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The 13 Amp Fuse Lamp
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I'm not sure what fuses look like in the States but I'm sure our British readers will recognise the above pictures, the plain old 13 Amp fuse.
Unlike the traditional 13 Amp fuse these ones have been shot by an anti-miniturization gun and now stand a tall 33.5cm. Not only are they 10 times the standard height of a regular fuse but they also light up and can be used as a lamp.
The 13 Amp Fuse Light is available at Firebox for £69.95.
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Kendall Says: October 24, 2007 at 8:08 pm
That is kind of cool. By the way, yes fuses in the United States look the same, well at least that type of fuse.


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Most of us take a calendar for granted and never give much thought into what they really are. Â Fundamentally, a calendar is a viewer into commitments; typically personal but can be for groups or other resources. Â Business is deeply organized around commitments. Â NetSuite is a powerful business management software application designed to help organizations make and hold commitments to be more competitive. Â So it is only natural that NetSuite offers a calendar as a way to view business commitments.
NetSuite's calendar provides for streamlined coordination. In the most basic sense, the NetSuite calendar functions like most other calendars, meaning it shows a view into where you hold commitments to someone or something.  For example, in the customer relationship management (CRM) side of the application, it is about tracking promises to those operating in Sales. Within the enterprise resource planning (ERP), it is about remembering payments and orders.
NetSuite's calendar is focused around three main components: events, tasks, and activities.
Events – An event has a date, start and end time, as well as information on what the event is, who will be attending, who is invited, etc.  Events can be something as simple as a conference call where people join and participate.  Or it can be a major meeting, such as a trade show.  NetSuite has powerful capacities to manage events and the calendar offers a way for individuals to see their commitment to the event.
Tasks – These are the to-do lists, the reminders, etc, and usually are set as date in the future. They can be recurring tasks, such as an action to be completed once every week or month – or they can be one time tasks. These tasks will also show up on the calendar. If the task involves a customer, NetSuite offers a way show their related records which naturally helps serve them well.
Activities – These can be simple matters, such as a phone call. For activities, you have a date, start of the activity, end of the activity, a follow up action, and who participated. All of this information is also seen in NetSuite's calendar, and is also a way to leverage the information stored in the CRM.
The NetSuite calendar is simple and efficient – giving you the basic records, dates, beginnings and endings, as well as the nature, priority, and the parties involved.  But because NetSuite stores all your information into a combined CRM and ERP, you get all the benefits of having your data available on the calendar when needed, without needing to jump from multiple programs to take care of your commitments.
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Hub-Pak Salt Refinery is an ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, HACCP, Halal, BRC, GMP, GMP+ & Kosher certified company. We work on all the available grades of salt, for both industrial and domestic use. In the beginning, the production of salt by Hub-Pak was only one ton per day. The team of Hub-Pak started working on expansion and continuous quality management and 30 years later, we are producing excellent quality salt with an installed capacity of 620 tons per day at Hub.
Our customers include almost all the quality conscious buyers who desire pure, hygienic, and delicious salt in Pakistan and abroad.
We have three plants altogether, one at Hub and two at Tharparkar (Ankerio and Mukhai). Other than our plant at Hub, we have harvesting and upgrading of salt going on at Ankerio as well. The plants at Ankerio and Mokhai have an installed capacity of 2,000 tons per day of upgradation and harvesting capabilities of up to 10,000 tons per day.
This Ankerio plant is installed with the latest, state of the art harvesting and upgrading machinery, making it the most modern and advanced salt plant in the region. The plant has been especially designed for continuous production without wasting any time, despite the obstacles faced due to the monsoon seasons. The Ankerio plant is spread over an area of 2,000 acres of land.
Our other plant, the Hub-Plant, is located at the industrial estate of Hub, which is also known as Hub Industrial Trading Estate (H.I.T.E). The plant covers an area of over 50,000 square meters. The plant is surrounded by well-maintained greenery all around. This complies with Hub-Pak's environmental policy. Also, Hub-Pak is the first company in Pakistan to have achieved zero liquid discharge (ZLD). This means that we do not discharge liquid waste products in the drains, so that we may contribute as much as we can towards a healthy environment.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ John Hiatt, whose rootsy songs have been recorded by artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Willie Nelson and B.B. King, will receive the Americana Music Association's lifetime achievement award for songwriting.
The AMA announced the selection Thursday and will present the honor to Hiatt during its Sept. 18 awards show at the Ryman Auditorium.
"It's a privilege to honor John Hiatt," said Jed Hilly, the group's executive director. "He is the essence of what the Americana songwriter award is all about � a true artist, a performer and songwriter whose work is steeped in integrity."
Past recipients include Nelson, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Cowboy Jack Clement, John Prine and Billy Joe Shaver.
Born and raised in Indianapolis, Hiatt moved to Nashville when he was 18 and got a songwriting job with Tree Publishing.
He signed with Epic Records and released his debut album "Hangin' Around the Observatory" in 1974. Neither that album nor the follow-up sold well and the label dropped him, but one of the tracks, "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here," became a hit for Three Dog Night.
After some label changes, Hiatt found his niche with 1987's "Bring the Family," a loose, rootsy outing on A&M Records that's largely defined his sound ever since. The album found modest chart success, as did the follow-up, "Slow Turning."
By 1990, other artists were dipping into his catalog, solidifying his reputation as a songwriter's songwriter. Bonnie Raitt had one of the biggest hits of her career with Hiatt's "Thing Called Love" in 1989.
His new album, "Same Old Man," hits stores May 27.
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This event promotes the amazing ciders being produced in the Pacific Northwest and benefits Toys For Tots.
Entry fee is $10, which gives you 5 tasting tokens. Patrons will also receive an Eastburn Ciderfest glass. Additional tokens will also be available for purchase at the door. Patron's who bring in donations will receive 5 EXTRA TOKENS per toy donated.
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CHICAGO (Dec. 8, 2015) – Series tickets go on sale on Dec. 11 for all 15 matches of the 2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship, to be staged from Feb. 10-21 at Toyota Stadium, located in the Dallas suburb of Frisco and home to FC Dallas of MLS, and BBVA Compass Stadium, home to the Houston Dash of the NWSL and the Houston Dynamo of MLS. A series ticket includes all the games played at a single venue.
Series tickets for both venues go on sale to the public on Friday, Dec. 11, at 10 a.m. CT at ussoccer.com. Tickets for the three-date series in Frisco are also available by phone at 888-323-4685. For the five-date series in Houston (including semifinals and final), tickets are available by phone at 713-276-4625. Tickets for individual dates will go on sale starting Friday, Jan. 8, at 10 a.m. CT.
The U.S. Women will play all three of their Group A matches at Toyota Stadium. The USA opens the tournament against Costa Rica on Feb. 10 (7:30 p.m. CT), faces Mexico on Saturday, Feb. 13 (3 p.m. CT) and finishes group play against Puerto Rico on Monday, Feb. 15 (7:30 p.m. CT).
The round-robin stage of the tournament will be conducted with three doubleheaders in each group. Group A will play doubleheaders at Toyota Stadium on Feb. 10, 13 and 15 and Group B – which features Canada, Guatemala, Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana – will play doubleheaders at BBVA Compass Stadium on Feb. 11, 14 and 16. The all-important semifinal matches will be on Feb. 19 in Houston, with the winners qualifying for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. The championship game on Feb. 21 will also be in Houston.
Four teams have already qualified for the 12-team Olympic Football Tournament: Brazil and Colombia from South America, and France and Germany from Europe by virtue of their finish at the 2015 Women's World Cup. Two teams will qualify from CONCACAF, Africa and Asia and one more will qualify from Europe after a mini-tournament in March featuring Sweden, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland. New Zealand is the likely qualifier from Oceania.
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UK Singer Conor Maynard won't make the same mistakes as Justin Bieber, who is performing in Egypt soon: 'I don't worry about ending up like Justin. I can just not do any illegal stuff! I feel like I'm good at not breaking the law. That's always a good trait to have as a person.
As an outsider looking in I feel like that maybe he feels as though he can't do anything right, no matter what he does he's going to be shot down. Maybe he thinks, "If you want me to do things wrong, I'll show you. But you never know what's going on in people's heads, you never know the pressures and the stresses that Justin has.'


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|Giant red zinnia flower: Copyright © Phyllis Wheeler, 2015
It's September 11th and I don't feel right with my usual start to my floral Friday/this week in my Maryland garden post. But I do have a little haiku poem and some red, white and blue flower photos to share. Every day, I pray for our country and for God to thwart terrorists' plans. My heart aches for all those who lost loved ones in terrorist attacks. May God heal their hearts, comfort their pains and light their paths.
|White zinnia in sunshine: Copyright © Phyllis Wheeler, 2015
Haiku Poem for September 11th
Nine one one... somber
day of reflection, mourning,
remembrance, prayer.
day of reflection, mourning,
remembrance, prayer.
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Whatever is happening in your heart, mind and soul today, I pray that God will give you just what you need and bless you, America, and comfort all those who mourn.
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We might not be big on our sports knowledge but that's no reason not to tune to last night's 2011 Espy Awards held in the Nokia Theater L.A. The awards is the one night a year we get to see athletes all dressed up and looking glamorous, plus with SNL's Seth Meyers hosting, and funny guys Justin Timberlake and Jonah Hill making appearances, we were sure to be entertained!
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|The Virtues of Knowledge and People of Knowledge
Allah's statement,
﴿يَرْفَعِ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ مِنكُمْ وَالَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ الْعِلْمَ دَرَجَـتٍ وَاللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌ﴾
(Allah will exalt in degrees those of you who believe, and those who have been granted knowledge. And Allah is Well-Acquainted with what you do.) means, do not think that if one of you makes room for his brother, or rises up when he is commanded to do so, that this will diminish his right or honor. Rather, this will increase his virtue and status with Allah, and Allah the Exalted will never make his good deed be lost. To the contrary, He will reward him for it in this life and the Hereafter. Surely, he who humbles himself by and before the command of his Lord, then Allah will elevate his status and make him known by his good behavior. the statement of Allah the Exalted,
﴿يَرْفَعِ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ مِنكُمْ وَالَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ الْعِلْمَ دَرَجَـتٍ وَاللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌ﴾
m(Allah will exalt in degree those of you who believe, and those who have been granted knowledge. And Allah is Well--Acquainted with what you do.) meaning, surely, Allah is Aware of those who deserve this reward and those who are not worthy of it. Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu At-Tufayl `Amir bin Wathilah said that Nafi` bin `Abdul--Harith met `Umar bin Al-Khattab in the area of `Usfan. `Umar appointed Abu At-Tufayl to be the governor of Makkah. `Umar asked him, "Whom did you appoint as your deputy for the valley people (that is, Makkah).'' `Amir said, "I appointed Ibn Abza, one of our freed slaves, as my deputy.'' `Umar said, "You made a freed slave their governor in your absence'' He said, "O Leader of the faithful! He has memorized Allah's Book and has knowledge of regulations of inheritance, along with being a proficient judge.'' `Umar said, "Surely, your Prophet has said,
«إِنَّ اللهَ يَرْفَعُ بِهذَا الْكِتَابِ قَوْمًا وَيَضَعُ بِهِ آخَرِين»
(Verily, Allah elevates some people and degrades others, on account of this Book.)'' Muslim collected this Hadith.
﴿يأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ إِذَا نَـجَيْتُمُ الرَّسُولَ فَقَدِّمُواْ بَيْنَ يَدَىْ نَجْوَكُمْ صَدَقَةً ذَلِكَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ وَأَطْهَرُ فَإِن لَّمْ تَجِدُواْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ - أَءَشْفَقْتُمْ أَن تُقَدِّمُواْ بَيْنَ يَدَىْ نَجْوَكُمْ صَدَقَـتٍ فَإِذْ لَمْ تَفْعَلُواْ وَتَابَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ فَأَقِيمُواْ الصَّلوةَ وَءَاتُواْ الزَّكَوةَ وَأَطِيعُواْ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَاللَّهُ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ ﴾
(12. O you who believe! When you (want to) consult the Messenger in private, spend something in charity before your private consultation. That will be better and purer for you. But if you find not (the means for it), then verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.) (13. Are you afraid of spending in charity before your private consultation (with him) If then you do it not, and Allah has forgiven you, then perform Salah and give Zakah and obey Allah and His Messenger. And Allah is All-Aware of what you do.)
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Last week I was busy sewing up a storm. Among other items that I'll share in another post, I made a tote from leftover fabric that I sewed a sewing machine cover from and I used more of my favorite sheep fabric to make a tote to carry my drop spindle in.
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Read what writers of myth have written on the Centaurs on this page of the Theoi Project website.
The constellation Centaurus is depicted taking adjoining Lupus, the Therion, or wild animal, to Ara, the Altar, skewered on a pike as a sacrificial offering.
Centaurus represents the Centaurs who were a tribe of half-man, half-horse savages, living on the mountains of Thessaly. They were people who tamed horses and are depicted as having the torso of a human joined at the (human) waist to the horse's withers where the horse's neck would be. In earlier times a man on horseback was an uncommon sight, resembling at a distance a figure half man, half horse. "This half-human and half-animal composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, and as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron" [1].
How Centaurs came to be:
"Ixion fell in love with Hera and tried to rape her, but she reported his behavior to Zeus, who decided to test his wife's testimony. For this purpose, the god made a Cloud Resembling Hera (this cloud was named Nephele1), and laid it beside Ixion [Ixion on his wheel is identified with Corona Australis]. So when Ixion went around boasting that he had enjoyed Hera, Zeus bound him to a wheel, on which he is whirled by winds through the air. The cloud (Nephele) gave birth to Centaurus, and when he consorted with the Magnesian Mares, the Centaurs were born." http://www.maicar.com/GML/CENTAURS.html
The word centaur might be related to the word century, hundred, cent, and Centaury (the herb whose medical qualities are fabled to have been discovered by Chiron the centaur):
"Dromicrites in his Theologia writes that Ixion first aspired to the glory of a kingdom in Greece, and that he first of all men assembled for his use a hundred horsemen, whence the hundred armed men were called Centaurs (they ought to be called centippi, because they are depicted as part horses), but also as a real hundred armed men." [Fulgentius, Mythologies, late C5th or early C6th AD]
The English word centaur comes from Latin Centaurus, from Greek Kentauros. Akkadian Habasiranu, Sumerian EN.TE.NA.BAR.HUM [2]. The Centaurs lived in the mountains of Thessaly and forests of Magnesia. Thessaly is a region of east-central Greece, and the Thessalians were renowned for their cavalry [3]. Poseidon was said to have produced the first horse by striking the ground in Thessaly with his trident (Virgil, Georgics, i. 12) [4].
"Their appearance gave their name to the Centaurs, that is, a man combined with a horse. Some say that they were horsemen of Thessaly, but because, as they rushed into battle, the horses and men seemed to have one body, they maintained the fiction of the Centaurs" [The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, 7th century AD, p.246.]
Chiron is identified with this constellation, his name is related to the Greek word for hand, kheir, from the Indo-European root *ghes- 'Hand'. Derivatives: chiro-, chirurgeon (surgeon), enchiridion (a handbook, a manual), surgeon, surgery (from Latin chirurgia, from Greek kheir, hand, to perform work with one's hands), chiropractor, chiroptera (the zoological name for the bat family, meaning 'hand wing'), press² (conscription or impressment into service), presto (so suddenly that magic seems involved as in the expression 'hey presto', also a very fast tempo in music), imprest (an advance or a loan of funds, from Latin praesto, at hand), Chiron, chiral (used to describe a molecule whose arrangement of atoms is such that it cannot be superimposed on its mirror image) [Pokorny 1. ghesor- 447. Watkins] Klein supplies more cognates: "See yard2, 'enclosure', and compare words there referred to. Compare also chorion, chorus, chronic, and the second element in Dashahara and in vihara."
"A certain Greek, Chiron, invented medical practice for draft animals. For this reason he is pictured as half man, half horse. He was named Chiron from the term Keirizesthai (i.e. 'operate by hand'), because he was a surgeon (chirurgus)" [The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, 7th century AD, p.114.]
Our English word hand is related to Old Norse henda, 'to grasp', Gothic -hinthan, 'to seize', and also to the verb hunt, the obsolete hent (to take hold of; seize), hint, handsome (hand-some), handicap.
The Latin word for hand is manus, and derives from the Indo-European root *man-² 'Hand'. Derivatives: manacle, manage, manège (the art of training and riding horses), manner, manners, manual, manubrium, manus (the wrist and hand of humans or the carpus and forefoot of other vertebrates), amanuensis (scribe), maintain (manu + tenere), maneuver, manicure, manifest, mansuetude (gentleness of manner, mildness which described Chiron and Pholus), manufacture, manure, manuscript, mastiff, quadrumanous (having four feet with opposable first digits, as primates other than humans, from Latin manus, hand), manipulate, manoeuvre, commandment, emancipate (ex- + mancipare), mandamus (an order from a high court), mandate (order), Maundy Thursday (ceremony of washing the feet of the poor on this day), command, commando, commend, countermand, demand, recommend, remand (from Latin compound mandare, 'to put into someone's hand'). [Pokorny me-r 740. Watkins]
"It is believed that Centaurs arose from a misinterpretation of horse and riders which seems to explain the origin of the name, Centaurus, -cento meaning 'to goad or prick' and -tauros meaning 'bull', which implies they were cattle herders" [3]. Greek kenteo means to goad, urge on, drive on, kenteo-tauros, 'goad a bull', 'to prick a bull'. Centaurs had a similar occupation to modern cowboys, rounding up herds of cattle while on horseback, cowboys were also called cowpokes implying goading or pricking. The South Americans have gauchos. Greek kenteo comes from the Indo-European root *kent- 'To prick, jab'. Derivatives: center, centre, eccentric ('out of the center'), -centric, concentrate, concentric, (these words from Greek kentein, to prick, kentron 'needle'). Suffixed form *kent-to-; cestus¹ (a woman's belt or girdle worn around the waist in ancient Greece, from Greek kestos, belt, girdle). [Pokorny kent- 567. Watkins]
"Greek kentron is formed from the stem of kentein to prick, goad, stab, which is probably cognate with Old High German hantag, sharp, pointed, and Gothic handugs, wise (from Proto-Germanic *Handazas) [resembling the English word hand?], and with Old Icelandic hannarr, skillful, smart (from Proto-Germanic *Hantheraz), from Indo-European *kent-/kont- prick (Pok.567)" [Chamber's Dictionary of Etymology]
"The Hebrew letter Lamed (Greek lambda, English L) signifies both Learning and Teaching. Most sources assert that its literal meaning was originally an 'ox goad' [5].
"lamed, lamedh, name of the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. — Hebrew lamedh, literally probably 'the rod of the teacher', from the stem of lamadh, 'he exercised, learned', whence also malmadh, 'ox goad', talmidh, 'scholar, pupil'. See Talmud and compare lambda" [Klein].
Horse-taming and horseback culture arose first in the Eurasian Steppes believed to be around 3,000 B.C.
"A spear (hasta) is a shaft (contus) with an iron head; its diminutive is 'dart' (hastilia). The name hasta comes from 'craft' (astus), whence also is the term 'cunning' (astutia)" [The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, 7th century AD, p.362.]
Latin hasta, translated 'spear', is related to gad2, a goad. Old Indian or Sanskrit has the word hasta or hastah, meaning 'hand'. Sanskrit hasta 'hand' is related to the chiro- root from *ghes- 'Hand'; "Latin praesto ... as in the pre-Latin phrase prai hestod, prai before + ablative case of a lost noun *hestos which is cognate with Sanskrit hasta-s hand, from Indo-European *ghestos" [Chamber's Dictionary of Etymology].
A goad is a sharp, pointed stick used in driving oxen. It comes from the Indo-European root *ghei-1 'To propel, prick'. Derivative: goad (from Old English gad, goad, from Germanic *gaido, goad, spear). [Pokorny I. ghei- 424. Watkins] Klein says the word goad is also related to gore, 'a triangular piece of land', literally 'a spear-shaped piece of land', and gore, 'to pierce'. These words come from the Indo-European root *ghaiso- 'A stick, spear'. Derivatives: gore1 (to pierce or stab), garfish (a primitive freshwater fish), garlic (from Old English gar, spear, Old Norse geirr, also in personal names), Edgar (from Old English Eadgar, 'happy spear, rich spear'), Osgar, Oscar, Gerald, Gerard, Gertrude, gyrfalcon, from Germanic *gaizaz, spear, gore2 (a triangular or tapering piece of cloth forming a part of something, as in a skirt or sail). [Pokorny ghaiso- 410. Watkins]
[There are separate Indo-European roots for goad (from *ghei-1), and gad2 (also meaning a goad, from *ghazdh-o-), but there does not seem to be a recognized link?] Goad comes from Old English gad, 'goad', and the word gad2, a pointed tool or goad, comes from the Indo-European root *ghazdh-o- 'Rod, staff'. Derivatives: yard1 (unit of length, also a spar slung to a mast to support and spread the head of a sail, from Old English gierd, geord, staff, twig, measuring rod, from Germanic *gazdjo), gad2 (a goad, as for prodding cattle, from Old Norse gaddr, rod, goad, spike. A gadfly is literally 'a goading fly'), attelet (a skewer), haslet (edible viscera of an animal), hastate (hastate shaped leaves), from Latin hasta, spear, gadfly. [Pokorny 1. ghasto- 412. Watkins]
A gadfly goaded the goddess Io on, driving her to wander around the world. [Read what writers of myth say about Io here.] The Greeks called the gadfly oistros. Greek oistros is related to the word 'estrogen'. The estrogen replacement hormone is made from mare's urine.
The word yard1 (from *ghazdh-o-) is a spar on a mast from which sails are set; sailyard. Centaurus is adjacent to Vela, the sails of the ship Argo Navis. Klein sees the word yard2, an enclosure, as related to cheiro-.
"The general character of Centaurs is that of wild, lawless and inhospitable beings, the slaves of their animal passions. They are often represented drawing the car of Dionysus, or bound and ridden by Eros, in allusion to their drunken and amorous habits" [6]. The Centaurs had a problem with manners (related to Latin manus, hand) and one example shows appalling manners; they were invited to a wedding and after getting drunk assaulted the female guests ("laid hands upon them"), and attempted to carry off the bride. By contrast some were of mild manner (mansuetude means mildness of manner) and hospitable (describing Chiron, Pholos and some others).
The left and right hands are mirror images of each other, i.e. a left hand appears as a right hand in a mirror. The term chiral is used to describe an object that is non-superimposable on its mirror image, human hands being the most universally recognized example of chirality.
"The Kentauroi were spawned by the cloud nymph Nephele. Her double-formed brood were deposited on Mount Pelion where the daughters of the centaur-god Kheiron nursed and fostered them to adulthood" [7]. "They were begotten on a cloud or phantom, and are variously explained by a fancied resemblance to the shapes of clouds, or as spirits of the rushing mountain torrents or winds" [8]. The Centaurs have been identified with the Sanskrit Gandharvas (though a disputed identification, Allen in Starnames under Corona Australis, p.172, says "Gandharvas, the Aryan celestial horses that probably were the forerunners of the Centaurs"), ghost-like beings, known for their power to cast illusions, and their skill with horses". The river Styx (see *(s)teu-1 above) was where the newly dead were ferried onto Hades. In Rome the constellation was Centaurus, the 'duplici Centaurus imagine' of Manilius description. Chiron fashioned an image (an imago) of Actaeon after he died to comfort his dogs. A ghost is an image, an imago. The Manes were the "deified ghosts of the dead", related to Latin mānus, 'good' (similar to Latin manus, 'hand', but not a recognized cognate).
Chiron, Cheiron or Kheiron ("hand") is identified with this constellation, Centaurus. During a battle, the centaur, Chiron, was accidentally wounded by one of Hercules' arrows that had been treated with the blood of the Hydra (an adjacent constellation). To avoid a life of excruciating pain from this arrow's poison, Chiron gave up his immortality to Prometheus and died. Crux, the Cross, is a modern constellation that was once part of Centaurus. In this drawing of Centaurus taken from a picture by Hyginus (Roman, ca. A.D. 1, from The New Patterns in the Sky, Staal). Crux is placed on the hind feet of the Centaur. One of these hind feet may have been the place where Chiron was wounded, perhaps the left hind foot with the star Acrux. The words crux, cross, Acrux, and excruciating, are related. Ovid (on this page) says he was wounded in the left foot.
An adjoining constellation Circinus, is the Pair of Compasses that draws a circle, and the needle of that pair of compasses shoud be here in Centaurus. Ayto (Dictionary of Word Origins) explains:
"The word centre came originally from the spike of a pair of compasses which is stuck into a surface while the other arm describes a circle round it. Greek kentron meant 'sharp point,' or more specifically 'goad for oxen' (it was a derivative of the verb kentein 'prick'), and hence was applied to a compass spike; and it was not long before this spread metaphorically to 'midpoint of a circle.'"
The glyph in astrology for the sun is a circle with a dot in the center: ☉
The astrological influences of the constellation given by Manilius:
"The Centaur, from his own nature assigns qualities to his progeny. Such a one will either urge on asses with the goad and yoke together quadrupeds of mixed stock or will ride aloft in a chariot; else he will saddle horses with a fighter or drive them into the fight (translator's note: "he will load horses with arms or drive them into arms", that is yoked to war-chariots).
"Another knows how to apply the arts of healing to the limbs of animals [translator's note; "these endowments reflect the identification of Centaurus as Chiron"] and to relieve the dumb creatures of the disorders they cannot describe for his hearing.
"His is indeed a calling of skill, not to wait for the cries of pain, but recognize betimes a sick body not yet conscious of its sickness". [Astronomica, Manilius, 1st century A.D, book 5, p.329].
© Anne Wright 2008.
|Fixed stars in Centaurus
|Decl 2000
|b Centaurus
|11h 51m 8.7s
|-45° 10' 25"
|-41 24 54
|pi (π)
|11h 21m 0.4s
|-54° 29' 28"
|-51 48 27
|delta (δ)
|12h 8m 21.5s
|-50° 43' 21"
|-44 30 22
|rho (ρ)
|12h 11m 39.1s
|-52° 22' 7"
|-45 34 43
|gamma (γ)
|12h 41m 31s
|-48° 57' 35"
|-40 09 26
|iota (ι)
|13h 20m 35.8s
|-36° 42' 44"
|-26 00 33
|lambda (λ)
|11h 35m 46.8s
|-63° 1' 11"
|-56 47 04
|xi (ξ)
|13h 6m 54.6s
|-49° 54' 22"
|-38 50 36
|nu (ν)
|13h 49m 30.3s
|-41° 41' 16"
|-28 15 46
|mu (μ)
|13h 49m 37s
|-42° 28' 26"
|-28 58 27
|Menkent theta (θ)
|14h 6m 41s
|-36° 22' 12"
|-22 03 57
|zeta (ζ)
|13h 55m 32.4s
|-47° 17' 18"
|-32 56 15
|epsilon (ε)
|13h 39m 53.2s
|-53° 27' 59"
|-39 34 50
|eta (η)
|14h 35m 30.4s
|-42° 9' 28"
|-25 30 26
|Agena beta (β)
|14h 3m 49.4s
|-60° 22' 23"
|-44 07 53
|kappa (κ)
|14h 59m 9.7s
|-42° 6' 15"
|-25 01 41
|Toliman alpha (α)
|14h 39m 35.9s
|-60° 50' 7"
|-42 34 41
from Star Names, 1889, Richard H. Allen
The Centaur's arrow ready seems to pierce
Some enemy; far forth his bow is bent
Into the blue of heaven.
— John Keats Endymion
Centaurus, the Centaur, is from the Kentauros that Aratos used, probably from earlier times, for it was a universal title with the Greeks; but he also called it Ippota pher, the Horseman Beast, the customary term for a centaur in the Epic and Aeolic dialects. This, too, was the special designation of the classical Pholos, son of Silenus and Melia, and the hospitable one of the family, who died in {Page 149} consequence of exercising this virtue toward Hercules. Apollodorus tells us that the latter's gratitude caused this centaur's transformation to the sky as our constellation, with the fitting designation Eumeneus, Well-disposed [Eumaneus was the Swineherd in Homer].
Eratosthenes (around 200 BC) asserted that the stellar figure represented Cheiron, a title that, in its transcribed forms Chiron and Chyron, was in frequent poetical use in classical times, and is seen in astronomical works even to Ideler's day. This has appropriately been translated the Handy One, a rendering that well agrees with this Centaur's reputation. He was the son of Chronos and the ocean nymph Philyra, who was changed after his birth into a Linden tree, whence Philyrides occasionally was applied to the constellation; although a variant story made him Phililyrides, the son of Phililyra, the Lyre-loving, from whom he inherited his skill in music. He was imagined as of mild and noble look, very different from the threatening aspect of the centaur Sagittarius; and Saint Clement of Alexandria wrote of him that he first led mortals to righteousness. His story has been thought in some degree historic, even by Sir Isaac Newton. As the wisest and most just of his generally lawless race he was beloved by Apollo and Diana, and from their teaching became proficient in botany and music, astronomy, divination, and medicine, and instructor of the most noted heroes in Grecian legend. Matthew Arnold wrote of him in Empedocles on Etna:
On Pelion, on the grassy ground,
Chiron, the aged Centaur lay,
The young Achilles standing by.
The Centaur taught him to explore -
The mountains where the glens are dry
And the tired Centaurs come to rest,
And where the soaking springs abound.
…He told him of the Gods, the stars,
The tides.
Indeed, he was the legendary inventor of the constellations, as we see in Dyer's poem The Fleece:
Led by the golden stars as Chiron's art
Had marked the sphere celestial;
and the father of Hippo, mentioned by Euripides as foretelling events from the stars.
The story of Pholos is repeated for Chiron: that, being accidentally wounded by one of the poisoned arrows of his pupil Hercules, the Centaur renounced his immortality on earth in favor of the Titan Prometheus, and was raised to the sky by Jove. His name and profession are yet seen in {Page 150} the mediaeval medicinal plants Centaurea, the Centaury, and the still earlier Chironeion.
Prometheus evidently inherited Chiron's astronomical attainments, as well as his immortality, for Aeschylus, who thought him the founder of civilization and "full of the most devoted love for the human race," made him say in Prometheus Bound:
I instructed them to mark the stars,
Their rising, and, a harder science yet,
Their setting.
The conception of a centaur's figure with Homer, Hesiod, and even with Berossos, probably was of a perfect human form, Pindar being the first to describe it as semi-ferine, and since his day the human portion of the Centaur has been terminated at the waist and the hind quarters of a horse added. William Morris thus pictured him in his Life and Death of Jason:
at last in sight the Centaur drew,
A mighty grey horse trotting down the glade,
Over whose back the long grey locks were laid,
That from his reverend head abroad did flow;
For to the waist was man, but all below
A mighty horse, once roan, but now well-nigh white
With lapse of years; with oak-wreaths was he dight
Where man joined unto horse, and on his head
He wore a gold crown, set with rubies red,
And in his hand he bare a mighty bow,
No man could bend of those that battle now.
Some ancient artists and mythologists changed these hind quarters to those of a bull, thus showing the Minotaur, and on the Euphrates it was considered a complete Bull. The Arabians drew the stellar figure with the hind parts of a Bear, but adopted the Greek title in their Al Kentaurus, that has been considered as the original of the otherwise inexplicable Taraapoz, used in Reduan's Commentary for our constellation.
Some of the Centaur's stars, with those of Lupus, were known to the early Arabs as Al Kadb al Karm, the Vine Branch; and again as Al Shamarih, the broken-off Palm Branches loaded with dates which Kazwini described as held out in the Centaur's hands. This degenerated into Asemarik, and perhaps was the origin of Bayer's word Asmeat. He also had Albeze; and Riccioli, Albezze and Albizze, — unintelligible unless from the Arabic Al Wazn, Weight, that was sometimes applied to alpha (Toliman or Bungula) and beta (Agena).
Hyde is our authority for another title (from Albumasar), Birdun, the Pack-horse.
{Page 151} Ptolemy described the figure with Lupus in one hand, and the Thyrsus in the other, marked by four 4th-magnitude stars, of which only two can now be found; this Thyrsus being formed, Geminos said, into a separate constellation by Hipparchos as thursologkos, — in the Manitius text as thursos, — and Pliny wrote of it in the same way, but their selection of such small stars seems remarkable.
The Centaur faces the east, and the Farnese globe shows him pointing with left hand to the Beast and the adjacent circular Altar; but in the Hyginus of 1488 the Beast is in his outstretched hands, the Hare on the spear, and a canteen at his waist; the Alfonsine Tables have the Thyrsus in his right hand and Lupus held by the fore foot in his left, which was the Arabian idea. The Leyden Manuscript gives a striking delineation of him with shaven face, but with heavy mustache (!), bearing the spear with the Hare dangling from the head, and a Kid, instead of the Beast, held out in his hands towards the Altar (Ara), the usual libation carried in the canteen. Bayer shows the Centaur with Lupus; Burritt has him in a position of attack, with the spear in his right hand and the shield on his left arm, the Thyrsus and vase of libation depicted on it; Grotius calling this portion of the constellation Arma. The Century Dictionary illustrates a Bacchic wand with the spear.
In Rome the constellation was Centaurus, the duplici Centaurus imagine of Manilius, and the Geminus biformis of Germanicus; Minotaurus; Semi Vir, the Half Man, and Semi Fer, the Half Beast; Pelenor and Pelethronius from the mountain home of the centaurs in Thessaly; Acris Venator, the Fierce Hunter; and Vergil had Sonipes, the Noisy-footed. The Alfonsine Tables designated it as Sagittarius tenens pateram seu crateram to distinguish it from the other Sagittarius with the more appropriate bow.
Robert Recorde, in 1551, had the Centaure Chiron, but Milton, in 1667, wrote Centaur for the zodiac figure, as so many others have done before and since his day; in fact, Sagittarius undoubtedly was the original Centaur and from the Euphrates, the Centaur of the South probably being of Greek conception. But in the classical age confusion had arisen among the unscientific in the nomenclature of the two figures, this continuing till now; much that we find said by one author for the one appearing with another author for: the other. During the 17th century, however, distinction was made by English authors in calling this the Great Centaure.
In some mediaeval Christian astronomy it typified Noah, but Julius Schiller changed the figure to Abraham with Isaac; and Caesius likened it to Nebuchadrezzar when "he did eat grass as oxen."
This is one of the largest constellations, more than 60° in length, its {Page 152} centre about 50° south of the star Spica below Hydra's tail; but Aratos located it entirely under the Scorpion and the Claws, an error that Hipparchos criticized. It shows in the latitude of New York City only a few of its components in the bust, of which theta, a variable 2nd-magnitude on the right shoulder, is visible in June about 12° above the horizon when on the meridian, and 27° southeast from Spica, with no other star of similar brightness in its vicinity. It was this that Professor Klinkerfues of Gottingen mentioned in his telegram to the Madras Observatory, on the 30th of November, 1872, in reference to the lost Biela comet which he thought had touched the earth three days previously and might be found in the direction of this star.[Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Richard H. Allen, 1889.]


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i've been slacking a bit with blogging as i was scrambling like mad to get ready for spring/summer craft sales... seems there just aren't enough hours in the day. before that i just didn't have time to ever sit down and type it seemed because unless i use the hunt and peck method of typing while wrangling hugo with the other hand i don't get much time on the computer and posting from my phone just seems like way too much work.
now that i have enough stock made up for my next craft sale i can relax a bit and get back to normal. whatever that really is.
i've decided that its time to step back and take a bit of time (maybe a week or two) and just chill. not crocheting like a crazy person to do custom orders or make stock for sales.
hugo keeps my days full and i'm doing a bit of data entry from home for work and that is enough!
i am hoping for some nice weather so i can take some nice walks with hugo and the furbabies and just enjoy summer! we don't get nearly enough summer and i have a to-do list a mile long to get through so i'm not going to stress about the little things i don't get done and just take things day by day.
i like blogging. i don't know if many people actually read my posts, but just doing it makes me happy.... and that is all that really matters to me. so for those of you that do read these posts regularly... thank you! and i'm sorry... you're stuck with me!


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Excerpt from Swagger, by Lisa Bloom. Copyright 2012.
The Urgency of Fighting for Our Boys' Brains
At this very moment, through no fault of their own, our boys are caught in the vortex of four powerful, insidious, often invisible forces that conspire to rob them of their future.
First, our heartbreakingly subpar schools. To say that twenty-first-century America doesn't value education is like saying Donald Trump doesn't prioritize humility. Class sizes grow, as kids sit on the floor or are crammed into "temporary" classrooms in hallways or bathrooms. School buildings crumble, leak, and emit toxic fumes. Junk-food school lunches make our kids sick and fat (while bloating the profits of giant food processing companies), dropping their test scores. Teachers are reduced to begging on charity websites for books for first graders. At even the best schools our kids graduate without knowing the basics of US history or the rudiments of science. Our kids already enjoy some of the shortest school days and school years in the developed world. And now we are witnessing a new sickening trend: in over one hundred counties in America, state budget cuts have pared the school week down to only four days. Hooray! An extra day every week to watch Fear Factor and play Xbox!
The minds of our children matter so little that we barely notice how many of them are now checking out of school. Only one in three Baltimore kids graduates from high school. For those who stay in, the news isn't much better: one in five American high school seniors graduates illiterate. And every miserable bit of education news skews worse for boys. Boys underperform compared to girls in every grade and subject. They're medicated, disciplined, suspended, and expelled far more often than girls are. In what should be in screaming, fist-sized headlines daily, nationwide the majority of our African American and Hispanic boys drop out of high school. Some of our schools are little more than holding pens, releasing antsy, angry, unskilled young men into our communities.
There, young men are pounded by the second force: the harshest economy facing graduates and dropouts since the Great Depression. Economists may debate whether or not we are officially in a recession, but there's no doubt that our economy falters, as thirteen million are unemployed, nine million are underemployed, and millions more "discouraged" workers have given up on looking for a job altogether. For young men the numbers are even worse than the painful national averages. For them, the jobless rate hovers at 18 percent—four million young American men who want to contribute and earn an income and support themselves and their families, but who just can't find a job. Like the rest of America's jobless, they'll likely resort to relying on public assistance. An astonishing forty-six million Americans today need food stamps (now issued on debit cards), a huge jump in the last two years. So many people run out of food at the end of the month that Walmart now opens many stores at 12:01 a.m. on the days the cards are loaded, to allow for the midnight rush of hungry Americans.
One hundred million Americans are now poor or near poor.
Traditionally "male" jobs? They are mostly gone, and they are not coming back. Most of the jobs lost since the Great Recession commenced in 2008 disappeared from the predominately male sectors such as construction and manufacturing. In 1992 presidential candidate Ross Perot warned of the giant sucking sound we'd hear if the North American Free Trade Agreement passed, sending American jobs to Mexico, but even Perot could not have imagined the gargantuan vacuum created when millions of American manufacturing jobs were siphoned off to China, India, and elsewhere. Those jobs are now extinct in America. The giant sucking sound turned out to be a muted, steady bleed-out of the blue-collar male work force.
As they are negotiating their way through our miserable schools and jobless economy, our popular culture—the third soul-leeching, invisible force—seduces our boys with flashy, loud messages that manhood equals macho bravado, emotional numbness, ignorance, and thugdom. "Man enough to pull a gun, be man enough to squeeze it," raps NBA star Allan Iverson. "I'm a leader, not a reader," said a once-leading presidential candidate in 2011, as if the two are mutually exclusive. As our sons turn away from books and school and knowledge and critical thinking, the alarming new idea that "reading is girly" has caught on among them. Glamorization of drug use has increased six-fold in rap and hip-hop music, a genre that once warned "don't do it!"; now a full 69 percent of songs in these genres contain positive references to illegal drugs. "I got mushrooms, I got acid, I got tabs," raps Eminem, idol to many boys, "I'm your brother when you need some new weed . . . I'm your friend."
There is one road for boys who don't overcome their failing schools, who aren't exceptional enough to find a job where there is none, who absorb the message that real men express anger via gun violence or who use or sell drugs to escape or to make a few bucks, and that road has one dead-end terminus: our ever-expanding, bursting-to-the-seams prisons. Our prison population has skyrocketed to its highest level in US history, more than any other country on earth now or in human history, more than anyone could have imagined a generation ago, more than we have ever had by any measure—raw numbers, percentage of our population, you name it. Largely casualties of our misguided War on Drugs, which has caused the number of incarcerated Americans to quadruple since 1980: over two million of our people are locked up, 93 percent of them men and boys, with another nearly five million under an increasingly restrictive system of correctional control in lieu of or after incarceration. This fourth potent force, mass incarceration, deprives its subjects of a future by literally locking them in cages. Criminalizing human behavior like never before, our judges are required by law to mete out increasingly punitive, long sentences, even for children. Even after inmates are released, they remain under the heavy-handed control of the criminal justice system for years or for life, often unable to vote, get a job, secure housing, or support a family.
In the United States, one man out of eighteen is incarcerated or on probation or parole, and more are locked up every day. We may be the last country on the planet to lock up juveniles—overwhelmingly boys—for life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed when they were minors.
New prisons are under construction as you read this, waiting to house the next generation of American boys.
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Born into this user-unfriendly world, one not of their choosing and entirely beyond their control, our sons need us now more than ever. Ensnared by these four powerful forces—failing schools, an unwelcoming economy, thug culture, and a harshly punitive justice system—more boys and young men than ever are on the sidelines, cut out of a middle-class life, scratching their heads as to how that happened. Although women and girls suffer under these conditions too, there's no question that, on the whole, these forces disproportionately hammer our boys.
To help them, we need to understand deeply the waters in which our boys swim. Parents, family members, teachers—all of us who care about boys—need to know. Closing our eyes and hoping for the best won't cut it, not when our boys live in the real world. And so the first half of this book is an unvarnished, clear-eyed look at what our sons are facing, day in and day out, right now, as they navigate through boyhood and emerge as young men, yearning for a decent life.
Knowing matters. Without an awareness of each of these conditions and how they whipsaw our boys, we as parents may apply obsolete attitudes that unintentionally harm them. For example, we may think that although we didn't finish school, we've still done all right, and although we'd all like our sons to graduate, if they don't, they'll probably get by. Wrong. The job market for young men has changed dramatically in the last decade, as I will explain. Or we may think that the older generation has always objected to kids' music, and we'd sound like fuddy-duddies if we complained. Wrong. We're not talking about a little racy innuendo; some of the biggest artists today advocate joining the Crips, punching your girlfriend, or murdering gay men. You need to know. You need to stare down the reality and critically discuss media messages with your boy. In these and so many other areas, knowledge is power when raising your son to manhood.
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These are challenging times not only for boys but also for parents and nearly everyone in the bottom 99 percent of American families. Layoffs and foreclosures slam us directly or, if we still have jobs and homes, threaten us like dark clouds overhead that never seem to dissipate. Discouraged but soldiering on, we adapt and endure. Resigned, many adults grudgingly accept less for ourselves: a harder life than we expected, a less fulfilling job, living in a depressed neighborhood. We muddle through. We postpone our dreams. We adjust.
But when we become parents, something stirs. Mothers and fathers look at their sleeping babies, and they awaken. Although we'll put up with doors closing in our own lives, we will not accept bleak futures for our children. Not a single one of us. It is deeply encoded in our parenting DNA to want—to clamor for—more for them, to sacrifice our time and effort and dollars to give them that better life. Immigrant parents leap across rivers and oceans and borders like Superman to give their children opportunities they never had. A party girl brings a life into being and suddenly she's Wonder Woman, casting off her old ways, assuming the mantle of protector, insisting on the best for her son. A one-time slacker-dad internalizes Spiderman's credo: with great power comes great responsibility. We rise to the occasion.
Singlehandedly, we may not be able to turn around our failing schools, our dumbed-down and punitive culture, or our stagnant economy. (Though we can and should push back at every opportunity.) But there is a great deal we as parents can do at little or no cost to give our boys the advantages they need right now to jack up their odds of finishing high school, going to college, and leading a decent, free life in which they can not only support a family but also contribute to their communities. Because parenting can't wait. Our boys are growing up now, in conditions they did not create, and they deserve more than an adulthood defined by illiteracy, poverty, and reporting to a parole officer.
This book will show you how. There is much good news in the form of research-proven, parent-tested, teacher-approved solutions. These steps are mostly free or cheap, can be done anywhere by nearly any caring adult, and will significantly boost your boy's chances of surviving and thriving notwithstanding all the hurdles our culture throws in his path. Powerful forces may be aligned against him, but his number-one role model has always been and always will be you: Mom, Dad, or the grown-up who has the guts to step up to the plate for him.
Give your boy a hug, don your superhero cape, and let's begin.
A Preliminary Note: Why Boys?
Why is this book about boys rather than all our kids—boys and girls? Shouldn't we be concerned about girls' literacy, for example, and making sure that they too stay in school, fend off negative cultural messages, and become adults who find productive work so that they can support their families too?
Hell, yes, we should!
In fact, I didn't intend to write about the dumbing down of our guys, at least not initially. I figured that would go over about as well as a Jane Austen reading in a strip club. I wrote my first book about my own team, we of the XX chromosomes, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World. There, I blast away at a culture that persistently rewards girls for looks over brains; detail our out-of-control female obsession with reality shows, celebrities, tabloids, and the beauty industry; and outline the real-world harms this causes to our psyches, families, neighborhoods, and world. For females in twenty-first-century America, it's the best of times (we are killing it in education, for example) and the worst of times (25 percent of young women would rather win America's Next Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize . . . are you kidding me?).
As I said all along, the problem of American ignorance applies equally to both genders. The distractions may be different (girls: Real Housewives, TMZ; guys: ESPN, Call of Duty), but the lack of focus, the disconnection, is the same. (In fact, I can now report that it may be even worse for guys, as we shall see throughout this book.)
At my speaking events around the country, parents would talk to me about the challenges of raising girls, but they would also tell me about the problems they were having with their sons: falling behind in school; addiction to video games; inability to communicate socially; music, TV, and films that encourage boys to become macho jerks; how hard it was for them to get their son to pick up a book.
I wrote an article, "How to Talk to Little Girls," exhorting us to refrain from talking to young girls about how they look and instead encouraging us to engage their minds. To my surprise and delight, "How to Talk to Little Girls" went viral and became Facebook's twelfth-most-shared article of 2011. Millions of people read it all over the globe. I did interviews in Ireland, Australia, and all over the English-speaking world about how to speak intelligently to our daughters. And during these interviews, and in the subsequent e-mails, tweets, and Facebook messages came: what about boys?
As the mother of both a daughter and a son, I could hardly ignore half the population. I began to research what's going on with the male side of our country. And what I found really shocked me and upended some of what I thought I knew.
I gloated a little in Think about how much better girls are now doing in school compared to boys, for instance. But now I see the error in that. Because the more I read the studies, the more I spoke to parents and teachers, the more I came to see that this educational achievement gap and especially our boys' stunningly low reading proficiency is a painful, festering problem that follows boys as they grow into men, affecting nearly every aspect of their lives. I now saw problems for boys everywhere, and I saw how dismal the future is for boys who aren't thriving. I myself was guilty of a great deal of thinking that is now outdated in our new economic order. I realized that the information I was discovering wasn't being reported much. (Don't get me started on how idiotic most of our media is—oh look! Breaking news about Snooki's latest drunken arrest!) I'd poured myself into my first book about how girls and women have gone off track. Now, I realized, I had to scrutinize the gritty problems facing our boys. And thus, this book was born.
Does some of Think apply to boys? Sure. Does some of this book apply to girls? Yes. Is everything a bright-line gender issue? Of course not. But there is no getting around facts like the beauty industry markets almost entirely to women (and its incessant ads make us feel ugly and flawed), and Grand Theft Auto is overwhelmingly played by boys (and depicts for them a manhood defined by fighting, guns and violence). The research is clear that boys are much harder hit in certain areas, such as illiteracy and juvenile detention. Often, children's role models differ by gender: few girls model themselves on hard-core rappers or display the unhealthy swagger that infects our boys.
Gender still marks so much of how the world approaches us. (To those who break out of traditional gender molds, I salute you.) So a quick note about generalizations: as a lifelong feminist (my dad used to say I needed "consciousness lowering"), I bristle at gender stereotypes—false claims made about an entire group. "Women are lousy drivers." "Men are better with money." Uh, no. Statistically speaking, the reverse of each of those statements is true, as we shall see. Sadly, every day assumptions are still made about individual women and men based on sexist stereotypes, ignoring individual talents and merit. A woman is perceived as "softer," less promotable, and less of a leader simply because of her gender. A man is told he wouldn't be as good at caring for children because "women are naturally better caregivers." Pernicious biases restrict individuals from demonstrating their own unique gifts, training, and skills.
I do not traffic in gender stereotypes, I assure you. I simply follow the research to see what it tells us about girls and boys, women and men, and report it to you straight. When I found a small but statistically insignificant bit of information, I left it out. We have enough silly stereotypes percolating around our culture without me adding to it. Instead, this book brings you clear trends about what's happening for our boys. I aim to open a window into their world, supported by interviews, facts, and data, and to provide workable, boy-tested solutions.
And naturally, every child is different. Even in our thuggish, hypermacho culture, there are boys who are gentle, who love art and theater and dance, who are kind and compassionate. In our failing schools there are boys who read Shakespeare on their own and check out ten library books at a time. Despite the drumbeat of bad news for minorities, I met Latino and African American boys in East Harlem who are beating the private school kids in advanced robotics competitions. Although particular cultural pressures are at play for boys generally, your son—every boy—is unique and deserves to be loved and approached as he is.
He's not a statistic; he's one-of-a-kind. Of course. I get that. I have a son too.


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Editorial: King, jobs and freedom
The anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech is a time to examine racial progress and racial disparity.
Equality must ultimately be measured on economic grounds.
Fifty years ago today, America was utterly transformed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s soaring idealism and eloquent vision for racial equality. A passionate orator and civil rights leader transcended the image he had in some quarters — polarizing even to the Kennedy White House, more threatening still to Middle America — and connected with our better instincts.
So, at least, it seems of a country that has come light-years forward in addressing its racial relations.
A nation that has elected and re-elected a black president can, and should, focus on the best-remembered but less contentious dream of when the content of our character will count for infinitely more than the color of our skin. But today, especially, America should also confront the harsher words in the Rev. King's speech, and admit the lack of progress they illuminate even now.
This was, after all, the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," organized by the great labor leader A. Philip Randolph. It was not just about race.
"The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity," the Rev. King said that day.
Fixing that is the more difficult struggle, and not just for black Americans. The agenda laid out by the Rev. King, and further articulated and pursued by both Mr. Randolph and another civil rights leader, Bayard Rustin, is glaring for the failure to actually realize its goals.
The Rev. King's dream extended to full employment and the elimination of poverty; strong and sustained economic growth; an adequate minimum wage and income parity for farmworkers; more equality in the tax laws; and more equity in economic policies.
Even modest progress toward what its proponents see as essential economic justice would be of enormous help in alleviating the racial tension that still persists. A march for jobs and freedom 50 years later would tread on racial common ground in a country where some 24 million adults are searching vainly for full-time work and 46 million Americans are stuck in poverty. It would allow for a hard and sober look at the racial disparities that plague contemporary America in the wildly unequal standards of living for blacks and whites.
Beyond a stubbornly high unemployment rate and a scandalously high poverty rate comes this racial breakdown: Almost twice as many blacks as whites are without jobs, and almost three times as many black children as white ones are poor.
What does that say about the content of the character of the nation that allows it?
The Rev. King's constituency, especially toward the end of his shortened life, comprised the poor and working people of all races. Of them, he said:
"Timid supplication for justice will not solve the problem. We have got to confront the power structure massively."
On a day of reflection and celebration, let's ponder that. The less comfortable parts of such a seminally historic speech, and the problems that it spoke to that endure today, cannot be overlooked.


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Fast-forwarding to today, SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application in the world, with over 3.7 billion active users. If you look at the infographic below on data volume through different Social Media applications, SMS is probably, in the spirit of the Olympics, the "Gold Medal" winner.
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- Through the new campaign, a restaurant chain offered consumers a chance to win a trip to the destination of their choice. The initiative was a good way to drive brand awareness, as well as encourage new opt-ins.
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May 1, 1883, The New-York Times, page 5, Under New Management; The Union-Square Theatre in Mr. Shook's Hands; Mr. A.M. Palmer Sells His Interest and Will Seek Rest and Recreation, Preparatory to a New Venture,
To-day Mr. Sheridan Shook becomes the sole proprietor and manager of the Union-Square Theatre. Mr. A. M. Palmer, who has occupied that position for several years retired last evening. For 12 years he has been identified with the management of the house, first as manager, than as part proprietor with Mr. Shook, and subsequently as sole proprietor and manager. Mr. Palmer last evening, met Mr. Shook, and the contracts necessary were signed and Mr. Palmer received the amount agreed upon as the purchase price for the good-will, properties, and all the appurtenances of the theatre. By the terms of the contract Mr. Shook assumes all of the proprietary interest in the plays now controlled by Mr. Palmer. Mr. Shook also assumes all contracts existing with the members of the Union-Square company, and will assume the management of the tour across the continent, which the company will make before its reappearance at the old house, Mr. Shook's plans for the future conduct of the theatre are not yet made, but the policy, in a general way, will be the same as had been pursued heretofore, and which has made fame and fortune for the house. Although no contract has yet been made, and no details yet agreed upon, Mr. James W. Collier will be associated with Mr. Shook in the management of the house, either as a partner or as manager. As Mr. Shook's company does not return to the City until early Winter, no plans have been made as to what play will be produced by it on its reappearance, but it is probable that a new play, "Storm Beaten," will be the opening attraction.
Mr. Palmer stated last evealag that he retired from management for the present because of ill-health, his doctor insisting that he shall retire from active work for a time to secure the rest he absolutely needs. He will go to his country residence at Stamford for a short time, and then will make a tour to Europe. He will be absent at least six months, and probably a year, spending a large portion of the time in Switzerland. He says he will not retire from theatrical management permanently. "The New-York public has always treated me in the most courteous manner possible, and I hope to return soon and resume my position here as a theatrical caterer. With what house? That is impossible to state, but I have plans in mind that I shall perfect while abroad, and which I think will satisfy our New-York theatregoers as well as I have reason to feel my plans have satisfied them in the past. I leave the theatre with feelings of both joy and sorrow---Joy at the prospect of rest I need, sorrow at severing my connection with a house I have learned to love. I leave behind me a record of which I feel I have reason to be proud. Not a season has passed but I have brought out some great theatrical success. No actor has ever been fined, paid a forfeit, or had a dollar deducted from his or her salary, and no one has ever been discharged from the theatre under my management. The theatre owes no person one cent, and has as clear and good a record as that of any theatre in the country." Mr. Palmer also stated that there was no truth whatever on the rumor that had been circulated to the effect that his retirement was due to a quarrel with Mr. Shook. "Mr. Shook and I have always been good friends, and I trust will always continue to be, and we have never had a quarrel of any kind," he said.
Ex-Judge Dittenhoefer, who drew up the papers and is counsel for Mr. Shook, said last evening that the building of the Union-Square Theatre belonged to the Courtlandt Palmer estate, and Mr. Shook holds a lease of the premises which has yet seven or eight years to run and was a renewal of another lease that had expired. Mr. Shook had sublet the theatre to Mr. A. M. Palmer, and two years ago he renewed the sublease for five years longer. Mr. Palmer was to pay a fixed rental, and. in addition, 25 per cent of the profits of all the business done in the name of the theatre or anywhere with the company of the Union-Square Theatre. This, of course, gave Mr. Shook certain right in the management of the theatre.. Three years of the lease still remained unexpired. Within the past six months differences arose between Mr. Shook and Mr. Palmer as to the management of the theatre. These differences, however, were not of an unfriendly nature. The two gentlemen not being able to agree upon the policy to be pursued, it became a question as to who should assume the full and complete management of the house. Offers and counter offers were made by each, and within the past 10 days it was agreed that, as Mr. Palmer wanted rest and recreation, he should sell out his interest in the establishment to Mr. Shook. The time since then has been spent in agreeing upon the price and arranging minor details. Last night the sale was consummated by the signing of written agreements by which in consideration of the payment of a sum of money, the exact amount of which both parties desired not to disclose, Mr. Palmer sold his interest in the lease, in all the plays acted by the Union-Square Theatre Company, including the "Lights o London." "The Banker's Daughter." "A Parisian Romance,"The Daniekeffs," and 15 or 20 others, and in all the contracts for the playing of the Union-Square Theatre Company throughout the country, and also for the sub-letting of the theatre until the regular season. Mr. Palmer had sub-let it from May to December to several persons, including Wyndham, Joseph Jefferson, Marie Prescott, and Helen Barry, and on the rentals Mr. Shook is to get a profit. Mr. Shook will take possession to-day. While no formal agreement has been made with Mr. James W. Collier, who was reported to have been one of the purchasers, there is an understanding that he will be associated with Mr. Shook.


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What is the problem with Tracking and Behavioral Advertising?
Every time you open a web page, every time a banner shows up, every time you run a particular code, a great deal of your information is handed out: you're not giving them to the web site you're visiting, but to other networks who use them. And very often that happens without you even knowing their destination. FoolDNS blocks the majority of these attempts of invading your privacy.
The online advertising phenomena is reaching such dimensions that it now represents a serious threat to your privacy: huge circuits are acquiring navigation information without your consent, being even able to triangle your preferences on various web-sites. They're acquiring information and know-how about who we are, what we do, what web-sites we visit. All this without any explicit consent.
FoolDNS Community itself has recently had to admit that they have tracked their users and profiled them without consent when confronted during an interrogation in Parliament.
From our point of view, this is a non ethical and absolutely not acceptable behavior: this is why we have decided to create the simplest system possible to allow any user obtain the best result with the minimum effort.
We know that there are software alternatives to block banners and alternative DNS services to elude censorship systems, but the first cannot be installed by anyone and the privacy policies of the latter aren't even minimally satisfying to us from an ethical point of view.
By using this DNS we know that 99% of the users will be able to use the system and be protected with an operation that lasts less than 2 minutes. On every hardware and software platform created until today.
Why do you remove Advertising?
We don't want to block advertising, it is not our goal, but we're sick and tired of non authorized tracking. Today it is impossible to surf the web without our data being possessed by dozens of entities others than the ones we actually visit.
We want to eliminate the behaviour we consider as non ethical in advertising, attempt to rewrite the very concept of advertising ethics and only allow publication to those networks which have subscribed an ethical code of self-regulation.
We know that webmasters need to keep statistics, but we think that they shouldn't give our navigation data to third services such as FoolDNS Community Analytics or ClickStats. There are free tools which can be used offline for these needs.
We are also preparing an ethical code for the distribution of advertising content online. When it shall be published, anyone who will subscribe the ethical code will automatically be removed from our black list.
How about YOUR Privacy Policy?
FoolDNS memorizes the IP that executes the DNS query for 90 minutes or 1Mb log, whichever of the two is higher. After this span of time has elapsed (actually it is less than 60 minutes a cycle), the logs of the DNS service are purged of the IP and only remain in the usage statistics with the requested name and a geolocalization indication.
The HTTP requests related statistics also remain on our servers exclusively for the time needed to estimate monthly usage statistics and after 45 days they are anonymized.
We care extremely much about our users' privacy: we're laying our bet on this. And we are aware that if there happened to be any violation of this rule, we'd be finished.
Our purpose is simple: we will not publish, sell, release or transfer by any means and to any external entity any type of personal information of any of our users, which explicitly includes the IP addresses and the queries performed by every single IP. All this, in the system's time limits, except for extraordinary needs (again, in the system's time limits) of legal authorities.
A sophisticated protection from Phishing and Malware
FoolDNS lists are especially crafted to lock domains containing viruses and/or malware software, to preemptively and promptly protect companies from being infected.
In addition to this FoolDNS implements real-time lists for Phishing sites blocking, effectively inhibiting access to domains dedicated to Identity Theft.
Internet diffusion inside home and company environments has considerably extended the possibility for malicious users to create and spread Malware.
The susceptibility of various widespread programs dedicated to Internet navigation to vulnerabilities that allow executing binary content has highly increased, during these last years, the number of installations that several Malware manage to perform even by simply visiting a web page.
By using FoolDNS, along with the constantly updated list of web addresses that contain malware or viral material, it is possible to block a great deal of the installations "upstream", not preventing the installation itself, but the very possibility of visiting those addresses which are known for their infection or deliberate distribution of viral content.
The list also contains a large amount of updated addresses where "second stage installers" are known to be distributed from: a type of Malware that will download the remaining content from the web and run it after a first infection of the computer.
Thanks to the possibility of blocking a large quantity of Second Stage Installers and the use of updated lists and the possibility of intervening in real time to add such sites, FoolDNS offers yet another barrier against infection, preventing it from spreading and decreasing the derived risk.
How do you earn money?
To be able to maintain and implement the structure we obtain revenues from:.
- Concession to third parts of the aggregate anonymous data (we don't have the IPs, remember?) regarding elimination statistics and DNS requests we obtain: they represent a significant sample of web usage and market penetration of different market Players of Online spaces sale. We are able to provide detailed information on the number of banners which are distributed by the single advertising network to our users and, contemporarily, we can give precise data regarding the websites which are most requested to our DNS server. Again, all in an anonymous and aggregate form. In simple terms, it means we know how popular websites and advertising networks are.
- Selling the FoolDNS service of privacy preservation to companies: in fact, if the service is free for private, home users, companies will be encouraged to buy the service. We manage to do this by limiting the number of requests that can be made by a single IP and blocking the requests to our server after an adequate number (higher than any home web surfing average) to avoid abuses. At this point the users can contact us and ask to extend the number of requests or decide to contribute to the costs of the structure by subscribing to one of our services, depending on their needs.
How can one be removed from the list?
In order to be removed from the list any player will only have to subscribe and sign an Ethical Code, hence committing to pay a large sum of money to a Non Profit Organization in case of violation.
We don't want money. We don't want to choose the Non Profit Organization.