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Being married is the biggest experience and important event of a person's life. If someone of your close companion is getting married so send him or her Islamic Nikah Wishes. If you want to send compatible wish which also suits the recipient then you are at the right place. Here we have collected some really nice wishes for the newly Nikah holder person. Check out our collection and wish your loving person Happy Nikah Wishes.
Islamic Nikah Wishes, Quotes and Dua
- You are going to be tied in a really amazing and precious relation, may you and your soulmate gets all the happiness and joys you both deserve.
- May Allah bless you both, may your this relation remains until the world remains. Nikah Mubarak and best of luck for your future.
- May you get everything which you desire, may your married life be successful and may Allah fulfill all your desires.
- Many things will come, many ups and downs will happen, but you have to remain calm and determined and always be the strength of your soulmate. Nikah Mubarak
- Do not ever let your partner down, whatever you deserve your partner also deserves that. Now you are not single and now you have a responsibility of person on your shoulders and I know you will do it perfectly. Nikah Mubarak.
- Be happy and keep your partner always happy, because the marriage is not a relation which should only carried by one person. Happy Nikah to you and your soulmate!
- Whenever you feel lost or upset, talk to your soulmate, this relation is very beautiful and you should have to keep it beautiful. Best of luck for your future, Nikah Mubarak!
Nikah Wishes and Sms Quotes for Best Friends, Family
- Dear friend, first of all, congratulations on you Nikah, and then May Allah keep you both safe and happy and may you both never feel a difficulty at all. Happy Nikah dear.
- Whenever you are at a place where you think you are lost, concern with your partner and make out a solution about the problem. Stay blessed and stay happy.
- Congratulations on your Nikah, may you both always remain such happy and evergreen, may your life be filled with love, happiness, and joys.
- Nikah is the start of a new life, you can be smart but you will be smarter after Nikah, may you ever remain happy in your entire life. Nikah Mubarak
- May you both enjoy the best of health and may you both be the strength for each other. May you both live long together and happily. Congratulations on your Nikah!
- The best ever desire is to remain always happy, may your this desire gets fulfilled. Happiness will be always on your door, Wish you a happy life.
- Best of luck for your future life, may you both remain such happy and smiling throughout the whole life, Allah bless you both. Congats on your Nikah.
- You are going to start a new life, may your this life goes smoothly and jovial. Happy Nikah day dear.
- The start of a new era has to begin, may this new era brings you a lot of happiness and joys. Hope you guys will be the most of happy at this precious moment of the life.
Nikah Wishes Dua for Sister, Brothers
- When a person is getting married with a person, he is actually attaching his soul with the other's person soul. Hope you both will happy and jovial. Nikah Mubarak to both of you.
- When you are getting married, after that relationship you do not need to even talk to each other for describing your day, you will talk with your heart and eyes. May your life goes unexpectedly happy.
- The biggest happiness of this world is that you have a person, with whom you can share all your thinkings and feelings. Nikah Mubarak to you and your partner.
- This life is an ocean of happiness but it will be filled by drop by drop. Just remain positive and be good in the side of your partner. Many many congratulations on your Nikah.
- Accept my heartiest congratulations on the precious event of your Nikah. May you both stay always happy and may your life get filled with lots of cheers.
- You will face many problems and difficulties during your married life, but you have to be positive and determined and that will result in a successful married life.
- When you have a person who always thinks about you and keeps thinking about you is the luckiest thing to have. May you both always remain happy and smiling.
Nikah Wishes for Brother
- Wish you a happy life and many many happiness in your life. May you both be the strength for each other and may you both remain happy in your life. Nikah Mubarak
- This day comes once in everyone's life and everyone should celebrate it in a memorable way that it always remains in your memory. Nikah Mubarak to you and your family.
- When a person gets married, there are many things that he has to face, many difficulties will be there. But you have to be strong for solving your problems on your own.
- A happy is standing at your door and looking forward to you may you find happiness in every corner of your life. Have a glad life after you Nikah and many many congratulations.
- You will not remain far from your soulmate because its a part of life and this relation is the best ever relation in the world. Hope you will have a happy married life. Congrats on your Nikah!
- What a nice relation you are going to be tied in, may this relation be successful and may you get all the happiness and joys you deserve. Many congrats on your Nikah!
- Words can not describe this pure relation, this relation is only understandable by heart and it never comes up to the words. May you get all the happiness and remain such delightful. Nikah Mubarak!
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The Lethality Assessment Program—Maryland Model (LAP) Advisory Council plays a critical role by:
- Identifying emerging trends and opportunities within the LAP;
- Advising the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence (MNADV) on strategies to address issues and advance LAP goals; and
- Supporting MNADV in promoting LAP to future participants, national and state stakeholders and community members.
Members of the council also provide guidance through several sub-committees on matters such as body-worn cameras, culturally-specific services, research and core elements.
2018 Council Members
- Anne Murray, Columbus City Attorney's Office (Columbus, OH)
- Caryn Burton, Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Indianapolis, IN)
- Chelsey Breitschwerdt, Life Crisis Center (Salisbury, MD)
- Dave Sargent, Retired Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence (MD)
- Jacquelyn Campbell, The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
- Jeff Spaulding, Westminster Police Department (Westminster, MD)
- Joseph Froehlich, LAP Consultant Trainer (Ocala, FL)
- Ellen Kramer, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Harrisburg, PA)
- Eric Atkinson, Menomonie Police Department (Menomonie, WI)
- Joanna Knowles, Helpmate, Inc. (Asheville, NC)
- Jennifer Albert, Community Violence Intervention Center (Grand Forks, ND)
- Lauren Miles, Family and Children's Services (Westminster, MD)
- Matthew Barba, Prince George's County Police Department (Upper Marlboro, MD)
- Michael Rizzo, International Association of Chiefs of Police (Alexandria, VA)
- Michele Coppens, Sojourner (Milwaukee, WI)
- Rosa Rivero, Safe Alliance (Charlotte, NC)
- Tamara Reif, The Center for Women and Families (Louisville, KY)
- Trish Meyer, Saving Grace (Bend, OR)
- Wendy Lau/Deborah Son, Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-based Violence (Oakland, CA)

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A great Teddy shirt, as always! Fit is true to size. It faded a bit after the first washing, which was surprising because these shirts are usually really well made. But it's still wearable and very cute!


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my focus
titus 2:1-15 (the message)
a God-filled life
Your job is to speak out on the things that make for solid doctrine. Guide older men into lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance. Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We don't want anyone looking down on God's Message because of their behavior. Also, guide the young men to live disciplined lives. But mostly, show them all this by doing it yourself, incorruptible in your teaching, your words solid and sane. Then anyone who is dead set against us, when he finds nothing weird or misguided, might eventually come around.
Guide slaves into being loyal workers, a bonus to their masters—no back talk, no petty thievery. Then their good character will shine through their actions, adding luster to the teaching of our Savior God.
God's readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation's available for everyone! We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now, and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears. He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.
Tell them all this. Build up their courage, and discipline them if they get out of line. You're in charge. Don't let anyone put you down.
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my goal for this blog from the beginning was to just document our daily discoveries, adventures (sometimes is just grocery shopping and sometimes a walk while being chased by neighbor dogs), videos and pictures.
not long into this blog i realized this could be luke-warm;
revelation 3:16; "So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
or this could be relevant and real and written with the goal and mind that this be eternally significant some how. some days it is very challenging to make sure what i am doing is significant. i like to keep it balanced (my opinion of what balanced is) and not every post be overwhelmingly deep.
please know this is my intent; to be real, honest, straight-forward, dependable, solid, constant, and above all speak truth and love.
i realize that everyone has their own interpretation of these things listed above. please know i will be writing according to my interpretation. i will not cater to readers (i do not know who all reads this blog; an impossible task i'd say) and their beliefs, for this is breanna's glimspe, not sam or jo's, but breanna's.
proverbs 25:16 If you find honey, eat just enough— too much of it, and you will vomit.proverbs 25:17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor's house – too much of you, and he will hate you.
Have you seen eLisa's blog, Extravagant Grace? She's doing a women's "study" of Titus 2… taking it apart, bit by bit, and helping us to really understand it. I think you'd enjoy it! 😀


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People's Climate March Livestream
Join the People's Climate March via livestream today. It should begin at 11:30am, Eastern Time.
DemocracyNow! Livestream
You may also watch the People's Climate March livestream on DemocracyNow! with Amy Goodman. It is up and streaming, from 10:30am to 1:30pm. After 1:30pm, viewers may watch video recordings of the march.
Amy Goodman is doing street interviews with leading climate activists. You hear marchers and drums in the background. And right now, I'm listening to Neil Diamond sing an original song about saving the Earth.
Share the Livestreams
Please share the People's Climate March livestreams with your friends. It's a great event!
The DemocracyNow! livestream is more professional. The YouTube livestream is more grass-rootsy.


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Just recently the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA) launched a new global action network designed to focus exclusively on hospice and palliative care development worldwide. The full press announcement can be found here .
More than 100 million people and their families worldwide need palliative care and support each year; however, it is estimated that only seven percent actually receive it, according to the release.
Dr. Cynthia Goh, co-chair of the WPCA, from the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network, noted, "Only 15 percent of the world's countries have hospice and palliative care that is integrated with general health care, so the formation of the WPCA is tremendously positive step forward in helping to meet an overwhelming need."
The Web site for the newly formed group is here.


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Lots more pictures can be found at https://www.facebook.com/oldguysinaction
Although the trip is over, memories remain. Plus - we haven't quite reached our $40,000 goal, so here goes one more post from Old Guy Andrew Lawson:
Reflections on Guatemala Land, People and Purpose
Land: Privilege to transverse in Central America by bicycle from high 12500 feet near the Mexican border (where thin air causes one at times to struggle with sufficient oxygen intake) to sea level near El Salvador (where the thick humid 32 feels like 39 and sweat pours from every outlet).
Dramatic elevation shifts provide scarily fast downhill stretches followed by impossibly steep granny-gear up hills, punctuated with 29 volcanoes and 17 significant Mayan ruins.
People: The most populous Central American country at over 16 million clinging to hillsides; exporting coffee, bananas, and vegetables from rich volcanic soil. 60% Spanish speaking of Conquistador European descent and 40% Indigenous Mayan people speaking their own dialect. Historic conquest and prejudice hold some similarities to Canada's indigenous peoples. General impression of Guatemalans as being poor but friendly with a ready smile.
Purpose: two fold ~ personal desire to engage in physical challenge and adventure in a meaningful way and ~ draw attention and funding to a need we can tangibly impact: namely, Maternal Health and Child Survival.
5X as many babies die before age one than in Canada. 10X as many Moms die from pregnancy related causes than in Canada. 50% give birth at home without help from a skilled attendant.
CAUSE Canada has been making a difference among the most vulnerable sector with contributions multiplied by our tax dollars at 6.5 times. Opportunity to donate through CAUSE Canada website and specify OGIA special project.
Moving steadily toward our goal of $40,000 translating into excess of $300,000. Every bit helps. Thank you for generosity already expressed.


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WBFSH – World Breeding Federation for Sports Horses
The FEI/WBFSH World Championships for Young Eventing Horses create a clear picture of the development within breeding because here a large number of young horses – some of the very best from the participating breed societies – each year compete under uniform conditions. Through this valuable information is gained for the benefit of future breeding knowledge.
These championships are also a competition between the breeders and the breed societies and they give a strong incentive for development and progress within breeding.
The championships create a natural environment in which breeders and studbook representatives come together and socialise. The value of social contact should not be underestimated – especially at a time of increasing globalisation, where unification is more important than ever.
I would hereby like to wish all the riders good luck and hope that the competitions will be fair and of course be characterized by good horsemanship.
Jan Pedersen
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Today I'm going to share my first knitting project with you as part of my participation in the Your First Knitting Project: Blog It to Win It contest through Interweave! Participants also get to choose up to five products they want in the hopes that they win, and here are my choices:
Intentional Printing $17.90
Paint, print, Layer, Collage $19.96
Screen filler and block out $10.99
Inktense pencil set $31.99
Handsewn $18.11
So, here is my story…
My poor mom. She tried so hard to get me interested in sewing and baking, but it never panned out. Ever. Until now. Now I wish I had all of that free experience at my fingertips, but I've always done things my own way. For some reason, the one craft that my mom taught me that actually caught on was knitting. I think it was because I could do it while watching TV, and I am a huge fan of attempting to multitask.
I really wanted to do a big, baggy beanie, so my helpful mom looked through ALL of her knitting books (she has A LOT) and we finally picked a beanie. She took me to the yarn store to choose my yarn and I started right away. I made all the rookie mistakes – picking up extra stitches and then dropping the ones I needed.
I would get frustrated and just put it down for a while, and once I came back to it, I was refreshed and ready to try again. That was one of the biggest lessons I learned from crafting – sometimes you just need to step away and revisit it later. I was really excited, and slightly relieved, when it was finally done.
I wore it every chance I got, and my friends had a lot of fun with it, too. As a result, it's super stretched out now and is pretty much unwearable at this point. But I still keep it around, because it's my first completed knitting project – and I just love it so much!
My mom can pretty much knit anything under the sun, and now that I am becoming more and more domesticated, I hope to learn some more from her and see what else I can make! I'm thinking scarves, mittens, pouches, and maybe even a beer koozie!
This post is for the Blog It to Win It contest through Interweave. You can enter the contest by clicking on the Interweave link. Share your post in the comments or on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #firstknittingproject. Find more knitting inspiration on my Pinterest!


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Earlier today, Samsung confirmed that they dont have plans to launch a Galaxy S III, which is a bit disappointing because all of us were expecting it. Samsung is still focused on MWC, and they are preparing to introduce new devices at the event. One of those devices could be the Samsung Galaxy S II Plus.
We don't know much about this device, other than it showed up in An3DBenchXL's benchmark database, and it's packing Android 2.3.4, a WVGA display, and a 1.5 GHz CPU. The Galaxy S II features a 1.2 GHz processor, whereas the Sprint Galaxy Nexus comes with a 1.5 GHz CPU, so we're expecting the GSII Plus's processor to be the same.
We are not sure about the processor manufacturer, but I believe that it will feature Samsung's own Exynos processor. Furthermore, this device could be Samsung's customizedversion of the Galaxy Nexus, featuring TouchWiz UI running on top of Android 4.0, which Google didn't allow with their pure experience device, the Galaxy Nexus.
Hopefully if the device is real, we will see it MWC later this month. Anyone looking forward to it? What else could Samsung have planned for us in Barcelona? Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below!
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A colleague's lab has been working on the molecular biology of the 'Gene Transfer Agent' (GTA) of the bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus. He and I have very different ideas about the evolutionary function of GTA, and we plan to sit down together and work through our disagreements, maybe coming up with a synthesis as a review article. I haven't been paying close attention to GTA, and in this post I'm going to take the first step by summarizing what I think I remember about it (before I go back and read any papers).
The phenomenon: Cultures of R. capsulatus have been known for many years to produce small phage-like particles, each consisting of a protein coat surrounding a 3-4kb fragment of R. capsulatus DNA. These particles can be separated from the source culture and are able to introduce their DNA into other R. capsulatus cells, where it can recombine with the chromosome and change the recipient cell's genotype. The variety of genes that can be transferred suggests that the DNA fragments may be random segments of the source cell's DNA.
I read about GTA when I was in grad school in the 1980s and first becoming interested in the evolution of processes causing gene transfer. I was already coming to the heretical conclusion that bacterial gene transfer by conjugation and transduction occurs as accidental side effects of infectious processes, not because such transfer is beneficial to the cell. At that time only Barry Marrs' lab had worked on GTA. My supervisor, the phage biologist Allan Campbell, thought that GTA was probably produced by a defective prophage. I was working on a cryptic prophage at the time, and this made sense to me. GTA would then be a form of transduction, a side effect of activity of genes whose normal function is to package phage DNA so it can infect new host cells.
The genes: More recently my colleague's lab has identified the R. capsulatus genes responsible for production of GTA and has partially characterized their regulation. As I recall, these genes are in a couple of clusters that do resemble defective prophage but that also have some properties of normal genes. In particular, aspects of the regulation suggest selection for a cellular function. My colleague has also done some analysis of the distribution of the GTA-producing genes, and as I recall this was not consistent with a single acquisition of a defective prophage. He thus interprets his findings as evidence that the ability to transfer genes by GTA is beneficial to R. capsulatus, i.e. that GTA has evolved as a form of bacterial sex.
Questions that I think have not yet been answered, or whose answers I forget: Does the individual cell that produces GTA die, as phage-infected cells normally do? Do only a small fraction of cells in a R. capsulatus culture produce GTA? How many genes are specific to GTA production (have no other function in the cell)? Have phage-derived genes acquired cellular functions independent of GTA production? Does GTA production directly reduce fitness? Can the ability to produce GTA be transferred by GTA? How strong is the phylogenetic evidence?
Next steps: Perhaps we should start our collaboration by working our way through the GTA literature, starting with Barry Marrs' 1974 PNAS paper. This would have the advantage of giving us both the same foundation of facts and factoids (things that look like facts but later turn out to be wrong) to base our discussions on. At the same time we ought to read one or more papers that clarify the evolutionary issues. My "Do bacteria have sex" paper is an obvious choice but shouldn't be the only one.
I'll ask my colleague to read this post, and we can then set up a time for our first meeting and decide what we should read in preparation for it.
Donaldina: Palaeozoic Turrets
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Aug 6, 2008
Baptist convert Brandon Heitzmann shares his love of the majesty
and splendor of the rites and vision of the Catholic Faith.
The Catholic Forum seeks to give the public a better understanding of the Catholic Church with informative shows consisting of both conversion stories and discussions on the Catholic faith.
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Bells are the largest and loudest instrument in the world and church bell ringing is a quintessentially English pastime. The sound of bells ringing is deeply rooted in British culture and almost everyone in Britain lives within hearing range of bells. Whether the bitter-sweet sound of just one bell tolling or the majesty of a whole peal, it has become part of our English heritage and much of the country's history can be traced through the history of its bells. They have called us to wake, to pray, to work, to arms, to feast and, in times of crisis, to come together.
The Bell Tower
Despite coming in many shapes, sizes and materials, most bell towers have a familiar layout. At the top are the bells, spreading the sound out to the community by means of louvres in the walls. The bell ringers themselves usually stand on the ground floor.
At the top of the tower, the bells are hung in a wooden or metal frame with each bell fixed to the axle of a large wooden wheel that pivots in ball bearings on the frame. A rope is tied to the wheel spokes, runs partly round the rim and falls through holes and pulleys to the ringing chamber below.
From here the bell ringers use the ropes to control the bells. The ropes come down from the ceiling in a circle by the pitch of the bell – usually so the strikes go clockwise around the room in descending pitch. Bell ringers stand in an inward-facing circle behind the ropes.
The bell tower at St. Margaret's contains five bells, which were re-hung in a cast-iron frame by John Taylor & Co. of Loughborough in 1935. Details of the bells are as follows:
Treble, cast by John Taylor & Co. of Loughborough in 1848.
25 5/8" (65cm) diameter, 326 lbs (148kg).
2nd, recast by Alfred Bowell in 1923. Originally cast by Henry Bagley in 1670. 27" (68cm) diameter, 444lbs (202kg).
3rd, cast by John Ruffard in around 1365.
28 3/4" (73cm) diameter, 433lbs (197kg).
4th, cast by John Taylor & Co. of Loughborough in 1848.
30 3/4" (78cm) diameter, 458lbs (208kg).
Tenor, cast by Henry Bagley in 1670.
36½" (93cm) diameter, 863lbs (393kg).
Change Ringing
Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a controlled manner to produce variations in their striking sequences. This may be by method ringing in which the ringers commit to memory the rules for generating each change, or by call changes where the ringers are instructed how to generate each new change by calls from a conductor. This creates a form of bell music which is continually changing, but which cannot be discerned as a conventional melody.
Change ringing originated following the invention of English full-circle tower bell ringing in the early 17th century, when bell ringers found that swinging a bell through a large arc gave more control over the time between successive strikes of the clapper. This culminated in the custom of ringing bells through a full circle, which enabled ringers to accurately ring continually-changing sequences, known as "changes".
Change ringing is practised worldwide, but it is by far most common on church bells in English churches, where it first developed. There are over 5,000 bell towers for change ringing in England, with less than 300 in the rest of the world.
The way the bells are hung is what makes English change ringing unique and so different to anywhere else in the world. Bells are made from an alloy of copper and tin and are arranged in the tower down the musical scale from the smallest (called the 'treble') to the biggest ('tenor') which is the lowest note. Bells are hung within a wooden or steel frame and attached to a wheel. They rotate around the centre of the wheel, with the 'clapper' in the centre striking the inside of the bell to sound. The special feature of English bells is that they have a 'stay' which allows them to pause in an up-right position. This means the ringer can control when they strike by pulling them from this 'set' position to swing at the correct time.
Change ringing is a social team sport, a highly co-ordinated musical performance, an antique art, and a demanding exercise that is conducive to well-being.
The Grand Union Benefice has a team of bell ringers, based at Blisworth. They are members of the Towcester Branch of the Peterborough Diocese Guild of Church Bellringers.
For more information about the guild, please click here.
The Blisworth Bell Ringers try to ring at all five churches in the Benefice, which have bells, on Sunday mornings prior to services, so that each tower is usually rung at least once a month. In addition to this, they organise days out to visit and ring at other towers around the region and take part in special events. The Band has approximately seven trained ringers and three learners. Most are from Blisworth, with others from Hunsbury, Roade and very occasionally one from Alderton. They range in age from teenagers to senior citizens. Anyone is welcome to come along and have a go, from complete beginners to returners. No particular level of fitness is required. Indeed to ensure the continuation of this essentially English art it is vital that more learners join. Practice is at St. John's Church, Blisworth each Monday from 7.30 till approximately 9.00pm.
If you are interested in joining or even just having a go, please come along to one of our practice sessions or contact our tower captain, Mason Masterman, on 01604 858985. Everyone is welcome!


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GAVAR, SEPTEMBER 15, ARMENPRESS. Archeological excavations have commenced in the village of Kalavan in Gegharkunik Province since August 26, carried out by a joint Armenian-German expedition team.
Excavations initially began in 2004, and were re-launched in 2017.
The current team consists of 15 scientists representing Armenia, Germany, Portugal, Israel, France and the United States. The work is proceeding in the Kalavan 2 Stone Age site. According to scientists, this site is a 70,000 year old shelter of a prehistoric human. Excavations revealed man-made stone tools, hunting tools and other findings.
The excavation will continue until September 26.
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In addition to Bayut.com in the UAE, EMPG owns and operates Zameen.com in Pakistan, Bproperty.com in Bangladesh, and recently announced its acquisition of Mubawab in Morocco.
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NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Eastern Nazarene College men's volleyball team wrapped up its trip to the "Big Apple" with a 3-0 loss to John Jay before rebounding for a 3-0 win over Mount St. Vincent Saturday afternoon.
With the results, the Lions move to 2-1 on the young season. The Bulldogs improve to 1-0 overall while the Dolphins slide to 0-1.
Rookie Arthur Kossoski (Malden, Mass.) notched 14 kills and eight digs to lead the team on the day. Samuel Cueva (Swampscott, Mass.) posted 11 kills and four blocks. James Hoopes (Lenexa, Kan.) finished with eight blocks and six kills while James Garofalo (Commack, N.Y.) tallied nine kills and eight digs. Brandon Jenkins (Norton, Mass.) recorded 40 assists in the two matches while adding five digs, a pair of blocks, and one service ace. Sunil Lepcha (Charlotte, N.C.) collected 15 digs on the day to pace the squad defensively.
In the first match of the day, Eastern Nazarene suffered a 3-0 setback to John Jay.
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The Lions capped off the afternoon with a rolled past Mount St. Vincent in straight sets.
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Is it normal for a middle school football awards dinner to be conducted with television cameras around to capture the moment? These are boys ranging in age from 12 to 14, after all. Are journalists usually camped out to note what happens?
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This essay was written as a commission by Le Centre d'Art for the catalogue of the exhibition by the Haitian artist Tessa Mars titled "île Modèle-Manman Zile-Island Template", at the Maison Dufort in Port-au-Prince, May 31-June 29, 2019. It was translated into French for the catalogue. The original English version is posted here, with permission from Le Centre d'Art (all rights reserved by Tessa Mars, Le Centre d'Art, and Veerle Poupeye)
Far from being eternally fixed in some essentialised past, [identities] are subject to the continuous "'play"' of history, culture and power. Far from being grounded in mere "'recovery"' of the past, which is waiting to be found, and which when found, will secure our sense of ourselves into eternity, identities are the names we give to the different ways we are positioned by, and position ourselves within, the narratives of the past.
– Stuart Hall[1]
One of the defining characteristics of Tessa Mars' work, is the way in which she reflects on her positionality in the histories and art histories of the Caribbean and specifically, of her home country Haiti.[2] This is exemplified by those works that feature her alter ego, Tessalines, which she introduced in 2015 while on a residency at Alice Yard in Trinidad and which has appeared in many of her works since then. In these works, she playfully claims space among the heroes of revolutionary Haiti as a quasi-mythical, horned warrior woman, armed with a machete or dagger, who is at the same time fearsome, comical, provocatively sexual, and vulnerable, and who is always recognizably Tessa herself, even though the details of the figure's visual appearance constantly change. Through the figure of Tessalines, Tessa Mars inserts herself symbolically into a male-dominated historical narrative of revolution and self-liberation that is central to Haiti's official national identity, while making space for ambivalence and subversive re-readings of collective and personal relevance.
Representations of iconic figures and scenes from the Haitian Revolution are pervasive in Haitian art, to the point of being commonplace, as nationalist historical references that are often also intermixed with the iconography of Vodou, which is the other main pillar of Haiti's national identity constructions and which also appears in Tessa's work. There are other contemporary Haitian artists who have cited these representational histories with a comparable sense of identification, irony and critical intent, such as Edouard Duval-Carrié and Vladimir Cybil Charlier, and there is also a tradition of satirical engagement with Haitian history and politics in the popular culture. What sets Tessa Mars apart, however, is the manner in which she inserts her own image and personal identity into this narrative.
References to the Haitian Revolution, Vodou, and related events and beliefs elsewhere in the African Diaspora, have become part of the visual vocabulary and ideological strategies of many artists of the Global Caribbean. The manner in which Tessa Mars inserted herself into the narrative of revolution and liberation, for instance, reminds of how the Jamaican-born artist Renée Cox took on the persona of Queen Nanny, the part-historical, part-mythical female freedom fighter and spiritual leader of the Windward Maroons in 18th century Jamaica and the sole female among Jamaica's official pantheon of National Heroes, in the series of photographs collectively known as Nanny of the Maroons (2014). While some of the photographs in the series are more intimate, and even eroticized, its most powerful image is The Red Coat, in which Renée Cox/Nanny poses with her machete and defiantly wears the red uniform coat of her arch-enemy, the colonial militia, to become a militant icon of historical and contemporary black female empowerment and resistance.
While the similarities are tantalizing, the fundamental differences must be noted: in the adventures of Tessalines, there are no iconic heroic stances or definitive ideological positions; instead, her ironic play-acting and changeable appearance complicate and subvert the very notion of fixed identities, positions and historical narratives, and represent a different kind of identity politics. Tessalines is, as Tessa Mars insists, a more personal icon, that speaks first and foremost to issues of personal freedom and subjectivity, and serves as an avatar through which her self-identity is negotiated, questioned and explored. Tessalines not only re-interprets key events from the Haitian Revolution, as part of a national imaginary to which Tessa is negotiating her own relationship; the avatar also appears in Tessa's symbolic, introspective conversations and battles with her own self, as in The Good Fight – Le Bon Combat (2018). The Tessalines narratives are often violent, which is not surprising, given the references to a revolutionary war, but in some instances this may appear to be self-directed, as in the recurrent image of stabbing her own chest with a dagger or machete. This self-directed violence is symbolic and cathartic, however, and serves as a tool for self-inquiry and -affirmation, rather than for self-harm. And it also references certain ritual practices in Vodou, where such actions have similar symbolic implications.
Such conversations with Haitian history and culture occur throughout Tessa Mars' work and, in doing so, she also engages with Haitian art history and, more generally, with the manner in which Haitian history and culture have been represented in art. One such example is her 2015 painting Conversation avec Hector H. (not in this exhibition), in which she interprets Hector Hyppolite's famous Maîtresse Erzulie (1948) and replaces the figure of Erzulie with the image of her own nude body. Unsparing (in terms of the unidealized representation of her body) but as enchanting as the original painting, Conversation avec Hector H. is a tribute to one of Tessa's favourite Haitian artists.[3] It also, and more explicitly than with Tessalines, inserts her image and person into the mythological universe of Vodou and the complex notions of gender and sexuality that are being negotiated in that context. Tessa is herself a Vodou believer and its beliefs, symbols and ritual practices are part of her lived experience. More broadly, the work is also a meditation on personal identity, womanhood, the female body, beauty, and sexuality, and on the representational codes that surround these subjects.


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Denmark last year granted 84,000 short-term (three-month visas), but had to refuse 9,000 people entry.
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Mr Haarder says the host's money guarantee will be returned upon their sponsored visitor's departure from Denmark.
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The exhibition Environment, Conflict and Cooperation (ECC) shows the unprecedented environmental pressures and climate extremes that the world faces today. The ECC Exhibition in Mexico is being organised by GFLAC and adelphi. It is supported by a grant of the German Federal Foreign Office and is part of the Climate Diplomacy initiative.
In some areas of the world, including Central America, rising sea levels and declining agricultural productivity due to climate change are expected to trigger major migratory flows, especially within countries. The role of policy-makers is it to promote local solutions while engaging in regional cooperation for a preventative approach.
Starting in 2014, the number of migrants from Central America's Northern Triangle surged. Experts blame the region's widespread criminal violence for spurring migration. But the Northern Triangle countries also share similar ecology, staple crops, and vulnerability to climate events. While environmental and natural resource factors are just part of the complex picture, understanding how they intersect with other migration drivers is key to creating and implementing effective policy responses.
Internal climate migrants are rapidly becoming the human face of climate change. According to this new World Bank report, without urgent global and national climate action, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America could see more than 140 million people move within their countries' borders by 2050.
The exhibition "Environment, Conflict and Cooperation", realized by adelphi and supported by the German Federal Foreign Office, was recently displayed in El Salvador in cooperation with the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD) as part of the Climate Diplomacy initiative. The exhibition illustrates the dramatic and growing impact of global environmental changes. It was discussed among experts and visitors, continuing to support a broader dialogue on sustainability in Latin America.
The "Environment, Conflict and Cooperation" (ECC) exhibition visualizes the dramatic and growing impact of global environmental change. It demonstrates how climate change can threaten the security of the American continent, and showcases how climate, environment and sustainable development cooperation can contribute to stability and peace.
Climate finance is supposed to fund projects in developing countries that support the path towards limiting global warming to 1,5°C – a goal that was confirmed in the Paris Agreement in December 2015. For this it needs a paradigm shift to low-emission and climate-resilient development as the statute of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) states. At the same time, projects funded under climate finance should not hamper development or lead to the violation of human rights. Climate finance can therefore not only focus on the environmental aspects of the investments funded, but also needs to be incorporated into the wider context of development, as i.a. the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are reflecting.
On 12 May 2016, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) launched its annual publication "The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID)", identifying climate change and related natural hazards, such as droughts, sea-level rise and desertification as increasingly important factors causing internal displacement.
Latin America is facing a two-pronged challenge: double power generation by 2050 while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The only solution? Green energy. Studies show that these two goals could be within the reach of Latin America, because this region still has huge untapped potential in terms of renewable energy.


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Recent events have me taking an inward look at how I treat the smallest on the fringes of our society … the garden gnomes. For those of you who haven't been following the saga of Jack Gnome, let me give you the abridged version.
I recently discoverd that a gnome living in my yard had been stolen. Or maybe he wasn't stolen. Through letters and photos left on my vehicle's windshield and, most recently, a CD powerpoint presentation of Jack's adventures, I discovered that Jack was on a "walkabout" because I had been a "gnome gneglector."
The accusations of gneglect by Jack Gnome, of gnot providing a gnurturing environment and of gnot acgnowledging his gnome "gayness" ring true. I was previously unaware of my homognomic beliefs. I didn't even gnow his gname was Jack until I began getting letters from him. I also discovered that his buddy, who remained in the strawberry patch, is named Luther. My bad.
Jack, if you are reading this, since you left I've worked on improving the garden, pulling weeds, planting flowers and making it a "happy" place once again. Now, I've even taken it a step further. To atone for my previous sins, I have decided to establish Bingo's Home for Wayward Gnomes. It will be a sanctuary in my magical garden for all gnomes, elves, pixies, and other fairy folk. There they will find other assorted folk of their same ilk, as well as flowers and non-magical creatures such as cats and toads. In addition, there will be gnome bowling, gnome barbecues, a jacuzzi and, most important, the special magic of children. And I'll pick up all the dog poo.
This sanctuary idea isn't new. In Barga, Italy, escaped gnomes have established one. There is also a 4-acre gnome reserve in North Devon, England with over 1,000 gnomes. There are even a limited gnumber of wild populations of gnomes that still remain. On a North American Gnome Web site, a distribution map shows Idaho as one of the largest areas for wild gnomes. Unfortunately, this habitat is shrinking, creating smaller and smaller genetic "islands" of isolated gnomes.
On the darker side of the gnome thing is the Europe-based Garden Gnome Liberation Front, which kidnaps gneglected gnomes from private gardens. Since 1997 the GGLF claims to have "liberated" over 6,000 gnomes. Sometimes these gnomes are discovered traversing their escape routes. Other times, their discovery is tragic. Recently 11 gnomes were found hanged under a bridge with an accompanying gnote, "When you read these words, we will no longer be part of your selfish world in which we serve only as decoration."
I invite all lonely and orphaned gnomes to join together in my special sanctuary. Because a gnome is a terrible thing to waste.


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How to reimburse Expenses In QuickBooks
As a business owner, it is very important that you set up a petty cash book to record expenses that are incurred on a daily basis.
Before you record reimbursement of expenses, you should have seen my tutorial on setting up a Petty Cashbook in QuickBooks.
To reimburse expenses in QuickBooks accounting software means you want to write a cheque to fund your Petty Cash Account so that your business can meet up with re-occuring daily expenses.
The following are the steps to Reimburse Expenses in QuickBooks software-
On the QuickBooks homepage, click Write a Cheque
A QuickBooks cheque window pops up. Fill in the fields with Reimbursement details:
Bank Account: Select the bank account you are transferring the funds from.
Ending Balance: Shows your bank's current account balance as at when the reimbursement is being made.
Pay To The Order Of: Write the Name of the Petty Cashier.
Date: Select the date of reimbursement.
Memo: Describe the transaction.
Account: Select Petty cashbook
Amount: Enter the amount being transferred to your petty cashbook.
Once you are done, click save and close.
The funds will be transferred to your petty cash account.


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Mario Garcia, The newspaper's design goddess predicts that soon, a full media's cadaver list as the market's death kiss already brought out of whack The Rocky Mountain, The Seattle's Sentinel and the San Francisco Chronicles will appear. A journalist by training, Mario has designed or redesigned over 547 newspapers during the past 40 years. He doesn't only know how to stay fresh and edgy but also gives the most demanded tip in the business: staying healthy. In theses fantastic times for medias entrepreneurs, he urges us to rethink the way we operate and embrace news technologies. An openness that may lead us to do innovative products, hit the packs….
Here's a hint of the fittest media business strategy for the next decade
Monday to Friday: online contents & mobile news delivery would be the king
Week End : Premium Print edition


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Yes, Fall is here!! The leaves have changed into gold and most have fallen to the ground and crunch beneath our feet already. Thanksgiving has come and gone and we look forward to that Spooky night that arrives on witche's brooms the final day of this month.
"O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain'd
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.
'The narrow bud opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;
Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,
Till clust'ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And feather'd clouds strew flowers round her head.
'The spirits of the air live in the smells
Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.'
Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat,
Then rose, girded himself, and o'er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load."~William Blake


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Module MSC-1020:
Ymarferion Biofeddygol
Module Facts
Run by School of Medical Sciences
20 Credits or 10 ECTS Credits
Semester 1 & 2
Organiser: Mrs Bethan Davies Jones
Overall aims and purpose
Rhoi profiad o dechnegau a gweithdrefnau arbrofol sy'n cael eu defnyddio yn y gwyddorau biofeddygol a bioleg moleciwlaidd.
Noder Mae'r modiwl hwn yn elfen graidd o raglen raddedig achrededig Gwyddorau Biofeddygol yr Ysgol Gwyddorau Meddygol.
Course content
Mae'r modiwl hwn yn cynnwys 6 gyfnodau ymarfer 3 yr un ac 1 ymweliad ag labordai ysbyty ac fe'i cynlluniwyd i gyfarwyddo myfyrwyr â'r set sylfaenol o dechnegau a ddefnyddir mewn bioleg moleciwlaidd a'r gwyddorau biofeddygol
Assessment Criteria
Category A (70%-100%):
Very good understanding of the methods used in the practicals. Student is very confident and thorough whilst conducting the experimental work. The laboratory reports are self-explanatory following a logical argument and are supported by good figures and tables including informative captions. The laboratory calculations are correct and contain units. There is evidence of knowledge acquired outside of the provided lecture and practical content. References (Harvard style) are relevant and correctly included.
Evidence of critical thinking and wider reading is essential for A+ and A* marks.
Category B (60%-69%):
A good student has a thorough understanding of the methods used in the experimental work and displays a confident level of laboratory skills. The laboratory reports summarise the practical work and underlying theory well, but may be too technical and/or contain some incorrect statements. Statements are followed up by explanation and context. The figures and tables are fully annotated, but the captions may be to brief. Most laboratory calculations are correct and contain units. There is limited evidence of knowledge acquired outside of the provided lecture and practical content. Harvard style referencing is correctly used.
Category D (40-49%):
A threshold student should have a basic knowledge of the essential facts and key concepts of the topics presented in the module. A basic ability to organise and present information, and should be able to address questions with relevant facts and understanding of the subject matter. The student should be able to demonstrate and understand the use of basic laboratory skills. Laboratory calculations may be incomplete or incorrect, units may be missing. Figures and tables may be missing or may not be correctly labelled.
C- to C+
Category C (50-59%):
A less engaged student should have sufficient knowledge to provide correct but limited information about the essential facts and key concepts of the topics presented in the module. The student should display a solid ability to organise and present information and should be able to address questions with relevant facts and understanding of the subject matter. Often correct statements are included but not supported by the context. The student should be able to demonstrate and understand the use of laboratory skills. Laboratory calculations are largely correct and only some units may be missing. Figures and tables are included, but they may be incompletely labelled. Captions may be too brief. References may be missing or they may be incorrectly referenced.
There is no evidence of knowledge acquired outside of the provided lecture and practical content.
Learning outcomes
Dilyn protocol ysgrifenedig arbrofol a chofnodi a phrosesu data arbrofol, gan gynnwys dadansoddiad ystadegol priodol
Dangos dealltwriaeth o ddefnyddio technegau moleciwlaidd i ddelio ag amrywiaeth o gwestiynau biolegol
Darganfod gwybodaeth o lenyddiaeth, ei gwerthuso'n feirniadol a'i syntheseiddio.
Ysgrifennu adroddiad o waith arbrofol yn y labordy mewn dull ysgrifennu gwyddonol priodol.
Cadw cofnod o waith a wnaed mewn llyfrau gwaith ymarferol.
Assessment Methods
|Taith Labordy Clinigol
|Fitamin C
Teaching and Learning Strategy
Ymweliad labordy ysbyty 1 x 3-awr, a gynhaliwyd ar ddiwedd y modiwl.
|Private study
Yn ystod yr amser a neilltuwyd i astudio preifat, disgwylir i fyfyrwyr ysgrifennu adroddiadau ymarferol, gan gynnwys ymchwilio i gefndir damcaniaethol yr ymarferion ymarferol (deilliannau 2, 3, 6 a 7)
6 sesiwn ymarferol 3-awr (deillianau 1 i 7).
Transferable skills
- Literacy - Proficiency in reading and writing through a variety of media
- Numeracy - Proficiency in using numbers at appropriate levels of accuracy
- Computer Literacy - Proficiency in using a varied range of computer software
- Self-Management - Able to work unsupervised in an efficient, punctual and structured manner. To examine the outcomes of tasks and events, and judge levels of quality and importance
- Exploring - Able to investigate, research and consider alternatives
- Information retrieval - Able to access different and multiple sources of information
- Inter-personal - Able to question, actively listen, examine given answers and interact sensitevely with others
- Critical analysis & Problem Solving - Able to deconstruct and analyse problems or complex situations. To find solutions to problems through analyses and exploration of all possibilities using appropriate methods, rescources and creativity.
- Safety-Consciousness - Having an awareness of your immediate environment, and confidence in adhering to health and safety regulations
- Presentation - Able to clearly present information and explanations to an audience. Through the written or oral mode of communication accurately and concisely.
- Teamwork - Able to constructively cooperate with others on a common task, and/or be part of a day-to-day working team
- Argument - Able to put forward, debate and justify an opinion or a course of action, with an individual or in a wider group setting
- Self-awareness & Reflectivity - Having an awareness of your own strengths, weaknesses, aims and objectives. Able to regularly review, evaluate and reflect upon the performance of yourself and others
Subject specific skills
Medicine benchmarks:
Knowledge of professional skills and practical procedures. (benchmark: 4.2. p) and the research process. (benchmark: 6.1.e)
Be able to perform basic practical skills related to clinical procedures (benchmark: 6.2.1).
Plan and execute research, present coherent scientific arguments, evaluate the data collected, draw valid conclusions and communicate to expert and lay audiences. (benchmark: 5.3)
Synthesise information from a variety of sources to aid knowledge and understanding of medical sciences. (benchmark: 6.1.b)
Analyse, evaluate and interpret the research evidence underpinning medical sciences. (benchmark: 5.2)
Will have gained transferable employability skills in presentation, numeracy, statistics, problem-solving. (benchmark: 5.1)
Will be equipped with inter-personal skills including team building, conflict management, and display behaviour and attitudes required in a professional working life. (benchmarks: 6.1.i, 6.2.2)
Biomedical Science benchmarks:
Graduates will be able to apply their knowledge to a professional, evidence-based approach to research into the pathogenesis and origins of disease processes and the diagnosis and monitoring of disorders. (benchmark: 6.2)
Biomedical science graduates are aware of the current laboratory methods to investigate and diagnose human diseases in clinical and research environments. This includes an appreciation of research and the development of new technologies. (benchmark: 6.3)
Biomedical sciences graduates should recognise and apply subject-specific theories, paradigms, concepts or principles to reach evidence-based decisions. (benchmark: 4.2)
To plan and execute hypothesis-driven research or development work, present coherent scientific arguments, evaluate the evidence and draw valid conclusions and communicate to expert and lay audiences. (benchmark: 4.3)
Be able to undertake practical investigations in a responsible, safe and ethical manner while paying attention to risk assessment, relevant health and safety regulations, ethical issues, procedures for obtaining ethical permission and informed consent and issues relating to patient welfare. (benchmark: 4.3)
To be able to receive and respond to a variety of sources of information (textual, numerical, verbal, graphical), carry out sample selection, produce record scientific records & analyse data within a statistical context (an understanding of statistical significance and statistical power), and to communicate the outcomes to a variety of audiences using a range of formats, media and approaches including the avoidance of plagiarism. (benchmark: 4.4; 4.5)
To be able to identify individual and collective goals and responsibilities and perform in a manner appropriate to these roles, in particular, those being developed through practical, laboratory and/or field studies. (benchmark 4.6).


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R&B/Hip-Hop: Did It Take Justin To Bring TempoBack?
For most of this decade, R&B/Hip-Hop radio has lived with a dearth of uptempo R&B product. There are mass-appeal rap records with an R&B feel. There are legitimate R&B ballad hits, more at some times than others, but true uptempo R&B hits (even with a rap included) are a mere trickle. There's a Mary J. Blige "Family Affair" here, an Usher "Caught Up" or "Yeah" there. But it's been nearly a decade since the last period where songs such as Brandy & Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" or Next's "Too Close" were a regular fixture in the top 10, not the exception to the rule.
The tempo shortage has many different sources. Rap itself is a mid-to-downtempo genre these days, which influences the type of tracks being offered to all acts. The Mainstream R&B artists of the type who might still be inclined to make an uptempo record are often already exiled to Urban AC (so you have to credit Brian McKnight for trying to stay contemporary on his recent "Used To Be My Girl").
But mostly, R&B's tempo shortage stems from the early '90s, when many programmers first started to believe that rap and ballads were the source of the true hits at the format, while uptempo R&B provided balance at best. With labels releasing fewer albums and fewer singles from a given project, there is less willingness to use up what could be an artist's only shot on a record that might not generate immediate reaction.
With Mainstream Top 40 gaining traction these days, you have to wonder if some of its strength is coming from having uptempo, radio-friendly rhythmic music when R&B has little of its own.
And yet, when "Check On It" by Beyonce or "I Don't Wanna Know" by Mario Winans do emerge, those songs become not just durable research monsters for R&B radio, but also multi-format hits, confirming that the demand for such product still exists. And with Mainstream Top 40 gaining traction these days, you have to wonder if some of its strength is coming from having uptempo, radio-friendly rhythmic music when R&B has little of its own.
That brings us to Justin Timberlake and his reverse crossover from Top 40 to R&B/Hip-Hop stations. At this writing, "My Love" has just cracked the Top 5 at R&B/Hip-Hop radio. The previous single, "SexyBack" got to No. 21. In New York, there was a period when the songs between them were getting more than 110 spins a week on WWPR (Power 105) and on WQHT (Hot 97), with "My Love" is in power rotation at both. (Hot backed "My Love" down to only 50 spins this week, and "SexyBack" has finally run its course at both stations.)
That sort of pop-to-R&B crossover was common until the late-'80s. Putting Hall & Oates and George Michael aside, it's been long forgotten just how much pure pop product used to get at least a smattering of R&B airplay. In the Frankie Crocker-influenced early '80s, Joan Jett's "I Love Rock And Roll," Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart," and John Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over" all played on at least one of New York's Urban stations. Even REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" made Billboard's Hot R&B singles chart in the mid-'80s. When dance music re-emerged in the mid-'80s, acts like Expose' got their first exposure on stations like WRKS New York, because there was nowhere else to go.
Then the first Churban stations popped up and stations like WRKS decided to better define themselves by ceding the pop and dance music. There might have been an occasional R&B artist like Lisa Stansfield who just happened to be white, but the search for the right pop crossover, so much a calling card for PDs like Crocker or Sonny Joe White in the early '80s–pretty much ground to a halt. And once there was an additional format between R&B and Top 40, the reverse crossovers were the songs that came from Rhythmic Top 40–songs that are often "pop" mostly by dint of which record label department worked them first. Akon currently has two uptempo hits at Rhythmic Top 40 but his "I Wanna Love You" is only becoming a solid R&B radio hit now while "Smack That" is still sitting below the top 40.
That Timberlake crossed over faster than Akon can be traced back to the mid-'90s resurgence of teen pop. R&B vocal groups like Boyz II Men had famously broad appeal. As it turned out, so did the pop acts influenced by them. Ten year olds don't care much about format distinctions and when acts like the Spice Girls or Backstreet Boys did autograph sessions or listener events in their early days, the crowds were integrated.
R&B radio didn't usually acknowledge Top 40's teen acts; (WGCI Chicago made a brief, heavily publicized attempt to play the Backstreet Boys, but they were the exception.) But finally, toward the end of their hitmaking streaks, acts like 'N Sync and Britney Spears got a handful of R&B spins by working with producers like the Neptunes until, ultimately, Timberlake's "Cry Me A River" became a No. 11 R&B hit. Since then, there hasn't been a lot of reverse crossover, but there have been a few notable ones: Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" getting to No. 10 last year; Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" getting to No. 25 earlier in 2006.
It has always made sense for R&B programmers to look for the right crossovers–not as a way of expanding the base, but to acknowledge that there are pop records that appeal to the base. But one also can't help but wonder if "SexyBack," "Promiscuous" and "My Love" are finding a home at R&B/Hip-Hop now because there's so little other medium-to-up R&B product that fills that need. After all, the genre's high-profile producers are spending a lot of their time working with pop acts. And "SexyBack" had the advantage of already being a radio hit and coming from an established artist–even if it built its story elsewhere.
Some labels do seem to see the opportunity in the current tempo shortage. The ads for Universal's new Taio Cruz single, "I Just Wanna Know," allude to filling a hole at radio, for instance. And the kickoff single from this Fantasia album is uptempo, not the ballad that led last time. And as with all the years that Mainstream Top 40 suffered from a lack of uptempo, center-lane product, there are still songs to play when PDs are willing to go looking for it. Until now, the only question was whether listeners missed tempo. Now that we have some guidance on that score, one can only hope that R&B acts with tempo, different sounding records or both have the same shot.


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Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have spent recent weeks casting their Superman reboot, Man of Steel. Henry Cavill as Superman/Clark Kent. Amy Adams as Lois Lane. Michael Shannon as General Zod. Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as Martha and Jonathan Kent. The inclusion of Zod and hiring big names for Clark's adoptive parents give some indication of where the story — conceived by David S. Goyer and producer Christopher Nolan — takes place in the Superman lore. And Lane claims Man of Steel "does cover the entire range of years, from infancy on."
But these are just nuggets. What will the film actually be about? A new synopsis has emerged that may confirm Superman is headed to West Africa. Read more after the jump.
Late last year, a character breakdown issued to casting issues included plot details:
The plot involves Clark getting involved in some sort of battle between two tribes in West Africa. When he is compelled to use his secret powers to intervene in a crisis in West Africa, Clark returns to Smallville to learn more about his origins and the hero he was born to be.
My understanding is this logline was somewhat dismissed, perhaps a victim of time out of sight. This weekend, however, Bleeding Cool found this synopsis listed in the Baseline Studio System:
A young reporter named Clark Kent roams the world covering various news stories. When he is compelled to use his secret powers to intervene in a crisis in West Africa, he returns to Smallville to learn more about his origins and the hero he was born to be.
These are clearly from the same source. The more recent synopsis suggests Clark is a reporter at the Daily Planet from scene one and omits any mention of a tribal battle. But otherwise: practically verbatim.
It is common to release false details to casting agencies to provide the actors a sense of tone for the auditions without leaking the real story. I am not aware of any motivation to do the same with Baseline. And Bleeding Cool vouches for the system's reliability, citing the instance last year when they discovered the top secret Devil synopsis on Baseline.
If this is the true synopsis for Man of Steel, this brings us back to the Mark Waid-penned comic Birthright. From the Wikipedia synopsis:
The story begins with a retelling of the destruction of planet Krypton. Jor-El laments the fact that his world accomplished "miracles no one will remember" while he is busy preparing infant Kal-El's voyage. Kal-El's shuttle pod fires into space moments before the planet's destruction. Jor-El and his wife Lara regret that they will never know if Kal-El survives the journey.
Time winds forward to present day West Africa, where an ethnic conflict between the fictional Ghuri and Turaaba clans is claiming lives (this conflict is very reminiscent of the Hutu and Tutsi wars in Rwanda). Clark Kent, a freelance reporter in his early twenties, arrives to cover the conflict…
Clark returns to Smallville, determined to learn more about his alien heritage. He tells his mother Martha that he wants to unearth his spaceship. He and Martha use the data tablet that came with Clark from Krypton to examine holographic records of Kryptonian history.
Birthright hits all the same beats. West Africa. From infancy on. A return to Smallville. The one big discrepancy: Where does Zod fit in?
Can you do me favor, WB? Can you release the official synopsis? Like, really spell it out.
The Zack Snyder-directed Man of Steel is scheduled for release in December 2012.


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