Welcome folks, we have the down industrial straight up 174 and Aztec down 3, S&Ps up 13.5, gold, gold contract up $16, trading at 2019 80 and ounce, we have silver up 30 cents at $25, 22 cents an ounce, light sweet crude up at buck 76, $81.50 a barrel, notes and bonds, 10 year note, down 4 ticks, trading 115, 12, the 30 year off 6 ticks at 132, 12 and King dollar, King dollar down 377 ticks, trading 102, 201, Euro at 109, yen at 133 and the British pound at 124 to 1 US dollar, we get over and take a look at the S&P folks, bottom line, it's crawling higher, you got a contraction of volume, bottom line, we'll see where this is going to go man, I mean the swing point is still game, that swing point is $418 and right now you're at $410, we go into the NDX 100, same type of setup in the NDX, bottom line inside the NDX, the NDX is actually not what I'm going to say, it's rejected $315, so that's actually a better setup for higher price, so bottom line you get down to $315, you're at $316.99, that's saying the same thing and the next swing point on this cues is tremendously higher, it's $334 which is a total mindblower but as it stands right now that thing is still game, gold, gold contract out here trading up a price point of $15.90, you actually have a, it's slightly an inside day out here, now what's happening here is that we have a confirmed ABC structure up, it's turned into a complex ABC, so what it has to do again now is take out the 2031 area, right now you're 2019, you have 117,000 contracts traded and then if we get over to the dollar, this is going to be the number when the CPI comes out tomorrow, the dollar you know we get down to $102.014 today, hell price, you're at $102.193, yesterday you did go higher so with game once again here in the dollar is the $106 to $107 mark, so you get a lot of moving pieces, if we go over to the bond, the bond to me right now and the dollar are the name of the game and the bonds look to me like they're setting up a monster ABC down, look at this today, you only have 854,000 contracts in the 10 year, the 10 year folks has been doing, let's get this quick, now let's get back, we're talking about monster numbers here though, stay right there folks, come right back.


Henry, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy, Akite, and Count of Anjou, to the Archbishop's, Bishop's, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Sheriffs, Stewards, Servants, and to all his bailiffs and faithful subjects who shall look at the present charter. Greeting. Know that we, out of reverence for God and for the salvation of our soul and the souls of our ancestors and successors, for the exultation of holy church and the reform of our realm, have of our own spontaneous goodwill given and granted to the Archbishop's, Bishop's, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, and all of our realm, these liberties written below to be held in our Kingdom of England forever.


Down the hatch. That didn't go, didn't quite go as planned. So, it's Tuesday today. Not exactly sure when or where you guys are going to be seeing this video.  I've got bills.  So, I don't know how I'm going to be when I've got kids and a freaking wife and mortgage to pay and all that, but anyways, today I wasn't meant to work. I was meant to have the whole day off, cruisey, get everything ready, but I've been called into work. I could have said no, but truth be told I do need as much money as I can before I go away. So, I'm going to go into work. I got up extra early. It's about quarter to eight in the morning and just doing some morning cardio. Bastard, of course. Last night, unfortunately, was probably one of the worst days in the last couple of weeks as far as diet goes. I just had a sweet craving that I just could not get rid of.  And as I'm sure a few of you guys can relate, and I found pretty much everything. And so it totals about three and a half thousand calories for yesterday. And I mean, I've done that before in the last few weeks, but I was on such a good roll, I was like waking up every morning feeling leaner. This morning I don't feel as lean. It's just a fact. So, yeah. The sad thing is, is that for months before I actually started taking myself accountable when using my fitness power for months and months, I was feeling this exact way every single morning because I wasn't tracking stuff. I was expecting to feel leaner the next morning because I thought that I was in a calories deficit, which I wasn't. So, yeah, I had all these mixed feelings and it's stupid because if I had just started writing everything down that I was eating and at that point I was taking things so seriously, so I should have started writing things down. I don't know why I wasn't. The seriousness of the issue of getting shredded has not changed from the start. But all that changed was, I really don't know, something shifted. I, no, that's right. Yeah, I got the Dexter scan down in Melbourne expecting to be 10% body fat and I got a rude awakening because I hadn't actually lost anything in like the last three months of dieting before I went and got that test. So that's what really changed it. And first thing when I got back to Alice Springs, I signed up with a coach and got cracking into it and this is where I am now. So, yeah, down at the oval again. I just live about two minutes that way and I'll probably do a couple of laps jogging, a couple of laps running and a couple of laps walking. And we'll see how we go at the end. But yeah, as I said, this video is tying off a few loose ends, so I'll show you what they are.  So we were talking about tying off some loose ends. Well, this desk you see right behind you is meant to be absolutely clean.  I won't go into what it is. Basically, it's all to do with YouTube.  Like, you know, I've definitely used my brain lately, but it's causing a mess. So first of all, for my first trick, I'm going to clean up my desk and make it look the way it's meant to look. And there you have it. So, not quite as planned. It's actually the next day, and I've actually got a flight in about an hour. So I better start rushing, actually. Such procrastinator. That was job number one. This is job number two.  All right, three, two, one. And there we have it, guys. It's not perfect by any means, but it's going to be a hell of a lot nicer to come back to that than what I had before.  All right, so I've got that bag there. Got my very special piece of equipment here. Taking the drone to New Zealand, of course. I'm going to get some wicked footage to show you guys where I'm from. On my computer. And right now, fuck, I've got like half an hour spare. What else to do when you've got half an hour than to go and smash some weights. I'm going to hit some shoulders quickly, get a good pump, come home, and then I'll be off to the airport. So, yeah. There's actually a few things that I was meant to do this morning that I'm not going to be able to do. I condensed all of those pieces of paper that you saw earlier into this one list. And I've done six out of the ten things that I've got to do this morning. Not least of which, making this video. So, yeah. I'm not going to be able to get everything done, but hey, that's just the way it is. And I'm off to the gym now. Might get some footage.  Make some gains. Got like 20 minutes.  A bit heavier than I remember. Look at the delts. I'm pumped. 20 minutes. Flatmate is meeting me at home. He's going to give me a lift to the airport. So, I better get home.


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Good afternoon, you're very welcome to this event with Professor Menon, who runs the think tank in London called the UK in the changing Europe. Maybe it should be the changing UK in an unchanging Europe. He's also a professor at King's College in London. You'll frequently have seen him and his articles in places like the FT and other British journals. He's a great expert and he's a great talker. It's a delight to welcome you. Thank you very much. That was a lovely way of saying he goes on a bit. I'm going to try and keep this short so we can have lots of time for questions and discussions. Being an expert on Brexit is a very, very low bar because there's so much uncertainty. There's so little in the way of agreed upon fact, particularly in the United Kingdom at the moment, and I'll come on to that. What I want to do is just talk a little bit about what's happened over the last couple of years. What's happening in the election and what the outcome might mean and what might happen going forward in British politics. I'm happy to talk about the economics. I'm first and foremost a political scientist, so it's the politics that interests me. But if you want to talk about the economics in questions, I'm very, very happy to. Let me start with that. That is the Brexit map of England. The blue are the lead voting bits. The yellow are the remain voting bits. We've puzzled over this since the referendum a little bit, thinking to ourselves, what accounts for this? Is there a pattern? Finally, a few weeks ago, I got a clue. I don't know how closely you follow British politics, but you might remember about a month ago, Rory Stewart, the former Tory MP who's standing to be Mayor of London, was asked, this whole story is so weird, actually, on reflection. But anyway, he was asked what his favourite pub in London is. And he replied, Pret. Obvious problem is that Pret isn't a pub, but anyway, leave that to one side. Then the story got even weirder, because after he said this on Twitter, the whole of the sort of Corbyn Outrider gang jumped on Rory, accusing of being a hideous liberal metropolitan because he liked Pret, and that this was the new front in the English culture war.  And we were pondering this in the office, and we came across this, which is a map of the locations of Pret in England. And that map reveals several things. It reveals, firstly, and I hope Rory never watches this video, why Rory wants to be Mayor of London, because in his current constituency we figured he's got an 18-hour walk to his nearest Pret, whereas, of course, in London you're never more than 30 seconds away from one. So it explains Rory's professional ambitions. But I think it also speaks to a geographical and economic divide around our country that helps to explain what happened in that Brexit vote. It speaks to what my colleague Will Jennings refers to as the two Inglings. Two Inglings that are divided by differential levels of capital spending of private sector investment and, indeed, of productivity. The productivity gap between the most and least productive parts of the United Kingdom is on the same sort of scale as the productivity gap for the whole of the Eurozone. So, you know, I'm not going to try and give you a monocausal reason as to why Brexit happened, but if you look at this and look at the bottom one, you know, there's lots of... There are a lot of correlations with the Brexit vote. Young people voted remain, educated people voted remain, relatively more affluent people voted remain. And I suppose that Pret map points us to the fact that cities are the places where younger, more educated, more affluent people live. So there's a lot going on, but one of them is, I think, that Brexit is about more than simply our relationship with the European Union. It was fundamentally as well a judgment on the state of our country passed by a number of voters in that referendum of 2016. I'm going to come back to that towards the end, but what I'll talk about now a little bit is what's happened over the last three years. And over the last three years, you've all watched as Parliament has wrestled with the Brexit issue, and God have you all watched. In January of this year, the viewing figures for BBC Parliament exceeded the viewing figures for MTV for the first time ever in the two-channels history, and let's hope it was the last. And of course, a narrative has taken hold that somehow Parliament failed us, that that angry, bitter, divided Parliament just couldn't figure out what to do with Brexit and somehow let the country down. And yes, Parliament was angry, and it was bitter, and it was divided. Those are the results of the so-called indicative votes, and what those indicative votes show us is that Parliament was very, very good at telling us exactly what it didn't want, but never actually quite got round to telling us what it did want. But there's an interesting question here, which is whether this is a Parliament that is failing or a Parliament that is doing its job, because yes, Parliament was angry, yes, Parliament was divided, and yes, Parliament didn't know what to do, but in that, it almost perfectly represents the state of the British people, because the British people are totally polarised on the question of Brexit as well. And what you'll see from that slide, unless you're at the back, in which case you'll have to believe what I'm about to tell you, is no deal and remain were the two most popular first choices. They are also the two most popular last choices. There is no majority either amongst the British people or in that old Parliament for any sort of Brexit outcome. And in that sense, at least, it's always struck me that Parliament's been doing its job quite well, because what Parliament has been doing is representing the British people, and if I may, I'm never happy when I give a talk unless I get a quick chance to have a dig at the French. Let me give you a little comparison. We are in Britain, a deeply polarised country, and you can see it every day on the Parliament channel in our Parliament. We are divided ideologically by values. Okay? France is also a deeply polarised country. If you think back to the last French election, where I think just for about 42% of the French electorate in the first round voted either Mélenchon or Le Pen. They voted for profoundly anti-system parties. What did they get for their trouble? They got uber-liberal Macron and on-march dominating Parliament. In other words, they got a political system that totally failed to represent the divisions in their country, and I would posit from that it is no coincidence that the French are experiencing the Gilles Jeune. And I would just pose the question to you. What is the better way of addressing the issue of a polarised and divided society? Is it by having it out there for everyone to see and wrestling with it day-to-day in your politics, or is it by pretending that it doesn't exist at all? And I don't pretend to know the answer to that, but I don't think we do know the answer to that. So I think it is too soon to simply conclude that British politics has failed. British politics is starting in a very difficult position. There's no doubt about that. But the proof of the pudding will be ten years down the line when we look back and say, OK, what has happened to British society to those grievances I mentioned in the past and to those divisions that are all too obvious now. That was my rather lame attempt to put a positive spin on what's going on at the moment. So let me turn to the election. Firstly, it is worth saying that there is a degree of uncertainty around this election. There's a degree of uncertainty for several reasons. Firstly, electoral volatility, which means the propensity of people to change the party they voted for. The British Election Study, which I heartily recommend to you, their website is the single best source of data on elections and this election in the United Kingdom. The British Election Study found that between 2010 and 2017, 49% of the British electorate changed the party they voted for, which is unheard of. And more recent data suggests that that number, if anything, has gone up subsequently. So the first thing is we have a genuinely volatile electorate which makes it hard to predict what's going to happen. The second thing is, whilst everyone's talking about tactical voting, there is some evidence that actually the Brits are a bit uncomfortable with tactical voting. There is some evidence out there that when we do it, we tend to get it wrong.  There is absolutely no guarantee either that loads of people will do it or that they'll do it right and not basically make a mistake on polling day and vote wrongly, well-tried. So you need people to be tactical and rational in the sort of social science sense of having access to full information. And so that's another reason, I think, to be slightly uncertain. The third reason to be uncertain is, of course, it depends what this election is about. We're halfway through now. Brexit is still there. There's a big fight going on in the United Kingdom that's quite interesting at the moment in that Skye's tagline for this election is the Brexit election. And the Labour Party hate this because the first page of the Labour manifesto says, this election is not just about Brexit. It's about calling it a Brexit election. But if it's a Brexit election, that changes how people think about it. Think about the Southwest of the United Kingdom in Cornwall where the Lib Dems are enjoying a renaissance but where people voted to leave in the referendum. If this is framed as a Brexit election, it might have one set of implications. If it's framed as another sort of election, it might have other implications. And remember, back in 2017, for all Theresa May's best efforts, it ultimately wasn't a general election about Brexit at all. There's a lot of transparency. However, there are also the polls and this is a little bit old now but what the polls are consistently showing is that the Tories have a significant lead and as well as we can tell, because of course our electoral system makes this quite hard to do, are probably headed towards a majority in Parliament in December. We don't know because one of the things, one of the problems we're wrestling with is the fact that we might no longer, the days of a uniform national swing are behind us. That is to say, it's all very well if the Tories pile up votes in parts of the country where they're already winning. The key will be if they manage to gain votes in parts of the country that they need to win and obviously we're not going to know that till polling day. But if I were a betting man which I am but only on sport as a rule, I would say that the Tories being the biggest party is your safest bet and at the moment as things stand with the polls, they probably go a little bit further and predict that the Tories will end up with a majority in Parliament after the election. So then I suppose the question is what happens then? Okay, so I'm going to try and talk about the two scenarios. There are two broad scenarios after this election, a Tory majority or a Corbyn minority government, some form of confidence and supply arrangement with Corbyn as head. Let me talk about Johnson first. Boris Johnson has said several things. He said he won't extend transition and he said in his trade deal, the Tory manifesto is quite stark in this way, the Tory manifesto lists what we do not want in a trade deal with the European Union. So no ECJ authority, no level playing field conditions, no customs union, okay? Boris Johnson reckons he can sort out a trade deal for us by the end of next year so the transition can end by December of next year. In theory that's possible. In practice it is very, very difficult. In practice it is very difficult because it is hard to see how even the minimal sort of deal that Boris Johnson wants is compatible with what the EU is willing to give. And by that what I mean is, the European Union, even if Boris Johnson says let's get rid of tariffs and quotas, he's going to say yep that's fine but actually you're very close, you're very big, and if we're going to give you that sort of deal he's about standards, which talks to precisely the level playing field conditions that Boris Johnson has so far said he won't sign up to. Now I don't know what happens in January, I don't know whether the new Boris Johnson Prime Minister with a majority comes back and says you know all that stuff I said in December, or I don't know whether in conjunction with the European Union he cooks up a really clever way to extend transition without actually extending transition. So we find a sleight of hand, a form of words, a legal trick that actually keeps the status quo going while transition comes to an end. Both of those things I suppose are theoretically possible. But it does seem to me as things stand, it'll be very very hard for the Prime Minister, if he wins a majority, to wriggle out of the promises he has made, particularly if the parliamentary party is more Brexit-y than the last one was, which looks absolutely certain. And so there is a real prospect that Britain will end up leaving the European Union in January and then falling out of transition at the end of next year on World Trade Organization terms. And the economic impacts of that will be significant. The one thing I don't know about is whether number 10 believe, you can leave number 10 on, you can leave the European Union on those WTO terms, with the economic damage that brings. Because let's face it, that effectively means the end of manufacturing as we know it in the United Kingdom because none of those supply chains survived that kind of outcome and realistically hoped to win an election four years later. That, it seems to me, is the key calculation. I don't know what the thinking is in Downing Street about that. I'd always assumed that in a sense the politics of bluster would run into the wall of economics and the wall of economics would send us reeling backwards saying, OK, let's rethink. I'm no longer so certain about this. So I think that kind of outcome is possible at the end of next year. We can talk about that further in questions. Let me turn now quickly to Jeremy Corbyn. If he is Prime Minister, what has he said? He said he'd renegotiate a deal with the European Union in three months and within six months we'd have another referendum and that that referendum would be the end of the story. Now, that, it seems to me, just about makes sense as a strategy for an election because Jeremy Corbyn has to keep together a coalition, though let's face it, let's not overstate this coalition idea. Yes, Labour holds some of the most leave seats in the United Kingdom, absolutely. It's still perfectly feasible that the vast majority of Labour voters in those constituencies will remain voters so it doesn't necessarily follow that Labour voters in those seats will leave voters. But still, there is a coalition to be held together so this is a compromise. But whilst it's a good strategy for an election it strikes me as an absolutely ridiculous strategy for government. Why? Because it holds out the prospect that Jeremy Corbyn goes to Brussels, gets a new deal to be fair to the Labour Party, some of the worst unicorns that have figured in their rhetoric to date have disappeared from the manifesto. There is no talk of the United Kingdom being in a customs union with the European Union and having a say over EU trade policy, OK? But there is still talk of alignment with the single market and of course if that means we'll have the bits we like then it's a unicorn hunt again, so we have to see. But he will come back with a deal at which point the vast majority of his MPs, of his voters and indeed possibly of his own cabinet will go out and campaign against it. And whilst Jeremy Corbyn says I will be set up to be the honest broker in this debate it strikes me that politically, as David Cameron found in 2016, being on the receiving end of attacks from your own colleagues over your own Brexit position is not a comfortable place for a Prime Minister to be. Let me turn to the other side of this very, very briefly. Michel Barnier's Steps of Doom. Let me say a few things about the EU's negotiating position in the Brexit talks. Firstly, that's a fiction. For the reasons I've just said, none of the off-the-shelf models of third-party relationship that the European Union currently has were on offer to the United Kingdom. Why? Because we're big and we're close. And the French, to name what, but you see I've got a bit of an obsession as you can tell now, will not want a country like the United Kingdom to enjoy the same terms as Canada without signing up to extra conditions. I suspect they wouldn't give us the same terms as Norway without signing up to extra conditions and I don't know whether they would give us the freedoms of Article 112 of the EEA Treaty to opt out of free movement in certain eventualities because we're a big, noisy and troublesome neighbour. So I don't think those things in their actual form were ever really on offer to us. I also think, and again if you want to come back with questions on this you can, that during the negotiations the European Union has negotiated in far too process-driven and legalistic away. I honestly do not think, I'm slightly scared to say this out loud again just because of the rubbish I had to take on Twitter the last time I said it in the Financial Times, but here goes, that the Republic of Ireland is the only one of the 27 that has actually bothered to sit down and reflect in detail on the sort of long-term relationship it wants to see built between the United Kingdom and the European Union. I think in a sense what other Member States have done is simply passed the buck to the Commission and said, you deal with this. And you hear this now if you have private conversations with officials from some of the East European countries who are now starting to think, oh my god, what about the security relationship? This is all heading in the wrong direction. Now I worry now with this new Prime Minister with his new majority that actually it's too late to do anything about this because British demands have become minimalist. But I do think there are questions to be asked about the way the European Union has approached these negotiations to date even though I accept the fact that, let me just say, because you have to say this, this is not for a moment to defend the conduct of the British government during the negotiations. But I do worry that both sides have not helped themselves, if you assume as I do, that ultimately a close relationship spanning both the economics and security is in the interest of both sides. Okay?  Brexit, as I showed you in that map, has divided our country. And the divisions run deep. More people now will say they have a Brexit identity than say they have a political identity. So more people will say, well, I'm a lever or a remainder, then we'll say I am Labour or Tory. And some of the survey work carried out by people like Sarah Hobalt at the LSE shows that these divisions go very, very deep. So, for instance, if you ask people how the British economy has performed since the referendum, not how it will perform after Brexit, how it has performed, how it has performed and remainers will. So it shapes our views of facts. It shapes our views of each other as well. A majority of remainers would not want to rent a room in their house to someone who voted leave. A large number of remainers would be uncomfortable about seeing one of their own kids marry a lever. This is a deep values divide that is taking hold inside our society. And it's values not politics. This is one of the reasons why our politics have struggled to digest Brexit is it's a completely different societal cleavage. It's about social identity. So if you're a social conservative, chances are you voted for Brexit. I mean, obviously, this is aggregate and you'll find counter examples. But it is this social liberal, social conservative divide that has been triggered by Brexit rather than the traditional left-right division of politics. Now what we don't know is the degree to which this becomes the division in our politics. And I suppose one of the great unanswered questions we'll find out the answer next year I suspect is what happens if we actually leave the European Union? What do remainers do? Do they set up party rejoin? And do they become a force in British politics? Or do they gradually dissipate? Do all those EU flags outside College Green in Westminster gradually rot and get taken away? That I don't know. But one of the interesting things is that before the bottom lines and look at the top two, the top two are the Brexit tribes. And for all the volatility in the showings of the individual parties, what you're finding is an eerie stability when it comes to leave and remain tribes in our politics. And I think that's one of the things that will determine the direction of our politics in years to come. How, to what extent this leave-remain divide continues to figure as a force shaping our politics. The other thing about our politics that is quite depressing at the moment is that whilst the British people are divided on many things, the one thing on which they show a side of consensus is the fact that politics has letters down. That our institutions, that our parliament have failed us in delivering Brexit and you have seen this real erosion of faith in politics. But one of the saddest things about this election is that three of the four big primarily English parties have adopted explicitly populist tones. Boris Johnson with his people versus parliament rhetoric. Nigel Farage, what I don't need to tell you about Nigel Farage, she's a populist. Jeremy Corbyn with his people versus the establishment versus elites. Three of the four big English parties are explicitly fighting this election on populist terms. And that's why. And of course one of the reasons for this which takes us back to the first slide and the map of Pret is the fact that for the last three years, even though as I tried to argue at the start, part of the reason for the Brexit vote stemmed from genuine grievance about the state of the country because of Brexit we simply haven't been governed for three years. Nothing has happened. Brexit has sucked all the life out of politics, out of the civil service and so economic grievance has got if anything worse. What you find is a British people that even in 2016 were deeply dissatisfied with the status quo are now even more dissatisfied with the status quo and slightly more irritated with their political class to boot. And I suppose the lesson that teaches me and it's a pretty sad lesson for our politics in the years that lie ahead is that we face the prospect of continued uncertainty, of continued populism in our political system for the foreseeable future because of the melding of these two things which is dissatisfaction with politics and prevailing and continuing dissatisfaction with the state of our economic settlement. Can I stop there? Thank you.


Hello everyone, welcome to a special CUBE presentation here in Palo Alto. I'm John Furrier with SiliconANGLE, special presentation with Dhruva. The data protection space is being disrupted big time with a lot of venture capital investment. Almost $250 million invested this quarter in data protection and certainly disrupting the cloud game, but a great lineup of experts and thought leaders here to talk about the news from Dhruva and the impact to the industry around digital transformation. And my first guest is Jaspreet Singh who's the CEO and founder of Dhruva. Great to see you again. Good morning, John. Good to see you again. Digital transformation is accelerating. Data protection is being disrupted. Millions of dollars are coming in.  What is the role that Dhruva's playing in the digital transformation acceleration? Absolutely. So think of the world, right? You think of companies like Domino's or Tesla, the thing that softer companies, right? They deliver, the service they used to deliver via a softer approach of the traditional business model. In the heart of this transformation of enterprises becoming softer, digitalized, is the data at the core. And data today will outlive more systems. And the more and more fragmented your approach to data becomes. You store data on-prem in the cloud, everywhere in between. The data management has to become more and more centralized. So Dhruva is on the core of this transformation, making a data transformation and making sure your data architecture of the future have a better approach of manageability and protection with the Dhruva platform. You guys had a busy month this month. You got a couple of big news we're going to be talking about today, a funding and next generation platform. Walk us through that. Absolutely. So we have two big news to announce today. The first one being $80 million of capital raised led by Revovered Capital, followed by most other investors including Sequoia, next to the Tenayan Capital. And then the number two being, we are announcing a whole new Dhruva cloud platform, which holistically takes our entire product portfolio and puts it together in a nice, simplistic approach to manage our entire information workload on a single platform in the cloud. 80 million is a lot of funding, that brings you up to 200? 200 or total million capital raised. It's a great validation for the market. It's a great validation for the Dhruva product portfolio. And great validation for customers who have trusted Dhruva so far to put us towards one of the top, I think no more than 10 startups have raised capital, more than $200 million in our space. So it's a great place to be here today. Talk about the data as a service, the data management as a service that you guys are doing and the Dhruva cloud platform. How does that solve the customer problems? And how does that relate to the growth in cloud and specifically private cloud or true private cloud? However, that you want to slice that out. This is a new segment, talk about that. Absolutely. So there's a lot of cloud washing in the market about the cloud data management prediction, the whole nine yards, but eventually for us, the cloud is not our technology. It's a business model. When you service the customer as a predictable SLA across the globe at a particular price point, it is consistent throughout the world, right? It's how you build your products, how you build security around it, how you think of the customer experience as a central focal point of everything you do and how you drive innovation with customers and then adopting the product going forward. And then also how you build your ecosystem of partners and your resellers to sort of adopt this whole notion of servicing a customer, managing data, all in the cloud. And the core of the innovation is the fact that the more and more data gets decentralized, the more and more centralized the data management has to be. And today cloud solves a great pain point there by offering simplicity of data management and offering an SLA, a predictable SLA which the world really needs for a data management service. And the hardware software part of the world is very, very hard to deliver. And what do you guys do specifically that solves that problem, it helps in that area? So today Druma delivers an end to end platform. This platform, think of a traditional enterprise which had to buy a, data management was a complicated beast.  And for each of these technologies, the solution you had to buy a hardware or software, a tiering solution like a tape or a cloud, or you had to buy services, and then piecemeal them together. You know, as you have more and more regulations and you have more and more demands on a data, as data is becoming your new oil of economy, you want to put them together in a way that they talk to each other. Not just the workflows, but the departments and the people involved in managing and touching the same data. So what Druma does is builds a, it offers a very holistic platform, a scalable, simple platform in the cloud, which puts together these multiple workloads of backup, DR, archival, e-discovery governance into a single platform, purely delivered as service, without any dedicated hardware or software needed to manage an entire data landscape. Lead end point servers or cloud data. 80 million is a lot of financing, congratulations. Great validation too, by the way, and you guys had good funding all along the way, but this is new fresh financing. How does that change or does it change your competitive position and how do you guys compare from the other cloud data management companies we hear about?  How do you guys compare and what's the differentiation? I think our differentiation still goes back to the same, our thesis, our core thought process being that secondary data or your data management has to live purely in the cloud, not an appliance, not a software, and cloud is not a graveyard where you can just dump your data and call it cloud. It's a way for you to store data, use it holistically, not just for protection, but governance, and even for the intelligence. This funding helps us establish ourselves even better in the marketplace, proves or validates to your point our position in the market, and I think of my years and being an entrepreneur, capital is critical for your growth. It doesn't replace creativity. So we still have to focus on our core innovation or go to market. This funding truly helps in building our firm foot forward in the market. Take a minute to describe what the Druva Cloud Platform is and how that addressed some of these next generation challenges that are out there. So think of Druva Cloud as an Amazon marketplace or an Amazon service console for your data management. When you think of Office 365 and Amazon, you think of an experience to manage your productivity or in general enterprise IT or in the cloud. The data management was a piecemeal approach of putting together a software and hardware together and the experience was broken because of so many moving parts. We deliver a pure full-fledged experience in the cloud which not only integrates the front end of being a simple interface to look at backup or DR for all your workload, but also a simplistic way of searching for workloads. And you'll see a demo today in a session of how you can interact with data by a simple search to show you not just the workflow but the documentation behind it and the whole nine yards. But holistically, behind the, you know, there's a great saying saying that the complex is competing, but simple is genius, right? So to make it really simple, behind the whole, you know, the Druva console is a consolidated or a completely integrated data platform which lets you take a holistic approach of storing and managing information all in the cloud, which is wrapped around with security or other paradigms to really make sure that it's an end to end delivered service and experience versus just a software wrapped around a legacy hardware approach. With the Druva cloud platform, can organizations embrace more data protection? Absolutely. So simplicity is still key to it, right? Data management, it's still something which helps you take care of your data risk and which is pretty pertinent to any organization. With a simple and scalable approach with the predictable SLAs, more organization can trust cloud with the corporate data and they will be more pertinent to pay as you go for a data management play than building a hardware and software story or spending all the money upfront, which we believe will increase adoption, increase trust in their own data and the cloud. When will the Druva cloud platform be available? So today we are going a technical preview for our most important customers. They get to play with it, give us their feedback of how they feel about it. You know, we're integrating multiple parts and instilling the feedback around how we can be involved giving them more and more control and visibility. We expect a general availability for most of our customers by end of the year. Well, congratulations on the financing. That's a great validation. I'll give you the final word on this segment to just share with the folks that are watching what they should squint through all the news and what does it mean to them? What's the impact of these announcements? I think a couple of years ago there was a massive transformation in the primary storage where the EMCs of the world were vulnerable and so came the tannics are pure, right? Now the whole battle is gonna be on the secondary storage where the much bigger market on secondary data and storage is a lot more vulnerable by the big players still showing a lot of weakness and cloud is a great story here where a very complex solution can be delivered with a holistic and simplistic approach. So there's a great time in the market for us to innovate. There's a great time in the customers to trust the cloud and get a great story all from Driva or other players purely in the cloud. And great time for entrepreneurs like us to, you know, execute and bring a cutting edge solution to the market. We're a lot more to drill down on. Thanks so much and congratulations on your success. Thank you. Thanks for sharing.


The new layer pointed secretary to the government of the federation, George Akume, as vowed to work with Prastin Bola Tinnabu. He also pledged not to disappoint Nigerians and Tinnabu in the discharge of his duties. I am someone who has been on the scene for quite some time and if you know the woman we are serving, that's what you Bola meant. Tinnabu as president, you just have to follow his footsteps. He has never been in the gallery.  He has always been in the arena, down in the arena according to Roosevelt. At the doors, he's always a door and so we have to tag along. We must never afford to fail. It's a factor of exaltation. Out of the many states, Benua is chosen and it's one of our sons whom we're all proud of. We know his requisite. We know what he has offered in the past many, many, many decades for the state and for the nation. We're very confident, too confident, that he's also going to deliver and the nation is going to be proud. I appreciate God for all that he has done to us. Words cannot express how happy I am. My husband is a very hard walking man, very humble, kind, compassionate. He relates with people very well and I know this time, too, he will do the best. NEWS OPDATES


Recently the University of Ljubljana adopted new regulations against violence, harassment and sexual assault. This was also a very good learning process for the whole university and for the whole community, actually, for students, for teachers, researchers and for the management of the university. Currently the share of female professors is 30.4% according to the Ellen Vihau Home Professors Monitor and Redwood University has set a target to reach 36% by 2025. We are actively implementing anti-bias strategies in our management teams and in our recruitment and selection processes and we are actually conducting another gender pay gap research in 2022. Our special and separate program of Rosalind Francken fellowships, which is a program with tenure track positions for female young and of course ambitions and excellent staff that will lead to a full professorship in due time. And these positions have been created as extra positions. Our gender equality plan is an instrument that finds discrimination and promotes and favours good practices concerning life, work balance, gender pay gap, gender balance in career and research and gender and diversity mainstreaming in teaching and research. We have a publication on gender bias in academia that is handed out to all members of an appointment committee and it hopefully helps them to avoid some of the pitfalls in the process of appointing a new professor. So at Warwick University we've been working very hard at creating spaces for leaders to engage with diversity but also to understand their roles as leaders and how they can influence the student and staff experience to be more inclusive.


I really thought it would be a good idea to resurrect my childhood by buying classical games. But that's what? It wasn't, definitely not. You might be wondering what I'm talking about. I just want to get this over with quickly. I have to hurry, he's coming soon. It was a fine spring morning. I was looking for a game online called Super Mario Bros. About Diplomers, Mario and Luigi, going on an adventure to save a beautiful princess, Peach, from a monstrous turbo dragon hybrid named Bowser. It received very good reviews, and I happen to be a big fan of it myself. Unfortunately, I don't have a working-ness anymore. Luckily, I have an emulator, except I didn't have Super Mario Bros. Wrong. I looked on the internet, but I never found it. Can you copyright for taking them down? I was about to give up hope, except, when I found a full-on play on YouTube, I saw an ad labeled, Play Super Mario Bros. Inline download free. I clicked it, since it was my possible last chance to get the game, and the website said that it had a download of the original Super Mario Bros. for PC. I found myself on a media firelink, with the file labeled, Install.exe. I downloaded the installer, then installed two files via the installer, the game, Mario.exe, and a text file, readme.txt. I read the text files first, and it had pointless info about the game, but when I was about to close the page, I noticed a scroll bar going up and down, which exceeded the regular page height. At the true bottom of the page were these words. You want to play with Mario Bros. That really weirded me out, who was Mario, point pegs. Well, I figured it out, when I played it ellipses points. How I wish I could have taken that back. The game started out with the regular SMP, one title screen, except the two player mode was taken out. This made it similar to the Lost Levels, which was one player only. I tried to choose Mario, but the game wouldn't let me, no matter how much I tried. Disappointed, I picked Luigi, but there was this one moment in which the title screen changed into something I now consider horrifying. The sky had darkened, the title block was now stained with blood, the sky was also a shade of red. Players 1 and 2 were now labeled 1. Immortal, and 2. You will die, the bushes and mountains were orange and in fire. The high score was God5403, the HUD was all black, save for the coin label being white. Copyright 1985 Nintendo was now Copyright666 Nintendo, the world number was E0, and the time limit was labeled as Time Kill. The freakiest thing, oh, was Mario himself. His eyes were replaced with the glowing red dots in black sockets, and he was in a darker contrast than usual. However, I shrugged this image off, as it glitched and forgot about it. The game began with Luigi having five lives. Having over-analyzing games and let's plays for quite some time, don't ask, I knew you only had three lives at the start of SMP1. This was no glitch, this was a hacked game. Then again, it wasn't point eggs file, so this was a PC port of SMP1. Or so I thought ellipsis points. Luigi spawned in World 1 to 1, except he was big already, and everyone knows that you'll ever really start off small, when you start a 2D Mario game, right? Okay. Anyway, the level was normal, but there were no enemies to fight, or power-ups to collect. The blocks even acted, as if nothing had happened. I also noticed the flagpole came earlier than usual, and the flag itself was smaller. I got a running start, but then, Luigi stopped in mid-air. It wasn't, until I saw why Mario was on the other side of the screen, but his eyes ellipsis points they were black, with glowing red pupils, and his sprite was in a darker contrast than usual. He let out an evil laugh, and walked over to the castle, carrying a torch. He set the castle aflame, and all the toads came out, screaming and in fire. Suddenly, I screamed myself, as spikes began to fall from the top of the screen. A cartobony slow motion sound effect played, as I pressed shift to make Luigi run as fast as he could, and I was running at full tilt for 10 to 20 seconds, just holding down shift and the right arrow key, going as fast as possible. Suddenly I saw pipe ahead. I didn't hesitate to enter it. As I did, a message appeared in the screen. Hello, Luigi. I want to play with you. The next level was an underground level, World 1 to 2, but not, as I expected it. It had decapitated toads, and the music was a very creepy ominous tune. As I kept going on the first stretch of ground, I saw Mario run on top of the bridge above Luigi, at a very fast speed. I wondered if he was really there or just a figment of Luigi's imagination. I shrugged it off and kept going. I made Luigi land in the next hall, and ahead was a mushroom, which was green. I didn't touch that all. Then I saw two of the same mushrooms, then four, then six, then eight. Oh, now you're playing games. I growled, as I fell down into the next hall, ellipses points and Luigi landed into a pit of six green shrooms.  He then hurled up by lying blood, before falling to his knees and dying realistically. A low-pitched version of the iconic death music played, and I groaned in defeat. Then I remembered something, Luigi had extra lives left. For stocklifes, to be exact. I was more careful this time, and I got past the pit of shrooms, and past more poison mushroom pyramids. Suddenly, before I landed in the next hall, Mario rushed up behind Luigi. I jumped, before Luigi could get hurt. Just as suddenly, spikes shot forward from the purple wall. I wasn't that skilled to evade the spikes, and it whittled my lives down to just two. It took a while, but at last, I made it past the spikes, thanks to a little glitch I found. However, I had one last challenge to face, and boy, it wasn't pretty. There was only one alive toad, its eyes closed, it's back to Luigi. I touched it, and then a filimeter event happened, after a scary jump scare. I screamed at it, like most jump scares, and when the filimeter event came up, I pressed the if key as much as I could, before Luigi chopped the toad's head off. As it turned out, that toad was now evil thanks to Mario. Finally, the accident site. I cried with joy, as Luigi entered the next pipe. More text came no sooner Luigi had entered the pipe. That, which waits, for you in the lock, will soon leave. Listen ellipsis points.  I thought, as Luigi entered World 1-3, which was a nighttime athletic level, the music appeared to be some kind of distorted 8-bit theme in reverse. When Luigi moved, text would show up. Hello, Luigi? I want to play with you. Are you ready? Remember, Luigi, when you're in hell, only count in the devil. Don't you see? The devil wants to help you ellipsis points to your death. I jumped from tree to tree. The physics were a bit rough, and it took a while, but I finally got to a piece of regular land. I reached the castle, but instead of the flag, there was text saying, Look back. Look back at what? I turned Luigi back to the cliff, and there stood Mario and Peach. Mario looked back at Luigi, laughed evilly, and then he punched the crying princess off the cliff. She screamed in horror before hitting the ground and turning into a bloodiness. Mario then lunged at Luigi, chopping the plumber's head off. I helped, then groaned in defeat, but then the text appeared in screen again. You're not finished yet.  I went through the level again, but when Mario lunged at Luigi, I jumped over him. Mario just smirked before running off at his fast speed. I ran after him, but where the look back text was, there were these horrifying words. You're next. I entered the castle, and after getting jumpscared by Mario's screaming face, text appeared once more. It has come your turn, Luigi. The castle level was the level name in the title screen, World E Zero. The music was a few creepy violins playing a deep-bonding melody. I moved Luigi through the castle halls with antigrams on the walls, and as he did, static started to flicker on my screen. It seemed like the antigrams weren't changing, so it seemed like Mario was manipulating the level to the way he liked it. After a final static screen appeared, which was the longest, blood appeared in the great floors of the castle. I stopped Luigi in front of Mario, who stood at the end of the hall. I had Luigi run into Mario, but he just vanished into red gas. Suddenly, red clouds started coming at Luigi. The music was now a light, faint hissing. I tried to run away, but I just reached the beginning of the hall. I gave up and turned Luigi back going forwards. Thankfully, the clouds disappeared, but the worst laws about to come. The drowning music from Sonic Colors began playing, as Mario then started chasing Luigi, but Lot disturbed me while his pose, while chasing Luigi. I was horrified, Mario was not running, but actually flying. His flying sprite laws made very similar to the full-speed jump sprite from Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, only it was just SMP-1 Mario and he had the scariest grin on his face, as though he was enjoying the torture he was giving his poor brother, as he gained in him. I reached the end of the hall, and just as the music ended, a loud splattering crunch flustered, as a bloodstain appeared in the screen. After that it faded to black for a few seconds, before text appeared again.  Then, a most unpleasant image appeared in my screen ellipsis points. It showed decapitated corpses of Luigi, Toad, Peach, and Bowser and Mario staring at the camera.  His face ellipsis points he had the most horrifying smile I had ever seen, even worse than his crazed face smiles from the commercial for Mario Kart Super Circuit. And that's saying something, since I started this cruel game.  There was also bloody text saying ellipsis points. Game over. I was looking at the image, when I realized it right then and there. This Mario wasn't the Mario I knew and loved in the games.  He turned the mushroom kingdom into hell itself, and his final victim was his loved one ellipsis points. Luigi. Also, the game's name, Mario.exe, was this murderer's name, too. I looked at the corpses and I cried a bit, they'd be forever tormented by that horrid plumber, and always willed me. Just then, the screen went static, and three lines of Japanese appeared. Since I couldn't speak Japanese, I decided to write it down to translate later, but then the text suddenly flickered and turned to English moments later. Agreed.  The end of the case will perhaps never come. The title screen returned, only it was the corrupted split second one, though there were some changes to it. The title now just read Mario, and the second option was Glitch Text, Cyrillic's End Numbers. One. Mario was also replaced with Reven Serb, which was pressed enter backwards.  I felt paralyzed, and curious. As it forced, I pressed enter. I wish I hadn't, but I had no other choice. When the game began, I couldn't help but be taken aback for who I was playing, as Mario himself. It was the normal plumber in his classic 8-bit glory. He was in a dark void, a light overlay of white noise in the foreground. The level title was World 6-6. I moved Mario through the void, but I could clearly see his expression get more worried. As he moved, I couldn't blame him, I was scared too. Suddenly, the background turned into a large, flickering, a polyptych spike striped with pink, spinning in opposite directions.  Suddenly, Mario.exe appeared in front of the real Mario, as if by magic. Why you? Cried Mario, oh text box. Hello, Mario. Smerked Mario.exe. Actually, he didn't have a text box, he actually spoke. His voice sounded cold, devilish. Why did I do that with my friends? Held Mario, again in a text box. Oh, I just ellipsis points murdered them. Cackled Mario.exe. No. No ellipsis points. Subbed Mario, falling to his knees. I tried to move Mario, but he didn't move. Suddenly, Mario.exe stabbed his hand right through Mario's body, tearing out the guts inside. Mario was screaming and sobbing, coughing up blood. I couldn't stand to watch, so I covered my eyes like a wuss. When the screaming stopped, I removed my hands from my eyes. A black silhouette of Mario, but with the glowing red eyes, was now in the background. The dead Mario and Mario.exe were gone. The text behind ellipsis points was on the bottom right hand corner of the screen. The game then closed by itself.  I actually shouted as I returned to my desktop. I deleted both files and emptied my recycling bin. I was pretty mad that Mario.exe killed my childhood idol. Later, I then tried looking online again. At last I found a Super Mario Brothers wrong. I didn't notice anything off until I heard a voice from behind me when I beat the first stage. Thank you so much for playing my game, Dave. I turned around slowly, and what I saw made me scream ellipsis points. There was the twisted, demented Mario.exe staring at me, a wide grin upon its face. He lunged at me, and then everything went black. Now I am to be trapped in a world which I can't escape. His world.  If you download a game called Mario.exe, don't play in it.  Sorry, typed it fast, because he's here and picked up on you. Goodbye, reader. Thanks for reading the product with me, Oficotote. These were the ones that have typed the product. I have to use the product to get you, which are I owe 7,345,186,481.7 and 97.27 for the 99.297. Just so you know, this isn't Dave. Don't worry about him. He is now mine. Dave is now dead. I killed him. I also killed my brother, and all my other friends. That's what. You're next. Mario. The end ellipses points.


Now we start the second session, that is we run a practical one-in-a-rization with AIDA. So after this tutorial, I hope you are much more familiar with AIDA. So I will start with an introduction of using AIDA for calculating quantum dispersal band structure. And in this tutorial, first tutorial, we will have a look at these basic AIDA data types, and also these workflows, and the job submission, job status, and the result analysis using AIDA. And then we will launch a one-year-nightly bands working to use this ACDM method to calculate one-year interpolated bands. And finally, I will give a brief introduction of our latest work that is to use a different automated initial projection, this entanglement method for high throughput one-yearization. So let's first have a look at this submission script for the PW band structure. As you can see from the left figure, it's only 24 lines. So with these 24 lines, you can already get a quite decent quantum dispersal band structure at the right. So this is the power of AIDA. So we will go through line by line of these 24 lines and help you understand the different aspects of AIDA. So first, let me remind you that we have three different interfaces to interact with AIDA. The first is this Verdi shell. It's actually a customized high-pattern shell. So we can use this Verdi shell command to initiate this interactive high-pattern shell. And then you can, for example, import these AIDA modules. The second one is this Verdi command line interface. So we can use this Verdi command line, for example, use this Verdi status to have a look at your configuration of your AIDA. And also we can write a Python script to launch your AIDA workflow. So let's first start with the first part of the script. So essentially, we define a code that equals this QEPW6.8 at localhost. So what does this mean? So first, let's have a look at these basic AIDA types. So in AIDA, to automatically record the provenance, we have some basic types like this orn.int and orn.float. And also we have this orn.computer and the code to model physical computers and executables. We also have this band data and trajectory data to model these advanced data structures for band structure and also this relaxation trajectory. And also we have the types for calculations and workflows. So these types are like the Python class and the nodes in AIDA is like the object. So for each node, it has this pk that is the primary key, which is an integer to represent the node. And also it has this uuid, which is this universal unique identifier to help you identify your node. And also some nodes have this human readable label. Like for the code, it has this, for example, the code has this label that is this QEPW6.8. So we can just use this label to identify your node. So in Verdi Shell, we can use this orn.load code to load your code into this Python environment. Also we can use this Verdi command line interface, this Verdi code show to show this configuration of your code. Like this is the absolute pass of this executable. So the second part of this grid is to read an atomic structure and convert it into an AIDA structure data. So here we use the ASE.read that is this read function from the ASE package. Then we convert it into this AIDA structure data. So we have this automated provenance. Then we store this structure into the AIDA database. So the third part is we use this PWBansWordChain to get a builder from this PWBansWordChain. So essentially you pass the code, the structure, and we're using this fast protocol to get a builder. So what is this builder? So we let me remind you of this workflow in AIDA. So we use this cal function and the WorkChain workflow function to decorate this normal Python functions. So we have this automated provenance. So in this for a complex work chain we use the Python class to define this outline to run a practical workflow to calculate for example the band structure. So the WorkChain builder is like that. So the AIDA will automatically populate the input parameters according to your code and your structure. So if you want to change the predefined input parameters you can just modify the builder. The builder is like a Python dictionary. So you can change everything before submission. So for example in our code we skip the relaxation by remove the relaxed key. So we can have a closer look at what is the builder. You can print the builder is essentially like a dictionary. So it has this bands key which contains the as you can see this PW.x input parameters and also contains the number of machines that will be used for the MPI run and also this max work log second also contains the suit of potential. So the builder also have this relaxed part. So if we have this relaxed and defined simple parameters that AIDA workflow will run the relaxation but for because we want to calculate the band structure so we just remove this relaxed part. So AIDA will skip this relaxation. Also it has this self-consistent part but also it defines these input parameters for the PW.x. And so to that we can change this builder before submitting this to the AIDA daemon. So the last part is to submit the builder. So after you run this submit builder the AIDA daemon will take care of creating the input file the real input files and then upload this files to the local or remote cluster then submit to the slurm pbs or these job controllers and also monitoring the job status. So once the job is finished it will retrieve the output files parse and store the results into the AIDA database. So when your job is running you can use this very processed list to list all your jobs. For example this is the job this one year 90 bands working that I launched 18 days ago. And also you can use this very process report to show the each step inside your working. For example the first step is the self-consistent step then it launched this bands calculation. So finally everything finished successfully. So we have band structure to visualize the band structure you can use this AIDA function this very command line interface this very data bands export. So you have this a pdf file for your company's special band structure. So as you can see with these 24 lines you can get everything this band structure from this a single crystal structure input. If you change this bounding to any other structure you can work well and give you a band structure. So in my opinion this is very clean for anyone even if you don't know quite a lot for the the input parameters of the quantum dispersal we can still get a decent band structure. So in our tutorial we will launch this quantum dispersal band structure and then we will also launch a one year 90 band structure. So the one year 90 workflow implement this SEDM algorithm so the SEDM is implemented in the pw21990 codes and this we use the projectability to determine this and mu and sigma for the SEDM parameters. The workflow is implemented within AIDA and also in the hilarious paper we validated 200 crystalline materials and also 81 insulators to evaluate the interpolation quality and the result seems quite good. So on materials cloud you can find these all the problems the full problems of all our calculations in this automated high-through group minimization entry. So everything is on materials cloud. So for example again find select the structure and then have a look at this crystal structure and also these calculation results the band distance of various methods. Also we can compare the DFT band structure with the one year interpolated band structure for isolated case and also for entangled case. So thanks to the full problem and so we can track everything that we have done with this automated one-year realization. So for the one year 90 band structure work chain the band's work chain this is we specifically designed it to be almost the same as the pw band's work chain. So instead of a single code now we have this pw.x project with function pw21990 and when you're 90 but all you need is only to pass these codes into the work chain and we use the same interface so codes the first is code and then structure and the protocol we use this fast protocol to speed up the calculation. So it will use a set of reduced parameter to reduce the computational time but as you can see this is the same as the pw band's work chain. So in this second tutorial you will launch this pw1990 band's work chain to compare your one-year interpolated bands with the quantum dispersal bands. So finally I'd like to talk a little bit about our recent research on automated projection disentanglement. So different from the ICDM one-year function one-year realization. So we develop a new algorithm to do the automated one-year realization. So if we think about how do we choose the ICDM parameter so we use this projectability from the project with function.x so essentially we project the block wave function psi onto a set of localized atomic orbitals inside the pseudo potential this GN. So this GN inside the pseudo potential so if we look at the initial projection of the one-year 90 it also may use this local set of localized atomic orbitals but here we're using some analytic orbitals from the hydrogen the solution of the hydrogen Schrodinger equation so why don't we use these numerical atomic orbitals inside the pseudo potential to use this as the initial projection for one-year function. So these pseudo potential numerical atomic orbitals are for the wavelength electrons they contain the angular momentum information such as this spd and f also it contains the radial part of the wave function for each element. So in principle it should be better adapted to a different element than using a single hydrogenic solution. So after we exclude the semi-core states we can use these projectors as the initial projection for one-year functions. So in fact we can create a table of initial projectors for all the elements to do this automated one-year realization. So I'm not using these pseudo atomic orbitals this abbreviation as seen in the paper I'm using this NAL because apart from pseudo potential projectors we can use different type of numerical atomic orbitals for example here I tested some orbitals from this open mx package which is a linear combination of atomic orbital package so when usually when we when you write the silicon band structure we can only have a good description a few electron volts above the conduction band minimum. So if we include further these d orbitals into our one-year functions we can expand much more the description of conduction bands as you can see when even this graph accurately 30 electron volt about the conduction band minimum. So this tells us we can further explore different projectors to improve the flexibility of one-year initial projection. Also we can use the projectability information to do some different disentanglement so for example in this graphene case on this left panel this is the projectability the band structure projectability of the graphene. So as you can see there are some atomic orbital like bands inside these three electron bands these colored bands have high projectability on these atomic orbitals well these gray lines are like three electron bands so if we have a window disentanglement that is this this froze mech or this froze mean this wing max and this wing mean so we can only use a horizontal window to freeze the states instead we can use the projectability information to freeze only these atomic orbital states so on the right the right most panel you see if I use projectability to freeze the high projectability states we have you can recover much better these atomic orbital like states that means our one-year functions are more restoring the atomic orbital picture of these band models so here we have these two parameters the p-max which if the projectability is higher than this p-max we freeze the high projectability states well if this projectability is smaller than this p-meh we exclude this from the disentanglement process so in with this trick we can exclude these three electron bands and only do a one-year function from these atomic orbitals that these atomic orbitals are not universal across different chemical environments so for example for silicon the conduction band minimum has low projectability so it's like around 80 percent so it's not always if we only use projectability disentanglement it's not always you can find that here the conduction band minimum are not well described so instead we can use a combination of projectability disentanglement with window disentanglement so we freeze for me for me energy or conductor conduction band minimum one or two electron volt above this tool and then we use projectability disentanglement to freeze still high projectability states in this conduction band region so this will help us better restore these atomic orbitals so instead of tuning that this froze max we now we only need to tune this p-meh and p-max so usually we only need to set this this froze max as the cbm plus one or two so this so we further do some quantitative comparison of our new projection with the with respect to the icgm projection so to compare the interpolation quality we use two measures the first is this average band distance and then this also the maximum band distance this average band distance like the square difference and then this root so if we change this fictitious new for example we set this as fermion g plus one electron volt then we are comparing bands below fermion g plus one electron volt so so here we so as we we have seen this projectability this p-meh and p-max is kind of unspecified parameters so how do we choose this we further implement this optimization mode change in aida so we can so we can find the optimal p-meh and p-max by sweeping all these parameters for example here we have this optimal band interpolation error and this combination of p-meh and p-max or for other material it might be quite stable so you can either choose one of these p-meh and p-max so with this new projection we compare the band distance between the icgm linearization and also the new method as you can see the band distance is more concentrated towards zero so quantitatively you can find the band interpolation error is better than the icgm and also for these eta-max from 300 to 60 mean electron volt and moreover when we compare the spread distribution the new projection almost all the linear functions have spread less than four angstrom squared so while you run this icgm linear function it has some large spread linear functions so with this new projection we are we are happy so we launch around 20 000 structures to do a real high throughput linearization so as you can see from the result this so now it's over 17 000 so it's like we have very accurate band interpolation really on the linear from volt also so finally i didn't show other statistics so so finally today we're not going to use this new method because it's just still not fully incorporated into the quantum espresso so today we're only we'll use this icgm linear function linearization to launch a automated linearization so you can use this command to copy the tutorial's files into your folder and activate your virtual environment by this work on aida and then i prepare two script this the first is to launch one year py so you can pass it crystal structure and launch your linearization also there's a launch pw band so you can calculate your pw band structure and also i prepared a tutorial or we prepared a tutorial on this this web page so you can follow this tutorial step by step so it has a very detailed explanation of all the steps to do a automated linearization so you can follow all the steps and finally you will have a band comparison like this so you can really see the accuracy of the automated linearization and and finally if you have any questions or issues in the future just need to create full request or create issues on this aida repository and also you can ask questions on this aida mailing list so we will help to solve your problem and that's the today's tutorial so i think you can start working on this so everything should be ready there okay now we just need to copy this two files copy these folders and also the link for the tutorials in this readme so you can click this link and start your exercise also there are some optional questions in this web page so if you have finished your tutorial you can try to answer these optional questions yeah so that's all for today's tutorial thanks thanks okay so there were a few technical questions that were asked during the presentation of your friend by Giovanni Pizzi on the chat Giovanni maybe you can summarize very briefly the questions you were asked and the answer you gave sure so let me just go back I think the first question was very practical which was what was the meaning of ORM the acronym the acronym stands for object relational mapping object means a python class and relational means a database table because on the on the back end either we store everything out of the database in order to make it possible to query easily the results but what do you see in python are python classes and so there is a mapping that says okay a data node becomes this in a table and so on and that's why it's called an ORM it's a very standard name and computer software engineering let's say in the databases the second question which is a bit more general actually a question we get relatively often is how can if and how can i either connect to supercomputers which requires some type of a multi-factor authentication or two-factor authentication something like you have to press something on your mobile phone or you have to put OTP one-time password code like on Google Authenticator or you have to put some numbers in general my answer to this is as long as it's possible to do it automatically somehow 99% of the cases it will be possible to do it with either if it's not possible technically because it's disallowed by the supercomputer to connect via without a human doing something or because by policy it's not allowed maybe technically you can still do it but it's not allowed by security policies then it's not a problem either it's a problem of any script even if you write a bash script that wants to submit things you would have the same problem so the first thing would be please check with your supercomputer center if and how they allow script not a human to connect to run simulations if it's about a one-time password it's possible there are online on github there's a script which allows you to return automatically the six digits you have to put and this can easily be integrated within aida if it's something else again it depends practically very often the solution to this if the security people don't allow it is to ask them to have a computer a node something you can access to where you can install aida inside the supercomputer network in this way you have to use the otp by hand when you want to connect to aida to check what's going on but then the machine when either where aida is running can connect to the supercomputer directly without otp because it's already inside the network so you shift the program but then you solve this issue and then aida can connect automatically and submit jobs um i think this should address both questions there's a very technical question now just asked by alba to which junefang just replied if you don't find the commands like run aida or the verdi command line remember you have to run this what you see here on line three on junefang slides which is the command work on aida which enters what's called a python virtual environment is a virtual environment like the name says where you see all the python packages about aida and the dependencies this is just to isolate all the dependencies from other codes you've been seeing you just run that then you see something on your command line you see something tells you are inside this aida virtual environment and then from there on you see all the scripts the commands okay i think this this was uh uh more or less what was asked on zoom are there any questions we are interested from the present participant raise your hand anyone okay so if not what i would do is to stop the recording now for the lecture


Well, you probably know by now that I love talking all things art marketing strategies. So this video, seven marketing strategies for 2023, it's not really going to come as any surprise. However, I've gone a little bit deeper and maybe a little bit more advanced with some of the strategies in today's video. Now don't panic if you're right at the beginning of your art marketing journey because I have a ton of resources to help you out, including my brand new online live masterclass art marketing 101, which is for total beginners, although so just not getting the results from marketing that they really want. This workshop gives you a solid base for your marketing and covers some of the following, the foundations of effective marketing, defining your ideal audience and that perfect customer, the key marketing strategies and tactics you need to be using, your core content and that content marketing routine. Completing your artist marketing plan and also creating a weekly routine. Now you're going to leave this workshop with a, a completed marketing plan and be a weekly routine that you can start using straight away to make those consistent sales so that you too can start to build a sustainable, enjoyable and profitable art business doing what you love. Now if you'd like to find out more about this workshop, then please check the link directly below this video. Now if you're watching this after February the 16th, 2023, when I'm going to be running this class live, I have the workshop recordings available for you to purchase directly as a product from my website. So again, check the link below this video where you can get all the details and purchase your workshop. Okay, let's talk marketing specifically those seven strategies to use for 2023. So here are some things to consider as you complete your marketing plan for the year. It's definitely not everything that you're going to be doing, but what I've tried to make is a mixture of some old, some new, some slightly different. So there's a little bit of something for everybody. And of course, we live in an ever-changing world where marketing is concerned, right? New trends, new ways of doing things. This is in, this is out. And my job is to provide you with the simplest and easiest strategies that I think are going to work really, really well for us creatives. Number one, focus on building your customer list.  I bet this is probably the only one that you're going to know. Why do I talk about this first? Because I talk about it all the time. You cannot build a successful business if you do not have your own mailing list. So this is really a reminder that the one thing you should be doing for this year is setting your core marketing goal as a list building goal. IE, how many people do you want on your list by the end of the year? That really is the simplest, easiest and effective marketing goal that you want for yourself. Now if you haven't got your mailing list set up and you're listening to this thinking, oh my goodness me, I've heard Sophie talk about it. I know I should be doing it. When you haven't got there, then I have just the video for you. Check out this video here. Why you should have a mailing list. That's going to give you a few benefits and overview of why you want to set up with a mailing list. And I'm also going to put links below to once you've got the mailing list, different ways and different strategies you can use to grow that mailing list. Number two out of our seven strategies for 2023. And that is influencer marketing. Yep, you're right. I haven't talked about this before on this channel at all, but I think I'm going to be talking about it quite a lot this year. So what do I mean by this? Working with micro influencers on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Your micro influencer might only have a few thousand followers. They might only have a few more thousand followers than you actually have right now. But what they will have is a super engaged audience. Now unless you're doing an incredible job out there on your socials, you might not have that right now. So here, the influencer that you choose to work with is going to promote your product or your service. And they're going to do so via a post. Could be a static post, could be a video. And that is going to be up to them how they decide to do that. That's going to work in one of two ways. You're either going to give them a free product or free access to the service or you're going to pay their fee for a post. And it's going to depend where you are, again, on your art marketing journey. If you're right at the beginning, you might be looking for that free exchange.  Would you be prepared to gift something? I imagine you might be. All right, and if you're further along on your journey, then you might find someone that you can pay to post about your product or service. Now, like I just said before, you need to bear in mind that they will choose how they're going to do that. They're going to choose how to post it, whether it's an image, multiple images, whether they're going to make a video. They're going to choose the content of that and the description, the hashtags and all of those things. So you want to make sure that you do your homework and find the best possible and compatible influencer for you. Examples might be original artwork to an interiors brand or an artwork shop to an art materials brand or maybe some jewelry to an personality or somebody that you know and you really admire and ideally has the same values as you. Of course, you want to partner with the right brand for you, ideally staying the same niche and make sure that you have a clear goal for what you're going to be doing. But influencer marketing, it's already out there well and truly. And as artists, we should be using it and getting the maximum exposure we possibly can for our work. Now, let me know in the comments below whether you have used influencer marketing or whether you planned to add it to your marketing plan this year. Number three, user generated content. Now, this is probably a term that you may or may not have heard before. Sounds a bit techy, a bit dull. You might be saying, Sophie, what is that and how am I going to get on top of that? I don't really understand. Now, you will understand when I say, for example, you send a product to a customer, the customer makes a video of them opening the box and then they put that video on social media and tag you in it and they say something like, thank you so much to XX person for my beautiful, amazing, I don't know, t-shirt with artwork design on or my incredible art print that I'm putting up in my apartment. Now, that is absolutely fantastic marketing for you. You haven't had to create it, you haven't had to do it and it's actually endorsement.  So this content, of course, can be photos, can be video, could be simply reviews or testimonials. Anything that has been created by a customer or by a fan. Imagine when you've got a raving fan and they absolutely love your work. For example, if you're an artist who has designs over all sorts of products, they become a fan because they're buying it all, right?  They've got your pencil case, they've got all the pieces on the go. They're a raving fan. Now, when they make a post or a video or they write a testimonial, everybody again is gonna be watching this person post. This is the outtake part. Hello, Gracie. How can you help in this video? Would you like to be on YouTube? Would you like to be an influencer? Gracie would like to be a YouTube influencer, I think. Is that right, darling?   So simply ask and be surprised what content that your customers can come up with. Hello. Hello. We might have to just do the outtake bit in a minute. Somebody's really enjoying the videoing process. Number four, live. What do they say? Never shoot with animals or children. Number four, live video. Thank goodness this isn't live video because it would be more about the dogs than about the content. Now, we all know it, video is absolutely key. Video's been key for a really long time and it's even more so and it's gonna get more popular as time goes on. So if you're not providing any video content for your customers, I think now is the moment to make that change. Going live on your network to talk about your artwork or to provide a live demonstration, share your process or materials or talk about upcoming events and promotions. It's super easy for your customers to engage with. Imagine you're going live, you're talking about a workshop that you've got coming up, they ask a question, you can answer it then and there. They've got the answer. You can send them a link where they can book the workshop. I mean, how wonderful is that? Do you know the real benefit of live video? No editing, no uploading. Once you've gone live, that's it. You do need to do a little bit of preparation.  So for example, obviously this is not live, this is pre-recorded. I try and treat it a bit like a live so although you'll see edits, I don't have huge amounts of edits. I do have an iPad in front of me with some notes of what I want to talk about. And when I stumble, I can stop and I can edit it out. But it takes a long time, right? Either for myself or somebody else to edit the video. It's a whole different process. Making a YouTube video can take a whole day or more whereas going live, you make the notes and really you press go live, all right? And if at the end of the day it wasn't such a great one, you're not so happy with it, you don't have to upload it to the platform, you can just go delete and nobody else will ever see it. Number five, short form video. So we're staying specifically in the video topic. Think about reels, Facebook reels, YouTube shorts. There are some form of reel or short which is effectively the same thing. Sort of 60 seconds, 90 seconds, short, short video. And on Instagram, sometimes the shorter it is the better, seven seconds, 10 seconds. It's something that's gonna stop somebody in the feed, right? They're looking, they're scrolling, they see something and they go press play and it just is there for a few seconds. And the idea is if it's shot really well it'll engage that person. They might wanna say, I want more content like this. Who is this person? I'm gonna click to the profile, they might follow you and they might look for more content like that content that they just saw. Now the caveat, although they might be 60 second videos they can take a little while to shoot a good engaging short or reel, right? You've got to plan out what it is you're gonna shoot. You might have to shoot multiple different places. Of course you can make them out of images. There's so many editing platforms out there that really it's a creative absolute dream. So if you love video, you love being creative you found a couple of apps that you want to use and then this could be a perfect strategy for you. I'm a little bit impatient. I'm not so great on the phone with editing short video. I've done a few but honestly it's not my primary thing. This teaching, training, talking a long form video it's much more where I feel in my zone of genius. And we all need to be there remember. Number six, interactive content. Now as an internet user, you probably come across interactive content all the time without really realizing that it is interactive content and B, it's a key marketing strategy. I'm talking quizzes, assessments, calculators, games, et cetera. If you want to increase your audience engagement grow that mailing list with a flood of new leads then what better way for example to use a quiz. So imagine you've got an online course or a workshop or you're an art teacher then you could create a simple quiz where are you on your artist's journey? People fill it out, they get all excited. I'm and you might give them each a different name the end say I don't know four or five stages that you might be at someone goes oh I'm at this stage and then it says you know at this stage the best thing for you is X, Y and Z. Perhaps of course leading to a course that you might have. It's an absolutely easy way to get somebody onto your mailing list and now they feel like they've engaged with you already. Or as a painter you might want to say what type of wall art suits you take our quiz to find out, you get the idea. And number seven, improved customer experience. Now I can't stress this enough. Marketing and sales are all about your customer. They're not about you. So in order to give someone the best possible experience we need to jump through a few hoops and you might listen to what I'm about to say and you might say oh guilty Sophie I really need to fix that all right. You're going to know it's you as I start going through this section. So first up you want to think about every single step or touch point that your customer has from the first time they meet you and they might meet you for example seeing an Instagram post or a Facebook post or a blog article and they've Googled or it might be a Pinterest pin. They've Googled the topic, they found a Pinterest pin so they click on the Pinterest pin that takes them to a blog article on your website and from there that might take them to other articles and it might take them to an email opt-in where they've now joined your mailing list. So at each touch point the customer has an option to continue or leave and this is going to be based on the customer experience and we are fickle humans. If we don't like something or it doesn't work properly or it doesn't look right, we're gone. You don't know how many customers or potential customers you could be losing through customer experience. So when your customers first engage with you and they take that customer journey with you and they're going to have a smooth, exciting, easy, brand-driven experience or are they going to stumble from one link to another that doesn't work properly, that has information missing and they're like, I'm out, I'm leaving. You know that broken link you've been meaning to fix for ages but somehow there's always more important things on your to-do list. Well, I've got to tell you if you are losing customers through that broken link you want to put that right to the very top of your list and bold it and get it done today. So why not pretend to be a customer and look at each of your touch points through customers' eyes? You could go and land on that Pinterest pin in our example and really look at it. I think, would I click? Is this Pinterest pin interesting? Would I now click forward? If I click forward onto the blog article, is it obvious? Does it load properly? Does it read properly? Are there things in there that are outdated that need to be taken out or updated? Have a look at every single point and really rate yourself honestly on what your customer might be going through at what point might they just jump off and leave. Now, of course, there are tools as Google analytic tools that you can install to actually be able to measure each one of those steps but let's not get too advanced here. For the moment, you're going to use your human eyes. You might even want to ask a friend, could you go through and give me honest feedback as to how you experience my website, my socials, my email sign up, all of the different steps a customer might take. If it doesn't all work, make some notes and fix it up, upgrade it. This is a great year to do upgrading and I promise you that all those potential visitors and possible customers that you've been losing are now going to stay and think how that's going to end up with more sales in the future. What if your customer journey leads people to the gallery page where they immediately leave because none of the gallery images work properly, there's no pricing, there's no information, nothing works properly, it doesn't look good, it doesn't show up on mobile properly. Make sure things are optimized for mobile and if you don't know how to do it, outsource. But remember, put it to the top of your list and get it done. So there we have it, the seven art marketing strategies you can use to grow your art business this year. And as I mentioned, if you're right at the beginner stages and you need to build your marketing foundations, then don't forget Art Marketing 101. Whether you're watching this right now in January when I've posted this video out or whether you're watching sometime in the future, you either have the opportunity to join the live workshop on February the 16th or to watch the replays have been created for you as a product. You can go ahead, jump ahead and purchase that and get stuck in straight away. As usual, if you've loved the content, don't forget to give me a thumbs up and consider subscribing to my channel so you never miss another video. Thank you so much for watching. Get stuck into the next video that's on the screen now and I'll see you on another one. Take care, bye-bye. Sit, sit, sit. No, no, no, no. You don't wanna be in the video. Trust me, Gracie. You can come over there. Over there, there we get. Now lay down.