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Are you thinking about installing an awning over a door or window in your home?
Are you interested in figuring out if there's a way you can make this into a fun and exciting DIY project?
Would you like to learn more about how to make awnings for windows in your own home?
If so, you've come to the right place!
In this article, we'll teach you everything you need to know about how to make awning frames. You'll learn which materials you want to stock up on and you can even figure out whether or not this project is going to save you any money in the long run, too.
In most situations, you should be able to save some money by making this into a DIY project, as long as you're careful and pay attention to what you're doing. This project can end up costing quite a bit depending on the types of materials you use, so make sure you consider all your options before you get started.
For our purposes, we'll be showing you how to make an awning frame out of PVC piping, which is one of the most affordable and easy to work with options out there. There are tons of other types of piping you might want to go with, so it pays to consider these other possibilities before settling on PVC piping. However, this how-to guide will help you put together a frame you can afford to make on almost any budget.
This can be an easy DIY project to accomplish and should only require a basic understanding of how to use a power drill and a sewing machine. If you prefer, you can always take the sewing portion to an alterations store where you live, but remember that this will increase the price of this project.
If you're ready to get started, read on!
So what do you think? Do you feel like this is a project you can easily accomplish? This may sound like a challenging DIY project to complete, but in the long run, it's a pretty simple one as long as you know a little bit about power tools and measurements. Make sure to read through the directions carefully and ensure that you understand all of the process before you get started. This can help you save a lot of time and effort later on down the line, especially since you'll be less likely to make mistakes this way.
If you're looking for some suggestions on how to have a successful DIY project when you make your own awning frame, check out our tips:
If you keep these tips in mind and carefully follow the directions listed above, you'll be well on your way to putting together a great awning frame that will be an important part of your home for a long time to come. You're sure to enjoy completing this DIY project on your own or getting someone else in the family involved in helping out, too. Pick up the materials you need and get started building right away to enjoy all the benefits of a DIY awning frame in your home!
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Electronic Arts has been approached by potential buyers, according to reports.
According to the New York Post, anonymous sources have claimed that private equity firms KKR and Providence Equity Partners have approached the games publisher to explore a possible buyout.
Electronic Arts stock has been on a decline this year, reaching $13.09 (£8.32) per share yesterday compared to nearly $25 (£15.89) per share last November.
"They've made it known they'd do a deal at $20 a share," one of the New York Post sources claimed.
Back in April of this year, rumors circulated that South Korean publisher Nexon was in talks to purchase EA, causing the American publisher's stock prices to see a temporary rise. The talks turned out to instead be a deal for Nexon to publish Fifa Online 3 in Korea.
Electronic Arts has made several major announcements this past week for its upcoming titles at the gamescom conference in Germany, including the launch of its Origin client and SimCity for Mac computers and a new free-to-play Command & Conquer title.
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Tribune / Nigeria: The Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has approved the dismissal of the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC), Comrade Akeem Ambali, his vice and the state chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Dare Ilekoya, 14 others.
This was the position of government as contained in a document signed by the Head of Service, Elder Sola Adeyemi, following the recommendations of a panel of inquiry set up to investigate the alleged misconduct of executive members of the NUT on the 2016 World Teachers Day Celebration, held on the 5th of October, at the NUT Hall, Kuto, Abeokuta.
Also, 16 officials of the Union were also suspended for their roles in the conduct of the celebration.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that the state government set up an administrative panel of inquiry to look into complaints received from concerned members of the public against the affected officers for their alleged involvement in various acts of misconduct and contravention of extant regulations during the celebration.
The NLC chairman, who was until his dismissal a deputy director, Community and Social Development, Sagamu Local Government, was alleged to have been the brain behind the political campaign rally during the celebration.
He was accused to have gave inflammable and scandalous remarks against the state government, which could cause breach of peace in the state.
They were dismissed from service having been found guilty of contravening the Public Service Rules 04401,04421(c&d) and 04406(a).
Those dismissed were A.O Oshin, Nola Balogun, Eniola Atiku, Solaru.O, Adebanjo.T, Akinola.A.S, Oyolola .S.A, Obafemi. O.B, Ogunsola Peter, Akinlade.S.A, Christopher.T.A,Ogunrombi A.A, Azeez.K.I and Taiwo A.O.
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The state government had thereby directed appropriate agencies of the state , Ogun State Local Government Service Commission, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and the Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) to implement recommendations with immediate effect.


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The bottom six provinces on this list are Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shanxi and Liaoning. Those last three provinces all have nominal GDP decreases from Q2 2014.
The chart below is a calculation using unadjusted nominal GDP data from NBS and the chart above. I calculated the GDP change for each individual quarter, then subtracted the year prior quarter. The number represented is the change in nominal GDP, not the percentage change. Any number above zero is growth, any number below zero shows contraction. Five provinces show a decline in GDP in the second quarter of Q2 2015 from Q2 2014.
In the first half of the year, Shanxi's nominal GDP is down 4.7% yoy; Heilongjiang is down 4.2%; Liaoning is down 1.5%. Hebei is up 1.2%, but that is down from 11.1% growth in Q1. Inner Mongolia is up 1.2% in the first half, but down from 3.6% growth in Q1. Guangdong, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Chongqing are all growing first half nominal GDP at low double-digits.
This paints a darker picture than exists for the economy, assuming you trust China's GDP figures. If you think overall growth is overstated, real GDP for these provinces is almost assuredly negative. Even if it is only nominal GDP declining, that doesn't help the debt situation.
Why are these provinces in trouble? Nothing to do with the stock market. This slowdown is more than two years in the making and as many as four years depending on the industry. It is largely the result of multi-year lows in coal, oil and steel. These provinces, especially Liaoning, turned to real estate to boost growth when natural resources slowed. Since real estate is ultimately tied to the underlying economy, they are suffering a bust in everything at once.
The big questions are as follows: is the global drop in commodities mostly China related? If this is China related, the next question is, rebalancing or a generalized slowdown that is starting in the higher stages of production? And depending on the answer to that question, the final question is this an internal slowdown or the start of a global recession? Just as northeast China is situated at the earlier stages of production for the Chinese economy, so China is situated at the earlier stages of production for the global economy.
If this isn't a larger business cycle recession, then it fits the rebalancing story. Government policy is causing pain for the industrial economy and it will remain relatively contained. That's an optimistic view that I don't share. Already, Brazil, Canada and Australia are experiencing the fallout from the slowdown in resource demand. Currency markets are being affected by the reversal in China's forex reserves. I don't see how a larger slowdown stays contained, at least for financial markets. If a larger business cycle slowdown is underway, this is the early phase of a major recession in the Chinese economy. If China also represents the higher stages of production for the global economy, the whole world should be worried about what's happening in China's rust belt. See this post on gross output for how the intermediate stages of production, such as manufacturing, are much more sensitive to changes in the economy and serve as leading indicators for growth.
An example of China's impact: The price of iron ore hinges on Hebei
For every nine tonnes of steel produced in the world, one tonne comes from Hebei.When you factor in where commodity prices are situated, with oil right near its 2015 lows and a breakdown in oil prices threatening the high yield debt market in the United States, it is not hard to see the global economy on the edge of a significant slowdown. The IMF was still predicting 3.3% growth for 2015 in July, partially based on rebound in oil prices. It is barely a month later, and what's happening in China and commodities makes me think the 2008 recovery is over. We'll see whose right in the next couple of months.
The province has been the largest producer of steel and iron in China for the last 14 years running. In 2013, Hebei produced 188 million tonnes of crude steel and 170 million tonnes of pig iron; it accounted for one quarter of total production in China. To put that into perspective, global steel production was 1.6 billion tonnes in 2013, according to the World Steel Association.
...Beijing's draconian administrative measures to curb production are meeting fierce opposition in the province. It is not hard to understand why; the steel industry alone accounts for more than 10 per cent of the province's GDP. It is estimated that the government will lose 40 billion yuan in tax receipts.
But most importantly, if the planned reduction goes ahead (accounting for one quarter of total steel production in the province) 600,000 people stand to lose their jobs. The government estimates social security costs for 600,000 unemployed workers would cost 13 billion yuan a year. This potential cost comes in at a time when the government's revenue is under pressure from a slowing economy.
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Sage One Launches Cheeky Campaign To Push Awareness
Online accounting application company Sage One has spearheaded a cheeky brand campaign in Australian metropolitan centres to drive awareness and visibility for the new brand.
Sage One brings a new competitive offer to the Australian small business accounting sector with dominant strengths that include low price, superior service and a powerful accounting heritage behind the new solution.
"Our new ad campaign is grounded in the belief that the market needs choice and diversity when it comes to cloud based accounting solutions for the small business market, and for the accounting sector who service micro and small businesses," said Lukas Taylor, general manager for Sage One.
Sage One engaged award winning agency Brightlabs to help develop the brand identity with a brief that included a call for fresh creative, clever tag lines and strategic ad placements to echo Sage One's disruptive, customer-focused brand identity. The multi-layered brand campaign is evident across multiple platforms and includes digital advertising, buses, trams, transit locations and lift placements. The resulting campaign will help to drive awareness in the highly competitive small business accounting sector in the Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne markets.
"We love to work with clients that challenge us creatively. Sage ticked all the boxes for us and they've allowed us the freedom to take a serious business solution and make it fun. We provided a creative solution that worked well across organic, paid, digital and print solutions," said Rishad Sukhia, director of creative Agency Brightlabs.
"The illustrative brand campaign is designed to reach two different audience groups these being small business owners, as well as the accounting practice sector," said Elaine Seeto, group marketing manager, Sage Australia.
"The small business campaign is mostly outdoor and being a relatively new player in the market, Sage One needed to achieve as broad a reach as possible for the end user market. Transit was the ideal platform for reaching these customers and catching them where they travelled or caught public transport.
"For the accountant specific campaign, we have predominantly used digital branding as we need to be very effective in how we target this segment. Other aspects of this campaign includes targeted advertising in major city towers and lifts, allowing us to reach accountants in their home territory," said Seeto.
Taylor added, "When we launched Sage One earlier in May this year, the small business accounting sector effectively became a three horse race allowing us to sit in the same consideration set as Xero and MYOB. Sage has been servicing accountants for over 20 years across the world and we have taken that knowledge and expertise to create Sage One for Australian SMBs, entrepreneurs and accounting practice leaders.
"The ad campaign is crafted to make the link for small business and accountants and drive market confidence and trust in our new offering. We have other campaigns planned for Sage One and the next few months will see us cross further into exciting new frontiers with our creative," Taylor said.
The Sage One campaign commenced in early July and is running through the rest of the year.


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PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia prosecutors on Wednesday dropped a decades-old quest to get the death penalty against Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther militant convicted in a racially charged case of killing a police officer in 1981.
District Attorney Seth Williams took the decision after legal setbacks, but said he had acted reluctantly and still believed that the original sentence of capital punishment had been "appropriate."
"The decision to end this fight was not an easy one," he said in a statement.The decision comes months after a U.S. appeals court ordered a new sentencing hearing because of potentially misleading jury instructions. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case, presenting prosecutors an uphill battle if they wanted to get the original sentence confirmed.
Abu-Jamal's defence team welcomed the announcement.
"The district attorney did the right thing," John Payton said. "After three long decades, it was time to bring the quest for a death sentence for Mr Abu-Jamal to an end."
Jamal, 57, a former member of the separatist Black Panther Party and former radio journalist, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, who was white.
He is represented by lawyers from the legal fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and has received support from celebrities and a network of well-wishers.
Law professor Judith Ritter, also part of his legal team, said that justice had been "served when a death sentence from a misinformed jury is overturned."
To his supporters, Abu-Jamal was an international symbol of a racist justice system and police brutality who had been framed for his political views.
But detractors, including the city's powerful police union and Faulkner's wife, steadfastly asserted Abu-Jamal's guilt.
"There has never been a doubt in my mind that Mumia Abu-Jamal shot and killed Officer Faulkner, and I believe the appropriate sentence was handed down in 1982," Williams said.
"While Abu-Jamal will no longer be facing the death penalty, he will remain behind bars for the rest of his life, and that is exactly where he belongs," he added.
"After 30 years of waiting, the time remaining before Abu-Jamal stands before his ultimate judge doesn't seem quite so far off as it once did when I was younger. I look forward to that day," said Faulkner's widow, Maureen.


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'Racist clown' Trump makes pitch for Bernie fans after Hillary endorsement and gets a big 'f*ck you'
Attempting to shore up a campaign that is lacking in funds as much as potential voters, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump took to Twitter to recruit Bernie Sanders followers who are disappointed with the Vermont senator's endorsement of Hillary Clinton Tuesday morning.
As you might expect on Twitter — where "delete your account" is one of the nicer comments — it didn't go well.
Prior to the rally, where Sander's threw his support behind Clinton and attacked Trump, he wrote: "Bernie Sanders, who has lost most of his leverage, has totally sold out to Crooked Hillary Clinton. He will endorse her today – fans angry!"
In that vein, he continued, "I am somewhat surprised that Bernie Sanders was not true to himself and his supporters. They are not happy that he is selling out!"
Commenters, who see a substantial difference between the Vermont senator who built his campaign on income inequality and the New York businessman who opposes raising the minimum wage, begged to differ, with one writing, "you're more used to going bankrupt than selling out."
A sampling below.
@realDonaldTrump Bernie folks will not vote for a racist clown like you, Donald
— L.O.M.P.E. (@Lompemann) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump I am somewhat surprised that you're still running when it's clear women are going to rule the world starting this year.
— Tom Bwana (@TomBwana) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump Ryan is going to take your nomination. Hahahahaha!
— Caleb Rapoport (@CalebRapoport) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump you're more used to going bankrupt than selling out…
— Andrew Strauss (@straussanator) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump His fans (and I'm one of them) are still way too smart to ever vote for you, you doughy orange menace.
— Brad Reed (@bwreed) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump we don't support racists. sorry
— Arabs For Bernie (@ArabsForBernie) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump Bernie flat out called you a charlatan who has to be stopped. His supporters will never vote for you #LosinDonald
— Chad Kimrey (@TheChoons) July 12, 2016
A Bernie voter pic.twitter.com/RcEE3I1Bxt
— Dustin Park (@dustbag44) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump yeah [email protected] off … No thanks
— David De Santiago (@Dahveed97od) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump YOU'RE A FRAUD & A SERIAL CON ARTIST WHY WOULD THEY WANNA SUPPORT YOU?!?
— Andrew (@snickerfritz04) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump You truly mistake @BernieSanders supporters. We all know you're worse than everyone else. #NeverTrump
— Tom Welch (@PharmTender) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump Bernie supporters are not nearly as dumb as your base. This is embarrassing.
— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) July 12, 2016
@realDonaldTrump your policies are no where close to what Bernie pushed for.
— Jeff Lewis (@ChicagoPhotoSho) July 12, 2016
Speaking for most of America:
@realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/2a1l4e1Yf7
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Imagining Mary: Christmas paintings that open our eyes
I've been shopping for the perfect Christmas card, sifting through Nativity scenes framed in holly berries and bows.
None of the Marys feel right. The lips are taut. The face, unblemished. We see none of the bliss and bewilderment that must have surged after birthing the son of God. We see no emotion at all — serenity as vacancy, sainthood as sedation.
This year's traditional Christmas stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service, Raphael's "Madonna of the Candelabra," shows a stoic Mary casting her eyes away from her infant. Painted in the early 16th century, it was a product of the Italian High Renaissance, but it's hard to imagine the new mom letting a single moment pass without studying the Savior in her hands.
Eventually I found a card that compelled me, the store's last boxed set of its kind. First I noticed the baby, who looks as he should: like a baby. Brown fuzzy hair, apples for cheeks and a light in his eyes. Mary holds him close, kissing his right cheek.
Divine inspiration
The painting was inspired 11 years ago when Morgan Weistling, now a 47-year-old father in California, heard Steve Amerson's song "Mary, Did You Know?" on the radio. It was the Dolly Parton version.
One phrase stood out to him: "When you kiss your little baby you've kissed the face of God."
"Immediately I felt I was supposed to paint this," Weistling told me. "I had been praying and asking God, 'Give me an idea here.'"
Amerson's phrasing appealed to him. "This little child she bore was God in the flesh, and yet, she cuddled and kissed him just as all mothers do."
The painting poured out of Weistling in three days. He didn't feel the need to sketch in charcoal on his canvas to begin, as he usually does; it was oil paint right away. He didn't go back to make any alterations. The first draft was the final.
Weistling's paintings are so realistic they look like photographs, and he uses people as models. His Mary was 16, a brunette named Katie who had a "sweet humbleness to her," Weistling said. "It wouldn't have worked with a blonde."
The baby was of Jewish descent, born to a woman with a crack addiction and recently placed in a foster home.
Weistling knew he needed to master Mary's kiss, rendering it tender, not "hokey." Her left hand, pressing the swaddled baby to her heart, also was crucial. He had long admired the way Mary's marble hand grips Jesus' side in Michelangelo's Pietà.
'Gift from God'
Weistling's published image, titled "Kissing The Face Of God," sold out in two weeks. It remains his most popular painting — "my big gift from God," he said — and the only original he's kept, despite a standing offer of $100,000.
Every year Weistling receives requests to reproduce the image. One year, National Geographic used it for a corporate Christmas card.
The painting speaks to the brokenhearted, Weistling told me. "A lot of women who have lost a child really attach to 'Kissing The Face of God.'"
I'm grateful to the artists who help us see ourselves in the Blessed Mother because she is for everyone. I once spoke to a victim of clergy abuse who had lost her Catholic faith but held on to Mary. I read about a woman whose conversion to Catholicism began in labor, when she called on Mary in urgent prayer: "Don't abandon me now."
This season, we celebrate the mother who brings us to God with such capacity for love and grief and everything in between.
Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights. Visit her website at http://www.ReadChristina.com.
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Oh I had great fun making this fun card, not sure what sentiment to add though and I took some liberties too as I missed off some embellishments that were on the layout, so I'm open to suggestions as to what to use. I did try flowers but they just looked a bit odd, suppose its the kind of flowers I've got although I did try making some pleated ones and some punched ones but they still just looked as if I'd just put them there for the sake of it. I thought about the word 'Roar' but again why?
The image is one of dustin pikes from his zoo collection that I was lucky enough to win and their challenge is no designer papers. I decided to use paw prints from a see d set of dog stamps for my backing and that and the tiger just led to the autumnal colour scheme and the passion for promarkers layout. The ribbony bits well the broad one was from a small towel bundle I got from asda and was used to tie them together, the narrow one is from some scrapbooking set from costco. The paw prints small were stamped in cocoa momento ink, the large in versamark powder embossed with clear powder and the paper then coloured in momento cocoa ink so all matched.
Dooodle dragon studios-no designer papers
Passion for promarkers-fall colours and sketch layoutoops missed the deadline
Treehouse thursday challenge-fall colours
The stampman-musical can't get this song out of my head , from lady gaga to lulu!
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
4 comments:
- Gramma said...
I love your version of Dustin's tiger! The LO and background papers are really great too!
- 1 September 2010 at 17:48
- Unknown said...
what a great card,I LOVE tigers and yours is soo cute, tfs and goodluck
- 2 September 2010 at 11:26
- Lelia Pierce said...
Great job on adding some "DP" to the no DP challenge! Thanks for joining us at Doodle Dragon Studios! Good luck!
- 5 September 2010 at 17:25
- Vixykins said...
Grrrrreat image (boom boom!) Fab work hun
Thank You for playing The Stampman challenge x
- 12 September 2010 at 13:54
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Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar has splashed a whopping N10million on a Porsche automobile. Joining other celebrities that have suddenly found so much love in riding the expensive automobile, reports say Halima's porsche car is a convertible.
Though she is reported to have recently taken delivery of the automobile, the Mistress star confirmed the acquisition.
In her words, ""It's true I have just acquired the car, but I don't like talking about anything like that. But I thank God for blessing my career wonderfully. Concerning its price, I won't disclose that but you're free to find out how much it's worth from any auto dealer. I only know it's not a cheap car".


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Work The Empress Josephine (1763-1814)
Department of Paintings: French painting
L'Impératrice Joséphine (1763 - 1814),
© 2007 Musée du Louvre / Angèle Dequier
L'Impératrice Joséphine (1763 - 1814)
© 2007 Musée du Louvre / Angèle Dequier
French painting
The widow of General de Beauharnais, Martinique-born Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie, married Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796. Unable to provide the emperor with children, she was repudiated in 1809. Here Prud'hon shows her in the grounds of La Malmaison, a year after Napoleon's coronation. This dreamlike image is among the finest French examples of the open-air portrait at which the English painters of the time excelled.
The painter and the emperor's family
Prud'hon was the imperial family's favorite painter and the empress's drawing teacher. In this work, the principles of the neoclassical portrait are transformed and the use of a landscape setting, in the English manner, is the source of a romantically melancholy atmosphere.
Dreamily melancholic
On the verge of being repudiated, the empress Josephine makes no attempt to charm the viewer, whom she ignores, lost in thought on an outdoor seat. Her melancholic pose and the poetic woodland setting look forward to the Romantic passions of a Chateaubriand.
Napoleon III's art collection
This work was part of Napoleon III's collection and his private property. After his fall from power in 1871, it was assigned to the Louvre by a court decision of 1879.
Technical description
Pierre-Paul PRUD'HON (Cluny (Saône-et-Loire), 1758 - Paris, 1823)
L'Impératrice Joséphine (1763 - 1814)
H. : 2,44 m. ; L. : 1,79 m.
Attribué au Louvre en 1879 , 1879
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Musée du Louvre : our teams are working on measures to ensure the safety of all people on the premises and are preparing for the museum's reopening on July 6 (bookings can be made online as of June 15).
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- Click the colored zone that corresponds to your address.
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Perhaps my father didn't like me, because he raised me to be a Chicago Cubs fan. And since I'm a slow learner, by the time I realized the futility of being a Cubs fan, I was stuck; there was no switching teams.
So now, every time I go to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field, I enter with the hope of a Cubs win. Sometimes I just know deep down inside that they're going to win.
It usually only takes a few innings to bring me back to reality. I realize that that gut-feeling I had for a win was really only wishful thinking.
Wishful thinking as a sixth sense
I see that type of approach in the business world too. Managers develop what they consider a "sixth sense". Someone presents them with an opportunity or an issue and instead of looking too deep into the details, the manager trusts his intuition. He makes a rash decision and goes for broke.
Like my visits to Wrigley Field, sometimes the manager gets lucky and things turn out alright. In baseball, it's pretty black and white. Either you win or you lose. Business decision outcomes aren't as easy.
A manager who makes a bad decision based on limited information can pass the blame to someone else or paint the outcome to be better than it is.
Good decision making though, requires more than going with your gut. A good manager goes through a somewhat methodical process to ensure he or she has done the due diligence to make a good decision.
Avoiding wishful thinking
A good decision making process involves the following steps:
- Investigate all options. Brainstorm with others to make sure you have considered several ways to address the issue. The obvious solution may not always be the best. Sometimes it turns out that a combination of ideas is the best solution.
- Consider benefits and risks of each option. Some decisions have rippling effects on other areas of the business. Analysis should be done to consider undesired effects to other business units.
- Determine the likelihood of risks occurring. Once you identify as many ramifications to each option as possible, try to determine how likely those things are to happen. This can help direct you one direction or another in making your decision.
- Get input from trusted people who understand the issues. Good managers know that they don't know everything. Getting advice from trusted colleagues and direct reports can provide new perspectives you may not have considered.
- Make an informed decision. Finally, when you have considered all of your options and judged each one on its merits, it's time to make the decision.
- Admit when you've made a bad decision. Even after careful analysis and doing all of your due diligence, everyone is capable of making an incorrect decision. When that happens, it's best to recognize the error, make corrections and move on. It's about getting it right, not being right.
See my related post: Treating the Root Cause of the Problem
Popular advice is to follow your instincts. That advice may apply in some situations, but your gut feel should be tempered with good research and analysis to make sure that your instinct isn't simply biased with wishful thinking.
Unless you're watching baseball; then just follow your heart. And wait until next year.
If you would like to learn more about working in consulting, get Lew's book Consulting 101: 101 Tips for Success in Consulting at Amazon.com
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Have you ever wanted to just lie down under the open sky and watch the universe unravel through the night? If not, then you must see these fascinating shots submitted by our Instagram community on #DawnWeeklyProject:
In our newly introduced project, we give photographers on Instagram a chance to have their pictures featured not only on our Instagram account but also on our website. Want to participate in our #DawnWeeklyProject? Then follow @dawndotcom and stay tuned!


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This magnificent red cedar Totem Pole incorporates images of the Raven, the Eagle and the Frog and represents totems of the Haida people of North West British Columbia. But even though these are ancient symbols of the First Nations people, modern technology is also a part of contemporary life.
|The Eagle is using his cell phone.
|Don't leave home without your iPod.
If you have 22 minutes to spare, this video shows the creation of the Totem Pole from bare red cedar log to the finished item. Yes, it's a long video, but well worth watching. Make sure you watch around the 4 minute mark when the enormous log is split into two.
And here the carver Don Yeomans talks about the creative process and the installation.


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We are an all volunteer organisation and YOU are extended a warm invitation to join one or other of our teams.
Take our TRAFFIC team as one example.
Tram crews have plenty of oportunities to share their knowledge with visitors.
Traffic crews enjoy a strong sense of cameradie.
Early uniforms have just been adopted as a new standard uniform!
This is the team which deals mostly with our visitors. The team is mostly composed of our tram crews, that is conductors and drivers but we can use help from people who could assist our visitors in other ways.
Our tram crews undergo training, beginning as a conductor. Our Museum has a strong tradition of safety which goes back to the era of Sydney's original tram era. After initial training, there is a period of working under the guidance of experienced traffic members before becoming a fully fledged conductor.
While there is much satisfaction in hosting our appreciative visitors, most of our traffic team eventually prefer to become tram drivers. Driver training concentrates on what we call "standard trams", mostly from Sydney and Brisbane which are operated in similar fashion. Drivers continue to take turns conducting in a normal day.
Our main operating days are Sundays and Wednesdays with additional public days occurring on the three fortnights of school holidays. Some short days of working on call are sometimes available to cater to some group bookings, mainly of seniors' groups.
It is quite acceptable for drivers to also belong to another team such as restoration and maintenance. People with such a mix of skills are highly valued.


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Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.
Project description
Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.
Most existing Django apps that address the problem of social authentication focus on just that. You typically need to integrate another app in order to support authentication via a local account.
This approach separates the worlds of local and social authentication. However, there are common scenarios to be dealt with in both worlds. For example, an e-mail address passed along by an OpenID provider is not guaranteed to be verified. So, before hooking an OpenID account up to a local account the e-mail address must be verified. So, e-mail verification needs to be present in both worlds.
Integrating both worlds is quite a tedious process. It is definately not a matter of simply adding one social authentication app, and one local account registration app to your INSTALLED_APPS list.
This is the reason this project got started – to offer a fully integrated authentication app that allows for both local and social authentication, with flows that just work.
Why Not?
From the start the focus has been to deliver an integrated experience and flows that just work, and to a lesser extent a completely pluggable social authentication framework.
Earlier versions of the project suffered from this, e.g. each provider had its own implementation with its own social account model definition.
Work is well underway to rectify this situation. These days, social account models have been unified, and adding support for additional OAuth/OAuth2 providers is child's play. All hardcodedness with respect to providers has been removed.
Ofcourse, there is always more that can be done. Do know that the biggest hurdles to overcome the initial shortcomings have been taken…
Supported Flows
- Signup of both local and social accounts
- Connecting more than one social account to a local account
- Disconnecting a social account – requires setting a password if only the local account remains
- Optional instant-signup for social accounts – no questions asked
- E-mail address management (multiple e-mail addresses, setting a primary)
- Password forgotten flow
- E-mail address verification flow
Supported Providers
- Facebook (both OAuth2 and JS SDK)
- Github
- Google (OAuth2)
- OpenId
- Persona
- SoundCloud (OAuth2)
Note: OAuth/OAuth2 support is built using a common code base, making it easy to add support for additional OAuth/OAuth2 providers. More will follow soon…
- Supports multiple authentication schemes (e.g. login by user name, or by e-mail), as well as multiple strategies for account verification (ranging from none to e-mail verification).
- All access tokens are consistently stored so that you can publish wall updates etc.
Architecture & Design
- Pluggable signup form for asking additional questions during signup.
- Support for connecting multiple social accounts to a Django user account.
- The required consumer keys and secrets for interacting with Facebook, Twitter and the likes are to be configured in the database via the Django admin using the SocialApp model.
- Consumer keys, tokens make use of the Django sites framework. This is especially helpful for larger multi-domain projects, but also allows for for easy switching between a development (localhost) and production setup without messing with your settings and database.
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ( ... "django.core.context_processors.request", ... "allauth.account.context_processors.account", "allauth.socialaccount.context_processors.socialaccount", ... ) AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( ... # Needed to login by username in Django admin, regardless of `allauth` "django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend", # `allauth` specific authentication methods, such as login by e-mail "allauth.account.auth_backends.AuthenticationBackend", ... ) INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'allauth', 'allauth.account', 'allauth.socialaccount', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.facebook', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.google', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.github', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.linkedin', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.openid', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.persona', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.soundcloud', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.twitter', ... )
urlpatterns = patterns('', ... (r'^accounts/', include('allauth.urls')), ... )
Available settings:
- ACCOUNT_ADAPTER (="allauth.account.adapter.DefaultAccountAdapter")
- Specifies the adapter class to use, allowing you to alter certain default behaviour.
- ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD (="username" | "email" | "username_email")
- Specifies the login method to use – whether the user logs in by entering his username, e-mail address, or either one of both.
- ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_ANONYMOUS_REDIRECT_URL (=settings.LOGIN_URL)
- The URL to redirect to after a successful e-mail confirmation, in case no user is logged in.
- ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_AUTHENTICATED_REDIRECT_URL (=settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL)
- The URL to redirect to after a successful e-mail confirmation, in case of an authenticated user.
- Determines the expiration date of email confirmation mails (# of days).
- ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED (=False)
- The user is required to hand over an e-mail address when signing up.
- ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION (="mandatory" | "optional" | "none")
- Determines the e-mail verification method during signup. When set to "mandatory" the user is blocked from logging in until the email address is verified. Choose "optional" or "none" to allow logins with an unverified e-mail address. In case of "optional", the e-mail verification mail is still sent, whereas in case of "none" no e-mail verification mails are sent.
- ACCOUNT_EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX (="[Site] ")
- Subject-line prefix to use for email messages sent. By default, the name of the current Site (django.contrib.sites) is used.
- ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_FORM_CLASS (=None)
- A string pointing to a custom form class (e.g. 'myapp.forms.SignupForm') that is used during signup to ask the user for additional input (e.g. newsletter signup, birth date). This class should implement a 'save' method, accepting the newly signed up user as its only parameter.
- ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_PASSWORD_VERIFICATION (=True)
- When signing up, let the user type in his password twice to avoid typ-o's.
- ACCOUNT_UNIQUE_EMAIL (=True)
- Enforce uniqueness of e-mail addresses.
- ACCOUNT_USER_DISPLAY (=a callable returning user.username)
- A callable (or string of the form 'some.module.callable_name') that takes a user as its only argument and returns the display name of the user. The default implementation returns user.username.
- An integer specifying the minimum allowed length of a username.
- ACCOUNT_USERNAME_REQUIRED (=True)
- The user is required to enter a username when signing up. Note that the user will be asked to do so even if ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD is set to email. Set to False when you do not wish to prompt the user to enter a username.
- ACCOUNT_PASSWORD_INPUT_RENDER_VALUE (=False)
- render_value parameter as passed to PasswordInput fields.
- An integer specifying the minimum password length.
- Request e-mail address from 3rd party account provider? E.g. using OpenID AX, or the Facebook "email" permission.
- SOCIALACCOUNT_AUTO_SIGNUP (=True)
- Attempt to bypass the signup form by using fields (e.g. username, email) retrieved from the social account provider. If a conflict arises due to a duplicate e-mail address the signup form will still kick in.
- SOCIALACCOUNT_AVATAR_SUPPORT (= 'avatar' in settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
- Enable support for django-avatar. When enabled, the profile image of the user is copied locally into django-avatar at signup.
- SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS (= dict)
- Dictionary containing provider specific settings.
From 0.8.2
- The ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION setting is no longer a boolean based setting. Use a string value of "none", "optional" or "mandatory" instead.
- The template "account/password_reset_key_message.txt" has been moved to "account/email/password_reset_key_message.txt". The subject of the message has been moved into a template ("account/email/password_reset_key_subject.txt").
- The site foreign key from SocialApp to Site has been replaced by a ManyToManyField. Many apps can be used across multiple domains (Facebook cannot).
From 0.8.1
- Dropped support for CONTACT_EMAIL from the account template context processor. It was never documented and only used in the templates as an example – there is no need to pollute the allauth settings with that. If your templates rely on it then you will have to put it in a context processor yourself.
From 0.7.0
- allauth now depends on Django 1.4 or higher.
- Major impact: dropped dependency on the emailconfirmation app, as
this project is clearly left unmaintained. Important tickets such
as https://github.com/pinax/django-email-confirmation/pull/5 are not
being addressed. All models and related functionality have been
directly integrated into the allauth.account app. When upgrading
take care of the following:
- The emailconfirmation setting EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_DAYS has been replaced by ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_EXPIRE_DAYS.
- Instead of directly confirming the e-mail address upon the GET request the confirmation is now processed as part of an explicit POST. Therefore, a new template account/email_confirm.html must be setup.
- Existing emailconfirmation data should be migrated to the new tables. For this purpose a special management command is available: python manage.py account_emailconfirmationmigration. This command does not drop the old emailconfirmation tables – you will have to do this manually yourself. Why not use South? EmailAddress uniqueness depends on the configuration (ACCOUNT_UNIQUE_EMAIL), South does not handle settings dependent database models.
- {% load account_tags %} is deprecated, simply use: {% load account %}
- {% load socialaccount_tags %} is deprecated, simply use: {% load socialaccount %}
From 0.5.0
- The ACCOUNT_EMAIL_AUTHENTICATION setting has been dropped in favor of ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD.
- The login form field is now always named login. This used to by either username or email, depending on the authentication method. If needed, update your templates accordingly.
- The allauth template tags (containing template tags for OpenID, Twitter and Facebook) have been removed. Use the socialaccount template tags instead (specifically: {% provider_login_url … %}).
- The allauth.context_processors.allauth context processor has been removed, in favor of allauth.socialaccount.context_processors.socialaccount. In doing so, all hardcodedness with respect to providers (e.g allauth.facebook_enabled) has been removed.
From 0.4.0
- Upgrade your settings.INSTALLED_APPS: Replace allauth.<provider> (where provider is one of twitter, facebook or openid) with allauth.socialaccount.providers.<provider>
- All provider related models (FacebookAccount, FacebookApp, TwitterAccount, TwitterApp, OpenIDAccount) have been unified into generic SocialApp and SocialAccount models. South migrations are in place to move the data over to the new models, after which the original tables are dropped. Therefore, be sure to run migrate using South.
Most providers require you to sign up for a so called API client or app, containing a client ID and API secret. You must add a SocialApp record per provider via the Django admin containing these app credentials.
When creating the OAuth app on the side of the provider pay special attention to the callback URL (sometimes also referred to as redirect URL). If you do not configure this correctly, you will receive login failures when attemtping to log in, such as:
An error occured while attempting to login via your social network account.
Use a callback URL of the form:
http://example.com/accounts/twitter/login/callback/ http://example.com/accounts/soundcloud/login/callback/ ...
For local development, use the following:
For Facebook both OAuth2 and the Facebook Connect Javascript SDK are supported. You can even mix the two.
Advantage of the Javascript SDK may be a more streamlined user experience as you do not leave your site. Furthermore, you do not need to worry about tailoring the login dialog depending on whether or not you are using a mobile device. Yet, relying on Javascript may not be everybody's cup of tea.
To initiate a login use:
{% load socialaccount %} Facebook Connect
{% load socialaccount %} Facebook OAuth2
The following Facebook settings are available:
SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS = \ { 'facebook': { 'SCOPE': ['email', 'publish_stream'], 'METHOD': 'oauth2' , 'LOCALE_FUNC': 'path.to.callable'} }
By default, email scope is required depending whether or not SOCIALACCOUNT_QUERY_EMAIL is enabled.
The locale for the JS SDK is chosen based on the current active language of the request, taking a best guess. This can be customized using the LOCALE_FUNC setting, which takes either a callable or a path to a callable. This callable must take exactly one argument, the request, and return a valid Facebook locale as a string:
SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS = \ { 'facebook': { 'LOCALE_FUNC': lambda request: return 'zh_CN'} }
The Google provider is OAuth2 based. Register your Google API client over at https://code.google.com/apis/console/. Make sure you list a redirect uri of the form http://example.com/accounts/google/login/callback/.
You can specify the scope to use as follows:
SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS = \ { 'google': { 'SCOPE': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile'] } }
By default, profile scope is required, and optionally email scope depending on whether or not SOCIALACCOUNT_QUERY_EMAIL is enabled.
The LinkedIn provider is OAuth based. Register your LinkedIn app over at https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer?newapp=. Leave the OAuth redirect URL empty.
You can specify the scope to use as follows:
SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS = \ { 'linkedin': { 'SCOPE': ['r_emailaddress'] } }
By default, r_emailaddress scope is required depending on whether or not SOCIALACCOUNT_QUERY_EMAIL is enabled.
Note: if you are experiencing issues where it seems as if the scope has no effect you may be using an old LinkedIn app that is not scope enabled. Please refer to https://developer.linkedin.com/forum/when-will-old-apps-have-scope-parameter-enabled for more background information.
The OpenID provider does not require any settings per se. However, a typical OpenID login page presents the user with a predefined list of OpenID providers and allows the user to input his own OpenID identity URL in case his provider is not listed by default. The list of providers displayed by the builtin templates can be configured as follows:
SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS = \ { 'openid': { 'SERVERS': [dict(id='yahoo', name='Yahoo', openid_url='http://me.yahoo.com'), dict(id='hyves', name='Hyves', openid_url='http://hyves.nl'), dict(id='google', name='Google', openid_url='https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id')]}}
If you want to manually include login links yourself, you can use the following template tag:
{% load socialaccount %} Google
Mozilla Persona does not require any settings. The REQUEST_PARAMETERS dictionary contains optional parameters that are passed as is to the navigator.id.request() method to influence the look and feel of the Persona dialog:
SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS = \ { 'persona': { 'REQUEST_PARAMETERS': {'siteName': 'Example' } } }
SoundCloud allows you to choose between OAuth1 and OAuth2. Choose the latter.
The following signals are emitted:
Sent when a user logs in.
Sent when a user signs up for an account. This is signal is typically followed by a user_logged_in, unless e-mail verification prohibits the user to log in.
Sent after a user successfully authenticates via a social provider, but before the login is fully processed. This signal is emitted as part of the social login and/or signup process, as well as when connecting additional social accounts to an existing account. Access tokens and profile information, if applicable for the provider, is provided.
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- account: tags for dealing with accounts in general
- socialaccount: tags focused on social accounts
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Even when email verification is not mandatory during signup, there may be circumstances during which you really want to prevent unverified users to proceed. For this purpose you can use the following decorator:
from allauth.account.decorators import verified_email_required @verified_email_required def verified_users_only_view(request): ...
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- If the user isn't logged in, it acts identical to the login_required decorator.
- If the user is logged in but has no verified e-mail address, an e-mail verification mail is automatically resend and the user is presented with a page informing him he needs to verify his email address.
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|I have included here an article written by Rebecca Solnit because of its link to the subject matter of my blog. It demonstrates once again how destructive some of our messages to boys, then men, are.My sincere gratitude to Rebecca Solnit.Rebecca Solnit writes:
Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender, writes Solnit. The lives of half of humanity are still dogged by, drained by and sometimes ended by pervasive type of violence.
|Here in the United States, where there is a reported rape every 6.2 minutes, and one in five women will be raped in her lifetime, the rape and gruesome murder of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi on December 16, 2012, was treated as an exceptional incident. The story of the alleged rape of an unconscious teenager by members of the Steubenville High School football team was still unfolding, and gang rapes aren't that unusual here either. Take your pick: some of the 20 men who gang-raped an 11-year-old in Cleveland, Texas, were sentenced in November, while the instigator of the gang rape of a 16-year-old in Richmond, California, was sentenced in October, and four men who gang-raped a 15-year-old near New Orleans were sentenced in April, though the six men who gang-raped a 14-year-old in Chicago last fall are still at large. Not that I actually went out looking for incidents: they're everywhere in the news, though no one adds them up and indicates that there might actually be a pattern.There is, however, a pattern of violence against women that's broad and deep and horrific and incessantly overlooked. Occasionally, a case involving a celebrity or lurid details in a particular case get a lot of attention in the media, but such cases are treated as anomalies, while the abundance of incidental news items about violence against women in this country, in other countries, on every continent, including Antarctica, constitute a kind of background wallpaper for the news.
If you'd rather talk about bus rapes than gang rapes, there's the rape of a developmentally disabled woman on a Los Angeles bus in November and the kidnapping of an autistic 16-year-old on the regional transit train system in Oakland, California – she was raped repeatedly by her abductor over two days this winter – and there was a gang rape of multiple women on a bus in Mexico City recently, too.
While I was writing this, I read that another female bus-rider was kidnapped in India and gang-raped all night by the bus driver and five of his friends who must have thought what happened in New Delhi was awesome.
We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.
Here I want to say one thing: though virtually all the perpetrators of such crimes are men it doesn't mean all men are violent. Most are not. In addition, men obviously also suffer violence, largely at the hands of other men, and every violent death, every assault is terrible. But the subject here is the pandemic of violence by men against women, both intimate violence and stranger violence.
What we don't talk about when we don't talk about gender
There's so much of it. We could talk about the assault and rape of a 73-year-old in Manhattan's Central Park last September, or the recent rape of a four-year-old and an 83-year-old in Louisiana, or the New York City policeman who was arrested in October for what appeared to be serious plans to kidnap, rape, cook and eat a woman, any woman, because the hate wasn't personal (though maybe it was for the San Diego man who actually killed and cooked his wife in November and the man from New Orleans who killed, dismembered and cooked his girlfriend in 2005).
Those are all exceptional crimes, but we could also talk about quotidian assaults, because though a rape is reported only every 6.2 minutes in this country, the estimated total is perhaps five times as high, which means that there may be very nearly a rape a minute in the US. It all adds up to tens of millions of rape victims.
We could talk about high school– and college-athlete rapes, or campus rapes, to which university authorities have been appallingly uninterested in responding in many cases, including that high school in Steubenville, Notre Dame University, Amherst College and many others.
We could talk about the escalating pandemic of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment in the US military, where Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta estimated that there were 19,000 sexual assaults on fellow soldiers in 2010 alone and that the great majority of assailants got away with it, though four-star general Jeffrey Sinclair was indicted in September for "a slew of sex crimes against women".
Never mind workplace violence, let's go home. So many men murder their partners and former partners that we have well over 1,000 homicides of that kind a year – meaning that every three years the death toll tops 9/11's casualties, though no one declares a war on this particular terror (another way to put it: the more than 11,766 corpses from domestic-violence homicides since 9/11 exceed the number of deaths of victims on that day and all American soldiers killed in the "war on terror").
If we talked about crimes like these and why they are so common, we'd have to talk about what kinds of profound change this society, or this nation, or nearly every nation needs. If we talked about it, we'd be talking about masculinity, or male roles, or maybe patriarchy, and we don't talk much about that.
Instead, we hear that American men commit murder-suicides – at the rate of about 12 a week – because the economy is bad, though they also do it when the economy is good; or that those men in India murdered the bus-rider because the poor resent the rich, while other rapes in India are explained by how the rich exploit the poor; and then there are those ever-popular explanations: mental problems and intoxicants – and for jocks, head injuries.
The latest spin is that lead exposure was responsible for a lot of our violence, except that both genders are exposed and one commits most of the violence. The pandemic of violence always gets explained as anything but gender, anything but what would seem to be the broadest explanatory pattern of all.
Someone wrote a piece about how white men seem to be the ones who commit mass murders in the US and the (mostly hostile) commentators only seemed to notice the white part. It's rare that anyone says what this medical study does, even if in the driest way possible: "Being male has been identified as a risk factor for violent criminal behaviour in several studies, as have exposure to tobacco smoke before birth, having anti-social parents and belonging to a poor family."
Still, the pattern is plain as day. We could talk about this as a global problem, looking at the epidemic of assault, harassment and rape of women in Cairo's Tahrir Square that has taken away the freedom they celebrated during the Arab Spring – and led some men there to form defence teams to help counter it – or the persecution of women in public and private in India from "eve-teasing" to bride-burning, or "honour killings" in South Asia and the Middle East.
Or the way that South Africa has become a global rape capital, with an estimated 600,000 rapes last year, or how rape has been used as a tactic and "weapon" of war in Mali, Sudan and the Congo, as it was in the former Yugoslavia, or the pervasiveness of rape and harassment in Mexico and the femicide in Juarez, or the denial of basic rights for women in Saudi Arabia and the myriad sexual assaults on immigrant domestic workers there.
Or the way that the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case in the United States revealed what impunity he and others had in France, and it's only for lack of space I'm leaving out Britain and Canada and Italy (with its ex-prime minister known for his orgies with the underaged), Argentina and Australia and so many other countries.
Who has the right to kill you?
Murder is the extreme version of that authoritarianism, where the murderer asserts he has the right to decide whether you live or die, the ultimate means of controlling someone. This may be true even if you are "obedient", because the desire to control comes out of a rage that obedience can't assuage. Whatever fears, whatever sense of vulnerability may underlie such behaviour, it also comes out of entitlement, the entitlement to inflict suffering and even death on other people. It breeds misery in the perpetrator and the victims.
As for that incident in my city, similar things happen all the time. Many versions of it happened to me when I was younger, sometimes involving death threats and often involving torrents of obscenities: a man approaches a woman with both desire and the furious expectation that the desire will likely be rebuffed. The fury and desire come in a package, all twisted together into something that always threatens to turn eros into thanatos, love into death, sometimes literally.
It's a system of control. It's why so many intimate-partner murders are of women who dared to break up with those partners. As a result, it imprisons a lot of women, and though you could say that the attacker on January 7, or a brutal would-be-rapist near my own neighbourhood on January 5, or another rapist here on January 12, or the San Franciscan who on January 6 set his girlfriend on fire for refusing to do his laundry, or the guy who was just sentenced to 370 years for some particularly violent rapes in San Francisco in late 2011, were marginal characters, rich, famous, and privileged guys do it, too.
This summer, an estranged husband violated his wife's restraining order against him, shooting her – and six other women – at her spa job in suburban Milwaukee, but since there were only four corpses the crime was largely overlooked in the media in a year with so many more spectacular mass murders in this country (and we still haven't really talked about the fact that, of 62 mass shootings in the US in three decades, only one was by a woman, because when you say lone gunman, everyone talks about loners and guns but not about men – and by the way, nearly two thirds of all women killed by guns are killed by their partner or ex-partner).
What's love got to do with it? asked Tina Turner, whose ex-husband Ike once said, "Yeah I hit her, but I didn't hit her more than the average guy beats his wife." A woman is beaten every nine seconds in this country. Just to be clear: not nine minutes, but nine seconds. It's the number-one cause of injury to American women; of the two million injured annually, more than half a million of those injuries require medical attention while about 145,000 require overnight hospitalisations, according to the Centre for Disease Control, and you don't want to know about the dentistry needed afterwards. Spouses are also the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the US.
"Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined," writes Nicholas D Kristof, one of the few prominent figures to address the issue regularly.
The chasm between our worlds
Rape and other acts of violence, up to and including murder, as well as threats of violence, constitute the barrage some men lay down as they attempt to control some women, and fear of that violence limits most women in ways they've gotten so used to they hardly notice – and we hardly address.
There are exceptions: last summer, someone wrote to me to describe a college class in which the students were asked what they do to stay safe from rape. The young women described the intricate ways they stayed alert, limited their access to the world, took precautions and essentially thought about rape all the time (while the young men in the class, he added, gaped in astonishment). The chasm between their worlds had briefly and suddenly become visible.
It's not just public, or private, or online either. It's also embedded in our political system and our legal system, which before feminists fought for us didn't recognise most domestic violence, or sexual harassment and stalking, or date rape, or acquaintance rape, or marital rape, and in cases of rape still often tries the victim rather than the rapist, as though only perfect maidens could be assaulted – or believed.
All the things that aren't to blame
Of course, women are capable of all sorts of major unpleasantness and there are violent crimes by women, but the so-called war of the sexes is extraordinarily lopsided when it comes to actual violence.
Unlike the last (male) head of the International Monetary Fund, the current (female) head is not going to assault an employee at a luxury hotel; top-ranking female officers in the US military, unlike their male counterparts, are not accused of any sexual assaults; and young female athletes, unlike those male football players in Steubenville, aren't likely to urinate on unconscious boys, let alone violate them and boast about it in YouTube videos and Twitter feeds.
No female bus riders in India have ganged up to sexually assault a man so badly he dies of his injuries, nor are marauding packs of women terrorising men in Cairo's Tahrir Square, and there's just no maternal equivalent to the 11 percent of rapes that are by fathers or stepfathers. Of the people in prison in the US, 93.5 percent are not women, and though quite a lot of them should not be there in the first place, maybe some of them should because of violence, until we think of a better way to deal with it, and them.
No major female pop star has blown the head off a young man she took home with her, as did Phil Spector (he is now part of that 93.5 percent for the shotgun slaying of Lana Clarkson, apparently for refusing his advances). No female action-movie star has been charged with domestic violence, because Angelina Jolie just isn't doing what Mel Gibson and Steve McQueen did, and there aren't any celebrated female movie directors who gave a 13-year-old drugs before sexually assaulting that child, while she kept saying "no", as did Roman Polanski.
In memory of Jyoti Singh Pandey
What's the matter with manhood? There's something about how masculinity is imagined, about what's praised and encouraged, about the way violence is passed on to boys that needs to be addressed. There are lovely and wonderful men out there, and one of the things that's encouraging in this round of the war against women is how many men I've seen who get it, who think it's their issue too, who stand up for us and with us in everyday life, online and in the marches from New Delhi to San Francisco this winter.
Increasingly men are becoming good allies – and there always have been some. Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy. Domestic violence statistics are down significantly from earlier decades (even though they're still shockingly high), and a lot of men are at work crafting new ideas and ideals about masculinity and power.
Gay men have been good allies of mine for almost four decades (apparently same-sex marriage horrifies conservatives because it's marriage between equals with no inevitable roles). Women's liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful. But we are free together or slaves together.
There are other things I'd rather write about, but this affects everything else. The lives of half of humanity are still dogged by, drained by and sometimes ended by this pervasive variety of violence. Think of how much more time and energy we would have to focus on other things that matter if we weren't so busy surviving. Look at it this way: one of the best journalists I know is afraid to walk home at night in our neighbourhood. Should she stop working late? How many women have had to stop doing their work, or been stopped from doing it, for similar reasons?
We have far more than 87,000 rapes in this country every year, but each of them is invariably portrayed as an isolated incident. We have dots so close they're splatters melting into a stain, but hardly anyone connects them, or names that stain. In India they did. They said that this is a civil rights issue, it's a human rights issue, it's everyone's problem, it's not isolated, and it's never going to be acceptable again. It has to change. It's your job to change it, and mine, and ours.
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