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Andrew Rhodes
The way she tossed clothes out of her dresser drawer, cussing and searching for her clove cigarettes, did not come off as sexy. Lindsay never tried to look sexy, though she didn't try not to, either. Jason, now sitting on her mattress with its old and creaky springs, was always on the lookout for her to appear this way, which she sometimes did, almost by accident—a hip cocked to the side, or when she picked up and lightly petted her cat Lucy—but those moments came rarely. She was thick and strong and not very curvy. Lindsay was the only girl Jason had ever kissed or anything, so it made sense that he wanted her to be something she was not.
"My mom took them," she said, and looked at Jason with an expression of disbelief.
"That's stealing," Jason said. "That makes her a thief."
"Just one of her crimes," she said.
Jason counted on his fingers, "She steals from her daughter. She sleeps with strange men. She can't pay her bills. She can't get no satisfaction."
Lindsay shook her head. "She doesn't know how to communicate so she sends me weird messages by stealing my stuff."
It had been almost a month since Jason had put his hand in her pants, and vice versa, and it had been over two weeks since they'd kissed. Lindsay had told him, after the last kiss that she didn't want to do anything anymore. She said it made things weird at school. Passing him in the halls or seeing him in the lunchroom, knowing they had kissed and would kiss again, all that slurpy sloppiness, it made things between them so weird and gross, she'd said. He had things he wanted to say about this, a protest he wanted to mount, but the best way to explain himself had not come to him yet.
In looking for the cigarettes she had tossed most of her panties onto the floor. All of her panties were white and getting threadbare, just like the window curtains in her room. The apartment where she and her mother lived was on campus, where her mom was supposedly getting a degree, though she was really just trying to hook a professor, according to Lindsay.
Jason wanted to kiss her, wanted to touch her again, but not because of love. It wasn't love. Kissing Lindsay wasn't great, it was more like eating the passed over remains in the Halloween bag. But Jason had just turned fifteen and he truly believed Lindsay would be the only girl he would ever kiss or touch. It was a premonition. At the moment he was five-foot-five and had acne. His voice would never deepen to an acceptable level, he assumed. Another premonition: he would die young—that was something he dreamt about. One thing he knew was that he would not see the year 2000, which was twelve years away. He was certain of this: he would never translate to this world, not now or in the future.
"You know the cure for boredom?" Lindsay said.
Jason widened his eyes thinking, sure she was about to say sex. "What?"
"There is none. You have to understand and accept that everything is boring."
"Everything?"
"Yeah. Everything is boring. This town is boring. But so is a big city. I know a lady who lives in New York and she said that it's boring as hell. So many people and so many lights it makes your eyes tired. Hiking is boring. Music is boring. Smoking is boring. Cooking is the most boring."
"Well. Okay, then."
"Let's call Butch," she said.
"I forgot his number," Jason said. "It's been a while."
Lindsay stepped out for a moment and came back with the phone book. "What's his real name?"
"Calvin Ramsey. Aren't we too old the prank call people?"
Lindsay sat on the floor flipping around in the phone book. "No. Here. 544-3847." She picked up the phone and handed it to Jason. The spiraled cord did not reach all the way to the bed so he stood up. She dialed and stood and put her head close to the earpiece. A man with a gravelly voice answered, "Yeah, what."
"Is Butch there?"
The man's inhale sounded like a chainsaw firing up. "How bout I pry your head open and stuff it full of fuck-wire," he said.
Lindsay couldn't help it and burst out laughing. She hit the base to hang up. "Oh my God. That was hilarious. That was not boring. I think we felt another human soul with that one." She took the phone from Jason. "Who else? Oh, let's call what's-her-name. Rebecca. Remember that number?"
"Yeah, I remember that one," Jason said. "Because there are two fifteens in it. 264-1515."
She handed him the phone again.
"No, no, I don't want to call her," Jason said. "The girl ran away or something."
"Come on. We get to feel something real again. Not boring. A human soul."
"If I call her we have to, you know, kiss," he said. "That's the deal."
Lindsay looked out the window through the barely open curtain where it was quickly growing dark. She stuck her tongue out for a moment and then said, "Okay," and dialed.
The a woman sounded like a mild southern lady, which had always been part of the thrill, hearing her drop the part and rise into hate and disgust.
"Is Rebecca there?"
There was silence on the line for a moment. The silence filled Jason, like light filling up a bulb, and he could feel this woman's pain. It was the most intrusive, voyeuristic thing he had ever done. Linsday was right, this was real. "You know something?" the woman said. She sounded particularly calm tonight, however, even congenial. "You are going to be very, very sad in life. You are going to be alone. You won't be able to trust anyone because you are selfish and won't believe it is possible to trust. You'll feel guilt and anger when you wake up and when you got to sleep—"
Lindsay hit the base to hang up. "What the shit was that?"
"Who does this woman think she is? She tries to give us the 'You'll be unhappy' lecture. My mom gives that lecture in person. I don't believe in lectures over the phone."
Out the window, under the streetlights, were pine tree stumps and across the street the corners of houses and edges of rooftops. In the front yards of these houses were many vehicles because college students rented there. At night the students would party and Lindsay would watch them because she couldn't sleep. She had told Jason all the stuff they did. Falling out of truck beds. Firing off crossbows. Shot-gunning beers.
"Okay ugly duckling," Lindsay said. "Kiss me."
Carl had taken her out to eat for the third time this week, and Arlene said she was going to jog tomorrow, but Carl protested. "You needed to gain a few pounds," he said. "You were too thin. I didn't tell you that earlier, but you were." Carl was a nice guy, the nicest she had met in years. He didn't drink. He didn't have a bad word to say about anyone. It didn't hurt that he had money. God. That didn't hurt.
They ate at Gardner's Steakhouse, each having a salad, steak, and a potato wrapped in tin foil. She put too much butter and sour cream on the potato and it was soupy. Then they went back to her place—they'd gone to Carl's house in Oak Grove every other night after dinner, so they came here. She had mopped, dusted, and disinfected the sinks and toilets. He sat at the kitchen table while she brewed decaf coffee, and then they sat down to watch television. Three minutes into a rerun of St. Elsewhere the phone rang, and Arlene walked into the kitchen where the telephone was mounted on the wall. Some little pipsqueak asked for Rebecca. Of course he did. Probably had called a hundred times before. In fact his voice sounded familiar, even though she only ever heard it say one phrase, "Is Rebecca there?" It had been months—half a year?—since Arlene had gotten one of these little pranks. Years ago, almost five years after Becca's death, was when it started. Who knows how it stared or by whom, but she would get a few calls a week. None of the kids ever seemed to know that her daughter had never gone by the full name, but always by "Becca." The first time it happened Arlene cried. Then she got used to it and each new case made hardly any impression. Still, Arlene would say dreadful things to the kids because she wanted to scare them away from this kind of tormenting, but it only made them hungrier. Then she just started hanging up.
But tonight she did not hang up. Tonight she told the boy that he would be sad and alone. She was honest with him, and he couldn't take it, so he hung up. When she walked back to the couch Carl asked who it was and Arlene said, "Salesman."
The situation with Becca. The living nightmare. The way she left in the night, this after only a few months of slow disconnection from her mother, a sudden change in temperament and behavior that Arlene attributed to teenage stress but was really, she found out later, related to drugs and a twenty-four year old man named Marvin Jones. The next morning she was gone. Arlene called the Police. The policewoman who questioned Arlene ended up next to her on the couch, patting her leg, saying she had a daughter too. "I can't imagine," the woman had said. After that, over the next two days, Arlene made so many deals with God she couldn't keep up. Arlene promised she would devote her life to prayer. That she would be celibate, if only Becca would return unharmed. She would start a charity or live in some poor country measuring out rations of donated food. On the day the body was found in the Leaf River—they eventually had to rule it a suicide—Arlene changed from agreements to threats. She said if she didn't get a sign, some sign of Becca's safety and contentedness in the afterlife, she would avoid joy the rest of her own life. She would never call on God again. The next day she went on a morning jog and saw a particularly beautiful sunrise, and she took this to be her sign. It was not perfect, but it would do. She stopped in the middle of her jog and sat on the curb.
Carl had his arm around her. A commercial for Tide came on the TV, a goofy jingle with kids running around getting muddy. Carl tapped his hand on her shoulder in rhythm with the song.
Jason went to bed thinking about the mother of Rebecca. She was a person who had lost everything. Then he thought about Lindsay, wondering why they didn't love each other like they should. She didn't like his smell and he didn't like hers. Thinking it would be so much easier if they just loved each other.
When it came to his premonitions, Jason was partly correct. He was wrong in thinking that Lindsay would be his only lover. He would have a total of six lovers in his life, only one that could be called a girlfriend. But he was correct in thinking that he would not see the year 2000. In March of 1997 Jason would die after a night of ingesting high doses of liquor and opiods. It was too much for his body and he simply stopped breathing. He died in his sleep, in the midst of a dream. In the dream he was climbing a tree, reaching and stepping higher and higher, to dangerous heights. When his breath left him, in that moment, in his dreamworld, a world created in his mind, the sky around the tree got brighter. He looked up at the light coming through the branches.
Andrew Rhodes is a graduate from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. His stories have appeared in A Clean, Well Lighted Place, Upstreet, The Laurel Review, and Crime Factory.
Photo used under Creative Commons from will668


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Q: Xamarin + sqlite: Trouble reading database I am opening a database file, and running select * query and no objects are found. I have:

*

*Created a DB in DB Browser for SQLite, stored the db file in common project, as well as assets/resources for Droid/iOS with proper Build Action (AndroidAsset/BundleResource)

*Created interface in common code and DatabaseService in Droid:
public SQLiteConnection CreateConnection()
{
    var sqliteFilename = "StepsDatabase.db";
    string documentsDirectoryPath = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
    var path = Path.Combine(documentsDirectoryPath, sqliteFilename);

    var conn = new SQLite.SQLiteConnection(path);

    //conn.CreateTable<Step>();
    //conn.CreateTable<SuperStep>();

    return conn;
}

(I have tried with and without the .CreateTable as I saw that was a possible solution from another question)

*Created C# mdoels for both tables in my database

namespace StepsDB
{
    [Table("Step")]
    public class Step
    {
        [PrimaryKey, AutoIncrement, Unique, Column("stepID")]
        public int stepID
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        [NotNull, Column("name")]
        public string name
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        [NotNull, Column("superStep")]
        public int superStep
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        [Column("videoLocation")]
        public string videoLocation
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        [Column("uploader")]
        public string uploader
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        [Column("uploaderIG")]
        public string uploaderIG
        {
            get;
            set;
        }
    }
}

*Created a DatabaseManager that calls CreateConnection() and then a select * query from both tables and empty Lists are created.

Even when I debug and check the "conn" variable, it has TableMappings Count = 0.
PS using sqlite-net-pcl NuGet installed in all projects.
I have been stuck on this for a LONG time and have scoured the internet but no solution that worked for others have worked for me. Please help!
Also this is my first question so if I have done anything wrong please let me know.

A: I was never properly opening my database asset, only creating an empty file. I now use
var binaryReader = new BinaryReader(Android.App.Application.Context.Assets.Open(sqliteFilename))

to open the asset and write it to the file location I was trying to open originally. Once I create the connection it properly maps to my objects and I have a list to use! :) :)

A: You can use EF Core to access Sqlite databases easily.
use this command to install EFCore Sqlite package:
Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite

Then you can use EFCore standard functions to create databases at runtime.

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Historian Walid Khalidi discussed recent developments in Middle Eastern politics in the context of the history of the region. While discussing the relationship between Palestine, Israel, and the United States he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the most dangerous leader in the world and criticized the U.S. policy of "no daylight" with Israel saying it enhances Israel's sense of "entitlement and license." He said he believes that it has larger consequences, re-enforcing the notion of American complicity in Arab minds. He responded to questions from members of the audience at the Carnegie Conference Center at this event of the Middle East Institute. close
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SuDS and Sovereignty: Parliament pushes back on impermeable paving!
Thanks to Brexit, the question of Parliamentary sovereignty is much in mind: when can the Executive act without the consent of Parliament? The Supreme Court's judgement that a Parliamentary vote is needed to trigger Article 50 is a check on executive power.
Behind the furore of Brexit, though, another balancing act has been taking place between Whitehall and Westminster that is having a real effect on people's lives. Surface water flooding is a growing problem. It's responsible for 36% of flood damage in the UK every year and millions of homes are at risk. Behind the numbers, there are stories of real misery, as homes and businesses are inundated by water and raw sewage. Back in 2010, Parliament recognised that the solution to the housing crisis—building hundreds of thousands of new homes—could exacerbate the floods crisis, unless planning rules were updated to make our communities more resilient. It passed the Flood and Water Management Act 2010, which included a system for incorporating sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) in new developments. SuDS mimic natural processes to store and soak away water safely. Unfortunately, the legislation included an "activation clause" that required the Secretary of State to bring the SuDS provisions into force. The Government simply decided never to do so. In other words, the law as agreed by Parliament requires SuDS, but the Government decided not to enforce it. Instead, Government has spent the subsequent seven years adjusting planning rules and guidance to try to increase uptake of SuDS. It recognises that SuDS can be a cost-effective way to protect people against flooding, but it has preferred "non-regulatory" options for delivery. These planning options have failed. In many cases, developers claim exemptions from the rules, so SuDS are not built. In other cases, SuDS are built but to a very poor standard—the notorious "bomb crater" approach, where unkempt holes appear alongside houses. In response, Parliament has asserted itself. Repeatedly, Select Committees of the House have called for stronger SuDS policy. The EFRA Select Committee is currently undertaking post-legislative scrutiny of the Flood and Water Management Act with a focus on SuDS. Then, last year, in a dramatic back and forth between the House of Commons and Lords in the Housing and Planning Act 2016, Peers and MPs (led by Baroness Parminter, Baroness Young and Lord Krebs) put forward new legal proposals to require SuDS in new developments. These focused on a streamlined approach that would increase SuDS uptake without slowing down development. After a hard-fought battle between Government and Parliament, an amendment was agreed that required Government to review law and policy relating to SuDS. That review is currently underway. However, in another case of questionable communication between Government and Parliament, the terms of reference of the review were only announced in the margins—in response to a question by Roberta Blackman-Woods. At the same time, the Government is proposing changes to Local Authorities' rights to impose pre-commencement planning conditions that could actual be a step in the opposite direction. Provisions in Clause 12 of the Neighbourhood Planning Bill would require developers to agree before communities can impose conditions, which are often used to improve sustainable drainage plans. That's why WWT and CIWEM teamed up with a host of engineering, construction, local government, water and planning experts to launch the largest ever survey of SuDS in England. Today, we are publishing our findings in a new CIWEM/WWT report, A place for SuDS?. We are joined in Parliament by Baroness Parminter, Peter Aldous MP and Roberta Blackman-Woods MP and grateful for their support. Its findings are clear: it is not practicality or price that are holding back SuDS deployment—it is policy. A new legal mechanism is needed to drive uptake and to sort out crucial questions like the ongoing maintenance of SuDS systems. New standards are needed to make sure that when SuDS are built they are designed well, to capitalise on the potential for affordable urban habitat creation (so crucial for our wildlife and wellbeing) and for water quality improvements. Our launch coincides with World Wetlands Day, a time to recognise the risks of paving over our natural assets, and celebrate the benefits of natural infrastructure. The changes we need are modest, affordable and backed by repeated expressions of Parliamentary opinion. Let's hope that this time, Government takes the opportunity created by Parliament to make our communities greener and more resilient. The seven-year freeze on urban flood resilience policy must be brought to an end before hundreds of thousands more homes are built without sustainability in mind. Richard Benwell Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust


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Q: Can't login to server with SSH because of a script in /etc/profile.d exiting with exit status 1 so I have this problem, I can't login to my server with SSH.
See:
ssh -v myuser@myserver
debug1: Authentication succeeded (password).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8
Last login: Sun Jul  5 20:10:54 2015 from x.x.x.x
-bash: KSH_VERSION: unbound variable
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype eow@openssh.com reply 0
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Connection to x.x.x.x closed.
Transferred: sent 2264, received 2800 bytes, in 0.2 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 13241.8, received 16376.8
debug1: Exit status 1

The problem is the "-bash: KSH_VERSION: unbound variable", this kills the connection I think.
I know why is it happening…I was working on a script placed in /etc/profile.d, and this script has "set -euo pipefail" (ouch) in it...
The "o" option is "nounset" and that exaplains the "unbound variable"...
When the script sets the options, it make the vim.sh there failing on the unbound variable.
Now, how get around this? I can't send just a command there over ssh, to remove the file for example, I can't login as another user, I can't use another shell, the "--noprofile" and "--norc" options for bash doesn't work…no trick I tried worked…
Any ideas, pretty please?

A: I had the same problem and finally found a solution.
As @nkms mentioned:

You have about 1/3 chance (at least I get 1/3) to interrupt (hit Ctrl+C) the login process before /etc/profile is sourced

To raise you chances i've used the following loop:
$ (trap '' INT; while true; do ssh myuser@myserver; done)

The script starts subshell '(' and deactivates the ctr-c command for that subshell (with the trap command). Then it loops over the ssh command.
If you continuously press ctrl-c or hold down ctrl-c, you raise you chances to hit the right moment.
... works like a charm!

A: You have about 1/3 chance (at least I get 1/3) to interrupt (hit Ctrl+C) the login process before /etc/profile is sourced:
$ ssh -v localhost
OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
........
Authenticated to localhost ([::1]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8
Last login: Tue Jul  7 19:46:42 2015 from localhost
^C-bash-4.2$

Edit to clarify a few things:
When sshd opens a session on the server, it does so by reading the user shell (that is /bin/bash in this case).
It does not matter whatever option is given on bash or ssh command to run (including sftp). That ssh command (including sftp) or bash option is passed to a bash instance after a session is opened. You have no control on what that instance does. For example:
client$ ssh localhost bash --noprofile --norc

strace output on the server:
[pid 60047] execve("/bin/bash", ["bash", "-c", "bash --noprofile --norc"], [/* 16 vars */]) = 0
[pid 60047] execve("/usr/bin/bash", ["bash", "--noprofile", "--norc"], [/* 28 vars */]) = 0

As you can see the ssh command ("bash --noprofile --norc") is passed on the first execve as an argument to "bash" with the "-c" option.
That first bash instance that you have no control on with read ~/.bashrc which in turn will read /etc/bashrc which will load the scripts under /etc/profile.d/ (at least on a Red Hat system - I don't know about others).
[pid 60047] open("/home/user/.bashrc", O_RDONLY) = 3
[pid 60047] open("/etc/bashrc", O_RDONLY) = 3

The only way I can think of is the above, been quick enough to abort the login process before the scripts are loaded (but not to quick as to abort the session). - You might want to increase the load on the system (if it's possible) to give you more time during the login process.
ps. if you find the answer useful please mark it

A: Does sftp also fail ?  If doesn't, you could make use of that to place a good /etc/profile.d  file there.

A: I have two problems with your question.
ps -A|grep bash|wc -l

and the same command in
ssh localhost 'csh -l'

give the same number.
So it does not seem that a bash is run before 'csh -l'.
On the other hand csh does not use /etc/profile.
strace -eopen csh -l
does not show any entry of /etc/profile*.
So I am not sure the problem you have is in /etc/profile*.
Am I missing something?

A: This is unlikely to work, but you could try sending a value for KSH_VERSION when you make the ssh connection:
KSH_VERSION=x ssh -v -o 'SendEnv=KSH_VERSION' myuser@myserver

The idea is to set the environment variable to something, so that bash won't complain that it's unset. I say it's unlikely to work because the default SSH server configuration wouldn't permit you to set this particular variable. This would only work if someone had reason to make that setting more lenient on this particular server.

A: I ended up with the same problem, but was installing something else and fixed it once I removed the below:
/etc/sysctl.conf
fs.file-max=100000

Then
/etc/security/limits.conf:
*               soft    nofile          1000000
*               hard    nofile          1000000

Lastly
/etc/pam.d/common-session:
session required pam_limits.so

A: Try ssh -t username@hostname /bin/sh --noprofile.


The skin on my face is a bundle of troubles. It is usually dry to combination but can vary suddenly to MEGA OVERLOAD dry which is literally impossible to work with. Not only that, I'm very fair skinned, "la peau anglaise" as the French say or "le milk bottle" as my Mum so kindly puts it. Between finding a product that would suit my skin tone and one that wouldn't leave my skin as dry as a badger's bum (excuse my French) I was left furiously trying product after product after product... with no luck whatsoever.
My favourite foundation of all time!!!
All my wishes were granted whilst in England last year when I stumbled upon this little beauty! It is the Max Factor Xperience foundation in 30ml, retailed at £9.99 in Boots (click here) and by gosh does it do the job for me! It feels so creamy when you apply it and doesn't feel heavy on your face! I've been using it every day for a year now and I still have a little bit left. It is well worth the money! It doesn't dry out my skin and leaves it looking somewhat dewy and fresh. For the coverage I'd say it was a medium but I'm pretty sure you could build it up no problem! I've been using the shade Raw Silk 45, even though the colour is pretty close to my skin colour (compared to most foundations which make me look orange), I heard that there was an even lighter shade which will probably suit me even better (which I shall purchase soon *hee hee hee*)! I really just love it! I hope this review might help someone out who was in the same dilemma as me!
Product on back of hand... it looks good enough to eat!
Please tell me below what YOUR favourite foundation is!
ha just sent a comment asking what kind of make up you use!!!
Ha ha :D the more you know!
Thanks for commenting again my lovies!
Oh I'm glad this helped you out flower!
Hope it works for you flower!
Thanks for sharing this. I'm on the hunt for a new foundation and will definitely give this ago!
Have never tried that one. My fav is one from Chanel - it's the only product I buy that is so expencive, but I just live it!
I have the same problem! I may give this a go!


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Commercial Goods for Commercial Gods
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The Gods Never Went Away, They Became New Idols
Did We Ever See The Sun?
Will You Walk With Me?
The Snow Covered Our Tracks So We Had to Make New Ones
When Will We See Our Destination?
Have I Seen You Before?
We Didn't Know What We Came From, Only Where We Were Going
Hold My Hand, I'm Self Destructing
Remember When We Smiled?
Art is Revolution
Every time an artist makes a statement in support of something, there are people who wish artists would do a number of things. "I wish they'd stick to photography." "I wish they'd stick to singing." "Why cant they just write?" I have some terrible news for you. Art is political. Art is and always has been and always will be the window to an artist's soul. Look at their art to see what they value. Look at their lyrics. You want a window into who they are? Look at what drives them. Who or what is their muse? What inspires them to put the pen to paper, brush to canvas, image to sensor, song to recording? Art is political. Art is revolution. And us artists? We'll keep doing what we want, regardless of the demands we stay out of politics.
Fast Way Down
Sometimes, the fastest way down is also the most fun... This ledge, just above Nymph Lake, provides a natural sliding surface. People climb up a nearby, shallower path, then slide down, making for a fun way to get back down the mountains.
A Charleston Scene
Alleyways like this are commonplace in Charleston, South Carolina. Nestled between buildings, they might hide entryways, driveways, or even entire garden squares. Some are open to public while others remain locked throughout the day.
Boulder is for Lovers
I captured this scene at a quick stop at Boulder Creek in Boulder, Colorado. I had barely been there a few hours and was already in love with the place.
Britt's Donut Shop is a near-legendary fixture of Wilmington culture. With an evening line spanning the entire miniature strip-mall it sits in, and a history going back decades, this tiny donut shop is well worth the wait. Some people say you can't eat just one... I feel like you can't eat more than one, as rich and delicious as they are. All I know is, they melt in your mouth.
Road Iron
Taken at the 2016 Special Olympics Plane Pull at RDU International Aiport.
Taken from Charlotte's transit system near the Hornets stadium. Infrared monochrome.
Single Vanishing Point
E Trade Street
An infrared shot of E Trade Street in downtown Charlotte. Despite it being spring... It still looks like winter.
Phthalo Blue
I saw this gorgeous pile of paint tubes in the window for an art gallery while walking through Charleston. The display was organized with used blue tubes in the front, red behind those, and a third row behind that. The pile of tubes, with its mix of corroded and brand new color, caught my eye.
Tourist Row
I traveled to Nashville last year on a trip with a friend. When I went again this year, I discovered that Music Row is not the bright, neon crowds of Broadway, but far away. Broadway is just Nashville's tourist row, and it is good at what it does. Attracting hundreds of thousands on New Years and the preceding night, it was like one giant, ongoing party. The colors stretch all the way down the street with tourists, people seeking to sell newspapers and goods, and everyone else in the city.


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Girl Scouts of the USA Celebrates Girls' Legacy of Civic Engagement at 2017 Macy's Flower Show®
Citizen badges bloom at Macy's 2017 Flower Show in New York now through April 9
NEW YORK, NY (March 27, 2017)—Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) spotlights its legacy of girls' civic engagement by showcasing its Citizen badges at the 43rd annual Macy's Flower Show. Revealed yesterday, the interactive garden display at Macy's Herald Square illustrates how communities can flourish when people lend a hand, a nod to Girl Scouts' longstanding commitment of encouraging girls to take the lead in their communities, the government, public policy, and the democratic process. The floral display symbolizes how communities bloom when everyone rolls up their sleeves and gets involved—like a Girl Scout.
The exhibit, on view through April 9 at Macy's Herald Square's recently renovated "One Below" floor, features a working spigot that visitors can pump to water a giant flower, allowing it to blossom, as well as levers that move to reveal the Citizen badges a Girl Scout earns when she engages in civic action. The badges (including Public Policy, Behind the Ballot, and Inside Government) foster vital skills for girls ages 7–18, such as how to take part in a civil debate, make group decisions, and get involved in government. Through unique Girl Scout programming, girls learn to stand up for what they believe in, identify issues they care about, and take the lead like a G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™ to make the world a better place.
Girl Scouts continue to use these crucial skills in their adult lives: Girl Scout alumnae make up the majority of women in leadership positons in the current U.S. government, including 76 percent of women senators, 54 percent of women representatives, and four of the five women governors. According to the Girl Scout Research Institute report Girl Scouting Works: The Alumnae Impact Study (PDF), alumnae are also more civically engaged and likely to vote than their non–Girl Scout peers. And the longer women were Girl Scouts, the higher their level of civic participation.
"We are thrilled to return this year to the Macy's Flower Show, and demonstrate our long-standing Girl Scout tradition of leading civic engagement," said GSUSA interim CEO Sylvia Acevedo. "Our Citizen badges reflect the extraordinary Girl Scout programming designed to foster, in every girl, a strong sense of civic duty. This encompasses taking action towards a passion that addresses the greater good—from getting involved in government to advocating for change as a global citizen."
A nonpartisan organization, Girl Scouts is committed to ensuring that girls have a voice and are empowered to use it to be actively involved in their communities. The organization was founded in 1912, when women in the United States did not even have the right to vote. When the U.S. Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting women this right, Girl Scouts gathered outside polling places to support women as they cast their first ballots. Empowering girls to step up and forge their own life paths is at the center of everything Girl Scouts does.
Today, girls continue to advocate for equality, those less fortunate, and much more because of Girl Scouts. And countless civically engaged women who found their voice in Girl Scouts persistently take action in support of issues that matter to them—for instance, expanding access to high-quality education, championing efforts to protect the environment, and mobilizing grassroots efforts to improve communities.
Local councils Girls Scouts of Northern New Jersey, Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey, and Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore also showed their support for the Macy's Flower Show by participating in Family Fun Day on March 26. These Girl Scouts volunteered to read stories to children and led various hands-on activities throughout the day. To learn more about how Girl Scouts gives girls opportunities to create positive change in their communities, or to join, volunteer, or donate, visit www.girlscouts.org.


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Cameroonians React to the appointment of Cameroon's legendary footballer as the Country's football head coach.
Following the appointment of Rigobert Song, The former Indomitable Lions captain; who was officially announced as the new national team coach for Cameroon, there have been reactions and debates by Cameroonians who seem to doubt that he is the right choice for the Cameroonian national team to thrive with an African coach in football like Senegal's African head coach, Aliou Cisse; who led his team to Afcon Victory.
Despite his reservations in some quarters, Rigobert Song was, on Monday; confirmed as the replacement for former manager Antonio Conceicao; who led the Lions to a third-place finish at the Africa Cup of Nations tournament, hosted by Cameroon.
For many, the choice of Song is questionable, because he has failed woefully in past assignments; whenever he has been handed the reins within the national team set-up.
In 2019, under the management of Song, Cameroon's U-23 side suffered a first-round elimination in qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
He was also in charge of Cameroon's CHAN team in 2018; where his team managed one goal in three matches and finished bottom of Group D below Congo, Angola, and Burkina Faso.
The 45-year old, who capped a record 137 times; will now have to prove his critics otherwise and perhaps become what Aliou Cisse is to the Senegal national team.
For Conceicao, who was appointed as head coach in 2019; he was hoping to continue in his position and hopefully lead the five-time African champions to the World Cup in Qatar though they still need to navigate past Algeria in the playoffs.
However, the task of qualifying Cameroon for the World Cup is now on Song; who was known as a hard-tackling defender, who represented his country at four World Cups.
In his time, he won two AFCON titles with the Lions; the first of which was in Lagos, Nigeria, in the year 2000.
His football Career
During his playing career, Song had stints with Liverpool and West Ham United in England; Metz and Lens in France, and Turkish club Galatasaray.
The statement which was released by the Cameroon Sports Ministry said that Song will be helped by Frenchman Sebastien Migne; who has previously managed Kenya, the Republic of Congo, and Equatorial Guinea.
Rigobert Song's appointment comes less than a month before Cameroon tackles Algeria in a two-legged playoff for a place in the World Cup.
Abena and Andre: Enjoy these stunning photos of this beautiful Ghanaian lovebirds
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Home Business UK, AECF Approve £16m to Support Solar Power in Nigeria, Four Others
UK, AECF Approve £16m to Support Solar Power in Nigeria, Four Others
Chineme Okafor in Abuja
The United Kingdom and Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) have approved a fresh round of funding worth £16 million to support the deployment of solar generated electricity by small businesses in Nigeria and four other African countries.
Expected to be deployed through AECF's Renewable Energy and Adaptation to Climate Technology (REACT) Household Solar Round Two Competition, the funds would provide a mix of interest free loans and repayable grants and technical assistance to private sector operators in the solar business.
Apart from Nigeria, solar power operators in Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal and Somalia, would be allowed to access the funds as long as they meet the requirements spelt out by AECF, a statement obtained by THISDAY explained.
Up to 25 solar-based businesses or operators from these countries would be able to access the fund on a matching grant basis. The funds would also be disbursed to successful operators on a milestone process, while repayment would not be immediately.
According to the statement, the funding window was part of AECF's Africa Clean Energy Programme (ACE). It also seeks to increase the supply of household solar systems to rural markets at affordable costs, facilitated through innovative financing; operating and distribution models such as the PAYGO and micro-financed solar power interventions.
"Renewables provide just 18 per cent of Africa's current power generating capacity, therefore developing off grid alternatives could create many more opportunities and transform millions of lives," said the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AECF, Daniel Ohonde.
Ohonde, further explained: "Solar home systems are a simple solution that do not appear in the macro-economic statistics, yet they have the ability to transform the lives of millions of school children."
According to him, REACT Two would with its £16 million funding pool, "accelerate access to transformative solar home systems to the rural poor households in sub-Saharan Africa."
"The competition promotes a market-based approach for the delivery of solar home system products and services in five countries namely, Ethiopia; Ghana; Nigeria; Senegal; and Somalia. The additional funding will enable AECF to continue investing in private sector companies to deliver business models which accelerate access to transformative solar home systems to rural markets in sub-Saharan Africa," he added.
Ohonde, equally noted that the first tranche of the REACT competition in 2017 which funded solar power deployments in Sierra Leone; Zimbabwe; Malawi; and Zambia, was worth £8 million, adding, "We are happy to say that within that short period we are able to demonstrate initial impact of our investments."
The AECF, he explained, was a $356 million valued development institution that works with the private sector across 26 countries and in two sectors of agribusiness and renewable energy. The institution, he indicated provides catalytic funding as grants or interest-free loans to businesses in these sectors to have a positive impact on the rural poor in sub-Saharan Africa.
He also said the REACT programme has so far contributed to the generation of 29.7 megawatts (MW) of clean electricity in countries it has supported, while reducing their carbon emission by over one million tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCo2e) cumulatively.
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