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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Reframing the discourse on race, gender and identity
Emily Cavalcanti
Updated July 3, 2019 11:27 a.m.
"I seem these days always to be in search of what is affirming," said Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. "I am desperately drawn to what is meaningful, what is human, what is beautiful."
Upon accepting the USC Norman Lear Center's 2019 Everett M. Rogers Award, the Nigerian author, cultural critic and feminist noted how deeply encouraging it was to be in the company of past honorees and their scholarship.
Adichie is the author of six books, including Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times' Top 10 Best Books of 2013. Her "The Danger of a Single Story" is one of the most-watched TED talks of all time. A MacArthur "Genius" Fellow and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she was named one of TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015.
On Feb. 7, a crowd of hundreds gathered in the Wallis Annenberg Hall Forum as Adichie was honored for her inspiring contributions to the global conversation about gender, race and identity.
Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan hailed Adichie for her gifts as a storyteller to inspire and empower.
"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie uses stories to grow our empathy and our aspirations," Kaplan said. "In her fiction and her essays, in her novels and her talks, she weaves her insights into the narrative of human experience."
Dean Willow Bay echoed Kaplan's praise for the impact of Adichie's storytelling. "We must be deliberate in recognizing and celebrating the power of stories, but we must also be deli
berate in naming and celebrating our storytellers," Bay said.
Bay also introduced special guest presenter Danai Gurira, an actor, playwright and activist best known for her roles Okoye in the film Black Panther and as Michonne from the television series The Walking Dead.
In introducing Adichie, Gurira spoke of their work together in adapting Americanah into a television miniseries. She also recognized how deeply Adichie's writing has spoken not only to her own journey, but to countless others.
"Her body of work proves that great storytelling, storytelling that is courageous and unflinchingly pursues the truth, storytelling that delves with specificity and complexity into places both uncomfortable and unexpected," Gurira said. "That sort of storytelling is universally appealing and shatters seemingly insurmountable walls about whose stories get to be boldly told. That sort of storytelling forms bridges, bringing us all that much closer together on equal footing."
In Adichie's own words, here are four takeaways from her remarks, which included an audience Q&A.
Fake news and the what ifs
As a storyteller, I'm interested in the singular and the specific, because from this, I believe springs the universal. And I'm also interested in the idea of what is possible. I read all genres, I like to think of myself as a very catholic reader, but one genre that I've had very great difficulty getting into is speculative fiction. And yet I found myself thinking in speculative terms lately. So what if? What if everyone simply refuses to use the expression "fake news"?
Because it is saying that over and over again that gives it legitimacy. There is inaccurate news, there's biased news, there's incomplete news, but that expression "fake news" is heavy with the ugly connotation that journalism is some kind of deliberate conspiracy. It is not.
And the man who has made that expression, "fake news," so common really just uses it to mean news that he does not like. Whether it is true or not is irrelevant. What if? What if journalists all over this country decided to burn, forever, that idea of false equivalences?
What if? What if instead of focusing on balance, we focused on truth? What if we stopped pretending that both sides of an issue are equal, when they are not? What if we decided that news should not entertain us, but should inform us and educate us? What if we all agreed that we have to be nimble and alert and clear-eyed and skeptical, that we have to be active rather than reactive?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (center) received the 2019 Everett M. Rogers Award. (L-R), Peter Clarke, Danai Gurira, Adichie, Dean Willow Bay, Marty Kaplan.
The link between critical thinking and empathy
There are, today, valid and worrying concerns that face our future as humans. There's inequality, gender, racial, economic, there's climate change [and] artificial intelligence, but I find myself most worried about the possible death of critical thinking, and consequently, the death of empathy.
Because both are central to how we understand and deal with all of the other challenges we face. It might seem odd to connect critical thinking and empathy, but the two are related. If we are able to think critically, then we're more able to exercise empathy. Critical thinking is, quite simply, the ability to think clearly. To hold ideas in your mind, to weigh them. To dissect them. And if we're able to do this, then we're able to truly see other human beings.
Kalu Makan says that to read a book is to be alive in a body that is not your own. And I would broaden that to storytelling, to listen to stories is to be alive in a body that is not your own.
That, for me, is the best example of that link between critical thinking and empathy. To be alive in a body that is not your own. To hear another person's story. To truly see another person. And this matters. It matters because empathy and critical thinking are starting points, will radically change the way we deal with everything.
'Stop canceling people'
On the one hand, there's something I find very encouraging about activism, about young people who are all really, I think, coming from a well-meaning place, which is that they want better for everybody. What worries me is that … it very often feels quite extreme in the way that it seems like people no longer think of people as complex humans, that one slip and you're done, right? And people say you're canceled and you're no longer relevant, and it seems to me not a very productive way of thinking about these things, and also really not practical because we're all flawed, and in some ways, then it becomes a question of how many flaws can you take?
So, what I would say … is it's not so much that you shouldn't call people out … it's also that maybe you should read a little more. And I'm not kidding. And by read a little more, I mean don't have an opinion until you look at the primary source…. And maybe just read things that are outside of social media. I think sometimes context is lacking in the way that things are seen….
The people who are canceled are actual human beings who often mean well…. I was talking to a young person the other day and I said, "Well, do you want to know what they really think?" She said, "No, no, no, I already know the world." So that's bad. It's almost as though … there's no room for nuance, there's no room for sort of expanding on what one word means.
Listening, reporting and humanizing
[W]henever the foreign journalist is going to Africa and sometimes they sort of think that I have all the answers to things, right? … [T]hey're like, "So, what should we do when we go to Africa?" And I love having that power, because of course I don't have all the answers, right? But I kind of pretend I do. I'm like, "Yes, well, the thing to do when you go to Africa..." But really what I say is just if it's possible to put everything you know about Africa in a backpack, right? And then leave that backpack behind when you go. That's the way to go. It's just to have an open mind.
I think that often when you're reporting on something, you find yourself trying to make your story aligned to what you already have in your mind…. [I]n general, I would say the problem with stereotypes really, again, is not that they're false ... it's that they're incomplete. And I think what's important in, especially covering communities that are powerless, communities that are marginalized, is that the humanizing of those communities has to be, in my opinion, center stage.
[T]he thing that surprises you about people, the thing that doesn't align with what you expect, often those are the things that humanize people, and in some ways, I think fiction writing is similar…. [I]t's things that surprise me about humanity that I make note of, and those are the things that I find to be worthy of storytelling. And in some ways, I think journalism is similar, and I think that's how we ultimately humanize people and end up not making them stereotypes.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 2019 Everett M. Rogers Award Honoree
Internationally acclaimed author and global humanitarian Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is being honored with the 2019 Everett M. Rogers Award. Dean Willow Bay and Marty Kaplan of the Norman Lear Center provide opening remarks, followed by Danai Gurira, actor on Walking Dead and Black Panther. Adichie will be honored for reframing the discourse on race, gender and identity. Join #theafricanarrative Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Danai Gurira USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center
Posted by USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism on Thursday, February 7, 2019
For more photos from the event, see the Flickr page.
About the Everett M. Rogers Award
Presented since 2007 on behalf of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism's Norman Lear Center, the award honors the late USC Annenberg professor Everett M. Rogers, whose Diffusion of Innovation is the second-most cited book in the social sciences. The award committee is listed here.
This piece was also published in the Spring 2019 issue of the USC Annenberg Magazine.


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Romain Lemarchand (* 26. Juli 1987 in Longjumeau) ist ein ehemaliger französischer Radrennfahrer.

Lemarchand wurde 2009 französischer U23-Meister im Einzelzeitfahren der U23-Klasse und gewann die U23-Ausgabe des Chrono des Nations. Bis zum Ablauf der Saison 2017 fuhr er bei internationalen Radsportteams, konnte an seine U23-Erfolge jedoch nicht anknüpfen.

Romain Lemarchand ist der Sohn von François Lemarchand, der von 1985 bis 1997 Radprofi war.

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 Chrono des Nations (U23)

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Latest Vinyl Anachronist Column Now Online at Perfect Sound Forever
My latest Vinyl Anachronist column, #111, is now online at Perfect Sound Forever. In this one, I finally do something I've wanted to do since I started the column in 1998--talk about ten turntables I really, really, really want. You can read it here!
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Occurrence's The Past Will Last Forever on CD
Remember the '80s band Berlin? Remember how cool they were? You don't? Oh, that's because you're probably remembering the watered-down mainstream version of the band, the one that actually won an Oscar for "Take My Breath Away" for that God-awful '80s flick Top Gun, a film that still resides on my all-time Top 5 Least Favorite Movies. No, not that Berlin.
I'm talking about the sexy and dangerous Berlin, earlier on, the band that sang songs like "The Metro" and "Sex (I'm A)." That band, native to my own Orange County, cited influences such as Kraftwerk and Devo and The Screamers. That band used to have issues with airplay due to graphic lyrics. That band had an awesome female singer who, as a child actor in the '70s, used to always play the bad girl. She was good at it, too.
I bring up Berlin because Occurence reminds me of them. Not early Berlin so much, or even sell-out Berlin, but Berlin if Terri Nunn and the gang started playing gigs in 2016 instead of 1978. This electronica duo from New York combines those same pounding synthesizer landscapes with sexy, provocative female vocals that are just a little spooky. But Berlin 2016 wouldn't be Berlin at all. They'd be completely different in a lot of ways. Their music would be less '80s synth-pop, less danceable, with heavy influences from dub and ambient. They also wouldn't be all dolled up like Berlin with brightly colored clothes, lot of eyeliner and crispy '80s bangs. They'd look like perfectly normal people, you know, like Ken Urban and Cat Hollyer.
On their new album The Past Will Last Forever, Ken and Cat get weird. Funny and weird, I should say. While the album starts off with very Berlin-like songs such as "The Things I've Always Liked I Now Hate" and "My Days and Nights Belong to You," heavy on beat and a dark sensibility that might seem a little too textured for the early '80s but not really, the twosome dives in and out of layered backgrounds of noises, voices and grime. They do come up for air every couple of songs, such as the pulsating and deliberate "The Right to Be Forgotten," but this is a deeply interior album, one designed to evoke strange thoughts and visuals.
The Past Will Last Forever scores extra credit for great sound quality--the deepest pulses are subterranean and the spaces are gargantuan. Plus, Cat has one of those too-cool-for-school voices that makes you want to forget everything your mother told you about girls like her. It's that balance between the '80s New Wave and the solid, inventive ideas that permeate today's electronica that make Occurence distinctive and ultimately far more sophisticated than their '80s counterparts.
Then again, Berlin is planning a tour for 2017. Wouldn't it be fun if Occurence opened for them? They might even steal the show.
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TrondheimSolistene's Reflections on CD/Blu-ray Audio
It's been a while since I've received a new release from 2L Recordings in Norway. Then it hit me--when I moved to Syracuse last spring, I'd forgotten to send Morten Lindberg my new address. I sent him a quick message on Facebook about the latest move; I was worried that my old mailbox in Colorado was filled with all the latest and greatest titles. "For the first time in a while I have no 2L Recordings in my review pile. I hope I didn't miss anything!"
Morten replied swiftly: "No worries, Marc! We've been busy making new recordings. Four new titles are ready for release over the next weeks." And sure enough, those four titles reached me safely in New York. I've been listening to all four through the summer, and this one was from TrondheimSolistene the most immediately engaging and familiar--after all, the first 2L Recording I've heard was Souvenir, which I reviewed back in 2012. When I saw their latest, Reflections, I was thrilled that it included one of my absolute favorite pieces for string orchestra--Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. In fact, the first thing I did after unpacking the padded envelope from Norway was to listen to this piece. And it was absolutely beautiful.
That's saying a lot, considering my longtime reference is an old, somewhat beat up copy of Sir John Barbirolli's English String Music with the Sinfonia of London. This 1963 performance is stunning and of course legendary, but I've been vexed by the surface noise. (I bought it used on eBay, and I paid a significant amount of money for it.) I'd splurge on a better copy, but I'm sure examples are both expensive and rare. So the idea of having a brand new take on this piece, pristine and beautifully recorded, made my day. TrondheimSolistene is known for taking liberties through unique arrangements, but their version is restrained and yet animated, and incredibly fluid and emotional. Is it the equivalent of Barbirolli's? I'm not going to go there--I'm thankful I have both.
The other two pieces on Reflections have been chosen, along with the Williams piece, for "passion, perfection and raw intensity." These include Benjamin Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge and Igor Stravinsky's Apollon Musagete, and they do create a unified and stirring hour-plus of music. Even the Stravinsky piece is perfectly lovely and lyrical--I'm not familiar with it and would never have guessed that it was composed by the same person responsible for The Rite of Spring and Petrushka. At first I thought it might have come from Stravinsky's earlier periods before, as Taruskin wrote, "Stravinsky became Stravinsky." This version was actually revised in 1947, and has flourishes that reach back to the Romantic Era and even, for a few fleeting moments here and there, the Baroque Era.
I did mention that TrondheimSolistene uses atypical arrangements and seating positions--these three pieces are performed with the musicians in a circle and with the microphones on the inside of the circle pointing outward. The placement of the musicians are unique within that circle for each separate piece, so there is a slightly different sonic presentation in each section. Most of the positioning would probably be more obvious in the surround formats--which I do not have yet (I'm working on that as I write).
But I finally have access to a decent universal disc player--the Cambridge Audio CXU--so I can finally do more informed A/B comparisons between CD and Blu-ray digital formats. My initial impressions while switching between these formats aren't yet formed--I hear difference but very small ones, and I suspect those margins increase when you switch to multi-channel. (These four new CDs also utilized Dolby Atmos for the first time, so I'll see if I can find away to explore that new technology as well.) For the moment I continue to give the nod to Blu-ray Audio; it's simple quieter and smoother and more extended in the treble. But it's still amazing to me that two-channel redbook CD sound continues to be as realistic and as lifelike as it is. And no one's doing a better job of pushing the CD format into the 21st century than 2L.
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Inclusive Or's Cocktails in Purgatory on LP
I'm coming up on six months in New York. The leaves are starting to turn color and I soon I will experience my first Syracuse winter. Syracuse gets more snowfall than any other major US city, by the way, so I'm about to have an adventure. Texas summers and Colorado winters have toughened me up over the last few years, so I'm not that worried, but I have planned a bit of traveling over the next three or four months--Toronto next month, CES in Vegas after the New Year as usual. So I'll be dealing with huge piles of snow on a fairly regular basis. Outside of that, I plan to burrow here in Salt City. Fortunately I have a ton of new music to review.
While that last paragraph meanders a bit, it's to make a point--I still have a bunch of vinyl to review from local Syracuse record labels L.R.S, bettyElm and Aux. I've been here six months, and I still haven't finished. I've been listening to most of these records, and I dig the overwhelming majority of them and have played most of them repeatedly. This album here, Inclusive Or's Cocktails in Purgatory, is a fine example of an LP that was likable at first and has since grown into something more rewarding and substantial.
I was reminded of this clever little album with lots of hidden depth when I was shopping at The Sound Garden, the local LP store here in Armory Square. They had Cocktails in Purgatory in the LP New Release section and I thought to myself, "New release? I don't feel so bad for not having reviewed it yet. It's still new!" But no, this album came out in 2014. Should I even bother?
In a word, yes. I should bother. What makes this indie band so intriguing is the slow and deliberate way this album unfolds. The first two or three songs are straightforward indie rock songs, a little rough and ragged and delivered with earnest energy from a band with electric guitars and bass guitars and drums and even a little keyboard action for low-level textures. I don't want to use words like ordinary or typical, but this is the type of music that makes you nod your head once or twice and acknowledge "Yeah, this is pretty good."
Then the band starts to stretch. While Trevor Grant's hoarse and jagged yet somehow whimsical voice remains a constant throughout the album--anchoring Inclusive Or's garage band aesthetic, the arrangements simultaneously focus and vary. "Inclusive Or" is a bouncy '80s track that almost sounds like The Knack, while "Scherzo" has the same fluid power of Green Day in their least self-obsessed incarnation. That song and its rock ballad follow-up, "Eudaimonia," feature a huge, endearing chunk of Hammond organ that's almost poignant. "Cured!" is a thrift-store hymnal, with Grant backed up by guitar and a strange grinding sound in the background--it's melancholy and desperate and ultimately hilarious in its honesty. ("Getting drunk off the blood of Christ/Isn't it nice?")
Sure the album is a couple of years old, but the Syracuse music scene is tight and close and these guys are still playing around town, and they're playing some of these songs. Something tells me they're great live, so I might try to check them out soon--if I don't go into hibernation for the winter, that is.
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Luis Filipe Fortunato's Live and Pure Now Live on Positive Feedback Online
My review of Luis Filipe Fortunato's Live and Pure, from Dogma Musicae in Portugal, is now live at Positive Feedback Online. As you can see, this review was not of the usual LP or CD or even Blu-ray audio disc, but of a beautifully packaged thumb drive in a gorgeous wooden case. Plus, Freddy Rodrigues of Dogma Musicae has turned me onto a beautiful musical genre--Fado!
You can read the review here.
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Latest Installment of The Smoking Jacket Now Online at Part-Time Audiophile
It's been a while since one of my columns for The Smoking Jacket has appeared--things over at Part-Time Audiophile have been busy during a particularly hectic trade show season! This one, titled "The New York Smoker," was actually written right after we got to Syracuse in April, so in my eyes it seems dated in one particular respect--the local cigar store, Tismart, is now the place where I hang out several times per week. I've become Norm from Cheers.
You can read the new column here.
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Michael Kiwanuka's Love & Hate on LP--Positive Feedback Online Review
My review of Michael Kiwanuka's Love & Hate also just appeared on Positive Feedback Online. Again, this has been a strong year in music and this is the perfect example of yet another album that took me by complete surprise.
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Wilco Schmilco on LP
Ask me about my Top 5 favorite bands of all time, and Wilco will always slide in there somewhere. I've felt that way pretty much since the first time I heard Yankee Hotel Foxtrot back in 2002 when it was first released. I still remember the first time I heard that remarkable album--I was sitting in my living room in my townhouse in Tujunga, north of LA. I still remember the system--Spendor SP100 speakers, Naim NAP 140 power amp, Naim NAIT 2 acting as preamp and phono pre, Naim CD3 CD player, Rega P25 turntable with a Rega Exact cartridge. About halfway through the album I said to the others in the room, "This is a really great album, isn't it?" The others agreed.
Instant Wilco fan for life.
Wilco also gets extra points for staying true to vinyl. The last Wilco CD I bought was YHF--it's been vinyl ever since. But here's why Wilco is so cool about the vinyl--they were the first band I knew of that included the CD and the download codes when you bought the LP. The first time they did this, I thought it was a mistake. The CD's not included on their new album, but you still get the download code. Maybe that's just a sign that CD is dead. It's disappointing not to have the CD for my car, but that's the only disappointing thing about Schmilco.
(You did see my post about that Wilco Schmilco Project turntable, right?)
Schmilco was culled from the same studio sessions as last year's Star Wars. It's easy to see why the band separated the results into two separate releases. Star Wars was a whimsical, slightly out-of-control carnival ride of an album, both experimental and daffy. Someone has probably already said something like "The band had more fun in the studio making this album than any of the others." Schmilco, however, is quieter and gentler. It's mostly acoustic. In fact, it sounds sort of alt-country. No Depression. The type of music that made them famous. There's an Uncle Tupelo-esque quality to it.
That's not to say it's downbeat, or even that serious. While most of that unbridled Star Wars whimsy is confined to Schmilco's macabre yet hilarious comic-strip cover, the songs here are all whole and beautifully executed. I've heard some early criticism of the album that Wilco the band doesn't get to show off very much due to the minimalist arrangements--Nels Cline fans seem particularly anguished--but I disagree. Perhaps it's because I'm an audiophile and I've been trained to respect the space between the notes and all that crap, but when you come right down to it there's plenty of harder moments to satisfy such as the rollicking, psychedelic "Locator" and the angular, noisy "Common Sense."
But in many ways this is the most beautiful, complete and consistent Wilco album in a decade--and that's as much to the band's credit as to Jeff Tweedy's, even though he really is front and center. Sometimes the band gets obsessed with covering multiple bases with albums such as A Ghost Is Born and The Whole Love--not a criticism as much as a personal preference. Wilco just really connects with me when they write a great song and play it well and then follow it with ten or twelve more songs just like it. Schmilco has a healthy dose of catchy, memorable songs that will rank among their best--the folky "If I Ever Was a Child," the bluesy "Nope," and the cheerful "Someone to Lose." The band even pulls off a hat trick by closing the album with three strong songs--"Shrug and Destroy," "We Aren't the World (Safety Girl)" and "Just Say Goodbye"--which for me add up to the most solid outro since the last three songs on OK Computer. Basically, there's no filler at all.
I'm impressed that these guys are still putting out albums this good. It's been 14 years since YHF, and I still get a rush from opening up a new Wilco LP, cueing it up and having no idea what to expect. I feel like I'm on a roll right now--I keep hearing great album after great album in 2016. If a Wilco album gets released in a certain year, it usually makes my top ten list almost by default. This time, it's got some serious competition from Ingvild Koksvik, Angel Olsen, Michael Kiwanuka and The Avalanches, but I still think it will be near the top. And I still have a giant stack of music to get through. I can't wait to see what's next.
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Angel Olsen's My Woman on LP
Angel Olsen is a girl from your past. You didn't really appreciate her in the moment, but now you're a little older and a little wiser and you realize your life would have turned out a little differently if you had just cocked your head and looked at her the other way. Sure, she was edgy. Her bangs were cut a little too short. And she had much better taste in music than you. You didn't take a chance because you thought she was a little risky at the time. She would have broken your heart or, even worse, you would have broken her heart and she would have made life miserable afterward before finding someone much better than you. Then she would have written a bunch of songs about you, and they'd all be hits, and you'd go back to your job at the rental car agency.
After listening to Angel's new album over and over for the last couple of days, I feel that buzz, the one you get after you've just met someone and a few hours later you realize you can't stop thinking about them and you start devising a plan to run into them again. Her new album, My Woman, is either timeless or old-fashioned--I can't decide which one. It's the kind of album we used to love hearing when we were young. All the songs are engaging in that much-smarter-than-average pop sort of way--Angel's singing about love and loss and memories and dating and all the things that matter to young people, and people who used to be young and still remember how much it sucked. Her lyrics are straightforward, but Hemingway-esque in their hidden complexity.
This is one of those albums I discovered accidentally on Tidal--I almost didn't get past the first song, "Intern," because it's basically just Angel's voice backed by synthesizers. What follows, however, is both bad-ass and adorably original. "Never Be Mine" sounds like an old Roy Orbison song that was re-written for a female; it's also beautifully recorded and drenched in reverb. "Shut Up Kiss Me," however, was the point where I realized I was developing a serious crush--the hurried and desperately truncated way she says "Shut up! Kiss me! Hold Me Tight!" will make you want to instantly reply to her that maybe it is a good idea if you two get back together.
Going back to the old-fashioned, timeless statement I made earlier--that feeling hits you in many subtle ways. For instance, this is the classic rock album where you have six shorter and more energetic songs on Side A, the "singles" so to speak, and four slower, more expansive and ambitious songs on Side B, the "deep tracks." The album's epic stand-out, "Woman," starts out as a dreamy ballad, like Julee Cruise minus the kitsch and the melodrama, and then builds into a full-out rock jam before slowly drifting into an ambient coda that's more 2016 than anything else here.
But other than that, this album could have been made in 1979, or 1986...or right now.
Angel started out playing alongside Bonnie "Prince" Billy and her earlier two solo albums have been characterized as folky. Nothing about My Woman feels folky at all. This is smart, confident and exciting pop/rock sung by a woman who seems mysterious and assertive and relentlessly cool and still might curl up into a ball and cry when no one is around. She's Debbie Harry in Parallel Lines, or Liz Phair in Exile in Guyville. But she's also ol' Roy Orbison, big of heart, full of sorrow and incredibly impressive in every conceivable way.
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Analogue Productions' LP Reissue of Duke Ellington's Blues In Orbit
Man, I have a lot of music to review right now. The pile of CDs next to my laptop looks like three-hour old game of Jenga. My mystery source for some of the experimental jazz I've been reviewing has finally revealed itself--they had to ask for my new address because stuff kept shipping back to them. Once I confirmed my New York post office box, the new CDs starting coming in fast and furious-like, three and four at a time.
I also sent Morten Lindberg of 2L Recordings a note with my new address. I figured the same thing happened, that his latest recordings were being shipped from Norway, passing through customs, and then getting sent all the way back unclaimed. But Morten actually informed that he hadn't sent anything in a while because they were busy working on several new releases. Last week, all of them arrived at once!
Plus I keep discovering great new artists on Tidal, which in turn compels me to walk over to The Sound Garden record store here in Syracuse to see if they have it on vinyl. They usually do. My review of Michael Kiwanuka's Love & Hate should be appearing in Positive Feedback Online soon, and just yesterday I fell in love with Angel Olsen's My Woman and this morning I had to fetch Wilco's Schmilco. So I have some work to do.
This Ellington LP sort of fell through the cracks in the last few weeks. I bought it from the Acoustic Sounds website as sort of a consolation prize when they sold out of their Julie London reissues at the Newport Show last June. I ordered Julie Is Her Name, Vol. 2, and I felt like getting one more. Hmmmm, I thought, what's the latest magical release from Chad Kassem's catalog? I turned out to be this one, Blues In Orbit. I was a little torn at first--Duke Ellington is one of my favorites in all of jazz, but I wasn't very familiar with this 1960 LP. I looked up some reviews and found that while it's considered a solid release in Ellington's catalog, it isn't really one of "the greats." But even a good Duke recording has to be better than the great albums of most, right?
I'm glad I purchased this one, however. It's not perfect--it has a very loose structure to it that was the result of two somewhat spontaneous late night/early morning live sessions at Columbia Studios on December 2, 1959. The overall sound quality is a bit veiled compared to some of Duke's classics. And I'm not in love with the rather stodgy variation on "Duke's Place" that landed here. But other than those minor complaints, this album swings like nobody's business. It's got a full, crazy and lively blues sound that will make your toes tap and your head bob. It also has moments where individual instruments LEAP out at you, almost in your lap--Ray Nance's trumpet, Booty Wood's trombone and especially Harry Carney's whimsical, breathy bass clarinet.
This one's a keeper, an instant classic for my demo stock at trade shows and such. It's the epitome of the late night blues album, captured on the fly, and overflowing with life and humor. If you don't believe me, listen to Ray Nance's wild, untamed violin solo on "C Jam Blues" and listen to the entire band laugh afterwards at the sheer audacity of it. It's a classic moment in a classic album.
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Only eight clubs remain in Europe's most prestigious annual tournament, which means that your favorite is probably watching from the couch. But that doesn't mean you can't raise the stakes a little bit and choose a new one to root for (at least just for now). But how do you pick? You can't just cheer on a clear favorite or the club everyone else is supporting, what's the fun in that? Lucky for you, our Hipster's Guide to Picking a Champions League Team is back.
This foolproof method to selecting your new favorite team for the next three months is the only way to go if your squad has been eliminated — take notes Madridistas.
Just like last year's edition, we're going to start off with an easy one — no hipster would be caught dead within 100 feet of a bandwagon. If your fans pack the pub on weekends and can't even properly pronounce "Leicester," or if immature rage quit trolls consistently pick you on FIFA, then you're out. Sorry Manchester United and Barcelona fans.
While Cristiano Ronaldo didn't win the last Ballon d'Or, he's still one of the top players (and most popular) in the world. Tottenham and Manchester City's rosters are both rife with current and future superstars, but none have won a Ballon d'Or nor achieved the level of popularity and celebrity of Ronaldo.
This one's quite simple really. The English Premier League is the most televised league in the world, and with that comes eyeballs and a lot of money. Because of that, some of the game's richest rosters are in England. If it makes Tottenham fans feel better, the North London club is much more reasonable with how they spend money compared to their counterparts at Manchester City.
Both Ajax and Porto are a hipster's paradise, but there can only be one winner. Ajax, who took down titleholders Real Madrid in the last round of the Champions League, have enjoyed a renaissance with many homegrown talents starring. Although it's been a while since Ajax have been relevant on an international scale, the current team is seemingly on a mission to add another chapter to their rich European history.
Given the above you would think Ajax is the easy winner, but Porto's also a smaller team with a storied past. The difference between the two clubs lies in the jersey. Ajax's kits are made by mainstream manufacturer adidas, but Porto's are made by New Balance. They also look better too.
Porto's also got some hipster-friendly star appeal in aging legends Iker Casillas and Pepe. While a match against their former club Real Madrid isn't in the cards this year, you can bet the two late-30s sages are looking for their swan song.


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Experience the flavours of India
Indian cuisine is as diverse as India itself! Machan Indian Restaurant (Machan) prides itself on bringing the flavours of India right to your very own doorstep in Eltham. In operation for over 16 years, Australian Good Food Guide multi-award winner, Machan Indian Restaurant, opened it's doors to Indian food lovers on June 8, 2003.
At Machan, we have set the reputation for being a local favourite in the heart of Eltham. Machan offers an array of classic traditional Indian curries that carry worldwide recognition, evident in its signature dishes such as the sizzling tandoori platter, home-made samosas, chicken khurchan, butter chicken, chicken tikka masala, pan-fried prawns, tawa fish, seafood malbari, korma's, bhoona beef, madras curries, malai kofta, palak paneer, pumpkin masala and various vegan delights. Machan was one of the first to offer gluten-free naan. All meals are made with natural and fresh ingredients that are sourced locally.
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Messages from your Soul You will be guided out of the 3D world and into your own personal messages that will come through you as you write or journal.
Suddenly, you will find yourself connecting with your Spirit Guides, Totem Animals and Higher Self. Messages From Your Soul can also be used as inspiration for creating an art project, sculpture or painting.


Paul Haresign Williams' On Reflection is being presented at ViewPoint Gallery in Halifax from July 7 through 31. This series explores the ephemeral nature of reflections and the views they offer us. Reflections lead to a surreal world where the viewer questions what is real and what is illusion. Solely reliant on light, these transitory moments appear and disappear without warning, but Williams has recorded them with his lens.


Established in the United Kingdom in 1999, Apache Workwear UK had the aim of providing industrial workwear that was of high quality, expertly designed, durable and affordable. The industrial and technical work clothing available at that time left a lot to be desired concerning design and quality.
Apache Workwear was started in response to the general lack of decent quality, affordable industrial wear available at that stage. What little there was available was relatively expensive and lacked style. UK Apache clothing set out to prove that it was possible to stay safe and still look half-way decent.
They made a point of sourcing the best quality fabrics and ensuring that safety always came first when creating a new design. All Apache clothing workwear is designed with the end user in mind. The company takes its cues from its clients to develop ranges that meet their needs more precisely.
Now you can buy top-notch safety gear without blowing the bank and can be sure that it will last a reasonable amount of time as well.
The ranges are diverse and cover footwear, trousers, jackets, and more. The company has been lauded for its innovativeness and modern design. They pay attention to the smallest detail, from kneepad pockets to easy open zips.
They don't waste time by adding features that no one really needs. They start by creating a practical item. Then they work with that to make it look modern and find ways to increase comfort and fit.
They make sure that they adhere to strict quality standards because they understand that their products need to take quite a beating. These are not products for "weekend warriors" on the DIY scene. These products are made for those who need them to work hard.
The company takes a lot of factors into account when designing their gear. They look at the environment that the gear will be used in and work out how to improve it so that the worker is kept safe.
They only make industrial products, so you can be sure that the gear is going to take a beating. They work in safety features so that workers can always perform at their best, knowing that their gear won't let them down.
From non-slip soles for shoes, through to a broader cut of trousers to make kneeling easier, you can see that this is a company that takes customer care seriously.
They have also built a reputation for producing great-looking products. Their range of safety trainers, for example, look highly fashionable. They allow you to move from working onsite to having a drink with your mates seamlessly.
What is also interesting is that the parent company, Sterling Safetywear Ltd, is the same company that manufactures the Dewalt line. Dewalt is another industrial product line that is known for being precision-engineered and having a high-quality finish.
With that kind of backing, is it any surprise that Apache has become such a notable brand in the United Kingdom in just a couple of decades?
Here is a rundown of what the basic safety ratings mean.
SB: This is the minimal safety protection with a 200-joule rated toe cap. The caps might be made of steel, aluminium or composite materials.
SBP: This is also the minimal safety protection. The difference is that it is combined with a midsole that protects against penetration while walking.
S1: This is the same 200-joule rated toe cap. This time, it is combined with a seat region that is closed, absorptive energy properties and anti-static properties.
S1P: The 200-joule-rated toe cap. This time, it is combined with a midsole that is penetration resistant, a seat region that is closed, energy absorptive properties and anti-static properties.
S2: This is the same 200-joule rated toe cap. This time, it is combined with a seat region that is closed, absorptive energy properties, water absorptive properties, and anti-static properties.
S3: The 200-joule rated toe cap. This time, it is combined with a seat region that is closed, energy absorptive properties, water absorptive properties, cleated outsole, and anti-static properties.
S4: The 200-joule toe cap, combined with all polymeric or rubber materials. Has excellent energy absorptive materials.
S5: The 200-joule toe cap, combined with all polymeric or rubber materials. Has excellent energy absorptive materials. Also has the cleated outsole and a midsole that is penetration resistant.
HRO: Has an outsole that is heat resistant to a temperature of 300°C.
One thing that Apache is focused on is producing the very best product possible at the very best price possible. With that in mind, they have a team of designers in the United Kingdom working on honing their products and creating new ones.
The team is constantly tweaking their designs to incorporate changes that clients have requested, or to incorporate new materials and better design principles. This process of constant design and redesign is essential because as technology advances, so too do the materials that can be used in manufacturing.
New materials and more streamlined processes mean a better end result, and so the design team has their hands full. They are more than up to the challenge, though and deliver well-designed, quality items.
Once a design has been approved, a prototype is created and thoroughly tested. The stringent testing procedure ensures that only the best designs make it through to the manufacturing stage.
Any new materials that are being considered as part of the design are also subjected to rigorous testing to ensure that they will hold up as expected. The sourcing of materials is also considered an integral part of the design process so periodic testing for quality will be performed to ensure consistency.
Once the team is sure that the product is going to perform as well as believed, and that the design is useful to clients, it will go into production. The products are engineered by an expert team in the Far East to ensure that costs are kept as low as possible.
It is this that allows the company to offer the goods at such an affordable rate. If they were manufactured in the United Kingdom instead, the costs would be a lot higher.
Still, the company takes consistency and quality seriously, so every batch is tested to ensure that it meets that exacting standards that have been set for it.
Whether you want a particular style, colour or size - we have a filter facility to help you find your exact pair of work trousers or garment.
Easily, our best selling work trousers are the Apache APKHT Holster Pocket Work Trousers.
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Macy's to open Backstage distribution centre in Columbus, US
1 May 2018	(Last Updated May 1st, 2018 12:06)
US-based department store chain Macy's is planning to open a new Backstage distribution centre in Columbus, Ohio, to support the growth of its Backstage store concept.
The new distribution centre, scheduled to open in autumn next year, will create approximately 400 jobs in the region.
The retailer currently employs approximately 6,500 employees at 24 Macy's stores, one Bluemercury and its headquarters in Ohio.
"Macy's has a strong business in Ohio, and we are excited to continue building our presence in the state."
Macy's chairman and chief executive officer Jeff Gennette said: "Macy's has a strong business in Ohio, and we are excited to continue building our presence in the state.
"We are fuelling the expansion of our Backstage concept by adding a new distribution centre and creating 400 more Macy's jobs in Columbus, Ohio. This new distribution centre will enable us to move merchandise to our Backstage locations faster and with more flexibility."
Backstage is an on-mall, off-price concept that offers fresh products, including apparel and accessory brands for men, women and children.
The concept store will also feature an assortment of housewares, cosmetics, hair and nail care, home textiles and decor, gifts, jewellery, shoes, accessories, designer handbags and activewear.
Of the 100 planned Backstage locations, the retail chain opened 20 stores across the Northwest and Southwest in the first quarter this year.
Macy's currently operates more than 690 department stores under Macy's and Bloomingdale's brands, and 160 speciality stores under Bloomingdale's The Outlet, Bluemercury and Macy's Backstage brands.


Alexander Ivanov (Alexander Daf) and Konstantin Terentyev (Aedem) are talented sound producers from Russia and Microcosmos label residents. Alexander already released few tracks on well-known European net-labels. His debut full length album "A Thousands Reasons to Be" was released by major American label System Recordings at the end of 2008. This album got lots of flattering responses and entered Beatport's Chillout Top 100. Nowadays Alexander regularly performs in clubs and participates in various festivals. Recently he produced new album in collaboration with British ambient-artist Matt Coldrick (Pan Electric). Konstantin Terentyev has classical music education (piano classes). He also studied audio engineering for several years. After many experiments with sound Konstantin found his own unique style. He begun perform live-acts and produce tracks under Medea (psychedelic trance) and Aedem (ambient, chillout) aliases. Split album "Prism" is the first collaboration between Alexander and Konstantin. Severe, finished with lots of details, this work is full of mystical tunes from the East and snowy melancholy vibes from the North; Album is saturated with soft enveloping melodies and made with combination of electronica and live instruments improvisation. This release completely proves it's name – infinite versatility of "Prism" attracts and gives an impulse to listener's hand to push "repeat" button again and again.


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Newcastle complete £25m swoop for Chris Wood from Burnley
Newcastle complete £25m swoop for Chris Wood from Burnley, with the striker set to make his debut in Saturday's crunch Watford clash after signing a two-and-a-half year deal at St James' Park
Newcastle have bolstered their attacking option with the arrival of Chris Wood
The 30-year-old can make his Newcastle debut this weekend against Watford
Boss Eddie Howe hailed Wood as 'a great fit' for Newcastle's battle for survival
Newcastle have completed the £25million signing of Chris Wood from Premier League rivals Burnley.
The New Zealand international has signed a two-and-a-half year deal and could make his debut against Watford at the weekend. He will take the No 20 shirt.
Upon putting pen to paper as a Newcastle player, the 30-year-old Wood said: 'This is a very exciting opportunity for me and I'm delighted.
Chris Wood has sealed a £25m move from Burnley to Newcastle on a two-and-a-half year deal
Wood takes the No 20 shirt at Newcastle and is in line to make his debut against Watford
'I have played at St James' Park a few times and it's an amazing place, so to have the chance to represent this club with those incredible supporters behind me and my team-mates is very special.
'The club and manager have been first class during this process, and I really can't wait to get onto the pitch and repay the faith they have in me, especially with a vital part of the season ahead of us.'
Manager Eddie Howe added: 'Chris is an important signing for us at a crucial time and I'm very pleased we have been able to move quickly and bring him here.
'He is a very dangerous attacking threat, has a physicality and character that I really like, and he has vast experience in the Premier League. He will be a great fit for us.'
The New Zealand international said he is 'delighted' at making the move to St James' Park
Wood is Newcastle's second signing in the January window after right-back Kieran Trippier joined from Atletico Madrid.
Wood spent four-and-a-half years at Burnley, scoring 44 goals in 149 games for the Clarets, who are said to be fuming at losing their star striker to a fellow survival battler.
Burnley and Newcastle are 18th and 19th in the Premier League table respectively, both with 11 points.
But Burnley have two games in hand on the Magpies due to Covid-19 enforced postponements. They host Leicester at the weekend as Newcastle take on Watford.
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This advanced placement drawing course is designed to challenge students to not only be creative, but work in an efficient, clean, and detailed manner. Students will explore various drawing forms and mediums, including but not limited to: pencil, ink, ink wash, acrylic wash, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, wax conte crayon. The year-long course is broken into three sections: Breadth, Quality, and Concentration. Breadth is designed to expose students to a large variety of drawing mediums. Concentration will focus on a concentrated drawing theme of each student's choice. Quality will focus on students producing their best work.


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2 Top Members of Statistics Commission Quit as Govt 'Delays' Report on Post-Demonetisation Job Losses
Economy India Latest News
New Delhi: Two independent members of the National Statistical Commission, P C Mohanan and J V Meenakshi, have resigned over disagreement with the government on certain issues.
Mohanan was also the acting chairperson. With the two members quitting, the NSC now has only two members — Chief Statistician Pravin Srivastava and NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.
"I have resigned from NSC. We thought that the commission is not very effective now a days and we also thought that we are not able to discharge the commission's responsibility," Mohanan told PTI.
The Indian Express reported that the two quit in protest against the withholding of the NSSO's (National Sample Survey Organisation) first Annual Survey on Employment and Unemployment for the year 2017-18. This report, the first by NSSO in this government, was expected to reflect job losses in the wake of demonetisation, it stated.
Both members tendered their resignation on January 28, 2019, an official said. The NSC, under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), is to have seven members, as per its website. Already, three posts were vacant.
The newspaper report quoted Mohanan as saying: "The normal convention is that NSSO presents the findings to the Commission, and once approved, the report is released within the next few days. We approved the NSSO survey on employment/unemployment in December beginning. But the report has not been made public for almost two months."
"Over a period, it was noticed the government does not take the NSC seriously," Mohanan added. "NSC was kept out while key decisions were taken. We were unable to effectively discharge our duties."
The tenure of Mohanan and Meenakshi was to end in June 2020. They joined as members in June 2017.
In November last year, the NITI Aayog had come under fire for announcing the revised GDP data of the UPA years. NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar and Chief Statistician Srivastava had announced the back-series data by the government.
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What is Saint Patrick the patron of?
Who or what is Saint Patrick the patron saint of?
Saint Patrick is the patron of Ireland. Meanings, definition and origins - a patron is considered to be a defender of a specific group of people or of a nation. There is a patron for virtually every cause, profession or special interest. Prayers are considered more likely to be answered by asking a patron for intercession on their behalf.
The story and history of Saint Patrick. Patrick, or Patricius, was believed to have been born in Britain c387, near the English border with Scotland. His parents, Calpurnius and Conchessa, were wealthy Roman nobles. His father Calpurnius was a Decurion, a cavalry officer in command of a troop of thirty soldiers, in the army of the Roman Empire. Calpurnius was sent to Britain to help to quell the attacks from the Picts of Scotland and the Celts of Ireland. Calpurnius was a Christian, as in 380 the Roman Emperor Theodosius I (r.379 to 395) had proclaimed Christianity as the sole religion of the Roman Empire. Patrick was therefore raised in the Christian faith. At the age of fourteen Patrick was captured during a Celtic raiding party and taken to Ireland. He was a slave of the Irish and forced to herd and tend sheep. He was a slave for the next six years where he learned the language of the Irish and about their customs and religion. The Irish adhered to the religion of the Druids, whose symbol was the Serpent or Snake of Wisdom. Patrick escaped from Ireland and returned to Britain and re-joined his family. He undertook studies to become a priest, visiting several monasteries in Europe, and was ordained by St. Germanus, the Bishop of Auxerre. He was appointed as a Bishop and due to his experiences in Ireland, and his knowledge of the Irish people and the Druids , he was appointed by Pope St. Celestine I to evangelize in Ireland. Patrick knew how important the Druids were and made every effort top decrease their power and hold over the Irish people. Hundreds of soldiers supported Saint Patrick to ensure the conversion of Ireland. Churches were built in the sacred places used by the Druids. Druid teachers and wise men were killed and so were thousands of their followers. The Druids were defeated. Saint Patrick had converted Ireland to Christianity in 33 years. Saint Patrick died in 464 at Saul, a small village in County Down in Northern Ireland situated about 2 miles from Downpatrick.
There are two categories of saints: martyrs and confessors. A Christian martyr is regarded as one who is put to death for his Christian faith or convictions. Confessors are people who died natural deaths. Date of Death: Saint Patrick died in A.D. 464. Place of Death: Saul, County Down, Northern Ireland. Cause of Death: Natural causes.
Why is Saint Patrick the patron of Ireland?
Why is Saint Patrick is the patron of Ireland? Saint Patrick is the patron of Ireland, the people of which country he converted to Christianity. His exorcism of the venomous reptiles has a similar significance as the dragon stories of the East, symbolising the conquest of good over evil, the triumph of Christianity over paganism.
It is helpful to be able to recognise Saint Patrick in paintings, stained glass windows, illuminated manuscripts, architecture and other forms of Christian art. The artistic representations reflect the life or death of saints, or an aspect of life with which the person is most closely associated. Saint Patrick is represented in Christian Art he is always represented with a serpent, or snakes, at his feet alluding to the serpent symbolism of the Druids.
The Feast Day of Saint Patrick is March 17th. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.


To help students easily approach the higher authorities, the Gangadhar Meher University (GMU) in Sambalpur has started the 'Meet the Vice-Chancellor' programme.
SAMBALPUR: To help students easily approach the higher authorities, the Gangadhar Meher University (GMU) in Sambalpur has started the 'Meet the Vice-Chancellor' programme.
Launched by vice-chancellor Atanu Pati on August 23, the programme envisages a meeting of the VC with students, teaching and non-teaching staff on the last Saturday of every month. The issues brought up for discussion will have to be addressed within a month's time.
UC Pati, the deputy registrar of the university, said, "Access is the key to effective governance. 'Meet the Vice-Chancellor' will be a forum for discussion in which both the students, teachers and non-teaching staff can participate. They can talk to the VC and other officials of the university about the problems and difficulties they face and also propose how to solve them." The programme will be held at 4pm on the last Saturday of every month. "The issues raised during the meeting will be addressed within a month's time. They will be reviewed in the subsequent meeting. This will not only give the students and staff a chance to communicate with the VC, but also help build a congenial atmosphere inside the campus," he said.
Besides, it will also help check student unrest and unnecessary agitations through consultations and open discussions. "The programme will promote transparency and facilitate quick delivery of services to the students," Pati said, adding GMU is the first educational institution in the state to start such a programme.


MEDIA ADVISORY Amman, Jordan- 20 August 2013 – UNICEF high level officials will be in Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp and are available to give interviews to the media on the regional Syria crisis and UNICEF's humanitarian response supporting children across the region.
PRESS RELEASE Erbil, 18 August, 2013. As thousands of Syrians flood into Iraq fleeing from the ongoing violence in Syria, UNICEF and partners are rushing to meet their urgent needs.
News note BEIRUT, 22 January 2013 – OCHA Operations Director John Ging and Emergency Directors from six other UN humanitarian agencies spoke today of what they saw during a five-day trip to Syria, where they visited Damascus, the surrounding area, Homs, Talbiseh and Dera'a.


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At Issue: Should Grady High be renamed?
Dionne Kinch, For the AJC
Naming any public facility after a person can be fraught with problems. Even if that person was considered a hero at the time, history has a way of erasing accolades.
The editorial board of Grady High School's student newspaper says Henry Grady's name should be removed from their school.
In an editorial published in The Southerner earlier this month, the board wrote:
"As a community of individuals from various backgrounds, races and ethnicities, we should not have a name that fails to represent that heterogeneity. More than that, we should not have a name that is counter to the goals of any productive and welcoming school — one that fails to celebrate many cultures and embrace the uniqueness of Atlanta."
As alternatives to Grady, the board suggests Ida B. Wells, John Lewis, Andrew Young or Jimmy Carter.
But APS school board policy states that individuals will only be considered after they've been deceased for five years. That rules out Lewis, Young and Carter.
Grady, an editor of and part owner of the Atlanta Constitution, was known for his work to promote his vision of the New South, a vision that depended on maintaining white supremacy.
Earlier this year, officials in Houston, Texas voted to remove Grady's name from a school there as well.
Proponents of keeping the Grady name argue that history is what it was, not what you'd like it to have been. And at the time just about every white person in power was a racist of some sort.
So does that mean almost everything should be renamed, including the state itself? History doesn't cast King George II in a favorable light in most aspects.
Share your thoughts at communitynews@ajc.com.
LAST WEEK: HOW SHOULD FAYETTE COUNTY PAY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES?
Fayette County continues to have urgent repair needs related to roads, culverts, bridges and dams. Stormwater management was the subject of a 2013 SPLOST proposal that was defeated by voters, but local officials are reconsidering a two-year, one-cent sales tax to fund nearly 200 projects, especially since flooding over the holidays resulted in some serious damage.
Here's what some of our readers had to say about whether a SPLOST might be more acceptable now:
In 2013 they did a horrible job of explaining the SPLOST. I'm an example of one that voted against it. Now that I understand what the purpose was/is and have seen the problems that happened around Christmas, I get it. I'm ready to vote for whatever it takes to fix our culverts, bridges and roads, as it's an investment in our county. — Tim Kalafut
As interest rates are still extremely low, especially for municipal bonds, it would be smart to consider funding infrastructure projects through bonds with a duration equal to the projects' life expectancy. It would keep the annual cost much lower than an additional short-term sales tax, and would equitably assess the cost among the taxpayers who benefit. — Claude Y. Paquin
As a Peachtree City resident now paying [fees of] $137.11 per year, I would now re-consider a SPLOST to fund the Stormwater Utility. The impact of the SPLOST would likely overall be less cost, since citizens outside the county would assist in the SPLOST as well. — Buddy Holliday
— Jill Howard Church for the AJC


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GARDENS: La Mortella, on the Bay of Naples, is a product of exuberant experimentation.
ARCHITECTURE: Stockton House in Wiltshire looks every inch the classic Tudor house, but bristles with modern technology.
LYNXES: The lynx looks as if it may be reintroduced to Britain, but there are major consequences to consider as Joe Gibbs reports.
FINCHES: David Tomlinson's guide to these characterful birds that proliferate around the country.
CARS: Charles Rangely-Wilson tries BMW's big new estate, the 5-Series Touring.
THEATRE: The Old Vic celebrates its 200th birthday. Michael Billington looks back at its contribution.
LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE: In praise of Pashley bicycles.
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: Andrew Graham-Dixon picks a classic van Dyck.
TRAVEL: A weekend in Ghent, and a break in Jamaica at a place where Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller honeymooned.
INTERIORS: An antique dealer's drawing room uncovered.


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County Smuggling in Old Times
THE traffic in smuggled or contraband goods in the latter end of last century and beginning of the present, on the coasts of Haddingtonshire and Berwickshire, not to speak of homemade spirits, salt, &c., was extensive. It was thought no harm by a great part of the rural, and shopkeeping, and trading community at that time to "cheat the king." Lord Stanhope says, in his "Interesting Life of William Pitt," That so vast was the prevalence of smuggling, so numerous were the frauds on the revenue, that the income of the country during the year 1783 had fallen far below its reduced expenditure. The farmers near the coast have already changed their occupation, and instead of employing their horses to till the soil, they use them for the more advantageous purpose of carrying smuggled goods to a distance from the shore." Tea, brandy, and gin were the principal goods smuggled at that time. All the way from Prestonpans to Berwick, including Gullane Point, North Berwick, Dunbar, The Cove, Redheugh, Coldingham shore, Eyemouth, Burnmouth, &c., there was a regular trade carried on in contraband goods from French and Dutch luggers, and many a conflict took place with the revenue and coastguard officers while running them ashore, and in their transit over the Lammermuir Hills to places of concealment in glens, scaurs, and caves, when the kegs could be removed, as opportunities occurred, to villages and towns. French brandy, and Holland gin, from Flushing, &c., were to be found not only in the houses of the middle classes, but often in the houses of rich farmers, and even of his Majesty's justices of peace.
Many curious adventures happened, and many strange stories were told by old people of the means taken to "cheat the gauger," and to get the kegs, or ankers, safely concealed; but when they were seized, they were lodged in the excise cellars, and the smugglers fined or imprisoned. An old respected farmer in Lammermuir used to relate that the excise officers once came to his house expecting ten carts of kegs of brandy to pass his way from Burnmouth, which they were ready to seize in the king's name when they appeared. The farmer saw how the land lay, and hospitably entertaining the officers, as was his custom, sent word to the smugglers to alter their route, and take the road to Longformacus, and they thus escaped the enemy. On one occasion a conflict took place on Edington Hill, between Ayton and Chirnside, when Collector Watson, at that time an officer at Chirnside, long respected, and well known in Haddington for the faithful discharge of his duty, was severely cut and wounded with a cutlass, and lay for some hours in a ditch insensible. A desperate character of the name of Tait was once stopped by a gauger near the White-castle Nick, with his cart full of kegs. The officer ordered him, in the king's name, to stop and surrender, presenting a pistol at him. On Tait drawing his pistol from his pocket, and crying out "First to-!." the gauger made off. On another occasion, a boatful of ankers had been landed at Danglas Dean, and lodged in a barn for future delivery: an officer going his rounds found out the place of concealment, and after securing the door, went off to Dunbar to get assistance to lift the ankers. In the meantime, "Pat was up to the gauger," and the whole cargo was soon removed out of the way. When the officer returned with a party to secure their prize, they found the "bird flown."
It is a fact that cartloads of kegs were frequently driven from the Cove, near Cockbumspath, to Edinburgh. On one occasion William Christison, long the Dunglass carrier, had his cart well filled, and when travelling on the post-road, two excise officers came up to him and walked a considerable distance with him. He was in great dread as he heard the liquor in the kegs rattling; however, they left him, to his great joy, without making any remark, and William duly delivered his kegs in Edinburgh.
An exciting incident, still fresh in the memory of some East Lothian ladies, betwixt a smuggling lugger and a revenue cruiser, happened on a fine calm Sunday, in the month of July, somewhere about the year 1822, betwixt Canty Bay and the Bass, and opposite Castleton and Tantallon Castle. The smuggler had been on the coast for some days running kegs at different places, when she was descried by the cutter, which chased her and fired into her. The lugger came close in-shore, and threw the greater part of her kegs into the sea, which being done, she set all sail, and, aided by a favourable breeze which had sprung up, she made off to the German Ocean, followed hard by the cutter. Being a quicker sailer, lighter, and well managed, she escaped, thus disappointing the cutter of a prize—she was painted white on one side and black on the other. John Whitecross, then the tenant of Canty Bay and the Bass, with his men, along with the residents at Castleton, &c., were not long in noticing what was happening with the lugger's kegs. A general scramble for them at low water, with the aid of boats, took place; when landed, many a one got "bleezing fou" with the contents. A number of kegs were carried to places of hiding at Castleton, &c., and the consequence was that excise officers made a search of the house of Mr Robertson, the tenant of Castleton, the hinds' houses, sheds, barns, thrashing-mill, &c., and took away a number of kegs. Mr Robertson, however, frankly owned to the officers that he had two kegs in a box, which he showed to them, and which he was allowed to keep. George Hogg, the grieve at Castleton, a practised hand, had placed some kegs up in the windmill, and when the officers went up there to search, he put on (by accident) the "wings" and they were glad to decamp. Some of the hinds' wives, when the officers appeared to "rype" their houses, feigned sickness, and went to bed, and got some of the kegs placed in beside them under the bed-clothes. It would not have been decent in the officers to disturb the sick women.
A story is told of an old worthy Haddington merchant, who did a little in contraband. He and his maid (he was unmarried) one dark night, went with a hand-barrow up to Winton's Barns, on the Gifford Road, to meet a cart from Danskine with kegs. On returning with several on the barrow, while rejoicing and muttering to himself, "Fine wark! Get on, lassie; a' safe noo —Cleuch and Veitch (excise officers) baith drunk" the two officers came up to him at his shop door, and tapping him on the shoulder, asked him what he had got on the barrow. He cried out, "Oh, jist look ower it—look ower it!" "Oh, sir," said the officers, "we have been looking over it all the time." Danskine was a noted place, long ago, for concealing kegs. John Miller, farmer and innkeeper there, was long well known in the trade, and many a journey was made in a dark night, on a bare-backed horse, with a sack, to bring down to Haddington a couple of kegs, one in each end of the sack.
Spilmersford and Winton were also great places for concealment, being on the way to Edinburgh from the hills. The old "Horners" of Winton were well known. The Dunbar and neighbouring smugglers were men of desperate character, and did not mind a brush with the officers. A thorn tree, called to this day "The Gaugers' Bush," at the corner of the road to Lochhouses, leading from Tynninghame entry, is pointed out as the place where a gauger was shot and killed by a party of smugglers. Aberlady Sands, Gullane, and Dirleton Links, Tyne Sands, &c., were great places for concealing the kegs, by burying them in the sand, whence they were removed at convenience.
The kegs were of a nice, handy size; a man could easily carry two of them in a sack over his shoulder. They were made of oak, and had six light iron hoops on them, were 20 inches long, 34 inches in girth, and 24 inches at each end. The writer of this obtained several of them lately, and has had two of them varnished and put in order. They are fit to be placed in a museum, and kept as a relic of former times. They can be seen at Mr James Lyle's, wine-merchant, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. They represent many thousands which were run and landed—filled with brandy, gin, and wine — on the coast from Prestonpans to Berwick-upon-Tweed, and other places during the high days of smuggling in the end of the last and beginning of the present century. They are still sometimes to be met with (empty of course) about old farmhouses.
Those who "kent their trade" always knew when the stock of cognac or hollands ran low in the farmer's or family bunkers, and they only needed a hint to bring a fresh supply. The trade now, from the close surveillance' of the coastguardsmen who perambulate the coast every night, may be said to be completely annihilated ; and the deeds of the old smugglers, who were daring, resolute men of the "Dirk Hatteraick" stamp, are now only handed down and narrated by old people secondhand. It is curious now to note that, eighty to a hundred years ago, the Town Council of Haddington, as well as the heritors of the county, subscribed resolutions to the effect "That the use of French wines and spirits in public-houses and private families, which liquors were, in a great part, clandestinely imported, and smuggled through the county in defraudence of the revenue, as also the drinking of tea, especially among the people of lower ranks, had arrived to such an extravagant excess, that during the war with France they should not drink French wine or liquors in any public-house, or use them in any way in private houses, and that they should moderate or discourage the drinking of tea in their families." Tea was then ten shillings per pound.
"When beef and ale on the table were spread,
Our men were stout and our women bred,
And glorious old Bess would have laughed with me
At the sight of a Scotchman sipping tea."
The late Mr Andrew Howden, senior, farmer of Law-head, used to relate that when he was at a woman's school in Tynninghame village, she used to let her scholars out at three o'clock that she might take her cup of "herb," which she masked "hidely-ways" in her cupboard. Whisky "stells" were at one time common enough in the wild parts of the Lammermuir hills, and a brisk local trade was carried on; but as the old hands have died out, the trade, it is believed, has now become extinct. Cooper Neillans and "Old Bannety" (James Robertson), of Garvald, used to tell curious stories about the "stells working bonnily," and of the narrow escapes the smugglers made from the gaugers. The hill farm of Wanside, now part of the farm of Stobshiel, was in its day a great place for "stells." Many a gallon of "Lammermuir dew " was made there. The steep side of a mountain bum, well covered over with whins and ferns, was an excellent place for the manufacturing operations which continued undiscovered for many years. An old respected shepherd—John Wood, of Bentyhall—lately dead at an old age, used to tell that he often got his " morning " there, fresh from the worm-end.
Salt at one time paid a very heavy excise duty. That such a necessary article of life should have been so heavily taxed, seems to the present generation to have been a downright shame to the Government of the day, and from this feeling the smugglers of salt received more encouragement and support from the public than those of any other excise article. It was estimated at one time, that one-half of the salt used in the country was smuggled, and it was thought no ill to buy it. Government had at last, from the universal outcry against it, to repeal the tax. A famous old fishwife of Cockenzie, called Jenny Pow, was a noted smuggler of salt Jenny used to come into Haddington, sitting on the top of her cart, driven by her "guidman" Davie Hastie, crying *caller haddies," while the bottom of her cart was well filled with salt Jenny was often unlucky enough to get her cart and contents seized by the officers and carried off to the excise office, when the salt was confiscated. She was often fined in the Justice of Peace Court Jenny, however, continued the trade at all risks, more or less, until the duty was taken off. Bakers' carts, which took bread to Cockenzie and Prestonpans, often brought back a bag of smuggled salt, and were often seized, and the owners fined. Salt, like barrels of beer and ale, &c., long ago, could only be legally vended and transferred under authority of a permit granted and signed by an excise officer, and which had to accompany the goods. The permits were something like the old five-pound Scotch notes. A good story is told about a famous trader in Dunbar, who collected a lot of salt permits and paid a farmer of his acquaintance, who was rather blind, an account with them. His banker, however, soon undeceived him, when he presented them to be placed at his credit with the bank, by telling him they were salt permits. When "Sandie Campbells" (the hinds' pigs) were about ready for the knife and pork tub, the owners generally deferred killing them until an excise salt sale took place—every two or three months or so—when they obtained what they required at little more than the duty. It would make a long paper to note down all the stories which have been handed down about smuggling of worts by-brewers, and of candles, soap, starch, leather, whisky, &c. Happily, now, the public know nothing of the heavy taxes which were levied long ago on home-manufactured articles of necessary and daily domestic use.


Thrill to the rhythms of Aomori's spectacular festivals, known for their ornate floats and lively dancers backed by taiko, flute, and cymbal players. Each winter the illuminated floats can be viewed from the open-air bath of this 180-acre property.
The ever-popular Jawamegu Show is held free-of-charge every evening. The plaza lights up with the excitement of a festival in addition to traditional southern folk song performances featuring the Tsugaru and Scoop Shamisen instruments.


Ruins, a new map and part of the Devastation DLC map pack, takes place in the Mexican jungle and a Mayan temple. Lots of broken ruins. The map has two unique field orders, one it the Predator care package, similar to a maniac but with laser gun and thermal vision. The other is an erupting volcano, similar to the mortar fire.


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Ultimate Sacrafice by Women Agents
From the FBI: in 1994, when a gunman began shooting in a squad room at the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., Martha Dixon Martinez apparently chose to confront the attacker rather then retreat. She and fellow Special Agent Michael John Miller were killed in the exchange, along with a D.C. police officer. Robin L. Ahrens was killed in Phoenix during an operation to arrest an armed robber.
FBI: Women Agents Reflect on 40 Years
In New Interviews, Women Agents Reflect on 40 Years
FBI Celebrates Women Special Agents With TV Spots
From FBI:
40 Years of Women Special Agents: Part 2
Celebrating 40 Years of Women Special Agents, Part 2 July 17, 2012 They were known as the nun and the Marine. The respective backgrounds of Joanne Pierce Misko and Susan Roley Malone could not have been more dissimilar. But 40 years ago, on July 17, 1972, the two women were drawn together by a shared goal—to become FBI special agents.
FBI: 40 Years of Women Special Agents
Celebrating 40 Years of Female Special Agents This month marks the 40th anniversary of the first time women took their oath of office as FBI special agents. – FBI, This Week


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Duo to Ride Across America By Electric Bike to Promote Awareness
Words by Phil Covington
Last week, a team of two cyclists, Boris Mordkovich and Anna Mostovetsky, began a two and a half month, 4,000 mile ride across America on a pair of electric-assisted bicycles to promote awareness of electric bikes as an alternative form of transport, and to prove that their machines are a reliable and efficient way to get around.
The ride began in New York City on April 7th and will end at the end of June in San Francisco. Along the way, the pair plan to hold talks in 15 cities, and meet up with commuters, cycling enthusiasts and advocacy groups to find out what's preventing people from cycling for the many short trips that they routinely make.
So, how did the whole trip come about?
Boris was formerly the director of marketing for car-sharing start-up, RelayRides, and in that capacity, gained great insight into how people use vehicles. He realized that most journeys people make are local trips which could easily be done by bike. As he told me, he sees a lot of connections between the vehicle sharing model he worked with at Relay Rides, and the potential for users of such car sharing services to transition to e-bikes.
E-bikes are not a new thing of course. Europeans have already widely adopted them as a means of getting around, but they have been slow to take off in the USA; something Boris would like to help change during the course of the journey.
Slow adoption in America has a lot to do with the cultural differences around cycling compared with Europe. In the USA, cycling is much more of a fitness and sports oriented pursuit, whereas in Europe, riders mostly cycle to get from A to B; notably as a means to get to work.
Additionally, the distribution channels for e-bikes in Europe are more developed, and so people are already used to seeing them around and are thus comfortable with them as a transportation option. We are not there yet in the USA, and people have misconceptions as to what electric bikes are and what they do.
By embarking on a trans-America trip such as this, Boris and Anna hope to address these issues, and they will do so upon their EVELO Electric bikes (see picture). The choice of bike was simple. Boris co-founded EVELOs, a New-York based start up, and unlike many e-bikes that use a hub motor in either the front or back wheel, EVELOs use a mid-drive motor which Boris explains is more efficient.
The message they want to get across is that people can use electric bikes to replace their cars for short journeys. They also hope to highlight the need to improve cycling infrastructure, and to educate riders that range anxiety is not a problem. The latter point proven, no doubt, by the 4,000 mile journey itself.
Furthermore, they hope that cycling will become more popular in general as people adopt electric bikes, since in the USA, most people who will potentially take up riding an electric bike, probably are not cyclists already.
The ride is unsupported and therefore self sufficient, enhancing the notion that the electric bike is a serious and capable form of transportation. You can follow Boris and Anna's progress on their blog and find out where you can see them along the way via their website.
Phil Covington
Phil Covington holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School. In the past, he spent 16 years in the freight transportation and logistics industry. Today, Phil's writing focuses on transportation, forestry, technology and matters of sustainability in business.
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Release: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 18:00 (server time).
"Hero, the decisive fight is coming in. You've managed to help Eonar and fend off the Legion's assault, but not everything has been played out yet." Magni said the words in a tone Silence while the Vindicaar went to the heart of Antorus, deep in darkness. The silence became anxious when suddenly a red glow emerged from the nothingness. "The Seat of the Pantheon was not far off," thought Illidan, there was not a minute to lose. All landed from the nave and, in a common outburst, carried by a spark of light the adventurers rushed between the black stone columns.
Defeat Kin'garoth and these hellish machines.
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Eliminate Varimathras, the Lord of Fallen Fright.
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Today, as you've probably heard, is the anniversary of the Newtown, CT shooting where 20 young children and 6 adults were murdered by a mentally unhealthy gunman using weapons with high capacity magazines. It's one of those horrors that, as much as you support changing the circumstances that made it, it's hard to feel...worthy of saying anything on the subject.
I will say this; I don't want it to happen again but I'm pretty sure it will.
By chance I honored the kids of Newtown both living and dead by spending time with one of my favorite kids. She towers over me but she's still, for me, a kid.
In years past we have gone to Macy's and visited Santa. She's 12 now. The possibility that she would want to visit Santa every year for the rest of her life was slim. I knew that.
Last year illness and busy-ness kept us from that tradition so we addressed the idea of change with a by-blow. This year she told her mother and me that she'd rather not do the Santa thing because it felt "kind of creepy." If you're uncomfortable it's no good. Carmencita suggested we meet for breakfast and see the tree at Rockefeller Center and maybe some store windows to give ourselves jolts of each other and holiday spirit.
Today dawned cold and snowy and as windy as you ever hope it not to be. The child woke cold and stormy and as reluctant as you ever hope her not to be. But we persevered (and nudged and cajoled) and we met and it turned out to be lovely. Turns out that if you cover the bridges and tunnels with snow (and fear) the crowds at all the attractions are much thinner. It was lovely!
As we stood in front of the tree taking selfies Alita continually, but genially, berated her mother. "Moms don't take selfies." "See? You don't even know how to do it." But when the shutter clicked she smiled every time. She's opinionated but she is in no way sullen. I appreciate that more than I can say. When she leaned her chin on my shoulder for our annual in-the-ornament shot in Bryant Park it was officially the perfect new tradition.
She makes me grateful. My heart goes out to the families of Newtown.