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Islamabad – They have seen through the "Glass" and now they want the world to know about their skills.
Pakistani web developers, programmers and students, who attended a Google Glass bootcamp and "hackathon" in the federal capital on Friday and Saturday, seemed excited and committed about putting Pakistan on the global map for designing applications for Google's yet-to-be-commercially-launched wearable technology.
Google Glass is a "wearable technology" device — a computer, basically — which Google started testing in 2012. It is worn like normal eyewear and the display appears in a lens attached to the device. Glass is controlled using voice commands and a touch pad on the side of the Glass frame.
The two-day hackathon — an event where programmers and coders collaborate on software projects with the goal of creating a workable software by the end of the event — was organised by Moftak Solutions, an IT services and web development company that has been around for the past 10 years, at its Islamabad office.
"It is the first-ever Google Glass-related code jam in Pakistan," said Fakhar Abbas, a marketing manager at Moftak said. "Only around 2,000 hardware pieces have been sold or handed out by Google for testing so far, so
The limited availability of the device means most Pakistani programmers and web developers do not have much exposure to Glass or the way its apps work, said Najam Sikander
Najam Sikander, a Project Manager at Moftak, said Moftak Chief Executive Officer got a chance to acquire Glass when he attended the 2012 Google I/O Conference in San Francisco.
Some Islamabad developers who had worked on Glass-related projects for foreign clients had to send their code abroad for testing because they did not possess Google Glass hardware, Sikander said.
Abbas said after acquiring the Google Glass hardware, they decided to share it with other web developers instead of greedily using it by themselves. He said the idea was to get others to code applications for Glass so that Pakistan could have a representation in Glass app development.
A hackathon is an event, which could last from a day to a week, where web developers and programmers get together and collaborate on software projects, often with the goal of creating a working software or application by the end of the event.
For example, a student hackathon at Princeton University, USA, in November 2013 led to some students creating the popular website "What would I say?" that uses words in existing Facebook status updates from a user's profile to create quirky sentences.
Hackathons have gained prominence worldwide over the past few years, with even technology bigwigs such as Google and Microsoft holding their own hackathons.
Participants — around 20 to 40 people attended the hackathon over the two days — seemed warming up to that idea.
There are only 10 to 15 Glass applications or "apps" available so far, Abbas said.
"Pakistan is an emerging IT country and it would be real nice if we can get a Pakistani app up on Google Glass," said Jehanzeb Malik, a Senior Software Engineer at Red Buffer, who attended the hackathon.
Malik said he and his team, which comprised of other hackathon participants including students, were trying to get a basic idea of Glass and they hoped to build a basic gaming app for such as tic-tac-toe for Glass by the end of the event on Saturday evening.
In another room, a four-member team of hackathon participants was working on designing an app for Glass that users could use to get access to web services such as finding out the local time at a given geographic location.
Waheeduddin, a 7th semester electrical engineering student at the National University of Sciences and Technology, said attending the hackathon provided him the opportunity to connect with professional web developers and learn from them.
Abid Khan, a final semester Computer Science student at National University of Modern Languages, said the event was a good motivation factor and they were able to learn about the
Participants thanked Moftak for allowing them to have a hands-on training and development session with Google Glass.


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The X chromosome is a unique genetic environment. Female cells contain two X chromosomes while male cells contain only one, and to balance the X-gene dose in female cells one X copy is kept transcriptionally silenced by the process of X-chromosome inactivation. This is achieved by remarkable remodeling of the inactive X chromosome, which drastically changes its chromatin structure, methylation patterns, and three-dimensional conformation – ultimately suppressing the expression of most of its genes. By characterizing the epigenetic framework of X-chromosome inactivation, we reveal fundamental features of gene regulation. During the last years Reinius and colleagues pioneered the use of single-cell RNA-seq in the study of X-inactivation (Science 2014, Cell 2016, Nature Genetics 2016 among other publications). Currently the Reinius lab is working to determine the X-inactive landscape across a wide range of in vivo tissues and cell types. This is accomplished by a comprehensive synthesis of newly developed concepts and techniques, including single-cell RNA-sequencing, chromatin accessibility and modification assays, mouse genetics and transgenics, and recently advanced computational methods for the analysis of allele-specific gene expression. The expected outcome of the research is of broad biological significance, and may reveal gene-regulatory features underlying variable expressivity and incomplete penetrance of X-linked traits and genetic disorders.
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Firestorm 5.0.7 the RLVa debate continues
As many of the readers of this blog will already know, Firestorm issued an updated viewer on June 21st, FS 5.0.7. Now I won't attempt a review, I leave such things to others such as Inara Pey: https://modemworld.me/2017/06/21/firestorm-5-0-7-tight-and-tidy/. What I WILL comment on is the outstanding RLVa version reporting issue. https://jira.phoenixviewer.com/browse/FIRE-20597 is seeing a debate, nay an argument, between one of SL's foremost RLV scripters, Chorazin Allen, and the creator of RLVa Kitty Barnett. To be perfectly honest, Kitty's attitude astonished me. I knew there was growing disinterest in RLV/RLVa within Firestorm ranks, that has been going on for some time.
What worries me is the suggestion (granted at this stage purely hypothetical and not from Kitty) that Firestorm might abandon RLV/RLVa altogether. That this should even be considered would, in my view be a total betrayal of the roots of Firestorm, via Phoenix and (controversially) Emerald. As Firestorm and Linden Lab appear to be moving ever closer to full co-operation, the FS volunteers are in danger of forgetting their origins and misunderstanding their user-base. In that they are coming to resemble Linden Lab who have made a science of failing to understand their user-base.
Now for me the minor version-reporting glitch is an irritation not a problem, but for folk like Chorazin it is a major bug-bear. It needs to be fixed but from Kitty's comment that is not going to happen any time soon.
In recent conversation with Marine Kelley (with whom I have always been on good terms) I began to appreciate the yawning chasm that has grown between the inventor of the RLV and FS. I find it sad and not at all comforting to hear some of the comments on this JIRA.
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Racial issue flares in stepping contest
ATLANTA — Visit any of the nation's more than 100 historically black colleges or universities and you'll see clusters of men and women engaged in the rhythmic clapping and foot stomping routines known in black Greek circles as "stepping."
Now a white Arkansas team's win in an Atlanta step competition has started a fiery debate over the African-inspired tradition and whether the integration of a once-ethnically exclusive activity constitutes a form of cultural theft.
"What has happened is black youth culture, what people would call hip hop, sort of made black culture accessible and appealing to all kinds of people," said Walter Kimbrough, president of historically black Philander Smith College in Little Rock and an expert on black Greek life. "It really now has become an American experience."
The uproar began when the all-white Zeta Tau Alpha team from the University of Arkansas beat out five other sorority teams to win last weekend's national final in the Sprite Step Off competition. A YouTube video of their performance, inspired by the movie "The Matrix," generated hundreds of comments.
Posters questioned everything from whether a white group should have been allowed to compete to whether judges wowed by the unlikely competitors inflated their scores to let them win.
"Good Job but let the Black folks have their own thing for once!!!" wrote one commenter, who said the Zeta Tau Alpha team did well but should not have won.
On Thursday, sponsor Coca-Cola announced "scoring discrepancies" and said the runner-up — the Alpha Kappa Alpha team from Indiana University, whose members are black — would share first place and receive the same $100,000 in scholarships that the Zeta Tau Alphas won.
It was unclear what the discrepancies were and Coca-Cola would not elaborate. The tournament began in September with a series of regional qualifying rounds.
While scholars have debated the origin of stepping, the phenomenon is generally believed to have originated with black Greeks around 1969. Some link it to a form of African "gumboot" dancing, which involves performers rhythmically slapping and stamping their feet. It's a form of dance made popular by workers in South African mines.
Pulling from things like military cadences and dance routines, stepping usually involves stomping out rhythms in heavy boots or loud shoes, with emphasis on precision and flair. Step crews often travel from coast to coast to earn cash, trophies and bragging rights for the most precise or clever routine.
As the phenomenon expanded, other Greek groups began participating. Now, it's not uncommon for white or Latino Greek groups to participate.


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Kawerak and City jointly request help from state and federal agencies to reform NPD
The City of Nome and Kawerak Inc. last week sent a letter to the FBI, the Governor, state legislators as well as the Alaska federal delegation, requesting assistance to "ensure justice for all victims of sexual assault and other violent crimes in the Bering Strait region."
The letter comes after a period of municipal turmoil stemming from allegations that the Nome Police Department has failed to adequately investigate sexual assaults and violent crimes over the last few years. A group of women have repeatedly confronted the Nome Common Council and urged the city administration to act on their requests for a special sexual assault investigator, an ethics review of NPD protocol and an investigator to investigate NPD's handling of sexual assault reports.
In September a new chief of police took the helm at NPD and former City Manager Tom Moran also submitted his resignation. In the interim, former mayor John Handeland was appointed to the acting city manager position. These winds of change —manifested in new city leadership, including new members on the Nome Common Council — bring about new methods of going forward.
During last week's Kawerak Regional Conference panel discussion on "Resources for survivors of sexual assault", John Handeland and Kawerak CEO and President Melanie Bahnke announced that both entities have joined forces to draft a letter asking for assistance. "Melanie and the mayor have signed a joint letter and sent it to everybody that's anybody, including federal and state and our Alaska delegation, asking them to come up here and take a look at if there are things that haven't been handled right — not to put blame on anybody, but to figure out how do we fix the process moving forward," Handeland said. "So we may have some DoJ people, we may have some FBI people coming up here and we also asked state troopers, potentially, to provide some assistance."
The letter requests that the Dept. of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, "exercise its authority and responsibilities […] to determine if there have been civil rights violations by the NPD in regards to sexual assault and violent crime investigations and to provide guidance to the new leadership at NPD to assist leadership to identify and implement best practices for law enforcement agencies when it comes to appropriate response to sexual assault and violent crime reports."
The letter asks state legislators to enact stiffer penalties and close loopholes on sex crimes, citing a recent case in which it was determined that masturbating and ejaculating on a person without consent was not considered a crime. Justin Schneider, the Anchorage man who committed the deed, was set free, to the outrage of many.
The letter also asks to provide additional personnel to the Nome District Attorney's office, where both prosecutors bear the highest caseload per attorney in the state, according to the letter.
It asks to expedite filling three vacant State Trooper positions in the Nome post – which currently has only four troopers for the entire Bering Strait region — and requests a trooper specifically assigned to handle sexual abuse investigations.
Other requests include that the state prioritizes to fill four Office of Children's Services caseworker vacancies – currently two caseworkers deal with over 315 open cases. And finally the letter asks the Federal Government and State of Alaska to "provide any other resources that the City of Nome might benefit from to strengthen NPD and to assist the Department in regaining the confidence of the general public."
As background the letter offered a time line of grievances: in April 2018, the state's office of special prosecutions filed charges against a NPD Community Services Officer for punching a woman in the head while on duty. He resigned but was rehired temporarily in August by then-Chief John Papasodora and then-City Manager Tom Moran as a dispatcher and was terminated again under public pressure.
In May, a group of Alaska Native women, sexual assault survivors, gave public comment at Common Council meetings, voicing their concern about the lack of sexual assault investigations. According to the letter, Chief Papasodora acknowledged that 126 rape kits, some dating back to 2005, have not been sent out to the state's crime lab until recently.
In June, a Nome woman who was employed at NPD as a dispatcher, came forward with the information that she was raped, she reported the rape to a NPD Lieutenant and her case remained uninvestigated. The Lieutenant was demoted to the rank Sergeant.
NPD Chief John Papasodora retired and a new chief reported to work on Sept. 15.
In September City Manager Tom Moran tendered his 30-day notice. At another Common Council meeting, a Nome woman revealed that Moran had texted her improperly using a different name and asked her to come to City Hall in the middle of the night. The council relieved him of his contract three days before it was to expire.
In September, another woman alleged on a social media that she was raped and her case was never investigated.
Although not mentioned, Nome police was still needing to regain trust after the 2003 murder of Sonya Ivanoff, who was shot by a Nome police officer on duty. The officer was convicted and sentenced to serve a 99-year sentence in jail.
The Kawerak board of directors passed a resolution in October that aims to seek justice for victims of sexual assault and violent crimes. Part of the resolution reads "it is apparent that Nome Police Department protocol, processes and procedures to carry out its responsibilities under the law regarding investigating sexual assault and violent crimes need to be overhauled" and that the new chief as well as the City are open to an investigation of NPD by a neutral third party. The resolution calls upon the Dept. of Justice, FBI, to exercise its authority under a certain law "which makes it unlawful for state or local law enforcement agencies to allow officers to engage in a pattern of conduct that deprives a person's rights protected by the Constitution or U.S, laws."
The letter was addressed to State Representative Neal Foster and Senator Donny Olson, to the office of Governor Bill Walker, US Attorney Bryan Schroder and FBI Special Agent in Charge Jeffery Peterson and cc'd to U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan and Congressman Don Young.
Bahnke said that Kawerak officials met last week with Dan Sullivan and Lt. Governor Val Davidson. "We discussed in length for an hour our request and got a commitment from our senator to put in a call and use his clout to the FBI, to let the FBI know that they should take this seriously," Bahnke said. She added that the Senator was quite confused, though. "He kept saying 'Are you sure that the City is on board with this? You talked to the chief, right? You didn't just go and get Mayor Beneville's signature," Bahnke said. "I said, no, believe it or not, this is something that the City has signed on to, they want to be investigated in terms of are there things that they could be doing better? So, the Senator was really surprised."
John Handeland, ever optimistic, sees the silver lining in this rough time for all involved. "My feeling is: Although Nome is in the limelight here for the last little bit, there were a couple of high profile cases and certainly we want those addressed, but Nome is a good place," he said. "I hope you all feel safe to come and visit us and we need to take more care that everybody feels that way and has the trust in all of us here to deliver the services that you need, respond to your concerns and to make it a good place for all of us to live. While these high profile cases are going on, I don't think Nome is any worse off than some other community around. There are others that need to step up their actions as well. We heard about these and I read the statistics of what's going on in Anchorage and the murders and rapes and run-overs that are happening there.
"There are bad things happening everywhere. It takes all of us as a community to get together and advocate for change and not just in this area, but in all areas of public safety and let's do it as a team and a region together."
Editor's Note: This version of the story reflects a correction made from the printed version. In the printed story, the Anchorage man referred to is called Justin Schneider, not Justin Stein.


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Early adopters are what drive change. They are bold enough to enter the unknown and are often the catalyst for mass acceptance. Even today's most ubiquitous innovations once had their naysayers.
The announcement of the latest iPhone in September marked 10 years since the device was first introduced to the world and that has sparked interest in what people first thought about it in 2007.
Some initial reviews of the original iPhone included Wired deeming it "not worth the money", The Peanut Gallery said the touch screen was a bad idea that would cause major problems, TechCrunch criticized the glass screens and virtual keyboard and The Guardian proclaimed it would "struggle to break into the mainstream".
But the early adopters still lined up to buy the iPhone and, soon enough, there was a groundswell of admiration for it, which helped craft a new industry and re-route the business plans of many competitors.
Being an early adopter business
Of course, being an early adopter in business carries a great deal more risk than being an early adopter consumer, but it also carries the potential for great reward.
As Information Age points out, early adopter businesses are those bold enough to try out new technology and new software and go where no company has gone before – and hopefully, discover a new market along the way.
Avoiding the laggard penalty
The other key factor underpinning the move to being an early adopter is that it ensures you eliminate the issues facing the digital laggards of the business world.
According to a study by professional services firm Cognizant, a 'wait and see' approach with digital technologies will have a detrimental financial impact in the coming years.
Researchers called this 'The Laggard Penalty' – the difference in both cost and revenue performance due to a lack of technology adoption.
"In the financial services industry, for instance, digital laggards were found to have an average total economic impact of about 3.1 percent of all costs and revenue. In comparison, organisations already in the digital transformation race have an impact of about 7.4 percent. This means digital organisations have a 139 percent advantage over laggards when it comes to digital."
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Huntington High School alum Lou R. Giani has been named head coach of the Blue Devil varsity wrestling team. He replaces fellow grad Travis Smith, who stepped down to coach the mat team at J. Taylor Finley Middle School where he teaches physical education.
Giani is the son and grandson of Huntington wrestling legends. His father, Lou D. Giani, Jr. won 1973 county and state championships for the Blue Devils. His grandfather was Huntington's head wrestling coach for 38 seasons, compiling a record of 416-32.
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of Huntington's varsity wrestling team.
Joining Giani on the high school coaching staff for the 2017/18 season will be two more Huntington alums; Kieran Mock and Omar Santiago. Mock won the 1982 county and state championships for the Blue Devils. Santiago was a Suffolk runner-up in 2009.
"It's exciting to be named the head coach of a program that has enjoyed so much success over the years and which has played such a prominent role in the life of my family," Giani said. "I'm looking forward to developing a strong team that everyone in the community will be proud of."
Giani was the county runner-up at 152 lbs. in 2000 as a senior. He went on to compete at SUNY Brockport and earned a master's degree at Stony Brook University. He teaches physical education at Flower Hill Primary School.
Mock was Huntington's head coach from 2008/09 to 2012/13 compiling a record of 42-16 over five season. He was an assistant coach for the past four seasons. He wrestled at Drake University, Hofstra University and SUNY Brockport, graduating from the latter with a BS degree in finance.
Santiago wrestled at SUNY Oswego, graduating with a BS degree in technology education in 2014. He taught in Freeport for a year before joining Huntington's faculty in September 2016. He coached wrestling at Finley last winter.
A 1992 All-County wrestler for the Blue Devils, Smith stepped down as varsity head coach after leading the program for four seasons. The team went 40-13 over that span, including 5-3 last winter. He wrestled at SUNY Brockport, earning a physical education teaching degree there before going on to obtain a master's degree at Stony Brook University.
Returning to the Finley coaching staff is Mike Marinello. A graduate of Sachem High School, he holds a BS degree from Springfield College and a master's degree from Stony Brook University. He coached on the high school and middle school levels for Huntington over the past two decades.
Giani's grandfather was Huntington's first county champion and his father was the Blue Devils' first state champ. His uncle, Joe was the program's first NCAA champion when he won the 150 lb. title for SUNY Brockport, where he was a three-time All-American.
Giani plans to build the program around a core group of returning veteran wrestlers and an extraordinarily talented group of matmen in the pipeline from the Finley program. Some have already arrived as a freshmen while others are still in eighth grade and won't join the high school program for another season.


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In his final Mansion House speech after four years as FSA chairman, Turner said the regulator combined functions that are "best kept separate", such as prudential and conduct supervision.
An overburdened regulator, he said, plus unsafe rules on global bank liquidity and a "dangerous culture" within major banks, combined to cause the downturn and subsequent recession.
"So, the crisis was not a bolt from the blue – it arose from poor supervision, from bad rules and structures, from dangerous cultures – and the errors were made by regulators, economists, central bankers and public policy makers, as well as bankers' themselves.
"A lot of apparently very clever people got it very wrong, and the ordinary citizen suffered. We have to do better in future".
Turner said the timing of his appointment as FSA chairman in 2008 – within days of the collapse of Lehmans and the rescue of RBS and HBOS – left him feeling as though he had been "appointed captain of the Titanic after we'd hit the iceberg but before we'd actually sunk".
He said regulators were righting the wrongs of the past – with changes in the UK to the regulatory system and in Europe and elsewhere to banks' structures and capital liquidity rules.
There are even signs that banking industry leaders are recognising the need for major cultural change, he added.
Turner said recovery from recession was likely to be protracted, particularly because post-crisis deleveraging is "very, very difficult to manage", but he said it was right to pursue "unconventional" monetary policies such as quantitative easing.
He also said that, though the roots of the crisis lay in one particular subset of financial services – the banks – it was important to point out that other parts of the financial system, including asset managers, had continued to provide high quality services to the world economy.
"It is essential that, as we fix the problems of the banking system, we also celebrate the success of many other City services and firms," he said.
Turner, who is considered to be one of the frontrunners for the Bank of England's governor job, also called for the central bank to look at alternative ways to stimulate economic growth as QE has left the UK in a "liquidity trap".
He indicated the Bank could take a different path should he be the successful applicant as printing more money, on top of the £375bn printed so far, will have "declining marginal impact", reported The Telegraph.
He said "more innovative and unconventional policies" needed to be considered to get economic growth going and warned QE had placed the UK in a "liquidity trap in which replacing private sector holdings of bonds with private sector holdings of money has little impact on behaviour and thus on demand".
The current governor Sir Mervyn King is to step down from the role next year and applications for the job closed last week. Paul Tucker, deputy governor of the Bank of England, is the leading frontrunner to replace King but Lord Turner is believed to have a good chance of the top job too.
Sharon Bowles, Lib Dem MEP, also revealed this week she had applied for the job.
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Less than a week after being carried off on a stretcher at Salford suffering from what at the time looked to be a series neck injury, Aussie full back Bern Barba was today(Tuesday) named in Saints' 19-man squad to face the Catalans Dragons at the Totally Wicked Stadium on Thursday.
Skipper James Roby also returns after a three-match absence due to a rib cartilage problem and so, too, does Adam Swift, who has been sidelined since picking up a shoulder injury at Hull KR in March.
Head coach Justin Holbrook will, therefore, select his 17 from: 1. Jonny Lomax, 2. Tommy Makinson, 3. Ryan Morgan, 4. Mark Percival, 5. Adam Swift, 6. Theo Fages, 7. Matty Smith, 9. James Roby, 10. Kyle Amor, 11. Zeb Taia, 12. Jon Wilkin, 13. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, 14. Luke Douglas, 15. Morgan Knowles, 16. Luke Thompson, 17. Dom Peyroux, 18. Danny Richardson, 19. Regan Grace, 23. Ben Barba.
Steve McNamara will choose his Catalans' 17 from: 2. Jodie Broughton, 3. Iain Thornley, 4. Brayden Wiliame, 6. Samisoni Langi, 8. Rémi Casty, 10. Sam Moa, 11. Louis Anderson, 12. Benjamin Garcia, 13. Greg Bird, 14. Julian Bousquet, 16. Vincent Duport, 17. Jason Baitieri, 19. Michael McIlorum, 20. Lewis Tierney, 21. Benjamin Jullien, 23. Antoni Maria, 24. Alrix Da Costa, 31. Tony Gigot, 33. Josh Drinkwater.
The game kicks off at 7:45pm and the referee will be announced shortly.
The Dragons currently lie 11th in the table - a point ahead of rock bottom Huddersfield Giants - but the league leaders will be treating their visitors with the respect they deserve.
Holbrook said: "We will not be worrying about where the Dragons sit in the table at this moment in time and all we will be concentrating on is picking up the points and also maintaining our current form."
The French had an impressive 25-24 home win over Hull FC at the weekend and will arrive at the Totally Wicked Stadium in a buoyant mood.
Holbrook added: "They will not be thinking doom and gloom and hoping to upset the odds so in no way will we be under-estimating them."


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Primeval fic: (Don't Build Your World Around) Volcanoes Melt You Down (1/1)
feeling: quixotic
Title: (Don't Build Your World Around) Volcanoes Melt You Down
Disclaimer: I do not own Primeval.
A/N: Written for the primeval_denial art challenge. Beta by kristen_mara. Spoilers for S1 mostly. Apologies to Damien Rice for the title. Based on the art by goldarrow, which can be found here.
Summary: Time will always tell.
The world is young and undisturbed. Dinosaurs roam, and the plant life thrives under the scorching heat and thick rains. The herbivores eat hungrily at the groves of greenery, scattering at the thundering call of predators in the area. They coexist, in their own way, in the shadow of the great mountain at the center.
This mountain is special, after all. On its steep sides, everything blooms. It is the essence of life, poking dramatically up into the sky. The clouds hide the peak sometimes, but nothing can ever change the mountain unless it wishes to be changed. Here, species flourish and the ecosystem thrives. The streams run cool and fresh, babbling under the shade of the forest that has grown for centuries.
It is a delicate balance, maintained naturally by the ebb and flow of life. It is wild and raw, and it is very, very beautiful. Some might call it perfect.
Then, one morning, while the herbivores graze and the predators stalk, the mountain rumbles.
With a belch, ash spews into the air. The rumbling increases as rocks go flying. By the third gurgle, lava starts to bubble over before the eruption takes full effect. It is a flurry of activity, hot ash burning through the green as it coats the mountainside. Animals start to run, prey and predator alike, fleeing frantically through the foliage they once called home. They're fast, but the lava flow is faster still. It burns its way down the mountain, destroying everything before it. Trees disappear; dinosaurs are consumed. What had once been balance is entirely dominated now, everything subjugated to a force of nature made of fire and ash.
That mountain -- and every creature near it -- will never be the same.
When Helen makes up her mind to go through an anomaly, it seems like the only reasonable choice. She doesn't understand why people are so scared of such things. It's not that she's without some trepidation, but for the science alone, she has to know.
She has to know.
On the other side, she realizes that everything she thought she knew wasn't enough. She learns that there is more to this world, more to this life. She scouts the mountainside in abject awe, mentally cataloguing the plants and the animals and the intensity of the sun.
It's a volcano, she notes immediately, and an active one at that. There are small seismic sensations, and there is evidence of ash in the region. It's probably only a matter of time before a full-on volcanic event levels the area, leaving nothing but the fossils Helen has studied all her life.
When she goes back to the present, everything seems dimmer by comparison. In her lab, she sits vacantly, tracing her fingers on the impressions of a plant found imprinted in stone.
"Volcanoes," Nick muses as he walks by. "A scientist's best friend."
"Yes," Helen murmurs. "Powerful forces."
"And think," Nick says good-naturedly. He has no idea, and Helen hasn't told him. If he wanted to see the signs of the changes in her, he'd have looked harder. The truth is, he'd stopped looking a long time ago. "They had the ability to change entire ecosystems. Entire habitats. The entire course of history."
Helen looks at the fossil again, and does her best not to smile. "They certainly do change everything."
Tom Ryan doesn't know anything about science. He doesn't know much about dinosaurs or history. It's not his job to know. It's his job to serve and protect.
And he's been in other worlds before. Not technically of course, but being dropped off in a warzone in Afghanistan is a world away enough. Front line combat is nothing like civilian life, and after that, Ryan had thought he'd seen everything.
Standing, gun in hand, looking around at the prehistoric earth, he realizes how wrong he was. Because he's never cared about the how's or why's. He's just cared about coming home.
Here, there are dinosaurs and creatures. Here, Ryan stands at the foot of a volcano holding nothing but a gun and he knows how small he is. He can't serve and protect. If something goes wrong, he can't even save himself or the wandering Cutter.
Nervous, he glances back toward the anomaly and fights the urge to run. Ryan's no coward, and he's been scared before, but never like this.
He looks up at the volcano and can't suppress a shudder.
This is a war he'll fight because someone has to.
Somehow, he fears, it's a war they'll lose.
Stephen's been cooped up in a lab for so long that he's forgotten what he really loves. He's forgotten how this all started, how he was young once and in love with nature. He'd meant to travel; he'd meant to study natural habitats and stake all he had to save them. He'd meant to study the rainforests, and document the Congo. He'd intended to see crocodiles on the Nile and watch the wolf packs in Alaska.
Instead, Stephen's spent the last eight years in a lab by Cutter's side. There had been field excursion, to be sure, and tracking wildlife across remote regions are still the most exciting times he's ever had. But it's never quite been his adventure; it's never truly been his choice. He's been Cutter's right-hand man, on call no matter where or where not they may roam.
He's never regretted it, of course, but when the anomaly refracts in front of him, he finds he can't resist. In most things, Stephen is measured and predictable.
But sometimes he just lets go.
And it's either the best thing or the worst thing.
He tumbles through one anomaly, but before he can stop himself, he's tripping headlong into another. The sudden shift in atmosphere steals his breath, and he gets his footing and whirls around. He's someplace ancient, he knows from the heat and thin air alone. And the volcano…
The top is smoking, and Stephen feels a tremor beneath his feet. The damn thing is going to explode.
So much for impulses. The need to survive supersedes all the rest, and he suddenly feels stupid. To risk everything on a whim. That's just like him, though. Heedless in the face of disaster before the whole thing blows up in his face.
Stephen really should know better.
Swallowing hard, he turns back and dives through the anomaly. This time, he stops himself and realizes that this is the halfway point he rolled right through. Only it's more than a halfway point.
Standing, he gapes. Because it's not just one anomaly. It's dozens of them. More than he could imagine. These things are not singular occurrences. They may actually be far more prevalent than they ever knew.
This is a big deal. This could change everything.
Stephen's next instinct is to try another one, but he still feels the tremor of the ground and reminds himself that his first instincts aren't always his best.
In fact, as he looks around, he's not even sure they amount for much, all things considered. He may have escaped the imminent eruption of the volcano, but he's by no means home. Coming through as fast as he did, he's not entirely sure which anomaly he came through.
Stephen should probably be scared, but he's too overwhelmed to muster up the fear. It's just remarkable. One second, he's in the present. The next, he's in the past. Now, he's someplace in between, watching the convergence of dozens of points in time.
It's funny to think about. All these portals, all these places. So many points in time, all coming to a point, right here. As if everything could culminate to a point, as if it were possible to have infinite possibilities right before him.
Here, where everything has already happened, where everything is going to happen. Somewhere a volcano explodes; somewhere scientists dig up fossils. The past is never over, and the future doesn't really exist. It's all in the moment. That volcano is going to erupt forever.
Stephen might be foolish enough to think he can avoid that.
But time will tell
Time will always tell.
Thousands of years in the future, a predator finds herself alone. This world is barren and bleak, and there is nothing left. Lesser beings have tried to change this, but she knows better. Evolutionary fact remains what it is; she was always meant to see this planet to its next era.
She runs through the trees, pursuing her latest meal. The volcano behind her is inactive and dormant, as unimportant as the humans who lay claim to her creation.
It matters not, for she has eclipsed them. They seek to control her, but she has evolved beyond them now. She is powerful; she is pure. The children she bears will conquer this planet, and her kind will live.
This is a certainty, she decides as she lays her claim to the pristine landscape. Humans still exist, of course, and they may seek her, but they will not find her. Those who try will never go home again.
She climbs high in the mountain, looping through the trees. She turns her head up to the sky and relishes in her glory.
This is her time.
This is her moment.
Nothing will change that.
Below her, the mountain rumbles.


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1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the assemblies of Galatia, so do *ye* do also. 1 Corinthians 16:2 On [the] first of [the] week let each of you put by at home, laying up [in] whatever [degree] he may have prospered, that there may be no collections when I come. 1 Corinthians 16:3 And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem: 1 Corinthians 16:4 and if it be suitable that *I* also should go, they shall go with me. 1 Corinthians 16:5 But I will come to you when I shall have gone through Macedonia; for I do go through Macedonia. 1 Corinthians 16:6 But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that *ye* may set me forward wheresoever I may go. 1 Corinthians 16:7 For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit. 1 Corinthians 16:8 But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost. 1 Corinthians 16:9 For a great door is opened to me and an effectual [one], and [the] adversaries many.
1 Corinthians 16:10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I. 1 Corinthians 16:11 Let not therefore any one despise him; but set him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren. 1 Corinthians 16:12 Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all [his] will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.
1 Corinthians 16:13 Be vigilant; stand fast in the faith; quit yourselves like men; be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all things ye do be done in love. 1 Corinthians 16:15 But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,)
1 Corinthians 16:16 that *ye* should also be subject to such, and to every one joined in the work and labouring. 1 Corinthians 16:17 But I rejoice in the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; because *they* have supplied what was lacking on your part. 1 Corinthians 16:18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: own therefore such. 1 Corinthians 16:19 The assemblies of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house, salute you much in [the] Lord. 1 Corinthians 16:20 All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss. 1 Corinthians 16:21 The salutation of [me] Paul with my own hand. 1 Corinthians 16:22 If any one love not the Lord [Jesus Christ] let him be Anathema Maranatha. 1 Corinthians 16:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. 1 Corinthians 16:24 My love [be] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.


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Greg Willis, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Air Lease Corporation commented: "We are pleased that Standard & Poor's has recognized Air Lease's strengthening credit profile with a positive outlook on our corporate credit rating. We benefit from diversified funding sources, our low-leverage unencumbered balance sheet, the strength of our core business, and the continued growth of the global airline industry."


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Hello from Teacher Patti, drop by and learn with us!
Hello! My name is Patricia Francis Lloyd but my students call me Teacher Patti. I was born in Hollywood, California and promptly adopted by Robert and Beverly Francis who picked me up from the hospital and moved me to a farm outside of Burley, Idaho where I joined 3 brothers and a sister - all of us adopted from different families. I married Rod Lloyd and we raised our two boys in Rupert and Pocatello, Idaho. Rod and I both graduated from Idaho State University - Rod with a teaching certificate/degree and me with a license/degree in Social Work. We moved to Barrow in 1998 where we lived for 10 years. This school year begins our 10th year teaching at Meade River School in Atqasuk.


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My wife has been given a good report regarding Karma. This was after all the old 'Neel Akash' renamed and rebranded for the 21st century.
They mean business too, because the decor has been upgraded significantly with the revamp, as has the presentation of the food.
Its all flower shaped radish and fluted carrot garnishes on the sides of plates these days.
The prices have been upgraded somewhat too though, so your paying for the 'experience'.
The food though, I can report, is delicious. I chose a Chef Special which was a Keema Mince and Chicken Tikka Bhuna with rice included, and I complimented with a Tandoori Roti. My wife chose Tikka masala which was dressed with boiled egg.
Unfortunately the whole evening was marred somewhat by the strange feeling of being unwanted in the restaurant. We hadn't booked as such and this is fair enough, but it was 6:30 or so when we arrived and the restaurant, apart from one other party, was empty.
We were told to wait a while while we were found a table and this was no problem as one was found for us in the empty restaurant within 5 minutes.
I think, as it was Friday, a busy night was expected , but I couldn't help get the feeling they wanted us fed, watered and paid up as quickly as possible to get another cover on our table.
We had nearly finished drinking up when we were asked to vacate the table and finish our drinks in the lounge. It had began filling up a little, so maybe I can understand, but there was nowhere to sit in the lounge area, so we ended up standing around , finishing drinks and then well, we left vowing never to return…….
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How much of the backend of financial applications should be based on the blockchain – so the question that determined a small dispute at the Money2020 conference. This dispute also points to a great need for discussion on this issue.
Despite broad agreement on the principle of blockchain applicability in the cryptosoft industry, splits occurred
Emmanuel Aidoo of Credit Suisse challenged Yolanda Goettsch of Nasdaq by postulating that cryptosoft could address the inefficient sides of the stock markets. Goettsch himself argued that the market is already "very liquid" and "very stable" – in contrast to Judd Bagley, head of tØ, an Overstock subsidiary.
According to Goettsch, it would not be enough for cryptosoft to reduce the settlement time to ten minutes – which is feasible according to tØ. Although such an improvement is certainly noteworthy and desirable in the long term, it would not compensate for the effort involved in converting all processes.
"If you have to pre-verify the existence of values and money, that changes everything. That's not how the markets work at the moment. The processing time may be long, but it is currently being used to guarantee that all regulatory processes have been implemented and that all market players have been taken along.
On the other hand, Bagley replied that the new technology would do well to remove unnecessary players from the market. This argument was put forward somewhat polemically because he suspected a certain bias among financial institutions.
"Yes, many people will lose their jobs in technological change. But here we are talking about the people who are slowly becoming part of Wall Street's inventory. tØ is located in Utah, far away from Wall Street – so we don't care much about historical things. We'd rather burn down and then rebuild."
Bagley then got lost in the statement that with the Blockchain events like the Flash Crash of 2010 would have been impossible.
Aidoo was the moderator of this debate
In his opinion, the adaptation of the blockchain in financial markets will be gradual and will first ensure that trades are completed on the same day and not three days later. Some stakeholders like the high frequency traders are already working on blockchain pilot projects. Credit Suisse itself is investigating how to strike a balance between the challenges of implementing the blockchain and the benefits.
Aidoo himself believes that the blockchain leads to a rethink of the existing processes and expressed this somewhat polemically:
"We can start by deleting words like clearing from our vocabulary."
Stumbling blocks on the way
Later, Jacob Farber of R3 explained how the debated problems had so far ensured that there was hardly any cooperation between open source blockchain startups and traditional financial companies.
With his comment Jacob Farber has also described the role of R3 as evangelist for the blockchain. For example, R3 provided large banks with a sandbox for testing the new technology using the examples Ethereum and Ripple.
There was a great deal of agreement in all discussions on one thing: that there are inefficient sides to the current financial system and that interest in the blockchain can help to find solutions here.
Scott Robinson, the Fintech director of Plug and Play, explained how the Blockchain is attracting more and more interest from large companies:
"Three years ago, I talked to some Exxon Mobil executives. And a year ago they started looking at the blockchain."


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Stop snapping already woman... Can't you see that I need some help here??!!
HELPPPP... Someone... Anyone..??
Huskee, you should have your very own soccer player's card! So Cute!
too bad, man u got drew with reading...ur dad must b devastated...
Oh Huskee Munckins, Why do i feel that you are getting cuter n cuter by the day. I like the picture of you with the ball. You look like a soccer star!
You are such a happy boy - you look pawsome with your soccer ball too!
wah huskee, i'm fallen in love with your first few pics... oh, you look so... *ahem* i better behave.
wet wet licks
Huskee.. You need me to come rescue you????
You look cute with that ball toy.
~ Girl girl
Huskee! You look a lot better than David Beckham!
My hooooman bruv supports Man U!
Football is a trial in our house tooooooo!
love your pics!
love and licks, Marvin xxxxxx
You look very boyish with that ball. You sure like squeaky a lot.
I love watching TV with my dad! Tell your dad to grow a big belly and he will be more comfortable to lie on.
Bussie Kissies
You look very pleased with your ball. I think the cuddle looks nice.
Simba x
Cool Ball Huskee! I know what it's like to be neglected due to sports on TV. Come Football season around here....Dad doesn't leave the couch on Sundays!
I would rescue you from the soccer viewing - but you really do look so comfy sitting with your daddy.
Awww...just look at your face Huskee. So adorable but yet, a wee bit sad. Hehehe!
Love licks,
Solid Gold Dancer
U R the cutest with the ball under your paw. U look so happy. It's the best!
huskeee you poor thing. Caz likes doing that to me too. When he feels stressed, he needs me to be beside him when he sleeps. hehe OOPS was that supposed to be a secret?
The pictures with your green ball are the cutest. And your pictures with Dad don't look like torture to us.
Love, Seadra and Zoe
Yes, Martin is going to be glued to the football for the rest of the season now too!
Katy x
Huskee boy
You absolutely look like a soccer staw..keep pwacticing and pwetty soon your Daddy will be watching nobody but you!
smoochie kisses
Hey Huskee Boy,
That's a very nice ball. We think you would be a really good soccer player. Maybe you could start up a dog team eh?? You look so cute & happy in your photos!! Have a great week!
Luv & Wirey Hugs!
Butchy & Snickers
Hi, Huskee.
You look simply adorable in those pictures with your dad!!! Your mom deserves a prize for them!!
Yes, you look like a soccer star with your green ball!
Have a nice day
You don't look like you're in too much distress there with your dad Huskee!
So you got an early birthday pressie! Good goin'!
Love ya lots,
Huskee, you actually look happy lying on your daddy's lap like that. I bet you'll learn to like soccer someday.
Hey Huskee,
Wow, you sure pose like a soccer player huh? Next time you wear your shirt make sure you pull it up to cover your head and do zoomies round the room okay? I think tat's what they do when they score a goal. My Dad doesn't like soccer...hehee...
PS : I just tagged you for a game. Go check out my blog!
i must say that you actually look quite comfortable on your daddy's tummy! :p hee hee hee... maybe it's big and soft enough hehehe..
you look so cute smiling with the ball. so happy! i wonder how long you will sit looking at the cupboard if you didn't get the ball. maybe till your actual birthday? :p
Huskee, you look like you should be a soccer star!!
Only eight more days until your BARKDAY!!!!!!
I loove noisy squeaky toys. the noisier the better lol Cute picures of you Huskee.
I guess you are not a sports fan like me! I love to watch baseeball with Mom and Dad!


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In Memoriam
Pictures of Phoenix with the family
In Memoriam
It was never supposed to end like this. Last week, Friday 13 December 2002, you were supposed to be still alive. You greeted me, like you always do, with a wag of that loving tail. You were going to greet Dad, too. You had been with Mum the whole day, and you were fine. Yet...God had other plans for you--a plan unbeknownst to Dad, Mum, and myself. You will always live in our hearts. You've probably met Samuel junior now: how he would have been great with you. But, Phoenix, now that you're a spirit, know that you shall always have a home with us. We all love you. We dedicate this site to you. Lots of love for ever
Emmanuel, Mum, Dad
Where is my baby? I ask
No answer and you did not come to me.
Where is my baby Phoenix? I ask again.
Yet you did not show.
Then I remembered you went to the vet's.
Throughout the weekend when we stayed down here,
It felt like you'd gone to the kennels.
Yet I missed you terribly.
Come Monday, we hadn't gone anywhere
And you hadn't come home.
I waited to here you scratching on our bedroom door.
But that never happened.
You were probably on the lawn,
Saying goodbye to those who were going to work or school.
Yet I did not hear your bark.
In the bathroom, I stretched out my hand to stroke your head
But there was nothing there but a vacuum
I searched for you all day
Come evening, I heard the other dogs welcoming the home-comers
I did not hear your bark
I opened the terrace door
But you did not come in.
Where is my baby?
I keep asking yet you do not show up.
There is something terribly wrong
'Cos my insides are hurting.
Where is my baby Phoenix?
I am told you are at
Rainbow Bridge
Waiting to meet up with us.
submitted by "Mum" Bensah
22 June 1993--
14 December 2002
Last Updated: Friday 20 December 2002 @ 4:55pm CET
© The PeaceMaker


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Everything was lost in the 12th of 180 minutes against Croatia (Part 1 of 2)
by Sarantos Kaperonis
AGONAsport's Sarantos Kaperonis takes a look back at the World Cup Qualifying Playoffs against Croatia and what was at fault over the two legs in part one of a two part blog.
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In my piece before the start of World Cup Qualifying over a year ago, I stated that the Ethniki would have to overcome its greatest obstacle yet and forget the last two years to achieve qualification this year. Was I being overly optimistic? Possibly, but not within reach. Yes, starting at rock bottom (last in Euro 2016 qualifying and two losses to the Faroe Islands) and coming out to qualify for the World Cup sounds like an extremely far-fetched target. However, our national team houses the talent to do just this and they came just short of it.
Finishing second in a qualifying group that contained a world power house nation, like Belgium, and a highly talented Bosnian squad, is successful when looking back at the last two years. However, no fan of the Ethniki, should use the last two years as a benchmark to rate the success of our national team. We are much better than that. Yet, we cannot disregard the fact that Greece did hit rock bottom from 2014 through 2016.
In our World Cup Qualifying group, there is no doubt that Greece deserved second spot ahead of Bosnia and behind Belgium. Yes, we did need a gift from Cyprus and Belgium to surpass the Bosnians, however on the contrary, the Bosnians also needed gifts from Estonia and Belgium to jump ahead of us into second for a short period of time. Bosnia conceded eight goals in two games versus Belgium (including a 4-0 loss in Brussels) while the Ethniki proved their talents in Brussels in a 1-1 draw and narrow 1-2 defeat in Greece. In our head-to-head matches against Bosnia, Greece should have won in Bosnia and Bosnia should have won in Greece. In the end, two draws were justifiable.
We rightfully entered the playoffs as the seventh best runner-up; however the horrors of the Euro 2016 Qualifying Campaign still haunted us this go around as we were unseeded in the playoff draw, and were paired with the Croatians, a nation full of world-class players (in the previous two qualifying playoffs in 2009 and 2013, Greece were seeded in the draw). The odds were surely against Greece, however optimism remained that the national team could pull off the complete comeback and qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
The First Leg in Zagreb
Before the first leg in Zagreb, Greece was plagued with injuries (Petros Mantalos, Tasos Donis, Vasilis Torosidis, and Sokratis Papastathopoulos). The Borussia Dortmund man was still not at 100%, but could not miss the crucial matches against Croatia and proved to be one of Greece's most valuable assets over the two legs. On top of that, FIFA handed Kostas Manolas a ridiculous suspension, which came three weeks after his alleged offense and only days before the first leg matchup against Croatia.
Although these absences bring up plenty of "what if" scenarios, Greece failed miserably in Zagreb to fall 4-1, a result that essentially left no hope for Greece in the return leg. What's at fault in the 4-1 defeat? Some falls on the absences of four key players, some on tragic individual mistakes, and a lot on Michael Skibbe's picks and tactics before kick off.
Everything fell apart in the 12th minute when Tzavellas' back pass was poorly controlled by Karnezis. This resulted in a penalty, and was slotted home by Real Madrid star, Luka Modric. Greece's game plan was simple: Frustrate the Croatians as much as possible until they fall apart. Yet, the 12th minute marked the end of this.
Croatia is talented, but when things do not go their way, they begin to fall apart as seen in their 1-1 draw against Finland, which sent them to the playoffs. Karnezis' awful mistake allowed Croatia to grab an early goal and from there, they had the confidence to cruise to an easy 4-1 victory.
We had hope when the injured Sokratis Papastathopoulos jumped over everyone to turn in Fortounis' corner, pulling one back for the Ethniki, but then Skibbe's selections took their toll as Perisic walked the ball into the net three minutes later and re-gave Croatia a two-goal advantage and a confidence boost. At fault for Perisic's goal? A non-existent left and right wing defensive backs as both Tzavellas and Maniatis failed miserably to stay with their marks not only during the third goal, but the whole time they were on the pitch (Maniatis subbed off for Retsos at halftime).
There is no doubt that Skibbe got it all wrong in the first leg. In addition to the 3-5-1-1 (5-3-1-1) formation, which was never used during qualifying or training before the Croatia matches, players played out of position, a common theme in this qualifying round. Zeca, who is Greece's best defensive midfielder, was played on the wing (which worked against Belgium), allowing Modric and Rakitic to freely move by Tziolis and Samaris. Tziolis should not be on the national team and starting in critical matches against world class midfielders. Zeca's abilities were wasted on the right flank.
Yes, childish mistakes proved detrimental to Greece in the first leg, but Skibbe's picks and formation ultimately led to the development of these mistakes. Out of form players, like Karnezis and Stafylidis, who have played minimal minutes at their clubs this season, should not be considered in these kind of matches.
It would be absurd to ask Skibbe to make drastic changes in the two most important matches of qualifying (ex. pulling out Karnezis and playing Anestis). However, AEK's Giannis Anestis, who kept AC Milan goalless twice in the Europa League, should have been given a start in September or in October's qualifiers, to be better prepared for November matches. The also applies to others that are in-form at the club level (Bakakis, Fetfatzidis, Pelkas), while those that are riding the bench with their clubs, should have been slowly transferred to the Greek bench (ex. Stafylidis, Karnezis, Tziolis etc) and out of the starting line-up. While I am not in Skibbe's shoes, the obvious must be stated.
Fernando Santos, who was one of Greece's most successful coaches, put it simply to his players: "If you don't play with your clubs, you will not play with the national team." Although Santos also implemented the "closed club" philosophy, which Skibbe has taken to an extreme, he did chose in-form players for the Greek starting eleven and it paid off as he took the Ethniki to Euro 2012 and 2014 World Cup. At both events, he led Greece to the knockout stages of the competitions. I agree with the closed club mentality, but with Santos' stipulation of "You must play for your club to play on the national team."
Things we Learned in the Return Leg in Greece
We all knew that 3-0 scoreline was nearly impossible before kick-off. Greece needed a quick goal to spark some hope, but it never came and Croatia comfortably held onto their advantage. Yet, there are few takeaways:
First, if Manolas was in for the first leg, things would have been different. Would Greece have won? Probably not. Would they have conceded four goals? Probably not. Manolas is one of the best defenders in Europe and his speed and ability to kill the opposition's attack is truly remarkable. His absence was costly.
Second, we need to revolutionize our attacking display. Greece has never been a strong team on the attack and we have always piggybacked on our unbelievable defense. But, in a match where Greece needed three goals, the national team created one shot on target in 90 minutes of play. You can't make up a 3-goal deficit this way. Mitroglou is a world class striker, one of the best in Europe; yet the inability of our midfield to make use of him is worrisome.
During this qualifying campaign, we lacked class midfielders like Karagounis or Katsouranis that led Greece to their amazing 10 years from 2004-2014. However, there are better options that must be looked at for future matches as opposed to players like Tziolis and an out-of-form Samaris or Tachtsidis. They include Panathinaikos captain Dimitris Kourbelis, Panionios power-house Manolis Siopis, and AEK's upcoming star Kostas Galanopoulos. Pair anyone of these players with Carlos Zeca, and the midfield improves drastically.
For years, we lacked wingers as we played with Samaras and Salpingidis, who both helped lead the Ethniki to great success over the years. They were naturally strikers. Do we have options for the future? Of course. Gianniotas proved that in the second leg when he came on. The youngster was disregarded for much of the campaign (another mistake by Skibbe), but has great potential and agility on the flanks. There is also AEK's Christodoulopoulos, who is no youngster, but houses great ability and is an experienced player on the national level. Donis is the Ethniki's biggest attacking hope for the future, and was missed in the playoffs. There are others, including U21 nationals, that haven't been looked at yet, but could prove worthy options.
As Greek fans, we are disappointed that we won't have our Ethniki to cheer for in the World Cup. We rightfully bowed out to Croatia in the playoffs. Many mistakes were made in the two matches and throughout the qualifying campaign. However, lets not forget the progress that was made post the 2014-2016 era. We are not starting from the ground up, but we must keep building up our team. While Skibbe may have made mistakes during this campaign, we need to continue to build with the German boss and give him two more years to prove his worth. We are on the right path once again and just came up short from an unthinkable comeback.
To be continued in part 2…