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20TH ANNIVERSARY BLOG
MARS MEMORIES: DANIELA J.
Okay Jared and Shannon here is my post...
I was there from almost the beginning - aka your listening party at the Virgin offices (tho I had a copy of the cd weeks before...shh don't tell 😜🖤). Great music. Great times. Great memories. Thanks for it all.
Good gawd we were babies in these photos...
MARS MEMORIES: @WANDER7UST
You wanted some old school?
#marsmemories
#provehitoinaltum
#echelon
#30secondstomars
MARS MEMORIES: @REDHEAD_LEX
Can't believe it's been 20 years since the debut album from 30 Seconds to Mars. These were truly some of the best moments of my life. Wish I could relive every one of them ♥ #MARSMEMORIES
MARS MEMORIES: MITHRIAN ARMY ACCOUNT
VISUAL REPRESENTATION: Homemade Merch
So the symbols and glyphs played a large role in uniting the Echelon fan base at the shows.
Shannon: "That first record for me was so important. It was like this is who we are and to go out and experience that with people and show them what we are about is amazing.
Mars loved homemade Mars gear from the early Believers.
Jared: "Love the homemade tee shirts. We didn't need people to buy our records or tickets. If they came up with a homemade tee shirt we were happy. It's all we needed. This was a really special time and a special thing and I think that the commitment is undeniable."
MARS MEMORIES: VIVIANE A.
Hi guys 👋🏻
I can't believe it...The first album of Mars was released almost twenty years ago 😵💫
I have the best memories about that era 🖤
The first time that I saw the music video for Capricorn was on MTV and since I already was fan of Jared since 1998 I fell in love with the band instantly 😍
The first time that I heard the album was in the house of my best friend 🤝🏻
It was the first thing of Mars that I had in my life ⏏
I miss that era because it was absolutely amazing 🥰
Congratulations and Long live to Mars 🚀
- Viviane A.
MARS MEMORIES: SILVIA M.
I first heard of Thirty Seconds to Mars on a TV show about musicians who were also actors. I immediately downloaded the album, fell in love with it, and listened to it for months. I then discovered one of my friends was a fan as well. He even had the glyphs tattooed on his ankle. My first show was a tiny venue in Tempe, AZ. It was amazing. I moved to Albuquerque a few years later and was able to meet them during a meet and greet. I was just in awe and considered myself so lucky. I was able to see them during the Monolith Tour and it was like coming home. I have been and will always be a fan. 20 years have flown by and I am more and more impressed with them with every album release. Can't wait to see what the next 20 bring.
- Silvia M.
FIRST TV LIVE PERFORMANCE: 18 NOVEMBER 2002
Mars recorded their first TV performance on the 18th of November whilst on tour with Sevendust in New York. The Last Call with Carson Daly performance aired on the 27th of November.
Q: How big do you wanna get. It's quite a good place to be in?
Jared: "I was counting on sudden failure and death. But we're really happy, we've toured 140 something shows already this year since January 30th and we've just been having an amazing time making connection with the fans and the people who are interested in what we're doing."
MARS MEMORIES: CLAUDIA
I have been listening to Thirty Seconds to Mars since 2003. I watched the movie "The Core" and I heard a song I completely fell in love with: it was Echelon. I was 12 at that time and I didn't know how to learn more about that band, so I just listened to that song over and over again. In 2007, I saw The Kill music video on TV and I recognized the band's name. I immediately searched for info and listened to both full albums. I loved them and I finally felt like I was part of something, I felt like I was part of the Echelon. I was so fascinated by all the symbology, mystery, sense of community. These songs are so important to me. Echelon still has a big piece of my heart. I have so many beautiful memories, like your first concert ever in Italy in 2007 or Jared singing Echelon after I asked for it during the acoustic set at another show. I can't count how many times I've watched your music videos to try and find the Argus Apocraphex.
Thank you for writing such an amazing album. After 20 years, it's still one of my absolute favorites!
Unity divides, division will unite.
Claudia from Italy
FIRST LONDON SHOW: 24 JUNE 2002
20 years ago, Mars had their first show in UK at the Camden Barfly in London (previously known as The Monarch). Jared to Kerrang! had said that there were 49 people inside a maximum capacity of 200. And 30 of which were label employees! Jared recalls it was the worst show of his life thinking it would be the last time we played London!!
MARS MEMORIES: JULIANA C.
Hey! I'm Juliana and I'd like to share my #marsmemories through a video. There's a lot of love and energy here. I took a few hours to make it and I hope you and the band enjoy it.
Thank u for everything!
MARS MEMORIES: MARISA B.
OMG the BEST and powerful era... beautiful memories... music, the passion, crazy Jared climbing shows... my favourite era MARS.
We are one.
- Marisa B.
MARS MEMORIES: KELLY H.
My introduction to 30STM must've been sometime in 2003. I was in my significant other's bedroom at the time and he was playing me some of his favorite music. It was songs from a large range of artists, as he had eclectic taste. I was staring at his lava lamp during the songs, and perked up immediately when he played Buddha For Mary. I was instantly drawn into the song. In high school I was close with a person who was subjected to sexual abuse and this song makes me think of them. Personally, I can relate to the lyrics in that song that speak directly of disassociation. I myself experienced that as a trauma response from growing up in an alcoholic home. My significant other noticed my interest and played Capricorn for me next. I wanted to listen to more so he let me borrow his CD and within days I had bought my own copy.
Those first two songs had me hooked and I've loved your music ever since. Congratulations on your 20 year anniversary! I hope to see you on tour next year and celebrate with you.
Kelly H.
Milford, CT USA
MARS MEMORIES: JERINE P.
This was a picture with Jared at the concert in Omaha, Nebraska, at the bowling alley. I don't remember the year, but it was in 2000 or after. It was called the Ranch Bowl. It's no longer standing, a Walmart is now on that corner. Crazy how time has changed! Your tickets were 12 bucks back then too!! It's been great to be a part of you!! 30 Seconds to Mars!!💞
- Jerine P.
MARS MEMORIES: DEENA W.
The first time I saw 30 Seconds to Mars was at the Roxy in Los Angeles, CA. The show was amazing. I have been a fan ever since. I've attended many of their concerts, I attended all Camp Mars and Mars Island events. 20 years later I still have the first t-shirt I bought and I still wear it.
- Deena W.
MARS MEMORIES: DANIELE K.
Hello- thank you for the opportunity to talk. My love for the band started about 15 years ago, I fell in love listening to the amazing songs, I love them all, my favorites are The Kill, Capricorn, City of Angels, wow, there are so many. I love it so much. I never managed to go to a concert or buy anything from the band. One day I will, thank you for existing, for being present in my life, you are everything to me. I love you boys so much.
- Daniele K.
MARS MEMORIES: REBECCA E.
My little brother was driving me to work and as soon as I heard the first track (I was hooked) I wanted more and more… each album has been spot on in sequence of events in my life!! Thanks so much for the memories AND Remedies ✌🏼🕺🏻🎶
-Rebecca E.
MARS MEMORIES: BRENDI M.
My name is Brendi Mora. My first Thirty Seconds to Mars concert was Aug 31, 2002 at the Lawlor Events Center in Reno, Nevada. They were opening for Incubus. I had never heard their music or heard of them, but after that show, I never stopped following and attended as many shows as I could.
In 2014, I took my then 7 year old son to see the band at the Hollywood Bowl. It was his first concert. He has been to several since and even the sound check/meet and greet in San Diego.
Thirty Seconds to Mars has meant a lot to us. When we have a bad day, we blast the music in the car for a "Jared Leto sing along". Our favorite songs to get us through a bad time are This is War and Closer to the Edge. We are able to sing these songs at the top of our lungs and feel better at the end.
Forever grateful for TSTM in our lives.
- Brendi M.


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I've tried every plugin related to adding an image to your RSS feed, with negative results. I've tried several code snippets, with negative results.
This is one snippet that failed to work:
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All plugins/code snippets tried didn't produce any error messages, they just did nothing.
What it currently looks like
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A: Try copying the below code to your functions.php or custom plugin. This will create a valid enclosure tag in your rss2 feed (should be yourdomain.com/feed/ ) with a link to your full sized featured image.
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Dec 4, 2019 - Mark Pundsack & Eric Brinkman
Tell us what you think about our Dev strategy
Take a look at how we're going to help you better manage, plan, and create.
This is the first in a series of posts diving into our strategy and plans for the GitLab product. This post focuses on the Dev section and is an excerpt of our public direction page for Dev, which you can read for more detail. You can also watch our director of product for Dev, Eric Brinkman present the strategy below. When you're done reading (or watching), please give us your feedback via the survey below!
See how the GitLab product team plans to advance our Dev strategy over the next 12 months to three years.
Overview of our Dev product
Before we dive into the our vision for the future of Dev at GitLab, we're providing some more context on our product and how it fits into the market.
The Dev section is made up of the Manage, Plan, and Create stages of the DevOps lifecycle. These stages mark the leftmost side of the DevOps lifecycle and primarily focus on the creation and development of software. The scope for Dev stages is wide and encompasses a number of analyst categories including value stream management, project portfolio management, enterprise agile planning tools, source code management, IDEs, design management, and even ITSM. It is difficult to truly estimate the total addressable market (TAM) for the Dev section, as our scope includes so many components from various industries, but research indicates the estimated TAM in 2019 is roughly ~$3B, growing to ~$7.5B in 2023 (26.5% CAGR).
Based on DevOps tool revenue at the end of 2018 and comparing to GitLab annual recurring revenue at the end of FY20 Q3, our estimated market share is approximately 1.5% based on revenue. (Note: this assumes we can attribute 100% of GitLab revenue to Dev stages.) Market share based on source code management is somewhere in the 30% range.
Nearly half of organizations still have not adopted DevOps methodologies, despite data that indicates far higher revenue growth for organizations that do adopt these strategies. Migrating a code base to a modern, Git-backed source control platform like GitLab can often be the first step in a DevOps transformation. As such, we must provide industry-leading solutions in source code and code review, as this is not only the entry into DevOps for our customers, but typically the entry into the GitLab platform. Once a user has begun using repositories and code review features like merge requests, they often move "left" and "right" to explore and use other capabilities in GitLab, such as CI and project management features.
Per our stage monthly active user data, the GitLab stages with the highest useage are Manage and Create. As such, these stages must focus on security fixes, bug fixes, performance improvements, UX improvements, and depth more than other areas of GitLab. Plan, while introduced in 2011 with the release of issue tracking, still falls far behind market leaders who have better experiences for sprint management, portfolio management, roadmapping, and workflows.
Other areas, such as value stream management, are nascent to both GitLab and the market and will require more time devoted to executing problem and solution validation discovery.
Over the next year, Dev will require focus on both breadth and depth activities, and each stage will require significant investment to accelerate the delivery of security issues, performance issues, and direction items.
Vision themes
Our vision for the Dev section is to provide the world's best product creation platform. We believe we have a massive opportunity to change how cross-functional, multi-level teams collaborate by providng an experience that breaks down organizational silos and enables better collaboration. We want to deliver a solution that enables higher-quality products to be created faster. The following themes are listed below to surface our view of what will be important to the market and to GitLab over the next three to five years. As such, they will be the cornerstone of our three-year strategy, and all activities in the one-year plan should advance GitLab in one or more of these areas.
Efficient and automated code review
Code review should be a delightful experience for all involved in the process. Over time, we expect the code review process to evolve from where it is today to become a mostly automated process. Along the way, incremental improvements will occur, where developer platforms like GitLab will focus on performance and usability of the code review tools. Code review should be an efficient process, and the easier GitLab can make code review, the more efficient Dev teams become. Research indicates that better code review should reduce the number of bugs and increase the amount of higher-quality features an organization can ship. The code review process will continue to provide a venue for developers to learn and collaborate together.
For example, GitLab will:
Load large, multi-file diffs faster than any other comparable product on the market.
Provide tailored insights to the code reviewer, alerting them to the most important areas to review.
Allow for client- and server-side evaluation of code where possible, and integrate it into the code review process.
Measurement and increased efficiency of the value stream
Peter Drucker has said "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it". Many Dev teams have no way of measuring their efficiency, and even if they do, there is not enough feedback, information, or actionable insights to improve the efficiency of their team. Even then, once efficiency is improved, it can be difficult to tell if a team's performance is good or bad, as there is often no point of comparison. Even the best performing team in an organization could be worse than the competition. Increasing efficiency is paramount to companies increasing their time to value and helping organizations answer "Is my DevOps transformation working?"
We believe efficiency can be improved in two ways. The first way is by improving existing value stream activities and making them more efficient. This focuses on making existing activities as fast as possible. The second way is to question and change the value stream into higher value-added activities at each step. GitLab's vision is to help answer both of these questions: "Am I doing things fast enough?" and "Am I doing the right things?"
Today, value stream management is largely focused on visualizing the value chain through deployment. GitLab is uniquely positioned to also visualize, track, and measure value chain activities to the right of deployment. For example, the value created by post-launch activities, such as press releases, blog posts, and marketing campaigns should funnel into value stream management, while providing the business with the right data and insights for their value chain.
For example, GitLab will provide:
Easy-to-use and customizable tools that measure the efficiency of the DevOps lifecycle.
Insight into areas of waste where teams can improve.
Recommendations based on large data sets of other teams using GitLab, for comparison.
A visual experience for value stream management that goes beyond code deployment.
DevOps for more personas
DevOps started with the merging of Development and Operations and has since been augmented to include Security in some circles, highlighting DevSecOps as the next trend. There are many other personas that are involved in software development, such as product managers, project managers, product designers, finance, marketing, procurement, etc. These personas will continue to expand until nearly every role at knowledge-work companies touches some facet of the DevOps lifecycle. Over time, organizations will realize that teams who work out of the same platform/set of tools are more efficient and deliver faster business and customer value.
Because of this trend, each persona of the DevOps lifecycle should ultimately be treated as a first-class citizen in GitLab.
A better experience for project management workflows.
A space for product designers to design and collaborate on designs with product managers and engineers.
A Web IDE experience that is able to run the GDK, serving collaborators of all skill sets and hardware, allowing them to contribute to GitLab.
While we will continue to solve for the modern DevOps use case first, most enterprise customers have custom requirements that GitLab does not solve for today. This is a wide-ranging set of custom controls that spans systems such as permissions, approvals, compliance, governance, workflows, and requirements mapping. It is our belief these needs will exist for many years to come, and we will need to incorporate these to truly become a flexible DevOps platform that serves enterprise segments. We will strive to do this in ways that are modern and, where possible, adhere to a "convention over configuration" approach, living with the cognitive dissonance that sometimes flexibility will be required in areas we have not been willing to venture into thus far.
Additionally, compliance, auditing, and surfacing evidence of security/compliance posture will become more important as more GDPR-like legislation is enacted and passed into law. GitLab should make it easy to not only surface and deliver evidence for GitLab controls (i.e., who has access to GitLab, who did what on what group, etc.), but also to track and manage compliance requirements for various legislation our customers may be bound to.
As examples, GitLab will provide:
Customizable workflows, unlocking enforcement, approvals, and insight into these workflows.
More customizable and fine-grained permissions.
Logs for everything that's done within GitLab and allow those events to be accessible via the API and UI.
Alerting on GitLab audit events.
Project management morphs into product management
Product managers often struggle with answering the question, "Is the product or feature I just launched successful?". There are many sensing mechanisms to help answer this question, including revenue, users, customer feedback, NPS, etc., but there is currently no product that helps product managers exhaustively manage the product development lifecycle from end to end. Many products assist with planning, delivery of code, and deployment, but feedback and iteration are equally as important to product managers as shipping the first iteration. Getting the first iteration out is traditionally celebrated, but is only one of many steps to true product development lifecycle management.
Imagine an experience where product managers can log in and view the "health" of their entire portfolio on one dashboard. It is clear which features have the most value to customers (and by extension to the business) as measured by key metrics, assisting PMs with priortization activities. PMs can quickly identify features or products within their portfolio that need more attention and drill into them, identifying the correct next action to take, whether it's iteration on the feature or perhaps sunsetting it. PMs can quickly create an issue for the next iteration, use version control features, view security incidents, respond to customer feedback, drill down into analytics, control A/B tests of the feature, and even interact with users of the feature or product directly by creating ad-hoc surveys or questions for users to answer. Additionally, the experience should allow for ROI analysis and tracking of the ROI after capital has been expended.
Within three years, project management tools will begin evolving to provide this experience and help PMs answer tough product questions. These tools will also assist with measuring and predicting value to the organization, if a specific action is prioritized by the PM. The ideal solution most likely uses data science and predictive analytics to assist product managers with decisions both before and after a feature is launched.
Feature management capabilities, including the ability to manage a feature as an object inside of GitLab that lives on after an issue is closed.
An experience where PMs can quickly analyze the health of all relevant features.
A framework that helps PMs with prioritization decisions.
A framework for ROI analysis and measurement.
Our three-year strategy
In three years, the Dev section market will:
Centralize around Git as the version control of choice for not only code, but for design assets, gaming, silicon designs, and AI/ML models.
Have a market leader emerge in the value stream management space. Currently, the market is fragmented with most players focused on integrations into various DevOps tools.
Adopt a mindset shift from project management to product management.
Recognize the value of a single platform for all software creation activities, including product management.
See an uptick in startups and applications being built on the backs of a "no code" framework
Considering the evolution of the Dev section market, in three years, GitLab will:
Provide a next-generation, highly performant Git-backed version control system for large assets, such as ML models. Our goal in three years should be to host the most repositories of these non-code assets.
Emerge as the leader in VSM and be recognized in the industry by customers and analysts as such. Our goal in three years should be to provide the best insights into the product development process that no other tool can come close to, as we have a unified data model due to GitLab being a single platform.
Develop an industry-leading product management platform where multiple features and products can be measured and managed easily.
Research and potentially add capabilities for "no code" workflows.
Our one-year plan: What's next for Dev
Over the next 12 months, each stage in the Dev section will play an integral part in this strategy.
Please see the categories page for a more detailed look at Dev's plan by exploring Strategy links in areas of interest.
Enterprise readiness: GitLab must be seen as a platform that enterprises can use out-of-the-box for both GitLab.com and self-managed deployments. We're doing this by focusing on improvements in several key areas:
Enterprise-grade authentication and authorization. Critical for large organizations managing users at scale, we're focused on investing in SAML SSO that works across a range of identity providers and automates member management.
Improving tools that help compliance-minded organizations thrive. GitLab makes it easy to contribute, but administrators should have comprehensive and consistent views on instance activity. We'll improve audit management to a lovable category and introduce dashboarding and alerting to help tell your compliance story to stakeholders. We'll also solve a pronounced need for fine-grained member permissions.
Lowering time to production for our customers: Improvements to productivity and code analytics over the next 12 months will allow our customers to drill down and identify sources of waste in their existing process. Within 12 months, GitLab customers will be able to answer how much their time-to-production metrics have improved.
A great import experience: Few instances start from scratch – for most, one of the earliest tasks for a GitLab administrator is importing information from outside the application. We'll invest heavily in a strong import user experience and build bespoke importers for key competitors like Jenkins and Jira. We'll also expand on the capabilities of our existing importers, with a focus on making GitLab.com migration easy.
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Kanban boards: Current project management tools are capable, but suffer from usability. Trello made significant gains by focusing on the user experience. Unfortunately, Trello chose to be a general tool which left some software teams wanting features designed specifically to help with software development and delivery. GitLab has an opportunity to re-design Kanban boards for software teams – think of how Jira could work if it were designed by Trello as opposed to the other way around. Our boards need to evolve to be a primary interface, a complete WYSIWYG document view where everyone who is looking on board X is seeing the same thing (updated in real time), with rich interaction without having to leave the board. This may include changes such as having short summaries, first-class checklists, quick filters, etc. In addition, boards need to focus on common workflows of software teams such as issue triage, daily workflow, sprint planning, quarterly planning, executive reporting, etc.
Importing from Jira without losing required data: In the next 12 months, we will deliver enforced workflows, a better roadmap experience, cumulative flow diagrams, and improvements to boards in order to enable a better planning and project management experience.
Enhancing portfolio and project roadmaps: Provide easy-to-use, cross-team roadmaps at the portfolio, project, and epic level that allow users across the organization to see how work is progressing and identify dependencies and blockers. Organize and prioritize work though dynamic roadmaps in real time.
Easy top-down planning: Enhanced portfolio management experience allowing customers to start planning from the top: Creating initiatives, projects, and epics while laying them out on a roadmap prior to the creation of issues and milestones. Provide analytics at each level, and allow linking of each object to provide deeper dependency mapping across multiple teams and projects. Enable users to create strategic initiatives and assign work, impact, and resources to each to help them make the right business decisions. Additionally, in order for our users to get more value out of Plan, we will be implementing Epic features to be more aligned with our buying tiers.
Reporting and analytics: Provide dashboarding and analytics for project and portfolio management, allowing business to track and communicate progress on work in-flight, capacity of teams and projects, and overall efficiency across their full portfolio.
Requirements management: Many regulated customers want to use GitLab for requirements mapping, dependencies, and process management. GitLab will provide these capabilites in a modern-first way.
Realtime: It's time to fully embrace realtime. Many parts of GitLab update in near real time, but not everything does, and unfortunately some of the parts that are left out are critical to a great experience. Realtime kanban boards is mentioned above in Plan, but within Create, there's tons of opportunity for realtime enhancements. Areas we are thinking about are real time editing of code in the Web IDE for live coding and real time editing of issue/MR descriptions and comments.
Git availability and performance: Git is a critical component in the deployment process when practicing Continuous Deployment. As such, service degradations or outages that prevent access to Git cannot be tolerated. To this end, making Gitaly highly available is of the utmost importance, and secondarily, improve the handling of extreme read pressures exterted by highly parallelized CI loads that cause performance degradations.
Enhancing the code review experience: In the next 12 months, we must focus code review to be more performant and intelligent. We will do this by investing in performance improvements, adding additional code review functionality such as jump to definition, identifying references, displaying function documentation and type signatures, and adding support for first-class reviewers. Code review should be an "IDE like" experience.
Making large files "just work" in Git: To gather more market share from industries that currently use Perforce or SVN, we must invest in making the large-file experience in Git excellent. It should "just work" without configuration or specialized hardware.
Investing in our Wiki product: Many customers currently use Wikis for knowledge bases and project management activities. Our first step in making the GitLab Wiki more competitive is making wikis available at the group level and enhancing markdown support.
Focusing on the gaps in the design management workflow: Most designers use a sketch or prototyping tool already, but version controlling assets alongside code and providing a workflow to compare those assets to what front-end teams ship is a gap in the market. We are uniquely poised to capitalize on this gap – think visual review apps checked against the mockups checked into the repository. Additionally, we will continue to make improvements to the collaboration aspect of designs and consider other features such as simple sketch functionality inside of issues and MRs.
Enabling easier contributions to GitLab: Contributing to GitLab requires users to set up and run the GitLab Development Kit (GDK) locally. This is cumbersome and typically requires multiple hours of debugging with senior engineers. While the process of streamlining the GDK locally should be advanced, GitLab should also provide the GDK as part of the Web IDE experience. Allowing contributors to quickly spin-up feature branches should encourage more contributions from non-engineering GitLab team members, as well as the wider community.
Bolstering the editor experience: Our current Web IDE experience is useful for small changes, but has not been useful as an actual replacement for a local IDE. Over the next year, we will evaluate the impact of adding a container-based IDE solution, while continuing to streamline our editing experience, potentially by sunsetting the ACE editor. We will also improve the IDE experience with self-hosted, client-side evaluation, server-side evaluation, and live-coding features for pair programming.
Creating a content management experience: Projects in GitLab aren't always leveraged by pure engineering teams. Groups like marketing, sales and others often have needs for projects that more closely resemble marketing websites or documentation. While GitLab Pages enables the deployment of many popular static site generators, the editing experience is still geared toward technical users. Enabling a more WYSIWYG content management editor will help support non-technical personas use of GitLab for non-engineering driven projects.
What we're not doing
Choosing to invest in these areas in 2020 means we will choose not to:
Invest in features that help companies answer, "Am I doing the right activities?". Answering this question is something we will focus on in years two and three of the VSM plan.
Treat ML models as first-class citizens in GitLab. Instead, we will focus on getting large assets to become performant via improvements to Gitaly. Once this is completed, we will focus on ML models.
Provide recommendations where customers can improve their efficiency in the DevOps lifecycle. This will likely require comparisons amongst many GitLab users and an AI engine to make intelligent recommendations. These improvements will come in years two and three of the VSM plan.
Other areas of investment consideration
Data science: We should consider investment into a data science team that can assist with recommendations for Plan and VSM features.
Dark themes: We should consider prioritizing a dark theme for both GitLab, as well as the Web IDE/editing experience. This is an expected feature of most modern development tools.
Engineering: Most Dev groups should see 50-100% headcount growth in order to make our Dev categories lovable.
AI: We should consider beginning to invest into AI as a solution for recommendations – for example, recommended assignees, labels, etc.
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Here is a Betta fish that I did for an aquarium society ...I have a few fish pics.
I love to use colored pencils...not too good at them yet though. I usually use ink first and finish the piece, then add some color enhancement. This fish I got carried away... http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/smile.gif. I use Prismacolor pencils.
Please keep your images to a maximum width or height of 500pixels. Any larger and they scroll of the screen.
I like to ink first sometimes also. Much faster for deadlines on a commercial piece.
Or when reproduction is to be small.
Those are those feisty fighters aren't they?
Here's a ink & prismacolor Bass I did for a bank ad. My model was dead and smelly. The original is framed in the corporate office.
'Course they even framed a stack of money I drew for them once.
Thanks Gary!!! I loved your fish! I'm always trying to do new things, and now we just got a Quaker Parrot, so I want to learn birds. Got any good ideas for feathers?
Sorry Roan...I have no clue what I'm doing as far as resizing...can I just send all my stuff to you and have you fix them...?
I will open PhotoShop 4.0 (just got it up and runnin' ) and learn how to resize.
Crystal, Do you want to do birds in pencil or coloured pencil?
I'd like to do birds in ink with some (very little) color enhancement.
Seriously, I just draws 'em the way I sees 'em.


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BBH CurrencyView: Dollar Bid on Poor European Sentiment, EM Lower Too
By Marc Chandler	 On Apr 16, 2010
The US dollar remains firm against the euro as Greek woes continue to weigh on sentiment. The euro has practically returned to levels seen prior to last weekend's financial aid package details. That area, $1.3480-$1.3500 remains key support. The $1.3560 area offers the initial cap now. The immediate reaction to the UK televised debates had the LibDem's Clegg as the winner and this reinforced fears of a hung parliament and appears to have pressured sterling, but it bounced back smartly in the European morning. Offers in the $1.55480-$1.5500 area may provide the ceiling. Heightened perceptions of risk may underpinning the yen. Cross rate demand is also noted. The dollar has recorded new lows for the week against the yen today, but support near JPY92.50 remains intact. Emerging market currencies are mostly lower.
Disappointment with Google earnings in the US late yesterday, coupled with a pullback in commodity prices encouraged profit-taking in Asian equity markets. The MSCI Asia-Pacific Index fell 0.8%, with the Nikkei sliding 1.5% as exporter shares were sold-off. Hong Kong and China's indices were over 1.0% lower amid fears of more tightening in China's property market. We note that futures trading began today on China's CSI 300. Over time this may become an important benchmark. Political pressures continue to undermine Thai stocks. The SETI fell 3.1% to bring the week's decline to 8.8%. European bourses have recouped most of the initial declines and most are turning up by midday in Europe. Strength is being seen in the industrials and this is largely offsetting the weakness in technology, leaving most of the major bourses marginally changed.
The performance of peripheral euro zone bond markets is still the main focus. Greek bonds remain under pressure. The 10-year yield is up 12 bp today. It had been essentially unchanged on the week until today as the rally early in the week was reversed. The 2-year yield is up 19 bp and is still about 35 bp on the week. Although other peripheral spreads to Germany have widened this week, it is Portugal that has been the most susceptible to the contagion. Two-year Portuguese yields are up 8 bp today and 16 bp for the week. The 10-year yield is up 5 bp today and 8 bp for the week. US, German and Japanese 10-year yields are off 2 bp, while UK gilts are out-performing. The 10-year gilt yield is off 4 bp and back below the 4% threshold.
The key talking point today is whether the EU/IMF backstop for Greece will be formally tapped this weekend. The summit in Madrid appears to be underway and the general news environment is poor. The Greek Prime Minister still is denying that funds are needed, claiming the facility is a safety net and incredulously suggests that the IMF involvement was not his idea. Recall that Papandreou previously suggested that if the Europe did not pony up, Greece could go to the IMF. Germany, in effect, for its own reasons, called Papandreou's bluff. It will be used to demand more concessions from Greece. But many European officials still seem to be in denial. Rather than prepare the public for an eventual use of those funds, Germany's Finance Minister, for example, is saying that Greece is on the right path and there is no need for emergency funds. The ECB's Notwotny is saying that backstop can only be activated if Greece losses market access. Does not the cost of market access matter? Simply put, investors are unlikely to get closure any time soon on this issue. Europe's facility, even if implemented, is short-sighted in two important ways. First, the sums discussed a little more coverage for one year for Greece. Then what? Second, what is Europe doing to pre-empt the contagion risk? European officials could have helped stabilize investor sentiment if they would have used the Greek crisis to recognize the sovereign risk and come up with a scalable blueprint and facility. Meanwhile interest in a Greek dollar-denominated issue is reportedly poor and the anticipated size has been cut dramatically and the whole issue might be pulled.
Meanwhile the broader news environment surrounding Greece remains a weight on the euro. Comments by ECB's Trichet about the difficulties Greek banks are facing in terms of liquidity undermined whatever upticks the euro had enjoyed in the European morning. A Wall Street Journal article, citing a Brookings Institute report, highlights the bribery, patronage and corruption behind Greece's debt. The study estimates that there nefarious activities cost Greece 8% of GDP or around 20 bln euros. While no doubt these types of activities are not helpful, the real underlying problem is the lack of competitiveness. This means that a stronger anti-corruption regime would be beneficial; it is not a sufficient solution. Meanwhile, a large US investment is warning that the euro zone may degenerate into fiscal profligacy and it could lead to an eventual withdrawal by Germany. This strikes one as a bit of hyperbole and too economic determinist. Monetary union was first proposed not by economists, many who argue it is not a optimal currency zone, but by politicians. It was an economic solution to a political problem. The political problem in bald terms was under what conditions could Germany be reunified. There were two conditions. Share the uber-mark with Europe. Share the Bundesbank's anti-inflation credibility (and low rates) with Europe. This would tie the united Germany, who had flirted with its own Ostpolitik, into Europe. Germany is the first among equals in the monetary union. While painting scenarios of a German exit may be colorful, it seems far-fetched and politically unrealistic.
There are several other developments to note. First, the Japanese government appears to be increasing pressure on the BOJ to take more steps to counter deflation. Yesterday a panel called for yen at 120. The BOJ recently upgraded its assessment of the economy. The government did not follow suit today. Today a Japanese government spokesperson raised the prospect of intervention to weaken the yen (we think unlikely) and for the BOJ to buy more government bonds. The dollar bounced to around JPY93, but quickly lost the upside momentum. Second, South Africa adopted measures that will make it easier for South African companies to hedge their currency risk and adjust hedges, something that was previously discouraged. This may help provide more liquidity to the rand market and is less about the underlying direction. Today, like other emerging market currencies, the rand is under pressure. Third, we note that Brazil's central bank intervened twice yesterday in the foreign exchange market. Usually it does so once a day. This is the first time, it looks like, in almost three years that it intervened twice. This may put a floor under the dollar near BRL1.7350-BRL1.7400, but with a 75 bp rate hike increasingly expected by the end of the month, the dollar's upside looks capped too.
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Q: Reference to objects in swift I'm new to swift and I haven't programmed much at all lately. I'm trying to assign an array from an array of arrays to a variable. But as far as I can tell, i only get a copy of that array (so that if the member of the array of arrays later changes, the copy doesn't. How do I get a reference to the original object?
Here is some code (included before "class ViewController: UIViewController" in an effort to get global variables):
var g1 = [2,0,0,0,0]
var g2 = [2,0,0,0,0]
var g3 = [2,0,0,0,0]
var g4 = [3,0,0,0,0]
var g5 = [3,0,0,0,0]
var g6 = [4,0,0,0,0]
var g7 = [5,0,0,0,0]

let groids: Array = [g1, g2, g3, g4, g5, g6, g7]

Later, as part of some function, I want to assign a variable "a" one of the members of groids, but as I stated not a copy of that member but that member itself. How do I do this? Please bear in mind that I have little programming experience.

A: You don't get a reference to the "original object", because in Swift, arrays are not reference types; they are value types. This means they act as if they are always copied. (Under the hood, things are implemented more efficiently, but the design is that they appear to always be copied.)
If your only prior experience is in languages that treat arrays as reference types (which means pretty much every popular language like C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc.), this can take a while to get used to.
Here are some alternatives:

*

*Use NSArray instead of Array. NSArray is a reference type.

*Pass around the array indexes you're interested in, or a KeyPath. KeyPath is documented in The Swift Programming Language.

*Use inout arguments, which are also documented in The Swift Programming Language.

A: So you want to change an element in groids and have the change reflect in the arrays g1-7?
groids[3] = [1,2,3,4,5]
// g4 now becomes [1,2,3,4,5]

Well, first of all, groids is a constant so you can't mutate it. Let's assume that you changed it to var.
In fact, you don't need g1-7 at all. You can remove those variables and just declare groids like this:
var groids = [
    [2,0,0,0,0],
    [2,0,0,0,0],
    [2,0,0,0,0],
    [3,0,0,0,0],
    [3,0,0,0,0],
    [4,0,0,0,0],
    [5,0,0,0,0],
]

And you can access g1 to g7 by doing groids[0] to groids[6].
You can also declare g1 to g7 as computed properties, but I don't see much point in doing that:
var g1: [Int] {
    return groids[0]
}

Also, you might want to consider creating a struct or class to store these 5 numbers if these 5 numbers represent some kind of structured data.

A: There are a few things that I see as problematic in your code. First, groids is a let, which means it is a constant, so it wouldn't be changeable. in swift var is used to indicate variables and let is used to indicate constants. Second, global variables are rarely desirable and without good reason should be avoided, so make sure you actually want global variables because there are known for causing unwanted side effects and making code functionality unclear, and if you want them to be global they should be prefixed with public static so everything has access to them. also, passing by value of objects is talked about here.
As for letting var a = some global, I would suggest initializing groids as the only global, if it does indeed need to be global, and then using indexes of that to access the different inner arrays.
One possible solution is:
let g1:[Int] = [2,0,0,0,0]
let g2:[Int] = [2,0,0,0,0]
let g3:[Int] = [2,0,0,0,0]
let g4:[Int] = [3,0,0,0,0]
let g5:[Int] = [3,0,0,0,0]
let g6:[Int] = [4,0,0,0,0]
let g7:[Int] = [5,0,0,0,0]

public static var groids:[[Int]] = [g1, g2, g3, g4, g5, g6, g7]

//In the place a is assigned
var a:[Int] = groids[0]

Or instead of using "a", just use groids because it is global, that way you know you are always accessing the same variable or array.


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CDC study slams Lyme disease treatment with long-term antibiotics
Panel of 10 doctors concludes serious bacterial infections and even death can result from long-term antibiotic use.
Barry Stringfellow
The Centers for Disease Control has issued a study that calls into question use of long-term antibiotics for treatment of Lyme disease.
Last Friday, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released a report which is adding fuel to the fire in the debate about the existence, and treatment, of "chronic Lyme Disease."
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report, "Serious Bacterial Infections Acquired During Treatment of Patients Given a Diagnosis of Chronic Lyme Disease," states that "chronic Lyme disease" is not a scientifically verifiable illness, and that treatments of prolonged antibiotic therapy are ineffective at best, and at worst, potentially fatal.
"Clinicians, health departments, and patients have contacted CDC with reports of serious bacterial infections resulting from treatment of persons who have received a diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease," the report states.
The study highlights case histories of five patients who were treated for chronic Lyme disease with long-term antibiotics. Complications included septic shock, Clostridium difficile colitis, osteodiscitis, abscess, and in two cases, death.
"These cases highlight the severity and scope of adverse effects that can be caused by the use of unproven treatments for chronic Lyme disease," the report states. "In addition to the dangers associated with inappropriate antibiotic use, such as selection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, these treatments can lead to injuries related to unnecessary procedures … and missed opportunities to diagnose and treat the actual underlying cause of the patient's symptoms."
Patients in the study were treated with intravenous antibiotics with a PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter). The surgically inserted line injects the antibiotic directly into the bloodstream on the theory that oral antibiotics don't work as well because they don't break the blood-brain barrier. The new study took a dim view of PICCs, stating that they were consistently a source of infection.
Regarding the scope of the three-year study, a CDC spokesperson told The Times in an email, "CDC has periodically heard from state health departments and clinicians about patients who have acquired serious bacterial infections during treatments for what is sometimes referred to as 'chronic Lyme disease.' We have heard of many cases, but limited the report to five examples."
Test questioned
The blood tests currently used to detect the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, which cause Lyme disease, are the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and the Western blot test, which can confirm the results of an ELISA test.
Chronic Lyme disease advocates believe that current testing methods are inaccurate, and a major source of their concern. Last week's CDC report also addresses this: "There is a belief among persons who support the diagnosis and treatment of chronic Lyme disease that Borrelia burgdorferi can cause disabling symptoms even when standard testing is negative, despite evidence that the recommended two-tiered serologic testing is actually more sensitive the longer Borrelia burgdorferi infection has been present. Some practitioners use tests or testing criteria that have not been validated for the diagnosis of Lyme disease. A significant concern is that after the diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease is made, the actual cause of a patient's symptoms might remain undiagnosed and untreated."
According to a CDC spokesperson, "You may have heard that the blood test for Lyme disease is correctly positive only 65 percent of the time or less — this is misleading information. As with serologic tests for other infectious diseases, the accuracy of the test depends upon the stage of disease. During the first few weeks of infection, the test is expected to be negative. Several weeks after infection, currently available two-tier testing has very good sensitivity … Antibodies against Lyme disease bacteria usually take a few weeks to develop, so tests performed before this time may be negative even if the person is infected. It is not until 4 to 6 weeks have passed that the test is likely to be positive. This does not mean that the test is bad, only that it needs to be used correctly."
Sam Telford, an expert on tick-borne diseases and professor of infectious disease and global health at Tufts University, former MV Times columnist, and chronic Lyme disease skeptic, told The Times that the new CDC report is "yet more evidence" that people should question a chronic Lyme disease diagnosis if the traditional tests show no trace of Borrelia burgdorferi. "When the evidence for a diagnosis rests on testing by a handful of specialty laboratories, in the face of evidence from well-validated tests that have been in use for 30 years, it seems to me that they are limiting their chances for a different diagnosis and treatment to improve life … I think that to the detriment of their health, some people with true illness embrace a faith-based diagnosis instead of an evidence-based [scientific] diagnosis. The CDC report shows what can happen … very tragic. There are many possible diagnoses for the signs and symptoms experienced by those who undergo such extreme treatment regimens."
Theories behind lingering Lyme
Most people infected with Lyme disease are cured with a two- to four-week regimen of strong antibiotics, most often doxycycline. However, roughly 10 percent of those infected experience long-term symptoms that include muscle ache, joint pain, fevers, cognitive impairment, and extreme fatigue.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calls this condition post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS), and unlike chronic Lyme disease, the industry-standard blood tests confirm the presence of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium.
"The good news is that patients with PTLDS almost always get better with time; the bad news is that it can take months to feel completely well," the CDC website states. The CDC does not recommend use of long-term antibiotics for PTLDS. "Regardless of the cause of PTLDS, studies have not shown that patients who received prolonged courses of antibiotics do better in the long run than patients treated with placebo."
There is a growing faction that believes chronic Lyme disease exists irrespective of CDC studies, and that people presenting with persistent Lyme disease symptoms should be treated with long-term antibiotics.
On a visit to Martha's Vineyard Hospital last summer, Dr. Nevena Zubcevik, attending physician at Harvard Medical School and co-director of Dean Center for Tick Borne Illness at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown, said she believes the current testing methods are inadequate.
She cited information from a researcher at the CDC: "Barbara Johnson, an expert with the CDC Lyme program, reveals that the current two-tier method is positive in only 31 percent of those with erythema migrans (the bull's-eye rash associated with Lyme disease) and in only 63 percent of those with acute neuroborreliosis or carditis due to Lyme disease. This means that out of 100 patients who have Lyme disease, we might misdiagnose 69 of them, leaving their infections untreated … Given the current urgent state of affairs, we should be racing to find better testing strategies that will identify all of the Borrelia species and associated co-infections, and to find better antibiotic regimens that will cure our patients."
Dr. Zubcevik suggested that the correct antibiotics aren't being used to treat the long-term symptoms of Lyme disease. She diagnoses this condition as "persistent symptoms related to Lyme disease," not chronic Lyme disease. "The drugs we are using might be contributing to persistent bacteria, and may not be fully clearing infections," she wrote in an email to The Times last year.
Dr. Zubcevik did not respond to The Times' request for comment on the new study.
Though her stance is controversial, it resonated on Beacon Hill. Last July, the House of Representatives, overriding Governor Baker's veto, passed a bill requiring health insurance providers to cover the cost of long-term antibiotics. Massachusetts was also one of the first states to enact a bill protecting doctors who prescribed long-term antibiotics, when Governor Deval Patrick signed it into law in June 2011.
Enid Haller works as a patient advocate at the Dean Lyme Center, where a number of Vineyarders, and people from all over the country, go for treatment. Ms. Haller also runs the Lyme Center of Martha's Vineyard, described on her website as a walk-in information service for Lyme and tick-borne diseases, on Panhandle Road in West Tisbury.
Ms. Haller told The Times she believes the CDC, and Mr. Telford, are wrong about the accuracy of the ELISA and Western blot tests. She said she suffered the long-term effects of Lyme disease for more than 10 years, and never tested positive for Lyme disease with the traditional tests given at Martha's Vineyard Hospital. "The Igenex test is essentially a better implemented Western blot test," she said. "I came back very positive for Lyme [disease] with the Igenex test." Ms Haller said the Igenex test should be the standard test for the Cape and Islands, including Martha's Vineyard Hospital. She said the Dean Lyme Center at Spaulding Hospital in Charlestown uses the Igenex test, and her treatment there has been the breakthrough she'd sought for more than a decade. She said getting the antibiotics intravenously, through a PICC line, was the key.
"It worked incredibly well," she said. "I had my PICC line removed last November because you have to take it out after a year, because the tubing starts to deteriorate. After the holidays, the symptoms slowly started to come back, the joint pain, the brain fog; I had trouble walking. But a month ago I had a PICC line put back in, and I started feeling better in 48 hours. The pressure in my head just went away."
Ms. Haller said she feels well enough to join four other Spaulding patients who are traveling to Germany in three weeks for "hyperthermia treatment," a process where the body temperature is raised enough to kill Borrelia burgdorferi. "I've spoken to a lot of people who've gotten better from it. I know I can't be on antibiotics forever," she said.
Conspiracy theorized
Ms. Haller said she thinks last week's release of the CDC report was in response to an "uprising," spearheaded by four people from Lyme Cryme, a chronic Lyme Disease advocacy group, who traveled to Washington, D.C., two weeks ago to lobby congressmen. Lyme Cryme members allege that there has been a coverup orchestrated by the CDC, and that the agency has long advocated ELISA and Western blot tests, knowing that they don't work. "They're starting a class-action lawsuit against the CDC, so it doesn't surprise me the CDC came out with the article last week," Ms. Haller said.
A 249-page treatise by the $ociety for the Advancement of $cientific Hermeneutics ($A$H), titled "Descrambling the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) For-Profit scientific nonsense," also alleges CDC perfidy, with an underlying profit motive. "We don't test positive on the stupid test because it was designed to fail. It was designed to market a vaccine, not diagnose Lyme disease. A core group of doctors with financial interests in the Lymerix vaccine have intentionally misled the medical community about them … At some point, it was decided by CDC officers that they should commercialize Lyme and other emerging tick-borne diseases by patenting vaccines and test kits … Their plan: Make Lyme only 15 percent detectable so that the Cabal would be guaranteed to have an at least 85 percent 'effective' vaccine. If they maliciously discredited the people who became ill as a result of the 'vaccine' itself (septic shock) or vaccine failure (Lyme), then the vaccine would be 'safe,' too. We call both the crime of falsifying the testing and the resultant — and current — bogus testing criteria, 'Dearborn.'"
Ms. Haller alleged Mr. Telford is also involved in the deception. "Sam owns part of the vaccine," she said. "Whenever he speaks on the Vineyard, he's always pushing the vaccine. I always wondered why. I would be interested to know the other doctors who own the vaccine, because they stand to make a lot of money. This is getting exposed now, and I think that's why Sam gets so mad when we discuss this."
Ms. Haller said she knows people who have gotten sick from Lymerix, which was introduced in 1998 and withdrawn three years later amid a class-action lawsuit alleging it caused arthritis-like symptoms. "I know people who have dementia because of the Lymerix vaccine, and Sam refuses to acknowledge that. The veterinarians use it, but I know many people on the Vineyard who have given it to their dogs or cats or horses, and they have terrible reactions to the vaccine. They're probably still making millions and millions of dollars from that."
In an email to The Times, Mr. Telford dismissed the CDC conspiracy as "ravings," and stated he has no financial interest or motives with Lymerix. "In 1991, I co-discovered the mode of action of the vaccine … that is all. I did not make the vaccine. I own no patents, never did, received no funding other than to help run the Phase II clinical trial back in the mid-1990s, receive no funding now, and am not pushing it for any financial gain. I hope to revive Lymerix under a nonprofit structure … vaccines for the people by the people. I am pushing for this because I am outraged that Lyme incidence keeps going up and up, and something I helped develop as a younger scientist might have prevented hundreds of thousands of cases over the past decade … and could do so in the decade to come."
Prevention remains the key
Prevention is paramount when it comes to fighting the spread of Lyme disease and other virulent tick-borne diseases — babesiosis, spotted fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, Powassan virus, and ehrlichiosis — by wearing permethrin-treated clothes when working or playing outdoors, and making daily tick checks.
This is especially crucial in the months May through early July, when the vast majority of infections will take place.
More information on tick-borne disease prevention can be found on the Martha's Vineyard Boards of Health Tick-Borne Disease webpage.
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Sarah M June 22, 2017 At 6:19 am
For those of you interested here is a response to the CDC's article. As someone who has had a life incredibly disrupted by chronic Lyme and knowing many others who have as well, I have no faith whatsoever in the CDC. https://www.lymedisease.org/touchedbylyme-cdc-ignores-ethics/
OldMan June 22, 2017 At 9:01 am
Don't trust the MAN, is as true now as it was in the 70's. NEVER TRUST THE GOVERNMENT always be vigilant!
Don June 24, 2017 At 5:02 am
The CDC is right about long term ABX but they still don't understand what is happening with lyme.
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Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs - accompanied a major 2009/10 exhibition at the British Library
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Blog about the British Library's exhibition 'Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs', and about its photographic collections. Written by Colin Wight and Rob Ainsley from the British Library web team
Early photography
London 1870s and now
Photographic processes
Reflections on 'London 1870s and now'
London 1870s and now - 18: Great St Helen's, Bishopsgate
Tate's Muybridge exhibition
London 1870s and now - 17: College Hill, the City
Points of View closes this week
Calling all flookers
London 1870s and now - 16: Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster
London 1870s and now - 15: Banqueting House, Whitehall
London 1870s and now - 14: 185 Fleet St
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Exhibition starts 30 October
Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs will run from Friday 30 October 2009 to Sunday 7 March 2010.
It will bring together, for the first time, a magnificent selection of photographs from the British Library's unique collections, examining the history of the medium and its influence in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
From portraits of Oscar Wilde to motion-capture sequences of walking baboons, and from Talbot's earliest positive-negative pictures to documentary records of 19th-century life for rich and poor, this fascinating exhibition is sure to bring you new points of view on photographs and photography.
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Indian cricket skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is currently the richest sportsperson in the country and is on fifth of the list of world's richest sportsperson, according to Forbes Magazine. But it has been revealed that either of them is not the highest paid BCCI servent. It is the former India Captains, Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri are the highest paid BCCI servents.
Both Shastri and Gavaskar, the director of cricket and the head of IPL respectively would be getting an extra bonus of Rs. 2 crore for their respective roles recently. This in turn means that both would earn about Rs. 6 crore annually. Earlier, both the former players used to earn about Rs. 4 crore per year as the BCCI-endorsed commentators in all of India's international matches around the world, reports The Indian Express.
Shastri has been appointed as the Director of Indian cricket until the 2015 Cricket World Cup which is scheduled to take place in Australia and New Zealand early next year. Shastri accepted the offer after the board agreed to compensate him as he would not be able to serve the media commitments, reports suggest.
"The board pays Shastri and Gavaskar Rs 4 crore annually as commentators. As per Supreme Court orders. Gavaskar will be paid an extra Rs 2.37 crore. Roughly the same will be given to Shastri," said a BCCI official.
Even in the current Indian team, MS Dhoni is not the highest paid cricketer. Dhoni has earned about Rs. 2.59 in the last 12 months while playing for India in all formats of the game (35 matches), including his match fees and the retainer fee for Rs. 1 crore. On the other hand, Virat Kohli after playing 39 matches has earned Rs. 2.75 crore, which means Kohli earns more than what Dhoni does as both these players get the same 12.5 million for playing in the IPL.


News-Herald file Chardon's Jack Lemaster, left, and Joe Connick attempt to stop Riverside's Marcus Jones in his tracks during the first quarter Friday at Riverside High School in 2012.
News-Herald file Riverside's Marcus Jones fends off a tackle from a Harvey player during the third quarter in 2012 at Recreation Park in Painesville.
News-Herald file Riverside running back Marcus Jones, tries to avoid Perry defender Brock Hurd in 2013.
News-Herald file The Blue Team's Marcus Jones of Roverside High School attempts to gain some yardage by going airborne during a punt return in the second quarter against the White Team during the 2015 News-Herald Senior Bowl, June 19, at Mentor High School.
News-Herald file Riverside running back Marcus Jonesruns between South's Andrew Gibson (53) and Cameron Marshall in the first half of the Beavers' 33-21 loss Oct. 24, 2014, at South High School.
News-Herald file Blue Team's Marcus Jones of Riverside High School, falls just short of a touchdown during the first quarter of the 2015 News-Herald Senior Bowl, June 19, at Jerome T. Osborne Stadium.
Photos from the high school career of Gannon football player Marc Jones, when he was at Riverside.


We signed up for VPI when we first got Snowball and it is such peace of mind to have it. So far our claims have been promptly processed and the reimbursement has been more than adequate. All have been pretty small claims, mostly "well dog" chckups and a few minor puppy problems. Couldn't be more satisfied. He is now almost 5 years old and his future health is a complete unknown. We are happy that we have VPI. Thank you!
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Q: Export logs of Kubernetes cronjob to a path after each run I currently have a Cronjob that has a job that schedule at some period of time and run in a pattern. I want to export the logs of each pod runs to a file in the path as temp/logs/FILENAME
with the FILENAME to be the timestamp of the run being created. How am I going to do that? Hopefully to provide a solution. If you would need to add a script, then please use python or shell command. Thank you.

A: According to Kubernetes Logging Architecture:

In a cluster, logs should have a separate storage and lifecycle
independent of nodes, pods, or containers. This concept is called
cluster-level logging.
Cluster-level logging architectures require a separate backend to
store, analyze, and query logs. Kubernetes does not provide a native
storage solution for log data. Instead, there are many logging
solutions that integrate with Kubernetes.

Which brings us to Cluster-level logging architectures:

While Kubernetes does not provide a native solution for cluster-level
logging, there are several common approaches you can consider. Here
are some options:

*

*Use a node-level logging agent that runs on every node.

*Include a dedicated sidecar container for logging in an application pod.

*Push logs directly to a backend from within an application.

Kubernetes does not provide log aggregation of its own. Therefore, you need a local agent to gather the data and send it to the central log management. See some options below:

*

*Fluentd

*ELK Stack

A: You can find all logs that PODs are generating at /var/log/containers/*.log
on each Kubernetes node. You could work with them manually if you prefer, using simple scripts, but you will have to keep in mind that PODs can run on any node (if not restricted), and nodes may come and go.
Consider sending your logs to an external system like ElasticSearch or Grafana Loki and manage them there.


Certain racing classes specify fuel pump flow value limits. The common way to achieve this is fuel pump size. However, another way to achieve this is to restrict the fuel pump inlet using a larger fuel pump. When this is done, it cavitates the fuel pump, limiting the output. In Nostalgia A-fuel drag racing, this is the latest method to reach the fuel pump rating. Previously a smaller fuel pump was used to reach the fuel pump rating. The more recent change provides an advantage. At lower fuel pump operating speeds, higher fuel pump volumes are achieved with the restricted larger pump than those from the previous smaller pump. Record runs in Nostalgia A-fuel dropped from low 6 second ETs to high 5 second ETs with this change. These engines are drunk on power from greater amounts of high percentage nitromethane fuel mixtures at the lower engine speeds even though they have essentially the same amount of fuel at the high end as before.
Inlet restrictors may be creeping into other classes with fuel pump size limits. They provide the use of lower cost, standard fuel pump sizes in some cases. They also provide interesting tuning possibilities. It may be possible to flat line a fuel curve for a normally (naturally) aspirated engine with an inlet restrictor. Essentially the fuel pump cavitates when it reaches a specific flow value. Fuel flow numbers are limited as engine speed increases. This feature could be matched to the fuel curve of a normally aspirated engine where the amount of fuel beyond the torque peak is reduced to match intake air reductions.
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Hydra beijingensis is een hydroïdpoliep uit de familie Hydridae. De poliep komt uit het geslacht Hydra. Hydra beijingensis werd in 2003 voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Fan.

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The talking, squawking, and balking is over, and today, the music video for "Bridget" (written by Gary Jude Anderson) has been released to the world. Gary, I hope you're listening and watching up there somewhere. My 7pm NYC show tonight at The Local 269 (269 E Houston Street @ Suffolk, NYC) will feature multi-instrumentalist Mike Bifulco, along with guest singers Jennifer Hargreaves Pawliczak, Gary Pig Gold, and Libby Johnson.


Isac, an extremely ill 14y.o. boy from Timor-Leste was referred to ROMAC with a suspected benign brain lesion. He had lost all sight in his left-eye and had only partial sight in the right-eye. Isac needed urgent surgery, otherwise he would lose all sight. Specialist neurosurgeon Dr Cindy Molloy at the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital accepted Isac for treatment.
Scans revealed a tumour that was fully excised in a 5-hour operation and post-op pathology results confirmed the cause to be tuberculosis (TB).
Once cleared of infection, Isac was discharged from hospital and hosted with his carer, and assisted by members of the Rotary Club of Salisbury. He had a one-day stopover in Darwin on the way home so doctors could assess the best continuing medication that would be available in Timor-Leste.
Isac still has limited, but now, stable sight in his right eye and has recovered well from his life-threatening tumour.
More information available on the donate page.
© 2015 ROMAC. Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children Pty Ltd.


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Lending a yelping hand
By Jodie Joyce, For The Sun — Feb 15th, 2005
Rico rarely takes his wide eyes off owner Kathy Dwyer. The 4-year-old black Labrador mix always sits with right paw raised, poised to jump up at Dwyer's request to flip a switch, call for help, open a door or pick up dropped items as small as a dime.
Rico is a certified demonstration dog for Paws with a Cause, a national nonprofit organization that trains assistance dogs for people with disabilities in 38 states.
"He's like a teacher's aide," said Dwyer, Paws' regional administrator.
Dwyer and her entourage of two dogs and a Paws volunteer were the featured guests Monday at Bremerton Rotary Club's weekly luncheon at the Kitsap Conference Center.
Rico's showmanship demonstrates how assistance dogs can provide life-changing independence and dignity for people with many types of disabilities.
Dwyer's working relationship with Rico began last summer, shortly after she opened the new Paws regional office in March in Bellingham. She insists that Rico has the attention span of a gnat, but you would hardly know it when he's wearing his harness and blue backpack emblazoned with the Paws logo.
As a youth, Rico didn't exhibit any particular aptitude except devotion. His obedience schooling went "dreadfully," Dwyer says. He also lacked pizazz for his canine agility classes.
But when Paws headquarters in Wayland, Mich., offered to send Dwyer a trained dog to assist her in educating the public, she asked instead to give Rico a chance.
She knew he was a natural when he brought her the telephone at 3 a.m.
"He's finally found his niche," she says.
Paws — celebrating its 25th anniversary this year — receives more than 2,000 applications each year for assistance dogs, an umbrella term that includes the hearing, service and seizure-response dogs they train. The dogs are provided at no cost to clients, although recipients may participate in fund-raising to earn their canine partner.
Most Paws puppies begin their training with a foster family. For the past six months, Dwyer and Rico have shared their home with 8-month-old Dazzle, a female golden retriever in Paws' Foster Puppy Program. Foster parents need no special training to volunteer. The only prerequisites are time and the desire to love and socialize their furry charges plus the emotional fortitude to say goodbye when the youngsters' training begins in earnest at 15 months of age.
Each dog's ongoing training exceeds $18,000 and is tailored to meet the needs of his owner. Field instructors are always just a phone call away if the client's needs change or increase.
"At the end of the day, instead of having to say thank you to a thousand people for helping you, your assistance dog says thanks to you by putting his paws and head in your lap," Dwyer says.
Jodie Joyce is a contributing writer. Reach local news editor Ann Strosnider at (360) 792-3325 or at astrosnider@kitsapsun.com.
To donate to Paws with a Cause or to learn about the Foster Puppy Program, contact Kathy Dwyer at (800) 253-7297. Visit Paws online at www.pausewithacause.org.
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