Hey, I'm Dustin Schubert here, the Keto Pro. Hey, I'm super excited. This is the first international global ketones in 30 minutes. I've been doing these late at night in America, but they're all sleeping over there in the UK and you're up across the globe.  I got my little handy dandy little things that got my smiley face in my yes here. So, we're gonna have some fun, y'all. We're gonna talk about ketones in 30 minutes, talk about the benefits. What's up, Eric?  So, do me a huge favor. Before we get started here, I want you to put in the chat, where are you in this world? I did one of these other night and we had people still up in, I think it was Scotland, like in the middle of the night. We had Singapore, we had Australia, we had Hong Kong, Dubai, Canada, Mexico, but where are you at now? Where are we at? Give me some shout outs. Where are you out in the world? I'm super excited. Eric, I should have streamed this into the group. Man, I forgot. I could do that next time, Eric. Just let me know. We got the UK, we got Liverpool. You know that, hey, let me ask you a question. Where, you all know that the Beatles came from Liverpool. I actually have a picture with the statues. They actually, one of the Beatles holding some keto nat, which is kind of fun. But I got Kansas City, Missouri. We got Scotland in the house. I would say the whole name, San Diego, California. We have Ontario, Canada, Northern Ireland in the house. Scotland again. Texas in the house.  All right, we're gonna talk about ketosis in 30 minutes. And we're not gonna take 30 minutes to talk about ketosis in 30 minutes, but I will answer some questions. Windsor, I've been to Windsor. I've been to the castle. I've been to Apollo Field. We got Oregon in the house. How fun is this? Iowa. Don't forget about Iowa. That's by my hometown, Sweden in the house. What's up? Oh, so how are you? We're having fun here. So we're gonna talk about ketosis in 30 minutes the benefits, fat loss, energy, performance, mood, focus, all things that you're looking for. I just did a deal a little bit ago. And it just reminds me of where people are starting. Right now, you meet enough people that are feeling good. You forget how it was, you didn't feel this good. And so we look around. People are struggling with energy. They're not getting today. They're tired. They're lethargic. There may be, their focus is all off. My focus was all over the place before I started drinking ketones. We started looking at people's body fat, gaining excessive weight. They're overfueling their body. They have all these cravings. And then they get disappointed and emotionally distressed that they're overindulging. And they feel bad about it. So I just shot some new videos on how do you cheat appropriately? It's called celebration. How do you utilize ketones? But let's get down to it. The primitive fuel source of ketosis in 30 minutes. We're gonna talk about this little pack right here. Who would have known that this little pack, now this is just one of our amazing flavors, but this little pack would change so many lives. But who would have known that it's so scientifically evident back that this is really the only chance people are gonna have to really get their life and their health back on track. Now there's a lot of things that we need to do to participate in this, but this is pretty cool. Hey y'all, if you wanna tag somebody in this, feel free to tag them. Let them invite people in and hopefully we can provide some good education and get people started. So ketones are simple. It's an energy source that your body needs. It's as simple as that. It's energy that your body needs. Unfortunately, this is a primitive fuel. Meaning primitive fuel means that our ancestors utilized the same energy for all of our existence. So nothing about this is new. It's all, it's state of the art. It's what's up Melanie, how are you? It's state of the art. It's unbelievable science, but it's very new. It's not very new, it's very basic. It's very primitive. But what's happened over the last 50, 60, 70 years is that humans, especially people that enjoy food and indulge and less active than we used to, humans are not producing and burning fat the way we're supposed to and we're over consuming it and it's creating these behaviors of overeating over indulging, feeling disappointed, have low energy. So it sets you up for failure. And so what happened about six years ago, we basically brought to the world this patented product that is the first bioidentical peer therapeutic ketone. And so instead of doing this hardcore low carb diet or ketogenic diet, instead of fasting all the time, which I do and support some fasting, instead of depriving your body continuously for, and here's the reality is you have to do that forever. It's just non-stop. This isn't something you can just do from time to time. That diet was constant. You have to keep it up. So instead of doing that, you could drink ketones. And so this is a pretty big breakthrough. I mean, the elite, elite people in the world, Navy SEALs, NASA astronauts, all the elite researchers are looking into how is this even possible? Well, you drink ketones. It elevates you to a therapeutic level within 30 minutes. Why is that so important? Well, if you can get the end result, if I give somebody the end result of energy, focus, mood, sleep, fat loss, you can teach them the beginning, meaning take care of yourself, move your body more, eat less carbs and sugars, feel better, make better decisions. Well, guess what, you'll make better decisions. It's momentum. That's what over the last five and a half years, we've seen so many lives change. So many people get better because they're in ketones in 30 minutes. And I'm gonna give you an like how to do that and what you can do and how you make this work. But before I go any further, I wanna read off some testimonials. I can't share anybody right now, but I have some testimonials right here. I'm gonna share some people off, but do me a favor. In the chat box below, wherever your platform, I'm on like six platforms right now, put down what benefits that you got from drinking ketones. What's the benefit that you got? And y'all, if you drop some body fat, tell us that. Everybody keeps hiding from body fat. Hey, Luis, did you check out YouTube yet? See how it works there?  This is Wendy. Wendy got back in her wedding dress after 25 years of marriage. She got back in her wedding dress. How cool is that? This is Lynn. Lynn is one of the most amazing people I've ever met. She's extraordinary. She literally looks like, I mean, this is an extraordinary example of what ketones do from an anti-aging perspective. Transformation. I see on your appetite suppressants, you're live there. Oh, sweet, I am live there. Okay, no cravings for sugar. So if you reduce your sugar craving, do you think you're gonna get better results to change your life? Less cravings, I see it again. Less cravings, I see it again. Energy, mood, focus. That's cool. Lost 30 pounds of fat, focus, happiness. Loving life again. These are common things that we keep hearing, keep hearing, keep hearing.  I'm explaining to you why this is happening so much. Melanie, where you at Melanie? Can I share? Where you at? No, no, no, no. Okay, I'm new to this. Melanie, can I share your picture? I forgot I had this picture. I'm gonna get Melanie's permission. I forgot I had it. I just printed these all off. All right, this is Taylor. Taylor, Jerry, if you're out there, I love you, I appreciate you. Lost three pants sizes. That's awesome. Definitely looking younger at 42 than I am my 30s. That's awesome, Chrissy. That's amazing. This is Taylor. When I first got to meet Taylor virtually, he just didn't have energy, didn't dance, wasn't living his life. And he has this big spirit that if you ever get to meet him, one of the biggest spirits you'll ever get to meet. This young man just dances his life away.  He's celebrating that baseball games. He got himself back. And Jerry, I appreciate you working with us and Taylor because he looks completely different. I don't even know how much he's down like 60, 70, 80 pounds. And, but he's just, he's himself again, which is pretty dang cool. Pretty dang awesome. I'm looking for more stories, any other testimonials like out there, more energy. Look at this, look at this young lady's face. Do you think her mood's better? Do you think she's happier about how she looks? It's pretty amazing. Melanie, where are you at? Can I share your picture? All right, this is Big Mike from Canada.  My mom, have you all heard my mom's story? Six years ago, my mom, my son was born a little over six years ago. My mom couldn't even pick him up. Couldn't take him up the down steps. Like couldn't do anything. How bad is it when you look at your parent and you watch them just not have what they had it? It's the hardest thing to see. The hardest thing to watch as a son, as a mama's boy. I'm a mama boy, they're mama girls. I don't know if that makes sense, but within four months, my mom came to my son's one year birthday on her hands and knees chasing him around the house. The same woman that couldn't pick him up on his birth. One year later, four months on ketones, completely, we went to Disney World a couple of weeks ago. Big shout out Melanie for Disney World. We went to Disney World and my mom walked two days, 25,000 steps for two days chasing us around the kids around. It's 70, almost 71 years old. Same woman that couldn't pick my son up. All she does is drink ketones once or twice a day and now she's up to two times a day, which is pretty cool. So how amazing is that? What's up Ken Watson? Kenny Watson, you're looking pretty buff there, buddy. I like it. Kristen Matthews, sorry, two amazing children. Look at how she just got her swagger back. She's one of the coolest stories too. She just wears her heart on the sleeve, which is super awesome. This is another beautiful woman. Look at her face, look at her skin. This is Andrea, pretty amazing. Big daddy, big daddy here. Like his daughter forced him to drink the ketones. He didn't wanna do it. He's like, no, I'm fine. I don't wanna do it. I'm not gonna do it. She's like, dad, I want you around.  I want you to be part of my family.   Guess what he did? He said yes and guess what? He's enjoying his life. He's enjoying those amazing grandkids, him and Debbie. Jen, she's 50. I should ask you guys. She's 50 years old, performing better than she was when she was in her 40s. She is rocking and rolling. Hey, Melanie, can I share your picture? Even Homer Simpson's getting in this game. Hey, you guys have Homer Simpson in Europe? I don't know. I actually don't. Even Homer Simpson's getting in this game. But guess what happens? One donut after a year can add up to a lot of challenges. So keto all the way, guys. And then this is big Jake. Jake's a stud, former Marine, just a good friend of mine. And he's amazing. So here's Melanie. I'm going to tell Melanie's story. Melanie is out of Northern Ireland. She and I got to meet about a year ago, almost a year ago. And she called herself Igor. I didn't know who Igor was. She called herself Igor when I first met her. She was just like dum-p-do-p-do-p-do-p-do-p-do-p-do. And it's funny because you can tell she had this other person inside of her. But it's just that she wasn't able to shine. And I remember this, I got this picture and it's just like she is now living her life. She's shining. She's glowing. And ketones gave her the momentum to make the better decisions. And as a community as a team, we educated people on how to take care of themselves. Maybe some dietary adjustments, maybe to do some other things. And now Melanie has her new teeth. She has braces that she's wanted her whole life, which is pretty cool, pretty amazing. So y'all, and Melanie challenged me to do this. That's why I'm picking on her a little bit. She's like, can we do something more? And so I'm gonna be doing these every Tuesday. I may change the times, but every Tuesday, we're gonna be doing this for the international market and of course in America and Canada and Australia.  But we're gonna do some Q and As. I'm gonna answer any questions that people have if I can if I'm allowed to here in just a minute. But ketosis in 30 minutes, what I know from a scientific, most people don't have a better choice. There isn't a better option. You're not gonna stick to a perfect diet forever.  The truth is, do you really wanna be? Don't you wanna just kind of enjoy life and have a little bit of fun, have some flexibility, but also take care of yourself, make better decisions and start looking better, live better, think better, have vitality. What better chance do you have? This is an amazing tool. I drink twice a day. I drink it twice a day. I recommend starting, a lot of people start with one a day. They move up to twice a day because they learn what it is. You eat when you're hungry, you stop when you're full. You don't have to do a ketogenic diet to do this. Do I recommend eating healthier, cleaner foods? Yes. Do I recommend if you wanna be more carb appropriate? Yes. What does that mean? Let's start watching our carb. We are overeating food and overeating carbohydrates. Can we eat less? Can we start doing better? Move in that direction. If you wanna drop body fat, start eating less carbs. If you wanna move towards a keto lifestyle, take six months to a year to learn that. Be practiced, but get your ketone levels up right now. Yes, there's 25% off seasonal flavors right now. Yes, you can add them to smart chip though. No, you can't add those to smart chip, but you can buy them right now at 25% off. We're having a flash sale at the moment. But here's the reality is you deserve it. When you start drinking this, a lot of people ask, well, what's kinda pricey? It is a premium product. It's an amazing product. But what's it worth to you? What's it worth to sleep better? What's it worth to have energy all day long? What's it worth to look better? What's it worth to get your health better? What's it worth to spend more time with your kids? I don't know. I can't put a number on that, but what's that worth to you? You're worth it. I'm just telling you. But here is the, and yes, it is in the U.S. only. Thanks, Eric had to correct me. But here's the reality. When you start drinking this, you're probably gonna replace a meal.  So you're already saving money there.  You're gonna make better decisions. You're gonna move more. You can take advantage of loyalty program to get 22% off continuously. Our free product program that's available. So if you bring up cost, like stop it. Figure it out. What's your better choices and chances? You don't have many other options here.  This is your time to do that. So I just, I'd like to debunk a lot of things. I don't get a lot of people that debunk me on that one, but listen, there isn't. Scientifically, do your research, be a skeptic. This is the thing that's gonna move you forward in your life. And here's the coolest thing.  You get everything you need to go and take your life further on top of the product. Just for drinking it, being part of this whole thing. So Ketosis in 30 minutes with the top coaches in the world to support you. The only thing you have to do is you have to drink it. You have to plug in and get the information and be patient on your results. Too many people expect Amazon results. Would that mean they want results in two days? Some of you are gonna notice it in two days. Some of you are gonna take a little longer. Some of you are gonna take a little bit longer. Some of you are gonna take a little bit longer. My sister took eight weeks. She yelled at me for eight weeks. Why isn't that working? My sister down 100 pounds now, y'all. But for the first eight weeks, she's like, it's not working. It's not working. This isn't working. We all noticed her getting better, right? But she didn't meet her expectation fast enough. So be patient because your future health determines is gonna be determined by how high you can elevate your ketone levels.  Somebody asked a question about menopause. Listen, ladies, you go through a lot of hormonal shifts and changes each month and throughout your life. Us men do too, by the way. When your body's going through these transitions later in life, guess what?  The more complicated that phase transitioning through that phase of life is how do you protect yourself through this? I'm working with a lady from Australia, her name's Chanel. She's like, I just wanna be ahead of it. Well, first thing you wanna do is drink ketones daily. Why?  But the other side of that is you wanna start to move lower car because your body's ability to process and do eliminate is harder as it goes through this transition. It's working on other things. So set yourself up for success here. Start getting your ketones before you go through that phase. If you've already went through it, that's fine. I work with a lot of people over the age of 45, 50, 55, 60 that are doing awesome, by the way, but be patient on the results. Your body isn't the same as it was when you're 25 or 30. I'll hear y'all track me here. Hope this is gonna, hope this is going. So this is ketones in 30 minutes. What's really important, I'll answer more questions here if you have any. What's really important is this. Whoever referred you here probably is a ketone expert. Whoever referred you here probably has had a good experience on ketones or they're part of our team and they're sharing the ketones, right? And I'll talk about that in just a second. But the reality is they're not an expert. Don't expect them to answer all your questions. That's what we have a team for, right? That's what we have a team to support. Listen, I've been studying ketosis for almost 20 years. There's a handful of leading experts in the world. We work with all of them. And your friend that introduced you to us or he shouldn't be answering your questions. All they should do is go, I love you. I hope you can get better results. I hope you get great results. I hope that you get the results I got. How can I support you? This is what I did. That's all they should ever say. And then they should say, listen, get a hold of this guy. Talk to this person, listen to this video and let the experts, let the coaches coach you. And you just have to listen to them. You just have to listen to the coaches. Your friend is your friend. They probably don't know 99% of what you need to know to get results. But they just know what worked for them. So don't judge them for love them that they're introducing this to you. Love them that they're introducing this to you. I just can't express that a month. We have the top researcher from naturopathic doctors in Canada, the top researchers performance in humans, the top cognition doctors and researchers, the top performance researcher out of Ireland even. They're standing behind this message of elevating your ketone level. So that's the secret. So explain what are ketones and our ketosis? I just explained that. So ketones are an energy that your body can produce on its own.  So ketones are food for your body. The difference between normal food and ketones is that ketones are easily absorbed to your brain and your muscle tissue. They're easily utilized energy. So it doesn't take a lot of work. Your body needs them to maximize it, especially after an old, as you get older, it helps the brain stay young and restless and healthy and feel good. Ketones also have a signaling effect. So they do a lot of other major benefits of your long-term health that more than just given an energy and sustainable fuel. And it's kind of cool that you can get energy and the same product, right? Because you need energy while you sleep. It also helps calm and relax your mind, helps keep you focused. So it helps you do what your body needs. And so ketones are, and ketosis is one of the same things. So ketosis is a state. Ketones are elevated ketones when you're near your blood. They're the actual fuel. And ketosis is the state that you're in when you have elevated ketone levels. So I hope that makes sense. Can ketones help with somebody with that wanting to put weight on? Yes, Melanie!  He was 18, I don't know, maybe 20.  He wanted to be a roper, a professional roper like a rodeo guy. And within two, three months, he started putting on mass and building muscle. Well, ketones help protect you from muscle loss. But think about this. If you have more sustainable energy, we also have a really cool fermented amino acid that helps with muscle building, which we all want to build muscle, by the way. But if you think about this, is that if you have more sustainable energy, more focus, and better mood, and you feel better, you're going to move your body more. Now, Taylor didn't follow kidney diet. Taylor started eating healthier, cleaner foods. He felt better to go move his body, work out in the gym, and he started developing better muscle mass, right? It's that recipe for success. The reason why people don't have enough muscle is they're not moving their body enough. But also, if you're not craving carbs and sugars, you're eating more clean proteins, you're eating more healthy foods, you're going to build better, stronger muscle mass. So yes, it will help with that. Themselves will help with protecting muscle loss and the loosening in there can actually help you grow muscle too, especially if you're applying physical activity with it. So I hope that answers your question. There's another question up here. Hold on, hold on. Yes, just sent us to this. Friends should never be your coach. You're right, we call that this. You should never let your friend coach you. Love your friend, hire a coach.  But wake up people, we gotta get better. I just did a video that talked about fat loss and people don't realize this that the best way to lose body fat is to reduce your carbs, is to reduce your calories to some degree, drink ketones and breathe more, sweat more and pee more. That's like the secret recipe right there. So those are the things we gotta do and be patient on your results because your health is gonna be most important thing. I've been doing ketones for three years, took a week off, oh my God, sugar cravings work crazy. Yeah, here's the thing, people go, do I have to take this forever? If you put this as you would wanna take it forever, do truth it. And the reason why is because I'm going down here. Okay, the reason why, does it help with the joint moving better? Yes, my joints are pretty stiff not very good, because I'm an athlete, bar athlete. I definitely have a lot more. I can get on the floor and play with my kids more so I answered somebody's question. But here's the reality, is that we know that if you wanna be healthy long term you need to have elevated ketone levels. So it really is a choice now, drink ketones daily or do a strict low carb diet or ketogenic diet and do a lot of fasting. Now I'm a big supporter of fasting, we have a 24 fast, we have reboots, the European nations can't all do those yet they're coming, you can do your own, you can create your own style of one. But the reality is that if you wanna live your life to your fullest, you wanna have, I think the best way to live is have a fun diet, a healthy diet, low carb diet and allow yourself to have flexibility from time to time and drink ketones daily. I didn't wanna do a ketogenic diet, I wanted to be healthy, I had to be healthy and that's the only way I could do it prior to drinking ketones. Now I drink ketones, I get to have some fruit from time to time, I get to have fun, I go on a date night and I feel like I messed everything up.  So I'm not able to work out like I used to. So ketones have helped keep me at bay of gaining a bunch of body fat when life is not where I want it to be at the moment but I'm setting myself up for my future. So should you drink ketones long term? Yes, you should if you know what they were you would but be patient, right? Take your time and just start with the week one, month one, month two, year one and let your body naturally grow, okay? Yes, I just got a text. Michael's live on Instagram right now so we're gonna see a bunch of people come in.  There's a couple of things that you should be aware of.   Here's the deal, down below if you can get one benefit right now from drinking ketones, what would it be? If you're not currently drinking ketones. Also what I want you to do is it's really important you get back to, if you got to share this out to somebody and you shared it to somebody you're gonna get back to them, remember we're a team. So somebody's on here sharing this link off to people and they're going, hey listen, check this out. Get back to them, get the product from them, maybe it's a trial fact, maybe it's a challenge kid. I'm gonna tell you as a coach this will change your life forever. So 60, 90 days, commit to 60, 90 days.  Now it might take 10 days, it might take two days, it might take eight weeks like my sister, be patient. This is the best shot you have of getting your health and vitality back. So I really need to do my first reboot. Yes, you can make one up. What are the benefits you increase it? So two nats a day, that's a great question Melanie. So why do we recommend two nats a day? Is one is great, people are like, hey, you have to do two. Some people are freaked out about doing two. They're like, I don't even know how I can get started with two a day, they can't wrap their head around it. Listen, one's better than none. I can tell you that much. My mom started 150 pounds gone. That's awesome. That's amazing. Duck's girl, that's pretty cool.  So I'm okay if people started in there. Why didn't we go to two a day because we see a higher percentage of cognitive benefits. We see a higher percentage of people not gaining back the body fat that they lost because their bodies metabolically getting more efficient. Also ketones protect muscle loss. So think about this long term.  Those are two things and your money. You don't wanna lose those three things. You wanna keep all those, right? So ketones elevate your brain and keep it protected. Ketones also help protect your muscle from breaking down. So why would you go to two times a day?   It's your insurance policy moving forward so that you can maintain health and vitality. So that's why I tell people to go 10 a day. Get started, right? But don't quit. Don't quit. It just drives me crazy when you scientifically understand what the hemobody needs and you watch people going, well, it didn't work for me. No, it works. You just have to be patient on the results and manage your expectations. What about doing exercise? Should you drink one before exercise? That's a great question. Health-like blend depends on, yes, yes you should. Drinking ketones before you move your body elevates cognition. It actually accelerates ketones to your brain which helps cognition. I think that's the key to the long journey here is in improving brain health. And so Dr. Stephen Canan and a candidate did a lot of research on this and that's secret. I think that's huge. So yes, I encourage people to drink them before they exercise and literally a mile walk. And y'all, we all need to be moving our body more as much as you can.  I call it the 510 rule. The five, five minute or 10 minute. Just start with five or 10 minutes. If you're currently exercising, go with another five or 10 minutes longer, right? Just do more and I promise you more will happen, better results will come. So that's a great question. We're gonna talk about our community just a second. I have one more question. I have another. Okay, that's just a good testimonial. Yes, don't quit. Elise is like, just don't quit. Y'all, life is always gonna come at us with different things. Be patient. This is the best insurance policy you have moving in your direction. So drinking ketones daily. I always take ketones before I weight train. It really helps, yes it does. But even better, it just helps protect you longer. Monica's like, this is the best thing ever put my body. This is pretty cool. So y'all, this is neat. I appreciate y'all chiming in and jumping on. I'm gonna wrap it up with this. Ketosis in 30 minutes. It is the big breakthrough in my 12 plus year. It's pretty amazing. I've never seen anything like this before. The amount of people that's changed. I always like to use this example. If it changes a million lives and it doesn't change yours as fast, instead of saying it didn't work, what in me has to get better? Does it make sense? We're gonna take some responsibility here. But here's the coolest thing, is we're a team. So whoever referred you here, get back to them and say, I wanna work with you. We have a free product referral program. So if cost is a barrier for you, then you need to get it for free. Why would you not? If that's the thing, but guess what? You don't have to sell it. You just have to invite the lives like this. Let me do it. Put it on my shoulders.  Now, if you wanna play a bigger role with us, we have a mission to a million. My sign is still not up. I have a sign right here. It says mission to a million. To change a million lives every year. And we can do that. But guess what? We have a referral program. Or if you really wanna share this and you wanna change more lives, or if you're looking for more, the biggest conversation in the world is happening right now. The biggest conversation in the world from a health and wellness perspective is happening right now. And we're expanding globally around the world. We're in our pre-launch of the UK and Europe. We're expanding it in my hometown. Nobody does it in my hometown but me. In Canada, in Mexico, in Florida, in Arizona, in Indiana, it doesn't matter, in Missouri. If you wanna go change people's life and you wanna be part of a cool team that does that, New York, what's up, there's Pettyway, come join us.  As a dad, I was working my way out of my life away. I was not spending time with my newborn son. And guess what, now I get to you, I take baseball games, I get to practice with them, I get to take them to school, I get to pick them up to school. We get to go on vacation together. You can buy back some of your time but it's gonna take hard work and some effort to do that. But if you wanna play a bigger role with what we're doing, you wanna do this and change your life at the same time, come learn about the opportunity, get back to where we're inviting you. You might get on a private call with us and we'll talk to you about ways that you can participate. Beverly Schaefer, there's another Schaefer island. There's ways that you can participate with us by, and here's the coolest thing. Worst thing that's gonna happen is you're gonna get healthier.  Who doesn't want that? Why would you not wanna be part of that? So come join us, we have a couple packages that you can do. It's like $40, $50 or $50 pounds to be a promoter. So it's basically for the year, so it's pretty much dirty and you can change other people's lives forever. Is there a package more than 10? Is there a 20 pack? Yes, whoever referred you can get you a 20 pack. Almost all of our boxes come in 20 packs, 20 servings. So I usually recommend starting them out with two boxes and then we can work up or work down from there depending on how you're setting everything up on your smart chip and your loyalty program. So they'll set you up and you might start with two a day right off the bat. A lot of people start with one a day and they work up to two a day and they kind of figure out their process of what's working for them and just be patient on your journey. So is it an infinity here, infinite? I don't know what she said. Yeah, I mean, I'll end it with this. My big passion is to become the best version of myself, right? What's up, James Barton? And here's the reality is that we're never done with that, right? At the end of the day, my son said to me, this is the first time I've ever got that, so I didn't have much of a father figure for myself growing up. So I never said this to my father.  And I was like, it was just a proud moment, but it also kind of put pressure on me to like, hey, pick up your game, like be the best you can be. And so if you get to know me, my passion is to change a million lives every single year. Yes, I'm, this is what I do for a career. I'm an independent proof of promoter and I have financial goals in my life too, but it's to change a million lives every year. And if you change a lot of lives, you change people's lives, you're gonna get rewarded for that. But the real big reason is that I want to be and change the generations to come. So if you right now have kids or have grandkids or have nieces and nephews, listen, your actions and how you get healthy today and how you impact other people's lives does impact their future. And I just truly believe that. So that's really why I do what I do. It's why I talk the way I talk and why I get super excited about this. Because listen, if we don't do it, who's going to? At the end of the day, if we don't change our lives and lead to be the best example for the people we care about, who else is gonna do it? I don't have trust in a lot of people out there that are not leading the way, right? There's, I go to hospitals, I see doctors smoking still. Like, really? Are you kidding me right now? So we got to take the responsibility in ourselves and you can do this with us, so come join us. However you want to fit in, guess what? We will meet you where you're at, we're gonna love you where you're at and we're gonna help you change your life as long as you're willing to. Drink ketones daily and plug into the community and let us take you by hand and show you the way that's worked for so many other people, y'all. So get back to whoever invited you. If you can't tell, I'm pretty fired up. Can children take them? You can work with your doctor on that and see if your doctor will approve that. Our doctor did. And so if you want to give this to your kids, you can work with your doctor on that and see if we do actually have some fun little things that we give our kids, it's pretty cool. So I believe in ketones for the brain, for children and development, I think it's pretty awesome. So with that, I don't see any more questions. I'm pretty fired up. I have about 30 minutes from now I get to schedule my next shoulder surgery. So I just had my, part of my clavicle removed. I had the Mumford procedure, a bunch of repairs done on this one and it's doing pretty good, y'all. I'm pretty fired up. Get back to the gym, hopefully soon. I got this one scheduled in today. So I'll get the shoulders repaired and ketones all the way, y'all. So appreciate you all. We'll be doing this again next week. I think the same time. I'm gonna try to bring on some special guests next week. If there's something you want me to talk about, I can. I have a unique knowledge of the human body. I'd love to share it with it. If it helps one person, it's worth it, y'all. Have a good day. Cheers. Bye. Good day, good day, good day. Get out of here. Go away. Go. I'm not going, you gotta get away.  I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. And hey, guys, really quick. Just aside, let's have a conversation for a second. Along the buyer, I'm along the buyer. Here's the coolest thing is the, what I was gonna say. If I talk too fast, I get excited if you can't tell. So I know when I'm, when people have like my, when I talk in Mexico and they're like, they can understand English a little bit.  I have to remind myself just to pace myself because I get super excited. And it's passion because when you know what something is, you know, just do your homework.  Go to Prove It Facebook page. Go, you know, we have, right now we're gonna have one of the top educating lessons next week that you'll ever see are coming soon. Sorry, it's called the Keto Academy to educate more people. So just be aware of that. Hydrate, yes, drink more water, Brandy. Hydration, here's a secret about hydration. I'm really gonna go right now. This, everybody's still on. The secret about hydration is, it's not just the amount of water you're drinking, it's also what's in your water. It's the, it's the, people don't realize this, that most water, I love European water by the way, because it's usually healthier. My wife and I always realized we go to Europe, the water is different. And a lot of people need to add electrolytes to their water. So Prove It has an enhanced electrolyte is the best thing I've ever found from an electrolyte. And especially if you're drinking ketones, it's really important, but you just wanna make sure that when you're, you don't wanna use sports drinks to your electrolyte, you'd rather get a high quality electrolyte, low carb. And if you're part of our community, definitely use Prove It's electrolytes. I use two of those a day. And it's super, super powerful. So, you know, right now Europe has access to that, which is great. So, yes, you should use ours. And they have Stevia, Stevia's fine. Stevia is a fine electrolyte, unless you have some weird allergy to Stevia. But yeah, that's fine. It doesn't cause any blood sugar instability. So that's great. All right, y'all, I gotta go. You keep me on here. Sweet. We're looking at trying to get over there in July. I'm trying to get over, yes, veterans need to drink ketones, probably more than anybody else. Veterans, firefighters need to drink ketones probably more than anybody else too. We're looking at coming over in July. It's just, how do you go to 17 countries? And I can't go there for three, four weeks. I just don't have the bandwidth to do that at the time. So it's kind of interesting. So we've got to figure something out for Europe. It'll probably be like three locations or two locations. And it's gonna be kind of a coin flip. It's gonna be based on demand. It's gonna be based on a few different variables.   You may have to get on a flight for an hour or two to come meet us. But we're gonna do something fun there. Hopefully things will open up and it'll get better. So I would, I don't know. You have to talk to your doctor on that one. Y'all, I got to get off. Thank you so much on the potassium one. You have to talk to your doctor about that. Appreciate y'all. Cheers. Oh, it's up Susan.


Extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE, covering VMworld 2015. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem sponsors. And now your host, Dave Vellante. Welcome back to San Francisco, everybody. This is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Wikibon's continuous coverage of VMworld 2015. This is day two. Jonathan Stinson is here, he's an IT practitioner with Hendrick Medical in Abilene, Texas. Yes. Welcome to theCUBE. Yeah, man, I'm excited to be here. Yeah, so this is a great event. We're talking off camera about VMworld. I mean, as an IT practitioner, I mean, everyone uses VMware. Oh, yeah. This is your wheelhouse, your peers. You've really transformed your IT organization as have many others. So talk a little bit about, you know, VMworld, what it's like for you. Oh, it's great to come out here to get more hands-on experience with some of the tools that we don't use hopefully yet. I like to use more of these. It's great to just be able to talk to professionals, to talk to vendors. There's so many products out there that I've wondered about using and now I have this chance to actually talk to some of these people and, you know, see a disaster recovery solution. You know, what does that look like? What does that work from this point of view from this company? So yeah, it's great. Just kind of let my imagination run to things we might be able to do, ways we might be able to improve. So talk a little bit about Hendrick Medical. What's the organization all about? What's your role? Yeah, we're a hospital. We're a private hospital. We're actually the biggest thing in about 200 miles. So we do a lot of specialized stuff where the official disaster management location for our area for like 10 counties. I think we're about 600 beds, about 3,000 employees. So it's a pretty good size organization. And there's just always more and more data. There's always more applications when you stand up. Extra layers of security, especially in light of the breaches for some of the insurers and other medical companies out there. So that's just always a lot in motion, always a lot changing. So, you know, five years ago when we first started doing theCUBE here, the dialogue was, you know, what percent of your environment's virtualized? What are you trying to get? What's your journey look like? And I would imagine you're through that discussion and largely virtualized now. It's turning your attention to other challenges. What are some of those challenges and drivers that are, you know, activating your activities? A lot of it is just that cost effectiveness, that, you know, perennial issue in IT, trying to make sure that we provide high quality services, that we provide them in a way that doesn't create a management nightmare for us, doesn't create a lot of calls to the help desk. We're about 80% virtualized at this point. So that's still, you know, we still have some ways to go, still some legacy systems we're trying to bring on board typically as part of the update cycle for those applications, just constantly improving, trying to find what's worth the value and make sure we implement it well. So the driver's electronic medical records, meaningful use, obviously HIPAA and compliance. Oh yeah. You know, never ending. Every conversation with HIPAA. That's why you don't sleep. Yeah. So, okay, so you got all that going on. Just describe a little bit more about your environment. I mean, paint a picture for us of your infrastructure and the apps that it's supporting. So medical record systems is the biggest thing for us. We run several pretty heavy SQL boxes. Those are some of the systems that are not and probably will not be virtualized for a long time just because they would consume an entire host. We have about 60 to 80 terabytes of production data. When you throw backups into that, we're pushing into 250, 300 terabytes of data and we're hoping to actually, in the next few weeks, triple our installed disk capacity to better handle that, to make sure we have room for growth. So many projects that are handed off to us come from another department who has chosen a product, chosen application and then we had to figure out how to make it work. And so having that capacity out front where we know we have not only just raw terabytes but the IOPS to support it has been a big part of our to-do list. Okay, and I mean, how many VMs roughly are you running? 300 or so? Okay, and what's your storage infrastructure look like? You said 60 to 80 terabytes, what? Right now we have a combination of a NetApp system, one of the fast 3000s, and we have an IBM XIV. So we kind of split the workloads between those depending on performance and capacity requirements. But like I said, we're hoping to, I'm hoping when I get back from VMworld I'll have new hardware waiting for me, so it'll be great. So how are you driving efficiency? What are some things that you're doing? So a better understanding how we utilize are the physical resources. Like we just upgraded a 10 gig ethernet across all our virtual hosts, better looking at our processor usage versus RAM balancing those things inside the host, understanding more about individual applications, what they need as far as high availability. You know, some things you can deploy as an availability cluster and that's great. Some things still need the old failover cluster and others it's just when they fail and get them back online as quickly as you can. So finding the ways to automate a lot of that survivability is something that we spend a lot of time talking about, a lot of time implementing. So CataLogic invited you here on theCUBE today. We know a little bit about their company. We had their CEO on at Walsh the other day. How are you using catalogs, generally in CataLogic specific? Can you talk about that? Yeah, so CataLogic provides a couple of really good services for us. It's the foundation of our backup system which any important data has to be backed up. They have really great tools for not only making sure it's backed up initially to secondary storage, but also make sure it's replicated an appropriate amount of time to a secondary site. So they make that whole workflow very easy. We get a much simpler insight into what's going on when it's failed, what's broken down. Before CataLogic got an email coming in that was about 300 kilobytes every day. They just gave me the rundown of everything that happened in the backups in the last 24 hours, and it was a mess. Most of that data I didn't need, but the off chance is something went really wrong and I needed to go back and look at detailed stuff. It was there. With CataLogic, I get a simple email that says, this failed, this is out of RPO, this is what's going on. And there's always some systems down. So systems being upgraded. There's always something that, okay, yeah, that wouldn't have backed up. That's fine. That wouldn't have, okay, this one I actually need to look at. And CataLogic makes that very easy for us. They also give us good insight into love our file management. So on the NetApp, you do block level, you can also do file level storage. And with their catalog, we have a report ready to go on the NetApp, all the file shares. I can go out and find all those iTunes libraries with just one quick report. And similarly delete them depending on whose home drive it is, depending on how far up they are. So you let them know first? It depends. Sometimes? Depends who it is. A lot of times I'll check like the last access date and the CEO had an access to that music library in a couple of years. So I assume he's not using it anymore and I let it go. But yeah, generally I do a little bit of research. Even the CEO, okay, be nice to your IT guy, that's my mom. Well, we still have the backups, right? So if it hit a pinch, I can get it back. Well, backup is one thing, recovery is another, isn't it? Yeah. Using the catalog to gain visibility on your data. People talk about copy data management.  You make a copy to back it up and then you make a copy because you want to give your test dev team a copy. You make another copy because you want to populate a data warehouse. You make another copy for whatever other reason. You got all these copies and you get this copy creep occurring. And then you don't ever un-copy. Right. Delete, but so, is that describe your environment? Oh yeah. And so maybe talk about the before and after you started using the catalog system. So before catalogic, anytime we needed to duplicate data, you know, it's just the standard, you know, use RoboCopy or just, you know, the Windows file explorer to move it over where you need it. With catalogic, if someone needs a set of files, I don't even really need to know which specific files. I can take that whole drive and say, you know, a good example would be a developer who said, you know, I did an all-nighter and I made several changes and they didn't work out in the end. I need to roll back. But because it was the middle of the night, I wasn't thinking about source control. I don't have access to that. I can get into, you know, as the backup guy can get in there and say, okay, let me give you Tuesday night and let me give you Monday night, whichever one of those it was because you can't remember. And so those drives, I don't have to worry about the specific files. I need to worry about the folders. It's just as easy for me to map, you know, a half terabyte volume back to his server for the last three days.  Okay, E is, you know, yesterday, F is the day before that, G is the day before that. And he has access to all of it. He can go look through and figure out exactly what he needs and I don't need to be involved in that whole process of discovering, figuring out what he is. You know, oh, that wasn't it.  Here are a couple of use cases. Backup was your primary and now I'm hearing there's a test dev affinity. Talk more about the developer relationship with, you know, generally the, you know, IT admin and specifically in your situation. How does it work? I mean, you provide sets of services that they need access to. What do they like about your service delivery and what don't they like and how do you, what's your relationship with, you know, with them and then I want to get into how you're utilizing catalogs to improve that. So we have a good relationship. Actually, I would say in our department, really we do all get along pretty well and really have a pretty good sort of team approach to a lot of things. So typically what'll happen and you know, some of it's more extreme than others. Like we had a situation recently where one of our developers got very sick was unable to be in the office for several weeks. And so other people were getting in trying to figure out what to do. There was no issue making that data available. The developers all knew they'd come to me, I would have it and it would be presented up wherever they needed it. We, you know, we could overwrite the original, we could put it up side by side, another volume. With CataLogic it's very easy to just have access to that data where we need it. And there's, the best thing about it was before we would have to pull it off tape before CataLogic, we would pull it off a tape, dump it into a folder somewhere. And so the amount of time to get access to it was highly dependent on, well, aside from tape access time, just the volume of data. And now I'm in a situation where I kind of have to imply that it's more arduous than it is. So they don't come to me for every little, every version of a file that anybody wants. Because it is, it's just a few clicks and I can get it in there, so. But you've got all this stuff to do. Yeah, I've got other things to do too. So I don't want to be just doing recovery all the time. I'll do you a favor, I'll get you that. Yeah, no problem. Being able to clone the entire production environment into another VM is very powerful also. And then get rid of that copy when you need to. So is there a relationship between what you're doing with catalogs and the currency of data that the developer has access to? It sounds like the developer is now able to utilize more current data, is that right? Yeah, and whatever frequency of backup so you want, that's the delay, that's all there is. Because getting them access to that data is just a minute. So essentially live data, so they can work on near-live data for their test and dev so that when they go into production there aren't as many blind spots, is that right? Right, and so with, of course you can do a backup ad hoc as needed, and so for anything that resides on that app or I know they just announced support for several IBM systems, you can trigger that backup and it will use the array snapshot to get the backup and then you're done. It takes just a few minutes to catalog that and you can mount it up wherever you want. If you're not, if the data's not on that array, not on one of those supported arrays, you can still do that traditional, do a Microsoft, do a Windows volume shadow service snapshot, pull it over and then present it up.  So you were talking a little bit more recently about sort of essentially self-service, what's the workflow like there and what tools do you have available to facilitate that? So there are a lot of options for self-service, for letting the developers get in there and do their own thing as far as orchestrating when to pull copies, when to destroy copies, things like that. We haven't had to do that because so far it's been so much easier for me to handle it because it takes so few clicks now. There's no point in training them on it. If there's anything that needs to be scheduled, if they want to refresh their developer environment every week, Sunday mornings, wipe out the previous one, set up the latest one, that can all be scheduled. Typically it's a more of a one time, we need to roll back to this version of the code where we just need this one copy of the data to test something and so it's just more ad hoc and I just take care of it for them. And the point of control for the snapshots is the NetApp arrays, that's not catalogic, so you're utilizing your existing infrastructure, is that correct? Right, and that's one thing, when we were looking to replace our previous system that was one thing I loved about catalogic was they don't try to reinvent the wheel. My array is really good at snapshots. My array is really good at replication. I don't need catalogic to come in and do another layer of the exact same functionality. So they didn't reinvent the wheel, they just took the wheels that are already there and put a big ol' engine on them and made them work. Made them usable. So okay, so the benefit of that is it's simpler, it's more cost effective, you don't have to rip and replace your existing snapshotting system. Okay. Yeah, if you already trust your storage vendor to do snapshots and replication, just keep going with it. What would you like catalogic to do that would make your life easier? I know they could figure out how to make it all work without me ever doing anything, that would be great. At this point, it really just has worked pretty well. The interface, just when we first deployed it till now they've made great improvements on that. Made it much easier to use, giving you more of a dashboard in your first log in, so that makes it a lot easier. There are obviously a couple things where it'd be nice to kind of prioritize this data in the dashboard, but there's nothing holding me back at this point. For our needs, catalogic meets them. Last question, is VMworld, some of the things that you've seen, that you're interested in, that you want to go back and apply? We talked offline about cloud, cloud's kind of a bad word. Yeah, for a hospital regulatory compliance makes clouds kind of a thorny issue. But security, NSX provides a lot of security, a lot of new knobs and buttons that we can work with that I think might be interesting. Yeah, we heard some stuff in this morning's keynote, more distributed encryption, sounds interesting. Right, yeah, and of course that would require buy-in from not just the system admin team but from networking and from security. That's not your call and your call alone. No, it's not. No, that requires a lot of coordination. Are those guys here, your colleagues? No, they're not. Okay, so that's maybe next year. Yeah, I'm the only one here. Maybe next year I'll get them to come. But right now they don't see VMware as their thing. That's somebody else's thing, NSX would have to bring them into that kind of VMware world. So we'll see, maybe we'll get to do that. Anything else that you saw that you're excited about here? One of the biggest things, and this actually I guess has been out since March or April when vSphere 6 was released is virtual volumes. I'm both the systems admin and the storage admin. Okay, so vehicles to make your life. Yeah, bringing those together, being able to set policies on the storage array about caching or tiering whatever tools my array has, compression, dedupe, being able to just assign those at the VMware level knowing they're getting assigned the right properties. Like SQL compresses very well, but you don't want to ever try a dedupe. It won't work. Being able to just declare that upfront in VMware and make sure that no matter where I move that volume to balance, it's going to observe that policy. That would make my life easier by quite a bit I think. Awesome. All right, Jonathan, well listen, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. It was really a pleasure having you and it's great to meet you. And good luck going forward. Thank you. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We will be back right after this. This is theCUBE. We're live from VMworld 2015 in Moscone North. Right back.


Rick Ross is also one of the latest celebs to purchase a private jet taking to social media recently to show off his Gulfstream 550 as well as the private jet hanger where he parks a ton of his exotic cars. Built in 2012 Ross reportedly purchased the jet in April 2023. Since then the aircraft has undergone a makeover by Duncan Aviation and now it's worth a custom all-black look with Ross's name stylized as Rick Ross emblazoned in gold letters on the side. The tail features the logo of the Maybach music group the record label established by Ross in 2009. It's not known how much he paid for the G550 but similar jets typically cost in the region of 15 to 20 million dollars depending on their age. Over on Instagram Ross recently shared a series of photos and videos of the 18 passenger plane. Ross thanked Duncan Aviation for the plane. 5 billion dollar play Ross said in a video taken next to the plane who want to go around the world with Ricky Rosé. I'm letting you know right now.


Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Sign at State Symposium. I'm glad you're with us today to celebrate the contributions of deaf and hard-of-hearing employees at the State Department. And I'm honored that you're interested in joining our team. At State, we grapple with big challenges every day, like how to resolve and prevent conflict, how to ensure everyone has access to safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines, how to stand with human rights defenders and journalists in the countries where they're under attack. For generations, deaf and hard-of-hearing diplomats have helped us tackle global challenges like these. They've served domestically and abroad, in embassies and consulates around the world, and worked on every region of the globe. They've negotiated treaties, worked in intelligence, strengthened our public diplomacy. They've also made our internal teams more effective and inclusive, from providing human resources support to communicating with more than 75,000 employees worldwide. Everywhere they've worked, they've advanced U.S. foreign policy. They've made our department better and helped make progress toward a future that's more stable, secure, and equitable for Americans and people everywhere. To build that better future, this department needs people from diverse backgrounds working in every field. That includes deaf and hard-of-hearing diplomats. America's diversity is one of our greatest strengths. And to fully represent the United States, our teams have to be as diverse as our country, including on the front lines of diplomacy. Time and again, we've seen how diversity makes our team smarter, more innovative, and just as important for diplomacy, better at putting ourselves in other people's shoes. Deaf and hard-of-hearing diplomats represent Americans of every race, religion, background, and from every part of our country. People who use American Sign Language make up an important linguistic minority that enriches our country, our government, and our department. And our deaf and hard-of-hearing colleagues bring deaf gain to U.S. foreign policy by sharing their unique skills, experiences, and perspectives.  He's a Foreign Service Information Management Specialist and an expert in cybersecurity who helps protect our posts overseas. His career has taken him from Europe to Asia. And everywhere he's gone, he's made friends in the signing community. In Moldova, he helped advocate for the rights of the deaf and hard-of-hearing, working with the deaf school, engaging university students, challenging stereotypes, things he was able to do because he's a deaf diplomat, not in spite of it. Our department and our country are more secure because of outstanding public servants like Doug. And our foreign policy is stronger because diplomats like him build meaningful relationships and help represent America's strength in diversity abroad. But too often, the State Department hasn't been as inclusive as it needs to be. We're committed to changing that. That's why, last year, I appointed Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley to be our first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. Together, we're working hard to make sure that the State Department is more equitable and accessible, including for deaf and hard-of-hearing employees. We're providing sign language interpreters for employees and applicants alike. When we hold workforce events, including my town halls and roundtables, we include ASL interpretation and live captioning. We're exploring ways to incorporate sign languages into our policies for language training and testing. And it was a deaf employee, Angela Canella, who worked with her colleagues to propose and create a new, dedicated departmental working group for deaf inclusion. We're also committed to bringing these values into our foreign policy and supporting deaf, hard-of-hearing and signing communities around the world. We work closely with advocates and governments to help improve accessibility abroad, from supporting efforts to create legal accessibility standards to offering financial assistance for organizations empowering deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Today, you'll get a chance to learn about these topics and more and meet several deaf and hard-of-hearing diplomats. We'll also explain the different application processes, including new paid internships that were launching this fall. And by the end, if we succeeded in our mission, you'll see a place for yourself at the State Department. We'd be lucky to have you. And so thank you, and I hope to welcome you to the State Department. Hello, everyone. I'm delighted to welcome you to the Department of State's inaugural Sign-At-State Symposium. I'm Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the U.S. Department of State. I was appointed by Secretary Blinken last year to ensure that the Department advances diversity and inclusion with transparency, accountability, and accessibility. For those of you interested in a career in the Department of State, we want you to know we welcome employees from diverse backgrounds. And this includes deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. The theme today is Eye to the Power of Three – Influence, Identity, and Impact. First, our deaf and hard-of-hearing colleagues at the Department influence policy. They influence policy within the Department, as well as laws and policies affecting signing communities around the world. Second, they define our identity as Americans to audiences around the world. Our signing colleagues illustrate American values of equity and inclusion in action, and that it's possible to be deaf or hard-of-hearing and a diplomat. And finally, deaf and hard-of-hearing communities are making an impact. Our deaf and hard-of-hearing colleagues bring unique talents and lived experiences to the Department. This makes our foreign policy stronger. Right now, for example, a deaf employee in Mexico is learning Mexican sign language. Our deaf colleagues who use sign language have been able to connect with other deaf communities from our other parts of the world. As Secretary Blinken has stated often, diversity and inclusion make us stronger, smarter, and more creative. We need you to contribute to our collective strength. To commemorate Deaf History Month in a substantive way, my office has launched a high-level policy group on deaf inclusion focused on both recruitment and retention. A key focus of this group is to ensure that language testing and training is more inclusive of different types of sign language. This is your moment. You belong. Your gifts, your talents, your expertise can enrich the Department of State and U.S. foreign policy. Together we can show the world, disabled and non-disabled, deaf and hearing that possibilities and opportunities can be limitless. Thank you.


and hear my voice. So I am presenting online in here, Trieste. This talk is part two of the final difference, continued from the previous part by Jemo, a translational invariance. So my surname is GHIM, but it's the same as KIM. But I decided to choose my surname as GIM because KIM is too frequent, anyway, let's start. So we are going to compute this position matrix element calculated by this equation. So V is the volume of the unicef and UNK is the initial flow rate function obtained from the coarse grid calculation. Due to the numerical reason, we should calculate this K integral with finite number of K points using discrete K sum. And we also calculate the gradients using the first of the finite difference, which is an approximation. Here B is neighboring vectors from K to K plus B and WB is the corresponding weight or coefficient for the finite difference. These position matrix elements are required for a binary sprint and very, very curve-like term to calculate conductivity or between the decision, ship current and so on. So it is important to make position conversion fast. So why it is important to consider a hierarchical finite difference formula is that the error of position matrix elements arising from maximally localized binary function is known as exponentially decreasing with NK on the NK by NK by NK at initial coarse grid. But the error arising from the first of the finite difference is in order of NK minus two. Also, Marzari and Vanderbilt mentioned in their PRD paper, it would be interesting to explore whether usable higher or the finite difference representation of gradient K might improve this convergence, especially the binary spread of the binary part or the binary spread. So let's start from one dimension. We are assuming that you are using the central symmetric formula for finite difference. So for example, the first order formula is given as here. So we have two neighbors minus H and plus H with the error proportional to H squared. The second order has four neighbors with the error proportional to H to the four. So in this manner, we can extend to the N's order and find the coefficients and error dependence. Now let's move on to the general case. The last term in the finite difference formula is added in this FK to match the convention with the previously published papers such as Marzari and Vanderbilt in 1997. But this term plays no role because we have assumed the central symmetric assumption. And since WB equals W minus B, so we don't need to keep this in mind. The weight, the WB are determined from neighbors by the completeness relation, the condition for the first order case, even by this equation symmetric in Cartesian indices alpha and beta. So now we have to find the analogy for the N's order case. The general formula can be compared with the one-dimensional case for the first order example. The formula for the finite difference can be reconstructed as this form. So one over two B square is the weight and B is H or minus H, so B is the neighboring vector. So this WB and B also satisfy the completeness relation. Now for the higher order finite difference, the second order formula in one dimension can also be reconstructed similarly. So we, in three-dimension, we have to choose more B vectors and corresponding completeness relations and WB. So the question can be divided into two parts. Question one, how to find B for higher order cases? Question two, how to find WB from the higher order version of the completeness relation? So it's the first question. We have chose neighbors as B to be 3B in one dimension, but the situation is different because we have freedom to choose B in 2D or 3D because we can consider more directions other than one directions. So we can come up with two options. The first strategy is as near as possible or in other words, near as search. Using the first strategy, we search from the origin to the further region with increasing distance from K. So we'll find the nearest B vectors. And the next strategy is a simple extension. We first find the first order finite difference B vectors and multiply it by two, three or N. So we are going to use B to B, 3B or NB with modified rate. Then after the determination of B vectors, next we have to find the corresponding rates for the first order. We just had to make only the first derivative correct, but now we have new terms, such as second derivative, the third derivative or the second order. So we have to eliminate these terms. Using more terms in the Taylor expansion, we can extract the first derivative. The first derivative is written as the B vector summation. And if we insert this Taylor expansion into the FK plus B, we have many terms and we can compare the left hand side and the right hand side term by term. Okay, so the first term in the right hand side is nearly F. So the sum of WBB alpha should be zero. And the next term is the gradient of F. So to make this term gradient alpha of F, the sum of WBB alpha B beta should be the chronic delta of alpha beta. And next, the third order is the terms with three Bs or four Bs should be zero. Now we have four equations in total for the second order. But the first and the third equations are automatically satisfied because we have assumed Bs are centrosymmetrically distributed and the number of Bs are in this case all numbers. So they are automatically satisfied. So let's look at the first order equation. Actually the number of the first order equation is six because it is the combination with repetition of two Cartesian indices. So for example, it is constructed by XX, XY, YY, YZ, ZZ and ZX. So we can get maximally six independent WB. But for example, in these cubic cases, we have only one WB with six points for the simple cubic cases, eight B vectors for the PCC cases and 12 points for the FCC case. But with more non-symmetrical cases, we require maximally six independent WB like tri-clinic cases. For the second order equation, we have now a combination with repetition of four Cartesian indices, which is 15. So we have total 21 equations. In this manner, the number of the first order to the end-solder equations is proportional to the end cube. When it comes to the error gradient and binary spread, it's proportional to B to the two N. So let me compare the two methods, your research versus simple extension. The first method, your research works by including additional B from the origin and check the conditions repeatedly until the conditions are satisfied. The good point is that since the nearest search uses the nearest B vectors and because the error is proportional to B to two N, this results in a smaller error relative to the simple extension. While the bad thing is that it has a large number of equations. For the simple extension, the weights WB can be readily found as introduced in the next page. So to find WB is very simple. And also the number of B is relatively small. So also the dot mmn file, such as dot mmn file from PW to one-year 90.x from quantum espresso becomes very small. This is about finding WB with the simple method. The first assume the completeness relation with the readily found first order B vectors and WB. And the higher versions of completeness relations are expanded and using the first order equation, the final equation is simplified by this matrix equation. Therefore, the weights of simple can be found by the Kramer's rule. The Kramer's rule is quite expensive to be calculated but the coefficient matrix is similar to the so-called Vanderbilt matrix, which is easy to find determinant. So the determinant of this matrix is able to be calculated by hand. So just the answer of the weights are simply found by this form. So we are ready to calculate one-year quantities. The first example is polarization, linear polarization of potassium nanobates. Whose structure is an elongated perovskite. Here though, white spheres are oxygens, the great sphere in the middle is niobium and the black dots at the corner is potagems. So polarization has two contributions. The first contribution is the ionic contribution and the second contribution is the lecturing contribution which can be calculated by some of the binary centers in occupied states. Here the factor two is inserted because we have done non-spin polarized calculation. So we expect the error dependence follows this form. In the lecture here, we can see the convergence of polarization with increasing number of key points. Here simple and nearly search are not much different because here dot and cross mark are not much different here. And the third order is not much faster than the second order relative to the first order, the convergence of the first order. And the converged value is found near 0.38 which is the same of the result of Stengel and Spaulding. So in the right figure, the x-axis has been changed to this proportional to nk, so minus 22 to see the error depends more clearly. So the y-intercept at x equals 0 is the expected converged value. The next example is the convergence of the binary spread of silicon. The same analysis can be applied because the error behavior of the binary spread is the same as the error dependence of the binary polarization. So here the insert in the right figure shows the B dependence of the error is also correct for the second order and the third order. The main bottleneck is the non-self-consistent calculation. So the reducing nk is the most important matter and the time consumption becomes not quite long using the higher order calculation. So the higher order calculation is beneficial when we consider total computational time because we can reduce the number of k-points. Also the Stengel and Spaulding's work can be interpreted to the infinite with the finite difference, but only with the second order we can obtain a quite good convergence without much time consumption. But we have to be cautious because the higher order finite difference can be helpful for convergence, but it may not work without translation or invariant form was introduced by Jemul. This is an illustration of translational mirrors. The pink line, the sign function is the position operator and the blue line is the position operator with translational invariance. The rule of higher order finite difference is to make the position to the real position with more Taylor expansion terms. So the position is now like a salt shape. However, without translational invariant, higher order finite difference may not work because the wrong location of salt may cause some error. So especially when linear functions are far from the origin, I recommend to use the higher order finite difference with translational invariant formulas at the same time, especially when linear functions are far from the origin. So the conclusion is that the error, we verify the error or the order of error is proportional to b to the two n and the higher order finite difference requires more completeness relations. Oh, we had two methods, near search and simple extension, but for the polarization or binary spread, they showed no significant difference. And also just a simple second of the finite difference can enhance calculations much. One more thing is without translational invariance, the higher order correction may be insufficient. So translational invariance should be the default for Banyo 19 or S1. So we have only calculated Banyo spread or Banyo polarization or other quantities such as orbital magnetization, which has two gradients of ab initio pool states or spin current, which is graded with spin. Not only this term, these quantities should be calculated to test the higher order finite difference further. So this is the end of the talk. Thank you for your attention. Thank you, Minsu, for the great talk. Is there any question here? In the meantime, if online you have a question, please write them in the chat. Thanks very much for a very clear talk. And so I hope you feel better soon. Just a quick question. So when you go to higher order, then obviously you have to calculate more matrix elements, the M, M, N, K, B. And so there's sort of a trade off between calculating more of those matrix elements and just using the first order and using more K points. Can you comment on sort of the relative computational cost and where you see that? Oh, that's a good question. In the process of Banyoization, we should calculate first self-consistent and next non-self-consistent and next Pw to Banyo 90 with new neighboring vectors from the NNKP pipes and finally, Banyoization. So the NK point, the number of NK points affects the NSCF or NSCF and Pw to Banyo 90 because Banyoization speed is now not quite right. not quite boosted. So for the NSCF calculation, it's very important to reduce NK because that is NK, but the number of K points is proportional to NKQ on the NK by NK by NK additional course grid. So computational time of NSCF is proportional to NKQ. And if you assume that we use the simple method, the neighboring vectors, the number of neighboring vectors is proportional to N because we are using B to B, B or NB, I also recommend to use the simple method rather than the nearest nearest search method. So the computational time of victory to one year 90 may be the proportional to all NK. So the total computational time will be reduced with higher order because the main bottling may be the NSCF calculation. If I could just ask a point of clarification, when you're doing the, your higher order finite difference, am I right to think that you're doing that for the construction of the Vanier functions themselves? Because I can imagine a situation in which you apply it as a post correction. So you could use the first order formula that we have at the moment in order to get, to do the minimization of the spread functional. And then you could use the higher order formula afterwards in order to get a more accurate representation of the spread. My point being that the Vanier functions themselves, I think converge quite quickly with respect to the K point grid. It's just simply the representation of the spread that is slower. So I just want to give you a comment on that. Oh, so could you repeat that again, please? So your higher order formula for computing the spread, is that what is used for the minimization of the Vanier functions? Or are you applying this in a post minimization step to correct the spread and the centers? I'm sorry, can you hear the question that's being asked from the world? Yeah, I'm thinking. I'm afraid I can make a good explanation. Could you email later? I can follow up pretty sure. Okay, so actually Minsu, if I understand correctly, used the correct formula in both vanierization and in calculating the matrix. And we haven't yet separated the two effects, but we are, he's going to study the separate effects. Yeah, separate it. Yeah, that's a very important question, right? Yes, I guess I'm worried with the higher order formula, whether there's anything more complicated in the minimization process, but perhaps it doesn't actually lead and your inability to test this, you can prove perhaps that the Vanier function is fairly invariant to how we choose that spread. Yeah. And it was just a follow-up comment. I mean, what you choose to calculate the gradients affects the symmetry that you end up with the Vanier function. And so it might be easier with a first order formula to choose the right group of symmetries, the vectors, so that you have a desired symmetry. Because sometimes you can afford a lower accuracy, find a difference formulas, but with the right symmetry properties for the gradient and the real space vector that comes from it, then a more accurate formula that though breaks the symmetry. So sometimes it's easier to work with a first order, find the differences, and then maybe just doing higher order as a post-processing. At the same time, the symmetry because the number of neighbors are quite light, so it will be good to use both of them at the same time. Let me just, yeah, thanks Minsoo. And also thanks for the nice comment. Actually, we also found that if we use just first order formula, the symmetry is broken. So we need very many fine course break points. So we want to also, we were planning to look into this, how it affects the symmetry. Yeah, thanks for the comment. Hi, do you think that using this high order formula, my improve also the symmetries when using the automated procedure? Because it's also there, we found that the automated procedures sometimes generates a function that do not respect the symmetries, the center. I'm not sure the symmetry is larger related to the higher order finite difference, but maybe I think I can test it more extensively. That's a good question. I just, another quick question. I mean, so you've been looking at finite difference formulae that sort of work along lines in reciprocal space, but actually there's also more complicated ones called like mesh delin discretizations, which take account of more than just one direction, they're multidirectional finite difference formulae. So the value at a particular point depends on points around in 3D in a more complicated way. And there's a lot of literature actually in the engineering field on accuracy of finite difference formulations and looking at some of these more complicated ones. It would actually just be interesting to know which is the best for this problem, even counting for these ones. Is that similar to the nearest search or a near-search uses not one, not or Cartesian, Cartesian texts and this method uses many directions other than special directions. I think they may be different. So is it possible to just avoid doing the finite difference and directly solve for the derivative of the both states? I mean, I think the FPT must compute at some point. So maybe like, is there a way to like pull out of ph.exe this derivative directly and work somehow with that? So what do you mean by direct? So, you know, NSCF solves, you know, U of K, but you can write the equation for derivative of U of K with respect to K and then, you know, compute that and store somehow. Yeah, so in the center on the right, this matrix element, you know, directly compute derivative of U. Is that possible somehow? It's not if you find U of K. Oh, if you compute it in the blockage, it didn't transform back somehow. And the other comment is, I think on slide four, like you had this higher order expressions, but I think they are, they give you smaller errors only if the function you're integrating is very smooth. I think if the function is not smooth, then the higher order, I think actually gives you worse results, but I might not remember this, right? Generally when you do function. The finite difference would work if the function is like analytic, not having a singular points. Yeah, but then is it possible that the band structure sometimes have some things which are not smooth or I don't know, maybe that doesn't make sense. Maybe it's always smooth, I don't know. I was just thinking. Sorry, maybe I'm just ignorant, but when they calculate the position matrix, I calculated some, how to say, several compounds, but some of them, when they have the band crossing, there is some numerical errors in position matrix. Is there some thing like this when you calculate related to the band crossing? Because I don't know, just maybe ignorant, but it seems there is some problem in my calculation. Do you aware of that such kind of a problem? I'm sorry, I'm not aware of that. Okay, maybe, I don't know. Maybe my calculation was not good, yeah, thanks. Any other questions? Okay, if not, we can thank Minsoo again. And now for real this time. This was the last talk of this morning. So now we have a lunch break and we come back here at 2 p.m., okay? So for the flash talks, we have one hour flash talks. And then there is a small change in the schedule. As I told you, keep an eye on the website. So tomorrow morning, we will not have the talk of Ivano Tevernelli on quantum computing and applications in natural science. The talk is being moved to Thursday, same time, 9 a.m. So if there is anyone who is supposed to give a talk at any other time and wants to anticipate that, just come to me and otherwise we will start off an hour later, thank you.


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