standing meetings were literally stood in the hall. I did it both locations I installed a whiteboard on the wall in a central area and said it's mandatory people must be there in the morning it wasn't meant to be a permanent thing, but it was an opportunity for us to get together and Restate here's what we're working towards. Here's the high priority things. Here's all the new requests that have come in let's talk about the the prioritization of these new requests these status of the existing requests and the consistency of having that discussion it developed the team culture and then spread out to our Customer groups who could see and they built it built trust into our process They knew that when they were asking us for help on things that we went through this process We reviewed it we considered it when we came back with our ETA of delivering the results that we would you know that was based on Everything else that's going on out there with all of our priorities and we were thoughtful about that process So we built trust within that process So that's what has to happen to make change happen you have to be clear on what the goals what the objectives are have a process communicate that and then be consistent in sticking to that process and And keeping it open so people would were very understanding when they would come in and would ask for You know, I need this this is a huge priority and we'd look it and say well look It's a lesser priority than the ones that we have in but you're the next on the list and as soon as we deliver on these others and we'll put personnel on this one or Standard project management we could if you had more funds We could take action if you have personnel you can give us we can move forward on it Nope can't do either of those things are like all right Well, then that's the priority around that we built trust in that where people understood it even if they weren't happy with the Answer they knew that it was thoughtful that we you know that we took into consideration Kind of all those different things that if there was a reason why the ETA given was you know Something that was reasonable if people are involved in the process that they understand the process They are more likely to support the process if it's a black box if they don't understand the reason the thinking of why you push their Their request down in priority priority then they're going to push back. They're going to complain or more likely they will go around you Number five was how does or would an okay our objectives and key results solution fit into your employee experience plans? So I've talked about it fits into ours because it's just the next step We're moving so quickly We're growing that we need to make sure that everybody is working on the same page that we're driving Towards the same Objectives the same goals and so that's something where I think even if you're an organization with 10 people You can still benefit from this strategy. I Would argue you may not need to go buy a tool or look at some of the free options that are out there But if you as you start to get more automated to be able to have the links to the project that to the task Activities as well. So you have the high-level objectives down to the day-to-day tasks that need to be done I've made all the assignments and have people report back and track their activity Tools are great for that. That's the things that they can do well So it fits into our employee experience plans because we understand that we need to have tighter management of Those plans and the outcomes that are progress against them. So we're just at that stage Naturally Number six does Microsoft's acquisition of okay our solution provider ally to IO alter your plans around Microsoft Viva No, well for us. I mean we're in the Microsoft ecosystem. That's the primary partner that we work with Although we work with Google and Salesforce and other clouds but Microsoft is our number one and We're doing more and more around Viva. We have ideas for other products. We have other solutions We have things that we do that support Microsoft Viva and Ally just fits right into that. So we're going to be using it as a customer And then you know, we can't use a solution out of the Microsoft ecosystem Without then also looking at it from a partner perspective of what can we do to improve this and for our customers? What else can we do? Are there other gaps that we can fill because that's what we do We're product people and then the last question is what feedback would you give Microsoft on their employee experience strategy so far? Well Now I think you could dive into each of the pillars the existing pillars And there is probably some feedback around each of those areas I think overall and I'm Microsoft is is Moving forward on this strategy at the right time. I think just where we are in the market You know, hopefully not too much longer But here in the era of the pandemic where organizations are looking at you know employee burnout and they're looking at it's not just Hey, are we productive? Are we efficient in the work that we're doing? But we're having a high level burnout Are people feeling like they're getting the most out of you know, they're experience are they is their balance in their lives And so having these different solutions that allow organizations to get a better overall sense of the health and well-being productivity and effectiveness of their employees Will lead to a healthier relationship between employee and employer and that's a good thing so I'd say Microsoft can probably do a better job around the overall packaging of You know the the story around Viva, I think there's a lot more that can be done there But it's just where we are it's still kind of early and it's it's it's still a new thing some of the feedback that was given I know that Probably the strongest level of displeasure with the Microsoft Viva is the licensing issues I Think most people would love to see all the capabilities Available through the most mainstream licenses like the e3 e5 licenses not having to go and pay Additional for premium services for a lot of this capability The only thing I would say about that is that like fast search is a great example of that where initially it was You know a side solution you paid extra then it was a premium service is more integrated But you still paid for and now you have while there are still search solutions You can go above and beyond the majority of the technology has been integrated into SharePoint search and that is is there so I think just over time That's gonna constantly change and evolve But people would love to see that with something as powerful as this and what Viva could be That it was more of an integrated license that was just tacked on to the solutions that we already have today so that's kind of my takeaways from The the tweet jam this month Once again, if you'd like to get involved just follow me on Twitter at at Buckley Planet You can check out the videos the summaries of past the past ten years of the tweet jams You can find it out on my blog and on buckleyplanet.com and Whenever you see a topic if it's of interest reach out to me and connect everybody's invited so with that Thanks for watching and Have a great rest of your month. Oh, yeah. Oh, and we're back by the way February 22nd 2022 will be the next collab talk tweet jam. So 9 a.m. Pacific on February 22nd. See you there


Hi, I'm David Cantor with the Law Offices of David Michael Cantor and today I'm going to talk about Wampo, the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Now we're up on the 18th floor at Cityscape in downtown Phoenix getting ready for Super Bowl 49, which has of course the Patriots and the Seahawks. Now I'm dressed in my Phoenix Open wear, which includes my Pebble Beach hat, my Pebble Beach shirt, which I will be wearing on Saturday the day before the Super Bowl. Now what I'm going to talk to you about today is if you go out to the Waste Management Phoenix Open, make sure that if you drive, you plan on having a ride home if you drink.  Now once you get back, leave your car in their parking lot, they'll watch it for you, take an Uber home and then pick it up the next day or a cab. If you are stopped by police and you have had some drinks, always err on the side of caution and say, I'm not going to answer any questions or do any tests until I talk to my lawyer. Now by saying that you didn't confess but also you didn't lie, you didn't give many evidence and if you are charged and it comes to trial all the officer can say is well I pulled over Mr. Jones, he smelled of alcohol, had watery bloodshot eyes and then I arrested him. He's not allowed to mention that you invoked your right to counsel. So the jury sits there and goes, my God, you didn't even ask if this person had anything to drink, you just arrested them. And you have a much better shot at getting a deal, getting the case dismissed or beating it at trial if you don't answer questions and you don't lie. All you have to say is I don't want to answer questions, do tests or anything else until I talk to my lawyer. Now remember, if you do drink and drive, take a cab or take Uber. It's better to Uber up than lawyer up. Take it from me.


Okay, everybody, we're going to go ahead and get started. Welcome to Cassandra Summit. I hope you enjoyed the keynotes. And I'm going to be talking about something that a lot of people are talking about these days, retrieval augmented generation, AI, and how to use Bedrock with Astra to create a question and answer session. So this is me, I'm a developer advocate at DataStacks, Kirsten Hunter. I wrote a book called Irresistible APIs. I'm very much about the developer experience, making sure that there's no speed bumps when you get started on technology until you actually get to where you want to get. So what will this talk cover? I'm going to use Romeo and Juliet as scene, act five, scene three, which is where all the dying happens. And we're going to load that into our vector database, and then we're going to ask questions using prompt engineering. And I'm going to do this in a very easy way with Amazon Bedrock. You will notice that I have Romeo and Astra instead of Romeo and Juliet, and that is because when you take one of the LLM models, it will cheat. If you say only use the documents that I have, how did Juliet die? It'll cheat. So I'm going to look at the huge upload that it had from the web, and it'll give you the answer based on that. So I changed her name to Astra because Romeo and Astra is not a thing. It has to use the documents that I'm giving it. I'll talk a little bit about Amazon Bedrock, which is how we're creating the embeddings and the conclusions. I'll talk a little bit about Datasax Astra, which is a vector database. It is Cassandra. We have actually introduced vector search to the database. That's going to be in Cassandra 5. Right now it's just in Astra, but we're pushing it to the core so that you'll be able to use that going forward with your Cassandra instances. We'll talk a little bit about how a vector database works so that we understand that. I'll go over the process of the demo and then we'll just do the demo. I'm going to show you how I'm going to use a Jupyter Notebook and walk through the steps necessary to upload that information with the embeddings, create a query embedding, and then run it through LLM for a nice result. So I mentioned what the demo is. Again, we have Romeo and Juliet, except we're using Romeo and Astra. What we're building is a sample RAG application to demonstrate the process. Uploading the documents, using embeddings. We're using the Titan embeddings from Amazon, query using the same Titan embedding, retrieve the similar documents, and then use a prompt to clean up that answer and turn it into natural language. So Astra, Astra's a real-time vector database. It's not just a vector database. It is a fully-fledged Cassandra database that also knows how to do vector search. So you can put all of your stuff in there, not just your vector stuff, and it can all be maintained in the same database. One of the things that is important is that it indexes in real-time. So one of our competitors, the queries slow down significantly when it's in the process of indexing, and it has to go sort of offline a little bit for indexing, and so that makes things slow. Astra does everything in real-time. The reads and writes are real-time, and so you get the response of this, even when it's in the process of doing indexing. So how does a vector database work? How many of you are familiar with how a vector database works? Okay, so we have Creative Vector Store, and the vector store allows you to have documents, and basically the embedding is like an address in space. Like where does this document live in my document space? And so it's a very complicated address. If you're using OpenAI, for instance, it's 1376 dimensions. So it's a very precise address in your place, so that's what you do, you create the vector store, you populate it with those documents and those embeddings, and then when you have a query, you send the query through the same embedding to find out what its address is, and then it goes into the database and figures out what's near it. So we're talking, this is much closer to semantic search than the searches that we normally do on databases, which have very specific keys and value pairs. So it's pretty sexy. I mean, I've loved semantic search forever. Okay, so Amazon Bedrock is a managed service for AI Foundation models. There are tons of AI Foundation models more coming all the time. What Bedrock does is it lets you sort of use their interface to use those models so you don't have to go set up those models separately. You set up your Bedrock and then you choose the model that you want to use. This example, we're doing Amazon Titan embeddings and the Anthropic Cloud 2 model as the LLM. Models can be changed and switched out, it's needed, and that's really important because when I first did this, I used one of the other completion engines, different than the one that we chose to use the Claude one. And I said, in 20 to 50 words, tell me how Juliet died in Romeo and Juliet. And it said, stabbed. Okay, that wasn't 20 to 50 words. Prompt engineering is really tough, but if I use open AI, it says, oh, well, she took a potion to make her look dead and then Romeo came and thought she was dead and so he killed himself and then she woke up and stabbed herself, right? That's a good answer, right? But different models behave differently. Okay, so the steps that we're gonna follow for the demo, I'm gonna set up my Python environment. We're just gonna go through a simple Jupiter notebook for this. So I'm gonna set up the Python environment, the credentials and everything that I need. I'm gonna create a vector store in Astra. I'm gonna create an embedding for the query to retrieve similar documents and pass it through the LLM. This all makes sense when we look at the notebook. But for now, does anybody have any questions on kind of the vector store stuff and how it works? Nope, okay. So let me show you this sort of with pictures. So this is retrieval augmented to generation and so we give it the context with the tasks, the roles and the persona and the constraints. So we have our data on the left-hand side and we split it into documents and then the documents go through the embeddings API and then they get put into the vector database and then the prompt goes through the sentence to the same embeddings API to create that embedding so that it can tell the vector store, I want things that are similar to this and then it sends out the documents for you. And then when you're doing RAD, you take those documents and what we'll do is we're going to take the documents we get back and then have the LLM massage it until it gives you a good answer. I'm sorry, what? The dimension is kind of the address and the space is kind of the whole thing. All right, so I have a demo and of course there are demo demons so if it doesn't work then I'm gonna put this in the chat for the talk so you guys can play with it too. Okay, so I'm gonna set up my Python environment and I'm installing what's really important here is Casio, that is our library for using LangChain, LalaIndex, OpenAI, we've actually made it work for all of those things and it's just gonna take some time because I'm standing up here and you all can watch it. I'm gonna say that this is not the fastest internet I've ever encountered. So we're using, so usually we have Casio and LangChain, Casio, we have Bottle3 and BottleCore, those are the ways to interface with the AWS system and then there's a few things that are necessary for the particular example that we're showing and this should be done any moment now so what you get for doing a live demo. The nice thing about this is that you can ask all sorts of different questions about Romeo and Astra and you can see here with the LangChain embeddings, we're importing at Bedrock embeddings, that's how we're gonna access the embeddings that we want to use. So we're basically using LangChain as a adapter to Bedrock. LangChain is just a really fantastic way to get the models that you wanna use and use them. All right, let's done, okay. This is a tricky one, that's right, I send it to myself in Slack. So this is the token that you need for using Astra and the other piece of information is the DBID because you might have some different databases and they might be named the same, which is something that we want to not encourage but this way you're using the actual ID for the database. Moment of truth, I may just have to talk you through what it's gonna do if it's not happy. Thank you all for your patience, that's better. Okay, so those warnings are known, there are some things in the backend, Casio is gonna get rid of them very shortly but we are successful. So now I need to do my AWS ID, I never do easy demos. Probably should have set this up ahead of time but I wanted to be honest about what is required. And this is actually out there, you can play with it yourself as well. Session token is really the reason why I can't set this up ahead of time because it refreshes like every half hour. Let's see if we succeeded at that. So what I'm doing here is I'm setting up the bedrock runtime and then I'm using the embeddings and this is where I'm setting the model that I have. So I can do any of the models that they have for bedrock right there. I can switch them out, I can change them, it's all, it's all really easy. Okay, so I've just created a vector store named Shakespeare Act 5. I'm gonna grab the document that has the lines from that particular act and scene and then we're gonna go ahead and it's gonna take a couple minutes to add the 321 documents. So there's 321 lines. So when I've broken the play down into lines, each line is its own document and then it has the embedding. So it's just basic Python that we're doing here to add this. It's gonna say done in just a moment. But let's go ahead and look at the prompt while we're waiting. So we're telling it as a human use the following pieces of context to provide a concise answer to the question at the end. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer. That last part is almost always what you want if you're doing your achievable augmented generation because you do not want it to take the whole internet as of three years ago and give you, give the answer based on that. You want it to give the answer based on the documents that you put in. Okay, so we did the prompt. And so we're using anthropic Claude. It actually behaves much better than the Titan completion for our purposes, right? So you may find out that actually Titan works great for what you wanna do, but for what we wanted to do, we ended up liking Claude better. This is how we're gonna answer the question. We're gonna create an embedding. We're gonna stick it in there. And then, by booking the model, and then we're gonna give the answer. So let's see what we get. So what do we get? Based on the provided context, it seems that Astor, Tybalt and Romeo all die in the story. True. Specifically, the lines mentioned that Astor was found dead and bleeding Tybalt had an unclimbing death. Death, Romeo was also found dead. So that's a pretty good answer, right? Who died in the play? And this one shows you, these are the lines that it found. There's duplicates because I didn't clear out the database before I did it this time. So we got some duplicates, but it takes the 15 lines that it got that were in the region of who died in the play. And so it did the correct thing. So does anybody have any questions about how this all works? So I have an Astor database that's running, and that's what I used the credentials to get. I also have AWS access to using Bedrock. That this is new. It's something that you probably have to add to your roles in AWS in order to make it work correctly. I would love it if people played with this. I will put a link to it in the session notes, and you're welcome to give me feedback on it if it works for you, if it doesn't work for you, if you have questions about how to ask kind of different answers, yes. I'm sorry, what? So Cassandra 5.0, which is in beta, you could actually get a Docker image of Cassandra 5. And it has this vector search in it, and it will work. In fact, the Casio that I was talking about, let me show you the website. So Casio is designed to integrate Cassandra with Line Chain with Lama Index with OpenAI with all of the different, it's designed to be flexible so we can continue to add more providers. And there are paths in here where you can say I'm using Astra or I'm using Cassandra, and it will tell you how to make it work with Cassandra. So, and then you'd be able to do all this stuff. Yeah, that's right, Stefano is amazing. It's tomorrow afternoon, and he's gonna talk about Cassio and how it works. This is just, what I have here is just one example of how it works, but he's gonna talk about the whole infrastructure that he's created around Cassandra and AI. It's really, really amazing. So definitely go listen to Stefano tomorrow. Okay, well, I'm done. So, oh, more questions, yes. It's a SAS, yeah. Then you have... Right, you don't need collab, right? You can run the Jupyter notebooks locally. But I'm to go to Australia to be here, so I'm like going to some other class. So that's a great question. Astra actually has a backend, and the backend you get to choose, whether it's AWS, what region it is, GCP, or Azure. A lot of people choose to have two different regions from different providers, so that if Amazon has one of those catastrophic things that happens every now and then, you're still up and running on GCP or whatever. So, I don't know which part of AWS you're thinking would be moving, but... Well, I'm just thinking in terms of Latin services, some of them provided by AWS, but if it's provided by a party like Q, right? Or even some other application that is complex, you have a lot of parties, and you want to take into consideration what's happening with the latency of our products, right? Yeah, Astra, I've been told, and I haven't done the testing myself, but we've done testing with Astra against other databases, and we are very performant. There's not a lot of latency. So, using the bedrock, you'll probably get a little bit of latency because you're working with the two different systems, but I haven't had bedrock be, let's slow me down, noticeably. And I think I saw you mentioned about the 5.5, which is coming out. Yes. I guess it would be a Docker image or something like that. You can get a Docker image now of the 5.0 beta. I can potentially run it in my Kubernetes cluster on EKS and AWS. Yes. So, what would be the advantage of using... Well, so Cassandra is amazing and wonderful, and I love it, but it's a pain to manage. It does some amazing things with scalability, and Astra takes care of most of that for you. So, you're not spending your time managing Cassandra. So, the other thing that we've just added that might be interesting to people who are not excited about using CQL is we have a new, we're calling it the JSON API, and it is very similar to Mongo's interface. So, if you're comfortable with Mongoose, for instance, you can drop this in and use us as the backend instead. And it's much more friendly for people who live in front-end JavaScript land to hit a document database. It's a very common use case. And so, here, you don't demonstrate too much in this notebook, but what are the benefits of AstraDB versus other vector database? I think you talked about this briefly at the beginning. Yeah, so we did some, basically Astra is a Cassandra database and it has all the things that the Cassandra database brings with it, which is performance and reliability and uptime and fast, fast, fast queries. And then we have vector search on top of that. It's part of that. It's not like an extra thing that we stuck on. There's a lot of companies that are just a vector database and they're not really in a position to scale in the same way for a production system. And we did a lot of testing. I think if you go by our booth, we have the numbers, but we were like 18 times faster in some cases and four times faster in other cases.  So it seems to be an operational play and I guess replication and so Cassandra is much better than maybe the other thing. Yes. What you're telling me, okay. Yes, yes. Yeah, you can make vector tables and they can coexist with non-vector tables. You can. The Astra wouldn't, yes. What was the question? Oh, the question was if I have production database data in Astra and then I wanna add vector search with those can those coexist? And so what I said was you can have tables that have vectors and tables that don't have vectors but Astra's not gonna bring them together for you. You're gonna need to do that on the client side. Yes. Nice. And in your database, you can have multiple tables, right? And so if you have a table that doesn't need vector then you don't need to add vector. But like she said, if you want to add vector search to a particular table then we can do that. Yes. There was one of this one and I will put my slides up. I didn't make the deadline, I'm very sorry but I'll put them up. So if you check later today you should be able to get my slides, yes. Rag is really kind of tricky. You aren't gonna get the same answer from the same model every time even if you give it the same data. But that's just the way the LLMs kind of work. I mean, I asked it the same question five times and it gave me five similar but different answers. So that LLM piece at the completion level is gonna make matter a lot how you set up your prompt, right? That's gonna be different based on the model that you have and also you can set things as such as temperature where you tell it to be bounded and what it returns. So I have to wrap up. It's 11, time for the next talk. But please feel free to contact me and ask if you have questions or if you play with a notebook and see how it works that would be great. And I really appreciate all of you coming. So thanks so much.


Hello and good morning Dublin. So yes, I'm Liz Rice and I work at Isovalent, which is the company that originally created the Cillium project. Do we have any Cillium users in the room? I can see a few hands. OK. Cillium is built on a technology called EBPF, and I'm here today to talk about why EBPF is a really great platform for building cloud native infrastructure tooling like observability, security and networking. These tools have been often deployed using a model called SideCars. That model's got us a long way, but EBPF opens up a whole new approach that I think is better in many circumstances. Before containers, we used library code to share common functionality across multiple applications. The library code that you wrote or that you imported from a third party had to be in the same language as your app. When we move our apps to Kubernetes, we put the apps into containers, the containers run in pods, and that gives us the opportunity to pull the common functionality out into a separate container that we inject into every pod and call a SideCars. This model's been widely used for logging and tracing and security and service mesh. So that's SideCars. How about EBPF? The acronym stands for Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, but honestly, the acronym is pretty much meaningless now because you can do so, so much more than packet filtering. What EBPF really means now is the ability to dynamically change the way the kernel behaves by loading custom programs into the kernel. It's a little bit like how JavaScript lets us change the way that a web page behaves. Now, normally, as app developers, we write code in user space and we don't normally think very much about the kernel, but every time our user space code, our application code, wants to do anything that touches hardware like accessing a file or communicating over the network or allocating memory, all of these things require assistance from the kernel. We normally don't think about it because it's abstracted away for using higher-level programming languages, but our applications are asking for that assistance from the kernel all the time. When we use EBPF, we can write programs, load them into the kernel, and attach them to events in the kernel. Whenever that event happens, the EBPF program runs. Those events could be any function call, any trace point, network packets arriving at certain points in the networking stack. All of these things can be used to trigger our custom EBPF programs. In a Kubernetes environment, our applications are running inside containers, inside pods, but all of the containers in all of the pods on any given node, on any given host, are sharing one kernel. That means whenever our applications want to do anything interesting, that kernel on that virtual machine or bare metal machine is involved. The kernel is aware of everything that's happening in all of our applications on that Kubernetes node. If we instrument that machine with EBPF and attach to the right events, we can build tooling that's aware of all of those applications. We don't need to change anything about those applications or how they're configured for this tooling to work. Adding instrumentation using EBPF, we only have to install one instance per host rather than one instance for every pod. That is one of the reasons why EBPF is a really powerful platform for building tooling in a cloud-native environment. For a sidecar container to interact or observe application containers, it has to run inside the same pod and share Linux namespaces with the application containers. To get that sidecar into the pod, there has to be some YAML to configure it. Usually you don't manually write the YAML to inject sidecars. It's an automated process, maybe admission control as your pods are being deployed, the sidecar YAML gets added. Maybe it's done earlier in the CICD pipeline. But if something goes wrong or maybe the pipeline is misconfigured, then if the sidecar container YAML doesn't get added, the sidecar container doesn't run and your instrumentation is not going to be instrumenting that particular pod. In contrast with EBPF, we only have to instrument that node the one time. And as soon as we load EBPF programmes into the kernel, they can start observing and interacting with all the processes that are already running. So you don't need to restart your pods and there's no need to reconfigure them in any way for EBPF-based tooling to work. EBPF can see all of the activity on the node. So a malicious process is just as visible as regular processes. The sidecar model can also be pretty wasteful of resources. Every pod has to be configured to allow for the CPU and memory, not just of the application container, but also for the sidecar container. And there could be duplicate copies of configuration information, state information in every one of those instances of the sidecar. Pods are by design isolated from each other, so if those sidecar containers want to share information, the pods are only really supposed to communicate using network messages. So that's how you have to share information between sidecars. But with EBPF, we have a data structure called MAPS which allows us to communicate information between EBPF programmes and between those programmes in the kernel and any user space agent. So we can share information much more efficiently and use resources much more efficiently than the sidecar model. And there's lots of really powerful tooling that's already been built using EBPF and I'm going to have a couple of examples from the CNCF landscape. One is an observability tool called Pixie. And this project uses EBPF to collect a whole variety of different metrics and present them to users in a graphical way, like this example of a flame graph that's showing CPU usage across a whole cluster. This example is Cilliam's Hubble component which gives network observability. You can see individual packets flowing, you can see how Kubernetes services are communicating with each other and you can see metrics at layer 7 and layer 4. Cilliam is also using EBPF to provide networking capabilities. I mentioned before that EBPF programmes can be attached to events in the networking stack and Cilliam can use this to bypass parts of that networking stack to deliver packets more efficiently. And as well as connectivity, Cilliam is providing security based on EBPF with things like transparent encryption in the kernel and dropping packets if they're out of security policy. At the end of last year, we added additional capabilities to Cilliam to make it a service mesh or make it a service mesh enabled. A service mesh provides connectivity between applications. It abstracts away the underlying network and provides extra features if the network doesn't already provide them, like observability and security and traffic management. But what was innovative about Cilliam's approach to service mesh was that we built it without sidecars. All service meshes use a network proxy to handle and process traffic at layer 7 which is the application layer. For a long while, other service mesh implementations like Istio and LinkerD have used the sidecar model to inject that proxy into every application pod. Cilliam's implementation allows us to share a proxy across multiple pods. Avoiding the sidecar model helps us to avoid the complexity and the resource usage that's often been associated with configuring that proxy in every pod. Also, combining the service mesh with EBPF also gives us a much more efficient networking path. In the sidecar model, a packet from the application has to traverse the network stack multiple times just to leave the pod. If we have two pods communicating, there's a proxy at either end, and the packet has to take that convoluted network path at both ends of that communication. Using EBPF, we can pass through a single proxy while making much more direct connections at either end to the application container. This can have a really significant impact on latency. We know from Cilliam beta testers, Cilliam service mesh beta testers, that the operational complexity of configuring the sidecars and the resource costs and the additional latency of those sidecar-based service meshes had been too high a price to pay for some organisations to adopt service mesh. Now, other service meshes are also recognising the benefits of removing sidecars. Istio introduced a sidecarless option just last week. There are a few differences in the way that Cilliam and Istio are approaching this, but we're both taking sidecars out of the equation and using an envoy proxy to handle those complex layer seven parts. The quote there, sidecars have always been an unfortunate implementation detail. Mesh features will move to the underlying infrastructure, and that's really what we were asking ourselves in Cilliam. Can we move service mesh entirely, not just into the underlying infrastructure, but into the kernel? Well, we haven't moved everything into the kernel, but we've moved a significant part using EBPF into the kernel and delegating responsibility to the envoy proxy in user space to handle those complex layer seven processing. That's a pattern that's been used before. For example, Suricarta makes security decisions based on network packets sent to it by the kernel using NFQ, or when you plug in a hardware device, the kernel calls to a user mode helper to deal with some of the complexities of configuration for the kernel module that's being loaded. In service mesh, there could be reasons that you still want to co-locate a proxy in your application pods. For example, if you've got an application that uses a complex custom wasm filter in its proxy for a particular application, you may want to isolate that proxy so that it can't affect other application pods. So, I think we still see service meshes offering a menu of options for how you deploy that network proxy. But does EBPF mean the end of the SciCar model altogether? EBPF programming is essentially kernel programming, so that does create quite a high barrier that stops people from just rewriting all of their tooling overnight in EBPF. SciCars running in user space are really great for experimentation and innovation. Also, in some managed container environments, you don't always have access to the underlying virtual machine or bare metal machine. And in those cases, you may not be able to run EBPF-based tooling unless you have the co-operation of the cloud provider. But more broadly, I think we're going to see a lot of infrastructure tooling implemented in EBPF. And one of the reasons is this ability to avoid sidecars and improve performance. It's the improvements in performance that create the demand to implement more and more of the complexity within the kernel using EBPF. And because EBPF programs are loaded dynamically, we don't all have to run the same tooling, and we can innovate in the kernel without requiring everyone to use the same custom programs. So, the SciCar model does still have its place, and we'll continue to see it used in some environments. But I believe EBPF has a huge role to play in the future of infrastructure tooling for observability, for security, and for networking. Thank you very much.


Let's explore how to design a strategic partnership project that would make sense for project partners, ensure efficient implementation and achieve the expected results. There are many approaches to designing a project, and each consortium of partners relies on their previous experiences with similar projects. Usually, strategic partnership projects are implemented by organisations that have previous experience. So, partners know what works well and what does not when creating a structure of project activities. If you have never implemented a larger-scale project, do your research on the existing approaches to project design. There is no ideal fit-for-all project design. A good project design should most importantly be relevant to the project objectives, methodology, partners' experiences, duration and available resources. Project partners should first choose the best way to achieve the defined project objectives and create a project design based on it. Project partners may apply methodology used in a particular industry related to the nature of the output partners are aiming for. For example, if partners are creating an online product, they may want to apply a human-centred design approach. In this case, the development process should be broken down into five phases – Empathise, Define, ID8, Prototype and Test. If the whole consortium follows the same design thinking approach, then all products will be developed in this order. Activities like partner meetings, staff training or multiplying events would be naturally integrated in this approach and would take place when they are needed and support design-thinking-based project implementation. When using this framework, partners must identify when it makes sense to have the initial partner meeting, when the next meeting should take place to review the achieved results and prepare for the next phase. Partners must identify specific milestones of the project and decide when partners need an in-person meeting and when an online meeting is enough. Partners have to make an estimate of the project duration based on previous experiences or available knowledge about the development of similar projects. It is recommended to divide the development of intellectual outputs into more granular steps to realistically assess the required number and profile of staff members and resources necessary for the tasks planned. If the consortium or partners identifies the need for staff training, they should define when this training activity should take place within the entire project design. Training may be needed at the beginning of the project, if key staff members have to improve their competences for the development of intellectual outputs. Or, partners may need training for testing the new product or building competences to use that product in their daily activities. In this case, a training activity would rather be in the middle of the project. Project design is also influenced by a number of processes ongoing throughout the entire project. Communication among partners and with external audiences, monitoring, reporting, project visibility and dissemination of the results achieved. Let's take a look at the example. A good tool to visually design a project is the so-called Gantt chart, named after management consultant Henry Gantt. It allows defining activities within the timeframe. Let's imagine that a project lasts 24 months. One partner meeting could be planned during the first months of the project and one partner meeting at the end, which would be a moment to review the project outcomes and evaluate the project. Let's say we have two intellectual outputs, each broken down in three smaller phases, research, development and testing. It would be good to have one meeting towards the end of the first intellectual output and just before the beginning of the second one. Let's add a short-term staff training activity before the piloting phase of the first intellectual output to enable all staff members to get competent in testing the first output. Even when reporting should happen based on the management and reporting strategy. If you are producing intellectual outputs, you may ask for extra funding for multiplying events, which will give you extra opportunities for dissemination. A multiplying event takes place when intellectual outputs are ready. Partners need to decide if a multiplying event should happen locally or involve international community. Should it take place in one country or more? These are the decisions you must make when planning your strategic partnership project design. Make sure it is relevant and justify your design logic in the project proposal.


I think in, you know, my personal journey is exciting because I see myself getting stronger and see myself becoming more effective every day and making more of a difference in the world every day. And the second thing is seeing other people doing the same thing, seeing people healed, seeing people who have these chronic, incurable diseases being healed. That's what really excites me, right? There's a, you know, a woman in California. She has endometriosis and she couldn't even get out of bed. She was bedridden for years and she started using my coils and after a few months she got out of bed and now she's like a perfectly functional active person. It's like nothing ever happened. And she was so sick that she couldn't even lift the phone. We called the doctor before and I met her when I was down in LA and she said thank you so much. She said thank you so much, David, for saving my life. So that's, that's what really motivates me. That's the real driver, right? Seeing my own...