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Philadelphia delays ban on cashless stores until October
by Christian Hetrick, Updated: June 27, 2019
Philadelphia City Hall, photographed in November, 2018.
Michael Bryant / File Photograph
Days before Philadelphia was set to implement its historic law banning cashless stores, the city said Thursday that it would delay the ban until October.
The city's Commission on Human Relations, which is drafting regulations for the new law, voted June 21 to push back implementation so "the public and the retail community can better understand the ordinance's requirements," said Lauren Cox, a city spokesperson.
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The law was set to take effect July 1 but will now be implemented Oct. 1, Cox said.
"The commission is close to finalizing those regulations and will put them out for public comment as soon as possible," Cox said. "The city and [commission] believe a short delay to implement the law will benefit all parties, to avoid any confusion or uncertainty in compliance."
In February, Mayor Jim Kenney signed off on the law that prohibits most retail locations from refusing to take cash or charging cash-paying customers a higher price. Violators can face fines of up to $2,000 per violation.
The law made Philadelphia the first major U.S. city to ban cashless stores.
Proponents of the new ban argue that cashless stores effectively discriminate against poor consumers who do not have access to credit or bank accounts. Nearly 6 percent of residents in the Philadelphia region were unbanked -- they had no bank accounts -- in 2017, and roughly 22 percent were considered "underbanked," -- they have an account but still use check cashers and other alternative products -- according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
The delay comes as state government offices used by tens of thousands of city residents say they won't accept cash as payment. The law also carves out some businesses, such as wholesale clubs and parking lots and garages.
Cox said the Human Relations Commission has met with stakeholders that would be affected by the law and received questions from the public, retailers, and city departments.
Cox said that as far as she's aware, e-commerce giant Amazon is not one of the entities that's weighed in. Amazon had lobbied to try to carve itself out of the cash requirement, but it announced in April that its cashierless "Go" stores would accept cash.
As technology gives consumers more ways to pay, including with their smart phones, some stores have gone cashless to improve efficiency, reduce the risk of robbery, and avoid the hassle of handling cash.
Americans are less reliant on paper bills and coins, according to a Pew Research Center survey released in December. The survey of 10,683 U.S. adults found that 29 percent said they made no purchases using cash during a typical week, up from 24 percent in 2015. Likewise, those who made all or almost all of their weekly purchases with cash dropped from 24 percent in 2015 to 18 percent today, according to the survey.
Following Philadelphia, New Jersey and San Francisco passed similar laws banning cashless stores. New Jersey's ban is already implemented.
Massachusetts was the first state to pass a law requiring retailers to accept cash, in 1978.
Posted: June 27, 2019 - 4:33 PM
Christian Hetrick | @_Hetrick | chetrick@inquirer.com
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Straßbessenbach ist ein 514 ha umfassender Ortsteil der Gemeinde Bessenbach im unterfränkischen Landkreis Aschaffenburg mit 2.242 Einwohnern (Stand: 2010) im Vorspessart. International bekannt ist Straßbessenbach durch die regelmäßig stattfindenden Motocross-Veranstaltungen.

Geographie
Das Kirchdorf Straßbessenbach liegt etwa 10 km von Aschaffenburg, 70 km von Würzburg und 60 km von Frankfurt am Main entfernt. Durch den Ort führen die Staatsstraßen 2307 und 2312 (ehem. Bundesstraße 8) sowie der Fränkische Marienweg. Der topographisch höchste Punkt der Dorfgemarkung befindet sich am Dachsbuckel, südöstlich des Ortes mit , der niedrigste liegt am Bessenbach auf .

Geschichte
Straßbessenbach wurde 1348 erstmals als strata urkundlich erwähnt.
Am 1. Juli 1862 wurde das Bezirksamt Aschaffenburg gebildet, auf dessen Verwaltungsgebiet Straßbessenbach lag. 1939 wurde wie überall im Deutschen Reich die Bezeichnung Landkreis eingeführt. Straßbessenbach war nun eine der 33 Gemeinden im Altkreis Aschaffenburg. Dieser schloss sich im Zuge der Gebietsreform in Bayern am 1. Juli 1972 mit dem Landkreis Alzenau in Unterfranken zum neuen Landkreis Aschaffenburg zusammen.

Historische Entwicklung des Ortsnamens
Urkundlichen Erwähnungen zufolge entwickelte sich der Name Straßbessenbach wie folgt:

 1348: Strata
 1557: Bessenbach an der straß
 1652: Straßbessenbach

Eingemeindung
Die Gemeinde Straßbessenbach wurde am 1. Januar 1972 zusammen mit Keilberg in die neue Gemeinde Bessenbach eingegliedert.

Persönlichkeiten
 Anton Zimlich (* 12. Juli 1830 in Straßbessenbach; † 13. Juli 1918), Zündholzfabrikant und Abgeordneter
 Marcel Schäfer (* 7. Juni 1984 in Aschaffenburg), Fußballprofi, begann seine Laufbahn beim SV Eintracht Straßbessenbach

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Einzelnachweise

Ort im Landkreis Aschaffenburg
Geographie (Bessenbach)
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Landkreis Aschaffenburg)
Gemeindeauflösung 1972
Kirchdorf (Siedlungstyp)

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Q: product of Maximum of all subarray I have an Array with some distinct integer data in it and I need to get the max element from all the subarray possible and multiply it.
Here is the example
input :
{4,7}
Required Output:
196
Explanation:
subarray possible
{4}=max{4}=4
{7}=max{7}=7
{4,7}=max{4,7}=7
answer=4*7*7=196

can someone help me with this? Thanks in advance.

A: I don't know Java, but from a algorithmic point of view it could look like this:
max_list = empty_list
for i to len(A)
    for j to len(A) - i
        subset [j, j+i]
        find max of subset
        append max to max_list

result = 1
for i to len(A)
    result = result * A[i]

A: From what i know, this should do what you want:
import java.util.Arrays;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int[][] arrays = {
            {4},
            {7},
            {4, 7}
        };

        int result = Arrays.stream(arrays).mapToInt((x) -> Arrays.stream(x).max().getAsInt()).reduce(1, Math::multiplyExact);

        System.out.println(result);
    }
}

First, the largest value from each of the source arrays is selected.
Arrays.stream(arrays).mapToInt(x -> {});

To achieve this, we first iterate over each of these arrays in the lambda function of Arrays.stream and get the largest value in the array x by inserting
Arrays.stream(x).max().getAsInt()

In the last step, the largest numbers from the respective arrays are multiplied together, which is done by the reduce method, which always makes one out of two values until only one is left. The operation used to reduce is multiplyExact, the reason for this is that a method Integer::multiply unfortunately does not exist (or at least I don't know about it). The special thing about the method multiplyExact is that it throws an error as soon as an integer overflow occurs.

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My Favourite Reads from 2020
Posted on January 20, 2021 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian
Is it too late to be sharing a list of 2020 favourites? Never! These were not necessarily published in 2020, just books that I read in that (neverending) year. There's a smattering of all different genres, with an ample number of books of the queer and/or Canadian persuasion, of course.
The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya
The rest of this list is in no particular order, but it's not a coincidence The Subtweet landed at the top. It was my favourite book of 2020, hands down. Neela and Rukmini are two South Asian Canadian women musicians (one trans, one unspecified) who form a friendship when Rukmini an emerging artist, covers one of the more established artist Neela's songs.
The ensuing story investigates brown female friendship, professional jealousy, the pleasures and price of making art, social media and call-out culture, white people performing anti-racism for their own benefit, the way systemic racism and sexism pits women of colour against each other, and more.
It's also very much a love letter to so many women (mostly of colour) artists and theorists of all stripes. This book was so good and so smart! The characterization of Neela and Rukmini was incredible; they captured my imagnation so fully. I love how Shraya refused to make Neela and Rukmini likable. The concepts were so thoughtfully explored. See my full review here.
Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K Jarboe
There is an amazing range of narrative voices in this superb science fiction / body horror / fairy tale / cyberpunk collection. Inventive and unique, it tackles subjects like spirituality, (trans) bodies, otherness, climate change, and queer solidarity in the apocalypse. Jarboe's writing is stunning, full of bold images, mystical undertones, and raw humour. You get excerpts like:
"Give me a sex that has never been seen before and a soft outline exactly the size and shape of my lovers, and when they lay their entire selves within it, that is how we are going to fuck, since you keep asking, and everybody wants to know."
And then you get distinctly queer dialogue like: "Ask me my sign and I'll never talk to you again."
"Oh I would never ask. I know how Scorpios need their privacy."
HARROW THE NINTH BY TAMSYN MUIR
I'm not sure whether to say this queer SF novel is a work of genius that tortured me or a torture because it is so genius. Muir's writing is wildly inventive, deadly sharp, boldly unsettling, darkly funny. There is no simple way to describe this world or plot, although it's correct to say it's about necromancy, lesbians, space, death, grief, knowledge, trauma, and power.
This book that demands A LOT from the reader. Muir does not make the twists and turns of the plot or the language easy to grasp. I mean, one of the narratives here is about Harrow, but spoken to her in the second person for a reason that remains opaque until quite late. The other main narrative is baffling given what you know from the first book.
But this also means when you finally *get it* there is a huge reward. Plus there's just the pleasure of her sentences, so weirdly gorgeous and grotesque. And these unexpected bursts of dark humour.
Not a book for everyone. But it is A BOOK. One of the few pieces of fiction I've read that truly feels like a masterpiece.
THE LOST FUTURE OF PEPPERHARROW BY NATASHA PULLEY
This book was an unexpectedly delightful queer steampunk / historical fantasy, with some lovely, unique writing and turns of phrase. I loved that it was set mostly in late 1880s Japan and wasn't willfully ignorant of 19th century British imperialism, unlike a lot of other steampunk.
It follows a fairly large set of characters, Japanese and British (and some who are both) in a multi-layered plot orchestrated by Mori, a man who "remembers the future." He's trying to piece together a gazillion moving pieces to a positive future outcome even he doesn't quite understand anymore.
There are ghosts, electrical storms, mechanical pet octopuses, political scheming, and queer love!
Technically this is a sequel, although I had no trouble following it without having read the first book.
THE HAMMER OF WITCHES BY KELLY ROSE PFLUG-BACK
I love when you start a book with no expectations and it blows you away. This slim collection of poetry by a queer Canadian writer was just the thing. Spooky, mystical, autumnal, feminist, dark. Themes include witches (obviously), loss, longing, necromancy, ancient myth, suicide, nature, death, nightime, horror, ghosts, and the body. The imagery and play with words are incredible:
"It was dark, and the world sang to itself
to keep from being frightened"
"I want the ululations of a thousand throats
to guide me across black waters
whose shores I'll never reach"
"Listen, I died here a long time ago
and I've just been haunting the place
ever since
sitting on the dryer's
in the basement
staring at my phone.
That light you think you see sometimes
and then it's gone
when you look again,
that's all it is;
I felt death's bony hand
close around my thigh, once
and I just laughed"
TO BE TAUGHT IF FORTUNATE BY BECKY CHAMBERS
Like all of Becky Chambers' books, this science fiction novella was just delightful. A thoughtful amount of fascinating slscience; endearing, very real characters; heartwarming found family dynamics; and an optimism that is heartening but not naive.
The story follows four astronauts as they embark on a lengthy journey out into another solar system to do scientific research about life on four planets. Halfway through, communications from Earth complicate their mission.
This crew is all queer! One bi+ woman, one unspecified queer woman, one ace guy, and one trans guy. Love to see it, especially as their identities have nothing to do with the story!
WHITE IS FOR WITCHING BY HELEN OYEYEMI
Melancholy and spooky, this book. I had saved this one for October, and was very happy with that decision. I felt like the whole reading experience had me teetering on the edge of discomfort. The house in White is for Witching isn't so much haunted as it is as alive as the people in the story. It's a character, but a monstrous one who keeps the women in the family for itself. But it also *is* the women in the family. This only kind of makes sense, which is typical for Oyeyemi. Her writing is the kind of delicious stuff that forces you to let go of the idea that you'll understand everything.
Floating around there's also a delightful amount of queerness and interrogation of the UK's racist and anti-immigrant/refugee ideologies. Plus Oyeyemi's startlingly beautiful writing.
Content warnings for disordered eating and parental death.
MADAME ZERO BY SARAH HALL
I loved this collection of short stories. It's my first book by this author but it certainly won't be my last. I loved her writing. Hall's prose feels elegant and effortless in a way that belies the talent and skill behind the words.
Reading the stories made me feel contemplative and sophisticated and stylish. It felt like I had to read them with a glass of red wine in front of my fireplace (I obliged). Themes include a woman who turns into a fox, a woman with a terror of heights who crosses a high bridge on a hike, a post-apocalyptic world with constant very high winds, and other diverse topics, some speculative, some not.
But it wasn't the content of the stories, rather the authenticity of the feeling that captured my attention and imagination. They are almost scary in their perceptiveness and truth. I think I'll be haunted by them for a long time.
THE GOOD HOUSE BY TANANARIVE DUE
A majestically crafted, terrifying horror novel with incredibly real characters. (I read this one for October too, and it was perfect for that time of year). One summer in Angela's grandmother's old house in the Pacific Northwest, she doesn't realize her son Corey has found her grandmother's book of vodou spells, and reawakened a horrifying demon.
Two years after, following Corey's suicide in the very same house, Angela returns and finally starts to unravel what happened and put things right. Chilling reimagined vodou, a narrative that flips back and forth in time, characters deeply flawed but deeply empathetic.
This is a truly incredible, immersive read–with dark themes so tread with caution if needed. The end brought tears to my eyes. Most of the rest left me afraid to keep reading by myself in the dark. Highly recommended. I am mad this book isn't more well known! It is just begging for a film adaptation.
BEETLE AND THE HOLLOWBONES BY ALIZA LAYNE
This middle grade graphic novel was just the cutest. Beetle is a goblin witch learning to do magic with her gran as a teacher when she find out the mall in her Halloweeen town which her non-binary friend Ghost Blob is doomed to haunt is going to torn down. By who? Power-hungry Marla Hollowbone, whose niece Kat, a cat skeleton sorceress, is back in town.
Can Beetle and Kat save Ghost Blob, defeat Marla, and admit their feelings for each other? Can kindly old healer midwife witch Gran bring back the badass sorcery from her youth?
Gorgeous art, endearing characters, and fun LGBTQ representation for kids! I'm a bit bummed I had an ARC of this book, since it didn't have colour throughout. But I did love the art and the Halloween aesthetic! A perfect Halloween read.
THE BLACK EMERALD BY JEANNE THORNTON
I finished this book in the bath, with water tinged just the colour purple on the cover from a bath bomb. Very appropriate. Delightfully weird, dark but not cynical (such a hard balance to strike and Thornton does it so well), hilarious (the dedication reads "dedication is overrated"), sexy, and very queer. Thornton's writing is often strikingly perceptive and beautiful:
"They had a wide Oriental rug, all beige and purple and gold, its fibers an ideal consistency between solid and liquid, and it would ooze up around the bare toes that walked across it like ten tiny, formal hugs."
Stories include the titular one, about a queer artsy high school girl whose comics become haunted by a cult comics artist her ex-girlfriend loves, a girl who falls in love with a life size anatomical skeleton, a woman who runs a very unique hotel, and more. I loved this! Can't wait to read her next book, coming out in 2021.
THE WESTERN ALIENATION BADGE
Such an incredible book! A family saga, snapshot of growing up in Calgary in the 70s, coming back home in the 80s & then in the 2010s, and a queer coming of age story. The characters–two sisters Bernadette and Frances, their dad (who lost two wives 😥), and Frankie's childhood friend–are achingly real, flawed, and sympathetic even when you'd least expect. At once so specific to time and place, yet with such broadly recognizable complicated emotions and family dynamics. So Canadiana, so working class, so prairies. And the novel's chapters are loosely structured around Girl Guide badges, so clever with with cute illustrations like on the pitch perfect cover.
I loved Cullen's short story collection, Canary, a few years ago and this novel is just as great. I love her writing. Her characters feel so uncanny to me, so very familiar, but those familiar folks seen with such a sharp, empathetic eye.
MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW BY WAUBGESHIG RICE
What a thrilling, fascinating book! A kind of literary thriller / dystopian / horror novel with wonderful writing and authentic, human characters. It follows a Northern Anishinaabe reservation community in the days and months immediately after the apocalypse.
The focus is not what caused the breakdown of white society (you never find out what caused it) but on their journey to survive, leaning back into old ways of living off the land. Part of that journey is dealing with a white guy (what a villain!) who shows up wanting to escape the city and join them.
Parts of the story are quite suspenseful, and a few downright chilling! But it's also the kind of book with a lot of meaty stuff to dig into and discuss. I'm looking forward to reading more by this author!
Wonderfully performed as an audiobook by Cree actor Billy Merasty.
THE LITTLE KITTEN BY NICOLA KILLEN
Honestly this is the first time in my adulthood that I've considered a picture book one of my favourite books of the year.
This is an utterly perfect cat-centric autumn Halloween-ish picture book. I couldn't have imagined a book more suited to all things I love at thattime of year. The illustrations are gorgeous, black and white with orange, including metallic orange in the fall leaves and pumpkins and clever little cut-outs! So pretty!! Oh yes and the story is cute too.
FAIREST BY MEREDITH TALUSAN
A memoir about the life so far of Meredith Talusan, a writer/artist trans woman with albinism from the Philippines who immigrated to the US as a teenager. This book sails right past the conventions of both the typical trans and immigrant memoir.
It's not the story of someone who always knew she was a girl. And it's about someone who fits into American racial categories in a very unique way, as someone perceived as white who is Asian.
Her writing is beautiful, and she boldly looks at herself, sharing complexities, inconsistencies, and flattering and not so flattering moments in her life. I was sad when it ended, as I just wanted the story to keep going!
Wonderfully read by the author as an audiobook.
PARABLE OF THE SOWER & PARABLE OF THE TALENTS BY OCTAVIA BUTLER
I can't believe I waited until 2020 (during a pandemic no less) to read this dystopian classic series set only 5-7 years in the future. This is a fascinating, page-turning book about a young Black woman surviving in a US descended into chaos and anarchy, with drugs, disease, water shortage, environmental degradation, and severe economic depression making it at once a totally new world and eerily familiar.
I love Butler's world-building, characters (a future prophet / god as a protagonist!), and intellectual curiosity. She somehow writes a thrilling, gripping, I-can't-wait-to-find-out-what-happens-next type of book that is so thoughtful and inventive with its themes of community, religion, and more.
The second book is even better than its predecessor. A fascinating and heartbreaking dystopia about the ambitious (Black woman) leader of a new religion and her biological and found family. A terrifying science fiction imagining of what happens when a fundamentalist tyrant comes to take advantage of an apocalypse and his followers indulge in the worst abuses of power imaginable. A tough read (slavery, rape, poverty) but also hopeful.
THE SKIN WE'RE IN BY DESMOND COLE
This collection of essays is a riveting, infuriating, passionate book. It follows the year 2017 in Desmond Cole's life as a Black activist and journalist in Toronto.
He covers a wide variety of issues, from cops in schools and Pride to police brutality, immigration injustice, and more. I especially liked how he integrated the struggles of Indigenous people with his analysis of anti-Black racism in Canada. His "breather" chapter on taking a break and connecting in nature was also gorgeous. (It made me think about what kind of work we might get more of from Cole if he didn't have to constantly fight anti-Black racism). He also did a great job connecting current events to historical anti-Blackness in Canada without going into so much depth as to lose the thread of his argument.
A must-read. Excellent as an audiobook read by the author.
THE PULL OF THE STARS BY EMMA DONOGHUE
This audiobook instantly gripped me and did not let go until the end. Set in a Dublin maternity ward amidst the influenza epidemic of 1918, it takes place over only a few short days but packs in a lot of story, character, and historical immediacy.
Julia is a nurse and midwife working with expectant mothers with the flu. Two women come quickly into her life, altering her forever. I felt like I was right there in the hospital the whole book. I loved it!
I wasn't sure when this book was being publicized if there was queer content, which did make for a fun surprise when it came up, but I wish it would have been advertised! Although I do feel like it's useful to note that there is NOT a queer happily ever after, if that's what you're looking for.
ONCE YOU GOT THIS FAR BY KRISTEN LEPIONKA
The Roxane Weary mysteries are officially my favourite ongoing series! Lepionka delicately balances page-turning pacing, intricate and twisty plot, and complex fascinating characterization. Her current case is a so-called hiking accident that leads Roxane to investigating a culty fundamentalist church, a Canadian casino, a charismatic politician who runs a women's health organization, and more! Some very interesting developments in Roxane's family, love life, and friends as well.
I love how we get tiny subplots that chug along the stories of supporting characters from past books who Roxane has folded into her life (Her queer "niece" Shelby and her crush on her BFF, the snarky motel employee studying criminal justice who's doing her co-op hours with Roxane). Haha and the yoga pants businesswoman shows up again too!
I also love how over the course of the series we get to see the full spectrum of Roxane's bisexuality. She's trying to be in a relationship with Tom in this book (emphasis on the trying because she kinda sucks at it). But we also see her ex-girlfriend briefly come back to fuck with her (Catherine you leave my precious Roxane alone!) and see Roxane feel surprised at her sudden attraction to a woman she meets while investigating. It just feels so real to life, you know? I feel seen!
TAKE A HINT, DANI BROWN BY TALIA HIBBERT
This audiobook was excellently read by Ione Butler.
Predictably, I absolutely loved this. Talia Hibbert goes straight for my heart (and sexy parts) every time. A Black bisexual academic heroine? A South Asian ex-rugby player hero who reads romance novels? (Shout-out to the explicit shout-out to Beverly Jenkins!) I adore these two.
I loved the careful representation of Zaf's anxiety, his trauma from his dad and brother dying in a car crash, Dani's witchiness, her realization she's overworking, and her issue with intimacy. I also was thrilled with the bi representation. We get to see a bit of Dani's ex-sort-of-girlfriend and also her lesbian BFF Sorcha. Great use of the fake dating trope as well as the friends with benefits oops we caught feelings.
I will officially follow Talia Hibbert anywhere! This series is about the Brown sisters, but is it too much to ask for a little spin-off about Sorcha??
A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE BY ARKADY MARTINE
An absolutely incredible diplomatic space opera! Mahit is an ambassador from a small space station country sent to the heart of the Teixcalaanli Empire. She loves the poetry and Teixcalaan culture, but she also knows they are colonizers intent on annexing her home. When she arrives, she discovers her predecessor has suspiciously died. Here come assassination attempts, illegal neurological surgery, bubbling civil war, and many conversations where everyone is choosing their words oh so carefully to convey at least two things at once.
Intricate world-building with a focus on poetry, language (including body language and facial expressions), conceptions of selfhood, and neurological technology. Plus slow burn lesbian romance! It really got me thinking about how different cultures conceive of an "I" and a "we." And the complex relationship you can have to a culture you know is oppressive but whose art you love. That feeling Mahit has of desperately wanting to be a fluent Teixcalaanli poet but knowing because she is a "barbarian" she would always be considered other.
LATE TO THE PARTY BY KELLY QUINDLEN
A wonderfully warm and heartfelt YA about growing beyond the person your friends from kindergarten know you to be, first queer kisses, and queer solidarity friendship. Codi and her BFFs JaKory and Maritza (lesbian, gay, and bi respectively) are homebodies who stay at home and watch Netflix. When they force themselves to go to a big party to make something happen in their lives, Codi ends up forming a secret friendship with a closeted popular jock, Ricky, after she accidentally sees him making out with a guy.
Through him she meets a girl who just might like her back. She also breaks out of her shell, trying new things, putting herself out there, and finally having the kind of teenage adventures she thought she might never have. The only problem? She never tells JaKory and Maritza anything, so you are just waiting for that shit to hit the fan as well as to see if the girl and Codi are ever going to kiss.
Late to the Party had a lot of beautifully complex relationships, some bright sparks of poignant writing that really brought to life a teenage mindset, and layered subplots including one for Ricky, JaKory, Maritza, and Grant, Codi's 14-year-old brother. There were many times when this book made me fondly remember high school and the great, sometimes complicated friendships I had.
One quibble I had was that I had trouble picturing what a lot of the characters looked like since the author didn't give enough information early enough when they were introduced. Especially since there's a tendency to assume whiteness in the face of lack of details because of white supremacy!
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT BY MERYL WILSNER
Ahhhhhh this book was so good! I'm always a bit nervous to start a book that I have such high expectations for, but this delightful and so real queer romance absolutely exceeded them. This Hollywood set love story between a showrunner and her assistant was done so beautifully and thoughtfully, addressing the power dynamics of a boss/employee relationship.
The slow burn…. I love to see it!!! What I love about that trope is how it lets the couple get to know each other so well and develop a friendship and a respect, which is absolutely what Jo and Emma did. And there were plenty of things going on in their relationship up until they kissed, with tensions and dilemmas at work.
The characters were authentic and flawed, funny and vulnerable. Both their career subplots and one about sexual harassment in Hollywood were excellently done. Representation is a Jewish bisexual woman in her late 20s, a Chinese American lesbian in her early forties. The only rep I can speak to is the bisexuality, which I thought was wonderful in the ways it was addressed and left aside when it wasn't relevant.
And the side characters! I loved Emma's snarky fat baker sister Avery as well as Jo's childhood BFF Evelyn. I can't wait to read what Meryl Wilsner writes next! I will never see the term "yes, boss" in the same way again.
POLAR VORTEX BY SHANI MOOTOO
A strange, dark, fascinating, and thought provoking novel. Priya is in her 50s and lives with her partner Alex in an Ontario small town. Out of the blue she gets a message from an old university friend Prakash, with whom she had a complicated and fraught relationship.
Her invitation for him to visit brings up longstanding insecurities and issues in Priya and Alex's relationship. Themes include mainstream (white) discourse about queer sexuality and identity, refugee experiences, difficulties of intimacy and communication in relationships, and the triple effects of sexism, racism, and homophobia on queer women of colour.
The deep dive into longterm queer relationships really reminded me of Jane Eaton Hamilton's book Weekend. Mootoo adds to that with a somewhat unreliable narrator and multiple points of view.
I really mean it when I say this novel was thought provoking! I have notes written all over the margins of this book and in the notes on my phone. See my full review here.
THE GOSPEL OF BREAKING BY JILLIAN CHRISTMAS
There were many times when I gasped out loud and just sat in awe as I was reading Jillian Christmas's debut poetry collection. The poems are alternately sad, sexy, funny, and angry; I found myself—very willingly—riding a vicarious emotional roller coaster alongside them. Christmas's inventive lyricism and images went straight to my heart and gut, sometimes at the same time. Such as lines like: "how will we know it [what is a body] / unless we go searching through the roughness of being alive."
Many of the poems very much feel like their roots are in slam poetry with a careful attention to sound. They also shine on the page. Themes include depression, suicide, Black joy, spirituality, break ups, home and place, love, ancestry, Blackness, white feminism, writing, Christmas's mother, Internet and social media culture, and more. Also, there is a killer, hilarious poem addressed to the person who stole Christmas's bike! One of my other favourites was a gorgeous poetic take on the frequent meme "But have you tried." Uh, everyone else can stop doing this now, Jillian Christmas has clearly won. Read my full review here.
THE REGRETS BY AMY BONNAFFONS
A delightfully weird, unique, sexy, bittersweet story about a love affair between a woman (in the world of the living, but also somewhat removed from it) and a ghost who has been temporarily stuck on Earth because of the equivalent to a clerical error in the afterlife. The powers that be tell him: you are "insufficiently dead … You lack rupture with your life. You have no exit narrative."
I LOVED the writing: poetically precise and philosophically true. The tone was thoughtful and candid, details of the characters' flaws unflinching, but it never moved into cynicism. Also the heroine is a red lipstick wearing librarian. This is one of those books that while featuring queer secondary characters and overall not at all homophobic also felt VERY heterosexual (emphasis on the sexual, there's a lot of sex in this book), so beware if that's not something you can stand.
MY ART IS KILLING ME BY AMBER DAWN
An exquisite, hard-hitting collection of poetry not without its moments of humour and an ample amount of free verse experimentation with spacing, repetition, spells, and business letters. Amber Dawn writes about the burden and joys of writing from the perspective of a woman, a queer person, a survivor, and a sex worker. Being an artist in the public realm, performing or having to convince others of your trauma, dealing with abusers in positions of power in the literary community, and more. A book to reread and savour. Full review on my blog here.
Some of my favourite parts:
"I wouldn't mind if poetry mimicked racing tipsy down the subway stairs / in platform heels to barely catch the last train of the night."
"A poem is always a mirror / that we must hold up before us"
"Who do I confide to about pain when pain is my praxis / and best performance?"
"But you (literally you) are reading queer and desperate poetry / so may I assume you too have never been afforded / an uncomplicated story?"
"My kink is to loudly love those / who've been told to keep quiet."
"Closure / is like the conspicuous consumption / of real life."
MRS DALLOWAY BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
Mrs Dalloway is one of those novels that feels so effortless, which shows how much skill and talent Woolf had. I went into it expecting it to be less accessible than it actually is. The stream of consciousness just flowed, taking me along like, well, a stream. I was also surprised at a few passages that were quite explicitly queer for the time and loved the complex look at depression and mental health.
If you've been meaning to get around to reading this like I have, I would heartily recommend! God, her writing is so beautiful.
"Yet she could not resist sometimes yielding to the charms of a woman, not a girl, of a woman confessing, as they often did, some scrape, some folly…she did undoubtedly then feel what men felt. Only for a moment; but it was enough. It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion, and rushed to the farthest verge and there quivered."
IN THE DREAM HOUSE BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO
An INCREDIBLE memoir. The content is a subject that doesn't get nearly enough attention: domestic abuse in queer relationships. It's hard to describe, except as horrifying.
On top of the unique content, Machado is playing with form throughout the book, (re)telling the story through the lens of folk tale tropes, genres, and formats (including a harrowing "choose your own adventure" section). She pays particular attention to classic horror tropes
She often talks about her past self as "you" giving the reader an unsettling intimacy. Somehow this is compulsively readable despite the dark content. One of the best books I've ever read. This won the Lambda in 2020 for LGBTQ Nonfiction, and it is very deserved.
GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN BY TALIA HIBBERT
I LOVED this book!! (And yes, there are two books by Talia Hibbert on this list, for good reason). An emotionally resonant, steamy, diverse, authentic story about two people who at first don't like each other and then realize their first impressions were wrong. Red is a white working class artist whose previous relationship was abusive. Chloe is a wealthy Black woman with chronic illness including fibromyalgia. She also has a history of being abandoned by partners and friends.
Their falling in love was so cute, and funny, and sexy and just every minute of it was perfect. I laughed out loud at the sarcastic humour. The audiobook narration with different British accents was also perfect. And there's a cute cat! I had a feeling I was going to love Talia Hibbert and this did not disappoint at all. it's hard to believe this was the first book of hers that I read. Can't wait to pick up some of her older stuff.
THE PHILISTINE BY LEILA MARSHY
This book didn't draw me in right away, but it eventually won me over, hard. It's an #OwnVoices story about Nadia, a queer Palestinian-Canadian woman who travels to Egypt in the late 1980s to track down her father whom she has not seen in years. She finds and gets to know him anew, but she also meets and falls in love with an Egyptian woman artist, Manal.
There's a wonderful journey of Nadia reconnecting with her Palestinian heritage, as she meets many other Palestinians (taxi drivers, booksellers, a doctor) who don't hesitate to accept her as Palestinian and reach out to connect. Nadia is humbled and rejuvenated. There is of course also her father, whom she slowly begins to see as a flawed adult human being, instead of only the father who has disappointed her.
The story is set mostly in Cairo, a complicated, contradictory character unto itself. The city really came alive: the beauty of the art, food, generosity of people, poverty, stink of animals and defecation in the street, chaotic traffic, all the details of everyday life. Manal is Nadia's guide as well as for the reader, and she is a passionate, opinionated, and lively one. I loved her.
Beautiful writing; thoughtful, nuanced content about art, family, connecting with your heritage, Palestinian and Egyptian cultures and politics, Arabic language, and the generosity of strangers. Full review on my blog!
What were your favourite reads of 2020? Did you read any of the same ones as me? Let me know!
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Jenny Colvin (@readingenvy) says:
I had both Brown sisters books on my list too, along with The Subtweet and Polar Vortex. A great reading year!
Agreed, a great reading year!
Whatever else I was going to comment flew out of my head when I saw White is for Witching, haha. Love to see it featuring on a favourite reads list! The Subtweet is on my TBR for this year.
4 of 5 stars to Space Trash Vol. 1 by Jenn Woodall goodreads.com/review/show/48… 1 day ago

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INSIGHTS > New Articles > All India Radio Spotlight > All India Radio News Summary: 12 MARCH 2018
All India Radio News Summary: 12 MARCH 2018
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Prime Minister and French President jointly inaugurate a solar power plant at Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh.
The solar power plant at Dadar Kala village in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh will produce 157 million units of power per year and the commercial production will begin from next month.
Before inaugurating the plant both leaders visited several panels and inquired in detail about the project.
It is largest solar project in Uttar Pradesh.
It has been set up by French company ENGIE. The company was awarded the project in 2016 with the cost of 680 crore rupees.
Solar Energy Corporation of India has signed Power purchase agreement for 25 years with the company.
About one Lakh houses may be served from this clean Power project.
The Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill 2018 and the Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill 2018 were introduced in the Lok Sabha
The Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill will help in laying down measures to deter economic offenders from evading the process of law by remaining outside the jurisdiction of Indian courts.
The cases where the total value involved in such offences is one hundred crore rupees or more, will come under the purview of the bill.
It has also the provisions of confiscating all assets including benami properties of absconding economic offenders.
Such a person will be barred from pursuing any civil claims in the country.
The Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill is aimed at facilitating the orderly growth of the chit funds sector and remove bottlenecks being faced by the industry and enabling greater financial access of people to other financial products.
Ammo India 2018
Self-reliance in defence has got to be given priority.
Ammo India 2018, a two-day International Conference on military ammunition was inaugurated.
The objectives of the conference include familiarising the industry with policy and regulatory issues associated with the manufacturing of ammunition, and getting a holistic overview of the opportunities for industry in ammunition requirements.
Indian private industry is keen to leverage the opportunity and establish capacities and the capabilities for indigenous ammunition manufacture.
Currently, the annual ammunition market size in India exceeds one billion dollars and there is scope of additional annual capacity of approximately 250 million dollars in private sector.
Ministry is encouraging public-private partnership to promote Make in India in defence sector.
Ordnance Factory Board and Defence Public Sector Undertakings will be reviewed, revived and made more dynamic.
India offered a 100 million dollar Line of Credit, LoC, to Mauritius for defence procurement to help its security capacity
India agreed to sell a Multi-Purpose Offshore Petrol Vessel to the island nation, which will be financed through the LoC.
The Line of Credit is a big step in India's defence cooperation with Mauritius.
Both the countries signed four MoUs to further strengthen bilateral cooperation. These agreements are in the fields of education, health, culture and civil services.
India and Mauritius are two countries with deep historical links and strong people-to-people ties.
Based on the foundation of deep mutual trust and confidence, both countries have embarked on a new era of intensive cooperation.
Prime Minister inaugurates the Delhi End TB Summit
The summit is being co-hosted by the Health Ministry, WHO South East Asia Regional Office and the Stop TB Partnership.
PM will also launch Tuberculosis Free India Campaign.
The campaign will take the activities of National Strategic Plan for TB elimination forward in a mission mode.
The NSP is backed by a funding of over 12,000 crore rupees over the next three years to ensure that every TB patient has access to quality diagnosis, treatment and support.
The new NSP adopts a multi-pronged approach which aims to Detect all TB patients, with an emphasis on reaching TB patients seeking care from private providers and undiagnosed TB in high-risk populations.
The Prime Minister's vision to end TB by 2025, five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals has galvanised the efforts of the Revised National Tuberculosis Program, which has treated over 2 crore patients since its inception in 1997.
The United States applauded India for its efforts in initiating and inaugurating the International Solar Alliance (ISA).
The US appreciates the ISA's goal of expanding access to cost-effective solar power and look forward to the economic and social benefits this will bring to the developing world.
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Player of the Week - Eric Fehr
Eric FehrWashington Capitals
As a native of Winkler, Manitoba, Canada, it is a solid bet that Eric Fehr has enjoyed his fair share of outdoor hockey.
As a native of Winkler, Manitoba, Canada, it is a solid bet that Eric Fehr has enjoyed his fair share of outdoor hockey. Eric's goal-scoring abilities were on display outdoors on Saturday as he was the standout offensive star for the Capitals in their 2011 Winter Classic victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins at Heinz Field in the 'Steel City'. His two-goal performance outpaced the offensive stars on both teams – players such as Ovechkin, Semin, Crosby and Malkin. It has been players like Fehr, and his unwavering approach to team play, that have helped the Capitals emerge from a horrendous slump leading up to Christmas, something that has been well-documented for sports fans in North America through the HBO "24/7 Penguins/Capitals: Road to the NHL Winter Classic" series. The tenacious forward continues to be a solid-contributor for a team that many picked as a Stanley Cup favourite in 2011 and beyond. If Eric can bottle some of the outdoor magic that he brought to his game under the lights at Heinz Field, and continue to bring it to the rink as the Caps progress into 2011, both Winkler and Washington will be singing his praises.
Eric has three points in the Caps last two games; a 3-0 win over Montreal on December 28th and a 3-1 win over the Penguins in the Winter Classic on New Years Day
He was the offensive catalyst for the Caps outdoors in Pittsburgh, scoring a pair of goals – including the game-winner
He has also been a leader in other categories for the Caps over the past week, registering a solid +4 rating, three blocked shots and nine shots on goal
Born in Winkler, Manitoba, Canada on September 7, 1985
Drafted by the Washington Capitals in the 1st round, 18th overall, in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft
Led the Western Hockey League in scoring as a member of the Brandon Wheat Kings in 2004-05, posting 59 goals and 52 assists for 111 points in 71 games
Set personal career high totals in the 2009-10 NHL season in several categories; games played (69), goals (21), assists (18), points (39), and plus/minus (+18)
Eric Fehr Is A Wanted Man
After his free-agent signing, the newest Pittsburgh Penguin is busier than normal with calls, texts and interviews
Landing In Winnipeg With The Jets
Eric Fehr excited about suiting up for the Jets in front of his fellow Manitoban
Player Q&A | Nicklas Backstrom
They handed him No. 19, and he never looked back on his way to over 900 NHL games with the Washington Capitals.
Player of the Week | John Carlson
John Carlson topped NHL scoring this week (1-7–8) and joined impressive company as he pushed his point streak to seven consecutive games.
Eller hopes countryman's decision paves way for others
Lars Eller had never met the goaltender before, but that didn't matter in the least. It was about supporting a fellow player.
Slater reflects on retirement, next chapter
Jim Slater, who recently announced his retirement and new role with the Washington Capitals, stopped by NHLPA.com to discuss his next chapter.


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Isolation rooms set up for Calgary homeless clients with coronavirus
Assisted self-isolation units for Calgary homeless clients that may contract the coronavirus. CONTRIBUTED
By Staff LiveWire Calgary
Roughly 100 assisted self- isolation units are being made available for Calgary's homeless population in the case of coronavirus infection, according to the Calgary Homeless Foundation.
The coordination of these units was done with the Government of Alberta, Alberta Health Services and the City of Calgary, along with homeless agencies in the city.
Arrangements have been made in Calgary shelters to accommodate the city's homeless population while trying to adhere to social distancing public health measures. Overflow units for 350 clients were also opened at the Telus Convention Centre last week.
The self-isolation units, which are in an undisclosed hotel location, will provide medical support in a safe and private unit to ensure the spread of the coronavirus is contained, read an info sheet provided by the Calgary Homeless Foundation.
"Since the provincial state of emergency was announced, Calgary Homeless Foundation staff have been focused on the implementation of assisted self-isolation units for individuals experiencing homelessness in our city," said Gail Boehm, Acting CEO, Calgary Homeless Foundation.
"We take this responsibility very seriously, following all health and safety protocols required in converting a space designed for recreation into what is in effect, a medical facility."
A priority to expedite these rooms, said Mayor Nenshi
In Monday's City of Calgary coronavirus briefing, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said they weren't aware of any confirmed COVID-19 cases in Calgary's homeless population. He said this assisted isolation plan had been in place for some time.
"This was a critical public health issue," he said.
Nenshi had been leery of moving forward with the plan to create the larger warehousing of the city's population into the Telus Convention Centre.
Units for those with coronavirus, or sick and require additional care
The Calgary Homeless Foundation is working with HomeSpace Society, AHS, CUPS Calgary and the Alex Community Health Centre to provide the supports.
Clients that have a confirmed diagnosis, experiencing symptoms and awaiting test results, significantly ill (non-COVID), diagnosed COVID-19 but require a period of recovery, or those in close contact with confirmed cases will be transferred to the location.
They expect the sites will be operational April 6.
"This is an extraordinary situation and we are encouraged by the dedication and compassion displayed by all who care for those who are experiencing homelessness in our city, and we encourage all Calgarians to continue to practice self-care and physical distancing and to lead with kindness and care for others," said Boehm.


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California has become the first state to mandate solar-powered homes
The California State Building Standards Code has finally approved changes to the state's Code which require all newly built residential buildings with a height of 3 floors or more to be equipped with solar cells.
These changes were initiated and introduced by the California Energy Commission in May 2018. It was proposed to amend paragraph 24 of the section "Building Standards for Energy Efficiency". Now the amendments are finally approved. And it means that in California, for the first time on the American continent, since January 1, 2020, all newly built multi-apartment residential buildings must have solar cells in an amount sufficient to cover the entire energy consumption of the house during the year.
At the same time, the amendments stimulate the introduction of other energy-efficient solutions in new residential buildings – the installation of heat pumps and energy storage systems, but these requirements are not mandatory, as in the case of solar panels.
Though the adoption of the amendments was preceded by active analytical work. State authorities tried to find out what changes in the Building Standards Code threaten residents of new homes. All interested parties took part in the discussion of the amendments: companies which manage the houses, utilities, manufacturers of solar cells and, of course, construction organizations. As a result, a decision was made.
The analysis showed that the proposed measures will be economically reasonable throughout the large state of California, with several climatic zones. On average, residents of new homes will save $ 40 per month or about $ 500 a year. At the same time, payments for rent or property ownership will increase the same $ 40 per month, but utility costs connected with energy consumption will decrease by $80.
As Robert Raymer, technical director of the California Association of the Building Industry mentioned, the
builders, of course, are not happy with the innovations as they hoped for a 3-4 years' delay of adoption but they accept the changes and will improve their business processes to adapt to new rules.
But manufacturers of solar cells have reason to be glad. Today, approximately 150,000 solar panels are being installed in California for new and existing residential buildings. However, only 15,000 of them are in newly constructed buildings. But since 2020, California's solar energy market will exhibit exponential growth.


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Obama Donor's Manslaughter Charge Involves Infant Allegedly Killed By Pain Cream
By Eric Lach
The circumstances behind the involuntary manslaughter charge filed against a major donor to President Obama's 2012 re-election effort involve a prescribed topical pain cream and a dead infant. But what exactly happened to the infant and the precise criminal conduct involved remains unclear from the publicly available records.
Involuntary manslaughter was one of nine charges included in an indictment an Orange County grand jury issued last week against donor Kareem Ahmed and two associates. The indictment accused Ahmed, the president and CEO of a company called Landmark Medical Management, of masterminding an alleged multimillion-dollar insurance kickback scheme involving the manufacture and prescription of profitable topical pain creams to workers' compensation patients. The other charges against Ahmed include conspiracy and insurance fraud. As TPM reported in 2012, Ahmed was one of the biggest financial backers of Obama's re-election efforts, despite years of suspicions about his business practices from officials and workers' compensation experts in California.
The indictment, which also named pharmacist Michael Rudolph and physician Andrew Jarminski, described the manslaughter charge only in general terms, saying that on Feb. 3, 2012, Ahmed and the two other men "unlawfully and without malice [killed] Andrew G. (a minor), a human being, in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner and without due caution and circumspection."
But on Monday, TPM obtained Los Angeles County coroner's department documents that offer more details about the death.
The documents indicated that at 8:05 a.m. on Feb. 3, 2012, a five-month old child named Andrew Gallegos was declared dead at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Gallegos' mother, Priscilla Lujan, told a coroner's department investigator she had woken up at 7 a.m. that day and found the baby not breathing, according to the documents. A subsequent autopsy determined that Gallegos died of "multiple drug intoxication," and ruled his death a homicide. The autopsy report said lethal levels of the drugs tramadol and dextromethorphan, as well as a high level of amitriptyline, were found in Gallegos' stomach and liver, and that "residue" of the cream which contained the three drugs was found in one of Gallegos' baby bottles.
"There is medication residue found in one of the baby bottles tested which supports an ingestion route also," Louis Pena, the deputy medical examiner, wrote in the autopsy report, which is dated July 4, 2012. "The story from law enforcement investigation is inconsistent with the lethal levels found. A-6-month-old baby cannot manipulate the tube where these 3 medications were together in a cream form. The levels obtained in the baby's blood are not possible from incidental skin absorption or passive transfer."
It remains unclear from the available record how the infant's ingestion of drugs as reported by the coroner led to the manslaughter charge against Ahmed, Rudolph, and Jarminski in the insurance fraud case.
The Orange County District Attorney's office on Monday declined to comment on the manslaughter charge, saying it could not address the case until 10 business days after defense attorneys had been granted access to grand jury transcripts. Court documents obtained by TPM last week indicated that Gallegos' mother was one of the witnesses who appeared before the grand jury that issued the indictment against Ahmed. TPM's attempts to reach Lujan and Gallegos' father, Camilo Gallegos, on Monday were unsuccessful.
In a telephone interview with TPM on Monday, one of Ahmed's attorneys maintained his client's innocence, and said he expects Ahmed to be "fully exonerated." On the manslaughter charge in particular, attorney Edward Feldman said that extending criminal responsibility to a physician who ordered the cream, the pharmacist who manufactured it, and the management company that handled the finances was "clearly beyond what the law anticipates." (An attorney for Jarminski declined to comment to TPM. Attempts to reach Rudolph's attorney were unsuccessful.)
"The death of the five-month-old is obviously a horrific tragedy," Feldman said. "To bring manslaughter charges, though, does need to comport with what the law requires, in terms of attributing criminal responsibility, it must conform to what the law requires. There has to be some nexus between the death and the people who are charged."
A second indictment issued last week brought 35 additional charges against another dozen of Ahmed's associates, including a number of physicians and chiropractors and former Landmark Medical Management Vice President Bruce Curnick. That indictment accused the defendants of conspiring with Ahmed, who is not charged in the second case, and the counts included insurance fraud, kickbacks for patient referrals, and false claims. The doctors allegedly accepted millions of dollars from Ahmed between 2010 and 2013. In a statement emailed to TPM on Friday, Landmark Medical Management human resources manager, Ladonna Hieber, said that Ahmed and his staff "are innocent of all charges that have been alleged. The charges are meritless and we expect full exoneration of any wrongdoing."


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Lukas Graham is a Danish pop and soul band. It consists of lead vocalist Lukas Forchhammer, drummer Mark Falgren, and bassist Magnus Larsson. The band released their first album, Lukas Graham, with labels Copenhagen Records and Then We Take the World in 2012. The album peaked at number one on the Danish charts. Their second album was released in 2015 and earned international attention with singles like "Mama Said" and "7 Years", the latter of which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 list (among other countries' charts). The self-titled global debut album was officially released in the United States by Warner Bros. Records on 1 April 2016.
The band formed in Denmark in 2011 and initially uploaded homemade videos of the songs "Drunk in the Morning" and "Criminal Mind". The songs were also shared on Facebook and accrued several hundred thousand views. The band earned a contract with Copenhagen Records in late 2011. In a later interview Lukas Graham has revealed that the band already had a contract with Copenhagen Records and the selfmade videos were the label's idea to create an underground fuzz.
Prior to officially releasing any music, the band had sold 17,000 tickets for an upcoming tour.
Their first release, available only in Europe and selected other nations, became certified five-times platinum in Denmark. Their first release also featured four charting songs such as "Drunk in the Morning", "Better Than Yourself (Criminal Mind Pt 2)" and "Ordinary Things". Over the course of 2012, Lukas Graham played 107 concerts throughout Europe, selling 40,000 tickets in Denmark alone. They sold 80,000 albums and 150,000 singles while also earning 5 million YouTube views and 27 million streams. Their tour took them across Europe to countries like England, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria, France, and Spain.
In 2013, the band continued to tour throughout Europe. In the summer of 2013, the band was added to the bill of the Grøn Koncert (Green Concert) tour which is held in support of muscular dystrophy research. In October 2013, Lukas Graham won the European Border Breakers Award (EBBA) for their international tours in Europe.
In the fall of 2013, the band signed to Warner Bros. Records. The record company signed them with the intent of bringing their music to the United States. Starting in early 2014, the band spent extended periods of time in Los Angeles writing and recording what would become their official U.S. debut. The band is still represented by Copenhagen Records in the Nordics, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and France and is managed by Then We Take The World. In March 2014, Lukas himself contributed vocals to Hedegaard's Danish number-one single "Happy Home". Later in 2014, the band released their first single, "Mama Said", off their upcoming album.
The band released their next record (often referred to as the "Blue Album") on Copenhagen Records and Then We Take The World solely in Denmark and several other mostly European nations in 2015. It peaked at number one in Denmark and made it onto several other European charts as well. It featured the singles "Mama Said", "Strip No More" and "7 Years", the last of which peaked at number one on the charts for Denmark, Italy, Austria, Belgium, and Sweden. The band made their United States television debut performing "7 Years" on a 10 December 2015 episode of Conan and the song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 list. In March 2016, Lukas Graham performed "7 Years" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The band has also performed the song on Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and Good Morning America.
By the end of March 2016, "7 Years" had achieved around 225 million total listens on Spotify worldwide with 17.2 million listeners per month, making the band the 20th most popular artist on the service. On 1 April 2016, the self-titled global debut was officially released in the United States by Warner Bros. Records. The US release of the album received new artwork, a reworked track listing, and a wider global audience in countries including, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. The album reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200, No. 2 in the UK and New Zealand, No. 1 in Australia and Canada, and No. 5 in Ireland. The band also embarked on a two-month long tour throughout the United States and Canada at the end of March 2016. Most dates on the tour have already sold out. As of July 2016, "7 Years" has over 480 million Spotify streams.
In June 2016, keyboardist Kasper Daugaard left the band as "touring life wasn't right for (him)". He was temporarily replaced by the band's producer and former keyboardist, Morten Ristorp.
In December 2016, Lukas Graham was nominated for three Grammy Awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "7 Years" and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. 7 Year was also nominated for Song of the Year at the 2016 BBC Music Awards where the band performed the song live on 12 December 2016.
In 2017, Lukas Graham performed the song "Off to See the World", featured on the soundtrack of My Little Pony: The Movie.
In September 2018, the band announced their third album 3 (The Purple Album), to be released on 26 October 2018 through Warner Bros. Records, and its lead single "Love Someone".
Lukas Graham's music has been described as a pop-soul hybrid. In a review of the band's new album, journalist Jon Pareles of The New York Times described their sound as the place "where pop meets R&B". Patrick Ryan of USA Today wrote that the band's songs "effortlessly blend elements of hip hop and folk". Lyrically, the songs often deal with relatable experiences like growing up poor ("Mama Said") or drinking ("Drunk in the Morning"). The band's most popular song, "7 Years", describes growing up and aging at specific points in life (from seven years old to 60). Lukas grew up in a self-governing artistic community in the middle of Copenhagen called Christiania. The area is known for its creative atmosphere, relative poverty, and crime. His experiences growing up in the community have shaped both the sound of his music and the lyrics he writes.
•	Lukas Forchhammer – lead vocals (2011–present)
•	Magnus Larsson – bass, backing vocals (2011–present)
•	Mark "Lovestick" Falgren – drums, percussion, backing vocals (2011–present)
•	Lukas Graham (2012)
•	Blue Album (2015)
•	3 (The Purple Album) (2018)
Sources: Last.fm, Wikipedia
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Powell A. Johnson, Jr.
Powell A Johnson, Jr. passed away Sunday, June 14, 2020 in Willow Park.
Powell was born in Petersburg, Texas, on July 30, 1936, the third child of Powell A. Johnson and Beatrice Scarborough Johnson. When he was thirteen, the family moved to Lubbock, where he graduated from Lubbock High School in 1954. Powell was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1958 and retired in 1978 as a Major of Infantry. The highlights of his career were training and serving with Airborne, Ranger, and Special Forces units. Powell served three tours in the Republic of Vietnam and was also a Special Forces Team Commander in the 8th Special Forces Group in Panama and conducted a Military Training Team to the Dominican Republic. After active duty, Powell continued to serve his country as a Test and Evaluation officer in combat developments.
Powell married the love of his life, Betty Louise Mayne, on March 18, 1957. Together they raised two children; Kimberly Johnson Fish and Powell A. Johnson III (Jay). They have been blessed with four grandchildren, Michael Fish, Laura Fish, Audrey Johnson, and Powell A. Johnson, IV.
Powell and Betty both accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, October 30, 1977, and their lives were forever changed. A passionate solider for the Lord, Powell surrendered to preach in 1980, and has served in a variety of roles from associate pastor, Sunday school superintendent, deacon, teacher, and missionary in the Dominican Republic. Powell and Betty moved to Weatherford in 2000, and became active members of Victory Baptist Church. A dear calling to Powell was his commitment to discipleship, Barnabas Impact Ministries, Bible teaching, and sharing the power of daily Bible reading. Powell has also served as missions director at Victory Baptist Church.
Of Powell's many accolades, awards, recognitions, and certificates, none meant more to him than the lives he's invested in through his military service, Christian service, and lifelong friendships.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Johnson; children, Kimberly and Mel Fish, Cathryn and Powell A. Johnson, III; and four grandchildren, Michael Fish, Laura Fish, Audrey Johnson, and Powell A. Johnson, IV.
The service will be 11 a.m. Thursday, June 18, 2020, at Victory Baptist Church in Weatherford. Visitation is 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, at White's Funeral Home, 130 Houston Ave. in Weatherford.
Private Interment: Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery
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È un numero pratico.
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