The fact that Agard got the USA Today job is in some ways unremarkable. ( Note: industry style is to write answers in all caps.) Is it offensive to use the word ESKIMO? Should someone be expected to know the term CISGENDER? Those are calls crossword editors make. The content of a crossword is one answer to the question “What do you need to know in order to be a person of the world?” as Laura Braunstein, who cofounded a women-centric indie crossword called The Inkubator, puts it. ![]() They are an American art form that, on the daily, send a signal to millions of people about who and what matter, about where we are as a culture. Patti Varol, a veteran editor and constructor in the close-knit community known as the “crossworld” describes Agard as a “beacon of inclusivity” who is “revolutionizing the way puzzles are edited and vetted and published.” I expect Agard to say something about this, about the way that he has used his position to draw women and people of color and LGBTQ people into the square-and, in the process, turned a once-maligned puzzle into what one prominent blogger called today’s “most interesting, innovative, and provocative daily crossword.”Ĭrosswords are not just some nerdy pastime. There has been resistance.Īgard, a 26-year-old puzzle phenom who has been in the job about eight months, has done unprecedented work on this score. Critics have called out editors of major puzzles for publishing far more puzzles made by men than women, for the “old white guy sensibility” that has long set standards for the industry and for spectacular slips that prove just how real the blind spots are. There has been mounting protest in the world of crosswords, as there has been in entertainment and politics and every other arena where marginalized groups have felt excluded and disenfranchised. The industrial city of Dongguan, north of Shenzhen, reported its heaviest rain in 15 years.Entertaining as that all was, it is not exactly what I’m expecting Agard to say. Schools in 10 districts of Guangzhou were suspended for the day or had to open late, while the city of Zhuhai near Macau warned of waterlogging and landslides. About 100 people were stranded at the station. Videos showed that the entrance and exit areas of the Shenzhen railway station were flooded, with trains connecting the city and the provincial capital of Guangzhou suspended. Daily rainfall in the city in the Pearl River delta linking Hong Kong to China’s mainland was expected to exceed 500mm, Shenzhen media said. Residents holding on to safety lines stepped gingerly through knee-deep water in the city, videos from state media showed.Ī rainfall log showed 465.5mm (1.5ft) of rain fell in Shenzhen over a 12-hour period, the most since records there began in 1952. The China Meteorological Administration said heavy rain would fall until early Saturday on the central and south-western areas of Guangdong province.Īll schools, some Metro stations and offices in the Guangdong city of Shenzhen were shut on Friday. Macau ferry operators in Hong Kong said several sailings would be suspended to the gambling hub. More than 100 pigs in an area near the border with Shenzhen drowned in a flood, media reported. Some passenger and cargo clearance operations at two border points between Hong Kong and Shenzhen were suspended due to flooding. Hong Kong’s Cross-Harbour Tunnel, one of the main arteries connecting the island to Kowloon, was inundated and a shopping centre in the Chai Wan district was half submerged. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ person taken by rescue workers to hospital was pronounced dead on arrival, a television news channel reported. The alert was lowered by 6pm but authorities warned of risks from continuing flooding.Ī vehicle in a collapsed section of road in Hong Kong on Friday. ![]() It said more than 200mm (7.9ins) of rain was recorded on Hong Kong’s main island, the Kowloon district and the north-eastern part of the city’s New Territories from late on Thursday. Hong Kong’s weather bureau issued its highest “black” rainstorm warning early on Friday. Although it weakened to a tropical depression, its slow-moving clouds have dumped huge volumes of precipitation on areas still soaked after a super typhoon a week earlier. The torrential rain was brought by Haikui, a typhoon that made landfall in the Chinese province of Fujian on Tuesday. It’s quite terrifying,” said Connie Cheung, 65, an assistant nurse in Hong Kong. Even during previous typhoons, it was never this severe. “I’ve never seen scenes like this before. ![]() The extreme weather also brought chaos to the nearby Chinese city of Shenzhen, a tech hub of more than 17.7 million people, with business and transport links across the economically important Pearl River delta severely hit.
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