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Kira Birnie: An 8 Year Old's View on the Meaning of Life | The Great Conquest
In today's episode of the Becoming the Big Me Podcast your host Djemilah Birnie chats with her own daughter, Kira Birnie, as a part of the Great Conquest project. Kira Birnie is a passionate 8 year old who has a pure joy for life. She loves dancing, gymnastics, horses, her family, and her friends. She is currently in the third grade and has spent the past nearly two years living in the midst of a global pandemic. She is the host of A Kid's Perspective Podcast and has more business ideas then her mama can keep up with. This is her view on the meaning of life.
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Hello, hello, you guys. Welcome back to the becoming the big me podcast. I'm your host Djemilah Birnie, and I'm so incredibly excited because I have a very special guest with me here today. And I think it's very fitting that I have such a special guest here for the 100th episode of my podcast. And I'm someone that has had such a big influence in my life. And I'm so blessed to be able to have her as a part of the becoming the big me the great conquest project. Because without this human being, becoming the big me would not be a thing this human being is what sparked my own personal conquest. And what sparked me on this mission to spread this information, spread the things that have helped me on my own journey to others. So without further ado, you guys, my own daughter, Kyra Bernie, welcome to the show. Hi.
Oh, babe, thank you for coming on, and taking the time out of your so busy schedule to be here with us. I'm just really excited to have you here. And I want to know, from your perspective, as an eight year old child who has grown up with me, as a mother, I want to know, what is your perspective on the meaning of life? Um, well, I think the meaning of life is to find your purpose and follow your dreams. And a way to find your purpose is like, let's say you want to be a dancer, and you see people doing dances, and then you ask your mom for money. So you can do ballet classes. And then you start doing more bigger things like doing shows. And then you start, like you, for instance, you might be even, might even come famous.
And you do just by doing, like starting off by asking your mom did you dance classes, and then the next
and then doing like,
like doing, like doing something doing like something on a stage like something like that. And then and then you do something on stage in front of more people. And then you do a dance in front of more people with a bigger stage. And then you could just become like, you could become famous by just building your way up to what you want to be.
Wow, so are you saying that we don't have to go after like the whole dream all at one time? Yeah, you just take it take the like say, Oh, I think I've never become a fit. A famous dancer. Like, I don't know somebody who's a famous dancer.
And then you just take ballet classes because you want to and then you notice Oh, I can actually do this. I can I can build my way up. And then I can do the thing that you want to do.
ancing on a stage in front of: 1000
What was I telling you this morning? Um, I will just kind of how you used to kind of feel that way. Yeah. And it can you kind of share how that made you act. I tried to act older. And because I was like, seven. And I always were like this leather jacket, and I tried to be sassy. And I actually still a few things when I was younger. But I regret that all so much. And I am trying to do way better than I had before.
But do you feel like that was because why it was? Because you are other people? Because I thought what other people think of me, they wouldn't think of me as the cool girl or the fine girl, or the sassy girl or whatever.
Why don't you realize, I realize that trying to holding your laugh, holding your smile, or trying to just be somebody that you are not just makes you feel bad and makes you feel just sad in the end. So So what do you do?
Just be yourself. Do what you want to do it, do it how you want to do it, not because you don't want other people telling you what to do. And not talking about parents parents can tell you what to do because your parents, like other kids, like I sit, say an eight year old comes up to me and says you're not pretty. Or Pink. Pink looks ugly on you. And I'm like, well, pink does not look ugly on me. It look pink might look ugly on me to you. But it looks beautiful on me to me because I do what I want to do. And I am me and not you. So it doesn't matter what you think. Hmm.
Wow, how how did you like come to that conclusion? Because I think that that is like what you just said is something that so many adults I know need to hear. How did you like how did you come to that conclusion?
I don't know just one day kind of snapped at me. And it was weird. I don't know.
snapped at you. Do you feel like snap snapped into your brain and just kind of like,
in your brain?
Is that what happened? Um, do Does that have any a lot? Like is I feel like that's like an intuitive download. Does that?
Does that make any sense? Do you know what I'm talking about? Oh, okay. I have no idea. So I know that you were like talking about purpose and things like that.
Is there something that you feel like can like help show us if something is our purpose? Like, how do we know? If you're happy when you're doing it or just happy in general? Like, like happy because love it. Or it's just something that you want to achieve in life like being kind everyday. That's one of my purposes in life, I think. And I love to dance, which is one of my goals, dreams and purposes. And I love to sing and stuff like that, but they're all there. They're all stuff that like you have to work up to your biggest goal. Like if you want to sing on stage, first you have to probably start singing just at home to your mom and then start singing at church and then acquire and then you could which still church and then building it up until you're on a stage that you wanted to be on and singing what you want it to be singing and not because anybody else was holding you back. Huh?
Yeah, yeah. But like what if what if it there are people in your life that are you know, trying to hold you back? Ah, um, well.
Well, then you tell them that.
I'm going to follow your I'm going to follow my dreams.
initiative.
Wow, you heard it here first, straight from Kara's mouth.
I'm gonna follow my dreams. And you should too. That's what we all need to say in response to haters. That's what we all need to say in response to people who don't understand our vision don't understand our inner selves and our desires and our intentions. Yeah. And our dreams exactly when
you tell them.
So what is like, I want to know, like, what,
what is the hardest thing that you deal with currently at school?
Like people telling me that
you shouldn't be, you shouldn't look like that. You should look, you should look different. You should be different. You should, like wear something different. You shouldn't be you. And I tell them, I'm being me. And you should. And.
And then if they keep doing that, I might tell the teacher if they're being mean, to me really mean, but I usually gather up a group of friends. And we both we all do. We all talk to each other and try to work it out. And sometimes that's how I make new friends. But sometimes, but most of the time, they usually back off after I say, I'm following my dreams, and you should too, or something like that.
Which is
good to up just to just help make people understand that they should follow their dreams just like I am. Do you think that by you, like doing it? Are you like, almost giving them permission to do it too?
Or kill some people, but some people don't really care?
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
What? What do you do just to like, keep keep up such a positive attitude. Because I know that like things are not always easy. Like our life has not always been easy. You know, you've been raised by a single mom, we've moved a lot and
like, what do you do to stay in a positive attitude? Well, I have
a very, very close best friend. And I usually talk to her. And she says, you can talk to me about anything, and I'll help you, obviously, cuz she's very supportive and nice. And if you have a best friend, get you in like mine, and because she's nice, and she really cares. And I care about what she says too. And we're just really close like that, where probably we kind of say sometimes we're like, we're as close as sisters or close it and sisters. And we're just really close together and we talk to each other almost every day and it's really nice. Yeah, I know that like Annie has helped you a lot to your puppy. Puppies helped me and there are also some things that are just things that help you like, I don't know chef's relieving things, but it's mostly like people in like animals that helped me like
my cat a mon also know almond
also knows the crack rat.
Now we also known as the butterball and yeah, I have a lot of friends that support me too.
Yeah, having having connections is a very important thing for the human species. Yeah. Knowing that there are people in your tribe tried. Well, I try it. Back in the day it was you know, we were in tribes and so having that connection with other humans was was like a survival instinct. I know it's just not bad. No, not anymore. No, but your brain. Our brains still need connection. I know but why did you seek?
I don't know what do you click clock and everyone's like, what does all this sound? What did you click clacking over here? It's just two crystals. I'm playing with them because my my fingers are getting antsy to me too. I'm playing with one too. I'm
Just playing with it quieter because yeah, I only got one we are fidgety, fidgety, fidgety fidgety is
that can it keeps getting?
What do you do? Like?
I want to know, what do you think, is something that everyone could do? More of? Like everyone like me, adults, kids, like, what's something that we need to do more of
kind to one or the other, and
just trying to have good vibes and being nicer. And because like what you say affects other people. If you say something to that person, obviously, you're trying to affect that person, most of the time. And, but if you're not trying to, like you're trying to affect one person, but then it spreads to another person and people keep getting, like angry or sad. Or you can just try to help them out. And try to keep like your main thoughts in your head. Because then my teacher says, Keep your thoughts in your head, so we won't hear them. Because it feel like trying to say something about her like her glasses are ugly. You shouldn't say that out loud. Especially if they're your friend. You're like, oh, yeah, but dress looks beautiful. And then you rain, you're like, yeah, that dress looks ugly. St. You should not say mean things to people. And you should try to be as kind as you can, even if sometimes it's not true. Like, well, I don't like lying. But sometimes you can sometimes it's a good thing. Like, if it's like you're saying you're just as pretty when it's really not that pretty in your mind, but she thinks it's pretty ceiling want to bring her happiness down. So you just think it is kind of just like, if you don't have anything nice to say. Don't say just don't say it at all. Yeah.
I mean, I agree with that. I agree with that. What I I'm curious, though, like, how can we address maybe even the judgment in our own minds, you know, like, so we don't even have to think it? How do we address that? I have no idea. That's that's next level. Like, that's fourth grade.
Like, try to, like try to not worry about other people try to worry about yourself.
Like, Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that person has this on Oh, yeah, that person has this, this, this and this and that. And this and that. It doesn't, it shouldn't matter to you.
Unless, like they're talking to you obviously. It should, like just matter to that the person that they're talking to or the person then themselves. And, um, you should just keep your bad thoughts in your head if you have them but if just try to not have thoughts that are mean or something, just because um,
you know, you don't want to accidentally slipping out or something and it's just that's how you lose friends. So um,
yeah, just
is there anything that you do to like help kind of, I don't know train your thoughts maybe like to help keep your thoughts good.
Like you could use like, do meditating in yoga and have a nice brand like a and like I already said, have like a support animal, or any if you don't have any of those things.
Which you should have a friend or something probably. But if you don't, you can use your stuffed animals and like, if you don't have an animal in the middle of the night, when you get scared, you can snuggle with a big stuffed animal like that. You could like say, Oh yeah, this subject I'm almost with every night hug every night because it's going to be my like, protect it like a baby. Take your baby. I love it. Do you know my baby? Do you have any final thoughts? To share?
I'm hungry.
Oh, ready bad. No. Well, then we will wrap things up. Thank you so much for you know sitting down with me and chatting today. I really appreciate it. Yeah, those fun.
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A group of former Check Point workers managed to piss off Palo Alto Networks
The cyber giant threatened to sue Israeli startup Orca security for posting a video comparing the two platforms
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Avi Shua, the co-founder and CEO of Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup Orca Security Ltd., managed to ruffle the feathers of American cyber giant Palo Alto Networks. In September, Orca conducted a comparison test between its own technology and that of Palo Alto Networks in a video it posted on YouTube.
In response, the Santa Clara-based company sent a letter to the Israeli startup demanding it immediately remove the video. The reason, a clause in its contract "prohibiting an end user from disclosing, publishing, or otherwise making publicly available any benchmark, performance or comparison tests," without permission.
Orca Security co-founders Avi Shua and Gil Geron. Photo: Orca Security
Comparison tests are one of the most significant tools for selecting technologies in the computing world and for young startups, they provide an opportunity to showcase their capabilities relative to the giants they are usually up against.
"A few weeks ago, Orca Security published a comparison between the Orca Cloud Security Platform and a few other cloud security tools—including a comparison with Palo Alto Networks Prisma. In response, Palo Alto Networks sent a cease and desist letter, demanding the comparison be removed immediately, Shua wrote in a blog post in response to Palo Alto Networks' letter.
In his full response, he chose to address what he believed was the central issue, namely transparency in the tech sector.
"The cybersecurity community preaches about many products. All come with their own advantages and disadvantages, capabilities, and limitations. I believe that the only way practitioners can choose the tools that fit their environments best is by viewing factual evidence—not by relying solely on marketing materials. This is why we launched our Cloud Security Punch-Out! Series, where we deploy a few tools—including Orca Security—on the exact same environment and share the results with viewers who deserve to see them. I urge you to take a look at the one we did with Palo Alto Networks; as you'll see we don't hide those areas where Palo Alto Networks shines.
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"Unfortunately, Palo Alto Networks is now trying to use legal threats to prevent us from publishing these video reviews. In its letter, Palo Alto Networks does not point to any factual inaccuracies in the reviews of its products' performance. Instead, it premises its threats on flimsy, boilerplate contract terms that prohibit reviews and comparisons of its products and hollow trademark allegations purporting that Palo Alto Networks is sponsoring the videos.
"Palo Alto Networks, do you think your products are flawless or that the bad guys will follow along, not openly talking about products' deficiencies? If the answer is no to both, then why resort to legal threats to remove such benchmarks and comparisons? I refuse to accept a world where any vendor believes it has the right to prevent the free flow of information, and control which product reviews are made publicly available," Shua concluded.
Orca Security has raised a total of $26 million from a series of investors including multinational venture capital fund GGV Capital, YL Ventures GP Ltd. and Silicon Valley CISO Investments (SVCI). The company has offices in Israel and the U.S. The company develops cloud security software for detecting malware and vulnerabilities and protecting assets on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Orca Security's team. Photo: Orca Security
Orca Security's co-founders Shua (CEO), Gil Geron (CPO), senior architects Matan Ben Gur, and Liran Antebi, senior software engineers Hadas Amitay, Wagde Zabit, and Shay Filosof, and Eti Spiegel-Khobra (success manager), are all former employees of Check Point.
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Essay on Kalevipoeg
Posted on April 23, 2013 by Thomas Mets
This was an essay I wrote a few years ago about the Estonian epic Kalevipoeg.
Like Kalevala was for the Finns,Kalevipoeg was a conscious attempt to create the Estonian nation's version of Greek epics such as The Iliad, and The Aeneid. In 1839, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann wanted to make a national epic poem about the Estonian hero Kalevipoeg, a task eventually undertaken by Kreutzwald after Faehlmann's death. Kreutzwald would publish Kalevipoeg in six installments of three to four chapters each with the Learned Estonian Society.
Anta Oras explained the significance of the two nineteenth century epics on their respective nations in his foreword to Kalevipoeg, explaining that it was "generally regarded as the national epic of the Estonian people, exactly as the Kalevala is considered the national epic of the Finns. Its influence on the national feeling in Estonia has been as great as that of the Kalevala in Finland. In both cases the publication of the epics, more perhaps than any other cause, created a sense of national identity, of self-confidence and pride. What happened, in its consequences, was as much a political as a literary event. The creation of a national epic was almost equivalent to the creation of a nation(ix)." Both epics became possible "in the anti-classicist movement culminating in Romanticism" as scholars became interested in the "folk songs, folk ballads, sagas, and fairy tales of the common people" (x) and the unique spirit of their nations.
As translator George Kurman explained in his afterword to Kalevipoeg, "the publication of German translations of Estonian folk songs by J. G. Herder and others served to counteract the disregard or even contempt with which native poetry was regarded by the ruling class" (278). Without this changing attitude in literary and cultural sensibilities, these stories would not have been written down, compiled and preserved, and the oral traditions would instead have been lost forever. Instead, we have two epics which have had a measurable impact upon their nations, from the success of Kalev brand chocolate bars in Estonia to the celebration of Kalevala Day in Finland every February 28, on the anniversary of the 1835 completion of Old Kalevala.
Despite the numerous similarities, including the names, the two epics are distinct, featuring unique sets of heroes and narrative structures. Kalevala refers to a place, possibly the Viena Karelian villages, although the exact setting remains a matter of some controversy.[1] The vast majority of Kalevipoeg follows the titular hero, except for the first chapter, which features the story of how his parents met. Although Kreutzwald references the hero's real name "Sohni" briefly (24) the hero is always known as Kalevipoeg: the "poeg" or "son" of Kalev, who is absent for the majority of the text.
Kreutzwald, the composer of Kalevipoeg, and his predecessor Faehleman, had a more demanding task than Lonnrot, compiler of the Kalevala. Oras explained how the Estonians had less narrative material than the Finns, and it wasn't until Kruetzwald "became acquainted with the German translation of the second edition of the Finnish Kalevala" (281) that he realized the ideal method of creating an Estonian national epic. He overestimated the extent to which Lonnrot had created new transitional material in order to coordinate collected songs into an epic whole. Kreutzwald did more than just create new transitions and place an order to events, as he cast "the entire work, including all of his collected prose material, into verse imitation of traditional Estonian song" (281) despite the lack of references to Kalevipoeg in any recorded Estonian folk songs.
The completed epic came from a variety of sources, mostly Estonian oral tradition, including folk tales, folk songs and fairy tales. The majority of the material was based on stories that had previously not been associated with Kalevipoeg, although now most of those stories are now identified with no one else. Some of the material was based on Finnish stories, and some of it was invented by Kreutzwald. The idea that Kalev and his relatives were demigods with human and divine ancestors was borrowed from Greek mythology. The description of "offshoots of immortals bred into this world from the laps of mortal mothers" (12) was completely foreign to the Estonian folk tradition, although it provided Kreutzwald with an explanation for the abilities of Kalevipoeg, and his relatives.
Due to their proximity Estonia and Finland have similar sources for some of their oral tradition, which led to similarities between the finished texts. Kalevipoeg did include some references to Kalevala, as in the twelfth tale, in which Ilmarine, one of the heroes of Kalevala crafted a sword for Kalevipoeg (152). A similar sword would have fatal consequences for Kullervo, as another sword would for Kalevipoeg.
Both heroes would have violent deaths, although there were numerous other similarities between the two tales. The story of Kullervo was Lonnrot's most significant addition to his second edition of The Kalevala, composing six of the fourteen new runos, making it significantly shorter than Kalevipoeg. Despite its absence from Old Kalevala, it remains popular, considering the number of works of art based on Kullervo at the Ateneum. The story began with a vicious attack on the house of Kalervo, and the slaughter of almost everyone present. The sole survivor, a pregnant housemaid gave birth to a child who quickly demonstrated amazing strength, and at the age of three months vowed to avenge his father. (238) There were hints that he was the reincarnation of Kalervo, although there were few explanations regarding the housemaid's relationship with the man, aside from the description of her son as "the son of Kalervo" (270).
Kullervo was quickly sold to slavery to the smith Ilmarinen, one of the rare characters to appear in both Kalevipoeg and Kalevala. After the initial bloody adventures in which he killed Ilmarinen's mistress, Kullervo discovered that he was the son of Kalervo and his wife (no explanation was given regarding the pregnant housemaid), and that he had a brother and two sisters, all five of whom were alive, although one of the sisters was missing. This was inconsistent with the first half of the story, but provided Kullervo with brief happiness. After some bad luck with women, Kullervo seduced a young girl, who he discovered was his missing sister. She killed herself by jumping into rapids. After Kullervo told the story to his family, he vowed that he too would end his life, joining a military campaign in the hopes of dying in combat. When that didn't happen, and his father, sister, brother, and mother died (in that order) he decided to stab himself with a sword. The sword had no objection to this, noting that it had killed many innocent people before, and would have no objection to smiting one who had committed such crimes. The story had an obvious moral, as the hero Vainomoinen heard of the tragedy, and noted that parents should do a better job of raising their children (287).
The fourth chapter of Kalevipoeg includes a similar story in which Kalevipoeg seduces a young woman, who slips off a cliff upon learning his name. There's a scene in the seventh chapter in which her ghost sings of a brother doing the things Kalevipoeg does (86) and the implication is that she killed herself upon learning that they were siblings. It is inconsistent with the introduction of her parents (who were not Kalevipoeg's parents) and the scenes in which they mourn their lost daughter. It represents the most striking similarity between the two epics, and remains the only explanation for the maiden's strange behavior.
While Kullervo was driven to suicide by the death of the girl he seduced, the maiden's death had no such effect upon Kalevipoeg, although he was killed by his own sword. This was a consequence of his stupidity. He had previously asked Ilmarinen to craft for him the finest sword ever made. During a celebration for the crafting of such a fine weapon, the drunken Kalevipoeg used this sword to kill the swordsmith's eldest son. It's notable that Kullervo suffered no repercussions for killing Ilmarinen's mistress, although he had better reasons for doing so. Ilmarinen put a curse on the sword, vowing that it would kill Kalevipoeg. While the sword enabled Kalevipoeg to kill more enemies than he usually would, the hero soon lost it in a brook. When the sword told him how it was happier there, Kalevipoeg allowed it to remain, but ordered it to cut off the legs of anyone who waded into the brook to prevent his enemies from ever being able to use it against him. Kalevipoeg went on to have more adventures, and become king of Estonia. In the final chapter, he renounced the kingship and came to the forbidden brook by accident, where the sword cut off his legs, fulfilling the wishes of its owner and the swordsmith who crafted it. Thus Kalevipoeg bled to death, receiving the usual grim fate for the epic hero. In contrast to Kullervo's story, this death wasn't one the hero wanted, although his previous actions had preordained it.
In the final pages, Kalevipoeg is rejected admission into heaven, and there are hints that he will return one day when his country needs him to "bring his children happiness, and build Estonia's life anew" (266) similar to the final fate of King Arthur. This ending influenced many later Estonian writers to craft their own stories of the country's legendary hero, and may have contributed to Kalevipoeg's continued success as an iconic figure for the Estonians. The ending's nostalgic message resonated with the people, suggesting a potential return to the glory days of a better Estonia, even if actual history demonstrated how brief those days had been.
Unlike Kalevipoeg, Vainomoinen survives to have new adventures although it is implied that he will never return to Finland. The differences to the endings may be the result of Finland having a better history when it came to foreign invasions[2]. While Kalevala was credited with the 19th Century Finnish nationalism movement, the Finns had more freedom than the Estonians. When Tsar Alexander of Russia became the ruler of the nation, he agreed to respect Finland's laws, and make it a Grand Duchy as opposed to a part of the nation. This ensured there was less nostalgia for a free Finland than there was for a free Estonia, which allowed for Kalevala's optimistic ending.
Because the work is relatively recent, much more is known about the construction of the Kalevipoeg epic than about the genesis of the ancient epics. Since the Learned Estonian Society published Kalevipoeg in six volumes between April 1857 and August 1861, Kreutzwald was able to address critics of early chapters in his later tales. Thus, the fifteenth chapter begins with Kreutzwald addressing the controversy the text has caused, and insulting its most vocal detractors (the clergy.) The ninth tale ended with an antiwar coda, which Kreutzwald had written long before he began work on Kalevipoeg, and added for no narrative reason, save that he had a new audience for it.
Kreutzwald immediately recognized the cultural significance of the project. In his preface to the second edition, he wrote that Kalevipoeg was meaningful because "the oppression of war and deadly plague, the torture of hunger and the chains of slavery, have bruised the Estonian people and devastated their land more than once, but all of these miseries were unable to erase from the minds of the people a memory left over from a distant age of happiness- from the days of Kalevipoeg" (xiii). He was correct in describing Estonia's long history of invasions and foreign domination. The constant foreign rule ensured that the idea that Kalevipoeg was "the defender of people's freedom and last ruler of an independent Estonia" (287) held a certain resonance with all who heard or read the story. By providing a definite setting for the tales of "a giant of the indefinitely distant past" Kreutzwald forever altered the context of those stories. This concept was important to its success, and provided one reason for the continued relevance of the epic when Estonia was taken over by the Soviet Union in the Twentieth Century, after a brief fifteen years of independence. Estonia gained its independence in 1990 and Kalevipoeg remains popular. Time will this will continue when the idea of Estonia as an independent nation isn't seen as a distant hope, attainable dream or recent blessing.
"The Vienna Karelian Folklore Villages" 1999. Jumineko Kalevalan ja Karjalsen kultuuriin Informaatlokeskus, 1 May 2007.
< http://www.juminkeko.fi/viena/en/taustaa.html/>
"A Brief History of Finland" LocalHistories.org. 2004. 7 May 2007 <http://www.localhistories.org/finland.html>
Lonnrot, Elias. The Kalevala Epic of the Finnish People. Trans.Eino Frieberg. Helsinki: Otava, 1988
Kreutzwald. Kalevipoeg An Ancient Estonian Tale. Trans. Juri Kurman. Moorestown: Symposia, 1982
Oras, Ants. Foreword. Kalevipoeg An Ancient Estonian Tale by FR Kreutzwald. Moorestown: Symposia, 1982
[1] An explanation of Kalevala's cultural relationship with these villages is available at <http://www.juminkeko.fi/viena/en/taustaa.html>
[2] A brief history of Finland is available at <http://www.localhistories.org/finland.html>
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Budapest: A Tale of Two Soups – Part 1: Goulash
Neil Sentance | 19th September 2015
The Danube, Liberty Bridge and Gellert Spa
Words and pictures by Neil Sentance
Almost mandatory on a first visit to Hungary, the bowl of hot pungent goulash arrives at the table after a glass of Dreher beer has been downed. Gulyasleves is the stuff of the ancient Magyar kingdoms, originally a cattleman's rich stew of meat and vegetables, ladled straight from vast iron cauldrons in encampments on the plains. The broth came to be spiced with paprika and sweet peppers, and over the years embellished by influences from other cultures, east and west. A dish for a Janus-faced city then, a city founded in the post-Roman vacuum by Uralic tribes, in a nation surrounded by Slavs and Germans. This kind of bounding ethnographic speculation was of course beloved of the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, who at the midpoint of his legendary trek from Holland to Constantinople in 1934 stayed nearby to our cafe, in Uri utca (Gentleman Street), 'a waving street of jutting windows, tiled roofs and arched doors with coats of arms'. Harboured in a book-filled house, his mornings were spent perched on a window-seat making his 'fumbling assault' on the intractable Magyar language and sipping Alka-Seltzers after his nights on the tiles over in Pest. Our soup warms and restores – with a nod to Paddy Leigh Fermor we order another beer and talk about the hard business of doing not much at all.
Alive to the spirit of Leigh Fermor we had crossed the broad Danube on a sun-filled early March morning via the Lanchid or Chain-Bridge. This graceful wrought iron and stone structure was the first permanent link between the two halves of this fissile city, built by Victorian British engineers for Count Szechenyi, Hungary's great nineteenth-century moderniser. On the Buda side, the bridge is anchored near the restored funicular, little compartments of dark burnished wood and polished iron – you sit on a small bench, and out of the plate glass window take in the widening perspective of the river as you are hauled up the rockside. At the top we stepped off into the palace and fortress complex of the Var, the limestone plateau that dominates the skyline of the old city. Its vermiculated streets still follow their ancient course, all cobblestone and pantiles, a scene of picture-book Mitteleuropa. The Hungarians are great recorders – many houses display a stone plaque, a muemlek, detailing their history. We walked around following the scribing of history, all the layers partly effaced but still perceptible: medieval, Ottoman, Habsburg, and the wars and political tumults of the twentieth century. Fierce fighting in early 1945 between the holed-up Waffen-SS units and the rampaging Red Army left the Var in ruins. The locals cowered for weeks underground during the siege, a feral existence: we gaped into the maw of a cellar seen through holes in a rubbly wall in the Tarnok utca, its street-level masonry shell-pitted and crumbling. The hunched old people, hobbling to the supermarket on the paved streets, might have told us a shuddering tale. After the devastation of the Second World War, much of remnant castle district was demolished in the communist era, and many of the buildings here are reconstructions, some old re-pointed stone walls with concrete fascias or factory-made tiles.
Var residence, with muemlek
Buda, as much as its conjoined sister across the river, lives with vivid encrustations of history on its spalled face. But the castle area retains its domesticity, with schools, homes and small cafes and general stores among the government blocks. The streets are quiet and under-lit, cars few, overflying aircraft nil. There are desultory tourists from Britain and Germany and some squawking Italian teenagers at Matyas Church, but overall there is a hushed quality, like an old country town, inspiring a reflective reverence for its long history. Leigh Fermor loved Buda's silent walls and steep streets, its Dr Caligari slants and shades, the resonances of the city's peculiar story. He would survey the river from the ramparts of the Fishermen's Bastion before 'rushing down full-tilt and haring across the Chain Bridge to Pest', often to the fabled Arizona, 'the scintillating cave of the most glamorous night-club I have ever seen'. Its revolving floor reputedly paraded horses, camels, even elephants, and 'spangled acrobats' and 'human pagodas', its gaudy rooms an effervescent confection, its chandeliers draped with gilded girls dangling upside-down … The building today houses a photography museum, but the part-coloured glass steps down to the basement promise a whiff of this pre-war wonder. Behind a screen we find a faded door, but sadly it is locked, and whatever remains of Paddy's spectacular cabaret stays out of reach.
The former home of the Arizona ('the most glamorous nightclub I have ever seen', Patrick Leigh Fermor)
Leaving the Var through a modest side-gate, we descend into Víziváros (Watertown), once inhabited by Danube fishermen and artisans, now a gentrifying district of stepped alleyways, schools and sturdy blocks of nineteenth-century flats angularly built into the hillside. This afternoon it is a place of fugitive light and fleeting cloud, old gas-lamps flickering as the sun goes down over the Var. We stop at a café, leg-weary, and drink another of the coffees that Budapestis excel in brewing. We talk of Antal Szerb, author of the enchanting Journey by Moonlight from 1937, a true polymath and one of the great European writers of the interwar period. Jewish by heritage though Catholic by upbringing, he'd been killed by the Nazis in a labour camp near the end of the war. The moral contamination of those years still hangs heavy in modern Hungarian consciousness. At nearby Szilagyi Dezso ter in 1945 the fascist Arrow Cross lined up Jewish men, women and children alongside the banks of the Danube before massacring them all, another in a rush of atrocities that marked the late-consigned Budapest holocaust. Leigh Fermor writes little about the darkening political and social forces he must have witnessed before the war. At one point in Between the Woods and the Water, he tells of his agreeable encounter with Pal Teleki, once and future premier of Hungary, who would later play a game of brinkmanship with the anti-Semites and Axis supporters and end up killing himself early in the war, unreconciled with the country's role in the unfolding terror and yet complicit in it. It is nearly dark when we leave the bright lights of the café and hurry back to the Chain Bridge.
Another day, another Fermoresque hangover from the last night's pálinka, and we set off for the west bank of the river again. A pair of jackdaws rise from the spars on the Elisabeth Bridge, the shortest of Budapest's crossings over the swirling Danube. Rebuilt in the early 1960s after the original had been destroyed by the retreating Wehrmacht in 1945, we walk its elegant length, its slender lines of white cables leading the eye to the colossal foot of Gellért Hill. This rugged mound of dolomite rises 420 feet above the river embankment. Parents with youngsters are on their Sunday morning constitutionals, passing us as we struggle up the thin paths. The exercise is doing us good, but my legs feel like last year's rhubarb. We reach the Liberation Monument, a bronze female figure holding a palm leaf 100 feet in the air. The locals call it 'The Bottle-opener', but as with much of the public art in the city it has been co-opted at various times by both Left and Right in the metropolitan storytelling. Behind the monument is the Cittadella, a stolid Habsburg era fortification, and from its walls we look out on the impressive panorama we had sweated up the hill for: the Pest waterfront, the caudal route of the Danube, the hazy Buda hills and the beginnings of the Great Plain, the Nagy Alföld. And in the near view are the Art Nouveau thermal baths of the Gellért hotel where we later take the waters in pools decorated in classical style with majolica tiles, ornate mosaics and lion-headed nozzles, a good place to soothe our thick heads.
Var from Gellert Hill
The area around Gellért Hill is the Tabán, an old Serb and Ottoman area cleared of its stews and slums around the time that Paddy Leigh Fermor was here. Here there is a relic of the Turkish era, another mineral spa, the Rudas Baths, including a spectacular octagonal pool from 1556. Shafts of light from asterisk-shaped coloured glass apertures in the domed ceiling only dimly illuminate the stone pillars and circuit of hot and cooler baths. On our visit here old men wallow in quiet contemplation or animated discussion. Paddy would have had a piquant foretaste of his destination in these magical oriental halls. After ten days he left Budapest, and another of his riverside girlfriends, to cross the Alföld on horseback, en route to Transylvania and into greater Romania. For us, it is another soup of the day at the Ferihegy airport and the flight back to the rainy southwest of England.
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Walmart's Marketplace strategy with Shopify
Walmart's push to expand beyond its retail store products to become a competing platform vs. Amazon brought Shopify to the table to then become partners mid-June 2020.
Why Shopify
Shopify is connected to over 1M vendors to which can then bring their products to Walmart.com to boost its product diversity, and fuel the vendor relationships that make up a diverse marketplace. Bringing these vendors to expand their reach is the first step, the next has been connecting the Shopify eCommerce stores to the platform.
Bringing your shop to Walmart.com
If you are on Shopify, it is as easy as an app. The below-mentioned app will bring over your store's products to the marketplace, the images, the swatches, and descriptions. Additionally, all order management is interconnected, thus all orders are managed from Shopify's back-end.
Connection: https://apps.shopify.com/walmart-marketplace-integration
Walmart Goals
Walmart is looking to grow rapidly through the Shopify partnership and is on track to blow away the goals that were set for the year, which was 1200 vendors, and as of the end of July 2020, they are looking at 3600 vendors. Walmart sees Amazon's business model be disruptive to its brick and mortar stores, all the while their brand equity is strong. Additionally, the international reach can now be achieved via the online channel's expanded reach via their marketplace.
Is Walmart being smart like Dell Computer was in the '90s and becoming the fast follower to Amazon? This time, innovating away from Retail to Online via a marketplace? Sure, Amazon has had its growing pains with knock-off products, fraudulent vendors, and the like – all of which Walmart will have learned and ensured its guard is up and will avoid these issues – costing the company a lot less to penetrate the space.
Product Diversity
Amazon has become a staple brand for having every product imaginable to be available globally. While the retail king, who has a global reach, but certainly focused on the US market has a new opportunity to become the key competitor as its brand equity carries it internationally. It's not just product diversity but also payment method diversity that is required behind the scenes to which Shopify has cracked the nut on a global scale to offer every vendor a way to take payments online. With the ever-growing smartphone penetration, the ability to shop online for your product cheaper and reliably is becoming reliable.
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Colin James
from Saskatchewan
As the aphorism goes life imitates art and art imitates life. And for an accomplished artist like Colin James, on the occasion of a new chapter in his celebrated Little Big Band series of recordings, the aphorism couldn't be more apt.
On Colin James and The Little Big Band 3 the jump blues and hard r' n' b chestnuts that populate the majority of the album are re-cast in dynamic fashion courtesy of Colin and his exemplary band. Let's not be shy about it - LBB 3 continues its own tradition superbly, and raises the bar in what will be viewed as one of the finest recordings of the year.
By now the basic points in the Colin James resume are well known:
* Saskatchewan born
* First artist signed to the then fledgling Virgin America label
* Well over a million albums sold worldwide
* 6 Juno awards
* 10 albums in nearly 20 years of music making
But the real point to be made today is that Colin is an artist revitalized, an artist who has literally and figuratively found his musical soul. What started on 2005's excellent roots-drenched Limelight is continued on LBB3. It's Colin James the vocalist on display, as much as Colin James guitarist extraordinaire, as our man turns in a bravura singing performance. Hear him meet the challenge of Jackie Wilson's towering "Reet Petite" head on, then contrast it with his take on Solomon Burke's emotive ballad "If You Need Me" and there's no denying Colin's ever increasing interpretative vocal skills.
Talking blues, soul and r'n'b with Colin James is an experience in itself because Colin is not only a gifted artist but a hardcore fan, and a particularly knowledgeable one at that. His personal collection is vast and it informs the process of choosing material for each LBB outing. "A lot of the songs I've chosen for the Little Big Band recordings, I've known since my early teens and feel quite close to them. I always try to write a couple as well. It gives me a great excuse to go and add to the CD collection when researching, and it's also fun to write in the idiom. When we were mixing in Los Angeles I found out Johnny Otis is alive and well living outside of Los Angeles, so we've sent him a copy of "The Night Is Young." I hope he likes it!"
But let's shift the spotlight for a moment to Colin's band, and what a band it is: Rolling Stones' tour keyboardist Chuck Leavell and Stevie Ray Vaughan alumnus Reese Wynans share the ivories. The drummer as always is the lynchpin and on LBB3 it's the madly swinging Bob Ruggiero, whose recent resume includes stints with Van Morrison and Eric Clapton . Bob is complemented by Jeff Sarli on standup bass. Colin's old friends Greg Piccolo and Doug James from Roomful Of Blues anchor a stellar horn section, abetted by Colin's bandleader Steve Hilliam on tenor sax and Terry Townson from Delbert McLinton's band on trumpet. And that's the one and only Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns contributing the trumpet solo that graces Doc Pomus'/Ray Charles' "Lonely Avenue."
Grammy winning vocalist Keb' Mo' delivers a perfect harmony vocal on "That's Where It's At" while Colin Linden, who co-produced LBB3 with Colin James, contributes rhythm guitar.
The relationship between the two Colins is a special one. Lifelong friends' both superb guitarists and blues aficionados, Linden and James are a hand in glove fit. Linden produced the Juno winning 1997 acoustic blues National Steel album and then hooked up again with Colin J for Limelight. A segue to the LBB3 gig was only natural. Linden opines "I've never heard Colin play or sing so amazingly well. I really believe that he's become as great as his heroes, and those guys wore pretty big shoes!"
It's a good story: a young veteran is making some of the best music of his career, having the time of his life doing it and making new fans along the way.
See for yourself when Colin crosses the country in early 2007 on his national theatre tour; in the meantime listen to Colin James and Little Big Band 3 and hear the unrestrained joy that suffuses this most estimable recording.
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Much of Nigeria is thriving, with many individuals enjoying the fruits of a resurgent economy, yet 87 million Nigerians live below $1 and 90 cents a day, making it home to more very poor people than any other nation in the world.
We can remember that sometimes in June this year, the Brookings Institution, an American research group named Nigeria the poverty capital of the world, overtaking India, a country with a total population of over 1.3 billion people. As at the time this report was released, the Federal government asked Nigerians not to put any importance to it as the figures used in the report, were taken when the nation was in its worst economic recession in 29 years.


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Effective immediately, Leica will no longer produce any more new M7 cameras, in black or silver. There still might be a handful in stock at various dealers, but once sold out, no more will be coming from Wetzlar. The same goes for the a la Carte program. No M7-based configurations will be accepted or built for customers wanting a custom camera.
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Q: Time Complexity of smallest range of elements containing at least 1 element from each of the k lists Can someone please elaborate how is the time complexity of this function  O(n^2 * k)? I understand the for loop within the while loop will execute atmost k times.But what I don't understand is the n^2 term.
void findSmallestRange(int arr[][N], int n, int k)
{
  int i,minval,maxval,minrange,minel,maxel,flag,minind;

  //initializing to 0 index;
  for(i = 0;i <= k;i++)
    ptr[i] = 0;

  minrange = INT_MAX;

  while(1)
  {
      // for mainting the index of list containing the minimum element
      minind = -1;
      minval = INT_MAX;
      maxval = INT_MIN;
      flag = 0;

      //iterating over all the list
      for(i = 0;i < k;i++)
      {
          // if every element of list[i] is traversed then break the loop
          if(ptr[i] == n)
          {
            flag = 1;
            break;
          }
          // find minimum value among all the list elements pointing by the ptr[] array
          if(ptr[i] < n && arr[i][ptr[i]] < minval)
          {
              minind=i;  // update the index of the list
              minval=arr[i][ptr[i]];
          }
          // find maximum value among all the list elements pointing by the ptr[] array
          if(ptr[i] < n && arr[i][ptr[i]] > maxval)
          {
              maxval = arr[i][ptr[i]];
          }
      }

      //if any list exhaust we will not get any better answer ,so break the while loop
      if(flag)
        break;

      ptr[minind]++;

      //updating the minrange
      if((maxval-minval) < minrange)
      {
          minel = minval;
          maxel = maxval;
          minrange = maxel - minel;
      }
  }

  printf("The smallest range is [%d , %d]\n",minel,maxel);
}

A: Disclaimer: This actually proves a complexity of O(n * k^2) - I am not (yet) deleting this because maybe someone will find a flaw in my reasoning, or maybe this is the real complexity...
The inner loop is O(k) as you already noticed, the question is how much times will the outer loop be executed?

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*The outer loop will stop being executed as soon as one of the value in ptr is n.

*Your start with ptr[i] = 0 for i = 1 .. k, and for each execution of the outer loop, you increment a single value in ptr.

The worst-possible case is when all the value in ptr are increment successively, i.e. when you get:
ptr = 0 0 0 ... 0
ptr = 1 0 0 ... 0
ptr = 1 1 0 ... 0
...
ptr = 1 1 1 ... 1
ptr = 2 1 1 ... 1

With this scenario, the loop will stop at the following iteration:
ptr = n (n-1) (n-1) ... (n-1)

How much time does it require to go from 0 0 0 ... 0 to n (n-1) (n-1) ... (n-1)? O(n * k) because it require O(n) for one cell to go from 1 to n, and you have k cells in ptr.
So the total complexity seems to be O(n * k^2), and not O(n^2 * k)...

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Which Social Media Platforms are Best for Boutique Businesses?
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Determining the right social media platform/s that a business should maintain a presence on is often tougher than it sounds.
That can be even more difficult for boutique businesses, like dress shops or bakeries, since many are operating on limited budget and bandwidth. There's a general understanding that boutiques should have some sort of presence on certain social platforms, however the platforms you use also need to be able to provide a measured, long-term return on investment to justify any such effort.
So which platforms should boutique businesses focus on?
I decided not to guesstimate - instead, I spoke to several social media professionals, and boutique business owners in themselves, in order to nail down four specific platforms which have delivered results for them and their clients.
Here's a look at four social networks to consider, and what each can do for boutique businesses, both in the short and long term.
Audrey Strasenburgh is an SEO Strategist at online logo design company LogoMaker. Prior to working at LogoMaker, Strasenburgh was a social media manager for a Boston-based SEO agency, where the majority of clients were boutique small business owners.
Then and now, she thinks it's best for most boutique shops to start with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram profiles.
Why Instagram specifically? Strasenburgh says that Instagram offers both short-term and long-term benefits. Boutiques will gain followers and loyal customers in the short-term, and can use the platform to act as a personalized version of their website, deepening connection with customers in the long run.
Home building company Spruce Homes credits Instagram as a "go-to" for boutique business success. Co-Owner Brad Blair uses both Instagram and Facebook to grow the brand - he emphasizes mixing up content on Instagram, especially through raw, real photo and video updates.
As explained by Blair:
"I find you're able to make sales faster, use less marketing dollars, and become better known in the community authentically through Instagram. The platform has all the tools - including Stories, posts, and highlights - that can be used to create loyal, raging fans, and you can do fresh things that your competition isn't."
2. Yelp
Do customers know where to find your boutique business? If the answer is no, changing that to a "yes" should be one of your top priorities.
Yewande Odusanwo is the Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at digital marketing agency Zora Digital - Odusanwo works to create social media strategies for big and boutique businesses. When in doubt, she recommends that her clients utilize the channels that will best resonate with their audiences.
Yelp is one of those platforms, especially for boutique businesses with brick and mortar storefront locations. This is what makes Yelp, considered to be a location-based social platform, perfect for boutiques.
Odusanwo explains:
"What Yelp does is that it helps you establish clientele one customer at a time. Customers that like your business will review the company on Yelp. This will enable you to appear in more local searches, and to a more relevant audience, since people searching on Yelp are looking for boutique businesses just like yours."
Alongside Instagram, Andrew Browne is quick to recommend boutique businesses establish a Pinterest account.
Browne, the owner of Browne Box Creative Solutions, partners with local brands to assist in content planning, creation, and analysis, to boost social performance.
Boutique businesses can get more on Pinterest than just the knowledge that fellow pinners are pinning and repining their aesthetically pleasing photos. According to Browne, Pinterest matters because of its niche realm and reach.
"In the short-term, boutique businesses can learn what content and products the local creative community responds to through the number of repins they receive."
Browne advises boutiques to go a step further than understanding the metrics behind pins - creating boards on Pinterest will better position the business in its long-term stability. Carefully selected, and curated, boards can serve as a source of inspiration for the local creative community, while also attracting niche customers and clients to interact with the boutique business.
Remember when Strasenburgh mentioned earlier that a Facebook Page matters for boutique businesses? Even with ever-limited Page reach, you should still make it a priority to establish one. Facebook may be the grandfather of the social media landscape, but don't underestimate, or rule out the benefits when it comes to business Pages.
"Having a Facebook Page for your business can help boost SEO and online visibility," Strasenburgh points out, noting that a boutique business can get to Google's front page via Facebook.
"A well-optimized Facebook Business Page could end up ranking on the first page of Google, alongside your website. In the long run, Facebook will likely act as a major traffic source to your website - especially so if you decide to run Facebook ad campaigns throughout the year."
So there you have it, a collection of expert insights into where boutique businesses should be looking to maximize their social media time and money. There is no definitive list, and each business will have its own unique quirks and online communities, but if you're not sure where to start, these platforms can offer significant benefits.
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The V-12-Powered Subaru WRX You Never Knew Existed
The art of engine swapping can be traced back nine decades to the earliest days of hot rodding that was then springing up in home garages around the country. The idea of stuffing a larger, more powerful engine into a chassis it has no business in is a rite of passage, so to speak, and this Toyota V-12-swapped Subaru creation is another reminder that almost any engine can be made to fit in almost any vehicle.
The handiwork of Canada's John Proulx, a guy who is all too familiar with not only engine swapping in general, but Toyota engines specifically, this WRX project has social media talking. Having already successfully shoehorned the venerable six-cylinder 2JZGTE into another Subie, this time around he's decided to double up on the cylinder count with Toyota's 1GZ-FE.
If that engine code sounds at all familiar, you might recall that master craftsman Kazuhiko "Smoky" Nagata of Top Secret fame relied on the same power plant about 15 years ago, along with a pair of turbos to power one of his MkIV Supra builds. The 12-cylinder engine originally powered the luxurious 1997-2017 Toyota Century sedan, so it isn't the brute that you might imagine. Good for only about 276 hp—though torque is north of 350 lb-ft—the V-12 can be fiddled with to produce a lot more with the help of boost, and that's in the cards for Proulx as well, with a goal of hitting 1,000 hp with management being handled by a MaxxECU Pro Premium unit.
Along with Mr. Nagata's awesome Supra rendition, we spotted another Toyota V-12-swapped build back in 2017 at the Emirates Custom Show in the Middle East. Stuffed into the bay of a Toyota 86 by @k.k_performance, it featured a quad-turbo setup, carbon fiber intake manifold plenums, and a pair of waste gate exits pointed upward. There are others who have successfully completed the 1GZ-FE swap into other chassis, including the Chaser and Corona, but this is the first one we've seen going into a Subie.
Table for 12?
Dimensionally, the 12-cylinder is about the same length as its 2JZ cousin, with some additional width to squeeze in the other bank of cylinders. Having already completed his first Toyota and WRX marriage, Proulx managed to fit his Subie's 1GZ-FE right into place, and he's done an excellent job of making it look the part, with custom plenums and powder coated valve covers, along with blacked out ancillary parts that tie it all together.
The other interesting part about this build is its transmission, and, before you ask, no, the Subaru will not be all-wheel-drive. To handle the expected power, a BMW dual-clutch unit has been selected and uses a custom adapter plate to join the Toyota mill. Perhaps the Bimmer transmission is controversial in that most would expect a standard shifter to stir, but the paddle shifters he's working on currently bring the intrigue up a few notches in our book.
With plans for a Ford 8.8-in. rear end to help harness the V-12's grunt and, of course, a pair of turbos to make the sort of jam he's after, there remains plenty more to come from this build up. Even if you're not on board with the thought of cross-platform swaps, the work being put in, which looks to be top notch, is worth taking a closer look at. You can follow along with his build as he updates it regularly on his Instagram.
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«Стрше́льнице» () — футбольный стадион в городе Яблонец-над-Нисоу, домашняя арена клуба «Баумит Яблонец».

Первое упоминание о стадионе было ещё в XIX веке, где на месте настоящего стадиона находился стрелковый клуб «Яблонец». В то время стадион был самым важным спортивным сооружением в городе. Сходство с нынешним видом стадион получил в 1955 году, когда была построена главная трибуна, которая просуществовала до 2002 года. Стадион несколько раз модернизировался. Это происходило в 1955, 1996 и 2005 годах. В результате последней на стадионе была установлена система автоматического подогрева почвы. С августа 2007 года стадион носил название букмекерской конторы Chance. С начала сезона 2014/15 стадион вернул своё старое название.

В 2008 году стадион принимал матчи и финал молодёжного чемпионата Европы для игроков не старше 19 лет.

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Ссылки
 История стадиона на официальном сайте «Баумита»
 Фотографии стадиона на сайте fotbalovestadiony.cz
 План стадиона

Футбольные стадионы Чехии

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// used to set import/export for Cygwin DLLs
#ifdef WIN32
#define USING_OBDLL
#endif

#include <openbabel/babelconfig.h>

#include <fstream>

#include <openbabel/mol.h>
#include <openbabel/obconversion.h>
#include <openbabel/forcefield.h>
#include <openbabel/obutil.h>

using namespace std;
using namespace OpenBabel;

#ifdef TESTDATADIR
  string ctestdatadir = TESTDATADIR;
  string cresults_file = ctestdatadir + "gaffresults.txt";
  string cmolecules_file = ctestdatadir + "gaff.sdf";
#else
  string cresults_file = "files/gaffresults.txt";
  string cmolecules_file = "files/gaff.sdf";
#endif

void NGenerateEnergies();

int ffgaff(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  int defaultchoice = 1;

  int choice = defaultchoice;

  if (argc > 1) {
    if(sscanf(argv[1], "%d", &choice) != 1) {
      printf("Couldn't parse that input as a number\n");
      return -1;
    }
  }

  // Define location of file formats for testing
  #ifdef FORMATDIR
    char env[BUFF_SIZE];
    snprintf(env, BUFF_SIZE, "BABEL_LIBDIR=%s", FORMATDIR);
    putenv(env);
  #endif

  if (choice == 99)
    {
      NGenerateEnergies();
      return 0;
    }

  cout << "# Testing GAFF Force Field..." << endl;

  std::ifstream mifs;
  if (!SafeOpen(mifs, cmolecules_file.c_str()))
    {
      cout << "Bail out! Cannot read file " << cmolecules_file << endl;
      return -1; // test failed
    }

  std::ifstream rifs;
  if (!SafeOpen(rifs, cresults_file.c_str()))
    {
      cout << "Bail out! Cannot read file " << cresults_file << endl;
      return -1; // test failed
    }

  char buffer[BUFF_SIZE];
  vector<string> vs;
  OBMol mol;
  OBConversion conv(&mifs, &cout);
  unsigned int currentTest = 0;

  if(! conv.SetInAndOutFormats("SDF","SDF"))
    {
      cout << "Bail out! SDF format is not loaded" << endl;
      return -1; // test failed
    }

  OBForceField* pFF = OBForceField::FindForceField("GAFF");

  if (pFF == NULL) {
    cerr << "Bail out! Cannot load force field!" << endl;
    return -1; // test failed
  }

  pFF->SetLogFile(&cout);
  pFF->SetLogLevel(OBFF_LOGLVL_NONE);

  double energy;
  while(mifs)
    {
      mol.Clear();
      conv.Read(&mol);
      if (mol.Empty())
        continue;
      if (!rifs.getline(buffer,BUFF_SIZE))
        {
          cout << "Bail out! error reading reference data" << endl;
          return -1; // test failed
        }

      if (!pFF->Setup(mol)) {
        cout << "Bail out! could not setup force field on " << mol.GetTitle() << endl;
        return -1; // test failed
      }

      // compare the calculated energy to our reference data
      energy = pFF->Energy(false);
      if (fabs(atof(buffer) - energy) > 1.0e-3)
        {
          cout << "not ok " << ++currentTest << " # calculated energy incorrect "
               << " for molecule " << mol.GetTitle() << "\n";
          cout << "# Expected " << buffer << " found " <<
            energy << "\n";
        }
      else
        cout << "ok " << ++currentTest << " # energy \n";

      // check that gradients validate too
      if (!pFF->ValidateGradients())
        {
          cout << "not ok " << ++currentTest << " # gradients do not validate "
               << " for molecule " << mol.GetTitle() << "\n";
        }
      else
        cout << "ok " << ++currentTest << " # gradients \n";
    }

  // return number of tests run
  cout << "1.." << currentTest << endl;

  // Passed tests
  return 0;
}

void NGenerateEnergies()
{
  std::ifstream ifs;
  if (!SafeOpen(ifs, cmolecules_file.c_str()))
    return;

  std::ofstream ofs;
  if (!SafeOpen(ofs, cresults_file.c_str()))
    return;

  OBMol mol;
  OBConversion conv(&ifs, &cout);
  char buffer[BUFF_SIZE];

  if(! conv.SetInAndOutFormats("SDF","SDF"))
    {
      cerr << "SDF format is not loaded" << endl;
      return;
    }

  OBForceField* pFF = OBForceField::FindForceField("GAFF");

  if (pFF == NULL) {
    cerr << "Cannot load force field!" << endl;
    return;
  }

  pFF->SetLogFile(&cout);
  pFF->SetLogLevel(OBFF_LOGLVL_NONE);

  for (;ifs;)
    {
      mol.Clear();
      conv.Read(&mol);
      if (mol.Empty())
        continue;

      if (!pFF->Setup(mol)) {
        cerr << "Could not setup force field on molecule: " << mol.GetTitle() << endl;
        return;
      }

      // Don't compute gradients
      sprintf(buffer, "%15.5f\n", pFF->Energy(false));
      ofs << buffer;
    }

	cerr << " GAFF force field energies written successfully" << endl;
  return;
}

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For Sub Ohm tank fans everywhere Shenzhen Freemax Tech Co. Ltd bring you the Starre. Designed to be a truly revolutionary tank system the Starre uses a Dual Vertical Coil designed to provide outstanding performance equivalent to a RDA (Rebuildable Dripping Atomizer).
In a market that has lately been flooded with Sub Ohm tanks could the Freemax Starre be the one to beat them all?
Size: 74.8mm length. 22mm diameter.
Sub Ohm Resistance 0.25/0.5 ohm.
Large wide bore drip tip for increased airflow.
Glass Tube made from borosilicate, which is thermally stable, heat resistant and corrosion resistant.
Dual Vertical Coil Technology (DVC).
The Freemax coil uses medical grade cotton to achieve better wicking of liquid. They also use USA made coil wire for superb connection and performance.
Adjustable Airflow Controller with six incremental size air holes.
0.5 ohm coil 20-60 watts.
0.25 ohm 30-100 watts. Apparently this coil can also be pushed to 150w but is not recommended by Freemax.
Everything comes securely packaged in a hard plastic box with a press fit lid. The spare coil and tank glass can be found on the reverse of the tray which holds the tank.
The user manual is a welcome addition and its nice that some manufacturer's recognise that sub ohm tanks can be the first natural upgrade for new vapers or even their first tank.
Its certainly quite a large tank but that is perfectly understandable considering it has a 5ml capacity. The large capacity is very useful to vapers like myself that don't like to find themselves constantly refilling. Everything feels very well made and solid. The glass feels suitable strong and everything fits well. The drip tip is nice and secure with absolutely no wobbling.
The tank is very easy to fill and there is a generous amount of space on either side of the main air tube. Even e-liquid bottles with larger nozzles should not present a problem.
The airflow adjustment works well and as you adjust it you can hear each setting click into place. The ring is covered with smooth studs that make adjusting the air flow simple since with some tanks the airflow ring is often smooth and slippery to the touch. The adjustment ring is neither overly stiff or loose.
The airflow can be set to one of six different settings as well as offering the option to full close it down for user's who wish to perform primer hits. Half closed down the airflow is similar to a Kanger Subtank but fully opened up and its certainly one of the largest settings for this type of tank. Having a great deal of options in terms of airflow make this a very attractive tank for a wide variety of users.
So How Does the Freemax Starre Tank perform?
The Freemax Starre performs very well. When using the 0.5 ohm coil 20w is really not enough power and you ideally want a minimum of 30 watts. At 30 watts it is quite flavoursome and a nice cool vape which will appeal to some. Ramp up the wattage to 40 watts and it starts to get a little warmer but is still quite cool overall.
At 50-60 watts the tank truly comes alive and is more than warm enough with lovely flavour. It certainly is not as hot a vape as the Sense Herakles or the Vision MK Tank but it is extremely enjoyable.
The 0.25 ohm coil needs at least of minimum of 30 watts before it starts to hit nicely. At 40-50 watts it will be more than satisfactory for many users since there is good vapour and excellent flavour at this range. 60 watts and higher and the tank becomes much warmer and even more flavoursome. At 100 watts and while it is a very warm vape its nowhere near as hot as some others so is actually quite tolerable.
I must admit I don't have a device that can go higher than 100 watts and Freemax don't actually recommend it either. At no point have I experienced any dry hits with the Starre tank.
Flavour is absolutely excellent and the variety of juice I have tried in the Starre Tank has tasted amazing. T-Juice Red Astaire is so very crisp and full of flavour. Manabush Waxahachie is incredible and the full blend of the liquid comes through in this tank. Djinni Turkish Delight also tasted exceptional in the Starre.
The vapour production is top notch and on the most open airflow setting it really is quite the cloud maker.
One minor thing to take note of is that juice does tend to pool around the base of the coil and if you don't wipe the inside of the tank threads before refilling it can end up between the base of the tank and the airflow control. At most you may get a few very minor drips but if you make sure to clean it you won't have any issues. I have used this tank solidly for four days now and not once have I experienced any leaking.
Freemax do point out in the manual that when refilling you should make sure the coil is still screwed down properly since unscrewing the tank can apparently loosen it. I check this whenever I refill and it has not been an issue for me but it is something to be mindful of. I wouldn't call it a fault since for me it falls under tank use and maintenance.
Coil life has been very good. I have chain vaped the 0.5 ohm coil for four days in a row and it is still going strong. I only used the 0.25 ohm coil for a short duration while reviewing the tank but I had no issues with it at all.
Is the Starre Tank Worth It?
Without a doubt this is a brilliant tank and I can find no fault with it. Flavour is great, vapour production is massive and the airflow itself has numerous options. When you add in the fact that this is 5ml capacity, comes with spare glass and two coils as well as a helpful user manual this tank is really worth purchasing.
This is a very reasonably priced tank especially when you factor in its superb performance.
Is the Freemax Starre the sub ohm tank to rule them all then? Well that depends on the user.
I think its a fantastic tank but then I also really enjoy the Vision MK Tank and the Sense Herakles which are both equally worthy, but certainly out of all three of them I find myself using the Starre the most.
If you are looking for a well machined, large capacity sub ohm tank that is incredibly flavoursome with massive vapour production then the Freemax Starre is for you.
Can be a slightly cooler vape at high wattages compared to other similar tanks. This could be a pro or a con depending on user preference.
Struggled to find any faults with the Freemax Starre sub ohm tank so goes without saying this is highly recommended.


Hunched over a thick bar of reclaimed wood at the newly reopened Lostine Tavern, Lynne Curry, Eastern Oregon's vivacious local-food impresario, sits deep in conversation. Her companions: the owners of 6 Ranch, a grass-fed-beef operation eight miles away whose cows sometimes play a starring role on Curry's menus.
It's a familiar scene at Eastern Oregon's first farm-to-table restaurant, where Curry hopes to bring the region's farmers, ranchers, and food artisans together under one roof.
Lostine, population 203, is a one-horse pit stop on the way to Oregon's magnificent Wallowa Mountains, 15 minutes from Enterprise, the largest nearby town. It seems an unlikely spot for a Portland-chic dining nexus. But Curry, author of the grass-fed bible Pure Beef and founder of Eastern Oregon's Slow Food chapter, is determined to fix farm country's great paradox: its celebrated exports (beef and wheat, for example) are shipped and sold far away on the commodity market, making local fare hard to wrangle.
Restored with its historic 1902 stone façade intact, the tavern feels familiar to a Portlander, with its big chalkboard menus and exposed air ducts. But the food (and the company) is largely local. Families from nearby Joseph belly up to the tavern's pastrami Reuben, made with cured, smoked, and sous-vide Carman Ranch beef topped with tangy house sauerkraut between slices of Grand Central Bakery bread. The source for the "Rancher's Choice" burger rotates among nearby cattle purveyors, and taps dispense suds from Enterprise's Terminal Gravity.
For more adventures in Oregon food, check out our showcase of videos from Travel Oregon, including delicious expeditions to Eastern and Central Oregon, the Willamette Valley, and the South Coast, and find more local foods and drinks to swoon over in our A to Z Food Lover's Guide to Oregon.


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While you'll find many places to post content online, not all of them get loads of traffic and not all of them compensate you for your efforts. HubPages is one of the places that can do both.There are many places to get your work written work online. There are content-hungry directories and places where you can list your articles for sale. Some offer profit-sharing (eg Squidoo) and some don't (eg EzineArticles). HubPages has some great revenue-earning potential and if you're doing internet marketing, you can use it as a great SEO tool as well.
HubPages offers multiple ways to make income such as: Google, Yahoo, etc. They'll allow you to post affiliate links but few and far between, as they want the articles / hubs to be of high value rather than just a link building tool. "Self-serving" links are discouraged and more than 2 per Hub are disallowed.
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Special edition with Bombardier cover. Discover the story and specifications behind today's premium business aircraft and helicopters and let your imagination be inspired to take flight… JetBook is the world's most comprehensive guide to the world of business aircraft and helicopters in the world today. Packed with gorgeous, full-color photography of the aircraft flying with full details and specifications from the manufacturers, this fully English edition of the book is the ultimate book for aviation industry lovers around the world. More than just a visual treat, the pages of this book reveal the details, facts, and statistics that tell the story of each craft, revealing their layout, flight range and performance, and even the latest prices. Combined with comparison charts and graphs, this book gives its readers all the information they need to know, not just about a particular model, but also how it compares to other similar models. Accompanying a full profile of each of the 55 business jets and 38 helicopters are interviews with four industry leaders. Also included are in-depth profiles of the world's leading aircraft and helicopter manufacturers today, including Gulfstream, Bell Helicopter, Bombardier, Dassault Falcon, Société Générale, and HondaJet among others. No other guide on the marketplace can match the vision and depth of JetBook, the making of which took a full two years of dedicated research from the author and her team. JetBook is a one-of-a-kind book. Now, in this updated edition, readers can enjoy an inclusive snapshot of the business aircraft and helicopter industry as it stands today. Order JetBook: The Complete Guide to Aircraft and Helicopters today, set your sights to the sky, and soar!
JetBook, bilingual Czech and English edition
120.00€ 99.00€ incl. VAT
In recent times the choice of business aircraft available to operators and users has increased considerably. A whole new category of aircraft, very light jets (VLJ) has been created while at the same time manufacturers have continued to upgrade aircraft and introduce a series of new corporate aircraft. This edition of the JetBook is published by MEDIA Tribune to give the business jet user the most comprehensive guide to business aircraft. With insightful, detailed information from business aircraft manufacturers JetBook is the essential publication for anyone that wishes to know the latest and most current data and statistics about business aircraft and Helicopters Published in Czech and English language this helpful, informative guide presents the latest information about corporate aircraft with aircraft specifications direct from the manufacturer. JetBook presents the complete portfolio of business jets and helicopters, plus a series of interviews with aviation leaders. Printed on premium matt paper the Jet book is 232 pages long and measures: 295x240mm, the book is a hard cover edition. Published and printed in 2015 in EU, Registered ISBN 978-80-260-9092-2, deposit in December 2015 in National Library of the Czech Republic.
JetBook
Discover the story and specifications behind today's premium business aircraft and helicopters and let your imagination be inspired to take flight… JetBook is the world's most comprehensive guide to the world of business aircraft and helicopters in the world today. Packed with gorgeous, full-color photography of the aircraft flying with full details and specifications from the manufacturers, this fully English edition of the book is the ultimate book for aviation industry lovers around the world. More than just a visual treat, the pages of this book reveal the details, facts, and statistics that tell the story of each craft, revealing their layout, flight range and performance, and even the latest prices. Combined with comparison charts and graphs, this book gives its readers all the information they need to know, not just about a particular model, but also how it compares to other similar models. Accompanying a full profile of each of the 55 business jets and 38 helicopters are interviews with four industry leaders. Also included are in-depth profiles of the world's leading aircraft and helicopter manufacturers today, including Gulfstream, Bell Helicopter, Bombardier, Dassault Falcon, Société Générale, and HondaJet among others. No other guide on the marketplace can match the vision and depth of JetBook, the making of which took a full two years of dedicated research from the author and her team. JetBook is a one-of-a-kind book. Now, in this updated edition, readers can enjoy an inclusive snapshot of the business aircraft and helicopter industry as it stands today. Order JetBook: The Complete Guide to Aircraft and Helicopters today, set your sights to the sky, and soar!
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