You may already be familiar with the limited features traditional phone services offer, though chances are you pay extra for them each month. Nextera's technology delivers the calling features you want, at a significantly lower cost than traditional phone carriers.
Every Nextera voice plan includes 18 free basic features that will revolutionize how you stay connected. We also offer advanced and premium features that you can add at any time (set-up and monthly charges apply).
Nextera's Call Forwarding Always allows you to forward all your incoming calls to a different phone number, such as your friend's home, home office, or cell phone. Use Call Forwarding to make your life easier because it gives you the control you want. Turn it on when you need it. Turn if off when you don't. You can set the phone number to forward by using MyNextera OnLine Account Manager or by using the phone features *72 for activation and *73 for deactivation. Call Forwarding is FREE with all Nextera accounts. However, calls that are forwarded are treated as an outgoing call. If you are not enrolled in one of our unlimited plans, overage charges apply to forwarded calls that exceed your calling plan's monthly allotted minutes.
Call Forwarding When Busy allows you to forward all your incoming calls to a different phone number if your phone is currently busy. Use Call Forwarding Busy to forward your calls to a business associate or assistant rather than having the caller sent to voice mail. You can set the phone number to forward to by using MyNextera OnLine Account Manager or by using the phone features *90 for activation and *91 for deactivation. Call Forwarding is FREE with all Nextera accounts. However, calls that are forwarded are treated as an outgoing call. If you are not enrolled in one of our unlimited plans, overage charges apply to forwarded calls that exceed your calling plan's monthly allotted minutes.
Call Forwarding No Answer allows you to forward all your calls to a different phone number when you do not answer your phone. Use Call Forwarding No Answer to forward your calls to a business associate or assistant rather than the caller sent to voice mail. You can set the phone number to forward to and the number of times your Nextera phone rings before forwarding to another number by using MyNextera Web Portal or by using the phone features *92 for activation and *93 for deactivation. Call Forwarding is FREE with all Nextera accounts. However, calls that are forwarded are treated as an outgoing call. If you are not enrolled in one of our unlimited plans, overage charges apply to forwarded calls that exceed your calling plan's monthly allotted minutes.
Call Forwarding By Incoming Number allows you to choose a list of numbers whose calls will automatically be forwarded to a different phone number. Use Call Forwarding by Incoming Number to forward calls from your manager, a family member, or an important customer to your cell phone, alternate business phone, or home phone. You can set the list of phone numbers which will be forwarded and the forward to number by using MyNextera Web Portal or by using the phone feature *63 where you can review the list of numbers, add or remove numbers or delete the entire list of numbers. Call Forwarding is FREE with all Nextera accounts. However, calls that are forwarded are treated as an outgoing call. If you are not enrolled in one of our unlimited plans, overage charges apply to forwarded calls that exceed your calling plan's monthly allotted minutes.
With Nextera's nationwide availability, you can choose a number that is in your local calling area or a number anywhere else in the country. For example, you may own a business in Minneapolis that markets to customers in Chicago. You can choose a local number in Chicago for your customers to call. Check availability for exact area code options.
Call Hold allows you to put a call on hold and then dial another number and talk to that party without the person on hold hearing your conversation. Simply press the flash button or switch hook, then dial the second number. When finished talking to the second party and they have hung up their telephone, press the flash button or switch hook again to switch back to the first call.
Call Hunt allows you to forward an incoming call to other line(s) until it finds a line that is not busy and can accept the call. Use the Call Hunt feature if you have more than one Nextera phone number on the same account and Nextera will ring your other line(s) in the sequence you choose.
Call Return, also known as *69, allows you to call back the last party that called you whether or not the call was answered. To call back the last party that called, simply dial *69 to hear the last caller's number and time of the call, then return the call by dialing 1. Call Return is FREE with all Nextera accounts. However, returned calls are treated as an outgoing call. If you are not enrolled in one of our unlimited plans, overage charges apply to returned calls that exceed your calling plan's monthly allotted minutes.
Call Transfer allows you to direct calls to anywhere you want in the United States and Canada. It's easy to transfer a call by pressing the flash button or switch hook, wait for dial tone and then dialing the number you would like to transfer the call to. Hang up your telephone as soon as you hear dial tone, and the call will continue as though the first caller had made a direct call. Call Transfer is FREE with all Nextera accounts. However, transferred calls are treated as an outgoing call. If you are not enrolled in one of our unlimited plans, overage charges apply to transferred calls that exceed your calling plan's monthly allotted minutes.
Call Waiting with Caller ID allows you to answer a call while already on another call. When a second call is received, a call waiting tone will alert you. You will see the caller's ID on your phone if you have the Caller ID feature active. To answer the waiting call, simply press the flash button or switch hook. You will be connected with the waiting party while your original party holds. Press the flash button or switch hook again to reconnect to the original party and hold the waiting party. You can continue to alternate between parties as often as you would like -- it's like having two lines while paying for only one. You can also cancel Call Waiting for the next call by dialing *70 before the call or during an active call by pressing the flash button or switch hook and then dialing *70.
Caller ID Block, also known as *67, allows you to block your name and number from being shown when calling other numbers. You have your choice of turning it on or off for all calls and then selectively turning it back on or off using the feature access codes. You can turn Caller ID Block on by using MyNextera OnLine Account Manager which will withhold your calling information on every call made or for a single call by using the phone feature *67. If Caller ID Block is turned on you can have your Caller ID displayed for a specific call by entering *82; once the call is over, Caller ID Block is restored.
Caller ID with Name and Number allows you to view an incoming caller's phone number and name before answering the call. With this feature, when your phone rings, the incoming caller's number and name will appear on the display screen on your telephone. Use it to manage your incoming calls. You can turn Caller ID with Name off by using MyNextera Web Portal which will withhold caller's information on every incoming call or by using the phone feature *85. To reactivate Caller ID with Name, use phone feature *65.
International Call Block allows you to block and unblock international calling. Using this feature lets you control unwanted per minute costs. You can turn International Call Block on by using the phone feature *343. An announcement confirms that call blocking has been activated. To turn off International Call Block, use the MyNextera Web Portal and uncheck the international call blocking box.
Last Number Redial will redial the last number you called or attempted to call and the line was busy. Simply by activating Last Number Redial using your phone feature *66, Nextera will ring you back when the phone number is not busy anymore. To cancel outstanding redial attempts, use phone feature *86. You can continue to use your Nextera number until your call back is connected. Nextera will connect your call when both you and your party are available.
Three-Way Calling allows you to call another party during an existing call and add that party to the call, creating a three way conversation. Setting up a Three-Way Call is simple by dialing your first party as you normally would. Once connected, press the flash button or switch hook on your phone and dial the second party. After the second party is connected, press the flash button or switch hook again and all three are connected. A Three-Way Call is treated as two separate calls that happen at the same time.
Because we care about your safety, Nextera offers a 911 calling feature that enables you to reach an emergency operator. It is important, however, to note that Nextera emergency 911 has some fundamental differences from traditional wireline 911.
This is a Nextera feature that is always free of charge! You can log-in to your MyNextera account via the log-on box located on every Nextera.net home page or via its own unique website being MyNextera.net.
Whether you are going on a one-day trip or making a permanent move, you don't have to give up your Nextera number just because you are no longer at the same location. All you need is Nextera service and a broadband Internet connection. When you are visiting family or traveling for business, you can make and receive calls from your Nextera number. Simply unplug your Nextera adapter and take it anywhere in the nation. Just plug it into any broadband Internet connection, connect a phone and your Nextera line is ready to go. Please note that for 911 emergency service capability while you travel, you must change your address. Simply log-in to MyNextera, click on the 911 menu item and enter your new address (address changes will take effect within minutes).
With Nextera's Anonymous Call Rejection, you can prevent a caller from reaching you when the caller has blocked the display of his/her Caller ID Number. Only deliberate anonymous numbers are rejected. Callers whose numbers are unavailable are not rejected. Your phone does not ring and you do not receive any indication that they called.
Call Block allows you to block and unblock long distance and cellular calls. You can turn on long distance Call Block by using the phone feature *342. An announcement confirms that call blocking has been activated. To turn off Call Block (unblock calls), log on to your MyNextera Online Account, click on Features, then Making Calls and then Call Block, remove the checked boxes and click Apply.
Do Not Disturb allows you to temporarily prevent incoming calls. Limit unwanted interruptions by enabling Do Not Disturb simply by using phone feature *78 for activation and *79 for deactivation.
Reminder Call allows you to schedule an announcement to ring on your phone line. Reminders can be set for a one-time situation up to 24 hours in advance or can be regular reminders that are repeated at the same time every day, every week day or a specific day of the week. You can establish your reminder settings within the MyNextera Online Account Manager or by using the individual reminder phone feature *310 to activate and *311 to deactivate. To schedule repeat reminders, use phone feature *314 to activate and *315 to deactivate.
Selective Call Rejection allows you to create a list of up to 10 numbers from which incoming calls are automatically rejected. When the parties on the list attempt to call, they will receive a recorded announcement. You can establish the list of phone numbers to be rejected within the MyNextera Account Manager or by using the phone feature *60.
Speed Call 8 or Speed Call 30 allows you to dial a pre-defined number by dialing either one or two digits. Speed Dial 8 allows you to set up to eight speed dial numbers that can be called with the push of a button. Speed Dial 30 allows you to set up to 30 speed dial numbers that can be called with the push of two buttons. You can establish your speed dial list within the MyNextera Account Manager or by using the phone feature *74 for 1-digit speed dialing or *75 for 2-digit speed dialing.
Voicemail allows callers to leave messages when you are not available to answer your phone. Callers are routed to your voicemail after a selectable number of rings. They will hear your voicemail greeting and have an option to leave a message. Messages are retrievable from your Nextera telephone by dialing *86, or from any telephone by dialing your Nextera telephone number and pressing the * key during your voicemail greeting. You can establish the number of rings before callers will hear your voicemail greeting within the MyNextera Account Manager.
Nextera will grow with you by giving you the flexibility to add multiple phone numbers to the same account - you'll be able to see all of your calls on one convenient bill. Nextera does not limit the number of phone numbers you can add to your account. You'll need 90Kbps of available bandwidth from your broadband internet connection for each phone that's in use at the same time.
With Nextera, you can add a fax line to your existing account. A Nextera fax line is only $9.95 per month with a one-time $9.95 activation fee. You get 100 minutes of local and long distance outgoing fax service plus unlimited incoming faxes each month. Extra local and long distance outgoing fax minutes are only 3.5 cents per minute. Out going international faxes are billed at international rates.
Follow-Me Service allows you to customize where, and in what sequence incoming calls will be forwarded to make sure you never miss a call. You can choose to set phone numbers to ring simultaneously, in sequence, or a combination of the two. For example, you may want to ring your business phone and a cell phone simultaneously for a period of time, and if neither is answered, try the home phone, and if that isn't answered then forward to voicemail. Follow-Me service is only $2.95 per month. To order, login to your MyNextera Account Manager and click the Add-Ons Link. Once your Follow-Me service is established, simply change your forwarding numbers and timing through your MyNextera Online Account Manager.
Add a Toll-Free Number to ring into any of your Nextera lines. Toll-Free Numbers provide your callers the ability to phone you for no charge from anywhere in the US or Canada, anytime. A Nextera Toll Free Number is only $4.95 per month with a one-time activation fee of $9.95. You receive 100 incoming minutes from within the contiguous 48 US States every month. Each additional minute within the contiguous US is only 4.9 cents. Toll-Free calls from Al, HI, PR, Guam, VI and Canada are priced on a per minute basis and are not included in the 100 free incoming minutes. To order Toll-Free Number service, simply login to your MyNextera Online Account Manager and click the Add-Ons Link.
Unified Call Messaging (UCM) allows you total control of all of your messages - voicemail and fax.
Voicemail - With Nextera's UCM, you receive all the functionality of a traditional voicemail system that allows you to check your voicemail remotely from any telephone. Nextera provides users the capability to listen to their voicemail through their computer by accessing your online inbox.
Fax - UCM allows you to receive faxes in your inbox, sign and return, route to a printer or to a remote fax machine, or store on your computer. You will also be informed of your faxes from your telephone and can forward to a remote fax machine.
With UCM, all of your messages are in one location to access either by telephone or online, providing you convenience and efficiency no matter where you are. Nextera's UCM service is only $5.50 per month. To order, please contact your Nextera Account Executive. Once your UCM service is established, simply access your settings through MyNextera.
A Nextera Virtual Phone Number allows you to add up to 3 additional phone numbers that will ring into your primary Nextera phone line. Add phone numbers wherever your friends, family or customers live so that they can call you for the price of a local call. Simply select a Virtual Phone Number from the many areas we offer service.
Great for Home - For example, you live in Minneapolis and have a Nextera number with a 651 area code. Your daughter lives in California and her area code is 619. You could get a Virtual Phone Number with a 619 area code that rings to your 651 line. Now your daughter doesn't have to apply long distance charges when she calls you.
Great for Businesses too - Suppose you own a business based in Wisconsin, while your 3 biggest customers are located in Chicago, IL; Albuquerque, NM and Cleveland, OH. All you pay is the small monthly fee for three different Virtual Phone Numbers in your customers' areas. You get a local presence and your customers get to call you without dialing long distance!
Nextera's Virtual Phone Numbers are only $4.95 per month. To order, login to your MyNextera Online Account Manager and click on the Add-Ons link and pick the area code of your choice.
Conference Calling allows users to hold a conference call whenever they need it, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's the ideal communications solution for any size business, plus it's reliable, easy to use and cost effective. Conference moderators can manage calls from their Nextera phone or by using the MyNextera Online Account Manager. Conference calling allows up to 50 users per conference.


When Asset Optimization is ON in Hummingbird (no files compress, WPMU DEV CDN off) Elementor panel loads on left side.
When Asset Optimization is Off Elementor panel loads correct on right side.
We have already submitted a bug report on this to our developers and they'll be looking into it in order to provide a fix. Please keep track of this ticket in case we had additional information or some patch for you before the update is released but also make sure that you're keeping plugin up to date.


Another cocktail that belongs to the exotic family. One of those which takes us to summer in any season of the year. Which takes us to a paradisical beach, wherever we are. Above all, it's also a drink which will not unnoticed on any table, and even less by your taste buds.
Scoop the melon pulp and put it in a blender. Do not damage the melon rind.
Add Licor Beirão and blend until you get a smooth mixture.
Pour the mixture into the melon rind and serve in a bowl on a bed of ice.
Use the stem of redcurrants for garnish. This recipe may make you the king of the party.


The Caregiver (Book 1 of The Caregiver Series) 4 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 3 reviews.
Scarlett is hired as a live-in nurse for Armand Sayer. She is well qualified and quickly assumes her responsibilities. That would all be very simple if Armand was a normal person and not a drug lord recovering from wounds received in an attempt on his life. And if Scarlett was just a nurse and not an agent for Interpol, undercover to gather evidence to prosecute drug dealers. Scarlett is well suited for that also, as her grandfather, a hit man, raised her after her parents are killed. The story carries on and feelings develop between Scarlett and Armand. Will they discover that Scarlett is an agent? Will Armand or his body guard, George do to her what others are trying to do to them? The story comes to a smashing conclusion when another drug lord decides to remove Scarlett, the Interpol agent, from the story. This novel is well written. The story moves ahead at a suitable pace. There is often a mystery of what some of the characters may do next. When they are gruff, you never know what will occur next. When they act friendly, it is unsettling as they must have a reason that may not be nice. It is a hard novel to read casually as there is always something coming and it is always just a few pages ahead. An excellent start to the series.
Overall, this was a good short book. It had a lot of good stuff drug dealers, espionage, undercover cop from a bad family, etc. At times I found that the writing could have expanded on the details and because it was a short novel, it came across as clunky at times. I would have like a bit more character development, but that's sometimes hard to do with shorter books. I loved how it the last half of the book was no stop action and ended with a cliffhanger. Note: I received a free copy of this book in trade for a review.


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Werner Schreyer (* 10. März 1970 in Wien) ist ein österreichisches Fotomodell und Schauspieler. Er lebt in der Ostschweiz.

Schreyer wurde von Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber und Richard Avedon für Designer und Modelabels wie Versace, Armani, Guess, Calvin Klein, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana und Prada fotografiert. Er war auf den Titelseiten von Elle und GQ und als bisher einziges Männermodel auf dem Cover der französischen Vogue.

Schreyer absolvierte die Europäische Fachhochschule für Wirtschafts- und Sozialökonomie in Wien. Seine schauspielerische Ausbildung umfasst Theaterausbildung bei Gerard Vergéz in Paris, Method Acting mit Dir. Robert Cordier und Arthur Lessac in Los Angeles, sowie eine Ausbildung zum Stuntman an der Stuntschule Action Concept in Köln.

Werner Schreyers Filmkarriere begann mit einem Kostümfilm im französischen Fernsehen mit dem Titel Senso, der 1993 auch den großen Preis auf dem International Historic Film Festival gewann. Im Laufe seiner Karriere spielte er 1995 an der Seite von Gérard Depardieu und Vanessa Paradis in Elisa. Mit Katja Riemann und Jasmin Tabatabai war er 1997 im Film Bandits und 1998 neben Mickey Rourke in Point Blank – Over and Out zu sehen.

In den letzten Jahren orientierte sich Schreyer Richtung Bildende Kunst und absolvierte 2010 die F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign in Zürich. Seine erste Ausstellung "L'autre moi" präsentierte Werner Schreyer 2012 in Wien.

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Air Horns (Era Horns?)
September 16, 2014 in Humor, Opinion, Politics, Uncategorized | Tags: Air, annoying, horn, horns, horrible, jeremiad, loud, noise, object, self, zeitgeist | by Wayne | 7 comments
The other day I was chatting with a friend about my long-ago job as an assistant curator at the Smithsonian history museum and we began to muse about what the quintessential artifacts of today will someday be. When historians of the future try to represent our time will they display a bunch of obsolete computer kit (which can not be made to works after a couple of years—much less decades or centuries), or Britney Spears memorabilia, or Segue scooters, or "as seen on TV" junk like salad shooters and such? What is the quintessential object which shows who we are and how we live? We came up with all sorts of answers—most of which did not paint contemporary culture in a wholly positive light—but the one which struck me as the truest was the simple disposable air horn.
An Air Horn
An air horn is a plastic noisemaking reed attached to a jar of compressed air. When the player (possessor?) presses a button, the infernal device issues a hellish shriek of ear-piercing volume. I do not mean that last descriptor as a metaphor: air horns, like firearms and jet engines, are very capable of causing serious irreparable hearing damage. These horrid novelty items are available everywhere for next to nothing. People use them at sporting contests to distract the opposing team or sometimes in cruel pranks to make an unwitting victim panic. Mostly they are just used to call attention to the loutish person with the horn. Air horns have only one note, but that note is so loud it drowns everything else out—a perfect description of today's celebrity personalities, advertising tactics, and political discourse.
Air horns evolved from the whistles of trains and the mighty horns of ships. These horns used compressed gasses from engine function in order to warn of eminent departure or collision. They had a real purpose. Yet, while it is possible that Alfred Hitchcock or Tom Clancy (or some other master of contrived suspense) could invent a scenario where a disposable air horn saved the day, I doubt it has ever happened. These objects exist only to make insufferably loud noise. If someone on the street was blowing one to warn of North Koreans, Godzilla, or zombie attack I would ignore it in the belief that it was just some drunken oaf showing off.
or we could just rename it the "fun horn"
Worst of all, I think an air horn speaks directly to the reptile/Kardashian part of the brain which lurks in us all. I do not like air horns, but if someone gave me one I would be fascinated by it and would want to push it. It would sit there menacingly, like Chekov's gun, just waiting till I could resist no longer and gave it a tiny test. I wish it were not so, but I would have to push it, despite the deleterious effect it would have on my personal relationships and happiness. Because they bear this unwholesome power, I would be shocked if air horns do not end up in a "late 20th/early 21st century" display case highlighting the nature of our times. They will sit there with other loud self-aggrandizing artifacts like Nascar jerseys, Jeff Koons art, MySpace, and Kanye West.
"I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice." [Actual Quote]
Air horns do indeed draw attention to us and tell everyone exactly who we are. It is a very well-made item—at least until someone invents something even louder and more annoying. Or you could ignore my cranky jeremiad and write to tell me what you would choose as the quintessential object of this age!
The Greater Kudu
September 8, 2014 in Mammals | Tags: Africa, antelope, beautiful, browser, curved, grazer, greater, horns, kudu, scrub | by Wayne | 2 comments
An Adult Male Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros)
The greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is a magnificent large antelope which ranges down the east coast of Africa from the Red Sea to South Africa; and west through southern Africa to the Atlantic coast. Kudus are both browsers and grazers—they eat grasses, shoots, and leaves; but also fruit, roots, and tubers. They live in woodlands and dense scrubland where they conceal themselves amidst the thick vegetation. These antelopes are large: males weigh from 200 to 270 kilograms (430–600 pounds) and can stand 1.6 meters (5.25 feet) tall at the shoulder (although females are substantially smaller). Males have shaggy neck manes and huge elaborate spiral horns upon their noble heads. They use these horns for fighting, sexual display, and (possibly) fending off predators. When "uncurled" greater kudu horns can measure up to 1.5 meters or more (this strange maximalist manner of measurement seems to have been invented by (male) big game hunters).
A herd of greater kudus (female)
One would not necessarily imagine that a 600 pound animal with giant corkscrew swords on its head would need to hide, yet the greater kudus live in a horrifying world of lions, hyenas, leopards, African hunting dogs, and cheetahs (to say nothing of omnipresent human hunters armed with every manner of inventive weapons). Fortunately, the kudus' mixed brown coats with beautiful white syrup stripes allow them to melt ghost-like into the dry scrub, small woods, and forests of their vast habitat. If there was an adult greater kudu skulking in your rose garden, you probably wouldn't notice it.
Female kudus and their calves form together in little herds of half a dozen to two dozen individuals. Bachelor males form even smaller herds and mature males are solitary. Mating season occurs just after the rainy season. Males fight each other for dominance and then dominant males trail after females making plaintive guttural moans. Eight months later, when the grass and vegetation is at its peak, females give birth to a solitary calf (or occasionally two). There are three (or possibly four) subspecies of these majestic animals occupying slightly different ranges (as seen in the map below). Although hunting (and poaching) and habitat loss have effected the greater kudu, the great antelope have also benefited from irrigation, wells, and reservoirs. They are not endangered—or even threatened—so the world should be able to benefit from these exquisite adaptable antelopes for a long time to come!
Range of Subspecies of Greater Kudus
Wooly Rhinos
September 23, 2013 in Art, Mammals | Tags: browser, Coelodonta antiquitatis, Eurasia, extinct, hairy, horns, Pleistocene, rhino, rhinoceros, Rhinocerotidae, wooly | by Wayne | Leave a comment
Wooly Rhinoceros by Charles Knight (Los Angeles Natural History Museum)
Sadly, today the rhinoceroses are few on the ground. There are only five extant species of the family Rhinocerotidae and none of them are doing well–because of habitat loss and humankind's obdurate (and extraordinarily foolish) belief that rhino horns have magical supernatural powers. Yet once the rhinos were a mighty force—in fact, the largest land mammal ever, the Paraceratherium, was a sort of rhino. There used to be multiple tribes of Rhinocerotidae, each containing numerous genera (which could in turn contain dozens of species) of these great horned perissodactyls. None of the extinct rhinos was more splendid that the magnificent wooly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) which roamed Eurasia during the icy Pleistocene epoch and even survived (probably) up until the beginnings of human civilization.
The comparative size of a Wooly Rhinoceros
A wooly rhinoceros was a substantial creature. From fossils and mummified remains, we know they measured around 3 to 3.8 metres (10 to 12.5 feet) in length, and had an estimated weight of around 2,700–3,200 kg (5,999–7,000 lb)—so they were not much smaller than the still-living white rhinoceros (although wooly rhinoceroses are more closely related to the contemporary Sumatran rhinos—which do not become so big and heavy). As you might guess from the name, wooly rhinoceroses had magnificent hairy coats to help them survive the cold and they had two large horns for defense and for mating displays. For a long time, paleontologists have argued about whether the Coelodontas grazed grasses or browsed on tender shoots, berries, and mosses, but paleobotanical evidence (taken in tandem with fossilized skeletal features) now seems to indicate they were browsers, like bison or cows.
Wooly Rhinoceros (Illustration by Charles R. Knight, National Geographic)
Wooly rhinos roamed the frozen steppes of Eurasia–a habitat which was much larger in those days due to the ice age and the lower sea levels of the Pleistocene. For example, wooly rhinos could be found on the dry & icy wastelands of Southern England and they thundered across the cold plains which would later become the fertile hunting lands of Doggerland (which are now submerged beneath the North Sea). They were also prevalent across northern Europe and down through Central Asia all the way to the Tibetan Plateau.
Wooly Rhinoceros from Chauvet Cave (ca. 30,000-32,000 years ago)
Based on cave paintings from tens of thousands of years ago, humankind seems to have had an early fascination with these great furry beasts. Unfortunately the last wooly rhinos apparently went extinct around eight to ten thousand years ago (according to somewhat disputed carbon 14 readings from a specimen found frozen in the Siberian permafrost). Many large species of Paleocene megafauna died off at approximately the same time: whether the great behemoths went extinct from humanity's increasingly effective hunting, climate change, or from some great pandemic which affected large animals is unclear (although contemporary scientists have been inclining towards climate change as a primary cause).
Woolly Rhinoceros Hunt (diorama from Horniman Museum, London)
When did the Devil obtain his Appearance?
October 31, 2011 in Art, Deities of the Underworld, Gothic, History | Tags: appearance, Devil, Halloween, horns, Iblis, Imagery, Lucifer, monotheism, neopaganism, origin, Pan, red, Satan, scripture, Underworld | by Wayne | 7 comments
This blog has examined and analyzed many Deities of the Underworld, but we have always shied away from the principle dark deity of the three Abrahamic faiths, namely the Devil (aka Lucifer, Iblis, Shaitan, The Antagonist, The Prince of Lies, etc.). However if there were ever a day to cast an inquisitive eye on the Lord of Hell, it is surely Halloween, that strange day when paganism and Christianity mix and the veil between this world and the next is thin.
Actually, one of the reasons I have avoided writing about this dark deity is because even though the devil might be a familiar figure in the popular imagination, he is only a sketchy presence in actual scripture. In the Masoretic Text, the holy book of Judaism (which roughly equates with the Old Testament), the Devil never appears by name–although the books do contain a cunning serpent (in Genesis), a fallen star, and an adversary. The New Testament Gospels feature a more familiar devil–who tempts Jesus, promotes evil, and lays waste to the world–but the books never describe this anti-savior except as a tempter, a dragon, a dark prince, or an ancient snake. In the Quran, Allah created the evil jinn Iblis out of smokeless fire to cast evil suggestions into the heart of men. Hmm, this is theologically interesting–but where does the fallen angel with the red skin, the horns, the barbed tail, the dapper van dyke beard, and the goat's hooves come from?
The apocryphal scriptures, those strange half-holy books which were omitted from the Bible, provide more of the story. The Book of Enoch gives us the story of the rebellion and the fall of Heave's brightest and most beautiful angel. This is the source of Milton's Satan, however the text does little to describe the appearance of Lucifer.
The Devil Sowing Mushrooms (Jacob de Gehyn II, 1565-1629)
Gothic paintings from the middle age shows us demons and dark winged beings (you can find old posts about such hellspawn here and here). Sometimes the devil appears as a winged monstrosity or a sort of dark bat-like angel, but he does not appear in the guise which is so popularly known now–the red man with the horns, the trident, and the hooves.
In fact the familiar portrayal of the red devil is comparatively recent—perhaps even modern–but the imagery used is based on the ancient Greco-Roman deity of Pan. Pan, the horned half-goat shepherd was a god of nature, fertility, and goat-herding in the classical world. Because of his licentiousness, bestial appearance, and paganism he was a longstanding target of the Christian church. In the nineteenth and twentieth century Pan became a focus of neopagan art and letters. Christian reaction to Pan's resurgence resulted in his image being translated to that of Satan. The red color seems to have been thrown in for good measure.
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It's clear the devil is a complicated figure whose attributes, appearance, and meaning have changed greatly depending on the time and the place. We'll get back to him–the underworld god of the world's great monotheistic faiths–but right now it's time to leave theorizing about devils, demons, and spirits behind and to go out and join them.
September 22, 2011 in Farm, Mammals | Tags: combing, farm, farming, fiber, horns, musk ox, Muskox, muskoxen, Northern, Ovibos moschatu, quiviut, wild, yarn | by Wayne | 4 comments
An Adult Muskox (Ovibos moschatu)
It's time to consider the mighty muskox (Ovibos moschatu) a survivor from the ice age. Possessing powerful curved horns, which hang down like side bangs from a helmet-like skullcap, muskoxen are actually more closely related to sheep and goats than to cattle and oxen (although all of the above are members of the Bovidae family). Adult muskoxen weigh from 180 to 400 kg (400 to 900 pounds) but they look much larger on account of their thick coats and large heads. Once muskoxen proliferated throughout the northern hemisphere alongside wooly mammoths and aurochs, but hunting and habitat loss caused them to retreat further and further into the remotest parts of the north until the end of the nineteenth century when the animals could only be found in the unpopulated wilderness and empty islands of northern Canada and deep in the arctic fastnesses of Greenland.
In these remote locations tiny herds of one to two dozen muskoxen still subsist on grasses, willows, lichens and moss while contending with terrible arctic predators and fearsome cold. Fortunately the muskox is provisioned with fearsome horns and doughty neighbors to fend off polar bears and wolves. The herd is capable of assembling in a ring formation with horns outward to stand off wolves and ice bears (although such a strategy works less well against humans with our projectile weapons). To fight the cold, the muskoxen have fat reserves and one of the most remarkable insulating coats in the animal world.
Go ahead, run in and bite the little muskox.
A muskox's coat is divided into two layers: a long stringy layer of coarse outer wool and an inner layer of soft warm underwool called qiviut (this Inuit word now primarily denotes muskox wool but it was once also used to refer to similarly soft warm inner down of arctic birds). Qiviut is one of the world's premier luxury fibers: it is allegedly 8 times more effective at insulation than sheep's wool and yet is softer than cashmere. Unlike sheep's wool, it does not shrink in water at any temperature.
Raw qiviut and spinning equipment
Every season a musk ox sheds his or her down coating and qiviut can be obtained in the wild by plucking cast-off tufts from thorns and snares. Unfortunately such qiviut is of lower quality than that obtained by combing/plucking the hides of hunted muskox—so demand for qiviut was driving down musk ox numbers. Fortunately, a gentler solution is becoming more prevalent—muskox farming.
Qiviut yarn
Last month I devoted a week to writing about the domestication of various plants and animals (the gist of those writings can be found here, in a post about a strange feral Renaissance painting). Of course many animals have escaped the yoke of domestication, and the muskox was one such creature—until recently. Ranchers have made use of hard-won knowledge of large animals and the muskoxen's herd instincts to create muskox farms. A modified bison crush is used to immobilize the live muskoxen while they are combed and plucked (I desperately wanted a photo but there was nothing online—so you'll have to make do with the baby muskox pictures below).
Aw! The baby muskox is too cute.
Thanks to reintroduction programs, there are now muskox herds in Siberia, Sweden, Norway, and Alaska as well as in Canada and Greenland. Farm herds are further swelling the numbers of these magnificent beasties.
Here's one playing with a rubber ball.
The Aurochs
August 16, 2011 in Art, Farm, History, Invaders, Mammals | Tags: Africa, Ancestral, Asia, Aurochs, Bos, Cattle, domestic, domestication, Europe, extinction, horns, Julius Caesar, large, Middle East, Polish, primigenius, wild | by Wayne | 6 comments
Aurochs Fighting Wolves (Heinrich Harder)
About 8,000 years ago, Neolithic people in India, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa first domesticated cattle. Although the domestication of goats and swine occurred earlier, cattle have a more central role in human history—they were sacred to many of the first civilizations in a way which goats and pigs were not. Cows and cattle are still highly esteemed today. In India cows are sacrosanct and not to be harmed, but, in herding societies like Texas or Argentina, the creatures are arguably even more important. There are estimated to be 1.3 billion head of cattle grazing the green earth today. They collectively outweigh all of the humans on the planet. Of that immense herd, what percentage would you guess are actual wild cattle–forest dwelling primogenitors from which the domestic cattle descended?
Domestic Cattle
That number would be none. The aurochs, (Bos primigenius primigenius) the ancestral cow, went extinct in Poland in 1627. It was the second recorded extinction of an animal (after the hapless dodo). The aurochs were not defenseless dodos: the animals were magnificently muscled giants with wickedly sharp lyre-shaped horns. An adult male aurochs would have stood nearly 2 meters (six feet) tall at the withers and weighed over a ton. Living in swampy and wet wooded areas which they grazed for grass and the occasional fruit, aurochs shared some of their range with the wisent, the Eurasian bison. Aurochs were domesticated in various different parts of the world around the approximate same time. Unfortunately for the wild species, they soon found themselves competing for land and resources with domesticated cattle while still being hunted by human hunters.
Aurochs Cave Painting (ca. 15000 BC)
Julius Caesar evocatively described aurochs and their hunters in the 6th chapter of The Gallic Wars writing "These are a little below the elephant in size, and of the appearance, color, and shape of a bull. Their strength and speed are extraordinary; they spare neither man nor wild beast which they have espied. These the Germans take with much pains in pits and kill them. The young men harden themselves with this exercise, and practice themselves in this sort of hunting, and those who have slain the greatest number of them, having produced the horns in public, to serve as evidence, receive great praise." Aurochs feature in some of humankind's most stirring early artworks showing up in cave paintings throughout Europe and on the Ishtar gate of Babylon (where they share company with ceramic lions and dragons). For all the respect that people had for aurochs, the herds began to fail fast, and populations winked out one by one in the wild redoubts of Asia, Africa, and Europe as civilization and agriculture spread.
Aurochs Mosaic on the Ishtar Gate of Babylon (ca. 575 BC)
The last aurochs lived in Poland, which was remarkable for the remote and untouched wildness of some of its forests and for the game loving policies of certain Polish kings, who tried to keep aurochs and wisents alive in order have formidable trophies to hunt. Unfortunately disease and parasites from domestic cattle had weakened the last herd beyond saving. Even with the royal threat of a death sentence for anyone killing an aurochs and with gamekeepers to look after the last individuals, the last female slipped away from natural causes in the mid-17th century. Her remains were reverentially kept by the royal house but they were stolen by Swedes during the havoc of the Swedish deluge. In one respect it was a sad end to a mighty animal. In a more real respect, cattle, the direct descendants of aurochs are everywhere and are doing great! They outweigh any other single species on the planet except perhaps for krill.
RIP Aurochs
The Pronghorn
August 3, 2011 in Mammals | Tags: American, Antilocapra americana, Antilocapridae, cheetah, extinct, FAST, grazing, horns, keratin, Miracinonyx trumani, North, predation, pronghorn, pronghorns | by Wayne | 5 comments
Pronghorns
The second fastest land mammal is the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), a delicate artiodactyl which ranges across the western wilderness of North America from Canada to the Baja deserts. Although they look similar to antelopes, pronghorns are actually the last surviving species of the family Antilocapridae. They can run at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour and (unlike impalas or cheetahs) they can run at full throttle for a fair distance.
The Range of the Pronghorn
Pronghorns are named for their forked horns—which are not antlers but true horns made of bone with a layer of keratin. They shed the hollow outer sheaths each year in late autumn and grow a new pair over the winter. Adult pronghorns stand 90 cm (three feet) high at the shoulders and weigh up to 50 kg (110 pounds). Although pronghorns can run swiftly, they are poor jumpers. Herds of pronghorns make great migratory treks across the country and face pressure from human developments and from fences (which they can't jump over but must run under). If you are a rancher in pronghorn country you might consider putting a non-barbed strand of wire as the bottom wire on your fence.
Two Pronghorn Bucks
Pronghorns once had many close relatives. The Antilocapridae family is most closely related to giraffes but the different family members filled many of the same niches that bovids do in the old world. These animals came in an array of shapes and were widespread across North America. There were once 22 varieties of antilocapridae (which you can explore here) but they died out ten to fourteen thousand years ago when the Clovis hunters arrived and slaughtered North America's megafauna.
The distinctive head of Osbornoceros
Sick or injured pronghorns are sometimes preyed upon by wolves, coyotes, or cougars, but when they are healthy, adult pronghorns can easily outrun all contemporary North American predators. Their blazing speed is not an evolutionary extravagance: pronghorns once needed their swiftness to escape Miracinonyx trumani, the American cheetah which could probably run nearly as quickly as the living African cheetahs. Like the avocado the pronghorn was molded to fit an ecosystem which has died out: today they are literally running from ghosts.
An American Cheetah Hunting a Pronghorrn

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In my latest tour through China to find the most promising use cases for blockchain technology, I needed to come to Hangzhou. In this article I will share my learnings about the Blockchain use case tracking wine with you.
Hangzhou is one of the most beautiful cities in China. When Venetian merchant Marco Polo visited Hangzhou in the late 13th century he called the city "greater than any in the world". If you have not been there you need to go and see the West Lake (西湖) area and the lovely surrounding parks and temples.
Besides its natural beauty, Hangzhou is also home to some of the most fascinating Chinese companies. The most well-known of these is Alibaba. Started by the Chinese internet pioneer Jack Ma, the Alibaba empire resides on the triangle of: E-Commerce, Logistics, and Finance. As a starter to understand the story behind Alibaba I highly recommend Duncan Clark's 《Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built》from 2016.
With the IPO of Alibaba in 2014, a lot of early Alibaba employees got enough capital together to start to invest into new and promising startups. It is thus not surprising that in the Alibaba ecosystem also a lot of blockchain companies were born. Either founded by Alibaba alumni or financed by them.
In this article I want to reflect on what I learned from visiting NetMi Blockchain Labs, a company in Hangzhou that is developing Blockchain applications for corporates. Here are some of my learning from sitting down with Evan, the CEO of NetMi Blockchain Labs.
The first topic I was curious about was: how did the Chinese Blockchain ecosystem change after the government stepped in and banned ICOs to protect ordinary investors, aka retail investors, from scams? Interestingly, Evan pointed out that this was even a good step, as Chinese blockchain entrepreneurs now need to think about a real business model for their companies. Simply raising money though an ICO is for most teams out of reach. Therefore, real-life use cases need to be developed. While everyone outside China is busy preparing an ICO, China already arrived at what I call the "post-ICO" area.
How can one build a serious business on top of blockchain technology?
Evan helps me to walk through some of the projects that they were doing recently. All of them are very interesting and very well thought out. I guess this is because the goal is not to produce a marketing whitepaper for an ICO but to convince a corporate to embark on a transformative blockchain project. One of the examples we discuss in detail is the blockchain use case tracking wine.
Background: a large wine company is integrating blockchain technology into their century old business model – producing and selling wine.
The way it works is an interesting combination of supply chain use case, community engagement, and gamification.
A first QR code visible for everyone on the outside of the bottle. This QR code acts as unique ID for the bottle and is stored in the blockchain.
A second, secretly hidden QR code is inside the cap of the bottle. The code is not visible unless you open the bottle. This acts as verification for the end user to prevent counterfeiting along the supply chain.
For every new bottle produced a digital representation of the bottle on the blockchain is generated. In blockchain language, this means a new non-fungible token is mined for every bottle. For insiders: this is similar to what Cryptokitties (a blockchain gaming project out of Canada) and Hyperdragons (project out of China) are using to represent their digital avatars in the game. Each token is different, which is different to traditional cryptocurrencies where 1 Bitcoin is worth the same as any other 1 Bitcoin. One popular standard that emerged to represent such tokens on the blockchain is the ERC721 token standard from the Ethereum community.
Buyers of the wine now hold a digital representation of their purchase, one unique token for bottle they bought. The token holder gets a promise from the wine producer: anytime he wants he can redeem the token for the specific bottle of wine.
The physical location of the wine is a professional storage facility at the site of the producer.
The tokens now allow for a secondary market for the wine bottles. Instead of holding the token the buyer can decide to trade the "wine" token with other users. Even a futures market is possible. Example: I'm buying a bottle of 2009 Bordeaux wine from your for 10.000 RMB in on May 1st 2020.
This agreement translates into as a smart contract and lives on the blockchain.
NetMi Blockchain labs is not the only one betting on the supply chain as one of the game changing use cases for the blockchain – Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, is bullish on this use case too.
Lastly, Evan helps me to understand the primary motivation of corporates in China to integrate blockchain technology into their products. "It is a mix of different factors for them to start working on blockchain technology", Evan explains. First, there is an obvious problem such as transparency along the supply chain they need to solve where blockchain can make a difference. But that is not everything, as other factors are also in play here. Some are going to adopt blockchain technology to prove to their employees that they are also a technology company, thus helping them with their digital transformation. Lastly, the same logic applies externally – it makes a nice story for investors if you report the use of blockchain in the annual report.
Disclaimer: This analysis on Blockchain use case tracking wine is provided without warranty or any claim for completeness. All opinions expressed about Blockchain use case tracking wine are my own. All information on Blockchain use case tracking wine is given strictly on a non-reliance basis and under the exclusion of any responsibility or liability, in particular with regard to loss or damages and/or administrative and regulatory sanctions.


US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson telephoned his counterparts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Monday to brief them ahead of President Donald Trump's speech outlining a new approach to the Afghan conflict.
The calls were made hours before Trump was scheduled to make a nationally televised address from Virginia on the war that began in October 2001 with an invasion that quickly led to the fall of the Taliban government.
In the televised speech, President Trump laid out plans to deepen U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, a mission that seems never-ending and has been a liability on his antecessors, as reported in the NY Times. (Here's a transcript of Trump's speech on Afghanistan.) However, he didn't give specific detail on how he plans to do it, how many troops he would commit or how he would evaluate success.
Donald Trump once described the mission on Afghanistan as a "complete waste".
"The topic was how the United States would like to work with each country to stabilize South Asia through a new, integrated regional strategy," State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said of Tillerson's conversations.
US media outlets reported that Trump is planning to announce the deployment of an additional 4,000 American troops to Afghanistan.
Some accounts suggest the president will also reduce US military aid to Pakistan, blamed by many in Washington for providing safe haven to the Taliban.
The United States currently has some 8,400 troops in Afghanistan as part of a NATO operation to assist Afghan forces and to carry out anti-terrorism strikes in the South Asian country.
The Pentagon views the present troop levels as insufficient to counter the Taliban, who now control about 40 percent of Afghan territory.
Today, President Trump will hold a rally in Phoenix. Officials are expecting a furious reception for not having firmly condemned racially violence in Charlottesville, Va, as reported in The NY Times.


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The Board of Directors of Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) today declared a regular quarterly dividend on Campbell's capital stock of $0.37 per share. The quarterly dividend is payable Oct. 31, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business as of Oct. 6, 2022.
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Today is another simple one, my apologies- it's been a super busy weekend- I made about 10 dozen cookies along with a bunch of other stuff!! :-P I used another of the new ULTA polishes that I got, In the Limelight, a lime green foil finished polish. Anyway, sorry for the short write-up, it's been a long day and I think its about bedtime.
I used ULTA In the Limelight as a base, with American Apparel Hassid for the lines. Topped it all off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.
Love the nails - this green is really cute .
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Few are the antiquarians who have studied the folk-lore of the Modern Greek people, and yet their popular legends offer as large and diversified a field to critical examination as those of any other race. Limited as my knowledge of them is I will try to transcribe a few of their superstitions that relate to that curious phase of domestic mythology, enchanted animals.
Most houses in Greece have the reputation of being haunted by στοιχειά (spirits) under the form of huge reptiles — το φίδι του σπητιού, the serpent of the house, being a familiar form of phrase. This serpent is generally supposed to inhabit the foundations of the building and has been observed to be of a golden hue during the very rare and short exits it makes. Country-folk in Greece revere greatly these snakes, and have never been known to harm any issuing from the walls or the foundations of a house. They are as cautious on this head as Mahomet's followers whom the prophet advised «to be slow to kill a house serpent. "Warn him to depart; if he do not obey, then kill him, for it is a sign that he is a mere reptile or an infidel genius"».2 In large edifices such as palaces, arsenals, etc. the haunting spirit is sometimes a deer, and sometimes a sheep.
Έχει σταυρό στα κέρατα, φεγγάρι στα καπούλια.
Σειέται και σειούνται τα βουνά, σειέται και σειούνται οι κάμποι.
Tαράζει τα ποδάρια του, τα δέντρα ξεριζώνει.
The traditions relating to this deer are very ancient dating from the Byzantine era.
Enchanting insects are met with here and there in Greece. There exists a Corinthian legend describing a precipitous height between Xylocastrum and Zura on which a swarm of bees had planted their dwelling. None but one daring traveller attempted to collect the honey of that bee-hive. He ordered to be let down by a long cord; yet he had no sooner been let down a considerable length than he was seen to writhe under the greatest tortures taking the cord for a snake struggling to entangle him in its deadly embrace. At last unable to bear the mental torture any longer he drew out his knife, cut the cord, and was lost in the abyss.
An enchanted red bee is believed by the Rhodians to enter into every dying man or woman's room precisely one hour ere he or she expire; and the Samians speak of the invisible bees that take up their residence in the perjurer's house afflicting him with a noise inaudible to all other ears.
1. See Politis, Neo-Hellenic Mythology.
2. See Washington Irving's, Life of Mahomet.


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A new series of Red Dwarf is on the cards, its star Robert Llewellyn has confirmed.
The actor, who plays robot Kryten, said that the announcement was made at the Dimension Jump fan convention in Birmingham on Saturday.
Llewellyn is the second person connected to Red Dwarf to talk about a new series. Stuart Snaith, head of DVD firm 2 Entertain, first let the cat out of the bag at the Broadcast TV Comedy Forum last month, saying that the show had been 'recommissioned as a series next year'.


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Letter from Shkodër: The Future of Football in Kosovo
October 15, 2016 by Robert O'Connor
After receiving a thrashing from Croatia in a historic World Cup qualifier in Shkodër, Robert O'Connor takes a look at the past and uncertain future of football in Kosovo.
Midnight in Shkodër. It's peaceful, almost deserted.
The Catherine Wheels that had shed their sparks all along the main street earlier in the day have burned out, and the blue and yellow smoke that clogged the air has dissipated into the night. As the sun went down on this ramshackle township, air horns glued to the mouths of a thousand revellers had made the streets alive with pageantry. They're silent now, replaced by the soft thrumming of the drizzle.
A few hours from now heavy storms will rack the city, topping up the grey puddles that have been collecting steadily since mid afternoon. Just off the strip, the Loro Borici Stadium stands empty, its floodlights still lit despite the party having long since fizzled out. After the dance comes the hard hangover.
In the stadium car park a tall, broad-shouldered man makes gentle chat with two reporters in the dark before waving them off into the night with a smile. It's a polite smile, almost apologetic, and it would have fooled no-one, had there been anyone left in town to see it. He is Eroll Salihu, General Secretary of the Football Federation of Kosovo (FFK). He has had a chastening night.
"Our two central defenders were so slow tonight," he says shaking me by the hand, finally allowing his face to drop, along with the pretence. The previous time I had met Salihu, in March at the offices of the FFK in the capital Prishtina, the mood was very different. He was excited that day, agitated even, as the UEFA ruling which would determine whether Kosovo would be granted entry to the European football family after a 25-year wait approached. On May 3rd, that passage was granted, and tonight Kosovo have played their first competitive match on home soil, a World Cup qualifier against Croatia. It has not gone well.
6-0, in the end, to Croatia, and not even Croatia at their strongest. Kosovo had expected a difficult night but few people, neither inside the sold-out Loro Borici Stadium in Shkodër or watching in their thousands on the big screen in Mother Theresa Square back in Prishtina, had seen this coming. It has been an embarrassment, a thrashing. No-one feels this more than Salihu. He expects so much of his countrymen. "It wasn't a 6-0 game I don't think," he says, tired. "But it wasn't good. Not at all." Tonight has not been about pageantry. It has been about football. But Kosovo have been found wanting.
It isn't hard to trace the origin of the General Secretary's exacting standards. They go back to the first declaration of independence declared by Kosovo, not the one recognised by a host of countries including the UK, France, Germany and the US in 2008, but the one pronounced in 1991 as Yugoslavia first began to perish.
Kosovo had two governments then, an authoritarian Serb-led one directed from Belgrade and an underground counter-movement in Prishtina. One sought to crush the Albanian majority in the autonomous province, the other to liberate it. It was in the cause of the latter that Salihu, then of FC Prishtina, led a breakaway football league for Kosovo's clubs, recently exiled from their stadiums and forced to play their games in the woods and on the rough marshlands.
The man who now heads up day-to-day operations at the FFK's House of Sport scored the new independent league's first ever goal on a grey and wet September day in 1991, having been the first amongst his peers to say no to his club's continued presence in the federal Yugoslav system as the Serb authorities bit deeply into Albanian life.
Things have come a long way since those days. But for Salihu it was never enough simply to gain recognition and make up the numbers. This, after all, is proud football country, where good play is expected from good players.
Against Croatia they showed moments of promise, but it never looked like being enough. Their opponents had gained their own independence at the moment that Kosovo's struggles were just beginning, and have had two decades now competing at the top level of international football. Conversely, Kosovo have suffered a lost generation of players during their time in the football wilderness, so whilst Croatia's Juventus striker Mario Mandzukic was helping himself to a first-half hat-trick in Shkoder, the Dardenat were without the likes of Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka, stars of the European game and of Kosovan heritage, but who have been forced to make international careers elsewhere.
There is talent in this team, though most of the squad have been drawn from the lower reaches of Europe's smaller leagues in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Turkey. The right full-back Fanol Perdedaj of German second-tier outfit Sandhausen put in a promising showing against Croatia, as did midfielder Milot Rashica of Vitesse in the Dutch league, who showed himself to have been far from overawed by the occasion. Up front, Bersant Celina showed flashes of the skill that saw him make his first-team debut for Manchester City last season, although Croatia's dominance meant he had few sights of goal.
The feeling around the Kosovo camp after the game was that, after a long fight, a fresh set of problems are just beginning to present themselves. The national team set-up here has been run on almost amateur basis for so long that it will take time for the infrastructure to catch up. In the meantime there could be more chastening nights like the one in Shkodër for Salihu and his colleagues to endure.
External forces continue to be unkind to Kosovo. Prior to last month's World Cup opener against Finland in Turku, half a dozen of the squad didn't receive clearance from FIFA to represent the team until a matter of hours before kick-off, having already represented Albania prior to Kosovo's recognition. Sunday's 3-0 defeat against the Ukraine was staged in Poland, after the government in Kyiv refused to sanction the team's entry into the country, which is still beset the chaos of separatism. Kyiv was reluctant to bestow legitimacy on a republic that many in Europe still maintain does not have a right to exist. Meanwhile, Kosovo received yet another blow.
Domestically things are little better. Salihu's old club Prishtina sit at the top of the country's Super League but two weeks ago saw their manager Kushtrim Munishi walk out on them, after the club refused to formalise his relationship in the form of a contract. "We are supposed to be professional now," he told me back in Prishtina, two days before the Croatia game. "I said 'I want to be on a contract or I will go'. They didn't do it, so I went."
It felt as though the conversation should have been full of optimism, at the start of a historic week for the young republic. Instead, the self-inflicted implosion of the country's best-supported club dominated the agenda.
Crossing the car park at the Loro Borici Stadium, I enquire into Salihu's take on the situation at his old stomping ground, and with the domestic game at large. "There are still problems, yes," he says hesitantly. Perhaps understandably, he is reluctant to impart much more. By now though, his cheerful demeanour has completely evaporated, and his exhausted tone is filling in the gaps.
The rain is coming down harder now. I wave the General Secretary off and take one last look at the piercing lights of the stadium before they are switched off, leaving just the dark and an uncertain future for Kosovo.
Cover photo credit: Aleksandr Zykov/flickr/some rights reserved
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Robert O'Connor
Robert is a freelance journalist based in Sheffield, UK, working mainly on English and European football. He trained as a Theatre Practitioner at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in London and worked as a part of a fringe theatre collective, before going on to study Journalism at the University of Sheffield. He writes regularly for VICE Sports, FourFourTwo and Bleacher Report as well as contributing to the Independent, the Blizzard, World Soccer and In Bed With Maradona. He occasionally writes about theatre in the UK for VICE. He takes a keen interest in football abroad and has reported on stories from Switzerland, Kosovo, South Sudan, Latvia and Estonia."
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Q: Angular >2 Dynamic object key causing template parse error When trying to place a value for a key, with a variable inside of my event binding expression, I am given a template parse error: Parser Error: Unexpected token [, expected identifier, keyword, or string at column...
my expression is:
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I thought that providing a variable name for a key in [square brackets] was allowed, and my question is, should I be able to provide a variable as a key in an Angular 2 template's, event binding expression?

A: Computed properties are currently not supported in templates.
Template may be refactored to not use computed properties:
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Or entire action.emit(...) may be moved to model change callback.


This post is a review and comparison of the various different walking tours of Grand Central Terminal, including our own guided pay-what-you-like tour as well as a self-guided GPS-enabled audio tour.
For over 100 years, the Beaux-Arts beauty known as Grand Central Terminal (a.k.a Grand Central Station) has been a testament to the ingenuity and ambition of a great city, impressing both travelers and visitors with its wonderful architecture and pulsating vibe.
Its history is a story of immense wealth, great engineering, a few accidents, a planned sabotage and one terrific ceiling, but most importantly a story of survival and rebirth.
It's fairly easy to explore Grand Central Terminal on your own. With the help of an audio tour, you can learn all about the station and its history. Alternatively, you can also use a free, self-guided tour to discover the GCT.
Whichever option you choose, these opportunities are typically very affordable and you can enjoy them at any time. This is a great way to avoid the crowd and set your own schedule while you find out what makes this historic site so popular.
We offer two options. Option one is our guide to Grand Central Terminal, which includes a free, self-guided tour.
Option 2 is our GPS-enabled audio tour. This audio tour is more detailed than the free options. The tour itself costs $1.99 and is currently only offered in English.
The app is free to download, has useful information for when you are out and about in the city and has several audio tours to choose from. Here is a sample.
GCT offers their own audio tour at a fairly affordable rate. The advantage here mainly that it's offered in multiple languages.
TIP: This audio tour is included at no additional cost with the New York Pass.
Ratings for this service are pretty good (read reviews here), with most guests giving them at least 4 stars. Several visitors felt that the audio tour was excellent and easy to use. One customer enjoyed the outing but recommended not to take it during rush hour. Quite a few reviewers appreciated the fact that this tour is offered in a variety of different languages.
Most Grand Central Terminal tours run anywhere from 1 ½ – 2 hours in length, making them easy to fit into almost any itinerary. Even if you don't think you have time to explore this historic station, chances are you'll be able to find time for one of these trips.
If you can't squeeze one of the following walking tours into your schedule, there are also self-guided and audio tours that you can enjoy at any time.
Let Free Tours by Foot demonstrate to you how Grand Central went from a land of goat pens and breweries to one of the world's most fascinating train stations as we uncover the secrets hidden in plain sight. Learn the story of not just Grand Central Station, but of Terminal City as well.
For more information, check out our Guide to Grand Central Terminal.
We also offer 2 other tours that make stops at the terminal.
This tour takes place mostly inside and is a good choice for any weather.
Reservations: REQUIRED. Click here to reserve. Groups of 6 or more should visit our groups page.
Where: Grand Central Terminal Information Booth and Clock on the main concourse. Please use our Google map for directions to the tour start.
When: @10am Sundays (year round) and @1pm (Jan through mid-March) or anytime with our audio tour.
Grand Central Terminal is also partially covered on our Midtown Manhattan Tour and Manhattan Night Tour. View our full tour calendar.
If you can't make one of our tours, you might consider one of the New York tourist passes, which include free, guided tours of Grand Central Terminal.
Not all Grand Central tours are free, but at least these outings are unique, offering a different experience with the station. From food tastings to a look behind-the-scenes, there are definitely some interesting tales to discover at the GCT.
Although one of these trips will cost almost $90, the other two are reasonably priced at only $25-$35 each. These walking tours typically run for between 1-2 hours, making it easy to fit into your itinerary.
The Municipal Art Society of New York has teamed up with MTA Metro-North Railroad and Orpheo in order to provide these daily Grand Central Terminal tours. With the help of their professionally trained docents, you'll learn all about the history behind this notable landmark.
Clocking in at only 75 minutes in length, this is a much shorter trip than most of the alternatives, but reviews are pretty good. Prices are fairly reasonable, and you can actually save money on tickets through a variety of methods.
This company is best known for managing the Grand Central Business Improvement District, so you can bet that they probably know a lot about the area. Thankfully, they don't mind sharing this information for free with their visitors!
Although this tour only runs once a week, it is very highly rated and has actually won some awards. Urban historians Peter Laskowich and Madeleine Levi serve as your docent, providing a lot of interesting stories about Grand Central Terminal and the surrounding neighborhood.
At 90 minutes in length, it should be fairly easy to fit this into almost any schedule.
For those of you who are more interested in how tasty meals shaped New York, this food tour will give you a look at all of the amazing treats available from vendors in and around Grand Central Terminal.
All tastings are included in the price of admission, and they even provide you with an additional coupon book for some of the businesses located at the GCT. Clocking in at 2 hours in length, you'll have more than enough time to explore the grounds while eating some of the more delicious foods found at Grand Central.
Tickets are pretty expensive, but reviews indicate that this experience might be worth the higher price tag.
Ratings for this service are quite excellent and most customers were in agreement that the food was amazing. Others were simply pleased with the number of details they learned about from their tour guides, who were reportedly very friendly and informative.
After the tour, several guests suggested that the coupon book they received made it very easy to do some shopping at the Grand Central Terminal. This outing was quite popular with couples and visitors who brought a friend for the trip.
Be sure to check out Free Tours by Foot's line of NYC food tours.
In addition to the other Grand Central Terminal tours listed above, there are also several outings which include a visit to the station. Although your trip to Grand Central won't be the main focus during these outings, you will have the opportunity to spend some time in the area and learn a bit about its history. The following options are great for anyone who only has a passing interest in seeing the GCT.
Midtown Manhattan Tour – Our very own trip around midtown Manhattan provides a pretty good look at Grand Central Terminal. As usual with Free Tours by Foot, this walking tour is pay-what-you-wish.
Manhattan Night Tour – Featuring most of the same locations that you'll see during the Midtown Manhattan Tour, this trip is perfect for anyone who would prefer to see GCT at night. As usual with Free Tours by Foot, this walking tour is pay-what-you-wish.
Big Bus Tours – Although they don't necessarily spend a lot of time focusing on Grand Central, Big Bus does make a stop near the station. This could be a great combination with either our self-guided tour or the audio tour offered at Grand Central Terminal.
New York Tour 1 – While on their full day tour around New York City, you'll have the opportunity to see Grand Central and enjoy lunch at one of the fine establishments in the station. This is a somewhat expensive option, but it's perfect for anyone who wants to see most of what New York has to offer in just one day.
USA Guided Tours – This company offers a night tour around NYC which includes a stop at Grand Central Terminal. Clocking in at around 4 hours in length, you'll have plenty of time to see the station along with several other notable sites in the city after dark.


The politicians of the Hungarian governing party Fidesz have been making false statements concerning the modification of the Law on Infractions, which has made homelessness illegal and created homeless-free zones. On September 30, 2013 – the day of the final vote – Fidesz released yet another misleading communication. This reached all media outlets through the National Press Service and a large part of the population as well. As the communication is fraught with inaccuracies and half-truths, we are presenting the actual facts in the following.
Fact: In Hungary today there are about 11,000 places available at homeless shelters. A large part of these institutions are running to full capacity throughout the year and in the winter, overcrowded night shelters provide for people way above capacity – while there are still thousands who have no shelter whatsoever. To meet the growing needs in the winter months, shelters try and increase their capacity by creating extra sleeping room in corridors, under beds and in stair landings. As for those living outside of institutions, according to National Rehabilitation and Social Services Bureau, in 2012 in Budapest alone more than 4000 people were registered by street workers as living on the street. The preliminary data from the census of 2011 suggest that there are at least 17,000 people in Hungary who live in public spaces or in spaces unsuitable for housing (e.g. huts, cellars, storage rooms, etc.). In accordance with these data, a recent survey conducted by the Ministry of Interior also found that – in contrast to official government propaganda – there is a shortage of places for the care of those living on the street in numerous cities in Hungary.
In all, it is not true that there is a place for everyone who is homeless. There are many more homeless people living in Hungary than the places in the homeless shelter system.
Fact: The provision of social services for the homeless was defined as the obligation of local governments as early as the Social Care Act of 1993. The rephrasing of this obligation in wider terms in the new constitution and in the Act on Local Governments has added no extra obligation that would make these bodies more accountable. In this way, these pieces of legislation did not bring about any tangible changes in terms of neither the prevention of homelessness nor the services for people who are already homeless. Moreover, while Parliament passed a law stating that the provision of social services for the homeless is a municipal responsibility, it also put an end to local housing subsidies for the needy, which could be a major tool to prevent homelessness.
In all, it is not true that local governments today have more obligations in terms of homelessness than under any under previous governments.
Fact: The real value of the normative state support for homeless services facilities (such as day shelters, one-night shelters and provisional shelters) has decreased by 15% since the current government started its term.
In all, homeless care facilities have less state subsidy at their disposal to finance their services than before.
Fact: According to the official data of the National Bureau of Statistics, up to 1977 fewer than 100 people died of hypothermia per year. Since 1985 this number has been consistently over 200 and steadily on the increase. The worst years so far were 1993 and 1999, with almost 400 lives lost to cold each time. In 2010 there were 332 people who died of hypothermia. According to the data The City is for All received from the Bureau for the 2003-2011 period, the year 2004 saw the least people die of hypothermia: a total of 24. Ever since, the number has been almost consistently growing.
As for Budapest alone, we had 80 hypothermia-related deaths in 2010 and 72 in 2011. In 2011 there were 230 deaths nationwide, 132 of which occurred in the persons' own home, 43 in the street and 55 in other locations. In Budapest, out of a total of 72 people, 33 died at home, 27 in the street and 12 in other places. Even by international comparison, Hungary produces an exceedingly high number of hypothermic deaths.
In all, the number of hypothermic deaths has not decreased since the current government started its term neither at the national level, nor in the capital Budapest.
Based on the above data, The City is for All is calling on government decision-makers and the media not to mislead citizens. If a legislative measure can only be supported using untruthful statements, that measure is obviously wrong. Official data give a clear indication that coercion, persecution and imprisonment can bring no relief to the people who live in public spaces. What it takes is a long-term and comprehensive housing strategy, a broad network of subsidised housing facilities and proper housing support for those in need.