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NPR's 50 Best Albums Of 2022
Published December 12, 2022 at 10:13 AM CST
Illustration: Huston Wilson on NPR
A year like this one makes hand-wringing about the death of the album seem silly (if anything we should be concerned about the single). Musicians gave us experiences in 2022. Immersive, ambitious, focused, sprawling, explosive, swerving albums expressed their power in any number of ways: Vibes to make summer stretch on into the year's cold months. Bottomless layers of invention. History lessons that sparkled like the best party you could imagine. There were too many great albums to count, let alone narrow down to a round number. But here are 50 that made us feel awe, ache or adoration, selected and ranked by the contributors, public radio partners and staff of NPR Music.
50. Ashley McBryde, Presents: Lindeville
Ashley McBryde is known for her singular ability to make it feel like she's lived what she sings about. On Lindeville, which sits at the intersection of storytelling country concept albums and musical theater, she puts other talents to use, gleefully getting into character and filling out the cast of salty, scrappy small-town neighbors with her singing peers and writing buddies. Over playful picking and loose-limbed, loping grooves, McBryde and her cast mates send up their protagonists' acting out, and it makes for the most vivid, rollicking and unexpected country song cycle of the year. —Jewly Hight, WPLN
49. Soul Glo, Diaspora Problems
When Black folks say "diaspora," we're not just speaking about our shared origins in the past. For us, diaspora points to our shared experiences in the present and an interest in our collective future. Throughout its album, Diaspora Problems, Philly hardcore punks Soul Glo address the multitudinous nature of the diaspora and what we go through. The riffs are fast and furious while the lyrics are funny and incisive. Beautiful, Black punk rock for our folks. —John Morrison, WXPN
(This review also appears in NPR Music's Best Rock Albums of 2022. Read the entire list.)
48. Sean Shibe, Lost & Found
The mild-mannered, conservatory-educated classical guitarist from Scotland possesses an untamed imagination, a sharp ear for curation and extraordinary technique on his Mexican Stratocaster. Repertoire-wise, strange bedfellows have rarely sounded this good together, as music by Moondog rubs against Bill Evans while Olivier Messiaen and Meredith Monk lie down with Julius Eastman and the medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen. Shibe can shred, but more often he makes the instrument sound as featherlight as an angel's wing. —Tom Huizenga
(A version of this review appears on NPR Music's Best Classical Albums of 2022. Read the entire list.)
47. Huerco S., Plonk
Blissed-out minimalism might be a balm for our busted biochemistries, but Huerco S. seems to want his work ingested less as a mood stabilizer than he does a mood consorter. Behold: 10 tracks, all titled Plonk, fissured together, gently jaggily so as to resist any threat of "easy listening." The penultimate piece uses D.C.'s greatest living rapper, Sir E.U, as a frontispiece — wayward and sprawling as a mind moving in the moments before fidgety sleep. —Mina Tavakoli
46. JID, The Forever Story
The Forever Story opens with a reveal that JID's been grinding on his singing skills. He lulls earnestly over the airy piano "Forever can't be too far away from never...," an acknowledgement that, since 2017's The Never Story, he's put in the performance and prayer required to reconfigure his reality. That juxtaposition of gratitude and hunger is the driving tension behind the kaleidoscopic project that shows just how daring and vulnerable he can be. The fluidity of genre and nods to inspirational musicians all work together to negotiate his place in Black music history forever. —Gabby Bulgarelli
45. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ghost Song
The glorious, gothic peculiarities of this era's leading song exploder have rarely been on more vivid display. Ghost Song finds Cécile McLorin Salvant in a bardic mode, singing intently of lost minds, phantom lovers and budding resentments; it's an emotionally complicated canvas, one that she fills with shadow and color. —Nate Chinen, WRTI
(A version of this review appears on Nate Chinen's Favorite Music of 2022. Read the entire list.)
44. Lucky Daye, Candydrip
Candydrip is the sugary sweet follow up to Lucky Daye's 2019 debut, as he continues to refine his signature feel-good R&B that smoothly serenades listeners about the twists and turns of romance. Once again, Daye teams up with D'Mile and Alex Isley, as her unmistakable background vocals peak throughout the album. Featuring a flavorful palette of grooves, focused storytelling and more soulful soundscapes, they turn up the heat with sleeker production, yet deliver a poetic project that feels timeless. Daye has proven himself to be consistent, continuously evolving and leaving his imprint within the realm of R&B and soul. —Ashley Pointer
43. Robert Glasper, Black Radio III
"We were born of a people who were torn from their people," proclaims poet Amir Sulaiman on the powerful first track of Robert Glasper's Black Radio III. "Black Superhero" follows, both songs reminders of the seriousness that comes with today's Black experience. While the rest of the album centers on themes of love and positivity, what's consistent throughout is Glasper's musicianship and songwriting genius, the outstanding contributions of his all-star collaborators and an alluring assimilation of jazz, hip-hop and R&B grooves into Black music excellence. —Suraya Mohamed
42. caroline, caroline
There's a seed inside every caroline song; sometimes it's a weighted-blanket chord progression, a mournful interval or a simple phrase repeated. And in that fragile inkling of an idea, something grows outward and seeks light. On its self-titled debut, the London-based octet pulls from minimalism, Midwestern emo, post-rock, free-jazz, folk and chamber music not as genetic genre splice, but as a way to build community sprouted from an unforgiving Earth. —Lars Gotrich
(This review appears on NPR Music's Best Rock Albums of 2022. Read the entire list.)
41. Sam Prekop & John McEntire, Sons Of
Sam Prekop and John McEntire first collaborated in the Chicago band The Sea and Cake in the late '90s, but here they ditch guitars and drums for modular synthesizer experiments. The songs were largely improvised — on stage or through emailed snippets — and they sizzle and morph into strange shapes. The best improvisation transforms music into a living thing. With wires, knobs, patience and attention, this duo makes electricity itself sing. —Art Levy, KUTX
40. Hurray for the Riff Raff, LIFE ON EARTH
"Nature teaches us that our work has to be nuanced and steadfast," adrienne maree brown writes in Emergent Strategy, "and more than anything, that we need each other ... in order to get free." Alynda Segarra's eighth album as Hurray for the Riff Raff, deeply inspired by that text, embodies that maxim. Its 11 tracks of "nature punk" are sharply constructed and deeply felt, finding hope in the power of compassion and the fundamental interconnectedness of all living things. —Marissa Lorusso
39. MUNA, MUNA
Come for the blissed-out pairing of "Silk Chiffon" and "What I Want" — each of which ranks among the greatest queer-liberation anthems of this young decade — but stay for the mellower pleasures that fill out MUNA's unimpeachable comeback album. "Anything But Me" channels the harmony-rich L.A. breeziness of Haim, "Kind of Girl" unfurls as a slow-burning rumination on self-advocacy, and "Shooting Star" closes the proceedings with a bout of hopeful swooning, but those are just a handful of the pleasures that abound. The more time you spend with MUNA, the less inclined you'll feel to skip a single song. —Stephen Thompson
38. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Topical Dancer
Wicked humor has always revved the engine of avant-garde dance pop, from Grace Jones' deadpan sneer to the glitchy giggles of Yeule. Adigéry and Pupul deploy their laughs — literally, in the showstopping "HAHA," which turns Adigéry's laughter into a rollercoaster of self-expression — to dismantle racism, sexism and generalized human foolishness on this beguiling and endlessly inventive manifesto of an album. Some tracks critique pop music itself — "Making Sense Stop," for example, lovingly takes down white appropriators — while others take on the absurdity of everything from courtship rituals to tourism to motherhood. Thanks to these two Belgian pranksters for insisting that we always need a laugh. —Ann Powers
(This review appears on Ann Powers' Top 20 Albums of 2022. Read the entire list.)
37. Nancy Mounir, Nozhet El Nofous
Nancy Mounir's Nozhet El Nofous is a conversation with the past. The Cairo-based composer and instrumentalist weaves aching arrangements around crackling recordings of 1920s Egyptian singers. In translations provided, we grasp how Mounir's own violin, bass and piano dance seamlessly with beautiful Arabic poetry of love, torment and darkness — characters who express longing and sorrow with the same nostalgic verve of what Brazilians call saudade. The ghostly effect, however, isn't haunting, but an empathetic hand across time. —Lars Gotrich
(This review appears on NPR Music's Best Experimental Albums of 2022. Read the entire list.)
36. MAVI, Laughing so Hard, it Hurts
The first time I saw MAVI perform, he was still studying at Howard, just trying to make this music thing work. In a dim basement in D.C., with a crowd still growing familiar with him, he gripped the mic, closed his eyes and performed the earnest, heady music of his 2019 debut Let the Sun Talk. In the three years since, the Charlotte, N.C., rapper has learned, loosened up and evolved. On his breezy follow-up, Laughing so Hard, it Hurts, he's drawn to a smooth, melodic style, a careful and deliberate unspooling of the web-like raps of Sun Talk. His producers — a cast including Dylvinci, monte booker and Wulf Morpheus — lend him a silky, almost R&B touch. And MAVI grapples poignantly with the weight of the last few years, and of generations past. —Mano Sundaresan
(This review appears on NPR Music's Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2022. Read the entire list.)
35. Caterina Barbieri, Spirit Exit
The Italian electronic composer Caterina Barbieri thinks deeply about the spiritual impact of her music on the bodies and minds of others. Her intense album Spirit Exit was created in isolation during Milan's strict pandemic lockdown, inspired by hermetic visionaries including the mystic nun St. Teresa of Ávila and Emily Dickinson. Barbieri's layered tracks build and explode massively into moments of bliss, as if to musically recreate Ávila's ecstatic vision of being stabbed in the heart by an angel. —Hazel Cills
34. GloRilla, Anyways, Life's Great...
After blessing the break-up anthem canon with 2022's song of the summer, "F.N.F (Let's Go)," GloRilla obliterates all "one-hit wonder" talk with Anyways, Life's Great... It's the way Glo's accent careens around syllables as she provides positive affirmations like: "Ain't f***ed up 'bout no credit score, I might be rich as f*** tomorrow / Every day the sun won't shine, but that's why I love tomorrow." It's the self-assurance of setting and maintaining boundaries — "I ain't in these bitches beef, I'm in my motherf***in' prime / Told 'em, 'Leave me out the way, no parts and I'm not takin' sides.' " The Memphis, Tenn., phenom's major label debut EP boasts themes of optimism and autonomy with a Big Glo-sized dash of ratchet debauchery mixed in. —Sidney Madden
33. Alvvays, Blue Rev
To borrow the expression "more cowbell," the Toronto band's record is, simply put, "more Alvvays." With more layers of guitars, melodies and beautiful noise, Blue Rev builds and expands on Alvvays' sound, a musical mirepoix mixed with the soaring vocals of songwriter Molly Rankin. Big Star and Teenage Fanclub's hyper-melodicism comes to mind as does the noise-pop wizardry of My Bloody Valentine and Rankin's proclaimed love of Belinda Carlisle. Blue Rev is a new benchmark in the overlapping worlds of dream and power pop, impressively produced by Shawn Everett. —Bruce Warren, WXPN
32. OHYUNG, imagine naked!
Whenever I needed a pacifier this year — which was often — something that would bring me back down not just to Earth but calmly to the very apartment room I was likely sitting in, imagine naked! was there to help. It makes sense: Robert Ouyang Rusli, who records tender ambient like this under the name OHYUNG, based its song titles on lines from a poem by t. tran le, titled "Vegetalscape," that creates deep magic from scenes of the everyday. That OHYUNG also composes for film makes perfect sense; mine might be titled Post-Pandemic Basement Boy. —Andrew Flanagan
31. Wet Leg, Wet Leg
Wet Leg's "Chaise Longue" was one of last year's greatest songs, an introductory single whose deadpan come-ons exuded wiry wit and playful cool. Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers' full-length debut lives up to that track's enormous promise, with songs that tap into several generations' worth of rock and post-punk influences while still capturing a cocktail of moods that's unmistakably of-the-moment: somehow both over- and under-stimulated, introspective but distant, lusty but numb. —Stephen Thompson
30. Nilüfer Yanya, PAINLESS
Listening to Nilufer Yanya sometimes makes me feel like I'm handling one of those self-defense trinkets designed for girls — a plastic comb that splits at the center to reveal a switchblade, a pretty, innocuous thing with grim intent. The British singer-songwriter often pairs her gorgeous voice with devastating electric guitar melodies and chillingly simple lyricism that only reveals its bruising later. On her second full-length album, PAINLESS, she drags her listener into a maximalist swirl of insecurity and existential dread like never before, filling its tracks with brooding, grungy rock that masterfully honors the quiet darkness of her work. —Hazel Cills
29. Lucrecia Dalt, ¡Ay!
¡Ay! is Lucrecia Dalt's sci-fi missive from space to Earth, or vice versa. The Colombian experimentalist tells an extraterrestrial's story through bolero, salsa, mambo, son and jazz submerged in a colloquial, nostalgic haze. The alien Preta's interpretations of home, love and the limits of having a body resonate exponentially against a textured, acoustic backdrop, a product of human imagination seeking to operate outside its chains of time, form and grief. Dalt's world-building in sound and theme are jarring in its invention, yet altogether familiar. —Stefanie Fernández
28. Alex Isley & Jack Dine, Marigold
The singer Alex Isley and the producer Jack Dine found refuge in one another with their 2019 EP, Wilton. Many artists hedge their bets on an array of composers and sounds, but Isley and Dine knew they had a good thing going. This year, they locked back in for their first full-length project, Marigold, reestablishing a connection that is magical in its subtlety. The little flourishes add up. It's in Isley's extra layer of harmonies, in Dine's seamless transition from "On & On" to "Still Wonder." The marigold flower symbolizes a feeling of despaired love, yet Isley still believes. On songs like "Without" and "Love Again," she declares her unwavering hope and desire, despite trying circumstances. Her pining exudes warmth, and, ultimately, Marigold is accessible and tender; an album for the lovers and the yearners. —Bobby Carter
(This review appears on NPR's Best R&B Albums of 2022. Read the entire list.)
27. Jeezy and DJ Drama, SNOFALL
The man behind "My President" now boasts of having "Biden on the text." The man who helped bring glory to the mixtape is now a Grammy winner for his role in making an album. But before all of that, Jeezy was the Snowman, a formidable presence on mixtapes like Trap or Die, a street classic in Drama's long-running Gangsta Grillz series. They reunite for SNOFALL, revisiting where the history-making began: Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward, the neighborhood that was ground zero for Gangsta Grillz before it became a tourist stop. So much has changed, which becomes a point of pride for Jeezy: "What you n***** expect? Ten years the same n****? / Waste a whole decade, and that'll be a shame, n****," he smirks on "Street Cred," pleased with his personal and artistic growth. There are subtle tweaks to his message and mindset, but what's most remarkable about the album is how energized and vital this partnership still sounds, all these years and achievements later. —Christina Lee
26. Asake, Mr. Money With The Vibe
A torch was passed in Nigerian street-pop when the influential rapper Olamide signed Asake. Their collaboration, "Omo Ope," an amapiano-blended, chant-inciting bacchanal, equal parts thankful and flexing, sets the tone for the entire Asake experience. His debut, Mr. Money with the Vibe, honors its title, of course — in these songs, an emergent star dons a flamboyant playboy persona — but the album prioritizes atmosphere over extravagance. It's vaguely spiritual music about rising from a dangerous place, finding success and trying desperately to hold on to it. Where many Afro-pop songs have a shiny, synth-powered sound, a lot of Asake's songs are more muted, built out of glowing Fender Rhodes electric piano and programmed strings. The whizzing "Sunmomi" turns an intimate request ("move close to me") into an invocation, repeating the phrase over and over until it becomes a form of worship. At its most profound, the album has that same quality, feeling both sacred and profane. —Sheldon Pearce
25. iLe, Nacarile
Nacarile is a portrait of an artist coming into her own. iLe (Ileana Cabra) comes from a musical dynasty of a family (she started performing with her stepbrothers in Calle 13) and the familial scrutiny has resulted in three albums since 2016 that show her getting more comfortable with her emotive voice but also her songwriting. Nacarile is her strongest statement yet and makes me impatient for future releases as they keep getting better and better. —Felix Contreras
24. Immanuel Wilkins, The 7th Hand
Spirit is everything — catalyst and crucible, mother tongue and moral law — on The 7th Hand, the astonishingly assured second album by alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins. His balletic, instinctive quartet moves through this seven-movement suite in pursuit of divine surrender, proving how a blazing intensity of purpose can override the usual divisions of style. —Nate Chinen, WRTI
23. Angel Olsen, Big Time
Angel Olsen's singular voice has expanded across dreamy soundscapes for over a decade, navigating the frontiers of folk, garage rock and orchestral pop with both full-band bombast and the poignancy of a lone guitar, all the while revealing wry truths beneath a warm blanket of reverb. Olsen's striking sixth LP, Big Time, upholds her penchant for eluding genre limitations by evoking the nostalgia of classic country. Her voice is at its most compelling, positioned front and center amidst a compendium of pedal steel and Mellotron. Ahead of recording Big Time, Olsen fell in love and came out as queer, just before her parents passed away. The encapsulating nature of love and passion, loss and grief, are at the heart of Big Time, which soars with a steadfast vulnerability that not only embraces the transience of life but celebrates the lasting power of connection. —Desiré Moses, WNRN
22. Jóhann Jóhannsson, Drone Mass
While Lizzo, Beyoncé and others beckoned fans into the light in 2022, I sought solace in the works of Max Richter, Hildur Guðnadóttir and other composers who find beauty and exaltation in the darkness. Few albums this year were as uplifting or transporting in that way as Jóhann Jóhannsson's posthumous Drone Mass, a stirring mix of strings, elegiac voices and deep, thrumming electronics with text inspired by the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians, ancient writings on creation, faith and salvation. Listening to Drone Mass feels like an invocation to exhale all mortal anxieties and stand, arms outspread, in awe of the infinite universe. —Robin Hilton
21. SAULT, Air
Glory to Dean Josiah Cover, aka Inflo, the shadow behind Sault and the first Black man to win producer of the year in the 45-year history of the BRIT Awards. After recording NPR's No.1 album of 2020, Untitled (Black Is), Inflo and his anonymous conspirators appeared to have established an identity: The U.K. collective made soul music for the 21st century. Little did we know, a change was gonna come. Air, the first of seven Sault releases in 2022, is a staggering pivot that finds Inflo directing a largely wordless choir (courtesy of London's The Music Confectionery) and an orchestra devoid of backbeats or bass lines, like if the Andrew Oldham Orchestra performed the works of Popol Vuh. It's a sublime reminder that Black music has no boundaries — and perhaps the flex of the year by the world's most intriguing producer. —Otis Hart
20. Kendrick Lamar, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers isn't really an album; it's a theatrical performance with Kendrick as playwright and protagonist. He's not our savior anymore, and he damn sure ain't here to entertain us. He's a tragic character in a tale of his own undoing. But these traumas are not his alone to bear. He's diagnosing a generation of Black men, unveiling insecurity, fragility, hypermasculinity. In the name of breaking the cycle and bequeathing something other than tribulation to his children, he calls out a culture that revels in misogyny, genderphobia and material wealth to mask its low self-worth. It's not heady work, it's heart work. Which can make for a very hard listen. Having mastered da art of storytellin' across his previous albums, Kendrick shot it all to hell in 2022. Many of the beats are baroque. The confessionals can be overbearing. And if you find yourself reviled by his toxic revelations or his ill-conceived attempts at redemption, you probably should be. This is what therapy is supposed to sound like. Rap n***** haven't kept it this real and honest in ages. It's about damn time. —Rodney Carmichael
(A version of this review appears on NPR Music's Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2022. Read the entire list.)
19. Terri Lyne Carrington, New Standards Vol. 1
Terri Lyne Carrington's New Standards Vol. 1 represents a growing awareness surrounding the significant contribution of women in jazz. As the founder and artistic director of the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice at Berklee College of Music — not to mention NEA Jazz Master and multiple Grammy award winner — TLC's mission has been to even the playing field for women in the genre in pursuit of jazz without patriarchy. This album does just that, summoning the compositions of women known and soon-to-be discovered — from Abbey Lincoln to Brandee Younger. —Keanna Faircloth
18. Ravyn Lenae, HYPNOS
In an age of instant gratification, Ravyn Lenae's star appeal gleams from patience. After 2018's Crush EP, the vocal perfectionist went dormant for four years. Now, she's reemerged as a deity of Hypnos — the god of dreams — with her debut studio album by the same name as it grooves through time and cosmos to indulge desires of self-discovery. Lush, psychedelic sonospheres and hypnotic harmonies platform Hypnos' thematic centerpiece: fearless candor. Determined in her search for utopias of self-love — aided by other galactic adventurers innovating R&B like Smino, Fousheé and Steve Lacy — Lenae retains a precise focus with the vulnerability of confidence as her guide. —LaTesha Harris
17. FKA twigs, CAPRISONGS
During the first pandemic lockdown in the U.K., the English singer and producer FKA twigs wondered privately about the sustainability of her creative process. Making her 2019 album, Magdalene, a woe-inspired electronic aria, took its toll; she likened the exercise to putting her insides on blast. Restoration came through connection and collaboration — and her splendid, ever-changing mixtape Caprisongs is uplifting in its pursuit of sorority, some of which is found on the dance floor. Produced by twigs with El Guincho, the project is jubilant and inquisitive; it scans Afropop, hymnals, road rap and the club. A diverse cast of characters — local underground artists, mostly — chimes in on a far-reaching mix, but the project feels most intimate when twigs explores dance music as a form of communion and escape. —Sheldon Pearce
(This review appears on Sheldon Pearce's Top 20 Albums of 2022. Read the entire list.)
16. Saba, Few Good Things
With each of his projects, Saba showcases facets of his life, values and evolution that enlighten him; on Few Good Things, it's community. For instance, the title track marks his connection with his working-class roots, while the incessantly groovy cut "Come My Way," featuring Krayzie Bone, is an ode to his hood and his crew. As a whole, the album gives the effect of a thoughtfully crafted family photo album ... but it's also absolutely a righteous vibe. —Ayana Contreras, Vocalo
15. Natalia Lafourcade, De Todas las Flores
Rooted in her homeland of Mexico and inspired by the sounds of Latin jazz, a hypnotic quality runs throughout Natalia Lafourcade's De Todas las Flores. In the aptly named "Muerte," her voice takes on an uncanny tenor as she thanks death (and Veracruz) for teaching her how to live, while "María La Curandera" takes inspiration from the writings of Mazatec healer María Sabina and encourages finding healing in nature. It's a dazzling work that highlights Lafourcade's place among Mexico's greatest musicians and draws you into her sublime reflections on life, death and the awe-inspiring strength of the Earth. —Fi O'Reilly
14. Julia Bullock, Walking in the Dark
With a singularly expressive voice, you'd think the 35-year-old soprano from St. Louis would stuff her debut album with show-stopping opera arias, but nothing is conventional about Bullock. She's a keen curator, building programs of intellectual rigor that straddle classical and popular music. Here she threads themes of social justice and darkness in songs associated with Nina Simone, Sandy Denny and the enigmatic Connie Converse. Bullock's fiery side emerges in a scene from John Adams' oratorio El Niño, and she communicates tenderly, with her signature elegant phrasing, in Samuel Barber's ruminative Knoxville: Summer of 1915. An outstanding solo debut. —Tom Huizenga
13. Silvana Estrada, Marchita
The debut solo album from the Mexican singer-songwriter is an intimate, masterful portrait of heartbreak. Inspired by her background in jazz and her love for Mexican folk traditions, Marchita is anchored by Estrada's instrument of choice, the Venezuelan cuatro, and the powerful emotionality of her voice. Estrada has described the album, whose title translates to "withered," as "a journey into the self to attempt to understand sorrow." Rather than wilting, however, Estrada is interested in "what flowers will grow out of sorrow"; the collection of songs that blossomed out of her heartache are poignant and richly beautiful. —Marissa Lorusso
12. Alex G, God Save the Animals
Alex G's most confessional album builds its lofty questions about morality with the base reactions of animals, human and not. For an artist of few clarifications, God Save the Animals is ambitious in its questions about consciousness, flitting between transcendentally aware observation and nearsighted emotional desperation — and forgiveness, a maybe-fake thing made real all the time by people who choose to give it. This fragmented meditation is given flesh by, in addition to theologians and poets, Alex G's baroque melodic sensibility, sick groove and the ascetic simplicity of his observation: "Yes, I have done a couple bad things." —Stefanie Fernández
11. S.G. Goodman, Teeth Marks
S.G. Goodman is a queer Kentucky songwriter from a tiny and shrinking town on the banks of a big Mississippi bend. It is tempting to reduce her contemplative folk-rock, stirred by Muscle Shoals soul and bristling garage jams, to such stark biographical terms — a cultural outlier, pushing against the conservatism of the liminal South that raised her. But in these poignant tales of friends lost to alcoholism and opioid addiction, or her flinty excoriations of capitalism's hamster-wheel machinations, there is instead an abiding love for that home, expressed through the implicit demand that such places and their people be lifted up rather than so routinely put down. —Grayson Haver Currin
10. Pusha T, It's Almost Dry
On the closer, "I Pray for You," Pusha T remembers that the video shoot for Clipse's breakthrough hit "Grindin'" took place in his "momma's momma's projects." By that point, on his snide album, It's Almost Dry, he has already made the best possible case for why his music hasn't ventured too far from those Virginia projects in the 20 years since: His twin critiques of mob mentality and fake ballers are wittier, sneakier and more intoxicating than the stuff he was doing back in those days when he smirked at the Simpson trial. No wonder longtime champions Pharrell and Ye compete for airtime. With this album, the man who once dubbed himself the "L. Ron Hubbard of the cupboard" adds to the list of fanciful comparisons: Martin Scorsese, Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, "cocaine's Dr. Seuss." But at this point, it only makes sense to compare King Push against his own track record. —Christina Lee
9. A Far Cry/Shara Nova, The Blue Hour
Few multi-composer collaborations are memorable. However, The Blue Hour, a cycle of songs by Caroline Shaw, Angelica Negrón, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Rachel Grimes and Shara Worden, who sings and narrates its 40 sections, is unforgettable. The five women have inspired each other for years, and Snider calls the communal result "an embodiment of a musical sisterhood." The texts are plucked from Carolyn Forché's expansive poem "On Earth," which traces ruminations on life and death in vivid, alphabetically organized vignettes. Nova has rarely sounded so all-encompassing — from intimate communications to full-throated operatic splendor, backed by the agile string orchestra A Far Cry. —Tom Huizenga
8. Steve Lacy, Gemini Rights
The internet is full of slander against Geminis and bisexuals — the supposedly two-faced twins of the zodiac and the lovers who can't "pick a team." But Steve Lacy, a proud member of both groups, knows that looking beyond dichotomies and digging into contradictions is the way to find the most interesting stories. Chronicling a breakup on Gemini Rights, the neo-soul singer isn't a hero or a victim, but more of a trickster. The album's 10 guitar-forward tracks build harmonies around hummable hooks, and Lacy flits around themes of desire and regret, indulging in messiness and offsetting every vulnerable confession with a wink. —Nastia Voynovskaya, KQED
7. Makaya McCraven, In These Times
In These Times is the album that Makaya McCraven has been wanting to make his whole life: a sonic sock-it-to-me cake that folds in his beatmaking, clever compositions, Hungarian lineage (from his folk singer mother) and free-jazz roots (from his drummer father) alongside symphonic and heavy funk. The scale of the work alone is breathtaking, yet intentionally inclusive. A slice of this album makes the case that today's jazz greats deserve to be included on everybody's plate. —Ayana Contreras, Vocalo
6. Sudan Archives, Natural Brown Prom Queen
Violinist, singer, songwriter, producer and charisma machine Brittney Parks has been expanding her sound from the moment she first released music in 2017, and on her second full-length, she makes clear that her possibilities are endless. Flawlessly executing triple-axel leaps from steamy R&B to fleet-voiced rap to electronic reveries, Parks offers a self-portrait of a woman who enjoys her body, treasures her imagination and demands celebration for her vivid, thorny soul. "Gorgeous and arrogant, I love the smell of it," she declares, nabbing the gold. —Ann Powers
5. Amber Mark, Three Dimensions Deep
If you know Amber Mark from the release of her early EPs, 3:33am and Conexão, you've been waiting for this moment. If you didn't, her debut album, Three Dimensions Deep, is the perfect introduction to the genre-blending musical universe of Amber Mark. It's an invitation into a world of her own creation: She faces her own insecurities on tracks like "One" ("And I don't know if I'll ever succeed / I just want you proud of me up above (up above)") and pumps up herself and the opposition on "Competition." The crowning moment coming on "What It Is," where she pleads with the skies above to tell her "the point of it all." Mark combines the mystical and scientific into an undeniable sonic concoction meant to serenade you on your way to the stars. She asks the big, scary questions and makes the search for answers feel less isolating with enveloping production, and deeply moving lyrics, from start to finish. —Jerusalem Truth
4. Big Thief, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
I wouldn't normally associate tenderness and humor with rock music, but those are just a few of the outstanding qualities surrounding Big Thief's Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. Recorded in four cities and produced by drummer James Krivchenia, this double album is both a sonic adventure and an insightful lyrical exploration. In a single song, there are words of whimsy (rhyming "finish" with "potato knish") while at the same time exploring and accepting the differences in ourselves and those around us. And that's just one of 20 songs in an album that reveals something new for me on every listen. —Bob Boilen
(A version of this review appears on NPR Music's Best Rock Albums of 2022. Read the entire list.)
3. Rosalía, Motomami
Rosalía does her homework, then she's ready to play. On her third album, the Catalan artist borrows from influences across the Latin and Spanish diaspora and bends them into new musical narratives altogether. At times explosive and distorted, later deeply personal and poetic, Motomami effortlessly stretches Rosalía's range across reggaeton sprinkled with free jazz, a sex-fueled ballad and a Soulja Boy sample layered under a Justo Betancourt cover. Although it falls short on certain tracks, Motomami proves that Rosalía is carving her own lane in pop, led by her masterful understanding of the pioneers whose work she builds on. —Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
2. Bad Bunny, Un Verano Sin Ti
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No game-topping artist in 2022 regularly earns as many flowers as Beyoncé. She's so undefeated that the narrative at this point is almost tedious: Every few years she releases a major project that not only shows her undiminished prowess as a vocalist, writer, producer and all-around star, but creates a new rulebook by which her peers' work will be judged. From her meta-confessional masterwork Lemonade to her pan-African projects to the multi-media epic Homecoming, she's expanded pop auteurism in ways that inspire not just admiration but awe.
That's why it's no surprise that her dance music fantasia RENAISSANCE — a pandemic-era lark, she stated upon its release, designed to allow her to "be free of perfectionism and over-thinking" — is topping not only NPR Music's Best Albums list but many more, becoming the most highly lauded album of 2022.
She's accomplished this without the usual industry-mandated flourish of visuals, aside from a handful of photographs culminating in a stunning cover shot in an equestrian pose that's both mythic and redolent of the museum-worthy works she and her husband love to collect. The neo-classical framework the album's title provides works to communicate both its mission — to honor dance music's lineage of queer, mostly Black DJ's, producers and divas as Old Masters equal to any Beatle — and her own role, as the head of a guild herself, overseeing myriad collaborators to put their own marks on the canvas of her work.
With RENAISSANCE, Beyoncé has given us something beyond her personal story, or even the wide-opening interface between that story and Black history as shaped by migration, racism and resistance. She's created a detail-rich panorama inspired by the living history of that sacred space, the club. It's her Sistine Chapel, and it deserves to be discussed that way — as a star-filled imaginary sky, and an origin myth that comes to life through its brilliant brush strokes. To really appreciate it is to focus on its remarkable design, the way it sounds and feels different depending on one's perspective. Listening this way, what comes to the fore is its stunning detail, etched in by many hands. Rather than a set of bangers (which, of course it is), RENAISSANCE can be experienced as a seemingly inexhaustible text, each portion connecting to the other to evoke moments in time whose impact is timeless. —Ann Powers
(Read a conversation about RENAISSANCE between Ann Powers, Daphne A. Brooks and Danyel Smith.)
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Naida is one of more than 50 children who participated in a CCFC-supported program started in 2011 with the help of child sponsors. The initiative gives children in Paraguay an opportunity to produce a weekly 60-minute morning program on a local radio station. The real-world experience encourages children to improve their communication skills in Spanish (many children speak Guarani as their first language), contribute ideas, and express their views on topics, such as teen pregnancies, substance abuse, and child rights – a rare opportunity in rural communities.
Parents and schools have seen a huge change in the children participating, including a boost in their confidence.
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Everyday Challenges – Tea Uglow on 'Finding New Customers'
Nick Schiavuzzi
Presented by St.George Kick Start. We've teamed up with our partner St George to share new ideas from our alumni speakers, helping you to overcome the key business challenges that you face every day.
The strength of any business ultimately hinges on its ability to attract and retain new customers, and the ability to do so regularly. This is often easier said than done, however. With all manner of other immediate business concerns taking up time day to day, the hunt for new customers can often prove a challenge. How then, are business owners best able to make finding new customers an achievable task?
Take a trip through the centre of any major city, and chances are you'll see a department store window that has been meticulously designed and styled. Considerable time and effort go into that first impression. After all, first impressions last.
For Tea Uglow – Creative Director at Google's Creative Lab in Sydney – the digital space is simply a newer version of the same thing, but with the power dialed up. For small and medium sized business owners, when it comes to finding new customers, first impressions online also last.
"Your digital presence is just like your shop window, or your point of sale, except it can be seen by a much larger number of people. We all judge brands based on their website, so you need to know your brand, and represent that authentically."
But unlike those decadent shop windows in those city department stores, representing yourself and your brand online and making a connection with new customers need not be prohibitively expensive. Uglow says that the most effective strategies for finding new customers online are often the simplest ideas.
Even the basic act of checking your website on several different types of mobile phones or tablets immediately allows business owners to see what potential new customers see and will flag any wrinkles that may need to be ironed out. Quality control and customer experience testing, on the go.
The trick here, Uglow says, is perspective. When exploring new digital channels, online functionality is only part of the deal. The other part is making your digital offering functional for the right people. She says that it is key to find people that understand the space you're seeking to inject your business into online and heed their advice.
"You want to know what is missing from their perspective, not your perspective… [then] you can explore often in quite low-cost, simple ways."
Armed with this knowledge and potential customer perspective, Uglow says business owners will then be able to take a more direct approach telling new customers what they are about. She notes that a huge number of Google searches start with the phrase 'How to…?'. Her advice again is simple. Make answering that question a part of your business and branding.
And in order to do that, the digital space provides some obvious yet powerful tools.
"My first suggestion is always YouTube… because you have a great asset in being a small business owner – you are almost always passionate about what you do – and that comes across really well on video."
Intuitively, this may seem overly simple or mundane to business owners, who largely have an intimate and sophisticated working knowledge of their industry. But in the simplicity of that message, Uglow sees a lot of power to provide potential new customers with the answers they are seeking.
"Simple to the business owner, complete genius to most consumers. So make a strength of what you know, and make your business more personable and visible. Start by asking, 'What question do I get asked every day?'"
All the beauty here says Uglow, are that the tools to answer these questions are already at hand. Digital device video technology and editing capabilities have come a long way in recent years. Be it iMovie for iPhone or VivaVideo and FilmoraGo for Android (both of which are free), the ability to make quality video content and do it very cheaply is very real.
Beyond that, Uglow says that Google is now working on utilising the information garnered from existing GPS mapping technology to give potential new customers an initial experience of your business without them having to even be there.
"For example, a Google tool that is getting a lot more interest is Street View, the part of Google Maps that lets you take a walking tour with 360-degree views of your location. Google have a series of trusted agencies or photographers who can take photos inside your shop, which Google can then put online. It allows you to share the experience of being at your venue or inside your bar."
This, effectively, gives business owners the chance to offer potential customers with a 'try before you buy' option. This again goes to the importance and value of having a slick, well managed and designed digital presence.
Ultimately, for Uglow, finding new customers in the digital space is still a human challenge. The challenge is to understand your brand, your potential customers and the power of communicating with those customers directly and with purpose.
While we all use the internet differently, we all use the internet. And how we do that day-to-day informs its potential power in growing businesses and attracting customers.
Uglow says, "The creative decisions that you and your friends and family probably make on your phone all the time can be transformative to a business when done with the right strategy and execution."
Simple, right? That's because it is, she says. And good digital marketing, inherently, doesn't have to be overly complex or expensive. "It's about understanding how your customers use the web and giving them something of value, in a place where they can use it."
And that is a challenge that all businesses, no matter the size, can readily embrace and rise to.
This content is proudly brought to you by St.George Business Bank.
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Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
by Alvin Plantinga
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
It is not uncommon for Christians to feel uncomfortable with contemporary science. The self-appointed public defenders of science often use it to bludgeon religious people. No wonder when the club comes out the faithful reflexively wince. But does it have to be that way? In his new book, eminent philosopher Alvin Plantinga offers a different perspective on the relationship between Christianity (and by extension, some other religions) and contemporary science: not only have the alleged conflicts been exaggerated; there is deep concord between Christianity and science, and there is some ill-fit between naturalism (the rejection of any deity) and science. Christians may embrace science—even evolutionary theory—as a means to refine their understanding of God's creation. It is the atheist who has a challenge in reconciling his faith with science.
The bulk of this book's attention is on evolution, but two exceptions merit attention here: the roots of modern science and divine action. Despite the best efforts of historians of science such as John Hedley Brooke and Peter Harrison, it appears that few recognize that the foundation of modern science includes assumptions from Christian theology. Chapter 9 neatly summarizes some of these foundational principles and in doing so shows science-suspicious religious folk that science may be more of a prodigal son than an arch nemesis. Concerning divine action, some theists seem to have a niggling feeling that if God intervened in the world God would be guilty of some kind of inconsistency in character. In two fascinating (but not easy) chapters Plantinga handily dispels these concerns, arguing against theological problems with such a God and against any insurmountable problems in relation to quantum mechanics.
Regarding evolution, Plantinga considers arguments against the compatibility of evolution and theism including those by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Philip Kitcher, and Paul Draper, concluding that none do better than provide very weak evidence against theism that is more than counterbalanced by other considerations having to do with the existence and character of living things. None demonstrate actual inconsistency between the existence of God and evolution by natural selection. A recurring confusion, Plantinga observes, is to take evidence for evolution as evidence for unguided, undirected, or unintended evolution. It is possible that some or all evolution is unguided, but demonstrating that organisms evolve through natural selection operating on mutations does not merit the further metaphysical add-ons. Considering Dawkins's argument, Plantinga representatively writes, "At best it would show, given a couple of assumptions, that it is not astronomically improbable that the living world was produced by unguided evolution and hence without design" (p. 24). But he goes on to note the obvious: demonstrating that something is not astronomically improbable is a far cry from demonstrating that it is so.
Perhaps Plantinga's weakest analysis is his examination of evolutionary psychology, including the evolutionary psychology of religion. A cloud of defensiveness floats over the treatment such that Plantinga fails to observe the same extra-scientific philosophical intrusions that he does when considering evolution generally. For instance, Plantinga takes offense unnecessarily at the notion that everything evolutionary psychologists seem to be able to say about music is that it is either an evolutionary byproduct or is adaptive for coordinating human activity. Why be offended unless evolutionary psychology, as a science, is in a position to pass judgments regarding the worth of music? It isn't. Similarly, many of the examples of "superficial conflict" that Plantinga observes (e.g., D. S. Wilson or S. Guthrie's approaches to religion) are surely guilty of the same extra-scientific metaphysical add-ons for which Plantinga flags Dawkins and Dennett. Evolutionary psychology proper does not appear to necessarily conflict with theism at all.
The book's finale is Plantinga's argument demonstrating that one cannot reasonably hold naturalism and evolution by natural selection simultaneously. Plantinga has been refining this argument for twenty years and here offers a battle-hardened version. The first premise is this: that human cognitive faculties are reliably truth-aimed has a low probability given the conjunction of evolution by natural selection and naturalism. From this start Plantinga argues that the conjunction of evolution and naturalism is self-defeating. If you have no good grounds for trusting your cognitive faculties as truth-aimed, why trust them regarding the truth of evolution? It is the theist who can embrace evolution. Plantinga efficiently addresses many of the criticism raised against this argument. The fair-minded reader will conclude that the argument is at least formidable. Those who do not follow his argument may fear that Plantinga has engaged in philosophical mumbo-jumbo to arrive at such an audacious position. Plantinga seems to anticipate such a reaction and effectively uses a wide range of quotations from prominent atheist scholars in support of his key premise.
Nevertheless, those most needing to hear Plantinga's message may fail to give it a fair hearing for rhetorical rather than analytical reasons. At times it is not easy to follow without more philosophical training than the average scientist has. Further, Plantinga's case would have been rhetorically stronger had he spent more time demonstrating where genuine conflicts between modern science (its epistemology and findings) and at least some religious beliefs lie, even if non-Christian ones. Hasn't science produced at least some defeaters of enough strength to have helped cause the demise of some religious beliefs? Aren't the foundations of science inconsistent with some theologies?
A surprisingly large number of people regard science and religions as competitors for hearts and minds. If they have the courage to carefully and fairly read Plantinga's masterful new book, this conflict should be put to rest. With wit and appropriate humility, he convincingly demonstrates that the alleged conflict between at least the sort of theism that characterizes Christianity ranges from trivial to illusory.
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        logger.error(err);
        // Store failed should not affect the result
        return callback(null, pt);
      }

      logger.info('Store pt in cache succeed!');
      callback(null, pt);
    });
  }

  /**
   * Request a proxy ticket
   * @param req
   * @param path
   * @param callback
   * @param {Function} retryHandler If this callback is set, it will be called only if request failed due to authentication issue.
   */
  function requestPT(path, callback, retryHandler) {
    logger.info('Trying to request proxy ticket from ', proxyPath);
    utils.getRequest(path, function(err, response) {
      /* istanbul ignore if */
      if (err) {
        logger.error('Error happened when sending request to: ' + path);
        logger.error(err);
        return callback(err);
      }

      if (response.status !== 200) {
        logger.error('Request fail when trying to get proxy ticket', response);
        if (typeof retryHandler === 'function') return retryHandler(err);

        return callback(new Error('Request fail when trying to get proxy ticket, response status: ' + response.status +
          ', response body: ' + response.body));
      }

      var pt = parseCasResponse(response.body);

      if (pt) {
        logger.info('Request proxy ticket succeed, receive pt: ', pt);
        callback(null, pt);
      } else {
        logger.error('Can\' get pt from get proxy ticket response.');
        logger.error('Request for PT succeed, but response is invalid, response: ', response.body);
        if (typeof retryHandler === 'function') return retryHandler(new Error('Request for PT succeed, but response is invalid, response: ' + response.body));
        return callback(new Error('Request for PT succeed, but the response from CAS service is invalid, response: ' + response.body));
      }
    });
  }
};

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The Predators face the Ducks Wednesday night in Game 7 of their opening round series, with an opportunity to complete what would stand as the biggest upset of this year's first round.
These days, of course, big upsets are relative. The Predators are a wildcard team facing a division winner, but they only finished seven points behind the Ducks in the standings. And the opening round's other upsets were even closer – the Islanders were three points behind the Panthers, while the Sharks were four back of the Kings. Such is life in the age of parity, where the margin between average and elite is narrower than ever before.
So with all due respect to those plucky underdogs from Nashville, let's take a moment today to look back at the real thing, by counting down five of the biggest first-round upsets of the 20+ team era.
The only Presidents' Trophy in Blues history is one that most of their fans would rather forget. To this day, you can ruin a St. Louis fan's day by mentioning one name: Roman Turek. That would be the Blues' starting goaltender during that 1999-2000 season, one in which he posted a career year and finished as the Jennings winner and runner-up for the Vezina while leading the Blues to a franchise-record 114 points.
Owen Nolan's center ice rocket put the Sharks up 2-0 and sucked the oxygen out of the building. It proved to be the winner, as the Sharks held on for a 3-1 win.
The Blues gained a measure of revenge the following season, knocking off the Sharks in a first-round rematch. They've split two more post-season meetings since then. We could be two weeks away from another, this time in the conference final. But if it happens, don't expect Turek to handle any pre-game faceoff duties. He sometimes struggles with center ice.
The first season after the 2005-06 lockout was one of the most unpredictable on record. Scoring was up, superstar rookies were everywhere, and new rules on and off the ice were changing everything. But there was one constant from the pre-cap era: The Red Wings were dominant. They racked up 124 points and went into the playoffs as a heavy favorite to win their fourth Cup in a decade. And then they ran into Edmonton.
The eighth-seeded Oilers weren't a bad team, putting up 95 points of their own, and the late-season acquisition of goaltender Dwayne Roloson filled the biggest hole in their roster. Still, not many expected them to be much more than a speed bump for the Wings, and a Detroit win in the opener seemed to confirm that. But the Oilers took the next two, then split Games 4 and 5 to push the Wings to the brink.
The series ended in Edmonton in Game 6, with the Red Wings taking a 2-0 lead into the third period before a furious Oilers comeback leading to Ales Hemsky's winning goal with just over a minute left.
The Oilers' run continued all the way to the final, where they fell one game short of winning the Stanley Cup. The Red Wings didn't lose in the first round again until 2012, including another Cup win in 2008.


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Facility Profile - November 2013
Tough Enough
Mid-South Ice House in Memphis, Tennessee
With its humid subtropical climate and a lack of wintry conditions, including snow, hockey would seem a remote interest for the nearly 700,000 residents of Memphis, Tenn. However, deeply rooted in this Southeastern city, which ranks as the 20th largest in the United States, is a profound interest in hockey that extends beyond the Memphis River Kings minor league ice hockey team to the many adult and junior leagues throughout the region.
Unfortunately, for a time beginning in 2003, when the ice rink at the Mall of Memphis closed, hundreds of amateur hockey players and figure skaters lost their only ice. They were relocated to a local arena, home to the Mississippi Riverkings, but ice availability was very limited.
In 2010, a handful of ice-loving parents and participants joined up to address the issue by bringing a new facility for amateur skaters, as well as recreational skaters, to the citizens of the Memphis metro area.
Residents were delighted when their desire to spend more time on the ice was met in September 2011. That's when the Mid-South Ice House opened to provide the Memphis metro area with a year-round opportunity to play hockey, figure-skate, take lessons or just enjoy some leisurely ice time during the city's latest hot spell. Transformed from an empty warehouse to a premier ice skating facility—the only NHL regulation ice skating arena open year-round in the Memphis metro area—the Ice House also features numerous activities for all ages.
The facility's mission is to create and develop programs that everyone can enjoy, and it features a wide array of programming, including public skating, a skating school, theater on ice, curling and broomball, as well as traditional hockey and figure skating. The facility is "home ice" to the Ole Miss and University of Memphis, Division III hockey teams, playing host to games and practices. In addition, it plays host to broomball and skating parties. Citizens from all walks of life, and from all demographics, take part in the myriad opportunities to enjoy the ice.
"Several years of planning and research went into the design and construction of this arena," said Keith Saunders Sr., owner of Division 10 Inc., a provider of construction specialty products and services throughout Tennessee and the Southeastern region. "I've known one of the owners personally for 20 years and truly understood his desire to construct a state-of-the-art, professional skating experience for people who were already traveling to Little Rock or Nashville to improve their games and forms or just enjoy a skate anytime of year."
The Mid-South Ice House has continuous activity with minor league hockey, private leagues and the general public, so Saunders said the facility had to be built to last and take punishment on almost every level.
"We specified the strongest and most durable materials for use throughout the Ice House," Saunders explained. "That particularly included the restrooms, where we installed Resistall Partitions from Scranton Products. We knew we needed long-lasting toughness and based on my prior experience with the product line, Resistall was the first and really only choice."
A leading provider of unique and attractive interior partitions over the past 25 years, Scranton Products offers an assortment of HDPE products in variety of colors, textures and ADA-compliant configurations.
The partitions selected for the Mid-South Ice House are specially designed so they will never need to be painted. And unlike metal partitions, which are subject to rust, these partitions offer superior resistance to dents, scratches, graffiti, corrosion, mildew and moisture. On top of all of this, they also are very easy to clean and naturally resistant to bacteria.
"This arena is my passion," said Al Austin, co-owner of the Mid-South Ice House and a general contractor by trade. "I spent years developing this project and was deeply involved in every aspect of its planning and construction. I'm proud of what we accomplished and of the ability to provide our local Memphis residents with an ideal, year-round venue for participating in hockey, figure skating and all ice-related activities." Austin added, "We selected the partitions from Scranton Products because they fit into this overall vision. They are easy to maintain and extremely hard to dent as opposed to metal partitions. Plus, the pricing fit our budget and they do look good. The gray Resistall Partitions were used in 15 stalls and we haven't had a problem yet. In fact, I would be surprised if any arose since I installed several of them myself."
Mid-South Ice House: www.midsouthicehouse.com
Division 10 Inc.: www.division10inc.com
Scranton Products: www.scrantonproducts.com
Ice Rinks & Winter Sports, Locker Rooms
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Locker room design has come a long way in the past few decades, providing more comfortable amenities that are sure to please patrons.
Upgrading Locks to Improve User Experience
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Simple upgrades in the locker room can make a big impression. Changing to single-use locks can have a big impact on managing your locker rooms, as well as the way users perceive your facility.
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Title: Just how water resistant are Countryman B3s?
On the Countryman site the company says that the B3 is "a water-resistant mic for water sports or hurricane reporting" and has "extreme water-resistance." I've seen the YouTube video of a B3 submerged in liquid and still working. How far have people gone with torturing their B3s? I'm wondering if B3s would stand up to constant rain without being damaged in a situation where putting them under an umbrella isn't a possibility.
Title: Re: Just how water resistant are Countryman B3s?
Mine haven't been in any water but I wouldn't hesitate to use them in the rain.
Ask countryman themselves as they have always been quick to respond to my questions.
But they are marketed as waterproof.
I'm not afraid to run mine in whatever weather mother nature has to offer.
One of the nice things about these mics is they aren't crazy expensive and they are readily available so if you really do kill them at least you can get another.
Can't say that about my other mics.
I know it's not apples to apples but one time Gutbucket had some condoms around some Dpa 4061's and due to the setup when it rained the condoms filled with water with the mics inside. The result was a surprisingly listenable recording.
I have placed my b3's in some distilled water to clean them after a dusty festival, had no adverse effects from it.
A friend and I are starting to work on a homemade documentary of the suwanee river and I plan on placing the b3's on a kayak paddle for some cool water scape sounds to use during paddling scenes.
I will return here to cry if something goes horribly wrong with the underwater recording.
I suspect the B3's are probably even more water resistant than the DPA 406x just because the diaphragm under the grid is a flat stainless steel metal surface and less likely to retain water and go mute than the DPA capsule. Both have an atmospheric vent somewhere on the body, so don't submerge them deeply else water pressure could force water inside which would likely kill the mic. But wouldn't worry about rain, splashing, or submersion and swizzling in a glass of water, condom or whatever.
Cola is not water and, in the second video, there ia a gas bubble on the mic. so the diaphragm does not get wet.
It would have been good if they had demonstrated them is water without any gas in it to prove thier point.
aren't dpa 40xx series "waterproof"?
i've been told they clean them by dipping them in distilled water and shaking dry.
the lemo connectors on the other hand, you will want to tape those up.
but the capsules themselves, you should be fine.


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Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) adult running, Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South Africa
Adult Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) feeding on vegetation, Kruger National Park, Limpopo
Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) foal running, Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South Africa
Leopard (Panthera pardus) standing on branches, Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South-Africa
Leopard (Panthera pardus) sitting in a tree, Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South-Africa
Leopard (Panthera pardus) laying in a tree, Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South-Africa
Leopard (Panthera pardus) portrait, Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South-Africa
Leopard (Panthera pardus ) resting on a termite hill, yawning, Kruger National Park
A Leopard (Panthera padrus) cub lying on stone, Limpopo, South Africa
Two Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) sitting on side of road in early morning light
Two Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are resting in grassland, South Africa, Limpopo
Adult cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in grassland, South Africa, Limpopo
Two Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) sitting on side of road in early morning light, South Africa, Mpumalanga, Kruger National Park
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Portrait of an adult Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), South Africa, Limpopo
Portrait of a Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) portrait, South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) sitting in habitat, South Africa, Limpopo
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cub, sitting in green bush, South Africa, Limpopo
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) walking through vegetation, South Africa, Mpumalanga
Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) two adults interacting, Kruger National Park, Limpopo
Common Zebra (Equus quagga) portrait in profile, wet from rain, Kruger National Park
Common Zebra (Equus quagga) with Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhyncus)
Common Zebra (Equus quagga) adults playing, Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South Africa
Herd of Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) standing in grassland, South Africa, Limpopo
Plains Zebra (Equus quagga), a foal suckling from its mother, South Africa, Limpopo
Common Zebra (Equus quagga) with Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhyncus), Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South Africa
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Common Zebra (Equus quagga) adult, running, South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park
Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) standing in open grassland, South Africa, Limpopo
Portrait of a Plains Zebra (Equus quagga), South africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park
Common Zebra (Equus quagga) dust bathing, South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park
Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) pair, South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park
Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) group of six animals, South Africa, Limpopo
White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) foraging in dry riverbed, South Africa, Mpumalanga
White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) calf, South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park
White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) portrait, South Africa, Limpopo
White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) emerging from bush, South Africa, Limpopo
Red-billed Oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) perched on White Rhinoceros
Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) foraging on White Rhinoceros
Red-billed Oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) perched on White Rhinoceros (Cerathoterium simum), South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park
© Mike Muizebelt / Nature in Stock
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White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) standing in forest, South Africa, Limpopo
Tight portrait of a White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) walking towards the camera
Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) browsing on a small green bush, South Africa
A male lion (Panthera leo) sleeping near members of his pride, Limpopo, South Africa
African Lion (Panthera leo) mother and cubs drinking at pool, South Africa, Limpopo
Portrait of a Lion (Panthera leo) staring in the lens, South-Africa, Limpopo
Portrait of a male Lion (Panthera leo), South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park
Portrait of a lion (Panthera leo) female, South Africa, Limpopo, Kruger National Park
Three juvenile lions (Panthera leo) on a high rock, South Africa, Limpopo
Portrait of a juvenile male Lion (Panthera Leo) in the grass, South Africa, Limpopo
An alert male Lion (Panthera leo) listening to the night sounds, South Africa
Lion (Panthera leo) walking against the wind over the savanna, South Africa, Limpopo
Female Leopard (panthera pardus) perched in a tree at sunrise, South Africa, Mpumulanga
White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) adult and young looking at camera, South Africa
Leopard (Panthera pardus) drinking, Londolozi, Sabi-sands Game Reserve, South Africa


500-750 gm. Mutton, cut according to preference. You can use lamb.
A few strands of saffron(a pinch's worth), soaked in 1 tbsp. of warm water.
Heat oil and add cumin seeds, bay leaves, gen and brown cardamoms.
When cumin seeds splutter, add meat and fry stirring frequently until it is nicely browned and all water is absorbed.
Transfer meat to a pressure cooker.
Grind Masala mix ingredients and sprinkle over the meat.
Wash the wok with 1/2 a cup of hot water and add this water to the meat.
Pressure cook for 2 whistles/pressures or 5-6 minutes.
Coll pressure cooker and check that meat is cooked.
Serve hot with freshChapatties or Tandoori Roties and Plain Pulao (Pilaf)Rice.


The Natural Red Coral Gemstone additionally known as Praval or Moonga is the Gemstone of Mars/ Mangal as per Indian Vedic Astrology. Mars is the planet of energy, vitality, blood circulation and ambition and the Marjan is worn to reinforce the electricity of Mars within the horoscope.
The Marjan is largely manufactured with the skeletons of theses polyps. The assets of this stone is that its delicate red or white coloration encourages to be used for earrings items.
The Marjan replenishes the vintage wounds and snakebites. The stone is likewise very beneficial for the youngsters, consequently they can put on this gemstone to defend themselves from excessive diseases.
The mars blessed herbal pink coral gemstone increases the passion, self-confidence, power, power, and physical energy of someone. It additionally helps folks who want to shop for or sell their domestic properties.
The coral stone guards someone against many serious illnesses like pyorrhea, abortion, piles, impotency, bird pox. Moreover, the sicknesses together with hypertension, arthritis, belly hassle can be cured by using wearing this stone.
Individuals inside the following professions can be benefited from sporting crimson coral baby-kisser, leather-based dealers, surgeons, players, factory workers and electricians. The stone also prevents a person in opposition to evil spirits, hexing, black magic.


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Q: What is this error? "Database query failed: Data truncated for column 'column_name' at row 1 I'm building a PHP/MySQL application and I'm running into a problem with my create and update query. I have 5 columns that are set to type FLOAT that are also set as NULL columns. I don't plan to fill them in until much later in the workflow.
However, I need to create new records for this database, and I need to edit existing records, without touching these 5 float fields at all. I'm using OOP PHP that uses a standard save() method that checks to see if an ID exists in the object. If not, it calls create(), and if so, it calls update(). It works very well, usually.
The update() and create() methods are designed to pull from a protected static $db_fields attribute array declared at the top of each Class, that contains all of the fields used in that table. update() and create() run through that array and either INSERT INTO or UPDATE in SQL, accordingly.
My understanding is that if you use '' (two single quotes, empty), SQL will skip those INSERT INTO or UPDATE requests and leave them as NULL. There aren't even form fields for those 5 float values anywhere on the page, so of course when the methods run, the values are going to be ''.
Is that why I'm getting the "Data truncated" error? It seems different -- I haven't seen the truncated error before and that's why I'm coming to you geniuses. Thanks.

A: '' and null are not the same. if your mysql server is in strict mode, then it will refuse to do the insert since you have passed invalid data for the column. without strict mode, it returns a warning.
mysql> create table a (a float not null);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)

mysql> insert a values ('');
Query OK, 1 row affected, 1 warning (0.05 sec)

mysql> show warnings;
+---------+------+----------------------------------------+
| Level   | Code | Message                                |
+---------+------+----------------------------------------+
| Warning | 1265 | Data truncated for column 'a' at row 1 |
+---------+------+----------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> set sql_mode = 'STRICT_ALL_TABLES';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> insert a values ('');
ERROR 1265 (01000): Data truncated for column 'a' at row 1

either insert explicit nulls, or don't even specify the column in the insert.
when you're updating you can send all of the values you have because mysql will automatically ignore the unchanged ones.

A: This isn't meant as a solution, but only to perhaps shed some more light on the problem.
If you add the keyword IGNORE to the statement, and try to insert '' (or any string not beginning with a number) into a float column, MySQL will insert the value 0, instead of the default value.
INSERT IGNORE INTO a_table (float_column) VALUE ('')

INSERT IGNORE INTO a_table (float_column) VALUE ('abc')

Both will insert 0, even if the default is null. Without IGNORE, of course, both statements will raise the error you're seeing.
In short, you get the message because the data you're supplying is neither the expected type nor the default value.

A: If you aren't going to INSERT the data it should not be in the SQL statement.
As an example, say you have a table "Data" with id, float1, float2, float3, and float4, Float5, of which you will only be adding the ID. The INSERT should look like this:
INSERT INTO `Data` ( `id` )
VALUES ( 'Some-ID-Value' )

If the floats are defined to accept NULL they will be defaulted to NULL. The same goes for UPDATE statements, you should only list fields you will be altering.


Get involved with your student union! Come out to their events or better yet, help plan them. Visit their websites or email them for more information.
Follow the Dance Student Union on Facebook and Instagram.
Find out more at the Dance Student Union Website.
Follow the Film Student Union on Twitter.
Follow the Music Student Union on Facebook.
The TSU is a student union formed through the Simon Fraser Student Society [SFSS]; we represent theatre students within the structures of the university, specifically within our faculty [FCAT] and the greater student body. Find out more at the Theatre Student Union Website.
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Before the memory of the islands dissipates, we have decided to try and revive what we experienced, which in this case is not about talking about this or that street, such and such park, a magnificent exhibition, an absurd monument or a historical place. It's something different. An island is always something 'other,' even if we are inside a museum, even if a house is a house, even if the streets are similar to continental streets. An island, as Gertrud Stein's rose, is an island is an island is an island.
We embarked on this trip as a disrupted continuity of the previous one, thinking: not one island, two. But Capraia turned out to be the other face of the insular coin, the darker yet dazzled side of the concept of island: when it is closer to the place of imprisonment and repetition, when the map does not lead to a treasure but to the most beautiful trap.


This page is a place for me to list information, help or hardware that I am in need of to develop some of the new features of the IFPL, or expand existing featues.
Anyone know how to properly convert English grid coordinates to Latitude/Longitude?
Programming of Mobile-IFPL clients for phones with Java and GPS capabilities.


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The UN's Global Goal 13 calls for action on the environment, including restricting plastic use — a material that can take hundreds of years to break down. But if we're going to cut plastic out of our lives, supermarkets must step up to remove it from supply chains. You can join us in taking action on these issues here.
Everyone has one: a little space under the stairs, a cupboard, or in a pointlessly large IKEA sack — where, somehow, dozens upon dozens of plastic bags have lived rent-free in your home for longer than you can remember.
And now, there is irrefutable evidence that you're not alone: a new study has found that UK supermarkets sold enough "bags for life" in 2020 for every household in Britain to have 57 each.
The data from environmental charity Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an international nonprofit that campaigns for the natural world, included comparisons of the plastic pollution coming from UK supermarkets between 2017 and 2019.
It revealed that the 10 biggest supermarkets in the UK produced 896,853 tonnes of plastic in 2019, an increase of 1.2% from 2017 which, according to the Evening Standard, is the equivalent weight of 90 Eiffel Towers. In total, throughout the year, supermarkets sold 2.1 billion plastic bags, including 1.58 billion reusable "bags for life" — a 65% increase since 2017.
That's a lot of plastic bags to stuff under your bed.
The UK changed the law on single-use plastic bags in 2015, legislating for large shops to charge 5p for every bag. Although it led to a fall in single-use plastic bags of 56% between 2017 and 2019, it meant supermarkets sold many more bags intended to be reused over and over again. Now, experts are saying the system needs improvement.
"Overall, the scale of plastic carrier bag usage remains incredibly high," the report said. "The government charge for single-use carrier bags is due to increase to 10p in April 2021, but the data suggests the current plastic 'bag for life' model, whereby a heavier bag is offered at a slightly higher price to encourage reuse, is not working."
BREAKING: Major UK #supermarkets are treading water in a growing ocean of #plastic packaging
How does your local rate?https://t.co/5OIom20yAEpic.twitter.com/taDS4CcMRU
— Environmental Investigation Agency (@EIA_News) January 26, 2021
The study is called "Checking Out on Plastics III", and includes a league table that ranks how every major UK supermarket is performing on plastic pollution.
Iceland ranked bottom of the league table, measured by its reduction in plastic use, while Waitrose held onto its position at the top.
Meanwhile, there were some encouraging signs of progress from Aldi and Lidl. Previously, Aldi was rooted at the bottom of the table, but is now coming in second, having made some important strides forward on transparency and the elimination of single-use plastic bags.
"In our third year of looking at plastic packaging in UK supermarkets, we had hoped to see a much sharper downwards trajectory as strategies and targets bear fruit," said Christina Dixon, the EIA's senior campaigner. "Instead, we are looking at a relatively static picture which represents a drop in the ocean of tackling plastic pollution."
She added: "The sector urgently needs to pick up the pace of plastic reduction."
TopicsUKPlasticSustainabilitySupermarketsPlastic PollutionPlastic WasteRecyclingPlastic BagsTescoSainsbury'sIcelandAsdaSingle-Use PlasticBags for Life
UK Supermarkets Sold 57 'Bags for Life' Per Household in 2019 — More Than 1 a Week
By James Hitchings-Hales