Whip Music & Hafrikplay Africa Partner To Promote Underground Talent In Africa
Nigerian music has been taking the world by storm in recent years. From Burna Boy filling up New York’s Madison Square Garden with over 20K attendees to Tems making history as the first Nigerian to have a No.1 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Many artists dream of following in these artists’ footsteps and Whip Music Africa and Hafrikplay have joined hands to support them. Whip Music Africa is a digital talent marketplace that connects African music professionals to music opportunities, services and networks. They leverage AI to help organisations scout & vet high potential talent. Hafrikplay is a Nigerian founded artist-first afrobeat inspired music streaming platform focused on underground and African talents. It allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content through its mobile apps and website for free. Through this collaboration, upcoming artists can access a variety of offers that will help them accelerate their music careers. The first offer will enable selected artists to have their songs featured on Hafrikplay’s playlists and receive financial and strategic music promotion support from both brands. Whip Music Africa will leverage its AI technology to scout, vet and select high potential music artists who will most benefit from this offering. Hafrikplay will leverage its promotion and distribution expertise to guide the artists on growing their fanbase. This is the first of many more initiatives the brands will collaborate on to promote upcoming talent in Africa. “This partnership brings unlimited and endless opportunities for underground talents. The magnitude of artists who would benefit from this is uncountable because we intend to phantom as many programs and projects as possible”, says Hafrikplay Head Of Administrative, Karimat Alaka. The integration of these brands leads to a broad promotion of underground African talents including artists , producers , DJs , sound engineers and podcasters. Hafrikplay and Whip Music Africa have similar structural DNA for globalisation and exportation of African talents to the world by putting Afrobeats as a genre at the forefront. . “We intend to make both of our platforms a gateway for independent and underground artists to have a voice loud enough to help them achieve growth and development on their journey to stardom. We know how difficult it can be to make it as an upcoming artist, irrespective of your talent, and our vision is to make their journey easier,” says Melissa Kariuki, Whip Music Africa Founder & CEO. This partnership creates an environment for upcoming talent to groom their fanbase, collaborate with other talent and strategically position themselves for further opportunities to bolster their music careers. “In addition to offering these opportunities, we intend to educate the artists on the importance of understanding the business of music which includes learning how to position yourself in the industry and market your music. Artist education is a key pillar of Whip’s value as we quickly learned that there are many talented artists but there’s a huge knowledge gap. With each opportunity we put forward, we ensure to provide the necessary education around so we do our part in filling that gap,” Kariuki explained. Artists can benefit greatly from joining the Hafrikplay community which features both listeners and artists. Hafrikplay offers unique benefits such as song importation enabling artists to easily upload their songs from streaming platforms such as Apple Music, Deezer, SoundCloud and Youtube. They also offer a points system enabling artists to earn incentives to further support their careers. Artists can leverage their platform to connect with their fanbase in unique ways from selling merchandise and listing events to blogging. Evidently, both Hafrikplay and Whip Music Africa have so much value to offer upcoming talent. Interested artists should follow both brands on social media here and here to stay up-to-date with the latest offerings. Contact Us For Music Promotions HERE
Facts – Keeping Milks Fresh With Frogs
Long before modern refrigeration, people in Russia and Finland reportedly placed living Russian brown frogs in milk to keep it fresh. It turns out the curious practice has a basis in science: Recent research on the amphibians’ skin secretions led by Moscow State University organic chemist A.T. Lebedev shows they’re loaded with peptides, antimicrobial compounds as potent against Salmonella and Staphylococcus bacteria as prescription antibiotic In modern times, many believed that this was nothing more than an old wives’ tale, But researchers at Moscow State University, led by organic chemist Dr Albert Lebedev, have shown that there could be some benefit to doing this, though of course in the end you’ll be drinking milk that a frog was in. Ice boxes first became available to consumers in the early to mid-19th century and, with that, the ice trade became big business, New England and Norway became major purveyors of ice, but anywhere it was cold, ice was a major export. Usually made out of wood with tin or zinc walls and insulation material like sawdust, cork, or straw, ice boxes were popular until they were rendered obsolete by the electrical refrigerator starting around the 1930s. Jacob Perkins invented the first version of the refrigerator in 1834 when it was discovered that the hazardous compound ammonia, when liquefied, had a cooling effect. But it wasn’t until the late 1920s when Freon was developed by General Motors and DuPont as a “nontoxic” cooling agent, and replaced ammonia, that refrigerators for consumers started to gain traction. Despite the prevalence of ice in parts of Russia, in certain small rural Russian villages many didn’t have access to ice boxes, so they had to find ways to keep things cold and unspoiled, A practice developed, that continued into the 20th century, as described by Dr Lebedev from memories from his childhood.
Facts – “Buttload” Is A Measurement Of Volume
Buttload is a regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons. The Old French “bot” referred to a barrel or wineskin (same origin as bottle—a small bot), and was itself derived from the Latin “buttis” or cask. A standard butt held two hogsheads (108 to 140 gallons). Thus, a butt-load would commonly be four butts, or somewhat over 450 gallons. You’ve probably heard of the very precise, scientific unit of measure called the “buttload.” Usages might include, “I’d love to hang out, but I have a buttload of homework tonight.” Or, “I cleaned out my closets and dropped off a buttload of clothes at the thrift store.” But where did this particular butt-based unit of measure come from? No, You Started It Some assert that “buttload” was first used in print in the novel “Los Angeles Without a Map” by Richard Rayner in 1988, and that it’s chiefly used in the United States. Fair enough. But what about its close yet more vulgar cousin, sh*tload? Merriam-Webster has that one going as far back as 1954, but they still blame Americans for it. The Brits had cleaned this one up by the 1990s, exchanging it for “shedload.” As long as we’re looking up words, what about “boatload?” Could that have led to the “buttload” phenomenon? Maybe, but boatload has been in use since at least 1625, when it was used by explorer John Davis as recounted by Samual Purchas in “Purchas His Pilgrims.” It really does just mean the number of people a boat can hold, and there don’t seem to be any clear lines between boatload and buttload across more than 400 years. But There Is a Butt While “buttload” may be a rough estimation of a large amount, there is a unit of measure for mass called a butt. It’s an old unit first used in medieval times, but it’s hardly more precise than “buttload.” A butt is a cask that holds liquids, like a barrel. It could contain anywhere from 108 to 140 gallons (409 to 530 liters), which is indeed a lot. But it’s probably not the origin of “buttload,” as there don’t seem to be any connections between a medieval barrel in Britain and the use of the term in late 20th-century America.
Silent Letters In The Alphabet
In English pronunciation, a silent letter—a term used informally—is a letter or letter combination of the alphabet that is usually not pronounced in a word. Examples include the b in subtle, the c in scissors, the g in design, the t in listen, and the gh in thought. Many words contain silent letters. In fact, according to Ursula Dubosarsky, author of The Word Snoop, “roughly 60 percent of words in English have a silent letter in them,” (Dubosarsky 2008). Keep reading to learn the types of silent letters as well as how they affect pronunciation and English language learning. Dummy Letters “Dummy letters have two subgroups: inert letters and empty letters. Inert letters are letters that in a given word segment are sometimes heard and sometimes not heard. For example, resign (g is not heard) resignation (g is heard) “Empty letters do not have a function like auxiliary letters or inert letters. For example, the letter u in the word gauge is empty. Here are some examples of silent consonants: b: dumb, thumb c: indict ch: yacht But, as a recent article in Reader’s Digest points out, nearly every letter in the English language is not heard sometimes. There is only one letter in the language that is never silent. Can you guess what it is? The letter is “V” There are various very valuable v-words, and that V is never silent. If you’re thinking, “Wait, but what about A!? What about X!?” you can check out Wikipedia’s list of silent letters from A to Z. (You might notice that they do have something listed under V, but it’s the name of a town in Scotland, which isn’t exactly an English word in the way we generally think of things.) Thank you for reading and knowing a little more about your Alphabet
Smoking Effects On Male Fertility & Sperm Quality
One third of all men globally smoke some form of tobacco and that 21.6% of American men smoke cigarettes. More recently, researchers have begun to explore the relationship between cigarette smoking and reproductive health. Cigarette smoking, one of the main causes of preventable morbidity and mortality, has a multitude of well-known side effects. The relationship between cigarette smoking and infertility has been studied for decades; however, large-scale, population-wide prospective studies are lacking. The effects of smoking on assisted reproduction and in vitro fertilization outcomes are noted. The consequences of smoking while pregnant on future fertility as well as the outcomes of second-hand smoke are analyzed. The current evidence suggests that men should be advised to abstain from it in order to improve reproductive outcomes. It is strongly correlated with an increased risk of erectile dysfunction, with some studies showing a three-fold increase in risk for male smokers. The more a man smokes, the more likely it is that he’ll suffer from erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction isn’t the same as infertility. However, if sexual performance is difficult, getting pregnant isn’t going to be easy. The good news is that quitting smoking does seem to improve performance. One study found that after 6 months of smoking cessation, a little more than 50% reported improved sexual performance Although a large volume of retrospective data exists examining smoking and the effects on semen analysis parameters and IVF outcomes, large-scale, population-wide studies on the effects on natural pregnancies are lacking. Nevertheless, the majority of the evidence points to the fact that men with infertility, or those having difficulty conceiving, should quit to optimize their chances for successful conception.