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November '16 reviews
Highly recommended this month: A Tribe Called Quest, Hidden Cameras, Lizzo
Well worth your while: Cosmic Range, Alicia Keys, Agnes Obel
As always, these reviews ran in the Waterloo Record.
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A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here … Thank You 4 Your Service (Sony)
A Tribe Called Quest have been teasing out promises of new music since they split up almost two decades ago. Throughout the 2000s, there were a series of reunion shows, and little new music from any of the three principals; even bandleader Q-Tip only released three albums in those 18 years.
Almost exactly a year ago, on a night that turned out to be the most horrific in music history with an attack on a Paris nightclub, Tribe performed on the Tonight Show to promote a reissue of their 1990 debut. For whatever reason—perhaps because rapper Phife Dawg's diabetes was taking what would soon be a fatal toll—they decided to finally re-enter the studio. Phife would be dead four months later. This album came out days after the election of Donald Trump.
One of the first things you hear is sampled voice imploring, "It's coming down hard: we got to get our s--t together!" One of the strongest tracks—indeed, one of the best singles of the year—is "We the People," a screed against the polarized politics of the election year, particularly, and explicitly, the xenophobia that propelled a whitelash all the way to the presidency.
For all those reasons and more, this is not the happy-go-lucky Tribe of past glories. "F--k you and who you think I should be," raps Phife; he's addressing the power structure, not the listener, but the sentiment might as well apply to anyone expecting a nostalgia party or some kind of balm to relieve modern-day anxiety.
Musically, it's a perfect update of their vintage sound: nothing here is a throwback, but nor do they try to fit into the latest fashions. It's everything a comeback should be. There's a heavy Caribbean influence throughout, including some straight-up reggae tracks. The slight touches of jazz are still there. The programming is decidedly modern. Jack White is one of the guests, alongside Busta Rhymes, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson.Paak, Talib Kweli and Andre 3000. In an entirely unexpected bit of stunt casting, Elton John shows up to sing the outro on a track that samples "Bennie and the Jets." MC Consequence is practically a fourth member. Both Tip and Phife sound entirely on top of their game, the potency of their collective flow hasn't diminished in the slightest. It's telling that the only younger MCs to even be invited to this party are Lamar and Paak; few others of the next generation could attempt to hold a candle to these old-school masters.
This victory lap is bittersweet, of course. It's quite consciously a farewell celebration to Phife Dawg. "Lost Somebody" is where Tip and Jarobi get downright mushy, and closing track "The Donald" (still trying to parse that title) is one big shout-out to the man they knew as the "five-foot assassin," "the Trini-gladiator," "the funky diabetic."
A Tribe Called Quest is back. A Tribe Called Quest is finished. Thank You 4 Your Service. (Nov. 17)
Stream: "We the People," "The Space Program," "Black Spasmodic"
Cosmic Range – New Latitudes (Idée Fixe)
This was my most pleasant surprise of the Hillside Festival this past summer. Taking the stage were musicians I recognized from Bruce Peninsula, Diana, Slim Twig, Jennifer Castle's band, and—wait, was that the original sax player from Martha and the Muffins? Why, yes it was.
Some semi-legendary starship cowboy Matthew "Doc" Dunn is the ringleader of this motely crew, who sound like Yo La Tengo covering Miles Davis's Bitches Brew: a droning, wigged-out psychedelic trip driven by distorted organ and plenty of percussion. There are more delicate diversions as well, which bookend the album: the lovely ambience of "Morning, Ontario," and the less enthralling eight-minute new-age piano of "Look at What Our Love Has Done." In between, however, the grooves are heavy and haunting, the cacophony carefully conducted.
Bands like this are often a lot of fun on stage and a holy terror in the recording studio: one of the many wonders of New Latitudes is that it sounds fantastic—mixing engineer Jeff McMurrich is the real star of this project. (Nov. 10)
Stream: "Morning, Ontario," "Love II," "Kowboy"
Lori Cullen – Sexsmith Swinghammer Songs (True North)
Fans of Ron Sexsmith and Kurt Swinghammer, his long-time friend and frequent guitarist—the two once covered each other's songs in a project called Sexhammer—will know that they share a love of the songwriting master of Burt Bacharach and the bossa nova pioneer Antônio Carlos Jobim. Sexsmith is also a big fan of Swinghammer's wife, Lori Cullen, who has six previous albums to her name. Ergo, Sexhammer reunited to write a full album for Cullen, one that's a full-on tribute to the breezy, sophisticated pop of their heroes. The instrumentation is perfect: plenty of nylon guitar, trombones, Rhodes piano, the most featherweight percussion, and the occasional clarinet or oboe to further remove it from any modern pop norms. Mia Sheard and Jennifer Foster chime in on backing vocals. It adds up to a series of love letters between incredibly accomplished musicians: both between friends and between generations. (Nov. 24)
Stream: "Face of Emily," "New Love," "Then There Were Three"
Hidden Cameras – Home on Native Land (Evil Evil/Outside)
Joel Gibb has had this on the backburner for almost 10 years, but Home on Native Land is far from a procrastination project; it's more than worth the wait. It's also not a coincidence that he's finally releasing it immediately before Canada's sesquicentennial year: the pun in the title is obvious, and for the album's design he uses the beautiful new typeface called, yes, Canada 150, commissioned by the federal government for the upcoming national celebration.
Gibb's nasal voice is well-suited to country and western, his skill at squeezing the most out of three- and four-chord songs perfectly in line with the genre. There are a couple of covers here, including a revelatory take on Percy Sledge's "Dark End of the Street," which illuminates the song's sympathies with the love that dared not speak its name during more closeted times: "Hiding in shadows where we don't belong / Living in darkness, to hide alone / You and me, at the dark end of the street / I know a time has gonna take its toll / We have to pay for the love we stole / It's a sin and we know it's wrong / Oh, our love keeps going on strong." It's a song Gibb was born to sing. More important, it's Gibb's originals that truly shine: "Counting Stars" and "The Great Reward" deserve to be standards.
It may well be a cliché that every indie rocker eventually makes a country record, but few are likely to do it better than Joel Gibb. (Nov. 24)
Stream: "The Day I Left Home," "Counting Stars," "The Great Reward"
Jim James – Eternally Even (ATO)
The second solo album by the frontman of My Morning Jacket is another excuse for him to dive deep into his synth collection, sit down at his electric piano and jam over some sparse R&B grooves. The sound is luxurious and trippy, but the songs seem like afterthoughts and there's little of the magic that James conjures when he's leading a full band. His first album was delicate and lovely, like Bill Withers collaborating with the Flaming Lips; this time it's more like Isaac Hayes being hijacked by Tangerine Dream. Hardcore fans of James won't be disappointed; others should take this as a welcome reminder how good that overlooked first solo record was. (Nov. 10)
Stream: "Same Old Lie," "In the Moment," "Hide in Plain Sight"
Alicia Keys – Here (Sony)
First Beyoncé, then Lady Gaga, now Alicia Keys: the biggest female pop and R&B artists have reinvented themselves in 2016, abandoning the maximalist demands of modern production, stripping down their sound and sounding better than they ever have.
Keys is still working with longtime associates Swizz Beatz, Mark Batson and Harold Lilly, but this time they turn their ear to early '90s hip-hop beats, Roy Ayers samples ("She Don't Really Care"), gospel blues ("Pawn it All"), Brazilian electro-pop ("In Common"), Lauryn Hill-style showdowns ("The Gospel"), Portishead-via-Issac Hayes balladry ("Illusion of Bliss") and acoustic country music ("Kill Your Mama"). Even her incredibly earnest world-peace anthem ("Holy War") is a winner; no doubt Bono is scrambling to figure out how to cover it with U2 ASAP. Is there anything she can't do? Well, first single "Blended Family," on the other hand, sounds like a treacly addendum to a TV movie soundtrack.
Alicia Keys has sold millions of records so far in her career; she didn't need to change anything up to prove anything to anyone. But this finds her fulfilling the massive potential she's shown since day one; this is the album she's always had in her. (Nov. 10)
Stream: "Pawn It All," "The Gospel," "She Don't Really Care"
Lady Gaga – Joanne (Universal)
There was always a lot more to Gaga than tabloid headlines and activism: her songs, her voice and her piano playing, for starters. Here, those three elements are at the forefront. Gone are the EDM trappings, the half-baked ideas fleshed out into album filler between singles, the cloying need to be everything to everyone. If 2011's overproduced Born This Way started to fizzle her early promise, 2013's Artpop just plain flopped and her 2014 album of duets with Tony Bennett was merely a distraction, Joanne marks a full-on comeback for one of the most exciting performers to emerge in the last decade.
Yes, there are more ballads, some with clear nods to Nashville, and one dedicated to Black Lives Mater. There are classic Gaga inspirationals, like "Diamond Heart" and the '50s-via-'70s "Come to Mama." There are obvious bids for pop radio ("John Wayne," "Dancin' in Circles") and the dance floor ("A-YO," "Perfect Illusion"). There are contributions from Mark Ronson, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, Father John Misty, Beck, Tame Impala's Kevin Parker and Haim, as well as a frankly forgettable duet with Florence Welch called "Hey Girl"—a lost opportunity to team up with Ryan Gosling, if nothing else.
Rare is the superstar pop record this varied and this satisfying. For those who've been waiting for Gaga to make a record like this, it's as thirst-quenching as Beyoncé's Lemonade. (Nov. 3)
Stream: "Diamond Heart," "Million Reasons," "Sinner's Prayer"
Lizzo – Coconut Oil (Atlantic)
"I don't need a crown to tell me I'm a queen." No doubt. Minnesota's Lizzo makes her major-label debut with a flawless EP that announces her Queen Latifah/Lauryn Hill-level talent to the world: after two promising but uneven independent releases, a collaboration with Prince, a tour with Sleater-Kinney and a new job as an MTV host, she comes out swinging here as an unstoppable force not only as an MC, but as a powerhouse R&B singer—and, um, a flautist (that's her playing the solo on the title track). With producer Ricky Reed (Pitbull, Meghan Trainor, Twenty-One Pilots), her stripped-down beats owe debts to New Orleans and dancehall, with the Latin-tinged opener "Worship" and first single "Phone" leaping out of the speakers. Body positivity is at the core of her message, hence the title track and "Good as Hell." Best of all, she leaves us wanting more. A whole lot more. (Nov. 3)
Lizzo plays the Velvet Underground in Toronto on Dec. 8.
Stream: "Worship," "Phone," "Good as Hell"
Donny McCaslin – Beyond Now (Motéma)
Lazarus Original Cast Recording – Various Artists (Sony)
This year started with the death of David Bowie, and it ends with two direct reflections on his departure and his final creative endeavours.
The more successful of the two is from saxophonist McCaslin, whose band Bowie employed to create his final album, Blackstar. They are an enormous reason for its artistic triumph, bringing an energy not heard in his recordings for decades. On their own, they do their own thing—which makes it all the more remarkable how they managed to shoehorn themselves into Bowie's songs in the first place. There are two direct nods to Bowie here: a cover of "A Small Plot of Land," a forgettable later-period Bowie song that doesn't get much better here, and a meditation on "Warszawa" from 1977's experimental album Low. Both are curiosities at best, better employed as a gateway drug for Bowie fans to discover what McCaslin and band are capable of on their own compositions.
The cast recording for Lazarus, the off-Broadway production that was an odd jukebox musical of sorts produced with Bowie's full participation, is a different beast. Recorded the day after he died, the cast runs through both popular ("Life on Mars") and unpopular ("It's No Game") Bowie tracks, alternately murdering them ("This is Not America") or reinventing them ("The Man Who Sold the World") and, extremely rarely, improving them ("Absolute Beginners," "Where Are We Now?"). The three new, previously unheard Bowie tracks are—okay. The bigger revelation, for those who didn't already know, is that actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) is a fantastic singer; I'd much rather hear him do his own Bowie tribute, independent of this weird stage production. (Nov. 3)
Stream Donny McCaslin: "Shake Loose," "Bright Abyss," "Warszawa"
Stream Lazarus: "Absolute Beginners," "Where Are We Now?" "Valentine's Day"
Agnes Obel – Citizen of Glass (Play it Again Sam)
As the weeks tick by on 2016, music lovers no doubt dread the news of each passing day: what beloved musician is going to die next? (Last week it was Sharon Jones.) How much more grief can we handle?
Agnes Obel is a Danish musician living in Berlin, who was raised by two accomplished musicians who buried their bigger dreams to take straight jobs. Her father died while she was touring her second album, 2013's Aventine, and it was a huge blow. She cancelled a few shows but had to return to the road immediately. "After he died, I thought so much about his whole life, knowing how my life is now," she told the Guardian newspaper. "He should have been a musician and I'm very aware I have something my father didn't."
It sounds like that stock-taking channelled directly into her work, because Citizen of Glass, her third album, is easily her best to date. It's also heavy with grief: plaintive minor keys, her eerie string arrangements are filled with swoops and swoons, her voice increasingly comfortable in its lower range—in one case, artificially so; on "Familiar," she duets with a pitch-shifted, masculine version of herself (not unlike Fever Ray of The Knife). Obel has a decidedly delicate touch as a pianist; here, she also utilizes harpsichord, spinet, celeste and a 1920s German synth called a Trautonium.
Citizen of Glass is for those long, dark winter nights ahead, during which we'll reflect on all that we've lost. And in this case, what we've gained. (Nov. 24)
Stream: "Stretch Your Eyes," "Familiar," "It's Happening Again"
Peppermoth – Now You Hear Me (independent)
How do you review ambient music? What makes one relaxation tape infinitely better than any other? Isn't this music more of a function than art? Well, maybe, but it's certainly easy to tell a good Saturday-night-beer-bash anthem from a piss-poor one, and you can easily delineate a quality Sunday morning meditation soundtrack from something that just sounds like a tap running in another room.
Peppermoth is the ambient project of Eccodek's Andrew MacPherson, joined on occasion here by bassist Jeff Bird (Cowboy Junkies), trumpeter (and arts therapist) Gary Diggins, and guitar wizard Kevin Breit. It's more than obvious that he's spent time studying early Eno records—particularly the ones that featured trumpeter Jon Hassell—as well as the moodier side of the 4AD catalogue. But there's nothing about Peppermoth that can be reduced to mere homage. Unlike a lot of ambient music, there is clear intention to every instrumental choice, every carefully placed note, every sonic layer that chooses to reveal itself at any given time. For a guy whose main band is about seeing what corners of the world he can bring into his sonic stew, this is a project where he peels back as much as he possibly can, how to make the most out of the most minimum of motifs—and he most certainly does. (Nov. 10)
Stream: "Dive," "Ghosting," "Moon Walk"
Robbie Robertson – Testimony (Universal)
The guitarist and principal songwriter with The Band has a new memoir out, you don't need to be a fan of The Band or Bob Dylan or anyone else in the cast of dozens to appreciate a good yarn. But it sure helps to have an audio companion like this.
Much of this fans will have heard before: we don't need to hear "The Weight" ever again, but by the same token this collection would be incomplete without it. No, the draw here is two tracks by Levon and the Hawks, recorded after Robertson and his bandmates quit as Ronnie Hawkins's sidemen and before they hooked up with Bob Dylan. Here we finally hear the raw power of what was reputed to be the hottest live band on the Toronto scene of the mid-'60s—and the rumours are true. There are also live documents from their time with Bob Dylan, a track from The Basement Tapes, and other odds and ends.
There's really no reason for any of Robertson's post-Band solo material to be on here, as his book concludes with The Last Waltz. Apparently he's writing a second volume; it's safe to say there won't be as much of an appetite for an audio companion to that one. (Nov. 17)
Stream: "He Don't Love You" by Levon and the Hawks, "Honky Tonky" by Levon and the Hawks, "Come Love" by Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks
Labels: A Tribe Called Quest, Agnes Obel, Alicia Keys, Cosmic Range, David Bowie, Donny McCaslin, Eccodek, Hidden Cameras, Jim James, Lady Gaga, Lizzo, Lori Cullen, Peppermoth
The Weeknd – Starboy
The Weeknd – Starboy (Universal)
"Look what you've done, I'm a motherf--kin' starboy." So goes the chorus to the Daft Punk-produced title track of The Weeknd's new album. What have we done, exactly, by showering Abel Tesfaye with awards and adulation while singing along? He'll tell us himself: we've enabled a drug-addled misogynist mired in modern Kardashian consumerism, while moaning that he needs "a girl who will really understand." Starboy—supposedly a concept album about the emptiness of fame—just comes up plain empty. Oh, and the title? Presumably it was deemed more palatable than Bitch, Get Out of My Bed—which would have been much more accurate.
Tesfaye has played this bad boy since the beginning, with varying degrees of either ambiguity or the notion that he's purposely embodying some kind of sexual supervillain. His breakthrough smash, 2015's Beauty Behind the Madness, was sequenced so that the loathsome narrator who begins the album is seeking some kind of redemption by the end. That record's biggest single, "Can't Feel My Face," had all ages gleefully singing along with an ode to cocaine; the song was so good that no one cared about the death-cult cartels Tesfaye appears to be propping up single-handedly. "Tell Your Friends" was nothing short of vile, lyrically—but, hey, that groove! And surely being invited to Beyoncé's Lemonade stand should get him some feminist cred, no?
The benefit of the doubt has now disappeared—something Tesfaye owns up to almost immediately, on "Reminder": "I just won a new award for a kids show / Talking 'bout a face numbing off a bag of blow … You know me / Every time we try to forget who I am / I'll be right there to remind you again."
So he does, on a plodding 18-song odyssey that plays out as a litany of man's inhumanity to womankind, what his mentor Drake would call "worst behaviour." The proud pussy-grabber goes on (and on and on) about bitches who dare to want something more from him; when he pauses to call out one lover's promiscuity on "False Alarm," the irony is more than a bit rich. I'd love to cheer on anyone who went "from homeless to Forbes list," but here he's just an A-list asshole. The cheeriest moment on the entire record is when he dies in a car crash while being fellated in the driver's seat, singing, "This ain't no ordinary life." Good riddance, buddy.
Even the pop thrills of the last album have largely evaporated, despite the presence of Daft Punk, Max Martin and others. The catchiest song ("Secrets") lifts directly from '80s hits by the Romantics and Tears for Fears. This isn't the second coming of Michael Jackson; it's warmed-over R. Kelly, complete with all the requisite creepy moral quandaries. If he'd retreated to the mysterious vibes of his earliest mixtapes that would be one thing, but Starboy is innocuous pop and R&B that falls far, far behind the ever-higher standards of the genre he himself helped reinvent. Even worse, while his captivating voice can usually do a lot of necessary heavy lifting, the excessive AutoTune heard here bleeds his natural talent. All of which makes it even harder to excuse the juvenile revenge porn he's still peddling—sounding even more pathetic the older he gets.
See ya later, Starboy. Have fun playing private parties for Bill Cosby and Jian Ghomeshi in the new White House—because it's 2017, motherf--ker.
Stream: "Rockin'," "Secrets," "Sidewalks" feat. Kendrick Lamar


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Jazz musician Svend Asmussen is dead – the Express newspaper
jazz musician Svend Asmussen, is dead, reports the Policies.
He was 100 years old.
Asmussen cooperated during his career with Alice Babs and jazzgiganter as Django Reinhardt, Benny Goodman and Joséphine Baker.
The Danish jazzviolinisten Svend Asmussen is dead. Asmussen was 100 years. The musician would complete 101 about three weeks. He was, during his lifetime work with a range of jazz icons such as Joséphine Baker, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Django Reinhardt and Benny Goodman.
He was in the years 1958 to 1964 in the trio Swe-Danes, together with Alice Babs and Ulrik Neumann. The group toured together in Sweden, Germany, England and the united states.
" He is known throughout the world for its violinspelande. He was an amazing musician, but he understood at the same time the importance of to entertain, " says Christian Brorsen, music director at jazz club Montmartre to Ekstrabladet.
READ MORE: Alice Babs daughter saw the documentary
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Svend Asmussen was interviewed by the Policy before its 100th anniversary last year. Then responded to some of the criticism he's received over the years for his musicianship.
" I have often been accused of being a chameleon, and it can perhaps be. I have always mixed me, in many things, " he told the newspaper.
Sydsvenskan interviewed Svend Asmussen, along with wife Ellen Asmussen, 2015 – in conjunction with that he released a new album "Embraceable", based on a recording from 1985.
" I have never sounded better on disc, told me Svend Asmussen enthusiastically for the new york times.
Svend Asmussen was active as musicians long after he reached the age of 80 years. He was married twice and leaves behind his wife and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Congrats to the Chicago Blackhawks for winning Stanley Cup!
Yesterday, I made sure I didn't want to miss this game as I had a feeling that Chicago Blackhawks was going to dominate the game and they didn't want to let it slip from them. Sure enough, they won it in an overtime. Since I'm over here in Korea, the game started at 9:00 am here and there was no live video stream to be found so I kept checking updates on the www like GameCenter on ESPN and Twitter updates. Once Chicago Blackhawks won the game in the overtime, Patrick Kane was the one who scored the game-winning goal, so naturally, I was curious to see how he scored. Gamecenter said a 30 feet wrist shot from left winger Kane. I thought to myself that it must have been an impressive wrist shot from him and he does have a fast wrist shot. Someone was nice enough to post a clipped video onto YouTube. I looked at the video several times. First all, it was a hell of a shot from Kane to shoot the puck into the net from an almost 180 degree angle and the Flyers goalie thought he had the angle covered but it went past him and caught the long side post. Game was all but over. However, if you looked at the video, the rather most important play wasn't the Patrick Kane's sneaky wrist shot but the defenseman, Brian Campell nbr 51, who skated to the board to prevent the puck from going out of the zone and past the blue line and he then passed to Patrick Kane who did all the moves on the poor Flyers player and scored. Patrick also was the one who initially brought the puck into the Flyers zone and initiated the whole play that allowed Chicago Blackhawks to end 49 years drought since their last Stanley Cup.


I don't know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims "the revolution will not be tweeted," but I can say with certainty that the Twitter he describes is not the Twitter I know. Gladwell's central argument is that Twitter creates weak ties but social movements require strong ties. I've made more strong ties through Twitter (and blogging) than I have through any communications medium I've ever used before.


An indictment was unsealed this week charging five nurses formerly employed at Home Care Hospice Inc, Philadelphia, with multi-million-dollar fraud on Medicare.
According to 7thspace.com, an investigation by the FBI and Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General concluded between Jan. 2005 and Dec. 2008, about $9.3 million in fraudulent claims for inappropriate patients were submitted to Medicare by the facility.
The claims were authorized by Patricia McGill, 64, of Philadelphia, a registered nurse and director of professional services for HCH, and an unnamed hospice director for HCH.
Also charged are Natalya Shvets, of Southhampton, Giorgi Oqroshidze, of Philadelphia, Yevgeniya Goltman, of Newtown, and Alexsandr Koptyakov, of Bensalem, who the indictment states created fraudulent nursing notes for approximately 150 patients indicating hospice services were provided for patients.
director sanctioning false documentation by the nursing staff, and authorizing the alteration of charts.
In Sept. 2007, HCH was notified it exceed its cap for Medicare reimbursement and would have to repay $2,625,047. McGill and the hospice director directed staff to review patient files and discharge hospice patients.
Seventy nine patients were discharged in Oct. 2007 and a total of 128 discharged by January 2008.
If convicted of all charges, McGill faces a potential 108 to 135 months in prison, a fine of up to $150,000, and a $1400 special assessment; Shvets, Goltman, and Koptykov each face a potential sentence of 27 to 33 months in prison, a fine of up to $60,000, and an $800 special assessment; Oqroshidze faces a potential sentence of 21 to 27 months in prison, a fine of up to $50,000, and a $700 special assessment.
HCH was co-owned by Matthew Kolodesh, who is charged separately.


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This man, I should say, had passed beyond all recognition of sanity for years, babbling incoherently so often that any few intelligible sentences he did utter always took us by surprise. Drug-addicted, severely schizophrenic, and relentlessly in a different world.
I think maybe, before writing about Arianrhod, I should write about deities in general. I'm a Pagan, or more specifically, a "polytheistic" pagan. That is, I believe in the actual existence of multiple gods.
As opposed to, say, Monotheism (Christianity, Islam, Judaism), which believes in the actual existence of just one god, the best god, or one-true-god, or what have you. I don't have a problem with them, only that I think they can be bit grumpy at times, particularly when they try to jail gays or burn pagans or silence scientists.
This is also opposed to Atheists, who believe in no gods at all, or no supernatural anything. They make some great companions, though, and tend to read as much as I do. And I've got no problem with them, except when they get so angry at the Monotheists that they support all kinds of bloody wars in the middle-east to liberate women from a certain form of clothing.
There are other ways to delineate my beliefs, but these get boring and technical. Ever sat through a debate between a Leninist or a Trotskyite? Or, better say, a Pre-tribulationist versus Post-tribulationist argument? No?
You maybe never heard of her. I hadn't, much, except for a short passage in a collection of Welsh mythology call the Mabinogion. The name would sometimes get stuck in my head–it sounds cool, is spelled awesome, and always felt a little familiar.
That tells you little, except it sort of tells you lots. There's a fun thing about myth and mythic language; like poetry, it unfolds over time. Turn the phrase around in your head, look at it directly, say it a few times, and then forget about it completely until it suddenly appears in the theatre of your mind, seemingly out of nowhere. You're staring at something, or thinking about something else, and Silver Wheel comes into your head and you're not sure why, but it somehow fits with what you're thinking about. Like an off-handed remark uttered by a stranger 8 years before which startlingly takes on profound, severe meaning when you're in the shower, or kissing a lover, or bolting out of a crosswalk to avoid an on-coming car.
She's a goddess, it turns out, as appear to be many others in the Mabinogion. Daughter of a King with a strange curse, mother of two children whom she didn't keep. Said to live in both a castle and a tower, Caer Sidi or Caer Arianrhod. Somewhere in the west, somewhere in the stars.
II. How'd I find out about her?
There's two histories here. I'm not sure which one to tell. Now that I think about it, probably three. History is like this–it's all in the telling, like story. The threads I choose to pull out and weave together create a tapestry which is a story, but I never seem able to use all the threads. Ever try writing and finishing a novel? It's just like that.
I'm gonna try this question again. When did I first know her by name? That one's easier. I was praying one day and suddenly blurted out her name, adding her to the names of the other gods I usually greeted. By "praying," I mean, in essence, sometimes I merely say "hello" to gods, which I also sometimes do to birds, dragonflies, trees, and friends. Again. I believe they actually exist, just like I'm pretty certain trees and friends do, too).
Actually, I did that more often in the beginning. I got maybe a little too playful with a god, or flippant, shall we say, but it turned out rather good at the end, and I'm glad he decided to see how serious I was, rather than just ignoring my childishness. And said god's got something to do with her, but we're not there yet, and I've got 30 questions to answer and at this rate, I might as well be doing National Novel Writing Month.
Back to that moment. I just sort of blurted out her name, with an image of a woman and a wheel in my head (one of her most popular depictions), and then I got her attention.
No, that's wrong. She had mine.
I've already mentioned this. It bears repeating. Also, hey–did you try what I suggested earlier, playing with the english translation of her name?
What's a silver wheel, huh?
At night, if you stare at the stars in a place where you can still do such a thing, if you stare at the stars repeatedly over a period of time, you'll notice they move. They don't, of course (thanks, science!), but they appear to. Also, more fun, they appear to move around a specific spot, appearing to circle a stationary star.
Ever seen a time-lapse photo of the stars? They appear to wheel. In fact, there's a phrase, used much less often now that we don't read ink on paper, and I think it should be used more often. Wheel can be used as a verb, and I like it that way. Stars wheel overhead. You can sit out all night with a lover under the wheeling of stars (I recommend it, both to you and myself, as I've done much less than I ought to).
Another fun thing, except this starts to get messy. There's a constellation close to the pole star, called in Latin Corona Borealis, or The Crown of the North. This same constellation is reputed to be called Caer Arianrhod. No problem here, yet, except Corona Borealis is already claimed not just in name but in myth to a certain mortal woman, elevated to deity by a certain other deity. Her name? Ariadne. And please note–the mere fact that they share letters doesn't mean they're related, anymore than Santa and Satan. Still…I'll take this up later. There's some interesting stuff here.
So, a Crown is also a silver wheel. The stars wheel, and are kind of silver. And there's also another silver wheel around the moon, a lunar halo. All these and a few other things have been said to relate to Arianrhod.
And…hmm. There are other wheels, too. The moon is sort of a wheel (more a disc, actually, so I tend to ignore this, and besides, Ceridwen's a bit better with the moon). Also, there are other wheels (carts have them, as do cars now, I've heard), and there's one more wheel that's worth noting.
One of the fun things about Paganism is that, like other naturalistic philosophies (including Atheism, actually), it takes most of its symbolism from nature. Interacting with nature and studying nature all of the time, rather than computers and celebrities (stars? really?), gives you this huge wealth of symbolism and also lots of oxygen, sunlight, moon- and star-light. And noticing that certain things seem to repeat themselves (the first snow, the first flowering, the first really hot day) on a regular pattern makes one some look for symbols to represent this (this is where pagans and modern scientists tend to differ-scientists like to find ways to predict things and come up with workable and often-accurate theories to do so; pagans often stay with symbols).
Wheels turn. So do seasons (from summer to autumn to winter, etc.), so do days (from light to dark), so does the month (which, when based on the silver disk's shifting in the night sky, is roughly a 28 day turning, a wheeling within a wheel), and years seem to do so. So does the earth, making both its own turning around an axis as well as a turning around the sun, another wheel within a wheel (though that one's a bit flat, ellipitical, as it were).
Arianrhod, then, symbolised by a wheel of silver, which is the meaning of her name…what does that mean?
I've got the rest of the month to go into that.
1. Though, for those who care, I'm equal parts Reconstructionalist and Revivalist, belonging not very well to either group. The Celtic Recon's sometimes get stuck on their "back to tradition" beliefs that they miss how a god or goddess is currently being worshipped, and also sometimes get racist; the Revivalists tend to slip too much into Rainbow-Dazzle-Sparkle-Unicorn talk; I like Unicorns, I don't like Dazzle as much, though sometimes I do.


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Niine Kicks off at Football Ground in Mumbai
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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India:
NIINE SANITARY napkins, has once again taken the initiative to take menstrual hygiene awareness to an unexplored ground.
Indian woman's team vice-captain and goalkeeper – "Aditi Chauhan" organized a workshop for amateur and upcoming football players in Mumbai and was attended by girls and boys from Mumbai and Pune.
Aditi is an Indian women's professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for India Rush and the Indian national team. She has previously played for English club West Ham United Ladies.
The venue was "score Marwah" a football turf on a rooftop in Andheri East and She organized it under her flagship football academy – "She kicks."
The event was executed by caanhub.com – a sports social networking website and crew for sports – a sports activations company.
The event was supported by brands such as mojoco water – a new coconut water brand – and Niine – sanitary napkins.
The presence of Niine – also ensured that young girls – who want to be professional sportswoman that nothing can stop them for being what they want to and can confidently, without any worry – just play and enjoy their game.
Niine has been consistently supporting sports and other events –
Niine Under the parent company Shudh Plus Hygiene Products has set up manufacturing units with the latest machinery supported by state-of-the-art technology in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Speaking about the business with purpose Amar Tulsiyan, Founder Niine Sanitary Napkins said, "we have already entered the market making formidable reputation as a challenger brand by being the first to create menstrual awareness, breaking the taboos, enrolling brothers and fathers and first one to provide solutions in the form of biodegradable disposal bag to dispose of used sanitary napkins. Niine Sanitary napkins were the first brand to say "Let's talk periods", coming out openly and addressing the topic of menstruation to both men and women. It was the first to move away from purely mother-daughter campaigns and enroll a brother in a #Surakshabandhan TVC and later came up with a father-daughter TVC.
Niine Sanitary Napkins, is also the first Indian sanitary napkin brand to be and breaking borders and going international with its #letstalkperiods message and presence on West Indies cricket grounds. Since then, Niine has been regularly visible on cricket grounds, a sport usually enjoyed by men- clearly aiming to break the taboo, secrecy and shunning away periods as a woman only issue.
And now with this football workshop again the message is very clear Access to menstrual hygiene products keeps girls on the same track as their male peers.
The workshop had 4 sessions – the first one being an audiovisual presentation – which was on sports science and detailed theory on what it takes to be a professional footballer.
The sports science bit was conducted by Durva Vahiya – sports science specialist with reliance football foundation.
The other 3 rounds were drills and exercises – plus an opportunity to all players to play a game with Aditi and Durva.
Niine also gave away prizes and goodie bags – with a collection of their products – to the best player of the evening – which was won by Tanishka.
The event was a major success – she kicks – along with caanhub.com and crew for sports – look forward to organizing many more similar workshops across the country.
We at Niine work actively to support women and girls who struggle to access safe menstrual products by offering sanitary napkins and also Educating girls and women about feminine hygiene and biology which helps to bust myths and cultural superstitions. Access to correct information about hygiene and adequate sanitary materials enables women to feel more confident and comfortable with their bodies.
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Presdent's April Message
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This organization is incredibly large and diverse, and as much as we all have in common in Rotary, we are not a place where one size fits all. Our expectations of a magazine, both culturally and linguistically, are naturally going to be different. With our regional publications, Rotarians in Bulgaria can find out what's going on in Rotary in Bulgaria, and what's going on elsewhere in the Rotary world, along with the latest news from Evanston. Because each one of our Rotary publications belongs to the family of Rotary magazines – each one is, like every Rotary club, both fully local and fully part of our international identity.
One of the greatest privileges of being RI president is the ability to speak directly, every month, to every one of our 1.2 million Rotarians. It's awe-inspiring to me, as I write this, to think of all of you, sitting down in your living rooms or at the breakfast table or maybe on the train to work, reading these words, and then turning the page to find out what's new in Rotary. And overwhelmingly, that is exactly what each of you does. Not just because your Rotary magazine turns up in the mailbox, or because you feel you have to – but because Rotary magazines are good magazines. I hope that when you pick up your publication – whichever one you're reading right now – you get the same feeling of pride, and ambition, that I do.
Rotary magazines remind us that as Rotarians, we are all part of something larger than ourselves. They show us just how much we can achieve through Rotary. Through them, we see what our Foundation dollars do, we see what our fellow Rotarians are doing, and we are inspired to Engage Rotary, Change Lives even more.
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The 6t o October is the 279t day o the year (280t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 86 days bidin.
1762 - Seiven Years' War: The Battle o Manila results in the Breetish takin the ceety frae the Spaingie until the end o the war.
1889 - First successfu climb o Kilimanjaro.
1908 - Austrick-Hungary annexes Bosnie an Herzegovinae.
1939 - Warld War II: The last Pols troops capitulate tae the Wehrmacht.
1973 - Egyp launches a coordinatit attack on Sirie an Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
1979 - Pape John Paul II visits the White House.
1981 - Preses o Egyp Anwar Sadat is assassinatit at a militar parade.
1993 - Michael Jordan propales his retirement frae basketbaw.
1995 - 51 Pegasi is discovered, as the first kent starn ither than the Sun tae hae a planet (51 Pegasi b) orbitin aroond it.
2006 - Fredrik Reinfeldt acomes Prime meenister o Swaden.
2008 - Then-Prime meenister o Iceland Geir Haarde announces the near-bankruptcy o his kintra.
2017 - The Internaitional Campaign tae Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Together with Alex Kopytko we initiated a discussion on the prospects of Kharkov. We assure Kharkov that our city has a bright future, even in those difficult conditions, which turned out to Ukraine today. Now let's see the other side. I'll tell you why Kharkiv has a good chance to remain a loser, then provintsializirovatsya to finally eat through the remnants of the Soviet past.
The first factor. Any movement forward requires a driver that performs the function of a locomotive. In the words of an engineer "Singapore miracle" Lee Kuan Yew, the "art of government consists in the maximum possible use of the limited resources available to the country." He further wrote that "the work of leaders is to inspire and encourage, not share your confusion of thought."
Kharkov problem today is that at this stage he does not yet have political leaders who are able to "inspire and encourage" the city of the global agenda.


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EXCLUSIVE-EU in talks with Moderna, BioNtech, CureVac to secure possible COVID vaccines - sources
Credit: REUTERS/Brian Snyder
July 17, 2020 — 07:23 am EDT
Written by Francesco Guarascio for Reuters ->
By Francesco Guarascio
BRUSSELS, July 17 (Reuters) - The European Union is negotiating advance purchase deals of potential COVID-19 vaccines with drugmakers Moderna MRNA.O, Sanofi SASY.PA and Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N and biotech firms BioNtech BNTX.O and CureVac, two EU sources told Reuters.
The talks follow a deal reached in June by four EU states with AstraZeneca AZN.L for the upfront purchase of 400 million doses of its potential COVID-19 vaccine, in principle available to all 27 EU nations.
The information on the ongoing talks was shared by the European Commission, the EU executive arm, with EU health ministers at a meeting in Berlin on Thursday, the sources said.
The multiple talks confirm the bloc's more assertive stance on procuring potential COVID-19 shots and drugs after Washington's early moves in securing promising treatments and vaccines.
"We are in talk with several companies on possible COVID-19 vaccines," a spokesman for the EU Commission told Reuters on Friday, declining to comment on specific firms as negotiations were confidential.
More than 150 possible vaccines are being developed and tested around the world to try to stop the pandemic. Of 23 in human clinical trials, at least three are in final Phase III testing - including candidates from China's Sinopharm and Sinovac Biotech SVA.O and AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
The most advanced EU talks appear to be those with Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi, confirming a Reuters report in June, because the EU is already discussing details on the number of doses needed.
With U.S. giant Johnson & Johnson, the European Union is negotiating a supply of 200 million doses of its potential vaccine, the sources said, adding that additional supplies may also be available.
'ADVANCED TALKS'
The bloc is also planning to secure in the second half of next year 300 million doses of the potential vaccine developed by France's Sanofi in cooperation with British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc GSK.L, the sources said.
Asked about the negotiations, Sanofi told Reuters it was in "advanced talks with the EU for the delivery of 300 million doses".
Negotiations were also ongoing, sources said, with U.S. firm Moderna, whose experimental COVID-19 vaccine showed this week it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, according to U.S. researchers .
The bloc is also in talks with German biotechnology firms BioNtech and CureVac to buy in advance their potential vaccines, the sources said. Both firms, which have already been offered EU funds to develop their shots, declined to comment.
BioNtech is developing a potential COVID-19 vaccine in cooperation with U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer PFE.N, for which 100 million doses could be available by the end of the year.
CureVac is a pioneer in the so-called messenger RNA approach, which is also being pursued by BioNTech and Moderna.
RNA molecules are single-stranded versions of the DNA double-helix that can be produced in a relatively simple biochemical process.
The EU-led talks are conducted by negotiators selected by a steering group in which all 27 EU states are represented.
Once deals are struck, EU states can place orders with drugmakers to secure precise amounts for their populations.
If doses of successful vaccines were not sufficient to cover the whole EU population, shots would be distributed based on demographic and epidemiological data, the Commission has repeatedly said.
A third EU source said the bloc was also renegotiating the deal struck with AstraZeneca by Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, to make sure all EU states had equal access to the doses secured in the initial deal.
The source said this discussion was backed by the four states which first signed the deal.
(Reporting by Francesco Guarascio; Additional reporting by Matthias Blamont in Paris, Caroline Copley in Berlin and Kate Kelland in London; editing by Nick Macfie)
((Francesco.Guarascio@thomsonreuters.com; +32 2 287 68 17;))
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Dr. Yoon Hang "John" Kim has been practicing integrative medicine and acupuncture since 1999. As a residential fellow at the University of Arizona, he trained with Dr. Andrew Weil, a world-renowned leader in the field of integrative medicine. Dr. Kim has been named as the director of Miami Cancer Center at Baptist Health South Florida starting January of 2017. His decade of work as the director of an integrative medicine practice has been published in the book Tao of Healing: A Story of Georgia Integrative Medicine. As an integrative health consultant to hospitals, academic institutions, and clinicians, Dr. Kim has helped to establish numerous integrative medicine practices.
He is founder of the Integrative Health Studies Certificate Program at the University of West Georgia, where he has also served as a member of the faculty. He is the author of two books and author of more than 20 articles on integrative medicine.
During his studies at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Dr. Kim was named a Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellow. After graduating, he undertook a residency in the Preventive Medicine Residency Program at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Kim completed the UCLA Medical Acupuncture Training Program for Physicians, and holds a Master's degree in Public Health (MPH) from San Diego State University.


It's been two weeks since Deja (Lyric Ross) came into Randall (Sterling K. Brown) and Beth's (Susan Kelechi Watson) lives, and "Still There" gave us a good understanding of how things have been going so far. Randall, Beth and their adorable daughters, Tess (Eris Baker) and Annie (Faithe Herman), have shown her nothing but love, patience and understanding. And yet, try as they might, they just can't get her to open up. She has lived an entire, unstable life before coming into their home and Randall and Beth can only imagine what she has been through. She refuses to wash her hair. She flinches when Randall raises his voice and prepares to be kicked to the curb whenever she makes a mistake. But she is still there. Randall and Beth did not "give her back". They are still there, and they'll continue to be there for as long as she needs them.
Whether you are the one entering a new family, or the one welcoming a new member into a tight-knit clan, it's an entirely new territory for both parties and the grounds need to be tested first. Deja has been in and out of foster homes her entire life and, based on her reactions so far, was never made to feel like she was welcome to stay in any of them. She can sense she has found a sanctuary in the Pearson's home but in trying to shield herself from further pain and disappointment, she cannot relax into the experience. Every now and then we get to see a glimpse of hope in her eyes as Beth and Randall continue to try and coax her out of her shell by planning a fun day at the bowling alley, or braiding her hair, but these moments are fleeting. Randall and Beth desperately want her to feel she belongs – that it's not "the little mamas and Deja", but that Deja is one of their little mamas too, and there should be no distinction in that.
Randall knows what it's like to feel like an outsider within your own family. As a black boy growing up in a white family, it was only natural for him to feel a sense of otherness, but it never caused his adoptive parents to treat him any differently from their biological twins, Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Kevin (Justin Hartley). Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Rebecca's mother, Janet (Elizabeth Perkins). Whenever she would come to visit Rebecca and the kids, she let it be known through subtle actions and wording, that she felt a clear detachment between the twins and Randall. She never referred to them as a pack – i.e. the kids – but two separate parties, and she never tried to truly get to know him, but rather, based her gifts and assumptions on the racial stereotypes she grew up with. Her presents for Kate and Kevin are thoughtful, her gift to Randall – a basketball – a lazy afterthought with a silent, loaded message.
I remember the first time my former step-dad's mother came to visit for Christmas. We had never particularly warmed to each other. To her, a sixty-year-old woman who had grown up in the English countryside and still held on to Victorian ideals, my fourteen-year-old, pink haired, multiple-pierced self was a like specimen from a different planet. She did not know how to interact with me, nor did she try too hard – just enough for it not to be super obvious. What was super obvious however, was her choices of gifts. While my brother – her biological grandson – was showered in a sea of brightly coloured, irritatingly noisy gifts that made his eyes sparkle, I was handed one little parcel containing a pair of left-handed scissors. Have I mentioned I am right-handed?
My former step-dad made no effort to point out how much of a low-blow that was. But my mum did. The next year, the ex-step-granny sent me a hand-knitted, multi-coloured scarf so long, I could have wrapped my entire body in it. I took the length of this present as a direct measure of her guilt.
I imagine Randall felt the same when he was handed a basketball for the third year in a row, but just as I did, he did his best to hide his disappointment. Unlike me, he wasn't aware of why he was being treated differently to Kate and Kevin, though he figured it may have been down to the fact he was adopted. I knew the reason why my ex-step-granny couldn't accept me, or my mother for that matter, was down to cultural differences – we had completely different outlooks on life, the world and, especially, the people in it. But at nine-years-old, Randall was still too young to understand the subtle undertones of racism and xenophobia.
When Rebecca calls Janet out on her thinly disguised racism, she is met by an avalanche of excuses – "You have to understand, I grew up in a very different time," and "it just all feels really foreign to me" – none of which can, or ever will, justify her attitudes. Rebecca knows that it is exactly this kind of generational divide that will carry on into her son's future if no one ever steps up to educate an old dog who refuses to learn new tricks.
When you accept a child as your own, there can be no distinctions between biological or adopted, white or black, because if you do, you will never create a sense of belonging. It's up to past generations to set a good example for generations to follow, but if we hold on to our "back in my day" attitudes they will carry into our future and prevent effective change from happening.


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Detail showing Sydney terminus from Woolcott & ...
Detail showing Sydney terminus from Woolcott & Clarke's Map of the City of Sydney, with the environs of Balmain and Glebe, Chippendale, Redfern, Paddington & Co 1854
John Carmichael
City of Sydney Archives
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(Woolcott & Clarke's Map of the City of Sydney, with the environs of Balmain and Glebe, Chippendale, Redfern, Paddington & Co, engraved by John Carmichael, printed by Degotardi, Sydney 1854)
Maps Railways
First city railway terminal
Prince Alfred Park Surry Hills
Carmichael, John
Sydney's first railway terminal which was built on the site of the 'Cleveland Paddock' between Devonshire and Cleveland streets and operated between Sydney and Parramatta. It consisted of a single wooden platform covered by a corrugated iron shed, 100 feet long and 30 feet wide (approximately 30.5 by nine metres). It was commonly referred to as Redfern Station due to its proximity to the suburb.
Large open parkland in Surry Hills bounded by Cleveland and Chalmers streets which had been part of Cleveland Paddocks between the 1820s and 1865.


NORD gratefully acknowledges Niraja Suresh, NORD Editorial Intern from the University of Notre Dame,and Maurizio Scarpa, MD, PhD, Center For Rare Diseases, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Horst Schmidt Klinik, Wiesbaden, Germany, for assistance in the preparation of this report.
Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II) is a rare inborn error of metabolism that affects every organ of the body. Although the age of onset, disease severity and the rate of progression of the disease vary significantly, initial symptoms and findings associated with MPS II usually become apparent in children from two to four years of age. Manifestations of MPS II may include joint stiffness, with associated restriction of movements; and coarsening of facial features, including thickening of the lips, tongue (macroglossia), and nostrils. Affected children may also have an abnormally large head (macrocephaly), a short neck and broad chest, delayed tooth eruption, progressive hearing loss, enlargement of the liver and spleen (hepatosplenomegaly), and progressive growth delays resulting in short stature. Two relatively distinct clinical forms of MPS II have been recognized. In the non-neuronopathic form (formerly defined as slowly progressive milder form) of the disease, intelligence may be normal or only slightly impaired. In the neuronopathic for of the disease (formerly called early progressive more severe form), intellectual disabilities may be apparent in the early life of the patient.
MPS II is an X-linked genetic condition that mostly affects males; although a few females have been described as well, and is caused by changes (mutations) of the IDS gene that regulates the production of the iduronate 2-sulfatase enzyme. This enzyme is needed to break-down complex sugars produced in the body.
MPS II is one of a group of hereditary metabolic diseases known as the mucopolysaccharidoses which in turn, are part of a group known as lysosomal storage disorders. Lysosomes function as the primary digestive units within cells. Enzymes within lysosomes break down or digest particular nutrients, such as certain carbohydrates and fats. In individuals with MPS disorders, including MPS II, deficiency or improper functioning of lysosomal enzymes leads to an abnormal accumulation of certain complex carbohydrates in cells (mucopolysaccharides, also known as glycosaminoglycans) within various tissues, such as the skeleton, joints, brain, spinal cord, heart, spleen, or liver.
In the neuronopathic form of this disorder, physical and mental development reaches a peak at 2-4 years of age with subsequent deterioration. Recurrent upper respiratory infections, a chronic runny nose, hearing impairment, liver and spleen enlargement, inguinal and abdominal hernias, joint stiffness and multiplex dysplasia, compression of tendines in the wrist (carpal tunnel syndrome), and joint stiffness which can result in reduction of hand function, growth failure and valvular disease commonly occur with this form of MPS II. Coarsening of the facial features with thickening of the nostrils, lips and tongue usually occur between 2 and 4 years of age. Hydrocephalus (fluid buildup in the cavities deep within the brain) is commonly found in this form of MPS II after 4 years of age. Thick skin, short neck, widely spaced teeth, and hearing loss of varying degree are also commonly present. Nodular skin lesions on the arm or the posterior chest wall, extra- high arched feet (pes cavus) and diarrhea may also occur.
Corneal clouding and cervical spine compression (very common in other MPSs) are rare in MPSII.
In the non-neuronopathic form of MPS II, mental function is usually normal, while the systemic complications are similar, although sometimes a reduced severity.
MPS II is an X-linked recessive genetic condition. X-linked genetic disorders are conditions caused by an abnormal gene on the X chromosome inherited by the mother and manifest mostly in males. Females that have an altered gene present on one of their X chromosomes are carriers for that disorder. Carrier females usually do not display symptoms because females have two X chromosomes and only one carries the altered gene. Males have one X chromosome that is inherited from their mother and if a male inherits an X chromosome that contains an altered gene he will develop the disease.
The gene responsible for MPS II is known as the iduronate 2-sulfatase (IDS) gene. In many individuals with MPS II, the condition is caused be relatively small changes (e.g., certain missense or nonsense mutations) in the IDS gene, or deletion or insertion of genetic material (e.g., single-base deletions or insertions) that affects gene function. Less commonly, MPS II may result from complete absence or major structural changes of the IDS gene, linking to a neuronopathic disease. Different mutations or structural changes of the gene account for the wide variability of symptoms and findings associated with the disorder (i.e., neuronopathic and non-neuronopathic types).
The IDS gene is responsible for production of the lysosomal enzyme iduronate 2-sulfatase. The deficiency of the enzyme results in an abnormal accumulation of certain complex carbohydrates (glycosaminoglycans also known as mucopolysaccharides) within the cells of various tissues of the body.
MPS II typically affects only males, with symptoms becoming apparent at approximately 2-4 years of age. The disorder occurs in approximately 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 170,000 male births. A few affected females have been described, due to the selective inactivation of the X chromosome inherited by the father.
The signs and symptoms of MPS II vary greatly, so the diagnosis cannot be made by physical exam alone. Diagnosis requires documentation of reduced or absent iduronate 2-sulfatase enzyme activity in blood or skin cells. A very simple determination of glycosaminoglycans in the urine may help in screening potential positive patients. Patients with MPSII disease accumulate heparin and dermatan sulfates in the urines. Molecular genetic testing for mutations in the IDS gene is available to confirm the diagnosis. It is always important to rule out a multiple sulfatase deficiency by testing other sulfatase enzymes.
An enzyme replacement therapy, idursulfase (Elaprase), was approved in 2006 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a treatment for MPS II. This drug is sponsored by Shire, a company that acquired the original developer of the drug, TKT Therapeutics, in 2005. For information on Elaprase contact Shire at 1-800-828-2088 or by e-mail at medinfoglobal@shire.com.
Other treatments of MPS II are symptomatic and supportive. These management interventions commonly include developmental, occupational and physical therapy. Hernias and joint contractures may be corrected by surgery. Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (surgical removal of both the tonsils and the adenoids) can be used to alleviate breathing and swallowing problems. Positive pressure ventilation (CPAP or tracheostomy) can be used to apply mild air pressure to keep the airway open to alleviate breathing issues. Carpal tunnel release can treat carpal tunnel syndrome. Surgical implantation of a ventricular shunt may be used to treat possible hydrocephalus. Hearing devices may be prescribed to treat hearing loss. Developmental, physical, and occupational therapy can be helpful.
Genetic counseling is recommended for families that have a child with MPS II.
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Finally I am back with another product review. This time is b.liv by Cellnique. b.Liv is a new product in Indonesian market. They just entered Indonesian market and introduce one of their best seller product which is Off with Those Heads sebum gel. b.liv discovered by Cellnique which is a leading paramedical brand in professional skin care industry for over fifteen years. Cellnique has intensively focused on providing the best available skincare solutions through professional consultation with skin care center.
In order to extend its solutions to the younger generation, in 2006, Cellnique introduced the world's first beauty-salon formulated blackhead and whitehead remover gel, Off with Those Heads, under the new skin care line, b.liv to the mass market.
My biggest skin concern is blackheads, whiteheads and pores. If you follow me for quite some time, I always trying to find solution for that. I thought facial treatment where you need to suffer from the painful facial routine including squeezing, picking and tweezing, is the only way to get rid off my blackheads and whiteheads. I was skeptical when b.liv sending me this product. Off with Those Heads claims to painless remove black and whiteheads in 14 days . It's sounds impossible in my opinion, until I tried it myself.
Off with Those Heads comes in a plastic pump bottle. I like the packaging not only because of the fact that it's a pump but also because the bottom pushed up when you pump them, so there is no air in the container *super sanitary*, and you can get every last drop out. Plus point that you can see how much product is left. The product its self is a clear gel sebum with peppermint scent. Once its applied on you skin, you will get the cooling sensation on skin surface that I really loved. The cooling sensation makes my skin feels fresh. It doesn't makes your skin feels oily and absorb quickly into you skin. This product retail for 49 USD or about 560.000 IDR for 30ml product.
On the packing it says that it is normal for more oil to be secreted during initial period, but I would say that I didn't notice any extra oil on my skin. It's also says that those with sensitive skin may experience mild stringing sensations, I think what it means is the cooling sensation can feels too stung for sensitive skin.
Tea Tree Oil : Control acne, anti-inflammatory, anti-septic, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal.
Witch Hazel Extract : Controls oil and tightens pores.
How to use : I am using Off with Those Heads daily, morning and night, after toner and before my Clinique Pore Refining Solutions *serum steps*. I need 2-3 pea sized drops and applied it on my T-zone, cheek and little bit on my chin, since those are where I have black and whiteheads the most.
I have used b.liv Off with Those Heads for almost 2 months and I can tell that I can see a huge difference. It does reduce my black and whiteheads. I won't say that, only with this product is enough to dismiss your black and whiteheads, but it definitely does a great job in reduce the black and whiteheads, especially the whiteheads. I still have a lot of black and whiteheads, but when I tried to squeezing it out, it doesn't as hard and painful as before.
I didn't see a lot of changes regarding acne scar and tighten the pores, but combining this product with facial scrub *I am using Microdelivery Exfoliating Wash by Philosophy* and pore minimizer serum *I am using Pore Refining Solutions by Clinique*, it is easier for me to achieve better skin and my make up looks flawless with out a lot of effort.
Readers : Have you tried this product? what do you think? also, if you have any product recommendation to get rid off blackheads, please let me know by comment down bellow.


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The Kalamazoo Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse is a federal building and former post office located at 410 W. Michigan Avenue in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

History
Construction on Kalamazoo's downtown post office  began in the 1930s as part of the New Deal program. The building was designed as a collaboration among Supervising Architect of the Treasury Louis Simon, Kalamazoo architects Rockwell Leroy and Manuel M. Newlander, and George D. Mason and Company of Detroit. Construction was completed in 1939. The building was used as a post office until 1959, when the main post office moved to a new facility on Miller Road. Between 1962 and 1963, the building was renovated to house court and federal office space. As of 2019, it continues to house federal offices, including the U.S. District Court, as well as U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Probation, Pre-trial Services, and Marshals Service.

Description
The Kalamazoo Federal Building is an Art Moderne building constructed of reinforced concrete, with the primary facades clad in Kasota limestone. The Michigan Avenue facade has two primary entrances, one at each end, that incorporate Art Deco metalwork. Between are tall windows separated by fluted piers, giving a vertical component to the strongly horizontal structure of the building.

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National Register of Historic Places in Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Buildings and structures completed in 1939

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Afro Beat Fest is an annual festival in Newark, New Jersey celebrating African culture including music, art, fashion, dance, crafts and cuisine.

The inaugural Afro Beat Fest was held in the recently refurbished Military Park in Downtown Newark in July 2017.  Afro Beat Fest is a reboot of an older festival that had begun in the 1980s called "Africa Newark." That incarnation ended in 2006 after it lost city support.

Mayor Ras Baraka commented that he and colleagues recalled the original festival warmly from childhood visits to the event and noted that the city worked with local organizers to revive it.

Grammy-nominated French duo Les Nubians, English-born Nigerian singer/songwriter Ayo Jay, and Ghanaian singer Bisa Kdei have all performed at the festival.

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African-American festivals
Festivals in New Jersey
Culture of Newark, New Jersey


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Vizio Wants Investors to Focus on Ads Business ahead of Company's IPO Plans This Week
Mar 22 2021 · 08:50 UTC by Ibukun Ogundare · 3 min read
Photo: VIZIO / Facebook
Despite its growth and increased sales, Vizio wants its investors to focus on its television ads business as its IPO is getting closer.
Vizio Inc has scheduled its initial public offering (IPO) to hold this week on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and the company wants investors to focus on its ads business. Vizio is finally going public after its initial attempt in 2015. At the time, Vizio stopped the IPO plans after agreeing to sell the company for $2 million to China's LeEco. However, Vizio eventually terminated the deal due to regulatory complexities.
Vizio IPO
As Vizio plans its upcoming IPO, the company hopes to sell each share at $21 to $23. The IPO could push the company's valuation to $4.2 billion if shares are sold at $23 each.
Vizio has grown over the years to become a top-selling TV company in the US. The TV company emerged as one of the US's fast-selling TV companies after securing deals with big box store company Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST). The deal also extended to consumer electronics company Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) about 15 years ago. The company's growth also came from selling HD TVs to customers at cut-rate prices.
Now, Vizio sells more than 7 million Televisions every year. The company then generates about $2 billion in revenue from the devices.
Vizio Ads Business
Despite its growth and increased sales, Vizio wants its investors to focus on its television ads business as its IPO is getting closer. During Vizio's online roadshow to promote the upcoming IPO, the company's chief financial officer Adam Townsend said:
"One of the primary addressable markets that we're focused on for our future growth is, of course, television advertising. The shift in viewers from linear to ad-supported streaming is significant and we know the ad dollars will follow viewers more and more."
Vizio's aim is to let consumers buy its TVs even if it is at a small profit margin. This is to let the company generate revenue through its operating system, SmartCast. Last year, SmartCast accounts increased by 61% to 12.2 million. SmartCast allows users to access some major streaming services and offers several free and paid channels. When people sign up on their SmartCast TVs, Vizio generates revenue from adverts on its home screen and also from within some free content.
Vizio introduced SmartCast in 2016. In a video for potential investors, Vizio founder Willam Wang said:
"Many brands are out there fighting for the limited space at retail. To stay competitive, we knew we needed to find a way to gain recurring revenue from the deployed TVs, which would enable us to keep the costs of TVs low for our retailers and consumers."
As CNBC noted in a report, Vizio's competition is now with streaming providers Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU), Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Google LLC (NASDAQ: GOOGL). Subscription services like Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX), Amazon Prime Video, and Disney Plus are enjoying nearly all the growth recorded in the TV industry.
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Boslowen is a beautifully refurbished modern bungalow, just 200 yards from the sandy beach of Widemouth Bay. Light, bright and stylishly furnished, this three bedroom property provides a superb family accommodation any time of the year.
Enjoy the fabulous views of the Atlantic Ocean from the comfort of the lounge which offers a wood burning stove to keep you toasty in the cooler evenings. Leading off the lounge is the well-appointed contemporary open plan kitchen/dining area with an induction hob, oven, dishwasher, microwave, fridge freezer and Nespresso machine. Each of the three bedrooms in the property are designed with comfort in mind, two king size doubles and one twin room which can be made into a super king bed if required. An additional fold out bed is also available for a child. Two family bathrooms complete this spacious accommodation.
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Boslowen is a beautifully refurbished modern bungalow , just 200 yards from the sandy surfing beach of Widemouth Bay. Light, bright and stylishly furnished, this three bedroom property provides a superb family accommodation any time of the year.
Outside there is a summer house and a large fenced garden and patio area , perfect for relaxing with a glass of wine and breathing in the sea air! A range of outdoor furniture includes table and chairs, sun loungers, charcoal BBQ and outside shower.
Widemouth Bay is a wide, sweeping bay well-known for its excellent surf and is popular with families who can enjoy the long expanse of sandy beach. There are a couple of good surf schools operating from the beach and the views from the coastal path are truly spectacular! Within walking distance is a local store with a fresh fish counter and a seasonal fish and chip takeaway. Bay View Inn, The Beach House and The Widemouth Manor which all serve good pub food are all nearby and you're only a short drive away from the seaside town of Bude.


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A: Советую использовать FontAwsome для иконок, а не картинки.

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margin: 10px;
padding: 10px 13px;

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}

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}

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