B13 Peer Review

B-13 Peer Review: Every now and again we like to present an under appreciated artist and bring them to the forefront to give them the spot light that they so deserve. It seems others are watching because once we present them they go viral. Patti LaBelle  (born  Patricia Louise Holte ; May 24, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. LaBelle began her career in the early  1960s  as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group,  Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles . Following the group's name change to Labelle in the  early 1970s , they released the iconic  disco  song " Lady Marmalade " and the group later became the first  African-American  vocal group to land the cover of  Rolling Stone  magazine. LaBelle is commonly identified as the  "Godmother of Soul" . 6,931,189 views After the group split in 1976, LaBelle began a successful solo career, starting with her critic...

Dr Dre thinks Hip Hop in 2019 is "quantity over quality".  Picture: PA Hip Hop icon Dr Dre revealed his thoughts about the current state of rap in a new interview. Whether you're listening to his work with NWA, his classic rap album 'The Chronic' or his production work with  Eminem  and so many more, it's undeniable that  Dr Dre  is one of Hip Hop's gems. The scene in 2019 is quite a different landscape from the one which Dre first entered back in the 1980s and in a new interview he's shared his thoughts on how the current roster of rappers shape up Speaking to Beats1 recently, Dre was joined by Jimmy Iovine, who appears alongside him in the hit documentary 'The Defiant Ones'as the pair celebrated the 20 year anniversary of Dre's legendary second solo studio album '2001'. According to the hit-making producer, he feels the last couple of decades have changed rapper's view on the Hip Hop scene and he claims ther...

In a 24-10 vote, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would effectively end marijuana prohibition on Wednesday. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act of 2019, or  H.R. 3884 , was introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and currently has 55 co-sponsors. This is the first time that a congressional committee has approved a bill to make cannabis legal.  The MORE Act  would federally decriminalize cannabis by removing it from the  Controlled Substances Act , and would require the expungement of past federal cannabis convictions. The bill would also establish a Cannabis Justice Office to administer a program to reinvest resources in the communities that have been most detrimentally impacted by prohibition, funded by a 5% tax on state-legal cannabis commerce. Moreover, it will allow the Small Business Administration to provide loans and grants to cannabis-related businesses and support state a...

A case of vaccine-derived polio has paralyzed a child in Bamako, the capital of Mali, and an emergency vaccination drive is being organized to forestall an outbreak, the  World Health Organization announced  Monday. It is the first time the disease has been seen in Mali since 2011. The patient is a Guinean child whose parents traveled to Bamako seeking medical care. The child’s virus is a close genetic match to a strain last detected in a nearby region of Guinea in 2014. The child was not infected with the “wild type”  polio  virus, which the W.H.O. says has been eliminated from Africa. No cases of  paralysis  from wild virus have been found in Africa in a year, but it takes three years before a region is declared polio-free. Rather, it was a strain created when one of the three live, weakened  virus strains in the oral  polio vaccine  mutated to become dangerous again. Such mutations are a rare but persistent consequence of rel...

New York (CNN Business) A secretive   startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet. Heliogen, a clean energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it generates extreme heat above 1,000 degrees Celsius. This is an existential issue for your children, for my children and our grandchildren." BIOTECH BILLIONAIRE PATRICK SOON-SHIONG Essentially, Heliogen created a solar oven — one capable of reaching temperatures that are roughly a quarter of what you'd find on the surface of the sun. The breakthrough means that, for the first time, concentrated solar energy can be used to create the extreme heat required to make cement, steel, glass and other industrial processes. In other words, carbon-free sunlight can replace fossil fuels in a heavy carbon- emitting corner of the economy that has been...