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Companies That Use Node.js for Backend: How Do Big Players Benefit from It?
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TechMagic Nov 26, 2020 Originally published at blog.techmagic.co ・8 min read
Node.js is a JavaScript server environment that runs code outside a browser. The technology is a perfect fit for many websites like streaming, games, time trackers, social media applications, etc. It provides a scalable and fast solution for real-time applications.
Being written in JavaScript, the most popular programming language globally, it opens up the door to many businesses. It is no wonder that it has become a highly trending technology that many companies have embraced, including some of the most prominent players like Netflix and PayPal. What companies use Node.js technology, and how do they benefit from it? Find the answer in this blog post.
Is Node.js Really Changing the Market?
According to Stack Overflow, Node.js is the absolute leader in the world of technology with 50.4%. So, what makes it so popular?
According to the latest Node.js report, this technology has a significant impact on business: it provides a 68% increase in developer productivity, a 48% increase in application performance, and a 13% increase in customer satisfaction. Moreover, these numbers seem to grow over the years:
On top of that, the Node.js report mentions that four out of five backend and full-stack developers adopt Node.js frameworks. Why do developers choose to work with Node.js?
First, this JavaScript environment is easy to work with, and it enables the execution of the code on the server-side. Secondly, it allows high scalability as well as quicker development cycles. Finally, it is the go-to technology with a thriving open-source community. Learn more about the general benefits of Node.js from the experts.
The Top 10 Well Known Companies Using Node.js for the Backend
Based on the long list of Node.js usage advantages, it is easy to believe that among the biggest companies that used Node.js are NASA, Uber, and Twitter. Who uses Node.js, why did they decide to move to Node.js, and how has it worked out for them?
Netflix is the largest provider of streaming content and video-on-demand with 93 million users worldwide. Its path to current success started back in 2015 when Java – the backend technology Netflix used – could not handle such a rapidly growing user base. The backend development could not catch up with the frontend, which caused a higher load time. The customized UI design was unachievable, which led to poor customer experience. Finally, Java took too much time to build, and as a result, the development and deployment processes were inefficiently slow.
The benefits Netflix got:
Since the adoption of Node.js technology, startup time has drastically decreased by 70%. Instead of taking up ten seconds to load the Netflix interface, it only takes one second now;
Node.js made it easier to integrate microservices and break a huge block of information into a detailed interface;
The transition from the backend to the frontend has significantly accelerated due to Node.js being a JavaScript-based environment.
NASA is one of the most well-known enterprises in the world. NASA has decided to make a transition to Node.js after an accident, which almost led to a fatal outcome. The accident was caused by a long access time due to the inefficient storage of data across many locations. NASA's developers found it important to move data into a cloud database to shorten the access time. Additionally, most of NASA's applications were built on JavaScript.
The benefits for NASA:
The access time has increased by 300%, allowing users to reach the information in seconds, not hours;
NASA has successfully moved legacy databases to the cloud and provided access to them via APIs;
Node.js has shortened the process of working with databases from 28 steps to only seven, which made scientific research significantly easier.
Trello is a tool for project management, which is used across industries and countries. A platform like this requires instant updates in real-time without latency, which is why Trello is one of the companies that use Node.js for its server-side. Trello needs to juggle several real-time connections on the server to ensure that updates come smoothly and on time.
Trello's main advantages:
Node.js provided an extremely lightweight Single Page Application;
Thanks to Node.js, Trello can handle updates with zero latency;
Node.js architecture enabled to cut expenses of development and prototyping.
PayPal Node.js transition
With over 200 million active accounts, PayPal is a worldwide leader in the industry of online payments and transfers. In 2013, they stumbled upon some difficulties caused by using Java, which didn't mix well with frontend development. Java provided long development times as well as poor performance, so PayPal has become one of the companies using Node.js.
The benefits PayPal acquired:
A smaller team of developers built a Node.js based application in a shorter amount of time;
Response time has reduced, leading to a 35% decrease in loading time;
The number of user requests per second has doubled since the adoption of Node.js technology.
Another company on the list of the websites using Node.js is LinkedIn — the world's biggest social media platform built for business and employment networking. Its popularity continues to grow, with 467 million users from more than 200 countries. After shifting from Ruby on Rails to Node.js, they've created an application that runs ten times faster than its old version. The decision has been made due to the synchronicity of the previous Ruby App, which led to the long loading times, especially whenever there was a traffic increase.
The benefits LinkedIn obtained:
The entire LinkedIn architecture has been built on JavaScript, which made the handling of client-server interactions simpler;
The number of servers has been cut from thirty to three, which doubled the traffic capacity.
Uber Node.js experience
Uber is another ever-growing platform that expands the number of users every six months operating in 68 countries worldwide. Due to the always-increasing number of connections, Uber had to create a real-time architecture. Additionally, the company ran advanced analytics on the data stored on the platform, requiring the services to perform smoothly. That is why Uber is now one of the companies that use Node.js in production.
The benefits Uber received:
Node.js enabled Uber to process an immense amount of data and numerous user requests much quicker;
Thanks to Node.js technology, Uber is capable of processing 14 million rides every day;
Uber increased its connectivity and reduced management overheads by building over 600 stateless endpoints.
The shift to Node.js — Twitter case
More than 80% of the account holders on Twitter access it via a smartphone, which led to a decision to build Twitter Lite — an application with minimum functionality that can run even with a poor internet connection. On top of that, the website version of Twitter wasn't optimized for a slow internet connection. This led Twitter to become one of the companies that use Node.js.
Twitter's benefits:
Twitter Lite doesn't take too much space — 1% to 3% — which saves mobile device users a lot of storage space;
The application runs even on 3G and 2G connections;
The maintenance costs of Twitter Lite are significantly lower than of Twitter Desktop.
Another business among the examples of companies using Node.js is eBay. With 183 million users, eBay is the biggest marketplace that offers C2C and B2C online sales services. eBay's app used to run on Java, which showed long startup times and poor performance. As a platform with huge traffic, eBay needed a technology that would speed up the development to catch up with frontend iterations.
eBay's benefits:
eBay created microservices using Node.js that run in real-time and don't overload the infrastructure.
Node.js provided scalability, speed, and transparency.
Groupon is the largest marketplace for coupons, deals, and discounts with 40 million customers. When Groupon achieved the mark of 200 million downloads in 2019, it faced scalability issues. That is when the company turned to Node.js and held the largest production deployments of Node.js in the world.
Groupon's benefits:
High scalability has been ensured by Node.js deployment to enable 3,400 backend services to run smoothly;
The loading speed has doubled;
Node.js has simplified and accelerated the migration to a different platform.
Medium is a world-renowned online publishing platform that uses Node.js with over 85 million users. Having reached 7.5 million posts in 2016, Medium felt the need for big data management without overloading the server. The company also had to keep up with the text editors' ever-growing performance standards for post publishing.
Benefits for Medium:
Even with large-sized images and content, the page loads in 2.7 seconds.
Node.js has improved user experience as well as accelerated the deployment time.
TechMagic is a company that specializes in application development. With years of experience and a multitude of projects, TechMagic is an expert in backend development as well as AWS infrastructure. We built applications both from scratch and by adding our specialists to startup development teams, using several full-stack approaches, including Node.js.
We love JavaScript, and that is why we have embraced Node.js to build all kinds of applications of any level of complexity. Additionally, we are experts in serverless architecture, which is the best ingredient for Node.js-based platforms.
Elements.cloud is a company that helps other businesses to visualize and organize business processes. The biggest challenge for Elements.cloud has been implementing customizable process mapping and visualization tools amid the automated scalability of the backend infrastructure. TechMagic helped Elements.cloud to build a highly scalable and cost-efficient application using Node.js and AWS infrastructure.
If you are still not convinced that Node.js is a technology of the future, here are additional big players who use Node.js as a part of their operations: Google, Yahoo, Mozilla, Microsoft, and many more. Due to its unlimited advantages, many companies are embracing Node.js technology. One of these days, this trending technology will conquer the market and become the go-to framework for every company, from startups to the biggest players. If you have a product in mind, consider using Node.js for its backend. We'd be pleased to consult you on the technology's peculiarities and offer our services to make your idea come true.
Nayden Gochev • Nov 26 '20
Kinda fake :) since LinkedIn and Twitter and Netflix are mostly using Java for server side processing and not nodejs :)
Can you send the references ? :)
Paramanantham Harrison • Nov 27 '20
Most companies use different technologies, not just Node Js. But they are using Node js too in some capacity. The article will be misleading if it says they are 100% on Node Js 😅
Netflix,
youtube.com/watch?v=QcNqfvMeWow
youtube.com/watch?v=p74282nDMX8
siliconangle.com/2017/08/02/twitte...
Most large companies use different tech for their microservices. It helps them to find the best talent for their team irrespective of the underlying technology.
Saying that, those companies are embracing Node Js is misleading. I am sure, most of the companies listed here have projects in Node Js or using JS ecosystem but also have projects in different other technologies.
ProMikeCoder2020 • Dec 19 '20
Andnow some of these companies are changing from nodejs to go. So the trend was and is: Java - JavaScript -Go
Anugoon L • Nov 27 '20
You should not say only pros side. Put in cons side as well.
Eko Prasetyo • Nov 27 '20
Its just pure nodejs shill post at this point
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The Men of K-pop Are the Reigning Street Stars of Seoul Fashion Week
From floral brocade to cropped flares, all the best style cues this week will be worn by the boys.
By Monica Kim
Last summer, I spent three weeks tromping around Seoul in a pair of black-and-white clodhoppers. They were ugly, oxford-style bowling shoes with thick three-inch platforms, and I'd have never dreamt of wearing them if not for the street style stars I'd seen around Gangnam. They paired the shoes with cropped jacquard flares and a navy cashmere sweatshirt, or denim culottes and a baseball tee: ensembles that somehow made the shoes look sculptural, not clunky. And from floral brocade blazers to paisley hair wraps, the rest of their style was equally infectious. By the end of my stay, I'd fallen hard for the city's best dressed: The men whose bold, androgynous looks define what's most exciting about Seoul fashion right now.
Ever since Carol Lim and Humberto Leon showcased the city in 2012, stocking Opening Ceremony with cult designs by Goen.J and Juun.J, Seoul's fashion cred has been on the rise. On Friday, Seoul Fashion Week kicked off with a Boon the Shop opening party, where Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, Haider Ackermann, Leigh Lezark, and Anna Dello Russo mingled with K-pop stars like G-Dragon and Taeyang, who sported all-black looks accessorized with a dash of plum lipstick—not at all outré for the bombastic Korean idols. The duo's position as unofficial style ambassadors is fitting, considering that without their influence, the country's burgeoning fashion industry may not even exist.
K-Pop Street Style
Photo: Courtesy of Jung Dong Gyu
K-pop has a powerful hold on Korean culture. Since the late nineties, the country has ridden its hallyu wave to the tune of $5 billion, fueled by the global demand for its handsome stars. Sure, the songs have always been catchy—everyone remembers "Gangnam Style"—but it was the new breed of Asian heartthrob, one who wasn't afraid to wear bright floral prints or the occasional dot of liquid liner, that was truly eye-catching. Well, money does talk, and it talked a young generation of Korean men into blurring the typical gender lines, famously spending some $900 million on beauty products since 2012, and developing a deep, symbiotic love for fashion.
Photo: Courtesy of Sang David Dang
Look at G-Dragon. Crooning for Big Bang may have launched his career, but he is now as well known for collaborating with Nicola Formichetti and Mugler as with Snoop Dogg. As one of the first celebrities to champion Seoul's gender-neutral fashions, G-Dragon is not afraid to go big, from an arm full of gold Tiffany bangles to rainbow-striped fur. Two weeks ago, he was photographed with Karl Lagerfeld—or "with KING," as he put it—wearing a Last Tango in Paris–style wide-brimmed hat perched atop a mess of curls, with blue velvet pants and a Chanel bouclé jacket. Where Kanye West couldn't wear a Givenchy kilt without sparking a media storm, G-Dragon was applauded for doing the same (and has been doing it for years).
Photo: Courtesy of G-Dragon
Then there are the SHINee boys, a group whose shawol fans adore their personal style (perfectly tailored pastel wool coats and turtlenecks to vibrant print-blocked suits) as much as their music. Lee Taemin, the band's most androgynous member, is famous on the Korean talk show circuit for being "girl pretty," but all five flirt with fashions—boat-necked Breton-striped tees with wide-legged pants and trainers, floppy wide-brimmed hats with a Raf Simons patchwork coat—that you could easily picture on some gamine ingenue.
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All this has helped craft a fashion industry that revels in androgyny. Case in point: On day one of Seoul Fashion Week, Soo Joo Park was one of fifteen women who walked the runway at Groundwave, **Kim Sunho'**s men's line. With her textured blonde shag, Soo Joo looked so slick in a selvedge denim shirt and duster and loose black trousers that you'd have never guessed she was modeling menswear. Over at Beyond Closet, one of the nation's hottest emerging menswear labels, model-actress Lee Sung Kyung strutted in an oversize sports jersey that, eight looks later, appeared on a male model.
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Bolstered by the approval of Seoul's fashion establishment, these trends have trickled down to the masses, and you'll see hordes of men (and savvy women) reinterpreting K-pop's more over-the-top trends, like G-Dragon's holographic vinyl pants, with creative silhouettes in muted tones—a leather porkpie looks less flashy in black, for starters. But regardless, Seoul's citywide embrace of truly androgynous fashion—and its truly androgynous men—is a breath of fresh air. This week, pay attention to the draped jackets, layered neoprene, and the occasional smoky (but subtle!) cat eye for the most exciting, gender-free style cues you'll see all season—dressing like a K-pop star, after all, takes a whole lot of swagger.
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Home NMSU Department of Astronomy: Clyde W. Tombaugh Papers Page 1
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NEWSSERVICE NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES. N. M.
BOX 3K-AC 505-646-3221 8S003
Karen Taylor Jones
LAS CRUCES - It was no job for a city slicker.  It was 1929, and
the astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., were looking
for some hardy soul to help in their search for the mysterious Planet
When a youngster from a wheat farm in Kansas submitted his
drawings of Mars and Jupiter, made as he looked through a homemade
telescope, the Lowell staff was sufficiently impressed to invite him
to Flagstaff for a trial employment.
"I guess they thought if I was willing to freeze my fingers
making drawings through a telescope, I was right for their observer's
Job," Clyde Tombaugh, professor emeritus of astronomy at New Mexico
State University, recalled recently.
The 69-year old astronomer observed the 45th anniversary of his
discovery of the planet Pluto this month.
He was a raw-boned farm boy who had cut thousands of acres of
wheat during his youth when he was invited to Lowell Observatory for
the Planet X project. Armed only with a high school degree, an impressive amount of self-taught knowledge of astronomy, and a fantastic
love of the skies and their secrets, Clyde Tombaugh never dreamed that
within a year he would go down in history as the discoverer of the
ninth planet in the solar system.
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Series Biographical Material, Box 047, Folder 004
Creator Taylor, Karen Jones; Gyula, Schalk; Lovelady, J. R.
Subject Press releases; Tombaugh, Clyde William, 1906-1997; Hungary; Amateur astronomy; White Sand Missile Range (N.M.)--Officials and Employees; Telescopes; Optical instruments; Burdett (Kan.); Memorials; White Sands Missile Range Hall of Fame; Exhibitions;
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OCR NEWSSERVICE NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES. N. M. BOX 3K-AC 505-646-3221 8S003 Karen Taylor Jones Feb. 28, 1975 LAS CRUCES - It was no job for a city slicker. It was 1929, and the astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., were looking for some hardy soul to help in their search for the mysterious Planet X. When a youngster from a wheat farm in Kansas submitted his drawings of Mars and Jupiter, made as he looked through a homemade telescope, the Lowell staff was sufficiently impressed to invite him to Flagstaff for a trial employment. "I guess they thought if I was willing to freeze my fingers making drawings through a telescope, I was right for their observer's Job" Clyde Tombaugh, professor emeritus of astronomy at New Mexico State University, recalled recently. The 69-year old astronomer observed the 45th anniversary of his discovery of the planet Pluto this month. He was a raw-boned farm boy who had cut thousands of acres of wheat during his youth when he was invited to Lowell Observatory for the Planet X project. Armed only with a high school degree, an impressive amount of self-taught knowledge of astronomy, and a fantastic love of the skies and their secrets, Clyde Tombaugh never dreamed that within a year he would go down in history as the discoverer of the ninth planet in the solar system. -more-
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Congressional Record dated December 14, 1982
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Meet the owner of the longest serving ice cream van in the UK
Ian Smith, an ice cream man in Leeds who owns one of the longest serving soft serve ice cream vans in Britain. Credit: Asadour Guzelian
27 March 2016 • 6:00am
Sadie Levy Gale
Five years ago in a garage in Derby, Ian Smith finally found what he had been looking for after years of searching. In such bad condition that the sides had to be supported with wood stood a battered Mr Softee ice cream van. "It was a total wreck when I bought it", says Ian, 47. "I spent two years doing it up, but now it looks like the day it came out of the factory in 1959."
Mr Softee vans originally came to the UK from America in 1958, soon to be replaced by the now ubiquitous British Mr Whippy vehicles in the early sixties.
For Smith, a vintage Mr Softee that had previously been in service for 40 years was the pièce de résistance of ice cream vans. Once he got it working again, it would be one of the longest serving ice cream vans in the UK.
Ian's vintage Mr Softee van was made in 1959. Credit: Asadour Guzelian
Smith has been an ice cream man in Leeds for 35 years. Starting at the age of 12 in a van belonging to his father (also an ice cream man), Ian now owns six vehicles under his own company Ian Super Whippy Limited. He is intent on selling ice cream until he retires, despite the fact that ice cream vans have been in decline since 1976.
For the chimes that every child in Britain instantly recognises sound rarely on the streets these days. Stricter regulations have seen higher pitch prices and limits imposed on how often the bells can be sounded, while supermarkets selling cheap ice cream price many vans out of the market.
Recently, Worcester City council set a 15-minute time limit for how long mobile vans could stay out on the street, angering local pensioners who complained they weren't as quick on their feet as others.
8 year-old Ian by his father's ice cream fleet in 1976.
Smith's vans have a static license, meaning they stay in one place, but having worked a mobile van for ten years he reckons 15 minutes is enough. "We only used to be in the street for 10 minutes. I honestly don't know how they could get enough customers to need 15 minutes," he says. He sympathises with the elderly though: "I get customers of all ages, but pensioners love ice cream. We have so many who drive for miles on a weekly basis just to buy an ice cream."
"We have to work really hard in the summer because the winters seem to get longer every year. That's the problem – it's too seasonal with the weather."
Peak ice cream season starts when the clocks go forward, so from Sunday Smith will be preparing the vintage van for outings. But not every vehicle has such a devoted following. It's the fresh blue paint and nostalgic design of Smith's Mr Softee van that keeps the customers coming.
"We kept it in its original fifties livery," he says. "People will walk past any ice cream van and climb over it to get to this one – it's a magnet. People take photographs of it all day long, and even those not really wanting an ice cream will stop and buy one just to have a look at the van."
The Mr Softee van in action in Roundhay Park, Leeds.
Smith's main site in Leeds is Roundhay Park, situated in an affluent and leafy suburb in the north of the city. "We have to work really hard in the summer because the winters seem to get longer every year. That's the problem – it's too seasonal with the weather."
"All ice cream men get a buzz out of being busy regardless of how much money we take"
In the winter, he relies on taking the vans out to private functions such as weddings and corporate events, as the dark nights make normal trading impossible. Having been in the trade for so long, he is the first to admit that the glory days of ice cream vending seem to be over.
"When my father sold ice cream 55 years ago, it was absolutely fantastic because people didn't have freezers or ice cream at home, and there was no trade on Sundays. The pubs closed at 2 o'clock in the afternoon so more people were at home - it was our busiest day of the week. But everyone's in a rush now. It was a lot busier back then."
People flock to the Mr Softee van to take photos.
While competitive 'turf wars' among ice cream vans (where rogue sellers have undercut prices and local rivalries have led to drivers being threatened) have been reported in recent years, Ian says it's less the threat from other vendors than the cheap lollies sold by supermarkets that are putting vans out of business. The only way vendors can break even is by raising the cost of their ice cream.
"In 1980 a cone would have sold for around 15p compared to £1 now," he says. But even with inflated prices, Smith's takings on the van are still the same as they were 20 years ago. "That's how much it's dropping off. Every year it seems to get worse and worse," he says ruefully.
Not that this curbs his enthusiasm for his work, on which he spends up to 16 hours a day during summer. "All ice cream men get a buzz out of [being busy] regardless of how much money we take," he says, but adds: "It's a difficult job to stay in because you have more downs than ups."
Still, even if the outlook for ice cream vans is gloomy, Smith is sticking with it. "I've been born into it," he says. "I don't want to do anything else."
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The most usual situation in which wrongful dismissal is claimed is where the employee is dismissed without notice . In that situation damages are normally limited to the net amount that the employee would have earned during the minimum period of notice which the employer could have lawfully given under the terms of the contract.
The first £30,000 paid as compensation for wrongful or unfair dismissal is normally exempt from tax and NI contributions .
Companies are specifically prohibited from making payments to directors as "compensation for loss of office" without a resolution by the members of the Company Companies Act 2006, s.217. This does not prevent payments genuinely paid on account of damages for breach of contract
Employment Tribunals have (limited) jurisdiction in wrongful dismissal cases - damages can be awarded up to £25,000


Europe's main stock markets have steadied in opening trade, before the EU's crucial Brexit summit and the European Central Bank's latest interest rate decision.
Hong Kong stocks have ended in negative territory as a recent rally hit the brakes with investors fretting over a possible US-EU trade war.
Tokyo stocks have closed lower amid a flare-up in trade tensions between the United States and Europe, with investors eying a press conference by the European Central Bank president.


Based on Stockfish 8 plus support of Polyglot opening-books.
The fastest and strongest Stockfish 8, because the code was completely rewritten in Assembler!
Perfect and thanks for the information.
I will update my ToDo list.
Now my fight for place one can starting and Stockfish will run with full power.
What would I have to do to compile it for the Mac?
MikeB wrote: What would I have to do to compile it for the Mac?
No easy way for you I think. It uses Flat assembler and I'm not sure it supports mach targets, if it does you can ask the author.
Even if it did, you'd probably have to start with the Linux version, most likely syscalls on OSX won't match those on Linux.
I found this project https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/fasm-osx, no idea if it'd work.
It seems to use object converter (ELF=>mach), but as I said you're on a (very) thin ice here.
but you'll also need to expose system stuff to AsmFish so it'd be a 2-way wrapper process.
Ok, Officially FASM does not support Mac, if someone could make an object file of Stockfish asm, I have object file converter that I might be able to covert the object file to a Mac format.
Much easier to port. For some people, it is faster than AsmFish.
Dann Corbit wrote: Go with Cfish instead.
What is the point, Cfish is certainly not the fastest of the compiled code.
Brainfish numa is (even on non-numa machines) because of the way hash is handled, functionally it is identical to SF. Plus compiler efficiency is better with C++ code, i.e. C++ compiler is so efficient that you don't lose almost anything on all those pure C++ things, so the only CFish benefit comes from small internal optimizations that could easily be done 1:1 in Stockfish. And finally CFish is a nightmare to compile with anything but MinGW.
For me on AMD architecture modern/popcnt compile, Brainfish numa is 5-8% faster than SF official, asmFish is 10-13% and pendantFish is 13-16% faster (lower number is deep search from root, upper number is bench).
Ehm, the most invasive change of the "unix version" of brainfish is the insertion of the "author"'s own name, unless you run it on a NUMA machine (for which it seems to use the patch prepared by Mohammed based on - I think - Texel's code).
The brainfish windows code in addition includes a large pages patch, which is obviously of no use for Mac and which I assume was not an original contribution by the brainfish "author" either.
In the windows version large pages is off by default, so any speed increase of brainfish (when not enabling large pages) is due to the better/different compile.


Situated on the tip of the scenic Monterey Peninsula, overlooking Point Pinos and the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Grove Golf Links has delighted visitors and locals alike for over 75 years.
Offering a fun-filled yet competitive challenge, and boasting an architectural lineage of elite proportions, the Pacific Grove Golf Links has won both local and national acclaim for its classic design and affordability.
This historic, 18-hole layout features glimpses of the Monterey Bay on fairways framed by grand Cypress trees on the front nine and an ocean-side back nine cut through windswept dunes reminiscent of traditional Scottish links.
Whether playing the great game of golf for the first time, or as a seasoned tournament player, guests of the Pacific Grove Golf Links will walk away with fond memories and anticipation for their next visit.
With a full-service golf shop, driving range and clubhouse, the Pacific Grove Golf Links is more than just a round of golf!


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Aldwych, London
The Novello Theatre is a London West End theatre on Aldwych.
The Novello was built as one of a pair with the Aldwych Theatre on either side of the Waldorf Hotel, both being designed by W.G.R. Sprague. The theatre opened as the Waldorf Theatre on May 22, 1905, and was renamed the Strand Theatre in 1909. It was again renamed as the Whitney Theatre in 1911 before again becoming the Strand Theatre in 1913. In 2005, the theatre was renamed by its owners (Delfont-Mackintosh) the Novello Theatre in honour of Ivor Novello.
The black comedy Arsenic and Old Lace had a run of 1337 performances here in the 1940s, and Sailor Beware ran for 1231 performances from 1955. Stephen Sondheim's musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened here on the day of Kennedy''s assassination, running for nearly two years. In 1971 the comedy No Sex Please - We're British opened here, remaining for over 10 years of its 16-year run until it transferred to the Garrick Theatre in 1982.
The Novello Theatre was extensively refurbished in 1930 and again in the early 1970s. For its 100th anniversary in 2005, the theatre underwent yet another extensive refurbishment. The current capacity is around 1,050.
The theatre reopened on 8 December 2005 with the Royal Shakespeare Company's annual London season, playing to 4-week runs of Twelfth Night, The Comedy Of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It, concluding in March 2006.
Currently at the Novello Theatre London is the West End production of Mamma Mia!, which has had over 40 million people dancing in the aisles around the world and continues to sell out Novello Theatre tickets as one of the most loved shows around.
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What's on at the Novello Theatre


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Kyrgyz Author Wins Moscow Literary Award
A Kyrgyz author has been nominated to receive Moscow international literary award.
According to ECI public relations quoting Sputnik Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz author Abibulla Pazilov has been nominated in Drama section of the Award wherein 6 other works have been nominated.
With the drama play Zhabars written based on one of Chinghiz Aitmatov's novels, Pazilov has been nominated in this section.
On the occasion of this nomination, Olga Gribanov, coordinator of plans of International Writers Association, congratulated the Kyrgyz author and sent him the letter of honors by this international union.
It is worth mentioning that 'Zhabares' drama play went on stage at Uchur State Theater for the first time in 2004 and brought its author several prestigious awards.
Abibulla Pazilov is a renowned author, dramatist and translator whose works have been published in Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Germany and have won International Aitmatov Award.


Evensong is the sung Anglican office of Evening Prayer which combines the Latin offices of Vespers and Compline, a liturgy more than 400 years old and one of the Church of England's unique contributions to Western civilization. The United Methodist Church originally began as a renewal movement within the Church of England, in the mid-1700's.
Evensong is normally about 30 minutes long. There is no sermon. Very much like Vespers, the service focuses on prayer. Unlike Vespers, much of the service is sung by the Chancel Choir. If you love the traditions of the Church and need a mid-week pick-me-up, this service is for you!


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Marquee Mag: Early Days w/Dave
By Timothy Dwenger
In the early 1990s, while grunge and the Seattle sound was dominating airwaves, the vibrant music scene of Charlottesville, Va., was giving birth to a band that is today one of the biggest and most popular in the world — Dave Matthews Band. While most of the members of the group had played locally for years in various projects, it wasn't until the band's namesake moved into town that things really started to come together.
"When I first met Dave he was working as a bartender at Miller's, where I played every Monday and almost every weekend," said Matthews' friend and DMB guitarist Tim Reynolds in a recent interview with The Marquee, at the tail end of the band's fall tour. "He has such a charismatic personality and was a great bartender and I remember that he was always letting musicians come in after hours to drink and play."
It was during some of those late night jam sessions that Matthews met Carter Beauford and LeRoi Moore, who later helped to found DMB, and also began to cultivate a fruitful musical partnership with Reynolds. "After we got to know each other at Miller's we would hang out in his basement and make home recordings of some crazy shit, man. Space rock, rock and roll, we were as crazy as we could be. That's how we got to know each other as musicians," Reynolds said. "During that time I had my band TR3 and he even came out and sang at a couple of our gigs and it was just so much fun."
While the main focus of their careers took different paths, with Matthews obviously focusing on DMB and Reynolds on his solo work and TR3, the two remained great friends and frequently collaborated musically. Reynolds has been featured on many DMB studio releases and frequently showed up on stage at gigs, until he finally joined the band as a full-time touring member in 2008. While DMB is certainly where the bulk of their commercial success lies, it is the low-key acoustic shows that the two began to perform in 1993 that many fans point to as the highlight of the music that Matthews and Reynolds create together.
"After their band had been playing around the East Coast for a while, Dave and I did a benefit for the Middle East Children's Alliance, where he played a guitar and I played this Ashiko African drum," said Reynolds. "Not long after that we played a gig with two acoustic guitars at The Prism Coffee House and that went over really well because Dave already had a following around town and so did I. As their band was coming up we did these little acoustic gigs from time to time, first in Charlottesville and then finally we took it on the road."
The acoustic shows were a huge success for the pair and a bootleg of their first show at The Prism Coffee House was one of the most sought-after recordings in college dorm rooms on the East Coast and beyond for much of the mid-'90s. Despite the mediocre quality of dubbed and redubbed cassettes, the obvious talent and legendary "davespeak" was still clearly audible. Today, a pristine copy of that performance is available from the DMB website as an official DMBLive release and allows the listener to hear more of what made that evening so special and why Reynolds remembers it as being so fun.
Seventeen years later, the duo is still playing acoustic shows together and according to Reynolds, they are still having as much fun doing it as they did all those years ago. While the full fledged tours that they staged a few times over the first ten years of the project seem to be a thing of the past, fans are constantly scouring the web for signs of upcoming one-off shows, or maybe a short string of dates, to satisfy their cravings to hear their favorite songs stripped down into different arrangements.
While it's Matthews' songs that bring the masses, it's often Reynolds' name on the lips of slack jawed concert goers as they leave the venue. His virtuosic abilities on the acoustic guitar and his masterful use of a wide array of effects pedals summon sounds from the instrument that most couldn't dream of. Intricate loops, lightning fast riffs and swells that at times sound like a full string section, add incredible texture to Matthews' rootsy pop songs.
At most shows, Matthews will yield the spotlight to his friend for a couple of solo tunes, where Reynolds truly shines as he showcases the wide influences that make his original music so eclectic. "I've always tried to garner different kinds of musical education from different styles of music; jazz, classical, etc.," Reynolds explained. "I played the sitar for a while and I taught myself a little violin to educate myself on sonic structure and then I took it all back to the guitar and used everything I learned to expand my playing style as much as I could."
Any one of Reynolds' 14 studio releases will clearly demonstrate that the enormous variety of music he has absorbed during his lifetime shines through in his playing. His most recent, The Limbic System, (sic) is a double album recorded several years ago that is comprised of an entire disc of solo acoustic guitar pieces and a second disc of songs that feature his unique vocal style. "I had been wanting to put out The Limbic System for a while," Reynolds said. "I had recorded a lot of that before I left New Mexico. It wasn't all stuff that I was doing with the intention of releasing. I was just doing it for personal expression and I had the space in New Mexico to record the tracks." Despite the fact that he moved out to the Outer Banks of North Carolina about three years ago, he spoke about his time in New Mexico very fondly. "I love it out west. I'll hopefully return to the West at some point," he said.
Though it will only be for a few days, Reynolds will return to the West this month for two shows with Matthews in Las Vegas and one right here in Colorado, where the two haven't played a public acoustic gig together since 1999 when they held court for two nights at the Paramount Theatre downtown.
"It's just fun to play acoustic. It's a whole different thing," said Reynolds. "I learned last year when we played Vegas that going acoustic in a big venue kinda takes some adjustment. Just because you are playing in a big room with acoustic guitars doesn't mean you have to hit the guitar harder to make it louder. In fact, if you take the opposite approach it works better. If you play softer and let the soundman crank it up you have somewhere to go. If you start out hitting it really hard, you have already blown the dynamic of what an acoustic instrument can do. I just try to remember that, it was a lesson that I took away from those shows last year. I've been doing it for years and years but every gig is a new opportunity for education."
The gigs will be some of the last for Matthews for some time. He announced earlier this year that his band plans to take a break for 2011 and some of 2012. The Dave Matthews Band — lest we remind you — has been named the top touring artist of the past decade, selling in excess of 11 million tickets and grossing more than $500 million.
SOURCE: http://marqueemag.com/2010/12/01/dave-matthews-and-tim-reynolds/


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Taiwan: a country with a dying language but growing popularity
Tiffany Yeh January 15, 2019
Wow! Your child understands and speaks Taiwanese? That's amazing!
Whenever I am in a taxi in Taiwan and speak to my parents in broken Taiwanese, the taxi drivers always react to my little understanding of the language with surprise and excitement since they don't see a lot of younger children speaking the language anymore. At first, this reaction puzzled me as I was actually embarrassed that I, as a child with Taiwanese descent, could only speak a few phrases of Taiwanese. Later on, I learned that the happiness those taxi drivers exuded was because of Taiwanese being classified as a "dying language."
Taiwanese (Hokkien) is a native language spoken in the country of Taiwan, or "the Heart of Asia." This language is a branch of Hokkien, a Southern Min Chinese dialect group. Though Taiwanese is categorized as a separate language from Mandarin, Taiwanese speakers use Han characters (the same characters used in Mandarin), with only a few special characters unique to Taiwanese.
Since most Taiwanese people speak Mandarin, Taiwanese has become less prominently used, so to many Taiwanese Americans, understanding and speaking Taiwanese has been a constant struggle even when both their parents were born in Taiwan and grew up speaking its language.
In 1949, when the Kuomintang (KMT) fled to Taiwan and made Mandarin the official language and the use of Taiwanese was banned, many were afraid of how that would impact Taiwanese. Yin C. Chuang, an associate professor at National Taiwan Normal University "worried that the Taiwanese language would be gone in the future." However, after the late 1980s, limits on the language was lifted and now more people are trying to introduce the language to not only Taiwanese adolescents, but also foreigners who are intrigued with the Taiwanese culture.
Slowly, the country is attracting more and more tourists from all over the world because of its ideology of preserving traditions. These traditions directly contribute to the growing popularity of Taiwan as a tourist destination, to the point that tourism now plays a significant role in the nation's economy.
*According to the Word Travel & Tourism Council's 2017 study, the "direct contribution of Travel and Tourism to GDP was…2.0% of total GDP in 2016 and is forecast to rise by 3.3% in 2017, and to rise by 2.0%… from 2017-2027." *
Hopefully, as the nation's popularity in the tourist industry grows, the spread of Taiwanese culture can shed light on Taiwan's plight and discontinue the idea of Taiwanese being a dying language.
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Thank you for writing this! I really enjoyed reading this article!


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Literally every functional room is filled with natural light. You'll want to linger in each space, becoming familiar with a design that seems to hesitate and ask you how it can make you feel at home. Enjoy a book on the cozy landing nook, Expand into the huge closets, and bring everyone together at the end of the day to connect easily in the large kitchen and gathering areas. Curb appeal is ample and all the logical conveniences appear even before you expect them to. We want you to flourish in the Talia.
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When the sun rises, my children all escape from their sheets and walk to the dining hall. It is not so much a hall as it is a room. We call it a hall because that is its name. There are other homes much bigger than this where the halls could be auditoriums but they are still called halls. I don't question the names of things.
My children eat what they always eat, eight ounces of a soupy gray porridge. It is what I eat too. It is what I have always eaten. At sundown, my children will eat another eight ounces. It tastes neither good nor bad but occasionally reminds me of my own childhood.
I remember when life was as sweet as nectar. Hope you still carry a bit of sweetness on your tongue.
I read the correspondence over again as I take a brimming spoonful of porridge, then close my notebook and rise from the head of the table. Whomever has sent the message knows my home well, I am sure of that.
It takes my children thirteen minutes to eat their morning meal, after which the orderlies clear the plates and tableware to the kitchen. This is my favorite time of the day. The way my children's melodic march melds with the percussion of pewter clinking against the orderlies' iron gears sounds something like music. No song is ever the same. I wouldn't quite call it beauty but it is something close.
The home has four classrooms, one for each cluster. I can observe each cluster from my notebook but sometimes I accompany my children to their desks anyway. They do not speak—not to me nor to each other—but it feels nice just to walk amongst them. They file directly to their assigned seats and begin their studies.
On the days I do stay amongst them, I do not stay in the classroom long. There is no place for me there. Every child is slumped head down with stylus in hand, the light blue glow of the desk reflecting off their eyes. I return to my office and my notebook to monitor for defects. I am glad that I do not serve at a larger home. Fewer children allows me more time for each. Usually, I am able to spot defects early enough so that they can be corrected. This is not a liberty many fathers have. I pride myself on my home's record. I have never had a child recalled.
Cluster D is my oldest cohort. Nearly men but not quite. I do my best to prepare them for the Auction but I fear it is an experience one can only learn from having. I spend the rest of my day—like I spend all of my days—charting the children's statistics in my notebook.
The day's second meal is much like the first. The children shuffle into the dining hall and take their seats. The orderlies set the tables and bring the porridge from the kitchen. I watch the children as they eat. My eyes fall to one in particular. He is D-13, one of my highest performing children. By the Bureau's requirements, he is the ideal child. His chest resting high between his broad shoulders. His jaw stern and hairless, lips blooming full like hibiscus petals. His skin a silky shadow. If I didn't know his file, I might think him young enough to be in cluster C, maybe even cluster B.
Yet today there is exhaustion bruised beneath his eyelids. I note this in my notebook and finish my meal. When the children finish theirs, I release them to their free activity period. I do not accompany them for this. They deserve at least some time unobserved by me. Besides, I use this time to study the incubators.
The basement of the home is cold, made worse by the humidity. The incubators like it this way. I watch the orderlies roll through the rows of orbs, tending to each as if the child inside were already born. There are hundreds of them, each orb uncannily similar to the next. I watch the figures toss and turn in that thick blue liquid. Do they have thoughts already? Do their thoughts differ from their dreams? It saddens me that they will not all survive. I see each one as my child despite the odds. As much as the Bureau would like to believe, there is nothing in this world that is absolute. Not even science.
I leave the orderlies to their assignments and retire to my own living quarters, where I take out my notebook and open the earlier correspondence once more. The words are strange enough, though it's the intimacy of it that startles me most. We are taught that we will never again see the others from our home after we are auctioned and so intimacy is rare. There is no need of it in professional communications. We are taught there is no need of it at all. And yet I am sure every one of my children feels some sense of it. I can see it in the eyes of those whose gaze lingers too long on another. I can see it in those whose eyes remind me of my own.
Though your nectar has long since dried, there is still memory of its sweetness, as if my mouth were full of it.
It is not often, but sometimes I become lonely. I have my children to keep me company, of course, but my parental role prevents us from calling each other friend. The orderlies are as rigid and cold as they look, incapable of any meaningful conversation beyond necessary utilitarian communication. Even this is limited. There is no command I can give by voice that can't be done with my notebook, though sometimes I speak to them anyway, if only just to remember what conversation used to be like. Most of the time they don't respond but roll away to carry out whatever duty they have been assigned.
Because of this I actually look forward to visits from the Bureau. I don't need their approval for satisfaction—I know that what I do I do well—though it is still pleasant to see the reviews reflect that supposition. The Bureau doesn't come to my home often. Other fathers who do not produce a consistent quality of clusters are visited with more frequency. Visits to my home are rarely more than a formality.
This is what I expect when I hear the doorbell ring, but when I reach my home's foyer I find that the orderly has let in a man I have not before seen. Moreover, he is followed by a cohort of three or four men that do not have the looks of Bureau men. The leader doesn't appear to be an unpleasant man. His rounded jowls and short neck provide him with a jolly sort of demeanor. Still, he and his cohort make me uneasy. Random variables make me anxious. I do not like data I cannot make sense of.
The man takes off his hat and reaches out to shake my hand. I do not even have to ask before he shows me his credentials. They look authentic to me, but he insists the orderly scan them anyway. Everything checks out, as I knew it would, and he assures me I'll hardly notice the others are there.
"Would you like a tour of the home?" I ask once he has put his badge away.
First, we make our way past the dining hall and up the stairs to cluster A. I step into the room, but the men only poke in their heads. I do not want to say the Bureau man's rosy cheeks turn to a grimace for a smile never quite leaves his face, but I feel he somehow looks displeased. We do not stay long with cluster A, neither do we linger with clusters B nor C. However, when we enter into cluster D's classroom, the Bureau man's head perks with interest. I assume he will only want a cursory glance and am surprised when he motions with a swift hand for his cohort to follow as he strolls right past me through the aisles of glowing desks.
My children do not seem to notice as the men walk by, their concentration locked tightly to the desks' exercises. The men study each individual child with a greater intensity than I scrutinize my children's progress reports. They aren't critiquing the children's quality but seem as if they are looking for something. I cannot say what. The only indication I receive is the Bureau man's stopping at the tired child, D-13. The man bends as much as his thick waist will allow and brings his face so close I am certain the child can smell his breath. He prods his hand into the child's dense, coarse curls. D-13 raises his head and glances at the men but returns to his studies as soon as the Bureau man takes his hand away.
"What's this one called?" the Bureau man shouts to me from across the room.
I clear my throat as I am not accustomed to speaking loudly. "D-13," I say, though by the man's grunt I cannot tell if he's heard me. The men continue to stare at the child for a while longer. Long enough to make me uncomfortable.
When they do look away, they show no further interest in the other children. Briskly they pace out of the room and down the stairs without need of my guidance. I chase them to the foyer where the Bureau man puts his hat back on and the others arrange their coats over their shoulders.
"Don't you want to look over the incubators?" I ask.
With that, the men turn down the steps and into their carriage. They spin off quickly, shooting up dust and gravel as they soar past the green hills and into the forest beyond.
That evening, once my children are asleep, I open my notebook to find that I have received a reply to yesterday's correspondence. My heart flutters as I open it.
How good it is to hear our tongues still share the same taste. Here there is nothing but a bitterness I hope you have been spared. Only the sweet of you has allowed me to swallow what has been forced down my throat.
I would be lying if I said I did not wonder what lies beyond the forest. There are many functions one might be auctioned to fulfill, but I have never seen any of them performed in person. In truth, I did not see myself being left behind to run the home while the others from my cohort were auctioned elsewhere. Over the years I have grown to enjoy my position—it is familiar and necessary—but for years directly after I was auctioned, I envied the world hidden from me.
Rumors reached me, of course, through various channels, though mostly through the Bureau men. The world beyond the trees has rarely been portrayed kindly and so I am glad that I have been able to live in ignorance. However, if for only a moment, my old friend's correspondence brushes away this veil of bliss.
I wonder where he is. What that place must look like. I try to think of him in any place at all, but when I close my eyes, I can only picture how he was before the Auction. What would he look like now? Firm hands made coarse by callouses? Eyes stretched thin by squinting in the bright sun? Perhaps he was auctioned to a home much like this one and does not look to have aged a day from when we last saw each other.
I think hard about how to reply, but nothing comes before I am notified through my notebook that an orderly has found two students out of bed. I close the correspondence and reluctantly make my way toward the kitchen.
When I arrive, the orderly has a firm grip on both children's arms, though both are too petrified to attempt escape. One is D-13 and the other is D-6. Each is unclothed from the waist down, the liminal space between their legs halfway between manhood and childhood. I command the orderly to release them and let them gather their bedclothes from the floor. It obeys and I listen to the hiss of steam as heavy gears awkwardly open its grip. Quickly the two children make themselves decent.
After I command the orderly to return to its rounds, I lead the children to my office. Their faces are a deep maroon and I can hear every heavy swallow they make as they trudge behind me. They do not wish to sit once we reach my office. Somehow they feel themselves unworthy of that allowance. Still, I insist and they do as I say.
They stew like hot porridge as I gather my thoughts from behind my mahogany desk. I try to keep my voice even and soft. I am not angry. I'm not upset either. If anything, I worry about them.
D-6 glances at D-13 though his gaze is not returned. He is lankier than D-13 and quite tall. Timid in both demeanor and appearance. I can see the bones jutting from his cheeks as his mouth twitches with anxiety. He does not want to speak but knows I won't break the silence and neither will D-13. "Do you mean to ask if we are frightened?" he says.
This angers him but he knows better than to try me. He swallows his frustration, just as he's been taught to. "I'm nearly a man, I know that much," he says.
"But how are we supposed to do that?" D-6 asks.
D-6's face is still as stone. My words are a thin mist. D-13 looks like he has more to say but doesn't, so I dismiss them both. There is no point in punishing them. After they leave my home, there will be more than enough punishment to make up for it.
Not much more than a week passes before the Bureau man returns, though this time he is alone. When I meet him in the foyer, he is patting his belly and grinning wide. He again shows me his credentials, despite my telling him again that it's unnecessary and assuring him I remembered who he is.
After the exchange of pleasantries he says, "Where's the child?" Less as a question, more as a statement of his authority.
"Which one?" I ask and he bellows laughter that echoes up to the rafters.
I don't want to know which child he means, but I do. I try to feign confusion, but I can tell it is a thin façade and lead him up the stairs anyway. I hope he will stay at the entrance to the classroom, but he makes his way straight to D-13 and pulls him away from his desk. D-13 looks toward me, but I do nothing.
The Bureau man does not stop. The home's wooden steps creak loudly up into the rafters.
The Bureau man shrugs and takes a step forward. He looks at me as he does. It is a look that tells me the child's beauty is not lost on him.
D-13 isn't looking at me or the Bureau man. He is glancing up the stairs. At the top I can see D-6 has left the classroom too, though an orderly's iron claws are fighting to return him to his desk, steam rising from its blocky head evidence of the thing's substantial exertion.
I take out my notebook as the Bureau man gladly provides me with his supervisor's name. It is unnerving how easily the name slips through his lips. I establish a connection with the Bureau's local division and ask for the name he has given me. After a brief moment I am connected with the supervisor. I inquire fervently about this strange order, but quickly my words are shot down.
I have nothing to say to this, so I ask to be transferred to someone else and I am. This person tells me the same thing, so I ask to be transferred again. The Bureau man never loses the grin from his jolly red cheeks. He seems content to wait for an eternity. He knows the outcome, it doesn't matter how many Bureau men I speak to.
I sever the connection and scowl at the Bureau man. D-6 must have been dragged back to the classroom, since D-13 has now shifted his focus to the Bureau man. "Where are you taking me?" he asks.
I shiver at the Bureau man's words. I don't know why but my mind becomes infected by the image of my dear old friend. D-13 is scared and shivering, but he asks no more questions. In this moment, it occurs to me that maybe he has lost the child in him and that I have lost the man.
"Tell me what is wrong with the child!" I shout at him.
With one hand on the child and the other on my shoulder, the Bureau man shoves me aside and walks out the door. I want to resist but I cannot. My body is wiser than I am.
I watch as tears blur the scene of the Bureau man shoving the child into the carriage and soaring away from the home.
That night I do not accompany my children to dinner. Instead I go to the basement and spend the time with the incubators. Many of the figures do not move, but some of them kick and fight as if they are having a bad dream. I walk up to one of the orbs and peer through the glass. I am struck by the unborn child's hands. They are almost like mine. They have knuckles and nails. Five fat little fingers, small and delicate.
If I wanted to, I could terminate every single orb in the room. Save them the pain of knowing there is nothing better. I tell myself that is not true. That there is much beauty to soothe the pain. But I can't bring myself to believe it.
I still have not sent a reply to my dear friend's second correspondence. What could I say to him? How could I tell him of all that has happened when I am here—still in the comfort of the home where we grew up—and he is bound by whatever life he was bought into? What more could I offer him than remembrance of a life he will never again see?
I sit down on the floor right where I am and open the correspondence in my notebook. I read it and then again and then again. I don't know how many times I have read it since it first was sent.
I don't stop reading it until I hear the footsteps of someone walking down into the incubation chamber. It must be a child because the sound does not roll as an orderly would. I pick my head up and see that it is D-6. Cautiously, he makes his way over to me and sits down.
For a while we sit silently in the comfort of each other's presence. We both know there is nothing to say but for now we are okay with that. We are okay knowing someone else can feel what we feel.
D-6 puts his head down. "What if we went after him?" he suggests, but looks like he can tell how insane that sounds.
"It's not worth it," I say.
"Why not?" he asks, even though he knows damn well why.
D-6 looks over as if this thought had never occurred to him. I can't tell if my words are helpful.
We go up the stairs, into the foyer, and out the door. The hills are not far, just about a ten-minute walk from the home. The sun is beginning to fade behind the trees when we reach the top of the tallest knoll. D-6 slinks down onto the grass and I do the same. We look at the trees as they rustle in the wind. It is almost as if they are dancing.
"Will I ever see him again?" he asks and I smile.
We sit until the sun is no longer visible and the sky has turned a bright auburn. I don't want to get up and neither does he. For a moment, we can see the entire world.
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My lovely sister in law (Aunt BB) doesn't believe I've ever cooked something I had to throw out, so here's another example just from yesterday.
I posted last week that we were going to try homemade sourdough and that I had the starter bubbling on the counter. I fed the starter for a week, stirring and nurturing it (although I did fudge a little in the beginning and added real not "wild" yeast). Yesterday, I decided it was time to give a loaf of bread a try.
My first goof was that I forgot to make the sponge the night before. The recipe I was using said to leave it in the oven overnight, but the two cups of milk…overnight….just didn't sound appealing. So I did it right before work and put it in the oven (with the light on) for a couple of hours. At lunch, I added the rest of the ingredients. Now since I don't really like homemade bread that's all whole wheat, I decided to go half and half with regular white flour. I mixed it all up, wet and gloppy as advertised, and popped it back in the oven to rise.
It didn't quite reach the top of the bowl (so not even close to doubled) but I had plenty to pour into my large 1 1/2 lb loaf pan about 2-3 hours later. I lost track of time in the afternoon so I'm not sure how long exactly. I popped it back in the oven to rise for a while, and when it reached the top of the loaf pan, I started baking.
and the loaf fell into half, with the middle still a gooey nasty mess.
So here we are with half the cooked loaf in the pan, half out on the rack way too gooey to eat (this dough had eggs too), with the top burned, and the inside of my oven nasty to boot. To top it off, I broke off a corner of the cooked loaf and about tossed my cookies into the trash along with the nasty bread. It was sooooo sour. Gah. Not even close to tasty despite the 1/4 c. honey.
Total fail. I almost chucked the starter into the trash too, but I've been taking care of it a WEEK. So I'm going to try again, but this time, I'm trusting Suzanne McMinn's recipe. Yeah, it's white flour, and so not as healthy, but right now, I'm shooting for EDIBLE.
Sorry about your bread fail. McMinn's recipe looks more like the one I've done before. Now I want sourdough bread darn it, LOL.
The only bread pans I use anymore are stoneware ones from Pampered Chef. Totally freaking awesome pans that have never – knock on wood – failed for me, whether yeast bread or quick bread.
I haven't tried a sourdough since I was first married and it was a total FAIL too. Maybe there's some trick to it?
Eek, I ahte bread fails. My worst bread fails were in a stoneware loaf pan that was supposedly the best thing ever… I hated it. Give me a standard, boring glass loaf pan, and edible bread over the new "cool" pans any day.
Thanks, Kait – your recipe will be my back-up backup!
Sherri, I hope my desire for sourdough comes back – right now I still remember that YUCK taste.
Tammy, I have that same loaf pan! I do really like it but I only have one and most of my recipes either need two smaller pans — or I thought I'd do one BIG pan (which is why I bought this commercial one).
Nicole, I have glass pans too, and cheap Wal-Mart ones — all of them worked better than this expensive commercial pan! I keep hoping I'll just get the trick figured out…but there's only so many loaves I'm willing to toss.
I'd be happy to take it, Nicole!
Weird isn't it how one tool works really great for some people and not at all for others?
I think I know what went wrong, and I suspect you may need to throw your starter out.
Why do you think I need to throw the starter out? Let me know because I might try again tomorrow – this weekend for sure.
Somewhere along the way, the starter got contaminated.
Alternatively, it might be that your starter has too much of the type wild yeast that is particularly sour — this could be because your starter didn't 'breathe' enough.
I threw it out. It may be quite some time before I brave sourdough again.


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Hubert and Mauss, in turn, nodding to their debt to earlier research on sacrifice, proceed to lay into the English anthropologists "who are concerned above all with collecting and classifying documents." Ouch.
And in fact, their critique stands on this slight: methodologically the classification of a sacrifice into a typology misses the simple and essential dynamics common to sacrifice as a whole. The unity of the subject is thus a false one, based on the geneological notion that variations of sacrifice derive from Totemic sacrifice in which the idea is to bind the devotees in a common life with the totem or god. Yada, yada, yada.
But, they argue, such an explanation does nothing to explain the mechanism of sacrifice, instead merely reproducing in academic language older, popular conceptions.
So what of this "mechanism" and what does this have to do with education?
This is where H & M are themselves unsatisfyingly old school, presupposing it seems—and granted I'm only just digging in—that the religious explanation somehow clearly accounts for things. The purpose of sacrifice is, in other words, essentially religious: the sacrifice is meant to increase the sacred condition for the participants.
But what if this were the other way around? What if it is the process of sacralization itself that is of benefit: sacrifice generating the religious as a strategy within a world that is not essentially either sacred or secular.
Take for example the notion that cities initially emerged and organized around a sacred metaphysical structure, held together by the god-king. But what if, instead, the emergence of increasingly complex urban forms called for an organizing principle that required a ritualized process of sacred participation collected into a god-king? The chicken or the egg?
What does it matter, if the result is the same? I imagine, in this case, that beginning with religious ritual, oriented to a pre-existing sacred structure, might distract us into thinking that sacrifice has nothing to do with everyday strategies that are not invested with other-worldly significance, or that these are merely watered down expressions of religious functions. But what if the internal group functions of sacrifice are the underlying reason in the first place? And what if the common usage of "sacrifice" to mean any cost undertaken in the name of potential gain is not merely a colloquialization, but part of the underlying mechanism, that on occasion goes down a religious line of investment, but other times down other lines?
If that were the case, we might find that the notion of "self-sacrifice" is not just a safer, more PC expression of a bloodier past, but part of a continuous and pervasive social network of such exchanges. Whether the object of sacrifice is a part of ourselves, or an internal aspect of the group that is singled out in the name of a higher good, through sacrifice we would be sorting out, not our relation to the gods, but what will constitute godly relationships with ourselves.
In that sense, the externalization of the sacrificial object, say in a goat or fruit, is a way of representing our personal valuations. All sacrifice then, would be self-sacrifice. That was my goat, my fruit, my subsistence, my fertility. We would be in the odd condition, then, of sacrificing the very things we want for ourselves. In the name of sacred fertility I will give up a select portion of my crops.
What of education then? Well first, is this not one of our privileged sights of sacrifice, eclipsing more and more, the religious service? The ritualized space of education is inhabited for immense periods of our days and lives. But if it is as sacrificial as the everyday language of education would seem to suggest, would it not also be important to see the nature of the exchange going on?
The workings of self-sacrifice and the conflation of sacrificial-object /desired-ideal, might explain any number of perplexing educational strategies. For example, it could account for why, in arguing that education is good for you because it will empower you in your future life, we so consistently demand that this power be given up in the daily rituals of education. To have power you must sacrifice power.
This is not always distributed so equally either. A certain amount of scape-goating occurs, in both overt and covert ways. This may not just be an unfortunate side-effect, however. If we turn the sacred formula on its head, we might even imagine that this becomes one of the main functions of sacrifice as well as of the operations of education. Witness the shell-game of "poor performers" at play in the shift from public to charter schools.
Like the T-shirt, education will argue that a certain amount of blood-letting is necessary for things to attain their idealized form. But for that to happen, the everyday banal reality of educational space, paraphernalia, and interaction must be invested with an idealizing force. One must believe in gods.


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Q: Information on a Database that was restored with NO RECOVERY I'm working with SQL Server 2008Sp3.
I have a database that was restored from a full backup WITH NO RECOVERY and it then was restored with Transaction log backup files - also WITH NO RECOVERY.
At the moment the database is in Restoring status.
Let's say that couple of hours after the last transaction log restoration I want to continue restore the new 2 hourly transaction logs that were created, and then restore it WITH RECOVERY.
How can I query the status of the database, so I will know what was the last Transaction log backup that was restored on that database?
The reason I'm asking that is because I would like to automate this in a script -
I want to create a daily full restoration of a database on a separate server with all the available Transaction log backups WITH NO RECOVERY, and then upon request (when it's necessary), I'll be able to execute another script that will restore the new Transaction log backups that were created since the end of the daily script + restore it WITH RECOVERY.
My question is regarding the second separate script - finding the rest of the needed Transaction log backups.
Thanks in advance,
Roni.

A: I'm not sure if I fully understand your question. First you say you want to find the last restore made to a certain database. You can find all relevant information (databases, files, lsns, times) on these restores through
SELECT *
FROM [msdb].[dbo].[restorehistory] r
INNER JOIN [msdb].[dbo].[backupset] b
ON b.backup_set_id = r.backup_set_id

But I'm not sure what you mean with "finding the rest of the needed backups". If you want to look at the backups made in an instance you can do this through
SELECT * FROM [msdb].[dbo].[backupset]

Hope that helps.

A: I got the information I needed from the following query:
SELECT top 1    bs.database_name,
                bs.backup_start_date,
                bs.backup_finish_date,
                bs.expiration_date,
                CASE bs.type
                    WHEN 'D' THEN 'Database'
                    WHEN 'L' THEN 'Log'
                    WHEN 'I' THEN 'Differential'
                END AS backup_type,
                bs.backup_size,
                bmf.logical_device_name,
                bmf.physical_device_name,
                bs.name AS backupset_name,
                bs.description
FROM msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily as bmf
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.backupset bs ON bmf.media_set_id = bs.media_set_id
WHERE (CONVERT(datetime, bs.backup_start_date,102) >=GETDATE()- 7)
AND bs.database_name='<DB NAME>'
ORDER BY bs.database_name,bs.backup_finish_date desc

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Ganesha (Gaņeśa)
God of Obstacles
1 Etymology and other names
2 Iconography
2.1 Common attributes
3 Worship and festivals
3.1 Ganesh Chaturthi
4 Associations
4.1 Aum
4.2 Buddhi
4.3 First chakra
4.4 Mouse as vahana
5 Family and consorts
5.1 Buddhi, Siddhi, and Riddhi
5.2 Interpretations of relationships
5.3 Motif of shaktis
6 Rise to prominence
6.1 First appearance
6.2 Possible influences
6.3 Vedic and epic literature
6.4 Puranic period
Possible influences
Courtright reviews various speculative theories about the early history of Ganesha, including supposed tribal traditions and animal cults, and dismisses all of them in this way:
In this search for a historical origin for Gaņeśa, some have suggested precise locations outside the Brāhmaṇic tradition.... These historical locations are intriguing to be sure, but the fact remains that they are all speculations, variations on the Dravidian hypothesis, which argues that anything not attested to in the Vedic and Indo-European sources must have come into Brāhmaṇic religion from the Dravidian or aboriginal populations of India as part of the process that produced Hinduism out of the interactions of the Aryan and non-Aryan populations. There is no independent evidence for an elephant cult or a totem; nor is there any archaeological data pointing to a tradition prior to what we can already see in place in the Purāṇic literature and the iconography of Gaņeśsa.
Thapan's book on the development of Ganesha devotes a chapter to speculations about the role elephants had in early India, but concludes that:
Although by the second century AD the elephant-headed yakṣa form exists it cannot be presumed to represent Gaṇapati-Vināyaka. There is no evidence of a deity by this name having an elephant or elephant-headed form at this early stage. Gaṇapati-Vināyaka had yet to make his debut.
One theory of the origin of Ganesha is that he gradually came to prominence in connection with the four Vināyakas. In Hindu mythology the Vināyakas were a group of four troublesome demons who created obstacles and difficulties, but who were easily propitiated. The name Vināyaka is a common name for Ganesha both in the Purāṇas and in Buddhist Tantras. Krishan is one of the academics who accepts this view, stating flatly of Ganesha that "He is a non-vedic god. His origin is to be traced to the four Vināyakas, evil spirits, of the Mānavagŗhyasūtra (7th-4th century B.C.) who cause various types of evil and suffering."


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