When you first set up a small business, you tend to be focused on very broad aspects of your brand and company. You'll focus on product development, product design, market research, advertising, and marketing. This, of course, can be a steep learning curve and you're bound to have to take on board a whole host of information to keep things ticking over and ensure that your business is producing products and services that people really want to invest in. However, don't be fooled into thinking that you've got a grip of everything once you find your feet in these areas. As a business owner, you're going to constantly be taking in more and more information about how to run your company and how to make a success of your brand. As you get to grips with bigger and broader areas, you'll find yourself focusing on more niche and specific areas. Accounts receivable (otherwise referred to as "AR") tend to be one of these niche areas that gets left until later down the line. But it's important that you truly understand this subject area at some point or another. So, let's take a look at a few key points when it comes to managing your AR effectively.
Now, we've established that AR is "accounts receivable". But what does this actually mean? Well, accounts receivable are outstanding invoices that have not yet been paid. If your business only accepts immediate payment for its goods or services, you are unlikely to have to deal with this area. However, there are plenty of benefits that come hand in hand with allowing customers and suppliers take out finance or buy-now-pay-later schemes. It can secure more sales and capitalize on impulse buying. It also offers your products out to a wider audience who may not have the funds for your goods immediately available, but are happy to pay you back in smaller installments over time. You can simplify this process by using an accounts receivable service.
Managing your accounts receivable is extremely important. If you fail to manage this area of your business effectively, you could find that people take your products and never end up paying you what is owed back – you could make loss after loss. If you're not going to outsource this work, take the time to draw up separate accounts for different clients, suppliers, and customers, and make sure to mark off any payments that have been received – deducting this sum from their total owed and being able to issue a new final settlement figure. This is good for you, but is also good for individuals who owe you too. They will be able to check in and see how much they owe and they can manage their own finances and payments more effectively as a result.
Now, chances are that you might not have considered accounts receivable in all too much detail before. But hopefully, the above information has highlighted the importance of this area of your business and will help you to manage AR within your company more effectively moving forward!
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Buenos dias! Today was a great and special day! It was special because we had our friend's family stop by to celebrate her second birthday. Before we get to partying we have to do our morning jobs and play. On the art table we glued colored paper and paper plates together to make a lion's mane. Our theme for today was the African safari! In our main play there were footprints of animals in our classroom.
After cleaning up the toys we used during freeplay time we were ready for our Adventure to the Safari! Jen read us a book about the animals in the safari. There were giraffes, rhinos, monkeys, and lions! The Safari was very different than the rainforest we saw a few days ago. The Safari was very dry with not so many trees, there also weren't very many rivers. It was nice having the opportunity to visit a new place!
When we got back to the buds classroom from our expedition, we got ready to celebrate a very special day for our dearest friend. We welcomed her mom Carolina into our classroom then we all sang the birthday song and gave her a birthday card and lots of hugs! Her mom brought us a Rainbow Piñata, which we got to stick colored paper to make our very own piñata for our birthday friend. For snack time we got delicious banana cake muffins! So yummy! Thank you very much Carolina, and happy birthday my dear friend!
We all went up to the pool after snacks and our water play for the day. It was very sunny in the afternoon so the cold water feels so refreshing! Because we were so energetic today John opened up his boot camp! We danced to music and did some cardio exercises! Today was an event filled day, it's always great celebrating our friends birthday together! Although it's a little cloudy it's still very hot, got to remember to drink lots of water! Time to go home and rest for another great school day tomorrow!


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Pressed over dinner to recite this poem from memory, I was stunned to discover that I could recite a fair amount.
I imagine many of you can do the same.
Now pause a moment and consider all of the mega-practical things we've forgotten compared to "Jabberwocky."
On the other hand, that's a pretty neat poem.
Impressive you can do that!
I was disappointed that I couldn't recall the entire thing.


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New 'Always Sunny in Philadelphia' Promos Go Art House
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Updated Apr 19, 2015 at 3:43am
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is coming back in September for its ninth season and the gang have put together some very artsy new promos. Not only that but FX is now FXX. Yeah. It's just that much more deep.
While the black and white promos may lack the usual screaming and inappropriate jokes, somethings never change – Sweet Dee is still a slut.
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#MeToo and the Method
"He would send one actor to listen to a piece of jazz, another to read a certain novel, another to see a psychiatrist, and another he would simply kiss." — Arthur Miller, on Elia Kazan in Kazan on Directing
#MeToo has raised many questions about what kinds of intimacy are created in rehearsal rooms and classrooms, and to what end. As I've listened to the stories of survivors, I've been struck by the fact that the abusers in these cases, mostly men, weren't doing anything that their predecessors in the American theatre didn't do openly and without repercussions. At least three of the fathers of the American Method—Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, and Elia Kazan—had reputations for treating men and women differently, as well as for treating both women actors and women characters as sex objects. It made me wonder: Is there a connection between use of the Method and the behavior called out by #MeToo?
Since the 1930s, American theatre has been operating under the spell of the oh-so-seductive Method, a psychological acting technique that asks actors to draw on their own memories and to act "truthfully" on "instinct." The Method is derived from Konstantin Stanislavsky's Method of Physical Actions, usually called the System, which is a psychophysical technique that posits that engaging in physical action in pursuit of solving a problem—otherwise known as "playing an action"—will lead an actor to have a real emotional experience.
Significant scholarship—shout out to Sharon Carnicke's Stanislavsky in Focus—has shown that the American progenitors of the Method, namely Harold Clurman, Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Sanford Meisner, misunderstood the Stanislavsky acolytes and interpreters through whom they learned the System, and wrongly placed their focus on generating emotion for its own sake. Clurman and Adler later caught their mistake when Adler traveled abroad to work with Stanislavsky himself, and they redirected their evolving processes towards physical action. But though they shared their experience with their comrades, Strasberg chose to continue to neglect the physical aspects of the System in favor of a process that centered on delving not just into the characters' psyches, but also the actors'. Meisner, on the other hand, came to prioritize instinct. Kazan did use physical action but shared Strasberg's interest in generating emotion using the actors' real lives.
Due to the popularity of some of the movie stars trained at Strasberg's Actors Studio (anyone heard of Marilyn Monroe?), Americans today, even non-actors, still use the parlance of the Method to talk about acting, and most people still conflate the Method with Stanislavsky's System. Having a shared vocabulary can be valuable, but the parlance and practices that accompany the Method are rooted in a history of sexism and exploitation. Though many of Stanislavsky's techniques work, the powerful men who left us our particularly American legacy didn't just create an American version of his System, they created a technique for both acting and learning to act that has the ongoing potential to reinforce patriarchal norms.
"Today, purely in looks, you were more attractive. You looked sexier. In [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof], the girl, no matter what she is, has to be attractive, otherwise the play becomes unpalatable…. Frankly this quality is essential for your progress, acting-wise and career-wise." — Lee Strasberg giving feedback to an actor, from Strasberg at the Actors Studio
Stanislavsky was without doubt a patriarchal figure, and from his own writing we learn that his classrooms were not free of gender stereotypes. The women, for example, did an awful lot of fainting. But he was horrified when he accidentally had a student do an improvisation that mirrored her personal experience of losing a child and she was, understandably, devastated. This is because the System asks actors to create emotional experiences by focusing on the problem the character is trying to solve (the task or objective) and the tactics they use to solve it (the actions), not reliving past emotional experiences—usually traumatic ones—as the Method asks. Because Method directors and teachers believe that creating emotional moments on stage requires delving into the actor's subconscious mind, they tend to take on the role of guru, opening the door for far more manipulative behavior than Stanislavsky ever advocated.
In her 2012 book An Actress Prepares: Women and "the Method", Rosemary Malague zeroes in on Strasberg and Meisner as the primary culprits of using the Method to affirm and reinscribe harmful gender stereotypes. Topping her list of feminist critiques is the idea that the goal of the Method is to produce "truthful" performances, and yet what is considered "truthful" is, in itself, a gendered concept. According to Malague's extensive research, Strasberg's responses to women's acting in class often took the form of remarks upon their sexuality and desirability, as he encouraged them to play sex kittens and weeping women. In his classes, he gave different acting exercises to men and women. And when he rewarded actors for performances that he deemed truthful, he tended to reward women for being seductive and men for being fighters.
Is there a connection between use of the Method and the behavior called out by #MeToo?
Strasberg's goal was to "break actors down," which often meant manipulating, confusing, and shaming them, particularly the women, then encouraging them to re-suffer that shame every time they performed. In his own accounts of his practice, quoted below from An Actress Prepares, Strasberg admitted this could be unhealthy:
In fact I once had a Private Moment which was terrifying. An actress came in who I realized was very bound to convention and didn't move from within … She had an emotional disturbance, and she should not have done Private Moments because they only lead to a re-affirmation of whatever bothers you … She did a Private Moment which was one of the greatest I've ever seen. I sat in amazement. I wouldn't have believed that this girl had it in her. But she couldn't recover from it, it was so strong.
As Malague put it, "The most intriguing statement in Strasberg's account … is his declaration that this woman's private moment was 'the greatest' he had ever seen. Watching a woman in total breakdown fulfills Strasberg's (aesthetic?) goals."
Meisner's particular subgenre of the Method, called the Meisner technique, trains actors to act on instinct. The psychology underpinning it comes from Freudian theory, which, as we know, is already an extremely binary, gendered approach to the human mind, making even the simplest Meisner exercise a minefield of gendered assumptions. Malague points out that the repetition exercise, which encourages actors to make uncensored observations about one another's physical appearance—"You are wearing a blue shirt. I am wearing a blue shirt"—could go very badly for actors whose gender identities are non-binary, or for those with nonconforming bodies or who are a minority presence in the room.
Meisner's exercises, like Strasberg's, tended to be different for women than for men. In his book, Sanford Meisner on Acting, he recounts a class in which he demonstrated a version of the repetition exercise twice, once with a man and once with a woman. In the first instance, he begins with "Can you lend me twenty dollars?" and, when the student eventually says no, he calls him a "big shit." When working with the woman student, Meisner begins with "Will you come to my house tonight?" and, when she says no, he ends by calling her "a professional virgin."
Meisner was not alone in this tendency towards encouraging aggression from men and victimization, usually sexual, from women. Apparently, Kazan used to stand next to actors as they rehearsed and poke them with a rapier; he deemed most of the women in Tennessee Williams' plays to be motivated by a desire for sex or protection, in contrast to those of the men, who were encouraged by conflict. In fact, for Kazan, the tendency towards violence is an inherently biologically male phenomenon. In his notes on A Streetcar Named Desire, published posthumously in Kazan on Directing, he says Stanley is "desperately trying to squeeze out happiness by living ball and jowl, and it really doesn't work because it simply stores up violence until every bar in the nation is full of Stanleys ready to explode." Under the heading "Mitch," he wrote, "Violence – he's full of sperm, energy, strength." And he characterized Blanche as a kind of succubus: "Blanche's spine: to find protection, to find something to hold onto, some strength in whose protection she can live, like a sucker shark or a parasite. The tradition of woman (or all women) can only live through the strength of someone else."
"I'd known her when she was a plump young girl, and I had a theory ... that when a girl is fat in her early and middle teens and slims down later, she is left with an uncertainty about her appeal to boys, and what often results is a strong sexual appetite, intensified by the continuing anxiety of believing herself undesirable" — Elia Kazan, on casting Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Malague, as she herself documents, was not the first feminist scholar to point out these issues as they apply both to the rehearsal room and the classroom. Feminists have been warning about the consequences of the continued popularity of the Method since at least 1985, when Linda Walsh Jenkins and Susan Ogden-Malouf wrote the article "The (Female) Actor Prepares." Stanislavsky emphasized what he called "faith and a sense of truth," vaguely defining truthful acting as acting in which the actor believes in what is happening. Though Stanislavsky's idea of "truth" was broad and could even be expressed in non-realistic ways, Method practitioners reduced the "truth" to patriarchal, gender normative behavior. This, Jenkins and Ogden-Malouf argue, is problematic because with the Method the actor must rely on an all-knowing guru to get to the "truth," and the "truth" they must believe in is actually a stereotype.
"The (Female) Actor Prepares" was followed by Sue-Ellen Case's book Feminism and Theatre in 1988, in which she singles out anything based in Freudian psychology, as the Method was, as likely to replicate the Freudian hierarchy that places men in the subject position while treating women as derivative and subordinate. She goes on to explicitly reject the Method for asking women actors to believe in, identify with, and see the world from a patriarchal point of view, particularly regarding their sexuality.
In 1990, Deanna Jent published her dissertation "Sex Roles in the Acting Class: Nonverbal Gender Display in Performance" about her qualitative study, over the course of six months, of gendered behavior in a group of college actors training in the Method. She found that their nonverbal behaviors changed during that time "toward more stereotypic behavior, indicating an inflexibility of traditional masculine and feminine movement patterns." Most striking is her example of an emotional recall exercise in which "three women were asked to perform scenes involving 'terror' – all three relived moments of victimization and helplessness." By retelling these kinds of stories and not looking at the gender issues they raise, Jent found that this exercise reinforced the notion of "woman as victim" or "woman as helpless."
The idea that successful acting requires psychologically unhealthy behavior has a strong grip on American actors to this day.
For more than a decade, feminist theatre theory by Elin Diamond, Jill Dolan, Peggy Phelan, Elaine Aston, Ellen Donkin, Susan Clement, and more and more and more, continued to reject the Method, often eschewing the tradition of psychological realism all together. Yet, in the world of traditional professional theatre practice, no one listened. Adler, who died in 1992, probably would have found that depressingly familiar.
"Suppose that when the actress playing this part was five years old, a gang of four or five local ruffians dragged her into a deserted lot and ripped off her clothes. The horror, the disgrace of this experience is still so alive in her that whenever she recalls it, she breaks down. So that might be a useful preparation for the opening of this scene." — Sanford Meisner, from Sanford Meisner on Acting
Use of the Method crossed over from rehearsal rooms to classrooms and from theatre to film, and it remains standard practice in both private studios and academic institutions. The Actor's Studio still offers classes in the Method, as do the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the Sanford Meisner Center. NYU's Tisch Drama offers two-year-long intensives in Strasberg and Meisner, and colleges and universities all over the country, from state schools like Ohio University to private schools like Rutgers University, offer classes in the Method. Meisner's technique is particularly popular in LA, and movie stars like Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, and Steve Buscemi all say they use Method acting. Supposedly, Jared Leto once used the Method as an excuse to send a dead pig and a sticky Playboy magazine to his costars. The idea that successful acting requires psychologically unhealthy behavior has a strong grip on American actors to this day.
The stories told by #MeToo survivors (and Jared Leto's castmates) attest to the fact that Method-based practices are still doing gender-based harm, whether in the form of guru gatekeepers who use their power inappropriately, gender-differentiated training that affirms stereotypes, directors and teachers who treat women actors and characters as objects instead of subjects of their own action, or actors who act irresponsibly while "in character."
To the leaders of the American theatre just now grappling with these sexist practices in response to #MeToo, on behalf of the scholars and practitioners who identified these problems last century, I'd like to take a moment to say: Told ya.
And now, some antidotes.
After Carnicke's Stanislavsky in Focus was published in 1998, feminist scholars began to reconsider their wholesale rejection of the System. Scholar and director Rhonda Blair's 2002 article "Reconsidering Stanislavsky: Feeling, Feminism, and the Actor" argues that recent developments in cognitive neuroscience and neurophysiology validate Stanislavsky's systemization of acting. For example, in real life, we create what Stanislavsky called "throughlines" by "proto-narrativizing"; we turn events in our lives into meaningful stories driven by cause and effect, just as Stanislavsky asks actors to do on stage. In fact, humans have been doing this for so long that the process is embedded in our brain structures.
Blair shared that in her practice as a director, she finds Stanislavsky's idea of a mental film of highly personal images useful for actors to emotionally connect to their roles. She also uses objects of attention, action, imagery, and physicality to engage actors, and she changes Meisner's mantra "get out your head"—which she calls anti-intellectual, narcissistic, and mystifying—to "get out of your neocortex," where we over-rationalize and control things, "and into your subcortex," where we respond to circumstances spontaneously.
J. Ellen Gainor's article "Rethinking Feminism, Stanislavsky, and Performance," published at the same time, points feminist actors towards a Stanislavsky/Brecht hybrid technique, in which the actor combines Stanisvlasky's ideas about physical action with Brecht's alienation effect, enabling the actor to both empathize with a character and comment on the ways in which the character's gendered behavior might be a performance or a product of historical circumstance instead of "instinct."
In Jent's dissertation, she posits that plays with traditional gender roles might be more healthily rehearsed if the characters' gendered behaviors are treated as given circumstances instead of physiologically motivated characteristics inherent to the characters. For example, Blanche might not be biologically motivated to seek protection through seduction—she might simply be living in a world in which women have to play that role. (Having grown up in the South, I can tell you belles are not born, they are made.) Likewise, Stanley and Mitch may not be violent because they have balls and sperm—a dramaturgical choice that excuses violence against women as "instinctive"—they may choose violence as a way of controlling women.
Certainly there is plenty to explore in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof if Maggie is not inherently oversexed but is rather responding to her circumstances in the only way she can, by playing the role of Southern seductress. According to Malague's research, Strasberg felt that the audience had to want to sleep with Maggie for the play to work, but what if the audience, instead of seeing her as an object of desire, sees her as the subject of her own actions, a woman trying to use the only means she's been given by a sexist society to secure her economic future? It isn't, after all, seduction that gets her what she wants from Brick in the end.
Often an actor can find an emotional anchor in a scene just by focusing on the right given circumstance, a fact about the imaginary reality of the play-world that is meaningful to them.
Today, feminist theatre theory embraces the possibilities in Stanislavsky's System, particularly as taught by Adler. In my own practice, I recognize that often an actor can find an emotional anchor in a scene just by focusing on the right given circumstance, a fact about the imaginary reality of the play-world that is meaningful to them. An actor can also experience real emotion in performance by focusing their attention on the other actor(s) instead of on themselves, reacting in the moment to what's actually happening on stage instead of to a memory. Sometimes, it's simply a matter of finding the right subtext.
Directors can also avoid directing actors into gender stereotypes by taking a closer and more gender-conscious look at the actions they're asking them to play. Must men always fight? Must women always seduce? Seemingly harmless verbs, like "protect" for a man, can create a binary, gender-normative character and play-world, in which women need men's protection, even where that is not necessarily written into the text. What if women are encouraged to play actions like "to fight"? What if men are encouraged to play actions like "to heal" and "to comfort"? There exists no one right action for any moment, and many different actions can be played with the same text to great effect.
"It is not essential that you should want to fuck the leading lady, but it is essential that you should feel emotions well past those of ordinary friendship or respect." — Elia Kazan, from Kazan on Directing
Because of #MeToo, people are finally listening to women who say the behavior typically associated with Method practices creates a toxic work environment. Under the motto "whatever the truth requires," Profiles Theater in Chicago put actual violence—not stage combat—on stage along with sexual behavior that was not consensually choreographed. Not surprisingly, the guru in charge there used his gatekeeper status to sexually harass the women who worked for him, and the theatre programmed play after play in which women are sexually victimized and men are violent. After important reporting gave voice to abused employees, Profiles closed. At long last, widespread agreement is slowly emerging that treating women actors and characters as sexual objects is no longer acceptable.
Furthermore, the new field of intimacy choreography now encourages directors and teachers to work with consent when sex and violence are involved, rather than having actors act on "instinct." And new acting techniques, which are more physical and less emotional, like the Viewpoints, proliferate. In The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints, Anne Bogart and Tina Landau explicitly frame the Viewpoints as a solution to one of the problems caused by the Method:
The Herculean effort to pin down a particular emotion removes the actor from the simple task of performing an action, and thereby distances actors from one another and from the audience. Instead of forcing and fixing an emotion, Viewpoints training allows untamed feeling to arise from the actual physical, verbal and imaginative situation in which actors find themselves together.
Though thoroughly post-modern in spirit, the Viewpoints are actually more true to Stanislavsky than the Method is.
Though theatre does not need the Method anymore, I do not mean to argue that no one should ever use it again—we can't let Jared Leto ruin everything. But even well-meaning directors and teachers need to be aware of the ways it can normalize toxic behavior. The aspects of the Method that rely on instinct and emotional truth fail to account for subconscious bias, meaning that a director or teacher who uses it could easily end up validating feminine (e.g. seductive) behavior from women and masculine (e.g. aggressive) behavior from men as "truthful," even where other possibilities exist and even when they don't consciously intend to do that. Because the Method removes critical thinking from the equation, artists who use it are not likely to see and check their own problematic "instincts" to create gender-binary characters. Likewise, unchecked subconscious biases can lead directors and teachers to reinforce racial, ethnic, and every other kind of harmful stereotypes as "truthful" simply because they are easily recognizable and passionately performed.
So, if you're a director or teacher, use the Method if you must but educate yourself about its toxic possibilities (Malague's book is a great start), learn how to help actors have genuine emotional experiences without breaking them down (go back to Stanislavsky), and be wary of your own tendencies to define "truthful" as gender normative (check yourself). Don't just teach alternative techniques (do try the Viewpoints), but actively expose the harmful aspects of the Method, dispelling the long-standing myth that suffering is the secret to good acting (it's not).
Finally, I hope survivors will keep speaking up about the harmful potential of these techniques, calling to account the people who continue to practice harassment, discrimination, and abuse under the name of the all-powerful Method. (Thank you.)
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This article struck me deeply in terms of assessing how I direct. Whilst I'd like to think I don't exhibit the type of highly sexist behaviour mentioned in the piece, at the end of the day, I'm still a white male and that alone requires me to evaluate my assumptions and perspectives on how I approach directing.
I truly appreciate the insight and candour of Holly L. Derr's piece in reminding me the rehearsal room must be a safe environment for ALL actors.


The climate and land of Israel was different in ancient Israel. Psalm 23:2 it says "He [God] makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters." David tended the flocks that were threatened by bears and lions that thrive in wooded and grassland areas. This verse says that when David was a young man growing up in the area around Bethlehem there were green pastures and pools of water in that part of the world. Israel is not like that today.
At that time in that land there were accessible waters, grasslands that grew hay for pasture, with green things growing. The land of Moab is not that way today.
There was sufficient growth in the area to start a fire that would burn with great flames that would not be quenched until burned up (an image similar to Gehenna). The point is that at Ezekiel's time there were woodlands south in the Negev area. Today the Negev is a desert. There is naturally no growth there today. The crops and trees that presently grow there require careful maintenance with extensive and constant irrigation.
The word "weather" occurs four times in the King James Version, in three verses: Job 37:22; Proverbs 25:20; Matthew 16:2–3. However, it is misleading for those Hebrew and Greek words to be translated as "weather." They in fact have little to do with weather or climate.
In Job 37:22 the Hebrew word translated as "fair weather" is the simple word for which is translated consistently as "gold" or "golden" 388 times. Only in Job 37:22 is it translated differently. In context the use of "gold" in Hebrew may indicate a color or condition of the northern sky.
In Matthew 16:2–3 the oldest and best Greek manuscripts do not even contain the words: "When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" which comprise most of verse 2 and all of verse 3. Therefore many modern translations do not include it or put a note about those words.
In actuality, while the word "weather" as used today does not occur in the Bible, even though Solomon and the prophet Jeremiah (see the 1st verse above) had a clear understanding of weather processes. They knew that God is control of the weather (even though He gives occasional delegation of power to "the prince of the power of the air," Ephesians 2:2).
The "July 2005 ASK Newsletter" has additional information about weather in the Bible and future weather patterns around the world. The Newsletter introduces two articles by Dr. Ernest L. Martin: "Biblical Meteorology" and "The Two Witnesses – Who Are They." These articles interact at the point where the Two Witnesses are prophesied to have a profound impact on the weather in Israel (and the world) during their 3½ years of ministry.
Exciting times are close upon us as, just like a play, the worldwide set is being prepared for the last act: the end-times leading to the Second Advent of Christ Jesus to this earth (1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Peter 1:12). Stay strong. Stay faithful. Continue in prayers for the ekklesia of God. Pray for proper rains. Pray for the Kingdom of God to come quickly. God bless you all.


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Kareem Hunt would love to finish his career in his hometown
Posted by Charean Williams on December 27, 2019, 5:07 PM EST
Kareem Hunt is scheduled to become a restricted free agent in March. The running back hopes to remain in Cleveland, his hometown.
"Ain't no place like home, and this is home for me, so I'd love to be in my hometown playing for a long time, maybe finish my career,'' Hunt said Friday, via Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com. "That would be something special. You never know. I'm just excited to do whatever it takes. They're going to get a ballplayer."
Hunt has 74 touches for 428 yards and three touchdowns in the seven games since returning from an eight-game suspension.
"I feel like I'm a difference-maker on the field,'' Hunt said. "I feel like I could've helped win a couple more games and that's how I feel personally.''
Starter Nick Chubb leads the league in rushing with 1,453 yards and faces the Bengals' 32nd-ranked rushing defense this week. Hunt won the rushing title as a rookie in 2017 with 1,327 yards.
"It means a lot [to win one],'' Hunt said. " I don't know a lot of backs who can say they won a rushing title. It's hard to do. You've got to be consistent. You've got to come ready to play every game, and Nick deserves it. He's a workhorse type of guy, a good person, and I can't be happier for him. He deserves the rushing title, no doubt, and I believe he's going to get it.''
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12 responses to "Kareem Hunt would love to finish his career in his hometown"
jbaxt says:
Imagine if this guy was smart enough to stay out of trouble. He'd be a beast in KC. But he chose to be a fighter who likes to get drunk.
snowdood163 says:
He doesn't know a lot of backs that can say they won one, even though they hand it out every year.
A&J Grant says:
It's hard to imagine how the Browns are ranked 18th in total offense and 11th in rushing yards. One of these three has to go: Fred Kitchens, Baker Mayfield or the offensive line. I feel bad for Browns fans; I would have been excited a.f. before the season began.
rodgerstonelson says:
Not enough room in the backfield for these two.
kcflake says:
I'd love to see Kareem back in Kansas City
kcisyourdaddy says:
Kareem is saying all the right things
Hopefully he is doing all the right things
It's too bad he wasn't up front with Clark, he was a monster in KC
hawks1124 says:
I bet he would! Lets not forget which PD covered up him tackling, and kicking that teen girl when she was on the ground. They didn't even care enough to check security footage or file chargers about his posse confiscating her phones sims card to prevent her from calling the cops (Felony!) and deleting videos on it.
whateverworks77 says:
Browns will re-sign or match, then devise an offense built with chubb/hunt similar to mack/byner which will allow beckham/landry to shine in play action game. Need to upgrade RT and RG (though the RG could be Teller/Forbes – or both if Forbes can play RT). Bring in competition at LT and re-sign Schobert – media expectations were too high, they beat nobody in 18.
tylawspick6 says:
You people will never learn…This isn't a video game. You can't build a team overnight, especially with primadonnas, immaturity and no leadership.
Anyone with half a brain saw this coming a mile away.
This isn't MLB. You can't buy winning.
edon8334 says:
You do this for every player who got in trouble or do you pick and choose?
amaf21 says:
@edon would love to see what your opinion would be if that was your sister/daughter getting stomped.
A&J Grant says: It's hard to imagine how the Browns are ranked 18th in total offense and 11th in rushing yards. One of these three has to go: Fred Kitchens, Baker Mayfield or the offensive line. I feel bad for Browns fans; I would have been excited a.f. before the season began.
tylawspick6 says: You people will never learn…This isn't a video game. You can't build a team overnight, especially with primadonnas, immaturity and no leadership. Anyone with half a brain saw this coming a mile away.This isn't MLB. You can't buy winning.
If you—or anyone else—claims that they knew a team with two top ten running backs and two top ten receivers along with a strong rookie qb would have a bottom half offensive unit, then you are full of some stink.
What you and others that use the "video game" expectations argument fail to understand is that nobody thinks a video game is any type of blueprint for success. It takes talent and that is what the rest of us look at. This team had a massive amount of talent going into the season and they reasonably should have been a top-ten offensive unit.
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Artificial Intelligence is transforming every industry around the world, including the healthcare. Healthcare has abundance of data including patients who visit to the clinic, prescriptions, lab tests, radiology, medical procedures performed, etc. In this session, Mr. Rangaprasad Sampath, will provide insights on how AI and Deep Learning technologies can be applied to solve some of the challenges of healthcare industry. Also, we will be discussing how safely and ethically apply these technologies for the current and future applications of AI in healthcare.
Rangaprasad Sampath (Ranga) is an engineer by education and a technologist by training. After graduating from Stanford University, USA with a Masters in Electrical Engineering, he has spent over a decade and a half honing up his skills in Networking Technology i.e. switches and routers, wired and wireless. From that same spirit of a connected world, he created You+AI which is an initiative to connect Humans (You) in various endeavors with Artificial Intelligence (AI). One of the first initiatives of You+AI has been the You+AI Podcast where Ranga speaks with healthcare professionals and the conversation explores where AI may drive the most impact. Season 1 with 15 episodes has listeners across 6 continents---36 countries---297 cities. Stay tuned via youplusai.com for Season 2, starting soon.
About NUSA:
Umesha Nayak & Dr. Umesh Hodeghatta, are both innovative and exploring ways to always solve customer problems and challenges. We are practical oriented and focused on delivering effective solutions. We have been delivering effective solutions vide consulting on applying AI and Machine learning to various industries like Retail, Healthcare, Software, Product Development, Information Security, and Human Resources.
For more details, contact us on umesh@businessanalyticsr.com or +1 408 757 0093
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Cyber Security Threats in Digital World Jan 21 2021 4:30 pm UTC 60 mins
Mr. Satish Narayanan, Dr. Umesh R. Hodeghatta, and Umesha Nayak
Cyber Criminals are innovating new ways to target the people and organizations. With ransomware to social engineering techniques like phishing, vishing, etc. they seem to be getting better at their game and are impacting adversely the reputation and data of individuals to big corporate entities. The problem is compounded because of lack of adequate and appropriate attention to information security by the individuals and organizations. According to the latest research by Cybersecurity Ventures, by the year 2021 cybercrime losses will cost upwards of $6 trillion annually. Many of the cybersecurity experts and professionals believe that AI and Machine Learning can help in finding solutions to cybersecurity threat problems. AI can efficiently analyze the user behaviors, identify the abnormal patterns in the network, predict cyber vulnerabilities, etc.
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Dr. Umesh Rao. Hodeghatta, Chief Data Scientist, N-U Sigma Analytics Lab
AI systems and algorithms are trained and modeled and validated by humans on the data generated by humans or sensors or other automated systems. This poses challenge and risk of introducing human bias into the models, though many of us assume the AI systems are unbiased. As we are marching towards 2021 and making significant progress towards more sophisticated algorithms and models, we should also consider reducing bias in AI. Without managing bias, any AI initiative may fall apart due to the lack of trust and confidence by CEOs and leadership. In this session, we will be discussing some of the ethical and trust issues of AI systems due to AI Bias, and how organizations can model and validate AI systems and algorithms to reduce AI Bias.
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Dr. Umesh Rao Hodeghatta and Umesha Nayak
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Dr. Raman, Adjunct Faculty, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
We have achieved significant improvements in Machine Learning along with computing infrastructure. Many varieties of machine learning algorithms have been proposed, implemented and deployed. More often than not, these deployments are unitary learners with a clever refinement, the so called hyper-parameter tuning. While it is definitely a step in the right direction, the strategy is depth first and runs counter to both Ockhams Razor and No Free Lunch (NFL), two fundamental axioms in Machine Learning. Raman and his research students have engineered a system that provides an alignment with both the razor and NFL. In this talk we will introduce NFL and Razor axiomatically and demonstrate a system that remains consistent with NFL and facilitates efficient and effortless analytics without relying on any particular algorithm.
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Erin Junio, Content Manager, BrightTALK & Dr. Umesh Rao Hodeghatta, Chief Data Scientist, NU-Sigma Analytics Labs
Find out what's trending in BrightTALK's Business Intelligence community and discover the industry developments that are shaping the BI & Analytics space as we approach 2020.
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Dr. Umesh Rao Hodeghatta, Chief Data Scientist, NU-Sigma Analytics Labs
With the increasingly connected world revolving around the revolution of internet and new technologies like mobiles, smartphones, and tablets, and with the wide usage of wireless technologies, the information security risks have increased. Both individuals and organizations are under regular attacks for commercial or non-commercial gains. The objectives of such attacks may be to take revenge, malign the reputation of a competitor organization, understand the strategies and sensitive information about the competitor, simply have fun of exploiting the vulnerabilities. Hence, the need to protect information assets and ensure information security receives adequate attention.
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Future with AI and Machine Learning Recorded: Feb 13 2019 64 mins
Dr. Umesh Hodeghatta, Chief Data Scientist and Umesha Navak, CEO, N-U Sigma Analytics Lab
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Deep Learning are the buzz words across the globe today. Businesses as well as common people are trying to make out, if it is hype or not. While there is a hope there is also gloom somewhere, as far as AI is concerned.
In this session Dr. Umesh Hodeghatta Rao and Mr. Umesha Nayak will explain how AI and Machine learning algorithms can be applied to some of the day to day activities we do and how it can improve the quality of our lives. The speakers will walk you through some of the real-world examples in healthcare, transportation & automotive, business & commerce and education including those on strategizing the business. They will also talk about the challenges in implementing AI/Machine Learning and circumstances under which AI applications will normally be successful compared to when they are likely to be unsuccessful.
Machine Learning Challenges - Data Integration and Transformation Recorded: Aug 29 2018 51 mins
Umesh Hodeghatta Rao, CTO, Nu-Sigma Analytics Labs
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AI – Warriors and Weapons Recorded: May 17 2018 53 mins
Dr. Umesh Hodeghatta Rao, CTO, and Umesha Nayak, CEO, Nu-Sigma Analytics Labs
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning are the buzz words across the globe today. Businesses, as well as people, are trying to make out if it is simply hype or not. While there is hope there is also gloom somewhere, as far as AI is concerned. There is a lot of work to be done to ensure effective and valid deployment of AI solutions.
Today's AI concern is Frameworks and toolsets to manage the entire lifecycle in an integrated manner to ensure dependable results - which is the burgeoning need for AI to move forward. In this discussion, we will be focussing on some of the important challenges faced with respect to resources, frameworks, tools, and techniques for implementing AI and also the direction it is trending towards.
What is covered in AI Warriors and Weapons AI-inar on May 17th Recorded: Apr 24 2018 3 mins
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning are the buzz words across the globe today. Businesses as well as people are trying to make out if it is hype or not. While there is a hope there is also gloom somewhere, as far as AI is concerned. Lots of work needs to be done to ensure effective and valid deployment of AI solutions. Today's AI concern is Frameworks and toolsets to manage the entire lifecycle in an integrated way to ensure dependable results is the beckoning need for AI going forward. In this discussion, we will be focussing on some of the important challenges faced with respect to the resources, frameworks, tools and techniques and also the direction AI is trending towards.
Neural Networks/Deep Learning to Transform Modern AI Platform Recorded: Feb 22 2018 64 mins
Dr. Umesh Hodeghatta Rao, CTO, Nu-Sigma Analytics Labs
AI is changing the way organizations do businesses and how they interact with customers. AI continues to drive the change. Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing will become standards in AI solutions. Deep Learning is based on brain simulations and uses deep neural networks. AlphaGo is the first AI system to defeat a professional human Go player, the first program to defeat a Go world champion, and arguably the strongest Go player in history. Baidu improved speech recognition from 89% to 99% using Deep Learning. Every AI and Machine learning scientist is required to know Deep Learning tools in his / her current job scenario.
In this session, we will be discussing what is Deep Learning and why it is gaining popularity. We will explain AI solutions using Deep Learning with a practical example. Deep Learning has an edge over other machine learning techniques as with the increased volume of data, performance increases with Deep Learning. Further, Deep Learning enables Hierarchical Feature Learning i.e. learning feature hierarchies.
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Data visualization must be intuitive in order for non-IT business leaders to see data patterns. Representing data in a graphical or pictorial format is easy, but constructing the data in the best and most logical way can be tricky.
In this session, Umesh will talk about how to represent data simply to make quicker and better business decisions. He will walk through several data visualization techniques through business cases and examples. By the end of the session, you will not only know different data visualization techniques, but also have an understanding of circumstances under which each technique should be used and the best way to represent particular data sets for different business cases.
How to Build Chat-Bots Using Machine Learning and NLP Recorded: Apr 12 2017 64 mins
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are transforming the technological landscape in a wide range of applications. How Machine Learning frameworks have been applied in the real world continues to evolve and affect our daily lives, especially with chat bots.
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Suppliers on the contract include: Portal Software; Siebel Systems; Oracle Corp; Intec Telecom Systems; and Tibco Software.
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Analytik Jena's company museum presents the exciting history of analytical measuring technology in Jena to visitors, customers, business partners and interested guests over 70 m2 and showcases the successful continuation of instrument development at Analytik Jena up to the present day. More than 40 exhibits are on display from the three business units of Analytical Instrumentation, Life Science and Optics, including many historical instruments from the time before Analytik Jena was founded in 1990 — starting in the 1960s and 1970s and stretching into the 1990s. A variety of instruments ranging from spectrophotometers, atomic absorption spectrometers, thermal cyclers, automatic pipetters and refractometers to small reflex sights from the Optics unit are on display.
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As a native of Susanville, I attended McKinley Elementary School and Diamond View School as a child. Now I am honored to serve on the Susanville School District Board of Trustees. Our three children all attend school in the District. My wife and I are actively involved in the PTA and see great value in active and engaged parents and communities. I serve as a Pastor in the community and as a Program Manager for the Lassen County Office of Education. I am also a member of the Susanville Kiwanis Club and have served on various community and school-wide committees. I believe that the District provides a quality education to our students and I am commited to making sure that this continues.
I am the mother of three school-aged children, all of whom attend school in the Susanville School District. I currently run our two family businesses and try to participate as much as possible in our children's extracurricular activities. I am the owner of my own Professional Engineering and Surveying Company, which I established in 2000. I have enjoyed designing and building many public agency projects in Lassen County over the last 11 years. I also run my husband's dental office, which was established in 2009. We have lived in Susanville for 13 years, and enjoy all that the city has to offer in terms of outdoor activities, as we are avid mountain bikers, runners, and skiers. My primary focus as a Board Member is to try to navigate the limitations the State has placed on us with a woeful lack of funding and attempt to still create an educational environment for our children that does not reflect our current financial crisis. I believe we are well on the path to making important changes in the District, and I am excited for the goals we have in place.
As a native of Susanville, I attended Calvary Academy, Meadow View, Diamond View, Lassen High School and obtained my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from University of the Pacific. In my present position, with the County of Lassen, I am the Program Manager of the Grants and Loans Division responsible for administering Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, project planning and management, contract negotiations, monitoring and compliance, and grant writing. I am also member of the CDBG Advisory Committee at the State level and Soroptomist International of Susanville. Outside of work, my time is devoted to raising my daughter and being involved with her activities as a student, dancer, and 4-H member.
As a board member, I believe that we need to continually strive to better our schools, motivate our students, have the best staff and provide more options for our children to ensure they have viable college and career paths post-graduation.
I was appointed to the Board in 2009 to fill an open seat due to the loss of Board Member Chris Ritz; I was honored to be chosen to complete his term of office and have been elected to continue in this position. While on the School Board we have seen many different great things happen for the benefit of our children. Diamond View School has become one of the most beautiful campuses in Lassen County and hosts many events; such as the 7th grade Career Day and Lit Jam sponsored by the Lassen County Office of Education. Meadow View and McKinley Schools have received new computers for the students to learn 21st Century technology skills and be well prepared to interact with the new online testing system each 3rd-8th grade student will take each Spring. Meadow View School campus is proud to be the home of Leap Ahead Learning Center. McKinley School Campus is the home of the Lassen County Office of Education's after school program and their preschool program as well. I take a great deal of pride in being a representative of the Susanville School District Community as an elected member of the Board of Trustees.


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namespace Asi\ClinicaBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;

use Asi\ClinicaBundle\Entity\Factura;
use Asi\ClinicaBundle\Form\FacturaType;

/**
 * Factura controller.
 *
 */
class FacturaController extends Controller
{

    /**
     * Lists all Factura entities.
     *
     */
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

        $entities = $em->getRepository('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura')->findAll();

        return $this->render('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura:index.html.twig', array(
            'entities' => $entities,
        ));
    }
    /**
     * Creates a new Factura entity.
     *
     */
    public function createAction(Request $request)
    {
        $entity = new Factura();
        $form = $this->createCreateForm($entity);
        $form->handleRequest($request);

        if ($form->isValid()) {
            $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
            $em->persist($entity);
            $em->flush();

            return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('factura_show', array('id' => $entity->getId())));
        }

        return $this->render('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura:new.html.twig', array(
            'entity' => $entity,
            'form'   => $form->createView(),
        ));
    }

    /**
     * Creates a form to create a Factura entity.
     *
     * @param Factura $entity The entity
     *
     * @return \Symfony\Component\Form\Form The form
     */
    private function createCreateForm(Factura $entity)
    {
        $form = $this->createForm(new FacturaType(), $entity, array(
            'action' => $this->generateUrl('factura_create'),
            'method' => 'POST',
        ));

        $form->add('submit', 'submit', array('label' => 'CREAR', 'attr' => array('class' => 'round button blue text-upper small-button', 'onclick' => 'Popup.showModal("modal");return false;')));

        return $form;
    }

    /**
     * Displays a form to create a new Factura entity.
     *
     */
    public function newAction()
    {
        $entity = new Factura();
        $form   = $this->createCreateForm($entity);

        return $this->render('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura:new.html.twig', array(
            'entity' => $entity,
            'form'   => $form->createView(),
        ));
    }

    /**
     * Finds and displays a Factura entity.
     *
     */
    public function showAction($id)
    {
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

        $entity = $em->getRepository('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura')->find($id);

        if (!$entity) {
            throw $this->createNotFoundException('Unable to find Factura entity.');
        }

        $deleteForm = $this->createDeleteForm($id);

        return $this->render('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura:show.html.twig', array(
            'entity'      => $entity,
            'delete_form' => $deleteForm->createView(),
        ));
    }

    /**
     * Displays a form to edit an existing Factura entity.
     *
     */
    public function editAction($id)
    {
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

        $entity = $em->getRepository('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura')->find($id);

        if (!$entity) {
            throw $this->createNotFoundException('Unable to find Factura entity.');
        }

        $editForm = $this->createEditForm($entity);
        $deleteForm = $this->createDeleteForm($id);

        return $this->render('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura:edit.html.twig', array(
            'entity'      => $entity,
            'edit_form'   => $editForm->createView(),
            'delete_form' => $deleteForm->createView(),
        ));
    }

    /**
    * Creates a form to edit a Factura entity.
    *
    * @param Factura $entity The entity
    *
    * @return \Symfony\Component\Form\Form The form
    */
    private function createEditForm(Factura $entity)
    {
        $form = $this->createForm(new FacturaType(), $entity, array(
            'action' => $this->generateUrl('factura_update', array('id' => $entity->getId())),
            'method' => 'PUT',
        ));

        $form->add('submit', 'submit', array('label' => 'ACTUALIZAR', 'attr' => array('class' => 'round button blue text-upper small-button', 'onclick' => 'Popup.showModal("modal");return false;')));

        return $form;
    }
    /**
     * Edits an existing Factura entity.
     *
     */
    public function updateAction(Request $request, $id)
    {
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

        $entity = $em->getRepository('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura')->find($id);

        if (!$entity) {
            throw $this->createNotFoundException('Unable to find Factura entity.');
        }

        $deleteForm = $this->createDeleteForm($id);
        $editForm = $this->createEditForm($entity);
        $editForm->handleRequest($request);

        if ($editForm->isValid()) {
            $em->flush();

            return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('factura_edit', array('id' => $id)));
        }

        return $this->render('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura:edit.html.twig', array(
            'entity'      => $entity,
            'edit_form'   => $editForm->createView(),
            'delete_form' => $deleteForm->createView(),
        ));
    }
    /**
     * Deletes a Factura entity.
     *
     */
    public function deleteAction(Request $request, $id)
    {
        $form = $this->createDeleteForm($id);
        $form->handleRequest($request);

        if ($form->isValid()) {
            $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
            $entity = $em->getRepository('AsiClinicaBundle:Factura')->find($id);

            if (!$entity) {
                throw $this->createNotFoundException('Unable to find Factura entity.');
            }

            $em->remove($entity);
            $em->flush();
        }

        return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('factura'));
    }

    /**
     * Creates a form to delete a Factura entity by id.
     *
     * @param mixed $id The entity id
     *
     * @return \Symfony\Component\Form\Form The form
     */
    private function createDeleteForm($id)
    {
        return $this->createFormBuilder()
            ->setAction($this->generateUrl('factura_delete', array('id' => $id)))
            ->setMethod('DELETE')
            ->add('submit', 'submit', array('label' => 'ELIMINAR', 'attr' => array('class' => 'round button blue text-upper small-button', 'onclick' => 'Popup.showModal("modal");return false;')))
            ->getForm()
        ;
    }
}


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Project England
Natter Football on 6th September 2016
Trnava is a small city located in western Slovakia known for its scenic views and dubbed the 'little Rome' of its country. It's also well renowned for its religious beliefs, playing host to numerous churches. It was perhaps fitting then, that another band of passionate, vibrant people with their own faith arrived there on Sunday – the English football fans.
There was a sense of reserved anticipation about this match, with Sam Allardyce acting as a Pope like figure to the onlooking spectators. The newly elected leader of their faith hoping to bring energy, fight and most importantly success back to a fallen giant of the game.
What followed over the course of the next two hours was hardly inspiring. A predictably dull team selection followed by a lethargic, underwhelming performance. A 95th-minute winner coupled with brilliant individual performances from John Stones and Adam Lallana saved the blushes of Big Sam on his debut and ensured he maintained a 9-manager long record of winning his first game in charge of the National team.
So just how big a job does Allardyce have on his hands? What should be deemed as success during his tenure? And was he the right man for the job in first place?
To answer chronologically, to change an entire International mentality built upon hope, expectation and excitement yet ultimately ending in underachievement and finger pointing is one hell of a task. But it is by no means impossible.
In my eyes, many of the failings can be put down to lack of organisation and not defining a clear style of play. In nearly every country, the nation's culture and identity is reflected on the field. Take Brazil, a country full of vibrancy and flair, Rio carnivals, bright lights and lots of dazzle. That's exactly what you get from their football team – skill, creativity and passion. Germany is a nation built on stability, efficiency and precision. All qualities evident in their football teams philosophy.
We seem to spend a lot of time in this country idealising others style of play and replicating it through our academies. Would it not make more sense to take true English qualities and values we've been raised on and install them into our nation's side? Hard work, passion, determination and a sense of togetherness are all attributes we have in abundance. No one nation's philosophy is correct and replicating others will not bring success. Let's create our own.
Football tactics recycle themselves and as Leicester proved, a tried and trusted 4-4-2 is far from outdated. Why not play a system the players have been raised on and give them a sense of team, not individual responsibility?
The second point to address is the delusions of grandeur throughout English football fandom. Yes we created the sport and yes the Premier League is one of the best leagues in the world but that does not give us a divine right to be the best. In my eyes a barometer of success has to be built on progression. FIFA rankings aside, England are not one of the top 5 or maybe even top 10 sides in world football right now but we should certainly be beating teams of Iceland's standard.
Doing the basics right and getting positive results in comparison to our current modest ability should be deemed as success right now. Qualifying top of our group for the 2018 World Cup then, based on a generous draw, a quarter-final appearance should be well-received.
Finally, love him or loathe him, Big Sam was part of a very small handful of English managers with a pedigree capable of taking the England job. The debate will rage on about foreign managers, however, it has brought no proven past success and those who have the calibre to buck that trend would not be interested in the job.
Was Allardyce right to allow the players who performed so woefully at Euro 2016 a chance to shed their demons last night? In my opinion no but I can see his thinking. Regardless, from this point on it is crucial that he sets an agenda. A system that the majority of his squad are comfortable with, a style of play that embodies our national identity and a policy of form over reputation when it comes to selecting personnel.
England is a great country with a rich heritage and a lot to be proud of. I hope Sam makes our football team part of that again.
By @CharlieJC93 – Charlie's blog
Category: Natter Posts
Tag: Allardyce, england, International Football, Sam Allardyce, Three Lions
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Omar Khayyam was born on May 18, 1048, in the trading city of Nishapur in northern Persia. There is some dispute amongst scholars as to his father's occupation. Some believe that he was a physician, others a tentmaker.
Omar Khayyam was educated by tutors including Bahmanyar bin Marzban and Khawjah al-Anbari. Marzban was a mathematician who followed Zoroastrianism. He, in turn, had been tutored by one of the major philosophers and scientists of the day, Avicenna. Al-Anbari instructed Khayyam in the science of astronomy.
Recognized by scholars as one of the great, pioneering mathematicians, Omar Khayyam made his mark with his contributions to geometry and algebra. He documented the length of the year in 1072. He is also well known today for his poetry.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald and published in 1859. Many of its brilliance has acknowledged this famous poem. TS Eliot and Arthur Conan Doyle were both admirers of Khayyam.
In 1869, The Rubaiyat was published in the United States. Walt Whitman, the famous American poet, joined the British literati in acknowledging Khayyam's contribution to literature.
Following the death of his father, Omar Khayyam went on a three-month journey to the city of Samarkand, today part of Uzbekistan. Omar arrived there as a young man of twenty in approximately 1068. The town was a place of great learning at the time. The Governor and Chief Judge was Abu Tahir, a family friend. Tahir was quick to notice Khayyam's mathematical ability and employed him. Khayyam then worked in the Treasury, continuing his research into algebra.
Omar Khayyam published Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra and Balancing in 1070 AD. Thereby proving that is was possible for a cubic equation to have more than one solution. He was following in the steps of Archimedes when he dealt with the problem of finding the ratio of the volume of one part of a sphere to another. Referencing Euclid's Elements, he showed that algebra and geometry were linked. At age 22, Omar Khayyam was considered a first-class mathematician and his reputation was secure.
Omar Khayyam then moved to Isfahan in 1073 at the invitation of the Sultan of the Great Seljuq Empire Malik Shah and Nizam al-Mulk, his vazir. He was able to choose a team of scientists, was highly paid and had access to the most influential people. It was during this time that he worked on measuring the length of a year. The calendar he produced in 1079 was used until the 20th century.
Omar Khayyam calculated the year length accurately in 1072.
In recognition of his contributions towards astronomy, a lunar crater is named after Omar Khayyam.
There is not much data available concerning Omar Khayyam's own life.
Omar Khayyam's family was Muslim.
After his mentor and vazir both had died, Omar Khayyam went into seclusion. He did not teach again.
Omar Khayyam's contribution to mathematics and poetry has stood the test of time.


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import som.vmobjects.SAbstractObject;

public final class SomException extends RuntimeException {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = -639789248178270606L;
  private final SAbstractObject somObj;

  public SomException(final SAbstractObject somObj) {
      /*
       * We use the super constructor that initializes the cause to null.
       * Without that, the cause would be this exception itself. This helps
       * escape analysis: it avoids the circle of an object pointing to itself.
       */
      super((Throwable) null);
      this.somObj = somObj;
  }

  public SAbstractObject getSomObject() {
    return somObj;
  }

  /**
   * For performance reasons, this exception does not record any stack trace
   * information.
   *
   * TODO: at some point, fill in a SOMns stack...
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("sync-override")
  @Override
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Castlevania Tribute: Christopher Belmont and his Castlevania Adventure
Christopher Belmont is probably the most unpopular Castlevania game main Protagonist, with him being the star of Castlevania: The Adventure fro the Game Boy in 1989 as one of the first GB games and mainly a copy of Simon.
This entry of our Castlevania Art Tribute by Jmatchead is a hommage to the good old black & white colors of the original Game Boy. He also wrote the following about his work:
"So, this game gets a good deal of hate, not all of it really deserved. It's slow, ungodly hard, and limited when compared to the other games in the series. However, I think it's important to think about The Adventure in context.
"The Adventure was really only the third Castlevania game, made right after Simon's Quest, so the franchise was really still in its infancy. Plus, in 1989 the Gameboy itself was still pretty new, and even Nintendo's own Super Mario Land, released the same year, is somewhat uneven."
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